Prologue
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 1:44 pm
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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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
Sent from my iPhone