Reviews for Experiences in Self-Healing

The average rating for Experiences in Self-Healing based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-02-23 00:00:00 Marsha Mann "If I were to offer up a prayer of my own, I would ask a deity to grant my species the ability to adopt a dignified, responsible, and caring exuberance toward living, rather than a quavering, dependent vigil awaiting death. To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage. I believe that we have evolved to the point where we no longer need gurus to supply us with magical formulas for our lives. We must learn to ignore silly notions invented by opportunists who see us as sheep willing to be sheared." - James Randi, My favorite passage from the book. I will review this book with few strict personal thoughts. There is no greater joy in being an atheist, rationalist and skeptic than the awareness that you have intellectual heroes (who can think unthinkable and explain unexplained) and science on your side. The "Amazing (James) Randi" is one of those whose invaluable contribution has lit the lamp of rational thinking. Not one person around the world manged to win his (JREF)'One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge' since 1996 shows the fakery of faith healers, card readers and non sense preached by religious charlatans. All they had to do is just perform their "psychic or other supernatural powers", which they so often claim, under the simple observations by scientists to claim one million dollar. Many known frauds tried and without a surprise got insulted and exposed by Randi. I am, no doubt, aware in advance that no exposé can shake the faith of weak-minded people in faith healers or supernatural powers because the very foundation of their belief system depends on faith not reason. So there can be no cure for such illness. In the end, I remember in his rare appearance, Hitchens complimented Randi by saying: "Any magic you(frauds and scam artists) can do, we can do better, you lose and we keep the money(of JREF challenge) and that seems to be a real talking to me."

Review # 2 was written on 2014-12-19 00:00:00 Josh Brunsell The faith healing empire, shielded but the blind faith of the credulous, claims to resurrect the death and heal the dying. Dubious accounts of shrinking tumors and regaining of sight by the holy touch of a faith healer's appendage have threatened to render centuries of medical research useless. It is baffling that the vulnerable, knee deep in debt, do not ask why their stone-deaf and stone-blind friend in the sky would want a million dollars. James Randi has spent decades of his life debunking the practices of pseudoscience. This book talks extensively about the functioning of such industries, bringing to light it's fallacious assertions.