Dear Piet and anybody interested,
I was asked what I meant when referring to disease being caused by spiritual
decay.
I would define this as a state of a lack of purpose - Where the patient has
little or no awareness of why he/she is alive in the Here and Now. There
would appear to be a deliberate restriction to Reality in the modern
industrialised world and the result is a flat trancelike state displayed by
many of its inhabitants. This is getting worse - My favourite way of
demonstrating this is comparing photographs of crowds at football matches and
studying the faces from different decades.
The other side of the coin can be a manic, meaningless restlessness. This can
also be seen in drugged, poisoned children.
I am of the opinion that this is a result not only of allopathy, food
poisoning, vaccination etc but also a progressive loss of contact with
Nature, the Other Worlds and the Spiritual.
Many people are unable to reach into their potential and claim their
birthrights. Their desperate attempts to search for it often end up in
allopathic suppression. In saner, less 'developed' societies, 'eccentric'
people are given special attention. It is realised that they may be in a
painful period of rebirth - They may be opening a new chapter on their
journey- Here we shut people up if they cannot fit in with uniformity. Here
the machine attempts to dictate our measurements. This is getting worse - I
am shocked at how much pressure young people are under to 'look right' or to
be 'cute' etc.
People crave to tap into their true life purpose and to have their inner
gifts acknowledged by others. Where this does not happen we find spiritual
decay.
Piet wondered if I might be judgemental if I accused others of spiritual
decay but it is a state that that we all should fight against. I realise that
I am not immune to it myself. We also have to take very special care of
ourselves if we choose to help others - We have a responsibility not to let
others down. If we listen to the stories of others properly we will not
judge - we will simply listen and seek to understand why they are the way
they are.
If you are a good homoeopath and healer it does not matter what beliefs,
faiths etc you espouse - Your light will shine through its human limitations.
Regards to all,
Stewart
Stewart McOwan MARH
Minerva Homoeopathic Centre
173 Fulham Palace Road
Hammersmith
London
W6 8QT
Tel 0207 385 3512
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Soroush Ebrahimi
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Re: Spiritual Decay and Disease
Purpose of Homoeopathy:
Aph 9 "... so that our indwelling, reason-gifted mind can freely employ
this living, healthy instrument for the HIGHER PURPOSES of our existence."
Also there is Farsi (Persian) expression that states "healthy mind in a
healthy body."
Regards
Soroush
Aph 9 "... so that our indwelling, reason-gifted mind can freely employ
this living, healthy instrument for the HIGHER PURPOSES of our existence."
Also there is Farsi (Persian) expression that states "healthy mind in a
healthy body."
Regards
Soroush
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twhite7101
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Re: Spiritual Decay and Disease
Concurring with Stewarts views about "spiritual decay", the works of the
french philosopher Michel Foucault trace this history of limitation and
conformity within society that has limited our expressions of who and what we
can be. The process has been going on for centuries dating back to the
suppression of the dancing madness that occupied so much of the workers time
in medieval Europe, to today. The suppression by society has happened in many
spheres, sexuality, mental illness, medicine, work, and obedience to the law,
the drive always being to limit our expressions of who and what we can be, to
the needs of the state in conformist production units. A good introduction
to this complex man and his philosophy, is in
The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller (Flamingo Books)
The source materials include:
The History of Sexuality (3 volumes)
Madness and Civilisation
The Archaeology of Knowledge
The Birth of the Clinic
Discipline and Punishment
Its all useful backgrounds reading for those who might have an interest! we
can also see in the works of Foucault the rise in the power of the
conventional medical establishment as it is today!
Terry White
french philosopher Michel Foucault trace this history of limitation and
conformity within society that has limited our expressions of who and what we
can be. The process has been going on for centuries dating back to the
suppression of the dancing madness that occupied so much of the workers time
in medieval Europe, to today. The suppression by society has happened in many
spheres, sexuality, mental illness, medicine, work, and obedience to the law,
the drive always being to limit our expressions of who and what we can be, to
the needs of the state in conformist production units. A good introduction
to this complex man and his philosophy, is in
The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller (Flamingo Books)
The source materials include:
The History of Sexuality (3 volumes)
Madness and Civilisation
The Archaeology of Knowledge
The Birth of the Clinic
Discipline and Punishment
Its all useful backgrounds reading for those who might have an interest! we
can also see in the works of Foucault the rise in the power of the
conventional medical establishment as it is today!
Terry White
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Tanya Marquette
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Re: Spiritual Decay and Disease
Thanks Terry for the interesting sounding reference. I would add that this perception/analysis is far from new in our culture today. Back in the '70's I did quite a bit of research into the history of women in medicine which, then, required digging into minutae for references. In the course of this investigation, I read a great deal about the history of medicine as we know it today. There is a whole socio-economic and dialectic history that goes back to the Middle Ages and the Inquisition. And I came to the understanding that what we know today as individual people is/was totally controlled by the needs and power of the social institutions of our culture. And the healing/medicinal practice as an instititution, is just one symptom of the culture within which it develops. Also, feminist history speaks a great deal to this issue. It is interesting that the spiritual decay that is being spoken of began during a historical process when the Church was rising in power politically and economically and was claiming medicine as part of its province.
That being briefly noted, my next thought relfects on the contemporary issue of 'spiritual decay.' In the 1960's much talk was had on the concept of alienation. The dialogue concerned individual alienation from the means of production and the govenment. As a social movement developed against the rise of the military-industrial complex (as it was described then), and a reaction to the repression of McCarthyism developed (at least in the US), people began to look at how the individual was being repressed with resulting ennui and mental illness. Focus, by some people, was placed on allowing the individual to develop with little restraints and repression. As the 70's backlash moved into the '80's greed and development of individualism into a self-centered, narcisstic cult, the sense of alienation that was experienced 20-30 yrs earlier, moved deeper into the psyche of the person and now we can talk of spiritual disaffection and the alienation of the person from her/his very sense of inner self. When I talk with people today, I am so impressed with how little confidence people have in their own instincts or ability to trust in their own judgement of institutional power and take action. Generally speaking, the current process of people lives seems to divorce them from a sense of larger connectedness to the community, the society and the universe. Thus, there is, again, a rise of interest in spiritual practice of all esoteric varieties.
One last thing I would like to add here to the conversation regards homeopathy. It is a recollection of a workshop led by Janet Snowden about 3-4 year ago in NYC. She was talking about eating disorders, which really meant anorexia. She was concerned with the growing number of girls at younger and younger ages coming in for treatment with this disorder. In sharing her collective analysis of her cases, shse described these girls coming from well-heeled, middle-class families where the girls had everything they wanted and went to good schools. They were generally high performers in school and very active with social activities and friends. There was a stress experienced over their performance and what they seemed to lack was a spiritual connection. Their families were just not there emotionally for these girls; too busy working and being competitive in life; too busy pushing their offspring into the same kind of high-performance lives. Aside from any remedies given, Janet spoke of prescribing camping trips to the families. It was, she said, the only thing she could think of at the time that would take these girls and their families out of their high stress, impersonal lives for a bit and put them in touch with something larger than themselves. The intent was to have them experience/develop some spiritual sense in life.
tanya
That being briefly noted, my next thought relfects on the contemporary issue of 'spiritual decay.' In the 1960's much talk was had on the concept of alienation. The dialogue concerned individual alienation from the means of production and the govenment. As a social movement developed against the rise of the military-industrial complex (as it was described then), and a reaction to the repression of McCarthyism developed (at least in the US), people began to look at how the individual was being repressed with resulting ennui and mental illness. Focus, by some people, was placed on allowing the individual to develop with little restraints and repression. As the 70's backlash moved into the '80's greed and development of individualism into a self-centered, narcisstic cult, the sense of alienation that was experienced 20-30 yrs earlier, moved deeper into the psyche of the person and now we can talk of spiritual disaffection and the alienation of the person from her/his very sense of inner self. When I talk with people today, I am so impressed with how little confidence people have in their own instincts or ability to trust in their own judgement of institutional power and take action. Generally speaking, the current process of people lives seems to divorce them from a sense of larger connectedness to the community, the society and the universe. Thus, there is, again, a rise of interest in spiritual practice of all esoteric varieties.
One last thing I would like to add here to the conversation regards homeopathy. It is a recollection of a workshop led by Janet Snowden about 3-4 year ago in NYC. She was talking about eating disorders, which really meant anorexia. She was concerned with the growing number of girls at younger and younger ages coming in for treatment with this disorder. In sharing her collective analysis of her cases, shse described these girls coming from well-heeled, middle-class families where the girls had everything they wanted and went to good schools. They were generally high performers in school and very active with social activities and friends. There was a stress experienced over their performance and what they seemed to lack was a spiritual connection. Their families were just not there emotionally for these girls; too busy working and being competitive in life; too busy pushing their offspring into the same kind of high-performance lives. Aside from any remedies given, Janet spoke of prescribing camping trips to the families. It was, she said, the only thing she could think of at the time that would take these girls and their families out of their high stress, impersonal lives for a bit and put them in touch with something larger than themselves. The intent was to have them experience/develop some spiritual sense in life.
tanya
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Re: Spiritual Decay and Disease
Thanks Terry for the interesting sounding reference. I would add that this perception/analysis is far from new in our culture today. Back in the '70's I did quite a bit of research into the history of women in medicine which, then, required digging into minutae for references. In the course of this investigation, I read a great deal about the history of medicine as we know it today. There is a whole socio-economic and dialectic history that goes back to the Middle Ages and the Inquisition. And I came to the understanding that what we know today as individual people is/was totally controlled by the needs and power of the social institutions of our culture. And the healing/medicinal practice as an instititution, is just one symptom of the culture within which it develops. Also, feminist history speaks a great deal to this issue. It is interesting that the spiritual decay that is being spoken of began during a historical process when the Church was rising in power politically and economically and was claiming medicine as part of its province.
That being briefly noted, my next thought relfects on the contemporary issue of 'spiritual decay.' In the 1960's much talk was had on the concept of alienation. The dialogue concerned individual alienation from the means of production and the govenment. As a social movement developed against the rise of the military-industrial complex (as it was described then), and a reaction to the repression of McCarthyism developed (at least in the US), people began to look at how the individual was being repressed with resulting ennui and mental illness. Focus, by some people, was placed on allowing the individual to develop with little restraints and repression. As the 70's backlash moved into the '80's greed and development of individualism into a self-centered, narcisstic cult, the sense of alienation that was experienced 20-30 yrs earlier, moved deeper into the psyche of the person and now we can talk of spiritual disaffection and the alienation of the person from her/his very sense of inner self. When I talk with people today, I am so impressed with how little confidence people have in their own instincts or ability to trust in their own judgement of institutional power and take action. Generally speaking, the current process of people lives seems to divorce them from a sense of larger connectedness to the community, the society and the universe. Thus, there is, again, a rise of interest in spiritual practice of all esoteric varieties.
One last thing I would like to add here to the conversation regards homeopathy. It is a recollection of a workshop led by Janet Snowden about 3-4 year ago in NYC. She was talking about eating disorders, which really meant anorexia. She was concerned with the growing number of girls at younger and younger ages coming in for treatment with this disorder. In sharing her collective analysis of her cases, shse described these girls coming from well-heeled, middle-class families where the girls had everything they wanted and went to good schools. They were generally high performers in school and very active with social activities and friends. There was a stress experienced over their performance and what they seemed to lack was a spiritual connection. Their families were just not there emotionally for these girls; too busy working and being competitive in life; too busy pushing their offspring into the same kind of high-performance lives. Aside from any remedies given, Janet spoke of prescribing camping trips to the families. It was, she said, the only thing she could think of at the time that would take these girls and their families out of their high stress, impersonal lives for a bit and put them in touch with something larger than themselves. The intent was to have them experience/develop some spiritual sense in life.
tanya
That being briefly noted, my next thought relfects on the contemporary issue of 'spiritual decay.' In the 1960's much talk was had on the concept of alienation. The dialogue concerned individual alienation from the means of production and the govenment. As a social movement developed against the rise of the military-industrial complex (as it was described then), and a reaction to the repression of McCarthyism developed (at least in the US), people began to look at how the individual was being repressed with resulting ennui and mental illness. Focus, by some people, was placed on allowing the individual to develop with little restraints and repression. As the 70's backlash moved into the '80's greed and development of individualism into a self-centered, narcisstic cult, the sense of alienation that was experienced 20-30 yrs earlier, moved deeper into the psyche of the person and now we can talk of spiritual disaffection and the alienation of the person from her/his very sense of inner self. When I talk with people today, I am so impressed with how little confidence people have in their own instincts or ability to trust in their own judgement of institutional power and take action. Generally speaking, the current process of people lives seems to divorce them from a sense of larger connectedness to the community, the society and the universe. Thus, there is, again, a rise of interest in spiritual practice of all esoteric varieties.
One last thing I would like to add here to the conversation regards homeopathy. It is a recollection of a workshop led by Janet Snowden about 3-4 year ago in NYC. She was talking about eating disorders, which really meant anorexia. She was concerned with the growing number of girls at younger and younger ages coming in for treatment with this disorder. In sharing her collective analysis of her cases, shse described these girls coming from well-heeled, middle-class families where the girls had everything they wanted and went to good schools. They were generally high performers in school and very active with social activities and friends. There was a stress experienced over their performance and what they seemed to lack was a spiritual connection. Their families were just not there emotionally for these girls; too busy working and being competitive in life; too busy pushing their offspring into the same kind of high-performance lives. Aside from any remedies given, Janet spoke of prescribing camping trips to the families. It was, she said, the only thing she could think of at the time that would take these girls and their families out of their high stress, impersonal lives for a bit and put them in touch with something larger than themselves. The intent was to have them experience/develop some spiritual sense in life.
tanya
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twhite7101
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Re: Spiritual Decay and Disease
Thanks Tanya, I agree with you, the analysis is not new. There was a whole
avalanche of thinking going on then, in many areas, racism, feminism, etc.
Foucault was working in the 50's, and as a gay man in that framework
perceived the oppression that society exerts over its citizens. His first
work, Madness & Civilisation was published in 1961. The work of the
feminists and more recently the "dis"-abled writers like Tom Shakespeare have
elaborated their own perceptions within their frameworks of reference.
I feel, especially after some of the recent discussion around abortion &
women's rights, that homeopaths need to at least be aware of the different
streams of ideas that permeate our culture and illuminate what is many
perceive to be really happening. It helps us be more aware of "prejudiced"
we really are. The aim being, of course to continually lift the blinkers
that lead to us being as "unpredjudiced" as possible.
avalanche of thinking going on then, in many areas, racism, feminism, etc.
Foucault was working in the 50's, and as a gay man in that framework
perceived the oppression that society exerts over its citizens. His first
work, Madness & Civilisation was published in 1961. The work of the
feminists and more recently the "dis"-abled writers like Tom Shakespeare have
elaborated their own perceptions within their frameworks of reference.
I feel, especially after some of the recent discussion around abortion &
women's rights, that homeopaths need to at least be aware of the different
streams of ideas that permeate our culture and illuminate what is many
perceive to be really happening. It helps us be more aware of "prejudiced"
we really are. The aim being, of course to continually lift the blinkers
that lead to us being as "unpredjudiced" as possible.
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Tanya Marquette
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Re: Spiritual Decay and Disease
hear ye, hear ye!
this is akin to the arguments about the cultural biases in IQ testing. if one doesnt know the culture, how do you know what you are really hearing and dealing with.
tanya
this is akin to the arguments about the cultural biases in IQ testing. if one doesnt know the culture, how do you know what you are really hearing and dealing with.
tanya
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Dave Hartley
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Re: Spiritual Decay and Disease
A good deal of this is imposed "top-down" in terms of corporate/bureacratic
control of education, mass-media, and much else that is related to everyday
life.
One of these things is the allopathic medical model, and worse- the vaccine
paradigm.
Have you read Coulter's 'Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality' ?
It is a wonder that anyone is able to lift h/ir head and ponder spiritual
concepts under the combined onslaught...
Dave Hartley
http://www.localcomputermart.com
Santa Cruz, CA (831)423-4284
Asheville Computer (N. Carolina) (828)285-0240
control of education, mass-media, and much else that is related to everyday
life.
One of these things is the allopathic medical model, and worse- the vaccine
paradigm.
Have you read Coulter's 'Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality' ?
It is a wonder that anyone is able to lift h/ir head and ponder spiritual
concepts under the combined onslaught...
Dave Hartley
http://www.localcomputermart.com
Santa Cruz, CA (831)423-4284
Asheville Computer (N. Carolina) (828)285-0240