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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 Me
  • Ancient Áo Dài
  • Ancient Drowned Cities of the World
  • Ancient Lạc Việt Writing in Guangxi
  • Ancient Ties Between Taiwanese and Vietnamese
  • Ancient Việt Dynasty (Part 1): Văn Khoa Đẩu
  • Ancient Việt Dynasty (Part 2): Bách Việt
  • Ancient Việt: Cradle of Asian Civilization
  • Ancient Việt: Matriarchy and the Female Lineage
  • Ancient Đông Sơn Drums
  • As Above, So Below
  • Âu Cơ (嫗姬) Royal Mother
  • Autoimmune Disease of the Spiritual Kind
  • Avatar of a Taobabe
  • Axiom of the Tao
  • Axiom: Self-evident Truth
  • Bách Việt Barbarians (Part 1)
  • Bách Việt Barbarians (Part 2): Woodworkers
  • Bands of Gold
  • Be Still, My Wildly Beating Heart.
  • Beauty is Man-Made
  • 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
  • Blonde Noncontentions
  • Boogey Man Gas
  • Book of Spells
  • 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)
  • Cô Đôi Thượng Ngàn
  • Con Nhà Nho Giáo – Children of the Grapes
  • Connecting the Dots and Turning the Cogs
  • 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 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
  • 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 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 59: Dispersion & Crossing the Great Water
  • Hexagram 61 – The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions
  • Hexagram 7: I Ching Advice for COVID 19
  • Hidden Path to Hòn Bà Island
  • Holographic Everything
  • Holographic Nature of Our Brain
  • Holographic Nature of Our Existence
  • 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 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 5: Possession of the Frightful Kind
  • 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
  • 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 Giang Nam
  • 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
  • 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 Butterflies and Freedom
  • 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
  • Sex and the Tao Babe
  • She Blows Hot and Cold
  • Silk Egg
  • Solid State of Sound
  • Something Very Dark Out There
  • Sorcery Preparation
  • Star Chart Stone Shrine of Hội An
  • Star Wars, the Force, and the Third Eye
  • Starving Plant Life
  • Sunken Paradise
  • Sunny to the Max
  • Sympathetic Consideration for Demons
  • Tam Tự Kinh: Three-Word Book
  • Tao Babe Music
  • Tao Physics
  • Tao Te Ching
  • Tát Nước Đầu Đình
  • Te-Pito-o-Te-Henua
  • 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 Forest, Regardless of the Trees
  • The God Particle
  • 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 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
  • 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…
  • You! Oi!
  • 美
  • Bibliography

Please Note

All thoughts are mine except where annotated. Texts in black italics are from modern sources. Texts in green italics are from ancient sources.

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