Most people are aware that our globe moves simultaneously in two ways:
1. in a 24-hour ROTATION (around its axis or axle)
2. in a 12-month ORBIT (around the Sun)
I am going to add two more terms to these movements so as to emphasize their differences from each other:
1. the rotation FLOW (from west to east)
2. the orbit THRUST (averaging 144 globe diameters per day)
Of course, the ROTATION FLOW defines your body's daye-nite experience with its four quadrants:
6 hours of morning (MRN)
6 hours of afternoon (AFT)
6 hours of evening (EVE)
6 hours of dawning (DWN)
And the ORBIT THRUST defines our globe's alternating northward/southward experience of the Sun's
Ecliptic Striking Point (ESP) which produces the four seasons:
3 months of spring (SPR)
3 months of summer (SUM)
3 months of autumn (AUT)
3 months of winter (WNT)
1. in a 24-hour ROTATION (around its axis or axle)
2. in a 12-month ORBIT (around the Sun)
I am going to add two more terms to these movements so as to emphasize their differences from each other:
1. the rotation FLOW (from west to east)
2. the orbit THRUST (averaging 144 globe diameters per day)
Of course, the ROTATION FLOW defines your body's daye-nite experience with its four quadrants:
6 hours of morning (MRN)
6 hours of afternoon (AFT)
6 hours of evening (EVE)
6 hours of dawning (DWN)
And the ORBIT THRUST defines our globe's alternating northward/southward experience of the Sun's
Ecliptic Striking Point (ESP) which produces the four seasons:
3 months of spring (SPR)
3 months of summer (SUM)
3 months of autumn (AUT)
3 months of winter (WNT)
The 24-hour ROTATION FLOW puts your body's longitude INSIDE (DAYE-SIDE) the globe's 12-month globe-orbit track (regardless of light/dark or warm/cold conditions). This means that DAYE = "INSIDE" and NITE = "OUTSIDE" (the globe-orbit track). And here it may help to introduce two entirely new terms: "IN-cliptic" and "OUT-cliptic" as explained in the figure below.
Note that we divide the Ecliptic into two basic parts, the IN-cliptic (where MC and VN orbit the Sun) and the OUT-cliptic (where all the other planets orbit). But note that both the IN-cliptic and the OUT-cliptic can be found on the DAYE-SIDE (with OUT-cliptic "beyond" the Sun).
Now, please be ready to expand your thinking about the terms "INSIDE" and "OUTSIDE" so as to apply them both to the globe and to your body.
Since we discovered that the Earth was not flat with "UP" and "DOWN" but round (like a ball) with a core and a curved surface, we have been aware that "DOWN" means "INSIDE" (the globe) and that "UP" means "OUTSIDE" (out from global center). But we have kept-on saying, "I went DOWN-stairs" and "I went UP-stairs" instead of the more scientifically accurate: "I went IN-stairs" and "I went OUT-stairs." (as recommended by R. Buckminster Fuller).
Body Opposites
Of course, you are already accustomed to thinking of your body as having an INSIDE and an OUTSIDE, but now I'm going to ask you to relate your ERECT BODY to the globe in such a way as to call its LOWER part "INSIDE" (cooperating with the inner "pull" of gravity) and its UPPER part "OUTSIDE" (resisting the inner "pull" of gravity and "urging" upward or OUT-ward).
The drawing below shows how I divide the erect body into LOWER "INSIDE" and UPPER "OUTSIDE" with a dotted line just under the lungs (at the diaphragm).
Note that the LOWER "INSIDE" space features bent knees and that the UPPER "OUTSIDE" space features bent elbows as "CENTER" or "CENTRAL" lines of power.
The next drawing puts this erect body standing in a stream or a pool of water whose level is just under the chin. Note that here the arms are now "free" to reach overhead.
The next drawing puts this erect body standing in a stream or a pool of water whose level is just under the chin. Note that here the arms are now "free" to reach overhead.
This overhead reaching is encouraged in many rock concerts and in some churches so as to inspire feelings of elation or UP-lift (OUT-reach). I see it as a Darwinian memory of our ape ancestors who engaged in hanging and swinging in the lofty branches of trees before they dropped to the ground and enslaved their hands and arms to the daily mundane tasks of carrying things and using commercial tools.
I-CHING Connection
But NOW I'm going to take a radical step in equating this erect LOWER and UPPER body to the LOWER and UPPER Tri-grams of the I-CHING hexagrams which each have a total of six ("hex") "places" or "lines" (numbering from the bottom to the top). Strangely, tradition has long described the lower trigram to be "INSIDE" and the upper trigram to be "OUTSIDE".
Not until March 2011 did it occur to me to relate "INSIDE" to the downward pull of gravity and "OUTSIDE" to the upward, anti-gravity urge. But as a former ballet dancer, I must simply say that it "FEELS" right and applies to my wish to create a new ritual dance ceremony in which the entire body represents our globe or represents a tree.
Not until March 2011 did it occur to me to relate "INSIDE" to the downward pull of gravity and "OUTSIDE" to the upward, anti-gravity urge. But as a former ballet dancer, I must simply say that it "FEELS" right and applies to my wish to create a new ritual dance ceremony in which the entire body represents our globe or represents a tree.
(more about this idea later)
