The I Ching: Points of Balance and Cycles of Change - Softcover

Jones, Peggy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855756412 ISBN 13: 9781855756410

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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Peggy Jones

Review

“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, co-author of Heal Your Spirit, Heal Yourself, Alpha Centre lecturer and workshop leader)

“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, PhD, author of The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung’s Critique of Modern Western Culture; Deputy Director at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies)

“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, Jungian analyst)

“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)

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1855756412
• ISBN 13: 9781855756410
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268