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Namah Editorial

of clay and corpuscles formed through an a faith in life rather than a faith in death.
unconscious random evolutionary process.
Perhaps it does add to the fear but it is doubtful After all, healing through whatever means,
that this is the sole cause. Many religious and does take support of the faith within us as
even spiritual groups behaved in much the a recent observation showed that even fake
same way as if they believed in the reality drugs helped heal. What else is the placebo
of death much more than the reality of Life effect but a recognition that faith is a power
Eternal, of God or an immortal soul within and it can cure. Modern medicine, born
us. Perhaps like faith, fear is something deep of a mixed parentage where science and
within, waiting in some darkest abyss of our commerce meet in a strange wedlock, admits
being for its moment. faith in its placebo trails, but discards it in
practice asking us to rely more and more on
Yes, fear may have had its utility at a certain a complicated armamentarium of chemicals
stage of evolution when life was struggling extracted from the plant and vegetal kingdom
to be born amidst an immense and appalling while forgetting that we too have within
world of which it knew nothing. The question us healing capacities and powers that are
is, is this all that is expected of us and are switched on by faith and switched off by fear
we nothing more than mere enlarged copies and dependence on external aid.
of an animal life driven by fear and anger?
Or is fear the sole truth of our being or is What we forget is that while modern medicine
there something much more intrinsic and is a few hundred years old, mankind has
fundamental to us that emerges through the survived countless challenges through
process of evolution? a million years at least without all this
complicated pharmacopeia. Thanks to the
At least a section of humanity, however small constant fear generated through various
and cutting across lines of religious and other media, political and medical agencies what
divides, emerged as the torchbearers of faith. Of suffered as a casualty was faith. Thus a virus
course, the faith spoken of here is not a mental with about one percent mortality (given that
belief in a system of thought or religion, though the number of cases was surely much more
even that is better than fear. It is something and the number of deaths often over-reported
more intrinsic that has emerged with the by clubbing many things together if the test
earliest dawns of humanity and has led us for the virus turned positive) was projected
through the ages. This faith is not even our as the deadliest that only vaccines and drugs
belief in God, though ultimately it is directed could eliminate. Of course we know who
towards the Creator in whom it finds the would have benefited most from this strategy
fullest justification. It is rather this intrinsic of fear? Who else but the great ally of fear,
faith that we carry somewhere deep within falsehood and greed?
us, that we carry within us all that is needed
to heal, that our very cells can overthrow The two gospels
every disease through ways and processes,
though still not fully known to us, but if we Behind every event there is a play of forces
awaken faith in them, a faith in self-healing, that often enter into conflict with each other.

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