Patterns of the Spirit
Patterns of the Spirit
Some thoughts on Homeopathy…and cosmology of the Northwest Coast peoples
I approach Homeopathy as an ecology of healing which recognizes the deep interconnection between man and nature, and makes contact with the coen, the Athabascan word for the fundamental lifeforce or energy present in every aspect of the cosmos. To be in contact with the coen strengthens us and makes us vital.
Native wisdom may not at first glance seem comparable to homeopathy, but common to both is the perception that man is not separate from nature, and that to be in health there must be harmony in the spirit force within each of us.
Intrinsic to homeopathy is the concept that our relationships with disease, and each other, the season and the planet herself are interconnected. Each of us is imbued with a barely perceivable, ephemeral spirit pattern that taken together with our physical, mental and emotional attributes, matches an equally ephemeral homeopathic remedy taken from nature imbued with exactly similar patterns.
legend common to the Pacific Northwest Coast peoples
In ‘distant time'’ before the world as we know it, all were one. Wind, rock, animals, all resonated together in whole of a blended essences or patterns. Over a period of many transformations man fell out of this union and lost his ability to communicate in the web of harmony with the rest of the universe. Man became only able to “speak” with other humans. He retains, however, the ‘indwelling’ spirit of his counterpart from ‘distant time’, just as each other entity; whether it be animal, plant, rock or some other substance, retains the ‘indwelling’ spirit of his human kin.
Homeopathy, the ART of cure, relies on finding the exactly similar pattern within a medicine to fit the patterns of an illness. Restoration of harmony requires a homeopath to clearly perceive both the “patient” and the “medicine”. Perception is a blend of knowledge that is measurable and imaginal. We can achieve results by objectifying symptoms, define pathology but to achieve cures requires knowing the language of nature.
From time to time I will add articles to this beginning. They will be listed on the sidebar under Patterns of the Spirit. We can explore Tomanawas or one’s spirit totem and compare them to the archetypes of polychrest homeopathic medicines, the five directions of disease: psora, sycosis, syphilis, tuberculosis and cancer, and their attributes of transformation. And possible other topics you might request.
Homeopathy is a passion, it will be my pleasure to share. Thanks to Tess and Diane and others who have proded me to take this step. I am deep in painting mode preparing for a major show so time for writing will be limited over the next few months. We shall let it unfold as it does.
~Ellen
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© Ellen Hill DHM FBIH, Patterns of the Spirit a Homeopathic Medicine Wheel, Tseka Press, all rights reserved
Good Morning!
Wonderful! I was hoping you would communicate about your Homeopathic Healing. I very much look forward to what you have to share.
Comment made on June 11, 2008 @ 8:56 am
Thanks for the vote Lynda.
Now, wish me the time.
Homeopathy is a wonderful healing art. It will be a pleasure to share.
Have you any experience with homeopathy?
Comment made on June 11, 2008 @ 9:42 am
Good Afternoon! (A Brown-Sky day here, sigh)
Unfortunately not. I did look for a Homeopath here in town and there are none. A search only brings up Chiropractic, which is NOT what I was looking for. Seemed strange to me that was the result. I guess they mean something else by homepathic than what I mean.
Time, yes. Sounds like you’re going to be amazingly busy for a while. Where is your show?
Comment made on June 11, 2008 @ 1:50 pm
Ja we classically trained Homeopaths are very few in the US. Ironically the first medical school in this country was a homeopathic medical school. Homeopathy was the “real” medicine before Penicillin. It did not take long for the pharmaceutical industry and the AMA to join in outlawing the practice. We’re often called quacks and other names. Meanwhile in Europe we were caring for the Royals. As luck would have it both of my mentors were in service of the Royal family (GB).
Well we of more humble origins are finding our way back to this wonderful healing modality. Most of the MD’s in my course were brought into it in search of alternatives to chemical medicines. They were fed up with the iatragenic complications (disorders caused by the medicines).
Many Chiropractors and other alternative practitioners prescribe homeopathic medicines as part of their practice. How much training they have varies.
Comment made on June 11, 2008 @ 8:54 pm
My show is at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue Washington, next door to Seattle, in July.
More will be up on Tseka soon. Or that’s the plan!
Comment made on June 11, 2008 @ 8:56 pm
I just posted this in the portion on books, but it may well belong here. So here is my question and comment once again.
The manifestation of physical disease that is rooted in the emotional, spiritual has always been for me, the key. Homeopathy addresses this so beautifully, even to the ancestral. I wonder if you would address this, and perhaps recommend books that speak to this?
I am so happy you are expanding on healing in such a creative environment. Wonderful!
Comment made on June 11, 2008 @ 10:13 pm
Thanks Pat, saw your post in the book thread and replied there. Great question.
Comment made on June 11, 2008 @ 10:28 pm
Saw it and look forward to cozying up to both of those books! Thank you so much!
Comment made on June 11, 2008 @ 10:35 pm
Ellen, this is exciting…I am glad you are doing this, you have SO much to offer all of us. I knew the history of homeopathy in this country, and also how different Europe is….SF bay area has quite a number of really good homeopaths. But I first heard about in LA, back in the 1970’s. You were very lucky to have the mentors you had, Ellen….
Comment made on June 11, 2008 @ 10:55 pm
Judi, another one who heard of homeopathy in the 70’s? amazing! I was living in the back of beyond, studying herbology and getting my hands on everything my library could get. One book was not about herbs at all. It was Marjorie Blackie’s The Patient not the Cure. She was homoeopathic physician to Queen Elizabeth then. What a shift in thinking for me.
Ja, you are not kidding about the mentors. It was the luck of the draw. It is expected that each of us turn around and mentor others. There really is no other way to learn Homoeopathy. So much of our practice is listening to the subtleties. This cough, that cough, 16(or who knows) different coughs all different remedies.
Pretty soon you stand on the steet corner and watch remedies pass by, oh look at that sweet Pulsatilla, and that bossy Nux…
Comment made on June 11, 2008 @ 11:25 pm
I am eagerly waiting for the book to arrive in India
Comment made on June 12, 2008 @ 12:53 pm
Prabhat Tandon
Welcome to tseka.
Comment made on June 12, 2008 @ 12:59 pm
Ellen,
Ellen, sorry for not responding further - I have been offline for a few days. I am glad there is interest other than my own, and I appreciate your generosity when you are under such a time constraint.
Now I must try to find out about Tomanawas . . .
ah - power/medicine that is unique to the individual. Therefore,only an individual/oriented cure would actually ‘cure’.
Thank you again- I see that this subject is a long careful study that must be integrated slowly.
Comment made on June 13, 2008 @ 2:29 pm
Tomanawas is next.
Ja, it will unfold over some time. Perhaps some will fine value.
And please no apologies, everyone is invited to come|go as their interest carries them.
Comment made on June 13, 2008 @ 2:59 pm