Secrets of the I Ching is the first album by American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs (following their 1982 EP, Human Conflict Number Five), released in 1983 by Mark Records.

Following the release of their debut EP, Human Conflict Number Five, 10,000 Maniacs embarked upon several months of touring independent clubs, including the Eastern seaboard, and achieved a greater following after receiving airplay on college radio.

[8] Like Human Conflict Number Five, the album would bear the band's own fictitious Christian Burial Music imprint but was again manufactured by Mark Records out of Clarence, New York.

[1] Trouser Press wrote that the album "begins to bring some needed focus to the band’s warmly eccentric vision by concentrating on the folk-rock elements ... the music ranges from screeching noise layered over a pop hook to almost psychedelic power calypso.

"[4] In a 1994 interview with Q magazine, Merchant recalled this line from Christgau, saying, "I'll inform you that I was only 17 years old, so it made a big impression on me – that I'd written the most pretentious lyrics since lysergic acid had been in flower.