Misha Norland

Misha Norland (born 13 June 1943) is the founder and current course leader of the School of Homeopathy, the UK’s longest running homeopathy school. He is the son of the expressionist painter Ernst Neuschul (1895-1968).^[1]

Misha Norland in 2005.

Childhood and education

Misha Norland’s family emigrated from Europe to the United Kingdom in 1939 fleeing Nazi persecution. In 1946 the family move to the Hampstead borough of London. Here the young Norland began a trawl through the education system, changing school every two years, never quite fitting in, yet finding an affinity for the natural sciences, philosophy and the theater. An important part of his education took place during summer holidays spent in Paris where he met Gregory Corso, various beat poets, was inspired by Jean Cocteau and began a lifelong passion for writing poetry. Of major influence upon his sensibilities were T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats. Being a Hampstead resident, he was deeply impressed by the films shown at the Everyman Cinema and by visiting poets to jazz and poetry evenings such as Dannie Abse and Laurie Lee who offered encouragement to continue writing.

Career

Armed with GCE A levels in science, he spent a year as a laboratory assistant with the MRC in Hammersmith, but left to go back to college and obtain a further three A levels. He was now too confused to committing to University, but chose instead to spend a year in Israel, ending up as an English speaking newscaster. Upon his return he took up what was to be a successful career in filmmaking.^[2] After a spell in Hollywood he returned to London, where he began to tire of making films and TV commercials solely for financial gain. He longed for social and artistic integrity in films, and began researching and making documentaries for television. This brought him into contact with new age mystics, poets, songwriters, musicians and healers.

John Damonte was one of the early teachers of homeopathy in London, and Misha Norland began attending his fortnightly classes in 1970. By 1975 his homeopathic practice had taken off in North London, not least of all due to the hippie community who flocked to him with their children and their common ailments. In 1978, along with students of the older homeopaths, Misha Norland helped found the Society of Homeopaths (a professional body whose members are trained to a high standard and who practice according to a code of ethics).^[3]

Misha Norland started to formally teach homeopathy in 1979 at the recently established London College of Homeopathy. Prior to this he had been running informal study groups from his home in north London. In 1981 he and his family moved to Devon, founding of the School of Homeopathy at this time. Three years later the School took up residence at Yondercott House in Devon, where it remained until relocating to Hawkwood College in Gloucestershire, in 2008.

Using skills acquired from writing and editing documentary films, Norland assembled teaching materials from classroom and clinic to produce a diploma level homeopathy course by correspondence. This was launched in 1986 by Stuart Gracie, and has reached students across the globe and helped to spawn affiliated organizations in Athens, New York and Tokyo.

As well as being a homeopathic practitioner for almost 40 years, Misha Norland is highly regarded for his inspirational teaching. For the past 25 years he has lectured internationally as well as teaching regularly at his School formerly in Devon and latterly in Gloucestershire. His approach is to combine innovative and cutting edge thinking in homeopathy with the traditional philosophies. Together with this Misha Norland weaves the Doctrine of signatures, as advocated by Paracelsus ^[4] with the teaching of the archetypes as elucidated by Carl Gustav Jung. He affirms that healing is as much an art as a science, its practice being about integrating the psyche within the body to maximize creativity as well as maintaining survival capacity.

Provings of Homeopathic medicines

Homeopathic practice relies upon the detailed evidence of the medicinal activity of substances, provings as they are called. Misha Norland began organizing these trials at the School in 1988. Since the early 1990’s these have been a regular feature of curriculum. This research generates a wealth of new information that is regularly made available to the profession.

Mappa Mundi

Misha Norland has developed the use of the Mappa Mundi in homeopathy and has written extensively on this. This system of homeopathic thinking has the intention of providing a framework for homeopathic diagnoses and the mapping of remedy patterns. Mappa Mundi synthesises the classical teachings of the temperaments with the traditional elements as well as other correspondences.^[5]

Bibliography

• The Four Elements in Homeopathy, ISBN 9780954476625
• Signatures Miasms Aids, ISBN 9780854476601
• Get Well Soon - A Guide to Homeopathic First Aid, ISBN 9780954476632

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ [2]
3. ^ sueyounghistories.com
4. ^ http://www.wholehealthnow.com/homeopathy_pro/misha_norland.html
5. ^ http://www.simillimum.com/education/little-library/constitution-temperaments-and-miasms/hct/article04.php

External links

• Misha Norland biography
• Video of Misha Norland
• Yondercott Press
• Provings of New Homœopathic Remedies