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Patterns of Attention
Anyone want to offer a test situation? Any situation? Yes. Right now, in Guild Wars 2, I am trying to figure out how my guardian can take on many enemies at once. Ok, that will work. Where do you stick your sword? You can look at the mechanical facts, there are many enemies, and you…
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No One Fails
It may seem that the world does whatever it wants. This is only a superficial observation and not very helpful really. Ever notice that the events or outcomes of the lives of people you know well are largely rather predictable? I have. More in some than in others. We know people who always go with…
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Native Geomancy
Polar bears are starving because there is no ice to bring seals around. Other bears can eat almost anything but polar bears usually just hunt seals. Yes. It’s a horrible shame. It would seem poetic justice to put climate denying politicians in the middle of one of the worlds large deserts, without their money for…
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Ordering Chi Interactions
Feng shui has two elements to it. One spatial, one temporal. The temporal element is where the astronomy kicks in. The Chinese adjusted their positioning of new architecture as well as their location of entirely new communities and grave yards over time according to an observed cycle. Some critics say their use of magnetic compasses…
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Five Phases Pattern
Any questions about feng shui so far? The basis of the i-ching’s predictive ability, as well as feng shui’s observational and planning utility, is the five phases pattern. The earth elements guide the mixture of objects and the heaven element determines positioning (N,S,E,W)? Indeed, with the additional consideration of local presences, the position and behaviour…
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Medicine for the Earth
Polarity. All relationship patterns are seen as a series of trigrams, and these trigrams are present on a feng shui compass; yin, yang, and transitive. Every material thing is seen as containing three elements in this regard. Three different states or phases. Boy, girl and trans? Yes, ultimately. They have even found evidence of a…
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Popular Feng Shui Tricks
There is no single school of feng shui even to the point of practices having been passed down as a family trade and kept to that family, but the general principles are universal enough that many schools can be equally constructively used, and as much as many want to claim it’s nonsense, ergonomic architecture resembles…
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Ability to Notice
A lot of Chinese mythology contains references to geomantic influences. The roles being played by those figures may have been more a form of journalistic speculation than simple whimsical story telling. An effort to predict what led to an event as well as where it might lead from there. Angry people do things that make…
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Paths
The world tree is today’s topic. It’s one of those more or less universal presences. No single country or culture originated the concept of the world tree, and what it represents ultimately is the axis mundi. We can’t really as a species conceive of an infinite world. The closest we can come is to identify…
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First Model of Network Cosmology
Maybe I need to get “out there” first before I can bring it down to the concrete level. Network cosmology. The world tree is humanities “first” model of network cosmology. The central trunk would represent the common axis of time. The branches and roots would represent two different but connected planes of space traditionally referred…
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Ultimate Physical Branch
Shall I bring this back down to earth a bit more? The particles that make up your body seem to have come together after having previously been entirely disconnected. I suggest that this is inaccurate. Instead, you as an individual object arose as a process of “budding”, an overlapping of fields and resonances, that gives…
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Mapping the World Tree
Let’s look at the tree as branches of cause and effect. Some object to the genetic model thinking perhaps it marginalizes them. So every reaction you have ever caused in the world around you, that includes physical objects as well as living beings, has left a causal imprint. Is this an illogical notion? No. Have…
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Climbing the World Tree
Shall we put this into practice? We all stand at the trunk of the world tree. The world as you see it is that trunk. We all sleep in the roots of the world tree. Your memories of the day and your inherited memory, genetic tendencies, what have you, are all beneath the common ground…
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Locus of the Sacred
The inner temple. It may seem hard to believe that this is anything more than some sort of poetic or abstract notion, but I offer that it’s very far from such a thing. Today I will not talk about how to find or create an inner temple, you already have one, instead we will focus…
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Dream Life
Do you ever dream of outer space? Or a vast open field? The sea? Daydream or sleep dream? Sleep dream. In daydreams you can do so freely of course, but your sleep dreams are another matter all together. So does anyone dream of the outdoors when they sleep? Oh yes! All the time! Well, most…
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You Fear Dis-Integrity
You find many things horrifying, more than you acknowledge. Perhaps the first thing to clarify, you do not fear death, you do not find meaning in death beyond the purely cerebral level. We have no experience of it? That’s part of it. What you do fear is dis-integrity. Shall I back this up with science?…
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You Believe Things
It’s been said that we can’t solve a problem in the same state of mind we become aware of it in. Recent science is even backing this up. The way we normally think about things, we just practice and reinforce the problems that set us off in the first place. We welcome the vandals of…
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Difficult Truth
We dwell in a false holy, and this was used as a method of self preservation whenever a spiritual path sought to survive in the face of violent public opposition. They would erect a decoy temple that could be freely sacked so that their genuine sacred space would remain inviolate, but for those who understood,…