Continuing some thoughts on the synthesizing of east and west
Thinking about the rich history the east has with alchemy, both internal and external alchemy, I am amazed how the eastern people tried to connect the universe, nature and knowledge. History says that a whole heck of a lot of them went down trying, but they in fact wrestled with this enormous body of information. I seems like the west went by rules of the church and didn't cross those lines very easily. I can't help but think of what happened in our country to women who used herbs to help heal people, they met a terrible ending by being burned for using folk medicine. This is a stark contrast to the eastern excitement at discovering every substance that was available to them and what it did. Our western history of medicine alone is quite the path of exclusion - where once the AMA was established, nothing else was excepted for alternative medicine for hundreds of years.
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