Spirit Tokens of the Ling Qi Jing

By Ivan Kashiwa

Book Overview

The Ling Qi Jing is a Chinese divination manual dating to the third century. It consists of 125 oracular poems accompanied by interpretations, and is consulted by using spirit tokens. The introduction... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 083480400X
• ISBN13: 9780834804005
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Weatherhill
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great divination manual!

This has been a great source of wisdom and inspiration for me and my family. We only wish that a new edition could be printed with actual stones. Even using common coins, the act of holding a question in mind and coins in hand, is very centering. Having thus cast the tokens it is easy, using this text as a guide, to interpret the Ling Qi Jing's answers to one's own questions. Each trigram reading contains a four-line verse and as many as four different commentaries (from three ancient sages and the author). Sometimes the poem is enough, and perfectly seems to address the question posed. But often the commentaries shed light on the poem's deeper meanings, and further clarify the "fortune" sought.