From: f1221-AT-cc.nagasaki-u.ac.jp
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 17:24:14 +0900
Subject: Re : Re:  destratify; cancer, schizophrenia, aids, osho


At 1:29 PM 99.1.2, Jeanraiso-AT-aol.com wrote:
>
>[...] richard moss is one of the most famous "teacher" of the "new age" and I
> imagine many can be irritated by his "guru like" discourse and posture ,and
> may have contempt for him; but I found many treasures in what he says ;
> especially the story that he tells about a women whose cancer dissolved after
> a night of extatic singing and dancing (in one of his workshops);
> and his ideas about the polarity between cancer(in short: too much rigidity in
> one's psychic structure so that life can't flow through it and needs to
> express itself in the cancer) and schizophrenia (not enough structure to
> contain life, desire);
> and how schizophrens have much less cancer than other people (four time less,
> he says; does anybody else have heard of that?);


Sorry, but this is just plain wrong. However, schizophrenia manifests itself
usually [of course not: always] between ages 20-30. In this age people rarely
[of course not: never] get cancer. Corrected for age, there is no difference in
cancer incidence.


And as for the >too much rigidity in one`s psychic structure< as a explanation
for cancer: this is frighteningly close to >if you get cancer it is your
own fault<
or worse >it is a punishment for your wrong way of thinking<. Of course, clad in
>guru-like discourse and posture< and served with pop psychobabble, something
like: >life can`t flow through< and >needs [!!!] to express itself in
cancer< sounds
innocent enough.
But at its roots is a perception of health and disease I`d rather not
comment on.


sY
-Yamazaki