"If you had the faith of a mustard seed, you could move mountains."
shraddhaa is translated as "Faith" which can mean trust, or belief without proof. The Hebrew word translated as "faith" means something along the lines of "strong [in God]" and the Greed word means something like "intuitive knowledge." "Grok" in the original sense of the Martian word for "drink" seems to contain a bit of the same feel. In the context of the siddhis, how about "absolute stability" of samadhi? The placebo effect might be related to that, in the same way that mind-wandering is related to pure consciousness. L ---In [email protected], <cardemaister@...> wrote : They might be called to be based on placebo, because, IMU, faith (shraddhaa) is the conditio sine qua non of samaadhi. As an analogy, I'll try to explain in English, how I seem to recall to have learned to bike (at about 7 years of age). It might have been the very first time I ever tried to ride a bike. It was a women's bike, the one of the mother of a friend of mine. I just started to ride and kept on, believing, that a couple of other boys were keeping the bike upright. As a stopped, I noticed they were about 30 yards behind me! So I learned to bike because I, falsely, believed I couldn't fall (because I believed the other boys were running behind me keeping the bike upright)! So, in a sense my belief was the placebo that instantaneosly helped me to learn to ride a bike?? Wikipedia: Placebo effect and the brain Functional imaging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_imaging upon placebo analgesia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analgesia shows that it links to the activation, and increased functional correlation between this activation, in the anterior cingulate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior_cingulate, prefrontal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefrontal_cortex, orbitofrontal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbitofrontal_cortex and insular http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_cortex cortices, nucleus accumbens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleus_accumbens, amygdala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala, the brainstem periaqueductal gray matter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periaqueductal_gray_matter,[84] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#cite_note-84[85] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#cite_note-Scott-85[86] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#cite_note-86 and the spinal cord http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_cord.[87] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#cite_note-autogenerated2007-87[88] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#cite_note-88[89] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#cite_note-89[90] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#cite_note-90
