The Aids Miasm By  Peter FRASER Visit the author's forum This book shows how the recent communications revolution has resulted in a new miasm, the AIDS miasm. The book illustrates how new homeopathic remedies give true pictures of the new needs of today's patients, suggesting new solutions for contemporary diseases. Printed in England, 338 pages, paperback Dimensions (in inches):  8.50 x 5.50 x 0.70 Minimum Price Books sales rank: 329 This item was in stock when this catalog was last updated on 6/17/2010. #2930, $35.00 Add to cart Or for help ordering call 800-663-8272 (from United States and Canada) or 604-597-4757 or email orders@minimum.com

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Abstract Technological advances, particularly advances in communication technology, create stresses in the vital balance of human beings. These stresses are countered by symptoms, diseases that match the original stresses. In some circumstances the new technology is so significant that it brings about a major shift in our understanding of the world. These major shifts are answered by a myriad different diseases but one, often venereal, disease encompasses the spirit of them all. These are the main miasmatic diseases. Psora was the response to speech and tools; Sycosis was the response to writing and the wheel; and Syphilis was the response to printing and industrialization. In our own time AIDS has been the response to the stresses induce by electronic media. Miasmatic remedies are ones that directly correspond to some part of the diseases that arise from the dynamic stresses, not just ones that are used to treat the miasmatic disease itself. When we have acclimatized to technological change and found a new balance, the stresses involved in maintaining that balance are different and a new set of semi-miasmatic diseases arise. The Hydrophobic or Acute Miasm corresponds to settled Psora; the Tubercular to settled Sycosis; and the Cancer to settled Syphilis. It is too early to be sure about what settled AIDS will look like but there are indications that it may correspond to a CJD/Alzheimerıs Miasm. As each individual replays the evolution of both his species and his culture; so it follows that the individual may be particularly affected by the stresses of a particular point in his or her development. This may be a very specific point or it may be more general and miasmatic. By looking at the combined pattern of the stresses, the nosode and the remedies that appear to belong to the miasm, it is possible to form a picture of the miasm as a whole. Using proving symptoms to describe that picture ensures that they are described in the language of the remedies and allows some understanding of the slight differences between remedies when dealing with very similar issues. Preface In considering the new Electronic World we find that the understanding of the technologies of that new world are insufficiently developed to provide a medium for discussion and exposition. It is therefore necessary to use the media of the old world which are woefully inadequate to the task. Like the inhabitants of Abbottıs Flatland, we simply cannot describe a 3-dimensional world in the language of only 2-dimensions. Marshall McLuhan, whose insights during the sixties illuminated this new world has been invaluable to me in understanding how technology has changed mankind. He experimented with trying to find new ways of expression that would allow understanding of the new world. Ultimately McLuhan's Omosaic writing was not entirely successful. His works are difficult to read and most people, CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Introduction The last dozen years have seen the proving of new remedies on a scale not known since the pre-war period. The best of these provings have been carefully conducted by experienced homeopaths using a sufficiently large number of provers to provide a clear, recognizable picture of the remedy. In spite of the clarity of these pictures they contain a large number of common elements which are not so common in the pictures of remedies proved in former times. This can lead to a confusion that makes these remedies difficult to use. Some homeopaths find them confusing and ignore them all together. Others know the pictures of a few of these remedies and tend to see features of those few remedies in too many cases. It is therefore important that we, as homeopaths, are able to distinguish between those symptoms that are common to these CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Modern Society is Different Many of the pictures of illness that homeopaths see in their patients are not that different from those seen by Hahnemann or Kent in theirs, and they respond to the same, well understood remedies. However, there are many features of the modern world and of modern disease that are significantly different. Latrogenic illness was as important then as it is now, indeed it was one of the motivations that led Hahnemann to look for radical new forms of medicine. However, the agents that caused it were different. Mercury, Sulphur and blood letting have been replaced by thousands of different drugs, radiation, and amazingly complex surgery. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Miasmatic Theory In many ways we find ourselves in a position that echoes that in which Hahnemann found himself after the publication of The Organon and Materia Medica Pura, and which led to the writing of Chronic Diseases. He found that he and his most devout students had great success in treating many of the most virulent epidemic diseases. However, though they were also apparently successful in treating non-epidemic diseases, they found that they tended to recur and that the recurrences became both more frequent and more serious. Hahnemann concluded that there were diseases that deeply infected the entire organism, and which the vital force reacts to by externalizing CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. The Three Classic Miasms Hahnemann proposed that there were three miasmatic diseases. Psora or The Itch which is caused through infestation by the scabies mite. The fully developed form of this disease, which is now known as Norwegian Scabies, is very rarely seen except in the severely immuno-suppressed. It is seen more often in animals where it takes the form of Mange, but it was common in ancient times where it was known as Leprosy (it is distinct from Hansenıs disease, the modern leprosy caused by Mycobacterium leprae). For Hahnemann, Psora was the most important of the chronic miasmatic diseases. Its primary expression CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Miasmatic Qualities The miasmatic diseases have several common qualities. The most important of these is that they have a metaphoric importance that appears to transcend the physical reality of the disease. It is as if there is a spiritual essence to these diseases of which the disease itself is merely a physical and secondary manifestation. These diseases have received attention that goes far beyond their physical importance and those affected by them have often received opprobrium and been reviled and outcast in a manner that vastly exceeds practical considerations. They are all diseases in which the immune system plays a role. They are much more expressive and virulent in those whose immune systems are compromised and they tend to cause a diminution of the immune response, allowing secondary infections to thrive. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. AIDS There is a disease, AIDS, that has appeared in the last quarter century that has all the qualities of a true miasmatic disease. It is a venereal disease, it involves a breakdown of the immune system, it has a long incubation period and it very quickly acquired enormously significant metaphoric importance. AIDS follows the pattern of the other original miasmatic diseases in that it takes disease to a new, deeper level. Psora is a parasite whose primary action is confined to the skin. Sycosis is a bacterium whose primary action moves from the skin through the blood and begins to destroy the soft tissues. Syphilis is also a bacterium and again moves through the skin and the blood but eventually attacks the nervous system, which it destroys along with the bones and hard tissues. HIV is a virus, the next finer type of morbific agent, it moves from the skin to the blood and results in the destruction of both soft and hard tissues and especially the nerves. However, HIV is a CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract Miasmatic Disease as a Reaction to Human Development Platonic Ideals That which is below is like unto that which is above and that which is above is like unto that which is below. This is the primary statement of The Emerald Tablet of Hermes which is the first and most important text of alchemy. The concept that there is a correspondence between different worlds was central to alchemy and to alchemical medicine, and as such it passed through Paracelsus, Hahnemann and Kent to be central to homeopathic philosophy. The most important expression of this concept is a spiritual one that was first, and perhaps most clearly, to be seen in the philosophy of Plato. The Platonic Forms exist in another place but they are the model that is imperfectly echoed on Earth in everything that we can sense. The same principle is found in Kabbalistic thought, where the perfect forms that are CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Microcosm In the Microcosm, the individual human, the vital spirit reacts to disease by expressing that disease through physical symptoms and the physical symptoms that it chooses are those that will do least harm to the function and well being of the organism. These are tenets that are basic to the understanding and practice of homeopathy. The body produces symptoms in a number of ways. It does so directly by disrupting function and even making structural changes. This type of symptom is referred to by allopaths as idiopathic, as it has no obvious external cause. The body can utilize an external force to provide the necessary physical symptom. This may be through the action of what Hahnemann calls a zufall, an accident, an occurrence or perhaps even a coincidence. If the body is not in a position to physically CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Macrocosm In the Macrocosm, the wider world or society, the same thing can be expected to happen. There are stresses that are beyond the power of a societyıs vital spirit to deal with. That society must then find symptoms that will allow it to continue operating. Some of these will be symptoms of the society itself, others will affect a number of individuals. These individuals become the scapegoats of society; just as some organs and tissues are sacrificed for the good of the whole individual. The four principal miasmatic diseases (including AIDS) can be studied in relation to the history of culture and society. By understanding the stresses to which they were, and are, a response, we can better understand them and better differentiate the remedies that might be used to treat them. Extensions of Man During the 1960s Marshall McLuhan, a professor of English Literature at the University of Toronto, proposed a radical rethink of the way that we view media and the effect that it has on us. Although he became something of a guru at the time, his theories were little understood and soon faded from the mainstream. In spite of his current obscurity most of his observations have been confirmed by subsequent events and much of the material in Understanding Media, his seminal work of 1964, can now be seen as prophetic of the way in which the media, the internet and the corporate world have developed. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Language, Tools, Awareness and Psora The first extension that caused a complete shift in the way mankind thought, felt and behaved was the invention of language. The same change in behaviour, bipedalism, that allowed the physiological changes to the larynx and so complex speech; also left the arms free to develop the use of tools. The extension of the hands through tools allowed a greater diversity of activity and made mankind more adaptable. However, it was the adoption of speech, and especially of language, that caused the most important changes in the way we are.CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Writing, Travel, Empire and Sycosis The next technological development with major implications for mankind was the invention of writing. As one of the consequences of writing was the invention of history, we do know a little more about what happened than we can possibly know about the discovery of language. Speech and language freed man from the instant of time and place, and extended his awareness, but that awareness was still bounded to the experience of one person, and to some extent his or her direct contacts. Writing changes this and frees awareness from the experience of a single person. Awareness for literate man extends CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract . Printing, Mechanization, Nationalism and Syphilis The next stage of human development, and its consequences, fall clearly within the historical record. The disease syphilis appeared in Barcelona in 1493, the same year that Columbus returned to the city from his first journey to the Americas. In less than 5 years the disease had spread virtually throughout Europe. It has been assumed that syphilis was brought from the Caribbean by members of Columbusıs crew, though there is mounting archaeological evidence that it was present in Europe long before then. However, it is indisputable that the supposed discovery that the world was a globe was an important part of a shift in mind set that shook Western man during the second half of the 15th Century and the beginning of the 16th, and that the appearance of a new and terrible disease was part of that shift. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract . Radio, Television, Electronics, Globalization and AIDS Exactly which invention ushered in the Electronic Age is less clear cut than the birth of the Industrial Age and the invention of printing. Telegraphy developed slowly through the first half of the Nineteenth Century, and was established by 1850. Marconi invented radio transmission in 1895, and broadcasting began after the First World War. The first television broadcast occurred in 1936 but it only became widespread after the end of the Second World War. The invention of the transistor in 1948 and its improvement in 1952 were probably the key inventions, as they allowed the development of computers and digital electronics. The defining moment of the shift in mind set that electronics brought about is also not quite as clear as Columbusıs discovery was for the industrial age. McLuhan takes it to be the launch of Sputnik in 1957, which circumscribed our world and defined the stage on which life is enacted. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. The Consequences of the Electronic Age The Dissolution of Boundaries The particular effect of manıs extension by electronics, which McLuhan called the extension of the nervous system of man, is to bring about an almost complete destruction of the concept of distance in both space and time. Electronic communication moves at the speed of light. Electronic communication is instantaneous. Sender, receiver and all the people and places in between become a single unified point in space and time. Even outside the virtual world, the aeroplane rolls up the road as it leaves the runway, and airports half way around the world become connected directly to each other, all the countries, towns and peoples in between simply vanish. Boundaries disappear, they are of absolutely no consequence to electronic communication or to aeroplanes. The result of this is that the world becomes the Global Village. The scope of an individualıs interaction with others has moved from family, to tribe and village, to town, to state and now encompasses the whole world. Our actions can affect others wherever they might be and we cannot but be affected by the actions of others. Censorship becomes impossible as information available anywhere becomes available everywhere. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Ecology and Our View of the Planet The lack of boundaries has resulted in local activities having global effects. This is most apparent in our understanding of ecology and the environment. In the Industrial Age nature was acknowledged as an all powerful force. Nature could be viewed with an almost religious awe as it was by the Romantic Movement or it could be seen, as through the myth of the Pioneer Spirit, as a malevolent force against which a continual war must be waged, a war that was noble even if it would never be won. In the early sixties this view was completely shattered by an understanding of the effects of pesticides, particularly the organochlorines, on the natural world. DDT was developed with great urgency and widely used through the Second World War to kill the mosquitoes that made malaria such a threat to the troops in tropical theatres of war. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract . The Changing Role of Women The way in which the move from Industrial to Electronic Society and the consequent dissolution of boundaries has changed the world can perhaps be most clearly seen in the changing role of women. In Feudal Society sexual relationships are contained quite neatly within the feudal hierarchy. They are as much part of the exchange process as any other, and ideally they take place between husband and wife or man and mistress or whore, that is between adjacent members of the hierarchy. In the industrial framework in which the individual is accountable to the State, to God or to the industrial complex the sexual relationship has no easy valid place and continuously threatens to undermine the structure. This danger was contained partly by commercializing sex and bringing it under the control of the market, but more importantly by making the family a microcosm of the state in which all authority was vested in the paterfamilias and all relationships, including sexual ones, were directed through him. Thus in the Victorian household the CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract . Children and Childhood The same process that has resulted in equal rights for all individuals of whatever race, creed, gender or class, at least theoretically and in western, developed cultures, has resulted in a change in the way that children are viewed. They are regarded as individuals and are given a voice in a way in which they have not been in the past. We have a much stronger sense of them as individuals and feel a duty to protect them. The upside of this is that children are listened to and abuse is much less likely to be tolerated. Before the sixties it was considered perfectly acceptable to beat children quite severely for the least misdemeanour and sexual abuse was very rarely discovered because it was taboo. The downside of the dissolution of the boundaries between children and adults is that children have much less of a childhood and become subject to the woes and excitement of adult life at a much earlier age. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract The Concept of Place Not only does the concept of distance have very little meaning for Electronic Man but even our sense of place is no longer fixed. The universally irritating thing about the use of mobile phones is the way in which so many conversations begin with a statement like "Iım on the train". Yet this fixing of our position or place is vitally important to us when we use a mobile phone, as without it we do not have any bearing on where we are but seem just to be floating about in the ether. This lack of fixity is expressed in many other ways in a general feeling of being lost. The Loss of Time Boundaries Even more important than the loss of boundaries in space and the vanishing of distance and of a fixed place in the universe, is the end of a separation in time that electronic technology causes. The media of electronic communication are electronic current and electromagnetic radiation. These travel at the speed of light, which is in turn the speed of Einsteinian time. This means that everything happens instantaneously The first consequence of this is that we live only in the present, the past and the future break away. Instead of the smooth rolling out of time along which we used to move at a steady pace; time is now a series of disjunct instants and we jump from one to the next. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Complexity The lack of boundaries also means that every event, however trivial, may influence every other one. This results in complexity on an unimaginable scale. In classical mechanics the interaction of two gravitational bodies is easy to predict and has been since Newton. Merely introducing a third body does not just make prediction more difficult, it actually makes it inherently impossible, the long term interaction of the three bodies is too complex to be described mathematically. In the world of the Electronic Age nothing can be predicted because it might be affected by too many other things. Minute changes in seemingly unrelated systems are communicated instantly and might have enormous ramifications for each other. It is impossible to predict what changes might or might not have ramifications, let alone what those ramifications might be. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract . The Impossibility of Specialization Specialization is the key to the industrial way of thinking. It appeared with the printing of the very first printed book which was produced on six different presses working simultaneously, each one manned by teams of specialists: typographers, typecutters, typesetters, inkers, pressmen, etc. The coming of the book caused such an explosion of knowledge that it was no longer possible for one person to know everything. However, it was possible for a person to know everything about a particular subject. In the Electronic Age there has been a further explosion of knowledge which makes it hard for a person to know eve CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. New Ways of Thinking The merging of cause and effect and the complexity of all systems that makes them inherently unpredictable mean rational, sequential thought is no longer capable of dealing with our world. Thought in the Electronic Age has to be very different from earlier ways of thinking if it is to be effective. In the Tribal World the most useful form of thinking is historical. If someone knows and understands what has happened in history they are better prepared when it starts to repeat itself. This knowledge was experiential and lay within the scope of a personıs life or that of those with whom he had direct contact. Language allows the passing on of history, either as such or in the form of myths and legends. In the Feudal World the possession of knowledge becomes the most effective way of understanding the world and of dealing with it. This knowledge extends beyond personal experience but still lies within the compass of one person. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Echoes of Earlier States Each extension to man creates a new way of thinking, indeed of being, that permeates the whole of the relevant society, which in the case of the electronic extension is the entire world, and changes everything for ever. However, the new way includes within itself all the ways that preceded it. The spoken tale is included within the manuscript which is in turn the content of the book which in time becomes enfolded in the film or TV show. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. The Macrocosm of Disease in Society When a culture with one way of thinking is suddenly faced with a change to a new way for which it is not yet adapted a disease state is almost inevitable. An example might be a developing country with a basically feudal society. The country is probably ruled by a military leader for the military structure is a strongly hierarchical one and so adapts very well to a feudal society. The country might be rich in natural resources and does a deal with international multinationals. These companies are part of the Industrial Age and their actions CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Semimiasmatic Responses The true miasmatic diseases are a reaction to the situation that a person or a society finds itself in as a result of the transition from one state or way of thinking to another. The extensions of man bring about the new state suddenly and completely, and this leaves no time for individuals or for the culture as a whole to adapt. The result is an immune type of reaction, a sudden and extreme disease that spreads suddenly and very quickly. This was the pattern of syphilis in the 1490s as much as it was of AIDS in the 1980s. As a society begins to adapt to the new state the disease becomes less immediately threatening and adapts to a more chronic form. This certainly happened with syphilis, which in its early years was an almost immediately fatal disease, but within less than a quarter of a century began changing its CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Epidemic Disease Although epidemic diseases appear suddenly, disappear as quickly and would appear to be without meaning, this seems to be an anomaly and in theory these diseases should have meaning. One instance where this meaning is fairly obvious is the situation in the Americas that complemented the arrival of syphilis in Europe. The effect of moving from one world view to another is traumatic and causes a powerful disease reaction; but it is as nothing when compared to the effect of moving through several at once. Syphilis was a serious and destructive force as it swept through Europe but the counter effect CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. The Microcosm of Disease in the Individual The microcosm of an individualıs life reflects the pattern found in the macrocosm of society. The newborn baby is unaware, but soon learns speech and self awareness. At this time he might be prey to the first signs of the Psoric skin diseases. As he grows into this state he faces the Hydrophobic Miasm illnesses, which are often called "the childhood diseases". As he goes to school and learns to write we might expect to see the Sycotic affections: snotty nose, glue ear and warts. Tubercular asthma and lung trouble might follow. The teenager enters the bigger world. learns to deal with sexuality and relationships, and takes on a CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract Using Miasmatic Theory There are a number of ways in which miasmatic theory can lead to a better understanding of symptoms, disease and remedies and so help us to make a better prescription. When we look at an object it has many features and qualities. Shape and size and colour are immediately obvious, but there are others such as texture, temperature, odour, etc A disease picture or an individual symptom has a number of different qualities. What might be called the overall shape of a symptom, that which is repertorized, is fairly obvious. It certainly narrows the choice of remedies but, unless it is a very strong SRP (strange, rare and peculiar symptom), it will still leave a large and diverse selection of suggested remedies. The qualities, what might be described as CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Using the Remedies of the AIDS Miasm Treating HIV The remedies of the AIDS Miasm should be the remedies that can be used in the treatment of HIV. However, there are aspects of the disease that raise important questions about how HIV should be treated homĤopathically. The first of these revolves around the fact that the disease expresses itself not directly but through secondary, opportunistic infections. Many of these would not constitute a threat to the healthy individual, but for those who are HIV positive they are serious and can be life threatening. Often these infections must be addressed immediately because if they are not, there will be no patient to treat in any other way. The fact that HIV causes an infectious, epidemic disease that is currently pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, suggests that it may have to be treated as an epidemic disease rather than an expression of a constitutional disorder.CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Using AIDS Miasm Remedies with Diseases Not Related to HIV The miasmatic conditions that affect us find personal or individual expression in diseases that reflect the nature of contemporary society. This happens in two ways. It can be the diseases themselves that are a general expression of the miasmatic stresses and concerns. These are the diseases that are particularly of our time: ME, Anorexia and Bulimia, Gulf War Syndrome, and of course HIV/AIDS itself. It can also be expressed in more common and general diseases, but in a particularly AIDS Miasm version of them. Thus something like depression is a common illness and it can be found in the pictures of virtually any chronic disease and so of any Miasm. However, there is a particular version of depression that centres around issues of isolation and vulnerability which is a part of the AIDS Miasm. In this case it is not the disease itself that matters but the flavour of its expression. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Speculating on Coming Disease States There are a number of disease states that are emerging, both from the diseases themselves and from groups of proving symptoms, that indicate new miasmatic or semimiasmatic disease pictures may be ahead of us. Creutzfeldt-Jakob and Alzheimer's Diseases There are a number of diseases involving the destruction of brain tissue that are already important and seem destined to be even more so in the coming years. The contagious form of these diseases are the spongiform encephalopathies of which the bovine form, mad cow disease, is the best known and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Ebola, Hanta and Marburg viruses The haemorrhagic fevers have certain qualities of the AIDS Miasm: a similar origin to AIDS, transgenic features, a terrifying infectivity and especially a quality of breaking down barriers. However, their action rather than leaving the organism open to infection, results in a syphilitic destruction of the body, rapidly and fatally liquifying the inner organs. This dissolving of boundaries accompanied by destruction and corruption would appear to be a combination of the AIDS and Syphilitic Miasms. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. A Future Miasm? There is an interesting trio of remedies: Plutonium, Antimatter and the Rat which have some very clear similarities. They have many AIDS Miasm features but they have differences. They connect very strongly with history while the AIDS Miasm is very in the present. I have a vision of faces and profiles of alternating warriors and peacemakers. Also the face of a Stone Age man. I have a delusion that I am elbowing my way through an enormous crowd of past generations. I feel that the proving is dissolving the 'Sins of the Fathers'. There are dreams about the neolithic era and about Neanderthal people. It is all about primitive instinc Some of the Remedies of the AIDS Miasm The remedies that I have used to illustrate the AIDS Miasm are ones which I have observed contain important elements of AIDS as a disease and as a nosode, modern disease, modern issues or modern terminology. This strategy suffers from the shortcomings of lifting itself up by its own bootstraps, in that the remedies are included because they match the miasmatic picture and the miasmatic picture is mainly defined by the remedies in it. However, it also illustrates the value and power of pattern thinking. The pattern of the miasm can be developed from the fairly CONTINUES....., 8 pages removed for brief extract. Summation The coming of a new and deeper miasm has, as have all things, both positive and negative implications. Disease is undoubtedly deeper and is more serious, and is also more difficult to treat and to cure. However, the potential for more serious disease arises from a much greater potential in everything that we do. Much of the enormous ill that we see in the world appears to be more terrible than it has been in the past, but this perception comes partly from a very recent feeling that suffering and ignorance are unacceptable. The rights and respect that were once only accorded to rich and powerful men are becoming the rights of every man, of women and of children, and that they might also belong to other creatures is now seriously considered. We are no longer in a position to disregard the welfare of others. In the Global Village every man, woman, child and sentient being is our immediate neighbour. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. Part II A Picture of the AIDS Miasm Introduction The modern world has created many new and different pressures on the personal economy of mankind, and these pressures have been answered by a variety of previously unknown diseases or new variations on old diseases. The homeopathic community has recently proved a large number of new remedies that have many symptoms that match the new diseases, and which also help us to better understand these symptoms in old remedies. Jan Scholten says: 'An unknown disease picture requires an unknown remedy.' In the same way a new disease may require a new remedy In his picture of Anhalonium, Vithoulkas describes one important part of the contemporary state: Anhalonium activates specific areas of the brain which seem to be concerned with the higher and highest functions of this organ; it appears to affect what could be called the spiritual aspect, or, even better, the transcendental aspect of our existence. I believe that these functions, or rather, this capacity of the brain to apprehend new dimensions in understanding and CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract Choosing the Remedies The remedies and symptoms that are detailed here are those that I feel are part of an answer to contemporary disease states. They are often new remedies proven in the last decade. The reason for this is twofold. Good proving supervisors have chosen remedies that they have reason to believe might meet the needs of contemporary disease. At the same time contemporary provers are likely to be much more susceptible to aspects of the Contemporary Miasm, and so to bring these parts of the remedy out most strongly. They may be remedies in which the issues of the past 40 years, such as communication, feminization and ecology are important. They may be members of groups that are in themselves relevant, these include the milks and animals, the birds and CONTINUES....., 6 pages removed for brief extract. An Outline of the Picture There are a thousand ways of telling any story and each of them can be perfectly valid. I have chosen a particular story to use as the framework for discussing contemporary disease and the new remedies. It is a coherent story and one that has been of use to me in arranging themes and symptoms. However, it is just one of many possibilities. It goes something like this: The primary effect of the dissolution of boundaries is that connection can be made without obstruction or interference. However, without defining boundaries for ourselves and others we have no regulated way of interacting and become lost in an infinite space. Connection becomes disconnection and isolation. Without connection there is no reason to care and this leads to a feeling of indifference.CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. I-1 Connection The first and most obvious effect of the removal of boundaries is a sense of connection to everything and everyone. As with so many features of contemporary diseases, this is clearly expressed in the AIDS Nosode. A feeling of oneness with my fellow man and the whole of the universe. It is similarly expressed in several other remedies. Harmony above and below. Outer and inner space. Oceans and skies. Felt really loving, on an almost global level. I have a feeling of heightened compassion and love in the world. I am receiving many compliments. I have smooth interactions with people that I usually 'bump' into. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. I-2 Divine Connection The modern world has seen a rapid decline in the role of organized religion. Where it has remained of great importance it has often taken on a destructive syphilitc aspect with an emphasis on repression and religious warfare. The religion of the electronic age can never be an organized one but must be an individual spirituality, a connection to the divine that is not fixed but fluid, changing and of the moment. CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. I-3 Grounding There have appeared in the provings of many new remedies sensations of grounding and connection to the Earth. I felt so positive. I suddenly felt strength, and it was like somebody had plonked my feet CONTINUES....., rest of section I removed for brief extract. II-1 Disconnection I feel disconnected. Another consequence of the dissolution of boundaries is a sense of disconnection. This can be seen as a consequence of the tension of opposites, of a zero sum universe in which any increase in the sense of connection inevitably leads to an equal and opposite sense of disconnection. However, the path to this disconnection can be quite clearly mapped. A lack of boundaries also means a lack of definition. Just as the subject has no definite boundaries the people and things around CONTINUES....., removed for brief extract. II-2 Not Belonging Flowing directly from the feeling of disconnection from a subjectıs environment is the sense of not belonging. He suddenly felt "I donıt belong here at all." They are the type of people who feel, even at an early age, that they do not belong to society, that they are something apart. They become distrustful and resentful toward society, and they can easily fall prey to what can be termed an "existential anxiety." Feeling I donıt quite know where I belong and what I should be doing. I donıt belong. I donıt fee END OF EXTRACT. Remedies appendix Abbrev. Full name Common name adam Adams Diamond agar Agaricus muscarius Fly Agaric agath-a Agathis Australis Kauri agn Agnus castus Chaste berry aids AIDS AIDS Nososde ambr Ambra grisea Ambergris anac Anacardium orientale Marking nut anan Anantherum muricatum Vetiver, Cuscus grass androc Androctonus amoreuxii hebraeus Scorpion ang Angustura vera Angastura anh Anhalonium lewinii Mescal buttons ara-maca Ara macao Scarlet Macaw ars Arsenicum album White oxide of arsenic berlin-w Berlin Wall Concrete from the Berlin Wall buteo-j Buteo Jamaicensis Red Tailed Hawk cact Cactus grandiflorus Night-blooming Cereus. cann-i Cannabis indica Marijuanna, Hashish carbn-dox Carbon dioxide Carbonic Acid carneg-g Carnegia gigantea Giant Saguaro, Arizona Giant Cactus castm Castoreum canadense Canadian Beaver. cath-a Cathartes aura Turkey Vulture cere-b Cereus bonplandii The Good Plant choc Chocolatum Belgian Chocolate coca Coca coca-c Coca cola cocain Cocaine colum-p Columba palumbus Dove conv-a Convolvulus arvensis Bindweed conv-d Convolvulus duartinus Morning Glory conv-s Convolvulus stans Ipomoea stans, Bindweed corian-s Coriandrum sativum Coriander corv-cor Corvus corax North American Raven cur Curare cygn-b Cygnus bewickii Bewickıs Swan cygn-c Cygnus cygnus Whooper Swan dream-p Dreaming Potency An Ubulawa from South Africa falco-pe Falco peregrinus disciplinatus Trained Peregrine Falcon galeoc-c-h Galeocerdo cuvier hepar Tiger Shark Liver galla-q-r Galla quercina ruber Knopper OAK Galls germ-met Germanium metallicum Mettalic Germanium gink-b Ginkgo biloba haliae-lc Haliaeetus leucocephalus Bald Eagle helodr-cal Helodrilus caliginosus Earthworm, Common Field Worm helo-h Heloderma horridum Gila Monster helo-s Heloderma suspectum Gila Monster heroin Diamorphine Heroin hir Hirudo medicinalis Medical Leech hydrog Hydrogenium Hydrogen ignis-alc Ignis alcoholis Fire ipom-p Ipomoea purpurea Morning Glory irid-met Iridium metallicum Metallic Iridium jug-r Juglans regia Walnut lac-c Lac caninum Bitchıs Milk lac-cp Lac caprinum Goatıs Milk lac-del Lac delphinum Milk of the Bottlenose Dolphin lac-e Lac equinum Mareıs Milk lac-f Lac felinum Catıs Milk lac-h Lac humanum Motherıs Milk lac-leo Lac leoninum Lionessıs Milk lac-loxod-a Lac loxodonta africana African Elephantıs Milk lac-lup Lac lupinum Wolfıs Milk lars-arg Larus argentatus Seagull latex Latex Rubber from a Condom lepd-s Lepidoptera saturniidae Taturana, Lagarta Moth limen-b-c Limenitis bredowii californica California Sister Butterfly lsd Lysergic acid diethylamide 25 Acid lumbr-t Lumbricus terrestris Earthworm maias-l Maiasaura lapidea Fossilized Bone of a Maiasaura Dinosaur mdma MDMA Ecstasy meph Mephitis putorius Skunk mosch Moschus Musk Deer musca-d Musca domestica House Fly neon Neon nux-m Nux moschata Nutmeg oncor-t Oncorynchus tsawytscha Salmon opun-v Opuntia vulgaris Prickly Pear osm Osmium metallicum Metallic Osmium oxyg Oxygenium Oxygen ozone Ozone Ozone, Nascent Oxygen phasco-ci Phascolarctos cinereus Australian Koala phos Phosphorus pip-m Piper methysticum Kava Kava plac Placenta humanum Human Placenta plat Platina metaalicum Mettalic Platinum plut-n Plutonium nitricum Plutonium Nitrate polys Polystyrenum Polystyrene positr Positronium Antimatter propl Propolis Bee Glue ptel Ptelea trifoliata Wafer Ash, Hop Tree pyrus Pyrus americana Mountain Ash querc-r Quercus robur Oak, Red Oak rhus-g Rhus glabra Smooth Sumach rhus-t Rhus toxicodendron Poison Ivy, Poison Oak sal-fr Salix fragilis Crack Willow sanguis-s Sanguis soricis Blood of the Rat sel Selenium metallicum Metallic Selenium seq-s Sequoia sempervirens Giant Redwood syph Syphylinum Syphilis Nosode tax Taxus baccata Common Yew tax-br Taxus brevifolia Pacific Coast Yew tell Tellurium metallicum Metallic Tellurium tung-met Tungstenium metallicum Wolfram, Metallic Tungsten urol-h Urolophus halleri Round Stingray vacuum Vacuum visc Viscum album Mistletoe xan Xantoxylum fraxineum Prickly Ash This book describes how disease has developed alongside technological advances. It traces the development of miasmatic illness in parallel with the evolution of human society, and shows how the recent communications revolution has resulted in a totally new miasm: the AIDS miasm. Part two illustrates in depth how the new homeopathic remedies are true pictures of the needs of today's patients and how vital they are to treat contemporary diseases. This book will enhance your understanding and practice of homeopathy in the 21st century. -Written by an experienced practitioner -Provides an understanding of the evolution of miasms. -Links contemporary society with the AIDS miasm and modern disease states -Provides an in depth understanding of the Onew remedies -Fascinating and useful for anyone with an interest in complementary medicine

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