The I Ching, Landscapes of the Soul: Revisiting an Ancient Chinese Oracle [With Key to the Hexagrams Card]

by Frits Blok

Book Overview

Book by Blok, Frits This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3829048599
• ISBN13: 9783829048590
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Konemann
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.3" x 11.7"

Customer Reviews

Heaven for the detail minded

I'm in no way knowledgeable enough about I Ching to seriously evaluate this book, but for sheer lucid detail I have to tout this book to the stars. If you're a 'visual' learner each (big-10x11") page of this book will be a joy--but be advised it is for the SERIOUSLY detail oriented person who wants to get VERY in depth explanations of the 64 permutations of the I Ching hexagram, its associated Chinese charaters (also beautifully illustrated) and other collateral information. Be Strong!!!

Frits Blok's I Ching

Frits Blok's hexagram families and "inner meaning" line readings In " I Ching: Landscapes of the Soul. Revisiting an Ancient Chinese Oracle " (limited edition through Barnes & Noble, still available ), Frits Blok gives a different method of getting line readings which is based on the "inner meaning" of hexagrams. As he sees it, the "inner meaning" is gotten by first deconstructing a given hexagram into a set of trigrams centered on lines 5,4,3, and 2 and then reassembling these into new hexagrams which are used for the line readings. This also gives a way of sorting the hexagrams into families of 6, one of the 6 being the original hexagram. The I Ching is then presented in these terms. Here's his method: First number the hexagram lines in the usual fashion 654321, reading from top to bottom, and name these trigrams from their center lines: t5 = top trigram of the original hexagram (lines 654) t4 = (lines 543) t3 = (lines 432) t2 = bottom trigram of the original hexagram (lines 321) Then combine these combinatorially, giving the hexagrams: t5/t2 =the original hexagram = sixth line reading t5/t4 = fifth line reading t5/t3 = fourth line reading t4/t3 = third line reading t4/t2 = second line reading t3/t2 = first line reading A way of interpreting these generically would be to combine the meanings of the center lines of each trigram. - Roger Clough