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The Narrow Frame of Modern Athletics - 14 Aug 2008
The Beijing Olympics are in full swing, and Michael Phelps is getting a lot of hype as the greatest Olympian ever, i.e. having won the most career gold medals, as well as shattering a lot of world records for speed. Seeing the attention paid to Olympic sports and herculean athletic feats, and to Tiger [...]
Read Full Post »Body Beyond Civilization, Part 1: The Modern Body - 07 Jul 2008
Welcome to our new contributing author, Pathfinder. See a short bio of Pathfinder on the About page.
Being a modern alternative medicine practitioner in modern day America, one of the biggest challenges you face is that ultimately what is at the root of what is wrong with almost all of your patients is that they [...]
Cultivating Energy - 27 Apr 2008
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 [...]
High Goals - 21 Apr 2008
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 [...]
Read Full Post »Anarcho-Herbalism - 26 Mar 2008
This essay has been floating around for awhile, but it seems very apropos to this blog so I think it’s appropriate to repost it here.
This is Anarcho-Herbalism
Thoughts On Health and Healing For the Revolution
by Laurel Luddite (used by permission of the author)
My medicine chest is a council of bioregions, with representatives gathered together as I [...]
Health vs. Fitness - 23 Mar 2008
I recently saw a patient who was so healthy he was almost intimidating. He was young, tall, handsome, and athletic. He literally had no complaints; said he woke up every morning feeling great, could run a mile without being winded, took about 2-3 breaths per minute, could do everything he wanted to do. [...]
Read Full Post »Transcending the Paradigm - 14 Mar 2008
We live immersed in an invisible environment of ideas, concepts, and beliefs that limit and shape the way we think, feel, and act about ourselves and each other. Though unseen, they shape and guide and limit us on the deepest level. But because they reach so deep, we think they describe reality itself, [...]
Read Full Post »The Best Help is Self-Help - 16 Feb 2008
The challenge of achieving and maintaining a truly healthy state of being requires us to develop a far more personal relationship with ourselves. I always maintain that the best help is self-help, simply because no one knows you better than yourself, and moreover, no one can act for you and take the responsibility for [...]
Read Full Post »What is Health? - 15 Feb 2008
As you can tell, this blog is about “health beyond civilization.” One of its premises is that modern industrial civilization will end — whether with a bang or a whimper, I don’t know. That point is well-argued elsewhere, and those topics won’t be covered here.
But one thing that must be discussed before we [...]