The author's startling discovery of the commonality of musical scales and DNA amino acids by way of the I-Ching has implications that expands through many areas of our lives and thoughts. It raises questions that reach to the core of who and what we are. Jeffrey Fisher-painter, Tai Chi adept and award-winning composer / recording artist-recounts his decades-long involvement with these puzzles in this first of three volumes. The journey began in the early 1990's, when the author's Tai chi teacher, the miraculous Dr. Marshall Ho'o, mentioned the I-Ching as one of the pillars of Tai Chi Chuan.

COMPLETION, volume III of WHITE CLOUD JOURNEY, examines the function and meaning of art. Engaging in any creative act that embraces and includes one's entire being COMPLETES the energy that created us. The circle that is completed is the circle of life itself.

Although advances in science and technology have reduced the number of deaths from infection, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers, coronary heart disease remains the largest cause of death and disability worldwide. Factors such as high cholesterol, hypertension, family history, and diabetes are well-known risk factors, but research also links numerous psychosocial factors with heart disease. Since the seminal book Heart and Mind: The Practice of Cardiac Psychology was first published in 1996, the research linking psychosocial factors with heart disease has expanded enormously. This...