Psychology, I Ching, Self-Help
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About this Book

This book brings to us a new understanding of the psyche that gives us the Cosmic perspective on our true human potential. The basis for the author’s groundbreaking discoveries is their new version of the ancient Chinese oracle, I Ching, the Oracle of the Cosmic Way, that shows humans as part of the harmonious order of the Cosmos. Their new book explains how the psyche as the invisible side of our being enables each of us to fulfill our unique Cosmic destiny.

Psychic malfunctions, such as depression, phobias, and stress, indicate that humans have separated from the harmonious order of the Cosmos through developing a mindset that places humans at the center of the universe. From this disharmonious perspective, they have created a world order based on conflict by presuming it to be the natural order, and a world of lack where there could be harmony, peace, and abundance. This book helps the individual who wants to free himself from the suffering caused by the human-centered mindset, to recognize the total goodness of his true nature, and to see with clarity the specific ideas that have brought him harm. Another cause of harm are unprocessed traumatic experiences. An Appendix in the book shows the reader how to research these causes, deprogram them with Cosmic help, and thereby free himself enduringly from their harmful effects.

Perhaps most extraordinary, the I Ching, through the authors’ discoveries, is found to be an advanced psychology that reflects our deepest inner truth.

It is perhaps no accident that this book appears nearly simultaneously with the publication of C.G. Jung’s “Red Book.” It was thanks to Dr. Jung that the I Ching was introduced to the English-speaking world in the early 1950’s. Were he still alive, he would have been happy to read this book that gives the answer to the riddle he hoped to resolve by undertaking the dangerous journey into his own psyche: It was his search for the origin of the demonic figures that were haunting the unconscious of his patients. As Carol Anthony and Hanna Moog discovered, these figures are the product of words that are not grounded in the harmonious order of the Cosmos, and therefore, they create conflict in our nature.
Once taken into the psyche (often at a very young age) these words take on a life of their own. Through the fears and self-doubts they create in us, they dominate our lives until such time as they are discovered to be false and deprogrammed with Cosmic help. Through taking away the validity we have formerly given them, we become free of their harmful effects.


Excerpts from the Introduction

It is taken for granted that the Austrian psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, first founded the discipline of psychology in the Western world, just before the turn of the 19th Century. However, largely unrecognized is the fact that the ancient Chinese oracle known as the I Ching, gave the world a psychology more than three millennia ago.

Carl G. Jung of Switzerland, Freud’s student and contemporary, was first to recognize the psychological value of the I Ching. He learned about it through his friend Richard Wilhelm, translator of the most famous translation of the book from Chinese into German in the 1910’s. Jung was the first to notice that when consulted as an oracle, the I Ching reflected the unconscious. His interest in the I Ching opened the minds of hundreds of thousands of people throughout the Western world.

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Recognizing the falseness of the human-centered view will open a completely new window to our understanding the conditions that create harmony, peace, and prosperity for us humans and for the world at large. These conditions already exist in the DNA of all life on Earth. We only need to remember that we humans share most of the genome of the other animal species and that we all have a common origin in the invisible side of the Cosmos. Long before scientists discovered what they called DNA, the I Ching described this storehouse of inner wisdom and called it our “inner truth.” Embedded in every cell of our body, it contains a collection of everything we need to know to live our lives happily and joyfully, and it provides us with the feeling knowledge of what it means to be in accord with Cosmic harmony. Our mental, emotional, and physical health is dependent on whether our thinking and our attitudes agree with the Cosmic Principles of Harmony that are the basis of our very existence.

The important role our thinking plays in creating our reality was first shown in our book, I Ching, The Oracle of the Cosmic Way, and further demonstrated in its practical application in our next book, Healing Yourself the Cosmic Way. This latter book is dedicated to showing ideas and beliefs that cause physical illnesses, and to showing how we can free ourselves from illness by rejecting the validity of these ideas. The sick-making ideas, we were to learn, are stored in the psyche, where they act like a negative ‘program’ that overrides our feeling program of inner truth that would otherwise keep us healthy. The fact that these harmful ideas can be identified, with the Sage’s help, and removed from the psyche once and for all, drew our attention to certain functions of the psyche that were involved in storing the negative programs on the one hand, and that could be engaged in freeing ourselves from them, on the other.

The overall role our psyche plays in the healthy personality is the subject of this, our third book. It shows the psyche as the meeting place for our mind and body. In this meeting place, our body brings to our mind its feeling experiences of life and the wisdom of our inner truth, while our mind brings to our body its ability to express in words the inner truth our body conveys through its feelings.

Our psyche has wonderful functions to make this interface between our body and mind possible. Many of these functions are described in this book. Besides being the body-mind meeting place, our psyche weaves the meaningful threads in such a way that on looking back over our lives, we can see the pattern that developed, which gives our life meaning.

Unfortunately, shocking and traumatic experiences that have not been processed prevent our fulfilling the meaning of our lives. Their presence in this unprocessed form creates in us unconscious patterns of behavior that harm our lives and spoil the Cosmic gifts we are born with. Fortunately, just as we can free ourselves from the harmful ideas that cause illness, we can also free ourselves from these wounds to our personality. With Cosmic help we can completely free the psyche from them.

Another critical development in our understanding was the realization that the I Ching is not based on “changes,” as has been thought for centuries. This view of the I Ching led in China to a philosophy of passive acceptance of adversity as the correct way to adapt to the “ups and downs” of life. As we learned, it is the Cosmic Principle of Transformation that governs all life, and enables its renewal. These transformations take place on the cellular level and are set in motion by consciousness that is in harmony with the Cosmos. The basis for this book and our two previous books is the understanding that we can heal illness, resolve conflict, and return to inner peace only by engaging transformations. By contrast, the idea that life is governed by changes causes us to attempt to make things happen through mechanical means. These means address the symptoms rather than the causes of dysfunction and are the result of mistakenly viewing the universe as a system of mechanics.

As we, Carol and Hanna, experienced for ourselves, people usually come in touch with the I Ching at a time of great need: when a relationship has failed, an illness has struck, a financial crisis has occurred, or when they have become alienated from who they are. It is then that they are ready to look for the true cause of their misfortune. It is an interesting fact that the Chinese ideogram for “crisis” has the second meaning of “opportunity.” In a time of great crisis, the Sage approaches us in various possible guises to reveal to us the positive potential the crisis contains, while at the same time showing us the mindset that has caused our dilemma. In order to uncover the positive potential, we need to start on an inner journey into our psyche, where we are faced with the ideas and beliefs that have caused our crisis.