Grain element/Primordial Soup

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> Al Stone <alstone

> Okay, so we have a basis for the concept of six elements, but what of

> this " primordial water " that was mentioned earlier?

> -al.

 

Al, in Jin Shin Jyutsu the 6th element is called 'primal fire'. The term

Primordial

Sea comes from me as my understanding it.

As many people understand the element for SJ/Pc to be a fire-water mix, Primal

fire

and primordial sea have the same meaning. It's that Primordial Sea pinpoints it

to

the quiet power that existed in the primordial soup. When the conditions were

just

right, life was able to appear. That magical moment which happened in the

primordial

soup has the expression of creation which is related to fire. So the terms

Primordial Sea and Primal Fire both refer to the act of creation within the

primordial soup.

In the primordial soup, all things were in balance; temperature, chemicals,

ions.

Outside of that perfect balance was chaos. Chaos would destroy life.

So since that moment, life has had to figure out how to keep that perfect

balance of

the primordial soup within our bodies. Otherwise when we venture out into the

chaos,

we would be destroyed. The body's way of carrying around the primordial soup

within

us, is by maintaining homeostasis within the interstitial fluids of the body.

This

fluids are primarily controlled by the hypothalamus. These interstitial fluids

are

primordial soup.

San Jiao and the divergent of Pc both flow to the hypothalamus. This is another

connection between SJ/Pc, the 6th element and homeostasis.

Ultimately, the main function of the 6th element is to sustain the original

power

which existed in the magical primordial soup and insure that it exists within

us.

The chaos around us seeks to disrupt it.

SJ's important function is to transport yuan qi throughout the body. This is the

same idea as transporting the magic within the original primordial soup that

created

life.

Ed Lambert

Traditional Chinese Medical College of Hawaii

http://www.ilhawaii.net/~chinese/