Rajan's seminar at Baroda.- a perspective.

[vtyekkirala]

Hi,
By now Rajan's interpretation of disease as delusion and
the need to discover the state of the patient as opposed to
the mere assembly of mental symptoms is well known as also his
theory of the miasms. These have greatly helped the homeopaths
the world over to have a better grasp on the selection of the smm.

An equally path breaking discovery that Rajan made recently
is the concept of "vital sensation", which is common to all
varieties of life on earth including the plants and the mineral
and the animal kingdoms as well as us the human beings.

Over the last couple of years he developed tools that help
in diagnosing this vital sensation of the patient and matching it
with that of remedies from the plant kingdom and select the smm.

This information along with Rajan's other discovery of diagnosing
the predominant miasm of the patient will help us in narrowing
down the selection to the exact and precise smm.

The system now developed by Rajan is akin to what Scholten
did in respect of the periodic table where the stages (vertical columns)
and the series (horizontal rows ) help you in locating the smm from
among the minerals kingdom. Here in Rajans system you can
likewise make the selection from the plant families making use of
the vital sensation and miasm which give you the x and y coordinates
that define the smm.

The proof of the pudding lies in eating it. So also Rajan showed at the
seminar video cases solved by him making use of his new discovery
and the follow up also shown in the videos demonstrated beyond
any shadow of doubt the scientificity (?) of the system he developed
which at the end of the seminar he cautioned it to be used as a
valuable complimentary tool to the traditional method of selection of the
smm and not as a substitute to it.

Now that I had the opportunity of attending the seminar, I feel I can
easily follow the concepts and his new method outlined in his recent
book "An Insight into the Plants", vol 1&2 which I just received
and I hope to make the best use of them. The balance of the plant
families , he said will be covered in a 3rd volume which along with the
book "Sensations in Homeopathy" are expected early next year.

From the beginning to end hearing him was like a melodious raga
elaboration and he kept his audience spell bound like a pied piper.
His taking of the case resembled that of a tarentula waiting on its
prey with immense patience almost till the fag end of the interview
and then in the closing moments, almost as a flash he delivers the
devastating life giving blow that blows up the case into full view and the
patient finally surrenders his innermost feelings that were the root
cause of his delusion/disease. And ok, he did jump to his heart's content
during the course of his lecture and concluded his seminar singing
a hindustani raga to the delight of all those present. For me this is a
memorable experience that I cherish for long as I had a similar
experience some years ago when a airhostess sang a brief but
captivating song on the address system at a stopover at Atlanta
and it was so refreshing that for a moment all the passengers
forgot the monotony of life and applauded her for the spirit of it.

Finally I am extremely grateful for the Discovery Forum headed
by Dr Praveen Marsellin and his dedicated band of colleagues
who arranged this 2-day seminar at Baroda for the benefit of the
homeopaths of this region.

With best wishes,
V.T.Yekkirala.

[Tanya Marquette]

Dear VT,

Your summary was wonderful. Would elaborate a bit on RS's concept of
"sensations." I am not familiar with this idea.

tanya

[Dale Moss]

Did the concept of the "vital sensation" originate with Sankaran? Jayesh Shah has also been working with it.

Simply speaking, it's the sensation that underlies the whole case, and to elicit it requires pushing the patient harder and harder in areas that have emotional content for the patient. For example, in a case Jayesh took last spring of a former actress with chronic Lyme disease, he kept bringing her back from regurgitating information on Lyme and its effects to talking about her work, what creativity and success meant to her, what her feeling was about not working & not succeeding in her profession, because her life revolved around work and relationships. The miasm in her case was leprosy, and the remedy Curare, because her paralysis was on all levels, mental as well as physical.

Yes, the remedy could have been found by other means, such as Herscu's cycles approach. The "vital sensation" can also be difficult to trace -- at least in American patients -- because there's often so much psychotherapeutic analysis & lingo overlaying the real feelings. Some patients don't respond well to so much emotional probing, but then, that's part of the case, isn't it?

Peace,
Cinnabar

[Dr. Waqar Taji]

Dear V.T.Yekkirala,
Thanks for your reporting of Rajan's seminar.
He is certainly one of the finest homeopaths from this side of the world.
Just wanted to know if we should know in advance that the remedy we are
going to prescribe is from plant kingdom or we should be unprejudiced (if
possible) and try to solve the case?
Can you please throw some light on this.
With regards,
Waqar Taji

[vtyekkirala]

Dr. Waqar Taji wrote on September 09, 2002 9:34 AM

Both at the seminar and in his books he gave clearcut guidelines
on when to use the plant remedies and when to use the others.
The plant families have the theme of sensitivity while the animal
kingdom have issues of competetion, survival, heirarchy etc
and the minerals have issues of structure, relationships and
organisation. But then he cautioned against taking this
classification as the last word. Some times what looks like a
animal remedy may actually need a plant remedy and he has
shown the case of the remedy ( "Hitler needed to have avoided
the holocost") Dros which presented all the charecteristics of
animal remedy but only a closer examination revealed it
needed the plant remedy.
Incidentally Dros belongs to a non-vegetarian species of the
plants and hence carries an element of animal too in it
and that way this species is somewhat closely linked to the animal
kingdom.
with best wishes,
V.T.Yekkirala.