Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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RT @nick_routledge: @CarlMcColman Epidemics-pandemics defined Taoism as a trustworthy, healthy, potent, communitarian force in ancient China. Let me see if I can find you a reference. And, looking forward, the musings of Roszak on the instructional use of our medical crisis. ?s=20

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Quoted by@AaronKheriatyMD Excellent. Did you get to Theodore Roszak? "Imagine a different paradigm borrowed from an earlier era. Can we imagine something like this re-emerging in our time...medicine practiced as a spiritual discipline... the compassionate use of the medical crisis as a rite of passage..."Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @laphamsquart The instructional use of medical crises is an ancient phenomenon. In the East, for example...Quoted by@laphamsquart The instructional use of medical crises is an ancient phenomenon. In the East, for example...Quoted by3/ “Chinese history has described 230 or more epidemics....It is interesting to reflect on some of the ways in which many epidemics were dealt with in ancient China.”Quoted by@psyche_the_mag @alexusmcleod And, updated for the time of Covid.Quoted by3/ Look, vaccines aren't even the issue, so please, pause upon the 'anti-vaxxer' doxx, if you don't mind. No pro me, but I am a neighborhood covid medic, in the trenches, living-pondering what Roszak calls "the instructional use of the medical crisis."