{"id":2250,"date":"2009-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/remedies-to-global-crisis-%e2%80%9callopathic%e2%80%9d-or-%e2%80%9chomeopathic\/"},"modified":"2009-04-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T00:00:00","slug":"remedies-to-global-crisis-%e2%80%9callopathic%e2%80%9d-or-%e2%80%9chomeopathic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2009\/04\/remedies-to-global-crisis-%e2%80%9callopathic%e2%80%9d-or-%e2%80%9chomeopathic\/","title":{"rendered":"REMEDIES TO GLOBAL CRISIS: \u201cALLOPATHIC\u201d OR \u201cHOMEOPATHIC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Metaphorical Complementarity of "Conventional" and "Alternative" Models <\/em><\/p>\n

Prepared on the occasion of World Homeopathy Awareness Week <\/a>(April 2009).  <\/p>\n

“I do like the idea of Ashoka’s pillars as acupuncture needles – and the idea that the global brain may be suffering from bipolar disorder!” – Tony Judge<\/em><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/p>\n

At the time of a global financial crisis for which the adequacies of proposed conventional remedies have as yet to be demonstrated — and with further economic consequences yet to emerge — it is appropriate to explore mindsets through which the remedial response to any form of globality under stress might be articulated and envisaged. <\/p>\n

In using therapeutic metaphors here, this approach contrasts with a previous use of geometrical metaphors to explore such possibilities (Metaphorical Geometry in Quest of Globality: in response to global governance challenges<\/a>,  2009; Engaging with Globality — through cognitive lines, circlets, crowns or holes<\/a>, 2009).  <\/p>\n

"Homeopathy" is used here as a widely recognized exemplar of the therapies of "alternative medicine" as distinct from conventional medicine. A more generic focus on the metaphoric potential of the range of alternative remedies is discussed in a concluding section.

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Metaphorical Complementarity of "Conventional" and "Alternative" Models Prepared on the occasion of World Homeopathy Awareness Week (April 2009).  “I do like the idea of Ashoka’s pillars as acupuncture needles – and the idea that the global brain may be suffering from bipolar disorder!” – Tony Judge Introduction At the time of a global financial crisis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}