Heart Series, Pt. 2: How Do We Know What We Know / Epistemology

Classic of Difficulties: Difficult Questions in Medicine, Acupuncture, and Beyond

Epistemology is more than a four letter word! How does the WAY we seek truth influence how we see our bodies, and our health?
In an age where science is constantly overturning what we thought we knew about the body, and new theories come out every day trying to explain new phenomena, one theory remains unchallenged. Since 1628, when Harvey published his seminal text on the circulation of blood, we have believed more or less the same thing about the heart. But what if the heart isn't a pump at all? And what if it's time that we update Harvey's ideas? In this installment, Dr. James Mohebali goes to the "heart" of the issue, and examines how our underlying beliefs about what it means to be human can color our understanding of the medicine we use. We take a stroll through epistemology, and see how the seemingly simple question of "how do we know what we know" can completely upend our relationship with our own bodies and with one another. Touching on quantum physics, imaginary plants, Chinese family altars, our relationship to scripture and our ancestors, reiki, biofield therapy, and more, we discover that there's a LOT more at stake in the "heart" question than just what a particular muscle is doing inside your chest.
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1. Heart Series, Pt. 2: How Do We Know What We Know / Epistemology (00:00:00)

2. Seeing the Heart in Action (00:01:26)

3. Mysterious Facts About the Heart (00:02:07)

4. Does Anatomy Matter? (00:03:41)

5. Quantum Cheetos: Your Brother in a Dark Room (00:06:08)

6. How Much Time to Understand a Human Life (00:08:51)

7. Parallel Botany by Leo Lionni: Encyclopedia of Imaginary Plants (00:10:23)

8. Using Inner Eyes to Access the Inner World (00:12:03)

9. Epistemology for the Human Body / How Do We Know What We Know? (00:13:02)

10. Chinese Medical Epistemology: Scripture (00:13:55)

11. Chinese Medical Epistemology: Commentators (00:18:05)

12. Chinese Medical Epistemology: Internal Compass (00:18:51)

13. Chinese Medical Epistemology: Clinical Experience (00:21:10)

14. Taking What We've Learned and Trying to Share It with the World (00:23:43)

15. Why Would We Discard the Heart Theory? (00:25:23)

16. It's Not Just Chinese Medicine...It's Everywhere (00:28:23)

17. Medicine is Philosophy in Practice (00:28:58)

18. The Risk with Trying to PROVE Reiki/Non-Contact Healing (00:29:44)

19. Does Your Medicine Match Your Body? Does It Match Your Worldview? (00:32:57)

20. Doctors and Patients on the Frontiers of Medicine (00:34:04)

21. Outro (00:35:19)