Wise Decisions with the I Ching: An Intuitive Approach for Understanding the Answers and Solving your Problems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781721678082)

Alberto Ramon was born in Argentina. He took courses in advanced mathematics and immigrated to the United States in 1970 where he earned a Master's Degree in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as an industrial engineer until 1975. Fascinated with computers, he worked as a programmer for 20 years. In 1990 he started an academic career teaching computer science courses for 17 years. Mr. Ramon's interest in the I Ching began in 1974 when he came across this book while browsing in a Berkeley bookstore. He overcame his initial skepticism and started to consult the I Ching when he learned that Carl Jung, the famous Swiss psychiatrist, used it extensively. Eventually, inspired by a dream, he conceived a holistic approach to simplify the interpretation of I Ching readings based on the notion that intuition proceeds from the whole or "big picture" to the details. This insight led him to the study of the I Ching hexagrams as whole symbols with each representing a category of related meanings. He also incorporated the concept of "pattern recognition" in his approach. How the hexagrams from a reading relate to each other and to the question posed was the basis of his research of the I Ching. Clarity and simplicity were his motivations for writing Wise Decisions with the I Ching. Since 1990, Mr. Ramon taught classes and gave presentations on his approach to the I Ching. He works now as an intuitive business consultant. Mr. Ramon currently resides in Northern California.