fkegan
April 6th, 2008, 07:42 PM
The complete Flux Tome explanation of the I Ching (Flux Tome) is now newly rewritten and online. For those unfamiliar with I Ching Oracle studies independent of the received Chinese texts or traditional commentaries this novel approach breaks with academic tradition, starting by explaining the meaning of a hexagram from just the Yang line places in the 6-stage hexagram matrix. Yin is just part of the background.
Since 'Once Is Not Enough'... The meaning of the hexagrams is also explained by their position in the King Wen Sequence in terms of sets of 10 hexagrams with each set overall described in the hexagram whose sequence number ends in 1 (1,11,21,31,41,51, and 61) with the meanings of all the other hexagrams being that first monad of the decad viewed in terms of a standard set of perspectives: The Dyad (hexagrams ending in 2 and 3), Triad (hexagrams ending in 4,5,6), and double dichotomy Tetrad (hexagrams ending in 7,8,9,0)... which can also be associated with the Chinese T'ai Chi (yang/yin symbol).
This explanation of the KW Sequence breaks with the superficial detail that the King Wen Sequence is structured in terms of 32 pairs, each even numbered pattern being the opposite of its preceding odd numbered hexagram. Like a sonnet rhyme scheme, these pairs are just part of the elegance of the final product not at all anything to do with the meaning of the hexagrams or the explanation of the KW sequence.
Whatever deep patterning can be found through advanced computer analysis is more a reflection of current fascination with binary switches ganged together to make a framework for programming techniques than anything relevant to the Sequence or hexagram meaning. The Yi hexagram matrix is more like the symbolical version of our brain synapse patterns which store meaning without the intermediary of language--human or computer program code. But that is another issue.
Although Ezra Pound did a lousy job translating the Book of Odes from his impression of the ideogram drawings, that isn't the end of associating English language terms to classical Taoist concepts. The fundamental gestalt perspective of the Yi as graphic symbolism is universal rather than contained in ancient Chinese tomb artifacts resting in peace with their occupants.
Oracle Interpretation is an act of divination which is an occult art like astrology and the fundamentals of all divination share a range of basics. This opens up a number of connections between Yi oracles and such things as the Sabian Symbols for the degrees of the Zodiac, the patterns on the Pythagorean dice cube, and the structural analysis of Yi oracles as descriptions of relevant process from the unique center of each persons personal perception.
http://www.stars-n-dice.com/fluxtome.html now includes:
These six independent insights packed into the unique Flux Tome (I Ching) perspective:
1. Hexagram meaning from the set of Yang lines only.
2. Conceptual ideograms in simple American terms as a dialect of ancient Chinese.
3. Correspondence of the 360 degrees of the Zodiac to the line judgments of hexagrams 3 to 62.
4. The King Wen Sequence explained by Pythagorean Tetraktys and Lao Tzu poem 42
5. Structural interpretation of I Ching Oracles from The Oracle Book.
6. Integrated Stars-n-Dice perspective reviving the Global Awareness of the 6th Century BCE
Or for the entire Stars And Dice Perspective... http://www.stars-n-dice.com/stars-n-diceprocess.html
or just the website home page: http://www.stars-n-dice.com/index.html
These pages are not now totally complete (neither am I) but at least explicit and accessible to the open mind.
Dr. Frank R. Kegan :bows:
Since 'Once Is Not Enough'... The meaning of the hexagrams is also explained by their position in the King Wen Sequence in terms of sets of 10 hexagrams with each set overall described in the hexagram whose sequence number ends in 1 (1,11,21,31,41,51, and 61) with the meanings of all the other hexagrams being that first monad of the decad viewed in terms of a standard set of perspectives: The Dyad (hexagrams ending in 2 and 3), Triad (hexagrams ending in 4,5,6), and double dichotomy Tetrad (hexagrams ending in 7,8,9,0)... which can also be associated with the Chinese T'ai Chi (yang/yin symbol).
This explanation of the KW Sequence breaks with the superficial detail that the King Wen Sequence is structured in terms of 32 pairs, each even numbered pattern being the opposite of its preceding odd numbered hexagram. Like a sonnet rhyme scheme, these pairs are just part of the elegance of the final product not at all anything to do with the meaning of the hexagrams or the explanation of the KW sequence.
Whatever deep patterning can be found through advanced computer analysis is more a reflection of current fascination with binary switches ganged together to make a framework for programming techniques than anything relevant to the Sequence or hexagram meaning. The Yi hexagram matrix is more like the symbolical version of our brain synapse patterns which store meaning without the intermediary of language--human or computer program code. But that is another issue.
Although Ezra Pound did a lousy job translating the Book of Odes from his impression of the ideogram drawings, that isn't the end of associating English language terms to classical Taoist concepts. The fundamental gestalt perspective of the Yi as graphic symbolism is universal rather than contained in ancient Chinese tomb artifacts resting in peace with their occupants.
Oracle Interpretation is an act of divination which is an occult art like astrology and the fundamentals of all divination share a range of basics. This opens up a number of connections between Yi oracles and such things as the Sabian Symbols for the degrees of the Zodiac, the patterns on the Pythagorean dice cube, and the structural analysis of Yi oracles as descriptions of relevant process from the unique center of each persons personal perception.
http://www.stars-n-dice.com/fluxtome.html now includes:
These six independent insights packed into the unique Flux Tome (I Ching) perspective:
1. Hexagram meaning from the set of Yang lines only.
2. Conceptual ideograms in simple American terms as a dialect of ancient Chinese.
3. Correspondence of the 360 degrees of the Zodiac to the line judgments of hexagrams 3 to 62.
4. The King Wen Sequence explained by Pythagorean Tetraktys and Lao Tzu poem 42
5. Structural interpretation of I Ching Oracles from The Oracle Book.
6. Integrated Stars-n-Dice perspective reviving the Global Awareness of the 6th Century BCE
Or for the entire Stars And Dice Perspective... http://www.stars-n-dice.com/stars-n-diceprocess.html
or just the website home page: http://www.stars-n-dice.com/index.html
These pages are not now totally complete (neither am I) but at least explicit and accessible to the open mind.
Dr. Frank R. Kegan :bows: