Background Our subject is taboos and magic, but given the source material, a bit of background might be welcomed by some. If you are in a hurry, skip right to Taboo. In pondering a post about the differences between certain Africans and those of European stock, we recall Albert Schweitzer’s
Nocebo effects with antidepressant clinical drug trial placebos by Roy R. Reeves, et al. General Hospital Psychiatry 29 (2007) 275 – 277.
Abstract
We describe an individual who experienced unusual negative effects while taking a placebo during a clinical drug trial. A 26-year-old male took 29 inert capsules, believing he was overdosing on an antidepressant. Subsequently, he experienced hypotension requiring intravenous fluids to maintain an adequate blood pressure until the true nature of the capsules was revealed. The adverse symptoms then rapidly abated. The nocebo effect (undesirable symptoms following administration of an inert substance that the patient believes to be an active drug) may have significant negative impacts on certain patients. Further research is warranted to better understand this phenomenon.
Was the rush to hospitals and the life-threatening symptoms experienced by some who contracted covid the result of a nocebo effect? Non-stop fear-mongering by governments and media convinced nearly all tuning in that we were facing the apocalypse. When they test positive, and the mind immediately turns to catastrophic thinking...voila! Magic happens. Boy eating for plantain-tainted pot occurs worldwide!
As for Schweitzer's thinking, it's only a matter of time before the Great Emancipator himself gets canceled. Should our uncultured cultural revolutionaries ever get around to reading the Lincoln-Douglas debates, they'll find out that Ol' Abe thought that blacks were not equal to whites. Two questions arise: How long will it take the left to discover Lincoln's wrongthink, and whose statue will they ensconce in the vacated Lincoln Memorial?
One of the most baffling aspects of the whole Coronadoom thing was the deafening hysterical insistence by all the experts that the unvaccinated were putting the vaccinated at risk of immanent death. And with their very next breath, gave strident assurances that the vaccine provides a "dead end" for the virus.
I kept waiting for them to explain how, if the vaccine provided such complete protection, could a vaccinated person possibly be at risk from an unvaccinated person? I'm still waiting....
On the other hand, the Big White Man's Magic of Equality has so far failed to achieve, well, equality. Despite fervency of belief that certainly ranks among the most fanatical in history. Perhaps it is that the faith of the egalitarians is not so strong as they pretend? Or perhaps there are certain things magic can't do.
On the other hand, the egalitarians believe quite strongly in the dark spirits of systemic racism, the evil eye of implicit bias, and the malign sorcery of stereotype threat. Proof were any needed that their ontology is on a level with African witch doctors.
They can only dream of reaching the understanding of 'human beings' of the Witchdoctors.
Western medicine considers people as machines, with only physical causes and effects to consider, the metaphysical side of humanity is beyond their comprehension.
Patch Adams had a clue but was quickly extinguished.
Have you ever met or spoken with an African witchdoctor?
I didn't think so.
Sangomas have knowledge that the Pharmaceuticals are dreaming of. Whilst they do not have fancy polysyllabic names for their medicines, the results far outweigh, and at a fraction of the cost, the western concoctions.
Their theatrics are not the same as western offices and nurses and fancy multimillion machines, with which to impress the clients, their bones and performance sits well with the African mind. Quite honestly their diagnostic expertise is far better than the morons who have a wonderful bedside manner and haven't studied a book (other than the Pharma price list) for the last 40 years.
Why not sit and talk with them for an hour or so (they charge less than an MD) and learn a little before opining.
Such an interesting article, although at times I could not tell if you were joking.
Reminds me of several sermons I’ve heard from Derek Prince (deceased British minister) about the nature and importance of blessings and curses in the Bible. Also his sermons about witchcraft and sorcery. He preached worldwide, spent much time in Africa and had many stories like yours involving taboo causing death. All very strange.
Given the utter lack of quality control (perhaps deliberately) and effective dose data by Pfizer, Moderna, et al. there is no doubt some of the “vaccines” were essentially placebos, while others were extraordinarily harmful.
In Africa today, the Sangoma is far more trusted than a doctor. Having had medical treatment from Physician specialists, I can agree with the africans.
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of human disease.”
Thomas EdisonIn fact, in the United States you are far more likely to killed by your doctor than you are by a firearm. Death by doctor exceeded 225,000 last year while death by firearm was only 9,601
Science says that if you die of cancer (or a dozen other diseases) and are HIV positive then you died of AIDS, if you do not have HIV antibodies then you died of cancer. If you die of Pneumonia and your blood can be forced (45 reiteration of process) to show "Covid", not ever isolated but assumed to exist, then you died of Covid and amazingly after centuries of hundreds of thousands of deaths each year from Influenza, it disappeared completely in 2021 and 2022, but Covid was a pandemic.
Study Psychology, Scientology, Christian Science, Theta Healing or any of a dozen similar practices and you find that the mind is overwhelmingly the cause of both health and sickness.
But beyond this simple fact :
What would happen if you discovered a cure for everything?
On November 20, 1931, forty-four of the nation's most respected medical authorities honored Royal Rife with a banquet billed as The End To All Diseases at the Pasadena estate of Dr. Milbank Johnson.
In 1934, the University of Southern California appointed a Special Medical Research Committee to bring terminal cancer patients from Pasadena County Hospital to Rife's San Diego Laboratory and clinic for treatment. The team included doctors and pathologists assigned to examine the patients - if still alive - in 90 days.
After the 90 days of treatment, the Committee concluded that 86.5% of the patients had been completely cured. The treatment was then adjusted and the remaining 13.5% of the patients also responded within the next four weeks. The total recovery rate using Rife's technology was 100%.
But by 1939, almost all of these distinguished doctors and scientists were denying that they had ever met Rife. What happened to make so many brilliant men have complete memory lapses?
It seems that news of Rife's miracles with terminal patients had reached other ears. Remember our hypothetical question at the beginning of this report: What would happen if you discovered a cure for everything?
Oops it has already been written ;
The Cure for all Diseases, Hulda R. Clark. (free PDF available on internet)
"The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient amused while nature heals the disease." (Voltaire)
The Rife story has always fascinated me. Are we not but specific energy frequencies, and from that logic would it not make sense that cancer, too, has its own energy frequency that can be countered by another? This read on Rife is quite interesting:https://educate-yourself.org/cn/morrisfishbein05feb02.shtml
Thank you for the intelligent and thought-provoking article. Instead of taking up a lot of space in the comment section, I published my thoughts on my page:
All,
Paper sent to me by Anon:
Nocebo effects with antidepressant clinical drug trial placebos by Roy R. Reeves, et al. General Hospital Psychiatry 29 (2007) 275 – 277.
Abstract
We describe an individual who experienced unusual negative effects while taking a placebo during a clinical drug trial. A 26-year-old male took 29 inert capsules, believing he was overdosing on an antidepressant. Subsequently, he experienced hypotension requiring intravenous fluids to maintain an adequate blood pressure until the true nature of the capsules was revealed. The adverse symptoms then rapidly abated. The nocebo effect (undesirable symptoms following administration of an inert substance that the patient believes to be an active drug) may have significant negative impacts on certain patients. Further research is warranted to better understand this phenomenon.
Very interesting.
Was the rush to hospitals and the life-threatening symptoms experienced by some who contracted covid the result of a nocebo effect? Non-stop fear-mongering by governments and media convinced nearly all tuning in that we were facing the apocalypse. When they test positive, and the mind immediately turns to catastrophic thinking...voila! Magic happens. Boy eating for plantain-tainted pot occurs worldwide!
As for Schweitzer's thinking, it's only a matter of time before the Great Emancipator himself gets canceled. Should our uncultured cultural revolutionaries ever get around to reading the Lincoln-Douglas debates, they'll find out that Ol' Abe thought that blacks were not equal to whites. Two questions arise: How long will it take the left to discover Lincoln's wrongthink, and whose statue will they ensconce in the vacated Lincoln Memorial?
Certainly 'Long Covid' is nothing other than a nocebo.
One of the most baffling aspects of the whole Coronadoom thing was the deafening hysterical insistence by all the experts that the unvaccinated were putting the vaccinated at risk of immanent death. And with their very next breath, gave strident assurances that the vaccine provides a "dead end" for the virus.
I kept waiting for them to explain how, if the vaccine provided such complete protection, could a vaccinated person possibly be at risk from an unvaccinated person? I'm still waiting....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI3yU5Z2adI
There's a coincidence. I'm working on a post now for tomorrow that uses this video.
On the other hand, the Big White Man's Magic of Equality has so far failed to achieve, well, equality. Despite fervency of belief that certainly ranks among the most fanatical in history. Perhaps it is that the faith of the egalitarians is not so strong as they pretend? Or perhaps there are certain things magic can't do.
On the other hand, the egalitarians believe quite strongly in the dark spirits of systemic racism, the evil eye of implicit bias, and the malign sorcery of stereotype threat. Proof were any needed that their ontology is on a level with African witch doctors.
"Proof were any needed that their ontology is on a level with African witch doctors."
exactly
They can only dream of reaching the understanding of 'human beings' of the Witchdoctors.
Western medicine considers people as machines, with only physical causes and effects to consider, the metaphysical side of humanity is beyond their comprehension.
Patch Adams had a clue but was quickly extinguished.
Have you ever met or spoken with an African witchdoctor?
I didn't think so.
Sangomas have knowledge that the Pharmaceuticals are dreaming of. Whilst they do not have fancy polysyllabic names for their medicines, the results far outweigh, and at a fraction of the cost, the western concoctions.
Their theatrics are not the same as western offices and nurses and fancy multimillion machines, with which to impress the clients, their bones and performance sits well with the African mind. Quite honestly their diagnostic expertise is far better than the morons who have a wonderful bedside manner and haven't studied a book (other than the Pharma price list) for the last 40 years.
Why not sit and talk with them for an hour or so (they charge less than an MD) and learn a little before opining.
You must be fun at parties.
Absolutely, I burst everyone's balloons.
Such an interesting article, although at times I could not tell if you were joking.
Reminds me of several sermons I’ve heard from Derek Prince (deceased British minister) about the nature and importance of blessings and curses in the Bible. Also his sermons about witchcraft and sorcery. He preached worldwide, spent much time in Africa and had many stories like yours involving taboo causing death. All very strange.
If I were joking, I would have started the piece with "A witch doctor and an Expert walk into a bar..."
A witch doctor, an expert, and a statistician to the stars walked into a bar. The barman said “what is this, a joke ... or a serious Briggs column?”
Given the utter lack of quality control (perhaps deliberately) and effective dose data by Pfizer, Moderna, et al. there is no doubt some of the “vaccines” were essentially placebos, while others were extraordinarily harmful.
In Africa today, the Sangoma is far more trusted than a doctor. Having had medical treatment from Physician specialists, I can agree with the africans.
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of human disease.”
Thomas EdisonIn fact, in the United States you are far more likely to killed by your doctor than you are by a firearm. Death by doctor exceeded 225,000 last year while death by firearm was only 9,601
Science says that if you die of cancer (or a dozen other diseases) and are HIV positive then you died of AIDS, if you do not have HIV antibodies then you died of cancer. If you die of Pneumonia and your blood can be forced (45 reiteration of process) to show "Covid", not ever isolated but assumed to exist, then you died of Covid and amazingly after centuries of hundreds of thousands of deaths each year from Influenza, it disappeared completely in 2021 and 2022, but Covid was a pandemic.
Study Psychology, Scientology, Christian Science, Theta Healing or any of a dozen similar practices and you find that the mind is overwhelmingly the cause of both health and sickness.
But beyond this simple fact :
What would happen if you discovered a cure for everything?
On November 20, 1931, forty-four of the nation's most respected medical authorities honored Royal Rife with a banquet billed as The End To All Diseases at the Pasadena estate of Dr. Milbank Johnson.
In 1934, the University of Southern California appointed a Special Medical Research Committee to bring terminal cancer patients from Pasadena County Hospital to Rife's San Diego Laboratory and clinic for treatment. The team included doctors and pathologists assigned to examine the patients - if still alive - in 90 days.
After the 90 days of treatment, the Committee concluded that 86.5% of the patients had been completely cured. The treatment was then adjusted and the remaining 13.5% of the patients also responded within the next four weeks. The total recovery rate using Rife's technology was 100%.
But by 1939, almost all of these distinguished doctors and scientists were denying that they had ever met Rife. What happened to make so many brilliant men have complete memory lapses?
It seems that news of Rife's miracles with terminal patients had reached other ears. Remember our hypothetical question at the beginning of this report: What would happen if you discovered a cure for everything?
Oops it has already been written ;
The Cure for all Diseases, Hulda R. Clark. (free PDF available on internet)
"The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient amused while nature heals the disease." (Voltaire)
The Rife story has always fascinated me. Are we not but specific energy frequencies, and from that logic would it not make sense that cancer, too, has its own energy frequency that can be countered by another? This read on Rife is quite interesting:https://educate-yourself.org/cn/morrisfishbein05feb02.shtml
💬 (though I do not seek to prove it here) 🤭
The lesson Anon emailer had taught got dutifully absorbed, check ✅
“science-based surgeons.”
Science-based or money based?
Thank you for this post.
Entering a restaurant without a mask was very taboo! It’s like not making the sign of the cross when you enter a church…
Except there is no Mask god.
Oh yes there is!
Thank you for the intelligent and thought-provoking article. Instead of taking up a lot of space in the comment section, I published my thoughts on my page:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-science-of-faith-and-the-faith
Thanks, Ray.
I checked the comments after posting. I echo your thoughts. Hence, all governments/all media ramped up the fear levels.
In a true emergency, responsible governments would have done everything possible to calm their citizens.
THIS IS IT.
Such horrifyingly interesting times we live in...what a decade it's gonna be.
Yep. I knew it was fake when they started trying to create panic.