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I didn't suggest that anyone involved was an actor, I'm quite sure they are not in fact. I do believe that these people are easily manipulated however and that

I didn't suggest that anyone involved was an actor, I'm quite sure they are not in fact. I do believe that these people are easily manipulated however and that people like Joe Dispenza take advantage of this to earn fame and fortune. For every 100 people that we see who appear to benefit from the lifestyle changes they implement because of this guys "science" (and those changes may well be benefitial!), there may be another 1000 who don't get real treatment and suffer unnecessarily due to believing this quackery. It is an understudied / ignored field for the same reason prayer isn't studied for it's ability to cure disease. A quote from one of the testimonial videos you linked me to: "It's really hard to talk about because not a lot of people can relate to quantum healing ... " This makes sense. If you believe in this, and it helps you, good for you. You should not try to present it as something deserving of scientific backing however.

lambdaba 5y ago
But BELIEF is EXACTLY the point. Joe Dispenza just uses (or, in your view, abuses) scientific terms to explain the HOW to his audience. You can't teach belief to people if you prefix everything with hesitancy or overly qualify everything, that would go counter to the effect you're trying to have. Again, in summary the "teaching" of Joe Dispenza is that belief creates emotion, emotion modulates biochemistry, biochemistry can be harmonized (placebo) or disharmonized (nocebo). The scientific wording is just a wrapper, if that's distasteful to you, fine, but it's nothing more than a superficial reaction, one that's very common in the "skeptic" community.
- mrintegrity 5y ago
  I would love to review Joe's material to be able to provide a more thorough response, but I can't afford the 100s dollars he charges.
  - lambdaba 5y ago
    You can find most of it for free online. And I'm not talking about pirating stuff, just tons and tons of free content, not to mention community content.
- tsimionescu 5y ago
  The problem is that this "teaching" is demonstrably false for all but a handful of conditions. Whether he coats it in misapplied sciencey-sounding gobbledygook ('quantum healing' lol), it doesn't change the fact that it won't "cure" anything other than pain, anxiety, nausea, stress and a handful of other symptoms. And we have actual medicine that helps much more for all of these.
  - lambdaba 5y ago
    That is not true at all and you don't really understand the full spectrum of the placebo effect. It's not about having the subjective illusion of healing, it's about modulating biochemistry to affect healing. There are cases where, for instance, placebo branch participants in a study for antidepressants had measurable brainwave pattern changes after "treatment". What you're describing is an outdated / misunderstanding of placebo.
    - lambdaba 5y ago
      Conversely, see "voodoo death": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_death > Voodoo death, a term coined by Walter Cannon in 1942 also known as psychogenic death or psychosomatic death, is the phenomenon of sudden death as brought about by a strong emotional shock, such as fear. The anomaly is recognized as "psychosomatic" in that death is caused by an emotional response—often fear—to some suggested outside force. Voodoo death is particularly noted in native societies, and concentration- or prisoner of war camps, but the condition is not specific to any particular culture.[1]
      - tsimionescu 5y ago
        This still aligns with the observation that psychological state can impact blood pressure and similar heart-related physiology. This is not surprising and not indicative of anything very deep, as we know very well we can consciously control our rate of respiration which also directly correlates with pulse and blood pressure. It isn't surprising then that, just like your heart can fail from exaggerated effort, it can also fail from psychological stress forcing the same behaviors. The same is not true for your liver or bone marrow. You have 0 conscious control over those, and psychological factors have 0 impact on these.
lambdaba 5y ago
If you had any experience with what people online say about the teachings you'd understand that your ratio is WAY off. And there are MANY people that are HARMED by medical advice, there is such a thing as the "voodoo curse of the diagnosis", where trusted authority figures like doctors solemnly announce to patients they have X weeks / months to live, which creates GREAT stress in those people, exacerbating the condition => self-fulfilling prophecy. Likewise with "your condition is incurable", etc. etc.

lambdaba 5y ago

But BELIEF is EXACTLY the point. Joe Dispenza just uses (or, in your view, abuses) scientific terms to explain the HOW to his audience. You can't teach belief to people if you prefix everything with hesitancy or overly qualify everything, that would go counter to the effect you're trying to have. Again, in summary the "teaching" of Joe Dispenza is that belief creates emotion, emotion modulates biochemistry, biochemistry can be harmonized (placebo) or disharmonized (nocebo). The scientific wording is just a wrapper, if that's distasteful to you, fine, but it's nothing more than a superficial reaction, one that's very common in the "skeptic" community.

mrintegrity 5y ago
I would love to review Joe's material to be able to provide a more thorough response, but I can't afford the 100s dollars he charges.
- lambdaba 5y ago
  You can find most of it for free online. And I'm not talking about pirating stuff, just tons and tons of free content, not to mention community content.
tsimionescu 5y ago
The problem is that this "teaching" is demonstrably false for all but a handful of conditions. Whether he coats it in misapplied sciencey-sounding gobbledygook ('quantum healing' lol), it doesn't change the fact that it won't "cure" anything other than pain, anxiety, nausea, stress and a handful of other symptoms. And we have actual medicine that helps much more for all of these.
- lambdaba 5y ago
  That is not true at all and you don't really understand the full spectrum of the placebo effect. It's not about having the subjective illusion of healing, it's about modulating biochemistry to affect healing. There are cases where, for instance, placebo branch participants in a study for antidepressants had measurable brainwave pattern changes after "treatment". What you're describing is an outdated / misunderstanding of placebo.
  - lambdaba 5y ago
    Conversely, see "voodoo death": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_death > Voodoo death, a term coined by Walter Cannon in 1942 also known as psychogenic death or psychosomatic death, is the phenomenon of sudden death as brought about by a strong emotional shock, such as fear. The anomaly is recognized as "psychosomatic" in that death is caused by an emotional response—often fear—to some suggested outside force. Voodoo death is particularly noted in native societies, and concentration- or prisoner of war camps, but the condition is not specific to any particular culture.[1]
    - tsimionescu 5y ago
      This still aligns with the observation that psychological state can impact blood pressure and similar heart-related physiology. This is not surprising and not indicative of anything very deep, as we know very well we can consciously control our rate of respiration which also directly correlates with pulse and blood pressure. It isn't surprising then that, just like your heart can fail from exaggerated effort, it can also fail from psychological stress forcing the same behaviors. The same is not true for your liver or bone marrow. You have 0 conscious control over those, and psychological factors have 0 impact on these.

lambdaba 5y ago

If you had any experience with what people online say about the teachings you'd understand that your ratio is WAY off. And there are MANY people that are HARMED by medical advice, there is such a thing as the "voodoo curse of the diagnosis", where trusted authority figures like doctors solemnly announce to patients they have X weeks / months to live, which creates GREAT stress in those people, exacerbating the condition => self-fulfilling prophecy. Likewise with "your condition is incurable", etc. etc.