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From the Back Cover "A Guide to the I Ching" is an interpretive manual to the classic Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching. Now a classic in its own right and translated into other languages, the Guide is recognized by teachers and long time students of the I Ching as indispensable to its understanding and use. Developed from notes taken over many years, the Guide mirrors the reader's true inner feelings, helping him to bring his life and fate into harmony with the Tao-the way of the Universe. Also by Carol K. Anthony: "The Philosophy of the I Ching, Second Edition," "The Other Way, Meditation Experiences Based on the I Ching," and "Love, An Inner Connection, Based on Principles Drawn from the I Ching." Product Description "A Guide to the I Ching" is an interpretive manual to the classic Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching. Now a classic in its own right and translated into other languages (German, Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian, and Italian), the "Guide" is recognized by teachers and long time students of the I Ching as indispensable to its understanding and use. Developed from notes taken over many years, the Guide mirrors the reader's true inner feelings, helping him to bring his life and fate into harmony with the Tao — the way of the Universe. Review When this book was first published in 1980, I was convinced that no one could add to the monumental commentary of Richard Wilhelm... I was wrong. Ms. Anthony has made a genuine contribution to our understanding and use of the oracle. --Harry Goldgar, New Orleans Times Picayune From the Publisher This book, published first in 1980, is here presented in its third revised and enlarged edition. It remains the best selling I Ching book for its major independent press distributors in the U.S. and England, and it has been translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Croatian. It has attained a dedicated and enthusiastic worldwide following from readers of all interests and backgrounds. From the Author I could never have presumed to sit down and write a book on such a wonderful and enormous text as the I Ching. This book simply happened as notes I was keeping for my own use. I wrote the notes during those occasional times when I suddenly realized what the I Ching had been referring to in my daily consulting it. Sometimes these realizations came during the middle of the night; sometimes they came during meditation, or while I was doing something mundane. Always, I felt they were a gift from the Cosmos, for I could not imagine how such wonderful thoughts could come from my mind. They were somehow beyond pure mentality. After seven years these covered every line and hexagram in the I Ching, and when I saw that they were helpful to other users of the I Ching, I published them. Another ten years gave me an even fuller perspective of the underlying principles of the I Ching, and so I shared them in what is here the third edition of the book. I do not offer them as a definitive and final understanding of the I Ching, for I do not believe that such a monumental book of wisdom can be definitively understood. I merely offer it to share what I have myself learned. What I have learned, however, is that the great Tao of the Universe is a friendly consciousness that is always there to help us, so long as we do not block it by negative and arrogant thoughts. To harmonize oneself with its point of view is to find true happiness. It is also a long and ever-engaging process. About the Author Born Carol Kessler in West Virginia in 1930, Carol K. Anthony was educated at Ward-Belmont College in Nashville, Tennessee and the University of Iowa, Iowa City, specializing in Creative Writing. It was during a mid-life-crisis in 1971 that she realized that she had found her true teacher. Since then she has been its dedicated student.