Faith and the Placebo Effect: An Argument for Self-Healing [Hardcover]

... clear, compelling, and insightful. -- Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine

A brilliant book which will alter forever the way you look at illness and wellness, indeed life itself. -- David S. Alexander, author of Spiritual Abundance

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

A radical, passionate argument for self-healing. Anyone can consciously trigger the power of The Placebo Effect to cure themselves of any illness. How does it work? Through direct faith in the inner source of all healing -- independent of any external agencies. This effect is well-known to medicine, but trivialized for the sake of profit. Using history, philosophy, folklore, mysticism, and religion the author posits further that the common denominator across all treatments -- shamanic rituals or modern pharmaceuticals -- is the innate self-healing capacity operating through the mind, and triggered by faith in a given remedy.

In this ground-breaking book, author Lolette Kuby -- poet, cultural critic, and activist -- raises a prophetic voice against the madness of conventional medicine, offering a radical and passionate argument for self-healing through faith, based on the unacknowledged power of the placebo effect.

In the annals of medicine world-wide, just about anything can and has triggered placebo healing. Dr. Kuby argues that the common denominator across all treatments for illness -- be they shamanic rituals or modern pharmaceuticals -- is our innate self-healing capacity that operates through the mind, as it is activated by faith in a given remedy. This book demonstrates how you can consciously trigger the placebo effect, independent of external agencies, through direct faith in the inner source of all healing. Lolette Kuby authored this book after her own experience of a complete healing of breast cancer through faith. Writing with the power of first-hand experience, her conviction shines through in this coherent and sustained argument for self-healing through the mind alone.

The placebo effect is perhaps the best-documented fact in the history of medicine, and placebos come in an infinite variety. For those who want to consciously trigger this effect, this book argues that an advanced understanding of the forces at work is a key factor. Faith in our divine endowment of health and healing is the central requirement, says the author; but the support provided by a contextual understanding makes the task far simpler. The problem is that the action of self-healing is subtle: it usually occurs spontaneously and unconsciously; its work is normally unacknowledged; and the healing effect is erroneously attributed to external causes, when the true source is within.

In order for the truth to be fully grasped and directly applied for healing, the author discovered that a space must be cleared through the obfuscations of conventional medicine and the "culture of illness." It is not enough to 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, 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.

Previous to the unusual events that led up to the writing of this book, Lolette Kuby, Ph.D., was a widely published poet and critic, as well as a political activist and advocate for the arts. She has been a university English teacher and professional editor and writer. Uncertain in her beliefs, there was 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 persented in Faith and the Placebo Effect.