Health Fair Thing at Work.

[Salty]

There are some types of massage that work on the same.level as acupuncture. But there are some types of massage that provide actual, repeatable results that do in no way depend on the brain's abaility or inability to relax a given muscle.

There is a very large gap between those two types of work.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

There are some types of massage that work on the same.level as acupuncture. But there are some types of massage that provide actual, repeatable results that do in no way depend on the brain's abaility or inability to relax a given muscle.

There is a very large gap between those two types of work.

Massage has a very obvious value, at MINIMUM.  If nothing else, it gets the knots out of your muscles.  There's no woo required.

[Salty]

Some of it may.

There are so many people put there doing these things, and given the confidence only diploma mills can offer. It's a big business, alternative medicine. And pretty much anyone is free to take it up. Which leaves a lot of room to make it up.

These methods, that often help people, are all freely available. It's all been put there for some.time. but the business of America being business, it gets amplified. And wrapped up in shiney plastic.

They are often good methods, and do things that are strange and unexplainable. Sometimes people experience extraordinary healing. Not in clinical experience...
But what about those people and those experiences?

What about the time I received a reiki attunement and saw angels.

Now, look at that last sentence I wrote. Then consider, I have taken hallucinagens, and never had any visual experiences. Slight waves, tracing, but my mind won't just create vivid images that way.

And never since then have I experienced anything even similar.

But I looked up and had a clear, piercing vision. I could go into great detail, i remember every but of it, which is also unusual.

There are no explainations for why some things happen yet. But somehow I doubt it's magic.

SO, you have to be careful and exact when dealing with something that works as magic in most people's minds, for money, in the 21st Cenutry.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Some of it may.

There are so many people put there doing these things, and given the confidence only diploma mills can offer. It's a big business, alternative medicine. And pretty much anyone is free to take it up. Which leaves a lot of room to make it up.

Don't think I haven't considered it.

But I would go full-on flake with it.  Or veer off into something horrible, if I could word the waivers correctly.

Something like realigning someone's chakras with an anchor chain and a front end loader.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

But what about those people and those experiences?

What about the time I received a reiki attunement and saw angels.

Now, look at that last sentence I wrote. Then consider, I have taken hallucinagens, and never had any visual experiences. Slight waves, tracing, but my mind won't just create vivid images that way.

*shrug*

I "found God" in an Epson tractor feed printer.  People do weird things.  Peoples' minds do weirder things.

[Salty]

But what about those people and those experiences?

What about the time I received a reiki attunement and saw angels.

Now, look at that last sentence I wrote. Then consider, I have taken hallucinagens, and never had any visual experiences. Slight waves, tracing, but my mind won't just create vivid images that way.

*shrug*

I "found God" in an Epson tractor feed printer.  People do weird things.  Peoples' minds do weirder things.

And that's just it. I feel chakras may be a handy landmark/map of sorts for the brain. Whatever is going on, unless it involves bacteria*, is some function your internal preasure*, or some other function, the brain must still control it, ja?

So why not those spots? They correspond quite neatly with our anatomy, because form/function/ Lo5s. But they're useful for some people. The way ritual is good for people, and tge way that taking 10-30 min out of your day to reflect, relax, and do sonething good for yourself.

Acupuncture does not work the same way vaccines or antibiotics work. It depends on the practitioner, the receiver, the mood, the time, the chemical ease between two people who can get along, or not. The skill of one, the openness of mind...

And you know, the front of the.mind rarely has much to do with it.

Point being, it's more art than science. Which is less than good, sometimes.

*Which it may.
°Which would include just about every other system that makes up your body.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

You should put together a psychic fair, Roger. That would go over amazingly.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Well, this acupuncturist was busy babbling away about how "Western medicine"¹ only treats symptoms, but acupuncture treats the "imbalances" in your system that make you sick.  I asked her how effective it was on strep throat (with a straight face), and she basically went on to describe how germ theory isn't really a thing.

It's "imbalances".  My body is a flywheel.




¹  Blond hair, blue eyes.   

[The Good Reverend Roger]

You should put together a psychic fair, Roger. That would go over amazingly.

Shit yeah.  I could do people's futures.

"Go ahead and sell your stock short.  Won't matter by Tuesday."

[PopeSlag]

I keep waiting for someone to go on a killing spree with an orgone shooter. They'd find a hundred dead people with no allergies, childhood traumas, or alien soul infestations, all on a sunny day.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

You need a turban with a big feather and a mustache to twirl.

[Ben Shapiro]

Your boss hates freedom Roger.

You should host a gluten cleanse seminar.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

"The dangers of candida overgrowth and how it affects your yin and yang."

[Golden Applesauce]

Well, this acupuncturist was busy babbling away about how "Western medicine"¹ only treats symptoms, but acupuncture treats the "imbalances" in your system that make you sick.  I asked her how effective it was on strep throat (with a straight face), and she basically went on to describe how germ theory isn't really a thing.

It's "imbalances".  My body is a flywheel.




¹  Blond hair, blue eyes.   

You should invite her back to treat the imbalances in your ball mills.

[LMNO]