Perhaps better questions to ask are how can all humans better educate our population in the 21st century? How can we provide all people with a basic level of modern education about the world around them? How can we reduce the amount of unscientific superstitious content being spread across the Internet? How can we do a better job of training people to use critical thinking skills to analyze information and draw rational conclusions from?

There is evidence that cancer patients with spiritual practices have better prognosis (I myself have read peer reviewed articles for leukemia patients on this ).

However I think you should read a bit more to ask a better question.

I recommend you to start with Aristotle's point of view.

Knowledge can be grouped into 3 divisions:

Practical

Theoretical

Poetical

Poetical is to do with creation..like arts and poetry.

Practical includes Ethics, politics, and economics/or home management.

*Theoretical knowledge has three stages:

The highest is metaphysics( First philosophy etc). Which is the "certain" knowledge.

Second is mathematics (certain and probability ).

And last is physics or the PHYSICAL knowledge. ( includes biology, chemistry, physics....today they call them the sciences. There's an interesting story behind naming the word"science ".. you can look it up .

The physical knowledge is based on probability. And experimentation. . for example the boiling point of water, on earth, is found to be 100 degrees C.

So you can't really jump from metaphysics to physics. If you want to know more, science isn't enough to understand this. You can't label all types of energies as waves.

I don't blame you for your confusion. After the renaissance metaphysics, ethics,....were completely erased.

People were only focusing on the physical aspect. If they didn't see it under a microscope, they wouldn't believe it. Today, people are turning towards a higher dimension of the human being. For example oncologists give the patient a questionnaire to see how much social support they have..and mental health and stress is actually really important.

All the best

The concept of treatment with wave energy is that the whole cosmos is a sum total of extreme energy and vibrates at specific frequencies and in order to impact the energies/frequencies have to match theirs. There is a lot of reasearch being done on that. Dr Emoto had done experimants to prove the structural change in water molecules by effect of mere consciousness of the person handling it or just by pronouncing those feelings on water...energy is baffling...there is yet a lot to explore in universe

• "Emoto had done experimants to prove the structural change in water molecules by effect of mere consciousness of the person handling it"

???? - Sorry, but No, he never did any experiments which proved that. What proof? Pure nonsense. He only "proved" that water crystals can be beautiful (something which was already subjectively known). All objective testing showed his hypotheses to be incorrect and his claims to be nonsense.

Masaru Emoto was not a doctor and had no medical or scientific training. He was best know for his own blend of incoherent pseudo-science and subjective comments on how nature worked.

I am not being an advocate of a specific person or thought, but trying to say that the scientific world has a culture which, inherently, has a difficult time accepting work like this. Because things like this are hard to measure, and when we can’t fully measure and understand something in our modern scientific world, we are often afraid to study it and put our names on it.

New research from the Aerospace Institute of the University of Stuttgart in Germany supports the theory that water has a memory. This idea was first coined by French immunologist Dr. Jacques Benveniste in a controversial article publishedin 1988 in the journal Nature.

The only static thing in science is change and we have theories and then we prove them and then disprove them...e.g the ''Bad effects of Cholestrol' thing around which a million dollar industry was established...lets not negate things absolutely...lets be open to experiments..we belong to scientific profession indeed but there is a lot in cosmos that is beyond the limits of our comprehension.

Scientist are not generally supportive of work which can not be reproduced and is based on an opinion only, with no valid data (Emoto).

I fully support the scientific method which states that we change and adjust our thinking and ideas as new information and knowledge comes along. That is one of the key differences between science and most superstitious belief systems. We have a documented system which is checked, re-checked and always under scrutiny to be challenged, changed, tossed out or re-affirmed. Science is not afraid to investigate and study anything (perhaps some scientists are and not everything can be tested). There is a solid understanding in science that we do not know everything and what was once believed to be true at one time (e.g. humans once believed that the Earth was center of the Universe, life started 5,000 years ago and that spirits controlled our world), may be proven false later on. As new information is discovered and tested, it often changes our understanding. Scientists are flexible in this regard and that keeps us realistic and not superstitious. We prefer to accept where 99.999999 % of the data takes us at a given moment, rather than rely on superstitious explanations about how the world works. We are constantly updating our knowledge and asking new questions. Just look at how the latest DNA technology and evidence has supported our evolutionary theories.

BTW: The fake news story you quoted, "New research from the Aerospace Institute of the University of Stuttgart in Germany supports the theory that water has a memory." is an older story which was not a story at all, but a YouTube video which the "authors" were willing to sell to you in book form, LOL (and no, there is no, "Aerospace Institute of the University of Stuttgart"). The made up concept of "water memory" has been discredited many times over the past decades. No scientific proof was even shown and fake articles like that were written by homeopaths to try and add credibility to a field with none.

Yes. just focusing on the physical aspect of a human being wont help cancer patients. Science can not measure/touch beyond the physical level. As I've mentioned before, we can look at the clinical trials and see that patients with more social support, spiritual practices etc showed a significant improvement on their disease prognosis.

By the way, as a biotech specialist I would like to point out the fact that DNA technology is based on probability. I myself don't always trust it, And it also supports many other theories such as the devolution theory:)

Metaphysics is not based on probability, and as Aristotle named it to be the 'certain' knowledge. Certainly all Wisdom is from God.

I do agree that you are correct in that focusing on just the physical aspect of the human does not address all of the needs of a human (makes no difference if it is for medical treatment or not). This is something that we do address with modern Western medicine today, but can always do a better job. People who feel satisfied, (well) and/or have good support networks often do better at many things than those without. Of course the reason for this is rather subjective, but probably not due to any metaphysical effects, rather that they feel more at ease and less stressed (which seems to allow the immune system to work better). Why ascribe superstitious explanations to something when more rational ones exist?

DNA technology is indeed based on probabilities. Some have confidence levels near 100%, while other conclusions are more speculative as we continue to learn more. All show excellent confidence in the current evolution models and any differences seen do not hint at any mystical origins.

Aristotle may have been wise in his time (~ 2300 years ago!), but has been shown to have been wrong about just about everything. He contributed a lot to his time (including many of the concepts of the modern scientific method), but many of his ideas are certainly antiquated.

Certainly true wisdom comes from learning from history (something that humans have so far been very poor at) and moving forward out of the dark ages and into the light. Not being trapped by superstitious concepts, but instead rational and realistic views of the world. Better public education for all people is the key.

Good day!