November 27, 2023 • 37 mins
Homeopath Jerry M. Kantor shares his new book, The Emotional Roots of Chronic Illness: Homeopathy for Existential Stress.
Jerry M. Kantor’s book explores the link between emotions and physical health. It presents diagnostic insight, successful case studies, and specific homeopathic remedies that demonstrate the connection between the Five Elements and Phase Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the five classical miasms of homeopathy. The book also correlates these miasms with core existential quandaries.
How to change the subconscious patterns underlying chronic Illness
Explains how to use prominent emotional and physical symptoms to determine the core existential stress underlying one’s chronic illness. Introduces five questions linking homeopathy’s five miasms and Traditional Chinese Medicine’s Five Phases.• Presents homeopathic remedies connected to specific existential quandaries and explains their indications through detailed examples from the author’s practice addition to physical ailments, homeopathy offers remedies for existential causes of chronic illness, known as “miasms.”
In his book, Jerry M. Kantor sheds light on the crucial connection between emotions and their physical impact on the body. He provides readers with diagnostic insights, case studies, and effective homeopathic remedies that can help mitigate the harmful effects of emotional imbalances. Kantor also draws parallels between the five classical miasms and the Five Elements and Phase Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine.He describes how each inborn foundational emotion serves as a tool designed to solve stress-related problems, but overuse of any one tool can lead to self-sabotaging imbalances.By identifying the default emotional response and accompanying physical symptoms, Kantor explains how one can determine the core existential stress or hereditary pattern underlying a chronic illness. The author then presents homeopathic remedies to alleviate the impact of specific existential quandaries for each of the five classical miasms and their associated physical and emotional conditions. He illustrates his points with detailed examples from his practice.
We talk about
Jerry M. Kantor, L.Ac., CCH, MMHS, is a faculty member of the Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine and owner of Vital Force Health Care LLC, a Boston-area homeopathy and acupuncture practice. The first acupuncturist to receive an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Anaesthesiology, Kantor is the author of Sane Asylums, Interpreting Chronic Illness, The Toxic Relationship Cure, and Autism Reversal Toolbox. He lives in Dedham, Massachusetts.
https://vitalforcehealthcare.com
https://rightwhalepress.com
Jerry M. Kantor’s book explores the link between emotions and physical health. It presents diagnostic insight, successful case studies, and specific homeopathic remedies that demonstrate the connection between the Five Elements and Phase Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the five classical miasms of homeopathy. The book also correlates these miasms with core existential quandaries.
How to change the subconscious patterns underlying chronic Illness
Explains how to use prominent emotional and physical symptoms to determine the core existential stress underlying one’s chronic illness. Introduces five questions linking homeopathy’s five miasms and Traditional Chinese Medicine’s Five Phases.• Presents homeopathic remedies connected to specific existential quandaries and explains their indications through detailed examples from the author’s practice addition to physical ailments, homeopathy offers remedies for existential causes of chronic illness, known as “miasms.”
In his book, Jerry M. Kantor sheds light on the crucial connection between emotions and their physical impact on the body. He provides readers with diagnostic insights, case studies, and effective homeopathic remedies that can help mitigate the harmful effects of emotional imbalances. Kantor also draws parallels between the five classical miasms and the Five Elements and Phase Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine.He describes how each inborn foundational emotion serves as a tool designed to solve stress-related problems, but overuse of any one tool can lead to self-sabotaging imbalances.By identifying the default emotional response and accompanying physical symptoms, Kantor explains how one can determine the core existential stress or hereditary pattern underlying a chronic illness. The author then presents homeopathic remedies to alleviate the impact of specific existential quandaries for each of the five classical miasms and their associated physical and emotional conditions. He illustrates his points with detailed examples from his practice.
We talk about
- The five core existential questions
- Existentially induced illness
- Inborn toolkit of emotions
- Homeopathic remedies and existential stress
- Miasma and illness
Jerry M. Kantor, L.Ac., CCH, MMHS, is a faculty member of the Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine and owner of Vital Force Health Care LLC, a Boston-area homeopathy and acupuncture practice. The first acupuncturist to receive an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Anaesthesiology, Kantor is the author of Sane Asylums, Interpreting Chronic Illness, The Toxic Relationship Cure, and Autism Reversal Toolbox. He lives in Dedham, Massachusetts.
https://vitalforcehealthcare.com
https://rightwhalepress.com
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Welcome to the Overrate, the ConsciousTransforming podcast for exceptional twenty first such you
Living. We have a very excitingshow. They were speaking with Jerry M.
Kantor and his book is The EmotionalRoots of Chronic Illness Homeopath for Extential
Stress and he's taken a very interestingtwist folks on chronic illness and stress and
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and LinkedIn in my guest Today.Jerry mcantor is a faculty member of the
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Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine and ownerof vital Force Healthcare LLC. A Boston
area homeopathy and acupuncture practice, thefirst acupuncture to receive an academic appointment at
Harvard's Medical Schools Department of Anesthesiology.Canter is the author of six books,
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including the one we're talking about today, which is The Emotional Roots of Chronic
Illness. Welcome, Jerry, Hey, welcome, Thank you very much for
having me. Hey, it's greatto have you, and folks, you
can check him out at his websiteand that's Vitalforcehealthcare dot com. Again,
Vitalforce Hehealthcare dot com. Well,Jerry, thank you for agreeing to come
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on this show. And let's justjump right into it. What is existentialism,
Well, existentialism is a philosophy.It came out of World War Two.
At the end of World War two, and when all the horrors of
that were exposed, there had tobe some kind of a posture created to
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deal with the unimaginable horrors that tookplace. It's kind of a rebellion against
any kind of traditional you know,believing it's situational ethics. I suppose that's
one thing. Nowadays we're using thatword all the time, saying, well,
climate change is an existential stress,existential problem. Meaning. Basically,
we're using it to say, Ohmy God, we're I gonna die.
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That's not what's that's not what theThe meaning of it is is a branch
of existentialism that goes into psychology.It's really basically a search for meaning.
It's a search for meaning. Why, why are we alive? What's going
on here? What's the point ofeverything? And that has an expression in
literature and the works of Satra Beckett, his plays, for example, Waiting
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for Godot, But it basically isin psychology. It's it's a way of
helping people through almost unimaginable problems bytrying to find personal meaning. In my
work, I have. What I'vedone is I've co I'm kind of a
medical philosopher myself, and I inmy work, I have created a synthesis
between traditional Chinese medicine, which isacupuncture and herbs, homeopathy and conventional medicine.
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So I made I've created a systemwhere they're all combined very succinctly,
And in doing that, I've developedfive existential questions that connect deeply with the
theories of Chinese medicine and homeopthy specificallywhat's called sismatic theory. And existentialism.
That's the short answer to it.That word, as I say, it's
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just come into currency. But peoplepeople basically think, oh my god,
we're going to die, is whatit means. But it really means,
yeah, well everyone's going to dieanyway. But what's the meaning of my
life? What should I be?What should I be doing with my life?
And these questions really burden me.And in my book, I can
show how the inability to resolve thetension within these five core existential questions is
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the is the groundwork for chronic illness. Okay, that's the bad news,
but the good news is that theirhomeopathic remedies specifically connected to those individual dilemmas
that can help us not only becomeattain better health, but also gain perspective
and on the life situation. Sookay, that's the answer to that.
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Well, thank you, pretty indepth answer. So share with us the
five core existential questions you want tohear, the five existential questions? Okay,
and these each one of these tiesinto what in Chinese medicine is considered
one of the five elements it tiesinto. In homeopathy, one of the
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five classical miasms also ties into eachof the five senses. So I've done
a critter an analysis called the sensedimensional analysis, which talks about the senses
in kind of this existential and philosophicalway. Okay, the first one is
am I in synchrony with nature andwith others, and that pertains in biology
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to the circulatory system, basically inthe heart. The second one is my
existence on Earth sustainable, and thatties into the metabolic system. The third
one is am I oriented in timeand space, and that relates to our
sense of identity. Who am I? Am I? Am I centered as
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my breathing good for example, tetheredto the past in terms of being stuck
into grief. The fourth one isprobably the heaviest one. Can the boundary
between life and death be abided soeverybody people can think about existentialisms. They
think, what's the meaning of life, what's the meaning of death? And
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in Homeopothy, there are remedies thatcan address situations whereby you earned flight from
death. And so for example,you would lose yourself materialism in sex,
in glamour because you're actually terrified ofdeath. You're just sidestepping all that.
And on the other side of that, above that line Okay, you accept
death, But now your concerned isyour legacy? What's going to come after
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that? And you know what willI leave from my life? And if
you're overly concerned with that on thatside of the border, that also presumes
can contribute to a susceptibility to illness. And the fifth one is what the
insurrection of my birth fruitful? Solooking taking the long view, you know
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we don't just want to sit onlife is not just about sitting pina coladas
on the beach. At the endof our life, you want to look
back and say, gee, didI make any difference in this world?
And so from this point of view, you know, the world was going
along perfectly fine until you came along. And now your birth is an insurrection
against the status quo? Have youmade a difference in this world? And
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I like to point out that thefounder of homeopathy, Samuel Hahneman, who
was a tremendous genius and who himselfmounted a huge insurrection against the medical status
quo, has this statue in Washington, d C. I think he's the
only foreigner to have this wonderful memorialstatue there, and on it it says
in Latin, I didn't live inVain, so this question was very important
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to him. So all those fivequestions, they have subcategories that sub sub
there are, yeah, subcategories ofthose five questions are attached to many,
you know, the homeopathic remedies thatI analyze, and so those are the
themes of those remedies and they pertainto the conditions that those remedies treat.
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Okay, Now, in your book, you talk about different conditions that people
have. So one I don't rememberexactly the remedy for it, but it
was like neuropathy and fibromyalgia and stufflike that. So how does where does
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that come from? How does onebring that into their psyche into their world?
Okay, I've got to say,first of all, in homeopathy,
it's not diagnosis driven. So youcan have a diagnosis like fibromyalgia or myopathy
or something that's just a starting point. I mean, there are going to
be dozens and dozens of remedies foreach of those conditions. And I put
the word condition in quotation marks tosee your homeopath, we take your I
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do need to educate your audience.I think it's a very extensive, very
detailed process whereby we get to knowyou up and down, left to right,
just right from the beginning of yourlife, everything that's going on about
you. By the time you walkout of the office of someone like me,
you'd say, oh my god,that guy knows me better than anybody
I've ever known. And so jobis to deconstruct what your symptoms are.
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The symptoms matter very much, howyou use language, how you describe them,
and then kind of go very deeplyinto the situation until I identify kind
of the existential issue that maybe underliesthe whole thing. It's not going to
be at the conscious level, butbe subconscious. Let's answer your question.
Let's see a fibromyalgia remedy. I'mgoing to pick the remedy alumina, which
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is made from aluminum. So let'ssay people who need that. Someone might
come into my office who has numbnessand pain, pain in the hands and
feet. But in addition to that, they probably would have constipation and loss
of sensation. So in the courseof that, I mean, people are
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not machines. I can't just,you know, off the shelf pick a
remedy based on that. But whathappened is if a person needs alumina,
they will have an issue with Iwould call the compromise of the will.
It would turn out that someone likethis has been too many times put into
situations where he or she has beenforced to make a decision she didn't want
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to make, didn't like her choices, just was forced to do something over
and over again that she didn't wantto do. And a keynote for that
would be not wanting to be rushed. Now, I don't think anybody likes
to be rushed, but for someonewho needs the remedy aluminum, I say,
what's it like for you to berushed? They say, I can't
stand that. I absolutely my hotnumber number one hot button. I cannot
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stand to be rushed. Because thatquestion gets to the fact that they've been
putting them situations where they they're forcedto make some decision on the spur of
the moment pretty quickly, and they'rejust not ready. And I can deconstruct
their constipation too in those terms.They have a stool that doesn't want to
come out. It does not wantto do us ready. Okay, you
know, we also say that we'rehuman beings, right, but the lesson
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of this particular remedy is we're actuallymore human doings. What we are has
a lot to do with what wedo, and that's our identity. So
people who need that remedy they havethey get fuzzy headed as well. They
have problems with the reference and theymay be in the incipient stages of Alzheimer's
disease because of this loss of reference. So the loss of reference pertains to
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one of my existential questions, wheream I in time and space? They
have lost their reference, they don'tknow where they are. So I've tied
a lot of things together with thatparticular remedy. Person may have come in
with just what they think is thephysical problem. I don't. I'm losing
sensation in my hands and feet,my energy is low. But in the
course of taking my doing, goingthrough my intake, maybe this one would
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come up. And in addition totreating that, you know, the remedy
would help that person to find thissense of identity and overcome the problem that's
that's really deeply ingrained, that they'vebeen forced too many times to do something
that they don't want to do.Okay, So as you are working with
someone and you're putting them through thisprocess that you go through, do you
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ever find someone saying like no andjust rebelling because they can't get to or
understand where you're truly coming from tohelp them. Oh, people are as
I said, we're working and workingat the level of the subconscious. Yeah.
Many times they can't tell me what'sthe problem is. And my job,
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quite frankly, is to figure out, you know, paying more attention
to what they're not saying than whatthey're saying. That's information in itself,
in addition to which the symptoms talk. My job is to deconstruct the symptoms
so that I understand what the bodyis saying. So I have this adage
that acute illness detoxifies us, youknow, believe it or not. I
mean, it's no fun to beacutely ill. But the episode has a
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beginning, of middle, and anend, and it means that our vital
force or our immune system has identifieda pathogen or an emotional insult, mobilized
against it and fought it off.To me back the baseline or maybe a
little bit better. Chronic illness,though, is not good. I mean
that means you've got good days andbad days, but the problem is always
there and your body through the psycheis telling the outside world and you yourself
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at some level what this problem is. And so those symptoms are a complaint
coming from a deep into psyche,and my job is to identify them.
As I say, if someone comesand says I've got constipation, going back
to the Alumina clients. Only inthe case of someone like that, where
I've got all this other information,can I deconstruct that symptom and connect it,
you know, with it not wantingto be rushed. That's what that
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symptom is saying, don't rush me, just do a letting when to come
out, you know. And alsothe hands and feet not having sensation,
all right, so how do wemanifest our will in the world with our
hands? Right, we actually changethe world. If your hands are not
are are not manifesting sensation? Thiscan be deconstructed to and explained. You
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know, I'm not able to manifestmy will in the world. So even
though the person's not maybe not betelling that, that would be a clue
for me that I can then pursuein my questions, and I can.
I'll start find I'll go down thatroad. I'll say, have you ever
been uh ever had a problem anyever ever had ever been forced to make
a decision you don't want to make? Have you ever been put in a
situation we don't like your choices?And the person who I pause and say,
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the story of my life? Youknow, this is and over again,
and then I'll you know, I'llconsider this particular remedy. But depending
on how the interview goes, thereare many, many other possibilities. But
yeah, people come in routinely,especially teenagers. They can't tell you a
darn thing about themselves. They justdon't have, you know, very much.
They're not particularly introspective, many ofthem, I wouldn't say, but
often people just say, I don'tknow, I don't know, I don't
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know. Then I've got I've gotto, you know, figure out how
to how to get the secret informationI call home up these spiritual forensics.
So I'm what I'm trying to findout is the spiritual reason behind under underlying
someone's chronic illness and their complaint,and that's how it works. Okay,
interesting, I really didn't understand homoyfrom that perspective, so thank you very
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much for sharing that. Now inthe book, you talk about a concept
and you have the inborn toolkit ofemotions. Talk to us about that,
because inborn gives me the feeling thatit's truly within us. It came in
when we came in, So talkto us about that. Oh, yeah,
that's that's a that's a fun topic. This comes directly from Chinese medicine.
Chinese medicine has a very simple kindof psychology. There are five core
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emotions and yeah, joy, grief, worry, terror, and anger.
Is that fun? H And that'sthat's kind of it. Well. I
believe that these core emotions are inour inborn toolkit in the sense that every
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tool is something we you know,we should use only when you need it
and then put it away when you'redone, and the tool should solve a
problem, and the emotions should doexactly the same thing. So it's a
mistake if someone says I never wantto be anxious or I or I you
know, I don't want to beangry, or it's note a mistake.
Would be like a carpenter who saysI'm only want to use my hammer today
that I hope everything works out,or I I can't stand my screwdriver,
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I'm just not going to use it. So it works like this, I
think The analogy is is very good. We have the sketch pad of happiness.
Okay. That means that to behappy means we have to have goals
we want to have. We havean idea about you know what, we're
gonna write down on our sketch padwhat we want to do, and that
makes us happy. Now, ifall you do is just think about what
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you want to do, you youknow, and and never put anything to
operation, you're over using your sketchpad. That's the only one you're using.
That's not good. Once you figureout what you should do, you
should put it. Put it away. Now if you if you feel your
life is pointless and you have nothingyou want to do, you're depressed,
well maybe then your sketch pad isall crumpled up and grind me in your
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pocketbook your or your or your youryeah, your your your pocket and their
remedies again for both sides of thatthat issue. And I could, if
I had time, I would gointo those remedies. The screw driver of
anxiety, the screw driver of anxiety. Mhmm. Sometime go into the remedies.
It's okay, we have time,Okay, Well, if if you
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need that their children, for example, who are feel that they're the center.
Well, this is actually a normalstate of affairs. Children are normally
optimistic and curious about things and wantto touch things. They're all over the
place. If you have an adultlike that who is kind of a mad
scientist type but doesn't you know,has all these ideas but can't put them
into action. That person is alsoif they need the remedy sulfur, likely
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to be have all kinds of skinproblems, you know, look look like
a mess, have bad hygiene.They're they need that remedy and be aggravated
by heat. They probably need theremedy sulfur, and that would bring them
into into balance. They just they'rethey're just their their mind is what matters.
But they haven't consolidated their minds.They're over using their sketch pad of
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happiness. If they need a remedylike CPIA and they feel depressed and it's
hopeless, I hope is hope hasbecome toxic to them. They it's often
which is a woman who's been hadtoo much resentment to disappointment and she just
doesn't want to you know, feelsflattened out. It's like in that case,
like her sketch pad of happiness isall crumbled up and grinding on the
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bottom of her purse. Should doany one? Should I do? Other
ones? Yeah? Do a couplemore please, Okay, I'll do the
screwdriver of anxiety. So we needto be anxious about things. If you're
in the forest and you're starving,for example, and you see a mushroom
there, your anxiety will prevent youfrom eating the whole mushroom. Maybe you
think the tiniest nibble of it,and even if it's toxic, it may
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not kill you. Then anxiety isuseful, you know. Performers use their
anxiety to create a high level ofperformance. If you if you but if
you constantly have your screwdriver out andeverything makes you anxious, you're overusing it.
If you're completely a reckless kind ofperson and you just never get anctioned
about anything that's not good either,And there are remedies on both sides of
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that, of that, of that, of that. The remedy our senicum
is for people who are you know, incredibly anxious, but it fuels a
high level of you know, perfectionismin them, and they just worry constantly
about their their loved ones, butit's debilitating and and they they need a
remedy like arsenicum so that they're notincapacitated by their anxiety. If they're completely
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reckless, they have a very verypowerful sense of adventuresusness, but they just
burn the candle at both ends.They take chances. Then they might need
another remedy like met rhinum that wouldagain bring them into balance. So that's
the screw driver of anxiety. Mmhmm. Let's see what we have next.
The I we'll talk about the hackssaw of sadness, the hacks saw
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of grief. If we've lost someoneand we had a law, you know,
someone's died important to us. Atsome point we have to cut ourselves
off from that loss and move on. If you if you can't do that,
you keep sawing away at it.Maybe you need a remedy like Paul
Sotilla where you're crying all the time. If you if you just don't cry.
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And there's some people who are justso numbed or feel like the loss
is so great that they cannot cry, then they might need a remedy like
natural mariaticum. Then they're not usingtheir hack saw at all. So there's
the heck, that's the hacksaw ofgrief. What have I left out?
Oh? The the plot of fear, Okay, and language is very useful
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monique. Right, we say we'llbecome gripped by fear. So the pliers
is the natural tool for that.You should be gripped by fear, just
so that you know just long enoughto know whether you should run or fight,
right, and then you put yourpliers away. And they are remedies
for people who are absolutely terrified.Everything terrifies them. They're overusing their pliers
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a fear maybe a remedy like Veratrumalbum. And then there's a remedy of
again people who are really fearless.And I would have to think that meta
rhyinan would come up for that oneagain also, but there are other other
remedies for people who are really kindof a bit reckless. Okay, But
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it's really not cookie cutter though,right, I mean you maybe combine a
combination of the different Yeah, andthis is a very simple model compared This
is like my introductory model, asI said, Chinese medicine and the five
inborn tools. The rest of thebook is about the bigger, you know,
a much bigger and much more complexpicture based on the existential implications of
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chronic illness. Other the last one, though, this is the most kind
of way, the most obvious,is the hammer of anger. Right,
we would absolutely identify a hammer withanger. So the nails sticking out,
You take your hammer and you smashit down. Then you put your hammer
away. Right, if you don'tuse it, you don't use it.
The hammer is really particularly interesting tome because it has this other end,
right, the claw. Now there'sa remedy close staffasagria, which is for
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people. Again, it's often womenbecause they've been brought up to be seen
and not heard. They are toldto be nice. If they raise their
voice or too obstruppers, they're calledbitches. So if that kind of person.
When I asked this question, ifyou after you blow your top get
angry, do you feel better orworse? She says, no, I
feel much worse. I feel guilty. It's terrible I should have done that.
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She is using the wrong end ofthe hammer, she's clawing away at
herself. And then her form ofanger is what I would call the dysfunctional
cousin of anger, which is vexationto be vexed, you know, shake,
I can't stand you know, it'sawful. It does not solve a
problem. All it does is hurtsyourself because you're suppressing your natural anger.
You should have a natural burst ofanger to solve a problem, or convert
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your anger into something creative so thatyou can you can, you can make
some hay out of that. Soanyway, there are people who are like
unfortunately yet them were you know,war veterans who come home who are PTSD
with have hair triggered hair trigger tempers. They're using the hammer, right,
So they're mad if you do somethingbad to them. But they're mad any
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if you just look at them funny. So they're using, over using the
hammer of anger. So there areremedies, very simple remedies on both sides
of that, and that ill illustratessomething, you know, rather basic.
But I find that's a useful,you know, very useful little model.
Okay, Well, how has orhas the COVID situation hurt or helped or
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how has it adjusted us? Idon't even want to say change, just
adjusted us. Wow, that's ahard question, I will say, as
opposed to Okay, Well, unfortunately, it's created an incredible climate of fear.
It's done some terrible things to us, right, it's it's handicapped in
entire generation of children who've lost twoyears of socialization. And basically it's it's
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it's it's it handicapped so many peoplewith out of fear. I mean,
I I believe in the body.The body is are basically our basic model.
Body has gotten us through ice agesand you know, centuries of difficulty
without without medication in particular, Imean because there are great advanceags that medicine
is brought brought about. But basicallywe have we are able to adjust to
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conditions the way a computer can beupdated. So there are there are conditions
that are they're affecting us that areprobably responsible for for COVID didn't come out
of nowhere, having to do withpollution, lower reduced oxygen levels in the
winter seasons, Uh, the radiationthat's constantly around us, and those those
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stresses will harm the most vulnerable ofus, absolutely, But by creating a
total climate of fear around it andthinking what does you know, what's what's
what's how are we going to dealwith this next? You know that that's
that's been a real problem. Sowe're much more vigilant, and unfortunately,
I don't think we've learned the reallyimportant lessons about this, like where did
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this thing come from? It's notout of the blue. We are definitely
introduced. We have many more environmentaltoxins that were exposed to their medications which
are causing us problems, making themore, the old, the weaker of
us even more vulnerable than normal normally. But we've also lost confidence in the
ability of the body to adjust todo these updates. And unfortunately, the
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thing that we absolutely need the mostthat can help us with us most might
be homeopathy, and that, asyou possibly know, has been the subject
of an intense attack by the pharmaceuticalindustry for one hundred and fifty years.
So that's unfortunate, and that's somethingI'm trying to u my best to repudiate.
O fact, I want to switchgears for a moment. When you,
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before we got on the air,were talking and you were saying something
regarding AI and the moose letter youput out, why don't you talk to
us about that because I'll include itin the show notes. I think it
was quite fascinating. I can't believewe got to that so quickly. Well,
I had this idea that the bigpharma could align itself with the artificial
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intelligence field to deal with the what'sgoing what's happening, and it's it sounds
like it's it's science fiction, butit absolutely is happening. You know,
the movies have long prophesized that robotswould come and they would take over the
planet, and this this is kindof an existential threat. It's happening,
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perhaps faster than we think. Theother day, a humanoid was made CEO
of a major company. Her nameis Micah. In twenty seventeen, a
humanoid, Sophia, got citizenship inSaudi Arabia. So convincing. These these
these these these humanoids. And it'snot just that we want something efficient and
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fast, we want them to belovable too. And all the movies,
the movie Her where the Waking Phoenixcharacter falls in love with the voice of
this assistant, a this AI assistantcreation of the humanoids, which was made
in eight nineteen sixty two, predictedall of this. I'm even thinking about
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Pinocchio, that that particular myth Pinocchio, the puppet that comes to life,
had to be fitted with an algorithmI mean, which is I can't lie.
So this is I'm being fancibule here. But the geppetto the woodclarver had
to kind of issue this algorithm inPinocchio, which enables him to come to
life. Anyway, the point isthat we want them to be lovable,
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right, we want them to belovable and relatable. So what's going to
have to happen in my imagination isthat they're going to have to be programmed
to have relatable features, which willalso include foibles and flaws and tempers,
and on top of which they're goingto actually be engaged with very very stressful
things. So my in my fantasy, I had them needings medicine, and
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so I created this, uh,this company called Automatous Pharmaceuticals, which is
responsible for it's aligned itself with oneof the major AI firms and also a
number of the big pharma companies anduh, it's it's got a five two
hundred million dollar market cap. Wow, And I have I have created the
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characters, the executives that I interviewwho tell tell me about what their plan
for this is and how they rationalizeit, and you know, when satire,
what you can do is take acompletely ridiculous idea and you present it
as as as convincingly as you possiblycan. And frankly, I sent it
out and quite a few people aretaken in. They think this has actually
happened, that the pharmaceutical industry isis going to be creating medications to treat
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mentally ill robots. And it cameI, it's maybe more prophetic than I
think, because well, I'll leavethat up to anybody reading it. Oh
yeah, well, I like thefact that you mentioned September thirty first,
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and yes, that was my giveaway. There is no such thing as September
thirty first, So the announcement cameout. I was hoping that give it
away. But you know, whenyou're writ satari, my wife said that
I should maybe put a disclaimer inthere or put an emoji in there.
No, and then you review,you deprive people of the pleasure of figuring
it out for themselves. And Ijust went to great lengths to make it
as absolutely believable as I can,and the discussion is very believable. I
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introduced the idea, I say tothe executives at one point, you know,
how about electroshock therapy that never workedout very well with human beings,
but for robots with all the circuitry, maybe that would be a better deal.
And the executive says to me,well, we found that when we
give electroshock therapy to robots they developa terrible metallic taste in the mouth.
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Okay, I think that's very funny, right, And then they say,
but and I came up with somethingcalled end of toall suicide tablets. Because
they're suffering so much, maybe whynot give them something to get them out
of their misery. And the executivessay, well, you know, give
us some credit. Our pharmaceuticals willbe so effective that we don't. We
think the need for something like thatwill be absolutely negligible. Next question,
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Well, that's very interesting. Ican't wait post it for everybody to see.
Now you mentioned this word earlier,miasthmas. What are they and how
are they related to what we're talkingabout? Oh my god, yeah,
okay, getting getting out of thefencible into the real. So there are
five diseases that homeopasts believe rampage throughthe population and left the traces on the
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descendants. So those are called miasms. It's an old word that comes from
the odor of the gutter or somethinglike that. So the maismatic remedy.
So those five diseases are something calledsora, which might be chlamydia. Actually
it means the itch, so primthe primal itch. That's the most obscure
one, I suppose, But that'swhen all the other miasms came from.
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The other ones are tuberculosis, cancer, and then to to sexually transmitted diseases
and additionditional ones gonrhea and syphilis.So everybody has someone in their background who's
had one of those things, andso the descendants inherit some of the features
of that. It's not the sameas having the disease, but they have
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certain features attached to those diseases,and they're also positive as well as negative.
So it's almost like an astrological picture. And each of those my maismatic
pictures has a no sod attached toit. So a remedy made from the
product of that disease that comes inhandy as a remedy, and there's also
you know, many many other remediesthat would come under that umbrella. And
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I as I say those five miasms, I relate to the five existential questions
that I've created. Okay, nowonly go to your website. Yeah,
best one would we go to interms of my writing would be right Whale
press dot com vital for the youknow, the right Whale r I G
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H T W H A l Ethe right Whale. So I have.
My publishing website is Rightwhale press dotcom. People can also find me by
looking for my for this book atthe at the Simon and Schuster website.
I would just say google the EmotionalRoots of Chronic Illness Jerry Canter, Simon
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and Schuster. You would see itcome up. Those books are sold everywhere.
My earlier book before this one,I'd like to give you a mention
is Both Saint Asylums Asylum the successof homeopathy before psychiatry lost its mind.
And that's a window into a completelyovershadowed part of American medical history, which
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was the predominance of homeopathic metal hospitalsin the United States from this, you
know, before this a War intothe early nineteen hundreds. They were utopian
facilities. They were absolutely wonderful andjust a very inconvenient truth to the pharmaceutical
community that they actually existed, especiallyin mental health world, so our not
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knowing about that has really reduced ourchoices for mental health care. Home me
up. These fantastic for treating mentalhealth problems, and these spectacular, utopian,
self sufficient homeopathic asylums were very,very popular and people should know about
them. So I would say people, should you know advice to, would
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be advised to look in my bookssaying asylums again at the Simon and Schuster
website. Google my name Saane AsylumsJerry Catcher and they'd find it there.
Okay, Well, he has atotal of six books, folks, So
if you've enjoyed what you've heard today, please do take a look at the
other books because he provides a wealthof information. I'm Jerry Tomas. Almost
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could you give us a pearl ofwisdom to leave with the audience today?
Please? Oh, my pearlo wisdom. I go back to one not just
so acute illness detoxifies, chronic illnessinforms let's try not to live our lives
based on fear. There is akind of medicine, it's homeopthy which not
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only can help you become healthy andprevent you from becoming illness but what's more
important, brings to you a senseof perspective and awareness so that you know
what's going on in your life.You become aware of the existential situation that
you're in. You know, we, as you put it yourself, Monique,
we are just spirits inhabiting a body. This is one way of exploring
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that that idea really in depth,getting familiar with the homeopathic tool that allows
us to make that a really meaningfulexplorer exploration. Okay, well, thank
you for sharing that. I knowthe audience appreciates it as do I I
really appreciate you being here with metoday and the information that you share.
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Jerry, thank you very very much. Thank you you're an excellent interview.
I can't believe I got all thatinformation out in this short amount of time.
And I wish you all the best, and I hope people continue to
profit by with your teacher. Well, thank you and for everyone, please
remember that the most important choice thatyou can make is what you choose to
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make important, and consider making themasterful choice of discovering the emotional roots of
your chronic illness. Upon the blessings, light and love to all. A copy
Welcome to the Overrate, the ConsciousTransforming podcast for exceptional twenty first such you
Living. We have a very excitingshow. They were speaking with Jerry M.
Kantor and his book is The EmotionalRoots of Chronic Illness Homeopath for Extential
Stress and he's taken a very interestingtwist folks on chronic illness and stress and
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I think you're going to find fascinating. I know that I did it and
open my eyes on many levels.And he even talks about AI, which
he'll get into a little bit furthernow. The information shared on over it
uses intuitive or pragmatic insight to helpyou shift your consciousness to break through blocks.
Everybody's energy that is no longer needed. Yes, we're going to help
you let go of the BS that'sbeen holding you back. But you guys
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know I always ask are you trulyready to? And by the way,
folks, BS is belief system.A bit about me from my new listener's
Intuitive since birth. I'm a thirdgeneration Intuitive but over three decades of experience
supporting people to break through the blocksalong their path. I'm a strategist for
personal and professional transformation. Read cuttingedge information that enables you to prosper and
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thrive. I spent twenty five successfulyears in corporate America as an executive sales
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Education network of five O one Cthree nonprofit provide consultations and healings in all
areas of life that heal the mind, body, spirit connection, allowing you
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to live your very best life now. My clients tell me that I keep
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a spirit living in human existence.But they also say, if you really
don't want to know, don't askMonique. My background includes a doctorate metaphysics,
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Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine and ownerof vital Force Healthcare LLC. A Boston
area homeopathy and acupuncture practice, thefirst acupuncture to receive an academic appointment at
Harvard's Medical Schools Department of Anesthesiology.Canter is the author of six books,
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including the one we're talking about today, which is The Emotional Roots of Chronic
Illness. Welcome, Jerry, Hey, welcome, Thank you very much for
having me. Hey, it's greatto have you, and folks, you
can check him out at his websiteand that's Vitalforcehealthcare dot com. Again,
Vitalforce Hehealthcare dot com. Well,Jerry, thank you for agreeing to come
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on this show. And let's justjump right into it. What is existentialism,
Well, existentialism is a philosophy.It came out of World War Two.
At the end of World War two, and when all the horrors of
that were exposed, there had tobe some kind of a posture created to
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deal with the unimaginable horrors that tookplace. It's kind of a rebellion against
any kind of traditional you know,believing it's situational ethics. I suppose that's
one thing. Nowadays we're using thatword all the time, saying, well,
climate change is an existential stress,existential problem. Meaning. Basically,
we're using it to say, Ohmy God, we're I gonna die.
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That's not what's that's not what theThe meaning of it is is a branch
of existentialism that goes into psychology.It's really basically a search for meaning.
It's a search for meaning. Why, why are we alive? What's going
on here? What's the point ofeverything? And that has an expression in
literature and the works of Satra Beckett, his plays, for example, Waiting
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for Godot, But it basically isin psychology. It's it's a way of
helping people through almost unimaginable problems bytrying to find personal meaning. In my
work, I have. What I'vedone is I've co I'm kind of a
medical philosopher myself, and I inmy work, I have created a synthesis
between traditional Chinese medicine, which isacupuncture and herbs, homeopathy and conventional medicine.
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So I made I've created a systemwhere they're all combined very succinctly,
And in doing that, I've developedfive existential questions that connect deeply with the
theories of Chinese medicine and homeopthy specificallywhat's called sismatic theory. And existentialism.
That's the short answer to it.That word, as I say, it's
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just come into currency. But peoplepeople basically think, oh my god,
we're going to die, is whatit means. But it really means,
yeah, well everyone's going to dieanyway. But what's the meaning of my
life? What should I be?What should I be doing with my life?
And these questions really burden me.And in my book, I can
show how the inability to resolve thetension within these five core existential questions is
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the is the groundwork for chronic illness. Okay, that's the bad news,
but the good news is that theirhomeopathic remedies specifically connected to those individual dilemmas
that can help us not only becomeattain better health, but also gain perspective
and on the life situation. Sookay, that's the answer to that.
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Well, thank you, pretty indepth answer. So share with us the
five core existential questions you want tohear, the five existential questions? Okay,
and these each one of these tiesinto what in Chinese medicine is considered
one of the five elements it tiesinto. In homeopathy, one of the
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five classical miasms also ties into eachof the five senses. So I've done
a critter an analysis called the sensedimensional analysis, which talks about the senses
in kind of this existential and philosophicalway. Okay, the first one is
am I in synchrony with nature andwith others, and that pertains in biology
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to the circulatory system, basically inthe heart. The second one is my
existence on Earth sustainable, and thatties into the metabolic system. The third
one is am I oriented in timeand space, and that relates to our
sense of identity. Who am I? Am I? Am I centered as
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my breathing good for example, tetheredto the past in terms of being stuck
into grief. The fourth one isprobably the heaviest one. Can the boundary
between life and death be abided soeverybody people can think about existentialisms. They
think, what's the meaning of life, what's the meaning of death? And
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in Homeopothy, there are remedies thatcan address situations whereby you earned flight from
death. And so for example,you would lose yourself materialism in sex,
in glamour because you're actually terrified ofdeath. You're just sidestepping all that.
And on the other side of that, above that line Okay, you accept
death, But now your concerned isyour legacy? What's going to come after
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that? And you know what willI leave from my life? And if
you're overly concerned with that on thatside of the border, that also presumes
can contribute to a susceptibility to illness. And the fifth one is what the
insurrection of my birth fruitful? Solooking taking the long view, you know
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we don't just want to sit onlife is not just about sitting pina coladas
on the beach. At the endof our life, you want to look
back and say, gee, didI make any difference in this world?
And so from this point of view, you know, the world was going
along perfectly fine until you came along. And now your birth is an insurrection
against the status quo? Have youmade a difference in this world? And
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I like to point out that thefounder of homeopathy, Samuel Hahneman, who
was a tremendous genius and who himselfmounted a huge insurrection against the medical status
quo, has this statue in Washington, d C. I think he's the
only foreigner to have this wonderful memorialstatue there, and on it it says
in Latin, I didn't live inVain, so this question was very important
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to him. So all those fivequestions, they have subcategories that sub sub
there are, yeah, subcategories ofthose five questions are attached to many,
you know, the homeopathic remedies thatI analyze, and so those are the
themes of those remedies and they pertainto the conditions that those remedies treat.
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Okay, Now, in your book, you talk about different conditions that people
have. So one I don't rememberexactly the remedy for it, but it
was like neuropathy and fibromyalgia and stufflike that. So how does where does
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that come from? How does onebring that into their psyche into their world?
Okay, I've got to say,first of all, in homeopathy,
it's not diagnosis driven. So youcan have a diagnosis like fibromyalgia or myopathy
or something that's just a starting point. I mean, there are going to
be dozens and dozens of remedies foreach of those conditions. And I put
the word condition in quotation marks tosee your homeopath, we take your I
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do need to educate your audience.I think it's a very extensive, very
detailed process whereby we get to knowyou up and down, left to right,
just right from the beginning of yourlife, everything that's going on about
you. By the time you walkout of the office of someone like me,
you'd say, oh my god,that guy knows me better than anybody
I've ever known. And so jobis to deconstruct what your symptoms are.
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The symptoms matter very much, howyou use language, how you describe them,
and then kind of go very deeplyinto the situation until I identify kind
of the existential issue that maybe underliesthe whole thing. It's not going to
be at the conscious level, butbe subconscious. Let's answer your question.
Let's see a fibromyalgia remedy. I'mgoing to pick the remedy alumina, which
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is made from aluminum. So let'ssay people who need that. Someone might
come into my office who has numbnessand pain, pain in the hands and
feet. But in addition to that, they probably would have constipation and loss
of sensation. So in the courseof that, I mean, people are
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not machines. I can't just,you know, off the shelf pick a
remedy based on that. But whathappened is if a person needs alumina,
they will have an issue with Iwould call the compromise of the will.
It would turn out that someone likethis has been too many times put into
situations where he or she has beenforced to make a decision she didn't want
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to make, didn't like her choices, just was forced to do something over
and over again that she didn't wantto do. And a keynote for that
would be not wanting to be rushed. Now, I don't think anybody likes
to be rushed, but for someonewho needs the remedy aluminum, I say,
what's it like for you to berushed? They say, I can't
stand that. I absolutely my hotnumber number one hot button. I cannot
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stand to be rushed. Because thatquestion gets to the fact that they've been
putting them situations where they they're forcedto make some decision on the spur of
the moment pretty quickly, and they'rejust not ready. And I can deconstruct
their constipation too in those terms.They have a stool that doesn't want to
come out. It does not wantto do us ready. Okay, you
know, we also say that we'rehuman beings, right, but the lesson
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of this particular remedy is we're actuallymore human doings. What we are has
a lot to do with what wedo, and that's our identity. So
people who need that remedy they havethey get fuzzy headed as well. They
have problems with the reference and theymay be in the incipient stages of Alzheimer's
disease because of this loss of reference. So the loss of reference pertains to
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one of my existential questions, wheream I in time and space? They
have lost their reference, they don'tknow where they are. So I've tied
a lot of things together with thatparticular remedy. Person may have come in
with just what they think is thephysical problem. I don't. I'm losing
sensation in my hands and feet,my energy is low. But in the
course of taking my doing, goingthrough my intake, maybe this one would
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come up. And in addition totreating that, you know, the remedy
would help that person to find thissense of identity and overcome the problem that's
that's really deeply ingrained, that they'vebeen forced too many times to do something
that they don't want to do.Okay, So as you are working with
someone and you're putting them through thisprocess that you go through, do you
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ever find someone saying like no andjust rebelling because they can't get to or
understand where you're truly coming from tohelp them. Oh, people are as
I said, we're working and workingat the level of the subconscious. Yeah.
Many times they can't tell me what'sthe problem is. And my job,
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quite frankly, is to figure out, you know, paying more attention
to what they're not saying than whatthey're saying. That's information in itself,
in addition to which the symptoms talk. My job is to deconstruct the symptoms
so that I understand what the bodyis saying. So I have this adage
that acute illness detoxifies us, youknow, believe it or not. I
mean, it's no fun to beacutely ill. But the episode has a
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beginning, of middle, and anend, and it means that our vital
force or our immune system has identifieda pathogen or an emotional insult, mobilized
against it and fought it off.To me back the baseline or maybe a
little bit better. Chronic illness,though, is not good. I mean
that means you've got good days andbad days, but the problem is always
there and your body through the psycheis telling the outside world and you yourself
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at some level what this problem is. And so those symptoms are a complaint
coming from a deep into psyche,and my job is to identify them.
As I say, if someone comesand says I've got constipation, going back
to the Alumina clients. Only inthe case of someone like that, where
I've got all this other information,can I deconstruct that symptom and connect it,
you know, with it not wantingto be rushed. That's what that
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symptom is saying, don't rush me, just do a letting when to come
out, you know. And alsothe hands and feet not having sensation,
all right, so how do wemanifest our will in the world with our
hands? Right, we actually changethe world. If your hands are not
are are not manifesting sensation? Thiscan be deconstructed to and explained. You
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know, I'm not able to manifestmy will in the world. So even
though the person's not maybe not betelling that, that would be a clue
for me that I can then pursuein my questions, and I can.
I'll start find I'll go down thatroad. I'll say, have you ever
been uh ever had a problem anyever ever had ever been forced to make
a decision you don't want to make? Have you ever been put in a
situation we don't like your choices?And the person who I pause and say,
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the story of my life? Youknow, this is and over again,
and then I'll you know, I'llconsider this particular remedy. But depending
on how the interview goes, thereare many, many other possibilities. But
yeah, people come in routinely,especially teenagers. They can't tell you a
darn thing about themselves. They justdon't have, you know, very much.
They're not particularly introspective, many ofthem, I wouldn't say, but
often people just say, I don'tknow, I don't know, I don't
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know. Then I've got I've gotto, you know, figure out how
to how to get the secret informationI call home up these spiritual forensics.
So I'm what I'm trying to findout is the spiritual reason behind under underlying
someone's chronic illness and their complaint,and that's how it works. Okay,
interesting, I really didn't understand homoyfrom that perspective, so thank you very
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much for sharing that. Now inthe book, you talk about a concept
and you have the inborn toolkit ofemotions. Talk to us about that,
because inborn gives me the feeling thatit's truly within us. It came in
when we came in, So talkto us about that. Oh, yeah,
that's that's a that's a fun topic. This comes directly from Chinese medicine.
Chinese medicine has a very simple kindof psychology. There are five core
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emotions and yeah, joy, grief, worry, terror, and anger.
Is that fun? H And that'sthat's kind of it. Well. I
believe that these core emotions are inour inborn toolkit in the sense that every
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tool is something we you know,we should use only when you need it
and then put it away when you'redone, and the tool should solve a
problem, and the emotions should doexactly the same thing. So it's a
mistake if someone says I never wantto be anxious or I or I you
know, I don't want to beangry, or it's note a mistake.
Would be like a carpenter who saysI'm only want to use my hammer today
that I hope everything works out,or I I can't stand my screwdriver,
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I'm just not going to use it. So it works like this, I
think The analogy is is very good. We have the sketch pad of happiness.
Okay. That means that to behappy means we have to have goals
we want to have. We havean idea about you know what, we're
gonna write down on our sketch padwhat we want to do, and that
makes us happy. Now, ifall you do is just think about what
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you want to do, you youknow, and and never put anything to
operation, you're over using your sketchpad. That's the only one you're using.
That's not good. Once you figureout what you should do, you
should put it. Put it away. Now if you if you feel your
life is pointless and you have nothingyou want to do, you're depressed,
well maybe then your sketch pad isall crumpled up and grind me in your
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pocketbook your or your or your youryeah, your your your pocket and their
remedies again for both sides of thatthat issue. And I could, if
I had time, I would gointo those remedies. The screw driver of
anxiety, the screw driver of anxiety. Mhmm. Sometime go into the remedies.
It's okay, we have time,Okay, Well, if if you
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need that their children, for example, who are feel that they're the center.
Well, this is actually a normalstate of affairs. Children are normally
optimistic and curious about things and wantto touch things. They're all over the
place. If you have an adultlike that who is kind of a mad
scientist type but doesn't you know,has all these ideas but can't put them
into action. That person is alsoif they need the remedy sulfur, likely
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to be have all kinds of skinproblems, you know, look look like
a mess, have bad hygiene.They're they need that remedy and be aggravated
by heat. They probably need theremedy sulfur, and that would bring them
into into balance. They just they'rethey're just their their mind is what matters.
But they haven't consolidated their minds.They're over using their sketch pad of
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happiness. If they need a remedylike CPIA and they feel depressed and it's
hopeless, I hope is hope hasbecome toxic to them. They it's often
which is a woman who's been hadtoo much resentment to disappointment and she just
doesn't want to you know, feelsflattened out. It's like in that case,
like her sketch pad of happiness isall crumbled up and grinding on the
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bottom of her purse. Should doany one? Should I do? Other
ones? Yeah? Do a couplemore please, Okay, I'll do the
screwdriver of anxiety. So we needto be anxious about things. If you're
in the forest and you're starving,for example, and you see a mushroom
there, your anxiety will prevent youfrom eating the whole mushroom. Maybe you
think the tiniest nibble of it,and even if it's toxic, it may
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not kill you. Then anxiety isuseful, you know. Performers use their
anxiety to create a high level ofperformance. If you if you but if
you constantly have your screwdriver out andeverything makes you anxious, you're overusing it.
If you're completely a reckless kind ofperson and you just never get anctioned
about anything that's not good either,And there are remedies on both sides of
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that, of that, of that, of that. The remedy our senicum
is for people who are you know, incredibly anxious, but it fuels a
high level of you know, perfectionismin them, and they just worry constantly
about their their loved ones, butit's debilitating and and they they need a
remedy like arsenicum so that they're notincapacitated by their anxiety. If they're completely
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reckless, they have a very verypowerful sense of adventuresusness, but they just
burn the candle at both ends.They take chances. Then they might need
another remedy like met rhinum that wouldagain bring them into balance. So that's
the screw driver of anxiety. Mmhmm. Let's see what we have next.
The I we'll talk about the hackssaw of sadness, the hacks saw
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of grief. If we've lost someoneand we had a law, you know,
someone's died important to us. Atsome point we have to cut ourselves
off from that loss and move on. If you if you can't do that,
you keep sawing away at it.Maybe you need a remedy like Paul
Sotilla where you're crying all the time. If you if you just don't cry.
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And there's some people who are justso numbed or feel like the loss
is so great that they cannot cry, then they might need a remedy like
natural mariaticum. Then they're not usingtheir hack saw at all. So there's
the heck, that's the hacksaw ofgrief. What have I left out?
Oh? The the plot of fear, Okay, and language is very useful
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monique. Right, we say we'llbecome gripped by fear. So the pliers
is the natural tool for that.You should be gripped by fear, just
so that you know just long enoughto know whether you should run or fight,
right, and then you put yourpliers away. And they are remedies
for people who are absolutely terrified.Everything terrifies them. They're overusing their pliers
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a fear maybe a remedy like Veratrumalbum. And then there's a remedy of
again people who are really fearless.And I would have to think that meta
rhyinan would come up for that oneagain also, but there are other other
remedies for people who are really kindof a bit reckless. Okay, But
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it's really not cookie cutter though,right, I mean you maybe combine a
combination of the different Yeah, andthis is a very simple model compared This
is like my introductory model, asI said, Chinese medicine and the five
inborn tools. The rest of thebook is about the bigger, you know,
a much bigger and much more complexpicture based on the existential implications of
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chronic illness. Other the last one, though, this is the most kind
of way, the most obvious,is the hammer of anger. Right,
we would absolutely identify a hammer withanger. So the nails sticking out,
You take your hammer and you smashit down. Then you put your hammer
away. Right, if you don'tuse it, you don't use it.
The hammer is really particularly interesting tome because it has this other end,
right, the claw. Now there'sa remedy close staffasagria, which is for
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people. Again, it's often womenbecause they've been brought up to be seen
and not heard. They are toldto be nice. If they raise their
voice or too obstruppers, they're calledbitches. So if that kind of person.
When I asked this question, ifyou after you blow your top get
angry, do you feel better orworse? She says, no, I
feel much worse. I feel guilty. It's terrible I should have done that.
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She is using the wrong end ofthe hammer, she's clawing away at
herself. And then her form ofanger is what I would call the dysfunctional
cousin of anger, which is vexationto be vexed, you know, shake,
I can't stand you know, it'sawful. It does not solve a
problem. All it does is hurtsyourself because you're suppressing your natural anger.
You should have a natural burst ofanger to solve a problem, or convert
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your anger into something creative so thatyou can you can, you can make
some hay out of that. Soanyway, there are people who are like
unfortunately yet them were you know,war veterans who come home who are PTSD
with have hair triggered hair trigger tempers. They're using the hammer, right,
So they're mad if you do somethingbad to them. But they're mad any
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if you just look at them funny. So they're using, over using the
hammer of anger. So there areremedies, very simple remedies on both sides
of that, and that ill illustratessomething, you know, rather basic.
But I find that's a useful,you know, very useful little model.
Okay, Well, how has orhas the COVID situation hurt or helped or
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how has it adjusted us? Idon't even want to say change, just
adjusted us. Wow, that's ahard question, I will say, as
opposed to Okay, Well, unfortunately, it's created an incredible climate of fear.
It's done some terrible things to us, right, it's it's handicapped in
entire generation of children who've lost twoyears of socialization. And basically it's it's
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it's it's it handicapped so many peoplewith out of fear. I mean,
I I believe in the body.The body is are basically our basic model.
Body has gotten us through ice agesand you know, centuries of difficulty
without without medication in particular, Imean because there are great advanceags that medicine
is brought brought about. But basicallywe have we are able to adjust to
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conditions the way a computer can beupdated. So there are there are conditions
that are they're affecting us that areprobably responsible for for COVID didn't come out
of nowhere, having to do withpollution, lower reduced oxygen levels in the
winter seasons, Uh, the radiationthat's constantly around us, and those those
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stresses will harm the most vulnerable ofus, absolutely, But by creating a
total climate of fear around it andthinking what does you know, what's what's
what's how are we going to dealwith this next? You know that that's
that's been a real problem. Sowe're much more vigilant, and unfortunately,
I don't think we've learned the reallyimportant lessons about this, like where did
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this thing come from? It's notout of the blue. We are definitely
introduced. We have many more environmentaltoxins that were exposed to their medications which
are causing us problems, making themore, the old, the weaker of
us even more vulnerable than normal normally. But we've also lost confidence in the
ability of the body to adjust todo these updates. And unfortunately, the
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thing that we absolutely need the mostthat can help us with us most might
be homeopathy, and that, asyou possibly know, has been the subject
of an intense attack by the pharmaceuticalindustry for one hundred and fifty years.
So that's unfortunate, and that's somethingI'm trying to u my best to repudiate.
O fact, I want to switchgears for a moment. When you,
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before we got on the air,were talking and you were saying something
regarding AI and the moose letter youput out, why don't you talk to
us about that because I'll include itin the show notes. I think it
was quite fascinating. I can't believewe got to that so quickly. Well,
I had this idea that the bigpharma could align itself with the artificial
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intelligence field to deal with the what'sgoing what's happening, and it's it sounds
like it's it's science fiction, butit absolutely is happening. You know,
the movies have long prophesized that robotswould come and they would take over the
planet, and this this is kindof an existential threat. It's happening,
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perhaps faster than we think. Theother day, a humanoid was made CEO
of a major company. Her nameis Micah. In twenty seventeen, a
humanoid, Sophia, got citizenship inSaudi Arabia. So convincing. These these
these these these humanoids. And it'snot just that we want something efficient and
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fast, we want them to belovable too. And all the movies,
the movie Her where the Waking Phoenixcharacter falls in love with the voice of
this assistant, a this AI assistantcreation of the humanoids, which was made
in eight nineteen sixty two, predictedall of this. I'm even thinking about
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Pinocchio, that that particular myth Pinocchio, the puppet that comes to life,
had to be fitted with an algorithmI mean, which is I can't lie.
So this is I'm being fancibule here. But the geppetto the woodclarver had
to kind of issue this algorithm inPinocchio, which enables him to come to
life. Anyway, the point isthat we want them to be lovable,
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right, we want them to belovable and relatable. So what's going to
have to happen in my imagination isthat they're going to have to be programmed
to have relatable features, which willalso include foibles and flaws and tempers,
and on top of which they're goingto actually be engaged with very very stressful
things. So my in my fantasy, I had them needings medicine, and
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so I created this, uh,this company called Automatous Pharmaceuticals, which is
responsible for it's aligned itself with oneof the major AI firms and also a
number of the big pharma companies anduh, it's it's got a five two
hundred million dollar market cap. Wow, And I have I have created the
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characters, the executives that I interviewwho tell tell me about what their plan
for this is and how they rationalizeit, and you know, when satire,
what you can do is take acompletely ridiculous idea and you present it
as as as convincingly as you possiblycan. And frankly, I sent it
out and quite a few people aretaken in. They think this has actually
happened, that the pharmaceutical industry isis going to be creating medications to treat
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mentally ill robots. And it cameI, it's maybe more prophetic than I
think, because well, I'll leavethat up to anybody reading it. Oh
yeah, well, I like thefact that you mentioned September thirty first,
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and yes, that was my giveaway. There is no such thing as September
thirty first, So the announcement cameout. I was hoping that give it
away. But you know, whenyou're writ satari, my wife said that
I should maybe put a disclaimer inthere or put an emoji in there.
No, and then you review,you deprive people of the pleasure of figuring
it out for themselves. And Ijust went to great lengths to make it
as absolutely believable as I can,and the discussion is very believable. I
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introduced the idea, I say tothe executives at one point, you know,
how about electroshock therapy that never workedout very well with human beings,
but for robots with all the circuitry, maybe that would be a better deal.
And the executive says to me,well, we found that when we
give electroshock therapy to robots they developa terrible metallic taste in the mouth.
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Okay, I think that's very funny, right, And then they say,
but and I came up with somethingcalled end of toall suicide tablets. Because
they're suffering so much, maybe whynot give them something to get them out
of their misery. And the executivessay, well, you know, give
us some credit. Our pharmaceuticals willbe so effective that we don't. We
think the need for something like thatwill be absolutely negligible. Next question,
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Well, that's very interesting. Ican't wait post it for everybody to see.
Now you mentioned this word earlier,miasthmas. What are they and how
are they related to what we're talkingabout? Oh my god, yeah,
okay, getting getting out of thefencible into the real. So there are
five diseases that homeopasts believe rampage throughthe population and left the traces on the
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descendants. So those are called miasms. It's an old word that comes from
the odor of the gutter or somethinglike that. So the maismatic remedy.
So those five diseases are something calledsora, which might be chlamydia. Actually
it means the itch, so primthe primal itch. That's the most obscure
one, I suppose, But that'swhen all the other miasms came from.
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The other ones are tuberculosis, cancer, and then to to sexually transmitted diseases
and additionditional ones gonrhea and syphilis.So everybody has someone in their background who's
had one of those things, andso the descendants inherit some of the features
of that. It's not the sameas having the disease, but they have
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certain features attached to those diseases,and they're also positive as well as negative.
So it's almost like an astrological picture. And each of those my maismatic
pictures has a no sod attached toit. So a remedy made from the
product of that disease that comes inhandy as a remedy, and there's also
you know, many many other remediesthat would come under that umbrella. And
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I as I say those five miasms, I relate to the five existential questions
that I've created. Okay, nowonly go to your website. Yeah,
best one would we go to interms of my writing would be right Whale
press dot com vital for the youknow, the right Whale r I G
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H T W H A l Ethe right Whale. So I have.
My publishing website is Rightwhale press dotcom. People can also find me by
looking for my for this book atthe at the Simon and Schuster website.
I would just say google the EmotionalRoots of Chronic Illness Jerry Canter, Simon
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and Schuster. You would see itcome up. Those books are sold everywhere.
My earlier book before this one,I'd like to give you a mention
is Both Saint Asylums Asylum the successof homeopathy before psychiatry lost its mind.
And that's a window into a completelyovershadowed part of American medical history, which
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was the predominance of homeopathic metal hospitalsin the United States from this, you
know, before this a War intothe early nineteen hundreds. They were utopian
facilities. They were absolutely wonderful andjust a very inconvenient truth to the pharmaceutical
community that they actually existed, especiallyin mental health world, so our not
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knowing about that has really reduced ourchoices for mental health care. Home me
up. These fantastic for treating mentalhealth problems, and these spectacular, utopian,
self sufficient homeopathic asylums were very,very popular and people should know about
them. So I would say people, should you know advice to, would
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be advised to look in my bookssaying asylums again at the Simon and Schuster
website. Google my name Saane AsylumsJerry Catcher and they'd find it there.
Okay, Well, he has atotal of six books, folks, So
if you've enjoyed what you've heard today, please do take a look at the
other books because he provides a wealthof information. I'm Jerry Tomas. Almost
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could you give us a pearl ofwisdom to leave with the audience today?
Please? Oh, my pearlo wisdom. I go back to one not just
so acute illness detoxifies, chronic illnessinforms let's try not to live our lives
based on fear. There is akind of medicine, it's homeopthy which not
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only can help you become healthy andprevent you from becoming illness but what's more
important, brings to you a senseof perspective and awareness so that you know
what's going on in your life.You become aware of the existential situation that
you're in. You know, we, as you put it yourself, Monique,
we are just spirits inhabiting a body. This is one way of exploring
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that that idea really in depth,getting familiar with the homeopathic tool that allows
us to make that a really meaningfulexplorer exploration. Okay, well, thank
you for sharing that. I knowthe audience appreciates it as do I I
really appreciate you being here with metoday and the information that you share.
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Jerry, thank you very very much. Thank you you're an excellent interview.
I can't believe I got all thatinformation out in this short amount of time.
And I wish you all the best, and I hope people continue to
profit by with your teacher. Well, thank you and for everyone, please
remember that the most important choice thatyou can make is what you choose to
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make important, and consider making themasterful choice of discovering the emotional roots of
your chronic illness. Upon the blessings, light and love to all. A copy
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