First of all, we need to distinguish between a person’s “ambient”, and their “environment”. If you and I are sitting together in the same room, we co-exist within the same environment. Each one of us, however, has a unique ambient, which is the subset of the environment which is composed of our individual resonance, both positive and negative. Everything in the environment which has some relationship to your desire function, is “lit up” before you. Two people walking into the same room will likely notice entirely different details for this reason.

It’s akin to the type of experience where you have just bought a new car of a particular make and model, and suddenly everywhere you go you see that same model.

As I mentioned, our ambient is composed of both positive and negative resonance, meaning that not only will our ambient display things which we desire, but also objects or events which are mirrors of where our desire function is suppressed or blocked. This is the meaning of all forms of “accidents”, which are aspects of our negative resonance coming at us in progressively increasing intensities until we “get” their intended lesson. A complete case-taking of a patient’s state of disease must include this whole picture of occurents (all of the things which “happen to” the patient), accidents, as well as the positive events which come into their life.

Likewise, as a patient walks through their time line treament, the healing and release from the remedies will often be accompanied by specific events or “chance” meetings with significant people (or archetypal representatives of those people), as the patient finally integrates and then lets go of the original meaning of the trauma in question.

An aspect of Hollywood films which is often criticized, is how unrealistic certain plots or turn of events unfold on the screen. The fact is, that these “only in Hollywood” scenarios are usually only slightly exaggerated versions of real-life occurents, “accidents”, and other strokes of luck which are not based on a rational logic, but on the force field which draws a person to confront whatever they need to within their ambient.

It becomes a sobering thought on the path to greater health that everything which unfolds in our life is a function of a part of our mind and consciousness, whether or not we have fully realized the source of any given part of our ambient. A definition of healing, from this perspective then, would be an increasing level of consciousness, and command of both the waking conscious mind, as well as all aspects of the sub- and un-conscious parts of the mind.

With the six genotypes, one of the characteristic distinctions we make is between the three IQ, or introverted types (Silicea, Lycopodium, Calcarea Carb), and three EQ, or extroverted types (Phosphorous, Pulsatilla, Sulphur). For the phenotypes, one of the key structural characteristics we are looking at is the differences between stasis neurosis and psycho neurosis. These are psychological terms which represent blockages to the natural flow of the person’s life energy based either on external factors of suppression (stasis neurosis), or internal factors of repression (psycho neurosis).

The emergence of a particular phenotype in a patient will come from a variety of factors in terms of their life history, and in particular, the nature of their shocks, traumas, and conflicts, as well as their broader ideogenic terrain (which is the realm of the highest form of disease caused by false beliefs, illusions, or delusions), as well as the genetic inheritance of the chronic disease patterns in their family tree.

The treatment of the phenotype is done with the corresponding homeopathic remedy, usually given in the patient’s daily dropper bottle. If there is still enough of a corner of a healthy state of mind remaining, it is possible to diagnose both the genotype and the phenotype, and prescribe for both simultaneously. Also, the phenotype will gradually melt away (sometimes faster, sometimes slower) over time as the patient’s time line of shocks and traumas are gradually whittled away, moving them always one step closer towards their natural state of health. As this process unfolds, their natural genotype becomes more and more visible, and the heavier elements of their personality fall away.

The underlying message of this Ted Talk caught my eye, as it reflects the deeper understanding of human capacity understood by Heilkunst. Our usual exposure to daily media exposes us to endless messages of war, destruction, and a constant message that we are destroying the planet and our long-term prospect for survival.

As I’ve written elsewhere on this blog, one of the unique understandings within Heilkunst is that our life force has a dual aspect made up of two powers : a sustentive (life sustaining), and a generative (sexual, creative). True healing must go beyond simply re-balance the sustentive power, and liberate the generative power to come into its full capacity for creativity and change-making. This is reflective within people’s world views, as well, as the typical view we’re saturated with by the news media is fundamentally based on a finite, limited sustentive power view of the human being, who is always on the verge of “running out” of energy and all other resources.

On a personal, individual level, this state of mind is contained within the primary chronic miasm (genetic disease) called Psora, which consolidates this world view within its diseased state of mind – the feeling and state of mind in Psora is of poverty, lack, insufficiency, or “running on empty”. Physically, this is represented by all forms of symptoms of dryness and dehydration. It’s interesting that one of the facets of this video addresses a technological solution for providing vast amounts of water to all parts of the world.

Whether you agree with every specific point and proposed technology in this video is not the point; but rather, the underlying understanding of the human capacity for a generative overcoming of lack and limitation gets to the root of the original state of health which everyone has access to through treatment.

Where have you allowed yourself to partake of a limited world view, possibly without even recognizing it?

This essentially comes from confronting the meaning of regimen – its why rather than its how. The usual approach to Regimen, or even to thinking about it, is of a commitment to deprivation, and being healthy for reasons of fear of disease, rather than for gaining pleasure. Another view of this comes in the form of seeing any effort put into one’s health as a disease itself called “health nut-itis” – the seemingly obsessive pursuit of health at the cost of actually living.

There is a germ of truth in the view, in terms of anything which is done rigidly or in an overly zealous manner. Any health choice made out of rigidity, fear, or a contractive attitude has questionable value, and possibly a detrimental one.

The real purpose of regimen really comes as a function of self-love instead of fear. The hedonistic pleasures which can come from “eat whatever you want”, and “do whatever feels good” are actually much limited in their scope compared to the richer and deeper pleasures that come when one’s regimen is aligned to support our ability to fulfill our higher purpose and desire function.

It happens with many of my patients, that they say they want to be healthier, and ask for advice for what they can do to reach this goal; however, when they come back for their monthly follow-ups, they have often not followed my advice, and ask if there is instead a homeopathic remedy they can use to try to reach their goals. This strange contradiction between what they say, and what they actually are able to do at a given point in time illustrates the huge gap created by a deficiency in the patient’s self-love. Rather than beating themselves up over it, I educate the patient to take note of this deficiency in their self-love quotient, and work with them to address their issues which keep them from a fuller form of self-love.

Once a patient is more aligned at this level, regimen no longer feels like deprivation, or even a battle of will power, but a pleasurable source of fuelling them towards their higher goals, and the unfolding of their unique desire program. Rather than feeling like they are a “health nut”, they feel more connected to life than they ever imagined before.

What are the blockages for you engaging with your best regimen? It usually boils down to a combination of not being clear over which practices are best for you, and/or not being able to engage your willing forces due to emotional blockages or attachments. Write down what these are for you, and decide what would help you to get past the first one. Call the clinic for help in any of the three jurisdictions in your healing.

This light-hearted, humorous Ted Talk gets at a really important set of questions, about coming to understand what is real, yet not visible.

I’ve been exploring some of the ins and out of what a patient may go through as they travel through the third jurisdiction of Heilkunst treatment called “Therapeutic Education”. As I said in a previous post, the core issues for any patient usually start out as being invisible to themselves, and the first goal of treatment is to raise the patient’s consciousness of them.

John Lloyd presents himself in this talk as an “immaterialist”, as a tongue-in-cheek expression contradicting the material world view which states that only things visible can be considered real. Examining the real effects of the supposedly un-real substance of homeopathic remedies would fall under the important category of the invisible which is outlined here.

The further you explore such questions in a scientific way, the more you start to come to the conclusion that the most real things are the least visible. This truth extends from the personal, in terms of the goal of getting to “know thyself”, to the broader scientific questions of understanding the workings of the world.

What is a homeopathic remedy, and how does it work? How do non-physical events (ie emotional) affect our health so profoundly? How can only one single drop of the homeopathic remedy trigger such profound healing reactions?

How many invisible realities have you embraced today?

The third jurisdiction (Therapeutic Education) ultimately is aimed at addressing the mind, soul, and spirit of the patient, and begins by removing any blockages which are in the way of their full expression. I’ve mentioned the issue of beliefs before, which exist at many levels and in many types. One of the foundational beliefs of our culture, both formally in terms of our scientific methodology, as well as informally and at a personal level, was thoroughly and clearly articulated by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. It essentially says that we are incapable of truly knowing anything, other than what appears to our five senses. Any claim to knowing something other than the direct sense data can never be acceptable within any field of science, or otherwise lay any claim to being considered objective.

Even taking the step of declaring the meaning of what has presented itself to our senses is already on shaky ground, within this worldview. The modern methodology of science reflects this belief structure in many ways, which I’ll devote much more focus to that in other blog posts, which will include a recounting of how Rudolf Steiner overthrew the philosophical premises and conclusions of Kant. At a personal, individual level, the implications of this have boxed the modern mind into a very limited capacity, where only personal beliefs or “opinions” are allowed, but not any claim to knowledge.

This is a very important limitation to break through, even if we are limiting our discussion to the topic of our personal level of health. To allow ourselves to be cut off from this capacity which we all have, that is, “to know”, keeps us distanced from a source of deep satisfaction in our life. How much pleasure can we have from attaining arbitrary goals, which may or may not have a deeper connection to our core desire function?You can also understand virtually every form of anxiety to be rooted back to a degree of belief which is eclipsing knowing.

As an exercise, or meditation, you can spend a few minutes every day exploring the idea of connecting to what it is you actually know, rather than just simply think or believe about yourself and the world. You may draw a lot of blanks for a while, but once you start to find even a small corner of knowing within yourself, it can grow to become a foundation for actually knowing yourself and the world.

Another point to realize about this third jurisdiction, which involves cutting through a patient’s beliefs, is that it is made up of issues which are largely “invisible” to the patient, at least until they are brought to see it for one reason or another. Unlike a physical symptom, or a pain, there may be no pressing reason for a patient to take notice of their unconscious beliefs. For this reason, it is often the case that most patients don’t specifically seek treatment for this area, but are otherwise driven to come in for treatment for something which is more visible to them. Depending on the context, and the nature of a given case, I will put more or less emphasis on bringing the patient’s attention to this area, as it applies to their health issue(s) at hand.

The mind and body are not separate, after all, and I do my patients no service by allowing them to maintain the illusion that their physical symptoms can be 100% eliminated independently of addressing the underlying emotional, psychological, or belief layer which it is rooted in.

So, for various reasons, you can see why I have written so much more about this third jurisdiction, and I’ve only just begun! First of all, it is a realm which is generally the most invisible from the patient’s point of view. Secondly, it involves content which is wrapped up in the most reactive and violent defense mechanisms within us. By definition, to begin to engage in this area, will bring up one or more defense mechanisms in the patient. The practitioner needs to be prepared to take the brunt of some of the most vicious, personal attacks ever inflicted in any context!

You are probably also beginning to appreciate why I so carefully take one step at a time with each patient, to walk them through the necessary components of the jurisdictions of Regimen and Medicine, to ensure that they are properly prepared to work through this third jurisdiction with as many inner resources that they can bring to bear on their highest issues.

As I’ve said before, Heilkunst is a medical system which demands not only the practitioner to be qualified, but the patient, as well, before they cross into the next jurisdiction of treatment. When the patient takes responsibility for their part in their healing, and the practitioner takes command of their role, some phenomenal healing working can be done!

Likewise, on the other side of this, is another unique aspect of Heilkunst, which is that the practitioner will be limited as to how far they can help their patients attain progressive stages of healing, based on how far the practitioner has gone themselves with their own healing. The outer forms or techniques of Heilkunst may provide a starting point for the basics (rules of healthy regimen, for example), but the further up the chain of treatment one goes, the more critical it is to have a guide who has “already been there”, whether literally, or within an activated, living imagination.

“Ordinary” imagination can not serve this purpose, but through a progressive healing process, a living imagination is full of real living energy, and is able to deeply participate the journey of another, and truly know how to help them move to the next stage of their healing. Even if the practitioner has not literally lived through the same experience that the patient is going through, they can potentially come to a complete understanding of it from the inside out (deeply participating the patient), rather than from the usual mode of observing from the outside in (passive onlooker).

On the flip side of this equation, the areas which the practitioner has not yet consciously addressed within themselves will be major blind spots in terms of being able to help a patient who has those same issues. Any remaining issue where the practitioner engages an aspect of life “conditionally”, will prevent them from seeing that their patient suffers the same blockage. An inner condition, for example, that “everything is OK as long as no one is getting angry at me” is not ultimately part of a state of complete health, and the practitioner who lives unconsciously through this condition will not be able to see the same in their patient, and therefore will not be able to help them through it.

This is the reason why Heilkünstlers are not only required to complete through a certain phase of their own treatment before graduating, but that they must also commit to continuing their treatment on an ongoing basis as part of their membership in the professional association, the CIHA (“Canadian and International Heilkunst Association”). Heilkunst is the opposite of a mechanical approach to medicine, and its full application requires highly trained and treated practitioners who are both artists and scientists, rather than mere technicians.

Where the jurisdiction of Regimen is ultimately about balancing all aspects of the patient’s diet and lifestyle, and the Medical jurisdiction is about the specific and systematic removal of all the patient’s diseases, the third jurisdiction involves a rather different agenda. Dr. Hahnemann, the founder of Heilkunst, made reference to (but provided little practical guidance) about what he called “the highest” diseases, which ultimately originate from ignorance. If things were simple, you would suppose that we might dispense with the first two jurisdictions, and just get straight to the business of overturning ignorance with truth. Voila!

While the concept of this is essentially true, in that all disease originates from a state of ignorance, it has devolved into multiple forms over time, which each need to be addressed on their own terms, in the right sequence, and with the right tools and modalities. Hence, our detailed identification of the three jurisdictions, and then multiple sub-categories within each jurisdiction.

More to the point of Therapeutic Education, comes some very particular issues and blockages at this juncture in the patient’s journey. While the general concept is straightforward (overcome ignorance with truth), there’s more to it at a practical level. Truth is not a mere matter of “information,” which can be easily transmitted, as we do, for example, when downloading a file onto our computers. As Jack Nicholson once said (in character), “You can’t handle the truth!”

Due to the specific character structure of the patient (the result of their pattern of biological and psychological ‘armoring’), the patient will literally not have the capacity to accept or assimilate a given truth at a given time. In fact, this is the point where even the most mild-mannered patients may become quite resistant, even violent, to keep at bay the truth, which they are perceiving as a threat. The “life and death” battle which the patient perceives at this point is actually true in terms of their dying false ego.

At this point, the modality of treatment involves anything which is able to help to break through, and ultimately re-structure the patient into something more natural and healthy, and which gives them a greater capacity for “taking the charge” of their life in its fullness. Just as in the Medical jurisdiction, where the correct dose and potency of the medicine needs to be selected in order to completely and safely destroy the disease in question, these character-restructuring tools also need to be applied in the correct dose and potency. The image of a construction crew expertly laying explosives through a building to be demolished, so that it crumbles in on itself without taking out any of its neighbouring buildings, is an example of this idea of delivering the dose and potency in a precise way.

Again, at this threshold between the second and third jurisdictions, we still find a hefty use of remedies (homeopathic medicines) in aid of this process of destroying the unhealthy character structure, and making room for a greater capacity for the patient to fully explore the higher meaning of their own life, and to engage more and more fully with the world around them.

Today’s example will also similarly straddle the second and third jurisdiction — an aspect of medicine which is leading into the higher therapeutic realm of Education, but which still needs the solidity of medicine as a bridge. The ultimate goal of confronting a patient’s core beliefs first must pass through the area of their illusions and delusions.

The law of similars being what it is, as far as medicines go, the substances which are the most appropriate for treating the disease states of illusions and delusions are those which, in a healthy subject, create similar states. This set of medicines is largely made up of hallucinogenic substances, such as the commonly known recreational drugs including cannabis, cocaine, and agaricus (magic mushrooms). These remedies are given in highly potentized form, so there isn’t a single molecule remaining from the original drug, but just its bio-energetic imprint, and there are no adverse effects or toxicity possible from taking them.

There has been much press in recent years about the potential use of “medical marijuana” for all kinds of illnesses, but I am not a fan of this, as it is simply another unprincipled application of a herbal substance, no different from the unprincipled application of any pharmaceutical drug. It is the same impulse that people have to get away from toxic drugs into something “more natural”, yet it is still generally not much different in effect, as far as not actually curing the disease(s) in question, and creating a long-term load on the body’s organs of detoxification.

A principled use of these drugs, however, is something that I can stand behind, and in fact, I have used the homeopathic forms of the recreational drugs I listed above countless times. The key with using these, or any remedies, is to understand the correct way to apply the law of similars, so that the disease in question is actually cured in a short time, rather than the need to place someone on a herbal or drug protocol for suppressive purposes for the rest of their lives.

This application of treatment from the second jurisdiction (Therapeutic Medicine) opens a doorway into the third jurisdiction (Therapeutic Education), as the eradication of a particular delusion or illusion (such as the cannabis illusion, that mind and matter are separate, and true knowledge can never be obtained) will lead into the possibility of a broader exploration of the truth which has been hidden behind it.

Once a patient reaches a certain phase of their Heilkunst treatment, it is not unusual to find that they start to go through a form of being “spaced out” in one way, or another, which is a signal to me that they may be ready to start working through this middle ground between the second and third jurisdiction. This is definitely an example of where it becomes increasingly difficult through the jurisdictions for anyone to be able to take themselves through treatment, as it becomes increasingly difficult to hold an objective vantage point of self-observation when going through these unusual states of mind.