Cross-Cultural Divinations

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Toltec I Ching (to be released in July) draws from common sources of both the Chinese divination method know as the I Ching and pre-Hispanic traditions that produced the "Long Count" sacred calendar ending in 2012.  In the book, authors Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and William Douglas Horden synergize "two powerful oracular traditions that developed independently in the east and the west for two millennia."  Overcoming the previous more patriarchical biasis of previous I Chings, this book aims to evoke both the masculine and feminine energies for helping users to master self-defeating attitudes, respond wisely to things beyond their control and creatively engage a situation’s inner potentials, amongst other life trials.

Recognizing a burgeoning planetary culture, The Toltec I Ching carries the lofty mission of serving as "a helpful tool for people who may need to reinvent themselves or their situations, or who want to help others do one or both—or who simply want better guidance and deeper understanding of how to engage the emerging global perspectives driving widespread change."

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Looking forward to this book!

I've been studying the I Ching for some time now and the wealth of wisdom it possesses is extensive with significant parallels to the Toltec and 2012. Terence McKenna definitely hit the right note when he used it to formulate his Timewave Zero theory. Nature is cyclical, a dance between the eternally changing yin and yang, a concept the Mayans used when designing their calendars. In the I Ching, the last Hexagram is 64 - Wei Chi - Before Completion because the end is just the beginning... Light, Sibyl http://sibyleyes.wordpress.com/