Julian wrote:
Yes, this is where the problem always arises and it's very difficult to put
across this idea without people's emotions getting triggered by what they
see as implications of "blame" or "fault". The instinct that laying guilt
trips on people is not where it's at is spot on, but it's not this concept
that lays the guilt trip, it's the mind assuming greater responsibility in
the matter than is appropriate.
Laying guilt trips on people is NOT, repeat NOT, what this is about. (Though
I can't help but note that it's funny how we have no problem laying the
blame on a "faulty" dynamis!) What it is about is energy, and specifically
energy within the individual which is working against the fundamental
direction of the life force. There's nothing new in what I'm saying, but the
perspective I'm looking at it from leads to a different view of the dynamis
and its role from the one that leads to it being seen as something "faulty"
or "imperfect" or lacking any ability to reflect intelligence at work.
Try and take a step back and see this purely as different energies at work.
This is why I've written response-ability rather than responsibility. The
connotations and emotional associations are different. You can't lay blame
where awareness and understanding of what's going on isn't there -- if
there's no response-ability, then one cannot be held responsible! Our
conscious awareness is a very small part of our being; it's just the tip of
the iceberg really. However it tends to think it's all there is a lot of the
time, that it has far more control than it does, that it has greater
awareness than it does, and that it should somehow "know better" (which is
where the feeling of inappropriately-assigned responsibility erupts from).
And it tends to read things back to front a lot because it doesn't realise
that it's always seeing things in a mirror. So no blame. We're all learning.
Isn't that what it's all about?
In the case of the 'flu epidemics you mentioned, and other similarly
virulent large-scale acute diseases, then the picture is one of people being
overwhelmed by an energy *external* to themselves. Susceptibility (ie. the
existing energy state of the individual) still operates though -- Phos is a
big remedy in 'flu-type symptom expressions and the Phos energy pattern also
features a high degree, perhaps an *unhealthy* degree, of sensitivity to
external influences. So the dynamis-language in affected individuals says
"I'm being overwhelmed, suddenly and explosively". And so they are.
So it STILL doesn't detract from the validity of the observation that the
dynamis simply reflects the nature of the different energies existing in any
one individual at any one time, and that the nature of the symptoms
exhibited is a form of language.
In the case of cholera, it's being unable to hold onto anything of value --
it all turns to shit. That's the nature of the energy. That's why it appears
in situations where people *have* lost everything they considered of value.
So you can tinker around with the precise wording of the expression of it
and imply greater or lesser responsibility on the part of the affected
individual, which may or may not be appropriate, but the essence remains the
same. The dynamis articulates it perfectly.
Now, IF we can appreciate how this operates, then we can bring it into
awareness and *use* it. At present, we've grasped bits of it here and there,
but other bits are a bit back-to-front and inside-out, so our understanding
of the situation isn't quite focusing us on the exact spot although we're in
the general area and can hit the spot some of the time (though without
really knowing exactly how we did it).
Accepting that the dynamis is perfect and will always reflect the nature of
the energies present, means that it never lies, *never misunderstands the
situation*. Hahnemann's emphasis on the precise nature of the symptom
expressions and the simple language of the patient (which has a large
subconscious component), not to mention his railing against theorising, are
entirely consistent with this concept. Accepting that what the dynamis is
saying is an incontrovertible statement about the focus of the problem
(which will continue to be expressed until the problem is resolved) allows
us to *respond* to it. If we can respond, then we have response-ability.
Many of us feel instinctively and strongly that returning responsibility for
a patient's health to them, engaging their response-ability, is the road to
healing. It is. And I think this is why it is. Holding the idea of a faulty,
imperfect dynamis means that the mind is steered away from focusing on the
seat of the problem to forever trying to adjust the mirror. Generally this
simply distorts the reflection, although it can, in a roundabout way,
produce healing, because the seat of the problem is addressed indirectly.
For instance, in cases where the dynamis-language is all about lack of
self-nurture, adhering to a special diet indirectly satisfies the need for
self-nurture. Look at all the conditions that respond well to special diets,
and you'll see what I mean. It's not the diet that does it so much as
focusing on the individual's own needs, so the symptoms lessen for as long
as that focus is maintained. If the individual then takes self-nurture on
board generally, then "cure" may follow, even if they still believe that it
was the diet that "did it".
But all that's really happened is that the dynamis is reflecting a change in
state -- from one where lack of self-nurture was a significant component, to
one where it's not. The dynamis inhabits the eternal Now, because this is
the fundamental level of reality. It's only our awareness trailing its past
behind it that sees progressions in linear time and processes of "cure"
where something is "doing" the curing. "Cure" is just shifting the patterns
of energy being held by the individual. Get them to stop holding that energy
pattern somehow and you have your change in state. When you have your change
in state, the dynamis will reflect it.
Regards
Wendy
http://www.smeddum.net/