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Here we list How-To's, articles and papers on the I Ching.

 

 

Quick Guides

A great place to start, if you have never encountered I Ching.

 

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Yijing: An Introduction
Quick and simple answers to basic questions about what the Classic of Change is and where it came from.

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How to Use the I Ching
Designed to get you up and running, these are quick and simple answers to basic questions about how to use the Classic of Change.

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The Basics: Nuts and Bolts

These are short topic articles on basic ideas and practices involved in using Change.

 

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Philosophy of Change
The spiritual and social importance of using Change seen through a set of premises taken from the Dazhuan or Great Treatise.

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Matrix of Change
The system of lines and diagrams that organize, display, interrelate and amplify its omens and give us access to its divinatory language.

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16 Token Casting Method
How to use the consulting method that combines the best of the traditional yarrow and coin oracles.

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Questions and Templates
How to present your problem as a question to Change, establishing the field, formulating the question and the position of the Inquirer and opening an active dialogue.

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Dreams and Relationships
Techniques and layouts using Change to examine personal relationships and search into the meanings of dreams.

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Tools for Change
An explanation of the interpretive strategies developed for this translation to shift the focus of analysis from internal yin-yang line relations to relations between hexagrams.

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Change Operators
The technique that describes the action of the Two Powers in a given situation.

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Time Cycles
How to make and use the Time Cycle that lets you see where your situation came from and how it can be developed.

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Ideal and Shadow
Details the origin and use of the Ideal Form and Shadow Site that let you grasp the ideal potential of a situation and what is unavailable.

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Voices of the Lines I
A brief description of the meanings of the six Line Positions in a hexagram and how this can be used in a reading.

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Voices of the Lines II
Deep analysis of the inner dynamic of the Line Positions and a technical description of where it comes from.

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Working with Pairs
Myths of the Pairs as interpretive tools, types of Pairs, Zones of Radical Transformation and an example of Pairs in a reading.

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Mediating Sites
A technical and thematic description of the four Pairs that act as “sites of intense ritual and mediating activity”.

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Introducing Crossline Omens
An explanation of where they come from and what they do.

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Using Crossline Omens
How the Crossline Omens are generated, what they reveal and how they work in a reading.

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Decades and the Ritual World
How the Decades, the age-grade system that sculpts the deepest layers of the Change works, with an example of how they can be used in a reading.

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Decades and Karmic Nodes
How the Decades system can be used to find problematic places in your life that are influencing your situation.

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Sources for the Decades
The landscapes of the Decades, their themes, how the Pairs work in the system and a description of each Pair in its Decade.

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Interpreting Answers
How to set up a Basic Reading and an Extended Reading and how to interpret the answers.

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Fixing the Omen
The art of empowering the symbols in our lives that produces a transformation of character.

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Yijing in Brief: Food for Thought

These articles give short evocative descriptions of some basic myths and perspectives that underlie the Classic of Change.

 

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World of Change
The tradition of Change as a book, a technique and a way or spiritual practice that can be a very real help in times of crisis.

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Guishen: Gods and Ghosts
The types of souls and spirits that populate the world of Change: Shen, bright spirits that vivify and inspire; Gui, ghosts who live in the tomb and the earth; and Zhong, Ancestors that ensure a flow of blessings from the invisible world.

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Landmarks of Change
The symbolic world from which Change grew, the sacred world of the Numinous Turtle and the Axis Mundi where the dead receive the great offerings.

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Secret Sickness Pathways
The Pairs that create the hidden paths that rouse animal powers of the psyche and link personal distress with cultural disorders.

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Stories of the Time
How we “tell” time and how divination tells us into a story of the time that connects outer and inner experience, giving the unknown spirit a voice.

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A Short History of Change
history of the tradition of Change from pre-history through the Bronze Age, the Warring States period, the Han Dynasty and the rise of Confucianism to its present evolution in the west.

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Technicians of the Sacred
A brief look at the kinds of Spirit-intermediaries who handled communication with the ghosts and spirits in the traditional world.

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Ceremonial Sites
The places where prayers were offered to feed the spirits and transform the awareness of the participants in the ritual.

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The Mandate of Heaven
A short history of the myth of “renewing the time” central to the social philosophy of Change.

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Ding as the Symbol of Change
How the Change speaks of itself through the image of the vessel as a symbol of the sacred meal, high culture and the process of divination.

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Yijing Papers: the Foundations

These articles are on the origin of the archetypal approach to the Classic of Change that rescues the old divinatory traditions.

 

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Jung, the Tao and the Classic of Change
Harvest: A Journal for Jungian Studies 1999, vol. 45, No. 2
The connection between Jung's psychology and Eastern thought the centers on the term Tao or Way. Eastern religious practices shaped his main ideas and made him aware of the West's cultural ills. Jung saw I Ching as a way to connect with Tao, the catalyst through which change takes place. He insisted that "psychology in the stricter sense is bound up with the whole practical use of the I Ching”.

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The Yijing and the Ethic of the Image
Eranos / Uehiro Foundation Round Table Session 1992
Ethical practice is based on the relation of the individual to norms behind which is an implicit order. Depth psychology gives us new insight on traditional ethical stances: The implicit order produces an “unceasing stream or perhaps ocean of images and figures” that “constitutes [our] immediate experience.” Interaction with it through divination allows you to experience your own identity as a product of these images.

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Death and Renewal
UPR Lectures - Session 9 
A dramatic re-presentation of one of Richard Wilhelm’s lectures given at the China Institute in Frankfurt 1926-29 on death as symbolic experience.

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Wine: Spirits of the Zhouyi
By Scott Davis Ph.D.
An essay examining the way in which the Zhouyi text is composed.

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