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Hello everybody,I have a strange andere not so nice story. My motherlanguage is not english.. I hope somebody can give me some sort of advise. I started tot use the iching last winter. After using soms websites i got to know the website of James de Korne, www.jamesdekorne.com. He states the iching is about getting enlightend, something i've been interessted in because i've been suffering from depressions from years and the regular treatments don't work for me.
So i started with this website which uses different translations. I meditated a lot ( i've done that before) and restrained myself, all guided by iching.
.It was quite difficult but i noticed a chance within myself, positive. After a periode of time, i was not getting further and iching said i could stop with 'the work' because i had to accumulate more strenght
At that time i could, because of working so intense with iching, feel in my body of something was good to do or not. After a week i restarted 'my programme' because i was getting depressed again. But now without iching but by my own feelings of whatever was right or wrong to do in my body. James deKorne says, after Jung, that 'the Self' communicates through iching.
I had the idea that because of all that meditation i had made a connection. After some time it (meditation and restraining) was getting so hard that i stopped. Immediately i felt some sort of headache and some kind of unpleasant energy in my body so i went on. I stopped and kept on starting.
After a few weeks i stopped totally. And that's where i'm now. I have almost all the time a not so nice feeling in my head, feet and body. And of course, the depression came back. That i understand, but that 'negative vibe' is a bad surprise. Although i knew it was risky at the beginning..i wanted to try it anyway..So, is there anybody who can say something about my situation? I'm already glad i can share this,Greetings Anne
A site where he puts several translations on the same page. (Wilhelm, Legge, Carol Anthony, Karcher, and more) And then he puts his own commentary. Lots of his own commentary, and lots of other peoples commentary. So much commentary that he runs off into la la land, and often doesn't understand what he is trying to explain. I discourage people at every opportunity from reading his commentary, because he interjects everything through his own lense of Gnosticism, New agey-wish wash, oversexed Jungianism, you name it. His main page reveals him to be into psychedelics. It's almost as if he is trying to 'prove' gnosticism principles, equating concepts with the Yi.James de Korne website ? What is it ?
Although the original Chinese text has been in the public domain for more than three-thousand years, the present manuscript (the fruit of over thirty years of intense study) is currently un-publishable because most of the English translations and paraphrases (included herein solely for purposes of scholarly comparison) remain under copyright.
The editor offers this, his personal study-guide, freely to those who wish to use and annotate it for their private, not-for-profit edification. This document is not for publication or sale: it is a personal workbook for students of the oracle to use and share with their peers.
I don't think anyone can fairly criticise him for that!*
I took a quick look at his web site and didn't find it useful -- for me. Besides Wilhelm, these are not translations I am familiar with or use. Also, I wonder if some of the commentaries aren't complete, but only snippets?... When I read through his comments, I can see that he misunderstands lines often ....
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).