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Article 1. The Sage as our Cosmic Teacher by Carol and Hanna © by Carol Anthony and Hanna Moog Carol’s experience of the Sage in the 1970’s was of an alive consciousness that wants to communicate with us. This took away for her the understanding that what we read in the written text of the book, is all we have for an oracle. It becomes apparent through its use that the I Ching is a Cosmic gift to humans. Its purpose is show people (1) the nature of the Cosmos as a system of Principles of Harmony, (2) our true human nature, and (3) the way we individually can return to harmony with these Cosmic Principles when we have lost our way. The Sage, as part of this interaction, is a presence within us that uses the oracle to draw up from the depths of our nature, our innate knowledge of Cosmic truth. (This truth is contained in the DNA of every body cell.) The I Ching Hexagram 61, titled “Inner Truth,” refers to this source that is stored in our bodies, not in words, but in the form of feelings of what is harmonious and what is not. Thus, the Sage uses the I Ching to speak through its text, but the text itself is not the oracle. The Sage makes it clear, through the method we call the retrospective-three-coin-method, or “rtcm” (which will be described in our next article), that it does not teach us the handed down platitudes that have often been taken as ‘ancient wisdom.’ It rather discourages this kind of memorized mental approach by reaching into our own deepest inner truth to bring forth the answers that are already there. We find, in so doing, that our inner truth has been suppressed in favor of these platitudes and commandments. That is why, on finding the answer we need, we recognize that we “knew that” all along, but did not dare to trust it. Thus, we find that the Sage is all the time connecting us with a part of ourselves that has been repressed through conditioning. This process of reaching into the depths is described in Hexagram 48, “The Well,” which calls our inner truth “a clear, cold spring from which one can drink.” Often, we cannot access our inner truth because “there is mud in the well” in the form of fixed, preconceived ideas, fears, old grievances, and memories of wrongs done to us. When we drink from this mud, we are kept stalling. With the help of the I Ching text, the Sage not only wants to make us aware of this fact, it also offers us help to cleanse our inner well. Then we find that our inner truth is a gold mine containing everything we need to know. The more we work with the Sage and give it the necessary space in our mind, the more we realize that it wants to speak to us as a friend, not as a godlike figure that expects obeisance and punishes us when we make mistakes. On the contrary, the Sage wants to free us from ideas that are either grandiose, making us see ourselves as the center of the universe, or that inspire us with fear and awe, and make us see ourselves as small and insignificant. The ancient Greeks had an idea of the Sage when they spoke of “a tutelary spirit that accompanies each person lifelong.” They named it “genii,” root of the word “genius.” Writers have long called it “the muse.” For many artists, athletes, and inventors, it is an “elusive thing” that takes over in us when we give up relying on the “brilliance and ability of the thinking mind,” or the pure brawn of our bodies, to provide the success we seek.

@Truth Addict Bless you friend. I feel blessed. Full speed ahead for the empowerment of our aims!

@Truth Addict There's a part of me that changes all the time and another part which seems to never change. I can't remember exactly what it was but in the recent past I spoke to you in a blunt or rude matter. Maybe at the time, I felt the need to play a role in order to convey a message that I thought was necessary. Whatever it was, in hindsight, it feels like it was a mistake. I apologize for that. Please forgive me. As has been said, "we're all in this together. ?

practicing Centering Prayer for twenty minutes twice a day has made a lot of difference for me. There's more flexibility in getting this done rather than 1 hour long sitting per day. It's an exercise in letting go of thoughts and discovering, slowly, the state of non conceptual awareness or what others call objectless awareness. When given time, it begins to create inner spaciousness.

Well thought out replies from all. I just woke up and need a few minutes to ponder if I have anything of possible value to contribute. ?‍♂️?

@Serotoninluv Thank you for sharing. This one had an effect on me a while back.

Quote from Ocke: Ocke: We limit our being by dualistic thinking and therefore we limit our thinking by dualistic thinking. We have lost our feeling for oneness so to speak and we have because of this also lost our sense for sacredness. To make ourselves whole again we have to make the potential actual. This true wish incarnates in us from the level of being of a man number four. It is at this station that the dead man in us shall leap from his grave. It is at this level that the Permanent Witness comes into being. From http://www.higherbeingbodies.com/ A quote from Paul Beckmann Taylor about Ocke's book Higher Being Bodies. This is finally. a book written by one who knows and cares for those who care but do not know yet how to work on themselves.

You are Intimate with Yourself When You’re Simply Being Where You Are When you really like to discover the truth, when you just like to see and feel what’s true, this indicates that you like being yourself. It is lovely to be where one is without rejection, without the need to be somewhere else to be okay. In this place, the heart opens up, and there is enough space to feel joy. There’s contentment and peacefulness, and a personalness to the contentment and peace that gives the feeling of intimacy. You are intimate with yourself when you’re simply being where you are. Spacecruiser Inquiry, pg. 196 To be where we are really is a form of surrender to whatever is happening. And that surrender is an awareness that embraces whatever our experience is. If I am feeling something and I see that I don’t like it, then I embrace that I am feeling something and I embrace the fact that I don’t like it. I don’t take the position that I shouldn’t have a negative response to what I am feeling. This implies a certain trust and confidence in our nature. Usually we don’t have that trust, so we want to take things into our own hands and twist them and turn them the way we want them to be. True Nature shows us that we have another option, which is to align with it in allowing our experience to be what it is. The Unfolding Now, pg. 26

I think Leo may enguage in 'pushing buttons', but for a specific reason and one that's also out of love. I still need to process this more before I say much else.

Watching Leo's new video about fear. He is nailing it! To feel everything is to feel one's 'every-which-way-ness'. This is inner truth/Conscience. There is a difference between acquired Conscience/personality and inner truth Self/Conscience. Culture is an enforcer of acquired Conscience. The capacity for going against group think is necessary to go beyond fear.

Russell Brand is a Mercury/Saturn a Divine Feminine warrior.

I haven't had an eye exam since 2015. My typo's are making me self conscious. This would be a self consciousness parallel in meaning to the Fourth Way phrase 'inner considering'. I love Autumn weather. I'm ready for it.

Teal Swan is a Mercury/Saturn warrior. https://tealswan.com/about-teal/

Everyone is innocent. There are no culprits. Only degrees of sleep.

I agree. Me too.

Marianne Williamson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Jim Carey Eddie Murphy

Those who share characteristics of having the adrenals dominating their endocrine system. They often exhibit untamed wildness and excessive movement and destructiveness. A destructiveness which is apart from negative/positive. ironically they are often driven by fear. Bill Murray Kurt Cobain Hunter S. Thompson Cynthia Bourgeault Aawwnold

@XYZ Your response tells me you completely missed the point. The point is in the spirit of it.

Master Teacher Cynthia Bourgeault says it’s a common mistake to equate the law of Three and the Holy Trinity. I’m still pondering off and on about it. Maybe these short clips will help give insight. By the way, I’ve wandered away for now from the Secret of the Golden flower. Obviously.? L

@Iiris Rock on! See you down the road,,,