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\tThe I Ching (\u6613\u7ecf, YìJ\u012bn\u0261)<\/strong>, is also called Yi Jing,is one of the oldest know documents in the world. This “Classic of Change” was written by 3000 years ago, and the Chinese claim was passed down as oral tradition for 2000 years before that.<\/p>\n \tIts longevity isn't the only wonder the I Ching holds claim to.<\/p>\n \tIt also possesses the uncanny ability to actually communicate with anyone who chooses to use it.<\/p>\n \tThis is no fortune-telling gimmick — in fact, the I Ching often frustrates attempts to divine the future from its pages.<\/p>\n \tThis oracle is solely concerned with the present — YOUR present.<\/p>\n \tIt takes you past the tunnel vision and gives you a 360 degree view of your situation.<\/p>\n \tIt goes beyond the realm of your five senses and picks up the subliminal signals that sailed right past your conscious awareness to become filed away in your subconscious.<\/p>\n \tWhen you are obsessed with a desire, intent on an outcome, the I Ching gently nudges you and says, "Yes, but have you considered this …?"This classic's ability to accurately gauge a situation probably seemed like a gift from the gods to the sages who discovered it — and in a sense, it is.<\/p>\n \tBut modern science is progressively removing the layers of superstition from its legend and replacing it with new understanding that is no less magical.<\/p>\n \tLike all oracles of the ancient world, the I Ching's message is cloaked in ambiguity.<\/p>\n \tWhat makes this oracle ingenious, though, is that its symbols spark the universal archetypes embedded within the Collective Unconscious we all share.<\/p>\n \tThe books of C.G. Jung, the father of modern psychoanalysis, shed light on these archetypes — a subject much too complex to address here.<\/p>\n \tRead his foreword in The I Ching Or Book of Changes.<\/p>\n \tFor a quick study, try the entertaining and enlightening writings of Joseph Campbell, for example The Power of Myth.<\/p>\n \tAnother secret of the I Ching's accuracy is its division into 64 sections, representing every situation in life that one might find oneself in.<\/p>\n \tWhat is truly brilliant about this classic's formula is that every one of these 64 situations can change into any one of the other 63!<\/p>\n \tThus the classic's name, Change.<\/p>\n