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Welcome to the Polemics of Jack

by Jack | August 26, 2021 | The Polemics of Jack by Jack Cross | 0 Comments

The Polemics, as I lovingly refer to my writings, are intended to be a collection of short articles, art-i-facts, journey notes, diagrams, ecstatic poetry, sleight-of-hand with Compass, Square and Pen, written exclusively under the influence of Soul-Mind-Manifesting...

Hacking Addiction with Ibogaine: An Interview with Patrick Kroupa

by Lakshmi | November 10, 2019 | Addiction, Iboga/Ibogaine | 0 Comments

Patrick Kroupa, an early pioneer in the movement to medicalize ibogaine for opioid addiction with Howard Lotsof (right), the man who discovered as a young addict in 1962 NYC, that a “drug” from Africa called “ibogaine” had ended his addiction...

Introduction to EMDR for Transcendent Recovery

by Richard | July 10, 2025 | Richard Hite EMDR | 0 Comments

BASS, a neurological practice for rapid healing and spiritual awakening. This process will help you achieve personal freedom from traumatic stress, allowing you to achieve optimal spiritual growth. You will learn to transform your life by training your brain to create...

Iboga Saves: Ending Addiction, Jun 17, 2025, Boulder Canyon Theater, 1:30 -6:45 PM MTN, Free

by Lakshmi | July 9, 2025 | Events, Iboga Saves: Ending Addiction l Lakshmi Narayan, Iboga/Ibogaine | 0 Comments

Attend IMAGINE A PLANT MEDICINE THAT CAN END OPIOID ADDICTION IN A SINGLE TREATMENT LIVE + ZOOM EVENT Iboga (and its extract ibogaine) is a powerful plant medicine that can reset the brain and the addiction receptors to a “pre-addicted state” in the course of a...

From Combat to Communion

by Anders | July 5, 2025 | Anders Beatty l The Metaphorical Cooking Pot, ENTHEOGENS AKA PSYCHEDELICS, Iboga/Ibogaine, Integration, Preparation | 0 Comments

Abstract This paper explores a psychospiritual model for the recovery of returning special forces veterans experiencing complex PTSD (CPTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), utilizing the framework of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, Robert Moore’s four-fold...

Elite runner Jaqueline Kiplimo helps a disabled Chinese athlete drink during the 2010 Zheng-Kai marathon.

Seven Years Facing a Wall

by Lakshmi | July 5, 2025 | Awake Daily Dose, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Elite runner Jaqueline Kiplimo helps a disabled Chinese athlete drink during the 2010 Zheng-Kai marathon. I embarked upon the Iboga Saves documentary effort in 2018. We raised some money, got a lot of footage. Somewhere along the way I realized the pain point...

Welcoming Deborah Mash, Doctor, Scientist and Neuroshaman to the Awake Board

by Lakshmi | July 2, 2025 | Awake Daily Dose, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Dr. Deborah C. Mash is a Professor of Neurology (Emerita) and Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. With over 25 years of continuous NIH funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Deborah is a leading expert on...

Transcending Trauma with Entheogens: A Journey of Rebirth

by Lakshmi | June 25, 2025 | Awake Daily Dose | 0 Comments

I have been a psychonaut for almost 20 years, beginning with an unbidden ayahuasca journey in 1997 that changed me profoundly. Entheogens, as the name suggests, have helped me to find God, discover Self, understand Death, revere Nature, refine my character ,...

Donate to Jessica’s FEAT Fundraiser for Ibogaine Treatment.

by Lakshmi | June 22, 2025 | FEAT FUNDRAISER, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Whilst lawmakers are jubilant about another round of funding and another round of clinical trials that will take years to validate, and indigenous ceremonialists are celebrating their supremacy, someone dies every 10 minutes of overdose. These deaths are...

Jessica FEAT 8

by fixed | June 17, 2025 | CHANNELS, FEAT FUNDRAISER | 0 Comments

Jessica’s Story LISTEN TO HER INTERVIEW ON THE TRUE LIFE PODCAST WITH GEORGE MONTY Jessica is determined to end her addiction which has dominated her life for so long. She is currently on Fentanyl with it’s daily dangers of overdose. She holds down a job and is...

Lexi FEAT 11

by fixed | June 16, 2025 | CHANNELS, FEAT FUNDRAISER | 0 Comments

I’m reaching out with humility and hope. After struggling with addiction for years and coming to the realization that typical treatments were not working I made the choice to seek other options. Ibogaine sounded like the answer to my problems I was told didn’t exist...

Katie FEAT 12

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Cameron FEAT10

by fixed | June 13, 2025 | CHANNELS, FEAT FUNDRAISER | 0 Comments

I’ve never really had many people on my team throughout life, always kind of a loner so I just figured out how to do things myself. One of the hardest things for me with this was admitting to myself that I don’t know how to do it, and asking for help. Thankfully...

Letters To A Dying God I TrueLife Podcast

by fixed | May 19, 2025 | True Life Podcast with George Monty | 0 Comments

Jack Cross Today’s guest walks the line between prophet and poet, mystic and madman. Jack Cross doesn’t just write—he conjures. His words are polemics, hallucinations etched in ink, hymns smuggled out of dreams. Whether he’s invoking God in back-alley verses or...

Iboga Saves: Ending Addiction, Jun 17, 2025, Boulder Canyon Theater, 1:30 -6:45 PM MTN, Free

by fixed | April 21, 2025 | CHANNELS, Iboga Saves: Ending Addiction l Lakshmi Narayan | 0 Comments

ZOOM LINK Iboga Saves: Ending Addiction, Jun 17, 2025, Boulder Canyon Theater, 1:30 -6:45 PM MTN, Free IMAGINE A PLANT MEDICINE THAT CAN END OPIOID ADDICTION IN A SINGLE TREATMENT LIVE + ZOOM EVENT Iboga (and its extract ibogaine) is a powerful plant medicine that can...

In Celebration of Christ Consciousness

by lakshmi Narayan | April 20, 2025 | ENTHEOGENS AKA PSYCHEDELICS | 0 Comments

Easter always brings me to a particular journey in front of a particular fire, and the particular circumstances of my life at that point was a state of “oppression” at the hands of another, who shall go unnamed. After a lot of drama and misplaced hostility directed at...

PSYCHEDELIC REVELATIONS ~ How to Journey Within for Healing, Transformation and Discovering your Spiritual Home (Book)

by Paulina | April 16, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Psychedelic Revelations is a transformative exploration of self-discovery, spiritual awakening, and the healing potential of plant medicines and psychedelics. Combining memoir, guidebook, and spiritual reflection, the book draws on over three decades of the author’s...

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Are you a good candidate for Ibogaine? Find out here.

by Lakshmi | March 11, 2025 | Iboga/Ibogaine | 0 Comments

Are you personally motivated to heal yourself, not being pushed by a family member, partner, or friend? Yes No Read our post about INITIATION and why it’s important that you be the one initiating things. Did you research the cardiac risks of ibogaine and the many...

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Preparing Body, Mind, and Spirit for the Iboga/Ibogaine Journey

by Lakshmi | February 17, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN below CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN The first hexagram is made up of six unbroken lines. These unbroken lines stand for the primal power, which is light-giving, active, strong, and of the spirit. The hexagram is...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER below CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER The name of the hexagram, Chun, really connotes a blade of grass pushing against an obstacle as it sprouts out of the earth–hence the meaning, “difficulty at the beginning.” The...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN below K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER Youthful folly is the natural extension of difficulty at the beginning. Whenever we venture into the unknown or new circumstance we are vulnerable to the folly of our own inexperience. In this...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER below CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN All beings have need of nourishment from above. But the gift of food comes in its own time, and for this one must wait. this hexagram shows the clouds in the heavens, giving rain to...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN below K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER The upper trigram, whose image is heaven, has an upward movement; the lower trigram, water, in accordance with its nature tends downward. Thus the two halves move away from each other,...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH below K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER this hexagram is made up of the trigrams K’an, water, and K’un, earth, and thus it symbolizes the ground water stored up in the earth. In the same way military strength is stored up...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER below K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH The waters on the surface of the earth flow together wherever they can, as for example in the ocean, where all the rivers come together. Symbolically this connotes holding together and the...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above SUN THE GENTLE, WIND below CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN this hexagram means the force of the small–the power of the shadowy–that restrains, tames, impedes. A weak line in the fourth place, that of the minister, holds the five strong lines in...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH below CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN The Receptive, which moves downward, stands above; the Creative, which moves upward, is below. Hence their influences meet and are in harmony, so that all living things bloom and...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN below K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH this hexagram is the opposite of the preceding one. Heaven is above, drawing farther and farther away, while the earth below sinks farther into the depths. The creative powers are not in...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN below LI THE CLINGING, FLAME The image of the upper trigram Ch’ien is heaven, and that of the lower, Li, is flame. It is the nature of fire to flame up to the heaven. this gives the idea of fellowship. IT is the second...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above LI THE CLINGING, FLAME below CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN The fire in heaven above shines far, and all things stand out in the light and become manifest. The weak fifth line occupies the place of honor and all the strong lines are in accord with it. All...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH below KEN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN this hexagram is made up of the trigrams Kên, Keeping Still, mountain, and K’un, Earth. The mountain is the youngest son of the Creative, the representative of heaven and earth. It...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER below K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH The strong line in the fourth place, that of the leading official, meets with response and obedience from all the other lines, which are all weak. The attribute of the upper trigram, Chên, is...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE below CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER The trigram Tui, the Joyous, whose attribute is gladness, is above; Chên, the Arousing, which has the attribute of movement, is below. Joy in movement induces following. The Joyous is the youngest daughter,...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above Kên KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN below Sun THE GENTLE, WIND The Chinese character ku represents a bowl in whose contents worms are breeding. this means decay. It has come about because the gentle indifference of the lower trigram has come together with the rigid...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH below TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE The Chinese word lin has a range of meanings that is not exhausted by any single word of another language. The ancient explanations in the Book of Changes give as its first meaning, “becoming...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above SUN THE GENTLE, WIND below K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH A slight variation of tonal stress gives the Chinese name for this hexagram a double meaning. It means both contemplating and being seen, in the sense of being an example. These ideas are suggested by...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above LI THE CLINGING, FIRE below CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER this hexagram represents an open mouth (cf. hexagram 27) with an obstruction (in the fourth place) between the teeth. As a result the lips cannot meet. To bring them together one must bite energetically...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN below LI THE CLINGING, FIRE this hexagram shows a fire that breaks out of the secret depths of the earth and, blazing up, illuminates and beautifies the mountain, the heavenly heights. Grace, beauty of form, is necessary in any union...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN below K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH The dark lines are about to mount upward and overthrow the last firm, light line by exerting a disintegrating influence on it. The inferior, dark forces overcome what is superior and strong, not...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH below CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER The idea of a turning point arises from the fact that after the dark lines have pushed all of the light lines upward and out of the hexagram, another light line enters the hexagram from below. The...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN below CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER Ch’ien, heaven is above; Chên, movement, is below. The lower trigram Chên is under the influence of the strong line it has received from above, from heaven. When, in accord with this,...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN below CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN The Creative is tamed by Kên, Keeping Still. this produces great power, a situation in contrast to that of the ninth hexagram, Hsiao Ch’u, THE TAMING POWER OF THE SMALL, in which the...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN below CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER this hexagram is a picture of an open mouth; above and below are firm lines of the lips, and between them the opening. Starting with the mouth, through which we take food for nourishment, the thought...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE below SUN THE GENTLE, WIND, WOOD this hexagram consists of four strong lines inside and two weak lines outside. When the strong are outside and the weak inside, all is well and there is nothing out of balance, nothing extraordinary in the...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER below K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER this hexagram consists of a doubling of the trigram K’an. It is one of the eight hexagrams in which doubling occurs. The trigram K’an means a plunging in. A yang line has plunged in...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above LI THE CLINGING, FIRE below LI THE CLINGING, FIRE this hexagram is another double sign. The trigram Li means “to cling to something,” and also “brightness.” A dark line clings to two light lines, one above and one below–the image of...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above CHEN THE AROUSING, THUNDER below SUN THE GENTLE, WIND The strong trigram Chên is above, the weak trigram Sun below. this hexagram is the inverse of the preceding one. In the latter we have influence, here we have union as an enduring condition. The two images...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN below KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN The power of the dark is ascending. The light retreats to security, so that the dark cannot encroach upon it. this retreat is a matter not of one’s will but of natural law. Therefore in...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER above CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN The great lines, that is, the light, strong lines, are powerful. Four light lines have entered the hexagram from below and are about to ascend higher. The upper trigram is Chên, the Arousing; the...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above LI THE CLINGING, FIRE below K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH The hexagram represents the sun rising over the earth. It is therefore the symbol of rapid, easy progress, which at the same time means ever widening expansion and clarity. THE JUDGMENT PROGRESS. The...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH below LI THE CLINGING, FIRE Here the sun has sunk under the earth and is therefore darkened. The name of the hexagram means literally “wounding of the bright”; hence the individual lines contain frequent references to...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above SUN THE GENTLE, WIND below LI THE CLINGING, FIRE The hexagram represents the laws obtaining within the family. The strong line at the top represents the father, the lowest the son. The strong line in the fifth place represents the husband, the yielding second...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above LI THE CLINGING, FLAME below TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE This hexagram is composed of the trigram Li above, i.e., flame, which burns upward, and Tui below, i.e., the lake, which seeps downward. These two movements are indirect contrast. Furthermore, Li is the second...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER below KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN The hexagram pictures a dangerous abyss lying before us and a steep, inaccessible mountain rising behind us. We are surrounded by obstacles; at the same time, since the mountain has the attribute of...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER below K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER Here the movement goes out of the sphere of danger. The obstacle has been removed, the difficulties are being resolved. Deliverance is not yet achieved; it is just in its beginning, and the hexagram...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN below TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE This hexagram represents a decrease of the lower trigram in favor of the upper, because the third line, originally strong, has moved up to the top, and the top line, originally weak, has replaced it. What is...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above SUN THE GENTLE, WIND below CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER The idea of increase is expressed in the fact that the strong lowest line of the upper trigram has sunk down and taken its place under the lower trigram. This conception also expresses the fundamental idea on...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE below CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN This hexagram signifies on the one hand a break-through after a long accumulation of tension, as a swollen river breaks through its dikes, or in the manner of a cloudburst. On the other hand, applied...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE below K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH This hexagram is related in form and meaning to Pi, HOLDING TOGETHER (8). In the latter, water is over the earth; here a lake is over the earth. But since the lake is a place where water collects, the...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH below SUN THE GENTLE, WIND, WOOD The lower trigram, Sun, represents wood, and the upper, K’un, means the earth. Linked with this is the idea that wood in the earth grows upward. In contrast to the meaning of Chin, PROGRESS...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE below K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER The lake is above, water below; the lake is empty, dried up. Exhaustion is expressed in yet another way: at the top, a dark line is holding down two light line; below, a light line is hemmed in between two...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER below SUN THE GENTLE, WIND, WOOD Wood is below, water above. The wood goes down into the earth to bring up water. The image derives from the pole-and-bucket well of ancient China. The wood represents not the buckets, which in...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE below LI THE CLINGING, FIRE The Chinese character for this hexagram means in its original sense an animal’s pelt, which is changed in the course of the year by molting. From this word is carried over to apply to the...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above LI THE CLINGING, FIRE below SUN THE GENTLE, WIND, WOOD The six lines construct the image of Ting, THE CALDRON; at the bottom are the legs, over them the belly, then come the ears (handles), and at the top the carrying rings. At the same time, the image suggests...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER below CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER The hexagram Chên represents the eldest son, who seizes rule with energy and power. A yang line develops below two yin lines and presses upward forcibly. this movement is so violent that it arouses...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN below KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN The image of this hexagram is the mountain, the youngest son of heaven and earth. The male principle is at the top because it strives upward by nature; the female principle is below, since the...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above SUN THE GENTLE, WIND, WOOD below KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN This hexagram is made up of Sun (wood, penetration) above, i.e., without, and Kên (mountain, stillness) below, i.e., within. A tree on a mountain develops slowly according to the law of its being and...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER below TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE Above we have Chên, the eldest son, and below, Tui, the youngest daughter. The man leads and the girl follows him in gladness. The picture is that of the entrance of the girl into her husband’s house....

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER below LI THE CLINGING, FIRE Chên is movement; Li is flame, whose attribute is clarity. Clarity within, movement without-this produces greatness and abundance. The hexagram pictures a period of advanced civilization. However, the fact...

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by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above LI THE CLINGING, FIRE below KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN The mountain, Kên, stands still; above it fire, Li, flames up and does not tarry. Therefore the two trigrams do not stay together. Strange lands and separation are the wanderer’s lot. THE JUDGMENT The...

hexagram57

by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above SUN THE GENTLE, WIND, WOOD below SUN THE GENTLE, WIND, WOOD Sun is one of the eight doubled trigrams. It is the eldest daughter and symbolizes wind or wood; it has for its attribute gentleness, which nonetheless penetrates like the wind or like growing wood with...

hexagram58

by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE below TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE this hexagram, like sun, is one of the eight formed by doubling of a trigram. The trigram Tui denotes the youngest daughter; it is symbolized by the smiling lake, and its attribute is joyousness. Contrary to...

hexagram59

by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above SUN THE GENTLE, WIND below K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER Wind blowing over water disperses it, dissolving it into foam and mist. this suggests that when a man’s vital energy is dammed up within him (indicated as a danger by the attribute of the lower...

hexagram60

by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER below TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE A lake occupies a limited space. When more water comes into it, it overflows. Therefore limits must be set for the water. The image shows water below and water above, with the firmament between them as a...

hexagram61

by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above SUN THE GENTLE, WIND below TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE The wind blows over the lake and stirs the surface of the water. Thus visible effects of the invisible manifest themselves. The hexagram consists of firm lines above and below, while it is open in the center. this...

hexagram62

by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above CHêN THE AROUSING, THUNDER below KêN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN While in the hexagram Ta Kuo, PREPONDERANCE OF THE GREAT (28), the strong lines preponderate and are within, inclosed between weak lines at the top and bottom, the present hexagram has weak lines...

hexagram63

by fixed | November 22, 2024 | CHANNELS, The One I Ching: A Unitive ReInterpretation of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching | 0 Comments

above K’AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER below LI THE CLINGING, FIRE this hexagram is the evolution of T’ai PEACE (11). The transition from confusion to order is completed, and everything is in its proper place even in particulars. The strong lines are in the strong...

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