Other Forms of Life (Evolution)

by dhw, Monday, December 22, 2008, 08:49 (5814 days ago) @ David Turell

David and I are discussing healing and other powers. I argued that in the case of my sceptical father's frozen shoulder, the faith healer himself had a special, active gift, which enabled him "to release some kind of energy to cure my father." 
David says that the healer released my father's energy, and the "strength" came from my father's brain. - I can see what you mean. Most forms of medicine work, I suppose, in conjunction with the patient's power of self-healing. But there still has to be something that passes from the outside to the inside, in this case from the healer to my father, in order to stimulate that power. I think we're talking about different stages of one process. You attribute the first stage to hypnosis and/or auto-suggestion, which would certainly be plausible in many situations and with many people, but you didn't know my father! I would still argue that the first stage suggests a remarkable and mysterious gift, in so far as one man with no outside aid could stimulate another man's brain into producing ... with immediate effect ... the necessary endorphins, when the other man had no faith in him and when medical science had proved completely ineffective over many painful months. Sorry, but I appear to have inherited a streak of my father's stubbornness! - Thank you for telling us about your own experiences of ESP, and particularly your wife's amazing ability to locate lost objects. I have no explanation, but I do wish she would pass her secret over to me, especially on a Monday morning.