The I Ching: Points of Balance and Cycles of Change

by Peggy Jones

Overview

Centred on the study of sixty-four 6-line figures (The Hexagrams) representing the yin and yang of the ten thousand things under Heaven, The Classic of Changes or I Ching is one of the oldest books in the world. In this revisioning of the I Ching, the author explores the processes of change and balance as reflected in the hexagrams for the contemporary reader.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855756410
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/04/2008
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Peggy Jones trained with the Westminster Pastoral Foundation and the Society of Analytical Psychology and subsequently worked in private practice as a counsellor, psychotherapist and Jungian analyst. During this time she served as the first organiser of the Day Release training at the Westminster Pastoral Foundation and taught on that and other courses at the Foundation. At the Society of Analytical Psychology she served on the Training Committee and contributed lectures on the collective unconscious and the archetypes in the Public Events program and gave a number of talks (some of which were subsequently published) to various counselling and psychotherapy organizations. She has also run several workshops on the I Ching.

Table of Contents

Introduction , The Hexagrams , Ch'ien / The Creative, Heaven , K'un / The Receptive, Earth , Chun / Difficulty at the Beginning , Mêng / Youthful Folly , Hsü / Waiting (Nourishment) , Sung / Conflict , Shih / The Army , Pi / Holding Together (Union) , Hsiao Ch'u / The Taming Power of the Small , Lü / Treading (Conduct) , T'ai / Peace , P'i / Standstill , T'ung Jên / Fellowship , Ta Yu / Possession in Great Measure , Ch'ien / Modesty , Yü / Enthusiasm , Sui / Following (Tracking) , Ku / Work on What Has Been Spoiled (Decay) , Lin / Approach , Kuan / Contemplation (View) , Shih Ho / Biting Through , Pi / Grace , Po / Splitting Apart (Letting Go / Release) , Fu / Return (The Turning Point) , Wu Wang / Innocence (The Unexpected) , Ta Chu / The Taming Power of the Great , I / Corners of the Mouth (Providing Nourishment) , Ta Kuo / Preponderance of the Great , K'an / The Abysmal (Water) (The Deep, The Depths) , Li / The Clinging, Fire , Hsien / Influence (Wooing) , Hêng / Duration , Tun / Retreat , Ta Chuang / The Power of the Great , Chin / Progress , Ming I / Darkening of the Light (‘Wounding of the Bright’) , Chia Jên / The Family (The Clan) , K'uei / Opposition , Chien / Obstruction , Hsieh / Deliverance , Sun / Decrease , I / Increase , Kuai / Breakthrough (Resoluteness) , Kou / Coming To Meet , Ts'ui / Gathering Together , Shêng / Pushing Upward , K'un / Oppression (Exhaustion) , Ching / The Well , Ko / Revolution (Moulting) , Ting / The Cauldron , Chên / The Arousing, Thunder , Kên / Keeping Still, Mountain , Chien / Development (Gradual Progress) , Kuei Mei / The Marrying Maiden , Fêng / Abundance , Lü / The Wanderer (The Outsider) , Sun / The Gentle (The Penetrating, Wind) , Tui / The Joyous, Lake , Huan / Dispersion , Chieh / Limitation , Chung Fu / Inner Truth , Hsiao Kuo / Preponderance of the Small , Chi Chi / After Completion , Wei Chi / Before Completion , >The Trigrams and the Sequence of Later Heaven , The Lines , Further Comments on the Process of Consulting the I Ching and Instructions for Dividing the Yarrow Stalks , The Sequence of Earlier Heaven and the Tao , : The Grid

Editorial Reviews

This is a fascinating book which I recommend to anybody interested in the process of deep and spiritual change in life, particularly to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who will discover in it a totally different approach to the problem of opposites in our life.

Dr. Ryu Suzuki

In Peggy Jones’s book there is no determining historical or theoretical setting to what she writes, rather there is the voice of someone consciously dealing with the personal experiences of the inevitability of change. It is an ageless voice which creates an awareness of her having an inside line to a timeless space in the reader, a space which is the whole history of time—an all encompassing interactive net of past, present and future.

Chuck Schwartz

Among the many available versions of the I Ching, this new rendering by Jungian analyst Peggy Jones deserves a special place. It presents the wisdom of the ancient Chinese oracle in lucid, psychological language that speaks directly and insightfully to contemporary situations. Remaining faithful to the spirit of the original, Peggy Jones's I Ching, guides us sagely in the task of maintaining psychological balance in a world of rapid change. Not least, this is a workable I Ching, that stands up to the ultimate, practical test by providing illuminating responses when questioned. While there has been a long association of the I Ching, with Jungian psychology, the appearance of this version wholly rendered by a Jungian analyst and suffused with the wisdom gleaned from long analytic experience is an important event in itself.

Roderick Main

The I Ching: Points of Balance and Cycles of Change offers the modern reader a clear path into the inner realm of an ancient Chinese classic which elucidates the Truth of Heaven and Earth—indeed the Truth of human life. Peggy Jones has made a real contribution to the all too obvious needs of our dramatically changing modern times, which cry out for a sense of compassion and understanding, through making an effort to reach ‘the still point of the turning world’.

Terence Moore

The I Ching: Points of Balance and Cycles of Change offers the modern reader a clear path into the inner realm of an ancient Chinese classic which elucidates the Truth of Heaven and Earth—indeed the Truth of human life. Peggy Jones has made a real contribution to the all too obvious needs of our dramatically changing modern times, which cry out for a sense of compassion and understanding, through making an effort to reach ‘the still point of the turning world’.”

“Among the many available versions of the I Ching, this new rendering by Jungian analyst Peggy Jones deserves a special place. It presents the wisdom of the ancient Chinese oracle in lucid, psychological language that speaks directly and insightfully to contemporary situations. Remaining faithful to the spirit of the original, Peggy Jones's I Ching, guides us sagely in the task of maintaining psychological balance in a world of rapid change. Not least, this is a workable I Ching, that stands up to the ultimate, practical test by providing illuminating responses when questioned. While there has been a long association of the I Ching, with Jungian psychology, the appearance of this version wholly rendered by a Jungian analyst and suffused with the wisdom gleaned from long analytic experience is an important event in itself.”

“In Peggy Jones’s book there is no determining historical or theoretical setting to what she writes, rather there is the voice of someone consciously dealing with the personal experiences of the inevitability of change. It is an ageless voice which creates an awareness of her having an inside line to a timeless space in the reader, a space which is the whole history of time—an all encompassing interactive net of past, present and future.”

“This is a fascinating book which I recommend to anybody interested in the process of deep and spiritual change in life, particularly to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who will discover in it a totally different approach to the problem of opposites in our life.

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