The first load of laundry is churning away and due in about forty minutes. Right now, I am typing using the key board of this Asus tablet computer. This original keyboard – it comes with it – is quite tight in use I am discovering. That is, I’m keeping my shoulders a little cramped together, more so than with my Targus foldable keyboard. Yet, they are equally long I discovered just now, comparing the two and in doing so I found that they have most ‘other’ keys in common, which is a boon to the user.

Yesterday, I had an early coffee with BJ and Sarah at the ‘Rendez Vous’ in Sunnyside. It is in the location of the old former Heartland Café , which was there for years until it moved to Bridgeland in about 2009 and now is gone from there as well. Inflexible management is what I heard.

I arrived early and looked around a few blocks where I had not been for years. Some old, quite a bit new and in particular the Downtown skyline from there, which I no longer see that often since I retired, not having the frequent views from Sait’s North Hill Campus. That changed skyline stands out the most for me right now. As a side note, the Tenth street market was also being set up and forms a counter weight to the Forth street market at Lilac time.

Last Friday I roamed through the shopping mall area looking for potential presents and earphones for my tablet. The latter I found and they work nicely, while I did locate the various potential presents locations. But, on Saturday I met up with John and Annie to buy a pair of stockings, which became socks after Annie had made her choice. I am working on a connection between Annie and Madelief who is Tieneke’s granddaughter. We’ll see, so far it appears to be beyond Annie’s horizon.

Also on Saturday, I managed to copy some of my music CD songs to my tablet and test the earphones. It took some doing to get used to the Windows player procedures, but I have that part working. What is not working is my Skype using the Widow’s 8.1 OS. It wants me to have an MS-account, which is difficult to set up. No success in this department so far.

Time for the laundry load cycle is coming up and I’ll make my way over to that center of action. And I’m back at 9:03am, but waiting for the dryer, which has an occupant or user we could say. I tested the outside on the way back up and it is wet, cold with a solid overcast! That nice summer weather has packed it in for now.

I made no entry for last Friday and I do not write on the weekends, but that does not stop me philosophising, though ‘good’ insights are hard to come by. For example in last Monday’s Writings I announced two topics, but never wrote on the second one which I described stating: ‘existence is continuous alternating between two states’.

I did think about it, but did not move beyond the original concept, which I will describe after having checked the dryer’s status of occupancy! It was vacant when I arrived, but now no longer is. The next washer cycle is due at twenty to ten.

If there were to be ‘non-existence’ that did exist, then it is included in existence and be a part of it, whereas the non-existence that does not exist is existence.

The idea that I had last Monday about the continuity of existence and its two states is more or less as follows. Existence exists and cannot ‘not exist’. If there were to be ‘non-existence’ that did exist, then it is included in existence and be a part of it, whereas the non-existence that does not exist is existence. So either way, existence is.

And using the human concept of ‘continuity ’, it would appear appropriate to say that ‘existence is continuous’ as the closest possible description of its ‘nature’. We keep in mind here that words such as ‘nature’, ‘continuity’ and ‘existence’ are all names for concepts we humans have invented and are using to order our experience world, as I explained in the four writings of last week.

The idea of two states is an old one, coming to us from Antiquity and earlear about humans having a physical body and a soul and maybe even a spirit. Today we would describe our body as a physical biological system with a brain based mind making us capable of conscious behaviour – albeit at times and not continuous necessarily.

Modern research also shows that the thoughts and ideas we maintain can influence our physical wellbeing as is shown in the book ‘Destructive Emotions ’ in which the Dalia Lama is a participating author. Other books, such as authored by Dean Radin and others by Lynn McTaggart , show that humans have extrasensory capabilities at certain times under certain conditions.

This research and its outcomes point to a state of being that is still physical and conscious, but not the biological one we are used to in our daily lives. So, there is evidence that conscious interconnectedness between two different states is possible and does occur at times, [An interruption of about 50 minute due to coffee and laundry!] as the research shows.

At present I do not know of a physical model for such an interconnected dual sate of existence. That has not stopped me from looking for one over the years and I think I have a model that can be investigated. I build this model using bits and pieces of reports on research and my own studies.

Starting with my second year Engineering Science at UoT, I recollect learning about the Schrödinger (text by Coulson) equation, the first principles of Quantum Physics (text titled ‘Modern Physics ’) and the nature of light propagation. In the end I’ll return to some of these concepts.

Over time I read several newspaper reports as follows. In the 1970-ties a report from Sweden where a bluish substance had been observed leaving the body of a dying patient or person. In one of my own books I read about an experiment in the mid nineteen seventies in an Austrian Hospital or laboratory. In this case the dying person was weighed and lost about seven (7) ounces in weight upon death. No report on any substance leaving the body as far as I can recall. [Now 11:25am after about 35 minutes of laundry change and lunch.]

Over the years, reports on ‘after death experiences’ have become more frequent and the results of some serious investigations have been published. One common rational put forward is that when the brain is deprived of oxygen it ‘hallucinates ’. Here the use of the word ‘hallucinate’ is meant to indicate that the experiences in such a state can be dismissed as meaningless.

But, we don’t have to use the word hallucinate; we could just as well say ‘was able to discern’ some unusual experiences and remember them. After all there is a brain state to every specific experience such dozing off, being alert, concentrating on a task and viewing a movie. These brain states say little about the psychological content of such experience, which can be quite meaningful.

… the fact of these experiences do occur is clear and as such must be regarded valid experiences in their own right, worthy of receiving a place in the pantheon of modern experiences.

I like to draw the analogy with seeing stars when the bright sunlight no longer overpowers the more subtle star light. May be the oxygen deprived brain similarly, can now perceive what the full conscious alertness blots out. Be that as it may, the fact of these experiences do occur is clear and as such must be regarded valid experiences in their own right, worthy of receiving a place in the pantheon of modern experiences.

In summary I want to say that we must consider the state of consciously aware existence without the biological body, as real as the one dependent on this biology. We may not know much about it, but that is mainly due to our reluctance to study such a different possibility.

So, we have the result of extrasensory perception and the possibility of conscious existence without a biological body. [Ten (10) minutes for the last laundry load.] Extra sensordifferent states of being. One being our familiar state of biological life and another state based on some formed energy state.

This brings me back to the beginning where I mentioned my Second year Engineering Science instruction and study.
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