There are other studies, documented in books by Larry Dossey, for example, where the reverse is true, Mrrz. Obviously, there are ambiguous or only partially understood vectors in play.

The placebo effect, sometimes used as a shorthand dismissal of sudden remediation of some apparently physical condition, is one of the most under-estimated bits of phenomena outt here. While it is simple and easy, and maybe accurate, to say "it's the mind", that's a bit like saying that gravity and EMF are "the ether". It offers no explanation which can open the door to understanding, just providing an obfuscatory box to stick things in to defer further insight.

To be able to understand what the mind actually IS, and how it can engage whole physical systems in extreme measures of disruption OR palliation, would be a major piece of work. As to whether it would open the door to unknown elements such as the cognitive and the spiritual, there is no saying at this point. No sense getting all superstitious, but neither should we embrace willfully ignorant conculsions.

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