Total I Ching: Myths for Change

ISBN: 0316724319

Author: Karcher, Stephen

Condition: Used

I Ching is the oldest, most respected divinatory system in the world. It has helped people for over 2,500 years to connect to the Way or Tao and experience their guiding spirit. There are currently two kinds of translations available, which offer conflicting interpretations--the Confucian version and an earlier version called Zhouyi. Reconstructed by 20th-century scholars and archaeologists, Zhouyi presents the imaginative world of myth and ritual that is the basis of Eastern thought. Now, for the first time, and after years of research, Stephen Karcher fuses these two traditions using modern scholarship, archaeological and linguistic research, Eastern philosophy and comparative religion, presenting them to the Western reader in a comprehensive, accessible, and vivid new form. Total I Ching is a complete oracle with instructions for use in all life situations. It is also the first translation to detail the mythology of the divinatory system, the Myths for Change.