MINI COURSE THE VITAL APPROACH

DISEASE ACCORDING TO THE ORGANON

•The organon states that “A disturbed vital force produces changes in the state of the mind and the body”

•This means the source of the disease must be beyond mind and body

•Hence disease is situated on a vital level

LEVEL ONE: THE PHYSICAL BODY

•The tangible and visible physical body is the most dense of our ‘bodies’

• It can be examined, weighted, touched, scanned, measured (quantified) from the inside and the outside

•Diseases on level one could be caused by deficiencies, poisonings, injuries…and must be treated accordingly

LEVEL ONE: THE PHYSICAL BODY

•All the other physical ailments are expressions of a vital disturbance

•Taking away the symptoms = taking away the expressions= suppression

•Suppression of these can be done with toxic or non-toxic products

LEVEL TWO: THE ENERGETIC BODY

• It is the energetic aspect of het physical body

• It resonates with the second dimension, this means, the elements, the ores, stones, crystals, bacteria and virusses

• It needs to be fed as well as the physical body

LEVEL TWO: THE ENERGETIC BODY

•The possible disturbances are in the amount, the distribution or the nature of the energy

•This corresponds to the psoric, sycotic or syphilitic tendencies or Hahnemannian miasms

•It has an individual and a collective aspect

LEVEL THREE: THE EMOTIONAL BODY

•It contains all common human emotions: grief, anger, guilt, shame, fear, doubt, envy, irritation, hope, despair, sadness, mortification…

•But the mixture and intensity differ according to personal history and personality traits

LEVEL THREE: THE EMOTIONAL BODY

•The personality is the result of social and cultural background, intelligence, education, inherited characteristics and family history, events and life situation, etc.

•When the vital level is disturbed the emotions are troubled as well

•They are not the source but the effect of the disease

LEVEL FOUR: THE MENTAL BODY

• The psyche has three layers:

•Conscious: rational analytical mind

•Subconscious: the realm of taboos, too painful emotions, forbidden desires and delusions

•Unconscious: story of humanity told in myths, fairytales, allegories, symbols and legends

LEVEL FOUR: THE MENTAL BODY

Everybody has a mind but not everybody is a mental case !

•Our “conditions to be OK” are the limitations to our freedom and thus: disease

• The outside world reflects the inner world

• In fact there is nobody out there… (phenomenological point of view)

LEVEL FIVE: THE VITAL BODY

• The most individual experience of the Self and thus the world

• As individual as one’s face, DNA, fingerprints…

• It is similar to the sensation level of Sankaran (who uses 7 levels: Name, Fact, Emotional, Mental, Sensation, Energy/Source/ Substance and number 7.

LEVEL FIVE: THE VITAL BODY

•Not a product of the mind but the matrix that shapes thoughts, emotions, vitality and physical functions and actions

•Everybody has a sensation but it is only experienced when disturbed

•This is analogous to the physical body

WHAT IF SOMEONE CAN’T EXPRESS THIS VITAL

SENSATION?

Here’s the good news: The vital sensation is on all levels all of the

time!

All you have to do is discern between what is local and what is vital

THIS IS VITAL

•Level 1: what doesn’t belong to the pathology belongs to the patient

•Level 2: all disturbances in energy supply, nature or function (generalities)

•Level 3: what is not explained by the ‘story’ or the personality; vital is how the story is experienced

THIS IS VITAL

•Level 4: subconscious information revealed in dreams, fears, phobia’s, fascinations, hobbies…

•Level 5: the deep experience of emptiness, survival, specific sensitivity, illhealth…

The pattern

From level 5 we can determine the kingdomLevel 4 gives miasm informationLevel 1 and 2 together give individualized pathology (with modalities and generalities)Level 3 gives peculiar emotional reactions Together they all point in the same directionOr: SRP sx from different levels, periods, examples, form a coherent pattern Symptoms one level are local, on more levels vital