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Personifying Thoughts, Embodying Space (TSK Unit 2, Week 5)

Posted on Feb 14th, 2009 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

  For our practice this week, we continued attending to the role of stories and narratives in our lives, while also taking up a formal exercise from Dynamics of Time and Space :  Exercise 9,... More »

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Telling Stories 2 (TSK Unit Two, Week Three)

Posted on Jan 31st, 2009 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

In my previous entry (see Part 1 ), I reported on a number of the different "levels" and contexts in which I found story-telling to be playing itself out, but I didn't unpack these instances... More »

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Telling Stories (TSK Unit 2, Week 3)

Posted on Jan 30th, 2009 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

  For the third week of the TSK course, we have shifted our focus from thoughts to the stories that inform and inter-link them -- taking more of a temporal perspective on thinking.  As Jack... More »

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Watching Thoughts (TSK Class 2, Unit 2)

Posted on Jan 22nd, 2009 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

For the first two weeks of the TSK course, we've been reflecting on the consolidating, worlding power of thought -- its capacity to establish substance and identity, to project familiarity forward, to construct seamless, bubble-like... More »

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TSK Online Course (Unit 2)

Posted on Jan 9th, 2009 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

In several days, I'll be starting the second unit of the TSK Online Course I began this past fall, and as before, I plan to post my "practice notes" as weekly blog entries. This unit... More »

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Exhibitions of Zero, Flowers of Space

Posted on Jan 3rd, 2009 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

The following video, a visualization of the beauty and artfulness of math, resonates with me also as a sort of meditation on space, time, and knowledge.  As you watch it, I invite you not merely... More »

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Three Nows, The Future Infinitive, and Triple-Loop Awareness

Posted on Dec 6th, 2008 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

  Recently, Hokai posted a blog  on stages and states of time awareness that invites us to take an integral perspective on what we mean by "the power of Now."  Here is what he says: You... More »

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Subject-Object Reversal (TSK Class 9)

Posted on Dec 2nd, 2008 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

In our final week of the first unit of the TSK course, we are working with an exercise called Subject-Object Reversal.  I haven't been able to keep up  with posting my practice notes for the past... More »

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Week Four: Expanding Layers of Mind

Posted on Oct 31st, 2008 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

For week four, the reading explores challenges to conventional notions of "substance," and the practice we are working with involves expanding the layers of mind we explored previously -- taking an object of our experience,... More »

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Week Three: Exploring Space and Form

Posted on Oct 23rd, 2008 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

For Week 3 of the TSK Course , we are focusing on the presence or experience of space as a type of context or non-content, and exploring the relationship of space to the "layers of... More »

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