My desktop is spinning away, transferring audio file to my new website. Last night I did an inspection of all the talks transferred so far and found about 400MiB of missing sound files of five talks. I started their transfer last night, but the process hung up on duplicate uploads, so now it is as yet doing what it would not do overnight. We’ll take a look at nine am to see how much remains.

And also last night, I started with assessing the next category to be transferred, which is ‘Topicals’. It consists of essays mainly and a few short pieces of writing. These file transfers are not just ‘holus bolus’, that is just as is, but I weed out the files that are no longer contributing to the actual operational web site.

Old files tend to be left, as their original functions become outdated due to new and improved versions that yours truly comes up with. Examples of such updates are such cryptic strings as v.2, des12, tts-13, -ht5 and others. Once I have the necessary files transferred, I may rename some of the most awkward ones. However, this is tricky business, because other ‘normally named’ files may refer to them. This will call for a testing by trial and error, when the time comes.

I had a long snooze yesterday aft, but got my morning daily entry done, which was substantial and marked it up for posting later on. I also wrestled with Windows library feature, which lets you access files residing some where deep in the user folders of the ‘C-drive’.

Talking about left behind, C-drive is one of those, A and B being floppy drive designations on the first personal computers made by IBM back in 1970-ties. My desktop now has no drives, the floppies have been replaced by memory sticks and my main ‘drive’ is solid state memory and fast!
Later on, Devonian lunch with John, followed by a shoemaker visit, maybe.

I am still thinking about the idea of ‘migration of symbolic energies’ as I discussed under the heading of writings in the foregoing daily entries. This is, because I have left unmentioned observations I have made over the years, regarding this kind of migration.

Namely, during the second half of the twentieth century we have been witness to an increase of interest by the general public in Germanic mythologies, pagan religions and magic practices. It are these revived older religious teachings, rituals and ceremonies that get assembled to be included under the name ‘spirituality’.

For example there is an interest in Celticglyphs - runes, symbols and old practices that are revived and ‘followed’. This usually means a ‘reinterpretation’ of what the people in the past are thought to have intended and been doing. Actual study of those past practices is usually felt to be superfluous and even confusing. That the ancient Celts and their priests actually practiced human sacrifice at times - reported by Caesar - is unwelcome news and set aside.

So, we are not talking about a genuine study of religious practice, but rather about this migration process of symbolic energies. These in turn are projected on old symbols that now take on new life, but endowed with modern notions. The actual and historical old ones are avoided, because those interfere with this modern process.

The late Jung had an explanation for this process, in that he describes it as a regressive flow of the projected energies. These energies were projected on the symbols of Christianity informing and directing our lives since around 1000AD in Western Europe. These symbols are like vessels giving shape and purpose to our life energy channelling them into civilised and adapted expression.

Jung suggests that in the beginning of the Twentieth century the established Christian symbols lost their functionality, because of new science and the two world wars - too many conflicting events, values and discoveries, which empower the ‘shadow‘ of the belief. The once held energy is now loose so to speak and flows back reviving discarded forms - pagan symbolisms. These are brought back to life, but now endowed with modern projections, seen as a new and more fundamental understanding of the cosmic powers that are thought to be at work and now need to be understood anew.

The functionality and practical outcome of this process is an increase in tolerance today about religious - now called spiritual - ideas. This tolerance - much needed - is the outcome of this reanimation process. It is the taking back of the projected energies from the now discredited Christian religious ideas and symbols. The latter being too confining and restricting through the doctrines and dogmas, to be of assistance to the believers seeking new forms and symbols.

Summarising, the old structures and value frame works were destroyed in the calamities of the twentieth century’s first half. This initiated a search for new containers, guide posts and references, with their function to inform and enable the formation of changed frame works adapted to emerging requirements of today’s integrating human civilisations.

Such a situation I have called the boundary situation. It is one, in which we encounter the limits of the old know-how and must discover a new and different way forward. It is in this situation that new ideas or revelations occur and the searching process for this is exemplified by the explorations of these newly revived spiritualities. Collectively, we are looking for discarded treasures that could be put to new use, so to speak.

This process has the danger of triggering the old overcome destructive forces and this has happened and still happens. Namely the Nazi fascists revived old pagan values and marched to their beat right into the pre-visioned ’Goetter Daemmerung’, the damnation of the gods in the Germanic mythology.

And today we have movements and actions based on and informed by convictions valuing values and norms from the past that must now subdue and role back the forces of change and adaptation.
<9:45am coffee break; editing at 10:31 to ?~. However, the weekend passed and now 9:46am Monday the 27th!