Can you say more about Classical Homeopathy, what it is and your experiences? How to find a practitioner, etc?
There is a great deal to say about Homeopathy. I will only say a small bit for now due to time constraints.
I came across Homeopathy many decades ago, coinciding with my Medical Anthropology courses at university. I was particularly studying the time around the late 1800's and early 1900's when the break into Allopathic and Homeopathic medical modalities was in full swing. I was aware, or became aware, that a classically trained Homeopath - meaning following Hahneman's medical modality precisely - were unique and the most effective practitioners.
There are several elements to Homeopathy as a practice, and a Homeopathic 'cure' as experienced by the patient, that are unique - one being the exceptional involvement of the patient in self-observation. The Homeopathic physician's questions are detailed - and a single intake-interview with such a physician can last a solid hour or more. Time spent with a Homeopathic physician, and the degree of knowledge both patient and physician are required to have to effect a cure, will forever alter one's perception of mainstream medicine. Sitting for 10-15 minutes with a main-stream physician with minimal in-depth understanding of the individual becomes painful to experience.
What the allopathic medical modality excels at is trauma medicine, but it's drug therapy has become harrowingly toxic to the point of being death-dealing. The prime problem with allopathic medicine is it's lack of understanding of the subtle bodies that comprise the human being (etheric, astral, mental - as well as physical).
The Homeopathic medical modality is a drug therapy - but of a kind that is hard for the materialist to understand. Due to a phenomenon called 'potentization' - where all material elements of the original ingredient are no longer present - the most common accusation is that Homeopathy is fakery. The idea that less-and-less of the original material makes for more 'potency' has become alien to most modern thinkers, we are so locked into a physical mind-set.
First 'cure' was in the early 1980's. I was in the midst of my Anthropology research on the topic and decided to submit myself to a cure. I was having a serious emotional depression that I felt was crippling me. After my interview of a Homeopathic physician (who knew I was doing research as a university student), I asked if he would do a cure on me. He said yes. There then ensued a lengthy Q&A (which I will describe at another time) and he then prescribed and administered a high potency dose of Aurum (Gold). The dosage was in the form of the well-known 'sugar pills', placed beneath the tongue, absorbed quickly into the bloodstream. He alerted me to the changes I would experience though I knew the healing rhythm that would occur from my research. Within minutes the depression lifted - with the healing rhythm proceeding as is typical in Homeopathic cures. (I'll go into later). Within 6 months the depression was gone completely. He had me return only one more time for a repeat dose, but after that no more. His comment was that his most common application was Aurum for depression - and this was in the early 1980's. There is no sustained taking of the medication. One dose of the correct drug begins the healing process in the body and in the subtle bodies - the latter is the essential point.
Homeopathy is looking at the human being's physical body, but also the life/energy body, the emotional body, and the mental body. Disease manifesting physically is only part of the story. The patient has to be willing to observe themselves in all parts of their being.
Second cure had to do with a troublesome rash that actually took years to cure. A mainstream physician would likely have given me a cortisone shot and basically suppressed the symptoms. In Homeopathic terms this suppression of a physical symptom (not a cure but a suppression of symptoms) causes the condition to drive inward to effect a more serious condition, like asthma (often caused by the suppression of rashes). If the asthma is suppressed, the condition drives deeper, to the heart, and so it goes.
In my case, my hometown Homeopathic physician gave me a prescription that initially seemed to work but the rash came back. I wound up moving a long distance away, and my new Homeopathic physician then began trying to find the cure. It took about 2 years - and the break through happened because he had had two other patients with the exact same rash condition that he had successfully treated. He asked me a pointed question about my 'mentals' - which I refused to admit to (though it was an aspect of how I thought about something). Unable to get me to verify the mentals for the drug, he decided to give me a dose anyway, and the healing process was immediate. The skin condition which was extensive, painful and profound across a good potion of both my hands, and had plagued me for years, spreading with alarming speed, literally began receding within hours of having the dosage administered in his office. By 4:00 p.m. I was on the phone to him telling him that the rash was nearly gone (I had gotten the 'high-potnetized' dose at 10:00 a.m. in his office). It was stunning. He reminded me, of course, of the rhythm of the healing and that I needed to be prepared for that swing back-and-forth for a space of time. So it was, but in the end, complete cure - from simply one dose of a 'potentized' drug.
In the subsequent follow-up interview he asked me again pointedly about one aspect of my 'mentals' - this medication had a very specific 'mental' associated with it. For me to have had a cure with this medication I must have had this 'mental'. Sadly - being young, or being sensitive - I continued to deny I had this 'mental' when in fact I did.
Two spectacular cures using Homeopathy. It is very hard to get a good Homeopathist. Like any good physician, the best work from a wealth of knowledge regarding their healing modality, but also intuition. In my two cases I was working with classically trained Homeopathic physicians - not just herbalists, or anyone dabbling in the Homeopathic pharmacopoeia.
'Nuf said for now. Must fly.
React to what, Randall? The spiritual on a paranormal chat site? Wtf?
I do believe it's my obligation to be Paul Revere to your proselytizing fervor - wherever I see it rear it's head. I think it will become clear over time exactly who is trying to censor who - and who is trying to curtail free expression. To those with discernment, it will be very clear what it is you are trying to accomplish, Mr Randall Murphy.