Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm & The I Ching

A Spiritual Journey
The Movie, Wisdom of Changes by Bettina Wilhelm, is one of those amazing films which gives the history of a man who spent more than 20 years as a Christian missionary in China, but who never converted one person to Christianity. He became deeply immersed in the old Chinese Culture and worked with a Chinese scholar to translate the I Ching, The Book of Changes, into German. From the German it was translated into English where the book of divination has become a profound and popular book. Bettina Wilhelm, his granddaughter and a professional film maker and who never met her grandfather decided that she wanted to know more about her famous grandfather. The result is this wonderful DVD which originally came out in German but is now available in English. It is the story of a deeply introverted and spiritual man in his search to find his own soul. His main work in China is from the turn of the 20th century until the early 1920's, He returns to Germany after World War I and joins a...

East and West meet in a German Missionary
First off, this version of the film is completely in English (not subtitled) except for a couple of short interviews of a German professor with voiceover in English.
Bettina Wilhelm goes back to China to search her grandfather's (and hers, she was born in Shanghai) roots. She is excellent at communicating the pull that China has on those who have family history there. China can exert a subtle influence that can extend even to the third generation, and Ms Wilhelm truly captures the flavor of that attraction.
Ms Wilhelm is a professional filmmaker, and the excellent production values along with great storytelling at just the right pace make for fascinating viewing.
There is a lot of archival film footage (versus stills) from the early part of the century, which I appreciate in a documentary. The original sites are visited, but this is not a film about places and dates, though those are included. Rather, this is a journey into the interior life of Richard Wilhelm, and by...

Great and informative documentary
This documentary was very illuminating about Jung's relationship with Wilhelm, and hits at the heart of the roots of today's spiritual revolution occurring in the west.

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