Religion, Esoterica and Values - Back (almost) to the original issue - Correction

[Guest guest]

My original post's formatting got screwed up in transmission. Sorry, here it

is again:

Lonny Jarrett: " The issue here isn't whether or not you make judgments

because you do

and one cannot live, or practice CM without doing so. The only issue

is how subtle, refined, and conscious are the judgments being made? "

The original issue some days ago concerned a handful of practitioners

criticizing T/C/T-style acupuncture and incorrectly stating that it is only

useful for superficial pain relief and does not address deeper problems.

This then somehow evolved into a critique of the moral values of T/C/T

practitioners and then morphed further into a discussion about the apparent

superiority of - and necessity of utilizing - the personal values and

judgments associated with, and demonstrated by, adherents of the Spiral

Dynamics theory (google: proselytizing). Now based on an admittedly cursory

examination of SD, it appears to me to be a post-modern updating of

Nietzsche's übermensch concept (a goal humanity can set for itself - all

human life is given meaning by how it advances a new generation of humans)

crossed with the Homeland Security Threat Advisory system. This theory may

be of use to marketers and business managers but it doesn't strike me

personally as very profound or as anything I especially need in order to

treat patients - but if it works for others, that's terrific and more power

to them.

 

But back to my question of last week: I'm not saying that we shouldn't

examine, discuss or argue about aspects of our profession, or that we all

just need to get along, but how does judging the values, judgment and morals

of practitioners utilizing a classic acupuncture modality in any way further

anything or help our profession evolve? Is an argument/discussion along

these lines not better suited to a different type of forum? Thoughts?

Take care -

 

Kim

 

Om Namah Shivaya

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

mmh. go., how; cksa

 

--- On Thu, 2/12/09, Kim Blankenship <kuangguiyu wrote:

Kim Blankenship <kuangguiyu

Re: Religion, Esoterica and Values - Back (almost) to the

original issue - Correction

Chinese Medicine

Thursday, February 12, 2009, 7:48 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My original post's formatting got screwed up in transmission. Sorry,

here it

 

is again:

 

Lonny Jarrett: " The issue here isn't whether or not you make judgments

 

because you do

 

and one cannot live, or practice CM without doing so. The only issue

 

is how subtle, refined, and conscious are the judgments being made? "

 

The original issue some days ago concerned a handful of practitioners

 

criticizing T/C/T-style acupuncture and incorrectly stating that it is only

 

useful for superficial pain relief and does not address deeper problems.

 

This then somehow evolved into a critique of the moral values of T/C/T

 

practitioners and then morphed further into a discussion about the apparent

 

superiority of - and necessity of utilizing - the personal values and

 

judgments associated with, and demonstrated by, adherents of the Spiral

 

Dynamics theory (google: proselytizing) . Now based on an admittedly cursory

 

examination of SD, it appears to me to be a post-modern updating of

 

Nietzsche's übermensch concept (a goal humanity can set for itself - all

 

human life is given meaning by how it advances a new generation of humans)

 

crossed with the Homeland Security Threat Advisory system. This theory may

 

be of use to marketers and business managers but it doesn't strike me

 

personally as very profound or as anything I especially need in order to

 

treat patients - but if it works for others, that's terrific and more power

 

to them.

 

 

 

But back to my question of last week: I'm not saying that we shouldn't

 

examine, discuss or argue about aspects of our profession, or that we all

 

just need to get along, but how does judging the values, judgment and morals

 

of practitioners utilizing a classic acupuncture modality in any way further

 

anything or help our profession evolve? Is an argument/discussion along

 

these lines not better suited to a different type of forum? Thoughts?

 

Take care -

 

 

 

Kim

 

 

 

Om Namah Shivaya