I hope it goes well for you - good luck - Jane
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian wakeman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 01 February 2007 19:52
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: 'Out of the stream'
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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