How We Can Use Mind to Heal. Part 1 of 2.

Rheder, a German physician, proved that it is mind and not God that cures diseases. He tested a faith healer to cure three of his difficult cases, one suffering from chronic bladder disease, another from pancreatitis, and a third from cancer of the uterus. Rheder asked the faith healer to treat these patients without their knowledge. He supplied the faith healer with information he wanted about the patients.

The faith healer held twelve sessions without bringing about any change in the absentee patients’ conditions. Rheder then informed the patients that he was going to enlist the aid of a faith healer who would be able to heal them. This time he did not use any faith healer. Within a few days, all three patients got better. The gall-bladder patient had no more pain and remained without pain during the next year. The pancreatitis patient left the hospital and gained 30 pounds. The cancer patient experienced a decrease in the swelling and fluid in the abdomen. Within five days, she was able to return home from hospital. Thus Rheder provided evidence that it was the faith of the people that cured and not the power of the healer.

ANN LANDERS AND WARTS

There are many examples of faith cures. On Monday, June 14, 1993, the Oregonian newspaper published a letter written to Ann Landers regarding a cure for warts. Landers published it along with seven letters she had received from those who got rid of warts by various means. One got rid of them by rubbing bacon on the warts and throwing the bacon over the left shoulder when the moon came out. Another did it by applying castor oil. A third took mega doses of vitamin C. A fourth had success with a touch of liquid nitrogen. A fifth rubbed twenty pennies on the warts and gave the pennies to a beggar and got rid of the warts. A sixth got rid of them by saying “Hocus pocus go away warts.” A seventh got rid of the warts by applying oozing dandelion sap. The eighth, after spending $250 on a dermatologist, made a $1 bet with her janitor who cut a raw potato in half and rubbed the juice on the warts. She paid the bet on the eleventh day.

All these were mind cures.

To be continued.