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The Dog with the Gap-Toothed Smile
After Alice Oswald
I paraded high stepping around my territories, pausing occasionally
to mark my superiority.
I shared my favours,
a lick of the hand, a wag a certain tilt of the head.
In time, they learnt which foods were acceptable
and quite of their own accord began buying steak. I praised them for their initiative.
I can’t absolutely remember giving them permission
to lift me on the bed
but it happened, so I let it be.
What I did do
was show them how to stand in the wind to get the best scents,
how to watch the high curve of a ball and let their heart soar with it
and how the simple act of walking can bring the deepest joy,
and I certainly intended almost anyone
to be charmed by my gap- toothed smile.
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encore To be or not to be (an animal)
by Frederik Schroyens
It must have been in the early nineties on the homeopathic island of Alonissos (greece). Marc Bär (switzerland) opened a new world for me with a casual remark "I think we need a veterinary synthesis". The subsequent conversation in the sunny harbor of patitiri was a first voyage of discovery which I would like to share with you in this article.
honesty demands that I start off by admitting that, until that time, my involvement with veterinary homeopathy was limited to the awareness that it existed. yes, I knew some Belgian veterinary homeopaths and I had met vet homeopaths at different congresses.
Nevertheless, like many human homeopaths still today, I did not feel that there was much of a connection with my daily work. The line separating my own "human" homeopathy and vet homeopathy was very thick. so here are some elements why this line has become much thinner.
Humans become animals
our provings are a wonderful invention. you prove a substance and it shows you its inner nature.
hahnemann has done so mostly for plants, metals and salts. In his time, "experiments on animals for the proving of remedies had not yet become customary in medical science" .
one of his most renown animal remedies is probably sepia, even if his attention to it was aroused because of the sepia ink being used by a painter, moistening the brush with his lips.
After hahnemann advised him to stop doing so, his symptoms disappeared. But his curiosity was awakened and, with five men (no woman!), he started a proving of the dynamized sepia juice.
This extraordinary experiment allows us to comprehend the animal sepia in an unequivocal way. look at these symptoms of one the very first animal provings:
• sad and troubled, most of all when walking in the open air.
• shewishestobebyherselfandtoliewithclosedeyes.
Continuing our look back at articles from the early days of the Mag here’s a piece from Frederik Schroyens that seems just as relevant today as it did back in Summer 2007.
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