“… A certain curious principle that I have termed synchronicity, a concept that formulates a point of view diametrically opposed to that of causality. Coming from a scientific background where demonstrable causality is gospel, Jung was very curious to see why this ancient book was so apt to a seemingly infinite amount of circumstance. There was a great deal of meaningful and relevant answers to his patients’ questions.
Jung used the oracle with his patients during therapy sessions. I was already fairly familiar with the I Ching when I first met Wilhelm in the early 1920s he confirmed for me then what I already knew, and taught me many things more.” “For more than 30 years I have interested myself in this oracle technique, or method of exploring the unconscious, for it has seemed to me of uncommon significance. In a foreword to the book, Carl Jung, psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology, expressed his intrigue on the divinatory aspect of this mysterious book: German sinologist, Richard Wilhelm’s translation of the I Ching stands as the definitive work to read if you’re interested in learning about the ancient work. This is the Book of Changes that we now know today. There is historical record that, in 1050 BCE, Emperor Wen of the Zhou dynasty changed the trigrams into hexagrams (six lines) which created 64 different combinations. That is, three stacked lines either broken or solid, which reflect yin and yang - the cosmic duality of the world and void. According to a mythological version of the creation story, the Chinese hero Fu Xi stared into the skies and the world around him and discovered that everything could be arranged in eight trigrams. All of this said, the exact origins of the I Ching is shrouded in myth and mystery.
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