Do you remember the creatures of your childhood?
Dwarfs ‘n giants, elves ‘n fairies, princes ‘n princesses, witches ‘n angels? And many other magical creatures? As I grew up and became an ‘adult’, I stopped believing in anything I could not see with my eyes, hear with my ears or touch through that vast organ called skin.
I actually remember making the decision that nothing existed beyond what my body’s senses could fathom and interpret. AND if something could not be scientifically proven, it was hogwash, not worthy of consideration, to be immediately discarded.
Something changed somewhere along the line – not sure when or how. Perhaps it was the insistence on ‘where’s your logic’; ‘that does not make sense’; ‘explain that to me logically’ when I learnt computer programming. My hangover from those days is ‘not everything that is logical is right’.
The thing is, I have much sympathy with people who find it difficult to believe in mystical ideas and are routed in ‘seeing is believing’. My logical, left brain mind wants to understand, analyse and compute as well. So it is great when I come across something that demonstrates much of what mystics and philosophers have been teaching over the centuries, in a scientific way. And who better to explain what is going on than a scientist himself. In this video interview with Dr David Hamilton, he explains how our thoughts count and how attitudes of mind and self-talk change physical structures in our brain.
A specialist in organic chemistry, Dr Hamilton worked as a scientist for one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, testing new medication. When he found the recovery rate amongst control groups given a placebo instead of the actual drug very similar to that of participants given the proper medication, he started looking for reasons and found plenty evidence in scientific journals and research papers.
As for those mystical creatures from our childhood, who knows, maybe they really exist. Maybe only children can see them. Maybe… Maybe… Who knows what science might show us in the future? Keeping an open mind allows for all sorts of possibilities as Dr David Hamilton explains in the interview. The video is 26 minutes long, so you might want to grab a cup of tea or coffee before you sit down to enjoy.
