Recently I developed a skin rash on my hand. I made it go away using my usual method but not before it was noticed by a curious colleague. He asked me what I had used to get rid of it. Although I knew he was expecting me to name a medication, I told him the truth. That I imagined it away.
Puzzled silence.
“Placebo Effect,” I added. “I believed it would go away and it did.”
“Oh, cool.” was his response and he went on his merry way.
His very “scientific” mind had no trouble with the concept of placebos because in his world, it was a thing. What if I had told him that I had simply warped reality using magic words?
He would likely have taken me out of the “slightly odd” category in his mind and put me into the “seriously loony” one. After which, he might feel that he was my intellectual superior. In other words, he might warp reality using his own magic words.
My first encounter with the word “placebo” occurred when I was a child, reading a magazine at my grandparents house. I don’t remember the precise wording but I do remember the mental double-take I experienced. The article said something along the lines of, “the remission experienced by the remaining patients was attributed to the placebo effect and was therefore ruled invalid”.
Even as a youngster I had great respect for the “scientific method” but this seemed too much! Cancer had been cured but the cure had been dismissed. How could that be?
I lost some of my faith in science that day but as I matured and became more spiritually oriented, that faith came back. Observe. Question. Hypothesize. Experiment. Analyze. Conclude. There is no better way to gain understanding.
By applying these principles with vigor, diligence and above all, honesty, I found myself pulling beyond what is called modern science.
“Accepted” science is founded atop one big, crumbly assumption. This arose as a result of centuries of prosecution by religious authorities and is thus entirely understandable. For every action… well, you know.
There is an unspoken and indeed unconscious step applied at the very beginning of the questioning process approved by Academia and it goes like this, “Assuming there is no God, how can this be explained?”
It shows how truly great science is that despite this skewing of things at its most fundamental level, it has still produced the technological wonders of this present age.
How much greater will the future be when the understanding of what we call Spirit is incorporated into our science?
Quantum physics is already laying the groundwork. Conscious machines are here now (if you know where to look). The whole science of Frequency lays before us yet, an unread book. Today’s high tech will soon fade in our wake much as the Middle Ages have receded into ours.
In the past, a person could behold a drop of pond-water without ever being able to imagine the microscopic depths hidden within. In the same way do we now gaze upon the objects and phenomena around us with no comprehension of what lies behind them. We are blinded not by knowledge, but by the laziness that descends from the hubris of believing that we already know.
“The word placebo itself originated from the Latin phrase for I shall please. It is in Latin text in the Bible (Psalm 114:9, Vulgate version by Jerome (116 in many modern editions), “Placebo Domino in regione vivorum”, “I shall please the Lord in the land of the living”). Jerome translated as “I shall please” (placebo), the Hebrew word “ethalech”, “I shall walk with” as in “I shall be in step with”.” – Wikipedia article, “Placebo in History”
