Our interpretation of taoism, is that of a philosophy, or even a methodology, employed in response, or preferably, in union with, all that manifests before, within, and after us. We are part of the Action and Change school of taoism, in theory and practice. We refer to the networks as tao.ca within taoist terms, because we may never know what travels through, and as part of the Internet, we will never know it completely, as it resides within a larger, if you will global, context and culture. It is a word that is used to refer to things like the truth, the path, the way, the universe, everything, nothing, and many other absolute terms between what can be known and what is forever unknown. We do not seek to define or state any meaning of the word 'tao', but rather we choose to explore it's significance, within the context of play, that being great joy and relaxation.
Taoist archetypes are fairly straight forward.
From the three we are able to generate the eight trigrams, which are themselves referred to as the eight manifestations. Initially our goal was to categorize everything on the site within the eight sections. To a certain degree we have maintained this, but with the addition of new perspectives, there will be alternate ways to view the content and people who operate through the server. What follows are descriptions of the eight sections based on the trigrams. In each category there are two paragraphs, the first descriptive, the second poetic.