power of the mind.

Yes, it is.

It's the power of belief and the power of the mind, of course, because the mind kind of creates reality, obviously.

I'm always in two minds about this myself, because on the one hand, you think, what is magic? Well, one of the things that magic is, I would suggest, is an overvaluation of the power of mind when you think that your thoughts will affect the world directly, like so-called magical thinking.

But on the other hand, you think, well, how can you overvalue the power of mind? Because it's everything.

You know, it creates the world.

I think quantum physics has kind of come around to that as well.

Is it true he worked for British intelligence gathering agencies?

to do that, I think.

Yeah, he wasn't above that type of thing.

But as you say, the nocebo, the famous example of a nocebo is the witch doctor's bone.

Because when the witch doctor would point the witch doctor's bone at Aborigines who believed in it, they would in fact die.

And there's quite a famous case where a man was dying and had to be kept alive in an iron lung to keep his breathing going because he believed in it and he really thought he was going to die because they believe in the witch doctor's bone.

Yeah, this is the power of the mind.

Yes, it is.

Is it true he worked for British intelligence gathering agencies?