It turns out to be pretty random the things in the bible that are true. I've read that is why gambling is so addictive; it's random. I’ve always said that when they were building a religion for the purpose of attaining power they had to keep enough true things in it to keep followers following. It’s nothing new that the majority of people do not truly investigate the things which they claim are important.
An interesting story in the bible regarding Christ that turns out to be true is when he supposedly returned home and was not recognized as the Son of God. Basically his powers did not work there. This is because for his healing to work the person, or people, being healed have to believe. I mean how many times did he say believe and it will be so, or some such? If the person does not believe the healing does not occur. So right there is proof in the bible itself that Jesus was not the Son of God. Are you willing to say the healing power of God only works in certain situations? The thing that created the universe is suddenly powerless if a persons thoughts are off? Absurd.
It has nothing to do with a god.
In my studying of the unconscious one of the things I looked into was hypnotism. Studying its history took me to times past when people were very superstitious. That is, a time when beliefs in people made things true. There are multiple verifiable accounts of spontaneous healing all throughout history.
What is important to understand is that historically speaking anything unexplainable gets attributed to some god or other. The name of the god or gods depends entirely on the culture at the time. So historically speaking anytime someone was healed it was almost always attributed to god because no one understood what was going on. In my studies of hypnotism I ran into examples of healings though that were not attributed to god, but to scientific speculations. One particularly fascinating and well documented account would be that of Anton Mesmer.
Basically Mesmer was doing the same thing as Christ, but Mesmer was claiming to have understanding of magnetic waves, and then using them on others. So instead of a belief that god was doing it, it was a belief that a doctor was doing it because he had knowledge of the unseen, just like Christ supposedly did. Part of Mesmer’s method though just happened to induce a hypnotic trance.
I was studying hypnotism to better understand the unconscious mind. You see, if we are in a hypnotized state basically our conscious mind is asleep while the unconscious becomes the voice. Does that make sense? If I were to hypnotize you, I would be gaining direct access to your unconscious mind. I would be giving your unconscious a voice. Technically though, you can do it to yourself.
One of the peculiar things about the unconscious is that it follows beliefs to their logical natural conclusion without checking to see if the premise is true or not. Say I hypnotized you, you would be able to have deep philosophical conversations even if you had never studied philosophy. Every bit of what you said while hypnotized would be completely and utterly logical. I’ll give you some examples.
Heard the story of someone hypnotized, being told something painful is going to happen to them, and then them reacting painfully even if it wasn’t actually painful? People hypnotized will even show physical symptoms, like blisters, rashes, body temperature changes, etc. If I told you I was going to burn you with a fire poker, yet only touched you with a pencil, your skin would blister. This is because your unconscious is following the situation to its logical conclusion without checking to see if the premise is true or not. Was the poker real? Yet, the blister appears. That’s perfect logic; I was touched by something red hot: I get a blister.
Can you see where this is going with the healing? If your unconscious believes something, it comes true regardless if the premise is true. How do you get your unconscious to do this? By believing something super intensely, being convinced socially, or by knowing it through personal experience. One of the primary ways to believe something really intensely consciously is for it to be social.
I would not even be close to the first person to have done this, but play along for kicks. Let’s say I convince one person that I can heal them by doing a certain action, or process, and then do it. Then let’s say that person goes and tells their friend who is also unwell, that I could heal them too. That person, having seen their friend healed, believes it, comes over, and is healed too. How long before one is at ten people? One hundred? In the time of Mesmer, or Christ, one would be at a thousand in no time at all, and they were too.
If you are someone who has not stepped out of culture almost everything you believe is simply because it’s what everyone else believes.
Do some research on the placebo effect. It is the same thing. It is a convinced unconscious that such and such is true, which it follows to its logical conclusion. It really is that simple. The unconscious is the body, from the neo-cortex down. The only part of the body that is not the unconscious mind is the thinking part of the brain/mind. We have memories stored in our toes, our fingers, our ears, our whole body. Our whole bodies feel and sense the environment and all of that is part of our unconscious mind. This means the unconscious has full control of the body, which it can heal all on its own at any time. Every human who has ever lived has this ability. It is the result of millions of years of evolution.
The unconscious simply requires either the conscious mind to believe it deeply, repeatedly, socially, or for one to know it’s true that one can simply heal their self. The difference between believing and knowing is the difference between thinking it is god who does the healing and knowing it is one’s own unconscious mind doing it. One is a belief, the other is reality. It really isn’t a surprise that the brain has full and total control of the body; it is the body. It is our thinking that is awry.
Can you see what this means regarding the person who deeply believes they are flawed? They will most certainly be flawed. Most people are taught as children that there is something wrong with them, and forever after it is made true. Without a profound experience to ratify a thought, no single thought can alter the unconscious. You see it in the child; it has a belief it is flawed and it is ratified in experience. This is why things done for long periods of time are so difficult to change within ourselves; the unconscious is on full blown auto pilot. Think of anything you have done a certain way for a long time, then make a decision to do it differently from now on, and then watch what happens next time you do it while thinking of something else.
For me this is easy to see because of my phone. Phones emit radiation, and for a long time I’ve been keeping my phone in my left pocket. I decided to change pockets to give my left side a break from the radiation. I’ve lost count now of how many times I’ve auto-piloted that phone into my left pocket. Now what if an experience had occurred which made it painfully obvious that my phone shouldn’t be in my left pocket, like say, cancer. At that point the phone wouldn’t ever be in any pocket.
In the same way a physical phenomenon like putting a phone in one’s pocket is habitualized, so are thoughts and beliefs. Because the unconscious does not check it’s premises people can live their whole lives believing lies and always have them be ratified as true because, as I have explained, that is what the unconscious does.
This same phenomenon occurs with psychics. Take a psychic, put them in a room with ten complete non-believers, and he or she will have no psychic ability. Same with Christ when he was confronted by someone who did not believe. It’s why he had to be killed. Let a guy like Christ who was healing people and gathering thousands; it wouldn’t be a decade and he would own the world. No one attached to material wealth like a king or whatever is going to let that happen.
In the days of Christ no one had any clue about the unconscious whatsoever, and because it is so powerful regarding it’s control over the body, that power was attributed to a god. It’s the only way people could make sense of what was happening.
When you take the placebo effect into account doctors are no different than Christ; they completely rely on people believing the medicine will work. They completely rely on people believing that they understand the body more than we do. Doctor’s won’t get paid if you don’t believe. They are no different than Mesmer, or Christ really.
So I’ve just explained to you that you can heal yourself at any time. It’s verifiable. The evidence is overwhelming if you would simply take the time to research it and create experiences for yourself. If you are like almost everyone I know you have a ton of experience with doctors healing people and very little experience with people healing others, or themselves. So which is your unconscious going to be logically following to it’s conclusion?
Which one are you going to autopilot next time you are sick? Even if it means what the doctors are giving you is poison? Have you ever seen the list of side effects regarding the poison, sorry, I mean “medicine” they hand out? There is no side effect of healing one’s self, or others, unless you find yourself surrounded by non-believers.
There’s no money to be made legitimately helping others. Just like the psychic, one’s unconscious revolts at the idea of being selfish. If you understood how connected all of us are you would know why this is so. It could be thought of as a survival instinct of the superorganism, the collective, the whole. A selfish human with psychic powers would be the death of us all. It’s why anyone Christ like at all would never charge a dime to make someone healthy and whole.