Significant Experiences

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Feb 192010
 

Tonight’s performer
has said elsewhere, re-
ferring to the monopolize-
tion of “religious” (Total)
experience by the priestly
class, “We really don’t need
these people to mediate for us.
Each person should be his own
shaman.”
And yet the present situ-
ation is no different essentially
than the remainder of our fragmented
lives: we submit, and even rush to
be able to submit ourselves to the passive
acceptance and consumption of separate
items. Of course, we are pickier and
more sophisticated than most, and insist
on consuming only “beautiful trips.”
Some
of us are so liberated as to kiss only enlightened ass.

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Return the Receptive

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Feb 022010
  

24.  Fu - Return (The Turning Point)
          -- --
          -- --     above     K'un   The Receptive, Earth
          -- --
          -- --
          -- --     below     Chên   The Arousing, Thunder
          -----
     The Judgement
          Return. Success.
          Going out and coming in without error.
          Friends come without blame.
          To and fro goes the way.
          On the seventh day comes return.
          It furthers one to have somewhere to go.
     The Image
          Thunder within the earth:
          The image of the Turning Point.
          Thus the kings of antiquity closed the passes
          At the time of solstice.
          Merchants and strangers did not go about,
          And the ruler
          Did not travel through the provinces.
     The Lines
     ()   Nine at the beginning means:
          Return from a short distance.
          No need for remorse.
          Great good fortune.


 2.   K'un - The Receptive
          -- --
          -- --     above     K'un   The Receptive, Earth
          -- --
          -- --
          -- --     below     K'un   The Receptive, Earth
          -- --
     The Judgement
          The Receptive brings about sublime success,
          Furthering through the perseverance of a mare.
          If the superior man undertakes something and tries to lead,
          He goes astray;
          But if he follows, he finds guidance.
          It is favorable to find friends in the west and south,
          To forego friends in the east and north.
          Quiet perseverance brings good fortune.
     The Image
          The earth's condition is receptive devotion.
          Thus the superior man who has breadth of character
          Carries the outer world.
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Quotations

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Feb 022010
 

You can only photograph the thing, not the. Not the thing itself, but only in itself; so that the thing becomes concept, a light shadow reckoned from the original, an infinity of signs. We might imagine that original thing, but in fact there is always only the map.

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