Summary
dr. sc. David Hamilton: Why Alternative Works - Surprising Scientific Data in Support of Meditation, Reiki, Crystals and Other Alternative Practices
In this book, Dr. David Hamilton addresses various topics that are commonly dismissed as quackery and shows how there is indeed a lot of scientific evidence for their authenticity.
In the first part, he analyzes the placebo effect, visualization, meditation, and the link between repressed emotions and illness, and explains exactly how these phenomena and practices work.
In the field of complementary medicine, the author presents an overview of numerous studies that show that reiki is an effective way of treating pain, depression and anxiety, and shares with the reader scientific data that supports this method of "energy healing". In the chapter on crystals, he relies on Buddhist philosophy, the science of color psychology, and even on the diamagnetic and paramagnetic characteristics of these minerals, in order to explain precisely how crystals affect us.
And at the end of the book, he enters the field of telepathy, remote healing and prayer. Although these phenomena are often dismissed as pseudoscientific, the fact is that they are supported by a large amount of statistical evidence that, in truth, is not well known to the general public.
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