Joe, thank you for the ICHING and for the words from poetry that help me to conceptualize your view of continuity and change. With some thoughts thrown in about chaos and order (which others have also added to). What I do know about all of this is that the more I know and learn, the less I know. For sure. I have read and read, discussed and discussed. And am back to where I started. Thinking that chaos theory is but a tiny part of the picture, a part that our consciousness at our current point in evolution can handle.
And so I think of the Uni-verse (one song) and I want to dance with the song. Me, the full emotional human, that is much more than a particle in chaos theory. I think it is our song and our dance that throws the theory into chaos :-) So, leaving behind the words of chaos/order or continuity/change, I choose the words Unity and Balance. All is one. And the movement in pattern or whatever is about Balance. You are right about there not being the polarities offered by chaos/order or continuity/change. Unity and Balance are about one and the same. Balance is simply a way to again achieve Unity. We do not change, from the essential essence that we are. Does this make sense across e-mail. Gosh, these deeper things are hard to get into in words. Thanks for the discussion. Birgitt
