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This I Ching was written under the guidance of the Sage that speaks through the I Ching oracle. It shows the Cosmos as a system of harmony, the principles of which are clearly described in its 64 hexagrams. The purpose of consulting the oracle is to inquire, before an undertaking, whether you are in harmony with the Cosmic Way. When this is confirmed by the words 'success,' or 'good fortune,' whatever you do will be supported by the invisible helping forces of the Cosmos. When your attitude is discordant, the oracle predicts 'misfortune,' meaning that these helping forces will not support what you do. The answers of the oracle are not to be taken as fortune-telling, but as reflecting the cosmic consequences of your attitude toward your goal. All counsel given by the I Ching is directed toward helping you return to harmony with the Cosmos. To do this you are being given a deeper understanding of the principles of Cosmic Harmony that are involved in the issue at hand. In the light of these principles you will be able to recognize particular mistaken ideas that are the cause of your discord, or misfortune. This book is the first I Ching oracle that shows you how to deprogram the obstructing ideas, and thus reunite with the Cosmic Harmony. Also presented in this book is an innovative method of communicating directly with the Sage that speaks through the I Ching. This method allows you to clarify its message until it assures you that you have reached an adequate understanding. Regularly consulting the I Ching in this way leads to clarifying insights into your life's purpose, and to a pronounced increase in your own creativity. It was through this method, in combination with meditations and dreams, that the Sage gave the authors the completely new perspective on the nature of the Cosmos, human nature, and the place of humans within the Cosmic Whole described here. Rather than presenting you with fixed answers to every problem, this book allows the Cosmic Teacher called 'the Sage,' to show you your own path to insight and inner guidance.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #360998 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

Review
'Relief starts virtually the day after you say your first inner No; it only gets better as the experiences deepen.' --Brian Donohue, M.A., Psychology

'Removing the Ego as the defining agent of reality releases awareness to reinhabit the natural world….' --Jose Cedillos, Ph.D. Prof. of Consciousness and Creativity Studies, Graduate School, The Union Institute.

This book is an enthusiastically recommended addition to any personal, professional, academic, or community library Metaphysical Studies collection. --The Bookwatch (Library Newsletter of The Midwest Book Review), December 2002

About the Author
Carol K. Anthony; Hanna Moog Ms. Anthony began her study of the I Ching in 1971, during a mid-life crisis. She describes this time as of sufficient difficulty to have made her open and receptive when a friend brought her the classic Wilhelm edition of the I Ching. 'She found that it immediately spoke to her on several levels of awareness, and taught her to meditate in an entirely new way that revealed the messages of the hexagrams. More than 7 years later her notes on these experiences became a complete set that she published in 1979 under the title, 'A Guide to the I Ching.' That book remains today a continuing success. It was followed by 'The Philosophy of the I Ching' in 1981, 'The Other Way,' in 1990, and 'Love, An Inner Connection,' in 1994. Born Carol Kessler in West Virginia, Ms. Anthony attended Ward-Belmont College in Nashville and the State University of Iowa, in Iowa City, majoring in English and Creative Writing. She has lived most of her adult life in Stow, Massachusetts, where she raised her family of four children and often served as an editorial writer for the local newspaper. Hanna Moog, b. 1946, has been a translator of English books on the I Ching into German, before she put out a collection of essays under the title 'Leben mit dem I Ging. Erfahrungen aus Kunst, Therapie, Beruf und Alltag.'('Living with the I Ching. Experiences in the Arts, Therapy, and Professional and Everyday Life'; Diederichs, 1996). She also contributed as a translator and commentator to the book 'I Ging, Das Orakel- und Weisheitsbuch Chinas ('I Ching, The Oracle and Wisdom Book of China'; Knaur, 1994). Ms. Moog, who has a master s degree in National Economics, and diplomas in French and English, came to the I Ching in 1982 during a personal crisis. Although she had no one to teach her the I Ching, she allowed it to speak to her feelings. 'I was deeply touched by its answers. I realized that no human being would have been able to characterize, as it did, my desperate situation so perfectly. At the same time, it gave me the deep certainty that there was something good in my life waiting to be discovered...something that meant growth, and a new kind of life; something that would truly fulfill me.' Consulting the Richard Wilhelm translation of the I Ching daily, she felt that she often only got a glimpse of what it was saying, but she decided to keep her mind open so that a deeper understanding could take place through experience. Her dedication to the I Ching began to open more and more doors to being invited to speak and write about it. In 1985 she became a free lance editor for Eugen Diederichs Verlag, the company that had first published the Wilhelm translation, specializing in editing books and translations on the I Ching, Asian philosophy, and mythology. An extraordinary dream, several years later, encouraged her to teach others what she had learned. This marked the beginning of her long-standing activities as an I Ching teacher, giving lectures and seminars in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Her inquisitive attitude and ever-open mind finally led Ms. Moog to move to the United States and join forces with Ms. Anthony, in 1998, and to help found The I Ching Institute in Stow, Massachusetts, where both women conduct seminars and new researches into the I Ching.

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The I Ching as a Book of Philosophy About the Cosmic Way

The entire I Ching is comprised of the answers of the oracle to human questions about what is in harmony with the Cosmos, and what is not. The answers were communicated to the recipients as a basic Yes to what was in harmony with the Cosmic Way, and a basic No to what was not in harmony with it. Thus the philosophy written within the I Ching developed from human thought about life as it was put to the test of the oracle. What emerged originally from this communication was a view of the Cosmos as a system of harmony which benefits everything that thinks and acts in accord with it, while reacting with Fate (adversity) to all that sets itself in opposition to that harmony. Being in harmony was expressed throughout the I Ching by the words "good fortune" and "success," whereas thinking and acting in ways that were discordant had the prognosis of "misfortune," or "remorse."

However, over the centuries, the oracle came to be overwritten, particularly by scholars of the Confucian school, who subjected it to what Joseph Campbell called "a forest of pencils."* Their overwriting added many contradictions to the I Ching text. These additions reflected the man-made order and the values of feudalism.

This new version of the I Ching is radically different from the traditional versions, in that the contradictions created by this overwriting, have been identified and separated from the oracle text. The manner in which this was done, was through consulting the Sage, using the rtcm, as to what the Cosmic meanings of the hexagrams were. The Sage has helped us to clearly identify the ideas and language of the feudal mindset that characterized ancient China, but which have also been carried over to most of today’s cultures. This mindset differs sharply from the Cosmic view illustrated in the various hexagrams. The advantage for the reader who learns how to use the new method of communicating with the Sage, is that he can verify for himself whether the Cosmic view we have shown here, is correctly rendered. (See p. 736, Using the Retrospective-Three-Coin Method, or rtcm.) For our part, we have used this method to check nearly every line and word, as to whether we were communicating the Sage’s message correctly.

This version of the I Ching, then, is the result of four years of asking thousands of questions. Our questioning followed one principle: were we understanding it correctly? When the answer was often No, we continued questioning until it responded that we had understood correctly. The answers corrected and enlarged the text. In regard to the two primary hexagrams, 1 and 2, it gave us a completely new understanding. It also explained why they, as written, contained misconceptions, and how these misconceptions had come about. It showed us how they are the very same misconceptions that are found in the major world philosophies, and to some extent, in the major world religions.

It removed from our own minds misunderstandings that have stood in the way of our finding, exploring, and developing the wonders of our own natures. Our impression grew that it wanted to liberate us, and humans generally, from the mindset of the "young fool," which reflects our training to be shepherded throughout life by human authorities, to help us grow up into fully responsible, fully realized beings.

Despite all our sincere intentions, the nature of communicating with the oracle is such that however many questions one asks, and however careful one is to clarify to the best of one’s ability the answers, there remain always some key questions one has failed to ask: questions that are not yet within one’s grasp. As we went along, we believe we became more skilled in asking these, but as the student of the Sage grows in his perspective, the questions he asks are always from this new platform of understanding. Important unasked questions will certainly occur to one or another reader. He now has in his grasp the same methods we have used, to ask his own questions.

Footnote: * "...all of the myths (or rather, as we now have them, moralizing anecdotes) of the Chinese golden age have to be recognized as the productions rather of a Confucian forest of pencils than of any ‘good earth’ or ‘forest primeval.’" "Oriental Mythology: The Masks of God" by Joseph Campbell (New York, Viking Penguin, 1962), p. 380.

Customer Reviews

RELIEF IS JUST A BOOK AWAY!
How do I spell "relief?" I CHING : ORACLE OF THE COSMIC WAY.
In all my years of trying to find out what's wrong with the world; what's wrong with this relationship; what's wrong with this job; what's wrong with this town, I also spent time and energy to find out what's wrong with me.
Problem was that even when I understood things intellectually; even when I could put them into poems; even when I had performed the prescribed rituals, those same sad, sour problems stayed with me. I have felt as if I was under a curse.
Sure enough. I have been living under the control of an treacherous,inner tyrant. My own ego. Even though I tried to find relief in scriptures, prayers, practices, shamanic rituals, affirmations, creative expression, bodywork, those activities never addressed the real cause of the suffering.
I CHING: ORACLE OF THE COSMIC WAY shows me an entirely different perspective. Now I can sometimes sense the decaying presence of my own ego. I can almost feel the muscles of my trueself, the person I really am, in comparison with the flimsey costumes of the ego masquerading as me. Now sometimes, I can clearly tell the difference between the two.
How can a book bring about such an awareness? First of all, I CHING;ORACLE OF THE COSMIC WAY is not a book. Yeah, it looks like one and you DO read it. But it's really a kind of intimacy with one's own Wisdom, the Sage, a presence that the ego cannot manipulate and colonize.
The Sage answers clearly when I throw the Three Coins, usually in the written Hexagrams, and sometimes in the "stillest, smallest Voice" I ever heard. If I don't understand, I just ask for clarification and throw the coins until I do. The Appendix provides remarkably clear definitions and amazingly effective processes for working with the Sage.
Three things are delightful about working with this version of the I CHING: (1) It has surgical precision that cuts straight to deep, deep difficulties. Right to the marrow. And yet (2) the process is kind and gentle, and (3) I feel relieved and satisfied with the results.
So how is this accomplished? This book teaches how to say NO! and how to say YES! to one's own life in such a way that the ego is diminished and the trueself is nourished. This book also teaches that the commonsense we all enjoyed as young children is really who we are and what we have to work with. Right now as adults.
My copy of I CHING:ORACLE OF THE COSMIC WAY has become my favorite belonging. It is such a relief to experience, once again, that life is as wonder-full as I thought it was, way back before preschool. This is especially helpful during current national and world events.
I invite you to buy this book and spend time with the Sage. Your ego won't like it, but you will.

Looking for Tao, look no further.
As a long time student of Zen, Taoism, Chi Kung, Taiji & Baguazhang I cannot praise this version of the I Ching enough. It has made my many other versions almost useless.

This version is stripped down to the essential issues. It resolves so many of the inconsistencies that may have confused you in other versions. It will also dramatically enhance your chi kung, meditation or internal martial arts practices.

Built into this version is a failsafe that helps make sure your readings are sound. This is a very important feature that has clearly always been there, but has been obscured in the past by faulty interpretations of the I Ching's purpose & application.

Any serious student of Zen or Taoism will immediately notice how cogently it speaks & how it resolves so many problematic issues. It is truly remarkable & transformative.

Carol Anthony & Hanna Moog & their wise benefactors have made a critical contribution to humanity.

The Next Evolution of the I Ching
Welcome to the next evolution of the I Ching, now called The Oracle of the Cosmic Way. This work is the product of some five years of research and discovery on the part of the authors, Carol Anthony and Hanna Moog. For anyone who loves the I Ching and has learned from it or trusted its advice, this book will be extremely valuable. It is, in short, perhaps the most important contribution to I Ching literature since Wilhelm's famous translation of 1923, because it shows, in extraordinary detail, how a Cosmic understanding of the hexagrams and lines of the I Ching can be achieved by the individual seeker, in relation to the issues and questions of his own life, and all this in the overall context of developing a personal relationship with the Sage, or Cosmic teaching voice, that speaks through the I Ching.

This book comes highly recommended: it is researched and written by two total professionals, under the guidance of the Cosmic voice that speaks to each of us through the oracle. It will provide enrichment and deep learning for everyone who approaches it in an attitude of sincerity and openness, and continue to offer the gifts of insight and guidance for many, many years to come. Don't hesitate to obtain a copy of this new and revolutionary approach to the I Ching and the Cosmic Way.