Religiosity, Spiritual Suffering, and Meaning in Homeopathic Practice

Date/time: Saturday, January 24th, 2026 (9am -5pm Eastern Time)
Cost: $150 until January 15th and $175 thereafter
Lecturer: Dr. Massimo Mangialavori

We are thrilled to host Dr. Massimo Mangialavori for a full-day live online seminar exploring religiosity as a clinical theme in homeopathic practice.

Religious and spiritual expressions appear in homeopathic cases with far greater frequency than is often acknowledged. Experiences of guilt, fear of punishment, devotion, superstition, prayer, despair, or the search for transcendence may surface overtly or remain quietly embedded within a case. These expressions are frequently misunderstood, minimized, or avoided altogether, not because they lack clinical relevance, but because they sit at the intersection of suffering, meaning, and deeply personal experience.

This seminar approaches religiosity neither as belief nor doctrine, but as a mode through which individuals experience and respond to illness, vulnerability, and existential uncertainty.

Clinical perspective

Within the repertory and materia medica, religious and spiritual experiences are recorded as symptoms, reflecting careful observation rather than moral judgment. These expressions often reveal how an individual relates to authority, protection, fear, responsibility, and meaning when under strain.

Dr. Mangialavori invites participants to move beyond the surface content of religious language and consider how these expressions function within the individual as a whole. Whether religiosity manifests as fear of divine punishment, rigid moral structures, compulsive prayer, fanaticism, spiritual withdrawal, or longing for transcendence, these patterns frequently point to deeper organizing principles within the case.

When such dimensions are not adequately recognized, prescriptions may remain incomplete or inaccurate. When they are understood within the totality, they often become central to case clarity and long-term resolution.

Religiosity as a homeopathic theme

This seminar explores religiosity as lived experience rather than ideology. For some patients, spiritual themes may arise as attempts to manage fear, guilt, helplessness, or loss of meaning. For others, religiosity may function as protection, escape, or surrender in the face of perceived threat.

Through clinical cases and extended follow-ups, the seminar demonstrates how religious and spiritual themes emerge across remedy families and how they guide remedy selection, case management, and prognosis when approached with discernment.

Materia medica and case exploration

This seminar is grounded in materia medica as it appears in clinical practice, with attention to remedies in which religious and spiritual themes play an important role in the case. Dr. Mangialavori will explore how difficulty relating to the divine, the sacred, or a higher authority is expressed across different remedies and families, reflecting deeper patterns of vulnerability and response.

Clinical discussion will include remedies such as Corallium rubrum and other Umbelliferae, where superstition and fear shape the individual’s search for protection and meaning, as well as Camphora and selected Cupressaceae, where spirituality may appear as detachment or abstraction. Fanaticism and moral rigidity, as seen in Arsenicum sulphuratum flavum, will be contrasted with the broader spiritual orientation often observed in gold compounds. Remedies such as Bromium and selected Euphorbiaceae will be considered where the divine is experienced as distant or threatening, alongside selected drug remedies where transcendence emerges through altered perception.

Mineral remedies—including compounds of arsenic, bromine, calcium, carbon, iodine, gold, potassium, sodium, zinc, and sulphur—will be referenced to illustrate how themes of guilt, fear, responsibility, devotion, and despair differ across remedy states. Selected plant families, reptiles, and remedies such as Lyssinum, Melilotus, and the Rhus family will be integrated through clinical cases where relevant.

Case examples and follow-ups will demonstrate how these themes arise naturally and how recognizing them supports clearer prescribing and more stable outcomes.

Learning objectives

By the end of this seminar, participants will be able to recognize religious and spiritual themes as clinically relevant expressions within the homeopathic case, integrate these themes into case analysis without moral or ideological bias, and apply this understanding to more accurate remedy selection and follow-up.

Why this seminar matters

In a clinical landscape increasingly shaped by protocols and standardization, this seminar offers a return to careful observation, depth of listening, and respect for the complexity of human experience. It supports practitioners in engaging more fully with subtle and existential dimensions of suffering while remaining grounded in clinical homeopathy.

This is not a seminar about belief systems. It is a seminar about how suffering, meaning, and vulnerability are expressed through illness.

Continuing education (CE) credits

This seminar qualifies for Continuing Education (CE) credits for Registered Homeopaths. A certificate of attendance will be issued following completion of the full day. Participants are responsible for confirming applicability to their specific regulatory or professional requirements.

JOIN US FOR WHAT PROMISES TO BE A WONDERFUL SERIES OF LECTURES!

This lecture will be fully accessible over ZOOM.

Details: Saturday, January 24th, 2026 (9am – 5pm Eastern Time)

Cost: $150 (recording will be available if you are not able to make it live) until January 15th, 2026 and $175 thereafter