In the Philippines miracle cures are taken as normal according to Lyall Watson from whose ROMEO ERROR (Hodder & Stoughton, 1974) this extract is taken (pp 217.218) Mind control of illness is naturally stronger in cultures which believe in it. In March 1973, George Meek led a team of nine scientists to the Philippines. These were experts in medicine, psychiatry and physics from Switzerland, Britain, Germany, Japan and the United States. They brought with them fifty of their own patients with known medical histories, for treatment. They saw more than ten of the healers in action and conducted some simple experiments with them, and at the end of their investiga­tion, Meek concluded that “the factual existence and daily practice of several types of psycho-energetic phenomena by several native healers was clearly established. The practice of materializing and dematerializing human blood, tissue and organs as well as non-human objects was found.”179 All mem­bers of the group signed a testimony which declared that, in the operations they saw there was no fraud, there were no anaes­thetics, no sterile precautions and no cases of infection or post­operative shock. One of the team was himself the subject of an operation. Donald Westerbeke, a biochemist from San Francisco, suffered from loss of vision produced by a brain tumour that was diag­nosed in the United States as inoperable. He had two sessions with Toni Agpaoa of Baguio and his vision was immediately restored. On return to the States, his physicians could find no trace of the tumour. Olga Farhit of Los Angeles suffered from paralysis produced by a disease involving deterioration of the bone marrow in her head and shoulders - a condition determined by biopsy at Mount Sinai and the Cedars of Lebanon hospitals in 1965. Agpaoa removed a “tremendous mass of cartilage and blood” and on her return to Los Angeles, X-rays and tissue samples were taken at St. Vincent’s Hospital. Her surgeon commented, “I don’t know what to say, but there’s nothing left except scar tissue. It’s like something went in and cleaned you out.”273