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The 2012 Metamorphosis Meme Oracle
What kind of Ending will produce the best Beginning for the Coming 2012 Age? This is the question addressed in a group divination at a three-day workshop on The Toltec I Ching in Southern Oregon, November, 2011. While six people … Continue reading
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The Art of Channeling
~ The Well of Wisdom and the Well of Art spring from the same Source ~ I did not know that when I was being trained as a diviner, I was being trained as a writer. My teacher at the … Continue reading
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Tagged act of creation, art, channeling, divination, emptying, One Mind, oracle, ordinary consciousness, the unknown, wisdom
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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The 2012 Meme of Restoring Wholeness
The great Chinese sage Chuang Tzu calls our attention to a strange tree beside the road. Its bark is so tough that no ax can penetrate it, its wood is so twisted that it cannot be split or used for … Continue reading
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The Oracle and the Smoking Mirror
Tezcatlipoca, the god of the Smoking Mirror of ancient Mexico, wore an obsidian mirror on his chest that reflected the true nature of anyone looking into it. Those who could not gaze at their reflection without averting their eyes lost … Continue reading
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Inspired Action [1]
I am part of a Living Whole that wants the best for me and all others at the same time. This is the lesson I’ve learned in my sixty years. It’s the lesson I repeat to myself constantly. Like a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, animism, divination, global community, I Ching, new world, oracle, shamanism, Toltec
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