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The Yin and Yang of the Culture War
Those who want war are instruments of ill omen. —Tao Te Ching, trans. Thomas Cleary I went to the Cirque du Soleil’s “Love” performance of The Beatles’ music last week and was struck by the sheer fun of it all. … Continue reading
Posted in Inner Activism
Tagged Culture War, natural balance, reconciliation, right and left, yin and yang
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2012: The Beginning Times
Across the imaginary distance of culture and borders, I honor your contribution to the Beginning Times. ~ A dying oak tree, its trunk split and branches breaking, does not in any way resemble an acorn. The new beginning—despite growing directly … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, The Toltec I Ching
Tagged 2012, divination, end of the world, ethical strategy, global community, Golden Age of Humanity, hexagram, I Ching, Mayan calendar, metamorphosis, new world, oracle, shamanism, social transformation, spirit warrior, Toltec, training, trigram, world view
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Constructing Nuclear Hexagrams
I was unable to find a simple chart of how to construct nuclear hexagrams, so here’s the unadorned mechanics— Of a given hexagram, take its 2nd, 3rd, and 4th lines to make the lower trigram of its nuclear hexagram. Then … Continue reading
Near Death Experience: Journey of Two Souls
I was fully awake when my heart stopped beating and my last breath passed my lips. In the Spring of 2003, a genetic time bomb went off and my body’s time came to an end. The moment of death was … Continue reading
Posted in Revenants
Tagged aware light, bardo, communion, death experience, higher soul, life after death, lower soul, NDE, near death experience, rebirth, soul
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A 2012 Training Manual
The Beginning Times There are two overarching lessons of the I Ching. The first is this: Every Ending Begets A New Beginning. Change is not conceived as an endless string of cause-and-effect events but, rather, as a cycle of repeating … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, The Toltec I Ching
Tagged 2012, animism, anti-authoritarianism, authoritarianism, Beginning Times, benefit, discipline, ethics, global community, Golden Age of Humanity, heart-mind, herd mentality, hexagram, higher self, I Ching, Intention, metamorphosis, new world, path of good fortune, social transformation, spirit, spirit warrior, symbolic behavior, the ecstatic life, Toltec, training, world view
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2012: The Storm Before The Calm
The Autumnal Equinox arrives, accompanied by fog and mist and rain and clouds of every shade of gray. The world’s qi shifts from boundless movement toward boundless stillness. We leave behind the excessive yang of summer and move into the … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, The Toltec I Ching
Tagged 2012, authoritarianism, benefit, divination, end of the world, ethical strategy, ethics, freedom, global community, Golden Age of Humanity, hexagram, I Ching, Mayan calendar, New Dynasty, new world, oppression, oracle, peace and prospering for all, social transformation, Toltec, world view
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Reading the Map of Fate
What my teachers have taught me has been born out by my 40-some years of study: the I Ching is a system of 64 living symbols that perennially outgrows whatever interpretation as been affixed to it. Why would the snake … Continue reading
Posted in A New I Ching, The Toltec I Ching
Tagged animism, benefit, Book of Changes, Change, Creation, Creative Forces, divination, global community, Golden Age of Humanity, hexagram, hexagram sequence, I Ching, King Wen Sequence, Need, new world, non-duality, oracle, rulers, shamanism, statecraft, trigram, Yi Jing, yin and yang
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The Oracle and the War Against Fate
Overview The Unity of all things dwells in an undifferentiated state of living potential. Neither awake nor asleep nor dreaming, it is the shining awareness everywhere present, the fount of time and eternity. It is still and silent, utterly at … Continue reading
Posted in A New I Ching, The Toltec I Ching
Tagged animism, bigram, ch'i, divination, generative energy, Golden Age of Humanity, good fortune, heart-mind, heaven and earth, herd mentality, hexagram, higher self, I Ching, line changes, metamorphosis, new world, oracle, path of good fortune, qi, realm of birth and death, Reversing Fate, shamanism, social transformation, spirit, the Oracle of Freedom, Toltec, trigram, Unity of all things, Way of Fate, yin and yang
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A New I Ching for the New Dynasty
The Spirit of the Age has reversed course again and we have entered a new Dynasty. Unlike the dynasties of old that ruled one nation or one people, this time it is an egalitarian Dynasty, a global shift of awareness, … Continue reading
Posted in A New I Ching, The Toltec I Ching
Tagged 2012, divination, earlier heaven arrangement, ethics, fu shi arrangement, fu xi arrangement, Golden Age of Humanity, hexagram, I Ching, king wen arrangement, later heaven arrangement, metamorphosis, Open Secret, shamanism, Shao Yung, social transformation, Toltec, trigram
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Why A New I Ching?
I cannot distance the I Ching from my own life any more than you. My first teachers of the Book of Change impressed upon me the perceptual aspect of this ancient work, as opposed to the historical interpretation so prevalent … Continue reading
Posted in A New I Ching, The Toltec I Ching
Tagged animism, animistic mother culture, archetypal change, Barranca del Cobre, Chou Dynasty, Chou I, Copper Canyon, Count of Days, divination, Golden Age of Humanity, Guizang, heart-mind, hexagram, historical interpretation, I Ching, King Wen, King Wen Sequence, Lianshan, Mawangdui, metamorphosis, New Dyansty, New I Ching, new world, New Yi Jing, oracle, perceptual interpretation, priest-diviners, real-world energies, righteous effort, righteous individual, Sequence of Hexagrams, shamanism, Shang Dynasty, Shao Yung, social transformation, Tarahumara, Tonalpoalli, Xia Dynasty, Yi Jing
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