Cary F. Baynes Knihy

This simplified pocket edition is for the modern reader who, it is admitted, may well be sceptical of a book of oracles. But W.S.Boardman suggests that we should approach it with an open mind, allowing it to remind us of the apparent preponderance in life of chance (which might yet be something else). Recommending the traditional way of working with the text - tossing coins - W.S.Boardman says this helps us to let go of our struggle to control events and to stop taking ourselves too seriously. Both assist the detachment that can unlock us and allow real changes into our lives.

The basic introduction to the thought of Jung, one of the founders of modern psychiatry. Here Jung examines some of the most contested and crucial areas in the field of analytical psychology: dream analysis, the primitive unconscious, and the relationship between psychology and religion. -- Publisher

The West's foremost translator of the I Ching, Richard Wilhelm thought deeply about how contemporary readers could benefit from this ancient work and its perennially valid insights into change and chance. For him and for his son, Hellmut Wilhelm, the Book of Changes represented not just a mysterious book of oracles or a notable source of the Taoist and Confucian philosophies. In their hands, it emerges, as it did for C. G. Jung, as a vital key to humanity's age-old collective unconscious. Here the observations of the Wilhelms are combined in a volume that will reward specialists and aficionados with its treatment of historical context--and that will serve also as an introduction to the I Ching and the meaning of its famous hexagrams.

Taoistický text zdůrazńuje nedokonalost vnějšího světa, proto člověk nachází spásu v nehybném pólu všech jevů. Zde spočívá cesta k věčnému životu ... Základní taoistický spis značně podléhá vlivu buddhistických a konfucianistických myšlenkových systémů. Svazek rovněž obsahuje komentář německého sinologa Wilhelma o původu a obsahu Tajemství zlatého květu. Jungův komentář využívá teorie kolektivního nevědomí k zobecńujícímu srovnání duchovního života západního a východního člověka.... celý text