the timboucher experience

Watched the Disney cartoon version of Robin Hood (where Robin & Marian are foxes) at a friend’s house tonight before going down to the crossroads with my guitar at midnight. And something struck me while watching it. Maybe it was the subtitle of the book stuffed in my back pocket, “A New Twist On An Ancient Tradition,” or the three I Ching coins which I bought on the Ave in Hampden yesterday before my experience with the magical bells. But the thought suddenly struck me: what the Book of Changes describes are proto-typical dramatic experiences. What any good classic myth like Robin Hood describes is essentially the same thing: the comings and goings of fortune, the vicissitudes of Fate, the simple provable fact that what goes around truly comes around, and that one’s actions do have consequences. It’s always the blindness and greed of the Prince and the Sheriff which undoes them. Robin Hood and his Merry Men just waltz right on through the hole in their awareness, the void of unreality which sets in whenever one enters a position wherein you accept your own view of reality as hard fact, instead of soft squishy interpretive awareness.

That’s not to say that Truth, as a capitalized word, doesn’t exist. Truth is the action of the Law in Time. Its process is revelatory. The Law is the Law of Heaven & Earth; the “as above, so below” dictum of the alchemists. Truth pulls away unreality, luring it out onto the thin ice of its own lies, towards its own undoing.

One might make fruitful study of both the I Ching and of the dramatic arts, by mapping patterns of change from one system of thought, action and interpretation to the other. Which hexagram fits the presentation of the dramatic conflict, which its climax and which its resolution? The interpretation of the tale depends on the players and the tellers, on those who hear it and on those who remember. But the underlying ingredients, the patterns of change, remain the same no matter the actors and audience. It may be that the best thing one can do in this life is to observe those patterns and harmonize oneself with them. Become an instrument of the moment, instead of an impediment. Once you head down that road - and it is indeed a Narrow Path - things change, but you change with them. You hear the songs around you and you sing them out into the night, no matter what happens. Until the song changes and the moment passes on into its own natural resolution. We don’t have many other options in this life: harmony & resistance. Where do we find ourselves when the day is through? Where will we lay our heads down on the day we die? We move on or we linger a little longer. We do both as the situation demands. We do whatever Life puts before us, whatever has to be done. Ready?

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