)	Poison	insecticides	are	added	to	keep	the	bugs	out. The	bugs	are	the	lesser	of

the	two	evils—they	are	not	poison	and	they	are	large	enough	to	be	seen	and	can

be	avoided	but	the	poison	is	invisible. This	poison	in	bread	has	been	found	to

cause	paralysis	of	the	hind	legs	in	experimental	dogs. Because	whole	wheat	flour

is	more	nourishing	and	therefore	more	attractive	to	insects,	about	four	times	as

much	of	the	insecticide	is	added	to	this	flour. Most	of	the	Health	Food	Stores

carry	unprocessed	flour	and	bread. If	"safe"	bread	is	not	available	people	should

grind	their	own	flour	or	avoid	bread. 3)	Alum	and	other	harmful	dough	conditioners	are	added	to	baker’s	bread. 4)	When	the	natural	vitamin	B	is	removed	from	the	flour	and	the	synthetic

vitamin	B	is	added	the	advertiser’s	claim	it	is	"enriched"	with	vitamin	B;	but	it	is

actually	poisoned	by	this	coal	tar	product	that	is	not	a	true	vitamin. In	Canada	it

is	a	prison	offense	for	a	miller	or	a	baker	to	add	synthetic	vitamin	B	to	any

product	intended	to	be	used	for	food. THE	HIGH	INCIDENCE	OF	POLIO	AMONG	OUR	SOLDIERS

According	to	the	report	of	the	Surgeon	General,	"In	1945	there	were	246	cases

of	polio	with	52	deaths	among	American	Troops	in	the	Philippines." This	is	just

a	small	representation	of	the	overall	picture	of	polio	throughout	our	entire	armed

forces. They	did	not	have	any	indication	of	polio	when	they	were	inducted	and

they	went	to	areas	where	there	was	no	polio	so	it	cannot	be	blamed	on	contagion

or	viruses	or	any	of	the	usual	excuses. Polio	is	a	manmade	disease. The	soldiers

were	first	poisoned	with	all	the	vaccines	invented	by	modern	medical

voodooism. Then	they	had	free	cigarettes,	with	their	18	poisons,	pressed	upon

them	and	plenty	of	beer,	cola,	candy,	devitalized	processed	foods,	ice	cream,

drugs	and	everything	that	destroys	health. An	article	in	Prevention	magazine,

June,	1951	says:

"All	during	the	war,	as	soon	as	local	combat	conditions	permitted,	ice	cream,

soft	drinks,	candies,	etc. became	available	to	American	troops. Ice	cream

manufacturing	equipment	followed	soon	after	combat	equipment. I	saw

American	troops	consume	great	quantities	of	candy	bars	when	they	lost	their

appetites	for	the	army	diet." As	a	result,	polio,	insanity	and	all	the	diseases

known	to	man	developed	among	the	soldiers	more	rapidly	than	among	the	4Fs

who	were	too	defective	to	go	to	war.”

FAILURE	MECHANISMS	IN	THE	POLIO	BUSINESS

Although	the	real	cause	and	cure	of	polio	is	obvious,	the	promoters	of	polio	find

it	more	profitable	to	"look"	for	a	cure	than	to	"find"	it. The	March	of	Dimes

millions	would	cease	to	flow	into	their	pockets	if	they	ever	were	to	find	the	cure. Therefore,	they	keep	up	the	pretense	of	looking—but	always	in	a	direction

where	they	are	sure	not	to	find	the	answer. 1)	At	first	they	tried	the	polio	serum	and	when	they	found	it	killed	the	people	but
	did	not	stop	polio	they	tried	something	else	just	as	far	away	from	the	solution	as

they	could	get. 2)	They	sprayed	towns,	crops	and	orchards	with	deadly	poison	DDT	insecticide,

suggesting	that	polio	might	be	caused	by	flies. The	chemical	companies	reaped

the	benefits	but	the	orchards	were	seriously	damaged,	crops	were	ruined	and

people	were	killed	by	this	wild	and	unwarranted	experiment. An	article	on	polio

in	"Your	Health"	magazine	(1954,	Fall	Quarter,	p.	69)	comments	on	the	fly

situation	by	saying	that	in	"Iceland	where	there	are	no	flies...there	have	been

polio	epidemics. Experiments	on	eliminating	flies	by	spraying	whole

communities	with	DDT	have	not	had	any	effect	in	combating	epidemics." The	American	Weekly—(1945)	in	an	article	titled,	"War	from	the	Air	on

Infantile	Paralysis"	states	that	"if	the	citywide	experiment	with	polio	proves	that

flies	carry	the	disease...the	city	officials	are	likely	to	agitate	for...spraying	of

DDT	from	the	air. This	step	might	eliminate	flies...but	at	the	same	time	it. would

kill	bees	and	butterflies,	and	many	crops	might	fail	because	of	lack	of

pollination...The	important	thing	now	is	to	find	out	whether	polio	flies	in	with

the	fly." But	they	did	not	bother	to	wait	for	this	proof. They	didn’t	consult	the

people	as	to	whether	they	were	willing	to	be	subjected	to	this	mass	poisoning;

they	just	moved	in	with	their	full	scale	poisoning	of	the	air,	earth	and	vegetation. GAMMA	GLOBULIN	was	the	next	hoax	to	be	foisted	on	the	ever	trusting

public. United	Press	(Sept.	20,	1953)	reported:

"Efforts	to	control	polio,	complete	failure,	according	to	the	United	Nations

WORLD	HEALTH	ORGANIZATION	COMMITTEE,	which	condemned	mass

use	of	Gamma	Globulin	or	any	large	scale	intramuscular	injections." Polio	Prevention	Inc.	states:	"The	United	States	Army	does	not	use	Gamma

Globulin	and	has	discontinued	the	use	of	blood	plasma	because	of	damage	to	the

liver." An	article	in	Herald	of	Health	magazine	(April,	1955)	says:

"Two	years	ago	the	Country	was	all	stirred	up	about	the	possibilities	of	Gamma

Globulin. This	Gamma	Globulin	was	a	derivative	of	the	great	stores	of	diseased

human	blood	plasma	which	was	bursting	the	seams	of	the	various	blood	banks. "The	doctors	of	the	army,	navy	and	marine	corps	had	refused	absolutely	to

‘shoot’	this	putrid	plasma	into	the	bodies	of	wounded	service	men. They

declared	it	was	‘too	disease	ridden’	to	use	on	our	heroes	in	uniform	but	such

characterization	of	the	‘filthy	stuff’	did	not	deter	medical	men,	from	proclaiming

it	entirely	suitable	to	go	into	the	clean	bloodstreams	of	the	little	children." The	Los	Angeles	County	Health	Index	(for	the	week	ending	May	23,	1953)

states:

a)	Evidence	indicates	that	gamma	globulin	does	not	prevent	paralysis	from

occurring	in	all	cases. b)	There	is	evidence	that	it	is	of	no	value	in	the	treatment	of	poliomyelitis	after

symptoms	have	been	recognized. c)	The	partial	protection	afforded	by	gamma	globulin	is	only	temporary	lasting

only	five	to	six	weeks." For	a	Public	Health	Department	that	is	overridden	by	the	medical	trust,	to	make

these	concessions	indicates	that	the	situation	was	much	worse	than	that. There

was	no	protection	at	all	and	no	benefit	but	it	was	used	because	it	was	a	salable

commodity. In	Key	West,	Florida


 FRUIT DOES NOT DIGEST IN THE
STOMACH! Not even minimally. Fruits are predigested. All fruits (with
the exception of bananas, dates, and dried fruit, which stay in the stom
ach a bit longer) are in the stomach only a very short time. They pass
through the stomach in twenty to thirty minutes, as if they were going
through a tunnel. They break down and release their supercharged, life-
giving nutrients in the intestines. The energy fruit conserves by not having to be broken down in the
stomach is considerable. This energy is automatically redirected to
cleanse the body of toxic waste, thereby reducing weight. All this is true
only when fruit is correctly consumed, however. What constitutes correct
consumption? It is actually quite simple. Since fruit is not intended to be
in the stomach extensively, correct consumption means that FRUIT
SHOULD NEVER BE EATEN WITH OR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING ANY
THING. It is essential that when you eat fruit, it is eaten on an empty
stomach. THIS IS UNQUESTIONABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF
FIT FOR LIFE. If you eat fruit correctly, because it has so much water and
demands so little energy to digest, it will play a major role in enabling
your body to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of
energy for weight loss and other life activities. Fruit is the most important
food you can eat. But if fruit is eaten on top of other foods, many prob
lems result. Say you eat a sandwich, and then you eat a piece of fruit—for exam
ple, a piece of melon. The piece of melon is ready to go straight through
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        So how do we maintain metabolic balance and accomplish the re
moval of toxic waste from the system while still enjoying our food. There
are three easy-to-understand and easy-to-follow principles, or tools, that
can assist you in doing precisely that. The first of these critical and vital
tools that can help you realize your goal of permanent weight loss is. THE THEORY OF METABOLIC IMBALANCE • 27 CHAPTER
The Principle of
High-Water-Content Food. L^efore describing this principle, I
would like to invite you to participate in a simple and interesting exercise. List on a piece of paper everything you ate today. If you haven't yet eaten
your day's fare, list everything you ate yesterday. By the end of this chap
ter the list will serve as a powerful tool in making a certain important
point. In listing the foods eaten, list everything, even "tastes" of things;
i. e., your friend made her famous souffle and you had just one little bite. If you can remember, list everything to enter your body. Now put the list
away for a while, and let's get on with this principle. As an absolute prerequisite of life, water is right up there with food and
air. From the moment you are born until you leave this planet, your
body instinctively craves food, air, and water for your survival. You know
what happens to a plant when it is deprived of water. It wilts and dies. The same would happen to your body if it were deprived of water. Its
importance is clear. What do I mean when I say high-water-content food. Consider that
we're living on a planet that is over 70 percent water. If you were on the
moon looking down on earth, you would see that 71 percent of the sur
face of our planet is water. The other 29 percent is land. Everything is a
• 28'microcosm of a macrocosm. If you go deeper into the planet and look at
the animals of the class Mammalia, you will find out that our bodies are
70 percent water, at least. When 1 first heard that, I found it very hard to
believe. I couldn't see any, nor could 1 even hear it in movement. But 70
percent of the human body is indeed made up of water. Now let me ask
you a commonsense question. (And this is what Natural Hygiene is
about. It's making use of your inborn sense of what is right. ) If the planet
earth is 70 percent water, and depends upon that amount of water for its
survival, and your body is 70 percent water does it not make sense that for
you to maintain a body that is always in its best condition, you must
consume a diet that is at least 70 percent water. If your body is 70 percent
water, then where will it get that water if you don't replenish it on a
regular basis. From the moment you are born until the last breath you
take your body is craving this essential of life. You must have water for
survival. / am not talking about drinking water. Some people might be saying right now, "Hey, that's great, I drink my
eight glasses of water a day. " But in no way will drinking water bring you
the success I am referring to. When I say high-water-content food, I am
talking about two foods grown on this planet that naturally have a very
high water content. Only two foods meet that requirement. They are fruit
and vegetables. Anything else you eat is a concentrated food. Concen
trated means that the water content has been removed, either by process
ing or cooking. I am not saying you have to eat exclusively fruits and
vegetables to lose the weight you want to lose. What I am saying is that
since our bodies arc 70 percent water, we should be eating a diet that is
approximately 70 percent water content, and that means fruits and vege
tables should PREDOMINATE in our diets. The other 30 percent will con
sist of the concentrated foods: breads, grains, meat, dairy products,
legumes, and so on. There are two extremely important reasons why we need this water,
and they're the same two reasons why drinking water will not fill the bill:
nourishment and cleansing of the organism. Water transports the nu
trients in food to all the body's cells and in turn removes toxic wastes. All the nutritional requirements that the human body has—all the
vitamins, minerals, proteins, amino acids, enzymes, carbohydrates, and
fatty acids that exist, that the human body needs to survive—are to be
found in fruits and vegetables. The nutritional requirements are carried
by the water in those fruits and vegetables into your intestines, where all
nutrition is absorbed. If you are eating foods high in water content, that
means you are eating foods that have all of the requirements of the hu
man body. Some of you might be saying, "Well, I take vitamin-mineral
supplements. " That's not what we're talking about. The vitamins and
THE PRINCIPLE OF HIGH-WATER-CONTENT FOOD • 29 minerals that I am talking about, that are usable by the human body, are
to be found in abundance in orchards and gardens, not in drugstores. Besides carrying nutrients into the body, this water performs the essen
tial function of cleansing the body of wastes. For our purposes, cleansing
and detoxifying are the same. In the quest to lose weight, this cleansing
or detoxification is of paramount importance. Everything you have, no
matter what it is, has to be washed if you want it to be clean. In all
likelihood, you took a bath or shower today. If you didn't, well, then you
probably took one yesterday or will take one tomorrow. It's only going to
be so long before you take a bath or shower, because you want to be
clean. Same with your clothes. What if the clothes that you're wearing
right now were not removed from your body for six months. You know,
of course, that I'm being facetious when I say that. You wouldn't do that,
because the clothes would become so foul that you would not be able to
go near anyone. What if you didn't wash your car for six months and it
didn't rain. You would not be able to see through the window to drive. That is how dirty it would become. That is how dirty anything would
become if it is not washed. Guess what one thing is not being washed and cleansed on a regular
basis in this country. The insides of our bodies. We eat and live in such a
way as to never allow the insides of our bodies to be cleansed sufficiently,
and that is why 62 percent of the population of this country is over
weight. It is also a contributing factor to the fact that three out of four
people in this country will develop some form of heart disease or cancer
in their lifetime. The outside of the body is washed, but the inside,
which is far more important, is not washed. I'm talking about some peo
ple going for decades, THEIR ENTIRE LIVES, without ever doing what is
necessary to wash out the toxic waste from inside their bodies. The only
way this can be done is by eating foods that are high in water content. Drinking water won't do it, because drinking water does not carry the
enzymes and other life-preserving elements into


 is truly possible.”
When A Cours e in Miracles  finally came along for me in 1986, I
opened it up and almost lost my breath. I felt like a lot of people do: that
it was really, really powerful. Something inside of me said, “Ahhh. …
Support!” It was such a powerful wayshower. It was like a guide. There
was an inner voice urging me, “Keep it up. Don’ t stop now. You are on
the road to truth. You are coming inward with all this deep questioning.
Keep going.” The journey that followed can be summed up as a love
affair with God. I never plann ed my life to unfold that way. And I
certainly did not grow up consciously thinking that this was how I
wanted to spend my life.
After several years of reading A Course in Miracles,  I began to hear
the voice of the inner guide. This quiet voice was giving me very helpful
and often very specific instructions on where to go, what to say, and
what to do. I no longer had to navigate through this maze of a world on
my own anymore! Listening to and following this voice seemed to
assure my peace  and happiness. My prayer had been answered!  I had an
inner guide who was there to answer any question and help me make
every decision. It was an amazing gift and a tremendous relief!
Nowadays, I spend most of my time meeting people like you who
are looking for happiness and a deeper sense of purpose in their lives.
And time and time again, people all over the world ask me the how
questions: How do I find true peace? How do I find true happine ss? How
do I find the quiet peace, the kind of peace and happiness that will last? I
have taught on six continents and in forty-four countries, and no matter
where I go, people always ask me, How, How, How?And this is what I say: “By unveiling and forgiving your blocks to
love.”
And then they ask: “But how do I forgive? How do I let go of fear?
How do I heal and come to peace of mind? Can you give me a practical
formula? Can you give me something that I can use every day?”
There is nothing more fun to me than giving the how away—and
that is my intent ion with this book. Once you experience it, you feel how
wonderful it is, and then you will want to give it away too.
The bottom line of the how is: Make contact with Holy Spirit, with
God, with the Higher Self, whatever you prefer to call it. Once you
connect with Spirit—which I call Holy Spirit—you are in direct contact
with the how, for the Holy Spirit is the how. You are right there in the
moment with the how, experiencing it moving through you.
It is in the powe r of this mome nt where the how resides. It is only
now that we are truly able to forgive and move from a fearful state into a
loving one. It is only in this mom ent that we are truly able to experience
the miracle of letting every dark thought and feeling and every pain and
suffering go, shined away by the Holy Spirit. It is only in this moment
that we are truly able to perform  the miracle of forgiveness. The miracle
of this moment is always available, ready to take us beyond the intellect
and back into an experience of pure love and of our true divine nature.
Forgiveness—the process of seeing no problems—of fers a doorway
into the intuitive flow of presence and the ability to just ride that
presence like a feather floating on the breeze. Presence with the Holy
Spirit brings us to a place where there are no difficult decision s, for the
Spirit is always out in front of us, showing us the way. There is no
hesitation or doubt, just an increasingly consistent sense of relaxation
and ease. When we have conta ct with Spirit, with our internal teacher,
and this contact becomes consistent, the ease comes into our life.
The primary aim of this book is to help you come into the flow of
the prese nt mom ent where you can hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. The
Holy Spirit, the ever-present comforter and guide, is always there in the
quiet depths of your mind, waiting for you to come with your prayers,
with your offerings of forgiveness, and with your requests for guidance.The Holy Spirit is always there to help you let go of what you no longer
want and to help you unwind from your faulty perception of the world—
a fragm ented perception that tells you that you are separate from the
unifying love at your core, the love that you are.
If you truly want to experience a lasting sense of peace and
happiness and of love and joy, and want to save time getting there, I
would like to offer you a spirituality that is very practical. In my
experience, it comes down to the formula of 1 percent principle and 99
percent practice. The 1 percent principle must be truly helpful, leading
you out of the illusion of separa tion and not deeper into it. At the end of
the day, focusing much more on the practice of forgiveness rather than
on the theory is the fast track to true peace and happiness. The consistent
practical application of true principle is what makes lasting change.
To help you do this, I am going to take you on a journey deep
within. It’s a journey of self-inquiry and self-discovery that makes
change possible. Without going within, studying your own mind, and
taking a good close look at the false thoughts and beliefs you have about
yourself, you cannot find the answers and change you are looking for.
Throughout the book, I will use the terms “Holy Spirit” and “ego” as if
they are separate, autonomous powers. This way of communicating
about the two different thought  systems in our mind has a purpose: to
acknowledge that the ego-thought system is separate from God. The ego-
thought system, which is separate from your true Self, come s from a
false belief in fear, guilt, and sacrifice. It is behind every doubt, every
feeling of littleness, and every wish for separation. The Holy Spirit’ s
thought system, on the other hand, is something we are relea rning to
think and operate from, bridging the gap of separation in our
disconnected hearts and minds and allowing us to remember our true
identity as Divine Spirit.
The only way out of the ego-thought system is through the doorway
of the moment, this miracle moment that is untouched by any past
association or future anticipatio n. Yet, to live in an experience of the
present moment, we must become aware of and expose our unconscious
beliefs. We need to expose the ego fully, which is nothing more than a
voice of fear and doubt. It is important not to be hard on ourselves when
we fall into the ego’s doubt trap, for here lies our opportunity to raise theego into awareness. And it is only by becoming aware of the ego that it
can be seen for what it is and then forgiven in the light of the Holy
Spirit. We cannot really judge our advances from our retreats. In fact, we
cannot conclude anything as we go through this transformation. So, be
gentle with yourself as you allow the darkness to rise into your
awareness to be released.
As you start to release the attack thoughts, grievances, and
judgments that come up, the world will slowly start to light up. You will
start to see more and more loving reflections. And though it may seem
like there is more light in the world, it is really your mind that is filling
with light again. A devoted practice of bringing all your dark thoughts
and feelings to the light will result in revelations of evermore light and
love filling your mind. The exposure of the ego is an ongoing and
necessary process that precede s the complete joining with the Holy
Spirit. With your willingness, this book will help you take the beginning
steps toward this most glorious experience of becoming happy,
becoming at peace, and finding your true purpose.
The Holy Spirit’ s answer to all of the world’ s seeming complexities
and choices is the miracle. In A Cours e in Miracles, the “miracle” is
defined as a change of perception from fear to love. Although there are
steps involved, with practice, all thoughts of conflict and suffering are
easily raised into the Spirit’ s light and released to free the mind to
experience the miracle. The miracle is never out there, in the future. It is
always right here, in the presen t. It’s merely been covered by the doubt
and fear generated by our mistaken belief that we are separate from God.
The journey within leads us beyond the intellect and into an
experience of pure love, which is our true nature! In order to experience
that feeling of love consistently, however, we have to go through an
experiential purification and transformation process. And it’s interesting
that the word “course” is in the title because at some point when you’re
reading A Course in Miracles, it begin s to dawn on you that this course
is asking you to unlearn  absolutely everything that is unlike your true
nature. So, instead of “doing” a course and “learning” something new,
your mind is being emptied of everything it has ever learned about itself
and the world, which has nothing to do with who you really are.This is why we need mind training. Mind training is training


ism. He had been told that he had enlargement of the heart, a condition
suspected of being present for three years. Thyroid function for the man was
within normal limits, however. A prostate biopsy was performed on him because
of his obvious prostatic hypertrophy and mild elevation of serum acid
phosphatase. Then, amyloid accumulation was observed by the pathologist in the
biopsy specimen. Subsequent skin biopsies revealed the same result.
The patient’s scalp hair and beard grew and turned to a black color gradually,
several months after DMSO treatment was administered to him. The researchers
came to the firm conclusion that some manifestations of amyloidosis such as show
up in skin, scalp, and hair pathology do respond well to DMSO treatment.
4
Amyloid disease of the liver produces an enlargement of this organ, but rarely
jaundice. Liver function tests usually are normal although an elevated alkaline
phosphatase may be observed. Occasionally, portal hypertension may occur with
varicose veins of the esophagus, and fluid in the abdomen. Massive liver
enlargement with a weight of 7 kg has been reported. Skin lesions as indicated by
the case of hair whitening and hair loss described previously may be waxy or
translucent; purpura may result from amyloidosis of small skin blood vessels.
Cardiac involvement is common and may manifest itself as intractable heart failure
or show up as any of the common heart arrhythmias. Atrial standstill has been
found in several kinships.
Gastrointestinal amyloid may cause bleeding and malabsorption in the bowel.
A firm, symmetric, nontender goiter resembling Hashimoto’s or Riedel’s struma
may result from amyloidosis of the thyroid gland. Amyloid athropathy may mimicrheumatoid arthritis in some cases of multiple
myeloma. Peripheral neuropathy is
seen in a few cases of primary or myeloma-associated amyloid. It is common in
some familial amyloidosis.
With all these amyloid-associated pathologies, DMSO demonstrates a positive
therapeutic benefit. It affects systemic amyloidosis efficaciously.
In August 1986, three Japanese clinicians reported to the American medical
community on the positive response of systemic amyloidosis to dimethyl
sulfoxide. It was a case report of systemic amyloid pathology as a manifestation in
the skin. This sixty-five-year-old woman with systemic amyloidosis was given
DMSO orally for four years without her having experienced any side effects. Her
cutaneous lesions improved markedly after the treatment, and she still survived in
satisfactory condition at the time of the article’s publication.
5
Secondary amyloidosis should be suspected by the doctor when the condition
of his or her patient with a chronic suppurative (pus-producing) disease
progressively deteriorates and the common manifestations of amyloidosis, such as
spleen and liver enlargement and/or albumin in the urine appear. Biopsy of rectal
mucosa is the best screening test. Other useful sites for biopsy are gingiva, skin,
nerve, kidney, and liver. All tissue sections should be stained with Congo red dye
and observed with the polarizing microscope for green birefringence (color
shadings).
A 1982 report in the
Annals of Rheumatic Diseases
 told of continuous oral
DMSO treatment of 7 to 15 g per day that was given to three patients with
amyloidosis of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), three patients with idiopathic
amyloidosis—amyloidosis having no known cause—and seven patients with
secondary amyloidosis. The medically recognized kidney syndrome and various
degrees of renal insufficiency were the major clinical manifestation in all cases.
Renal function was used as the main parameter for evaluation of the DMSO
therapy. DMSO treatment administered for seven to sixteen months produced no
effect in the FMF patients and in the patients with idiopathic amyloidosis; they all
ran the predictable clinical course of their disease and either died of cardiac
failure or have been maintained on chronic hemodialysis. In the seven patients with
secondary amyloidosis, an unequivocal improvement of the renal function was
observed following from three to six months of DMSO treatment.
The improvement of kidney function was shown by a 30 to 100 percent rise of
creatinine clearance and a decline in the amount of protein in the urine
(proteinuria). This new equilibrium had been maintained for the patients as long as
DMSO was administered. No
serious side effects of DMSO were encountered;mild nausea and an unpleasant breath odor were the patients’ main concern. The
four medical researchers concluded that a therapeutic trial with oral DMSO
definitely is warranted in all patients with secondary amyloidosis. “This treatment
is unpleasant,” they write, “but bears no exceptional risks. It may significantly
prolong life, though its effect on amyloid deposits themselves is doubtful.”
6
In secondary amyloidosis, prognosis depends on successful treatment of the
underlying disease. All forms of amyloid renal involvement carry a poor
prognosis, but with supportive therapy such as the instillation of dimethyl
sulfoxide, patients may remain healthy. Amyloidosis associated with multiple
myeloma has the poorest prognosis, early death within one to two years being
common. However, localized amyloid tumors may be removed without recurrence.
Myocardial amyloidosis may cause death from arrhythmias or intractable cardiac
failure. Prognosis in the familial amyloidoses varies with each kinship.
An early report of the use of DMSO therapy for amyloid deposits and
amyloidosis casts doubt on its value. Writing in the September 1981 issue of
Veterinary Research Communications
, the three clinicians state: “Data from the
literature on DMSO therapy for amyloidosis in laboratory animals and man are
reviewed and found to be inconclusive. In hamsters with casein-induced
amyloidosis, as well as in dogs with spontaneous amyloidosis, therapeutic
experiments with DMSO were performed. In these investigations no effect of
DMSO on amyloid and amyloidosis was found.”
7
Finally, a urologist, Dr. S. Yachiku, writing in the March 1986 issue of the
Journal of Urology
, reported on a case of primary localized amyloidosis of the
bladder that responded well to instillation with dimethyl sulfoxide. Dr. Yachiku
first successfully performed a transurethral resection and then did intravesical
instillation with DMSO. He concluded that the patient’s swift recovery from the
primary localized amyloidosis was directly due to DMSO.
8
CLINICAL STUDIES SHOWING RESPONSE TO DMSO IN
DISSOLVING GALLSTONES
A 1988 report by French clinicians confirmed that DMSO is useful for the
dissolving of cholesterol gallstones. It is known that methyl tert-butyl ether, which
is a powerful cholesterol monohydrate solvent, does not completely dissolve
mixed cholesterol gallstones when directly infused into the biliary tree (the stream
of bile into the gallbladder). In
the current paper, the clinicians compared the effectof various solvents containing different proportions of methyl tert-butyl ether and
dimethyl sulfoxide in anhydrous and aqueous systems on the
in vitro
 solubilization
of human cholesterol stones.
The dissolution rates of cholesterol obtained in the presence of methyl tert-
butyl was markedly decreased when 10 parts were added to 100 parts of water. In
contrast, the addition of 30 parts of DMSO per 100 parts of water (a 30-percent
solution) to the methyl tert-butyl ether-water system enhanced the stone-solvent
contact, improved the cholesterol dissolution rates, and left less gallstone debris.
Better yet, a subsequent dissolution with an alkaline (pH = 8.8) aqueous
dimethyl sulfoxide-ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (DMSO-EDTA) solution
strongly reduced the noncholesterol residues.
In vivo
, nearly complete dissolution of human cholesterol stones implanted in
the gallbladders of rabbits were obtained within eight hours when methyl tert-butyl
ether-DMSO (in a proportion of 70 to 30 parts) solvent was infused at a rate of 0.6
ml/h/kg. With methyl tert-butyl ether, only 84 parts per 100 of the original stone
weight was dissolved.
As for side effects, the infusion of these solvents leads to morphological
changes in the gallbladder wall with some focal ulcerations. These alterations can
be almost completely recovered after two weeks. No histologic evidence of liver,
duodenal, or kidney damage was found.
The four clinicians write: “We conclude that the mixture methyl tert-butyl
ether/dimethyl sulfoxide (70/30) constitutes a good solvent for mixed cholesterol
stones. Compared with pure methyl tert-butyl ether, the mixed system allows for a
more rapid and a more complete dissolution of gallstones.”
9
The above report was a semi-verifier of an earlier Japanese paper that
indicated DMSO is a chelator and dissolver of calcium stones in the gallbladder.
In 1983, hepatobiliary surgeons (surgeons who operate on the liver and
gallbladder) described how they must face the difficult task of treating patients
with intrahepatic gallstones (gall


 the Ego/Self
Introduction
This subject is the core of all spiritual endeavors. The undoing of the
identification with the ego/self is the primary focus of spiritual evolution
and is the enigma that has baffled even the most erudite minds of history.
The crux of the problem is misidentification with qualities of the ego/mind
processing function already identified with the linearity of the localization
of phenomena. This is a natural consequence associated with the physical
reality of the experience of life as a body. The primary problem is
misidentification of the actual source of subjectivity and the presumption
that it is local rather than nonlocal.
An analogy to the above would be that of electricity, which is a generic
type of energy and therefore ‘impersonal’. When it runs through a toaster or
a fan, the device would then mistakenly identify itself as being the primary
source and not realize that it is only an outlet unit. Without the ‘life’ energy
of electricity, each receiving unit would be inert.
The disassembly of the ego mechanism is facilitated by an
understanding of its evolutionary origins and progression over eons of time,
which have already been alluded to with charts and examples. By historical
origin, the requirement for the survival of life in physically separate units
required acquisition and therefore the capacity for investigative processing
of energy sources. This processing function then became identified as ‘I’ by
virtue of experiential subjectivity. To continue the analogy, the primordial
source of life energy is independent of localization as units. The units
assume themselves to be primary rather than merely expressions of a
universality. The energy of life is a radiance from the field of
consciousness, which is the mode of the Presence of Divinity that manifests
in physicality as Creation. The capacity for Enlightenment is merely a
consequence of consciousness returning to its source, which is Divinity
Immanent as Self.
The ego/self identifies with its various functions and qualities and labels
them by ownership as ‘me’ and says that is ‘who I am’. This results in the
vanity of authorship, an error that originated during evolution as aconsequence of identification with the experience of the senses. Thus comes
about a typical conclusion that ‘I’ itch instead of ‘the body’ itches. The
same error of authorship/ownership occurs with feelings and thoughts in
that the witness identifies with the subject and the content of the
experiencer.
The experiencer function is an information probe that collects linear
data and therefore is an ‘it’ and not a ‘me’. It is a functional processing unit
similar to the senses of smell or touch. Thus, the Buddha spoke of man as
having six senses instead of five and contextualized the brain as a sensory
organ of sensation, perception, and information processing.
Prior to the evolution of consciousness reaching calibration level 200,
there is no innate subjective awareness of beingness or existence as such.
The living organisms experience the qualities of their existence without
realizing the reality of existence, is-ness or beingness. Although it ‘is’, it is
not innately conscious and substitutes experiencing in lieu of the awareness
of existence. As consciousness continues to evolve, the quality and the
value of existence itself arise, and hence the search for its source.
Disassembly of the Ego/Self
Once the evolutionary structure and function of the ego are understood,
its disassembly is facilitated by the inner decision to pursue that which is
real and eternal rather than that which is temporal, transitory, and
ephemeral.
When one has chosen the spiritual pathway, the question arises of how
to proceed through ordinary human life now that one has a different overall
motivation. It will be found that, as a consequence, it is not usually
necessary to initially abandon ordinary life but instead to recontextualize it.
Curiously, the degree to which one values one’s own life determines the
answer. Those who see it as a precious gift do not wish to waste it on that
which is trivial and transitory, for the demise of the physical body is an
inevitable certainty. The pleasures of life can be accepted as a gift while
rejecting becoming attached to them. In the past, especially during the era
of Gothic religionism, piety was equated with penance, guilt, poverty,
sackcloth, and ashes. A more effective form of renunciation is to relinquish
the projection of value onto the world and its overvaluation. Worldly
success still occurs but is accepted with gratitude instead of pride, and
humility allows continuation in the world without egoistic perceptual
projections.Rejecting the seduction of the activities of the mind and its endless
operations is the most effective and ultimate renunciation. Upon even casual
observation, one sees that it is composed of an endless kaleidoscope of
opinions, viewpoints, attitudes, preconclusions, assumptions, and prevailing
social positionalities popularized by the media and glamorized by acclaim.
Thus, the inner process is primarily one of de-energizing illusions rather
than one of acquiring new information. Awareness is predominately
revealing in nature rather than a private acquisition. The Self is already
aware of Reality and does not need to learn more about it.
‘Divine ignorance’ is a classic term that denotes the wisdom of
humility. The mind, in and of itself, cannot discern appearance from
essence, and thus the devotee learns to turn a deaf ear to thinkingness and
focuses instead on the knowingness of wisdom from within, as revealed by
the great teachers over long periods of history and reaffirmed as the
Presence of Self. These teachers, even though widely separated over the
centuries by time and geography, are in mutual agreement. Formal religions
always calibrate at a level below the truth of the teachings of their founders.
Most spiritual students therefore seek confirmation of the essence of truth
within each, which is different from ‘syncretism’, the assumption that all
religions are equally true. Because there are major errors in all classical
religions, syncretism (although it sounds attractive) would also include the
errors of all the existent religions and their variations of translation.
A problem with using the mind to discover truth is that it often cannot
tell the forest from the trees and instead focuses on problematic
irrelevancies and extraneous diversions, such as, Did the Buddha ‘really’ sit
under a bodi tree? Or, Where did Jesus spend his lost years? Did the Red
Sea actually part? Is the crucial, eternal truth that would save mankind lost
somewhere in a cave? Will the world end in 2068? Are the ‘end times’
here? Are UFO messengers here to save us? The ego loves to fiddle with
hypothetical conundrums and thus extends its attraction via fallacious
pursuits. If they were of great value, they would have been mentioned by
Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, or the great sages over the many centuries.
The errors of specific content can be bypassed by aligning with
primordial, inviolate spiritual principles that would avoid postulations as to
whether God is angry, or whether wearing a beard or a hat is of any
importance. The ego is eventually cancelled out by the Truth of the Self,
and not by religious contention. The content of religious observances is ofsecondary importance compared to the intention because intention is
independent of circumstances and irrelevant details.
Study, concentration, and attention tend to narrow focus and emphasize
content and details, whereas contemplation is aligned with the overall field
and its contextualization of significance, meaning, and value. The ego loves
detail and linear labeling. It likes stances such as, Isn’t that awful? and has
endless questions like, How come? Conflict is therefore of the ego, and
harmony is of the spirit. The personal ego/self never runs out of drama and
problems, which are invented as a tool of self-propagation. In its own
defense, the ego manufactures ‘boredom’ if precluded from excitement, but
it still manages to remain center stage by wailing like a two-year-old who is
not being entertained. To reveal the game of the ego, it is only necessary
when one is bored to merely ask, Why am I bored? This leads to self-
inquiry, which reveals the role of what has been termed the ‘experiencer’.
Self-Inquiry as a Spiritual Technique
This was a favorite teaching of Ramana Maharshi, who recommended
posing the question, “Who am I?” The purpose was to direct attention from
the experiencer to the Source of Awareness itself, and thus lead from the
self to the Self. Taken out of context, the famous quote, “Who am I?” may,
however, lead most often to exploration of identity content or definition
rather than to intuiting context. It might be more beneficial to ask, What am
I? ‘What’ is impersonal and aligned with the universal energy, while ‘Who’
is aligned with the personal and the linear.
The Pace of Worldly Life
Devotional commitment to inner spiritual work is not usually a major
interference early in the process but may later even necessitate a change of
occupation and relationships. Adjustments enable ordinary life to go on up
to a certain point, at which time there is a loss of interest in linear
processing and externalization of goals.
Spiritual work eventually takes on a predominant priority that often
results in major changes. Frequently, the spiritual drive gains momentum
and becomes the predominant focus in what could be called the ‘radical
stage’. Although it seems to be a drivenness, it is actually the


 kama,  sensual  desire.
Like  all  of  Kapha's  engulfing  tendencies,  their  quest
for  love  may  imprison  others  if  they  do  not  develop
an  alertness  to  the  nature  of  those  they  embrace.  They
are,  after  all,  the  wide  bosoms  of  maternal  and  mate-
rial consolations.
Generally  Kapha  types  make  wonderful  partners
for  all  the  types.  A  Kapha  is  considered  the  prime
catch  for  a  good  marriage.  A  suitable  partner  for  Kapha
must  be  strong  and  have  vital  sexual  prowess  as  well
as  a  need  for  many  offspring.
Career
The  balance  of  the  solar  energy  of  Mars  and  the  lunar
energy  of  Mercury,  which  respectively  belong  to  the
muladhara  and  the  svadhisthana  chakras,  make  Kapha
people  the  most  suited  to  familial  responsibilities.
They  are  the  natural  providers  of  the  nurturing  and
sustaining  home.  These  people  are  often  called  the
salt  of  the  earth;  true  to  that  phrase,  they  guard  and
protect  their  loved  ones  through  thick  and  thin.  But
they  need  to  be  careful  not  to  transgress  their  limits
and  allow  their  mothering  to  turn  into  smothering.
Attachments  are  necessary  for  the  task  of  nurtur-
ing, but  water  people  must  remain  alert  to  their  im-
pulse of  holding  on  too  tightly  and  too  long.  Their
natural  tendency  to  forage  and  provide  must  be  tem-
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THE    PSYCHOSPIRITUAL    NATURE    OF    THE    BODY   TYPES
pered  with  discretion.  Kapha  becomes  attached  to
material  possessions  simply  for  the  insatiable  need  to
store.  It  is  natural  to  plan  ahead  for  the  winter  years,
but  Kapha's  need  to  accumulate  arises  from  a  strong
psychological  urge  to  conserve,  and  this  need  quickly
expands  to  mountainous  hoarding.  It  is  a  typical  syn-
drome for  Kapha  types  to  prepare  food  for  twenty
people  when  six  are  expected  for  dinner.  Their  need
to  give  is  often  accompanied  by  a  wasteful  generosity.
Overcompensation  is  Kapha's  trademark.
Kapha  works  best  in  situations  that  demand
stamina  and  nurturing.  They  are  natural  teachers  and
parents.  They  excel  as  healers  and  chefs.  They  are
great  task  force  workers  for  organizations,  as  well  as
accountants,  technicians,  and  production  facilitators.
They  have  the  sublime  gift  of  being  able  to  combine
their  earthy  qualities  with  the  fine  arts  of  dance,
poetry,  and  music.  True  to  their  nature  of  bhuvar
loka,  the  earthly  plane,  they  are  lofty  people  with  both
feet  firmly  planted  on  the  ground.
Seasonal  and  Daily  Activities
If  it  were  possible,  Kapha  would  find  a  way  to  have  all
the  activities  of  life  come  to  them.  Kapha  deliberates
every  move  before  it  is  executed,  for  fear  that  too
much  energy  will  be  expended.  Their  most  cherished
activities  are  finely  tuned  basic  patterns,  such  as  jour-
neying from  the  bed  to  the  refrigerator,  and  moving,
slowly  and  with  precision,  the  hand  from  plate  to
mouth,  while  in  a  luxurious  reclining  pose.  Often
these  activities  are  in  stark  contrast  to  their  amazing
ability  to  outlast  all  others  in  arduous  work,  should
circumstances  demand.  They  are  truly  motivated  by
the  earnest  need  to  help  and  embrace  others.  Unlike
their  Pitta  counterparts,  they  do  not  operate  from
well-planned  ulterior  motives,  nor  do  they  look  for
great  gains  from  their  actions.  However,  a  lack  of
acknowledgment  or  a  graceless  attitude  in  exchange
for  work  well  done  will  greatly  displease  them.
Late  winter  and  early  spring  is  Kapha  season,  and
this  is  when  most  of  its  difficulties  arise.  During  this
time,  when  nature  is  about  to  break  free  from  the
earth's  bondage,  the  Kapha  person  feels  thunderously
lethargic.  It  is  imperative  to  set  up  the  year  so  that  this time  of  upheaval  becomes  nurturing.  Kapha  needs
to  make  a  firm  commitment  to  maintaining  a  non-
sedentary  life.  Activities  such  as  gardening,  sports,
spring  and  fall  cleaning,  and  redecorating  are  all  suited
to  the  Kapha  temperament.  Kapha  types  need  to  see
valid  and  immediate  results  for  their  work,  and  thus
going  to  formalized  programs  such  as  the  gym  or
exercise  classes  do  not  work  for  them.
From  6:00  to  10:00  mornings  and  evenings,  when
the  universe  is  most  likened  to  the  Kapha  personality,
a  dramatic  increase  of  Kapha  tendencies  occurs.  Their
energy  becomes  intense,  heavy,  and  rooted.  These
types  need  to  define  clear-cut  schedules  and  will  them-
selves into  maintaining  consistency.  The  most  har-
monious day  for  Kapha  begins  with  an  early  morning
shower,  meditation,  and  yoga  or  a  physical  workout.
Breakfast  should  consist  of  suitable  teas,  with  a  light,
crisp  meal,  if  any.  Kapha's  main  repast  should  be  a
large  and  healthy  lunch  followed  by  a  brief  walk.  Upon
returning  to  their  normal  work  schedule,  an  even
pace  should  be  maintained  until  day's  end.  A  light
supper  should  be  taken.  If  the  meal  is  too  heavy  or
eaten  too  late,  Kapha  will  naturally  submit  to  the
sluggish  slumbering  energy  prevalent  during  that  time.
The  most  certain  way  to  transcend  these  danger  times
is  for  Kapha  types  to  have  a  committed  schedule  of
classes,  workshops,  and  so  on,  to  either  attend  or
initiate  themselves.
Early  to  bed  and  early  to  rise  is  the  best  maxim  for
Kapha.  If  Kapha  types  remain  in  bed  after  6:00  a.m.,
they  become  trapped  in  Kapha-time  and  sabotage  all
hopes  of  being  properly  motivated  for  the  day.  Even
though  these  types  need  more  sleep  than  others  be
fore  feeling  refreshed,  an  excellent  sadhana  to  nn
prove  the  will  is  to  maintain  a  rest  schedule  ol  no
more  than  seven  hours  nightly.


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NURTURING    BREWS    AND    BEVERAGES
Warm  Spiced  Soy  Milk Spiced  Yogurt  Drink
ALL  TYPES
Serves  1
lli  c  soy  milk
lh  c  water
74  tsp  black  pepper
'A  tsp  cardamom
Pinch  of  turmeric
Pinch  of  salt
Warm  milk  and  water.  Add  spices  and  salt.  Drink
warm  or  at  room  temperature.
Hot  Milk  Tea  (Chai)
V,  VK,  K,  KV
Serves  2
1  c  certified  raw  milk
1  c  water
1  tsp  black  tea
Pinch  of  cardamom
72  tsp  unrefined  brown  sugar
K  types:  omit  sugar.
Bring  milk  and  water  to  boil.  Add  tea  and  continue  to
boil  for  another  3  minutes.  Strain;  add  cardamom
and  sugar.  Serve  warm. V,  VP,  VK
P,  PV,  PK  OCCASIONALLY
72  c  certified  raw  yogurt
1  c  water
Pinch  each  black  pepper,  turmeric,  and  salt
7  curry  leaves
Using  a  wooden  spoon,  combine  ingredients  and  mix
to  a  smooth  consistency.
Carrot,  Celery,  Ginger  Juice
p,  PK,  K,  KP
2  carrots
2  celery  stalks
72  c  water
72  tsp  lime  juice
Pinch  of  dried  ginger
P,  PK:  substitute  a  pinch  of  fresh  mint  leaves  for  ginger.
Scrub  carrots  and  celery.  Slice  into  chunks  and  juice.
Dilute  with  water;  add  lime  juice  and  ginger.
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UNIVERSAL    RECIPES    FOR    EACH    BODY   TYPE
Beet,  Carrot,  Mint  Juice
M *lli\~      ^-4,
V,  VK.  K,  KV
Serves  2
2  beets
3  carrots
6  fresh  mint  leaves  (or  1  parsley  sprig)
'A  tsp  lemon  juice
1  c  water
Scrub  beets  and  carrots;  slice  into  large  chunks.  Add
to  juicer  along  with  mint  leaves  (or  parsley)  and  lemon
juice.  Dilute  with  water. Carrot,  Mint,  Lime  Juice
V,  VP,  P,  PV
Serves  2
3  carrots
6  mint  leaves  (or  cilantro  leaves)
1  tsp  lime  juice
1  c  water
Scrub  carrots;  slice  into  chunks.  Add  to  juicer  along
with  mint  leaves  and  lime  juice.  Dilute  with  water.
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AFTERWORD
THE    DHARMAS:
UNIVERSAL    VALUES
/f~\  very  person  is  intrinsically  aware  of  what  is  right  and  what  is  wrong.  Dharmas  are  the  unwritten
vL/  codes  of  proper  conduct  inherent  in  all  of  life.  These  primal  values,  unchanged  through  the
centuries,  are  the  common-sense  actions  congruous  to  our  existence  with  each  other  and  with  the
universe.  The  classic  story  of  the  Bhagavad  Gita  began  with  the  mention  of  dharma  ksetra,  the  physical
place  and  physical  body  within  which  dharma  ruled.  Bharata,  ancient  India,  was  ruled  by  the  Vedas,  and
thus  the  ruling  factor  of  all  human  activity  was  the  law  of  dharma.  India  is  weaned  on  the  tradition  ol
dharma  and  was  known  as  Bharatabhumi,  the  land  of  Bharata,  whose  history  ol  dharma  has  survived
thousands  of  years  of  exploitation  and  destruction.
All  human  pursuits  should  be  guided  by  dharma;  when  it  is  violated,  all  accomplishments  and
possessions  remain  bereft  of  grace  and  happiness.  In  the  Vedas,  the  primary  dharmas  are  called  sattvika,
that  which  produces  balance.  Without  adherence  to  this,  we  become  victims  ol  conflicts  and  confusion.
We  are  all  born  with  the  basic  elements  of  dharma,  but  these  virtues  need  to  be  continuously  invited  into
our  lives  from  childhood.  In  time  we  grow  to  enjoy  the  freedom  gamed  by  light  action  and  ate  able  to
travel  within  the  grace  of  its  universal  protection.
The  primary  dharmas  of  love,  faith,  purity,  compassion,  truth,  courage,  and  devotion  are  gained  only
by  long  years  of  nurturing.  The  mere  sounds  of  these  familiar  values  invoke  a  certain  sense  ol  goodness
in  all,  but  dharmas  need  to  be  taught  and  practiced  before  they  become  alive.
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AFTERWORD
SADHANA  OF   LOVE
When  we  live  gently  on  the  earth
Ami  innocence  and  humility  are  in  every  action
When  the  joy  oj  universal  remembrances
Shines  through  us,  we  are  love
And  everything  we  touch  becomes  love
Our  beauty  inspires  the  beauty  in
everyone
In  this  collective  love,  we  are  one
We  are  free.
Love  is  the  most  essential  dharma  on  earth.  After  twenty
billion  years  of  universal  existence,  the  human  species
was  created.  Every  fiber  of  collective  memory  from  the
beginning  of  the  cosmos  is  refined  into  the  latent  emer-
gence of  the  human.  We  have  walked  the  surface  of
earth  for  less  than  four  billion  years.  In  our  human
adolescence,  we  have  dithered  and  gamboled  with  time
and  values.  Now  we  are  on  the  verge  of  maturing  and
discovering  our  essential  nature  to  be  the  celebration  of
love.
The  cosmos  functions  in  stupendous  dynamism.
Continents  meld  and  vast  oceans  separate,  stars  collide
with  celestial  brio,  and  galaxies  exist  in  a  constant  state
of  attraction.  The  power  of  infinite  magnetism  sur-
rounds us.  All  life  is  born  in  the  waters  of  love,  which
are  absorbed  in  our  being  and  lived  through  our  heart.
Love  is  not  an  emotion.  It  is  our  complete  state  of
being  human.  There  is  no  wall  love  cannot  tear  down,
no  hate  which  love  cannot  imbue  with  light,  no  ob-
stacle love  cannot  overcome.  We  have  been  miserly
with  love.  Self-absorbed,  we  miss  the  very  essence  of
who  we  are.  When  we  express  love,  it  brings  us  the
solutions  to  all  problems,  the  warmth  and  embrace  and
resolve  of  all  things.  When  we  feel  anger,  we  must  sit  in
the  self  and  observe  this  anger.  All  things  eventually
dissolve  if  we  remain  aware.
The  sadhana  to  encourage  love  is  to  sit  in  stillness  in
the  mornings  after  your


 of affirmations to help us focus on our book. They included:
The life that loves us is writing this book; Everyday life helps us write  Life
Loves You; and We are grateful for all the suppo rt and guidance we receive
in writing  Life Loves You. I make a list of affirmations for every book  I
write, and it was especially fun to do this with Louise.
Louise doesn’ t do work ethic. Not in the normal way, anyway. She
doesn’ t believe in the adage If you want something done properly, you have
to do it yourself.  She doesn’ t subscribe to being an independent doer. “I
struggled so much in the first half of my life, because I didn’ t know a better
way,” she told me. “I tried to do everything by myself, and I ended up
divorced, unhappy, and with cancer. Gradually, as I let myself be helped and
became more open to receiving, my life became less of a struggle. Over
time I learned to love myself and to trust that life loves me too.”
Louise is adamant that, in truth, there are no barriers to love. “The
barriers we experience are imagined, not real,” she says. They are dreamed
up by our ego, not by love. “Life does not want us to suffer,” she says.
Mostly we suffer because we are unaware of the Divine  Assistance
available to us in each moment. We think we have to do it all by ourselves.
We suffer, we struggle, and we live in sacrifice, because we let life love us
only so much.
In Bodh Gaya many centuries  ago, when Siddhartha sat beneath the
Bodhi Tree, he was tired of searching for enlightenment. He wanted his
enlightenment now. On his travels he had practiced asceticism, extreme
sacrifice, and noble suffering in an effort to achieve enlightenment. He had
not been successful. And then, as he sat upon the Immovable Spot, he
decided to end his search. He stopped trying. He relaxed. He didn’ t do
anything. In that moment he experienced the great blessings of the universe.
It is said that the Buddha’ s first words upon awakening were “I am now
enlightened with all beings.” This is hugely significant. He didn’t say, “I am
more enlightened than you.” Or “I am enlightened and you are not.” He
experienced an enlightenment that exists, in potential, for all of us. And the
potential exists now, not in the future. Love makes itself available to us
when we make ourselves availa ble to love. We are all in the Oneness. We
are all part of love’ s great work.
Universal love, like the sun, shines on everyone. Love leaves no one out.
As Galileo Galilei, the Italian physicist and philosopher, is said to haveobserved,
The sun, with all those
planets revolving around it
and dependent upon it,
can still ripen a bunch
of grapes as if it had
nothing else in
the universe
to do.
PRACTICE 6: A R ECEIVING  JOURNAL
Louise and I are having breakfast in her kitchen. She brings over two
smoothies that she has whipped up in her blender. “Here,” she says, handing
me a glass. The smoothie is thick, and it smells like a vegetable patch.
“What’ s in this?” I ask. Louise smiles. “Everything that’s good for you,”
she says. In other words, she’s not going to tell me. “All you have to do is
receive,” she says. She knows that receiving is our topic of conversation
this morning. Before taking my first sip I pray out loud, “Oh God, help me
to receive.”
While we drink our smoothies, Louise and I watch a short film of her art
exhibition at the ArtBeat Gallery on her iPad. The exhibit was hugely
popular. The original plan was for a two-week run. It was extended to six
weeks. Hundreds of prints of Blessing Buddha  were sold. Each one was
signed by Louise and raised money for her charity, the Hay Foundation.
“I never expected to show my art,” Louise tells me.
“Your art was a gift to yourself,” I say.
“As a child, I wasn’ t encouraged to express my creativity,” she says.
“Me neither.”
“I was told I couldn’ t dance, so I stopped dancing,” Louise says.
“I was put in the non-singing group in my class,” I tell her.
“For years, I told myself ‘I am not creative,’” she says.
“That’ s a powerful af firmation.”
“The creativity of the universe flows through everyone,” she af firms.
“No exceptions!”“Everyone is creative, and we create our lives every day,” she says.
“Our life is the real canvas,” I suggest.
“Yes. And by tapping into the creative flow of the universe, we express
our true potential, and we work miracles in our life,” she says.
“How do we tap into this creativity?”
“By learning to receive,” she replies.
Blessed are they who receive. Receiving, at the purest level,  is about
being open and receptive to your true nature. It’s not about things; it’s about
you. It’ s not about having or getting; it’ s about being. T o know who you are,
without conditio ns or pretenses, requires genuine receptivity. It’s about self-
acceptance. Who am I when  I am not judging and rejecting myself?  This is
your inquiry. Follow the open road, and it will take you back home to your
Unconditioned Self. Here’ s where you experience the original blessing. It’s
like honey in your bones.
Receiving is a spiritual practice. Each time you affirm I am open and
receptive to my highest good,  you are cultivating a state of basic openness.
In the Buddhis t tradition, the word for basic openness is shunyata.  It
describes the awareness of your original mind that is empty of ego, fear,
self-judgment, unworthiness, self-doubt, grievances, and complaining.
Shunyata is what love feels like. This basic openness helps you to be
receptive to beauty, inspiration, guidance, healing, and love.
Receiving is a great big Y es. “The universe says yes to you,” says Louise.
“It want s you to experience your highest good. When you ask for your
highest good, the Universe doesn’ t say, ‘I’ll think about it’; it says yes. The
universe is always saying yes to your highest good.” And you have to say
yes, too. The key to receiving  is willingness, or readiness. When you
declare, “I am ready to receive my highest good in this situation,” it shifts
your perception and your circumstances.
“When the stude nt is ready, the teacher appears,” Louise told herself, and
shortly afterward her art teacher, Linda Bounds, appeared. “I said the same
thing to myself when I wanted a really good local Pilates teach er,” Louise
told me. “And two days later I met Ahlea Khadro.” Ahlea is the mother of
Elliot, the little boy at our Than ksgiving lunch who kept going over to the
mirror to smile at himself. Ahlea now coordinates Louise’ s entire healthcare
plan. She and Louise have become great friends.In my book Authentic Success,  I wrote about the power of readiness and
how it can help you to experience a new level of success in every area of
your life. In the chapter on Grace,  I offered this meditation on readiness:
When the student is ready, the teacher appears.
When the thinker is ready, the idea appears.
When the artist is ready, the inspiration appears.
When the servant is ready, the purpose appears.
When the athlete is ready, the performance appears.
When the leader is ready, the vision appears.
When the lover is ready, the partner appears.
When the disciple is ready, God appears.
When the teacher is ready, the student appears.
Receiving is the best psychotherapy. If you’re really serious about
receiving and you’re willing to make it a daily practice, you’ll find that
receiving will help dissolve all your barriers to love. By declaring I am
willing to be a better receiver, you activate a power within you that can heal
learned unworthiness, dysfunctional independence, unhealth y sacrifice,
financial insecurity, and every type of lack. Receiving helps you to know
your true worth and to live with ease and happiness.
Receiving helps you to be prese nt. It helps you to be where you are, to
inhale deeply, and to take in everything that is here for you. “Often what’ s
missing in a situation is only our ability to receive,” says Louise. “The
Universe always provides, but we have to be open and receptive to see
this.” The willingness to receive opens you up inside and takes you beyond
your theories of what you believe you deserve and what you think is
possible. Receiv ing helps you to pay attention to what is already here for
you.In this chapter, our spiritual practice is to keep a receiving journal. We
invite you to spend 15 minutes a day, for the next seven days, cultivating an
even greater willingness to receive. In your receiving journal, we want you
to write down ten responses to the sentence One way life is loving me right
now is …  Don’ t edit your


 repeated courses of Lugol’ s solution, alternating very high doses of
wormwood, olive leaf and pau d’arco, in addition to other remedies such as raw garlic, oxygen therapy, electronic blood puriﬁer and
magnetic pulser.
Anti-microbial therapy should be increased only gradually as there may be strong initial reactions with nausea and weakness from
microbial die-back. A high ﬂuid intake helps, and also the amino acids arginine (2-10g) and ornithine (1-3g). Both reduce ammonia
generated by the destruction of microbes. Take arginine in the morning and ornithine near bedtime to improve sleep.
A SIMPLE PROGRAM
If you want to minimize supplement s and remedies, at least initially, or if it is all too confusing, you may use the following simple
program. If required, you may add various remedies or therapies at a later time, as indicated in other pages of Overcoming Cancer.
•  Use a diet that is predominantly fresh, raw and organic
•  Minimize chemical and electromagnetic pollution, and maximize outdoors activities (without chemical sunscreens and sunglasses)
•  Do the Basic Cleanse
•  Use anti-microbial therapy
•  Search for and remove any emotional trigger of your cancer, forgive and develop a positive attitude
•  Forget that you supposedly have cancer, and ﬁnd ways to enjoy living.
REACTIONS AND P AIN
In the course of therapy you can expect repeated short but sharp healing reactions. You may develop vomiting, diarrhea, nausea,
weakness, fever, indigestion, strong pain, swellings and skin reactions. These reactions are a favorable sign and show that the body
is ﬁnally strong enough to attack the cancer. The symptoms are caused  when a shrinking tumor generates more toxins then can be
eliminated. To ease the reaction, temporarily stop using digestive enzymes, cesium or other therapies in a way that accelerates tumor
destruction.
The ﬁrst reaction may come after days or after months on the program. The stronger the body to start with, and the stricter the
program, the sooner it will be. Often a reaction lasts only for a few days but can be so severe you may fear that you are dying.10/30/24, 4:48 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Cancer Strategies
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the patient is admitted to a hospital.
Recovery from reactions may be slow, especially if a tumor continues to disintegrate rapidly. Reactions are generally less severe on
the Long Cleanse or when fasting as much of the disintegrating tumor is being digested rather than decomposed.
You may have bouts of high fever during reactions. This is an efﬁcient method of killing microbes and cancer cells. Generally keep
the temperature up, with cancer it does not go too high. The body has its own wisdom and knows what it is doing. Drink hot herb tea,
put a hot castor oil pack on the abdomen, and remain wrapped in sheets and blankets, especially in the evening.
With fever, vomiting or diarrhea increase your ﬂuid intake to at least three liters daily, including plenty of warm peppermint tea, which
is soothing to the digestive system. Vomiting and diarrhea are attempts by the body to rapidly expel poisons. If much ﬂuid is lost from
diarrhea, vomiting or sweating, you may need to add same salt and other minerals to the drinking water, especially if there are signs
of dehydration and low blood pressure.
Reactions can be eased with frequent coffee enemas. These stimulate the liver to release its overload of toxins with the bile. In crisis
situations sometimes patients surviv ed by having a coffee enema every 2 hours. Generally, take a coffee enema whenever you feel
that the beneﬁt received from the previous enema is wearing of f.
In case of vomiting, or difﬁculty in handling any kind of food, try a broth made of 1 tablespoon of cooked slippery elm powder and the
strained liquid from brown rice well cooked in plenty of water. Ginger helps with nausea, and also pressing a point on the underside of
each wrist 2 – 3 cm below the hand.
Take liquids in small sips several minutes apart; keep in the mouth for some time. If necessary, nutrients may be introduced as a
retention enema of fresh juices. Also press on the foot reﬂexes of the stomach and liver, and use warm castor oil packs on the upper
abdomen. Take digestive enzymes with meals. Diarrhea can be made more bearable by taking psyllium hulls with a minimum of
liquid, but not stopping it altogether.
Pain Relief
Most effective for general pain relief are a raw-food diet, fasting, or at least avoiding all food that has been browned or heated above
boiling point. For pain relief try blue light on the liver and abdomen and also on any area of pain. Use DLPA (d, l phenylalanine) 2
tablets of 500 mg 3 x daily for persistent pain, when it eases, reduce  intake. For short-term or occasional pain try homeopathic
Hypericum 30 C. Put several drops in a glass of water, and take a sip every 5-30 minutes, keep in the mouth. Also try Hypericum
cream rubbed onto the painful area.
Making the body alkaline reduces or eliminates pain, most effective is cesium therapy, see Cancer Nutrients. Also make sure that the
lymph ﬂuid is not stagnating around the tumor, because that keeps it acid and painful. Attempt to move lymph ﬂuid in the tumor area
towards the middle of the collarbone s. For all tumors below the neck you may do this by using an inverted position several times a
day.
Try a position like a shoulder stand by leaning the raised hips against a wall or propped up with some large pillows. The longer you
keep the inverted position the better. For a breast or lung tumor you may also lie on the bed with the head to the ﬂoor. In addition you
may squeeze the lymph ﬂuid along limbs and the chest with gentle squeezing in the direction of the nearest collarbone.
A strong magnetic pulser may relieve  pain, a faster pulse is better. Use the south-pointing pole with up to 10 pulses per second. Also
helpful is the south-pointing pole of a strong magnet towards the skin over the painful area. Leave in place as long as required to
control pain.
Try hot packs of castor oil or of Epsom salts over tight and painful muscl es or packs of raw honey or fresh outer cabbage leaves over
the pain area. Even warm soft bread, possibly soaked in yogurt can relieve pain. Press the foot reﬂexes related to the painful area,
press rather hard. Visualize the pain as a red-hot ﬁreball that is gradually washed away with each breath of cool blue energy until
completely gone.
Gentle touch is pain relieving, a gentle massage or lightly stroking the skin, or moving it in a circle and then moving to a neighboring
spot, laying-on of hands, or just touching the hair or holding hands.
Commonly, persistent pain and other problems disappear after about 3 days of fasting. Take morphine only as a last resort (in
addition to DLPA and others). It depresses breathing as well as the central nervous system, and improvement may not be possible
while using it.
Encouragement
You can do it! You can overcome cancer. To be successful you need a positive attitude and sufﬁcient energy to follow a holistic
program. The diagnosis of cancer is a call to mobilize all your inner and outer resources and channel them into this one goal. You
achieve this by greatly improving your spirituality and lifestyle. This is a great adventure and should become the most exciting and
uplifting time of your life.
The medical system spreads doom in an attempt not to give false hope. That may be warranted with their methods, but not with
holistic therapies. Here we have no false hope. Without hope you are as good as dead, with hope you have made the ﬁrst important
step towards healing yourself.
Find an experienced natural therapist to help you in selecting and implementing your individualized holistic program. Join a cancer
support group or a meditation circle or any other natural health group in your area. Find out from health food shops or natural10/30/24, 4:48 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Cancer Strategies
https://health-science-spirit.com/Diseases/Cancer/Cancer-Strategies.html 6/7therapists if and where such groups exist. If there is none, try to form your own. Place notices in health food shops and with natural
therapists inviting interested individuals. However, beware of cancer groups that follow just the ofﬁcial negative medical line.
Meet once or several times a week to relax, meditate, pray, visualize, and experiment together. Try regression, reﬂexology, meridian
therapy, exchange recipes, techniq ues and experiences. Study helpful books together, invite therapists and those who cured
themselves of cancer to lecture. Have outings and fun together, laugh a lot, and surround yourself with positive, supportive people.
Read success stories of former cancer victims. Develop and listen to your intuition, trust your inner and higher guidance. Look at the
bright side of everything that happen s. Discover your real Self. Do all you can


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p e o p l e  a r o u n d  t h e  w o r l d.  T h e r e  h a v e  b e e n  d a y s  w h e n  I  w a s
c o m p l a i n i n g  o r  w o r r y i n g  a b o u t  s u c h  m e a n i n g l e s s  t h i n g s  a n d
t h e n  r e a d  a  l e t t e r  f r o m  a  p a r e n t  w h o  h a d  l o s t  a  c h i l d,  a
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c a n c e r.  M y  p e r s p e c t i v e  w a s  t h e n  r a d i c a l l y  a n d
a u t o m a t i c a l l y  a l t e r e d.  I  h a v e  t r i e d  t o  d e v e l o p  t h e  h a b i t  o f
g r a t i t u d e  a n d  p r a i s e,  a s  I  r e a l i z e  h o w  f o r t u n a t e  I  a m  a n d
a f f i r m  i t  w i t h  m y  t h o u g h t s.  “ W o w,  w h a t  a  b e a u t i f u l  d a y  t h i si s ” — j u s t  a  s i m p l e  r e m i n d e r  o f  t h e  b e a u t y  o f  l i f e  w i l l
l i t e r a l l y  m a k e  y o u r  l i f e  m o r e  b e a u t i f u l.
T h e  m e a n i n g  o f  a n y t h i n g  i s  t h e  m e a n i n g  w e  a t t a c h  t o  i t.  I
r e m e m b e r  a s  a  c h i l d  t h a t  w h e n e v e r  I  w o u l d  c o m p l a i n  a b o u t
a  r a i n y  d a y,  m y  m o t h e r  w o u l d  s a y,  “ O h,  n o!  T h e  f a r m e r s
n e e d  t h i s  r a i n! ” W h a t  t o  m e  w a s  a  d r a g,  t o  h e r  w a s  a  r e l i e f.
A  h o u s e  l o o k s  s o  b e a u t i f u l  a n d  y o u  t h i n k  i f  o n l y  y o u
c o u l d  l i v e  t h e r e,  l i f e  w o u l d  b e  s o  l o v e l y ;  o n c e  y o u  o w n  i t,
h o w e v e r,  t h e r e ’ s  t h e  p r e s s u r e  o f  a  m o r t g a g e  t o  i m p i n g e
u p o n  a l l  t h a t  l o v e l i n e s s.  Y o u  t h i n k  a  p u r s e  i s n ’ t  a l l  t h a t
g r e a t,  b u t  t h e n  y o u  s e e  i t  o n  s o m e o n e  e l s e  a n d  a l l  o f  a
s u d d e n  i t  l o o k s  f a b u l o u s.  Y o u  t h i n k  y o u r  h u s b a n d  i s n ’ t  a l l
t h a t  w o n d e r f u l,  b u t  t h e n  s o m e o n e  e l s e  d o e s,  a n d  a l l  o f  a
s u d d e n  h e ’ s  f a b u l o u s.  E v e r y t h i n g  w e  e x p e r i e n c e  i s  f i l t e r e d
t h r o u g h  o u r  o w n  t h i n k i n g.  H o w  y o u  s e e  y o u r s e l f  i s  h o w  y o u
w i l l  t e n d  t o  s e e  y o u r  l i f e,  a n d  h o w  y o u  s e e  y o u r  l i f e  i s  h o w
y o u  w i l l  t e n d  t o  s e e  y o u r s e l f.
I  h a v e  k n o w n  p e o p l e  w h o  h a d  s o  l i t t l e  a n d  y e t  t r e a t e d  i t
s o  w e l l.  I t ’ s  n o  s u r p r i s e  t h a t  w h a t  t h e y  h a d  t h e n  i n c r e a s e d.
A n d  I  h a v e  k n o w n  p e o p l e  w h o  h a d  s o  m u c h  a n d  t r e a t e d  i t
s o  p o o r l y.  I t ’ s  n o  w o n d e r  t h a t  w h a t  t h e y  h a d  d e c r e a s e d.  T h e
w o r l d  e x p a n d s  o r  c o n t r a c t s  a c c o r d i n g  t o  o u r  p a r t i c i p a t i o n  i n
i t.  W e  a r e  o n e  h u n d r e d  p e r c e n t  r e s p o n s i b l e  f o r  h o w  w e


  o u r s e l v e s  f r o m  i t.  B u tw h e n  J e s u s  s a i d  t o  t h e  d i s c i p l e s  w h o  w e r e  f a l l i n g  a s l e e p  i n
t h e  G a r d e n  o f  G e t h s e m a n e,  “ W h a t,  c a n  y o u  n o t  r e m a i n
a w a k e  w i t h  m e  o n e  h o u r? ”  I  t h i n k  h e  w a s  r e f e r r i n g  t o  o u r
n e e d  t o  r e m a i n  a w a k e  w h e n  o t h e r s  s u f f e r.  I f  n o t h i n g  e l s e,
d o i n g  s o  r e m i n d s  u s  h o w  e x t r a o r d i n a r i l y  f o r t u n a t e  w e  a r e —
a n d  I  d o  m e a n  e x t r a o r d i n a r i l y  f o r t u n a t e — t o  h a v e  a  r o o f
o v e r  o u r  h e a d s,  f o o d  i n  o u r  s t o m a c h s,  a n d  t h e  r i g h t  t o
s i m p l y  s e e  s u n l i g h t  e a c h  d a y.  A s  l o n g  a s  t h a t  i s  n o t  t r u e  f o r
e v e r y o n e,  t h e r e  i s  m u c h,  m u c h  w o r k  f o r  u s  t o  d o  o n  t h i s
e a r t h.  A n d  i f  w e  w i l l  n o t  d o  i t,  w h o  w i l l?
E v e n  w h e n  t h e r e  i s  n o t h i n g  w e  c a n  s p e c i f i c a l l y  d o  t o
h e l p  t h o s e  w h o  s u f f e r,  r e m a i n i n g  a w a k e  t o  t h e i r
p r e d i c a m e n t  e x u d e s  i t s  o w n  k i n d  o f  m o r a l  f o r c e.  T h e r e  a r e
t h o s e  i n  t h e  w o r l d — i m p r i s o n e d,  i n  p a i n — f o r  w h o m  t h e
d i f f e r e n c e  b e t w e e n  c h o o s i n g  l i f e  a n d  c h o o s i n g  d e a t h  l i e s
s i m p l y  i n  k n o w i n g  t h a t  s o m e o n e  c a r e s.
A f t e r  v i s i t i n g  t h e  A n n e  F r a n k  h o u s e,  I  s a t  d r i n k i n g
c o f f e e  a t  a  c a f é  r i g h t  a c r o s s  t h e  c a n a l.  O n  t h e  s a m e  s t r e e t
w h e r e  s h e  s o  l o n g e d  t o  r u n  a n d  p l a y  b u t  c o u l d  n o t,  I  w a s
f r e e  t o  w a n d e r  a n d  s h o p  a n d  s i p  c o f f e e  a n d  l a u g h  o u t  l o u d.
B y  w h a t  g i f t  o f  f a t e  a m  I  s o  f o r t u n a t e?
T h e r e  i s  a  b u i l d i n g  i n  A m s t e r d a m  w h e r e  a l l  J e w s  w e r e
r o u n d e d  u p  b y  t h e  N a z i s  f o r  d e p o r t a t i o n  t o  t h e
c o n c e n t r a t i o n  c a m p s,  w h e r e  m a n y  o f  t h e m  w o u l d  b e  g a s s e d
i m m e d i a t e l y  u p o n  a r r i v a l.  A  p l a q u e  o n  t h e  b u i l d i n g  s a y s  w e
s h o u l d  t a k e  a  m o m e n t  a n d  r e m e m b e r  t h e m.  I n  t h a t  m o m e n t,
I  t h i n k  t h e  d e p a r t e d  s o u l s  f e e l  o u r  b l e s s i n g ;  h o p e f u l l y,  i n
s o m e  w a y,  i t  h e l p s  b r i n g  t h e m  p e a c e.A s  f o r  u s,  m a y  i t  b r i n g  u s  d e p t h.  M a y  o u r  h e a r t s  e x p l o d e
f r o m  t h e  s h e e r  s i z e  o f  i t  a l l.  F o r  t h e r e i n  l i e s  t h e  o n l y  r e a l
h o p e  f o r  h u m a n k i n d.

R e s u r r e c t i o n

I t  i s  t h e  c o n s c i o u s n e s s  o f  p e a c e,  n o t  t h e  b e h a v i o r  o f  w a r,
t h a t  w i l l  u l t i m a t e l y  t u r n  b a c k  t h e  t i d e s  o f  f e a r.  A n d  i t  i s
i n c u m b e n t  u p o n  e a c h  o f  u s  t o  f o s t e r  t h a t  c o n s c i o u s n e s s.  I
a m  n o t  r e f e r r i n g  t o  j u s t  m a k i n g  t h i n g s  b e t t e r ;  I  a m  r e f e r r i n g
t o  t r a n s c e n d i n g  a l l  p h y s i c a l  l a w s,  b e n d i n g  t h e  r u l e s  o f  t i m e
a n d  s p a c e,  a n d  c o m i n g  a l i v e  w h e r e  w e  w e r e  p r e v i o u s l y
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(My comment on this paragraph. If you
race. l W e may think of it as a vast,
projected on the sky by the eye of the
consciousness-he "sees" a connection and
consider the spirit as the vital ener gy, thenhidden database of human awareness
beholder. Y et the zodiac is still "real"
describes a "pair" of event, hypothesizing
this ener gy is immortal as we understand the
characterized by powerful universal
because we conceive it, in the first sense
a relationship. This relationship is a
wor d and passes fr om one body to another, so
or ganizing patterns. Such a database,
of the word. Astrology still "exists," and
concept in the mind of the observer; it is
called r eincarnation and walk-ins. W alk-ins
comprising all the information ever
for many people is a quite useful
not necessary that any corollary external
ar e most pr ominent when one has a near
death experience and the spirit wants to be
available to human consciousness,
heuristic tool in explaining themselves
event exist in the universe. Unless there
r eleased fr om its contract or one that has
implies stunning inherent capabilities; itand their relationships. Why not? The
is an underlying attractor pattern, nothing
been sent her e fr om another world. However,
is far more than just a giant storehouse of
database of consciousness is an infinite
can be experienced. Thus, the entire
if you consider mass, then the body on this
information awaiting a retrieval process.
resource.
manifest universe is its own simultaneous
plane is as r eal as it appears and it will
T apping into all that has ever been
The database behaves like an expression and experience of itself.
function accor ding to the vibration set for this
experienced anywhere in time, the great
electrostatic condenser with a field of
mass in r esonance to its envir onment namely
promise of the database is its capacity to
potentiality, rather than a battery with a
that of earth. It is true your spirit or spirits
Omniscience is omnipotent and
"know" virtually anything the moment itwill contr ol your cells to perform the way they
stored char ge. A question cannot be
omnipresent. There is no distance
is "asked."
want them to but this can only be done with
asked unless there is already the between the unknown and the known.
your cooperation especially in connection in
This is the origin of all information
potentiality of the answer. The reason for
The known is manifested from the
working with positive spirits whom most call
obtained sub- or supra-rationally, by
this is that the question and answer are
unknown merely by the asking. The
spiritual spirits, guides, angles, or the good
intuition or premonition, by divination or
both created out of the same paradigm
Empire State Building was born in the
guys standing by to help when asked, a most
dream, or "lucky" guess. It is the
and, therefore, are exactly concordant.
mind of its architect. Humanimportant stipulation.
fountainhead of genius, the well of
There is no "up" without an already
consciousness is the agent whereby an
Consider a cell that can be kept alive simply
inspiration, and the source of "uncanny"
existent "down." Causality occurs as
unseen concept is transformed into its
by keeping its envir onment clean and the cell
psychic
(190)
knowledge, including
simultaneity rather than as sequence.
manifest experience, "that building," and
well fed. If the cell is taken fr om a body and
"foreknowledge." It is, of course, the
Synchronicity is the term used by Jung to
the body dies afterwar ds, the cell will
thus frozen in time. What "happened" on
inventory drawn upon by kinesiological
explain this phenomenon in human
continue to live. This was pr oven in theThirty-second Street in New Y ork City in
chicken experiment wher e the cell was kept
testing. Thinkers who are troubled by the
experience.2 As we understand from our
1933 is there for all to see. What
alive long after the chicken had died. If you
notion of "paranormal" or non-rational
examination of advanced physics, an
"happened" in the consciousness of its
want to live on another world that has a
knowledge usually balk at logical-or
event "here" in the universe does not
creator also stands recorded in the
differ ent vibratory rate, then you must first
illogical-inconsistencies with Newtonian
"cause" an event to occur "there" in the
database for all to see to this day. Both
change your vibration (mass) to r esonate with
concepts of simultaneity, causality, or
universe. Instead, both appear exist complete, but in dif ferent sensory the
world you wish to live on. Each planet has
time and space.simultaneously.
domains. By transferring concept into
its own vibratory rate and only that which
It's a bigger universe than that. These
(191) What is the connection between these
concrete and steel, the architect simply
r esonates with its set vibration can exist
without external support. Change the same thinkers will scan the
evening sky events, then, if it is not a Newtonian
enabled the rest of us to experience his
vibration of the cells and you change the total
and find pleasure in identifying a favorite
linear sequence of cause and ef fect?
vision.
mass which is being done all the time within
constellation. But there are no
Obviously, the two events are related or
W e "normal" humans are completely
set perimeters. T racy)
constellations. That familiar pattern of
connected to each other in some invisible
preoccupied with our function as"stars" is made up of points of light
manner, but not by gravity or magnetismP A R T  T H R E E :  M E A N I N G
t r a n s f o r m e r s  o f  c o n c e p t s  f r o m  t h e
originating in totally unrelated sources,
or a cosmic wind or an ether; they are
invisible level, ABC, to the sensorially
some millions of light-years closer or
encompassed by an attractor field of such
19. THE DA T ABASE OF
perceptible A>B>C. Extraordinary
farther away, some in dif ferent galaxies,
magnitude that it includes both events.
CONSCIOUSNESS
individuals live primarily in the world of
some actually separate galaxies
W e may know this is so because
ABC (those who (192) live beyond that, in
THE GREA T SWISS
themselves; many have, millennia since,
otherwise the. events would not be
the completely formless domain of purePSYCHOLOGIST, Carl Jung, noting the
burnt out and ceased to "exist." Those
observable as events at all, much less
consciousness itself, we call mystics). T o
ubiquity of archetypal patterns and lights have no spatial or temporal
simultaneously, or as related to each
such individuals, the origin of everything
symbols, deduced a "collective relationship. It is not only the shape of a
other in time.
is obvious; they are uninterested in the
unconscious," a bottomless subconscious
dipper or bear or man, but the very
The "connection" between two events
process of making things visible and
pool of all the shared experience of the
pattern, the "constellation" itself, that is
occurs only in the observer's manifest. In everyday life these are the 91
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creative people who spawn new mere sequence, there is no backwards or
of the observer. This transcendence of
beyond the reach of consciousness itself.
enterprises and then turn over their
forwards. It is then just as valid to say,opposition occurs spontaneously at Those who have attained such a state
of execution and management to others. The
reciprocally, that the manifest (193)
consciousness levels of 600 and above.
awareness report that it cannot be
yet more advanced-mystics-conclude that
universe causes the unmanifest; and at a
The notion that there is a "knower" and a
described and can have no meaning for
only their ABC level of awareness is
certain level of understanding this is
"known" is in itself dualistic, in that it
anyone without the experience of that
"real" and the observable world is a
demonstrably true. If, for example, we
implies a separation between subject and
context. Nonetheless, this is the true state
dream or illusion. It should be pointed
look at electrons lined up on one side of a
object (which, again, can only be inferred
of Reality, universally and eternally; we
out, however, that this is only anotherdielectric space and protons lined up on
by the artificial (194) adoption of a point of
merely fail to recognize it. Such a
limited point of view. There is neither
the other in an


ovics, of minor importance.
The Chines e often usc a condescending phrase, "big fish, big
meat," to satirize a peasant's concept of fine dining: big slabs of
fish and meat arc mistaken for culinary art. The phrase also has
been used for people obsessed with the size of the n1ale organ or
the siz<.: of fcn1ale br<.:asts. A sexual gourn1and and a sexual
gourm<.:t ar<.: diff<.:r<.:nt.
For the sexually knowledgeable wom<.:n of ancient China, the tmly Doef(lrs (lf L(li'C TH E ART OF THE BEDCH AMBER
thickness of a jade stalk was more important than its length, its
shape more important than its thickness. The shape could be classi
fied as one of three major categories: pagoda, with the base thicker
than the head, the most common; cylinder, with the base and the
head of the same thickness, less common; and mushroom, with
the head thicker than the base, the most valued because it is apt to
remain more fulfilling inside the jade gate after detumescence.
Even more in1portant than phallic size and shape was phallic per
formance, the crux of the Art of the Bedcham ber.
The Elemental Maid, in explaining to the Yellow Emperor
the ideal condition of the male organ for coitus, enumerates the
Four Attainments of chi. An aroused jade stalk, she says, should
pass through four progressive stages: angry, enlarged, rigid,
and hot.
Taoist sexologists described the various shapes of the vagina
pragmatically; among the self-explanatory terms were "dragon
pearl," "monkey," "eagle," "whelk," "dish," "bamboo cylinder,"
"pheasant," "delta," "duckbill," and "sheep gut." Sexual con
noisseurs in China were apt to discuss the topography inside the
jade gate the way French oenophiles might discuss their favorite
vineyards. Moreover, they relished regional varieties of anatomy.
Women from the city of Tatung were prized for their vaginas
with "double doors." Wornen from another locality had prac
tically no pubic hair, and this, according to ancient sexologists,
made them extren1ely wanton in bed.
The sexologists and physiognotnists of ancient China must
have spent countless days-and nights -researching what was sex
ually desirable in won1en, but not in n1en. When the Yellow Em
peror asked the Elen1ental Maid to describe a desirable won1an,
his tutor replied: ··A desirable wotnan has a tender, pliable tetn
peratnent, with a liquid voice, black, silky hair, soft rnuscles, and
small bones. She is neither too tall nor too short, neither too large
nor too snull. Her vulva is hig h up front� her n1ons is hairless� and
she is rich in fluids. She is between t\venty-five and thirty, and
has never been pregnant. Whil e copulat ing, her fluids flow abun
dantly, and her body tretnbles helplessly and is covered with per
spiration. She yields to the nun wheth er he wants to raise her
high or press her down. If a nun can find such a wonun, even if
they do not follow thl.' proper ways of coition, they wou ld sutter
no hann." Quoting Master Chung Ho, a Taoist sexual alchernist, The
Secr et Art (�f the ]tuff Chamber gives a sirnilar asscssr nent for a de
sirable wornan. It describes also a sexually undesirable wornan:
"Her hair is unkt'nlpt, her face coarse. her neck thick, her throat
knotted. and ht'r teeth whea t-col ored. She has a rnasculine voice.
Her rnouth is large and her nose high. Her pupils arc unclear. Her
lips and chee ks have long. whiskcrlike hair. Her elbows and knees
arc large and protruding. Her hair is yellow, and her flesh is skin1py.
Her pubic hair is thick and stift� and sticks up in the wrong direc
tion. To have intercourse with such a worn an will hann the health
of a rnan."
In short. the ancients consider ed sexually desirable a woman
with a profusion of Yin and very little Yang. In modern terms, the
sexually desirable won1an had an abundan ce of fen1ale hormones.
SEXUAL PHYSI OGNOM Y
The Chinese have been refining their study of physiognomy for
the past two thousand years. They believe that by comparing the
size, location, proportion, shape, color, and movement of an in
dividual's facial features and other body parts with a "norm," a
skilled observer can assess the individual's personality, luck, wealth,
success, fan1ily and social relationships, longevity, health, and sex
uality. Whether one considers this science, superstition, or statis
tical evaluation, the ancient Chinese were deadly serious about it.
Physiognomy played an important part not only in making friends,
choosing spouses, negotiating co1nmercial deals, but also in wag
ing war, engaging in politics, and maintaining the imperial court
in general.
Sometimes physiognon1y bordered on the fanciful. The cele
brated physiognomist Liu Tsung-yuan had very specific observa
tions. He predicted successful or highly honored sons for a woman
with dark nipples and a deep, upward naval. A hairy navel on a
won1an foretold a son who would be a literary scholar. Skimpy
buttocks denoted a skimpy fortune. Liu set forth his wisdom on
good female physiognom y, and more: "The anus should be hid
den by the haunches and not exposed, preferably with hair. [The
woman's] urination should be slow. A fast, spirited rush indicates
lack of wealth. A light and long strearn is a sign of rcfinen1ent. If Lady Doctor s of Lor'e THE ART OF THE BED CHAM BER
90 her fecal matter piles up like a coiled ribbon, it is a sign of wealth
and high social standing." In the past there were even professional
urination auditors, women who, upon listening to an individual's
urinating in an adjacent room, could "diagnose" his or her per
sonality and fortune. There arc urinalyses and urinalyses.
CONV ERSAT IONS FROM WILD HISTORY
The most erudite appraisals of genitals in the many centuries of
Chinese scholarship are found in a fragment of "wild history"
written during the Tang dynasty by Chang Mu. His book, The
Secret Chronicles of Kung Ho Chien, is lost, but fortunately a work
from the Ching dynasty, Confucius Says Not, quotes two long pas
sages frotn it.
One of them reports a conversation between the lascivious
empress Wu Tse-tien, whose lo ve life was recounted earlier, and
her daughter Tai Ping. (The Kung Ho Chien of the title was os
tensibly the office for imperial aides established by the empress; in
reality, it was a stable for her favorite studs.) When Tai Ping, sens
ing that her highly sexed mother is without a satisfactory lover,
recommends her own love interest, Chang Chang-tsung, the em
press is at first silent. Then Tai Ping whispers into her mother's
ear that she has seen the young n1an taking a bath as her house
guest: "His jade stalk has a full head and a thin root. When it is in
repose it droops down and is not long. It is as smooth as a goose
egg, and its ridge rises a fifth to a sixth of an inch. It is fresh-red,
soft, and mellow."
Smiling, the e1npress asks whether her daughter has tasted it.
Tai Ping says no, but a(.hnits that she asked a lady-in-waiting to
test hin1 out. The etnpress turns to the lady-in-vvaiting and says:
"You rnay tell Her Majesty frankly. Don't be shy about it."
The wonun whispers into the e1nprcss's car: ''At the begin
ning of our encounter, it was like a luscious lychee fron1 the South
Seas, unusually sn1ooth and tender. Its ridge expand ed like an
un1brdla. After three or four strokes, tny flower pistil opened
wantonly. My spirit and tny soul were borne aloft. What's so good
about hirn was that he did not decide for hirnsclf whether to be
slow or fast. He tenderl y tin1cd hirnsclf to rny desire." Etnpn.'SS Wu. overjoyed, exdaitns:.. 1 heard that those tnedi
ocre wonten