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and have heard her exclaim, "Oh, I am sure I have a cancer growing
here. I can feel it;' when complaining of this left breast, where she
believed the cancer was attacking her.
A few weeks ago she died-with cancer on her lift breast! If suggestion
will actually transform healthy body cells into parasites out of which
cancer will develop, can you not imagine what it will do in destroying
disease germs-if properly directed? Suggestion is the law through
which mental healers work what appear to be miracles. I have per-
sonally witnessed the removal of parasitical growths known as warts,
through the aid of suggestion, within forty-eight hours.
COMMENTARY
By the 1980s the medical aspects of the principle Napoleon Hill wrote about in
the preceding paragraph were embraced by a growing segment of the population
commonly referred to as the New Age. Among the adherents were numerous
medical professionals who incorporated the concept under the term "the body-
mind connection, II and by the turn of the twenty-first century the belief that the
mind can manifest physical changes in the body had become a part of mainstream
medical practice.
Following is a listing of the seminal books and audiobooks that explain in
greater detail the medical applications of the power of suggestion: Visualization by
Adelaide Bry; Ageless Body, Timeless Mind by Deepak Chopra, M.D.; Creative
Visualization by Shakti Gawain; Focusing by Eugene Gendlin, Ph.D.; You Can Heal
Your Life by Louise Hay; Healing With Body Energy by W. Brugh Joy, M.D.; Psycho-
Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz, M.D.; Superimmunity by Paul Pearsall, Ph.D.;
Healing Back Pain by John £ Sarno, M.D.; Love, Medicine, and Miracles by Bernie
S. Siegel, M.D.; Getting Well by O. Carl Simonton, M.D.; Eight Weeks to Optimum
Health and Spontaneous Healing by Andrew Weil, M.D.A few months ago I received one of the most effective pieces of
advertising I ever saw. It was a little book in which a clever automobile