Reviews of Time-Space-Knowledge Books
"The TSK books speak for time, space, and knowledge, which means they speak for openness and the choice of knowledge. But they do not own or possess time, space, and knowledge; these three facets of being belong to everyone." (p. xii, Mastery of Mind)
Bibliography
TSK. Tarthang Tulku. Time, Space, and Knowledge: A New Vision of Reality. Berkeley, CA: Dharma Publishing, 1977.
DOT. Ralph H. Moon and Stephen Randall, eds. Dimensions of Thought: Current Explorations in Time, Space, and Knowledge. 2 vols. Berkeley, CA: Dharma Publishing, 1980.
LOK. Tarthang Tulku. Love of Knowledge. Berkeley, CA: Dharma Publishing, 1987
KTS. Tarthang Tulku. Knowledge of Time and Space. Berkeley, CA: Dharma Publishing, 1990.
MOM. Mastery of Mind: Perspectives on Time, Space, and Knowledge. Berkeley, CA: Dharma Publishing, 1993.
VOK. Tarthang Tulku. Visions of Knowledge: Liberation of the Modern Mind. Berkeley, CA: Dharma Publishing, 1993.
DTS. Tarthang Tulku. Dynamics of Time and Space. Berkeley, CA: Dharma Publishing, 1994.
LtOK. Light of Knowledge: Essays on the Interplay of Knowledge,Time, and Space, Berkeley, CA: Dharma Publishing, 1997.
SDTS. Tarthang Tulku. Sacred Dimensions of Time and Space. Berkeley, CA: Dharma Publishing, 1997.
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Time, Space, and Knowledge
At every turn, the reader is invited to look with fresh eyes at the structures we have all learned to take for granted. Does time really move from past to present to future, or could we dive into its structure in a completely different way? Does subject truly perceive object, or could we reverse their relationship? What is the guarantee for the reality of what we see and take for granted? Asking such questions invites knowledge to take form in new ways.
Hailed for its lucid, penetrating presentation, Time, Space, and Knowledge blends reasoning and experiential inquiry to offer each reader a unique path to insight and transformation. Challenging and disquieting, yet deeply exhilarating, this pathbreaking work gives readers a language for asking the questions that our conventional training teaches us to ignore. It awakens a knowledge we have somehow always known is there.
Time, Space, and Knowledge unfolds vigorously, following a careful structure that takes the reader progressively deeper into the vision. Thirty-five exercises play a central role in the text, and much of the discussion comes in the form of commentary to the exercises. The approach is challenging and bracing, a kind of martial arts for the mind. Perhaps this is one reason that readers regularly remark that they return to the book again and again, finding new riches each time.
A bold step beyond conventional modes of thinking, this book reunites science, philosophy, and direct experience through analysis and exercises, unveiling a profoundly liberating way of investigating ourselves and our world.
"A rich and rewarding book; a remarkable attempt to bring us to the limits (and beyond) of our capacity for thought and awareness." --Parabola Magazine
"Nothing less than a challenge to every premise and presupposition ever made concerning the nature of existence--leaves even the most spiritually hip with nowhere to stand." --Yoga Journal
". . . lays out a complex structure in which space, time, and knowledge are understood to be operating at three different levels. The intention is to make clear that we cannot stop with one interpretation or understanding; that knowledge must be dynamic and self-referential. The presentation doubles back on itself, undermining its own claims, using structure against structure." (p. 62, Visions of Knowledge)
Love of Knowledge
Love of Knowledge traces out links between space, time, and knowledge and our ordinary understanding. The presentation inquires primarily into the structures of conventional, 'first-level' thought. Only when these structures have been identified and analyzed does he focus shift to a 'higher' level of knowledge."
The starting point for Love of Knowledge is an investigation into 'technological knowledge', the patterns of knowing we all rely on and the assumptions that underlie them. The inquiry then shifts to investigate the role of the self as the one who knows: the self as perceiver, interpreter, narrator, owner, witness, and objective entity. An alternative way of knowing is introduced in which there are no fixed positions to maintain and no one to maintain them. The implications of this 'no-source' knowledge are explored in depth.
Educated not to see certain kinds of limitations in operation, we fail to benefit fully from past mistakes or to see clearly the future consequences of our present actions. We live out our limits instead of developing new possibilities and awakening all the resources available to us. Love of Knowledge provides the analytic and experiential tools to reverse these patterns. It uses the logic of prevailing forms of understanding to call those forms into question.
While Love of Knowledge has been especially well-received by individuals systematically trained in our prevailing ways of thinking, it also offers fifty experiential exercises and fifty diagrams that engage the visual, 'right-brain' aspects of knowledge.
Demanding yet accessible, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice. Vital and stimulating, it has been used in introuctory philosophy classes and has attracted special interest from systems theorists.
"The exercises provide experimental grounding that makes the abstract questions of philosophy suddenly real and important. . . . There's nothing else like Love of Knowledge for breaking down habitual patterns of thinking and providing direct experience of alternatives." --Dr. J. VanderMey, Mid-Michigan Community College.
"Few books will prove to be as illuminating on our path as Love of Knowledge." --New England Review of Books
Knowledge of Time and Space
"Aware of the lineage of knowledge, we can open each point, each present singularity of oneness, finding in each point the unique occasion of the whole. If we listen with our hearts and with our seeing, we can hear a message being broadcast: The present is not stagnant, not determined. There is no 'between' as a separate position, no 'one' that is not 'all', no 'apart from' in what is unique."
Knowledge of Time and Space celebrates the power of time and space to free us from all limitations. At times light and dancing, at times deep and provocative, the text is like a work of art that steadily reveals new facets of a unified vision. Many readers have commented on the innovative use of language and the playful presentation. Whether pointing toward 'the feel of the field', 'the whole of zero', or 'appearance as the echo of itself', the author succeeds in communicating the delight of an unbounded inquiry.
Elegant and luminous, Knowledge of Time and Space invites active articipation in creation. It opens a path to new vision for readers less interested in formal presentation and more attuned to the flashing, penetrating presence of knowledge as it operates throughout time and space. Organized into short chapters that at times read almost like aphorisms, it offers countless starting points for inquiry. It follows no ordinary logic, but instead invites each reader to embark on a journey that takes its own form in the course of its unfolding.
"For too long we have turned our backs on our human potential--" Chapters on Interpretive Structures, Fabric of Time, the Knower in Space, Field Mechanism, and Inquiry Without Goal invite us to unfold the Time, Space, and Knowledge vision, challenging all that confines and isolates us from what we can know, feel, and be. ". . . a step by step approach to liberating consciousness." --Meditation Magazine.
"Imparts an overwhelming richness of nuance to our understanding of the very foundations of our existence." --Dr. M. E. Osinovsky, Physicist
"Tarthang Tulku's proposition that by knowing time and space we can know the underlying nature of ourselves and the world is coherent with the perspective of both physics and metaphysical intuitions." --Claudio Naranjo, Psychotherapist
"Insists that a greater knowing is our natural birthright and that we have the ability to recover it." --Francis H. Cook, U. of California, Riverside
Dynamics of Time and Space
Presenting images and ideas of startling originality and inspiring beauty, Dynamics of Time and Space challenges our persistent attempts to be the owners of knowledge and invites us to join in the play of knowledge that informs all appearance. Space is revealed as the nexus of reality and the dynamic of time as the hidden source of meaning.
Cutting through the limiting assumptions that keep us from the knowledge we need, this rich work reveals space as the source of appearance and time as the source of meaning. Through analysis, speculation and creative imagination it shows us how we can learn to activate time, restore space, and enter a magical universe where the future is now and the impossible is always available. A bridge to a brighter, more creative side of reality.
"Profound yet accessible . . . The 25 exercises in the book aim at transforming one's ways of understanding, of thinking, and of being; to develop an intimacy with time, space, and knowledge--with consequences that will show up clearly in one's life." Willis Harman, Noetic Sciences Resource, Editors' Favorite.
"A unique doorway into . . . the knowledge of infinity and eternity." --Duane Elgin, author, Voluntary Simplicity and Awakening and Earth
"Profound and enjoyable . . . stimulates the reader's creative imagination." --Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., co-author of Personal Mythology; editor, Dreamtime and Dreamwork
Visions of Knowledge
"Although the TSK vision does not point out the direction for change or indicate what shape and form it will take, it does encourage us to discover how knowledge has unfolded in time and space. By presenting our own history in a new light, it sees through the past toward what could happen differently. By inviting insight into how the patterns that we follow establish themselves in our perceptions and the operation of our consciousness, it activates new ways to use the power of the mind. It moves toward a new frontier of knowledge, where nothing is fixed in advance."
Thousands of years of civilization have not brought us much closer to achieving the goals that all human beings share. Why is this so? Why does it seem so unusual even to raise the question? Do we really accept that human nature is limited in this fundamental way? Are we willing to challenge this assumption?
Visions of Knowledge makes clear how knowledge can reveal itself through inquiry. The opening section of the book consists of sixty questions. What is the nature of what we accept as true? How do our perceptions interact with what is perceived? When we question time, space, and knowledge on the ordinary level, what aspects of experience does this questioning bring out? What knowledge does it stimulate? When we turn away from inquiry, what dynamic is at work? As the reader explores these questions, the value of inquiry and a style for putting it into practice emerge. The text encourages us to develop willingness, discipline, imagination, and speculation as tools for such an inquiry.
The second part of the book consists of nine chapters. Each starts by taking the perspective of knowledge itself--a view that looks beyond the concerns of the self. A central theme is the patterning of the mind, and there is a steady focus on structures of perception that establish limits in space and time as well as knowledge: limits, beginnings and endings, points, etc. The book closes with two appendices, one a series of brief comments by students of the TSK vision and the other a topical outline of the vision, based on the structure of Knowledge of Time and Space.
"A tool for creative thinking . . . clarifies the different ways in which we may ferret out hidden assumptions and challenge traditional thinking and patterns of consciousness. . . . This is the visionary Tarthang Tulku at the zenith of his powers . . . the jewel of the crown of the TSK series." --New Age Retailer
"Visions of Knowledge does not provide a set of universal conceptual prescriptions we can simply swallow with the hopes of waking up the next day cured from the chronic lack of freedom and feeling of sameness characteristic of most of our lives. No, instead, the reader is invited to engage with the dynamic inquiry, following it in directions which are unspecified in advance." --Ron Purser, Ph.D., Center for Organization Development, Loyola University
"Answers are not the purpose of our questioning. When we learn how to ask fundamental questions in ways that are fresh and alive, we conduct into our lives an intelligence that applies directly to our own immediate circumstances. In activating this kind of inquiry, we can rely on the great masters and thinkers of the past for inspiration and guidance, but their answers cannot be our answers. We must each individually take up the challenge of knowledge for ourselves." (pp. ix-x, Visions of Knowledge)
Dimensions of Thought: Current Explorations in Time, Space, and Knowledge
In 1980, shortly after the appearance of Time, Space, and Knowledge, Dharma Publishing inaugurated the Perspectives on TSK Series to explore the ways in which TSK could be used to clarify issues in different fields of knowledge and expand on themes from the TSK books. Dimensions of Thought: Current Explorations in Time, Space, and Knowledge was the first publication in this series. The essays found in these two volumes, mostly written by recognized authorities in their fields, show how individuals have sought to come to terms with the TSK vision. The final section of the second volume contains short notes and observations in which individuals report on their own personal experience. Edited by Ralph Moon and Stephen Randall.
Volume One
Foreword: Ocean of Knowledge, by Tarthang Tulku
A Revolutionary Vision, by Ralph H. Moon
Orientation to Time, Space, and Knowledge, by Tarthang Tulku
Opening Time, by Tarthang Tulku
A Socratic Approach to TSK, by Robert C. Scharff
Beyond Outer and Inner Space, by Kaisa Puhakka
Psychological Growth in and Beyond Psychotherapy, by Bill Jackson
Time out of Mind, by Edward S. Casey
TSK, Social Science, and the American Dream, by James Shultz
Tarthang Tulku and Merleau-Ponty, by David Michael Levin
TSK and the Mind-Body Problem, by James E. White
Volume Two
Human Development and Ultimate Reality, by Arthur Egendorf
'Space' and Psychophysics, by Alan Foster
Knowing by Doing, by Ramakrishna Puligandla
Phenomenology and TSK, by Donald Beere
TSK: A Teacher's Evaluation, by Charles Thomas Davis III
Experience Takes Place, by Robert D. Romanyshyn
Mastery of Mind
This volume of essays on the TSK vision was published in spring of 1993. A comparison with the first two volumes of the Perspectives on TSK series shows a decided shift away from theory and comparisons toward practical applications.
The essays span a wide range of topics. A noted astronomer reflects on the challenge that TSK poses to science; a graduate student presents data from his Ph.D. thesis on therapeutic applications of TSK, and his adviser discusses ways to improve such research in the future; a systems theorist shows how TSK can revolutionize his field, and two specialists in organizational transformation undertake a review of their own discipline in light of the TSK vision; a philosopher links TSK to the field of philosophical anthropology.
These are essays in the literal sense of the word: attempts to come to terms with fundamental issues. Their integrity and uniform respect for the TSK vision are reminders of how much the vision has to contribute to knowledge in all its aspects.
Contents
Pleasure in the Consistency of the World: A Test Case to Explore the Obstacles a Scientist May Meet in Studying the TSK Vision, by H. C. Van de Hulst
A Philosophical Approach to TSK: Ontology and Identity, by Arnaud Pozin
To Dwell in Knowledge: Rethinking the Cartesian Cogito, by Jack Petranker
Knowing and Organizational Being, by Ramakrishnan V. Tenkasi
'Opening Up' Open Systems Theory: Toward a Socio-Ecological Understanding of Organizational Environments, by Ronald E. Purser
Knowledge, Learning, and Change: Exploring the Systems/Cybernetics Perspective, by Alfonso Montuori
The Psychotherapeutic Potential of Time, Space, and Knowledge, by Christopher Jansen-Yee
Methodological and Theoretical Issues in TSK Research, by Donald Beere
Light of Knowledge: Essays on the Interplay of Knowledge, Time, and Space
This volume of essays on the TSK vision was published in 1997.
Contents
Geographies of Knowledge, by Tarthang Tulku
Transparency, by Hal Gurish
Nonordinary Knowledge, by Don Beere
Exploring Time, Space, and Knowledge in the Conducting of Professional Life, by Ronald Purser
TSK: Vehicle, Common Ground, and Vision, by Steve Randall
Creative Inquiry: From Instrumental Knowing to Love of Knowledge, by Alfonso Montuori
Epistemology in Paradise: The Spatial Embodiment of Knowledge and Value, by Alan Malachowski
Turning Inward Outward: Toward a Public Self and the Common Good, by Jack Petranker
Bracketed Bodies, Pivotal Bodies: Trajectories of the Postmodern Self, by Lee Nichol
'Hard Knowledge' and the Time, Space, and Knowledge Vision, by Maxim Osinovsky
Dimensionality: A Cultural/Historical Approach, by John Smyrl
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