understanding of the condition of the ailing person. As a matter of
face even diagnosis in unnecessary. But it is essential that the
vitality of the patient, local climate, the quantity of urine to be used,
the method of application, the diet before, during and after the
treatment etc., should be fully considered beforehand. The follower
of this treatment should be careful in his general behaviour also
because mental attitude also plays an important role in the physical
health.
A Treatment with Self-restraint: The accounts of the most of the
cases which I have received have one common purpose and that is
people want to survive somehow by v1hatever means it may be
possible. Moreover it has been our habit not to do anything
methodically or rationally. But this would not be allowed in this
treatment. otherwise it would bring discredit to this therapy. One
should not take up this treatment if one lacks inself-restraint,
moderation in food and lacks patience.
I have to put a question to such half-hearted patients who have
been benefited in sptie of their being unrestrained. But what would
they have said if the results were unfavourable? Would they have
boldly admitted that it was only due to their own faults that harm
had been done to them? l·do not think such would have been their·
reaction if the result was not good. Naturally persons with selfish
motives would have given an odd name to urine therapy to achieve
their own selfish ends. Hence I do not have the slightest hesitation
in warning the patients that they should not practise this therapy I l.. ~ 172 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
unless they can observe all the necessary instructions repeatedly
tressed in this book.
Control of the Tongue: I feel irritated when I see recipes in the
local daily papers. Citrous, sour, bitter and sweet articles of food
produce vaat, pitta and cough and have strange tastes and effects.
Thus nutritious food materials are converted into poison. The
house-wives adept in preparing such varied recipes think
themselves to be very clever. But they never realize that preparing
such foods in only a waste of time and money. Such foods affect
the health of the family members very adversely. It is a crime
against ·humanity and nature to destroy the natural nutritive
elements in the foodstuffs in making them more palatable. Gandhiji
has said. "One who has conquered his senses has conquered the
world." He has rightly added, "One who has conquered the tongue,
has coAquered all the senses."
I wish to point out that one should take up this treatment only on
the basis of information given in this book and should fully observe
all the warnings given therein. If he does accordingly, there is not
the least doubt that he will be fully benefited. On the other hand if
the patient beromes careless, he will not only invite danger for
himself but also bring a bad name to this therapy.
A Boon to the Poor : The method of urine treatment invariably
gives great relief to aiL Rich people may adopt expensive
conventional methods of treatment to get rid of their troubles but the
poor are no longer able to afford modern modes of treatment. Thus
this novel method of treatment has proved to be a boon to the
poor. 1. know that many }loung men start ~r study of 'Medkine in
ordeF to Sel\'e'th:e poor and' the sick. &it very heavy expendittll1e
· for their medical studfes beeomes a ·great burden to them. So to
meet their expenses and maintain their standard of nfe, they
become prof-essionats and look at their practice only from the
busif'l€Ss point of view and thus the mission for the servke of the
poor is thwarted. In urine therapy, however, there are no such
temptations because there in every patient is a doctor for himself. It CONCLUSION : 173
reserve his. even an illiterate person can p.
is a technique by which this own disposal quite freely.
health by the natural menas a a well planned
S iptures mean. Proof Self-revealed :... ~rc. ::md experiences of savants. It IS
compendium of great thoug.knowledge to adopt a. generous and
essential for the progre~ ~f ld answer all the quenes and dou~ts
open-hearted attitude an s ou t the same time with a searchmg
on the basis of the scriptures ~nd ado matically and cond~mn. those
mind To stick to onels own views ~ lead to the falsification of
of others repeatedly would necessan ·~dedness in the field of ·ews Such narrow ml. one1
S own ~1
• er to knowledge itsefl.
knowledge bnngs dang d any eXternal proof as
· lso does not nee k h s The power of auto-unne a. h the author of Chara a
its utility is self-re~:ale_d. That ~r:S ~nly, I.e., it is anti-poison and
mmed up its qualitieS m two w than this. It deserves all the
~~a tonic. No savant would.sayhmorervice of human health. gaged m t e se · f attention of persons en 'b the properties of urine o
Great Supports : Ayurve~a d~:c;~o:~ animals may be beneficial
eight types of animals. Th~fi u~n: Charak but it is worthy of research
to human beings as, speo le y h ·r own urine on their systems.
to have findings of the eff~cts ~f t el et rid of the disease once for
They instinctively use the•r. ur~e ~~s; of human being and human
all The same holds good m t e be as Ayurveda describes hot,
uri.ne too. The urine of a p.erson m::or but it is so only to another
bitter, bile-increasin~ a~d •:fl~m:e to ~se the urine of other person
rsolt I do notthmk It a ~·sa tall rescribed in urien threapy. :d it is notscientific too. It ~s ".ot,:ant/ auto-urin~ therapy. atp~r
That is why urine therapy IS ldn I in exceptional cases I e
. n be use on Y. bl 1 uch rare person Is unne ca I urine is not ava•la e. n s..
k bite etc. when one s own.. I It means that the
~~:e;-it c;n be used in extern~! a~~~c;~~~~ne~~~ally and in drinking
urine of a healthy person c~n e kue-bite or so..
t'onally as m sna d' g only very excep 1
• ft a mere cursory rea m
I b · n to opme a er Most of the peop e eg•
U.T.-14 174 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
of the book and without having full deliberation the subject. But on
the basis of my own and others' experience, I can say with all the
emphasis at my command that human urine is harmless and always
beneficial. Used methodically and in proper doses, it is efficacious
in all diseases. I say this not as an authority but on the basis of
experiences of a number of patients from India and abroad. The
statement of the well-known Vaidya like shri Bapalalbhai and a
writer on Ayurvedic subjects, cannot be doubted when he
unreservedly supports urine therapy. He has written on the
experiments which he had carried out as true and enquiring Vaidya.
Similarly. the d~scription of two T.B. patients cured by Dr.
Gunanidhi Bhatt by means of urine therapy is no doubt genuine.
All the descriptions of the cases in this book are genuine facts based
on self-experience. There is absolutely no exaggeration in the
presentation of all these cases.
Must B.e Made Universal : The problem is how to make it
universally useful. A number of friends have advised me to start
hospitals where patients can be treated ·exclusively on urine therapy
but I am against it, as I believe that it should become a household
treatment. Every mother should be an adept in it and use it like
homely medicenes. The urine therapy does not require any
expenditure nor does it require any storage. The message of urine
therapy should reach every home and village. It will surely be
evolved into a scientific systme automatically. The intelligentsia can
very well further its progress and can work out a thorough scientific
method. All attempts in this direction are quite well come.
Our tl'lis much will not suffice. We shall have to make more and
more experiments and establish a definite system. We shall have to
regularize it and put some restrictions also on its haphazard use.
Urine is beneficial in its pure and natural state. I doubt if its efficacy
can be improved through any mixture with it. Yet if someone tries to
increaie effic;:acy of utility through natural methods, I have no
objection. But one should be careful in such an attempt as it would CONClUSION


That was the position when Mr. P.C. was brought to me, five weeks
after the disease had  been given its polysyllabic  and  high‐sounding
name.
Mr. P.C. was not an easy patient, and was not prepared to fast without
interruption  as long a period as I considered  essential for his grave
condition,  which had  been complicated  by all the medical X‐ray
treatment  he had undergone.  However,  although he only fasted a week,
during which  he was rubbed  with urine by his wife and  friends  for
lengthy periods (and, of course, he did not omit the essential  part of
the treatment,  the drinking of his own urine), he was  so far improved
that he could walk into my house unaided. Indeed, his improvement
was so marked that, under pressure,  I consented  to his breaking his fast,
provided that I should dictate what and  when he should eat, and  that
the rubbings  and the intake of his urine were not discontinued.  His food
during the next week was to consist  of fresh raw fruits (apples, oranges 59
 and  bananas, chiefly), salads, tomatoes,  steamed vegetables,  potatoes
in their jackets, fresh  uncooked,  unpasteurised  milk, and  honey; all of
which  were to be consumed  in small quantities.  Later  on he was
permitted  steamed fish, meat,  etc., in short  a wellbalanced  diet minus
tinned meats or twice  cooked meats of any sort. He was to continue to
drink  his own urine. All this he faithfully carried out.
Six weeks from the day I first saw him, Mr. P.C. had a further  blood  test.
This revealed that, whereas the blood  count  had  previously  been
556,000 white corpuscles  in excess of red, it now showed less than half
that amount  per cubic millimeter.  Mr. P.C. was so cheered by this
report that he consented  to further  fasts of a week's duration. Thus,
during the next six weeks he underwent  fasts of seven days each. The
third and final blood  test  revealed that the blood content was quite
normal.  Soon  after the twelve weeks in all of vigorous  treatment  were
ended, Mr. P.C. was back at work ‐a well  man.
Nevertheless,  the story  has no happy ending.  Despite my having
impressed  upon him that his condition  had arisen through  an ill‐
balanced "rubbishy"  diet, in the course of time (as I afterwards  learned)
he reverted to his old habits  of eating just any "mess" he "fancied."
Although,  for two years after his penance and while he kept up rational
feeding, he did not even have one cold to contend  with, after those two
years he gradually began to backslide,  and  although he had  a few boils
and colds by the way of warnings,  he paid no attention,  and finally died
during drug treatment  for influenza six years after his recovery from his
grievous illness.
Truly,  “the way of the transgressor  is hard.”  60
 Apropos of Mr. P.C.'s case,  I was destined  to lose an old school  friend
through  the same fatal medical treatment  for splenic anaemia. He had
for some time been undergoing  deep X‐ray  for this  disease, and,
learning of my success  with Mr. P.C., had resolved to undergo the fastir
and urine cure. But it was too late. He died  in his own house attended
to the lest by wellmeaning,  but alas, deluded professors  of the healing
art, who thought  that science was mightier than Nature!

 61
 CHAPTER  IX.
HEART DISEASE: CASES

Although,  as Mr. Ellis Barker encouragingly  writes, patients with
valvular  disease of the heart can, with care and  a well‐ balanced diet,
live even till 90, yet the disease as such is said to be incurable.
Nevertheless,  by means of urine‐therapy  this distressing  condition  can
be completely  cured.  The following  case‐ history is instructive.
Mr. P. (middle‐aged). He had not only been under  the doctor for a year
suffering from valvular  disease of the heart, but was about to undergo
an evploratory  operation  for a suspicious  lump in the region of the solar
plexus. Very  often he had  fainted in the street and  had  been carried
into the nearest chemist shop, where  he had  been fortified by drug
tablets  which  he always carried in his pocket. On his clothing was  a tab
instructing  people what to do when he was  overtaken  by an attack.
Latterly he had suffered from these attacks so frequently,  that he came
to be known  in the vicinity as "Poor  Mr. P." He had  been placed cn a
regime  which  consisted  of his only being allowed  one meal per day for
five days of the week, whilst  over week‐ends he was ordered to fast on
water only. No exercise was permitted  except a short, gentle walk.
Smoking was prohibited,  and  as for medicaments,  he was only to have
the drug‐tablets  during an actual  attack.
Such was the position when he came  into my hands.
The first  thing I urged him to do was  to drink the urine he passed.  As I
expected,  this  proved to be very odorous and turgid  at first, but soon 62
 cleared up. I instructed  Mr. P. how to rub his


: Looking at Fear
When fear (or other negative, upsetting emotions) comes  up, you
can be alert to it. You can face it with a “bring it on” attitud e where
you’re actually happy that you’ve got something to work with since
releasing fear and doubt is really releasing the grip of a false
identity. This exercise has the potential to help you to deepen in
trust beyond desired results and outcomes—time-based  desires
and wishes that your sleepin g mind hopes to attain and achieve
because of the belief that they are safe and can of fer something of
value. Make sure that you have half an hour to an hour to yours elf. Choose a current life situation that brings up fear or maybe just
some anxiety or worry. It could be around losing a job or a
relationship, or it could be other fear-based issues around family
or friends. Fear can also be disguised as anger because there is
always fear underneath ange r. Try to be aware of other defenses
or self-concept s that may cover the feelings. Take a look at ideas
such as “I am a person who never gets worried, anxious, or
fearful. I am strong and competent. Nothing ever worries me.”
These may be cover-ups, and you may not yet be aware of a
deeper part of your mind that actually has a lot of fear or anxiety,
which explains why the defense was built up in the first place. Keep this particular fearful life situation in awareness and
relax for a moment. You are now going to look inward, following
these steps. 1. In your journal, write down all your feelings and thoughts
about the situation. 2. Is there a certa in meaning and importance you have given
to this situation? How are you perceiving the situation? How
does it affect your peace of mind? Close your eyes if it
helps you focus.3. Now take a moment and inquire on this very importa nt
question: Where do I believe my safety lies? Sit with this
question for a moment. Write down the thoughts that come
to mind. Make sure you don’t censor yourself or come up
with an answer that you belie ve is “right.” Allow yourself to
experience these thoughts as they reflect the beliefs that
you hold around safety. Then write down all your
associations to this fear until you feel complete. 4. Slowly read this list of possible fears:
fear of not having enough money
fear of not being a good enough father, mother, son,
brother, or sister
fear that I actually feel some misery inside and that it
will get worse
fear of my own anger or someone else’ s anger
fear of standing up for myself
fear of being tiny, small, and unimportant
fear that I don’t really know enough
fear of expressing myself, especially the love
fear of making a dramatic change in my relationship
fear that I might not “make it”
fear of losing special attention from others
fear of sexual intimacy
fear of touching others or being touched
fear of connecting and communicating with others
fear of attraction to certain people
fear that someone will reject me
fear of trusting
fear of facing the day when I wake upDo some of the items in the list relate to you? Take a
moment to first notice and then journal your reactions
and discomforts with these particular fears. 5. Take a few minutes to settle in and, using free association,
list additional fears that come to mind. Allow all your
thoughts and emotions around these fears to pour out in
your journal. 6. You are now going to relax and invite the Spirit to shift your
perception. Gently and prayerfully go over each fear and
say: “Holy Spirit, I hand this fear about
 over to you.” Feel free to add, “Be
you in charge.” Take enough time to allow yourself to feel
the release for each one. Continue on with this handover
until you feel a calm and assuring restfulness. You may feel
that the fears are loosened from your mind or even gone! Fears Can Become Possibilities
Fear in the mind is nothing other than the ego actively attacking your
peace of mind. This means that you often experience a lot of attack
thoughts and doubt thoughts. In those moments, it’s important to be able
to face the fears  and really ask, “What am I afraid of?” When you are
able to see your fears and what’ s behind them, you can really get into the
strength of choosing to be with the Spirit and realizing there’ s nothing
that can threate n you at all. The fear does leave. I live a completely
fearless life because I allowed all the darkness to come up. I stopped
hiding and protecting it. I don’t use any kind of defense mechanisms. When you refuse to stuff it down and let it fully come up, it comes, and
you go back to the light in the present now. This is importan t in any situat ion where you want to know your
heart’ s calling and your way back to peace. You need to be very honest
with yourself and look at what you’re afraid to lose. When what you are
afraid of is seen, you will be in a space to tell the Holy Spirit, “Just show
me if it is Your will.” Your mind is now open to all possibilities and all
options. Then, from a place of feeling the joy and the peace, you caneasily access deeper inspiration. And you will be able to see a lot of
signs and symbols because the Holy Spirit doesn’ t just provide guidance;
He always provides the means to achieve it too! I join you in accepting the next steps in this journey. I encourage
you to follow your heart in the face of any fears that you may
experience. Our journey together is one of inspiration—of opening to all
that is possible with the Holy Spirit.Chapter 4
Guilt
There will be times when you feel resistance to the Holy Spirit, when the
ego says, “Stop! No! Stay away from my life.” Or it will say, “I will give
you some parts of my life, but I’m going to keep some to myself.” As we
listen to and follow the Holy Spirit, we become more and more willing
to give over all of our pictures, the whole film, to Him. Let’s zoom in on one of fear’s major derivatives: guilt. We all know
how it feels to have feelings of guilt and shame. Most of the time, we
associate feeling s of guilt and shame with something in form, something
we think we have done wrong, or something that we didn’ t do that was
expected of us, and we feel like we came up short. This shows us that
guilt always seems to be related  to behavior, whether it’s our behavior or
somebody else’ s behavior. By refusing to face the guilt of separation, we project this guilt,
which I call “ontological” guilt, onto many different things. We can feel
guilty about food. W e can feel guilty about sexuality, body image, or past
memories of behaviors. I have met people who have been in prison for
what the world would judge very shameful crimes. I have met people
who would look me in the eye and feel me out: “Can I expose a secret to
you? And will you still love me afterward?” Once they know that yes, I
will, then they tell me that they have killed somebody. Or they reveal
their deepest darkest secret, their hidden secret of what they find most
shameful, what they believe makes them a sinner, makes them unloving,
unlovable, and so forth. When someone exposes their guilt this way, I
stay with the presence of love and don’t judge whatever they did. And in
their exposing it, it is automatica lly handed over to the Holy Spirit. Their
first step of unveiling the ontological guilt has been taken. The ego wields guilt. That is why you reinforce a feeling of guilt
anytime you use the body or the world for the ego’s purposes. The ego’spurpose could be possessiveness or “getting.” It can be to defen d, attack,
compete, or use the body for pride or pleasure. The guilt is not inherent
in anything. It’s only the purpose we give to things that determines
whether we feel guilt or peace. The purpose we give to anything can
either reinforce  the separation or it can be used for healing and
forgiveness. Let’s take the example of food. Food is generall y a huge
target for the projection of a lot of guilt. The truth is that deep-down,
people don’t feel guilty around  fatty or sugary foods, even though the
nutritionists tell us not to eat these foods. Even brands play on our guilt
by marketing products as “guilty pleasures,” “guiltily delicious,” and
“sinfully delicious.” But there aren’ t good foods and bad foods. There
isn’t anything wrong with ice creams or cookies, sweets or meats. We
should not feel guilty about eating certain foods. The belief in guilt is in
the mind. There  is no guilt in the foods, nor can eating them cause any
guilt at all, although it sometimes seems to get projected that way. Like
with anything else, we can open  up to Spirit’ s guidance around  what to
eat. It is the Holy Spirit’s task to purify the mind. You need to let Him
reinterpret every thing


 use in
cancer, except that Tucker received a request from the FDA for “more research.”
Dr. Jacob also is acquainted with Tucker’s work. In fact, he telephoned
Tucker a few days before the Mike Wallace
60 Minutes
 show on CBS-TV to
check out progress on the cancer treatment. Jacob plays down the DMSO-cancer
connection, because he has enough trouble getting the substance recognized for all
of its other special uses. He doesn’t want to have to fight off the label of “cancer
quackery” as well. DMSO-HEMATOXYLON ACTION ON ANIMALS
By age seventy-eight, Eli Jordon Tucker, Jr., M.D., had done over 1,000
bone
fusions for arthritic backs, ankles, and other joints as an orthopedic surgeon
practicing for fifty-two years in Houston. Dr. Tucker’s true love was medical
research, however, and one of his major discoveries was the technique for graftingbone from one animal species to another. The drug company, E.R. Squibb and
Sons of Princeton, New Jersey, purchased the patent rights to his discovery and
spent half-a-million dollars developing the method about twenty years ago. Dr.
Tucker also perfected an oral treatment with vital bone substances for the
correction of bone degenerative conditions. For half a century, he was a respected
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Orthopedic Board
of the International College of Surgeons, an honorary life member of the American
Medical Association, and he was one of the few orthopedists in the State of Texas
to be presented with the “Award of Merit” by the American Medical Association
for his research work on bone. Dr. Tucker performed his bone grafting experiments with calf bones that he
acquired from a nearby slaughterhouse, the Houston Meat Packing Company. While purchasing specimens, he noticed the butchers were accepting for slaughter
white-faced cattle that were eaten up with cancer of the face. In many cases, eye
cancer spreading down the animal’s muzzle was disintegrating the entire face. Even
so, the meat inspectors and veterinarians passed these cattle for human
consumption provided there was no cancer metastasis to the animal’s internal
organs. It occurred to Tucker in 1962 that there might be such a thing as cancer
antibodies. Currently scientists are seeking the same thing through studying
interferon, the much-publicized antivirus substance. Aside from his research on
developing a bone paste for grafting purposes, Dr. Tucker inaugurated an
additional project. He did some laboratory work on the blood of cancerous cows,
looking for cancer antibodies. His procedure entailed bleeding the animals after
they were slaughtered and making gamma globulin from the blood. Then, he
injected the gamma globulin into cancer-ridden rats and mice. The substance
seemed to retard some of the rodent tumors, specifically the adenocarcinomas and
others involving granulomatosis (a condition marked by tumors of the pink tissue
that is formed during wound healing) such as lymphosarcoma (lymphoma). It did
not affect fibrosarcoma, melanoma, and some other types. He required a dye for marking the tumors in order to better see any growth
alterations. The dye had to stain the tumor sufficiently and at the same time he
gave the gamma globulin injection. Tucker was disappointed by most of the dyes
he tried. With methylene blue,
everything in the tissue field became overly
darkened. Picric acid colored all the tissues yellow. The red coloring safranine
stain had no effect on the tumor. But hematoxylon turned out to be the perfect dye
because it stained the cancer one color, the normal cells another color. It is amultiple-coloring stain. Hematoxylon is a long-established dye, used by biologists for over 100 years
as a pathologic marker for animal cells, particularly because of its affinity for
nucleic acids. Hematoxylon’s formula, C
16
H
14
O
6
, has two loose hydrogen bonds
so that it oxidizes readily to a red substance known as hematein. This property of
rapid oxidation is often used as an indicator in chemistry for alkaloid titrations. Thus, hematoxylon is a substance commonly employed by physical scientists. It is also used in medicine as an astringent for the relief of diarrhea and for the
treatment of urinary infections, because the presence of the dye is rapidly excreted
in the urine. The human dose recommended in the past has been from 0.6 to 2
grams. The one drawback for Tucker with adapting hematoxylon for staining tissue
was that it is a resin derived from the bark of the logwood tree. The resin is
insoluble in ordinary laboratory solvents such as alcohol and ether. The dye has a
special nucleus similar to the nucleic acids, the master molecules of life that
cannot be duplicated synthetically. When DMSO came into use around 1963, Tucker found that getting the dye to
go into solution was no longer a problem. DMSO’s high solvent properties
combined with an amazing affinity for hematoxylon, dissolving almost its own
weight of the dye, made it an ideal substance for his purposes. Not only that,
DMSO did not alter the hematoxylon at all and carried the chemical directly into
the tumor. There was good dispersion; only the cancer cells were stained and
stood out under the microscope and in gross dissection. To his amazement, Tucker discovered he could dissolve 25 grams of
hematoxylon powder into 62 cc of DMSO liquid, an exceedingly high
concentration. In a medical paper published in the January 16, 1968, issue of
International Surgery
, in collaboration with A. Carrizo, M.D., Director of the
National Cancer Control and Cancer Center for the Republic of Panama, Panama
City, he described how hematoxylon dissolved in DMSO was used in recurrent
neoplasms. 1
Drs. Tucker and Carrizo injected into dogs a solution of 25 grams of
hematoxylon dissolved in 75 cc of DMSO as a parenteral intravenous solution
with 5 percent dextrose in saline and normal saline to do an acute toxicity study. They observed no abnormalities in the living animals over
a month’s time, and
autopsies showed no changes in the animals’ livers, kidneys, gastrointestinal tracts,
hearts, bone marrow, lungs, or brains. No dye was present in any of the sectioned
tissues. High doses of DMSO without hematoxylon that had been given into thejugular veins of healthy dogs did cause acute respiratory failure, shock, and death
in three of four dogs. The combination of the dye and the solvent proved to be
much less toxic than DMSO alone. Albino rats could tolerate four times the
amount of the combination hematoxylon solution than the DMSO alone. Experimental animals with both induced and spontaneous tumors were treated
with the combination solution. The induced tumors included a methyl
cholantranine transplant tumor (fibrosarcoma) and adenocarcinoma of the breast
(Walker’s tumor) in albino rats. The fibrosarcoma regressed somewhat but not
entirely. The adenocarcinoma was not affected by the intravenous injection of
hematoxylon and DMSO until a small dose of androgen caused its rapid regression
in practically 100 percent of the rats. Spontaneous tumors in dogs, horses, and cattle were treated with the DMSO-
hematoxylon solution. In some cases, Tucker performed the service out of a
feeling of pity for the suffering animal. For instance, William Daniel, former
Governor of Guam, one of Tucker’s friends, phoned and told the doctor: “E.J., I
have a cancerous dog on my ranch who is suffering terribly. Could you do
anything to help him, or should I have him put to death?”
“I’d love to try,” answered Tucker. “I’ll send my technician to pick up the dog
right away.”
The technician brought the animal to Tucker’s veterinarian, Dr. Collins, for
examination. The vet diagnosed that large-cell lymphosarcoma was permeating the
dog’s body. “The poor animal is choking to death from the tumors in his throat,
and he has large tumors all over his body,” said Dr. Collins over the telephone. “I
don’t think he’ll live long enough to be transported to your laboratory.”
Tucker said, “Transfuse him, give him some blood fast, and let me have him
for treatment.”
The physician took the dog, which was barely alive, into the laboratory and
injected DMSO-hematoxylon solution intravenously. His technician took over the
work and gave the injections daily. Within two weeks, all the tumors had
disappeared. It seemed like a miracle to the technician. Upon Tucker’s examination of the dog, he found that all the large-cell
lymphosarcoma tumors had completely regressed. The huge masses in the neck
and over the whole body of the animal had gone away, and the dog came out of the
treatment completely cured. The dog was thriving at the laboratory when an unlucky accident caused his
death. He ate a large quantity of some meat contaminated with Malathion, an
insecticide poison. Tucker performed an autopsy, which


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way; there’s absolutely nothing to fuss about. And I leave
the time of its arrival into my life in the hands of the All-
Knowing, Always-Cr eative Spiritual Source. I ﬁnd that I no
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peace with the timing of everything. I know enough now not
to push the river, not to demand that the timetab le of my
ego be the same as God’s. What I so sincer ely want to share here is that the feeling of
being completely in harmony with our Source generates not
only success and inner peace, but miracles everywher e. I
have the delicious spine-tingling sensation of bliss as I
observe and interact in this world from the wondr ous vista
of being inspir ed. These words from A Course in Miracles
ring true for me: “All that must be recognized, however, is
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rather than only what my eyes see. And my mind knows
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intelligence supporting it. I know that it ﬂows through me,
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        Your health is
deter mined largely by the thoughts you have. Passionately
think that you won’t get a cold, and your body will react to
your thoughts. Refuse to entertain thoughts of fatigue, jet
lag, or headaches, and your body responds to your
thoughts. Your mind tells your body  to produce the chemicals it needs
to keep you healthy. Give someone a sugar pill and convince
them that it’s an anti-arthritic drug, and that person’s body
will react to the placebo  with the increased production of
anti-arthritic energies. The mind is a powerful tool in
creating health. It also creates divine relationships,
abundance, harmony in business


 needed his strength to withstand my
karmic challenges, and when I n eeded to refocus my energies
in the direction of living my life purpose. Through Mother Earth’s enchanted forest, Source brought the energies of the non-physical world into my ph ysical world, through this
exquisite divine messenger you see resting on the front and
back covers of this book. At one point, I had written the story of my karmic challenge for publication, thinking  at the time that its lessons
could be my purpose;  the message that I was here to teach. One day, while wrestling with myself about whether or not it really /G14/G0F/G04 /G01 /G0F/G19/G01/G0D/G12/G10/G0B/G01/G10/G07/G01/G0D/G08/G22/G0C/G02/G16/G0B/G01/G10/G0B/G12/G10/G01/G16/G10/G07 ry, I released my concerns
in a prayer. With that release, a most beautiful gift came to me
from Spirit. This is a story fr om that day... a story that I
believe can apply to all of us, if we can hear the wonderful wisdom within the natural world. On the morning of this miracle, I took my daughter to pre-school, which operates in a lo cal church. When we arrived
in the parking lot, no other parents were there yet. I looked up and saw a beautiful red-tailed hawk perched on top of the cross, on the outside of the church. It was so beautiful and so majestic. It took my breath away. We hono red each other’s presence for a
while. I knew at the time that his presence was a gift for me,
but I did not know specifically wh at his animal medicine was. I tried to take a picture of him with my cell phone, but quite unsuccessfully. I so wished that I had a camera at that moment,
yet I knew his gift was already etched in my heart. When I
returned to the parking lot after I delivered my daughter to her
classroom, the hawk was still sitting  on the cross. I thanked him
and drove away. And as I drove away, I got a strong feeling -
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would wait for me. I trusted th at message, noted it, and moved
on with my busy morning. On the way back out to pick up my daughter at school, I was prompted by Spirit to remember the camera. As I drove up to the preschool, /G01/G02/G09/G05/G05/G06/G02/G07/G12/G09/G04/G06/G10/G0F/G01/G05/G09 /G09/G01/G0B/G04/G01/G1C/G12/G16/G01/G16/G10/G02/G0C/G0C/G01/G08/G0D/G01/G10/G0B/G04/G05/G04/G01/G07/G03/G01/G10/G0B/G04/G01
cross, patiently waiting for me. Again, no one else was there in the parking lot. It was just this beautiful hawk and me, the Cosmic Wealth
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hawk still sitting on the cross. I was overwhelmed with a
feeling of profound love and d eep gratitude. There was such
honor, love, peace, and gentle strength between us - and all
around us. And in those feelings, we were one. He stayed
there patiently while I took pictures of him, and we shared this magically serene experience. It was still just the two of us, in
this normally busy parking lot of the church, sharing an extended moment of grace. And then, he flew two feet in front of me, and perched  on the wooden church benches next to me, for another few minutes. I continued to take pictures of him, and to share this glorious moment. After about ten minutes, another car came into the parking lot. As the driver got out of her car, the hawk flew past me again – filling my he art with love, flying above the
cross, and up and away into the clear sun-filled sky. When I returned home that da y, I searched the internet
to find more information about the red-tailed hawk’s animal
medicine. Within each anim al, there are divine gifts and
messages that they bring to us, if we are conscious of them as spirit guides. These are some of the messages of my friend, the red-tailed hawk. Hawk is known as the messenger. Hawk is a
specially committed spiritual messenger of grace, who connects the worlds of Spirit and matter. Hawk symbolizes clear vision
and prophetic sight, the seen and the unseen. Hawk reminds us to open our awareness, to awaken  from our spiritual amnesia,
and to realign with the original intention and true nature of our soul. When hawk flies into our life, his clear vision and mighty talons remind us to review our lives and to tear out any of our self-created illusions, allowing our inner truths to surface. Hawk represents our union and our oneness with our Creator. And Hawk relays a message for our prayers:  /G01/G02/G05/G06/G0F/G0C/G04/G14/G05/G09/G06/G03/G04/G06
always given /G20/G01/G01/G17/G0B/G04/G03/G01/G1C/G04/G01/G04/G26/G0D/G12/G03/G11/G01/G07/G08/G05/G01/G13/G07/G03/G16/G13/G02/G07/G08/G16/G03/G04/G16/G16/G09/G01/G1C/G04/G01/G12/G11/G06/G08/G16/G10/G01
our energies and vibrations to /G09/G05/G0D/G05/G03ve the answers to our
prayers. And as we make these adjustments, we experience  our flow with life’s synchronicit ies. When we are open, and
we trust our inner vision and ourselves, Hawk shows us that  we are free to fly!Hawk Wisdom 93
 There are several additional things that I wish to share
about this message and this experiential story. First, in the week following our initial encounter, I saw Hawk a few more  times. Most of the time, he was still sitting on the cross, above the entranceway to the church. I watched as many people came  and went, mostly unawar e of his graceful presence right above
them. Of those who did notice hi m, most were children. When
I stood there with my camera, thus attracting attention to him, only then did several adults look up and notice that he was there. A few people even ma de comments abou t how “odd” it
was. I find this to be an appropriate illustration of what Hawk is precisely trying to teach us, as a divine messenger. He is
showing us our spiritual amnesi a, calling us to awaken to the
truth of our original nature. It  also seems illustrative of how
many of us, caught up in our illusions and outer blinders, often
do not see the spectacular, the magical, the mystical, and the truth of the Creator’s creation itself in every day experiences. There is such magnificence and pe rfection in this world, such
support from Source, Spirit, Sant a, angels, and beyond, that if
we can clear away our self-created illusions, we can see with clear inner vision the broader aerial view. Essentially, there  are miraculous things happening  all around us, when we are
willing to pay attention in our lives and to appreciate the gifts. Second, in the many weeks following my Hawk visit, I listened to my inner guidance system. It began to speak a clear message to me. That the story I had written, about my karmic task and my awakening process, was not the ultimate story –  or the public story. And I realized that my unrest, about  whether or not to publish it, was my inner guidance system communicating with me. After countless revisions of that story, I had already learned its lessons. I paid attention to the fact that
no matter how many times I revised it, I was simply tired of telling that /G01/G06/G08 /G06/G04/G01/G07/G09/G1A /G20/G01/G01/G21/G10/G01/G11/G02/G11/G03/G37/G10/G01/G0A/G04/G04/G0C/G01/G0E/G07/G07/G11/G09/G01/G12/G03/G11/G01/G02/G10/G01/G11/G02/G11/G03/G37/G10/G01/G0A/G04/G04/G0C/G01/G05/G02/G0E/G0B/G10/G20
It was then that I knew that I was ready for a new vibrational
experience. And I knew at that


 dissent  and  coaxes  the  ac-
ids of  peaceful  digestion. Graciousness  is  shown  in
Offering  Food  to  the  Fire-
Sadhana  of  Gratitude- many  ways. Preparing  meals,  assisting  with  clean-up
after  meals,  attending  the  needs  of  the  mother  or
cook — these  are  all  attitudes  of  divine  goodwill  that
foster  graciousness. Traditionally,  a  small  portion  of
each  cooked  food  is  offered  to  the  fire  with  a  prayer  to
the  Lord,  the  giver  of  all  food. This  ritual  is  observed
before  the  food  is  tasted  or  served. The  first  offering
is  given  to  the  universe  as  a  token  of  perpetual  grati-
tude for  our  provisions. Since  most  of  us  do  not  have
an  open  fireplace  in  which  to  perform  this  offering,  a
small  fire  lit  in  an  earthen  pot  may  be  kept  in  the
kitchen  for  this  purpose,  or  a  simple  prayer  will  suf-
fice. Pine  kindling  should  be  used  for  the  burning  of
the  sacred  tender. Any  form  of  prayer  may  accompany  the  offering. The  following  is  a  Sanskrit  prayer  to  Brahman,  the
Absolute  one,  or  pure  Consciousness,  from  the
Bhagavad  Gita. Brahmarpanam  Brahma  Havih
Brahmagnau  Bralunana  Hutam
Brahmaiva  Tena  Gantavyatn
Brahtnakarma  Sanadhina
Brahman  is  the  Offering
Brahman  is  the  Oblation
Poured  out  by  Brahman  into  the  fire  oi  Brahman
Brahman  is  to  be  attained  by  the  one
who  contemplates  the  action  of  Brahman,
Harmony  in  Eating
Sweet  foods  turn  sour  in  our  digestive  tracts  when  the
emotions  present  during  the  meal  are  negative,  Nevei
eat  while  you  are  upset. It  is  an  insult  to  the  food,  to
the  giver  of  foods,  and  to  your  body. While  silence  is  the  best  sadhana  to  maintain  dm
ing  meals,  gentle,  wholesome  conversation  is  also  ac
ceptable. It  is  important  to  maintain  a  mealtime  sched
ule  that  is  consistent:  meals  should  be  eaten  at  the
same  time  each  day. Although  there  is  a  beneficial
eating  time  for  each  body  type,  it  is  often  difficult  to
coordinate  these  times  within  a  family  situation
People  concei  ned  with  weight  gam  should  nevei  sleep
directly  alter  a  meal  A  lew  othei  Ayurvedic  precepts
follow. I  5  I
>m
THE    PRACTICE    OF    AYURVEDA
•  Allow  a  few  hours  between  meals  and  bed-
time. •  Take  a  gentle  walk  after  meals  to  soothe  di-
gestion. •  Never  eat  and  run. •  Never  stand  up,  lie  down,  or  watch  televi-
sion while  eating. •  Fill  the  stomach — which  holds  about  two-
and-a-half  handfuls  of  food — one  third
full  of  food  and  one  third  full  of  liquid. The  remaining  third  should  remain
empty,  to  allow  space  and  energy  for
proper  digestion. Many  ancient  peoples  sat  directly  on  an  earthen
floor,  or  on  the  skin  of  an  animal  that  died  naturally. Sitting  in  the  half-lotus  position  and  leaning  forward
to  eat  from  a  utensil  placed  on  the  ground  provides  a
natural  and  involuntary  limit  to  our  intake  of  food. The  pressure  caused  by  moving  forward  restricts  the
quantity  of  food  to  be  eaten. While  rules  are  allowed  to  be  broken  from  time  to
time,  we  do  need  to  be  vigilant  of  our  behavior. By
gradually  observing  these  precepts,  we  can  over  time
promote  and  facilitate  an  excellent  state  of  mind. Savoring  Food
Taste  is  primal  to  the  eating  process. When  the  juices
of  the  mind  and  appetite  whet  the  tongue,  we  are
ready  to  receive  the  blissful  memories  each  food  gives. The  first  step  of  digestion  is  chewing. The  digestive
water  of  the  tongue  aids  in  the  breakdown  of  food. As
we  take  the  time  to  ruminate,  we  remember. Memo-
ries of  the  entire  universe  are  held  in  the  savoring  of
our  food. Chewing  food  to  a  pulp  facilitates  digestion
and  lightens  the  load  on  our  organs  of  assimilation. By  being  considerate  toward  the  agni  of  digestion,  we
are  rewarded  with  a  calmer  mind. We  cannot  remem-
ber the  truth  of  being  if  we  are  agitated. Chewing  is  a  delicate  sadhana. When  we  do  not
chew  properly,  we  deprive  the  body  of  its  nutrients
and  shut  down  the  channels  of  memory. Conversely,
when  eating  becomes  a  tedious  and  jaw-breaking
chore,  we  defeat  the  process  of  assimilation. We  must practice  quietude  and  relaxation  while  we  eat. We
must  nurture  a  wholesome  attitude  and  chew  with
awareness. Recently,  I  was  present  at  a  national  health  confer-
ence attended  by  many  holistic  practitioners. During
lunch  I  was  seated  with  a  well-known  "chewing"
master. Before  the  wave  of  conversation  began  at  our
table,  the  master  quickly  began  to  play  a  recording  of
subliminal  music. This  was  supposed  to  assist  the
mind  in  its  contemplation  of  the  chewing  process. Next  to  him  was  a  stopwatch,  with  which  he  kept  time
of  each  mouthful  being  chewed. Given  the  circumstance,  everyone  graciously  ac-
quiesced and  chewed  in  self-conscious  tedium. See-
ing that  in  this  unnatural  and  tense  situation  a  per-
fectly good  meal  was  being  wasted,  I  quietly  excused
myself  and  joined  a  group  of  students  who  were  en-
joying their  meal. However  slight  the  chewing  and
however  loud  the  chatter,  the  students  were  clearly
receiving  the  grace  and  joy  of  their  food. Love,  Kindness,  and  Sharing  of  Foods
Love  and  kindness  are  the  two  most  important  ingre-
dients in  any  meal. Without  these,  the  ojas,  the  energy
of  food  after  it  is  digested,  is  vastly  diminished. What-
ever circumstances  we  find  ourselves  in  at  cooking
time,  we  must  never  project  our  negative  emotions
onto  the  foods. While  we  may  be  angry,  sad,  disap-
pointed, stressed,  or  fatigued,  if  we  are  conscious  of
our  state  the  essence  of  our  love  can


beneficial  tastes,  58
body  type,  37-38,  39,  40,  42
daily  sadhana,  189
eating  utensils,  157
five  waters  of,  25-26
features  of  foods  that  nourish,  60
menus,  144—48
natural  tastes,  58
nature  and  tastes  of,  57-58
personality,  52-56
prevalent  seasons  and  times,  131-32,
132
recommended  foods  for,  110-15
Kapha- Pitta
prevalent  seasons  and  times,  133
recommended  foods  for,  121-27
Kapha- Vata
prevalent  seasons  and  times,  133
recommended  foods  for,  115-21
karela,  341
Karelas  with  Yogurt  Sauce,  242
Karhi  (Yogurt  Soup),  289
Karikai  (Carrots  and  Plantain),  226-27
karma,  3
karmic  disease,  8
khoa  (Milk  Dough),  184 Kichadi,  255-56
kitchen
ancient,  156-57
equipment  and  tools,  193-94
sadhanas  for,  155-60
kittas. See  malas
kohlrabi,  341
Krishna,  Lord,  11
kudzu,  341
kuhu  nadi,  31
kundalini,  31
Kuttu,  250-51
lactose  intolerance,  179
ladoo,  341
landcress,  341
Landcress  and  Chestnuts,  234 leek
RECIPES  USING
Leek  and  Chickpea  Soup,  282
Leek  and  Potato  Soup,  284
Leek,  Potato,  and  Barley  Soup,  285
Leek  and  Chickpea  Soup,  282
Leek  and  Potato  Soup,  284
Leek,  Potato,  and  Barley  Soup,  285
legumes,  tastes  and  energy  of,  67
Lemon  Broccoli  Tofu,  263
Lemon  Kudzu  Sauce,  279
Lemon  Raita,  310
lentils. See  dhal
Lima  and  Cauliflower  Soup,  289
Lima  Bean  Soup,  285
Lime  and  Raisin  Rice  Salad,  275
lobya,  172
Lord  Krishna,  1 1
lotus,  299
love,  330-32
mace,  299
Madras  Curry  Powder,  303
makhan  (Fresh  Butter),  183
malas,  three,  26-27 mango
green,  298 RECIPES  USING
Aam  Achar  (Green  Mango  Pickle),  307
Mango  and  Melon  Custard,  315
Mango  Chutney,  308
Mango  and  Melon  Custard,  315
Mango  Chutney,  308
manipura,  32
manomaya,  19
manovaha  nadis,  30
Marzipan  Date  Cake,  319
Masala  Dosa  (Filling),  204
Masalas  and  Condiments,  302-5
masoor  dhal,  172
matardhal,  172
materialization,  process  of,  58
maya,  11 meals. See  also  menus
tastes  and  textures  of,  134-35
transitional,  134
measuring,  for  cooking,  153-54
meat,  178-79 memory. See  also  cognitive  memory
food  as,  15-16
invalid,  13-14 menstrual  srotas,  29
menus. See  also  meals
for  Kapha  types,  144-48
for  Pitta  types,  140-43
for  Vata  types,  135-39
Mild  Garam  Masala,  303
Mild  Sweet  and  Sour  Sauce,  264
Mild  Tamari  Sauce,  278
milk,  176,  178
cows  and,  176-78
lactose  intolerance,  179
recommended  consumption,  179-82
Milk  Dough  (khoa),  184
millet,  165
RECIPES  USING
Crisp  Cooked  Millet,  222
Cumin  Millet,  211
Millet  and  Cauliflower,  209
Millet  and  Corn,  209
Millet  and  Corn  Soup,  283
Millet  and  Mung  Kichadi,  256
Millet  and  Quinoa  Salad,  274
Millet  and  Snow  Pea  Salad,  275
Millet  and  Squash  Soup,  283
Millet  Croquettes,  22 1
Millet  Nori  Balls,  217
Millet  Nori  Rolls,  217
Soft  Millet  and  Carrots,  221
South  Indian  Millet  Balls,  219
Spiced  Rice  and  Millet,  216
White  Basmati  and  Millet,  222
Millet  and  Cauliflower,  209
Millet  and  Corn,  209
Millet  and  Corn  Soup,  283
Millet  and  Mung  Kichadi,  256
Millet  and  Quinoa  Salad,  274
Millet  and  Snow  Pea  Salad,  275
Millet  and  Squash  Soup,  283
Millet  Croquettes,  221
Millet  Nori  Balls,  217
Millet  Nori  Rolls,  217
mind  body,  19-20 mint,  299
Mint  Chutney,  308
mirin,  342
miso,  342
mixed  fruit
RECIPES  USING
Fresh  Fruit  Mold,  316
Fruit  Cake,  318
Fruit  Cobbler,  316
Ricotta  Fruit  Dessert,  315
350
jmt,
INDEX
Universal  Trifle,  314
Mixed  Vegetable  Sambar,  248
Mocha  Mousse,  317
moksha,  2,  8
Mola  Hora,  214
Morning  Booster,  325
mugwort,  299
Mula  Achar  (Daikon  Pickle),  306
muladhara,  31
Mung  and  Buckwheat  Soup,  288
Mung  and  Spinach  Kuttu,  250
Mung  and  Wheat  Berry  Soup,  288
mung  dhal. See  dhal
Mung  Humus,  244
muscular  srotas,  28
Mustard  Greens  and  Asparagus  with
Hollandaise  Sauce,  234
mustard  oil,  175
muth,  172
nadis,  fourteen,  30-31
Narada,  11
Natto-Stuffed  Tofu,  265
navy  beans,  172
nigella  seed,  299
Nimbu  Achar  (Lemon  Pickle),  306
Nimbu  Achar  (Lime  Pickle),  306
noodles,  Japanese
soba,  343
udon, 343
nutmeg,  299
nuts,  tastes  and  energy  of,  69
oats,  164
Oden,  294
Oil  Roti,  208
oils,  174-76
tastes  and  energy  of,  69
ojas,  61
okra
RECIPES  USING
Dried  Masala  Okra,  225
Okra  and  Onions,  237
Rutabaga  Stew  with  Dumplings,  228
Okra  and  Onions,  237
olive


 did this in order to track our progress. Sensations may include tension
around the heart, tightness in the face, softening around the eyes, and
lightness of being. Feelings may include sadness and grief; hope and
happiness. Thou ghts may include commentary like I can’t do this, and This
isn’t working. Please don’t judge your responses. There are no right
answers. And don’ t try to be positive; be honest. Notice that the phrase Life loves you is only three words long. There are
no other  words. It’s not Life loves you because … For example, because I
am a good perso n, or because I work hard, or because I just got a raise,  or
because my football team won. Similarly, it’s not Life will love you if … For
example, if I lose ten pounds,  or if I heal this cancer, or if I find a girlfriend. Life loves you  is about unconditional love. After you complete ten rounds of the af firmation Life loves you,  we invite
you to look in the mirror and say this af firmation to yourself: I am willing to
let life love me today. Once again, notice your responses. And remember to
breathe. Repeat this affirmation until you feel comfortable sensations in
your body, light feelings in your heart, and a happy comment ary in your
thoughts. W illingness is the key. With willingness, all things are possible. “Please encourage people to be very kind to themselves when  they do
this practice,” Louise tells me as I write notes for this chapter. “I know that
mirror work can be very confron ting at first. It reveals your most basic fear
and your most terrible self-judgments. But if you keep looking in the
mirror, you will begin to see through those judgments and see who you
really are.” Louise goes on to say, “Your attitude to mirror work is the key
to succe ss. It’s important to take it lightly and be playful. If it helps, I prefer
that people stop calling it mirror work  and instead call it mirror play.”Louise and I want you to do this spiritual practice every day for seven
consecutive days. And we want you to start today. Doing it tomorrow won’ t
make it any easier than doing it today. “I know from my own experience
that whatever excuse I have today, I’ll still have tomorrow,” Louise tells
me. Rem ember, mirror work doesn’ t work in theory; it works in practice. You don’t have to like this exercise or agree with it; all we ask is that you
do it. It will get easier. Any discomfort or resistance you experience will
dissolve if you meet it with love and acceptance. If you like, you can do this
exercise with the support of a trusted friend, therapist, or coach. The real goal of this first spiritual practice is to help you align  yourself
consciously with the basic truth I am loveable. When you feel loveable, you
experience a world that loves you. Remember, the world is a mirror. There
is no real difference between saying to yourself I love you and Life loves
you. It’s all the same love. When you let life love you, you feel loveable;
and when you feel loveable, you let life love you. Now you are ready to be
who you really are. Please note: This practice is not about making yourself loveable; you
already are loveabl e. You are a holy expression of love now. It is not about
making yourself worthy; you already are worthy. It is not about improving
yourself; it is about accepting yourself. It is not about changing yourself; it
is about changing your mind about yourself. And it is not about reinventing
yourself; it is about being even more of the real you. We close Chapter 1 with a prayer I wrote that I often share in my
seminars. It’s called Love’ s Prayer. We think it sums up the spirit of love
and acceptance, which this chapter is about. Beloved One,
You cannot judge yourself and know who you are. The truth about you cannot be judged. Put aside your judgments then,
for one sweet holy moment,
and let me show you
something wonderful. See what it’ s like to be you
when you stop judging yourself. What you judge is just an image. After the last judgment,
you will know yourself again. Love will appear in your own mirror. To greet you as your friend. For you are loveable. And you are made
of love. OceanofPDF.comCHAPTER 2
Affirming Your Life
What we ar e today comes fr om our thoughts of yester day, and our pr esent
thoughts build our life of tomorr ow. THE BUDDHA
My children, Bo and Christopher, love Louise Hay, and I know she feels
the same way about them. It’s interesting watching them together. Louise
doesn’ t dote. She doesn’ t do tickles. She doesn’ t play games. She treats Bo,
who is six years  old, not as a “big girl” or a “good girl” but as a real girl. Christopher, who is three years old, is a real boy. And Louise is no age at
all. And that’s that. It’s all perfectly natural. The way they are together
reminds me of Mary Poppins with Jane and Michael. The first time Christopher met Louise, he ran right up to her and shouted,
“Would you like to see my teeth?” Louise considered his proposal for a
moment and said, “Yes, I would.” Christopher then looked up and grinned. “Thank you,” said Louise. “Tha t’s okay,” said Christopher. He hadn’ t done
that with anyone before and hasn’ t repeated it since. Later on, I asked
Louise about the significance of teeth. In her matter -of-fact way, she said,
“Teeth are abou t making good decisions. He was simply telling me that he
knows his own mind and that he is capable of making good decisions.”The first time we visited Louise ’s home, Louise gave Bo a tour. First she
showed her the big, round dining table that she’d painted to resemble a
swirling univers e with galaxies and stars. “I’d like to paint our kitchen
table, Dad,” Bo told me. Louise then showed her an oil painting of a
hippopotamus that she was working on. It’s called “Oswald Doing the
Rhumba.” “Osw ald is a happy hippo,” Louise said. “He thinks happy
thoughts becaus e he knows that his mind is creative.” In the garden, Louise
showed Bo how to pull carrots and beetroots from the ground. They also
picked kale and sugar snap peas. W e now have a vegetable garden at home. The first bracelet Bo made she gave to Louise. She chose the glass and
ceramic beads herself and was most insistent that this was to be a present
for Loui se. From  time to time, Louise sends me an e-mail saying, “Tell Bo I
am wearing her bracelet today.” One of my favorite e-mails from Louise
was sent a few days after a family visit. She wrote, “Tell Christ opher I still
have his little handprint on my bedroom window. I’ll wash it off one day. But not yet.”
Back home in London, one of our breakfast rituals is sharing the daily
affirmation from Louise’ s I Can Do It  calenda r. Bo loves to read storie s first
thing in the morning and just before bedtime. Two books in her collection
are child ren’s books written by Louise Hay. One is I Think,  I Am!, which
teaches kids about the power of af firmations. The other is The Adventur es of
Lulu, which is a collection of stories that help children to feel confident and
be creative. “Lulu is the girl I’d like to have been when I was growing up,” says
Louise. “She knows that she is loveable and that life loves her.” Lulu and
Bo are a similar age. They both have blond hair. Each has a little brother. Sometimes they get afraid. Sometimes they get hurt. And life teaches them
how to listen to their heart and live with courage. There’ s a verse in one of
Lulu’ s songs that says,
You can be what you want to be,
you can do what you want to do,
you can be what you want to be,
all of life supports you. Bo and I were talking about Louise one day, and Bo was asking a lot of
questions. “Why do you like Louise Hay so much?’ ’ I asked her. Bo thoughtfor a moment, then smiled and said, “I like the way she thinks.”
Your Radiant Intelligence
“I was a high school dropout,” says Louise. “I was told I wasn’ t very
smart, and that’ s what I told myself, too.”
“How would you describe your experience of school?” I ask her. “Terrible. I was very self-cons cious, I didn’ t feel safe, and I had no
friends.”
“Why not?”
“My parents struggled for money. I wore hand-me-down clothes. I had an
awful haircut that my stepfather gave me. I had to eat raw garlic to keep the
worms away, which also kept all the children away.”
“How did you get on with your teachers?”


 the one you could become.”
Darkness couldn’ t conceal the truth of what the stranger said. Siddhartha was looking at himself a few years older. “What is your purpose
here? I am already the son my father wants.” Despite his attempt to sound
confident, the stranger laughed at him. “Your father wants a son who steals away in the night without a word? I’m surprised. He has worked so hard to keep you here. But I understand. Fathers don’ t know everything. It’ s right that they shouldn’ t.” The
stranger ’s voice had a sinuous ability to shift between arrogance,
familiarity, and cajolery. It stung and soothed at the same time. Siddhartha
was feeling uncertain, and although the stranger made no threatening
gestures, the mere sight of him drained Siddhartha’ s body; he felt slack and
weak. “You won’ t succeed, you know,” the stranger said. “At escaping, I
mean. This is your rightful place. W e just have to decide how you are to
occupy it.”
The stranger was taunting him and making no ef fort to disguise it. “T ell
me your name,” Siddhartha demanded. “Siddhartha.”
“Then you are only a mocking demon, and I mistook you for someone
of power.”
The stranger ’s fingers curled like a cat deciding whether to use its claws
or keep them retracted. “Don’ t be rash. I’m here because I know you. Don’ tact surprised, either. It’s time to be frank, isn’ t it? A prince who is running
away from a throne must be very confused, don’ t you agree?”
Mara watched Siddhartha hesitate in his reply. His bantering with the
youth had not been for his own amusement. It went deeper than that. The
shapes he took, the words he spoke were all part of a test. He wanted to find
the best way to penetrate Siddhartha’ s mind, and so he circled it like a
surgeon finding the exact place for the first cut. “I didn’ t tell you my name because I was a little of fended,” said Mara. “You know me very well, and yet you of fered no greeting. Is that any way
to behave?”
Siddhartha shuddered slightly. He had never seen this shape before, but
the voice in the darkness raised faint, troubled memories of a voice he had
once heard in his head. V isions of his mother ’s lifeless body shrieked
through his mind. “See,” Mara hissed. “He’ s starting to be convinced.”
Then the demon’ s body jerked fitfully, twisting and bending in places
where there were no joints. The tall young man became a floppy doll, which
collapsed to the ground. Now its limbs folded into one another, turning into
a crouched dwarf. Siddhartha froze in place, and the hummock became a
formless mass that palpi tated, waiting to take on whatever form his terror
dictated. Whether from horror or a reserve of strength that he didn’ t know
he possessed, Siddhartha’ s mind became silent, without thought. “Nothing to say to me? Really?” Mara taunted. “After all we’ve been
through.” Now Siddhartha saw a funeral pyre, a skull crumbling to ashes. His nostrils were filled with the stench of death. Mara was confident that these reminders would create a crack, that
riding the crest of terror, he could penetrate Siddhartha’ s mind. It was
important to Mara that he do this, because to bring down the prince by his
own fear was far better than using a tool, even one as talented as Devadatta.“I don’ t know what you’re talking about,” Siddhartha said quietly. It
was a deceptive quiet because inside himself he felt a battle being fought on
the edge of awareness. It wasn’ t a battle of words or images; everything
proceeded silently, like a creeping epidemic or like foul, noxious air seeping
through a cracked windowpane. This was no stranger. Siddhartha had known all along who he was and
that his name was Mara. He felt trapped and helpless. All his life he had
endured the demon’ s attentions on the periphery of his mind. “What do you want of me?”
Mara of fered his hand. “I want to teach you. I want to help.” He smiled,
but the taint of his intentions marred the ef fort. Siddhartha didn’ t take the
proffered hand. He sank on the ground, burying his face between his knees. If he was the special tar get of Mara’ s intentions, there must be a reason. It
could be great sin or great weakness on his part, but Siddhartha knew this
wasn’ t the case. It was nothing he had ever done that attracted the demon. Therefore, it had to be something he might  do. The fact that he hadn’ t
defeated Mara in one night didn’ t mean he would always fail. Mara scowled, watching the motionless youth crouched before him. It
was a delicate moment. He could feel the workings of Siddhartha’ s mind;
gradually the crack that Mara had found began to close up again. Siddhartha
began to feel calmer. His mind had created a train of ar gument that he could
believe in. He would vanquish the demon, not by resisting him but by
finding a place that was already safe from him. Siddhartha didn’ t know
where that place was yet, but with an uncanny certainty he knew it existed. Siddhartha looked up, seeing the full moon overhead, and he realized that
no one was looming over him anymore and no shadow appeared except the
one cast by the high walls of the maze. Mara, who had shed his mortal form, watched the prince leave without
pursuing him. The demon felt that a great secret had been stripped from
him, and by someone so guileless and young. Siddhartha had figured out
that demons enter the mind when we resist them. The stronger our ef forts to
fortify ourselves against temptation, the stronger temptation has us in its
grip. Mara sighed. But his confidence wasn’ t shaken. He still had his allies.The coming battle would be interesting, which wasn’ t often the case. He
was irked, but he wouldn’ t be defeated. Of that Mara could be certain. OceanofPDF.com8
The day after the banquet everyone’ s attention shifted to the king’ s
entertainments and the part that his son, now elevated in the world’ s eyes,
would play. No one saw the prince, however. The next morning Canki was
summoned to Suddhodana’ s chambers, where he found father and son
huddled together. Siddhartha looked away, lost in his own private world. Obviously his father had been hammering at him, with less and less ef fect. “Tell him,” Suddhodana commanded the moment Canki entered the
room. “Put some sense in his head. He has to understand how serious this
is.”
“The prince knows his duties very well, Y our Highness,” Canki began. Jumping to his feet Suddhodana erupted. “Stop it! I don’ t need a
politician. The boy doesn’ t understand anything.”
“What exactly is the matter?” Canki resorted to his most placating tone. Suddhodana glared at him. “I’ve arranged mock combats for tomorrow. The army has been readied. I want him” —he pointed at his son—“to fight
the way he’ s supposed to.”
Canki turned to Siddhartha. “And you refused? I’m surprised.”
Siddhartha kept silent. Canki already knew about the war games and the
zeal that Suddhodana had put into them. The king didn’ t want to stop at
creating awe among his guests. He wanted them to witness firsthand whatwould happen to anyone who had secret hopes of defeating the son after the
father was gone. It was like going back to old times. The army had been roused from its
long, lazy slumber. “Tell them they’re fighting for real,” Suddhodana had
ordered. “Three gold pieces to the bloodiest warriors at the end of the day. Nothing impresses like blood.” Instead of dulling their swords and padding
themselves with straw, his soldiers prepared to give and take real wounds. The only limit was that no blow should be deliberately fatal. “If you hit him
and he doesn’ t get up again, consider your enemy dead, for this one day
only,” the generals instructed. From the Shiva temple’ s perch on the hill, Canki had looked over the
plain stretched before the palace, filled day after day with military
exercises. Suddhodana rode among his troops, nodding with approval the
bloodier the games got. Behind him rode Siddhartha, looking pensive but
raising no objections. Obviously, however, when the time came for him to
lead the combat, he had balked. Canki didn’ t want to be caught between them, but he didn’ t dare
disobey the king. “Are you afraid to fight?” he asked Siddhartha. The
prince shook his head but didn’ t offer a word


  them to hands  together clasped in prayer position at the
heart—that is, no pain at all in the throat. She still felt run down and had a
runny nose, but she was laughing. Tapping was entertaining to her. We kept
going. A few minutes later, “Mom’ s not here to be with me,” arose as a big
wide-armed upset, as I’d expected. We tapped on the sadness that Mom has
always been here but now she’s not, that Tasha was mad at Mom for not
being there, that she believes Mom should be there with her all the time,
and more. Not surprisingly, tapping on these feelings caused her stuffy nose
and the run-dow n feeling to disappear as easily as the sore throat. She nolonger missed Mom, either. The whole session took maybe fifteen minutes,
if that. Soon thereafter, Tasha was outside playing with her friends. Tapping on Childr en’s Owies, Aches, and Pains
The children I have worked with and those who are tappers on their own
rarely need much time tapping to feel better. I sometimes work  with props,
such as stuffed animals (of theirs or one I have on hand) or puppets. Children can also tap on their parents and it will work. Usually, a child and
I tap on the critter as if he or she were experiencing the child’ s symptoms. For example, in the case of a child suffering from a stomach  ache, you
might suggest that the little one tap on his or her stuffed critter, saying that
Mr. Bear has a tummy ache, and it might help if you tap on these feel-good
points. Here are some words to suggest getting the child started: “Even
though (this teddy bear) is hurting in his stomach, s/he is a good bear and I
love her/him very much.”
I’ll suggest children tap on Mom or Dad instead of tapping on themselves
first if parents are okay with it. Doing so gives the children an added feeling
of empo werment. Other times I’ll have Mom or Dad tap as if they were the
child while the child watches. This also works. Remember surrogate
tapping? Surrogate T apping Symptoms
You can tap on yourself as if you were your child, even if the child is not in
your immediate  vicinity. Surrogate tapping works as long as you can stay
neutral about your own feelings, and it may take practice tapping to feel
really confident about this use of EFT. You might first tap on all the
concerns you have about your child’ s illness, and alternate tapping on your
own fears and concerns and your child’ s symptoms. How do you tap
surrogate with a child? Put yourself in their shoes and imagine what they
would say if they were tapping. Going Deeper with SymptomsDoes one part of your body seem to get stricken more often, such as your
sinuses, tummy, or throat? Are you tapping as you read? It can help. When you do get sick, is it always in the same place with the same
symptoms? Target that part when you are not sick. Try tapping with EFT
setups focused on that part of your body for seven days in a row: your
beliefs, thoughts, and experience s of being sick in that way or place. Tap on
any incidents that come to mind and you will be tapping on whatever
emotions are harbored in those body areas so you won’ t have to get sick. You are thus creating more resilience in that particular area of your body
and life. Sometimes after a person has had an injury, that area of their body in
which they were injured seems to become a repository for chronic pain. Often you will find that emotions from troubling events are housed in that
area of your body. In the case of the client with phantom limb pain, it gets
even more interesting. Each time she thought of certain specific  incidents in
her life such as the loss of her partner, the conflict with her form er mother -
in-law, the difficulties with the doctors who didn’ t help or listen, the pain in
her “unfoot” would increase. She would feel very specific pain that was
quite descriptive, and it almost seemed like she was being tortured. As we
tapped down on the specific events, the pain cleared. More on Sickness as Metaphor
Expressions we use every day offer clues: “I have a pain in the neck”: Who
or what might that be? “It feels like I’ve been stabbed in the back”: When
do you feel stabbed in the back? “My hands are tied”: When do you feel
this way? “It’s a real thorn in my side”: Who or what do you believe is a
thorn in your side? “I’m having a hard time digesting that”: What can’t you
accept? “It feels like the weight  of the world is on my shoulde rs”: Who or
what are you carrying? Your answers are your own; it’s not as though the
person is really in or on there. You’re investigating your feeling s about that
person.A client named Jack had excruciating back pain he described as “a stab in
the back.” As we tapped on the current-day pain, it came out that he had
been betrayed by a fellow weigh tlifter who had figuratively “stabbed him in
the back” by letting the weights he was supposed to be spotting fall on Jack. As we resolved that memory, an even earlier memory of back pain came up
that I considered  a core issue. Again, core issues are events that play a role
in shaping our lives. As it happ ened, his little brother used to tell on him
even when he had done nothing wrong. Jack’ s father would suddenly slam
him on the back  in that exact place. Jack was stabbed in the back by his
father and his little brother. As a result, Jack believed the world wasn’ t a
safe place to be in, and he had carried feelings of betrayal with him all his
life. Additionally, he had become a fitness junkie in order to bulk up and
become invulnerable against his father. As we worked, his pain decreased to
the point where he could resume working out and begin to trust others
again. Buried negative emotions relating to chronic or longstanding  pain or
illness can be disrupting to our energy system. Sometimes we cannot deal
with the big feelings or traumat ic event at the time it happens, so we bury
the experience in our body. For exam ple, Carrie came to see me for sciatica she’d had for twenty
years, and it was now threateni ng to put her on disability. I asked Carrie
when she remembered first feeling a pain like this, and she recalled that it
started around the time she left home, when she partnered with a man her
mother didn’ t like. The last thing her mother said to Carrie as she left was,
“It’s never going to work and you’re going to go to hell.” What a pain in the
butt thing to say. As we tapped, Carrie became keenly aware of emotions she had never
expressed about her mother ’s words, and that her mom had been a pain in
the butt all these years. She tapped on her mom being a literal pain in the
butt. As we tapped, her pain was jumping all over the place, in her leg and
throughout her body. We kept chasing it. When done, she could walkwithout pain for the first time in years and was able to continue working
full time. When Sick, Ask Y our Immune System to Pay Attention
When you feel sick or at the first hint of a cold or scratchy throat, you might
try something I do. It’s not Gold Standard EFT per se, but it does involve
tapping. My mentor, Reneé Brown, suggests speaking directly to your immune
system and tapping with your requests to feel better. Your body may
surprise you in its ability to respond and heal. I ask my immun e system to
pay special attention to any harmful or unhealthy viruses or infections and
the like that are hurting my body right now. I acknowledge the symptoms I
am feeling. Then I pair that with a request to the immune syste m to adjust
or reboo t, tapping all the way. Here are some of the types of phrases I have
used on myself:
Even though I’m feeling sick, I’m asking my immune system to pay
attention to any unwanted infections, invaders, or strange viruses
floating through my system and neutralize them. Even though my throat is all scratchy and sore, I ask my immune
system to cool and soothe the mucus membranes in my throat and
body. I’m asking my immune system to step it up a bit, to strengthen and
recognize infections that don’t belong in my body and increase its
function in a gentle, easy, natural, and healing manner, for the entirety
of my being and highest good. Even though my immune system  is overreacting to [substance)], I want
my body to know that we’re safe, and that this is not life-threatening,
so we can dial the immune response down a couple notches so I can
function.I’m asking for my body to send soothing, cooling energy to my
inflamed joints in a way that is gentle, easy, and kind to my system to
release the toxicity. I choose to know that my immune system is
healthy, fully functioning, and effectively taking care of this infection. I
allow my immune system to balance and


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p a t t e r n s  a t  t h e  N o r t h  P o l e,  a n d  t h o u g h t s  o f  t r u e  p e a c e  i n
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t o  t r y  t o  g e t  i t  r i g h t. T h e  P o w e r  o f  L a n g u a g e

O n e  o f  t h e  g i f t s  w e  c a n  g i v e  o u r  c h i l d r e n  i s  t o  t e a c h  t h e m
t h e  m e t a p h y s i c a l  p o w e r  o f  w o r d s. “ I  h a t e  s c h o o l, ”
“ E v e r y b o d y  h a t e s  m e, ”  a n d  “ I ’ m  n o t  g o o d - l o o k i n g  e n o u g h ”
a r e  p o w e r f u l  s t a t e m e n t s  t h a t  s e e m  i n n o c u o u s  b u t  a r e  n o t. I t
b e h o o v e s  u s  a s  p a r e n t s  t o  t e a c h  o u r  c h i l d r e n  t h a t  w h a t  w e
p r o c l a i m  t o  b e  t r u e  w i l l  t h e n  s e e m  t o  b e  t r u e. A t  t i m e s  I ’ v e
c a u g h t  m y s e l f  s a y i n g  n e g a t i v e  t h i n g s  I  d o n ’ t  e v e n  b e l i e v e,
g i v i n g  i n  t o  a  k i n d  o f  m e n t a l  s e l f - i n d u l g e n c e  t h a t  i s  t h e
e n e m y  o f  h a p p i n e s s. I n  f a c t,  t r a i n i n g  o u r  m i n d s  i s  a s
i m p o r t a n t  a s  t r a i n i n g  o u r  b o d i e s  a n d  i s  j u s t  a s  i m p o r t a n t  t o
o u r  h e a l t h. B e c a u s e  o f  t h e  w o r k  I  d o,  I  r e c e i v e  m a n y  l e t t e r s  f r o m
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
s o l d i e r ’ s  f a t h e r  a s k i n g  f o r  a  p r a y e r,  o r  a  p a t i e n t  b a t t l i n g
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


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d o i n g  i n  t h e  w o r l d. A t  l a s t  I ’ m  c o n v i n c e d  I  h a v e  a  r i g h t  t o
b e  h e r e. I ’ m  n o t  a s  f r a n t i c  a s  I  u s e d  t o  b e,  t h o u g h  I  c a n ’ t  t e l l
y e t  w h e t h e r  t h a t ’ s  b e c a u s e  I ’ v e  e v o l v e d  o r  j u s t  a g e d. O n  t h e
o t h e r  h a n d,  I  g e t  t i r e d  m o r e  e a s i l y,  I  o f t e n  c a n ’ t  r e m e m b e r
t h i n g s,  a n d  I ’ m  e x h a u s t e d  f r o m  j u s t  l o o k i n g  f o r  m y  g l a s s e s
a l l  t h e  t i m e. M o s t  d i s c o n c e r t i n g  o f  a l l,  w h e n  I ’ m  i n  a
s e r i o u s  m o o d  a n d  I  d o  t h e  m a t h,  I  c a n ’ t  g a r n e r  m u c h  h o p e
o f  c h a n g i n g  t h i n g s  o n  t h i s  p l a n e t  d u r i n g  t h e  t i m e  I  h a v e  l e f t. O u r  g e n e r a t i o n ’ s  s h a r e d  d e l u s i o n  t h a t  w e  w o u l d  u s h e r  i n
p a r a d i s e  h a s  b e e n  c o m p l e t e l y  s h a t t e r e d. T h e  o l d e r  y o u  g e t,
t h e  m o r e  y o u  s e e  h o w  e n t r e n c h e d  c e r t a i n  n e g a t i v e s  a r e. T h e r e  i s  s o  m u c h  c r u e l t y  i n  t h e  w o r l d  t h a t  y o u  t h o u g h t  f o r
y e a r s  w o u l d  g o  a w a y ;  a s  y o u  a g e,  i t  d a w n s  o n  y o u  t h a t  i t
n e v e r  r e a l l y  d o e s. A s  d i s i l l u s i o n i n g  a s  i t  i s  t o  r e a l i z e  t h e s e  t h i n g s — a n d
d i s i l l u s i o n m e n t  i s  a c t u a l l y  a  g o o d  t h i n g  b e c a u s e  i t  m e a n s
y o u  w e r e  l a b o r i n g  u n d e r  i l l u s i o n s  b e f o r e * — i t ’ s  a l s o  t h e
b e g i n n i n g  o f  s p i r i t u a l  i n s i g h t. O n c e  y o u ’ r e  d e e p l y
c o n v i n c e d  t h e r e  a r e  n o  u l t i m a t e  a n s w e r s  o u t s i d e  y o u r s e l f,
y o u  s t a r t  l o o k i n g  f o r  t h e m  w h e r e  t h e y  t r u l y  a r e :  i n s i d e. A n d
y o u  r e a l i z e  t h a t  i n  y o u r  s l o w i n g  d o w n,  y o u ’ r e  m o r e
p r e p a r e d  t o  l i s t e n  t o  t h i n g s  y o u  w e r e  m o v i n g  t o o  f a s t  b e f o r e
t o  h e a r. S o  m u c h  w a s t e d  t i m e,  s o  m a n y  s t u p i d  m i s t a k e s. Y o u  f e e l
y o u  h a v e  t h e  k n o w l e d g e  n o w,  b u t  y o u ’ r e  n o t  s u r e  y o u  h a v e
t h e  e n e r g y  l e f t :  i f  o n l y  y o u  h a d  k n o w n  t h e n  w h a t  y o u  k n o wn o w. Y o u  c o m e  t o  u n d e r s t a n d  G e o r g e  B e r n a r d  S h a w ’ s
c o m m e n t,  “ Y o u t h  i s  w a s t e d  o n  t h e  y o u n g. ”
O u r  a d r e n a l  g l a n d s  d e c i m a t e d,  o u r  c e l l s  l i k e  f a s t  c a r s
b e g i n n i n g  t o  s h o w  w e a r,  t h e  f a s t e s t  g e n e r a t i o n  h a s  b e g u n  t o
s l o w  d o w n. J a c k  N i c h o l s o n  s a i d  i n  a  r e c e n t  i n t e r v i e w,  “ M y
g e n e r a t i o n  i s  t h e  n e w  o l d. ”  O u r  d e e p e s t  b u r d e n  i s  t h e
a c c u m u l a t e d  s o r r o w,  t h e  h e a r t b r e a k  o f  o n e  d e c a d e
i m p i n g i n g  u p o n  t h e  n e x t  u n t i l  t h e  h e a r t  c a n  a b s o r b  n o  m o r e. Y o u r  m i n d  h a s  f i g u r e d  s o  m u c h  o u t,  b u t  y o u r  b o d y  i s n ’ t
s u r e  t h a t  i t  c a r e s  a n y m o r e. W h e n  i t ’ s  m o r e  d e p r e s s i n g  t h a n
j o y f u l  t o  w a k e  u p  i n  t h e  m o r n i n g,  t h e n  y o u  k n o w  y o u  h a v e
a  p r o b l e m. A n d  m a n y  d o. M o s t  p e o p l e


 e s. W e  d i e d  t o  w h o  w e  u s e d  t o  b e,  t h a t ’ s  t r u e,  b u t  w h ow e  w i l l  b e  n o w  i s  a  s p i r i t  r e b o r n  a n d  r e f r e s h e d. T h e  f e v e r
h a s  b r o k e n,  t h e  t e a r s  h a v e  d r i e d,  a n d  w e  e m e r g e  a g a i n  i n t o
t h e  l i g h t  o f  o u r  t r u e  b e i n g. S u c h  i s  t h e  r e s u r r e c t i o n,  t h e  l i g h t
o f  G o d  u p o n  o u r  s o u l s. R e b i r t h

T h e r e  i s  p a s s i o n  t o  t h e  c r u c i f i x i o n,  b u t  t h e r e  i s  p a s s i o n  t o
t h e  r e s u r r e c t i o n  a s  w e l l. I t  c a n n o t  b e  s e e n  w i t h  p h y s i c a l
e y e s,  h o w e v e r,  f o r  t h e  e m e r g e n c e  o f  a  r e b o r n  s e l f  i s  n o t  a
m a t e r i a l  o c c u r r e n c e. Y o u  h a v e  t h e  s a m e  e y e s,  b u t  t h e r e  i s  a
n e w  l i g h t  i n  t h e m. Y o u  h a v e  t h e  s a m e  b r a i n,  b u t  i t  o p e r a t e s
d i f f e r e n t l y. Y o u  h a v e  t h e  s a m e  h e a r t,  b u t  i t  i s  b e a t i n g  w i t h
H i s  n o w. A n d  t h e  r e s u r r e c t i o n  i s  n o t  a  m o m e n t  b u t  a
p a t t e r n. F o r  e v e r y  t w o  s t e p s  i n t o  t h e  l i g h t,  w e  m i g h t  f a l l  o n e
s t e p  b a c k  i n t o  d a r k n e s s. B u t  o n c e  w e  a r e  o n  t h e  w a y  u p,
o n c e  w e  h a v e  g l i m p s e d  t h e  O n e  w h o  h a s  p r o m i s e d  t o  t a k e
u s  t h e r e,  t h e r e  i s  n o  r e a l  g o i n g  b a c k. I t  d o e s n ’ t  m a t t e r  w h a t  a n y o n e  s a y s  o r  d o e s  t o  t r y  t o  s t o p
y o u. Y o u ’ r e  o n  y o u r  w a y  t o  a  b r a n d - n e w  l i f e,  n o t  j u s t  f o r
y o u r s e l f  b u t  f o r  o t h e r s  a s  w e l l. Y o u  a r e  n o t  a  m a r t y r ;  y o u ’ r e
a  t e a c h e r  o f  l o v e. Y o u  h a v e  s e e n  t h e  l i g h t,  a n d  y o u  a r e
w a l k i n g  t o w a r d  i t. J u s t  k n o w  w h o  y o u  a r e  a n d  W h o  l i v e s  w i t h i n  y o u. H e  i s
r i s e n,  a n d  s o  a r e  y o u. T h e  P o w e r  o f  F a i t h

I n  b o t h  t h e  B i b l e  a n d  A  C o u r s e  i n  M i r a c l e s  i t  i s  s t a t e d,
“ B l e s s e d  a r e  t h o s e  w h o  h a v e  f a i t h  w h o  c a n n o t  s e e. ”  I t ’ s
e a s y  t o  b e l i e v e  i n  l o v e  w h e n  y o u ’ r e  s u r r o u n d e d  b y
k i n d n e s s ;  i t ’ s  n o t  s o  e a s y  w h e n  y o u ’ r e  c o n f r o n t e d  w i t h  t h e
j u d g m e n t s  a n d  t h e  a t t a c k s  o f  t h e  w o r l d. F a i t h  i s  a n  a s p e c t  o f  c o n s c i o u s n e s s. W e  e i t h e r  h a v e  f a i t h
i n  t h e  l o v e  t h a t  i s  e t e r n a l l y  t r u e  o r  f a i t h  i n  t h e  i l l u s i o n s  o f
t h e  e g o. I n  t h a t  s e n s e,  t h e r e  i s  n o  s u c h  t h i n g  a s  a  f a i t h l e s s
p e r s o n. I f  y o u  h a v e  f a i t h  i n  t h e  r e a l i t y  o f  d i s a s t e r,  t h e n
d i s a s t e r  w i l l  b e  r e a l  f o r  y o u. I f  y o u  h a v e  f a i t h  i n  a  r e a l i t y  o f
l o v e  t h a t  l i e s  b e y o n d  a  d i s a s t e r,  t h e n  y o u  b e c o m e  a n
o p e n i n g  f o r  i t s  t r a n s f o r m a t i o n. T h e  m i r a c l e  w o r k e r  d o e s  n o t
l o o k  a w a y  f r o m  d a r k n e s s,  b u t  t h r o u g h  i t  t o  t h e  l i g h t  b e y o n d. F a i t h  i s  a  k i n d  o f  p o s i t i v e  d e n i a l :  w e  d o n ’ t  d e n y  t h a t
s o m e t h i n g  i s  h a p p e n i n g  i n  t h e  p h y s i