This highly anticipated third text from Lonny Jarrett examines Chinese Medicine from Integral and Evolutionary perspectives.
It is available at Spiritpathpress.com
From the Foreword by Zev Rosenberg
This work is Lonny Jarrett’s magnum opus, the fruit of a 40-year career in Chinese medicine. But Lonny has taken the teachings of Chinese medicine and expanded its view into the present world and its future potential, specifically in the realm of consciousness development. 醫学Yi xue/Medical science is a constantly evolving discipline. Although rooted in 理論li lun/principle and theory, the expressions of Chinese medicine continue to grow, evolve, and change in the postmodern world.
In this book, Lonny presents a map for moving forward to unify the world of consciousness development with Chinese medicine. I had the honor of teaching a five-day seminar retreat with Lonny in Western Massachusetts a few years ago, where he presented some of this material. It was, to say the least, awe inspiring in its scope and depth. I know of no other person in our field who has unified the thought of Sri Aurobindo, Ken Wilbur, Zhuang Zi, and great physicians such as Sun Si-Miao so seamlessly. Perhaps at last, the Huang Di/Yellow Emperor can be said to have engaged Western thought in full. This work deserves our full attention and commitment, so that we may add our insights for the coming era as well and bring Chinese medicine to full fruition as a world medicine par excellence.
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Endorsements:
Deepening Perspectives takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through time and space accompanied by one of Chinese medicine’s most brilliant and visionary practitioners. This is not a book to be read at one go but rather lived with over a lifetime. I found myself inspired by the spiritual insights, reveling in the soul wisdom, absorbing the clinical expertise, and arguing enthusiastically with some of the concepts while ever grateful for the decades of work, tireless dedication, and clarity of intention that Jarrett has brought to this project. In recognizing the potential of traditional Chinese medicine to support humanity in moving into a new, more integrated consciousness, Jarrett has truly written a manifesto of healing for our time.
–Lorie Eve Dechar, author of Five Spirits, The Alchemy of Inner Work, and Kigo: Exploring the Spiritual Essence of Acupuncture Points Through the Changing Seasons
My long association with Lonny Jarrett over the course of many years has afforded me some of the most satisfying discussions concerning Chinese medicine that I have had with anyone. I am grateful for his writing and teaching his thoughts to the world, especially those about “becoming” that he describes as an act rather than solely as a “process.” Lonny Jarrett is fashioning a brilliant paradigm built around an awareness of one’s freedom to choose (for what is higher) instantly through the intention to virtue. Lonny’s overarching dedication to improving the human condition was recognizable from our early conversations and seems from the outside to have been part of a “process” reaching the form as expressed so eloquently in this volume.
–Leon Hammer, MD, author of Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies
In this book, we have the considered thoughts of a senior practitioner whose writing explores the depths of the psyche, soul, spirit, and clinical life. At moments self-reflective and others expository, Lonny Jarrett weaves the bounds of integral thought, deep traditions of Chinese medicine, and the domains of developmental and transpersonal psychology. He has successfully transcended both cultural and temporal bounds to provide a scholarly work that is rooted in the traditions but also creative, informative, and will mark a place in the development of medicine and consciousness.
–William Morris, PhD, author of Neoclassical Pulse Diagnosis
Lonny Jarrett’s Deepening Perspectives on Chinese Medicine is an extremely important book and marks something of a historic first. It takes the incredible contributions of Chinese Medicine and presents them in an up-to-date and modern perspective, making them available to today’s healthcare professionals. It does this while also presenting the essential Ideas in light of Integral Theory, a highly respected approach to an integrated or holistic framework. I highly recommend this book for any serious healthcare provider in today’s world.
—Ken Wilber, The Integral Vision