The Story Behind Life Cycles

I want to tell you a story, within a story, within a story, about the new movie called Molly's Game . It's a largely true story about Molly Bloom , the girl who changed from a would-be Olympic skier into the so-called "Poker Princess", who ran the most exclusive high-stakes underground poker game in the world, in both LA and New York, in the mid-to-late 2000's to early 2010's. But before I do, I just want to say that Texas Hold 'em poker is also my game, as I have played it since 2004 and have been both a tournament winner and game host. I run a twice weekly game at my local club these days and it is practically the only independent game left in Sydney. Everything else is run by large organisations, who take a rake of the winnings. Interestingly, I both run and play in the game and despite people thinking poker is mostly just luck (80%) and skill (20%), I can assure you that it's the other way around. I play by a set structure and have consist...

Hello again. Welcome to the newly created second edition of this blog. My intention with this was always to examine more material about "Life Cycles Theory" itself as well as to critique other systems and theories in this general area (like astrology/numerology/synchronicity etc). Sometimes I use related posts from the other blogs to look at a series of articles (like 'The Google Story' parts 1/2/3, or the Carly Simon 'Who's So Vain' series). My guiding principle is that you never quite know what to expect. With all this in mind, I'm currently doing a series of articles set in the middle ages and this will slot neatly into it. It will also slot neatly into material on the nature of the theory itself, as well as asking the ultimate question. Intrigued? Well, you should be. This article is dedicated to my very good friend Yun Yi, who runs several fascinating and informative blogs such as "Human Without God". She's one of my favourites....