ABSTRACT
The manner in which the I Ching tends to look upon reality seems to disfavour the authors' causal procedures. The moment under actual observation appears to the ancient Chinese view more of a chance hit than a clearly defined result of concurrent causal chains. While the Western mind carefully sifts, weighs, selects, classifies, isolates, the Chinese picture of the moment encompasses everything down to the minutest nonsensical detail, because all of the ingredients make up the observed moment. Whoever invented the I Ching was convinced that the hexagram worked out in a certain moment coincided with the latter in quality no less than in time. The microphysical event includes the observer just as much as the reality underlying the I Ching comprises subjective, psychic conditions in the totality of the momentary situation. The method of the I Ching does indeed take into account the hidden individual quality in things and men, and in one's own unconscious self as well.
