A Story Of Bacon & Lard

By Atom Bergstrom

Atom’s Blog

Michael Heap & Windy Dryden (Hypnotherapy: A Handbook, 1991) wrote …

“Warts: These are viral in origin and respond to suggestions under hypnosis that they will disappear.”

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So why not use auto-hypnosis?

Auto-suggestion has no strings attached.

Exogenous suggestive-persuasive treatment always has strings attached.

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Jeremy Kingston (Healing Without Medicine, 1976) wrote …

“In fact, as Professor H.J. Eysenck showed in his experiments with schoolchildren, a treatment by suggestion using a magic picture of a child’s warts is more effective than the orthodox medical treatment of burning them off with acid.”

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Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is famous for originating the “scientific method.”

Let the card-carrying skeptics explain the following.

Sir Francis Bacon wrote …

“I had from my childhood a wart upon one of my fingers; afterward, when I was about sixteen years old, being then at Paris, there grew upon both my hands a number of warts, at the least an hundred in a month’s space. The English ambassador’s lady, who was a woman far from superstition told me one day she would help me away with my warts; whereupon she got a piece of lard with the skin on, and rubbed the warts all over with the fat side; and amongst the rest that wart which I had from my childhood; then she nailed the piece of lard, with the fat toward the sun, upon a post of her chamber window, which was to the south. The success was that within five weeks’ space all the warts were quite away, and that wart which I had so long endured for company. But at the rest I did little marvel because they came in a short time, and might go away in a short time again; but the going away of that which had stayed so long doth yet stick to me.”

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One of Bacon’s four Idols of the Mind was “the following of academic dogma and not asking asking questions of the world.”
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