Mapping Homeopathic Space: A Review of the Resources - Part II

Summary

In the first part of this article seven types of themes used by contemporary homeopaths were discussed (Organs and Systems; Abstract Terms; Everyday Phrases or Terms; Diseases and Miasms; Families; Polychrest-like or Substance-like; Topology). In this, the second part of the article, there is a review of ways to map homeopathic remedy-space. A distinction between the use of a profiling approach and a Venn diagram approach is suggested. With such tools it is possible to understand how the Periodic Table [[13]] or the Mappa Mundi [[2]] can each act as paradigms in the contemporary homeopathic use of themes. Central approaches mentioned include the System of Boxes developed by Vega Rozenberg, and the themes and groupings developed by Louis Klein and by Massimo Mangialavori. The importance of understanding the thinking implicit in different models is supported by extracts from writers in philosophy, science and literary criticism. The ‘network’ is suggested as a way to reconcile the thematic mappings offered by Rozenberg, Mangialavori and Klein.

Key words

Metaphor - Network - Profile - Venn diagram

References

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• 18 The subtitle of Massimo Mangialavori's forthcoming series of seminars speaks volumes: ‘Accurately Differentiating Homeopathic Remedies and Families for Core Human Issues' - see www.mangialavori.com. Every maker of a thematic map is under precisely this obligation that Massimo places himself under - to formulate material for the homeopathic student that explains not simply the Wonderful World of My Theory but the core human issues, the traps and turns of the common processes of human development and interaction. The teacher fulfils this obligation if neither practitioner nor patient is forced into a Procrustean bed but are instead given maps of the actual bed in which we sleep awaiting the homeopathic similar, so that we may each continue to learn (as student) and to heal (as patient). Those who serve this task have mastery, and thus serve cultural evolution. 
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• 21 I am paraphrasing Ralph Waldo Emerson when he wrote that ‘The ancient precept “Know Thyself” and the modern precept “Study nature” become at last one maxim’ (in ‘The American Scholar’). 
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