In the former are the symptoms of gone and the patient is naturally relieved, happier and carefree, but as a person he is the same. His conditions to be OK are the same. His experience of himself and the world are the same. These were the things that made him sick in the first place!
There is a clear distinction between the (expected) disappearance of mind symptoms after the chronic disease is resolved (which by the way are also the result after a successful allopathic cure) and the symptoms that caused the chronic disease.
In the latter: the symptoms that caused the chronic disease are tackled. What are those symptoms? The state of the patient, expressing themselves as ‘Conditions to be OK’. In reality we are all OK, unconditionally. One could say, putting conditions to our by design perfectness (no mistakes in creation) is the root of our suffering/ disease. As if our system tries to make us aware by symptoms that we misinterpret our uniqueness: it is not a flaw but a gift.
In the homeopathic community, the discussion is ongoing whether there is something is a ‘healthy lion’ or should the lion (song) disappear altogether? Lion, in this case, stands for the exemplary similimum. When a patient is in a ‘lion state’ (his so-called other song/ sensation) and the remedy Lac leoninum is given: what happens or should happen? When do we consider the treatment successful? Should the lion state disappear? What then is left, since the remedy is prescribed on the most characteristic traits of the person? If they disappear, what happens to his uniqueness? Or, as some claim, if the lion state persists, the remedy was not the similimum.
As far as I can see: the state never disappears and cannot disappear. How could the unique way of being vanish? Would we be all the same after a homeopathic treatment? The patient keeps his experience of being ‘himself’, just like he keeps his fingerprints, but he feels more OK with himself and the world, regardless of his ‘lion’ state. Not because the sensitivity disappeared, at the contrary, that will always be his pattern, though in health it will need a lot more and stronger triggers to produce discomfort. As the patient becomes more free, more OK with himself and the world, more coherent, the symptoms which before pointed to disorder or disturbance are gone, as the well from which they sprang forth dried up.
Therefor the remedy isn’t aimed at erasing the state but is a personalised tool, a manual for the person to become more realistic and healthier. The symptoms are what we need to see the pattern and match it with a remedy pattern. This is what homeopathy does: pattern matching. In my understanding: giving the patient an example of a similar, but undisturbed (because there is no mind to cause this) pattern, brings about harmony by entrainment. A less coherent pattern always synchronizes with a similar more coherent pattern. That isn’t homeopathy its physics.
The evaluation whether our prescription was level 4 or level 5 often will be in hindsight. Do the symptoms on no matter what level disappear with a similimum, then the prescription was level 5, do they disappear with a level 4 prescription, then they originated from the psyche. Of course, our endeavour should be aimed at trying to have a firm grasp on what we are doing and why, but it is not always crystal clear.
If we aimed at level 5 but psychological mental/emotional symptoms persist, we can give either a remedy aimed at level 4, Bach flowers, recommend psychotherapy etc.
Conclusion: in general, we can state that level 4 is more predictable, functional, orderly and logical than level 5. We are more familiar with psychology and its modus operandi. It is a result of social and cultural background, upbringing, biography, intelligence and circumstances
Level 5 is illogical, inexplicable, unexpected, not suitable, always been that way, authentic.
Whereas the human psyche is more diverse than the human body, there are similarities in its overall functioning.
The human vital level is a more unique, one-time expression of ‘all that is’. We can call it a frequency pattern, compare it to a symphony. As written in a previous blog: we inevitably end up with metaphors.
