Secrets of the I Ching is the first album by 10,000 Maniacs (following their 1982 EP, "Human Conflict Number Five"), released in 1983 by Christian Burial Music, the band's own label. The album was recorded at SUNY Fredonia, with only 500 copies made. It is the first of their recordings with drummer Jerome Augustyniak. Rerecorded versions of the songs "Tension" (as "Tension Makes a Tangle"), "Grey Victory", "Daktari" and "My Mother the War" appear on their 1985 album "The Wishing Chair". The song "Tension" is itself a re-recording of a song that initially appeared on the band's EP.