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It’s now mid-winter and mid-summer, depending upon your location. We have more sun here in the last two weeks, so I’m happy about that. And longer days for hiking.
But the world continues to surprise me. Cease-fires bring hope, crazy statements by politicians scare me. Thankfully we have each other, not only in our families and our close friends, but also those of us in the homeopathy community, despite the troubles in the outside world and the pressures against us, share a common goal of helping others, whether other humans or other non-human beings who share this earth with us.
Within our homeopathy world though, the times are also difficult. I hear from more and more colleagues that the numbers of veterinarians practicing homeopathy is on the decline in their countries. Older friends have retired or died (our Hungarian friends have just lost their first teacher, Györgyi Takács, who recently passed away), and otherwise not so many young colleagues are joining us. Thankfully we also have growth in some areas, due in part to dedicated individuals and groups which focus upon education and promoting homeopathy to their peers. This is perhaps more the case in places where homeopathic medicine was not so prevalent before.
But—News Flash!—our Irish colleagues have just joined with fifteen collective members. We warmly welcome Ireland as our newest member country in working together to support veterinary homeopathy. Many thanks to Emily McAteer for her work in bringing them into the IAVH.
In many countries, unfortunately, the false Australian
report, which spread worldwide like a flash, created immense damage. This is despite the fact that the report was manipulated by creative statistics, using tighter standards than normal to eliminate any study which showed benefit from homeopathic medicines. And further, even though the government commission had to withdraw the report, reassess the studies, and release a corrected version, the new version, which was positive for homeopathy, made barely a ripple in the ocean of news on homeopathy. Most people and most medical societies and regulators remain unaware of the corrected report. Thus the assumption still stands that a major governmental organization thoroughly researched homeopathic medicine and found this to be ineffective.
So while we are not exactly at a crossroads, we are, along with the entire world on many levels, at a historical juncture. The future is unknown, but potentially malleable. Our thoughts do impact the outside world, and thus it is critical that we remain hopeful. An elder of the Taos (New Mexico) Pueblo, an indigenous village which has been continually inhabited for over 1000 years in the semi-arid Southwest United States, was asked about how to pray for rain during dry spells. He was clear in his reply: Do not pray for rain as it is so dry, because putting out the image of the dryness can manifest this image into reality. He said when they pray, they pray rain: imagining walking across the earth in a rainstorm, mud squeezing between your toes, for example. Do not think about what you fear or do not want; think only of what you wish for.
For our part, the IAVH is joining the Gellschaft für Ganzheitliche Tiermedizin (GGTM), which is the German
Holistic Veterinary Medical Association, in their annual congress in Nuremberg, Germany on April 25th and 26th of this year. We have a good lineup of speakers discussing nosodes and tautodes as well as everyday homeopathy. We have already had a lot of interest, and we’d love to have many people there to join in the vision of homeopathic healing.
We will also have our annual general meeting in Nuremberg, to continue our plans for moving forward. We hope to host a joint congress in Budapest in 2028, with our Hungarian colleagues, and we are planning for meetings in 2026 and 2027.
Please join us if you can, and help us create a better world. You can see the IAVH website for information, or use the links below to go to the GGTM site.
Also, the LMHI will be hosting their 100th anniversary congress in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in May 2025. There will be some veterinary presentations as well. It should be a fun congress, with homeopaths from across the world. https://www.lmhi2025.org/
Wishing you a radiant 2025,
iavh.org
https://ggtm.de/kurs/2503/ https://ggtm.de/veranstaltungen/booking-form/
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Don Hamilton
President, IAVH