Glory to God for your ongoing recovery! As your Lutheran goblin man was fond of saying, medicus curat, natura sanat - the physician prescribes, nature cures.
Despite 200+ years of clinically established, double-blind studies, homeopathy still falls firmly into the "woo" camp of healing. Most of us come to it limping along, a true last resort. Even after years of herbalism, I considered homeopathy's advocacy of minute dosing to be quackery.
But it works, and it often works when nothing else does. Especially for chronic "incurable" conditions which are often the result of iatrogenesis.
That homeopathy has a metaphysic throws both materialist medicine and theology into total disarray. The Church would have to roll back the clock to at least the debates between the Stoics and Tertullian on the "shape" of the soul, which were largely unsettled in their time until the institutional Church threw its hands up and cried, "Mysterion!" Chemists do the same with many drugs whose mechanism of action is unknown - acetaminophen is just one example and we are just now learning how deleterious its effects truly are. Yet nobody questioned Tylenol until very recently!
It cannot remain "mysterion" if doing so keeps people suffering, though. If there is healing potential, even a spark of divinity, in arsenic or python venom or poison ivy as Hahnemann asserts, it must be explored, even if doing so gets you labeled a "heretic" by both camps, even if the mechanism of action is Divine and well beyond our human paygrade. Surely there is Good infused in all of God's Creation! There's a great irony in the recovering "STEM kids" coming to this way of thinking as their infusion of rational faculties with mystical intuition often makes them the best practitioners, Dr. Strange style.
The connection of "sin" to bodily illness is actually a very established school of homeopathy! The Kentians, they're called, stemming from the famous physician James Tyler Kent's infusion of mystical Swedenborgianism with his diagnostic and dosing regimen. While Hahnemann and others were far more clinical in their posology, there's a deep Truth at the heart of Kent's way of thinking that remains in homeopathic practice to this day - a dangerous Truth, arguably, as it turns the physician into something a Confessor where there is always risk of judgment of the very people you're trying to help. It was fascinating to learn that Groddeck saw this, too, and around the same time.
Thank you for sharing your experience, I hope it will help others!
I loved this piece and your thoughts on Homeopathy! I have used it off and on for years and made some huge shifts in my health. I am going to reach out to make an appointment for a call!
Homeopathy works really well. I don't understand fully how it works, but it does. I have experienced it and witnessed it repeatedly. On babies and pets as well as adults.
It is mysterious and powerful and has been deliberately discredited and suppressed.
The Royal Family have always employed a personal homeopath, and until the late 20th Century there were homeopathic hospitals in every city.
Yes! No placebo in babies and animals. Certainly not in plants, where it also works.
In addition to the Royals, the Vatican had a Papal Homeopath on staff until Pope Francis. Even John Rockefeller Sr. was a staunch advocate of homeopathy and did not allow "Junior" to remove it from the American medical system while he was alive.
I’ve always been a bit disdainful of the homeopathic route, perhaps because my wife and I work on the allopathic treatment side of things and our going far down that rabbit hole. Maybe you’ve changed my mind a little. Still, a close family member of mine died recently, relatively young all things considered, from what appears to have been some undiagnosed/mysterious medical condition. She was the strongest advocate of homeopathy I’ve known, and under the “care” of a homeopath. But, she was also strongly against allopathic medicine from her 50s on, and ceased obtaining all allopathic care almost as soon as she got into homeopathy.
Perhaps there is value from pursuing both approaches. I know many of the top hospitals encourage it with their cancer patients. But I’m still a bit negative on the approach to the extent that it ever portrays itself as a replacement for allopathic medicine. I do think allopathic medicine has unique insight into at least acute care as well as preventative care that homeopathy has blind spots on.
The blessings of your work is ‘your work’; this is you as you - for you, and we run along outside and bask in your windblown magic. You epitomize enlightenment, open to all and now so effectively expressed in your reclaiming olfactory. I have no comment on Homeopathy vis a vis allopathic - to me it goes without saying; this neo-capitolism has run its course, having run over us for +100 years.
Allow to me say first of all how pleased I am to hear that you are healing!!
For years I have gone to a doctor who is both an allopathic MD but also trained in Anthroposophical medicine, homeopathy, and a variety of other alternative healing modalities. He is a very tall, very thin German man, who asks many questions about your sleep and your bowels, followed by long thoughtful pauses while he pages through old, voluminous tomes littered with ribbons and bookmarks. He makes observations about how your blood type suggests that you would benefit from some periodic caloric restriction so as to be in alignment with your Northern European hunter-gatherer ancestors. And while for the life of me I cannot bring myself to understand or rationally accept homeopathy, I still take the little pellets dutifully when prescribed.
I don't know what I will do when he retires.
Thuja Occidentalis, paired with Tea Tree Oil, absolutely cured my daughter's warts.
Idk anything really about homeopathy but the work of Dr Sarno on back pain and especially Dr Schindler’s “How to Live 365 Days a Year” (corny title but a must read) basically confirm imo what you’re saying here about the emotional/psychic/spiritual roots and feedback loop of illness/disease. What you said about your friend’s hip pain tracks precisely with what these two doctors suggest. Recommend their work. Good to hear you’re healing, keep at it seems smart. And ofc if you want any remaining charitable interpretation of the medical complex to be obliterated read Ivan Illich’s “Medical Nemesis”.
Maybe if you were being judgmental the nose thing is like how prideful people hold their nose up in disdain. Just an idea.
I know home remedies often are effective. I had some warts on my foot for a long time and someone told me a very basic remedy. Within 24-48 hours they were gone, when any store bought remedies had accomplished nothing.
My chiropractor was far more helpful and supportive then any "real" doctor in my lifetime.
I'm sure there's plenty of examples to be found. Glad you found relief.
I am, to say the least, skeptical of homeopathy, as I think it can also be an example of the Capitalist Imperative you mention ("I'll just sell these sugar pills to suckers who are desperate and have been failed by TME."). But, I don't want to be dismissive of your overall point here.
What you are describing sounds very similar to the hypothesis and work of the Canadian doctor, Gabor Maté, as explored in his books, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (2003) and more recently, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture (2022) (co-written with his son Daniel). And like you he stresses, this isn't about "blaming the victim," but rather noting that there are clear links between our body and illness and the emotional and spiritual states you mention. Interesting that you've also experienced this and come up with almost the same hypothesis yourself. I have to say, it see it reflected in the people around me frequently, though not perfectly.
There's something to this. Even just a small amount of skepticism about modernist dogmas opens up a world of possibilities. Even if most of them are nonsense, that leaves a lot of good stuff to discover.
“The Rockefeller-funded report that dramatically changed medicine was the Flexner Report of 1910, commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation but heavily influenced and supported by Rockefeller philanthropies, which established the scientific, university-based model for American medicine, leading to higher standards, fewer, better-equipped schools, and marginalizing holistic practices like homeopathy. This report mandated evidence-based, germ theory-focused training, aligning medical education with rigorous science, a shift that standardized care but also reduced diverse approaches.”
Now we have Bill Gates and other billionaires pushing AI and other stuff to better us all!
There are subtle realities that can be detectable by and that effect living things, but dead instruments can’t detect or be effected by. Angels for instance and other things that homeopathy is an example of.
Glory to God for your ongoing recovery! As your Lutheran goblin man was fond of saying, medicus curat, natura sanat - the physician prescribes, nature cures.
Despite 200+ years of clinically established, double-blind studies, homeopathy still falls firmly into the "woo" camp of healing. Most of us come to it limping along, a true last resort. Even after years of herbalism, I considered homeopathy's advocacy of minute dosing to be quackery.
But it works, and it often works when nothing else does. Especially for chronic "incurable" conditions which are often the result of iatrogenesis.
That homeopathy has a metaphysic throws both materialist medicine and theology into total disarray. The Church would have to roll back the clock to at least the debates between the Stoics and Tertullian on the "shape" of the soul, which were largely unsettled in their time until the institutional Church threw its hands up and cried, "Mysterion!" Chemists do the same with many drugs whose mechanism of action is unknown - acetaminophen is just one example and we are just now learning how deleterious its effects truly are. Yet nobody questioned Tylenol until very recently!
It cannot remain "mysterion" if doing so keeps people suffering, though. If there is healing potential, even a spark of divinity, in arsenic or python venom or poison ivy as Hahnemann asserts, it must be explored, even if doing so gets you labeled a "heretic" by both camps, even if the mechanism of action is Divine and well beyond our human paygrade. Surely there is Good infused in all of God's Creation! There's a great irony in the recovering "STEM kids" coming to this way of thinking as their infusion of rational faculties with mystical intuition often makes them the best practitioners, Dr. Strange style.
The connection of "sin" to bodily illness is actually a very established school of homeopathy! The Kentians, they're called, stemming from the famous physician James Tyler Kent's infusion of mystical Swedenborgianism with his diagnostic and dosing regimen. While Hahnemann and others were far more clinical in their posology, there's a deep Truth at the heart of Kent's way of thinking that remains in homeopathic practice to this day - a dangerous Truth, arguably, as it turns the physician into something a Confessor where there is always risk of judgment of the very people you're trying to help. It was fascinating to learn that Groddeck saw this, too, and around the same time.
Thank you for sharing your experience, I hope it will help others!
I also fully agree.
Thank you!
I loved this piece and your thoughts on Homeopathy! I have used it off and on for years and made some huge shifts in my health. I am going to reach out to make an appointment for a call!
Thank you! Yes I’m really quite impressed/surprised with it, it’s kind of amazing.
Homeopathy works really well. I don't understand fully how it works, but it does. I have experienced it and witnessed it repeatedly. On babies and pets as well as adults.
It is mysterious and powerful and has been deliberately discredited and suppressed.
The Royal Family have always employed a personal homeopath, and until the late 20th Century there were homeopathic hospitals in every city.
> On babies and pets as well as adults.
Yes! No placebo in babies and animals. Certainly not in plants, where it also works.
In addition to the Royals, the Vatican had a Papal Homeopath on staff until Pope Francis. Even John Rockefeller Sr. was a staunch advocate of homeopathy and did not allow "Junior" to remove it from the American medical system while he was alive.
I’ve always been a bit disdainful of the homeopathic route, perhaps because my wife and I work on the allopathic treatment side of things and our going far down that rabbit hole. Maybe you’ve changed my mind a little. Still, a close family member of mine died recently, relatively young all things considered, from what appears to have been some undiagnosed/mysterious medical condition. She was the strongest advocate of homeopathy I’ve known, and under the “care” of a homeopath. But, she was also strongly against allopathic medicine from her 50s on, and ceased obtaining all allopathic care almost as soon as she got into homeopathy.
Perhaps there is value from pursuing both approaches. I know many of the top hospitals encourage it with their cancer patients. But I’m still a bit negative on the approach to the extent that it ever portrays itself as a replacement for allopathic medicine. I do think allopathic medicine has unique insight into at least acute care as well as preventative care that homeopathy has blind spots on.
The blessings of your work is ‘your work’; this is you as you - for you, and we run along outside and bask in your windblown magic. You epitomize enlightenment, open to all and now so effectively expressed in your reclaiming olfactory. I have no comment on Homeopathy vis a vis allopathic - to me it goes without saying; this neo-capitolism has run its course, having run over us for +100 years.
Allow to me say first of all how pleased I am to hear that you are healing!!
For years I have gone to a doctor who is both an allopathic MD but also trained in Anthroposophical medicine, homeopathy, and a variety of other alternative healing modalities. He is a very tall, very thin German man, who asks many questions about your sleep and your bowels, followed by long thoughtful pauses while he pages through old, voluminous tomes littered with ribbons and bookmarks. He makes observations about how your blood type suggests that you would benefit from some periodic caloric restriction so as to be in alignment with your Northern European hunter-gatherer ancestors. And while for the life of me I cannot bring myself to understand or rationally accept homeopathy, I still take the little pellets dutifully when prescribed.
I don't know what I will do when he retires.
Thuja Occidentalis, paired with Tea Tree Oil, absolutely cured my daughter's warts.
Lastly, for the lols, this Mitchell and Webb skit kills me every time, even as I partake in all of that which they are skewering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0&pp=ygUdbWl0Y2hlbGwgYW5kIHdlYmIgaG9tZW9wYXRoaWM%3D
Amazing story, thank you for sharing, I would like to meet that doctor. Could you perhaps send me his info so I could interview him?
I think I sent you a DM 😅
Idk anything really about homeopathy but the work of Dr Sarno on back pain and especially Dr Schindler’s “How to Live 365 Days a Year” (corny title but a must read) basically confirm imo what you’re saying here about the emotional/psychic/spiritual roots and feedback loop of illness/disease. What you said about your friend’s hip pain tracks precisely with what these two doctors suggest. Recommend their work. Good to hear you’re healing, keep at it seems smart. And ofc if you want any remaining charitable interpretation of the medical complex to be obliterated read Ivan Illich’s “Medical Nemesis”.
Medical nemesis is a great book
My man
Maybe if you were being judgmental the nose thing is like how prideful people hold their nose up in disdain. Just an idea.
I know home remedies often are effective. I had some warts on my foot for a long time and someone told me a very basic remedy. Within 24-48 hours they were gone, when any store bought remedies had accomplished nothing.
My chiropractor was far more helpful and supportive then any "real" doctor in my lifetime.
I'm sure there's plenty of examples to be found. Glad you found relief.
I am, to say the least, skeptical of homeopathy, as I think it can also be an example of the Capitalist Imperative you mention ("I'll just sell these sugar pills to suckers who are desperate and have been failed by TME."). But, I don't want to be dismissive of your overall point here.
What you are describing sounds very similar to the hypothesis and work of the Canadian doctor, Gabor Maté, as explored in his books, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (2003) and more recently, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture (2022) (co-written with his son Daniel). And like you he stresses, this isn't about "blaming the victim," but rather noting that there are clear links between our body and illness and the emotional and spiritual states you mention. Interesting that you've also experienced this and come up with almost the same hypothesis yourself. I have to say, it see it reflected in the people around me frequently, though not perfectly.
There's something to this. Even just a small amount of skepticism about modernist dogmas opens up a world of possibilities. Even if most of them are nonsense, that leaves a lot of good stuff to discover.
“The Rockefeller-funded report that dramatically changed medicine was the Flexner Report of 1910, commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation but heavily influenced and supported by Rockefeller philanthropies, which established the scientific, university-based model for American medicine, leading to higher standards, fewer, better-equipped schools, and marginalizing holistic practices like homeopathy. This report mandated evidence-based, germ theory-focused training, aligning medical education with rigorous science, a shift that standardized care but also reduced diverse approaches.”
Now we have Bill Gates and other billionaires pushing AI and other stuff to better us all!
There are subtle realities that can be detectable by and that effect living things, but dead instruments can’t detect or be effected by. Angels for instance and other things that homeopathy is an example of.
Happy to hear about your nose!