Weekend as usual, but I took the car and parked inside at the Tower parkade to go to my Palliser Sunday meet. Sunday eve I coloured my mandala in for two hours. I have started on the fifth of eight inner rosettes taking me passed the mid point. These rosettes form an inner circle around the very centre, which I coloured in during Christmas 1973. These rosettes are more or less the start of my recent colouring activities this last Christmas.

I meditated some on my up coming talk in April and read an interview with Charles Taylor in the United Church Observer of March this instance. I may email a response, once I’ve read it for a second time. Taylor’s ideas about ‘reasonable accommodation’ are applicable to my idea of ‘wholeness in diversity’ as a goal for our global community, more on this and my ‘Edifice dream’ under writings.

Last Friday I made a start with redesigning the ‘Topicals’ category of my web site. The display page was simple to do, because I am applying the same design os I worked out for the ‘Talks’ category. The number of items for topicals is now limited to four actual essays and may have a miscellaneous category for short pieces.

However, major work has to be done on the essays themselves. For example the essay titled ‘New Thought as a Modern Revelation’ was coded for the web in 2009 using ‘br’ and ‘no-break-space’ code elements where the paragraph elements should have been. Yet, this is mixed with dual column coding, which is quite advanced. So, most of these Topicals will require much work to come up to html5 standards.

If truth be told, I kind of enjoy do this upgrading, because is allows me to apply newly gained skills and knowledge from my web courses at Sait by Dudley the Intrepid, and it makes me realise that I have progressed quite a bit in this field of web coding and design.
P.S: The sun just peeked through in my kitchen and Wednesday Spring will start!

The dream about the gloomy church like edifice is still around in my awareness. This is due in part to last Wednesday evening course with Herman, which dealt with his view on dreams. In the discussion I mentioned that Jung, who was referenced, also used the technique of ‘active imagination’, although most annalists avoid that technique.

My own remarks reminded me of the technique and I applied it to my ‘Edifice’ dream. Without describing the active imagination process in detail, I will report an interesting outcome. The imagination technique showed me that inside this church like building, there were groups of people sitting in separated circles, each engaged in activities. The ambience was one of each group being actively engaged in an upbeat and positive manner. This was a surprise to me, as it was in sharp contrast to the gloom and doom of the Edifice’s outside.

This contrast kept my attention for several days until a new insight emerged this morning. I had already concluded that the ‘church’ like edifice, was really a representation of a ‘religious edifice’, of all religions. This morning I come to this new insight that each activity circle of people inside the building represents followers of a particular religion on our planet. I had noted earlier on that these groups were not interacting, operating in isolation of each other.

Then, continuing with this mornings new notion, I realised that each group is in comfort inside, but unaware of the gloom outside. Each group is engaged in a view that stays safely inside the edifice and projects unpalatable and unwelcome aspects onto the misguided and misinformed world outside. It is this projected shadow of these groups that makes the outside of their edifice look so gloomy.

That was basically my new insight, which combined with the realisation that religions on our planet very much operate the way the circled groups operate and function in their self limiting, but not unpleasant manner.

This insight is positive in that the groups are not fighting with each other, but seem to tolerate each other, albeit in a very passive way. The concerning part is the lack of interaction among the circles (church = circle) and the projected shadow of their darkness onto the un-believers outside, that shows up as gloom to the world at large as the edifices external gloom.
I am not done with this, but I will stop here for now at 9:50am. Coffee with Jack at one pm today. <9:51am and 10:10am edited~