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Any I Ching practitioners here?
I finished Alfred Huang's translation and have been divining with yarrow stalks like crazy this last few weeks and I will say it is crazy how well this actually works, much better for insight than tarot or any other method I've used.
Does anyone have a favorite translation or book they have used for their study? How is Allister Crowley's translation? Do you prefer the yarrow stalks or 3 coin method? Share any information you found helpful to your own study.

>> No.21619752

Have you researched time wave zero?

>> No.21619764

You shouldn't read I Ching before first having read I Chang and I Chong.

>> No.21619795

>>21619764
take this anon's advice

>> No.21620321

>>21619752
That's McKenna idea right?
I never much followed his works and never really had any interest in what he said. Do you have a good article or short read on what his idea was?

>> No.21620326

>>21618771
woman moment

>> No.21620337

Are you a girl?

My girlfriend does this along with horoscopes (Western and Chinese) and phrenology.

>> No.21620383

What is this supposed to be used for? My local library has had like three copies of it just last month. I'm getting interested.

>> No.21620408

>>21618771
>favorite translation
Get one by a sinologist. For some reason, ancient Chinese philosophy gets translated by people with a poor grasp of Chinese too often.

>> No.21620424

>>21618771
Not i-ching but european/arabic geomancy. Give it a shot things works insanly good for me.
I recom. Stephen Skinner on geomancy or liber GAIAS for start

>> No.21620436

>>21620326
>>21620337
These. If not a woman physically then spiritually.

>> No.21620458

>>21620383
The I Ching is based on hexagrams composed of three lines on top and three lines on bottom, and a line can either be a yang line or a yin line, which means unbroken or broken into two. basically you use stalks or coins to randomly decide how to draw the lines, and then you pick one of 64 hexagrams that corresponds to what you got, and it is supposed to give you insight if you focus on the question while you use it. It was written in like 500 BC by some guy based on the idea that there were eight fundamental principles of the world, represented by the combinations of three yang or yin lines, which combined in pairs give 64 hexagrams that are supposed to cover every possible situation in life.

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>>21620408
>For some reason, ancient Chinese philosophy gets translated by people with a poor grasp of Chinese too often.

it all goes back to laozi who was the original "fuck the rules just be urself" poster which people like ursula k le guin and benjamin hoff take to mean "fuck it bro just ignore convention and do what you want, life is too short to worry too much about being correct #yolo".

an alan watts tier faggot would tell you not to worry about being right all the time because "don't let perfect be the enemy of good, live in the groovy moment bro." and these people practically sprouted like bamboo during the counterculture faggotry of the 60s etc. i've seen multiple "translations" of all this stuff where the author says they don't give a fuck if it's correct lmao.

>> No.21620522

>>21620436
mens' failure to grasp the intuitive arts is why women are currently dabbing on westoid culture rn

>> No.21620563

>>21620383
it's a divination tool. you hold a situation in your mind that you want advice or insight for, and throw yarrow stalks/coins, determining the sections of the book to be read for your result. there are websites that simulate this experience

>> No.21620609

>>21619752
No, should I start there?

>> No.21621430

>>21620563
The i ching and the yarrow method especially is specifically designed to induce a trance in the diviner. Even a couple minutes with the yarrow will put anyone into a state prime for receiving a decent answer.
A very important part of the process is keeping the question in your mind and letting your trance induced mind pull out the answers you need from your own subconscious. You recieve both an answer from yourself as you are led through yin/yang lines yourself, and a second answer from the actual divination itself after you are finished, also a third answer depending on potential unstable lines. In this way it is truly the most powerful method of divination based insight that humans have ever developed. Using a computer program would miss much of the benefit.
I also have 4 years of study of baguazhang (martial art based around movements of body that correspond to the 64 changes) so I might be more able to work with potential energies the divination brings up.
If you think everything i an saying here is bullshit I implore you to study it for yourself.

>> No.21621724

>>21620337
>phrenology
she better be a 9/10 or 10

>> No.21621741

>>21621724
t. waterhead

>> No.21622509

>>21620337
>phrenology
Greenflag. She's dumb, as expected, but the based kind of dumb.

>> No.21623060

>>21619764

Underrated.

>> No.21623494

Nice symmetry group on that cover, you should at least do a primer on group theory