I Ching

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2021

Nigeria

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In this lecture, Prof Van Norden introduces you to the Classic of Changes (I Ching). Previous Lecture: The Confucian Commentarial Tradition, https://youtu.be/u_q4_BfmMzE Following Lecture: Introducing Wang Yangming, https://youtu.be/3gGPvnYvRU0 Part I: Divination and Cultural Influence 1:05 Oracle Bone Divination 3:40 Parts of the Changes 7:36 Sample Hexagram, Judgment, and Line Statements 8:36 Traditional Evolution of the Text 10:06 Finding a Hexagram: Yarrow Stalk and Coin Methods 14:39 Summary of Using the Changes for Divination 16:40 Introducing Carl Gustav Jung 18:49 Why take the Changes seriously? Jung’s Answer 23:47 Schrödinger’s Cat 26:50 Jung’s Experience Consulting the Changes 28:36 A. C. Graham’s Defense of Divination with the Changes 31:40 Binary Arithmetic and the Changes 35:00 Pop Culture Influences of the Changes Part II: Philosophy of the Changes 36:13 Confucius and the Changes 40:16 The Changes on the Changes 40:56 Yin and Yang 44:00 The Most Important Passages in the Changes 50:30 The Changes on the Great Ultimate 54:28 Zhou Dunyi and the Explanation of the Diagram of the Great Ultimate 1:00:08 Zhu Xi on the Great Ultimate 1:06:04 Lecture Overview Carl Jung's Foreword to the Wilhelm translation of the Changes: https://www.iging.com/intro/foreword.htm Guide to Using the Yarrow Stalk Divination Method: https://youtu.be/bxBHDwn7LGo Music Inspired by Carl Gustav Jung: "Synchronicity I," https://youtu.be/Si5CSpUCDGY Corrections: 10:50 I'm wrong about which stalk you put between your pinky and ring finger. See the link above, "Guide to Using the Yarrow Stalk Divination Method," for a correct description. 16:40 This photo is from 1909 in front of Clark University. Front row, Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung. Back row, Abraham Brill, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung#/media/File:Hall_Freud_Jung_in_front_of_Clark_1909.jpg 33:33 Leibniz (correctly) read the hexagrams from the bottom up, so (contrary to the way I represented the hexagrams in my chart) the number 1 would be represented by ䷖ (100000), not ䷗ (000001). Recorded via Zoom on 26 April 2021.

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