Notice clock time against lived time
Pick one activity and compare how long it took on the clock with how long it felt, to see how much of your day is only measured.
Perché funziona
Gebser says the perspectival age (the modern period organised around a single fixed viewpoint) treated time as a measurable quantity and held time’s quality or intensity to be inessential (scan p. 284). He calls the release from time understood only as measurement time-freedom, and Gidley, quoting him, describes time-freedom as the quintessence of time (Gidley 2007, p. 176, citing Gebser p. 356 in her numbering; scan p. 355). Gidley adds that this is not a linear developmental endpoint (p. 176). The exercise makes the difference visible in one activity; it does not measure wellbeing, and its link to Gebser is interpretive.
Come farlo
- Choose one activity you will do today, such as a walk, a meeting or a meal.
- Before you start, guess how many minutes it will take and how long it will feel.
- Afterwards, record the clock time, then separately how the time felt: rushed, dense, absent or spacious.
- Repeat across a week and notice which activities feel more present than they measure.
Prove scientifiche
The critique of time reduced to measure, and time as a quality or intensity, are Gebser’s (scan p. 284). Gidley’s list of related terms cites Gebser pp. 289 and 358 in her numbering (scan pp. 288 and 357): achronon, the name Gebser gives time-freedom as freedom from every temporal form (scan p. 283), open time, and presentiation, which is making the past present to awareness (Gidley p. 176). The exercise is this page’s reflective use of them. (anecdotal)
The exercise compares two kinds of time; it does not show that clock-measured work is less valuable. Gebser’s concern is with what time is taken to be, not with calendars.
Fonti
- Gidley, J. (2007). The evolution of consciousness as a planetary imperative: An integration of integral views. Integral Review, 5, 4–226.
- Gebser, J. (1985). The Ever-Present Origin (N. Barstad & A. Mickunas, Trans.). Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
Errore comune
Using the exercise to sort the productive parts of the day from the unproductive ones. The contrast is meant to show that clock time and lived time differ, not that the clock is the enemy of good work.
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Altre pratiche per Jean Gebser’s Structures of Consciousness
- Tell a strength from its deficient form
Take one capacity you rely on most and check whether it still serves you or has hardened into the only way you will act.
- Name the older ways of knowing you still carry
Find the ritual, loyalty or belief-in-cause-and-effect that still shapes a reaction, and say what it holds together before you judge it.
- Let an older view inform the newer one
When a new insight seems to dismiss a gut feeling or a tradition, ask what the older view protects before deciding which one wins.
- Hold your view without needing it to be the only one
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- Notice when a way of seeing has run its course
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- Bring a belief back to its origin in the present
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