The Dao of Dreaming
By Phoenix the Elder – Dreaming from the (non-plant) shaman’s perspective is not an easy reality to understand, there are so many levels of dreams, dreaming, and dreamtime that it requires great discipline not only in dreaming but also your real everyday life, like total sobriety, and understanding the languages of dreaming first before you […]
Taoist Body and the Cosmos: Body, Gods and Starry Travel. Part I
Journal of Daoist Studies by Shih-shan Susan Huang 黃士珊 – While the early construction of Daoist ritual space was devoid of iconic displays, images of the body, and cosmos, they were part of mystic inner visions, central in Daoist meditation from an early age, especially in the Shangqing tradition. Often referred to as Cunsi 存思, […]
The Doctrine of the Mysterious Female in Taoism: A Transpersonalist View
Phoenix the Elder – I’ve always done some Tao work, either martial arts in the Buddist way (a few times) in my long journey or the I Ching practice (one I Ching Hexagram a year) and practiced that all year long as a medicine. It’s been good. I’ve always known that the Tao is truly […]
The Tower of Heavenly Hexagrams
I come from a large family, and when I was 10 years old my eldest sister, who was a Tarot reader and 25 years old set a ritual for whoever wanted to participate in the esoteric teachings. I was the first in line and this led me to astrological meetings when I was 17 years […]