Week 9 - Synthsizing East and West

My E-Prime Day...

The consciousness I know as me becomes aware of what appears to be a new day. The body this consciousness calls me stretches and yawns. I appear to move this body out of the bed and into the kitchen. I turn a knob that allows water to flow through the faucet and fill the container that serves to hold the water while it is heated on the stove. The thick moisture in the air makes the sky appear to have no color. the temperature registers as 65 degrees on the thermostat. The erector pilli muscles contract and my hair becomes perpendicular to my skin. I pour the heated water into a smaller container that is made our of a hard earthen material that registers as blue and brown to most human eyes and has a loop of the same material to hod it by. I add some aromatic vegetative material contained in a small permeable cotton container to the water and let is sit until the molecules from the vegetative material are suspends in the water at a concentration that gives pleasure to my mouth when I drink it.

Synthesizing East and West

The idea of synthesizing east and west is very exciting to me. I love the philosophy of the east and have studied yoga and Buddhism for years. I also love the science and math of the west and feel comforted by the reliability of that system. That "our" conversation is including both at the same time just tickles my soul. I chose acupuncture as a career because of how it blends the east and the west, the body and the soul. That acupuncture is being accepted my the western medical world will open so many doors for healing on so many levels. Bruce Robinson said at my orientation that is it a very auspicious time to be getting into this field. I agree.