About: Rudi Verspoor
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- Rudi Verspoor is Dean and Chair Department of Philosophy Hahnemann College for Heilkunst, Ottawa. He was Director of the British Institute of Homeopathy Canada from 1993 to early 2001.Part of his time is spent advising the Canadian government on health-care policy and in working for greater acceptance of and access to homeopathy. His publications include: Homeopathy Renewed, A Sequential Approach to the Treatment of Chronic Illness (with Patty Smith); A Time for Healing; Homeopathy Re-examined: Beyond the Classical Paradigm (with Steven Decker); The Dynamic Legacy: Hahnemann from Homeopathy to Heilkunst (with Steven Decker).
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Dynamic Physiology
Allopathic anatomy and physiology is all about matter and biochemical processes, not at all about true physiology. The universe consists of matter, substance and essence. The realm of physiology is that of substance, the next level up from matter. Substance is manifested in powers, forces and energies, namely the domain... -
Approaching and Treating a Case with Heilkunst
The essence of treatment of any case of ill-health is to determine the cause(s) using the most comprehensive assessment possible and then to apply the correct prescriptions based on this assessment. In addition, treatment must be carried out in the right sequence, according to rational principles grounded in natural law.... -
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Repertorization – The Principles for its Use
This article examines the rational context within which a practitioner would properly and lawfully use the technique known as “repertorization.” Repertorisation is the specific technique of taking the “totality of symptoms” of a given disease and then using a compilation of these indications, cross-referenced to medicinal agents, to find the... -
Precursor to the Organon: Hahnemann’s Occasional Writings Part VI – The Foundations of a New System (1790-1805)
In a previous series of articles in this magazine, we examined Dr. Hahnemann’s so-called “lesser writings,” so-called because they are not less important, only less formal. Prior to the publication of the aphoristic Organon with its legal format, that is, between the years 1790 and 1805, Hahnemann used these more... -
Precursor to the Organon: Hahnemann’s Occasional Writings Part V – The Medicine of Experience (1805)
In this work, Hahnemann identifies the divine nature of the human mind and its ability to discern the curative powers of nature. He sees that the divine design was “to bring to unlimited perfection our whole being, as also our corporeal frame and the cure of its diseases.” (Lesser Writings,... -
Precursor to the Organon: Hahnemann’s Occasional Writings Part IV – Aesculapias in the Balance (1805)
n this writing we start to gain a strong appreciation that the origin and destiny of man, as well as natural disease and its treatment, is divinely inspired, as is the knowledge that all seek to remedy disease. We also ?nd a mature criticism of the prevailing system of medicine... -
Precursor to the Organon: Hahnemann’s Occasional Writings
Part III – Obstacles in Practical Medicine (1797) Regimenal Disease In his article, Are the Obstacles to Certainty and Simplicity in Practical Medicine Insurmountable (1797), Hahnemann gives us some insight into that realm of disease involving errors of regimen to be corrected by an alteration of regimen (law of opposites).... -
Steven Decker
Steven Decker FHCH(Hon.) Steven Decker is a scholar par excellence who has dedicated his life to the pursuit of knowledge and its dissemination. He has spent the last 35 years immersing himself in the works of Samuel Hahnemann, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rudolf Steiner and Wilhelm Reich,...
