Apr 27th, 2008 by David in Mind and Psyche, Philosophy, Practices
The Chinese, among others, have developed a philosophical framework to understand health based on the notion of qi, or vital energy. It can constitute a very useful set of metaphors to use in organizing the cultivation of one’s own health.
According to the Chinese, the three most basic types of energy related to physiology, termed [...]
Apr 21st, 2008 by David in Philosophy, Practices
Having established a certain degree of grounding in our experience of our own health, it’s worth it to start exploring goals.
I’d like to set the bar sky-high by looking at a few accounts of, for lack of a better term, superhuman feats.
Ernest Thompson Seton, in Gospel of the Redman, wrote,
The most famous runner of ancient [...]
Apr 7th, 2008 by David in The Future of Medicine
From SurvivalBlog, here are a few letters discussing emergency medical care in a post-civilized environment, with a lot of good ideas. They tend to have more of a doomsday and militant perspective over there than I feel familiar or comfortable with, but who’s to say that’s not warranted in a post-civilized situation.
The original letter:
I [...]
The importance of rooting in the body can’t be understated. All of the methods I’ve described to establish a baseline of body and health awareness are not only to gather data, but to acquaint one’s own consciousness with the lived experience of inhabiting and using a body and being a physically alive being in [...]