Good Trip, Senator John McCain!

John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 | August 25, 2018)

I met Senator McCain just at one of my life's crossroads.  All good experiences though, since even bad situations lead to better ones.

As his book "Character is Destiny", I really concur with this guy in many statements; especially in that perseverance is stronger than fate (a hidden axiom the I Ching told me about it). 

Perhaps if I would had known Senator McCain years ago, my rationale would have advise me differently.  Perhaps.  But from a personal viewpoint -the kind of view that makes you learn from every men-, I highlight the toughness and straightforward of his manners: six-year war prisoner, a Republican-Party maverick, friend of global puppeteers, and mainly a man that stays put.

Good Trip, Senator John McCain!

Lima, 2018/9/11

- Here with John and a present from my family

Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Master & the I CHING

Born	Philip Kindred Dick December 16, 1928 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	March 2, 1982 (aged 53) Santa Ana, California, U.S.
Pen name	Richard Phillips Jack Dowland
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer and essayst
Nationality	American
Genres	Science fiction Speculative fiction Postmodernism
Notable work(s)	Ubik, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly,VALIS trilogy
Influences Heidegger, Flaubert, A. E. van Vogt, James Joyce,[1] Balzac, Kant, Marcel Proust, Carl Jung, Samuel Beckett, Dostoyevsky, John Sladek, Nathanael West, Jorge Luis Borges,Jack Spicer, Herbert George Wells
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The I Ching is prominent in The Man in the High Castle; having diffused it as part of their cultural hegemony overlordship of the Pacific Coast U.S., the Japanese — and some American — characters consult it, and then act per its replies to their queries. Specifically, "The Man in the High Castle", Hawthorne Abendsen, himself, used it to write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, and, at story's end, in his presence, Juliana Frink, queries the I Ching: "Why did it write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy?" and "What is the reader to learn from the novel?" The I Chingreplies with Hexagram 61 ([中孚] zhōng fú) Chung Fu, "Inner Truth", describing the true state of the world—every character in The Man in the High Castle is living a false reality.

Fu Hsi (about 4,000 BC)

Pinyin Fu Xi , formally (Wade-Giles romanization) T'ai Hao (Chinese: “The Great Bright One”) , also called Pao Hsi , or Mi Hsi first of China's mythical emperors. His miraculous birth, as a divine being with a serpent's body, is said to have occurred somewhere between the 40th and the 29th century BC. Some representations show him as a leaf-wreathed head growing out of a mountain or as a man clothed with animal skins.

Fu Hsi is the father of the Chinese Tai Chi Philosophy of yin and yang and, is said to have discovered the famous Chinese trigrams used in divination and thus to have contributed to the I Ching (Yi Ying).

He is the first in recorded history to have invented a theory of everything (physicists have the superstring theory). To him everything was a combination of trigrams ( like yin-yang-yin or yang-yin-yin). There are eight trigrams, which are also phases in a universal cycle.

For the first time, he symbolized yin as a broken line, yang as an unbroken line. These were observed to appear as vacated turtle shells cooked in a fire. Their appearance (It usually took three shells to get a reading) indicated the phase in the focus of attention. By the law of synchronicity, appearing symbols relate to the appearing world. Read a fascinating (partially fictional) biographical sketch of Fu Hsi in A Tale Of The I Ching by Wu Wei.

HSÜ