The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55799   Message #869598
Posted By: Mark Cohen
18-Jan-03 - 05:17 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Folk and Psychic Cures, Faith Healing.
Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk and Psychic Cures, Faith Healing.
That's wonderful, Khandu. Keep living and believing...you're very blessed. As are we all, of course...

In my first week of medical school, one of the professors said to our class, "Half of what you'll learn in the next four years will turn out to be inaccurate, incomplete, or wrong ten years from now. The problem is, we can't tell you which half." Western scientific medicine does not have a lock on the truth. Can thought, or faith, or laying on of hands, heal illness? Absolutely. Can drugs and antibiotics and surgery heal illness? Absolutely. They're two sides of the same mountain, as far as I'm concerned, and they work best when used together, with intelligence and compassion. Neither one is a "miracle cure" or "quick fix". Nor, for that matter, are magnets, or crystals--or Prozac, or the Purple Pill. But people keep selling them, and people keep buying them. So it goes.

Aloha,
Mark