(May 4, 2013 at 11:51 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Yes, but my point was that until that is done, these results don't really seem to tell us much.
Well placebo is known to work for a significant amount of people.
Healing is partially psychological, it's not all biological.
Case in point, when you start believing medications will help you, they tend to help you more.
When you oppose medications, they help you less.
What might be significant, is that, what applies to short term healing, may apply to how non-mentally ill people deal with short term stress, or short term tragedies or short term conflicts.
It's in interesting subject from both view points.
Perhaps why humanity holds on to belief in higher powers, is the need they feel for it although they aren't aware of that being the reason.
But the same can be true of belief in self, praise, perpetual identity, free-will, etc..except these are stronger in intensity because of the more need we have for them.
