Medicine, Not-knowing and The Curious Ways Healing Arising • Lonny Jarrett

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August 13, 2019

Practitioner Cultivation & Development

Medicine, Not-knowing and The Curious Ways Healing Arising
Lonny Jarrett

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Medicine is an unending study. A process of learning, sifting what helps from what doesn’t, and recognizing that we often are students of the unknown.

In this conversation we explore healing, sacrifice, the importance of learning a tradition and finding a mentor.

In this episode, we discuss:

What got Lonny started with Chinese medicine
Influence of Yi Jing and Carl Jung
Early experiences in Chinatown
Studies in neurobiology
Graduate school and Chinese medicine did not mix
The lucky break that helped to get Lonny’s practice going
Intake and questions
Experience with Leon Hammer
How to not talk about Qi
What people need to start or stop doing
An example of working with a patient’s sense of self-victimization
Learning from mistakes
Importance of finding a mentor
Use what works, drop what doesn’t
Dealing with the liminal space of not knowing

Qi Bo: “The utmost [principle] in treatment lies with the oneness.”
[Huang] Di: “What is that to say, the ‘oneness’?”
Qi Bo: “There is oneness, and therefore one gets it.”
[Huang] Di: “How?”
Qi Bo: “Close the door and shut the windows,
tie yourself to the patient,
repeatedly inquire about [his] feelings,
adapt [your treatment] to his sentiments.
If one gets a hold of the spirit, the [patient] will prosper;
if the spirit is lost,
[the patient] perishes.”
[Huang] Di: “Good!”-NJSW 13

Lonny Jarret, L.Ac

I wrote my college entrance essay in 1975 on differences between the Eastern and Western world views discussing acupuncture as a symbol of the those differences. When I took my first course in Chinese medicine in 1980, I instantly recognized that I had to pursue it as a career to become a whole human being. After 34 years of Clinical practice I remain passionate about the path of medicine. I find it to be humbling, engaging, and calling me ever deeper into inquiry and wholeness. I contemplate daily what the Bodhisattva vow means when it implores us to “become both the physician and the medicine.”