Homeopathy
Homeopathy, if it works, should be properly understood as a form of magick, along with hypnotherapy. Magick works when you are dealing with preventative medicine, minor ailments, or as a complement to orthodox therapeutic treatment for major ailments (e.g. my ex partner beat some pretty sobering cancer odds by sheer force of will - combined with cutting edge Western/orthodox treatments). In the first two cases, you are using raw consciousness to fine-tune a physical system that is still in a relative state of equilibrium; in the latter case, you are using raw consciousness to direct the efficacy of an intervention in system that has become severely perturbed. But unless you are an extremely experienced and accomplished magician (and I am personally no such adept, nor do I know any such person) it would be unwise to try to correct a physical system that is cascading far out of equilibrium with the kinds of minor adjustments that are typically possible at the level of raw consciousness. It’s not that consciousness is “weak” (quite the opposite). It is simply that when it is crystallized in the world of form, it must usually obey the rules of form. Those rules dictate, essentially, that higher-order consciousness acts on mammalian organisms through the locus of Mind that comprises the individual organism’s mind, and individual mind can achieve only bounded, limited results, especially when its phenomenological manifestation is a biochemical system that is careening towards chaos.
-rigint
