Does the Chinese I Ching predict a 2012 end-date?
The oracle book I Ching, the Chinese ‘book of change,’ has been in use for more than 3,000 years. Today it’s used much like a horoscope but, as with astrology, it once was a tool of politics and governed decisions of state. The underlying premise of the oracle is a unifying resonance between heaven, earth and humans. The basic unit of the oracle is the line, which may be solid or broken. Three lines make a trigram, and one trigram sitting upon another is a hexagram, or six lines. The trigram for wood sitting on that of water may portend a good sea voyage, but it gets a lot more complicated. Combinations of lines, solid or broken, make a total of 64 possible hexagrams. In these are read the circumstances of a human at a particular time, a specific place in space-time, and the book claims to contain ‘the categories of all that is.’ Anthropologist F.C. Wallace, working among Native Americans, determined that ‘irrespective of race, culture or evolutionary level, culturally institutionalize
