357 Eastern and Western Perspectives on Acupuncture • John Rybak
Business & Practice Management As anyone who has started an acupuncture practice and tried explaining it to potential patients knows, it’s not easy taking the terminology and thinking of East Asian medicine into English speaking Western culture. The guest of this conversation, John Rybak, has...
356 Considering Yi- Meaning, Significance and Conception • S. Boyanton, L. de Vries, V. Scheid
Philosophy Brenda Hood often reminds me “Chinese concepts, especially classical Chinese concepts, are big and multidimensional. They are extremely dependent on context and while shades of meaning often cross over, they can be quite different and be more or less encompassing of...
348 The Strange Flows • Daniel Atchison-Nevel
Acupuncture Change happens through time, it unfolds within the rhythmic inhale and exhale, it expresses through lunar and solar cycles, it follows the arc of development, fruition, and decline. There are recognizable pathways and markers that arise within what is mostly a...
347 The First Four Palaces of Alchemy • Leta Herman
Alchemy Alchemy sounds like magic. It sounds like magic because it involves the transmuting of something coarse and without value to something refined and of worth. But really, there is nothing magical about it. It’s the process of finding a corner of the world you want to...