Spontaneous remission? Energy healing? Placebo effect? Are we just a jumble of cells ruled by the laws of physics and the mechanistic cause and effect of Newtonian science? Or do our minds have power to control our physical experience?
How is it that people with dissociative disorders can have one personality that is healthy and another with all the markers of diabetes? How does someone under hypnosis develop a blister by being told a postage stamp put on their arm is a hot coal? How can some people walk barefooted for miles in snow or across hot coals without damaging their feet?
In terms of our human evolution, civilization’s current official truth provider is materialistic science. And according to the popular medical model, the human body is a biochemical machine controlled by genes whereas the human mind is an elusive epiphenomenon; that is, a secondary incidental condition derived from the mechanical functioning of the brain. That’s a fancy way of saying that the physical body is real and the mind is a figment of the brain’s imagination. — Bruce Lipton
What happens when a doctor gives you a sugar pill and tells you it’s a powerful drug that will treat your illness? In about one-third of the cases, the symptoms disappear. So what happens when the doctor misreads a biopsy and tells you you have cancer? Can that belief alone kill you?
The evolutionary imperative right now, the new paradigm that we’re living into, is a holistic paradigm which understands the relationship between things rather than simply focusing on the symptoms. And we have a dominant worldview in this culture, in this civilization, that insists on making the symptom the thing. — Steve Bhaerman
Symptoms may be a signal or message to us, and we lose by ignoring the message and silencing it with drugs. Our beliefs and attitudes affect our mental and physical health, and we have power to heal by changing our belief system and being co-creators of our reality.
In this fascinating interview, Steve shares many instances where mind trumps physics, and he shares the three steps of Awareness, Intention, and Practice that can help us move forward into this new, holistic paradigm.
Note: I apologize for the sibilant recording. I spent at least 2 hours eliminating much of it but didn’t have time to eliminate it all.
Total time: 46 minutes.
Interview
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Bio
Steve Bhaerman is an internationally known author, humorist, and workshop leader. For the past 23 years, he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the “Cosmic Comic.” Swami’s comedy has been called “irreverently uplifting” and has been described both as “comedy disguised as wisdom” and “wisdom disguised as comedy.” On the “serious” side, Steve writes a political blog with a spiritual perspective, Notes From the Trail, hailed as an encouraging voice “in the bewilderness.” His latest book, written with cellular biologist Bruce H. Lipton, PhD is Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here. Steve is active in transpartisan politics and the practical application of Spontaneous Evolution. He can be found online at Wake Up Laughing.
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