“Serafina” Allyson McQuinn 2011The Russian scientist Leonid Ponomarev described rather eloquently our two ways of knowing:

“It has long been known that science is only one of the methods of studying the world around us.  Another – complementary – method is realized in art.  The joint existence of art and science is in itself a good illustration of the complementarity principle.  You can devote yourself completely to science or live exclusively in your art.  Both points of view are equally valid, but, taken separately, are incomplete.  The backbone of science is logic and experiment.  The basis of art is intuition and insight.  But the art of ballet requires mathematical accuracy and, as Pushkin wrote, ‘Inspiration in geometry is just as necessary as in poetry.’  They complement rather than contradict each other.  True science is akin to art, in the same way as real art always includes elements of science.  They reflect different, complementary aspects of human experience and give us a complete idea of the world only when taken together.  Unfortunately, we do not know the ‘uncertainty relation’ for the conjugate pair of concepts ‘science and art.’  Hence we cannot assess the degree of damage we undergo from a one-sided perception of life.”

~ Leonid Ponomarev

In Quest of the Quantum

“Eye of God” Allyson McQuinn 2011

“The Wave” Allyson McQuinn 2011

“Bridge At Sundown” Allyson McQuinn 2011

“Solitude by Moonlight” Allyson McQuinn 2011

“What, then, is this Imaginative cognition, which naturally functions entirely in the supersensible world? If I attempted to give you a symbolic representation of what Imaginative knowledge is, in the way that a mathematician uses figures to illustrate a mathematical problem, I would say the following: imagine that a person living in the world knows more than sense-cognition can tell him because he can rise to pictures that yield a reality, just as the human brain yields the reality of the human soul. In the brain, nature itself has given us as a real Imagination, an Imagination perceptible to the senses, something that is attained in Imaginative knowledge at a higher level.

This, you see, leads us more deeply into the constitution of the human being. As we shall see in the next few days, this marvelous structure of the human brain is not an isolated formation.

Through Imagination we behold a world, a supersensible world, and it is as though a part of this world had become real in a lower world; in the human brain we behold a world of Imagination in concrete fact. I do not believe that anyone can speak adequately about the human brain unless he sees in its structure an Imaginative replica of the life of soul. It is just this that leads us into a dilemma when we take our start from ordinary neurophysiology and try to pass to an understanding of the life of soul. If we confine ourselves to the brain itself, a life of soul over and above this does not seem necessary. The only individuals with a right to speak of a life of soul over and above the structure of the human brain are those who have knowledge of it other than what is acquired by customary methods in this world. For when we come to know this life of soul in the spiritual world, we realize that it has its complete reflection in the structure of the human brain, and that the brain, moreover, can do everything that the supersensible organ of soul can do by way of conceptual activity. Down to its very function the brain is a mirror-image. With neurophysiology, therefore, no one can prove or disprove materialism. It simply cannot be done. If the human being were merely a being of brain, he would never need to say to himself, “Over and above this brain of mine, I possess a soul.”

~ Rudolf Steiner

Lecture: Fundamentals of Anthroposophic Medicine

Lecture I Stuttgart, October 26, 1922

“Blushing Heart”  Allyson McQuinn 2011

Wilhelm Reich goes on to define exactly how he would render his diagnosis as “The Silent Observer” and I find it fascinating to watch how he thinks about a case and their intellectual posturing while processing the diagnosis,

“Character analysis had succeeded in unmasking and eliminating the patient’s politeness and apparent devotedness as deception and the warding off of strong aggressions. Now he began to develop the following defense. Exceptionally intelligent, he sought to divine everything he concealed in the way of unconscious mechanisms and, in fact, he succeeded in destroying most of the affect situations by divining them beforehand. It was as if from a secret hiding place, he continually illuminated and examined everything with his intellect in order to preclude any surprises. It became more and more clear that the intellect fulfilled a defensive function and was spurred by severe anxious anticipations. For example, he was always extremely skilled in finding out what I happened to be thinking about him at any one moment. He was able to infer this from various factors and from the course of the treatment. He was also able to divine and foresee what would happen at any one point. From the point of view of character analysis, this behavior was looked upon as anything but cooperation; rather, it was attacked as an extremely cunning way of avoiding deep insights. The first task was to render this weapon unusable to the patient, and this could be done only by the consistent analysis of its function, and by being very sparse with my communications. The patient continued for a while to use his intellect as a defense mechanism, but gradually became insecure and uneasy and finally began to protest violently that I did not want to understand him, that his intellectual help was a clear demonstration of his cooperation, etc. I became that much more consistent in my analysis of his intellectual activity as a defense against surprises. One day a term occurred to me for his behavior. I told him that it reminded me of a cunning fox or lynx. And then, following a short period of excitation, his defensive behavior fell to pieces. It happened this way: once again he began the session by despairing that I no longer understood him. Then, gradually, his attention was focused on a scene from his third year of life which he had recounted earlier in passing, without details and affect.”

~ Wilhelm Reich

Sex-Economic Orgasmotherapy

pg. 16 4. THE INTELLECT AS DEFENSE FUNCTION

“Wild Columbine”  Allyson McQuinn 2011

Another physician who has silently mentored me with regards to state of mind based prescribing is the Bombay physician, Dr. Rajan Sankaran. He, too, regarded the mind state as more than just a random collection of discrete and unconnected symptoms. But his concept was that the whole of this state arose from an altered perception of reality, which is called Delusion. For example if a person views his situation as being very dangerous and threatening, and himself as a helpless child, he will react with panic and clinging. His apparent mental state (panic and clinging) comes from the delusion that he is like a child in dangerous surroundings. This false feeling will also be seen in his dreams. Another example: a patient who views himself as handicapped will feel incapable of handling his everyday responsibilities and react by shunning his duties and depending entirely on others. His apparent mental state (lack of responsibility, lack of confidence and dependence on others) comes from his inner, false perception that he is handicapped. In this way Dr. Rajan Sankaran brought out the importance of dreams and delusions as the basis of disease. The dream is closest to the delusion, the false perception which is at the bottom of the mind state of the patient.” These and other ideas were contained in his first book The Spirit of Homoeopathy. Apart from dreams there are other ways to perceive the patients delusion, and among these, the patients interests and hobbies, including what books, movies, activities etc. fascinate him, or hurt his sensitivity, were useful pointers to his inner state. Often unable to recall dreams the patient can vividly describe a scene from a movie or a newspaper story, with such powerful emotions that it could have been his own story. Such a thing is like a dream and can be used to perceive the delusion of the patient. Dr. Sankaran later systematized this method in his book The System of Homoeopathy.

For example the patient may say that with his ulcer, apart from the symptom of burning pain which is commonly experienced with the condition, there is a feeling that the stomach is very weak and is fragile and can break from any slight indiscretion. When this person’s mind state is examined it will be that his emotional stress is based upon a feeling of others finding out that he is not what he portrays to be, and this will be expressed as a feeling of fragility with regard to the image he projects.  What the Heilkunst Physician will observe is that the sensation expressed in the ulcer, will be no different than the sensation at the bottom of what the patient calls as stress.  The art of Heilkunst Medicine is in interpreting the fragile sensation, seen both locally and mentally is actually an expression of the deepest level of the disturbance, deeper than mind and body , and the underlying basis of both. A remedy with such a sensation (in this case, Thuja) will bring a healing action at the deepest level, thus helping his ulcer and his stress at the same time.

The founder of the American New Thought Movement, Phineus Quimby, also sourced much of this relating to the world in polarity of the right and left side of the brain, or seeing art or consciousness and a rendering of science, raising dogmatic religion up into an artful rendering, “Jesus saw all this, and as the people were groaning under the yokes (or beliefs) that bound them down, he said, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest to your soul, by explaining to you the cause of your trouble.” When he commenced explaining to the people, the explanation was to save them from the misery of this world of belief and to introduce a science (or kingdom), where there would be no offering up of prayer or forgiving of sins, but a consciousness (or science) that would put them in possession of a knowledge of themselves, which the natural man knew nothing of.
~ Phineus Quimby
The Quimby Manuscripts

I’ve also included some visual Illustrations of The Art of Seeing through Bruce Lipton’s evolution from empirical, mechanical thinking to his quantum knowledge of The Field:

I hate shopping. I may spend a total of about an hour in a mall annually out of necessity and that is almost too long. I’ve always innately supported local crafts-persons, or given a gift card for an experiential delight like an airplane ride with a friend’s son logging air-hours or a jaunt in a hot air balloon, or I’ve made my own gifts out of love only if I feel compelled to give something from my heart to another. One year, I asked my beautiful organic farmer to make up a basket of her East Indian delicacies and ship them to my best friend in New Brunswick. I like this kind of gift best of all.

I despise clutter and useless knick-knacks and so I have always avoided giving anything fundamentally useless to someone else. The only thing I like doing with my extended family is the crazy $10 exchange on Christmas Eve where my claim to fame is to always get the best number in the draw so I can choose the biggest, heaviest, juiciest gift. I always vie to find my Nan’s homemade goodies or preserves. One year I got a lemon zester from my cousin Todd! One year my Uncle got a broken wooden toilet seat that he cherished for his cottage outhouse. These gifts become family lore and get all the funnier depending on how many glasses of wine you’ve had.

Two days later on boxing day we eat a big turkey with all the traditional fixings. I make Apple Crisp to bring, my Grandmother’s recipe. I will generally make an organic turkey dinner for the left-overs to carry through the week. Perhaps I might even invite a friend or two over. I love pot lucks as it rescues us from becoming kitchen slaves. My Aunt used to cook for days after wrapping presents until the wee hours the night before and then exhaustively work shifts nursing that same week. I vowed never to become anything remotely like her. I always just wanted to pluck her from the self-made madness she’d cultivated for herself and hold her until she let go of the tears that were obviously pent up. Even her kids hated that she burnt herself out like toast over the holidays for them.

I actually don’t have a lot of time for Christmas in its traditional sense. While I love my immediate family, it can take about 10 minutes to exchange a gift card or cash with my teenagers. They used to draw me pictures or make me socks or a hand-made Waldorf Fairy Princess and these gifts I still cherish. I don’t need or want for anything and I totally love the sparse Festival that is wholly complete with a Chanukah Menorah and the lighting of a candle over eight nights and my sacred oasis completely bereft of cheesy decorations. Funny as I used to avoid Christmas by saying I was Jewish, picking and choosing only what brought me the most pleasure. Even funnier one year when my son or daughter pointed to the decorated homes in a neighbourhood we were passing by car identifying each house as, “Christmas, Christmas, Jewish, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Jewish!” They were “Jewish” if they had no lights or obvious decorations.

I have adopted this state of mind, really and will celebrate only where the venue seems most spiritually resonant and fulfilling for the higher purposes of my existence. I go where the pleasure is! Sometimes it is a drumming circle or a solstice celebration. Some years I’ve escaped to my abode with nothing but movies and avoided any get-togethers altogether. It just depends on where I’m at. I give myself the gift of freedom to decide in the moment. The older I get, the more deliciously selfish I become. As a Physician, sometimes on Skype in the middle of the night with a birthing Mother or up with a new mom administering remedies for a child with a high fever, Christmas is a time of complete quiet and contemplation for me.

I always start out with the end in mind. How do I want to feel when the holidays are over? My usual response is ‘rested’, and more connected to myself and my beloved as the kids are up in Ottawa with their Dad. My self-fulfilled twelve days of Christmas generally looks like this:

• Long snowshoe walks in the bush or Nordic walking on trails by the ocean taking photographs.
• Writing poetry or prose purely for pleasure.
• Drawing and painting for hours.
• Staying in my pyjamas until nightfall and then a long bath with essential oils.
• Reading a Highlander romance novel by Diana Gabaldon with a cat on my lap (there is a new one coming out this year!!!).
• *Studying a particular subject in my research. This year it is Slow Sex; The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm. Someone’s got to do it!
• Watching really delicious foreign films in my PJs by the fire with Jeff.
• Heading to Halifax for the weekend and getting all dressed up to eat at a sumptuous restaurant.
• Having lunch with a girlfriend at a sexy little bistro or tea room.
• Doing the whole book of Alexander Lowen’s Bioenergetic exercises.
• Knowing that the next day is just another call to spontaneity.

How do you spend your twelve days?

Merry Christmas and a Happy Chanukah!

But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:26

A few years ago, a very beautiful woman had first came in to see me for various complaints, including a sore neck, joints, migraines, chronic constipation and pain during intimacy.  A month later, she came back to see me for her routine follow-up and cited that I was a miracle worker as every one of her symptoms were completely gone.  She accredited it to the homeopathic remedies.  I smiled, knowing  that the quick results were more attributed to the increase in her daily water consumption.  She had replaced her 18 weekly coffees with about 2.5 litres of water!  It is amazing to me that most folks are actually chronically dehydrated and that technically, they don’t really qualify for medical remediation until we’ve assessed what percentage of their medical issues have to do with faulty regimen, especially dehydration.

It is still amazing to me how many folks still believe that other beverages like juice, milk, coffee and tea qualify as hydration.  Countless women have pleaded with me trying to justify herbal teas as a form of hydration.  Sadly, I’ve served countless children who hate the taste of pure water because it has always been sweetened and watered down with juice.  When a patient is unknowingly suffering dehydration I will explain that if a beverage contains too many TDS (total dissolved solids), then the body will read it and understand it as “food”, rather than water – no exceptions!

The body is constituted of around 70-80% of a jelly-like material that resembles the primordial ocean.  This mesenchymal layer, or the part of the embryonic mesoderm, consisting of loosely packed, unspecialized cells set in a gelatinous ground substance, from which connective tissue, bone, cartilage, and the circulatory and lymphatic systems develop.  We are mostly just congealed sea water, with a titch of minerals thrown in for colour, and we’d do well to bathe our innards to precisely the same degree that we bathe our outer chassis.

If you think about it, planetary systems have an orbit that they adhere to based on gravitational pull.  Our bodies, too, rely on dynamic, mass-free forces possessing a fluid-crystal structure which is sub-divided into different levels of density, frankly, to hold us together.  Physics states that the density of this fluid body is proportional to the density of any physical substance occupying the area of space that it is concerned with.  For example the watery domain will increase around large bodies such as stars and planets, acting as a refracting medium, affecting the speed of the propagation of light.  This medium is relied upon for conveying electromagnetic forces while adhering to the theory of relativity.  Rudolf Steiner stated, “As above, so below.”

You may be asking yourself, what the heck does this have to do with the 2-3 litres of water I’m supposed to chug down per day?  Well, I’m getting there.  Try to bear with me for a quantum second or two!  Quantum field theory states that all fundamental fields, such as the electromagnetic field, must be anchored at each and every point in space (including our bodies).  A field in physics may be envisioned as if you could see space filled with interconnected vibrating balls and springs (Reich’s orgone energy).  The strength of the field affects the displacement of a ball from its rest position.  If you like, read that last statement, again, and just let it congeal as an etheric impression on your watery body for a moment.  The theory requires for “vibrations” in, or more accurately changes in the strength of, such a field to propagate as per the appropriate wave equation for the particular field in question.  The second quantization of your quantum field requires that each of the ball-spring combinations be allotted a quantized (a measurable pole of strength) depending on its capacity to act as a harmonic oscillator, pulsation with excitation form the field corresponding to its elementary particles in space.  Crazy stuff huh?  That’s what I thought too!

Our bodies can only be attuned to energetic excitations from the universe, then, to the degree that it is able to shift, amble, contract, displace  and expand its harmonic oscillator … its watery body!  Even the vacuum theory cites a vastly complex watery structure and all calculations of the quantum field theory must be adjusted to the degree that certain bodies in the field are able to oscillate at stronger frequencies than others.  When you “distill” this all down, you will clearly see why my patient was able to resolve her ills simply by drinking more water.  She created motility where stasis was formerly beginning the stiffening, sclerotic processes just by propagating her “wave equation”.  Can you imagine how much fun I am to invite to your cocktail party?

Disease is a function of being cut off from “the big field” of communication, otherwise known as the domain of well … God.  The intellect, unhooked from its watery etheric impressions, has mostly mired us in matter, or salt!  The Genotype Silicea (the most intellectual of all of the Homeopathic Constitutions) will often display a strong preponderance towards the phenotypical state of grief or feelings of perpetual disappointments in love and romance otherwise known as Natrum Muriaticum.  These folks generally live in the past, just as Lot’s wife did feeling alienated and cut off from themselves and the Initiates of the higher domains as per Rudolf Steiner.  It is no accident, that the homeopathic remedy for grief, or living out of the past is Natrum Muriaticum, the Latin term for salt.  Protracted grief, over time, may start out producing emotional armoring, hardening of the attitudes, stiffness in the joints, constipation (holding on to old … um … shit) tumors, fibroids, cancerous growths and if the sclerotic effects are left untreated the final stage is rigamortis.  If you slice open a tumor, you will find it largely comprises a big ball of acidic sodium chloride in addition to other toxins.  This, really, is a hardened representation of the patient’s hardened and rigidified past.  The disease of Cancer was Lot’s wife’s lot in life!  Now, try saying that 10 times fast!

The astounding properties of 2 hydrogen molecules and 1 oxygen molecule forms the only substance in nature to be labile and flexible enough to be able to respond to varying temperatures.  Miraculously water will harden to ice, flow like a river, or vaporize like your breath on a Wintery day in January north of the 49th parallel.  Folks with the Cancer state of mind, generally feel chilled regularly with extremities like ice, while folks who are more healthy and orgastically potent create a renewable source of flowing warmth and heat.  You will notice it in their bright eyes, smooth, soft skin, and their open smiling face.  While pure pH balanced water is not a good conductor of electricity, the TV show “Myth Busters”  threw radios, hair dryers and electric heaters into bathtubs to confirm, or myth-bust, whether these things will really kill you or not. The electric heater released so much energy that it turned the dummy to charcoal and exploded the bathtub into a hundred pieces! It was hilarious.  Of course, it would be tragic if it were a person; but when it’s a dummy, it’s ROTFL funny, as my kids would say.  It is of interest to note that only contaminated city water will produce these results, picking up every current introduced to it!

If your mesenchymal layer is mostly salty, acidic and littered with contaminates, leaching potassium and creating a super-saturated domain, just imagine how you may be limiting your capacity to be quantized and vibrating to receiving quantifiable messages from The Field.  If most folks are actually dehydrated and potentially rigidifying from their own toxicity, what does this mean for their capacity to pick up resonant “vibrations?”  Wilhelm Reich, a Psychotherapist was originally Freud’s most favored student, until he recognized that the body’s capacity for orgonotic vibrations introduced through a device called an orgone accumulator was destroying cancer cells and producing more orgastically potent individuals.  A simple harmonic oscillator, quantization, produces excitations of the field corresponding to the elementary function of the orgasm.  What a concept.  Now you know the deeper reason why my patient began to enjoy pleasurable sex with her husband again.  I recall her exclamation that during that first month, after introducing proper water regimen, that her libido returned with full thrusters and that she hadn’t had that much delicious sex in years!  Giddy up!

In the teachings of Theosophy, Devas (powerful Devine powers) are regarded as living either in the atmospheres of the planets of the solar system (Planetary Angels) or inside the Sun (Solar Angels) (presumably other planetary systems and stars have their own angels) and they help to guide the operation of the processes of nature such as the process of evolution and the growth of plants (etherically, watery imbued organisms); their appearance is reputedly like colored flames about the size of a human being. It is believed by Theosophists that Devas can be observed when the third eye is activated. Some (but not most) Devas originally incarnated as human beings.  It is believed by Theosophists that nature spirits, elementals (gnomes, ondines, sylphs, and salamanders), and fairies can be also be observed when the third eye is activated.  While this capacity is mostly a function of an older consciousness, it is maintained by Theosophists that these less evolutionarily developed beings have never been previously incarnated as human beings; they are regarded as on a separate line of spiritual evolution called the “Deva evolution”; eventually, as their souls advance as they reincarnate, it is believed they will incarnate as Devas.  All this to say, that these beings possess etheric bodies (but no physical bodies) that are composed of etheric matter, a type of matter finer and more pure that is composed of smaller watery particles than ordinary physical plane matter.  So it all goes to say that if we are suffering an internal desert, we may be bereft from experiencing the salvation of a healthy mind, body and spirit.  Our oasis in the physical enables communion with our etheric body where we render impressions on this watery domain, suck up the impressions into consciousness and render them anew through inspiration, imagination, and illumination.  This process is only the function of human consciousness and if we are too dry and dehydrated, we remain mostly mired in matter imprisoned in our own salt.  Sadly we’re doomed to looking back with Lot’s wife.  Did the poor girl even have a name?

In Dr. F. Batmanghelidj’s profoundly accurate book, “Your Body’s Many Cries For Water,” he states, “When the human body developed from species that were given life in water, the same dependence on the life-giving properties of water was inherited. The role of water in the body of living species – mankind included – has not changed since the first creation of life from salt water and its subsequent adaption to fresh water.”  The human body has a major problem with its normal water regulation, caused by a gradual loss of thirst sensation. If you do become thirsty, it is too late, you’ve already become dehydrated.  Humans seem to lose their thirst sensation and the critical perception of needing water. Not recognising their need for water, they gradually become increasingly and chronically dehydrated with the progress of age. Batmanghelidj went on to advise Physicians that recognizing thirst signals of the body will undoubtedly produce complicated problems in the present way of treatment of these conditions. It is all too easy to assume these signals are complications of a serious disease process and begin to treat signal-producing dehydration with complicated procedures. Although water by itself will alleviate the condition, medications or invasive diagnostic procedures may be forced on the person. It is the responsibility of both patients and their doctors to be aware of the damage that chronic dehydration can cause in the human body. Dr. Batmanghelidj was very clear when he said, “These chronic pains include dyspeptic pain, rheumatoid arthritis pain, anginal pain (heart pain on walking, or even at rest), migraine and hangover headaches, colitis pain and its associated constipation.  The “view shift” dictates that all these pains should be treated with a regular adjustment to daily water intake. No less than two and a half quarts (two and one half litres) in 24 hours should be taken for a few days prior to the routine and regular use of analgesics or other pain-relieving medications.”

In closing, maybe think about the principles of quantum physics illustrated above and how they relate to cosmic wisdom that holds the planets in the cosmos (above) in conjunction with your body (below) in good physical and  spiritual equilibrium.   When we drink water, depending on the volume of water that enters the stomach, a hormone/neurotransmitter called “motilin” is secreted. The more water we drink, the more motilin is produced by the intestinal tract and can be measured in blood circulation (immune function or ontic, sense of the self). The effect of motilin on the intestinal tract, as its name implies, is to produce rhythmic contractions (Reich’s orgonotic pulsations) of the intestines – peristalsis – from its upper parts to its lower end. Part of this action would involve the timely opening and closing of the valves (labile flexibility also indicative of a labile state of mind) that are in the way of flow (watery formation) of the intestinal content (and the function of the orgasm). Thus, when there is enough water in the body for all the digestive processes that depend on the availability of water, the pancreas (the organ that metabolizes the sweetness in life) will produce its watery bicarbonate solution to prepare the upper part of the intestinal tract to receive the acidic content of the stomach. Under such ideal circumstances, the pyloric valve is also allowed to open (open on emotional level, think of acid reflux or indigestion) for the evacuation of the content of the stomach. Motilin has a major “transmission” role in co-ordinating this action. Motilin is a satiety hormone secreted when water extends the stomach wall.  Ah, relaxation.  All is well that ends well!  When operating in concert, we are able to transmit, receive and radiate information, beyond the veil, anchored to the measurable quantum divide.

Sources:

Dr. F. Batmanghelidj: “Your body’s many cries for water” – 154 pages.
Published by: The Therapist Ltd.
ISBN: 1 899398 35 X
Price: 9.95 pounds sterling.

Since then, I’ve amassed many tales of homeopathic cures that even took me to a children’s camp in the wilds of Quebec (ok it was only 30 minutes from a hospital). I treated a young girl for chronic headaches that cleared up overnight with out re-incidence with Bryonia (headaches over the eyes). I treated another young boy for a bee sting with Apis (bee venom) , Ledum (puncture wound) and Silicea (to push the stinger out) that was difficult to locate the next day. I also had a teenager flare the most amazing high fever that reacted very well to Belladonna (quick onset, lots of redness, worse right sided). The latter patient slept easy in my MASH unit that night so that I could triage her symptoms, but she and I both slept through the night. She got up the next morning out of very wet bed-sheets and went on her way, fever-less, to join her cabin for breakfast.

Some of you may be heading to your own cottage, or camp, this summer and you can pack some of the same homeopathic remedies as I did in order to easily and simply apply the law of cure, “Like Cures Like,” in order to address your own first aid issues. You may be as surprised as I was at their effective, curative action, without causing an ounce of harm. Thankfully they are just as safe to administer to a 1 day old babe as they are to your 100 year-old Grandmother! You can swing by most health-food stores or some more holistic pharmacies to source your homeopathic remedies for your home, camping trips, or weekly forays to the Cottage. To order more extensive homeopathic kits, you can follow the link from our website to order yours and some reference materials to get you started:

In conjunction with a good course in First Aid and CPR, here are a list of the 10 most common conditions and the must-have homeopathic remedies for you to stock your first aid kit with. Remember that these do not replace emergency medical care at your local hospital, or generally resolve chronic constant diseases treated by your health care Practitioner, but they can allow you to easily and successfully resolve cuts, scrapes, bug bites and bruises at a minimum.

Successful homeopathic treatment is best provided by a skilled Physician, however, a selection of remedies work for a variety of common ailments which are suitable for personal use. Homeopathic first aid remedies are most often dispensed in strengths (dilutions) of 6C, 9C, 12C and 30C, with 6C for acute or sudden onset conditions and 30C for slightly longer term, generalized conditions.

The following is a brief list of some of the most common first aid conditions and the corresponding homeopathic remedies you can choose from for your personal or family’s first aid kit.

If you would like us to teach a class on homeopathic first aid prescribing, contact us at www.arcanum.ca and we can arrange to do it in person or remotely by teleconferencing technologies.

Lowering Cholesterol can actually be harmful to your health!  The New England Journal of Medicine has actually corrected the myth that dietary intake of fat does not cause heart disease, but that sugar is a much more significant factor in the cause of dangerous heart and arterial inflammation.  Cholesterol is actually an important molecule released by the liver in order to allow life to exist.  It is the healative agent in cellular inflammation.  Lowering cholesterol with statin drugs can actually cause more harm than good, and even provoke inflammation in the body instead as the cells feel unaided by the fatty, corrective bath.  There is actually no good or bad cholesterol.  LDL and HDL are vehicles that transport fats, repair cells, regulate hormones, and metabolize vitamin D3.   Cholesterol doesn’t oxidize in water, or in the blood, and it has never been proven scientifically to cause inflammation.  Actually, sugar drives the supposedly good HDL cholesterol down and is considered more harmful if the pre-diabetic state becomes glycated forming inflammation of the heart muscle.

Lipitor, Crestor and Zocar are chemical drugs touted by Big Pharma to lower your Cholesterol. Most Doctors are instructed by the Big Pharma companies to get a person’s cholesterol down to “70.”  This is in fact, unnaturally low and can cause more damage to the cardiovascular system than good.  Also, Dr. Mark Hyman proposes that these drugs are aimed at the wrong enemy, as dementia (sycosis), cancer and diabetes are actually the bigger causes for heart disease.  When he accessed the study in the New England Journal it was found that, “The study found a 39.8 percent reduction in LDL (or bad cholesterol) and a 138 percent increase in HDL (or good cholesterol).  Sure, the medications lowered cholesterol. However, the study was not large enough or long enough to answer the most important question: Did the drug results in fewer heart attacks and deaths. Despite this glaring omission, the scientists reporting on these results used words such as “spectacular”, “giddy”, “enormous”, “most excited in decades” to describe their enthusiasm over the medication. Of course, the researchers (as I described in a recent post “Dangerous Spin Doctors”) were on the payroll of Merck who funded the study.”

It would seem that the scientists, themselves, suffer some dementia or short-term memory loss, as in 2007, just three years ago, a new wonder drug from Pfizer called Torcetrapib, working on the same mechanism as the newer Merck drug, Anacetrapib does.  In fact, it follows precisely the same action as the other.  It had been confirmed that LDL was dramatically lowered, while HDL cholesterol was raised, just like the new drugs from Merck.  The concurrent problem was that deaths from heart attacks increased 25 percent and deaths from heart disease in general, increased a whopping 40 percent.  Overall deaths increased to an abominable 200 percent.  After spending over $800 million in the development of these drugs, Pfizer had to walk away due to the results where they caused more harm by heart disease and deaths than those that were saved.  Why is Merck being permitted by the FDA to proceed on the basis of the same already tried and harmful findings?

Also, Dr. Ron Rosedale touts similarly, “Common sense would indicate that we should avoid the oxidation (rancidity) of cholesterol and fatty acids and not get rid of important life-giving molecules. Using the same conventional medical thinking that is being used for cholesterol would lead one to believe that doctors should reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by taking out everybody’s brain.  In fact, cholesterol is being transported to tissues as part of an inflammatory response that is there to repair damage.”  We are then just shooting the messenger as opposed to treating the underlying cause.  It is actually the sugar and refined carbohydrates that cause the rancidity, inflaming arteries, the heart muscle and raising insulin.  The cholesterol is actually released from the liver in an effort to repair the damage caused by the inflammation.  If we lower it, unnecessarily with drugs, we in fact leave the cells unprotected and rendered impotent to resolve their plight.

Dr. Rosedale goes on to illuminate unequivocally, “The fixation on cholesterol as a major cause of heart disease defies the last 15 years of science and deflects from real causes such as the damage (via glycation) that sugars such as glucose and fructose inflict on tissues, including the lining of arteries, causing chronic inflammation and resultant plaque.”  Ah, so now that we now the true culprit, it is up to Physicians to stop deluding the public and breaching the Hippocratic Oath by perpetuating harm.

We know that drugs do not treat the root cause of disease, ever.  They are not prescribed on the basis of natural law and are unfortunately only suppressive or palliative at best.  They can give the illusion that the symptoms are gone, but the root cause prevails and will generally find other ways of manifesting.  The root cause of heart disease is dynamic and is due to a dissonant diet high in sugars (unable to extract the sweetness from life), unreconciled stress, a lack of a true love relationship with the self or others, and the influence of a dastardly genetic miasm or two.  A satiric editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, many years ago, suggested that Doctors should prescribe new drugs vehemently early on before the side effects are brought to light.  Use of the new Anacetrapib seems to be following this harmful diatribe.

The Empiricists are amazing, as it has been suggested that statin drugs be placed at the cash counters of MacDonald’s.  This is the epitome of faulty reductionist thinking.  I served a patient a couple of years ago who insisted on remaining on the drug as insurance, even though after Heilkunst treatment, he’d arrived at the desired state of homeostasis.  His LDL and HDL levels were perfectly normal and stabilized.  Although he suffered odd symptoms, including heart palpitations, loss of sexual potency, a loss of muscle mass while still actively playing hockey and sudden drops in blood pressure, he was reluctant to go off the medications prescribed by his Doctor, even though the literature from other studies like these illumined that the drugs were the cause of the harmful phenomenon at play.

Abnormal cholesterol levels are just an indicator of a dynamic spiral downward that is mostly resultant of “diabesity,” a term coined by Dr. Hyman.  It is the continuum of insulin and blood sugar issues indicative of pre-diabetes and end stage diabetes.  Taking a CETP inhibitor or a statin drug can not effect this downturn.  A diet high in sugars and refined flours, low fibre, a sedentary lifestyle, excessive stress, lack of rest, love-less relationships, or the harmful effects of chemical or emotional pollution are the regimenal factors to be addressed first.

When looking at the blood in a patient’s live blood analysis, instead of just looking at cholesterol numbers, we will look for undue contraction or inflammation of HDL or LDL particles.  If they appear small and dense, we know that they are more atherogenic (more likely to show up as plaque in the arteries that leads to heart attacks), while large, fluffy, more buoyant cholesterol particles are desired.  Small particles are more indicative of pre-diabetes (or metabolic syndrome) and diabetes which are indicative of insulin resistance.  It is the sugar that is the enemy.  In fact, in an article I read years ago, it was said that the FDA would not approve the use of refined “sugar” in our diets.  On top of that, recent research actually reveals that statins may be a cause of diabetes which can be the precursor to this much bigger problem of heart disease.

This metabolic syndrome just described is rarely diagnosed by Allopathic Physicians, although it affects over half of the population.  We are finding that refined sugar may be the major cause for heart disease, diabetes, aging, dementia, cancer, infertility and sexual dysfunction as per Dr. Hyman.  Yet, it is most ignored by Doctors.  You may ask yourself why? And the answer is both tragic and simple; there are no drugs qualified to treat it effectively.  If they can’t target it with drugs, it just doesn’t exist in the Big Pharma matrix.  This is why statin drugs remain so popular in North America, despite the vast research against them.  It is a grand lie, that we remain prey to.

Dr. Mercola has personally suffered from the myths of lowering your cholesterol illustrated in a article he wrote back in 2008, attributing his premature hair loss to lowering his cholesterol.  He cites, “I have significant personal experience with low cholesterol. I bought into the low-fat myth in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and with my diet and long-distance running actually got my cholesterol level down to 75 without taking any drugs. At the time it seemed to be a good thing — but now I know it was a prescription for disaster and was likely one of the major reasons I lost my hair.  The fact that your body naturally makes cholesterol, and uses it for producing cell membranes, hormones, vitamin D, and the bile acids that help you digest fats, among many other things, is a major clue that cholesterol is necessary and beneficial for your health.”

Mercola goes on to say that, “One of the most important things I advise people looking to lower their cholesterol to do is to reduce, or eliminate, refined sugars and grains from their diet.  What do sugar and grain have to do with cholesterol and your heart?  Eating too much sugar and refined grains is the primary cause of high triglycerides, and restricting sugar and grains seems to normalize triglyceride levels in most everyone who tries it.”

Triglycerides, are very much like cholesterol, belonging to the lipid family. They, too, are not soluble in water.  They’re also a major source of energy for your body, and are either obtained from your diet or produced in your liver.  However, when your body has more triglycerides than it can use, the excess spillage ends up being transported to be stored as fat cells (rather than being used by your body for energy). If your triglyceride levels remain elevated it can lead to atherosclerosis and heart damage.  In other words, high triglycerides are an incredibly potent risk factor for inflammation and heart disease. In combination, high triglycerides and low HDL levels create an even bigger risk; this ratio is even more important to your heart health than the standard good vs. bad cholesterol ratio.

Dr. Mercola refers to one study, that in fact, found that people with the highest ratio of triglycerides to HDL had 16 times the risk of heart attack as those with the lowest ratio of triglycerides to HDL!  That is astonishing.  So while you strive to keep your HDL cholesterol levels up, you’ll want to decrease your triglycerides. How? You can increase your HDL levels by exercising and getting plenty of omega-3 fats like those from krill oil. Triglycerides are easily decreased by exercising and avoiding grains and sugars in your diet.  We can help you with this.

Your body actually requires cholesterol to survive, and it needs to be trusted for producing it.  It is best not to tell folks that cholesterol is bad and must be lowered, as this can be harmful for your health.  Even for years after Mercola touted the ill effects of lowering cholesterol, among others, Doctors still test for cholesterol levels and prescribe for them with harmful and unproven statin drugs.  Did you you know that if your cholesterol dips too low that you are increasing your risk for:

• Stroke
• Depression
• Violent behavior
• and even Suicide

Healthy oils, as per Rudolf Steiner, are the vehicle for the incarnation of the self, healthy metabolism and stellar immune functioning and we strongly recommend olive oil, flax, almond, walnut and coconut oils regularly in the diet.  In addition to reducing refined sugars and carbohydrates, regular exercise that respects your blood type is stellar for health and longevity.  We can also provide Drainage and Organ Support that includes “Cholesterol” and “Saccarin” homeopathically in a low potency to combat the ill effects of a dissonant diet.  Also, being in love with your own creative genius and in turn, in love with others, reduces stress and anger wrought from the un-lived life or from rescuing others to the exclusion of the self.  A person’s past emotional and physical traumas and perpetuating karmic patterns can cultivate “diabesity” and the metabolic spiral downturn that Allopathic Doctors don’t diagnose.   We’ve wholly got you covered through principled Heilkunst regimen, medicine and psychotherapeutics, enabling you to get on with your life.

Dr. Samuel Hahnemann

“Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet, and at times noisy, desperation, understanding nothing but the fact that there is a hole inside them and that however much food and drink they pour into it, however many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it…it aches!”

-Bernard Levin

As I was pondering how to go about this, I realized that it would be best if I warned some members of our audience at the onset. If you are strictly embedded in the material, mechanistic world and not able to entertain the possibility of a viable and reliable spiritual science, please back away slowly. Honestly, I say this for your own protection. It is just going to upset you anyways, so close the lid of your computer or go check your Twitter stream instead. Believe me when I say, that it is just as difficult for me to discuss this subject matter (using the term loosely of course) as it may be for you to entertain it. We are all mired in matter and sometimes, it is best if we don’t jostle the mechanized apple cart before we are ready.

That being said, our chemical, traditional scientific intellects have descended into matter just about as far as we can push it. The Internet bodes well for this capacity to extract any piece of information that we need. It takes less time to research anything than ever before. For example, I can look up a drug’s pharmacological chemical composition and know the drug/herbal/nutrient contraindications so fast, it makes my head spin. And it does! However, this capacity has not wholly afforded Allopathic, chemical science to be able to cure the cancer state of mind before the tumor erupts, reverse the onset of the symptoms in instances of the common cold or even effectively address arthritis outright. If chemical science is so adept, why are diabetes, heart disease and autism spectrum disorders on the rise?

Chemical drugs, while brilliant in limited acute situations, fail at treating the root cause of chronic disease. Like you, I do not want to be awake during general surgery if I should need to go under the knife in an emergency. However, drugs used long term for chronic disease are the number one killer in North America as per Dr. Mercola, and their chemical properties often cause a host of side effects and add an iatrogenic insult needing to be mopped up separately from the disease as the body holds the cellular toxicity from vaccines, including thimerosal (mercury preservative), for example, for up to 60 years. We will see the chemical and dynamic residue come up in our CoRe Bioresonance Feedback sessions with our patients, so scientifically we know it is there.

Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Heilkunst Medicine and the principles of Homeopathy, fully understood the issues plaguing material and immaterial science when he touted, “If it does not give relief-speedy, mild and permanent relief – then, by a publication of the duly – attested history of the treatment according to the principles of the Homoeopathic system strictly followed out, you will be able to give a public refutation of this doctrine which so seriously threatens the old darkness. But I pray you to beware of playing false in the matter.”* Hahnemann has been quoted as saying that he saw more patients die from their treatments than from their natural diseases. While he started out as an Allopathic Physician, his ethical centre propelled him to leave his burgeoning practice for lesser pay as a translator where he was illuminated by a Dr. Cullen’s use of an herbal tincture derived from the Chinchona tree in South America in the effective treatment of Malaria.

Dr. Hahnemann decided to try a dose of chinchona himself first and didn’t he suffer fever, chills, aches and pains very similar to someone suffering malaria? As a result of being an observational scientist, he began to offer the same experience to some of his medical students at the College in Germany where he taught. And the results were the same – they all came down with Malaria-like symptoms. Nature is very consistent! Now, Hahnemann knew that the Father of Modern Medicine, Hippocrates had touted not only the maxim, “First, Cause No Harm,” but he had also said, “By similar things a disease is produced and through the application of the like is cured.” Aristotle, too, observed that, “Often the simile acts upon the simile.” Hahnemann’s research, in turn, led him to lay down in Latin, “Similia similibus curentur”, or more simply, “Like Cures Like.” The art and science of Heilkunst medicine was founded on the basis of this homeopathic law and the first remedies prescribed on this basis. No other system of medicine known to man today has the same reliable and sound principles. They wholly stand alone and have little to do with the individuals who use them, as they are independent laws of nature just like gravity.

Hahnemann started by giving his students, and then patients, very minute doses based on these scientific Provings. While he was still in the realm of chemical science, he found himself diluting and succussing; pounding the bottle lightly against a surface like the palm of your hand (Hahnemann used a leather-bound Bible) in order to invigorate the solution with the force of dynamization. This latter action being very important as it imbued the water with an energetic impulse mimicked in nature called the vortex. This is the way energy travels naturally, imbibed with radial and spherical forces.

Hahnemann observed that he was inclined to give increasingly diluted doses in order to prevent any side effects from the drugs given in their conventional crude form. He eventually succussed the drugs right out of corporeality, passing Avogadro’s Law of 6.022 X 1023 where the proportionality of the constant (crude nature) had left the material, corporeal world and entered the realm of the arcana. This was, and still is, the precise point where material, chemical science left to become immaterial, spiritual science. However, to Hahnemann’s surprise, the efficacy remained and was even enhanced affecting not only the physical, but mental, emotional and spiritual karmic levels as well.

As mentioned in my previous blog, Why take a remedy?, Dr. Emoto has done some incredible photography of how water can record the most spectacular images of words, music or sounds outside the realm of chemical science. The crystals that make up the molecular structure of water can be measured and illustrated under a very high-powered microscope to show that water can hold the cellular memory of even a thought.

This too is how prayer works. In the book The Secret Life of Plants, electrodes were put on a plant and hooked up to an aquarium full of krill (shrimp-like organisms). In the experiment, the krill were killed instantaneously and the plant hooked to the electrodes reacted violently on an oscillograph. Another experiment was also done where the owner of a plant that was also hooked to the same tool of measurement was hit by a car in a large city a plane ride away.

At the point of contact and injury of the human, the plant reacted violently again, showing a reaction on the oscillograph. Messages are being communicated through the ether and picked up in the watery domain of living and seemingly more inert beings constantly. Our etheric, watery domains, represent about 80% of our entire physiology and so by impressing conscious remediation on the basis of law, we have the capacity to cure … with nothing less than our thoughts; provided that they are slightly stronger than the natural disease!

In The Book, Where Science Meets Spirit Matter; Energy and Consciousness are the Same Thing by NoR (a group of researchers) they surmise that, “Quantum physics can show that the apparent ‘materiality’ of the world is no more ‘real’ than a dream-image; that ‘consciousness’ is a vital element in understanding the true nature of reality. The world that seems so solid and separate from you has been shown by quantum physics to be a trick of the senses. A number of eminent physics professors have stated quite clearly that ‘matter’, ‘energy’ and ‘consciousness’ are the same thing.” A remedy, then, is just trained or finely honed human consciousness.

There it is! Don’t say that I didn’t warn you at the onset of this blog article!

The next questions arising out of this phenomenon then becomes the ethical nature and health of the individuals who deliver this “finely honed human consciousness” for the deliverance from human suffering. More grist for another blog? We’ll see!

*Leipzig. February, 1817, and is signed “Dr. Samuel Hahnemann.” (Reine Arzneimittellehre,” Vol. III. “Lesser Writings,” New York.)