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How I got here from there…

I think one of the things I try to do as though I’m “living the Tao” by telling my own story. From my first encounter with Taoism and Chuang, Lieh, and Lao in December 1993 when I began writing my own version of the I Ching, there was a sense that I wasn’t “outside of it”. My writing was autobiographical from the start. It was like they were looking for me and the found me in the Brown University bookstore in Providence, Rhode Island, where I had never been before or since.  It was as though one of the books…

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To be led beyond our afflictions as spirit.

The Way of the Dragon embracing the stars. Understanding what it means to move beyond or embrace our afflictions, we must first know how to define them. An affliction can be traced by one’s own path often from what we see as a weakness but is actually much more. In astrology we can refer to affliction as something that has a connection to the stars and spirit, something quite different from only having a negative association which invites problems in a person’s life. The affliction simply as someone or something seen as different from the norm, even seen as following…

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