Paradigm Shift: Homeopathy as Applied Consciousness

Summary

Homeopathy finds itself increasingly at odds with mainstream medicine, not primarily because of its different pharmacopoeia or methodology, but because it is based on a fundamentally different paradigm. Allopathy, as well as the “common-sense” understanding of the world with which most of us are raised, is grounded in materialism. Developments in the sciences of noetics (consciousness), cosmology, and physics, however, are challenging materialist assumptions about reality, thereby creating a context within which the truth of homeopathy can be considered with less risk of cognitive dissonance. New opportunities for describing what we do in terms of this new paradigm may bring more people to homeopathy, may help establish the cultural relevance of our healing art in the new millennium, and may help enlarge our own vision and understanding of the depth of our work.

Key words

Paradigm - Consciousness - Case-taking - Synchronicity - Projection - Jung - Sankaran - Quantum physics - Chhabra

References

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• 2 Hahnemann S. The Organon of the Medical Art. 6th ed., 1842. Edited by Brenda O'Reilly. Palo Alto, CA; Birdcage Books 1996
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1 Columbia Encyclopedia, 5th ed. Columbia University Press, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993: p. 877.

2 Sankaran, Rajan. Seminar, Mumbai, India: January 2004.

3 Hahnemann, Samuel. The Organon of the Medical Art, 6th Edition, 1842. Edited by Brenda O'Reilly. Birdcage Books, Palo Alto, CA: 1996.

4 Divya Chhabra is a contemporary master homeopath and teacher of methodology for discerning the “Story Behind the Story”. In a recent seminar (Toronto, Canada, Sept 2005) she outlined 5 kinds of “Key Words”:

• Spontaneous denial makes a word important;

• Words which seem inappropriate, which don't make sense in context, are critically important. Temptation is to not write it down, write it off as a mistake. It's a “Freudian slip”, a word which was dying to come out. If you ask more about it at that point he'll tell you “no, it's the wrong word” the fact is, it's the right word.

• Polarities are important, e.g., neat, clean, tidy vs. dirty, cockroaches;

• Words which derive from the source of a substance;

• Words which express a metaphor, or simile, e.g., “My life is a bottomless pit into which I'm sinking.” When a patient says “as if” he is telling you that he is clueing you into his delusional state.

5 Simon, Paul. “The Boxer”, 1968