Good wishes to you Brian
Susie
On 2/2/07 6:52 AM, "Brian wakeman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello Friends,
>
> I'll be out of the stream for a few days!
>
> I'm having an exploratory op tomorrow.
>
> Grace and peace!
>
>
> Brian
>
>
> --- "A.D.M.Rayner" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Dear Susie and All,
>>
>> Welcome back into the stream, the water's lovely!
>>
>> Ah yes! But really to feel the stream, there is a
>> need to view the picture
>> as a hole.
>>
>>
>> Warmest
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Susan Goff <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: 01 February 2007 00:58
>> Subject: "Feel that I know"
>>
>>
>>> "I look at the picture as a whole and feel that I
>> 'know'
>>> from personal experience the material context"
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear Jack and everyone..
>>> I just want to pay attention to this line that you
>> wrote.
>>>
>>> I want to slow down, and explore what that
>> "knowing" is. I don't think we
>>> "know" enough about it and I think it is a
>> potentially whole source of
>> human
>>> thought and ontology.
>>>
>>> When you say this, I connect with you, in
>> understanding that sense of
>>> recognition - of experience that is on the one
>> hand completely unique and
>> on
>>> the other inalienable from all human experience,
>> like a wondrous cosmic
>>> tendril that winds through us, is of us and we
>> make it what it is, across
>>> all time and geography even though our cultures of
>> knowing would lose
>> sight
>>> of this extraordinary human right of existence.
>>>
>>> I am reminded of Alan's beautiful reference to
>> Wordsworth in his
>> manuscript
>>> which I am currently reading:
>>>
>>> "In nature everything is distinct, yet nothing
>> defined into absolute
>>> independent singleness"
>>>
>>> (Forgive me Alan for quoting your reference, I
>> will be quoting you when I
>> am
>>> finished with the read!).
>>>
>>> So, in reference to this discussion about the
>> power of images to
>> communicate
>>> knowledge, I wanted to dwell on knowledge not as
>> information, but as this
>>> living stream of a thing we call experience, and
>> note how rich a pool that
>>> is once we sense it "bodily" and culturally alive
>> within and around us -
>> and
>>> to advocate for a significant turning towards
>> understanding it and making
>>> "it" the ground in which we are....
>>>
>>> Logically (instinctively), it is perhaps the most
>> accurate form of
>> knowledge
>>> with which to sense the state of our ecology
>> (sociological and
>> environmental
>>> etc etc) - and potentially the road back/towards
>> being in nature again.
>>>
>>> Lovely to be in the stream with you guys again
>>> Susie
>>>
>>> On 25/1/07 6:59 PM, "Jack Whitehead"
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ?
>>>
>>
>
>
> Brian E. Wakeman
> Education adviser
> Dunstable
> Beds
>
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