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I was really interested in that article as well. Remember the bubbles above the people's heads when they were invoking their own magical thinking? I was a little dismissive of them until I read the one woman's thoughts about visualizing her problems away. I have recently become very interested in the process of visualization. I have a hard time staying focused on goals and get distracted easily. By visualizing the outcome of a task, I find that I complete it easier. I have heard that this can also work, not just as an exercise in concentration, but as a method of directing your entire life, whether it applies to health, prosperity or relationships. I know for a fact that focusing and envisioning my homework done or my room clean is a great way for me to accomplish the challenge. Is visualization a valid way of influencing the future? This goes back to the original argument of 'if thoughts are composed of something that is immaterial, how can they have an effect on the material body?' If I visualize myself healing, not feeling pain, recovering from illness, how can something as intangible as a thought have an effect on my physical well-being. This being said, it has been reported over and over again, and the connection between mind and body is much more important in other systems of healing such as moxabustion, acupuncture, massage and homeopathy. Is it magic or is it just an aspect of our perception that we have not yet learned to measure? Seizures were once magic, as were many other processes that we understand with the aid of new technology. What's to say that the healing power of visualization cannot be measured in the future?