ONE FAMILY PLAN
Health
"All experiences are ultimately just neurophysiological processes taking place in the brain... in a brain that operates holographically, the remembered image of a thing can have as much impact on the senses as the thing itself... imagination and reality are ultimately indistinguishable, and it should therefore come as no surprise to us that images in the mind can ultimately manifest as realities in the physical body." (Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe, p 85)
"When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues."(Larry Dossey)
Placebo Effect
"Placebo effects on even the mildest conditions may involve physiological changes that are near miraculous... In nine double-blind studies comparing placebos to aspirin, placebos proved to be 54% as effective as the actual analgesic... In six double-blind studies placebos were found to be 56% as effective as morphine in relieving pain!"
"In a study designed to determine the suggestive value of a pill's color, researchers found that people tend to view yellow or orange pills as mood manipulators, either stimulants or depressants. Dark red pills are assumed to be sedatives; lavender pills, hallucinogens; and white pills, painkillers."
After having been injected with a placebo the results were dramatic. "Tumor masses melted, chest fluid vanished, and Wright was quickly back on his feet and feeling great." After the American Medical Association declared the drug worthless in the treatment of cancer "Wright's faith was completely shattered. His cancer blossomed anew and he died two days later."
"In a 1962 experiment Drs. Harriet Linton and Robert Langs told test subjects they were going to participate in a study of the effects of LSD, but then gave them a placebo instead. Nonetheless, half an hour after taking the placebo, the subjects began to experience the classic symptoms of the actual drug, loss of control, supposed insight into the meaning of existence, and so on. These 'placebo trips' lasted several hours."
"In a recent study of a new kind of chemo-therapy, 30% of the individuals in the control group, the group given placebos, lost their hair." (Talbot p 91-97)
"The effectiveness of placebos provides dramatic support for a 'holistic' view of the human organism, a view that is receiving increasing attention in medical research. This view holds that the mind and body continually interact and are too closely interwoven to be treated as independent entities." (Jane Brody, New York Times)
MPD
"Perhaps what we call 'self' is also a hologram, and when the brain of a multiple clicks from one holographic self to the next, these slide-projectorlike shuttlings are reflected in the global changes that take place in brain-wave activity as well as in the body in general." (Talbot, p 76)
"Frequently a medical condition possessed by one personality will mysteriously vanish when another personality takes over... Some multiples have to carry two or three different pairs of eyeglasses to accommodate their alternating personalities... There are cases of women who have two or three menstrual periods each month because each of their subpersonalities has its own cycle." (Talbot, p 98)
Hypnosis
"Like a multiple, deeply hypnotized persons can control allergic reactions, blood flow patterns, and nearsightedness... they can control heart rate, pain, body temperature... It would appear that when we access the right strata of our beliefs, our minds can override even our genetic makeup." (Talbot, p 105)
Fighting Spirit
"People with AIDS who display a fighting spirit live longer than AIDS-infected individuals who have a passive attitude. People with cancer also live longer if they maintain a fighting spirit. Pessimists get more colds than optimists. Stress lowers the immune response; people who have just lost their spouse have an increased incidence of illness and disease, and on and on." (Talbot, p 102)
Force of Will
In the 1970's Jack Schwarz "astonished doctors by sticking mammoth six-inch sailmaker's needles completely through his arms without bleeding, without flinching, and without producing beta brain waves... In addition, Schwarz altered his brain-wave rhythms at will, held burning cigarettes against his flesh without harming himself, and even carried live coals around in his hands."(Talbot, p 103)
After a series of dips in the spring at Lourdes, Vittorio Michelli's disintegrated hip bone was healed... "A remarkable reconstruction of the iliac bone and cavity has taken place. The X rays made in 1964, 1965, 1968, and 1969 confirm categorically and without doubt that an unforeseen and even overwhelming bone reconstruction has taken place of a type unknown in the annals of world medicine." (Vatican's Medical Commission)
Palmistry
"Researchers at West Germany's Institute of Dermatoglyphics in Hamburg have even developed a computer system that uses an opto-electric scanner to take digitized 'photo' of a patient's hand. It then compares the hand to the 10,000 other prints in its memory, scans it for the nearly 50 distinctive patterns now known to be associated with various hereditary disabilities, and quickly calculates the patient's risk factors. So perhaps we should not be so quick to dismiss palmistry out of hand. The lines and whorls in our palms may contain more about our whole self than we realize." (Talbot, p 117)
Miracles
"There surely never was so great a number of miracles ascribed to one person as those which were lately said to have been wrought in France upon the tomb of Abbe Paris. Many of the miracles were immediately proved upon the spot, before judges of unquestioned credit and distinction, in a learned age, and on the most eminent theatre that is now in the world." (David Hume, Philosophical Essays)
"In the 1920's the great Harvard psychologist William McDougall... suggested that religious miracles might be the result of the collective psychic powers of large numbers of worshipers." (Talbot, p 132)
The Jansenists were a religious group of the late 1600's ...when ordered shot the musket balls were found flattened between their clothing and their skin. When burned with coals, they were not harmed, and when wrapped from head to toe in cotton soaked with oil and set ablaze, they did not burn.
However, the power of ONE is the power of ALL but maybe this energy is more easily collected where two or more are gathered... Christ's being the alchemist's purest substance... the Body of us all in our most powerful form...
"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." (Matthew 18:20)
"The world [is] nothing but an objectivized dream. Whatever your powerful mind believes very intensely instantly comes to pass."(Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi)
William Tiller of Stanford University believes reality is much like the 'holodeck' on Star Trek: The next Generation. "We've created it [the universe] as a vehicle of experience, and we've created the laws that govern it, and when we get to the frontiers of our understanding, we can in fact shift the laws so that we're also creating the physics as we go along."
"Contrary to what everyone knows is so, it may not be the brain that produces consciousness, but rather consciousness that creates the appearance of the brain - matter, space, time and everything else we are pleased to interpret as the physical universe." (Keith Floyd, Virginia Intermont College)
