Dr Bach’s death and final instructions

The Bach industry has a touch of "the emperors clothes" about it. We are told how good the remedies are, how they treat the causes of disease, and yet the leading players continue to die of disease. Dr Bach’s final instructions regarding the prescribing of remedies are puzzling. After years of work, developing an understanding of how the remedies would be used, all was abandoned for simple instruction with no explanations whatsoever. Why?

From correspondence with his helpers and Dr Wheeler during the course of 1935 we can see that they were considering the significance of the two groups of nineteen and the likelihood of the second nineteen remedies corresponding to the first nineteen. However it would appear that they were  unable to create a table that illustrated a connection between the two groups.

Having previously suffered from cancer Dr Bach would have been well aware that his first priority having completed the discovery of the remedies would be to treat himself, which would then enable him to satisfactorily treat others. At some point during the eighteen months between discovering the final remedies and his death he must have realised that his cancer had returned; this would have told him that his current methodology was flawed. With no answer in sight the only solution available to him would have been to backtrack to a point at which he had known that he was right. This point must have been the discovery of the second nineteen remedies which he knew completed the series of remedies, but at this point  with no methodology; hence the simple instructions.

Dr Bach was well aware in the last days of his life that his work was incomplete when he wrote to the publishers of his booklet saying: "The work I put before you is Great Work, is God's work, and heaven only knows why I should be called away at this moment to continue to fight for suffering humanity".

For someone whose aim in life was to perfect a system of healing that would eradicate disease, he then died; of a disease.

The underlying message from his actions was that he knew he hadn’t been able to complete his work; there was more to learn, otherwise he would not have died from a common disease. By leaving the most basic instructions he at least gave people access to the remedies which would help with day to day problems, but as the last seventy five years have shown, with no impact upon disease.

So we now have a choice, either to accept the instructions that Dr Bach left us or to try to discover what we need to know to make the remedies work as he had anticipated. To be clear, it is a choice between a life of dis-ease and disease compared to one free of dis-ease and, if Dr Bach was correct, free of disease itself. To help us make up our minds, Dr Bach left us with these words.

To eradicate ignorance, again let us not be afraid of experience, but with mind awake and with eyes and ears wide open take in every particle of knowledge which may be obtained. At the same time we must keep flexible in thought, lest preconceived ideas and former convictions rob us of the opportunity of gaining fresh and wider knowledge. We should be ever ready to expand the mind and to disregard any idea, however firmly rooted, if under wider experience a greater truth shows itself.   

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