Elaboration 17

It seems part of our education from birth onwards, that we like 'mystical' things. We would hate a life in which all that happens is logically explainable. Especially so with the 'gifts of the gods', i.e. illness and suffering, we do not like simple explanations, but prefer mystic influences. This explains why, on the total failure of medicine (a continuous IN-crease in illness, no sign of DE-crease) people like to 'believe' in swindles like acupuncture, Christian Science, pseudo-analysis, T. M. , weed-treatments, magnets, prayer, magic pyramids, etc. rather than in a chap telling you to close your eyes and think only of ..., and succeeding in having your complaints go. It is naturally inconceivable that a solution for a serious problem can also be the easiest method, ... just talk. Sawing away at somebody's leg without him feeling pain, through mere talk, it is thought, cannot be. Proved or not, nature cannot be that simple, there must be sperrits. One could not believe this stupidity in 1985 if it wasn't for Herodotus writing already about these stupidities a 2500 years ago, and the fixation in thinking established amply. Today, there still are lectures on mystics and mysticism at universities.