Clarity,
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London.
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As a licensed practitioner of Chinese Medicine, I found the book to be accurate in Chinese terms, but far too limited and superficial. The language of Chinese Medicine is used here, and will be difficult for a layperson to understand unless they have done a fair bit of reading on the subject prior. The translation of Chinese Medical conditions into Western terms invariably proves inaccurate. The book is great idea from someone who I'm certain understands the topic, but somehow it doesn't really succeed.
it turned out to be very confusing in technics, and awful depressive in explanation
and connecting them in some inexplicable way with the lines of hexagrams.
I liked it. But in practice only thing I still consider from there is that "returning spirit" can show a patient will die, while "wondering spirit" can show them falling in coma. The rest... There are parts of WWG(returning and wondering spirit for example, even though everyone can use them as "types of hexagrams" to actually understand them we need knowledge of the Palaces in WWG). But it isn't WWG really as he isn't actually using the lines, while if we want to use the text with the lines there are also translations that I like more.
So can't recommend the whole book, but parts of it are interesting.
HI Gmulii,
Intersting concepts "returining spirit" and "wandering spirit" , but not used in any form of Chinese Medicine that has been evaluated to work.
From what I remember the author was practicing medicine in a hospital in China and was making Hexagrams for each patient and case. I think we had the info in the Five Arts forums somewhere...
So it more then covers the evaluation I would need to be interested in a material.
But that is me. Now, what you believe in is entirely your business and I don't really care much about that. : )
But I nitice that you dont actually respond the the specific points that I make.
Jukkodave said"But I notice that you dont actually respond the the specific points that I make."
And as I already said, if you want response on a specific point feel free to formulate it in one short sentence and response may come.
I'm not digging into that much text to find out what exactly you expected response on...
is hardly involving yourself in a dscussion
Imagine you are standing on a hill and in the distance you see an endless army, all angry and mean, kicking trees and eating raw parts of other trees.
And as soon as they charge towards you yelling like crazy, you see somewhat bored looking person that yells in your ear, through the battle cries of the incoming horde - "now, fight these guys and if you win I will start to brush my teeth every day".
Now, if it was me, while there may be a few seconds confusion, actually deciding if I should yell at him that he should be brushing his teeth anyway, at the end of it I would just gather my stuff and run in the opposite direction quietly as fast as I can.
And in that time if the person yells after me "Why aren't you staying, don't you care about my teeth?!", I will just keep running without looking back...
Now, that may give the impression I think brushing our teeth often, is not good or I lack information to prove it is. But it isn't the case. To be fair information can probably be found easy enough, however that isn't the issue.
I do believe brushing our teeth often is a good thing, but the question is how much effort I'm willing to spend in convincing someone in that. And the answer(as we can see) is not much.
So on the specific topic... I don't respond to most of what is brought up not because of lack of information, but because what you believe is "rational and coherent" doesn't change much for me or most people on the Earth... I know this systems work since I've been using them for years and have been in environment where people have been using them for most of their life.
in that way there isn't anything for me in this conversation really. I know what I know, I don't care much if you believe in them or not, as you aren't practicing them anyway, so its not like that will change anything... Making the whole thing not worth much effort.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).