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Why All Therapies Work and the Healing Setting

AV: I remember an extensive study of the effectiveness of different therapies: the conclusion was that the success of the therapy was mainly due to the therapist’s conviction and belief in his method and the extent to which he was able to convey that to his patient. The method used turned out to be of …

Conversations

After almost 40 years of intensively practicing, studying and teaching homeopathy, many questions remain unanswered, much to my frustration, I must admit. It seems that every homeopath has a theory that he or she is at peace with and can work with. I haven’t been able to do this yet; a gnawing unsatisfied feeling makes …

 Law of similars

When I wrote “Homeopathy is Everywhere” some 10 years ago, I didn’t fully realize myself how true this is.The Law of Similars (e.g. like cures like or let likes be cured by likes)  is one of the pillars of homeopathy. Isn’t that a bit of an unusual foundation to build a whole healing system upon? …

How close is close enough?

A good image to illustrate how ‘close’ a remedy should be is the Mandelbrot set or the idea of fractals. One of the monsters of mathematics was that one cannot really measure, for example the coastline of the UK. It depends on the yardstick one uses. With long yardsticks one can measure the general outlines …