Ayurveda – Page 4 – Matthew Remski

August 11, 2013

Deepak Chopra muddles words like “consciousness” and “quantum”, but that doesn’t make him a charlatan

If we're going to critique Chopra as an interloper into science, let's keep it clean of the ad hominem, and not feed this projection beast. Critique the material only; force ever greater transparency about the distinctions between science, spirituality, and poetry. Don't allow him to perpetuate a transcultural and transhistorical language error that confuses scientific terms with religious terms. Allow for the possibility that like everyone he is less a manipulator than one manipulated by history.

May 21, 2013

Ayurveda and the accusation of pseudoscience

These days, when I sit with clients as an ayurvedic practitioner, I know that Iâ€™m a time traveller to the future. Iâ€™m looking at peopleâ€™s energies, habits and uniqueness through the very old lens Iâ€™ve cobbled together from multiple teachers, threads, and fascinations. This old lens is not pseudoscientific in itself, because it arises in a pre-scientific age -- but it will become pseudoscience if it forgets its heritage, and believes it should compete with biomedicine.

February 24, 2013

Recovering the Era of Water Medicine through Ayurveda

We can dream of the story of human medicine through the progression of the elements, from earth to space. Today, we sit on the juncture between fire and air modalities. But we long for an older water medicine.

March 7, 2012

Grounding Anusara 3: intimacy, methods, therapy, and making it open-source

1. In yoga it is obvious that economies of scale obstruct relationship. Go big or go home? Iâ€™ll go home, thank you very much. Letâ€™s think smaller. 2. Transglobal corporations need definable and saleable products. A Yoga Method with â€œUniversal Principlesâ€ works well for its marketing, as we have seen. But a product is not therapy.