Ellen Madono wrote:
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Before I quit to be sick for about 10 years and then spending ALL my
time for 5 years raising a lovely but high-need daughter, I was a
scientist myself: Master's in optical engineering, Ph.D. in experimental
physics. I specialized in "nonlinear optics" and lasers.
mattered was what I observed, what really happened (i.e. does this stuff
actually WORK?!), and not so much HOW...the job of the experimentalist
is just to factualize WHAT something does, and leave the theoreticians
to try and explain it
. Therefore, the first time I was SURE a
remedy would work...and it didn't, and then I got it right and even
though I'd about given up on it, it worked spectacularly, I KNEW it
wasn't placebo or suggestion, etc. There's nothing like testing it,
feeling it for YOURSELF to convince you. I have heard that there exist
homeopaths who are "never sick" and haven't ever taken a remedy
themselves, nor done a proving, and I don't understand HOW they do it.
The remedies I know best, are those I've needed myself...
remedies" is a very EASILY explained, and very basic physics question
concerning resonances. (You make a laser by exploiting the "resonant
frequencies" of the molecule or crystal you're using to produce the
light, you excite THAT frequency, and reinforce it with feedback, and
you can end up with a beam of light strong enough to cut metal..take
away the frequency selection and you've got...a large, VERY expensive
flashlight.)
the wall of your wineglass when you have the stereo on. It's well known
that if you hit JUST the right frequency of sound, a frequency which is
"resonant", i.e. matches the modes of vibration of that particular
substance or object, the reaction will be HUGE. Ever seen those
commercials for magnetic tapes, showing how true-to-life the
reproduction is, where they had a soprano hit a high note and break a
crystal wine glass, and then do it again with the recording? There are
LOADS of very famous examples of what hitting a resonance can do. If
your husband did physics, perhaps he's heard of the Tacoma Narrows
Bridge incident? They built this lovely bridge, and didn't take into
account that the wind could excite vibrations that were resonant...
before it was a few months old, there was a windy day and the whole
bridge started to oscillate, faster and faster, until it broke apart!
(You can find multiple views of it on You-tube).
for anyone who doesn't need them), is that when one is sick, one is in a
meta-stable state, different from one's normal, and that state has its
own unique resonance frequency (think of a landscape like a stretchy
rubber sheet perhaps), with dips in it, and "where you're at" is
represented by a little ball. (This "landscape" is called "phase space"
to a physicist). The shape and depth of the "dip" determines at what
"frequency" the little ball will roll back and forth. If your state of
health is good, the "dip" that represents it is deep and narrow, and the
ball may roll about a LITTLE bit if the landscape gets "shaken" but it
doesn't come out. If your state of health is precarious, that dip is
shallow or open on one side or something, and the ball can get out if
hit hard enough or in the right direction and fall into ANOTHER well,
which it can't easily get out of without help.
somehow acts to smooth out the sickness-dip in the landscape or merely
bounces the ball OUT of it, so it can naturally fall back into the
"health dip", I don't know. I can see constitutional remedies as tending
to act on the "landscape" (e.g. deepening and narrowing the dip for the
basic state of health), whereas acute remedies remove either the ball
from that sickness-dip or remove the sickness dip altogether. Every
change in the "landscape" or phase space CORRESPONDS to a change in the
"frequency space" of the patient, so they are both "true" and just
different ways of looking at the same thing. One's susceptibility may
always remain, to some extent, and that is equivalent to the
sickness-dip being there, even if the ball doesn't necessarily visit it,
because you're too healthy for "normal" shocks and bothers to move it
out of health. Perhaps, this is why it takes many remedies to fully cure
someone who is chronically ill: their landscape is pockmarked all over,
and their state of health (the little ball) falls from one to another
before finding the true, deeper, "health" dip. When you "mess up the
case" with a remedy that is not quite right, what you do is to lose the
ball in some far sickness-dip you hadn't noticed before...and imagine
what you get if you have LOTS of dips, all overlapping each other! then
you get even odder shapes than just "bowls" or dips, not just sinusoidal
vibration, but what are called "saddlepoints" and other topographies
that are even weirder (this is where those famous "strange attractors"
come in, the ones which cause the ball's motion to be "chaotic"..., but
let's not go there!!).
particular, unique frequency, it'll react VERY strongly, so you have to
be very careful to only give it a SMALL amount. If, on the other hand,
it's not resonant to your frequency, you can take a whole bottle of the
remedy with no effect (something the idiot skeptics don't ever seem to
"get"). The medical version of the "strange effect with small doses",
which is called "anomalous", not only because the effect is strangely
disproportionate, but also because, in LIVING systems, the response to
mini doses is sometimes the OPPOSITE of the response to big ones (i.e.
big ones kill, small ones cure) and is called "hormesis" and I think
someone posted not TOO long ago, a link to a large (50 page?) paper on
the accumulated research in hormesis...if your husband would care to
look into it.
Lois