![]() Each of the hexagrams has a classic archetypal and extremely familiar aspect-a time to summon your will to overcome a difficult obstruction, a time to just chill out and let things come to you, a time to be in community with others, a time to be in solitary contemplation, etc. The basic idea of the I Ching is that as you are going through a human life you are cycling through sixty-four dynamic, energetic “situations” which are represented by the sixty-four hexagrams. Far more significant, human DNA is composed of 64 codons and the ancient Chinese ideogram signifying I Ching looks like a DNA double helix. The chess board has sixty-four light and dark squares. The mathematical structure of the I Ching seems to have an uncanny universality that emerges in culture and nature. The I Ching may have inspired Leibnitz to develop the binary number system of zeros and ones that all modern computers are based on. Leibnitz (1646-1716), the founder of symbolic logic and coinventer of calculus, was fascinated with the I Ching’s binary mathematical structure. In addition to being considered the world’s first book, the I Ching is also considered to be the world’s first computer. Each hexagram is composed of six lines which may be broken (yin) or solid (yang). The I Ching is composed of 64 binary mathematical patterns called hexagrams. Zen Buddhism is also largely inspired and derived from the I Ching. For example, the following are based on the I Ching: Taoism, Yin/Yang, T’ai Chi, Kung Fu, Feng Shui, the Tao Te Ching, Chinese medicine and herbalism (including the underlying principals of acupuncture). The I Ching is more central to Eastern culture than the Bible is to Western culture. The I Ching is considered the world’s oldest book, far older than the earliest books of the Bible. Its exact origins are lost in the mists of time as no written record has been discovered that can tell us of its earliest development. The I Ching is an ancient Chinese oracle between five and six thousand years old. ![]() (What follows is an intro to the I Ching and what is involved in a reading.
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