November 2004 | Whole Health: Practioner Profile
Uncommon Healer
Who: Murray Clarke, naturopath, Chinese medicine practitioner and homeopath in private practice in Santa Monica. In 1998, started ChildLife vitamins, now distributed throughout the world.
Quick take: Many holistic and naturopathic methods are often applied symptomatically rather than healing a person completely. Dr. Clarke believes Samuel Hahnemann, widely credited as the “father of homeopathy,” actually intended homeopathy to be used in a much deeper, more spiritual way. Clarke says homeopathy, as described in Hahnemann’s book Orgone, was designed to define the one single remedy that would remove whatever was disturbing a person spiritually.
Old vs. New: “In the old way, people are looking for a remedy that matches a person’s physical, emotional and mental symptoms, but that doesn’t address the deeper part of the person and his or her purpose in life. The new way, which is actually the original way, is to use homeopathy to remove the obstructions to a person’s spiritual evolution. When we talk about the physical, emotional and mental as being holistic, we aren’t seeing the complete picture.”
Finding the Remedy: “After studying with all the renowned homeopaths in the world, I still didn’t know how to [add the deeper spiritual component] until I studied with Vega Rosenberg. He’s the homeopath who brought this depth of understanding and how to apply the remedy. There’s a teachable method. You use all your senses in terms of being able to see who the person is in front of you, but there’s a method for prioritizing.”
Knowing the Difference: “Did just your symptoms go away, or did your life change?”
Biggest Myth: That the remedies can be figured out by looking in a book. “Can you self prescribe? Yes for acute symptoms, but if you want to use a constitutional remedy which touches your soul, you cannot self prescribe.”
Case study: “Four years ago I started working with a little boy who’d been diagnosed autistic at UCLA. He was three years old then and had been diagnosed at about two. He didn’t interact, look at people or talk, and he banged his head against the wall. Over the course of about four years, we’ve used constitutional remedies, supplements [and] some detoxification, and this year he entered school as a normal child and [his parents] didn’t even tell the school he’d been autistic.”
Personal File: Originally from New Zealand, here 20 years, living in Topanga. Single, with chickens (enjoys fresh organic eggs every morning). Travels all over the world speaking at conferences. Believes it’s “important to have rest, relaxation and nature, and that along the way I do and say that that the creator would wish.” Believes we all should follow King Solomon’s advice: “Eat well, sleep well and make love well.”
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