Yesterday I formulated some important insight and ideas, but did not do my audio work, which is due today on my own agenda. I kind of had a day of rest and reorientation for myself yesterday. It was what my intuition suggested and proved productive in the end, but I did complete the emails yesterday.

Through the day read a bit in my graphic reference on Hinduism by Vinay Lal and Van Loon, titled “Hinduism”. This source is quite clear about the Mother Goddess and Shiva worship not being Hinduism, since neither are referenced in the Veda.

Today I’ll stop by at Joyce on Forth to firm up the arrangements for my Saturday birthday reception.

Today I’ll stop by at Joyce on Forth to firm up the arrangements for my Saturday birthday reception. I also have to attend to my bills as I let them pass in July.

During the day yesterday I slowly sensed that the place to start with the process of reconciliation of religions is at their eschatology. Thinking about this idea, it looked quite plausible to do so.

Future expectations in all religions are far less well defined and barely touched by tradition, when compared to their notions of origins and identity aspects. The eschatologies are most pliable, along with the mysticisms that each religious tradition has.

The eschatologies are most pliable, along with the mysticisms that each religious tradition has.

My other insight relates to my being sad, about which I have written before this summer. This feeling of sadness emerges in the afternoons consistently, never in the morning or the evening! So, as I turned towards the kitchen at around 4:30pm yesterday, while examining my sadness feeling, I heard myself say: “I have this curious sense of abandonment!”. my own saying this came totally unexpected! It was a new awareness to me right then and there.

This saying linked to my feelings of sadness to abandonment, which I experienced at the age of about six and a half month. I know this is possible, since my Dad told me on his last visit in 1990 that he left me in a darkened room in the hospital way back in 1937.

… I heard myself say: 'I have this curious sense of abandonment!'

So, yesterday I finally source linked my sadness feelings to a known event in my life, though not from my own memory. However, I have an association of feeling left behind, when I hear foot steps walking a way from me. This now reminds me of a similar and recurring feeling during my first years in Toronto as an immigrant, when cars would whoosh by driving away, but never when approaching! These ‘departing‘ cars made me feel left behind.

There is a danger associated with such early memories in that they can drag you further back into the experience of the collective sense of sadness to which there is no end. That sadness is for the collective heroes of history, Jesus, Buddha and others, to address and process through symbolic revelations. Such collectives cannot be tackled by mere humans, which is an oft issued warning by Jung who had the necessary experience as a person.

Holding this awareness of sadness and its feelings forms a bridge of empathy …

So, now that I have identified the source event of my sadness feelings I can work on assimilating this type of human experience, giving it a place in my psyche. Holding this awareness of sadness and its feelings forms a bridge of empathy towards other human beings when sadness comes along as we live our lives. We can learn to discover thoughts, words and deed to express our felt sadness and so share feelings and experiences with others.
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