Removing the veil of separation

[flofrog]

I must have been 12 or 13 when my mother explained to me the placebo effect. I remember being blown away, and thought this was magical then…. It was like you think of something and somehow the effect happens…

Then there was that funny thing with my dad. He was a rather sensitive kind of entity and had often gut/stomach issues which i thought, later, was probably due to situations he saw as deeply wrong, and on which he felt powerless.

So he had one doctor who would always prescribe for him a medicine to appease these gut issues, and my dad would bring the medicine at the family evening dinner, would read the little brochure and then would tuck the brochure inside the little package, and would say, I feel better already and then he would put away the medicine and never touch it again. We used to laugh at this, but much later, after he passed away, I thought, what about that little placebo/thinking effect… lol