What is beyond the elements?

The Chinese saw humans as a part of the natural process, not separate from it. Therefore they believed if you could see it in nature, it could be found in the person. As I understand it, the elements describe one way in which consciousness is filtered through into being. Today the predominate opinion is that each individual is a completely unique and personalized expression of the elements. However, the weight of this opinion is beginning to lessen as we push beyond this post-modern viewpoint and begin to understand the universe through a more integrated and totalistic perspective. It is up to us to chart into a new territory of medicine. It is only when we are living on the razor edge of what is known and what is unknown that we can actually begin to create something new.