Author Archives: Harmen Mesker
New video’s on my YiTube channel
The following video’s were recently added to my YiTube channel on youtube:
- Examples of Early Yijing Divination (2): Where are the mountains?
- Examples of Early Yijing Divination (3): The Grace of Confucius
- EoEYD (3) Supplement: Did Confucius study the Book of Changes?
- My way of using trigram dice
- Delusion and an “overabundance of meaningful coincidences”
- The Yarrow Stalk Trigrams of Zhang Li
Online workshop The Mystery of the Text: Understanding the Words of the Book of Changes
Many users of the Yijing struggle with the text of the oracle: how can you read it in such a way that it always gives a meaningful and relevant answer to the question or situation that you address to the Book of Changes? This workshop will teach you that. We will explore the Chinese text, its origin and development, and will look at early usage and readings of this enigmatic yet fascinating oracle from early China. From there we will build a framework that will help you to understand the layout of the text, and how it conveys it messages in images. You will learn how to read the text, how to work with its images, and how to lift the veil of mystery from its words. After this workshop you know how the text can answer any question that you address to the oracle. You will be able to read the images and can practically apply them to any situation. Who’s afraid of the text? You won’t be after this workshop.
I made a short video in which I walk you through the contents of the course: Contents of the Mystery of the Text course (youtube.com) (forget the date that I mention in the video – I made this video for an earlier instalment of the course.). Continue reading
Examples of Early Yijing Divination
A new series of videos – the title says it all:
Examples of Early Yijing Divination (1): the misformed feet of Gongmeng Zhi – YouTube
Casting Changes: Podcasts about the YI in Times of Movement
Exciting news!
Johannes Bloemsma and I started a Yi podcast:
Casting Changes: Podcasts about the YI in Times of Movement.
The first podcast is available now – an introduction about who we are, what we do and what we are going to do with the podcast. Including the examination of a hexagram that is representative for our new endeavour!
If you want to watch the podcast and be informed of new episodes you can sign up here:
https://castingchanges.projects.webpages.one/
The YouTube channel for the podcast is here: Casting Changes – YouTube
This is going to be fun!