Iron Rules of Cancer Archives

Today’s big idea was prompted by a reader in a discussion group to which I belong. Commenting on an article in the New York Times, Talk Therapy Lifts Severe Schizophrenics, she wrote, “It’s interesting that these are patients doctors had given up on as hopeless, who would “never get better” …might not the docs’ own expectations play a role in their previous stagnation?”

Replying to her questions was easy. I simply went to my book manuscript and lifted a section from Chapter 15, The Levels of Healing, which is printed in italics below. I bolded what he has to say about the diagnosis.

Dr. Ryke Geert Hamer is a German physician and researcher known for his “10 Iron Rules of Cancer.” He considers schizophrenia, a cancer-equivalent. (Bear in mind when reading the passage, it’s not just the doctors’ expectations that prevent healing – also contributing to whether the person “heals” are the expectations of the family, which have been heavily influenced by the diagnosis.)

Most cancers or cancer-equivalent ailments, according to Dr. Hamer, begin with “Dirk Hamer syndrome”——a severe, highly acute, dramatic, and isolating conflict-occurrence shock that registers simultaneously on three levels: in the psyche, in the brain, and in an organ. The shock registered to the brain can be identified as concentric circles (or Hamer Herds) using computed tomography (CT). Where in the brain the Hamer Herd is located determines the theme of the conflict. By finding the location of the Hamer Herd in the brain, it can be predicted in which organ the cancer will arise and vice versa. Dr. Hamer maintains that the actual cause of the cancer is an unexpected shock but that the hopelessness, despair and meaninglessness felt by the patient after the diagnosis of the cancer and other diseases creates chronic stress, which prevents these diseases from healing.

In the case of the “schizophrenic” brain, according to Dr. Hamer, there are two (and sometimes three) such concentric circles, which register as a result of two (or three) shocks. Dr. Hamer does not indicate where the conflict/shock originates.

I have heard people comment from time to time that Chris must have suffered quite a shock over something. “Poor boy,” said a homeopathic consultant, “he must have suffered quite a shock.” This never made any sense to me at the time Chris was first diagnosed. Trauma to me means a car accident, the death of someone close to you, sexual abuse, or witnessing a horrific event.

The shock idea is not new in psychiatric circles. However, it is not currently fashionable in the biochemically determined model of schizophrenia. Dr. Loren Mosher , the first head of the National Institute of Mental Health Center for Studies of Schizophrenia, described psychosis as an understandable coping mechanism, very similar to shell shock, “except that the [shell-shock victim’s] trauma—the overwhelming experience—is very readily identifiable. It’s right there, easy to see. In contrast, the trauma that drives schizophrenics over the edge is not often so readily identifiable, and it is more often cumulative, rather than a single event. But often there’s a lot of things going on, and usually there’s also a trigger event—a romantic rejection, the death of a parent, an excessive involvement with recreational drugs.”

Ryke Geerd Hamer, MD, is famous and infamous in Europe for his Iron Rules of Cancer theory and the astonishing success rate he claims with terminal cancer patients. His approach grew out of a tragic event that occurred in 1978 when Dr. Hamer and his physician wife had clinical practices in Rome. Seventeen-year-old Dirk, the second of their four children, was sleeping on a boat anchored off Corsica when a bullet shot by someone on a nearby yacht lodged in him. He lingered for four months before he died in hospital in his father’s arms in December 1978. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Hamer developed testicular cancer.

Convinced that the shock of what happened to Dirk was reflected in his developing testicular cancer, Dr. Hamer became a cancer researcher. The Iron Rules of Cancer begin with what he calls a DHS, or Dirk Hamer syndrome. Every cancer or cancer-equivalent ailment begins with a severe, highly acute, dramatic, and isolating conflict-occurrence shock that registers simultaneously on three levels: in the psyche, in the brain, and in the organ. The shock registered to the brain can be photographed as concentric circles (or Hamer Herds) using computed tomography (CT). Where the Hamer Herd is located in the brain determines the theme of the conflict. By looking at the location of the Hamer Herd in the brain, it can be determined in which organ the cancer will arise and vice versa. In the case of the schizophrenic brain, according to Dr. Hamer, there are two (and sometimes three) such concentric circles, registering two (or three) shocks.

Schizophrenia was not the main focus of Dr. Hamer’s work, but reading about his theory started me thinking. I began to look at illness differently. Physical symptoms can be manifested by the mind and emotions and registered on the brain. It ties in very nicely with Dr. Masaru Emoto’s work with water molecules.