I Ching and the Internet

[cal val]

There's talk of obscure references in the Book of Changes in a couple (or more) of the threads here. I have a challenge for any who are up to it.

Can you find any references to the Internet in the Book? And I'm saying hypothetically that the question is not about the internet, but the answer is. How would the Yi direct a person to the Internet, or some aspect thereof, in the Book?

Specific things to find references for:

Internet
Chat room
Instant messaging program (ICQ, MSN, Yahoo IM, AIM)
Web space
Web page design
Anything else you can think of internet related

Enjoy!


Cheerio the noo,

Val

 

[hilary]

Nice thought, Val. I have one from personal experience: Hexagram 9, line 3 = error 500. Well, it was when I first uploaded the Flash I Ching. This isn't quite what you meant, I know, but I suspect that the best correlations are the ones that arise in conversation with Yi.

Having said that - 22 for web page design, naturally. Wish I could claim 37 for navigational structure!

Your turn!

 

[jblake]

from Blakney's translation of the Dao De Jing:
"A good computer uses no tallies."

 

[cal val]

Hilary...

Okay. I'm ready to take my turn...*grin*

With the compass direction thread and all the diagrams I saw and the one I made, I got an idea.

I decided to construct the hexagrams in living hexadecimal color. So...

I used the lighest end of the hexadecimal scale, "f" for the yang lines and the darkest end, "0" for the yin lines, and constructed the hexagrams. For example, hexagram 1 is ffffff, hexagram 30 is f0ff0f and so forth.

I have two diagrams to present, and I hope that you all will feel free to try to find sequence in the colors and share with the rest of us.

The first diagram is simply the hexagrams in numerical order. http://home.earthlink.net/~lakatz/images/hexadecimal-yi1.gif

In the second diagram, I made each row according to the number of yang lines in it. Row 1 has one hexagram with six yang lines. Row 2 has hexagrams with five yang lines, row 3 - four yang lines row 4 - three yang lines and three yin lines, etc. for a total of six rows.

While I was making the rows I noticed that the CMYK color scale (used for print applications) was predominant in the upper rows where the lines were mostly yang, and the RGB color scale (used predominantly for internet applications) was predominant in the lower rows, so I grouped them accordingly.

I also noticed another interesting development. I've often heard that hexagrams 63 and 64 are related to hexagrams 1 and 2. I've even heard it said that they are less intense versions of the two. Well as it happens, they turned out to be shades of grey using the hexadecimal color code (f0f0f0 and 0f0f0f) where hexagrams 1 and 2 were white and black. http://home.earthlink.net/~lakatz/images/hexadecimal-yi2.gif

Have fun!

Cheerio the noo,

Val

 

[heylise]

Beautiful pages. I will print them out, because right now I have no time.

But take a look at www.lunarlogic.de/Connie/The_metapattern_of_8.htm
She made a difference between CMYK and RGB, for Yin and yang. The result is a very logic color-scheme for the trigrams.

LiSe

 

[cal val]

LiSe...

Great! Thanks! So I thought I'd try a little experiment to try to figure out how she arrived at the colors for the trigrams that she did, and I applied hexadecimal color codes to the eight trigrams only this time, using ff for the yang lines and 00 for the yin. I came up with exactly the same colors for each trigram that she did... http://home.earthlink.net/~lakatz/images/hexadecimal-yi3.gif

So that's how she must have arrived at her conclusions as well. I would awe-struck to learn that her choices were "arbitrary"

Cheerio the noo,

Val

 

[heylise]

I made a page about the trigram colors when I had seen Connie Achilles's page, at
http://www.anton-heyboer.org/i_ching/trigrams/index.html
One of the big number of things I started and never finished. Well, it looks finished, but I wanted to add a lot more, but then something else came around the corner ..

LiSe

 

[davidl]

One of my favourite lines is 61 line 2. I have often thought of the internet as a physical/phsycological stepping stone for mankind to truly begin to recognise the truth of interconnectedness or oneness of mankind. Surely the Confucian quote attached to the line in Wilhelm could be a perfect representation of the power of one person and a broadband connection to the world wide web.

 

[frandoch]

Hex 61 Line 2: "THE TRUTH WILL OUT - THEY WILL KNOW. Whatever you feel inside will be felt by others. This is to be expected as we are all one. Your words and deeds will resonate far and wide, whether they be good or bad."

This line in all its interpretation, carries a warning. Yes, the internet is a powerful tool, and as with all powerful tools, it can be used and mis-used. Sadly, a recent survey showed that the majority of connections were to porn sites, but the spiritual message is flooding the planet.

When I visualise the planet enveloped in this web of connections, it feels almost like Gaia's nervous system. Just a thought.