The Anchoress lost a friend, so is vulnerable to the nonsense of mind over matter will keep you from getting sick...
She quotes from a touchy feely book:
'I gave him my copy of Larry Dossey’s book, Healing Words : The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine, and directed him to some stories within the book that explored the whole concept of illness not being able to claim you if it remains unacknowledged....
"If you taught a baby, from the day of his birth onward, that he could never be sick, never grow old…could walk on water…if that baby never received any other message but that all of these things were possible, would it be true for that baby? Would it unlock something we have unlearned?"
Answer: There is a church that does this...it is called Christian Science....
And the amount of suffering from children of that sect is horrific.
Mark Twain has a sarcastic book about that sect...
To quote the kids in E.T: THIS IS REALITY GREG...
Yes, stress and depression can make you sick, and risky behavior poor diet and no exercize can make you prone to certain illnesses....but cancer is NOT psychosomatic...
Follow up on my screedblog later today.
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