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Spiritual PhytoEssencing and the Tao of Essential Oil Blending
“The Tao that can be told, is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named, is not the eternal name. The unnamed, is the origin of Heaven and Earth. Naming, is the mother of all things. Without desire, one views the mystery. Desiring, one can view only the...
The Apple: Humble, Life-Extending, Super-Fruit
Read this article to learn about the Apple’s role as a life-extending and cancer preventing super-fruit. Also learn about Quercetin in Apples and how it protects against Cancer, COVID and Alzheimer’s Disease.
Cannabis Pain-relief Salve: Part I
Learn about cannabis’ active ingredients and physiological actions. Type of cannabis suggested for homemade preparations. Unique cannabis salve to facilitate transdermal absorption and beneficial effects upon the skin.
The Germ Theory: The Traditional Naturopathic Perspective – Part II
This article will focus upon the nature of viruses, contagion, and Prof. Antoine Beauchamp’s identification and observation of what he termed microzymas.
The Bloodstream: The River of Life
The Importance of Normal Blood Velocity and 3 Ways to Help Maintain it - Part I In this article: The crucial importance of maintaining normal blood velocity Atherosclerosis Vital Chi Skin-Brushing for supporting normal blood velocity Alternate Warm/Cool Shower...
Are You Confused?
Dr. Paavo Airola’s book. “Are You Confused?”, referenced the confusion of different, often conflicting, ideas about what one needs to eat, etc. in order to achieve and maintain good health. Learn how to to find your way out of this fog of confusion into the clarity of understanding that follows from a knowledge of the true nature of health and disease.
SPE Separation Miasm-Relief Blend – Harmony Waves – Part I
Read this article by Dr. Bruce Berkowsky to learn about archetypes and miasms as they are understood in the Spiritual PhytoEssencing (SPE). This paves the way for the main focus of this article, the Separation Miasm.
Three Nutritious & Delicious Recipes to Help You Begin Your New Year with a Healthy Start
Easy-to-prepare, nutrition-rich and digestively balanced Natural Health Science System Power Cooking recipes that can help to light the way to the path of healthful eating. Heart-power Soup Italiano, Great Nori Wraps (Pleasantly Spicy) and Veggie-combo Tacos.
One of Carl Jung’s Cases Analyzed from a Spiritual PhytoEssencing Perspective
In the this article, Dr. Bruce Berkowsky demonstrates the unique SPE art of case-study analysis using one of the cases Carl Jung which he describes in his book Memories, Dreams, Reflection. These ideas are another of the foundation stones in the theoretical context of SPE.
Gingergrass and Palmarosa Oils: Differentiation via Gemstone Synchronicities
Gingergrass is a close sibling species of Palmarosa, these two oils are oils are distilled from two different varieties of the exact same plant species. Learn about the subtle differences between the two plants and understand the inner nature of these two oils via their gemstone synchronicities.
Spiritual PhytoEssencing Repertory of Essential Oils: An Invaluable Tool When Preparing Soul-Healing Blends
When I developed the SPE interview, data interpretation and blending protocol, I adapted some of its central features from classical homeopathy; another very creative yet highly disciplined healing art, which I have practiced for many years. One of these features is the development and use of a repertory.
Staying Healthy During The Long, Hot Summers In The Age Of Global Warming – Part I
Learn How to Prevent Heat Exhaustion, Hot Weather Diet Plan, Value of Cayenne and Apple Cider Vinegar in Very Hot Weather.
Coming of Age Memories, Miasms and Essential Oils
This anecdote about nascent teen summer romance can serve as an object lesson about the Psoric miasm and anise oil.
Staying Healthy During The Long, Hot Summers In The Age Of Global Warming Part II
Learn about essential oils, gemstone essences, cool water hydrotherapies and molecular hydrogen for responding to heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
Molecular Hydrogen Therapy/Cell Salts Synergy for the Brain
Learn about molecular hydrogen for health, it’s effects on brain and potential enhancement of the benefits of hydrogen water by the synchronous use of cell salts. Discover the specific combination of cell salts for the brain that can be administered in concert with molecular hydrogen for a rewarding synergistic effect.
Return To The One Essential Oil Blend – Part I: Foundational Themes of the Formulation
Recently, I formulated a new Spiritual PhytoEssencing (SPE) blend (that my students will be blending and working with) called Return To The One that has great relevance in this era of general divisiveness, separation from one’s real self, and estrangement from spirit,...
Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) Therapy
Pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF) are worthy of consideration for those who are seeking to improve mind, body and spirit wellbeing. Read this article to learn more about PEMF, Human being as a Bio-electromagnetic organism, PEMF and rootedness, SPE Gemstone Essence charging with PEMF and my favorite PEMF therapy devices.
The Neutral Bath: A Relaxing Bath for 21st Century Stress
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Neutral Bath—a type of full-bath—served as an important sedative therapy for institutionalized, emotionally agitated individuals. In this era of unrelenting emotional and physical stresses, the Neutral Bath may be effectively used to soothe and relax the mind/body organism, affording it the opportunity to restore equilibrium. Learn how to take a Neutral Bath and the complementary essential oils for the Neutral Bath.
What Inspired Me to Develop the Art of Spiritual Phytoessencing
In the mid-1990s, after nearly 20 years of clinical practice, I came to two crucial conclusions. The first is that all chronic disease, and to a great extent human unhappiness, is characterized by inertia or “stuckness.” The second is that disharmony on both physical...
The Inner Nature of Essential Oils
Essential oils are both biochemical and bioenergetic entities. The practice of Spiritual PhytoEssencing involves the use of phytoessences (i.e., plant essential oils) that are generated and stored by the plant in specialized cells. Virtually every part of the plant...
The Self-Actualizing Tendency, Real Self and Ideal Self
The self-actualizing drive is the innate creative force within the soul regarding the actualization of one’s potentials. A person who is continually evolving on a deep psychospiritual level is someone whose self-actualizing drive is active and sustaining its...
Homeopathic-Style Potentized Dilution of the Custom Blend
Given my background as, among other things, a classical homeopath, and my focus upon the bioenergetic potential of essential oils, the use of a homeopathic-style potentized dilution is prepared from a customized essential oil blend (in addition to the use of the blend...
Miasms
In Spiritual PhytoEssencing, one of the central archetypes that needs to be determined in each case are the miasms. A miasm is the homeopathic concept that I have adapted into Spiritual PhytoEssencing, of an archetype with a characteristic pattern of archetypal images...
Archetypal Blending
In Spiritual PhytoEssencing, the practitioner is taught how to identify the archetypal pattern that characterizes a particular individual’s soul dynamics. Various components of this pattern are then proficiently matched with corresponding essential oils. The resultant...
A Holiday Miracle, Santa Claus and Douglas-Fir Essential Oil
Fortunately, you don’t have to believe in Santa to appreciate this particular miracle. We’re all experiencing some degree of hard times right now. I thought that passing along this tale would sprinkle some soul-light among the clouds. Read on to learn more about the Douglas-Fir individual, Hospitalized Children and Santa Claus.
Cayenne’s Potential Value In COVID-19 Regarding Two of Its Destructive Effects
Learn why cayenne pepper is worthy of consideration regarding the abnormal clotting and hemorrhagic effects of coronavirus infection. Those individuals who have only mild symptoms and are self-treating with natural medicines may want to consider the addition of cayenne to their home treatment protocol. Others who are not infected by the virus may wish to consider cayenne as part of their preventive protocol.
Foods That Build Immunological Resisting Power: Coconut Oil and Viral Infection
Learn how to use coconut oil for building immunological resisting power, Dr. Berkowsky’s coconut milk recipe and essential oil formula.
Nature’s Laws of Health and Disease Part II
Disease Proneness Equation: Ratio between the levels of environmental challenge and immunological resisting power.
Staying Healthy in this New Reality: Nature’s Laws of Health and Disease Part I
This is the first in a series of articles that I will be presenting that focuses on some of Nature’s Laws of Health and Disease and explains their enduring relevance in this new reality that we all find ourselves having to adapt to. Given the virulence of...
Essential Oils, Fearfulness and the Arrow of Time
The faster the pace of one’s daily life, the shorter the duration of periods of time seem to be. Learn how to prepare
deep-acting, soul-level healing blends for individuals whose lives seem to be caught up in the racing river of entropy and whose perceptual filters, reactional tendencies and decision-making processes are strongly influenced by the awareness of the acceleration of the arrow of time.
