Understanding the Classic of Changes (I Ching)

In this lecture, Prof Van Norden introduces you to the Classic of Changes (I Ching).

Previous Lecture: The Confucian Commentarial Tradition,    • The Confucian Commentarial Tradition  
Following Lecture: Introducing Wang Yangming,    • China's Favorite Confucian: Wang Yang...  

Part I: Divination and Cultural Influence
1:05 Oracle Bone Divination
3:40 Parts of the Changes
7:36 Sample Hexagram, Judgment, and Line Statements
8:36 Traditional Evolution of the Text
10:06 Finding a Hexagram: Yarrow Stalk and Coin Methods
14:39 Summary of Using the Changes for Divination
16:40 Introducing Carl Gustav Jung
18:49 Why take the Changes seriously? Jung’s Answer
23:47 Schrödinger’s Cat
26:50 Jung’s Experience Consulting the Changes
28:36 A. C. Graham’s Defense of Divination with the Changes
31:40 Binary Arithmetic and the Changes
35:00 Pop Culture Influences of the Changes

Part II: Philosophy of the Changes
36:13 Confucius and the Changes
40:16 The Changes on the Changes
40:56 Yin and Yang
44:00 The Most Important Passages in the Changes
50:30 The Changes on the Great Ultimate
54:28 Zhou Dunyi and the Explanation of the Diagram of the Great Ultimate
1:00:08 Zhu Xi on the Great Ultimate
1:06:04 Lecture Overview

Carl Jung's Foreword to the Wilhelm translation of the Changes: https://www.iging.com/intro/foreword.htm
Guide to Using the Yarrow Stalk Divination Method:    • I Ching Yarrow Stalk Tutorial  
Music Inspired by Carl Gustav Jung: "Synchronicity I,"    • Synchronicity I  

Corrections:
10:50 I'm wrong about which stalk you put between your pinky and ring finger. See the link above, "Guide to Using the Yarrow Stalk Divination Method," for a correct description.

16:40 This photo is from 1909 in front of Clark University. Front row, Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung. Back row, Abraham Brill, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ju...

33:33 Leibniz (correctly) read the hexagrams from the bottom up, so (contrary to the way I represented the hexagrams in my chart) the number 1 would be represented by ䷖ (100000), not ䷗ (000001).

Recorded via Zoom on 26 April 2021.