Here’s Donna Woodka’s lovely blog, Changing Places, quoting Deng Ming Tao as he speaks out against divination. Specifically, he’s opposed to the use of divination in big, life-changing decisions – because, according to him – divination amounts to looking for reassurance from forces “out there” – which doesn’t work depending… Read more »Deng Ming Tao on divination
If you follow the ‘Blog of the Wandering Sages’ you’ll have heard of Caroline Casey’s Visionary Activism radio show. Stephen Karcher has just been a guest on her show for a second time – this time together with a Voodoo expert. You can stream the audio from here, or download… Read more »More audio with Stephen Karcher
Questioning the question – Harmen’s Dagboek Harmen challenges the conventional wisdom that it’s necessary to create a focussed, specific question. He is concerned that you can limit your perception as you limit the scope of your question, and hence miss what is truly important. Instead, he suggests ‘addressing a situation’… Read more »Questioning the question
The I Ching is the Book of Change. So when there is a change I very much want to make, but somehow haven’t managed yet, why not call on the oracle’s help? The most obvious way to do this is to ask directly ‘How to…?’ – and I’ve discovered many… Read more »Book of Change
Unusual techniques for applying I Ching hexagrams describes a kinaesthetic approach to understanding both trigrams and hexagrams: “You can hold any hexagram as a ‘shape’ in your body by holding or releasing tension in various parts of your torso” Interesting!
This is the line Wilhelm translates as, “If one is not extremely careful, Somebody may come up from behind and strike him. Misfortune.” So reading it this way, the line would mean that you should ‘overstep the mark’ in taking care – that you should be extraordinarily defensive, constantly on… Read more »Hexagram 62, line 3
In the introduction to The Original I Ching Oracle by Ritsema and Sabbadini, I found an image for an I Ching reading that I wish I’d thought of for myself: an hourglass. ‘In the top half of the hourglass all the complexity and confusion of our existential situation gets narrowed… Read more »I Ching reading as hourglass
