Re: [H] Combos vs. Singles

John & Irene, I'll repeat ...

> So where do we draw the line between 'homeopathy' and 'not-homeopathy'?
>
> The answer is we can't, because the boundary is not a line. It's a wide region of fuzziness. No matter how close you pull the boundaries in towards Hahnemannian homeopathy, they remain, and will always remain, fuzzy. Paradoxical maybe, because to each of us individually the boundaries no doubt appear pretty clear, but they're fuzzy because very few of those individual clear boundaries exactly coincide.

You've both fallen into the paradox. The things you perceive that create a crystal clear boundary around 'homeopathy' FOR YOU aren't necessarily seen that way by others.

Everyone's perspective is unique and everyone's perspective is no less valid than anyone else's, so for as long as we each persist along a line of I'm-right-you're-wrong, we consign ourselves to this perpetual argument. If, on the other hand, we accept the value of diversity - meaning that your perspective is accepted and acknowledged as valid and essential ... and so is everyone else's - then not only do we get to stop fighting about it, we get to see far more of the elephant by putting all our individual perspectives together. It's a win-win situation! What's not to like about it? All that's necessary is to clarify this deep conviction that there's only 'One True Way'. There is. And it's universal. But it's not a single 'One True Way' for everyone, it's everyone's individual 'One True Way' for each of us which, in turn, constitutes the "One True Way' for all.

Take the Law of Similars as an example. You say it's unique to homeopathy, but it's not because the Law of Similars is only a partial and contingent expression of a much more fundamental and universal 'law' which has to do with mirroring. Many therapies use the principle of mirroring the complaint. In my experience, you can sometimes dispense with the process of selecting and prescribing a remedy altogether purely by reading the language of a patient's symptoms and reflecting it back to them: cystitis - "what are you pissed off about?", crippling cervicalgia of several months's standing - "who's the pain in the neck then?", rash with maddening itching - "what's irritating you?" ...

The trouble with any 'system' of healing is that it becomes a well-beaten track and we all have varying degrees of a sheep-like tendency to play follow-my-leader without much further thought. This also sits easily with our tendency to think in straight lines which blinkers us to the fact that those straight lines exist only in our perception. We can see this very clearly from the outside looking in - eg. in how allopathic thinking becomes constrained to seeing everything in terms of common symptoms and DBRCTs - but it's far less easy to see where we're doing it ourselves. In imagining we've liberated our thinking from one limiting system, it's all too easy to fall straight into another. It's in the very nature of systems, so all but impossible to avoid ...

Mary

oooops ... no, Wendy
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