Table of Contents
Chapter One
Turning Our Great Ship: A Sea Change
Phenomenology: The Great Ship’s Wheel
Turning Our Great Ship: A Sea Change
Chapter Two
Beyond Biomedicine
Enlarging the Focus
Building the Framework
Why Interpret Symptoms?
Chapter Three
The Dimension of Touch
The Sense Dimension of Touch
The Heart in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Touch Dimension Core Issue:
The Synchrony-Isolation Axis
The Heart and Synchrony in Biomedicine
Touch Dimension: Chronic Illnesses
The Touch Dimension:
Personal Therapeutic Practices and Masters of Expression
Chapter Four
The Dimension of Taste
The Sense Dimension of Taste
The Spleen in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Taste Dimension Core Issue:
The Challenge-Anxiety Axis
Taste Dimension Chronic Illnesses
Taste Dimension:
Personal Therapeutic Practices and Masters of Expresson
Chapter Five
The Dimension of Smell
The Sense Dimension of Smell
The Lungs in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Smell Dimension Core Issue:
The Centeredness-Disorientation Axis
Smell Dimension Chronic Illnesses
A Broader Perspective
The Smell Dimension:
Personal Therapeutic Practices and Masters of Expression
Chapter Six
The Dimension of Hearing
The Sense Dimension of Hearing
The Kidneys in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Hearing Dimension Core Issue:
The Consolidation-Entropy Axis
Hearing Dimension Chronic Illnesses
The Hearing Dimension:
Personal Therapeutic Practices and Masters of Expression
Chapter Seven
The Dimension of Sight
The Sense Dimension of Sight
The Liver in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Sight Dimension Core Issue:
The Creativity-Chaos Axis
The Sight Dimension:
Personal Therapeutic Practices and Masters of Expression
Chapter Eight
Encountering Scylla: Consciousness and Cancer
The Culture of Cancer:
The Myth of Scylla
The Myth of Satan
Cancer Cell Seduction
Causes and Risk Factors of Cancer
Cancer and the Sense Dimensions
Lessons Learned from Cancer Awareness
Chapter Nine
Encountering Charybdis: The Chronic Illness Vortex
Sensitivity and Susceptibility
The Myth of Charybdis
TCM Theory:
The Energy Cycles
Smooth Sailing; The Health Generating Cycle
Mother-Child Relationships
Sailing Against the Tide: The Retrograde Generating Cycle
Troubled Waters: The Control Cycle
Shallow Waters; The Compensation Cycle
Chapter Ten
Create Your Own Five Dimensional Mandala
The Five Sense Dimensions:
Creating a Personal Mandala
Healing Meditation:
The Sense Dimensional Mandala
Evaluating and Learning from your Responses
The Generating Cycle
Other Cycles:
Retrograde, Generating, Control, and Compensation
Epilogue
Turning Our Great Ship
The Voyage Home