Faith Healing, from Jesus to Neurotransmitters

Christopher Hitchens' new book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything makes some argument that have really challenged my long held beliefs. Do you have any thoughts about his arguments?

Thank you

Thank you for this post and I agree with all that was said :o)

You are moving into the greatest awakening that mankind so desperately needs and I thank you with my greatest sincerity.

I am so happy to see you voice your authentic self and share your wisdom through exceptional leadership, bravery, and enlightenment of Soul.

Thank you Dr. Chopra and all the other souls who help support what you bring to this earth!!

I send my pure love to you and all others.

Sincerely,
RAZ

As enlightenment moves higher and higher within Soul, so too does the personal and sincere friendship of God Consciousness …. Laughter, faith, and healing from within must all be apart of this forever enduring love with openness of expression without any fear of condemnation.

Thank you for giving us the light we could not see within ourselves!! My love to you always and forever…

Hey, Terra. :)

On this:

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"It is a myth, unprofessionally repeated and advanced by doctors, that there is scientific evidence that faith, prayer or spirituality leads to better health. Period. You can cite a poorly done study here or a weak study there, but none stand the test of depth or rigor. Period."

It's very hard to do rigorous science on what you can't actually define. May as well try and study the efficacy of 'plumbing' by handing the tools and materials to a random sample of folks on the street and seeing how many are successful. :)

Faith is and will become increasingly important.

For example having faith in what I am saying now, simply based on what I had written 2 – 7 years ago or more has all happened.

Many of the fictions that snag our attention today will become irrelevant.

Some rivers will be 2 - 3 miles wide within perhaps two years, so plan now, have faith in what I say.

Reminds us of the Noah’s Ark story, no one listened to the divine because of ego and they were swept away, naturally. It tries to help.

I actually know how to engineer solutions so we can all adapt … doesn’t look like it is going to happen though, more and more I am thinking it is not supposed to be that way.

More important than knowing the solutions is knowing how to dissolve the ego impediments that block their rapid implementation, for example on the floors of congress.

One way to gauge a correction in the collective attention would be the American Idol ratings would drop. Funny isn’t it worshipping false Idols (fictions), I think they call it Idolatry. I am not really saying American Idol is bad, our collective priority is simply not one based on wisdom.

Some rivers will be 2 - 3 miles wide within perhaps two years, so plan now, have faith in what I say. This is based on the new volumes of water they must carry.

Do you think the current dams will hold? What does it mean when they are gone?

I think it might be time for me to change course like the rivers..

Faith is a part of the minds ability to delute itself into believing something that in reality doesn't exist.

Hi Deepak,

Stress produces cortisol which literally shuts down the immune system. Having faith we understand everything happens perfectly, conducive to our evolution, even though we might not always like what happens. If we understand everything happens perfectly then there is nothing to really stress out about. Yet what we are really talking about being an issue is chronic worry and stress. There is a purpose for stress, but it is a very short term phenomena, in that it usually indicates we need to do something, as soon as we do it the stress it gone.

Of course there is an evolutionary benefit to stress killing off people, aggressive conflict creators generate stress in themselves culling the hosts of destructive lower consciousness.

The meek live longer and shall inherit the earth..

So there is a scientific basis for “faith”, not dogma defined as faith or a belief system, but faith as defined below, which does not require belief, only knowing, and this faith is conducive to good health because we don’t have the same degree of stress that we do when we think we are a disconnected entity competing with everything else in the world to survive.

Faith as defined in Infinite Play the Movie:

The knowing through direct experience (experiment and observation) as well as the measurement of statistically significant phenomenal event anomalies using mathematical probability and improbability analysis, that indicate the existence of an all pervading (benevolent) intelligence. An intelligence operating from the Supreme Evolutionary principle as it’s impetus that is working behind the scenes connecting and blending individual intentions resulting in the formulation of a collective intention for which the mechanisms of fulfillment are orchestrated and facilitated.

The secular (non-religious) are not necessarily opposed to faith depending on how “faith” is defined.

The non-religious can be very spiritual as defined in Infinite Play as giving credence to the intangible as primary and the tangible as secondary. Rather that the false appearance of the tangible giving rise to the intangible.

There is a direct correlation between medical industry profits and levels of stress. In fact knowing this one can increase medical industry revenues by increasing stress levels in the general population. In other words one can shut down the general population’s immune system, producing the disease profit center by stimulating fear in their minds and creating a system where there is scarcity (think money supply).
The best agent for this is the media, so the next question is how can one get the media to participate? By purchasing commercial air time from the media and enlisting them to perpetuate the story that the natural world and your body is imperfect needing to be fixed.

What is imperfect is the minds of men.

Hopefully the general population will soon come to the realization that you are being hosed by about 10,000 people living like kings because of your ignorance, lack of unity, inability to question, wield a discerning mind, and failure as a result of being to lazy to self educate. So we can’t really blame the 10,000, that have duped the world, one must choose to be their victim, if one searches for the truth it is out there, it is not a secret.

The reason I bring this up is the amount excessive taxes I have to pay as a result of the world’s collective fictions and ignorance.

The selling point and benefit of enlightenment and awareness is lower taxes, less labor, more fun and good health.

So if 100 of you cut and paste this and send it to all your friends it will lower your taxes. If thirty journalists write about it all the faster…

So the reality is one does not need to put much effort forth to lower your taxes.

I did my part and will have no problem sleeping tonight like some will in which case they might reach for that prescription...

It is a myth, unprofessionally repeated and advanced by doctors, that there is scientific evidence that faith, prayer or spirituality leads to better health. Period. You can cite a poorly done study here or a weak study there, but none stand the test of depth or rigor. Period.

JJ, with all spaceship theology in your posts an eerie feeling is created you are a great fan of Scientology. Right or wrong what say you.

Some years ago, my personal faith was tested when the car I was driving was forced into a cement divider on the California Freeway. A firmly grounded prayer connection to my inner 'voice of peace that passes understanding' had been developed during years of parenting my children. The attending physician treated my amnesia with a newly developed medication. The mental recovery was exceptional. I was back on the job in five days. Was it the drugs, or was is my faith in a force greater than I? When the driver who forced my car from the road called to ask 'Why would God want me to do that to you?', my deeply felt answer came without thinking. I don't know. What I do know is that there is a purpose and with faith it will be for good. The young physical therapist told me when the pain would not stop, each person's whole cellular structure is replaced over a seven year period of time. I decided to start growing cells that had no pain, and I did. When Deepak Chopra's books, lectures, and messages on the power of the faith in the healing process came into mainstream, I was ready. No wheelchair, no pain medications, little visable signs of the past, and a new field for health to be re-created. Currently, I hold a National Certification in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, and have helped to draft the 2005 American Food Guidelines. I am also a member of the Alliance for a New Humanity. Where is your faith?

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HaHa...that was good ccnl

Good Grief, JJ is back. Now that screed makes me ill-

Well I believe that peace and contenment with your life and a connection with the Life Force/Godhood/Chi/Numen/Earth Power/God/ess aids in health and happiness.

I do not think it matters what religion, if any religion as long as all is well within self.We all have worries and go through hardships, but we can still be in harmony.

terra