Yesterday was taken up with the Diary for that day, which is an account of activities of my two visitors Sybille, Adriana and I, over the previous Monday and Tuesday. It was about eight thirty (8:30) pm when I was finished with the emails and the web posting of yesterday’s diary.

As I composed this account, I was having fun reliving our various experiences and the camaraderie that played between the three of us. Such synergy is exceptional and from Sarah’s email I gather that it was a mutual experience.

Later last night I attempted to use my image scaling programme for the photos of our trip, but it would hang up after reducing the first image in the file, complaining that memory has been exceeded! The same scaling programme worked fine for my Fairmont photos, so I’m perplexed by its failure yesterday. Debugging is the verb from bygone days that arises in my awareness! That will take some time.

I am still working on the idea of ‘continuity of existence’ and when recalling that this morn, an additional notion came up. ‘The forms of existence change, but existence as such remains’ and this was followed by the idea that ‘it is through these changing forms of existence that experience takes place, continuously enriching the diversity of Existence Divine’. It is Existence Divine because existence by it self is not needed and the divine without existence is meaningless.

The forms of existence change, but existence as such remains. …
…it is through these changing forms of existence that experience takes place, continuously enriching the diversity of Existence Divine.

This is one more piece in the puzzle that is slowly taking shape over the years since 2006, when I had my talk titled ‘In Search of the Sacred’. It can be accessed via ‘Talks’ in the home page menu bar of my website.

At the time I felt that the meaning of the concept ‘Existence Divine’ would become clear shortly, but as it turned out it was the beginning of a long slow process of searching, fitting, rejecting and accepting. Clayton in “Mind and Emergence” defines this process of emergence in a philosophical manner, saying - for short - that emergence is process of becoming, such that the new is not directly traceable to its grounds.

I feel that this is the process that I experience in coming to an understanding of the meaning of the idea and received insight that is ‘Existence Divine’. I even held a talk on this topic, also accessible via ‘Talks’ on my website. However, that talk never stopped the process of new ideas and insights emerging in relation to the meaning of ‘Existence Divine’.

This is not all that surprising as I think about it, namely this same continuous becoming can be noted in the history and development of the handed down traditions of humanity. This I discovered in my studies of the various religions and observed in the religion of my upbringing, Calvinism.

Religious and value frameworks in general are like a turning kaleidoscope presenting new patterns with time, place, people and circumstance. It is a misunderstanding that such frameworks are static in nature. It is the other way around, change is a given and stasis is artificial, the latter usually serving special interests benefiting from the status quo. This is illustrated by the saying: “The markets hate instability”. And it is not just the markets that nurse that sentiment and hold its value dear, most power structures do.

This is not something to be spurned, because instability makes the smooth functioning of society in general difficult, if not impossible. Stability and security are needed, but not to the exclusion of all change. That leads to ossifying restrictions and the loss of what is meant to be protected in ensuing revolutions and their violence, forcing change with unnecessary losses.
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