Descriptions of space, level 2On a more subtle level, it also lets us appreciate the texture of experience itself as being `space'. . . . (p. xiii, TSK)
`Space' will henceforth refer to a dimension of reality whose openness is both a requisite and a concomitant feature of all experienced happening . (p. 50, TSK) A space that accommodates--and is --experienced interactions between objects, and between the self and its known objects. (pp. 50-51, TSK) A second-level relationship to Great Space . . . can manifest in infinitely many ways. Typical examples include an increase in personal freedom, less psychological pressure, greater physical relaxation, a heightening of the senses, and even parapsychological capacities, such as telepathy and clairvoyance. . . . But on this second level, the openness of Great Space and the relaxation of felt restrictions is still subject to a subtle, self-centered or `standard world order' interpretation. So the freedom of Great Space is still appropriated to our limiting convenience. (pp. 112-13, TSK) All going from place to place, experience to experience, which validates the picture of a spread out world, actually occurs as a succession of 'timed out' experiences in the same 'spot'. (p. 151, TSK) It is possible to see, directly, a `timed out' interaction, and this shows quite vividly, the presence of a pervasive space. The familiar, relatively opaque, and rigid surface appearance is itself an interacting and a space. This space is the perceived point or object--or perhaps, the perceiving of the object . . . . The 'space' which is the object-being-perceived (on the second level) is more open-ended in its accommodating capacity. We might say that the 'quantity' of this 'space' is indeterminate or even infinite. (pp. 155-6, TSK) When the 'inwardness' of space 'appears' within appearance, we see clearly that space has no location, no conditioning, and no foundation. The conditions that manifest when we pursue things 'in' space do not impose their structures 'on' space . (p. 37, DTS)
Like ordinary space, 'space' is the 'background' of what is projected, but unlike ordinary space it is also what is 'doing' the projecting. It is 'empty', for without being 'free' of substance, it could never project substance; yet 'emptiness' is not the essence of its creative power. Active 'within' both 'lower-level' space and the objects that appear within that space, the 'second-level' space that projects physical appearance enables what exists to appear in the mode of occupying space . At the same time the projecting projector and the projected appearance are unified as one manifestation--a second-level reformulation of the first-level interdependence between space and appearance. Second-level 'space' remains unoccupied whether it is projecting form or physical space, which from a second-level perspective are equivalent. Objects that appear within physical space, like that space itself, remain 'space'. In the same way, 'space' projects mental and physical 'things' interdependently, in the appearance of the object to the subject. (p. 152, KTS) |
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