The material world is dense and heavy. Understanding how to use the material ballast is an evolved skill, it is  the spiritual work required in the above and below.....The ancients understood that the human body, the fractal of the whole cosmos, also contained the cosmos.  The body itself is the above and the below.

LOOKING INTO the past through this 1896 personal log and the detailed resouces of that era as contained in the excellent Excelsior Diary. Multple installments will foillow this first article. Explore the travel routes, wage table, detailed population of the West Coast and so much more.

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