These entries are becoming weekly instead of daily, but it is vacation time after all and this is still valid even though I’m retired. However, much has passed since my entry a week prior.

Last Sunday I met with friends at the Palliser to listen to Herman elaborate on the theme of the Calgary Stampede and the - white - development of the West. It is too upsetting to most to mention the suppression of Native Culture that occurred in conjunction with that mentioned development. Entertaining such contrasts simultaneously is the basis for reconciliation, but presents a big psychological challenge to most of the ‘new arrivals‘.

On the preceding Saturday John and I visited three funeral homes to familiarise ourselves with the offered services and their costs. We did get the full attention of the sales representatives, but the service offered showed little variation, I.e. there was no range of options to select from in spite of the professionalism of the presentations.

Entertaining such contrasts simultaneously is the basis for reconciliation, but presents a big psychological challenge to most of the ‘new arrivals‘.

On Monday aft Jack and I met at our usual place and talked two hours full with politics, religion and personal affairs. On Tuesday it was laundry day and yesterday I stopped at the Knox midday meeting and from there on to buy a Calgary calendar and some gifts for Sarah, BJ and kids. Then on to Rene and Eve to pick up Eve’s little painting that I’d bought the Sunday before at her Stephen Ave market stand. Rene had the printout of the fraudulent emails he had received and gave me a ride home.

I was home at four and got ready to go for dinner at Sarah’s. They are - as a family - in the midst of pulling up stakes to move to Der Schweitz within a few weeks. They finally made their decision to do so much to the delight of Sarah’s parents, but to my regret. We have known each other since 2009 when they had their wedding reception right across the door from me in our apartment building! So “Partir est mourir un peu” definitely applies for me in this case. But there is still the going away party later this month and a final beer with BJ in August.

A word or two on my notes in Field Book 1 pages 21 through 37. It is the first of three similar Field Notes booklets. This first one I titled “The Humanity Narrative” starting on 2014-12-28.
On page 21 dated 2018-05-27 I state: “Each human life is a revelation of Existence Divine into conscious existence.” I then continue with a thought regarding my upcoming August 12 Talk titled “World Belief Teachings” as follows. ‘Humanity’s way forward begins with the understanding and honouring our long - 60k year - past.’

A number of entries follow this one all in this theme, aiming to formulate this notion of development and define it. On page 34 yesterday’s entry closes in on a final description which is expressed in the following pages to page 37 inclusive, closing at 10:30pm, 2018-07-11.

We know and understand a lot more today then we did before, but the Mystery remains and even deepens at times.

Summarising these pages of that last entry, I say that we must understand our human 60k year journey as a continuing process of humans coming to understand the Mystery of Existence as we live in an interactive process of revelation shaping our human conscious development from those early beginnings to this very day.

We know and understand a lot more today then we did before, but the Mystery remains and even deepens at times. Once consciousness arises the mystery does also in a mutual and interactive process, as self-consciousness of existence emerges facing the unknown.
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