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I ching workbook5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() But I decided to write about it because YOU may not! As this is one of the most understandable workbooks on the subject I’ve seen, I just had to share it with you! Me? Still having a little trouble navigating exactly what I’m doing. It is as easy to follow as you allow it to be. It’s a nice-sized workbook with an easy-to-read font against bright white pages. Each hexagram has many meanings - hence the chart. Remember those sticks I mentioned? There are 64 of them and they’re actually hexagrams. I got a B+!Īnyway, this book is totally cool because it gives an in-depth history of I Ching, and how it works, along with symbols, and a glossary. Luckily, I had by then found out I had a learning disability and was given some accommodations that helped, along with an extremely kind instructor who worked with me, along with a tutor. Mostly, I remember his face, which said, “What can I say that will make this make sense?” His face said that a lot! Addendum: I had to pass Algebra to get my first college degree. It was actually pre-algebra, which I tried to pass four years in a row… and didn’t. Slight digression: I remember my engineer dad trying to help me with math in high school. But then again, my mommy was sitting next to me! Then she presented this book to me when I visited earlier this year, with coins she chose (which makes them special! I have them in a baggie stapled to the back cover. I left the other kinds of I Ching to Mom. They don’t have a chart, just the little book that accompanies them. ![]() Thank God for spell check and calculators. See, I have a learning disability (LD) in the areas of math and spelling. This might give you a slight indication of what has always blocked me. WHAT I WANT YOU TO KNOW… It CAN be overcome! Getting there, however, has been my bug-a-boo. For some reason, this modality seems to be so in tune with the soul that it taps into exactly what YOU need. The *outcome* is the part that blows my mind. Whether you use charts or books and coins or sticks or cards… it’s ultimately going to lead to the same place. Jung, the father of modern psychotherapy, regularly consulted the Book of Changes. In the past twenty years, catching the wave of the New Age movement, the I Ching has become the focus of various occult and pseudo-scientific thought systems. Only in the twentieth century have mainstream thinkers such as C. The I Ching, or Yi Jing, is one of the oldest books in the history of religious thought, but it was not until the seventeenth century that it attracted the attention of Western scholars, most notably the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), the inventor of the binary number system. What **is** I Ching?Īnd a little sidenote before we begin… it’s not pronounced as you would expect. I suppose the first place to begin is at the beginning. I’ll be explaining about that in a moment. Mom has had extraordinary experiences using both and I hoped for the same. I have a deck of cards using I Ching and also The I Ching Workbook by RL Wing – both given to me by my mother.
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