The Wisdom Well

10/23/2022

https://daveswisdomwell.weebly.com/journal/october-23rd-2022

"Beyond taking responsibility for correcting actions that are not serving you, contemplation of the bigger picture allows you to see the effect you have on others. Unifying perspective as if there are no lines separating your thoughts from experience or the impact others have on you and the impact you have on them is a very broad view. Each moment and all you meet are a reflection of how you might grow."

and

""Determining between what yields tangible results and what wastes your time, you can set a productive plan for the future. Split Apart the ideal from the actual and make changes where necessary. Looking at what you do and its affects allows you to fix what is not working."

It is said that when feelings of contempt enter the picture, a relationship, marriage, friendship, or whatever, is almost certain to fail. I've been thinking about this in the context of the internet...

10/17/2022

https://daveswisdomwell.weebly.com/journal/secular-divination-applications-the-job-jar

I understand that cleromancy applications like the I Ching provoke a strong skeptical response in some people. I can and have made the case elsewhere that as Jung pointed out, the synchronicity...

10/10/2022

https://daveswisdomwell.weebly.com/journal/how-to-use-the-i-ching

A detailed introduction to the I Ching can be found at this site here . The online calculator I use can be found at this link here . From my own experience, I can say that effective use of the I...

10/03/2022

https://daveswisdomwell.weebly.com/journal/turning-people-into-trees

There's no getting around it. Sometimes people challenge us, frustrate us, p**s us off, revolt us. We're hardwired to live in small tribal villages, not in a global community of 8 billion...

09/28/2022

https://daveswisdomwell.weebly.com/journal/dealing-gently-with-cognitive-dissonance

The way our brains work, when we believe something or identify very strongly with our thoughts on some issue, we handle contradiction very badly. People will deny, forget, dissociate, or in some...

09/26/2022

https://daveswisdomwell.weebly.com/journal/everythings-going-to-be-fine

I hit a bump in the road today that cost me a bit of equilibrium. On matters like this one I find it helps to ask the I Ching or the Dude Te Ching for help re-centering myself. I consulted both...

09/25/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNcaK0D-nEU

Pink Floyd's 'Hey Hey Rise Up' CD & Vinyl single out now: http://pinkfloyd.lnk.to/HeyHeyPink Floyd’s ‘Animals 2018 Remix’ is available to pre-order here: htt...

09/25/2022

https://daveswisdomwell.weebly.com/journal/be-like-water

09/22/2022

https://daveswisdomwell.weebly.com/journal/bananas-and-the-art-of-asking-the-right-questions

Although in theory anyone could use the I Ching themselves (and I presume many people do) I think that it's useful to know someone who knows the thing somewhat well when first getting started. So,...

09/17/2022

https://daveswisdomwell.weebly.com/journal/skeptical-join-the-club

Skeptics welcomed.

I'm sure there are some reading this, who, while perhaps mildly interested or bemused by my business model, find themselves thinking that this must be some sort of con job or woo-woo nonsense. Well,...