The moment after people are diagnosed with a disease and they hear, “You have…” their lives are never the same. Even if they overcome their afflictions, the mark that the disease or sickness left on them will be a timely reminder of times past. Researchers are trying to find a way for people, some who are still sick and those who have overcome, to essentially unlearn the fact that they have or have had a disease. Kelly Clancy is a writer and the daughter of a neurologist. She recalls reading some of her father’s case studies about a young boy who would have epileptic seizures whenever he would recite Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Raven’. Dr. Clancy concluded that the boy’s epileptic seizures we’re due in part to a specific word pattern that triggered his first seizure. It took time, but Dr. Clancy conducted an experiment on the young boy to cure his seizures. The patient was asked to repeatedly recite the phrase that was triggering his seizures, but recite it in his head. After 20 or so repetitions, the boy was asked to recite the phrase out loud. The boy was hooked up to an electronic stimulus machine that would send gentle signals to his brain to relax the neurons that led to his seizures. Keith Mann has learned that, after repeated sessions of this technique, the boy was completely cured of his epileptic seizures. Actor Danny Glover also suffered from seizures for years. After daily meditation, finding and then controlling his triggers, he was completely cured. The actor has been completely seizure free for over twenty years. Not all diseases can be cured by electroanalysis; chronic and terminal illnesses are cured or controlled in their own right. Doctors are hoping to perfect the curing of neurological disorders, such as epileptic seizures, social anxiety disorders and others, in order to give patients a more manageable life.
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