
The Original I Ching Oracle or The Book of Changes
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The I Ching is one of the oldest Chinese texts and the world's oldest oracle. Accumulated from over 2,500 years of diviners, sages and shamans and born out of the oral tradition, the I Ching as we know it today is a collection of texts, imagery and advice, philosophy and poetry, divided into 64 chapters. There are 64 hexagrams, created from a collection of six lines, either broken or solid. In order to "read" from the book, you must cast a hexagram. The traditional method required yarrow sticks but nowadays is based on tossing three coins six times.
The Original I Ching Oracle or Book of Changes was inspired by Carl Gustav Jung's insights into the psyche and researched for more than 60 years through the Eranos Foundation of Switzerland. It presents the oracular core of the I Ching as a psychological tool: the symbols interact with our minds in the same way dream images do.
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Shantena Augusto Sabbadini, a former theoretical physicist, joined Rudolf Ritsema to help run the Round Table Sessions and together they produced this translation of the I Ching, a distillation of the Eranos Round Table Sessions experience and of the authors' I Ching studies.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Content
- Part One
- Introduction
- 1. The Book of Yi
- The Name Of The Book
- Yin And Yang
- Synchronicity
- A Kaleidoscope Of Images
- A Mirror Of The Present
- Getting Started
- 2. Interrogating the Oracle
- Formulating A Question
- Lines, Trigrams, Hexagrams
- The Consultation Procedure
- The coins method
- The yarrow stalk method
- Primary and potential hexagram
- Finding your hexagram
- Reading Your Answer
- Layers of significance
- Rolling the words in your heart
- Chinese as an imaginal language
- Basic Features Of The Eranos Translation
- Core-words
- Fields of meaning
- Oracular and exegetic texts
- Sections Of A Hexagram
- Image of the Situation
- Outer and Inner Trigram
- Counter Hexagram
- Preceding Situation
- Hexagrams in Pairs
- Additional Texts
- Patterns of Wisdom
- Transforming Lines
- Image Tradition
- Remarks About The Eranos Translation
- Romanization of Chinese characters
- Sources of the Fields of meaning
- Composite entries
- Special cases
- Idiomatic phrases
- Great and small
- The Concordance
- 3. Myth and History
- The Tradition
- The first emperor
- The Pattern King
- Modern Views Of The Origins Of The Yi
- Bones and tortoise shells
- The yarrow stalk oracle
- The Evolution Of The Book
- The Book of Encompassing Versatility
- The canonization of the Yi
- Philosophical and oracular tradition
- The Palace Edition
- The Mawangdui manuscript
- The Yijing Comes To The West
- The Yijing At Eranos
- Olga Froebe
- Rudolf Ritsema
- The Eranos Round Table Sessions
- 4. Correlative Thinking
- The Universal Compass
- The yin-yang cycle
- The yearly cycle and the four directions
- The five Transformative Moments
- The Eight Trigrams And Their Attributes
- Chronological Table
- Notes
- Part Two
- The 64 Hexagrams
- List Of Hexagrams The 64 Hexagrams
- Part Three
- Concordance
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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