Here I am, the first day of this year’s last month, as I am completing my eightieth year! It is a wonder to behold, as I am healthy, happy with friends, family and many activities in my life, as it unfolds and I gain in understanding of it.

Past weekend I posted three talks on my website, which only had the Mayan one in place, which was my late winter talk. I have a talk for the Calgary Life Enrichment Centre each season of the year. This gives Herman and Denise a much needed break and me a focus for my studies and formulations regarding our human situation.

It is a wonder to behold, as I am healthy, happy with friends, family and many activities in my life, as it unfolds and I gain in understanding of it.

Posting these talks, complete with audio and handout information is much more complicated than the posting of a daily entry such as this one. Besides the audio files, which need converting from mp3 to ogg encoding, there are the text files that need to be marked up and the image files that need referencing and sizing at times.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining about this self imposed activity, of which I’m quite proud really. But, it does take extra effort to get all the ducks lined up, as the hunters have it.

Yesterday I finally made my first step towards having an email drop box attached to my website, so visitors can leave a note and get in touch with me. It is not functioning yet, but the email address has been set up on the server by my provider. Now it’ll be up to me to get it to work, which is a new adventure for me.

Today is Safeway discount day, so I’ll be up and at it with my grocery shopping; the list lies all prepared on my kitchen table. Last Saturday I shopped for produce at DJ’s for the last time this season, while on Friday I bought candles at Ikea, before joining Herman for lunch. Now at 8:25am it’s time for that first shopping trip before I get going on my writings for today.

9:09am, back from shopping round one and ready to relate an early morning insight regarding our human life experience and reincarnation. But, let me relate an earlier insight first. This is that, from my experiences of the time I spent in my old country in the years 1999 to 2003, I came to see ‘reincarnation’ as simply an ability to recall the experience of some previous life time.

This I combined with the further idea that conscious existence is continues, be it that it is not always based in the biological body. I could put it this way: There is experience in the body and there is experience in the spirit, each in its own realm. The experience in the body enriches the spirit, while the experience in the spirit enhances the understanding of physical existence.

I could put it this way: There is experience in the body and there is experience in the spirit, each in its own realm.

So, there is no reincarnation in the classic sense, but there is continuity of existence and the potential to recall and remember such experiences. My insight of this morning is that, if the physical life time experience are intense and difficult to assimilate, then suppression will occur. Suppressed memories and their emotions result in a barrier that prevents recalling experience that one has not dealt with.

On the other hand, when the biological life time experience is very flat and uneventful the spirit is only minimally enriched. So, my insight this morning was that we need to balance the experience that enriches the spirit, against the ability to recall one’s previous experience. It is a process of continuous development such that a person can manage the ’previous life’ emotions, while living the present life accumulating new experiences that can be integrated.

I have put it all down as well as I can, but not quite satisfactorily so. It needs some more work, but like the sculptor chisels away at the ‘rock’ just so, I write and rewrite to reveal the experienced insights a bit each time!
<9:43am, time for coffee and done at 10:19am!