Over the last few weeks, I’ve become aware of the one single most powerful thing which impacts on our lives on an almost daily basis. Some people believe in fate, or fortune, or destiny, considering we’re at the mercy of some divine plan or in the hands of some uber-human player of a very long [...]
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Faith healing is a practice as old as faith itself. But what place does it have in today’s world, where science and medicine have a stronger evidence base for providing effective treatments? People still invest a lot of time, money and effort in faith healers, as this story on the BBC website demonstrates. What it [...]
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Last night I watched a BBC documentary about a young ‘psychic surgeon’, who travelled around the UK to perform healing on patients with a range of diagnosed conditions, from alzheimer’s to brain tumours, gall stones to chronic pain. As a devout sceptic of all things mystical, I was decidedly troubled by the seeming ease with [...]
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