SPIRIT EXORCISM: Some Thoughts about Spiritual Healing "Ouch! That hurts!" "That was dead grandmother's ghost." "Ah, that is painful!" "Ah, so dragon-spirit sleeps in groin." "Oh, that is stiff!" "Yes, wild buffalo within is moving." "Mmm, now that feel's wonderful!" "100 yuan please." An-Yi: (cynically) Not much has changed . . . modern medical science is often preoccupied with money-making. That's not unlike the snake-oil charlatans of yesteryear. Daiki: (nodding) Yeah, now all witch-doctors have university degrees. Chariya: It's easy to be cynical, but some spiritual healers are bona fide. They simply work on a level most folks don't fathom. Bhäraté: Perhaps so. Our understanding of health is still primitive. ===================================================================================== from _Pan-Asian Pulses: Poetry, Art, and Dialogs about Asia_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: A light satire about exorcism, money making, and medical science KEYWORDS: spiritual healing, therapeutic chicanery, medical fraud, medical quakery Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 2005 in Tokyo, Japan ≜ Finished: 2018 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/BambooGroves/spring.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/BambooGroves/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/BambooGroves/laowai.htm TRANSLATIONS DEUTSCH: https://www.tnewfields.info/de/exor.htm ESPAÑOL: https://www.tnewfields.info/es/exor.htm FRANÇAIS: https://www.tnewfields.info/fr/exor.htm NIHONGO: https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/aku.htm