10-18-2012, 12:00 AM
DoktorGreen wrote:glance left wrote:glance- you said...
"I remember Carol Tiggs, at a seminar once, saying we have to walk around looking at things as if we are on mars. Point being, cultivating that state of perception which perceives the inherent weirdness of things...which makes room for a sense of awe...not from an ideologic standpoint...but from an experienctial one...one which is in awe because of the dawning realization that we really don't know what we are perceiving...or cannot really categorize it..it's too awesome!"
One of the more effective not-doings is looking at a printed page (or an electronic page) of text. Focus on a single space between words. Then visually attach it to another one, and another, and another... until you can see an entire page of spaces! Shift back to the text and do it again. Then look around and you will see all the spaces that dominate perception. With practice it becomes easy to shift away from the so-called physical view!
Great exercise....and something within jumps to acknowledge that its effective.
I posted this vision in another forum once...please forgive of some of you have read it before...but it relates specifically here so....
I remember having a vision once, years ago. Happened at a stop light while driving after inwardly complaining about how I felt compelled to play along with the social script..saying what was expected whenever the moment arose in an interaction. In the vision, my view of the "world" went dark..as if having a day-dream but far more dominating and vivid. The darkness became a back drop of stars, galaxies, nebulae. And then I saw a colossal representation of the social script...a paragraph of sentences of white words suspended out there in space...very much akin to the beginning script in the Star Wars movies...except these were just hanging there not moving. Then, as I watched, I saw the space between the words...between the letters...dilate outward in every direction....progressively creating unfathomable volumes of space between the words and letters of that script. That space between the words/letters just kept growing and growing until the words themselves became unrecognizable. Then the vision vanished and the light turned green. Looking back, I know the vision represented the essence of what is behind the exercise you are describing here.
Thanks Doc!
DG
"I remember Carol Tiggs, at a seminar once, saying we have to walk around looking at things as if we are on mars. Point being, cultivating that state of perception which perceives the inherent weirdness of things...which makes room for a sense of awe...not from an ideologic standpoint...but from an experienctial one...one which is in awe because of the dawning realization that we really don't know what we are perceiving...or cannot really categorize it..it's too awesome!"
One of the more effective not-doings is looking at a printed page (or an electronic page) of text. Focus on a single space between words. Then visually attach it to another one, and another, and another... until you can see an entire page of spaces! Shift back to the text and do it again. Then look around and you will see all the spaces that dominate perception. With practice it becomes easy to shift away from the so-called physical view!
Great exercise....and something within jumps to acknowledge that its effective.
I posted this vision in another forum once...please forgive of some of you have read it before...but it relates specifically here so....
I remember having a vision once, years ago. Happened at a stop light while driving after inwardly complaining about how I felt compelled to play along with the social script..saying what was expected whenever the moment arose in an interaction. In the vision, my view of the "world" went dark..as if having a day-dream but far more dominating and vivid. The darkness became a back drop of stars, galaxies, nebulae. And then I saw a colossal representation of the social script...a paragraph of sentences of white words suspended out there in space...very much akin to the beginning script in the Star Wars movies...except these were just hanging there not moving. Then, as I watched, I saw the space between the words...between the letters...dilate outward in every direction....progressively creating unfathomable volumes of space between the words and letters of that script. That space between the words/letters just kept growing and growing until the words themselves became unrecognizable. Then the vision vanished and the light turned green. Looking back, I know the vision represented the essence of what is behind the exercise you are describing here.
Thanks Doc!
DG