Lincoln's Law

                                                           The Confederate South is re-forming due to The scotus, Supreme Court of the United States, relinquishing  its last drop  of what was once an OCEAN of Integrity, Dignity, Honor and dare I add, Patriotism .    The scotus has Ruled that's it's "OK" for States to IGNORE even the Concept of "Equal Rights Under The Law" and more specifically, the "Voting Rights Act" which GUARANTEED the Voting Rights of    >>>ALL<<<   American Folks and Peoples .   I confess :   I told one of my "Selfs" that I would NEVER shed another tear after Sandy Hook, but when that News 'broke' tears welled in my eyes .   I mean,    What   The    Fuck ~~~~~~ .

                         The Deep South is running at "breakneck" speed to legislate new voting districts that, in some instances, have ELIMINATED American-Black 'seats' altogether .   It isn't just Fear and Desperation that's being manifested, nope, it's the Raw and Savage  VENGEANCE  that is the result of YEARS and YEARS of the utmost BITTER Resentment toward  the North and its Peoples, who DEFEATED the South, thereby extincting*  Slavery, and forcing the South to "fend for itself", meaning, FORCING plantation owners to actually work their own fields, and PAY OTHERS to assist .   

                          Elsewhere I have contended that the South NEVER SURRENDERED ,  they NEVER  "Admitted Defeat" ,  but rather, retained every BIT of HATRED and shielded that Hatred with subject Compliance to Lincoln's Law .   

"The Great Master"

                                                           I will leave you with the opening paragraph of Chuang Tsu's Inner Chapters, Chapter 6--"THE GREAT MASTER" =

                                 "Perfect is the man who know what comes from Heaven and what comes from man .  Knowing what comes from Heaven, he is in tune with Heaven .   Knowing what comes from man, he uses his knowledge of the known to develop his knowledge of the unknown, and enjoys the fullness of life until his natural death .  This is the Perfection of Knowledge .   However, there is one difficulty .   Knowledge must be based upon something, but one is not certain what this may be.  How, indeed, do I know what I call Heaven is not actually man, and that what I call Man is not actually Heaven ?  FIRST, THERE MUST BE A TRUE MAN ;  then there can be true knowledge ."

                             This is me .

Plutarch

                                                           One of my "Goals" is to find the ways and means to return Truth to World Consciousness via this medium of "Blog" .   It's my Belief that EVERYONE should  >contribute< to the so-called "Advancement of Civilization" by "appropriate" means, that which psychologically suits the 'Advancer' .   We all can't write, but each and everyone of us has within us a "Diamond" to share. These Diamonds manifest as "Gifts, Talents and Abilities" that can be expressed as "Truths" .   Here it is where the Arts dominated "Self-Expression" but I contend that one's Work can also be expressed as Expression of Truth, my Favorite Such Expression is from the Great Kahlil Gibran who proclaimed, "Work Is Love Made Visible" to which I supplement, Work is TRUTH made visible .  We speak of "Making an HONEST Living" , a Living where Truth is PROPERLY maintained as Core of one's Values, [Ethics,  Morals] and Beliefs .

                           Technically, our "World View" is the Direct Result of "the work of others", in this we are a product of those that have come before, {Because I am who I am} I must insist that `those that came before` must be examined, nay SCRUTINIZED so that we can have an understanding of the CONTEXT of THEIR EXISTENCE which allows us PERSPECTIVE to study OURS .   

                           Early in my "ON" I devoted the Study of Men solely to LEARN HOW TO BE A MAN, but what resulted was a Study of Men's MINDS .   When I was introduced to Plutarch and his Lives of the Noble Greeks and Lives of the Noble Romans I KNEW I had a TREASURE .   I couldn't get enough .   These were TRUE Men who struggled with the day-to-day of  Existence, both Societal and Political, and, of course, WAR .   

                           This is me .

                             

Wilhelm -Baynes

                                                           Any 'search engine' will put you on this track ;  the I Ching originated in the Western Zhou Period, [1046-771 BCE] and is generally attributed to the Legendary Emperor Fu Hsi, {foo, see} ,  however Modern Scholars suggest is was compiled between the 10th and 4th Centuries BCE .   I am an AVID FOLLOWER of the History Channel's "ANCIENT ALIENS" which supplied a Context in which the I Ching is a COMPUTER that can be used to "Predict the Future" .   I mean, their Something IS a SOMETHING but it ain't all that is contained within the I Ching or Book of Changes .

                        I was introduced to the "Ching" by the Great German Author, Hermann Hesse in his, Magister Ludi or The Glass Bead Game a novel that won him the prestigious "Nobel Peace Prize for Literature" .   I must save further description of that introduction for sometime in the Future .   It is essential for me to deliver an Introduction that suits 'Contemporary Times' because, at ITS Core, the I Ching is MONSTRUOSLY >>>Esoteric<<< and when I say >Esoteric< I mean it AIN'T for 'Every-body', but that doesn't make 'accessibility'  Impossible ,  "it" makes it Difficult, meaning, one must be attentive to Psychological subtleties and nuances that the Western Reader has  NOT experienced like EVA !!  Keep in mind the fucking AGE of this Volume, a Volume brought into Modern Life by Translators Richard Wilhelm and {the magnificently beautiful} Cary F. Baynes .   

                         Remember that Herr Hesse underwent "Jungian Analysis" and it may be here where Hesse was Introduced to "The Ching" .   Now HOW Jung got Introduced I DON'T KNOW but THAT is not as important as Hesse's Introduction of it to the General Public . 

                        When I finished Magister Ludi I devoted YEARS to trying to understand the complexities expressed in the "Ching" and that severe Interest remains with me to this day .  

Mahayana Nursery Rhyme

                                                   The best example of Secret Transmission {although it is 'hidden in plain sight} is this =

                                                          "Row , row, row your boat

                                                             Gently down the stream

                                                            Merrily, merrily, merrily 

                                                             LIFE IS BUT A DREAM."

                                It was the Buddha who taught that "Life is a DREAM" and it survives as Mahayana DOGMA .   Indeed, "Enlightenment" is the AWAKENING FROM LIFE AS DREAM .   The Buddha is sometimes referred to as "The AWAKENED One".   Now Buddha's life spans from 563 to 483 BCE [Before the Common Era] so ya jus-gotta wonder HOW THE FUCK DID THAT 'GET THERE' ? ( . )   

                               "Row, row row..." was penned by Eliphalet Oram Lyte around 1852 at which time it was included in "The Franklin Square Song Collection" and remains to this Day as gentle lullaby DESPITE It's Origins from LIGHT-YEARS distant .  

                               One word :    STAYING POWER .   2 words ::  TRUTH .

                        

                                    

                             

"Hamlet's Mill"

                                                           I have been trying to find a GOOD way to introduce the I Ching since I began blogging in 2012, sadly, to no avail .   I wondered that MAYBE I could introduce it through some sort of "Kiddie Lit" (Children's Literature) medium = short story, fable, tale or even a Fairy's Tale .   In THAT  "vein" , I even thought to promote IT but writing,  "Kiddie Lit for ADULTS", using those small hand-size mini-books that are TREASURES for us kids and us adults alike .    For reference look at Dr. Timothy Snyder's ON TYRANNY--- TWENTY LESSONS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY which has become  "MUST HAVE" Resource for vigilant monitors of Present Day American Democracy {what remains of it} .   

                           While lying on the bed "IT" arrived that I'm one of those guys who think that the Universe's SECRETS are "hidden" within "Kiddie Lit" .   On the exact OPPOSITE END OF THE KIDDIE LIT is HAMLET'S MILL ---AN ESSAY INVESTIGATING THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE AND ITS TRANSMISSION THROUGH MYTH .   Ya can't miss the obvious connection if you supplant >Myth< with >Kiddie Lit< .    The so-called "Ancients" embedded Astronomical Codes and Secret Knowledge into Myths in order to ensure that certain CRUCIAL SCIENCE was transmitted across Ages upon Ages .   The Myths "took on" transmission, especially ORAL TRANSMISSION, by its inherent ability to STAY in the Consciousness of Human-Kind "without FAIL" .   The START of this "Transmission"  MAY have begun with the Simplest =  Stories, Fables,  and Tales read to children in the SIMPLEST of Terms, thereby making esoteric Science understandable  to children and tangentially to adults .   I know "IT's"  a s-t--r---e----t-----c------h  BUT .............. .

"And away we go"

                                                           There's a super-terrific 'line' I need to share, it is =

                                                          "It ain't stealing if ya just TAKE it."

                          I can't name that film but there's another from "Guardians of the Galaxy" that is corollary , it is delivered by the Raccoon who queries

                                                         "But what if I want it MORE ?" . 

                          Nope. STILL not "OK" .  

                          It'd be ABSURD to defend trump with, "He ain't stealing, he's activated an INSTINCT."  Activating that Instinct is in direct DEFINACE of Civilized "Order" where Order is LAW .   I wanted to IMPRESS my Gentle Readers with the Concept of "Tactical Deception" because the POWER of Instinctual Bias is BRUTALLY DIFFICULT to neutralize and its complete nullification may be beyond Human Capacity .   

                           Trump's ego-maniacal Selfishness isn't the sole contributor to his acts of Ethical and Moral Abomination, "IT" goes much deeper into the Vast Ocean of the Un-Conscious wherein reside Elements of Mind and Psyche that are EVOLUTIONAY  DEMANDS .    Evolution DEMANDS "Food" in order to maintain Life, and we are hard-pressed to find that Food anyway we can .   

                          I insist TRUMP IS A FREAK OF NATURE as was HITLER and others like Pol Pot, and Lenin, along with PUTIN .    However, I still-gotta-wonder if Evolution has "stuck" Us with these GROTESQUE HUMAN ABOMINATIONS in order to  Alter a Wayward Evolutionary Trajectory .