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The Common Sense Book of Change

The Chinese I Ching is the ultimate, time-tested decision-making tool. It offers an invaluable method for getting in touch with the authority of inner conscience. This Book of Change is a highly sophisticated, math-based information code, the ancient precursor to Leibnitz’s calculus, binary-digital computer language, and DNA science. As the encyclopedia of Natural Law, it stands as the gateway between the outer world of daily experience and inner worlds of intuition and peace.
  • People from all walks of life use it to define situations and select best outcomes.
  • Leaders work with it to tap into sychronicities and opportunity.
  • Empaths use it to confirm their inner knowing.
  • Healers use it to tap into the subconscious level of mind and release past trauma.
  • Beginning meditators work with it to settle and focus the mind.
  • Advanced meditators use it pierce the veil of illusion.
The Introduction to this version of The Book of Change includes clear, easy-to-read instructions. Accessible to anyone with basic English skills and an open mind, the text gives a direct, hands-on experience of the wisdom tradition honored by truth seekers and leaders in every walk of life for over eight-thousand years. Following Carl Jung’s example, it asks, “What does The Common Sense Book of Change have to offer its readers?” The result is AWARENESS:

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Another example introduces the concept of  CHANGE itself. It’s especially relevant to our current time of extremes, offering a calm, balanced, and hopeful approach, serving to counterbalance instinctive fears. It looks like this:

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“The Book of Change embodies a time-tested method for making the unconscious conscious. As the repository of Natural Law, it fills a gap in the way we’ve been taught to think about life.

“. . . this is a book that truly belongs to the world. It transcends, in its essence, the limitations of time and space. Used correctly, as intended, it leads the ordinary mind towards the experience of transformative transcendence.” The Ancient & Ultimate Gatekeeper

“Everything in nature is subject to change. Nature is subject to invariable laws. Change is therefore predictable. It need not be regarded as threatening. The unknown is only frightening until it has been faced.” The Common Sense Book of Change

“Self-healers and leaders in every walk of life look to The Book of Change to maintain balance and stability in the midst of change.” The Common Sense Book of Change

** For more information see the CSBOC page above.

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Two Sides of a Coin: Lao Tze’s Common Sense Way of Change Two Sides evolved as a companion to The Common Sense Book of Change. Few realize that this universally loved mystical, poetic book is seeped in I Ching science and philosophy. So too, those unfamiliar with the Yoga Sutras don’t appreciate how closely the Tao Te Ching resembles yogic wisdom. Two Sides was produced to connect these dots. Two Sides The cover’s image pictures the height of attainment. Ox and rider — spirit/mind/body/emotions — move in unified, exquisite harmony. Their fluid, seamless integration makes it hard to tell just where one ends and the next begins. The book’s title comes from the first Passage: Passage 01

According to legend, Taoist immortals actually attained the heightened state of awareness which Einstein knew to be possible. Practicing yogic methods to master their inner nature, these sages succeeded in transcending the illusion of time. Their attainment is described in Passage 2:

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**  For content, see the 2 Sides Page above.

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You Are Already ENOUGH!

How Would Your Life CHANGE If You Really Believed It?

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You Are Already Enough combines the best of the world’s most successful transformational systems, enduring wisdom traditions and quantum physics to create a truly revolutionary concept. All of us already embody this exquisitely simple, profoundly deep wisdom. It’s written in every heart. It pulses in our DNA and in every cell of our bodies. It expresses throughout nature from largest to smallest – from the solar system’s planets revolving around the sun to every atom’s particles orbiting a central nucleus.

But like Lambert, the Sheepish Lion, most of us have forgotten who we are. The memory rests sleeping deep inside. Often the trigger comes in the form of a wake up call: something so dangerous and extreme that we’re suddenly shocked into full awareness.

When we remember who we truly are – always were and always will be – our lives will change forever.

The method of integration supported by Einstein’s Unified Field Theory gives us hope for the future. It has the potential to heal a fractured world, one person at a time.

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The Quantum Solution: What the Ancients Knew About Our POTENTIAL FUTURE

The Quantum Paradigm – Einstein’s Unified Field Theory is:

. . . a new, inclusive reality map, one people worldwide can easily comprehend and agree upon. It is equally compatible with scriptures and science, bridging the gap between them. It fulfills Einstein’s intuited search for the Unified Field Theory, picturing how all parts of creation are related, interwoven and interdependent.

Working with the Quantum Paradigm empowers the “substantially new manner of thinking,” which, Einstein said, is necessary “if mankind is to survive.”

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Integrated into the archetypal Life Wheel, the variables of Einstein’s famous formula yield the Unified Field Theory his heart’s desire. Sadly, lacking yoga training, he remained unaware of what he’d received. The Life Wheel with its concentric circles, the levels of manifestation joined in an infinite loop, is equally compatible with the perennial philosophy shared in common by the world’s enduring wisdom traditions and with modern quantum physics.

This universal reality “road map” answers comparative religion legend Joseph Campbell’s call for a creation story which recognizes the humanity of everyone, everywhere. It is a profoundly simple yet complete and correct model upon which scientists and sages can agree.

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**  See the drop-down menu of the TQS page above.

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The Positive Paradigm Handbook: Make Yourself Whole Using the Wheel of Change

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  • Dysfunctional paradigms tie us in knots. They tear us apart. They drive us crazy. They push us (first individually, then collectively) to murder and even suicide.

  • To survive intact, we must cleave to the essence of the perennial philosophy. The universal Life Wheel (Quantum Paradigm of Change) is a snapshot of the essential truth which the world’s great religions share in common. It offers us a way out of global madness. It gives us a means for restoring sanity to our world outlook.

  • It is a question of which worldview will prevail. Everyone must choose. (Failing to choose consciously is also a choice.) Do we cling to dysfunctional paradigms that have brought us to the brink of Titanic disaster? Or do we opt for Einstein’s new way of thinking? Do we choose to be, or not to be? To survive or perish from the face of the earth, that is the question.

  • In Quantum Paradigm context, peace necessarily begins one individual at a time, and is accomplished from the inside out. So long as dysfunctional paradigms put individuals at war with themselves, general ignorance will continue to escalate into worldwide conflict.

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The Handbook is the practical sum and extension of all earlier work. It operates on the same basic philosophy and works for all the same reasons the Book of Change does. It begins with the premise that qualitative change necessarily begins one person at a time, and from the inside out. Yet, while  cut from the same fabric, there important differences. It is a fresh approach, free of cultural baggage. It is also easier to work with, especially for today’s left-brain dominant thinkers. In it, I offer to others the same hands-on METHOD of integrated self-analysis and decision-making that works for me. This method is based on seven basic axioms derived from the Book of Change along with their corollaries. These basic rules form the groundwork of effective decision-making about relationships on all levels, from the smallest personal scale to increasingly larger units of governance. By balancing right- and left-brain modes of thinking, this method accomplishes in a new way the same results as ancient contemplation and meditation practices. This old-new, universal way of “thinking like a genius” is a vitally important tool that meets Einstein’s standard: “We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” Today, the Handbook offers change agents in every walk of life a practical way to achieve the positive, long-lasting change which all of us want, many promise, but only few can deliver. Areas of immediately practical applications for creating positive change include but are not limited to: personal growth, organizational leadership, and policy making.

** See the drop-down menu of Handbook page above.

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4 thoughts on “Home

  1. Catherine Hamrick

    I love this balance among the “four wisdoms.” It is a rich digging and well worth the time. This transcends the modern problem of too much “niche” thinking as opposed to considering a completeness of thought and habit of being. It’s easy for someone to blithely say, “You think too much.” It is far more rewarding to take a true mindwalk through all beauty left by humankind, not just western culture. I look forward to getting a book this week!

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    1. Pat West Post author

      Catherine, your comments are welcome and most perceptive. It’s almost as if you took a quote directly from the forthcoming Handbook: “In a world seemingly intent on fracturing experience into smaller and smaller niches, the Positive Paradigm provides an urgently needed counter-balance, applying opposite and equal weight in a unifying direction.” All best to you!

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  2. Daniela Manutius Forster

    Good morning Patricia,
    I discovered you and your work this morning via linked in. Thank you, for you. We are on the same path, the road that indeed leads to a possible future of inner peace, to world peace.

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