- Level 200
Discover the Spacious Ground of Being
Awareness that lie beyond our habitual ways of thinking?
- Saturdays | 9:00-10:30 am Pacific Time | 12:00-1:30 Eastern Time
- Term 1: March 13th to April 17th 2027
- Term 2: May 15th to June 19th 2027
- Term 3: July- August 2027 (By arrangement with the class)
- Term 4: September- October 2027 (By arrangement with the class)
- Term 5: November- December 2027 (By arrangement with the class)
Live, Interactive Sessions
Engaging 90 minutes classes with experienced Instructors
Supportive Community
Connect, share, and learn in a private online community
Session Recordings
Watch anytime with access to recordings for six months
First Class Guarantee
Free cancellation available after the first class
Course Description
We are living at a remarkable moment in human history. As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of performing tasks once thought uniquely human retrieving information, generating ideas, and processing knowledge at unprecedented speed we are invited to ask deeper questions about the nature of human experience itself.
Is there more to knowing than information? Is there more to life than efficiency and productivity? What becomes possible when we rediscover the dimensions of space, time, and awareness that lie beyond our habitual ways of thinking?
For nearly fifty years, Tarthang Tulku’s groundbreaking work Time, Space, and Knowledge has invited readers into a profound exploration of these questions. Rather than presenting a philosophy to believe or a system to master, TSK offers a direct path of inquiry into the nature of experience itself. Through contemplation, reflection, and experiential practice, participants discover new ways of engaging space, time, and knowing that can open greater freedom, creativity, and depth in everyday life.
This 30-week experiential journey follows the arc of Tarthang Tulku’s newly revised and republished foundational text. Moving progressively through the dimensions of space, time, and knowledge, participants will engage in guided exercises, contemplative inquiry, discussion, and personal exploration designed to transform understanding into lived experience.
Who Is This Course For?
- Feel overwhelmed by the pace and demands of modern life
- Seek greater balance, presence, and emotional well-being
- Wish to deepen their meditation or contemplative practice
- Are curious about the nature of awareness and human potential
- Long for a more spacious, meaningful, and fulfilling way of living
- Want practical tools for bringing wisdom into everyday life
Beginning with the spacious dimension of embodiment and perception, we will explore how space can become a living presence rather than an abstract concept. From there, we will investigate the dynamic nature of time and its relationship to energy, change, and awareness. Finally, we will enter the profound inquiry into knowledge itself not merely as information, but as a living field of knowing that shapes and permeates experience.
More than a course of study, this is an invitation to discover dimensions of being that often remain hidden beneath the pressures and distractions of modern life. As our relationship to space, time, and knowledge begins to shift, new possibilities for presence, insight, and freedom naturally emerge.
This course is for anyone who longs for greater ease, clarity, and freedom in their life. Whether you are navigating stress, seeking a deeper connection to yourself, exploring meditation, or simply sensing that there is more to life than constant doing and striving, this course offers a practical and transformative path.
No prior experience is required. The course is open to beginners and experienced practitioners alike.
What You Will Explore
- The experiential meaning of space, time, and knowledge
- Practical TSK exercises for expanding awareness
- The body as a gateway to spaciousness and presence
- New ways of experiencing time beyond urgency and limitation
- Knowledge as a living process rather than accumulated information
- The relationship between awareness, perception, and reality
- Freedom from habitual patterns of thinking and experience
Course Format
Duration: 6 Weeks
Session Length: 90 minute online classes with guided practices repeated over five terms
Recordings Available: Six Months
Community Engagement: Optional participation in a private online community portal
Supplemental Readings: Short weekly reflections and excerpts to support ongoing practice
Weekly structure
The first nine weeks will work through Chapters One through Three of the TSK text, guided experiential exercises, and group dialogue, we will inquire into what it means to be embodied in space, to think within space, and to dissolve the rigid boundaries that separate self from world.
Testimonials
“Highly engaging and stimulating course with deeply committed teacher. There is an excellent mix of discussion and practice. Huge questions, and complex material, are skillfully unpacked and made both accessible and digestible.”
Gavin A.
“A systematic way to clarify the exercises and the commentaries have made the difficult concept of TSK in the first layer of understanding. The classes have inspired me to be patient to go deeper with my understanding. Exciting exploration.”
L C.
“Really appreciate the lengths this class went in providing not only the detailed PowerPoint presentation, but also the high level of the class Summaries. I particularly love the Summaries for follow up study after class, I refer to them often. Also, the class size is small [intimate] enough to allow for relaxed discussion with all students.”
David F.
Suggested Readings
Instructor

Bruce Alderman
BRUCE ALDERMAN, M.A., is affiliate faculty in the JFK School of Psychology at National University, and the Associate Director of the Blue Sky Leaders program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He received his master’s degree in Integral Psychology, with an emphasis on Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, from John F Kennedy University in 2005. Prior to working at NU and CIIS, he taught and studied abroad in Asia for several years, including teaching courses on creative writing and inquiry at the Rajghat Besant School, a Krishnamurti school in Varanasi, India. Bruce took Buddhist refuge with a Theravadin teacher on Java in 1994, and has practiced in the Nyingma and Bön traditions since 2003. He has published essays in the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice and Consciousness Journal, as well as in several anthologies on Integral philosophy and spirituality, and recently self-published a book of collected poetry. For the past 5 years, he has produced and co-hosted The Integral Stage YouTube channel and podcast.
- Level 200
Discover the Spacious Ground of Being
- Term 1: March 13th to April 17th 2027
- Saturdays | 9:00-10:30 am Pacific Time | 12:00-1:30 Eastern Time
- Recordings available for six months after class
- Free cancellation after first class