“I used to tell friends and companions of my hopes for them. “I hope you sleep well.” “I hope you are feeling better.” “I wish you good fortune.” After a time, I realized something was wrong with this.

I was correct.

Although I do not trust research (it is incomplete by nature and requires expert analysis and objection to derive its value), studies indicate that people who know we are ‘praying for them’ actually decline in health. Why might this be so? It is because they realize »we are no longer actively pursuing their well-being, directly. We have placed their fate elsewhere. In Gods or unseen, unknown beings. We have ‘given them up for lost’.

This is a mistake.

It took me a longer time to understand what I might say instead. First, I began to simply declare what I would have otherwise wished. “You have slept well.” “You are healing now.”

Then, I realized something shocking: we directly inhabit one another. This is an astonishing discovery, and grants us capacities and abilities that would seem ‘magical’ if they were not, instead, entirely ordinary to our humanity, and explicitly opposite to our conceptual expectations and explanations.

“In me, you are sleeping well; in me, you are healing.” “My body recognizes your body, they are a shared body, take from my healthy body that which you need to be well. I will be healthier as you heal and draw from me.” “In me, your dreams are sweet.” “My bones know your bones, as dear friends … and companions.” “We are always together, forever, no matter what may appear to be so in ordinary thought or expectations.”

Do not take my word for this. Test it. Each of the elements in our body is a creature, like an animal. These animals have ‘feelings’, and they are made healthy and are ‘inspired’ by conscious and vocal recognition. They »hear what we say about them. If we praise or encourage them with our hearts and voices, sincerely, they heal and prosper.

Do not take my word for this. Test it.

Talk to someone who is injured with the part of your body that is uninjured, as if you were this element. Let them know that your arm recognizes the animal of their arm, that it is a good animal, that we are grateful for all it does, that we love it, and that it can draw from us what it needs to be even better. Let the other person’s body know that its organs and elements are recognized. Praise them. Adore them. Let your organs and limbs speak to their organs and limbs.

Do not trust me in this.

Test it yourself.”

— an intelligence agent