The Pathways to Emotional and Spiritual Flourishing in the Classical Chinese Medicine Tradition

before we start I just said I have an idea of ​​the audience, anyone is a practicing acupuncturist or we have a good one, okay I'm sure you'll have some ideas and some comments. I think before you even start, you know you could put in a hundred per sign. acupuncturists or Chinese

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doctors on a podium when you get a hundred different versions of the truth and that's because it's an exclusively personal relationship with work and

medicine

, it's not something that's just passed down from generation to generation and a book for memorize by heart, it's actually yours. the relationship with medicine changes over time, you can't be this if you're really doing the healing, you can't be the same person over time because the healing, the work itself changes you, someone had acupuncture, well, okay, so everyone is almost a believer, someone came back for a second date, well, that's good, that's encouraging, okay, very good, and I think we have a couple of people who are probably very educated and well-versed in

classical

Chinese characters and symbols And I'm going to apologize, please.

I'm really going to mess up the pronunciation of every Chinese expression or word I use. Well, so I apologize. You know, if I could go back, maybe I would have finished allopathic medical school, but I would have gone straight into practicing

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al Chinese medicine. Sorry allopathic, good question, allopathic, everyone knows what allopathic is, so this is a very good question, allopathic medicine, it's actually a question I like to ask my medical students when they rotate with me for the first time. time and it torments me. They and I loved it too much. Say it, imagine I'm a marshal and I'm coming down to earth and I and my my my spaceship and I say who are you and they say Oh you will Oh students and I said oh what does doctor mean and they say well you know we're studying medicine or what is medicine well you know what medicine is I'm not from Mars oh ah well if they say that we are more medicines making people better what does that mean to be better I mean they weren't enough to begin with, no and then we finally got to the point , well, actually they have to confess that they don't really know what kind of medicine they are training in and then I think to them, isn't it interesting that you commit the best years? of your life you go through medical school and residency and you don't even know what the underlying philosophy of this practice is, you know, so essentially you're an allopath, describe treatment with opposites, the opposite path or right suffering, so that most of modern medicine is based on the application of the scientific method to treat bad things with the opposite, so we are antidepressants, anti-inflammatories, anti-nausea, right, we don't have many things that we advocate, so it's a very good question .

I think you know the moment when people become aware of the fact that we are allopathic, it really starts to refine the issues around the strengths and shortcomings of the current dominant medical paradigm, so hmmm, where was this? Let's start talking about Taoist or

classical

Chinese medicine, you can see. I have many letters after my name. In fact, I could add a few more, but I thought that would make things even more confusing and the reason I put this up is because I want to demonstrate how completely confused I have been throughout my professional career. and I've gone from one thing to another and people might say that, people look at my CV and others say oh my or they say how exciting, you know, and it's that I started in medicine and then I did internally. medicine and then I did radiology and then psychiatry and then neuropsychiatry behavioral neurology and then I went to fill it with Medicine and then I said well I'm going to do some Integrative Medicine and all the way to say that every time I felt like I was discovering what I had been trained in and I realized how many deficiencies there were in my toolbox, so I needed to add more things.

I can honestly say that in the classical Chinese Taoist approach I think you have almost all the tools possible. your toolbox and if you can add a surgeon, an orthopedic surgeon, you pretty much did everything right and although even today there are stories of Taoist practitioners in China who can mend broken bones with talismans and with their breath, so who knows if I even need orthopedic surgeons so the alchemy of healing I'm already way behind schedule okay and I'm not going to go through all these slides because as I started doing this there are more questions that lead to more questions so this slide , we could stay on this slide for the whole hour and a quarter and I think it describes quite well everything we are going to talk about, so whoever knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions, Confucius, so For me , the question that started this conversation I'm having today was quite a few years ago.

I was experiencing tendonitis in my shoulder. Tendonitis is an inflammatory condition of the shoulder, the cause is not known, it may be associated with diabetes, minor injuries, so I went to see my friend Kevin, who was one of the world's shoulder experts. I told him he made me wait 45 minutes in the waiting room and then he sent me to get an x-ray and sure enough he said that's what I thought. Nothing. there he says he, well, you don't want to have this. I said: what is this? He says it's a frozen shoulder, nothing we can do, he takes some Advil and comes back in two months and you know, maybe put some steroids in there, just.

It wasn't satisfactory, it really hurt a lot and I wasn't sleeping, so my wife, who is a funny shoe, a consultant told me why didn't you go see the zoo doctor. Dr. Zoo was working in Connecticut and he was a generation of fifth generation practicing families, so I went to see Dr. Zoo and I walked in and he did the most exquisite examination of my shoulder, he really examined it and then he said okay, first we have to move your shoulder. I said yes, good luck, it's stuck. he says he's fine, he bends over, he does something to my leg that I later learned was called data 34 and then he started moving my shoulder.

I go, you're not supposed to do that, my shoulder's not supposed to. move and it made me wonder what just happened and I went to see the dr. Xue several times and my shoulder got better when I saw Kevin in the hallway and said: Hi Kevin, my shoulder got better. Chinese medicine worked. He said it's not possible and then, but six months later, there was a study that showed that acupuncture is very effective. for frozen shoulders so you know what defines us is not so much the answers we have but the questions. I wanted to start with this statement just to avoid any confusion.

What we currently call

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al Chinese medicine is not today's traditional Chinese medicine. The practice of medicine in most of China and most of the world now is actually more of a biomechanical reduction of the ancient tradition and unfortunately many of the old and wise Darla practitioners were at least persecuted, if not executed. , by the partial regime, um and one of In the inter and had almost disappeared, the tradition almost disappeared completely, but one of the interesting things is that, in a strange way, actually the West is now in the process of reviving and rediscover these traditions.

It's really quite remarkable and it started with the Jesuit priests and people like Joe Helms and John Worsley, who found fragments of this and brought it to the West with them and we're allowed to talk about it, so if I use traditional Chinese medicine it doesn't bother me. I am really referring to traditional Chinese medicine, it is a mistake, we are a Taoist medicine. classical Chinese medicine, okay, so we can date the beginning of this at least and the time recorded is with the Yellow Emperor and the work that the new color yellow will become significant to you in a while and here is a mythological figure that can mythological being who was not 3 years old, almost 2600 years before Christ, before the Common Era, right, he was supposed to be present and he was supposed to have had a conversation with tchibo, who was what is called a mythical doctor, can have been real. but tchibo actually had a conversation with the Yellow Emperor and Sheba was supposed to have been receiving divine inspiration about healing, so they put this in.

This was finally written down in book form about 2300 years ago in this famous book and basically the book has two parts: the first is the simple questions and we are going to spend almost all of our time on simple questions, like what is yin and what is yin? yang, what are the five seasons, how the seasons affect us and then. The second part of the book was called

spiritual

axis or Ling Shu, and not only did it talk about how to actually practice it with needles, moxibustion, diet and so on, but it also talked about more

spiritual

aspects that had been first exposed in the first part of the book. text then, the Yellow Emperor, did anyone ask Chiba?

I think he was the Yellow Emperor. I have heard that in ancient times people lived for more than a hundred years and yet they remained active and did not become decrepit. their activities, but nowadays people only reach half that age and yet they become decrepit and fail, it sounds like we reach 50 and everything is like patch, patch, patch after that, right , and we go to the antidoctor, anti-inflammatories, antidepressants, the aunt and him. Ebb, right? He says he says this because the world has changed from generation to generation. It could always be because humanity itself is becoming negligent of the laws of nature.

I think which is the first, the second, well, yes, I mean, intuitively. To know that, I mean, human beings have not changed and later in the Tsuen it says in peaceful komm, emptiness and emptiness, authentic Qi flows easily, essences and spirits are kept within, how could L n-- It may come up now that it may not make a lot of sense to you right now, but I hope that when we've had this conversation it will make a lot of sense. Goodbye, he said that in ancient times they are those people who understood the patent of yin. and yang and they lived in harmony with the arts of divination and so what it's telling us is that you know it's not that the universe has changed, it's not that nature has changed, it's our relationship with these things that has changed and what is so remarkable. about Taoist practice, philosophy and its medicine is that it is really a way back to harmony, certain day of Jing, it is a way back to harmony and the right relationship with ourselves, with each other and with the universe, That's what I find so exciting, so what are the advantages? characteristics of Chinese medicine and we could talk for a long time about this.

I am the fruit of someone who was a notable teacher in Portland. He has a website called classical Chinese medicine. He works at the national university of natural medicine. He has written a great treatise and describes the characteristics of Chinese medicine or that deals with holism with energy with relativity and complexity, that is why you can never really master the art because it is all relative and works with changing energies and relationships and is extremely complicated, so I mentioned a little. a little bit about allopathic II and it's good that you asked that question because that sets the stage for what the difference is.

I mean, why bother? Why bother re-exploring traditions that are thousands of years old? Why not just do what we are doing well? I think you know the bottom line is that it's not working that well, I mean, it works like miracles, right, we said before, the miracles of science can produce miraculous things from Merrick, modern medicine, but most people feel a little dissatisfied when they want some. More than just taking anti things, they really want to feel good, they don't want to have an antidepressant, they want to have a buzz for happiness, right? And, of course, we are seeing now that when our doctors and all doctors sing tremendously.

Barnard, you know, they're Bernard's raiders. Now nearly three-quarters of doctors want to leave practice. The suicide rate among doctors is twice that of the general public, and one study found it is almost six times the number of suicides among female doctors. I know I always say that not only are we not transforming the shadow of our culture, we are actually intensifying it and I think that working with these models of ancient traditions can bring us back and I don't see burnout as a disease, I see it as a rite of passage and a necessary birth canal towards something bigger and more meaningful in our work, so allopathic people deal with materialism directly with the things you can hold, nothing will drive a modern doctor madder than not being able to see it in a x-ray or We see it in a lab result or the right psychiatrists have come, we feel comfortable with that, yes, but less Nessa and I think in a few years we will even have an MRI and stuff, and we want if we can't see it.

There is no such thing as Chinese medicine. Doctors work with energy. They see the manifestation of that energy as a secondary consequence. It's the energy. I'm Hari. I'm sorry to say this, but you know that modern doctors are actually stuck in the old Newtonian model ofabout the 17th century we live in the world of cause and effect, right, a plus B equals C, okay, we have the best because we use a scientific method and the scientific method needs to break things into pieces, you know, there are two derivations of the word science, one is, of course, itself, which means knowledge, which sounds pretty good, on the other, it is like a knife, like a saber, cutting, reducing things correctly, so when If you do a research study, for example, you need as few variables as possible. and if you have more than three variables you probably won't get your funded study may be perfect the study has one variable, okay, and humans don't live in one world or one variable, we live in a world of complex ecology, so we live in this quantum world that has to do with relationships in Chinese. medicine alle Cathy's scarcity is based on there not being enough health for everyone there not enough years for everyone Gilda Radner said I need to catch the bastard before he catches me referring to her ovarian cancer so we live in this world of scarcity there's not enough to go around fear we better get them to get the disease before it does us good and the doctors are coming the heroic figure in classic

chinese

dollars this is a world of bad abundance it will have this inherent ability to flourish alone we need to remove the obstacles that are there actually, there is nothing wrong with us, you know, ultimately we just have to discover our own way to achieve balance and harmony.

Modern medicine focuses on time and location. Classical Chinese medicine lives beyond the time-space continuum. It is difficult to understand the life of modern medicine. in the world of the object of Ken Wilber's third-person quadrant, scientific objectivity that can be measured, manipulated, reproduced and understood in the same way by everyone, for the classical doctor everything is subjective, even observing the experiment is subjective, Heisenberg told us that with your uncertainty principle right, I would sew the slide because I just put it there and that remotely just to emphasize that we are all part and in balance and in relation to this bigger thing that we call life or the universe and this is this site web Joe Dobbs comm here are some really wonderful images there and here he has an image of the Sun and the moon and the earth and you know I practice Tibetan Buddhism and we Hindus also have one hundred and eight beads in our sacred mala number well guess what 108 moons together make up the size of the Earth and 108 Earths make up the size of the Sun, it's pretty mind-blowing right, and we get there if you go to the jobs website and you can find these symmetries. throughout the universe and of course there are fractals and there are Mandelbrot fractals, so we are all manifesting each other, it's really just a matter of scale, that's all and our relationship to the larger hole and Leonardo da Vinci also captured this when he said the functioning of the human body is an analogy of the functioning of our universe that we operate on the same principles as the universe we inhabit is not exciting we are not alone we are not like this meaningless blobs of matter floating in one place no empty sense, we actually operate on the same principles as the Sun, the moon and the stars, that's very exciting to me, you know, when I was a little boy in a Catholic school, I once told my teacher my divinity, So father, I'm confused.

I'm not sure why God has to live in a man's body, it seems like he or she could be everywhere and he got angry and said, my God, you're a pantheist. I said, oh, what's a pantheist? He said, that's where I. You're a demon and you know, I mean, this is right, we're all in habitus, we're aiming for an energetic embrace that we call the life of the universe, so excuse me, the Big Dipper and if you look at the Big Dipper. The Big Dipper actually rotates across the sky throughout the year through the four seasons, so the Big Dipper is the type of guiding star for the Taoist practitioner and our external manifestation of our internal and interpersonal relationships and the belief and this.

A really wonderful poetic way is that a human being comes into existence at that moment when the Big Dipper descends to a certain point and drops just a drop of Stardust into a human soul, a human heart, and here is the image of the human heart in Chinese. In classical Chinese you can see that you look outward, you have the wall of the heart and then on each side you have one that forms the inlet vessels in the outlet area that are in the vena cava and in the middle you have a point. and that point is a drop of starlight that enters our spirit at that moment of conception right where we are containing the universe, so what I would like to do now is show you a very short one minute video of a recent discovery about what happens at the moment of conception and maybe you can see some analogy between this and what I just described is that the Big Dipper drops a point of starlight on our heart, so basically this is a recent discovery of an in vitro fertilization laboratory and as you know, it is often quite difficult to fertilize an egg and they are not sure which one has been fertilized, what they discovered was that the moment an egg is fertilized there is an emission of light, there Wow, do you see that?

The Spark of Life seems as if science is demonstrating ancient wisdom that something really happens in that moment when something moves from an inanimate object to an inhabited conscious being. Well, we can play it again, there it goes off, there it goes, there's a flash of light. interesting and really poetic and inspiring, right, but it's not that inspiring if you're just a chemist who looks at some of them and says an interesting reaction of zinc, you know it depends on our relationship with it, so you know the conclusion of the talk today is that in reality the heart is the center of our experience it is the heart of healing it is in the human heart where we create music and harmony and balance with ourselves and with the universe between us and the heart is the teacher of all that The heart is the mind, intelligence and spirit in Chinese medicine in general and one of the alarming things, in fact, if you look down you will see two images that represent love and the one on the left has the image of the heart in the In the center you can see that right in red, that is the most classic character of love and the most recent character of love has excluded the heart and I think that says a lot about our modern culture and our relationship with each other and the universe.

So here's something really interesting: this character on the left is the symbol for music and on the right is the character for medicine and what's different between the two is on the right, you'll see at the top these two little figures shaped like a fork, those little figures represent the male and female shaman of Sharman, so the job of the shaman is to create music in the human heart by creating balance and we'll talk a little bit more about some of its mechanics and what it is. the model that the Taoists have of the way the world universe works and this explains it very well.

There's a lot of information. I'm not going to go over it, but I will go over the key principles. Basically the bottom line is that the nun becomes the one becomes the three becomes the 10,000 the nun becomes the one becomes the three becomes 10,000 so what does that mean if the nun is the time before the experience of the space-time continuum is the desert before dawn they call it honor the wild the unknown you know, I often listen to what my patients tell me and just this week several people told me you know, I had this experience, It was terrifying, I felt like even though I was staring into space I was walking into that movie theater and I had this panic attack and I don't know why and you realize it was dark it was the void this is where we come from and it's also what that terrifies us the most and we will talk about it so that the nun, whatever that doll can be called or not a doll, becomes aware of herself that the male sperm enters the female egg and comes to life with that spark of life that we just of seeing and then it begins to divide, it divides into two, we learn it, and then it divides into four and six, and so it goes from being a yin-yang, the two rights, to the third potential, which is both, the yin-yang. right yang and then the yin-yang jem did not generate everything that is in the universe and they do it through the expression of energy and the relationship that is characterized by the hexagrams and by the elements that we will learn and is manifested even more in terms of the earthly. branches, animals and organs, then you could literally spend years and years and years and years exploring this extraordinary cosmology and here you will see that it is essentially divided into three levels that we are going to talk about now: the first level is the earth level, the second level is the level of the person in the primitive sky and the third level is the level of heaven, so they can be recharacterized and here is another very complicated one, this is from Homer, this is a diagram of Chinese cosmology , all quite complicated. all the ten thousand things that is to say everything fits into this cosmology and its relationship with everything else can be understood in that way I love this the cosmos is in your hands the ten thousand transformations are born from yourself so when that moment comes that spark from The universe enters into us we capture this ability to be all things and simultaneously and that is from a book on alchemy, we are truly Stardust, that is a true statement, how do we manifest it?

So the diagram that I just showed you if I took some lines and drew them. maybe one day I will do that which actually looks a lot like this which is the Egyptian Tree of Life and it also looks a lot like this which is the Kabbalistic Tree of Life and the Sumerian tree of life would look the same as what It is on earth. All these cultures are producing similar diagrams and ways of explaining the relationship of things in the universe, so let's go back to that thing about the earth and the early heaven and the late heaven, this is called the three treasures, okay, the three treasures over there.

It's Jing, there's Chi, and there's Shen Many years ago, I was actually trying to get privileges at the largest surgical hospital in the world to do acupuncture. He worked as a palliative care doctor and no one had requested privileges. to do acupuncture and then I said okay I want to take care of this and they told me it would be reviewed by the surgical committee and we went through every month, I would meet with them and they would pester me with questions and then dr. B, who was an elderly and esteemed general surgeon, told me, sir, that he needs to explain and make me understand Chi before we can go any further.

At that moment I said, I said dr. B. I will gracefully withdraw my request because you know it is very difficult to capture these things in words. What we can do best is describe their relationship more than words, so this is really the starting point of Chinese medicine. yin-yang, right, we just talked about that, but the next step is to understand the three treasures and what they do is describe the relationship between the earth, us and the sky, and so you can do that, and once again, you know the alchemical texts saying in the photo. exactly the same thing, basically terrestrial humans and the Sun, here is an ancient Chinese of the golden flower of the golden elixir and to the right is another alchemical text that once again shows exactly the same relational patterns, so here is a more contemporary version and I think it really does a good job of explaining that Jing Qi and Shen are right, so Jing is basically like literally the candle wax, it describes your inherent ability, your energy storage, your kind of potential that you bring to the world. life and that potential is determined by your karma from your parents karma with your mother was drinking alcohol smoking cigarettes if your mother was very young when she did it you were very old basically decide how much of these vital things you have to work with, in other words , if your candle is very long and big Well, this for a long time has a lot of flames, just a little, the right thing, and then when I work with the patient, I see someone if they are balding prematurely or graying, and that It tells me that maybe you don't know too much.

Jing, you know not always, but you know, when I see someone who is 80 years old and has black hair like one of my teachers, I don't know how old he is, I can't understand it and then he says, oh, you know. I was doing this 30 years ago and I saw it, but yeah, you look like you're 20, you know, and he has dark hair because his Jing, so the goal is for us to have a certain amount of Jing and we also want to be able to use it wisely while we burn the flame and then the flame is the energy that arises and manifests in this plane of existence like the flame of the candle, so how we use that flame, we turn it upwards, we let it go like a blowtorch. right, partying, you know, living promiscuously, not sleeping, working too much, we burn out, we burn down our tent pretty quickly, sure, that's why we see people drop dead, you know, when they do extreme exercise.

I worry a lot when I have some of my patients or exercise. really difficult, it's not good because they drop dead. I think about that guy who wrote that racing book, what was his name, that's right,yeah, Sonny, just a guy was running marathons and he dies. I actually saw a sign outside that CrossFit Don and yeah I did it in Jack London Square it said it hasn't killed you yet go on you know so we gotta use you know we use our Jing burn that flame really with some wisdom , we don't waste it on unnecessary and fruitless things, right? and we also use practices to retain it and bring it back like chi gong and we eat the right foods and our shen is the light that comes out of the flame it's enlightenment okay it's enlightenment is that's that's what you see around the saints when they They have that halo right, it's okay to manifest our true potential that I am the candle wax but I am also this lush, infinite, limitless light and you know once again, you look at all these traditions, they all have the same things, so I actually have an almost identical stupor like this at home and basically stupor in the Tibetan tradition has three levels.

There is the base, since yang is the path, which is Chi and there is a result which is the flame. And in the middle, of course, they have these. five Buddhas and we will learn about the five Shen and the five spirits and the five elements, so all these traditions come together and if you look at the character of Sheng and Chinese, what it actually represents is rice growing in a pot with a little cinnabar added so that the Jing is like the rice in the pot and the cinnabar is actually mercury and sulfur and it is an assembly in alchemy because it can be both and if with wisdom and skill you can extract the yin and the yang the darkness and the white of the cinema and there the chi or Zhi as I said is actually the rice cooking and becoming cooked correctly and there is an image and here we see here we know that there is the The rice is beginning to move upwards and finally the Shen that The Shen represents were actually three strokes that represented the sky, the earth and us and the unity of the stars, but Nod represents an altar and to the right there is a rope with a ladder that humans climb. beings as they reach out into the sunlight, so let's see if the next slide works and if it doesn't, what I'm going to do is paraphrase Joe Campbell as you look at the image, okay, it may be a little disjointed, but let's hope so. trance dance works, for example, in Bushman society, now there is a fantastic example of something from small groups of Bushmen.

I want you to think about that written image of a great man standing towards the sky in which you just saw the man and the woman. The sexes say in a disciplined way to separate them, men have a certain field of concerns, their weapons and hunting poisons and all that, and yang has a certain field of God, so yes, raising children, feeding children, etc. and so on just in - the two got together and got together in this way, the witnesses sit surrounded or in a small group and then they become the center around which the men danced and controlled the dance and what happens to the men through their own singing and beating of their thighs what is the meaning of that that the woman is controlling the dead well the woman is alive of the man is the servant of life the woman and you know and during those losses yes, giving going around, going around is a very tense style of movement the men have a Sunday that one of the mill faints now he is in a trance and this is a description of an experience when the people sing I dance I enter the earth I enter a place like a place where people drink water I travel a long way very far when I emerge I am already climbing I am uploading threads I upload one and leave it then I upload another then I leave it and upload another when you arrive at the place of God you become small you enter small at the place of God you do what you have to do there then you return to where everyone is you come and tongue and tongue and finally you enter your body again all the people who have been left behind are waiting for you they fear you you enter you enter earth and you re-enter the skin of your body and you say that that is the sound of your return to your body then you begin to see that the two teachers are there around them they grab your head and they blow on the sides of your face this is how you manage to be alive again friends if they don't make you that you die you just die in our dead friends this is what this tomb does that I hear hear that I danced this is a real experience of transit from the earth through the realm of mythological images to God or to the seat of power becomes something of our other mind is exactly the other mind and the way God is image God is ultimately transcendent of anything like a name of God, as the Hindus say, beyond names and forms, the hymn is beyond the names and forms, no language has tainted it, no word has reached it, but Joe Kent, can Westerners grasp this kind of theological experience of mystical trance that transcends theology? theology behind it I mean, if you are trapped in the image of God in a culture where a science determines your perceptions of reality, how can you experience this ultimate foundation that the shamans talked about?

I wonder what he responded to, so I think it's a truly remarkable experience. The image or what I just described is there and this has been the tradition of healing and healers throughout time and for the Kalahari indigenous people they did not have specialized healers, they were all participants in the healing, the woman with the yen and the men . the yang co-creating the dance and music that centered the stairway to heaven and then returned to the underbelly to be reimagined and revived by the spirit of each other's healers, so I think it is truly remarkable what the alchemy and of course, that was the title of this talk about alchemy, it may have many names, it is actually derived from alchemy, which is actually an Egyptian term that describes blackness and the art of blackness and transformation and that actually describes the right and left pupil of the eye.

Of course, for the application to the Egyptians, having a large pupil, belladonna was considered very attractive and alluring, and that's where the word comes from and it has different meanings, this has changed, we'll talk about that, but ultimately it's about how we manage this transformation and this movement from material matter to spirit and then vice versa, that is what alchemy is very good at, so in the Chinese tradition there were two types of alchemy, there are two types. I am the first, external alchemy, which basically supports the use of metals and external substances, medicines and the idea was that these, by their inherent nature, would transform their own energy.

The problem with this approach was that a lot of people actually ended up dying because they were using things like cinnabar with mercury. and other things and it was not good for your career if you, the emperor, died as a result of your medication, so it fell into disrepute, although there is still external alchemy and it still has a place and value, of course, the bigger the problem the greater the nature of the disease, the stronger the nature of the alchemical remedy, that's right, but Natan or internal alchemy really describes the way we use ourselves to manage the energy of our own life.

Just orange ink animating Shen, that is internal alchemy. there are no other golden licks outside one's fundamental nature, you are the medicine, that is the message, emergencies, you don't have to go to doctors and whatever you are the medicine, all human beings have the golden elixir of the flower that is completed, fully realized and each and every one. I would add, but many don't realize, okay, so real quick, this is an example of internal alchemy moving this energy within our own energy system, which we will talk about how to manage yourself and of course, this It is the same image that we see in the euro Boris this is the image of alchemy, but in reality in every tradition, in every tradition on the planet, you cannot go anywhere in any ancient tradition and not see the euro Boris, which It is the snake swallowing its own tail and this is the internal alchemical process at work. with your own Jing and your own Chi in your own Shen and Paracelsus was really the father of alchemical medicine in the West but he didn't get much support he said he said exactly the same thing he said that medicine is not just a science there is nothing There is something wrong with science, please understand me.

I'm not saying there is anything wrong with Allopath II. I'm very happy that we have those available to us in certain circumstances, but he says it's not about combining pills and dressings, it's about trying. with the very processes of life that must be understood before they can be guided, so our Paracelsus was actually just a sort of reincarnated Taoist healer, or perhaps even a reincarnated Kalahari healer. I was talking about the same things, so the goal of medicine is to really help us experience our destiny, manifest our destiny, as I mentioned Lonnie Jarrett, one of my teachers, his really groundbreaking book for the West was nurturing destiny, really an extraordinary book, so now here is a comment that says that whoever complements the greater destiny becomes part of it he he complements understands only the lesser destiny he resigns himself to the inevitable and then what it says is that it depends and you know which It is our image our imagination of what we are capable of if we simply see ourselves as machines machines men living in machine times driven by algorithms and that is our destiny, if we see ourselves as Stardust manifested in this material plane, everything It is possible and that is part of what I am going to talk about now, it is not about going to heaven, it is actually growing. heaven and working with these energies and I'm sure and for Vasudha probably and now you read, I'm just telling everything that she already knows, you just packaged it differently, different words, but it's the same, you know, and Tibetan medicine is the same, so this is out of place, but this is our shaman image, he was supposed to be back with Joe Campbell's torpor, here the shaman and there is the mail and the woman on both sides, the yin and the yang, and there is the earth and this is your sky above and there is the ladder of the soul that the shaman walks with you on your journey towards healing, so let's get to the heart of the matter, a pseudo-technological understanding, so I will talk now about the five spirits and the five elements because it is very good for me to talk about them.

You know this Taoist philosophy, but you know how that helps you when you actually have a frozen shoulder. Well, some people would say that actually, if you realize that you are yourself by just giving good intentions, you will be attracted to them, you know? that's what Jesus does well, but most of us are not that developed, you know, not even six years of medical school gets you to that point, so we need a technology, we need a technology, NER Croft, so these They are the five spirits and the five elements and what can basically be said is that they live, they express our relationship through two planes and the first plane is the vertical plane, the movement between the Earth and the sky, which is a spiritual journey , a transpersonal journey towards something beyond our own limitations and The horizontal plane is the reason for living in the material world and, more particularly, in the world of relationships, so when we work, as a DARS applicant , you are actually very aware of what level and on what plane you are working. because sometimes you just need to work on the material plane on the horizontal plane, so when they did my shoulder, dr.

Zhu was really just concentrating on the material planning for my shoulder to move. Now I recognized that in reality my shoulder was not just my shoulder and that it was that critical point of energetic interface with my reality that was stuck and where I decided to enter that experience was up to me and the nature of the healing would be different, so as healer and as a Chinese doctor I need to know where I'm working, in what direction and of course the metaphor is obvious, the cross, right, I mean, it's everywhere, okay, it's not. Justin in Western culture and of course the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is not Jing Chi gen.

Okay, it's a shame that it has to be made all male, but that reflects the culture and consciousness of the time. So what are the five elements? so we are going to start now on the horizontal plane, we are talking about the plane of physical interaction with ourselves and with the universe and with others and these are the five elements fire earth metal water and wood and they are sometimes called the five elements sometimes the five phases like one season there are five seasons and in the Chinese understanding of the universe so we are in our home we always recognize five seasons and we see spring early spring arrive much earlier than our Western calendar and I think you could also call it the five perspectives, the five ways of relating to things, so each of us as human beings are mainly one of those elements, just as you know, there are trees or a wood element and there are rivers that are Water Element, beings humans we all have primarily one element and we may have a secondary element within it but mostly we are one element and that element reallyIt describes our relationship with things, so let's go with one of these elements, let's go with a lady, let's go with the earth.

It's okay, because the Yellow Emperor yellows the earth, who basically describes the soil, is the experience of being the soil, of being the person, the being that really nourishes things. He thinks well that none of these elements is better than any other, without any of them, the universe. Stop, we are all manifestations, so what is it about this? So the goal is not to change, you can't say well, I don't want to be an earth anymore. I'm going to go see dr. Duffy and I are going to work on becoming a fire because I think fires are more fun.

You know a lot of fire people and they had parties and the darters sang, so you know, now it's going to be a fight. I can't do that, I'm sorry, it's okay, you can't say a tree while I'm working, you become that's not alchemy, alchemy is skillful management of your own energy, right to create balance so that the government begins to suffer. When We are unbalanced in our primary element so if you overexert the soil too much think of the soil it feels is its only answer the only thing it can do is feed the plants that is all it is good for and it is only valued and it's determined by how well the garden is growing and so you're always worried about whether this tree is going to grow and getting enough food and whether this plant is going to be happy, well guess what it's not feeling very good about? , because in human terms, what that means is that you're done.

By becoming codependent you end up being full of everyone else, okay codependency, I'm too much of myself to be so full of you, so we always give the right thing and we always worry about whether I'm going to leave for this person. Can I give him enough food? you know who I'm going to be worried and I'll be good enough at work and people will be happy with me, you know, I'm not very comfortable and if you're underexpressed on earth, quite the opposite, it's like a desert, there's nothing to do. giving I have nothing to give to anyone I have no interest in anyone's worries or problems I only refer to myself because I will see if I can survive well, very different but really two parts of the same coin so this manifests itself in my office as a thoughtful, worried person who is full of everyone else's problems and is married to an alcoholic, yeah, okay, and depression is really uncomfortable, you know, okay, very different than someone who has an element mental and we don't have time to go through that. this manifests itself in our physical form, as you can see, the spleen and stomach are the associated organs and therefore people with this content of this pattern, if overexpressed, are likely to have diabetes, pancreas and spleen, It is very likely that they will have problems.

With movement you can wait again because the Earth doesn't move much, right? You could have stomach problems. I can tell you that I can look at a patient's chart before he even walks into my room and, if he is old enough, I can tell you. what is their main element simply because of their medical complaints, it is more difficult if they are 18 and still have enough Jing to be able to literally burn the candle at both ends and they have not paid and have not paid a price for it, but if they all go up my minutes, I sold them wrong and it's not complicated, you know, people think I'm my Guardian geniuses, like not, it's just that they really know, okay, and all these things have relationships with each other, okay, like this that there is motherhood in a relationship and there is a relationship of control, so the mother, the earth feeds, still the metal, that is where the metal comes from, it comes from the Earth, compressed, and the cauldron from the earth, for What the Earth actually relates to metal, they actually feed them.

Metals are like that, okay, but earth controls water, so if I have a relationship with someone as a water element, they will feel that I am controlling them just like a river bank controls a river, right? You don't even know what's going on and then if you put two livers together, two words, one green, like they're two generals in the same house, that's not good. I remember and several years ago I was working in this very high-end residential place. and the families would come out and visit me for five days and I would be given 30 minutes to meet with the families during their five days and it was almost impossible to do anything other than give information, but I had this lady. this person who was really unhappy in her marriage and just miserable and we talked about how that had been, how long it's been and how she always felt miserable and she said no, I used to be happy, it was after being married for a moment my depression started and her husband came in and he was talking and it was immediately clear to me that he was a general and she was a general but now she was being suppressed by him because he was a stronger general than her and she was angry and she couldn't express it because she didn't feel safe because he was a stronger general, so she internalized that into the oppression and the feeling of helplessness, so what I did in 30 minutes she said: "we will work out a contract about Two generals can live in the same house and they forgot that they had moved and about a year later someone came to me, a visiting therapist who was coming to visit us, and said, "You know, since you told me I needed to leave you I know what you said in." that session changed his life and saved a marriage.

I said, what did I say? You said ah oh yeah, she said now we know how you get along with each other and we just agreed with two generals and if you have two generals then you need two armies, that's fine and it works, it's amazing. I think you could have a five element family therapy field that would work really well and you know prayer is five element psychotherapy and I do all of that. time and everything is relational and this describes the relationships of the elements in different organs are related and actually the time of day is reflected in each organ and each element is expressed more at a certain time of the day, so it is the one o'clock between one and 3 in the morning your water element expresses itself and that is when the general appears and the generals are there to solve problems to win battles and then you think that maybe in yourselves you wake up at one and 3 from the morning in the morning that is what is because the energy of wood is such a strong energy that it explodes looking for solutions and often starts to sweat, then because that is the case of energy that is really strong, it produces all kinds of movement and sweating, and here's a breakdown of it all.

The different associations between these elements affect the way we eat, what we like to eat, taste, they affect the type of tissue, for example, my shoulder pain is governed by the energy that governs the tendons, and so when doctors They put a needle in and I called that after thirty-four, I was really accessing the energy in my tendon and releasing that blockage because pain and Chinese medicine just blocked the energy, so we don't have time to go over this. There is a book by John Kirkwood. John Kirkwood has two books, one called Five Seasons John Kirkwood used to live on the peninsula now he lives in Australia.

It's really interesting. There are useful books on what this means for your life. You could help yourself understand why you like vet salads and your partner likes lamb, for example, no. because just no, this is actually kind of intuitive, we can base our lifestyle on the type of element we have and there is also a book called the power of the five elements, written by one of my teachers, Charles Master Power of the Five Elements. and behind that there is a questionnaire that you can do and you can realize that it is not always like that.

I mean, even quote-unquote experts won't agree with each other when we're both examining the same person and they'll say it's short because you can see. That cycle is really sometimes, if someone is really very, very, very imbalanced, it may actually seem like they have four level downstream relationships, but it actually started because they were imbalanced with metal, but it seems like they're having problems with their earth that started 20 years ago with its metal going out of balance, well, I mean, go quickly, so I think this is a useful slide, this is called the nine pains of the heart, okay, the nine pains of the heart, and this is what We could call the study plan. of life and therefore in the Taoist tradition we show up in life to receive lessons and teachings in each of these nine areas and, depending on our own karma, they would suggest that we show up in the school of life to discover which is it. in one of these classes we failed last time, okay, and you can think about your own life, okay, and in some areas we're really good, in other areas, we really suck, you know we're stuck, so this can be really useful, you know it's actually the same.

It would be good for psychotherapy to say: do you really agree with your being? and whatever your career looks great, you're getting recognition and what, but on another level you're not able to be really creative and what you're doing is fine, so let's go back to that complete catastrophe alchemy, so The message I want you to think about is that alchemy is really about how we work with all the things that life brings to us. The Buddha told the first noble truth. Life is suffering. Do we work with that reality and how do we work with it skillfully and transform it into something that supports our own development, the manifestation of our right Shen without getting stuck at the chi level or just burning out our Jing and never getting beyond first base Peter?

Levine, many of you may know Peter Levine as the father of somatic therapy. I paraphrase it when I say that when we move from fixity to flow, we can pursue our destiny and not our destiny, so what's the difference? Our destiny is what life brings us. my destiny was that I was going to lose my hair that is not my destiny my destiny is how I choose to relate to it my destiny is that I have cancer that is not my destiny my destiny is how I work with that blocked energy to support my continued spiritual development and having worked with cancer patients, cancer survivors at MD Anderson, I started to realize and see this all the time: you know really the way most people actually know why they have cancer and most of the time It's because I don't I don't do that, I got caught up in that emotion, and even if I say well, I smoked cigarettes and I got sick because I'm ashamed that I smoked cigarettes properly, so learning how is what Peter Levine does with somatic therapies with the which works with people in their bodies to identify where things are stuck and then help them get through it and the idea is that trauma is not the actual event itself, it is the energy that gets stuck inside your energy body.

Okay, I'm going to go over this quicker because they're going to run out of time, so these are the Murrays. You've all seen this picture and it looks like most of you have had needles stuck somewhere. These are called primary meridians, so there are twelve. and they equate to those twelve organs that we looked at earlier, they all fit together like a nice jigsaw puzzle or jigsaw, so one way to understand this that I think is very useful is that we have essentially three subcircuits. I'll do that. let's talk about let's see this is not a wonderful quote the dramatic symptoms are not caused by the triggering event itself they come from the frozen residue of energy that has not been resolved or discharged this residue remains trapped in the nervous system where it can wreak havoc on our bodies and spirits, so that's what we're talking about with these energy circuits, just when an energy gets stuck, the movement of the energy flow is impeded and blocked and starts to cause all kinds of consequences that we then eventually see in our lives as inflammation. or you know, a hot spot on a scan, shoulder pain, okay, so it's basically three main CERP circuits and the primary meridians, there's the survival circuit, and basically this is just meeting the basic demands of being. being alive is about following habits about taking in energy and letting it go well large intestine lungs our skin is our barrier to the outside world to keep us safe the stomach we absorb things well the spleen can help absorb and nourish them and then the heart and kidney that you will see is that actually the heart and the kidney are the three meridians in my opinion because the heart is the central and most important aspect of what it means to be a penny in being and being human for everything that happens. the heart and if you are not creating music in your heart and it will come out as a kind of disjointed discordant noise that is really disturbed it produces illness the next circuit is the interaction circuit how do I get along with you and me and them and them?

Alright, this is our kidney and our bladder, our heart again in our small intestine and we don't have time to go through all of them, but you know there are 365 points on these main primary meridians, so we have an acupuncturist here and shecould you tell us each of those points and if this exam should tell me the name of the point and then if it is a Taoist exam, it would have to tell me the spiritual meaning of that point so that you can access it. and let's say, well, this is just a matter of survival, this person has problems with asthma and we need to open up his lung energy.

You could also say, well, this represents a test of the metallic element of him and he's really struggling with issues around trust and allowing. What a shame, right, that's what breathing is and finally there is a circuit of differentiation or individuation and this is your gallbladder, your wood, your liver, I'm sorry, this is the general one, I'm different from everyone else, no I need to be part of the tribe it's not good enough to just be part of the tribe. I want to be my unique individual person and so I think that's why in some ways this weight will be strange.

The United States and the West are actually the salvation of the tribe. Taoist tradition because actually, as De Tocqueville said, we've reached the west coast and we have nowhere else to go, so we have to start figuring it out and that's why we like, you know, we have to figure it out. This is because there is no other place where we can run and hide, so in that space between subject and object lies the entire history of human suffering. So what is this? What I put is that what I would suggest is that at this time. level of interaction we enter the field of journalism we enter the field of separation you and I and when we enter joyism we create we enter into conflict and when we enter into conflict we enter into this regulation and then we enter into suffering So these horizontal planes are really one Of the main ones, they are the plane of suffering and illness.

True, but in a literal and figurative sense, now I am going to talk about the other five spirits, so there are five elements and five spirits, and this is the vertical plane that I talked about before. Remember that and what gets a little confusing is that you know my understanding is in the Chinese language, the same word can mean different things and a lot depends on the context, it's relational so we use similar words at least Chen Han Yi Po and Zi, which represent water, metal, earth, wood and fire, so this represents our evolution. through the vertical plane between the dark, unknown and chaotic desert that preceded us before we became conscious, entering the planetarium filled with darkness, what will happen next, moving towards life and towards the experience of transcendent experience, so that each of these has its own characteristics. so if I'm working with a patient, part of what I'm doing is am I working at the element level?

Am I working at the spirit level? So the spirit level really revolves more around the relationship with the other. not between us, that makes sense, in other words, it's our spiritual experience, so let's go over them real quick, these are and actually on the website so you can see them. I'm not going to stop reviewing this I could take. There are hours to spend, but each of these has its own characteristics and when someone is in my office, I am actually thinking where is it really, where does this soul reside, does it reside there, the water and there is the will, was it in the shed? very rarely see p.m. intell allama I think one experiences that we live on the level of Shen, but actually, as I'll talk about in a moment, he is Shen and Zhi, they are both water and fire, that's all, so the interesting thing again is you know you look. in other traditions in the Suder tradition they don't have five, I guess you have seven, but they actually have two, the pair of gourds together, so they are actually very similar and this is from the Tibetan perspective and this is Joe's work Louise and a recent article 2:16 is really the same thing and even boils down to looking at some of the physiological characteristics that correlate with each of these levels of spirit.

This is the cloud mountain drawn on this is the Connellan mountain and the core mountain is basically a representation of the soul ladder starts in the water and then goes up and through the misty parts of the mountain, which is the metal, and then He goes up to the fertile plains, which is the land, the Yi goes up to the forest. full of greenery, okay, coming to life, that's the wood, just the horn and then going up to the Shen, the sunlight sitting on the top of the mountain and you can, there's all these notations and literally this can is your life map, you can use it as yours. life map for spiritual and personal development, so we talked about Shen before, you saw that picture where we saw the little bushmen climbing the rope to the sky, amazing, it's not surprising to climb that rope and then those are the characteristics, associations and once again you can go back to the online archives of this at the level of fire or fire Shen is the element the organ is the heart the main emotion is joy we experience consciousness inspiration perception passion passion right ardor you know the manifestation of the flame we have the experience of our true self and cosmology represents starlight and lightning and the virtues of compassion, love and the symptoms that we have your shen disturbed or that you have trouble sleeping, you feel anxious because you simply You know, we were somewhere in the universe.

I am sunshine, what do I hold on to? I can get depressed if my shin has been broken, burned, a burnt wasteland, too much fire, burns the worst, like my heart might have palpitations. It looks like I have a DD. I'm mania, right? So it's considered mania. to be a Shen disorder, I may be lacking inspiration or maybe a disorganized man has an idea of ​​who I really am, being able to reflect because I'm so out there, all good, sounds like a manic person, right, it's just a while , this is great. but pants to eyes super good is not very productive so we can I'm not going to go through all of these this is but this is the other Han and this is the energy of the will and the liver is the organ and it has to do with the vision is about knowing your true self again the cosmological association of the clouds and you think about the clouds that are up there halfway to the top of that mountain, think about your watch the clouds have a free and easy wander in the right path just go, you didn't say cloud, saying ah, I'm not moving west anymore, you know, I've moved too far west, I'll stay right here, the clouds moved with the energy of the universe, right and they are always changing and creating these amazing figures, hoenn energy is that movement just before you reach the top of the mountain, okay, and if you have disturbances within your Han, you are depressed, you have trouble sleeping again, you get angry because anger It's a primary emotion of the liver, you can become erratic, you can lose confidence in yourself, doubt yourself a lot, it's called the rayon type, it's okay, you lack a purpose and the main need of the wood is to have justice, all good , things must be fair, so the archetypal caricature of our word is an overly opinionated civil rights lawyer.

Okay, let's not think of it as bad, it's just what's right, again, we need all kinds of elements because that's how the universe stays balanced and then, years, this middle ground, years, the spiritual is the pivot . the axis between the underworld, the dark waters beneath the mountain and the pole, which is the mist moving upwards and then, this year, this fundamental axis and it really is where our intention is formed and held, what our intention is. intention, how are we going to use this energy and we talked a little bit about the earth element in the horizontal plane and you know their similarity, these are very similar, it's challenging advice at least for me, I mean I'm just a newbie, but sometimes it's hard to tell where his deficit is mainly on the spirit level and it was there on his five element plane, they are very different but not the same okay, so in a polite mention is that it emerges secondly, the mist, it's the life force arising, but very attached, think of the fog, you are really attached. to the right of the earth, this symbol actually represents the white bones of death, and so, at the OP level that we're actually working on, do I let go of the connection to whatever I'm coming from and let go of whatever?

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ly with pain, they are working with pain and some of the associations and correlations of gemstones are the cosmological association because gemstones really represent the embedding of energy and, so you know if you have and if you have an energetic imbalance for long enough it moves from the surface deeper and deeper and then it actually lives in your bones and therefore your bones maintain your energetic imbalance , so it's a little bit difficult to change your right, you know, so that's the power we could talk about for years and years about this, we don't have time, yeah, metals can sometimes look like a metal that's too sharp and direct, overstated, cuts off people with very different opinions, either this way, what's that way, or you're with me. or you're against me, you know, they often appeal to a higher sense of justice, this is the right way to do things right and if it's not done this way then, oh, that's wrong, so they can be seen as inflexible, you know?

Are you your pious deacon of the church or someone like that who follows all the principles, rules, this is how it's supposed to be and if I break these rules, who knows what will happen, I will basically sink into the darkness of the void where there are no rules, like this that I need to hold on to these very tightly, okay, the Z is the will and once again we see the image of the heart, you see the image of the heart at the bottom with a y, but actually what is growing is the plant is well, so this is where in the water element at our deepest level emerges our will and our impulse to manifest as sentient beings and then the good news is that that is really powerful and energetic, the bad news is that it is dark and there No There are rules down there, this is a desert, and very often I work with people in my office, you know that's where they come to see me, they have to send it to the desert and this is where suicide happens because if I can not experience Who I am, that I am dead and that there is terror and fear, it is a primary emotion, but at the same time, these people with this level have the ability to have great leadership skills because they have this willpower and they can attract people to you.

Look, there are always these two coins on the sides of the same coin, okay, the meridians, when we talk about other meridians, are very different when we access this level, this plane, and here we are talking about the extraordinary meridians, curious meridians. and that. it's a cross section view of this and this is the shape in the front and that's why they run this really strange kind of chaotic pattern and they take points from various other meridians and that's why some practitioners will only work at this level because they say if you fix it if you balance the soul and everything else will take care of itself, okay, we are very interesting, right, they are extraordinary.

Americans are much like the caduceus, the serpent that coils as the spirit, the soul begins to ascend to heaven. Alright, I'm just going to show you two points here to give you an idea of ​​what some of the symbols are that you might be working with as an acupuncturist. This is our heart and you can see where it is located. located down here and when we access the heart we are saying that what this point does refers to the path or path of the spirit, it is the job of the Emperor who resides in the heart to guide people on the path of the doll to do so you need to know what the walk so often we and our patients become too wrapped up in the law of worldly things the temporary gratifications of the ego like money, sex and power we lose our way we become anxious and worried and Worried about the things that are better transitory and impermanent, this point lights the way back to the only path that meets our real needs and guides us to our next step, all right, so when we put a needle there, the path becomes manifest to us, the people.

I will have experiences say that I don't know what just happened, but I think I can see a way forward now, maybe this is what Dante needed when he was in the dark forest right in the middle of my life. I got to the place that The woods were the way, I didn't know it at all and then I'll do it hard, eh, that's the part, pretty amazing, but you could also say that they can use it to work with people who have heart or pressure problems arterial. or many other conditions in this in the parallel in the horizontal plane celestial continents small intestines and equipment so this is one of the points called windows of the sky and the idea is that these points are central energy processing units that mediate our ability to have a vision beyond our own material player on the temporal plane and allows us to see the pure from the impure because the small intestine in Physiology is actually responsible forabsorb the good nutrients and let the bad ones continue to go to the large intestine. and that is really what it is doing, it basically helps us separate the wheat from the chaff, it makes the decree of heaven manifest before us and opens us to a new vision and empowers us to move forward.

Ah, I can see the video, see where. I'm going to go to that place in Hawaii. I always imagined there was a place and we should save my money together. Now I can see that that is the place. It's right on the beach. Okay, now it pays to work hard. That's worth giving up. I can have that vision well, so now I'm going to move forward in just five minutes, talk about some ideas about how we, actually, Chinese medicine workers in terms of diagnosing people, anyone who looks and knows that they are called must be. It's called spirit, in other words this is the personal doctor that you just walk into the room and they may know enough to ask any questions.

I think about the doctor, yes, you noticed in Dharamsala, in India, the doctor noticed the position of him or a hundred of him. He now he still sees over a hundred patients a day. I have been to Dr.'s clinic. Donan spends only a few seconds with the people, but they keep coming now. I know that if he spent a few seconds with my patients they wouldn't come back, you know, but you know, because he knows who they are energetically because he is in a pure state. Murrah, not him, there are no blocks there, not him, he is wise, he just sees things as they are disturbed, there was a block and it's okay, anyone who listens to that is called wise, that's a psychiatrist, well, we are wise because we listen well, listen to the stories, okay, anyone who has to ask about things is called a craftsman and anyone who feels the pots and knows they should be called a skilled worker, so I'm not sure where allopaths are placed on that list .

I don't think you actually even get to the list, anyone who's asked you knows that doing 100 tests relies on some other technology to get some numbers and then you go to a textbook and see what that pattern means and you know it doesn't mean Don't let him do the big thing, you have a list of qualified professionals, so here you have a doctor. I love him. He looks like I like to go see him as a doctor and his patient looks like he probably has a very fair complexion, he looks a little melancholic and he's probably down to earth so he's taking his pulse anyway so tradition Pulse taking is not limited to China, of course, it is practiced elsewhere. tradition, they use Tibetan medicine and I, therefore, this is a remarkable practice, so I am a very, very simple practitioner, my teacher who I work with, so we work with about 15 different pulses, so when I was in medical school I taught. if you take your pulse and feel if it's regular or irregular or regular and then how fast it goes and then if you were really good, I trained with the best diagnostic cardiologist in the world.

I used to travel the world. He impressed people with his ability to diagnose from bed, but he didn't want his friends to take us too simplistic, otherwise it was all a collapse, a collapsed pulse, there was another, but when I sewed Hammett's shin into this Different school machine hammer technique. which I'm trained on and we have about 15 pulses and each one has 28 features and that's just beginning, so if you take 18, 15 pulses and 28 characters, you're going to have a lot of calculations around a lot of permutations, so we won't do that. I go through this, but when I take someone's pulse, I am literally entering their energetic space and I can feel by the characteristics of each of those pulses what is happening with that wood element, what is happening with that earth, OK? the relationship between them I'm supposed to be able to even tell if they've ever been divorced if they have cognitive problems they have four mitral valve problems I mean, one of my teachers took someone's pulse and said, "I like you, what do you do?" such?" You have a valve problem I told him no, you're crazy and he said you have to go to the cardiologist, the cardiologist said no, I'm not going to pinch well, the patient demanded and, sure enough, he had an air that evolved, which went to breaking point saved his life, so this includes my teacher, he says I'm supposed to spend 45 minutes on each of my patient pulses, 45 minutes, okay, that's how sophisticated it is, so you know, when I went to see my Tibetan doctor, he didn't Don't talk to me, I go in there and now put my arm, Stan, because your back isn't very good, you know?

Yes, it works quite stressful at the moment, yes, I don't sleep very well, finishing at 3 o'clock, yes, you know it, so he knows it. everything about me this is my energetic record right here so I don't do it there with all my patients I take their pulse and many times they are surprised and I am surprised by what we discover and it is a very powerful experience to really take someone's pulse , take your own some time, just spend some time experiencing it, listening to what it tells you, okay, your ears, we can look at your ears, so remember we're just saying about the image of the Sun, the moon and the earth 108 times each other it is because everything is a microcosm everything is a hologram everything else the universe exists in a single cell it exists in the mitochondria everything is just a matter of scale and our ears within the human ear we can see the human body, so I think you can be like his skull at the bottom, there you can see, that means if I can move that there it is, you see that and there's the spinal cord and there's the arms and the legs and literally when you look at someone. ear I can actually make a diagnosis and that's why people put needles in people's ears, that's another way we can diagnose.

I can look at people's faces and I can see everything in their faces. There are particularly professional people, the HTS uses a finger or a finger bone as a diagnostic tool and that's all they work with because you know, I mean, you can work with the Sun or you can work with a cell, it just depends on whatever you're trained to look for, and I think it's easier. looking at the whole body instead of a bone and a finger, but that's what they like to do. I guess everyone finds their own angle and then your tongue is a strong indicator of the energy balance within your system and whether you're too hot. if you have too much humidity stagnant energy if you have too much stress too much fire too much stagnation all this can break take a look at your tongue at some point one of the things that always surprised me when I was an internist is like I look at people's tongues and I realize that he wasn't very good at knowing if people were anemic.

I mean, some people could really celebrate. This person has very low hemoglobin. I think he'll say, "Wow, you know, they look really pale, but the hemoglobins are like 14." Did they ever explain that to me, no, I understand it well and we can look at the bottom of our feet, of course, so this is reflexology, okay, so let's finish it right now, just two dates at 15. I had my will set. in learning the Z at 30 I held firm the power at 40 I had no doubts at 50 I knew the decree of heaven my Ming my destiny at 70 I could follow what my heart desired without transgressing what was right.

I think that's just a wonderful description of a life well lived and unfortunately most of us get stuck somewhere at the top, if we're lucky most of us are guided like 15 practicing law. our will, no matter what, it's okay, although life keeps pushing us back and I'm going to finish with this one and I almost finished this one on the first slide, but I think you'll appreciate it a little more now. I think this just captures the extraordinary energy. of Taoist philosophy and Taoist medicine is encouraging. If I could go back many years and talk to my theology teacher at that school, I would quote this to him and then follow up with a two-hour lecture on the topic we are simply a part of. of a larger energy system that we call the universe and that we are part of that universe and when we try to separate ourselves from it, both we and the environment in which we live are put in imbalance and we begin to suffer and we live for the Sun. and we feel for the moon.

We move through the stars and we live in all things and all things live in us and we eat from the earth and we drink from the rain and we breathe from the air and we live in all things and in all things it lives in us, I think it is a wonderful description of Taoist philosophy and its relationship to life and about the nature of medicine, which is an ecological medicine, it is a growing medicine, it is always changing and adapts to the needs of any culture and I am really excited to that it is finding roots in this country in this consciousness because it is not only we, as a species, who need this way of relating to our planet.

We desperately need this, if not to get rid of us, we should eat the sun and breathe the moon. Well thank you very much. This is a very quick summary. Thank you for your patience.