The Vital-Force-Spirit 'Animatistic New Age Pantheism' of Naturopathic Medicine:

2006-08-03T16:52:00.000-07:00

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.[necessary quotes: proponents, critics]

.[a proponent, naturopath]

"'Naturopathy, with all its various methods of treatment, has always one end in view and one end only: to increase vital force [p.003].'"

-R.J. Thiel (ND ?).

[quoting Lust, founder of naturopathy -- in "Combining Old and New: Naturopathy for the 21st Century" {2001; ISBN 1885653085}].

.[a critic, physicist-molecular biologist-neuroscientist)

"When facts come in the door, vitalism flies out of the window."

- Francis Crick [click here, http://www.humanistperspectives.org/issue154/books.html; also here, http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/reviews/crickandkurtz.htm] [Crick's 1962 Nobel Laureate, here,
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1962/crick-bio.html].

.[a proponent, homeopath 'metaphysician' -- to be clear that vitalism is: ideal / metaphysical / NOT the physical {the 'energy' / 'energetic' is not in the sense of science, but the 'spirit woo-woo' sense} / beneath material reality / a spiritual or idealistic or metaphysical 'otherworldly' puppeteering / a hypostatized concept]

“When we say the vital force is ‘deep inside’ we do not mean interior in the anatomical [physical!] sense, ‘deep to’ the skin, but rather existing on a subtler level [etheric! spirit-plane woo-woo!] because it is energetic rather than physical [spiritual, beneath physical reality, of the hypostatized etc.]. Similarly, when we talk about healing from the inside to the outside, this means not only symptoms going from deeper organs to the surface, but also from the mental, emotional and energetic planes [!] to the physical [p.012]."

-De Schepper, L. (MD ?, PhD ?) [in “Hahnemann Revisited: Hahnemannian Textbook of Classical Homoeopathy for the Professional”(2005)(ISBN 818056567X)].

.[a critic, physiologist. 1865!!!]

"The habit of vitalistic explanation makes us credulous [that is, gullible] and promotes the introduction of absurd [that is, idiotic] data into science [p.202]."

-Claude Bernard [{"the father of physiology," per wikipedia, click here};
in "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine"(1865{!}{quote from 1957 reissue, ISBN 0486204006}].

.[recommended searches]

***the essential naturopathic / naturopathy expression encompassing their 'article of faith' known as vitalism

is "vis medicatrix naturae:"

{i.e., per google.com, here; per yahoo.com, here, per msn.com, here; per clusty.com, here}

specific verbiage searches:

per ask.com:

>naturopathic vitalistic heir< here; >naturopathic "through the response of the life force"< here; >naturopathic principles vitalism<here; >naturopathic "a vital force"< here;

per msn.com:

>naturopathic medicine "response of the life force"< here;

>"college of naturopathic medicine" "vital force"< here; >"college of naturopathic medicine" "life force"< here; >"bridgeport.edu" "life force"< here; >"vitalistic tradition" doctor < here; >naturopathic.org "vital force"< here; >naturopath treats life force< here; >vitalistic medicatrix foundation< here;

>"with the patient's vital force"< here; "response of the life force" "ordered and intelligent"< here; >autocracy "life force"< here; >"vital force" naturopathic medicatrix< here;

>"life force" naturopathic medicatrix< here; >"naturopathic physician" "vital force"< here; >"foundation of naturopathic" "is the vitalistic"< here; >"concept of vis" naturopathic< here; >homeopathy "vital force"< here;

per yahoo.com:

>"our life-force (or spirit)"< here; >"with the vis" naturopathic< here; >naturopathic "response of the"< here; >"vital energy" naturopathic< here; >NMD naturopathic "life force"< here;

per google.com:

>naturopathic principles vitalism< here; >spiritual dynamic homeopathy< here; >naturopathy vitalistic tradition< here;

per books.google.com:

>Hahnemann "life force"< here; >prana medicatrix< here; >"life force" belief< here; >"patient's vital force"< here;

>aphorism dynamis life force< here; >immaterial "vital force"< here;

.[formal title]

Appendix B: Naturopathic Vital-Force-Spirit / 'Purposeful Life Spirit':

(VFS; aka 'animatistic New Age pantheism' [ANAP]) [naturopathy proper; CAM in general; VFS aliases CAM-wide][a directory, arranged in the following manner: schools, national org.s, state org.s, journals, practitioners, academics, reference tools; the concept encompasses animism, animatism and spiritism -- of the supernatural, metaphysical, idealistic -- of the hypostatized]

.[citations]

.[this master menu page links to subcategories concerning this category:]

01. Schools:

.[CAM-wide, inclusive of 'the naturopathic']

B.01.a. -- (AANP schools), (click here, http://animatisticnapantheism.blogspot.com/) ;

B.01.b. -- (non AANP schools), (click here, http://animatisticnapantheism1.blogspot.com/) ;

B.01. c. -- (otherwheres schools & prop. schools) ,

(click here, http://animatisticnapantheism2.blogspot.com/);

02. International & National Org.s:

.[CAM-wide, inclusive of 'the naturopathic']

B.02. -- (all international & national organizations), (click here, http://animatisticnapantheismn.blogspot.com/);

03. State org.s:

.[CAM-wide, inclusive of 'the naturopathic']

B.03. -- (all state organizations), (click here, http://animatisticnapantheisms.blogspot.com/);

04. Journals:

.[CAM-wide, inclusive of 'the naturopathic']

B.04. -- (all journals), (click here, http://animatisticnapantheismj.blogspot.com/);

05. Practitioners: [affiliations as 'best gleaned']

***[FIRST and FOREMOST, that naturopathic bastion! whose books were required or highly recommended in Sensenig's NPP511 course at UBCNM fall 1998, and who captures it all so well...I believe this is where the term 'underlying' comes from per the 'ND sectarian creed' principles' vitalistic ideology / neoplatonism]***

Lindlahr, H. (MD ?, ND? ?) states:

[for an equation of life force / vital force / healing power of nature with 'divine within' {autoentheism, a specific {pan}theistic type, see this books.google.com search: http://books.google.com/books?q=divine+within+lindlahr&btnG=Search+Books]

[also, it appears that other religious types {I am not religious} apologetically note that the concept of "life force within" as "divine within" is a form of pantheism, see http://www.eternalministries.org/articles/GodPowerWithinMovement.htm]

[in "Philosophy of Natural Therapeutics 1922"(2004)]

[the required text for my first semester at UBCNM, fall 1998...I cite the verbatim reprint c.2004 because that's what's up at books.google.com and amazon.com's 'look inside']]

[this text is getting 'modernized' through the FNPLA's FNMP (see http://www.foundationsproject.com)]

“what methods of treatment are in conformity with the constructive principle in nature? [...2] economize vital force [p.020...] chapter IV: what is life? [...] the processes of health, disease and cure are manifestations of what we call life, vitality, life elements [...] life or vital force [...] an ultimate which no human mind is capable of solving or explaining. We can study and understand life only in its manifestations, not in its origin and real essence [...] the vitalistic concept of life [...] regards vital force as the primary force of all forces, coming from the great central source of all life. This force, which permeates, heats and animates the entire created universe, is an expression of divine intelligence and will, the 'logos' and the 'word' of the great creative intelligence [...] the divine energy [...] electricity is a form of energy. It is intelligent energy [!...] this intelligent energy can have but one source; the will and intelligence of the creator – or as Swedenborg expresses it, of 'the great central sun of the universe [...] this supreme intelligence [...] crude matter, instead of being the source of all life [p.023...] is but an expression of the life force, itself a manifestation of the great creative intelligence which some call god, others nature, the oversoul, brahma, prana, the great spirit, etc. [...a] supreme intelligence and power acting in and through every atom, molecule and cell in the human body, which is the true healer, the 'vis medicatrix naturae' [...] 'the healer within' [...] here the Christian scientist will say: 'that is exactly what we claim. All is god. All is mind! There is no matter! Our attitude to disease is based upon these facts' [! p.024...] by innervation is meant a copious influx of life force [p.028...in] nature cure [...] everything is done to improve and economize vital force[...] the freer the inflow of life force into the organism, the greater the vitality [p.029...] the more intense the action of the life force, the more rapid and vigorous are the vibratory activities of the atoms and molecules in the cells, and of the cells in the organs and tissues of the body [...] the inflow of vital force into the cells may be obstructed and their vibratory activity lowered by the accumulation of waste and morbid matter in the tissues of the body. Such clogging interferes with the inflow of the life force [p.030...] health is dependent upon an abundant supply of life force [...] nothing so interferes with the inflow of the life force [...] as the accumulation of foreign matter and poisons in the tissues of the body [...] our mental and emotional states exert a most powerful influence upon the inflow and distribution of vital force [p.032...] we, however, claim that drug poison merely serves to paralyze vital force, whereby the deceptive results of allopathic treatment are obtained [...] acute diseases are nature's cleansing and healing efforts, all acute reactions represent increased activity of vital force [...] anything which will inhibit the action of vital force will, in allopathic parlance, 'cure' the acute disease [...] as a matter of fact, nothing more effectively paralyzes vital force and impairs vital organs than poisonous drugs, ice, and the surgeon's knife [p.044...] every cell must be in unobstructed communication with the nerve currents of the body [...] with the sympathetic nervous system through which it receives the life force which vivifies [p148...] the life force enters the body with every breath we draw [p.150...once] a free and abundant inflow of life force has been established, then the cells and tissues of the body become once again able to arouse themselves to an acute eliminative effort and the organism is ready for a healing crisis [p.151...] the prize fighter in one case and the the vital force in the other [p.153...] the spiritual life element governing the animal kingdom seizes upon the living matter of the vegetable plane and refines, organizes and vivifies it into still higher potencies of vital force and creative energy. The life principle governing the animal kingdom has been called the spiritual life element [...] the soul life element [p.201...] progressive manifestations of vital force resemble the power of steam at different degrees of tension [...] each higher expression of vital force exhibits more powerful potential and kinetic energy and produces substances of greater refinement and complexity than a lower one [...] the animal cell being synthesized under the operation of the spiritual or animal life element, is alive with still higher potencies of vital force than those of the vegetable cell [p.202...] with the highest potencies of animal magnetism to serve as food for the newborn animal and human [...] the life elements in the mineral and vegetable kingdom are vital force transformed into electromagnetic and vitochemical or physiochemical energies [p.203...] it is true that vital force manifests in the body as electricity and magnetism, but vital force is not itself generated in the system. Life is primary force. It is the source of all activity animating the universe. From this primary force, all other, secondary forces are derived, such as electricity, magnetism, mental, emotional and nervous energy. These secondary derived forces and energies cannot be changed back into vital force in the human organism [...] when the physical body is dead, as we call it, the life which is left is active in the spiritual body [p.209...] in chapter V, I named as the first of the primary manifestations of disease, lowered vitality [...] all disease is caused by something which interferes with, diminishes or disturbs the normal inflow and distribution of vital energy throughout the system. Acute disease represents a temporary increase in activity of the vital force [...] chronic disease is permanent obstruction to the activity of vital energy [...] cure means the victory of vital energies over the pathogenic obstruction. Vitality, physical and mental energy, power of resistance and capacity for the enjoyment of life are various forms and manifestations of vital energy, and these are transmutations of vital force. The problem, then, before us in the healing of disease as well as in maintaining the highest possible efficiency and capacity for the enjoyment of life, is to increase the inflow and distribution of life force [p.220...] secondary derived energies cannot be transmuted back into life force – the primary source of all force [...] this life force which flows into us from the one great source of all life in this universe – from that which we call god, nature, creative force, or universal intelligence – is the primary source of all energy, from which all other forms and kinds of energy are derived [...] if the physical body should fall dead' as we call it, the vital energy would keep on acting with undiminished force through the spiritual material body [...] this is not merely a matter of faith and of speculative reasoning, but a demonstrated fact of natural science [p.221...] all food taken in excess of the actual needs of the body wastes vital force instead of giving it [...] on this depends the flow of life force into the body [...] life force and its derivatives, strength, vitality, resisting and recuperating power [...] the problem of vital force [p.222...] the human organism is capable of liberating and manifesting daily a limited quantity of vital force [p.223...] the lower the level of vital force, the more powerful the inhibitory influences [...] stimulants do not contain anything that could impart vital force to the organism [p.224...] nature tried to force the tired body to rest and sleep so that it could store up a new supply of vital force [p.225...] nature regulates the heart beat and other functions according to the amount and availability of vital force [p.226...] when the conscious activities of the soul have been put to sleep paralysis extends to the subconscious activities of the life or vital force [p.228...] we cannot increase vital force in the body through any artificial means or methods from without [...] what we can and should do is put the organism into the best possible condition for the liberation and manifestation of life force or vital energy [p.229...] undoubtedly one of the most serious leaks of vital force is created through onanism or masturbation [...] the wasteful expenditure of sex fluid and sex life stunts growth and development in all directions. It lowers resistance to physical disease and creates negative conditions on the mental, moral and spiritual planes of being [p.231...] vital force is transmuted through the electric cells and batteries which make up the living body into electromagnetic and vitochemical energies. When vital force leaves the body at death the production of vital energy ceases [...] the body produces rather than liberates vital energy. According to the ancient vedic teachings, vital force enters the body through the pituitary bodies and is distributed through the sympathetic and central nervous system. The brain is the mot powerful and active electromagnetic battery in the body. In its infinite multitude of glandular structures and minute cells and batteries, vital force is transmuted into nervous, intellectual and emotional energy. The brain and nervous system are the central power stations whose batteries and dynamos supply all the organs with the various forms of vital energy. The nerves and their ramifications are the wires which conduct and transmit vital energy [p.255...] if he gives the treatments in the right spirit he will gain vital force instead of losing it [p.257...] the weakness in chronic disease and the inability of the organism to arouse itself to acute activity is caused by a deficiency of vital energy. The beneficial effect of magnetic treatment is not so much due to the transmission of vital force from operator to patient as to the arousing and stimulating of the latent positive electromagnetic and vitochemical energies of the sufferer -- in the polarizing of his magnetic forces. The positive magnetism of the operator stirs up and intensifies the inactive vital energies in the body of the patient [...] a healthy person, animated by lofty ideals and the earnest desire to allay pain and suffering, is constantly radiating healing power [...] the use of this power for the healing of the sick cannot deplete and weaken the physician [...] the more he gives of these higher and finer energies, the more he receives from the inexhaustible storehouse of life and healing power [p.259...] for many generations people have been educated in the belief that almost every acute disease will end fatally unless the patient is drugged or operated on. When they find to their surprise that the metaphysical formulas or prayers of a mental healer or scientist will cure the baby's measles or the father's smallpox just as well and possibly better [I shit you not] than the pills and potions of the doctor, they are finally convinced that a miracle has been performed and they become blind believers and fanatical followers of their new idols. The simply exchange one superstition for another [...] they have not yet been taught that every acute disease is the result of a healing effort and therefore fail to see that is is the vital force, 'the physician [p.265] within,' that under favorable circumstances cures measles and smallpox as easily as it repairs the broken blade of grass or heals the wounded animal in the forest. Faith in this vital healing force [p.266...] there is nothing contradictory or incompatible in the teachings of nature cure philosophy concerning the physical and metaphysical methods of treating human ailments [...] the activities of the human organism are governed by two different systems of nerves, the autonomic or sympathetic and the cerebrospinal or sensorimotor. The sympathetic nervous system is the conveyor of vital force to the organs and cells of the body. Just what this vital force is and where it originates we do not know. It is the manifestation of that which we term god, nature, life, the higher power or the divine within [***I have termed this autoentheism, 'the belief that god is within oneself', p.273...] they harmonize the physical vibrations, relax the tissues and open them wide to the inflow of the life force. Swedenborg truly says: 'the warmth of life is the heat of the divine love permeating and animating the universe.' The more we possess of hope, faith, love and kindred emotions, the more we open ourselves to the inflow of the vital energies [p.283]";

(ISBN 0766183831)

(for an amazon.com short review of this, click here,

http://www.amazon.com/review/R1RZZB2QCPAPKW/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm)

ii.

[in "Nature Cure..."{ch. 03, per 1922 20th? ed.}]

[also in "The Lindlahr Vegetarian Cook Book and ABC of Natural Dietetics"(2004)(ISBN 0766186601)]

"from this it appears that crude matter, instead of being the source of life and of all its complicated mental and spiritual phenomena (which assumption, on the face of it, is absurd), is only an expression of the life force, itself a manifestation of the great creative intelligence which some call god, others nature, the oversoul, brahma, prana, etc., each one according to his best understanding. It is this supreme power and intelligence, acting in and through every atom, molecule and cell in the human body, which is the true healer, the vis medicatrix nature, which always endeavors [teleology-finalism; goal directedness] to repair, to heal and to restore the perfect type. All that the physician can do is to remove obstructions and to establish normal conditions within and around the patient, so that the healer within can do his work to the best advantage. Here the Christian Scientist will say: "That is exactly what we claim. All is God [pantheism], all is mind [panpsychism]! There is no matter! Our attitude toward disease is based on these facts [! the a priori trumps the a posteriori; a fact is any old idea, literally]";

(click here,

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4273)

(archived here,

http://web.archive.org/web/20030418183256/http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4273)

(or click here,

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020123lindlahr/020123toc.html)

(or archived here,

http://web.archive.org/web/20020202024626/http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020123lindlahr/020123toc.html)

(or archived here,

http://web.archive.org/web/20050401165024/http://www.pulsemed.org/Nature-Cure-free-book-download.pdf)

(also click here,

http://www.healing.org/Nature%20Cure%20PDF/TOC.html)

a. AANP type ND:

B.05.i.a.01. -- (A-Ak), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ia-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.a.02. -- (Al-Az), (click here, http://appendix-b-05iaa-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.a.03. -- (B-Bd), (click here, http://appendix-b-05iaaa-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.a.04. -- (Be-Bl), (click here, http://appendix-b-05iaaaa-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.a.05. -- (Bm-Bz), (click here, http://appendix-b-05iaaaaa-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.bb00. -- (C-Cal), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ib01-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.bb01. -- (Cam-Cg), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ib02-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.bb02. -- (Ch-Ck), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ib03-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.bbb. -- (Cl-Cq), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ib04-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.bbbb. -- (Cr-Cz), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ib05-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.bbbb00. -- (D-F), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ib-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.c.00. -- (G), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ic00-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.c.02. -- (H-Him), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ic02-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.c.03. -- (Hin-Hx), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ic-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.c.04. -- (I-J), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ic03-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.c.05. -- (K), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ic05-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.d.00. -- (L-Lh), (click here, http://appendix-b-05id-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.d.01. -- (Li-Lz), (click here, http://appendix-b-05id01-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.d.02. -- (M-Mc), (click here, http://appendix-b-05id02-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.d.03. -- (Md-Mih), (click here, http://appendix-b-05id03-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.d.04. -- (Mit-Mun), (click here, http://appendix-b-05id04-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.d.05. -- (Muo-Mz), (click here, http://appendix-b-05id05-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.e. -- (N-O), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ie-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.f. -- (P), (click here, http://appendix-b-05idd-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.h. -- (Q-R), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ih-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.i.00. -- (Sa-Sg), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ii-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.i.02. -- (Sh-Sm), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ii02-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.i.03. -- (Sn-Sv), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ii03-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.i.04. -- (Sw-Sg), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ii04-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.k. -- (T), (click here, http://appendix-b-05ik-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

B.05.i.l. -- (U-Z), (click here, http://appendix-b-05il-aanpnds.blogspot.com/) ;

b. nonAANP type ND:

B.05.ii.a. -- (nonAANP NDs North America) ,

(click here, http://appendix-b-05iia-ndsnorthamerica.blogspot.com/);

B.05.ii.b. -- (otherwheres Type NDs & CAM Prop.s) ,

(click here, http://appendix-b-05iib-ndsotherwheres.blogspot.com/);

06. academics & authors:

.[CAM-wide, inclusive of 'the naturopathic']

B.06.a. -- (A), (click here, http://appendix-b-06a-acadsauthors.blogspot.com/);

B.o6.aa. -- (B), (click here, http://appendix-b-06aa-acadsauthors.blogspot.com/);

B.06.aaa. -- (C), (click here, http://appendix-b-06aaa-acadsauthors.blogspot.com/);

B.06.ab. -- (D-F), (click here, http://appendix-b-06ab-acadsauthors.blogspot.com/);

B.06.abb. -- (G), (click here, http://appendix-b-06g-acadsauthors.blogspot.com/);

B.06.b. -- (H-M), (click here, http://appendix-b-06b-acadsauthors.blogspot.com/);

B.06.c. -- (N-S), (click here, http://appendix-b-06c-acadsauthors.blogspot.com/);

B.06.d. -- (T-Z), (click here, http://appendix-b-06d-acadsauthors.blogspot.com/);

07. reference tools:

.[CAM-wide, inclusive of 'the naturopathic']

B.07.i. -- (A-EDT), (click here, http://appendix-b-07-reference-tools.blogspot.com/);

B.07.ii. -- (EDU-MER), (click here, http://appendix-b-07ii-reference-tools.blogspot.com/);

B.07.iii. -- (META-S), (click here, http://appendix-b-07iii-reference-tools.blogspot.com/);

B.07.iv. -- (T-Z), (click here, http://appendix-b-07iv-reference-tools.blogspot.com/);

Appendix B.00. [master menu]: The ANAP of Naturopathy.

The Vital-Force-Spirit 'Animatistic New Age Pantheism' of Naturopathic Medicine: