It is my impression that there are more I Ching sites than sites about Carl Jung; the sites are everywhere. This is not a comprehensive listing of good I Ching sites, but rather ones that I have found to be well done. (If you know of others, please let me know… Not quite up to…
Earlier posts mentioned both Jodi Mitchell and the I Ching and Leonard Cohen and the I Ching. Like the I Ching, the relationship is echoed in their songs. Heck Of A Guy A pastiche of posts, featuring song, dance, snappy chatter plus notes on prose, poesy, love, lust, life, and beyond March 31, 2007 Just…
Leonard Cohen, the Canadian poet, novelist, musician and songwriter, utilized the I Ching early in his career. In researching this on the Web, the following article appeared, written by Ruth Wisse in 1995. (She is a professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard). It bespeaks of the prejudice about the I Ching, and how little it…
The Book of Changes is one of the most influential books in the history of civilization. Its importance is relatively unrecognized in the West. Personally, I think has a book of “divination”, as an oracle, it need to be considered very skeptically. Synchronicity is not so easy. However, as a book of wisdom, as a…
(Continuing on theme of how the I Ching — essentially introduced to the West by Carl Jung and Richard Wilhelm in 1950 — influenced the culture…) Joni Mitchell: Amelia I was driving across the burning desert When I spotted six jet planes Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain It was…
(More on the profound cultural influence of the I Ching…)
Continuing on the theme of musical references to the I Ching, The Band was one of the best bands of the sixties. End of argument. She reads the leaves and she leads the life That she learned so well from the old wives It’s so strange to arrange it, you know I wouldn’t change…
“Sympathetic this his psychology, before they met, [Jolande Jacobi] was mesmerized afterwards when Jung wrote all sixty-four hexagrams from memory.”[1928] Jung, A Biography Page 367 From Memories, Dreams and Reflections I first met Richard Wilhelm at Count Keyserling’s during a meeting of the “School of Wisdom” in Darmstadt. That was in the early twenties. In…
“The I Ching does not offer itself with proofs and results; it does not vaunt itself, nor is it easy to approach. Like a part of nature, it waits until it is discovered. It offers neither facts nor power, but for lovers of self-knowledge, of wisdom — if there be such — it seems to…