TCM acu

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Attilio,

Graduate schools are always about learning a common language. That

means that should I hire you in the future you and I will have some

common mastery and familiarity with the subject. It sounds like you

have graduated and now feel " so what did I learn? " You could have gone

to a Japanese acupuncture school which may have been more satisfactory.

But even then I think you would face the same lifetime of learning. As

Z'ev says, TCM acupuncture may be lacking, for historical reasons. But

it allows you a springboard into a million avenues of exploration. And

when you come back to me with what you found I'll have something to

relate to because we both studied TCM.

When I hear students complain about CAM, the American entry text, I

tell them that in each sentence is a lifetime of study. So if you look

at TCM as the beginning, and if you are smart guy I think you may be,

then CM will just get more and more interesting. It's taken me a decade

of practice to even scratch the depth of TCM. My American teachers

would often talk about graduating and running from style to another

only to come back to TCM after some time or when they face a difficult

case. For those who find something better, all power to them.

I gotta say that if someone thinks that TCM is " ineffectual " hasn't

seen the forest for the trees. And by the way, each semester I train a

few shamans and a few doctors and the best are both, often without them

knowing it.

 

 

Shaman definition: Part priest, part sorcerer, magician and seer,

healer, prophet, male or female, shamans can enter into a state of

trance, travel beneath the sea or among the stars to the northern

lights, transform themselves into wolves, seals or monsters, call upon

benevolent spirits and fight to the death against malevolent ones,

exercise justice, heal the body and save the soul, condemn, forgive,

take or give life. Mediums, sages and sorcerers, they act as

intermediaries between the world of the living and the supernatural

world of shadows and spirits.

 

doug

 

 

 

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> " Mercurius Trismegistus " <magisterium_magnum

> Re: Acupuncture schools

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> Like Sharon said, I think TCM is important to learn and is probably the

> only form of the medicine that could be standardized like it has been.

> It is a good place to start and perhaps a good way for NCCAOM to make

> tests that determine a minimal level of competency. But I want to

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> more about moving Qi, about finding the points the way the ancients did

> not by just anatomical location. I want to be a conduit of a living

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> vital medicine, not someone that just sticks needles in patients based

> on a cookbook style protocol. Christopher Vedeler L.Ac., C.Ht.

> Oasis Acupuncture http://www.oasisacupuncture.com

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> MM: hello, i am in wisconsin and i want to study acupuncture and

> oriental medicine. recently, some people have written me privately

> and told me about the different standards for training. i am

> interested in going to the best schools possible. is it true that

> california standards are the highest? also, are there any schools in

> the midwest where i could be educated with these higher standards? i

> would like to learn more on this issue. i guess im looking at going

> down to chicago now.

> thanks.

> mercurius trismegistus

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