The Importance of Metaphors to the Body

Stanley Kripner is a parapsychologist, an expert in shamanism. He was like good friends with Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts and Timothy Leary And that whole crowd In the late 60s, early 70s. Stanley's idea was we were talking about evolution and these innate mechanisms for self-healing. One's ability to activate these innate healing mechanisms was a very strong evolutionary advantage It was an adaptive advantage So if you and what doctors call hypnotic ability, if you had high hypnotic ability You were much more likely to survive than someone who didn't have that ability. That was a favored characteristic for our species until very recently But now it's