X-rays -- the patient has no idea that he himself “manipulated” the film

[Mark M]

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SESSION 778, 31 MAY 1976, 9:30 PM, MONDAY

Diagnostic tools such as x-rays sometimes work exactly as expected. However, there are complicated aspects. A patient who is afraid of a particular illness and preoccupied with the likely ailment can mentally influence the film by making it show conditions that are not present in the body. Confronted with the results of the X-ray, the patient can accept or reject the probable disease. The shock of the x-ray image creates a psychological charge which, in such cases, can immediately spread the condition to organs that were not previously affected.

I say "not affected" -- and these organs were, let's say, shadowed on a different level of activity.

(Long pause at 9:50 p.m.) I don't want to scare people, because in your system, x-rays serve a purpose -- and yet they are destructive to tissue. As a diagnostic tool, x-rays are often predictive in nature because the method itself is harmful and would ultimately lead to disease if used in healthy tissue.

Apparently, sick people are X-rayed most often. They are therefore the ones who suffer most from the instrument, and they are also the ones who, for whatever reason, have attracted likely patterns of illness. Your stressed emotional state has the most noticeable impact on the diagnostic tool itself.

Furthermore, such instruments are usually only used when there is already a suspicion of illness, and such scientific instruments have a high hypnotic authority. The patient tends to expect the worst.

In his condition, he can influence the film to capture an image of the most feared probability -- which may or may not correspond to the condition of the patient's tissue. If he accepts the image in view of the feared result, then his charged fear influences the tissue in such a way that the internal image of the body reflects the meaning of the x-ray.

 Under the same circumstances, the patient may, in the face of the so-called evidence, reject this probability, and the surgeon will be rather astonished, thinking that perhaps the patient's radiographs have been confused with those of another. In such cases, the patient still makes his own decision -- whether he wants to accept the respective illness or not. The doctor's authority is no longer just personal, but is to a certain extent underpinned by science and technology. Of course you don't go to the doctor because you're healthy. Few physicians focus on the healthy aspects of a patient's condition. Illness is a form of coping. The doctor's job is to find out what's wrong with the patient, and by that he usually means what's wrong physically. The diagnostic instruments often only provide fixed patterns into which mental or psychological problems can be translated. If there were no stigma surrounding so-called mental illnesses and personal eccentricities, then there would be fewer physical illnesses, because then the problems would be viewed as primarily mental or psychological, and there would be no need to project them into physical illnesses instead.


This does not mean that one would not die of natural old age, but rather that the body would age naturally. Above all, it means that chronic illnesses would not become a way of life -- and in the animal kingdom they are not a way of life.

(10:12 p.m.) Give us a moment... Even though x-ray images, for example, show "psychological" rather than physical images, they serve to give the patient an image of a condition, a probability, and to give him a point of reference so that he can can accept or reject the disease. However, if he rejects it, he has to assert himself against scientific evidence because he assumes that the film shows the actual condition of his body. He has no idea that he himself "manipulated" the film.

In addition, the X-rays cannot really take a so-called objective picture of the inside of the body because they influence the body during the recording. This effect alone can trigger reactions lots that previously only existed as probable events. What I mean to say is that the physical effects of X-rays, as you understand them, can be the overflowing factor. when it comes to a specific tissue. But that's not always the case.