AIDS PROVING INTRO

[completesynthesis]

I hope this will be helpful:
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When news of AIDS sprang upon the world most were deeply shocked; fear of death and moral indignation combined to create a horror suitable for a gloomy and apocalyptic prognosis of the future. It seemed as if a new plague was about to be loosed upon the world. Since then our view has become increasingly sober, yet our initial collective response is held as a memory within the 'genius' of the nosode. It is with this presupposition in mind (that sociological, mythical as well as classically proven aspects are woven into the 'plot') that I shall be making some general
observations about the remedy.
Writing poetry is both a hobby and a personal diary. At the time of the group proving of the AIDS nosode I wrote this poem:
I dreamed of the eclipse of light
I dreamed of the eclipse of light, myself in deathward flight.
There was no one to hear my stricken yell.
Into deepest pit I plummeted, dismembering myself as I fell.
The horror was in the severing.
Now awakened and spinning like an eccentric merry-go-round,
I consider the nature of suffering. It seems that I have lifetimes
within which to cut off my attachments. Yet will I become
light enough to reach the ground without fatal fracturing?
Holding to past's images are sources of the future,
without this history all necessity falls away. Parent's conditional love
and societies expectations are things which kill invention and dim
the laughter of the free one who dwells within. And the nightmare,
that dark horse upon which we ride through landscapes
half familiar and therefore half terrifying, is a therapeutic stage;
a laboratory of remembering and dismembering parts
within which our images are as actors who jibe and rage,
until we are made lighter than a dusty sack of ancient bones
Misha Norland
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The proving
The proving was undertaken initially in 1988 using single doses in either the 30 or 200 centesimal potencies of blood of a man who subsequently died of AIDS related diseases. The identity of this man and his case history is not known. It was shrouded to 'protect' his family. Likewise the homoeopathic pharmacy who ran up the potencies wishes to remain anonymous. Hiding, concealing, even lying because of self loathing and mistrust have shown themselves to be characteristics of the genius of this remedy, as also is the opposite trait: of openness and candour - witness the case
of Huisha. (The remedy may be obtained from the Helios Homoeopathic Pharmacy.) Results, of the initial provings, though portraying some symptom pattern, did not convey the 'shape' of the remedy. Therefore, I sent some pillules to Mariette Honig in Holland who carried out a similarly exhaustive, yet, ultimately unilluminating, proving. The verified symptoms of these provings have been included in the extraction presented. However, the picture of the nosode emerged with flying colours when in 1994 we carried out two group provings amongst students at The School of Homoeopathy. One
group received 30c and the other the 200th.
At the School we have carried out all our provings with unit doses. This stimulus, perhaps because it is amplified by the many coexperiencers, and is
'reawakened' at monthly gatherings when experiences are recounted, is sufficient to produce long range effects.
We followed Jeremy Sherr's general proving methodology in this proving, however, individuals, timings and codes are not given. Additionally we recorded our experiences some minutes after beginning the proving. This is given at the beginning of the proving report. We got images (such as billowing clouds,
popping seed pods, orange flowers, and responses to these images such as associated feelings, sensations or thoughts); feelings (such as joy, sadness, and their responses such as smiling or closing off); sensations (such as floating, burning, itching, and their responses such as restlessness or scratching);
thoughts and concepts which in turn may evoke images, feelings and sensations. This then is our primary data. It would be in accordance with tradition to say that proving responses are headed up by an image at the top of a natural hierarchy which proceeds down the levels, through thoughts to feelings to sensations. But some provers vary here, for instance, by having a preponderance of sensation experiences, or feeling responses. This depends upon their innate personality structure, as would be described elementally as preponderances of Fire, Air, Water, Earth.
During the course of the School weekend (Friday through to Sunday) we took stock of thoughts, dreams, sensations, feelings and outer world happenings, using transcripts of tape recordings to insure accuracy, while supervisors and daily proving diaries filled in details from month to month.
Audio recording spanned a period of three months, while some reports of cured symptoms continued to come in for the next two years.
Also included in this document are two cured cases, one resulting from Mariette Honig's Holland provings, one from our proving at the School. (Other cases are being added in a separate section). These, perhaps more than the proving itself, helped us get to grips with key causations and expressions of the remedy and qualified some of its therapeutic range. Therefore these cases and responses to remedies including the AIDS nosode are given in some detail.
Some of you will remember Huisha coming forward to join me upon the occasion of the ECCH & ICCH Case Conference in Holland in May 1995 and again in UK at the Society of Homoeopaths Conference later that year. Her story was and is deeply shocking and provoked strong responses amongst participants many of whom were critical of what had occurred when Huisha laid her soul bare. This response is typical of the feeling tone associated with AIDS: shock and condemnation - anything not to be contaminated by association! Huisha has requested that her identity be revealed in
association with this proving thus providing a gift for the homoeopathic community as well as transforming her suffering into a personal as well as public understanding of the remedy. This act strikes me as being typical of the dynamic which the disease and the remedy set up. On the one hand there are dirty secrets, the Syphilitic aspects of the nosode, while on the other, there is the desire for openness, candour and above all for intimate contact and a flow from within to without, without to within.
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