“The tumour as a local symptom is a result of the disturbed life-force (C. Burnett, Curability of Tumours) and only part of the system. Since elements and minerals are the tiniest and most archaic units, out of which life springs, the potentized forms represent pristine archetypes, which must have profound organizing capacities (carbon for father/self-confidence and their attributes, chlorine for mother or child and their attributes, silica for the family and its attributes, and iodine for cultural transformation – see cases overleaf). In most cases the psychological constellation is already evident in early childhood and is more fully manifested later on”.

This reminds me of the seminar in London on 27-28 April 1991 entitled “Opening Doors” by the Jungian psychoanalyst and homeopath Edward Whitmont.

I know very little about Jungian philosophy. But Jung was deeply religious man and had nothing to do with Freud’s scientific approach.

I remember an interesting example of what Edward Whitmont said at the seminar. He was going on a holiday or something with his family in his car and the car stalled. He got out of the car, took out a small piece of paper and presumably wrote a ‘remeddy’on it and stuck it on the body of the car an lo and behold, the car started to move!

Whatever little I have read by and about Jung, I found them disturbing and disquieting.

I am a strictly secular person and believe in scientific explanations. The above quotation from the site is what I think is the problem with homeopathy. I have supported Vithoulkas in writing both in ‘Homeopathic Links’and in his letter in ‘British Homeopathic Journal’(it was then called) when he attacked the Editors of ‘Homeopathic Links’for allowing some writers to openly attack science or claimed to be scientific when they were writing exactly the opposite.

I don’t think our discussion is going to get us anywhere because we look at the world from the two opposite poles.

As I wrote in my last comment, my knowledge compared to yours is negligible. For example, I do not know what ‘epigenetics’means.

But let me clarify one important point. You write that in line with “your suggestion” that cancer is our other distorted selves…

As a matther of fact I was quoting Varmis at the Nobel Prize ceremony in 1989 when he and Bishop were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery. I also thought that this was what the author meant by the sub-title “A Biography of Cancer”. But you have misinterpreted this into a psychological statement to which neither the Prize winners, nor the author and certainly not I, would hold any truck with.

I will continue in my next comment because I lost what I had written and I don’t want it to happen again before I submit it.

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