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245 Climate Change and Chinese Medicine • Nishanga Bliss

Philosophy

Mar 29, 2022 | Philosophy

Yin and Yang flow through every aspect of our lives. Understanding their ebb and flow gives us a glimpse into the nature of the universe, and our place in it. In our formed world forces exist to interact with the other; to maintain balance; to sustain life. This...

Mar 29, 2022

237 Polestar Astrology • Anne Shelton Crute

Astrology

Feb 1, 2022 | Astrology, Cosmology, Philosophy

We’ve long turned to the stars for guidance, from foretelling our destinies to celestial navigation. Chinese Polestar astrology was developed as a means to describe our interaction with the cycles of Qi using a system of calculations and imagery, including the 5...

Feb 1, 2022

219 Historical Context, Breaking Down Dogma, and Learning from Crisis Moments • Allen Tsuar

Philosophy

Sep 28, 2021 | Philosophy, The Classics

There are many schools of thought, methods both ancient and modern, practices based on lineage and those idiosyncratically synthetic. It is easy to think that what you understand is correct, and all too often medicine is practiced with a bit of an attachment to dogma....

Sep 28, 2021

214 Eastern and Western Philosophy & the Future of Chinese Medicine • Brenda Hood

Philosophy

Aug 24, 2021 | Philosophy

How we think influences what we do. The models and frameworks we use to understand not just our medicine, but the world itself, opens or limits the options we can offer our patients for treatment. While the Venn Diagrams of East Asian and Western medicine share some...

Aug 24, 2021

199 Mind, Matter, Medicine and Skeptical Inquiry • Ben Hawes

Acupuncture

May 11, 2021 | Acupuncture, Diagnosis, Listening, Methods, Non-Ordinary States, Philosophy, Practitioner Cultivation & Development

Our job in clinic is to help people both through knowing what treatment to provide and having the ability to discern how to help when the signs are not clear. We constantly dance with both knowing and not-knowing. In this conversation with Ben Hawes we discuss how the...

May 11, 2021

185 Reflections on the Dao: Practical Philosophy and the Art of Medicine • David Marks

Daoism

Feb 2, 2021 | Daoism, Philosophy, Practitioner Cultivation & Development

I rather enjoy the idea of our medicine being a sort of applied philosophy, that there is a way of looking at the world that has such coherence and connection that it not only helps us to make sense of this moment, but to bring healing as well. David Marks set off on...

Feb 2, 2021