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Not read all of this yet, but i can kind of see where it's going...

http://www.depression-hypnosis.com/treatment.htm


Another fascinating example of belief-mind-body interaction is the story of a Mr. Wright. 



     "Many doctors know the story of "Mr. Wright," who was found to have cancer and in 1957 was given only days to live. Hospitalized in Long Beach, Calif., with tumors the size of oranges, he heard that scientists had discovered a horse serum, Krebiozen, that appeared to be effective against cancer. He begged to receive it.



His physician, Dr. Philip West, finally agreed and gave Mr. Wright an injection on a Friday afternoon. The following Monday, the astonished doctor found his patient out of his "death bed," joking with the nurses. The tumors, the doctor wrote later, "had melted like snowballs on a hot stove."



Two months later, Mr. Wright read medical reports that the horse serum was a quack remedy. He suffered an immediate relapse. "Don't believe what you read in the papers," the doctor told Mr. Wright. Then he injected him with what he said was "a new super-refined double strength" version of the drug. Actually, it was water, but again, the tumor masses melted.



Mr. Wright was "the picture of health" for another two months -- until he read a definitive report stating that Krebiozen was worthless. He died two days later." (5)



The point to take away from all this so far, is that: (a) Hypnosis is the power of an individuals mind and (b) That power is intimately involved in the development and continuation of depression through a variety of means.


It's made me think...

I'm really questioning the ideas of whether there is such a thing as objective reality, but that will need more thought before i begin thread on it...

Here's an idea, i have myself hyponotised into believing that a single pill will make me everything that i want to be, everything that i can imagine i could be, kept within a physical context, so that i believe it to the core of my being.

I take the pill, reap the results, then learn properly that i had merely manipulated my mind into that belief so that i could reap the results and continue along my spiritual path...

Should this not work?

So many questions about the subjective nature of every what's real what's not real, it's so tempting to want to just fling myself back into not caring, but i've decided i want higher truth now.

So the placebo effect has been proven within physical biological terms, how this is mediated, whether it's quatum physics or simply a special technique in relation to healing i do not know, but it's extremely intriging, how far can the mind influence reality?

Big question, any thoughts?

Miles

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I think it would work. It should. I feel there is an objective reality, that is there are these fundamental laws that precede everything else. They are the truth. Positivity and negativity are objective, good and bad are subjective. Montalk states more about objectivity and subjectivity it in his 'Key Concept's web page.

But I think your pill idea should work. But I guess you would have to follow it up with action. Some people make it out as easy as visualizing and that's that. No, you have to do actions. You have to prove you're serious to your cause, really serious but I guess if you really felt for the cause originally, then strong action wouldn't be so hard. This type of idea leads into the 'Law of Attraction', which I feel is one of those fundamentals laws I mentioned earlier.  Mr Wright perhaps was so desperate in his cure, that the cure was brought or 'attracted' to him almost instantly. But when he read the cure was a whole load of baloney, the shock of it might just as quickly killed his original intention. That's my take on Wright's case.