There is a new, original article at the Great Vessel:
The Voices of the Lines: multiple transforming lines.
It describes each line of the hexagram as a ‘voice’, ‘like sounding boxes or wind harps or metaphors.’ Line 1, for example, is described as
“The Voice of Beginnings, the first entrance of things into the psyche or the first stirrings of a process of manifestation. Things here are barely conscious, the dim stirrings of a return of the spirit (24) or the entrance of a new fate (44). This is a receiving position. It receives energy and information from another Pair or from a Crossover within the Pair it is a part of. It is in dialogue with Line 6, a dialogue of beginnings and endings.”
There is a lot of material here that will help to make sense of readings and relate to them at a deeper level. Very good stuff, very interesting indeed (printing out the page as I type). It also helps to answer some of the tantalising questions that Stephen Karcher’s Total I Ching left us with.
There’s an example reading showing how this would work – Hexagram 24 moving to 23, with the radically different first and sixth lines moving.
The images accompanying the reading are screenshots from the new Total Yijing program, which you can download for a 15 day trial from the ‘program’ section. Even if you don’t buy the program (and I’d be surprised if you didn’t, after you see it…), it’s worth downloading just to immerse yourself for 15 days in this way of reading Change.
review the manner in which the brain processes data and we can see how the line representations work without delving into speculations on 10th century BC terminologies/mythology etc – thr focus is on constructive/destructive interference patterns etc. and as such gives us far more precision than that offered in the “Great Vessel” material:
http://members.iimetro.com.au/~lofting/IChingPlus/WaveInterpret.html
I can only echo Hilary when she speaks of the informations in this article.
Wonderful work.
Also Chris’ work is very interesting. If he only would stop finding “his” approach better than other ones.
It is not ‘mine’ as such – it is what comes out of the neurology 😉 I am just the messenger – but then that allows you to shoot me if you wish 😉
Thanks Hilary 🙂
We are all flat out here preparing other articles which will hopefully explore many other questions opened up in the ‘Total I Ching’.
I think there are times when ‘Steps of Change’, or the other similar models, as well as time sequence or lines representing ‘players in the drama, still have their time.
–Kevin