About the Society's I Ching Observatory

The purpose of the Society's I Ching Observatory

The different aspects of societal life, economic, political, geopolitical, environmental, cultural, technological are all subject to increasingly rapid and profound changes. The Society's I Ching Observatory offers on the one hand a unique interpretation of this dynamic of change within the explanatory framework of its sixty-four hexagrams and on the other hand a questioning of the nature of human consciousness.

The Society's I Ching Observatory is a community of I Ching practitioners, experienced or not, who individually consult the I Ching to answer a common question sent to them monthly by email, this one relating to the same theme of interpersonal and archetypal order.

Each participant uploads their obtained hexagram to a central database, which makes it possible to analyze the distributions of the hexagrams specifically to the questions.

This analysis verifies whether the hexagrams obtained in response are distributed in accordance with the laws of statistics, which consider them equiprobable, or whether they present anomalies linked to a non-uniform distribution of the responses obtained. The existence of these could be considered as the imprint of a "collective consciousness" and support the hypothesis of the "non-locality" of consciousness and invalidate the concept of a consciousness emerging from the brain and therefore strictly individual. The Society's I Ching Observatory wants to anchor the reality of the hexagrams in the experiences of society by integrating dimensions inaccessible to strictly rational analysis.

Protocol followed

The Society's I Ching Observatory sends each participant a question at the start of each month.
Each participant consults, independently of the others, the I Ching on this subject and uploads the numerical values obtained for the lines on the List of Questions page.
Monthly results will be shared on this site.
Some examples of anomalous distributions on the Examples of Anomalous Distributions page.

The author, Gabriel Felley, is professor of information science technology at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of North-West Switzerland. He studied theoretical physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where he also presented his doctoral thesis.

For decades, he has been interested in I Ching as a holistic method for understanding the logic underlying change processes and promoting it as a managerial decision-making tool. He has written numerous articles and given lectures on topics related to the I Ching in Switzerland, Germany, as well as in China, Vietnam and the United States.

Participate in this experience and help legitimize the authentic value of I Ching by applying it to a new field of investigation with the perspective of supporting the crystallization of a new idea on the collective nature of human consciousness!