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S.J. Marshall


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Spirituality, Art


S J Marshall is an editor for the medical journal The Lancet. More commonly known as Joel Biroco, he 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 classe ...more

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