The I Ching Binary System And Natural Phenomena
by Stanley Tomshinsky

The following projects were realized between 1974 and 1978. This is an internet-rendition of these projects. The scope of this presentation is to show the analogies between the I Ching binary system and various natural phenomena. These pages can be downloaded from the Index in a file called analogies.zip.

DNA and RNA Analogies

The "I Ching" stresses the importance of relationships created by corresponding lines: 1-4, 2-5, and 3-6; the first line of the lower trigram corresponds with the first line of the upper trigram and so on.


The corresponding line-relationships are the key to this analogy. Two trigrams unite to form a hexagram. The three sets of corresponding lines interact to bind the hexagram together. The four corresponding two-line units are attributed to the amino acids. On the following pages you will see the method I devised to arrive at these conclusions.

The same two-line unit that represents T (thymine) in the DNA sequence represents U (uracil) in the RNA sequence. C, A, and G hold true for both. The page illustrating the DNA sequence is a scan of the original 1978 page and uses the T symbol.






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