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"L.R.I I Ching" by Louis T. Culling

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After years of looking for it, I finally found this book. It is a very rare find, believe me. The book was published in 1966 and other books by Mr. Culling are easier to find. This one took me years.

As far as I know the Life Resources Institute is long gone and the copyright for the book is expired. Since it is a small book, and almost impossible to find, I decided to scan it and make a PDF file to share with fellow Yeeks... :D

It can be found in my links page of Yi-Toons: L.R.I. I Ching

Cheers,

Luis
 

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Brad,

I tried to contact Lorraine at Zhouyi.com (she's been looking for this for the longest) and her address there is bouncing. Do you have another one so that you can share with her this information?

Thanks,

Luis
 

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Hi Luis-
I've forwarded it to her
We still chat back and forth
She lives near you, ya know
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Thank you to Sparhawk and Surnevs
 
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Hi all,

Sorry, it's been a while since I posted that and I've changed hosting companies a couple of times and some things get lost in the move. The new, working link is here:

LRI I Ching

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One thing I wonder about: at the beginning of this book, on pg. 3 these attributes appears:

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LRI, The prophetic book of Changes, N.Y. 1966


Numberings "1 to 8".
The sum of strokes in: - gives:
(1) 9 - Old Yang Yang
(2) 8 - Young Yin Yin
(3) do. Yin
(4) 7 - Young Yang Yang
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(5) 8 - Young Yin Yin
(6) 7 - Young Yang Yang
(7) do. Yang
(8) 6 - Old Yin Yin

Those genders in Bold don't seem to fit the author's category.
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Either this author has his/her's own system concerning the genders of the eight trigrams or I've misunderstood it completely...
(... if so, I'll better start all over again; Beginners classroom :sofa:


Hilary, here I come ! :applause:)
 

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Oops... My comment here can easily be misunderstood. I'm used to reacting spontaneously (an old bad habit) and if any should avoid criticism of controversial texts (which most of mine are) it should be me. I actually like un-traditional text like this, it inspires one to look at I Ching in new ways (like did also Nigel Richmond *). At a closer look, I can see that the author depicts Shao Yong's "Xiantian Diagram" ** were to example the trigrams (3) and (4) / Li and Gen follows 'Lesser Yin' after Yang.
I could have deleted my posting when realising this but thought that why not let it stay and be a reason for this realisation. I do think that the author took it to lay implicit when he mentions Fu Hsi: That this means Shao Yong's Diagram (?)
Another book that is also a bit controversial is Lama Anagarika Govinda's 'Inner Structure of the I Ching'; he gives the trigrams new attributes and one has here also to get familiar with 'a new trigram-attribute-language' or a new way to understand trigrams.
Such books which have their own kind of systems (like do the hexagram sequences in the book discussed here) I have a tendency to avoid but I do keep them as experience tells me that in some situations answers can surprisingly be found there, where answers are not to be found elsewhere.

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*) **) A companion to Yi Jing Numerology and cosmology, pg. 266, Bent Nielsen, Routledge Curzon, N.Y. 2003
 
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(I don't pretend to understand most of this, but I'm glad you decided to let it here.)
 

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It was merely a general reflection of the book. Failures can be found in every script; of course, I'm not the one to judge here. Even the strangest script will be welcome on my bookshelf, including this.
 

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