The "singular book of great esteem" is the I Ching. It originated in China some 5,000 years ago as a form of divination, and around 3,000 years ago it was formulated into a system of sixty-four images with corresponding text, built up from the foundational yin-yang (binary) concept. It has been used since then by emperors, officials and ordinary people for wisdom and guidance.
I am not qualified to write an academic book about it, but I have lived with the I Ching for fifty years, and I wanted to explain what it is all about. I have found it illuminating and inspiring. I think it speaks to our inner core, and it is a way of navigating yourself through good times and pain, confusion and despair.
After I started on this project, I had a medical episode described by doctors as a "slight stroke". After a period where I was "becalmed", I turned to the I Ching to make sense of it and it spoke (in its own way), as clearly as ever. The book then took its own shape.
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978-0-6459543-6-4 (9780645954364)
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Glenn Martin is the author of over twenty-five books. He is an independent scholar, researcher and writer. He has written on ethics and values, family history, reflections on experience, and he has produced several volumes of poetry. His scattered career includes teaching in high schools and at tertiary level, management of community-sector organisations, writing commentary on employment and management for professional publications, editing a national magazine for trainers, and designing online education courses. He has graduated from the workforce.
Glenn lives in Sydney. He has also lived in the hills in far northern New South Wales, where he wrote two books of local history. He has five children and four grandchildren.
This is Glenn's first book that is focused on the I Ching, although he has used it for personal reflection for fifty years. Previously he had written one novel (a reflection on experience) where the I Ching was ceentral: The Ten Thousand Things (2010).
See website: www.glennmartin.com.au
