From: Erin N. (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 05:57:35 GMT
Chapter 3 Using the I Ching with Jung: A Personal Experience
1. I Ching is the clearest expression of the sychronicity principle,
and the one that applies it in the most sophisticated form
2. Jung drew upon Wilhelm's knowledge of the noncausal sense of
"patterning" that plays so iportant a role in ancient Chinese
thinking.
3.(explains the method of the I Ching, i will assume you
know)
4.The method is based upon the belief that the hexagram
is an indicator of the essential situation prevailing in it the
moment of its origin
5. (skipping specific detail of doing the I Ching
when he met Jung and the interpretation process of it)
6. Why should the simple act of throwing some coins
in the circumstances of modern times draw forth readings
from an ancient text that had a specific personal relevence?
That was the question Jung asked and attempted to answer
in his concept of synchronicity.
7.Superficially it looks like chance. But to Jung, it was clearly much more
than chance, and yet it was not causality either.
The specific reasons remained elusive, but it seemed clear that a principle
that
has maintained itself over so many centuries in a civilization
as sophisticated as the Chinese must contain a secret worth
discovering. He was convinced that there was a deep and
subtle wisdom underlying the I Ching.
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