July 2008 - Posts

News from Stephen

The last few months have been a fairly chaotic time here at Great Vessel. I’ve been teaching in the US for the past two months and Kevin, the webmaster, has been through a major computer meltdown. Two computers melted down in fact! We seem to have sorted things out, so you can look forward to a lot of new material over the next month or two.

If you would like to see what I’ve been up to, take a look at the postings on Events Calendar that describe some of the things that happened on the US Tour. In addition to the teaching described there, I re-recorded and upgraded lectures for the Master’s Course on Yijing: Models of Transformation I teach at the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles and laid plans for a major conference next spring in the Santa Barbara area.

The new Reading on Creating Ancestors, which came out of the Vallecitos Yijing Retreat last year, focuses on a central concern of all the new ritual work I’ve been doing with the Change over the past year and will continue this fall. To me, it is a crucial theme for all of us and for our culture, which completely lacks any sense of the crucial importance of connecting with the Ancestors. It also introduces the Paper Horses (mazhang), the spirit-papers I’ve been working on the past year or so that key directly to the hexagrams, and gives you a taste of the new Guideways book we are preparing.

You can expect more on the Paper Horses soon, as well as a new series of Audios on important Yijing themes. I hope you’ll visit us to see this new work.

Stephen
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