Around 2002 a major debate broke out regarding the immoral and unethical aspects of giving patients a placebo. A quick definition of a placebo in medicine would be that it is a dummy pill with no active ingredients.

A group of doctors from Boston University School of Public Health and Harvard stated that to give a patient a placebo ‘that has a known efficacy of zero was highly unethical.’ At the time several other doctors jumped into the debate stating that placebos are a nuisance variable because they can’t be explained in any scientific manner.

Overlooked in these discussions is the fact that placebos have produced some rather remarkable and at the same time unexplainable results. I am not posting the sources for the following quotes, if someone is interested a review of the literature will provide those answers.

“In the 1950s, rather than doing the customary surgery for angina pectoris, (pain in the chest and left arm), some resourceful doctors cut ten patients open and then simply sewed them back up again. The patients who received the sham surgery reported as much relief as the patients who had the full surgery.”

“In nine double-blind studies comparing placebos to aspirin, placebos proved to be 54% as effective as the actual analgesic.” One would expect that placebos would be even less effective when compared to a much stronger painkiller such as morphine. In six double-blind studies placebos were found to be 56% as effective as morphine in relieving pain.”

“In a study of a new kind of chemotherapy, 30% of the people in the control group given placebos, lost their hair.”

“A group pf patients were told they were given LSD when in fact they were given the placebo. They had all the physiological effects noted with LSD.”

“In double-blind studies for psychotropic drugs for depression, the placebo had the same effect in 58% of the patients…in a treatment with lithium, 62% of the placebo group had the same response.”

“Ipecac is a product known to induce vomiting. A 28 year old woman who was suffering two straight days with nauseas and vomiting was given 10cc of Ipecac syrup and was told it was a new drug that stopped vomiting. In twenty minutes the vomiting stopped completely. Her stomach showed normal contractive activity.”

“In a test of Clofibrate versus placebo for cholesterol level and cardiovascular mortality, the placebo outperformed the drug.”

“During a study for headache, 120 out of 199 patients receiving the placebo obtained relief.”
“In a study for Raynaud’s Syndrome, utilizing an apparatus with saline and the clicking of dials, every case using the placebo improved. Six had excellent improvement and all held their improvement one year after the trials.”
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Under hypnosis we know that people can have major surgery without any pain and without any medication being given. There is also evidence of limbs being removed and the patient not feeling the slightest pain while under hypnosis. I had shared in one of my former posts of a group of diabetics who were told that there was a new medication that they were testing. During the trials they were given only the placebo without any of the patients going through any diabetic incidence. Is a placebo a form of hypnosis?
“Placebos have had a high percentage of success in the areas of cough, mood swings, diabetes, anxiety, asthma, sarcoma, dermatitis, headaches, rheumatoid arthritis, radiation sickness, Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s.”

Some medical professionals say that these results are ‘in the patient’s mind.’ Isn’t that the important point of the placebo effect? When the patient is having a major surgical event and doesn’t feel anything, the question is, is the pain in our body and not within our control, or is pain only something that is in our mind and belief?

In an earlier post I mentioned how Charles Kellogg, the naturalist in the 1920s could affect a flame of fire based on sounds he could generate. He could raise, lower and extinguish a flame through a sound that he could whistle.

The Rafai school of Sufis could generate sounds through chanting and neutralize the effects of fire and the Lap-Readers from Lapland as well as natives in Bali generate sounds that affect fire and flames. After personally experiencing hearing all of these sounds, all different, I realized that it isn’t the sounds, but the belief of the person that determines the effect.
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To inspire and empower. In love, with love and through love.

Love is a cornerstone and major tenant of virtually every religion. It is so very often stated that love is the remedy that combats all evils and brings the soul closer to its Creator.

Most people’s viewpoint of love is that it is largely a passion of the emotions. Most people feel that they need love and they will seek other people to give them the love that they crave.

Approximately 44 years ago, when I first became interested in spiritual and esoteric topics, I came across an interesting book called, “How to Know God, The Yoga Aphorism of Patanjali.” This book discussed physical and spiritual potentials that people could achieve through years of practicing yoga and meditation techniques.

This book discussed a wide variety of abilities that included clairvoyance, clairaudience, instantaneous and distant healing, bi-location, control of bodily actions and many other seemingly impossible abilities that are a part of our human potential. Within 24 hours of reading each of the different abilities, I had the direct physical experience of each one of them, without having done the years of regimes that were intimated.

I discovered that the various abilities could be experienced without following the years of training the book explained was necessary to reach the specific state of awareness that was needed to accomplish them.

LOVE

Every atom of your being is a source of power and energy. Every atom of your being contains particles of love that can be fanned into the bright flame of love that was a source of its creation by the Creator.

With each thought of Universal Love and through unselfish works the flame of love becomes more active and alive within your Being. Be in love, dream of love, become one with love and you become one with the same energy pattern of love, that has been channeled through the Great Beings of love, that have previously walked upon earth.

Hello Everyone.

In today’s post I would like to tell you how much I believe in YOU.
But before I share more I would like to mention a dream I had several years ago.

I was walking along the ocean with thousands of people, who like myself, were seeking greater spiritual enlightenment. To my left was the ocean and a short distance in front of me, almost invisible because of a fog, stood a woman dressed in blue holding a microphone. To her immediate left and to my right were circular stands filled with people. I recognized the people in the stands because they were well-known lecturers in the spiritual and health fields. The people in the stands had over-sized heads and there was a fog and loud noises coming from their mouths. I couldn't hear and could barely see the woman in blue. When I got closer to the woman in blue, I saw it was Sophia, the goddess of wisdom. I then wondered, if these people in the stands, who profess to know so much, were causing this interference, then what are spiritual seekers supposed to do? Then a breeze blew off the ocean, cleared the fog and everything became quiet, and then I heard the following words..."all one needs to reach a higher state of awareness within themselves is, 'A Beautiful Heart, an Open Mind and a Humble Spirit'."

There is a story about a man who lived in Your City, USA, named True Seeker. He was in his early 50s, a family man with two grown children and had been working at his job for approximately 15 years. He had an interest in esoteric subjects but never spent too much time studying any particular topic.

He had become a bit restless in his life and started to dwell upon the thought of what the purpose of life was? The more he thought about it the more confused he became. He had a wonderful partner, his children seemed well suited to make their own journey in life and he enjoyed his job. Yet, something deep inside seemed unfulfilled.

One morning upon awakening he felt the strongest urge that he must know what the meaning of life is. He had gazed at the stars the previous evening and the thought crossed his mind, how far does it all go? Why was he created and did he have some greater purpose to his life?

In the 1500s in a small village in Germany, several townsfolk became concerned when one of the citizens locked himself in his house for five days. Every part of the house was completely closed and tightly sealed and because of their concern, the townspeople broke down the door to check on the man. Once inside they found the man dead. Nothing that the people saw could explain why the man had died.

In that time, people could not figure out the real reason why the individual had passed away. One philosopher, a great observer of nature, reasoned that something had polluted the air, causing a stagnation and the stagnation led to the death of the body.

From this experience the philosopher observed similar situations in nature as well as similar situations in human nature, where a closing off of vital nutrients led to a stagnation and a sort of death of normal activity.

The ancients used the analogy of light to explain the vital energy that surrounded and energized them.

There is a visible light which we call brightness and an invisible light of energy within the visible light which goes unseen to our outer senses. The visible physical light is bright to our senses and the inner energy is a light that feeds our inner soul.

In the early to mid-1970s I decided to play two-man beach volleyball on the beaches of Southern California.

In the late 1960s I had sustained a knee injury, and the medical experts that my university had me consult with, had all recommended surgery. As I mentioned on my earlier posts, I had found an alternative therapy through reading a mechanics magazine, this approach rectified my knee enough to allow my participating in the small college Track and Field Nationals, without using surgery.

In those years I loved the aspect of competition and when my track and field career ended, I wanted to test my knee in another sport that demanded a lot of twisting and turning.

While competing on an athletic scholarship I sustained a knee injury when a gardener left a sprinkler-head in our workout running path. I was sent to the sports physician for the Rams, Dodgers and Lakers who said I would need surgery or I couldn't run again. I received a second opinion from the head trainer at UCLA who also agreed on surgery. Before taking that route, I discovered a healing technique from Europe that might help me, through reading a mechanics magazine. Despite the sports physician and the trainer saying it would never work…it did.

It was 1969 and while doing the therapy myself, I would visualize my running and crossing the finish line in first place. I did this visualization over and over again. I resumed training five weeks later and anchored my university relay team to a fifth place finish in the nationals. I wondered why the experts said the technique I was using was ridiculous and I began wondering what other techniques exist that we are not told about.

In the ancient Greek philosophy there was a belief that behind the personality, and behind the mind, there resided a deep and mysterious core existence within each individual.

The ancient Greeks knew that there had to be something that existed behind the visible commonplace self, and they felt that this part had to be the spark of life that made them live. This inner spark was a radiance that animated and brought vitality to what would have been an inanimate body.

To understand the workings of the world and the cosmos, the old hermetic philosophers relied heavily upon a philosophy that believed there is a relationship of the little world, which is a human being, to the big world that existed outside of the human being. There are constellations in the brain, solar systems in the heart and planets everywhere within the human body.

The influence of astrology was based on the fact that humans are filled with stars and by virtue of these internal stars, human beings are bound to the majesty of the cosmos. It is the interior stars that are effected by the planetary influences in the cosmos.

Nothing is hidden in nature that the human mind cannot ultimately discover. There is nothing in the farthermost part of space that human consciousness cannot search out and understand. Through the diversity that takes place within a human being the ancients were able to understand the outward nature of reality.

On September 6, 1941, the following announcement appeared in Science Newsletter: New Sonic Generator Kills Bacteria With Short Waves.

"A new generator, that kills bacteria and other microorganisms with very short sound waves, has been built at the University of California. The new device, developed by Prof. A. P. Krueger, consists of a nickel tube within a magnetic field, activated by electrical impulses.

"The tube is first elongated, then contracted by the alternative pulls of the magnets. So rapid is this oscillating motion that the nickel emits sound waves with a high frequency of 9,300 cycles per second. The tone is deadly to bacteria and viruses.

The School of Athens was painted approximately 1510 by Raphael. It is depicting the great women and men of philosophy dating from the beginning of recorded history until the time of the painting. What stands out in the middle of the painting, are the two central figures, Plato and his student Aristotle.

It is generally thought that Raphael is depicting Plato’s theory of forms and the Ideal Archetype, and that is why he is pointing upwards, Aristotle had his emphasis on concrete particulars, with his emphasis on the practical, and that is why he is pointing downward. Both understood each other but had different viewpoints.

I had quite a few messenger questions regarding my belief, so I thought I would share this.

Several years ago, before presenting a lecture on "The Mind, Heart and Nature of Healing", talking about P.P. Quimby, J.R. Newton and Paracelsus, I had the following dream: