--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote:
> > "The condemned man may live for several days or even weeks. > > But, he believes so strongly in the curse that has been > > uttered, that he will surely die. It is said that the ritual > > loading of the kundela creates a "spear of thought" which > > pierces the victim when the bone is pointed at him. It is as > > if an actual spear has been thrust at him and his death is > > certain." > > Anxiety is a powerful thing. So it seems. The "cause" of the anxiety was of course a purely mental thing (or a thing in the realm of "meaning"), and NOT a physical thing. And the anxiety was the effect, not the cause. > Why do you think this proves > something pertinent to the argument here? It's like you've just > googled odd stuff about the brain and drawn some whoppingly > unnecessary argument out of it. It's about the world of the mental and the world of meaning (the latter I think I'd prefer), and about how those worlds can, sometimes, extinguish the world of the "merely" physical. Because they are equally (or maybe more) real.
