Week 13, Artifical Limbs

I think it's pretty amazing that the cells in our brain that control movement never atrophy and that is it possible to re-use them. I also think it's an amazing feat of medical science to give people an ability to use parts of their bodies that they can't use. However, all this new technology scares me deep down in my core...I feel like it could get out of hand really fast.

Week 13, Bionic Person

I don't know if I would fully support the creation of a bionic person...I guess it would depend on what the reasons for doing it were. If someone who can't walk is presented with the possibility to walk, then that seems to me to be a good reason, as long as the procedure and treatment of the person was humane. But then I also fear that some people might want to become bionic just be bigger and stronger, and then it would be like a new brand of crazy steroids...and in this case I wouldn't be a supporter.

Week Eleven, Intention and Health

I think intention is one of the most powerful tools that we have not only for health, but for life in general. However, I also think action must come with intention. If I hold and intention but then do not act it out in my life, then it personally seems like a stagnation: I put energy out there in the form of an intention but I didn't act it out. Many times, the outcome of an intention is an event or situation in which the universe puts in place what we asked for, but we have to be participating in the moment and act within that place.

Week Eleven, Kirlian Photography

I didn't know much about Kirlian photography until we read about it in class. Although I think it is fascinating and a great tool for many people, it is kind of sad that we need to "prove" that things like auras are true through photographs. I guess I have always been OK with knowing that my aura is there and that I can feel it without having to know exactly what it looks like at a precise moment. But it is a good tool for people who need or want that kind of expereince.

Week Eleven, Energy Medicine

I think acupuncture is effective not only as energy medicine but also as a medical system. In fact, I think acupuncture is really effective because of its holism, unlike other forms of treatment that seek to only heel one part of the problem. Pure energy medicine, even though very powerful and under-valued in our society, can still have huge gaps in it. To be truly effective, healing has to be energetic, physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, etc.

Week 10, Biophysics and Oriental Medicine

It seems like biophysics is trying to understand a particular part of life through a very exact angle. They seem interested in the cellular and sub-cellular level and how different interaction there help shape life in the macrocosm. Honestly, I find it very hard to compare biophysics with oriental medicine because in oriental medicine we don't just study one small aspect of a body or a system. It doesn't seem as though we are preoccupied with trying to answer what a living system is, either...

Week 10, I'm a Living System

Well, now I don't even know whether I am a living system or how I would go about figuring it out...I feel like I am a living system for several reasons, I guess. The first one is that I am responsive to the environment around me. I change as the stuff around me changes. The second is that I feel like I am constantly changing and becoming something new, but I guess computers do that, too...Lastly, I have emotions, feelings, thoughts, and I can feel blood and life pumping through my veins...