There is no such thing as a cure for heart disease?and other magic
There is no such thing as a cure for heart disease?What happened to my son was the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed. All because I read the landmark 1987 book entitled Monsters and Magical Sticks, There is no such thing as hypnosis? by Steven Heller and Terry Steele (ISBN 1-56184-026-2). The book not only teaches how the mind works, it revealed that psychology students have been routinely taught that there is no such thing as hypnosis. For something that doesn't exist, "it" has an immediate, unexpected and powerful effect, and apparently can be utilized effectively for various purposes by a lay person.
Whatever happened to my son, it is real. There are by now hundreds of witnesses. Prior to last Friday, my son rarely spoke to others he didn't know. He was even hesitant to speak with members of our family. By age sixteen, the inability to approach members of the opposite sex had become a serious issue causing anxiety. Over the past few months, he often expressed a need for some help with this problem, even therapy. We had discussed the problem logically for years, but these talks were of no help. He knew something in his subconscious was causing the problem and he wondered if hypnosis would help?
I did a little research before seeking a therapist, and found references to Erickson-style hypnosis. We obtained the Heller/Steele book, which both my son and I read. This book teaches magic. It is the sole reason my son's close friends are now telling him, "We don't even want to know what happened to you, but whatever it was, we are glad it did!"
Monsters and Magical Sticks maintains that change can occur very quickly. Skeptical, I tried the Heller Anchor's Away (subconscious reprogramming) technique. (Note: Although I used the technique outlined by Heller, there is no cookbook. The images I had my son conjure up were of my own design.)
The profound change in my son's personality was so immediate and pronounced, my first thought was that my son was putting me on. (He and I have been talking for almost two years before this about ways he might overcome his obsessive shyness.) I tried to hide my pleasure, wishing to not undo the transformation; but the effect appears to be real and at least semi-permanent.
How and why my son's personality was altered from shy to outgoing with a one-time application, without putting my son into a trance, is still a mystery. I was not expecting anything to happen, and I still don't necessarily understand what happened.
As of this writing, there is no way to predict how long lasting this personality change will be, but my son is confident that it will last. He is happy, and he says that he no longer cares one iota about what others think. (Schoolmates he doesn't even know well, have come up to him to find out what happened, and they tell him that they are "happy for him.") He says that what we all see now is the real him that was bottled up inside, etc.
Of course, there is no such thing as hypnosis...
Being a part of a life-changing experience such as this causes one to ponder the reasons the profession of psychology would dismiss the reality of hypnosis. Perhaps it is because if "this" effect were more well known, there would be less need for therapists with Ph.D.s in psychology? If a lay person can learn such an effective technique, after reading one book, and then apply it, and have it work miraculously the first time, in 15 minutes, what would that mean for the economic status of psychologists, or the schools that train them?
One now reads that hypnosis is becoming increasingly mainstream. I don't know whether college psychology students are still being taught that there is no such thing as hypnosis, but I do know that education in the medical profession as a whole is lacking in several areas.
For example, despite considerable scientific evidence to the contrary, students of cardiology are taught that there is no relation between vitamin C intake and heart disease. I suspect the reasons for both fallacies are similar. With very little knowledge, lay people can learn how to turn around, if not cure, their own heart disease in a few days. This miracle is easily accomplished by taking low-cost substances, vitamin C and lysine, which are readily available without prescription. It is not hard to predict what would happen to the profession of cardiology, and to the medical schools that train cardiologists, with wider dissemination of this "hidden" knowledge.
But cardiologists, and especially heart surgeons, need not worry too much. It has been computed that if all the vitamin C produced in the world were divided among all 300 million Americans, there would only be about 1 gram to go around per day, or 4 to 17 grams per person, too little -- to prevent or reverse the disease. The picture becomes much more bleak considering the entire world population.
The new book STOP AMERICA'S #1 KILLER by cardiologist and author Thomas Levy, MD, JD, explains that surgery will be the only option in advanced cases. However the Levy book changes the dynamics of the argument about vitamin C and heart disease. Like his earlier book, Vitamin C and Infectious Diseases, Levy has uncovered a mountain of "lost" science and tells us what it really means. Science is, well, science. Dr. Levy makes it easy for any cardiologist to understand.
Ideally, cardiologists, who believe that what they practice is based on science, would no longer tell their patients that there is no relation between low serum vitamin C and heart disease.
We do not live in an ideal world. Some cardiologists will continue to tell patients the fiction that there is no such thing as a cure for heart disease, in the same way that I suspect some psychologists continue to tell their patients that there is no such thing as hypnosis.
Owen R Fonorow, Ph.D., Naturopath Vitamin C Foundation Co-Founder www.VitaminCFoundation.org Consuling Line: 900-950-3699 (Instructions vitamincfoundation.org/900) Outside USA 281-443-3634 Mailing Address: PO Box 3097 Lisle, IL 60532 USA