One of those frequently asked Yijing questions – what does ‘seeing the great person’ mean? Often it means finding someone who’s already achieved the goal or the standard you’re aiming for, and seeking their advice. You might be able to do that directly by talking with them; you might find… Read more »How to see the great person
The First Insight from James Redfield’s Celestine Prophecy says that people are increasingly feeling that there must be more to life, and that the signs that there is more come as synchronicities. A sense of meaning, direction and growth in life begins with the recognition of synchronicities as personal signposts.… Read more »I Ching reading for the First Insight
There have been some very interesting comments to my ‘Christmas I Ching’ post, and I just added some more that arrived by email. Connecting the Maslow hierarchy of needs to the line positions is an interesting idea – I had a faint inkling of it years ago, in connection with… Read more »Comments on the Christmas I Ching
Weekly readings are a blessing and a joy. I’m finding that the richest rewards come from asking an open-ended question every weekend, and keeping this separate from my readings about whatever pressing issues have come up. Stephen Karcher wrote that the basic question we ask oracles – the question behind… Read more »Weekly I Ching readings
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?
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
