Using the I Ching/ Yi Jing for
metaphysics:
metaphysics:
More about the uses of the I Ching/ Yi Jing/ Chinese Book of Changes
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An approach can be developed that finds similar patterns in the
symbolic systems of all cultures, patterns rooted in universal systems
principles, or in the structure of the brain and in patterns of brain
function.
The I Ching, or Yi Jing, is an important work in the search for such
patterns because it has served as major source for Chinese ideas about
the basic way existence works for some 3000 years or more.
The I Ching uses stacks of solid and broken lines to predict the future
and to guide the development of human behavior. Hexagrams, sets of
six lines, built out of trigrams are fundamental to this system. There
are eight basic trigrams, four pairs of them. Heaven and Earth,
Mountain and Lake, Waterpit and Flame, Thunder and Wind.
Heaven has aspects of the schizotypal and the romantic and Earth of its
realistic and dependent opposite. Heaven is "far out" but Earth is
"down to earth." Mountain is more narcissistic and impressionistic as
opposed to the avoidant and post-impressionistic Lake. Mountain will
not be moved in its point of view, but Lake reflects joyously on
everything around it. Waterpit, or gorge, is in a rut. It is compulsive
and Baroque. Flame, the opposite of Waterpit, will burn you. It is
antisocial, the cubist, dada, temper in art. Wind is high up and refined,
very pure, but penetrating and paranoid. Thunder is the expressionic,
the vulgar, the common, the histrionic.
In economic orientations, Heaven would be aboriginal production, food
gathering, primitive agriculture. Earth is its utilitarian, industrial
democracy opposite, receptive, dependent, product of the social
democratic type. These are the two poles of the productive orientation.
Flame is the exploitative orientation (Vikings, Huns), the weapon
carrying, and Waterpit is the receptive orientation, the rain receiver, the
absolutist, the bureaucratic rut based system. Mountain is the
parliamentary republic and parliamentary debate. Lake is the
communist, the imperial, the nationalist empire (Lake does not debate,
it simply reflects the dogma of the ruling state). Wind hoards and
refines, it represents the idealistic aspect of the hoarding orientation. It
is paranoid and aristocratic. Thunder markets and advertises. It is
histrionic, populist, and vulgar. It is the marketing orientation. Thus,
the various economic relations discussed by Eric Fromm in "Man for
Himself."
symbolic systems of all cultures, patterns rooted in universal systems
principles, or in the structure of the brain and in patterns of brain
function.
The I Ching, or Yi Jing, is an important work in the search for such
patterns because it has served as major source for Chinese ideas about
the basic way existence works for some 3000 years or more.
The I Ching uses stacks of solid and broken lines to predict the future
and to guide the development of human behavior. Hexagrams, sets of
six lines, built out of trigrams are fundamental to this system. There
are eight basic trigrams, four pairs of them. Heaven and Earth,
Mountain and Lake, Waterpit and Flame, Thunder and Wind.
Heaven has aspects of the schizotypal and the romantic and Earth of its
realistic and dependent opposite. Heaven is "far out" but Earth is
"down to earth." Mountain is more narcissistic and impressionistic as
opposed to the avoidant and post-impressionistic Lake. Mountain will
not be moved in its point of view, but Lake reflects joyously on
everything around it. Waterpit, or gorge, is in a rut. It is compulsive
and Baroque. Flame, the opposite of Waterpit, will burn you. It is
antisocial, the cubist, dada, temper in art. Wind is high up and refined,
very pure, but penetrating and paranoid. Thunder is the expressionic,
the vulgar, the common, the histrionic.
In economic orientations, Heaven would be aboriginal production, food
gathering, primitive agriculture. Earth is its utilitarian, industrial
democracy opposite, receptive, dependent, product of the social
democratic type. These are the two poles of the productive orientation.
Flame is the exploitative orientation (Vikings, Huns), the weapon
carrying, and Waterpit is the receptive orientation, the rain receiver, the
absolutist, the bureaucratic rut based system. Mountain is the
parliamentary republic and parliamentary debate. Lake is the
communist, the imperial, the nationalist empire (Lake does not debate,
it simply reflects the dogma of the ruling state). Wind hoards and
refines, it represents the idealistic aspect of the hoarding orientation. It
is paranoid and aristocratic. Thunder markets and advertises. It is
histrionic, populist, and vulgar. It is the marketing orientation. Thus,
the various economic relations discussed by Eric Fromm in "Man for
Himself."
Long Yang Bottom Line of Infinite Flux/Shiva
______________________________
HEAVEN TRIGRAM OF ENDLESS EXTENSION
(mutation)
Long Yang Top Line of Infinite Numbers of Concentrated Private Infinitesimals
Middle Long Yang Line of One Boundless Whole Refined Infinitesimals
_______________________________ _______________________________
WIND AIR TRIGRAM OF INFINITESIMALLY REFINED
(genetic set point)
Broken Yin Bottom Line of infinitely refined infinitesimal information
_____________ _____________
FLAME-FIRE MOUNTAIN-SALT WATERPIT-RUT LAKE-WATER
(extinction-natural selection) (isolation-input analysis) (feedback mechanism) (recombination)
EARTH TRIGRAM OF FINITE MEASURED PRODUCT
(measured product)
Broken Yin Middle Line of Atomic Parts Broken Yin Top Line of Space Time Distribution
__________ ___________ ____________ ____________
THUNDER DUST TRIGRAM OF PROBABLE EXPANSION
(maladaptive expression)
Long Yang Bottom Line of Conserved Energy Infinite Shiva Flux
_________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
Progression of music Long top yang is the leading note yin is the tonic chord
_____________________ ________ ______
Long middle yang line is harmony yin is the instrumental sound (timbre)
_____________________ _________ ______
Long bottom yang line is musical energy yin is the score
_____________________ _________ _______
HEAVEN TRIGRAM EARTH TRIGRAM
(2)Polyphonic Church Music (7)Berlioz and Mussorgsky
(6)Beethoven and Romanticism Realistic temper
FLAME TRIGRAM WATERPIT TRIGRAM
(1)Plain Chant Early Church Baroque temper
(10)Brubeck, Jazz and Cubist temp. (4)Bach and Handel
MOUNTAIN TRIGRAM LAKE TRIGRAM
(2)Composed Homophony (8)Symbolism, Wagner
(9)Impressionism, Debussy Nationalism,
WIND TRIGRAM THUNDER TRIGRAM
(3)Classical Opera, Peri Expressionistic temper
(5)Mozart, Model Music (9)Stravinsky, Schonberg
Note: as there is evolution of complex developments, there is also cycling around yin and yang poles, cycling
through the trigrams, as shown above.
Progression art, literature as above Long top yang is leading bush yin is assembled form
Long middle yang is composition yin is blob of color, of clay
Long bottom yang is light energy yin is work of art
Long top yang is story teller yin is language community audience
Long middle yang is larger context yin is character
Long bottom line is progression of story yin is information in text
If it is brain function that we are looking at the following model holds:
Brain Stem to Amygdala Brain Energy Bottom Yang Line RIGHT AMYGDALA
_______________________________________________ _______________________________________
Brain Information Bottom Yin Line RIGHT HIPPOCAMPUS
RIGHT CEREBRAL HEMISPHERE RIGHT PARIETAL LOBE RIGHT TEMPORAL LOBE
Parietal Occipital Temporal Association
Middle Yang Line (Total Meaning) RIGHT
FRONTAL LOBE RIGHT PARIETAL LOBE OCCIPITAL
Top Yang Line (Leading Self) Top Yin Line (Association)
________________________________________________________________________________________
C S P L
LEFT CEREBRAL HEMISPHERE E U A O
N L R B
FRONTAL LOBE T C I E
R U E LEFT OCCIPITAL LOBE
A S T Parietal Occipital Temporal Association
L A
L
Middle Yin Line (Local Facts) LEFT TEMPORAL LOBE
___________________________________________ ___________________________________________
______________________________
HEAVEN TRIGRAM OF ENDLESS EXTENSION
(mutation)
Long Yang Top Line of Infinite Numbers of Concentrated Private Infinitesimals
Middle Long Yang Line of One Boundless Whole Refined Infinitesimals
_______________________________ _______________________________
WIND AIR TRIGRAM OF INFINITESIMALLY REFINED
(genetic set point)
Broken Yin Bottom Line of infinitely refined infinitesimal information
_____________ _____________
FLAME-FIRE MOUNTAIN-SALT WATERPIT-RUT LAKE-WATER
(extinction-natural selection) (isolation-input analysis) (feedback mechanism) (recombination)
EARTH TRIGRAM OF FINITE MEASURED PRODUCT
(measured product)
Broken Yin Middle Line of Atomic Parts Broken Yin Top Line of Space Time Distribution
__________ ___________ ____________ ____________
THUNDER DUST TRIGRAM OF PROBABLE EXPANSION
(maladaptive expression)
Long Yang Bottom Line of Conserved Energy Infinite Shiva Flux
_________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
Progression of music Long top yang is the leading note yin is the tonic chord
_____________________ ________ ______
Long middle yang line is harmony yin is the instrumental sound (timbre)
_____________________ _________ ______
Long bottom yang line is musical energy yin is the score
_____________________ _________ _______
HEAVEN TRIGRAM EARTH TRIGRAM
(2)Polyphonic Church Music (7)Berlioz and Mussorgsky
(6)Beethoven and Romanticism Realistic temper
FLAME TRIGRAM WATERPIT TRIGRAM
(1)Plain Chant Early Church Baroque temper
(10)Brubeck, Jazz and Cubist temp. (4)Bach and Handel
MOUNTAIN TRIGRAM LAKE TRIGRAM
(2)Composed Homophony (8)Symbolism, Wagner
(9)Impressionism, Debussy Nationalism,
WIND TRIGRAM THUNDER TRIGRAM
(3)Classical Opera, Peri Expressionistic temper
(5)Mozart, Model Music (9)Stravinsky, Schonberg
Note: as there is evolution of complex developments, there is also cycling around yin and yang poles, cycling
through the trigrams, as shown above.
Progression art, literature as above Long top yang is leading bush yin is assembled form
Long middle yang is composition yin is blob of color, of clay
Long bottom yang is light energy yin is work of art
Long top yang is story teller yin is language community audience
Long middle yang is larger context yin is character
Long bottom line is progression of story yin is information in text
If it is brain function that we are looking at the following model holds:
Brain Stem to Amygdala Brain Energy Bottom Yang Line RIGHT AMYGDALA
_______________________________________________ _______________________________________
Brain Information Bottom Yin Line RIGHT HIPPOCAMPUS
RIGHT CEREBRAL HEMISPHERE RIGHT PARIETAL LOBE RIGHT TEMPORAL LOBE
Parietal Occipital Temporal Association
Middle Yang Line (Total Meaning) RIGHT
FRONTAL LOBE RIGHT PARIETAL LOBE OCCIPITAL
Top Yang Line (Leading Self) Top Yin Line (Association)
________________________________________________________________________________________
C S P L
LEFT CEREBRAL HEMISPHERE E U A O
N L R B
FRONTAL LOBE T C I E
R U E LEFT OCCIPITAL LOBE
A S T Parietal Occipital Temporal Association
L A
L
Middle Yin Line (Local Facts) LEFT TEMPORAL LOBE
___________________________________________ ___________________________________________
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