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Psychic Internet often feature images drawn from the
I Ching Oracle. To offer supplementary
information about these images for our clients,
and for the public, we have provided this archive
of brief articles.
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the I Ching Oracle, click here.
The
abstract images of the I Ching Oracle (usually
called "hexagrams") symbolize all of
the related and interacting aspects of reality.
In the following excerpts from actual Psychic Readings, the images of the I Ching
are discussed.
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The Power of the Great
It is
very clear that you have very good intentions
toward Paul, and that you want to bring good out
of the pain and suffering that you experienced
together. The important thing to pay attention to
is your own intuition of your need for more
healing within yourself. This is what the image
of Waiting is all about in this instance. And you
might reflect on the way this image, in this
Reading, is changing into the image of The Power
of the Great.
We are
always trying too hard. If there is one thing
that I think we westerners need to learn from the
East, it is that we are trying too hard. In Zen,
and in Taoism, there is an idea that we usually
see translated into English as
“notdoing.” The idea is so foreign to
us, we don’t even have a word for it.
You know,
we all have an instinctive understanding of this.
In the Bible, the words that we translate as good
and evil, in the chapter of Genesis about eating
the fruit of the forbidden tree, actually had a
close relationship to the idea of technology or
techniques. Good and evil in this context meant
DOING as in employing technology. Something is
good because it is useful, because it works.
But
everything was given in the Garden of Eden, and
there was no need of technology of any kind. We
were like all the other creatures that have no
need of technology, who leave everything to God.
But we didn’t trust in that arrangement of
things. We thought we could make a better show of
things by employing technology. God responded by
saying, “OK, you think you can do a better
job of it than me – go right ahead, try
it!” Suddenly we found ourselves here,
trying our best to build houses, and make
clothes, grow vegetables – the whole dreary
mess, in short.
Now, you
mustn’t misunderstand me. I’m not
calling for an end to technology. We have to
express every aspect of our full nature as human
beings, and we can’t escape our
inventiveness, which is also a good thing in the
full picture of things. I’m just saying that
one of our most familiar legends implies that we
are taking things a little too far in that
department. Maybe we have to backtrack a little
bit, and realize that we don’t have to take
responsibility for everything on our own
shoulders. We need to realize that there is also
such a thing as, in the words of the I Ching,
“The Power of the Great.” This is a
power that accomplishes things simply through the
course of nature. Think about what it really
means to have a “healing.” Is it
something you do? The body knows how to heal
itself. You don’t have to consciously and
purposefully clot your blood and grow new cells
around a cut. It just happens. Its NOTDOING. If
only our doctors knew a little more about
notdoing.
Can you
let the necessary “rectification” in
this instance happen by itself just in the course
of Nature? The I Ching tells you that now is NOT
the time to make overtures, to be
“doing.” The “Power of the
Great” will take care of everything.
Don’t fret. The big secret is that we are
still IN the Garden of Eden. We just don’t
know it.
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