The Monster With A Thousand Heads

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The Monster With A Thousand Heads : The Organon and Statistics

-- Remus Mihaila, MD

 

“It is easy to doubt matters which cannot be laid before our ocular vision,

but

in itself this doubt proves nothing at all, for according to the old rule of

logic: negantis est probareâ€

from The Chronic Diseases ( I:79)

Based on the 6th edition of The Organon of the Medical Art and The Chronic

Diseases Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homeopathic Cure 1, 2, two most

important books written by the founder of Homeopathy Dr. Hahnemann, I

have decided to further show the links between the superior philosophical

concepts regarding disease and treatment in Homeopathy on one side, and their

consequences for the future, and on the other side. I have also tried to show

the usefulness, actually the necessity, of mathematics as a tool when applied

correctly, in describing such concepts at the level of biological sciences, with

its most common application - the bio statistics.3

The simple statistical model that I want to present here, through its

incontestable recognized validity,3 has many usages and consequences, in

particular on the correct understanding of the relation between health and

disease, disease definition and levels, and the correct level where the

treatment of chronic diseases in particular should be calibrated on objective

facts, in accord with the original ideas that we can find in the founding

homeopathic books.1, 2

To further illustrate the above ideas, I would first of all like to present the

set of concepts as they are described by Dr. Hahnemann, that would lead

to the idea of making such a model, in their original presentation as they are

described in The Organon of the Medical Art the 6th Edition1 and in The Chronic

Diseases Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homeopathic Cure.2

1.The Organon

Aphorism 103 – “ I had to investigate the chronic wasting sickness (namely

and

principally Psora) much more exactly than ever before. I had to do this because

of the extent of the symptoms in these chronic diseases and also because one

patient carries only a part of the symptoms in himself, while a second or third

patient, etc suffers from some other befallments which likewise as it were, are

only a part torn off from the totality of the symptoms that make up the entire

extent of one and the same disease. Therefore, the complex of all the symptoms

belonging to such a miasmtic wasting sickness (in particular psora) can only be

ascertained from very many such individual chronic patients. Without such a

complete overview and total image, the medicines that are homeopathically

curative for the whole wasting sickness (namely the antipsorics) cannot be

searched out. These medicines are at the same time, the true remedies for the

individual patients that are suffering from these chronic maladiesâ€

2.      The Chronic Diseases

“But usually, after repeated attempts to conquer the disease which appeared in

a

form always somewhat changed, residual complaints appeared which Homeopathic

medicines hitherto proved, though not few, had to leave uneradicated, yea often

undiminishedâ€. (I:4)

“What was the reason of the thousands of unsuccessful endeavours to heal the

other diseases of a chronic nature so that lasting health might result? Might

this be caused, perhaps by the still too small number of Homeopathic remedial

means that have so far been proved as to their pure action?, The followers of

Homeopathy have hitherto thus consoled themselves; but this excuse, or so called

consolation, never satisfied the founder of Homeopathy particularly because even

the new additions of proved valuable medicines, increasing from year to year,

have not advanced the healing of chronic (non venereal) diseases by a single

step…†(I:4; emphasis added)

“…What is there to prevent this? The answer to this question which is so

natural, inevitably led me to discover the nature of these chronic diseases….

The Giver of all good things permitted me within this space of time to gradually

solve this sublime problem through unremitting thought, indefatigable inquiry,

faithful observation and the most accurate experiments made for the welfare of

Humanityâ€. (I:5)

“ These are the characteristic secondary symptoms of the long unacknowledged,

thousand-headed monster, pregnant with disease, the Psora, the original miasmtic

malady which now makes its manifest appearanceâ€. (I:78; emphasis added)

And also below, one of the most peculiar and hidden paragraphs, in an

explicative note: 

“To prove the psoric nature of these chronic diseases without acknowledged

infection, we do not even need the fact that the anti psoric remedies prove

effectual therein; this serves only like the proof to a correctly solved

mathematical problem†(I:79; emphasis added).

I consider the above paragraphs of greatest relevance for my demonstration as

they are at its base. They indicate a statistical model which I consider to be a

necessary reality, starting right from the beginning, with my lectures on

homeopathic texts and in particular on The Organon of the Medical Art.

Although I make below a presentation for the theoretical model and its

collateral ideas, a few years ago I used the same principle which I describe

today, and the results were surprising and a real proof for the validity of the

model itself that anybody can try any time. At that time, using the results only

for justifying economical needs, I did not know that a wonderful science has

already founded a whole system on such observations, and that this validates its

usefulness and truth.

Hahnemann observed from clinical experience that in chronic diseases,

although he and those that followed the homeopathic principles correctly, have

applied the treatment as indicated by these principles in counting the totality

of the individual signs and symptoms, there were patients with relapses and for

them the disease did not stop in its progress.1,2

Through careful observation, he could see at some point the cause of these

failures was the impossibility of treating some patients with chronic diseases.

These belong to a disease that is at another logical level than the combination

of individual signs and symptoms, and is invisible to the eye in its totality.

It is a collective statistical disease that makes the remedy almost impossible

to find if we start at the individual level.

I will show below that the collective statistical disease does exist indeed.

Hahnemann made the connection with the ways of transmission and origins

of such disease, and he showed the links of the statistical disease with certain

origins and ways of transmission, in particular parasites and micro organisms.

He also discovered there is not only one such collective disease. During his

life, he proved three of them which have origins in infectious diseases. He

called them Miasm and they were Psora, Syphilis, and Sycosis; of which Psora is

the oldest and the most widespread amongst the patients with chronic diseases.

To avoid their transmission, the treatment of the miasms must always be

homeopathic from the start, from the moment of infection to avoid the

contamination of the new subject with the disease, and to further avoid the

spread of such a disease in ways that may not necessarily be via infection.

Based on the above, I would like to show that in fact miasms are statistical

diseases in the common sense.

Following Hahnemann, through the work of other homeopaths, other major

miasms have been discovered and connected with their ways of transmission

However, there is another homeopathic principle which states that for homeopathy

it is not necessarily important which types of stressors are involved in the

development of a disease. We may never have complete access to the full possible

variations in the type of stressors or their strength. Combined with a logically

possible internal susceptibility, and based on the above as a principle of

incontestable validity, I have started in the search of mathematical functions

that would best describe such an idea.

Searching for possible models, I have first realized that Homeopathy does not

use any quantitative concepts in the description of the disease parameter. It

operates with perceptible signs and symptoms which statistically speaking are

qualitative variables, and not quantitative or numeric variables.

Inside the science of statistics, I have found a few mathematical functions or

tests belonging to inductive statistics, which are used in data correlation, and

when applied these will show if there is a mathematical correlation between

variables. Amongst them, there is a specific statistical function, the Chi

square test that can in particular be used to show and certify such correlations

between variables.

This is exactly our case and I believe is a clarifying answer.

As we want to find valid correlations between signs and symptoms, as qualitative

variables, and Chi square is more permeable to errors in introducing these

variables, it is without doubts that this function is suitable for our purpose.3

At the same time, being permeable to certain errors in introducing the

qualitative data to be processed, Chi square is also indicated by the fact that

it would be impossible to accept that any symptom which at any point in time is

similar at the conceptual level to the same symptom in another patient, can at

the same time be fully similar to the same symptom in another patient in

reality, in its objective expression.

For that reason, as we are starting from homeopathic principles which indicate

such a study, we need to further expand the study with the aid of and inside

homeopathy. It is a necessity that in performing the study, the best description

of qualitative data (symptoms and signs) will find their expression in the

homeopathic Materia Medica, as the place we can find maximum degrees of

expressing the perceptible signs and symptoms we see in patients with chronic

diseases suitable for our study.

The Chi square function

The Chi square test is a statistical function that shows if 2 qualitative

variables are independent in a random population and it has a wide range of

applications in research within biological sciences.3

It can only test if the two variables are independent without indicating, which

is smaller of greater. It does not express quantitative differences between

variables, it just express if the variables are independent or correlated.

The first step in applying the chi square test is to establish the correct

hypothesis. The null hypothesis is indicating that the two variables are not

correlated and they are independent.

There are many tutorials on the web for the Chi square function and its

applications and is not the purpose of this communication to be a Chi square

tutorial which is a clear mathematical function with well defined

characteristics and very simple to use and calculate.

Our hypothesis is that in a 2x2 table, in the 2 rows present or not present are

variables indicating the patients that have a specific symptom and the patients

that do not have it. In the columns are the symptoms to be checked for the null

hypothesis (for independence). Symptom 1 is tested against all other symptoms

until we finish the testing of it with the symptom 1 with all the others we have

found in the randomly chosen patients.

The Chi square shortcut function for 2x2 tables is:

       

  A B A + B

  C D C + D

  A + C B + D A + B + C + D = N

X2 =                 N (AD – BC)2        

           __________________________     

           (A + C) (B + D) (A + (C + D)

Theoretical examples:

  Present Not present Total

Symptom 1 67 34 101

Symptom 2 36 15 51

Total 103 49 152

Chi Square 0.2804

For significance at .05 level Chi Square should be >/= 3.84 which is the minimum

level where we can accept or reject the null hypothesis using the Chi square

function.

The distribution is not significant

  Present Not present Total

Symptom 1 23 55 78

Symptom 3 36 22 58

Total 59 77 136

Chi Square 14.377

P </= 0.01

The distribution is significant

The degrees of freedom for the 2x2 table are 1.

If we would have for example 30 symptoms as a total after introducing random

data from individual patients, S1 to S30, then, as shown before we will test S1

with all the other 29 independent symptoms in 2x2 tables, and for example we

find that S1 has a statistical correlation with S5, S6, S9, and S22; then if

from the practical result we cannot reject the null hypothesis for S1 being

associated with the variables mentioned, then we cannot reject that they are all

associated with each other as well.

We do the same with each one of the symptoms until we have tested them all

against possible correlations and we have finished all the possible

combinations, and then we connect the correlative chains together. As they all

are independent, they will join in an imaginary root at the source that has

produced the qualitative variables.

In such a way we have built a three-dimensional inductive statistical disease,

impossible to see in any of the individuals who belong to it. It is a reality

that cannot be seen but it is as real as anything we can see with the open eyes.

Conditions in using Chi square function:

The sample must be randomly drawn from the population.

Data must be reported in raw frequencies (not percentages);

Measured variables must be independent;

Values/categories on independent and dependent variables must be mutually

exclusive and exhaustive;

Observed frequencies cannot be too small. Before discussing the ideas derived

from these theoretical facts and this model, which is specific within the

science of homeopathy, I would like to further comment on some of the ideas at

their general conceptual level, starting from the level of accepted validity of

the above model.

As shown above in the mentioned texts, the model is first of all I believe, in

complete concordance with the original ideas of the founder of the science of

Homeopathy Dr. Hahnemann. It is first of all showing the philosophical

level at which homeopathy was created. It is a complete conception about the

term chronic disease and its consecutive treatment, which reaches the heights of

the absolute. It is a true system of medicine derived from fine observations and

their correct interpretations. 1,2

First of all, as we all know that in homeopathy the correct diagnosis equals the

correct treatment through the correct identification of the remedy, further

search past that point is not necessary or possible.  When we have 1 remedy

being identified through the statistical model for a particular chain of

associated symptoms we can say we have revealed one of the heads of the monster.

This is a statistical disease, discovered in an objective way through inductive

statistics, using a superior logical model indicated by homeopathy. It is a

miasm in full light, without the need to find its origins or ways of

transmission. It shows clearly at which level, and why and how we need to start

the treatment.1,2

A consequence of the above facts is also a logical necessity in accepting the

movements of the “heads of the monster†in different planes, as suggested by

the

results. The weakness of the statistical model through its incapacity to reach

100% precision is also its strength and warning. It is a small lack of precision

that is showing a variation that it cannot catch at the time of its application,

which is nothing else than the movement of the living statistical disease in all

possible directions. That is exactly what the inherent small level of errors of

the model is showing in an objective way. A movement is a development, a dynamic

movement in a certain direction, and not a fixed entity that can be expressed in

definitive numbers or states.

A first possible cause of such movement can be related to the previous idea,

that as we do not have total access to all the factors which can

produce disease

in general, and such a statistical disease in particular, it is without doubt a

reality that the above stressors have an important geographical variation in

presence and strength, also leading to a variable geographical response in the

individuals. In such a case, for many miasmatic diseases we cannot use correctly

the miasmatic remedy that we find by using this model, without testing the

validity of the expression for that remedy on a specific territory, and then

using its objective and possibly specific certification, which is the presence

of the particular miasm. This is especially so when we are at a very long

distance from the territory where a remedy was calibrated on a local miasmtic

tendency. Based on the above, and combined with the specific characteristics of

a population, I expect that we will find different miasmtic tendencies in

different geographical areas.

It is another example, which illustrates how Dr. Hahnemann had good

reason to use the metaphoric image of a monster with a thousand heads. This

symbol as it is shown here expresses his mathematical thinking, and also his

surprise of the developments of the disease itself, an invisible living creature

revealed only by statistics. And we will further see how that this also refers

to the constitution as well.4

If we process the data we have obtained at the statistical level and we find the

main separate tendencies, it is obvious that they are all joining together as

they are dynamic entities present in human populations. Without the human

subjects they would not exist. It is an imaginary monster with many heads

(revealed by statistics) of the same biological body.1,2,5

A consequential result is that at the level of representation, the homeopathic

remedy suitable for the treatment of that level has a circular shape at the

individual level, (where it was first created using descriptive statistics),

then travels around the body in an imaginary circle which closes at the mental

level. It then becomes spherical in its full three-dimensional (via inductive

statistics) shape, best described by Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man.6,7 The

Vitruvian Man shows how the human body can anatomically fit at the same time in

a circle in one plane, then becomes a sphere in a three-dimensional plan. Both

are geometrical shapes of the absolute. At the same time it will also fit

perfectly inside a square in one plane that becomes a cube in a

three-dimensional plane, both being geometrical shapes of mathematics and

calculus. In the original drawing we can also see how the human can touch both

the circle and the square with the middle finger which is number three

regardless of where we start counting the fingers of one hand. This is also a

universal reality indicating the negation of duality. This is a conceptual

connection beyond coincidence, lying between ideas and representation. The

drawing shows a philosophy of medicine, telling the message and universal truth

that Leonardo Da Vinci wanted to send from his time. It is a way of thinking as

a source, and not a simple coincidental drawing as it may look at the first

sight. Simple and very complex, with many meanings, an art in itself, and in the

same time an inspiring way of thinking, speaking about numbers as well,

which seems to transcend historical time.

Following the above, a most surprising idea self-arises from this calculation

and model.

Creating the statistical remedy has first of all an importance in the treatment

of the total statistical disease at its dynamic functional level.

However the statistical remedy itself was created using descriptive statistics,

adding together symptoms and signs of the individuals from provings on healthy

people.1,2,8,9 For the above model we have used inductive statistics which in

fact magnify the total picture in a three-dimensional plane, like accessing

another dimension. It is clear that the remedy we created in such way is a

perfect three-dimensional spherical image of the similar disease, and is showing

and acting at the same time at the level of three-dimensional possibility in the

individual patient.

The same remedy in such a way is the measure of a dynamic specific level as an

incontestable proof of a constitutional functional answer 4 inside a population

(a group) and at the same time at the individual level in that population. It is

a constitutional and functional memory at the same time. It has the

characteristics of a memory as it is a calculated entity and has a definite

presence and at the same time is complex functional as indicated by the lack of

the total number of organic symptoms in an individual that join together only

after using a statistical function. Something we can see through a simple

mathematical function, but we cannot fully describe it, as that is exactly the

key in mathematics, its inability to describe a functional memory that we can

see as our psychological level has a start exactly at such level and has the

freedom to express it.10,11,12

Even if we start building the remedy only at the organic level, using organic

ways of expression where the standard is more clearly defined, just like any

homeopathic remedy; the calculated statistical remedy is also asking for its

specific set of psychological tendencies. This time it is at a calculated

expression in a population, and is a reflection of the level of its possible

presence in the individual as a multidimensional (non dimensional) reality.

That has several consequences.

In such a case, the psychological level is an immeasurable dynamic function in

itself, and supposedly is the result and expression of those lower levels of

dynamic cumulative functional tendencies, which arise from the imperceptible

organic molecular developments, and it then has imaginary layers within the same

function, each one expressing a qualitative difference from the others. Based on

its unique characteristics and unitary way of expression, we can safely search

and most definitely find psychological particularities in the statistical

disease characteristics.

These are measured by the matching remedy inside the perceptible language of

this function, without even the presence of virtually any perceptible organic

symptom at the body level. The perceptibly expressed psychological function is

the magnified expression of a microscopically functional and non-perceptible

level of smaller invisible functional combinations, which pre-exist before

reaching the expressed level. Thus if the statistical tendency does exist in an

individual, supposedly only at the microscopic imperceptible level, it is

impossible not to be expressed in its dynamic movement by the superior

perceptible levels, which are the instantly magnified image of the dynamic

movement at the microscopic level. Also small movements in the layer below

within the same function will lead to big movements of the above level.

Dorn, one of the followers of Paracelsus, best describes that in De Speculativa

philosophia: “Sic paulatim scintillas aliquot magis ac magis indies perlucere

suis oculis mentabulis percipiet, ac in tantam excrescere lucem, ut succesivo

tempore quaevis innotescant, quae sibi necessaria fuerint.â€Â  (“That is how

he

will perceive with his spiritual eye as some sparkles will be more and more

transparent day after day, joining together in a such bright light as after

that, he will know everything is necessary for himâ€.) 10  

This is a functional memory in its full light, sitting above a multidimensional

(non dimensional) reality that communicates between planes through the Ether, as

a Sun above a Kingdom with no borders and no enemies It has the freedom to

describe itself and its own creation in simple words, as being the result of an

original need that has no causality.

It is an example of how words are created as spherical entities at the

subliminal level of the collective subconscious from where they start being

perceptible, just before being expressed at the individual level. This is at the

collective level of functional memory, and then they travel through different

layers of individual expression as through the Ether and reach their expressed

level in an individual. This is a result of a functional need that is contained

in itself as an individual functional three-dimensional memory, where “the

possible†is equal with the image we see in front of out eyes.

If Psora is present in an individual, it will peculiarly deviate the formation

of ideas and words in a certain dynamic direction that the practitioner must

find.1,2,4,5,13

He was also indicating, as Paracelsus also did, the presence of an

“invisibilem

solem plurimis incognitum†inside the human.10

The characteristics of the psychological level as a function above another

non-perceptible functional level, allow further investigations without the

change in the concept of the characteristic itself. It is a function that has no

other way to express itself than through the magnified answers of the same

function at the lower levels. Up and down and in all directions within that

function we have variations of the same level of expression without change in

the ways of expression, as in the case of the body where things start from a

functional level to a defined organic expression. Having an organic base as

well, the psychological level has a depth that is perceptible without the

requirement of any other tools. At any time we may be able to see a tendency

within itself using the same concepts without switching the concepts. That is

not possible at the organic level without starting to measure things which

require continuous changes in the tools we use, the more we go inside the

organic below the symptoms.

As the psychological level is by itself as a concept and function, independent

in its way of showing perceptible symptoms, there are no doubts we need to

consider that level, practically and conceptually as mentioned, as a separate

function, based on its unity and unicity of self expression, in a different way

compared with the all the organic ways of expression. Then we can say there is a

central tendency for a remedy at that level in an individual. Even if we would

consider the individual body as a unitary entity without separating the

different organs in systems, the characteristics of the statistical remedy are

not present at that level, as we built its presence based exactly on the lack of

the individual characteristics.

In that way, being a unique function where the symptoms have actually only a

functional dynamic way of expression, and having its roots in lower levels of

functional activities, the psychological level indicates independence in

expressing some tendencies. It is a unique function that is expressing other

functional levels. It does not require the presence of any of the organic

symptoms to actually indicate by itself the presence of the possible dynamic

statistical movement at the individual functional level which precedes the

organic expressions, and which can possibly lead to perceptible organic disease

symptoms in the course of time.

That is not the situation with the organic perceptible symptoms. If we have the

example of a patient in which we see just one perceptible symptom and that

symptom belongs to the statistical disease, we would not be able to easily and

precisely identify the statistical remedy at the individual level. To do this we

would need to calculate the correlations based on such a model, or we would need

to reveal with great precision  the peculiar psychological characteristics that

belong to that remedy. This requires skills and experience, but at the same time

there is no better medical device to follow a mind than another mind (the

practitioner’s) looking for specific tendencies belonging to a disease. The

weakness of this method is actually its validated valuable strength as well.

If we further develop the idea, if the functional level seems to mathematically

indicate the presence of another level of memory, the functional memory, above

and past DNA or even included at its level as an inductive and immeasurable

memory as precise as the genetic model is, then any normal individual

psychological tendencies that are perceptible and are also matching the

characteristics of a statistical remedy in a population, must be carefully

monitored in its dynamics as it is possible that when it becomes of a marked

intensity measured by the patient itself in his feelings, it can be a warning of

a future possible organic pathology and may indicate homeopathic treatment using

the miasmtic remedy as a prevention of further such developments. Sulphur for

example as one of the miasmtic remedies discovered by Hahnemann will

treat the “ragged philosopher†and actually strengthen the philosopher

within

its own limits of happiness, a difference measured by the individual strength, a

measure that the individual would perceive if things tend to become too intense.

And we have today practical models and methods, such as the one discovered and

promoted by Dr. Rajan Sankaran, one of the masters of modern homeopathy. Dr.

Rajan Sankaran shows in all his books, the real practical results we can get

with homeopathy as a treatment, using the peculiar psychological characteristics

and tendencies of the patient in finding the correct remedy.13

If instead of following the organic symptoms of the individual, we simply follow

a special and unique function that can express itself tri dimensionally (which

we can classify for purely logical purposes as an “organ - functionâ€) within

the

same function; and then we consider its qualitative specificity in expression,

unicity and unity; then the “organ-function†is revealed as a superior

dynamic

complex function, which is independent from the body and organs at least in its

level and ways of expression. Thus we find the functional level everywhere in

the body in different ways of expression.

It does incorporate present and past, individual and collectively in a way that

no other level of the body organic functional level itself can show, as

demonstrated.

The self arising consequence from finding the statistical remedy and its

specific mental dynamic tendencies, arising from this conceptual classification,

plus the result that indicates them as a necessary presence, thus become

incontestable proofs for the presence of the collective subconscious.10 It is a

simple, logical and objective demonstration of first of all it’s existence,

and

secondly its presence, in any one of its various forms. It demonstrates the

dynamic constitutional mental characteristics of a statistical disease, which is

more at the level of possibility, and matches the mental characteristics of the

miasmtic remedy that is self-arising from the statistical model.

Homeopathy is an independent system of Medicine and a science.1,2,5,8,9 With the

help of a statistical model deriving from its own concepts, it proves in a

simple and objective way the presence of what used to be and maybe still is for

many, “a controversial conceptâ€. It’s general meanings are present in many

psychological or philosophical systems, but just as  postulated general

concepts

without a specific clear standard, and without a proven existence as independent

reality of the so much debated and also valued Collective Subconscious.11

If we have a perceptible organic symptom belonging to the statistical disease,

can we go further below that to find more about it or about the disease? The

symptom in itself is a cumulative qualitative measure that as we will further

see, does expand itself below in an imaginary conical shape.

On the other side, the presence of any of the organic symptoms is also an

indication for the statistical remedy.

Inside, at the functional level we have a defined constitution for a specific

disease tendency (seemingly spherical in its shape), which is impossible to

measure in its quantity, due to our tendency to use inductive statistical tests

starting from individuals who express only a part of the same visible tendency.

These results also show that the disease is extending for the same reason as we

created it, using a statistical correlative function showing things are

accumulative and not disseminative.

The chi square test itself is indicating an individual level of well-defined

possibilities that we can see only at the collective level at the moment we have

used it. Virtually, at the level of a spherical three-dimensional possibility,

each individual patient can have in time all the symptoms, an indication that if

not treated perfectly at the level of possibility, things are advancing towards

accumulation in the proximal descriptive visible reality. Therefore they are

not

a protective mechanism avoiding the functional collapse as may be considered by

mistake.

At the same time, the functional constitution differs in its three dimensional

characteristics in different people belonging to a population, and we may also

find that not all people belong to a specific statistical disease tendency in a

defined population.

This is a complete “genetic†model of the statistical functional disease

tendency, having at the base a precise functional memory, also indicating its

correct treatment, a dynamic, functional treatment matching perfectly the

statistical spherical level of development for the specific miasm.

The model also shows that the disease could start within the susceptible

individuals anytime at any point from the surface within a spherical shape of

possible functional developments, and that level is as a consequence, a

functional memory.

Then how are we going to calibrate the current view of the genetic model on such

a development? I believe it is currently impossible, and the first idea arising

from here is that we may need to accept another level of memory that is

functional, and although supposedly past DNA it may well be included at the DNA

level as a defined independent functional entity. This would be impossible to

measure although it seems that at the individual level it can be fully described

by using inductive functions. That is a reality that we could not see without

inductive statistical functions and at the same time it is impossible to

calibrate at the molecular level. The functional memory may be logically

speaking contained at the DNA level, but it will be impossible to calibrate, and

it shows that the genetic model is incomplete in its description. We can accept

the functional level of memory at the DNA level, but it is impossible to measure

it with the tools we currently have.

The remedy and the statistical disease indicate the presence of the functional

constitution that is either post DNA, or at its level, and the cumulative cone

is with the base inside and the top outside at the level of perceptible

symptoms.

The statistical disease is an objective fact. It also shows that the

accumulation comes from inside the organic level, and makes a full picture past

the level of perceptible symptoms, and is imaginary outside the individual

body.

The mathematical model in fact indicates an internal functional predisposition.

Although it is evidently expressing parts of the disease at the body level, that

level is already too low yet at the same time is a maximum limited by the

perceptible symptoms, without any chance to show it in its full development.

If that would happen, we are at an end, which is very close and easy to see by

everybody.

And as the above is logically correct, the following implication is that

searching for the statistical disease below the perceptible symptoms backwards

towards the DNA will show the same pattern, but a hundred times more complicated

in its individual variations.

The organic and well-defined microscopic world changes below the level of

perceptible symptoms. It extends and varies a thousand times more than the

statistically perceptible movements of the heads of the monster.

That is another incontestable proof of the philosophical level reaching the

heights of the absolute on which the Organon was created, showing that

investigation inside the body will be impossible to follow at the level of

present possibilities and has no logical reasons, as it will not find a

measurable answer that will describe the disease as a totality. For an organic

symptom to be perceptible by the patient and consequently by the practitioner,

it requires combinations impossible to calibrate and follow deep inside at the

molecular level. The world of qualitative changes is showing to extend inside as

a cumulative imaginary cone with the top at the level of perceptible symptoms

and the base inside at a precise functional level.

Based on the above facts it is not logical to consider that the organic symptoms

are different at the organic level. They constitute the statistical disease,

which shows that although we are on a maximum we are on an inadequate level of

reality if we take as a standard the expressed organic individual level. Below

them we can reconstitute that disease if we search towards DNA, as we do in

searching the particular characteristics of the statistical disease at the

psychological level. It shows that the reverse way towards DNA will not find

that measurable disease tendency at the genetic level, as we imagine it today.

It is at another level of reality, which is impossible to show without a

mathematical function in any of the individuals that belong to the same miasm.

The only way to see the full disease in an individual is when the possible

disease has already become organic and is no longer inductive.

The above is in total concordance with the idea we find inside the books of Dr.

Hahnemann,1,2 that the truth we need for the cure is not inside the

molecular universe of the body more than it is on the skin (at the perceptible

level of symptoms). When we have cured the visible symptoms we have treated the

disease in its complexity as stated in the Organon of the medical art:

“As little as we mortals can see into the process in the household of healthy

life – which must remain hidden from us creatures just as certainly as this

process is exposed to the eye of the all-seeing Creator and Sustainer of his

creatures – just as little can we see into the internal process of disturbed

life in diseases. The inner process in diseases becomes known to us only through

perceptible alterations, ailments and symptoms; this is the only way our life

gives utterance to the inner disturbances.â€Â  (1; p. 27, n. 21)

As an example, the nature itself shows that the dynamic flow inside the patient

requires time to be expressed in perceptible symptoms from the moment of

infection for example to the moment of perceptible expression. And what does

that show more than certifying once again that the perceptible symptoms are a

result of an accumulation that comes from inside outside, towards the

perceptible symptoms in a conical shape with the top at the surface and the base

at a level of functional possibilities within a well defined memory?

“Does it not take three, four or five days after vaccination is effected,

before

the vaccinated spot becomes inflamed? Does not the sort of fever developed –

the

signs of the completion of the disease – appear even later, when the

protecting

pock has been fully formed; i.e. on the seventh or eight day?†(2; I:33n)

The organic, perceptible symptoms are on an imaginary projection in between the

molecular functional level that is the base of a cone shape with the top at the

level of the statistical disease. They are also at the same time a maximum of

what can be expressed, the top of a smaller cone (the individual cone) with the

same base, the molecular functional level.

That shows nothing more than that we need to postulate again the evidence of a

different level of memory, a multidimensional (non dimensional) memory which

although it may be at the DNA level, needs to be there by itself as a separate

functional entity. Moreover it appears independent and spherical in its

representation. If the inherited functional level were transmitted through DNA,

the only place where we have an expressed validation of the DNA characteristic

would be at the psychological level, as a perceptible function that is the

result of smaller levels of the same way of expression.13

The fact that the above dissociation at the organic level does not follow the

same rule at the psychological level is also a logical consequence arising from

the general major differences in properties between the psychological

characteristics and the organic ways of expression. It is also a consequence of

the radically different functional level on which the world of ideas is

organized, buffered from chemical processes by immeasurable layers of functional

activities separated by Ether, in comparison with the organic individual level,

which has as an expression a measurable entity. However, it is also logical that

all the functions will express perceptibly lower levels of imperceptible

functional activities. However, the psychological level is unique in its

language.10

It appears that the mind is the only function that can visibly expand itself in

a complex way at the perceptible collective level, a tendency that we find for

the organic symptoms only at the mathematical imperceptible level. The presence

of the symptoms inside the statistical remedy has no visible correspondent at

the organic level, apart from when things are processed statistically. But again

statistically, the result indicates that the same remedy is inside the unique

features of the psychological function, and we find it through method in reality

as well as shown by homeopaths in practice.

It is a necessary and demonstrated reality to accept that the psychological

characteristics are only able to be present at a perceptible level between

individual and collective levels, as there are no better objective

demonstrations other than the ones arising from mathematical deductions. We need

to add signs and symptoms derived from the statistical disease to the organic

universe at the individual level, but we do not need to do the same at the

psychological level, for the fact that the result shows they must be there and

nowhere else.

If we look at the incapacity of the organic symptoms to show the head of the

monster, which we can see through mathematics, at the individual level; that is

nothing else but the image of the already known DNA function to manufacture the

individual body and its molecules, without either necessarily containing the

specific tendency in itself, or just because it is exactly what is missing from

the model itself. If we have a cumulative cone with the top at the surface and

the base inside then that is in opposition to the model we have today where the

top of the cone must be at the DNA level as the starting point. It just shows

that the functional level of memory is spherical and the starting point can be

anywhere at the level of possibility as mentioned above.

Based on the above I would also like to further discuss this extension. Some

would maybe still say that the same information is contained in the DNA and may

just be a protective mechanism. I will further consider again that idea as well.

We need to start from the point where we could see the impossibility of

calibrating the genetic model on such a development if we don’t postulate an

independent functional memory.

The above is not a viable idea. We must look at the scattered perceptible

organic symptoms, as they express themselves in an individual, and are the first

proof that can lead to such an idea. They cannot reach the statistical disease,

they are a part of it and they correlate with each other, showing accumulation

and not dissipation.

At the molecular level as we know, it is a microscopically organic–functional

universe below the perceptible level, and a dynamic movement is shown that is

coming from inside towards outside in a cumulative cone with the top at the

level of the symptom.

If we take the symptoms of the statistical disease and search for them at the

genetic level as we see it today what would we probably find? Maybe individual

small proofs for the perceptible individual segments of the statistical disease

as the statistical model shows it in an objective way, after counting the

perceptible signs and symptoms, and in any way not a descriptive proof for the

total disease as a possibility.

The only place where DNA can be validated as a result of a postulated functional

memory level on an individual basis, and which contains the data for the

statistical disease as a dynamic inherited memory, is again the psychological

level. In this way things are in a reverse logical order and they start from top

to bottom, from function to organic. How can a perceptible functional level that

is the magnified expression of smaller levels of functionality, validate the

manufacturing process if it is not an independent entity that validates and

expresses just itself, and nothing in a mechanical way, and which starts with

manufacturing the first molecule?

In this way, homeopathy is shown to be a place where we can find an explanation

of a very specific possible functional validation for what we know as the

molecule of life, the original point where any individual living universe has

its physical starting point. But a specific mathematically proven functional

level, created after the molecule that is at its origins- just using the

molecular combinational level post the manufacturing process- cannot validate

the function of the molecule and be at the same time a creation of it unless it

is actually included as a separate entity at that level. That is not possible

without accepting that the functional specific dynamic three-dimensional

tendency is contained within the functional tendency in itself at any level we

want to start.

In applying the above model, I believe it is more practical that when we process

signs and symptoms to validate their statistical connections, we do not

necessarily need to use mental characteristics even if they are well defined by

a remedy. It may be almost impossible from the beginning to standardize inside

such a function, as these mental characteristics may not necessarily be

self-arising for everybody, the psychological level being an informational

universe by itself. It can be the Universe itself. In that way we would

introduce further unwanted qualitative descriptive errors, considering the

limits of describing in an absolute way such a situation. In such a way, the

mental symptoms can actually shorten the length of the full miasm, sharing

associated symptoms with the organic.

Based on the above deductions, it is probably better if we develop the miasm by

only using at the beginning the organic symptoms. The organic level is actually

the one that has perceptible limits in reaching its level, and is easier to

standardize for qualitative variables. Then to further validate its presence and

prescribe safely we just need to add the calculated mental characteristics of

the discovered miasmtic remedy, and search for them inside the thinking of the

individual patient and prescribe safely.

All the above have a connection with the idea that shows how Homeopathy reaches

the limits of the absolute, and is a possible answer to the question on how can

we treat a disease that we discovered using statistics. It is evident that if

the disease can be represented as a sphere, using the disease itself in its

artificial dynamic form is the most simple and logical answer, if not the only

one. It is difficult to imagine an example that would be in contradiction

conceptually with such a conclusion.

Based on the above facts, we can say that with the current ways of treating

chronic diseases, if we cure the symptoms and signs and we do not see them

anymore, then the statistical disease will disappear, it does not exist anymore.

But, based on current medical research, can we use anti asthmatics on people

that have chronic cirrhosis (if for example we know that chronic cirrhosis in a

population is associated with asthma) along with the liver treatment, if we

discover it is the best at a certain point, in an attempt to cure the signs of

the statistical three-dimensional inductive disease in particular individuals?

That will never happen to be a practical valid approach, as the different drugs

are very independent, organ related and functional related in one plane in their

conception and in the end there is no specific miasmtic statistical connection

between each of them at the level of the statistical disease, at the level of a

functional possibility.

Also, it shows the side effects of current drugs we have, apart from the fact

that they are not “in line†even with the specific problem they are designed

to

treat, as they are derived from investigating the molecular universe, for which

only contraria contrarii is the supreme truth. It would be impossible to further

think that logically they can join together in healing such a three-dimensional

disease level.1,2

The only place that is an expression of how much a drug can affect the

statistical disease is the placebo effect that we detect in common trials, and

today we describe it as an error in trials for therapeutics. Placebo does not

exist as an error. Placebo is exactly the measurable course of the healing

process in a multidimensional (non dimensional) plan. Placebo does present

itself as an error if we consider that the psychological processes do not

contribute/belong in any way to the disease. In such a way we actually produce

the biggest error in accord with the already demonstrated facts.

This is another proof that they have not been chosen homeopathically even at the

short molecular functional level, with the collateral consequences on treatment

results that we can see.

However, I would say that the above deductions are actually valid as they were

made inside one system as a need to calibrate it’s reality to the reality of

the

remedies in homeopathy.

I find that such an idea is not a correct one, as the application of statistics

in revealing the statistical disease is independent of homeopathy although it is

indicated by its principles. It cannot be contested in any way in its

validation, which precedes discussion on individual systems or methods.

Building the homeopathic remedy on such a model is actually an indication of the

superior level at which Homeopathy was created, and is a practical answer for

the treatment of the functional level of the disease which we can only see

through mathematics, and which extends itself as if into another dimension.

Moreover, releasing the concept of disease into the hands of correct logical

thinking and mathematics, and not into concepts that follow only individual

developments- in fact not even thinking of such threats- is beneficial for any

medical philosophy and in particular for Homeopathy This is actually the only

system of medicine to date, able to offer a practical standardized logical

solution to the three-dimensional expansion of the chronic diseases, the

discovery that Dr. Hahnemann, himself the creator of Homeopathy, made

starting at the experimental level and which today we express through a

statistical function.1,2

In consequence, if we do not treat correctly the statistical patient in a

homeopathic way (in line with the functional development of the disease) with

the help of statistics, such a level of development can spread at the invisible

functional level in impossible to measure ways and continuously threaten

humanity at the level of the “invisible†patient.

Objectively speaking, as urgently as possible homeopathy needs to be considered

as a superior alternative- at least at the conceptual level- to the current

conception of treatment in chronic diseases. The conclusion is self-arising as

an independent idea without any subjective connections, and I believe everybody

can see that such data speaks more than personal opinions. In the end I believe

we all can go past personal affinity to a certain model of thinking (as I did

myself), in the name of our Master, the Patient and his sufferings, praying to

the Universe for help. We treat the individual, but what do we offer to the

statistical patient we have found through a powerful tool, the statistics? A

living giant, the size of this Earth inside individuals, that shows one more

time how the truth is extending from the individual level to his sufferings, and

we need to treat him, as we want to be treated for our sufferings.

To fully comment on the proven facts, we also need to emphasize again the

logical idea that the lack of expression of the symptoms at the organic level

and also their correlative tendency is actually an indication of accumulation at

the invisible statistical level and at some point all the patients will actually

show the signs of the same disease at the organic level when the miasm has

reached its full power.

But starting exactly from the individual organic symptoms we created the

statistical disease and things are ascending and not descending, otherwise such

a disease could not exist.

We would not have such a statistical disease if the lack of expression to the

organic perceptible level would be a protection as said.

We cannot even think of making such a conclusion by relying on supposed

protective errors in this proven specific collective tendency. Homeopathy is the

only possible practical hope of an up to date way to fight such diseases, both

at the conceptual level and as a standardized practical method, and which

addresses the treatment at the appropriate level of development of the disease

itself.

To offer just a few modern examples: cancer has reached unprecedented epidemic

levels, old infectious diseases are striking back with great power as the

bacteria became stronger after using antibiotics, AIDS is rising with little

hope for a classical cure in the near future. These are just a few examples,

which indicate we must start actually searching for the heads of the monster at

their visible end. We must start with diseases, which are observable without

using inductive statistics.15

I do not believe these are necessarily the result of increasing life expectancy,

as we may think. They are the diseases that are already threatening humanity in

the indefinite but immediate future.5,8,9

Within the specific system of Homeopathy, these facts first of all indicate in a

precise way the level at which the treatment of chronic diseases should start,

first of all with the proof they belong to a well-known miasm. The demonstration

shows that at the psychological level we will find the statistical remedy by

using personally perceptible tendencies that belong to a miasmtic remedy. And

the first practical use of such a fact, is the possibility of preventing organic

pathology at the moment where the patient, who already has a certain

psychological constitution which belongs to a calculated tendency, senses a

different intensity in his thinking or feelings.   We can then match such a

development to a known remedy without even knowing if it is a statistical remedy

or not. Even better, if we know that it is actually a statistical remedy, we

will have a well-defined standard and concept to prevent further pathological

developments.

The model has practical use. As an example, if we have a patient with a one

sided organic chronic disease, then with experience it is very possible that at

the psychological level we can reach the statistical remedy, even though it will

be impossible to create it at the individual level based on the organic

findings. The standard must be the psychological characteristics of the

remedies. If we know that the organic symptom belongs to a statistical remedy,

then we have a narrow set, a well-standardised tendency to follow at the

psychological level, and certify in a mathematical way the level at which we

prescribe, having as a reason the shortest time to heal a patient. And that is

the one step cure as desired by Dr. Hahnemann.1,2

Another idea concerns the level of common statistical trials, where currently

the results are not accurate or easily observable. As we have shown here,

without treating the miasmtic level it can be impossible to have a total healing

process.

Consequently, the disease shows itself as a unitary spherical entity, an

informational spherical storm inside the patient, first of all a consequence of

the simple logical and practical fact that The Vital Force cannot split itself

inside its own unity as shown by the cure itself (we would not have any cure if

the Vital Force were able to answer in multiple ways). Any logical attempts to

combine remedies in order to match the exact disease are not in line with the

theoretical model as indicated first by Hahnemann and are not following

its logical meaning, or its mathematical and objective validity as proven here.

It may be possible furthermore that different remedies even logically chosen,

will act at different levels inside the spherical model of the functional memory

and they may not be complementary in any way in their actions.

Several smaller spheres will not fit inside another one without gaps. One sphere

will fit inside another one or will include it. On the other hand, if we have

two bigger spheres than the one we want to cover, thinking they can cover the

disease by their infinite number of dynamic points inside; if we consider the

mathematically proven disease as a functional process, they will never be in

line in their movement (best described by spinning around their own axis. They

will match each other in all ways of movement but again will not be in line with

the dynamic movement inside the disease. The sphere represented by the disease

will be covered, but its dynamic movement will not be covered as expressed by

the Law of similars, which best describes that process. In consequence, any

modification of the original concepts stated by the Organon  are actually in

conflict with the Law of Similars as proven here.1

The proven psychological tendencies belonging to the characteristics of a known

remedy, connected with the idea of the possible description of the tendencies

using a priori standards, may be the broad base level at which to start either

to search and follow a possible peculiar development as a prevention, or an

easier expressed standard which can help in catching the main miasmtic

tendencies in a population at the individual level. (Here I specifically refer

to the valuable idea promoted by Little indicating there is a practical

connection between the valuable Hippocratic typology and a possible homeopathic

standardization model at the psychological level.) 4

That may also indicate the fact that the miasmtic diseases are just peculiar

attachments to the normal different psychological characteristics, showing how

the disease has actually taken the most incredible form, being hidden inside the

normal psychological typology and also resembling them. That is why in my

opinion the constitutional remedy as a correct definition, is the remedy that

will check if the similarity with itself is genuine and natural, able to confer

freedom and happiness in all directions, and will actually help with any

pathology arising from exaggerated personal tendencies belonging to the

otherwise just natural similarity. It checks the similarity and is

re-establishes the balance of forces within that similarity, increasing the

strength of the individual over his own characteristics. It is a practical tool

against the ultimate disease strategy in which it actually resembles individual

normality. It can actually strike through the intensity of such normality, and

is a process showing how the disease process causes an imaginary split within a

unitary harmony which cannot split within itself without loosing its balance.

It is effective also at the start of such a tendency.

As I have demonstrated above, we can find at the psychological level the

expressed perceptible dynamics of the miasmtic remedy by just following the

individual, proving the mathematical presence of a miasmtic tendency in a

population has a broad standard, at which level the treatment has a very defined

and more easily accessible standard (if the word “easy†can be used in this

context).

The movement of the miasmtic tendencies also indicates another practical usage

of such a model in following their dynamics in a precise definite way, and is a

valuable tool in showing their presence and movement in a defined population.

That requires most definitely an initial serious collective effort in

introducing regional random data to be processed for their precise mapping at

the global scale, and then to represent their movements in a spherical model.

The mechanism of action for the homeopathic remedies is already clear.

Succussion will increase an already functional memory that the substance is

eliciting by its presence in the water as a remedy, water being also the main

liquid in the human body.

Successive dilutions will increase the distance between the infinite numbers of

the possible statistical points inside the sphere, allowing the dynamic process

to be magnified to a higher degree than the similar dynamic process in the body

that is affecting the original perfection of the Vital Force. The Vital Force

will answer to the magnified artificial disease, as it is stronger,

“forgettingâ€

the similar disease movement inside itself as a corrupted functional memory.

Then the artificial disease is interrupted and the happiness is restored as the

one who created it left it.

Succussion increases the functional memory (the specific rotation of each point

around its own axis) as it is a dynamic memory (described by movement and also

by well defined characteristics) and dilution is making it adaptable on the

disease level, increasing at the same time the distance between the moving,

dynamic points.

The current concept about disease is able to see the monster using the same

calculations, but having no wings to fly into another dimension. Hence it is

just an active spectator of a statistical game that is taking place at the level

of the mathematically proven functional memory of the Vital Force.1,2

The only way to travel through the Ether is the truth that is there and nowhere

else, as we see through a simple mathematical function. At the individual level

it is an expression of the multidimensional (non dimensional) memory structure

of the collective subconscious, culminating with its supreme multidimensional

(non dimensional) expression, which is the self-consciousness. This will never

be explained by the DNA model as we imagine it today, which has it’s origins

in

itself with no causality, and stems from an original functional memory which

created the living Universe, and is described in its reasons as a need, the same

need that started everything.

Although being told during History through various ways and expressions that the

Beginning and The End, the Forever Living Universe, is his Father, the Human did

not fully understand that behind such a simple explanation can be his true

freedom and the end of his loneliness.11,12,14  An absolute freedom, bordering

and also including the negation of the Everything and also of the Nothing, which

shows how the ideas start at the virtual level, in the very depth of the

Universe, then filter through the collective subconscious, and find their final

expression in words at the individual level. In this way the words show as

being of real cosmic value. The peculiarly distorted words at the cosmic level,

showing as Dreams and Delusions, are either the start or the aggravation of

personal or collective tendencies, or else are the measure of a responsible

acknowledgement of their importance. In this case they are a measure of a

healing process that originates backwards, from the individual towards the

collective.

Considering the above freedom as being too dogmatic and " not enough,†the

Human

has started to split life from lifeless in the name of logical thinking based on

never ending proofs.

This arises from impatience and an immediate need of absolute power over the

world of whom he is the child, and which he needs to carefully understand.

11,12,14  This was the beginning of the Heavy Time, the History, the Pain and

Psora.

Based on immediate needs, he has started to create a new world without fully and

carefully understanding all the logical variants of the world on which he

resides, and on which he is developing this project.

Today, we see how non-dimensional, non-measurable life is restoring life inside

the Human body, showing in a very personal and common way that the border

between life and lifeless does not exist indeed at the non dimensional

informational level. A historical lesson, and a big hope from the Forever Living

Universe, which shows in a practical way the benefits of considering The

Creation as the starting point in any scientific judgment.1,2,5,12

It shows how the Forever Living Universe is opening with happiness His old gates

for His beloved children.

Happiness for everybody!

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Acknowledgement:

The author would like to thank Briggs, for his review of the English in

this paper, and for his inspiring mentorship, transferring to me his own deep

love for homeopathy. 

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