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144 Billion Bottles of Beer on the Wall
2030 And The New Me
2040 And The New Me
4D (Part 1): Metropolis Dreamscape
4D (Part 2): Hole In the Wall
4D (Part 3): The Topology of Pastries
4D (Part 4): Lights & Shadows
A 48,000-year-old Bracelet
About
About Me
Ancient Áo Dài
Ancient Drowned Cities of the World
Ancient Việt 01: Cradle of Asian Civilization
Ancient Viet 02: Sunken Paradise
Ancient Viet 03: Following the Genetic Trail
Ancient Viet 04: Ties Between Taiwanese and Vietnamese
Ancient Việt 05: Văn Khoa Đẩu
Ancient Việt 06: Lạc Việt Writing in Guangxi
Ancient Việt 07: Bách Việt Dynasty
Ancient Việt 08: Lý Giang Nam
Ancient Việt 09: Bách Việt Barbarians
Ancient Việt 10: Bách Việt Barbarian Woodworkers
Ancient Việt 13: My Ancient Ancestral Grandpa
Ancient Việt 14: Matriarchy and the Female Lineage
Ancient Đông Sơn Drums
Archaeogenetics
As Above, So Below
Âu Cơ (嫗姬) Royal Mother
Au Revoir, Kitchen God
Au Revoir, Kitchen God 2
Autoimmune Disease of the Spiritual Kind
Avatar of a Taobabe
Axiom of the Tao
Axiom: Self-evident Truth
Bands of Gold
Be Still, My Wildly Beating Heart.
Beauty is Man-Made
Bibliography
Biophotons and the Magic Wavelength
Black Sorcery and Demonic Cat Bùa Ngải
Black Sorcery and Fetal Bùa Quỷ Linh Nhi
Black Sorcery and Ngải Plant 1
Black Sorcery and Ngải Plant 2
Black Sorcery and Ngải Plant 3
Black Sorcery and Other Horrifying Bùa Ngải
Black Sorcery and the Maiden Bùa Thiên Linh Cái
Black Teeth Beauty
Blog
Blonde Noncontentions
Boogey Man Gas
Book of Spells
Bottom’s Up! It’s 2023!
Breathe, Baby, Breathe…
Chance
Change 1: Frames of Time
Change 2: The Three Faces of Change
Change 3: The Change of Nonchange
Change 4: Cyclic Change
Change 5: Sequent Change
Change 6: The Cyclic/Sequent Connection
Chu Dynasty I Ching
Chữ Nôm (𡨸喃)
Cổ Trùng – Dark Sorcery 1
Cổ Trùng – Dark Sorcery 2
Cổ Trùng – Dark Sorcery 3
Cô Đôi Thượng Ngàn
Con Nhà Nho Giáo – Children of the Grapes
Connecting the Dots and Turning the Cogs
Contact
Convoluted Path to My Musical Redemption
Copper-Nickel Alloy Oracle
Daemonic World
Daemonic World 2: Cosmospolitanic View
Daemonic World 3: Ma, Quỉ, Thánh, Thần
Dark and Light Elements, Revisited
Divination
Divination Method for the Witchy Tao Babe
DIY Taoism
DNA & Spontaneous Evolution
DNA and Evolution: Super Humans
DNA and the I Ching: The Connection
DNA and the I Ching: The Integration
Dots and Cogs??? Do You Mean Dogs and Cats?
Dragons (Part 1): The Bloodline
Dragons (Part 2): The Genetics
Dragons (Part 3): The Descent
Dream of the Butterflies
Dreams & Whimsies
Dreamstate: Holographic & Multidimensional
Drinks of the gods: Bitter Melon
Drinks of the gods: La Hán Quả ~ Monk Fruit
Drinks of the gods: My Precioussss Cuppa Java
Driving Bering Strait
Easter Egg and Mr. Tangata Manu
Echoing Strains of Tỳ Bà
Enigma of Lao Tzu 1: Who is Lao Tzu???
Enigma of Lao Tzu 2: Damn Stubborn Water Buffalo!
Enigma of Lao Tzu 3: The Trauma of Being Different
Enigma of Lao Tzu 4: The Temple of an Immortal
Enigma of Lao Tzu 5: My Poor Beloved Old Dude
Evacuation
Firewood, Rice, Oil, Salt, Soy Sauce, Tea
Following the Ancient Scent of Trầm Hương 1
Following the Ancient Scent of Trầm Hương 2
Following the NASA Money Trail
Fortune Favors the Babe
Gentlemen’s Philosophy
Ghost Repellent Rock
Goddess of Frequency 1: Rock of Ages
Goddess of Frequency 2: C# Vectors
Goddess of Frequency 3: Life Magik
Goddess of Frequency 4: We’re a Movin’ on Up!
Goddess of Frequency 5: Force Shield
Goddess of Frequency 6: Sonic Weapons
Grandfather and the Waterhens of Spring
Guardian of the Badlands
Happier Than God: New-Age Taoism
Hexagram 01 – Six Dragons of Heaven
Hexagram 02 – Follow the Leader
Hexagram 04 – Ah, the Folly of Youth…
Hexagram 05 – Nourishment for the Tao Babe
Hexagram 07 – I Ching Advice for COVID 19
Hexagram 18 – Poisonous Dark Sorcery
Hexagram 22 – Grace and the Tao Babe
Hexagram 26 – Hang In There
Hexagram 30 – The Clinging Fire
Hexagram 31 – How to Influence Others Taofully
Hexagram 32 – The Secret to Staying Together
Hexagram 33 – Cutting Your Losses
Hexagram 35 – The Secret to Moving with Your Lover onto the Next Cog
Hexagram 54 — The Marrying Maiden
Hexagram 56: Of Butterflies and Freedom
Hexagram 59: Dispersion & Crossing the Great Water
Hexagram 61 – The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions
Hidden Path to Hòn Bà Island
Holographic Everything
Holographic Nature of Our Brain
Holographic Nature of Our Existence
Home
Hồn Vía 1: Cats Have Nine Lives, I Got Ten Souls!
Hồn Vía 2: The Selling and Bartering of Souls
Hồn Vía 3: The Fracturing of Souls
Hồn Vía 4: Bán Khoán – The Selling of a Child’s Soul
How to Make TaoBabe Water
Hsi Wang Mu, Ultimate Tao Babe (王母娘娘)
Human CCC Part 1: On the Confluence of Crows and Monkeys
Human CCC Part 3: Old Dude Strikes Again
Human CCC Part 4: How to Be a Human CCC Tower
Hungry Ghosts 1: Vu Lan Season
Hungry Ghosts 2: Cầu Siêu Ritual
Hungry Ghosts 3: Sermons for the Dead
Hungry Ghosts 4: Temple for Spirit Imprisonment
Hungry Ghosts 5: Yes, China’s Hungry Ghosts Have Been Roaming
Huyền Vũ 1: The Black Tortoise
Huyền Vũ 2: The King, the Dark Warrior, and the Demon of Thất Diệu Mountain
I Ching
I Ching
I Ching Hexagrams
I Ching Sphere (Part 1): I Suck at Math!
I Ching Sphere (Part 2): Zeroes and Ones
I Ching Sphere (Part 3): Level 1
I Ching Sphere (Part 4): Level 2
I Ching Sphere (Part 5): Level 3
I Ching Sphere (Part 6): Levels 4, 5, 6
I Ching Sphere (Part 7): Putting It All Together
I Ching: A Tao Babe’s Illustrated Primer
I Ching: Made in Vietnam (Part 1)
I Ching: Made in Vietnam (Part 2)
I Ching: Made in Vietnam (Part 3)
I Ching: Made in Vietnam (Part 4)
I Ching: Made in Vietnam (Part 5)
Ice, Ice, Baby
Immortals 1: gods or Non-gods?
Intergalactic Voyage Extraordinaire
Is You Is, Or Is You Ain’t, Got No Warp Drive?
Karma 1: Karma Is so Passé
Karma 2: Human Fruits, the Karmic Harvest of Nhân Quả
Karma 3: Karmic Monetary Funds
Keiko Matsui and the Tao Babe
Lên Đồng 1: Ancient Ceremonial Spirit Possession Ritual
Lên Đồng 2: Mounting the Medium
Lên Đồng 3: Mother Goddess
Lên Đồng 4: The Royal Court
Lên Đồng 5: Possession of the Frightful Kind
Lên Đồng 6: Methodology of Exorcism
Levitation 101
Light Spirits and Dark Spirits
Linh Chi Dan Dreams
Living Universe
Louche Part 1: Feed Stock for Energy Beings
Louche Part 2: Quantum Tunneling
Louche Part 3: Third Density Barrier
Lumpy Bumpy Humpty Dumpty
Lý Qua Đèo: Princess Huyền Trân
Mả Lạng 1: Saigon Massacre
Mả Lạng 2: The Underbelly of Saigon
Magic Carpet Ride
Magic Spells, Deconstructed
May the Force be with You!
Midsummer Knight’s Dream
Moon Cakes (Part 1): Something Sweet
Moon Cakes (Part 2): Molds
Mountain God vs Water God
My First Step Onto the Taoist Path
My Will Be Done, on Earth as It Is in Heaven
Nàng Thơm Chợ Đào (The Virgin Thơm of the Red Market)
Navels of the World
Nôm Na Là Cha Mách Qué
Nonsensical Words of a Wordsmith
Ocean Heat—Hot Surfer Dudes vs. Scientists
Of Gods and Garlic
Old Dude’s Old Books
Old Dude’s Rice Innuendo
Old Dude’s Rice Innuendo 2: Vietica Rice
Omnivores Rule! The Case for K2
Organic Alchemistry 1: 7 Day Rule
Organic Alchemistry 2: Wave Genetics
Organic Alchemistry 3: Ancient DNA Upgrade
Organic Alchemistry 4: Nephilim of Altai
Organic Alchemistry 5: Flower of Life
Organic Alchemistry 6: Lulus of the World
Organic Alchemistry 7: Garden of Eden
Organic Alchemistry 8: Super-genes & the Modern-day CRISPR Babies
pictures
Pooh, the Cool Modern Tao Sage
Prayers, Mantras, and the Collective Action
Quantum Wizardry
Recipe for Scrying Machine
Red Queen Rising
Relative Nature of the World
Remembering Lucid Dreams
Response from Time-Space
Round Heaven, Square Earth
Round Heaven, Square Earth: Part 2
School Kinda Sucks 1: Benadryl® Dreams
School Kinda Sucks 2: A Little
School Kinda Sucks 3: Classroom Drama
School Kinda Sucks 4: Game of Life
School Kinda Sucks 5: Pauper Prince
School Kinda Sucks 6: Dream Within a Dream
Secret Sect of the Big Dipper 1
Sex and the Tao Babe
She Blows Hot and Cold
Silk Egg
Solid State of Sound
Something Very Dark Out There
Sorcery
Sorcery Preparation
Star Chart Stone Shrine of Hội An
Star Wars, the Force, and the Third Eye
Starving Plant Life
Sunny to the Max
Sympathetic Consideration for Demons
Tam Tự Kinh: Three-Word Book
Tao Babe Music
Tao Physics
Tao Te Ching
Taoism
Tát Nước Đầu Đình
Te-Pito-o-Te-Henua
Ten Conditions for Beauty in Ancient Vietnam 1
Ten Conditions for Beauty in Ancient Vietnam 2
Tết Nguyên Đán
The Body (Piezo) Electric
The Case for No Tomatoes
The Demon of Thất Diệu Mountain
The Demon of Thất Diệu Mountain 2
The Demon of Thất Diệu Mountain 3
The Demon of Thất Diệu Mountain 4
The Forest, Regardless of the Trees
The God Particle
The Great Flood of 9,700 BC
The Great Square Has No Corners
The Heat is On—Barely
The Moon Does Not Lie
The Original Asian Zodiac
The Original Asian Zodiac 2: The Moon Calendar
The Original Asian Zodiac 3: The Math…It’s Always the Math
The Original Asian Zodiac 4: The Lunisolar Calendar
The Original Asian Zodiac 5: The Twelve Earth Branches
The Original Asian Zodiac 6: The Ten Heavenly Stems
The Physics of TaoBabe-ism
The Prison of Eden
The Secret Behind the Power of the Mantra
The Signature of a Rockstar
The Ta Chuan – A Taoist Babe’s Guide Book to Understanding the I Ching
The Tao Babe’s Third Eye
The Tao of Man
The Tao of Tea
The Trưng Sisters (Part 1)
The Trưng Sisters (Part 2)
The Trưng Sisters (Part 3)
The Trưng Sisters (Part 4)
This Is NOT a Test of the Emergency Broadcast Service
Through the Endless Void
Time
Time in a Trigram
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Topology of Nothing
Viet Culture
Viet Recipes
Vietnamese Sorcery Spell Book (pg 1)
Vietnamese Toes
What Is a Tao Babe, Revisited
What the F**k is Wu Wei?*
Whatchamacallit Wanderer
White Sorcery
Window Panes
Winter Garden
Winter in July
Wisdom of the Soul
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…
Year of the Cat 2023
You! Oi!
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