Interesting…

So what you're really saying – without actually saying it – is that any mind/health efficacy attributed by someone to Christian Science and "Jesus' significance to the world" really is a placebo, effected by themselves?

Excellent!

For some, that will save a fortune on visits to doctors, or quacks… Or cults and churches.

The interesting thing to me about the results of this placebo research is that healing through use of placebos seems to be a real ‘happening’, rather than phenomenon, right across the board of pharmaceutical research. In fact, many new pharmaceuticals don’t make it onto the pharmacy shelves because they don’t get as good results results as placebos.

If my body doesn’t know and can’t sense if it’s being fed a genuine medicine or a placebo, then maybe my body isn’t the thing that needs the medicine?

That’s where that paradigm shift, that Dr Alex Cahana suggested, is needed to turn random results into repeatable certainty. And yes Kay, I’ve often thought that Jesus must be the best doctor that ever walked the earth. So what was his doctoring like? Well, no medicine, and not a ‘spoonful of sugar’, but a whole lot of love – love for the individual, love for mankind – and a spiritual discernment that cut through diseases. Seems his healing results are repeatable. Maybe there should be focused research along these lines.

Well, I guess Jesus is kind of a placebo for science; a pretend explanation that tricks the mind into thinking it has learnt something, without actually having any informative properties.