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"Dr. Lolette Kuby writes with masterful, incisive clarity...
This book is a brilliant and important guide to encourage us
to accept full responsibility for our thoughts."
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard, author of Conscious Evolution
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Faith and the Placebo Effect is a passionate argument for self-healing, a many-sided account of an inner potential well-known to medicine that has yet to be properly presented in popular literature. Readers will learn that placebos work, and why they work. They will also understand the cultural, historical, and political reasons why this great truth has been roundly ignored or trivialized.
In this book, author Lolette Kuby -- a poet, cultural critic, activist, and one-time professor of literature -- raises a prophetic voice against the madness of conventional medicine, and for the power of faith in the placebo response. In fact, Ms. Kuby wrote Faith and the Placebo Effect after her own experience of a spectacular placebo healing. She writes with the power of first hand experience, and arising out of this conviction is a sustained argument for self-healing through the mind alone. Her argument may one day give the phrase "triggering the placebo effect" a place in popular parlance.
The placebo effect is perhaps the best-documented fact in the history of medicine, and placebos come in an infinite variety. In the annals of humankind, just about anything can and has triggered the placebo effect; and when such cases are closely examined (be they shamanic healings or modern pharmaceuticals), the only remaining common denominator to be found is our innate self-healing capacity, and not the myriad of external agents.
For those who want to consciously trigger this effect, the use of external objects or even healers can be shed, but an advanced understanding of the forces at work can be a key factor. And Kuby supplies such an understanding through the argument that underlies Faith and the Placebo Effect. Faith in the divine endowment of health and healing that we all possess is the central requirement, says the author -- but the support provided by the contextual understanding her book uniquely presents makes the task far simpler.
The problem is that the placebo phenomenon is subtle. Discerning its reality requires courage and insight, for it usually occurs spontaneously and unconsciously, and is usually unacknowledged as such. The healing effect is erroneously attributed to external causes, when the true source is within.
In order for this mystical truth to be fully grasped and directly applied for healing, the author discovered that a space must be cleared through the obfuscations of medicine and the "culture of illness." It is not enough to simply appeal with beautiful phrases to the power of faith; nor is it enough to critique the tyranny of materialistic medicine and to cite the scientific evidence for placebos. These threads of understanding must be marshalled all at once, in a coherent argument, if we are to break through the cultural conditioning that convinces us that something or someone external to us is the agent of our healing. But once the truth of this argument hits home, readers' lives will be changed forever. Many who read and accept Lolette Kuby's argument for self-healing will be able to consciously trigger the placebo effect, through simple faith.
In Faith and the Placebo Effect, Lolette Kuby leaves no stone unturned -- ranging widely into history, medicine, folklore, mysticism, and religion -- in her quest to instill the faith required to believe, in the face of medical and cultural propaganda, that through the power of the divine spirit within we can free ourselves of any illness.
"...clear, compelling, and insightful."
--Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine
"I am convinced that the mind has capacities only glimpsed by our dominant worldview....I found the manuscript inspirational."
--Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D., Director of Research, Institute of Noetic Sciences
"A brilliant book which will alter forever the way you look at illness and wellness, indeed life itself...Our world needs Faith and the Placebo Effect."
--David S. Alexander, author of Spiritual Abundance
"The magnitude and passion of Dr. Lolette Kuby's story of profound healing from cancer has long filled me with gratitude and awe. May her gripping message and deep wisdom touch your soul and facilitate your own healing."
--Joan Gattuso, author of A Course in Love, A Course in Life
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About the Author:
Previous to the unusual events that led up to the writing this book, Lolette Kuby, Ph.D. was a widely-published poet and critic, as well as political activist and advocate for the arts. She has taught English on the college level, had been a professional editor and writer, and had extensive career experience in advertising and public relations. An agnostic in her beliefs, there was very little in her previous way of life that prepared her for the healing epiphany and spiritual revelation that led her to develop the radical argument that underlies Faith and the Placebo Effect.
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