Dr. Candegabe does NOT recommend the study of Materia Medica in the way that I had described. He only said in a course that when we get used to study Materia Medica Pura, its study is as interesting as a novel. And this is what I said, and not anything different (sometimes we read the letter of what is written and at other times we prefer to interpret what we read).
The way of studying Materia Medica which I had described, is the one I myself follow, the one followed in my group and in other groups that I know. I did not judge other ways of studying, but, since Hans is inviting me to, I will do it now:
Dear members: a fountain is the beginning of a great river, but only if we allow its waters to advance. If we don’t, at most, it will become a puddle, but it will never get to be a river. Besides, a river, enriches itself with other fountains as it flows, it widens and progresses towards its goal, which is to join the sea. This is the richness of homeopathy, that it can be interdisciplinary, open, encompassing of the totality. In fact, the contrast between Hans’ point of view and mine, rises the problem that, while I can learn from Hans, because I study the totality, in which the part is included, Hans cannot learn anything from me, because in the part you can not fit the whole.
If we were to think like Hans, or Hans would manage to convince us, we would have to close this and every other forum, because in the forums we debate diverse points of view, given that there are different interpretations of the same things.
We would also need to burn all homeopathy books, except, of course, the Organon and Chronic Diseases, which would be elevated to the rank of Mao’s Little Red Book or the Bible. Actually, Hans, your attitude is more religious than scientific. We would have to, to sum it all up, reject all research and put on blinders in order not to look sideways or be polluted with any idea around us.
I cannot imagine Hahnemann, the man who wrote six editions of his own Organon, revising himself time after time, telling us that we should remain there, that we should not revise stray away from his strict doctrine. It is easier for me to imagine him telling those who follow him with praise and acclaim: “Sh, Sh, you better shut up and listen to what these other people have to tell us!”
Hans defends, by reasons of orthodoxy, “the letter”, and I defend, by reasons of identical orthodoxy, “the spirit” of that letter.
My dear fellow members, as homeopaths, you know well that idiosyncrasy matters, and that some people, because of their idiosyncrasy, are excellent observers with at the microscope, because their minds have a special penchant which makes them ideal for detail, for small and concrete things. But in order to see a bit further, it is necessary to leave the microscope and to look around, to look in a different way. And there are also other type of people with a different idiosyncrasy ready to do this. For example, Kali people, as you know, are inside the cell (delimited), they find very fitting dogmatic ideas like the ones that Hans defends, but: what are we to do with the other kind of people? All of us who are not Kali?
We would have to fit some corrective device into our minds in order not to think, or we would have to gag ourselves in order not to ask questions, to punish ourselves with self-flagelation every time that we would have a doubt, every time that we would feel intrigued by this or the other theory.
Hans, as I told you, I learn from you, as I learn from all and everyone of the homeopaths that I have met and I know, whether I share their ideas or not, and this is the reason why I not only accept you, and everyone else who doesn’t think like me, but also defend you. I understand that you can not let yourself flow from the sources of Hahnemann and Boeninghausen, and that you need to remain there, in your class platform, as a teacher, in order to defend what you consider the one and only truth. And I can even understand that you would, as if we were at an elementary school, admonish prestigious professor renown internationally like Dr. Candegabe, telling them that the should study. Yes, Hans, I do understand you, after all I practice homeopathy.