<div dir="auto">I think of the revelatory powers of the oracles in 2 ways:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1) A jungian synchronicity sense, imagine an analog clock reading 2:11, turn it around and every spring and gear is working interdependently to create this state, they have 2:11ness, but it is not scrutable from the back. The universe is like a great clock and everything is interdependent and physically/chronologically contiguous</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2) some kind of unknown consciousness thing, it’s not like we really have any idea what anything is </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And I suppose it is helpful in a kind of “you get what you need” creative sense but idk I have had very many extremely specific and strange i ching readings that shook me, and not uncommonly</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 5:16 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On Sat, 10 Aug 2024, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
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> On Fri, Aug 9, 2024, 5:11 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Re: that, this site is an incredible I Ching reference: <a href="https://jamesdekorne.com/GBCh/GBCh.htm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://jamesdekorne.com/GBCh/GBCh.htm</a><br>
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> This confirms my impression of I Ching as something like tarot: a bunch of broadly applicable statements that one is expected to<br>
> apply to one's own situation, without considering how most - probably all - of the others could also apply, had one (or however many<br>
> you drew) of them been randomly selected instead.<br>
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> In other words, the predictive value of drawing one versus another is zero. They can, however, be useful as mental focusing aids for<br>
> considering one's situation.<br>
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This is my view of iching, dreams and tarot. Kind of creative writing <br>
aids. But they inspire you to come up with things, as you yourself, use <br>
its input to come up with things. Could be a deck of playing cards, role <br>
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