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I CHING: The Ancient Book of Chinese Wisdom For Divining the Future |  | Author: Chris Marshall
Publisher: Fireside
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1031081
Media: Paperback
Pages: 160
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 5.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0684801809
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.51282
EAN: 9780684801803
ASIN: 0684801809
Publication Date: November 1, 1995
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Product Description
The I Ching, based on the principles of flux and change, is one of the world's oldest and most enduring techniques for predicting the future. This beautifully designed kit contains everything modern-day diviners need to master this 3,000-year-old Chinese art of fortune telling. Color photos & illustrations.
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 If you are not into Divination, then keep moving January 21, 2010
T. Stephen (S.W. Ohio)
There are so many books on the I Ching and how to interpret the hexagrams it's unreal. This volume is more of a general interpretation as opposed to another one that I own that is geared towards love/relationships.
I'm no expert on the subject, but the few readings I've done for myself have been scary accurate. When your Oracle speaks to you, you should listen.
Ok... to the point. This comes with three coins. I've never used yarrow sticks before so I can't really compare. I learned with coins, so that's what I'm comfortable with.
The pages of the book are split in half horizontally so that you can flip back and forth to match up the two trigrams that make the hexagram. This makes the experience incredibly easy. No flipping from one section of the book to another. Cast your first trigram and turn to it on the bottom section of the book, then cast the top and turn to the corresponding page a the top and voila! Interpret away!
The translator/authors interpretations of each trigram is very well written. It's written for you and me, not some scholar working over old scrolls in some musty old candle lit dungeon. The instructions at the beginning of the book are very good at getting you started with this endeavor. It's a great stepping stone if you want to gain a greater understanding of the I Ching or if you just want to be amazed and content with using this as your Oracle.
Insightful and acurate translation into conversational prose January 27, 2005
Elizabeth Gee (Oregon)
I have many I-Ching books, and I find this one the best for natural clear prose, to communicate to other people in conversational language, the key threads in the Hexagrams. The other books are poetic, and need for me to do more translation to convey how each hexagram may apply to a situation. I highly recommend this book for experienced as well as newbies to the I-Ching. Note that the I-Ching says about itself that it is for not only scholars but for the common folk as well. This book is for the Rest of Us, and also for scholars will find it highly accurate.
Wonderful I-Ching Introduction! October 14, 2002
CATHERINE E. JORDAN (KENT, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great introduction to the I-Ching. It is easy to read and understand, includes 3 coins, is nicely illustrated and the interpretations are consistent with other, more complicated, I-
Ching books. I'm buying a second copy to give as a gift. I have quite a few books on the I-Ching and this one ties for the lead.
Let's you get started right away March 23, 2001
kyara
The I Ching can be an extremely complex subject, but Chris Marshall has simplified it and made it very accessible without compromising the philosophy or depth of this ancient Chinese system of divining the future. This book includes a brief history, easy-to-follow instructions, clear interpretations of the trigrams as well as three coins. This really is the best possible introduction to the I Ching.
 O.K., but... March 10, 2000
The easy-to-use guide and coins are a nice feature to this book, but in the edition I got, the Casting of the Coins section contradicts itself. Makes it rather confusing for someone who is a beginner.
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