So What can we use I Ching For?
Understanding the Natural World
Strategy Consulting
Decision Making
Personal
Development
& Psychological
Counseling
The I Ching is an ancient tool of great history, also known as the "book of all books" in China,
Quite similar to the Bible in the Western world, except it's not based on any specific religion. Some people use it solely for fortune-telling purposes, but I see it more as a book of strategies. I've heard and experienced many, let's just say, unusual stories of how the I Ching has predicted the future with exact details of someone or some event. But again, that's not what I mainly use it for.
The I Ching is a book of profound philosophies, containing a myriad of classic stories, offering specific guidance for life.
…Okay, that introduction was boring, so I'll give you something juicy: There are some people who believe that the I Ching may be a mathematical tool that can, in a way, calculate the future, instead of predicting it. And there's no shortage of very credible intellectuals believing in it, such as Carl Jung, who once said,
"For more than thirty years, I have interested myself in this oracle technique, or method of exploring the unconscious, for it has seemed to me of uncommon significance. I was already fairly familiar with the I Ching when I first met Wilhelm in the early nineteen twenties; he confirmed for me then what I already knew, and taught me many things more."
(Richard Wilhelm's translation of the I Ching is widely considered the finest English rendition available.)
And I'm with Jung. I somewhat believe that I Ching is an ancient effort to comprehend the probabilities and mathematics of the natural world, as well as an attempt to leverage the variables at hand. So, I don't view it as some Voodoo-magic form of future-telling jujutsu, but I'll admit it, for now, it's still regarded as pseudoscience.(Like Science once were)