VV(14) - The Creative & The Receptive

[David Morris]

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------    Ch'ien, The Creative     Heaven, Sky
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Attribute:     Strength, creativity
Animal:        horse
Body:          head
Family:        father
Direction:     Northwest

--  --
--  --    K'un, The Receptive Earth
--  --
Attribute:     Docility, receptivity
Animal:        ox
Body:          belly
Family:        mother
Direction:     Southwest


1.   Ch'ien / The Creative

          -----
          -----     above     Ch'ien The Creative, Heaven
          -----
          -----
          -----     below     Ch'ien The Creative, Heaven
          -----

2.   K'un / The Receptive

          -- --
          -- --     above     K'un   The Receptive, Earth
          -- --
          -- --
          -- --     below     K'un   The Receptive, Earth
          -- --

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~ddiamond/index1.html

This site demonstrates the existence of a template we humans use to create 
maps to aid us to identify, and re-identify, the meaningful from the 
meaningless. This demonstration is done through a usable and detailed 
exposition of the Book of Changes (I Ching), traditionally an ancient 
Chinese method of predicting, as well as summarizing the more 
'scientific'-biased maps including Mathematics, the MBTI®, and Physics; all 
of which use dichotomy (pairs of extremes e.g. yin/yang, hot/cold, 
firm/soft, wave/particle) as a method of mapping.

Whenever we make maps of reality, usually for the purpose of prediction, we 
often fail to recognise that the maps are metaphors for how 'in here' 
interprets 'out there'. This is the case not only for the esoteric maps 
(e.g. The I Ching, Astrology) but also for the scientific maps (e.g. 
Mathematics, Physics). I have discovered that underneath all of these maps 
is a neurologically-determined template which allows one to easily make 
analogies and create metaphors; it is a template of meaning that appears to 
be shared by all of these categorisation systems. Simply put, all maps of 
reality are metaphors for the way the brain categorises objects (wholes, 
parts) and relationships (static, dynamic), and the template emerges from 
this process.

In the process of evolution there appears to be a transition from reactive, 
chance processes to proactive, determined processes. The change is due to 
the internalisation of a map of the context in which one is evolving; the 
map enables a lifeform to predict and so intergrate fully with the context. 
The price for this map is that as we develop faster so we become more 
dependent on the map; the map becomes the territory and we live through 
metaphors (i.e. the map) that we often take too literally. This development 
process reflects the transition from the use of metonymy (part-for-whole 
identifications, LOCAL emphasis) to metaphor (created maps, GENERAL 
emphasis) and under all of this is a METHODOLOGY that our brains use to 
establish meaning and this methodology is based on the use of layering 
dichotomies.

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