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Under this roof is a collection of over 700 bookmarks relating to the I Ching—everything from translations to crafts to the philosophy of the Tao. Browse to discover how the I Ching has permeated oriental culture in myriad aspects. Click the roof top to enter that world.

Adele Aldridge has made a beautiful and useful new font for the I Ching. I use it in my later books because it gives more transcribing options and characters than other I Ching font available. She kindly made these options available specifically at my request.

Of course, this I Ching font can be used in the traditional way of oracle notation with the 64 hexagram lines and 8 trigrams.

But you can also use it for mathematical notation in string theory, such as in my books Double Bubble Universe and the upcoming Universal Fractal Tree. Unlike other fonts, it allows you to type polarized ratios and equations for single yin and yin lines, plus even bigrams. It also indicates single changing lines.

Here is its font map so you can see the characters available.

This useful and well-proportioned I Ching font can be used on any system and in any program that allows for text input. You can find it at http://www.ichingmeditations.com/2009/01/new-i-ching-font/

Here is another intriguing TOE. Thomas Campbell's TOE suggests digital processing to explain the nature of larger mind in the universe. Click its cover to see more about it.

This admirable book by William Tiller describes how consciousness can in itself affect matter in measurable scientific events. Here is its first sentence: "The underlying message of this book is that, under at least some conditions, human intention acts like a typical potential capable of creating robust effects in what we call physical reality."

For more go to http://tillerfoundation.com/books.php

This artful & poetic interpretation of I Ching is by Adele Aldridge. Once there, click on the darkened square of a hexagram to see what you get.

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The animated graphics on this site come from my friends at LarvalBug. They offer free nature images and graphics. Click on their logo to survey the full possibilities.

Fractals are beautiful patterns in nature. The blue Mandelbrot set on this site's Physics page comes from the fascinating http://www.miqel.com

Go there to see the genius of nature in fractals as visual math.

Here are the two oldest translations of the I Ching into English:

First and earliest came the the James Legge translation. Its brutal exactness of wording is geared to a Victorian mind. Legge set that first version (circa 1855) aside because he thought he was not really getting its tone and message.

That original manuscript was lost in a sunken ship and soaked in the Red Sea before its rescue from the briny deep, whereupon it was greatly revised by Legge. Legge eventually said that twenty years of delay and loss gave him enough time to mature his translation of the I Ching.

Click on the yellow & red Tai Chi ball to see Legge's final version.

Second comes a better-known guide to the 64 hexagrams by Richard Wilhelm in German in 1923, and then into English by Cary F. Baynes in 1950. It is a good guide for the beginner who wants to stick with a generous-spirited and well-known translation. Click on the chart below to see it.

There are many personal interpretations of the I Ching. Below is a contemporary I Ching blogging site, along with Adele Aldridge's commentary on how to use the I Ching in daily life.