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The Perennial Medicine
A transcript of the Perennial Medicine audio CD.
This is the essential statement of my perspective on healing and the healing traditions.
Medicine reflects the cosmology of the culture out of which it arises. In this CD, PERENNIAL MEDICINE, Thea Elijah elucidates and compares two broad categories of medicine. These categories are what she calls Perennial Medicine and Annual Medicine. Chinese medicine is a form of Perennial Medicine and Western allopathic medicine is a form of Annual Medicine.
Both Perennial Medicine and Annual Medicine must answer the questions: what is the highest good?; what is the causative power or agency for change?; what is the meaning of life and why are we here?; what happens after this life? Each system of medicine answers these questions very differently.
Practitioners of Chinese medicine who were raised in the culture of Western allopathic medicine need to understand the differences between the paradigm of the medical system in which we were raised and the paradigm of the medical system that we have chosen to practice. This CD, PERENNIAL MEDICINE, elegantly makes these distinctions clear and thereby empowers and encourages us to develop ourselves as practitioners of the resonance medicine that is Chinese medicine.
Finding a Sense of Belonging
A speech about Individuality and community and the skills of Belonging;
keynote address Building Bridges 2007.
Flip a Coin Final
OCOM graduation address
5 Element Treatment Protocols & CF, Withins, and CSOE
A description of standard 5 E protocols, without JR’s stamp of approval. Includes an explanation of 5 Element terminology, and how it combines with diagnosis and treatment.
Wood Pattern Trans
Excess patterns in Wood.
Thoughts about points and needling
The Whole Heart Acupuncture perspective on acupuncture points and needling.
Gall Bladder Points on the Head and other point commentaries
An in-depth look at the functions of the Gall bladder points on the head.
Earth First – Taking Raw Herbs
An exploration of the issue of non-compliance or “resistance” in clients