Oracle of Emergence: An Evolutionary I Ching

Since it emerged on turtle shells 5,000 years ago, the I Ching has been a guide for millions. It has long been clouded in dense language and cultural baggage that has often made it seem inaccessible. Rei Hance's Oracle of Emergence is a fresh and present version of the I Ching for this moment. Feminine, American, direct, and fully alive--this is an evolutionary view of the I Ching for these urgent get-your-shit-together times.There are only so many ways a dandelion can flower and there are only so many responses to causes and conditions that are possible in a human life. They’re all here, in the ecological systems map that is the I Ching.Throw the coins. Random speaks its own vast tongue. Listen. You’re not a victim of fate, you’re a participant. How willing are you to be fully alive? The I Ching will meet you there.The I Ching is a field. An entity. An energy. A being and a guide. Like so many fields of being, our intimacy with them has long been mediated by priests and priestesses, poets and painters, shamans and saints—until it’s not. Until we cultivate that relationship, that intimacy, ourselves. Oracle of Emergence is that invitation to intimacy. Read more