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Hi Chris and all,

When you goto www.itmonline.org,

click on " START group Index "

 

http://www.itmonline.org/arts/startindex.htm

 

The article is found under : General Subjects Category:

 

Demon-caused Disorders:

 

Disorders Caused by Demons (16p)

 

Many of the articles are available freely for all to read (blue letters/

underlined).

This particular one requires an ITM membership..

 

Please contact ITM (bottom of this message) for availability.

 

Introduction

 

The START Group is a membership organization of the Institute for

Traditional Medicine and Preventive Health Care (ITM). Members receive an

extensive literature on traditional medicine in mailings sent three times

per year; there have been 38 mailings thus far. This index includes articles

of current interest (some items previously mailed to members have been

deleted because they have become out of date) produced from April 1994

through January 2005 (to complete the 2004 membership year).

About the Authors

 

Most of the START Group articles were written by Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D.

Dr. Dharmananda received his doctorate in Biology from the University of

California, and is Director of the Institute for Traditional Medicine. A few

articles were authored or co-authored by Heiner Fruehauf, Ph.D., L.Ac.; he

received his Ph.D. in Germany for studies in classical Chinese, and obtained

his acupuncture license in Oregon following extensive studies in China. He

is the author of the ITM books Treatment of Difficult and Recalcitrant

Diseases with Chinese Herbs and The Five Organ Networks of .

In the following index, unless mentioned otherwise, the articles are by

Subhuti Dharmananda.

Subhuti Dharmananda can be contacted at

E-Mail: general questions or comments itm

E-Mail: the director, Subhuti Dharmananda at subhuti

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I've found the itmonline site to be immensely provactive. Hope this helps.

k.

 

On 2/14/07, < wrote:

>

> 1) John:

> >> One article can be found at www.itmonline.org

> (not free-access), called " Disorders caused by demons (16 pgs).

>

> Attilio:

> >>The article 'Disorders Caused by Demons' was

> actually written by Subhuti Dharamananda. Just in

> case anyone is trying to find it.

>

> I looked through that site, found only a book (10

> chapters) on Shen. What do you mean by " not free

> access " ? By subscription, or just hidden?

>

> 2) Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:45:07 0000, " "

<<%40eircom.net>>

> wrote:

> > gui2 / ghost, devil, demon

> Wenlin has no entry for Gui2.

> Wenlin and WIseman have ¹í as Gui3 (not Gui2).

>

> My error. Gui3. Also, yao4 (goblin, sorcerer) should be yao1.

> BTW What is Wenlin? a dictionary?

>

> 3) Apropos dictionaries, I picked up one a while

> ago (used from Amazon) " Mathews' Chinese-English

> Dictionary " , by R. H. Matthews, originally 1931,

> revised (19th) " American " edition, 2000, from

> Harvard Univ. Press. Looked through it briefly,

> at first put-off by non-pinyin spellings (you've

> got to know, e.g. to look not under " gu " , but " ku " .).

>

> Looked back into it yesterday and was more

> impressed. It has 7773 entries, numbered. Uses,

> of course (1931), traditional characters. I

> compared all the characters derived from radical

> gui3 with those in my (official) pinyin

> dictionary, and sketched the characters (using

> the Microsoft utility " Paint " and the mouse as

> pen) their somewhat rough, but probably

> recognizable. (My characters look much better drawn with a pen or brush.)

>

> BTW, does anyone know how to get real Chinese

> characters into MSWord text documents? (Short of

> buying expensive software.) Any " freeware "

> systems for this? My system (Windows 2000+all

> updates), does show Chinese in the browser (Mozilla).

>

> Since graphics (.bmp or .jpg) get factored-out as

> attachments, and these don't get through to

> groups, I've imported a MSWord file

> (gui_characters.doc) into the site, under " Files " .

>

> The comparison shows that there's a commonality

> of terms and general meanings, across the gap

> between republican China through the eyes of a

> scholarly (Christian) missionary (Matthews), the

> rabidly anti-religious CCP (my pinyin dictionary

> was published, in effect, by the PRC government).

> The commonality resembles that between Jeffery

> Yuen's information, that of 's teacher,

> and (I suspect, not having read it in detail)

> Lonny Jarret's / Worsley's ideas.

>

> But it also demonstrates that the Chinese

> language, and its dictionaries are in a state of

> flux and diversity / plurality / disagreement, as

> are their philosophies, religions and medicine.

> (In the web citation I furnished earlier titled

> " Chinese Etymology " one can see the mind-boggling

> diversity in present-day Chinese language

> dialects.) I can well imagine the sense of

> urgency of motivation for the government their to

> attempt to " standardize " things, to appear

> credible to the West as well as maintain, even

> tighten control over their society. (As also in

> the " UN " issues with Chinese language I suspect

> the CCP is at the root of that effort.) I'd say,

> however, their chances of achieving

> standardization on their terms, and in a manner

> that will stick historically, as extremely

> remote. Look at any comprehensive history of

> Chinese culture e.g. Unschuld's …A History of

> Ideas, or the book Mike Bowser recently

> mentioned, Fire over Heaven by Roy Collins, or

> The Mountain of Fame. What possible reason is

> there to believe that the pattern of continuous

> political, ideological, social change marking

> that history is about to be changed?

>

>

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