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The Young T'ai Hsüan Ching – rediscovering an ancient book of wisdom.

The Tai Hsuan Ching is a fascinating oracle system developed in China in 2 BC by the scholar and poet Yang Hsiung. He conceived it as a kind of “younger sister” to the I Ching, which was already 800 years old at the time. This work offers a unique opportunity to reflect on your own questions and gain new perspectives.

(太玄經, English: Canon of Supreme Mystery), reflects the structure of the

I Ching, but its coherent system and the different line texts make it something completely independent.

 

THE T'AI HSÜAN CHING / THE YOUNG I CHING is not a divination programme in the usual sense, but it can provide you with food for thought for coping with difficult situations.

Start playing T'AI HSÜAN CHING (Mystery) as follows:

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1. Download and start the App, contemplate your question before typing it in, starting with something like why, how come, etc., avoid questions that can only be answered with yes or no.  

2. The computer provides the current date and time.

3. You'll get an immediate answer including a number - more on these later, - done!

                                

                               

If the answer doesn't help, click this button .

​​A forum will open where you can describe the problem and receive more information.

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In this language game, we ask a specific question at a specific time to generate an answer using certain algorithms. Is the resulting answer "random"?

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                                                    RANDOM!

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We will not attempt to answer the question of where our question comes from, nor will we attempt to answer the question of where the answer of the T'ai Hsüan Ching originates. Rather, We would like to encourage you to consider this topic in light of the following three narratives:

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1. To what extent do we have control over our questions? Or, is our conscious decision often only the last step in an unconscious neural process that takes place deep within us? (This assumes: "...that speaking language is part of an activity..." (L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, p. 250).

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For example, Benjamin Libet showed in the 1980s that the readiness potential occurs several hundred milliseconds before the conscious decision to move. He concluded that the brain initiates actions unconsciously before we become aware of them. This calls into question the idea of free will as a conscious initiator.

Starting in the 2000s, John-Dylan Haynes confirmed Libet's findings using modern MRI techniques and showed that decisions could be predicted in the brain up to seven seconds before they were consciously made.

However, this merely shifts the question of causation from the present to a previous event within us. Nevertheless, this does not reveal anything about the actual cause. What is certain is that it is not a random event born in the moment.

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2. Einstein's famous EPR thought experiment, named after Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen, deals with quantum entanglement. Imagine two photons that are entangled with each other. In quantum physics, "entangled" means their states are inextricably linked, even if they are far apart. If we measure one property (e.g., spin) of one particle, we immediately know the state of the other particle, even without measuring it directly. Einstein was skeptical because this seemed to imply "spooky action at a distance" — an instantaneous influence across arbitrary distances — which contradicted his theory of relativity, according to which nothing can move faster than light.

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However, in the early 1980s, a team led by Alain Aspect provided important experimental evidence that quantum entanglement exists and that "spooky action at a distance" is real.

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Assuming the question implies the answer, a kind of entanglement is conceivable here as well. In any case, the point here is simply to show that there can be connections between phenomena that we call "spooky," or perhaps "coincidental," because they cannot be understood with our usual patterns of thought and language. These phenomena contradict our classical, intuitive ideas of space, time, and causality. The Chinese sage Lao Tzu expressed this idea as follows: "The Tao that can be spoken of is not the eternal Tao."

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3. Einstein's “spooky action at a distance” is not far from C. G. Jung's concept of “synchronicity.” Unlike classical scientific thinking, in which events must be causally linked to be considered "not random," Jung postulates that there may be another type of connection: a meaningful relationship not based on cause and effect. He suggested that synchronicity could indicate a deeper, hidden order in the world in which the psyche and matter are not separate but part of a more comprehensive reality he called "Unus Mundus" (one world).

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Denial of chance is not the issue. The issue is seeing chance as a potential bridge. This bridge can lead to a meaningful dimension of life.

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