I Chingnew Perspectives

by Stephen Karcher

This guide explains how to take advantage of I Ching's wisdom to create happiness and suucess in life. The 64 hexagrams which form the book provide interpretations of the readings to enable the reader... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1862047634
• ISBN13: 9781862047631
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Element Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Simple,Direct

I love this book. It speaks in direct , everyday language anyone can understand. I have looked at alot of books on the I Ching and this is by far the best and my most favorite. There is alot of information in this small book. I highly recommend it.

The Finest Portable I Ching

Dr. Stephen Karcher has done a brilliant job adapting the I Ching oracle for modern readers. As a major contributor to the Eranos Foundation's first complete translation of the I Ching into English in the mid-Nineties, Dr. Karcher has mastered the I Ching and its subtle historical, spiritual and psychological contexts. For this slim edition, a revision of his excellent "Elements of the I Ching", he's created the finest I Ching translation for everyday use. The issue with many adaptations of the I Ching, including the venerable Wilhelm/Baynes and the Legge translations, is that the original ancient Chinese social context is kept intact, which can make such a translation very difficult to understand. Karcher writes in a clear, direct style that avoids the oblique "it serves the great man to cross the great water" style of its predecessors. Dr. Karcher has also included a new method of consulting the book, using colored glass marbles, which combines the mathematical probabilities of the laborious yarrow-stalk method of divination with the ease of use of the popular, but mathematically inaccurate, three coins method. As for the book itself, Element Books has done a beautiful production job in its choice of typefaces and paper stock. A first class effort...and a bargain, too.