”There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always right, and the mistakes and errors are always those of man.” —Goethe
In 1978, German physician Ryke Geerd Hamer lost his 19yr old son, Dirk, to a bullet fired from a yacht owned by Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, heir to the Italian throne. Dirk had been asleep on a neighbouring yacht just off the island of Cavallo.
Between August 17 and the early hours of August 18, 1978, the Prince of Naples fired his rifle into the air to dissuade a group of youths from “borrowing” his inflatable boat (without permission). While the prince was arrested and detained in Corsica, young Dirk was taken to a local hospital where his leg was amputated the following day.
Four months later Hamer’s eldest son, Dirk, died from his wounds. Vittorio Emanuele faced charges of murder, but was acquitted by a jury in 1979 which sparked outrage. Conspiratorial whispers smeared the Italian monarchy and in 1991, the prince was trialled in Paris, found guilty of unauthorised possession of a military weapon, but was acquitted of fatal wounding and unintentional homicide. In 2006 a video, deemed inadmissible as evidence, surfaced whereby Vittorio Emanuele admitted to killing Hamer. Facts still hang awkwardly but one still stands; Ryke Geerd Hamer lost his son.
Doctor Ryke G. Hamer (1935 – 2017) developed testicular cancer after his grievous loss and began to wonder (if?) how the incidents were related. Hamer’s system, called New German Medicine (GNM), states the beginning of every disease (not caused by obvious bullet wounds, bad diet, poisonous substances etc.) is due to an unresolved mental conflict. Having a deathly ill child or losing a child would qualify as one such conflict of mind. Dr. Hamer’s work is believed to be “logically contradictory and scientifically implausible” by establishment medicine and since GNM’s inception in 1981, it has remained highly controversial and Hamer has been jailed for his ideas.
Wiki’s official Ryke Geerd Hamer page reads (edited): “[Hamer] was investigated, arrested and convicted several times in various European countries for crimes of medical malpractice, abusive practice of medicine, slander, fraud and has been disbarred, suspended, and is known for his anti-Semitic views and statements.”
Fascinating, weighty and suggestive as the details are, the fact is Hamer did develop a new grasp of the origins of disease based on his psychological grief in losing a child, though rather than being truly new it was also known in some form by the ancients.
Pythagoras was considered the father of psychology thanks to his encephalocentric (brain-related) doctrine which considered the brain as the seat of human sensation, consciousness and knowledge. Another school of thought believed the mind was centred in the heart (cardiocentrism), while philosophers in Homeric times believed multiple souls existed, each ‘soul’ represented a different mentality aligning to the ancient idea of ‘sheaths’ (or koshas in the Vedanta’s earliest recorded examples).
Regular readers will already know this writer believes Pythagoras stems from the Sanskrit words pita gurus or ‘father teachers’, just as Sanchuniathon was not an author, but several linked words whose correct interpretation is ‘The Old Beginning of Time’.
These world-building wise men, or father gurus came from Mesopotamia (and likely India prior) having built the Sumerian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Babylonian empires upon which our degenerate, collapsing Roman empire is based. Looking back through time at humanity’s slow descent, it appears Hamer’s GNM can now be seen as a renewing of the vital role of a healthy, balanced mind in a healthy physique. The real “scientific implausibility” is that Man is a soulless robot whose psyche’s health is irrelevant.
Rather than quackademic pseudo-science, Hamer suggests the body runs an ancient biological program to help it adapt to sudden, unexpected shocks like the illness and death of a child in Hamer’s case or a medical diagnosis perceived to be deadly.
The loss of Hamer’s son resulted in ‘cancerous’ cells concentrating where Hamer’s “heart/mind” axis (or soul) was focussed, ie. valuable, irreplaceable offspring. The special biological program then tried to encourage the conception of a new child through cell proliferation, resulting in a tumour because in the GNM paradigm…
the tumour represents the first healing phase AFTER the initial conflict has been resolved
…whereas in modern medicine the moment the person believes in a cancerous tumour, they’re freshly conflicted with a new death fright and then poisoned with chemicals.
What if our fear of deadly illness was based on nothing but ignorance (and business)?
What if the body exhibited evidence of healing from the souls distress with a tumour?
Hamer proposes a special brain/organ relay system is on standby which is instantly activated when the psyche (or soul) suddenly perceives an acute conflict. Its purpose is to improve the function of the corresponding organ until the fright or conflict is resolved. Since shock occurs in the psyche, brain and organ at the exact instant of the shock, GNM considers the program to be run from the physical or biological brain.
Dr. Hamer refers to the Hamer Focus (or Foci) to describe the initiation of the ‘special biological programs’ (SBS). Hamer Foci are focussed rings in the brain, which are clearly seen in the CT (computerised tomography) brain scan below.
Officially, radiologists must call the rings “artefacts”, a technical phenomenon that occurs due to miscalibration or “insufficient radiation”.
But in 1989, Siemens, a manufacturer of CT equipment, certified that the rings cannot be artefacts because when the tomography is repeated and taken from different angles, the same configuration always appears in the same location.
Moreover, during the course of healing, the Hamer Focus changes from a sharp ring during active conflict, to swelling in the primary healing phase and again to neuroglia (Greek: lit. nerve glue.) as the organ’s function is restored. In the series of CT images below, large round artefacts are seen in uniform when a CT detector is miscalibrated.
If several Special Programs (SBS) run simultaneously, eg. in a pandemic with loss of income, illness and overdue bills, more than one Hamer Focus is visible on a brain scan representing different phases of active conflict and their two stages of healing.
Quoting Doctor Hamer, “A brain CT is the ultimate diagnostic tool. A thorough brain scan analysis draws reliable conclusions [such as] the intensity of the conflict; which organ is affected; whether the SBS is in the conflict-active or healing phase; and which healing symptoms can be expected. The Hamer Foci are exact proof that the psyche communicates with all bodily organs via the brain as the control station.”
The appearance of the oedema (swelling) phase which illustrates that the healing has already started, might come with a headache. If the sufferer undergoes testing and is diagnosed with a brain tumour, it triggers another ‘death-fright conflict’ to overcome:
Hamer explains on the subject of diseases of the lungs; “A death-fright can be experienced in any life-threatening situation. However — by far the most common death-fright conflict is brought on by a diagnosis shock, particularly by a cancer diagnosis that hits a person like a death sentence. Statements by a physician such as “the cancer is malignant” or inoperable, aggressive, invasive, metastasizing or verdicts like you have six months to live can evoke an acute death panic.” Who would have thought.
It’s a fascinating subject introduced only briefly here, but it will be referred to again and again as part of an ongoing theme. I worked hard at first to grasp Hamer’s position on viruses (years before cOvid) which eventually made perfect sense, so watch out for the next cOvid post which includes the reason for my spelling it so pretentiously...
Till next time,
Cheerio. :)
Interesting. Thank you.
Thanks for filling out some of the lesser known history of Hamer's early life. Quite fascinating!