Do you view it mainly as
1-A historical treatise
2-A work of literature or poetry
3-A book of wisdom or philosophy
4-A quasi-mathematical work or early form of sacred geometry
5-A linguistic phenomenon
6-A discourse on politics (like Machievelli's The Prince)
7-Proto-science related in some hidden manner to quantum
mechanics
8-A tool of divination
9-Other
10-All of the above
2006-10-14 04:52:21 · 4 answers · asked by Seeker 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
3-A book of wisdom or philosopy.....i have enjoyed I ching for 10years....very interesting.
2006-10-21 09:42:17 · answer #1 · answered by ILLY 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
8 - A tool of divination
My friends and I used to play around with the I Ching when I was a teenager. It's sort of similar to tarot cards, in my opinion. :) Just we used coins rather than cards to find your answer (or passage in the book).
2006-10-14 04:57:58 · answer #2 · answered by quilt_mommy_2001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always thought it was just a collection of one-liners suitable for fortune cookies.
2006-10-14 05:01:52 · answer #3 · answered by open4one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
+ 3
A book of wisdom or philosophy
2006-10-18 18:32:35 · answer #4 · answered by Clamdigger 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋