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  • Really cool, I like the interpretation part
    by makz
  • Also Terence McKenna said he used I Ching analysis/interpretation for his Timewave 2012 software and "Novelty Theory" or whatever his "the world is getting weirder and weirder" philosophy was called.
    by pigeons
  • Classical Wilhelm-Baynes translation, three coin method, 64 hexagrams. No signup, no ads, free to use.

    It also has an optional AI interpretation layer - but the classical text is always shown first, fully intact. Built it because I wanted something that treated the tradition seriously.

    Carl Jung wrote the foreword to this exact translation and credited the I Ching with shaping his theory of synchronicity.

    by henrychannel
  • These are fair points and I don’t think the app resolves them - it’s a tool, and tools can be misused regardless of design.

    The most I can say is what I aimed for: showing the source text in full rather than just an AI-generated verdict, so the user is reading Wilhelm and Jung’s actual words, not a black box.

    Whether that’s enough safeguard against the deeper concern you’re raising, I don’t know.

    by henrychannel
  • Are you at least using a TRNG?
    by jazzyjackson
  • Carl Jung also warned that the occult are not to be trifled with and that I ching was not for amusement. It's funny I was just going through some notebooks from 4 decades ago when I was a young thing and saw page after page of questioning "should I do this?" "should I do that?" The misuse of the I Ching is an excellent way to lose your own independent judgment. Beware. (I made some poor choices based on misusing this book.)

    Wilhelm's translation is indeed wonderful and for the thoughtful reader of the book, I strongly suggest spending time with 'Book Two' of his translation that focuses on Confucius' metaphysical commentary - it is profound.

    Also recommended for the serious reader of the Ching is Richard Wilhem's Lectures On The I Ching - Constancy and Change, also published under the Bollingen.

    by yubblegum