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    Homoeopathy during one hundred years of LMHI (1925–2025) – Part 1: Philosophical perspectives
    (Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, 2025) Schmidt, Josef M
    The celebration of 100 years of “Liga medicorum homoeopathica internationalis” (LMHI) in 2025 gives reason to reflect on the philosophical essence of Homoeopathy as well as its historical development within a dynamic, changing world up to now. From a philosophical perspective, in this first part, it is pointed out that Hahnemann, the founder of Homoeopathy, needs to be understood in his entirety – not only as a keen discoverer, practitioner and thinker, but also in his spiritual shape, i.e. in his ethical, religious and humanitarian attitude and conviction. Only thus may one grasp the significance of the schism pervading Homoeopathy’s history since the split of a major part of his “critical” pupils, adhering to a different, more relativistic and agnostic style of thinking, still during Hahnemann’s own lifetime. What followed was an antagonism in the history of Homoeopathy that still exists today – between so-called “true” “Hahnemannians” and so-called “free” and “scientific-critical” homoeopaths. On this paradigmatic basis, the history of the LMHI may be assessed and studied in a new (proper) light.
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    Homoeopathy during one hundred years of LMHI (1925–2025) – Part 2
    (CCRH, 2026) Schmidt, Josef M
    Taking Hahnemann in his entirety, as a paradigmatic example of a true homoeopath, as a sound basis for a proper understanding of Homoeopathy, the “scientific-critical” school of homoeopaths seems to miss one constitutive part of Homoeopathy: its spiritual embedment into a greater frame of thinking and feeling. In fact, the greatest successes of Homoeopathy, in terms of popularisation, institutionalisation and implementation into social and cultural practice, were achieved in countries and periods open towards spiritual dimensions. This was the case in North America at the end of the 19th century, when James Tyler Kent propagated a Hahnemannian Homoeopathy inspired by Emanuel Swedenborg, and in India and Latin America in the 20th century, where Kentianism fell on fertile ground, later being elaborated into different innovative schools. In Europe and North America, the New Age Movement in the 1970s brought a temporary opening for spiritual and esoteric ideas – to be followed by a drawback into the “critical-scientific” approach, in the wake of evidence-based medicine in the 1990s. The founding of the LMHI 100 years ago by Pierre Schmidt and others proved to be crucial for the spreading and advancement of genuine Homoeopathy according to Hahnemann.
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