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Divination tips

‘DIY’ tips for I Ching divination

I Ching Community: identifying demons

I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Who is “the Devil” in this cast? Ole’s story of a series of readings, giving a very good, practical demonstration of how to use line pathways (along with gut feeling) to go beyond surface appearances, and also how to use supplemental questions.

Without coins or stalks II

StevePavlina.com Podcast #003 – Consulting Your Intuition Steve Pavlina’s ‘Personal development for smart people’ blog is always a worthwhile read: lucid, intelligent and honest. Recently he’s started doing podcasts – and these, too, are several cuts above the average. (And helped along by the fact that he’s a professional speaker,… Read more »Without coins or stalks II

Without coins or yarrow

Someone asked: “How do I go about developing the talent to access this wisdom faculty without using coins, yarrow stalks, computers and so on?” It’s an extremely good question, and not one I truly know the answer to, as it’s not a talent I’ve developed. However, I do think that… Read more »Without coins or yarrow

Why ask political questions?

Email from John: “I was wondering why someone such as the host of ‘Useless Tree’ would ask such large questions as he does. Isn’t it better to ask such questions so as to influence events to promote the general benevolence?” It’s a reasonable question, and I’ll send Sam Crane a… Read more »Why ask political questions?

Helping to find the question

GreenOwl wrote:

“Ideally you need to allow a good half hour to talk with (or rather listen to) your querent and arrive at the right question for them.”

Any chance you could do a post (y’know, sometime) that walks through an example of that process? Or, if you’ve already written about it and I’m forgetting, just point in the right direction. Thanks!

That’s tricky, as I promise clients complete confidentiality – no discussion of their situation, question or answer, even anonymously. So I can’t go through a specific real-life example. But I can talk about general experiences that I’ve had with a few hundred customers – why not?

Back to basics

I write a lot about trying to recover the original meanings of some of the I Ching’s key phrases. Which may be of academic interest, but why bother with China circa 1000BC when asking about Western life in 2005 AD?

Well, not to get to the One True Authentic Original Oracle. That doesn’t exist, and any claims otherwise deserve short shrift. No – it’s about trying for an imaginative grasp on the ideas and interrelationships in the old text.