The Original I Ching Oracle: The Pure and Complete Texts with Concordance

by Rudolf Ritsema

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This remarkable work is the final result of 50 years of I Ching research and over 10 years of roundtables and seminars. Based on a revolutionary translation method, and inspired by Carl Jung’s insights into the psyche, The Original I Ching Oracle offers Western readers the closest possible approach to the true content of the ancient Chinese oracle. By cutting through layers of philosophical analysis and recovering the original images of the I Ching, it puts readers in contact with a deep universal dimension of the human psyche, as important today as it was for the shamans in China over 3,000 years ago.… (more)

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The Elements of The I Ching by Stephen Karcher (jadler)
jadler: Rudolf Ritsema and Stephen Karcher worked together with the first edition of the vast and massive translation/interpretation with concordance (1994, ISBN 1852305363, LT work 5692112). For the next edition Ritsema chose not to work with Karcher, and managed to improve on what I considered the ultimate English I Ching. Ritsema's brick of a book is invaluable for in depth studies and personal interpretations, but I often find that Karcher's 'Elements of I Ching' manages to give a surprisingly "correct" image that fits the situation I have described, a short and straight forward description of the situation. I find that these two books complement each other. I have several other books on I Ching, but when it comes down to it, these two are the most used ones.… (more)

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There are many different translations of the I Ching, most of which are radically different from one another. Avoid combining them into one work unless you are certain they are substantially the same. Here is an excellent summary of the different editions: http://www.biroco.com/yijing/survey.h...

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This remarkable work is the final result of 50 years of I Ching research and over 10 years of roundtables and seminars. Based on a revolutionary translation method, and inspired by Carl Jung’s insights into the psyche, The Original I Ching Oracle offers Western readers the closest possible approach to the true content of the ancient Chinese oracle. By cutting through layers of philosophical analysis and recovering the original images of the I Ching, it puts readers in contact with a deep universal dimension of the human psyche, as important today as it was for the shamans in China over 3,000 years ago.

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