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student becomes vastly different from the the education of TTM. However, foreigners

earlier spiritual relationship as a father and with a modern mentality, interested in the
son. The transmission of knowledge from Thai traditional medicine knowledge, have
humanized oriented turned to be commer- already started to disseminate the knowledge

cialize oriented. of Thai massage through online courses. The
Change 4: The last, but not least, which Thai Healing Massage Academy is an ex-
may be the future of Thai traditional medi- ample, they offer resources for Thai massage

cine, is the actual era of ùonline informa- through online training, where the school
tizationû, where most information is shared asserts to provide advanced online Thai mas-

electronically (virtually), the so called e-learn- sage education and certification. çAll the train-
ing. The e-learning is an online education, ing courses and certification programs can
where virtual classes, video lessons and self- be conveniently completed right from home,
[22]
study are gaining space in universities and and from anywhere in the worldé .
colleges around the world. Many examples Positive impact on change 4: In a tradi-

can be cited here, such as the College of tional perspective, none. Negative impacts
Medicine at the University of Florida that of- on change 4: From the time of Guénon, such
fers two Graduate Certificate programs. [...] technological advancement was inexistent,
[19]
Both programs are 100% online . Another but if he assumed that writings are consid-
example is the College of Medicine & Veteri- ered limited, the researcher asserts that a tra-
nary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, ditional knowledge transmitted virtually (e-

which offers online degrees for scientists, learning), without any accurate transmission,
[20]
medical or veterinary practitioners . In Thai- has no meaning. It is empty of content and
land, the e-learning has not yet become popu- would never promote the transmission that

lar, but Assumption University of Thailand, is accomplished by the traditional way. In
an international university, is already pursu- another words, those who learn the knowl-

ing an online educational system, named the edge virtually, without any connection or re-
Graduate School of E-learning, which offers lationship with the teacher, would never be
five graduate programs, promoting what they able to gain a knowledge of a metaphysical

call çLife-long learning for anyone, in any order. The knowledge that is transmitted vir-
[21]
course from anywhere and at anytimeé . tually is considered a scientific knowledge,
Thai traditional medicine, among Thais, is based on reason and therefore out of the
still conservative in applying technology to metaphysical scope.