“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…
[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…
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…
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…
From the Forward: This assumption involves a certain curious principle that I have termed synchronicity, a concept that formulates a point of view diametrically opposed to that of causality. Since the latter is a merely statistical truth and not absolute, it is a sort of working hypothesis of how events evolve one out of another,…
A few years later Wilhelm was staying as a guest in my house, and came down with an attack of amoebic dysentery. It was a disease he had had twenty years before. His condition grew worse during the following months, and then I heard that Wilhelm was in the hospital. I went to Frankfurt to…
“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…