Anecdotal experience? Scientific fact? A Paradox ... If one is truly interested in healing, medical data and documentation can be useful, but should not be used as the Holy Grail for choosing to use or ignore a particular healing modality. However, this is how people are trained in medical schools. They are trained to only believe in studies that adhere to their industry's set criteria.
The double blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study is the gold standard of the scientific medical world. It was purposely designed to eliminate experience, which in large part is where natural healing functions including experimentation and testing of CS, and other natural healing modalities, etc. Real science deals in facts. Healing is not a fact. Healing is a process, an event that lies within each of us and it is a paradox. Healing deals with experience (anecdote). Since a healing anecdote does not comply with the gold standard of medical science, it is rejected. This is why true healing and medical science will always be at odds with one another. An example of the difference between anecdotal experience and scientific fact, and how doctors use it follows. If I have a headache or fever, that is not a fact except to me. If I tell a doctor about it, it is only anecdotal evidence to him. If the doctor takes my temperature and writes it down, the headache becomes medical evidence. If another doctor copies it, it becomes a scientific fact. I'm not suggesting there should not be standards. But standards should be fair and correctly applied. Scientific medical standards are neither fair nor correctly applied when it comes to healing, because healing is not dependent on scientific facts. Healing is vastly more complex than what the scientific medical community has set out. I believe it involves touch, taste, smell, emotion, prayer and meditation, words, visualisation, quantum levels of reality, belief and spirit... most of which the scientific model does not acknowledge. Healing deep or chronic issues requires adjusting perspectives to understanding healing is done from within primarily, supplemented by CS and such things and will remain a paradox until one opens the box to new awareness and greater potential wellness and welcomes the gifts of other modalities including Homeopathic with their silver combinations and BodyTalk. Individuals who are offended or wavering on the fence learning beyond what our teachers taught us, are torn between what they feel in their heart, and their acceptance of the Scientific model for proof. A diagnosis and prognosis can be a liability if that is the whole scope of one's determinates for health. I for one wish them well. Healing may be a paradoxical mind-body connection. Christine Paradox (par¹3-doks¹) n - from the Greek: Conflicting with expectation. A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true. One exhibiting inexplicable or contradictory aspects. An assertion that is essentially self-contradictory, though based on a valid deduction from acceptable premises. A statement contrary to received opinion. ---American Heritage Dictionary Christine Carleton, C.B.P. http://www.bodytalksystem.com [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
