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About soy milk, there's a lot of sound information to the effect that soy milk is detrimental to heatlh. That includes other industrially processed soy products like tofu, soy protein powders, etc. My article on that is here, and you can also search on soy dangers and find more info. Modern soy products are made from the industrial waste from the manufacture of soy oil. This is very different from traditionally fermented soy foods like tempeh and miso, which are wholesome foods. The "obsession" with commercial milk is largely a function of the dairy industry. Raw milk isn't good politics for the pharmaceutical-industrial complex, so it's been marginalized. -Karen

I think blotting is worth a lot, but doesn't seem necessary to spend $30 on a video when clear written instructions do just as well. The brushes are as cheap as a regular toothbrush, and last a long time. The whole thing is cheaper than oil pulling, considering the cost of good quality oil. Right now I'm making my instructions (4-page PDF with photos) available free to my clients, not free on my website. I'm thinking about making it available to others for a small charge. Thanks for asking! Will let you know.. or remind me if I haven't posted about it by next week. -Karen

Hi Jaya, The link you posted is something different.. I assume you're talking about the Phillips Blotting Technique, which uses a special brush to remove plaque from between teeth and gums. I think it's terrific. It's not necessary to involve a dentist, because it's a simple hygiene routine that anyone can do and can only help. Blotting uses a special brush that you use dry, dabbing on the crevices between teeth and gums, and it actually absorbs the plaque. Regular brushing just pushes the plaque around and doesn't actually remove it. It's like if you swept a dirty floor onto a rug, the dirt would collect under the rug, not be swept away. Not that it's necessary to do away with regular brushing completely, but blot afterward. If you used a brush with dark colored bristles, you could even see the plaque that the blotting removes, even after you've already brushed your teeth the regular way. There are instructions available from the Price-Pottenger Foundation, although I thought they weren't clear enough. Their video on blotting is excellent, but costs $30. So I created a document containing detailed, illustrated instructions, which I offer free to my clients. I also recommend oil pulling, which has similar benefits, but a lot of people can't get themselves to OP, or stick to it . -Karen

Here's a good article that describes the major problems with pasteurized milk - way beyond the lack of enzymes. Then there's the issue of factory farming. Factory farmed cows are grossly sick, kept alive and producing milk only because of toxic drugs. Milk from those animals HAS to be pasteurized because the animals are so sick. Look at the pic here of a commercial dairy cow.. Milk: It Does a Body Good?

Hi Craig, I know, the idea that conventional medicine would study orgone seriously is a "surely you jest" situation . BUT.. studying orgone is exactly what Reich did, and scientifically, too. Of course what is meant by "scientific" is the key . Reich didn't have Pharma backing and clinical trials and all that. But his methods of objective observation were scientific in the best sense of the word. Now of course he didn't have the modern Croft-style orgone generators, but the research has continued. There is more that we can do beyond subjective observation - even the subtle realm of energy can be viewed objectively, to bring it into physical reality. In modern research, we can go into the etheric world and precipitate something out of the etheric wisdom, into physical knowledge. Not to then cut out and discard the etheric, as material science does, but to connect it with the physical, as Reich did. As for cancer, that's a whole 'nother discussion as to how EMF's contribute to cancer, and then to lay out a whole understanding of what cancer actually is. That's actually been done, and there are many researchers who contribute to that understanding - Dr. Hamer, Dr. Reckeweg in modern times, and resting on the foundational understanding of chronic illness provided by Dr. Hahnemann. Not in the mainstream literature, that's for sure! And only just a blip on the "alternative medicine" radar, which largely uses the same linear, intellectual mindset as conventional medicine. -Karen

Hi Teddy, I don't know about regulations in the UK regarding organic milk, but the more important criteria is that the milk is RAW, not pasteurized. You can take the purest, most organic milk from healthy, grass-fed animals, subject it to pasteurization, and now it's unfit for consumption. So if you can't find raw milk in your area, I would suggest that you don't need to research the issue of whether the pasteurized milk is organic or not. Here in the US we have organic milk that is high heated, and I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole. Raw milk is totally safe and one of the best health-promoting foods, when the animals are healthy and eating their appropriate diet (grass, not grain). When you talk to the supplier personally, you can be assured about how the animals are treated. You can check www.realmilk.org for sources of raw milk in the UK. Usually raw milk cheese is easier to find than milk, and you'll likely find that in regular food stores especially in Europe. -Karen

Hi Yoda, If you feel attracted to boric acid, might be because you have a need for it in energetic form.. Here's the homeopathic materia medica of boric acid. And reading through the symptomology, you can see why it's a good idea not to ingest too much of the stuff in material form! -Karen

I have a TriField meter, and it works to measure EMF's, which are "energy after matter." What it doesn't measure is "energy before matter," which is orgone energy. Many of the devices that help protect from EMF's aren't interfering with the EMF's directly, so the TriField meter won't measure that. But the devices are orgone generators, which protect you energetically. Wilhelm Reich studied orgone energy scientifically and had ways of measuring its effects. There are even very low-tech ways of measuring orgone, such as changes in skin tone and moisture. The nano pendant that Dennis Griffin makes might be working partly on the material level - he says that the nano metals actually absorb microwaves. I haven't looked into it that carefully yet, except that I happen to have one and my personal experience with it is very positive. -Karen

Hi Craig, My favorite would be the "nano pendant" from Orgone Crystals. I have the triangular one. Superb. On the product page, there's a link to info on how the nano technology was developed. Basically, it gets the metal pieces smaller so there's more surface area. -Karen

Drew, glad you mentioned the blotting technique.. I've been experimenting with it..don't know anyone else who's done this for any length of time. Have you?

Hi freesun, Actually the book has a section on how a vegetarian can maximize the teeth-building nutrients. Using liberal amounts of raw dairy. Raw butter or ideally, X-factor butter oil. And raw eggs (organic, grass-fed only). Larger amounts of fat-soluble vitamins are found in animal foods, especially liver, but raw dairy is the next best thing for lacto-vegetarians. -Karen

Excellent info on this site, and great book: Cure Tooth Decay by Ramiel Nagel. Dispels all the myths about what causes tooth decay and how to prevent and treat it. He combines a Weston Price nutritional approach with even more raw animal foods a la Aajonus Vonderplanitz. And additional info about dentistry, how drilling cavities is often unnecessary; minimally invasive methods of treating cavities, etc. Well researched and referenced. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

The seed of a plant is the storehouse of orgone energy, the whole life force of the plant condensed into that tiny form. So naturally there's a lot of power there. But about ingesting seeds, the confusion is about the energetic potential of the seed vs. the body's capacity to digest and metabolize it in crude, physical form. What we want to do is to get the advantage of the energy of the seed, without the poisonous physical potential. That's why there's a kernel (no pun intended, really!) of truth to the idea of ingesting seeds (if that's the kind of energy you happen to need), but then you have to understand that it's the etheric energy you want, not necessarily the physical. It's similar to the way homeopathy can take poisonous substances and render them safe while activating their therapeutic action. If anyone wants to ingest plant seeds, they can take it in dynamized ("homeopathic") form without the negative effects. Gemmotherapy does a similar thing - it uses the buds and other young parts of fresh plants that have a lot of growth potential, and are rich in many factors that stimulate growth and promote the normal detoxification pathways. It uses parts of the plant that you wouldn't normally ingest. But it's using tinctures in small doses so that you're getting the etheric energy of the plant moreso than the chemical constituents. There's a relationsihp between a particular organ and a particular plant, and the plant buds and shoots can be used for the corresponding organ to stimulate the etheric growth forces in that organ. As I always say, you have to know what you're trying to accomplish, beyond just making symptoms go away. You have to know exactly what you're dealing with - cancer is just a set of symptoms that can have very different underlying causes for each person. The cookbook method of "this treatment for that disease" is too simplistic for chronic, complex illnesses. It doesn't have to be complicated, but there has to be a rational approach, not just the pasta method (throw the pasta on the wall and see if anything sticks). After you do the pasta method and follow claims for making symptoms go away, and you do that for at least 20 years straight, you get tired of it and ready for something totally different . Karen

Exactly, with plenty of etceteras! I also look at my own desire for validation from others, and how I feel when I don't get that. Posting online is a great opportunity for looking at that. I can always find some bit of attachment to that, even when I think there isn't. But how would I feel if no one ever agreed with me or saw things my way at all? That's a challenge. It's easy to say "we shouldn't need that validation," but quite another thing to process the feelings consciously and go through that process of letting go of the layers and layers and layers of attachment. -Karen

I would suggest that the teachers are all around, everywhere, in people, animals, everyday situations of fear and loss, and when my computer was sick with the blue screen of death . Of course it's wonderful when we have teachers that embody the qualities we're developing, and support groups like TTB. But even when those things are there, still we have to discover and work the real lessons for ourselves internally. I'm just pointing out that whatever we DO get, even if it wasn't what we thought we were looking for, holds a hidden lesson-gift. And often in the process, we discover that the teacher isn't perfect. It's a crisis of faith we have to go through, in order to develop our own mature faith that isn't dependent on a teacher as a parental figure. So yeah, I know that feeling of disappointment when the teacher or the support group or fellow disciples seem more flawed than you wanted them to be . Personally what I feel is helpful then, is to explore that feeling of disappointment further down to its roots. It may be connected to deeper feelings of ungroundedness, fear of not having enough support, loneliness, etc. Then you can focus on the unresolved deeper issues. When a situation comes up that pushes your buttons, you can trace it back and focus on the real issue instead of what triggered it. Because if the deeper issue were resolved, the current situation wouldn't have any emotional charge - your reaction would be "so what else is new." I find this generally a helpful way of working with any situation that pushes my buttons, when I'm aware of reacting to something out of past patterns and not being with the situation for exactly what it is in the present. It's ongoing work to sort out our own projections from what's really there - Anais Nin said something like, "we see things as we are, not as they are." Maybe you are already in the process of getting all those things you are looking for? And maybe a few lessons your conscious mind wasn't particularly looking for, crept into the mix to give you a little push ;-). Best, Karen

I can tell you not only from professional training but personal experience that migraines can sometimes be a manifestation of very deep emotional and spiritual issues. In the meantime while the real causes are being addressed with natural methods, it can be a lifesaver to use drugs in the triptan class like Imitrex, in the smallest dose that will abort the migraine. Basically, a migraine is a metabolic process that belongs in the lower body, which is invading the upper body. In TCM terms, it could be yin deficiency causing false yang rising. Or it could be thought of as the emotions being pushed up into the head for processing (intellectualizing the emotions instead of confronting them viscerally). The head needs to be "cool and collected", and can't tolerate the fiery energy up there. So the aim is to process the emotions where they belong, and that can involve a lot of deep emotional work. Narayan Singh in his book Messages from the Body has a lot to say about the emotional meaning of migraines. For one, the person may have fears of abandonment and developed an overcompensation of perfectionism - trying to earn their right to be loved. Then they feel driven to achieve in order to keep earning love, but of course that can't be sustained, and there's a lot of resentment and anger. It's amazing how these kind of issues can be understood intellectually but the full brunt of the feelings still remain unconscious. (where they produce symptoms). In addition to working on the emotional level, there are usually many nutritional and lifestyle issues that would need to be sorted out, on an individual basis. But a few things that she could try are: TCM treatment - herbs and/or acupuncture, to diagnose and treat the particular imbalances involving the gallbladder, liver, kidney, etc. Homeopathy OMT (cranial osteopathic manipulation) Eliminate all foods that contain tyramine Eat yin building foods - fats Drink enough water Magnesium (topical magnesium oil is great) Open a mustard jar and sniff, at the first sign of a migraine (there's an actual physiological reason for this!) Immerse the hands and arms up to the elbows in very hot water at the first sign of a migraine (to bring energy to the periphery and away from the head) Buteyko breathing can help regulate the sympathetic nervous system "Gut-brain therapy" http://www.foreverwell.com/treatment.html Hope that helps. -Karen

Adj, How about using this experience to learn something about yourself - ask yourself what you can learn from this sense of disappointment. Disappointment happens when we have expectations - find out what the expectation is, and why is it there? If you felt you needed something from the forum and didn't get it, what is that need really about - what is the pattern, the essence of it, the primal feeling behind it. There is a lot of room for some good inner exploration there! The practical situation is usually only a stage for us to play out our inner patterns.. I can tell you that I can find my own patterns in just about every interaction I have, if I look at my own reactions and impressions. The opportunity for awareness comes up a hundred times a day - pretty generous of the universe, I'd say! . Best, Karen

Yes, but there is always going to be a poisonous effect, if it's being used in crude form, even if a very small dose. Just like pharmaceutical drugs are poisons - a tiny bit won't hurt too much, but the negative, iatrogenic effect is still there. You have to render a poison chemically inert before you can use it completely safely. Interesing too how bee venom is used in crude form, but even if it seems to help with symptoms, there's gonna be a price to pay for using poisons in material form. People often accept that some of these "cures" have an inevitable price, when it's not necessary!

Sure. I apologize in advance, though.. I can't give a short answer that would make any sense . First I have to define some terms. The two principles involved relate to the two types of diseases and the polaric nature of the life force. The homeopathic principle is used to treat "pathic" diseases. ("Disease" here is not the allopathic disease labels, but a particular energetic entity that causes an impingement on the life force). Homeo=similar; pathic=suffering (symptoms), so homeopathy means matching the symptoms of the disease to the symptom picture that the remedy produces in healthy people. But the majority of diseases that modern people present with are qualitatively different, and a different principle needs to be applied. Let me define what tonic and pathic diseases are. Tonic diseases are primary diseases that have no prior cause except a spiritual one. They are constant in nature - they show up the same every time, like measles or chicken pox, or a concussion, a poisoning, an emotional shock, or infectious diseases like tuberculosis, just to name a few. There may be some variability in how it manifests in each person, but relatively little. In each case, you know the cause of the disease, so you can treat it directly with the remedy that has a resonance with that disease (law of similars). Dr. Hahnemann called this the "direct approach," also "homotonic" prescribing for the tonic disease. That's the principle used when you use Arnica for a contusion. You know the cause, you know the diagnosis immediately, and there is a direct resonant relationship between the disease and the remedy, so you use that remedy. Pathic disease, on the other hand, is more variable, and you don't always know the cause, so treating with homeopathy is the "indirect method." Variable diseases manifest differently at different times or in different people, and have no fixed nature, so the treatment has to be individualized based on matching the symptom picture to a remedy - homeopathy. Pathic disease is secondary, generated by a tonic disease as if the tonic disease gave birth to offspring. (The life force is "generative," after all!) For example, a child who has measles can be treated with the remedy for the tonic disease of measles, but then they might still not be well, because another disease might have arisen out of the tonic disease and become independent of it. This secondary, pathic disease might be different in each child - one child might be feverish and restless; another might be lethargic and chilly, for example. We have to use the individual symptom picture according to the homeopathic principle, to find the remedy for the pathic disease. But generally once you treat properly for the primary, tonic disease, it's like you removed a pregnant parent, and the offspring (pathic disease) don't get a chance to develop. So in many cases a practitioner doesn't need to use pathic prescribing very often, only tonic prescribing. Now, if you were treating for the disease of a contusion (injury to tissue), that's a tonic disease, and the remedy for that disease is Arnica. You know the cause, so you can treat tonically - you don't have to do a whole homeopathic workup on all the minute details of the symptoms. BUT - if a practitioner recognizes a pathic disease is there, or if the cause is impossible to know and they just saw the symptoms but didn't know it was an injury, they would treat pathically. They would gather information about the symptoms, like homeopaths do, and match the whole symptom picture to a remedy that has a similar picture. That might end up being Arnica, or another remedy that matches the specific symptoms. So you see, homeopathy is treating pathic disease only. Pathic disease accounts for a very small percentage of diseases we have. Homeopathy works, for pathic disease, but is the wrong principle for treating the majority of conditions which involve many tonic diseases. There is a whole other side to disease and treatment, beyond homeopathy, and once Dr. Hahnemann discovered that, and the Heilkunst researchers in recent years discovered the missing elements that previous translations of his work had missed, this complete system of medicine began to take shape. In practice, any remedy can be used either pathically or tonically, depending on the nature of the disease being treated. So the practitioner has to be grounded in a true system of diagnosis, because the diagnosis tells us what principle of treatment needs to be applied. (And there are often many diseases involved in each chronic condition). It becomes very complex! But the genius of Heilkunst is that it has a key to understanding the complexity without getting mired in complication. There's a lot more that could be said about the principles, and I'm in the habit of writing long essays, but I'll stop here . Hope that answered the question! Yes, a carrier substance like water can be "imprinted" with the remedy which is not material substance but information. The Hahnemann Center for Heilkunst is also finding that even a physical carrier isn't really necessary to deliver the remedy. But we're so much living in physical reality, and beliefs about that can limit us in certain ways, so we often do use physical carriers for the remedies - water, lactose powder, rice paper, etc. -Karen

Sure, I'll start a new thread.

Yep, I sure do. Rudi Verspoor has been my teacher for many years. He is the dean of the school where I am in the 4-year program for medical Heilkunst. He, along with his wife/colleague Patty Smith, and Steven Decker, a scholar of the Dynamic system of thought that forms the larger context, have developed Dr. Hahnemann's complete medical system for the modern world. More and more of Dr. Hahnemann's genius continues to be brought out. -Karen

Yes! And this is the basis for Dr. Hahnemann's work with diluting and "dynamizing" the substance to activate its etheric nature while rendering it chemically inert (beyond Avogadro's number so there is less than one molecule of the crude substance remaining). The higher the potency, the less crude material remaining. In that way, we use such dynamized doses of poisons all the time in homeopathy, completely safely - arsenic; lead; mercury; poisonous snake venom; disease material such as syphilis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis; psychoactive plants; pharmaceutical drugs, etc. All poisons can be made into remedies by this method - the trick is in the proper diagnosis to know when a particular remedy is called for in a particular case, at what time, in what dosage, etc. -Karen

Heartburn is just a symptom, which can either be an effect of a deeper issue, or a simple imbalance. Just the fact that a symptom went away doesn't tell us what's really going on. It could be one of several things - 1. Either the problem was only a simple imbalance to start with - like if your digestion is healthy to begin with but you ate something very hot that you're not used to, and then the cold ice works on the law of opposites to correct the imbalance. The symptom goes away and that's the end of it - there was nothing more behind it. 2. Or the symptom really does have more behind it, like emotional issues or nutritional deficiencies (or other energetic causes), so making the symptom go away is like cutting a weed off at the top. It makes you feel better in the short run. You cool down the heat and temporarily feel better, until the next time, because you didn't address the root cause, and that cause is going to keep manifesting symptoms (sometimes through other routes). Often people think they're looking at causes, when they're only looking at proximate causes, not root causes. Even to say that heartburn is caused by stomach acid deficiency is only a proximate cause, because what's causing the stomach acid deficiency? You have to go further back to the level of primary cause. Unless it's a simple imbalance, the primary cause of symptoms is always on the energetic level. -Karen

Vitagong, Thanks fot that contribution; great to hear this kind of reasoned advice. The tendency to treat symptoms is pervasive - not only in the conventional system but "alternative medicine" largely operates from the same midset of getting rid of symptoms although with less toxic methods...which amounts to harmful symptom suppression at worst or band-aid palliation at best. Nothing wrong with palliation to get some relief while working on the causative level that might take some time, as long as you have that larger perspectove and a rational framework for understanding what is being done,not just judging the efficacy of a method by whether the symptom went away. Did it go away because the cause was removed, or because the symptom was simply suppressed to manifest again later often in a more vital organ? The popular empirical method doesn't know the difference, but a rational system of medicine needs to understand this. -Karen