Total I Ching: Myths for Change
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I Ching is the oldest, most respected divinatory system in the world. There are currently two kinds of translations available, which offer conflicting interpretations—the Confucian version and an earlier version called Zhouyi. Reconstructed by 20th-century scholars and archaeologists, Zhouyi presents the imaginative world of myth and ritual that is the basis of Eastern thought. Now, for the first time, Stephen Karcher fuses these two traditions using modern scholarship, archaeological and linguistic research, Eastern philosophy, and comparative religion, presenting them to the Western reader in a comprehensive, accessible, and vivid new form. Total I Ching is a complete oracle with instructions for use in all life situations. It is also the first translation to detail the mythology of the divinatory system, the Myths for Change.
AcknowledgementsvIntroductionixOn this TranslationxiThe World of Change1The Name of the Book2Springs, Sources and the Changes of the Moon3The Bronze Vessels4The Books of Change and the Mandate of Heaven5The Flowering of a Hundred Schools7The Great Enterprise8Classic of Change9Change in the West10On Time11'The Highest Good is like Water'12The World of Change16The Shape of the Turtle17Guishen: the Souls and Spirits18Technicians of the Sacred20Places of Close Encounter21The Two Powers and the River-Mountain Festivals23The Four Seasons and the Rituals of the Ancestors25Tools for Change28The Two Kinds of Lines28The Four Symbols29The Six-line Diagrams30The Primary Figure30The Pair31The Relating Figure31Bagua: The Eight Diagrams32Wuxing: The Five Processes or Moments38Outer and Inner40The Kernel or Hidden Possibility41Steps of Change44The Change Operators45The Reading and the Layout46Casting the Vessel: Shaping Change49Yijing: The Loom of Change50New King and Old King: The Ideal of Sacrifice52The College of Diviners53The Mirror World: The Dynamics of the Pair54Interconnections and Transformations56The Decades and the Symbolic Life58Paradigms of Creative Transformation60The Offering and the Blessing63Consulting Change65The Helping Spirit65The Question of the Question66Chance and Fate: Accessing Change67Generating the Lines68Finding the Way70Concise Answers and Readings in Depth70Divinatory Signs71Encountering the Oracle72Description of a Divinatory Figure73A Guide to Using the Oracle of Change75The Divinatory Figures77Book I Foundations: Figures 1-3079Book II Realizations: Figures 31-64251Key to the Hexagrams439Times of Change443Bibliography445
