tom o'brien's List: all flowers

• On the day of the attunement I let my fears go and surrendered to the beautiful moment. After meditating and turning to my client I suddenly saw her “Buddha Face”. This term came out of the blue without any understanding of its meaning, it was not until later that I understood that beautiful gift that we had both been given.

• virtues of Hydrangea in  Diabetes," [Cooper, 1898, 270] which everybody knows is "the  thirstiest shrub known, especially in the act of flowering,"
• the leaves of Ledum palustre are "somewhat  spear-shaped,"
• all great improvements  in science are made by men who throw off the trammels of previous  teachings and begin by a complete and radical overhauling of the entire  subject,
• Cooper recommended "prescribing a single dose  of a plant mother tincture prepared from a fresh, living (vita = life)  specimen. Cooper was of the opinion that living plants have an inherent  curative action that does not require trituration or succussion to bring  it forth." [Watson] He also suggests "that it is  possible to combat the "growth force' of a malignant tumour with  the growth force of a suitable plant - undoubtedly an ingenious  variation on the principle of similars!" [Watson] He adopted  what Watson calls "Cooper's off-beat approach…it seems that  Cooper used his intuition as much as anything in arriving at his  prescriptions, and it is apparent that he also drew insight from his  deep botanical knowledge." [Watson] AS Watson points out, "Dr.  Le Hunte Cooper, son of the then late Dr. Robert T. Cooper…continued  the work begun by his father in obtaining remarkable curative results in  patients with various types of cancer." [Watson]

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• "As Hahnemann laid down, all healing which is not from within, is harmful, and apparent cure of the body obtained through materialistic methods, obtained only through the action of others, without self-help, may certainly bring physical relief, but harm to our Higher Natures, for the lesson has remained unlearnt, and the fault has not been eradicated."

  • make reference to this is bach flowers presentation
• Dr. Bach's explanation for the healing virtue of medicinal herbs was that they "have been Divinely enriched with healing powers" and are "beneficent" and "blessed." A virtue has been placed in each of them which reflects a heavenly virtue. "They are able, like beautiful music, or any gloriously uplifting thing which gives us inspiration, to raise our very natures, and bring us nearer to our Souls." (4)

  • look at harmonics
• Dr. Bach considered remedies made from the virtuous herbs to have a "positive" polarity, while those fashioned from poisons were "negative." He wrote, "The remedies of the meadow and of Nature, when potentised, are of positive polarity, whereas those which have been associated with disease are of the reverse type." (6) [Exactly what this meant to Dr. Bach is unclear. I wrote the Bach Center for further information on this point. All they could tell me was that it was not a proscription against the use of homeopathic remedies. Dr. Bach may have been able to sense an actual difference between the two types of remedies.]

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