Friday, August 24, 2007

Out of Body

Saw in the paper today how researchers at two leading universities were able to find ways to make people feels as if they were having an "out of body experience." They used virtual-reality goggles that were slightly off, as well as other ways to produce visual sensations, and/or tactile sensations, that don't quite agree with the rest of the persons sense of what is going on.

It does begin to take all the fun away. Next they are going to explain away ESP, or the fun of being abducted by aliens for sexual experimentation. By aliens, I mean the old-fashioned kind, the ones from outer space, not those green people who sneak across the US borders and kill and eat all the children in the over-crowded emergency rooms.

I did have a client once who was the head of the HR department at a very large and successful company. She said she set-up all of her most important working groups by putting people together who have compatible astrological signs.

Everything works if you believe it does. That's why, in my therapy, I use a lot of fairy dust.

6 comments:

Amanda said...

People have always been trying to imitate certain experiences, quite successfully sometimes, but it's still not butter, is it. ;)

Placebo's aren't bad. I've been known to use them myself on occasion. (One of my motto's is "whatever works.")

Lena said...

So do you charge extra for the fairy dust?

Enjoy your blog quite a bit!!

Jamie said...

I think fairy dust is as good as any other, whatever gets you throught the night, so to speak. :)

Ms. Meander said...

i've known multimillionaires who made business decisions based on tarot readings. it just goes to show how success can sometimes be really, really random.

no, seriously, i'd go in to polish the floors in this woman's marble bathroom and the smell of the essential oil concoctions from her daily "bath spell" would still be in the air. *shakes head*

Patty said...

I'm with Amanda and can make a placebo work in a heart beat if I need it to. Who cares if it works for someone else as long as it works for the one in need? Who says there has to be only one right way to fix an issue?

Tery Lynne said...

Send some fairy dust over here...

Whatever works...