An attempt at a Global Gaze

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An attempt at a Global Gaze

• Listening from the Seventh Level
• What do we mean by Health and Disease?
• The term Non-human specific and kingdoms
• Triangulating Word and Gesture
• Where are we listening from?
• Emptiness and endgame
• The two journeys
• An illustrative case

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On using the Sensation Method

• - listening from the Seventh Level

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• THE LEVELS
• Level 1 Name
• Level 2 Fact (local modalities)
• Level 3 Emotions
• --------------------------------------------------
  -------
• Level 4 Delusions, Dreams, Deep fears
• --------------------------------------------------
  -------
• Level 5 Sensation
• 5A KINGDOM
• 5B SUBKINGDOM
• 5C SOURCE
• Level 6 Energy
• Seventh level

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• The issues
• of each level
• arise
• from
• the
• level
• deeper
• to it

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• All we can see is a manifestation of that which
  we cannot see.
• All that happens in the world is a result of
  unseen forces.
• Adyashanti

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• Name
• Fact (local modalities)
• Emotions
• Sensation
• Energy
• Seventh

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The levels..in the homeopath

• Level 1 Homeopath,
• Level 2 just starting to use the Sensation
  method,
• Level 3 feeling excited, enthusiastic.and a bit
  uncertain about where this will go (this is NO
  delusion).
• Level 4 Help, Im out of my depth here. Theyre
  saying REALLY odd things, and Ive not a thing
  to repertorise after 5 hrs. They think Im
  weird, better change tack OR Hey, Im
  really great at this, nothing can go wrong
• Level 5 Are we at sensation level yet?????
• Level 6 What IS that thing they keep doing with
  their hands behind their back?
• Level 7 Im all at sea without an idea in my head
  - yet somehow by me staying here patterns are
  emerging I never even glimpsed before. How
  beautiful - as the patients energy fills our
  time together the story seems to unfold by
  itself.
• Oh my goodness! Everything has just fallen
  into place.

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• When someone is in their state, giving their
  case, you dont have to think in terms of any
  levels or kingdoms at all, because youre not
  forming artificial divisions and constructs.
• You are receiving what is and it is apparent.
  It reveals itself in its wholeness, in its
  entirety.
• Caragh Morrish

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This is not mysticism

• - this is science

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• All science is certain, evident knowledge. We
  reject all knowledge which is merely probable and
  judge that only those things should be believed
  which are perfectly known, and about which there
  can be no doubts.
• (Garber 1978)

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Definitions of Science

• Science is theory based on facts
  Chalmers
• Science is a structure based on facts
  Davies
• Theory , or ideas, in accordance with
  reality..TRUE IDEAS
  Scholten
• Science is the search for the Universal
  (principle) in the Particular (experiment/situatio
  n) Gillies.and many others

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• The universal is simply the particular
• without walls.
• Miguel Torga
• (Portugese family doctor and author)

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A physicist.

• Nature has a simplicity and therefore a great
  beauty
• Simplicity is the hallmark of truth
• Feynman

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Energy and Matter are interchangeable, co-exist,
inter-are
E mc2 Einstein
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• In allopathy we think in linear terms
• THIS IS BECAUSE THAT IS
• In homeopathy by refusing to think in linear
  terms we are able to glimpse the invisible
  threads that tie all phenomena together.
• (Ian Watson)

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• What do we mean by health?
• What do we mean by disease?

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HEALTH DISEASE

• FREEDOM (whatever the external situation)
• FLEXIBILITY of
• Sensation
• Function
• FULLY PRESENT in the moment
• Harmony
• Ease
• DIRECT PERCEPTION
• Full being/becoming

• LIMITATION (whatever the external situation)
• A certain FIXITY of
• Sensation
• Function
• LIMITED PRESENCE in the moment
• Disharmony
• DIS-EASE
• Conditioned perceiving
• Limited being

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• It is only the vital force, deranged to such an
  abnormal state, that can furnish the organism
  with its disagreeable sensation .for, as a
  power invisible in itself, and only cognizable by
  its effects on the organism,
• its morbid derangement only makes itself known
  by the manifestation of disease in the sensations
  and functions of those parts of the organism
  exposed to the senses of the observer and
  physician
• Hahnemann

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those parts of the organism exposed to the
senses of the observer and physician

• In our daily lives we rarely have a direct
  perception. We invent, imagine and create
  perceptions based on the seeds of images we
  already have. We believe our prejudiced
  perceptions to be correctall our suffering
  arises from our failure to recognise things as
  they are.
• Thich Nhat Hanh

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Ways of perceiving

• DIRECT perception la chose en soi
• INTERPRETED perceiving a mixture of 1 and 3
• IMAGINARY perceiving - remembering/delusion

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.all our suffering arises from our failure to
recognise things as they are.

• Even when blooming, the flower is already in the
  compost and the compost already in the flower.
• Flower and compost inter-are.
• Delusion and enlightenment inter-are.
• Thich Nhat Hanh
• .just as Health and Dis-ease inter-are.

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Today we and our patients live, eat and breathe
consumerism

• Health is not an additional requirement, it is
  our natural state. We re-gain it, we cannot buy
  or acquire it.
• It never went away, it was simply overshadowed by
  a fixity.

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• Whatever MIND believes, thats what you will
  live out. The mind looks for confirmation, and
  then makes conclusions.
• We experience our belief, and then the mind
  makes a model out of that.
• Adyashanti

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What is the nature of THIS patients PARTICULAR
fixity, or model -their repetitive take on
the world?
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In Aphorism 7 Hahnemann states -

• . The totality of the symptoms must be the
  principle or only thing whereby the disease can
  make discernible what remedy it requires, the
  only thing that can determine the choice of the
  most suitable helping-means. Thus, in a word,
• the totality of symptoms must be the most
  important, indeed the only thing in every case of
  disease,
• that the medical-art practitioner has to discern
  and to clear away, so that the disease shall be
  cured and transformed into health.

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In contrast, in Aphorism 153

• In the search for a homeopathically specific
  remedythe more striking, exceptional, unusual
  and odd signs and symptoms of the disease are to
  be especially and almost solely kept in view.
• TOTALITY vs SRP paradox is similar to
  WAVE vs PARTICLE in the
  behaviour of light
• Paradox is the nature of reality - and Hahnemann
  knew it

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Sankarans understanding of dis-ease

• That there are two songs playing in us
• One our own natural human song
• (which, on its own health )
• 
  
  
• And an other song, a song from the
  PLANT, MINERAL, ANIMAL
• (and many other) KINGDOMS
• - the song of the SOURCE sounding
• and it is the dissonance between the two
  that manifests as dis-ease

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• We are only able to hear the other song if our
  ears, eyes, our whole being is open
• We must enter each session in the absence of
  memory or desire. Wilfred Bion

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• What repetitive, fixed pattern what other
  song is sounding throughout the case?
  (sensation)
• With what pace, intensity is it sounding? (miasm)
• At what level can we hear that other song and its
  intensity most clearly?

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• THE LEVELS
• Level 1 Name
• Level 2 Fact
• Level 3 Emotions
• --------------------------
• Level 4 Delusions,
• Dreams, Fears
• --------------------------
• Level 5 Sensation
• Level 6 Energy
• Seventh level

• we take in as therapists
• surgeon
• family
• doctor
• homeop.
• pre.
• Vithoulk
• homeop.
• post
• Sankaran
  Hahnemann Sankaran T. Nhat Hanh
• Adyashanti

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The seventh level

• The moment just before birth and just after
  death.
• About which nothing can be said
• The concert hall before even the orchestra has
  arrived
• The blank sheet on which all is written
• Rajan Sankaran

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My tentative understanding of the Seventh, or
deepest level

• That which Hahnemann called the Vital Force
• That which gives rise to, imbues with life,
  holds, sustains and animates all that ISthat to
  which all returns, that which encompasses all.
  ? possible term the Vital Field
• Universal spirit, universal intelligence,
  universal awareness, Interbeing, the is-ness of
  everything
• ? What Einstein referred to as the deepest
  musicality a bare
  nothingness that feels very intimate (Dorothy
  Holt)
• The silent energising core at the centre of every
  level, our deepest nature that
  runs through all levels
• as always an image communicates more than
  words.

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• THE LEVELS
• Level 1 Name
• Level 2 Fact (local modalities)
• Level 3 Emotions
• --------------------------------------------------
  -------
• Level 4 Delusions, Dreams, Deep fears
• --------------------------------------------------
  -------
• Level 5 Sensation
• 5A KINGDOM
• 5B SUBKINGDOM
• 5C SOURCE
• Level 6 Energy
• Seventh level

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• Name
• Facts
• Emotion
• Delusion
• SENSATION
• Energy
• Seventh

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And within the medium of words a poet
communicates better than any other

• Earth mothering air, air wild
• Wound in thee, in thee isled.
• Hold hard, fast fold thy child.
• There lives the dearest freshness deep down
  things
• Gerald Manley Hopkins

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Listening to, and from, this deepest level

• Is to be curious without conclusions,
  involves a listening that finds its peace in
  emptiness, its rudder in unknowing
• Dorothy Holt (poet)
• Involves a looking free of all speculation,
  reasoning, interpretation or evaluation..
• though your windows are open on the world,
• you are not compelled by it
• Thich Nhat Hanh

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so that .through the activity of
looking, reality reveals itself

• Thich Nhat Hanh

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On how to read the Alethiometer

• Northern Lights, by Philip Pullman

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• My own take We cant think this one up it
  thought us up!
• Always important to remind ourselves that
• the entire universe was created without the
  benefit of a single human thought.
  (Adyashanti)

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What in the world is happening in the
homeopathic consultation?

• Level 1 A Homeopathic Consultation
• Level 2 Two meet. One expresses, one listens
• Level 3 curiosity,apprehension,fear,interest,gri
  ef,joy ..ultimately a mutual trusting
• Level 4 That the two are entirely separate.
  That one has a problem needing fixed, and the
  other the ability to fix it
• Level 5 The sensation is that of the remedy
  expressing itself through human form
• Level 6 The energy is that of the remedy coming
  into expression
• Level 7 the place from which the homeopath
  takes the case, and from which the patient
  describes his state. RS
• The what in the world that is happening in the
  Homeopathic meeting is in fact the oneness, the
  entirety of the REMEDY manifesting in the
  activity of one expressing and another receiving

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The Kingdoms and the termNon Human specific

• The other world is non-human, like a stranger
  within us who has been there so long he thinks he
  owns the place.
• It can only be observed, not deduced, because
  the sensation is experiential.
• Rajan Sankaran

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• For men are homesick in their homes
• And strangers under the sun
• And they lay their head in a foreign land
• Whenever the day is done
• G.K. Chesterton

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Thich Nhat Hanh the cosmos in us

• In the sub-atomic realm each particle is
  affected by all the other particles, and even by
  the mind of the observing scientist. In fact all
  particles are dependant upon all the other
  particles, and none have a separate
  individuality.
• Every particle is made up of all the others

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KINGDOM DIFFERENTIATION (at level of Sensation)

• MINERAL KINGDOM
• Structure, Function
• Complete / Incomplete
• What do I LACK?
• PLANT KINGDOM
• Sensitivity / Reactivity
• What AFFECTS me?
• ANIMAL KINGDOM
• Predator / Prey
• WHO affects me?

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The Kingdom Spectrum

• The three main kingdoms (Animal, Plant and
  Mineral) overlap and wondrously inter-are. How
  could they not ?
• Three Primary colours are RED, YELLOW and
  BLUE.
• Primary Kingdoms are ANIMAL, PLANT and
  MINERAL.
• The Kingdom spectrum as a rainbow of subtle
  variations of all related shades and colours.

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SENSATION level

• 5 A Kingdom language
• 5 B Sub-kingdom language
• 5 C Source language
• When it is SOURCE language they couldnt even
  think
• of such a perfect pattern, and the pattern is
  everywhere,
• throughout all the levels, and once you see it
  
• you cannot see anything else
• Anne Vervacke

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Triangulationof

• WORDS
• AND
• GESTURE

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• DELUSION
• expressed in WORD
• SENSATION
• A Kingdom
• B Subkingdom
• C Source
• ENERGY
• expressed by GESTURE

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Words to note(RS)

• M ovement, gesture
• N on human specific
• O bdurate
• P ictures, images (spontaneous)
• Q ueer, out of context
• R epeated
• S ynonyms, autonyms

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• When we are grappling to express some profound
  truth in ourself, our speech often becomes
  faltering, full of holes
• Denise Taylor
• (teacher of drama and movement)

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At what point to ask re gesture?(RS)

• Too early and the patient is puzzled
• Just relax and observe and allow the same gesture
  (or its opposite) to be repeated again and again
• Then ask at the point where he is unable to
  describe further except with gesture
• The point where he makes a gesture and (too)
  quickly gives a logical explanation

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How to ask re Gesture (RS)

• The question to the patient about gesture should
  be framed so that thinking is stopped and
  spontaneity encouraged
• Never ask What are you doing, can you
  explain,etc
• Focus on the gesture and ask the patient
• just to DO the gesture
• while forgetting the context,
• and then ask Please, just speak whatever comes
  to mind.

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No either / orany more! Gesture AND Words
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CASE - TAKING

• Where are we listening from?

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The question to ask is Am I in an
unconditioned place where I can be really
available to what is happening?Adyashanti
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What is the nature of this HOMEOPATHS particular
fixity?
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Sensation is the WHAT of the case

• Miasm is the HOW or HOW MUCH of the case

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THE MIASMS ACUTE Panic - sudden and
extreme TYPHOID Crisis PSORA Steady
(slight) struggle MALARIA Harassed RINGWORM
Trying SYCOSIS Fixed and
avoiding TUBERCULAR Hectic LEPROSY Shunne
d CANCER Control SYPHILIS Hopeless and
extreme
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• Aphorism 83
• This individualising examination of a disease
  case, for which I am giving only
  general instructions here,
• demands nothing of the practitioner except
• freedom from bias
• and healthy senses,
• attention while observing,
• and fidelity in recording...
• the image of the disease."

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EMPTY

• of prejudice (no picking and choosing)
• of effort (trusting rather than striving)
• of your own, and other peoples, ideas

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• I am content to be the one who does not know.
  The patient is the one who does know.
• Rajan Sankaran

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• The great way is only closed
• to he who picks and chooses.
• Third Zen Patriarch

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• Homeopathy doesnt belong to anyone. It is one
  of the ways in which life heals itself.
• Ian Watson
• The Tao of Homeopathy

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CONNECT

• with that which is to be cured in the patient

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Let what is misty stay mystery

• The artist Matisse states that
• In art, truth and reality begin when you no
  longer understand anything you do or know.
• The poet Keats speaks of the value of
• negative capability when a man is capable of
  being in
• uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,
• without any irritable reaching out after facts
  and reason.

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• Only from a place of loving, unconditional
  acceptance can true healing take place
• what we resist, persists.
• what we accept, dissolves.
• Ian Watson

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Look , listen,..and ask GESTURE
WORD THE PATIENT, not your own
mind

• As the method becomes more skilful it becomes
  quieter, with less of a drilling away at one
  area.
• If resistance persists back off.
• As Jayesh says, the house has many windows.
• Relax, you will see the same through all of
  them.
• If one window is closed, go to another.
• If the front door is wide open sail in and
  celebrate together!

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Homeopathy begins and ends with pattern
matching

• Jonathan Shore

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• When we listen in this way - the pattern
  matching happens by itself, as
• that which needs to be cured
• that which is curative in the remedy
• reveal themselves as one.

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So the REMEDY is process, cause and fruit
of the case-taking.
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• The best homeopath does nothing but create the
  space within which a person remembers how to heal
  himself
• Ian Watson
• The Tao of Homeopathy

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There are of course two journeys travelling
alongside

• The individual journey with each patient in each
  consultation.
• Our own unique journey over time as homeopaths.

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Thich Nhat Hanh

• If we feel there is someone we cannot help, it is
  only because we have not yet looked deeply enough
  into his or her circumstances.
• If we open our hearts freely, but do not know our
  own limitations, our own seeds of agitation will
  be watered and we will become overwhelmed.

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• Precision (wisdom)
• Loving-kindness (compassion)
• Letting go (emptiness)

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Thich Nhat Hanh(from Understanding Our Mind)

• When we realise that afflictions are no other
  than enlightenment,
• We can ride the waves of birth and death in
  peace,
• Travelling in the boat of compassion on the sea
  of delusion,
• Smiling the smile of non-fear.

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• Thay advises us
• Maintain your health.
• Be joyful.
• Do not force yourself to do things you cannot
  do.

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Looking, listening, living from the Seventh Level
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And so to a case

• No ideas but in things. Dont give me an
  editorial of general ideas just give me a for
  instance
• William Carlos Williams

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Reading that has been helpful to me

• All of Rajan Sankarans books
• The Tao of Homeopathy Ian Watson (Cutting Edge
  Publications)
• The Sun my Heart Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax
  press)
• Understanding Our Mind Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax
  press)
• Emptiness dancing Adyashanti (Open Gate
  Publishing)
• Adyashantis recorded talks, order from website
  www.adyashanti.org
• Only This! Dorothy S. Hunt (San Francisco
  Centre for Meditation and
  Psychotherapy)
• Ordinary Magic Edited John Welwood (Shambala)