Andreas Schöter presented a paper at last year’s International Conference on the Yijing and Contemporary Civilisation in Taiwan, which you can download from this page. (Follow the link to his report on the trip.) I’ve just done so, and hope to be able to understand parts of it.
Wishing you a very happy, peaceful and fulfilling 2006!
I’ ve been wondering and delighting in this reading for a year now – it seems a good time to share it. I had a Christian upbringing, and as I started reflecting for myself, I never quite saw the point of the Incarnation. God is here, of course – where… Read more »Christmas I Ching
Round about this time of year, I’ve usually given subscribers a pdf anthology of newsletter articles from the last year’s issues. Which makes some kind of sense when those articles are scattered through an archive of newsletters, but a bit less sense (I think) when you can go straight to… Read more »The story of Gun and Yu
Looking up the ‘Pace of Yu’ on Google, I found a link to a fascinating-looking paper on ‘The transformations of Yu the Great in Daoist myth and ritual’. But the paper itself wasn’t available – only the html version Google had generated of it. So I suggest saving a copy… Read more »Last chance to see?
I just came across a ‘Tao Calendar’ for 2006, with photography from Jane English (the same one who makes the yarrow stalks) and text from the Daodejing and Zhuangzi. Looks like there is still time to order it before Christmas in the US though sadly not in the UK. Maybe… Read more »Tao calendar
More power to Mark McElroy’s elbow! He visited skepdic.com, and found a bunch of utterly loopy speculation about divination. (How those who divine are ‘insecure and dependent’, thanks to our unfulfilled childhoods!) He did not get flustered; he sent a calm, rational and intelligent email about this to the site… Read more »Scepticism in Transition
