Clarity,
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I don't think the eye ching cares. I mean, I think the eye ching doesn't care.
Question for all and sundry - what do you tend to call the whatever-it-is you're conversing with via the Yijing?
Question for all and sundry - what do you tend to call the whatever-it-is you're conversing with via the Yijing?
that person who wrote you the persnickety email should be promptly 29.6ed. I love it when you ( Hilary) refer to the oracle as Yi. The Yi is different from Yi. the book is not the voice. the book is the tool, the vessel, Yi is the voice, the interactive flow
Thank you, Lucia, for posting the definition of 'persnickety'. It's a good word, isn't it? Somehow sounds exactly like what it means, and as if it wears pince nez.
Just posted something in a more serious note in Hilary's FB version of this thread. In that context, "Yi" is the name we choose to give to the soul/shen that is speaking to us through the book.
Hilary:... Question for all and sundry - what do you tend to call the whatever-it-is you're conversing with via the Yijing?
"FB version" ? does FB stand for face book ? Hope not as i don't get all that flibbertygibberish stuff ...(i made that word up i think)
Sincerely
The Trojan
ps why can't you write it here instead, the serious note i mean, so i can read it
I don't really understand why anyone would join facebook but now you mention i can see pics of you scantily dressed at the beach if i do...well i may consider it
Referring to the Oracle as not a person is quite peculiar if not offensive to those who have a relationship with the spirit said to reside in the book.
I think anyone who is offended by how anyone else refers to the ching , needs to get a life.
Lucia
Hi Hilary,
Your email friend seems sadly mistaken in his assumption that Oracles come from merely a book and not a person. Even Jung in his forward to the Wilhelm (was he a person?) notes ..."the text of the hexagram must be regarded as though the I Ching itself were the speaking person"...
Frank
I have in the past found myself using You, intending it in the plural, and imagining this to be something like an artificial intelligence brought to life by a convention or congress of diviners and shamans (a wu xian in Chinese). And I say it as though I'm addressing superiors, not just buddies.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
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