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Greetings everyone! As I write this report we are almost at the equinox, when the ratio between darkness and light moves in the opposite direction. We in the northern hemisphere are headed into darkness, although really we have been in darkness for a long time now. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza continue unabated. Also in Sudan and too many other places to even grasp. The death toll in Gaza alone is over 40,000 and climbing.
Ghandi said, "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Forty eyes for an eye in Gaza is staggering. The devastation in Israel on all sides is disheartening.
In the US, mass shootings continue to the point they are almost not news any more. And just yesterday there was another (aborted) assassination attempt on Donald Trump. No matter what you may think of him, this is madness. All of this is madness. How long must this madness continue?
I'm reading Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, selections of Alice Walker's journals. She is a novelist and essayist, best known for her book The Color Purple. Through one of her fictional characters, in response to citizens and police beating protestors during the US civil rights marches in the 1960s, she writes that "we have not seen the end of this refusal to love yet."
Her statement, so true then and now, has stayed on my mind. And then yesterday, as I prepared to write my report for the magazine, I folded this into homeopathy. Maybe this is too unscientific for
some people, but I wondered if love could be used to describe the vital force. We know that disease, dis-ease, comes from within most of the time. Can we say it is a failure to love? If we feel love for ourselves and feel that love also for everything around us, good health usually follows.
I'm going out on a limb here, but could the intangible vital force of a homeopathic medicine also be a form of love? A connection to an other at a vibratory level? If love is an aspect (or even the essence) of the vital force underlying life and all existence, maybe disease arises from an insufficiency of love. From a refusal to love, as Alice Walker says. And then maybe the healing aspect of a homeopathic remedy comes as we connect to the source of the remedy and to the universal love, the gestalt of the source and of the universe.
In any case, her framing all the violence as not hatred so much as a refusal to love is beautiful.
As for the IAVH, we are continuing to work towards promoting homeopathic medicine. The IAVH forum is active and a great place to share cases and ask questions. And we have two upcoming webinars in September and October (although the September one will be past by the
time you see this
report). September 29th at 11 AM CEST, Dr. Brigitte Hentschel from Germany will discuss homeopathic solutions for hyperesthesia in cats, and on October 20th at 2 PM CEST, Dr. Jody Bearmen from the USA will discuss therapeutic conditions including Kali carb and other remedies. Please contact IAVH Vice-President Ilze Pētersone ilzepetersons@gmail.com if you are interested in attending and if you are interested in presenting a webinar. Everyone has good cases and good information, so please share with us for webinars and/or for the BAHVS/IAVH Magazine. Malene will be happy for any submissions.
Mirjam Blatnik (IAVH Treasurer) and I will attend the LMHI congress in Sevilla, Spain, October 2nd to 5th of this year, to represent the IAVH as well as to meet with our Spanish colleagues to discuss the IAVH and our work.
And our next annual congress and AGM will be held in Nuremberg, Germany in association with the GGTM, on April 25th and 26th of next year. Beatrice Milleder, IAVH Secretary and German NR, is working with GGTM to organize the congress. We hope you will consider
attending one or both of the above congresses.
Warmest regards to all. And tell someone today that you love them.
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Don Hamilton
President, IAVH