Phoenix Dactylifera

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In the oldest portion of the Ethiopian Book of Enoch (Chapter 24) 

it is related that the prophet visited Paradise 

and found the Tree of Life itself— 

 it was a date palm.1

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The following edited transcript is presented as the convivial  conversation it was, each prover blending into one:

 

The holiday spirit!

 

Nice to be in person!

 

I know everything about you! Joking with each other.

 

I have been working on a two year project. It was finally cleaned yesterday. Today was the culmination of the project.

 

A phone call comes for one prover: Later brother, can’t talk right now, love you.

 

Cozy slippers.

 

They pick out everything for me there.

 

Your glasses are always changing.

 

Oh! The time difference [with one person coming on Zoom from the coast].

 

Missed you guys!

 

Whatever comes please don’t edit yourself. Our conversation dynamizes the field.

 

Something close to your heart is easier for everyone to relate to. Don’t hold back. 

 

C2 grinding

 

I feel jittery already!

 

Its a secret, we will see what comes up.

 

The original substance was ground with milk sugar to create this powder, the 1C.

 

A mystery!

 

Im crushing my pills, and not sure Im doing it right.

 

Ten minutes of grinding and then scraping for 5 minutes, abbreviating the usual time taken for a trituration proving.

 

I was observing the conversation with one prover about a big, busy, full day and also an absent member because of her husband, full and busy, with lots going on. Something in relation to time. It made me think of time.

 

Why do we date things?  

 

Time is a confining element. 

 

Ive got too much shit on the go to notice time.

 

There is some sort of vulnerability in my heart. I remember a bizarre dream from last night. I was pooping with other people. They were pooping. Someone jokes: instead of jerk circle, it was a poop circle? Ha ha! 

 

Please don’t laugh.  It made me aware I was cleaning my bum and this person was looking. I don’t feel comfortable with this, that they see me with myself. It was weird. What kind of dream is that? I almost forgot it. The day was busy but I started mixing and felt vulnerable and that you will see my self.

 

Shitting is something private, rarely involving anyone else. It is a human vulnerability, a private contained experience that everybody has, even the queen and the super model.  Anybody! No one is above it or beyond it.

 

Our human vulnerability may be why we do everything, so as not to feel that feeling.  Contain our shits and create identities for ourselves to make us feel safe and not vulnerable. 

 

From the zoom prover: Can you put me on the table to hear the conversation better. I’d rather  hear you than see you.

 

Look the teacher is there. Now you’re at the table with us, that’s better. Everyone is smiling and very happy together.

 

Fishbones came to my mind, and clouds as a cloud vapour.  A channeller said there’s a prediction about a noxious vapour being expuled from the planet. Expuled is not a word. The noun is expulsion meaning to force out of a country or a body.  Oh, I heard that one, too! Some kind of volcanic earth action expulses this vapour. It comes out of the earth, according to the prediction.

 

Soon as I started this, my feet got really hot and I feel really sweaty. And I felt really jittery.

 

Not to limit anything here, but this would be the level that we think of the physical level. Actually the C2 is associated with the level of feelings and emotions.

 

I felt immediately something in my heart. That vulnerability came with it.  

 

This proving extends to times before. It wouldn’t just start right now. I don’t understand that.

 

It’s another question about time. What is time actually? Some people suggest that everything is happening all at once. 

 

Talking about time, I just talked about it with my brother. I was saying something about my childhood school years. The difficulty then, blah blah blah and he said oh its just in the past, let it go, and Im like, no it’s here now. Not that I’m going through my school years emotionally, but it’s part of me. That took a toll on me I told him. Those school years then, I deal with everyday. Not that I’m thinking about it, but it’s part of me. He said, oh brush it off, that’s the past and I said no, it’s with me. Not that Im milking it. It’s happening now. There’s a sense of time in a different way. It’s not about the trauma. It’s part of everything. Every action is not gone. It is in the blueprint of our soul, everything. It’s not aware of time. Returning to now, it is time for me to pay for past mistakes.

 

Brushed off and put in the past, you would never have the opportunity to pay for past mistakes. But it’s now, the past is now, so I’m seeing how everything I lived in a selfish way, that was not in service of my brothers and sisters, it is a selfish thing. I was in that kind of mentality and being open to being about the bigger me, and a bigger picture, and being willing now to pay the cost and feel the pain. 

 

C2 scraping

 

When we made the C1, you were very much with us. It energetically went into all of our fields. Even not being aware of it, we’ve all been part of this. We’ve been connected for awhile now. I’m already an oldie.

 

A book called The Field by journalist Lynn Mctaggert. She also wrote The Power of Eight and a book about intention. What she writes about is all scientifically proven, very readable. The Field being about the interconnectivity between everything. That’s how ho’oponopono works!

 

Sudden laughter. That’s weird. I was just talking about that recently. I’m feeling the connection and everything is your fault! Poking fun leading to lots of laughter.

 

Everything is our fault. Thats why we do ho’oponopono! 

 

You are personally responsible! 

 

I’ve put in a lot of work to reverse that!

 

You own everything with ho’oponopono. You forgive everything. That happens. There’s no escape for you!

 

I’m feeling very warm.

 

I’m not. It’s a woman thing.

 

Especially my face. Her face is flushed.

 

I’m freaking smokin’ and want to pull off my shirt! I’m smokin’ hot!

 

Coming back to the idea of time, in relation to us as people, what our relationship is with time, something in the past is part of who you are. It’s part of the fabric of who you are. Now how do we define ourselves through time. Coming into perimenopause I have ideas around age and time.

    

I feel super spacey. It is way exaggerated! Everything you are saying is going in one ear and out the other. My brain is a frikking eeeeiy! I don’t know what is happening. I need concise and clear instructions. I’m failing.

 

Would it be helpful for you— I was not clear on the process either.

  

I just feel so bad. I never read that stuff, the article about triturating. I didn’t read it. 

 

You didn’t do you’re homework! bad girl! bad girl! Time to send you to the principals office! Everyone is laughing again, teasing in friendly ways.

 

This gets you close to the magic of the little bit, the infinitesimal dose. 

 

I was feeling like eating it. I just want to eat it. 

 

C3 grinding

 

Laughing.

 

Would this be an appropriate time to share a dream I had, leading up to this?

 

In this dream I was with someone else, I don’t know who, up on a platform, quite high up somewhere. Usually personally I’m not a fan of heights but I didn’t mind being up high and definitely there was a platform with water below us. It was quite far below. I couldn’t see it but sensed there was water.  I knew someone fell into the water and was asking for help. I could hear them but not see them, and later I walked to the edge of the platform wondering how to get down and I saw a water slide. Oh, I can ride down the water slide. I was feeling so high on the platform and knowing there was water below.

 

I was fine with the height. Normally I’d be terrified but I was calm. There was not a lot of emotion. I was somewhere, up high and I knew there was water down below. I felt a strong connection but I couldn’t see it. Someone calling for help, there was someone in the water needing help.

 

My husband saved a guy in that exact way you describe. When he was working helo-tac he saw a kid drowning and he dove off a bridge to save the guy. He was twenty years old, and super stoked. Is that how the past comes into the now?

 

I got totally spaced and did not hear what you said. Did I lock the back door at my job. Write that down, did I lock the door? I didn’t check.

 

That is so profound! When she talks I feel so less-than. How can I think of something really mind blowing to say, really good stuff? More honest feelings maybe.

 

Everyone has their super power. You definitely have a super power.

 

What is your super power? This mortar and pestle!

 

Taking care of people is my super power. What’s yours?

 

You are well aware of my power of listening but I’m starting to develop a super power around being okay with being spontaneous and impulsive. To say it like I see it and disregard the consequences. Show up, tell the truth, and disregard the consequences. In the past and to this day, I feel super shitty after I do that. How could I have said that! Ashamed.

 

Like being your authentic self.

 

Yeah, fuck the principal!

 

Whats your super power? I don’t know. You?

 

My super power is to read the moment and respond with my sincere heart. 

 

Nice.

 

I wish it would be like making lots of money but…everyone laughing at the joke

 

Whatever! Can’t have everything. When you can’t make money you get into this kind of thing, going deeper.  

 

I like what you said about the authentic self. In last few weeks I have had realizations with a difficult brother. I just have to be my authentic self. He has to see the shining star that I am. I can’t keep bending to please other people. It doesn’t make me any happier.

 

But the beauty is he doesn’t need to see you. You can be that without him seeing that shining star. He doesn’t need to see it. I gave that up. They don’t need to see. Don’t wait for other people to see you.

 

Someone was telling me about the five love languages. She was saying that my love language was gifting people so I’m going to do something spontaneous and impulsive right now! Brings a coffee cup to give that is inscribed with I am a ray of fucking sunshine. They hug.

 

Fucking what? I am a ray of fucking sunshine. I love that!

 

Fucking what!

 

I am a ray of fucking sunshine. Everyone is laughing.

 

Perfect! So perfect. Lots of laughter.

 

I feel like I’m on drugs. Jittery body, like a fucking trip.

 

I don’t feel nothing laughing

 

You’re just fucking with me.

 

Or maybe he feels like that all the time.

 

It’s hard to distinguish.

 

You both are red. I’m the opposite. I’m chilly. I need a scarf. 

 

It’s a rush. I tell you its happening. Seriously.

 

I feel like eating this. Is that screwed up?

 

You’re funny.

 

I’m struck by the irony in this moment of someone who I perceive as embodying and being an an advocate for unschooling. In the context of the community, you are such a support! I can come to you with any question and your answer shows I’m doing everything right. And it’s with no judgment at all. I find it really interesting to hear that—-  

 

—I’m not confident? We’ve all had things we carry from the past and some of that is bubbling up through the proving right now.

 

I have a sense my super power is listening but I don’t feel listened to. So there is something resonating with you, you’re making everyone else feel right because inside you feel like you’re doing something wrong. It’s a capacity to extend what you want to other people. It’s some kind of natural law I think. We give the thing we most want to get and in that we somehow get what we need. What do you think? Don’t you think its a natural law?

 

A natural inversion, a mirror reflection. 

 

I would want to take care of people because I want to be taken care of? 

 

Whatever she comes to you with, you make her feel right.

 

Does that mean I feel I’m not right?

 

That’s what you’ve been saying! Your commitment to unschooling, and helping others. It’s a juxtaposition to your inner experience.

 

Now people know! Are you feeling vulnerable? Are we watching you poop! I meant to look online for the meaning of that.

 

It would change your algorithm.

 

A guy watching me cleaning myself after I pooped with everyone in the toilet, everyone sitting and shitting. I felt embarrassed with this guy looking.

 

We have work to do. 

 

C4 grinding

 

[Water served to everyone] Tell me that’s not delicious?

 

Cheers!

 

Yours is perfect, amazing how tuned in you are with that. Teasing.

 

You make me feel bad.

 

It was intentional. I did that on purpose. You’re a ray of fucking sunshine!

 

The time is up!

 

C4 takes the substance to the level of spirit. The fourth trituration. 

 

Comparing decimal with centesimal potencies, it’s a different measure between the two altogether. X potencies are for prescribers who cannot conceive of that little bit in 99 parts becoming the therapeutic dose. Some minds cannot accept it.

 

My mind is having a hard time accepting that. This is already so dilute, my mind has to expand.

 

The more dilute the stronger it is. According to Hahnemann, we are releasing the spirit-like dynamic of the substance.

 

Can you translate that? You mean the essence of it, the properties? Say it again.

 

We are releasing the spirit-like dynamic. You can’t see it but it makes it more dynamic what we are doing. 

 

She is super dynamic! 

 

I am 1m shit over here! The person doing this puts a different spin on each trituration.  

 

If we’re all interconnected, mine must have a different ju ju than hers.

 

It would all be in relationship to the substance, like different rays from the sun. Like the Sufis that recognize different rays of god, each ray with different qualities but all coming from the same source. It is all an expression of the substance.

 

Are you feeling this stuff? said to the person on Zoom With us being in the room, is it affecting things more, or is it different for you?

 

I’m feeling left out, not in a bad way. I’m noticing that, and it’s funny because that’s what is going on for me emotionally in my life. This is like a reiteration of myself. I hate being in this position with you guys.

 

Feeling left out is a feeling in this room, too. She felt left out because she’s not smart enough. And I had a thought when you referred to her, I felt left out. Then I became aware when you shared, oh this is in the room here, too. Oh good, I’m not left out because we are all left out! She is feeling very left out because she didn’t feel left out at all! lots of laughter

 

So we are going on this trip together, through these highs and the lows. We just need more of you to the person on Zoom. We will fly you up for the next one. Or a road trip! We’re coming to visit!  

 

Her super power is she can turn anything into the sacred, anything.

 

That’s beautiful. Thank you. I try. I try to keep my mind there.

 

Hands feel warm in the palms but the fingers are cold [2 provers].

 

I like your ring. Very pretty, with emeralds? No, they’re blue. I like big jewelry.

 

A lingering atmosphere of intimacy and conviviality, openness and vulnerability with each other, and a lot of giddy laughing and poking fun at each other.

 

Cold fingers and warm red palms

 

C4 scraping

 

What time is it?

 

I don’t have a lot of time.

 

It’s relative man.

 

Oh I might have made a mistake

 

Don’t worry. Theres nothing there anyway! Its just energy.

 

Listening to a channeller who was into homeopathy, a beautiful being. He had a woman who couldn’t take the remedy or maybe she was at a distance, so he said eat the paper that had something written on it. She couldn’t take whatever it was, and something written on the paper, she took instead of a remedy. In my house right now, I have a bottle of water that I do this number thing with, from this Russian guy. It’s for the vibration of different organs and I put the bottle of water over the paper and sip it and that is how I’m taking the numbers instead of having to visualize something. Using water. Yep, Im just taking the water.

 

I feel very uninhibited. I’m noticing this [gestures], these waves of—

 

Energy.

 

Feeling quiet and settled and then woohoo hoo!

 

When we started the C4 we all settled and quieted.

 

I feel settled. Maybe the opposite of how I felt earlier.

 

Yeah now I do [feel settled] but it will go up again.

 

Like heat waves.

 

I was feeling my heart. It felt like it was opening and palpating. Having heart palpitations mildly enough to notice.

 

Don’t touch it! Don’t know what to do! It’s on my pants, should I scrape it? We’re having a thing! She touched it!

 

Can I lick my finger?

 

Is it contaminated?

 

Laughter Can we watch you clean it! joking.

 

Everyone giggles. A lot of laughter, smiles, silliness, and fun.

 

I have to eat some of this. Can I eat it? Is it allowed? 

 

From the Zoom prover I took notes on each level. I didn’t feel a lot but first thing the fishbones came to mind, and clouds as evaporating water into big cumulous clouds. The remedy looks like that.

 

In the second trituration you were talking about time. I recently shared a metaphor used by Richard Rudd. He talked about us living in a ocean of time like fish. We breathe and swim around in time. This whole concept of time, without ever realizing there’s a whole universe above the waterline, the sky and the air, and it’s a completely different level of living.

 

The C3 trituration, being on the outside, was very exemplative of what is going on in my life, that I perceive to be on the outside of everything and how do I feel about that, I don’t know, but the perception is there.

 

C4 was thinking again of time. You were talking about x and c potencies and I couldn’t hear everything but I got this vision of the higher the potency. The level of the actual physical is in there, but more like an inner journey into the infinite, the infinitesimal, the smallest infinity. Instead of going out into the infinity of space, this would be going into the infinity of inner space. It reflects that. It doesn’t take much, a small amount, for that to be activated inside.

 

There is some kind of scientific process. I can’t figure out what it would be, but that is the word that made it self known.

 

This is whole different science than normal! My kind of science. I would have done way better in school if science had been like this proving.

 

Matching the inner space with something so small.

 

I’m still so giddy inside. Ready to party! More laughter.

 

I can feel my mind expanding in this space. On an intellectual level there’s an understanding about how remedies work and I can feel my perception expanding. We are experiencing this remedy. We are not reliant on someone else telling us about it. There’s no definitive answer as to what this is. We are in contact with the essence. It’s literally blowing my mind— not my mind in the way I normally think of my mind. It’s up here, gestures above her head.

 

The understanding of potencies being more dilute and becoming more powerful— why is that?  I felt it’s more a direction of going deeper. It’s the opposite of allopathy, of more and more and going out. This is going into the infinitesimal, the smallest. I’m relating with it, so that vulnerability I felt in the beginning, in my heart, it now feels quieter and way deeper. 

 

Also, I feel my heart a lot more. It’s coming on almost like we took a drug and we’re coming on to it now. A tingling and a I can see the giddiness that was coming up. It’s a little bit high.

 

You’re behind us here! Glad you joined the party!

 

So what is it?

 

Its a date.

 

A date!

 

I love dates! 

 

I also love dates. I encountered special dates that I felt such a resonance with. They had flavour and texture, really my favorite date ever. Dates are dry, not fresh, and have so little water, like a concentrate. They grow in deserts. This one is the Medina date, grown in Saudia arabia. Hot! They grow in the desert, near Medina, a sacred place. Very old. Taken for breaking the fast by Muslims.

 

With sugar you get high and then you get down, like the waves you experienced.

 

Muslims break their fast with dates, all joining together like we are now, creating community and celebrating. Two weeks ago kids were out of the house and I smoked weed and danced. I had the night to myself and I ate dates on a date with myself. With the munchies I thought, eat a date! That’s healthy but sweet. And I never eat dates. 

 

Date fruit contains different vitamins (riboflavin, biotin, thiamin, folic acid, and ascorbic acid), higher percentage of sugar and carbohydrates, proteins, fatty acids, salt and minerals such as potassium and magnesium. The main sugars of date are glucose, sucrose and fructose, which are effortlessly digestible sugars. Furthermore, high dietary fibers of date fruit make it more digestible and beneficial to gastrointestinal tract. Date palm is supposed as a complete diet and medicinal plant as phytochemical studies have explained that the date palm contains anthocyanins, phenolics, sterols, carotenoids, and flavonoids. Since ancient times, the fruit, kernel, and pollen of dates have been use in the different traditional and folk systems of medicines where date palms are found to be cultivared; such as Traditional Indian Medicine, Middle Eastern and African folk Medicine and Persian Medicine. The wide range of functions or effects on disease being attributed to date palm and mentioned in traditional medicine studies such as constipation, cancer, anti-aging, anti-atherogenic, type 2 diabetes, urolithiasis, peptic ulcer, humoral immunity, neuropathy, rhinitis, male fertility, and wound healing in Middle Eastern and African folk Medicine; peptic ulcer, gastric transit, diabetic neuropathy, neuro-protection, and reproductive hormone function, urinary tract infections, upper respiratory and lower respiratory tract infections, general weakness, sciatica, dehydration, asthma, hiccups, cystitis, tuberculosis, nervous disorders, skin problems, leprosy, gonorrhea, anemia, decreased sperm count, purpura, edema, sepsis, cognitive dysfunction, anxiety, psychosis, muscular paralysis, cardiovascular disorders, kidney and liver disorders, and microbial and viral infections in Traditional Indian Medicine; antibacterial, male fertility, analgesic, prostate hyperplasia, peptic ulcer, low back pain, parasitic infections, facilitating delivery, and joint stiffness in Persian Medicine. 2.

 

That is wild.

 

I like them, not very sweet.  Very chewy!

 

Also, we can go out on a date soon.   

 

When trying to weigh the date, the scale kept jumping. It wouldn’t go up to a gram. Then we’d take it off and it would say three grams as if it was not wanting to be weighed, not wanting to be measured.  We went with an intuitive amount.

 

I’m afraid if it touches me it will affect me.

 

But now you know what it is, and you have you’re own energetic thing going on that’s much stronger.

 

Feeling left out and separated like date palms in the desert, quite isolated and the fruit is high up from the ground in clusters. Not a lot of water.

 

I’m exhausted now, frikking bagged. I was so up and now so low. So trippy. 

 

I didn’t want to disappoint you.

 

On December 11, 2024 five members of the Prescribers Forum undertook an abbreviated trituration proving together. Rather than spending many hours, and in the hope of safeguarding provers from ill-effects, the timing was truncated so the C1 was prepared ahead of the meeting. In this way the substance was not known to three of the provers. The triturations that followed from C1 - C4 were ground for ten minutes, scraped for five minutes,  one part mixed with another 99 parts milk sugar to continue. Despite the reduction in time, an altered state was experienced by all provers. In fact, the provers all required repetitions of their constitutional remedies in the days that followed. One prover was participating via Zoom. Four provers were in the same room.

 

The Source

Phoenix dactylifera fruit

 

The resource material on the date palm is extensive. After all it is an ancient tree, dating back to 6,000 years ago Fossilized remains show that its ancestors were already flourishing 50 million years ago. It is certain that at the dawn of history the date palm is found established and cultivated in the subtropical zone from Western India to the Atlantic Ocean, and that since the beginning of written records it has been prominent as a means of sustenance, a source of material for manufactures, a fount of beverages, and an object of worship for many peoples.

 

It is a plant that thrives best in subtropical regions with scanty rains or none at all; yet it demands abundant and constant moisture about its roots. The seeds not only require wet soil in which to germinate, but the cotyledon has no less than four well-marked features adapting it to resist excessive moisture, and the roots of the seedling possess as many similar peculiarities, according to G. Firtsch. These features can be reasonably explained as showing that the seedling is adapted to grow in water-logged soil. Moreover, the species is remarkably tolerant of salt water and alkalis.

"Phoenix" was the name the father of botany, Theophrastus, gave the palm tree. Most scholars suggest that it was so named as "the tree of Phoenicians" who widely used it as a sacred and national symbol.

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The botanical name of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera L., is presumably derived from a Phoenician name "phoenix", which means date palm, and "dactylifera" derived from a Greek word "daktulos" meaning a finger, illustrating the fruit's form (Linné, 1734). 3.

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Of the most marked physical symptoms during the trituration were sensations in the fingers and palms, warm palms with cold fingers. Becoming heated was another strong sensation, resonating with the hot, arid environment of the date palm and also with the Greek myth of the Phoenix. The mythical bird would build its nest at the top of the date palm where the fire of rebirth would eventually rise and burn. From this fire the Phoenix is reborn.

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Paul Popenoe writes about the alcoholic beverage fermented from dates and reports of those who died from drinking it. He imagines those who survived the date wine conceived a progeny adaptable to drinking alcohol! Perhaps our relationship with intoxicating liquor began millennia ago, with dates. With a high sugar content, along with the experience of those triturating the date, the remedy could be classified as a drug remedy, with mental confusion, forgetfulness, feeling high, and spacey, like tripping.

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Although the date can be traced back to 4000 BCE in ancient Arabia, Islam has stressed the holiness of the date and the date palm more than any other religion. In fact, the Prophet Muhammed said that Ajwah dates—grown in the Madinah region of Saudi Arabia—are from paradise. The date palm, mentioned more than any other fruit-bearing plant in the Qur’an (twenty times), is a symbol often associated with Muslims. Elements of Sufi mysticism, and a reminder of the fruit being eaten to break the fasts of Ramadan, were expressed during and immediately after the trituration. Like the inclusive and compassionate precepts of Sufism , Ho’oponopono has similar significance. This was described during the trituration as one prover suggested we are all from one source but shine like individual rays of the sun, while another prover spoke of Ho’oponopono working through the interconnectivity of everyone and everything. When we take responsibility for our human connectivity we can love and forgive anyone. It's how ho'oponopono works.

 

In Persian folklore, there is a story of a date palm that grew in the middle of a village square. The villagers loved the tree, for it provided shade and sweet dates during celebrations. One day, a wandering dervish visited the village and proclaimed that the tree was magical. He said, “If you sing and clap, this tree will dance for you!” The villagers, skeptical but curious, gathered around the tree and began to clap and sing joyful songs. To their astonishment, the palm began to sway, its fronds shaking rhythmically to their music. Laughter and cheers erupted as the villagers danced with the tree. Of course, the tree wasn’t magical—it was just a windy day, and the dervish had a keen sense of humour. But from that day forward, the villagers would gather under the palm to sing and dance, celebrating its life-giving fruit with joy. 

 

Indeed, our evening trituration was joyful, with everyone reflecting each other’s good cheer. Joking and teasing was intimate. Though we had never been in the same room together before, we laughed as only those who are closely bonded are able to do. Like a frond blowing in the wind, we went from extremes of vulnerability to feeling profoundly connected, from protecting ourselves to opening our hearts to each other. We experienced a polarity between being reserved and being generous with each other. Like the provers dream of the person pooping in public, our private thoughts and feelings became seen. There was no privacy. In that happy intimacy, we became shining reflections of one another, vulnerable and resilient as the date palm in a desert, accessing water deep below to create a sweet and sacred fruit. We were connected, open and sharing, and laughing like the best of kin.

 

In a popular Middle Eastern folktale, a sly trickster named Juha (or Nasreddin Hodja) once visited a wealthy merchant who owned a sprawling grove of date palms. Juha, known for his wit and love of food, was hungry and asked the merchant for some dates. The merchant, who was stingy, offered Juha the lowest-quality dates, dry and hard. Juha ate them eagerly but began chewing exaggeratedly, wincing with every bite. The merchant laughed and said, “Why are you eating them if they’re so tough?” Juha smiled and replied, “Oh, I’m not eating them for myself. I’m chewing them to soften them up for you to eat later!” The merchant, embarrassed, handed over the finest dates from his store. Juha walked away, laughing to himself and enjoying his sweet reward. 

 

If there be a core experience gained from this trituration, it came through the authenticity of a sincere heart wishing to be of service to ones fellows while being at odds with a feeling of shame and self reproach, believing one had failed their community. There is unhappiness in bending to please others, and there is unhappiness when seeming unable to provide support to others. This may be the conflict for the person needing Phoenix Dactylifera, to be both authentic and supportive may be in conflict, or perhaps that level of integration is undeveloped. The compensation a person may come to when struggling with this internal polarity is to reflect there own needs onto others. During the trituration, it was referred to as natural inversion or mirror reflection. In essence, it is the Golden Rule that, in this case, affirms I do unto others as I wish they would do unto me. 

 

In one humorous but heartwarming story from Islamic tradition, a Bedouin once asked the Prophet Muhammad about paradise. The Bedouin loved dates and jokingly asked, “Will there be date palms in paradise?” The Prophet smiled and replied, “Yes, there will be date palms in paradise, with fruits so abundant that one palm could shade an entire village.” The Bedouin laughed and said, “Then I’ll be happy there!”

 

How shall we remain in Paradise? How to share ourselves with each other and remain vulnerable? How to be authentically who I am in a world so harsh, like the desert lands where the date palm reaches for unseen sustenance. For millenia, this ancient tree has brought sweet and sacred sustenance to humanity. Questions about time frequently arose during the trituration conversation, especially a time past that informs our present time. Conceivably we traveled through time together, as we were grinding and scraping, a time as ancient as the tree, when humans did not know privacy, nor individual experience, nor personal margins, a time when all were one and everyone taking care of each other, as if each were undeniably part of the whole. In the beginning, did human consciousness know anything else?

 

Proving themes

 

The holiday spirit

    a lively, friendly mood

    love and coziness

    cared for

    missing friends

    smiling and happy together

    no limits to expression

    being connected

    sudden laughing

    lots of laughter

    joking giddy

    poking fun at each other

    friendly teasing

    red faced

    cheering

    giving gifts

    ready to party

   

 

Festivities and cultural celebrations often feature the Date Palm, symbolizing more than just a tree. It represents hospitality, sustenance and blessings. From the swaying fronds of Mesopotamia to the decorative uses in Southeast Asia, the date palm is a beacon of prosperity and endurance. Its cultural impact is undeniable, with its image adorning everything from ancient carvings to modern-day resorts, embodying resilience and tranquility. Date palms aren't just trees. They’re social catalysts. Their towering presence has long been a beacon of hospitality, marking the heart of many communities. In arid regions, an oasis of Date Palms signifies respite and gathering, where people come together, share stories, and enjoy the fruits of their labor. The act of cultivating these palms often becomes a communal effort, strengthening bonds and fostering a collective spirit of cooperation.4. 

 

Vulnerability

    someone knowing everything about you

    always changing appearance

    dont hold back what is close to your heart— it’s easier for everyone to relate to

    a secret

    a mystery

    questions doing it right or wrong

    vulnerability in the heart

    please dont laugh at me

    uncomfortable being seen

    in a dream, others were all sitting together shitting

        a private contained experience everyone has

        even the Queen or a super model, no one is above it

        rarely involving others

    human vulnerability is the reason for all we do, to avoid that feeling

    creating identities to feel safe and invulnerable     

    honest feelings can be mind blowing

    embarrassed to be seen

 

Shame

    she feels she is failing

    she’s a bad girl

    sent to the principal’s office

    feeling less than others and needs instructions

    how could I have done that!?! (ashamed)

    making mistakes

    dont know what to do, don’t touch it!

    is it allowed?

    didn’t do the homework and feeling bad (guilty)

 

What’s your super power?

    everyone has a super power

        taking care of people

        she can turn anything into the sacred

        being spontaneous and impulsive

        showing up, telling the truth, disregarding the consequences

        being an authentic self

        reading the moment and responding with a sincere heart

            wishing his super power was making lots of money

 

 

Cleaning

    a project completed and cleaned

    cleaning his bum with someone watching

    a noxious vapour expuled [sic] from the planet

        a volcanic earth action forces this vapour out of the earth

    work to do

    is it contaminated?

    can we watch you clean it?

 

Time

    big busy full day

    lots going on

    time is a confining element

    why do we date things?

    too much on the go to notice time

    the past is here now, it is part of us now

    the past takes a toll we deal with everyday

    a different sense of time

    time is part of everything

    every action is not gone, it is the blueprint of our soul

    the soul is not aware of time

    now is the time to pay for past mistakes

    the past is part of the fabric of who we are

    we define ourselves thought time

    ideas of age, menopause, and time

    time is up!

    what times is it?

    not a lot of time

    time is relative

    quoting Richard Rudd: we live in an ocean of time like fish, breathing and                             

    swimming around in time, without realizing there is 

    a whole universe above the water line, a different level of living

 

Date palms are associated with cycles of life and time through their seasonal fruiting. Ancient agrarian societies measured years, harvest, and seasons based on the growth patterns of date palms.

 

 

Left out

    can’t hear the conversation

    would rather hear than see

    did not do the homework

    did not hear

    did not lock the door

    did not check

    hates being left out

    a feeling in the room

        not left out if we are all left out

    on the outside of everything

 

Symbols

    fishbones

    a cloud vapor

    the principals office

    high place with water far below

    falling into water calling for help

    a ray of sunshine

    rays of God

    changing algorithms

    big pretty jewelry not emeralds

    clouds as water evaporating into cumulous clouds

 

Heart

    vulnerability

    five love languages

    opening

    palpitating

    Ho'oponopono

    Forgiveness

 

Self consciousness

    lived selfishly

    not in service to brothers and sisters

    now willing to pay the cost, feel the pain

    opening to a bigger picture, a bigger self

    working to reverse feeling responsible for everything

    being responsible for everything

    being the authentic self

    being seen

    not bending to please others

    not needing to be seen

    not waiting to be seen by others

    each person puts a different spin on it, individualizing

    self reliance

 

Interconnectivity

    The Field, by Lynn McTaggert describes the zero point field that connects 

    everything

    how Ho’oponopono works

    feeling the connection

    everything is our fault, own it all, forgive it all

    why we do ho’oponopono being personally responsible for everything

    there is no escaping our interconnection

    someone falling into water, needing rescuing

    everyone is interconnected but different

    like different rays of God as the Sufis say

    all from the same source

 

Sensations

    Jittery

    hot feet

    sweaty

    very warm, warm face, flushed face

    smoking hot, wants to remove clothing

    spacey

    everything said goes in one ear and out the other 

    brain is freaking, doesnt know what is happening     

    like tripping

    chilly

    thirsty

    warm red palms, fingers cold

    mind blowing, not in mind but above her head

    highs and lows

 

 

In Sufi thought, the date palm bridges the temporal and eternal, offering lessons in resilience, humility and divine love. Through these relationships, the date palm transcends its practical significance to embody the interconnectedness of nature, humanity and the divine. In Sufi thought, the date palm often represents the human soul striving toward divine truth. The deep roots of the palm symbolize grounding in faith and knowledge. The tall trunk signifies the soul’s ascent toward divine unity. The fruit represents spiritual sweetness and the rewards of divine connection. The Sufis admire the date palm for its ability to flourish in harsh deserts, drawing parallels to the seeker who thrives spiritually even in difficult worldly conditions. The palm’s reliance on hidden water parallel the mystics reliance on God’s unseen grace. 6.

 

With regards to the trituation process, it was evident that C4 certainly related to the level of the heart for it was at that time in the trituration that the giddiness settled into the feeling of a quieted and open heart. It was also during this time that the questions of how homeopathy worked arose, and perhaps there were some answers to that age old question. Consider, if you will, the possibility of something so infintesimal that is capable of reaching into the most infintesimal realms of our inner space, activating our innermost. 

 

Homeopathy reaches deep within us— so says the date.