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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 13:52:33 -0400
From: Kevin M Renaud <syrnest@juno.com>
Subject: Re: HEX8: Re: ancient and universal

Namaste!!

Although not much on the list is of interset to me of late, thus I tend
to only dl it once a month or so, this caught my eye. IMHO, the evidence
thae Western Thought is collasping, or was never valid in the first
place, has become overwhelming, and certainly I see many ppl in research
trying hard to "make it fit". Point in fact, human evidence in Jurrasic
Period? Yep, the find is solid, or at least by Western Standards it is as
solid as any other. Is history valid? Have the history books been updated
to include this interesting tidbit? Not to my knowledge. The last I heard
the argument was one of "silence". Is this any way to run a science
system?

One of the things I have learned from the wonderous yijing is that
"science" and "knowledge" (including history) is completely subjective. I
have difficult time accepting this, to be sure. For instance, I have a
friend who says that one day history changed, every book on every library
shelf, and every notion of history. He claims he "knows" this because he
remembers the "old" history, and sees the contradictions in events. Do I
believe him? Well, yes and no. I cannot believe him, since history seems
to me to be coherent and the "facts" I know seem to be "stable". But, his
argument brings me to a point of pondering, in relation to the yijing and
the "science" it presents. Is it possible that several "histories" exist
side by side, and it is a subjective process that "selects" one over the
other? What of Physics? Is it the same? THere is much evidence that at
the micro-level this may well be true.

Example, I have here a glass of water. We will say, for arguments sake,
it is absolutely pure. What would the West say of the question "what is
this?" It is 2 parts hydrogen to every part of oxygen. In the West
science is determined, in our water expereiment, by a list of "elements"
called the periodic tables. All experience of "the real world" is related
to that. Now in the East, if I were to accomplish the same task, I would
ask the yijing "What is this?" and I would receive an answer that put the
water in relation to me, to now, to this space/time, and relevent ONLY to
my experience. If you asked the same, you "might" get different answer.
Since Eastern Science is based on relationship, polarity and experience
of the individual, and the map only marks the "process" of Qi the actual
"facts" become less important, if having any importance at all.

There is no doubt that the immortals have been saying this all along, it
is the basic fact of all enlightenment. "If you see Buddah on the road,
kill him." In light of where Western Thought has brought us, and I mean
in strictly acedamic terms, that is, how it functions as a coherent
system, I believe it is possible for me to take a wider stance, to
believe, for instance, that Godel was right, and math is invalid at some
unknowable point, and there has to be a "higher" form of knowing that
excludes all "false statements". The fact that the yijing, in it's very
essence, is recursive (and according to the AI ppl, this is WHY Godel's
theory works, math is not recursive) makes it, at least at this level,
more complete (at least it defeates Godel, lmao).

Where does that leave us though? My poor friend, who says the Stock
Market never crashed in 1929 in his "history" is no better than us, we
equally are living in a fantasy, ours is considered "better" by what?
Agreeing on a system that, in it's very esssence, is invalid? How are we
any different from him? But what is the alternative? Widely varing math
systems? 3 billion different versions of history? Will we be left
guessing at how to boil water? There are things that work, and things
that don't, and little explaination to why any of it happens that way.

The yijing, more ancient than any other text on the Earth, left to us by
those "not human" entities that graced our lives some 5 or 6 thousand
years ago, has at least an answer. Pragmatic and simple, try it, if it
works use it, if it doesn't discard it, be yourself, and let no one
decieve you! Thou Art God! Believe it, and the Universe will make sense
to you (although your Universe may contain slight variations from mine).

When we close ourselves off to the possibility that we are wrong, then
the only thing that can be said for us is we will never br right.

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:44:31 steve@fortstudy.win-uk.net (Steve Moore)
writes:
> Hi Frank,
> 
> About this:  
> 
> >       I make no claim about what happened in actual history. The 
> evidence 
> >keeps piling up that none of the claims of what happened long ago 
> are 
> >actually valid, 
> 
> I'm sorry you seem to have a problem with orthodox scholarship, but
> if you think it's okay to reject what we know of the historical
> record, and the findings of modern scholarship in sinology,
> archaeology, etc., then I guess we're "speaking different
> languages", and probably don't have a lot to say to each other.
> 
> Maybe we can have a meaningful conversation in a future life! :-)
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Steve 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:21:30 -0400 
From: "Gait, Christopher" <cgait@condor.nrl.navy.mil>
Subject: RE: HEX8: Re: ancient and universal

> The yijing, more ancient than any other text on the Earth, 
> left to us by those "not human" entities that graced our lives some 5 or 6
> thousand years ago, has at least an answer. 

Fascinating post, Kevin. Thank you. I was with you, reading avidly, right up
to the above statement. What do you mean by "not human" entities? Also,
where do you get a figure of 5-6 thousand years for the text? I haven't
heard of anything plausible before about 3,800 years ago. Mind you, I don't
exclude the possibility of it predating the Shang Dynasty, but I don't know
of any evidence for it's existence in text form before the Chou period
(especially since what we have has always been known as the Chou Yi).

Regards,
Chris Gait


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Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 15:36:51 +0200
From: "Frank Coolen" <coolen@worldonline.nl>
Subject: Re: HEX8: timing

- -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: diane haldane <atlanticoak@yahoo.com>
Aan: hexagram-8@apocalypse.org <hexagram-8@apocalypse.org>
Datum: zondag 30 april 2000 17:40
Onderwerp: HEX8: timing


>hi all,
>does someone have a method to ask the i
>ching when is the best time to undertake
>something, or indeed to undertake it at
>all?


Hi Diane,

There are several ways of "timing" in the I Ching:
- - Mentioned in the lines: "On your own day..." (H-49); "Three days before,
three days after..." (H-18)
- - As an attribute of one of the Trigrams: For example H-30 is in the summer
(Sunny sunny...)
- - As position in the I Ching calendar. H-30 is the summersolstice...

On what ocasion do you want to know, maybe I can be of some help.You may
want to answer me in private if you want to :-D

Regards
Frank C





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Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 14:27:38 EDT
From: FKegan@aol.com
Subject: Re: HEX8: Re: ancient and universal

 Hi Kevin,
     Finally having a bit of free time and there being very little on Hex 8 
of late I have the opportunity to respond to your post which included part of 
a thread involving my thoughts on history.
      One of the great notions of current postmodern thought and cognitive 
psych is that humans relate to narrative and have a remarkably tough time 
with naked facts. Literally, facts refer to things that have happened (the 
emphasis solely upon past tense and thus complete and unalterable) and 
history to a narrative of known events (basically the story told about 
events, like Herotodus who wasn't just repeating the facts but publishing a 
narrative with a purpose, to keep the example of the victory over Persia and 
alive and active in Athenian youth.
       The aspect missing in your discussion is the limits and process of the 
human mind which must mediate with the "facts" or "science" and is either 
ignored (Western notions) or included (Eastern) in philosophy. The East notes 
our perceptions and the mental appearances are as much part of our knowledge 
and philosophy as anything in the objective world. Western thought has been 
trying to work within a theological model, so its interest was learning what 
God or metaphysical angels see or know and thus ignore the limits of mere 
mortals.
       The word "science" with all its great importance in Western thought 
can be taken as simply "scientia" the Latin word St. Thomas Aquinas chose to 
translate "Book" when working on making the classical edition of Aristotle as 
a great teacher of Rhetoric into a figure whose who could be taught even 
though he was pagan on the grounds he was describing how God constructed 
reality.
       I had a bit of difficulty with your remarks about absolutely pure 
water. In Chemistry class they made quite a point of what a strong solvent 
chemically pure water was, and how it required the most sophisticated of 
containers since otherwise it would dissolve a bit of whatever it touched to 
be not quite totally pure. Of course, your remarks, although referring to 
science and reality were actually narrative about a glass of common water. 
But then, if it is only narrative and not related to objective fact, how does 
it become science or philosophy?
     In terms of the Yi, one of the remarkable things isn't how old it might 
be or whether it was King Wen or far more ancient and exotic creatures who 
created it; rather it is that the patterns and their sequence have the 
ability to express, relate and correlate to a wide range of similar pattern 
systems.  It seems that beyond the great East/West perspective which 
originally expressed the conflict between Alexander and Persia and later the 
British Imperial maritime trade regime there is a far more general and 
universal contrast. That is, between those who find that all life arises from 
the interaction of sunshine with Earth Geography, and those find all truth in 
some narrative text of Holy Scripture. In the West, science is one of those 
things derived from Holy Scripture (though the debate between various 
interpretations has led to the notion Science is opposite to Religion rather 
than just being one text interpretation deriding another). In other cultures 
the study of how sunshine changes and cycles and the resultant cycles of 
human experience and perception gives rise to the Yi and other symbol systems 
of very concrete representation and definite correspondence.
    Each comes to choose their own perspective, believe their own narrative 
and from that find their own facts, history, romance or other words to 
describe narrative detail.
Frank K.
         


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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 20:10:57 +0200
From: "Marianne.Goeppel" <Marianne.Goeppel@debitel.net>
Subject: Re: HEX8: John Cage and I Ching

Hi all,
The work of John Cage, who grounded a larger part of his compositions
(and paintings) upon I Ching oracle operations, has stirred my curiosity
and interest for some time now. The material I've come across so far,
never fail to mention his special connection to the I Ching.
However, I have not yet encountered any writings giving special attention
to this aspect, e.g. publication of work notes or closer description of his
methods
to interpret the hexagrams artistically, like tables he set up to translate
the
oracles into figures, notes, colours, materials etc.
does anyone on the list know something about this?

Marianne



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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 21:15:49 +0200
From: Kirk McElhearn <kirk@mcelhearn.com>
Subject: Re(2): HEX8: John Cage and I Ching

On 10/05/00, at 20:10, Marianne.Goeppel Marianne.Goeppel@debitel.net said:

>The work of John Cage, who grounded a larger part of his compositions
>(and paintings) upon I Ching oracle operations, has stirred my curiosity
>and interest for some time now. The material I've come across so far,
>never fail to mention his special connection to the I Ching.
>However, I have not yet encountered any writings giving special attention
>to this aspect, e.g. publication of work notes or closer description of his
>methods
>to interpret the hexagrams artistically, like tables he set up to translate
>the
>oracles into figures, notes, colours, materials etc.
>does anyone on the list know something about this?

Sure do.  I interviewed Cage in 1986, for the French journal Hexagrammes.

It was an interesting experience.  I had corresponded with him for a
while, and met him, at his appartment, in New York at Chrismastime.

Entering his appartment was quite surprising - it was in an unassuming
building on west 21st street, off 6th avenue.  If you know the area, it
is a pretty uninteresting part of Manhattan.  He lived on the 5th or 6th
floor.  He met us at the door, and showed us in, a wide smile on his face.

In his kitchen was an American Flag painting by Jasper Johns.  Then, to
get to the living room, we crossed through a small "Japanese garden",
with winding flagstones on the floor, and water flowing somewhere. 
Bamboo trees filled this room, together with other plants.

We went into the living room and sat down.  He offered us tea. More
paintings decorated the walls, of all kinds of modern American painters.  

We began talking about the I Ching, and other things (in particular James
Joyce, who we both appreciated - he invited us to come to a gallery the
next day where he would be beginning a marathon reading of Finnegans Wake).

I set up my tape recorder, and we started the interview.  I asked a bit
about how he discovered the I Ching, how he worked with it, etc.  He
showed me a score he was working on, and said he would give me a
demonstration.  He called out to his assistant, asking him for a number
(he gave the assistant some kind of info as to what kind of number he
wanted; I don't recall this).  His assistant came over to him with a slip
of paper, and he wrote a note on the score.  That's all.

Actually, I was both surprised and disappointed that he merely used the I
Ching as a random number generator, rather than exploring any internal
coherence of the hexagrams.  His approach was very formal, very
technical, with no room for interpretation at all.  He did not read the
text, but merely computed.  Were he still alive today, he would probably
just program it all on a computer, from the calculation to the scoring.

While I left Cage with a feeling of disappointment, I will never forget
the twinkle in his sprightly blue eyes, and the way he answered my
questions - he didn't seem to consider himself important, and he paused a
couple of seconds before each answer, and then spoke as if he had spent
an hour placing each word in the right place.

The next evening we went to listen to him recite the first chapter of
Finnegans Wake.  It too was a beautiful experience, his voice added music
to the text.

I felt a deep pang of regret when he died. Even though I am not a big fan
of his music, I have a great deal of respect for the ways that he
approached both music and text.  His books are full of similar "tricks",
but the texts are often quite interesting.

Shortly after meeting Cage, I met with the American choreographer Carolyn
Carlson for the first time - I interviewed her a second time a few years
later.  If you are interested, I can tell you a bit about her approach as
well....

BTW, I will see if I can find the original texts in English about Cage. 
All I can find right away is the French translations.  If I can find
them, I'll let you all know.

Kirk


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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 23:34:15 +0200
From: "Marianne.Goeppel" <Marianne.Goeppel@debitel.net>
Subject: Re: HEX8: John Cage and I Ching

Hi Kirk, hi all,

This is very interesting and stimulating, to hear about your personal
encounter with John Cage.

I heard a reading of Cage, too, on a public video performance some
years ago. He read no Joyce, but a "text" with words and sentences
completely mixed up, so it didn't make any sense at all. I don't remember
which original text he had used for this. He spoke in a very serious
and slow manner, with many pauses. I remember how carefully and
concentrated his hands turned the sheets and how utterly meaningful
he looked.

"Silence" is a book I like much.

I also read that he was using the I Ching as a mere random number
generator, and in the last years of his life, he did indeed use a computer
for the chance operations. From the procedure you write about different
kinds of numbers, he must have developed an extensive system to classify
and structure the operations' outcome.

Of course, I would be glad to read the original texts, even in French.
As to Carolyn Carlson, I have not heard of her, but the approach of
artists working with the I Ging is interesting for me, and I would like to
to know more about it.

Marianne

- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Kirk McElhearn <kirk@mcelhearn.com>
An: I Ching list <hexagram-8@apocalypse.org>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. Mai 2000 21:15
Betreff: Re(2): HEX8: John Cage and I Ching


> On 10/05/00, at 20:10, Marianne.Goeppel Marianne.Goeppel@debitel.net said:
>
> >The work of John Cage, who grounded a larger part of his compositions
> >(and paintings) upon I Ching oracle operations, has stirred my curiosity
> >and interest for some time now. The material I've come across so far,
> >never fail to mention his special connection to the I Ching.
> >However, I have not yet encountered any writings giving special attention
> >to this aspect, e.g. publication of work notes or closer description of
his
> >methods
> >to interpret the hexagrams artistically, like tables he set up to
translate
> >the
> >oracles into figures, notes, colours, materials etc.
> >does anyone on the list know something about this?
>
> Sure do.  I interviewed Cage in 1986, for the French journal Hexagrammes.
>
> It was an interesting experience.  I had corresponded with him for a
> while, and met him, at his appartment, in New York at Chrismastime.
>
> Entering his appartment was quite surprising - it was in an unassuming
> building on west 21st street, off 6th avenue.  If you know the area, it
> is a pretty uninteresting part of Manhattan.  He lived on the 5th or 6th
> floor.  He met us at the door, and showed us in, a wide smile on his face.
>
> In his kitchen was an American Flag painting by Jasper Johns.  Then, to
> get to the living room, we crossed through a small "Japanese garden",
> with winding flagstones on the floor, and water flowing somewhere.
> Bamboo trees filled this room, together with other plants.
>
> We went into the living room and sat down.  He offered us tea. More
> paintings decorated the walls, of all kinds of modern American painters.
>
> We began talking about the I Ching, and other things (in particular James
> Joyce, who we both appreciated - he invited us to come to a gallery the
> next day where he would be beginning a marathon reading of Finnegans
Wake).
>
> I set up my tape recorder, and we started the interview.  I asked a bit
> about how he discovered the I Ching, how he worked with it, etc.  He
> showed me a score he was working on, and said he would give me a
> demonstration.  He called out to his assistant, asking him for a number
> (he gave the assistant some kind of info as to what kind of number he
> wanted; I don't recall this).  His assistant came over to him with a slip
> of paper, and he wrote a note on the score.  That's all.
>
> Actually, I was both surprised and disappointed that he merely used the I
> Ching as a random number generator, rather than exploring any internal
> coherence of the hexagrams.  His approach was very formal, very
> technical, with no room for interpretation at all.  He did not read the
> text, but merely computed.  Were he still alive today, he would probably
> just program it all on a computer, from the calculation to the scoring.
>
> While I left Cage with a feeling of disappointment, I will never forget
> the twinkle in his sprightly blue eyes, and the way he answered my
> questions - he didn't seem to consider himself important, and he paused a
> couple of seconds before each answer, and then spoke as if he had spent
> an hour placing each word in the right place.
>
> The next evening we went to listen to him recite the first chapter of
> Finnegans Wake.  It too was a beautiful experience, his voice added music
> to the text.
>
> I felt a deep pang of regret when he died. Even though I am not a big fan
> of his music, I have a great deal of respect for the ways that he
> approached both music and text.  His books are full of similar "tricks",
> but the texts are often quite interesting.
>
> Shortly after meeting Cage, I met with the American choreographer Carolyn
> Carlson for the first time - I interviewed her a second time a few years
> later.  If you are interested, I can tell you a bit about her approach as
> well....
>
> BTW, I will see if I can find the original texts in English about Cage.
> All I can find right away is the French translations.  If I can find
> them, I'll let you all know.
>
> Kirk
>
>
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Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 08:29:55 -0400
From: Kevin M Renaud <syrnest@juno.com>
Subject: Re: HEX8: Re: ancient and universal

Namaste, beloved!

Thank you for your thoughtful response. As I read it I felt you and I are
largely on the same page. I agree completely with your statement about
humans and facts, particularly, although I would go one step further, the
reason that humans have a tough time with facts is that there are none.
Facts, like infinity, cause an internal conflict, because in experience
there are no "facts". I would be pleased to comtemplate any "fact" that
one could present, that would be a statement true in all instances. I
have never found one.

You misuderstood my example of water, I agree with you about the chemical
properties of water (in fact, in another time and place, I could go off
topic and get quite weird on that topic). I merely was looking for an
example that exhibited an artificial simplicity (that is, a Western
Chemical composition that could be stated in a word or two) I probably
could have chosen one of the rare gasses (LMAO). 

Of course your final assertion is it doesn't actually matter. I agree
completely. That is the great learning of the Yi. The cnarritive, the
facts, the math and the art of life, all of it must be addressed
personally, agree to internally, in what Schwaller called "the
symbolique" the language beyond language. I think the Yijing is Star
Seed, another thinks it is a political tool of the Shang Dynasty, still
another credits it to a dozen different sources. What is important is
that I learn the message, whatever the narrative, of my existence, and
see how the Yijing reflects that. That is the meaning of Divination,
which literally means "talking to god(dess)".



On Sun, 7 May 2000 14:27:38 EDT FKegan@aol.com writes:
>  Hi Kevin,
>      Finally having a bit of free time and there being very little 
> on Hex 8 
> of late I have the opportunity to respond to your post which 
> included part of 
> a thread involving my thoughts on history.
>       One of the great notions of current postmodern thought and 
> cognitive 
> psych is that humans relate to narrative and have a remarkably tough 
> time 
> with naked facts. Literally, facts refer to things that have 
> happened (the 
> emphasis solely upon past tense and thus complete and unalterable) 
> and 
> history to a narrative of known events (basically the story told 
> about 
> events, like Herotodus who wasn't just repeating the facts but 
> publishing a 
> narrative with a purpose, to keep the example of the victory over 
> Persia and 
> alive and active in Athenian youth.
>        The aspect missing in your discussion is the limits and 
> process of the 
> human mind which must mediate with the "facts" or "science" and is 
> either 
> ignored (Western notions) or included (Eastern) in philosophy. The 
> East notes 
> our perceptions and the mental appearances are as much part of our 
> knowledge 
> and philosophy as anything in the objective world. Western thought 
> has been 
> trying to work within a theological model, so its interest was 
> learning what 
> God or metaphysical angels see or know and thus ignore the limits of 
> mere 
> mortals.
>        The word "science" with all its great importance in Western 
> thought 
> can be taken as simply "scientia" the Latin word St. Thomas Aquinas 
> chose to 
> translate "Book" when working on making the classical edition of 
> Aristotle as 
> a great teacher of Rhetoric into a figure whose who could be taught 
> even 
> though he was pagan on the grounds he was describing how God 
> constructed 
> reality.
>        I had a bit of difficulty with your remarks about absolutely 
> pure 
> water. In Chemistry class they made quite a point of what a strong 
> solvent 
> chemically pure water was, and how it required the most 
> sophisticated of 
> containers since otherwise it would dissolve a bit of whatever it 
> touched to 
> be not quite totally pure. Of course, your remarks, although 
> referring to 
> science and reality were actually narrative about a glass of common 
> water. 
> But then, if it is only narrative and not related to objective fact, 
> how does 
> it become science or philosophy?
>      In terms of the Yi, one of the remarkable things isn't how old 
> it might 
> be or whether it was King Wen or far more ancient and exotic 
> creatures who 
> created it; rather it is that the patterns and their sequence have 
> the 
> ability to express, relate and correlate to a wide range of similar 
> pattern 
> systems.  It seems that beyond the great East/West perspective which 
> 
> originally expressed the conflict between Alexander and Persia and 
> later the 
> British Imperial maritime trade regime there is a far more general 
> and 
> universal contrast. That is, between those who find that all life 
> arises from 
> the interaction of sunshine with Earth Geography, and those find all 
> truth in 
> some narrative text of Holy Scripture. In the West, science is one 
> of those 
> things derived from Holy Scripture (though the debate between 
> various 
> interpretations has led to the notion Science is opposite to 
> Religion rather 
> than just being one text interpretation deriding another). In other 
> cultures 
> the study of how sunshine changes and cycles and the resultant 
> cycles of 
> human experience and perception gives rise to the Yi and other 
> symbol systems 
> of very concrete representation and definite correspondence.
>     Each comes to choose their own perspective, believe their own 
> narrative 
> and from that find their own facts, history, romance or other words 
> to 
> describe narrative detail.
> Frank K.
>          
> 
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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 02:16:47 EDT
From: SaadEYKI@aol.com
Subject: HEX8: Contact

Hello ! 
For a long time now I dont receive any message and I will like to know if I 
am still on this list. 

Truly, E


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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 09:24:14 -0400
From: "Gait, Christopher" <cgait@condor.nrl.navy.mil>
Subject: RE: HEX8: Contact

Yes, you're on the list, it's just that the list is dormant.

Chris Gait

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Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 2:17 AM
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Hello ! 
For a long time now I dont receive any message and I will like to know if I 
am still on this list. 

Truly, E


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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 06:39:08 -0700
From: "carolynne" <carryfar@prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: HEX8: Contact

Yes, is this list still in operation?   I have received nothing for months?
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Subject: HEX8: Contact


> Hello !
> For a long time now I dont receive any message and I will like to know if
I
> am still on this list.
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> Truly, E
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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 08:30:27 -0600
From: "dlesper or cathbell" <dlesper@connect.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: HEX8: Contact

>Hello !
>For a long time now I dont receive any message and I will like to know if I
>am still on this list.
>
>Truly, E


Shhh! Everyone's napping.....
Darren



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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 07:39:32 EDT
From: SaadEYKI@aol.com
Subject: HEX8: Open gallerys on the air

Dans un courrier daté du 25/06/00 2:26:31, dlesper@connect.ab.ca a écrit :

<<>Hello !

>For a long time now I dont receive any message and I will like to know if I

>am still on this list.

>

>Truly, E



Shhh! Everyone's napping.....

Darren>>

Maybe digging gallerys on the air,  
external : vacuity or void… 
It depends , 
internal : breath, 
or common and simultaneosly external and internal Chi…
is what I feel driving my life with Yi… 

digging channels or corridors by the practice of hexagrams on the 8 
directions of the mental, the time and the space.

Silence means also concentration on the points Yi give us and those we 
actually find. 
Trying to realize the mineral kingdom in the very flesh of our body.
The mountain and the human been. 
Somewhere on the landscape and in ours dreams 
the deep idea of infinity take momentary the place of inertie.

Breathing on the channels we can open…

Ezéchiel 


www.yiking.org (particularly in french)


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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 10:40:15 -0500
From: omei shan <omei@express-news.net>
Subject: Re: HEX8: Contact

Still here!


Monica



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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:25:12 -0600
From: Billy Culver <SilasFlood@sprintmail.com>
Subject: HEX8: allow me to make some noise in this silent room...

Hello

This is the Lattice guy....Billy/Silas

I updated my web page just now with some exciting new graphics 
finished over the past week or so...

my pentagrammic binary synergetic enantiamorphs have evolved into a remarkable boxed symmetry 
and a circular form showing a nuclear twisting that I had also noticed in the earlier 
tetragrammic binary synergetic enantiamorph

I've also finally brought the hexagrams from the earlier black and white linear lattice
 on to our present synergetic enantiamorph situation and its still tangled...
 the symmetry is not yet their but it was too exciting to see this formative stage and not show it to you

plus a special thrust toward the Tai Hsuan Ching of Yang Hsiung....
I'm close to getting a synergetic enantiamorph worked out for ternary trigrams
instead of the former binary trigrams....
the waxing and waning phases are still tangled but the primal route is cogent
so its loaded and ready to stretch your sense of inherent order into threeness
of course the actual 81 tetragrams will not be ready for awhile...are you kidding...
I get dizzy just looking at that mess

naturally...as before, you guys know I'd love to hear from you even if my responses
to your writing are never rapidly forthcoming.....
any thing you see that you think I might have overlooked?...hit me with it...
I'm excited to see where this thing is going

in a few years I'll add enough digits to parallel hexadecimal and then theres gonna be some shit...hahahaha

no...actually the complexity would be too much for my simple brain...
but perhaps there is a stereoscopic projection tool that fits the bill...
what do you think?

well until next update...this is Mork signing off with Orson

I'll leave you with a good link sequence to follow in opening my work up to your scrutiny:

http://www.angelfire.com/nm/videntes/images/enantia.gif
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/videntes/images/numerevolve.gif
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/videntes/images/pentagrammic_synergy.gif
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/videntes/images/pentagrammicIntertwist.gif
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/videntes/images/pentagrammicPostnatal_chi.gif
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/videntes/images/postnatal_chiIntertwist.gif
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/videntes/images/pentagrammicPrenatal_chi.gif
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/videntes/images/prenatal_chiIntertwist.gif
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/videntes/images/LATTICE.gif
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/videntes/images/unfinishedHexsynergy.gif
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/videntes/images/ternary_trigramsPrenatal_chi.gif
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/videntes/images/fractalseed.gif
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/videntes/Prigogine.txt
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/videntes/images/translation.gif


Enjoy!

SilasFlood@sprintmail.com
Billy Culver
June 26, 2000
http://silas.web.com/
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/videntes/index.html


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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:36:38 +0100
From: Andreas Schoter <andreas@telinco.co.uk>
Subject: HEX8: In-Reply-To: <39583AB8.525C@sprintmail.com>

Hi Folks,

I've recently got hold of a copy of Alfred Huang's "Complete I Ching".  

My reason for getting it was that it is touted as a Taoist approach to the
book; Huang is called a "Taoist Master" on the cover.  But now I'm puzzled
- - reading the introduction he seems very preoccupied with Confucious and
his commentaries.  

I've not started in the renditions of the gua texts yet - I'll report back
again when I've read it all :-)  In the meantime, what have other folks
made of this version?

All the Best

Andreas

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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 22:58:27 -0400
From: "Gait, Christopher" <cgait@condor.nrl.navy.mil>
Subject: HEX8: RE: Master Huang's book

Andreas,

I, too, found that Alfred Huang's book is quite Confucianist in tone. 
Since my own attitude toward the Yi is a mixture of traditional 
Confucianism and western empirical methods I found his approach 
very pleasing. I also enjoy the wonderful design of the book itself (I'm an
addictive bibliophile). 
I've just gotten my copy of "The Numerology of the I Ching" by Master Huang
from 
Barnes & Noble, but I haven't had much of a chance to get into it. 
With your interest in the patterns of the Yi I think you will find it of 
interest, even if a lot of it will be familiar from other sources.

Regards,
Chris Gait

On 17 Jul 2000, at 22:36, Andreas Schoter wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> I've recently got hold of a copy of Alfred Huang's "Complete I Ching".  
> 
> My reason for getting it was that it is touted as a Taoist approach to the
> book; Huang is called a "Taoist Master" on the cover.  But now I'm puzzled
> - reading the introduction he seems very preoccupied with Confucious and
> his commentaries.  
> 
> I've not started in the renditions of the gua texts yet - I'll report back
> again when I've read it all :-)  In the meantime, what have other folks
> made of this version?
> 
> All the Best
> 
> Andreas
> 
>
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Algebra
>
http://www.weft.telinco.co.uk/changes
>
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