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Why does the HTIA require one to read Lonny Jarrett’s $100 book “Nourishing Destiny” to be a full instructor? Isnt this an accupuncture/herb book? Not qigong?
The Author discusses the inner daoist cosmology of the three heavens, and the consciousness of the five shen, as well as ideas of destiny and souls. He gives a good overall view of the inner cosmology.
All what singing ocean said, plus..
j> ..to be a full instructor? Isnt this an accupuncture/herb book? Not qigong? >
Qigong and TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) are interwoven. TCM theory gives a more detailed practical view of what can go wrong (and, somewhat less so, what can go right), what not to do, and how to intelligently assess a situation and come up with a sensible remedy. To instruct qi gong to others, who will present a wide range of energetic patterns, its just responsible to have some knowledge of TCM. imho.
Nourishing Destiny was added at my insistence.
Lonny Jarrett is not from the TCM tradition, invented 50 years ago by Maoists, but from the Worsley Five Elements School of oriental medicine. Worsley is an Englishman.
Worsley took an aspect of Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) and amplified the importance of the five phases, including the shen aspect – which had been effectively removed from TCM. Shen was too vague, too unscientific, too spiritual for the New Scientific Man the Maoists were re-inventing.
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