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Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…does come genuinely from the I Ching. So we have this peculiar three pronged situation. We have a pattern in the king Wen sequence, taken by an Irishman and contorted into a mathematical wave which gives a prediction for the apotheosis of the world, which…
…I couldn't figure out what I was doing. I mean, it said, go buy graph paper. Go get your I ching. Look at the King Wen sequence graph, the first order of difference. And I would try and guess, what are we doing? Are we discovering an ancient chinese…
…this is going to be diagram. So I got graph paper, and it said, draw the hexagrams in a descending line in the King Wen sequence, and then make a graph of the first order of difference, the number of lines that change as you go from hexagram…
…And if you will, look at the I ching and ask yourself. It's like a meditation. Ask yourself the question, why is the king Wen sequence the way it is? Simple question. The first thing you will notice is that it's not just 64 random hexagrams, it's 32…
…It's not even thought to be chinese. They don't claim it. They say it came from somewhere else. And the story of King Wen, this person who got put in jail for political rabble rousing and then formulated it, there's no historical basis for that. I…
…only thing you can deal with, if you really want to deal with the I Ching itself, is the 64 hexagrams in the King Wen sequence. That's the traditional sequence, and that's what I dealt with and studied it for mathematical order to try and figure out…
…you who are keen for the I Ching and can take a look at it when you get home, if you look at the King Wen sequence, the very first thing you notice, if you're paying attention is it isn't 64 hexagrams, it's 32 pairs of hexagrams, because the second…
…words, with a mathematician's intent. And what I've done with the I ching is discovered a series of patterns in the king Wen sequence. And I'm assuming here most people have some knowledge of the I ching. And its purpose, which is its stated purpose,…
…early pre Zhou period, meaning around 1300 bc. And the straight story, as told in the I Ching, is that there was this guy, King Wen, who got into some political trouble. He was an emperor and he got kicked out in a coup and imprisoned. And in the…
…ideograms called hexagrams, that are composed of broken and unbroken lines. They are arranged in a traditional sequence called the King Wen sequence. The divination is carried out through a coin toss operation or a sortile age involving eurostocks. I assume…
…already. As I said, the I Ching is 64 hexagrams, numbered one through 64. And usually presented in a traditional called the King Wen sequence, which is old. Nobody knows where it came from. King Wen is a legendary figure. He supposedly got into some…
…through 64. And usually presented in a traditional called the King Wen sequence, which is old. Nobody knows where it came from. King Wen is a legendary figure. He supposedly got into some political trouble around 1350 bc, and they put him in the can for…
…while he was there, he figured this out, thought it up, he built this operating system. And the interesting thing about the king Wen sequence is that it is not in a logical sequence. On the face of it, when Leibniz, the european philosopher, got his…
…must be solved before we can move on to deeper water. And the koan was, you know, what are the ordering principles of the King Wen sequence? Can you prove, in fact, that it is the product of intent? Or is it, in fact, simply a jumble that has become…
…that depend on synchronicity for the way they work. But that's not really how I use it. I'm more interested in structure, in the King Wen sequence, and have construed out of that a kind of a time wave, a map of novelty. Much of what I said this…
…this is going to be diagram. So I got graph paper and it said, draw the hexagrams in a descending line in the King Wen sequence, and. Then make a graph of the first order of difference, the number of lines. That change as you go from hexagram…
…was drawn to is the only way I can put it by this teaching entity was the sequence of the Qing Wan sequence. Little detail. King Wen is a person who may or may not have been a real person who supposedly lived around 1150 BC. And he got into some…
…he was in prison, he arranged the sequences of the hexagrams of the Yi Ching into a sequence which is called the King Wen sequence, and which is the sequence traditionally used in China ever since. So the teaching voice said, look at the sequence. And…
…a jumble that has become traditional over thousands of years and there is no set of rules for generating the king Wen sequence? Pretty close focused stuff, if you notice, we're not talking here about planetary transformation or human fusion with the…
…about planetary transformation or human fusion with the biosphere. It's very academic, close focus, analytical stuff. So I looked at the king Wen sequence, and I was intuitively led is probably the way to put it, to look at what's called the first order…
…and it's a kind of a poem which attempts to make a logical transition from each hexagram to the next. In the Qing Wen sequence, there are curious statements in the I Ching which definitely support the idea that there must be big chunks missing. For…