The Common Vein:

Ashley Davidoff MD

What is the Common Vein?

The Universal Pursuit of Wholeness

applying The Hedgehog approach

and trying to understand the world in us and around us

A WORK IN PROGRESS

The most outstanding example in human biology of the ideas promoted by the Common Vein of …

is ..

HUMAN REPRODUCTION

1 Sperm + 1 Egg= 1 New Miraculous Life

Conception and the Spark of a New Life and Soul

The most miraculous event in all of human biology, within the grasp of all human experience, is conception.

Two cells meet and bond at the right place at the right time and a new life is created. Most the time things go well, but sometimes they do not.

This event gives us insight into all other happenings in life. Two parts connect and bond at the right place and the right time, creating a new whole …. and here starts our story.

And in the living world similar events are taking place

If things are good then there is order and health, and if things are bad there is disorder and disease.

It is our purpose in life to find the disorder and try and bring it back to order. It is called Tikun Olam in Jewish culture – or “healing the world”.

This is not only the beginning but also the end of the story of The Common Vein..

BIOGRAPHY

This web site reflects the philosophical, educational, and artistic pursuits of Ashley Davidoff MD, a resident of Newton Massachusetts.

The essence of the work revolves around the concept that the whole is bigger than its component parts.

The program encompasses a multidisciplinary approach including biology, medicine, art, photography, music, poetry and gardening to exemplify the unifying principles that govern the complexity of life in and around us.

OVERVIEW in Diagrams
OVERVIEW – an Essay
OVERVIEW in Pictures of Life
The Common vein Applies to
- All Organic and
- Inorganic Structures
- Both
  - Within Us and
  - Around Us
- And Also Applies to
  - All the Human Cultural Pursuits

THE COMMON VEIN – Medical Site

CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES

MEDICAL ART

DOG WALK ART

ANATOMY OF THE GARDEN

PHOTOGRAPHY

FINE ART

SCULPTURES
POETRY

When things go wrong….

Unfortunately only one thing can go wrong, a defective nucleic acid in the DNA, a brick in the building, a malignant cell in the body and it can all come tumbling down

And when one brick goes wrong…….

The Collapse of the Spiral Ascending to the Sky

This is where our work as humans lie “Repair of the World”

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The Common Vein is a web based educational project that explores complex issues by identifying the underlying principles and recurring patterns of the world around and in us.

For Whom?

TCV makes the principles of life and biology accessible to anybody. It is designed with the belief that the complexities of life and biology in order (health ) and disorder (disease), have roots in simple principles. TCV lays down these foundation tenets in the opening pages, and then advances in step-wise fashion to complexity.