“The Remedy Information”

Understanding the nature of “information” is crucial for figuring out how both potentiated remedies and placebo work. Such understanding forms the basis and sets the ultimate goal for present homeopathic practice.

Exploring that nature of “information” doesn’t mean we have to dive into scientific debris. Actually, everything is much more simple than you expect. Information is actually happening within your Self! Each of us has the ability of becoming aware of it.

What is Information?

In its essence information is not different from what you are perceiving in the present moment. That means we don’t have to possess fancy labs with special equipment or decent knowledge of quantum physics. Our own attention appears to be the perfect tool here – more than enough to make all these ground-breaking discoveries.

You may start exploring the realm of information right now. With some training and practice even while reading this text you may become aware of the perception itself that’s happening! Look, you are equally aware of 1) the text, 2) yourself reading this text, 3) your thoughts and 4) the surroundings, aren’t you?

• Information/perception is always here and never there. It’s always now and never in the past or future. It may seem quite limited and you may want to glimpse what’s beyond it in time and space. Well, you can’t!
• Nothing exists outside the perception happening here & now! There is no “information” out there – only Nothing. But that Nothing is pretty miraculous – it contains everything else as a potential. Potentiated remedies are for exploring that potential: manifesting it, bringing it to the perception. But again – no “remedy information” exists beyond what we experience with it directly.

Consider our CONSCIOUSNESS is like a magical space (“Emptiness”) capable of emanating multiple life experiences (different universes) happening here & now. Consciousness consists of two sides:

• MANIFESTED one, perceived as our life reality happening here & now in space and time that may be defined by GPS coordinates and clock readings. It is actually the perception itself: all our 5 senses plus thoughts. It’s the movie that’s projected onto the Screen. Again, nothing exists outside that perception – movie is just what you see on the screen.
• POTENTIAL, not-yet-manifested one that’s not happening at all. It is absolutely still. It is the (empty) Screen itself. We might refer to it as Here & Now that’s beyond space and time. We are all aware of it, it is not hidden from us at all:
  • You’re definitely aware you’re Here. You’re not there – that’s for sure. You are aware of being Here no matter where you are. You may be even walking, running, driving a fast car or flying a jet plane. So this awareness of Here appears to be not dependent on GPS coordinates or your surroundings. Even as you read this text – you have this awareness of being Here and you can do nothing with it. You can’t even define it, put it into words – it does not depend on any circumstances. You have never moved out of Here!
  • You’re definitely Now. Not for a single moment of your life you’ve existed in the past or future. No matter what your clock is showing – you have this awareness of being in the present. Now. No matter if you think of future (or maybe you even have the ability to “see” it in one way or another; or maybe someone discovers a time machine and you travel there) or you remember past events (maybe you have a deep regression session and you find yourself in one of your “previous lives” – nonetheless you are aware of being present Now. In no way you can escape it even for a nanosecond. All your life is continuously happening in that present moment!
  • You are also aware of your Self. You are aware of “I Am“, don’t you? It is awareness of your bare existence. It does not change through life. Yesterday you were you. The same was the day before yesterday. The week ago, month ago, year ago – the same “I am”. Even in your childhood – the same existence, the same “I am”. Well, details change with time: body, emotions, intellect, states, etc. But that “I am” remains constant – it actually has nothing to do with your body! It is not personal at all!

So here is the obvious difference between these two:

• i am here & now defines a particular person reading this text at a certain place and specific time.
• I Am Here & Now points to the Existence itself that’s beyond body, time and space and can’t be defined by any words or means.

Stillness

The bridge between these two is what we call Stillness. Consider it is just the opposite to sensations. Sometimes we say it is sensations with a “-” sign.

Up until now homeopaths have been not interested in stillness at all: 1) it could not be recorded, written down and put into repertories; 2) methodologically it has seemed impossible to incorporate stillness into everyday clinical practice.

Ultimately, stillness appears to be not dependent on sensations at all – as if it is something else. Perhaps each of us has experienced moments of stillness in a violent storm or an extremely messy environment like a supermarket or some loud rock concert. So it’s not exactly an absence of sensations, isn’t it?

Similar to loudness (there is a dedicated knob for it on your car stereo), stillness has its levels. Or consider it is like diving deeper and deeper into the Ocean: we kind of pass different zones: sunlight, twilight, midnight, abyss, trench. Immersing into stillness is similar: the landscapes of sensory perception change, as well as our breathing, thinking patterns, perception of ourselves and reality around us.

In practice we learn to discern different levels of stillness as certain landscapes in which sensations are happening.

And again, sooner or later we come to a conclusion that stillness is not caused by our remedies – they just point to what inherently belongs to ourselves.

In our present homeopathic journey we say we become aware of the higher and higher potencies of ourselves, i.e. our Attention gets in touch with deeper and deeper layers of our own potential – awakening us and bringing into self-realization. (In Present Homeopathy potencies actually belong to us and not the remedies.)

The Ultimate Stillness is absolute. It’s not even a stillness anymore as it penetrates all our perception 100%. The world no only stops completely, but it disappears as separate. It becomes One. James Jealous, D.O. calls that the Silence.

There can be more or less of a Stillness. But SILENCE is always about 100%. It is absolute!

Stillness is our transitory goal when working with a patient. But the ultimate goal – Silence cannot be reached in any way: it just comes as a Grace and leaves us deeply surprised and thankful.

Isn’t that beautiful: when meeting a patient, we immerse into the Universe that’s very different from ours. Clinging onto details would be highly misleading: their meanings and values are very different from the ones in our world. So we observe these details, but we always look for what is absolute. It is like a lighthouse for us and the path to it leads through deeper and deeper levels of stillness.

• Our perception is different. Different worlds of perception, actually. That’s the reason for homeopaths to argue with each other.
• Our stillness is similar. The deeper the stillness, the more similar it becomes. Immersing into deeper levels of stillness there is no reason to argue anymore. We share and enjoy our experiences here.
• The Silence (absolute stillness) in each of our worlds is exactly the same. The Self, the Consciousness is exactly the same. We become One here.

The Silence (Ultimate Stillness) feels like Nothing. Remember, we talked about experiencing stillness during a loud rock concert? If it gets ultimate, both the perception (“world”) and thinking stop. Nothing remains, not even that “stillness”. Noise, stillness, Silence do not make any sense anymore. That’s Healing. There is no way to write about that.

You know, the trick is that in no way we can perceive nothing or share it with others. So reaching the 100% stillness does not feel like nothing. Usually it instantly takes us back to 0/360 it fuses that Nothingness/ Transparency with our everyday perception making it a divine experience albeit not different from anyone’s else.

Perception is transparent.

J. Jealous “An Osteopathic Odyssey”

Sitting at the table and typing this text. Feeling a little bit backache from bringing numerous buckets of coal to a cellar. That’s it. Nothing fancy to share with you.

Transparent perception means it is as it is. It is still extremely personal (in the way it’s unique), but it does not contain any “personality” – so that the Self (Ultimate Reality) starts to shine through it.

Emptiness

They say, God has started creation with the Emptiness – an empty space for the world to appear in.

Information/perception leads us directly to our Consciousness where it is happening Here&Now. If you explore it accurately, you’ll find out that Consciousness has no attributes at all, it is absolutely empty in its nature. It is present even when nothing is happening in perception, e.g. when you’re in deep sleep without dreams.

Imagine Consciousness to be an empty screen for a movie (perception). It has to be empty – otherwise the movie (perception) would always bear the same watermarks/artefacts.

The Empty Nature of Information

The Emptiness makes the very nature of information. All the concepts we use are ephemeric, existing only in our minds. Even “things” are “empty” inside.

Let’s take a car as an example: it seems real only until we try to find “the car” in it. We take it apart, we end up with a pile of different parts, but the car is missing. “A car” appears to be just a mere concept (a real concept though), that’s made out of “parts”, but, actually, empty inside. By the way, “parts” are empty, too: even if each one has its own history and materials its made from.

Ultimately, Nothingness is like the screen of a device you read this text on. By being inherently empty it may display whatever has to be displayed. If screen is inherently red or dotted, or has some watermarks on it, whatever – we should always end up with more or less distorted images.

The nature of our Consciousness is absolutely empty (having no concepts, boundaries, center, time – not a single mark in an absolutely pure Screen) so that all the world with its countless phenomena may appear and disappear in it without any hindrance. Can you imagine your Self being absolutely empty?

I know you still want to put something into that empty placebo pill: some expectations, wishes, “good energy” or at least some meaning. There has to be some mechanism of action for these strange transmutations to happen in our bodies, hasn’t it? You definitely do not consider Nothing to be enough. It’s hard to believe the Screen is enough – even if it possess the potential to display literally everything!

“The Remedy Information”

Let’s focus on “the remedy information” – the concept homeopaths are so eager to talk about recently. And yes, its kind of controversial: there has been no such concept in Hahnemanian times, so sometimes our classical colleagues may find it odd. Well, it’s definitely less odd than trying to rely on galvanism as an explanation on how our remedies work.

Anyway, I have a bunch of questions regarding “the remedy information” and I hope these questions also provide you with the answers:

• Does “remedy information” exist as such? Has anyone seen or experienced it objectively, i.e. separately from our own perception? (Sorry, thoughts do not count here.)
• Where does it originate from? Is it extracted from a substance during potentiation process? (If it is – what is the mechanism of achieving it?) Is it in contained in molecules or atoms? Has it anything to do with “morphogenetic fields” and other esoteric stuff? Or maybe it’s empty/ transparent in its nature?
• Where is it located/stored when not in use? (It is definitely not in the books – that’s for sure.)
• Is it locked inside the remedy bottle – just like a genie from Arabian tales? Is it released from that bottle as you open it up? Is olfaction (one of S. Hahnemann’s discoveries) enough or should we consume the sugar globules by taking them in our mouths to make them work?
• Do we have any receptors on our tongues specific to perceive the remedy information? How is that “remedy information” transmitted?
• If olfaction works, why simply taking the bottle in your hand shouldn’t? Are bottles proof enough to keep these genies locked? What are the advantages of the dark glass bottles over the clear one?
• What if information is non-local? (I suggest you reading H. Walach’s original article and then my practical take on it.) What does non-local mean in practice?
• How is non-local different from placebo? You see, if something is non-local it means it doesn’t reside in a particular place. Paradoxically, it means it’s… everywhere! So essentially it also means it’s not separate from you either – it belongs to your Consciousness.
• Can a remedy information be something separate, i.e. different from what we experience while getting in touch with it?
• Information and our perceptual experience: are they different or not? If this question sounds strange for you, let’s play a little game. Please, try to imagine you’re sleeping and… dreaming:
  • Is this dream happening in the huge real universe and you perceive just a small fraction of it (like 0,0000000000001% or even smaller)? How big is the Universe of your dream? Where are its boundaries? Where is its center?
  • What if you perceive the whole dream in its totality (100%) with nothing hidden behind the perception happening?
  • You may also imagine yourself watching a movie or playing a video game. Both suggest there is a reality larger than the screen you’re watching… But the reality is just what is perceived at the moment, isn’t it?
• What if the Universe is just what you are perceiving in the present moment?
• What if nothing exists behind that present perception?
• What if the rest of the Universe (that’s behind the horizon of our perception) exists only as not-yet-manifested potential?
• What if that not-yet-manifested part of reality is our second half we’ve lost and forgotten since our early childhood? What if it is the Health and Happiness we are constantly searching for on this world (manifested side)?
• What if our Health and Happiness are much bigger than we can imagine? Endless, actually…
• What if that nothing is the Emptiness, i.e. Consciousness which emanates the realities we perceive as my life and your life?
• Does information exist without perception? If it does, that means huge amounts have to be stored somewhere. Suddenly everything becomes cluttered and messed up.

Information & Perception

You know, when I write that Homeopathy may become 100% perceptual and Present most of you think I mean some supernatural powers to fully perceive the whole Materia Medica in all the details. Not at all!

It’s actually about the simplest and most transparent perception of reality – almost a childish one: when concepts fade away and only direct sensory perception prevails. Remedies stop existing as concepts out there, becoming just a sensory perception happening here and now.

Imagine you relax 100% and give yourself a permission to not react to (not to sense) the remedies or their aspects that are not important to you or the case you’re taking. You kind of deprive potentiated remedies of powers to cause something “remedial” to people. It seems limiting at first, but is actually liberating like never before.

Consider our remedies are toys for us and our patients to play. Up until now homeopaths tried to be scientific about these toys. Instead of being creative with these toys they tried to define them, analyze, systematize and set up the rules for playing. But with Present Homeopathy situation changes in a pretty radical way:

• You kind of let the child not to pay attention to the toys, he is not interested in.
• And also you give a permission to that child to use the toys in the way he wants, to apply his own rules to the game and ignore the ones defined by others.
• You provide the child with the box of toys that makes him the most excited (set of remedies that match the landscape the best) and simply witness – not interfering with process at all, but remaining 100% aware of what’s happening.

Most homeopaths still think these are the toys that cause the imagination to a child. It seems pretty obvious, doesn’t it? But what if it’s vice versa: what if imagination uses the toys to express its potential?

What if “proving of the toy” is not about that toy. It is not the toy that’s being proved. It is always the imagination of that certain kid that’s being explored – by provoking it with that particular toy.

Differently from these toys, our remedies are not things. We say they are “information”. But then there are certain phases of becoming aware of what that information really stands for, i.e. achieving the highest potency.

The more simple and transparent our relationship with the remedies becomes, the less they exist as something separate from the reality we perceive. They lose their strength and properties. They become transparent pointers to our own aspects and processes: bringing these to the surface, letting them to manifest and become perceivable to our senses. They become transparent tools to explore ourselves. At some point transparent remedies become not distinguishable from what they call placebo, actually.