Spirituality in Medicine: Is OM Concerned with the “Spiritual” in its Medicine? Originally published in AAAOM journal in ’07 Vol#39, posting it here as it remains relevant to the OM profession’s vision and the incursion of “dry needling” by other professions due to the narrowness of our definitions of who we are, i.e., “acupuncturists” vs […]

“The intellect is the central factor of the degeneration of humanity throughout the world, for the intellect is only a part of the human condition and capacity. When the part is extolled, praised and given honors, when it assumes all importance, then one’s life, which is relationship, action, conduct, becomes contradictory, hypocritical, then anxiety and

After many, many years in meditative reflection the meaning of, “The mind is a terrible thing to waste, or misuse” has becoming very clear in the cause/result paradigm that we are all living in. After careful consideration, and with the assistance of AI, I have developed a technique that will **revolutionize** human existence on the

#gravitasinsitu200 The Promise of Emptiness has found a place in the Emperor’s College library/study book display case!!!! It was some 32 years ago that I first ventured to the Emperor’s library bookstore because they had books on qi gong that I was looking for as a segue from a spiritual healing program . . .

#7 Excerpted from p 14 of “The Promise of Emptiness,” Introduction. . . . collective hall of mirrors, reacting to what we then “see” as happening to “us,” and/or slavishly following along with the saga of our I am ego-hero. We continue thinking that the great mystery of Universal Life will be revealed through the

#6. Excerpted from p 13 of “The Promise of Emptiness” Introduction: The previous two books written were started under the working title umbrella of Surfing the Timeless Wave and this latest book endeavor, now entitled, The Promise of Emptiness seemed to languish for some number of years without the leadership vision that a new working

#5. Excerpted from p 11 “The Promise of Emptiness” Prologue: “. . . to our “target,” unable to be free of them and our processes; so we are held here, tied to the known, living, dying, never seeing our unknown natural nature that is right next to us and with which together we could really

4. Excerpted from p 10 “The Promise of Emptiness” Prologue: “I am the ship hand, I am Ahab, tied to both his ship and his whale. I am also the whale in my life, sometimes I breach and I can be seen, but more often than not I’m under the surface, alone, unseen, unknown to

“We all know that death exists, especially the older people, and also the young who observe it. The young say, ‘Wait until it comes, and we’ll deal with it’; and as the old are already near death, they have recourse to various forms of consolation. Please follow and apply this to yourselves; don’t put it