Tela araneaeSpider Web

The elegant translucent web of the spider has, for millennia, represented the concept of interconnectedness. We speak of the web of life.

Chief Seattle, chief of the Suquamish Indians wrote in a

letter to the American government when they wanted to purchase

land from him:

“This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”

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Indra’s Net

“Imagine a multidimensional spider’s web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.”

Alan Watts.

Grandmother Spider

She who weaves the world with her web

Dew net

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An Ancient Remedy

HemostaticWound dressing

Intermittent feversAsthma and tubercular cough

Homeopathic UsesRemedy for sleeplessness

(physical dose)

“produced a calm and delightful state of feeling, followed by a disposition to sleep." "The most delicious tranquillity, resembling the action of

opium, and followed by no bad effects.”

Clarke

Anshutz from a paper published by Dr. S.A. Jones in 1876

for intermittant fevers, spasms, & asthma(physical substance)

BoerickeCardiac sleeplessness, increased muscular energy. Excitement and nervous agitation in febrile states. Dry asthma, harassing coughs; periodic headaches with EXTREME NERVOUS ERETHISM. OBSTINATE INTERMITTENTS. Acts immediately on arterial system, pulse full, strong, compressible. Lowers pulse rate frequency. Masked periodical diseases, hectic, broken down patients. Symptoms come on SUDDENLY with cool, CLAMMY skin. Numbness of hands and legs when at rest. CONTINUED CHILLINESS.

Christopher SowtonProving 2002

ThemesGetting sick, heat, foggy Frigid, spaced out, catching cold, flu

Not Welcomed, wanting to be included, teenager Feeling left behind, like an intruder, awkward, wanting to be part of the group

Tela Themes (Sowton proving)

Desperate living conditions, end of the world Lost on a desert island, lost in a big city, dark existence, rations, nuclear war.

Biting, stabbing Knives, vampires, fear of being bitten

Restaurants Having a bad experience in a restaurant.

Tela themes (Sowton proving)

Unable to communicate Separate from others, no one answered the phone, negative communications, unable to verbalize, clairsentient but not verbal, watching from the periphery.

Disconnection of upper/lower, awkward Dizzy as if disconnected, top and bottom half of body disconnected, cannot connect with legs, feel lonely, cold, and disconnected.

Sowton’s evaluation for prescribing

Incipient head colds

Foggy, flushed feeling in head

Sensation of disconnection between upper and lower parts of the body.

Feeling of not being included or rejection from a social gathering.(including sensitivity to seating arrangements)

Difficulty communicating or speaking.

Bad experience in a restaurant.

Spiderweb silk

• Contains 42% Glycine and 25 % Alanine depending on species

• Glycine improves sleep when taken at night.

• Glycine is an inhibitory neurotransmitter and plays an important role in synaptic plasticity - the ability of the connection, or synapse, to change in response to use or disuse of transmission over synaptic pathways.

Tela Theme

Connection/Disconnection

Interconnectedness

Making New Connections