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Jiang explains reported miracle healing through placebo effect: belief and perception shape bodily reality, so faith can produce real effects without proving Church authority.
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Mind Matter
The desire to cure cancer is, for Jiang, really a desire to find new faith and reestablish relevance, which makes healing psychologically and bodily possible.
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The desire to cure cancer is, for Jiang, really a desire to find new faith and reestablish relevance, which makes healing psychologically and bodily possible.
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Jiang contrasts an older worldview where mind precedes matter, metaphor reveals unseen forces, and intuition is trusted with a modern science-class worldview where brain creates mind, only measurable things count, and tools override intuition.
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Secret societies are defined as attempts to preserve the secrets of the universe against Christianity and empire.
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"Like, there's a case of my mother's friend telling me that she, her husband has a severe cancer and they try to pray to..."
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"Okay. Yeah. Okay, back to your question. Okay. So this is what we call the placebo effect. Okay? The placebo effect is basically you..."
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"Okay? So you can argue that cancer is really a question of loss of faith. What is cancer? Cancer is a splitting of cells,..."
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"But if you yourself want to get better and you go see a psychiatrist, you'll probably get better. Okay? So why this person, why..."
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"So we continue the topic of secret societies and we're gonna focus on their secret weapon Which is mind control. They're able to turn..."
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"Okay, but today in science class you're taught that's the opposite. It's the brain that creates the mind and as you will discover throughout..."
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"not because they're secret but because everyone is sworn to secrecy so if you um ever divulge what actually goes on in these mystery..."
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"we've been around for much longer okay but they're all trying to maintain the secret of the universe which is that mind leads to..."
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