HieroniMusing originally posted 8/15/01

The Chinese Code of 10,000 or 64

The Chinese book of Change or I Ching, escaped the savage book burning crusade in 213 B.C., under the dictates of tyrant Ch’in Shih Huang Ti , and fortunate for the world, for in it we find the common roots of the dominant Chinese philosophies of Taoism and Confucianism. From the late 3rdcentury, until almost the ending of 220 AD, formal esoteric schools were devoted to the study of the I Ching, but it was only when the scholar Wang Pi (226—249 A.D..D.) wrote his commentaries, that it finally blossomed, unencumbered in society, by suspicion that it was only an oracle and thus unreliable. It was elevated from a contested book of divination by then at odds with the more politically connected thought of Yin/Yang ( the school of absolute dualism) and the magic schools it generated, to being appreciated as a Chinese classic of great wisdom.

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HieroniMusing originally posted 8/26/01

Notes on Prayer written 8/20-25/2001

The following writings on the subject of prayer, are actually taken from my daily notebook. These are working notes. I thought though, as working notes about my own exploration of prayer, that they might stimulate your special way of appreciating the power of prayer. As a collection of notes, they were written without consideration for a reader. But in rereading them now a number of times, as observations, they invite every reader to reflect for a moment on our divine capacity to help shape the world of tomorrow, by our loving feelings and thoughts of this day. It is my hope, that all of us can learn to hold each other in our hearts as loving, divine humans. That when we quiet ourselves for a moment each day, we can add our good will to the unfolding beauty of humanity’s awakening, for the good of the world and the planet. When for even a moment, we embrace the earth and each other in love, we are co-creating the world’s future peace and right order now. We as a community become one, in our joining to nurture the world with love. In prayer, we are one. In life we are one. Let’s declare it, together.

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HieroniMusing originally posted September 11, 2001

For a decade and two administrations, the Bush and Clinton, I covered geopolitics as a radio and TV show commentator and talk show host. During much of that time we examined issues of international imperialism, be it NATO’s illegal aggression against Yugoslavia or our devastating drug war expansion into Columbia. During all these years, my primary concern as a State citizen was and remains the creation of a wise national defense strategy. This includes our realization that international interference in other nation’s economic and political destinies has great repercussions for our people, now and in the future.

We are guided if faithful, to our supreme law, the Constitution of the United States, and to act by the principal of right action under the law. Thus, taking measures to secure the Nation’s borders, air space, and intelligence information is the most obvious of measures our nation has been less than vigorous in addressing, obligations seriously undermined during the eight years of the Clinton Administration. It is time for we the people of America to insist, that our Federal government’s on going engagement in insurrections, in civil wars, in growing war economies packaged as humanitarian aid, must be rethought and examined; each case a unique situation constellating dynamic histories.
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HieroniMusing originally posted September 20, 2001

Our world is where we live. It is ours to care for, ours to nurture, ours to protect and delight in. Each of us has a different challenge in life and all of us have gifts to share, cultivated by hard work and sacrifice, resulting in blessings and joy. Many people are talented writers, with the gift of writing songs and poems, or the gift of prayer or telling stories. Future Talk invites you to share your prayers, your poems, your thoughts and stories with others. By sharing our hopes, our dreams, our fears, our laughter, our prayers, our love, we come closer to each other. By sharing, we learn to hear. We learn that we are more alike, than dissimilar, more full of hope and love than despair and dislikes. Let us all take up the mantle of freedom, freedom of the heart to sing the praise of life, freedom of the soul to hope for peace on earth, freedom as sovereign humans to use our free will for the good of all.
“It’s time to be radically loving.”
Anonymous

Zohara M. Hieronimus

September 20, 2001