| Abstrakt: |
This brief study delineates a uniquely modern, and at the same time, primitive methodology for understanding the Yijing. Metaphysical insights into its oldest structural components yield layers of coherent, new meaning, in contrast to the traditional approach of applying image-based trigram symbolism. The content of this energetics-based interpretive system, identified here as the Fundamental Aspects of Change, is developed from analyses of two citations from the Yi’s Commentaries, the Zuozhuan and the Xicizhuan. Clear patterns of divinatory meaning emerge that offer guiding insight into our human condition. This study approaches the Yi as a four-dimensional construct of time and space, which explores the metaphysical nature of change. Freed from twentyfive hundred years of philosophical and cultural accretion, the Yi’s essential meaning, and its potential as a holistic device for self-discovery, becomes apparent. The emergence of this holistic interpretive system stems from persistent intuitive practice, referred to in Daoist cosmology as Fu Rou, which was the basis of a series of sixty-four insight images, inspired by the Yijing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
