The Lilacs, among others, are ready to go into full bloom today! Earliest for Calgary that I’m aware of. The whole Western half of Canada has been warmer than usual all winter and spring this year. The planet’s climate warms up, but where that actually happens is not all that predictable it appears.

However, I did go to hear Herman and as I approached the Calgary Tower I saw tiny, cable suspended human figures hanging about, beside the tower.

This past weekend I did not meet up with John and Annie, as the whole family was taking in the ‘comics’ show. However, I did go to hear Herman and as I approached the Calgary Tower I saw tiny, cable suspended human figures hanging about, beside the tower. After some time it became clear that they were descending with interruptions, but the reason or purpose for this event has remained hidden from my inquisitive mind.

Several people moved out of and into our building the weekend, more so than I remember. It may relate to the unsettled employment situation and shifting business interests. This morning I’m expecting a call from Elisabeth for a coffee meet and this aft Jack and I are scheduled for our monthly tête a tête.

Last Friday’s theme was the merging of pre and post modern aspects of human ‘big-stories’, in which I made the case for viewing revelations in the old human traditions, as discoveries made by humanity at that time. Such discoveries were woven together into stories framing the experience world of humans as they lived.

This allows us to construct a continuity between the experience and knowledge of ancient and modern humanity.

Today’s theme is that these old insights can now augment the new discoveries of today. This allows us to construct a continuity between the experience and knowledge of ancient and modern humanity. Such continuity is typical of natures generic processes and is evident in the development of the modern brain, where the new modifies the old.

Accepting as much, we need to identify a discovery as such and learn to understand its place in that human past. In other words we treat the ’old’ discovery, as we treat a current one. To account for the differences in culture and time we must examine the handed down discovery as to is functionality. This means determining the time, place, people and circumstances (TPPC) that define the setting of this ’old’ discovery. These four aspects must then be used to derive the temporal functionality of this handed down discovery.

For example take the almost universal rule that one should not steal. It’s functionality can be explained as preventing strive within the community or family even. This does not make clear why this rule was handed down as a commandment coming from god or the higher power. This is where we can apply the TPPC principle, realising there was no structured authority existed at the time, other than the unexplainable powers of nature, about which people knew little.
<9:35am time for my coffee meet with Elisabeth and now 7:16pm, to be continued tomorrow.