The I Ching on YouTube

(Last updated May 2009) I thought it would be a good idea to start taking note of Yijing-related videos on YouTube separate from the main links page.

 

Yarrow manipulation – Speeded-up demonstration of how to do the yarrow stalk rite, put across without speech. He writes the numbers down top to bottom, which worried me at first, but when he comes to draw the hexagram he correctly transposes them to build the hexagram up bottom to top.

 

Bank I Ching #2 – A great bit of spontaneity here. I love the little dance before the last throw. I can remember throwing the coins out in the flow of the world, trusting I could still remember all the hexagrams. And when I forgot I would seek out a bookshop, letting my fate be 'on hold' until I got there. These days nothing is that important it can't wait or make do with a decision flying blind. This YouTuber also has some good thoughts on I Ching psychosis. Bank I Ching #1 appears to be this video: Where is life going?

 

Terence McKenna – The author of 'The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching' discusses his interest in the I Ching and his theory of 'Timewave'. Followed by Part 2 and Part 3. Not particularly astounding, but McKenna is always watchable and there's plenty of him and this silly 2012 stuff on YouTube.

 

tetas, empanadas y un i ching – Exactly what it says. Some Argentinean birds eating empanadas, talking about their breasts, and the I Ching. Lovely bit of fly-on-the-wall.

 

Understand the I Ching – I don't think this is a very good explanation of the I Ching, but I loved his schoolmasterish character and enthusiasm. Unintentionally funny, but he seems a good sort. He is quite real, he doesn't pretend to know when he doesn't, as when he is confused by the 'Index of the Hexagrams' from the back of Wilhelm, which indeed is confusing, since the sequence they're in is mysterious (I have yet to come across anyone who knows what that sequence is). He uses six coins with one being different to make a moving line. Not a standard method, but Aleister Crowley did it this way too.

 

I-Ching vs The Bible – Jack Awful hosts a 'face off'. Well I thought it was quite funny. Nice to have something to do in your retirement.

 

Animated sequences – SolaristProjects have taken the eight by eight block of 64 hexagrams in the King Wen order and made each hexagram the starting point for 64 animated runs of the sequence, so each is lagging behind the one before it in the grid by one hexagram. This has the additional effect of having the hexagrams hop forwards. Easier to watch it than describe it. Great idea. There is also another version that can apparently be viewed with 3D glasses: anaglyphic i-ching. This YouTuber has a few other hexagram animations.

 

Itches – An experimental animation using the hexagrams.

 

Fu Xi Changes His Mind – Kymotrope based on the sequence of the eight binary trigrams made by MythMath, who has done some very beautiful Yi-related diagrams on the Abrahadabra Forums. Another of his YouTube kymotropes is Lo Shu Squarewave. The Planetary Square Dance is a 'Kymotropic analysis of Morphing Magick Squarewaves with frequencies based on the 27 Ternary Trigrams of the Tai Hsuan Ching'.

 

Binary Tao Code N°2 da Poetronica – Really attractive fusion of hexagram lines and sound by Carlo Isola.

 

Tao Te Ching & I-Ching – Interesting lecture by 'I Ching King' (Gavin Cheng) on the significance of left and right in chapter 31 of the Daodejing, and its relation to the I Ching. He has other videos on the oracle, and a thought-provoking lecture on the Chinese characters for little and big. Mr Cheng also has an online school of Yi Ching.

 

Martial arts and I Ching in de hood – Sifu Rudy explains bagua from a martial arts and black man's perspective. Down-to-earth, and a nice table. An ad comes up at the end for blacktaoist.com.

 

Yi Ching Part 1 and Part 2 – This Yijing authority speaking in Bulgarian certainly has a lot of books in his room, though I don't know how he ever finds anything. He has quite a presence, anyone know anything about him?

 

I Ching balloon dragon – Flying dragon in the sky. I want to make one of these.

 

Wu Wang. La inocencia. I Ching 25 – I love this song. A few rude images.

 

Helio y Vos – I Ching – Hilarious! Understanding the language isn't important here. Definitely one of my favourites.

 

I CHING – The Gentle, the Penetrating – Percussional interpretation of hexagram 57 performed by Carolina Alcaraz.

 

Interactive Grimoire – I-Ching – Dour-looking but actually quite interesting primer on the I Ching by Rev Don Lewis, who has also given armchair talks on zombies and Nostradamus. I always smile when people pronounce 'dynasty' as 'die nasty'. He is better informed than most people on ancient Chinese history, but naturally there's stuff I'd quibble with. He is a Correllian priest, which is a wiccan tradition. Seems a man with something to say, judging by some of his other videos.

 

Arduino King Wen Display – King Wen sequence using an Arduino Diecimila circuit board. Used at 'Burning Man 2006'.

 

What is I Ching? – Herk Stokely gives a sound but basic introduction.

 

Use of the Counting Rods – Japanese demonstration of the formation of a hexagram by the 'Three Changes Method', with counting rods and six beautiful wood and metal blocks with yang one side and yin the other. In Chinese this is called sanbian shifa, 'three change yarrow method', which isn't very well known in the west. Three manipulations are performed: the first determines the inner (lower) trigram, the second the outer (upper), and finally the third decides which of the six lines will be changing. The diviner pushes out one of the wooden blocks a little to mark the moving line. Fascinating video. Another view of the procedure is shown here. The diviner has a website where he offers professional readings.

 

situación 89 a – Claudia consults the Wilhelm I Ching in Uruguay. It's that cake on the table that gets me. Claro.

 

Imaginary Landscape No. 5 (1952) by John Cage – Cage's compositional process was based on the I Ching. This is a recent updating of the work. (See John Cage's I Ching chance operations.)

 

Drag queen I Ching – Otis Von Darling in the bath recites hexagram 23. Rubbish, but different.

 

64 Segundos – Quite an enigmatic interpretation of the I Ching, I'd say. I think this film is wonderful actually.

 

Yarrow rite at a desk in Taiwan – A Chinese guy consulting the Yijing by the yarrow method but using a bunch of chopsticks instead. Part two in which he interprets the result is here. This YouTuber has quite a few other Yi-related videos.

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