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[Anneke Hogeland/Judy Schriebman]
We have written this trituration in a developmental manner, reflecting
the distinct stages that occurred, so that you can see the remedy emerging from
the very beginning in the same way that we experienced it during the actual
trituration. Unlike pellet provings where symptoms are collected in isolation
and the themes and remedy picture are pieced together after the fact, a
trituration proving involves an entire group interacting as the remedy picture
slowly comes into focus.
In July 2009 our group of six homeopaths came together for a four day
weekend to do a trituration of ‘some orchids’ from the private collection of one
participant.
This trituration was planned about 3 months prior. Two people lived in
southern California and 4 in the northern part. The 4 would travel together to
the south in one vehicle.
Life, however, had different plans for this gathering from the very
beginning, as can be seen from the following series of emails:
E: Our trip to Santa Barbara is next week! I'm so looking forward to
going with you all and doing some triturating together and hanging out with M
and S. As far as I know,
it will definitely be the four of us travelling down on Thursday. It
sounds like we have plenty of bed accommodations at M's house and studio (which
is in her back garden).
I can bring an Aero double mattress and would be fine on that if others
need the beds.
M: I'm just confirming the dates again - arrival late afternoon Thursday
July 23, situate everyone in sleeping accommodations; plan on going out to
dinner and discussing how the weekend will go. Four people could fit in the
studio; one in the bed in Leyla's room; bunkbeds in the back room. There could
even be one person on the floor in Leyla's room as well. If anyone is more
comfortable in hotels - Motel 6 on upper State, by the beach is good and
affordable. Each of you willing to sleep in studio/on floor, should bring a
sleeping bag with pad. Those who absolutely know they can't sleep on floor can
put dibs on the beds.
CJ: If I don’t have a bed I am not coming down. I cannot sleep on the
floor. This is not what I was told.
A: I don’t even own a sleeping bag. I’m not coming if I don’t have a
bed.
J: Do you have it in your memory that we're driving down to Santa
Barbara Thurs or Fri -- and coming back Sunday or Monday?
SB came up and it suddenly hit me that I have a board meeting on
Thursday evening and I really thought we were going down Friday.
A: J and I thought we could perhaps drive down Thursday evening, right
after her meeting, and then sleep on the way, and drive to SB first thing
Friday - we can start the
trituration on Fri am, do 2 rounds Friday, 2 Saturday, and maybe one on
Sunday if needed - we can still leave Sunday afternoon.
E: No, this is not what we have arranged with M. She has graciously
invited us to her home and expects us to be there on Thursday evening, which
she and I have made very clear. This is not acceptable to me. As I said in my
email on Sunday, "I hope J can get a ride down on Friday, she was confused
about the Thursday timing, but our Santa Barbara people need to keep it as is
for their schedules, and I think we need at least two full days down there.
(‘Funny’ coincidence is that the
hostess planned this trituration on a weekend when her husband was away – which
turned out to be the weekend prior!!!)
As you can tell, communication was a bit barbed; people were irritated,
promises had been broken. The responses were way out of proportion to what was
really going on and very different from their usual ways of communicating.
Noses were out of joint, as they say. Plans changed and 2 different groups
travelled south at 2 different times.
By the time the first half the group arrived at the ‘estate,’ which was
a normal, nice, house but not as palatial as we had imagined from E’s
description, the atmosphere was cordial but some things lay below the surface,
unspoken. The next morning the 2 remaining provers arrived, late, because
‘directions were wrong’ and besides, they weren’t looked at before. The first
group was eager to get going. The second needed a little time to settle in. We
all knew we were going to triturate an orchid from the garden
and we were discussing which one of the three we would do first.
Two orchids were flowering while another one had flowered a while ago;
that one had already been triturated one full round up to C1. In an offhand
comment, our hostess said that we could also consider Spanish Moss (Tillandsia
usneoides), which was growing profusely in the backyard. This plant is an
epiphyte and a member of the Bromeliad family. It is not a true moss or lichen,
despite its name and appearance.
With the group not showing a strong preference, we decided to use a
pendulum, which had been discussed the night before. We dowsed the three
orchids, and the strongest response was for the C1, but there was also a
tremendously strong and affirmative response to the Spanish Moss.
Even though the pendulum was quite clear about selecting Spanish Moss,
we took 2 orchids and Spanish Moss upstairs and again dowsed the substances.
Once more we got the most positive go ahead for the Spanish Moss. This
substance clearly needed to be triturated, even though we had planned doing
orchids.
There was a large gong in the room, which we sounded to start the
trituration. We collected ourselves, clearly stated our intention to learn
everything Spanish Moss had to offer and to come out of the experience with a
remedy that was ready to use.
We were a cohesive group with a common single-minded, clearly stated
purpose. With lactose powder and a bit of Spanish Moss in our bowls, we began.
Round (C) one
Discussion about men, males bonding around death and subjugation, about
men pissing, about the inability of men to aim when they pee. Someone even
invented a target that floats in the toilet bowl. When you give men something
to aim at, they will try to hit the target. Talk about the Spanish inquisition.
A connection was made between death and piss, peeing in fright when under
torture in the face of death. Two provers noticed that they were not peeing at
all, despite drinking copious quantities of water; one of them had a dry mouth,
even though she was salivating. The other one drank lots of water and was not
urinating at all. CJ (particular sensitive to this substance) blurted out that
we were destroying the plant and complained that no one was paying it proper
respect. She contributed the following poem, which she channelled from the substance:
The cow chews me in big bunches, and deer
Birds take me for nests
I am Oceanic
I give the energy of the air a place to land
And dragonflies
So many curves
So much time
CJ was clearly on a different page.
Group talk quickly returned to the toilet. Toilet bowl became tidy bowl,
man in the bowl, Flush him down! Talk turned to the clampers, E Clampus Vitus1
and secret male societies such as the C street club, the Masonic Lodge, the
Bohemian Grove and the Spanish Inquisition. How the German death camp at Dachau
was really the SS training camp where men learned to be “good SS’ers,” learned
to become completely amoral and relish the idea of inflicting pain. This is
still not properly revealed or acknowledged
at the Dachau site today. What is it about men and their tendency
towards secret societies and violent behavior, whether for entertainment,
amusement or to hurt and intimidate people? Is it just testosterone or what?
We questioned why there were not many secret women’s organizations. S
reported, “My mother was a member of the Eastern Star, a women’s society that
was the sister organization to the Masons. They had a ceremony of initiation,
where they wore robes, and stood on the points of the star. She never talked
about it much.”
We identified with the Clampers as an organization that mocked the
seriousness of these societies, but wanted an organization for women to ‘take
the piss out’ of the secret, rigid, violent, good old boy male organizations.
In very short time we came up with a name: X Clampus Vaginus: a symbol: the
Philippine sickle-shaped knife as a tool of the powerful female; a slogan:
‘Behave or Beware;’ and even a secret hand sign. We laughed a great deal about
this but also united behind the importance of a powerful
women’s counter organization. The wrathful Mother Deity came up. Penises
and knives. The roots of ritual practice. Shamanic conjure dancing. Marie
Laveau, the voodoo queen of New Orleans.
The fear, apprehension, or suspicion of homeopathic provings being the
same fear about witches, or shamanic work, those activities and practices that
are mysterious and perceived as secret.
During this round we are all grinding very fast. The round seems to be
going quickly. Connections are made so fast and so easily, reminding us of how
the plant itself looks: one big bunch of little connections, a chaotic tangle,
a labyrinth with no beginning or end. Any topic of conversation leads to many
other subjects. Is there a theme?
We find ourselves repeatedly mistaking what people say, mishearing
words. A word or phrase is spoken and another word is heard. Shamanic Conjure
Dancing is heard as Shamanic Contra Dancing, coyote becomes peyote, esoterica
becomes erotica, recrapping instead of recapping. This phenomenon was
consistent throughout every round and even continued after the trituration was
finished. People would try to come up with explanations to make either of the
two words fit. We were highly amused that
either version could work. We could not be sure how to interpret this.
Was this about lying? Or saving face? Was this brain, or ears, or the remedy?
One prover noticed that her written d’s and b’s were always reversed.
The colors red and black come up, the Nazi colors (these are also the
Clamper colors).
Physicals in Round One:
Lack of peeing. Feeling completely disconnected from the bladder. Not
having a sense of one’s bladder. Thought she had to pee; couldn’t tell; no
urging.
Painful lower jaw (2 provers). Tightening; like lower jaw was being
drawn back into the skull. TMJ? Teeth hurting. Jaw hurting both sides lower
jaw. Remedy for post dental treatment??
Throat closure. Clumps of stuff on uvula.
Sensitive to smells.
Dry mouth even though salivating. Dry lips.
Round (C) 2
The misheard word thing continued. CFIDS was heard as sequins; legumes
became lagoons; Thai cooking paste was Tide (detergent) cooking paste; dentures
instead of denser. We howled with laughter each time this happened. And the
words that were misheard again made perfect sense, although they were at times
nonsensical.
Explanations for what one was trying to say versus explanations for what
was misheard were perfectly constructed.
The conversation worked either way. Everyone was equally skilled at
either mis-hearing or mis-speaking.
Discussion about stolen dissertations. Professors insidiously
appropriating the research of their gifted students to the detriment of the
student, at times dealing ‘a mortal wound’ to the student’s research project.
The student is powerless since she cannot seek justice or fight this in any way
because of the nature of academia.
Robin Murphy’s repertory structure was mentioned and someone said it was
really well organized. CJ said with utter deprecation, “It’s just
alphabetical,” indicating with her tone of voice how ridiculous she found this
comment. CJ thoroughly dissed the person making the comment, and this is
completely unusual for her.
The following issues kept re-appearing:
Do I really want to be here?
Are we here?
Stolen dissertations.
The hidden secret.
The idea of getting a manicure or pedicure at the salon, by J for whom
this was NEVER a desire, completely foreign to her nature.
Wanting to add water to the bowl.
C2 is boring.
I don’t want to be here; doing this.
The movies ‘Bottleshock’ and ‘Sideways’.
Physicals in Round Two:
Horrible left shoulder pain radiating into neck and underarm
Tightness in lower jaw (again)
Hand cramps, finger cramps, stiffness and cramping neck
Left breast pain, sharp and nasty
Lower jaw pain
Sweating in the armpits
Coincidence/World Events:
A 7.8 earthquake in New Zealand,
moving the island one foot towards Australia
A huge comet crashed into Jupiter
Longest solar eclipse of the century
Pairing of lunar and solar eclipses
The conversation goes all over the place. All kinds of strange segues
are made, seemingly non-connected. Everything branched out in different
directions, very much like the plant. Also note that this is an air plant,
taking everything it needs from the air.
The conversation often had an ‘airhead’ quality. Off we go to the nail
salon! We actually, all six of us, go to have pedicures and get our nails
painted! Two people were pedicure virgins, including J who suggested it. When
we got back J was asked nicely to move her car. J was visibly huffy with this
request.
Round (C) three
“Yesterday, Yesterday” song; not
the Beatles. “Who’s the artist?” “If I knew that…!” “It’s just alphabetical!”
Google it. Google’s like the Akashic records.
The PanGalactic Library. A new
search engine – Bing - that gives the same BS that Google gives you. “But you
get it faster, right?”
Why do we get our toenails painted? Do men even notice what color of
toenail polish you’re wearing? “We all know that guys will notice the one toe
that isn’t right.
It’s the first thing the guys do…and she will NOT get sex tonight if the
nails aren’t perfect.”
Laughter. “Guys barely notice anything.”
Nursery rhyme:
Little girl with the curl right in the middle of her forehead. When she
was bad she was horrid.
S “I was not a very obedient child. I wasn’t bad but if somebody told me
that was the rule, it didn’t matter to me.” “So you were more sort of
Freelance?” Laughter!
“I had my opinion about how the rules should be.”
“ALL ways here are MY ways,” in the Red Queen voice from Alice in
Wonderland. Freelance children! Always doing your own thing. You have your own
set of rules and preferences, you cannot be bound by the rules of others.
We collapse into a flurry of clipped, Monty Pythonesque British accents.
“We have to go looking for Mr. Roebottom! (E’s old boyfriend who was seen in a
restaurant last night, but she did not go say hello to him). “Paging Mr.
Rowbottom!” “Are you Mr. Rowbottom? Of Roebottom, Roebottum and Rowbotham?”
Teasing about British rotting teeth from sucking sugar cubes with their tea.
“No, that’s Persian!” Rotten front teeth. Lots of lumps of sugar in their tea.
We feel an inward motion; a very
internal process. Not connected to the group here. Nothing is happening.
Lightheaded, spacey, vertigo.
A discussion of the natural history of the plant. CJ is obsessed with
its structure. “Let’s go online and see if we can get a closeup of the scales,
microscopic, and compare it
to a redwood tree.
Human hairs up close have scales.” So you can rat your hair. “So it’s
barbed?” “Not MY hair. Wool. So you can felt it and it gets tighter and
tighter.”
Discussion about being burned as witches for doing this process.
Cackling and grinding. CJ says, “Worse than being burned is just being
ignored.” Said quiet certain. Disbelief at this statement.
I just got the color red in here. Wait for Black; wait for black!
Gold! Sequins! Sequins! Red and black sequins. I thinking of the SS in
their red and black and you’re going for sequins. If the SS had any fashion sense…Sequins
would
have helped. That would be the kinder, gentler SS. Oh really? Sequins,
eh? We’ll send you to the front. Siberia for you. Or maybe Normandy. There are
sequins in Normandy? I heard there are seafigs in Normandy.
We’re losing the battle. …Safely in the Bavarian Alps.
Which are so beautiful and picturesque, the Bavarian Alps. It’s like the
Sound of Music. They make you sick, they’re so perfect. They’re so clean (We
later learn that Spanish Moss cannot survive in a polluted environment). Like Disneyland.
Like someone sweeps them every night. Even the cows are clean. Elves are
cleaning their forests. Gnomes! They actually sweep the forest??? They go in
with brooms?
The gnomes do. No, when the people walk in the forest, they just don’t
mess it up. Leave no trace. CJ “Is this German nature all the way back or some
sort of atonement
For WW?” They’re very clean. Frankfurt airport. The Germans so precise,
but the most disorganized airport in the world.
CJ: Kind of a seaweed feel to this. And it said it was Oceanic. I’m hot.
Lach. 50M. 50M? Why 50M? Because that’s the opportunity. I heard Auntie Em,
Auntie Em!
Then just take Sulph.
I‘m tempted to take Lach., just to see what it’s like. You want to take
it just so you can be mean to everyone. I already am. But if I take it, I won’t
care! You just want to
take it because you’re up against the mafia. The garbage mafia.
The TV show ‘The Sopranos,’ about the mafia. Didn’t they own the
landfill? The best way of disposing of dead bodies; you just throw them in the
back of the van.
Disposal company; the family business. Crudeness in speech and manner.
Insensitivity on the part of men. Powerlessness on the part of women.
CJ: this C3 is the Dormancy. Nothing has happened. There’s nothing going
on. Waiting for Godot. Waiting for God.
Muted hearing. Like being under water. Water filling your ears. In your
own world. Dormancy. Blank minds. Blank slates. All conversation is experienced
as background noise, muffled.
CJ has song “Knocking on Heaven’s Door.” We’re done!
Felt like a blank screen. Not existing unless someone said something.
There’s a kind of preverbal receptivity to this emptiness. Just receiving.
Absorbing.
No impulse to draw. Empty of any mind stuff. Except that your speech
feels like water. It wakes me up and when it stops, dormancy.
Moss looks like seaweed. M did drawing with just one line that never
stops. Like the plant.
Physicals in Round 3:
Distorted hearing, muted, like being underwater
Heat, sensation of
Heat, flushes of
Top part of head hurting
Painful sensitivity to scraping and bowl banging
During dinner, after the round, we have a lengthy conversation about
someone’s daughter having her master’s thesis stolen;
about a female scientist and her struggle for recognition and having her
work appropriated by male colleagues.
About a prominent woman we knew who may have killed herself, who had
lapsed into paranoia after years of worrying about people stealing from her.
(This woman was noted for her very superior queen-like attitude).
CJ and J are quiet. The others carry the
conversation. CJ is getting more and more irate; her ideals are getting
destroyed.
Where is the love? J senses a tearing down of women who have
accomplished things; it’s never good enough what women do and women tear each
other down, as much
if not more than men do.
We’re harder on each other. We demand perfection. Things that a man can
do without consequence, we deny for women. Men have quirks; women can’t have
any.
How does this relate to the substance? Or does it? J asks for a sip of
the better wine and is denied; she feels rebuffed.
What a very interesting universe we live in.
Next Day:
Four go to the market. We meet up with someone’s friend who had
incredibly bad teeth – plenty of money to fix them, but for some reason she
walks around with a mouth full of rot. Makes us think of the teeth symptoms
during yesterday’s trituration.
We go back to the studio to record dreams. J insists on starting. She
had a long involved dream that morning.
Dream: I am in a large warehouse or
airplane hanger. I’m supposed to get married to someone in the Royal Family; I
don’t know who. The Royals are all sitting at a table far from me -like an
opposite corner of the room. The room is filled with tables, folding chairs,
paper plates, plastic glasses, like a big indoor picnic- or a large but cheaply
done party. I don’t see lots of food but people are eating and talking. The
crowd is a blur; details are indistinct. The whole scene is dim, dark, like
looking through shadows. I’m finally conscious of a small conversation—the
Queen is talking and she and the others are clearly Not Happy about me
“joining” the family. Not directly
nasty but clearly not welcoming speech. Lots of eyes on me that look
away when I look back. Clearly it’s not going to work. I’m making my way back
to my seat having called the wedding off. No fiancé anywhere. - - - -
Time change in the dream; same setting, same people but days later or
the next day because I’ve told the family. There is only one person there who
is larger than life;
very tall, very thin, and very flamboyant. I’m sure he’s gay, but
extraordinarily kind and fun. In my mind he’s Paul McCartney -or am I supposed
to be marrying Paul?- but he goes by the name of Sam. He’s wearing a stunning
shiny grey belted housecoat/dress over thin, black pipe stem trousers. The top
shimmers and the whole outfit drapes beautifully. He moves gracefully in it as
he’s running around, talking to everyone, as if he’s the host of the affair, making
sure everyone is comfortable.
Everyone is drawn to him. And his place is at my/our table. So I feel
honoured. He brings me a piece of cake -I’ve been sitting without one- I’m not
going to get up
and get myself one; that would be admitting defeat or something—I should
be being served and getting my own would be humiliating. I ask him, “What’s the
occasion?” since it’s clearly no longer my wedding and he says he’s getting
married. I see a photo of him and his bride, a very petite but butch looking
young woman. At that point, they hoist a huge contraption way up high in the
center of the room, with a girl in a harness and costume. She’s singing from
Phantom of the Opera, while doing acrobatics including getting out of a strait
jacket while pieces of the contraption are being blown away and pulled apart.
I’m scared for her even though I can see the safety harness. She drops; the
crowd gasps but she easily catches herself. All part of the show. She doesn’t
miss a note. I hug Sam and say congratulations and leave. - - - -
J further reports on her experiences:
This is what I observed about myself yesterday: I was asked to move my
car so the husband could park in front. I’m miffed but say nothing.
It’s odd, normally this would roll right off me but I carry it. Feel
slighted at dinner when I get served a small piece of fish and am refused a sip
of A’s wine. Don’t feel part of the dinner conversation. Nothing to offer. All
about people and things I don’t know nor care about. The woman scientist and
her victim state; resonance with the
stolen dissertation material that came up in Trit conversation. Not part
of the group but subtler; not dissed, not shunned but slighted somehow, which
means some sense of self, of entitlement that’s not being recognized. At odds
with things? Talk about going to the Farmer’s Market last night. I don’t care
if I go or not and I say so.
That’s unusual for me. I’m usually very anxious to join the group; not
wanting to be left out; not wanting to miss anything; and a sense of not
wanting to be talked about if I’m not there; but I just don’t want to bother.
If it works out that I’m up and ready, ok and if not, also ok.
I also remember that I was the last one done at the nail salon and then
had to move car so that I was the last one to get a snack and the group was all
ready to do trituration, but they can wait while I get what I need. Not my
fault I’m last. So something about taking care of myself in a group.
Feeling shafted; stolen from; means you have something of value.
The groups squeals, ‘she’s the queen!” and M runs off to get a Mardi
gras tiara which she places on J’s head. J protests feebly but is secretly
pleased. The others now solicit her opinion, whether the room is the right temp,
does she need anything? All this attention is grand. Feathers are smoothed. The
idea of a sense of entitlement. J mentions that she has tried to help in the
kitchen but can’t do anything and that she really doesn’t want to.
That she could sit and read the paper and have others do it all and not
even clean up. This is quite unlike her.
A’s dreams:
Dream: I am in Chicago and I have to get to
the airport. I am driving a car and can see that I have to cross the Place de
la Concorde and make my way over to the Miracle Mile Street, which will take me
to the airport. I cross the giant Place and then find myself in an impossible
warren of one-way streets. It is simply impossible for me to find my way to the
Loop. I become thoroughly distressed, I will miss my plane, cannot find my way
out of here. I try it one more time. It is all the more stressful because I can
see the street where I need to be but I cannot get there. I find myself in a
dead-end circle. I see the little Dutch police car sitting there, yet I turn
and almost run into them.
They stop me. I get out, am practically in tears. But they have no mercy
and ticket me a huge fine. - - - -
Later on still in the same dream, it
repeats with a small twist. I am sitting in the car, still not knowing how to
get to the airport. I have by now missed my plane. My husband gets in the car
with me. He has maps, and we make our way to the airport. I am practicing in my
head what to say to the airline clerk to try to get refunded or put on
another plane later. When we get there, I speak with the airline person
and she says she can easily get me on the next flight. At this point I say to
her, oh no, I am not ready to go yet.
Dream: Another dream later that night. I am
in bed in the trituration room, waking up. M comes in and starts walking on a
treadmill next to the bed. She says to me,
“Yes, the problem is that you are the Swedish Mariah and this is all
about duality.” I say, “Well, so what about duality, explain to me how I can
work with this?” She starts to talk but then abruptly the dream ends. - - - - -
During the night several provers had issues around thirst. One wanted to
drink water, but did not want to get up for it, or move for it, even though
there was a bottle of water nearby. ‘If the water would have come to me, I would
have had some.’ Thinking of getting one of those bendy straws for during the
night. E said ‘I had my water bottle up here, but was just too lazy to reach
it. I want someone to bring me the water. I want to just ring the bell and have
someone bring me the water.’ J: ‘I was completely dry,
too, and this isn’t a dry climate. The air is moist. Weird.’
M: Got woken up in the middle of the night by something and forgot the
dream I was in, but found that my head was aching, my teeth were aching.
Thought I was hung
over. My knees were throbbing, my feet were throbbing, then pain in my
intestines on the left side. This is a drag; I can’t get back to sleep with
this. Should I take an aspirin? Is this the remedy?
Yet this concern that I have to keep drinking. I keep a water bottle
near the bed but I couldn’t just guzzle the water, I had to keep sipping and
sipping the water. And kept reflecting on that microscopic image of the plant.
Marvelling about its shape and how it catches the water in those little
cups. It’s a bromeliad. Molecules of water, and my lips were dry so have to get
a chapstick.
Mouth is dry; legs are dry, nose is dry.
CJ’s dream:
Dream: I’m at a college campus. A large
ground floor building; lots of cement. Long corridors, going lots of different
directions. And I have some relationship with a professor who works on the
ground floor lab. And there’s a large portfolio book the size of a card table
lying on the cement with title “The Coming Heat Wave,” and I have the professor
and all these people vying for my involvement in their projects. Sense of
needing to get away from all these demands coming at me from all directions. I
feel torn in many dimensions. There’s a lot of hard, dry cement. I’m evasive on
a bicycle to buy myself time. All the tension about decisions. And there’s a
relief when the cement gets hosed off with water. Drenched with water. Like the
end of the dormancy period, when the rain comes. Full of my own stuff about
business projects and the dry cement, that was made all right by the rain.
Succeeded in getting the portfolio out of the way so it didn’t get drenched.
The core thing, the essential thing, was protected but we got the water.
- - - - - -
The one-way thing was interesting: going round and round and the way M’s
drawing was done with one line. You get to the end and you think you’ll
continue on but it’s the end; inside is outside. How would I go the route of
all these leaves, without going back or stopping? One continuous way. And yet you’re
blocked. Or no real inside and outside. Foreground becomes background.
Like the roads in Chicago. You can’t get there from here. It’s a maze.
Like a labyrinth. You think you’ll be over there but you’re somewhere else; you
get to that track on the way out. You can see the street but you can’t get
there.
Fear that we were getting a ticket, and we were going to miss the plane.
And we’ll never get out of Chicago. And when she is given the way out, she
says, “Never mind!” Chicago/France/Holland all mixed up together. And the
Miracle Mile. Every place has one. Michigan Ave. was a loop. The loop! Life is
strange.
A: So Miss Queen do you want to say something about moving from C3 to
C4?
J: Yes! When we go to C4, what generally happens is that we either start
to see the problem become more crystallized OR we might start to see the
solution to what this problem state is; the overview. The solution which
contains both polarities in a way that makes things so much more enlightened
and better.
Round (C) 4
During the trituration, J mentions her conversation that morning with
M’s husband, who relayed a story of a friend of M’s who lost control of her car
and died, or was it suicide? He also relayed a story of his being fired from
his job, where he was doing excellent work, in favor of a fast-talking
charlatan, who drove the company into bankruptcy. How the boss was taken in by
fake psychics and lost all his money and it was millions.
A recalls her dream, forgotten until now, that also dealt with a
charlatan. I am in a room, sort of a classroom. And someone is hanging a child
upside down from the window. My son is there and he is quite young, maybe four
years old, except he has his adult head on him. A man is in front of the
classroom, like a teacher or a leader and he is a charlatan of some sort. Do I
let my son come to his own conclusions or do I step in to protect him? I just
watch it from a distance.
About the husband’s fishing trip. He was ready; he had his boots on
while lying in bed, but missed the call to get on deck when the fish were
jumping. Being ready but still missing out. Like the dormancy: being ready to
jump but can’t jump because conditions aren’t right.
CJ: Occupied by listening – not quite empty like C3 – actively listening
and a whole lot was being stimulated in me. Using the conversation like
nutrients for myself – a sense of active growing. We’re not getting it (the
recognition we need, the basic thing we need). A sense of stuckness, this is
just stuck, a passive stuckness, there is nothing to be done about it.
M: The stuckness is not a stuckness without options. It’s not a
stuckness that ends there. Strategy will get you through. This kind of queen
(as in the hive) does not have to strategize; all others strategize around her.
Issue of the duality – what is seen and not seen. The 2 faces.
Twins. 2 personalities
The wound/the mask/Michael Jackson/faces changing
Plastic surgery - The mask you want the world to see.
Like being two-faced? As in making a Freudian slip, then a lengthy
explanation about how one really meant to say something else.
Back peddling to hide true motifs. Pathological liars do this.
You become a 2 faced bastard. Borderline Personalities and Narcissism.
Honesty versus charlatans.
E: I am interested in the fact that this plant is so proliferate in the
southeast – voodoo land – Marie Laveau – voodoo was mentioned again. With
voodoo you are trying to control people – it’s secret, furtive, malevolent. The
victim feels stabbing pains and usually knows who is doing the black magic. It
can cause a mortal wound, and the victim cannot prove it.
Distortion and twisted in the labyrinth - A story to validate the wrong
word that you use - into the paranoia.
You cannot get there from here. That’s the way intrigue works – you
cannot get to the real crux of the story. Backstabbing and betrayal and
intrigue – perceived
betrayal. The Tudors – worming your way into power. Obsequious fawning
over the Queen while plotting her demise. All those southern white people who
had all those slaves to do everything for them. We’re not getting what we want,
what we need, we cannot get out of Dodge
GENIUS BORROWS NOBLY WHILE MEDIOCRITY STEALS FURTIVELY.
We go to the beach, where S finds her rotten-toothed friend again! We
meet other people known to the locals, we meet dog people and do a quick
prescription for a urinary infection in an old dog. Dolphins are seen
frolicking; pelicans fly by in unison. The beach is noted for black tar that
oozes from the sand. When the group moved, as the dolphins arrived, A stepped
in a big glop of tar.
We take a small tour of the old part of town, of the mission and the
‘stations of the cross’ garden there. There is a street name: Salsipuedes which
means “Leave- if you can!”
It seems appropriate.
Round (C) 5
Usually we expect things to come together in Round 4 but this substance
is different. There were 2 quiet rounds; Rounds 2 and 3. Round 4 brought out
some additional information from the deeper part of the substance, but did not
give us the higher perspective. In this round we hope to find the solution that
will allow us to break free.
This is what the substance has to teach us. It presents the problem and
shows the solution, if we travel far enough along the path.
Whatever happened here? Alice in Wonderland: You’re nothing but a pack
of cards. Strategizing as a way out. Declaring yourself out of the game; not
playing as a way out.
In the game, there can only be one queen. She has to watch her back;
others are scheming; she has to keep her own people close but she can’t trust
them either. They’re all watching for her to show weakness or slip up, then she
can be deposed and another can take her place! Suspicion. Paranoia. Off with
their heads! The Red Queen
in Alice: all ways here are MY ways! The only way to win is not to play.
Other women who cannot speak up for fear of losing their heads; women who
scheme, using sex
to get to power since they cannot get to power on their own—there can
only be one queen.
People who are constantly trying to get close to the one in power so
they can be protected; so they can be in the inner circle; be favoured.
Sycophants. Why the queen can’t trust them; they just suck up to power. Who can
you trust? No one. We all know of people who fit this remedy description. We
think of the Tudors, another TV show about the court intrigue around Henry VIII
and all his wives. All the scheming; the heads chopped off; the vying to be the
next queen for the power. And to secure your place by having a male heir, not
your own self. Elizabeth, the queen who followed; the Virgin Queen, who played
the game like a man and kept the throne till her death, even as she beheaded
her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, who was aiming for the throne.
There can only be one queen.
Talk of the bee hive. We talked about the queen bee and how the newer
queen bees come into power. A queen fight. The new virgin queens kill off each
other.
The queen of ironing versus the queen of irony.
The sickle is the sword of discrimination that cuts through the veil and
the bullshit is gone.
Phoebe in Wonderland (a movie). Where is Phoebe going?
Phoebe was a free lance child. Her mom is writing a dissertation and
cannot finish, while the husband is getting his book published.
Johhny Depp and Joni Mitchell. Johhny Depp was born in the south, he was
‘white trash.’ Joni felt not recognized for her work, she does not get enough
recognition for
her contribution to music.
Barbs, setting teeth on edge. Bromeliads have scales, like teeth on
their edges. Leaves are like a series of mouths that catch and contain water.
Down with the Crown! Queen Fight – there can only be one queen.
If you are playing the game and losing, it’s better to get out and play
a different game or play the game differently. In this game, losing is fatal.
Physicals in Round 5:
Runny noses (curative for nasal
congestion in prover)
After the round, while sitting outside, CJ promotes the idea that racism
has its roots in sex; that people care about who the parents are in order to
keep the races pure, or some such nonsense. A & J try to follow her but it
makes no sense. Fear of the other is at the base of racism, not sex, they
counter. It’s been noted that CJ has made a number of observations that are
distinctly out of sync with the group and seem to come from left field; this is
very contrary to her usual astute observations and
comments. She seems to be demanding a place at the table but is just
“off.” Like being on the same page, yet in different books.
Dinner and more talk. The themes of the remedy are getting fleshed out.
The larger picture is coming into focus. E has her moment to be queen. We pass
her the tiara.
She has been getting repeated calls from her husband all weekend. He is
peeved at her.
It was their daughter’s first performance in a play with a good part and
E wasn’t there to see it. He’s whiny and she’s a bad mother. Her daughter is
anxious and also calls frequently. We give her the finger across the throat
signal, so she can say she has to go. He tries to lay a guilt trip on her. This
is an old pattern.
We’re not buying and neither is she, although we think she could be
firmer.
Round 6
The next day we decide on another round. Although the proving seems
finished, we wonder, have we come full circle? Is there more? What would
another round reveal?
Just to see, we decide to go on.
The energy is different. There were no dreams last night that anyone can
recall. M was visited during the night by the spirit of Marie Laveau who
introduced her to the various southern spirits, showing her some of the hidden
aspects of the cultures in New Orleans.
Something about women using the moss for menstrual pads. They would
secure it with a kind of a diaper. Men would have a resentful response with
apprehension and fear when they saw that because it would interfere with having
sex. Women can bleed but they don’t die. The power of the menstrual cycle. You
can send the men out to hunt for bloody meat – they have to go.
Women would feel power and control.
Exploring the nature of swamp and swamp cultures. M has aversion to the
swamp, even though she loves water. Unending dampness. Moldy, mildewy. Unseen
creatures in stagnant waters. The moss gives it a mysterious look. No sources
of light at night and you cannot keep a fire burning. Fireflies give it a more
delightful feeling. You can stay hidden there. If someone threw you overboard
in a swamp your body would never be found. Swamp as stagnant and yukky.
The movie “The Orchid Thief,” or was it called “Adaptations?”
This movie looped around itself as the director got sucked into the swamp
story. Swamp culture. Poverty. White trash. Getting in too far to be able to
get out.
The female child heroine; Alize, Phoebe, Dorothy, Lyra.
Anger as a way of gathering your energy to be able to find your way out.
Calling off the game.
Voices deepening, slowing down.
Congestion
Being stymied in the labyrinth of academia
Needing empowerment somehow
Needing a different strategy in order to not get stuck
Living in the swamp is much cheaper
Fireflies – phosphorus
Being too far into the labyrinth to get out – too deeply identified
How do you recognize when you are in it? And what do you need to
get out? Shock and/or guidance
Calling the game off, the game has the hidden aspects
Congestion and stagnation
It’s not about destruction – not syphilitic – more sycotic, incl. the
emotional body – lymph system
The woman with the poli-sci degree who never said anything intelligent –
she married her professor when she got her PhD – she was accomplished, a
skater, news reporter, equestrian, and she looked and acted like a blond bimbo -2
faces- the hidden face was the power face
The courtesan model / the cortisone model
MOVIE – A Dangerous Beauty
Looping back into things, the curling quality of the themes
The loss of the small town and the loss of the natural small way
Spanish moss is the Mycelium of the air
MOLD TOXICITY. “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Oedema and water retention
Congestion, stagnation
The emotional body is the swamp
You have to call off the game – the game is toxic
The old game had the hidden things
The new game everything is out in the open – very fast – the internet –
instant communication and information
The labyrinth keeps growing
Finding the place within yourself where you can just decide to get out
and get going
Things are calmer. Sentences finish before a new one starts.
There is a looping back quality. We still enjoy some mis-heard word
play, courtesan versus cortisone. We’re not frantic. CJ seems upset. We can see
she needs the crown.
But she won’t take it.
The round ends and we take some of the powder from each bowl, mix it
together then potentize it to a 40C/6 remedy. CJ takes one of the pellets to
continue the proving.
M does a fabulous gonging to end the process. We are awash in waves of
sound;
losing ourselves in the waves; letting it die away.
We pack, say our goodbyes, induct M and S into our SRP study group as
official members, repeat the secret handsign in unison one more time and call
out our slogan.
On the way home, four stop at a winery founded by a woman from New
Orleans. It seems appropriate. New Orleans, voodoo, southern racism all figured
prominently in the proving. J goes inside and reports that the tasting bar in
back is done up like an old Victorian mansion, complete with a darkened
parlour, “where they used to lay out the corpses.” “Where they lay out the
corks???” asks CJ. Clearly the mis-hearing is still operating.
Above us dangles what looks like Spanish moss, but a clump drops down
and we see that it’s completely different. It’s a true lichen, flattened in
structure where our moss was rounded and matrixed in cellular boxes where our
moss was a tangle of branchlets. But they’re both greygreen and live on air in
oak trees without apparent roots.
Rubrics:
Paranoid, is not given proper due
Entitlement, solid sense of, not haughty
Work, stolen
Credit, doesn’t give credit to others
Delusions, queen, thinks she is a
Recognition, desire for
Steals, work of others
Respect, desire for
Special treatment, desire for
Jaw, lower, pain as if teeth were drawn back
Spasms, cramps; hands, fingers, feet
Headache
Nose, coryza, discharge, watery
Suspicious
Rage, violent
Irritable, trifles at
DD.: Corvus-c. Plat-met. Staph. Canth. Lyc. Sep. Phos. Nit-ac.
Desire for recognition and you may get it but it’s not in the proper
way; it’s not like you see others getting recognized.
Feeling of not ever getting proper recognition. Brilliant women whose
intellectual property is stolen. Dissertations which are stolen by the
mentoring professor. At the same time, they steal from others and do not know
they have stolen, thinking it is their own work or insight. They give no credit
to others and actively dis or inflate them in conversations with others. As
this goes on, they go from being insulted by the lack of recognition to active
delusions that people everywhere are stealing from them or are
fixated on a time when work was stolen from them. This becomes a state
of paranoia, which will lead to alienating friends and allies.
Strong desire to be a part of a group of acclaimed teachers.
So interesting how many of the themes we danced with during this weekend
appeared all around us – in movies, songs, articles, etc. It made us wonder-
how much of the information we collect is the remedy and how much of it is a
reading of the themes of the times? Perhaps air plants as a group have
antennae, picking up the trends of the times - so this remedy could be useful
for suffering that is caused by events in the collective. This brings up all
sorts of philosophical questions - what are we really triturating?
Or is it just that the plant holds this piece and we chose it or were we
led to choose it because this is what's currently 'up' to do?
Allerlei: N./S. Amerika/wächst auf Bäume und Drähten/lebt von Licht und Luft
= Haar. einer Prinzessin./getötet
. am ihrer Hochzeitstag von Feinden/der trauernde Bräutigam schnitt es ab und hängte es in einen Baum.