Mollusca Anhängsel wyw

Mollusca Anhängsel

Alle Mollusken: isoliert, bei Problem Rückzug und sich Verbergen; unbeweglich, einsam + eingeschlossen aber sicher im eigenem sicheren Schalenhaus.

Self centered/Self Contained

In my own world/My space

Distance, disconnected from others, detached

Isolated, excluded

Lost touch, lose contact

Lose excitement, life and liveliness

Confined/Caged

Claustrophobic/Suffocated

Smash, Crunch, Break, Bash, Crack, Split Open, Shatter

Fall, Hit, Beat, Strike, Bang, Thump, Bruise

Hammer/Punch/Pound/Batter

Pierce, Jab, Prod, Stab, Penetrated, Poke

Break in, Break through

Boring, Drilling

Eating into, Corroding

Swallowed up

Sucked out, sucked in

Drying out, left high and dry

Float, Drift, Swim

Not grounded

Anchor, Fasten, Secure

Renewal

Sinking, pulled downward

Sea, Quicksand, Whirlpool

[Peter Morell]

Calcium manifests as the shells of Molluscae/some marine worms/corals/many crustaceans/bryozoans, crinoids (kommen vor in Arduin)/sea-urchins/calcareous spicules of sponges.

Many of these (like the typical Calc patient) are IMmobile/crustacea (crabs) use their calcareous shells to protect themselves from change/to survive. Very few of these animals are adapted for swift movement. Don't forget the calcareous shells of birds' eggs. As with all other vertebrates, in the human body, Ca manifests as the skeleton/teeth/is also important in fat metabolism

(linking it to Vit. D). Ca subthemes like ossification/time/deposits/layers/roundness/plumpness/hardness/enclosedness (refuge)/whiteness/immobility/alkalinity and others. These subthemes are found in minerals/in the body/

in the provings of calcium salts and in the Calc mentality.

A clear link exists between Ca as a medicinal agent and its use in cement, concrete, house building and an agent of defences and protection.

Theme: defensive structures/hard/ossifications/stubborn/hard/immobility/unwilling to change/longevity. Limestone/chalk are both porous/permeable rocks/not very soluble in water/render water `hard' and calcareous.

These rocks hollowed out by the erosive action of water/contain vast interconnecting systems of underground caverns. Lime is also used in agriculture to render more permeable the heavy clay soils of the eastern counties.

Calcium has the same Saturn Qualität: slowness as in lead/trees/mountains/earth itself. It has slowness to develop/longevity/sluggishness/obstinacy/stubbornness/inability or unwillingness to change/lumbering (= schwerfällig) immobility (mentally and physically) of molluscae.

Dull lethargic children who do not want to play. They live “As if in a different time-frame” from the rest of creation. Little wonder then that the classic Calc type is so often described as overweight/pale/cold/slow/breathless.

D.D.: Plb-met/Sil/Silicates/Alum-met/Lyc. With broad parallels to the Calc state: slowness.

Turning next to the psychological aspects of the Calc type: introverted/too sensitive/defensive/insecure (seeks security in shells/deposits)/seek security in the womb/egg/mother's milk

(disagreeing), seek refuge in castle-like interiors protected by vast shell-like stone ramparts (große Häuser?)/< cold/water/winter, want to be immobile; eat uncontrollably and compulsively, without knowing why/hate activity/sweats easily/becomes breathless/flustered.

They appear to be locked in a heavily protected, stone-like shell of armour that greatly reduces their mobility, a crab-like carapace or shell/seem to 'clam-up' and 'go into their shell', become agoraphobic, turn inwards to the detailed phantasmogoria of an inner world of visions/dreams/nightmares to seek refuge/security from the transient, unpredictable/painful events of the outer world. Prefer the greyness of their refuge to the stark unbearable contrasts of black and white outer reality. They fear/resist change. Even their recording of time is like a clinging on to things and not wanting to let them go. It is like a form of attachment.

). Following the moon/suffer menstrual irregularities for the same reasons/reproductive problems/problems related to the link between outer world-cycles and inner world constancy. They retreat into the greyness of their shell as they dislike change of day-night/high-low rhythms of movement of planets/change of cycles/highs and lows/attempt to regulate this outer change into a vastly attenuated realm of stillness/greyness/no change/into precious secret dreams and visions. There is ossification of emotions and inner-outer world, thoughts and aspirations as well as the outer processes of the body. Sluggish = general rubric for Calc. = Molluscan features + general slow.

We all contain a bit of Calc./must resist the temptation to judge over Calc as archetype (our skeletons/must acknowledge these qualities of Ca in ourselves). We are all stubborn/resist change to some degree/all at times we find difficulty of going with the flow or want to control the outer world's more painful twists and turns. Clearly it finds its ultimate expression in the imbalance of the typical Calc person (= pathological).

Calc patient = fat/chilly/congested/sensitive in every possible way/bony growths/ossifications/encrustations/polyps/cysts/warts/exostoses and peculiar deformities of bones/skin/nails/lacks stamina/an inclination to sit rather than work/get breathless/sweaty easiLY. Get gouty and rheumatic/joint problems/arthritis. Generals: slow/weak/dull/debiliTY/TIRED. Symptoms of eyes/ears/nose/throat are typical/showing congestions/catarrhs/loss of smell/sight and hearing dim/“As if the consciousness would prefer to withdraw from the sensory world altogether“. Stomach and digestion impaired/bowels very sluggish and constipated. LOVES or averSION to eggs. In general they adore eggs/hate milk (disagrees).

Calc urge is more of pausing/rest/putting down roots/leaving traces/keeping records/collecting memories/dwelling in matter and time/making deposits/attachment to things/life/surroundings. (diary/filme/photo's/stuffed animals). So the link with the past/time/matter/records/traces/memories/old. Cognate animals are those that are sessile/have reduced motility, which put down roots or attachments to rocks or which have large shells, calcareous deposits around them or which leave a hard skeleton. The fact that they leave these hardened or sclerotized parts behind them after their death is evidence of their strong plant-like urge (incl. molluscae/some marine worms/barnacles/crinoids/sea-urchins/tortoises/turtles/foraminiferans/crustaceans/bryozoans. Here we find the most plant-like animals (those that must keep records/build up traces of their life). Keeping a record/leaving deposits/shells/bones/traces of one's existence is a plant-like drive (treerings are an expression in the lignified cellulose of a record of the passing years/represent the life record of that tree) that is much more diminished within the animal world.

Yet in all plants the record-keeping/sclerotizing tendency is STRONG. While it is true that plants push out green shoots, like to grow and expand, they also tend to consolidate such gains by sclerotizing, hardening, making into wood and laying down harder tissues, thorns and spikes both for protection and to demarcate owned territory. Thus plants are the natural record-keepers and deposit makers of the living world (Bodengruppe/Fossilien).

This plant-like Calc force in extreme forms manifests as shrunken/withered leathery/thorny/spiky plant stems as seen in the Cacti/succulents/in Lithops the stone plant/in trees). But even amongst trees, it manifests most typically in the dry, thorny, withered, hardened and emaciated kind of tree that has adapted to extreme aridity.

Sep: In the Cuttlefish, the calcareous external shell has been reDUCed/internalised to produce the `cuttlefish shell'. Sep. has achieved a much greater mobility and has hidden away inside itself the basic Molluscan problem of being `insecure and defensive and needing a shell for protection against hostile forces in a painful world'. In exchange Sep. has the ink-jet, the agility, the brilliant and mesmerising stroboscopic skin colour-changes, the improved stereoscopic vision and is aggressive as a marine predator. Has moved from the sessile/slow but secure life of a limpet/clam into the sea as an active hunter.

Has tried to solve the ancestral Molluscan problem of defensiveness and insecurity by reducing and internalising its shell/only partially successful. It is still very weird/unstable in its behaviour – evasive/jealous/emotional/angry/callous. It has exchanged the 'femininity of submissiveness and immobility' (clam, limpet) for a mock male mobility and assertiveness that still appears incomplete/forced/imbalanced. The parallels here pathologically are too obvious to require further emphasis. So we could also extend this discussion indefinitely to all the other Molluscae and then take a look at the Crustaceans and Insects, who present similar problems, solved in different and novel ways.

Is it really a coincidence that Hahnemann chose the Oyster shell, Calcarea ostrea, as the basis for the remedy we call Calc? Maybe he sensed that the calcium of the Molluscae is the archetypal Calcium per forte of the living world, opposed to the more inert limestone or chalk of the mineral world that was his other major Calcium source. In strictly Steinerian terms, the Calc of mollusca is the calcium that has been absorbed/processed/metabolised `through' the tissues of a living organism and thus we might believe it has been transformed somehow into a partially organic form and thereby rendered more suitable as an agent of healing in medicine. Certainly, Steiner held the view that a mineral or element is subtly altered (`retuned') when it passes through an organism, and in different ways according to the particular organism it passes through. He also avowed that it thereby becomes stamped with a subtle `fingerprint' of features that typify the organism concerned. Thus according to this view, crabshell, eggshell and oystershell (maybe even from the same beach), would differ from each other and from chalk, limestone or calcite, in spite of their overwhelming chemical similarity.

Ca links with P and Zinc-o and luminescence where we may witness their use in luminous gas mantles (the `limelight') and cathode ray tubes (TV/VDU's). These also contain the notion of `after-image' or afterglow. These relate to the light absorbing quality and the memory trace ideas so close to Calcium itself. [glow-worms only live in limestone/chalky areas (Lampyridae = fireflies)]. This theme of bioluminescence is further carried by its link with P as an element. Links between Ca and architecture/struts/bones/buttresses as revealed in the detailed micro-structure of bones (ribs/cranium/head of femur) and in the architecture of churches and cathedrals. And how such churches glow in the golden sunshine!

Ca closely allied to Mg, Sr and Ba, in materia medica/in minerals (2e Serie). With Mg think of Chlp, the light-capturer, which is unquestionably the single most important chemical on the planet, without it there would no photosynthesis and thus no other life/also think of Mag-p/Calc-p.

With magnesium think of the softer minerals Dolomite/Gypsum and thus the mighty Alps.

Chlp. and Mag-p leads to reconsider the light-capturing/glow-worms/oily vit. A and D and the Visual purple in the retina that enables us to see the world around us and record and store our visual memories. And also more distantly cognate with both are the nervous and photographic Argentum salts. Lead to Merc. and the stranger areas of the nervous system. Thinking of chalk: cheese = rich source Ca. And back to P, fish (brain-food) and the nervous system yet again. Remember here also that chalk is also used for writing. Think chalk/white cliffs of Dover (Romans/how those cliffs must have appeared - like huge defensive ramparts as old as time itself and repelling wood-be invaders perhaps?) Ca links with vitamin D (Calciferol) and the fats, to the breast and milk feeding and thus to the nutrition of the infant and the problems of nursing mothers. This also links in with Rickets (= calcium deficiency-disease)/the general medical problems of milk, breasts, infantile milk intolerance (Lac-h), female reproductive hormones, fibroids and the other diseases of the female reproductive system. Milk white like marble/rich in Ca, P and fats. (Lacs in general). Typical Calc patient: milky white/breathless/malnourished/well-rounded/sensitive to cold. The LINK between Ca, reproduction and fats reinforced in birds' eggs (reproductive structures/high fat levels/calcareous shell).