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The lost work of Wallace Andrew Sherrill
A few years ago
Frank Coolen
told me he had bought a book by W.A. Sherrill which was quite unknown
in the world of Yijing students. Indeed, the book is so rare that isn’t
even listed in
I Ching – An Annotated Bibliography.
Naturally I also wanted to have a copy of this curious book, so with a
lot of searching on the internet, and by paying way too much money, I
was able to obtain this book.
Sherrill is mostly known by his co-authorship with W.K. Chu. They wrote
An Anthology of I Ching, which gives some divination techniques that are (sometimes loosely) associated with the Yijing, and
The Astrology of I Ching,
which is their adaptation of Heluo Lishu, a kind of numerological
system that calculates birth and life hexagrams. They were both good
friends with
Nan Huaijin 南懷瑾, a well-known Buddhist teacher.
Sherrill’s book
Heritage of Change – a Background to Chinese Culture and Thinking
is written as an introduction in the Yijing and Chinese culture and
philosophy from a Westerners point of view. I must confess I have never
read it thoroughly. The contents does not really appeal to me, I am not
interested in philosophical explanations. But I am sure others will find
it a joy to read and many might find the book stuffed with a lot of
intriguing concepts and information.
That is why I made a scan of the book. It can be downloaded here:
Heritage of Change (571)