Student Excerpts: Intuition by Avicenna

The following passage came from the homework of student, Ann Neadermann in Norway. I thought it was a wonderful description of Avicenna's views and intuition in general:

Ann Neaderman
Unit Four
Medicine of Avicenna

11. How does Avicenna define intuition? Do you think he believes in using it in healing a patient?

It receives the essences of universal things in so far as they are universal. The perfection of this power is to become an intellect in act. The first way is called reasoning, while the second is called intuition. Yet intuition can be very powerful or weak or mediocre.If the speculative intellect reaches this perfection by having present the first and derived intelligible principles, and these are there actually and in full view without being absent, then the derived principles are related to the first as "light upon light"; this is the acquired intellect, because it derives from both kinds of principles. The soul has mastery of intelligible principles and is able to recall them whenever it wants without effort or assistance, that power is called the intellect in act, and this is the "lamp" that it makes use of whenever it wants. You must know the difference between reasoning and intuition.

Great Supplemental Resource in ARABIC

Dear Members,

A student shared this website with me earlier this week. I know some of you were asking about resources you could read or listen to in Arabic - this looks like a good one. If this resource is not useful for you, you can just ignore this message.

I thought you might like to read about Dr. Jameel el-Deweik al-Qudsi (currently working from Jordan) if you have not yet heard about him. He is specialized in Quranic and Prophetic medicine and sells DVD sets (only in Arabic unfortunately) of his major work in herbal and nutritional quranic medicine.

Here is the site: http://www.dr-jameel.com/Default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Best regards,
Muhammad Mansour

Missing Links in Unit 5 Replacements

Question: Dear Kristie, I was trying to finish up unit 5 but the sites except for the one about olive oil and henna will not work, all of the domains are for sale. Do you have those sites in your files or should I ignore it. I'm not sure what to do.

Answer:

When you need to find files that are missing or have a question you can check here at the FAQs on the new website or you can still check the BLOG. Here is an example of what you would find at the BLOG:

http://naturopathichealingcourse.blogspot.com/search/label/Missing%20Files

Help categories can be found in the right hand column.

The best place to find replacement links and help, however, IS this new website. For the answer to your question (where can you find some of the broken or missing herbal links?) you can visit the main student website and scroll down the left hand side to the fourth section called "resources". You will find the first webpage is called "Broken Link Replacements".

If these links do not help you please send me the EXACT LINKS that you are missing so I can add more replacement links to this page. Thank you!

New Upgrade Link (not Paypal)

Some students wanting to upgrade do not want to use Paypal to make their payment. I have created an alternate link for you at:

http://naturopathichealing.weebly.com/upgrade.html

Cumin in Healing Animals

A student had the following information in their assignment for unit one in answer to the question, "What are some modern usages for these Ancient Egyptian herbs?"

In diabetic animals, cumin reduces blood glucose levels. Cumin seeds contain flavanoids, which are now generally recognized to have antioxidant activity. (www.NaturalNews.com)

I found that very interesting and wanted to share that!

Blessings & Health,
Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND

Upgrade Link to Include Naturopathic Healing Classes

Dear Members,

Some members have asked if they could upgrade their membership from "The Medicine of Avicenna Course" to "MOA AND The Naturopathic Healing" classes. At the website you can register for both classes for a discounted price and these students wanted to know if they could pay the difference and upgrade to taking both courses.

Yes.

Usually I have a 30-day limit on upgrades, but since I will be raising prices the first week of August I will allow any student to upgrade until August 1st using the link below. Using the link below you will be allowed to pay 3 payments (over the next three months) of $50.00 each to upgrade to being a student in both courses.

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7001231

or

http://tinyurl.com/ko8q5z

If you have questions about The Naturopathic Healing Courses please visit www.TheAvicennaInstitute.com for a short description or e-mail me at:

herbnhome@gmail.com

Blessings & Health,
Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND

How Can I Login to the Islamic Healing Course Forum?

I was trying to get into the site that you set up for us where we can email each other, and if I remember correct you asked if we had all read the Cannon of Medicine. Some of the members have their photos up. I've tried to get into several times, and it's so strange because I was looking at it just a few days ago. I was just going to write that I have read almost half of the cannon. - A

Dear A,
I have just sent you a new invite. If any other students need a new invite please tell me! You can access this student forum via your class page.

Blessings & Health,
Karima

Note to students : Remember to use the tech support form at www.TheAvicennaInstitute.com to submit any tech support questions. This question took two e-mails and one day to answer because I had to write back and ask for more information about the original link she provided. This delayed the response to her by one day since she lives overseas. By using the tech support form she would have had an answer within two hours instead of one day.