Total I Ching: Myths for Change

Stephen Karcher, who held a doctorate and supervised the Eranos Foundation's I Ching Project, wrote this book, first published by Time Warner Books UK and reprinted by Little, Brown and Piatkus, explicitly as a practical oracle for consultation, fusing the Wilhelm and Legge translation tradition with modern archaeological and linguistic scholarship. Its strength is real specialist standing, Karcher was an internationally recognized scholar and practicing diviner whose work is independently verified across library catalogues and bookseller records. Its limit is the reason for its tier three placement, matching other practical work sources such as Jones, Rudhyar and Charubel rather than the tier one given to Legge's or Smith's scholarly translations: it is written as a diviner's guide for consultation, not a peer reviewed academic study, so a claim needing rigorous textual or historical analysis of the I Ching needs those scholarly sources instead, while this one is cited for the direct divinatory commentary those scholarly registers do not carry.