Thanks, Carde for both the good bike riding analogy and the brain info wrt placebos. Not to mention both the Latin and the Sanskrit. My brain hummeth (-;
On Saturday, April 12, 2014 3:22 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: They might be called to be based on placebo, because, IMU, faith (shraddhaa) is theconditio 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 upon placebo analgesia shows that it links to the activation, and increased functional correlation between this activation, in the anterior cingulate, prefrontal, orbitofrontal and insular cortices, nucleus accumbens, amygdala, the brainstem periaqueductal gray matter,[84][85][86] and the spinal cord.[87][88][89][90]
