From: ((Steven B. Harris))
Subject: Re: Holism, suppression, and isolation
Date: 15 May 1995
Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative

In <3p5b89$873@redhotmomma.ssr.com> sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne)
writes:

>What about the cures Buddhists who go to shrines to bath in the
>`healing smoke' from the temple fires? Is this `ok' in your book,
>because it's rational and reasoned and validated by empirical
>observation, or is it hocus pocus?

  Derivation: "Hocus pocus" = hoc es corpus (Domini) = this is the body
of God.  Hocus pocus has GOT to be Catholic. <g>.


                                      Steven Harris