Alternative medicine people who work with magnets, tuning forks, and other methods claim that when they become well trained in their practice, they are eventually able to use their methods on a Stand-In person who represents the patient and some claim to be able to work on a person remotely with the various unseen fields, auras, chakras, etc.

We could argue whether or not these methods are real, but let's suppose they are...and I think that we on GLP would like to believe they are...

What does that tell us in a "bigger picture" kind of way, that these sorts of Holistic practices can be done through a surrogate/stand-in/remotely?