apparently my granddad was afiretamer, but he dies before i got to know him

> Questions inundate my mind: was it real?

No.

> Did Mme Abgrall cure the warts?

No, that was your daughter’s immune system.

Praise the Sun \o/

Since data is now the plural of anecdote... Frenchman here. Someone I knew fell from his bike without appropriate gear and ended up in the burn ward. His wife was very into the fire tamer thing and sent him a few practitioners...

He took the morphine.

On another note, I had respect for Aeon as a publication, and now I got a lot less.

Never forget:

For all the little bit of positive results for a placebo there are also negative effects due to noceboeffect.

Also it's very common in esoterica that if it works it was the healer if it didn't it was something you did wrong.