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If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
The most likely explanation for the old legend is that stray bits of rubbish get caught in the updraft and catch the sunlight as they emerge from the chimney.
pocossin -- good point about the role of belief. This reminds me of Lowell and Schiaparelli, renowned astronomers in the 19th & early 20th century who repeatedly "saw" and sketched in detail numerous nonexistent "canals" on Mars.
This gives another meaning to the saying that " 'seeing' is believing ". Sometimes, as with an oracle, what we "see" is an inner private reality, whose relation to the outer public reality can be very tricky to ascertain.
Thus the Species Level I Ching is a template of 64 generic *qualities* used to describe reality. [...] Overall, specialisation, our consciousness operating in different contexts, will 'fill in' these generic qualities but these generic qualities appear to be 'hard coded' into our species-nature, IOW the I Ching is part of our species-nature and as such can be applied to any other specialisation - thus we will 'see' the I Ching in all specialisations due to the hard coding of these qualities in the species and so qualities functional in all maps of reality.
sooo -- thank you sooo much for that connection to chrislofting. Being a newbie here, I searched his archived posts and found this in his The Species I Ching thread:
Very insightful, I think. Sad to learn here of his passing.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
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+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
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