chopped
1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
¼ cup parsley, fresh, chopped
½ cup basil, fresh, thinly sliced

Remove from heat, add parsley and basil and puree with a hand blender.
Garbanzo and Green Bean Stew
1 cup garbanzo beans or chickpeas, covered with water and soaked overnight
Place the beans in a soup pot. Fill the pot  with water to a level that is 2 inches above the beans.
Bring to a boil. Allow the beans to cook until soft but not mushy. Replenish the water as needed to
maintain a rolling boil. Strain the beans and set aside. Discard the liquid.
1 teaspoon ghee or olive oil
1 cup leeks, chopped1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
2 cups, packed, fresh green beans, stems removed, cut into
1-inch pieces
1 teaspoon basil, dried
1 teaspoon dill, dried
1 teaspoon oregano
½ cup vegetable stock
1½ cups fresh tomatoes, diced or or ganic diced canned
tomatoes
2 cups cooked garbanzo beans

In a sauté pan, heat the ghee or olive oil and add the leeks. Add the pepper and the Braggs. Simmer
for 2 minu tes. Next, add the green beans and spices. Add ¼ cup of vegetable stock and simmer for 3
to 4 minutes. Add the tomatoes, garbanzos, and the rest of the vegetable stock. Simmer until the
green beans are tender. Most of the liquid will be absorbed.
Roasted Carrots with Fresh Rosemary
1 teaspoon ghee or olive oil
1 teaspoon curry powder
1 teaspoon dill, dried
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 tablespoon fresh rosemary leaves, removed from stem and
coarsely chopped
1 teaspoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
6 lar ge carrots, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes

Whisk together everything except the carrots in a lar ge mixing bowl. Add the carrots and toss with
your hands until well  coated. On a sprayed sheet pan, lay out the carrots and roast in a 350-degree
oven. Roast until tender, about 20 minutes.
Raspberry T ofu Sorbet
One 10-ounce bag raspberries, frozen (or ganic)
One 10-ounce bag strawberries, frozen (or ganic)One 12-ounce container Mori Nu or silken tofu, low-fat, firm
or extra firm
¼ cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon cloves
T oasted coconut flakes
T oasted sliced almonds

In a food processor, pulse berries until almost smooth. Add tofu and continue to puree; add maple
syrup, vanilla, and cl oves. Continue to puree until a smooth texture is achieved. Remove from the
food processor and scoop out into bowls. Garnish with toasted coconut flakes and toasted sliced
almonds. Store any leftovers in the freezer.
MEXICAN CUISINE
T ortilla Soup with A vocado and Cilantr o
Black Bean and Sweet Potato Enchiladas
Spanish Rice
Mango and T omato Salsa
Baked V anilla Flan with Maple Syrup

T ortilla Soup with A vocado and Cilantro
2 teaspoons ghee
1 cup leeks, chopped
1 teaspoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
1 teaspoon black pepper
½ teaspoon red chili flakes
1 teaspoon chili powder (mild)
1 teaspoon cumin
1 cup carrots, cut into bite-size pieces
½ cup green bell pepper, chopped
4 cups vegetable stock
1 cup corn, fresh or frozen (or ganic)
¼ cup roasted pepper, fresh or from a jar, chopped
2 corn tortillas, cut into 1-inch-thick strips
1 cup fresh avocado, cubed¼ cup, packed, cilantro, chopped
Several sprigs cilantro with stems (for garnish)

In a soup pot, heat 1  teaspoon of the ghee and add the leeks. Add the Braggs, pepper, and other
spices. Sau té for 1 minute. Next, add the carrots and bell pepper. Sauté for 2 minutes and then add ½
cup v egetable stock. C ontinue to simmer 4  to 5 minutes. Add the corn, roasted pepper, and the rest of
the stock. Allow the soup to simmer until  the carrots are almost soft. In a small sauté pan, heat the
remaining 1 teaspoon of ghee and add the tortillas. Quickly stir -fry the tortillas until they become
crisp. Remove from heat and stir the tortillas into the soup along with the chopped cilantro. Divide
the avocad o among individual bowls. Ladl e the soup over the avocado and garnish with the cilantro
sprigs. Serve right away.
Black Bean and Sweet Potato Enchiladas
1 cup black beans, soaked overnight, or one 12-ounce can
or ganic black beans
2 cups sweet potato, peeled and cubed into small pieces
1 teaspoon ghee
1 cup leeks, chopped
1 teaspoon black pepper
½ teaspoon red chili flakes
1 tablespoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
1 cup spinach or chard, chopped
½ teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon cumin
V egetable stock
¼ cup cilantro, stems removed and chopped

If you  are using dried  black beans, place the beans in a 3-or 4-quart pot, fill with water to a least 3
inches above the beans. Allow the black beans to cook until tender, about 1 hour. Rep lenish the water
as nec essary. Drain the beans from the pot  when they become tender. Bring a 2-quart pot of water to
a boil, add sweet potatoes and boil for 5 m inutes. The potatoes will be almost soft. Drain potatoes
and set aside.
In a sauté pan, heat t he ghee and add the leeks, add pepper, chili flakes, and Braggs. Allow the
leeks to simmer 2 to 3 minutes. Reduce heat and add the cooked black beans and cooked sweet
potatoes. Continue to simmer on low heat. Add some vegetable stock if the mixture becomes too dry.Add t he gr eens to the mixture as it continues to simmer. Add the remaining spices.  W ith a fork,
gently mash the ingredients together as they simmer. Stir in the cilantro and remove from the heat.
Set aside.
Enchilada Sauce
Y ou can pur chase a good-quality or ganic enchilada sauce at the  health food
stor e or make the following r ecipe.
1 teaspoon ghee
1 cup leeks or onions
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
3 cups or 5 medium-size tomatoes, chopped (peeling and
seeding optional)
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon coriander
2 teaspoons chili powder
1 cup tomato juice or vegetable stock
1 package of 12 corn tortillas

Heat the ghee in a s auté pan; add the leeks or onions, pepper, and Braggs. Allow  the leeks to
simmer 2 to 3 minut es. As the leeks begin to brown slightly, add the tomatoes and the rest of the
spices. Slowly add th e juice and continue to simmer for 20 to 30 minutes allowin g the juices to
reduce. Pu ree in a blender or use a hand b lender. This sauce should be smooth and a little bit thick.
Heat the tortillas in a sauté pan one at a time. Place some of the sauce in a shallow pan and dip the
heated tort illa on both sides into the sauce. T ransfer into a sprayed baking pan. Fill th e heated tortilla
with the filling and roll over, tucking in each side. Repeat this procedure for each of the tortillas you
want to fill. Pour the remaining sauce over the rolled tortillas and bake covered at 35 0 degrees for 20
to 30 minu tes. Y ou can add dairy or soy cheese on top if you want. Garnish with freshly chopped
cilantro.
Spanish Rice
1 cup basmati rice, or ganic, rinsed
2 cups plus 1 tablespoon vegetable stock
1 teaspoon ghee
½ cup leeks or onions
½ teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
1 teaspoon paprika1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon cumin
½ cup corn, fresh or or ganic, frozen and defrosted
½ cup peas, fresh or or ganic, frozen and defrosted

Combine t he rice and 2 cups stock and cook in a rice cooker or on the stove until tender. In a
separate sauté pan, heat the ghee. Add the leeks, pepper, and Braggs, allowing the leeks to brown
slightly. Add the rem aining spices, corn, peas, and tablespoon of vegetable stock. Simmer for 1
minute. Stir the paprika mixture into the cooked rice.
Mango and T omato Salsa
1 cup fresh mango or papaya, cubed
¼ cup orange or apple juice
¼ cup cilantro, chopped and loosely packed
¼ cup leeks or green onions, chopped (sauté leeks slightly first)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon


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www.thegersonway.comrelatives who use addictive substances, it is easy for him to relapse and undo all the good work
of the Gerson Therapy.
Hyperactivity
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is much in the news these days. It
refers to children who show disturbed, hard to manage behavior: constant overactivity, lack of
concentration, aggression, impulsiveness and distractibility. In the official view it could be caused
by central nervous system 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.
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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
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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


 clear
idea of what we don’t want; I don’t want this pain; I don’t want to suffer; I don’t want
to work so hard. In these instances, what we
do want is perhaps I want to be healthy; I
want to experience joy; I want ease.
So the first step, even before formulating
an intention, is to do a little introspection
and clear up the fuzziness.
There are many experts who advise that
we should be very specific and articulate
very precisely all that we want and even
visualise it in detail and try to experience it
in our imagination. Maybe this works for
some. However, there is a serious down -
side with this approach.  We become very
“attached” to the outcome, and we build
up a lot of expectations. Not being able
to remain detached from the final stated
outcome, we become anxious, fearful and
stressed. We may also become so focussed
and blinded by it that we do not realise if we
are stepping over other people and causing
unpleasantness around us in the process.
Dilip has a natural talent to teach art in
unique and creative ways. Everyone encour -
aged him to set up a learning centre. He
spent days articulating precisely what he
wanted the centre to look like, what he
would do there, how he would feel when the
centre is bustling with students, by which
year this is happening,  and so on. He then
visualised it all as if it had already happened
and then let it go.
Very soon, things began happening.
People walked into his life who helped him
find possible locations for his centre; he
launched his website, and started promot -
ing his centre wherever he went. But, there
was no centre, yet! Now, he became anxious
and stressed. His relationships at home suf -
fered. His only focus was to find the funds
to build the centre. If someone seemed non
co-operative, it angered him. If his friends
were not helping with funds, he got angry.
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He experienced jealousy and resentment towards
others who had their own learning centres.
When we are so focussed on outcome, some
of the energy shifts from the present into the
future instead of remaining intent and active
in the Now. The focus on the future outcome
makes us impatient, and even brings in self-
doubt and misgivings.
Going beyond outcome
There is an alternative approach which many,
including myself, have successfully tried. Though
simple, it does require a lot of ‘unlearning’ of our
previous habits. A lot more time is needed to be
spent on introspection before actually formulat -
ing the intent and trying out various statements
until we find the simplest and most basic state -
ment, not the most specific or detailed.  Let me
offer an example to clarify this approach.
Vijay  wants to be a published author through
the best publishing  house in the world; be
known as the most influential writer ever and
interviewed by the world media; all this by
September 2011.
Now, let’s examine whether Vijay has done
any introspection. Has he asked himself if his
main passion is self-expression using the writing
medium?  Or, is he seeking fame and fortune?
Has he asked himself:  What is it that I really,
really want most of all?  Would I do this even if
it did not bring me any monetary reward?  Can
I see myself doing this for a long time? Would I
be willing to undergo hardship and even give up
certain other things to do this? Would I encour -
age and support others to do this?  Do I see some
real value in this endeavour for others as well as
for myself?  And then, another important ques -
tion: Having reached that state which I desire,
what will I be doing from that point on? Can I
name that activity?
Perhaps, Vijay then comes up with the state -
ment: “I want to write”. Or: “I want to share
these ideas or tell these stories”. Or, he tries
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a few other statements until he feels very
comfortable that he has caught the essence.
Now, he takes a deep breath and speaks
it out loud and clear. After that, he lets
go of that thought; he has sent it out
to the Universe.He realises that the main activity, the
writing, is available to him right now. He
can now focus on Being, on Doing in the
Now focused on the Present Moment.  And
he can now get away from the idea and the
mode of Becoming.
a mindful approach
Unhealthy goal:
Here are two very subtle things to
be mindful of that in the long run
cause trouble as they are very clev -
erly disguised!
• To become something
 I want to become a good per -
son; I want to be the best writer
in the world; I want to be a kind
and compassionate person; I
want to be a good husband; I
want to earn more money;  I want to be enlightened; I
want to feel more.  Sounds like all are good things!
• To get rid of something
 I want to get rid of my anger, jealousy, laziness, pro -
crastination, I want to get rid of my difficulty with peo -
ple. Sounds like these are good things to get rid of,
don’t they?!
What makes these unhealthy and problematic in the
long run is a non acceptance of the present moment – I am
not all right and I have to get rid of something only then
will I be acceptable. Also, the focus is on me. I am try -
ing to become a compassionate person, I am trying not
to be angry, I am trying to be rid of the fear problem,
I am trying to get enlightened, I am wanting to be this
and that – the self-centred motivation will colour all the
efforts in a self-centred perspective. These are always
tied up with the feelings of I and me and mine; I am
agitated, I need to get out; I am really awake, I have got it
all together…
Ego takes over in ways that one may not even be
able or willing to see. The energy behind the Intention
becomes clouded.
It is not very easy then to realise what is happening around
you, to others in your surrounding during this self-centred
pursuit causing disharmony and pain. There are various fabulous
methods through which one
can come to a state of balance
in the present moment. For ex -
ample: If you are challenged with
anger and you wish to be free of
that, EFT (Emotional Freedom
Technique) and TAT (Tapas Acu -
pressure Technique) are extremely
useful tools. A consistent practice
of meditation and awareness is an -
other very effective method.
Healthy goal:
Dr Wayne Dyer says about the much-talked-about Law of
Attraction: “LOA is not about what you want; it is about
who you are!”
From a state of balance, love and acceptance of one -
self and the present moment, one can set up goals
that, by default, generate a healthy intention. The re -
sult then does not cause pain or suffering but only leads
to joy, ease, flow and peacefulness – which is what
we all want, isn’t it? What is the point if we achieve
what we want to experience or intent but are unable to
enjoy the experience?
Just as when we are thirsty we reach for a glass of water,
we can certainly choose to point our mind to a goal and
intend its fruitful achievement.
I want to be a published author; I want to travel and
teach around the globe, I want to enjoy a loving, harmo -
nious relationship – not because I don’t like the pain or
incompleteness I experience now, but because I want to
direct and focus my energy to this new experience.
When we choose, direct and point the mind – in this
way, the effort in directing the attention is coming from a
wholesome, balanced place; the intention is healthy.
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Vijay does need to do one more thing.
He needs to trust the Universal Creative Energy
that has an inbuilt mechanism to find and pull
together the unlimited resources that can make
things happen. Our mind, however wonderful
its capabilities, cannot match this force.
How it works
Maybe, another simple example will serve to
illustrate this point. Think of a game of cricket
being played. The batsman has just hit a


omes	the	agent	of	all	evil.
Taking	responsibility	for	hell	sounds	awful,	but	not	taking	responsibility	is
the	same	as	giving	up	on	ourselves.	Hell	is	farthest	from	God	because	it
represents	the	low	ebb	of	consciousness.	The	causes	of	hellish	experiences
here	on	earth	aren’t	merely	psychological.	They	don’t	just	involve	being
depressed	or	guilty.	When	we	become	disconnected	from	ourselves,	a	sense	of
deserving	to	suffer	begins.	Hell	is	the	suffering	you	think	you	deserve.	When
connections	are	repaired,	we	no	longer	believe	we	deserve	punishment:	we
are	back	in	the	flow	of	life	with	all	its	healing	properties.
Everything	Satan	stands	for	is	included	in	our	own	self-judgment.	Indeed,
he	is	a	massive	reflection	of	self-judgment.	Satan	is	a	creation	of
consciousness,	and	as	such	he	waxes	and	wanes,	he	evolves,	and	he	changes
in	significance.
Satan	is	real
	under	the	following	conditions:
People	feel	they	deserve	punishment	instead	of	healing.
A	culture	believes	in	the	Satan	myth.
Believers	pay	attention	to	that	myth	and	give	it	value.
Guilt	is	projected	outward	onto	demons	instead	of	healed	inside.
Wrongdoing	accumulates	without	a	means	for	finding	forgiveness,
atonement,	or	purification.
Children	are	put	in	fear	of	demons	and	told	that	they	have
supernatural	power.
Satan	is	unreal
	under	the	following	conditions:
People	feel	they	deserve	healing	instead	of	punishment.
A	culture	is	aware	of	how	myths	are	made.
People	are	self-aware	and	take	responsibility	for	their	own
emotions.
There	is	a	belief	in	forgiveness,	healing,	and	atonement.
Outlets	for	negative	energies	are	found	(through	therapy,	sports,
open	dialogue,	healthy	family	dynamics,	education,	etc.).
Children	are	not	conditioned	to	believe	in	demons	and	other
supernatural	enemies.
Society	promotes	the	evolution	of	consciousness.
Our	culture	has	largely	moved	beyond	Satan,	because	despite	religious
literalists,	we	have	a	century	of	secularism	behind	us.	Whatever	its	faults,
which	can	be	glaring,	secular	culture	has	promoted	therapy,	discouragedsuperstition,	given	people	responsibility	over	their	own	destinies,	and
encouraged	open-minded	dialogue	in	every	area	once	considered	taboo.	These
are	considerable	achievements;	they	bespeak	tremendous	growth	in
consciousness.	Evil,	however	you	define	it,	remains	even	after	Satan	is	gone,
but	removing	our	attention	from	Satan	has	diminished	him	greatly,	just	as	the
ancient	gods	of	Mount	Olympus,	once	so	powerful	that	they	served	to	explain
every	natural	phenomenon,	are	now	relegated	to	history.
Like	the	Greek	gods,	Satan	has	outlived	his	usefulness.	When	people	find
a	better	explanation	for	any	phenomenon,	the	old	explanation	withers	away—
meteorology	replaces	Aeolus	the	god	of	wind,
and
	thermodynamics	replaces
Promethean	fire.	We	have	the	power	to	make	Satan	grow	or	diminish.	In	fact,
we	have	the	power	to	make	him	real	and	unreal,	which	is	far	more	crucial.
As	consciousness	evolves,	Satan	will	become	more	unreal.	Already	I
believe	there	are	millions	of	people	who	are	ready	to	stop	talking	about
demons,	sin,	and	cosmic	evil	as	the	root	cause	of	suffering.	They	are	ready	to
talk	in	terms	of	consciousness.	They	are	ready	to	talk	about	being
disconnected	from	themselves.	We	have	spent	centuries	calling	upon	God	to
rescue	us	and	fearing	Satan	as	the	supreme	enemy.	Perhaps	this	was	necessary
to	our	evolution,	but	now	we	can	turn	to	the	deeper,	more	humane	wisdom	of
the	rishis,	which	speaks	of	one	reality,	not	a	fractured	universe	with	heaven
and	hell	at	opposite	poles.
Good	and	evil,	the	rishis	tell	us,	is	a	direct	function	of	being	connected	to
the	soul.	The	soul	is	the	most	real	aspect	of	the	self.	When	we	break	our
connection	with	the	soul,	we	lose	touch	with	reality.
THE	SOUL	IS	DISGUISED	WHEN	…
You	are	too	tired	or	stressed.
You	are	pulled	outside	yourself.
Your	attention	is	dominated	by	externals.
You	let	others	think	for	you.
You	act	out	of	compulsion.
You	are	influenced	by	fear	and	anxiety.
You	struggle	and	suffer.
These	conditions	have	to	change	before	the	soul	connection	can	be
reestablished.	Death	provides	access	to	the	domain	of	the	soul,	but	Vedanta
declares	that	the	soul	has	a	great	deal	to	offer	before	death.	Life	is	conducted
under	the	gaze	of	the	soul.	Your	portion	of	pure	consciousness	has	certain
universal	qualities:It	is	constant.
It	never	loses	sight	of	you.
It	is	connected	to	every	other	soul.
It	shares	God’s	omniscience.
It	is	untouched	by	change.
It	lives	beyond	time	and	space.
So	it	isn’t	only	tender,	loving,	quiet	moments	that	reveal	the	soul.	Rather,
it’s	those	moments	when	the	soul’s	own	qualities	come	to	the	surface	that	are
most	important.	Such	moments	occur	too	rarely	in	modern	lives,	but	the	soul
never	stops	revealing	itself.
THE	SOUL	IS	REVEALED	WHEN	…
You	feel	centered.
Your	mind	is	clear.
You	have	the	sensation	that	time	has	stopped.
You	suddenly	feel	free	of	boundaries.
You	are	keenly	self-aware.
You	feel	merged	with	another	person,	either	in	love	or	silent
communion.
You	feel	untouched	by	aging	and	change.
You	feel	blissful	or	ecstatic.
You	have	an	intuitive	flash	that	turns	out	to	be	true.
You	somehow	know	what	is	going	to	happen.
You	sense	the	truth.
You	feel	supremely	loved	or	absolutely	safe.
If	there	is	only	one	reality,	as	the	rishis	declare,	then	life	is	not	a	struggle
between	good	and	evil,	but	a	tangled	web	where	all	actions,	good	and	bad,
move	us	closer	to	reality	or	deeper	into	illusion.	Karma
spins
	the	web.	Karma
isn’t	a	prison,	it’s	a	field	of	choice.	Karma	keeps	our	choices	honest.	We	sow
what	we	reap,	but	this	is	far	from	saying	that	we	are	trapped	by	the	forces	of
cosmic	good	and	evil.	Hell,	like	every	other	location	in	consciousness,
ultimately	reflects	the	state	of	our	own	awareness,	and	freedom	from	hell	is
won,	like	every	other	achievement,	by	coming	closer	to	the	reality	of	the	soul.6
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HOSTS
“I	AM	DEEPLY
	grateful	for	all	that	you	have	taught	me,”	Savitri	said.	It	was
getting	late,	and	in	truth	she	was	beginning	to	lose	hope	of	returning	home.	“I
am	resigned	to	living	alone,	and	perhaps	I	can	visit	you	to	learn	more.”
“Is	anyone	ever	alone?”	Ramana	said.	The	forest	was	enfolded	in	purple
shadows,	and	Savitri	couldn’t	read	the	expression	on


you’re asked, “Though the photo s changed, was it the same you who saw all
three of them?” Your response would be, “Of course it was the same me.”
Very good; that helps us get our bearings. From this simple exercise, it’s
clear that you in there are not what you look at; you are the one who’ s
looking. The pictures changed; you who saw them stayed the same.
It’s not hard to understand with photographs that you are not what you
look at, but there are some objects we identify with more than others. For
example, our bodies. We identify with our bodies enough to say, “I’m a
forty-three-year -old woman who is five foot six.” Is that really who you are
in there: a forty-three-year -old, five-foot-six-inch female body? Or is the
body something you in there are aware of? To sort this out, let’s start with
your hand. If you were asked whether you can see your hand, you would
say, “Yes, I see my hand.” Okay, but what if it got cut off? Don’t worry
about the pain; just for a moment imagine it’s gone. Would you still be
there? Wouldn’ t you notice that your hand is gone? It’s like the changing
photographs: When the hand was there, you saw it. When it was gone, you
saw it was gone. You in there who “sees” did not change; what you were
looking at changed. Your body is just another thing you see. The question
remains: Who is in there doing the seeing?
Note that we didn’ t have to stop with the hand. Surgery has become so
advanced that, with the help of a heart-lung machine and other medical
devices, surgeons could remove  a great deal of your body—and the samesense of Self would still be in there, aware of the changes. How  could you
be your body if it changed that much, and you in there stayed the same?
Fortunately, to help you realize you are not your body, we don’t really
need to go that far. There is a much simpler, intuitive way to approach this.
Surely you’ve noticed that your body didn’ t look the same when you were
three, ten, twenty, or fifty years old. It certainly won’ t look the same when
you’re eighty or ninety. But isn’t it the same you in there looking at it?
When you were ten years old and you looked in the mirror, did you see what
you see now? No, but wasn’ t it you looking—then and now? You’ve been in
there the whole time, haven’ t you? That’ s the core, the essence, of
everything we’re discussing. Who are you? Who is in there looking out
through those eyes and seeing what you’re seeing? Just like when you were
shown the three photographs, you were not any of the photos—you were the
one looking at them. Likewise, when you look out at the mirror, you are not
what you see—you are the one who sees it.
Little by little, through the use of these examples, we are reveal ing the
nature of Self. Your relationship  to what you see is always one of subject-
object. You are the subject, and what you are looking at is the object. There
are many different objects comi ng in through your senses, but there’ s only
one subject experiencing them— You.Chapter 2.
The Conscious Receiver
Once you recognize  that you’re in there, you’re going to notice that objects
around you tend to distract your consciousness. A neighborhood dog barks,
someone walks  in the room, you smell the aroma of coffee, and your
awareness is drawn to these objects. On a daily basis, you are so distracted
by exter nal objects that you rarely remain centered on You, the conscious
receiver of these objects. Let’s take a moment to exami ne the real
relationship between this consci ous receiver and the objects it is distracted
by.
To look at this scientifically, you are not even looking at the outer
objects. Right now, you are not actually looking out at what you see. What’ s
happening is that rays of light are bouncing off the molecules that make up
the outer objects. These reflecte d rays are hitting your eyes’ photoreceptors
and being transmitted back as messages through your nervous system.
These messages are then rendered in your mind as an image of the external
objects. Y ou are actually seeing the objects inside, not outside.
We are slowly peeling back the onion to see what it’s like to be you.
Things are certainly not what they appear to be. Even science backs that up.
It’s like you are sitting inside looking at a mental flat-screen monitor that is
imaging the world in front of you. You are obviously not the object you are
looking at; after all, you are not even looking at the actual object. If you
work your way back, the questio n becomes: “Who am I in here looking at a
mental image of what is in front of me?”
There was a great saint from India, an enlightened master named
Ramana Mahar shi. His entire spiritual path was to every moment
persistently ask: “Who sees when I see? Who hears when I hear? Who feels
when I feel?” Self-r ealization,  the term for enlightenment the yoga master
Paramahansa Yogananda used, means you have fully realized who you arein there. The entire spiritual journey back to the seat of Self is not about
finding yourself —it’s about realizing you are the Self. Even in a Judeo-
Christian sense, if somebody asks whether they have a soul, the correct
answer is, “No, you don’t have a soul—you in there, the consciousness, are
the soul.” Thus, “Who are you? ” becomes the quintessential question. You
can’t free yourself until you understand who it is that’s bound. Likewise,
you can’ t understand acceptance until you understand who is resisting.
Let’s continue our exploration of Self. Earlier we discussed that when
you were young, you looked out through your eyes and saw a certain
reflection in the mirror. Later in your life you saw a very dif ferent reflection.
From that point of view, how old are you? Not how old is your body. How
old are you in there who’ s looking out through those eyes at your body? If
you were in there when you were ten, if you were in there when you were
twenty, if you’re going to be in there on your deathbed noticing that you’re
dying, then what age are you in there? Don’ t answer that question, just let it
touch you at a very deep level. Are you willing to let go of traditional
concepts about your age?
Let’s do another interesting experiment. Imagine you’re looking  in the
mirror right after taking a shower. Do you see the reflection of a male or
female body? What if suddenly, via some mysterious power, it changes?
Somehow the body parts change. If you were a male, you’re now looking at
a female. If you were a female, you’re now looking at a male. Would it still
be the same you in there lookin g at that body? Would it still be the same
consciousness that has always looked out through those eyes now seeing a
very different body? You would probably be saying, “What happened?
What’ s going on here?” Nevertheless, it would be the same you having the
entire experienc e. So what gender are you in there? You in there, who has
no body  parts, can’t have a gend er. All you can have is awareness that when
you look out through your eyes, the body you’re looking at has a certain
form and shape. That form and shape might be male or female, but you who
notices are neither.
The question remains, who are You, the awareness that intuitively
knows you’re in there? Your body has an age and your body has a gender,
but those concepts are irrelevant to the one who notices the body. If you
look at a tall, one-hundred-year -old vase, does that make you tall and a
hundred years old? The same is true of race. Your skin may be a certain
color, but the consciousness that notices this has no color at all. You are notyour body; you are the one who notices the characteristics of your body.
You are the conscious awareness within that is looking at all of this. The
question is: Are you willing to let go of who you thought you were? Because
who you thought you were is not who you are. The same inner being is
looking at your body, your house, your car. You are the subject; all the rest
are objects of consciousness.
Let’s turn to something a little lighter. At night you go to sleep, and
you often dream. You wake up in the morning, and you say, “I had a
dream.” That statement is actua lly very deep. How do you know you had a
dream? Do you merely rememb er the dream or were you actually in there
experiencing it? The answer is very simple: you were in there experiencing
it. The same you who looks through your eyes and sees the outer world was
experiencing the events occurring in the dream. There’ s only one conscious
being in there, and you are either experiencing the waking world or the
dream world. Note that


 way you and I re-create the
whole experience of hearing Sinatra sing “Strangers in the Night.”
Every life form relates to metareality through evolution,
tapping into its creative pote ntial in an orderly, progressive way.
The oddest creatures, as they  look to us, aren’t an assemblage of
spare parts haphazardly cobbled together. They are expressions of
a de licate adaptation that find s a perfect niche for itself apart from
thousands of other life forms living in the same environment.
Every morning when it wakes up, the giant anteater
( Myrmecophaga tridactyla ) of  Central a nd South America is
hungry for ants. It is superb ly adapted by physical evolution to
seek out its insect prey buried deep underground. The giant
anteater’s front paws are equipped with four-inch-long, ta lon-like
claws fo r rippi ng into an ant  or termite colony. It has a tw o-foot-
long, sticky tongue that it uses to slither around and ensnare the
ants, which are then slurped back into its mouth.
One ma rvels at how specific these adaptations are. Even the
giant an teater’s jaws have been reduced to miniature size, since
anything larger would be useless for burrowing into the narrow
passages of anthills and termite colonies. But, at the same time, no
human being would ever choose to be trapped at such an
evolutionary dead end. To survive, the giant anteater must
consume up to thirty thousand ants a day, and because  its diet
supplies so little nutrition, th e animal doesn’t have enough energy
to do more than sleep for sixteen hours a day.The beloved giant panda is also at a dead end. Although it is a
true bear, and one of the earliest to evolve, the panda is badly
served by having the wrong intestinal tract, which, unlike other
bears’ d igestive systems, can  only digest bamboo leaves. W hy did
the gian t pand a lose, or neve r gain, a typical bear’s abilit y to eat
almost anything? “Why” doesn’t count in evolution. An adaptation
occurs, and either it contributes to a species’ survival or it doesn’t.
Homo sapiens  has eluded every dead end, including those that
other primates ran into. Our nearest relations among living
species are the chimpanzee an d the gorilla, but we did not descend
from th em or any other ape, contrary to popular opinion. The last
common ances tor between humans and chimpanzees lived around
thirteen millio n years ago, ac cording to the best current e stimate,
leading to a genetic split. O ne branch of the split evolv ed into
chimps, gorillas, orangutans, and their relations, while the other
branch led to our hominid ancestors.
A chimp  is a modern species, and so are we. (Interestingly, the
genetic evoluti on of chimps was two or three times more complex
than ou rs, the result of two f actors: first, chimps pass on twice as
many random mutations from parent to offspring as human
parents do—on average a human baby inherits around seventy
new mutations from its parents. Second, there is something in
genetics referred to as a “bottleneck,” where not enough new genes
are available. Fewer genes lead to fewer mutations, ca using a
species to remain closed off f rom new traits. According to genetic
analyses, over millions of years chimps ran into three bottlenecks
that squeezed their gene pool, while humans ran into only one
bottleneck whi le migrating out of Africa 200,000 years ago. Once
out of the bott leneck, our species expanded explosively to cover
the globe.)
The great reality shift poses a  profound mystery that cannot be
unraveled by examining our genes. Even with twice the m utation
rate as Homo sapiens, chim panzees have not gained self-
awareness. That’s not the same as lacking intelligence. Primate
studies increasingly show that chimpanzees are much closer to
human intelligence than was previously thought. According to
primatologist Frans de Waal,  the idea that only humans can make
tools is now “an unsustainable position. Then we also got the apes-have-no-theory-of-mind claim s, which now have been s eriously
weakened. The  culture claims, the idea that only humans a re great
at cooperation, and so on—none of [them] really holds up.”
Theory of mind  is a term fro m philosophy  and psychology
about k nowing someone else’s mental state without being  told. A
shorthand definition is “mind-reading.” Many dog lovers would
swear that their pet knows when the owner is happy, sad, or angry.
But proving that any animal understands that it has a mind
remains controversial. It is fascinating to consider that our
common ancestor thirteen million years ago had the hidden
potential for traits that flowered in chimps along one branch of the
divide and in humans on the other.
But chimps didn’t experienc e the great reality shift that gave
Homo sapiens  self-awareness. There are limits to what a chimp
can learn and understand. For example, if you place a peanut
under a  yellow  cup and no peanut under a red cup, a chimp will
quickly learn the difference a nd always pick the yellow cup. But if
you present a c himp with two weights and give him a reward if he
picks up the one that weighs  less, he won’t make the con nection
and will keep p icking up the two weights at random. Lik ewise, if
one chimp teaches herself how to unlatch a complicated bo x to get
at som e food, another chimp cannot learn how to solve the
problem simply by watching the first chimp.
These differences between us and our closest relatives go only
so far. Chimps and gorill as have a much wider r ange of
possibilities open to them than a giant anteater. But they aren’t
remotely close  to us in accessing infinite possibilities. The great
reality shift transcends genetics, and no matter how much we see
ourselves when observing other primates, they do n’t see
themselves in us, because they simply can’t. Some evolutionary
dead ends lead to lives as complex as the ones led by  higher
primates, but they are dead ends nevertheless.
The miracle of being huma n is that we evolved in multiple
dimensions. E verything about us—behavior, abstract t hinking,
curiosity, individual personalities, social networks—exploded
beyond any precedents, as if  life on Earth rushed into unknown
levels of aspiration. A master of three-dimensional chess would be
dumbfounded to lay eyes on o ur game board, which has numerouslevels and adds new ones all the time. But this master wouldn’t be
able to see our setup, because it exists and evolves in
consciousness. This is such an important point that we ne ed to go
into it more deeply.
A w a r e n e s s  i n  M u l t i p l e  D i m e n s i o n s
Infinity can stay in one dimension, or it can exist in se veral
dimensions at once. You might think of a number like two-thirds
spinning out a single string of digits—0.6666666—to infinity, like
a mathematical silkworm spinning an endless thread. That’s an
example of infinity occupying one dimension. But flow, like
creativity, is a state of awaren ess that covers multiple dimensions.
A person is “ in the flow” when everything seems to g o right,
obstacles melt away, and answers come effortlessly. Each aspect
occupies its own dimension, yet somehow they get coordinated
when flow is e xperienced. Th ere is a sense of calmness and also
the experience  of happiness, sometimes to the point of ec stasy. If
the flow is pow erful enough, it can be all-consuming, giving the
impression that the creative ideas are coming of their own accord,
using us as a vehicle, the way a playwright uses actors to mouth
his words.
Flow feels desirable but quit e mysterious, since it comes and
goes, an d some people never experience it. The mystery is solved
when you realize that flow is the unobstructed access to
metareality. In it we are experiencing wholeness. Puddles don’t
flow, but the oc ean does. Only wholeness can orchestrate a  state of
awareness tha t embraces multiple dimensions. Our h ominid
ancestors undo ubtedly becam e multidimensional long, lo ng ago.
There w as a mass awakening  that left its traces in the firs t known
cave paintings. These were only made possible by a seismic shift in
consciousness. The accepted date by scientists for the first
paintings of animals on cave walls has been moving back further
and fur ther. The record was long held by Europe, fir st in a
complex of caves in Lascaux, France (about 17,000 years ago),
then by separate caves in France and Romania (30,000–32,000years ago), representing a hu ge leap back in time. Now the current
record i s held by a


annot	grow	our	own	food	and
harvest	it	when	ripe,	walk	to	our	destinations,	or	totally	avoid	the	stresses	of
modern	industrial	society.	However,	in	recognizing	what	contributed	to	the
health	of	traditionally	healthy	people,	combined	with	an	understanding	of	the
significant	changes	we	have	made	to	our	own	environments	and	lifestyles,	we
can	begin	to	see	how	we	must	compensate.	We	need	to	learn	how	to	create
healthy	habits	for	living	within	our	modern	ways	of	life.
Our	way	of	life	is	completely	different	from	the	lives	of	even	a	century	ago.
From	a	personal	standpoint,	these	changes	have	been	made	too	slowly	for	us	to
notice,	but	from	an	evolutionary	standpoint,	they	have	come	rapidly—	much	too
rapidly	for	healthy	adaptation	by	our	bodies	and	minds.
The	Web	of	Life
Choosing	health	would	be	easy	if	only	one	factor	were	involved.	However,	no
one	factor	determines	our	health.	Rather,	our	state	of	health	is	the	end	result	of
countless	biological	and	behavioral	interrelationships	called	the	“web	of	life.”
Unwittingly,	we	have	been	busy	pulling	this	web	apart,	through	the	fundamental
changes	we	have	made	in	our	diet,	our	environment	and	our	behavior.
Everything	relates	to	everything	else;	making	a	change	in	one	part	of	the	web
affects	the	rest	of	it.
We	are	learning	that	life	support	systems	are	more	interdependent	and
delicately	balanced	than	we	ever	realized.	No	one	fully	understands	how	it	all
works.	The	web	is	as	big	and	complex	as	the	planet	itself,	and	as	some	scientists
suggest,	as	big	as	the	universe.	But	the	fact	that	we	do	not	understand	it
thoroughly	certainly	should	not	prevent	us	from	using	what	we	do	know	forprotecting	and	supporting	our	health	right	now.
Acting	on	our	knowledge	of	the	factors	described	in	the	chapters	about	the	six
pathways	can	take	us	beyond	“health”	as	we	have	come	to	accept	it.	We	have
seen	traditionally	healthy	people	such	as	the	Hunzas	achieve	a	potential	for
human	health	that	is	truly	awesome,	but	to	achieve	a	high	level	of	health	in	our
society	requires	knowledge,	commitment	and	a	willingness	to	try	new	things.	It
can	be	done.	While	none	of	us	can	or	probably	want	to	revert	to	living	a
primitive	lifestyle,	we	can,	with	a	few	changes	in	diet	and	lifestyle,	improve	our
health	and	quality	of	life.3
T
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HEROY
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EALTH	AND
D
ISEASE
“The	most	basic	weapons	in	the	fight	against	disease	are
the	most	ignored	by	modern	medicine:
the	numerous
nutrients	the	cells	of	our	bodies	need.
If	our	body	cells	are
ailing—as	they	must	be	in	disease—the	chances	are
excellent	that	it	is	because	they	are	being	inadequately
provisioned.”
Roger	J.	Williams,	Ph.D.
Nutrition	Against	Disease
M
odern	medicine	believes	that	thousands	of	diseases	exist,	each	with	different
causes	and	treatments.	This	belief	has	led	to	a	system	of	medicine	so	complex
and	baffling	that	physicians	resort	to	protocols	that	merely	suppress	symptoms.
By	suppressing	symptoms	rather	than	addressing	causes,	diseases	remain
chronic.	In	this	chapter,	you	will	learn	a	new	approach.	This	new	theory	of
health	and	disease	is	a	model	that	recognizes	not	thousands	of	diseases	but	only
one	disease,	along	with	only	two	causes	of	disease.	This	simple	model	of	disease
is	so	powerful	that	it	can	enable	you	to	go	beyond	health	as	you	have
experienced	it	and	never	be	sick	again.
One	Disease—Two	Causes—
Six	Pathways
A	real	understanding	of	the	relationship	between	health	and	disease	cannot	be
achieved	through	knowledge	of	germs,	inherited	genes,	medicines,	surgery,	or
any	of	the	many	“diseases”	that	make	people	sick.	Keeping	up	with	these
subjects	is	complex	and	doesn’t	really	help	people	to	take	care	of	themselves.
What	we	need	right	now	are	solutions	for	good	health.	The	time	is	ripe	to
simplify:	Understand	what	your	cells	need,	how	they	work	and	what	causes	them
to	malfunction.	Your	cells	are	what	make	your	life	possible.
There	is	only	one	disease:
malfunctioning	cells.
When	cells	malfunction,	the	body	is	no	longer	able	to	maintain	homeostasis
(balance)	by	regulating	and	repairing	itself.	This	is	the	essence	of	disease,	no
matter	what	you	call	it	or	how	it	happens.	Because	only	one	disease	exists,	allwe	need	to	do	is	prevent	the	causes	of	that	one	disease.
There	are	only	two	causes	of	disease:
deficiency
and
toxicity.
All	you	have	to	do	for	health	is	to	give	your	cells	what	they	need	and	protect
them	from	what	they	don’t	need.	Cells	malfunction	only	if	they	suffer	from	a
lack	of	nutrients	(deficiency),	toxic	damage	(toxicity)	or	a	combination	of	both.
Preventing	these	two	causes	of	disease	is	made	possible	by	our	ability	to	choose
how	we	live	our	lives.	Health	depends	on	the	choices	we	make.	These	choices
fall	into	six	categories,	or	pathways.
There	are	six	pathways	between	health	and	disease:
nutrition,	toxin,	psychological,	physical,
genetic
and
medical.
The	body	knows	how	to	take	care	of	itself,	provided	it	has	what	it	needs	to	do
so.	Good	choices	along	the	six	pathways	provide	for	the	needs	of	your	body	just
as	sunshine,	water	and	rich	soil	provide	for	the	needs	of	a	houseplant.	These
concepts	are	not	complicated;	in	fact	they	are	incredibly	simple.	We	just	become
lost	along	the	way	sometimes	because	we	don’t	have	a	sound	theory	of	health
and	disease.	Well,	now	we	do:	one	disease,	two	causes,	six	pathways.	Applying
this	theory	can	restore	balance	to	your	cells	and	support	your	cells’	natural
ability	to	self-regulate	and	repair	damage.	Along	each	of	the	six	pathways,	I
teach	you	in	this	book	how	to	prevent	the	two	causes	of	disease.	Using	this
knowledge,	you	can	restore	health	and	prevent	future	sickness.
The	Need	to	Simplify
At	the	time	of	my	illness,	despite	my	scientific	education	and	background,	I
probably	knew	as	much,	or	as	little,	about	disease	as	most	people.	I	thought	that
disease	was	something	that	came	from	germs	and	from	genetic	predisposition.	I
thought	disease	was	something	that	happened	to	the	unlucky,	the	starving,	or	to
those	who	really	abused	themselves,	such	as	alcoholics	and	drug	addicts.	My
physician	said	that	my	problems	were	the	result	of	aging,	as	opposed	to
something	that	I	had	unknowingly	chosen	and	could	choose	to	reverse.
During	my	recovery	process,	I	realized	that	I	would	have	been	able	to	prevent
my	illness	if	I	had	understood	the	causes	of	disease.	I	realized	that	as


 almost as
soon as they can stand up straight. No young man can even witness a meeting of the council, let
alone become a member of it, until he has passed three supreme tests of manhood. First, he is7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 105/250tested for his ability to withstand hunger without complaint. The test for this is to go on a march for
two or three days over the hot desert and assist in preparing the meals of roast kangaroo and other
choice foods and not partake of any himself. He must not complain. If he becomes too weak, he is
given a small portion. There are tests for fear in which he is placed under the most trying ordeals
without knowing that it is part of his examination, and he must demonstrate that he will accept
death rather than flee. No member of their society would be allowed to continue to live with the
tribe if he had defied the ideals of the group. Immorality is cause for immediate death.
    The growing boys among the Aborigines are taught deference and esteem for their elders in
many impressive ways. A boy may not kill or capture a slow moving animal. That is left for the
older men, whom he must call. He must limit his hunting primarily to the fast fleeing and canny
kangaroos and wallabies, whom even a man on horseback cannot outdistance. Racketeers and
such unsocial beings could not exist in this type of civilization.
    Marriages are arranged according to very distinct tribal patterns and every girl is provided with
a husband at a time decided by the council. Their code of ethics is built around the conception of a
powerful Supreme Force that is related to the sun. They believe that there is an after-existence in
which the myriads of stars represent the spirits of the Aborigines that lived before. The boys and
girls are taught the names of the great characters that make up the different constellations. These
were individuals who had conquered all of the temptations of life and had lived so completely in the
interest of others that they had fulfilled the great motivating principle of their religion, which is that
life consists in serving others as one would wish to be served. The seven stars of Pleiades were
seven beautiful maidens that had surpassed most other girls in their devotion and service in the
interest of their tribe. It is most remarkable how closely this concept is related to the classical myth
regarding the seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph, Pleione.
    A part of a young men's examination to determine his ability to withstand pain and his power of
self-control consists in performing an operation at the time of his graduation. This operation is at
the same time calculated to provide him with his badge of attainment. It consists of the boy's lying
on his back and allowing the appointed operator to knock out one of his front upper teeth. This is
done by putting a peg against the tooth and hitting it a series of sharp blows with a stone. He must
endure this without flinching. We saw scores that carried this diploma. Prior to this, other very
severe tests of physical endurance had been successfully completed.
    The marvelous vision of these primitive people is illustrated by the fact that they can see many
stars that our race cannot see. In this connection it is authoritatively recorded regarding the Maori
of New Zealand that they can see the satellites of Jupiter which are only visible to the white man's
eye with the aid of telescopes. These people prove that they can see the satellites by telling the
man at the telescope when the eclipse of one of the stars occurs. It is said of these primitive
Aborigines of Australia that they can see animals moving at a distance of a mile which ordinary
white people can not see at all.
    While these evidences of superior physical development command our most profound
admiration, their ability to build superb bodies and maintain them in excellent condition in so
difficult an environment commands our genuine respect. It is a supreme test of human efficiency. It
is doubtful if many places in the world can demonstrate so great a contrast in physical development
and perfection of body as that which exists between the primitive Aborigines of Australia who have
been the sole arbiters of their fate, and those Aborigines who have been under the influence of the
white man. The white man has deprived them of their original habitats and is now feeding them in
reservations while using them as laborers in modern industrial pursuits. This contrast between the
primitive Aborigines as they still exist in isolated communities in Australia and the modern members
of the clans is not, however, much greater than that between these excellent primitives and the
whites, near whom they are living.
    In my comparative study of primitive races in different parts of the world, of modernized
members of their groups and of whites who have displaced them, as well as in my study of our
typical modern social organization, I have seldom, if ever, found whites suffering so tragically from7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 106/250evidence of physical degeneration, as expressed in tooth decay and change in facial form, as are
the whites of eastern Australia. This has occurred on the very best of the land that these primitives
formerly occupied and becomes at once a monument to the wisdom of the primitive Aborigines
and a signboard of warning to the modern civilization that has supplanted them. Their superb
physical excellence is demonstrated in every isolated group in the primitive stocks with which we
came in contact. For tribes that have lived along the coast and had access to the sea foods, their
stature was large and well formed.
    When living in the Bush they are largely without clothing. Where they are congregated in the
reservations they are required to wear clothing. It is important to note in these people the splendid
proportions of the faces, all of which are broad, with the dental arches wide and well contoured.
This is Nature's normal form for all humans and is shown in Figs. 53 and 54 (upper right). The
person in Fig. 53 (upper left) is a woman.
FIG. 53. No other primitive race seems to deserve so much
credit for skill in obeying nature's laws as these primitive
Aborigines because of the perpetual drought hazards of
much of the land they live in. Half of Australia has less than
ten inches of rain per year. Note the magnificent dental
arches and beautiful teeth of these primitives. Tooth decay
was almost unknown in many districts.
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gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 107/250FIG. 54. Wherever the primitive Aborigines have been placed
in reservations and fed on the white man's foods of
commerce dental caries has become rampant. This destroys
their beauty, prevents mastication, and provides infection for
seriously injuring their bodies. Note the contrast between
the primitive woman in the upper right and the three
modernized women.
    Various factors in the changed environment were studied critically. Samples of foods were
gathered for chemical analysis; and the changes in the modern diet from that which was
characteristic of the primitives were studied. When the teeth of the primitives and the teeth found in
the skulls that had been assembled in the museums were examined, it was found that dental caries
or tooth decay was exceedingly rare among the isolated groups. Those individuals, however, who
had adopted the foods of the white man suffered extremely from tooth decay as did the whites.
Where they had no opportunity to get native food to combine with the white man's food their
condition was desperate and extreme. This is readily disclosed in Fig. 54. Note contrast with
upper right. It is quite impossible to imagine the suffering that these people were compelled to
endure due to abscessing teeth resulting from rampant tooth decay. As we had found in some of
the modernized islands of the Pacific, we discovered that here, too, discouragement and a longing
for death had taken the place of a joy in living in many. Few souls in the world have experienced
this discouragement and this longing to a greater degree.
    One of the most important phases of our special quest was to get information that would throw
light on the degeneration of the facial pattern that occurs so often in our modern civilization. This
has its expression in the narrowing and lengthening of the face and the development of crooked
teeth. It is most remarkable and should be one of the most challenging facts that can come to our
modern civilization that such primitive races as the Aborigines of Australia, have reproduced for
generation after generation through many centuries-no one knows for how many thousands of
years-without the development of a conspicuous number of irregularities of the dental arches. Yet,
in the next generation after these people adopt the foods of the white man, a large percentage of
the children developed irregularities of the dental arches with conspicuous facial deformities. The
deformity patterns are similar to those seen in white civilizations. Typical illustrations of this will be
seen in Figs. 55 and 56. Severe deformities of the face were frequently seen in the modernized
groups, as evidenced in Fig. 57.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 108/250FIG. 55. It is remarkable that regardless of race or color the
new generations born after the adoption by


, his melanoma would almost surely be back in six
months.
“And with radiation it won’ t?” Andreas asked.
“The chances will be smaller,” his doctor said.
“And how much longer can I expect to live after that?” Andreas asked.
His doctor was forced into an uneasy guess. Untreated, metastatic
melanoma patie nts may live only a few months; treated to the maximum,
their life expectancy stretches out, sometimes by a few years, sometimes
not. After five years, the number of long-term survivors is under 10 percent.
Within ten years, virtually no one is left alive.
“So if I am not going to survive in the long run,” Andreas said, “why go
through the agony just to please some doctor?”
His life moved ahead for the next six months, until a swollen lymph node
appeared, this time under his left armpit. Tests revealed it to be the return of
melanoma, as predicted. At this point, no realistic medical hope remained.
When Andreas came to Ameri ca for help, I first introduced him to the
concept of the quantum mech anical body. “Before a cancer can exist
physically, it must be triggered at a deeper level. Rather than talking about
the breakdown of DNA ’s self-repair mechanism or the action of
carcinogens, Ayurveda says that illness results from distortions in the
patterns of quantum vibrations that hold the body intact.“You can learn to take your awareness to that subtle level of yourself—in
fact, what we call thoughts and emotions are just expressions of these
quantum fluctua tions. Awarenes s has the capacity to heal, and it seems to be
instrumental in causing sudden cures even in the most advanc ed cases of
incurable disease.”
All so-called incurable illnesses have instances of unexplained cures.
One of the peculiarities of melanoma is that it is more subject to self-cure
than many much less deadly forms of cancer. These “spontaneous
remissions” are comparatively rare, happening far less than 1 percent of the
time, but they can apparently result in full, lasting recoveries.
“If one person has cured himself of melanoma,” I pointed out, “then we
know it is possib le. What triggers it? Some new discovery that you have to
make inside yourself. Right now, you stand as good a chance of making this
discovery as anyone.”
Despite the odds against him, Andreas took this advice seriously. He
learned several Ayurvedic approaches to activate his healing forces and
underwent purification treatments to remove impurities from his body (this
approach is explained in chapte rs 6 and 7). Our focus was improving his
immediate quali ty of life. He returned to Switzerland and four months later
he reported jubilantly that his swollen lymph node had subsided. X rays and
blood tests revealed no trace of melanoma in his body. Although Swiss
oncologists had not expected him to live more than three months after the
recurrence of his cancer, Andreas is leading a normal life several years later.
The most striking aspect of this case is that the patient’ s mind invited his
body to accept a new reality, and it did, oblivious of the fact that what was
happening was “impossible.” How can we explain such extraordinary
events? A study of four hundre d cancer cases that went into spontaneous
remission revealed cures that had little in common. Some people drank
grape juice or swallowed massive doses of vitamin C; others prayed, took
herbal remedies, or simply cheered themselves on. These very diverse
patients did have one thing in common, though. At a certain point in their
disease, they suddenly knew, with complete certainty, that they were goingto get better, as if the disease  were merely a mirage, and the patient
suddenly passed beyond it into a space where fear and despair and all
sickness were nonexistent.
They entered the place called perfect health.
OceanofPDF.comCHAPTER 2
DISCOVERING YOUR BODY  TYPE
It’s a clear October day in downtown Boston (or New York, or Chicago),
and the lunch crowd is on its way back to work. Some people are dressed in
hats, scarves, and gloves, anticipating winter; others, wearing short-sleeved
shirts, seem to think it’s still summer. Running bare-chested in shorts, a
jogger jumps the green light at the curb, heading for the park. He stands out
in vivid contrast to an older woman waiting for her bus bundled in a full-
length coat with a fur collar. At a casual glance, you would think these
people lived in different climates. Actually, they are expressing the
differences nature has created inside themselves.
Despite the fact that many people had a typical lunch of sandwich,
French fries, and coffee, the food is sitting heavily in some stomachs,
tossing nervousl y in others, and passing unnoticed in most of the rest. In
some bodies, hearts are beating faster because the sidewalk feels too
crowded; others  are pouring out excess gastric acid or experienc ing a rise in
blood pressure. It takes all types to make a world—but has medicine really
noticed what types there are?
In conventional  medicine we pay much more attention to differences
among diseases than among people. If a patient complains of a twinge of
arthritis in his hands, a physician realizes that this common complaint may
be linked to over a hundred diseases, all of which lead to sore, stiff,
inflamed, painfu l joints. It is known that some people inherit the tendency
to beco me arthritic, but a bewildering number of things also seem to
contribute—hormonal changes, physical and mental stress, diet, lack of
exercise, and so on.
Ayurveda points out that diseases differ mainly because people are so
different. Although biology does acknowledge that all of us were born with“biochemical individuality,” this has few practical implications in the
doctor ’s office. Biochemical individuality means that no one is average. At
any given moment, your cells and tissues do not contain an average level of
oxygen, carbon dioxide, iron, insulin, or vitamin C. Instead, they contain a
precise amount unique to that moment, to the physical condit ion of your
body, and to the state of your thoughts and emotions. Your body is a three-
dimensional composite of millions of tiny differences, and by learning
about them you can make dramatic improvements in your health. At this
level, perfect health is a very specific biological phenomenon.
THE FIRST  STEP—KNOWING YOUR BODY  TYPE
Everywhere you look, your body is doing something unique with every
molecule of air, water, and food you take in, guided by its innate tendencies.
You have the choice to follow these tendencies or modify them, but to
recklessly oppos e them is unnat ural. In Ayurveda, living in tune with nature
—easily, comfortably, and without strain—means respecting your
uniqueness.
The first question an Ayurvedic doctor asks is not, “What disease does
my patient have?” but, “Who is my patient?” By “who” he does not mean
your name but how you are constituted. He looks for the telltale traits that
disclose your body type, also known as your prakruti. This Sanskrit term
means “nature”—it is your basic nature he wants to uncover before he turns
to your complaints and symptoms.
The Ayurvedic body type is like a blueprint outlining the innate
tendencies that have been built into your system. A glass of whole milk
contains 120 calories, no matte r who drinks it, but one person uses those
calories mainly to store fat, while another converts most of it into energy. A
child’ s body extracts lots of calcium to build new bone tissue, while an
older person passes the same calcium out through his kidneys (and may
convert it into a painful kidney stone if his body can no longer deal
efficiently with calcium).By knowing your body type, an Ayurvedic doctor can tell which diet,
physical activities, and medical therapies should help you and which might
do no good or even cause harm. A pizza with extra cheese can be potentially
lethal to someone with advan ced artery disease, for example—the fat
ingested could be the last straw that ruptures one of the depo sits of fatty
plaque blocking a blood vessel to the heart. Massive heart attacks have
resulted from the tiniest of these ruptures. Yet the same pizza would be
relatively harmle ss to the rest of us; high fat is even desirable for those who
cannot gain weight on normal diets. Knowing who you are—your prakruti
—is an invaluable clue to what you should eat.
There are three important reaso ns why knowing your body type is the
first step toward perfect health:
1. The seeds of disease are sown early. It would be hard to find a heart
patient in his forties who had not shown some suspicious signs in his
twenties. A pathologist examinin g the arteries of a deceased 20-year -old can
see premature streaks of fat that are liable to create a future heart attack.
Even 10-year -olds will already  be prone either to allergies or to chronic
overweight, high cholesterol, or peptic ulcers. But at this age, when
incipient disease  is easiest to treat and prevent, symptoms are often difficult
to read. By understanding body types and their specific strengths and


 is so mysterious
and complica ted that the AIDS virus has quickly earned a
reputation for being the most complex disease organism
ever discovered. No drug is capable of treating it; AZT,
which helps postpone the active phase, is riddled with
major side eﬀects, making it impossible for some patients
to take the drug.
This is not to deny Western medicine its own approach.
When a life-threatening disease arises, it is necessary to
take drastic  measures —on this point there is no
disagreement. But I believe that viewing disease as adistortion of intelligence might represent a move toward a
deeper level of understanding, and therefore of treatment.
Both cancer and AIDS seem to be cases where the proper
sequence of sutras must be unraveling at the deepest level.
In other words, they are failures of intelligence, like “black
holes” where  bliss gets distorted out of its normal pattern.
What makes both diseases so intractable is that the
distortion runs so deep— it is locked inside the DNA’s own
structure. This causes the cell’s self-repair mechanism
either to break down or turn against itself. In the case of
cancer, DNA actually seems to want to commit suicide by
ignoring its knowledge of proper cell division.
In both diseases the distortion apparently penetrates as
far as the very force ﬁelds that hold DNA together. (Cell
physics is a complex ﬁeld, but it is believed that a cell
senses and interacts with viruses in the ﬁrst place by
detecting their chemical and electromagnetic resonances;
such signals are interpreted by the DNA and presumably
can also fool it.)
From the perspective of the sutras, or Vedic sounds,
there must be a distor tion in the proper sequence of
intelligence as it unfolds into the relative world. “Hearing”
the virus in its vicinity, the DNA mistakes it for a friendly or
compatible sound, like the ancient Greek sailors who heard
the siren’s song and were lured to their destruction. This is
a believable explanation once one realizes that DNA, which
the virus is exploiting, is itself a bundle of vibrations.
If this explanation is valid, then the remedy is to reshape
the improper sequence of sounds, using Ayurveda’s
primordial sound (known as Shruti  in the Sanskrit texts,
from the verb that means “to hear”). These sounds are
basically like pottery molds—by placing the mold back over
the distorted sequence, one guides the disrupted DNA back
into line. This treatment is subtle and gentle in its eﬀects,
but some preliminary results have been quite dramatic.Once the sequence of sound is restored, the tremendous
structural rigidity of the DNA should again protec t it from
future disruptions.
In the near future Ayurveda will blossom, I believe, and
help us to create a new medicine, one of knowledge and
compassion. At its best, current medi cine already contains
these ingredients—the medical system is in trouble, but its
woes are transcended by caring individuals. They will be
the ﬁrst to see that Ayurveda is not in conﬂict with their
work as doctors; it can only help the process of recovery
and bring healing under our control.
EXPANDING THE TOPIC
Looking back, I realize that the concept of a universe based
on vibrations, leading to the concept of the human body as
a bundle of vibrations, was a bridge too far for many. There
have been “vibrational healers” in every culture, if by
vibration we include light, sound, music, mantras, chants,
and shamanistic rituals. Probably the most comprehensive
“science of vibrations” is found in the area of Vedic
knowledge known as shabda,  the Sanskrit word for
“speech.” The intriguing feature of shabda  is that it ﬁts the
demand of Western science for a reductionist model—every
phenomenon is reducible to a unique vibrational state—
while at the same time ﬁtting the “top-down” Eastern
approach, which sees all phenomena emerging from the
ﬁeld of consciousness.
Yet anyone in a gotcha state of mind would ﬁnd it easy to
accuse vibrational healing of being a sham—the underlying
concept is too alien to materialistic thinking. Once again
quantum theory may bolster speculation, since there are
physicists now toying with the idea that if the universe
exists in Hilbert space (a strictly mathematical concept)and if Schrödinger’s equation holds true (the classic
equation that accounts for quantum probabilities
throughout the universe), there may be an elegan t way to
reduce creation to a single wave function. (The legendary
physicist Richard Feynm an long ago speculated that all
electrons may be reducible to one electron.) Once again
this would be pure mathematics, yet by reducing the
physical universe to a single wave function that gets
entangled with itself to break down into the inﬁnite waves
that underlie inﬁnite particles, something unique happens.
There is no longer a split between reductionism and a top-
down approach. One wave would give us a singular source
from which everything else can be derived. The
entanglement of the wave into countless subdivided waves
would satisfy the demand  for speciﬁc data that can be built
up into complex explanations for higher-order forms like
atoms, molecules, stars, galaxies, and so forth.
Anyone who isn’t fully conversant in advanced
mathematics can only watch from the sidelines before such
a theory is accepted or rejected. Shabda  gives everyo ne a
chance to get back in the game, however, because of its
practical extension into healing and the power of
consciousness in general. A thought “in here” is
vibrationally connected to a result “out there,” and so two
worlds, mind  and matter, are bridged. A gotcha mentality is
rarely fair, but skepticism has no rebuttal to the unshakable
fact, stated by Sir John Eccles in an earlier chapter, that
every thought performs telekinesis by inﬂuencing the
chemical state of the brain: We cross the mind-body barrier
every time we think.
Shabda  also says that higher states of consciousness are
vibrational. This greatly simpliﬁes the whole issue of
enlightenment, making it a natural phenomenon like
weather, the stars, and hydrogen atoms. Vibration is the
great leveler. Therefore it fascinated me when Dr. Jeﬀery A.Martin started publishing results from his Ph.D. work in
psychology showing that higher consciousness is so natural
that it exists all around us.
Martin posted an online message asking for responses
from people who thought they were enlightened. He got
more than 2,500 replies,  and from this pool he intensively
interviewed around ﬁfty subjects. At ﬁrst it was hard to ﬁnd
a common language. Feeling that you are enlightened is
personal, and it also sets you apart from normal society.
Martin found that his subjects often were sensitized by
being outsiders, and revealing their unusual mental state
had led to such things as being sent to a psychia trist, put
on medication, or even being committed to a mental
hospital.
However, very early on he realized that as diﬀerent as
each person was, their experiences fell onto a continuum.
There wasn’t  a single enlightened state but rather  a sliding
scale. To ﬁnd neutral ground, and to ﬁt the accepted model
of what doctoral research must look like, he adopted the
cumbersome tag Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience.
“There is a shift in what it feels like to be you,” Martin
notes. “You move away from an individual sense of sense,
which is considered normal, to something else.”
Deﬁning what “something else” is wasn’t easy, because
these people came from diﬀerent backgrounds and were
inﬂuenced by cultural factors. However, Martin was able to
identify four areas of change.
If you found yourself shifting into Location 1, it would be
typical to report that you have fewer thoughts than before.
“You might say something to me like ‘All of my thoughts are
gone,’ and the kinds of thoughts that go away are ones that
refer to the individual self,” says Martin. Which isn’t
surprising if you are experiencing a loss of “I” as a separate
isolated being.Putting ourselves in their shoes, these people don’t keep
a runn ing story in their heads about what’s happening to
“me.” When they think about themselves, it fades away as
soon as they notice it. The same is true for their emotions,
which are fewer and more spontaneous. When anger arises,
it fades almost immediately. Emotions were still positive
and negative but rarely if ever extreme. The person could
be irritated when stuck in traﬀic, yet they didn’t carry the
residue of stress around with them afterward, and it would
never build into road rage. They felt a sense of inner peace
that could be interrupted, but quite soon it would return.
Such a person is operating in a bigger “self space,”
rather than being cramped inside the narrow conﬁnes of
the ego. They feel freer and more expanded. This applies to
their bodies as well; they often report that the body has no
ﬁxed boundaries but extends in all directions.


 present. This life force, in turn, is capable of reproducing tissue which is full of
life and longer lasting in structure.
This same classification of quality which we analyzed in relation to protein rich foods applies to the carbohydrates (the
starches and sugar-rich foods), the fats and the mineral-rich foods (vegetables), etc.
The quality of a nutritional program is dramatically improved by OMITTING toxic substances such, as coffee, tea, chocolate,
tobacco, salt, pepper, etc.
What is the relation of quality of foods to recovery from illness?
It is this in a nutshell - the HIGHER the quality of food we eat, the QUICKER we recover from disease - provided we are
able to properly  digest and assimilate the quality-level
To this must be added the knowledge of
A) proper food-combining
B) proper order of eating the different kinds of food at a meal (e.g. the most easily digested food should be eaten first, the
more complex one second, and the most concentrated item last)
C) the correct quantity of food to be consumed (of each type) in the meal
D) the correct time for eating (when hungry, and not by the clock)
WHEN DIET IMPROVES THE BODY CASTS OUT ACCUMULATED TOXINS AND UNFIT TISSUES
Now - what happens when a person follows these rules and makes a decided improvement in the quality of food
consumed?
Remarkable things begin to happen to the body (as well as the mind). The amazing intelligence present in every cell of the
body and the wisdom of the body in its operation, immediately becomes manifest.
The rule may be stated thusly: When the quality of the food coming into the body is of higher quality than the tissues which
the body is made of, the body begins to discard the lower grade materials and tissues, to make room for the superior
materials which it uses to make new and healthier tissue.
This is the plan of Nature - of evolution. The body is very selective and always  aims for improvement - for better health. The
body always  tries to produce health and always  will, unless our interference is too great. Only then do we fail to recover and
degenerate further into disease.
copyright © Dr. Stanley S. Bass   (718) 648-1500    www.drbass.com 10The remedial nature of many conditions such as colds, fevers, cuts, swellings, injuries, etc., furnish endless examples of
how the body tends towards health - always  - unless we do something to stop the process.
“WITHDRAWAL” SYMPTOMS FOLLOW USE OF IMPROVED DIET
What are the symptoms or signs which become evident when we first begin to omit the lower grade foods and instead
introduce superior foods - those which are most alive, more natural than we are accustomed to?
When the use of toxic stimulant such as coffee, tea or cocoa is suddenly stopped, headaches are common and a let-down
occurs. This is due to the discard by the body of the toxins called caffeine and theobromine  which are removed from the
tissues and transported through the blood stream to the eliminating organs. When the blood circulates through the brain
during its many bodily rounds before the noxious agents reach their final destination for elimination, these irritants register
in our consciousness as pain - in other words, headache. The let-down is due to the slower action of the heart - the resting
phase which follows the stimulation or more rapid heart action forced upon the body by certain poisons called stimulants.
The more rapid heart beat (or pulse) produces a feeling of exhilaration and the slower action produces a depressed state of
mind.
Usually within three days, the symptoms vanish and we feel stronger due to the recuperation which follows.
To a lesser extent the same process occurs when we abandon lower quality foods and replace them with better foods.
Lower quality foods have undergone more preparation. Spices, salt and other ingredients have been added, as they tend to
be more "stimulating" than less prepared and more natural foods. Animal foods such as meat, fowl, fish etc. are more
stimulating than cheese, nuts and vegetable proteins.
Consequently the withdrawal of stimulation which follows the abandonment of animal food produces a slower heart action -
a resting phase - which registers in the mind as relaxation or a decrease of energy. This initial letdown lasts about ten days
or slightly longer, and is followed by an increase of strength, a feeling of diminishing stress and greater well-being.
DON’T JUDGE RESULTS PREMATURELY
Now let us return to the symptoms which occur in the process of regeneration.
The person who starts a better diet, stays on it for three days to a week and then quits will say, "Oh, I felt better on the old
diet - the new one makes me feel weak." He failed because he didn't give his body a chance to adjust and complete its first
phase of action - recuperation. If he had waited a while longer, he would have begun to feel better than before he started.
During the initial stage (lasting about ten days on the average to several weeks in others), the vital energies which are
usually in the periphery or external part of the body such as the muscles and skin, begin to move to the vital internal organs
and start reconstruction.
This shunting of much of the power to the internal region produces a feeling of less energy in the muscles, which the mind
interprets as some weakness. Actually, the power is increased, but most of it is being used for rebuilding the more
important organs and less of it is available for muscular work.
Any weakness which is felt here is not true weakness, but merely a re-deploying of forces to the more important internal
parts.
Here it is important for the person to stop wasting energy, and to rest and sleep more. This is a crucial phase, and if the
person resorts to stimulants of any kind, he will abort and defeat the regenerative intent of the body. It is important that he
have patience and faith here and just wait it out, and after a while he will get increasing strength which will exceed by far
what he felt before he began the new program.
Success in recovery or improvement of health hinges upon the correct understanding of this point - realizing  that the body is
using its main energies in more important internal work and not wasting it in external work involving muscle movements. Be
wise - take it easy here and relax. Just coast in your work and social obligations until you're out of the woods.
As one continues on the improved diet and gradually raises the food quality, interesting symptoms begin to appear.  The
body begins a process called “retracing.”
The cellular intelligence reasons something like this - “Oh! Look at all these fine materials coming in. How wonderful - now
we have a chance to get rid or this old garbage and build a beautiful new house. Let's get started immediately. Let's get this
excess bile out or the liver and gall bladder and send it to the intestines for elimination. Let's get the sludge moving out of
the arteries, veins and capillaries. These smelly, gassy, brain-stupefying masses have been here too long - out with them!
These arthritic deposits in the joints need cleaning up! Let's get these irritating food preservatives, aspirins, sleeping pills
and drugs out of the way, along with these other masses of fat which have made life so burdensome for us for so long. Let's
get going till the job is done - till we have a beautiful house - and from there on we'll keep it a beautiful ideal model house."
copyright © Dr. Stanley S. Bass   (718) 648-1500    www.drbass.com 11THE THREE PHASES OF METABOLISM (SUM TOTAL OF BODY FUNCTIONS)
1. During the first phase - called Catabolism  - the accent is on elimination, or breaking down of tissue. The body begins to
clean house - to remove the garbage deposited in all the tissues - everywhere. During this period the body removes the
ashes from the furnace preparatory to getting a better fire.  Here the accentuation is on removal of the gross and
immediate body obstructions. Wastes are discarded more rapidly than new tissue is made from the new food. This
becomes evident as weight loss.

2. This persists for awhile and is then followed by the second phase - called Stabilization. Here the weight remains more
or less stable. During this phase, the amount of waste material being discarded daily is equal to the amount of tissue
which is being formed and replaced by the newer, more vital food. This occurs after the excess of obstructing material
in the tissues has been removed.

3. This stage persists for a while and is then followed by a third phase - a building-up period called Anabolism,  wherein
weight starts to go up, even though the diet is lower in calories than it was before. At this point, much or most of the
interfering wastes have already been discarded - the tissues which have been formed since the diet was raised in
quality are more durable and do not break down easily. Also new tissues are now being formed faster. This is due to
the improved assimilation  and increase of enzyme efficiency which resulted from the recuperation of the digestive
mechanism - made possible by the ceasing of wrong food-combining. The body's need for the usual amounts of food
decreases, and we are able to maintain our weight and increased energies with less food. Many are able to function
very efficiently on two meals a day, and eventually even on one meal a day.
As the body progressively increases in efficiency and decreases in


 position.
With suspected deficiency take several hundred mg. It may need
hydrochloric acid supplement for absorption.
Vitamin B2  or Riboflavin is indicated with inflammations of the eyes (pink
eye) or when red capillaries are visible in the sclera, the white part of the
eye, try 100mg; it also helps with oxidative energy production and
migraines.
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 Vitamin B3 or Niacinamide in high doses can greatly increase energy
levels, and is especially good with muscle weakness, cold hands and
feet, and brain problems such as brain fog, dementia, depression,
schizophrenia and anxiety; try 2 or 3 x 250 to 500mg with food.
Niacin  is the acid, flushing form of vitamin B3; 50 to 250mg may be taken
on an empty stomach to flush the skin for rejuvenation and clean out
capillaries in the skin. Sensitive individuals may start with 25mg after
meals. Always start with a low dose and increase gradually. After taking
it for a while you need to increase the dose or interrupt flushing for a
week or two. It also lowers elevated blood fat le vels.
Vitamin B5,  Pantothenic acid or calcium pantothenate is very beneficial
with weak adrenal glands and low blood pressure, especially during
periods of stress; try 250 to 500mg 2 or 3x daily.
Vitamin B6  or Pyridoxine  is especially important for the protein
metabolism and problems with the hands, the nervous system, and
emotional conditions such as depression and anxiety problems.
Deficiency also shows as poor dream recall and is commonly caused by
pyroluria. Several hu ndred mg may help but pyridoxal -5-phosphate (the
activated form) usually gives better results.
Vitamin B12 or cobalamine  is not well absorbed and often deficient. This
causes lack of energy and possibly anaemia and nerve problems. For
better absorption kee p a crushed tablet under the tongue.  However,
vitamin B12 needs to be converted into the two active forms
methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin. This may not be possible with
weak liver functions and then causes a wide range of symptoms –
neurological, psychiatric, hematological, vascular and gastro -intestinal.
See a list of symptoms at: www.healthline.com/nutrition/vitamin -b12-
deficiency -symptoms
Vitamin C,  ascorbic acid or ascorbate in large,  divided doses is not only
helpful in emergencies such as acute infections, burns or poisoning but
also to provide more energy, and for healthy blood circulation and
connective tissue, see Alternative Oxygen Supply fur ther down.  37
 Antioxidants  also protect against cross -linking damage. Generally,  use
a wide range of antioxidant supplements and foods. Try 4 to 10mg of the
oil-soluble astaxanthin  a day, it is one of the strongest antioxidants and
especially good for the br ain and skin.
Alpha lipoic acid  is another strong antioxidant that protects oil soluble
as well as water -soluble biochemicals. It also chelates toxic metals. For
health improvement use  up to several hundred milligrams daily in divided
doses but start with low doses because it chelates mercury and can
cause temporary reactions.
Minerals
Most important are usually boron, chromium, copper, iodine,
magnesium, selenium, sulphur and zinc. A fair supplemental amount of
selenium is 100mcg, and of zinc 30mg per day.
Boron  is essential for the parathyroid to regulate calcium and
magnesium, and so prevent or treat arthritis and osteoporosis. Try about
10mg/day as 100mg borax, see Chapter 5 or The Borax Conspiracy.
Calcium:  There is usually enough calcium in the diet, deficiency comes
from malabsorption and low stomach acid due  to Candida, and from
deficiencies of boron, magnesium and vitamin s D3 and K2.
However, to protect and repair your teeth frequently rinse your mouth
with lime water (calcium hydroxide) e specially after acidic meals or
drinks. On teeth it can then react with phosphates in saliva to form
calcium phosphates and gradually fill small holes.
Chromium  as Cr(3) is important for reg ulating the blood glucose le vel,
and generally  the carbohydrate, protein and fat metabolism.
Copper  is necessary for many enzymes, especially for the metabolism
of iron and formation of red blood cells, connective tissue, elastic blood
vessels, pigmentation of skin and hair, and nerve functions. It is strongly
anti-inflammatory, and copper blood level i s high during infections and
cancer, most effective is copper salicylate, best absorbed through the
skin. Copper salicylate, is a powerful anti -inflammatory remedy and
fungicide, see:  Copper and Zinc Salicylates.   38
 Iodine  helps to protect the mucous membranes from invading  fungi. The
listed values of iodine in food, including kelp and seaweed, are actually
for iodide, there is no iodine in these. Individuals with liver and oxidation
problems have difficulties oxidising iodide to iodine and often are
severely deficient. The solution is to take several drops of Lugols daily,
supplying 6.5mg per drop. This helps  to protect not only from fungi but
also from the development of cysts and cancer in bowels, breasts,
ovaries, prostate and uterus.
Furthermore, iodine is essential to activate tissue regeneration. Instead
of Lugols you may use the weaker Iosol, or in the US Iodoral tablets.
Iodine can cause a strong reaction with individuals on stimulating
medications for thyroid or heart, or when on steroids, or with overactive
thyroids. In these cases,  it is essential to start with very low doses, e.g.
one-tenth of a drop and increase only very slowly.
A better way is to rub one or several diluted drops of Lugols, possibly
with additional DMSO, on th e thyroid. This is likely to be more effective
while causing fewer side effects, especially for those with overactive
thyroids. Topical applications are also more effective with other
problems, such as cysts or breast cancer and cancer in general,
problems  with the ovaries, prostate, testicles, pancreas, and other
organs. Also see Iodine.
Magnesium  is needed by many enzymes, and to relax muscles. It is
especially good with arthritis and cramps. Use about 300 to 600mg daily
mixed with food. I prefer it as magnesium chloride. Hydrated magnesium
chloride contains about 120mg of magnesium per gram or 60 0mg per
rounded teaspoon. For convenience you may fill a jar halfway with
magnesium chloride and then to the top with water. Use h alf to one
teaspoon of this solution, sprinkled over food or with a drink, to provide
about 100 to 200mg of magnesium. It is n ot advisable to take high
amounts orally because the kidneys need to keep the blood level
constant and immediately excrete larger amounts. Muscles, including the
heart, need a defined ratio between Calcium and Magnesium to contract
and relax. Presently mos t individuals are deficient in magnesium but 39
 need to obtain it mainly by transdermal application. Also see Magnesium
Chloride.
Molybdenum  (about 500mcg) may help if foods or supplements
containing sulphur seem to cause problems. It activates an enz yme that
oxidises sulphur compounds to sulphates.
Selenium  is most important with cancer, heart problems  for thyroid
functions, and all infections, chronic or acute. Temporarily take up to
400mcg/day, normally about 100mcg.  The natural and most
recommended form, as in Brazil nuts, is L-Selenomethionine in which the
amino acid methionine has selenium instead of sulphur. Do not use
selenium -methionine chelate or selenite instead. Brazil nuts may contain
60 to 100mcg per nut, but this varies greatly, and it may also be much
less or much more.
Sulphu r is essential for connective tissue and detoxifying the liver. It is
available from egg yolk, garlic, onion and the cabbage family. Sulphur
helps with arthritis and muscular pain, reduces inflammation and muscle
spasms, promotes blood flow, and softens hardened tissues and cell
walls, making them more elastic. The main supplements are DMSO and
MSM  (methylsulfonylmethane). MSM is often combined with
glucosamine for arthritis, try 10g daily, orally and as solution rubbed into
the skin. DMSO is closely related to MSM and ex cellent to carry remedies
through the skin, outstanding for relief of pain and arthritis. It is the super -
remedy. Also see Alternative Oxygen Supply further down in this chapter,
and for more information  see: MSM as a Versatile Healer.
Zinc is essential  for numerous enzyme reactions but just like vitamin B