Transmutation
and the healer within
Coen Van der Koon
{An interesting exploration of
another more subtle benefit of Urine Therapy}
"It has always been a kind of vocation for me to
connect East and West, ancient and modern, spiritual heritage
and science. So with urine therapy: it has a rich history,
certainly here in the East. It is connected with spiritual
practice as well as with modern scientific research. A
good example is the research project at the University
of Newcastle, England, into the effect of drinking morning
urine by Indian yogis on their meditation practice. This
paper is meant to make another such a small connection.
Over the years, urine therapy has proved to be an effective
tool for healing. Most urine therapists, some of whom have
been practicing urine therapy for decades, have never sought
an explanation for why it works: their own experiences
were sufficient proof. For some time now, however, there
has been increasing interest in the search for a scientific
explanation. This is because urine therapists believe it
is important for urine therapy to be acknowledged as a
valid method of treatment: doctors should be well-informed
about the effects of this therapy so that as many people
as possible can benefit from it. Since members of the medical
world demand an explanation, the interest in scientific
research has grown.
Another reason for this growing interest is that a number
of 'mainstream' doctors have also had positive experiences
with urine therapy, which is reason enough for them to
investigate how and why it works. This is not a recent
development: in the 1930's, for example, the German paediatrician
Martin Krebs successfully treated many patients with urine
therapy, and subsequently published the results
As a physician, he was convinced that urine therapy was
an effective method of treatment, but he also realized
that other doctors would not readily accept this fact since
it conflicted with the scientific dogma which formed the
foundation of their profession.
A good deal of research has already been conducted within
the medical world into the composition of urine and its
separate components. The researchers Free and Free published
a report listing two hundred substances found in urine.
They point out that these are only the most significant
substances, and that urine probably contains thousands
of components.
Several substances found in urine seem to be of value
as medication, some of which have already been processed
and used as such. The fact that certain individual components
of urine are effective does not prove that urine therapy
is effective. Conversely, however, it can be assumed that
the components which have a particular effect as an individual
substance, have the same effect when taken as a component
of urine. In certain cases it could be imagined that the
combination of these substances with other components of
urine reduces or cancels out the effectiveness, but this
is not the most obvious conclusion. We can, therefore,
reasonably assume that if an individual substance displays
a certain characteristic, it will also have this characteristic
as a component of urine. The more individually effective
substances found in urine, the stronger the argument that
urine as a total entity has a therapeutic effect. A condition
of this argument is that urine as a total entity does not
contain substances with an obviously harmful effect: as
yet there is no evidence to suggest that such substances
have been found in urine. The small amounts of possibly
toxic substances which can be found in urine largely seem
to have a positive effect on the immune system. If urine
did contain extremely harmful substances, it would be difficult
to explain how many people (myself included) who drink
their own urine every day for years could still be in exceptionally
good health. So research has not yet been conducted on
urine as a total entity which can be therapeutically applied.
Still unanswered are questions regarding how and why urine
therapy works, since urine is used here as a total entity.
A number of hypotheses have, however, been suggested which
can serve as the basis for further scientific research.
One of those hypotheses I would like to propose here. This
hypothesis deals with the immunological effect of urine
therapy and its deeper energetical dynamics. It deals with
the so called 'healer within'. Urine therapy has often
been associated with spiritual practice which might make
it seem a bit magic. But, as science is discovering today,
ancient spiritual ideas come very close to today's most
recent discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics and
vibrational healing methods.
But back to the basics: Urine therapy (using self-produced
urine) can be considered to be an extension of the methods
of Jenner and Pasteur.
An important task of the immune system is to rid the human
body of diseased or unusable substances that have developed
during the course of an illness. When these substances
reach healthy tissue, the serum or blood becomes stronger,
the activity of leukocytes (white blood cells) increases,
and the patient probably recovers. This phenomenon is known
as auto-inoculation or self-vaccination and can be seen
as mother nature's method of healing an illness without
external intervention. Urine therapy can be seen as a form
of self-vaccination: certain bodily substances which have
been removed from the body, some of which may have been
produced as a result of illness, are re-introduced into
the body in small amounts. These substances are re-absorbed
into the blood through either the intestines or the skin.
According to this hypothesis, the immune system is then
given the chance to react appropriately. The doctors Remington,
Merler and Uhr have demonstrated that a particular part
of urine-protein is able to eliminate certain pathogens.
This discovery supports the assumption that urine therapy
can be used to treat or prevent certain illnesses. In the
early nineteenth century, Dr. Charles Duncan conducted
research into therapies with self-produced substances,
including urine therapy.
He demonstrated that patients suffering from gonorrhoeic
urethritis (infection of the urinary tube as a result of
the venereal disease gonorrhoea) produce their own medication
in the form of their own discharge. Auto-therapy was applied
here by placing a drop of a patient's discharge directly
on the tongue, in order to stimulate the body's natural
powers. This method had a strong healing effect at every
stage of the illness: if applied at an early stage, it
could cause the gonorrhoea to disappear. Auto-therapy is
based on the principle that the body can use all fresh,
self-produced, unaltered diseased tissue substances which
originate from the micro-organisms causing the illness.
Seen in this light, patients have their own medication
in exactly the form constructed by nature to heal their
condition. The results of Dr. William D. Linscott's research
suggest that auto-therapy strengthens and stimulates the
immune system, in particular with regard to the T-cells.
The T-cell population of several patients who initially
displayed a low T-cell count increased after treatment
with urine therapy.
The Transmutation theory
Most of what has been said here will be valid from a strictly
mechanistic point of view. The transmutation theory, though,
needs a new, holistic paradigm which is based more on the
dynamics of energies.
In recent scientific research, a shift is visible from
reductionism to holism. It is beyond the scope of this
paper to go into this matter. I nevertheless want to take
the new paradigm fully into account here in trying to find
explanations for the effectiveness of urine therapy. Urine
can be considered to contain an exact holographic picture
of the body fluids and tissues. The biofeedback of this
holographic information by re-ingesting the urine may well
inform the energy system in a way which helps restoring
a disturbed balance. The medical doctor and urine therapist
Abele cautiously discusses the possible effect of urine
as holographic feedback: "The question rises as to
whether urine could possibly be considered to be a sort
of liquid-hologram. Once the body has been made conscious
of urine in an unconventional way (such as it being reintroduced
into the body by intramuscular injection) the whole organism
evaluates it and subsequently updates its own regulating
mechanisms (at least in specific cases)."
The theory of transmutation implies that the body is capable,
through energetic exchange within the body itself, to transmute
certain substances or molecules into other ones. 'Short-circuiting'
the system by ingesting one's own secreted body fluids
might stimulate the transmutational forces within and challenge
the body to transform unusable substances into usable ones
without being constantly disturbed by new external input.
It could possibly go as deep as to restructure disturbed
DNA. This would specifically apply to fasting on urine.
An important aspect here is the theory of structured water.
The body consists for the biggest part of water and so
does urine. Not all water is the same though. The molecular
structure of water can be less or more organized and in
the latter case one speaks of structured water. The more
it is organized, the better all kind of enzymatic processes
can do their job. These enzymatic processes, in their turn,
are responsible and necessary for the digestion, absorption
and transmutation of all nutrients.
It is scientifically proven how water in biological systems
becomes more organized. Water also becomes more organized
through exposure to sunlight and through close contact
with crystals. The body is both a receptor of sunlight
and it contains a high amount of solid and liquid crystalline-like
substances. Also body fluids themselves form fluid crystals.
Urine is thus a crystalline-like substance containing
a high amount of structured water. This structured water,
when taken in again, promotes better enzymatic functioning
and it has a higher solubility for minerals. A higher amount
of structured water in the body system is correlated with
better health and more energy.
The fact that urine is a liquid crystal substance, particularly
because of the various salts in it, implies that it contains
crystalline vibrations completely in tune with the vibrational
condition of the body. Re-ingestion might give the body
valuable vibrational information needed for two things.
Healthy vibrations will strengthen the already existing,
healthy body resonance. 'Diseased' or stress-vibrations
will counteract any unhealthy resonance in the body. It
is known that disturbing sounds of any sort can be counteracted
best by confronting it with the same sounds. The vibratory
patterns of the body, both in the bones (solid crystals)
and in the tissues and fluids (liquid crystals), play an
important role in the process of transmutation. The resonance
field of a crystal can make a protein, for example, change
its form into one that is more useful for the body, or
easier adaptable by it.
Seeing urine as a liquid crystalline like substance containing
a high amount of structured water may help understanding
its healing qualities on the more subtle levels.
This is just one little step in trying to explain the
energetical effect of urine therapy on the human organism.
This way of thinking should be considered as a kind of
scientific, modern 'alchemy'.
There is nothing wrong or scary about this terminology
and the way of thinking that goes with it. It is nothing
new and at the same time highly modern. It provides a chance
to scientifically explain urine therapy in its fullest
potential, while at the same time taking into account its
rich, spiritually associated, history.
Urine therapy confronts us with a very concrete 'healer
within' which works both on a mechanistic and on an energetic
level. The latter implies that urine, as a holographic
substance, can affect all levels of being, from the physical,
through the electromagnetical fields of the emotions and
the mind, up to the subtler genetic vibrational information
of the soul. In this sense urine therapy can be verily
seen as one of the divine manifestations of cosmic intelligence.
Thus the ancient name Shivambu Kalpa, a name and a therapy
to be treated with appropriate respect.
