The I Ching gives advice on how to face any life situation,
requiring the seeker to cast yarrowsticks or coins to arrive at an
"answer." This edition offers yet another "casting" option, the
Button Oracle (online only, at
www.bandannabooks.com/iching/button.php); and, if that answer's not
enough, use the refresh button. Whether you are a believer or not,
the I Ching, perhaps the world's oldest book, stands as a
remarkable document of human psychology. However, one translation
problem has plagued most Western editions, which typically speak of
the "exceptional man" or "he" throughout. To translate assuming
that the male pronoun serves for everybody is misleading, however.
Why? The language it was written in-Chinese-was, like English,
nearly devoid of linguistic gender markers for its pronouns (modern
Chinese has added some modifications to clarify gender). While
academics tussle over, or ignore, the "correct
third-person-singular-of-unspecified-gender pronoun" for the
English language, this Mudborn Press/Bandanna Books edition offers
eight gendered versions of this text for a modern audience. No,
there are not eight genders. But the way that you perceive the
human condition may differ from others' views-and your own may
change over time. How to choose? Answer these questions to find the
version you are most comfortable with: Are you all man (using he,
him, his), or all woman (she, her, hers)? Or somewhere in between
(s/he, him/her, hers/his)? Do you feel like a split personality
arguing with yourself (he or she, him or her, his or hers)? - or
you feel plural (they, their, theirs)? Or maybe you don't feel
strongly one way or the other (asexual: one, one, one's). Or
strongly both, as in the shamanic or two-spirit tradition (he-she,
her-him, his-hers). Or just as a human (hu, hum, hus). Try more
than one version until you reach your comfort zone; you'll learn
about yourself as well as about the I Ching. A REMINDER: This "HE"
version uses the traditional or old-fashioned "universal he"
pronoun for third-person human reference where sex is not
specified, or not known. The I Ching frequently speaks of a
hypothetical person, the exceptional or uncommon person; it is used
here quite often.
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