psychoceramics: Sound Wave Energy

[Cosma Shalizi <shalizi @ phys-next9.physics.wisc.edu>]

Sent to me from the Hyper-Weirdness home-page:
	Sound Wave Energy, http://www.frontier.net/~swe/
Attached is the testimonial of the person who sent this to me, which is not
included in their list of testimonials.  Note that this person is almost
certainly suffering from hypothyroidism, a congenital, life-long
disorder in which the thyroid gland fails to produce enough hormones. 

Untreated, this generally inhibits all metabolism; more specific
symptoms include ``poor appetite, intolerance to cold, dry, coarse,
skin, brittle hair, tiredness, a croaky, hoarse voice, constipation, and
muscle weakness... dry, scaly, cold, pale skin, a thickening of the skin
and underlying tissues (called myxedema), very slow reflexes and a slow
heart rate. The patient can have poor memory retention'' and other
cognitive problems.  (See the Thyroid Society's pages,
http://www.io.org/~thyroid/).  It is easily treated with artificial
thyroid hormones (thyroxin), but there's no permanent cure.   

When I worked at the NIH, I saw a really horrifying case of a hypothyroidic
child whose cretinous parents simply didn't get him any thyroxin for about
ten years; he looked like a Deep One, and was considerably less appealing.  


---Begin included folly---
I visited your site and I want to share a new technology with 

you, regarding the power of sound frequencies created by Sound
Wave Energy.  SWE is an holistic approach to heal the physical, 

mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of the person.  Its 

purpose is to bring the individual back into a state of harmony 

and balance, through the application of vibration and resonance 

by the use of audio tapes. But... forget that and listen instead 

to the miracle my life went through:

I was born with a deficiency in my growth hormones and as a result,
I had to take pills for the rest of my life, under the threat 

that if I ever was to stop taking them I would become nothing 

more than a zombie.  I must confess that I have done so (to stop 

taking my medication) two or three times, the results were quite 

ugly.   


As a X-ray technician, my mother has always been on the look out 

for alternative medicine, since she realized that conventional 

medicine where not working for me.  I must have tried tons of 

different approaches to heal myself: some worked a little, some 

didn't work at all.  Two years ago, my mom called me in Montreal 

and told me that she had found something amazing that could work 

for me.  I told her, abused and desperated, that I was not 

interested anymore.  But when I came to visit her, in Placitas 

(New Mexico), she started playing some tapes with different type 

of frequencies.  


Meanwhile, we visited a psychic woman in Santa Fe who insulted 

me by saying that I had a gift of Love.  As soon as she pronounced 

thoses words, I replied, mad as hell, that I was the person with 

the least love in the world and that I hated everyone beginning 

with myself!!  But after a while, listening to the tapes, a true 

miracle occured; I started crying, my heart was slowly but surely 

starting to bloom like a flower, realizing the divinity in myself.  

Consciousness arose wide open in me.  Now when I look back at this
event in my life, I embrace it with love and compassion, saying 

that if I had to live through it again, I would, because it made
me into what I am right now:  A powerful and loving being seeking to
grow and to be one again with all that is.  Of course, I don't 

take pills anymore, I'm healthy, happy conductor of a joyous life!
---End included folly---

I further beg to point out that _anger_ often preceeds conversion, but
indifference, cool contempt or amusement, almost never does.