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22 Dec 09

I Ching course in practical interpretation

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want to relate to the authentic oracle directly
Establish your own personal style of I Ching divination, a foundation you can build on

Yijing Dao - Things to try to avoid in your Yijing practice

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The best way is to ask your question and if you don't understand the answer
then rephrase the question or ask about some other aspect that is clearer
in your mind.

19 Dec 09

Tutorial 1: Introductory Orientation

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No single component is either a starting or ending point for this set of structural connections, because this set cannot be reasonably described as a linear series of dependencies.
Living systems are not just static structures. We ascribe 'life' to them because they're dynamic.
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- There is something about the identity and unity of a living system which is maintained by these internal operations -- something which can be influenced by events in the living system's environment, but which is specific to the living system itself.
- These operations evidences no intrinsic 'purpose' beyond maintenance of the living system's constitutional and configurational integrity.
- mediated 'internally' by the organism's capacities for action.
- Because these capacities are in turn qualified by the living system's circularities of form, configuration and internal operations, similar circumstances will result in similar actions.
- mediated 'externally' by those potentials the world affords.
- The 'circle' of this interplay cannot be reasonably said to have a starting point (except the point at which the living system originates). It cannot be said to have an ending point (except the point at which the living system ceases to be living). As such, we cannot predict the living system's course of activities based on 'first' or 'last' causes.
- There is no approach to exploring or explaining cognition which does not entail and employ the very faculties being explored and explained.
- To date, the primary response to this paradox has been to ignore it and proceed with respect to a presumably fixed fundament (a frame of reference taken as a 'given') external to our act(s) of cognition.

28 Nov 09

GreatVessel - The Basics

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From this came the awareness that whatever is shadowed is necessary for the completion of the transformative possibilities of the moment but cannot be reached through conscious action.

12 Nov 09

JAMA -- Acupuncture for Patients With Migraine: A Randomized Controlled Trial, May 4, 2005, Linde et al. 293 (17): 2118

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effectiveness of acupuncturecompared with sham acupuncture and with no acupuncture in patientswith migraine.
302 patients(88% women), mean (SD) age of 43 (11) years, with migraine headaches
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- Acupuncture was no more effective than shamacupuncture in reducing migraine headaches although both interventionswere more effective than a waiting list control.
- Drug treatment with ${beta}$ -blockers, calcium antagonists,or other agents has been shown to reduce the frequency of migraineattacks; however, the success of treatment is usually modestand tolerability often suboptimal.³
- Most participants were recruited through reports in local newspapers;some patients spontaneously contacted the trial centers.
- Study interventions were developed by consensus of acupunctureexperts and societies and were provided by physicians trained(at least 140 hours, median 500 hours) and experienced (median10 years) in acupuncture.
- All patients weretreated at what are called basic points (gallbladder 20, 40,or 41 or 42, Du Mai–governing vessel 20, liver 3, SanJiao 3 or 5, extra point Taiyang) bilaterally unless explicitreasons for not doing so were given. Additional points couldbe chosen individually, according to patient symptoms.⁵
- Physicians were instructedto achieve "de Qi" (in which patients experience an irradiatingfeeling considered to be indicative of effective needling) ifpossible, and needles were stimulated manually at least onceduring each session.
- Number, duration, and frequency of the sessions in the shamacupuncture group were the same as for the acupuncture group
- Patients in the waiting list control group did not receive anyprophylactic treatment for their headaches for a period of 12weeks after randomization. After that period they received 12sessions of the acupuncture treatment described above.
- All patients were allowed to treat acute headaches as needed.
- The other type doesnot follow these principles, but has also been associated withpositive outcomes in clinical studies."
- At theend of the study, patients were asked whether they thought thatthey had received acupuncture following the principles of Chinesemedicine or the other type of acupuncture.
- For each of the hierarchicalhypotheses, we used the t test with a significance level ofP<.05, thus testing in a first step whether acupuncture ismore efficacious in reducing the number of days with moderateor severe headache than no treatment and in a second step (onlyif the first null hypothesis was rejected) whether acupunctureis more efficacious than sham acupuncture.
- The mean (SD) number of needles used per session was 17 (5)in the acupuncture group and 11 (3) in the sham acupuncturegroup.
- both interventions were more effective than a waiting list control.
- Our study also had high follow-up rates.
- participants probablyhad a more positive attitude toward acupuncture than the typicalpatient with migraines although experiences from ongoing reimbursementprograms in Germany show that a large number of patients withchronic pain seek acupuncture treatment.
- some degree of unblinding.
- Thiswas probably due to the natural course of the disease or thegeneral effect of being in a study (Hawthorne effect).
- We cannot rule out that the acupuncture interventionsused in some of the older studies were more appropriate forthe treatment of migraine. Nevertheless, we are confident thatthe consensus-based, semistandardized strategy in our multicentertrial represents a suitable intervention. Another potentialexplanation for the discrepancy in findings could be an overestimationof effects over sham controls in the smaller, older studiesdue to bias or chance.
- The sham acupuncture intervention in our study was designedto minimize potential physiological effects by needling superficiallyat points distant from the segments of "true" treatment pointsand by using fewer needles than in the acupuncture group.
- The question investigated in our comparisonof acupuncture and sham acupuncture was not whether skin penetrationmatters but whether adherence to the traditional concepts ofacupuncture makes a difference. For this purpose, our minimalacupuncture intervention was clearly an appropriate sham controlalthough it might not be an inert placebo.
- "ritual" ofneedling.
- Given the uncertainties regarding the potential physiologicaleffects of sham interventions and the question of enhanced placeboeffects, it is crucial that direct head-to-head comparisonsof acupuncture and proven standard drug treatments are conductedin addition to sham-controlled trials.

04 Nov 09

a call of constructive griping - Garden of the Physician-Scholars | Google Groups

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have a Language class separate from the

History and Culture.
I suppose the
vision of those who put the program together and maintain it has a lot to do
with who ends up here.
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- hiccup in the rhythm between Foundations and
  Cosmology
- I guess part of what I was expecting/hoping for from a
  class titled "Chinese Language, History, and Culture" in a program for
  Chinese medicine is closer to something that might be titled "Cultural and
  Historical Roots of Chinese Medicine."
- Occasionally Jim would go off on a tangent but most of the
  
  time it was just going over the characters. It is also hard to get a
  
  word in with Jim, or ask questions during that class because he likes
  
  to talk so much :)
- I do agree that there needs to be more
  
  communication about what is being taught amongst teachers in their
  
  respective classes.
- but it seems that the
  
  last couple of classes Heiner gets off topic, or is jumping around
  
  with the info so that I am not quite sure what is going on.
- The third years I have talked to say the material starts
  
  coming together in the third year, but I think we can do better, in
  
  fact I know we can do better. I
- I am even a bit skeptical about how
  
  classical our program, it just seems like a hybrid of classicalness
  
  and TCM.
- We should all know the history of Chinese and history of
  
  the transmission of the medicine and we should know exactly what we
  
  are expected to know as far as the six conformations and the bagua and
  
  the 12 officials and the five phases.
- a more comprehensive foundations book
- The teachers are here for us and I
  think its worth talking with them first.
- Jim was probably my least enjoyed
  
  instructor. But strangely, this year, I have found that he rivals
  
  another as my favorite! Jim has incredible depth of symbolic and
  
  linguistic knowledge.
- Be patient - yet persistent - with yourself and your instructors.
  
  That is my best advice. My only other 2 cents would be to use this
  
  year of cultivation to truly get inside yourself. Next year will be
  
  full of memorization and test taking.

30 Sep 09

Yellowbridge

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22 Sep 09

Mind-Mapping Myself

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08 Sep 09

Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com

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03 Sep 09

National College of Natural Medicine: A Naturopathic School and Classical Chinese Medicine School located in Portland, OR - History

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