People in search of \u2018it\u2019 or \u2018he who does it\u2019 to work for them: the picture exists already for thousands of years, maybe even very much longer. It\u2019s about a shamanistic quality, the shaman being the one who mediates between people and the gods, his client\u00e8le being people in search of \u2018it\u2019 to work for them.<\/p>\n
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\u2018It\u2019 has never worked, though.<\/p>\n
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It has never worked as people thought it would work. In order to clearly see this, let\u2019s go for a ride in a time machine. Firstly, take the shaman\u2019s case. We no longer believe in the gods of our utterly-great-grandfathers. Rightfully so. Therefore \u2018it\u2019 couldn\u2019t have worked for them. Very probably in many cases something worked, but it was never \u2018it\u2019. You get the picture? We nowadays raise our eyebrows, put up a stern face and say: \u2018Aha! That was the placebo effect. Those primitives didn\u2019t know they did it themselves. It was all a function of their minds!\u2019<\/p>\n
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Next stop: organized religions and their priests\u2026 well\u2026 let\u2019s prudently skip this, only mentioning that the times they are a-changing, yeah, but rather slowly.<\/p>\n
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Next case: physicians. It\u2019s widely known now, except by some would-be-romantics of the past, that for thousands of years, physicians have used thousands of kinds of pills and potions and scars and leeches and dung and scrapings of the unicorn-horn etc etc as \u2018it\u2019. They had success, at least commercially. We nowadays have about this the same \u2018Aha!\u2019 experience as the one before, though this thing called \u2018it\u2019 already comes much closer to us.<\/p>\n
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Let\u2019s come out of the time machine at the next stop. It\u2019s the year 20XX and we see that\u2026 in the undercurrent stream of humanity, not so much has changed. Taking into account specific peculiarities, people are still in search of \u2018it\u2019. In many cases, physicians come up to expectations, in many cases not, but regardless of this, the search for \u2018it\u2019 goes on as always or even more. It\u2019s \u2018business as usual\u2019. But it shouldn\u2019t be.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s time for humanity to become wiser.<\/p>\n
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Time machine again, our final stop for today: year 3000. Good news! Humanity still exists! OK, and what has become of \u2018it\u2019? Surprise! It has completely gone! In the course of the last 1000 years, people have finally realized that \u2018it\u2019 is to be sought nowhere else but at home: in the own mind. More than this: people have also learned to use<\/em> their own mind for its full worth. They meditate frequently, use visualization and autosuggestion. \u2018Psychosomatic illness\u2019 is almost inexistent. As far as I can see, most people look happy and intelligent and loving and wise\u2026 I could stay here\u2026 but you know how it is with time machines. We have to get\u2026<\/p>\n \u25ca\u25ca\u25ca<\/p>\n \u2026 back to the year 20XX. Just in time, because the time machine doesn\u2019t work anymore. And damned, I forgot to see whether in the history books of the year 3000, any mention is made of the text that I have just finished writing now? I didn\u2019t even look up \u2018AURELIS\u2019 in the index.<\/p>\n \u25ca\u25ca\u25ca<\/p>\n Will they like it? I\u2019ll never know.<\/p>\n \u25ca\u25ca\u25ca<\/p>\n