Yet not long ago there was a policy of “hide the knowledge” that revenge by practitioners of acupuncture in Portugal. Some older colleagues and teachers taught me that there should be very careful to pass the knowledge to others. Knowledge was to be hidden.
I still remember visiting the site of a new school in Portugal who advertised in the disciplines of clinical acupuncture “acupuncture points unknown to most Westerners.” We hide Knowledge and advertise this policy.
I never fully understood this policy: it was more like the typical behavior of esoteric schools, whose knowledge must be preserved and hidden, than schools with scientific thinking where knowledge must be shared and discussed publicly.
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