A Journey into the

Human Core
DINESH CHAUHAN

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© Dr. Dinesh Chauhan, Philosia Publications

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 CONTENTS

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Acknowledgements ii
My Story of Understanding the Human Core iii
I often ask myself vi

Part I – A Journey into the Human Core

The Energy 2
Vital 4
Reactions 6
Understanding of Health and Disease 7
Difference between Homoeopathy and Allopathy 10
Coping Up 10
The Law of Vibration 15
Change in Vibration causes Change in Manifestation 16
Classification of Various Vibrational Patterns 17
In Depth study of various Forms and Patterns of Energy 24
The Journey from Form to Formlessness 32
Expression of Forms of Energy at three different areas of Human Being 33

Part II – Practical Illustrations of the Journey

“Someone is holding my stomach, pulling it apart and
twisting in a harsh way…” 37
“I need a push from behind…” 59
“Someone is a victim and somebody is victimizing…” 83
“My back is tearing me apart…” 101
Few excerpts 119
Bibliography 124

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank all the incredible teachers who have

contributed so much to the understanding that has been channeled in this
book. Some of you I have known as gurus, some I have known as personal
friends and others have come to me in the form of books.

First and foremost amongst them, is my most esteemed teacher,

Dr. Rajan Sankaran, to whom I am deeply grateful, both for the concepts
he has taught me as well as the foundation these concepts laid, from where
I took further steps.

I am grateful to Dr. Kshiti Mehta for working with me on this

book. Kshiti shares my delight in finding the right words to clearly present
what needs to be said and my fascination with homeopathy and philosophy.
From the beginning to the end of this book we have literally sat side by side
and crafted the raw material of ideas and facts into a coherent shape. She
painstakingly worked through the drafts, smoothening the structure, easing
the flow, and making the book much easier to read.

I would like to thank Dr. Sarika Nanivadekar for her excellent

clinical assistance.

For editorial suggestions, I would like to thank Ms. Ambereen Iqbal,

Ms. Tejaswini Mishra and Dr. Samina Potia. Also, I cannot forget my dear
friend Kaare for his editorial skills and suggestions that bought much clarity
to the book.

Special thanks go to Dr. Sujata Kumar, the counselor of Jamnabai

Narsee School, for fine-tuning and polishing the presentation.

I thank Ms. Julia Schiller for re-editing the book.

And last but not least, I thank my wife, Dr. Urvi Chauhan, for being
there, as always, and for her constant support and constructive criticism.
Printing, publishing as well as a final check to the book go to her credit,
which finally gave shape to this book.

Above all I would like to thank all my readers.

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 My Story of Understanding the Human Core

‘The ‘whole’ is composed of ‘parts’...all of which ‘parts’ combine together

to make up the ‘whole’ which is greater than the sum of its parts.’

T his one line sums up the whole understanding of ‘A Journey

into the Human Core’.

The need for this book emerged as an outcome of the difficulties I

faced in my initial years as a homeopath, trying to understand the complete
human being. In the beginning, it appeared to me that Homoeopathy was in
chaos. I noticed that many homoeopaths based their prescription on purely
pathological symptoms. Some homeopaths gave importance to causative
factors; some only focused on the concomitant symptoms whereas others
related to the emotional state of a patient. Among these, a handful of them
began to lay emphasis on delusions and dreams. With so many approaches to
one common goal, I decided to investigate for myself the complex organism
that is called the human being. I had many questions:

• How was I going to understand the sick individual who had come
to my doorstep to get relief?
• What was it that I needed to perceive in order to cure?
• What did I have to take into consideration for a prescription?
• Was the sum total of rubrics enough?
• Were the feelings or dreams enough?
• What did I then need to know in order to understand a human
being?
• Whom was I to believe and what was I to consider as the
final truth?

A case in point, Mary suffers from chronic bursting headaches that

worsen on exposure to the sun. She has a severe fear of downward motion. She
repeatedly gets dreams of going blind. In this case if we were to administer a
medicine on the basis of physical symptoms, then we could think of a remedy
like Natrum muriaticum or Glonoine. If we only put emphasis on her fear
then the first thing that comes to mind is Borax but if we want to prescribe
only on the basis of her dream then we could think of Physostigma. If one
views the entire disturbance that lies behind this headache, then it is likely
that something else entirely would emerge.

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 One thing has to be clear. Are we treating Mary in parts or in totality?
Consider that if we treat her in parts, relief would be symptomatic but not a
cure in the true sense. Therefore we need to look at Mary as a complete
individual considering her body, mind and that which is beyond.

The problem arises when we look at a human being in fragments. If

we learn to look at him in his entirety, then these discrepancies automatically
get resolved. As a homoeopath it is very vital to understand that the human
being is a whole, integrated entity and not fragmented into independent parts.
This book is all about understanding the whole being step-by-step.

This journey of understanding the whole being became very easy

because I had the good fortune to study under my most adored teacher,
Dr. Rajan Sankaran. His concept of understanding a human being, what to
perceive in order to cure, his idea of delusion, different levels of experience,
etc. cleared many hurdles on the path toward this understanding.

During this process, a number of questions arose which inspired

me to turn back to the Universe and find the fundamental oneness of
Homoeopathy with Universal laws. Many of my questions got answered
merely by observing the Universal phenomena and the laws that govern the
universe. I could now understand and appreciate the essence of homeopathic
philosophy in a far deeper way. Furthermore, I was able to acquire a firm
footing for my ideas by studying some of the laws of physics, which gave
more clarity to my understanding of these concepts.

Once I learnt what is to be perceived in order to cure, the very next

question was the selection of the right Simillimum. A lot has been said and
recorded in homoeopathic literature about the remedies and different ideas
of remedy selection. However, what happens after the administration of a
remedy is often a topic evaded. Although the first prescription is the important
decision to make in Homoeopathy, the follow-up prescription is very likely
the more difficult one. Hence all these thoughts sow a seed for exploring the
process of what happens to the human core after the administration of the
Simillimum. I will be coming up with the whole idea of this process in the
form of my next step i.e. ‘Journey after the Simillimum’.

Dr. Dinesh Chauhan

January 2005
Mumbai.

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J ourney begins…

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 I often ask myself …

I often ask myself, with the abundance of new

information, new theories, new laws at our disposal (made
possible by astounding discoveries in our science) and with
the immense power that homoeopathic science has given to
us, are we any happier than our forefathers who had more
limited information and means at their disposal?

Here, the question is not merely academic.

In spite of new scientific discoveries, laws and theories,
what prevails today in the world of Homoeopathy is utter
chaos and confusion. And we homoeopaths sit unaffected
even in the face of such mayhem. In my opinion, the reason
for this confusion is not the flood of new theories, laws or
hypotheses, but our inability to apply all this knowledge in
Homoeopathy, as well as outside. It is we who are unable
to perceive and believe that all religions, all mystics, all
philosophies from the west and east, basically speak the
same.

Further, if we be thorough in observing a

phenomenon in the universe ona general plane and observe
in depth the very same phenomenon on a particular plane,
then we would surely appreciate the beauty of the fact
that things (laws) that hold true for the local (part), will
be true for parallel phenomena occurring in the general
(universe). After all the laws that are true today were true
yesterday and will still be true tomorrow even if we have
not been clever enough to figure them all out.

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“R ead not to contradict and confute
not to believe and take for granted,
not to find talk and discourse,
but to weigh and consider.”

— Sir Francis Bacon

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 Part I

A Journey into the Human Core

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 “…
 E very individual form of life is a unity . . . it is this ultimate
and internal unity that shapes the innumerable products of life
into an orderly and harmonious whole . . . This distinct, single,
indivisible unity of life in each individual I call the personality of
that individual…”

— Smuts

The first and fundamental task of any homoeopath, who has decided
to devote himself to the study and practice of a true therapeutic science, is
to understand the patient and his illness. It is therefore crucial for such a
professional to first ask the following questions:

• What is a human being?

• How is the human being constructed?
• How does the human being function in the context of his
universe?
• What are the laws and principles governing the function of the
human being in both health and disease?

In order to understand all this, we need to identify the center from

which the whole disturbance arises – the core which is the seat of governance
of an individual’s whole being.

In the Organon of Medicine, Dr. Hahnemann has wisely stated that:

In the healthy condition of man, the spiritual vital force (autocracy),

the dynamis that animates the material body (Organism), rules with
unbounded sway, and retains all the parts of the organism in admirable,
harmonious, vital operation, as regards both sensations and functions, so
that our indwelling, reason gifted mind can freely employ this living healthy
instrument for the higher purpose of our existence.

Aphorism 9

This vital force governs the entire being and is responsible for one’s
existence: in its absence there is no sensation, no function, in short the whole
body becomes inanimate (dead). For centuries mention of the vital force has
been recorded in different faiths. In Physics this force is known as ‘Energy’.

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Various Eastern philosophies like the Vedic philosophy have termed it as
‘Atman’. Ayurveda calls it by the name ‘Prana’. In Chinese philosophy it
is named ‘Chi’. Western philosophers like Carl Jung called it ‘The Self’.
Assagioli termed it ‘The Higher Self’ and Gurdjieff referred to it as ‘The
Essence’.

For practical purpose let us call it the ‘Energy’.

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THE ENERGY

T he word, energy, brings to mind Albert Einstein and his famous

Theory of Relativity (E = mc2). One of Einstein’s greatest insights was to
realize that matter and energy are really different forms of the same thing.
Matter can be turned into energy, and energy into matter. From the scientific
point of view, all living and non-living things are not ultimate realities since
they are composed of electrons, protons, neutrons and energy. Quantum
Physics says that all sub-atomic particles may be regarded as bundles of
energy. Thus, the material universe is nothing more than a relatively dense
form of energy. Everything that exists in the universe, from the most subtle,
refined realms of energetic structures, to the grossest, densest realms of matter
are aligned in an energy continuum. Hence only energy may be taken as the
ultimate reality in science.

Let’s first understand what the word ‘energy’ means.

The Greeks seemed to have enjoyed a good insight into the nature of
energy by virtue of the very root from which the word energy is derived, ‘en-
ergos’, meaning ‘in motion’. From this awareness that energy is somehow
linked to motion and change, we might form a more useful definition of
energy as that which induces a change of state. This covers its function
in all domains of reality, from the physical interactions that science is so
familiar with to changes in mental and emotional states and deeper levels of
consciousness. Energy then is the process of changes itself, masquerading
under various forms that relate one state of a structure to another.

This energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be

transformed from one form into another. This is one of the most fundamental
laws of energy – better known as the First Law of Thermodynamics.

This means that right from the inception of the universe, energy has
been conserved by conversion into various forms. When the Big Bang took
place, light energy was generated and particles of matter started flying in all
directions, thus converting a portion of light energy into kinetic energy. As
the particles settled, their kinetic energy was converted into potential energy.

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Thus we see that at each step, energy was not destroyed, merely transformed
from one form to the other in an attempt to conserve.

The law of conservation of energy is universal. Does this mean

that we can also apply it to human beings? To answer this, we need to first
be thorough in our understanding of the human being. In the human being,
the energy is expressed in the form of two distinct entities – the Mind and
the Body.

Energy (Vital Force)

Mind Body

(Figure 1)

Dr. Kent classified these two faculties of mind and body as

follows –

Energy (Vital Force)

Mind Body

Subconscious Perception Emotion Physical General Physical Particular

(Dreams)

(Figure 2)

Let us understand this classification step-by-step.

Subconscious: At the subconscious level, energy is being expressed

through dreams. Here finally what becomes important in exploring the dreams
are the feelings and perceptions associated with it.

Perception: The deepest realm of intellect is perception. Every human

being has his own way of perceiving reality. We perceive the world within
and outside us according to our own individuality. When this perception is
altered, it is known as Delusion. The delusion is nothing but a false perception
of reality, the way we perceive facts, situations, fears, feelings, etc.

Emotions: The next form of energy is expressed through our feelings,

e.g. anger, sadness, fear, etc.

Physical General (P.G.): On the bodily plane energy is being

expressed through sleep, thirst, appetite, craving, aversion, etc.

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