I read somewhere that the yijing & bagua represent science before mathematics, the fundamental forces of nature interacting with each other around and in us.
Considering the cultural desire to quantify everything, often reducing it to nothing if it can't be immediately used, the idea was welcomed.
That may well be. It's challenging to determine the relative importance of different kinds of knowledge in the ancient world. So I would not be suprised if what you say is true. Of course, none of that affects one's personal experience the relationship between the Yijing and Bagua.
I read somewhere that the yijing & bagua represent science before mathematics, the fundamental forces of nature interacting with each other around and in us.
Considering the cultural desire to quantify everything, often reducing it to nothing if it can't be immediately used, the idea was welcomed.
That may well be. It's challenging to determine the relative importance of different kinds of knowledge in the ancient world. So I would not be suprised if what you say is true. Of course, none of that affects one's personal experience the relationship between the Yijing and Bagua.
A first-hand experience does make a subject alive.