Yesterday I went for a walk first and then started on sorting my living room table’s burden! In the aft I vacuumed my apartment and in the evening I composed the invitation for my three birthday celebrations. Two were mailed out as a trial, with the rest to follow today. I also searched out the way to view live Olympic performances and their schedules.

A day well spent you might say! And not to forget, I also phoned my sister Els to let her know that the little parcel had arrived, complete with the commemorative stamps for Maarten Toonder's ‘Olivier B. Bommel’ and ‘Tom Poes’. These are 75 years of age in the world of cartoons and comics. This means that they found their ‘way in ink of print’ in the first year of WW2! Not insignificant, I would say!

At eighty I am allowed to speak out is my motto. If not now, then when!

Today I will not visit Juliet, but will give her a call. For later on I plan to wash the kitchen and washroom floors and ‘do’ the sinks. This in preparation for my son Metta, formerly Derrick, coming on Saturday. I also plan to outline my talk slated for Sunday, which has taken a different theme, as I will be adding my own teaching as well to those initially planned. At eighty I am allowed to speak out is my motto. If not now, then when!
And my first birthday cards are on display in my abode, thanks to Els and Herman and Denise.

Some ideas about ‘interconnectedness of existence’ emerged this morning on my awaking. Existence in the physical cum material world is the prime experience for most of us, but not for all people and not all the time either. There can be awareness of another way of being that goes beyond the material one.

While considering this, I recalled my first year physics teachings at UoT by Dr. Ivey that light exists as particle as well as wave. This is the ‘duality of the nature of light’, we were taught. In the second year molecular chemistry I learned about the Schroedinger’s wave equation which collapses at either end. My intuition has always been: ‘Does that collapse then mean that the wave becomes a particle?’ Never heard or read about this.

But, I have a secondary question: ‘Is it our way of understanding that forces us to think of existence in dualistic form?’

Regardless, it is clear that our view - the way we model - the existence of matter is dualistic, particle and wave. But, I have a secondary question: ‘Is it our way of understanding that forces us to think of existence in dualistic form?’

Our consciousness splits things in pairs such as good and evil, light and dark, wave and particle. This is how we are aware and discern the world around us, as we frame our experience. “It is our way of thinking that makes it appear just so”, to paraphrase a well known Shakespearian pronouncement. Food for thought so to speak!

It is my contention that our human conscious awareness is a work in progress and that we can be aware of phenomenon that are what is called ‘extra sensory’, better is ‘other sensory’. To be aware of things beyond the six senses is confusing to most people. It requires the discipline and power to direct one’s attention and hold it, without being taken in by the unusual nature of the experience and so become ‘enraptured’ as mystics have reported; see Evelyn Underhill on Mysticism.

It is my contention that our human conscious awareness is a work in progress …

This required discipline we can train for in regular life by over coming set challenges in our daily life experience of the six senses. Such power, ability and discipline is necessary, since being aware of a dual world is confusing, which is dangerous for animal and human being alike.

Confusion of focus in one’s attention prevents one from being effective in either way of being, so maintaining separation of awareness until ready is the recommended prescription. This does not have to keep us from working on and exploring this potential! I recommend it, as we will become more aware that way and the interconnected nature of existence.
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