CHAPTER 43 The I Ching
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This chapter will be relatively brief but feel free to pass it by if you have no interest in oriental metaphysics, are superstitious or have religious beliefs that do not allow you to think.
Look at the hexagram above, the hexagram of Peace. The three broken lines in the upper half represent K'un The Receptive (Yang in some Asian philosophies) in the Heavenly position, and the three solid lines below represent Ch'ien The Creative (Yin) upon the Earth. Heaven and Earth are attuned. They are sometimes referred to as the feminine and masculine respectively, although such definitions depend on the
location in one's life of those comparative spiritual energies. If Yang (the feminine) is present for instance, a LESS receptive nearby energy CAN be regarded as Yin, a more masculine form. In a certain respect, it is the oriental explanation of the Theory of Relativity, placed upon the stage of Human Endeavor.
There are 64 conditions represented in the I Ching as poetically described personal attitudes and personal attributes each influencing the other in an occurrence of change. The scenario is the society of a conventional Chinese village of some 3000 years ago, very much like a small town of modern times. Human values are the common denominator.
To attain a MEANING for the above hexagram or any of the 63 other hexagrams, one must be prepared to agree that EVERYTHING in our lives is influenced to the point of CONTROL, by spiritual energy.
If you believe that, you must extrapolate that belief to both a micro and macro - earthly and heavenly, framework. Wind, water, the singing of birds, the arrival of the mailman, the phone ringing, the coming tgether of lovers, literally EVERYTHING is occurring in a dance that is attuned to that spiritual energy that stretches between heaven and earth. Call it God. Now that wasn't so hard, was it? It is
reassuring to know that even the Chinese believe that God REALLY IS running things. Right? Can you believe that? Gotcha.
How about a toss of a coin at a football game. Luck? Nope. That too,is under the control of God, depending on what kind of mood He is in.
Chinese coins like any other, have a "Heads" and a "Tails" side to them. The Chinese use a toss of three coins six times, to define the energy represented by the hexagrams of the I Ching. They also use Yarrow stalks and other indicators, but these require some visionary interpretation. The coins of the I Ching are the most widely accepted mediums of that spiritual energy, for the purposes of the I Ching which are a statement of how things ARE and how things will BE.
By assigning numerical values to the heads and tails of the Three Coins (there's that song, again) TWO hexagrams are defined, one changing to the other. Several poetic, almost Hai-Ku descriptions of the changes are written in the I Ching - The Book of Changes. Unfortunately, we westerners regard this as a foolish fortune telling game like the cards of the Tarot or the Ouija board.
During the time that Sandy and I were coming together. but especially when we broke up, the I Ching repeated the same patterns in three to four day cycles for fully a month. It was profound and most clearly stated, what the next pattern of changes for my life were to be. I have never seen such a distinct pattern of coin throws before. Keeping in mind that I had been studying the I Ching for over ten years, the trite and over-used phrase "awesome" comes to mind.
In the middle 1990's there was a television documentary about a gentleman in Hawaii that I would most dearly have loved to meet. He too had made a long and involved study of the I Ching, and had applied the 64 conditions and changes to a computer model. With the model he was able to recreate the cycle of changes backwards - well over 3000 years to the time that the first known copy of the I Ching had been set
down in Chinese characters, in a literary form. The Ancient Beginning. The Creative. All solid lines above and below. No changes.
One way to extrapolate The Creative to an understanding of human conditions is this scenario; "I am sitting on a rock God, and I am waiting for something, anything to happen." God says; "I'll see you later" and walks away. If YOU do not do something, NOTHING will happen. That is the human condition of The Creative. The heavenly
condition of The Creative is always a total mystery.
The hexagrams come together to make a graphic picture of time. Each of the hexagrams merge with others to create a timeline that is something similar to a map, graph or flow chart. Tied together, it resembles something similar to a long series of modern barcodes, as explained by this student and/or teacher.
In the extrapolation of data into the past, distinct and profound changes in the hexagrams mark all of the major events of history. There is something like a "dip" or change in the intensity of the hexagrams at the point in time of all of the major wars, inaugurations, migrations, revolutions, discoveries, etc.. In the extrapolation of data into the FUTURE however, the computer model hits a solid wall of unaccountable data in the year 2012. Everything simply stops. End of computation. No changes.
The Mayan calendar coincidentally, is more specific; December 23rd, 2012.
I am not an expert on the I Ching but I know enough about it and enough about computers and computer models to know that something at or just before the year 2012 (in an epoch mentioned by Nostradamus) is more than just likely to happen. It could be that this man was processing and extrapolating data that indicated the end of his very own life. It could mean something much more global, certainly Asian in scope. He has stated that he believes mankind and the earth will go separate ways.
I accept that as very possible. It is after all, just before the kickoff - and the umpire is about to flip a coin.
__ __
__ __
_______
_______
_______
This chapter will be relatively brief but feel free to pass it by if you have no interest in oriental metaphysics, are superstitious or have religious beliefs that do not allow you to think.
Look at the hexagram above, the hexagram of Peace. The three broken lines in the upper half represent K'un The Receptive (Yang in some Asian philosophies) in the Heavenly position, and the three solid lines below represent Ch'ien The Creative (Yin) upon the Earth. Heaven and Earth are attuned. They are sometimes referred to as the feminine and masculine respectively, although such definitions depend on the
location in one's life of those comparative spiritual energies. If Yang (the feminine) is present for instance, a LESS receptive nearby energy CAN be regarded as Yin, a more masculine form. In a certain respect, it is the oriental explanation of the Theory of Relativity, placed upon the stage of Human Endeavor.
There are 64 conditions represented in the I Ching as poetically described personal attitudes and personal attributes each influencing the other in an occurrence of change. The scenario is the society of a conventional Chinese village of some 3000 years ago, very much like a small town of modern times. Human values are the common denominator.
To attain a MEANING for the above hexagram or any of the 63 other hexagrams, one must be prepared to agree that EVERYTHING in our lives is influenced to the point of CONTROL, by spiritual energy.
If you believe that, you must extrapolate that belief to both a micro and macro - earthly and heavenly, framework. Wind, water, the singing of birds, the arrival of the mailman, the phone ringing, the coming tgether of lovers, literally EVERYTHING is occurring in a dance that is attuned to that spiritual energy that stretches between heaven and earth. Call it God. Now that wasn't so hard, was it? It is
reassuring to know that even the Chinese believe that God REALLY IS running things. Right? Can you believe that? Gotcha.
How about a toss of a coin at a football game. Luck? Nope. That too,is under the control of God, depending on what kind of mood He is in.
Chinese coins like any other, have a "Heads" and a "Tails" side to them. The Chinese use a toss of three coins six times, to define the energy represented by the hexagrams of the I Ching. They also use Yarrow stalks and other indicators, but these require some visionary interpretation. The coins of the I Ching are the most widely accepted mediums of that spiritual energy, for the purposes of the I Ching which are a statement of how things ARE and how things will BE.
By assigning numerical values to the heads and tails of the Three Coins (there's that song, again) TWO hexagrams are defined, one changing to the other. Several poetic, almost Hai-Ku descriptions of the changes are written in the I Ching - The Book of Changes. Unfortunately, we westerners regard this as a foolish fortune telling game like the cards of the Tarot or the Ouija board.
During the time that Sandy and I were coming together. but especially when we broke up, the I Ching repeated the same patterns in three to four day cycles for fully a month. It was profound and most clearly stated, what the next pattern of changes for my life were to be. I have never seen such a distinct pattern of coin throws before. Keeping in mind that I had been studying the I Ching for over ten years, the trite and over-used phrase "awesome" comes to mind.
In the middle 1990's there was a television documentary about a gentleman in Hawaii that I would most dearly have loved to meet. He too had made a long and involved study of the I Ching, and had applied the 64 conditions and changes to a computer model. With the model he was able to recreate the cycle of changes backwards - well over 3000 years to the time that the first known copy of the I Ching had been set
down in Chinese characters, in a literary form. The Ancient Beginning. The Creative. All solid lines above and below. No changes.
One way to extrapolate The Creative to an understanding of human conditions is this scenario; "I am sitting on a rock God, and I am waiting for something, anything to happen." God says; "I'll see you later" and walks away. If YOU do not do something, NOTHING will happen. That is the human condition of The Creative. The heavenly
condition of The Creative is always a total mystery.
The hexagrams come together to make a graphic picture of time. Each of the hexagrams merge with others to create a timeline that is something similar to a map, graph or flow chart. Tied together, it resembles something similar to a long series of modern barcodes, as explained by this student and/or teacher.
In the extrapolation of data into the past, distinct and profound changes in the hexagrams mark all of the major events of history. There is something like a "dip" or change in the intensity of the hexagrams at the point in time of all of the major wars, inaugurations, migrations, revolutions, discoveries, etc.. In the extrapolation of data into the FUTURE however, the computer model hits a solid wall of unaccountable data in the year 2012. Everything simply stops. End of computation. No changes.
The Mayan calendar coincidentally, is more specific; December 23rd, 2012.
I am not an expert on the I Ching but I know enough about it and enough about computers and computer models to know that something at or just before the year 2012 (in an epoch mentioned by Nostradamus) is more than just likely to happen. It could be that this man was processing and extrapolating data that indicated the end of his very own life. It could mean something much more global, certainly Asian in scope. He has stated that he believes mankind and the earth will go separate ways.
I accept that as very possible. It is after all, just before the kickoff - and the umpire is about to flip a coin.
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