The Art of Listening

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The Art of Listening
Daoist Medicine, Sound Therapy and Micro-systems: Healing Systems in Synergy
by Franco Cracolici, Fabio Pianigiani, Massimo Rinaldi

Art in the Western world has created a complex language of symbolism, and artists channel their material through this language in order to communicate something to their public.

The idea of art as communication is a fundamental aspect of Western aesthetics, as is the resulting interconnection between form and content. Music is considered a language of emotions, and is “sound forms in movement”. This is its only point in common with the idea of art in the Eastern world. Eastern Art communicates through visual effects in movements (ideograms) rather than through logos, the simple, sculptural, and thus inflexible, word.

Starting from Daoism, the authors of this book take us on an exciting journey through sound, vibration, listening and the effects of listening, its repercussions on energy and mind, locally and generally. This book is original in its form and content, with unexpected facets emerging in each part, and in the way each part unfolds. Its excellent introduction presents a both broad and synthetic vision of that complex philosophy of life that goes under the name of Daoism, a philosophy and religion often discussed, and equally often misrepresented, curtailed and falsified.

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