SELF-TRANSFORMATION AND THE ORACULAR

About the Book

A Practical Handbook for Consulting the I Ching and Tarot presents a genuinely dramatic challenge to the reader: to examine and to test oneself through consulting the preeminent oracles of the East and the West — the I Ching and the Tarot. It offers a model for authentic self-change based upon wisdom traditions which are at root consistent in their vision of ideal possibility for human nature: human nature understood as essentially good, with collapse into anxiety unnecessary. It teaches spiritual self-inquiry, providing a practical way of discovering how one may come to live in accord with Ultimacy and fulfi ll one’s own destiny. It demonstrates that destiny and freedom can become playmates in this venture that is a human life. In this work, erudition and scholarship return to their proper role of supporting meaningful self-inquiry and practice.

About the Author

Professor Emeritus Allan W. Anderson received his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Comparative Religion from Columbia University with Union Theological Seminary. He has published several articles on the I Ching and presented numerous papers at professional academic conferences on the nature of and interrelation between religion, spirituality and the oracular. He has also become well known for his series of 18 dialogues with Krishnamurti available on DVD and transcribed in A Wholly Different Way of Living.