CULTURA
HOMEOPÁTICA • OUTONO 2003
Dr Paulo RosenbaumWhat have we learned?
Surpassed the critical stage that
characterizes all the beginnings, the Escola de Homeopatia starts to
structures, not only as a formative entity, but mainly as a Brazilian pole
of creative researches. The representativity before the homeopathic
community is already making itself present, knowing, although, that the
recognition of the collective efforts is a sensation that we reserve to
our future.What we initially have learned with the
recycled pedagogic process was that the human resources need an essential
raw material : motivated students.This was the basic insight ! The way
to reach success in front of a so wanted goal is : motivation and
continuous training of the faculty.The group of professors compromised to the
changes managed – in a relatively short period of time, and with the
vital help of an efficient pedagogic assistance, under an agile directory
– to define a strategy that, afterwards, revealed itself correct.We could testify that fear was the more
frequent feeling among the inexperienced faculty. Does it mean that we
assume that all the teachers were inexperienced ? Yes, in this
teaching method. Despite the didactic and clinic experience accumulated
during everyone’s professional lives, nobody dared to affirm that was
able to dominate the resources to make a revolution on teaching. Health
care professionals are, in general, trained to do what they have to, and
even the few that partially migrated to academic work and research keep on
being what they have always been : essentially clinics.The so-called transdisciplinarity still
crawls in the applied knowledge, but it is already a tremendous success if
we consider the great dialogue possibilities opened among the disciplines.
We want a lot more : agronomists, biologists, philosophers,
anthropologists, social scientists and psychologists are people we aspire
to join, in order to understand and re-construct homeopathic knowledge.To the ones that still don’t know what we
are talking about, we restrict to say that, for us, the tradition is not
enough. We respect it, but not adore it. To the ones that sniff at such an
audacity, we prefer to show the results of out work, as for example the
pathogenesy of Lapis Lazuli
(with a bilingual offprint), an unpublished Hahnemann’s text in
Portuguese, Anthropology contribution, school news and other perspectives.At last, to the ones that brand us as
iconoclasts, we would say that we assume, not with a bit of pride, the
accusation. What we are searching, in fact, is a radical enlargement of
the debate about our technology. Because we understand that culture is
precisely a non-linearity of the knowledge. It is the legitimate
intelligence of tradition. Or, putting in hahnemmanian words, not exactly
the doctrine, but the “Spirit of Doctrine “. This may be can
synthesize better our effort on reforming the idea of school than to
transform the idea of what is an alumnus.Alumnus, which etymology comes, according
Michel Foucault, from Latin a (without) lumno (light) : without
light. To a school that shares the constructive process, nothing is
senseless.We need first to clarify that we don’t
refer to the old polemizations about homeopathic tendencies, doctrinaire
lines or hermetic philosophies. We look for a forum in which the new can
arise under another debate tune, for us to face the challenges that
homeopathy itself induced or is confronting.These are the challenges of language, of
the wanted polissemy, of the voluntary stagnation that paralyzed us since
homeopathy grew with a reasonable success in several countries and social
classes that it established.Our Lapis Lazuli experimentation allowed us
to know, in Hahnemann’s way, data about a substance that, as a medicine,
was until then unknown.To reproduce his method was an outstanding
experience. To be truth, it’s fascinating ! With a methodology
“under construction ” and human resources, we could elude from
the imperiousness of voluminous appropriations – which, nevertheless, we
still desire and need – to keep on researching..With innovation and intuition we overcame
boycotts and standstills, with caution we’ve been trying to reorganize
the list of themes of homeopathic agenda. Researches in the ambulatories
became feasible at last, and there is more than one research protocol on
it way.The discussions between departments were
astonishingly erudite and civilized, and its products will be published
soon in a special edition of this magazine. Ambulatories were standardized
and restructured. We’ve got partnership projects with the most
“airy” institutions connected to homeopathy and health in a
general way.We mention as examples also our
articulation with our new partners, such as Faculdade de Saúde Pública
da USP, that, this year, at Hahnemann’s birthday, received the 2nd Day
of Non-conventional Medicines, the agreement with Projeto Aprendiz, and
the Sinapih, that we plan to support integrally in 2005 at Unifesp. These
are some of our most important interinstitutional advances.It means that we are learning fast and
rapidly.Paulo Rosenbaum
culturahomeopatica@escoladehomeopatia.org.br
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© Paulo Rosenbaum 2003