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philosophy

Phenomenology and Classical Chinese Medicine

22 July 2009 The profession

I promised I would release portions of my thesis (written for my degree in Classical Chinese Medicine) online. Reading through it, I realize that most of you are likely to be mostly uninterested in the first three chapters. In those chapters, I write a brief history of the concept of pseudoscience through time, elucidating [...]

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What is a watershed?

3 March 2009 Cultivation

So, you may remember all this talk about the Awareness project. The idea was (and is, though evolved now) that we wanted to bring all of our senses to bear IN THE WORLD as people nourished by particular types of practices to really live what the Classics tell us about. This in turn would be [...]

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The bottomless pit of our knowing

28 February 2009 Science

I’m writing my thesis, which partly explains… you know… the silence. Anyway, in a brazen display of my newly born lack of worry about what others think about me, I offer this brief paragraph. It was lifted, reworked and reentered into my thesis in another form – but this is the raw stuff [...]

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