Present Homeopathy

Introduction

Can you Imagine Practicing Homeopathy in Present? I bet you can’t. Really. In present moment it becomes so alive and spontaneous, that it extends far beyond our abilities to comprehend. By no means we can control or even define it, but we become a humble witness of the mystery of Healing instead.

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Up until now Homeopathy has been incomplete:

• In classics only its manifested, symptomatic Yang half has been explored.
• But its essential potential, not-yet-manifested Yin half has remained hidden from homeopaths in the most peculiar way.

When we become aware of the latter, both YIN & YANG of Homeopathy become available for everyday practice and our Homeopathy becomes Whole.

The Present Revolution in Homeopathy

(re-evolution, actually) happens when we return to its very roots, i.e. to multiple daily proving experiences, but with present understanding and well trained set of skills.

My path has been perceptual: learning and applying techniques, testing & listening, going through numerous “remedy experiences” together with my teachers, colleagues and patients and slowly realizing the Truth. It took about 20 years of everyday practice to figure it out.

With 1) the detailed map, 2) well defined principles (good old and kind of poetic similia is definitely not enough here), 3) elaborated methodology and techniques and 4) listening sessions (live meetings are much preferable, but we’ll make online format available pretty soon) you should succeed much faster.

Let’s start with the most important topic –

1. Understanding the nature of our remedies.

It’s the key. The hard truth is that no one can figure it out except YOU. Neither some quantum physicist nor any shaman are going to bring the answer to you. Even if they do, that does not count. You have to attain it yourself through practice and observation – up until you close the circle at 360° and start perceiving Homeopathy and Life in an absolutely clear way.

DYNAMIS

: the state of that which is not yet fully realized

: POWER, POTENTIALITY — contrasted with energeia

Merriam-Webster dictionary

Potentiated (information) remedies have nothing to do with strength, energies, vibrations or any other manifestations (Yang). On the contrary, they are about submerging into the deeper and deeper potencies of stillness (Yin) up until there is literally no activity left. It’s literally like nothing at all is left.

Potencies stand for a potential that’s not-yet-realized. Potential is always beyond any sensory perception. It seems like nothing until it is realized. If you recognize and name it – it’s not a potential anymore, it has blossomed into manifestation that’s unique in each case.

To put it simple, information does not work. It is not supposed to.

Books about cooking do not cook. They may contain the potential for some tasty meals though. So if we possess a similar potential (“similia” as homeopaths call it), it may wake up and get realized eventually.

Do you get it? We start with some information from an “outside” – be it a book, remedy, whatever (though all the information is neither “outer” nor “inner” in relation to Self) – but end up with revealing our own potential.

Books about cooking never cause cooking, either. – it is always our own potential that gets revealed. Actually, we can neither explore these books, nor “prove” potentiated remedies – no matter how hard we try, we always end up with exploring ourselves. That’s the only purpose of information!

Potentiated remedies represent a potential

Our Reality has two sides: 1) manifestastions that you are perceiving now (past and future do not exist for a perception, don’t they?!): all the sensory information and thoughts – all that is active, continuously moving, changing (Yang) and 2) the potential, not-yet-manifested one that’s perfectly still (Yin) – somewhat like this screen you’re reading this text on – it stands prior to words and concepts it displays. With some practice of observation and Self-exploration (Listening as we call it) we may become aware of both happening simultaneously.

EFFORT

Listen to nothing, shut the senses off.

The nothingness is something.

James Jealous “An Osteopathic Odyssey” p.40

Dynamization and potentiation belong to that Yin side. They have nothing to do with strength, energies, vibrations or any other manifestations. On the contrary, they are about submerging into the deeper and deeper potencies of Stillness up until there is literally no activity left. Up until it’s like nothing is left at all.

Potential is always beyond any sensory perception. We can’t sense anything until it manifests. But becoming aware of the very process of perception we get in touch with the deepest secret of Life: everything that exists appears out of that potential state and disappears in it.

Everything we perceive appears to be happening in the Consciousness: consider it is the screen for perception, or your true Self.

Becoming aware of both sides we become aware of interplay between Creation/Life and a Potential. It never repeats itself. That’s why you can’t get two identic experiences with the same remedy twice!

Anyway, here are the differences between substances and potencies:

• Raw active substances are manifestations, they may be observed and touched. Being active they cause symptoms of their own and these may be explored by toxicologists, clinical pharmacologists, etc. Substances may be proved in a classical homeopathic manner by simply taking a dose of it. That’s scientific. i.e. predictive, repeatable.
• But potencies are just the opposite. They are imperceptible by their very nature. They are passive, they represent pure sleeping potential. They never cause anything to innocent people. They can’t even be explored as there is (almost) nothing there. They still may be scientific – in an exciting, but just the opposite way homeopaths expect them to be.

Returning to books about cooking – each time and with each of us that realization of a tasty meal is going to happen in a different way. Usually an original recipe is modified according to our needs, resources and circumstances. So the result is always more like our unique interpretation rather than exact replica.

And the aim of writing a book (or this text) is not in persuading you to copy my recipes – it’s about you discovering and realizing your own similar potential that is unique and different!

Provings of potentiated remedies are always about ourselves and not the remedies. We can’t replicate any of “remedy symptoms”, we just reveal our own aspects that may have been hidden, suppressed or not yet realized – resulting in sensations, mental states, certain life situations and insights.

Potentiated remedies address the hidden, not-yet-manifested side of our reality. Ultimately, such remedies are tools meant for self-exploration! That’s their only scientific purpose!

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2. Remedies become live experiences we share together.

We also learn to synchronize with our colleagues and patients, so we experience remedies from their perspective. Our patients think they come to us for a consultation, but actually, we pay a visit to their worlds and experience these from within being guided by the remedies.

In each world/Universe the same remedy manifests in different ways! Becoming a witness of all that happening live during a consultation process is the most satisfying experience we can get as professionals. Witnessing means we do not force or control anything, dissolving in the Healing process altogether with our remedies.

As our Hearts become open, we learn to share our experiences directly. We surpass our own sensitivity and we dive into the realms of sensations never available to us before.

So we put the books aside and spend hundreds of hours on practicing and training together intensively in the most systematic manner resulting in unprecedented personal and professional growth. Together and direct sharing are the keys here.

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3. The mechanism of provings becomes evident

Please note, present provings are very different from classical ones. They are much safer, much more natural, much quicker, much more intense and… much much deeper!

For some 150 years homeopaths have been stuck on the idea that our ability to experience remedies depends on our “sensitivity” that’s very limited.

idiosyncrasy

a: a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality;

b: individual hypersensitiveness (as to a drug or food)

Merriam-Webster dictionary

• Well, in case of raw substances our idiosyncrasy really matters and depends on multiple factors: genes, receptors, biochemistry, immune system, etc. We perceive these as certain apparent mechanisms: these are like keys fitting certain locks. For many years these have been explored by scientists and considered to be pretty predictive.
• But for potentiated remedies its all different. Not only our remedies seem imperceptible (these little white sugar globules seem to look and taste the same), but also we seem to have no special receptors for “remedial information” (or whatever you call it), don’t we? Imagine, there are no “mechanisms of action” here. How can we define a sensibility to the potentiated remedies? What factors come into play here? Well, they are similar to K. Jung’s synchronicities: and they can’t be controlled, they just happen. You can’t stage them. Ultimately, sensibility does not even exist here! You simply can’t find any “mechanism” for it to work.

Remedies as synchronicities

Well, at some point our remedies really remind K. Jung’s synchronicities. But the latter can’t be controlled, they just happen as certain outer event reveals something about ourselves – providing us with some kind of answer, insight, decision, etc. that seemingly has already been there inside, but we just couldn’t find it.

You know, synchronicities belong more to a sphere of perception and the outer stimulus is needed only as a pointer to some (seemingly, inner) truth. It’s the same similia simillibus principle.

Similar points to similar. Similar reveals similar. But 1) what is similar to what and 2) the experience itself appear to be extremely personal. Or case-dependent if you like it better. Or belonging to a different world/ Universe – that’s how it actually feels when you experience it at certain depth.

Read the remedies as synchronicities if you want to explore the topic deeper.

Synchronicities always point to us. Events or objects do not matter –even if they may seem pretty significant, e.g. Isaac Newton’s apple. The story may be fake and perhaps gravity doesn’t even exist as such, but nevertheless that’s a pretty good example.

Should we include “the theory of gravity” into repertory and list “apple” under it? Does it make sense?

Exploring/proving homeopathic remedies is similar to exploring the effects of… apples. If an apple can cause “the theory of gravity”, then it can cause virtually anything. And writing all that down makes no sense, actually.

On the other hand, a list of tendencies, themes listed under each remedy may be very helpful. Using these after the actual remedy experience is like reading different interpretations of the dream we have just awaken from. If we read with the actual feel of the dream we may scroll the list and intuitively pick the particular meaning that matches our own state the best. That’s how we read remedy descriptions together with our patients – that really helps to find the hints and interpret the proving experience.

Exploring events or objects, attributing meanings to them is very relative. What it means if we dream of this or that? What it means if we find some color, scent or crystal attractive at a moment given?

And the with homeopathic remedies it becomes even more tricky. We deal with potentiated/information remedies. So it’s like we get rid of an actual apple, and leave only information about it.

Look at the mechanism: suddenly some perceive a relationship between some outer event (manifestation) and something that we consider is inside ourselves. Sensibility has no place here, you simply can’t find it.

The secret is in choosing the right remedy for a proving! Yes, we have no symptoms here to start with. But if we know how to Listen we recognize a landscape (some kind of perceptional totality without symptoms) that leads us to some remedy set. Then by testing/listening we arrive to a remedy that instantly reveals the missing details in that landscape.

Recognizing a landscape (a totality with only a faint hint of symptoms exposed) is a skill. It takes some time to be trained.

Landscape leads us to a similar remedy set (representing similar totality). We test the remedies while listening. When we stumble at the right one, the proving comes instantaneously like a storm.

Present provings are remedy experiences that happen exclusively in the present moment and usually take up to 15 minutes to fully develop with almost nothing postponed to the future.

Imagine remedy is like a stone thrown into the pond. Splash!!! is more than obvious to sensory perception.

Then it loops into a repeated cycle that feels very much like the ripples in the water that come afterwards. Such rippling fades slowly with gradually diminishing amplitude and increasing intervals. Well, just like every experience we get in life.

Splash!!! when pointed up by a more experienced practitioner becomes easily recognizable even for beginners (patients including). And then comes training through the everyday listening sessions involving thousands of “remedy experiences” together with our friends, colleagues and patients.

The methodology of present provings took about 20 years to be develop and refined. I’m in debt to my finest holistic colleagues and teachers here. Thankfully, now you can do it much faster.

We actually are going to explore The Role of Attention in Homeopathy. With the proper attention 1) the consultation itself, 2) the proving experience, 3) manufacturing the remedy and 4) administering it to the patient are perceived as one single experience. All these 4 processes appear to happen simultaneously!

Provings are all about ourselves and not the remedies.

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4. Authentic Homeopathic Approach to Chronic Cases

We end up with the elaborated methodology of having multiple mutual proving experiences together with each of our chronic patients right during the consultation process! Here we do not prescribe remedies anymore, but we sit and listen during the consultation – and remedies start to instantaneously reveal what has been hidden behind the symptoms, i.e. the causes of diseases.

That enables us to feel extremely comfortable in chronic cases where symptoms are sparse, vague and unimportant while pointing to some essential aspects are hidden.

Instead of asking numerous questions, we may simply recognize a misty landscape (a perceptual totality without any evident sensations manifested yet) and then a particular remedy from a similar set reveals the details that have been hidden behind the disease.

It’s a perfect and extremely homeopathic approach to chronic diseases (Yin, hidden) that’s just the opposite to classical symptomatic prescribing (Yang, manifested). Methodology appears to be radically different, but the principles remain the same.

It’s actually what S. Hahnemann had been searching for all his remaining life. Ridiculously, he had been carrying the key to chronic diseases in his pocket from the very beginning! It’s the proving experience per se, i.e. happening live, perceived in the present moment, even before it is translated into words.

Our remedies bring the instant relief by revealing the totality when prescribed in acute cases. But in chronic ones they reveal the hidden details (causes of a disease) when used in “a proving mode”!

Imagine each consultation becomes a series of proving experiences with one remedy opening the door to another – up until we make a full circle coming back to where we started, but with a completely new and perfectly natural balance. That’s exactly how remedies reveal the Totality in chronic cases.

Imagine in some 10 years of practice you undergo 10.000-20.000 of deep proving experiences, each surpassing your personal sensitivity and surprising you greatly. All that results in the professional growth that would normally require many homeopathic lives to accomplish.

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6. The ultimate perception of our remedies

Present Homeopathy offers unprecedented systematic and methodological approach to homeopathic practice.

We do not have to invent new methodology. We use interdisciplinary approach. We learn and practice together with our holistic colleagues.

Listening appears to be the universal language that equally suits all the existing remedies and methods:

• We widen our perception by embracing numerous SETS OF REMEDIES and techniques belonging to different traditions. That opens up multiple perceptual horizons (perceived and recognized as landscapes) homeopaths have never been aware of.
• But that also gives ultimate depth. By comparing these amazingly different remedies (sensations, landscapes) and approaches we not only learn to recognize the subtlest details, but eventually we come to the very Essence that’s behind them and is the same for every healing method ever used.

We end up with the most intimate (and finite!) relationship with remedies homeopaths haven’t even dreamed about. All the questions regarding our remedies, their mode of action, potencies, methodology, etc. dissolve in that. Here is the hint: actually, our remedies have nothing to do with outer phenomena like energies, vibrations, quantum physics stuff, water memory, etc. That’s going to be a huge disappointment for most homeopathic practitioners.

It’s more of an inward journey. The path leads us through a series of pretty radical and painful personal paradigm shifts, starting from 0°, traversing Shamanic Homeopathy at 180° and eventually arriving at 360° where “outer” and “inner” make no sense at all. Here remedies become transparent: they do not stand in between us and our patients anymore, but actually encompass all the phases at once.

7. Knowing Thyself as the basis of all true wisdom

When you discover “this hidden spirit-like power in the inner wesen of medicines” (§20 of “Organon“), your Homeopathy becomes Present and you understand… who you are! That’s the ultimate goal of our practice.

“Knowing thyself” appears to extend so much deeper than “thinking and emotions“. Knowledge of our Self is… ultimate!

That’s the most beautiful homeopathic journey one can imagine. But it definitely seems too good to be true, doesn’t it?

Well, it all that comes at a price not everyone is willing to pay. This path is too simple, too practical and therefore too painful for most of our classical colleagues. You’re going to loose literally everything in this quest for the ultimate.

This path is very much like making a remedy out of the practitioner, i.e. out of ourselves. Homeopaths think potentiation makes a remedy stronger. Well, why not to try it on yourself? If we travel together we are going to make it our everyday practice: imagine each day rising your potency by one degree. You don’t need succussions or triturations for that – attention is more than enough.

It feels amazing at first: our life becomes full of growth and exciting discoveries. But only up until we reach 180°. As you pass that point and start descending into Yin side, you discover it’s just the opposite. It’s about dissolving, loosing, getting rid of everything that is too much – up until nothing, but a pure Potential is left. The latter appears to be the pure Consciousness, i.e. the Self.

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Epilogue

In Present Homeopathy we gain nothing, but end up in discovering beauty in simplicity. We start perceiving Remedies as Movies that We Watch or paintings at the exhibition or books we read – so simple and perceptual they become.

Our remedies are not something that’s targeted to the future. They are for full immersive experience of present moment!

Here we may also consider Homeopath as a librarian who’s job is to help the reader to choose the most important book in his life.

Having returned to 0/360° we cease to be remedy-oriented and start to perceive our patients just as they are. When the whole perception becomes transparent, we get rid of prejudices and start perceiving Homeopathy just as it is – present. It appears to be extremely diverse and spontaneous, much more beautiful but also very different from what most homeopaths have ever imagined.

By the way, all that brings us to A TRULY SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO POTENCIES – no matter how unexpected and ridiculous that sounds to both homeopaths and their allopathic colleagues.

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A note to the reader

Everything I try to share with you is based on pure practice of taking part in more than 15.000 proving experiences witnessed in different bodies and different worlds.

All that results in Present Homeopathy which is all about practice. It’s a living tradition that is transmitted not verbally, not as knowledge or philosophy, but… as bare experience. You can’t write it down. It is recognized as sensations, landscapes or stillness we experience, not words. You can’t even remember these as each time they are different! And ultimately, the true learning happens at the “endpoints” of consultation (as James Jealous, D.O. calls them) – when both sensations and stillness make no sense anymore and all that remains is Totality.

The path begins with listening, i.e. learning to recognize sensations we experience with the remedies. Special sets of remedies and techniques enable us to approach the different realms of sensations in a very methodical and systematic manner: beginning with a physical body and ending up with the very depths of our souls. Everything is perceptible. Nothing is hidden.

So actually sitting together for a while could definitely make a much deeper impression than reading all these texts. Well, the latter are here merely to test your attention. If you find them worth reading it may be worth meeting and Listening as well. Perhaps, zoom sessions are a good place to start.

Sincerely,

Simonas Stankūnas