I Ching Seminar in Seattle
August 31-September 2, 2024
There will be a follow-up seminar to the one given last year.
Please contact Hanna Moog through this website, if you are interested in learning more about the subject matter.
Last year’s seminar:
What is My Unique Path to Harmony with the Cosmos?
Held by Hanna Moog
Onward!
The exploration of your unique “path” to wholeness and fulfillment will be the subject of this seminar. It is synonymous with your unique path back to harmony with the Cosmos.
We know from our past learning experience with the I Ching that we are “whole” by nature, but that, unfortunately, our wholeness becomes split apart by the insertion of self-doubt. This happens when we are still very young. Based on this self-doubt we then become encouraged to develop a false self, which is another name for “the individual ego.” But there comes a time in our lives, when the complex construct that we have created to give this false self the appearance of “reality” breaks down. It is our “midlife crisis,” or some other kind of major breakdown. For many of us, this can be the point in our lives when we ask ourselves, “Is there anything in me that has remained unknown — something that would give my life a deeper meaning?” With questions like these in our mind we embark on our path.
In our previous seminars, the focus has been on identifying and deprogramming mistaken ideas, beliefs, false images and self-images. In other words, we learned to bring the false mental program, to which the ego owes its existence, into our conscious mind and deprogram it with Cosmic help. We learned that there are innumerable invisible Helpers that are experts in freeing us from that false program, through transformation. The relief we felt as a result was due to the fact that certain Helpers of Our Nature had been freed from the false mental program that had demonized and enslaved them! As a result, they were able to resume their natural, harmonious ways of relating to each other.
In our new seminar, the Sage that speaks through the I Ching, wants to focus on the questions, “What is my unique path to regaining my wholeness?” And, “What unique resources are available to me to reveal and fulfill my true calling in life?” The key to the answers lies in deeper layers of the “eight trigrams of the I Ching.” They contain an understanding of specific Helpers that constitute our personal uniqueness. How is this possible? The Sage refers to them as “Our Personal Helpers” that make us members of the “Cosmic Family.” The Cosmic Family consists of the individualized consciousnesses of rocks, microorganisms, plants, and animals, including ourselves as part of the animal kingdom. Every seminar participant will be given the opportunity to find out, which of the eight trigrams is their main trigram, and learn about the Personal Helpers they represent.
Hexagram 5, Waiting, is all about these Helpers. When Carol Anthony and myself wrote our book, “I Ching, the Oracle of the Cosmic Way,” under the guidance of the Sage, we were surprised to learn that the message contained in this hexagram had been misunderstood for the last three thousand years: it was not about our having to wait patiently for help from the Cosmos, but about recognizing “our Personal Helpers” who had been waiting on the side to be asked to help us fulfill our unique Cosmic Destinies. Since the writing of that book, I have learned many new things about these Helpers that I very much look forward to sharing with you. The “changing lines” of Hexagram 5 hint at the most common mistaken beliefs and ego-emotions that prevent us from travelling through our lives in the company of the very Helpers that make each of us a unique individual.
Our uniqueness is synonymous with our wholeness, which we owe to our Personal Helpers. And, by the way, these Helpers also make up a large part of our life force.
The image of our unique place within the Cosmic Family touches upon a deep longing for something that has been waiting deep inside of us to be discovered: it is the Cosmic child in us that wants to be born. It represents our wholeness and is in “Possession in Great Measure” (Hexagram 14), i.e., all our Personal Helpers whom we need for self-realizing, the fulfillment of our unique Cosmic Destiny, and for the completion of our life’s tasks.
By getting to know ourselves in a whole new way we come into harmony with the Cosmos. Our path of returning through self-realization frees us from self-alienation.
Organizational Matters:
Seminar Date: September 2-4, 2023 (Labor Day Weekend)
Seminar Fee: US$550
Seminar Hours: Sa-Sun: 9:30am – 6pm; Mon: 9:30am – 4pm
Refreshments will be made available during the morning and afternoon sessions. There will be a lunch break of 1.1/2 hours, during which you will be able to stroll to nearby food places.
Registration:
Please send me an email, if you wish to participate in this seminar. Write to: ichingbooks@comcast.net. I will then send you a Registration Form, if the Sage agrees.
Please note that if the Sage does not agree, it is not that the Sage rejects you, rather it means that you would not benefit from what I will be presenting because it requires an understanding of the I Ching you are still in the process of gaining by continuing to work with the Sage in the privacy of your room.