ANSWERS TO THIS WEEK'S QUIZ.
1. what attracts me to chinese medicine?
for me, this is a two-fold answer. as a child, i suffered from allergies and asthma. the prescribed treatment was to receive allergy injections and use antibiotics for chest infections. despite the good doctor's intentions, i did not get any better.
at the age of 13, i decided to stop all medications and injections against the doctor's wishes. remarkably, my condition improved. by the time i was 15, i was allergy and asthma free. however, at age 25 i again started having allergic reactions. this time i resolved to treat myself with herbs.
after a year of evening primrose oil and various other herbs, i again was allergy free. from then on, i viewed western medicine with a skeptical eye. especially when they used words like incurable, maintenance drugs, etc. this began my interest in alternative modes of healing which includes chinese medicine.
my esoteric studies in hermeticism, gnosticism & kaballah have harmonized my thinking to eastern concepts.
2. what do i honestly think of physics, really?
well, as of a few days ago i thought that the vast majority of physics had been boiled down and baked in an inedible cake for the feasting of academics with stomach trouble. but alas i am now thoroughly looking forward to our class as the information is interesting and relevant. thank you, mr. spears. it will be a pleasure to contemplate the universe with subjects such as sacred geometry, quantum physics, and chaos theory.
3. now that i think about it, have i ever experienced time "slowing down"?
yes, but i'm not sure if it is slowing down or speeding up. meditation certainly changes the experience of time. i know that time is intimately connected with breath -- the breath of life, or the breath of the universe. it is a yin yang experience and those energies are trans formative and dynamic.
REFLECTIONS ON THE MEANING OF TIME.
it was interesting to contemplate and contrast the differing views on the subject matter. there were certainly diverse experiences, but with a certain continuity -- that all the students had in some way gone beyond the purely dogmatic. for this i am thankful. one thing i have realized is that time is certainly a subjective experience that goes beyond mere perception. who's to say that time is not actually a dynamic experience in a very concrete way. it may be true that people age at different rates physically as correlated to the way they experience time.
3 comments:
the idea of people aging based on the way they experience time is an interesting theory. now i've just to got to figure out how to be the type to age s-l-o-w-l-y.
I agree, time is purely subjective. If you find yourself doing something you love, while the person next to you is bored - time will fly by for you and drag on for them. So, if we change our mind about the things that bore us and try to find genuine interest in the learning process - time may pass by quickly in those once boring situations.
besides agreeing with Chris' take on the subjectivity of time, his last comment on people aging differently reminded that that is so true - you can take 2 ppl who work in the same job - both are 28 but one lets everything get to him, is horribly irritable, doesnt take care of himself and looks like he's 50. and then there's the other guy who lets the job roll off his back and focuses on things that should get his worry like his family but still he takes care of his matters with relative calm. and he actually isnt getting an ulcer and looks young. how we react can really have an affect on "our time".
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