Creating Waves of Awareness
Bringing the Inner World to the Outer World: A Discussion of Personal Experiences on Lanthanide Remedies
I was going to post this in an existing part of the forum, but decided that this topic didn’t fit elsewhere … which (I’m getting the ‘shivers of realization’ right now, as it just dawned on me) is beautifully fitting (not to mention foreshadowing) for this discussion of our personal experiences taking Lanthanide remedies!
Praesodymium metallicum
I've currently been on Praesodymium metallicum 1M for several weeks, and was on Lanthanum metallicum 1M for about a month earlier this year. Both remedies (but, in particular, the Praesodymium) have had very significant effects with respect to further reawakening my intuition ...
I was a rigidly-analytical Systems Engineer before becoming an ND & Homeopath, so I'm well-aquainted with the mind of the sceptic, and don't want to come off as a total wackjob! So … let’s just say, as a prelude to my experiences with this remedy thus far, that I have noticed increasingly over the past few years that I can sense things that don’t seem objectively able to be sensed by others - manifesting, in particular, as visual and/or internal sensory experiences, and no doubt due to the action of several good remedies (particularly the two aforementioned Lanthanides I have tried) and the spiritual insight that those remedies have evoked.
My experiences seem to have a heavy visual component ... seeing what seem to be auras, as well as ... lines and (for lack of a better term) 'glowing reddish-blue blobs' (now I definitely sound like a nutjob!), which, as far as I can ascertain, seem to denote regions of stagnation (stuck Qi, perhaps?) in most people. If this feels like it’s the case (and don’t ask me how I know why it ‘feels’ this way … I’ll have to get back to you on that one!), I then move this stuck energy using gentle touch therapy like Bowen and Reiki, as well as though Intention techniques (or, more accurately, through my own unnamed hybrid of all of the above!).
Anyway, on taking my first dose of Pras-met 1M a few weeks ago, these lines and blobs (which could be considered energy meridians, I suppose, although they don’t seem to conform to the known acupuncture meridians) became much more noticeable overnight (the auras were quite noticeable for quite some time before then).
There's other stuff too ... I do muscle testing/applied kinesiology (although again my own weird hybrid version) to confirm remedies, and have noticed the increasing ease and accuracy I have since taking the Praesodymium in testing people from other cities or provinces just by thinking about them and the remedy ... you see, when a good remedy is tested, in addition to the varying strength of the muscle, I tend to get a noticeable shiver or tingle run up my extremities and/or back, and then up the occiput (kinda like the goosebumps one might get from listening to a really great song ... unless that's just me too!), finally settling near the lateral corners of my eyes. It’s an energy that’s both pleasantly distending and finely vibrating in character (a couple of years ago, I was frightened that I might have temporal arteritis - even though I'm like 50 years too young and have none of the signs! Thankfully, I dismissed this line of thinking before someone stuck me on a suppressive drug to eliminate my 'symptoms').
For the remainder of my first day after taking Praseodymium, I had this sensation continuously (although I usually do feel it as a distant background noise, this was far more pronounced) and when I was testing out a remedy or food that was not tolerated by a patient, what would have normally only been a mildly unpleasant discomfort before became a sharp twinge that then dissipated immediately when I stopped testing the offending item! Fortunately, this oversensitivity lessened by the end of the day …
… As did my penchant for destroying electronic devices ;) I kinda liked that part, actually … it was an objectively measureable phenomenon, unlike everything else which seemed to be largely internal phenomena. Over the rest of that first 24 hours on Praesodymium, the automatic transmission on my car somehow stalled (I didn’t know automatics could even do that!), I went shopping and had the electronic cash register break when I was ringing through my groceries, and I (very uncharacteristically) slept through my alarm that morning, then woke just as a brief city-wide power outage occurred (I was panicking for about 5 minutes, thinking I had slept in for hours and was late for work, until my housemates told me the power had just gone out when I had woken up, but that there had been no weird loud noises or anything that could have explained why this caused me to wake up … ).
Even more intriguing, a few hours prior to taking the remedy, I had received a letter from my car’s manufacturer (who will remain anonymous … no need to attract a lawsuit!) informing me that they had discovered the cruise control on my car (which is 15 years old, and never had a problem to date) was actually faulty and, although it was “extremely unlikely”, it could theoretically cause my car to spontaneously explode! OK, the letter technically used the euphemism “risk of fire”, but then said that they the manufacturer would not be held liable for “injury or death” if the car was not brought in for servicing in an “expedient and timely manner” … kinda like the injury or death one might suffer in an explosion! Needless to say, I found this whole scenario much funnier on the way to work that morning (before I had received the Praesodymium) than on the way back - after I had already stalled the car, broken a cash register, and finally started putting two and two together!
There’s actually more, but it’s starting to sound so weird and ‘woo-woo’ that even I’m starting to get a little sceptical of myself! More to the point, this post is already way too long for the Twitter generation, and I certainly don’t want to exiled from the HWC for breaking protocol (although, in true Lanthanide fashion, I consider ‘protocol’ to be a four-letter word!), so I’ll cut myself off here.
NB: I hope that the preceding material was not unsuitable for this forum or seen to be casting our profession in a negative light … I can understand why those seeking acceptance by or amalgamation with the allopathic medical community may have this view … although it continues to sadden me that anyone can remain sceptical of other energetic phenomena whilst having witnessed the incredible (and conventionally-inexplicable) results that can be manifested by our (allegedly-placebo) sugar pills!
- Dr. Andy Somody, B.Eng, C.C.H.(Can), N.D.
Praesodymium metallicum
I've currently been on Praesodymium metallicum 1M for several weeks, and was on Lanthanum metallicum 1M for about a month earlier this year. Both remedies (but, in particular, the Praesodymium) have had very significant effects with respect to further reawakening my intuition ...
I was a rigidly-analytical Systems Engineer before becoming an ND & Homeopath, so I'm well-aquainted with the mind of the sceptic, and don't want to come off as a total wackjob! So … let’s just say, as a prelude to my experiences with this remedy thus far, that I have noticed increasingly over the past few years that I can sense things that don’t seem objectively able to be sensed by others - manifesting, in particular, as visual and/or internal sensory experiences, and no doubt due to the action of several good remedies (particularly the two aforementioned Lanthanides I have tried) and the spiritual insight that those remedies have evoked.
My experiences seem to have a heavy visual component ... seeing what seem to be auras, as well as ... lines and (for lack of a better term) 'glowing reddish-blue blobs' (now I definitely sound like a nutjob!), which, as far as I can ascertain, seem to denote regions of stagnation (stuck Qi, perhaps?) in most people. If this feels like it’s the case (and don’t ask me how I know why it ‘feels’ this way … I’ll have to get back to you on that one!), I then move this stuck energy using gentle touch therapy like Bowen and Reiki, as well as though Intention techniques (or, more accurately, through my own unnamed hybrid of all of the above!).
Anyway, on taking my first dose of Pras-met 1M a few weeks ago, these lines and blobs (which could be considered energy meridians, I suppose, although they don’t seem to conform to the known acupuncture meridians) became much more noticeable overnight (the auras were quite noticeable for quite some time before then).
There's other stuff too ... I do muscle testing/applied kinesiology (although again my own weird hybrid version) to confirm remedies, and have noticed the increasing ease and accuracy I have since taking the Praesodymium in testing people from other cities or provinces just by thinking about them and the remedy ... you see, when a good remedy is tested, in addition to the varying strength of the muscle, I tend to get a noticeable shiver or tingle run up my extremities and/or back, and then up the occiput (kinda like the goosebumps one might get from listening to a really great song ... unless that's just me too!), finally settling near the lateral corners of my eyes. It’s an energy that’s both pleasantly distending and finely vibrating in character (a couple of years ago, I was frightened that I might have temporal arteritis - even though I'm like 50 years too young and have none of the signs! Thankfully, I dismissed this line of thinking before someone stuck me on a suppressive drug to eliminate my 'symptoms').
For the remainder of my first day after taking Praseodymium, I had this sensation continuously (although I usually do feel it as a distant background noise, this was far more pronounced) and when I was testing out a remedy or food that was not tolerated by a patient, what would have normally only been a mildly unpleasant discomfort before became a sharp twinge that then dissipated immediately when I stopped testing the offending item! Fortunately, this oversensitivity lessened by the end of the day …
… As did my penchant for destroying electronic devices ;) I kinda liked that part, actually … it was an objectively measureable phenomenon, unlike everything else which seemed to be largely internal phenomena. Over the rest of that first 24 hours on Praesodymium, the automatic transmission on my car somehow stalled (I didn’t know automatics could even do that!), I went shopping and had the electronic cash register break when I was ringing through my groceries, and I (very uncharacteristically) slept through my alarm that morning, then woke just as a brief city-wide power outage occurred (I was panicking for about 5 minutes, thinking I had slept in for hours and was late for work, until my housemates told me the power had just gone out when I had woken up, but that there had been no weird loud noises or anything that could have explained why this caused me to wake up … ).
Even more intriguing, a few hours prior to taking the remedy, I had received a letter from my car’s manufacturer (who will remain anonymous … no need to attract a lawsuit!) informing me that they had discovered the cruise control on my car (which is 15 years old, and never had a problem to date) was actually faulty and, although it was “extremely unlikely”, it could theoretically cause my car to spontaneously explode! OK, the letter technically used the euphemism “risk of fire”, but then said that they the manufacturer would not be held liable for “injury or death” if the car was not brought in for servicing in an “expedient and timely manner” … kinda like the injury or death one might suffer in an explosion! Needless to say, I found this whole scenario much funnier on the way to work that morning (before I had received the Praesodymium) than on the way back - after I had already stalled the car, broken a cash register, and finally started putting two and two together!
There’s actually more, but it’s starting to sound so weird and ‘woo-woo’ that even I’m starting to get a little sceptical of myself! More to the point, this post is already way too long for the Twitter generation, and I certainly don’t want to exiled from the HWC for breaking protocol (although, in true Lanthanide fashion, I consider ‘protocol’ to be a four-letter word!), so I’ll cut myself off here.
NB: I hope that the preceding material was not unsuitable for this forum or seen to be casting our profession in a negative light … I can understand why those seeking acceptance by or amalgamation with the allopathic medical community may have this view … although it continues to sadden me that anyone can remain sceptical of other energetic phenomena whilst having witnessed the incredible (and conventionally-inexplicable) results that can be manifested by our (allegedly-placebo) sugar pills!
- Dr. Andy Somody, B.Eng, C.C.H.(Can), N.D.
Tags: 6th, alone, applied, arteritis, autoimmune, autonomy, back, blobs, breaking, cash
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Permalink Reply by Mardi Biernat on -
Very nice! Thank you for sharing Andy! I would love to hear about your follow up.
Best,
Mardi
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Permalink Reply by Rochelle Marsden on -
Thanks for your insights Andy. I have a patient who has been on Praeso Fl for a few months now. I am seeing him next week so will ask if he has had any electrical disturbances.
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Andy Somody B.Eng CCH(Ca) ND on -
And thank you for the vote of encouragement (you know us stage 5 people ... we need all the encouragement we can get!), as well as being the only other engineer-turned-homeopath that I've ever even heard of!
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Permalink Reply by Stephanie Nile on -
Dear Dr. Andy,
According to Child Psychologist, Virginia Satir ...
"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family".
Its sounds like she is talking about Stage 5, doesn't it!
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Permalink Reply by Debby Bruck on -
Dear Andy. Is this a proving response, or what? Just so long as you don't explode all over HWC you may stay a while. :-)
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Andy Somody B.Eng CCH(Ca) ND on
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:)
While I've considered the proving possibility (particularly during the first couple days of crazy electrical activity!), there are subjective and objective reasons to suggest that this was probably a bad aggravation instead ... :
1. Aggravation-Amelioration pattern
a. The sensations and symptoms experienced during that initial 2-day period represented an intensification of a pre-existing underlying sensation, rather than an emergence of something new. And yes, this includes the electrical stuff … after a lifetime of having essentially no computer problems, and almost 2-years of using my laptop without incident, I began to destroy this laptop several times in a row for apparently no reason other than touching it … I would get laptop serviced (thank god it was still under warranty!) for increasingly more severe and complex problems, culminating in no-less-than-three motherboard replacements, after each of which I’d have the computer for a few hours to a day before it would spontaneously die again. I kept trying to convince the manufacturer that there must be something so intrinsically wrong with this model that even a complete replacement of the hardware didn’t work, and they eventually conceded that, as improbable as this was, it was certainly more probable than that the computer was spontaneously dying simply from being in my presence! Little did they know … ;)
b. On the other side of the coin, while my sensations have remained unchanged in character relative to my pre-remedy baseline, they have definitely decreased in intensity.
2. Sleep patterns
a. Much like after the three other good remedies I have received in the past (Olibanum sacrum, Lanthanum & Positronium), I felt increasingly sleepy for the remainder of my first day on the remedy, and slept like a dog that evening
3. Semantics
a. In a larger sense, pondering my reaction to the Praesodymium has caused me to question whether the distinction between aggravation and proving is as wide as our classical definitions would suggest. I realize that the fundamental difference in theory is that an aggravation is an exacerbation of existing symptoms which typically is followed by an amelioration, or reduction in severity, intensity or effect of those symptoms, while a proving is a development of completely new symptoms. However, at their core, both an aggravation and a proving demonstrate that, within an individual, a susceptibility to the given remedy exists. Whether that susceptibility allows the person to heal (by aggravating and then ameliorating pre-existing symptoms) or pushes the person towards the development of those symptoms is, IMHO, more a factor of where they lie on that remedy’s axis of activity; however, if the remedy is to act on them at all, they must first have the requisite susceptibility. I don’t know about everyone else, but there are some remedies that I can touch (or even take … something I thankfully don’t do with random remedies very much!), and which make me feel absolutely nothing. Then there are others which cause me to feel something viscerally just by moving my hand towards the remedy vial, or even by simply thinking about the remedy in question. This suggests to me that susceptibility to a remedy state is required for it to elicit any effect on an individual, regardless of whether that effect be proving or aggravation-amelioration; it then follows, IMHO, that provings and aggravations are two sides of the same coin, and that both can consequently be viewed as early markers of an ultimately healing reaction. This, of course, dovetails with an observation that can be traced back to Hanhemann himself – that those who participated in many provings ultimately seemed to enjoy a longer and better quality of life. As a slight extension of this, I would imagine that the only people who wouldn’t benefit from participating in a proving would be those who experienced no reaction, but since this presumably implies that they do not have any susceptibility along the axis of activity of that remedy, they would not have needed whatever help the remedy could have provided in the first place! This also appears to agree with a concept that I have seen taught in many homeopathic circles and which I personally resonate highly with – that a new remedy should only be given when the patient is stuck in a certain state of reactivity or symptomatology, and that conversely movement and change imply health or at least the move towards health. From this viewpoint, it again can be derived that the provers who express proving symptoms are ultimately being moved towards greater health, while those who don’t experience anything are not being helped by it – and therefore need a different remedy!
Wow, I got a little carried away there with that overly wordy and philosophical digression … what was my point again? I guess just that, if aggravations and provings can truly be seen as two sides of the same coin, then the issue of whether I had an aggravation or proving is really one of semantics. And yet I chose to fight semantics with semantics … how very homeopathic of me … :)
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Permalink Reply by Stephanie Nile on
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Dr. Andy you said: This suggests to me that susceptibility to a remedy state is required for it to elicit any effect on an individual
> This seems to be a very significant observation to me too. If there is nothing to heal the remedy just passes right through us. It's not a "worthless" reaction though ... one way to read it could be that since we have no issues in common with that remedy we have already accomplished that ground. In that case a NULL response could be read as a "congratulations you've passed - so move on to the next series or stage".
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Andy Somody B.Eng CCH(Ca) ND on
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Woah ... someone actually read my thesis-dissertation-sized reply ... this community continues to impress me ... ;)
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Permalink Reply by Sam Adkins on
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I completely agree with Stephanie's way of putting it. Since our prescribing is based on like cures like, then when a remedy is given with no similarity (ie nothing to cure), and since we believe (and the new physics is gradually being able to prove), that our medicines are energetic in their nature, then the inputted energy from the remedy 'meets' the patient's energy , they interact, nothing is needed from that new energetic stimulus, and the energy disperses, changes or whatever. Unrequired remedies are like taking nothing in effect, UNLESS as you say Andy, there is an inherent susceptibility to that remedy. This is where your proving vs aggravation points sit. I would like to add something to the points you articulately raise (and I very much enjoyed reading).....
I know from very personal experience and from my patients that some individuals are just so very sensitive that they can indeed prove almost anything:) So in their cases, a proving IS just that and does not indicate progress on their path to better health....in fact sometimes quite the contrary. As a student years ago, I wrote a thesis on how to recognise these patients because I think they are very difficult to spot in advance! In their case it is VERY important how they are treated as mistakes are not easily rectified.,
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Andy Somody B.Eng CCH(Ca) ND on
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I agree for the most part with what you've said ... I've seen many sensitive patients (including the Plutonium nitricum patient to whom I compared the Leaky Gut lady ... you know, the one over at:
http://www.homeopathyworldcommunity.com/group/casesforhomeopathicdi...
I have the same experience that some patients seem to have a wide range of susceptibility to pretty much everything ... I know Morrison has considered this to be a key feature of organic compound remedies, which seems to agree with my clinical experience in some (but certainly not all) cases.
I'm not sure what you mean by the last part of your comment, however ("So in their cases, a proving IS just that and does not indicate progress on their path to better health....in fact sometimes quite the contrary ... In their case it is VERY important how they are treated as mistakes are not easily rectified."), which I why I couldn't "fully" agree with your comment until I really understood it ...
Do you mean that this idea of 'spoiling cases' has held true for you in practice?
That's a concept that has personally never resonated with me, and I know that Scholten & Sankaran have both spoken against it at times ... but it could still be true, of course.
It seems IMHO to be a difficult one to prove either way ...
I mean, if we try to treat a case and are continually unsuccessful, aggravating the patient with every prescription, we can conclude that the patient is probably very sensitive, as well as that:
a. The case has been 'spoiled' by an earlier prescription, or
b. There's some kinda 'obstacle to cure', or
c. We haven't yet found the right prescription!
(d. ... or something else I haven't thought of ... I'm sure I'm missing something ...)
Point c). was what I really wanted to emphasize, anyway ... if a patient's severely aggravated by every remedy I give them, then I treat this as sign that I just haven't given them a really good one yet ... or I've been using the wrong posology ...
This posology point is actually pretty crucial for sensitive people ... my Plut-n patient, for instance, can only hold her remedy for several minutes at a time ... in the early minutes, she have her heavy / destructive / explosive / apocalyptic sensations removed, until it reaches a 'sweet spot', from which she starts to get those feelings coming back if she continues to hold the remedy (proving).
She tried olfacting her remedy once ... big mistake ;) But the mighty aggravation that came then receeded - her case wasn't totally lost from that point onward ... in fact, she probably healed faster than she was earlier ... albeit with some tough times in the early days ...
Continuing on the posology bit ... it seems to me that a lot of these sensitive people live at delusion, sensation or energy level, and correspondingly need remedies from the 1M + range ...
Yet I know practitioners who instead give these people the lowest potencies they can find (6's or 30's) in the name of minimizing an aggravation ... perhaps if these patients were put on potencies that correspond to their state, they wouldn't get so crazy-aggravated?
Just my two cents :) Any more info you can share on this subject (with a paper under your belt, you've obviously got the topical expertise!) would be greatly appreciated.
- Andy
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Permalink Reply by Stephanie Nile on
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> Andy,
Re: Sensitivity
I tried a range of high potencies for an Achilles Tendonitis case ... the results were very up and down (amel then agg) until I gave Colchicum (Saffron) @ LM1. Saffron is by nature a very, very sensitive type of person/remedy so it seems to be a nice fit.
I don't know much about Plutonium, but its interesting to speculate...
How exactly do we (Homeopathically) use a substance that has a high rate of spontaineous fission and is used in nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors? Would taking Plut 30c be like camping out on a Nuclear Dump for a month?
So I'm wondering if its really a potency problem per se. Could it be a matter of learning how to handle substances that are by nature very reactive (in a lead lined vial?). I'v heard one practioner say she wouldnt keep Plutonium on the premesis.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Andrews on
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Hi Sam,
Would love a copy of your thesis if it is available.
Lots of love,
Mike
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