Carl Jung: On the I Ching “The science of the I Ching…is based on what I have tentatively called the synchronistic principle. My occupation with the psychology of unconscious process long ago necessitated my casting around for another explanatory principle, because the causality principle seemed to me inadequate for the explanation of certain…
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…
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…)
[youtube id=”biVJgIW8k_o”] I wrote “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” at my mother’s house in Warrington. I was thinking about the Chinese I Ching, the Book of Changes… The Eastern concept is that whatever happens is all meant to be, and that there’s no such thing as coincidence – every little item that’s going down…
I threw the I Ching yesterday Said there might be some thunder at the well Peace and quiet’s been avoiding me For so long it seems like living hell Bob Dylan, Bootleg version of Idiot Wind A lot of people tell me they enjoy that album. It’s hard for me to relate to that. I…
A reader wrote to me after seeing the post about Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching about an interview with Joseph Campbell, where he mentioned Bob Dylan’s role in saving the Bollingen Foundation… (Dylan apparently also introduced the Beatles to marijuana, but that is another story.) “Or the time [Joseph Campbell] said that Bob Dylan…
“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 1923 we invited him to Zurich and he spoke on the I Ching (or Yi Jing) at the Psychology Club. Even before meeting him I had been interested in Oriental…