What is the I Ching?
The Funeral of the Real » I Ching and the Logos
Here’s an unusual I Ching reading, interpreted with great creative insight from an unfamiliar perspective. The question is “What is the I Ching?”, the answer Hexagram 44 moving at lines 3 and 4 to Hexagram 20. So Joe Chip notices that the trigram for wind or wood is in both hexagrams - first inside heaven, then above the earth, and
“interpreted this as meaning that the I Ching is the wind that blows between heaven and earth, and is created by heaven and received by earth. It could also be the tree between heaven and earth, evoking the tree of life, or axis mundi.”
And his response to Cary Baynes’ ‘fish in the tank’ is remarkable, too.
February 20th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
[...] These days “Gnostic” as a label feels like an ill-fitting suit. Ill-fitting suits are always bad, by definition. Better options include: a well-tailored suit, or casual but stylish. Given my personal dispositions, I’d have to go with casual but stylish. My blog has been getting a minor amount of attention outside of the Gnostocosm as well. I was flattered to find my first I Ching post referenced by Answers, an I Ching blog. Some of the things I talk about obviously have appeal beyond online Gnosticism. I think this blog can be Gnostic without being “a Gnostic blog.” And I can be Gnostic without being a Gnostic. [...]
October 22nd, 2006 at 7:37 pm
A friend of mine has a blog on various religious topics. It comments on Gnosticism occasionally, often in a satirical light. I’d be curious to hear your take on things. It’s at link
Some gnostic related postings include;
http://tim.2wgroup.com/blog/archives/001204.html
http://tim.2wgroup.com/blog/archives/001197.html
http://tim.2wgroup.com/blog/archives/001261.html
Good luck!
October 23rd, 2006 at 10:22 am
Thanks for the links, that’s a well-written blog. I couldn’t really comment on Gnosticism, though - I just liked the way this particular Gnostic looked at Yi.