Bill:

You certainly put your finger on the key of it. In abroader sense, existence, and all the beliefs within it, are self-fulfilling hypotheses. So is, I might add, your "try to see it but see it not" approach to healing and spirituality. So is, for example, Two BEars' application of energy in healing.

BTW the Paul Bloom link above is intersting. An excerpt:

"The notion that our souls are flesh is profoundly troubling to many, as it clashes with religion. Dualism and religion are not the same: You can be dualist without holding any other religious beliefs, and you can hold religious beliefs without being dualist. But they almost always go together. And some very popular religious views rest on a dualist foundation, such as the belief that people survive the destruction of their bodies. If you give up on dualism, this is what you lose.

This is not small potatoes. "

Indeed, not small potatos at all.


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