be made known. Obviously, I could do this in the form of a report to one of my medical societies, but I
am too well aware of the way my colleagues would receive such a paper, and with what suspicion, pity
or even abhorrence, they would henceforth regard me so counter to accepted notions of cause and effect
do many of these facts and observations run.
But now, orthodox man of medicine that I am, I ask myself whether there may not be causes other than
those we admit. Forces and energies which we stubbornly disavow because we can find no explanation
for them within the narrow confines of our present knowledge. Energies whose reality is recognized in
folk-lore, the ancient traditions, of all peoples, and which, to justify our ignorance, we label myth and
superstition.
A wisdom, a science, immeasurably old. Born before history, but never dying nor ever wholly lost. A