TAO Book * Part I

my TAO BooK

My TAO Book will be presented to the reader in 10-page segments, each designated as a chronologically successive Part. There will be some blanks in the several parts simply due to the present inability to scan entire pages -- these spaces will hopefully be filled as I find another way to present the material.

The book itself is nothing special to look at, and over the years it has gotten a little scruffy with handling, moving from place to place, and being taken from and replaced on my bookshelves, scotch tape on the top and bottom of the spine as reinforcement -- despite all of this, it has held up fairly decently all these years --

they say that you cannot tell a book by its cover -- very true -- it's what is inside that counts. Not that we should expect the answers to all the riddles of the Universe within its pages -- that would make life boring because there wouldn't be anything else remaining to discover.

Some entries are spur of the moment cursory remarks -- others are more philosophical or enigmatic, even poetic -- some may seem to provide a fleeting glimpse through a slightly opened door leading to infinity, but each has its value at a place on the time continuum which we call the fleeting now, always guiding us to the future somehow.

From my description it almost seems that this and other books might have human qualities -- most of what I said about this example can easily also apply to a lot of people, myself included -- nothing special to look at, a little scruffy, moved from place to place, taken down many times and put back in place, reinforced here and there, held up fairly decently through the years -- it's what inside that counts!

TAO is Oneness with the Universe.

TAO BOOK - Part I

La Atlántida, Tenerife, 5 April 1977 - 15 May 1977

Join me on this personal journey into the past, through my TAO Book entries. The pages recreate the visits of friends to my home in Tenerife, La Atlántida -- those times have passed, but they have left an indelible mark on the present, and hope for the future.

Most, if not all, of the written text is in Español, which I have translated, as best as I could, into English -- the drawings speak for themselves in any language.

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I founded the Laboratory for Human Biorhythm Research in Tenerife -- this was a meeting of the friends who composed its Board of Directors; we often saw the Sun set and rise again the next day at our get togethers -- 5-6 April 1977

I wish to begin this book with the TAO -- an attempt to reach [TAO] / me

The search for equilibrium in our development will give us the key / Cloty

Neither why, nor to where, nor what for, nor where to. I only know that one has to continue / Juan

I cannot think of anything / Evelio

Celebrating the birthday of a friend of Evelio's from the military service -- 8 April 1977

Should I study orgonic energy? / me

I want to cross over, but it costs me. If I cross, I lose something secure. Progress is bearish. / Dionisio

If I have to go towards the south I shall go there. / Evelio

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Two artist pals and I met to discuss the use of the pendulum in divination and its theoretical curative properties -- 19 April 1977

dedicated to the pendulum -- that didn't funcion too well / me

The difficulty for a painter isn't to paint a dove. The most difficult is to paint its beak and make it eat. / Camacho

Intellligent people find, the world doesn't begin on this Earth, rather it is a beginning of a universal consciousness. / Carlos

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I taught English As A Second Language at the Universidad Laboral in La Laguna a couple nights a week -- among my students were some Nuns -- this was at a birthday party we had for one of them -- 22 April 1977

Today was a surprise birthday, it was very important to me, the affection and caring of my friends and professor / Josephina

I only pursue love / Maria Dolores

I want peace / Mary

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At the same party

The tank [referring to the Nun's van] / ??

All of this is dumb. / Marta

The atmosphere that is not missing in class / Tañi

I shall never forget the times so... hurried and delightful that we experienced. I learned, not only English but also other qualities of Sr. Mister / the Mother Superior = La grandessa

I also taught Scientific English at the School of Science, Universidad of La Laguna -- and each year I would organize a summer trip, a Cultural Exchange, for a group of students to New Jersey to work at a laundry and experience life in the USA -- this visit included two of the participants, as well as a good friend and former student, Horacio -- 22 April 1977

to Sonny -- star -- a soul that escaped from the fire of pain -- mine -- if my star had never flown, if my equilibrium had never known a decline, nor my soul irony, the world would have been the most beautiful expresssion of sincerity in the anthology of this poem -- to Sonny, above all. / Mario

Oh useless ones, don't you know that life is [composed of] good acts and not bad theories! / Juan

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The same visit -- 22 April 1977

The latest [evolutionary] advance (check it out! I swear it is!) / Horacio

Since I am very beastly, I draw beastly things / Horacio

[other drawings by his sister, Olga, and her son, Ramon]

A visit by some artist friends -- 24 April 1977

Long live El Betis [a soccer club] they never lose. / Cloty

This is to live / Jose

To that which was and to that which could have been / Juan

a solar pentagram to scare away the bad spirits "from above" / me

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A visit by a dear artist friend and her parents -- 7 May 1977

That which is important is...... What it is? What is it? [the following is written backwards, as Leonardo Da Vinci would write his notes!] Here many things are happening and nobody realizes what they are. We are blind, deaf and dumb. Long live the mother who bore us. Long live our mothers! / Elena Lecuona

I really like the flavor and everything about this reunion and it all makes me wonder what I shall do to begin it all again. / Carlos, her father

Reach out and take it before it withers. For it is only made for you. / Julia, her mother

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Another meeting of some of the Cultural Exchange student group -- 15 May 1977

Hope for the future -- a "flying saucer" -- from La Atlántida [the name of my home in the mountains of Tenerife, not far from the University = Atlantis] to other worlds. / Lydia

Unhurried and self sufficient, the snail is a remarkable beast. / Carlos

Traveller, there is no trail -- you create the path as you walk along. Machado / Martin

From the hammer and sickle. When I find out I shall tell you... I swear it... I only know that Beethoven once said: Do all the good possible, love liberty above everything else, and even when struck by thunder never be a traitor to the truth. We are forever, Nature. From La Atlántida to S.Kardas Jr. / Mario

TAO Book - - Part II

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