from Thuja to the cancerous state -

"A morbid obsession"

by Misha Norland
In the light of David Mundy's article on Carcinosin , I submit a few thoughts of my
own. Although I wrote
these down fouryears ago, and feel inretrospect that someofthe ideas are
undeveloped,yet still Ihope that
the general tone and content is comprehensible and helps to illuminate a dark area in
which there is much
room for speculation

The mental sphere of Thuja's action is characterised by obsession. Obsession arises

when the individual has been forced into submission by suppression.
We become attached to ourconditioning,just as the
Conditioning has been attached to us.We then condition the future,impressing upon it
the projections of our psyche,a pseudo-masochistic type of response to the world,
exemplified by such behaviour traits as:- "Kick me
again to prove to me that life is unjust, so that I can feel the bruise, the tangible
manifestation of my inner torment".This creates a sense ofsecurity, it ist he expected
response: it hurts, therefore I am! Or again the fixed ideas typical of Thuja may be felt
as though there were a watcher, a third party, one's internal censor; it
is as though the mind is separated from the body. The world becomes an untrustworthy
place, nature herself has become suspect and we cannot feel our bond with her.
The threads of connection with which we touch the world are loosened.
Think of the gonococcus weakening the bonds between the cells; their natural cohesion
is disturbed and they are given to unruly multiplication typified by sycotic growths. This
condition is produced by the suppression of bodily secretions and eliminations,where
upon disease is forcedi n wards to internal organs. Vaccinations owe
their action to the mobilization of the body's defence systems,they are left in a state of
readiness,perpetually armed against the invader.What a good foundation for an
obsessive personality!
On a personality level therepeated suppressions of natural modes of behaviour, thoughts
and actions may
end in a schizophrenic state. We may hypothesize that cancer and schizophrenia are
polarized
manifestations of suppression, the former being internalised in the physical body, while
thelatteris
externalised inthe formof"non-reality" fantasy projections.Forinstance, the child of a
parent whorepeatedlynegates
the child's independence, suppressingthe libido, (seeR.D. Laing's thesis on the "double-
bind" and schizophrenia)
whereupon the child is forced ever and again into the land
ofimaginationuntiltheboundariesbetweenthe
internal and external world dissolve

That which isobsession on the mentallevel,becomesexcrescence, figwart-like growth

upon the physical. It is
attached,typicallybyastalk, itis an appendage,
anextraconsciousness.Byitsverynatureitisgiventoexcessiveness
and greed.Itdesiresto growand toobtainindependent status. Itisbornbecauseofgreed,for
itowesits existence to
gonorrhoea, and had man remained at home, satisfied with his lot,
thecontagionwouldneverhavebeen
transmittedtohim.Associatedwiththe excrescence, its companionsand allies on themental
plane areguilt, envy
and jealousy, born out ofa deep rooted selfdistrust and disgust. These attributes are
tightly bound up
together, locked in one another's arms. One cannot see the component elements. The
secret is concealed
and the case is all jammed up. Slowness of recovery typifies the state
ofaffairs,ortherecurrenceofillnesses,or
accidents.
The desire to smash and to destroy, to defile and
denigrate,addthistothepicture,andyoucannolongerdetect
the mother ship of all diseases: Psora , she is obscured by the flotilla of her satellites:
the multifoldand
colourful symptoms of Sycosis and Syphilis . The reciprocal action of these twomiasms
is characterisedbythe
impulse todestroy, going berserk,overgrowing,multiplying, devouring, aparasitic
exuberance. This growth is
morbid, for it lacks integration
withinthebodilystructure;itiscomposedofundifferentiatedcancerous tissue
which has assumed its own identity. Since it is composed of the body's own cells, the
natural channels of
defence and elimination are closed. The body succumbs to the disease and all subjective
symptoms cease.
Depression is the mentalstate,thebody havinggivenupthe fight.
Thismorbidityisatfirstmanifestedbythepersonalityat the causativerealm of desires - that
istosay at the incarna-
tional vortex where the descending spiritclothes itselfwith the garment ofmateriality
according to its nature,
selecting the bodywithwhich it hasaffinity.Atthementallevel themorbidity is felt as the
obsessive
recollection and mulling overpast unpleasantness, undressed wrongs, guilt, and
traumas.At the emotional level
there is gloom, depression, a dreadful sinking of the spirits. At the physical level there is
the cancer which
forms at the sight of injury, or in the weakest organ. Thesedays, thiswilloftenbe
thebowel.This is because of
indulgent living and anxiety producing acidity. In women the trouble spotis oftenthe
breasts,which have,
ofcourse becomeobjectsof desire arousal,ratherthantheir intended function of suckling
the young. In
either case there is an unnatural redistribution of the vital body's activities. The
bodybecomesstuckwiththe
obsessionofthemind,withunnecessaryand harmful desires,and the groundwork
formorbidity is laid.
Homoeopathic cure is effected by arousing the body's vital force, so that symptoms are
manifested and
treated from time present towards time past, from above to below, and from the centre
towards the
periphery. Thus in the treatment of cancer, whichisthe final physicalmanifestationof
thesubtlerrealms, wetreat
thephysicalsymptomswithlowpotencyremedies.We must wait forphysicalchanges
tooccur, for the unique
symptomsof disease to appear before we can tackle the higher realms with higher
potencies. We must
prompt the individual up out of the physical state of inertia, help him to clear his house
oftheareasofchaos
andunrulyproliferationoftissueswhichthreatento usurphislife. Wemust also
helpthebody'seliminative system
to copewiththe toxicoverload, and give remedies tocleansetheblood,advise
uponapurifying,vegetariandiet,
free of the salts of sodium, etc., etc.
To sum up, we have said that cancerous tissue is born ofthe cells ofhighlyintegrated
structuresthat,having
harbouredtraumaorunnaturalhabits,have gone primitive,regressed into the state of their
embryological
past. Shock produces a state ofethericstasisinwhichthebodycanno longerhealitself.
Morbidityresults in the
shuttingdownofwholeareasofnatural protection, so that cellular anarchy may result.
Obsessive thoughtsfind
their physicalcounterpart inovergrowth, overproductionandrecurrentconditions. Addto
this Sycosis the Syphilitic
colouring of self destructiveness, and the cancerous diathesis
isborn.Weuselowpotenciestopromoteclearing
anddisintoxication, to freeup the conditionsofphysical and etheric stasis, and to tone up
the organs. High
potencies are used to release theauricandemotional levels, and the highestpotenciesto
redirecttheflowof
astral energies, toreach uptowardsthe causal realm of desire.
From The Homeopath Vol.1, No.4, Summer 198