FC2O Episode 19 – Sasha Chaitow Show Notes
0:00 Introduction
3:36. You say Sash Chaitow, I say Sash Chah-tow
5:14. Sasha’s background
- Looking at how ideas span time to be expressed in later societies
- History of religion & culture
- Acknowledging the lesser understood
- Painting
8:35. 2 x Masters & 1 PhD – and a new Master’s in Public Health.
9:06. Leon’s Background & the Chaitow lineage
- Accountancy v.s Osteopathy
- Stanley Leafe – NMT
- Peter Leafe
- Boris Chaitow
- Leon Chaitow
- Champneys
13:31. BCNO (British College of Naturopathy & Osteopathy) 1956-1960
14:16. Worthing
14:25. Moving to Greece
- Transforming a challenge (not practicing) into an opportunity (writing)
- The AMSTRAD Newsletter…
16:02. A Chiropractic Student from Los Angeles…
- Dr Craig Liebenson
- JBMT Practical Paper
18:08. A return to the UK
- The 1st Osteopath Appointed to an NHS Practice
- University of Westminster:
- Batchelors & Masters in Integrative Health
- Textbooks
- Conferences
- JBMT
21:19. How the Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies got started…
- Everyone has something to teach / to learn
- Clinically applied information
- 2008 – JBMT becomes Medline Indexed
27:30. Melting the professional barriers
- Nothing to do with the qualification / everything to do with the individual
- Defining yourself by your profession
- What’s really important is the patient
30:43. Prolific Publishing
- >80 books written
- Medical
- Self-help
- Empowerment
- Candida – the runaway success
32:57. Why the interest in Breathing Pattern Disorders?
- Caffeine, stress, seizures & stroke… or BPD?
- The Neurologist & the Hyperventilation Test
35:08. If you want to know more about a subject, write a book!
35:27. Diane Lee & the World Congress on Low Back & Pelvic Pain.
- Wariness of “alternative” practitioners by the board
- Breathing Pattern Disorders, Motor Control & Low Back Pain… “You’re in and you’re on the board”!
37:46. Don’t be a flake – learn the rules of the game and play
38:47. Legacy, Synchronicity & Flexibility
- Duty & honour
43:00. How Sasha has taken the reigns and re-ordered the chaos
47:15. Sasha’s own work
- 2 Galleries
- Teacher training courses / Academic writing courses
- Critical thinking
- Scientific Community > Humanities Community
- JBMT as front & centre
- Leon’s book revisions
51:50. The Ghost in the Machine – Is Musculoskeletal Medicine Lacking Soul?
- Beliefs & Behaviour
- Peladan.
- www.peladan.net
- Health beliefs
- The Grieving Process
- Only art can raise the consciousness of society
- Seek beauty in all things
- Before anything else, start with yourself
- Apply higher ideals / virtues / behavioural patterns (outwardly and inwardly)
- The Ideal is an Objective Value, not Subjective Value
- Pan metron ariston
- All things in good measure – seek a middle ground
- The balance of vices and virtue
- The importance of aesthetics… “Good for the soul”!
58:23. Everything in moderation – including moderation
- The wisdom of the Naturopathic Triad
- Importance of Rationalism…
- … in moderation
- Neurologists, Gastroenterologists and Translators (General Practitioners)
- Forgetting you have a real person sat in front of you
- Compounded by specialisation
- Neurologists, Gastroenterologists and Translators (General Practitioners)
- Shortcomings of the absolutely rationalistic approach to Human Health
- Biopsychosocial Health
- Respite Beauty
- Saving the “body” is no good – because what’s left is broken
- SOS – Save Our Souls
1:03:16. Subjectivity & Love
1:05:14. Attractors, Archetypes, Alchemy and Jung’s Misdemeanour
- Complexity & Attractors Creating Simplicity
- Archetypes as attractors
- Ideas that bind a culture and a community
- You can’t uproot someone from their belief system that easily
- People who are vulnerable
- If the bigger picture is ignored, you’re not helping the person – you’re helping some bones and some muscles…
- Alchemy – there was never supposed to be a mind-body divide
- Jung’s alchemy to a historian is anathema – he “psychologised” alchemy
- What alchemy “really was” was a means of harnessing metal ores from meteorites
- All alchemy was seen as a sacred process that could only be successful if the practitioner was also purifying themselves concurrently
- Embodying the alchemical process as a life-practice
1:13:41. Research using inner work to inform outer work
- The Swiss Cheese plant
- The stillness that allows for learning
- How alchemy became chemistry
- Observation is the mother of science
1:17:52. Pre-cartesian Alchemistry
- Mind & Body as one
- Doing it for greed would fail
- Symbolically shared
- The more complex the painting, the more intelligent the owner
1:21:30. How Alchemy linked with Sasha’s work as an artist
- Synaesthesia
- Eidetic memory
- Thinks in pictures
- Symbolic vocabularies
1:23:12. Logo’s and Symbology
- Speaking to the unconscious…?
- Social & Cultural Dimensions
- A symbol hides layers upon layers upon layers
1:28:17. Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light
- Art precedes science in it’s expression
- Science is about uncertainty and asking questions
- When we don’t know anything, how to we formulate a question about something we know nothing about… that’s where art comes in!
- Art can show us the impossible.
- Marc Chagall
- What questions can that image drive us to ask
- What are the limits of the physical?
- The laws of physics (for example) are “what we know so far”
- Carbon-based versus silicon-based life?
1:32:43. Only Art Can Raise Society’s Level of Conscious
- Qualified art… had to be beautiful
- True
- Good
- Beautiful
- Idealised versus Imperfect
- Embodying qualified art
1:35:45. Synaethesia
1:41:19. Dimensional Mastery
- What we leave behind only matters if it’s touched lives for the good
- What has meaning…
- Less people hurting = more kindness in the world
- All negativity comes from a place of pain
1:48:21. Parting words leading us from chaos to order
- Peledan.net
- Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies (JBMT) website
- JBMT Facebook Page
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