Spiritual Healing is more than Placebo effect
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July 12, 2012
First of all, let us analyze the Placebo Effect!
What do you think is the placebo effect? Instead of medicine, you give a pseudo-medicine like a sugar pill, or you give ordinary water in the place of a tonic and your body heals itself. There are so many layers in Placebo Effect.
According to an issue of the Scientific American Mind which is specially dedicated to placebo effect, even with so many studies, the placebo effect is not that simple to understand. Another article in Wired magazine discusses how placebos are getting more effective and drug makers are desperate to know why. Many pharmaceutical giants are failing because they are not able to compete with their own placebo effect!
So placebo effect itself is not that simple as you use the word. There are layers and layers that need to be understood.
I will give you the conscious post-mortem analysis of the placebo effect.
For example, you are sitting and your brain is hooked up to a qEEG machine (device to measure brainwaves). Your body is completely in padmasana, you are sitting like Buddha. But if you just visualize for 20 minutes that you are running, the brain gets into the exact effect of running: how your body feels when you run, how the chemicals are released - your brain gets exactly into that space. Your visualization is more powerful than you can imagine. Your imagination is more powerful than you can imagine! If the power of your visualization is used properly, it can do wonders.
Let us analyze what exactly is the difference between spiritual healing and the placebo effect.
In the placebo effect, your unconscious uses your power of imagination. But in sammyama or meditation, your consciousness uses your power of imagination. In initiation, your guru, your superconscious part, uses your power of imagination. Please understand, to create a placebo effect itself is not a small joke!
Your unconscious needs to be convinced. Even with the ordinary pain reliever medicines, your unconsciousness needs to be convinced for the placebo effect to happen. When the convincing power of your unconscious increases, the power of the placebo effect also increases.
My spiritual healing works forty-two percent more than the placebo effect. We have analyzed, researched, and documented through double-blind studies.
I am not denying placebo effect in my healing. Placebo effect itself is not something pseudo or wrong as you are taught and made to believe, but I am using something more than placebo effect in my healing. My healing is something more than the placebo effect, because your superconscious part uses your power of imagination.
Please understand, your superconscious part is my reflection.
People ask me, when you look at us, how do you see us? I see only my component's refection in you, the possibility of Me in you. When I say 'me', do not associate me with this body. I am referring to the pure Me. I used this me to achieve the pure Me. You can use your body and mind to achieve the pure You, which is the reflection of Me.
Sammyama is your own conscious decision, using the power of your imagination. Sammyama and initiation itself is much more than the placebo effect. Healing from the master is something more than the sammyama; it is your superconscious component using your power of imagination.
You have three parts: unconscious, conscious, and superconscious. When your unconscious uses your imagination, it is called placebo effect. When your conscious uses your imagination, it is initiation, when your superconscious uses your imagination, it is spiritual healing.
Through scientific research and medical documentation, we have already proved that the power of my initiation is much, much than placebo effect. Now I am just giving you the philosophy of how spiritual healing is more than the placebo effect.
Apart from that, understand that placebo effect itself is not a pseudo or ordinary thing!
The placebo effect is your unconsciousness using the capacity of your imagination. Samyama is your own consciousness using your capacity of imagination. What do you think you are doing in the Nirahara Samyama? You imagine you are a tree, and you visualize that just like a tree, you are also producing prana and energy from space. That’s it. How can imagination keep you out of hunger for 21 days? It is not that you are not doing your routine. For 21 days, hundreds of people around the world are fasting, but not tired! See the power of initiation!