Prologue

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

The Concept of Homeopathy

Prologue

It is about 22 years since I first met homeopathy. Either thinking of this number of years short or long, I experienced tremendous ups and downs towards understanding a realistic interpretation of what Hahnemann introduced to the world. This hurricane-like endeavor threw me up to a land where I never expected.

As many new age truth seekers, I was tired of conventional reductionism and I was truly happy embracing holism. But deeply in my heart and mind I knew that this new shelter is the other side of coin. How can the whole exist without the parts? How can we value the whole and at the same time devaluate the parts? Aren't the concepts of holism and reductionism, dual aspects of the reality?

I had lived with western and eastern philosophy for years and was familiar with the tones of speech while stressing on the whole and on the parts. But I was also attentive to the point that all 'whole seekers' were defining their sacred 'holism' by either its constituents and what is emerged from them or by impotency of the compartments. And no professional 'parts seekers' was lost in the maze of the whole in the formation of a holistic theory. Are Plato, Kant or Heideger just reductionistic masters? And are Vedic maters, Rumi and Basho all silent in the indescribable sacred whole?

I was not interested in dogmatic extremisms. To me, choosing to be a holistic thinker just means concentration on one end up and to be a reductionistic thinker to be focused on the opposite end. This is the dualistic nature of thinking; only meditators delve into silence.

I didn't want to be on such dogmatic edges. I was looking for a third view point, where not stressed by what I have subconsciously hidden. This was the hurricane. I was thrown into an unknown paradigm to look at the basic concepts of homeopathy through a new light. Surprisingly, I noticed that what Hahnemann intended to communicate belongs to this point and not to the place where most of the worshippers of homeopathy stay.

Copyright - Dr. Ardavan Shahrdar 2016

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[Victoria Mashevsky]

Thank you Dr. Shahrdar! It starts intriguing. Change and motion can only happen through contradiction. Please pile on!




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[Jean Doherty]

Wondering what happened the FTRNs on Telegram.
I am looking forward to your book extracts and discussions.
Best Wishes, Jean


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[Shannon Nelson]

Intriguing start!
It seems (to me) fair to say that Hahnemann was very focused on *both* "the whole" (the bigger pictures, e.g. "the patient") and also "the parts" (finding patterns within the individual symptoms, and e.g. "the disease").
I am eager to hear, and also about the meaning of the last sentence!
Shannon


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[ShakirMM]

May you remain in good health to impart such a good deal of knowledge to "knowledge hungry ones". My appeal to God for you.

Shakir
Intriguing start!
It seems (to me) fair to say that Hahnemann was very focused on *both* "the whole" (the bigger pictures, e.g. "the patient") and also "the parts" (finding patterns within the individual symptoms, and e.g. "the disease").

I am eager to hear, and also about the meaning of the last sentence!
Shannon


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[Ellen Madono]

Who was it who divided the universe into 3's. Paracelsus?? Salt is the never changing, concentrating. Sulphur is forever the re-birth of a new start. Mercury is hypersensitive to change and the extremes. Hahnemann was Mercury?


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