Jim_Smith
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Mainstream medicine is not capable of curing all diseases and not all patients respond in the same way to a given mainstream medical treatment. Energy healing has the same limitations but for some reason people have higher expectations of energy healing and hold it to a higher standard than mainstream medicine.
I agree 100%. Anyone can learn to do energy healing free of charge: http://sites.google.com/site/chs4o8pt/spiritual_healing
You are extrapolating from an experimental model of disease used in Bengston's research: a certain lineage of cancer cells injected into a strain of genetically identical mice. In real life human cancers, each cancer is different and each person is different. It is not realistic to expect the same results in humans as they get in the lab testing on mice.
Spiritual healing is available free (or for what you put in the collection basket) at most Spiritualist churches during their services and during healing classes.
I agree 100%. When I was taught spiritual healing at a Spiritualist church, I was told that spiritual healing is not a substitute for mainstream medical treatments and anyone who is ill should be advised to see a doctor. There are responsible practitioners of energy healing who don't extort money from their customers and who encourage their customers to obtain mainstream medical care. However it is hard for the general public to find reliable information on the subject because reliable information is drowned in the ocean of misinformation that exists on the subject.
Someone sent me an email about this post. I won't say who because it was a private email, but I prefer keep the discussion here on the forum where many more people will see what I write. Furthermore, this thread is Mod+ and it is inappropriate to try to circumvent that by communicating by e-mail rather than posting here. If you don't know what Mod+ means read the guidelines for the forums.
My points were not about the efficacy of healing. You can agree with everything I wrote and still believe energy healing is ineffective. I wrote that reply because I disagreed with some of what was written in the post I was replying to and I wanted to add my views to the public record.
I don't believe you have to be psychic to do healing. I think it is something that is natural to all living things. Also in the link I gave, the claims for healing are much more modest and realistic than the strawman claims in the post I was replying to.
If you asked a medical doctor if his treatment would work, he could tell you from his own experience how effective it was, but if you wanted proof he would point you to the medical literature. The link I gave lists some of the literature that shows energy healing works. If that is not sufficient, you can read the link I gave, learn to do healing, set up a controlled double blind experiment and publish the results in a peer-reviewed journal.
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