proved since,  was nothing but a theoretical  fallacy!
And here  to digress for a moment. I grant that it is unwise dogmatically
to assert that any given text of Scripture denotes  this or that, for many
people read into the Bible exactly what they  themselves  wish  to find 26
 there. Nevertheless,  I believed,  and still believe, that the text I have
quoted, and many others also, bear reference  to that vital  fluid which  is
within our own bodies; and believing it, I acted in accordance  with that
belief, to find in the end that it proved to be my physical salvation.
Fortified by my faith  in what I thought to be the correct interpretation
of the text, I fasted  for forty‐five days on nothing but urine and  tap
water‐and this, despite the doctor's assertion that eleven days without
food was the limit to which a human being could go I also rubbed urine
into my body‐a very important  factor in the cure,  with  which  I shall deal
in Chapter  XVII‐ I finally broke  my fast  on raw  beef, and  though it gave
me no discomfort  beyond a ravenous  hunger, I none the less  ate
cautiously  for a time,  and  continued  to drink my own urine, noticing
that its changes in temperature,  quantity, taste, etc., depended  almost
entirely on what I ate or drank, and on the amount  of exercise I took.
At the end of this treatment  I felt and  was "an entirely new  man." I
weighed 140 lbs., was full of vim, looked about eleven years younger
than I actually was, and  had  a skin like a young girl's. I was thirty‐six at
the time, and  am now over sixty. Yet by dint of drinking every drop of
water that I pass, living on a wellbalanced  diet, (*) and  never eating
more  food per diem than I consider the body requires,  I look and  feel
much younger than most men of my age,  and  keep free from  those
major  and minor ailments to which  the body is said to be heir.
(*) See Chapter XVII.
Having now related the essential  details  of my selfcure  and  all that
contributed  to its continuance,  I will merely  add  that in 1918, being
convinced  that knowledge  must  not be selfishly "hidden under  a 27
 bushel," but should be shared with one's fellows, I began to advise and
supervise'  the fasting of others on the same lines. The rest of this book
is therefore  largely devoted to results obtained  on those : suffering
from a variety  of diseases, including medically  diaglosed  cases of cancer,
Bright's disease, gangrene,  and  many others which  from the orthodox
standpoint  are labelled  incurable.

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 CHAPTER  V.
GANGRENE

Gangrene,  described  in simple language  as "death  of a part," is
regarded as hopeless  of cure  by the orthodox physician.  "Gangrene  has
set in " is a phrase invariably  accepted as the last stage which  precedes
the almost immediate  decease  of the victim.  Where gangrenes  sets  in
after a finger, toe or limb has been amputated,  it is often  fatal,
especially  in the case  of persons past middle age. All the same, I have
proved that gangrene  can be easily cured.
My first acquaintance  with the ravages of gangrene  was in 1891 when I
was a schoolboy  of ten.  My closest schoolmate  had complained  of face‐
ache  for some days before being taken to a local  dentist for the
extraction  of a tooth far back in the jaw. Unfortunately  some of the jaw
came  away  with the molar, and  gangrene  set in. Drugs and  ointments
were applied to reduce  (or perhaps  better said suppress)  the swelling,
and the boy died  ten days later.
It so happened  that at the same time as my schoolmate  was suffering,  I
also had  a swollen cheek. But the remedy  my mother applied (she was
a farmer's daughter,  by the way) was a very different one from the "
scientific " ones the doctors  had  applied to my young friend.  True, my
own swollen cheek was the result of having been stung by a lot of bees,
owing to my having disturbed  a colony of those interesting  little
creatures.  All the same it was very painful, till my mother completely
cured it by first  bathing my face  in urine and  then binding it up with 29
 pieces of linen wrung out in the same  healing  fluid. My cheek was
normal  in a few hours.
This treatment  was suggested  to the parents of my schoolmate  with
the gangrenous  jaw‐but merely to be rejected with scorn and
expressions  of disgust. I have since come to know  that urine
compresses  combined  with urine‐drinking and fasting could have saved
my unfortunate  friend.
About  a year later a young man  of our  acquaintance  died  of either
gangrene,  medical treatment  for the condition,  or perhaps  both.  While
he was ill, I used to go and read to him; and during one of my visits, the
doctor called. He was a very loquacious  practitioner,  and  after a few
cheering stock phrases, added  that whoever found a cure  for this
dreadful  affliction would merit a crown of gold


 his clarity, authenticity, sense of purpose, and ease. He is
authoritative and consistent. David has devoted his life to proving and
teaching the principles of A Course in Miracles. I have been with the
Course about as long as David has. Still, I encounter fear, resistance, and
ego. David has been a huge inspiration and accelerator to my
advancement in the Course, through his impeccable understanding and,
most important, his model. If you sincerely intend to master A Course in
Miracles or any related spiritual path, David is a guide of the highest
caliber. A Course in Miracles  is a delight to the spirit, but a huge
confrontation to the ego. It pulls the rug out from under the ego’s tricks
and exposes it for the nothingness it is. For that reason, all students of
the Course experience resistance to the program. Many students quit
doing the lessons, and others complain, “I don’t understand the text.”
Yet, the very same students admit, “I know the Course contains truths
that can change my life. I just wish it were easier to apply.”
The book you are holding can help you do exactly that. Here is a
brilliant map of the journey from fear to love. David takes the essential
principles of the Course and breaks them down into easy-to-grasp ideas,
exercises, and steps to help you make the truths work in your life. David
can take you where you want to go because he has walked the path you
and I now walk. He knows where the open road is and where lurk the
pitfalls that may waylay us. Read, learn, open, awaken, and transform. In one of David’ s teachings, he mentions that Mahatma Gandhi
retained his peace of mind even while he was in prison. The reveredleader did some  of his best writing there. The lesson David extracts is
that it is not what our body is doing that makes us happy or miserable,
but where our mind is. Hearing that, I remembered a prisoner I used to
visit. While Ray was in college, he flew into a fit of rage and beat his
girlfriend. A few days later, she died. Ray was conv icted of
manslaughter and sentenced to many years in jail. I met Ray during his
ninth year of incarceration, when he came up for parole for the third
time. “My girlfriend’ s parents are wealthy and politically influential
people,” he told me. “Every year when I come up for parole, they wage
an intensive campaign to ‘keep this vicious killer off the streets.’ So far,
they have been successful, and I have been denied parole.”
I didn’t see a vicious killer before me. To the contrary, the Ray I
knew was a gentle, kind man, penitent for his tragic mistake. He was a
model prisoner, given the highest privileges and appointed manager of
the prison laundry. He was a devoted student of A Course in Miracles. He was peaceful, his heart was open, and he displayed an exemplary
disposition. Ray’ s attitude and that of his girlfriend’ s parents were a great
teaching for me. His body was in prison, but his spirit was soaring. That
couple had all the material amen ities and physical freedom anyone could
desire, but their hearts were consumed with hatred and revenge. Who
was really in prison? After walking the spiritual path for many years, I have observed
two kinds of seminars: One kind teaches us how to get stuff. The other
kind teaches us how to get free. David’ s teachings are among the best of
the latter. When I met David, I told him that I watch his YouTube videos and
read his books before I go to sleep each night. Immersing myself in his
ideas and consci ousness is a soothing, healing way to undo the tangles of
the day and segue into a peace ful night’ s sleep. David’ s teachings can
achieve the same for you, day or night. I count this man as one of the
great blessings in my life. When climbing  a mountain in India, Sherpas (guides) help you
ascend. One Sherpa takes you to a certain altitude, and then anotherSherpa guides you to the next level. So it is with life. We are graced to
have guides show us the way when we feel lost or confuse d. David
Hoffmeister is a Sherpa of immaculate purpose. Trust him. He can show
you the way to the mountaintop. —Alan CohenIntroduction
The Ever-Present Miracle of Now
All we need to do is go within to find the answer of love. There is an answer that is so deep that it can bring truth and healing
to everyone and to this whole world. We have been searching for it
everywhere, except in the only place we could truly find it: within. This moment extends all the way to eternity. It is the now that
extends peacefully and is forever and ever. It is infinite happiness,
without end, without limit. It is untouched by fear, guilt, or suffering of
any kind. It is untouched by anything but love. There is so much
appreciation when experiencing something for the first time. There is no
comparison. For in the ever-unfolding now, we are always brand new. We can just bask in it, fully mer ge with it. There are no past references to
it, for it doesn’ t fit on the timeline. It’s just a happy sense of soaring way
beyond time and space, like an ongoing meditation. This ever-present miracle of now is our doorway within. It is our
doorway Home. It is an experience of something ever-new. It’s a happy
feeling, one that makes you want to sing to the world. It’s very beautiful
and very simple too. It’s having the allowance to merge when you are
watching a flower, a butterfly, or a bird singing in the tree; it’s a
contentment like, “Ah yes, thank you; let me be whole.” This is what
Saint Francis was talking about: just communing. The allowance that
everything is perfect. W e can really allow ourselves to smell the roses. It is through the doorway of the present moment that we are truly
able to hear the deep messages of love coming from within. They are
boundless and eternal, for the voice of the inner guide is always speaking
to us of our true identity and of our oneness with everyone and
everything. But in order to hear it, we need to walk through the doorway
and invite this deeply loving guide into our minds and lives.I first knew about this present moment, where boundless joy
resides, early on. The true drive of my heart, even as a young boy, was to
feel joy and extend love. I remember playing all summer. I loved the
neighborhood creek, which was full of frogs and crawdads. I would just
play, play, play—play my heart out all day. I was truly in the moment,
naturally! Then, as I got older and the world’ s rules and expectations set in, I
bought the bait. I started thinking that I had to learn my way through this
world. However, the more intricate the education and learning, the more
confused and lost I became. I didn’t like the idea of “improving” and the
sound of “makin g a living.” It sounded like pressure, like living to just
survive. That was not inspiring. It felt like the world was set up with an
ever-increasing number of complications. There came a time when I
began to question all this; I questioned how it was all set up. I started seeking the answer when I got into graduate schoo l. I
began to question everything that I believed and everything I had learned
in my ten years of university. Even though I got a couple of degrees, I
soon realized that there was no point in learning more stuff and
developing more special skills. I wanted the answer to something deeper. This was definitely not popular with people in my life. They said, “No,
no, not good, you have no direction; you are going to amount to
nothing.” They would say things like, “Y ou are crazy, get a life.”
So, I would say, “Okay, let’s talk about that. Get a life: Can you be
a little more specific? I actually believe I am going for life. So, would
you tell me what you mean by get a life?”
They said, “Well, get a life: a girlfriend, a partner...something. Then
get a house, get a mortgage, get in debt like the rest of us.”
“That is what you mean by get a life? And then what?”
And they said, “And then you grow old, and your hair goes gray.”
“And then what?”
“And then you get sick.”
“And then what?”“And then you die.”
And I said, “Absolutely unacceptable. All I can say is, if that is your
definition of a life, I am not going to get a life. There has to be
something more  than just strugg le and work and suffer and get sick and
die and get educ ated along the way. There has to be a little bit more than
that, a deeper and more fulfillin g experience. And I am going to get the
bottom of it; I am going to get to the bottom of this fishy world, and I am
going to find out what is truly


 barriers with ease, but not damage cells,
DMSO is in a class by itself as a new healing principle. Furthermore, it protects
the cells from mechanical damage. Ramon Lim, M.D., Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Research
Associate in Biochemistry at the University of Chicago School of Medicine, has
conducted some experiments using DMSO with glial cells. Glial cells comprise
the supporting tissue of the brain and spinal cord. Dr. Lim prepares cultures of
glial cells and DMSO, which he then subjects to sound vibrations. DMSO prevents
cellular membranes from breaking under the vibrations, preserving the contents of
each cell. The saclike lysosomes contained within cells, for example, would
release enzymes harmful to other cell systems if they escaped the confines of their
parent cells, and thus aggravate swelling and pressure. With DMSO instilled within
the cells, this enzyme release by lysosomes doesn’t take place, as shown by Dr.
Lim’s experiments on the glial cells. Much of the permanent neurological damage in head injury and stroke is
caused by a reduction of blood flow into the brain. An interrupted blood flow
results in an inadequate supply of oxygen and nutrients to brain tissue. DMSO
permits better blood flow by lessening platelet adhesiveness and aggregation and
clot formation. Ordinarily, these are conditions that can clog the veins and arteries. DMSO stimulates the release of a prostaglandin that increases blood vessel
diameter. It also inhibits the release of another prostaglandin that constricts vessels
and reduces blood flow. Dr. de la Torre stresses that spinal cord injury patients who are candidates for
DMSO treatment have to meet two criteria. First, the accident victim’s injury mustbe recent, for if it is more than a few hours old, the pathologic consequences will
have been well established. It won’t be reversible by any means. “In our DMSO
research experience, one-and-a-half hours has been the limit,” says the
neurosurgeon. “We do not know how long this limit can successfully be extended,
because it depends upon the site and extent of the lesion.”
The second criterion for a patient is that he has to have so serious a spinal
cord injury that conventional treatment would be of no use, and spontaneous
recovery would be impossible. “Many patients arrive with a loss of sensory
sensation, and even a loss of motor ability, and yet they recover, sometimes
without treatment,” de la Torre says. “If DMSO is administered to such patients,
there is no way to determine whether their recovery is spontaneous or due to the
action of the drug.”
How does a doctor isolate the patients who will not recover with conventional
therapy? “We have a test, called the somatosensory evoked response,” he says,
“which measures activity at the somatosensory cortex in the brain when a stimulus
is applied to a peripheral nerve. If there is permanent damage to the spinal cord, no
activity will be recorded. From our experience with laboratory animals, we believe
patients with no response will probably not recover motor function. By reversing
this non-recording of activity in the brain with DMSO, we know we have done
something.”
THE EMERGENCY THERAPEUTIC PRINCIPLE
DMSO has been referred to as a “therapeutic principle” by its co-discoverers. It is
a drug that is useful in a number of diseases that have no common denominator. “I
think this comment refers to the fact that there has been very little exploration of
the drug as a pharmacotherapeutic
agent,” says de la Torre. “The more we study
it, perhaps the more we will discover about its potential application in a number of
disorders, used both alone and in combination with other drugs.”
He believes that DMSO is establishing its therapeutic benefit, without toxicity,
in a large number of serious health problems. He thinks it should be carried in
ambulances and paramedical units as an emergency therapeutic tool. “I think that
this would be almost mandatory,” says de la Torre, “especially if we establish that
these severe kinds of injuries to the spine and the brain become permanent within
four hours. Using some established criteria to evaluate the injury, a paramedic
would apply or not apply DMSO, depending on each individual case. If we can
establish that it does no harm in any condition, then it might be injected as aprophylactic drug, even for an injury that is considered permanent at that moment.”
The neurosurgeon and his former colleagues at the Division of Neurosurgery,
the University of Chicago Hospital, Drs. John F. Mullen, K. Kajihara, and Henry
Kawanaga, saw some startling results from their own work with the drug, and
reported this at scientific meetings. “We always played down the effects of
DMSO,” says de la Torre, “because the drug had had a miraculous label attached
to it. Doctors tended to elbow each other at meetings and giggle, implying ‘how
can anything be that good?’”
Over time, the pharmacologic versatility of DMSO finally has been confirmed
among numbers of clinicians who have experimented with it privately. “I do not
see many doctors giggling anymore; they are beginning to suspect that there is
something to this after all,” says de la Torre. “I think that when more people learn
to accept DMSO not as a miracle drug, but as a drug with many potential uses,
perhaps they will be stimulated to go to their laboratories and begin to do some of
this work.” More research is needed, for research is what the FDA demands before
DMSO can be released as an approved drug for a larger number of applications. ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS USING DMSO IN BRAIN
EMBOLISM
Occlusive infarction of the brain occurs when there is death of brain tissue from a
cutoff of the blood supply. The blood that brings oxygen and nutrients may be
blocked by a blood clot called a
thrombus
 or by a plug of clotted blood or foreign
materials called an
embolus. To study the action of DMSO on the gross manifestations of such
occlusive
brain infarctions, twenty normal rhesus monkeys of either sex were used in a
laboratory study by medical scientists from the University of Chicago School of
Medicine and the Eastern Virginia Medical School who pooled their resources and
talents. 1
Symptoms of brain infarction can be simulated in monkeys by injecting them
with air to cause a cerebral air embolism. They will go into convulsions,
experience sensory changes, show eye motor deficits, and have paralysis and
respiratory disturbances. 2
 This should not be considered cruelty since these
monkeys are raised for the specific purpose of laboratory research. They live an
exceedingly joyful life until they enter the scientific methodology. Their
contributions extend the health and life span of mankind.Members of the monkey group, in one experiment, had their middle cerebral
arteries compressed by a small Mayfield clip. 3
 The clip remained in place for
seventeen hours. DMSO treatment began the fourth hour following this arterial
occlusion and continued once a day for four days. Monkeys that survived this
procedure were sacrificed seven days following the occlusion. During the entire
experiment, the animals were monitored with quantities of laboratory and clinical
tests that told a great deal about brain embolism. In humans, brain emboli can come from fatty plaques in the large arteries that
supply the brain. They also can be pieces that break off from thrombi in damaged
hearts. They may arise from an accumulation of platelets, fibrin, and cholesterol
on the surface of ulcerated plaques in hardening of the arteries; from vegetations
on the heart valves in bacterial endocarditis; from mural thrombi in rheumatic heart
disease or following heart attack; or from clots following open heart surgery. Brain
emboli can also hit underwater divers suffering from decompression sickness. If
the blood supply is blocked by one of these emboli for more than a few minutes,
death in a portion of the brain results and neurologic damage is permanent. Acute stroke is another manifestation of blood supply blockage to the brain. Such cerebrovascular disease is the commonest cause of neurologic disability in
Western countries. Most of the time it comes from hardening of the arteries, high
blood pressure, or a combination of both. Stroke hits abruptly with symptoms and
signs reflecting the area of brain that is damaged. Occlusion of either the internal
carotid artery or the middle cerebral artery, as was done to the monkeys, can
produce a severe set of neurologic abnormalities, almost like those displayed by
the monkeys. DMSO prevents or reverses the pathologic sequence that results from
cerebrovascular insufficiency, which finally brings on a localized area of brain
death from an embolus. The drug just has to get to the site of injury fast enough. 4
DMSO stimulates prostaglandin synthesis, which arrests or reverses the
potential pathological damage seen following brain infarction. 5
,
6
,
7
 The
prostaglandins (PGs) are a group of cyclical fatty acids that possess diverse and
potent biologic activities that affect cell function in every organ system. PGs have
sedative, tranquilizing, and anticonvulsive effects on the central nervous system. 8
,
9
DMSO increases the


 any logical way responsible for what you’r e
experiencing or failing to experience today. The wake is just
what it is, and nothing more—a trail that you’ve left behind. But have you? Being a Victim of Your Personal
History
For well over a quarter century now, I’ve work ed with people
to help them access higher levels of awar eness. It’s my
experience that most people live their life in the wake by
hanging on to personal histories to justif y their self-
defeating behaviors and the scarcity in their lives. They
hang on to past pains, abuses, and shortcomings as calling
cards to announce a “poor me” status to everyone they
meet, withi n minutes of their introduction. “I was
abandoned as a child,” “I’m an alcoholic,” “I’m an incest
survivor,” “My parents were divor ced and I’ve never gotten
over it.” The list could go on for hundr eds of pages. Your past is over! By bonding to your past, you not only
ensur e that you’ll be immobilized today, but you prevent
yourself from healing. By referring to past struggles and
using them as the reasons for not getting on with your lifetoday, you’r e doing the equivalent of attributing to the wake
the ability to drive the boat. This also works in reverse. Many people  refer to the good old days that are gone
forever as the reason why they can’t be happy and fulﬁlled
today. “Everything has changed,” “No one respects anyone
else like they used to,” “A dollar used to be worth  a dollar,
now everything is so overpriced,” “People don’t seem to
want to help out like they did in the past,” “When  we were
kids, we respected author ity; today’s kids walk all over their
parents.” This is also living in the wake and assigning
responsibility to the past for why you can’t be successful or
happy today. Getting Out of the Wake
Imagine a pencil with the ability to only write your past
history. It has no use otherwise. All of your past is in that
pencil. Are you going to keep it? What for? Are you going to
give it up? Perhaps Omar  Khayyam will inspir e you with his
poem:
The moving ﬁnger writes and having writ moves
on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel
half a line,
Nor all thy tears wash out one word of it. You can cry all night about the history in that pencil, all that
it contains, and all you wish you could erase—or bring back
again—but all of your tears can’t wash out one word of the
past, as the poet-philosopher r eminds you. You want to let go of your personal history that’s symbolized
by that pencil, but when you walk away from it, no matter
how far you walk, you look back and there it is. You’re readyto be rid of your personal history and to more fully live in
the present moment. But the pencil is always there when
you look back. I suggest that you pick up the pencil, and
with compassion, allow the words, wounds, and pain of the
past to be written, embraced, examined, understood,
accepted, and loved for all that you’ve learned and
experienced. The act of picking it up and embracing it will
give you the str ength to transfor m the past into song, poem,
paint, or ritual if you feel called to do those things, or to
throw it away in your unique manner. Embracing Your Personal History
In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a Divine
creative force supporting it, there simply can be no
accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go
through what you went through in order to get to wher e you
are today, and the evidence is that you did. Every spiritual
advance that you will make in your life will very likely be
preceded by some kind of fall or seeming disaster. Those
dark times, accidents, tough episodes, periods of
impoverishment, illnesses, abuses, and broken dreams were
all in order. They happened, so you can assume they had to
and you can’t unhappen  them. Embrace them from that perspective, with help if you need
it, and then understand them, accept them, honor them,
and ﬁnally retire and/or transfor m them in your own way. (I
know someone who gives them a new job description.) Become free to immerse yourself in this moment—the now
that’s called the present —because it’s simply that—a
present to open, relish, nurtur e, play with, and enjoy and
explor e.No Longer Relying on Your Past
Make an eﬀort to remove all labels that you’ve placed on
yourself. Labels serve to negate you. You must ultimately
live up to the label rather than being the limitless spirit that
is your true essence. You’re not an American, an Italian, or
an African. You’re a mem ber of one race, the human race. You’re not a male or a female, a Democrat or a Republican. You are one with the true oneness, God. You are not athletic
or magical, mathematical or literary, or any other label. Transcending labels, particularly those that have been
placed on you by others in your past, opens you to the
opportunity of soaring in the now in any way that you
desir e.
Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in
your physica l reality. Don’t allow them to be here in your
mind, muddy ing your present moments. Your life is like a
play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter
have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are
villains and others are good guys. But all of them are
necessary, otherwise they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace
them all, and move on to the ne xt act. OceanofPDF.comAll You Get Is Now
The past has gone, the future is still to come, so the present
—the here-and-now—is all we have. This is our topic for
today. The willingness and ability to live fully in the now elude
many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be
concer ned with dessert. While reading a book, notice wher e
your thoughts are. While on vacation, be there instead of
thinking abou t what should have been done and what has to
be done when returning home. Don’t let the elusive present
moment get used up by thoughts that aren’t in the here and
now.There’s an irony to this habit of having your mind drift to
other times and other places. You can only drift oﬀ in the
now, because now is all you ever get. So drifting oﬀ is a way
of using up your present moments. You do indeed have a
past, but not now! And yes, you have a futur e, but not now! And you can consume your now with thoughts of “then” and
“maybe”, but that will keep you from the inner peace and
success you could e xperience. It’s doubtful that other creatur es waste the present in
thoughts of past and future. A beaver only does beaver, and
he does it right in the moment. He doesn’t spend his days
wishing he were a young beaver again, or ruminating over
the fact that his beaver siblings received more attention, or
his beaver father ran oﬀ with a younger beaver when he
was growing up. He’s always in the now. We can learn much
from God’s creatur es about enjoying the present  moment
rather than using it up consumed with guilt over the past or
worry about the futur e. Practice living in the moment, and
refuse to allow any thoughts based on your past to deﬁne
you. Stop and take notice of all that’s in your immediate space—
the people, creatur es, vegetation, cloud formations, building
designs, everything. Stay in the present by meditating and
getting closer to the ultimate now… God. God Is Only Here Now
Think about this. God will not be doing anything diﬀer ent
one hour from now than God is doing now. And God is not
doing anythi ng diﬀer ent now from what God was doing a
thousand years ago. The truth is that you can only come to
know God if you’r e willing to be at peace in the present
moment.Earlier, in Day 8, I discu ssed how meditation is a way of
making conscious contact with God. Here, I would like to let
you in on a sublime secret that I learned from one of my
most inﬂuential teachers:
You will only come to truly know God when you
give up the past and the future in your mind and
merge totally into the now, because God is always
here now. Very few people understand and live this principle, largely
because of their conditioning and unwillingness to train their
minds in present-moment living.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

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that quickens the fulfillment of our greatest desires. For every deliberate request that we make to Source, or Spirit, in which we ask for help, co-creative su pport, and desires to be made
manifest, we can add the three powerful, feeling-ful, vibrational Innate Talents 67
words – “I am grateful.”  When  we feel the truth of this
vibrational universe, and we f eel the truth of gratitude
resonating in our hearts, we ar e in the magical power of belief
that can easily allow the manifestation of our desires. The  innate talent of gratitude /G0F/G10/G09/G05/G0F/G11/G1A /G01 /G16/G04/G04/G16/G01/G12/G03/G11/G01/G23/G03/G07/G1C/G16/G01/G10/G0B/G04/G01/G0A/G0C/G07/G1C/G04/G05/G01/G02/G03/G01
the seed. That is certainl y a metaphor for the messages
contained in this cosmic wealth story. Roth’s fifth talent is the /G0F/G18/G03/G10/G03/G01/G1A/G06/G01/G07/G06/G08/G09/G0F/G1A /G20/G01/G01/G39/G05/G07/G0F/G01/G12/G03/G01/G04/G26/G0D/G12/G03/G11 ed
view of prayer, it is a /G0F/G17/G10-way /G01/G13/G07/G03/G14/G04/G05/G16/G12/G10/G02/G07/G03/G01/G22/G04/G10/G1C/G04/G04/G03/G01/G3E/G07/G11/G01
(Source’s infinite intelligence, resources, and divine love and
flow) and us. Through prayer, /G14/G02/G0F/G01/G05/G13/G05/G09/G06 /G16/G10/G19/G0C/G04/G01/G1C/G04/G01/G02/G03/G11/G02/G14/G02/G11/G08/G12/G0C/G0C/G19/G01
choose to engage the world of the non-physical and our Creator Source itself, we can experience the flow of divine well-being and infinite creative power - at any time. Roth describes prayer
as a total surrender to a realization of our oneness with God, to essentially feel our connection with Source energy, and the truth of its existence flowing within us. It is a talent that requires
some investment, in order to experience a greater rhythm and flow. But the innate talent /G0F/G10/G14/G0F/G1A/G04 /G01/G02/G03/G11/G1C/G04/G0C/G0C/G16/G01/G08/G16/G20/G01/G01/G01
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include:
 1. Choice – the ability to choose
2. Trust – the ability to trust
 3. Flexibility – the ability to be flexible
 4. Willingness – the ability to be willing
 5. Animation – the ability to animate
 6. Stillness – the ability to be still and receptive
 7. Inner Guidance System – the talent of sentience  I have discussed the /G0F/G18 /G03/G10/G03/G01/G1A/G06/G07/G17  choice  throughout this book. It is a tremendous talent, an ex pansive magnificent gift, that we
have absolute free will over the experiences in our lives. That
kind of freedom, admittedly can be overwhelming at first, to fully grasp. With choice, there is inherent responsibility. We Cosmic Wealth
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are responsible for the choices that we make. There is no longer
any need to blame anyone, including Source and our selves. A
choice is a choice, invested for it s learning potential. When we
blame others, or avoid the knowle dge and truth of our free will,
we rob only ourselves  of the chance to know our deeper meaning,
purpose, and infinite nature. In accepting the role of choice  in our lives, and consciously investing its gifts, we add tremendous richness and depth to our inner lives and our  outer life experiences. The ability to trust  lives within all of us as well. In
trusting, we can relax deeper an d deeper into the divine truths
of this great universe, that cr adles our every need, hope, and
desire. It is in this perfect earth nest that we can manifest
beautiful expansions. Innate trust is not something that we earn, but something that we alre ady are. We simply and only
need to invest it, by relaxing into the good and the guidance that it can bring. The ability to be flexible  is an essential core talent. When
we expand choices of greater density, with heavier thoughts, harder feelings, and tougher ex periences, we find ourselves
locked into the blocks of energy that were previously described as resistance. When we are in a state of resistance, we simply
do not feel good. That “not feeling good” vibration can physically show itself in an infinite amount of ways in our every day lives. It is communicating to us where we are in relation to our flow. The ability to be flexible, even a willingness  to be
flexible, opens the door a crack,  for more good to come. When
we are more flexible, we  are by nature then, less resistant. With
less resistance, we allow the clar ity of divine guidance to flow in
our life choices, leading us to the best outcomes for our highest good in all ways. Sometimes being flexible and listening to our guidance is not the most popular choice. But in time, as we
learn to bow and to bend, to the guidance of our good feeling flow, we receive the simple gifts that can materialize as cosmic wealth in all areas of our lives. Thus, when we are consciously
flexible, and we invest  our talent of flexibility, we can receive
the great gifts of Source guidance, infinite wisdom, and unconditional love. It is a talent that indwells us at all times. Innate Talents 69
 I really cannot say enough about the core talent of
willingness, in our experience of a rich  inner life. It is a true
divine ability. It is the bridge that allows us to rediscover, or remember, the truth of who we really  are. It is the non-physical
bridge that can bring us safely and more securely, from where we are... to where we wish to be. Conscious willingness is the gap closer, in all of our experiences, into that which we are  becoming. When we are willing, we  are in a state of allowing. When we are allowing, we are in a state of receiving. Receiving
the greater good, of all the blessings that await us in our spiritual escrow account, is our true path. Investing our willingness ability is perhaps one of  the most critical deliberate
choices we can make along this earth journey, towards greater infinite expansion. The ability to animate  is one talent that has perhaps gotten
little attention, but deserves big praise and recognition for its
critical role in our lives. When we  animate, we are in our spirit. Animation is a form of life force. It is an expre ssion of our life
force energy. It is also part of  our sentient system, enabling us
to sense likeness and dis-likeness all around


 Rye
Wheat
Wild  rice
PROCESSED  GRAINS  (ALL  YEAR)
Minor
Bulgur Oats,  steel-cut Udon  noodles
Couscous Pasta,  whole  wheat Unbleached  white  flour
Mochi  (pounded  sweet rice)
Rice  flour
Regressive Whole  wheat  flour
Cereals,  commercial  or dried Corn  meal
Rye  flakes Corn  grits Oat  bran
Oats,  rolled Wheat  bran
LEGUMES,  BEANS,  PEAS,  AND  SOYBEAN  DERIVATIVES
Major
A chiki  beans Mung  dhal,  split  or  whole Toor  dhal
Lentils,  brown  or  red
Minor
Black  beans Muth  beans Urad  dhal
Chickpeas,  black  or  yellow Tofu
degressive
Black-eyed  peas Pinto  beans
Split  peas
Kidney  beans Soybeans Tempeh
Lima  beans Soy  by-products,  except  tofu White  beans
Navy  beans
NUTS  AND  SEEDS
Coconut
Poppy  seeds Minor
Pumpkin  seeds,  roasted
Sesame  seeds,  roasted Sunflower  seeds,  roasted
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VATA-KAPHA
Regressive
All  nuts. Small  amounts  of  almonds,  cashews,  pecans,  pistachios,  and  walnuts  are
permitted  in  the  fall  (September  to  end  of  November). DAIRY
Major
Cottage  cheese Ghee Goat's  milk
Butter;  unsalted Minor
Cow's  milk,  certified  raw Yogurt
Regressive
Small  amounts  of  cheeses  and  sour  cream  may  be  used  in  the  fall
(September  to  end  of  November). Buttermilk  Dairy  products,  commercial  or         Ice  cream
Butter,  salted  powdered  Sour  cream
Cheeses,  salted
OILS
Major
Canola Sunflower
Minor
Almond Corn Sesame,  dark  or  light
Apricot Mustard Soy
Avocado Olive Walnut
Coconut Safflower
Regressive
Animal  oils or  lard Vegetable,  mixed
SWEETENERS
Amasake  (rice  milk)
Dates Major
Fruit  juice,  mixed
Honey,  raw  and  uncooked Sweet  fruits
Barley  malt
Brown  rice  syrup
Brown  sugar,  unrefined Minor
Fruit  juice  concentrates
Maple  syrup Sucanat
Sugarcane  juice
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VATA-KAPHA
Fructose
Honey,  cooked
Molasses Regressive
Sugar  substitutes  (saccharin,
Sweet  'n  Low,  NutraSweet) White  sugar
HERBS,  SPICES,  AND  FLAVORINGS
Allspice
Anise
Asafoetida
Basil
Bay  leaf
Black  cumin
Black  pepper
Caraway
Cardamom
Cinnamon
Cloves
Coriander
Cumin
Curry  powder
Dill  leaves Major
Eucalyptus
Fennel
Garam  masala
Garlic,  cooked
Ginger,  dried
Mace
Marjoram
Mint
Mustard  seeds Nutmeg
Onion,  dried
Orange  peel
Oregano
Paprika Parsley
Peppermint
Poppy  seeds Rosemary
Saffron Sage
Savory
Spearmint Star  anise
Tamarind
Tarragon
Thyme
Turmeric
Vanilla
Almond  extract
Cayenne
Dill  seed
Fenugreek
Garlic,  raw Minor
Ginger,  fresh
Horseradish
Kudzu
Mango  powder
Regressive Mugwort Neem  leaves
Orange  extract
CONDIMENTS
Cilantro
Chutney,  coconut  or
sweet  mango
Daikon,  grated
Gomasio,  mild
Horseradish
Lemon  juice Minor
Mayonnaise,  noncommercial
Mint  leaves
Mustard,  noncommercial
Olives,  black
Pickles,  cucumber  or  ginger
or  lime  or  mango
Rose  water Rock  salt
Sea  salt
Sprouts Vinegar,  brown  rice  or
herbal  or  umeboshi
Wasabi
Yogurt,  spiced
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V  AT  A  - K A  PH  A
Mayonnaise,  commercial
Miso
Mustard,  commercial Regressive
Preservatives  and
additives,  chemical Salt,  iodized
Vinegar,  commercial
SEAWEEDS
Use  moderately  during  the  fall  (September  to  end  of  November). Soak  and  rinse  seaweeds  thoroughly  before  use. Agar-agar
Arame
Blue-green  algae
Dulse Minor
Hijiki Kelp
Kombu Riverweeds
Seaware
Wakame
BREWS  AND  BEVERAGES
Apricot  juice
Berry  juice
Carrot  juice
Carrot-ginger  drink
Apple  juice
Banana  drink
Carrot-vegetable  juice
Coffee
Alcohol
Aloe  vera  juice  or  drinks
Caffeinated  teas
Carbonated  drinks Major
Cherry  juice
Chicory  blends
Grape  juice
Minor
Mildly  salted  or  sour  brews
Orange  juice
Pear  juice
Regressive
Chocolate  drinks
Cold  drinks
Fruit  juices,  sweetened Mango  juice,  unsweetened
Peach  juice
Soy  milk,  warm  spiced
Pineapple  juice
Pungent  brews
Goat's  milk,  warm  spiced
Pomegranate  juice
Tomato  juice
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VATA-KAPHA
TEAS
Do  not use  chamomile  if  you  are  allergic  to
Major ragweed. Bancha  (twig) Fennel Orange  peel
Basil Ginger,  dried Osha
Chamomile Lavender
Peppermint Chicory Lemon  balm Raspberry
Cinnamon Lemon  grass Rose  flowers
Cloves Lotus Saffron
Elder  flowers Mexican  bark  tea Sage
Eucalyptus
Minor
Ajwan Ginseng
Nettle
Alfalfa Hibiscus Pennyroyal
Barley  (grain  tea) Hops
Red  clover
Chrysanthemum Hyssop
Sarsaparilla
Comfrey
Jasmine Spearmint Dandelion Licorice Violet
Ginger,  fresh
PITTA OV
VEGETABLES
Major
Artichokes Dandelion  greens Okra
Arugula Endive Parsnips
Asparagus Green  beans Peas
Bell  pepper Jerusalem  artichoke Potatoes,  white
Broccoli
Jicama Radicchio
Brussels  sprouts Kale
Sprouts Cabbage Karela Winter  squash
Cauliflower Lambsquarter (acorn,  buttercup,
Collards Landcress butternut,  spaghetti)
Cucumber Lettuce Watercress
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PITTA
Bamboo  shoots
Burdock  root
Carrots
Carrot  tops
Cassava
Celery
Corn,  fresh Minor
Daikon  radish
Escarole
Kohlrabi
Leeks,  cooked
Mustard  greens Parsley Plantain
Pokeroot
Pumpkin Rutabaga
Spinach Turnip  greens
Beets
Beet  greens
Eggplant Horseradish Regressive
Hot  chili  peppers
Mushrooms
Onion,  raw
Radishes Swiss  chard
Taro  root
Tomatoes Turnips
FRUITS
Major
Apples Grapes Pineapple
Apricots Mango Plums
Berries Melons Pomegranate
Coconut Oranges,  sweet Raisins
Dates Pears Watermelon
Figs,  fresh
Minor
Avocado Lemons Strawberries,  sweet
Dried  fruits,  sweet Limes Tamarind
Kiwi Quince,  sweet
Regressive
Bananas Papaya Rhubarb
Berries,  sour Peaches Soursop
Grapefruit Persimmon
GRAINS  (ALL  YEAR)
Barley
Basmati  rice,  brown  or  white Major
Brown


  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  bath. Observe  the  thoughts,
emotions,  and  pressures  that  arise  without  conversing
with  them. Allow  them  to  be  what  they  are,  and  just
observe. Quietude  in  our  lives  is  most  essential  to  the
gathering  of  love. Stillness  is  the  food  of  love. Every
moment  of  quiet  nourishes  love. The  heart  is  the  kitchen of  love. When  love  feasts  there,  the  memories  of  univer-
sal joy  ebb  and  flow  through  it. When  the  heart  is  open
it  reflects  all  we  need  to  know. It  gives  light  to  the
eternal  self,  and  we  are  able  to  transform  the  banalities
of  this  finite  world  into  idyllic  bliss. Love  in  itself  cannot  be  taught. The  great  dramatist,
Stella  Adler,  defines  the  truth  within  an  action  as  some-
thing doable. To  merely  say  the  words  "I  love  you"  is
meaningless  if  all  the  supporting  actions  are  contrary,
and  do  not  communicate  that  love. The  doable  feats
that  inspirit  the  value  of  love  are  (1)  sharing  the  things
we  hold  dear,  (2)  being  honest  within  our  daily  ac-
tions, (3)  being  alert  within  our  activities,  (4)  assum-
ing responsibility  for  any  unpleasant  results  of  our
actions,  and  (5)  recognizing  when  unpleasantries  and
difficulties  are  caused  by  others  (and  not  blaming  our-
selves). The  latter  is  a  most  arduous  task  when  family
and  friends  are  involved. Alertness  is  imperative  here,
since  our  perceptions  become  blurred  within  the  par-
tialities of  intimate  relationships. We  cannot  help  others  by  assuming  their  burdens. It
is  necessary  to  exercise  a  discriminate  tolerance  of  those
who  do  not  assume  responsibility  for  their  actions,  and
to  accept  the  results  of  our  own  mistakes  as  well. Love
is  ojas,  the  quintessential  essence  of  hard-earned  prac-
tice. The  nature  of  love  is  singular. It  is  only  the  expres-
sions of  love  which  are  many. When  we  are  thrown
together  in  consanguinity,  the  bond  is  inevitably  firmer,
for  the  time  together  with  family  is  so  compact. When
we  spend  time  with  those  to  whom  we  are  attracted,  a
similar  intensity  sets  in. Likewise  when  we  are  with  a
good  teacher,  the  essence  of  love  is  there. In  these  and
other  cases  of  intimacy,  love  is  the  common  factor,  but
its  expressions  are  different. For  love  to  exist  in  any
situation,  the  elements  of  self-honesty,  sharing,  accep-
tance, and  endurance  need  to  be  present. Relationships  are  the  various  circumstances  in  which
we  practice  our  actions  in  order  to  attain  certain  re-
sults. It  is  only  the  actions  and  not  the  circumstances
that  dictate  the  result. More  often  than  not,  we  take  the
intimate  situations  of  brotherhood  and  friendship  for
granted. We  presume  that  the  nature  of  our  karmic
bond  necessarily  provides  the  desired  result  of  love. This  assumption  is  a  fundamental,  universal  mistake. It
is  only  our  right  actions  that  animate  love  and  our
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wrong  actions  that  bring  infelicity. Relationships  are
the  lesson  grounds  given  to  us  to  improve  our  practice. To  be  born  together  in  a  home  is  a  blessing,  to  be
bound  together  in  friendship  is  a  blessing,  to  be  at  the
feet  of  a  great  teacher  is  a  blessing. But  these  blessings
will  not  live  unless  they  are  continuously  nurtured. Our  actions  congruent  to  dharma  are  the  only  food  for
love. When  the  factors  that  foster  love  are  diligently
performed,  love  will  reign  complete. When  we  neglect
our  daily  sadhanas  we  become  unobservant  and  look
to  the  circumstances  of  our  various  relationships  to
provide  our  happiness. Every  dharma  provides  a  driver,  a  vehicle,  and  a
destination. In  the  dharma  of  love,  the  driver  is  the
individual's  choice  of  actions,  the  vehicle  is  the  circum-
stances in  which  the  actions  are  performed,  and  the
destination  is  the  result  of  the  actions  performed. Love
is  arrived  at  only  when  the  doer  chooses  the  right  ac-
tions of  self-honesty,  sharing,  acceptance,  and  endur-
ance within  each  situation. When  these  protocols  are
neglected,  love  is  inevitably  impaired  and  diffused  into
expectations. It  is  difficult  for  us  to  curb  expectations
altogether,  but  it  is  wise  to  note  these  expectations  as
reminders  concerning  the  duties  left  undone. Disap-
pointment always  steps  on  the  heels  of  expectation,
and  thus  it  becomes  necessary  to  neutralize  the  ad-
vancement of  expectation  before  the  love  is  altogether
lost. Expectations  wield  a  double  edge. We  have  an
inevitable  set  of  norms  that  teaches  us  to  expect  certain
conditions,  benefits,  and  performances  from  any  given
circumstance. We  expect  the  promises  that  are  made  to
us  to  be  kept. It  is  essential  to  give  up  this  pattern  of
living  and  to  redefine  our  thoughts  so  as  to  harmonize
with  ourselves  and  others. All  of  our  exchanges  having
to  do  with  our  duties  in  life  must  be  clear  and  brisk. This  is  not  to  say  that  we  cannot  trust  in  promises  that
are  made,  but  we  must  always  remember  that  every-
thing changes,  and  we  must  allow  for  even  the  most
sacred  of  promises  to  endure  change. All  observations
are  time-bound. They  are  thus  subject  to  change,  and
oftentimes  they  change  radically. Truth  deals  with  the
timelessness  of


, belatedly, they might
say, “Oh boy, did we ever make a mistake. ” The death of 10 million. It
takes the death of 10 million people before people begin to wonder, “Gee, I
wonder if we made the right decision. ”
That’ s one thing  that an advisor y council does, is make people  aware in
the diplomatic world of what it is you’re dealing with. You hear silly
propositions like, “If we’re sweet and nice to them, they’ll love us. ” You
know that’s ridiculous. If you calibrate that right now, you’ll get no. The
malignant kind of pseudo masculinity hates the feminine. You’re talking
from the feminin e to a consciousness that hates  the feminine. You calibrate
the posit ion of women and child ren in those repressive, totalitarian cultures,and they’re abou t the level of dogs. They’re not allowed to own anything,
go out in public, go anywhere, be anything. To survive then, there has to be
a means to recognize and diagnose malignant messianic narcissism before
it’s out of hand, because once they’ve killed off all the intellectuals, and all
the people who are capable of recognizing it, it’ s too late. The cost of not being able to recognize and diagnose malignant messianic
narcissism cost 100 million lives in the last century. In my lifetime, 100
million people went to their deaths for this one single ignorance. And it’s so
easy to diagnose. #3: Identify dangerously fallacious ideologic trends before they
become epidemics. Fallacy masquer ades as truth, and the naive mind, and especiall y the evil
mind, is unable to discern truth from falsehood. That which can be sold as
plausible is sold as chic, superior, and elite. And it’s brought down the
calibration level of the integrity of academia. And now you see academics
saying things that are so outrage ous that even a grade school child wouldn’ t
believe it, and they’re taking it seriously. We have  a different syndrome, you see, and that is the distortion of truth
to subse rve egoistic ends. In my books, we’ve traced recent philosophies,
calibrated all the most prominent philosophers who promulgate  the various
versions of relativism, and what you end up with is the distorted
hermeneutics of relativistic epistemology. In layman’ s terms, that means
how to distort truth in such a way that you’re like Alice in Wonderland and
you say, “Well, the thing means what I mean it to mean. ” It doesn’ t mean
what it means in the dictionary. Let’s take it to its extreme. Now you have
freedom of speech, and you can say, “Well, speech is also expression. ” So
speech means expression. It means you can do anything you want,
anywhere, and any time you want. When does speech stop being speech. If
we interpret speech means expression, then expression is action, and
therefore the Ku Klux Klan is quite legal, isn’t it. So is sedition, so is
treason. So why not assassinati on. Oh, because there you hurt somebody
else. Is that the only line between truth and falsehood. You can do, say,
behave in any way so long as it doesn’ t injure somebody else physically. That brings us down to the very lowest dimension. That’ s lower than
primitive tribes. Primitive tribes operated at a much higher level of moralintegrity and social responsibil ity than whether or not your behavior is
going to cause an actual physical ener gy. #4: Contract the expertise of a very successful private
enterprise to conduct vital operations. An advisory council identifies this trend. By calibrating levels of
consciousness, you can calibrate the energy of these various philosophies. The consequence of the perpetrators and supporters of relativism linking up
with fascist theocracies in the far right are sufficient to destroy this
civilization we call America. Now calibrate that. It’s the combination of those two, by means of
iteration, nonlinear dynamics. One principle is sensitive dependence on
initial conditions. If you have a defect in the 26th decimal point, which
occurred in one of the most famous computers of recent times, you might
say, “Oh, well, the twenty-sixth decimal point, so what. ” But by iteration,
meaning by pushing that key tens of millions of times, you can bring down
an entire  building. The combination of those two together, I’ll tell you as a
self-appointed member of the advisory council, is sufficient to bring down
our society. Before they become epidemic, the council would spot this. I
think it’s very neat from observation to have our calibrations to utilize
private enterprise to conduct vital operations in business. #5: Utilize an accurate, sophisticated intelligence capability,
using consciousness calibration techniques to tell us what in
the world is actually going on. Let’s look at the intelligence operations traditionally. If you operated a
private big corpo ration, and you didn’ t know what your competition was up
to, you’d soon be bankrupt. The calibrated level of integ rity of our
intelligence operations, before Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and so on, was a
complete and total failure. An advisory council, which has nothing to gain or nothing to lose, would
say, “You’ve got to have some expert diagnosis. You don’t just go and
operate based on a guess or political viewpoint. ” It’s like having the family
join in on the operation. Now we’re all going to vote. Can you imaginehaving a family looking over your shoulder while you’re doing brain
surgery. Not on my watch, I’ll tell you. With an advisory council and calibration techniques, we would have a
much better grasp on these issues and better strategies to deal with them. #6: Develop an international diplomacy based on precise,
specific information obtainable by the techniques that we
describe in this book and in this series of lectures. International diplomacy. What is the country’ s nuclear intention. What is
their nuclear capability. That’ s not up to politicians to guess about. Our
survival depends on knowing what is the truth and the facts. That’ s not a time for politics. You see, the advisory council is beyond
politics. They’re  not interested in politics, except as an expression of that
which is supportive and benef icial to the country and to the world in
general. As I’ve mentioned in some of my lectures, I’ve been embarrassed
by the way some representative s of America have behaved toward leaders
of other  countries. I can reme mber a TV interviewer interviewing the
president of China. The president of China is president of the biggest
country in the entire world, and this interviewer is going on about how
China should look at this policy and adopt that policy. The president of
China handled him very well, but I thought the interviewer was
disrespectful, insulting, and showed a lack of sensitivity. An advisory
council would advise against presenting yourself abrasively to other leaders
of the world. #7: Use trade alliances rather than power politics to facilitate
and benefit our relationships with other countries. Below 200, the only interest a country has is, “What’ s in it for us. ” Well,
one thing that’s in it for us, we can see China, despite its supposedly a
theoretical economic threat to the US, was a possible, very severe enemy. And even now some people would like to inflame it so that they could be. Why would they be. Their whol e economy, the success of their economy, is
based on their trade with the US. I think businesses like Walmart are doing
more to prevent war with China probably than all the diplomats put together
in the world. International trade agreements are one way to preclude war, not just by
buying out other countries. I don’t believe in bribing them. If the US
provides grants to foreign countries that hate them and those countries use
the money to build missiles to destroy the US, the advisory council wouldsay, “That’ s ridiculous. ” No, you have to make considerations intrinsic, that
the trade then is dependent on certain factors. And these factors then ensure
your security. You don’t need ballistic missiles, unless you get a maniac as
head of state because the maniac will kill his own population. Saddam
called all his people dogs. Hitler said, “Burn down Paris. Burn down
Germany. They deserve to die because they lost the war. ” Well, by the time
they surface to the degree that even the most unconscious person can
recognize who they are, it’ s too late. So the advice is you diagnose cancer early in the game. You don’t wait
until it’s metasta sized to all the vital organs of the body. As a physician, I’m
very interested in using this technique for early diagnosis to prevent the
disease of mankind called death and destruction, starvation, and horrors of
war. What does it cost to do this. Nothing. Right now, it would take us about
two seconds. We can reconfirm the positions of every country in the world
—their nuclear capacity, their intention, et cetera, the level of their leaders
—in five minutes flat. We would know in five minutes, more than all the
collective diplomacy and intelligence operations in the whole world know
right now. So you see why telling truth from falsehood is


 Prajapati, late to arrive, glanced at the
king and knew that she couldn’ t interfere. Siddhartha looked around. His
face flushed with shame, and he wanted to run, but his father ’s voice
stopped him. “No! Stay and fight.”
The courtiers exchanged nervous glances; some of the more
tenderhearted ladies clutched their hands to their breasts. Suddhodana kept
his eyes on his son, watching stonily for a response. When the boy didn’ t
move, only gazing vaguely into the distance, his father gave a small, almost
indecipherable snort, which Devadatta took as a signal that he had won. He
relaxed and dropped the rock in his fist, giving one last look of pity at his
victim. He pushed his way through the spectators and was gone.Suddhodana stepped forward and knelt beside his son. “Listen to me. You can’ t let him do that. In this family, we fight.” Siddhartha hung his
head, biting his lip. “Y ou’re my only son, aren’ t you?”
“Yes, Papa.”
“From now on, there’ s not going to be any more ‘papa,’ you
understand? From now on it’ s ‘sir.’”
Siddhartha felt a rock being put into his hand, and his father ’s much
larger hand closed it into a fist. “Go.”
The king stood up, and the courtiers parted the way, making a path in
the direction Devadatta had gone. Siddhartha felt the sharp edges of the
flinty stone against his palm. He gathered himself to run but had taken only
a step when his father ’s voice stopped him. “Here, let me clean you up first.” Suddhodana bent over and wiped the
blood from the boy’ s forehead. “Y ou have to see him to fight him. It might
get in your eyes.” His father ’s tone still had an edge, but Siddhartha
instinctively knew that in those few seconds his father had changed, had felt
a twinge of remorse or tenderness. The next instant he was being given a
rough shove and found himself running hard toward a pavilion beside the
pond where Devadatta had disappeared. SIDDHAR THA ROUNDED THE CORNER  of the pavilion by the lotus lake beyond
the sight of his father. He ducked into an archway that led inside, then he
made an escape near the water ’s edge. He didn’ t care where his cousin was. He dropped the rock clutched in his fist; the flinty edges had dug red
indentations in his palm. His other wounds were throbbing, but Siddhartha
ignored the pain. He threw himself down among the tall reeds by the pond. It was almost the only real hiding place he had ever found. Panic distorts
time, so he had no idea how long it was before he began to feel better. Buthis heart eventually stopped racing, and in the aftermath of distress he
began to feel drowsy and drained. Siddhartha was his father ’s son, yet he wasn’ t. There were no words to
express why this was true. The heavy expectations weighing on his
shoulders mystified him. The rocks thrown at him, the humiliation that
followed—all hurt. But worse was knowing that Devadatta, a cruel stranger,
filled his father ’s expectations better than he did. Siddhartha watched a
hawk circling on motionless wings overhead. Unable to see beyond the
palace walls, he could still gaze above them. Then the hawk closed its
wings like scissors and dropped toward earth. In less than a second it
changed from an emblem of escape to a deadly missile hurtling down upon
an innocent prey. At that moment, although he scarcely suspected it, not Siddhartha but
Devadatta was the prey. Devadatta had fled from his victory in high spirits,
tinged with the bitterness of knowing that he was still the king’ s prisoner. The boy was bored with the childishness of the festival. He slowed his pace,
and then noticed that a man, a stranger, had appeared from nowhere. He
was tall and cloaked in the coarse hemp of a traveler. Despite the man’ s
stealth and the dif ference in their sizes, Devadatta wasn’ t afraid; his
arrogance protected him. His hand felt for the dagger at his side. The cloaked stranger raised an admiring eyebrow as if to say, We have a
man her e after all. He drew his own dagger. “Come on,” he said. “Y ou deserve to die.”
Devadatta backed away, startled. “Why?” His voice still betrayed no
fear, and he unsheathed his own weapon, ready to fight. “Not for anything you’ve done, but for what I’m going to make you
do.” Quicker than the eye could catch, the stranger lunged forward, grabbed
Devadatta’ s dagger by the blade, and snatched it from his grasp. Then he
burst out laughing at the boy’ s stunned reaction. The stranger ’s hand held
the razor -sharp blade tightly, yet not a drop of blood appeared.“You were unkind to draw on me,” the stranger said calmly, “but Mara
is kind enough for two.” He handed Devadatta his knife back. It was as hot
as a burning coal, and the boy dropped it with a shriek of pain. “Damn you, demon!”
Mara bowed ironically at being recognized so quickly. “Not many are
brave enough to curse me. Not on first meeting. Usually they’re more
occupied with their terror.”
Devadatta glared back defiantly. “Why are you here? I’m not going to
die.” He uttered these words with impressive certainty. Mara said nothing in
reply. One arm lifted, bringing the edge of his cloak with it. The cloak was
lined with black. Devadatta’ s gaze fell on it for an instant before the
blackness seemed to expand. One moment the cloak was making a small
billowy circle around Mara’ s head; the next it swelled to enclose the boy
before the entire pavilion disappeared, and Devadatta found himself in total
darkness, warm and suf focating. With a shriek he plummeted into a looming void. There was no telling
how long he fell, but it was certain that when he landed, it was with a bone-
jarring crash. For a moment Devadatta writhed helplessly, the wind
knocked out of him, before he became aware of hard, cold stone beneath his
body. “Where am I? Speak!” he shouted. “Oh, I’ll speak, never you fear.”
Mara’ s voice was right beside him. Devadatta reached out to strike, as
enraged as he was frightened. Or, to be more precise, he dealt with fear by
turning it into rage. His fists struck empty air. Mara admired the boy. It was
rare for someone so young to be fearless in peril, no matter how much was
empty bravado. Mara needed someone with certain qualities: hotheaded,
reckless, unable to judge the limits of his own danger, wily but stupid
enough to fall into the lure of arrogance. This one would do.“What do you want?” Devadatta shouted into the empty blackness. He
gradually became aware, however, that this blackness wasn’ t total; he could
see a faint glimmer in the distance. From that and the stone underneath him,
he surmised that he was in a cave and, since the air was frigid, a mountain
cave. Mara could have explained everything, but he preferred to watch and
wait. Arrogance and bravado have their limits, so he bided his time—an
hour, then two, then six—until he heard Devadatta’ s teeth chattering and
sensed the despair rising in his chest. “You are here to learn,” said Mara. The broken silence made Devadatta jump. He controlled his anger this
time; his mind had had time to work, and he knew that he was in a demon’ s
power. Exactly who or why was still unclear, but he had to be careful of
more traps. T wo were enough. “I’m a prince; I can bar gain with you,” he said, his eyes moving from
side to side in case the demon showed himself. Which Mara did, appearing
as he had in the pavilion, a tall stranger in a black cloak. “You aren’ t listening. I said you’re here to learn.”
“Learn what?” Pause. “I’m listening.”
Mara caught the note of defeat in the boy’ s voice; he couldn’ t pretend to
himself any longer that he had the upper hand. “Learn to be king,” said
Mara. “Don’ t be ridiculous,” the boy flared. “I’m going to be king, anyway. I
don’t need you for that, whoever you are.”
“Ridiculous! My dear fool, you gave away your chances the moment
you set foot away from home. There is no throne waiting for you back
there, not now or ever.”
“Liar!”This heated outburst made Mara decide to wait again, and so he delayed
another few hours while Devadatta grew colder and lonelier and the weight


.” Note in your EFT journal
wher e you are feeling any body awareness or sensations about this “too
much to do” belief. Step 4. For this exercise, you are going to tap on the most intense feeling
relating to having too much to do. Here’ s an example of a globa l EFT setup
statement you can customize. “ Even though I have too much to do and can’t
take a break (or whatever other phrase comes to mind), I deeply and
completely accept myself.”
Step 5. Tap the EFT sequence of points once or several times, starti ng
with the top of the head, customizing this reminder phrase: “Too much to
do, I can’ t take a break.” Tap until you experience a shift in intensity. Step 6. What came to mind as you tapped? Anything specific about your
too much to do belief? Jot down any specific events that came to mind
about your setup phrases  such as one person’ s response : “If I don’t get to
these things today, I’ll forget, and important things won’ t get done.” You’ll
use these phrases later to tap on your own and see what’ s underneath the
concerns. Say the statement again to test your progress:  “I have too much to
do. I can’t take a break.” Does it feel as true to you? Are you having as
many feelings about the “too much to do” belief? Have the feelings
changed? When tapping on a belief like this, you might begin to experience the
belief as less true or insistent. Perhaps you now feel like it’s not necessarily
true all the time; you may realize there are times during your day that you
can—and do—take breaks, for example. Perhaps after a tapping round like
this you might suddenly feel the weight of “too much to do” in your bodyand feel very tired. Or maybe you are feeling sorry for yourself, angry at the
world, or resentful of others. Each of these feelings or thoughts is another
tapping round. T ap on whatever thoug hts come up. Before we move to the next step, what happened in your body as you
tapped? Are you still feeling the same body sensations as when  you said “I
have too much to do?”  Notice that it’ s common for your body to work along
with you, too. You may be experiencing a whole host of sensat ions as you
tap on “too much to do,” ranging from numbness to tightness in the chest, a
feeling of sheer exhaustion to nausea. Note every physical sensa tion in your
EFT journal, because it means your body is working with you, helping you
understand how stress af fects it. Can you see how many big feelings you are
sitting on that are playing a role in how you are experiencing stress and the
decisions you are making? Decreasing the intensity around the “truth” of
our beliefs loosens up the stress factor in your body, and that’ s a good start. Part 2: T oo Much to Do—Getting Mor e Specific
What feeling arises when you think about “I can’t take a break. I have too
much to do”? Go ahead and input whatever the feeling is into your setup
statement. Here’ s an example of what I mean: “Even though important
things won’ t get done if I take a break and I feel panic when thinking about
everything I have to do, I deeply and completely accept myself.” Or: “Even
though I have too much to do to take a break and that’s sad, I deeply and
completely accept myself.” We’ll use the example of “sad that I have too
much to do.”
Step 1. Rate the  sadness  or your own feeling about having too much to do
on the 0 to 10 scale. Step 2. Customize this example to target your own specific emotion
around “too much to do,” repea ting the statement one to three times while
karate chopping: “Even though I have too much to do, and that makes me
feel sad, I love, honor, and accept myself anyway.”Step 3. Tap the EFT sequence once or more using your reminder phrase:
“I’m feeling (your emotion) that I can’t take a break becau se I have too
much to do.”
Step 4. Recheck your intensity. If you are feeling relief, then ask yourself
again why you can’t take a break, and no doubt another aspect will appear. For example, maybe you can’t take a break because you don’t know how to
stop. T ap on that. If the intensity is the same or higher, it’s time to get more specific. Let’s
get more specific about times you felt sad because of too much to do. Write
your answers down. For example, “I had to miss my son’s birthday party,”
“feeling like my spouse and I are strangers at our anniversa ry dinner,”
“when I was running to catch the train and felt like I was going to collapse.”
You can select one part of any of the above situations and turn it into a
specific event of three minutes or less to tap on. For example, “I had to
miss my son’s birthday party,” a couple  specific events might be: “The
sinking feeling in my stomach when I realized I wouldn’ t make it to the
party on time,” and “The close d, unhappy look on my son’s face when I
came home and they were cleaning up.”
File these important specifics under the Stress Relief section of your EFT
journal for tapping when you are ready and have the time and energy. You
can alwa ys take your work with you to an EFT practitioner, too. And as you
tap on these, they may likely lead you to the core causes of “can’ t take a
break, too much to do.”
While this next bit isn’t part of the exercise, it’s an alternative to
traditional EFT. You will see that I vary the EFT tapping setup statements. See if any of these ring true for you. If so, test your intensity and perform
an EFT round on one or more of them. Even though I have too much to do, and that makes me feel (angry, sad,
resentful, hopel ess, anxious, panicky, all tight, full of despair, or
exhausted) and a whole host of other feelings, I would like to
experience my life dif ferently.Even though I have an impossib le life with too much to do, but I can’t
stop because (list what’ s impo ssible, such as: too many people are
depending on me, important things won’ t get done...) and I’ve got big
unpleasant feelings inside of me about that, I deeply and completely
accept myself and forgive myself for anything that I may be doing to
contribute to my impossible life. Even though I’m exhausted and in despair about having too much to
do, I accept all of me and my situation, including the “too much  to do”
part. Here’ s an example of some alternative tapping sequences about “too
much to do”:
Top of head:  I have too much to do and a lot of feelings about that. Inside eyebrow:  I’m sad, exhausted, and feel anger and resentment. Side of eye:  My body feels tight and tired with all this stuf f to do. Under eye:  I am feeling really unhappy about having too much to do. Under nose:  It’s exhausting to have this much to do all the time. Chin:  I feel (sad, angry, depressed, guilty, unhappy, or full of despair), and
a lot of other big feelings about this impossible situation. Collarbone:  It’s been this way for a while now, and I’m in despair, because
I don’ t know if I’ll ever get the rest I need. Under arm:  It feels impossible, this too-much-to-do situation. When you tap, you begin to have enough of a cognitive and emotional
shift that you might realize there’ s another way to think about the to-do list. In addition, you might realize you have resources right at your fingertips—
but you need to get yourself out of fight-flight and the energy disruption
first. EFT Reframes and Stress
Reframes offer a different way of perceiving the problem, a different
perspective. When they land, it’s like rain soaking into dry earth, wateringall the seeds so they can come to life above ground. We often use reframes
but don’t consciously know what they are. You might want to take
inspiration from  the following reframe—another way to look at your stress. Please note, however, that according to many practitioners and official EFT,
reframes are not meant to be used unless and until you have cleared  enough
of the negative intensity from the tapping target. At that point, here’ s what a
reframe might look like:
Even though I believe I need to control things, what if I could relax and
let go? What if I don’ t have to figure everything out? Even though it feels like I can’t let go, I’m open to the possibil ity that
relaxing might open more doors for me. Even though I have to hold on tight to the reins because otherwise
everything will fall apart, what if it were possible to loosen my grip and
relax? Even though I have to solve all my problems all by myself, I


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a s s u a g e d  t h e  c o n c e r n s  I  h a d  b e e n  f o c u s e d  o n  a n  h o u r
b e f o r e ;  h i s  c o m m e n t s  s h i f t e d  m y  t h i n k i n g  a n d  t h u s  m y
f e e l i n g s. B u t  i f  I  h a d  s i m p l y  s t a y e d  w i t h  m y  s e l f - i n v o l v e d
l i n e  o f  t h o u g h t,  w i t h o u t  r e d i r e c t i n g  m y  m i n d  t o  f o c u s  o n
a n o t h e r,  t h e n  I  w o u l d  n e v e r  h a v e  r e c e i v e d  t h e  m i r a c l e. T h e r e  w o u l d  h a v e  b e e n  t h i s  p e r s o n  r e a d y  t o  o f f e r  m e  a
h e a l i n g,  b u t  I  w o u l d n ’ t  h a v e  b e e n  a v a i l a b l e  t o  r e c e i v e  i t. B y
w i t h h o l d i n g  f r i e n d s h i p  f r o m  t h e  b e


 i l l i n g  t o  s e e  t h e
i n n o c e n c e  i n  a n o t h e r  p e r s o n. A s  l o n g  a s  w e  a r e  w i l l i n g  t o
s e e  a  s i t u a t i o n  i n  a n o t h e r  l i g h t,  t h e  H o l y  S p i r i t  h a s  r o o m  t o
m a n e u v e r. W i t h  e v e r y  h u m a n  e n c o u n t e r,  w e  e i t h e r  a f f i r m  f o r  p e o p l e
t h e i r  i n n o c e n c e  o r  f o r t i f y  t h e i r  g u i l t. A n d  w h i c h e v e r  i t  i s  i s
h o w  w e  o u r s e l v e s  w i l l  f e e l. W e  c a n n o t  e s c a p e  o u r  o n e n e s s,
e v e n  i f  w e  d o  n o t  a c k n o w l e d g e  i t. D o  u n t o  o t h e r s  w h a t  y o u
w o u l d  h a v e  t h e m  d o  u n t o  y o u,  b e c a u s e  t h e y  w i l l. A n d  e v e n
i f  t h e y  d o n ’ t,  y o u  w i l l  f e e l  a s  t h o u g h  t h e y  d i d. B e c a u s e  a l l  m i n d s  a r e  j o i n e d,  w h a t e v e r  I  c h o o s e  t o  t h i n k
a b o u t  y o u  I  a m  i n  e s s e n c e  t h i n k i n g  a b o u t  m y s e l f. T o  t h e
e x t e n t  t o  w h i c h  I  p e r c e i v e  y o u r  g u i l t,  I  a m  b o u n d  t o
p e r c e i v e  m y  o w n. I t  d o e s n ’ t  f e e l  t h a t  w a y  a t  f i r s t,  o f  c o u r s e,b e c a u s e  t h e  e g o  w o u l d  h a v e  u s  b e l i e v e  t h a t  a s  s o o n  a s  w e
p l a c e  t h e  b l a m e  o n  s o m e o n e  e l s e  w e ’ l l  f e e l  b e t t e r. B u t  t h a t ’ s
j u s t  a  t e m p o r a r y  d e l u s i o n — s o m e  t h i n g  t h e  e g o  s p e c i a l i z e s
i n. O n c e  w e  g e t  o v e r  t h e  t e m p o r a r y  h i g h  o f  h a v i n g  c a s t  t h e
b l a m e  a w a y  f r o m  u s,  i t  w i l l  c o m e  b a c k  t o  u s  a  h u n d r e d f o l d. A n  a t t a c k  t h o u g h t  i s  l i k e  a  s w o r d  w e  t h i n k  w e ’ r e  d r o p p i n g
o n  s o m e o n e  e l s e ’ s  h e a d,  w h e n  i n  f a c t  i t ’ s  d r o p p i n g  o n  o u r
o w n. *  O n l y  i f  I ’ m  w i l l i n g  t o  b e  e a s i e r  o n  o t h e r s  w i l l  I  e v e r
l e a r n  h o w  t o  b e  e a s i e r  o n  m y s e l f. T h i n k  o f  t h e  t h i n g s  i n  y o u r  l i f e  y o u ’ v e  g o t t e n  a w a y  w i t h :
t h i n g s  y o u ’ r e  a s h a m e d  t o  t h i n k  a b o u t,  t h a t  y o u  r e g r e t,  o r
t h a t  y o u  w o u l d  d o  o v e r  a g a i n  i f  y o u  c o u l d. A n d  n o w  t h i n k
h o w  h a r d  y o u  c a n  b e  o n  o t h e r s  w h o s e  m i s t a k e s  a r e  s i m i l a r
a n d  s o m e t i m e s  e v e n  s m a l l e r  t h a n  y o u r  o w n. C a n  i t  b e  t h a t
y o u  w a n t  t h e m  t o  p a y  f o r  w h a t  y o u  t h i n k  y o u  h a v e n ’ t  p a i d
e n o u g h  f o r? T h i n k  a b o u t  h o w  g u i l t  i s  b i n d i n g  y o u  t o  t h e
p a s t. W o u l d n ’ t  w e  a l l  w a n t  t h e  f r e e d o m  t o  b e g i n  a g a i n  t h a t
f o r g i v e n e s s  a l o n e  c a n  b r i n g? A n y  o f  u s  c a n  h a v e  t h a t
f r e e d o m  i f  w e  a r e  w i l l i n g  t o  g r a n t  f o r g i v e n e s s  t o  o t h e r s. W i t h i n  t h e  w o r l d,  t h e r e  a r e  o f t e n  v e r y  s e r i o u s  t h i n g s  w e
h a v e  t o  f o r g i v e. F o r g i v e n e s s  b e g i n s,  a s  d o  a l l  i s s u e s  o f
e n l i g h t e n m e n t,  a s  m e r e l y  a n  i n t e l l e c t u a l  c o n c e p t  t h a t  h a s  y e t
t o  m a k e  i t s  “ j o u r n e y  w i t h o u t  d i s t a n c e ”  f r o m  t h e  h e a d  t o  t h e
h e a r t. I t  o f t e n  t a k e s  a  w h i l e  t o  b e c o m e  i n t e


 i z a t i o n  o f  t h e
f a c t s,  s t e e p e d  i n  s e l f - s e r v i n g  u n t r u t h s  a n d  d e n i a l. A f t e r  a  c o u p l e  o f  m o n t h s,  t h e  w o m a n  s i m p l y  d i d n ’ t  w i s h
t o  c u t  t h e  b o a r d  m e m b e r ’ s  h a i r  a n y m o r e. S h e  n o  l o n g e r  f e l t
g o o d  a b o u t  d o i n g  b u s i n e s s  w i t h  h i m. H e r  l o y a l t y  t o  h e r
f r i e n d,  a n d  s t a n d i n g  f i r m  i n  a  p r i n c i p l e  o f  r i g h t e o u s n e s s  a s
s h e  u n d e r s t o o d  i t,  m a t t e r e d  m o r e  t o  h e r  t h a n  b u s i n e s s. S h e
c o u l d n ’ t  u n d e r s t a n d,  s h e  s a i d,  h o w  a  p l a c e  c o u l d  a b u s e
p e o p l e  a n d  s t i l l  c a l l  i t s e l f  a  c h u r c h. S h e  c a l l e d  t h e  b o a r d
m e m b e r  t o  s a y  s h e  n o  l o n g e r  w i s h e d  t o  c u t  h i s  h a i r. T h e  w o m a n ’ s  a c t i o n  w a s  a  d e m o n s t r a t i o n  o f  M a h a t m a
G a n d h i ’ s  p r i n c i p l e  o f  n o n v i o l e n c e,  w h i c h  d e c l a r e s  t h a t
m o r a l  f o r c e
e m a n a t e s  f r o m  r i g h t e o u s  a c t i o n. W h i l e  s u c h  f o r c e  m i g h t
n o t  h a v e  o b s e r v a b l e  e f f e c t s,  i t  i n d e e d  h a s  e f f e c t s  o n  a n
i n v i s i b l e  p l a n e. B y  s i m p l y  s t a n d i n g  i n  T r u t h — n o t  o n l y  i n
o u r  w o r d s  b u t  t h r o u g h  o u r  b e h a v i o r  a s  w e l l — w e  h e l p  c r e a t e
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g i v e  u p  h e r  s e a t  f o r  a  w h i t e  m a n. W h e n  D r. M a r t i n  L u t h e r
K i n g  J r. c a l l e d  f o r  a  b o y c o t t  o f  t h e  M o n t g o m e r y  b u s
c o m p a n y,  h e  w a s  c a l l i n g  f o r  a  h u g e  s a c r i f i c e  o n  t h e  p a r t  o f
h u n d r e d s  o f  p e o p l e. F o r  3 8 1  d a y s,  p e o p l e  w a l k e d  m i l e s  t o
w o r k,  s o m e t i m e s  e n d u r i n g  t e r r o r i s m  a n d  h a r a s s m e n t,  r a t h e r
t h a n  c o n t i n u e  t o  p a r t i c i p a t e  i n  a  s y s t e m  o f  s e g r e g a t e d
b u s i n g. B y  s i m p l y  s a y i n g  n o  t o  w h a t  s h e  k n e w  t o  b e  u n j u s t,M r s. P a r k s  d e m o n s t r a t e d  t h e  t r e m e n d o u s  p o w e r s  s u c h
a c t i o n  s e t s  i n  m o t i o n. W e  n e v e r  k n o w  w h a t  e f f e c t  o u r  s i m p l y  s t a n d i n g  o n  t r u t h
m i g h t  h a v e. W e  t h i n k,  “ I ’ m  j u s t  o n e  p e r s o n ;  w h a t  d i f f e r e n c e
c a n  I  m a k e? ”  B u t  n o n e  o f  u s  i s  “ j u s t  o n e  p e r s o n. ”  A l l  m i n d s
a r e  j o i n e d,  a n d  e a c h  o f  u s  h a s  a  c h a n c e  e v e r y  d a y  t o  s a y  y e s
t o  s o m e t h i n g  t h a t  c o u l d  m a k e  t h e  w o r l d  a  b e t t e r  p l a c e  a n d
n o  t o  s o m e t h i n g  t h a t  d e g r a d e s  i t. W e ’ r e  s o m e t i m e s  l o o k i n g
f o r  t h e  b i g  p l a n  t h a t  w i l l  s a v e  t h e  w o r l d,  w h i l e  n o t
r e c o g n i z i n g  o u r  o w n  p a r t  i n  i t. T h e  p l a n  t h a t  w i l l  s a v e  u s
i n v o l v e s  l i t t l e  w a y s  t h a t  e a c h  o f  u s  b e c o m e s  m o r e  r i g h t e o u s
e v e r y  d a y. A n d  e n o u g h  t i n y  d r o p l e t s,  i n  t i m e,


." ThisField are lesser Fields of progressively
manifest explicate ("unfolded") order." evolution of human consciousness. refers to the fact that a slight variation
less ener gy and power. These Fields, in
But it is most important to note that this
W ithin this range numerous attractor
over a course of time can have the ef fect
turn, dominate behavior, so that definable
scientific insight corresponds with (35) the
patterns of increasing power have been
of producing a profound change,' much
patterns are consistent across cultures and
view of reality experienced through denoted. These patterns represent
ener gy as a ship whose bearing is one degree of f
time throughout human history. The
history by enlightened sages who have
fields which are qualities of
compass eventually finds itself hundreds
interactions of these variations within
evolved beyond consciousness to a state
consciousness itself rather than of anyof miles of f course. This phenomenon,
attractor Fields make up the history of
of pure awareness.16 Bohm postulates a
particular individual, as is shown by their
which we will refer to in more detail
civilization and mankind. (A side study
source that is beyond both the explicate
occurrence across lar ge populations over
later, is an essential mechanism of all
not herein reported indicated that the
and implicate realms, very much like the
long periods of time; independent of
evolution and also underlies the potential
animal and vegetable kingdoms as well
state of pure awareness described by the
testers or subjects. of the creative process. are also controlled by attractor Fields of
sages.17
(36) The evolution of consciousness and the
In overview, we can see that from time
hierarchic power. )The advent of artificial intelligence development of human society can
be immemorial, man has tried to make sense
Our study correlates well with Rupert
super -computers
has allowed the depicted in the mathematical terms of
of the enormous complexity and frequent
Sheldrake's "morphogenetic Fields"
application of the theories of nonlinear
nonlinear dynamics. Our study concerned
unpredictability of human behavior. A
hypothesis as well as Karl Pribram's
dynamics to be applied to the study of
itself with a limited set of parameters of
multitude of (37) systems has been holographic model of brain-mind
brain function through the technique of
consciousness which we calibrated from
constructed to try to make that which is
function.24 (Note that in a holographic
neurophysiologic modeling.18 The one to 1,000. The numbers represent
the incomprehensible comprehensible. T o universe the achievements of
every function of memory, especially, is being
logarithm (to the base 10) of the power of
"make sense" has ordinarily meant to beindividual contribute to the advancement
studied by means of neural models the respective fields. The entire field
or definable in terms that are linear: logical
and well-being of the whole.) Our study
17
18
observable phenomenon within the among which attractor networks have
phase space of consciousness itself is
and rational. But the process, and
measurable three-dimensional world. The
been identified. Conclusions of current
unlimited, going on to infinity. The range
therefore the experience, of life itself is
typical problems the world attempts to
research are that the brain's neural
of one to 600, representing the domain of
or ganic-that is to say, nonlinear by
deal with exist on the observable level of
networks act as a system of attractor
the vast majority of human experience, is
definition. This is the source of man's
AÆBÆC. But our work is to find thepatterns, and that stored memories act as
the primary scope of this study; the levels
inescapable intellectual frustration. inherent attractor pattern, the ABC out of
attractors, so that the system does not
from 600 to 1,000, the realm of non-
In this study, however, test responses
which the AÆBÆC arises. behave in a random fashion overall,
ordinary evolution--of enlightenment, were independent of our subjects'
belief ABC
- Attractor Pattern
although each individual neuron may
sages, and the highest spiritual states-will
systems or intellectual content What
↓ ↓ ↓ - Operants
behave in random fashion.19
also be described. emer ged were patterns of ener gy Fields
A Æ B Æ C - Observable Event
Neuron models of consciousness disclose
W ithin the total field studied, sequentialwhich were aspects of consciousness
a class of neural networks called
patterns emer ged identifying the itself, irrespective of individual
identities. In this simple diagram the operants
"constraint satisfaction systems. "20 In
progressive powers of attractor fields in
In common left-brain/right-brain parlance
transcend both the observable and the
these systems a network of
which there were local variations, but
we could say that the test subjects reacted
non-observable; we might picture them
interconnected neuron units operates
global consistency. Strange attractors can
globally to an attractor Field irrespective
as a rainbow bridging the deterministic
within a series of limits and thus sets up
be of either high or low ener gy, and the
of the individual variation of their left-
and the non-deterministic realms. (The
attractor patterns, some of which are nowcritical point in our data appeared to be
brain logic, reason or sequential thought
existence of operants can be inferred by
being identified with psychopathology.21
the calibration range of 200, below which
systems. The results of the study indicate
asking the question, "What encompasses
This kind of modeling correlates
the power of attractors could be that profoundly powerful patterns
both the possible and the impossible, the
behavior with physiology and parallels
described as weak, or negative, above
or ganize human behavior. known and the unknown? "-i.e., what is
the results of our kinesiologic muscle
which as strong, or positive. By the time
W e can intuit, then, an infinite domain of
the matrix of all possibility?) testing, demonstrating the connection
we reached the calibration of 600 they
infinite potential, consciousness itself,
This description of how the universebetween mind and body. were enormously powerful. within which there is an enormously
works is in accord with the theories of
In terms derived from chaos theory, the
An important element of chaos theory
powerful attractor Field or ganizing all of
physicist David Bohm, who has clinical study described in the following
helpful in understanding this evolution of
human behavior into what is innate to
described a holographic universe with an
pages has identified a phase space,
consciousness is the law of sensitive
"humanness." W ithin the giant attractor
invisible implicate ("enfolded") and a
encompassing the full range of the
dependence on initial conditions." This
Field are lesser Fields of progressively
manifest explicate ("unfolded") order." evolution of human consciousness. refers to the fact that a slight variation
less ener gy and power. These Fields, inBut it is most important to note that this
W ithin this range numerous attractor
over a course of time can have the ef fect
turn, dominate behavior, so that definable
scientific insight corresponds with (35) the
patterns of increasing power have been
of producing a profound change,' much
patterns are consistent across cultures and
view of reality experienced through denoted. These patterns represent
ener gy as a ship whose bearing is one degree of f
time throughout human history. The
history by enlightened sages who have
fields which are qualities of
compass eventually finds itself hundreds
interactions of these variations within
evolved beyond consciousness to a state
consciousness itself rather than of any
of miles of f course. This phenomenon,
attractor Fields make up the history of
of pure awareness.16 Bohm postulates a
particular individual, as is shown by their
which we will refer to in more detailcivilization and mankind. (A side study
source that is beyond both the explicate
occurrence across lar ge populations over
later, is an essential mechanism of all
not herein reported indicated that the
and implicate realms, very much like the
long periods of time; independent of
evolution and also underlies the potential
animal and vegetable kingdoms as well
state of pure awareness described by the
testers or subjects. of the creative process. are also controlled by attractor Fields of
sages.17
(36) The evolution of consciousness and the
In overview, we can see that from time
hierarchic power.) The advent of artificial intelligence development of human society can
be immemorial, man has tried to make sense
Our study correlates well with Rupert
super -computers
has allowed the depicted in the mathematical terms ofof the enormous complexity and frequent
Sheldrake's "morphogenetic Fields"
application of the theories of nonlinear
nonlinear dynamics. Our study concerned
unpredictability of human behavior. A
hypothesis as well as Karl Pribram's
dynamics to be applied to the study of
itself with a limited set of parameters of
multitude of (37) systems has been holographic model of brain-mind
brain function through the technique of
consciousness which we calibrated from
constructed to try to make that which is
function.24