Yet there is much more to this remedy than hedgehogs and parent-child relationships. It is time for us to re-read this entire proving, to get a wider understanding of its true totality. The workaholic, restless and busy nature; the isolation and estrangement; the increased confidence and lack of inhibition; the sarcasm and need to tell the straight truth; the emotional numbness and selfishness; the fear of being attacked – all these are common aspects of the very Homeo urbanis that some Chocolate patients find so threatening. Chocolate splits our acquired cultural and human layer from our instinctive animal self, human from mammal. And while the mammal can leave its mother once it is able to find food, the modern human must now be nursed till age 21 and beyond. Here is a quote from the proving: Thoughts about the ‘veneer of civilization’ that inhibits how we really feel and keeps us from displaying what we’re like beneath the surface. It seems a legitimate layer, but so is the layer beneath it, and I feel amused and happy to meet it. This feeling continued for a few days, a very graphic picture of a veneer – a layer of learned social behavior lifting and detaching from a basis that is thick, dark, solid, instinctual animal. As to conducting two provings in one group at the same time, I will never do it again. The crossover and mixed energies tend to result in too much confusion. Jeremy Sherr 2014