Home Page About Sacred Acupuncture Clinic Los Gatos Clinic Santa Cruz Pain Clinic San Jose Free Clinic for Veterans San Jose Spiritual Journey Breath-Work Treatments Assessments Newsletter Documents and Talks Radio Show Juice Fasting and Detoxification Resume Biography Contact Qigong Classes Seminars Transformational Community Acupuncture Sacred Acupuncture Theater Poetry Links		Sacred Acupuncture "Sacred Acupuncture is a new mythos from an old wisdom. The turning of the great Wheel of Dharma- the cycle of human evolution, requires that we reinvigorate the ancient knowledge its workings in relation to how we are made, and of what we are made. This is an elucidation of human evolution, human form and the processes of healing. If we can heal ourselves wholly, we can all become servants of the Good and responsible caretakers of our beautiful planet Earth. Our future can be glorious" - Adam Atman Sacred Acupuncture is a description of how the principles which give rise to the Universe also generate human beings, and how these principles are mapped within the human system. This understanding is anything but new, but its expression sometimes needs renewing. Sacred Acupuncture is a series of revelations about the nature of the human energy systems. It is my understanding that the ideas expressed within Traditional Chinese Medicine are not mere cultural artifacts or superstitions. They are an elucidation of a cosmic order that we humans are an expression of. I believe that the core ideas of Traditional Chinese Medicine arose from the personal revelations and understandings of a group of ancient physician / shaman / meditators. These original revelations described the nature of many of the subtle energies and constructs within the Qi and Shen body. I think that it is our responsibility to re-express these insights, so that our knowledge in the area of the subtle mechanocs of the body keeps pace with the vast increase in our societal knowledge of the physical realm. In my experience the subtle architecture of the energy channels is universal, and it’s imprint can be discovered within modern western anatomy and physiology. This architecture can also be traced within other knowledge systems and described relative to the chakras, the subtle bodies, psychology and many other fields of knowledge from many different cultures. These insights have come to me as a result of 28 years of Qigong practice, culminating in a series of revelations arising from the enquiry “of what am I made?” I believe that at this time there is a turning of the great Wheel of Dharma- the cycle of human evolution- which requires that we reinvigorate the ancient knowledge of acupuncture described by the seers of 2,500 years ago. Sacred acupuncture views humans as being comprised of five parts: a physical body, an etheric or Qi body, a mental or Shen body, a causal or Ling body and a universal or Tao nature, which is not really a 'body' except in the universal sense. Sacred acupuncture asserts that in this new 2,500 year historical cycle it is the understanding of the inter-relationships between these 'bodies' that is an important key to harmony and to healing. Sacred Acupuncture is thus an understanding of our four-bodied, five-fold nature, and it is a way of healing by using the inter-relationships between our four-bodies, and our non-embodied nature. Sacred Acupuncture involves a detailed examination of the mysteries of embryology. At conception, the beginning of human life, there is an unfolding of the Five Forces (Five elements) . This is a sequential and experiential penetration of the five realms of animal evolution. What happens is that the newly incarnating human being experiences life as unicellular, then as insectoid, then as reptilian, then as mammalian and then finally as human. These five stages of evolution correspond to five different types of consciousness, and to the classical five elements of Taoist philosophy, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood and Fire. These are better translated as the Five Forces. These five forces also generate the biological guiding intelligences of the body design - the spirits of the five internal organ systems. Sacred Acupuncture is based on the understanding that the human system is a replication of the five-fold universe itself; that we consist of a physical body, three subtle bodies - the etheric, mental and causal bodies; and finally a non-embodied consciousness. Sacred Acupuncture is an examination of how we are formed from the moment of conception; how we are formed by the underlying forces of the five-fold nature of the universe, and how these forces give rise to the various layers of the energy system, generating the three Dan-Tian, the four bodies, the four primary modifications of consciousness, the five Zang organs, the five primary emotions, the seven chakras, the eight extraordinary channels, the nine orifices, the ten Rays and windows of Heaven, the 11 channels and finally the 12 regular acupuncture meridians. Healing Sacred Acupuncture is both a system of understanding and a system of healing. For information about the healing practices of Sacred Acupuncture see the 'treatments' and 'assessments' sections of this website. Here is a beautiful quote about aupuncture from my first spiritual teacher Osho:   Acupuncture is utterly Eastern. So when you approach any Eastern science with the Western mind, you miss many things. Your whole approach is different; it is methodical, it is logical, analytical. And the Eastern sciences are not really sciences, but arts. The whole thing depends on whether you can shift your energies from the intellect to the intuitive, whether you can shift from male to female, from Yang to Yin. Can you become passive/receptive? Only then do these things work. Otherwise you can learn all about acupuncture and it will not be acupuncture at all. You will know all about it, but not it. And sometimes it happens that a person may not know much about it and knows it; but then it is a knack - just an insight in to it. When you come to an acupuncturist, the disease is not important. The “patient” is important, because it is the patient who has created the disease. The cause is in the patient; the disease is only a symptom. You can change the symptom and another symptom will come up. You can force this disease by drugs, you can stop its expression; but then the disease will assert itself somewhere else and with more danger, more force - with a vengeance. The next disease will be more difficult to tackle than the first. You drug it, but then the third disease will be even more difficult. Acupuncture deals with the cause. And how can you get to the cause? Reason cannot go to the cause; it can only tackle the effect. Only meditation can get to the cause. So acupuncture will feel the “patient.” He will forget his knowledge; he will just try to get in tune with the “patient.” He will feel en rapport; he will start feeling a bridge with the “patient.” When you touch anyone’s body, or you work with needles, you are working on God. One has to be very respectful, very hesitant. One has to work not out of knowledge, but out of Love. Knowledge is never adequate; it is not enough. So feel for the person. And always feel inadequate, because knowledge is limited and the other person is an entire world, almost infinite . . . It is a mystery and is going to remain a mystery forever. It is not something accidental - that man is a mystery. Mystery is his very being. quoted from 'From Medication to Meditation' by Osho 1996   I look forward to connecting with You!