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I only got to know Tori because a friend recommended her as a speaker for the Festival of Change. I started reading her blog, was smitten, and then downloaded her audio about full spectrum listening. Normally this is only available when you sign up on her site, but she’s given us this excerpt you can download for a flavour of it with no sign-up required. (Right-click the link and choose*‘save target as’ to download.)
In about the first 45 seconds, I think you’ll understand what grabbed my attention. Tori describes how come we can hear things and not get them: ‘how we can get stuck in the psychological game of acquiring fabulous insights that seem brand new and fresh, but they don’t result in us having really true, lasting transformation in our character.’
Or in other words, a game I’ve certainly played with readings in the past, and I’m reasonably sure I’m not the only one. What makes the difference is the quality of listening… and this is what Tori goes on to talk about. (In this audio it’s about communication with another human being rather than with an oracle, but the principle of listening is the same.)
When I asked what gift Tori would bring as a participant in the Festival, Yi was quite specific: Hexagram 41, Decrease or Offering, changing at line 6 to 19, Nearing. Line 6 reads -
‘Not decreasing, increasing it.
Not a mistake.
Constancy, good fortune.
Fruitful to have a direction to go.
Gaining servants, not a home.’
- which reminds me of how Yi described other speakers’ gifts, too, as offering tools and vehicles, the means of travel, not the destination.
In Hexagram 19, a presence Nears benevolently: something to attend to and allow (and not to anticipate or hurry towards harvest, demanding results on your own schedule). 41.6 is the offering to this nearing presence – one that’s ultimately no sacrifice at all, doesn’t decrease but increases you, because it blesses you with*‘servants, not a home.’ That is – this is not an end in itself; it doesn’t offer you an objective or a place to settle down, but only the strength and help to travel in your chosen direction. To be able to listen fully is a gift for the road.
In about the first 45 seconds, I think you’ll understand what grabbed my attention. Tori describes how come we can hear things and not get them: ‘how we can get stuck in the psychological game of acquiring fabulous insights that seem brand new and fresh, but they don’t result in us having really true, lasting transformation in our character.’
Or in other words, a game I’ve certainly played with readings in the past, and I’m reasonably sure I’m not the only one. What makes the difference is the quality of listening… and this is what Tori goes on to talk about. (In this audio it’s about communication with another human being rather than with an oracle, but the principle of listening is the same.)
When I asked what gift Tori would bring as a participant in the Festival, Yi was quite specific: Hexagram 41, Decrease or Offering, changing at line 6 to 19, Nearing. Line 6 reads -
‘Not decreasing, increasing it.
Not a mistake.
Constancy, good fortune.
Fruitful to have a direction to go.
Gaining servants, not a home.’
- which reminds me of how Yi described other speakers’ gifts, too, as offering tools and vehicles, the means of travel, not the destination.
In Hexagram 19, a presence Nears benevolently: something to attend to and allow (and not to anticipate or hurry towards harvest, demanding results on your own schedule). 41.6 is the offering to this nearing presence – one that’s ultimately no sacrifice at all, doesn’t decrease but increases you, because it blesses you with*‘servants, not a home.’ That is – this is not an end in itself; it doesn’t offer you an objective or a place to settle down, but only the strength and help to travel in your chosen direction. To be able to listen fully is a gift for the road.