My favorite Dr Sarno quoted Benjamin Franklin: “Nor is it of much importance to us to know the manner in which nature executes her laws; tis enough to know the laws themselves.”

I don’t agree with Benjamin Franklin. I have an inquisitive and investigative mind. Family, culture and environment saved me from being a heretic. I have to admit I am a repressed iconoclast. I have had a difficult time accepting things in faith although for many, many years I was too compliant to authority. Too many years of conformity led to my severe , clinical depression in the 90s. I suspect my many ailment sprang from suppressed emotions. This I learned recently from reviewing a book of Dr John Sarno.

Much of what I have written in my website is “only circumstantial evidence, but it is highly suggestive” (Paraphrased from Dr Sarno)

I wish somebody more qualified han I am would pick up the data and conduct formal research.

According to Dr Sarno: “Modern medicine has been primarily mechanical and tructural in orientation. The body is viewed as an exceedingly complex machine and illness is a malfunction in the machine brought about by infection,trauma, inherited defects, degeneration, and of course, cancer. At the same time medical science has had a love affair with the laboratory, believing that nothing is valid unless it can be demonstrated in that arena.”

I know too well from experience my doctors require laboratory tests before each visit. It makes me feel that going to the doctors without laboratory result would be useless!

“Unfortunately, some things are difficult to study in the laboratory. One of these is the mind and its organ the brain.”

“But since most physicians see their role only as treating the body, the psychological part of the problem  is neglected even though its the basic cause.”