Later came the more immersive Oracle of Changes CD-Rom (adding a meditative sound track and original art for each hexagram in 1997), a CD-Rom for do-it-yourself Tarot readings, and after all that the creation of I and interactive websites (2001). Facilitated by Kuhns long-term partner, Adam Zhu, the book was the first biography of a living Chinese leader published in mainland China where it was the best-selling book of 2005. The text was originally written for use in a very early multimedia program - the first interactive I Ching program, which was called Synchronicity (1989). The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin is a biography of former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin by Robert Lawrence Kuhn.It was published in 2005, in English and Chinese. O’Brien’s discovery of the I Ching as a teenager in San Francisco - followed by several decades studying the oracle as well as Carl Jung’s work on the Synchronicity Principle - ultimately resulted in the composition of his modern but faithful I Ching interpretation. These eight trigrams, known as “Hua,” also serve as the compass points in the ancient art of placement known as Feng Shui (pronounced fung-shway). Divide the six-line forms in half and you get trigrams (three yin or yang lines) that represent the Chinese version of eight fundamental elements: sky, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountain, and lake. Each hexagram can be analyzed in a number of ways. The interpretations of the sixty-four hexagrams use words to describe the energy patterns of human life divided into sixty-four types of situations, relationships or dilemmas. : I Ching: The Ancient Chinese Book of Changes (9780785829232) and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at. Examples of yin/yang polarity are female/male, earth/heavens, dark/light, in/out, even/odd and so on. Yin/yang is the fundamental duality of the Universe whose dynamic tension gives shape to all phenomena and the way they change.
The I Ching, or “Book of Changes,” consists of sixty-four archetypes that result from all the possible six-line combinations of yin and yang lines, called hexagrams.
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O’Brien’s non-patriarchal update of this revered divination system is an enlightened decision-making aid in modern times, and is available here on, as an illustrated ebook (via Amazon) or as an elegant and easy-to-use Visionary I Ching app (via app stores on Apple or Google). The Visionary I Ching is Paul O’Brien’s original version of the ancient Chinese I Ching oracle, with original art inspired by each of the hexagrams.
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