--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <j_alexander_stan...@...> wrote: <snip> > He then tells us to take off our shoes and socks and > instructs us to pray to god, as we understand him/her/it, > with our desire while he does his energy transmission. > And, I'm yet again going WTF? All those seeds, plants and > animals you supposedly performed magic on didn't have to > pray in order for your woo-woo to work, so why do we?
Humans are more complicated? Lots more mental stuff going on? Might inadvertently create some resistance? > My upbringing was atheist, and unbounded ineffable > transcendence is the closest I get to having anything > resembling an understanding of god, and it's certainly > not something I would pray to. Why not do TM, or whatever gets you to the transcendent? Or pray to the divine aspect of yourself? If this dude does anything, I should think, it's to somehow mobilize one's self-healing abilities. The trick would be to get out of the way of whatever aspect of one's self does the healing. Animals and plants don't have anything to get *in* the way. Just guessing... > So, I sat there and put my attention on my neck, which has been bothering me > for a couple years. This morning, my neck is unchanged. Needless to say, I'm > not the least bit inspired to fork over $300 for an individualized "blessing" > because the only thing that would be blessed is his bank account. At least > part of the $15 I did pay to see him goes to the civic center, which is > struggling financially. >
