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Author of 6 books, well known animal rescuer/disaster responder, musician, and filmmaker based out of Santa Monica CA. My subscriber money here helps to fund my animal rescue work and coffee addiction! If there's 12 steps for coffee, I'm on step one!
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The Subtle Act of Mental Reconstruction... (opens the original)
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If you look at yourself… Like really truly deeply, then you will understand that you have no choice but to continually let go of the past. The past is really an albatross that everyone carries around. It really reshapes, redefines, and re-contextualizes things. And not always in a good way. It really forces you to continually cross reference and cross-examine future outcomes based on past ones. So this needing, wishing, or wanting for things to come into reality; is really an outgrowth of these
Why Modern Society Obligates Us to Craft a Version of Reality We Are Comfortable With... (opens the original)
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I think that if we look at the modern world enough…. It can be just information overload. You can look at 500 things and say that everything is perfect. Or look at 500 things and think that everything is destroyed beyond the possiblity of repair. So even though the world inherently has an underlying perfection within it; the culture of course always needs some form of modification. So why then should we do anything? Maybe reality is perfect as it is… And I don’t need to interfere or do anything?
Happy Moon Festival Everyone! (opens the original)
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The Importance of the Moon Festival for Human Culture... (opens the original)
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If we look at human history there are a lot of things that just stand alone in terms of watershed events. We have things like wars, famines, floods, economic crisis’, and a number of other things that we say disrupts culture…. But if we look at the I-Ching’s perspective, we realize that there is an inherent balance that pervades all things. There is nothing without a cause, and no problem that cannot be rectified in some way. So in that sense, forgetting the moon festival in terms of human cultu
The Link Between the Rat and Success in the I-Ching... (opens the original)
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So a lot of times there are just different situations that don’t really have easy explanations. But in the case of the I-Ching, they think there is basically an explanation for everything. And to be fair, life isn’t really simple… It’s just to say that everything can be looked at through a simple viewpoint when looking through the I-Ching. Because in terms of the I-Ching there exists both a limitless complexity, as well as a limitless simplicity to any issue. But to begin I think some people tha
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