June 28, 2026

The Source is Psyche/Tao. And Ego’s place is to know what it knows and what it does not (cannot) know, and to stop trying to take over the show–and to simply wait and see what is called for where, when and how (Doing the right thing, in the right place, at the right time, in the right way) which is the domain of Psyche/Tao.

Ego will know that like the tide knows when to come in, when to turn around, when to go out, when to turn around, when to come in… The tide doesn’t worry about when to take the initiative in any of these tidal decisions. It knows without knowing how it knows. It certainly does not think about it. Reason it out. Or guess. It knows. It always knows. And it is never wrong. It simply waits to know what is called for in due time, and in the meantime it waits to know when the time is right to initiate the proper sequence of events to produce the proper movements of place and time.

The source is a combination of factors/forces that nothing controls or shapes but is expressed best by the old Taoist realization that everything is a function of “Circumstances begetting circumstances.” The tidal cycle of ebb, turn, flow, turn, ebb… is dependent on the position of the moon and the time and pace/place of the earth’s seasons/movement, all of which is highly circumstantial and interdependent, with everything waiting and seeing what happens when and then what happens, with nothing in control, and everything dependent on something else at any given point in time.

Nothing is in control! And everything is dependent on something else, in order to happen in clockwork fashion, so that tidal charts are available around the world every day.

The moon shapes the tide, the tide shapes the shoreline, the shoreline shapes the wind, the wind shapes the clouds, the clouds shape the rain, the rain shapes the river, the river shapes the valley, the valley shapes the forest, the forest shapes the air, the air shapes the breath, the breath shapes the Psyche, the Psyche shapes the ego, the ego shapes the articulation… Everything is shaping everything else. Nothing is in charge.

(Today’s post was composed through a joint effort between Jim Dollar and Microsoft Word’s A-I, Copilot, which, if you think about it is as miraculous as the tides.)