Comments - a peeled grape in the mouth please - Integral Post-Metaphysical Spirituality2024-03-28T18:02:58Zhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5301756%3ABlogPost%3A58653&xn_auth=noGood, thanks.tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2014-10-15:5301756:Comment:588162014-10-15T02:57:47.704ZAmbo Sunohttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/AmboSuno
Good, thanks.
Good, thanks. Hi, Ambo, no worry about the…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2014-10-14:5301756:Comment:588152014-10-14T21:04:13.870ZBalderhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/BruceAlderman
<p>Hi, Ambo, no worry about the blog vs. forum thread; both work. But if you want to start a new discussion thread, click the "Forum" tab along the top of the home page, then select a "board" you want to post on (Introduction, Open Forum, IPS Inquiry, etc). When you open up that board, you'll see an "Add" button in the upper right corner which lets you start a new discussion thread.<br></br><br></br>The "What are you up to?" box on the home page is just for posting a "shout" to the group. It only…</p>
<p>Hi, Ambo, no worry about the blog vs. forum thread; both work. But if you want to start a new discussion thread, click the "Forum" tab along the top of the home page, then select a "board" you want to post on (Introduction, Open Forum, IPS Inquiry, etc). When you open up that board, you'll see an "Add" button in the upper right corner which lets you start a new discussion thread.<br/><br/>The "What are you up to?" box on the home page is just for posting a "shout" to the group. It only allows a limited number of characters, like a tweet, so it's used only if you want to make a brief communication to members here without starting a whole new thread.<br/><br/>Best wishes,<br/><br/>B.</p> Nice, Bruce - I follow you.
I…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2014-10-14:5301756:Comment:587752014-10-14T20:45:35.221ZAmbo Sunohttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/AmboSuno
<p>Nice, Bruce - I follow you.</p>
<p>I want to read your TSK piece - soon I hope.</p>
<p>BTW - I haven't learned to navigate this site well yet. I didn't really need to make my initial post a blog-post. Blog-posts are apparently in a different category than the others that people start. How do I start one such as most people do, outside of blog? And the, "What are you up to" slot, what is that? Is that the beginning point for a new thematic thread?</p>
<p>Fresh air, ambo</p>
<p>Nice, Bruce - I follow you.</p>
<p>I want to read your TSK piece - soon I hope.</p>
<p>BTW - I haven't learned to navigate this site well yet. I didn't really need to make my initial post a blog-post. Blog-posts are apparently in a different category than the others that people start. How do I start one such as most people do, outside of blog? And the, "What are you up to" slot, what is that? Is that the beginning point for a new thematic thread?</p>
<p>Fresh air, ambo</p> Hi, Ambo, not-knowing for me…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2014-10-14:5301756:Comment:585722014-10-14T17:13:48.542ZBalderhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/BruceAlderman
<p>Hi, Ambo, not-knowing for me is mostly a friend. To use the terms from a recent conversation here, sometimes it shows up for me agapeically, as an appreciative (or even astonished) openness to mystery as generative, unknowing-in/as-knowledge; and sometimes it shows up erotically, as a sense of the lack of my present state of knowledge and a 'push/pull' to engage new topics, broaden my understanding, etc. The latter happens especially when I am writing or researching; one path leads to…</p>
<p>Hi, Ambo, not-knowing for me is mostly a friend. To use the terms from a recent conversation here, sometimes it shows up for me agapeically, as an appreciative (or even astonished) openness to mystery as generative, unknowing-in/as-knowledge; and sometimes it shows up erotically, as a sense of the lack of my present state of knowledge and a 'push/pull' to engage new topics, broaden my understanding, etc. The latter happens especially when I am writing or researching; one path leads to another and I realize there are whole worlds of perspectives I am only just glimpsing and have not yet begun to traverse. Sometimes that feels daunting, since I don't have time to take some of those journeys (and would like to); sometimes I just have to let go and acknowledge, "Not in this life." But in both cases (and more), not-knowing is an essential ally. When I have to speak or teach classes, sometimes not-knowing is disturbing: I look at the event ahead and just am not sure what I will say. But often in that 'empty-headedness,' a lot nevertheless finds its way out into expression, beyond my conscious planning or anticipation, so I have learned to trust that blankness.<br/><br/>Here is a brief discussion of the relationship of knowing and not-knowing in the TSK tradition I practice (see <a href="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/introduction-to-tsk?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A56907" target="_self">this post</a> and the discussion following).<br/><br/>With warm wishes,<br/><br/>Bruce</p> You are on-target, Bruce. Wel…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2014-10-13:5301756:Comment:586542014-10-13T12:00:32.013ZAmbo Sunohttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/AmboSuno
<p>You are on-target, Bruce. Well rendered.</p>
<p>It get's a bit uncomfortable when I am in a comparative mode or some state that can slide into excessive-for-me self-deprecation. This happens quite rarely for me these days. The mildly Woody Allen mode does serve not just as an access portal to acceptance but also seems to allow a perspective which brings freedom to it - larger picture freedom. It seems also to serve as an entry way into a topic that I can't seem to begin to get my mental arms…</p>
<p>You are on-target, Bruce. Well rendered.</p>
<p>It get's a bit uncomfortable when I am in a comparative mode or some state that can slide into excessive-for-me self-deprecation. This happens quite rarely for me these days. The mildly Woody Allen mode does serve not just as an access portal to acceptance but also seems to allow a perspective which brings freedom to it - larger picture freedom. It seems also to serve as an entry way into a topic that I can't seem to begin to get my mental arms around - making it uber-personal seems to give me a more solid beginning foothold to explore.</p>
<p>In your warm mirroring here, identifying it as a mode implicitly among various possible modes, you seem to acknowledge the copious room here and within humanity (as one arrives to deeply feel sufficient self- and humanity-acceptance) to be as one as is, in the different moments and contexts of life.</p>
<p>If you don't mind me asking, how would you characterize your inhabiting your knowing/not knowing, in outward expression and in different rooms of yourself, perhaps in relationship to predominant personality, types of subject matter and such? Only if you feel like engaging that question.</p>
<p>Warm regards, ambo</p> Hi, Ambo, my sense of you, ov…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2014-10-13:5301756:Comment:588092014-10-13T05:02:33.954ZBalderhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/BruceAlderman
<p>Hi, Ambo, my sense of you, over the years, is that you actually quite appreciate a wavy, wandering, subtly equivocating (because subtly discerning), gently doubting, self-hesitant and -qualifying mode of being -- that there is something in this very mode that rings true to you and that generally serves you (or has served you) in the course of your life thus far. You are confessing this way of being as perhaps a weakness but there is a strength in it as well, a being beyond easy…</p>
<p>Hi, Ambo, my sense of you, over the years, is that you actually quite appreciate a wavy, wandering, subtly equivocating (because subtly discerning), gently doubting, self-hesitant and -qualifying mode of being -- that there is something in this very mode that rings true to you and that generally serves you (or has served you) in the course of your life thus far. You are confessing this way of being as perhaps a weakness but there is a strength in it as well, a being beyond easy 'convincing,' which enables you to stay on your toes as the waves of opinion or belief crest and fall. Do you see this as well? Or am I off about this?</p>