synchronicity

My youngest daughter was born in 1971, with Down’s Syndrome and the congenital fatal heart malformaton common to Down’s children. My pediatrcian told me there was no cure for it, and over the first few years she would grow steadily weaker until she ultimately died. We were living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time and I felt the need for a small, protective living environment for myself and my total of 4 children. I had heard of Celo, a small planned Quaker community in the mountains of North Carolina, and called ahead to check out the possible availability of a rental

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086 cabin there. There was one cabin available, and I was given the landlord’s phone number. The year was 1976.

I called and described my situation and it turns out the landlord was a physician who inquired about the

nature of my daughter’s heart defect. He told me that surgery was now available for the defect, and as it turned out she subsequently underwent and survived reparative heart surgery at Eggleston Children’s Hospital at Emory University, about three blocks from our home in Atlanta.

See my new page for a background to the terms above, I plan to report S snd/or S’s in posts. Here’s the first one which occurred about 1979 and involves my daughter Lili (sh lili and allan ort for Little Liz). See her photo to the right.

It involves the I Ching, whch I am explaining via Wikipedia–

The I Ching ([î tɕíŋ] or Classic of Changes, is an ancient divination text and the oldest of the Chinese classics. Possessing a history of more than two and a half millennia of commentary and interpretation, the I Ching is an influential text read throughout the world, providing inspiration to the worlds
of religion, psychoanalysis, business, literature, and art. Originally a divination manual in the Western Zhou period (1000–750 BC), over the course of the Warring States period and early imperial period (500–200 BC) it was transformed into a cosmological text with a series of philosophical commentaries known as the “Ten Wings.” After becoming part of the Five Classics in the 2nd century BC, the I Ching was the subject of scholarly commentary and the basis for divination practice for centuries across the Far East, and eventually took on an influential role in Western understanding of Eastern thought.

The I Ching uses a type of divination called cleromancy, which produces apparently random numbers. Four numbers, 6 to 9, are turned into a hexagram, which can then be looked up in the I Ching book, arranged in an order known as the King Wen sequence. The interpretation of the readings found in the I Ching is a matter of centuries of debate, and many commentators have used the book symbolically, often to provide guidance for moral decision making as informed by Taoism and Confucianism. The hexagrams themselves have often acquired cosmological significance and paralleled with many other traditional names for the processes of change such as yin and yang and Wu Xing.

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