Babettefr: This made me think of placebo...some sick people are treated this way, got cured... believing is one way of curing. I have a friend who worked in the house of aged..everynight she makes the round in distributing water with drops of syrup...which the aged, believed to be sleeping drops...if not nobody sleeps.. yes minds can be worked out...in good or bad..
The placebo effect is well-documented, as is the fact that there are times, you are gonna die no matter what you do!
galrads: Actually, Doctor Timothy Francis Leary believed you could (and without government assistance) until he died.....
The popularized catchphrase that promoted his philosophy, such as "turn on, tune in, drop out", "set and setting", and "think for yourself and question authority" is in great contrast to today's views on government dependency Europe has adopted... Hopefully America avoids this for the rest of my lifetime anyway.
Timothy was a great one from my era! But his doctorate was in clinical psychology and not mathematics. Not saying he didn't use math...but he never said it could be stated through the application of math....just another guy riding on the back of Hoffman's bicycle!
Da_Moose: The placebo effect is well-documented, as is the fact that there are times, you are gonna die no matter what you do!
What about those who wake up from a state of coma? Can a body considered to be physically dead can be revived by the mind?... i think yes..or the other way...they induce artificial coma to strengthen the body..maybe i've gone too far but i think there's a link..
Babettefr: What about those who wake up from a state of coma? Can a body considered to be physically dead can be revived by the mind?... i think yes..or the other way...they induce artificial coma to strengthen the body..maybe i've gone too far but i think there's a link..
Or i might say clinically dead rather than physically..
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Get away from this "new" so-called superweed! Smoke some good old land-race and grab your socks! (Damn DEA propaganda!)