As Research Director of the Eranos Foundation in Ascona, Switzerland (1988-1996), he pioneered a depth psychological approach to divination. A prolific author, he has published many books and articles in the field of comparative mythology, divination, depth psychology and religious experience. He popular book The Total I Ching continues to be the preferred text for I Ching interpretation and study.

Stephen Karcher “liberates meanings … that have been missing from our understanding for a couple of thousand years ... revealing a whole new landscape of interpretation that makes previous translations feel cramped by comparison.”

Stephen sees his work as part of the Great Enterprise (Da Ye) of “raising Change into awareness and setting it out for all the people to use.” He often calls Change a Portable Altar that opens up the old language of myths and symbols, allowing them to educate us. The goal of the whole process is “a purification of the soul which saves the reality of the Gods and enables us to understand the intelligence that is given by them to humans.” It is a divination system’s power to change our hearts and, by doing so, to renew the time.