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In my early years I constantly wrestled with the dilemma that if I were a doctor, would I be a better Homeopath?
That was the prevailing viewpoint, but I was getting such good results as to doubt this. Over 40 years, my path took me from the University of Ardnox in the swamps of Papua New Guinea, via Vithoulkas' Essences, to Sankaran's Central State, and Scholten's Periodic Table. And in all the seminars I ever attended I only saw one case which depended on a medical result, a test for high Bilirubin in a formication case. (Rx Dolichos); and another which depended on a diagnosis (I never did see why). In fact, I did study Medical Science fairly thoroughly nearly 20 years ago, and have sat in on several courses of it since - sometimes we teach it, sometimes we don't, it's irrelevant. I have never found a use for it in my practice, and never found the non-use of it to detract from my case results. Simply I am oriented away from it, and I believe a non- the- worse Homeopath for the lack of it.
In fact I have a video of Sankaran telling the story of a patient reporting on his TMT, to Rajan's utter bafflement.
After the patient left he rang a colleague and asked what was this dread disease, the TMT? It was the Treadmill Test, and at the next interview Rajan was able to enquire into his progress on it with a straight face and tongue in cheek.
Rajan makes the point that as he gets further into Homeopathy, so he gets farther away from Medical Science and technique.
In fact quite a number of the world's senior medical Homeopaths have significantly reduced medical input into their cases.
� So as another heresy, and please park your cigarette lighters; if you weren't already doctors or naturopaths, and if medical science weren't already your comfort zone, and you wanted to do the very best Homeopathy you were capable of:- from your own experience please consider, would you bother to learn Medical Science, a course of several hundred hours study? or would you put that time into the advanced study of top-level Homeopathy ???
I recall arguing this with a very dedicated Naturopath at a post seminar pub session. She was refuting me most indignantly. Jan Scholten was sitting across the table listening in benignly, and he finally joined in to say that whichever fractal of chaos we explored, the chaos was all the same inside the main body. Thus if I wanted to ignore the medical fractal and find some other approach there was no reason why my Homeopathy shouldn't be as successful as anybody else's.
Thank you Jan!
This of course is Sankaran's famous "Dirty Window" analogy. Whichever window you rub at is so filthy you just can't see inside. But when you find a window that's just a little less filthy and you can rub away enough grime to get a good look inside the house, the nature and state of the dilapidation are all the same wherever you go in the house.
� I want to address the colleges now. This isn't Politically Correct and will no doubt offend some, for which I offer my apologies, but in my view time which is spent on medical science is wasted, and would be far better spent on the study of Advanced Homeopathy. I'd like to urge you to take this more focused approach in your teaching, to help evolve a far more Homeopathic level of Homeopathy.
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