Researchers have found out why an uneducated healer can sometimes heal a hopelessly sick person
The very word "shaman" sounds mesmerizing. And he himself seems to be a mysterious fakir, in a maniac fluttering in a ritual dance - a special cloak made of animal skins. Falling into a state of trance, he talks to spirits. Beats drums, beats a tambourine, whispers spells. And often, in some unknown way, he expels illness from sick people. It is not for nothing that these self-taught healers were asked for help in the antediluvian times, and they come today - in the enlightened age. Of course, in order to maintain their image, sorcerers explain their ability to heal to inquisitive researchers by the fact that they are able to ascend to heaven and act as intermediaries before the gods, or descend into the underworld, into the lands of the dead, where lost souls are found. According to them, the abduction or loss of the souls of living people is the cause of many diseases. Therefore, they know how to negotiate with otherworldly forces in order to return the souls of the sick and thereby restore their health. But these are fairy tales.
Scientists from the USA, Germany, Great Britain, having conducted numerous observations of the work of shamans in different countries in recent years, have made several serious discoveries that are useful for modern medicine. Doctor of Medical Sciences of Germany, Candidate of Medical Sciences of Russia Lev KACHUGIN told us about them.
Lev Anatolyevich, how did shamans surprise scientists?
“Only today experts have made sure through many experiments that shamans knew about thousands of years ago: a person's thoughts and feelings affect his body. The simplest examples: a vivid representation of a sour lemon in the mouth fills the mouth with saliva, headaches suddenly start from an unpleasant memory, and from a pleasant one our mouth stretches into a smile. Moreover, researchers have been convinced more than once that thoughts alone - seemingly intangible, ephemeral - can create a harmonious and happy life or turn it into an eternal struggle without joys and victories.
So, the expression “thought is material” is not a common phrase?
- No, it is precisely established that thought as matter reacts to consciousness. Medical and physical experiments at the end of the twentieth century helped to understand the mechanism of strange effects used by shamans. So, it was found more than once that a shaman can heal a person on whom the best doctors had worked for a long time and unsuccessfully. There are even known cases of curing advanced forms of cancer. And already at the beginning of the XXI century, these observations led to the creation of new psi-technologies to improve well-being and health. They use individual techniques of shamans, cleared of spectacular rituals, combined with the techniques of psychology.
What was the secret of these techniques? Hypnosis?
- No, they thought so before. Today it turned out that effective work with the subconscious is hidden behind their rituals. And it, according to many experts, when processing information, is more than a million times stronger than consciousness and almost completely controls a person.
Shamans act on the subconscious using the well-known placebo effect.
THE BODY IS A BOX
- For many years I have been studying new medicines and the capabilities of the human body, - continues Dr. Kachugin. - That is why I was interested in spontaneous cases of recovery of people who were treated by shamans. Why do they do everything so clearly and quickly? In Brazil, I was shocked by the work of a famous healer. He walks up to the person, puts his hand on his head - the person is better. If he does not feel better, then the shaman takes scissors, wraps them with cotton wool and pushes these scissors into the patient's nose. The man is shocked. But after that he begins to heal quickly.
Or in Haiti, for the followers of Voodoo, a person is just a box, a bearer of the spirit. And you can do whatever you want with this box. I saw how my mother brought her baby to the shaman woman, who had severe headaches. The shaman takes a supposedly magical plant, makes a tincture out of it (an extract from plants, in my opinion, is absolutely ineffective), lubricates the child's head with it and begins to knead the tiny head so that his brains almost come out. The child screams. Then they bandage his head. And literally in a minute, the child's pain disappears.
When scientists investigated such cases, they realized what the trick is! These strange rituals operate on the placebo principle, where the cure for a disease comes from the belief that some kind of "dummy" substance or medical procedure can be effective, although the medicine may be nothing more than sugar or chalk, and the procedure has no medical value. And in my work on the development of new drugs, I have repeatedly come across cases when a patient, after receiving a placebo, suddenly begins to feel better.
It turns out that a person can change the state of his body by himself?
- Undoubtedly. However, not everyone succeeds in programming their brains to heal themselves. Therefore, shamans and psychics are still popular, to whom sick people go, and they, with the help of spectacular rituals, help a person to believe in a successful outcome.
What does the sorcerer use as a "dummy"?
- For example, he takes from a person some trivial thing - a ribbon or a button, and it is believed that they symbolize illness. He whispers over the thing of the spell and burns or buries - so he "destroys" the disease. In addition, they use various psychoactive substances. In Peru, for example, pills made from hallucinogenic cacti are used. In Brazil, there are psychoactive mushrooms. With the help of them, they introduce themselves and patients into a state of trance. For this, shamans, with rhythmic strikes to a tambourine, affect the patient's psyche, also affecting the subcortex. Relaxation begins, a calm, pure, joyful state arises, which religious people call the feeling of bliss. It is the key that opens all healing processes. Indeed, the healing begins.
The same thing happens with specialists. According to statistics, one third of all cases of recovery of patients undergoing medical treatment, including surgery, are due to the placebo effect, and not due to direct medical intervention.
In this way, perception and faith can trigger the healing that naturally occurs in our body. In general, we are all endowed with an innate ability to heal, which is still present in us since the evolution of our species.
A BIOLOGIST'S OPINION Bruce LIPTON, PhD
in Cell Development Biology, University of Virginia, author of The Biology of Faith:
- The teachings of ancient healers, which today are practiced by shamans from different countries, may soon become the basis of a new biology. The difference between traditional and new science is big. The first one claims that our body is just a car, which is controlled by an embedded computer, and we are just passengers who are transported by this car. And if the car does not start, then some of its parts are broken. And then the body-machine must be sent for repair, where the spare parts will be replaced, supplied with medicines and the body-machine will be returned repaired. And the new biology says that you have a mechanism, a car - your body, but you are not a passenger in the back seat, but the driver of this car, and it is your hands that lie on the steering wheel, and you control everything. Therefore, when something goes wrong in our body, we are to blame for this - we do not know how to drive correctly. Learn to control the body - you will be healthy. The new biology also emphasizes the power of our thoughts. Even if someone ends up bedridden with a fatal disease, simply by changing their beliefs, they can cause spontaneous healing. This was the case long before the first medical universities appeared, and people healed themselves. All we have to do is go back and accept that those methods were indeed scientifically sound.
By the way, the
ancient Hun system is used by psychologists.
The shamans of Hawaii have a very interesting religion that they have passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. She is called Huna, which means "secret". It contains healing techniques, worldly philosophy, how to react to stress, how to communicate with people, how to think correctly. Today, Huna's principles are used by positive psychologists in many countries. Here are its main rules.
1. One must treat thoughts the same way as with things, because thought is material.
2. A person's power grows when he helps others. Using power to suppress will create tension that will weaken your power. The same applies to illness. If you are fighting a disease with clenched teeth, trying to suppress it, then the disease begins to resist.
3. The world is what you think it is. If you think he's shit, he's shit. If you wish it, then automatically it is possible.
4. There are no boundaries. All boundaries are in our minds, in our thoughts.
5. It is very important to choose the right goal. It should be not smeared.
6. The moment of your power over this world, over yourself, over your destiny is always here and now. Everything else is an illusion!
Memories and worries about future setbacks block your power. And the fulfillment of desires begins right here and now. If you want, then you've already started.
7. The more you are in tune with what you have, the easier it is to change and improve it. If you want health, love health. If you want wealth, love wealth. If you want beauty, love beauty. If you wish someone bad, then you break the Huna's law, and nothing in life works.
8. All the power is in you. Nobody can help. Only you.
9. If you have a dream, then you have the strength to realize it.
10. If you want joyful and friendly results, then use joyful and friendly methods.