posted on Saturday, April 07, 2007 1:47 PM
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The Furies and the Water Spirit Disorder
In his new article ‘The Furies and the Water Spirit Disorder’
Stephen Karcher takes us on two journeys, each represents cultural and personal stances which are deeply flawed and which are the cause of much suffering in our world.
First he brings together modern Western imagery with that of the ancient Mediterranean world, Buddhism and the Yijing to take the reader to the heart of darkness which pervades our culture in modern times. He explains how we wilfully found this path and then followed it. With equal care and detail he uses text and imagery from the Yijing to show a possible route back to a wholeness.
He then takes us out on to the plain of the ‘wandering rootless’ and shows how this too is a path all too easily found by the way we have structured our culture. Again he uses text from the Yijing and other sources to offer us a personal and cultural path back to our hearts sanity.
The article ends with an excursus into both the psychology involved in relating to the Yijing as a divinatory system and those processes necessary to make our readings effective in our lives. In part he uses a reading where the Yi itself is brought in as a guide to this process. As always the Yijing has some very interesting things to say.
I found this article rich with a knowing and very informative.
Kevin