Since our discovery of this book, I feel like we can more easily see the synchronicity described by Jung being acted out in our lives. It’s a great book, and might just be the key to really understanding the universe (on an extremely abstract basis).
Interestingly, I taught a philosophy lesson with my students today, and a particularly bright kid, in response to the prompt (Agree or Disagree: A perfect society is possible), responded that he disagreed because everything changes, so even if it was possible to achieve perfection, it couldn't last forever. It made think of this (and was a decent reminder about how the greatest truths in life are simple; we just trick ourselves into stopping believing them as we get older).
Yep, I've had my copy since 1961, a gift from my then wife to be in NYC, the book & the wife still with me in Alaska.
I just asked my I Ching what advice I, sitting up here atop the world, could pass alone to two young, very promising thinkers and writers down in NYC: Got hexagram 23, PO, moving lines the first, third and fifth places. My interpretation, keep on truckin' (fifth line sez all) -but don't quit your day jobs just yet.
64 years—that's amazing! It's a long time to keep a book (and a spouse), so you must've done something right.
Thanks so much for this, Jim. I just read through the chapter and it's seems pretty spot-on (right down to the alternate hexagram, Chia Jen, which reminds me a lot of a new project that I just put into motion yesterday...) I like your interpretation, and I hope it's correct.
Since our discovery of this book, I feel like we can more easily see the synchronicity described by Jung being acted out in our lives. It’s a great book, and might just be the key to really understanding the universe (on an extremely abstract basis).
Interestingly, I taught a philosophy lesson with my students today, and a particularly bright kid, in response to the prompt (Agree or Disagree: A perfect society is possible), responded that he disagreed because everything changes, so even if it was possible to achieve perfection, it couldn't last forever. It made think of this (and was a decent reminder about how the greatest truths in life are simple; we just trick ourselves into stopping believing them as we get older).
Wow how fitting. It reminds me of the story of the monk in Mastery by Robert Greene. That’s a story for a different day…
Yep, I've had my copy since 1961, a gift from my then wife to be in NYC, the book & the wife still with me in Alaska.
I just asked my I Ching what advice I, sitting up here atop the world, could pass alone to two young, very promising thinkers and writers down in NYC: Got hexagram 23, PO, moving lines the first, third and fifth places. My interpretation, keep on truckin' (fifth line sez all) -but don't quit your day jobs just yet.
64 years—that's amazing! It's a long time to keep a book (and a spouse), so you must've done something right.
Thanks so much for this, Jim. I just read through the chapter and it's seems pretty spot-on (right down to the alternate hexagram, Chia Jen, which reminds me a lot of a new project that I just put into motion yesterday...) I like your interpretation, and I hope it's correct.