I have just posted another of Stephen’s academic papers on the site. It is ‘Yijing and the Ethic of the Image’. This is an Eranos Round table paper.
There are a number of interesting ideas in this paper, but the part which particularly caught my eye was on ‘Preserving the Language’. Here Stephen talks about the way the Yijing’s short phrases create image clusters which we can roll and turn in our minds until, “the texts touch a meaningful cluster of images and emotions…” It is at this point that the spirit and the understanding of the text and its meaning constellates within us.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. You can find the article by clicking here.