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Selected Yijing papers

Selected Yijing papers – with very interesting titles. “I Ching, psychology of heart, and Jungian analysis” looks good…

mashica I Ching

mashica I Ching This may win prizes for ‘most indecipherable I Ching site design’, but if you once find your way in (try the little numbers and arrow over on the right) there is a nice online oracle here, using the translation by Rosemary and Kerson Huang. I asked for… Read more »mashica I Ching

What is it about this oracle?

Can’t for the life of me think of anything to say about this one: Of robot art and drawn meditations Quote: “Eva Sutton and Sarah Hart constructed an installation called “Chance Transmission: An I Ching Reading with Two Small Robots.” This performative piece generates and reads a visitor’s I Ching… Read more »What is it about this oracle?

Hexagram 45, line 1 and computer chaos

Where had I got to? Ah yes… started recording, and discovered exactly what could go wrong when Program X disabled my soundcard. Logged out. Restarted computer. Restarted browser. Logged in. Not going to try Program X again. Turn on the internal meeting room recorder instead…

Flashback to a reading a few days earlier:

Before the webinar, I was very worried about my computer’s habit of freezing – anything up to four and five times a day, and always at truly inspired moments. Much divination ensued.

What if I don’t reinstall Windows, how will the system cope?

Hexagram 45, changing at line 1, Hexagram 17.

Hexagram 23 and computer calamities

Wow!

The webinar with Stephen Karcher finished a few hours ago, and I’m altogether overwhelmed by the sheer intensity and information-density of it all. There will be a recording available, presently – free for ticket holders and on sale to everyone else. Watch, as always, this space.

For now I want to write about something altogether more trivial, while the big stuff sinks in.

Before the webinar, I did much computer-related divination, to thrash out technical problems as best I could. So let me share one or two of those readings…

Chinese artefacts in the British Museum

Search results for China from the BM’s online gallery of their collections. Stunning images of neolithic jade – and look down the bottom of the page for links to short articles and collections of images.