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explanation to account for this. It seems rather like the case of
natives who die on the date and at the time the witch doctor
predicts.’
Consider, also the death of Elvis Presley, the rock-star legend. He
also died shortly before his 43 rd birthday, of the same cause, at the
same age, as did his mother. And he expected it to happen!”
Th is next story also illustrates the negative impacts that the power of
belief can have on a person’s health and life span. It was taken from
Maxwell Malz’s Th e New Psycho-Cybernetics. 101
Just like in the fi rst example taken from Denis Waitley’s book, this one
involves voodoo. Personally I think it is a remarkable story of how a false
belief aged a man twenty years.
Briefl y, the story is this: Maltz, a plastic surgeon, performed a cosmetic
operation on Mr Russell’s lower lip for a very modest fee, under the
condition that he must tell his girlfriend that the operation had cost
him his entire life savings. Her reaction was not as Mr Russell had
anticipated. She became hysterically angry and called him a fool for
having spent all his money. In her anger and disgust she announced
that she was placing a voodoo curse on him. Both Mr Russell and his
girlfriend had been born on an island in the West Indies where voodoo
was practiced by the ignorant and superstitious.
When in the heat of anger, his girlfriend “cursed” him, Mr Russell felt
vaguely uncomfortable but did not think much about it. However, he
remembered and wondered when a short time later he felt a strange small
hard bump on the inside of his lip. A friend who knew of the voodoo
curse, insisted that he see a Dr. Smith, who promptly assured him that
the bump inside his mouth was the feared African Bug, which would
slowly eat away all his vitality and strength. Mr Russell began to worry
and look for signs of waning strength. He wasn’t long in fi nding them.
He lost his appetite and his ability to sleep.
Maltz learned all this from Mr Russell when he returned to his offi ce
several weeks after he had dismissed him. Maltz’s nurse did not recognise