Credo quia impossibile (“I believe because it is impossible”) — Tertullian (155-240 AD).
Picture this. Reports of miraculous healing outcomes outside of the realm of modern medicine and also complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), where “the blind see, the deaf hear, the lame walk,” and so on, are legion. The bottom line is (in)tangibly evident. It is connected to some of the most baffling and bamboozling examples of the power of the mind on the human body. While the immediate feedback loop on such tall claims has always been that of awe, on the one hand, nothing but an element of utter disbelief and sheer contempt pervades scientific judgment on the other.
Rationalists have no respect for miracles. Yet, it is common knowledge that science has recognised the existence of such, as yet, unexplained occurrences with psychotronics — its a new branch that seeks to find a clue to unusual healing phenomena. Let us highlight one example — when persons ‘will’ themselves to their end-point, ‘voodoo death.’ Current scientific knowledge cannot explain the basis of this paranormal phenomenon, which is thought to be a consequence of the real or an imagined curse.
Hence, the dividing line.
The point also is: it may not be uncommon for one to have experienced psychosomatic disorders sometimes, or the other, in the form of headaches, other illnesses, and a host of emotional disorders that follow a disturbing event. This brings us to the essence of the topic under review.
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