Thanks Dulci:
they've got 5 elements They've got Air, Fire, Water, Earth, and "Ether".....where does that last one play in? (ether is the conditioners)
I noticed that Fifth Element too when I was looking at the MM page yesterday. And then I googled around a bit and discovered that Aristotle later added a Fifth Element, "Ether which was a perfect substance and what the heavenly bodies are composed of."
(Originally I had looked up Aristotle's Alchemical theory for Anne from my Philosophy 101 book. Apparently it didn't go into enough depth LOL.)
The Ayurvedic tradition also uses Five Elements. From my copy of Ayurveda, the Science of Self-Healing, by Dr. Vasant Lad:
...in the beginning the world existed in an unmanifested state of consciousness. From that state...the suble vibrations of the cosmic soundless sound aum manifested. From that vibration there first appeared the Ether element. This ethereal element then began to move: its movements created the Air...The movement of Ether also produced friction, and...heat was generated...and the Fire element manifested.
...Through the heat of the Fire, certain ethereal elements dissolved and liquified, manifesting the Water element, and then solidified to form the molecules of Earth. In this way, Ether manifested into the four elements of Air, Fire, Water and Earth."
So they are in the same order as Aristotle put them. The way I figure it, is the four shampoos are supposed to be used in a certain order so that the detox can proceed in an orderly fashion. The Conditioners, the "Ether" element, are used everyday, kind of like how Ether is all around, inbetween.
Or it could all be just a new-age gimmick LOL. But using them in a certain order is harmless, yes? And kinda fun
A little more:
http://www.friesian.com/elements.htm
And on Aristotle:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/7997/aristot.htm
All substances were combinations of elements and elemental qualities. The elements are: fire, water, earth, and air. (Aristotle added later another "element" - Ether which was a perfect substance an what the heavenly bodies are composed of) The qualities are: hot, cold, wet, dry. The qualities define the character of "elements". Fire was seen as ideal mixture of hotness & dryness. One element could be changed into another like mixing solutions. Combustion and other chemical reactions were considered a type of motion. Aristotle's elements differed from alchemical elements. He believed that Asenic was actually a kind of sulfer, and it was used in his time to harden copper. Aristotle along with other Greek Philosophers questioned whether matter was composed of divisble or indivisible particles. To Aristotle, all material was made of atoms with the exception of the Prime Mover(God). He also argues that there would be no motion at all unless there is first a force of movement that is itself unmoved, namely God.