Table 4: Stages and Ranunculaceae

Count

The Stages are most of the time seen as 18 in number. But as can be seen from the pt the idea of process can also be reflected in 8 stages, as in the Carbon series and the Silicon series. The idea of process can even have 2 stages as in the Hydrogen series. So it could be the case that some families can be better differentiated by 8 or even 2 Stages. This is an open question at the moment. The amount of Stages is given by the formula: 2* n*n, where n is the number of the series.

Fractals

An important aspect in this theory is the idea of fractals. Fractals express the idea of a repetition of patterns on different levels of size. A part of a pattern has the same pattern in itself again. Picture 1 is an example of it. Fractals are ubiquitous in nature. We can see them in cloud patterns, coastlines, spirals and mathematical formulas.

In the mineral kingdom we have a very prominent example of a fractal. The Lanthanides are all in stage 3. But we differentiate them with the 18 Stages. One part, Stage 3 here, is differentiated in the same way as the whole. So all the Lanthanides have the theme of searching of Stage 3; they are searchers. But they all have it in a different way, depending on their own Stage. The example below will show the idea.

Comparison Series and Stages

A nice example of the fractal ideas is the periodic table; itself. The basic division is into 7 rows, the series. This is the division in 8, where the 8^th stage is missing as being non-existent. The rows themselves are then divided or differentiated into 8 or 18 Stages. Frans Maan has shown this in his book “Homeopathy in Reflexive Perspective”. The relationships are shown in Table 4.

Table 4: Stages and Series

Terbium oxydatum case

This case is from the book Secret Lanthanides. The Lanthanides are a very good example of the strength of the Element theory. The differentiation between the Lanthanides is for the biggest part done by the Stages and to a lesser extent with the themes and symptoms coming from the provings.

A man of 55 years of age has been suffering from Crohn’s disease for about 20 years. The first 5 years were really bad, with severe inflammation. He was treated with cortisone, which made him worse: he couldn’t even walk anymore in the end. Then he decided to stop the cortisone, much against the will of the doctors. He also rejected a colon resection. Since then he has an exacerbation once every 2 years: severe diarrhea, stool is watery and sour smelling, with a lot of blood and mucus, sometimes very light, even white, worse from cold beer and from spinach. He can feel in his abdomen where the spinach is. He tried all kinds of treatment like Chinese herbs, Swedish herbs, chiropractic therapy and vitamins which helped in part. He once also tried group psychotherapy, but stopped it after he had been the center of a role play. He lost his self-control and had the feeling of falling into a black hole, as if he wasn’t anyone anymore. He decided never to do such a thing again. Self-control is very important for him. He’s been using Avatar techniques for 10 years. It’s difficult to be in a vulnerable position, to open his heart to other people. He then gets the feeling that they want to take everything from him, that he will be sucked dry. If he is too open all the shit will come up. This state is also the result of his marriage. His wife was very egocentric and lazy. He had to do the housework and cooking after coming home from work. She seduced him into buying a bigger house with a better kitchen, with the promise that she would do the housework then. Later she seduced him in a similar way into having children. After 3 months of marriage he already wanted to divorce, but she succeeded in getting him to stay for 20 years.

He was also abused by the company he worked for for 20 years. He had invented a lot of things, but wasn’t getting the salary that was appropriate for his quality of work. After 6 years of lawsuits, he managed to get a quarter of what he was entitled to get from the patents. He felt unimaginably rejected. He is following his own mind, knows what he wants. He developed himself spiritually with the help of a friend and is taking a training course to be a yoga-teacher. He does not express anger, but when it comes up, it is like an explosion.

He was a dreamer as a child. At school he used to perform just above the level that he had to achieve. His father compared him with his sister. His father was very closed and stopped kissing him at bedtime, when he was 6, saying “You are a man now”. From then on he wondered what he was doing in this world, asking himself why he should behave as an adult.

Family: 3 siblings have ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease; Down’s syndrome.

His ex wife left the care of their 2nd child to him; she is a very sensitive, schizophrenic girl.

Lower back pain. Acne.

Color preference:      9DE (dark red).

General

Weather:                    -> spring, <-autumn.

Time:                          < 3 p.m..

Desire:                       meat.

Aversion:                    celery (3).

Food:                          < cold food, < cold beer, spinach.

Analysis

A very prominent theme in this case is the abuse. He uses the word himself and feels abused by his wife and by his employer. This indicates strongly oxygen.

At the other hand he continues with his wife for 20 years, controlling himself strongly. He is very controlled, maintaining his self-control at all times. This is also expressed in his avatar training, which is mind and thought control. Self-control is a theme of the Lanthanides, and especially of Terbium, which is Stage 11 of the Lanthanides. Terbium has to maintain (Stage 11) self-control at all times. Once he went into group psychotherapy and there he lost control and self-control. This is terrible. He feels as if falling into a black hole. This is another expression of the Lanthanides, it is an expression of the shadow of the  mind.

When asked about his self-control he says that when he is too open and vulnerable others will take everything from him, that he will be sucked dry. This can be translated as: keeping (Stage 11) self-control (Lanthanide) in order not to be taken (Oxygen), to be sucked dry (Oxygen). Another form is keeping (Stage 11) self-control (Lanthanides, Terbium) in order not to let the shit (Oxygen) come out.

Confirmations

Lanthanides: Avatar training, yoga trainer, self-determination, averse doctors, spiritual development, sensitive child, desire meat.

Oxygen: Crohn’s disease, a stool problem; abused and seduced  by his wife, abused by his company, left alone by his father; caring for his handicapped (schizophrenic) child.

DD Stage 12: Dysprosium is more fighting to keep in control; he’s just keeping control.

DD Thulium: the black hole is the same, but in Thulium it’s complete. In Terbium it’s there rarely, just as a glimpse, but it’s mostly under complete control.

DD Sulphur: the marriage problems can indicate Sulphur; but the abuse is more extensive, both by the company and being left alone by the father; so it’s more like Oxygen.

Follow-up

3-4 days after Terbium oxydatum MK he got an aggravation. There was a lot to do for the company he worked for. After that he improved. It was astonishing what he could do in the past month. And it went well, even while he still had diarrhea. He can even drink cold beer. He feels much better.

The quality of life (on a scale from 0 to 100) improved from 65 to 80. He feels freer and more cheerful, he can let things go. In the past he became moody with his complaints. Now he feels safe when he meets people that are on the same level as he is. He has discovered that he used to have an inferiority complex.

Three years after the start of the treatment he realizes that there are no symptoms of the disease left.

Problem: deduction of Stages

The deduction of the Stages for the other kingdoms is done by remedy pictures. This can be incorrect sometimes, as is my experience and that of Sankaran (Insight into Plants, Sensation). This is due to the fact that the remedy pictures themselves are uncertain and incorrect in certain parts. This is an instance of the GIGO rule: Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Problem: Families are Stages themselves

A second problem is the possible confusion between the family picture and the Stage picture. A good example is the one above for the snakes, the Ophidi. The family picture of the snakes has themes as: jealousy, suspicion, attacked, attacking, constriction and betrayal. These themes are similar to those of Stage 12 and to a lesser extent 13 and 17. So one could be tempted to put all snakes in Stage 12. But then differentiation has become impossible. The strategy is to subtract all the family themes from the individual pictures of the snakes and then Stage them on the remaining part of the picture. This is very similar to the staging of the Lanthanides: all are in Stage 3, but can still be differentiated by the normal staging. It is an instance of the theme of fractals: the Stage 12 theme of the snakes is further differentiated by the Stages themselves.

Conclusion

As far as we can see at the moment, it seems that the Stages are a very powerful tool in understanding remedies and analyzing cases. The level of abstraction is going farther that it was before, leading to a better understanding of homeopathy. It’s an open question whether they are applicable in all situations. A more philosophical question is what the real background of the Stages is.

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Maan Frans, Homeopathy in Reflexive Perspective, Den Bosch, 2000.

Sankaran R. An Insight into Plants, Bombay 2002.

Sankaran R. The sensation in Homeopathy, Bombay 2004.

Scholten J., Homoeopathy and Minerals, Utrecht, 1993.

Scholten J., Homoeopathy and the Elements, Utrecht, 1996.

Scholten J., Secret Lanthanides, Utrecht, 2005.