The Art of Listening

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Contents

Preface by Carlo Di Stanislao

Introduction by franco cracolici

 

PART I / DAOIST MEDICINE by Franco cracolici

1 / Brief outline of Daoist thought and culture

2 / Daoist medicine: origins, history and meaning

• The ways of meeting and the process of knowledge
• Daoist religious and philosophical-alchemical schools and currents
• The earliest therapeutic applications. The Daoist approach
• Daoist practices
• Techniques to achieve immortality
• The culture of prevention
• True knowledge… in Daoist culture
• Numbers
• Celestial Journeys
• The conduct of the Daoist doctor
• The great Daoist doctors and alchemists 

3 / The meridians: energy pathways, tracer points, pathological knots 

• Acupuncture points
• Knots
• Changes
• Act with respect
• Shen
• The cycle of vegetative souls
• The qi and its manifestations
• Shen treatment
• The five wills
• Treatment of the five wills
• The thirteen Sun Simiao gui points
• Protocol and treatment
• The ling points
• Protocol and treatment
• The nine flowers of Ge Hong
• The dao points
• Protocol and treatment
• Tian xing xue points, ‘eleven heavenly stars’
• Protocol and treatment
• GV-23 shangxing, Upper Star point
• The tian points, ‘Heaven’
• Protocol and treatment
• The spreading of Heaven: the Emperor’s canopy
• Acupuncture and wai dan, ‘external alchemy’
• Path with acupuncture
• Inner alchemy
• Abuse and suffering: violence kills the soul
• The ren mai or Conception Vessel
• Proposed therapy with ren mai points for cases of abuse
• Protocol and treatment
• The Extraordinary Meridians
• Extraordinary Meridians and Daoism
• Centre, centres
• The emptiness of xu / wu / kong
• The void in various suffixes
• Void rebalancing treatment
• Emotional turmoil and the path of the diaphragm
• Stomach-diaphragm treatment
• The biochemical pathway of emotions
• The transition points or gates
• The Pericardium, the Heart’s shield
• Functions of the Pericardium
• Protocol and treatment
• The eight applications and the six Heart guards, according to Liezi
• Harmonising treatment
• From light to light: from the eyes to the brain
• Light treatment 
• The Earth… the earths 
• Another Earth. ST-4 dicang
• The wise land. SP-4 gongsun
• Jing-well points
• Doors and gates: passages and transits
• Epilogue

 

PART II / THE ART OF LISTENING. FEELING, THINKING AND IMAGINING MUSIC by Franco Pianigiani

• Introduction

4 /In the beginning was the word

• The meaning of music
• The relationship between word and sound
• Union of Heaven and Earth
• Music as a model of the world
• Music and magic
• The sorcerer
• The birth of symbols
• Waters in darkness
• The phases of creation
• The meaning of wings
• The soul of the world
• Sacrificial sound
• The pillar
• Black feathers and the eagle

5 / The elements of music

• Rhythm
• The meaning of the voice
• The individual sound
• The sound substance
• The word
• Gregorian chant and human voice
• Music and metaphysics: harmony of the spheres
• Joy and praise: the essence of hymns

6 / Primordial sound

• Nada Brahma
• Everything is sound
• Language universality and music therapy
• The musician
• Physical properties of sound
• What is sound
• Sound and noise
• How sound propagates
• Speed of sound
• The pendulum
• The pendulum and musical instruments
• Sound pitch
• Sound intensity
• Sound duration
• Timbre
• Forms and structures in harmony
• Melody and harmony
• Musical notation
• Time signature
• Brain perception
• Cerebral hemispheres
• Brain waves
• The perception of sound

7 / Sound, mind and perception

• Cognitivism, dualism and neuropsychology
• Gestalt and perceptive psychology
• The handling of expectations
• Neural codes and activations
• The function of memory
• Categories and concepts

 

Part III / MICRO-SYSTEMS by Massimo Rinaldi

• Introduction 405

8 / Abdominal-umbilical palpation

• The bagua
• A new interpretation model
• The navel in Western medicine
• The symbolism of the navel
• Gate of the spirit, gate of life
• Pre-Heaven, xian tian bagua
• Post-Heaven, hou tian bagua
• Releasing the navel
• Energy embryology
• Abdominal semiotics, the origin of abdominal diagnosis
• Releasing the abdomen according to the five movements

9 / ECIWO acupuncture Micro-Systems

• Umbilical acupuncture
• Second metacarpal bone acupuncture
• Conclusions

 

Part IV / FROM COMMUNICATION TO HEALING by Franco Cracolici, Alessandra Franco, Valeria Selvi

• Introduction

10 / Electric current, electromagnetic radiation and sound

11 / The language of cells

• From the language of cells mediated by electromagnetic radiation to bioresonance
• From the language of cells mediated by sound to cymatics
• From ancient medical art to regenerative medicine

References

Index of points