Clearly, Carl Jung makes people happy…. Click this link for more about Jung’s carving on his 75th Birthday Archetypal Symbolism in Possessing the Secret of Joy Southern Literary Journal Alice Walker’s fifth novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), marks a new beginning for an author/activist who explicitly appropriates Carl Jung’s archetypal patterns of the…
“I think that most people don’t get to live in these big cities where we have skyscrapers, beautiful cars, and beautiful people, so it’s this wish-fulfillment of getting to destroy these things.” Neal Moritz, the producer of Battle: Los Angeles. “If there was ever a truly apocalyptic era, it is ours…. What is unique about…
Joel Biroco’s website about the Yijing is the place to start to understand its origins and and use. Not only is in informative, in-depth and well-organized, it is very aesthetically pleasing. Amazing place. The way a website should be.
If I ask the I Ching a question as though it were a book of wisdom, which it is, I generally say, “What do you have to say about this?” and then I just listen to what it says and see if some bells ring or not. There is no split between body & spirit….
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…
“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…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pacX-FTc6Vk It is a pleasure to listen to the I Ching set to music. This is an original song from The Piper at the Break of Dawn, the ground-breaking first album of Pink Floyd. One has to wonder just how much the I Ching influenced the 60’s….. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VZQorlta_0[/youtube] All movement is…