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Hi Elvis aka Chris Lofting,
If you want people to understand what you're saying, you really need to translated it into everyday English. I think I'm reasonably well educated and articulate but I just give up.
Bob:bows:
61 has its infrastructure described by analogy to the generic qualities of hexagram 29 - "with containment comes control".
The beginning of 61 is described by analogy to the generic qualities of hexagram 59 and as such introduces the initial 'lifting of a fog'.
The purpose/completion of 61 is described by analogy to the generic qualities of hexagram 18 . . . .
The doubt angle, the avoiding of completion, the focus on 'remaining open', of 61 is described by analogy to the generic qualities of hexagram 17
an additional 63 hexagrams worth of information per hexagram
This is a mental exercise in comparing every hexagram to every other.
The EIC boils down to choosing a hexagram based on answering questions about one’s mental state, then seeing the meaning of the resulting hexagram reflected in all the rest. (That’s how I see it and I have no intention of arguing the point.) Unfortunately, it is accompanied by so much obfuscation about language, and classes, and the XOR function, and neuronal processes, and brain symmetries, as to be all but unintelligible. The inability to clearly explain or communicate it does no credit to its source.
I think of it as an introspective plum blossom method; rather than look for significance in external events, one looks at internal mental states.
Unfortunately, my internal mental states are typically full of conflicts, desires, and fears, and I would rather obtain a hexagram from without, an external reference to use as a point of departure, and ponder its meaning as it relates to my situation.
I think I speak for many people who consult the I Ching when I say that we are turning to bronze age wisdom when contemporary wisdom fails us.
But of course, those who think that the EIC is better, and want to use it, or the plum blossom method, or swinging a pendulum over symbols of the trigrams, or any other, are welcome to.
There is only one EIC, and Chris is it's prophet
Unfortunately, my internal mental states are typically full of conflicts, desires, and fears, and I would rather obtain a hexagram from without, an external reference to use as a point of departure, and ponder its meaning as it relates to my situation.
I am just the messenger.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).