How to Use the I Ching: A Guide to Working with the Oracle of Change

by Stephen Karcher

Book Overview

Based on the 64 hexagrams, this is an easy-to-understand guide to this classic text, produced with today's fast-moving world in mind. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1862041342
• ISBN13: 9781862041349
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Element Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

amazing

this is book contains some life changing information. have a look at it, you wont regret it.

Two different titles and covers but the SAME text

First, you should be aware that this book and THE I CHING PLAIN AND SIMPLE by Stephen Karcher are exactly the same book and so, if you have one, you may not want a second. PLAIN AND SIMPLE has a very different cover - orange with the I Ching lines. Second, as soon as I opened it in the store, the language with which it described the hexagrams was obviously so much more accessible than that of other books I have looked at by the same author. If you are new to I Ching as I am, this makes a big difference.

Great

This book is clear, concise, simple yet profound. I recommend this book to anyone , regardless of skill level

An Excellent Starting Place

I disagree with Bothell, WA. This is an excellent starting point for the I Ching.The introduction alone is the best you will probably find among the translations and commentaries out there.One of the keys to a good translation is that it is VERSATILE. A good I Ching allows for multiple interpretations given your question and circumstances. I find that many Western commentaries are too narrow and almost always focus on the spiritual or relationships too much. This version can answer those same questions, of course, but it can be used for any other inquiry you will have. It is what I wish had been my starting point.You will at some point need to get a true translation like Alfred Huang's, but if you are getting started, you need to start here. I would also recommend R. L. Wing's Workbook as an excellent starting point, too.My only complaint is that the cover is horrible. The I Ching is an important and enlightened book. It is meant to be revered. The cover on this one is a publisher's choice I am sure. A simple cover with the Yin/Yang symbol and simply "The I Ching" is all that is required. "How To Use" smacks of that Complete Idiot's Guide mentality. I hope the publishers change this.Other than that, I stand by my statements. This is a very good version.

Stephen Karcher's Practical I-Ching Guide

Stephen Karcher (creator of the Eranos Foudation I-Ching Project), presents an excellent Guide embodying the spirit and philosophy of the Eranos, which is to present the I-Ching as a psychological tool through it's divinatory use which Karcher shows is the original and authentic purpose of the text. Clear and helpful introductory material followed by a new translation and interpretation complete this very welcome book.