yeah, Trace, so similar with regard to Natives... that bit made me wonder when China went awry that way so as i shared with some friends: wondering about Chinese domination reminded of...one of my most trusted guides is the I Ching (Ye Jinn)...
from "The Complete I Ching" by Taoist Master Alfred Huang, from Preface "After the Communists took over China in 1949, the I Ching was denounced as a book of feudalism and superstition. It was banished from the market and reading it was not allowed. In the early 1960s, before the so-called Cultural Revolution..." he and others attended small
private gatherings where he learned about I Ching... "It was absolutely an underground activity. At that time, all of us had been labeled as antirevolutionary right-wing advocates." If discovered they would have been imprisoned. In my experience for 30 + years it's not just a book, not sure how to describe but like a map of time and space, a living energy unfolding into specific experiences. And the Tao Te Ching (Thou Dei Jinn) is it's companion. From "The Alphabet Versus The Goddess" by Leonard Shlain, "When the tentacles of literacy began to wrap around the minds of the Chinese people in the 6th century, their society experienced dramatic changes. ... Tao represented an egalitarian feminine viewpoint from the past. Confucianism championed masculine dominance and became the creed of the future. ... "In 6th century B.C. China, at the hinge point between non-literacy and literacy, the right hemisphere broke its natural silence to extol the qualities of the feminine." i.e. got written down as a way to preserve what was about to get overrun." & "first book written in an alphabet is the Old Testament." and "This is literacy's hidden cost. The patriarchal warrior-dominator that plays so prominent a role in all Western history books succeeded because of the invention of books themselves."
sad for children...generations of us
yeah, Trace, so similar with regard to Natives... that bit made me wonder when China went awry that way so as i shared with some friends: wondering about Chinese domination reminded of...one of my most trusted guides is the I Ching (Ye Jinn)...
from "The Complete I Ching" by Taoist Master Alfred Huang, from Preface "After the Communists took over China in 1949, the I Ching was denounced as a book of feudalism and superstition. It was banished from the market and reading it was not allowed. In the early 1960s, before the so-called Cultural Revolution..." he and others attended small
private gatherings where he learned about I Ching... "It was absolutely an underground activity. At that time, all of us had been labeled as antirevolutionary right-wing advocates." If discovered they would have been imprisoned. In my experience for 30 + years it's not just a book, not sure how to describe but like a map of time and space, a living energy unfolding into specific experiences. And the Tao Te Ching (Thou Dei Jinn) is it's companion. From "The Alphabet Versus The Goddess" by Leonard Shlain, "When the tentacles of literacy began to wrap around the minds of the Chinese people in the 6th century, their society experienced dramatic changes. ... Tao represented an egalitarian feminine viewpoint from the past. Confucianism championed masculine dominance and became the creed of the future. ... "In 6th century B.C. China, at the hinge point between non-literacy and literacy, the right hemisphere broke its natural silence to extol the qualities of the feminine." i.e. got written down as a way to preserve what was about to get overrun." & "first book written in an alphabet is the Old Testament." and "This is literacy's hidden cost. The patriarchal warrior-dominator that plays so prominent a role in all Western history books succeeded because of the invention of books themselves."
Domination is best served to the young
Sadly. As with the damned marketing campaign line, "from cradle to grave".
beautiful
thx... and must say, with exception of quote about mistreatment of Tibetan children.
sigh
Nice writing 🌟
thx! ... and along with the 'not nice' treatment of Tibetan children.