Dreaming Potency
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:58 am
Oh Thanks I knew about this one from another web site
--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, "rochelle" wrote:
don't have the MM for this one!!!!!
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(Janet Snowden)
was no exception. My grateful thanks go first to Nelson and Muriel
Ngqase of Mandela Township outside Cape Town for their inspiration
and for their prescription for my dream which led to the proving.
grateful to Dr Renee Usdin for introducing me to the sangomas in the
first place and enabling continuing communication with them.
provers and supervisors. I would like to thank them all, especially
my supervisors,.
Napper and Penny Stirling, not only for their hard work but also for
their companionship on the journey upon which we embarked.
encouragement and patience and skill in bringing about order and
coherence whilst maintaining the spirit and meaning of the proving.
two traditional healers, Sangomas. I would visit them at the end of
the day. As the African night fell I would sit with them in a shack
in a poor township on the outskirts of Cape Town and they would tell
me about their work. From time to time one needs a renewal in one's
work and as I sat and listened to their stories of dreams, their
ancestral past, their perceptions of what needed to be cured I felt
an excitement and an inspiration that have remained with me.
was in a room at one end of which, with the sunlight streaming
through the window onto their gleaming coats, were two frolicking
golden Labradors. At the other end of the room, next to where I was
standing, was a ceiling to floor cupboard, in front of which hung a
curtain. I knew I had to sort out the cupboard, but had been avoiding
the task. I decided to do it then. I drew back the curtain.
with a large sore on its left side. It was lying on the floor. As I
watched in horror, realising I had placed the dog in the cupboard
without food or water hoping it would die, it crawled out to join the
gamboling labradors.
could relate my dream. To the African dreams are a vital part of
their daily existence.
self".
follows day.
uncomfortable symptoms requiring treatment and also because of their
perceived significance and power.
potentially healing, but generally more regard is given to their
power than in the West.
the master healer to whom they should apprentice themselves appears
in a dream. Dreams are often used for diagnosis as also are
meditative states into which a Sangoma goes to allow inspiration to
arise. Patients take their dreams to Sangomas for advice.
is not difficult. African healers do not interpret dreams. Having
listened to my dream the chief healer, Nelson, told me that the black
dog was the most important aspect of my life at the present time and
would lead me forward. I explained that I didn't like the black dog
and had wanted it to die. His reply was that what I felt was due to
an "ill wind" and he would give me something to heal my dream.
dissolved in a large tin of water and then "frothed up" with a forked
stick. I was to smear the frothing liquid on my face and inhale it.
As the liquid in the tin decreased I was to add more water and
continue frothing! This was not the only idea that Nelson and
Hahnemann shared. I was told I would dream more dreams, many of which
I would not like. This proved to be correct.
named temporarily "Dreaming Potency" as at this time I was unaware of
what it was.
Sherr's book "The Dynamics and Methodology of Homeopathic Provings".
much of my own interpretation and observation. However, there are a
couple of occurrences worth mentioning. The main theme that emerged
was that of the feminine. Provers spoke of feeling "soft and
feminine" of "allowing things to happen" instead of making decisions
and pursuing them to the end.
conducted the proving that the Sangomas use Ubulawo to induce dreams
to clear the psyche for more dreams to arise to help the person along
their path in life. Several of the provers sunk onto a deep
depression and became immersed in their shadow side.
interesting piece of information. It is well-known that Winston
Churchill suffered constant bouts of depression throughout his life.
What is less well-known is that he called these depressions "my black
dog". It was whilst I was on a Winston Churchill travelling
scholarship that I had my dream of the black dog that led to this
proving.
much one's knowledge but rather one's understanding of the
homeopathic and healing process in a unique way. An illustration of
this is the fact that that he prover who received Sac Lac produced
symptoms that embodied the essence of the proving, "felt soft, round
and feminine" and "the depression I went through in the middle of
this proving has knocked me off my feet a bit, and the motivation for
life in general is not there in the same way as before".
than answers, that questions will keep us alive to ideas beyond the
grasp of reason.
that man at some point reaches the edge of certainty beyond which
conscious knowledge cannot pass, that the unconscious communicates
with the conscious mind through the medium of symbols, dreams, myths
and rituals. The time I spent with the Sangomas and conducting the
proving of what they prescribed to me gave me a glimpse into the
deepest layers of our being, that part of the human being that always
remains unfathomable, beyond the reach of our rational understanding.
I was reminded of the lines of T.S.Eliot:.
Sangomas to heal my dream until after my return to Britain. Since
then I have been trying to discover the name of the substance, but
have only been able to ascertain that it is the ground up bark of a
tree. This has been partly due to the difficulty of communicating at
a distance with people who do not have access to communications that
we take for granted. The greater reason, however, is that in the past
the generosity and trust of the local Sangomas in the sharing of
their expertise and knowledge has been grossly betrayed. Without
their permission or recompense to their communities the knowledge the
Sangomas so freely shared has been used by drug companies to patent
medicines thereby enriching themselves with no interest in or concern
for the people they are robbing or the land they are denuding.
Potency, the name by which I have known it since before the proving
began.
to philosophical 1.
and notices nothing; as if 1.
with 1.
1.
--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, "rochelle" wrote:
don't have the MM for this one!!!!!
------------
(Janet Snowden)
was no exception. My grateful thanks go first to Nelson and Muriel
Ngqase of Mandela Township outside Cape Town for their inspiration
and for their prescription for my dream which led to the proving.
grateful to Dr Renee Usdin for introducing me to the sangomas in the
first place and enabling continuing communication with them.
provers and supervisors. I would like to thank them all, especially
my supervisors,.
Napper and Penny Stirling, not only for their hard work but also for
their companionship on the journey upon which we embarked.
encouragement and patience and skill in bringing about order and
coherence whilst maintaining the spirit and meaning of the proving.
two traditional healers, Sangomas. I would visit them at the end of
the day. As the African night fell I would sit with them in a shack
in a poor township on the outskirts of Cape Town and they would tell
me about their work. From time to time one needs a renewal in one's
work and as I sat and listened to their stories of dreams, their
ancestral past, their perceptions of what needed to be cured I felt
an excitement and an inspiration that have remained with me.
was in a room at one end of which, with the sunlight streaming
through the window onto their gleaming coats, were two frolicking
golden Labradors. At the other end of the room, next to where I was
standing, was a ceiling to floor cupboard, in front of which hung a
curtain. I knew I had to sort out the cupboard, but had been avoiding
the task. I decided to do it then. I drew back the curtain.
with a large sore on its left side. It was lying on the floor. As I
watched in horror, realising I had placed the dog in the cupboard
without food or water hoping it would die, it crawled out to join the
gamboling labradors.
could relate my dream. To the African dreams are a vital part of
their daily existence.
self".
follows day.
uncomfortable symptoms requiring treatment and also because of their
perceived significance and power.
potentially healing, but generally more regard is given to their
power than in the West.
the master healer to whom they should apprentice themselves appears
in a dream. Dreams are often used for diagnosis as also are
meditative states into which a Sangoma goes to allow inspiration to
arise. Patients take their dreams to Sangomas for advice.
is not difficult. African healers do not interpret dreams. Having
listened to my dream the chief healer, Nelson, told me that the black
dog was the most important aspect of my life at the present time and
would lead me forward. I explained that I didn't like the black dog
and had wanted it to die. His reply was that what I felt was due to
an "ill wind" and he would give me something to heal my dream.
dissolved in a large tin of water and then "frothed up" with a forked
stick. I was to smear the frothing liquid on my face and inhale it.
As the liquid in the tin decreased I was to add more water and
continue frothing! This was not the only idea that Nelson and
Hahnemann shared. I was told I would dream more dreams, many of which
I would not like. This proved to be correct.
named temporarily "Dreaming Potency" as at this time I was unaware of
what it was.
Sherr's book "The Dynamics and Methodology of Homeopathic Provings".
much of my own interpretation and observation. However, there are a
couple of occurrences worth mentioning. The main theme that emerged
was that of the feminine. Provers spoke of feeling "soft and
feminine" of "allowing things to happen" instead of making decisions
and pursuing them to the end.
conducted the proving that the Sangomas use Ubulawo to induce dreams
to clear the psyche for more dreams to arise to help the person along
their path in life. Several of the provers sunk onto a deep
depression and became immersed in their shadow side.
interesting piece of information. It is well-known that Winston
Churchill suffered constant bouts of depression throughout his life.
What is less well-known is that he called these depressions "my black
dog". It was whilst I was on a Winston Churchill travelling
scholarship that I had my dream of the black dog that led to this
proving.
much one's knowledge but rather one's understanding of the
homeopathic and healing process in a unique way. An illustration of
this is the fact that that he prover who received Sac Lac produced
symptoms that embodied the essence of the proving, "felt soft, round
and feminine" and "the depression I went through in the middle of
this proving has knocked me off my feet a bit, and the motivation for
life in general is not there in the same way as before".
than answers, that questions will keep us alive to ideas beyond the
grasp of reason.
that man at some point reaches the edge of certainty beyond which
conscious knowledge cannot pass, that the unconscious communicates
with the conscious mind through the medium of symbols, dreams, myths
and rituals. The time I spent with the Sangomas and conducting the
proving of what they prescribed to me gave me a glimpse into the
deepest layers of our being, that part of the human being that always
remains unfathomable, beyond the reach of our rational understanding.
I was reminded of the lines of T.S.Eliot:.
Sangomas to heal my dream until after my return to Britain. Since
then I have been trying to discover the name of the substance, but
have only been able to ascertain that it is the ground up bark of a
tree. This has been partly due to the difficulty of communicating at
a distance with people who do not have access to communications that
we take for granted. The greater reason, however, is that in the past
the generosity and trust of the local Sangomas in the sharing of
their expertise and knowledge has been grossly betrayed. Without
their permission or recompense to their communities the knowledge the
Sangomas so freely shared has been used by drug companies to patent
medicines thereby enriching themselves with no interest in or concern
for the people they are robbing or the land they are denuding.
Potency, the name by which I have known it since before the proving
began.
to philosophical 1.
and notices nothing; as if 1.
with 1.
1.