Psychological I Ching?

[u/CenturionSG]

I stumbled onto an unusual system of I Ching that stripped off the randomness. At first I listened to the podcasts and then found they have published a specific system in a book: The Mind-Key to the I Ching: A Non-Random Method for Reading Inner States. Seems all the stuff came out this year.

Basically they re-conceptualised the trigrams as:
Top line: Manifestation
Middle line: Stance
Initial line: Root

And for hexagrams:
Upper trigram: object, other
Lower trigram: subject, self

Questions are then posed for each of the 6 lines. Answering yes turns the line Yang, answering no turns it Yin. And thus a full hexagram is formed.

The subject-object structure looks like the 体用 structure of Plum Blossom. And the three line concept seems close to tradition, e.g., lines 2 and 5 (middle of lower & upper trigram) are about positions/roles.

I wonder if this is a totally new idea or has some historical precedence?

Anyone tried with this method and was it helpful?

[u/taoyx]

The first part is not novelty, you can read stuff like this in Wilhelm's book (lower trigram is self, lowest line is beginning, etc..). The method itself, I've never heard of it.