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Flux Tome Tao Narrative Continues out of school off to Europe



Flux Tome Tao background: The Tao of 1974 gave birth to the insight process and connections that eventually led to my Flux Tome revolution.

The summer of '74 at Stillpoint was the last time I ever saw Gia-Fu Feng. I never had the opportunity to share my later Flux Tome Tao insights and innovations with him. I went on to Boston Labor Day Weekend 1974 to prepare to enter law school. I had numerous friends and family in the area and I thought like a lawyer already. Therefore, I previously completed most of what first year law school was about academically.

I never fit in very well with my classmates. I never took notes of any kind. Rather than burden myself with all my textbooks, I would leave some behind. I still argued the cases with my professors while most first year students dreaded speaking in the class of 120. I had long hair and a beard and generally used language not generally heard in law classes.

The Flux Tome Tao made itself known in my life in Boston even before I started class. My mother had arranged for me to be invited to dinner at the home of a friend of hers whose son had just finished his first year of law school.

He thought he would impress me with his superior knowledge and show off for his parents what he had learned. The Flux Tome Tao had other plans using the occasion to be sure I understood that I already "thought like a lawyer" and would have no academic issues with the material.

He led me through his Civil Procedure final exam--one question that was meant to determine whether you passed or failed this important but amazingly technical and dull aspect of the Law. He was attending a law school notorious for it being concerned with turning out lawyers for the local bar and not the finer points of abstract jurisprudence

The question involved a person who got into a traffic accident while vacationing in another state. The other party was a local and sued the out-of-stater in his local court. His lawyer complied with his local law, publishing the summons in his hometown newspaper of record. The other driver never heard about the case, didn't show up and the local man won by default.

There are so-called long-arm statutes that allow jurisdiction over out of state drivers without the tedious and expensive process of sending someone to track them down and hand them a summons. This exam question sought to force the students to explain the limits of the long arm statutes.

I had never heard of any of this,knew nothing about the process of serving a summons or of the long-arm statutes. However, it seemed fundamentally unfair that someone could lose a court case without ever even knowing he was being sued. I knew from my parents' dinner table conversation throughout my childhood that such unfairness was a violation of the Due Process clause of the 14th amendment, whatever that was.

I told the fellow that wasn’t OK, it violated the 14th amendment. He was surprised I had heard of that, but insisted it was a proper law. He said the long-arm statutes allowed for such notice to be legal. I said I couldn't buy that, I would argue that was too punitive, my client just was involved in an accident not driving recklessly and shouldn't be found guilty in this case in what amounted to a trial in absentia.

The fellow insisted it was a good law, I assume he had answered the exam question saying the out-of-stater was out of luck and in future he needed to hire a legal service to watch for official summons notices where he was vacationing.

His hopes to impress me failed. I entered law school knowing I could hold my own with any law student, which was a major help from the Flux Tome Tao to my ongoing process. Not that it did me any good in class particularly, but it kept me from forming the same desperate study connections that would have kept me involved in law school unable to think or deal with anything else.

Later, when I got to that part of my civil procedure course I realized he had failed his exam. The issue I raised was exactly the line that had been drawn to limit the long arm statutes.It is unconstitutional to have a law that allows judgment without a party having actual notice and a realistic ability to get a lawyer to appear on his/her behalf.

So I was a sharp law student although I stuck out from my classmates like a sore thumb. I never fit in that well and my chances of staying three years and going on to join the bar were improbable except in my mother’s expectations.

I didn't join any study groups which is how one becomes part of the law student milieu. I socialized with my Boston friends including hosting parties for both my classmates and my non-law school friends which highlighted how esoteric the law school class had become.

The other law students could not discuss anything other than the cases from class. One first year student from another law school couldn't get over his criminal law class had cases about buggery (homosexual sex acts) and kept repeating the terms he heard and class and found so weird to him.

My classmates were very tentative, this being the only party they went to that early in the term. Generally they were studying all the time and only learning that they did not yet think like lawyers. I had been told by my mother it was a natural process that would develop within a year or so by discussing the cases with lawyers. I had had my year's discussion before I was ten years old.

My non-law school friends were the Yin factor of the Flux Tome Tao of this Yang rehash of the classroom discussions. The law students would mention the facts of an accident or tort case, but only be interested in the legal principle developed by the appellate opinion.

My non-law school friends were fascinated to know what happened to the poor victims who became the plaintiffs. We just found it funny what happened to them.They were abstract details in the process of learning the legal principles.

The cases in class would be arranged to follow one after another, showing how a principle was established then the next case would show how it was modified. Once a principle is established future plaintiffs would try to frame their situation to seem the same as this known outcome.

The other side would try to establish how their situation was different and needed a new principle. The cases where they succeeded would be the ones that were featured in our text. None of us were sophisticated enough to figure this out yet, though one or two of our professors would mention it from time to time.

I continued to practice Tai Chi each day and try to be a good Taoist while being a law student. Being in law school is an intense psychological experience different for each person. Everyone follows the same general process with their own unique details.

You are made aware that you are wrong and any answer you give can easily be refuted. The principle here is that a lawyer will argue any side of an issue as occasion arises. The lawyer is not a partisan of any one opinion but a "hired gun" available to whoever pays for the service.

The effect of the process was to incur deep soul searching and psychological depression. I joined by classmates in this process though I did not have problems with the material. The others were looking for the "correct answer" as one would in science or literature.

In law there isn't any. We discovered that one of our toughest professors, in a general legal methods class was holding one opinion with our section and the opposite with the other section. Realizing it was all just a process of arguing whatever side you can win on at the moment was the eventual principle being taught.

This explains how conservatives come to hate lawyers so, they think only as partisans and only approve of their own partisan opinion. Lawyers think in terms of who gets to carry this argument and win this case this day.

I was fine with the law training. It was that I was in the process of joining the career path of my parents and thus back to the reality of my earliest childhood. That is how the Flux Tome Tao took my success as a first year law student and turned it back on me for my further personal growth.

The personal introspection that started at Stillpoint as I delved into the depths of Taoist translation as the early stages of my trip with the Flux Tome Tao was repeated in a far more intense and difficult experience.

Being in law school is generally a totally disruptive and depressive wrenching of one’s soul. Most of my classmates were overwhelmed by the necessity of changing their entire understanding to be able to “think like a lawyer.”

That change of perspective is not a matter of knowledge or study. You can not "learn" to think like a lawyer. It happens quite naturally after one has discussed law cases for a year or so. It is a perspective that ignores the human feelings or background of the situation to only focus upon those facts that can be used to fit this case into the rubric of some winning legal principle.

I had that growing up around the family dinner table with my two trial lawyer parents discussing their cases as part of the general discussion with all of us about what we had learned that day. I was the youngest of three children and the family had been functioning as a remarkably well-oiled machine for four years when I was born into it.

My sister, the eldest was the star, speaking in complete adult sentences by the age of two. My older brother completed the House of JADE--(Judith, Albert, Daniel, Esther) although his sensitivity combined with Judy's willingness to speak for him (he wants a cookie, and I'll have one too) kept him quiet and soon in a psychological shell.

I was conceived as a result of my parents winning a landmark copyright case which came with court ordered attorney's fee in a sum larger than my parents could have imagined or asked for in court with a straight face.

It also anointed them as the crackerjack legal power that could take on a major corporation and its formidable legal representation and beat them totally. This made their situation go from scraping by looking for their next fee to having the phone ring with folks asking if they could send them a check as a retainer to be able to say they were their legal counsel.

Success is a two-edged sword, it would be awhile until I realized the details, but Flux Tome Tao wove through both my family dynamics and the transitions in Stillpoint over the summer from 1973 to 1974. The effects of success include the change what what you must accept to which of the various opportunities and offer will you chose to pursue.

My parents had shared their family vision while they were poor and struggling new lawyers, a unique couple with who had hung out their shingle, husband and wife as equal partners in a law firm. With this new found success they could move forward to whatever dream they wished to pursue.

As with most couples, the man's dream and the wife's dream were different. My mother (sun in Cancer) wanted another child now that they could afford it. She had grown up in a family with an eldest daughter, a middle son and her the youngest.

My father's dream was more suited to his sun in Taurus. He wanted to enjoy the comforts and pleasures of being an established and recognized brilliant lawyer. The tensions their conflict in dreams let loose were settled though not resolved by my mother's skills as a trial lawyer.

She wrote the deposition questions she would ask should there be a divorce action in the Chicago courts where her father was a well-connected member of the local political machine. They practiced only in the Federal courts in intellectual property law to evade and avoid the political corruption the local courts were openly famous for.

The family tension sent my brother into a hard shell where he didn't speak much generally or at least with the family until he got his PhD. I was a newborn and totally unaware of what the Flux Tome Tao had prepared for my life as a denizen of the Planet Earth and only living in my family as a lotus floating in a pond.

Everyone in my family used simple attribution to note that there were terrible tensions that came to a head about the time I was born and therefore it was all my fault. I wasn't a girl just like my mother as she so dearly dreamed. I was a third child which meant my father had to stay close to home and work and be a responsible adult.

For my big sister who was left with the chore of babysitting me when my parents went out, I was like the strange exotic pet the grown ups brought home and dumped on her to care for. To my big brother I was now a new little version of a baby boy which meant there would be even less of a natural space for him in the family system.

My childhood was an experience of watching what was going on and never having much instruction or inclusion in things. Everything was already explained and well-known twice over with my older siblings, no one remembered that I hadn't been around for those years.My mother would literally refer to events before I was two years old or even born as if, of course I remember those days.

So, for me, being in the midst of discussion with lawyers where whatever I brought up was shot down and I was years away from being able to be a full-fledged member of the legal community returned me to my earliest childhood. As the Flux Tome Tao had brought Gia-Fu back to remember praying to not be beaten that day by his mother and her thin stick that hurt like a sharp thing; I was back to being in the midst of feeling left out as the world was active around me.

I understood and participated in class from the first day, but that didn’t limit the psychological intensity of my first year. My accomplishments disappeared and my lack of connections overwhelmed me. I managed to face the self-revelation of my failure to have made myself all different, just to have lived in counter-script as the Transactional Analysis community back in Chicago put it.

Eventually, in the black pit of despair so many first year law students find themselves I realized there was still a me at the bottom of that well. I still existed and I would survive and I would continue along my way. The Flux Tome Tao re-organized my basis in terms of my inner source and not what was happening out in the world.

By my second year, I had settled into a normal law student routine. I chose mostly year long courses to get the required subjects out of the way. Pretty much accidentally I found out that my choices meant that I would not have any exams before Christmas break.

With 3 weeks off school while all my classmates would be still in the library and with their study groups studying all the harder for their second year semester exams I felt a strong desire to express my freedom.

I immediately started planning to take a European vacation. I wrote to Paul in Flanders a part of Belgium, who I had met along with Marc E. Jones during the amazing summer of 1974. I mentioned I was coming to Europe and if I could afford it I would be visiting Belgium.

I said that since I knew that it was a difficult thing to ask to invade a European's home during the very private, family time of Christmas and New Year's holidays. This way he could write back saying I should save my money, stay in the major capitals and not bother coming to his local village at that tourist time.

He immediately wrote back offering me the total hospitality of his home--saying you will not need any money at all in my house. He was eager that I teach him about the I Ching (Flux Tome Tao was setting up to spring upon me). And would be a most remarkable and luxurious host to me.

I knew nothing about that then, but with an offer of a place to stay and 3 weeks vacation from school, I planned for a 5 week trip to Europe, flying into London which I remembered fondly and back from Madrid,Spain where I had worked during one of my summer vacations from college.

I accepted the invitation and as my classmates were planning their midterms exams I was planning what I would do with 5 weeks in Europe. I had no particular plans or interests and absolutely no inkling Flux Tome Tao would make this a major turning point in my life.

I found my trip to Europe, before I arrived at Paul’s house particularly uninteresting. It was clear I was meant to arrive quickly at his home. Flux Tome Tao was speaking clearly there would be no dawdling on my way to the next great insight.

Once there we spent 4 or more hours each day with me explaining the I Ching and its hexagrams. The rest of the time I visited much of Belgium with Paul and ate and drank delightful meals, snacks and everything else. Some of the meals, particularly for the holidays were amazing.

At Christmas dinner, the King's Counsel of Belgium showed up. He was a cousin and Paul's wife told me they couldn't avoid the family obligation of inviting him. He had strong opinions based upon his experiences surviving the Nazi occupation, so he supported the U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam War as another front in the aggressive attack against Evil.

This set up a difficult exchange between us as I was very aware that kind of thinking got the U.S. into that quagmire, but the Vietnamese had been fighting for their local culture and independence for millennia. First few millennia from China and in the most recent centuries from European colonial powers.

He liked to talk, but was not interested in conversation with anyone who didn't appreciate the need to vigorous fight evil wherever it could be found. His wife was more interesting to me. I had developed my two natural numbers I Ching technique, one of the first major advances of my Flux Tome Tao perspective.

It was a totally appropriate parlor game for any and all Belgian parties. What could be more innocuous and non-threatening than telling someone two numbers 1-64 inclusive? An light romp into the exotic world of the I Ching which many of them were interested in but none of them knew anything about.

However, Flux Tome Tao is a powerful thing. My interpretations of the oracle derived from their two numbers were far from innocent. It was an intimate portrait of whatever the Flux Tome Tao found appropriate for them to reveal to me at that moment. I was a thoroughly naive young man unaware of the protocols and decorum of European society.

My friend Paul was totally delighted at the things I said and how they skewered people with the truth about who they were and what wasn't being discussed in polite society parties. It was just oracle interpretation to me, though sometimes the inner secrets being revealed were too obvious in the oracle for even me to miss.

One day in my lessons, I was laying out the structure of the hexagrams with a natural sequence from the first line at the bottom through the 2nd,3rd,4th, 5th and final 6th place at the top. This was totally basic stuff, but for a new student the fact that the hexagram was a column of line places starting at the bottom and growing up was new territory.

Also, I noted that there was a natural focus to the Yang line and a natural depth or background to the Yin line. So the Yang lines naturally had an energy tension toward the Yin ones. Together there arose an specific dynamic between the natural sequence of the line places and the specific directionality of focus from the Yang lines like little mounds or hills toward the Yin lines like valleys.

As I worked with this metaphor I discovered it was more than just instructive. The Flux Tome Tao burst forth and suddenly I realized the meanings of the trigrams followed directly from these considerations. Not just the translation of the traditional commentary, but the actual patterns formed between the line values, Yang or Yin and their sequence explained the meaning.

Later, I added in the pair of trigrams that make up each hexagram and finally, the set of six line places as a whole. There were only a few hexagrams I could completely explain by their line patterns alone, but I knew the rest was there when the Flux Tome Tao would allow me to work through it all.

This was the revelation of the original Flux Tome Tao insight of how the line places of the hexagram came to become the name and meaning of the hexagrams. This then made the Flux Tome Tao my goal in life and I was fascinated to see what I could work out along this new and amazing lines of discovery.

In early 1980's I accidentally had reason to work on an astrological dice oracle to be cast by throwing common dice.I knew of absolutely no metaphysical basis to the dice at all. It was only when I started to associate the various dice-face number patterns to the signs and planets I realized that they were a single ancient Greek metaphysical system.

As an aid in working on my interpretation of the individual line judgments, I used the slogans I developed from the parallel of the 6 dice faces and the 6 line places of a hexagram. Flux Tome Tao came alive in this perspective, though I did not notice it for several years.

I used the six slogans to great effect though the realization that it was those slogans that were the controlling influence for my explanation took me years to discover. Until then they were just helpful slogans, particularly while I was working away in my correspondence of the Sabian Symbols and the Yi lines.

The first line was the root of the hexagram. The second was the legs or structure. The third was the passion, the fourth the heart and the fifth expressed the will of the hexagram. The final 6th place was the flower or topknot hairdo of the whole hexagram. These slogans incorporated the traditional body part imagery of the hexagram line places with the patterns of the dice cube faces. The Flux Tome Tao had made its appearance across all three occult arts, I Ching hexagrams, astrological signs and the dice cubes themselves.

The interaction of the natural sequence from 1 to 6 confronted by the immediate tension from Yang raised focus to fill in Yin open depth was an insight that immediately crystallized in my mind as the Flux Tome Tao perspective. It open a portal to see the meaning of every trigram and hexagram from the line pattern itself totally independent of the Chinese commentaries.

At first I was simply amazed to see the structure of the I Ching hexagrams reveal their meaning. In all the Chinese commentaries, it was repeated that only the legendary original developers of the hexagram, King Wen and and his son Duke Chou were the only persons ever to figure out the meaning of the hexagrams from their line patterns.

King Wen established the sequence of the hexagrams in 1100 BCE and his son Duke Chou worked out the judgments on the individual lines. Now as I was explaining the general structure of the Yi hexagrams in Belgium this original insight of their meaning had simply fallen into my lap.

Looking back now it was clearly a magical opportunity of the Flux Tome Tao that established itself in that setting and with the people involved. Paul was a very special fellow. The process of our teaching sessions had opened a special portal beyond and within which made these insights possible.

I was still a ways from finding the full Flux Tome Tao perspective where I replaced the translation of the ancient Chinese with the American terms which expressed the same fundamental concepts. That was to come soon but not in that first rush of inspiration.

Paul told me stories from the Jung family of how Carl Jung had said that a Westerner who took up Oriental ways (instead of remaining with good European Christian perspectives) was like a man who climbed a tall tree, sat on a large branch and sawed it off from the trunk.

I replied that although to a Westerner it was obvious that Newtonian gravity would cause the branch and our hapless experimented in the Oriental would come crashing down to Earth. From a Taoist perspective, sawing the limb off from its anchor to the vast rooted trunk of Western expectation would set him free to fly off on the branch like a magic carpet.

If that seems particularly impossible to you as the branch is heavy and so is a person, let me explain. No one in the story actually went out to the Black Forest and climbed up a mighty tree with a chain saw. The image is a mental one. Mental trees have no mass or weight whatsoever. Thus whatever happens when you imagine the limb being sawed away from the trunk is also up to your imagination.

Westerners are mesmerized my Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation as the hallmark of their superiority over all other peoples and thus entitled to conquer them, occupy their lands and send their riches back to home markets for their national profit.

Yet, not even Newton believed that gravity as an innate force of matter working at a distance was at all credible. He wrote an equation that allowed the motion of celestial objects to be described in the same way as terrestrial falling objects. Why it worked he had no idea and said so.

In any event, I enjoyed tormenting college students by explaining I didn't believe in Newtonian gravity, that weight was just a angular momentum phenomenon of the Earth's complex movement. I had developed that notion as an undergraduate from my reading of Einstein. It is only with the more recent work on the Big Bang that that perspective becomes obvious (at least to those who consider alternatives).

I am not clear in my memory how much of the eventual Flux Tome Tao perspective I managed to figure out in that visit to Flanders (Belgium). It was enough to me to know that the meaning of each of the trigrams and hexagrams was given by their pattern of yang and yin lines.

The next step in the evolution of my Flux Tome perspective was the realization that there weren't independent Yang lines and Yin lines that built up trigrams and hexagrams. Rather there was a matrix or gua of three or six lines. In this matrix the line place sequence was primary. What followed was whether each place had a yang focus or not.

From Weiger Chinese Characters, I knew that the ideograms for Yang and Yin referred to gestalt concepts. Yang was the gestalt element with the pennant or a flag. Yin was the same type gestalt element with a second radical for a dark valley. With these concepts not being independent entities, but the focus (yang) and background (yin) of gestalt theory things fell into place.

The whole matrix was important, then each Yang place was a focus of attention. The rest of the matrix, with Yin lines was simply the background. So the meaning of a gua or Yi matrix was controlled by which places had a particular Yang focus. The other places, were all part of the overall matrix, not independent yin lines.

Ultimately, the power is in the Yin places. Just as the controlling factor in any readable page is the blank page that allows the print to be seen. Set a computer text background to the same color as the text and you have hidden the text completely from view.

Seeking independent equal billing for feminist Yin is like asking for Yin to cease to exist and become only an appendage to Yang. The power of the matrix is much more impressive and controlling, but it doesn't have an independent signal. If it did it would become a Yang line.

Every moving line is a focus. In a Flux Tome or I Ching Oracle the moving lines are what one looks for first. An oracle with no moving lines is generally considered a lesser outcome. Actually it means that each of the lines is important.

The oracle says that the timing that is your answer is the whole process of the hexagram and you will experience each of the stages that are expressed by the lines as you continue in this trail or until you chose to make a new process for yourself. Such an independent original change by your action is not part of the situation now and thus not included in this oracle.

The focus of the moving Yang line expresses and exhausts itself. As a result it moves the overall process situation to become background.

Similarly, a moving Yin line is moving to fill its empty space by its excess. As it makes its presence felt, it ceases to be part of the background and that means it changes from Yin to Yang. To remain part of the background, this stage must remain equal and undistinguished from its sister places.

Once a line place begins to throb with its openness or emptiness, it invites attention and fills up with the response from its environment. The Yin place is not an independent thing. It is a part of the overall matrix or process that has no focus upon it. It is ultimately the matrix itself at that stage.

With the change of Yang Lines and Yin Lines with their lists of particular qualities into an overall matrix which can have a focus at one or more of its stages, the Flux Tome perspective began. The rest followed as I looked at the matrix structure and interpreted the line places in relation to the whole matrix always and all ways.

When I returned to the snowy streets of Boston and my law school classes, I was far more interested in my Flux Tome insights upon the I Ching than the common law. It was hard to buckle down to what to me was just more dinner table conversation from my childhood once I had opened this new Portal to the depths of the Flux Tome I Ching.

I had attended a large group weekend called a T.O.R. I. by Jack Gibb who had created the T-group and sensitivity training. He would later go on to develop Trust Theory. I became interested in the T.O.R.I. and traveled to a number of these events in various cities.

At one point, Jack announced he would be taking time off to write his book on Trust Theory, and those interested in T.O.R.I experiences would need to set up their own community events.

I went to one of the first of these events organized and run without a leader from outside in the city of Toronto, an experience that so impressed me, I dropped out of law school and moved into the boarding house where my Toronto friends lived. Actually, the T.O.R.I. was just nice, but when I stayed overnight with my friends before returning to law school I met a woman who lived in the house.

It was she I fell immediately in love with and decided she was the only woman for me and I would now drop out of law school. This was in the spring after I returned from my Flux Tome awakening in Belgium. I was in a metastable supersaturated state since my European trip and any opportunity would have caused me to crystallize out of the law school milieu.

I worked on my Flux Tome insight, writing all sorts of papers and essays that made very little sense to anyone other than me. I often found I couldn't make much sense of what I had written a few weeks earlier. The insight was firmly fixed in my head, but I couldn't find the voice to express it to others.

In the summer of 1978 I was at another national conference of the Sabian Assembly in the state of Connecticut. Helen Lee who I had also met at the same time as Paul and Marc Jones was there too. Things were not going well with my relationship in Toronto. She never showed much interest in me as a boyfriend, let alone a husband.

She was of German Protestant background and believed that sex and intimate relationship should be mutually exclusive. You slept with those who were attractive physically but you wouldn't want to share intimate spiritual relations with them. Similarly, those men who she found exciting intellectual and spiritual companions could not sully that intimate purity with sex.

I came to the Sabian Summer Conference without any further agenda. I had no where to be or anywhere I wanted to live. Helen invited me and several others at the Conference interested in going out to California for an indefinite stay to ride in her van with her to her home in Vallejo.

As we drove West, there was a bright conjunction of the Moon and Venus straight ahead of us. It was written up in the paper as a particularly close conjunction unseen for centuries. The star and crescent of the Muslim faith is another of these Moon-Venus conjunctions very close to the ecliptic which appeared to Mohamed and inspired him to write the Koran.

The conjunction remained brightly in front of us for the entire trip West, and even then it remained apparently straight ahead out the front door of Helen's home as I worked on my book about my Flux Tome insights. By this time I had a complete explanation of the metaphysics of the hexagrams as process symbolism.

During that time I wrote the manuscript of my first book of Flux Tome perspective, I Ching Primer during the time Helen was in class at the local Community College. They had a typewriter room for the community students to use and they generally had several unused typewriters each week.

When I completed the manuscript, I edited it truly by cut-and-paste of the portions of the typewriter pages. When I was completely done with my final draft I started looking for a typesetter.

I found one in Berkeley and I went to see them one day. I arrived early for our meeting time. As I was walking around the block making sure I had the address correct, I smelled the wondrous BBQ of Flint's. I followed my nose and made the acquaintance of that amazing institution of BBQ delight.

At that meeting I contracted for an illustrator and a typesetter for my book I Ching Primer which I was later told was bold and vulgar in Mexican Spanglish. In any event the manuscript progressed along. I was going to publish it myself, however back in Chicago later my friend Del of the Chicago Sabian group told me she had recently bought The Aries Press and would be delighted to publish my book.

I worked upon my in-depth Flux Tome framework for I Ching Oracle analysis which became the Oracle Blank and Oracle Book to explain it. These took the novel approach of seeing the hexagram as a whole with 6 places which could be either focus or background. This was a gestalt interpretation of the hexagrams that abandoned the notion of separate and distinct yin and yang lines.

After working out the detailed and overall analysis of the Oracle blank, I sought to create a far simpler work of I Ching hexagram advice. This became the Instant Oracle which used my new names for the hexagrams as the vehicle to give overall guidance. In addition to one paragraph based entirely upon the new name for the hexagram, I included a sentence made up from the names for the component trigrams. This sentence was an active counsel, suggesting what one could do to express this hexagram judgment.

Later, I realized that further counsel could be offered by including the nuclear hexagram which would explain where and how the oracle hexagram arose. An oracle hexagram is the inner situation of the nuclear hexagram being met by the environment line pair (1st and 6th lines) to create through their interaction, the oracle hexagram.

The Flux Tome Perspective continues to grow and evolve. I added the correspondence of the Sabian Symbols of the 360 degrees of the Zodiac to the 360 lines of the core Flux Tome hexagrams 3-62.Then I worked out the explanation of the King Wen Sequence of the Flux Tome hexagrams from the Pythagorean Tetratkys.

This required my prior realization that a major part of my Flux Tome perspective was using the dice-face patterns or Pythagorean Eidos as my guiding lights to the structure and meaning of the I Ching--Flux Tome.

Now I have an extensive database of Flux Tome Tao interpretation of the hexagrams and their lines. Soon I will be ready to present it to the world--Flux Tome Tao willing and the Internet available.


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