Great Lives

Unremarked upon, but remarkable;

for example what is the real secret of
The Secret?

One man
whose endurance in the face of an intractable doom
baffled the science of his day by curing himself. How?
He attained an understanding and a level of being-in-the-world
that incidentally made of him a great healer in his day.

Some of those thousands he cured were well-educated and well-to-do.
Based on the insights they'd gained through being personally healed by this exceptional man,
they went on to create 'a movement of the written word'.

The lesson of which
socially impactful achievement
(due to ontological breakthrough)
has come down to us
in the form of derivative 'feel good' pulp maxims
and understandings.

Of what did the healing consist?
A true and real level of insight and self-knowledge
in which 'the explanation is the cure' whereby people
with all types of deathly diseases
had personally and intimately revealed to them
how their illnesses were actually a symptom
of inner beliefs about themselves and the world.

We talk of mind over body,
the life of a certain obscure early nineteenth century american
discovered this in fact
and as a healer passed it on to others
who then became well.

So the secret of The Secret
still awaits to be rediscovered

Yet we are still obviously not that advanced
except for externally.
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