Dear Chinamen:

I saw you on TBN yesterday making careful, detailed inquiries about the birth
data of Jesus. In the event you were really trying to get hold of mine, it is:

Lawrence Vincent Frank

March 8, 1937 - 1:52 AM EST

Lorain - Ohio - USA

Latt: 41:27 N - Long: 82:11 W

Time Zone: 06 W [EST]

I thought you ought to know of a development here. I got stuck on Item 6 on the
second page of the next document, and started to spend a lot of time trying to
track it down. The result is that I found a way to use the Yellow River Map as
the foundation for making sense of King Wen’s Arrangement of the trigrams. In
the documents that follow you can get the idea about how I fit the pieces
together. I thought you might be interested. The oracle responded with 27 -
Nourishment, with no changing lines. I’m only about 2/3 finished with what I’m
doing, but I thought you’d be glad to see this. Lizzy & Larry/Have a nice day

The Book of Possibilities Oracle

Based on China’s I Ching

Well, it was stolen, really!

It makes life interesting to have a purpose. Without a purpose one’s life is
pointless; with a purpose your life has a point to it, and pursuing that purpose
can keep your hours always filled with something cool.

The Book of Possibilities, which for many years was translated as The Book of
Changes, has been, in my experience, much like the mythical Aladdin’s Lamp; when
you rub it the right way, a genie comes out and grants your every wish. The
Upanishads say your desires are your destiny. Our Injuns says that dreams are
God’s purposes for your life. Jesus said he was here only to do the will of his
father. A dream, being the thing you wanted to do most in life to begin with,
can be treated as a purpose with a lot of desire attached; if those dreams are
in fact God’s purpose for your life, I think Jesus would recommend dreams if he
were here; and if the people of India are right, your destiny = purpose of life
= dream or vision = the will of Jesus’ Father just for you = the will of the
Lord of King David.

But there is a problem with turning dreams into reality. If you try to go it
alone, you run into two messes and a ditch every week, a bi-weekly wipeout, and
a monthly total-crash-and-burn; these are enough for most everyone to give it up
and go back to watching TV 24/7; but when you got Aladdin’s Lamp with you, you
get to like toiling in the ditches from time to time. I think it’s why most
young men want to join the Army for a stint in life - for the Adventure; they
actually seek out hardships. I think everyone has a bit of the Warrior in him.
The Chinese call this the life of a Chung Tzu. These are described in Hexagram
56, which follows in this Section II.

Rev. Dr. Robert Schuller says when you go about selecting a dream to pursue, if
something comes to mind that you know you want, but know it’s impossible, Dr
Schuller says pick that one, because then you know God has to be with you every
minute, and maybe he’ll do the cooking when you’re camped out in the sticks.
Jesus said with Faith, you can move mountains. Dr. Schuller was always touting
what he called "Possibility Thinking". I believe "possibilities" is the most
valuable of the many things coming out of the Book; then wisdom, and statecraft
and on and on; the Golden People used the book as the repository of all their
scientific findings; they never leave home without it.

There has been some talk that the I Ching won’t work for people unless they have
the Christian’s "Holy Spirit of Ali". If you’re having trouble getting it to
work for you, the Holy Spirit of Ali can be found as a plug-in in Sphere 4,
under the section "The Knight of Swords". It’s only 1 page long, but some people
say it takes a couple of Oh Wow days to sink in.

The Sections and Order of Their Appearance in The Hexagrams

1) A general text of the hexagram to say a little of what it is about. Just a
campus orientation sort of thing.

2) The "Image of the Situation" and the texts connected with it describe an
archetypal situation They are each hexagram’s central oracular statement, the
ground in which all other parts of the hexagram are embedded. The name of the
Hexagram, the first word of the Image, provides both a description of your
situation and advice as to the most effective way to deal with it. The texts
place it in the dynamic of time, indicating key qualities and actions associated
with it.

3) The "Contrasted Definitions" offer a key to your situation by picking out a
central feature and contrasting it with a central feature of an adjoining
Hexagram. This clarifies the meanings of both Hexagrams for you after a while.

4) The "Image Tradition" amplifies key terms and qualities of the "Image of the
Situation". It also analyzes the Image in terms of: a) the correspondence of
pairs lines - 1:4, 2:5, 3:6, b) the actions and relations of Supple and Strong,
assigned to the opened and whole lines, and c) the appropriateness of the lines
to their places, particularly the central lines of the Hexagrams.

5) The "Sequence" puts the Image in a series with the Hexagram that precedes it
in terms of a completed action which calls up this present action. It implies
that activating the energy of this Hexagram depends on understanding it as part
of a necessary sequence of events. It also implies that if you can’t make the
connection, you may miss the whole point.

6) The "Outer and Inner" Section. In "A Quick Guide to the Oracle" in the
Karcher Edition, he says that considering the two trigrams found in your reply
can analyze the matter under consideration in terms of your dynamic relation to
its outer and inner elements. This is described through the relation between the
outer and inner trigrams and their nets of associated qualities or
personalities. This section makes a connection to something called the
"Universal Compass" found in Karcher’s translation. It deals with traditional
systems of correlative thinking. I studied his "Universal Compass"; I don’t
quite understand how to make something happen with it yet; I haven’t had an
occasion to experiment.

Karcher then says at the end of his Compass presentation that the Universal
Compass represents a fluid, changing world whose ground is imaginative energy.
It can be applied to any kind of situation. It particularly helps to place you
in the image of your situation by describing the relation between its inner and
outer aspects and the direction of their probable development. Use it along with
the Image of the Situation to open the imaginative background to a question you
pose to the I Ching.

I have taken an interim path with my presentation. I have taken what most
Editions call the "Symbol", which talks about the 2 trigrams, and put their
stuff under the "Inner & Outer" section of mine; and under my "Symbol" section I
give my interpretation of what those 2 trigrams do with each other.

7) The "Hidden Possibility" describes another figure at the core of the
Hexagram, in the nuclear trigrams within. It lets you see the potential of the
situation, in terms of grasping what’s at its core. I’ve tried using this idea
to find what may be at the heart of a situation on two occasions, and found
something relevant within minutes both times. Two for two makes it 100% reliable
so far.

8) The "Symbol" describes the Image in terms of the relation between the Symbols
of its two trigrams. It derives a specific action from this relation which gives
access to the ideal of the "Chun Tzu" or "Adventurer" in this situation: a
person who uses divination to order their life according to Tao rather than
personal desires. As I said in item 6) above, I have my own ideas of what the
Symbol is, and like my ideas better. I try to make a synthesis of the meanings
given in Chapter II, Paragraph 5 of the Shuo Kua: God Comes Forth in the Sign of
the Arousing; He Brings All Things to Completion in the Sign of the Gentle; He
causes Creatures to Perceive One Another in the Sign of the Clinging (light); He
Causes Them to Serve One Another in the Sign of the Receptive; He Gives Them Joy
in the Sign of the Joyous; He Battles in the Sign of the Creative; He Toils in
the Sign of the Abysmal; He Dispenses the Perfected Blessings of Heaven in the
Sign of Keeping Still. I always take the meanings here to refer to what is going
on in the innards of a Christian "Son of God"; and what is going on in the outer
trigram to relate somehow to the traditional hexagram’s contents.

9) The "Attached Evidences" see the action of the Hexagram as particularly
relevant to "actualizing-Tao" and describe how it can aid the process of
realizing Tao in action. It is of great interest to the Adventurer and the Chun
Tzu, so it follows the "Symbol" section, the most important to them. These
Evidences are only found in Hexagrams 10, 15, 16, 41, 42, 47, 48, 57.

10) The "Transforming Lines" represent precise points of connection with the
psychic forces involved in your query. They are activated by a 6 or a 9 in the
consultation procedure. They give you advice on the direction of specific
actions and their potential consequences. As the activated lines change to their
opposites they produce a new Hexagram, the "Secondary Hexagram" which is an
Image of potential help of some sort - sometimes I refer to them as "UFO"s. [I
have personally been using the second Hexagram as "Something to be Added to the
Picture Painted so Far"; it doesn’t always say anything about the future, and it
often doesn’t say anything about my involvement or hidden motives behind the
query; I just take what comes and try to make use of it, as though they were
still more of God’s "Comments and Suggestions".

11) The Image of the "Secondary Hexagram" produced by the transforming lines of
the first change into their opposites. This may change the way you perceive or
act in your situation

* * *

12) The Karcher Edition of the I Ching contains what he calls "keyword"s; they
are something like "technical terms" whose meanings are a bit complex, but once
you know what they mean their significance is startling when you run across them
in the work I’m doing. These terms are explained in the Glossary to Section II -
The Possibility’s Oracle.





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The Heart of The Medicine Wheel Universal Compass

Let the 5 circles at the top of this page represent the diagram of the heart of
the Medicine Wheel Compass. There are five circles in this diagram. I want to
dump 4 collections of thought into each of the 5 circles in this Heart of the
Medicine Wheel Universal Compass. When the Heart is complete and there are no
bugs in it, this diagram will be set aside in favor of the King Wen Sequence of
Later Heaven Inner-World Arrangement of trigrams. In that diagram, circle
5-Earth will move into position as one of the eight spokes of the Compass; what
we have for the 4 directions will be compatible with everything in sight. Step 5
will be lowering the King Wen diagram onto what we have for the heart of the
Compass. Finally we will lower Karcher’s EIGHT PHASES OF YIN AND YANG DYNAMICS
onto King Wen’s Map - The Medicine Wheel Universal Compass.

1) The first collection of thought to be dumped in these 5 circles comes from
the Wilhelm Edition of the I Ching, p 249. The collection goes under the names
Ho T’u, The Yellow River Map, said to have originated with Fu Hsi, in Chapter
IX, On The Oracle, found in Ta Chuan / The Great Treatise. The chapter says that
Heaven is 1 3 5 7 9, and Earth is 2 4 6 8 10. It then shows a Figure 4,
containing five arrangements of data arranged a bit like the 5 circles at the
top of this page. I want to throw all of the data of the Yellow River Map into
my 5 circles, one at a time, to be the things on the bottom of the pile; the
original layout of the final Medicine Wheel Universal Compass.

However, it would not insert into this integrated Compass without a couple of
minor changes. The critical sequence in the final Compass is East = 1> South = 2
> West = 3 > North = 4. Both the texts and the diagram of the Yellow River Map
have the sequence East = Wood w 3 dots > South = Fire w 2 dots > West = Metal w
4 dots > North = Water w 1 dot. The problem I have with this is that when you
try to fit this sequence onto the CYCLE OF YIN AND YANG found on page 63 of the
Karcher translation, it should definitely be Wood > Fire > Water > Metal. Since
I can make a lot of sense of the King Wen arrangement of trigrams if this
sequence is preserved, I take the position that the Yellow River Map has two
corruptions, which I fixed as follows: First, I re-assigned the Heavenly and
Earthly numbers given to Water and Wood by exchanging them. Second, I assigned
the items to the directions according to the number of dots - 1 dot in the East,
2 dots in the South, 3 dots in the West, and 4 dots in the North. The sequence
now reads Wood w 1 dot > Fire w 2 dots > Water w 3 dots > Metal w 4 dots > Earth
w 5 dots, something that fits and I can make a lot of sense of. We will run into
trouble when we try to drop Karcher’s Metallic and Streaming, from his CYCLE OF
THE FIVE TRANSFORMATIVE MOMENTS in places Karcher was trying to keep them out
of. I wonder what he was looking at.

2) The second collection of thought to be dumped into these circles comes from
the data on Injun Medicine Wheels found in The Medicine Way, by Kenneth Meadows,
using all of his attributes for the 4 directions and Center, and Earth Medicine,
also by Mr Meadows, which showed me how to get the element Fire into the South,
so that everything was in its proper place. In Earth Medicine, p 72, there is a
discussion and diagrams showing the difference between Earth Medicine and Sun
Astrology. He gives the following strange explanation "If you are familiar with
Sun astrology and Western mystical systems you will have noticed that the
elements are placed in different directions on the Earth Wheel or Web. In
Western systems Air is placed in the East, Fire in the South, Water in the West,
and Earth in the North. THE EMPHASIS IS ON MANIPULATION. Whereas Earth Medicine
places Air in the North, Fire in the East, Water in the South, and Earth in the
West. THE EMPHASIS IS ON HARMONIZATION ... The placing of the elements in
relation to each other are the same in both systems. Both systems work. The
difference is that the Wheel has been moved a quarter of a turn ... The result
is a change of emphasis, from subjection and coercion to one of participation
and cooperation, and its function is to harmonize the individual with all levels
of being". The outcome I want is the one in the last sentence; I can’t tell from
what Mr Meadows has said which system will give us the right outcome; but I know
this, I will get Fire into the South if I use the Sun Astrology layout, and get
a Compass where all the parts fit, and a King Wen Map restored good as new. I
had previously published an "Integration Table" keyed on the 4 directions, and
links to many things about the 4 breeds of men. I thought at the time the
problems in changing the element associated with a direction too mind boggling
to consider - Golden Guys would still have the smartest minds, Black Guys the
best bodies, and to mess with that would be to mess with observable truth. But I
went to that table I maintain, and made only 1 change - in the Direction column,
I rotated each direction by one place. That didn’t give me a problem I could see
with what can be observed. But it gives each of the 4 breeds new job
assignments, I think, maybe, perhaps. BFD!

3) The third collection of thought to be dumped in comes from the Karcher
Edition of the I Ching, pp 61-62, Cycle of Yin and Yang. The cycle is a simple
thing of 4 phases. Phase 1 is Potential Action - an idea that could be turned
into reality perhaps; its symbol is Yang "—" > Phase 2 is Actual Action -
something is getting transformed; its symbol is a changing Yang line "—" but
with a circle in the middle of it, indicating transformation > Phase 3 is a
Potential (Con-)Struction - some stuff or raw material that could be turned into
something with a useable form; its symbol is Yin "- -"; in this instance the raw
material is water with no form to it yet > Phase 4 is Actual (Con)Struction -
you are constructing something real - stuff is being transformed; its symbol is
a changing Yin line "-x-", indicating a transformation. Each of these 4 Phases
falls onto the directions on Heart of the Medicine Wheel Compass.

4) The fourth collection of thought to be dumped in comes from the Karcher
Edition of the I Ching, pp 63-65, Cycle of The Five Transformative Moments. His
stuff doesn’t exactly drop in place as neatly as all the rest; he has the
"Earthy" moment sitting there like a fish out of water; yet his stuff drops in
place nicely on the Injun Medicine Wheel diagram. I call it beating-to-fit,
painting-to-match. His 5 transformative moments are named Woody (1), Fiery (2),
Streaming (3), Metallic (4), Earthy (5). I abandon only his diagram of how the
pieces fit together; I take the ideas of his transformative moments and drop
them on the Injun diagram as written, where they fit beautifully, except that
where Streaming and Metallic have to trade places, I have to beat-to-fit.

This will complete construction of the heart of the Compass. After that we have
to build the Compass itself around the heart. It will take just a couple of
quick easy steps; 1) Drop King Wen’s Sequence of Later Heaven - Inner-World
Arrangement of Hexagrams onto the Heart we have built here. It entails taking
Earth out of the Centre of the diagram we are building here and put it in the
place of K’un on the King Wem Sequence. Finally we drop Karcher’s THE EIGHT
PHASES OF YIN AND YANG DYNAMICS onto the King Wen Layout; we are in position to
draw the "Horizon Line" separating the Yin and Yang Hemicycles, install the 3
phases of "Pivoting" and "Wholeness" and "Disclosure" where they fit and
function. Last we have to take the imagery we have assembled and make it
available where it can be used in an I Ching Query - on the texts of the
Hexagrams - with notes on what the stuff is for and how to use it. I would
compare the result with the mythical Forge of Vulcan; it has a lot of
engineering notions in it.

I begin now by naming the 5 circles at the top of the page. On the top line, the
circle’s name is 4-Metal (North). On the middle line, the first circle’s name is
1-Wood (East); the middle circle’s name is 5-Earth (Centre), and the third
circle’s name is 3-Water (West). On the bottom line, the circle’s Name is 2-Fire
(South).


Circle 1-Wood in the East - Chen

1) From the Yellow River Map there is 1 clear circle - " - and 6 dark circles -
!!! !!! - and the word "Wood". This disposes of Heaven = 1 and Earth = 6, found
with the Map. The text reads "Wood in the East has sprung from the three of
heaven, which is complemented by the 8 of earth", but I thought this text
corrupt and swapped it with Water’s.

2) Attributes of the East in the Medicine Wheel + I Ching Integration Table, the
East’s attributes include: Breed = White; Time periods = Beginning &Morning &
Spring; Contents = Spirit’s Instincts; Job = Warrior armed with the Moral Force
of Good Will.

3) From the Cycle of Yin and Yang, the East represents potential action; its
symbol is an unvarying (unchanging) Yang Line; a wood log represents a raw
material that something could potentially be done to - such as burn it in Circle
2, the next step in the Yin and Yang Cycle; until the fire starts, the log does
not change.

4) From Karcher’s 5 transformative moments, Woody, MU, describes organic growth
or development.

a) It Refers to: origins, beginnings; break open, burst forth; Spring, East,
daybreak. [Somebody just had a brainstorm].

b) It is Associated With youngest yang and Potential Action, which arise after
the Yin Hemicycle is exhausted.

c) Its Action is butt, CHU: to push against something with its horns. [Attack a
problem]!

d) It Manifests as the bending and straightening of sprouting plants pushing
their way through the surface of the earth This germinating thrust inaugurates
the Yang Hemicycle of the Universal Compass. [An idea is born].

Circle 2-Fire in the South - Li

1) From the Yellow River Map there are 7 clear circles - """"""" - and 2 black
circles - •• - and the word "Fire". The circles are arranged in 2 horizontal
rows. This disposes of Heaven = 7 and Earth = 2, found with the Map. The text
reads "Fire in the south has sprung from the two of earth, which is complemented
by the 7 of heaven".

2) Attributes of the South in the Medicine Wheel + I Ching Integration Table
include: Breed = Golden; Time periods = Middle & High Noon & Summer; Contents =
Mind’s Thoughts; Job = Visionary armed with an Understanding of Honor.

3) From the Cycle of Yin and Yang, the South represents actual action; its
symbol is a transforming (changing) Yang Line; a wooden log on fire is indeed
undergoing change, and being transformed into ashes.

4) From Karcher’s 5 transformative moments, Fiery, HUO, describes combustion,
heat, and light.

a) It Refers to: fire, flame, flame up, blaze, glow; burning and consuming;
upward motion; Summer, South, midday.

b) It is Associated With extreme yang and Actual Action flaring up, blazing out,
and spreading. [Something is Actually Happening].

c) Its Actions are committed following, WEI SUI, and changing, HUA. [As a Yang
Line can be Changing].

d) They Manifest as flaming above. The Fiery Moment consumes Wood and changes it
to ashes or Earth. It brings the Yang Hemicycle of the Universal Compass to a
close.





Circle 3-Water in the West - Tui

1) From the Yellow River Map there are three clear circles - """ - and 8 black
circles - •••• •••• - and the word "Water". This disposes of Heaven = 3 and
earth = 8, found with the Map. The text reads "Water in the North has sprung
from the 1 of heaven, which is complemented by the 6 of earth", but I thought
this text corrupt and swapped it with Wood’s to fit into the Compass.

2) Attributes of the West in the Medicine Wheel + I Ching Integration Table
include: Breed = Red; Time Periods = End & Sunset & Autumn; Contents = Soul’s
Emotions; Job = Healer armed with the Light of Wisdom.

3) From the Cycle of Yin and Yang, the West represents what is called Potential
Struction, and which I wish to call Potential Construction. Water is a raw
material substance that is most definitely without form. It is potentially
something that could be formed - you could freeze it and make ice sculptures, or
boil it and drive steam turbines; but at the moment it is but an opportunity,
existing at a moment in time when someone is thinking of acting upon it. He
calls West the Direction of Harvest - when you gather in from the fields the
bounty that will soon nourish something - using the raw material.

4) From Karcher’s 5 transformative moments, Streaming, SHUI, describes fluids
and flowing.[something as yet unformed].[Recall that I switched the sequence of
Metal and Water back in step 1 at the Yellow River Map. You can see from
Karcher’s stuff that he probably wishes he could do the same; he has beat-to-fit
some stuff that can’t be made to fit].

a) It Refers to: floods, tides; dissolving, liquefying; flowing water, streams,
rivers; downward motion; Autumn, West, sunset.

b) It is Associated With youngest yin and Potential Struction, overflowing and
spreading out. [We agree].

c) Its Action is leveling, CHUN, equalizing and evening out differences. [Sounds
like mass production plans are being laid - to get ready to Actually Construct a
lot of things just alike].

d) It Manifests as - [no help]. The Streaming Moment dissolves fixed forms of
Earth. It begins the Yin Hemicycle of the Universal Compass.

Circle 4-Metal in the North - K’an

1) From the Yellow River Map there are 9 clear circles - """ """ """ - and 4
black circles - •••• - and the word "Metal". The circles are arranged in 2
vertical rows. This disposes of Heaven = 9 and Earth = 4, found with the Map.
The text reads "Metal in the West has sprung from the four of earth, which is
complemented by the nine of heaven". We made the change for Metal to go from
West to North back in step 1 with the Yellow River Map, because it has the four
dots.

2) Attributes of the North in the Medicine Wheel + I Ching Integration Table
include: Breed = Black; Time Periods = Sleep & Midnight & Winter; Contents =
Body’s Sensations; Job = Teacher armed with the Truth about Peace.

3) From Karcher’s CYCLE OF YIN AND YANG, p 61, we have these ideas for North: a)
It represents Actual Struction [or Construction], when you build something] b)
its symbol is a changing Yin Line "-x-", called a "transforming opened line"
suggesting a time when something is actually changing, c) North will later
become occupied by the trigram K’an when King Wen’s arrangement of the trigrams
is dropped onto this; it says "God toils in the sign of the Abysmal", suggesting
people at work, getting it done; calling it Actual Struction is almost
unavoidable.

4) From Karcher’s 5 transformative moments, Metallic, CHIN, describes metals,
and particularly gold as their quintessence.

a) It Refers to: smelting, crystallization, concentration, coagulation; the hard
forms of cast metal resulting from those processes; Winter, North, midnight.
[This sounds like mass production].

b) It is Associated With extreme yin and Actual Struction.

c) Its Action is restraining, CHIN, holding something in a specific form. [I
can’t see how items c in Water or Metal tell you anything].

d) It Manifests as adhering, casting molten metal in molds, and skinning &
stripping the molds away. The Metallic Moment casts Earth into fixed forms. It
brings the Yin Hemicycle of the Universal Compass to a close. It is also linked
with "flooding below" - Circle 4's name on the Injun Medicine Wheel is BELOW.
Sounds like storing what you produce in a warehouse.

Circle 5-Earth in the Center - K’un

1)From the Yellow River Map there are 5 clear circles - """"" - and 10 dark
circles - !!!!! !!!!! and the word "Earth". The clear circles are arranged in
the Figure 4 like the circles at the top of this page. The sets of 5 black
circles are placed one above and one below the group of 5 clear circles. This
disposes of Heaven = 5 and Earth = 10, found with the Map. The 5 clear circles
are arranged in the same pattern at the top; within this Circle 5 the material
presented also falls into 5 groups that fall into the same pattern diagram is
called the heart of the heart, and presages the form of the heart. The text
reads "Earth in the middle (t’u, the soil, the earth substance as distinguished
from ti, the earth as a heavenly body) has sprung from the five of heaven, which
is complemented from the 10 of earth".

2) The contribution from the Medicine Wheel for Centre is also configured as a
diagram that looks again like d. The five circles arranged in the heart of the
heart have these names. The one in the top row is ABOVE, as in Father Sky, and
your memories of the past, which are going away from you. The 3 in the center
row are BE - NOW - HERE. BE represents you, as an Einsteinian observer having a
place in the universe, standing on some soil. HERE represents the dust of Mother
Earth you happen to be standing on, which is your foundation in life, and which
determines your attitudes, altitude, and point-of-view. NOW represents time,
pictured as a vertical axis through the earth around which time turns. [It will
later be thought of as turning clockwise]. The circle in the bottom row is named
BELOW, as hidden in Mother Earth, or the future coming at you. They name this
heart-of-the-heart diagram The Centre. They attribute a number of things to the
Centre including Time Period = Timelessness, Season = Year, Enemy = Inertia,
Manifestation = Spirituality: is when one’s acts are guided by the Great Spirit.
Mr Meadows gives plenty of space to defining his terms; we differ in what we
name things, but appear to be viewing the same reality; all we need is an
engineer’s bureau of standards to agree to what the terms mean. Right now it’s
all the same differences, as when everyone knows what 120 Volts look like -
unless it’s a Chinese Voltmeter with all them little bitty squiggles!

3) From Karcher’s 5 transformative moments, which can also be diagramed - d,
with earthy being in the centre: Earthy, T’U, describes soil, ground, dust,
clay, ashes. It is the point around which the seasons , the cardinal points, and
the alteration of day and night revolve. It represents the Pivot of Equalization
where yin and yang, Action and

Struction, are in balance, neutralizing each other or creatively interacting.
Its Action is bringing forth, T’U. It manifests as sowing and hoarding a crop.
The Earthy Moment connects the hemicycles. It is the moment of balance and
transition. [In the last step of this assembly, when we lower King Wen’s
arrangement of trigrams on what we have, THEN there will be an opportunity to
draw what I call a "horizon line" through Ken and K’un, which will separate the
Yin and Yang Hemicycles, what is above and below - the horizon, and fill the
requirements of the "Point of Equalization" Mr Karcher speaks of above. I think
it is too early to do that until we have the right diagram. Ken, you will
remember, is the place where things come to an end; and Ken don’t show till King
Wen shows!].

Step 1 in Sequence of Later Heaven - Inner-World - Chen

Attributes assigned to Chen from The Global System - The Universal Compass in
the Stephen Karcher Edition:

Sequence: Shake, CHEN, begins the cyclic order. A stirring whole or strong line
emerges below two watery opened lines, causing things to issue forth from the
concealing Earth.

Name: Shake, CHEN: arouse, excite, inspire; thunder arising from below; awe,
alarm, trembling; fertilizing intrusion; ideogram = excite+rain.

Symbol: Thunder, LEI: rising, arousing power.

Actions: Stir up, TUNG: excite, influence, move, affect; work, take action; come
out of the egg or bud; ideogram = strength+heavy, able to move weighty things;
God comes forth in the sign of the Arousing.

Family: the first or eldest son, long lived manhood, CHANG NAN, energetic and
inspiring.

In the Universal Compass: Shake, CHEN, is related to the beginning of the Woody
Moment and belongs to the East, where seeds break open and development
originates. Its color is green, the color of spring, nature and beginnings.

Attributes assigned to Chen from the Shuo Kua and Ta Chuan in the Wilhelm/Baynes
Edition of the I Ching:

* God comes forth in the sign of the Arousing.

* The Arousing means movement.

* Thunder brings about movement.

* Of all the forces that move things, there is none swifter than Thunder.

* The Arousing is thunder, the dragon. It is dark yellow, it is spreading out, a
great road, the eldest son. It is decisive and vehement; it is bamboo that is
green and young, it is reed and rush. Among horses it signifies those which can
neigh well, those with white hind legs, those which gallop, those with a star on
the forehead. Among useful plants it is the pod-bearing ones. Finally, it is the
strong, that which grows luxuriantly.

*The Arousing acts in the Dragon.

* Thunder and Wind arouse each other. Thunder and Wind do not interfere with
each other.

* All living things come forth in the sign of the Arousing.

* The Arousing manifests itself in the foot.

* Chen stands in the North-East in the Sequence of Earlier Heaven Primal
Arrangement; in the East in the Sequence of Later Heaven Inner-World
Arrangement.

* North is where he reports on what he has done (Hex 2)

Phase of Yin/Yang Dynamics

Begin > Yg: POTENTIAL > Essential > Showtime > Examine > Yn: Potential >
Essential > Toil Time > End

From the Medicine Wheel Universal Compass

1) Attributes include: Breed = White; Time periods = Beginning &Morning &
Spring; Contents = Spirit’s Instincts; Job = Warrior armed with the Moral Force
of Good Will.

2) From the Cycle of Yin and Yang, the East represents potential action; its
symbol is an unvarying (unchanging) Yang Line; a wood log represents a raw
material that something could potentially be done to - such as burn it in Circle
2, the next step in the Yin and Yang Cycle; until the fire starts, the log does
not change.

3) From Karcher’s 5 transformative moments, Woody, MU, describes organic growth
or development.

a) It Refers to: origins, beginnings; break open, burst forth; Spring, East,
daybreak. [Somebody just had a brainstorm].

b) It is Associated With youngest yang and Potential Action, which arise after
the Yin Hemicycle is exhausted.

c) Its Action is butt, CHU: to push against something with its horns. [Attack a
problem]!

d) It Manifests as the bending and straightening of sprouting plants pushing
their way through the surface of the earth This germinating thrust inaugurates
the Yang Hemicycle of the Universal Compass. [An idea is born].



Step 3 in Sequence of Later Heaven - Inner-World - Li

Attributes assigned to Li from The Global System - The Universal Compass in the
Stephen Karcher Edition:

Sequence: Through the matching and coupling of Ground, SUN, things give birth to
new generations. Together they mutually see new possibilities. Radiance, LI,
brings mutual seeing, envisioning common goals. It is represented by the single
opened or supple line which holds two whole or strong lines together.

Name: Radiance, LI: glowing light, spreading in all directions; light-giving,
discriminating, articulating; divide and arrange in order; the power of
consciousness; ideogram = bird+weird, the magical fire-bird with brilliant
plumage.

Symbols: Brightness, MING: light-giving aspect of burning, heavenly bodies and
consciousness; ideogram = sun+moon. Fire, HUO: warming and consuming aspects of
burning.

Action: Congregate, LI: cling together; depend on, attach to, rely on; couple,
pair, herd; ideogram = deer+flocking-together.

Family: middle or second daughter, central womanhood, CHUNG NU, mature and
supportive.

In the Universal Compass, Radiance, LI, relates to the Fiery Moment and belongs
to the South, the realm of change through combustion. Its color is crimson,
which connotes fire flaming above, burning, stripping, denuding, and turning to
ashes.

Attributes assigned to Li from the Shuo Kua and Ta Chuan in the Wilhelm/Baynes
Edition of the I Ching:

* Li is the middle daughter of Ch’ien and K’un.

* Li stands in the East in the sequence of Earlier Heaven Primal Arrangement; in
the South in the Sequence of Later Heaven Inner-World Arrangement.

* The fire brings about warmth and dries things, and represents a hearth.

* Water and Fire do not combat each other. Water and Fire complement each other.

* God causes creatures to perceive one another in the sign of the Clinging
(light).

* The Clinging means Dependence.

* The Clinging acts in the Pheasant.

* The Clinging (brightness) manifests itself in the eye.

* The Clinging is the brightness in which all creatures perceive one another. It
is the trigram of the South. That the Holy Sages turned their faces to the South
while they gave ear to the meaning of the universe means that in ruling they
turned toward what is light. This they evidently took from this trigram.

* Of all the forces that warm things, there is nothing more drying than fire.

* The Clinging is Fire, the sun, lightning, the middle daughter. It means coats
of mail and helmets; it means lances and weapons. Among men it means the
big-bellied. It is the sign of dryness. It means the tortoise, the crab, the
snail, the mussel, the hawkbill tortoise. Among trees it means those which dry
out in the upper part of the trunk.

Phase of Yin/Yang Dynamics

Begin > Yg: Potential > Essential > SHOWTIME > Examine > Yn: Potential >
Essential > Toil Time > End

From the Medicine Wheel Universal Compass

1) Attributes include: Breed = Golden; Time periods = Middle & High Noon &
Summer; Contents = Mind’s Thoughts; Job = Visionary armed with an Understanding
of Honor.

2) From the Cycle of Yin and Yang, the South represents actual action; its
symbol is a transforming (changing) Yang Line; a wooden log on fire is indeed
undergoing change, and being transformed into ashes.

3) From Karcher’s 5 transformative moments, Fiery, HUO, describes combustion,
heat, and light.

a) It Refers to: fire, flame, flame up, blaze, glow; burning and consuming;
upward motion; Summer, South, midday.

b) It is Associated With extreme yang and Actual Action flaring up, blazing out,
and spreading. [Something is Actually Happening].

c) Its Actions are committed following, WEI SUI, and changing, HUA.

d) They Manifest as flaming above. The Fiery Moment consumes Wood and changes it
to ashes or Earth. It brings the Yang Hemicycle of the Universal Compass to a
close.

Step 4 in Sequence of Later Heaven - Inner-World - K’un

Attributes assigned to K’un from The Global System - The Universal Compass in
the Stephen Karcher edition:

Sequence: After the mutual seeing of Radiance, LI, comes the common labor of
serving, sowing, and hoarding the produce of the Earth. Field, K’UN, brings
involving service, difficult labor undertaken together.

Name: Field, K’UN, surface of the world; concrete extension; basis of all
existence, where Force or Heaven exerts its power; all-involving service; Earth;
moon, wife, mother; courtiers, servants. The ideogram = terrestrial globe and
stretch out, stability and extension.

Symbol: Earth, TI: Ground upon which the human world rests; basis of all things;
nourishes all things from.

Action: Yield(-to), SHUN: give way and bear produce; comply, agree, follow,
obey; unresisting, docile, flexible; nourish, provide. The ideogram =
head+current, water flowing from the head of a river, yielding to the banks.

Family: mother as the essence of yin, origin of the opened lines in the 6
variegated trigrams.

In the Universal Compass, Field, K’UN, is related to the Earthy Moment and
belongs to the South-West, where things are reduced to dust, ashes, and fertile
soil. Its color is yellow, the color of the middle, the soil of central China
and the Emperor.

Attributes assigned to K’un from the Shuo Kua and Ta Chuan in the Wilhelm/Baynes
edition of the I Ching:

* The Receptive means [Mother] Earth. [She] takes care that all creatures are
nourished. Therefore it is said "He causes them to serve one another in the sign
of the Receptive".

* K’un stands in the North in the Sequence of Earlier Heaven Primal Arrangement;
in the South-West in the Sequence of Later Heaven Inner-World Arrangement.

* The Receptive completes the finished things.

* The way of the Receptive brings about the female.

* The Receptive is yielding.

* The Receptive acts in the Cow.

* [In the I Ching texts She is symbolized by the Mare].

* The Receptive manifests itself in the belly.

* The Receptive brings about shelter.

* The Holy Sages assigned to Earth the number 2.

* Earth is yielding, passive, weak, and dark.

* Heaven and Earth determine the direction.

* The Holy sages determined the Tao of Earth and called it the yielding and the
firm.

* They brought about movements in the firm and the yielding, and thus produced
the individual Lines.

* The Receptive is Mother Earth. It is cloth, a kettle, frugality, it is level,
it is a cow with a calf, a large wagon, form, the multitude, a shaft. Among the
various kinds of soil, it is the black.

Phase of Yin/Yang Dynamics

Begin > Yg: Potential > Essential > Showtime > EXAMINE > Yn: Potential >
Essential > Toil Time > End

From the Medicine Wheel Universal Compass

1)From the Yellow River Map there are 5 clear circles - """"" - and 10 dark
circles - !!!!! !!!!! and the word "Earth". The clear circles are arranged in
the Figure 4 like the circles at the top of this page. The sets of 5 black
circles are placed one above and one below the group of 5 clear circles. This
disposes of Heaven = 5 and Earth = 10, found with the Map. The 5 clear circles
are arranged in the same pattern at the top; within this Circle 5 the material
presented also falls into 5 groups that fall into the same pattern diagram is
called the heart of the heart, and presages the form of the heart. The text
reads "Earth in the middle (t’u, the soil, the earth substance as distinguished
from ti, the earth as a heavenly body) has sprung from the five of heaven, which
is complemented from the 10 of earth".

2) The contribution from the Medicine Wheel for Centre is also configured as a
diagram that looks again like d. The five circles arranged in the heart of the
heart have these names. The one in the top row is ABOVE, as in Father Sky, and
your memories of the past, which are going away from you. The 3 in the center
row are BE - NOW - HERE. BE represents you, as an Einsteinian observer having a
place in the universe, standing on some soil. HERE represents the dust of Mother
Earth you happen to be standing on, which is your foundation in life, and which
determines your attitudes, altitude, and point-of-view. NOW represents time,
pictured as a vertical axis through the earth around which time turns. [It will
later be thought of as turning clockwise]. The circle in the bottom row is named
BELOW, as hidden in Mother Earth, or the future coming at you. They name this
heart-of-the-heart diagram The Centre. They attribute a number of things to the
Centre including Time Period = Timelessness, Season = Year, Enemy = Inertia,
Manifestation = Spirituality: is when one’s acts are guided by the Great Spirit.
Mr Meadows gives plenty of space to defining his terms; we differ in what we
name things, but appear to be viewing the same reality; all we need is an
engineer’s bureau of standards to agree to what the terms mean. Right now it’s
all the same differences, as when everyone knows what 120 Volts look like -
unless it’s a Chinese Voltmeter with all them little bitty squiggles!

3) From Karcher’s 5 transformative moments, which can also be diagramed - d,
with earthy being in the centre: Earthy, T’U, describes soil, ground, dust,
clay, ashes. It is the point around which the seasons , the cardinal points, and
the alteration of day and night revolve. It represents the Pivot of Equalization
where yin and yang, Action and

Struction, are in balance, neutralizing each other or creatively interacting.
Its Action is bringing forth, T’U. It manifests as sowing and hoarding a crop.
The Earthy Moment connects the hemicycles. It is the moment of balance and
transition. [In the last step of this assembly, when we lower King Wen’s
arrangement of trigrams on what we have, THEN there will be an opportunity to
draw what I call a "horizon line" through Ken and K’un, which will separate the
Yin and Yang Hemicycles, what is above and below - the horizon, and fill the
requirements of the "Point of Equalization" Mr Karcher speaks of above. I think
it is too early to do that until we have the right diagram. Ken, you will
remember, is the place where things come to an end; and Ken don’t show till King
Wen shows!].

Step 5 in Sequence of Later Heaven - Inner-World - Tui

Attributes assigned to Tui from The Global System - The Universal Compass in the
Stephen Karcher Edition:

Sequence: After the common labor of Field, K’UN, the joy of Harvest breaks forth
in stimulating words. Open, TUI, brings stimulating words that cheer and
inspire. It is represented by the single opened or supple line leading two whole
lines.

Name: Open, TUI: an open surface, promoting interaction and interpenetration;
responsive, free, unhindered, pleasing; opening, passage; the mouth; exchange,
barter; straight, direct, meet, gather; place where water accumulates; ideogram
= person+mouth+vapor, speaking with others.

Symbol: Marsh, TSE: open surface of a flat body of water and the vapors rising
from it; fertilize, enrich; kindness, favor.

Action: Stimulate, SHUO: rouse to action and good feeling; stir up, urge on;
persuade; set out in words; free from constraint, cheer, delight; ideogram =
words+exchange.

Family: youngest or third daughter, junior womanhood, SHAO NU, light-hearted,
whimsical and magical.

In the Universal Compass, Open, TUI, relates to the beginning of the Metallic
Moment and belongs to the West, the realm of restraining to essential form. Its
color is white, the color of mourning, which connotes clean, pure, immaculate,
plain, virgin material.

Attributes assigned to Tui from the Shuo Kua and Ta Chuan in the Wilhelm/Banes
Edition of the I Ching:

* The forces of Mountain and Lake are united.

* Tui stands in the South-East in the Sequence of Earlier Heaven Primal
Arrangement; in the West in the Sequence of Later Heaven Inner-World
Arrangement.

* The Joyous is mid-autumn, which rejoices all creatures. Therefore it is said
"God gives them joy in the sign of the Joyous".

* The Joyous brings about pleasure. The Joyous means pleasure.

* Of all the forces that give joy to things, there is none more gladdening than
the lake.

* The Joyous is a sorceress, a concubine.

* The Joyous acts in the sheep, which is regarded as the animal belonging to the
West; the two parts of the divided top line are the horns of the sheep.

* The Joyous manifests itself in the mouth.

* It means expressiveness - delight - adaptability - tolerance.

* The Joyous is the Lake, the youngest daughter; it is a sorceress; it is mouth
and tongue. It means smashing and breaking apart; it means dropping off and
bursting open. Among kinds of soil it is the hard and salty. It is the
concubine. It is the sheep.

Phase of Yin/Yang Dynamics

Begin > Yg: Potential > Essential > Showtime > Examine > Yn: POTENTIAL >
Essential > Toil Time > End

From the Medicine Wheel Universal Compass

1) Attributes of the West in the Medicine Wheel + I Ching Integration Table
include: Breed = Red; Time Periods = End & Sunset & Autumn; Contents = Soul’s
Emotions; Job = Healer armed with the Light of Wisdom.

2) From the Cycle of Yin and Yang, the West represents what is called Potential
Struction, and which I wish to call Potential Construction. Water is a raw
material substance that is most definitely without form. It is potentially
something that could be formed - you could freeze it and make ice sculptures, or
boil it and drive steam turbines; but at the moment it is but an opportunity,
existing at a moment in time when someone is thinking of acting upon it. He
calls West the Direction of Harvest - when you gather in from the fields the
bounty that will soon nourish something - using the raw material.

3) From Karcher’s 5 transformative moments, Streaming, SHUI, describes fluids
and flowing.[something as yet unformed].

a) It Refers to: floods, tides; dissolving, liquefying; flowing water, streams,
rivers; downward motion; Autumn, West, sunset.

b) It is Associated With youngest yin and Potential Struction, overflowing and
spreading out. [We agree].

c) Its Action is leveling, CHUN, equalizing and evening out differences.

d) The Streaming Moment dissolves fixed forms of Earth. It begins the Yin
Hemicycle of the Universal Compass.

Step 7 in Sequence of Later Heaven - Inner-World - K’an

Attributes assigned to K’an from The Global System - The Universal Compass in
the Stephen Karcher Edition:

Sequence: With the struggle of Force, CH’IEN, comes heavy labor and isolation.
Gorge, K’AN, brings toiling, difficult but worthy labor. It is represented by
the whole or strong line venturing on between two opened or supple lines.

Name: Gorge, K’AN: dangerous place; hole, cavity, hollow; pit, snare, trap,
grave, precipice; critical time, test; risky; ideogram = earth+pit.

Symbol: Stream, SHUI: flowing water, fluid, dissolving; river, tide, flood;
ideogram = rippling water.

Action: Venture falling, HSIEN HSIEN: risk falling until a bottom is reached,
filling and overcoming the danger of the Gorge. Fall, HSIEN: fall down or into,
sink, drop, descend; falling water; be captured. Venture, HSIEN: risk without
reserve; key point, point of danger; difficulty, obstruction that must be
confronted; water falling and filling the holes on its way; ideogram = mound+all
(or +whole), everything engaged at one point.

Family: middle or second son, central manhood, CHUNG NAN, courageous and
venturesome.

In the Universal Compass, Gorge, K’AN, relates to the Streaming Moment and
belongs to the North where direction and shape are dissolved. Its color is
black, suggesting dark, obscure toiling.

Attributes assigned to K’an from the Shuo Kua and Ta Chuan in the Wilhelm/Banes
Edition of the I Ching:

* The Abysmal means water. It is the trigram of due North, the trigram of toil,
to which all creatures are subject. Therefore it is said "He toils in the sign
of the Abysmal".

* Water and Fire do not combat each other. Water and fire complement each other.

* Of all the forces that moisten things, there is none more moist than water.

* K’an stands in the West in the Sequence of Earlier Heaven Primal Arrangement;
in the North in the Sequence of Later Heaven Inner-World Arrangement..

* Rain brings about moisture - rain, rivers, and seas.

* God toils in the sign of the Abysmal; where he represents Independence, Self
Reliance, and Tenacity.

* The Abysmal acts in the pig.

* The Abysmal manifests itself in the ear.

* The Abysmal is dangerous.

* The Abysmal is water, ditches, ambush, bending and straightening out, bow and
wheel. Among men it is the melancholy, those with sick hearts, those with
earache. Among horses it means those with beautiful backs, those with wild
courage, those which let their heads hang, those with thin hoofs, those which
stumble. Among chariots it means those with many defects. It is penetration, the
moon. It means thieves. Among varieties of wood it means those which are firm
and have much pith.

* It is the blood sign.

Phase of Yin/Yang Dynamics

Begin > Yg: Potential > Essential > Showtime > Examine > Yn: Potential >
Essential > TOIL TIME > End

From the Medicine Wheel Universal Compass

1) Attributes of the North in the Medicine Wheel + I Ching Integration Table
include: Breed = Black; Time Periods = Sleep & Midnight & Winter; Contents =
Body’s Sensations; Job = Teacher armed with the Truth about Peace.

2) From Karcher’s CYCLE OF YIN AND YANG, p 61, we have these ideas for North: a)
It represents Actual Struction [or Construction], when you build something] b)
its symbol is a changing Yin Line "-x-", called a "transforming opened line"
suggesting a time when something is actually changing, c) North will later
become occupied by the trigram K’an when King Wen’s arrangement of the trigrams
is dropped onto this; it says "God toils in the sign of the Abysmal", suggesting
people at work, getting it done; calling it Actual Struction is almost
unavoidable.

3) From Karcher’s 5 transformative moments, Metallic, CHIN, describes metals,
and particularly gold as their quintessence.

a) It Refers to: smelting, crystallization, concentration, coagulation; the hard
forms of cast metal resulting from those processes; Winter, North, midnight.
[This sounds like mass production].

b) It is Associated With extreme yin and Actual Struction.

c) Its Action is restraining, CHIN, holding something in a specific form. [I
can’t see how items c in Water or Metal tell you anything].

d) It Manifests as adhering, casting molten metal in molds, and skinning &
stripping the molds away. The Metallic Moment casts Earth into fixed forms. It
brings the Yin Hemicycle of the Universal Compass to a close. It is also linked
with "flooding below" - Circle 4's name on the Injun Medicine Wheel is BELOW.
Sounds like storing what you produce in a warehouse.

Karcher Edition:

There are Yang Lines: "—", also called whole or strong or light, and which are
characterized as "Action" lines. The ideogram for Yang suggests sunrise and a
sunlight flag.

There are Yin Lines: "- -", also called open or supple or dark, and which are
characterized as "Struction" lines. The ideogram for Yin suggests hillshadows
and clouds.

The actual terms Yin and Yang do not occur in the oldest layers of the I Ching.
What does occur is the pair of OPENED or SUPPLE "- -" lines, and WHOLE or STRONG
"—" lines.These lines and the qualities associated with them are the divinatory
basis underlying the categories Yin and Yang.

Yang, ACTION, is the light, active aspect of all phenomena. It refers to:
movement, dynamic development, thrust, stimulus, drive; focusing on a goal,
giving direction to something. By creating the future, Yang destroys the
present, negating anything that exists in a positive or consolidated sense. The
Yang aspect of phenomena is their dynamic mode of becoming: arousal,
transformation, and dissolution. It is united, continuous, unidirectional, a
closed system where all things are categorically equal.

WHOLE or STRONG refers to: all, unite all; together. The ideogram suggests a
double door and a cover, an image of uniting everything for one purpose. The
corresponding quality in a person or situation is STRONG: firm, strong,
unyielding, persisting. This term advises taking the initiative, acting in a
spirited, focused way to impose an idea on things.

Yin, STRUCTION, is the shadowy, structive aspect of phenomena. It refers to:
build, make concrete, establish; limited, bound, given specific being;
consolidating, conserving, structuring something. By consolidating the present,
Yin stops forward motion, drive, or purpose. The Yin aspect of phenomena is the
result of contraction and concentration; it is their positive mode of existence
(from ‘ponere", to place, to put). It is diverse, adaptable extension in space,
an open system where all things are categorically discontinuous, and in which
you are just one of many separated Einsteinian observers of the universe.

OPENED or SUPPLE refers to: open up, disclose, burst forth; develop through
germinating each thing. The ideogram suggests a double-door+toil+body, the
literal womb and the separateness of each physical being. The corresponding
quality in a person is SUPPLE: flexible, pliant, tender, adaptable. This term
advises adapting to what is given, developing each thing in its turn through
yielding to it.

Yin /[CON-]STRUCTION applies to:

the shady, cool southern bank of a river

the shady, cool northern slope of a mountain

Water - Goddess

Moon - Great Grandmother

Lower - Mother

Interior

Moist

Soft - Feminine - Emotion

Obscure

Contracting

Negative - Dark

Incoming - Receiving

Old Yin = Complete

Respond

Receiving - Reflecting

To Be - Passive


Yang / ACTION applies to:

the bright, warm northern bank of a river

the bright, warm southern slope of a mountain

Fire - God

Sun - Great Grandfather

Upper - Father

Exterior

Dry

Hard - Masculine - Intellection

Manifest

Expanding

Positive - Lit

Outgoing - Giving

Young Yang = Begin

Stimulate

Initiating - Projecting

To Do - Active

Wilhelm Edition:

* Yang is when you know what you are looking for (light) and can recognize when
it is now going by (banners waving in the sun). Yang is portrayed by artists as
a stick of light that can be used as a flashlight. The earliest Chinese writers
said that Yang lines represent "light", and "banners waving in the sun".

* In hexagrams, Yang lines mean: light in heaven (lines 5&6); love [of Jesus] in
man (lines 3&4); and firm on earth (lines 1&2).

* Yin means dark in heaven (5&6); rectitude or morals in man (3&4); and yielding
on earth (1&2).

* the cloudy, the overcast, the dark, and darkness in general.

Introduction to the Spheres

I have used the diagram as a map, with its clues, to hold the Tarot cards, the
glyphs of Astrology, the Injun Medicine Wheel, and the symbols of the I-Ching.
Everyone but the Jews say these belong on the Tree of Life. I found that they
fit nicely, and was able to make a lot of sense out of them.

History of the Kabbalah


What I got orally from two Jews said that Moses gave the Kabbalah to the Jews,
along with an oral tradition to go with it. It was to be used by itself, without
Tarot cards, Astrology, or the I-Ching, as the foundation of Jewish mysticism.
What is pictured on my diagram is partly in English. It is not what Moses was
looking at.

I believe the diagram is about the same as everything you can find today. The
first written record of it was The Sefer Yetzira, which appeared around 204 AD.
Some scholars say the text is much older than 204 AD. This diagram resembles the
written record closely, except for the English. It could be close to what Moses
was looking at. The only exceptions I take to the deck I am using is that they
place the Tarot for Justice on path 11, when it should be path 8. I have other
decks with Justice bearing 8. Also, I can’t make sense of The Hermit or The
World unless these Tarots trade places.

No one seems to know when or where Yang and Yin originated.

The eight trigrams were discovered by Chinese Emperor Fu Hsi, a legendary figure
who some called "The wisest of all." At the same time, the Chinese note that the
names of the trigrams were all new to China, suggesting that Fu Hsi didn’t
invent them. Blofeld’s I Ching, p. 49, says he reigned as the first recorded
ruler in Chinese history, from 2852 - 2738 BC; Wilhelm’s says he represented an
era of hunting and fishing, and the invention of cooking.

Once the eight trigrams, Yin, and Yang, had been discovered and defined, work
could begin independently on both the I Ching, and the Tree of Life’s Kabbalah.
The first time someone drew the eight trigrams, Yin, and Yang on a sheet of
paper, and drew circles around them, they had the heart of the Kabbalah. The
rest was explaining the relationships between the spheres. It could have
happened with Fu Hsi in 2800 BC, or with Abraham. The fact that the Holy Sages
assigned 3 & 2 to Heaven and Earth suggests that they had a diagram.

History According to the Sefer Yetzira

The first commentaries on the Sefer Yetzira appeared in the tenth century. The
text was first quoted in the sixth century. The first references to it occurred
in the first century; however, it is also mentioned in Talmud manuscripts. So
ancient is this book that its origins are no longer accessible to historians. We
are totally dependant on traditions with regard to its authorship. Traditions
regarding its use attest to its existence even in Biblical times.

Authorship. The earliest source to which the book is attributed is the Patriarch
Abraham. The ancients say he wrote it. A Midrash states that, "The letters were
given to none other than Abraham". The Talmud teaches that, "Abraham had a great
Astrology in his heart". The book is one of the primary ancient astrological
texts, and it is possible that it incorporates Abraham’s Astrological teachings.
The fact that this was "in his heart" might indicate that it involved various
meditative techniques. When God revealed himself to Abraham one of the first
things he taught him was not to be overdependent on Astrological predictions.

Versions. There are four important versions of the Sefer Yetzira:

The Short Version (1300 Words) The Long Version (2500 Words)

The Gra Version (1800 Words) The Saadia Version

Around 1550 AD Rabbi Cordevero chose a version that closely resembled the
tradition of the Kabbalists. The text was refined by the Ari (Rabbi Titzchak
Luria). A final edited text was produced by the Gra (Rabbi Eliahu) in the 18th
century. The Gra is considered the most authentic, and is the translation used
here.

A BIT OF THE TEXT AND SOME OF ITS COMMENTARY

1:1 "With 32 mystical paths of Wisdom ..."

1:2 "Ten Sefirot of Nothingness, and 22 Foundation letters ..."

The Yetzira now defines the 32 paths as consisting of 10 Sephirot and 22
letters. The Book does not name the 10 Sephirot. The names are taken from
scripture.

1:9 "One is the Breath of the Living God ... and this is the Holy Breath." In
Exodus 31:3 God says of Betzalel, "I have filled him with the Spirit of God,
with Wisdom, with Understanding, and with Knowledge". "One - the Breath of God"
refers to Kether. The "Spirit of God" also refers to Kether. Wisdom and
Understanding therefore refer to the next two Sephirot.

Proverbs 3:19,20 says, "With Wisdom God established the Earth, and with
Understanding He established the heavens, and with His Knowledge the depths were
broken up."

Sphere 1 of the Tree of Life identifies itself as a domain of the Soul, because
its contents are feelings. It also includes knowledge of what that Soul is about
: Happiness, Pleasure, Welcome, and Fellowship. If this represents the Spirit of
God, I could worship this Spirit real easy.

1:12 "Fire from Water ... With it He engraved and carved the Throne of Glory ...
from these He founded his dwelling". It says elsewhere in the Yetzira that Fire
and Water represent Heaven and Earth respectively. Water, which represents
Chokma consciousness, thus gives birth to darkness ... Fire, which represents
Binah consciousness, then gives rise to light. The Yetzira also implies that the
physical world came into being through Chokma, while the spiritual world has its
roots in Binah. Chokma translates to Wisdom, Binah to Understanding.

From these quotations and commentary, it is reasonable to say that the clues of
Spheres 1, 2, and 3 are suggested by the Yetzira, and that these Spheres, called
the "supernals," represent God’s dwelling place. Now lets look at the last 7
Spheres.

The commentary says the names of the lower 7 are defined in 1 Chronicles 29:11.
I have compared a number of translations, and included the differences in
brackets. "Yours O God are the (4) Greatness [Mighty], the (5) Strength [Power],
the (6) Beauty [Glory], the (7) Victory, the (8) Splendor [Majesty], for (9) All
in heaven and earth, yours O God is the (10) Kingdom ..." These words were
spoken by King David, thanking the people who were giving gifts for Solomon’s
Temple. It means he had at least the Kabbalah, and probably the Tree of Life.
Somewhere else it says he consulted the Urim and Thummim. It is no wonder that
Abraham, Moses, King David, and Solomon have been so well remembered.

There is nothing else in the Yetzira to indicate where these names came from.
The fact is that today’s Spheres are named as follows:

Sphere Hebrew Name English Translation

1 Kether Crown

2 Chokma Wisdom

3 Binah Understanding

4 Chesed Love

5 Geburah Strength

6 Tiphareth Beauty

7 Netzach Victory

8 Hod Splendor

9 Yesod Foundation

10 Malkuth Kingdom

In most sources, 4 is called Chesed instead of Gedula (Greatness), and 9 is
called Yesod rather than All. In older texts both designations are used. It
remains a mystery as to who changed "Love" and "Strength" into "Mercy" and
"Severity". I also don’t know who changed the numbers from Hebrew to Arabic.
Without these changes I could not have solved the puzzle.

Neither of the 32 paths defined by the Ari or Gra diagrams agree with what I’m
using. Simply stretching the Gra diagram downward agrees with what I’m using.

What follows is a table that integrates the ideas of The Kaballah, Astrology,
Tarot Cards, The Tree of Life, The I Ching, and the Injun Medicine Wheel. The
Medicine Wheel is keyed on the 4 directions, and has links with the 4 elements.
The 4 directions line up with those found in the I Ching and link to the 4
elements, the 4 elements line up with the suits of the Tarot deck found in The
Tree of Life, and with the clues found on The Kaballah. They insert into each
other like a telephoto lens in a fine Japanese camera.

DIRECTION BREED CARDS TAROTS ELEMENTS

EAST WHITE Spades Í Swords Air - A Force unseen, as the wind, or Ali

SOUTH GOLDEN Clubs Ê Sticks Fire - made from sticks

WEST RED Hearts Ì Cups Water - to fill the cups

NORTH BLACK Diamonds Ë Coins Earth - The hard stuff you can touch & buy

DIRECTION VEHICLE CONTENT CONCERN STRENGTH GIFT

EAST Spirit Instinct Good Will Warrior Moral Force

SOUTH Mind Thought Honor Visionary Understanding

WEST Soul Emotion Wisdom Healer Light

NORTH Body Sensation Peace Teacher Truth

DIRECTION SEASON DAYTIME BREED COMPASS

EAST Spring Dawn White Chen

SOUTH Summer High Noon Golden Li

WEST Autumn Sunset Red Tui

NORTH Winter Midnight Black K’an

I would like to defend my sorted table from differences found in the good books
on Totems. In The Four-Fold Way - Walking The Paths of the Warrior, Teacher,
Healer, and Visionary, by Angeles Arrien, PhD, that produced the column of
Strengths, two differences are found: in the Wheel found on p. 132, the element
of the south should be changed to water, and the element of the west should be
changed to earth. I believe this was a deliberate corruption by somebody who
knew better. On page 92, the quote is carried, "Speak to the earth, and it shall
teach thee", Job 12:8. That tells me earth is supposed to be the teacher here,
and she puts the Teacher in the West; therefore, I put Earth in the West with
it; this makes it all agree with most other Totem and Medicine Wheel Books.
This, like all Injun stuff, is a rich book.

Figure 31, on p. 72 of Earth Medicine, by Kenneth Meadows, will be your best
tool for the way the different authors have made a mess of which element goes
where on the four directions. Some authors say that Air belongs in the North,
others say that Earth belongs in the North, and in some of these books, each of
the elements has been offset by one direction. The Figure 31 explains why they
did that, and it ends a lot of confusion. It says that both systems work, and I
can’t say that they don’t, but in my case, only the system shown in the table
above will insert into The Tree of Life, and from there into the I Ching. I find
it a mind boggling thing to consider that if you move fire from east to south,
what else goes with it - the mind? - but not the thoughts? - honor? - where’s
the point, where does the moving things about end?

Figure 17, on p. 74 of The Medicine Way, by Kenneth Meadows, I think gets it
wrong when he attributes Spirit to the East, and Mind to the North. I believe
they should be reversed. We have a problem with 3 words in English dictionaries:
mind, soul, and spirit. It turns out, if you look carefully, that our
dictionaries all say that each of the three are synonyms for each other, which
makes the dictionary almost useless in the matter of what our words mean, and
there is no telling what Mr. Meadows was looking at when he put the Spirit in
the east. I finally made everything fit by looking at the etymologies of the
three words. The word spirit comes from Breath, Courage, Vigor, Force, Life.
This suggests both air and warrior, which already fit in the North, and the TOL.
So I switched the Spirit and Mind on his Figure 17 to the way my table looks.
The etymology of "soul" is "that belonging to the sea". That associates the soul
with water, and it then finds its place in the South. The etymology of "mind" is
"to think", and "memory", which I think is clearly mental, and belongs in the
theater of the visionary, in the East. This is all it takes to construct the
VEHICLE table above. I think the confusion of mind-soul-spirit in our
dictionaries was done deliberately, as part of a religious war in the spirit
world. I could go on and on about that. But no need now. If it was deliberate,
the idiots forgot to make the etymologies confusing. The English language is a
mess. It doesn’t have a marshmallow word that doesn’t have a carpet tack within
it for one of its meanings. People can take offense at anything you have to say,
on some subjects. "Slang" and "vulgar" words earn that label because they are
defined to apply to any word with life in it; then you aren’t allowed use them
in some places; and you are forced to use words with death in them to say
anything lively. Just look at the face of any Englishman. The Queen did it to
them. Deliberately. Look at what happened to Oscar Wilde for making a bit too
much sense once.

The Injuns claim their languages are better. Sight unseen, I’d bet on them. The
Injuns translate Wakan Tanka as the Holy Spirit. It is the most sacred entity in
their religion. They may take offense, and even scream bloody murder, at my
suggestion that this may be Whitey’s greatest strength, but look at it this way
- it’s clever Whitey that is getting Wakan Tanka to spread across the earth.

It is worth noting that the strongest bodies were given to the peaceful people;
the smallest bodies were given to the most brilliant people; the wisest people
with the biggest souls were given the weakest language skills perhaps; and those
with nothing were given everything.



Lizzy & Larry Frank/Chiefs
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1. Meditation is the ending of thought.
2. Your mind has to be silent that your mind is empty.
Never force yourself to do it.
3. Learn about yourself. Observe how you walk,
eat, say, gossip, hate, jealousy, breathing etc.
this would enable you to have a quite mind then.
4. There’s no end or beginning.
5. Aware of your envy, greed & search for power
in your daily life through self-knowing & awareness.
6. You begin meditation from ignorance to ignorance.
7. When your mind is not under any influence,
controls & knowledge, then it is mature.
8. When you have no motive, & in total freedom,
you will find bliss.
9. You do not separate meditation from life
nor isolation nor self-enclosement.
10. You have to observe what is & beyond it
but these objects has no important at all.
11. Wandering away the world as an outsider.
There is no knowing, no recognition,
nor remember something that has happened.
12. Understand the consciousness, the hidden,
the open & the movement beyond all thoughts & feelings.
13. Meditation is never prayer which is self-pity
when you are in difficulties or sorrow.
14. Thought destroys feeling of being love.
15. Be total release of energy.
16. Be ending of "me".
17. Love is part of meditation.
18. Meditation is never the further experiencing but ending of it.
19. Meditation has no achievement & no failure & no meaning.
20. When there is choice, there is no self-knowing
& prevent understanding what is.

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1. Meditation is the ending of thought.
2. Your mind has to be silent that your mind is empty.
Never force yourself to do it.
3. Learn about yourself. Observe how you walk,
eat, say, gossip, hate, jealousy, breathing etc.
this would enable you to have a quite mind then.
4. There’s no end or beginning.
5. Aware of your envy, greed & search for power
in your daily life through self-knowing & awareness.
6. You begin meditation from ignorance to ignorance.
7. When your mind is not under any influence,
controls & knowledge, then it is mature.
8. When you have no motive, & in total freedom,
you will find bliss.
9. You do not separate meditation from life
nor isolation nor self-enclosement.
10. You have to observe what is & beyond it
but these objects has no important at all.
11. Wandering away the world as an outsider.
There is no knowing, no recognition,
nor remember something that has happened.
12. Understand the consciousness, the hidden,
the open & the movement beyond all thoughts & feelings.
13. Meditation is never prayer which is self-pity
when you are in difficulties or sorrow.
14. Thought destroys feeling of being love.
15. Be total release of energy.
16. Be ending of "me".
17. Love is part of meditation.
18. Meditation is never the further experiencing but ending of it.
19. Meditation has no achievement & no failure & no meaning.
20. When there is choice, there is no self-knowing
& prevent understanding what is.

BlankI am in the market to buy services such as the ones you say you
provide, at Music Now, and PressPlay. The last half of this e-mail is a copy
of an e-mail I just sent to Real.com, concerning the same such service they
provide. I've had troubles in the past, which are noted below - and in
studying both of your websites, it looks like the same damned ambush.
Music Now - I coun't find a clue with you about what it was going to cost
me, before entering cc info, and under your contractual binding agreement
"MODIFICATIONS" makes it look for all the world that either 1) you can't
deliver the goods, and you know it, or 2) you're nothing but bushwhackers
who believe unilateral changes to agreements that bind you to nothing and me
to everything are just! I wonder what a jury would think? Don't get me
wrong, I don't have a problem with non-binding agreements - my religion -
Christianity - forbids them. All I ask is equality - which leads to TRUST!
Have you ever felt trusted? If you are an American, that is a rare
experience - we got us lotsa lawyers; don't need no TRUST. Music Now, I ran
into damned hard times trying to cancel a contrat with Real.com a year ago,
as related below. You can get to a cancellation of your web service through
your FAQs, by clicking the "web form" link > My Account > Plan Info > Change
Plan > Cancel Service; I clicked on the "web form" link, but there was no
mention there, or any way to "search" your website for the places to click
My Account or Plan Info or Cancel Service - I'll give 10:1 odds over half of
your sign-ups get ripped off.
Duet GP dba PressPlay, the contractual paragraphs "MODIFICATIONS TO
SERVICE", "INDEMNITY", and "DISCLAIMERS", leave little doubt in my mind that
no lawyer could shit his pants that badly with all those defenses 'less the
only thing on his mind was bushwhacking. I think you're damned good sports
for letting a person know it's only $9.95/mo, and providing a real easy way
to stop the service. I'd bet you can at least deliver the product people
want and are willing to pay for - but still do all the bushwhacking you
want. Clean up your act a bit.
I wish to say to both Music Now and PressPlay that if you can provide
answers to my questions below, and you let me sign up after having been
advised my word is no more binding than yours, perhaps we can do business.
If you don't want to reply - well - you're already on MY shit list. [I got a
big mouth - and I used to work in the Courts].

From: "Lizzy Frank" <lizlar@...>
To: "Real Networks, Inc" <legal@...>
Subject: Shenanigans
Date: Thursday, May 29, 2003 6:10 PM

I've spent about 6 hours today trying to subscribe with all my might to your
14 day free-trial subscription to SuperPass!!!. I would have thought you
would make it the 10 minute process I would expect of someone with a product
to sell that people want and are willing to pay for. I tried all I could to
E-mail you at your "E-mail Customer Support" screen, but the system rejected
my message every time. So here goes:
My name is Larry Frank - lizlar@... - 954-484-3815 of The Tree of
Life Temple - under the "Problem Type: Problems With Your Oreder - (I had no
idea what to enter in the way of an order number - so I tried a bunch but
they all asked for it). I Wrote:
I am wanting to try your SuperPass product. It troubles me that no matter
where I look, I cannot find out what it's going to cost me, in advance of
entering my credit card data. Also, after reviewing your legal "agreement" I
note you eschew responsibility for being required to deliver any service
whatsoever, and still be in a position to collect your monies. I ran into
this same (painfull) thing in my dealings with Earthlink Internet and Tiger
Computer Products; as they say, Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice,
shame on me! I am something of a controversial person, and have been a
target of a number of America's hackers. I think the reason it's slowed way
down is because I see some evidence that the FBI and CIA now monitor my
Internet connection, and guess they sort of chases away the flies.
I tried your 14 Day Free trial about a year ago; spent many hours trying to
get something - anything - to work, and couldn't; tried a few e-mails and
phone calls to get help; do you know what a "dumb-nigger" act sounds like in
progress?; then spent 3 hours long distance one day, and two hours the next,
in the effort to cancel my trial agreement. Because the hacking has
subsided, I thought I'd try again with you, hoping I might be off your shit
list.
My questions to you are: 1) My religion forbids my making binding
agreements. I read your legal positions closely, and think it fair to say
that they eschew any responsibility to provide a service, yet leave you in a
position to collect your monies ad naseum - your agreement binds you to
nothing - perhaps we have the same religion. Knowing that if the service you
say you provide is one that I want and am willing to pay for, would you do
business with me knowing anything I said was not binding to me either? 2) It
irritates me that no matter how hard I try or where I look, I can't find out
exactly what it costs, or even any idea of what it costs, at least before I
enter my credit card data, and believe me, it's a sine qua non. And 3) I
find it impossible to get your screen vizualizations to go full-screen in
the manner of Media Player 9 in Microsoft Windows XP. It will be required
that I know how to do that before entering credit card data. They also offer
services such as yours - I'm willing to try you first.
Have a Nice Day - Live Long and Prosper/Lizzy & Larry Frank 954-484-3815
3051 NW 46th Ave - Apy 210  -  Lauderdale Lakes - FL - 33313-1834

With Love/Live Long and Prosper/Lizzy & Larry Frank/Chiefs/
The Undaunted Ones of The Tree of Life Temple
You are going to have to kiss our Goddamned asses to stop our being nice to
you
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To: Senator Edward M Kennedy
Re: The Same-old Same-old
Dear Ted,
With regret I must tell you your Committee For A Democratic Majority, and a
Democrat running for election, is not about to get one dollar, nor a single
vote, from me. Things being what they are, I’d prefer seeing a Democrat for
President stead of a Republican. But consider how I might be able to change
the situation.
I watched the debate between the Democratic candidates for the Presidency a
few nights ago. It seemed to me you have become more treacherous than any
person could ever have imagined possible. Let me tell you why I say that.
First, lets talk about words that come out of a man’s mouth. I’ve said that
there is an odor to words coming out of a man’s mouth, such that if his
heart is rotten, the stink gets carried on his words. Well, during that
debate, there was very little to be found in the way of stink. I marveled at
that a few days. I even liked the format where you were able to ask each
other questions. What sickens me almost to death is, there was not one
person there, who would dare to touch upon the subjects of why it is, that I
have no teeth.
"How do you guys feel about letting the people sue us whenever we’ve hurt
them, according to that petition for the redress of grievances bullshit?".
"How about we create some really stiff penalties for anyone who steps across
the lines of the Constitution, say five times stiffer than when some dude
who wants to go see his God, gets five years for possession of two hits of
crack?".
You are aware of all my grievances. And you vicious bastards want something
from me? Have you any awareness of the catastrophic danger of your current
behavior? Have you ever wondered what an "open season on oppressors" might
look like? Have you any conception how the American people feel about what’s
spozed to be in the Constitution - and how a letter a half page long could
create that open season, such that no one could stop it? I’m sitting on a
way to nuke only you bad guys; your letter bespeaks your eternal arrogance -
the stuff that makes me almost blind with rage.
There’s a song about Abraham, Martin, and John. Bobby belongs in that song
too. I theorized a while ago that with John & Bobby, your parents read the
stories about King Arthur and Camelot before the age of five, so that the
stories were in there, without the words to get at them with, and thereby
silently controlled parts of their lives. I also theorized they didn’t read
those stories to you at the right time, and that would explain the
differences between you all. It’s what engineers call SWAGS - Simple Wild
Ass Guesses.
I’ve got it figured that it was Bobby and John, together in a meeting one
day, saying "who you calling a coward", that rolled the dice, that proved in
my mind almost certainly the proposition that any problem can be solved.
The Eagle has landed" was the clincher. I’m standing on your brothers
shoulders Ted. I don’t think I could ever turn my back on a member of your
family - too many great weirdos take to the field.
But Ted, please have mercy on me. The steady stream of stuff that makes me
puke - will it ever end? Where is my Liberty? Where has my government been
during 30 years of need? 2,500 letters - 0 (zero) replies. A few even
involved me. There is something wrong Ted, and your sucking its ass, Senator

About that debate the other night - and no odor of rot on the words - I
suspect a mouthwash of some sort - like how to beat a lie detector test.
There was a tension in those men, and they were trying to mask it with
friendliness and affability. When Carol Mosely Braun said "Ben Franklin said
those who say you should sacrifice your liberties momentarily for safety’s
sake, deserve neither liberties nor safety", those were the fireworks called
for today. It appeared to me that she looked around as if to say "shove it
up your nose", like she knew that was forbidden. We’ll have no fireworks in
these catastrophically dangerous times, the rest seemed to say. Just the
same-old same-old. You seem to be insisting that what I want MUST be
obtained using coercion; never, ever, will you do the right thing, unless I
make you do it. Knowing this to be the proposition before me, I’ll give you
odds you’re dead wrong, Senator. It was your brothers that proved any
problem can be solved - weren’t you listening? It was a mind-boggling task
just to become aware of all of the mind-boggling, and apparently impossible
problems. At Douglas Aircraft I saw one such list. And I watched for maybe 4
months after how not a single engineer assigned to one of those problems,
left his job. It blew my mind that there were so many believers in
themselves. The movie Apollo XIII correctly captured the spirit of those
people; I was 15 years gone from that atmosphere when the movie came out; I
cried like a baby for most of the movie; of watching 3 impossible problems
handed out to men, and the reaction all 3 times was a look that said "Well
isn’t this fascinating?". Pictures of bank balances and budget approvals and
appropriations did not enter their thinking; Mammon wasn’t there; they got
it done.
May I quote your letter, Mammon speaking "I intend to be at the forefront of
efforts to advance fundamental goals on national defense [I picture 200,000
000 Chinamen swimming the Pacific with a Sherman Tank band-aided to each of
their backs, plastered with thermal grease in that frigid water, to do us in
- what the hell else could you possibly be worried about?], the war on
terrorism [my way would be to simply stop pissing everybody off - and
actually save a trillion dollars doing it], health care [kill Mammon, and
doctors once again could see their dream of spending time being of service
to people, and having gratitude coming in for a job well done - saves
billions], the economy [will you never forget your lover - Mammon - not even
for a minute?], fair taxes [Amendment XIII says no involuntary behavior in
our nation - if we all stopped paying involuntary taxes, it would clear your
vision such that no dollar bills stood between you and your problems - ever
see a "problem" Teddy?], civil rights [now you’re (not) talking to the
point], environmental protection [why do you bring any of these things up -
why do you bring them up - all you are is buzzwords], employment security
[if everything was free, as in Injun economics, there would be full
employment, and every cup running over - that damned Mammon again, and his
fiscal responsibility"], pension security [every time you plug a loophole to
save that wunderkind, the Republicans pass two more loopholes and raise
taxes to make them either bankrupt or moot - read some history, Teddy,
Mammon is brilliant in all his ways - the prettiest demon from hell - the
turkey thinks he’s prettier than Lucifer], judicial appointments [is it
still true that it is illegal for me, an engineer, to sit on the Supreme
Court? I trained years for that job, and you schmucks took away my
Constitutional privilege like jerking the chair as I was sitting down - nice
guys - sort of like a direct attack on the Constitution by night fighters,
I’d call it], and many other challenges facing the nation.
I can chew your whole letter up like this Senator. Only the rest gets real
nasty. For example "Democratic leadership makes all the difference [not
Mammon lying; Teddy lying], And that leadership is worth fighting for [there
are lies, damned lies, and statitistics - these are the damned lies].
Mark Twain said "Damned these human beings. If I’d invented them, I’d go
hide my head in a bag".
You’re the best we got showing, Senator. Keep at it.
I know this is a letter from a smart ass - I really just wanted to say hello
  I’m becoming an institution, you know, and you’re surrounded sir.

Live Long and Prosper/Lizzy & Larry Frank/Chiefs
Have a nice day/The Tree of Life Temple/Fly Fellowship Airlines
Bldg 11 - Apt 210 - 3051 NW 46th Ave
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Meditation

1. Meditation is the ending of thought.
2. Your mind has to be silent that your mind is empty.
Never force yourself to do it.
3. Learn about yourself. Observe how you walk,
eat, say, gossip, hate, jealousy, breathing etc.
this would enable you to have a quite mind then.
4. There’s no end or beginning.
5. Aware of your envy, greed & search for power
in your daily life through self-knowing & awareness.
6. You begin meditation from ignorance to ignorance.
7. When your mind is not under any influence,
controls & knowledge, then it is mature.
8. When you have no motive, & in total freedom,
you will find bliss.
9. You do not separate meditation from life
nor isolation nor self-enclosement.
10. You have to observe what is & beyond it
but these objects has no important at all.
11. Wandering away the world as an outsider.
There is no knowing, no recognition,
nor remember something that has happened.
12. Understand the consciousness, the hidden,
the open & the movement beyond all thoughts & feelings.
13. Meditation is never prayer which is self-pity
when you are in difficulties or sorrow.
14. Thought destroys feeling of being love.
15. Be total release of energy.
16. Be ending of "me".
17. Love is part of meditation.
18. Meditation is never the further experiencing but ending of it.
19. Meditation has no achievement & no failure & no meaning.
20. When there is choice, there is no self-knowing
& prevent understanding what is.

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Meditation

1. Meditation is the ending of thought.
2. Your mind has to be silent that your mind is empty.
Never force yourself to do it.
3. Learn about yourself. Observe how you walk,
eat, say, gossip, hate, jealousy, breathing etc.
this would enable you to have a quite mind then.
4. There’s no end or beginning.
5. Aware of your envy, greed & search for power
in your daily life through self-knowing & awareness.
6. You begin meditation from ignorance to ignorance.
7. When your mind is not under any influence,
controls & knowledge, then it is mature.
8. When you have no motive, & in total freedom,
you will find bliss.
9. You do not separate meditation from life
nor isolation nor self-enclosement.
10. You have to observe what is & beyond it
but these objects has no important at all.
11. Wandering away the world as an outsider.
There is no knowing, no recognition,
nor remember something that has happened.
12. Understand the consciousness, the hidden,
the open & the movement beyond all thoughts & feelings.
13. Meditation is never prayer which is self-pity
when you are in difficulties or sorrow.
14. Thought destroys feeling of being love.
15. Be total release of energy.
16. Be ending of "me".
17. Love is part of meditation.
18. Meditation is never the further experiencing but ending of it.
19. Meditation has no achievement & no failure & no meaning.
20. When there is choice, there is no self-knowing
& prevent understanding what is.

BlankTo: The People of China - (composed March 21 - April 1, 2003)

cc: The People of Japan & Korea too

Re: You Aren’t Going to Believe This

I have recently acquired a translation of the I Ching by Stephen Karcher,
copyrighted in 2002, printed and bound in China by Dai Nippon.

I want you Jap guys or Korean, to make sure China gets a copy of this
e-mail - my stuff to them bounces again - either someone on China’s
communications hates me, or hates China. I want Chief Chinaman here to have
his choice, not some guy working for him taking this upon himself. The
bouncing e-mail doesn’t agree with what China says on TBN. This is a
terribly painful situation here, with me being a white man, polishing up
your golden guy stuff.

This translation contains the ideograms behind the translation. Page 12
carries the story, regarded as mythical, of Fu Hsi, King Wen, and the Duke
of Chou. Whereas the story told in this edition may well be mythical, as is
its claim, I am going through a non-mythical thing as I write, of an almost
identical situation. I’m taking the ideograms and making up stories with
them; I’m putting them in different sequences than found in the translation;
and I’m writing to advise you - I swear - that I’m getting visions of what
King Wen and his son were looking at when they wrote. I’ve "restored"
perhaps 5 hexagrams, all of them about matters close to my heart. [Two of
those 5 - 18 & 59 - were based on the ideograms]. I’m putting "me" and what
I’m going through, back into your stuff. If the stories are myths - it means
I’m King "When" because of all my when-word definitions. Gentlemen, I have
run into the barb "nobody likes a smart-ass" enough times, to know that it
is true. I would expect you and your people to feel jealous; if the
situation were reversed I would feel double robbed; I’m not sure I’m doing
it right; I’ve sent 5 with this for your scholars to tell me if those
original ideograms could have meant what I’m saying they mean. I still want
to see more; I have a word for the ideogram = hand + rod (or stick) =
Father; but I would also like to see the ideogram itself. The restoration
has just begun; I intend to finish what I started here - I know how valuable
it is just the way I found it - if I’m wrong about "making it better" well,
you wouldn’t have to buy my translation - free country and all that. I see
some of the Golden businessmen on the USA Today channel, and you gotta look
out from those guys man; shake hands, smile, and you dead all of a sudden.
Yo!

Maybe a month or two ago, our TBN said China had wondered out loud why Jesus
came to America instead of China. I wrote a reply to your question, and when
I asked if I should send it, the oracle said don’t you dare. It contained my
speculations about why the breed of Red Men left China, crossed the land
bridge, and settled in America. The speculations were unkind.

As I write, I have some burning questions about the Red Men who left China.
I will try not to speculate. First, was it an orderly exit - did all of them
get together and agree to leave all at the same time? The heart of the Red
Man, his "Spirit of Liberty", shows up in my rendition of hexagram 43 -
KUAI - Decision. It isn’t about an outsider walking in off the street to the
court of the King, as other translations infer, it’s about the way the Court
of the King conducts itself - or at least it’s the way I want to conduct
myself. 43's text "it is not fitting for the ruler to carry arms" I
interpret to mean Mao’s statements about power coming through the barrel of
a gun - well, Mao got it wrong. I’ve been having my say as in "frankness in
revealing the true state of affairs is dangerous". My experience has been
that I ain’t dead yet, so it’s possible, it can be done.

I regard the original texts - wherever they came from, as inspired by my
Papa God - I look at them reverently. Yet I know nothing of your language. I
tried to get into graduate school at Yale and U of Connecticut to study
languages, especially grammar, and Chinese was one of my selections. I’d
been warned it was the most difficult language. China admits it has lost the
meanings of its words as time went by. But man, a whole lot of meaning comes
across in those ideograms. In hexagram 18, p 251, "Father’s ideogram is hand
+ rod"; the translation says it means the chastising Father; I’m sitting
here wondering if instead it should read "Papa’s ideogram is hand + stick";
the meaning I’d give it is the stick represents the suit of sticks in a
Tarot deck; I’ve written elsewhere that sticks represent EAST - GOLDEN
PEOPLE - MIND - PAPA GOD. Now, I do not regard Papa God as chastising in any
way. Line 1 speaks of "Managing the father’s Corruption". And the translator
says in the following text "you must deal with the corruption of authority".
My interpretation of it all says "authority" is a dirty word; its antonym is
"liberty", and liberty is what the worms ate up, when Wen tried to restore
Fu Hsi, and when I try to restore Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin. My
burning questions are all about Red Men, Spirits of Liberty, and under what
conditions they left China. My guess is that "God wanted to erase the
blackboard" and start over from scratch. And as to why Jesus came to
America, it was to capture the legacy given to Washington, Jefferson, &
Company, of Liberty, that the Red Men had up and running over here. Your
history might be able to tell us what happened back then. If it went the way
I think it went, we all have to get together and start treating Red Men as
treasures. What us white guys did to them has to be the biggest disgrace in
history.

I’m struggling at the moment with how to deal with injustice, and it led to
a reconstruction of Hexagram 59. My questions are burning ones because I
think tests should be run amongst the breeds of men, to see if Red Men know
instinctively how best to handle injustice, and make a neighborhood run
right. My background is in engineering; the best thing I’ve ever seen is the
testing that parts went through before they were mounted in an Apollo
vehicle. They had to be feasible, and reliable, and unshakable. China has
records of a Court system that worked. I wonder if red men were there at the
time. I’ve seen no such accomplishment in white men’s histories. I think I’m
in a position your books call a "Holy Sage"; I’d like to do your stuff up
proud here, but at the moment I can’t find the answers. All I can see is
things that need to be tested. I don’t see how I can finish without those
tests. Ohhh. "I" is supposed to mean versatility; I guess I gotta get
versatile here.

Look - I want the help of your people here. I can’t to this myself. You guys
are supposed to be smarter at this stuff, and I want to get to know some of
you. The five hexagrams I’ve reworked follow: 18 & 59 first - the ones I’ve
studied some of the ideograms for; followed by 38 & 43 & 54:

18 - KU - Work on the Rot

Working on the rot augurs sublime success. Its image is a bowl in which
worms are breeding. It is advantageous to cross the great water, because
there is a harvest to be had. Before the seedburst - 3 days; After the
seedburst - 3 days. The gentleness of the wind is within the Mountain King,
implying sublime success and the right ordering of the world. Heaven’s
activities are such that every end is followed by a new beginning. The SM,
through expressions bringing hope, unavoidably takes possession of matters
at hand; for it stimulates men’s hearts, and they follow him. At first it
was the SM; then follow the normally inert men of the people, who are
motivated here; and the worms have no prayer. Problem solved! The sequence
with this omen says when one follows others with pleasure, there are certain
to be undertakings. Hence there follows the Hexagram WORK ON THE ROT,
meaning there will be undertakings. Afterwards there will be order.

Like a hang-over, something has been spoiled and it is time to repair the
damage. In the world of human affairs, indulgence and corruption grow like
weeds in an untended garden; they must be faced squarely, and rooted out
through bold action. Eliminating the carelessness which often leads to
corruption is one of the most ennobling of all human enterprises, and can
clear the way for fresh, new beginnings.

Correcting the mistakes of the past is not an easy task, especially if one
does not recognize the gravity of the situation. The time has come to become
lean and efficient. The weeds must be rooted out now, before the whole
garden is lost. Fighting decay, sloppiness and corruption is not a simple
matter; all steps must be evaluated carefully, and planning must precede
action. Resist the temptation to strike out prematurely. Gather strength
behind you, and marshall your inner resources, because arresting decay is no
simple matter. When you do act, make your strike as precise and clear as the
path of the surgeon's knife.

Line 1:

Our ancestors, the ancients, were without fault. (Washington & Jefferson &
Franklin; as was Fu Hsi when King Wen wrote from prison). Consult them.
(Look at me)! A son living up to ideal of ancestors acts with reverence of a
sage and teacher. He must deal with the "corruption of authority".
("Authority" being the dirty word to me). This means danger with roots in
the past. If you can manage this, the way will open. Take on the
responsibility like a son or daughter who redeems the ancestors and go
through it to the end.

Children exist to rectify the mistakes wrought by their fathers; hence the
departed are made free from blame - trouble ending in Good Fortune! This
implies assuming responsibility for their mistakes.

The corruption in this situation is unmistakable, but not deeply rooted.
Repair can be achieved without too much effort, even though some danger is
always present. Remain alert to the risks inherent in change, and you will
be able to avoid possible damage. Remember that repair in itself is not a
panacea. Repair efforts must be watched carefully, particularly in their
early stages, to see that the previous rot is not contaminating them as
well.

Line 2:

You must deal with the corruption of nourishment and care. Do not let the
source of trouble make the divination. Put self in middle of situation -
take path of: be nice - no hurt. You will change things.

Assuming responsibility for the mistakes of our Mothers cannot be too
serious - at best a middle course is advisable.

In attempting to repair difficult situations which involve long-standing
relationships, a certain lightness of spirit is called for. Among friends
and intimates, a well-timed jest can be an effective lance. Righteous
indignation, on the other hand, is more like a crude bomb - and one that is
liable to blow up in your face.

Line 3:

Without the noble ability to lead and guide one’s life, one’s conduct leads
to harm. You are little with a self-imposed goal: dissatisfied with people’s
change of heart, and ashamed we lost our way. You must deal with the
"corruption of authority". Then there will be no fault, error, or harm in
situation.

Making ourselves responsible for the mistakes of our fathers may involve
some regret but not much blame - and when it’s over, we shall be free from
blame!

Making ourselves responsible for the mistakes of our fathers may involve
some regret but not much blame. In the end, we will be free of blame.

Everyone makes mistakes; everyone wants to correct them; but only the wise
know when and how to stop trying. What's done is done; you cannot unring the
bell. At the same time, it is better to be a bit too energetic in trying to
rectify past errors than to have no conscience at all about them.

Line 4:

When obedience to authority is involuntary, it is slavery. Experience has
shown an irresistible inclination to profit from its existence; it has
created 90% misery for every 10% pleasure. Majority rule sounds good but
does its worst to us.

Jefferson said the God who gave us life, gave us Liberty at the same time.
Only Nazis or Republicans [just listen to ‘em any chance they get] think
thoughts that would take ours away. Stop liberty > Stop dreamers.

Tolerating the mistakes of our fathers - by failing to rectify them - would
occasion us regret in the course of time. [I’d swear this is telling me to
amend the Preamble such that liberty means anything that does not inflict
hurt, misery, or suffering upon an other.]

Sloppiness is just beginning to show itself, but you may be too weak by
yourself at this time to take much effective action. What is now spoiling
might decay further, unless you begin to turn things around now. Prepare
remedial action.

Line 5:

When setting right what has been spoiled by rulers, one meets with praise;
one’s services are requested by superiors and customers, for one goes
straight to the heart of making a being become what it is meant to be, what
it wants, and is willing to pay for.

Assuming responsibility for the mistakes of our fathers will win us praise,
for assuming such responsibility indicates virtue.

You are able, with some help, to sort out problems resulting from past
neglect. You can't do it all by yourself; but with the help of able
supporters, you will be able to bring about a thorough reform or usher in a
new beginning. Support for your efforts will not come easily, but eventually
others will praise you for it.

Line 6:

Keep clear of the corruption of business and politics; take the better job;
find and honor what is truly noble in souls and spirits; rewards begin with
living water.

He does not serve the King or the nobles - what he does is even loftier than
that - he serves the will of heaven, and acts as a sage who may safely do
whatever he feels is worth doing. This is when we are acting from the
loftiest of motives, and our own will can be our law, knowing we will have
to live with the consequences.

Not all important work is done in the day-to-day world. Stopping to let the
world go by on its own, and using the time to cultivate your own personal
growth, can be of great value - not only to you, but ultimately to others as
well. Remember that, when withdrawing from events, it is essential not to
fall into the trap of simply sitting idly and criticizing the actions of
others.



59 - HUAN - Dispensing Frankland Justice

Success. The Mountain King has approached his Temple - a place of safety for
all - where divisions are to be ended - boats and oars are mentioned to
suggest means of communication [the boat could be Noah’s ark - the Tree of
Life] . IT IS ADVANTAGEOUS TO CROSS THE GREAT WATER, as concrete results are
to be obtained. Persistence in a righteous course [be nice to people] brings
reward. This omen presages success, for line 2 approaches and is not
exhausted. The King has approached his Temple and is to be found in its
center. The Kings of old built Temples - places of safety from the ills of
the world - in which to sacrifice to the Supreme Lord of Heaven. It’s when a
wooden boat rides safely on dangerous waters. It implies we should employ
spiritual or moral means to preserve ourselves from the danger threatening
from below.

Line 1:

A hurting person too weak or lowly to keep things together but a friend of
the Mountain King. Rescue arrives looking like a strong horse devoted to his
people [symbol of Papa God - who wants to be called Big Daddy when sumfin
goes worng]. Auspicious! Something - often a relationship - is falling apart
here. Agent’s job is to thaw the relationship, or re-launch American eagle
better than new, back into a symbiotic society. When relationship kaput
Admiral Hagee say yesterday ended midnight last night - forget maddening
reparations - pick up dream and get on with it - be happy alla time!

Line 2:

Line 2 is an agent of the Mountain King, and the strength of the King - like
that of a horse - is in him. The King’s agent is the first one the scene of
a cry of the hurting person found in Line 1, to beg if he can be of help. It
is usually a time when an important relationship is falling apart. If the
agent’s purpose in life is prosperity and Justice for his people, he will
work from the shelters of Tarot 4's Mountain King, and do what it says
there.

Line 3:

The Mountain King’s agent is strong yet also meek - puts concerns of other’s
ahead of one’s own [Jesus says this is the way to inherit the earth - so
greedy agent will have no regrets]! He throws righteousness at hurting
person shamelessly; make everybody smile; much fun all around when this dude
’s here!; best get out of his way, or duck your head.

Line 4:

Agent’s flock now engaged - most auspicious - sublime Good Fortune!
Dispersion (of Mountain King’s wealth) leads to accumulation - something
ordinary men do not comprehend. (Mountain King’s Law of Tithing says if
something is worth doing, people will do it gladly. When King spend - you go
re-load his bank account! Tithe when you got good thing going.
Righteousness - being nice to others - always worth doing - up everyone’s
nose maybe - much fun). Agent’s light is great - penetrates opportunity!
Opportunity here also great!

Line 5:

Mountain King heard hurting cry - anxious maybe his fault - now engaged -
rectification of cause comes with King! Just keeps getting better.

Line 6:

Mountain King find bloody guy at scene intractable - guy no listen - even
prayers from deep within Halls of the Mountain King do not help. Calls
Charioteer - flushes dude out of heaven to sharks in earth’s criminal
courts. Problem solved! Have a nice day!



38 - K’UEI - Differences - Estrangement - yet - Fellowship

This is a difficult yet auspicious omen. A time of joyous fire - what
radiance. In small matters - Good Fortune! Two live together, but with
different interests; while there may be no intercourse, it means
estrangement; but there need be no adversity, no opposition; when you can
learn from someone different, when you are allowed to see into a
misunderstanding, it is as if another whole planet becomes yours - and all
you gotta do is listen - you don’t have to move there. Thus amid all
fellowship, the SM retains his individuality; and he grows strong. The
yielding advances and ascends to the middle; it responds to the firm; hence
Good Fortune in things small. As men & women are opposites, their desire is
for union. Everything has its own separateness and accomplishes its purpose
according to its kind. Every person on earth is living in his own little
world. The SM achieves unity through difference [Papa gives everyone a
purpose in life - no one is the same as an other]. The timely application of
this omen is of the greatest value.

An image of estrangement is indicated here. When brothers and sisters marry,
they grow apart, since their allegiances now lie with new families. Though
they will remain close enough to successfully deal with problems and share
minor interests, they will be unable to undertake any great projects
together. Simply put, when people grow apart - even for the most natural of
reasons - their points of view, values and interests diverge.

Divergent natures and interests do bring opposition into the world of human
affairs. And when opposition drifts into alienation and enmity, no good
results. But when opposition takes the form of healthy competition, or when
it is simply part of the natural order of things and is recognized as such,
good fortune is possible.

Even when diverging energies make a situation seem stagnant or futile,
remember: there are always creative possibilities inherent in polarities.
One is reminded of the interplay of opposites that is fundamental for the
creation of life itself. But when opposition has its roots in issues of
principle, hold to your integrity and individuality. Avoid becoming involved
with vulgar or base people who do not share your values. With both people
and companies, one measure of stature is the quality of the competition.

Line 1:

Regret vanishes! Do not follow the straying horse, for it will return of its
own accord. Though he allows evil men to visit him, he remains w/o error -
we must expect to encounter unlikeable people whom it would be impolitic or
dangerous to ignore - the very purpose in receiving them is to avoid error.

Trying to rectify estrangements caused by small personal misunderstandings
can easily lead to situations similar to that of a man whose horse escapes
his barn. When the man dashes after the horse in a futile effort to capture
it, the horse merely runs faster, and further away. But if the man simply
returns home, the matter is settled quite easily, for the horse will likely
return to the barn once it becomes hungry or thirsty.

Let small disputes solve themselves; application of too much power in petty
disputes can drive you further from your goal, and make reconciliation more
difficult afterwards.

Line 2:

He encountered his Lord in a VERY narrow lane - no error - we can be certain
that we have not lost our way. It is probable that he inconvenienced his
Lord, who was doubtless approaching with a group of retainers. We are not to
blame; the inconvenience we cause will not be deliberate.

This is a difficult time to get together with others with whom you have
misunderstandings. However, if you do get the chance to meet "accidentally"
in informal circumstances, there is an opportunity for real compromise,
provided there is an inner affinity between you and your opponent. This can
only happen when you let go of mistrust and let yourselves be open to each
other's truth.

Line 3:

He watched them dragging at his axle and striking his oxen (these dare
encroach because they are also not in their proper places). Then, his
topknot and nose were sliced off - not much of a beginning (all of it caused
by the unsuitable position of this line), but there was a good end to his
troubles - while this may seem frighteningly inauspicious, know that you
will encounter severe trouble, and that it will not be permanent (because
the line above it is firm!)!

This is the line of Murphy's Law: everything that could have gone wrong,
has. It may seem at times that all of creation is conspiring against you,
but when opposition to progress is at its peak, an opening often emerges.
When bad luck strikes, the best strategy is to latch onto someone whose luck
is better. With the right attitude and persistence, good fortune in the end.

Line 4:

After suffering estrangement and loneliness (isolated through opposition),
she met an admirable husband and mutual confidence grew between them (one
can associate in good faith) - danger and unpleasantness, but no error and
no blame. This indicates the fulfillment of what is willed.

If you find yourself in a group of people with whom you have little in
common, a seed of inner opposition can grow into true isolation. In such
circumstances, the ideal solution is to find a soul-mate, someone with whom
you share deep interests, and whom you trust completely. Through the taking
of a good friend or lover, inner opposition can be overcome.

Line 5:

Regret vanishes, remorse disappears. The companion bites his way through the
wrappings, the head of the clan bites through the meat of the matter. What
is there to prevent him from proceeding with his plans? - for all will go
well with them. The head of the clan is our mind! If one goes to him, how
could it be a mistake? - for to proceed will bring blessings and unexpected
Good Fortune! The companion is the nine in the second place, who is of like
mind. The rules demand that the man in the superior position must go out to
meet the companion, if the misunderstanding is to be resolved.

When someone of sincere intent at first appears to oppose you, look deeper.
It may be that you have misjudged this person, or that you have been wrong
in your own attitudes or behavior. In this world, sincere people should be
met openly; how could this be a mistake?

Line 6:

Wandering estranged and lonely because he is different, he sees his
companion as a pig covered with dirt, and as a wagon full of demons. First
he stretched his bow, then laid it aside. He is not a robber, it is a matter
of betrothal which causes delay or hesitation - he will woo at the right
time. As one goes on, if rain falls (or an unexpected setback occurs), then
Good Fortune comes; the Good Fortune of the rainfall means that all doubts
and misunderstandings disappear. This is not a hostile assault, but a well
meant approach, for the purpose of a mutual relationship.

Estrangement can arise from a failure to clearly perceive the world. Overly
defensive people often ascribe all sorts of sinister motives to other
people, even to those who would be their friends. This kind of thinking
obviously leads to isolation. All that is necessary to reverse this kind of
cycle is to observe the world more closely, without prejudice. And, deep
inside, to admit you’re the error in your attitude. This can lead to an
increase in self-esteem, which may strike at the root of the problem.

Those who think well of others tend to think well of themselves, and vice
versa.



43 - KUAI - Decisions Bringing Breakthroughs

When a proclamation [an announcement of what is to be so, or what is not to
be so] is made at the Court of the King, frankness in revealing the true
state of affairs is dangerous [King could get shot]. In making announcements
to the people of his own city, it is not fitting for the ruler to carry
arms, for he would forfeit their respect. [This means that the King does not
govern with the barrel of a gun.] It is favorable to have in view some
objective. Resolve implies determination. When the strong determine the
affairs of the weak, combine strength with cheerfulness, and resolution with
peacefulness. We should not voluntarily or boastfully take on a difficult
task, unless we are sure of success. [The advice seems to be that if we want
people to work at this gladly, all will go well if we first make sure they
want to see it done.] The proclamation at the Court of the King is indicated
by the yielding top line. [It means that the King would not stoop to
coercion; he can afford to yield to meritorious objections.] The danger [of
a ruler relying only on kindness and good advice] is a glorious one! Having
an objective is advised because after prospering exceedingly, the strong
come to an end at the top. [It is because the man at the top is a servant of
his people that all of those below him are strong.] Great strength lies
within the joyful accomplishments found here. The SM distributes his
emoluments to those below; and refrains from presuming on his virtue.

Personal resolution points to a breakthrough, but decisive action is
necessary. As long as you diligently hold your ground and ward off negative
tendencies or evil influences, the good will prevail.

The persistence of negativity is a constant in human affairs; just when it
is thought to have been eradicated, up it will pop again, sprouting through
some crack in the pavement of decent society. Evil need not take
extravagant, forms, such as those exhibited in Nazi Germany. Garden-variety
lies and deceit are much more common and persistent, but need to be rooted
out just as diligently. One must be resolved against dark forces , whether
in one's social or professional life, or in one's own soul. In either case,
definite rules must be followed for the struggle to succeed.

The first rule: do not compromise with evil. Negative actions must be
identified openly for what they are, and discredited. The second: one cannot
resist negativity on its own terms. New, positive alternatives which lead
away from the source of the problem are generally more successful, and
appropriate, than to counter negativity with raw power. The third rule: the
means used to counter negativity must be consistent with the end to be
achieved. One cannot stop the spreading of lies by spreading more of them.

The smallest personal faults and foibles should be watched carefully during
a period of determined effort.

Line 1:

To set out with a great show of strength, advance, but win no success is
shameful - don’t tackle this difficult task unless sure of success. When
what is sought is worth doing, people will do it gladly, and you will remain
shameless.

Pressing forward when you are not equal to the task invites mistakes and
misfortune. Gauge your own strength carefully before undertaking any new
initiative, and venture only as far as you can go with certainty of success.
To plunge ahead blindly at the beginning is unskillful, because this is
precisely the time when an unexpected setback would produce the most
disastrous results. Beware of self-confidence that is not well-grounded.

Line 2:

Though disturbed by cries in the night, he who is alert knows no fear - it
is well to be cautious. Caution and fearlessness is indicated by the central
position of this line.

Determination requires sensitivity, readiness and caution. Expect the
unexpected, moving through life with the alertness of a someone driving
through a mountain forest at night, watchful for movement around each new
bend in the road.

Line 3:

To show strength in the cheekbones - making a parade of our strength -
brings misfortune! The SM is firmly determined and leaves what is to be left
behind - behind; but if, while walking alone in the rain, he is irked by the
mud, he is not to be blamed for that. Nothing must deflect us, but a little
grumbling and unpleasantness is in order. The resolutely determined superior
man is faultless to the end.

This particular lines points to someone caught in an ambiguous situation,
where existing relationships interfere with a determined struggle against
negative forces. In such a situation, you may have to use your position to
turn things around, even though others impugn your motives, with the result
that your reputation may become muddied. But if you keep your motivation
pure, even association with disruptive influences will be free of blame.

Line 4:

His haunches have been flayed and he walks haltingly, though he could put an
end to this shame by allowing himself to be led along like a sheep. [This is
when King David circumcised his heart, and determined not to argue
speciously with Papa God, and after some experience at this thought it fit
to say ‘The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want’ in a proud and grateful
way.] Moreover, he puts no faith in the words of others - on this occasion
showing lack of intelligence. [When "others" refers to the words of the
oracle, a lack of faith implies a lack of fear for the voice that deals
mostly Aces, and the Bible says a fear of the Lord is the beginning of
Wisdom! The fear is not that the Lord will hurt you, but that you might
weary Him, and it would break my heart to let that happen now - because He
might stop the flow of Aces! It is a matter of obeying until you sink to
your knees in honor of him. Papa God said we would continue so long as I was
obedient, but I could continue to query until I understood the wisdom of his
directions - and perhaps in so doing avoid error!]. His trouble walking is
indicated by the unsuitable position of this line.

A restless person with an obstinate attitude invariably meets with
misfortune. Failure to heed good advice when confronting antagonistic
forces, is bound to lead to failure.

Line 5:

A hill of amaranth; parting with what is to be parted with, his balanced
action in steering a middle course is faultless. The top yin is soft and
yielding like the amaranth plant, but it is supported by five strong lines.
Everyone can walk over it, indicating a willing submission.

Uprooting corruption in high places is a difficult task, and can only be
accomplished by a steady and determined effort. Just as weeds often spring
back to life after they have been chopped down, so corruption tends to
re-emerge even after initial efforts to be rid of it seem to have worked.
Only a persevering effort can succeed against deeply rooted negative forces.

Line 6:

The top line is the servant of his people. Misfortune will bring an end
without warning only if hurting people do not cry out - the unheralded
misfortune will be due to our failure to persist in listening alertly -
especially to the cries of hurting people - to the end. Our best people say
‘Semper Paratus’ - always prepared.

The image is of someone who has overcome adversity, and is ready to begin
anew. But beware - victories over destructive forces often create a lax
attitude - and it is precisely such an attitude that allows such forces to
reassert themselves. Thoroughness is required when preparing new soil, so
that the remnant seeds of past problems are not allowed to sprout up again.
When starting a new project after solving a problem, take care to see that
any arrogant tendencies in your personality are overcome or balanced at the
beginning.

54 - KUEI MEI - The Marrying Maiden & Ownership - literally "The maiden who
passes into ownership"

The idea is of a girl marrying on her own terms. Her character is not good,
therefore the judgement says "Nothing that would further, undertakings bring
misfortune". Yet, a woman’s greatest joy is to be within her man’s thunder.
This omen is that people should not marry using shackles and creating
ownership, because then either can say "HeShe can’t get away", and there is
no longer a need for 24/7 Good Will, which means 24/7 being beautiful -
instead gets a bit ugly at times, and the result among free people is a 50%+
divorce rate. My experience was that strength is to be found in not having
shackles. An advancement on these terms brings misfortune, and is not
favorable. The SM knows that to achieve an enduring end, he must be aware of
his mistakes at the beginning. What I wish to experiment with is a simple
ceremony, not involving vows or promises or laws, in which each partner
expresses their wishes for their future; for it seems to me a person who
honors such wishes, is the one with the velvet grip.

Affection is the basis of all lasting relationships, but must be channeled
properly in order to bring satisfaction and support the self-esteem of both
parties. For example, a married person's lover would necessarily have
conflicted feelings: affection coupled with insecurity. Relationships based
mainly on personal attraction, especially those which are outside the
mainstream, require special caution and tactful reserve.

If you assert yourself too much, or try to make yourself indispensable, you
will only incur misfortune. It is never easier to make disastrous mistakes
than when you venture outside the bounds of propriety. If you are in doubt
as to whether you should follow your heart or your head, allow for some time
to pass, and perhaps the answer will become clear. Initiating any action
could bring misfortune. Do not attempt to be too creative or attract
favorable attention at this time.

Line 1:

The maiden becomes a concubine - and her man is able to walk out on her at
the first sign of ugly - this will bring Good Fortune, for it presages
mutual support, 24/7. This is the proper relationship. Admiral Hagee said if
you love someone, set them free. If they come back to you, they belong to
you. If they don’t come back, they never did.

A time of achievement - even though you may find yourself in a
disadvantageous position with limited resources. If you accept your status,
and your destiny, you may discover new secrets close to home. The time has
come to play the wild card. Luck is riding with you.

Line 2:

A one-eyed man should be able to see that the life of a hermit is preferable
to being shackled to an uglyness woman, who has no need for the beauty of
Good Will, 24/7. No relationship is better than an inescapable bad one, in
which you are owned, and she can say "he can’t get away".

A time of no advance is indicated here, but everything will be all right in
the end. The image is of a disappointed girl who maintains her desirability
in spite of her loneliness, and finds a lover after a time.

Line 3:

The man accepts her as a slave. Now HE has no need for the beauty of Good
Will, 24/7, and he is the ugly one, who can always say "she can’t get away".
As in line 2, she would like life better as a hermit. This relationship is
no good either.

Excessive desire for forbidden or unobtainable fruits does not lower the
branches of the fruit-bearing tree. Still, no blame.

Line 4:

This is when you do not want to throw yourself away, and therefore must wait
patiently for what is proper. This line says it will come in time. It’s OK
to go yell at Papa God a bit; just remember that he - Papa the King - sees a
girl as his princess. Diana Hagee said so.

Purity of intent supports the effortless manifestation of dreams. Avoid
overt manipulation of others when seeking their affection or support.

Line 5:

This line speaks to a time in which ostentation is at issue. Confucius said
there is no bad weather, just good clothes. A princess is wise who can dig
Levis. I think this line means you will never encounter bad weather if you
accept what comes with it; it presages Good Fortune; it is linked to a
moon - or a soul - that is nearly full. This is when to bet it all.

When someone of superior qualities accepts a humble position with
graciousness, good fortune follows for all involved. Just as an intelligent
woman is far more interested in a man's character than in his money or
looks, you may find deep satisfaction and value in what appear to be limited
circumstances. Fulfillment and satisfaction are indicated.

Line 6:

A woman brings an empty basket, a man stabs a sheep already dead; neither
the man nor the woman has any substance or solid worth. No objective is
favorable with this line.

Within an intimate relationship, irreverence and cynicism quickly kill the
magic which lies at the heart of the bond. Whether bonded now or
contemplating it in the future, remember that a union of the heart only
works when both parties are as concerned about their mate's happiness as
they are about their own.


With Love/Live Long and Prosper/Lizzy & Larry Frank/Chiefs/
The Undaunted Ones of The Tree of Life Temple
You are going to have to kiss our Goddamned asses to stop our being nice to
you
Lauderdale Oaks Bldg 11 Apt 210
3051 NW 46th Avenue - Lauderdale Lakes - FL - 33313-1834
Tel: 954-484-3815  liz-lar@...  Fax: 954-485-8992





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BlankTo: President George Bush - March 31, 2003

cc: Saint John Ashcroft

Re: Your Precarious Position, Sir

It would seem that the things I care about the most, Animals, Environment,
Injuns, & Women, are screaming in pain from all that you do. The TV
Ministers I am familiar with are all praying for you, they say you are a God
fearing man, and ask all that watching pray for you. Desiring to remain
positive, I have tried for a long time to find something you are involved
with that I could perhaps help you with, so that I could join my friends in
prayer for you, to help you.

In many weeks of watching, and many hours of thought, it seems that 100% of
the things you do, I find deplorable, and since I cannot find anything of
yours I wish to assist, it took me ages to find a prayer to pose, that could
be of value to you.

Although the differences between us are 100% in all you do, people could say
we are both "pure" in our ways; at least we are purely different. Especially
when it comes to reverence for our Constitution, sir. I think it was Time
Magazine who pointed out that everything St. John Ashcroft says takes away
someone’s civil right. Almost like it was his job assignment, like he’s
following orders, sir.

There are lots of people who have made oaths or affirmations to support the
Constitution. We are at war. Suppose the people who had taken those oaths
decided that they were able to comprehend when the Constitution was under
attack, and noticed that they were being paid cash money to support it. Only
2/3 are required to impeach!

My prayer is that you consider these things, Mr. President. Were you to
consider this prayer from many angles, the lights might go on regarding your
precarious position.

With Love/Live Long and Prosper/Lizzy & Larry Frank/Chiefs/
The Undaunted Ones of The Tree of Life Temple
You are going to have to kiss our Goddamned asses to stop our being nice to
you
Lauderdale Oaks Bldg 11 Apt 210
3051 NW 46th Avenue - Lauderdale Lakes - FL - 33313-1834
Tel: 954-484-3815  liz-lar@...  Fax: 954-485-8992





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Meditation

1. Meditation is the ending of thought.
2. Your mind has to be silent that your mind is empty.
Never force yourself to do it.
3. Learn about yourself. Observe how you walk,
eat, say, gossip, hate, jealousy, breathing etc.
this would enable you to have a quite mind then.
4. There’s no end or beginning.
5. Aware of your envy, greed & search for power
in your daily life through self-knowing & awareness.
6. You begin meditation from ignorance to ignorance.
7. When your mind is not under any influence,
controls & knowledge, then it is mature.
8. When you have no motive, & in total freedom,
you will find bliss.
9. You do not separate meditation from life
nor isolation nor self-enclosement.
10. You have to observe what is & beyond it
but these objects has no important at all.
11. Wandering away the world as an outsider.
There is no knowing, no recognition,
nor remember something that has happened.
12. Understand the consciousness, the hidden,
the open & the movement beyond all thoughts & feelings.
13. Meditation is never prayer which is self-pity
when you are in difficulties or sorrow.
14. Thought destroys feeling of being love.
15. Be total release of energy.
16. Be ending of "me".
17. Love is part of meditation.
18. Meditation is never the further experiencing but ending of it.
19. Meditation has no achievement & no failure & no meaning.
20. When there is choice, there is no self-knowing
& prevent understanding what is.

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From: Lizzy & Larry Frank
To: LL V Mayor David W Shomers ; LL Mayor Samuel Brown ; LL Dep V Mayor Eric
Haynes ; LL Comm Samuel Goldstein ; LL Comm Levoid Williams ; LL Comm John
Billingsley ; LL Comm Hazelle Rogers ; LL Sheriff Ken Jenne
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 5:40 PM
Subject: I Have a Big Mouth Too


To: Lauderdale Lakes City Council - February 15, 2003 [I sent this to City
Hall snail mail yesterday].

Re: I Have a Big Mouth Too

Within you will find the position, that the only legislation that should
come from you, is contained within in the paragraph titled DARK. If you were
to ask me in a snotty way, well then, whatever are we to do, I would reply
that when people think something is worth doing, they will work at it
gladly, if you were to ask them nicely; problems will not be encountered
until you violate the DARK Principle. Majority rule is horseshit; hurting
people will keep on hurting after any tyranny of the majority vote. You
gotta duck your heads with hurting people about; it’s your choice, and you
have to live with the consequences.

To: Lauderdale Oaks Condominium - February 14, 2003

Re: Controversies Surrounding Me

I have chosen to write, because my experience has been that people will
almost never let me finish what I’ve got to say. It’s my way of getting my
torpedoes under the keels of your destroyers, to sink your carriers. Lots of
times, when I get to have my say, furious people will say "oh!".

I have had a quiet project going for a couple years. I’ve had some successes
and some failures. It’s because of the failures that I’ve worked up a real
big head of steam, and if I get caught saying my say in public, my steam
pipes burst. I have had to apologize to Andre Thibault, and now Carlos and
Dennis Pacquette, for losing control.

Norman Tapp tells me you are considering sending my father-in-law a bill,
for having had to send a man over to clean the birdshit off of about 8
parking places over here. I would like to quietly address such an effort
below.

To: Dennis Pacquette

cc: Denise Dandurand, Norm Tapp, Billy Kahn

I want to apologize for having spit in your face. That is not my idea of the
right way to proceed. We have points of view that differ greatly; you had an
attitude; I had an attitude; my steam pipe blew; yours did too.

I was in great turmoil after it happened. I thought of calling a doctor for
a tranquilizer perhaps, but I’ve had bad experiences with 4 or 5
tranquilizers. I wound up that night walking into a church down the street.
I was a few steps in when I realized they were all black. I asked if I could
stay; I got a warm welcome. In their proceedings the pastor asked if anyone
had any problems they wanted to talk about. One lady talked for a few
minutes about a problem she had. Then the pastor asked if anyone else? Man,
that’s what I was there for, so I blurted out that I had almost killed a man
today, and that’s why I was here.

I told them what happened. We got into a discussion of decision making
processes contained below; they agreed that my thinking was correct, but
their experience had been, dearie, that only a fool argues with a gun, and
in view of what I had said, that man had made a death threat to you, that
everyone there agreed should be reported to the sherif.

I told this story to the sherif: I have been feeding a bunch of ducks and
Ibis Birds for about a year now. There is some guy that has come around 5 or
6 times making a lot of trouble, right in my face. I said that my
recollection was that he said his name was Hunter; he looked English to me,
and although I’m part English, I got a thingy for Englishmen, of the sort
where Arabs are buying tickets to watch the last Jew drown. For a long time
I was putting out food in dishes, and when I’d return, the dishes had been
stolen. It was a battle of wits with these people, to feed them in the midst
of stooping thieves. Whoever is doing it has to have maybe 30 wooden bowls -
perhaps good for use in fireplaces or something. Today this guy came out,
carrying equipment that blows up balloons; he was blowing up the balloons,
and bursting them to frighten the Ibis birds away. They would fly away and
come right back. I thought I’d get in his face for a change. I walked over
and stood about a foot directly in front of him, and said "you think you are
a really big man, don’t you?". He replied "Yes I do, and tomorrow I’m going
to be out here with a gun making these very same noises". My pipe burst, I
said "and I’ll be here standing right in front of your gun, just like this".
And I proceeded moving into him and bumping him back a couple of steps. He
said something I can’t remember, but from my point of view it was the
typical English arrogance found in the Declaration of Independence. My pipe
had already burst; I symbolically spit in his face without any spit; I
turned and walked away. He yelled after me "Do that again and I’ll call the
sherif". This dude was looking for it. So I took a mouthful of spit and
deposited it on his face, sort of friendly like. I didn’t see the right
cross coming in; he landed solidly; I was so enraged I didn’t notice; but
when I got home I was surprised by a lot of blood on my face and neck. After
he hit me, the only thought in my mind was depositing him in the canal a few
feet away, and making sure he drowned. Just before I pounced, a Canadian I
knew, I think named Dennis LaCoste, caught my eye walking rapidly towards
us, like a drill sergeant. He made a sharp downward motion with his arm,
that dog trainers use to signal "down". I caught myself, turned, and walked
away. End of incident.

The sheriff I talked to agreed that the man had made a death threat, but
taking the position of a Judge Judy, the whole thing was my fault, because
he had a right to pop balloons to startle Ibis birds, and I didn’t have a
right to get in his face. Therefore, he would not file a written report. I
didn’t mind.

I called back later and determined 1) it is illegal to shoot people within
the city, 2) it is illegal to shoot ducks within the city, and 3) the sherif
was uncertain if it was illegal to shoot a firearm within the city. In
Detroit, it is illegal to shoot a firearm.

But I thought about it all night long. As I say elsewhere, I have a lot of
controversies going, some of them with very high stakes. I did not know
where "Mr. Hunter" was coming from. If he was a resident of our condo,
things were cool. But if he wasn’t, his first 4 appearances here could
hardly be from an animosity towards ducks; he was here after me, and I was
in danger. I thought of the blood that had surprised me - he had to have
been wearing something on his fist for that - and since he may have been
paid to be there - I was suddenly very glad I hadn’t pounced. He may have
been trying to sucker me into something. In the morning I had a long and
confusing talk with Norm Tapp, trying to find out if "Mr. Hunter" lived
here. After thrashing around a bit, Norm said he hadn’t seen anyone in the
parking lot he didn’t recognize. One man lived in 305, the other in 405. He
knew the first name of Mr. LaCoste. I called Mr. LaCoste, and asked for the
name and number of the man whose face I had spit in, and that I wanted to
smooth things over. He gave me Mr. Pacquette’s name and number. As I
prepared to go see Mr. Pacquette, it became apparent that a lot had to be
said, and to go in person would certainly result in failure. So, I wrote.

Sincerely, Lawrence V. Frank

Lauderdale Oaks Bldg 11 Apt 210

3051 NW 46th Avenue

Lauderdale Lakes FL 33313

954-484-3815

An Essay on Decisions - Choices - and Consequences


Almost every choice and decision a person makes in life is a gamble, and
almost every gamble has consequences.

When you make your decisions in life, in a land of liberty you are allowed
to consider anything under the sun. I wish to talk for a moment about 2
things that come up in a lot of decisions I make, that I call disciplined
thinking, that has me involved at the present moment in over 100 heated
controversies. Two of these controversies have spilled over into the
Lauderdale Lakes Condominium complex. It doesn’t take long to explain where
I’m coming from.

When I am confronted with my controversial decisions, the 2 things that come
up every time are 1) respect for the law, and 2) respect for what is right
and good.

When a person insists that respect for the law is the most important thing,
and what is right and good comes in second, it’s a free country, think as
you wish. I think otherwise. My first choice is systematically and
deliberately put what is right and good as my first consideration, and
respect for the law second.

Viewed theoretically, suppose that a City Council puts out 10 laws, and all
10 of them are not right, or not good, or perhaps just untested. If no one
is allowed by law, therefore, to do anything that is right or good, it means
that you have chosen to participate in a society that is purely rotten.

Two controversies have come up at Lauderdale Oaks concerning me - feeding
ducks and spitting in the face of a man named Dennis Pacquette. I understand
Lauderdale Oaks is considering sending my father-in-law a bill for what it
cost them to come over and clean up the bird shit on about 12 parking spaces
of our parking lot. I will respond to both of these controversies elsewhere,
but both involve my way of thinking about the rottenness of our society. I
repeat, I am involved at the moment in about 100 such heated controversies -
several aimed at unconstitutional forms of slavery, that I am willing to go
to jail saying don’t belong here. I worked for 3 years as the manager of the
systems department at Detroit’s Recorder’s Court, and I learned the general
principle that truth is inadmissable in America, and that a whole bunch of
things I’m pointing to are rotten to the core. I have a number of friends
now who will tell you yes, it looks like just about everything there is, is
rotten.

You may reply that if you don’t like it here - why don’t you leave? My reply
to that is 1) I am an engineer who believes that any problem can be solved,
and I love solving problems, and 2) rot is a problem; I’ve been addressing
those problems like a man chopping down trees, and I’m having more fun than
anyone in history with what I’ve been doing. Who - me leave?

I regret having spit in Mr. Pacquette’s face, but the story I have to tell
is of a heated confrontation. I will endeavor to make friends of Mr.
Pacquette. I regret Lauderdale Oaks unhappiness over my feeding the birds,
but I have a story to tell about that, too, that asks you questions about
what you are doing to me, and to yourselves, and the options I have in
responding. If you want to know about the other 100, I can make you a CD
that documents most of them. It’s in WordPerfect 6/7/8/9/10 format. I also
regret having yelled at Carlos the way I did - and it always goes back to
this decision-making process, and because of some other ways I have of
looking at things, Carlos looks very arrogant to me. Forgive me; I’m not
pretending that I’m certain I’ve got it all right.

Feeding the ducks controversy

When I began my controversial feeding of ducks about a year ago, 1) there
was duck shit everywhere, all over our parking lots, and all over our
walkways; at Condo II we had a man in here every Thursday that spent 2 hours
just cleaning the duck shit off of our first floor walkways - we just had to
live with the parking lot mess; and that was costing us a lot of money, and
2) the ducks themselves were starving; if you threw them a piece of bread
from your walkway, they would fight for it like Jewish people in a
concentration camp; they were filled with sores; about 2/3 of their eyes
were swollen half shut; from 30 - 40% of them were limping; they had some
kind of ugly looking spaghetti like stuff hanging down from the base of
their beaks; they spent most of their time wandering around the neighborhood
in the distress of starvation; and were in short what the City Council
declared to be "a public nuisance". Since I began feeding the ducks, 1) no
duck shit is to be found on our walkways whatsoever, and in our parking lots
it is contained to about 12 parking spaces, and if I were given the time, I
think I can get rid of most of that; there are no sores to be found on any
of them; the spaghetti like stuff is gone completely; they rarely leave the
vicinity of the canal, they pester no one except for the haters of life who
think Earth is for humans only - and I didn’t cause that problem of their
presence; I think any impartial person would say that at this time, those
ducks are more beautiful than anything in the neighborhood. If you go stare
at them a while, they make you feel peaceful. The state of their health
looks marvelous to me. Because I have cleaned up the walkways and parking
lots, because I have ended their wandering the neighborhood as ugly pests, I
feel the threat of billing me for your having had to clean up 8 parking
spots should be countered with a four-fold bill for all the money and mess I
have saved you; I insist you are being unfair, and will insist it all the
way into a court. I still heard one person complain that they reproduce,
dammit, and you have to go around breaking their eggs alla time! Well, 1) we
reproduce too, to their objections, and 2) I have no problem with breaking
their eggs, nor do I have a problem with human abortion, issues that I think
go hand in hand. My decision-making discipline says this about that:

While it is not necessary to make my personal feelings for the ducks part of
this, I would like to add that I’m pretty sure those ducks taught me, with
the discipline of an army, how to talk to, and make deals with, animal life.
It’s why the walkways and parking lots are clean. I don’t have enough
experience to even say I’m right about this, but if you’re interested, I can
show you how in about 5 minutes, and you can experiment for yourself. If you
really make me mad, I’m gonna see if I can get them to shit all over one
selected car in a parking lot, just as a demonstration. I’d swear something
I said caused Norm Tapp to make such a complaint - that his was the only
vehicle they were shitting on. I’d rather you do the further experiments
with that.

The Best Political Observations We Have


As many know, I have been feeding ducks for some time now, and was very
surprised to find that I was learning a few things from them. A few days ago
one of the employees of our condo told me if I continued to feed the
wildlife, he would call the Sheriff, and request the $500 fine and the 3
months in jail that could go with it. I asked if I could explain something.
He said he did not want to listen to a word I had to say. He repeated his
threat to call the sheriff. I told him I would accept that.

Then I went home and pounded my pillow in rage at that guy, and what I
wanted to say to him kept going through my mind. It’s what I really believe
in; it’s supported by Biblical passages;

it started to sound really interesting, so I thought I’d include it - I don’
t know why, either!


Slavery Format 1

Confucius taught obedience to the ruler must be one’s first consideration in
any decision.

The Tao came next. This mistake destroyed China’s Golden Age, when the first
control freak appeared.

China’s Golden Age turned to rot after Confucius said that.


Slavery Format 2

Our lawyers became our rulers by camouflaging their will behind the
1,000,000 laws and uncountable precedents they passed, and tell the
Hitlerian lie daily that ours is a nation of laws, and not of men.

Like Confucius, they tell us obedience to the law must be our first
consideration.

Lincoln thought we were a nation of the people, by the people, and for the
people. Me, I like Lincoln better.

[Same mistake as Confucius, but the demon control freak is camouflaged!]


Slavery Format 3

Henry David Thoreau - in Civil Disobedience - said roughly:

Some men insist that you respect the law - the ABA among them

Other men insist that you respect what is right and good instead.

[Thoreau assaulted this mistake. People liked him. Admiral Berra would call
this deja vu all over again!]


Slavery Format 4

"your first consideration must be that you do as you are told - right and
good come later maybe"

Mammon - whips - knives - guns - bombs - rockets = SlaveMaster disguises
replacing fists

Somewhere in Homer it is said that slavery destroys the human spirit

by taking away man’s need to discern right and wrong,

whether it be wage slavery, whip slavery, or the principle that our
government had the right to command,

and we have a duty to obey.


Anti-Slavery Format 1

Our Constitution guarantees us Liberty

Until it is amended out - I still got it! How about you?


Anti-Slavery Format 2

Amendment XIII says there shall be no involuntary behavior within our
nation.

Therefore, we have no duty to obey, not even God!

All of This is Relevant in a Wise Man’s Choice of His Friends - Ain’t It?

[Lincoln tried to correct the mistake. He snuck it past everyone! People
loved Lincoln.]


I recognize as legitimate restrictions on a person’s Liberty

the principle that says it is illegal to inflict hurt, misery, or suffering
upon an other

especially a brother or sister - whenever a jury should so decide.

I recognize no other restriction as right or good or American, until you
show me sumfin, mister!

Such wonderful things come to mind when one thinks we are all created equal

who would want it otherwise - we can even get pissed off at God Hisself -
and it happens!

It gives you the right to look Him in the eye and question what just
happened!

Or as Robert Mitchum might put it, "what the f___ have you done to me?" [God
likes Robert Mitchum].


Virtually everyone thought Hitler wrong and bad for killing and starving
others.


I am made of the dust of the Earth - that makes of me an Earthling

I Am Part of the Earthling Clan - how can one not acknowledge Mother Earth
as one’s Mother

We are Composed of Her - We Came Out of Her

Those ducks - that wildlife - that you wish to starve

Are made of the dust of the Earth -That makes of them Earthlings too

Since we have the same Mother - they are my brothers and my sisters

whose company I prefer, oh hate face

How would you like me to look at you? As something less? Time to watch your
ass!


To ask of Me to look at You as something more, than Me or my brother the
Duck

imputes to You, in My mind, the same arrogance as a Hitler

My religion tells me - according to Solomon’s proverbs

That God Hates Arrogance Above All Else

So I Don’t Feel Ashamed That I Have the Same Hatred


I can’t say Why, but I Wish to Win the Confidence of Every Creature

You are going to have to Kiss my Goddamned Ass

To Stop Me From Being Nice To My Brothers and Sisters

To Leave Out A Single One - Including you - is Bad Politics

So

How Might I Best Serve A Hater and Starver of Life? Hmmmmm?

The kindest thing might just be/putting it out of its misery!


Sincerely - A Proud Brother in the Earthling Clan

And I’m very proud and glad to be an American, where all persons have been
created equal.


So go call your gestapo, Carlos!

Further Considerations on Liberty


I believe history has shown that goodness cannot be legislated into a
society.

Ten Commandments failed; Mosaic Law failed; 1,000,000 American Laws failed.

What else is there? Try experimenting in your own family with this

to see at least a bit of goodness come from within:


The Primal Beginning


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THE WAY > THE TAO’s RIGHTEOUSNESS > FUN-TIME EVER AFTER


DARK: What is Wrong: Don’t Do This!

The only infringement on a person’s liberty must follow the principle

that it is illegal to inflict hurt, misery, or suffering upon an other,
should a jury so decide.

[Jefferson said liberty was the capacity to do anything that brought no
hurt].


LIGHT: What is Right: Do This!

Good Will is when you indulge yourself in the desire most people have

to be nice to others - both people and animals.

Do this and you can’t stop smiling.


WHAT EXPERIENCE HAS SHOWN

1) After maybe 5 days of doing What is Right, many people struggle with the
notion

that nourishment of some sort is involved

2) After maybe a couple weeks, these people start talking about
"righteousness"

as if they just discovered the meaning of the word. We can’t define
righteousness; Perhaps "What is Right" is "The Way" and "Righteousness" is
"The Tao".

3) Maybe a month later, they become shameless about it

and you gotta get out of their way, man; it’s fun time forever after

4) Many messed up people will laugh in your face when you tell them about
What is Right

you can teach it by sneaking in the Zinger Format:

"You are going to have to kiss my Goddamned ass to stop me from being nice
to you."

5) While some people say the Zinger Format is a snagglepuss that doesn’t
compute

just look at their faces the next day. It works like Draino!

6) While this observation is based on the experiences of only 4 out of 4
people who have tried it, both DARK and LIGHT are like seeds; when either is
planted early in a person’s mind, they grow into elders who usually count
themselves among the luckiest of people.


The symbol at the top is named T’ai Chi and stands for Good Luck to the
people of China


A letter on the Fear of Danger:

I had a friend once who complained about being afraid of a lot of things;
they could be summarized as a fear of danger. Whenever he talked about it,
maybe 3 - 5 times, this little story came to mind. He was a friend; I had a
hunch this might help him; so I took the time to sit down and write it down.
If he wanted to laugh at me for this, I wouldn’t have minded. He told me it
took a couple of days for this to sink into him - the same experience of not
wanting to talk to people for a while. He said it solved his problem; that
he had shown it to some of his friends, and came back at me with the request
"Hey man, you got anything for the fear of death?" The letter said:

Mohammed Ali will always be, in my mind, THE GREATEST Warrior there ever
was. I loved his big mouth even more. The first time I saw him fight was his
  first fight with Sonny Liston. Someone had made whatever arrangements were
necessary, to watch the fight on his home’s TV. I was able to go there and
watch the fight in a room crowded with 22 people.

I was the only one there who liked Ali’s big mouth. That is what everyone
else there seemed to be so incensed about. I heard four or five remarks that
said roughly that they would like to shoot both man and mouth.

I was the only one there betting on Ali. I won over $100 that night, and I
was getting great odds, man.

Just before the fight began, the referee called them to the center of the
ring, where they stared at each other. I had never seen a look like Liston
had on his face. I thought oh-oh, there goes my money. Everyone else there
was smelling the "stomp-on-him" blood they wanted, almost droolingly.

When Round 1 started, Ali came out and kept his hands on his hips, he would
not put them up to defend himself. I kept whispering breathlessly, out loud,
"Put your hands up, put your hands up, Oh my God, put your hands up ...
please." I watched this unthinkable show that way for two rounds.

When Round 3 started, I noticed something else - that turkey Ali was not
blinking. At all. Something was trying to give me a coronary from then on.
It was inconceivable, because I didn’t think it possible to not-blink that
long. I think I was taught that humans could go 16 seconds max without
blinking.

Around round 7, everyone else in the room started snarling and cursing the
useless Liston. I just sat there with my mouth open, staring at the tube; I
don’t believe I was thinking anything. Ali won. I collected my bets. I don’t
think I said a word to anyone for a couple of days.

After thinking about it for a long time, I decided it was the not-blinking
that made it of no difference where Ali put his hands. As long as Ali didn’t
blink, everything Liston threw at him was telegraphed, and children know
instinctively how to duck their heads when they see one coming in. I keep
wondering who taught Ali not to blink. I’ve never seen it in another boxer.
As you might imagine, I spent many moments after that trying to see how long
I could go without blinking.

Many years later, I worked at Detroit’s Recorder’s Court. All went well
until they found out I was an engineer. After that, I started having run-ins
with the judges and lawyers, and they were getting right in my face. I was
on automatic before I knew what was up. The only thing to come to my
attention was that I wasn’t blinking. I wasn’t trying to defend myself. I
was watching what I sensed was danger. I think my instincts served me as
well with those Judges, as they had served Ali in the ring.

Near the end of my job at the Court, a big meeting was called about me,
which I suspected was meant to put me in prison. There is a little item in
the Michigan criminal code, which says that if a judge thinks something is a
crime, he can declare it one; prosecutors must file warrants, and that
person gets the gears. They had failed in their efforts to fire me, and this
was a sure fire way of getting "that engineer" out of here. I admitted
openly that I had made this mistake: at the request of a couple od Detroit
cops once, I had temporarily altered the Court’s database. Shortly after the
meeting started, I remember moving my chair so that I was directly in front
of the Chief Judge. I wasn’t blinking; I was thinking of begging, but I didn
’t know how. I was ducking all those questions with the shortest spurt of
truth I could think of. I think the eighth question was "Why did you
cooperate with the police?" I said when we were children, our parents told
us if a policeman ever told us to do something, do it right away. What the
cops had proposed was an ingenious way to catch someone, and would hurt no
one if it was wrong, and I’m the sort of engineer that digs stuff like that.
And my boss had gone home for the week-end. This answer was so childish, no
one could stop laughing. He tried to restore order twice, but it was
useless. The Judge had to adjourn the meeting. I won.

My dictionary defines Nerve: emotional control; coolness in the face of
danger. I hadn’t thought about it until now, but a half dozen of those
judges had run into that same display of nerve. That could easily be what
put the looks of terror on their faces just a few days later, after having
time enough time enough for a meeting on the subject. I didn’t care about
their hatred - but I resigned my job when they became terrified of me.

What I learned from Ali is my constant companion now. If I start blinking
when I’m writing one of my nasty letters, I throw it all out and wait for
another day. I associate not-blinking with having a clear view of reality,
and I trust it.

If Mohammed Ali were to hit me, I would do a double back-flip and sleep for
two days. Besides, I’m running short of teeth now, too. But it would tickle
me no end, if Ali thought I had the bigger mouth.

Ali: I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Larry: I float like a
alligator, sting like Ali, and I’ve got straight A’s.

A letter on The Fear of Death

When my friend came back at me with "Have you got anything for the fear of
Death?" the following story came immediately to mind. It took an hour to
write it up. I did so and sent it to him. He reported that this letter had
solved their problem for them, too. I laughed my ass off. In the year that
followed, I got 2 more requests for the fears that people walk around with -
the fear of sexuality, and the fear of God. Believe it or not, I wrote 2
more letters to address them; these men say they were not only to the point,
and not only answered their need, they have said the 4 letters have removed
every trace of fear from their lives. The fear of God thing is another 1
page letter; the fear of sex is about 27 pages; if you’d like to see them,
let me know. The Fear of Death letter said:

Your request yesterday, concerning the fear of death, brought the following
story to mind. I believe the idea came from the Basque people in Spain. The
oracle says I’ve got either the idea or its source wrong; the fact remains,
it worked 2 out of 2 times for me.

The Basques have a tradition about death that they teach to their children.
They teach them that dying is like going to sleep in one place, and waking
up in someplace new. On the day of each month corresponding to the child’s
birthday, they would take the child to someplace new. When the child was
comfortable, they would tell it that this is what dying is like, it is going
to someplace you had never been to before.

My wife Lynn’s family were all afraid of dying, her father and mother, Lynn,
I’m not sure about her sister. Lynn and I were together as her mother died.
Her mother was terrified of dying. When she "consented" to go kicking and
screaming into a hospice, she was conscious and alert, but getting a word
out was a great labor. So when you visited, all you could do was hold her
hand, and look with panic at her terrified eyes. Panic because there was
nothing I could do.

After her mother died, Lynn was freaked out on the subject. I told her the
Basque story, and we planned to go someplace new on the 11th of each month.
Over the next couple of years, we managed to do so four times, by going to
unlikely looking restaurants, just to give hell a chance, you know. We had
good times each time, I guess because unlikely looking restaurants have to
offer Something to people. I pointed out after a drink or two that this is
what dying is like. After the fourth time, she thought the whole thing was
silly, and wouldn’t go on with it anymore.

Lynn died a pretty grim death. The doctors said ostensibly that she died of
cancer, but she really died of constipation. Six weeks before she died, the
doctors had put her on all the morphine she wanted. The prescription came
with the warning that it could cause constipation, something she had been
complaining about to them for months. From the time it started until her
death, about 6 weeks later, she had two bowel movements, one induced by what
she called a cruel machine.

I told a long story elsewhere about a meeting I had with three of her
doctors, in a hallway at the hospital. They would neither stop nor comment
on the morphine. I came away from that meeting convinced that they were
deliberately trying to murder her. I figured out later that she probably had
the biggest and best malpractice suit the world had ever seen, involving at
least 13 doctors, and a way of involving the clinic itself, and everything
it owned.

I rushed to Lynn’s bedside right after the meeting and told her what I
thought, and that I was going to raise hell about that morphine. Lynn
answered me is if she had already given it some thought, saying roughly, "I’
m dying, I don’t think I will last the day. If they take away the morphine,
I will die in pain. So don’t." Then she smiled.

Lynn’s behavior as she died resembled that of people who go to a beach, and
nestle beach chairs and drinks into the sand, so that they could watch the
sunset in comfort. Lynn was looking at the inevitable, very determined to
enjoy it, not to miss a minute of it, as if hoping for an exciting sunset.
For that I salute the Basque people, or wherever the idea came from, with
the biggest Thank You imaginable.

I imagine she woke up in a new restaurant someplace with a pretty new spirit
body, and some nice new clothes. A waiter looking like Jesse Duplantis comes
up to take her order, and recommends collard greens, and then grins his
grin. Lynn imagines having a collard green stuck to her front tooth, and
tells Jesse his job is women’s work, would he please send a woman to take
her order. Its so strange, I think it might have happened that way.

If I’ve got the source and the story right, it could explain the tenacity of
the Basques, whose history is filled with people who tried and failed to
conquer them.

A letter questioning the dirtiness of sex

This is how I looked at my wife. The people I’ve heard from that have read
this, report that the way they look at their wives has changed from
something "a bit dirty" to "the most pleasant thing on earth", and they are
smiling because if it. Rachel is my step daughter; after my wife died I
tried to "get some" from her, but she wouldn’t have me. Nevertheless, I sent
copies to my friends; take them for what you think they are worth:



A Song for Rachel


I wish that I were welcome in your presence

Mostly because I wish you were here


Though you be flat-chested and of no account

and I be old and of no account

This truth has burned for a long, long time

that I know you well, and I wish you were here

I will never apologize for touching upon an attraction

nor will you ever tire of dressing up real pretty like

my mind forever clings to your little tattoo

so lets cut the crap and be open and honest

‘cause it’s what women want the most


If you think sex is rude or crude or dirty

the filth lies only in your mind

It is so easy to wash away when you consider

The prettiest word in English

for the most pleasant thing on earth

is f—!


You would have to kiss my Goddamned ass

to get me to stop being nice to you

If only I had the chance!


Gimme - gimme - gimme!

Let me kiss your face all over, and say "yes dear, yes dear..."

For greedy hours!


With Love/Live Long and Prosper/Lizzy & Larry Frank/Chiefs/
The Undaunted Ones of The Tree of Life Temple
You are going to have to kiss our Goddamned asses to stop our being nice to
you
Lauderdale Oaks Bldg 11 Apt 210
3051 NW 46th Avenue - Lauderdale Lakes - FL - 33313-1834
Tel: 954-484-3815  liz-lar@...  Fax: 954-485-8992





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2. Your mind has to be silent that your mind is empty.
Never force yourself to do it.
3. Learn about yourself. Observe how you walk,
eat, say, gossip, hate, jealousy, breathing etc.
this would enable you to have a quite mind then.
4. There’s no end or beginning.
5. Aware of your envy, greed & search for power
in your daily life through self-knowing & awareness.
6. You begin meditation from ignorance to ignorance.
7. When your mind is not under any influence,
controls & knowledge, then it is mature.
8. When you have no motive, & in total freedom,
you will find bliss.
9. You do not separate meditation from life
nor isolation nor self-enclosement.
10. You have to observe what is & beyond it
but these objects has no important at all.
11. Wandering away the world as an outsider.
There is no knowing, no recognition,
nor remember something that has happened.
12. Understand the consciousness, the hidden,
the open & the movement beyond all thoughts & feelings.
13. Meditation is never prayer which is self-pity
when you are in difficulties or sorrow.
14. Thought destroys feeling of being love.
15. Be total release of energy.
16. Be ending of "me".
17. Love is part of meditation.
18. Meditation is never the further experiencing but ending of it.
19. Meditation has no achievement & no failure & no meaning.
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Never force yourself to do it.
3. Learn about yourself. Observe how you walk,
eat, say, gossip, hate, jealousy, breathing etc.
this would enable you to have a quite mind then.
4. There’s no end or beginning.
5. Aware of your envy, greed & search for power
in your daily life through self-knowing & awareness.
6. You begin meditation from ignorance to ignorance.
7. When your mind is not under any influence,
controls & knowledge, then it is mature.
8. When you have no motive, & in total freedom,
you will find bliss.
9. You do not separate meditation from life
nor isolation nor self-enclosement.
10. You have to observe what is & beyond it
but these objects has no important at all.
11. Wandering away the world as an outsider.
There is no knowing, no recognition,
nor remember something that has happened.
12. Understand the consciousness, the hidden,
the open & the movement beyond all thoughts & feelings.
13. Meditation is never prayer which is self-pity
when you are in difficulties or sorrow.
14. Thought destroys feeling of being love.
15. Be total release of energy.
16. Be ending of "me".
17. Love is part of meditation.
18. Meditation is never the further experiencing but ending of it.
19. Meditation has no achievement & no failure & no meaning.
20. When there is choice, there is no self-knowing
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Never force yourself to do it.
3. Learn about yourself. Observe how you walk,
eat, say, gossip, hate, jealousy, breathing etc.
this would enable you to have a quite mind then.
4. There’s no end or beginning.
5. Aware of your envy, greed & search for power
in your daily life through self-knowing & awareness.
6. You begin meditation from ignorance to ignorance.
7. When your mind is not under any influence,
controls & knowledge, then it is mature.
8. When you have no motive, & in total freedom,
you will find bliss.
9. You do not separate meditation from life
nor isolation nor self-enclosement.
10. You have to observe what is & beyond it
but these objects has no important at all.
11. Wandering away the world as an outsider.
There is no knowing, no recognition,
nor remember something that has happened.
12. Understand the consciousness, the hidden,
the open & the movement beyond all thoughts & feelings.
13. Meditation is never prayer which is self-pity
when you are in difficulties or sorrow.
14. Thought destroys feeling of being love.
15. Be total release of energy.
16. Be ending of "me".
17. Love is part of meditation.
18. Meditation is never the further experiencing but ending of it.
19. Meditation has no achievement & no failure & no meaning.
20. When there is choice, there is no self-knowing
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2. Your mind has to be silent that your mind is empty.
Never force yourself to do it.
3. Learn about yourself. Observe how you walk,
eat, say, gossip, hate, jealousy, breathing etc.
this would enable you to have a quite mind then.
4. There’s no end or beginning.
5. Aware of your envy, greed & search for power
in your daily life through self-knowing & awareness.
6. You begin meditation from ignorance to ignorance.
7. When your mind is not under any influence,
controls & knowledge, then it is mature.
8. When you have no motive, & in total freedom,
you will find bliss.
9. You do not separate meditation from life
nor isolation nor self-enclosement.
10. You have to observe what is & beyond it
but these objects has no important at all.
11. Wandering away the world as an outsider.
There is no knowing, no recognition,
nor remember something that has happened.
12. Understand the consciousness, the hidden,
the open & the movement beyond all thoughts & feelings.
13. Meditation is never prayer which is self-pity
when you are in difficulties or sorrow.
14. Thought destroys feeling of being love.
15. Be total release of energy.
16. Be ending of "me".
17. Love is part of meditation.
18. Meditation is never the further experiencing but ending of it.
19. Meditation has no achievement & no failure & no meaning.
20. When there is choice, there is no self-knowing
& prevent understanding what is.

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1. Meditation is the ending of thought.
2. Your mind has to be silent that your mind is empty.
Never force yourself to do it.
3. Learn about yourself. Observe how you walk,
eat, say, gossip, hate, jealousy, breathing etc.
this would enable you to have a quite mind then.
4. There’s no end or beginning.
5. Aware of your envy, greed & search for power
in your daily life through self-knowing & awareness.
6. You begin meditation from ignorance to ignorance.
7. When your mind is not under any influence,
controls & knowledge, then it is mature.
8. When you have no motive, & in total freedom,
you will find bliss.
9. You do not separate meditation from life
nor isolation nor self-enclosement.
10. You have to observe what is & beyond it
but these objects has no important at all.
11. Wandering away the world as an outsider.
There is no knowing, no recognition,
nor remember something that has happened.
12. Understand the consciousness, the hidden,
the open & the movement beyond all thoughts & feelings.
13. Meditation is never prayer which is self-pity
when you are in difficulties or sorrow.
14. Thought destroys feeling of being love.
15. Be total release of energy.
16. Be ending of "me".
17. Love is part of meditation.
18. Meditation is never the further experiencing but ending of it.
19. Meditation has no achievement & no failure & no meaning.
20. When there is choice, there is no self-knowing
& prevent understanding what is.

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