counterpoints, I must say I am very pleased to see this debate. It is a
refresher to be clear and precise in our thinking about what we do. Many of
us work in isolation and I find this whole discussion a stimulation to be
better. Thanks to all and especially to Wendy for injecting some humor with
her signature and for reminding us that the Law of Similars can take effect
even without our potentized substances!!
Sherill
-----Original Message-----
From: homeopathy-bounces@homeolist.com
[mailto:homeopathy-bounces@homeolist.com] On Behalf Of Wendy Howard
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 5:09 AM
To: homeopathy@homeolist.com
Subject: 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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