Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Occult Literature 199: Occultism (Two Lectures)" video.

  1. Ahh, yess, the placebo effect! Touted by scientists in the medical industry to help explain why their shit don't work, it stands as an admission that "belief" can DIRECTLY affect reality! The mechanism of operation of the "placebo effect" is still unknown, of course, because no reputable scientist will actually say, "belief can directly affect reality". But that is, in essence, what they are telling everyone when they invoke the "placebo effect". And it's not from lack of trying--there's been many studies of this phenomenon, and they make fascinating reading. The wider acceptance of the matter in scientific circles is inhibited politically, of course. I think it is the inherent illogic of the scientific communtity's political stance (i.e. using something whose reality is denied without explanation) that they'd like to conceal from public awareness. After all, reputation is everything.
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