Joanne Greenland
Defending Homoeopathy:
a new use for the law of similars
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What would a homoeopathic approach to conflict with biomedicine look like?
Our culture’s general approach to conflict is first to identify the cause, the culprit, the germ, or the wrong idea and second to dominate, defeat, or destroy that finding. It is a war-like paradigm. Medicine is the master of war with war narratives, war metaphors, and war strategies; fight the disease, war on cancer, kill the germ, antidepressants, antihypertensives etc. Medicine has the weapons: big pharma, big science, surgery, diagnostics, money, the surveillance state, the media and the political machinery. In a world of competitors, wellbeing comes through domination and control. War is the mentality of control in its most extreme form.
Medicine has declared war against homoeopathy. If it comes down to a war to overthrow, to a contest of force, then homoeopathy is doomed. If there is another way then the habit of fighting becomes an obstacle to victory. The healing of this conflict must and will come from outside the mythology of war. The healing of this conflict must come from within homoeopathy. The time is calling for a deeper kind of revolution. Its strategy involves reviving homoeopathic thinking.
Homoeopathy does not use a war-like approach to treat internal conflict, so why would homoeopaths use a war-like approach to resolve external conflict? It is time to reach deeply into the doctrine and philosophy of homoeopathic principle, to bring forth the wisdom of overcoming conflict within the body, and use that understanding to address the external crisis homoeopathy faces with medicine? Ultimately, this conflict is challenging homoeopaths to rethink their long-standing posture of inferiority. Unless homoeopaths employ homoeopathic intelligence in their approach to this conflict it will continue to worsen. This talk will begin the discussion of what a homoeopathic approach to conflict could look like.
Homoeopathic treatments provide healing from inside to out – so, in perfect congruence with the conference theme – what better way to face the prevailing hardships and stresses facing homoeopathy than to address them in the same way – from ‘Inside Out’?
Joanne has a busy homoeopathic clinic working in Victoria, Australia. Her approach to case taking centers on taking a detailed case, exposing the common thread of all aspects of the case and aiming to restore each individual to full health.
She has traveled to India 7 times – studying with the Bombay Medical Group of homoeopaths, in particular Rajan Sankaran and Dinesh Chauhan, and attended the HRI (Homoeopathic Research Institute) international research conference in Rome and presented a poster in London 2019. She has studied with Jan Scholten’s in Utrecht and Michal Yakir, consolidating and diversifying her years of research and study.
Joanne has a history of nursing with 20 years’ experience as a midwife. She is a registered with ARoH (Australian Register of Homoeopaths); a Professional member of AHA (Australian Homoeopathic Association, Victoria Branch), having served as the President for some years; WISH (World Institute of Sensation Homoeopathy); and The Homoeopathy Action Trust (a UK Initiation advocating One Vision One Voice for Homœopathy World wide).
Joanne has taught contemporary methods of homoeopathy at The Victorian College of Classical Homoeopathy. She has also presented papers at National conferences. Having completed her masters through the University of Central Lancashire, Joanne is now doing further research at PhD level looking at the marginalisation of homoeopathy. She recently published an article on this topic in the peer reviewed journal Prometheus.
You can contact Joanne at wgnt.com.au