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The object also experienced a small but persistent acceleration that could not be explained simply by the Sun's gravitational pull.

It's a real effect, but it has lots of limits!

"Another way to think about it: Placebos tweak our experience of symptoms, not their underlying causes. "

"In all the objectively measurable illnesses, like cancer, even heart disease, there are components of it that are not [objectively measurable]," Kaptchuk says. And it's those symptoms that are the prime targets to treat with placebo.

Placebo can only help symptoms that can be modulated by the mind. "There are real limits to what you can condition," Miller says. You can't, for example, condition the cancer-killing effects of chemotherapy. Our bodies don't produce cancer-killing chemicals."

"When I first started studying placebo effects, it kind of seemed like magic — for some reason, your brain mimicked a drug response," Wager says. "The biggest change in this field in the last 15 years is that neuroscientists are beginning to uncover the underlying neural mechanisms that create the placebo response."

Placebos, researchers have found, actually prompt the release of opioids and other endorphins (chemicals that reduce pain) in the brain. Other findings:

   Drugs that negate the effects of opioids — such as naloxone — also counteract the placebo effect, which shows that placebos are indeed playing on the brain's natural pain management circuitry."

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/7/15792188/placebo-effect-explained?fbclid=IwAR3U0BVpyWtwKsuX9RFaqSk7CjfC98PymN9BpW1GNrspJLIJBUdMotEXozI

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Article was well detailed and informative, Thank-You GrumpyRabbit

We get cues about how we should respond to pain — and medicine — from our environments.

nocebo (Latin nocēbō, "I shall harm", from noceō, "I harm")

placebo (Latin placēbō, "I shall please", from placeō, "I please")

Obversely connected they are.

What if a treatment is potentially life-threatening?

It's important for the person to understand such a serious risk, but what if not telling them reduced the risk that it would actually be life-threatening?

I am at a clinical research conference and today one of the topics was increasing placebo response in clinical trials. Everyone was panicking because the statistics show that in the past 10 years the placebo response has been increasing progressively to almost 50 % in many studies. That makes the drugs non aprovable. So, everyone was shaking their heads, thinking how to solve this problem. And I was secretly smiling and thinking in my head " way to go earthlings,  you are learning how to manifest things hrough high expectations and high degree of belief". This is just a small example of  how strong beliefs work and change things that logically can't be changed, especially when there is no intervention, just the thoughts alone.

I believe for every dimension, there is another.

Psychogenic effects can also lead to nocebo, or electromagnetic hypersensitivity manifesting negative adverse expectations.

Hidden variables in applying a probabilistic, (chance), replica to explain the outcome.

I feel one "chooses" from what has already been chosen for them.

Me too... After 25 years of OOBEing I've yet to see a silver cord. Isn't it supposed to attach to the solar plexus?

I have seen in others and felt in myself the luminous egg. We are eggs... but perhaps it is only one state of many. 

Most intriguing, as that 'territory', luminous egg, for me, is unbroken ground.

An insightful stance shineling, Thank-You for that.

Just curious Dragonscrying. Are you a Poet or are you aspiring to become one? Your delivery in all your posts is very Poetic. If you aren't already a Poet, you should be! You have a definite calling in that direction!  

Hah Lumaza...bulls-eye, astute call, crystal.

Writing, science fiction shorts, but mostly for Musicians, keeps me independent, mountainous remote, where all my friends are animals.

When I see a rattlesnake, I mistake it for nothing else, unlike humans' smiles hiding knives.

Professor Abraham (Avi) Loeb of Harvard University believes that 1I/2017 U1 'Oumuamua, a fast moving, cigar-shaped object of extrasolar origin discovered close to Earth in October 2017, was most likely 'a piece of advanced technology created by a distant alien civilization.'

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While perusing this Forum I came across this thread from the past here and so I am "bumping" it.

I also experience the "Observer" mode in my Dreams. Many times they begin like Selski said above, "just like watching a movie". Many of my Dreams scenarios will start in the 3rd person mode and somewhere along the line they change into a 1st person mode, with me now an actor in it, not the audience anymore. Many times that change will occur just as the "sht hits the fan" or things begin to get really intense. I then seem to be "tagged in" and now I have to come up with some kind of "peaceful" solution. If I come in guns blazing, the scene will normally end then and there, just to begin a few seconds later as a "restart", what I have always called "Re-scripting".

I really liked the answer that Leo gave here too. What do you think of this? Does it happen to you and well? Penny for your thoughts!  

Good description Lumaza.

A 'third-wind", from personal energy reservoir, is key.

Yours and yours alone, not give / let others have, as you may find self drained, deflated.

Have always had...predictive, dreams in that there is no turning away.

Can relate to clarity sharpening.

In that there is no intervention involved, regardless observers, that are being observed...

Haha, enjoyable conversation. Yes, all follows a plan whether we are on the inside or outside. The only problem I see is in how we humans interpret our roles. We are certainly a mess and I have no idea how those more advanced in their understanding put up with us. BUT I most certainly understand why some of them would like to exterminate us.

Everything we've seen this past year will only be a temporary lesson. It's like the bully. Why do we still have bullies on the playground? Easy silly, because we keep putting new little people on the playground. Doesn't matter how many learned before the new crop will always have to learn. Too bad we don't have more an instinctive memory.

Now, where was I. Oh, sorry, I think I might be rambling.

Well put Nameless.

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." ~Martin Luther King Jr.

Welcome to the Astral Pulse!  I love the name!  If you knew me you would know why I said that, lol!

To this day, after more OBEs than I can count, I have never seen any kind of cord. I did have a experience a few years back during a Sleep Paralysis induced OBE whereas as soon as I got out of my body, I was catapulted at extreme speeds into the "ether". I then was slingshotted/retracted, (don't know if that's a word) back into my body as fast as I was launched out of it. It was a very quick experience, but I got to see what it's like to be a "yo-yo", lol! 

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Warm Greetings Lumaza as well, Thank-You.

Nicely detailed.

Knew another who'd described having several threads / strands / filaments.

For myself, all vibrational energies made by those who assembled Spirit Boxes / Radios, even down to the materials used, retain their contained energies within, pre-molded.

And that is whom / that, which comes across.

Especially experienced traumas, pain, emotional upheavals, from the workers.
(everyone loves their job)

Residual 'exhaust' of the physical manufacturers' energies of the spirit radio boxes components, coming through.

Diluting entire objective.

Such as eating food prepared by those who were upset, angry, ingesting those energies.

Where there is no separation, be wary of what one is inviting to come in.

To call is to be called upon.

Had hired, never before seen / known, Driver, in taking me to my homestead.

On way back, they stopped at their house to check on family.

As we pulled into the yard, was a 8 month pup chained to clothesline, curled in ball.

Wishing to stay out of way, I sat on a tire next to pup, he was such a sweetie and I told him so, as pup(50 lbs.), crawled into my lap and laid his head on me.

I kissed his head petting him, sharing silent rapport, as pup started "talking", not barking or crying, very audible.

Exact instant our eyes met, I found myself and pup whipping through a glittering black endless expanse of space, without beginning or end, we were as one, pup and I.

I could not see myself or pup, but knew as I looked through my eyes, I looked through pup's eyes as well.

Astral winds 'singing' through us.

On and on we went, time suspended, just us, no weight, no gravity, frozen motion, removed from all emotion.

Of a sudden Driver was coming at us full-on, with black steel-toe boots... could see blue plaid flannel shirt and gnatty, torn, jeans, face a mask of violence...

Over and over, steel toe-boot kept stomping and stomping at us, we were immobile, we just took it without fear nor pain.

Instantly we were being slammed back to earth dimensions, hitting very hard, jolting, shaking both me and pup.

Until we were back, did I know we had left.

Asked please, please give me pup, them saying yes, tomorrow, they will bring Pup over.

Next day I call and Driver's mom answered, saying, pup had gotten loose, and Driver had 'punished' pup for it.

Pup sustained internal injuries, living 12 hours, no more, after we first met...

It was like dying twice.

Roy Cleveland Sullivan (February 7, 1912 – September 28, 1983) was a United States park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Between 1942 and 1977, Sullivan was hit by lightning on seven occasions and survived all of them.

For this reason, he gained the nicknames "Human Lightning Conductor" and "Human Lightning Rod". Sullivan is recognized by Guinness World Records as the person struck by lightning more recorded times than any other human being.

When he was a child, he was helping his father to cut wheat in a field, when a thunderbolt struck the blade of his scythe without injuring him. But because he could not prove the fact later, he never claimed it.

Sullivan's wife was also struck once, when a storm suddenly arrived as she was out hanging clothes in their back yard. Her husband was helping her at the time, but escaped unharmed.

4.15 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000

The odds of somebody being struck by lightning seven times.

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Hello Everyone!

I've recently discovered OBE and had a few experiences myself, but I have a problem.

Sometimes when I try to get out like usual, the vibrations are so strong they seem that they are going to kill me. I feel more and more legit pain as I am getting out, almost feels like something just wouldn't let me go, which doesn't make any sense because I know how it's like to be in the NP. This happened to me a few times now and I never managed to overcome the pain. As soon as I quit trying to exit my body, the vibrations instantly vanish.
Has this ever happened to you before? If this will happen again should I keep trying to exit despite the pain? Will the pain dissapear afterwards?

Thank you for your time!

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Seeing / feeling,  silver, (transparent), cord tethering me to my self, thrumming, as wind, tugging, bouyant.

Quicker than lightning striking, snapped back, physically jolted, accompanied by a cracking shot comparable to a .32cal..

One is never separated from self.

Follow the silver cord.