OBITUARY 187

in ancient times, before thinking had become entirely abstract and lifeless, it still responded more immediate ly to the spiritual forces present in nature which the Greeks still perceived as the goddess Natura . But this immediacy of perception did not depend on individual effort or freedom. Man was in a way moved by these forces, swayed by them.

Now we have entered into the experience of the death forces and our current thinking is an expression of these forces. I f we are again to become able tc~ s tudy life and bring life again to the ageing, dying planet, we mus t enliven our own thinking so tha t it can observe the growth and metamorphosis of living forms. Then we m a y succeed to t ransform our death-promot ing technology into a life-restoring and renewing activity. I n medicine, our current scientific medicine and therapeutics, daily more technological in character, can only promote rigidity, sclerosis and death. Can we begirt to see how in the small beginning so far achieved by homceopathic medicine, a step towards a life- promoting and real healing has been taken. To develop this we must re-educate ourselves, but we must not tu rn our back on the pa th we have come in modern science. Through the achievement of Projective Geometry it has been made possible to reopen our perception of the subtler spiritual forces of the cosmos whilst keeping the clear light of waking consciousness. I n this way we can a t t e m p t to unders tand the problem presented by hem ceopathy and its potencies wi thout relapsing into mysticM dreaminess or phrase-mongering, bu t rather out of the strengthened consciousness and confidence tha t such inner activi ty can b r ing

R E F E R E N C E S

1 Adams, G. Potentization and the peripheral forces of nature. Br. Hem. J . , 1961; 50, 226~ 2 Schw011k, T. Sensi t ive Chaos. Tr. O. Whmhor and J. Wrigley. London: Rudolf Stoiner

Press, 1965.

Obituary 1)R. P. SANKARAN I t is with regret we have to record the death of Dr. P. Sankaran, a well-known Ind ian homceopathic physician. He was a devoted homceopath who contributed much to his count ry and wrote m a n y papers on a wide var ie ty of subjects related to homceopathic philosophy, research and ma te r i a medica. Many of these were published by the Homceopathic Medical Publishers in B o m b a y in the 1960s, and Dr. Sankaran also contr ibuted a number of papers to the ]3R.ITISH HOM(EOPATHIC JOURNAL.

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