 as it is toxic, the system will be
poisoned. This becomes a source of enervation. Elimination of the waste -products of tissue -building is
just as  necessary as the building -up process. As these two
important functions depend on each other, and as both depend on the proper amount of nerve -energy to do their
work well, it behooves all people who would enjoy life and
health to the full to understand in  what way they may be
frugal in using nerve -energy so that they may learn how to
live conservatively or prudently, thereby enjoying the
greatest mental and physical efficiency, and also the
longest life. (See chapter on “Enervating Habits.”)

   To the ig norant, thoughtless, and sensual such suggestion
and advice will seem unnecessary, or perhaps the whims or
preachments of a crotchety person, or the qualms of a sated
sensualist; but it is the writer’s belief that the more sober
and thoughtful will welcome  a knowledge that will help
them to become masters of themselves. So far the masses
have trusted their health and life to a profession that has
failed to make good. I say this advisedly; for now the
supposed masters in the profession are looking for the
causes of disease, and it should be obvious to any thinking
mind that, until the cause of disease is found, certainly no
dependable advice can be given as to how to avoid disease. Fifty -eight years of independent thinking, unbiased by
sect or creed, ha ve enabled me to discover the true cause of
disease; and it is so simple that even a child can learn to
protect itself against the said -to-be “diseases peculiar to
children.”
   “These are the times that try men’s souls.” If Tom Paine
were here now, he w ould change the wording of that line to
read: “These are the times that try men’s nerves.” Nerve -
energy and good money are the commodities that are spent
very rapidly these days. Chasing the dollar causes great
waste of energy; and the dollar has been chas ed so much
that it has developed wanderlust to such a degree that men
enervate themselves catching up with a few, but prostrate
themselves endeavoring to break them of their wander -
habit. There are many ways to use up nerve -energy. It
should be the ambitio n of everybody to conserve all the
nerve -energy possible for the extraordinary amount
required to keep the speeding -up necessary to adjust
humanity to the automobile pace. This will come in time. Man adjusted himself to the change from the ox -cart,
Dobbin the flea -bitten, string -halt, and blind, and the
steamboats, on which our forebears took their honeymoon
trips, to the “steam -cars” and high - stepping bays and
family carriage. Many will go into the hands of the receiver before the
nervous syst em becomes adjusted to high -power
automobiles and flying -machines. Without nerve -energy the functions of the body cannot be
carried on properly. The present -day strenuousness causes
enervation, which checks elimination, and the retained
toxins bring o n Toxemia. Everything that acts on the body uses up energy. Cold
and heat require the expenditure of nerve -energy to adjust
the body to the changes. After middle life, those who would keep well and live to
be old must have a care concerning keepi ng warm and
avoiding chilling of the body. They must let up on table
pleasures and practice self -restraint in all ways. Allowing
the feet to be cold for any length of time allowing the body
to chill when a top -coat would prevent —is using up nerve -
energy ve ry fast. Work with worry will soon end in flagging energy —
enervation. As no provision is made for the demand of an extra
supply of energy at a given time, it is necessary, very
necessary, to know how to conserve what we have and
build more. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY THE GREATEST
THERAPEUTIC MEASURE

   Now that I have found that enervation is the source of the
cause of the only disease (Toxemia) to which mankind is
heir, it is easy to see that the so -called science of medicine,
as practiced, is an ally extraordinary of all the causes of
enervation, and becomes a builder of disease instead of
curing or ameliorating man’s sufferings. Every so -called
cure in its very nature causes enervation. Even the drugs
used to relieve pain end in making a gr eater pain, and
sometimes kill. The drugs to relieve cough in pneumonia
sometimes kill the patient. Removing stone from the gall -
bladder does not cure the cause, and more stones form. Rest from habits that enervate is the only way to put
nature in lin e for curing. Sleep and rest of body and mind
are necessary to keep a sufficient supply of energy. Few
people in active life rest enough. WHY ENERVATION IS THE CAUSE AND NOT
THE DISEASE

   Enervation per se is not disease. Weakness, lost power, is
not disease; but, by causing a flagging of the elimination of tissue -waste, which is toxic, the blood becomes charged
with toxin, and this we call Toxemia —poison in the blood. This is disease, and when the toxin accumulates beyond the
toleration -point, a cri sis takes place; which means that the
poison is being eliminated. This we call disease, but it is
not. The only disease is Toxemia, and what we call diseases
are the symptoms produced by a forced vicarious
elimination of toxin through the mucous membrane. When the elimination takes place through the mucous
membrane of the nose, it is called a cold —catarrh of the
nose; and where these crises are repeated for years, the
mucous membrane thickens and ulcerates, and the bones
enlarge, closing the passage, e tc. At this stage hay -fever or
hay-asthma develops. When the throat and tonsils, or any
of the respiratory passages, become the seat of the crises of
Toxemia, we have croup, tonsilitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis,
bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, etc. What is i n a name? All
are symptoms of the expulsion of toxin from the blood at
the different points named, and are essentially of the same
character and evolving from the one cause namely,
Toxemia —crises of Toxemia. This description can be extended to every organ of the
body; for any organ that is enervated below the average
standard from stress of habit, from work or worry, from injury, or from whatever cause, may become the location of
crises of Toxemia. The symptoms presented differ with
each organ affecte d; and that gives color to the belief that
every symptom -complex is a separate and distinct disease. But, thanks to the new light shed upon nomenclature
(naming disease) by the Philosophy of Toxemia, every
symptom -complex goes back to the one and only caus e of
all so -called diseases —namely, Toxemia. The symptoms that are called gastritis (catarrh of the
stomach) are very unlike the symptoms of cystitis (catarrh
of the urinary bladder); yet both are caused by crises of
Toxemia —both become the locations for the vicarious
elimination of toxin from the blood. It should be obvious to the discerning how extraordinarily
illogical it is to treat catarrh of the nose as a local disease;
or, when crises are repeated until ulceration takes place,
and the mucou s membrane becomes so sensitive that dust
and pollen cause sneezing and watering of the eyes —
symptoms called hay -fever—to treat these symptoms as a
distinct disease caused by pollen. Rest and total abstinence
from food, liquid and solid, and reforming all enervating
habits, will restore nerve -energy; the elimination of toxin
through the natural channels will take place, and full health
will return. This state will remain permanently if the erstwhile victim of hay -fever, or any other so -called
disease, will “stay put.”

   The first elimination of toxin through the nose is called a
cold. When this elimination is continuous, with
exacerbation —toxin crises (fresh colds) —occasionally,
ulceration takes place, bony spurs form, and hay -fever
develops. These are al l symptoms of toxin elimination. The
cause is the same from the first cold to hay -fever. The
catarrhal discharge that continues throughout the interims
of fresh colds (crises of Toxemia) is chronic catarrh, named
such in medical nomenclatures, and treated locally as
though it were an independent, fiendish entity; when the
truth is that the victim of so -called chronic catarrh keeps his
system enervated by tobacco, alcohol, sugar and sweets of
all kinds, coffee, tea, excessive eating of butter and bread,
too much rich cooking, excessive eating of all foods, excess
of sensual pleasures, etc.


. The male plucker is instructed to inhale the breath
and drink the saliva of the woman in pas sion, and to siphon the
precious female fluids with his jade stalk at the moment of her
orgasn1, then to move them upward mentally, "like a reverse
river," to an acupoint in the brain. From here the precious es
sences will descend down into the cinnabar field, where they are
stored as life-force. Pluck-and-nurture, then, was a serious practice. In one
treatise th� plucker is instructed to meditate in a quiet room
for no fewer than a hundred days, and to train himself with
various exercises for thirty hours immediately before the en
counter. When the time of plucking arrives, the participant s
arc to harmonize by arousing each other sexually to the highest
pitch. One treatise on pluck-and-nurture concentrates on tcn1ale sa
liva as a favorite elixir for n1en. The n1an is instructed to excite the
wonun with deep kissing and copulation. Through various coital
techniques he nukes her clinux, then drinks her saliva while in
haling the air she breathes out. The nun should repeat this at least
thret· tin1es in one night, and if he can keep hirnsdf frorn ernit
ting, he can bring the wonun to one orgasrn after another, each
time drinking her saliv a. 1 )uring the heyday of ts,li-pll, one variation calkd shuatz�l!
ltsill, or dual training. was quite popular. In it, both p;.ntncrs
trained in tht· pluck techniques so that they would receivt' equal
bcndits. Usu ally. nurried couples took part in this dual dis
cipline, which t'ncornpasscd tht· entire spectrun1 of bcdroorn
tcchn iques. Ts,li-pu is no longt·r pract iced in China as it was in rnedicval Tlze Sexua l Duel of Pluck-and-N urture
titnes, but in a sense it does live on. Some mainstream erotic tech
niques originally developed for the Art of the Bedchamber were
refined by pluck-and-nurture enthusiast s. However naive their
theories may seem, some of their practices might be of immense
value in modern bedrooms. I :. 'J 10
Food and Herbs for Love
Aph rodis iacs and Sexual Nutrients
IN CHINA, aphrodisiac tonics have been pursued diligently and
continuously for millennia-openly in the remote past, less so in
recent centuries. The discussion of erotic techniques from the Art
of the Bedchan1ber was lost centuries ago, and recovered only rel
atively recently; but information on aphrodisiac tonics survived
even the most puritanical periods because the search for thcn1 has
been discreet, even can1ouflaged, and because, for the Chinese,
foods and herbs for sex arc intin1atcly linked as \veil \Vith health
and longevity. The Chi nese quest for aphrodisiacs long ago shifted fron1 in
gredients that s upposedly created instant lust to those that were
said to cultiv ate and nurture sexual vigor tor thl' long tern1. The
latter type arc not orthodox aphrodisiacs for in1n1ediate physical
arousa l, but rather aph rodisia c health tonics, sexual nutrients that,
ever so slowly but per sist ently. pron1ote sexual potency, and indi
rectly heighten sexual desire. From the vantage point of nlot krn kno wlcd gl'. the ancient
( :hinese searrh for aph rod isiac ton ics nuy seen 1 a 111ix of qua ck
cry. myst icisn1, and unc 1nny canpirical experience. The last ck
StTVt'S the attent ion of rnodern researchers, and this chapter will
thcrd() rc conc entr ate on that en1pirical experience. Son lt' ancient
( :hincsc practices and substan ces luve b een proven in today's lab
oratori es� others nuy not even have been tested. 130 A profusion of anecdotal tt•stirnon ials frorn this ancit ·nt cul
ture still is unsubstantiated in the laboratory. But sonlt' ingredi
ents that pt ·opk have relied on for cen turies have been continned
by n1odern scien ct'. This is of intt·rest not only to lovers but also
to sexologists and scientists. For the tradit ion al Chinese, it is virtually irnpossible to draw a
line between food and rnedicine. ()n thc one hand, they attr ibute
specific n1cdicinal properties to specific foods, and on the other,
all n1edicinal ingredit·nts in Chincse pharrnaceutical encyclope
dias are listed with not only their known health eftccts but a de
scription of their taste as \veil. For centuries the Chinese have
taken herbal prescriptions for n1aladies. Likewise, they have cre
ated dishes for their gustatory delight and their tonic effects
facilitating circulation, strengthening the spleen, energizing the
gonads. Sorne dishes are prepared with medicinal herbs. Often
such herbs, whether in food or in medicine, arc taken preventively
as health tonics rather than as cures for specific diseases. And some
of these herbs offer a bonus-enhancernent of sexual vitality. APHRODISIAC HEALTH TONICS
The Chinese have known and taken advantage of the beneficial
effect of herbs for health and sexual vigor for centuries. The health
tonics they have created arc in various forms: powders, boiled
solutions, culinary dishes, medicinal wines and liquors, as well
as ointments, rinses, supposit ories, and skin patches for specific
acupoints. The ingredients of these tonics are anin1al, vegetable,
and/ or mineral. Minerals in aphrodisiacs were popular in earlier centuries. One
famous recipe, Five-Mineral Mix, consisted of ground arnethyst,
quartz, kaolin, stalactite, and sulfur ore. During the third century
the formula gained great popularity when a high imperial official
claimed positive results from taking it. The n1inerals themselv es,
listed in old Chinese pharmaceutical books as toxic, were to be
used in minute an1ounts, but many eager consumers overdosed
and died horrible deaths. Even during the enlightened Ming dy
nasty, charlatan Taoist alchen1ists still concocted their dubious
elixirs with rninerals. One well-known Ming prime minister was
so severely poison ed that at his death his whole body allegedly
rcsetnbled a roasted fish. Most n1inerals eventually were rejected
IJI as ingrcdiL·nts t(>r aphrodisiacs, and plant and anirnal ingredients
have been used rnuch n1ore frequently during the past four ceo
tunes. The ancient Chinese chose particular ingredients for reasons
ranging from the naively obvious to the myster iously prescient. Some were chosen because of their shape. A favorite ingredient in
aphrodisiac health recipes is jou-tsrm. (!-yun�, or broon1 rape ((Jro
banche ammophyla), a fleshy parasitic fungus that grows wild in the
shade of trees. Its stem is about five to twelve inches long and is
covered with tiny scales, its upper end slightly thicker than the
rest of the stem. The plant resembles an erect phallus. Another
parasitic plant, so-yang (Balanophora), found in northwest China,
is similar in form to broom rape. Legends say that when wild
horses mate with dragons, their sexual secretions drip into the
soil, and then so-yang emerges from the soil. Passionate Tartar
women would squat on so-yang to console themselves, and the
plants then would zoom up with gusto. A close relative of this
plant that grows in North America is nicknamed "squaw root." Bothjor-4-tsung-yun� and so-yang arc important ingredients in aph
rodisiac health tonics for both men and women. The Chinese always have believed that what one cats fortifies
what one already possesses. Thus the dried penises, and testicles,
of deer, tiger, seal, and beaver are treasured tonic ingredients for
males. These high-priced items are found in Chinese herbal phar
macies throughout the Orient and in Chinatowns around th e
world. Two other animals known for their copulative energy fur
nish ingredients for aphrodisiacs. One is the red-spotted gecko. This lizard, only several inches long, is normally quiet, but dur
ing the mating season geckos bark incessantly through the night. When they mate they remain locked together all day long; nothing
can separate them. Their abundant sexual secretions, white in
color,


 found was the most perfect space for a meditation
room I could im agine. The top floor was a single ten-by-
twelve-foot room with every inch handcrafted into an
artisan’s drea m. All four walls were wrapped with
antique leaded glass windows that had been saved from a
centuries-old admiral’s house in Boston when it was
taken down. The result was so exquisite that standing
there you felt l ike you had been transported back to the
eighteenth century. As if that were not enough, when I
looked up, I realized that the top floor was covered with a
cupola. Its exposed beams c ame to a high peak in the
center of the r oom, making it feel as though you were
standing inside a pyramid. The space was so exquisite
that the mind became quiet just being there. Needless to say, I purchased the house and have lived
there ever since. The magic of how all these properties
joined together came to a crescendo with this latest
purchase. My neighbor had a lways entered his property
using h is front driveway. It only took a moment of
exploration to realize that the back side of the property
directly bordered the field we had leased from Wilbur.Once we cut an opening in the trees behind the house, I
could drive or walk to the Temple without leaving
Temple property. Amazingly, this one field now
seamlessly tie d together all the properties we had
purchased over the past twenty years into one
contiguous blo ck. No one planned it; it just unfolded that
way. To  say I was humbled by what life had done this
time would be an understatement. I built a wooden boardwalk that connected my new
house to the Temple’s existing boardwalk, and this
became my new commute to work. Some time later
Mataji c ame to  visit, and I showed her the house. In her
quiet voice she said, “So God called you one day and said,
‘Mickey, your house is ready.’ ” I think that pretty much
sums it up.Life calls me on the phone one day and says, “Mickey, your house is
ready.”My commute to work—truly amazing.4 0. T h e  S c a r y  M e s s e n g e r  o f  C h a n g e
I  sett led into m y new house in  the spring of 1991, and it
seemed like I was living a dream. I was completely
content with everything around me: family, business,
and the  Temple community. The perfection of what I was
surrounded by was enough to challenge the rational
mind. And I w as always aware that I had never asked for
any of it—I was living in a life made by the flow of life. I c an look bac k now and see  the exact moment when
the winds ushering in the next period of change first
blew across my face. I didn’t understand what was
coming at the time, but at least I knew enough to
embrace what ever was taking place. I had already
learned time and again th at it didn’t matter if I
understood what was happ ening; it was sufficient to
devote myself to the present moment and trust that the
flow of life kn ew what it was doing. The flow of events
that happened  next was so miraculous that it had the
effect of permanently freeing  me from an entire layer of
my personal mind. If life cou ld pull off these events, how
could I not completely surrender to her perfection? Before we begin, however, I have a confession to make:
I cannot foretell the future. There was no possible way I
could h ave known that in order to keep up with
Personalized Programming’s  destined growth, it would
not be sufficient to double or even triple my current
twenty-five employees; I would need to grow to more
than three hundred employees. What is more, I could
never h ave imagined that our building needs  would have
to grow from our current forty-three hundred square feetto over eighty-five thousand square feet to provide for
what was coming. If someon e had tried to tell me this
back in the ea rly ’90s, I would have considered them
crazy! Yet to g row like that, there had better be some
planning. Apparently there was, but it certainly wasn’t by
me. This am azing story of how life’s perfection provided
for our future g rowth began one Friday afternoon when a
zoning inspector suddenly showed up at our office. He
seemed very surprised to see a business out here in the
woods, and he told me to call  his boss, the head of county
zoning, right away. That wa s how it all started, and it
seemed very ominous. I knew the he ad of zoning f rom my work with Built
with Lo ve. I gave him a call, and after some pleasantries
he e xplained to me that even  though the public was not
frequenting my business location, I did not have the
required zoning for a business out here. I explored
possible solutio ns with him, including getting the zoning
changed or obtaining a special exception permit, all to no
avail. T o make his point ironclad, he told me that due to
the state land usage plan, even if my father were
president of the United States  and I had a million dollars
to spen d on the effort—I could not get legal business
zoning on any part of our property. Realizing that I would be in big trouble if he shut me
down, I shifted to damage control. I told him that I
appreciated his position and asked him what I should do. He told  me to start looking f or a piece of land down on
the main highway since that would be the closest
business zonin g to our property. My heart dropped as I
realized that this little piece of heaven that had come
together organically over the years was about to change. The main highway was a min imum of three miles away,
and the distance to available property would likely be
much greater.I too k a deep breath, raised my chin up, and gave him
my wo rd that I would tak e care of the problem. I
requested a reasonable amount of ti me to find  the land
and make the move. He didn ’t promise me anything but
said he  would be checking back with me to be sure we
were coming into compliance with the requirements. This is how life managed to not so subtly nudge me
into looking for a new busin ess location. The moment I
hung up, I we nt into Rick K arl’s office to get his legal
advice. Rick agreed that we had no real basis out here in
the middle of a gricultural zoning to get spot zoning for a
small business. So we called a Realtor to start looking for
the closest possible business property. I, of course, didn’t
want to move the business from the Temple, but my
experiment wit h surrender meant I had to stay open and
see where the f low of life’s events would lead me. Months
went by, one after another, but nothing suitable showed
up. Wit h each passage of time, the risk increased that the
county would shut us down. Nonetheless, I was patiently
waiting for life to make her move. In S eptember of that year, l ife made her next move. We received a phone call fro m the person who had sold
us the beautiful eighty-five-acre piece of property a year
earlier. He now wanted to sell the adjoining fifty acres
that ran up to  the paved cou nty road. It fit in perfectly
with the  Temple property, so we went ahead and bought
it. Ther e was no way at the time we could have ever
imagined that this purchase would end up related to
Personalized Programming’s  search for legal business
zoning. We were just dealing with what was put in front
of us. A few months later another property event unfolded
that we had to deal with. It seemed that someone was
planning to build a 185-acre construction waste dump
directly across the street from the fifty acres the Temple
had just purchased. We looke d into the matter and were
shocked to find that it was true. The piece of land hadbeen an nexed into the City of  Alachua years ago and was
no l onger under county zonin g. The land was owned by a
prominent city commissioner, and he had recently sold it
to b e used as a construc tion waste dump. It was
projected that for the next twenty years, a hundred large
dump t rucks w ould be driving down our road seven days
a week and dumping on property directly adjoining ours
and our neighbors’. So mu ch for the flow of life—I
thought we were supposed to  be led into green pastures,
not garbage dumps! The neighborhood was in an uproar. The Temple was
the largest landowner in the area, and people started
asking u s what  to do. We looked into it, and it appeared
that the City of Alachua had the authority to grant a
special use permit for a waste dump—if city
commissioners chose to do so. We really had no choice
but to focus our attention on this matter, to the
detr


 from a mild sense of
boredom, expectation or lack, which barely registers on the scale of suffering,
to intense aversion. In most cases, our suffering takes place on a scale between
these two possibilities. However, irrespective of the intensity of our suffering, we are in almost
all cases motivated to avoid it through the acquisition of objects, substances,
activities, circumstances or relationships. Our avoidance, in turn, varies in
intensity from addiction to substances and activities at one end of the spec -
trum to the comparatively benign activity of compulsive thinking at the
other. In each case, the purpose of the activity is solely to distract us from
the discomfort of our current experience. Drugs, tobacco, alcohol, excessive eating and over-working are some
of the most common means that suffice for this purpose. Even spiritual
practice can be appropriated by the separate self or ego to perpetuate the
activity of seeking and resisting which characterise its illusory identity. However, by far the most ubiquitous means of avoidance is compulsive
thinking. Many of the more obvious and extreme means by which we avoid the
discomfort of our current experience are bad for our health and, in some
cases, illegal. However, excessive thinking is neither bad for our health,
at least not overtly so, nor illegal, and is thus the default avenue of escape
for most people. you are the happiness you seek
     Indeed, thinking seems so innocuous that most people are not even aware
that it is one of the main ways we avoid the sense of lack. For this reason,
it has escaped diagnosis as one of the most successful ways we subtly per -
petuate it. However, when we are determined to find the real cause of our
suffering, we become increasingly sensitive to the more or less subtle means
by which we escape it. There are, of course, many legitimate reasons for thinking – a response
to the current situation, planning for the future, evaluating the past, scientific
endeavour, investigative or celebratory purposes, and creativity are amongst
them – but most thinking serves none of these. Its purpose is simply to take
us away from the discomfort of our current experience. If we take any train of thought and ask of it, ‘Where are you going and
why?’ the response will often be, ‘I am venturing into the past or future in
order to avoid having to face the discomfort of my present circumstance’. In this way, most people believe that in order to find the peace and happi -
ness for which they long they must reject their current experience, which is
deemed insufficient, and venture into the past or future, which seem to hold
the promise of fulfilment. Ironically, our suffering begins  the moment we escape
from our current experience into an imagined future or a remembered past. In fact, if we want relief from our suffering, all that is required is to return
from our happiness-seeking adventure in the past and future and come back
to our current experience. We must return to the now. Where previously we
sought to escape from our present suffering into a future which we believed
held the promise of happiness, instead we take refuge in the now, the only
place suffering cannot stand. In this way we find, at the very heart of our
experience, the happiness we previously sought by avoiding it. Many of our thoughts arise for the purpose of controlling the events of
our life so that they will produce exactly the conditions that we believe are
required for us to experience lasting peace and joy. However, our current circumstances are the growing edge of millions of
years of evolution. For instance, the behaviour of a friend, partner or colleague
is the product of centuries of conditioning. What are the chances that these cir -
cumstances are going to coincide with our personal expectations and demands? The only reason we are not at peace and filled with joy now is that cir -
cumstances do not conform to our idea of how they should be. One who
126take refuge in the now
understands this aligns what they want with what they have, rather than try -
ing to conform what they have to what they want. Suffering is never imposed on us; it is our own activity of seeking and
resisting. Happiness can never be acquired by us; it is our own nature. there are no problems

Circumstances never announce themselves as problematic. They simply
present themselves. From the perspective of awareness, there are situations;
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        The time and
space that seem to exist for the character in a dream do not exist for the
dreamer when she wakes up. The entire dream is a movement of the
dreamer’s mind, but the dreamer’s mind never goes anywhere. Our entire
life is a movement of awareness, but awareness itself never goes anywhere. Awareness is eternally present now – not now, a moment in time, but the
ever-present now, eternity. Awareness is always in the placeless place of itself,
not a place in space but the dimensionless presence of its own being. Some people seem to get more youthful and radiant as they get older. Yes. In fact, many people feel that in spite of the passing years they are not
really growing older. They increasingly have the feeling of being always the
same person. Where does this feeling come from. It can only come from
that which is always the same in us. What is that. Knowing, being aware or awareness itself is the only element of experience
that always remains the same. The feeling that we never get older or that we
have always been the same person is an intuition of this truth. In fact, it is
more than an intuition; it is the taste of our eternity, the taste of our ever-
present, ageless, changeless, untarnished self. The more deeply this is understood and felt, the more brightly the innate
qualities of our essential, aware being shine through the character of the per -
son, infusing the mind and body with its radiance and peace, and shedding
its warmth upon those with whom we come in contact. In old age, as the
mind and body of such a person fade, they become increasingly transparent
to their being, which in turn progressively shines through all aspects of their
experience. It is a blessing simply to be with such people. But I am regularly in pain. There may be intense sensations, but do not allow the intensity of a sensation
to persuade you that you are a body, let alone an ageing one. But I am unwell more and more often. 97you are the happiness you seek
Does awareness ever say, ‘I am sick’. Does the body ever say, ‘I am sick’. No. It is the mind that claims, ‘I am sick’. But even that claim is just a
thought. Can a thought be sick. Can a sensation or a perception be sick.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: According to the text, what is the ultimate source of happiness?,
A: Our true nature of awareness, which is always and already present.
Q: What is the primary cause of suffering?,
A: Our own resistance to and seeking of experiences, which is triggered by our conditioned layer of likes and dislikes.
Q: What is the key to understanding and experiencing lasting happiness?,
A: Recognizing that our happiness is not dependent on external circumstances, and instead, surrendering to the present moment.
Q: Why do people often struggle to find happiness and peace?,
A: Because they are seeking it in external sources, which is a futile and ultimately frustrating endeavor.
Q: What is the key to ending the cycle of seeking and resisting?,
A: Stopping the resistance to our current experience and embracing it with an open and non-judgmental attitude.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>It is our resistance that turns a situation into
a problem, that turns our innate peace into suffering. And it is the withdra -
wal of this resistance that reveals the underlying peace. For the ego there is
suffering; for awareness there is peace. Awareness does not negotiate experience. Its nature is simply to welcome
whatever arises, allow whatever exists and let go of whatever vanishes. And just as space is never harmed or destroyed by anything that takes
place within it, so we, awareness, are never hurt or overwhelmed by any -
thing that takes place in experience. We, awareness, are open to all experi -
ence, allowing all experience without resistance, defenceless and yet
indestructible. This openness without resistance to all experience is not something we,
as a person, need practise, because it is our nature, just as the empty space
of a room does not need to practise allowing whatever appears within it. Openness without resistance is what we are, not what we do. Resistance to what is appears in the form of a single thought: ‘I don’t want
what is present; I want what is not present’. All suffering is caused by that
thought alone. As soon as that thought rises up in between our self and our
experience of the world, our innate happiness is veiled and suffering ensues. In the absence of any resistance to experience, the peace and happiness
that is our very nature simply shines by itself. This openness without resis -
tance to all experience is not a state of the mind. It is the natural condition
of the mind in the absence of seeking and resisting. Happiness is the nature
of the mind; suffering is a state of the mind. It is only the extent to which we open ourself unreservedly and uncon -
ditionally to any experience that governs our happiness. Our true nature of
peace


	their	health	for	over	two
years. They	found	that	the	people	who	consumed	the	most	total	fat	and
saturated	fat	had	the	highest	risk	of	dementia	due	to	vascular	problems. 74
Alzheimer’s	disease	is	also	related	to	diet	and	is	often	found	in
conjunction	with	heart	disease,
53
	which	suggests	that	they	share	the	same
causes. We	know	what	causes	heart	disease,	and	we	know	what	offers	the	best
hope	of	reversing	heart	disease:	diet. Experimental	animal	studies	have
convincingly	shown	that	a	high-cholesterol	diet	will	promote	the	production
of	the	beta-amyloid	common	to	Alzheimer’s. 53
	In	confirming	these
experimental	animal	results,	a	study	of	more	than	5,000	people	found	that
greater	dietary	fat	and	cholesterol	intake	tended	to	increase	the	risk	of
Alzheimer’s	disease	specifically,
75
	and	all	dementia	in	general. 74
In	another	study	on	Alzheimer’s,
76
	the	risk	of	getting	the	disease	was	3.3
times	greater	among	people	whose	blood	folic	acid	levels	were	in	the	lowest
one-third	range	and	4.5	times	greater	when	blood	homocysteine	levels	were	in
the	highest	one-third. What	are	folic	acid	and	homocysteine? Folic	acid	is	a
compound	derived	exclusively	from	plant-based	foods	such	as	green	and
leafy	vegetables. Homocysteine	is	an	amino	acid	that	is	derived	primarily
from	animal	protein. 77
	This	study	found	that	it	was	desirable	to	maintain	low
blood	homocysteine	and	high	blood	folic	acid. In	other	words,	the
combination	of	a	diet	high	in	animal-based	foods	and	low	in	plant-based
foods	raises	the	risk	of	Alzheimer’s	disease. 78
Mild	cognitive	impairment,	the	stuff	jokes	are	made	of,	still	permits	the
afflicted	person	to	maintain	an	independent,	functional	life,	but	dementia	and
Alzheimer’s	are	tragic,	imposing	almost	impossibly	heavy	burdens	on	victims
and	their	loved	ones. Across	this	spectrum,	from
minor	difficulties	in	keeping
your	thoughts	in	order	to	serious	degeneration,	the	food	you	eat	can
drastically	affect	the	likelihood	of	mental	decline. The	diseases	I’ve	covered	in	this	chapter	take	a	heavy	toll	on	most	of	us	in
our	later	years,	even	though	they	may	not	be	fatal. Because	they	are	notusually	fatal,	many	people	afflicted	with	these	illnesses	still	live	a	long	life. Their	quality	of	life,	however,	deteriorates	steadily,	until	the	illness	renders
them	largely	dependent	on	others	and	unable	to	function	in	most	capacities. I’ve	talked	to	so	many	people	who	say,	“I	may	not	live	as	long	as	you
health	nuts,	but	I	sure	am	going	to	enjoy	the	time	I	have	by	eating	steaks
whenever	I	want,	smoking	if	I	so	choose	and	doing	anything	else	that	I	want.”
I	grew	up	with	these	people,	went	to	school	with	these	people	and	made	great
friends	with	these	people. Not	long	ago,	one	of	my	best	friends	suffered	a
difficult	surgery	for	cancer	and	spent	his	last	years	paralyzed	in	a	nursing
home. During	the	many	visits	I	made	to	the	nursing	home,	I	never	failed	to
come	away	with	a	deep	appreciation	for	the	health	I	still	possess	in	my	old
age. It	was	not	uncommon	for	me	to	go	to	the	nursing	home	to	visit	my	friend
and	hear	that	one	of	the	new	patients	in	the	home	was	someone	whom	my
friend	and	I	knew	from	our	earlier	days. Too	often,	they	had	Alzheimer’s	and
were	housed	in	a	special	section	of	the	facility. The	enjoyment	of	life,	especially	the	second	half	of	life,	is	greatly
compromised	if	we	can’t	see,	if	we	can’t	think,	if	our	kidneys	don’t	work	or	if
our	bones	are	broken	or	fragile. I,	for	one,	hope	that	I	am	able	to	fully	enjoy
not	only	the	time	in	the	present,	but	also	the	time	in	the	future,	with	good
health	and	independence.Part	III
THE	GOOD	NUTRITION	GUIDE
I
WAS	IN	A	RESTAURANT	RECENTLY
,	looking	at	the	menu,	when	I	noticed	a	very
peculiar	“low-carb”	meal	option:	a	massive	plate	of	pasta	topped	with
vegetables,	otherwise	known	as	pasta	primavera. The	vast	majority	of	calories
in	the	meal	clearly	came	from	carbohydrates. How	could	it	be	“low-carb”? Was	it	a	misprint? I	didn’t	think	so. At	various	other	times	I’ve	noted	that
salads,	breads	and	even	cinnamon	buns	are	labeled	“low-carb,”	even	though
their	ingredient	lists	demonstrate	that,	in	fact,	the	bulk	of	calories	are
provided	by	carbohydrates. What’s	going	on? This	“carb”	mania	is	largely	the	result	of	the	late	Dr.	Atkins	and	his	dietary
message. But	recently
Dr.	Atkins’	New	Diet	Revolution
	has	been	toppled	and
replaced	by
The	South	Beach	Diet
	as	the	king	of	the	diet	books. The	South
Beach	Diet	is	pitched	as	being	more	moderate,	easier	to	follow	and	safer	than
Atkins,	but	from	what	I	can	tell,	the	weight-loss	“wolf”	has	just	put	on	a
different	set	of	sheep’s	clothing. Both	of	the	diets	are	divided	into	three
stages,	both	diets	severely	limit	carbohydrate	intake	during	the	first	phase,
and	both	diets	are	heavily	based	on	meat,	dairy	and	eggs. The	South	Beach
Diet,	for	example,	prohibits	bread,	rice,	potatoes,	pasta,	baked	goods,	sugar
and	even	fruit	during	the	first	two	weeks. After	that,	you	can	be	weaned	back
onto	carbohydrates	until	you	are	eating	what	appears	to	me	to	be	a	fairly
typical	American	diet. Perhaps	this	is	why
The	South	Beach	Diet
	is	such	a	hot
seller. According	to
The	South	Beach	Diet
	Web	site,
Newsweek
	wrote,	“the
real	value	of	the	book	is	its	sound	nutritional	advice. It	retains	the	best	part	of
the	Atkins	regime—meat—while	losing	the	tenet	that	all	carbs	should	be
avoided.”
1
Who	at
Newsweek
	reviewed	the	literature	to	know	whether	this	is	sound
nutritional	advice	or	not? And	if	you	have	the	Atkins	Diet	plus	some	“carbs,”
how	different	is	this	diet	from	the	standard	American	diet,	the	toxic	diet	that
has	been	shown	to	make	us	fat,	give	us	heart	disease,	destroy	our	kidneys,make	us	blind	and	lead	us	to	Alzheimer’s,	cancer	and	a	host	of	other	medical
problems? These	are	merely	examples	of	the	current	state	of	nutrition	awareness	in
the	United	States. Every	day	I	am	reminded	that	Americans	are	drowning	in	a
flood	of	horrible	nutrition	information. I	remember	the	adage	told	several
decades	ago:	Americans	love	hogwash. Another	one:	Americans	love	to	hear
good	things


–
61
food	industry,
296
–
98
,
299
funding,
291
,
315
heart	disease,
112
,
114
–
15
,
117
–
19
,
324
in	India,
47
industry	attention,	funding	or	influence,
255
–
68
,
291
,
332
–
34
kidney	stones,
212
–
14
large	bowel	cancer,
170
–
74
lycopene,
300
–
302
macular	degeneration,
215
–
17
metanalysis,
41
multiple	sclerosis,
195Nurses’	Health	Study,
272
–
80
osteoporosis,
205
–
10
pharmaceutical	industry,
332
–
34
in	the	Philippines,
21
,
33
–
35
prostate	cancer,
300
–
302
protein,
351
–
52
stroke,
220
–
21
vitamin	supplements,
229
women’s	health,
272
–
80
See	also
	China	Study,	The
Scott,	Dave,
23
selenium,
280
Seneca,
345
–
46
Seventh-day	Adventists,
149
–
50
,
335
simple	carbohydrates,
98
–
99
60	Minutes
	(television	program),
43
smoking,
122
,
256
Socrates,
344
–
45
sodium	nitrite,
44
–
46
South	Africa,
172
–
74
,
173
South	Beach	Diet. See
	high-protein	diet
soy	protein,
60
spinach,
227
Stampfer,	Meir,
281
Starfield,	Barbara,
15
statistical	significance,
40
,
77
statistics
autoimmune	diseases,
183
diabetes,
15
health	in	the	United	States,
3
,
346
–
47
obesity,
13
–
14
,
13
–
14
,
135
–
38
Steinem,	Gloria,
88
Stillings,	Bruce,
33
stomach	cancer,
94
stroke,
94
,
218
,
220
–
21
,
282
Sugar	Association,
310
sugar	industry,
309
–
10
See	also
	food	industry
sugars,
98
–
99
,
306
–
10
sunshine,
180
,
199
–
200
,
231
–
32
,
363
–
65Swank,	Roy,
195
–
96
,
337
T
T-cells,
185
,
200
Taco	Bell,
312
tamoxifen,
163
–
64
thermogenesis,
142
,
352
Thompson,	Tommy,
310
Tove,	Sam,
265
Toward	Healthful	Diets
	(NAS	report),
258
toxic	food	environment,
xv
transgenic	mice,
62
–
64
tumor	development,
60
–
61
,
61
,
66
–
67
Turner,	James	S.,
255
Type	1	and	2	diabetes. See
	diabetes
U
United	Egg	Producers,
290
United	Nations	Food	and	Agriculture	Organization,
32
–
33
,
309
–
10
United	States
breast	cancer	in,
71
,
79
calorie	consumption,
99
–
102
death	rates,
79
,
111
–
12
diabetes	in,
15
,
189
diet	and	nutrition,
15
,
74
,
273
–
74
,
273
–
78
,
276
–
77
,
358
health	statistics,
3
,
346
–
47
heart	disease	in,
79
,
111
–
12
,
123
United	States	Department	of	Agriculture	(USDA),
28
United	States	National	Institutes	of	Health	(NIH),
47
–
48
,
314
–
17
,
315
United	States	Preventive	Services	Task	Force,
288
United	States	Senate	Select	Committee	on	Nutrition,
83
urinary	calcium,
205
–
6
,
206
,
214
USDA	(United	States	Department	of	Agriculture),
28
V
vascular	dementia,
218
vegetables,
92
–
93
,
98
–
99
vegetarianism	or	veganism. See
	plant-based	diet
Virginia	Tech,
33viruses,
190
,
197
–
99
vitamin	supplements,
2
,
94
–
95
,
216
,
228
–
29
,
242
,
269
–
70
,
288
vitamins,
29
,
93
,
269
vitamin	A,
231
vitamin	B
12
,
232
vitamin	C,
93
–
94
,
302
–
3
vitamin	D,
179
–
81
,
200
–
201
,
208
,
231
,
361
–
68
,
363
Voit,	Carl,
28
W
Webb,	Ryland,
34
weight	(gain	or	loss),
102
–
4
,
138
–
43
Wendy’s,
289
Western	diseases. See
	diseases	of	affluence
whole	foods,
2
,
98
,
106
,
141
,
228
–
29
,
262
,
270
–
71
,
302
See	also
	plant-based	diet
WIC	(Women,	Infants	and	Children	Supplemental	Feeding	program),
312
,
313
Willett,	Walter,
271
–
75
,
284
,
286
Women,	Infants	and	Children	Supplemental	Feeding	Program	(WIC),
312
,
313
Women’s	Health	Initiative	(WHI),
166
,
316
Women’s	Health	Trial,
277
–
78
World	Health	Organization,
309
–
10
World	Sugar	Research	Organization,
310
Wyeth-Ayerst	Laboratories,
328
Y
Youngman,	Linda,
56
Z
zinc,
252About	the	Authors
For	more	than	forty	years,
DR. T. COLIN	CAMPBELL
	has	been	at	the
forefront	of	nutrition	research. His	legacy,	the	China	Study,	is	the	most
comprehensive	study	of	health	and	nutrition	ever	conducted. Dr. Campbell	is
Jacob	Gould	Schurman	Professor	Emeritus	of	Nutritional	Biochemisty	at
Cornell	University. He	has	received	more	than	seventy	grant-years	of	peer-
reviewed	research	funding	and	authored	more	than	300	research	papers. The
China	Study	was	the	culmination	of	a	twenty-year	partnership	of	Cornell
University,	Oxford	University	and	the	Chinese	Academy	of	Preventive
Medicine. A	1999	graduate	of	Cornell	University,
THOMAS	CAMPBELL
	is	currently
pursuing	a	career	in	medicine. In	addition,	he	is	a	writer,	actor	and	three-time
marathon	runner. Born	and	raised	in	Ithaca,	NY,	he	has	appeared	on	stage	in
London,	Chicago	and	most	of	the	states	east	of	the	Mississippi	River. Mr. Campbell	enjoys	playing	soccer,	skiing	and	hiking. Section summary: This part of your answer is for a correlation study on nutrition's impact on health risks in 354 pages long with references to various topics such as autoimmune diseases (including multiple sclerosis),
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inger tim e-dependent an d time-independent equations to their
resolution as the Dirac equations. ) While the scientific model is very interesting, informative, and
confirmative of the ef fect of con sciousness, it does not take into account
the relat ive power of the observ er ’ s level of consciousness or intention. Scientific objectivity calibrates i n the 400s, whereas spiritual intention is
far m ore powerful and calibrates  from 500 on up. For instance, a t highly-
evolved levels of consciousness, merely holding an optimal resolution in
mind tends to b ring it into manifestation, as do af firmations (e.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the primary requirement for the inflow of kundalini energy to the higher etheric spiritual bodies?,
A: Surrendering of all self-identities and mental belief systems.
Q: What is the primary quality of Divinity that is often misinterpreted as an attachment?,
A: Love
Q: What is the key to transcending the void (Nothingness) and entering a state of enlightenment?,
A: Surrendering of the ego's desire for control and attachment
Q: What is the primary mechanism for the evolution of consciousness, and why is it important to understand?,
A: The power of intention and devotion, as it is the primary quality of Divinity and is essential to know in order to avoid attachment and resistance.
Q: What is the primary tool for spiritual growth and evolution, and how does it differ from the approach of traditional science?,
A: The tool of simplicity, which is an innate quality of the nonlinear field of consciousness, and it differs from traditional science in that it is based on faith and devotion rather than intellectual understanding.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Disidentify with the body/emotions/mind as ‘me’. Be truthful and
admit that they are yours but not you. While this may seem
artificial, strange, foreign, and unnatural in the beginning, the basic
reality is that it is a truth of higher order, which makes it a verypowerful and formidable tool. T he mind will try to deny this reality
as w ell a s truth (that is what it is ‘supposed to do’) because T ru th is
intuited as its nemesis. Millions of people over the ages and in current life have been willing to
actually die rather than acknowledge these two simple premises. People
are will ing to blow up themse lves and others rather than admit they
could be  mistak en. Realize that the ego will happily lead you to your
death and kill y ou rather than h umbly admit that it made a mistake or
could even be oh, that most horrible of all words: “W rong.”
Better than death and a hellish life is it to grow up and admit that the
mind is mislead ing, cunning, ruthless, and not one’ s friend! The core of
the e go is narcissistic pride, and  secretly, it thinks that it is God. W ithout
undue s train, it can be caug ht in its secret, inflationary, dualistic
presumptions, w hich are undone by simple humility. This is the doorway
to freedom and the experience of happiness. One dis covers the true nature of the mind when one tries to escape its
clutches. When analyzed, the m ind is seen to be a complexity of the
presumption of ‘my’ thoughts plus a collection of observed factual data. Data is useful; in contrast, thoughts and views about that data are
unreliable and, of necessity, distorted by the supposition of their being
‘mine’, with all the attendant positionalities. Once thoughts or feelings are la beled as ‘mine’, they become m agically
imbued with presumptive omniscience and an assumed sovereign
validity. These constitute what has classically been describe d in all
spiritual literature as illusion, which frequently progresses to delusion. Unless stopped by integrous dou bt and questioning, the rampant mind is
on a n endless siege to defeat reliable, verifiable truth, which would
thereby challenge its presumptive sovereignty (i.e., the universal human
proclivity to defend being ‘right’ against all evidence to the contrary). The und oing of domination by the mind can be accomplished by one
single step—humility—which is reinforced by simply recognizing that
the mind is not sovereign, omniscient, or even capable of tell ing truth
from fa lsehood. It has a utilitarian value when it comes to physical
survival and the recognition of objects. Even when it comes torecognizing the physical world,  the mind is incapable of understanding
what the world means, just as it does not even recognize the ultrasimple
observation that Evolution is Creation. The mind is a useful tool within the protective confines and rules of logic
and reas on or intrinsic operatio nal constraints and discipline. Thus, the
mind is at its best when it opera tes as science, which does not allow for
emotionality or the violation of logic. A friend once said, “I jus t realized
that I don’ t have to have an op inion about everything—what a relief!”
This discovery led to the enjoym ent of greater freedom because opinions
are imp risoning and restrictive, as well as routinely contentious and
ar gumentative. If thoug hts or ideas are not really ‘mine’, then whence do they arise and
who is their author? Actually, th ey don’ t have a ‘who’ of origin at all but
instead m erely a rise from a ‘wh at’. The content of a calibratabl e field of
consciousness is like a thought bank regimented by a specific ener gy
field of a level  of the collect ive consciousness of mankind. Similar
thoughts, concepts, and ideas congregate at various levels and are
orchestrated under the influence of the attention of the central ‘attractor
field’ that, like gravity, attracts ideas of similar gravity or density. The
phenomenon is similar to the s tratification of fishes and life forms at
dif ferent depths  of the sea. In human life, there are bottom fe eders as
well as those who leap above the surface of the water. Certain types of thinking styles, belief systems, and memes (catchy
phrases) are endemic to certain societies and subcultures that have been
dominated by myths over the centuries. For example, there are major
countries where integrity, honesty, and fairness are not even co nsidered
to be important in daily transactions. Instead, all interactions are based
entirely on gain, and deception is a valued social technique and skill. In
such a culture, morality is not o nly absent but also viewed as irrational,
of no value, and  indicative of weakness, as many naïve tourists discover
when they return home with a supposedly priceless antiquity and
discover it is actually worth only a few cents. Clarification of the Ubiquitous. V ictim/Perpetrator Dualistic Fallacy. By spiritual endeavor, one discovers that it is oneself who has  been a
captive and a ‘v ictim’ ensnared  by the clever deceptions of the ego. All
of the ego’ s trick s can be observed in the evolution of the variou s species
of the animal kingdom over great periods of time where entrapment,
deception, rivalry, ego gain, self-servingness, camouflage, and force
subserve survival. The evolution of the hominid eventuated as Homo
sapiens, and concordantly, the p refrontal cortex emer ged in front of the
animal brain, which remained u nder the domination of animal instincts
up to  consciousness level 200. T he animal instincts are totally directed to
personal gain and continue to follow that path in conflict with th e ener gy
of spiritual power, truth, and especially love. The ego’ s deception is
clever in that it deludes its victim and prisoner into believing that the
perpetrators are  ‘out there’, whereas they are actually innate and ‘in
here’. What is the identity of the real perpetrator? Upon investigation, it will be
found that there is no ‘who’ but just the ener gy field of a specifi c level of
consciousness that arose throughout evolutionary time and still prevails,
and by which the majority of the world’ s population is dominated or still
imprisoned. One  can thereby see the wisdom and truth of the Buddha’ s
saying, “Rare it is to be born a human being; rarer still to hear the truth,
and even  rarer still, having hear d the truth, to pursue it.” The tru th of the
statement is verified by consciousness calibration, which identifies that
only 0.4 percent of the world’ s population is capable of reaching the state
of Unconditional Love. Unconditional L ove is a practical, reasonable, and reachable goal in a
human lifetime. From that level, spiritual commitment and dedication
evolve into states of exquisite joy—even ecstasy—and eventually reach
the level  of Peace at 600, which  is the beginning level of the my stic. The
way of the mystic, in the true classical meaning of the term, can be
defined as Devotional Nonduality. CHAPTER 21. T ranscending The Mind. Intr oduction. In transcending the levels of consciousness, choices and options
experientially tend to appear as seeming opposites or conflicting
dualities. These are experienced as aversions or attractions that can seem


must have been real otherwise it could not be. When death approaches,
we may look back on our life and wonder if it was just another dream. Even now you may look back on last year's vacation or yesterday's
drama and see that it is very similar to last night's dream. There is the dream, and there is the dreamer of the dream. The dream is a
short?lived play of forms. It is the world relatively real but not absolutely
real. Then there is the dreamer, the absolute reality in which the forms
come and go. The dreamer is not the person. The person is part of the
dream. The dreamer is the substratum in which the dream appears, that
which makes the dream possible. It is the absolute behind the relative,
the timeless behind time, the consciousness in and behind form. The
dreamer is consciousness itself who you are.T o awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake
within the dream, the ego?created earth?drama comes to an end and a
more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth.A New Earth
G O I N G  B E Y O N D  L I M I T A T I O N
In each person's life there comes a time when he or she pursues growth
and expansion on the level of form. This is when you strive to overcome
limitation such as physical weakness or financial scarcity, when you
acquire new skills and knowledge, or through creative action bring
something new into this world that is life?enhancing for yourself as well
as others. This may be a piece of music or a work of art, a book, a
service you provide, a function you perform, a business or or ganization
that you set up or make a vital contribution to. When you are Present, when your attention is fully in the Now, that
Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be quality
and power in it. Y ou are present when what you are doing is not
primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in
itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do. And, of course,
you cannot be present unless you become friendly with the present
moment. That is the basis for ef fective action, uncontaminated by
negativity. Form means limitation. W e are here not only to experience limitation,
but also to grow in consciousness by going beyond limitation. Some
limitations can be overcome on an external level. There may be other
limitations in your life that you have to learn to live with. They can only
be overcome internally. Everyone will encounter them sooner or later. Those limitations either keep you trapped in egoic reaction, which means
intense unhappiness, or you rise above them internally by
uncompromising
surrender to what is. That is what they are here to teach. The surrendered
state of consciousness opens up the vertical dimension in your life, the
dimension of depth. Something will then come forth from that dimension
into this world, something of infinite value that otherwise would have
remained unmanifested. Some people who surrendered to severelimitation become healers or spiritual teachers. Others work selflessly to
lessen human suf fering or bring some creative gift into this world. In the late seventies, I would have lunch every day with one or two
friends in the cafeteria of the graduate center at Cambridge University,
where I was studying. A man in a wheelchair would sometimes sit at a
nearby table, usually accompanied by three or four people. One day,
when I was sitting at a table directly opposite me, I could not help but
look at him more closely, and I was shocked by what I saw. He seemed
almost totally paralyzed. His body was emaciated, his head permanently
slumped forward. One of the people accompanying him was carefully
putting food in his mouth a great deal of which would fall out again and
be caught on a small plate another man was holding under his chin. Occasionally the wheelchair? bound man would produce unintelligible
croaking sounds, and someone would hold an ear close to his mouth and
then amazingly would interpret what he was trying to say. Later I asked my friend whether he know who he was. Of course, he
said, He is a professor of mathematics, and the people with him are his
graduate students. He has motor neuron disease that progressively
paralyzes every part of the body. He has been given five years at the
most. It must be the most dreadful fate that can befall a human being. A few weeks later, as I was leaving the building, he was coming in, and
when I held the door open for his electric wheelchair to come trough, our
eyes met. W ith surprise I saw that his eyes were clear. There was no
trace in them of unhappiness. I know immediately he had relinquished
resistance; he was living in surrender. A number of years later when buying a newspaper at a kiosk, I was
amazed to see him on the front page of a popular international news
magazine. Not only was he still alive, but he had by then become the
world's most famous theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking. There was
a beautiful line in the article that confirmed what I had sensed when I
had looked into
his eyes many years earlier. Commenting upon his life, he said (now with
the help of the voice synthesizer), Who could have wished for more?A New Earth
T H E  J O Y  O F  B E I N G
Unhappiness or negativity is a disease on our planet. What pollution is
on the outer level is negativity on the inner. It is everywhere, not just in
places where people don't have enough, but even more so where they
have more than enough. Is that surprising? No. The af fluent world is
even more deeply identified with form, more lost in content, more
trapped in ego. People believe themselves to be dependent on what happens for their
happiness, that is to say dependent on form. They don't realize that what
happens is the most unstable thing in the universe. It changes constantly. They look upon the present moment as either marred by something that
has happened and shouldn't have or as deficient because of something
that has not happened but should have. Ad so they miss the deeper
perfection that is inherent in life itself, a perfection that is always already
there, that lies beyond what is happening or not happening, beyond form. Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than
any form and untouched by time. The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, can not come to you
through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event through
anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you ever. It emanates
form the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and
thus is one with who you are.A New Earth
A L L O W I N G  T H E  D I M I N I S H M E N T  O F  T H E
E G O
The ego is always on guard against any kind of perceived diminishment. Automatic ego?repair mechanisms come into ef fect to restore the mental
form of me. When someone blames or criticizes me, that to the ego is a
diminishment of self, and it will immediately attempt to repair its
diminished sense of self through self?justification, defense, or blaming. Whether the other person is right or wrong is irrelevant to the ego. It is
much more interested in self?preservation than in the truth. This is the
preservation of the psychological form of me. Even such a normal thing
as shouting something back when another driver calls you idiot is an
automatic and unconscious ego?repair mechanism. One of the most
common ego?repair
mechanisms is anger, which causes a temporary but huge ego inflation. All repair mechanisms make perfect sense to the ego but are actually
dysfunctional. Those that are most extreme in their dysfunction are
physical violence ad self?delusion in the form of grandiose fantasies. A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of
ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend that
you experiment with this from time to time. For example, when someone
criticizes you, blames you, or calls you names, instead of immediately
retaliating or defending yourself do nothing. Allow the self? image to
remain diminished and become alert to what that feels like deep inside
you. For a few seconds, it may feel uncomfortable, as if you had shrunk
in size. Then you may sense an inner spaciousness that feels intensely
alive. Y ou haven't been diminished at all. In fact, you have expanded. Y ou may then come to an amazing realization: When you are seemingly
diminished in some way and remain in absolute non?reaction, not just
externally but also internally, you realize that nothing real has been
diminished, that through becoming less, you become more. When you no
longer defend or attempt to strengthen the form of yourself, you step out
of identification with form, with mental self?image. Through becomingless (in the ego's perception), you in fact under go an expansion and make
room for Being to come forward. T rue power, who you are beyond form,
can then shine through the apparently weakened form. this is what Jesus
means when he says, Deny yourself or T urn the other cheek. This does not mean, of course, that


 team had  won the
race. He spent the  next year forming  a new team, practicing, and building
his own outrigger  canoe. He was convinced  that if he  imagined  himself
winning the  race, his team would  come  in first. Next year, he, his team and  at least a  dozen others flew  to Hawaii from
Southern California  to compete  in the  annual race. There  were several
teams with much more  experience who were  considered  likely to place  in
the top ten, although the  Hawaiians were  still considered  the favorites. At
the end of the  race, E.P.’s team finished  first, ahead  of the  Hawaiians and
all the  other  teams. E.P. now  holds a  paddle  engraved  with the  words
“World  Champion”  which was given to him upon his team taking  first
place. After winning  this coveted  title, this young  man went on to coach other
teams. He  also began manufacturing  paddles for outrigger  canoes. His
paddles are  known throughout the  world  and are used by outrigger  teams
who are  among  the top teams in the  world. E.P. now  makes his home  in Hawaii and  enjoys coaching  teams, manufac -
turing  paddles, fishing  and sailing  his own boat. He  also uses his boat as
an escort craft for the  annual  outrigger  races. *****
Mrs. J.K. was living  in her  twin sister’s home  after having  been divorced. Mrs. J.K. had   three children, a  son and  boy twins. Her  sister  and her hus-
band had three boys. Needless to say, this was a  crowded  household. Mrs.
J.K. was very desirous of getting   married  and living  in her  own home. She had  been dating  a man but decided  that she  did not wish to continue
the relationship  and broke  it off. Many of her  friends attempted  to “fix”
Mrs. J.K. up  with eligible  men they knew,  but she  was not interested  in
going  on blind dates. Several of her  friends commented  that if she wished
to meet an eligible  man, she  would  need to get out and  go places. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenThe twins believed  in the  creative  power  of imagination, and  they had a
friend  who also knew  of the  power  of imagining. The  three women deter -
mined  that they would  imagine  a ring on Mrs. J.K.’s finger, which would
imply that she  was married. They did  this for several weeks. During  this
time, Mrs. J.K. also imagined  herself living  in her  own home. However,
when she  attempted  to do so, she found  herself imagining  a home  exactly
like her sister’s. One day, Mrs. J.K. received  a call from a  friend  who asked  her to come  to
her home  and  help her wallpaper her  kitchen. Mrs. J.K. agreed  to help
her friend  who lived  a few blocks away in the  same  tract of homes. While
she was there, a  male neighbor came  to visit her friend. The  friend  intro-
duced  Mrs. J.K. to her  neighbor. He  later called  Mrs. J.K. and  they  began
to date. Five months later, Mrs. J.K. married  this man. The  interesting
part of this story is that all of these  people  lived in the  same  large tract of
homes. There  were only four homes in the  tract of 1200  that had the
same  floor plan. Yes, this woman’s husband  owned  one of the  homes that
had the same  floor plan as Mrs. J.K.’s twin sister. Even  though Mrs. J.K.
imagined  herself living  in her  own home, she  had only been able  to  imag -
ine herself living  in a house  identical to her  sister’s. *****
This is a  story about the  friend, Mrs. L.M., who had  introduced  Mrs. J.K. to
her new  husband. During  their friendship, Mrs. J.K. had  tried to explain
the principle  of imagination to her  friend  who was very doubtful that “it”
would  work. One  day, Mrs. J.K. asked  her friend  to come  to one  of
Neville’s lectures. Mrs. L.M. agreed  to attend  but was not at all convinced
that imagining  she had what she  wanted  would  result in obtaining  it. But,
she decided  to imagine  a very simple  thing – the receipt of a handker -
chief. She imagined  that someone  had given her  one and then dropped
the whole  idea. Much to her surprise, she  received  a handkerchief in the
mail from the  mother  of a friend  who came  to her  house  for lunch while
she was in town for a  visit. This woman sent Mrs. L.M. a   handkerchief
with a  thank  you note. Mrs. L.M. was not only surprised  when she  re-
ceived the  gift, she  became  very frightened  as she  thought there  was
something  supernatural  about it. Mrs. L.M. had  attempted  to disprove  that
imagination produces the  thing desired. When she  received  the handker -
chief she  had imagined, she  interpreted  it to be  some  sort of Black Magic
and didn’t want to know  any more  about this teaching. *****
I could  relate  hundreds of incidents involving  dozens of people  in which
imagination was used  to bring  about the  desired  results. I have  chosen
a few stories to illustrate  that imagination can be  used to solve  all manner
of problems and  bring into your experience your every heart’s desire. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenFundamentals
From INTA Bulletin, “New Thought”  Summer  1953. With so vast a  subject, it is indeed  a difficult task  to summarize in a few
hundred  words what I consider  the most basic  ideas on which those  who
seek a true understanding  of metaphysics should  now concentrate. I shall
do what I can in the  shape of three fundamentals. These  fundamentals
are: Self Observation, Definition of Aim, and Detachment. The purpose  of true  metaphysics is to bring  about a  rebirth or radical psy -
chological change  in the  individual.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Then when you  set something  bad in motion, as the machine
turns you  cannot see what caused  it, but when you become awake you
can control the  machine. It responds to the  imaginal acts of the awakened
man, for the awakened  man is in control. A thrill is in store  for you  when you  can finally stop  all activity and the
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenwhole  thing will freeze. You  will know  what the  so-called  wise men say,
but you  will hear only these  words:  "I thank  you Father  that you have
you have hid these  things from the  wise and pious and revealed  them
unto babes. " For you  will know  that it is the  perceiver  who is making ev -
erything  alive. For you  will find  that nothing is independent of the  mind of
the perceiver. A truly awakened  teacher  could  freeze certain  sections for
the edification of his students if he  chose. By normal standards everything
would  die if you  suspended  activity; but it does not die, for there  is noth -
ing outside  of your perception of it. Take your boss or an employee and
represent them to yourself as you  want them to be,  and believe  in the
reality of the  foundation stone,  and then you  will not make haste  to bring
it to pass. For Imagination is creating  reality, and  in a way no one  knows
it will be brought to pass if you  remain faithful. A man's son was in St Louis to be  brought up  by his wife's sister. This
man had  tried for seven years to get enough ahead  to take a  trip to St. Louis to see the  child. He  constantly tried to see himself getting  a job with
more money so he  could  make the  trip. He  was told  that by the  right use
of this law  he should  only see himself with his child  and let the  way be left
to God. Following  this he  was given a  job that took  him from Los Angeles
to New Orleans. But that was not near St. Louis. He  took the job and  per-
sisted  in his dream, and  in three months he  was transferred  to the  St. Louis run


 become sluggish, the condition of insulin resistance develops. Because
it's crucial to get the sugar out of the blood and into the cells, the pancreas will compensate by making more and more insulin to
force the sluggish sensors to respond. Thus begins a vicious cycle of requiring ever more insulin to keep the system going. Finally, some people become so resistant to insulin that the amoun t necessary to make the sensors respond and clear the
sugar' from the blood is more than their pancreas can make; that person becomes an adult diabetic. Excess insulin stimulates a wide variety of other metabolic systems: it encourages the kidneys to retain salt and fluid; it
stimulates the production of cholesterol by the liver; it fuels an increase in triglyceride production; it thickens the muscu lar
portion of the artery walls, increasing the risk for high blood pressure; and it sends a strong messa ge to the fat cells to store
incoming sugar and fat. Insulin's actions are countered by the second metabolic hormone, glucagon. Glucagon sends signals to the kidneys to release
excess salt and fluid, to the liver to slow down the production of cholesterol  and triglycerides, to the artery wall to relax and drop
blood pressure, and to the fat cells to release stored fat to be burned for energy. When insulin levels in the blood are high,
however, they so overwhelm system that they suppress glucagon's actions. copyright © Dr. Stanley S. Bass   (718) 648 -1500    www.drbass.com  74

Since food is what mainly controls the production of these two hormones, we have been able to create a nutritional structure
that maximizes the release of glucagon an d minimizes the release of insulin, creating a closer balance between these two
hormones. Under these conditions the actions of the glucagon predominate, allowing the metabolism to heal and the
malfunctioning sensors to regain their sensitivity. Once this healing occurs, the metabolic disturbances that insulin resistance
caused improve or disappear. If elevated, your cholesterol and triglycerides return to normal, your blood pressure returns to
normal, blood sugar stabilizes and you can effectively lose exc ess stored body fat. All these benefits accrue not by treating the symptoms - the blood pressure, cholesterol problem, overweight, or diabetes - but
the root cause, chronically elevated insulin and insulin resistance. There are no medications yet to treat  this disorder - the right
diet is the only remedy, but it works extremely well." CURSE OF THE MUMMIES
I found the chapter "Curse of the Mummies" to be particularly fascinating. It deals with a period of almost 3000 years (from 2500 B.C. to A.D. 395), wherein the ancient Egyptian civilization flourished
largely as an agricultural society, where the Nile River kept the land fertile and rich. The following is a quote from and a
condensation/summary of this chapter by Drs. Eades:

Excerpt from Protein Powe r
by Drs. Michael & Mary Eades

CURSE OF THE MUMMIES
"The papyrus records tell us that the early Egyptians sat down to dine on a diet consisting primarily of bread, cereals, fres h fruit
and vegetables, some fish and poultry, almost no red meat, olive oil i nstead of lard, and goat's milk for drinking and to make
into cheese - a veritable nutritionist's nirvana. Except for papyrus, the Egyptians could have obtained their entire diet from the
shelves of any health food store in America. With such a bounty ava ilable, rich in all the foods believed to promote health and almost devoid of saturated fat and cholesterol,
it would seem that the ancient Egyptians should have lived forever or at least should have lived long, health lives and died of old
age in their be ds. But did they? Let's look at the archaeological evidence...."

The Bottom Line
"Modern nutritional wisdom would predict that the diet of the ancient Egyptians - high in complex carbohydrates, low in fat, no
refined sugar, almost no red meat - should hav e brought health, fitness and longevity to the Egyptians of old. But, it didn't. Translations of the ancient Egyptian papyrus writings and modern examination of their mummified remains by pathologists tell
us quite a different tale. The evidence speaks of  a people afflicted with rotten teeth and severe atheriosclerosis, suffering from
elevated blood pressure and dying in their thirties with heart attacks. And contrary to the paintings of the willowy svelte f igures in
pleated linen that adorned their tombed  walls, the large skin folds of the mummies tell us that their ancient low -fat, high -
carbohydrate diet left them obese as well. The Egyptians are not the only people whose health suffered because of a diet consisting mainly of complex carbohydrates. An
anthropologist examining skeletal remains of early man can tell immediately whether the bones and teeth belonged to a hunter -
gatherer (mainly protein eater) or a farmer (mainly carbohydrate eater) simply by their condition. The hunters grew tall, wit h
strong, well -formed bones and sound teeth, and the remains of the farmers usually show skeletal signs of malnutrition, stunted
growth, and tooth decay. For 700,000 years humans ate a diet of mainly meat, fat, nuts, and berries. Eight thousand years ago we le arned to farm, and
as our consumption of grains increased, our health declined. Genetic evolutionary changes take a minimum of 1,000
generations - or another 8,000 to 10 000 years to adapt. Our metabolic machinery was designed to cope with an unpredictabl e food supply. We had to store food away for the lean
times ahead. The hormone insulin did this for us. Unfortunately a diet heavy in carbohydrates also sends our insulin levels
soaring and our body interprets this as a need to store calories, to make chol esterol, and to conserve water - all important to
our survival way back then. Some of us inherit this conservation ability - a thrifty gene - in great measure. People who have this trait gain weight easily and
have a more difficult time losing their excess  and the current nutritional low -fat, high carbohydrate prescription leads to
overweight and weight -related health problems even more quickly among them." copyright © Dr. Stanley S. Bass   (718) 648 -1500    www.drbass.com                                               75

I highly recommend the study of Drs. Eades "Protein Power" as well as their follow -up book, "The Protein Power Lifeplan"
(Warner Books, copyright 2000) for a clear presentation of the problems associated with a high carbohydrate diet, which leads
to an excessive excretion of insulin and its resulting problems, which may account for more than 75% of our modern diseases
and infirmities. Stanley S. Bass
New York   5/2000

CONTINUATION
With their permission, I here quote from ”  The Protein Power Lifeplan  ”  by Michael R. Eades, M.D., and Mary D. Eades, M.D. http://eatprotein.com
Stanley S. Bass
New York   10/2000
Excerpts from The Protein Power Lifeplan
by Drs. Michael & Mary Eades

THE TRUTH MAY SURPRISE YOU
" The authors who defied conventional wisdom, turned the food pyramid upside down, and helped to vastly improve personal
health continue to break the rules...
A New York Times bestseller for over a year, Protein Power sparked provoca tive debate with its assertion that our mainly
carbohydrate -based diet - and not one rich in protein - is responsible for rampant obesity and heart disease among Americans. Now the authors of this exciting guide expand both their theory and their nutrition al program, and show how The Protein Power
LifePlan can combat diabetes, high blood pressure, auto -immune disorder, and more.....

Good health is in our birthright. Contrary to popular belief, our bodies were designed by nature to metabolize and thrive on
protein and fat, and simply weren't built to handle today's typical diet of carbohydrates and processed foods. The authors ha ve
linked the rise in disease to our increasing reliance on the low -fat, high -carbohydrate diet that first appeared at the dinner table
relatively late in human history. The keys to good health can be found by understanding how we evolved, and by eating a diet
typical of our ancestors', rich in protein and good fats and full of fruits and vegetables for the antioxidant and cancer -fighting
abilities." ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA
"Anthropologists have known for decades that the health of humanity took a turn for the worse when our ancestors abandoned
their hunter -gatherer means of subsistence in favor of the farm somewhere between e ight-thousand and ten -thousand years
ago. The fossil record leaves little doubt that compared to their farming successors, the hunters were more robust, had great er
bone density, decreased infant mortality, a longer life span, a lower incidence of infectious diseases and iron -deficiency anemia,
fewer enamel defects, and little or no tooth decay. Humans have followed a Paleolithic diet for a few million years and a "modern" agricultural diet for only a few thousand year s.
The not too gentle forces of  natural selection have spent millennia shaping and molding our evolving line, weeding out those
offshoots and mutations that didn't thrive on the available fare, reinforcing those traits that improved our survival, until we
emerged as modern humans some o ne-hundred -thousand years or so


theory have been subjected to rigorously controlled experiment al
conditions and met with no contradictions. H. S. Burr PART I
Voyage of Discovery CHAP TER ONE
An Adventure in Science
1
We live in troubled and difficult times. There are wars and
dangers of war. In many parts of the world there are revolts, pro
tests, crime and lawlessness in ceaseless eruption. And over this
age hangs the Sword of Damocles of possible nuclear destruction. More and more people ask themselves despondently whether
life has any sense or purpose. Many are tempted to believe that
man is an accident, left to grapple with his lonely fate on an
insignificant planet in a harsh and lawless Universe. In a materialistic, scientific age many find it hard to accept
those religious beliefs that sustained their forefathers in times
which-to them-seemed as troubled and perilous as the present. They would like to believe that man is no accident and that the
Universe in which he lives is one of law, order and purpose. But,
dazzled by the methods and triumphs of science, they are unwill
ing to take anything on trust; they demand some'scientific' proof
or evidence. Until some forty years ago this demand could not be met be
cause the necessary electronic instruments and techniques had
not been developed. When these became available, however, an
entirely new approach to the nature of man and his place in the
Universe became possible. For these instruments revealed that
man-and, in fact, all forms-are ordered and controlled by
electro-dynamic fields which can be measured and mapped with
precision. Though almost inconceivably complicated, the 'fields of life'
are of the same nature as the simpler fields known to modern
physics and obedient to the same laws. Like the fields of physics,
they are a part of the organization of the Universe and are in-
11 AN ADVENTU RE IN SCIENCE
fluenced by the vast forces of space. Like the fields of physics, too,
they have organizing and directing qualities which have been
revealed by many thousands of experiments. Organization and direction, the direct opposite of chance,
imply purpose. So the fields of life offer purely electronic, in
strumental evidence that man is no accident. On the contrary, he
is an integral part of the Cosmos, embedded in its all-powerful
fields, subject to its inflexible laws and a participant in the
destiny and purpose of the Universe. This book is an account of the adventure in science-of the
long, step-by-step exploration-that wrested from Nature the
answer to the question which so many in these times are asking
so anxiously. 2
Electro-dynamic fields are invisible and intangible; and it is
hard to visualize them. But a crude analogy may help to show
what the fields of life-L-fields for short-do and why they are
so important:
Most people who have taken high-school science will remember
that if iron-filings are scattered on a card held over a magnet
they will arrange themselves in the pattern of the 'lines of
force' of the magnet's field. And if the filings are thrown away
and fresh ones scattered on the card, the new filings will assume
the same pattern as the old. Something like this-though infinitely more complicated
happens in the human body. Its molecules and cells are con
stantly being torn apart and rebuilt with fresh material from
the food we eat. But, thanks to the controlling L-field, the new
molecules and cells are rebuilt as before and arrange themselves
in the same pattern as the old ones. Modern research with 'tagged' elements has revealed that the
materials of our bodies and brains are renewed much more often
than was previously realized. All the protein in the body, for
example, is 'turned over' every six months and, in some organs
such as the liver, the protein is renewed more frequently. When
12 AN ADVENTU RE IN SCI ENCE
we meet a friend we have not seen for six months there is not one
molecule in his face which was there when we last saw him. But,
thanks to his controlling L-field, the new molecules have fallen
into the old, familiar pattern and we can recognize his face. Until modern instruments revealed the existence of the control
ling L-fields, biologists were at a loss to explain how our bodies
'keep in shape' through ceaseless metabolism and changes of
material. Now the mystery has been solved, the electro-dynamic
field of the body serves as a matrix or mould, which preserves the
'shape' or arrangement of any material poured into it, however
often the material may be changed. When a cook looks at a jelly-mould she knows the shape
of the jelly she will turn out of it. In much the same way, in
spection with instruments of an L-field in its initial stage can
reveal the future'shape' or arrangement of the materials it will
mould. When the L-field in a frog's egg, for instance, is examined
electrically it is possible to show the future location of the frog's
nervous system because the frog's L-field is the matrix which will
determine the form which will develop from the egg. (See
page 61.) Inspection of L-fields is done with special voltmeters and elec
trodes-to be described shortly-which reveal different patterns
or gradients of voltages in different parts of the L-field. To return to the cook, when she uses a battered mould she
expects to find some dents or bulges in the jelly. Similarly, a
'battered' L-field-that is, one with abnormal voltage-patterns
-can give warning of something 'out of shape' in the body,
sometimes in advance of actual symptoms. For example, malignancy in the ovary has been revealed by
L-field measurements before any clinical sign could be observed. Such measurements, therefore, could help doctors to detect can
cer early, when there is a better chance of treating it successfully. (See page 54 and Dr. Langman's paper in Part II.) Nature keeps an infinite variety of electro-dynamic 'jelly
moulds' on her shelves with which she shapes the countless diff
erent forms of life that exist on this planet. L-fields have been
detected and measured not only in men and women but also in
animals, trees, plants, seeds, eggs and even in one of the lowest
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forms of life, slime-moulds. Of these L-fields, those of trees can tell something that others
cannot because trees do not move about, live to a great age and
can be hitched up to recording instruments for long periods of
time. For many years a maple tree in New Haven and an elm in
Old Lyme were continuously connected to recording voltmeters
-something which, obviously, cannot be done with men and
women. These long records showed that the L-fields of trees vary not
only with sunlight and darkness but also with the cycles of the
moon, with magnetic storms and with sunspots. (See page 97 and
Mr. Markson's paper in Part II.) If such extra-terrestrial forces can influence the relatively
simple L-fields of trees we would expect them to have an even
greater influence on the more complex L-fields of men and
women; and there is evidence tha t they do. These sturdy Connecticut trees, then, have helped to answer
the question which philosophers have disputed for centuries and
which many ask so anxiously today. For they have shown that
life on this planet is not isolated from the Universe but a part of
it-susceptible to those irresistible forces that exert their influ
ence across the vast distances of space. 3
i-fields are detected and examined by measuring the difference
in voltage between two points on-or close to-the surface of
the living form. In men and women L-field voltages can be
measured by placing one electrode on the forehead and the other
on the chest or the hand. Alternatively, the index finger of each
hand is dipped into howls of saline solution connected to the volt
meter. In special cases voltage readings may be taken by apply
ing the electrodes to some specific organ or part of the body. In trees, the electrodes are in contact through salt bridges with
the cambium layer, one about two feet above the other. The. ;e voltage measurements have nothing to do with the
alternating electrical currents which doctors find in the heart and
the brain. They are pure voltage potentials which can yield only
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an infinitesimal amount of direct current. That is why L-fields
could not be detected before the invention of the vacuum-tube
voltmeter, which requires virtually no current for its operation. An ordinary voltmeter needs so much current to swing the
needle that it would drain away the L-field potentials and make
any reading useless if not impossible. When Sir John Fleming, an Englishman, discovered that elec
trons flow from a heated wire in a vacuum and Lee DeForest, an
American, found out how to use them with a grid, it is unlikely
that either of them ever imagined that the vacuum tube which
resulted from their discoveries would one day make possible a
new approach to the mystery of life. And it was many years be
fore the vacuum tube had been sufficiently perfected to make the
vacuum-tube voltmeter a reliable instrument.


us evolves based on faith. The faith of the conviction of the integrity of
whatever spiritual teacher or church or spiritual tradition, whatever guru,
whatever. One’ s inner direction leads one to that which you’re able to hangon to with absolute certainty. When I was an atheist, I’d already got the
absolute certainty of the truth of the Buddha. I was an atheist at the time,
and I knew that what he said was absolutely so. So the intuitive
knowingness was there, many years prior to the validation experientially. Karma Is What You Are
That leads us up to the next topic, which is the part karma plays in all of
this. To avoid the whole subject of karma is, again, the fallacy of many
religious positions which say, “I don’ t believe in karma.” I don’ t want
anybody to believe in karma at all. I don’ t want anybody  to believe in
karma. I don’ t believe in karma. Karma is what you are. You ask, “How do
you let go of the ego?” Well, the ego is the accumulated karma of all of life
through all of time, through all of history as it presents itself now in the
reality of that which you are at this moment. Somebody says they don’ t
believe in karma; in that case, you don’ t exist, because you’ve got two ears,
two eyes, a nose, and a mouth. If that ain’ t karmic, what is it? I mean, you
didn’ t come up with four ears and three eyes and two mouths, you know. So
obviously, this moment then represents the accumulated ener gies and
effects in form throughout all of time. You can’ t pretend that somehow the evolution of consciousness
throughout all of time and throughout all forms of life has somehow
bypassed you and you have magically escaped karma. No way. That’ s
spiritual pride to think that one is not subject to the laws of the universe. One time in a very advanced state—it was a very, very advanced state—
came the potential downfall of the guru. A lot of gurus fall down. “At the
pass was over 800” (T rue); “820” (T rue); “840” (T rue); “860” (Not true). Around 850. So, it’ s another shocking fact. You see, to be a radical realist
takes a lot of guts. It takes a lot of guts and takes a lot of heart. You’ve got
to face radical facts about things you don’ t want to face. Many well-known
gurus, if you calibrate their writings, they’re pretty good. If you calibrate
where they were at, at the height of their spiritual evolution, you get a very
good number. If you ask where they are at now, you may get a very low
number. Shock. Because at each point along the way, it’s like a test comes
up that says, “Oh, yeah?” The students I teach are unprepared for that. First
of all, don’ t pretend it’ s not going to happen, because it’ s going to happen. You say, “I’m never going to ‘so-and-so’  again.” The next question thatcomes up from the universe is, “Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah?” “Uh huh.” “Y eah,
sure.” Anyway, this was a very advanced state, and it was a state of absolute
purity and a profound state of the Presence as clarity, peace, and non-
positionality. Anyway, in this state, which was nonverbal, because thought
had stopped years before that, came a knowingness that presented itself. The knowingness was, “Now that you have transcended karma and are no
longer answerable to some otherness called ‘God,’  and you realize there is
no otherness to which you are answerable for; and because you realize you
are beyond all human karma, you are not answerable in human terms, all
power resides in you. Own it.” That was the temptation, the ultimate
Luciferic power for its own sake. And the rationale was correct up to a
certain level. When you truly transcend the ego, you’re not subject to
human karma and normal human karmic terms; nor is there some angry god
that you are going to face who is going to get even with you for being bad
and beat you up and throw you into hell. All that’ s bullshit. Anyway, you’ve
transcended all that. Now, knowing all that, how about this: you are the power. Here comes
the Luciferic temptation. And you could see who had said yes and who had
said no. It was strange. Not all that many had been through, and you could
see who said yes and who said no. Power for its own sake. You say to
yourself, “Why would that which we call ‘evil,’  by the world’ s terms,
choose to be that way?” It does it for the payof f—for the sake of power
itself. Not because the power gets you something, but for its own sake. Just
as people will murder, not for some motive; looking for psychological
reasons why the thrill killer kills is totally absurd. “He got beat up in his
childhood.” Yeah, right! Everybody got beat up in his childhood. No, he
does it for the sake of it itself. He murders for the sake of the thrill of
murdering. The way we surrender the ego, then, is we’re radically honest, we’re
radically honest. We see the payof f we get out of it. We are radically honest
about whether we are actually willing to give up that payof f for something
promised but not yet experienced, because that takes faith. What is karma, really? How far does it go? See, the error that was made
by that Luciferic ener gy at that level was, it’ s beyond the karma of the ego
but not beyond the karma of the Reality of the universe. You are not beyond
the reality of the karma of God, of the Reality of the universe, which is far
beyond the human. It includes you in it! So, if I’d known what to say to thatentity at the time, I would have turned on him and said, “And that includes
you.” Unless you’re greater than the Infinite Reality of the Infinite Creator
of universes of universes, out of which your little silliness arose. Anyway,
those are some things that happen to you and is pertinent to karma, and we
will talk more about karma later. The Process of Letting Go T akes Intention
How do you not revert? Well, many things are let go of in degrees, you see. And you’ve accumulated pressure of many lifetimes behind many things. So, it’ s more than just a passing thought, sometimes. It takes very intense
intention and devotion and the miraculous to let it go. And that’ s why
prayer and the request for intercession is traditional: to ask God for help to
let go my addictions and the pleasure I am getting out of such and such a
thing, see. So we ask for Divine help. That is the pathway of devotion. To understand spiritual work, it’ s necessary to know something about
karma and what is the truth of karma. What does it really mean? First of all,
it’s somewhat stigmatized among Christian circles and others as being of
Eastern origin and therefore foreign, and all this and that. Karma as a
specific religious concept, of course, is defined in the dictionary in a very
specific way. Karma, in my understanding, is more the essence of karma in
that All That Is, the entire universe, in fact all the universes of universes—is
one karmic totality. One karmic symphony. In other words, all that ever
existed, all that ever is—in thought, word, or deed in both the linear and
nonlinear domains—are part of a total oneness. To be beyond karma would
mean that somehow you escaped the oneness of the totality of God and all
the universes, which is not likely. The universe is one karmic unity in perfect and total balance, in every
detail. All That Is is obviously part of the evolution of all that was at the
point of observation, becoming the fulfillment of its innate propensity
which was created as part of creation. Everything is perfect because at
every point, it is fulfilling its potentiality as it is possible for that
potentiality to unfold under the conditions that we call “the present.” In the
next instant, it will again be perfect. So, all is perfect at every instant. The
only way to make it not perfect is to contextualize it in the hypothetical. But
because the hypothetical has no reality, it does not invalidate the truth of
what was just said. The hypothetical does not exist.So, because the universe is one karmic unity in a continuous state of
perfection of the unfolding of its potentiality, nothing can escape karma and
still be part of the universe. So, if anything was beyond karma, you
wouldn’ t know about it. There is no point to worry about it, because it
wouldn’ t exist, and neither would you. You cannot be anything this instant
unless you were something the last instant. How does it operate, really, spiritually speaking? First of all, the
confusion has to do with confusing karma with reincarnation. The reason