The weather has become spring like again I could say, but not as much as a week ago today when it was 16dC, albeit that 14 is in the forecast for today.

I’m a bit on the early side today, because I’m meeting Rene at London drugs later this morn. He came back home last weekend and now wants to buy me his promised coffee percolator. He feels that my present broken down and make shift Cuisinart is not becoming of me. How considerate!

Spotting my unique Canadian designed drip coffee maker.

However, after leaving Juliet yesterday afternoon, I found my desired coffee solution at Chinook’s Bay store. It is a Canadian pour yourself design without mechanical parts that can quit on me and operates with a metal filter. So, now I hope to covert Rene’s generous intentions to an electric kettle, which will be an improvement over the stove-top model - a gift from Elisabeth - I have used for years.

Am still busy with the Maya world view about which I have reported in my Writings of the last few Daily Entries. I am starting to suspect that the Maya had a very different sense of time from the way we conceptualise time, albeit in that very Western way of ours.

Last night I updated my website and the day before I caught up with a whole weeks worth of entries, left neglected on account of my preoccupation with that oft mentioned Maya talk on mine! My apologies:-)!

Today I will have to do some audio type work with my recorded Sunday talk, both to fix fore stopped tape recording and to organise my web site posting of those audio files. The latter requires much more work and will probably carry over to Friday and the weekend. Wish me fortitude, patience, skills and insight!

P.S: From my spell checking combined with my dictionary I discovered that ‘peculator’ means ‘money embezzler’; close, ain‘t it? To that percolator I mean!

This is a third comment on the Maya world view and continues from yesterday’s and its predecessor. My observations today are the result of having thought about the previous two comments and recalled readings about the way the Maya ordered and order their daily life.

My general word for this ordering is ‘framework of daily experience’, which is a term that can mean any such framework and process, be it religious, secular, scientific or ideological in nature. It assumes that our experience is not structured of it self, but needs ordering in order [sic] to be consciously interpretable.

The Mayan concept that I did not mention as yet is that of ‘transformation’ and this has significance with respect to my notion of time as used in the Maya world view or framework. So, I want to expand a bit on the way the Maya use ‘transformation’ and then look at its possible consequences, when combined with the Maya calendar use.

Transition in the world of the Maya was and is a basic assumption in that all things change. The youth differs from the toddler and the adult from the youth.

Transition in the world of the Maya was and is a basic assumption in that all things change. The youth differs from the toddler and the adult from the youth. The plant grows bears fruit and then dies, like the maize [corn] plant does, clouds form and then disappear again. At times they transform into storm clouds or a hurricane even, powered by that vengeful wind god of Meso America.

Transformation then in an essential consideration in the Maya belief framework and functions in explaining the processes of nature. It also applies in daily living, such as when the pregnant woman becomes a mother after giving birth or when the healthy person becomes sick and might even die.

My intuited idea about Maya time is that it is not present in their lives the way it is in our Western framework. I come to this place by combining the Maya ideas of all things being connected, being animate and subject to powers as regulated by the calendar of such forces. If I add transformation and its forces to that, then that would make time superfluous. Changes that take place with time as we see that could then be explained as the transformative force of aging being active in different ways for different people or objects.

I come to this place of 'the missing Maya time' by combining the Maya ideas of all things being connected, being animate and subject to powers as regulated by the calendar of such forces.

As an example of this kind of process in the Maya reference framework is the need to renew - rejuvenate as it were - the sun every fifty two (52) years as that is dictated by their calendar. Such rejuvenation rituals and their festivities are well known from Anthropology, human cultural records. It is also exemplified in our own society by its yearend festivities of Christmas and New Years!

But, we celebrate because the calendar time tells us that this is the moment for this kind of activity. Instead, we could turn it around and say that the calendar tells us to bring about the renewal of the sun through our offerings and festivities.

How could we possibly do that? Well because all things that exist are interconnected and influence each other! And if we would fail to act on what the calendar tells us to do at this point, the sun may not rise again, start to move irregular or have more and longer eclipses!

So, my thought experiment then is this. Could we construct a reference framework in which we use interconnectedness, transformations, combined with the idea that things all have their own existence and cycles, and so remove the need for time as a fundamental dimension as we use that in our model framework at this time [sic]?

All things that can exist do exist, coming and going, existing in various states and processes, interconnected on going without beginning or end.

My after thought here is a prediction. It is that the next cycle of experiments with the Hadron Collider in Geneva will tell us that all existence is interconnected - entangled - and that time is not needed as an fundamental dimension, but rather a personal convenience like the notion and observation of colour. There is no time, just continuous existence in all forms, sizes and possibilities.

Time to get ready for my meet with Rene, who phoned a short time ago to postpone our get together by half an our:-)!
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