I know (I think I know, anyway…) the “Applegirl” name comes from your affinity with Macs; for some reason though, I just thought that a literal translation of the moniker to Spanish is very nice and perhaps appropriate, given the challenging thoughts presented: “La niña de la manzana,” as in “the girl with the apple.”

Just because consciousness affects quantum processes doesn’t mean the big leap that so many people are looking for is actually real. I’m not sure external events can be changed all that easily because we all have free will.

I’m thinking that if I bite the apple of the “nature of reality” in a blog’s comment section, the page will become an endless spaghetti of opinions that will go down Incoherency Road very fast. I certainly agree with the second sentence in the quote. Indeed, free will, as stated, is closely related to entropy for it to be effective beyond the individual. However, free will, as “opposition or agreement in a potential stage,” only comes into play as an aware reaction to overt external stimuli; with “awareness” being the operating word. For this I mean that we (our collective selves; whole sub-sets thereof; and even specially targeted individuals) are constantly affected and changed–in subtle and not so subtle ways–by covert external stimuli that runs outside of our awareness.

Coherency be damned, of course…

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However, Bradford’s experiences with choosing hexagrams for situations is pretty amazing.

Hilary – lovely reading for the year, hex 2 is a hexagram that gave me much insight this year.

Applegirl

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However, I share Hilary’s reticence about exploring such power. There seems to be a general principle that in any two-way relationship, responsibility exists in proportion to the power of the parties involved. When all the power lies with Yi, things are relatively straight-forward.

Perhaps I didn’t express myself clearly enough or perhaps I sounded ambiguous. Not sure. What I’m sure of is that I’m not advocating any practices that go against anyone’s beliefs, morals or preparedness. I was pointing that, if one observes things that are seemingly acausal and labels them “talismanic” (or “magical,” by any other name), then it may follow (at least in my mind) that acausality may not really exists and that those observations obey laws that are unknown to the observer. It further follows that if something obeys a given “set of laws” then, if said laws are learned, causality can be consciously effected.

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However, I share Hilary’s reticence about exploring such power. There seems to be a general principle that in any two-way relationship, responsibility exists in proportion to the power of the parties involved. When all the power lies with Yi, things are relatively straight-forward.

Like Applegirl, I don’t see anything intrinsically wrong with exploring whatever power the oracle grants us. However, I don’t have enough skill and wisdom for living an ordinary (non-magic) life. (One reason for consulting Yi in the first place!) I doubt I’d be able to shoulder responsibility for the Karmic complications my “magic” interventions would bring, as well.

But maybe, when the virtues of 13, 14, 15 and 16 are second nature…

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You know, when I wrote the post I was thinking about how hexagrams seem to ‘do things’ by themselves, without being asked. The idea of deliberately using them in some magical way is new to me, and a great big mental stretch.

Simply repeatedly writing down the hexagrams from a reading feels like a good place to start.

So the iChing hexagram talismans are potentially very powerful because they’re self-primed over a long period of meaning. I think this is something to contemplate some more, but I could definitely see myself working with the iChing in this way.

Applegirl

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This is a pretty remarkable universe we find ourselves in, isn’t it…?