This is a sub-thread of the well-read thread started by my son, Turner, in February 2007. The thread is on Philosophy of Religions ... now on the way to six million hits.
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The idea for this sub-thread about FACT&FAITH&FANCY came to me a few days ago during a period of what I now call META-tation.
Whenever I feel the physical, mental and spiritual need, I META-tate on what artists speak of as the primary colours--blue, yellow and red. Speaking of facts, I find that this is one of the pleasant facts of nature of the kind that is very useful and worth knowing. Naturally, I want more pleasant facts like this--the kind that help us be more aware, conscious and evolved beings.
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I BEGIN WITH THE FACT THAT I AM. Therefore, I have the power to be, to know, to learn and to take action.
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But not all facts are of the pleasant kind. Some facts, like pain and suffering, are there to warn and to motivate us to action that will lead to our higher good.
A FACT THAT MOTIVATED MY WIFE AND ME: Here is a fact that hit my wife and me in the face, back in the 1960's. It happened when our daughter, Catherine (born 1956)--Turner's (born 1958) older and only sister--was nearly eight years of age. For reasons our family doctor could not understand, more than once, she began getting dreadfully ill, again and again, with a severe, life-threatening lung condition which led to pneumonia. At first, anti-biotics helped, but only temporarily. Our family doctor then referred us to specialists at the major hospital for Children, at Toronto.
After five bouts of pneumonia in the winter of 1963/1964, even the doctors at Hospital for children admitted they were at a loss as to what to do. In a meeting, two of them told us not to expect her to suvive another attack.
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THIS FACT MOTIVATED US TO DO SOME DEEP THINKING ABOUT NONE PHYSICAL CAUSES--the kind I now call pneuma-psychosomatic causes.
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AT THIS POINT, WE BEGAN TO GET RESULTS.
It was then, with the approval of our family doctor, that I first began to experiment with hypnotherapy--what I now call pneumatherapy--using, as above mentioned, the primary colours--and other colours--all that promote healing.
Needless to say, we were deeply thankful--to all, including the doctors and nurses, who helped--that our daughter not only survived her ordeal, she thrived. [more facts and details on this later]
