Ran across this:
JC> Well, I guess that doesn't explain to my satisfaction why an "alternative
JC> therapy" would work one time and not another, or why it would work for 
ne
JC> person and not another any more than "standard therapies" work for some
JC> people and not others. In other words, if I were a "touch therapist" and 
my
JC> "touching" worked for one person and not for another, does that mean the 
tw
JC> people were not "unconditionally loved" the same?
I cannot buy this explanation.
JC> Why are some people helped by placebos and others aren't helped by the
JC> "real thing"? All a mystery to me that I don't even bother to try and
JC> figure out. Kinda sorta like a discussion I'm involved in on another 
et.
Because we work on electricity.  The heart is a pump that has an
electrical charge sent to it.  When we loose the ability to make and
transmit electricity to all of our parts, we die.
And yet ask doctors and nurses about this....ask them how the human body
makes electricity and see how many of them know.  Do you?
Today we know there is an electromagnetic field in the brain and also
small magnets.  The amount of electricity that it takes to make a muscle
work is very small compared to what it takes to make this thing work.
There are shamans who understand how to access that electromagnetic
field without surgery and how to use it to help folks.  They have been
doing this for centuries in such places as the back woods of Canada,
Central America, our Indian tribes........and once did also in ancient
Egypt.
The closest the whites in this nation have come yet to documentation of
this is in a book entitled "Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain"
that is now out of print.  You may be lucky enough to find a copy and
learn why the Russians are so far ahead of us in these matters.
Or, if the University of Washington Medical School is still having the
Medicine Wheel conferences once a year, you too can sit and listen to an
old Indian man with long braids talk to the white eyes in the audience,
some of whom are prestigious medical folks.
There was a documentary entitled "The Sword of Charlemange" written by a
man who had escaped Nazi Germany, gone to England, and told his story
there.  Other books will tell of the use of the "auld religion" and
Druidism in England during WWII alongside the ancient knowledge held by
others such as the Masonic Order there.  The gathering of those who hold
close the ancient Celtic knowledge as well as some that is common to
what the ancient Egyptians once knew.
Or you can find and read "Diary of a Witch" by Sybil Leek.
There is a lot that most folks do not know, are scared silly of, and
which is really not all that hard to find if one is bound and determined
to look.  It is also best left alone unless there is a very moral and
dedicated instructor for each step along the way.
Spirituality raised to the highest point becomes the metaphysical where
men not only learn to walk on water, but to perform other miracles as
well.
And, there are those who believe that God is a great source of knowledge
that one can learn to draw upon in need.  Ah, but, the learning of how
to do this can be difficult indeed.
 * SLMR 2.1a * Nothing is so smiple that it can't get screwed up.
                                                           
--- JCQWK
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