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2024: Year of the Yáng Wood Dragon
2024: Year of the Yáng Wood Dragon
If you thought 2023 was a bit of a rollercoaster, hold onto your hats because the green dragon will not disappoint. This work is purely…
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Jan 4
2023: Year of the Yīn-Water Rabbit
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Looking For Joy Within
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A Matter Of Trust
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Fire On The Mountain
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When All Are One And One Is All
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Guardians Of Immortality & Transience
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Heaven Endures, Earth Lasts
Heaven Endures, Earth Lasts
A translation of the TAO TE CHING chapter seven
Petah Raven
Sep 7, 2020
Karma: It’s Not A Thing
Karma: It’s Not A Thing
The idea of “past lives” from yogic philosophy is fundamentally flawed in an age of self-determination. Yet, insight from a Taoist…
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Aug 13, 2018
Metametheus & The Rising Sun
Metametheus & The Rising Sun
After many years growing up amongst humanity in Polis, Metametheus felt it was important to travel through the wide world. He had heard…
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Jul 24, 2020
The Year Of The Earth Dog
The Year Of The Earth Dog
As is usual at this time of year [February 2018], I provide you with my meditations on the energy of new Lunar Year. 2018 is the year of…
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Jul 23, 2020
Joining Yīn & Yáng, Part 1
Joining Yīn & Yáng, Part 1
An introduction to the history of sacred sexuality in the ancient Chinese and Taoist tradition.
Petah Raven
Feb 1, 2019
Digging In The Dirt
Digging In The Dirt
The dangers & precautions of deep personal development
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Jul 19, 2020
The Patterns That Connect
The Patterns That Connect
Looking for sameness within difference
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Sep 8, 2019
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?
A contemplation on the freedom of sexual expression
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Aug 11, 2020
The Fountainless
The Fountainless
A translation of the TAO TE CHING chapter four
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Mar 25, 2019
Coming Back From The Outback
Coming Back From The Outback
Integrating my Central Australian experience
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Jul 29, 2020
Being The Mountain Wolf
Being The Mountain Wolf
Reviewing my Year of the Earth Dog
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Aug 24, 2020
Think For Yourself
Think For Yourself
Are we losing the information war?
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Aug 23, 2020
Power And Spirit
Power And Spirit
A contemplation on the freedom of personal power
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Aug 6, 2020
Perpetual Change
Perpetual Change
An essay on the four timeless hexagrams of the I Ching
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Aug 26, 2020
Happiness: We’re All In It Together
Happiness: We’re All In It Together
Meditations on the I Ching
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Aug 22, 2020
Agnotology
Agnotology
This piece is inspired by this article on claiming to know something you cannot.
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Jun 29, 2020
Standing At The Gates Of Dawn
Standing At The Gates Of Dawn
Irrespective of what season you are in, the September Equinox marks the moment where both day and night are of equal length. It is a time…
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Sep 17, 2020
The Crucible Of The Soul
The Crucible Of The Soul
The art of maintaining change in the I Ching
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Sep 13, 2020
Cult Of Personality
Cult Of Personality
Promoting brand You
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Jul 16, 2020
The Happy Fish
The Happy Fish
How do you really know what you think you know?
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Jul 1, 2020
Aragunnu Dreaming
Aragunnu Dreaming
Indigenous Australians understand that the planet is a living organism; it is ingrained into their culture. This is not something that…
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Jun 30, 2020
Natural Therapies Don’t Need Rebates To Survive
Natural Therapies Don’t Need Rebates To Survive
It’s time to embrace a new paradigm
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Jun 27, 2020
Keeping The People At Rest
Keeping The People At Rest
A translation of the TAO TE CHING chapter three
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Mar 10, 2019
Chronic Illness & The Hero’s Journey, Part 2
Chronic Illness & The Hero’s Journey, Part 2
Journey into the underworld of illness
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Aug 28, 2020
Any Road Will Take You There
Any Road Will Take You There
Meditations on plurality and poly-culturalism
Petah Raven
Oct 7, 2019
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