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Originally Posted by Mewwy  Not trying to debate against anyone, but medical damages are statistically present.
So the What's The Harm? website lists these medical methods which have caused injuries and deaths...acupuncture, alphabiotics, chiropractic, colloidal silver, colon cleansing, and so on...which I believe many on the list are meant to be scientific techniques used by medical doctors.
And according to mainstream database... Medical error - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
I think we're at cross purposes here. I was trying to distinguish between the work of a doctor and the imagined facts told clients by fortune tellers and so-called psychics, because Erin or someone suggested that they were similar. The list beginning 'acupuncture' that you mention on the WTH website are listed under a heading 'Medical', but they are not the practices I meant. I was refering to
scientifically verified medical practice, which unfortunately isn't listed there. There certainly are risks and failures of mainstream medical practice, too, but I was contrasting the research process, peer-review and professionalism of allopathic, orthodox medicine with the cottage industry of 'mediumship'.
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John,
I'm not trying to advocate psychics abilities. And yes, I feel doctors are more essential than psychics. But these (medical or so called supernatural powers) are comparable when people give in their power to let someone interpret and solve their problems, physically or mentally.
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Yes, there is truth in that. Really, however, the problems doctors cause would be for another thread. The comparison just takes our attention away from what the OP is about. Certainly, medical doctors do harm, and I'm no fan of allopathic medicine, certainly not powerful, isolated chemicals. I sometimes use my GP for her diagnostic knowledge, then reject the prescription she'd like to give me and find other ways of healing. This has almost nothing to do with taking advice from a person who professes to listen to your spiritual guides and has special insight into what is going on for you and what is going to happen to you.
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Also, thoughts, memories, emotions, willpower, motivation - how solid and physical are they? Do they not "exist"? Do they not have positive impacts on human lives?
Under the most rigorous investigations we have confirmed some physical association with these mental capabilities - adrenaline produces excitement, serotonin stabilizes negative emotions, the left hemisphere of the brain is more responsible than the right for artistic abilities...but inform me if your thoughts, emotions, or imagination can literally be seen.
I'm not sure how would you define the "unseen," but there are plentiful ways to realize that certain "existing" things don't entirely operate upon rigorously, proven, scientific ways. All are prone to mistakes.
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I really don't understand what you're talking about. Maybe English isn't your first language, or you need to learn how to structure your thoughts more. This seems quite unrelated to the question (much of this thread is, though). Are thoughts invisible, can they be positive, aren't there some existing things that aren't proven?... Yes.