Joel Biroco

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Joel Biroco


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Joel Biroco is a writer, painter and occultist. He lives in London, England. His paintings, which are mostly abstract, come out of a long interest in the I Ching, Taoism, Zen, and the occult. Under his birth name of S J Marshall he wrote the book The Mandate of Heaven: Hidden History in the I Ching (Columbia University Press, 2001). He now runs a website dedicated to the I Ching called Yijing Dao.

Inspired by Chinese art and philosophy, Biroco paints spontaneously to see what comes, in the spirit of wuwei, meaning "not doing" or "doing nothing", which he also practises in everyday life. A big breakthrough in his style came when he attended evening classes in Chinese calligraphy in the late 80s. The classes were taught by the Singaporean arti
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Average rating: 3.94 · 88 ratings · 15 reviews · 6 distinct works
Ultraculture Journal: Essay...

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The Mandate of Heaven

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3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions
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World of Dust

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KAOS 14

3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2002
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Yip-i-addy-i-ay!

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Che Sara Sara

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