Nothing has healing properties as such, not even official medical treatments, they just have body-changing properties which we interpret as beneficial i.e. healing.
That’s a debate of semantics. If the store would empirically create health benefits than it doesn’t matter much whether the label of “healing powers” is semantically correct.
He was no the best Zen teacher around, but culturally compatible with New Age stuff and then she can go to a proper Zen meditation center.
I would be vary of bringing a person who sees spirits to spend more time meditating.
I wouldn’t do anything that encourages the girl to detach from reality.
Those benefits would have to be specific instead of a general healing potency. It had to work for migraine and not work for diarrhea.
Same way how “eating vegetables is healthy” is only a broad approximation. It does certain things, that are useful in certain circumstances, those circumstances being largely general unless one has specific medical conditions when not, such as undigestible fiber cleaning out the guts (not a good idea for Chron’s), such as slow digestion meaning a slow insuline release (useful in general for most modern people, not so useful for eating directly before a hard workout), and so on.
Meditation doesn’t detach from reality. Where did you get this idea from? It detaches one from one’s interpretations of reality. Like you meditate and hear a sound. It teaches you to not instantly go and think “hey, that is a dog barking” and thus replacing the experience of a sound with a concept, with a mental category, but simply experiencing the sound directly without attaching any label to it.
It detaches one from one’s interpretations of reality. Like you meditate and hear a sound. It teaches you to not instantly go and think “hey, that is a dog barking” and thus replacing the experience of a sound with a concept, with a mental category, but simply experiencing the sound directly without attaching any label to it.
The effects of meditation a bit more complex. I don’t want to go to much in the detail here because that would mean that I would have to use words like “energy” with I don’t use on LW.
Meditation is a beautiful thing, but it has effects. When it comes to a person who already sees spirits I would treat very careful.
If the store would empirically create health benefits than it doesn’t matter much whether the label of “healing powers” is semantically correct.
The problem is related to the definition of “supernatural” as referring to ontologically basic mental things. “Healing” is a very high level human concept, but involves a variety of different low-level things happening under a variety of circumstances. A stone that does “healing” would be like having a type of acid that only dissolves shirts—it has no way to know whether something is helpful or harmful any more than the acid has a way to know that something is a shirt.
And since it doesn’t know that something is helpful or harmful, there will be situations in which it is harmful. It’s not going to “empirically create health benefits” all the time—that’s impossible. Frankly, any stone that was powerful enough to “heal” is something I wouldn’t trust since pretty much any singificant “healing” effect could cause really bad harm under the wrong circumstances.
The problem is related to the definition of “supernatural” as referring to ontologically basic mental things.
Not everyone who believes that a stone is healing power believes that they are ontologically basic.
A stone that does “healing” would be like having a type of acid that only dissolves shirts—it has no way to know whether something is helpful or harmful any more than the acid has a way to know that something is a shirt.
If you have an ill person telling them to get a good nights sleep, helps them heal in a fairly diverse set of circumstances. The advice isn’t helpful in every case.
Frankly, any stone that was powerful enough to “heal” is something I wouldn’t trust since pretty much any singificant “healing” effect could cause really bad harm under the wrong circumstances.
The question whether or not you trust the stone is irrelevant to the question of what’s a useful way to check to CronoDAS girlfriend.
In practice she might tell you: “Duh, of course I check with a trustworthy spirit whether the stone is right for the particular occasion.”
A quick googling for hematite suggests that it’s supposed to grounding and balancing energy. Given that the girl is ungrounded to the extend that she sees spirits, from her perspective getting a stone to ground herself makes a lot of sense.
Not everyone who believes that a stone is healing power believes that they are ontologically basic.
But she is actually treating healing as an ontologically basic concept, even if she doesn’t understand that she is doing so. That’s enough.
She thinks it’s possible for a stone to heal and do nothing else. It’s not possible, unless the stone contains an intelligence that can determine whether a physical change made by the stone is “healing”. It’s every bit as absurd as having an acid that only dissolves shirts.
In practice she might tell you: “Duh, of course I check with a trustworthy spirit whether the stone is right for the particular occasion.”
Does she believe that the stone causes harm if used in a way that doesn’t match the judgment of the spirit?
That’s a debate of semantics. If the store would empirically create health benefits than it doesn’t matter much whether the label of “healing powers” is semantically correct.
I would be vary of bringing a person who sees spirits to spend more time meditating. I wouldn’t do anything that encourages the girl to detach from reality.
Those benefits would have to be specific instead of a general healing potency. It had to work for migraine and not work for diarrhea.
Same way how “eating vegetables is healthy” is only a broad approximation. It does certain things, that are useful in certain circumstances, those circumstances being largely general unless one has specific medical conditions when not, such as undigestible fiber cleaning out the guts (not a good idea for Chron’s), such as slow digestion meaning a slow insuline release (useful in general for most modern people, not so useful for eating directly before a hard workout), and so on.
Meditation doesn’t detach from reality. Where did you get this idea from? It detaches one from one’s interpretations of reality. Like you meditate and hear a sound. It teaches you to not instantly go and think “hey, that is a dog barking” and thus replacing the experience of a sound with a concept, with a mental category, but simply experiencing the sound directly without attaching any label to it.
A variety of experiences.
The effects of meditation a bit more complex. I don’t want to go to much in the detail here because that would mean that I would have to use words like “energy” with I don’t use on LW.
Meditation is a beautiful thing, but it has effects. When it comes to a person who already sees spirits I would treat very careful.
The problem is related to the definition of “supernatural” as referring to ontologically basic mental things. “Healing” is a very high level human concept, but involves a variety of different low-level things happening under a variety of circumstances. A stone that does “healing” would be like having a type of acid that only dissolves shirts—it has no way to know whether something is helpful or harmful any more than the acid has a way to know that something is a shirt.
And since it doesn’t know that something is helpful or harmful, there will be situations in which it is harmful. It’s not going to “empirically create health benefits” all the time—that’s impossible. Frankly, any stone that was powerful enough to “heal” is something I wouldn’t trust since pretty much any singificant “healing” effect could cause really bad harm under the wrong circumstances.
Not everyone who believes that a stone is healing power believes that they are ontologically basic.
If you have an ill person telling them to get a good nights sleep, helps them heal in a fairly diverse set of circumstances. The advice isn’t helpful in every case.
The question whether or not you trust the stone is irrelevant to the question of what’s a useful way to check to CronoDAS girlfriend.
In practice she might tell you: “Duh, of course I check with a trustworthy spirit whether the stone is right for the particular occasion.”
A quick googling for hematite suggests that it’s supposed to grounding and balancing energy. Given that the girl is ungrounded to the extend that she sees spirits, from her perspective getting a stone to ground herself makes a lot of sense.
But she is actually treating healing as an ontologically basic concept, even if she doesn’t understand that she is doing so. That’s enough.
She thinks it’s possible for a stone to heal and do nothing else. It’s not possible, unless the stone contains an intelligence that can determine whether a physical change made by the stone is “healing”. It’s every bit as absurd as having an acid that only dissolves shirts.
Does she believe that the stone causes harm if used in a way that doesn’t match the judgment of the spirit?
She likely doesn’t. It’s something you project into her without good reason.