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Index
Cover Image
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Foreword by Ellen F. Franklin, Ph.D., and Donna Carey, M.S., L.Ac.
Preface
SYNTHESIZING MUSIC, ASTROLOGY, AND CHINESE MEDICINE
Introduction: Authentic Medicine
Chapter 1: Ancient Cosmology
ANCIENT CARTOGRAPHY
TEMPLAR SECRET BLOOD AND TREASURE
ANTIQUITY OF HUMANITY
MATRIARCHAL MYTHS, PATRIARCHAL PERSPECTIVES
THE ALCHEMICAL LINK TO MEDICINE
COSMIC LAW
THE MYTHICAL LAND OF MU
ALCHEMICAL TRANSFORMATION
ALCHEMICAL SYMBOLOGY
THE THREEFOLD NATURE OF HOROSCOPES AND HUMANS
PLANETS, PLANTS, AND PRECIOUS STONES
Chapter 2: History of Hermetic Medicine
APOLLO AND ASCLEPIUS
PYTHAGORAS
THALES OF MILETUS
EMPEDOCLES (490–450 BCE)
HIPPOCRATES (460–370 BCE)
PLATO AND PHILISTION OF LOCRI
GALEN (130–200)
A DIGRESSION INTO CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON MEDICAL PRACTICES
AVICENNA (980–1036)
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN (1098–1179)
PARACELSUS (1493–1541)
NICHOLAS CULPEPER (1616–1654)
THE RENAISSANCE
NEOPLATONISTS
CHRONOLOGY OF ANCIENT PHYSICIANS*1
Chapter 3: Cosmological Roots of Yin and Yang
THE LEGEND OF CHINA’S FU XI AND NUWA
EGYPTIAN COSMOLOGICAL MYTHS
ANCIENT SUMER’S ENKI AND NINMAH
THE DOGON-CHINA LINK IN COSMOLOGY
THE COSMIC EGG
CHAOS BEFORE THE CREATION
THE EIGHT PRIMORDIALS
SHAMANIC ROOTS OF ALCHEMY
ASTRONOMY’S LINK TO YIN AND YANG
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
Chapter 4: The Four Building Blocks of the Cosmos
FOUR ELEMENTS IN ANCIENT COSMOLOGY
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE
FOUR ELEMENTS IN ANCIENT RELIGION
FOUR ELEMENTS IN TAROT
FOUR ELEMENTS IN THE CROSS
THE SYMBOLIC SKY
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS
CARDINAL, FIXED, AND MUTABLE
NATURAL ZODIAC VERSUS NATAL CHART
Chapter 5: The Hexagon Phenomenon
THE SECRET LIFE OF SNOWFLAKES
THE WONDER OF WATER
COVALENT BONDING AND WATER “MEMORY”
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SIX
HEXAGONAL RELATIONSHIP TO ELEMENTS
HEXAGONS IN OUTER SPACE
REFERENCES TO ANCIENT ZODIACS
EMPTY SPACE “MATTERS”
HOLOGRAPHIC ENCODING
THE HARMONIC UNIVERSE
LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION
THE MEDICINE CONNECTION
ENTER THE I CHING
IT’S IN OUR DNA
AN-ATOM-Y AND GEOMETRY
Chapter 6: Cosmic Light in Inner and Outer Space
THE MYSTERY OF MELANIN
THE NATURE OF LIGHT
LANGUAGE OF THE LUMINARIES
LIGHT TECHNOLOGY
EGYPT’S LEGACY
THE TEMPLE IS THE BODY
INITIATION AND THE ASTROLOGICAL BODY
THE SERPENTINE SPINE
THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
THE CHAKRA SYSTEM
Chapter 7: PHI-losophy: The Mean Between the Extremes
FINDING VALUE IN THE IRRATIONAL
UNDERSTANDING RATIO AND PROPORTION
EXPRESSION OF UNITY
PYTHAGOREAN PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBER
PYTHAGOREAN THEORY
GEOMETRY: NUMBER IN SPACE
MUSIC: NUMBER IN TIME
ASTRONOMY: NUMBER IN SPACE AND TIME
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
PLATO’S DIALOGUES
Chapter 8: Nature’s Spin: A Sound Effect?
SOUND EFFECTS
THE SELF-REGULATING EARTH
SPIRALING INTO CONTROL
UNDER PRESSURE
PHI IN THE SKY
PLANETARY PERIODICITY
Chapter 9: The Future Awaits Our Return
GEOMETRY AND PROPORTION IN ANATOMY
THE LEGACY OF LEONARDO
FIBONACCI SPIRAL
HARMONY, SYNTHESIS, AND THE COSMIC WHOLE
THE WHOLE CONTINUUM
HERMETIC POTENTIAL IN HUMAN BEINGS
CHINA’S CONNECTION TO HERMETICISM, HOROSCOPES, AND HUMAN CARTOGRAPHY
THE DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES
TUNING IN FACILITATES TUNING UP
ASTROLOGY REVEALS HARMONIC RELATIONSHIPS
FROM GALAXIES TO CELLS
ASTRO-HARMONIC MEDICINE
ANTHROPOMORPHIC PSYCHOLOGY: WHO, WHAT, AND WHERE
MUSICAL METAPHOR
Afterword
Footnote
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Authors
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Books of Related Interest
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