Blessings to you Brian, all is as it should be, love Je Kan
Quoting Susan Goff <[log in to unmask]>:
> 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
>>
>
Rev Je Kan Adler-Collins
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Fukuoka Prefectural University Faculty of Nursing
Tagawa City
Fukuoka Prefecture
Japan
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