Therapy for Mankind and the Earth
Homeopathy is a thoroughly effective form of therapy. This is most certainly due to the fact that it is based upon two different laws of nature.
The first natural law is: “As without, so within!”
The second natural law is: “Only in the repetition of something that has become established can I dissolve it!”
1 st Law of Nature:
As without, so within - as within, so without.
This natural law says that everything that surrounds us is a reflection of our inner being. The impulse that a person radiates is answered in his environment.
Let us assume that a person has decided only to be peaceful, that strife is beneath his dignity and that he will simply not allow aggression to exist in his world. In so doing this person has isolated himself from a part of his own being and this part, which has been given a negative value, demands its rights from the surrounding world. This person will often be confronted by the squabblers and brawlers he detests.
Among my patients it happened that a particular lady moved three times because in every instance she had a quarrelsome neighbor. Moving, however, didn't help for in the end she had to learn to deal with this quarrelsome quality in herself. She had to realize that aggression belonged to her as well as being peaceful.
If you deny one side of a polarity, only one side is available to you and the other will most certainly demand its rights. “As without, so within” also means that the person who has given something a negative value, thereby isolating it, will be constrained to find this part in their outer world again in order to be able to reintegrate it into their being.
Homeopathy, which was discovered or better said rediscovered by Samuel Hahnemann, is based precisely upon this principle for from every substance that surrounds us you can make a homeopathic remedy. When you examine the symbolic meaning of the substances, you find that each and every substance has its own particular symbolic significance. Every substance is thus comparable to a soul portion of a human being, an animal or even a plant.
Here is an example: There is a plant that grows in Switzerland, which is often used in homeopathy, called Pulsatilla pratensis. Its common name is the Wind Flower. This plant exhibits the following behavior: When the sun comes out, it opens its blossom very wide. But if bad weather comes or say even a thunderstorm, it closes its blossom very quickly and points it downwards. Pulsatilla pratensis is never found alone. There are always a number of them growing together. Along the stem are little barbs that evidently serve for protection.
An understanding of the symbolism yields the following: The person who needs Pulsatilla pratensis is someone who can be open when everything around is harmonious. Then they are happy and radiate a good mood. People who need this remedy are always in the company of others. They cannot stand to be alone. If such a person encounters an unpleasant situation, she closes herself off and withdraws within herself. It is almost impossible to have a confrontation with someone who needs Pulsatilla pratensis. They will become elusive and seek to protect themselves. The symbolism of the little barbs indicates that they either try to protect themselves or they try to hook onto someone and use this person to deal with their conflicts and battles.
In other words Pulsatilla pratensis tells us that a person puts “his head in the sand” rather than to confront the issues. People who exhibit the behavior just described will either surround themselves with this plant or they need to take this remedy in order to bring themselves into balance, employing the homeopathic impulse, which works as inner mirror, to recognize their inner condition and come to a decision whether or not to alter it.
A homeopathic remedy always contains a mirroring process. The subconscious recognizes in this mirror what is traumatized in the personality, what is weighing heavily, and what must be resolved.
The law of nature “as without, so within” thus tells us that everything which surrounds us is ultimately a part of us. In homeopathy the essence of a substance is brought forth through trituration, dilution, succussion, potentizing, etc. The higher the potency, the clearer and more precise the mirror is.
It is said of healthy animals that, when they become ill, they still have the instinct today to go into a meadow and find the right plant for their condition – provided it still exists. People have similar impulses for quite often they will reach out instinctively for the remedy substance that they need. A person who is entangled in a distressing situation will have a longing for salt. At first he will take salt in its material form. In the homeopathic process of potentizing, however, the salt is dematerialized and led back to its original symbolic significance. Then the quality of the mirror and therewith the process of self-knowledge is much higher. In homeopathy ordinary salt is called Natrium muriaticum and it heals conditions of the soul in people who cling to the past or hold onto something in their emotional realm that is long since over and done with.
2 nd Law of Nature:
Only in the repetition of something that has become established
can I dissolve it!
Hahnemann gave this natural law the designation: “similia similibus curentur” or “like cures like.” With this he is saying that a particular theme in a person must be stimulated so that it can be repeated. If I have the courage to confront a situation that traumatized me, that is negatively charged through my prior judgments, then this can only happen in that I become emotionally involved with the situation once again and, by so doing, remove the finality from the emotional pattern.
When a person is deeply traumatized, he forms what is known as a character of finality. His experience of the negative in a situation appears to him to be valid for the rest of eternity. He loses in this manner the true impulse of life that would always say every moment is new; every moment has a different constellation. Every moment is principally different from every other moment.
Once we have been traumatized, however, we always expect to have the same traumatic experience again and again. Our thoughts and imaginations repeat this situation so often until it materializes, until it becomes concrete and attaches itself to us more and more strongly. In the sense of Albert Einstein's statement that matter is nothing more than solidified energy, we materialize the trauma through repetition of our thoughts and imaginations. They becomes stronger and stronger.
In contrast, homeopathy produces the opposite effect. Once we have found the substance that correlates to our traumatized soul condition, we have the possibility by taking the homeopathically altered substance to affect a relatively quick (according to the strength of the potency) dematerialization process. If I take the homeopathic remedy once or several times, my subconscious mind will recognize the hardened structure of the traumatic condition and dissolve it.
Of course, a person always retains the power of deciding whether to dissolve a behavioral pattern or, if there exists a certain fixed motive, deciding to keep the pattern.
Homeopathy is and remains only a help for initiating a process of awareness. A homeopathic remedy will never be a manipulation. With the help of a homeopathic remedy the patient can become aware of something and, if he so desires, alter it – if he so desires.
In the course of this article it has possibly become clear that every physical symptom is nothing more than the solidification of a disruptive process in the soul.
The person who finds himself in a life situation to which must bow down before, although he actually does not at all desire to, develop pains in the knees. He bows down to an unpleasant situation because he has made the decision to hold onto habits that secure his existence. He simply accepts the unpleasant situation. The knee pains point to the fact that he is inwardly irritated and angry that he has to put up with this situation and that he has not found the means to make the changes that would better suit his personality.
If the appropriate homeopathic remedy were given, this patient would most likely take the chance to change his situation. He would either find possibilities of a resolution or, quite simply, decide on behalf of his own interests instead of conforming to those of others. Then the knee pains are no longer needed.
The homeopathic remedy healed, but really it was the patient who brought to consciousness something hidden from his awareness and changed it. The body language of the symptoms dissolved itself into conscious awareness.
Homeopathy is not only for people, but can also be used for plants and animals. We can consider ourselves fortunate that, through the application of these laws of nature, we are able to help ourselves in such an elegant manner.
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