This Heilkunst Life

In each episode, Allyson McQuinn and Jeff Korentayer bring you intimate explorations of what this means for the practical realities of your daily life. The grand philosophical and therapeutic framework of Heilkunst medicine will be broken down into clear, practical take-aways for you. These are based on the private conversations we've been having with our patients for over two decades, and are simply too valuable not to share publicly. We are constantly being asked "exactly how..." do I take action on your advice in my life? Is there a book I can read which shows me how to do that? In other words, our patients don't simply want to have clinical success with us, but to be fully successful in living "This Heilkunst Life" for themselves and their families.

I can read you like a book - S1E5 05/16/2025

Living Out Of Participative Consciousness - S1E4 04/06/2023

The True Meaning of Your Shocks and Traumas – 32 Short Films About Your Sequential Timeline – S1E3 01/19/2023

How does Heilkunst Define Health? - S1E2 12/01/2022

How does Heilkunst Define Health? - S1E2 We’re all at great risk - if we don’t make a deliberate effort - to default to the allopathic definition of health in our thinking. This is a negative definition, which means that health gets the very poor definition of “an absence of symptoms”. Likewise, all treatment modalities are judged on whether or not they simply “got rid of a symptom” - and the quicker the better. What is the definition of health? In its fullest sense, it includes much more than a “symptom-free” status…it implies growth and development, and ultimately an “evolution of consciousness” at its core. There are objective milestones along the human progression to health which are key to this definition. Rather than “getting rid” of a symptom or an illness, the higher goal is to fully “go through” it, in a process of transformation. Like any relationship in life, we should grow and change as a result. A student working through their schooling, by analogy, should gain an actual education, and not a mere certificate to be framed. The “negative” definition of health represents a new form of ‘illiteracy’, and we know from the dire statistics of modern medicine that it now pervades our modern healthcare consciousness. RESOURCES: Hahnemann's Aphorism #9 In the healthy human state, the spirit-like Living Power (Autocracy) enlivening the material body (organism) as Dynamis holds sway unrestrictedly and keeps all of its parts in admirable, harmonious, vital operation in both feelings and functions, so that our indwelling rational spirit can freely avail itself of this living healthy instrument for the higher purposes of our existence. Books mentioned: Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing by Anita Moorjani : How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor: One of America's Leading Pediatricians Puts Parents Back in Control of Their Children's Health by Robert S. Mendelsohn MD Organon of the Medical Art by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann Blog posts mentioned: What is the purpose of health? : My Pet Peeve With The Word “Wellness” : Improving Health With Support From Arcanum : Off Thyroid Prescriptions! : Ally's blog "what are we shooting for, Tex?" : Determining the Direction of Cure : An Introduction to the Cancer Miasm : Three Possible Outcomes of Treatment : Sustentive versus generative power : The “Generative Power” of Heilkunst medicine : My Pet Peeve With The Word “Wellness” : And as always… We’d love for you to join us in our ongoing dialogue on this topic in between episodes by going to and clicking “Inner Circle” in the upper right. Watch the video version of this episode at /episode/index/show/fced032e-3e86-4994-bd57-ef3f04f281e1/id/25160718

The Healing Power of Illness - S1E1 11/03/2022

The Healing Power of Illness - S1E1 This Heilkunst Life is a show designed to bring the deeper philosophy of Heilkunst medicine out into a practical, usable understanding for your daily life. In our first episode, we go into the heart of a key part of the definition of health : What is the MEANING of your symptoms of illness, and why does a complete healing process require a full understanding and integration of this content? Rather than seeing symptoms as random and annoying occurrences, they are, in fact "words" or "sentences" being spoken to us in the language of the phenomenology of symptoms. These "words" are powerful expressions of parts of ourselves that we have banished from our waking conscious mind, and they are now attempting to return home with the annoying forcefulness of a symptom or health problem. This is what is called "shadow work" in a Jungian context, or the "heilen" process of full integration brought about in Medical Heilkunst. Human nature has a tendency towards one-sidedness, or "choosing sides" between what we perceive as good versus evil, or beautiful versus ugly. We need to constantly fight our way beyond this one-sidedness back towards our wholeness (to "heal" is to be "whole"). Our general susceptibility to illness and mortality is precisely a function of this one-sidedness. Our symptoms are usually unwelcome reminders as to the sides of ourselves we'd rather have nothing to do with. In Heilkunst terms, we differentiate the actions of medicines which are "curative" versus "suppressive", under the umbrella concept of "direction of cure". This is colloquially referred to as "better out than in". The "out" part of this requires a process of fully engaged, conscious expression of whatever is the issue at hand. In other words, we need to foster a new form of literacy for ourselves - the literacy (and phenomenology) of symptoms and what they actually mean to us. Those who choose to remain illiterate in this arena will suffer the fate of symptoms that return over and over and over again...they will keep knocking at the door until they are finally acknowledged, and properly integrated. Or worse - and we see this all the time - illness keeps progressing and taking over the former state of health, until chronic illness eventually leads to a patient's untimely death. As the old saying goes - "What you resist, persists". Explore these themes with us in this episode, and then take the discussion even further with us by joining our Inner Circle at Resources cited in this episode: - "The Healing Power of Illness" by Thorwald Dethlefsen - "Messages From the Body" by Michael J. Lincoln. Watch the video of this episode here : /episode/index/show/fced032e-3e86-4994-bd57-ef3f04f281e1/id/24807402

PREVIEW - How Are You Living THIS HEILKUNST LIFE? (S01E00) 10/07/2022

This Heilkunst Life

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