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?
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.
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…
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.
Chameleon Book – a new translation of the Zhouyi by Freeman Crouch.
From the downloadable pdf sample (introduction, appendices, five hexagrams), this looks fresh, bright and intelligent. There are very useful suggestions for divination and imagining yourself into the imagery. (Eg ‘you are soil to be worked, you are a mare’ or ‘seeing the self as a kingdom’.)
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Spiritual hierarchy Last November, Val asked Yi if there was such a thing as spiritual hierarchy. The answer was Hexagram 23 changing to 24. This reading surely emphasises that there are differences, like those between the junzi and the ‘small people’ of the top line,… Read more »ICC: Hexagrams 23 and 24, and spiritual hierarchy
Ancient China – The British Museum I’ve spent far, far too long browsing this. (Yes, I know it’s meant for 9 to 11 year olds.) The maps of ancient China are great (select your dynasty); you can explore the interior of a Zhou tomb (with abundant photos of vessels, weapons… Read more »Ancient China – The British Museum
