158: Spirituality Without the Con
Conspirituality
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The Importance of Charisma in Healing
Homeopathy is like a reactionary practice that way. It's not preserving any old cultural value. So much as it's like spinning magic out of nothing in order to stop feeling stupid about medical advances, you're not making yourself or that you can't understand. I always want to ask to what extent does the holistic practitioner depend on the performance of a kind of charismatic or religious certainty to provoke a meaning response or a placebo effect? And I think that question translates across multiple modalities regardless of which culture they come from or the sort of last name and ethnicity of the practitioner.
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