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Embodied Ecstasy

Posted on August 15, 2014 by William

To be a diviner, one must live like water. Preamble The path of wisdom has a single fixed destination: The Ecstatic Life. All other attainments are merely way stations on the Great Sojourn, for wisdom is not complete … Continue reading →

Posted in Inspired Action, The Toltec I Ching | Tagged animism, benefit, communion, divination, ethical strategy, ethics, global community, heart-mind, identity, Intent, metamorphosis, One Mind, oracle, Self-Sacrifice, social transformation, spirit, symbolic behavior | Comments Off

Three Zen Stories for Peace of Heart

Posted on June 28, 2013 by William

Zen stories and koans have a reputation for being difficult to understand. While this is certainly true of some, there are others more transparent that seem to impart their primary lesson much more readily. Here are three such stories, each … Continue reading →

Posted in Tranquility | Tagged Compassion, Detachment, heart-mind, Koans, Peace of Mind, Responsibility, Zen | Comments Off

A 2012 Training Manual

Posted on October 3, 2010 by William

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 | Comments Off

The Oracle and the War Against Fate

Posted on August 23, 2010 by William

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 | Comments Off

Why A New I Ching?

Posted on July 31, 2010 by William

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 | 3 Comments

2012: End of the World View

Posted on October 26, 2009 by William

The ancient Mayans, along with the other peoples of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, held a view of time as cyclical and spiritually potent. Cyclical in the sense that history is divided into a series of Ages (sometimes called Suns), each of which … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012, Inner Activism | Tagged 2012, animism, Aztec Calendar Stone, Creative Forces, cyclical time, divination, end of the world, gods, Golden Age of Humanity, heart-mind, I Ching, Intent, living worldview, livingness of space, map of Inner Change, Mayan calendar, Mayan Long Count, Nahuatl, patterns of perception and behavior, rule of action and backlash, shamanism, spatialization of time, spirit, timing, Toltec, world view | 1 Comment

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