In a lot of ways, I wish this thread were in the "Deep" (forum). There are some really interesting topics around homeopathy that would be a lot of fun to discuss. There are a few remaining things I think I'd like to share on this thread, and then I'm happy enough to let my contributions ride.
The first is, I think the video I posted is an interesting and stark contrast to
@Roosh 's video on canola oil. So, on the surface, I see nothing nefarious about how homeopathic medicines are produced, regardless of the strange words that they used in the early days of homeopathy (likely to help distinguish from simple allopathic concepts). This includes "secussion" as well as "miasm" and there are plenty more. I am happy to use the term "shake", and you can see the process in the video. They are shaking a vial. Call it what you like, it is no more complex than that.
The second is that what we see, but do not understand, should not automatically assume some occult or demonic involvement. In my original(?) post on this topic I briefly touched on the duality of light as a particle or as a wave. And this, along with many other topics in the realm of quantum physics, are highly demonstrable, but not well understood. That does NOT make them demonic, or occult. Neither does the fact that such inexplicable phenomenon (by classical physics or other scientific inquiry) are noted first by those who have an association with the occult, with freemasons, with certain religions, etc... make them so.
Today, we can all agree that quantum physics is a real and demonstrable scientific reality. Quantum computers demonstrate that such things can exist, and a whole history of science shows that there are countless examples of physical objects and properties that are only explicable in terms of quantum theory. This includes the wave/particle duality, but also radioactive decay. Everyone who watched Breaking Bad knows the name Heisenberg. Not as many know what his uncertainty principle is, or why it is meaningful.
The thought that
any substance can be diluted to the point where no single molecule (see again, Avogadro) should present within it should confound reason. It should confound science. It should make people question the minds of those who even suggest that a modality of health drawn upon such shaky ground could ever, really, be "a thing". Yet. People really say it works.
As often as we talk about quantum physics, the reality is that we speak mostly about physical objects, of light, of electrons, and atomic particles of matter, and we observe in a lab how they work, what they do, and what effect our mere observation has on their outcome (a lot). All of these effects have a great deal to do with "energy", and not at a molecular level, but at the most basic level of human understanding, of quarks, qubits, and such. These crazy things have non-local physical properties and "spooky actions at a distance".
Yet, we too are, part of, this same thing. Our physical bodies have these same properties and are likewise subject to the same kinds of influences that our lab observed material is influenced, at the quantum physical level. But nobody talks about "quantum biology" or "quantum chemistry". We do not take those same principles and turn those same ideas inward, to consider what is the nature of our physical bodies. At least, not often. Schrodinger DID do this, in a 1944 paper called What is Life?. It is easy to find (somewhat easy to read) and about 30 pages in length.
We are okay with certain inexplicable things because we have to be, because they are in our face, and because of the "scale" of our involvement. But not because they're in any way fully understood. This includes the flow of electrons, of gravity, of magnetism. All of the forces that work within our universe that we see. But we can't unify them, or get them all to make sense together, even before introducing nuclear and subatmomic or quantum forces into the discussion. Truly this is a wonderful,
wonderful world.
The point that I'm making, I hope, is that just because something is not fully understood, does not make it anti-Christian, any more than quantum physics. It is an area exploration for science, and it is at the heart of our
physical reality. In my mind (as an intellectual person), I find all of this fascinating, and I consider myself and open-minded skeptic on all of it. But, my interest is pure in intention, and truth is my objective, in all things. I cannot make the occult leap here, and I hope that we reach a point of understanding on such topics that, rather than casting ethical doubt on the process, we understand it well enough to marvel at yet another facet of God's wonderful design.
