![]() Intention is always to some extent circumscribed by one’s own tastes and personality, whereas non-intention moves beyond like and dislike and becomes something more resembling an act of nature. The basic principle is to remove one’s own intention from the work and hand that over to the oracle. But as for the actual methodology he used, details are hard to fathom and if you want to try it yourself it would be better to make up your own method, which is essentially what he did (on pp 93–94 of ‘Conversing with Cage’ he describes how he used the I Ching to compose the Freeman Etudes for solo violin, but even he apparently forgot his own method after letting the pieces sit unfinished in a drawer for nine years on p 135 he describes how he used the I Ching to choose words from a dictionary and thereby create a text pp 137–139 he describes a very involved method of making a text). It is mentioned, for instance, on about thirty pages of Richard Kostelanetz’s book of interviews over a 40-year period, ‘Conversing with Cage’ (New York: Routledge, 2003). If you search, you can come across scattered references to the use by John Cage (1912–1992) of the I Ching in his composition of music, writing, and visual art. Of all the musicians influenced by the I Ching, John Cage seems to have been at the forefront: ![]() He links to an article by Steve Marshall about John Cage, who originally came across the I Ching in 1943. It is one of the most appealing websites I have ever seen. The most aesthetic website about the I Ching is Joel Biroco’s Yijing Dao…. If I ask the I Ching a question as though it were a book of wisdom, which it is, I generally say, “What do you have to say about this?” and then I just listen to what it says and see if some bells ring or not. Collected Works Volume 4 – Freud & Psychoanalysis.Collected Works Volume 3 – Psychogenesis of Mental Disease.Collected Works Volume 15 – Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature.Collected Works Volume 16 – Practice of Psychotherapy.Collected Works Volume 8 – Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche.Collected Works Volume 10 – Civilization in Transition.Collected Works Volume 9(1) – Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.Collected Works Volume 2: Experimental Researches. ![]()
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