Follow My Lead? Take the Lead!

Jürgen Becker at 60 – Obstetrician to “New Worlds of Homeopathy and of the Forces of Life”

“Continue the work, but continue it truthfully”. This is Jürgen Becker's bold and heretical answer to Hahnemann's demand “Do as I do, but precisely”.

With a deep trust in the infinite wisdom of the creation, with an awakened curiosity for life's ordinary and the extraordinary phenomenon, and with a fearlessness towards all authorities, taboos and conflicts, Jürgen Becker (Fig. [1]) has always been the enfant terrible in the field of homeopathy.

Fig. 1 Jürgen Becker.

His group provings in Bad Boll (1982–1992) were both famous and infamous: “… we experienced again and again in these group provings that you don't only develop certain symptoms, but that you can get to know something about life; in other words, how life takes on a specific colouring or slant via the power of the respective remedy: in the area of sensations of our body, in our emotions and feelings, in our social being together, in our dreams and our mental activities, as well as in apparently accidental memories, behaviours, thoughts and events” [1]. [This book of over 1000 pages is a treasure trove of knowledge which will certainly provide materials for the next 200 years of homeopathic research.]

Part of the dynamic field of these exciting provings were not only fairy tales but also, for example, the bursting of light bulbs on a massive scale during the proving of Vespa, or synchronous events such as the death of the Philippine dictator Marcos during the proving of a dictatorial remedy.

The fact that some members of the group, who had not taken any of the proved remedies, showed clear proving symptoms – that some of the especially sensitive participants developed proving symptoms already three weeks before the proving – aroused suspicion against Jürgen, who in the eyes of many, was “a bit crazy.” “I sometimes felt quite lonesome and misunderstood in the higher realms of our art” [2].

Nevertheless, Jürgen was ready to expose himself unperturbed to all this. Among his fascinating gifts we find the ability to lead others into processes in which they were deeply affected by these forces; his wonderful talent to recognize what is common and essential in the multitude of proving symptoms and accidental occurrences, and to be able to translate all this into everyday experience so that everyone can understand it. And by using all of his talents he attempts to approach what he calls the “essential forces of substance being” (Substanzwesenskräfte) in order to make them available for the art of healing.

But what do we understand up to now about these “essential forces of substance being” and their action in accordance to the law of similarity? Jürgen's search for an answer is “part of a greater search in which Hahnemann took the first step over 200 years ago with his famous experiment with the Peruvian bark” [2]. But: “according to the normal understanding of classical homeopathy, homeopathic remedies can do no more than three things, i.e. create, relieve or worsen symptoms” [1].

References

• 1 Becker J. New Worlds of Homeopathy and the Forces of Life. With C4 Texts from Witold Erler. Freiburg: Verlag IHHF (Institut für Homöopathische Heilmittelforschung); 2000
• 2 Becker J. The Archetypical Vital Forces in Homeopathy and in Life. Freiburg: Verlag IHHF; 2003
• 3 Becker J, Witzel I. Annual Course in Homeopathy. Archetypes of Creation. Homeopathic Remedies in human Life. Understanding their Subtle Power and Archetypal Wisdom. Course 1: Earth Remedies for Strengthening. Freiburg: Verlag IHHF; 2006
• 4 Shukla C, van der Zee H. The global proving of Himalayan crystal salt.  Homoeopathic Links. 2010;  23 85