This book is a description of the method of meditation that the author learned through consulting the I Ching. It is also a collection of 250 experiences in meditation that were included because of their insightful and universal nature. They revealed the gradual lifting away of the author's hidden fears and doubts, one by one, that inhibited her from following her own inner sense of truth. This book shows the role of fear and doubt in the formation of the ego, and how they project themselves into reality. Freeing oneself from them makes the body healthy, the mind free, and the heart open to receive and to express love.
Carol K. Anthony majored in creative writing at Ward Belmont College and the University of Iowa (1950), but did not find "her medium" until a friend brought her the I Ching in 1971, during a mid-life crisis. It was seven years later, when she realized that the notes she was keeping each time she experienced an "Aha," (to something the I Ching was trying to get her to understand) were something also of potential help for others. These notes would become her first book on that subject -- "A Guide to the I Ching." Ms. Anthony has been sharing her "Aha!s" ever since in one well-received book after another: four by herself until 1994, and three more in collaboration with Hanna Moog, a translator of all her books into German, and an expert publisher's editor on the I Ching for Eugen Diederichs Verlag.
Ms. Anthony states of her relationship with the I Ching, "It came to me at a time of personal crisis, and helped me in ways I could not have imagined. It showed me that times of crisis are also times of opportunity -- the opportunity to connect with the unique inner resources each of us possesses, but may have forgotten. They are the very resources we need to make our lives meaningful. The I Ching is a guide for this journey. It shows us that when we value and are true to ourselves and to our potentials, the whole Cosmos comes to our support. Today, more than ever, this 3000 year old book and its philosophy is needed
