Miasms
Defined
Miasms
are inherited derangements of your life force1 that
predispose you to how darkness, suffering and disease2 will
manifest in you. These original predispositions are the root causes
of, and the driving forces behind, all truly chronic (heredity-based)
body and mind disease manifestations. Though miasms determine your
susceptibility to the diseases you have and are prone to, they are
not diseases themselves. They are pre-physical energetic defects that
affect you at the level of your blueprint energetic make-up3.
“[M]iasms
are non-contagious spiritual anomalies present in every human being…[that]
contain the same underlying themes together with the universal results
of inhibition, fear and hatred.”4 Miasms
play a primary role in shaping your temperament, behavior patterns,
anatomy, physiology, physical form and the life scenarios you tend
to create and recreate. They may manifest in various forms but each
has certain identifiable characteristic manifestations that allow you
to recognize it.
Miasms
are primordial states of consciousness that have engrafted themselves
to your life energy system via your ancestry. They make use of your
life energy for their own existence and expression. As the integrity
of your energetic fabric progressively weakens and breaks down—due
primarily to the cumulative effects of pollution, drugs, poor lifestyle,
injury, the shocks and other insults of life, and general wear and
tear—the growth of the miasms escalates and they take stronger
hold, until they eventually gain control over your life energy, including
your judgment and expression.
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What
is Chronic?
Samuel
Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, divided chronic diseases—diseases
which do not tend to cure spontaneously, but instead, develop in a
continuous and progressed process—into iatrogenic (those diseases
caused by harmful medical treatment), and heredity-based, naturally
occurring or true chronic diseases (those caused by miasms).5 Diseases
caused by avoidable noxious influences or lifestyle (like living or
working in damp or other unhealthy places, prolonged use of harmful
food or drink, physical or intellectual excesses, etc.) are mistakenly
called chronic, but are not, as they can be corrected primarily by
removing or changing the conditions or circumstances causing them.
True
chronic diseases have the tendency to progress indefinitely unless
their miasmatic roots are removed. The best-suited diet, strongest
constitutions and the healthiest lifestyle alone cannot cure them;
these factors can only slow their progression or temporarily remove
their symptoms. Remedies or treatments that remove the symptoms of
chronic disorder without expunging its causal roots typically worsen
the disorder (not necessarily soon thereafter, but eventually) by suppressing
its safest outlets of symptom expression. Suppression drives disease
deeper into the body-mind, which generates increased, more resistant,
disruption.
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Miasms:
Their Manifestations
The
three miasms of Miasm Therapy we call Misery, Nemesis, and Doom6.
The presence of a miasm is never helpful or desirable. Absence of miasms
is a great impetus for the emergence of creativity. Any recurring pattern
is suspect of being miasmatic. Misery, the miasm of hyper-sensitivity/lack
of strength, is present in all of us. Nemesis is the miasm of excess/overgrowth,
and Doom is the miasm of destruction and deformity.
More
than one miasm can be present, or combinations of any two, or all three.
The characteristic symptoms/expressions of each miasm outlined below
are provided for educational and self-observation purposes only.
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MISERY – The
Miasm of Hypersensitivity/Lack of Strength
Misery,
the miasm of hypersensitivity/lack of strength, is the most basic and
pervasive miasm. Extreme sensitivity and reactivity to stimuli and
lack of strength are it primary characteristics. It
is the prime underlying cause of the disordered state of the internal
economy. It seems we
habitually react to events, situations and relationships. Any time
we are not in creative mode, being pro-active, we are reactive. All
conditions of chronic depletion originate from this miasm.
Example: Someone
who never has enough time, energy, love or money, of feels like they
don’t. Misery’s typically think poor even when flush.
A
partial list of physical, emotional and mental symptoms (existing for
many months or longer) that may result from this miasm is given below.
The symptoms are not the miasm, of course, but only indicate its presence.
Physical
symptoms include:
Functional disorders of all bodily systems (disturbed physical functioning
with no organ damage). For example, fatigue, weak digestion, migraines, heart
palpitations, vertigo, craving for sugar and fat, conditions of dryness—all
complaints without apparent physical cause.
Emotional
symptoms include:
Fear – of death, of disease, of crime, of darkness, of being alone or
abandoned, of crowds, of being approached, of poverty, of loss of love.
Mental
symptoms include:
Confusion, lack of concentration, restlessness of mind and body, attempts to
eradicate or overcome circumstances, always looking for profit.
Note: Any
one of the symptoms listed can indicate that the Misery miasm is active
in you.
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NEMESIS – The
Miasm of Excess/Overgrowth
Nemesis
is characterized by passion, excesses and overgrowths of all kinds
and by perverted functional activity—manifesting physically as
benign tumors and other types of cellular overgrowth, mentally as ostentatiousness
and the need for lots of stimulation, and emotionally as suspiciousness
and secretiveness. It can have perversion of love-related feelings
in personal, family and social spheres. Behavior includes aggressiveness,
cruelty, delinquency, and sexual perversion. Personality disorders
(narcissistic, sociopathic, borderline), with their self-absorbed indifference
to others, may fall in this category. You may feel repelled by seeing
manifestations of this miasm in others—or yourself.
Example: Someone
prone to inflammation and infection; one who exaggerates, overworks,
overcommits, overtalks, overeats, or overspends.
Physical
symptoms include:
Benign tumors, fibroids, warts, calcium deposits (osteoarthritis, kidney stones,
etc.), muscle problems, obesity, catarrh, pelvic problems (genito-urinary discharges,
pelvic inflammatory disease, candidiasis, appendicitis). All “itis” conditions.
Emotional
symptoms include:
Annoyance, anger, selfishness, lack of affection, aggressiveness, cruelty,
indifference.
Mental
symptoms include:
Ostentatiousness, loquaciousness, addictive behavior (e.g. drugs, gambling,
sex, etc.), short-term memory problems, lack of honesty, obsessions and compulsions.
Note: Any
one of the symptoms listed can indicate that the Nemesis miasm is active
in you.
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DOOM – The
Miasm of Destruction/Deformity
Doom’s
central themes of destruction and deformity manifest on all levels—mental
emotional and physical. It tries to shrink the world to a manageable
size. It affects intelligence and judgment, and is characterized by
isolation, mistrust, suspicion, and all types of mental illness. Alcohol
and drug addiction, though strongly rooted in Doom, are often caused
by a combination of miasms.
Example: Someone
with depression, autoimmune problems, physical deformities, or self-destructive
behavior.
Physical
symptoms include:
Joint distortions (like rheumatoid arthritis), bow legs, scoliosis, aneurisms,
misshapen organs, hypertension, heart attack, stroke, diabetes, autoimmune
disorders, osteoporosis, sensory defects of any kind, and any form of rupturing
or breakage.
Emotional
symptoms include:
Isolation, mistrust, suspicion, hopelessness, self-destructive thoughts or
behavior, and mental illness.
Mental
symptoms include:
Controlling or dictatorial behavior, tendency to violence, slow reactions,
slow comprehension and ability to respond. All increase over time.
Note: Any
one of the symptoms listed can indicate that the miasm of Doom is active
in you.
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Proactive
Removal: The Intelligent Choice
The
nature of miasms is to grow within you and gain strength over time.
As their growth rate is unpredictable, due to the possibility of major
traumatic events impacting you at any time, the best strategy for dealing
with them is to remove them before they gain real strength.
The
age at which you will experience notable breakdowns of your health
and well-being, due to an increase of the miasmatic activity within
you is variable, depending upon:
1)
How developed your miasms were when you were born (some people’s
miasms are already highly developed early in life—if both parents
have the same miasm it can concentrate in their children);
2)
The number of miasms present within you and how developed their influences
are. The combined influence of two or more miasms that are moderately-to-highly
developed can markedly accelerate health breakdown;
3)
Your constitutional strength. Less cumulative stress, trauma, etc.
are required to weaken the life fabric of someone with a delicate makeup.
As you progressively weaken (lose vitality, age, etc.) dormant or undeveloped
miasms strengthen and gain increasing influence within you;
4) How much your life force or self-expression has been suppressed. The mental
health of the family members (or others) who raised you, particularly how controlling,
disapproving or belittling they were of you, is one factor. The degree to which
your life goals, sexuality or emotional expression were suppressed by your
circumstances is another. And last but not least, the degree to which your
life-force and the expression of your body-mind’s symptoms have been
suppressed by medical drug therapies, etc. See the article entitled “Suppression” for
a detailed explanation of how suppression impacts health;
5)
The severity of your life experience. A life ridden with denial, strife,
high drama, trauma, drug use, etc., by tendency will bring out miasmatic
influences more quickly and strongly than a balanced, peaceful, or
wholesome life that is lived in an accepting, supportive environment.
6)
Your lifestyle. Good lifestyle (balanced and health-enhancing) can
slow the development of inherited miasms just as base lifestyle (unchecked
excesses, deficient diet, inadequate sleep, etc.) can accelerate their
development. Unfortunately, good lifestyle will not reduce one’s
level of reaction to a significant (miasm-increasing) trauma to any
appreciable degree.
Once
the miasms present within you grow to the point that they gain an influence
over you that exceeds 50%, it is highly unlikely that they will ever
be removed from your system. The stress impact of one extremely difficult
month (such as the period following the death of a loved one), or one
moderately difficult year, can potentially elevate the growth of miasmatic
influence over you two-thirds of that amount. The largest one-month
increase in influence that we’ve ever seen was from 5% to 40%!
Once
you become aware that miasms are significantly compromising your health
and well-being, it is highly recommended that you focus as much of
your time and energy as possible on removing them from your system
while the opportunity to do so exists.
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The
Importance of Staying Focused
One
of the main benefits of Miasm Therapy is that it can prevent you from
manifesting the life-depleting, character-deforming and destructive
conditions inherent in your ancestry. But in order for these kinds
of benefits to be lasting, it is necessary for you to stay focused
on the miasm removal process until it’s complete.
Miasms
have the weed-like tendency to die hard and to continue asserting themselves
until they’ve been thoroughly removed. But they can also be gotten
rid of fairly gracefully via this side-effect-free7 process—if
you will apply the process to yourself in a concerted, attentive and
relatively sustained way. This does not mean that you need to receive
a session conveyance (Miasm Therapy treatment) every single week, but
if the miasmatic influences within you are high or moderately high,
working as close to this schedule as possible is ideal—at least
until you’ve moved into less precarious life territory.
Each
session conveyance removes a portion of a miasm. The cumulative effect
of many sessions removes it all. How long this will take depends on
how strong the miasm’s activity is with you and how large the
Miasm Therapy doses are that you can handle. Your strength, activity
level, and the amount of energy you can devote to the process are the
factors that determine your dosage size.
It
is best to focus intently on the miasm work and complete it, so that
you are free to experience the rest of your life more fully and joyfully.
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History
Experience
with a variety of theories and practices has informed and contributed
pieces to our understanding of the miasms. Spanning at least 200 years
of wisdom, the definition used by Miasm Therapy includes and is informed
by the thinking of many people. Careful consideration, plus the combined
experience of 60 years, has gone into the present formulation. We enumerate
some of the sources, in hopes it will deepen your understanding of
the miasms.
Regressive
therapy techniques such as Pre- and Peri-natal Therapy and Holotropic
Breath Work lead to the understanding that memories of a lifetime (including
life in utero) are retained by every cell of the body-mind and are
accessible under the right conditions. We have a cellular memory of
all our experience. It unconsciously informs who we are, sometimes
leading us to think and behave in inappropriate, often inexplicable
ways.
The
original diagnostic work of Lowell E. Ward, DC, PhD8,
asserts that the configuration of the spine holds the traumatic history
of your forebears. Scientific measurement and interpretation of spinal
misalignments can identify traumas and information about their origin.
Great-grandparents’ traumas can be the set-up for your present
dysfunction. Traumas can be carried, like genes, from generation to
generation. And, like the gene of inherited diseases such as cystic
fibrosis, the consequences come more quickly and with more intensity
for each successive generation.
Native
American belief is that whatever we do affects the next seven generations.
Shamanic work bestows on us the feel-it-in-your-bones experience that
all things are connected.
Homeopathy
posits that the cause of the disinformation that our bodies carry from
generation to generation is miasms. Samuel Hahnemann, M.D., the father
of homeopathy and the first man to recognize miasms as inherited predispositions
to chronic disease, wrote in his magnum opus, Organon of the Medical
Art9, “The
true, natural, chronic diseases are those that arise from a chronic
miasm.” Most of what is known about how miasms manifest comes
from the two hundred-year empiric database built by astute homeopathic
practitioners.
Scientific
American recently reported that biologists are finding that DNA, once
considered the sole repository of heritable information, is accompanied
by a separate, much more malleable layer of information that is encoded
within the chromosomes, but outside the DNA. Intriguingly, important
traits can be transmitted through this separate layer. This information
is leading to a new field of study, called epigenetics.
Jungian
psychologists describe the shadow part of personality as containing
all the unseen, negative parts of self that contaminate—or even
dominate—what you do in life. You can’t see your shadow,
or apprehend its effect. It is so omnipresent that you can’t
perceive the way it distorts your perception, your thought, your being.
You accept the judgments that flow from it—you’re not good
enough, you don’t deserve to succeed, you can’t be loved
or loving.
Even
more fundamentally, we learn of it from early religious training. In
Judeo-Christian tradition it is called Original Sin. Every spiritual
tradition has its belief in darkness, negativity; a stain on our humanness.
Born in sin, bred in sin, inherently tainted in some way. We live in
a world of duality, of good and evil, and we are taught that it lives
in us.
There’s
a universal fear of being found out—as if you’re wrong,
and whatever you do is not truly who you are—and who you are
(am I bad? am I wrong?) is constantly in danger of being discovered.
Looking over your shoulder, it forces you to live out of fear, rather
than to live in love.
We
find that the taint that makes you go through life in fear finds its
source in miasms. Most of our chronic physical, emotional, mental,
social and behavioral patterns have miasms as their cause. What you
observe are the symptoms—the effects—of the miasms. Miasms
themselves remain enfolded in our life fabric. Treating symptoms allows
them to continue to hide, to adapt, and to continue their inevitable,
ever-more destructive ways.
All
of the above, and more, have led to years of study of miasms and the
development of the technology that directly eliminates them. What follows
is the result of the investigation into all that constitutes the miasms—Miasm
Therapy.
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Intergenerational and
Interpersonal Aspects of Miasm Therapy
When a person is receiving the Miasm Therapy session conveyances and
doing the assigned purifications regularly, those closest to him can
experience some tension. This is a natural side-effect of change. If
change is made in any part of a system (like a family) changes occur
in all other parts. If change is deep and profound--as is the case with
Miasm Therapy-- family members may feel confused or challenged.
For example,
in a five-year marriage, Don’s usual way of interacting
with his wife, Jane, was by assuming a paternal, mentoring role. She
habitually responded by acceding like a dutiful child, ignoring her
own best wisdom. This agreed-upon dynamic worked, to some extent, but
at great expense to Jane’s self-esteem. It was a limitation on
the unique possibility of their relationship.
After
receiving three Miasm Therapy sessions, Jane quite calmly and non-reactively
started asserting herself as an equal. Don was thrown
into a state of confusion, not knowing how to respond. The conflicted,
un-equal dynamic no longer worked. The children’s on-going behavioral
problems seemed magically to disappear, but Don couldn’t figure
out what to do.
Don may
have been threatened by a perceived loss of power. He may have felt
that one
person has to dominate—and if not he, then
he may be dominated. His own miasm issues, whatever they were, may
have been stimulated by his close contact with his wife.
Whatever
the cause, there is a simple and elegant way to move beyond such
treatment-related
impasses. While receiving one of her assigned
purifications, Jane “energetically connects” with her husband
(by verbally intending to do so, while simultaneously feeling that
connection). Minutes later a change, a softening, just seemed to happen
naturally. Don’s aggravation, conflict and confusion gently resolved,
allowing him to come into synch with the positive changes in the family
dynamics.
You can energetically connect with each of your parents whenever
you receive session conveyances or the purifications that complement
them. You inherited your miasms from/through your parents. No fault,
no blame. They inherited them, too. The only way to remove the energetic
bond that maintains the transmission of miasmatic force (from your
ancestral lineage though them to you) is to significantly weaken the
links between the miasmatic influences operating within you and them.
The process
of energetically connecting your Miasm Therapy treatments to your
parents
accomplishes this. It also accelerates the removal
of your miasms up to ten times. And, it also provides some reduction
of miasmatic influence in your parents as well as your siblings. This
is irrespective of the nature of your connection with your parents
(or sibs), your childhood experience, your current status—and
surprisingly, even whether or not your parents are still alive. The
dynamics seem to have a life of their own.
In the same way, a parent engaged in Miasm Therapy can help their
children by energetically connecting with them. An example is of a
mother who was in enormous distress because her son was deeply involved
with drugs, and resisting treatment. She energetically connected with
him while doing her Miasm Therapy assignments, and a few days later
he called to tell her that he had agreed to meet with his psychiatrist
and to become involved in his treatment program in a meaningful way.
He is now out of rehab and making steady progress in establishing a
drug-free life style.
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1 Life
force: that energy which maintains life in the individual. Each person
is endowed with his/her own unique quality of it. It is distinct from
chemical or physical phenomenon. (back)
2 Disease
is identified by doctors and lab tests by confirming symptoms as well
as through identification of a disease organism, pathogen or an antibody
produced by exposure to a pathogen. Miasm Therapy doesn’t identify
or treat disease/s—we identify and remove the energetic defects
that we call miasms and the energetic imbalances related to them. (back)
3 What
David Bohm, the renowned quantum physicist, refers to as the implicate
order—the formative realm that governs the physical realm. (back)
4 Grant
Bentley, Appearance and Circumstance, p. 31. (back)
5 Long-standing
or recurring viral conditions such as Chronic Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(CIDS), Chronic Epstein-Barr Virus (CEBV), hepatitis C, etc., are outgrowths
or end-products of miasms. Exposure to a pathogen in and of itself
does not create illness—there must also be susceptibility. (back)
6 In
Greek mythology, Chaos is the principle of darkness, the quality of
being devoid of God. Night is the daughter of Chaos, and three of the
children of Night are Misery (unhappiness, emotional distress and suffering),
Nemesis (Goddess of fate and extravagant pride) and Doom (unhappy destiny,
death, ruin). (back)
7 As
the blockage being perpetuated by your miasms falls away (as a result
of your receiving Miasm Therapy) suppressed symptoms buried within
you will rise to the surface and re-present themselves. These are not
symptoms that the miasm work is in any way adding to you. Miasm Therapy
treatments add nothing on to you; they only remove. They remove either
the miasms themselves or the energetic imbalances generated by them.
Purifications provided to you as part of this program, when applied
sufficiently, will enable you to facilitate the full release of suppressed
symptoms (unearthed by the Miasm Therapy) with comfort and ease. Any
new symptoms you experience in the days following a session conveyance
that purifications don’t clear away are unrelated to Miasm Therapy. (back)
8 ‘The
Dynamics of Spinal Stress,’ ca. 1980 (back)
9 6th
Edition, Edited by Wenda O’Reilly, p. 123 (back)
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