The Total I Ching

Tara Mandala, Pagosa Springs, Colorado.

I Ching/Yijing or the Classic of Change is the oldest and most sophisticated divinatory system in the world. It has been treasured for thousands of years as a guide to navigating the voyage of life. Philosophically, it embodies primordial change, the mutations or transformations that initiate the process of generation, transformation and return in all the Myriad Beings. Inscribed in the actual order of things, the on-going process of the Real or Dao, it offers the seeds and symbols through life and spirit transmit and extend themselves.

The name of the tradition (I or Yi) above all suggests destabilizing change, a time of troubles when all the structures we usually rely on melt down, and an effective way to deal with it – a transformation of what the old Chinese sages call the heart-mind that dissolves fixed patterns of thought and inspires imaginative mobility. For the divinatory or synchronistic technique involved in using the Change ruptures normal time, space and causality, re-configuring the entire Matrix in response to your individual need to understand the symbolic significance of the events you encounter. This rupture allows the deep forces within and around us to enter our awareness.

This is a world of dream, divination and ritual where we can reconstitute esse in anima or being in soul, a faith in the images in a time when the Heavens have fallen and the Ghost River flows all around us. If we do this we are making soul, creating the opportunity through which the world can be re-imagined. The co-creative process of soul-making is the central concern of all divinatory systems and of the act of divination itself: to move through the shadow of the literal situation towards a psycho-active and transformative force which is demanding access to consciousness. This transformation has a deep and healing significance. When we touch on this border, the realm of subtle bodies comes to life again and the physical and the psychic are once more blended. In Jung’s words, this is one of the most essential manifestations of the human mind. It is an experience, not an opinion, an experience nothing can take away from you. It means more than the whole world, because it makes sense.

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