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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetolteciching.com/blog/a-training-manual-for-the-beginning-times/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>The Beginning Times</h3>
<p>There are two overarching lessons of the I Ching.</p>
<p>The first is this:  <em>Every Ending Begets A New Beginning</em>.</p>
<p>Change is not conceived as an endless string of cause-and-effect events but, rather, as a cycle of repeating seasons that influence the cause-and-effect events within them.  Human actions and endeavors, in other words, are not viewed as independent of <em>the time</em> but, rather, are viewed in context of <em>the season</em> in which they occur.  In this sense, the linear progression of change is always set against the unchanging principle of cyclic change that underlies the unfolding of time.  For this reason, each of the hexagrams of the I Ching is experienced as a spatial expanse no less immediate and encompassing as Spring, let us say.  Or Autumn for that matter.</p>
<p>In the previous <a title="the storm before the calm" href="http://www.thetolteciching.com/blog/2012-the-storm-before-the-calm/" target="_blank">post</a>, I published an oracle cast on the recent Autumnal Equinox.  In it the events around the <em>2012 turning point</em> are presented as resulting in a growing authoritarianism that, once transcended, will usher in a time of global reconciliation.  More specifically, it points to a crisis that we, as humanity, have confronted before and failed to resolve in the most beneficial way for all.  With the approach of 2012, we have the opportunity to face our collective dilemma again and, although the official reaction will reflexively repeat the same mistake as before, a groundswell of enlightened goodwill that transcends borders will unite people everywhere in a positive and constructive response—one that overrides the authoritarianism of church and state and sets in motion those metamorphic forces of nonviolence and noninterference that give rise to the harmonious and creative civilization our collective ancestors dreamed for us.</p>
<p>Far from confronting the end times, in other words, we are on the cusp of entering <em>the beginning times</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~</p>
<h3>A Training Manual for the Road Ahead</h3>
<p><em>The Toltec I Ching</em> is, first and foremost, an Oracle, continuing the age-old practice of rendering  the voice of the One intelligible to the contemporary mind.  By echoing the living words of the Spirit that continuously recreates the world, the Oracle manifests <em>the universal civilizing influence</em> caring for the entirety of creation, including humanity.  Because our thoughts and lives are part of the One, the Oracle enables us to anticipate each crossroads as it approaches and keep our feet firmly on the path of freedom.  To open our hearts to the hopes and dreams placed in us by all that has come before us is to sense the loving-kindness and  communion in the Oracle&#8217;s answers.</p>
<p>But, as its subtitle, <em>64 Keys to Inspired Action in the New World</em>, implies, <em>The Toltec I Ching</em> is also a training manual of ethical strategies embodying the ideals and values of the emerging world culture.  The vision it presents is of a living universe in which everything is invested with spirit and, just like human beings, has a level of awareness that is constantly undergoing a process of metamorphosis.  Our transforming human nature is envisioned as the <em>spirit warrior</em>, defined as a woman or man who trains diligently to defeat her or his <em>self-defeating habits of thought, emotion, and memory</em>.  The Duality of the great creative forces that manifest the intent of the One in the form of the macrocosm, furthermore, are mirrored in the masculine and feminine halves making up the microcosm of every human being.</p>
<p>As said since ancient times, the metamorphosis of the whole is initiated by the metamorphosis of the individual—and it is the work of each spirit warrior that builds an ever-widening <em>community of humaneness</em>.  The <em>64 Keys to Inspired Action in the New World</em> are embodied, of course, in the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, each of which incorporates the core lessons of attaining good fortune, both individually and collectively.  This individual striving to benefit the whole is seen as the open secret of personal and collective good fortune:  by letting go self-interest, the spirit warrior metamorphoses into a well of benefit that allies her or him with others likewise making positive use of the law of spiritual cause-and-effect.  Like all truly proactive measures, these lessons do not merely help  us avoid coming difficulties, but establish new attitudes and behaviors  that actually help shape the emerging future.</p>
<p>The actual means of metamorphosis is the work of harmonizing the masculine and feminine halves inherent within each individual—and inherent, therefore, in every social institution.  Understanding that our feminine and masculine halves are microcosmic reflections of the macrocosmic creative forces empowers us to marshal our energies toward constructive actions and ennoble our intentions toward ever-widening circles of harmonious unity.  In the arena of social institutions, for example, the conservative tendencies within a nation that seeks to defend itself with military strength can be thought of as its masculine half, while its progressive tendencies to channel resources into social service programs and international diplomacy can be thought of as its feminine half.  How well these two halves reach a harmonious balance of power determines the longevity of the nation and the well-being of its people.</p>
<p>The step-by-step training of the spirit warrior is just this exercising of the masculine and feminine halves in response to the archetypal situations making up human experience.  Specifically, it is the blending and balancing of the our feminine and masculine halves as they alternate in our outer actions and inner intentions that is formulated in the hexagram-by-hexagram progress through the sequence of 64 hexagrams.  Each of the hexagrams has it own proportion of the feminine and masculine generative energy—or, in more traditional language, its own specific mixture of yin and yang <em>qi</em>—and the hexagrams are arranged in a sequence that activates and harmonizes the sacred duality within us.  Working our way through the sequence of hexagrams, in other words, cultivates the creative forces within us, setting our intentions and actions on a course of self-transformation that leads to ever-widening spheres of good fortune.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~</p>
<h3>The Storm Before The Calm</h3>
<p>Returning to the recent <a href="http://www.thetolteciching.com/blog/2012-the-storm-before-the-calm/">2012 oracle</a> provides us with the opportunity to see how the lessons embodied in the hexagrams provide us with ethical strategies and ennobling values during a time of profound social transformation.  Of the numerous hexagrams relevant to this situation, we will cite just two examples—</p>
<p>Concerning the first part of the Oracle&#8217;s answer, in which a rising tide of reactionary authoritarianism will need to be overcome, we can look to Hexagram #41 <strong>Feigning Compliance</strong> for inspiration:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thetolteciching.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/41.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-475" title="41" src="http://www.thetolteciching.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/41.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="432" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Image:  A shadowy male warrior stands upon the coils of a great serpent, forcing it to submit to his will at spear point.  He has, however, mistaken the snake’s tail for its head, which rises above and behind him, ready to strike.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Interpretation:  The shadowy male warrior symbolizes those who seek to dominate others.  The point of the spear symbolizes force, whether in the form of aggression, threat, intimidation, or subversion.  The great serpent symbolizes the energy and power of those who resist domination.  Its coils symbolize the convolutions and intricacies of the strategy of invisible defiance.  That the serpent’s tail is shaped to look like its head means that you are able to disguise your true intent behind a mask of conformity.  That the serpent’s head is poised to strike means that you remain vigilant, neither missing any real opportunity for resistance nor getting lulled into a false sense of security.  Taken together, these symbols mean that you lull your captor into a false sense of security while awaiting the right moment to reclaim your freedom.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Action:  There is no true victory in force because those overcome eventually use the moral high ground to achieve their independence.  Such a turn of events is made inevitable by the fact that the spirit of those who oppress is progressively sickened by their past actions at just the time that the spirit of those oppressed is made progressively stronger and finer by the hardship they have endured.  Force corrupts those who use it and ennobles those who endure it.  For this reason, those who use force fail because they are brutish and short-sighted while those whose spirit cannot be dominated succeed because they are humane and wise.  When those who are stronger seek to dominate and control us then we must develop a strategy that ensures we defeat our oppressors without repeating their mistakes.  In this sense, it is necessary that we commit beforehand to making no attempt to exact revenge from those who have wronged us.  In order to emerge unscathed from domination we have to recognize the indomitable nature we have inherited from our ancestors and then ally ourselves with others committed to preserving inner independence until outer independence can be openly celebrated.  Because you take the time to gather inner strength without arousing any suspicion, you succeed in freeing yourself without harming another.  Because your humaneness shines on your oppressors, you succeed in freeing them without harming yourself.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Intent:  The spirit warrior refrains from attempting to dominate anyone in any way, for fear of the inevitable and justifiable backlash it would produce.  Others are not necessarily so farsighted, however:  at a time when force and intimidation are openly used to control our actions and shape our attitudes, it is imperative that we train ourselves to resist every tendency to succumb to mental or spiritual tyranny.  By adopting a demeanor of naive complacency while making our true thoughts and feelings unreadable, we make it possible to live with oppression without being conquered by it:  using visible compliance to mask invisible defiance, we maintain our reverence toward all things so that we never wrong others the way we were wronged.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Summary:  When those who are more powerful demand you submit to their will, do not just pretend to go along with them—make a show of agreeing with them and working for their goals as if they were your own.  Keep your true feelings to yourself, work to find kindred spirits who can be trusted, and gather your strength until the moment to reclaim your independence and freedom arrives.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">~</p>
<p>Concerning the second part of the Oracle&#8217;s answer, in which a time of  widespread reconciliation will lead to a new world culture, we can look  to Hexagram #16 <strong>Renewing Devotion</strong> for inspiration.  Once we have surmounted our self-destructive tendencies, we need to hold fast to our new vision of harmonious unity:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thetolteciching.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/16.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-476" title="16" src="http://www.thetolteciching.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/16.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="432" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Image:  On the platform of a pyramid, a group of male and female warriors greet the dawn with ceremonial fire, drum, and song.  Out among the surrounding vegetation, a bird greets the dawn with two speech glyphs, one of which represents a flower and the other a song.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Interpretation:  The pyramid is a symbol of the sacred mountain at the center of all things and means that you are part of the collective work striving to mirror the handiwork of nature and the divine.  The dawn is a symbol of the daily renewal of creation and greeting it with companions means that you have others with whom you share the song of your beliefs, the drumbeat of your passions, and the fire of your creativity.  The surrounding vegetation is a symbol of the natural order and means that you are in harmony with the spirit of the world.  The singing bird represents the winged, transcendent, essence of nature and means that you are free to spontaneously give voice to the pure joy of life.  The flower and song glyphs represent the spirit warrior’s philosophy of life and mean that you have the courage to confront the eventual passing of everything beautiful, as well as the dignity to honor each passing both before and after it occurs.  Taken together, these symbols mean that your sincerity, trustworthiness and persistence will bring you success, vindication, and contentment.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Action:  The feminine and masculine halves of the spirit warrior unite to carry out past decisions.  This is not the time for questioning the correctness of inner decisions such as your commitments to your beliefs, values, and viewpoints—nor is it the time for second guessing the wisdom of outer decisions such as your commitments to your duties, goals, and loved ones.  It is, rather, the time for honoring your sense of honor—the time for renewing your devotion to the higher purpose guiding your life.  Sometimes it is not a question of what we have faith in, but that our faith is strong and unshakable.  Likewise, it is not always a question of who or what we are faithful to, but that our faithfulness is pure and unbreakable.  Your future circumstances are created out of today’s actions, so set aside all thoughts of changing direction. Your future character is created out of today’s motives, so set aside all self-doubt.  You have taken a stand:  do not permit the opinions or actions of others to move you off center.  Keep in mind that your decisions each have a symbolic value and represent part of your relationship with the whole of creation—by daily renewing your heartfelt devotion to acting with integrity, you will achieve the kind of consistency, firmness, and clarity that brings the highest <em>benefit</em> into your life and the lives of those around you.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Intent:  If we look for reasons to doubt the perfection of all creation, we will find them.  Because the perfect nature with which we are born is overwhelmed by the collective self-doubt produced by human history, we come to doubt our own vision and are increasingly influenced by the prevailing viewpoint of the world as inhumane and, therefore, imperfect.  It is this social indoctrination that creates an artificial viewpoint which obscures our original vision and, much like a mask covers the real face, creates in us an artificial sense of an imperfect nature.  When we become aware that our true birthright is usurped when we are too young to defend the perfect nature we bring into the world, then we come to understand the old stories about the royal child who is hidden away until it comes of age and can reclaim its rightful place in the world:  once we recognize our true self as that part which was hidden in order to protect it until was strong enough to fend for itself, then we view the world through the eyes of our innate perfect nature and no longer remain blind to the perfection of all creation.  Renewing their devotion to perfection every day, spirit warriors are tireless in their effort to remain aware that nature is spirit—and unfaltering in their decision to rejoice in the fact that they are a vital part of that perfect unity.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Summary:  Work to continually renew your heart-felt dedication to fulfilling the first ancestor’s vision of the human spirit, especially when surrounded by others who lack the awareness and sensitivity to appreciate the presence of spirit everywhere.  Stay true to your road and destination.  At this time, influencing others is more proper than allowing them to influence you.</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">~</p>
<p>Introducing these two hexagrams into the 2012 reading allows us to derive additional information by comparing them to the <a href="http://www.thetolteciching.com/blog/2012-the-storm-before-the-calm/">original ones</a> cast on the Autumnal Equinox<strong> </strong><strong></strong>.</p>
<p>Comparing the two hexagrams relating to the &#8220;storm&#8221; portion of the oracle, we find that there is just one line change—in the fifth place—between Hexagram #54 <strong>Repeating Test</strong> and Hexagram #41 <strong>Feigning Compliance</strong>.  The fifth line change of Hexagram #54 <strong>Repeating Test</strong> seems particularly relevant:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #0000ff;"> The situation is auspicious—you are at the vanguard of sweeping changes that will benefit all but those you replace.  The principal task for now is to brighten the emotional atmosphere and give everyone hope.  Slow down—actually implementing the new will take a long time.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Likewise, comparing the two hexagrams relating to the &#8220;calm&#8221; portion of the oracle, we find that there is just one line change—in the sixth place—between Hexagram #2 <strong>Sensing Creation</strong> and Hexagram #16 <strong>Renewing Devotion</strong>.  The sixth line change of hexagram #16 <strong>Renewing Devotion</strong> seems especially useful:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #0000ff;"> Look back at the period just passed and study it diligently, gleaning all the lessons you can from it.  Do you feel more empowered or less empowered than before?  What do you want to have continue, what do you want to have change?</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">Expanding a reading  by consciously introducing hexagrams that amplify the meaning and intent of the Oracle&#8217;s answer like this allows us to combine the two facets of the I Ching—the Oracle and the book of wisdom—into a more comprehensive and illuminating forecast.  In this way, we can encompass more of the mood and decision points of the divination by opening up the intuitive aspect of the reading to more in-depth analysis.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~</p>
<h3>Summary:  The Master Key to Inspired Action</h3>
<p>The second overarching lesson of the I Ching is this:  <em>Sooner Or Later, Everything Changes Into Its Opposite</em>.</p>
<p>Nothing can maintain its status quo forever. The action of trying to maintain its status quo is the very thing that triggers its own backlash.</p>
<p>In point of fact, the stronger its action, the more wide-spread its action, the longer its action continues, and the stronger its resistance to change, <em>the more profound and complete and rapid its reversal</em>.</p>
<p>As the old adage goes:  <em>No one is easier to topple than one standing on tiptoes</em>.  When things reach their peak, they decline.  When the natural process of expansion and contraction is thwarted by unnatural means, such as force and oppression, then the decline does not follow its natural timetable but is accelerated by the pent-up energies locked within a self-destructive equilibrium.</p>
<p>Perhaps a universal change of heart seems unlikely to some.  Perhaps they view the politics of the moment as in control of our collective destiny.  Perhaps they are afraid to hope again.</p>
<p>But these are irrelevancies in the grand cycle of change, the forces of which work from the inside and outside simultaneously.  The cathartic moment arrives unbidden by conscious calling:  it answers the unconscious desperation and despair welling up from within both the personal and collective unconscious.  Just as the chick&#8217;s call from the inside the egg is answered by the hen&#8217;s pecking the shell from the outside, the anguish of the personal unconscious calls forth a complete and immediate reversal of conventional beliefs and values from humanity&#8217;s collective unconscious.</p>
<p>This 2012 Oracle states unequivocally that we are on the cusp of a metamorphosed civilization, one in which personal ethics are mirrored in our collective ethics and in which individual self-transformation ripples outward, contributing directly to the transformation of the Whole.</p>
<p>The Master Key to Inspired Action, then, is Inspired Intention—it is the diligently cultivated heart-mind that can, moment-to-moment, shift its attention to a world in which there are not only enough resources for all to live, but one in which there is enough time for all to live blissfully.</p>
<p>The Golden Age of Humanity is within our reach.</p>
<p>What shall we build together?</p>
<p>~</p>
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		<title>The Oracle and the War Against Fate</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetolteciching.com/blog/the-oracle-and-the-war-against-fate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>The <em>Unity of all things</em> 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 peace and filled with harmony.</p>
<p>The <em>Unity of all things</em> produces a secondary world of birth and death when its living potential is activated by the intention of its parts.  This is unavoidable, since the harmony of the Whole could not be perfect if it denied in any way the natural creative impulse of its parts.  The unitary nature of the living potential produces a single field of intentions, so that no intention exists in isolation but, rather, enters the universe of intentions, where it becomes part of the vast interconnectedness of cause-and-effect.</p>
<p>The living potential bifurcates its <em>generative energy</em> along a line of further-dividing dualities:  the 1 becomes 2, the 2 become 4, the 4 become 8, and so on.  These numbers represent the ways in which <em>generative energy</em> distributes intention throughout the phenomenal world.  They are entities in the sense that they are comprised of intentional parts and comprise an intention of their own as a part of a larger whole:  <em>the 8 trigrams</em> is an entity that both contains all 8 of its trigrams and extends the intention of the <em>4 bigrams. </em>The 4 bigrams double the original duality of solid and broken lines, producing two pairs of dualities.  The 8 trigrams double the duality of the 4 bigrams, producing four pairs of dualities.  This process continues until the 64 hexagrams produce 32 pairs of dualities.<em> </em>None of these entities, however, actually precedes another:  they all exist simultaneously and symbolize the multiple points of view required of human perception to appreciate its environment and respond to it successfully.<em> </em></p>
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<div id="attachment_343" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 517px"><em><em><a href="http://www.thetolteciching.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/dualities2.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-343  " title="dualities2" src="http://www.thetolteciching.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/dualities2.jpg" alt="" width="507" height="187" /></a></em></em><p class="wp-caption-text">Diagram 1:  Emanations of Duality Arising from the Process of Doubling</p></div>
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<p>This cosmological process is <em>perceptual</em> in nature because it cannot be divorced from human perception—it represents the identification of human nature with the whole of the universe.  Because our perception arises from the same process as the rest of creation, we perceive the unfolding of the cosmos by perceiving the unfolding of our own perception.  That unfolding comes in a series of emanations coincident with the vast undifferentiated One.  Awareness stirs within the stillness of the <em>Unity of all things</em>, its creative urge producing a division in the unity.  Now there are two.  Thus is born <em>Number</em>.  Which produces <em>Symbol</em>:  in the case of Two, it is the Duality of complementary feeling-tones of Autonomy and Love, for the movement out of the unity requires independence of spirit even as it establishes the relationship with the Whole.  From <em>Symbol</em> comes <em>Name</em>:  in this case, yang and yin, masculine and feminine, heaven and earth, creative and receptive, movement and stillness, and so on.  With names, things enter into the universe of all other names and the ensuing relationships they form produce an intricate web of <em>Meaning</em> that explores all the possible distributions of <em>generative energy</em> within civilization.</p>
<p>The cosmological process whereby the material universe gives body to the spiritual <em>Unity of all things</em>, in other words, is mirrored in the process whereby civilization gives body to the original undifferentiated perception of human nature.  In both cases, it is the cosmological <em>unfolding of ever-dividing dualities</em> that creates a relational order and structure to the world of phenomena and experience—an order and structure resulting in the natural tendency of all things toward increased disorder and decay.</p>
<p>The unfolding of the Many out of the One, then, is the Way of Fate, where all things and relations between things forever spontaneously changes in the direction of greater disintegration.</p>
<p>And it is the return of the Many into the One that is the Way of Freedom.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~</p>
<h3>Reversing the Course of Fate</h3>
<p>The return of the Many into the One is an ancient formula symbolizing the spiritual transformation we undergo when we cultivate our present self to the point where we spontaneously re-experience our original <em>undamaged</em> nature.  This return to our true self as it exists before and after social conditioning is likewise called <em>uniting heaven and earth</em>.  It comes about because we train ourselves to stop viewing the inner and outer world as pairs of dualities (like good and bad, right and wrong, self and other) and develop greater sensitivity to the <em>Unity of all things</em>.  This is commonly referred to as the mystical experience arising from the reunion of subject and object:  it points at the profound metamorphosis we undergo when there is no longer any distance between us and the universe nor is there any boundary between our individual mind and the one mind.  This is called <em>reversing the outflow of generative energy</em> and has long been associated with the <em>real person</em>, or sage, whose enlightened nature has been reclaimed.</p>
<p>As noted in the previous two posts, the Way of Fate is the entropic process carrying all things and the relationships between things ever further into disorder.  From the perceptual cosmology, this is the result of the initial division of the <em>Unity of all things</em> and its subsequent doublings into further dualities.</p>
<p>The Way of Fate is the <em>realm of birth and death</em>.  Everything that enters this realm must progressively deteriorate and die.  This is the first and greatest of the perceptual dualities.  From it arise all the other dualities comprising the law of Fate governing the lives of so many.</p>
<p>Running counter to the Way of Fate is the <em>circulation of generative energy</em>.  This is the flow of the <em>subliminal force that gives life to life</em>.  From the perspective of spirit, <em>generative energy</em> is matter.  From the perspective of matter, <em>generative energy</em> is spirit.  From the perspective of entropy, <em>generative energy</em> is information.  From the perspective of life, <em>generative energy</em> is mind.  It circulates among all things, entering all the dualities in order to hold them together in the <em>Unity of all things</em>.  It is the subliminal force that can postpone the arrival of Fate indefinitely.</p>
<p>The <em>true person</em>, the sage, the enlightened person, have long been those who cultivated this <em>generative energy of the universal return</em> within themselves and others.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~</p>
<h3>The Oracle of Freedom</h3>
<p><em>Uniting heaven and earth</em> is an act that happens within the human being.  It occurs within us in the present mind-moment when we stand at the center of the compass and open our heart-mind to the ever-present <em>Unity of all things</em>.  We bring the <em>one spirit</em> of heaven and the <em>one body</em> of earth back together within ourselves every time we re-experience the nonduality of reality.  Reuniting the <em>one spirit</em> and the <em>one body</em> in a conscious act is an act of conception that gives birth to a timeless intention—fueled by the <em>generative energy</em> of the return of the Many into the One, it reverses the course of Fate by <em>spontaneously and immediately returning to the Act of Creation</em>.  Such experiences not only benefit those who undergo them but spill out into the world of intentions, contributing to the metamorphosis of civilization itself.</p>
<p>There are many traditions of self-transformation whose goal is the mystical experience of nonduality.  Our complete metamorphosis into a <em>true person</em> that constantly stands at the center of the compass takes many years of genuine insights and sincere cultivation.  Standing at the center point of nonduality, voluntarily collapsing the distinction between subject and object, voluntarily letting go of all boundaries between <em>my self</em> and <em>the One</em>—this is the method and the goal of self-realization practices.  It is not a practice undertaken lightly nor attained effortlessly.  It is the Path of Freedom in every sense and those who keep it underfoot their whole life are still too few.</p>
<p>But it is not the only way of <em>uniting heaven and earth</em>.</p>
<p>There are many, equally old, traditions of divination whose goal is to make the voice of the <em>one spirit</em> accessible to the <em>one body</em>.  Across cultures and the millennia, the tradition of priest-diviners has arisen to give voice to the ancient Oracle guiding humanity away from the cliff edge of self-destruction and back toward the Living Monument of self-creation.  It is a tradition based on the recognition that our self-awareness works according to the same laws as the rest of creation:  our spirit speaks most directly and powerfully to our body in our dreams, just as the <em>one spirit</em> speaks most directly and powerfully to the <em>one body</em> in its symbols.  Long considered the first language, symbols speak with a directness and power that words cannot—laden with complex layers of meaning and emotional associations, they appear all-at-once, spatially, rather than in the linear, temporal, string of words of conscious language.</p>
<p>Divination, then, is the art of translating the symbols of the Oracle.  It is the human awareness breaking through the barrier of subject and object, voluntarily merging self with the <em>one spirit</em>, re-coupling the primal duality of spirit and matter.  It is the spontaneous and immediate act of <em>uniting heaven and earth</em>.  It is not necessary for the diviner to consciously strive to effect such a union—the act of divination collapses the subject-object duality by its very nature.</p>
<p>Engaging the Oracle automatically entails stepping back into the <em>Unity of all things</em>.  We cannot seek an answer from the Oracle and hold ourselves separate from the <em>one spirit</em>, we cannot receive the Oracle&#8217;s answer and hold ourselves separate from the <em>one body</em>.  To open ourselves to the invisible realm of unity underlying this world of the senses is to lose the ego-self and step into the oceanic dreamtime of nonduality:  this is called <em>becoming the site of the return of the Many into the One</em>.  As has long been said of the I Ching, inquiring of the Oracle is not a matter of any special knowledge or skill— the divinatory act activates a mysterious conjunction of dualities solely by the power of the questioner&#8217;s sincerity.</p>
<p>The Oracle is the speaking of the <em>generative energy</em> that circulates between the beginning and end of time, between the Act of Creation and the Act of Completion.  It circulates in the same way that the ocean&#8217;s water evaporates, forms clouds that are carried by the wind to the land where it falls as rain that accumulates in streams and rivers in order to flow back into the sea.  It is an all-at-once-ness circulation that is spatial and not a linear progression of time.  It is the flow of the unchanging <em>life-that-gives-life</em> behind the flow of perceptible change.  To life, <em>generative energy</em> is the unborn mind that moves at will backward and forward between the beginning and the end of time:  it is unborn because it does not ever enter the <em>realm of birth and death</em> and so stands forever outside the realm of Fate—it can move at will between end and beginning because it is the circulation itself.</p>
<p>The 64 hexagrams constitute the map of Fate.  They show the 64 possible mixtures of yang and yin <em>generative energy</em> that produce the world of phenomena.  They show the pitfalls and traps everything and everyone faces in the <em>realm of birth and death</em>.  They show the vast archetypal landscape of entropic change driving all changing phenomena.</p>
<p>Engaging the Oracle activates the creative intent of the living moment, revealing the way to transcend Fate and create a lifetime of good fortune.  Circulating among the lines of the hexagrams, the <em>generative energy</em> calls us to follow the way of freedom in every sense.</p>
<div id="attachment_361" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 528px"><a href="http://www.thetolteciching.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/compass-bigrams6.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-361 " title="compass bigrams6" src="http://www.thetolteciching.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/compass-bigrams6.jpg" alt="" width="518" height="418" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Diagram 2:  Clockwise Circulation of the Four Bigrams</p></div>
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<p>The Oracle speaks to us by selecting from the 64 possible hexagrams just those that represent the present situation we face and how it is developing into the coming situation.  In doing so, it points out the choices we have if we are to keep the path of freedom beneath our feet.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The Toltec I Ching is the newest iteration of the Oracle&#8217;s speaking.  By recasting the I Ching in the symbology of the Native Americans of ancient Mexico, its interpretative material gives a new voice to the emerging Dynasty of the Open Secret.  By marrying the two great cosmovisions of the indigenous civilizations of China and Mexico, it unites the East and West hemispheres for today&#8217;s global civilization.  By interpreting each hexagram with both <a title="original illustration" href="http://www.thetolteciching.com/sample-chapter.php" target="_blank">original illustrations</a> and written material, it unites the right and left hemispheres of the brain for today&#8217;s global consciousness.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I cannot distance myself from the I Ching anymore than you.  Those who haven&#8217;t yet internalized the I Ching may think the above considerations to be mere abstractions but those who know that the 8 trigrams are their own sense organs have already discovered that the 4 bigrams are the opening and closing of the Gate of Good Fortune.  May benefit pour out of you to cover heaven and earth.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~</p>
<p><em>Next:  Reading the Map of Fate<br />
</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~</p>
<p><em>The   Toltec I Ching</em>, by Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and William        Douglas   Horden has just received a <a title="Silver Award in the  2010      Nautilus Awards" href="http://www.nautilusbookawards.com/2010_Silver_Winners.html" target="_blank">Silver Award in the 2010 Nautilus Awards</a>.     It          recasts the I Ching in the symbology of the Native    Americans of  ancient         Mexico and includes original illustrations    interpreting  each of   the       hexagrams.  Its subtitle, <em>64 Keys to Inspired  Action in  the  New       World</em> hints at its focus on the ethics of  the  emerging  world       culture.</p>
<p><a href="../../" target="_blank">Click   here</a> to go to the main site   to see sample  chapters, reviews and   the link to <a href="http://www.larsonpublications.com/book-details.php?id=81" target="_blank">Larson Publications</a> for ordering the book.</p>
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