Meetings and sightings

[Guest guest]

Hi Joseph,

 

I was not in San Diego over the weekend. I would have liked to have gone, but the timing was difficult for me. Summer session started today. I teach lecture and lab for four hours per day, four days per week at Merritt College, plus my managerial duties at Asia Natural all keep in the San Francisco area at an exhausting pace. I'll nevertheless be at the August CSOMA conference since it is here near San Francisco. Then I'll be roaming the floors at the Pacific Symposium in San Diego this fall. I look forward to seeing as many "kindred and esteemed colleagues" as possible at both of those events. I personally can't wait.

 

In anticipation,

Emmanuel Segmen

 

 

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acugrpaz

Monday, June 16, 2003 1:26 PM

Re: Re: Writing for the Public, DAOM, etc.

David,Thank you for your comments and question. I guess I figured that the protective aspect of power was subsumed in what I was saying, but you're right that I didn't specifically state it. Power is for protection as well as influence. If one can't protect one's own turf, one can't widen its sphere of influence. And I'm sorry to admit that right now I am not a member of AAOM. I don't have the spare bucks. That may sound like a lame excuse, but it's the one I'm operating from, unfortunately.I also wanted to thank Todd profusely for the superb conference. I got so enthused about the whole affair that I had a hard time keeping my mouth shut during presentations. On Saturday evening I spent hours writing down ideas that occurred to me from combining thoughts presented by different speakers mixed with the cluttered closet of ideas in my head. And the next day I kept bending people's ears with my half-baked ideas, so please forgive me. It was so wonderful to put faces to names and meet new people and listen to the high-quality presentations, questions and comments. I bet next year's will be a much larger affair, especially if held in Taos as was mentioned as a possibility. Though I really really (gush gush) appreciated all the speakers, I would like to single out as a person, and yes, I'm speaking about character here for a moment. Though all the presenters (and attendees, for that matter) strike me as people who strongly possess the quality of being what they seem to be, to me none possess it quite as much as Z'ev. He truly represents someone who confirms the quote from Jung that it's not so much what you know that heals, it's who you are.The only disappointment I had was in who didn't show up. I was particularly hoping to meet Emmanuel, but if he was there, I couldn't tell. But in any case, this is one set of conference notes I will not let collect dust. Three cheers for the Shang Han Lun, the Wen Bing, knowing what you know and no more--no less, advancing on all fronts, and especially for people like all of you!Joseph Garner