 of the females involved made it clear
that these rises in voltage gradient occurred during the approxi
mate middle of the menstrual cycle. Needless to say, this sug
gested at once that the rise might be associated with ovulation,
since the endocrinologists have been telling us for years that
ovulation occurs in the middle of the menstrual cycle and is, in
all probability, the cause of the onset of the menses. 3
This was an exciting event, for now we could see beyond the
first buoy a second buoy in the distance: a change in voltage
gradient associated with fundamental biological activity. Atten
tion must be called, however, to the fact that the change was
one of magnitude, not of the polarity of the measurements. Since not all mammals have the same history, it was necessary
to seek an animal in which the time of ovulation could be pre
dicted. Fortunately, the rabbit is such an animal. Proper stimula
tion of the cervix in the female rabbit results, under normal
conditions, in the appearance of ovulation some nine hours after
stimulus. The following experiment, therefore, was set up: A rabbit was
stimulated, and nine hours later anaesthetized. Its abdomen was
then opened and a salt-filled chamber was placed around the
ovary. The cold electrode was attached to the anima l's body, and
the 'hot' electrode, connected to the grid of the first tube, was
placed in the salt-filled chamber not too far away from the ovary
itself. Then, with a microscope, the surface of the ovary was itseH
continuously examined while the changes in voltage gradient
between the two electrodes were recorded on the recording gal-
49 THE FEMALE FIELD
vanometer. It was thus possible to see the event of ovulation
through the microscope and, simultaneously, the recorded
changes in voltage gradient on the recorder. To our delight the moment of rupture of the follicle and the
release of the egg was accompanied by a sharp change in the
voltage gradient on the electrical recorder. This experiment was
carried out enough times until it was perfectly clear that there
could be little or no question that the electrical change was
associated with the event of ovulation. If, in an experimental animal, electrical changes were seen to
coincide with ovulation, then it might be possible to assume that
the observed voltage-gradients in women might serve to time ovu
lation in human beings. This is a very important problem, for the
exact time when eggs are released from the human ovary has not
been really determined. As these voltage gradients occur during
the middle of a menstrual cycle then, if the Knaus theory is
correct, ovulation occurs in the middle of the cycle, and therefore
the electrical changes in the human female should indicate the
time of ovulation in that particular individual. This is not an easy experiment to perform on humans but,
through a fortunate set of circumst ances, it was possible for us to
do a study on one girl. It was necessary for her to have an elective
laparotomy and she was willing to corne into the hospital and
have the operation performed at a time when our electrical
records indicated that it was the right time to do it. She was in
the hospital for fifty-six hours before the operation and during
that time was continuously measured by the recording galvan
ometer. There were times, of course, when short gaps occurred in
the record for a variety of physiological reasons, but the fact
remains that there was a rather astonishing consistency in
the electric measurements. The measurements were made between the central abdominal
wall, as a reference electrode, and the wall of the vagina in the
vicinity of the cervix, as the active electrode. When the electrical
records showed this marked change in voltage gradient in the
patient, she was moved to the operating room and, under the skill
ful hands of Dr. Luther Musselman, a laparotomy was perform ed,
50 THE FEMALE FIEL D
an ovary uncovered, and a recently ruptured follicle noted. This,
obviously confirmed the findings in the rabbit. 4
At this point occurred one of the most interesting events of
this adventure in science:
Dr. John Rock, of Brookline, Massachusetts, head of a gynae
cological hospital, evinced interest in the techniques and under
took to develop the procedures in his hospital. We gave him all
the advice and help that we could, and eventually he set up a
number of measurements at that hospital. He reported in a paper
some ten or more instances of ovulation occurring in the middle
of the menstrual cycle as indicated by electrical measurements. He completed these experiments, or at least the first of them, how
ever, before we had been able to find a suitable patient for our
work in New Haven. Like the gentleman he is, he withheld publi
cation of his findings until after we were able to publish ours. Subsequently, he continued these experiments and confirmed our
original findings. An accident occurred, however, when a house officer inad
vertently made some measurement s on a female patient not in
the middle of the menst rual cycle. He found to his dismay-and
that of the rest of the observers- that these electro-metric
changes did not always come in the middle of the cycle. It will be recalled that the Knaus theory holds that ovulation
occurs in the middle of the menstrual cycle. This theory was
based on statistical measure of pregnancies following returning
soldiers during the first World War; and there is probably little
question that the statistics are valid so far as groups are con
cerned. Unfortunately, that does not demonstrate beyond per
adventure that in every individual ovulation must necessarily
occur in the middle of the menstrual cycle. Dr. Rock felt, how
ever, that the statistical evidence was valid; and therefore any
changes in electro-metrics of the living patient, not in the middle
of the cycle, could not be related to ovulation. This terminated
51 THE FEMALE FIELD
Dr. Rock's experiment, much to our dismay, but we persisted,
nevertheless, in our study. With the help of Dr. Dorothy Barton, an extended study
was Illade of a group of women in the New Haven Hospital,
most of whom were nurses living a fairly rigorous existence, with
more regularity than most of us undergo. These women included
subjects of all ages. Some of them were post-menopausal. One of the interesting consequences of this study was the fact
that about thirty per cent of the women seemed to ovulate in the
middle of the cycle, granting the validity of the electro-metric
technique. But in all probabili ty-accor ding to electrical measure
ments-twa-thirds of the women ovulated over the entire men
strual cycle, even during the menses. This was at variance with
the endocrinological theory of ovulation and was difficult for
many people to accept. Women over the menstrual period and in the non-fertile
period and those in the so-called menopause, showed no such
electro-metric changes with the passage of time. This was true
whether the menopause was the natural one or one resulting
from surgery of the generative tract. For a number of years measurements were made on patients,
sent in by surrounding doctors, to time ovulation in their par
ticular instances. One of the patients sent to us was one who had
been married for a number of years without issue. The question
was raised, of course, as to the reason for the infertility. Though
all the known techniques of that time were employed no signifi
cant fact was uncovered to explain why there was no fertile result. The patient was taught to make the measurements herself and
did them religiously once a day, day-after-day, for many months. At no time was there any evidence of voltage variations. Subse
quently, when a laparotomy was required, it was found that the
patient had atrophied ovaries, apparently caused by their early
involvement in tuberculosis. At no time had she ovulated and
there were no electro-metric changes. This raises the question of the necessarily causal relationship
between ovulation and the onset of menst ruation. In the group
of patients studied, moreover, while the great majority showed
fairly regular menstrual periods of the average length, there were
52 THE FEMALE FIELD
a number whose menstrual histories were very irregular. One
patient in particular exhibited menstruation only three times in
a year, and yet during that year there were three instances where
there was a marked electro-metric change unrelated to the onset of
menstruation itself and suggested that ovulation had occurred. The evidence is clear. Like brain waves and heart waves, electro
metric changes occur during ovulation and can be recorded in
the living subject. Furthermore, the results show that ovulation
may take place at any time in the menstrual cycle, although in
the majority of women studied the ovulation record showed the
usual mid-cycle peak. It is equally clear that there is no necessary
relationship between ovulation and menstruation, for either may
exist without the other; ovulation may occur without menstrua
tion and menses without ovulation. 5
Published reports of our experiments with women were read
by the distinguished obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dr. Louis
Langman, of New York University and Bellevue HospitaL As a


 people—
they respond with kinesiology positively to the following foods, and there’ s
the Green people, and they respond positively to the following foods and
they react negatively to the other foods. So her thesis was that Green people
will get sick if they keep eating Red food all the time and can’ t seem to get
well. And when they discover what they’re eating is inimical to their health,
they will regain their health. And now she’ s worried because a lot of
medications are coming out in generic. So, the brand name—let’ s say
you’re a Red person—and the brand name tests Red, so you say, “Penicillin
G is good for me, yes. I’m a Red person and that’ s a Red product, right? Okay, so it’ s harmonious with my ener gy,” or whatever. Now they put out a
generic brand of the same thing, only it tests out Green. So, now you’re a
Red person taking a Green pill, and this penicillin is not helping you. So
she’s worried about you—what are we going to do now? The generics are
coming out, and they are coming out in a dif ferent category. So kinesiology
can lead you into all kinds of conundrums, huh?We just numerically called it 200 because that worked out as far as the
logarithms go; 540 is the level of Unconditional Love. It just happens to be
there. Love is at 500, and we say you can be very loving but still have
conditionalities. When does Love become Unconditional? So, when Love is
Unconditional, we found it calibrates at 540. Christ Consciousness
Have we ever calibrated the level before Christ appeared and then right
after Christ appeared? Let’ s see. “W e have permission to ask this question”
(True). “The appearance of Christ on the consciousness changed the overall
level of the consciousness of mankind: resist” (T rue). “It raised it: resist”
(True). “When we say ‘Christ,’  we mean the appearance of His teaching:
resist” (T rue). “W e don’ t mean the appearance of His physicality: resist”
(True). So, we’re not talking about necessarily when the Baby Jesus sat there in
the swaddling clothes, or something. “Before the birth of Christ, the
consciousness level of mankind was over, oh boy, over 90: resist” (T rue). “Over 95: resist” (Not true). “Before the birth of Christ, the consciousness
level of mankind as a whole was over 95: resist” (T rue). “96: resist” (Not
true). About 95. Let’ s see, where’ s 95? Man lived in fear. “After the birth of
Christ, the consciousness level of mankind increased: resist” (T rue). “Increased over 5 points: resist” (T rue). “10 points: resist” (T rue). “15
points: resist” (T rue). “20 points: resist” (T rue). “30 points: resist” (T rue). “40 points: resist” (Not true). “Just the physicality of Jesus Christ raised the
consciousness level of man over 40 points: resist” (T rue). The physicality of
the presence of Christ on the planet raised the consciousness level of
mankind 40 points. “The teachings of Christ as they spread through the
Roman Empire continued to increase the level of man’ s consciousness:
resist” (T rue). “The spread of Christianity through the Roman Empire
increased the consciousness level of mankind another 20 points” (T rue);
“Another 30 points” (T rue); “Another 40 points” (Not true). The birth of Christ as a physicality apparently was like a window to God
and radiated that ener gy, jumped it 40 points, which is enormous. The
teachings of Christ, then, radiated out, and were carried throughout the
Roman Empire, and raised the consciousness level of mankind further.The history of the evolution of the Roman Empire is quite interesting
from the viewpoint of consciousness. Some of the Roman emperors were
really quite advanced, almost more advanced than modern man, recognizing
the equality of man; recognizing the right of the slave to a trial, a judicial
trial; tolerance for all religions, except with the proviso that you also had to
acknowledge the Roman gods. So, the Roman gods showed your allegiance
to Rome as an empire and to the emperor, but so long as you did that, you
could worship any gods you wanted. So it was pretty evolved. And it’ s
interesting because it is the foundation of our Western culture. I think it
helps advance one’ s spiritual awareness and consciousness because it
increases your tolerance for that which dif fers from yourself—when you
sort of become aware of how consciousness evolved and how the evolution
of that consciousness expressed itself in cultures as they spread out across
the world and the impact of the human experience. So, in a way, you’re sort
of owning yourself as the totality of mankind. There was certainly a period
in the evolution of this consciousness of owning the self as the Self and
totality of all of mankind. And so, understanding the evolution of humanity
as culture and as it expresses itself over time can have a broadening ef fect
and make one a little broader, which means less critical of that which dif fers
from yourself, which makes the ego a little easier to transcend—because
you sort of get of f rigid positionalities as you become more sophisticated
and see how consciousness evolved and expressed itself through the various
religions and cultures. We become tolerant of that which is dif ferent than
ourself. Of course, what we’re shocked by is the egocentricity of it and the
cost in society, but we can perhaps understand how it could evolve. So to be
compassionate toward all of life means to be really, relatively sophisticated
and educated about how consciousness evolved throughout time and then
expressed itself in society in its various ways. As we said before, to
understand society is to understand the ego. So, you are not wasting your
time in studying history or sociology, because you’re seeing how the ego
outcrops itself... what do you call it? Out-something-or -other itself—out-
something itself, out-pictures itself—how’ s that? How it expresses itself
collectively. The collective ego, then, is the individual ego projected
outward and expressed in human society on a grand scale where it’ s easy to
see. [I was asked,] “Y ou indicate that there were something like 294,000
calibrations. Are the results of those calibrations available somewhere to be
a resource?” The book I’m working on now—well, I am finishing up I, the
book I. The original manuscript was revised, and now I’m revising the
revision. Then I will have to correct the revised revision... but in the
meantime, during the intervals, the book I think I’m going to call Radical
Reality [T ruth vs. Falsehood]— in it we do about a thousand calibrations,
going back through history—from Nero, Caesar, Caligula; through more
recent history; through Nazi regimes; and into recent events, from
Gorbachev to current rulers. I can give you examples. For instance, FDR
was 499; Churchill was 510; most American presidents are in the mid-400s. Signers of the Declaration of Independence were about 510; the
Constitution of the United States is 700. So, we can go back through the
Magna Carta, we go through the evolution of democracy from the
beginning of time. We calibrate theologians from the founders of the
Christian church on down. We go through all the major events in human
history; and current life, from MTV—it calibrates about 190—to computer
games; and musicians—the great musicians, the popular musicians, and the
classical musicians. The great classical musicians were generally in the
500s; some were higher. The great architects—we calibrated the great
cathedrals of the world. When I traveled in Europe, what attracted me was to go from cathedral to
cathedral. They calibrate around 700, so you can see why they are
attractive. To travel through the country of France and see Chartres
Cathedral arising above the level of the hayfields way of f in the distance is
an unfor gettable experience. So we do the great cathedrals and compare it,
let’s say, with the Crystal Cathedral currently in Los Angeles. We did all the
major spiritual writers throughout history, of ancient and recent times, in the
various books of the Bible and various things like that; various spiritual
traditions and churches and teachers and gurus. We have pretty much
covered all of human society. The scientists, the writers, the inventors, the
great industrialists, current politicians. I think the highest calibration we got
for a current head of state is the current president of Mexico. Surprisingly
enough, the current president of Mexico calibrates around 560 or
something, very, very high—the highest on the planet. And what does he
talk about? He talks about cooperation, mutuality—see, he’ s not against
winning and losing; he is not against make


them	even	if	you	wanted	to. For	men,	obviously,	things	are
different	and	they	can	go	on	and	on. Nature
knows
	how	long	it	takes
them
	to
grow	up! (I’m	joking	here.) But	for	the	other	half	of	the	human	race,
something	miraculous	occurs	to	your	body	every	month,	and	then	it’s	gone. It
is	simply	gone. I’ve	watched	with	awe	as	the	baton	of	voluptuousness	has	been	passed	to
my	17-year-old	daughter. Of	course	I	don’t	want	to	mimic	a	17-year-old’s
attractiveness,	but	I	do	want	to	hold	on	to	my	own	as	best	I	can. There’s	a
certain	psychoerotic	quality—I	always	feel	it	in	France—a	feeling	that	any
night	could	be	a	magic	night,	and	you	want	to	be	ready	for	it	if	this	one	is. I	remember	the	hormones	of	youth. I	remember	when	every	cell	of	my
body	screamed,	“Get	a	man! Get
any
	man!”	Later	they	were	just	as	apt	to	say,
“Whatever. I	don’t	care.”	My	body	isn’t	a	slave	to	itself	the	way	it	used	to	be,
but	my	soul	has	taken	things	to	a	whole	new	place. It’s	natural	that	there	are	years	when	the	thought	of	sex	is	pretty	much
everyone’s	preoccupation;	the	species	can’t	propagate	unless	young	people
move	the	process	forward. But	sometimes	it’s	when	the	urge	for	sex	becomes
a	little	less	urgent	that	the	urge	for	love	becomes	even	more	pure. The	urge
for	connection	itself	is	ageless;	what	changes	is	our	understanding	of	what
connection
means. Sometimes	people	know	a	lot	about	sex	but	not	much	at	all
about	love. In	the	realm	of	the	body,	something	starts	to	cool	off	as	we	age. But	in	the
realm	of	the	spirit,	things	are	just	heating	up. Mature	women	are	pursued	not
just	for	their	bodies	but	for	their
knowing. A	man	recognizes,	however
unconsciously,	that	a	woman’s	love	is	an	initiation	into	his	own	manhood. On
a	physical	level,	that	initiation	can	mean	something	as	crude	as	a	ride	in	the
backseat	of	a	car. But	on	a	spiritual	level,	it’s	the	result	of	an	internal
connection	that	sex	itself	cannot	guarantee. For	this,	a	man	needs	more	than	a
woman. He	needs	a	priestess. Every	woman	has	an	inner	priestess,	but	she	often	takes	a	few	decades	to
emerge. A	priestess	is	fierce—particularly	in	bed. Once	she	arrives,	she	is
looking	for	men	and	not	boys. It’s	not	enough,	at	a	certain	point,	for	a	man	to	just	know	how	to	handle	a
woman’s	body. He	has	to	learn	how	to	handle	a	woman’s
being,
	and	often	it’s
a	priestess	who	teaches	him. One	of	the	greatest	gifts	a	mature	woman	gives	a
man	is	that	what	makes	his	younger	girlfriends	swoon,	“Give	it	to	me! I’ll	doanything!”	makes	the	older	woman	go,	“Yeah,	so	what	else	have	you	got?”
For	her,	he’s	going	to	have	to	work	a	whole	lot	harder. And	that	pun	is
intended. If	what	you’re	up	to	is	producing	babies,	then	obviously	the	younger
woman	has	the	goods. With	a	younger	woman,	a	man	can	conceive	a	child. But	with	a	priestess,	he	is	often	more	likely	to	conceive	the	man	he	wants	to
be. Physically,	a	man	spreads	his	seed;	spiritually,	a	woman	spreads	hers. Ultimately,	we	impregnate	each	other	and	then	we	are	both	reborn. When	a
man	has	spent	magic	time	with	a	woman	mature	enough	and	wise	enough	to
have	entered	her	priestess	years,	he’s	the	one	who’s	likely	to	call	later	and	say,
“Honey,	I	think	I’m	pregnant.”	The	new	breed	of	hot	new	mama	has
miraculous	powers,	calling	forth	a	new	breed	of	man. O
NE	DAY	MY	DAUGHTER	CAME	HOME	AND	TOLD	ME
	I
JUST	HAD
	to	hear	this	great	new	song. It
was	a	cover	of	Bob	Dylan’s	“Lay,	Lady,	Lay.”	I	explained	to	her	that	in	my
day,	we	listened	to	the
real
“Lay,	Lady,	Lay.”	And	in	my	case,	as	I’m	sure	is
true	for	thousands	of	others	as	well,	we	did	a	whole	lot	more	than	just	listen. I’ve	asked	myself	often	in	the	last	few	years,	“What	did	my	mother	think	we
were
doing
	on	those	afternoons?”
I	read	a	quote	once	that	no	matter	how	old	we	are,	the	music	we	most	relate
to	is	the	music	of	our	youth. In	my	case,	that’s	definitely	true. And	the	songs	I
remember	most	are	the	songs	I	fell	in	love	to. From	Joan	Armatrading	to
Jefferson	Airplane	to	Van	Morrison,	there	are	phrases	of	songs	that	remind	me
of	things,	beautiful	things,	that	were	some	of	the	sweetest	moments	of	my
life. And	why	were	they	so	sweet? Because,	along	with	the	birth	of	my
daughter,	they	took	me	to	a	place	where	there	was	no	separation	between
myself	and	someone	else. And	that	was	real. The	love	affairs	we	had	in	our
youth	were	not	unreal,	so	much	as	the	personality	structures	we	went	on	to
develop	afterward	were	not	containers	for	that	much	reality. Some	of	what	we
call	“mature”	in	our	society	is	spiritually	regressive. I’ve	officiated	at	scores	of	marriages,	perhaps	even	more. I	believe	in	the
institution. But	far	too	often,	it’s	devastatingly	obvious	that	a	vortex	that	can
be	the	greatest	liberator	is	turned	by	the	ego	into	the	bleakest	prison,	not	only
for	the	body	but	for	the	soul. The	words
husband
	and
wife
	should	not	be
synonymous	with
roommate. Love	should	not	be	mundane. It	should	not	be
banal. When	it	becomes	that,	it	loses	its	magic. While	the	comforts	of	shared
coffee	cups,	someone	to	sort	through	the	bills	with,	conversations	about	thechildren,	and	admissions	of	fear	to	one	who	has	become	your	best	friend	are
all	a	part	of	what	make	long-term	nesting	wonderful,	emotionally	it	is	to	our
peril	when	we	allow	considerations	of	the	world	to	form	a	veil	across	the	face
of	love. I	was	sitting	next	to	a	man	on	an	airplane	once,	who	told	me	that	he	and	his
wife	were	excited	about	a	new	business	venture. For	the	first	time	in	their
marriage,	they	were	going	to	be	working	together. They	had	refurbished	a
carriage	house	in	back	of	their	home	and	had	turned	it	into	an	office. All	of
this	seemed	to	them	like	a	fabulous	setup	for	a	great	next	phase	in	both	their
careers	and	their	relationship. As	he	told	me	of	their	plans,	I	think	he	saw	me	choke	on	my	red	wine. “What?”	he	asked. “Nothing,”	I	responded,	aware	that	I	didn’t	even	know	this	man,	and	had	no
business	giving	him


 indicating that it is
a negative emotion, as shown by the direction of the
arrow. We see its relative power in this mathematical
model that shows the calibrated energies ofthe differ
ent ftelds.As we go up from the negative emotions of
30,50, and 75 into the positive emotions beginning at
200, we see that their power, from the viewpoint of
physics, actually increases. As we address the energy fteld of Fear, we begin to
realize that being fearful can attach to anything and
everything in our lives. There is nothing in our total 269 WORRY, FEAR, AND ANXIETY
experience as a human being to which fear cannot be
attached. We love our mother, and up comes the fear
of "What if we lose her?" We love our body and up
comes the fear of death or sickness. We love money
and up comes the fear of loss or of being accused of
being greedy. No matter what we think of, fear can be
attached to it. We love our automobile and up comes
the fear of an accident. A fearful person attaches fear
to everything; therefore, everything that comes into
the mind is coming into an energy field of fear and
thus gets colored with fear. There is even a fear of life
itself, as shown by the song,'''Fraid of living and 'fraid
of dying." In other words, this energy field has now
contaminated everything. Ifwe are the source of that energy field, then all
our experience comes into the field of fear, and every
thing in our lives can become fearful. The future is
fearful: old age, getting older, what is going to happen
to the body, what is going to happen to my finances,
what is going to happen to my relationships, what is
going to happen to my family, what is going to hap
pen to my bank account, what is going to happen to
my country, and what is going to happen to the
world? People who develop global fear will tell you about
their fear of nuclear annihilation, or intergalactic
wars, or meteors, or cataclysmic 'end times'. The
expansion of the fear does not change the fact that it
is still just fear. Glamorizing it and making it sound
dramatic does not change that it is just fear. The fears
of intergalactic war, human demolition, and the expi
ration of the human race are no different from the 270 HEALING AND RECOVERY
child's fear of the dark or his fear that a dog might
bite him. Experientially, fear is always just the same
emotion. Characteristic of all of this is the energy field
calledFear.Fear of'what'is reallyimmaterial. We have
to learn to look away from the thoughts and look
instead at the feeling. We actually have to look below
the feeling to the energy field out of which the feel
ing is originating and then learn how to handle this
energyfield.Whenwe do this,we lose ourfear offear,
and as that happens, we begin to learn how to handle
fear directly. It is an extremely simple thing to handle
once we are familiar with some rather easy tech
niques. The world pretty much runs people with fear
because their personal lives are also predominantly
run by fear. But once we have learned a way to avoid
getting cornered by fear, we begin to transcend the
world as well as transcend being a victim because the
world can threaten us only by fear. Ifthey cut off our
bank account, conduct an audit, run· away from us,
leave us, or fife us, the gun at our head is always the
same gun-the gun of fear. There can be the fear of
losing a part of the body-there is no end to the num
ber of fears, but there is an end to fearfulness and of
being a victim of fear. We will learn how to lose our fear of fear, how to
enjoy the process, and how to really start feeling good
about ourselves when we realize that we are no
longer the victim, the worm that is at the effect ofthis
all-pervasive fearfulness. The problem is not fear itself
but the energy field of fearfulness. We can begin to WORRY, FEAR, AND ANXIETY 271
see that we are in control of it because we are the
source of it. We start with admitting the truth that "I
am the source of my fearfulness." We know that in a
different mood, a fearful thing is no longer fearful. We
might say about the thing we fear, "I'm afraid of that,"
but when we are accompanied by someone else, or in
a different mood, such as a humorous one, and we are
having a good time laughing, then the thing no longer
engenders fear, so the source of fear is not out in
the world. There is no way of overcoming one's fear of the
world because there is no way the world can be con
trolled to end one's fears, nor can fears be overcome
by changing society, by changing the law, or by
changing the rules.The source of fearfulness is with
in oneself. Picture a big event.There are two aspects-one is
the event itself, and the second is how we feel about
it. Having more police at the event might make us
feel better, but, in fact, where are the police going to
be while our apartment is being robbed? At the other
end of town, naturally. Therefore, our handling of
fear is really up to ourself. It comes out of our will
ingness to own that we are the source of that fear,
which is occurring within our own consciousness. Therefore, we want to address it where it is actually
being experienced. Most people experience fear in a somewhat phys
ical way, so the first thing to do about a fearful expe
rience is eliminate paying any attention to thought. A
fearful feeling will engender literally millions of
thoughts. There is no end to fearful thoughts because 272 HEALING AND RECOVERY
they are coming out of the energy field of fear itself,
which generates an endless series of thoughts. Clinically speaking, handling the specific thoughts
themselves has a limited value, and the fearfulness
merely generates more thoughts later on, so we want
to use a technique that will handle fear itself. A person might just picture something fearful in
their life, or something fearful that they expect to
happen or has happened, or they can just fantasize a
fearful experience, such as being tied to the railroad
track with a locomotive bearing down on them. As
they look at what is being experienced, they will see
when they look past the thought, it is being experi
enced first in the body. They may notice a tenseness
in the stomach muscles, a queasy feeling in the stom
ach, shakiness in the arms and legs, or a dryness in the
mouth. Some people have intestinal cramps or diffi
culty breathing. Whatever it is, they look within them
selves to see what is actually being experienced. Radical truth means what is being experienced, not
what one is actually thinking about it or the concepts
that one is projecting onto the experience; it is not
the labeling of it but what one is literally experienc
ing within oneself. The technique is to let go of resisting the experi
encing of what is literally being experienced. Let go
of resisting the dryness of the mouth. Let it be there
and welcome it. Let go of resisting the flip-flop feeling
in the stomach and the trembling in the arms and
legs. When we do this, we are focused away from
thought about what is being experienced. We fully let
go and surrender being those sensations. The letting WORRY, FEAR, AND ANXIETY 273
go is like being the willow tree in the wind. The ancient wisdom ofTaoism states that the oak
tree, which resists the wind, is susceptible to break
ing, and the willow tree, which bends with the wind,
survives. Like the willow tree, we bend with the
incoming experience. We let it be, blend with it, and
welcome it. We say, "Let's have more of it." As we do
that, we will discover, much to our surprise, that there
is a limited amount of that sensation. It is as though
the amount offear we have is limited in quantity. How
can this be? It is as though this fear is like a pressure
tank that contains all the suppressed fear we have had
throughout our lifetime, starting in our childhood. There is all the fear that we could not allow ourselves
to experience or express, or were not allowed to
express. We were not allowed to have that emotion. For example, a man in military service was not
allowed to express the fearfulness because it was
thought to be unmanly or showed cowardice, so the
fear got suppressed, repressed, and pushed down out
of awareness. Fears we were not aware of have come up by the
thousands in our lifetime. The fear comes up and we
unwittingly brace our back. The fear is just pushed
out of awareness, or we drum our fmgers on the desk. The fear is so


 dysfunction—a debatable opinion. Over thirty years ago Dr. Benjamin Feingold, M.D., developed a dietary treatment for this
condition, which is in strong sympathy with the Gerson principles. He excluded all artificial
flavors and colors, all preservatives, some kinds of sugars, yeast, salicylates, and prescribed
instead fresh, preferably organic foods. His method attracted enthusiastic support and sharp
criticism, the latter mainly from the food industry. Since then many naturopaths and nutritionists have had good results, treating ADHD children
by simply changing their diet to wholesome organic food, excluding all additives. Unfortunately
orthodox physicians, who are unfamiliar with dietary principles, prescribe hyperactive youngsters
the drug Ritalin, a highly addictive substance closely resembling cocaine. Not surprisingly the
side effects, including permanent brain damage, are dire. The drug is prescribed even for children
younger than six years old, sometimes on the say-so of a nurse who considers the child ‘ill
behaved’ and wants to keep him/her quiet and obedient—in fact zombie-like. It is a terrifying fact that nearly two million American children are drugged with Ritalin,
and the number is rising. Mothers are grateful for Ritalin, which eliminates their children’s
destructiveness and aggression, since they don’t understand the true—nutritional—cause of such
behavior, and therefore don’t know how to deal with it sensibly and effectively. Their pediatricians
don’t know, either, how to advise them correctly—all they are trained in is the use of drugs. ( see
Ritalin  in Chapter 5. pg. 64)
Even the mildest form of the Gerson protocol puts an end to ADHD in no time at all. Depression
All over the developed world depression is rapidly becoming a major mental health problem,
causing much suffering and incapacity, loss of earnings, plus growing expenditure on treatment,
mainly by drugs. According to the World Health Organisation, by 2020 clinical depression will
become the second leading cause of disability worldwide. Alarmingly enough, already now more
and more children and adolescents become depressed; many of them react by developing eating
disorders or committing self-harm.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 6 8Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comWe need to differentiate between two kinds of depression: one caused by psychological, the
other by physical factors, although they often affect each other. Human life has never been free
from problems and difficulties, and the resulting depression needs to be alleviated by professional
psychological help and support. (Ways to deal with depression caused by a cancer diagnosis are
described in Chapter 24)
Here we are concerned with the physical basis of depression, turning our spotlight on the
brain. Clearly, our thinking, outlook, feeling reactions, handling of daily problems, as well as
control of movement, physical coordination and many more vital activities are directly related to
the brain. Thus its function is basic and depends on the health and correct working of the brain
cells. Although it is a relatively small organ compared to the total body mass, the brain uses up
some two-fifths of the body’s intake of oxygen and a fifth of its blood supply. We may safely
assume that it also requires a large amount of nutrients—vitamins, minerals and enzymes—to
perform its incredibly complex tasks. Since the so-called “normal” American diet is chronically
short of such nutrients, obviously the brain’s needs are not fulfilled. Yet as part of the Central
Nervous System (CNS), the brain’s tissues are so specialized that, unlike the tissues of other
organs, most of them are unable to re-grow, i.e., reproduce themselves. From this it follows that if the brain cells are inadequately nourished, they cannot function
properly, their fragile balance is disturbed and certain mental disturbances occur, including bi-
polar disorder, schizophrenia, insomnia, chronic anxiety, and, above all, depression. Most of
these conditions have been alleviated by up to 90% by vitamin (inositol) treatment (see Carl C.
Pfeiffer, Ph.D., M.D., Mental and Elemental Nutrients,  Keats Publishing, Inc.,1975. P.g145). Double Nobel Prize Laureate Linus Pauling has also stated that 60% of schizophrenics treated
with megavitamins either improved or had complete relief of symptoms (ibid., Pg.12). Dr. Abram
Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. first discovered that niacin (Vitamin B3) lowered cholesterol, and that
excess cholesterol was a contributory factor in schizophrenia. He was able to restore thousands
of schizophrenics to normalcy by treating them with megadoses of niacin and ascorbic acid
(Vitamin C.)
Under normal circumstances the brain is protected from the penetration of toxins (poisons)
by the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB), a membrane that controls the passage of substances from
the blood into the brain. The BBB can be damaged and broken down by microwaves, radiation,
hypertension ( high blood pressure),  infection, and most importantly by severe toxicity of the
organism, which stops the barrier from blocking the penetration of poisons into the brain.. Hence
the vicious circle of inadequate nutrition and toxicity spins on, and depression and other kinds of
mental ill-health set in. Almost as bad as the proliferation of clinical depression is the recent development of drugs to
relieve the condition. These highly toxic drugs are prescribed even for young children, although
the well-known side effects include severe worsening of the depression, to the point of suicide or Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 6 9Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comhomicide. By way of contrast, the standard Gerson treatment is able to alleviate the depression
fairly quickly, even in patients who have already undergone drug treatment and are suffering
from its side effects. The therapy’s detoxifying coffee enemas, and the flooding of all body
tissues, including the brain, with the needed nutrients, is the quickest and safest way to relieve
depression. Case History: Some eight years ago, as Charlotte Gerson was traveling far and wide all over
the USA, giving lectures to numerous groups, she stayed at a charming little motel. The manager,
P.B., was interested in her work, and in the course of their conversation he told her that he was
suffering from severe clinical depression, controlling the condition with prescription drugs. He
also admitted that he had been in Viet Nam and had been exposed to “Agent Orange.”
When Charlotte told him more about the nutritional approach to healing, P.B., aged around
50, purchased the Gerson publications and began to follow the therapy on his own at home as
best he could. In December of 2006 he reported that he had recovered, was able to discontinue all
medical drugs, felt very well, since he no longer suffered the side effects of those drugs, and led
a normal active life. Crohn’s Disease
The medical term for this condition is regional ileitis. It is a chronic inflammation of the
lower two-thirds of the small intestine, the ileum,  and as a rule alternates between periods of
aggravation and remission. The patient suffers from diarrhea, abdominal pain, weight loss,
anemia, and eventually, often after several years, intestinal obstruction. According to Taber’ s
Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, “The cause is unknown.” As orthodox medicine has no cure for
this condition, the final outcome is usually surgery, removing a large portion—or even the entire
length—of the colon, and installing a colostomy bag. Case History : M.G. was only 15 when she was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. She spent
much of that year commuting between her home and the General Hospital in Sault Ste.Marie,
Ont., Canada, missing much of her schooling. Several times when visiting the hospital she was
on the verge of developing bowel obstruction; being unable to absorb her food, she weighed only
78 lbs. Her physicians suggested surgery, but this was refused. Just in time her family discovered
the Gerson Therapy and the young girl started on it at home. Although her bowel was nearly
obstructed, the coffee enemas brought immediate relief and she no longer needed to visit the
hospital. After three months the pain was gone, her energy had returned; within one year she
gained 26 lbs and was able to attend school regularly. She remains well and at present is studying
medicine. Migraine
Migraines are described as frequently unilateral ( one-sided)  paroxysmal (sudden, severe) Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 7 0Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comattacks of headache. The sharp, throbbing pain is normally accompanied by hypersensitivity to
light and sounds, nausea and/or vomiting; attacks are recurring and can last from 4 to 72 hours. Migraines are extremely common: over 10 million Americans are regular sufferers. Medical
treatment is limited to pain relieving drugs, sometimes as powerful as morphine,


yl Ketone (MBK)
Methylene Chloride
TCE
INORGANIC METAL POLLUTION
These can be found in dental wear, cosmetics, food, drinking cans, water
supplies and cooking pots. Copper
Mercury
Thallium
Lead
Cadmium
Nickel
Chromium
Aluminum
CHEMICAL TOXINS
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS)—Freon can be found in air conditioners
and refrigerators. Arsenic—can be found in pesticides. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)—can be found in transformers,
commercial soap and detergents. Formaldehyde—can be found in furniture, pillows, mattresses, clothing,
Formica cabinets, and carpets. Chemical medications
Psychotropic drugs
Chlorine in water supplies and pools
Fluorine (a known carcinogen) added to water supplies. Inorganic Iodine
Sulfa drugs
PhosphatesEVERYDAY CHEMICALS
These are chemicals that you may be breathing, using, touching, etc. Aluminum cookware
Household cleaners
Automobile fluids
Pesticides (neuro-toxins)—these are an excito toxin (brain and nerve
poison). Herbicides (neuro and liver toxins—these are an excito toxin (brain and
nerve poison). Fertilizers
Paint
Varnish
Wax
Glues
Lubricants
Bleach
Gasoline
Underarm deodorants (aluminum chlorohy-drates and neomycin)
Toothpaste
Soaps
MYCOTOXINS
These are molds that can produce some of the most toxic substances. Alflatoxin—can be found in commercial fruit juices, rice, pasta, bread
and vinegar. Zearalenone—can be found in commercial cereal grains, processed foods
and feeds. Sterigmatocystin—pasta
Ergot
Cytochalasin B
Kojic Acid
T-2 Toxin
Sorghum molds
Patulin
Top 20 Hazardous SubstancesThe are 275 substances on the current list from the ASTDR/EPA. 1
. Arsenic
2
. Lead
3
. Mercury
4
. Vinyl Chloride
5
. Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
6
. Benzene
7
. Cadmium
8
. Benzo(a)pyrene
9
. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
10
. Benzo(b)fluoranthene
11
. Chloroform
12
. DDT, P’ P’
13
. Aroclor 1254
14
. Aroclor 1260
15
. Trichloroethylene
16
. Dibenz (a.h.) anthracene
17
. Dieldrin
18
. Chromium, Hexavalent
19
. Chlordane
20
. Hexachlorobutadiene

PHYSICAL TOXINS
Fiberglass
Asbestos
Car and truck exhaust—carbon monoxide, lead, etc. By-products of chemical manufacturing
Lead pipes
Nuclear wastes
Common Water and Food Contaminants
P
ESTICIDES
P
OSSIBLE HEALTH
 E
FFECTS
Chlordane
Known carcinogen.Atrazine
Damages kidney, liver, heart, lung, tissue; a known
carcinogen. Alachlor
Probably carcinogen. DDT and derivatives
Liver, kidneys, nerve, and endocrine damage. Diazinon
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage. EPN
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage. Lindane
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage. PCB’s
(polychlorinated
biphenyls)
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage. Phosphamidon
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage. Chlorpyrifos
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage. Dicloran
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage. Endosulfan
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage. 2, 4D
Kidney, Liverand Lung damage. T
OXIC
 M
ETALS
P
OSSIBLE HEALTH
 E
FFECTS
Arsenic
Kidney, liver, endocrine and nerve damage. Mercury
Brain and nerve damage. Lead
Liver, kidney, muscle and nerve damage.Sulfur
Accumulative, allergies, lymphomas, kidney and
intestinal impairment, and inflammation. Cadmium
Brain, nerve, liver, pancreas damage. PETROCHEMICALS
P
OSSIBLE HEALTH
 E
FFECTS
Benzene
Carcinogen. Xylenes
Liver, kidney, endocrine and nervous system damage. Carbon Tetrachloride
Suspected carcinogen. Ethylene dibromide
Suspected carcinogen. Permethrin
An excitotoxin (neuro-toxins) Suspected carcinogens,
liver and kidney damage. Toluene
Kidney, liver, nervous system, endocrine, circulatory
damage. FOOD ADDITIVES
BHT
Nitrates
Nitrites
MSG
Artificial sugars (aspartame, saccharin, etc.) Tobacco for smoking or chewing
As you can see from the lists above there are high amounts of chemical
toxins, mostly man-made, that have been introduced into our air, water and
food supplies. Remember, for every cause there is an effect. All toxins are
irritating, damaging and inflammatory (causing an immune response) to some
degree or another. TOXIC PESTICIDES
The U.S. Agriculture Department and independent research companies and
organizations have reported that there are high amounts of pesticides and
other pollutants on and in our foods. Tomatoes, strawberries, peaches,
spinach, turnips, squash and many other foods can have as much as 80 to 100
different pollutants, especially pesticides, on or in them. Peanuts have over
180 pollutants, and raisins can have over 110. As you read the potential and known side effects of pesticides, ask
yourself if you’re really in favor of Bio-Tech Engineering—whereby
pesticides are genetically placed into the seeds of our foods. This means, of
course, that pesticide residues will be in the foods themselves, and that we
will have no way to remove them. Pesticides are like sulfur drugs, they have a
cumulative effect. Once reaching toxic and deadly proportions they cause
allergy reactions, inflammation, excessive immune responses and
neurological failure. TOXIC CHEMICALS

The following contains examples of everyday toxins that you “consume”
through your foods, water, cosmetics, toothpaste, underarm deodorants, and
other products. These are just a few of the extremely toxic chemicals that
have been manufactured and released into our environment and food supply. Aluminum (chlorohydrates, etc.) Found in
: Underarm deodorants, canned foods, industry, cooking
utensils, etc. Properties
: Suspected brain and nerve damage, suspected in Alzheimer’s
and other brain and nerve syndromes. May affect the endocrine
gland system, especially the pituitary. Aspartame (NutraSweet®, Equal®)
Found in
: Diet drinks (soda, etc. ), candies desserts, many prepackaged
foods, etc. Properties
: Artificial (low calorie) sweeteners. Known carcinogen
excitotoxin (neurotoxin) affects brain and nervous system as well asthe glandular system. U.S. consumes 7000 tons per year. (CNN)
Toxic Chemicals
Educate Yourself About Toxic Chemicals
EPA’s Drinking Water Hotline 1-800-426-4791
Green Peace 1-800-326-1959
www.greenpeaceusa.org
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
www.atsdr.cdc.gov
Institute of Agricultural and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska
www.ianr.unl.edu
National Resources Defense Council
www.nrdc.org

Benzoic or Benzyl
Found in
: Cosmetics, nail polish, shampoos, bath and shower products. Properties
: Suspected carcinogen, affects endocrine gland function, also
suspected in birth defects. BHA/BHT (butylated hydroxyanisole)
Found in
: Breads, dry cereals, cake mixes, frozen pizzas, pork, potato
chips, many oils, crackers, puddings, prepared donuts, gelatin
desserts. Properties
: A preservative. Suspected carcinogen. Affects liver and
pancreatic tissues. Forbidden in many countries. Caffeine
Found in
: Colas and other soft drinks, naturally occurring in cocoa,
coffees, teas. Properties
: A stimulant. Suspected in birth defects. Affects endocrine
system and nervous system. Over stimulates the GI tract. Caramel
Found in
: Colas and other soft drinks, bread, pudding, frozen pizzas,
candies, snacks, etc. Properties
: A coloring. Suspected carcinogen, causes genetic defects.Carrageenan
Found in
: Cottage cheese, ice cream, sour cream, puddings, baby
formulas


not mention the various kinds and how they could be used
in the upkeep of health. CHOICE OF VEGETABLES
But the vegetables that are bad for all men are garlic,
onions, cress, horse-radish, cabbage, and mad-apples. All
of these are poor food for one  who wants to be in good
health, but cucumbers and green melons are not so bad. As to the yellow melon, if one  will eat it early in the day,
when the stomach is empty and without a bad fluid, and
the person is the possessor of a disposition that is not bad,
it will be well digested, cool  off the body a little, increase the output of urine, purify the [blood] vessels and provide
some nourishment that is not bad. We mention it, because
it is extensively eaten by many people. Fresh fruits that grow on trees are bad nourishment for
men in general. Some of them are worse than others. Among those that are bad ar e carob, nespole and sorb
apple, and some are less ba d and almost good, like figs
and grapes. GALEN ACCEPTS FIGS AND GRAPES —
Galen said that figs and grap es are the princes of fruits
and are less injurious. But the blood that is formed from
those fruits is not good. And let people not mistake my
statement that "all that  grows on trees has poor
nourishment," for fruit honeys and their ripe wines, their
juices and candies made from them help in special
diseases, because their value as food is different from
their value as medicaments. This is clearly known to
those who are versed in pharmacology. Galen said that
from the viewpoint of morality  and divine tr uth, it was his
intention to warn people not to eat fruit. BUT DISFAVORS OTHER FRUITS —
He further said that it was his habit to be smitten by
fever once a year and when his father commanded him to
abstain from eating fruit, he was protected from fever that
year. From that time he made it a rule never to eat fruit
and he swore that he never ha d fever after that, except for
one day. And one can mention this as an item of truth
because the moisture of fru it contains materials from
which fevers are formed. And let it not seem strange to us
that many people eat fruit w ithout developing fevers, for
habits and regulations bri ng various results. If a Hindu
should eat refined bread and sheep's meat he would surely
get sick and if one of us s hould eat rice and fish, as the
Hindus do always, he would doubtless also get sick. It is
not the intention of this work to declare it a special cause
[of sickness], but it is the intention to declare that fruits
are generally not good to eat and one should eat little of
them. One must never combine them with a meal, but one
may eat pears, grapes and figs before meals as they soften
and moisten the stool. One may eat after them, provided
they have left the stomach. And the binding plants such
as quince and plums should be  eaten sparingly and after a
meal, in order that they should contract and close the
opening of the stomach. PARTICULARLY PEACHES AND APRICOTS
And just as grapes and figs are considered the best of
all fruits, so are peaches a nd apricots considered the
worst. And one should never come close to these two
species because they produce moistures that mix with the
blood and make it boil and this is the main cause for the
formation of putrefied fluids and fevers. But dried fruits
like raisins, dried figs, kernels of pistachio and hazelnuts
are not bad, but it is best to us e them only as relishes with
food, especially raisins and pi stachio nuts, because they
are very good for the liver. Gale n said also: The health of
the liver is our life. The part aking of some sweets after a
meal is very good, because it gives the stomach the power
to retain the food and to digest  it. This is all that I have
found proper to mention in this chapter and that is all we
intended. CHAPTER II

The Care of Patients in the Absence of a
Physician or in the Presence of a Physician Who
Is Not Adequate and Not Experienced in This
Science

According to the prominent medical authorities, medical
science is of extreme importance to man, because he is
disposed to become sick from  most of the foods he eats,
and sooner or later he will n eed the advice of a physician. Medical science is divi ded into three parts. THE HEALTHY, THE SICK AND THE CONVALESCENT
The first and most important part: the behavior of the
healthy, and that is the care of  health and its maintenance. The second part: the care of  the sick; ways and means
of regaining of health that ha s been lost. This is known as
medical advice. The third part: the care that Galen called "the
restoration." This is the care of health in persons who are neither very well nor very sic k, such as those who are in a
convalescent state or the aged. As has already been explained, a man needs the
services of a physician in ev ery item of health and at
every time, but his need of a physician during sickness is
especially great and avoiding him is dangerous. Fools
think that a man needs a physician during his sickness
only and at no other time, but it  very often happens that a
man gets sick while traveling or while in a small town
where there is no physician or  only a physician on whose
wisdom people do not rely. This is the place for the
advice of your servant, indi cating what to do on such an
occasion. THE ANCIENT GREEKS
Galen has already explained to us that the ancient
Greeks, when in doubt as to what to do in a certain
disease, did nothing but left the patient to nature, which
they considered suf ficient to cure all illnesses. And
Hippocrates sang the praises of nature in many places at
great length, considering natu re to be wise, clever and
capable of doing what is necessary for the sick without
resorting to medication. And it is true that the physician should help nature, support it and do nothing else but
follow it. RAZI'S RULE
And Razi said in one of hi s well-known chapters: If a
disease is stronger than the pa tient, there is no hope that
he will survive and no physician will help him; if the
strength of the patient is gr eater than the strength of the
disease, he will not need a physician, because nature will
cure him; but if the strength of the patient and that of the
disease are equal, then one needs a physician to increase
the patient's strength. Th is can be done only by the
perfect physician, who knows how to strengthen the
patient and take care of him, so that he may overcome the
hurdles of nature. However, most physicians commit
many errors and, while they think they increase the
patient's strength, they really  weaken him and interfere
with his progress. ARISTOTLE HARSH ON PHYSICIANS
And about this, Aristotle said, in his book De sensu et
sensibili,- that many die from medication because of the
ignorance of physicians in understanding nature. When the physicians say "nature," they mean the power that
rules all living creatures,  whose presence and true
function has been explained in the books of the ancient
sages. For these reasons kings  invite many physicians and
chose from them the most intelligent, wise and
experienced. Through their concilium they may be saved
from error. USE MILD REMEDIES
From all that I have mentioned in my introduction, it
becomes clear that it is proper to leave the patient to
nature when there is no good physician. And the
expression "leaving to nature" implies that one should not
take a medication which healthy people are not used to
taking and that one should not  forget to take the proper
amount of his food. One should drink when he is thirsty,
and one should eat when he is hungry, as one is
accustomed to do. And one should eat the lightest of the
foods that he is used to ea ting. And it is proper for a man
to know that even if he has with him one or many
prominent physicians, he should not permit himself to
employ drastic medication, unle ss it is upon the advice of
a very, very adequate and experienced physician whose
wisdom has been put to th e test and whose experience cannot be doubted. Otherwis e one should prefer during
illness light rather than strong medications. AND AVOID THE DRASTICS
I will now explain the ch aracter of the strong
medicaments and name them. They are: venesection with
the loss of much blood, strong and prolonged purgatives
such as colocynth, convolvulus scammonia and cleansing
by strong emetics, like the two types of hellebore and nux
vomica, and strong enemas that contain colocynth


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 Preface  9
1 The  Agc  of Anxiety  13
11 Pain  and  Time  29
m The  Grcat  Stream  39
1v The  Wisdom  of the Body  55
v On Being  Aware  75
v1 The  Marvelous  Moment  89
v1
1 The  Transformation  of Lifc
vm Creativc  Morality
1x Religion  Reviewed

TO D O R O T H Y
PREFACE

l have always been fascinated by the law of
reversed  effort. Sometimes l calls  it the
"backwards law. " When  you try to stay on the
surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to
sink you float. When you hold your  breath you lose
it-which immediately calls to mind an  ancient and
m11ch neglected saying, "Whosoever would  save
his soul  shall  lose  it. " This book is a,1 exploratio11 of this law in
relation to  man's quest for psychological security,
a11d to his efforts  to find spiritual and intellectual
certainty in religion  and philosophy. It is written
in the conviction that no  theme could be more
appropriate  in a time when human  life seems to be
so peculiar/y insecure and uncertain. lt  maintains
that this insecurity is the result of trying to be
secure, and that, contrariwise, salvation and sanity
con- sist in the most radical recognition that we
have no way  of saving  ourselves. This b e g i n s  to  sound  like  something  from
Alice
Through the Looking Glass, o/ which this  book is a
sort  of philosophical  equivalent. For the reader
will  fre- quently find himself in a topsy -turuy world
in which tite  normal order of things seems to be
complete/y reversed,  and common sense turned
i11side out and uj1side down. Those who have read
sorne of my former books,. such as Behold the Spirit
and The Supreme Identity, will find  things that
seem to be total contradictions of much that  J have
said  be/ore. This,  however,  is true  only  in sorne
9  TIIE  WISDOM  OF JNSECURITY
minor respects. For 1 have  discovered  that the
esse11ce  and crnx  of wl,at  1 was trying  to say in those
books  w a s seldom understood ; the framework a11d
the context of my thought  o/ ten  hid thc mea11ing. My
i11tentio11   here  is to approacl, tl,e same mca11i11g
from e11tirely divert  premiscs, a11d i11 lerms which
do not con/use thought  with the multitude of
irreleua11t associations which time a11d  tradition
haue  hu11g  upon  thcm. in those  boohs  I was  concerned  to vindicate
certai11
principies o/ religion, philosophy, and metaphysic
by rei11tcrpreti11g them. This was, l thi11k, likc
fmtting legs  on a snake -w111ccessary  a11d  con/ using,
beca use  only  doubt/111  trrill1s  11eed  clefe11se. This
book, however,  is in the spirit of tlu: Chinese sage
Lao-tzu, that master o/  the law' of reversed eff ort,
who declared that those who  justify themselves  do not
co11vi11ce, that to lwow trnth  one must gct rid o/
knowledge, and that 11othing is more  powerf 11{ and
creative than empti11css -from which men  shri11k. 1 -
Jere,  tl,en, my aim is to show -bachwards•  fashion -
that thosc essential realities of religio11  and
melaph)•sic are vindicated in doi11g wilhout thcm,
and manifested  in being  destroyed. lt is my hap/1y  cluty  lo acknc>wledge  that  the
prepara -
tion of this book has been made possible by tlze
gener - osity  o/ the Fo,mdation  cstablished  by the
late  Franklin
J. Matchette  o/ New  York,  a man  who  deuoted  much
o/
his life to the problems o/ science and metaphysic,
being  one of those somewhat rare business men
who are not  wholly absorbed in the vicious circle of
making money  to make mo11ey to make money. The
Matcheltc Fou11da - tio11  is therefore  dedicated  to the
fmrsuit  o/ metaphysi -
10 PREFACE
cal studies, and, needless to say, it is to me a sign o/
in- sight and imagination on their parl that they
have been  willing to i11terest thcmselvcs in so
"contrary" an ap - proach  to mctaphysical
kriowledge. ALAN  W. WA·rrs. San Francisco. May  1951. 11

I. T H E  A G E  OF A N X I E T Y

BY ALL  OUTWARO  APl'EARANCES  OUR  LIFE  IS A SPARK
of light betwcen one eternal darkness and anothcr. Nor is the interval between these two nights an un -
clouded day, for the more we are able to fcel pleas -
ure,  thc more  we are vulnerable  to pain -and,
whether in background or foregrouncl, thc pain is
always with us. \iVc havc bccn accustomed 10 make
this existence wonh -while by thc bclieí that thcrc is
more than  the outwarcl appearance -that we live  for
a future beyond this lifc here. For the outward ap-
pearance <loes not seem to make sense. lf living is to
end  in pain,  incompleteness,  ami nothingness,  it
secms a cruel ancl futilc expcrience for bcings who
are born to rcason, hope, crcalc, ancl. ove. í \. lan, as a
being of sensc, wants his life to make scnsc, and he
has found it hard t0 bclieve thar ir cloes so unlcss
there is more than what he sees -unlcss there is an
eternal order and an eternal life behind the uncer -
rain  and momentary  experience  o[ life-ancl -death. I may not, perhaps, be forgiven for introducing
saber matters with a frivolous notion, but the prob -
lem of rnaking sense out of thc sccming chaos of cx -
periencc reminds me of my childish clesire to scnd
someone a parcel o( water in the mail. The recipienc
unties  the stri11g,  rcleasing  thc deluge  in his lap. But THE  WISDOM  OF INSECURITY
the game would  never work, since  it is irritatingly
impossible  to wrap and tie a pound  of water  in a
paper package. There are kin<ls of paper which
won't  distintegrale whcn wet, but the trouble is to
get the  water itself imo any manageable shape,
and to tic the  string  without  bursting  Lhe bundle. The more one studies attempted solutions to
prob - lems in polilics and economics,  in art,


 names drilled in,” L upe said. “Read me one.”
“Okay. ‘Beloved br other and husband, Marvin R ednick,
1925–1995. R est in P eace.’”
“Original,” Jonathan said. “‘We love you, Mother, Sally Dunn, 1909–1999.’ That’s a
long life.”
“Too long, if you ask me.”
“Here’s section P.”
They tur ned. “These ar e mor e fancy. Ther e’s mor e angels and all.”
“I’m not surprised.”
As they walk ed along, ther e was an odd lack of human
sound, only lawnmowers and bir dsong, and the sweet scent
of ﬂower bouquets str ewn over the most r ecent graves, the
ones L upe avoided. Soon they wer e sur rounded by monuments of angels and
weeping women. L upe stopped stock-still. She had locatedGeor gie’s grave; ne xt to it was another monument with the
date lef t blank:
Jonathan Langley, 1956–  “Here it is,” she said quietly. “Wher e?”
“Right in fr ont of us.”
He walk ed forwar d and touched the headstone, a
weeping woman, her hair thr own over her face, bent in
lament. His ﬁngers e xamined the stone. “This feels lik e what I wanted.”
“You pick ed it out?”
“I had it commissioned. I saw it in pr ogress, but not when
it was ﬁnished.” He paused. “W ould you r ead some other
names?”
Lupe look ed at the sur rounding ar ea. “Okay. Arthur Hill,
Lee Jones, Bradley F oster, Lar ry Jones, P eter Simon...”
Jonathan bowed his head. “My friends. They’r e all her e
together. I didn’t r ealize.”
Lupe was silent. Jonathan said, “W ould you mind leaving me alone for a
while? Just tak e a walk and come back.”
“Will you be ok ay?”
“Of course I’ll be ok ay. I can just sit down somewher e
here.”
“Here’s a bench.” She steer ed him towar d a stone bench
nearby, and he situated himself facing Geor gie’s monument. Lupe walk ed slowly and r eluctantly ar ound the cemetery. She sat for a while under a tr ee, closed her eyes, and began
murmuring in Spanish. A gr oundsk eeper dr ove by and
looked at her suspiciously. He stopped his riding mower. “Are you ok ay?”
Lupe opened her eyes. “Y es.”
He moved on, and she closed her eyes again. When she opened them again, she look ed at her watch
and r eturned to the section wher e she’d lef t Jonathan. He’d tak en oﬀ his sunglasses and hat and was leaning to
one side. It wasn’t until she moved closer that she r ealizedthat he had been talking, conversationally, to the
monument. “Mr. Jonathan.”
He look ed up, r ed-faced. It was the ﬁrst time she’d seen
his eyes this closely. They wer e milk y white, ﬁx ed, and ﬁlled
with liquid. “I told you to leave me alone.”
“The ne xt bus comes in twenty minutes, and then ther e
isn’t another one for an hour.”
“Okay,” he said brusquely. “Help me up.” He still seemed
annoyed. “I didn’t mean to inter rupt.”
“You always inter rupt, L upe. That’s what you’r e best at. That’s all you’ve done since I met you.”
In physical education class, a gr oup of miserable-looking
girls, including L upe, stood outside the school in their ill-
ﬁtting gym costumes. The phys ed teacher, a block y middle-aged woman, was
dividing up the girls into teams. “Okay, girls, I know soccer isn’t easy, but let’s try a
game.”
The girls moaned. “Alisa, you head up one team; L upe, you’ve got the other. Pick your members—eleven each. Alisa, pick the ﬁrst ﬁve.”
Alisa, one of the most popular girls, called out several of
her cr owd. “ Heather, Ashley, Laura, Jeanie, T anya.”
She pointedly ignor ed Brie, who stood apart, looking
extremely uncomfortable. When it was L upe’s tur n, she look ed ar ound a moment,
and then said, “ Brie, Lily, Sandra, Lisa, K aren.”
Brie look ed relieved but slightly embar rassed as she
walked over to L upe’s side. Once the game began, L upe came alive on the ﬁeld. She
was the only girl on her team who seemed to r emember therules. The r est of them wer e bumbling and confused. She
scored one goal, then another, assisting Brie whenever she
falter ed. The girls on the other team wer e even worse—out of
shape and disoriented. One of them tripped and fell; one
collided with another player. Lupe continued to pr opel the
ball towar d her opponents’ goal, passing to Brie. “Come on, L upe—one mor e and we’ve got it!” one of the
girls whisper ed. Lupe scor ed, and the team e xploded with cheers. The teacher blew her whistle. “ Okay, gr eat job, L upe! Y ou
play lik e a pr o.”
Lupe’s team cluster ed ar ound her. Brie ask ed admiringly, “ How’d you get to be so good at
soccer?”
By now L upe was br eathless and leaning over; it was
clear that she had over done it in her zeal. “W e used to play
in Me xico all the time.”
When L upe enter ed the library the ne xt afternoon, all the
computers wer e tak en again. Brie was sitting at one of
them. This time, when she saw L upe, she began gathering her
papers. “I’m done—you can have this,” she said. “Oh, that’s all right—” L upe began. “No, I mean it. I’m ﬁnished.”
Lupe could see that Brie had been on a social networking
site, pepper ed with photographs and dialogue. “Do you want me to leave it on F acebook?” Brie ask ed
her. “No, I’m not on that,” L upe said. “I don’t know enough
people.”Brie consider ed this as she stood holding her books in
front of her. “You should try it. If people see you’r e on, they might
friend you.”
Lupe tried to hide her shock at Brie’s cor dial tone. “ Okay. Maybe I’ll try it.”
Brie walk ed out, and L upe sat down and began doing her
homework. When she got home that night, L upe walk ed dir ectly into
the kitchen wher e her grandmother was cooking rice. “Grandma, I know I ask ed you once befor e, but do we
have enough money to buy a laptop computer now?”
Mrs. Saldana tur ned to her with a serious face. “ Lupe,
you know we don’t. W e bar ely have the money to buy food.”
“I keep imagining we have mor e money, but it’s not
working.”
“Well, keep at it,” her grandmother said, stir -ring. “Nothing happens over night. Ask Mr. Jonathan if you can use
his computer.”
Lupe rapped on his apartment door and let herself in. “Hey, Mr. Jonathan, can I use your computer for a
minute?”
“Go ahead.”
She sat down at his desk, in fr ont of his big monitor. “It’s got the audio component tur ned on, so I’ll be able to
hear what you’r e doing.”
“I don’t car e. It’s nothing dirty or anything.”
She typed for a while, and the wor ds This is F acebook
were intoned. Ne xt, silence. “You’re getting on that stupid site? I don’t believe it.”
“Just for a minute.”
She sat ther e in silence. Then ther e wer e mor e wor ds:
Brie Heartland r equests that you be her friend.After a beat:
Becca Zolinsk y requests that you be her friend. Lee Hanley r equests that you be her friend. Danny Miller r equests that you be his friend. “Wow,” L upe whisper ed, as she pushed agree for each
one. They all wer e students in her class. “Did I hear the name Brie Heartland in conjunction with
the ter m friend?” Jonathan ask ed. “Yes,” L upe said. “Y ou did.”
OceanofPDF.comCHAPTER 12
The ne xt day, Jonathan lay on the couch listening to the
radio, a pensive look on his face, while L upe rattled ar ound
in the kitchen. “Mr. Jonathan, I for got to tell you, I can’t come tomor row. I have a


, rice, pasta, potatoes, corn, lentils, and bean s—time and again, until they figure out that they simply
are not eating anywhere near enough fruit. If they don’t go back to cooked s tarches (and the fats that make them taste good), they
are generally driven to eating concentrated and refined carbohydrate s such as candy, chocolate, alcohol, pastries, cookies, or dried
fruits. This same scenario—caused by underconsuming the whole- food simple sugars in fruit—is equally true for people on the
cooked standard American diet who find themselves suffering from crav ings and disordered eating. The other significant reason that people fail on the raw diet is emotion al. Here, I discuss two common variants on the
“emotional eating” theme. The first involves using food to suppress our  ability to feel. The second involves using food to evoke
certain feelings. Let’s take the “numbing out” scenario first. Cooked food does not really comfor t us, as we are led to believe, but it certainly
does numb us from feeling. Rather than making us feel good, it inhibits our a bility to fully feel anything at all. Unconsciously, we have learned to push down our emotions with heavy foods tha t require too much nerve energy to allow for
both digestion and intense emoting to occur simultaneously. W e are not just imagining things: this process of “numbing out” is very
real, in a physiological sense. With the exception of strenuous physica l activity, the two most energy-expensive tasks our bodies
commonly undertake are breaking down foods in combinations that have a high di gestive demand and processing intense emotions. In general, we must do one or the other. We have all had the experience of completely losing our appetite because  of an intense emotional upset. This occurs when the
emotional component edges out the digestive task. Conversely, when digest ion takes priority (which occurs almost every time we
eat heavily), we experience an emotional numbing, a lack of feeling. In  a world full of emotional pain and physical discomfort,
numbness can easily be misinterpreted as comfort. This might occur when a person gets into an argument and then drowns hi mself in a pint of ice cream because he is so filled
with anger and frustration. A raw fooders in the same scenario may tu rn instead to nuts and dried fruits, but in both cases what really
needs to happen is to bring out and accept these emotions. As one lightens the digestive load by switching to raw foods, the body suddenly  has more nerve energy to conduct emotions,
and emotions suppressed over the years begin to emerge. This unexpected ch allenge proves overwhelming for many people. Until
people learn to properly deal with their emotional baggage, it is likely tha t eating raw foods will allow uncomfortable emotions to
surface. They will find themselves going back to eating cooked foods for th e emotional “comfort” that they bring. Emotional acceptance means that without distraction from televisi on, books, friends, music, food, etc. we sit quietly and
actually feel the emotion with full intensity where it lies wit hin our body. When instead we try to hide or distract ourselves from painful thoughts and feelings, we only suppress them more deeply, to be felt  (generally with greater intensity) at a later date. It is
important to realize that without the “negative” emotions, we could e xperience no “positive” emotions, as they are two sides of the
same coin. They are a part of us like all other parts, and by rejecting them  we only turn away from an aspect of ourselves that is
demanding our undivided attention. The second type of emotional eating involves felt attachments to speci fic cooked foods. Such attachments often originate from
an attempt to recreate a past event or moment in our lives that we reme mber as positive and yearn to experience again. People often
find these emotions very difficult to overcome. In the same way that drug addicts never successfully duplicate th e unique “high” of their first drug experience, no matter how
many times they try, eating cooked food never quite generates that speci fic emotional experience we are looking for. Instead, we get
disappointed, and then we eat more cooked food to numb our awareness of the disappointme nt. It takes a lot of insight to understand that although those emotions are i mportant and the experiences were valuable, eating
cooked food will not bring them back. We must let them go and generate new positiv e experiences in the present moment. People who are emotionally attached to cooked foods aren’t actually addicte d to them, since it is physiologically impossible to
be addicted to something that is harmful to us. The body simply is not put togeth er that way. It is designed to thrive and cannot
become addicted to a harmful substance. The human psyche, however, can becom e very much addicted to the shift in perception
that occurs after we ingest certain substances. A yearning for t hat shift in perception is the ever-present illusion that lures us  to eat
cooked foods. If you eat cooked foods, you stand the risk of becoming an emotional vegetable— someone who becomes evermore
dependent upon their cooked food “fix.”

Another One Bites the Dust …
The following is an excerpt (slightly edited for space) from an actual post to my online discuss ion group on
VegSource.com. It exemplifies the stories I hear every time I meet someone who tr ies try to go raw without eating fruit. Predictably, such people experience constant hunger, disordered eating, digestive problems fr om overeating nuts,
intense sweet cravings, a sense of needing to "fill the void” with poorly combined dehydrated sweets, ma ssive overdosing
on fats, guilt, low energy, and general dissatisfaction with food—and often bingein g and purging, as well. See if you recognize yourself or someone you know as you read this candid account of a high-fat raw fooders who is
desperate to find a program that works. Especially take note of the second paragraph, where the author descr ibes her
conception of “a healthy, simple way of eating.” The diet she outlines probably  totals about 1,600 calories, and a minimum
of 40% fat … and her program devolves from there. There is much I love about being raw. It makes a lot of sense to me and for the m ost part I feel much better than I ever did
eating cooked foods. What I do not love about the raw food lifestyle is the effect n uts and dehydrated foods have on my system. It
is very hard for me to find the right balance. When I do feel like I have f ound “the right way to eat” for me, an old inner demon
creeps in and pushes me off my center, which throws me into a tailspin. When I began this second stint with 100% raw, it was very easy for me to go bac k to a healthy, simple way of eating. My diet
consisted of apple lemon ginger juice in the morning with powdered green f ormula, [with four large apples this might be 450
calories—DG]  lunch was usually a green salad with avocado and some kind of cultured veg etables, and dinner was some version
of the same or maybe a prepared raw meal from the market. [Two large salads combined would likely contain not more than
1,000 calories: 600 from two avocados and up to 400 from vegetables—DG]
I experimented with flaxseed and other dehydrated crackers to find they c ongested me (I would eat too many and get bloated
and constipated.) I started running more in April, and for a while I seeme d to find my groove with the food and exercise. I noticed
that I started to crave sweets, so I started adding more fruit to my diet li ke oranges and nectarines. But I am afraid the sugar in the
fruit had a negative affect on my body because now I can’t get off of t he raw sweet snacks. If I have a bag of dates I can easily go
through a pound of them, so I stay clear of those as best I can. I also have a hard time controlling the quantity of nuts I consume. I tri ed my darnedest to not buy raw dehydrated nuts, nut
treats, and raw desserts. But the problem is that now that I allowed mysel f the sweet fruits and raw desserts I tend to want more. I feel a bit ashamed to admit this, but I pretty much finished off an entir e jar of cashew nut butter in one sitting. My willpower
feels so small right now. It is amazing how different my personality a nd attitude can be. It feels like old cooked food demons are
creeping in. There is no way for me to keep fun foods in my home for fear that I w ill consume them all. I know the simpler the diet
the better, but often the will is weak and my body suffers. About a month ago, my attitude went from enthusiastic and cheery to irri table. I felt very fatigued and hot tempered, and my
diet started going from clean to not so clean. My running decreased and was n’t as consistent as it had been, and my sleeping habits
started getting bad; I can’t wake up early anymore. My attitude has  not been very positive, and I feel depressed most of the time. Concerned, I have started adding B 12  supplements and hemp seed oil. I can’t seem to get back to a clean way of e ating. I
almost feel like I need to get some sort of blood test


 d to facilitate s uch escape is the W orkbook (ca l. 600) of A
Course in Miracles. The purpose of this course of spiritual psychology is to
lay the necessary groundwork to precipitate a sudden jump in consciousness
through encoura ging a total c hange of perception. In more traditional
fashion, prayer and meditation a lso provide points of departure to rise from
the influence of a lower ener gy field into a higher. In Easte rn spiritual disciplines, it is accepted that the devotee alone,
unaided by a g uru or a teac her, is unlikely to make muc h progress. Guidance is required. The AA experience is that an addict or alcoholic is
unable t o recover without the help of a sponsor. In sports, great coaches are
sought-after because their influence inspires maximum ef fort. Devotees can
aid their own p rogress by merely focusing on an advanced teacher and
thereby aligning  with that teacher ’ s ener gy field; in our testing, it was
shown repeatedly that holding in mind the image of an advanced spiritual
teacher made every subject go strong, irrespective of their personal beliefs. THE SPIRITUAL DIRECTION
It is  helpful to  remember that neither T ruth nor Enlightenment is
something to be found, sought, acquired, gained, or possessed. That which
is th e In finite Pr esence is always present, and its realization occurs of itself
when th e obstacles to that rea lization are removed. It is therefore not
necessary to study the truth, but only to let go of that which is fallacious. When the clouds are removed,  the sun shines forth. Moving away the
clouds d oes not  cause the sun to shine but merely reveals that which was
hidden a ll along. Spiritual work, therefore, is primarily a lettin g go of the
presumably known in favor of the unknown, with the promise of others who
have done it that the ef fort is more than well rewarded at the end. On theearthly l evel, go ld is not created  but merely revealed by chippin g away that
which obscures it. One of the main spiritual tools is intention, w hich sets up priorities and
hierarchies of values that ene r gize one’ s ef forts. Spiritual work is a
commitment and also an exploration. The way has been opened by those
who hav e gone before and set th e possibility in consciousness for others to
follow. Biologist Rupert Sheldrake has demonstrated the influence of
morphogenetic fields (M-fields); that is, when someone adv ances in a
particular area, this success increases the likelihood that the rest of the
species can do the same. Just a s Roger Bannister broke through the “M-
field” of the four -minute mile, so have beings of advanced consciousness
left markers for others to follow. Every advance we make in our a wareness benefits unseen multi tudes and
strengthens the next step for others to follow. Every act of kindness is
noticed by the universe and is preserved forever. When seen for what it is,
gratitude replaces spiritual ambition. In traditional Buddhism, one seeks
Enlightenment for the good of all humankind; all gifts return to their source. In due time, one ’ s spiritual intention and focus come to replace worldly
ambitions and desires. It is as t hough one is progressively drawn into the
Self, as if there were a spiritu al gravity acting by attraction. A style of
knowingness rep laces reason and logic, and intuitive awareness focuses on
the essence of l ife and its activ ities rather than on goals or the details of
form. P erception begins to change, and the beauty of creation literally
shines forth from all persons and objects. A simple scene may u nexpectedly
suddenly become overwhelmingly beautiful, as though revealing itself in
three-dimensional T echnicolor. Q&A
Q: Y ou advise, “Live your life like a prayer.” That seems differ ent fr om
focusing on certain spiritual activities—is it? A:  By  intention, your entire lif e becomes devotional. Y ou yourself
become the prayer. By virtue of that, Divinity is invoked, and then through
the heart, through that devotion, through the alignment with D ivinity, allhumankind is empowered. The re is no value in keeping a scorecard on
yourself: How far have I come? How far do other people think I have
come? T he only person you have to answer to is yourself. When yo u do
everything you can to fulfill your potential, knowing you are answerable for
who you are and what you have done with that, even your m istakes are
sanctified. It is assuring to know that the motivation to seek God is God. It’ s
by the Grace of God that you are even interested in spiritual tru th. Nobody
seeks God except under the influence of Divinity, because left to their own
devices, people would never think of it. Q: What is spiritual “pr ogr ess”? A:  The approach to spiritual progress is not one of “getting somewhere,”
as there  is no “where” to get. Instead, authentic spiritual teachings guide
you to transcend the ego and she d all illusions so that T ruth stands revealed. The work is to  surmount and transcend the common human failings
inherent in the s tructure of the human ego. Whatever defects you have are
not personal; they are not just yours but in fact are the problem of the
human e go itself. The ego itself is not personal. Y ou would li ke to think,
Oh, me and my pr ogr ess, or Me and my sins, or Me and my difficulties, but
what yo u are talking about is no t your personal self. The problem  is the ego
itself, which you inherited by becoming a human being. Th e ego is a
product of the brain and the f unction of the brain; details of how this
expresses itself dif fer based on past karma. Q: Y ou say the ego isn’t “bad”—that it’ s best to tr eat it as a little “pet,”
which brings humor into the pr ocess. Could you elaborate? A:  Humor  is one of the most valuable spiritual tools, about which,
historically, little has been said. Laughing at the melodrama of the ego puts
us way ahead of  its game. Come dy arises as a result of the comparison that
is made between perception and essence. For example, the comedian says,
“What’ s a New-Ager?” Pause. “Somebody who goes to the sto re and buys
all th e V enus fly traps, then wants them to become vegetarians!”  W e get the
absurdity of trying to convince  a carnivorous V enus flytrap t o become a
vegetarian: “Y ou like cucumbers, don’ t you, sweetheart? Here— try a pieceof toma to!” The  joke helps us laugh at the ego’ s naïveté and immaturity,
wanting others to conform to its spiritualized ideals and morality. Humor i s quite dif ferent from ridicule or malice, as it is compas sionate in
accepting human limitations a nd foibles as being intrinsic. It therefore
assists i n “wear ing the world li ke a light garment” and illustr ates that, in
being like the reed that bends in the wind, you survive by being
lighthearted, instead of being broken down by rigidity. The capacity to
laugh at yourself is essential  to positive self-esteem. T o respond to
everything as though it were hig hly important is a result of the v anity of the
narcissistic core of the ego (for example, being “sensitive” or “of fended”). “Don’ t take yourself so seriously” is wise guidance. Humor is an e xpression of freedom and joyfulness, and laughter is
biologically healing. While guiltiness and “sackcloth and ashes” penance
were em phasized in past centuries, it can be seen that on the Map of
Consciousness, they calibrate qu ite low. God is found at the top of the Map,
not at the bottom. Faith, Love, and Joy are the high road; doom and gloom
merely l ead to sadness and despondency. Self-hatred blinds awareness of
the Self as a reflection of Divine Creation. Q: What about diets, rituals, exer cises, br eathing techniques, mantras,
and symbols? A:  Non e o f these is necessary. It’ s useful to recognize that religion s have
their own agendas and limitations. The spiritual pathway to Enlightenment
is unique. It is not the same as “practicing a religion.” Religions tend to
emphasize historical events, their geographical locations, and past cultures
with political alliances. Enlighte nment happens in the present moment and
is outsi de time, history, or geography, which are therefore irrelevant. Theology is concerned with the consciousness level of the 400s;
Enlightenment is concerned with the levels of 600 and over. Q: What of music, incense, and ar chitectural beauty? A:  T hese are insp irational and supportive of a spiritual and reverential
mood an d attitu de and help to remove the focus of attention from thoughtcontent. Beauty is uplifting and calibr


getic and plastic substances). But this synthesis ziruyutsya
new cells that are capable to survive in the changed circumstances. There is another important source, providing rejuvenation
and "hungry bottom". Most of the cells in the body
man actively lives just a few years. After that they grow old
and become functional - passive, as fat cells. Even colonies of microorganisms formed a mechanism of "food
recycling "of old cells. All multicellular organisms
use their old cells as a source of raw materials and energy. But
as a reserve for a rainy day meant the source. When
prolonged inactivity of the mechanism of "food waste" such
cells can become and are becoming a factory of pathological proteins
cause aggression own immune system, factors
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122causing the violation of tissue and central regulation,
cells - progenitors of malignant tumors. They
should be removed from the body. Millions of years periods
induced starvation were the norm in the life of animals. Therefore,
the liberation of multicellular organisms from unnecessary,
structurally or functionally atypical cells are not represented
problems. "At bezrybe cancer and nutrition. " Combining the mechanism of cellular self-cleaning mechanism to
starvation survival was good and universal evolutionary
acquisition. Apoptosis - programmed cell death, is energetically
dependent, genetically controlled process that
run-specific signals and eliminates the organism from
weak, unnecessary or damaged cells. Daily
approximately 5% of cells undergo apoptosis
and their place is occupied by new cells. in the process of apoptosis in cell
disappear without a trace during 15-120 minutes. in the genetic apparatus
multicellular organisms - animals, plants and fungi - laid
program cell death. This is a special program which, when
certain circumstances can lead to cell death. In the normal development of this program is aimed at removing
excessively formed cells "unemployed", as well as cells
"Pensioners", ceased to engage in socially useful
difficulty. Another important feature of cell death - removal of cells
"Disabled" and cell "dissidents" serious violations of
structure or function of the genetic apparatus. Section summary:

Please summarize the article focusing specifically on concepts mentioned below. * Endogenic vs ectopic nutrient replenishment
      **Endogeneous** refers to   [ENDOGENOUS] : SYNTHESIS NEW CELLS FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF OLD ONES IN DRY FASTING

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* An imbalance in gut microbiome disrupts gene expression leading to multiple problems (e. g., autoimmune disorders). + Introduce novel aspects in terms of epigenetic modifications. Focusing exclusively on previously listed topics,

Summary:
During dehydration-induced starvation (), the organization adapts internally (), initiating reactive responses (). While struggling to cope with absent resources (; ; ), it employs reserved capacities (-reserve usage-). Cellular autonomy enables resilience toward unexpected events. Additional notes regarding terminology clarification

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124*** ENDGENEOUS *** referred to in context'synthesis' relates to degradation/degeneration/demarcination of dysfunctional/non-functional/biochemically compromised organelles/cells/tissues. However, despite confusion among readers/authored interpretations, ENDOGEneous merely signifies synthetic derivation/recycle/reutilisation of residual/partially degraded matter/fractions/components/enzymatically mediated breakdown/disassembly/residual/superfluously redundant/inexplicable/excessive/proportionality aberrance/stagnancy/mutations/

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Q: What is the primary mechanism of the immune system's response during starvation?,
A: The immune system does not fight the disease, it cooperates with the body to remove the cause of the tumor.
Q: What is the role of water in the body, and how does it affect the immune system?,
A: Water is essential for the body, and its absence leads to a decrease in the immune system's ability to function properly.
Q: What is the difference between autolysis and apoptosis?,
A: Autolysis is the process of self-destruction of cells, whereas apoptosis is a genetically controlled process that eliminates weak, unnecessary, or damaged cells.
Q: What is the purpose of the immune system during starvation?,
A: The immune system helps the body to remove the cause of the tumor and does not fight the disease.
Q: Why is autolysis important in the process of tumor removal during starvation?,
A: Autolysis helps to remove the tumor by breaking down the tumor's tissue structure and allowing the immune system to eliminate it.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>In particular, apoptosis
- One of the basic mechanisms of cancer samoprofilaktiki
diseases. Pathological enhancement occur aplasia
and degenerative processes, as well as some malformations with defects
tissues, and the weakening - autoimmune processes, cancer
and premature aging. For example, there is enough
good reason to believe that an abnormal increase in
apoptosis associated with such dangerous diseases such as aplastic
anemia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease
AIDS etc. During starvation is a universal process, one
hand, the stronger the physiological process of apoptosis:
renewal and rejuvenation of the body due to death of old, the sick,
altered cells. On the other hand, eliminated the pathological
Mechanisms of apoptosis: premature aging, oncological diseases
etc. We consider these mechanisms in more detail. Organism as a community of cells during starvation "eating" is not
only fat cells, but all that "bad lies". Rather, the bad
or not at all. Without the purification of cellular
populations living organism is impossible. Infected
viruses, toxins or radiation damaged cells, as well
as well as reaching the biological limit, have one common
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123property - must leave the body or be eaten. in nature it is so. In the absence of power in a multicellular organism appears
special kind of signaling molecules. These molecules cause the activation of
intracellular proteins in the cytoplasm of atypical cells. These
cells were not involved in collective activity of the organism,
sensitive to such molecules. in them, the mechanism
self-destruction. Cage "closes" all of the program - its core
"Collapses". The cage is crushed. Without destruction
outer shell is crushed to 5-10 "apoptotic cells"
and absorbed by other cells. So it looks like in the colony
microorganisms. Or digested in the gut. She shared
the fate of the fat cells. The phenomenon of apoptosis was discovered relatively
recently, in 1972. It was the most interesting event
in biology and medicine over the past 50 years. According to modern concepts, apoptosis is
general biological mechanism responsible for persistence
number of cell populations, as well as forming
and culling of defective cells. That's the way of this physiological
mechanism and is a regular meal and a terrible environment. According to our
observations, the activation process of eating apoptosis occurs
after 20 hours of dry starvation (subject to proper technique
starvation). In the continuous mode power supply "high-calorie junk"
becomes a problem number one. It becomes a cause
disease and premature aging. "Sparing
Technology saves lives during fasting, but kill her if
constant fullness. American researchers have indirectly confirmed the benefit of
Muslim fasting. They managed to uncover the cellular mechanism
explaining the link between fasting and duration of
life in humans and other mammals. Islam prescribes
refrain from taking food and liquid during daylight
days during the month of Ramadan. Scientists David Sinclair and his
colleagues found that during fasting activated genes
SIRT3 and SIRT4, which prolong the life of cells. Perhaps
this information will be used to create drugs
diseases associated with aging. For energy metabolism in cells
correspond to mitochondria. Scientists have previously suggested that the work
mitochondria is associated with lifespan of the organism. When the mitochondria are depleted, the cell becomes vulnerable to
injury, she was beginning to apoptosis, ie, the program starts
self-destruction. Signal for apoptosis is the decrease
amount of NAD + in mitochondria, the cell nucleus and cytoplasm. Experiment in which laboratory animals hungry
just 48 hours, revealed that the body of rodents for this
time, activated protein Nampt, who started the synthesis of NAD +
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124in the cytoplasm, which in turn leads to increased synthesis
enzymes that are encoded by genes SIRT3 and SIRT4. These enzymes
favorably affect the operation of the mitochondria and energy
exchange in the cell, ie, slow down aging cells and prevent
apoptosis. "If we could maintain a high