Dynamism

[jtikari]

In Consultation with Chandrian who writes:
'Remedies are DYNAMIC'. Remedies interact with 'dynamic' vital force. Disease and cure are 'dynamic'. Drugs act due to 'dynamic drug energy'. These are very common phrases in classical homeopathic paradigms.

What exactly is meant by 'dynamic'? This word comes from the metaphysical concept of 'dynamism'.

Dynamism is a metaphysical concept conceived by Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) and developed into a full system of cosmology.

Dynamism in metaphysical cosmology explains the material world in terms of active, pointlike forces, with no extension but with action at a distance.

Dynamism describes that which exists as simple elements, or for Leibniz, monads, and groups of elements which have only the essence of forces.

According to 'dynamic' view, interaction between elements takes place without contact, through modes or even harmonics of motion, yielding all phenomena in the Universe.

Various treatments of Dynamism can be found in the works of Baruch Spinoza and Henri Bergson, and also, long before them, Parmenides, the Atomists, and Plotinus.

In more contemporary works, elements of Dynamism also developed into process philosophy, via Alfred North Whitehead and others, as well as systems theory via Ludwig von Bertalanffy and William Ross Ashby.

Immanuel Kant was another philosopher who helped the development of the theory of dynamism.

Hahnemann's explanations of homeopathy were obviously influenced by the philosophy of 'dynamism'.

Modern proponents of 'energy medicine' theories also (falsely) explain homeopathy on the basis of concepts of 'dynamism'.

'Forces' existing free from matter, and 'matter acting at distances without any material contact or interaction' is an idea very dear to all practitioners of occult healing arts.

The idea that a 'medicinal force' can be 'freed' from drug substance, and 'transferred' to water of sugar of milk, that acts on organism in 'dynamic way'- all these come from 'dynamism' (and does not take molecular science into consideration which is the only truism).

Without freeing homeopathy from the influence of 'dynamism', we cannot hope it to be accepted as a scientific medical system. (which it certainly is)

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