I will be a guest on my friend Michael Gaeta’s radio show tomorrow. Here are the details:
Topic: What is the Context of Healing in the 21st Century?
Michael Gaeta, : Radio Show “What We Need to Know” on Contact Talk Radio.
Time: 11am – noon Pacific Time, 2-3pm Eastern Time.
Listen live online at www.contacttalkradio.com.
Heard in Seattle on 106.9 HD Channel 3.
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Guest: Lonny Jarrett, , www.spiritpathpress.com
http://www.loveandrevolution.com
Thank you so much! Love & Revolution, Lonny
Hi Folks,
My new article on the “Future of Chinese Medicine” just came out in the California Journal of Oriental Medicine. The premise is that in any truly holistic or integral medicine the patient should move from a relatively divided state to ever increasing states of wholeness and Integrity. And, that it’s our integrity as practitioners that gives us access to these higher potentials in the medicine beyond just technique and theory.
You can find the article here: http://nourishingdestiny.com/articles/581
Straight Ahead!-Lonny
Given the importance of listening that we are so well aware of in the context of creating a culture that values the inter-subjective I thought I’d publish a few writings here on the virtue of listening.
Don’t listen with your ears, listen with your mind.
No, don’t listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit.
Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops
with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all
things. The way gathers in emptiness alone.
Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.– Zhuangzi
In Chinese The character ting
( 聽: listen) is etymologically related to the characters, both pronounced
de, which refer to the rectitude of the heart (德 ) and original nature
( 德 )). The character ting (listen) is composed of the character that
stands for the rectitude of the heart (悳 ) combined with that for the ear
(耳 ) of the disciple who is listening attentively. The overall sense
imparted by this character is that, through attentive listening, one’s
heart may be rectified. From the imagery of the character ting, we
might define the ability to “listen” as the ability to hear our heart and
the hearts of others without deviation. We who are “listening” in this
way are able to know the nature of things immediately in our heart,
directly bypassing the analytic faculties of our mind. Therefore, the
capacity of listening may be said to empower intuition. The character
gong (宮 ) designates the imperial private residence from the Qin
dynasty. This allusion to the emperor places further emphasis on the
relationship between “listening” and the heart official as emperor in
one’s inner kingdom.
The Chinese alchemical text “Secret of the Golden Flower” (Tai Yi Jin
Hua Zong Zhi, eighteenth century) describes the role of listening in aiding
the heart’s spirit to penetrate into the interior (depths of self). It
paraphrases a legendary text, the Danshu (Book of the Elixir), and states:
The hen can hatch her eggs because the heart is always listening. The
hen can hatch her eggs because of the energy of heat. But the energy
of the heat can only warm the shells; it cannot penetrate into the interior.
Therefore she conducts this energy inward with her heart. This
she does with her hearing. In this way she concentrates her whole
heart. When the heart penetrates, the energy penetrates, and the chick
receives the energy of the heat and begins to live. Therefore a hen, even
at times when she leaves her eggs, always has the attitude of listening
with bent ear. Thus the concentration of the spirit is not interrupted.
Hi Folks, Here is a link to a new documentary on Chinese medicine that I’m in. You can view the trailer and see me talk briefly about Chinese medicine in an evolutionary context. Regards, Lonny Jarrett
In my field, Chinese Medicine people tend to very,very proud of lineage and put a fantastic amount of emphasis on history. This to the point many are convinced that the answers to how to practice medicine now are to be found in the past. How a culture defines Enlightenment sets the gold standard that all diagnostic information must be compared to in assessing “health” -If one is practicing an integral and spirit oriented tradition of medicine. But there is great resistance to the notion that something has changed in regards to enlightenment that has transcended the traditions. After all, Enlightenment has always been the end of becoming.
Consider this:
If I were to say Judiasm is THE way! OR, Buddhism is THE way! Or Daoism is THE way! Most people at the level of development of a holistic practitioner could not relate and some would take offense.
WHY?
Because we are all at, or moving beyond, a pluralistic stage of development where we are able to hold many perspectives simultaneously. We take this capacity for granted. “There is no one right way”.
But if I were to say, “None of the traditions are THE way, they each bring something to the table, but we have evolved to a point of synthesis that goes beyond any of them.” Then people also get upset and take offense.
I think that is worth pondering a while…………
It’s offensive to say that any one tradition could be THE way and it’s also offensive to say that now none of them are……
Isn’t this interesting? Why would this cause people to get upset?
Because we are rooted in a form of pluralistic consciousness that embraces many perspectives and, in the light of the holocaust, is weary of any absolute. Because we are conditioned to see everything as relative. And yet the realization of the absolute, the center of the circle was the sinqua non of enlightenment…….prior to pluralism. Then enlightenment became “all truth is relative, judge nothing”. Yet it seems that we have gone as far into individuation and relativism and pluralism as is possible. This to the point that the most fortunate who have ever lived are suffocating in their own heads. Why is it that the most educated, well fed, and free people to have ever lived are taking all the nutritional supplements, prozac, and psychotherapy? The answer is the same that it’s always been-alienation from the True self. In an evolutionary context that self has evolved in a way that is now must contextualized in an Evolutionarily Enlightened perspective. And that perspective is the foundation of a new medicine.
It seems to me that the fundamental insight that Evolutionary Enlightenment has to offer, is that the core efficacy of holistic and integral medicine is the integrity of the practitioner’s own self structure. All knowledge and technique can only serve this. It is our responsibility, once we have held ourselves out to be “healers”, to become the kind of people in whose presence patient’s lose their cynicism regarding the possibility of becoming more whole. It’s in this recognition and attainment that I believe the potential of holistic and integral medicine is realized.
The traditional goal of our medicine has been to “harmonize” patients with the weather, or circumstances, around them. In an evolutionary and integral context the goal of medicine has shifted, at it’s leading edge, to awakening within patients that force of change and ascension that is at the very root and heart of the life impulse itself. That force that drives all matter forward toward increased simplicity and integrity. Such a human is no longer unconsciously molded by external circumstances but becomes, instead, a creative agent who inspires culture toward ever higher stages of development and integration.
In this article I discuss the implications of free will and intention within the context of medicine. This article is abstracted from my current book in progress on integral and evolutionary medicine. Please click on the link below to download the file.
http://enlightennext-sn.s3.amazonaws.com/lonny/files/2010/10/AwakeningOfChoice.pdf
Hello Folks, I’ve started this blog to go with the new group I’ve started here titled “Evolution, Enlightenment, & Medicine” where we can discuss issues of Evolutionary Enlightenment as they pertain to the healing professions. I thought I’d begin with a quote from Liu Yi Ming who wrote in 1810 with the intention of decoding the Daoist enlightenment teachings. His work summarizes and synthesizes the previous 2000 years of spiritual endeavor regarding physiology and spiritual attainment and anticipates in some ways the emergence of evolutionary theory some 50 years later. I love his work and hope you will too!
People of great wisdom reverse the operation of the natural process;
they are not bound by the natural process, not molded by yin and
yang, not compelled by myriad things, not changed by myriad conditions.
Planting lotuses in a fire, hauling a boat through mud and
water, they make temporary use of things of the world to practice the
principles of [dao], by the human [dao], completing the celestial
[dao]. They uproot the mundane senses conditioned by history and
sweep away all acquired influences. They rule their own destinies and
are not ruled by fate. Restoring the whole, original being, they avoid
compulsive routine, transcend all worlds, and become incorruptible.-Liu Yi Ming (Circa, 1810)
