Question:
Are there any connections between the folk curatives and the IWT?
Answer:
The IWT was created on the basis of studying the healing by means of the operator's hands. This is the main link. However, in detail, the IWT is based on the principle of informational contact between the objects of interaction. Even now there are a lot of rituals performed by magicians and sorceresses that can be explained from the infowave viewpoint.
Folk remedies of the medical magic that the Slavs had were extensive in scope. Here belong the treatment by means of the water, fire, earth, minerals and plants. Most of these magical rites, that were used for cure, cannot be explained exclusively thru its psychotherapeutic influence on the level with faith, although this component is always present during the medical process.
Nowadays, these rituals are quite understandable from the viewpoint of the bio-information within the framework of today's scientific paradigm.