Category Archives: Rediscovering Ancient Wisdom

One of the bi-products of modernity and the notion of constant progress that is part of it’s world view is that Traditional ideas have been discarded for the new. In the Modern world view, reductive science is the measuring stick by which we make sense of the world – we know and we believe because we can measure and experiment. If we can’t measure and verify under controlled conditions we reject. The unintended consequence of making sense of the world this way is that we exclude anything that we can’t objectively measure and quantify – anything subjective is invalid. The consequence is that we have a medical system that rejects the role of thoughts and emotions on health because they can’t be measured excluded. Any talk of an energy system that can’t be measured is rejected. The end result is we treat what we can measure and that is the external manifestation of disease – the symptoms. The “hidden” causes of the disease remain untreated. In the economic world the consequence is that we have the free-market system that externalises costs. The present result of this is that we have built ourselves an unsustainable economic model.

This section looks to reclaim ancient wisdom and when it is “rediscovered” to point out its “original” source. Part of this process is to point out how the latest scientific discoveries are validating ancient wisdom. My view is that we will eventually rediscover Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine because they are more accurate models of how the world works than reductive science. In modern science speak they are complex adaptive systems models.