You can read the article yourself in the NY Times, today, but:
For example, Hay would claim, a probable cause of Alzheimer’s disease is “a desire to leave the planet. The inability to face life as it is.” A probable cause of “anorectal bleeding” is “anger and frustration.” A probable cause of leprosy is “inability to handle life at all.”
…What they all have in common — Christian Science; its cousin Religious Science; Peale’s 1952 megaseller; and contemporary best sellers like Rhonda Byrne’s “The Secret” — is a conviction that proper thinking, rather than religious faith or fervor, is the key to metaphysical power.
…Of course, Adkisson says he believes in those alternative methods of healing. If, as he says, “cancer is merely the outpicturing of one’s emotional state,” then it can be cured with prayer. But he also admits that for marketing mind cures in the 1930s, it helped that traditional medicine was so impoverished.
But while Hay may have hedged about whether positive thinking could cure AIDS, in her writings she was adamant that thoughts — not just sexual behavior — could help cause it. “Venereal dis-ease,” Hay writes in “You Can Heal Your Life,” using her eccentric spelling, “is almost always sexual guilt. It comes from a feeling, often subconscious, that it is not right to express ourselves sexually. A carrier with a venereal dis-ease can have many partners, but only those whose mental and physical immune systems are weak will be susceptible to it.” And that mental weakness can be self-loathing, hating one’s looks or just a fear of aging.
So, I asked, with a situation like the Holocaust, the victims might have been an unfortunate group of souls who deserved what they got because of their behavior in past lives? “Yes, it can work that way,” Hay said. “But that’s just my opinion.”
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You know, Pod-Cat, about my friend this story reminds me of. It is bad enough to have such tragedy visit one’s life. To then be blamed for it borders on criminal. Louise Hay is the worst type of callous waste of carbon; she has the great good fortune to live in an era of health and prosperity, and rather than feeling fortunate and humble, protects her colossal ego by maintaining that those who did not likewise win life’s lottery have chosen their fates for themselves.
I would ordinarily content myself with the knowledge that she must at least be forced to live with herself, and that is worse than any punishment I could mete out. But in this case, she is safely insulated from any actual empathy or awareness, and I fear she is the poster child for “ignorance is bliss”. So I suppose I must harbor the secret hope that some day she spouts her drivel to the wrong person, who hits her with a brick.
I want to be on that person’s jury.
DC is elegant in wisdom as always. For PodBlack , I found this link that I was very informative about myths in science that develop because of bad methods, including XYY (double Y) and molecular basis of memory. The Link: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1299297
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