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Originally Posted by Andynan
I'd like to know more about this amp, what does it mean?
It's the
I Ching, an ancient Chinese Taoist philosophical/divination system that divides reality into sets of six lines. Each line can be either full or broken, yang or yin.
For example, this is hexagram 1
Completely yang, all full lines. The six lines are usually broken into two trigrams, in this case full yang over full yang, or Heaven over Heaven.
Heaven is associated with Creative Force, so this is a hexagram of powerful creative potential.
There are 2^6 or 64 possible combinations of broken and unbroken lines. Further, there can be changing lines which transform the hexagrams into other hexagrams. There are 2^3 or 8 different trigrams.
I throw the coins here, and take my readings partially from that site but mostly by googling around different sites and seeing what strikes me as relevant and poetic.
You throw three coins, each coin is yin/yang, you get the lines out of the results of six throws.
There are infinite applications. My favorite musician, Pat Martino, relates the I Ching to string use on a guitar. Terrence Mckenna used it to generate data for his Timewave Zero Theory. I use it to bring focus to my will and intentions, but I'm still in the neophyte stage.