Miasms in labour

-VAN DER ZEE Harry
A revision of the homoeopathic theory of the miasms - a process towards health
To Weiky and Piet, from whom I was born and to Margreet who gave birth to my children and to my children, Michiel, Maria Jolynn and Peter who will...
Foreword
For some two centuries homoeopathy has been like an island emerging from the ocean of the subconscious. Homoeopathy had no connections with the mainlands of science like mathematics, physics, chemistry, allopathy, psychology, sociology, philosophy.


Over the last decade, though, bridges are being built between the island of homeopathy and the mainland.
In this book Harry van der Zee is building a bridge with psychology. He makes a connection between the miasms and the birth process as analysed and discovered by Stanislav Grof. The title 'Miasms in labour' makes this clear. Harry shows the connections between the stages in the birth process as found by 'rebirthing' and the miasms.
Important here is the concept of 'process'. For a long time homoeopathy has been dominated by static thinking. We see this in the idea of constitutional remedies expressed as 'this is a Sulphur patient', in the idea of fixed remedy pictures and in the idea of 'the patient was cured'.
Harry emphasises the dynamic aspects in homoeopathy, through the miasms. Just as birth in itself is a process, so life is a process. It's not by chance that Hahnemann named the life force 'dynamis'.
A second bridge is built with the psychology of Jung. Harry succeeds in giving the miasms a much greater depth by connecting them with the individuation process.
One of the consequences of his research is that the miasms are not only disease, bad and ugly. Harry makes it clear that the miasms play an essential role in the process of development. For instance, the syphilitic miasm is not only destruction, but also unification; it's not only the dragon, but also the hero conquering the dragon. Harry gives the example of the beautiful fairy tale of the princess and the frog. We can see the princess as the psoric stage and the frog as the sycotic stage. When they come together we get the syphilitic stage. First we see the division between them, arising from the ugliness of the frog and disgust of the princess. Later we see the unification in the princess kissing the frog and the marriage with the prince. This is a beautiful example of 'the unity of the two opposites'. Often in homoeopathy we start with the ugly, dirty, bad, diseased side of remedy or patient. It's just one of the points greatly to Harry's credit that he did not to stop at this point, but went on further in search of the healthy, curative side of the miasms.
Now we can also build a bridge with the philosophy of Hegel. Hegel developed his dialectics, a philosophy of development and process. He made three stages: thesis, antithesis and synthesis. In these we can see psora, sycosis and syphilis. Important for this bridge is that the concept of unification is strongly connected to syphilis. And that's one of the ideas Harry gives us in this book.
We are lucky that Harry van der Zee by accident (!) came into contact with
'rebirthing' and also by accident (! - via a dream) with homoeopathy. As a result he was the person who could give homoeopathy and the homoeopathic community this bridge. Harry did that not only by knowing the two 'islands', but also by thinking the concept over, giving his attention and energy to it and let it ripen in his subconscious.
Apart from all the above gifts 'Miasms in labour' is already a valuable book for all the beautiful cases and remedy pictures Harry has provided for us.
Utrecht, 30-12-99
Jan Scholten

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