Progress
I hope that wasn’t too irritating but chaffs sufficiently to evoke some constructive response. In the end it will only be useful if it gives us a chance to heal the Earth and perhaps the common arbiter of that, is what happens on the ground. To this end I would encourage you all (and all your friends and enemies) to try some of this stuff and here we can take another lead from the genius of Homeopathy. One of the wonderful aspects of homeopathy, that really became crystal clear to me only as I was pondering this some years ago, is how to move this discipline on. Kaviraj has given the world his fledgling material medica and repertory. We are 200 years behind the human versions, but we have a much more rapid communication and data-crunching potential available to us than Hahnemann, Kent, Clarke and those great visionary pioneers. My niche in this young discipline has been to create an online version of the ‘materia medica agricultura’ and repertory which can be consulted as with the human’s version. What is unusual is that your own results can be added on line, if you care to do an experiment and sit at a terminal for a little. All I ask is that people agree to ‘do my best’ and let time and peer review decide whose experiences were crucial and reliable. Anyone can access this who has a little computer competence here
When making this and as my Walter Mitty world took form, I imagined the same collaboration as there has been for human homeopathy creating a reliable body of work but, perhaps, gathering pace a little more swiftly because of the urgency of the issues and the technology available. This has the benefits and drawbacks of the human version. The benefits would, at least in my mind, be self-evident. The drawback that is most clear to me at the moment, is that so much research is currently done by those who are, directly or indirectly, funded by those who have exploited intellectual property in the market place and, therefore, have a certain agenda to pursue. If the homeopathic pharmacies are making preparations which are ‘open-source’, then the remuneration is unlikely to be sufficient to sponsor experts and students in this way. However, I think this is a price worth paying for self-empowered people to own the process themselves. I would prefer to call it democratic research, in the hands of anyone who wants to have a go for the benefit of all.
Summing up
That’s it for now. There’s a little snapshot of the work of which I am aware, a glimpse of the potential which lies therein, a few toes dipped into other ways of looking at the world which has spawned much of this work, and a way to make progress which should bridge the divide between the different schools. I’m interested in feedback on any or all of these and, if I get time, I would be happy to go deeper into these sketches should there be interest. As they say on the radio here in the UK, ‘goodbye and good gardening’.
By Mark Moodie
