Notes

         You are back home from running an errand and having a small gelato at La Gelaterina next to the Apple store at Legacy. The morning was busy and it is now early mid-afternoon. Carol is working on packing as you are to Mary Lou’s tonight, as there is a family party at Aunt Ruthie and Tony’s tomorrow. Owen decided he needed fed so more time out to get it done.

         Owen is not having a very good afternoon. It is difficult to focus in such circumstances. I scribble two bedside notes last night which I thought I might be able to use but today they are useless. One, human reason mirrors itself, and two, consciousness grows. Both simple statements of ‘fact’ in my head but I don’t believe either one is a definitive statement. I am having a great deal of trouble attempting to assimilate this Takis shaman. I don’t care if he is fiction, if have to feel a sense of the character. What would anyone think being 180,000 years dead after a life of 70 or 80 years? “Ye and me,” said Ahab to Starbuck on that third day. Were I a believer in reincarnation I would say I must have lived a life back then and now it percolates from time to time. Just the aroma of a memory but not the reality of one.

         The concept is a part of the book and is shown within the character Merlyn, orndorff.

         I cannot accept it as something useful in my head, Amorella. 

         Go the ‘reincarnation’ at Wikipedia and see if you can find something of a compromise. It appears you will do most anything to preserve your personal sense of authenticity as far as these books are concerned. While I am on the topic you might think about Takis and how he may feel about his own authenticity as a shaman after one hundred and eighty some thousand years. There may be a myriad of reasons for him to play the scene of a hermit as you once attempted yourself but were not successful.

         I found a Wikipedia selection under "reincarnation" I can deal with because of all my years that Caesar has been a hero to me.

Reincarnation

The Druids

In the 1st century BC  Alexander Cornelius Polyhisor wrote;

"The Pythagorean doctrine prevails among the Gauls' teaching that the souls of men are immortal, and that after a fixed number of years they will enter into another body." Julius Caesar recorded that the druids of Gaul, Britain and Ireland had metempsychosis as one of their core doctrines; "The principal point of their doctrine is that the soul does not die and that after death it passes from one body into another"

—Julius Caesar, "De Bello Gallico", VI

and;

"With regard to their actual course of studies, the main object of all education is, in their opinion, to imbue their scholars with a firm belief in the indestructibility of the human soul, which, according to their belief, merely passes at death from one tenement to another; for by such doctrine alone, they say, which robs death of all its terrors, can the highest form of human courage be developed. Subsidiary to the teachings of this main principle, they hold various lectures and discussions on astronomy, on the extent and geographical distribution of the globe, on the different branches of natural philosophy, and on many problems connected with religion".

—Julius Caesar, "De Bello Gallico", VI, 13

Diodorus Siculus thought the druids might have been influenced by the teachings of  Pythagoras. One modern scholar has speculated that Buddhist missionaries had been sent by the Indian king Ashoka. Others have invoked common Indo-European parallels.”

From: Wikipedia.

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         Take a break, a nap. Later we can work though it may be in Westerville. Post. All for now.- Amorella.

           I do have a sense of 12,000 years. This is seen in the three books. If I think of one year as a word and I write 180,000 words I think I can grasp the concept easier. Book one is 134,000 words so I only need 46,000 words more. Book two has 109,000 words and book three has 164,000 words. Total is 423,000 words or 423,000 years in three books. If I jump into this my mind can deal with it. I’ll think about it tonight.

         Whatever works, orndorff. Tomorrow will be busy but we might get some writing in. Remember a shaman is still a human being, sheorhe has a heartsoulmind. Try to imagine the three being poured into one another. Use colors. Red for heart, blue for soul, and white for mind. What comes to mind?

         The American and British flags.

         Expand on that, that is, the concepts behind or within the colors. That is tonight’s assignment.