AV: We were talking about the fact that there is homeopathy working with material doses, the lower potencies, and homeopathyt working with high potencies.
G: That’s not what I was referring to. I was referring to the different levels for which you use that diagram.
AV: Ah, I see. According to my diagram, which simply represents five circles inside each other, each representing a level of experience. The inner circle represents the physical body, the next circle the energetic/etheric, the third circle the emotional, then the mental, and the outer circle the vital level. From the second circle onwards I speak of subtle bodies surrounding us, although they do not have to be as separate from each other as in the representation. The similimum aims, in my opinion, at the 5th level. That’s where the disturbance arises and then expresses itself on the other levels with signs of discomfort, pain, disharmony, etc.
One can also prescribe homeopathy at level 4, the mental level, if one wants to address the symptoms that are located there. Examples are: fears, fixed ideas, underlying beliefs. One can also prescribe at level three when the patient mainly suffers from disturbing emotions, or at level 2 when it concerns an energetic problem. Prescribing on the physical body is what we have previously called ‘clinical prescriptions’. We all have these subtle bodies that are all active all the time, but the center of gravity of pain and suffering can be concentrated on one of those levels.
G: You can add level six to it.
AV: Is that the layer of the patterns, the geometry?
G: Right. And level seven as well.
AV: The level of light? The colors? The magic?
G: And eight.
AV: Sound? Could sound be healing there?
G: There are therapies that work with sound, aren’t there?
AV: That’s right. But we don’t get to level eight with homeopathy, do we?
G: How about the Fibonacci frequencies?
AV: I’ve prescribed them a few times with great hesitation.
G: But do you see how these different uses of homeopathy that have not been recognized are causing confusion? When you hurt yourself, you take Arnica automatically, when you have the flu you take a flu medicine and you expect it to work just as well.
AV: I have no trouble recognizing the fantastic results of clinical homeopathy.
G: Why shouldn’t the same be true for drugs that are prescribed to the psyche: emotional symptoms can be remedied by emotional remedies and mental problems by mental remedies. You seem to have objections to that.
AV: At level four, I can see that there is a blockage, that there is a theme overshadowing level five and that it is the reason for the physical complaints. I call it the ‘mythical’ problem, an obstacle in the progress of one’s life story, something ‘bigger-than-reality’, an unresolvable conflict, a step one cannot or does not want to take, a participation in a collective trauma. Then I would prescribe a mythical remedy because experience has taught me that prescribing a similimum for this problem has no effect. But you are -of course- right: I rarely prescribe on the mental or emotional level, out of fear of disturbing the image or pattern plus the conviction that the similimum will bring order and harmony to those levels. If this doesn’t happen or doesn’t happen quickly, I sometimes give Bach flowers or recommend psychotherapy.
G: It’s not so much that you recognize those different levels, but that there is no consensus in the homeopathic community about them. Therefore, anyone who claims to be successful with his or her method is right. If you work on the emotional level with substances that are similar, then the emotional level improves. And that goes for the other levels. Because you are good at understanding the essence of the remedies, you are less familiar with the emotional expressions that your Materia Medica and repertories are bulging with. But other homeopaths are more skilled at this and less expert at the essence of the remedies. You call them ‘partial prescriptions’, but that is always the case. A level five prescription may cover a larger ‘totality’, as you call it, but it is not the end of the story either.
AV: That’s why I say that five levels are sufficient for homeopathic purposes.
G: A statement that you will revise in due course.
AV: Oh…
G: As I said, there are more.
AV: At level six, I can imagine something, but I don’t know how to integrate it into prescribing.
G: Now is the time to shed light on that.
AV: Gladly!
Level Six
G: You know Sacred Geometry as Drunvalo Melchisedek has described it.
AV: When I read that, there was a strong sense of recognition and familiarity.
G: Nothing new for you; It was, let’s say, more of a refresher. Since the so called flower of life is a representation of creation, homeopathy has to fit in somewhere, right? Where would you place them?
AV: If the diversity of creation passes through the gate of the triangle, the vesica piscis, so does the origin of homeopathy.
G: Essentially, that’s right. In the vesica pisces, geometry begins with a triangle that produces an endless multitude of creations. Why was that double tetrahedron your logo again?
AV: Because, for me, it represents the perfect form. The fascinating features I actually discovered later; It was the form that attracted me before I had the knowledge.
G: It also has something to say about homeopathy. You say: ‘the perfect form’ but don’t I hear you claim: ‘everything is perfect in its imperfection’?
AV: I mean it this way: there is a perfect underlying thought, a perfect pattern behind every creation; Plato’s idea of ‘horse’ behind all the various physical manifestations of horses. You could draw a geometric pattern of a horse, so to speak, which would then be the perfect representation. It’s balanced, perfect, but also unchanging. However, all physical horses are different and thus show a ‘deviation’ from the perfect model. This is true for all creatures, great and small, us included. So when our homeopathic forefathers speak of illness as a disorder of distortion, I understand it that way; somewhere is a distortion of the pattern that causes his sacred geometric pattern to deviate from the underlying form. This also makes every person unique. After all, without that deviation, we would all be equal: the perfect pattern. However, it is the differences, the greater or lesser deviations, that give us an individual experience. It can be compared to the ‘pollution’ in a crystal that gives it its unique colour. This does not alter the fact that every deviation is perfect, because I cannot see how anything in creation could be less than perfect.
G: Then what you call ‘disease’ or ‘disturbance’ is also perfect.
AV: There is no other way. Byron Katie would say: ‘how do I know I need that cancer? I got it!’ Radical but right. It does call into question the whole issue of healing.
G: You mean?
AV: Shouldn’t we keep our hands off what a person has created in his life as the best way or the best circumstances to have the experience that his soul has decided upon? Why do we want to heal so badly? Why do we want to fix things?
G: To ask the question is to answer it…
AV: Because the patient and the healer are essentially one? Because everything we do for one of your creations, we do to everyone? Because we want to help, relieve distress, take away pain, contribute to joy and happiness? Because we believe that an expanded consciousness can create things other than discomfort, pain, and suffering in order to become wiser? And thus contribute to a positive evolution of the entire planet? Because we live by the adage ‘take care of everything and everyone’?
G: As a statement of principles, that can count. So never again bring down your work, effort or intention, never again call it a selfish gratification, a personal need to fix people instead of leaving them alone and minding your own business.
AV: I promise. You are right.
G: (smiles)
AV: Back to the levels and the patterns.
