In episode five of "This Heilkunst Life," Jeff and Allyson delve deeper into the philosophy of Heilkunst diagnosis, contrasting it with allopathic medicine. They discuss the idea that symptoms and illnesses are not just physical manifestations but also textual expressions of deeper emotional and psychological states. Jeff shares his personal journey of re-engaging with literature, which led to a profound realization about the essence of literature and human consciousness. Allyson recounts cases where patients' symptoms and life stories reveal deeper emotional and psychological issues, emphasizing the importance of reading the "Book of Nature" in diagnosis and treatment.

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

~ Carl Gustav Jung

Dr. Hahnemann instructed his students to "participate the patient" - this was in bold opposition to the usual implication in science that the highest standard is for neutral, detached observation.

This form of Heilkunst diagnosis - deep participation - is not only the key to true diagnosis, but for how to live a fully healthy life.

How can our patients learn to take this skill home with them and learn how to develop it?

Resources connected to this episode:

• Heilkunst Diagnosing; Where's That Bloody Off-Switch? https://arcanum.ca/2015/03/15/heilkunst-diagnosing-wheres-that-bloody-off-switch/

• The Healing Power of Illness : S1E1 : https://www.thisheilkunstlife.com/the-healing-power-of-illness-s1e1/

• Epistemology and True Scientific Method https://arcanum.ca/2012/08/28/heilkunst-basics-university-2nd-year-epistemology-and-true-scientific-method/

• What is the Meaning of "The Ambient" of the Patient? https://arcanum.ca/2012/05/09/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-ambient-of-the-patient/

• The Sepia phenotype : https://arcanum.ca/2012/04/18/homeopathic-constitutional-types-sepia/

• "Participating" your life the Heilkunst way - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZBqlJ7-p1U

• A proving of TNT : https://arcanum.ca/2021/10/04/the-whole-darn-thing-is-gonna-blow-an-expose-on-the-homeopathic-remedy-trinitrotoluene-tnt/

Sequential timeline therapy will not be successful if implemented in a mechanical manner. The ordinary, empirical mind always seeks for easy formulas or recipes to follow at a superficial level, as it has no ability to penetrate into the deeper dynamics of living function.

In this episode, we explore how your multi-dimensional life force responds to shocks and trauma, and how this can set up illness and the possibility of healing.

We'll discuss:

• Why the mechanical approach to treating the sequential timeline isn't successful.
• The multiple levels of meaning to any given symptom or life event.
• The idea of the "ambient" as the sub-set of your environment, which is a direct expression of your life energy - the dynamic understanding that there are no "accidents", only functional expressions of life energy either expressing a state of health or of illness.
• Real life case examples from our practices illuminating these principles.
• Key resources, including main book reference at the base of our thesis.
• Blogs:
• • Sequential Timeline Therapy – Its History, and How We Practice It Today : https://arcanum.ca/2020/07/08/sequential-timeline-therapy-its-history-and-how-we-practice-it-today/
  • Success Story: Healing and Progress Through Sequential Timeline Treatment : https://arcanum.ca/2020/03/03/success-story-healing-and-progress-through-sequential-timeline-treatment/
  • Your Sequential Timeline; How To Prevent Aggravating the Roots For Chronic Disease : https://arcanum.ca/2019/02/18/your-sequential-timeline-how-to-prevent-aggravating-the-roots-for-chronic-disease/
  • What Is Sequential Therapy? : https://arcanum.ca/2018/10/11/what-is-sequential-therapy/
  • Seeing What's Behind Your Time Line : https://arcanum.ca/2012/09/11/heilkunst-basics-university-4th-year-seeing-whats-behind-your-time-line/

And as always… you can join us in our ongoing dialogue on this topic in between episodes by going to www.ThisHeilkunstLife.com, and clicking "Inner Circle" in the upper right.

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We're all at great risk - if we don't make a deliberate effort - to default to the allopathic definition of health in our thinking. This is a negative definition, which means that health gets the very poor definition of "an absence of symptoms". Likewise, all treatment modalities are judged on whether or not they simply "got rid of a symptom" - and the quicker the better.

What is the definition of health?

In its fullest sense, it includes much more than a "symptom-free" status…it implies growth and development, and ultimately an "evolution of consciousness" at its core. There are objective milestones along the human progression to health which are key to this definition.

Rather than "getting rid" of a symptom or an illness, the higher goal is to fully "go through" it, in a process of transformation. Like any relationship in life, we should grow and change as a result. A student working through their schooling, by analogy, should gain an actual education, and not a mere certificate to be framed.

The "negative" definition of health represents a new form of 'illiteracy', and we know from the dire statistics of modern medicine that it now pervades our modern healthcare consciousness.

RESOURCES:

Hahnemann's Aphorism #9

In the healthy human state, the spirit-like Living Power (Autocracy) enlivening the material body (organism) as Dynamis holds sway unrestrictedly and keeps all of its parts in admirable, harmonious, vital operation in both feelings and functions, so that our indwelling rational spirit can freely avail itself of this living healthy instrument for the higher purposes of our existence.

Books mentioned:

• Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing by Anita Moorjani : https://amzn.to/3VcW27K
• How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor: One of America's Leading Pediatricians Puts Parents Back in Control of Their Children's Health by Robert S. Mendelsohn MD https://amzn.to/3Rz7dVp
• Organon of the Medical Art by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann https://amzn.to/3MkrU6x

Blog posts mentioned:

• What is the purpose of health? : https://arcanum.ca/2012/03/22/what-is-the-purpose-of-health/
• My Pet Peeve With The Word "Wellness" : https://arcanum.ca/2012/06/09/my-pet-peeve-with-the-word-wellness/
• Improving Health With Support From Arcanum : https://arcanum.ca/2020/08/23/improving-health-with-support-from-arcanum/
• Off Thyroid Prescriptions! : https://arcanum.ca/2020/08/26/off-thyroid-prescriptions/
• Ally's blog "what are we shooting for, Tex?" : https://arcanum.ca/2008/02/05/what-is-health-or-what-are-we-shootin-for-tex/
• Determining the Direction of Cure : https://arcanum.ca/2012/11/01/determining-the-direction-of-cure/
• An Introduction to the Cancer Miasm : https://arcanum.ca/2012/05/03/an-introduction-to-the-cancer-miasm/
• Three Possible Outcomes of Treatment : https://arcanum.ca/2012/10/19/three-possible-outcomes-of-treatment/
• Sustentive versus generative power : The "Generative Power" of Heilkunst medicine : https://arcanum.ca/2020/03/16/the-generative-power-of-heilkunst-medicine/
• My Pet Peeve With The Word "Wellness" : https://arcanum.ca/2012/06/09/my-pet-peeve-with-the-word-wellness/

And as always… We'd love for you to join us in our ongoing dialogue on this topic in between episodes by going to https://www.ThisHeilkunstLife.com/support/ and clicking "Inner Circle" in the upper right.

Watch the video version of this episode at https://streamyard.com/5giau99tjnn8

This Heilkunst Life is a show designed to bring the deeper philosophy of Heilkunst medicine out into a practical, usable understanding for your daily life.

In our first episode, we go into the heart of a key part of the definition of health : What is the MEANING of your symptoms of illness, and why does a complete healing process require a full understanding and integration of this content?

Rather than seeing symptoms as random and annoying occurrences, they are, in fact "words" or "sentences" being spoken to us in the language of the phenomenology of symptoms. These "words" are powerful expressions of parts of ourselves that we have banished from our waking conscious mind, and they are now attempting to return home with the annoying forcefulness of a symptom or health problem. This is what is called "shadow work" in a Jungian context, or the "heilen" process of full integration brought about in Medical Heilkunst.

Human nature has a tendency towards one-sidedness, or "choosing sides" between what we perceive as good versus evil, or beautiful versus ugly. We need to constantly fight our way beyond this one-sidedness back towards our wholeness (to "heal" is to be "whole"). Our general susceptibility to illness and mortality is precisely a function of this one-sidedness. Our symptoms are usually unwelcome reminders as to the sides of ourselves we'd rather have nothing to do with.

In Heilkunst terms, we differentiate the actions of medicines which are "curative" versus "suppressive", under the umbrella concept of "direction of cure". This is colloquially referred to as "better out than in". The "out" part of this requires a process of fully engaged, conscious expression of whatever is the issue at hand. In other words, we need to foster a new form of literacy for ourselves - the literacy (and phenomenology) of symptoms and what they actually mean to us.

Those who choose to remain illiterate in this arena will suffer the fate of symptoms that return over and over and over again...they will keep knocking at the door until they are finally acknowledged, and properly integrated. Or worse - and we see this all the time - illness keeps progressing and taking over the former state of health, until chronic illness eventually leads to a patient's untimely death. As the old saying goes - "What you resist, persists".

Explore these themes with us in this episode, and then take the discussion even further with us by joining our Inner Circle at https://www.thisheilkunstlife.com/support/

Resources cited in this episode: - "The Healing Power of Illness" by Thorwald Dethlefsen https://amzn.to/3SOcjys

- "Messages From the Body" by Michael J. Lincoln. https://amzn.to/3TlbrBz

Watch the video of this episode here : https://youtu.be/a-mH8xtZZk0

Are you ready for living this Heilkunst life?

In each episode, Jeff Korentayer and Allyson McQuinn will bring you an intimate exploration of what this means for the practical realities of your daily life. The grand philosophical and therapeutic framework of Heilkunst medicine will be broken down into very clear and practical takeaways for you and your family.

These are based on the private conversations we've been having with our patients for over two decades, and are simply too valuable not to share publicly. We are constantly being asked exactly how do I take action on your advice in my life? Is there a book I can read, which shows me how to do that? In other words, our patients don't simply want to have clinical success with us, but to be fully successful in living this Heilkunst life for themselves and their families.

So the first episodes will be released very soon at www.ThisHeilkunstLife.com