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This is a follow on from Lecture 1 which should be consulted for further details. It was a poster presentation at the A&E Conference in Portland 2018. In my Lecture on my web site entitled "The Key to Soul Is Within The Missing Stopinder in the Food Octave" (which will appear in the journal for the 2018 A&E Conference in a somewhat abridged version to save space), I showed that Gurdjieff mistakenly left out the 6th position 'la' of the Food Octave to which I assigned the Endocrine System. In this paper, I also swapped the Cerebrum with the Cerebellum for the obvious reason that the Thinking Center of the Cerebrum must be superior to the Automatic Center of the Brain which is the Cerebellum. |
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It has always bothered me that the position 're' was assigned to the Duodenum and this seemed to be giving too much prominence to the Stomach at position 'do' and that perhaps it was just a fudge for an unknown organ. I was just reading Current concept of Spleen-Stomach theory and Spleen deficiency syndrome in Traditional Chinese Medicine and I realized that this missing organ in the Food Octave was the Spleen. The case is made that the Stomach-Spleen connection is essential for the transmission of the food substances into the blood and also into the Chinese concept of Chi (Qi). In fact on the website Psychology Today, it is proposed that it is like a Second Brain. The concept is that Stomach governs down-bearing function and Spleen governs up-bearing. Sounds like negative and positive forces at work with the neutralizing force being the Liver at position 'mi' which combines with the air in the Lungs to pass through 'mechano-coinciding-Mdnel-In' automatically. Therefore I now revise my food diagram below with Gurdjieff's on the right:
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