It’s great to hear that you are well and truly on the road back to health.

When you find out I’d love to hear what the future holds for you. One the healing is over the adventure begins.

Wishing you joy and love in the journey and hoping to hear more from you. Evan

Last year at this time my body was shutting down with allergies and metabolic problems, and every month I was getting worse instead of better. I really was dying. I found a great acupuncturist, and over the course of the past year we’ve resurrected my left hand pulses. I’m still relatively weak in some ways, but things are constantly improving rather than deteriorating – I can be with other people, eat things I couldn’t for years, even take a course! It’s very exciting, and I’m wondering what the future holds for the first time in a long time.

Thanks for your reply. I think I understand where you’re coming from. I absolutely agree that the way that education is delivered in most colleges is terrible. My program is trying desperately to move away from that model, but still has the institutional shackles in place in some areas of the curriculum. I have a 10 year old daughter, and have done a lot of reading and studying on educational models so I absolutely agree with your assertions.

My only concern would be to make sure rigor in studying the Classics and allowing the time to help people deepen their personal cultivation remain an integral part of any curriculum. Also, while I think that some of the basic theory in Chinese medicine is certainly easy to assimilate because it comes from basic human experience, some of the higher level theories are a little more difficult to get a grasp of. Maybe what I’m trying to get at is while the basics of our medicine are ultimately simple, true mastery of the ins and outs of the medicine take a lot of time, concentration and ultimately hard work.

I do think that it makes some sense to let the first level of the education be basic, just making people competent – I do think that the educational institutions should be responsible for giving people the tools to be not just practiitoners, but scholars. If they want to pick up those tools, fine. If not, fine.

Thanks, again, for your post.

Eric

Thanks. I hope you’re enjoying massage. I find it great to deliver – it can help me feel better as well as the client.

If you’d be happy to say I’d like to hear more about how acupuncture saved your life.

Thanks for taking the time to comment. It helps keep me motivated to post.

Evan