Wonder Woman and the Incredible I Ching
(More on the profound cultural influence of the I Ching…)
(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…
As evidenced in the last post on Freud and Jung’s Ill-fated Arctic Expedition, photos these days are not necessarily “real.” However, as Jungian analyst Brian Collison suggested in one of his comments, the imaginal realm is also very real. So herewith are other well-photoshopped images from the site: I would like to imagine they were…
“Freud & Jung posing for a photo during an ill-fated arctic expedition ca. 1912. One man and three dogs met their deaths during this endeavor. This traumatic episode put a great deal of strain on the two mens’ relationship.” (Source) I must say, when I first came across the photos at this website, it was…