Snake Oil

We are created with everything we need. Once we believed that. Once, long ago, before we had so many other people telling us what we believed that we began to doubt ourselves.

Modern medicine is wonderful. It does almost miraculous things, but that is no reason to negate the age old remedies that kept us alive and well in days long gone. If I believe that a soprano's voice can shatter a glass, how much of a step is it to believe that there are also notes that can bring something into my life?

If I believe that microwaves can cook food, and radio and televsion recieve information through the air, how hard is it to believe that meditation and prayer can create something within me?

Shaman's and priests, faith healers, and even the guy selling snake oil off the back of a caravan, all have, at least, one finger on something very real and important.