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      The Life Mission Theory VI. A Theory for the Human Character: Healing with Holistic Medicine Through Recovery of Character and Purpose of Life

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          The human character can be understood as an extension of the life mission or purpose of life, and explained as the primary tool of a person to impact others and express the purpose of life. Repression of the human character makes it impossible for a person to realize his personal mission in life and, therefore, is one of the primary causes of self-repression resulting in poor quality of life, health, and ability. From Hippocrates to Hahnemann, repression of physical, mental, and spiritual character can be seen as the prime cause of disease, while recovery of character has been the primary intention of the treatment. In this paper, human character is explained as an intersubjective aspect of consciousness with the ability to influence the consciousness of another person directly. To understand consciousness, we reintroduce the seven-ray theory of consciousness explaining consciousness in accordance with a fractal ontology with a bifurcation number of seven (the numbers four to ten work almost as well). A case report on a female, aged 35 years, with severe hormonal disturbances, diagnosed with extremely early menopause, is presented and treated according to the theory of holistic existential healing (the holistic process theory of healing). After recovery of her character and purpose of life, her quality of life dramatically improved and hormonal status normalized. We believe that the recovery of human character and purpose of life was the central intention of Hippocrates and thus the original essence of western medicine. Interestingly, there are strong parallels to the peyote medicine of the Native Americans, the African Sangomas, the Australian Aboriginal healers, and the old Nordic medicine. The recovery of human character was also the intention of Hahnemann's homeopathy. We believe that we are at the core of consciousness-based medicine, as recovery of purpose of life and human character has been practiced as medicine in most human cultures throughout time. We believe that such recovery can help some (motivated) patients to survive, even with severe disease.

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          Journal
          ScientificWorldJournal
          ScientificWorldJournal
          TSWJ
          The Scientific World Journal
          TheScientificWorldJOURNAL
          2356-6140
          1537-744X
          2004
          24 September 2004
          : 4
          : 859-880
          Affiliations
          1 The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstræde 4-8, DK-1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark
          2 The Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark
          3 Norwegian School of Management, Sandvika, Norway
          4 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Office of the Medical Director, Division for Mental Retardation, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem and Zusman Child Development Center, Division of Pediatrics and Community Health, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
          Author notes

          Academic Editor: Daniel T.L. Shek

          Article
          491218
          10.1100/tsw.2004.142
          5956297
          15517095
          b7737f5b-e08f-4ff0-88bf-d1ff2e9c3170
          Copyright © 2004 Søren Ventegodt et al.

          This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

          History
          : 1 June 2004
          : 9 September 2004
          : 10 September 2004
          Categories
          Research Article

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          quality of life,qol,philosophy,human development,holistic medicine,alternative medicine,public health,life mission theory,personal development,purpose of life,character,spiritual health,hormonal balance,denmark,israel,norway

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