Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:11:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Orpheus <cw_duff-AT-alcor.concordia.ca>
Subject: Re: Re : Re:  destratify; cancer, schizophrenia, aids, osho



	what atreat to read something reasonable and not "informed" by
resentment, bad reasoning, and sheer stupidity.... 

On Mon, 4 Jan 1999 f1221-AT-cc.nagasaki-u.ac.jp wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
>