File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0307, message 164


Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:31:33 +0100
Subject: Re: Photographs and the Placebo Effect
From: michaelP <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>


on 31/7/03 12:12 am, GEVANS613-AT-aol.com at GEVANS613-AT-aol.com wrote:

> Is consciousness a psychic power, which can broadcast messages and control
> people¹s minds? 
>  
> Scientists are doubtful, but millions of people believe it.
>  
> On 18 June 2003, a crew from Channel Nine Australia¹s popular A Current
> Affair news program filmed an experiment conducted by Bond University
> psychologists 
> Norman Barling, Michael Lyvers and Jill Harding-Clark that was designed to
> test the claims of a well-known Australian ³psychic healer.² Dennis Puffett
> says he can relieve pain simply by manipulating people¹s photographs, even
> when 
> the ³patients² themselves are far away ­ even as far as Africa! Twenty
> volunteers who suffered from chronic pain were recruited for the study via
> advertisements in a local newspaper.

...
{etc}

I do not understand... what are you saying (seemingly nothing concretely...)
concerning this report or quote or anecdote? what, pray, is the significance
of this post to this list?

regards

mP



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