Send us a text This is one of the "lost chapters" intended to appear earlier in the series but was skipped over. Xiaoyao loses his way at evening in the deep mountains, but a chance meeting saves him from a freezing overnight sojourn. The hermit takes the opportunity to try and teach Xiaoyao the arcane secrets of the River Diagram--the 河圖--which communicates its crucial message symbolically, using a structured pattern of black and white dots. The structure itself is based upon a magic squar...
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Send us a text This is one of the "lost chapters" intended to appear earlier in the series but was skipped over. Xiaoyao loses his way at evening in the deep mountains, but a chance meeting saves him from a freezing overnight sojourn. The hermit takes the opportunity to try and teach Xiaoyao the arcane secrets of the River Diagram--the 河圖--which communicates its crucial message symbolically, using a structured pattern of black and white dots. The structure itself is based upon a magic squar...
Send us a text What ARE the "Perilous Realms," the "Unseen Lands' that Tolkien, Goethe, Coleridge, Wordsworth, C.S. Lewis and Henri Corbin have introduced to Western civilisation over the last century? What is the difference between wooly-headed daydreaming and actively employed imagination? And why do scientists and authors such as Iain McGilchrist say things such as "fantasy is one thing but imagination is the only chance we have to reach reality. It is not a matter of putting fancy dress v...
Tales of the Fat Monk
Send us a text This is one of the "lost chapters" intended to appear earlier in the series but was skipped over. Xiaoyao loses his way at evening in the deep mountains, but a chance meeting saves him from a freezing overnight sojourn. The hermit takes the opportunity to try and teach Xiaoyao the arcane secrets of the River Diagram--the 河圖--which communicates its crucial message symbolically, using a structured pattern of black and white dots. The structure itself is based upon a magic squar...
