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Hello;
As you all know "16 method" that reproduces the ratios of the yarrow stalks was first introduced by Larry Schoenholtz in 1975 in his groundbreaking book"New directions in the I Ching-The Yellow River legacy".The method was later popularized by Stephen Karcher without proper acknowledgement of the source.In his book,Shoenholtz describes the process that led to his devising of the procedure,following leads from Wilhelm"s Eranos conference and a Martin Gardner's article on the I ching.He called it "the lazy man's method"since it condenses the twenty minute yarrow stalks operation into one minute.He also goes on to say that as long as the ratio is maintained in the coloring,any multiple of 16 will do.Furthermore,it will be better mixing of the beads.(i use 64 little stones)
Anyway,yesterday, out of boredom,I googled I Chin yarrow stalks divination an was obviously directed to the Wiki page.when I arrived at the last section this what I found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching_divination#Probability_analysis_of_I_Ching_divination
You can imagine my surprise....I was literally shocked and run to order the book which you guys in the UK can find very easily.
What is you opinion ,folks?
Sergio
As you all know "16 method" that reproduces the ratios of the yarrow stalks was first introduced by Larry Schoenholtz in 1975 in his groundbreaking book"New directions in the I Ching-The Yellow River legacy".The method was later popularized by Stephen Karcher without proper acknowledgement of the source.In his book,Shoenholtz describes the process that led to his devising of the procedure,following leads from Wilhelm"s Eranos conference and a Martin Gardner's article on the I ching.He called it "the lazy man's method"since it condenses the twenty minute yarrow stalks operation into one minute.He also goes on to say that as long as the ratio is maintained in the coloring,any multiple of 16 will do.Furthermore,it will be better mixing of the beads.(i use 64 little stones)
Anyway,yesterday, out of boredom,I googled I Chin yarrow stalks divination an was obviously directed to the Wiki page.when I arrived at the last section this what I found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching_divination#Probability_analysis_of_I_Ching_divination
You can imagine my surprise....I was literally shocked and run to order the book which you guys in the UK can find very easily.
What is you opinion ,folks?
Sergio