I-Ching

By JoAn Pruyn, I Ching Master

What is the I Ching?

     The I Ching is an ancient Chinese oracle between five and six thousand years old. Its exact origins are lost in the mists of time as no written record has been discovered that can tell us of its earliest development. The I Ching is considered the world's oldest book, far older than the earliest books of the Bible. The I Ching is more central to Eastern culture than the Bible is to Western culture. For example, the following are based on the I Ching: Taoism, Yin/Yang, T'ai Chi, Kung Fu, Feng Shui, the Tao Te Ching, Chinese medicine and herbalism (including the underlying principals of acupuncture). Zen Buddhism is also largely inspired and derived from the I Ching.


     The I Ching is composed of 64 binary mathematical patterns called hexagrams. Each hexagram is composed of six lines which may be broken (yin) or solid (yang). The basic idea of the I Ching is that as you are going through a human life you are cycling through sixty-four dynamic, energetic "situations" which are represented by the sixty-four hexagrams. Each of the hexagrams has a classic archetypal and extremely familiar aspect. The dynamic, energetic pattern of the hexagram will apply to psychological/spiritual dynamics  and/or environmental dynamics, especially personal or political relationships.  The I Ching recognizes the parallelism of inner and outer, and hexagrams often apply on multiple levels.  The I Ching transcends the often arbitrary distinctions of inner and outer and recognizes the "massively parallel" nature of human incarnation.

 How do we consult the I Ching?

 Consulting the I Ching involves building a hexagram.  Consulting the I Ching involves building a hexagram. The hexagram is created by tossing three coins six times.  People raised in the West will tend to presume that the outcome must be random. But according to findings in chaos mathematics and information theory, randomness may be impossible, and the assumption of randomness in various observed phenomena may be one of the most immense wrong turnings that science ever took. Another possibility is that the coin toss is a "synchronicity”, a term that was coined by C.G. Jung in the 1940s.  Jung defined synchronicity as an "an acausal connecting principle."  In other words, synchronicity describes relationships that are not mediated by cause and effect, but instead have an acausal parallelism. Jung was searching for a way to account for those uncanny, completely improbable "coincidences" (assumption of randomness) where something from the inner life and something from the outer world would "synch up."

 What does an I Ching reading tell me?

     It is possible to ask the I Ching about a specific problem, relationship, life choice, etc. Your first I Ching consultation starts with a "general life reading" which means that you ask no question in specific but the I Ching will offer you the most important information you need to know at this moment. The I Ching will tend to respond to the most significant thing going on, especially in a first reading, even if that's not exactly what you asked about.  This is why most readers default to a general life reading when working with a client for the first time.

     An I Ching reading is not "fortune telling" in the sense that it is not attempting clairvoyance, or foreseeing your future. Any oracle that does claim clairvoyance has to presume that you lack free will which could alter the outcome, and the I Ching emphatically does not make that presumption. Also, the I Ching is an ancient, not a New Age, oracle. It is not designed, like "Angel Cards," to make you feel good in a vague, fuzzy way, but to pierce through to what's really going on. It tells us what we need to hear, not necessarily what we want to hear.
     
     The I Ching is not a religion, or a system that forces upon you dogmatic beliefs, but rather a versatile spiritual/psychological oracular technology---the Swiss Army Knife of spiritual tools. If I were hitchhiking cross country with a back pack I would probably leave out my sleeping bag before I gave up my I Ching. Many seekers travel to exotic places searching for a guru and find someone who ends up hitting on them. But if you have an open mind, a will to learn and a good version of the I Ching, you have twenty-four hour a day access to an omniscient, egoless source of guidance and insight.  Thanks for taking the time to read this. 


Basic readings are $30 and last approximately 30 minutes in duration. Additional time is billed at $1 per minute in quarter hour( 15 minute) increments. You will be invoiced once the appointment time has been scheduled with JoAn.

Consultations are provided by telephone appointment only.

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For those who would like more in-depth insight on your dreams or recurrent life visions, allow Carol Ann to assist you in understanding these sacred symbols. To schedule your appointment or to acquire more information, you can contact her directly at carol@thebodytherapeutics.com

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As a medical intuitive with past life referencing, Carol Ann Brown can tap into your life purpose, blockages to your emotional freedom, and guide you to an understanding of why you're here, why there seems to be a blockage to your moving forward, and how you can find resolution. To schedule your appointment or to acquire more information, you can contact her directly at carol@thebodytherapeutics.com
 

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