I Am Dude wrote on May 1st, 2008 at 10:30am:Some may say that there is evidence to support this being a strictly physical problem, for example in the brain and chemicals and such, but you must realize that the physical is created from the mental, from our thoughts and beliefs, we are constantly shaping and changing our physical bodies, and so with such an unusal psychic experience is bound to come some physical change as well.
There is a lot of merit to the above way of looking at things, but it's not quite that simple and reductionist.
Our individual thoughts and beliefs create our reality in the physical within the matrix of collective thought and beliefs, and in accordance to the law of energy resonation or like attracts and begets like.
Lot's of times, when Edgar Cayce's sources diagnosed someone with a physical ailment, the person was told they need to change their attitudes, their beliefs, their ways of dealing with things, to meditate and pray more, etc. Sometimes group prayers were recommended.
But, sometimes, purely physical causes were given as a big influencer. Sometimes these were not considered "karma", meaning they were not prechosen and preset up for a deeper purpose nor major probabilities, but happened as a result of living in the physical which contains a certain amount of "chaos" or randomness potential as well, though there is a lot of underlying order. It still happened according to cause and effect, but from a purely physical standpoint.
While physical and nonphysical are essentially one, there are innate differences between them.
An example, a man fell, knocked some of his vertebrae out of alignment, which caused some major nerve impingements. He started to suddenly go insane one day (soon after the fall), and an otherwise very gentle family man started to get very violent with his family. He was sent to an mental institution. A friend of the family suggested a reading, and they requested one from Cayce, his source cited a previous fall which was the cause, gave detailed instructions of which parts of the spine to treat, the man was given treatment, and soon became his normal self again and later thanked Cayce in person.
I don't believe Reiki, various energy healing stuff, or the man trying to change his beliefs, would have helped as much as just simply adjusting a purely physical issue, which had a physical cause.
I'm not saying the former couldn't have been used successfully, but it would take a person who is an unusually clear channel for the Creative Forces, to help facilitate alignment in the man's total energy system like that. Or if the man had not one iota of doubt that he could be healed..but that would be pretty hard considering the irrational state he was already in besides the fact that even rational people have a hard time replacing all doubt.
But yeah, it's more complex, interweaving, and relative than the above quote. Some of the principles are quite simple, but how they can over lap and interact with each other, can make for subtleties and complexities.