ALL THINGS CHANGE

Rip Parker
4 min readOct 24, 2024

THIS IS CREATIVITY

FORMER CIRCUMSTANCES MUST GO, MAKING ROOM FOR NEW CREATION. THE SAND CASTLE GOES WITH THE TIDE. THE JOY IS IN THE CREATION, NOT THE PRODUCT.

I am a “thing”. I change, every day, often imperceptibly, and eventually totally. The day must come when this “thing” is gone, and its materiality is no more, but the energetic essential is eternal. I am the compilation of indestructible energy into temporary materiality without sacrifice of my essential eternal spiritual energy.

Everything is always changing. This is creativity always making room for itself to change into new temporary materiality which then serves the purposes for which it came into being eventuallly continuing only in conscious memory, which is a real form of being.

The evaporation of material reality is a change in form only. The memory of its presence and the events of its existence are of critical value and are eternal.

Eternal spiritual energy choses temporary material form in order to learn, and does so unnumbered times. Learning is change in a high form.

I am speculating about conditions beyond personal knowing in a way that seems plausible to me. We each have our own speculations. This allows us to think our thinking may have some value, or not. It is at least not boring.

The certainty of change helps dispel arrogance. We never really know what “change” will bring. It is always a creative surprise inviting us to consider its nature and the…

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Rip Parker
Rip Parker

Written by Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics

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