In response to a recent question.

Someone asked me recently about a post done long ago about the marrying maiden. I would have to go back a ways to look this up. So I will just post here...

By the way, I got a message that my password was changed last week, and I don't remember doing that. I do not see any suspicious activity on here at this point of time however.

As far as the question about the "Marrying Maiden," any references, well, I normally do not put other people's material out here. If I do, such as in the case of the Binary Soul Doctrine, I do, unless I forgot, suggest where to look. In that case, see books by Peter Novak. Otherwise, the information out here does not come from outward sources, but rather an inner meditation, and an inner knowing. The material comes specifically from me, and my subconscious, my inner knowing.

There is a depth of the mind that most people in a given lifetime, do not know of, are not aware of, and is unreachable. It is only when the mind has developed beyond a certain point that inner truths can be accessed. That being said, it is also true that over my lifetime I have read innumerable books. I have delved into inner truths to a point most people cannot image. Not that other people do not have the capability, they just have not tapped into it at this point in time. There are many, many people who have an unimaginable grasp of 'truth.' They, as well as others, have researched and researched, and through the process have intuited many things that they are able to pass onto mankind.

As a rule, I do not do research in the sense of looking up sources and then comparing those sources and coming up with conclusion. I do research, but do not keep track of those resources. Over the years I come to understand things intuitively and write them for those who are ready. Those who are not are not likely to come to this site, and if they do they are not likely to stay. My knowledge is what I have and everyone else's knowledge is based on the research and intuitions that they have had. We are all different, and in recognizing those differences, and accepting them, we can gain every more understanding on a daily basis. Hopefully we can all share and learn.

Duality Versus Unity

In sacred scriptures and in much ancient mythologies a theme runs through everything. And that theme is the integration of opposites.

In the I Ching we see it in various ways. primarily we see it in the interaction between hexagrams one and two. These two themes express the duality that we see all around us, yet, in their own way, reveal the path toward unity. A very wise man once said, "The putting together of opposites leads to the fortunate finding of things not looked for." But that only happens when one can integrate the two equal but opposite sides. We do see this in another way too though it is not so obvious. There are two canons to the I Ching, the first being hexagrams one through thirty, and the second being thirty one through sixty four. We also see it in the integration of each odd numbered hexagram with the following even numbered hexagram. (See Steven Karcher's work on this.) We could go on and on about this.

In Biblical terms we can see the same integration of opposites by comparing the Old Testament with the new. In the Old Testament God is an angry and jealous God who goes around killing all his enemies and pursuing justice. In the New Testament, God is a God of love who never judges anybody and is only love. (This is an oversimplification but suits us well enough for our purposes here.) The key is to integrate the opposites. And that is what we have to do.

So we have to recognize the need to put opposites together to create a unified whole. One Gospel was not included in the official Canon of the Church because it is very esoteric and very, very mystical. This does not sit well with a literal oriented Church which wants a straight forward doctrine. So it was thrown out. That Gospel is the Gospel of Thomas. It is a collection of sayings and does not talk at all about whether Jesus is God, or doctrine, about the birth and life of Jesus, nor his death or resurrection. It probably predates the orthodox Gospels. So why is it important? It speaks over and over again, in almost every verse, about the need to integrate the opposites into a single, united whole. But how do you do that? That is the key to everything.

In putting together the opposites into an integrated whole, one becomes a fully realized person, and one thing that happens is that the conscious mind and the subconscious are united and work together as a whole. This is the esoteric meaning of the story of the Marriage at Cana.

The Gospel of Thomas starts out with an interesting and provocative statement. "Whoever discovers the meaning of these sayings, (the sayings of Jesus as recorded in this Gospel) will not taste death."  Well, we all know that everybody dies. So what can this possibly mean? There is a curious verse in the Book of Revelations that says, "...will not be hurt of the second death." So what is the second death? The second death, I would submit, is the death after death when soul and spirit are separated. As Jesus said, "For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" The second death is the separation of soul and spirit. Much could be said about this, books have been written. But here, just a little bit about this concept. Because it is found in all major religions, including Daoism, as well as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity.

This is extremely significant, and well worth our attention.

Qualifications for using the I Ching

A lot of people take up the I Ching thinking they are going to get simple answers to life's perplexing questions regarding relationships or what have you. Eventually they are going to be disappointed because the I Ching is not a cure all, so to speak. It responds to us and who we are.


We often think we grow up and go to college and we get the highest level education and then we tackle the world, and that is all there is to it. We finish college and we know it all, we are mature, and it is just a matter of making money. All fine and good up to a point. But anyone who thinks they are getting a high level education by going to college is living in a dream world. Sure, we learn a lot of facts and figures that will help us meet the world and make a living, but that is it. It never occurs to us that there is more.

But there 'is' more. Much more. And if we don't recognize it we stay stuck in an emotional rut and never truly mature. We need more than that to become well rounded citizens and mature adults. And to consult the I Ching to find out if a certain relationship will work is extremely naive. We need to learn about ourselves and why 'we' don't work. Why we don't work in our day to day lives, in our interactions with others, and we need to come to terms with how immature we are.

We make a serious, grave error, when we think we are now adults and have it all under control. Life itself is a teaching process, and we grow regardless, but we would grow faster if we would give up our arrogance, realize that we don't know, and would accept the I Ching as a teacher, and not an automatic answer machine. I cannot make this point strongly enough. We need to ask the I Ching on a regular basis about ourselves, and not about others, or relationships, or businesses. Not that we can't get some information that way, but it is not the highest and best way.

The first step is to calm the mind, and come to understand that no matter what the outer world is saying to us, it is okay. That we are okay. That the outer world can only affect us outwardly, and even then only according to our own inner mind set. The universe reacts to our thoughts, and responds to us accordingly. This is the real problem in relationships and in business ventures. It is the real problem in anything that happens to us in life. In the image of one of the hexagrams, I don't have time to look it up, it says something to the effect, "The superior man finds the problem within himself." Enough said for now.