Artwork done for classes at California State University, Bakersfield. Links to pages and reference discussing primal
patterns, paradigms that illustrate relationships between personality disorders, brain functions, basic existential
patterns fundamental to the metaphysics, the Platonic roots of all things.
On the left is a flattened
octahedron that represents
the 8 I Ching trigrams of the
virtues, with Heaven as
abundance opposite Earth as
thrift and Flame as enterprise
opposite Water Pit as
harmony and Mountain as
wisdom opposite faith as Lake.
To the left, above Thunder is
fun and its opposite is beauty
is the Wind trigram.
To the left is the flattened
octahedron of the I Ching
trigrams with the six trigram
yin yang lines as the poles on
each vertex, thus Feel is the
Lake Trigram, Fate is Water
Pit, Speak is Thunder, Fact is
Earth, Mind is Mountain,
Wind is Model, Flame is Free,
Heaven is Magic. Flux is
bottom line yang opposed to
Fixed as bottom line yin, Part
is middle line yin opposed to
whole as middle line yang.
Self is top line yang opposed
to Group as top line yin.
To the left we have Heaven as
Magic and Earth as Science,
Mountain as Mathematics
opposed to Literature as Lake,
Business as Thunder
opposed to Wind as
Metaphysics, Design as
Flame and Water Pit as
Government.
To the left we have Heaven as
Source and Earth as Result,
Separation as Mountain,
Mixture as LaKe, Closed as
Water Pit to Open as Flame,
Standard as Wind to Thunder
as Expression.