From the monthly archives:

June 2009

The flood of summer blessings

23 June 2009 Blogging

Hey everyone,
I am basking in the resplendent blessings of the summer season.  My thesis is completed, defended and turned in.  95% of my work is done for graduation (paperwork and the like).  I passed all three of my board exams for licensure (yay!)  My family is coming into town on Friday!  I’m currently neck deep [...]

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The Lingshu and becoming a superior Chinese medicine practitioner

16 June 2009 Classical Texts (general)

There is a very interesting discussion going on over at Richard Goodman’s blog – He explains…

“…Ling Shu Chapter 55
The superior physician treats that which is not yet ill. The inferior physician treats that which is already ill.
This is a fairly famous statement, which is often interpreted to be a call to preventative medicine. Modern physicians [...]

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Argument for a medical multiverse : Acknowledgements

14 June 2009 Learning

When you write acknowledgements for a thesis at a small college in Portland, you can be reasonably assured that almost nobody will read them.  This is a shame, for they are meant to be read – meant to shout your love, respect and admiration from the rooftops!  So, I hope you will indulge me and [...]

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5 Things to Look forward to after graduation : Chinese medicine post-graduate education

10 June 2009 Cultivation

Since the arrival of my friend Brandt Stickley, I have been unfortunately unable to devote the amount of time I would like to living out our wild Portland-area Awareness Project dreams.  We had so many late night chat and Skype conversations, whipping one another into a sleepless frenzy about the power and possibility in symbolism. [...]

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Listening my way to success in the NCCAOM acupuncture board exam

9 June 2009 Acupuncture

As I said before, I’ve been spending a significant amount of time studying for and taking my NCCAOM board exams.  As I said in my last post…
“…I’ve successfully completed the foundations and biomedicine exams already.  I found them to be much different from what I was expecting. I know I am not allowed to share [...]

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