The Dirk Hamer Syndrome (DHS) is the moment when we initiate a special biological program in our psyche because we realize a condition we desire does not exist.

We feel isolated from source (“away from home”) because a sudden, unexpected experience has caught us off guard and, based on our existing Weltanschauung (or set of beliefs, identities, etc through which we are perceiving and interpreting the world), we judge the circumstance to be existentially threatening.

Named after Dr. Hamer’s son Dirk and Dr. Hamer’s experience of losing Dirk to manslaughter in 1979, the Dirk Hamer Syndrome was the moment that Dr. Hamer experienced the profound loss/grief conflict which led to his testicular cancer in the healing phase. This experience of his own DHS, followed by resolution and healing phase symptoms, alerted Dr. Hamer to the existence of the first and second biological laws, which he later researched through his thousands of patient case studies.

The DHS takes place entirely in the psyche, and is not a physical event or circumstance. It is crucial to understand this point in order to affect an intentional resolution of the biological conflict.

The meaning made by the psyche during the DHS moment generates the biological conflict, launching the special biological program and activating the corresponding brain relay and organ tissue within a fraction of a second.

Every special biological program begins with a Dirk Hamer Syndrome. There cannot be a special biological program if there is no DHS.

Because a DHS takes place entirely in the individual’s psyche, it is shared meaning-making and shared Weltenschauung which creates “epidemics,” not shared circumstances or events. The key to “immunity,” therefore, is to avoid herd mentality.