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I bought Karcher's "Total I Ching" and found his "tools for change" methodology a prime example of mathematical manipulation and totally OTT. There seemed little poetry in his approach, IMHO.
Having read several books on African divination, it appears that diviners often combine physical divination with trance states.
No, nobody in this group has ever experimented with altered states.
We got here through our interest in normal states, like accounting.
Great, now I can tell all of those that claim I'm "altered" to take a hike.
btw, I never noticed that it benefitted anyone to work themselves up into any kind of frenzy to hear what 'the spirit' is saying. You just have to be open to it and listen. Prepare ye ... as it were, become a ready soul.
with the Yi, change is best of a gradual nature, and perceiving it's moment is a continual process of actually being alert and vigilant more than of being out of your senses. IMO
If we tentatively accept the hypothesis of the breakdown of the bicameral mind, ( gods no longer speak directly to us), with the resultant right / left brain division, (we are predominantly logical rather than creative), and our culture's over-emphasis on rational thought, then does this mean that it is almost futile to interpret the Yijing without enhancing our "spiritual ?" side. - 44bob
If we tentatively accept the hypothesis of the breakdown of the bicameral mind, ( gods no longer speak directly to us), with the resultant right / left brain division, (we are predominantly logical rather than creative), and our culture's over-emphasis on rational thought, then does this mean that it is almost futile to interpret the Yijing without enhancing our "spiritual ?" side. By this I mean not just occasional visualization, but perhaps cultivating trance states and encouraging non-ordinary reality, rather than endlessly manipulating hexagrams into complex patterns to derive precise meanings. Such a situation is probably close to early Chinese divination practices?
Plutarch was an important official in the hierarchy of Apollo's temple at Delphi for 30 years, and he played a notable part in the revival of the shrine in Trajanic and Hadrianic times (Flacelière 1943, 1987; Barrow 1967). A recent groundbreaking discovery made by an American multidisciplinary team provided evidence that he was indeed a reliable eyewitness and a most valuable ancient source on the Delphic Oracle. The “sweet smelling exhalation” that he mentioned really existed and was an emission of light hydrocarbon gases generated in the underlying strata of the bituminous limestone of Delphi (De Boer and Hale 2000; De Boer et al. 2001; Spiller et al. 2002).
From: JAIC online, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation.
at: http://aic.stanford.edu/jaic/articles/jaic44-02-004.html
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).