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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! This is January 9th newsletter! Let's invite other people to subscibe to this newsletter! The full version is at
the link: www.quantumedicine.com/article/nuovofile157.html
1) Does Neuroscience Refute Free Will? 2) The unsolved mystery of healing 3) Soy Milk May be Tied to Infant Deaths - Hear the week thought written by W. Clement Stone
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This is the
excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the
surfeit of our own behavior, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the
moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly
compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance,
drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary
influence, and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. --William
Shakespeare In the
above quote from King Lear we find a description of those who,
throughout human history, deny free will and personal responsibility, instead
blaming their wrongdoings on interventions divine and planetary. In a recent
article, Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen join the believers in the
"divine thrusting on." This being the scientific age, and our authors
being card-carrying neuroscientists, the divine thrusting on becomes a
neuroscientific thrusting on, the brain playing the role of the stars above. Greene
and Cohen argue that our brains are responsible for all our behaviors. Our
"brains" commit crimes. "We" are innocent. Thus, in their
words, "demonstrating that there is a brain basis for adolescents'
misdeeds allows us to blame adolescents' brains instead of the adolescents
themselves." It is fortunate that the boys in the neighborhood have not
read their article, for here is their new defense after damaging your property:
I didn't do it, it was my brain! Although
it has been known even before Plato that the brain plays a central role in
behavior, this particular argument is rather novel. One reason others have not
been bold enough to advance it (despite a perennially strong demand for
determinism) is that it contains a glaring category error. Greene and Cohen
compare two opposing sources of agency — either your brain or you — as if they
are mutually exclusive, as if without your brain you would still be a moral
agent. As a
result of this error, Greene and Cohen conclude, "the idea of
distinguishing the truly, deeply guilty from those who are merely victims of
neuronal circumstances will, we submit, seem pointless." But the
moral agent in the legal sense is the whole package — you consisting of your
brain and the rest. To say that we are victims of neuronal circumstances is to
say that we are victims of ourselves. The underlying assumption is that we have
no control over "neuronal circumstances," just as we have no control
over "external circumstances." But this assumption (a newly bottled
behaviorist assumption) entirely contradicts our knowledge that the brain is a
self-organizing and self-regulating biological system, not merely a step in the
transformation of some external stimulus to behavioral output. It is,
however, not necessary to discuss in any detail the brain as a control system
in order to refute Greene and Cohen, for their argument is not based on any
understanding of the brain at all. It boils down to the primitive logic that,
for example, if I stole your wallet then my hand is to be chopped off. http://www.mises.org/story/1943#fn1
_____________________________________________________________________ THE UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF HEALING Distant healing : Healing mediated by nonlocal mind. I grew up on a farm and worked in fields, played sports on fields, entered the field of medicine, served on battlefields, and I field questions following lectures. For me, as for everyone else, "field" is connected with a rich variety of experiences and meanings. It is no wonder, therefore, that the term is used differently, even by experts. In 2003, authorities in medicine, nursing, psychology, physics, engineering, mathematics, anthropology, and biology were convened by the Samueli Institute for Information Biology and tasked with developing definitions and standards in healing research. After a great deal of discussion and feedback, consensus was reached on terms that are relevant to healing, which included the following: FIELD: A force that can cause action at a distance. FORCE: The cause, or agent, that puts an object at rest into motion or alters the motion of a moving object. All presently known interactions are believed to occur as a result of four fundamental forces: the strong and weak nuclear, the electromagnetic, and the gravitational. As these definitions reveal, fields are related to forces, distance, and space. Do they help us understand healing? Well, yes and no. It all depends on the type of healing we are talking about I find it useful to divide
the progress of medicine into three overlapping, nonexclusive phases using a
quasihistorical template. This approach begins arbitrarily at the time the
practice of medicine in the "The street meaning of "nonlocal" is, literally, not local. If something is nonlocal, it is not localized or confined to a specific place in space or time. In this sense, then, "nonlocal" is simply a fancy word for "infinite." Studies in remote healing overwhelmingly suggest that distance does not matter; it is as effective from the other side of the Earth as at the bedside, and does not get weaker with increasing separation of the healer from the individual being healed. If this type of healing were mediated by recognized types of energy, this would not be the case, because they would diminish in strength with increasing spatial separation. Moreover, evidence suggests that nonlocal healing events may be time-displaced, acting into the past or future. New concepts are required to capture Era III healing,
and I believe the term that works best is nonlocal healing, mediated by nonlocal
mind. Nonlocality is an accepted concept in quantum physics;
I realize it is more uplifting to dwell on what we know than on our ignorance.
But to say "I don't know" is an exercise in nonattachment and can be
a liberating step toward new understanding. In the history of medicine, we have
often known that something works before we had a clue how.
Sometimes the explanation comes later, or perhaps not at all. In the meantime,
awe and wonder remain okay. But two things we do know: Healing happens, and consciousness is involved. That is reason for unspeakable gratitude. http://shiftinaction.com/node/112
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These are my Itaian Sites: If you like, you could translate it with http://www.freetranslation.com/ or with google translator. www.gaetanoconforto.com www.lamedicinadellaluce.com www.videoconforto.com So you can see me in action....... www.soldifelici.com I Sell seminars as - " It's easy to earn money....spiritually"; - " The Emotional Quantim Therapy"- - , " Psychotherapy ": with quantum healing excercises ,- " Conference on What the Bleep to Know " soon also in English Language. -www.quantumedicine.com/article2/nuovofile5.html " The power of Intention" Gaetano Conforto
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