Lonny Jarrett interviews Z'ev Rosenberg, department head of Herbal Studies at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. We discuss the therapeutic relationship, Judaism, spirituality, medicine, the classics, and the emergence of Chinese medicine as a living and evolving practice. Z'ev commented this was the best interview he had ever done. I agree … Keep Reading »
The Technician and the Scholar Physician
"This term 'philosophy,' describes the entirety of intuitive insight, intellectual knowledge, and all concrete activities associated with the art of nourishing life. Medicine, from the perspective of the Neijing, is the science of how to safeguard one's body through the wisdom of the ages -- philosophy." Zhang Xichun, translated by … Keep Reading »
Heart/Kidney Axis and Soul
Thoughts on the Heart/Kidney axis and the soul. The heart/kidney axis can be thought of as a fuse that, early in life, blows out to protect the soul from harm in the face of circumstances too challenging for a young inexperienced mind to cope with. The heart/kidney axis is a physiological metaphor … Keep Reading »
Lonny’s Two Year Clinical Integration Course
"I have found my studies with Lonny Jarrett to be invaluable on many levels. The course has provided in-depth learning and clinical experience with pulse taking and five elements diagnosis, and perhaps more importantly what it means to be a practitioner and the intentionality behind each clinic encounter. My only … Keep Reading »
The Awakening of Conscience
Here I examine the postmodern inability to recognize hierarchy and it's relationship to conscience. There is much talk of holistic and integral medicine these days. It seems to me that, at the very least, the focus of any medicine that is truly holistic or integral would have to be on assisting patients to … Keep Reading »
Being a Vessel: Channeling
No practitioner can channel anything that has more integrity than they do. There is nothing "out there" that is in any way separate from our own degree of division. Even when transmitting non-dual higher states we will also be transmitting our authentic relationship to what we have discovered that is of … Keep Reading »
The Awakening of Choice
"The only true medicine is consciousness awakening to its self. What a surprise when we discover that what is seeking is what’s being sought for." C A L I F O R N I A J O U R N A L O F O R I E N T A L M E D I … Keep Reading »
The Primacy of Spirit
In the Fall of 2005 I gave the keynote address to the British Acupuncture Societies annual meeting. It created quite a stir and I wrote this in response to Peter Deadman's follow article asserting that Chinese medicine cannot treat the mind or spirit. British Acupuncture Society Journal 2005 Keep Reading »
Body/Wisdom
This article addresses spiritual materialism and the newage belief that "if one is spiritually aligned then health and financial success will be the result". Enjoy. Keep Reading »
The Second Face of God
This picture of a figure on the Duomo in Florence depicts the authority of god that is to be feared. This guy will tell you EXACTLY what is right and wrong and you will hear it on your knees. Pretty hard for us Green Meme egalitarians who don't recognize hierarchy to relate … Keep Reading »