First Biological Law
“The Iron Rule of Cancer”
Every idiopathic symptom begins with a biological conflict in the psyche.
The revelation of the Germanische Heilkunde is that you are not a passenger in your body. The symptoms we're taught to fear are not random malfunctions happening to you. They are something you are doing, with purpose, in response to meaning you are making. With this understanding, feeling better stops being a matter of waiting for external intervention, and becomes something you can undertake. That is what it means to seize control, starting with this first of the five biological laws Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer discovered.
He called it the Iron Rule of Cancer, though it reaches far beyond cancer. The rule says that every idiopathic symptom - every condition not caused by injury, poisoning, or malnutrition, the ones conventional medicine files under "cause unknown" - begins in the same place: not in the cells, but in the psyche: your unconscious mind.
The starting point is a moment Dr. Hamer named the DHS (Dirk Hamer Syndrome). It's easy to picture this as a "shock" that life does to you, but that isn't quite it. A DHS is an inner moment - a circumstance that catches you off guard and that, in that instant, you interpret as proof that you've been cut off from the source of your existence (or perhaps it never existed). That sense of being "away from home" is isolation, and at its centre is that sense of loss of source. Because it happens within consciousness, in the meaning you make using your psyche, two people - two organisms of any kind - can live the very same event and one walks away untouched while the other does not.
In that instant of existential isolation, a biological conflict forms. But a biological conflict is not the external event. It is your unconscious interpretation of what you imagine reality to be (and what it means for you). The particular flavour of that interpretation is the conflict content, and it's the conflict content - not the circumstance - that decides which biological response your consciousness sets in motion, and in which part of your brain and which tissue.
There are about 500 brain relays for different conflict themes, each a variation of that central existential isolation. A few examples:
- a morsel conflict is about not being able to get, swallow, or get rid of something.
- an attack conflict is about worrying your body (or that of a loved one) is under threat.
- a self-devaluation conflict is the sense that you "can't," "shouldn't," or aren't allowed.
- a separation conflict is the loss of contact or the desired loss of contact with someone or something.
- a motor conflict is the experience of being trapped, stuck, or frozen.
You'll also form a DHS differently depending on whether you are currently more concerned with territory or belonging.
Whatever the conflict content, the moment you've made that meaning, you enter the active phase: your consciousness, through the relevant tissue, begins rendering precise changes meant to help you survive the existential emergency.
Your brain serves as the relay between psyche and body - the user interface, not the author. This shows up on a brain scan as a Hamer focus, a sphere of electrochemical activity (that is often also seen on the organ, too). And the longer the conflict stays active, the more change accumulates - its conflict mass - which shapes how deep the healing phase will later be after you resolve the biological conflict in your psyche.
When this existential isolation conflict runs alongside another special biological program in its healing phase, the healing phase symptoms can intensify dramatically.
What is both revolutionary and hope-inspiring about the Germanische Heilkunde is that, because your health symptoms begin in the meaning you have made - not in damaged hardware - the meaning can be revisited. The conflict was authored; it can be re-authored. That is the door opened by the Iron Rule of Cancer (First Biological Law).
If you'd like to understand how this plays out with cancer specifically, the Answers 2 Cancer course walks this ground in depth.
