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An example of this is the oracle method of the / Ching, which Dr. Hellmut Wilhelm has described in detail. The / Ching presupposes that there is a synchronistic correspondence be-tween the psychic state of the questioner and the answering hexagram. The hexagram is formed either by the random divi-sion of the 49 yarrow stalks or by the equally random throw of three coins. The result of this method is, incontestably, very interesting, but so far as I can see it does not provide any tool for an objective determination of the facts, that is to say a statistical evaluation, since the psychic state in question is much too indefinite and indefinable. The same holds true of the geomantic experiment, which is based on similar principles. 987 We i somewhat more favourable situation when we
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An example of this is the oracle method of the / Ching, which Dr. Hellmut Wilhelm has described in detail. The / Ching presupposes that there is a synchronistic correspondence be-tween the psychic state of the questioner and the answering hexagram. The hexagram is formed either by the random divi-sion of the 49 yarrow stalks or by the equally random throw of three coins. The result of this method is, incontestably, very interesting, but so far as I can see it does not provide any tool for an objective determination of the facts, that is to say a statistical evaluation, since the psychic state in question is much too indefinite and indefinable. The same holds true of the geomantic experiment, which is based on similar principles. 987 We i somewhat more favourable situation when we
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