[Dr. Szecsődi Ferenc]
Some aspects of Carbon, a new
remedy. He mentions two cases that benefitted from it and shares a painting he
did to illustrate the sensations which include helplessness and stagnation.
This article gives some insight into
the remedy Carbon and I use a painting to illustrate the sensations. I mention
two cases in which Carbon was the simillimum. The cases are of two patients who
successfully recovered with the help of Carbon C200 homeopathic medicinal
product. During case witnessing, they managed to reach the sensation level.
The first patient was a boy with
Enuresis nocturna.(2001)
He oftendreamt of a train moving
down the track and he is on the track and cannot move. The sensation in the
dream was:
Helplessness (“I can’t do anything,” “I can’t move on,” “I stand
helplessly,”)
Weakness (“I can’t move,” “I freeze at the crucial moment”)
The second patient was a man with
pollen allergy. (1991)
He had the delusions that he cannot
succeed, and he has no value.
On the sensation level he felt:
Stagnation (“I go blank instantaneously,” “things happen, and I’m just
standing,” “I don’t move”)
I’m on the brink (of something) (“no ups, no downs,” “between life and
death”) and he drew me a picture of an EKG, which is in my painting.
I prescribed the remedy on the
knowledge of the sensation of Carbon, which is taught by the Indian school(Sankaran,
Mahesh Gandi, The Joshi’s). I used the book
”Quick Book of Minerals and Animals”
from the Joshi’s. (2013) Carbon as a
remedy did not exist so I made it in my Remedy Maker (Radionics). Adam and Sacc
sind aus Carbon
Most of the coal beds were formed in the
Carboniferous geologic period approximately 300-360 million years ago.
Intensive geological processes (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and the
creation of lakes, contributed to the formation of coal beds). Large quantities
of wood were buried in soil and underwater, and due to the anaerobic
circumstances, the necessary pressure, and temperatures coal beds were formed.
The coal beds were made of Equisetales (horse-tails), Filicales (ferns) and
early gymnosperm plants (Lignophytes). During the formation of coal beds, all
the oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen disappeared from these plants.
Carbon has 6 protons, 6 neutrons,
and 6 electrons. Its atomic weight is 12. The atomic configuration is 1s2, 2s2,
2p2. Carbon is characterized by sp hybridization, which means that an electron
from the 2s orbit jumps to the 2p orbit. The number of equal electrons becomes
four, and four covalent bonds can be formed. This bond is extremely stable and
it contains a large amount of energy. Because of this, carbon has high energy
content and it is stable and inert at room temperature. It needs 800° C to
ignite.
The centre of Carbon is “energy and
lack thereof.”
The sensations of Carbon, which can
be found in the painting, are:
Helplessness (“I can’t do anything,” “I can’t move on,” “I stand
helplessly,” “I have little energy”)
Weakness (“I can’t move,” “I lack motivation,” “there’s no progress,” “I
freeze at the crucial moment”)
Stagnation (“I’m standing,” “I go blank instantaneously,” “things
happen, and I’m just standing,” “I don’t move”)
I’m on the brink (of something) (“no ups, no downs,” “between life and
death”)
Passive reactions: standing, lying
down, motionlessness (Thanatose?)
[David Quinn]
Carbon, and the feeling of forsaken,
deserted and ‘discarded’.
Jan Scholten: perceived and outlined
a complete structure with which we can understand the whole mineral kingdom.
In this article I wish to take a
close look at ‘Stage 14’ of the periodic table, and in doing this I put forth
the argument that in my view Dr Scholten should reconsider having taken both
Carbon and Silica from this stage and placing them into the middle of the
periodic table at stage 10, as he has done.
In my view both Carbon and Silica
belong above Germanium, Stannum and Plumbum, and share with these three
elements the same essential features.
Reading through the remedy Germanium
in Rajan Sankaran’s books on the mineral kingdom I began to realise that there
is much similarity in the symptoms and the description of Germanium with the
Carbon remedies and spezial Nat-c.
“Sense of failure, suppressed anger,
estrangement, dyslexia and fatigue are only some of the indications that make
this remedy uniquely suitable to our times“.
“Difficult to focus my mind on what
I’m doing, trying to gather my thoughts and trying to think of everything to
put in my brief case. See a bollard coming towards me, would have to focus my
mind hard to remember what I have to do to avoid it. When teaching my class, it
was difficult to focus on the logical steps“. (from Jeremy Sherr’s proving of
Germanium)
Confidence, want of
Delusion is alone, castaway, alone
in the world
Delusion does everything wrong;
cannot succeed, has failed
Pursued
Delusion life is meaningless
Forsaken
Delusion refugee children in Kosovo
Delusion isolated
Dreams Third Reich
Delusion vulnerable
Fatigue, powerless, apathetic
Occasional outburst and desire to
escape.
I read „Homoeopathy and the
Elements“, the main characteristics of Stage 14: Germanium, Stannum and Plumbum, and compared them
with what we think of as the important characteristics of the Carbon remedies.
Jan Scholten: Stage 14 Germanium
Stannum Plumbum
Eliminated
Discarded
They feel as if they are being
discarded, being put out of action, placed on a side track. They are no more
than onlookers at this stage, still there ‘for the show’, but their real role
has come to an end. They are being eliminated under the guise of a ‘gradual
phasing out process’.
Diverting
While they are being put on a side
track by other people, they in turn are also very good at diverting important
matters to another side track. They are masters in changing the subject and
passing the buck when things get a bit too close. In a positive sense this can
be seen as the ability to keep the pressure off, to even things out so they
don’t get out of control. This is the ‘dropshot’ technique: they catch a ball
and play it back in such a way that all the speed has been taken out of it, it
drops down dead, all the energy has been absorbed. This is the talent of the
people in stage 14. The weakness of the wrists of Plumbum is very symbolic.
Irresponsible
They are inclined to hand their
responsibility over to other people or to the apparatus. They hide behind norms
and rules and don’t like to be reminded of their responsibilities. All power
has been taken from them, so how can they be responsible.
Empty
Weak Drained
Everything is coming to an end now.
They have lost control and can’t do much more. This makes them weak and feeble,
makes them feel empty, as if all life has drained away.
Indifferent
Their attitude can appear very
indifferent. They are not interested, they are bored.
Formal
Distant
Become very formal and distant. The
outer form becomes more important than what is inside. They will attach great
importance to etiquette, protocol, ceremonies and standard procedures, even
when they have no function anymore. They are conventional people conforming to
the rules...
Covering
up
Then they start to cover up all
their actions. Nobody is allowed to see what they are doing in case they are
being made responsible.
Mask
Eventually we only see the outside,
a facade, a mask. This mask makes them stiff, reserved, stoic. All you see is
an empty shell: the inside has gone. They feel like a puppet, they no longer
have the power to manage their task, but they pretend that nothing is wrong.
They carry on as if everything is fine, but it is only an act...
Dis-
There are several words with the
prefix ‘dis’ that portray the mood of this stage: distracted, discarded,
distanced, displaced, dismembered, discredited, disinterested. (Jan Scholten -
Homoeopathy and the Elements)
To me this is an accurate
description of the 3 states of Germanium, Stannum and Plumbum and of the
process we see in all the people in Carbon states and Silica. (I see especially
important the feeling as being ‘discarded’ according to Jan Scholten).
The way the periodic table is set up
in chemistry Carbon and Silica are placed over Germanium and are thus part of
this column of remedies which is called Stage 14. However Jan Scholten has
shifted both Carbon and Silica to the middle of the table direct above
Niccolum, Palladium and Platinum of stage 10.
He writes, “DD.: stage 10: Carbon
and Silica: This stage (stage 14) is often compared with Carbon and Silica with
regard to its chemical properties. Both have a certain desire for stability,
they like to keep the situation as it is. The ions of this group can also have
a charge of 4, as Carbon and Silica do.
But this stage is essentially different. Carbon and Silica really are at the
top, whilst Stage 14 only appears to be at the top. In reality they are very
close to their downfall“. (Homoeopathy and the Elements)
I now think that the shifting of
Carbon and Silica from their natural position should be re-considered by Jan
Scholten, as I believe that Carbon and Silica belong above Germanium and share
with Germanium Stannum and Plumbum all the characteristics he describes.
Carbon remedies and Silica described
throughout the Materia Medica with regard to this feeling of being ‘discarded’.
Up until this point my understanding
of this column of remedies was of a tremendous irresolution, an ‘unsureness of
what to do’. However, I now see that this is just 1 characteristic. Before the
remedies are discussed individually I will have a look at the rubrics which
contain the feelings of being ‘deserted’ and ‘forsaken’. While these are not
the same as ‘discarded’ it is interesting how the Carbon remedies and Silica
show up. Here are some of these symptoms,
DELUSION deserted, forsaken Bar-c. Carb-a.
Carb-v. Germanium, Mag-c. Nat-c. (63 remedies)
DELUSION town, is in a deserted
Carb-a. (only remedy)
DREAMS cities deserted
DREAMS places, deserted
ANXIETY forsaken her, as if a friend
had forsaken her Rhus-t. (only remedy)
BITING nails forsaken feeling, with
Calc. (only remedy)
FEAR forsaken, of being Arg-n. Ars.
Aur-s. Bufo. Cand. Carc.
Caus. Crot-c. Kali-c. Lac-d. Lacf. Larr. Lith-c. Lyss. Mag-c. Mangi. Musca. Nat-c. Phos. Phyt. Plat-met.
Puls. Sacch. Stram. Tub.
FORSAKEN feeling Bar-c. Calc. Carb-a. Carb-v. Germanium,
Kali-c. Mag-c. Nat-c. Plb-met.
Sil. (196 remedies) (Complete Repertory)
There is no mention of Graph. in any
of these rubrics.
Carb-v.
AVARICE generosity towards strangers,
avarice as regards his family Carb-v.
CONFUSION OF MIND compelled to
arouse himself Carb-v.
IRRESOLUTION marry, to Carb-v. Sil.
(12 remedies)
The state of Carb-v. is known for
being low-spirited, near death with immovable no motivation, seems to be not
getting enough air. They are going cold, going blue. The natural tendency of
vital reaction is severely inhibited.
Earnest Farrington „Clinical Materia
Medica“: “Carb-v. is better when the debility arises from organic causes, and
we have a picture of collapse with hippocratic face and coldness of the body
(knees)“.
James Kent: “You know he is sick
because the bright, sparkling look has gone out of his eyes. If he could only
get somewhere by himself and lie down – provided it was not dark – he would be
comfortable. He wants to be let al1; he is tired; his days work wears him
out...He dreams of fire, burglars, fearful and horrible things” (Lectures on
Materia Medica)
Rajan Sankaran: ‘robbers’ is very
important for Germanium,
Jan Scholten: stage 14 ‘As if all
life has drained away’.
Carb-a.
Some of the mind symptoms. Incl. the
first 7, from the proving by Samuel Hahnemann.
Extremely melancholy mood, with a
sensation of being deserted.
He feels, in the morning, as if he was
deserted, and full of homesickness.
Homesickness.
Great disposition to sadness.
Pusillanimous and sad; everything
seems to her so l1ly and sad, that she would like to weep.
Inclination to solitude, sad and
introverted, she always only wishes to be al1, and she shuns every
conversation.
The objects on the street seem to
him changed, e.g. farther apart and brighter than usual, as in an empty
abandoned city. (The Chronic Diseases)
Edward Whitmont: In „Psyche and
Substance“ a short chapter on the state of Carb-a. and we begin to see this
picture of the ‘discarded’ person come into view. “The Materia Medica describes
a state of isolation, rejection of people, withdrawal and withering. These
people become slaves to their own rigid views and routine; they respond with
anxiety to the threat of any disturbance of their accustomed way of thinking or
living...The personality type may be described as introverted, indrawn, thin,
dark, sometimes heavy set, rigid, retiring, antisocial with an aversion to
people, desires to be alone. Carb-a. mix marginal in company, though they may
enjoy the company of 1 or 2 individuals to whom they are accustomed. Aversed to
conversation, taciturn, shy, a feeling of isolation, often heard in the words,
“When I was young.“..: a mournful reflective state of discouragement and
gloominess, obstinate irascibility, ill humour, a feeling of being abandoned,
thoughts of death and hopelessness“.
We know how the ‘carbonate’ part in
people takes the tendency of a retiring, quiet, yet straight-forward, honest
and reliable kind of person. Edward Whitmont shows the decline into being
‘anti-social’ ‘rigid’ ‘taciturn’ etc.
Carb-a. is said to contain some
Phosphorus and there are glandular and stomach affections in Carb-a.
Carb-v. contains a small amount of
potassium, we see Kalium back problems in Carb-v.
Jan Scholten: ‘abandoned’ feeling of
Carb-a. more to do with the ‘animalis’ than the carbon, in which the central
theme is 1 of displacement. He writes,
“DD Carb-a.: again a similar duality
of rigidity and instability, with the emphasis on the theme of displacement
(animals). This is expressed < on displacement, moving house etc. Like a
lonely cowboy who finds himself in a ghost town“. (Homoeopathy and the
Elements)
Graph.
Is carbon and contains some Ferr-met.
Two keynote symptoms of Graph. are,
LAUGHING reprimands, at
LAUGHING reproach, at (Dr Chawla,
Materia Medica of Human Mind)
These important symptoms of Graph.
show the fighting oppositional spirit of Ferr-met.
Earnest Farrington: “She has
forebodings of some imaginary accident or mishap which is about to take place;
and this makes her anxious and restless; impelling her to move about from place
to place; she cannot be kept quiet…” (Clinical Materia Medica)
This is the insecurity of row 4,
with the restlessness of Ferr-met. as well. In Graph. it is very much an
‘anxious apprehensiveness’.
Earnest Farrington: “In the case of
chlorosis, Graph. has these symptoms; there is a tendency to rush of blood to
the head with flushing of the face, exactly like in Ferr-met.”.
Vithoulkas „Essence of Materia
Medica“: We see the lack of vital reaction (of the Carbon state), “Graph. shows
lack of sensitivity to any stimulus – body, emotional and intellect...Eventually,
the mind becomes empty. In Graph. it is an emptiness of thinking itself. It is
an absence of thoughts. They feel that nothing is happening inside. Because of
the dullness of mind, there is also irresolution. Graph. patients cannot make
even the simplest decisions“. We see here that the irresolution, something
which is present throughout Carbon state, is coming directly from the draining
away of any vital reaction. And for some hint of the forsaken discarded feeling
of Stage 14.
Didier Grandgeorge: „The Spirit of
Homoeopathic Medicines“: Graph. ‘I could have been a diamond’, and presents us
with the Graph. case, “A high-level sports professional asks my help for
recurrent sinusitis and fissuring eczema of the extremities, which has resisted
a variety of treatments attempted. Consulting my repertory, I prescribe Graph.
‘What is Graph.?’ he asks me. Instead of answering him with the chemical
formula, I give him the central idea of the remedy as expressed in the subtitle
above. He sinks down into the chair. “Doctor, I am going to tell you something
I have yet to confess to any doctor I’ve consulted so far. A few years ago, I
was taking heroin, and ruined my championship career. That is why I am now
nothing more than an obscure trainer“. In fact, he is an educator and, as such,
selects and trains the young people who may later become champions. and, like
the graphite in the lead of the pencil, it is up to him to draw the straight
line that leads to those heights…
Catherine Coulter: in „Portraits of
Homoeopathic Medicines“ a typical Graph. picture is the woman around menopause
who, with the onset of hormonal changes, puts on weight, develops cysts in the
breast or a uterine fibroid, or experiences hot flashes or other forms of
unstable circulation. In the mental sphere she has, for whatever reasons, never
explored her own strengths and, hence, she is restless, discouraged,
discontented, and apprehensive about the future (“feeling of impending
misfortune”: Hahnemann). She has hitherto found meaning and challenge in her
family life – also a legitimate outlet for her emotions in caring for the needs
of others. Then, when grown children leave home (and these days, more likely
than not, the husband follows suit thereafter), she is suddenly thrown back on
herself and forced to confront total emptiness. 1 such patient, whose grown
children had aband1d the home several years ago, was suffering from “empty nest
syndrome,” as well as from numbness of the arms and tingling fingers, < at
night“.
Nat-c.
An important symptom of Nat-c.:
MISANTHROPHY
Bar-c. CALC. Germanium, Kali-c. Nat-c. STAN-met. (60 remedies) (Complete
Repertory)
Perhaps this is a misanthropy of the
deserted discarded person.
Earnest Farrington: “You will find
such a patient decidedly averse to society (own family). Nat-c. also weakens
the nervous system in another direction. We find it exhibiting great debility,
which is marked with every exertion on the part of the patient. His walk
becomes unsteady; any little obstruction on the pavement causes him to fall.
His ankles turn in when he attempts to walk. I have a patient, apparently in
good health, who has had 5 falls within 1 year, and, for these accidents, I can
find no reason…” (Clinical Materia Medica)
Jan Scholten: This is like the weak
wrists of Plb-met. and the “dropshot” of stage 14.
Rajan Sankaran: Of the forsaken
discarded feeling writes: “Nat-c. woman needs just 1 relationship and is very
dependent on this 1 relationship, without which she feels tremendous fear,
sadness, and sense of isolation.
Nat-c. is very sensitive (separation
from the beloved and breaking of relationship). When the beloved is not there
or he has gone away the patients show great sadness, reacting to sad music
(piano). They desire to make contact but have been unsuccessful in forming
relationships and blame themselves for it (Delusion: cannot succeed, does
everything wrong). They become estranged from family and friends and bear their
grief silently, feeling forsaken.
Nat-c. woman feels like an outcast
and is always at the receiving end of abuse (offended easily). Nat-c. people
can have a severe inferiority complex (beginnning of forming – they may feel
unworthy of love or of any relationship. I have found in Nat-c. a history of
disturbed relationship with 1 of the parents (being forsaken or neglected by
the father or mother). It is interesting to note that Nat-c. does not have any
fear or delusions of animals. She is only afraid of people. Nat-c. is afraid of
the human quality of forming a group and casting people out. They are sympathetic and help others;
sensitive especially to the suffering of people who are lonely and forsaken by
society (beggars)“. (The Soul of Remedies)
A friend who is herself in a Nat-c.
state. She is quiet and polite and yet every now and again has a strong
aversion to certain persons. In 1 example of this she once she remarked of
another person who was only talking about themselves and not interested in
anyone else around them, how they are only ‘so into themselves’. She was
feeling discarded by another person’s self-centeredness.
Mag-c.
FORSAKEN
FEELING feels not being beloved by his parents, wife, friends (keynote
symptom).
James Kent „Lectures on Materia
Medica“: The image of the abandoned in his description of Mag-c. “I have
observed (illegitimate infants), those that have been conceived by clandestine
coition, that they have a tendency to sinking in the back of the head. The
occipital bone will sink in, and the parietal
bones jut out over it, and there will be a depression. That is not an
uncommon thing in children that go into marasmus. They are very likely to have
a potter's clay stool. It does not run, and is not hard.
Pasty stool, looking as if it could
be moulded into any kind of shape is Mag-c. stool. Once in charge of an orphanage,
where we had 60 to 100 babies on hand all the time. The puzzle of my life was
to find remedies for the cases that were going into marasmus. A large number of
them were clandestine babies. It was a sort of Sheltering Arms for these little
ones. The whole year elapsed, and we were losing babies every week from this
gradual decline, until I saw the image of these babies in Mag-c. and after that
many of them were cured“.
Rajan Sankaran: In „The Soul of
Remedies“ writes, “The magnesium feeling is that the person doesn’t get the
care, protection and nourishment that he needs. It is the state of an infant
dependent on the mother for nourishment, care, security and support, but who
has been abandoned by his parents. It is the feeling of an orphan. In most Mag-c.
patients there is a total repression – they feel that they should not make any
demands on anyone, should not ask anyone for help. In this way, they may seem
to be independent. Another feature of the dreams of Magnesium is that in many
of these, there is a feeling of being alone, of having to face a problem alone.
Another theme is that of being left behind. Quite a few Magnesium patients that
I have treated had the dream of being left behind, alone on the railway
platform while the train departed
with all their relatives in it. Among the pleasant dreams that Magnesium
patients get are those of being with people, of going on a picnic with
relatives, of meeting friends and relatives, and of being with relatives who
are actually dead“.
Didier Grandgeorge: „Spirit of
Homoeopathic Medicines“: “J. T. Kent discovered that this is the remedy for
children who are aband1d by their parents, and then have to make an
effort to adapt to life in an institution or adoptive family“.
Kali-c.
Rajan Sankaran: “The main symptom of
Kali-c. is the fear of being alone and the desire for company. Her dependence
on the group or family is so great that her entire life revolves around her
family – the health of family members, the integrity of her family, the amount
of support she gets from her family, etc. “Dreams of dead relatives” in Kali-c.
shows her extreme concern for her family. A big aggravating factor for Kali-c.
would be the sickness of any member of the family. She feels forsaken when she
doesn’t get the support she needs. In the clinic, the Kali-c. person can be a
very faithful patient, following
up quite regularly and sticking to
the same doctor for a long time. But the trouble begins when she starts considering
the physician as a family member. Then she will become truly dependent on the
physician, she will never leave him; but each time she comes she will quarrel
and insist she is not better.
Speaks loudly and is mpatient with
the progress. They can be quite nagging with the physician as if he is not
paying enough attention to them or supporting them. They will tempt the doctor
by their general sourness and extreme dependence to shirk responsibility
towards them – which is similar to the origin of their state, a neglecting and
irresponsible spouse“.
The Kali-c. state is often described
as very conservative, with extreme attachment to set rules and set customs of
society. If we consider the Kali insecurity and dependence combined with a
sensitivity towards being forsaken and discarded (carbon) then we can
understand this exaggerated conscientiousness.
Calc.
BITING
NAILS with feeling forsaken Calc. (only remedy)
Samuel Hahnemann: Follow proving
symptoms of Calc.: Unconscious and delirium about her abode, as if her room
were a hall in the garden (The Chronic Diseases)
Here we see the feeling of being
discarded from their normal place of security.
Didier Grandgeorge „The Spirit of
Homoeopathic Medicines“: “Before birth, the infant was safe and sound inside
the maternal “egg”. Throughout their lives Calc. subjects will try to rebuild a
protective shell, from the cradle cap and umbilical hernia of the infant to the search for stable
employment in adulthood”.
Maybe this is something like being
discarded (carbon) from the security (calcium and row 4) of the mother’s womb.
Calc. oft indicated in very early childhood.
Ananda Zaren: Calc. child would
rarely risk rejection by an angered or volatile parent. Calc. often suffer from
a specific type of isolation. These people are often well-liked, get along with
co-workers, and have many acquaintances. Few, however, are able to make close
connections with other people and completely “Let their hair down”, relax, and
be fully themselves. Belonging and being valued are dreams for the Calc. adult,
who never felt true acceptance as a child. Chasing approval and acceptance all
of their life. As a child felt left out or on the sidelines. Was the last to be
picked to participate in any activity. Senses need to be successful or uniquely
different in order to be noticed, desired, or invited to ‘join the club’, so to
speak. Feels as though never been asked to join. Perhaps the criteria for
membership are such that does not actually qualify. For instance, maybe
personal appearance is not acceptable, or way of being is not normal. Feels
that needs to behave differently to be asked to join. The problem is that I
really don’t want to behave differently“.
Jan Scholten: need to prove her
‘self-worth’ something which is described as being a central issue of the
remedies of Period 2 of the Periodic Table.
Ananda Zaren: Calc. individuals of
this type will avoid accountability in their dealings with other people by
procrastinating.
Calc. is 1 of only 2 remedies in the
rubric MIND, Indifference to important things. Many of these people will avoid
commitment by using fatigue as an excuse. They either put off unpleasant duties
or fail to communicate clearly, thus shifting the responsibility to the
shoulders of others“.
“Calc. individuals need to feel
acceptance from family members and friends (place a great deal of importance on
friendship). Rejection by a friend is deeply wounding for Calc. teenagers,
because of their desperate need to belong and be part of the group. They
attempt to fit in, and they seek acceptance by acting in a way that seems to
conform to the group image. They try to find their identity in the reflection
of their peers, and they are afraid to be themselves and risk rejection by the
group“. (Materia Medica Volume II - Core Elements of the Materia Medica of the
Mind)
Bar-c.
Sad and anxious; all manner of
gloomy ideas as to his future fate rise in his mind, and he believes himself
totally forsaken; in the evening.
Anxious and fearful; a little noise
on the street seems to him at once like a fire alarm, and he is frightened by
it, so that it darts through all his limbs.
The greatest irresolution; he
proposes to himself a brief journey, and as soon as he is to make his
preparation, he is sorry for it, and prefers to stay at home.
(The Chronic Diseases)
The second symptom here shows the
sensation of being in danger and the starting from this, something we see
throughout all the remedies of the carbon row.
Sankaran: „The Soul of Remedies“: Goes
off alone and weeps as if she has no friends”.
Sil.
Sil. is the element directly below
Carbon and belongs to period 3 of the periodic table/has to do with problems
related to a child’s relationship with very primary and significant others
(parents). This period is concerned with care, relationship and connection of
early childhood. If Sil. belongs to stage 14 then the feeling will be of having
been forsaken and discarded within an important primary relationship, in which
the person is left feeling disconnected from others and forsaken.
Frans Vermeulen quoted Carlyon: “The
conflict can be between inner life and outer life, again underlining the fact
that the Sil. type lacks the ability to enter fully into life; they are too
refined and may themselves be too special. This individual is too much in the
head, not in touch with instinct and feeling, not rooted. Indecision is a big
problem; may say that she feels her mind doing one thing and her body doing
another. A conflict between different walks of life and different interests
could also be present. An example here would be a split between art and
science, the scientific thinking temperament battling with the artistic feeling
or intuitive temperament. The split often occurs in the field of relationship with
others. The person can be pulled between their own wants and needs on one hand
and the demands and expectations of relatives, friends and society in general
on the other. This of course leads to indecision and not knowing their own
mind. I have often seen, when listening to the patient’s story, that as a child
the patient was caught in the middle between two conflicting parents. This was
not necessarily overt conflict or warfare, but could have been an underlying
tension, unresolved conflict, or temperamental differences, which the Sil.
patient, being so sensitive to the psychic atmosphere, would pick up on and
experience as an internal split. They become stuck in the middle of opposing
tendencies in their environment. The person feels that he is not in his body
and cannot cope with being in the world. To be in the world is to take on form
and to take a stand. Ultimately the Sil. is afraid of and withdraws from the
commitment of life, preferring somehow to remain free of the restrictions of
physical manifestations. Isolation is a word constantly used by Sil. patients.
They feel isolated and separated from other people and the world in general.
They also say that they feel cut off from themselves.
The situation here is of a child
dependent on their parents for love and affection and the parents are spending
all their energy on each other, fighting with each other, and the child is
being discarded in this.
George Vithoulkas: “I cannot exactly
explain this predilection in Calc. child. It seems to arise out of the
observation of the world around them. They see suffering and injustice; perhaps
there is some conflict between the parents.
(Essence of the Materia Medica)
The Sil. often described to be some
one brought up in a family with certain values of how things are to be. The
focus is on the ‘image’ of the family, the name of the family and acting in a
certain fixed way which gives a certain impression to the community. The child
doesn’t decide anything for themselves. They are told how to act, how to be,
what schools to go to, how a proper person should behave. The child feels
discarded in the sense that all their feelings and opinions are being
discarded.
Rajan Sankaran: describes ths this
kind of background in his understanding “in Sil. it is his image that must be
protected at all costs. the Sil.’s survival would depend upon fulfilling a
particular image. Sil. constantly feels the eyes of others on themselves and
are very conscious of the impression they are creating. Sil. comes from a
situation where fulfilling a specific image is a necessary condition for
acceptance, for example a child is told that he will be accepted and loved if
he achieves in a specific way. A Silicea woman is actually trying to fulfil an
image made for her by somebody else. In that sense she yields to that image,
but she also becomes fixed to it and so in her effort to maintain it, she is
obstinate. This combination of yielding and obstinacy is found in Silicea in a
peculiar way. On one hand there is the desire to be magnetized, i.e. she wants
to be completely under the suggestion of somebody else. On the other hand, she
is so fixed in her opinions that if contradicted she can become violent:
“Intolerance of contradiction, has to restrain from violence”. Sil. does not
openly revolt but sticks to her opinion.
Samuel Butler: (The Soul of
Remedies) “Convinced against her will, but of the same opinion still”. She will
say “yes” finally so as not to make an issue, but the feeling inside is still
“no, this is all wrong”. She is not one to revolt but she knows that if she
yields completely and gives up her goals and image, then the one she is
dependent on will start disliking her. This is a peculiar contradiction. Sil.
can be late to develop relationships and marry. Thus the essential features of
the “coped-up” state of Sil. are fixed ideas, obstinacy, fixed image and
rigidity. In the uncompensated state the main symptoms are yielding,
irresolution, desire to be magnetized, nervous, timid, self-conscious“.
Another situation of the Silica
feeling could be a man and woman who have children because this is the right
thing for their image to have a family.
Silica also has many characteristics
in common with the Carbon state. It has the weakness or lack of vital reaction.
They are generally straightforward sensible and a bit quiet. There is also the
irresolution and indifference.
Here are some quotes of various
Homoeopaths about the state of Silica.
Philip Bailey „Homoeopathic
Psychology“: “I once knew a very refined Silica woman who had adopted a drug addict
as a friend. She went to great lengths to help him, and was always available
for him when he was in need of her, and would not abandon him as his health and
sanity deteriorated. The relationship was very much carer and cared-for, and
involved no sexual or romantic association. This Silica lady’s dignity and
self-possession contrasted starkly with her friend’s roughness, yet she was not
troubled by the latter…”.
Catherine Coulter „Portraits of
Homoeopathic Medicines“: Sil. child is skilled at dealing with the situation
where their feelings and opinions are being discarded. “An instance of this
effective persistence is the child who dislikes is boarding-school intensely,
yet cannot persuade his parents to bring him home or send him somewhere else.
He begins, deliberately or unconsciously, to apply various methods of passive
persuasion: not answering his parent’s letters and refusing to telephone. Or,
if they call him, he talks only about how depressed he is.
Discontented Sulph. or Nux-v. will
start to misbehave (both being troublemakers who “make waves”), Sil. develops
elusive complaints or a malingering attitude, thus forcing his parents to
consider his wishes“.
Also, she writes “Another, who
suffered non-specific “stubborn” headaches that yielded to no remedies was
finally recognised as needing Silica by her reluctance to form new friendships
due to remorseful recollections of misunderstandings with former friends
brought on by her own behaviour. She readily fell into the self-accusatory
mode: “Why did I act like that!” “I shouldn’t have made that remark!” and so
on. She was also obsessive about these failed attachments, digging repeatedly
into this terrain to discover the reasons and circumstances of their rupture
with the tenacity of a Schliemann looking for the lost city of Troy“.
“He may so lack ambition or energy
as to permit others to take credit for his own achievements, or he will refuse
to defend his position and would rather be considered wrong than take trouble
to prove himself correct. He may even lack the energy for enthusiasm, and a
large portion of his life will be devoted to avoiding offense or friction“.
We see here how badly affected the
wanting of normal social consideration can be for the Silica person. Their
sensitivity is such that it all seems too hard because they only end up being
discarded anyhow, as not too many people pay much attention to anyone else. And
notice how much this quote sounds like Jan Scholten’s description of Stannum,
the remedy of stage 14,
Stann-met.
"…Weakness through talking
Jan Scholten „Homoeopathy and the
Elements“: They may feel so powerless that they will go along with whatever is
being said. They don’t dare to express their own opinion anymore, always
babbling along with other people. This makes them feel exhausted because it is
not their own self expression and therefore doesn’t energise them. Nobody
listens to them so they have to shout to be heard“.
And see how much like Nat-c. these
paragraphs are,
H. C. Allen: “Silica’s “sanguine” disposition
results in part from imperturbability and a low-key self-sufficiency (mental
equanimity being perhaps the most precise expression). The happy and healthy
child exhibits a perky and independent demeanour and does not require the
constant attention of others. The endearing and gentle side of the Sil.
disposition reflects his fair, even-tempered, and considerate approach to
people. Seldom overly conscious of status, he judges others as individuals, and
for their true qualities, not for their position in the world. He is not
necessarily kind, but is truthful and honest. He may lack the warmth of Phos.
and the sympathy of Puls., since the type extends compassion rather than
sympathy and, rather than becoming emotionally involved in the problems of others,
tries rationally to help work them out“.
It is interesting that it is
observed that the person of a Silica constitutional state can tend into acute
illnesses of the remedy Puls., and the feeling of Sil.having been discarded by
a very close other and Puls. is the mortification of feeling all alone.
Ananda Zaren: “The characteristics
that form the complex picture of Sil. are forged in childhood. The elements of
the etiology of this remedy include fright, abuse, neglect, and abandonment. In
normal development, the child slowly separates psychologically from the mother
and evolves its own sense of individuality. In Sil. the separation occurs
prematurely, resulting in trauma. Typically, you will be able to detect a
flawed family system in which the Sil. child felt hurt and isolated. Sil.
sensitive to impressions from the emotional environment. Because of this
vulnerability, many situations are perceived as abandonment by the Sil.
organism. Sil. emotional pathology can be triggered by being the product of an unwanted
pregnancy, parental preference for a child of the opposite sex, or transient
separation from the parents in the hours or days after birth. The etiology of
the Sil. state can also result from incarceration in concentration camps, after
intellectual overwork, with loss of sleep, or as a sequel to vaccination. The
remedy is often required in people who have eating disorders
(anorexia/bulimia). A premier quality of the Sil. wall is denial. This can be
manifested as denial of the problem or denial of the feelings associated with
the problem. Sil. have many buried issues that reach up to control their lives.
Denial and repression of emotionality results in either the feeling of
stiffness, which can be expressed as emotional reserve or properness, or a physical
stiffness that can be observed as rigidity of posture“. (Materia Medica Vol I -
Core Elements of the Materia Medica of the Mind)
See mentioned here the idea of the
concentration camp, something which is mentioned by Germanium. The idea is
being abandoned, ‘discarded’.
Carbon
Carbon is part of period 2 of the
periodic table.
Rajan Sankaran: this row to be like
the experience of a baby in the womb and the process of being born. He
describes the Carbon stage of this: “Here below I wish to share my concept of
Carbon in general which applies to all Carbon forms and compounds. This concept
takes into account the position of Carbon in the periodic table, namely in the
middle of period 2 which is about fetal life and the birth process. Carbon is
the moment of decision of the fetus to be an independent existence and with
that the inherent doubts and fears about its capability to be so. It does
occupy a very important and central position in man’s development. The ability
to have an independent existence has its main quality the ability to react to
circumstances on one’s own, independently. This vital reaction or its absence
is the central theme of Carbon remedies. I have expanded on this theme below
and given a few examples to show the differences in the expression of this
basic theme among some carbon remedies.
Carbon is exactly in the middle of
period 2 (stage of separation) which has an alternating state, where on one
side feels, ‘Can I be on my own or do I need to be still here?’ And the other
side feels, ‘I have to let go, can I let go? For the first time I have to
sense, I have to react and I am on my own. Am I capable of being on my own?’
Carbon represents that stage of
development where for the first time 1 gets a sense of being an entity separate
from the mother. They are still in the womb but now they are no more a part of
it, now the time has come where they need to be on their own and react
independently.
Carbon is the stage where the head
of the baby descends further and engages itself. The baby is preparing to leave
the womb and needs the ability to react independently.
Now there is no going back, so the
question arises how will he react to the outside world? The main idea here is
vital reaction (the presence or absence of it). So far the womb has been their
world and their support system and now they are going into a completely new
world alone. Carbon is thus the first substance to feel that he is a separate
entity. Now is the time where he has to adapt to the new. He has to now react
for himself. The main carbon symptom, lack of vital reaction, shows the
opposite polarity of such a quality.
So it is about sensing and reacting,
which is the vital reaction of a person. Where the feeling is, ‘Is the outside
going to dull me into no reaction or am I going to react?’.
Rajan Sankaran „Structure Volume 1“:
in this description he agrees with Jan Scholten in placing Carbon in the middle
of the periodic table and into stage 10. This stage (stage 10) is considered to
be the point where the person feels they have the full capacity to do
something. That there is no longer anything missing or lacking which they need
and therefore they are now ‘ready’, so to speak. This corresponds with what
Rajan Sankaran says about the baby being ‘ready’ to be born, and to start an independent
physical existence of their own. However, I don’t think this context is
correct. I think that Carbon belongs in stage 14 and is the feeling of being
discarded (from somewhere).
Rajan Sankaran says 1 important
feeling in Carbon is ‘to be on my own’.
Calc. asks, ‘Can I protect myself on
my own?’
Baryta carb feels ‘Can I take
responsibility on my own?’”
Then soon after Dr Sankaran says
something very interesting,
“Carbon has an alternating state of
high energy alternating with inactivity, stagnancy and hibernation, and then
slowly gets some stimulus and then it develops an initiative, which is enough
for him to feel that now, ‘I can’t be stationary; I have to move out.’
(Structure)
This is like being pushed out (of
the womb) and the best thing to do is to simply accept it. Maybe it is the
feeling of being discarded from the womb.
“The main theme of all carbonates is
that there is no reaction in a situation in which they are. It is interesting
how in carbonates like Calc. and Mag-c. the carbon seems to depend on its
partner to provide its specific context. Calc. is somebody who would like to be
protected as if by a shield or by a person who offers him security. They show a
kind of dullness and lack of reactivity and independence in the context of a Calc.
situation. So the feeling in Calc. is, ‘I feel insecure and I am not capable of
protecting myself and therefore I simply will remain at home and I will not
come out.’ They feel, ‘I want somebody around me’, which is typical of carbon
but because they are not capable of protection, it is Calcarea“. (Structure)
Here the person feels discarded and
abandoned and hence they remain at home all alone (carbon), and yet they
desperately want others around them, for this feeling to be taken away.
Through observing many people in the
carbon states and by reading the Materia Medica I thought that the stage 14 and
carbon feeling was of an irresolution, an unsureness of what to do.Carbon about
vital reaction, and that we see in the carbon states a lacking of vital reaction
and then suddenly an exaggerated hyper vital reaction. I think that both of
these are coming out of a feeling of being ‘discarded’.
In Germanium there is the symptom
Life
is meaningless (Structure)
When 1 feels discarded life loses its
meaning. What is 1 to do with this? How can you rouse yourself up in the face
of this? Hence what emerges is the ‘lack of vital reaction’. We see the
progression. The feeling of being aband1d and discarded, which naturally leads
to a tremendous weakening of the life force, and the dullness inherent with
this becomes a sense of tremendous irresolution (Life is meaningless).
Now I will just briefly show some of
what is written of the elements Germanium, Stannum and Plumbum to see more this
feeling of being aband1d and deserted, and also how much is like the Carbon
states and Silica.
Germanium
Germanium belongs to stage 14 and
period 4. Thus the proposed feeling is of being ‘insecure and abandoned’.
Rajan Sankaran: „Structure –
Experiences with the Mineral Kingdom“.
“Doctor: Which type of situations or
failures make you feel <?
Patient: Exams or that in March for
example, my student friend with whom I was sharing the apartment, decided to
leave, and I had counted on their friendship, and they decided to go and live
together, as if they didn’t reciprocate friendship. I felt hurt, sad and began
to dwell in all type of problems as I become pessimist; there are loads of
negative feelings and thoughts coming inside me.
Doctor: Like which?
Patient: Like Forsaken, with nobody
in the world, and every time I fail in anything, I remain accumulating these
feelings as if I am worthless and can’t see my good side. Then I begin to feel
beaten down, sad, useless, unmotivated and I can’t enjoy anything in life or do
anything. Today I came to consultation, but I hadn’t left my room all day. I
have been <, before I could bounce back, now I am not able to, I feel I have
no energy to react.
[Notice here the same process we see
in the carbon, the draining away of energy and the will to do anything which is
directly related to the feeling of being aband1d.]
Stann-met.
Didier Grandgeorge’s Spirit of
Homoeopathic medicines: “Tin, in homoeopathic doses is a good remedy for people
who are exhausted, who seem to be completely subdued. They suffer from long
lasting bronchial or pulmonary discharge, or from paralytic afflictions of the
nerves. Discouraged, sad, and anxious, they are not interested in company.
Aware of their feeble state, they
try to plan for the future, accumulating m1y in the savings bank, keeping
everything in order…”
[Notice how much this sounds like
the way the Silica person ‘conserves their energy’.]
“These patients vomit from the odour
of food, and have a special characteristic of not being able to wear earrings,
which cause their skin to become infected (Lachesis, Medorrinhum). At night,
they perspire excessively and are exhausted“.
George Vithoulkas „The Essence of
the Materia media“: The exhaustion of Stann-met. almost without parallel. The
weakness is so great that they have a feeling of heat under the skin. They even
say that their eyes are ‘burning from weakness’. Because of the tremendous
exhaustion, Stann-met. does not want to see people. It is not that they do not
like people; Stann-met. very sweet, undemanding individuals who get along with
people – somewhat like Silica…”.
Stann-met. also has catarrhal
phthsis and epilepsy, like Silica.
Plb-met.
The element Plumbum belongs to stage
14 and periode 6 of the periodic table.
Jan Scholten „Homoeopathy and the
Elements“: “The theme of isolation is very strong in Plumbum. They may feel all
alone in the world. This is heightened by their formal attitude which doesn’t
allow them to make contact easily”.
S R Phatak: “Delirium from hearing
music”
George Vithoulkas: “On the emotional
level as well, there is a kind of paralysis which can best be described by the
word APATHY. This is very similar to the stilled, apathetic state seen in old
arteriosclerotic patients. There is no vitality, no movement of emotions
inside. They seem to sense that their powers are waning. Plumbum patients
experience trembling with the weakness of their muscles. It may be difficult
for them to hold a glass steady. Plumbum also has offensive foot sweat like
Sil.”.
A word which is often used to
describe a lot of symptoms throughout all these states of stage 14 is
‘retraction’, and this is especially a keynote feature of the state of Plb-met.
We also see symptoms of ‘retraction’ with Sil. and Stann-met.
Earnest Farrington „Clinical Materia
Medica“: “In constipation you may use Plumbum when the retraction of the
abdomen already menti1d is present, and when there is marked spasm or
contraction of the sphincter ani. There is urging to stool, and the patient
complains of a sensation as though a string were drawing the anus up into the
rectum”.
All the remedies of stage 14 feel
deserted abandoned and discarded,
Jan Scholten: as we move to the
right into the other columns the feeling becomes increasingly a more severe
feeling, as describes. So the feeling of the Phos. column is more severe than
being discarded. I think the feeling of stage 15, of the Phosphorus stage is
like you are now being sacrificed for the needs of others. It is like the
feeling of having been sacrificed, like you have been robbed of your right to
be a person in your own right and now you are seen as existing only for the
needs of others. We see this in the way the Phos. suddenly says, “I am not
going to be their slave, all they think I am is their slave“. This is the
feeling, it is past discarded, abandoned. It is like, ‘I am sacrificed and
everything I am and have is just going to be taken from me, it is going to be
robbed’. With Ars. this feeling is combined with great anxiety and insecurity
(period 4). Ars. can come to have a tremendous anxiety about their health. This
is an anxiety and insecurity that they have ‘sacrificed’ their health, that
they have been careless and the cost has become their health. This then leads
the Ars. person into an obsessions. about what is ‘healthy’. Ars. can be very concerned about the welfare
of the planet and the environment. They are sensitive to the Earth being
sacrificed for the sake of other interests.
The flip side of this feeling of
being sacrificed is that these states can also sacrifice themselves. When the
Phos. likes someone they can readily sacrifice their own feelings for the sake
of an other person. They give everything of themselves and can totally immerse
themselves in the world and feelings of the other person. The pure ‘opposite’
state of Phos., ‘I am ablaze sacrificing myself’. The person, just like the
substance itself is ‘ablaze’ for all to see. This is the opposite of the
feeling being suppressed. The characteristics of the substance itself are
always the opposite of the internal feeling of that substance.
As we move to the right of the Phos.
stage we come to Sulph. The feeling of this stage is even more severe than
being sacrificed for the needs of others. Here the feeling is like being
‘almost finished’, it is like everything is burning up, being destroyed, almost
destroyed. The feeling is, ‘Lets live in the present while we can as everything
is almost over’. It is like being treated like you are ‘almost nothing’. When the
person is disregarded their response is like, ‘I am not finished yet, just
watch what I can still be’. The Sulph. person is close to the edge. The
Muriaticum (= Chlor) feeling (stage 17)
is 1 step further. They have fallen over the edge and they are drowning in the
sea. Sulph. is close to the edge, near the breaking point. This is why the
Sulph. child is always testing for the breaking point. For instance, if the
mother of the Sulph. child needs the child to help her with something the child
will delay helping and doing what is asked, and this will continue until the
mother finally says she has completely had enough and the child can get lost.
For the lazy Sulph. child, this is tremendously hurtful and at the same time
confirms their internal feeling. They feel that they are right, that it only
took so much for everything to be ‘finished’. I think a lot of Sulph. behaviour
is this kind of tempting of those around them. The Sulph. person acts
accidently on purpose in a frustrating manner to test others around them and
when others act accordingly then they feel they are somehow right, that their
internal feeling is correct.
As we move to the right we come to
the Halogens. The feeling of the halogens is like, “it is over, it is all
finished, I have been totally forgotten about“. The halogen feeling is like
that of having been betrayed. They have the feeling of being repeatedly let
down and disappointed. At this stage the person experiences themselves as
having fallen over the edge, and they are drowning in the sea.
For instance, the feeling of Nat-m.
is of being alone and having been betrayed and forgotten about by the person in
which you seek love care and connection.
Rajan Sankaran: feeling of
Muriaticum: “I am the opposite of you”. (Structure)
And you do get that feeling with
Nat-m. A very good friend of mine who is Natrum muriatcum said to me once that
whenever he thinks that some1 is demanding something of him, that he will
always do exactly the opposite of what the person is wanting. And while I could
understand what he was saying it was interesting to hear this because whenever
we went somewhere and did something it was always me who had to choose where we
went and what we did.
Catherine Coulter „Portraits of
Homoeopathic Medicines“: “Of course, other constitutional types possess
eccentricities, Nat-m. and Lach. coming first to mind, but they are different
from Calcarea. Nat-m. is aware of behaving strangely. He knows the norm but is
incapable of observing it, seemingly compelled by some contrary force to act
differently. Afterwards he suffers mortification of the memory of his own
“strange, rare, and peculiar” behaviour; however occasionally he is proud of
being different and cultivates it“.
What is the behaviour of someone who
experiences themselves to be in the midst of everything being in ruins and
where they are being betrayed. It is going to be the opposite of what is
expected of them, of what people are telling them to do.
This is the change from Sulph.
(stage 16) to Muriaticum Halogen (stage 17) represents a significant step from
being ‘almost finished’ to the halogen feeling where it is all over. Likewise
the progression from stage 13 to stage 14 also represents a significant kind of
change in severity.
Stage 14: Carbon, Silica, Germanium,
Stannum, and Plumbum is where the person comes to feel discarded, abandoned and
deserted. Thus we could very well expect that the remedies of stage 13 to be on
the edge of this feeling. We could expect the person to be almost anticipating
and desperately wanting to be not deserted.
Rajan Sankaran writes of stage 13,
“The structure is under severe
attack”
“The Loss is imminent. It is not a
question of whether it will happen but when it is going to happen”
“Superhuman efforts are needed to
maintain it“.
“Delaying the disaster, not whether
but when?”
“Holding on. But how long can you
hold on“.
Keywords -. Vigilance, Monitoring,
Prevention, Imminent. Holding on.
(Structure - Volume I)
This is just as we would expect.
Here is how Dr Sankaran describes stage 14,
“The structure has failed”
“The loss has happened”
“It could not be prevented”
(Structure, Volume I)
Carbon (and Silica) is the first
stage of the emergence from being an outcast (Discarded and abandoned). Thus
there is not anything else at work that we find in the later stages. The person
is sort of a bit quiet and dignified. They kind of don’t know quite what to do.
They find it harder than other people to grasp the way things are, they are not
good at playing social interaction the way other people are. There is a ‘rescue
me’ quality to the person which is like wanting to be brought back into the
fold. They want to be rescued from their isolation, and this can be like a
romantic yearning. However early on at least there is no edge to this. The
person is well behaved, straight forward, quiet and a little reserved. There is
an innocence to it like a lost child. They only want to be rescued and brought
back.
However moving to stage 15 of the
Nitrates, Phosphorus and Arsenicum etc. the feeling is one of being discarded
abandoned and now also sacrificed (for the needs of others). It is a further
stage of the feeling of being discarded and is more severe. It has this added
dimension, and edge to it. As we get to the Halogens they also have the feeling
of being discarded but now we are a long way from the ‘innocence’ so to speak
of stage 14. Here the feeling is of also having been betrayed, totally
forgotten. Here it is all finished.
In Stage 14 with the Carbon remedies
and Silica there is a naivety to their abandonment. They are irresolute, they
don’t quite know what to do, how to behave. This is the form of the ‘division
from others’. But they don’t feel sacrificed like Phosphorus, they don’t feel
almost finished off like Sulph. does, and they don’t feel betrayed and finished
off like the Halogens.
However this is not to say that the
Carbon states don’t have any negative qualities. They can become very rigid
(sure about certain things) and irritable. Yet this is exactly described by Jan
Scholten in his description of stage14.
The quality of Carbon and Silica is
of a slightly quiet, straightforward reserved person who can become a little
bit ‘logical’ in how they think and yet has an innocence and naivety. This is
all coming from an undifferentiated feeling of having been discarded and
abandoned by others. Because of this there is a severely compromised vital
force, etc. Carbon and Silica are in nature and disposition exactly like how
Jan Scholten describes stage 14. They are at this stage of the appearance of a
very significant fall.
[Jürgen Becker]
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