 different. When the organism re ceives
water coming from the outside, it has to rework
the molecules, erase the useless information,
structure it and transform it into "its" molecules,
having the properties of the organism itself. To
do this, as well as for the digestion of food, the
body is forced to spend a certain amount of en-
ergy and time.
With DF all these processes do not take place,
and in this sense it is a more complete practice
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If no food enters the body and no heavy ("dead")
wate r, the blood does not receive harmful sub-
stances and has the chance to be constantly
cleansed by the organism. The same blood com-
position is repeatedly cleansed through the filter
systems and thus becomes perfectly pure. Dur-
ing a DF practice the blood purifies all the super-
fluous substances and the blood plasma becomes
transparent like glass, everything is re -harmo-
nized, including the coagulation factors. The DF
in this sense purifies the blood more completely
than a treatment of blood cleansing, hemodialy-
sis or haemabsorption.
The anti -inflammatory effect of dry fasting is
much more powerful than the effect achieved
with a water  fasting practice. This is because
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frinflammation cannot exist without water. In-
flamed areas swell. Micro -organisms, such as
microbes and viruses, multiply can only in a suf-
ficiently watery environment. It follows that a
water deficit is extremely counterproductive for
the inflammatory process. With a DF external
water is missing, therefore pathogenic microor-
ganisms immediately find an unfavorable envi-
ronment. Thanks to the dehydration established
by DF, the cells of the body and the pathogenic
microorganisms undertake a very strong com-
petition for the appropriation of water. The cells
of the body, in their home field, easily manage to
seize the water from the microorganisms and
not only that. In DF mode the body not only syn-
thesizes endogenous water,  but can also acquire
it from the air through skin absorption. This is
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shifts to an absorpt ion mode. Healthy and
strong cells receive an extra dose of energy and
water while the sick ones, viruses and bacteria
cannot do it. Microbes, viruses and worms die
instantly without water.
During a water  fasting practice, to reinforce the
detoxification process, special treatments are
used, such as enemas, hydrocolonotherapy,
Turkish bath, sauna, etc. During a dry fast, these
treatments are not needed because the body trig-
gers its own unique mechanisms, which neutral-
ize poisons and toxins. This does not happen in
any other form of fasting. During DF the toxins
burn in their own furnace: every cell, in the ab-
sence of water, triggers an internal thermal reac-
tion. The result is a sort of extreme and
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the waste, superfluous and pathological ele-
ments. Each cell temporarily transforms into a
mini -reactor and the internal temperature of the
body increases. This change in temperature may
not even be detected by a thermometer, but dur-
ing a DF the patients feel it as an internal heat, "a
fire" or chills. The temperature is an important
part of a series of defensive reactions. From ex-
perience we know that with fever all toxins are
eliminated; poisons and even tumor cell s fully
suspend their activity. This process accelerates
the healing. By reacting with a fever the organ-
ism causes microorganisms to slow their growth.
Slimming effect: during DF in the patient's or-
ganism receives neither food nor water, so there
is no external energy supply. The organism is
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nously, i.e. within itself. For this reason, unusual
chemical reactions begin to occur within the or-
ganism and metabolic processes are modified.
For example, less muscle tissue is lost compared
to adipose tissue. During a water fast, muscle
and fat tissue are reduced roughly in equal pro-
portions. During DF, however, the patient acts
somewhat like a camel. The reason is that the or-
ganism maintains its vital capacity at the ex-
pense of reserve fat. The adipose tissue is de-
stroyed very efficiently and does not regain its
initial volume. In fact, it is destroyed 3 -4 times
faster than muscle tissue because fat tissue is
made up of more than 90% water, while muscle
tissue remains relatively intact. The organism
does not suffer because of lack of water, because
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In DF the adipose tissue burns 3 times faster
than during a water fast. The burnt fat reserves
are not restored, unlike in water fa sting. It is pos-
sible to observe an early and better digestion of
fat deposits, compared to water fasting. After a
water fast the adipose tissue is restored more
quickly, especially when resuming the same diet
as before the fast, but with DF this occurs to  a
lesser extent. The nutrition based on organism’s
own reserves is perfectly balanced. The body
takes only what it needs from its reserves, rather
than what is artificially imposed from the out-
side.
Anti -aging effect. Why is the rejuvenation ef-
fect on the  body during DF greater than with a
water fast? The diseased, degenerate and weak
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they die and decompose. Which ones remain?
The cells with a good organization and a wide
and efficient genetic engineering; the ones that
are not afraid survive and maintain their func-
tions. This way fasting helps to discard the use-
less, weak, sick and harmful parasitic cells. They
do not exercise their functions and it is better to
clear them in time, without allowing them to die
of natural death otherwise they would be able to
generate offspring of more weak and inoperative
cells. After DF the strong cells remain, which, by
dividing, produce high quality offspring cells
with the same properties of the mother cells.

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trigger within the body?

8.1. The mechanism of toxins burning "in
their own furnace" and production of "endog-
enous" water
Many observe that dry fasting is better toler-
ated than water -based fasting, especially because
of the absence of hunger. This is not surprising.
The structure of the water from outside the body
and what the body actually assimilates are two
completely different things. The body processes
the molecules of the incoming water, it cleanses
superfluous informat ion, restructures and trans-
form them into its own molecules, with the
properties of the organism itself. To this end, as
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and energy is necessary. Dry fasting is more
complete precisely because it provides a fu ll rest
to the body. At the same time the body cannot
exist without water, for this purpose the body re-
serves are engaged, firstly from superfluous fat
(the body synthesizes water using oxygen from
the air and the hydrogen from the adipose tis-
sue).
During water fasting exogenous water (i.e.
from the outside) enters, and water is the main
factor of purification. Toxins are washed away
from the cells, from the intracellular space.
During DF, without water, there is no "wash-
ing" but rather a process of burning  the toxins
"in their furnace" meaning that every cell, in the
absence of water, begins an internal thermal
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 dramatica lly, and it will become ever easier to continue increasing the
percentage of raw foods that you eat.
At some point, you may begin to question why you are still eating the cooked foods a t all. Sure, you love them; the question is,
do they love you back? Cooked foods eventually show themselves for what they tr uly are: health destroyers. Though you may find
that you have many emotional attachments to your cooked food, in due time you wi ll come to no longer look at cooked food as a
“treat.”

“Detox” Symptoms: Cause for Celebration
Many people experience temporary symptoms of detoxification when they beg in a raw diet, as the body is no longer being
overloaded each day with so much toxic residue. The symptoms arise as the body  cleanses and heals naturally, releasing toxins into
the bloodstream that may have been buried deep within tissues and organs f or many years. The body is wise, however, and it
always eliminates toxins in a way that requires the least effort  and does itself the least harm.  Detoxification symptoms are generally mild but can range from uncomf ortable to downright miserable. They are really a cause
for celebration, however, as any discomfort in the present is sure to be les s severe and of shorter duration than the dis-ease it would
have become in the future.
Such symptoms often include tiredness, runny nose, headaches, digestiv e challenges, weight loss, skin conditions, and drops in
blood pressure. Less common but not unusual are diarrhea, vomiting, and all ma nner of retracing phenomena (reexperiencing past
symptoms to complete a healing process that was interrupted by medical in tervention or other forms of treatment). All of these and
other symptoms are indications that the body is making healthy adjustme nts.
Initially, intestinal gas problems may arise in people who have damage d digestive tracts. The intestines can hold food in little
“outpockets,” out of the main flow. There, stagnant foods may ferment or pu trefy and cause gas. Over time, the gas will diminish as
the intestines heal. Long-term gas problems on the raw vegan diet are  generally corrected by being attentive to proper food
combining.
Most of what is called “detox” is actually just the reaction of a body t hat is no longer being irritated or stimulated—effectively
“forced” to function. The secondary effect of stimulation is sedation. Th us it is common to feel tired when a person first attempts the
raw diet. It is not that the raw diet is making them tired; it is that th ey are actually “coming down” off of the influence of coffee,
refined sugars, meats, and other stimulating foods.

The Law of Dual Effect
The Law of Dual Effect states that those substances, influences, f orces, and conditions to which the body is subjected result in
two responses by the body:

The primary effect is the more acute of the two, and the shorter lastin g.
The secondary effect is less intense, but it lasts longer.

When we drink coffee, for instance, the primary effect is one of stimula tion. The secondary effect is only visible after the
primary effect has worn off. In this instance, the secondary effect of  coffee is to leave us even more tired than we were before
drinking the coffee. With our fractured view of health, we tend to look only at  the primary effect or acute influence of such a
substance while ignoring the secondary effect or chronic influenc e.
Each person is unique; therefore, the duration and degree of detoxificati on will vary. Detox can be intense or mild, and can last
from a few days to several years, depending on the individual’s health, v itality, environment, and the degree to which one follows a
healthy lifestyle.
We must also remember that we live in a constant state of retoxifyin g and detoxifying. In the course of our day, we absorb
environmental toxins, and the body works to eliminate them. We ingest foods, e ven the best sort, and the body creates toxic waste
as a result of its cellular metabolism. This toxin production is not caus e for worry, however, because we are equipped with kidneys
and a liver—eliminative organs designed to rid ourselves of these toxi ns. Should these organs become overloaded, the skin, lungs,
bowels, mucous membranes, and other areas of the body are equipped to help handle th e toxic load.

Which Road Do You Choose to Travel?
Eating raw poses many challenges, of that there is no doubt. But the benef its of this way of eating so far outweigh the negatives
that little room exists for argument against eating raw.
If we are honest with ourselves, there is simply no room for cooked food if we desi re a vibrantly healthy existence. It is like
any other journey. If you are going down the road that is taking you where you  want to go, you will likely continue to follow it. If you
find yourself going down a road that will not bring you to your desired destinat ion, of course you will switch roads.
At your chosen speed, cooked food can increasingly become a thing of your past. The re is no hurry; you can cross that bridge
when you come to it. Even then, you are not making an irreversible decision. In any case, I guarantee that after a year of eating low-
fat raw vegan food, should you choose to revert to your old style of eating, the hi gh-fat cooked foods will still be available.
But don’t be surprised if you discover that the 80/10/10  raw vegan diet is the sweet road to well-rounded health and
happiness.

Our Natural Diet: A Summary
In this age of junk food, manufactured foods, and agrochemicals, the issue of f ood quality has become increasingly important
for those who seek long, productive, vital lives. The relationship of health  to diet is becoming ever more profoundly obvious, and
more and more people are looking to increase the quality of their food than ever  before. The market for organically grown foods is
growing rapidly, and farmer’s markets are proliferating like neve r before as more and more of us are waking up to the necessity of a high-produce lifestyle for health and longevity.
Many years ago, the great health educator T.C. Fry, organized his though ts on how to make the finest food choices and came
up with these four excellent guidelines. I have reproduced these time less words of wisdom here, as a fitting summary to this chapter.

Criteria for Selecting the Highest-Quality Foods
By T.C. Fry
First Criterion
Can the food be eaten in its natural state? Is the food palatable, that is, delectable or delicious? Can it be e aten with keen
relish in its natural state?
If a food cannot be eaten with joy and delight to individuals in normal good heal th who have an unperverted sense of taste,
then the food must be considered to be of low quality. Eating should be a gustatory  delight. If a whole, fresh, ripe, raw, organic food
is a taste delight, it is perfect. Its quality is reduced commensurate  with the reduction in taste.
If the food cannot be ingested in its natural state—that is, uncooked, un processed and otherwise untampered with—it does
not belong in the human diet. We humans were for millions of years adapted t o a diet obtained directly from nature in its fresh raw
natural state. There have been no adaptations noted in human physiology t o the consumption of cooked, processed, or otherwise
devitalized foods. This determines the character of our diet and also the m anner in which we were accustomed to ingesting it.
Therefore, cooking and processing foods to make them palatable is unacceptable  to the health enthusiast. Cooking destroys
enzymes totally. While a healthy individual will synthesize some  1,000 enzymes required for digestion, assimilation, and utilization of
foods, the body is, nevertheless, dependent upon the enzymatic action of the foods  for the most perfect digestion. Consequently, it is
absolutely essential that our foods have their full complement of enzy mes intact.
Cooking is the worst “health” practice that humans have ever adop ted. It destroys not only the enzymes but deranges and
destroys almost all known food factors. Cooking disorganizes, oxidizes and makes n onusable a food’s mineral content. It
deaminates the food’s protein content, thus rendering it worthless i n human nutrition. Cooking reduces the value of a food from its
wholesome state all the way down to worthless ashes, depending on the degre e of cooking to which it has been subjected.
To the extent that a food has been cooked––reduced to inorganic minerals, c aramelized sugars and starches, coagulated and
deaminated proteins, poisonous acrolein-laden fats, devitalized vit amins, and the like––it is not only worthless, but the ash becomes
toxic debris in the body.
That cooked foods are poisonous in the body is easily demonstrable. White blood cells f unction as janitors in the blood. A
normal white count is around 3 million. If toxic substances enter the bloods tream, the white blood cell count will rise, rapidly and
dramatically, in order to clean up the blood. After eating a cooked meal, the wh ite count typically rises as high as 15 or even 18
million, and even higher. After eating


ancid rapidly upon very brief exposure to air. The danger here isthat rancidity in vegetable oil is virtually unnoticeable. Rancid animal fat on theother hand, smells “off.” Eating rancid oil is a sure-fire way to accelerate aging,invite degenerative conditions in general, and enhance the likelihood of cancer. I
recommend that you use only high-quality virgin olive oil, the only generally-
available fat that is largely monosaturated. (Pearson and Shaw, 1983)
When you buy vegetable oil, even olive oil, get small bottles so you use them
up before the oil has much time being exposed to air (as you use the oil air fills thebottle) or, if you buy olive oil in a large can to save money, immediately uponopening it, transfer the oil to pint jars filled to the very brim to exclude virtually allair, and seal the jars securely. In either case, keep now-opened, in-use smallbottles of oil in the refrigerator because rancidity is simply the combination of oilwith oxygen from the air and this chemical reaction is accelerated at warmertemperatures and slowed greatly at cold ones.
Chemical reactions typically double in speed with every 10 degrees C.
increase in temperature. So oil goes rancid about six times faster at normal roomtemperature than it does in the fridge. If you’ll think about the implications of thisdata you’ll see there are two powerful reasons not to fry food. One, the food iscoated with oil and gains in satiety value at the expense of becoming relativelyindigestible and productive of toxemia. Secondly, if frying occurs at 150 degreesCentigrade and normal room temperature is 20 degrees Centigrade, then oil goesrancid 2 to the 13th power faster in the frying pan, or about 8,200 times faster.Heating oil for only ten minutes in a hot skillet induces as much rancidity as about6 weeks of sitting open and exposed to air at room temperature. Think about thatthe next time you’re tempted to eat something from a fast food restaurant wherethe hot fat in the deep fryer has been reacting with oxygen all day, or even forseveral days.
Back to butter, where we started. If you must have something traditionally
northern European on your bread, you are far better off to use butter, notmargarine. However, Mediterranean peoples traditionally dip their bread in high-quality extra-virgin olive oil that smells and tastes like olives. Its delicious, why nottry it. But best yet, put low-sugar fruit preserves on your toast or develop a tastefor dry toast. Probably the finest use for butter is melted over steamed vegetables.
This way only small quantities are needed and the fat goes on something that is
otherwise very easy to digest so its presence will not produce as many toxins inthe digestive tract.
Milk, Meat, And Other Protein Foods
Speaking of butter, how about milk? The dairy lobby is very powerful in North
America. Its political clout and campaign contributions have the governments ofboth the United States and especially that of Canada eating out of its hand(literally), providing the dairy industry with price supports. Because of these pricesupports, in Canada cheese costs half again more than it does in the UnitedStates. The dairy lobby is also very cozy with the medical profession so licensednutritionists constantly bombard us with “drink milk” and “cheese is good for you”propaganda.
And people naturally like dairy foods. They taste good and are fat-rich with a
high satiety value. Dairy makes you feel full for a long time. Dairy is also high inprotein; protein is hard to digest and this too keeps one feeling full for a long time.But many people, especially those from cultures who traditionally (genetically)didn’t have dairy cows, particularly Africans, Asians and Jews, just do notproduce the enzymes necessary to digest cows milk. Some individuals belongingto these groups can digest goats milk. Some can’t digest any kind except humanbreast milk. And some can digest fermented milk products like yogurt and kiefer.Whenever one eats a protein food that is not fully digestible, it putrefies in thedigestive tract, with all the bad consequences previously described.
But no one, absolutely no one can fully digest pasteurized cows milk, which is
what most people use because they have been made to fear cow-transmitteddiseases and/or they are forced to use pasteurized dairy products by healthauthorities. I suspect drinking pasteurized milk or eating cheese made frompasteurized milk is one of the reasons so many people develop allergic reactionsto milk. Yet many states do not allow unpasteurized dairy to be sold, even
privately between neighbors. To explain all this, I first have to explain a bit more
about protein digestion in general and then talk about allergies and how they canbe created: and if you’ve read this book carefully and remember everythingyou’ve read, please forgive me; I am going to repeat a few things said in aprevious chapter about digestion in general..
Proteins are long, complex molecules, intricate chains whose individual links
are amino acids. Proteins are the very stuff of life. All living protoplasm, animal orplant, is largely composed of proteins. There are virtually an infinite number ofdifferent proteins but all are composed of the same few dozen amino acidshooked together in highly variable patterns. Amino acids themselves are highlycomplex organic molecules too. The human body custom-assembles all itsproteins from amino acids derived from digesting protein foods, and can alsomanufacture small quantities of certain of its own amino acids to order, but thereare eight amino acids it cannot make and these are for that reason called essentialamino acids. Essential amino acids must be contained in the food we eat..
Few proteins are water soluble. When we eat proteins the digestive apparatus
must first break them down into their water-soluble components, amino acids, sothese can pass into the blood and then be reassembled into the various proteinsthe body uses. The body has an interesting mechanism to digest proteins; it usesenzymes. An enzyme is like the key for a lock. It is a complex molecule thatlatches to a protein molecule and then breaks it apart into amino acids. Then theenzyme finds yet another protein molecule to free. Enzymes are efficient, reusablemany many times.
Enzymes that digest proteins are effective only in the very acid environment of
the stomach, are manufactured by the pancreas and are released when proteinfoods are present. The stomach then releases hydrochloric acid and churns awaylike a washing machine, mixing the enzymes and the acid with the proteins untileverything has digested.
So far so good. That’s how its supposed to be. But. Dr. Henry Bieler, who
wrote Food Is Your Best Medicine,  came up with the finest metaphor I know of
to explain how protein digestion goes wrong. He compared all proteins to thewhite of an egg (which is actually a form of protein). When raw and liquid, thelong chains of albumen (egg white) proteins are in their natural form. However,cook the egg and the egg white both solidifies and becomes smaller. What hashappened is that the protein chains have shriveled and literally tied themselves intoknots. Once this happens, pancreatic enzymes no longer fit and cannot separateall the amino acids. Cooked proteins may churn and churn and churn in thepresence of acid and pancreatic enzymes but they will not digest completely. Partbecomes water soluble; part does not.
But, indigestible protein is still subject to an undesirable form of consumption in
the gut. Various bacteria make their home in our airless, warm intestines. Some ofthese live on protein. In the process of consuming undigested proteins, theyrelease highly toxic substances. They poison us.
What is true of the white of an egg is also true of flesh foods and dairy. Raw
meat and raw fish are actually easily digestible foods and if not wrongly combinedwill not produce toxemia in a person that still has a strong pancreas. However,eating raw meat and fish can be a dicey proposition, both for reasons of culturalsensibility (people think it is disgusting) and because there may be living parasitesin uncooked flesh that can attack, sicken and even kill people. It has been arguedthat a healthy stomach containing its proper degree of acidity provides animpenetrable barrier to parasites. Perhaps. But how many of us are that healthythese days? Cooked flesh and fish seems more delicious to our refined, civilizedsensibilities, but are a poor food.
In my household we have no moral objection to eating meat. We do have an
ethical objection in that meat eating does not contribute to our health. But still, wedo eat it. A few times a year, for traditional celebrations we may invite thechildren over and cook a turkey. A few times for Thanksgiving when the children
were going through their holier-than-thou vegetarian stage, I purchased the
largest, thickest porterhouse steak I could find at the natural meat store and ate itmedium-rare, with relish. It was delicious. It made me feel full for hours and hoursand hours. I stayed flat on the couch and groggily worked on digesting it allevening. After that I’d had enough of meat to last for six months.
When milk is pasteurized, the proteins in it are also altered in structure. Not so
severely as egg white is altered by cooking because pasteurization happens at alower temperature. But altered none the less. And made less digestible.Pasteurizing also makes milk calcium far less assimilable. That’s ironic because somany people are drinking milk because they


 Hundreds of doctors have seen me do this.
We have taught nearly 1,000 people the basic principles of this
course, and many of them are medical doctors and chiropractors. 86 They are now using the RBTI tests and are amazed at the accuracy
of this even though all nine seminars have not yet been taught. We
have been teaching these seminars now for over two years.
My estimate is that 4% of all the people who take the seminars
will master them and to actually see the picture that these numbers in-dicate.
Numbers do paint pictures, as they too are a language. An archi-
tect must see the picture in his mind before he can take the math that he knows and make a blueprint of the building, the bridge, or whatev-er he is going to build. He must see every number and every piece of material it takes to make whatever the blueprint calls for before an es-timate of cost and time to build it can be completed. If an architect can
do that with a building why can't a biophysicist do it with a person's body? It can be done for I have done it.
I am not out to prove anything. I am out to make America the
healthiest nation on earth. I am teachin g principles that are in the Bi-
ble. When these principles are put into proper practice God will bless, God will honor, God will restore people to health.
Bad health is a result of disobedience to the laws God has made.
Good health is obedience to the laws that God has made.
I readily accepted the challenge to prove this when I taught the
first seminar.   87 CHAPTER 11
HOW A NEW CELL IS DEVELOPED

A new cell does not develop by dividing. It forms by a process of
ionization, the same way that a silver-plated, nickel-plated or chromi-um-plated process takes place.
The liver manufactures amino acids. (I have already explained
how amino acids are formed and established, etc.). Then on the end of a nerve when it is cut it forms little branches. On each end of these lit-tle branches it forms a stolon which is a cation of energy which lodges with nowhere else to go. This pr ocess repeats itself and a cell comes
into being. It does this on both sides of a cut, or bruise as an incision from an operation. This process is cal led knitting. If there is a mineral
deficiency adhesions form and the flesh is hard. But if the mineral is sufficient then no adhesions form. If the mineral is plentiful there will not even be a scar left from the ope ration. It may be a little lighter in
color, or maybe a bit of a marking there for a few months, or even a few years, but there will be no adhesions. All adhesions are caused by a mineral deficiency. Many times adhesions form within the body be-cause of a mineral deficiency when there has not been any operation because the worn-out cells are swelled and there is not enough mineral to force them into the blood stream, or to break them loose from the nerve ending, and for a new stolon to form and a new cell to come into
being.
Until the principle of the forming of a cell is understood, all diag-
nosis can be incorrect.
RBTI is not a system of diagnosis. It is a system of analysis. An analysis is something that is very accurate. It is very difficult
to find a group of doctors that agr ee on any diagnosis, but if one mil-
lion people did a RBTI test all of them would come up with the same answer and it would be accurate. (it is very easy to miss a diagnosis and to make a true analysis but it is impossible if your instruments and laboratory equipment are kept clean. However, humans being what they are, it is possible for a lack of training to misinterpret the analy-88 sis.) It practically eliminates human error because there are ways to
prove whether or not the mathematics of the RBTI is accurate or not.
If you can think of a jigsaw picture with only nine different pat-
terns of parts, but yet the parts of variable sizes, then you can imagine the shape and form of energy that makes up a human body, which is the most complicated of all the creatures God made.
If you would look at the brain under an ultraviolet ray microscope,
it would look like a series of little rods. These small rods are not the brain at all, they lead to brain ce lls which are round, and at the end of
each one of the rods is a very small round cello They are in clusters. Each one of the clusters causes us to do certain things. In the left quadrant of the brain rests the involuntary system of the body which controls the vagus nerve system. The right quadrant of the brain is the one that controls the muscular action. The frontal part of the brain controls our thoughts, our knowledge and etc. Whenever we wish to recall something we are using the frontal part of the brain. If there is a potassium deficiency then electrical impulses do not travel in the de-sired paths to locate the information in the cluster in which it is stored. Therefore, we are absent-minded. But don't let that excite you at all because absent-mindedness is a sign of genius.
Now, if it gets to the place where it is forgetfulness, it is rather se-
rious because then delta cells are beginning to form and maybe the re-call is gone forever.
Omega cells are premature aging and death has started. On a
peach, apple or banana, if there is a rotten spot, as far as that fruit is concerned that is complete loss of  reserve energy because it is de-
cayed flesh of that fruit. Decayed flesh in our system is complete loss of reserve energy.
We have cancers that are benign, that means they are contained,
and then we also have malignant cancers. However, a benign cancer may be malignant too, for it also may be growing very rapidly even though it is still benign. It is like a boil, which is a type of cancer. It has a rotten core in it, and that rotte n flesh is cancer in any man's lan-
guage. Any other rotten or decaying flesh is cancer, whether it is a 89 pimple on the face, or a sore on the leg or arm, or anywhere in the sys-
tem.
Our system should throw out a few hundred thousand delta cells
every day and replace them with new cells. This is the process of life. Every cell in our body, from the brain to the tip end of the too should be exchanged about every six months. The proof of that is the finger-nail. They grow out about every six months. As long as this is happen-
ing, cells being replaced throughout the whole system, you are in per-fect health, and in for a ripe old age. This is what the perfect equation denotes: How to grow old in good health.
Fifteen years ago I was called to the hospital early in the morning.
I had been there nearly all day with doctors on various patients that had accumulated while I had been out  of town. I had just gotten home
on a Friday afternoon and did not wish to go back to the hospital when the telephone rang with the message that they had a case and for me to come in. A woman, age 35, had broken out in hives two hours earlier from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet. You couldn't put a pin down on her body anywhere but what there was a hive. She was about as red as a beet. The doctor asked if I had any suggestions to make without coming to the hospital. "No," I said, "I can only come to that answer by asking the lady some questions first."
The three doctors had examined her and one called me about the
case.
I asked if the lady had had a family upset, family argument. No, she had not had any family upset. Had she had any bad news from anywhere that upset her, like an
illness or death in the family? No she hadn't had any of that.
How long after she ate did she have this attack? They said three
hours.
Did she have cold hands or cold feet? No cold hands, no cold feet. I then said that the hives were caused by a calcium imbalance, and
the only thing that could have thrown her calciums out of balance so quickly was a heart attack. I asked how long it took the hives to come on. They answered, "15 to 20 minutes."
Did she have sharp-shooting pains in her stomach or chest? 90 Yes, but it quickly went away.
How long from then until the hives broke out? From 20 to 30
minutes.
That meant the hives had broken out in a ten-minute period from
the top of her head to the tip of her feet. Then I said, "See if she has not had a heart attack, and if she has not had a heart attack then I will
come to the hospital. Call me back  within an hour, let me know one
way or the other."
One other question I had asked, Did she have deep wrinkles in her
forehead? The answer was, "Yes." This indicates inward tension and potential of heart attack.
The inward cause of body chemistry will cause outward effects on
the body. In the seminars we teach the students who take the numbers to be able to describe the person. They learn to describe the outward appearance. The numbers talk and give the inward appearance. (lf your wife sent you to town to get a


 your attempt to  speak of the unspeakable. It does not do a
very good job.
No, My son, the evolut ionists are not right.
I created all of this —all of this —in the  blink
of an eye; in one holy instant —just as the
creationists have said. And...it came  about
through a process of evolution taking
billions and billions of what you call  years,
just as the evo lutionists claim.
They are both “right.” As the cosmonauts
discovered, it all depends on how you look
at it.
But the real question is: one holy
instant/billions of years —what’s the
difference?  Can you simply agree that on
some of the questions of life the mystery is
too great  for even you to solve? Why not
hold the mystery as sacred? And why not allow the  sacred to be sacred, and leave it
alone?
I suppose we all have an insatiable need to
know.
But you already know! I’ve just told you! Yet
you don’t want to  know the Truth, you  want
to know the truth as you understand it. This
is the greatest barrier to your
enlightenment. You think you already know
the truth! You think you already  understand
how it is. So you agree with everything you
see or hear or read tha t falls  into the
paradigm of your understanding, and reject
everything which does not. And  this you call
learning. This you call being open to the
teachings. Alas, you can never  be open to
the teachings so long as you are closed to
everything save your own  truth.  Thus, will this very book be called
blasphemy —the work of the devil —by
some.
Yet those who have ears to hear, let them
listen. I tell you this: You were not meant  to
ever die. Your physical form was created as
a magnificent convenience; a  wonderful
tool; a glorious vehicle allowing you to
experience the reality you have  created
with your mind, that you may know the Self
you have created in your soul.
The soul conceives, the mind creates, the
body experiences. The circle is complete.
The soul then kn ows itself in its own
experience. If it does not like what it is
experiencing (feeling), or wishes a different
experience for any reason, it simply
conceives of a new experience of Self, and,
quite literally, changes its mind.  Soon the body finds itself in  a new
experience. (“I am the resurrection and the
Life” was a magnificent example of this.
How do you think Jesus did it anyway? Or
do you  not believe it ever happened?
Believe it. It happened!).
Yet this much is so: the soul will never
override the body or the mind. I made you
as a three -in-one being. You are three
beings in one, made in the image and
likeness  of Me.
The three aspects of Self are in no wise
unequal to each other. Each has a function,
but no function is greater than another, nor
does any f unction actually precede
another. All are interrelated in an exactly
equal way.  Conceive —create —experience. What you
conceive you create, what you create you
experience, what you experience you
conceive. That is why it is said, if you can
cause your body to experience something
(take abundance, for example), you will
soon have the feeling of it in your soul,
which will conceive of itself in a new way
(namely, abundant), thus presenting your
mind with a new thought about that. From
the new thought spri ngs more experience,
and the body begins living a new reality  as
a permanent state of being.
Your body, your mind, and your soul (spirit)
are one. In this, you are a microcosm of
Me—the Divine All, the Holy Everything,
the Sum and Substance. You see now ho w
I am the beginning and the end of
everything, the Alpha and the Omega.  Now I will explain to you the ultimate
mystery: your exact and true relationship to
Me.
YOU ARE MY BODY.
As your body is to your mind and soul, so,
too, are you to My mind and soul.
Therefore:
Everything I experience, I experience
through you.
Just as your body, mind, and spirit are one,
so, too, are Mine.
So it is that Jesus of Nazareth, among the
many who understood this mystery,  spoke
immutable truth when he said, “I and the
Father are One.” Now I will tell you,  there
are even larger truths than this to which you
will one day become privy. For  even as you are the body of Me, I am the body of
another.
You mean, You are not God?
Yes, I am God, as you now understand
Him. I am Goddess as  you now
comprehend  Her. I am the Conceiver and
the Creator of Everything you now know
and experience, and you are My
children...even as I am the child of another.
Are You trying to tell me that even God has
a God?
I am telling you that your perception of
ultimate reality is more limited than you
thought, and that Truth is more unlimited
than you can imagine. I am giving you  ever-
so-small a glimpse of infinity —and infinite
love. (A much larger glimpse and you  could not hold it in your reality. You can barel y
hold this).
Wait a minute! You mean I’m really not
talking with God here?
I have told you —if you conceive of God as
your creator and master —even as you  are
the creator and master of your own body —
I am the God of your understanding.  And
you are talking wi th Me, yes. It has been a
delicious conversation, no?
Delicious or not, I thought I was talking with
the real God. The God of Gods. You
know —the top guy, the chief honcho.
You are. Believe Me. You are.
And yet You say that there is someone
above You in thi s hierarchal scheme of
things.  We are now trying to do the impossible,
which is to speak of the unspeakable. As I
said, that is what religion seeks to do. Let
Me see if I can find a way to summarize
this.
Forever is longer than you know. Eternal is
longer than Forever. God is more than  you
imagine. God is the energy you call
imagination. God is creation. God is first
thought. And God is last experience. And
God is everything in between.
Have you ever looked down a high -
powered microscope, or seen pictures o r
movies  of molecular action, and said,
“Good heavens, there’s a whole universe
down there.  And to that universe, I, the
now-present observer, must feel like God!”
Have you  ever said that, or had that kind of
experience?  Yes, I should imagine every thinking person
has.
Indeed. You have given yourself your own
glimpse of what I am showing you here.
And what would you do if I told you that this
reality of which you have given yourself  a
glimpse never ends?
Explain that. I’d ask You to explain that.
Take the smallest part of the universe you
can imagine. Imagine this tiny, tiny  particle
of matter.
Okay.
Now cut it in half.
Okay.
What have you got?
Two smaller halves.  Precisely. Now cut those in half. What
now?
Two smaller halves.
Right. Now again, and again! What’s left?
Smaller and smaller particles.
Yes, but when does it stop? How many
times can you divide matter until it ceases
to exist?
I don’t know. I guess it never ceases to
exist.
You mean you can never completely
destroy it? All you can do is ch ange its
form?
It would seem so.
I tell you this: you have just learned the
secret of all of life, and seen into infinity.  Now I have a question to ask you.
Okay...
What makes you think infinity goes only
one way? —
So...there is no end going up, any more
than there is going down.
There is no up or down, but I understand
your meaning.
But if there is no end to smallness, that
means there is no end to bigness.
Correct.
But if there is no end to bigness, then there
is no biggest. That means, in the largest
sense, there is no God!
Or, perhaps —all of it is God, and there is
nothing else.  I tell you this: I AM THAT I AM.
And YOU ARE THAT YOU ARE. You
cannot not be. You can change form all you
wish, but you cannot fail to be. Yet you can
fail to know Who You Are —and in this
failing, experience only


organism to DMSO appeared to be D. pneumoniae  (now known as
Streptococcus pneumoniae ),9 which is a major cause of pneumonia and a host of
other infectious diseases such as meningitis, endocarditis, and brain abscesses.13
Shiga toxins from Shigella dysenteriae  or E. coli  inhibit cell-free protein synthe -
sis resulting in multiple cytotoxic effects including neurotoxicity and enterotoxicity. Shiga toxin secreted by Shigella also binds to specific receptors on the cells’ surface in order to attach and enter the cell where it can inactivate the 60S ribosomal subunit to inhibit protein synthesis and cause the destructive lesions seen in shigellosis. DMSO is reported to reduce the endocytosis that occurs after Shiga toxin release and prevent both the cytotoxicity and binding of the Shiga toxin, possibly by its ability to prevent mem -
brane permeability or by inhibiting translocation of the toxin from the cell surface.
14
It was assumed from Pottz et al.’s9 original study that DMSO’s antibacterial action
may have been through the neutralization of penicillinase, an enzyme produced by some bacteria that provide resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics like penicillin. Further TABLE 5.1
DMSO Bactericidal Activity
Test Microorganism DMSO Minimal Inhibitory Concentration
0 10 20 40 50
E. coli ++++ ++++ + − −
Aerobacter cloacae ++++ ++++ + − −
Pseudomonas aeruginosa ++++ ++++ ++ − −
Proteus vulgaris ++++ ++++ ++++ − −
S. aureus ** ++++ ++++ ++ − −
Streptococcus pyogenes * ++++ ++++ + − −
Salmonella schottmulleri ++++ ++ ++ − −
Diplococcus pneumoniae ++++ − − − −
Candida albicans ++++ + + − −
Notes:  *, beta-hemolytic streptococcus group A; **, coagulation positive; +, very
mild growth; ++, mild growth; ++++, strong growth in blood agar or broth
cultures; −, negative growth.9103 DMSO in Basic Microbiology
experimentation with DMSO to test the possibility that it neutralizes penicillinase’s
protective action on bacterial growth exposed to penicillin proved negative. Pottz et al.9
concluded from their extensive findings that the killing action of DMSO on bacteria was not through neutralization of penicillinase. Pottz’s study speculated that, instead, DMSO’s antibacterial action may have been due to dissolution of susceptible micro -
organisms by some unknown mechanism exerted by DMSO.
9 This assumption was
supported by microscopic analysis of D. pneumoniae smears, which showed that the
majority of these microbes had dissolved into a sediment after contact with DMSO.9
It is known that the gram-positive microbe S. aureus  can be cleared from murine
lungs by the bactericidal action exerted by phagocytosis from resident alveolar macrophages without significant contribution from polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs).
15 PMNs’ bactericidal intrapulmonary killing activity is more prominent
against gram-negative bacteria such as P. aeruginosa. Recent evidence indicates
that actual phagocytosis of bacteria may not be necessary for intrapulmonary kill of gram-positive microbes and that the majority of inhaled staphylococci in mice are killed without being ingested by resident alveolar macrophages.
16,17
One theory is that reactive oxygen metabolites, including the oxidant superoxide,
and the radical hydroxyl anion are secreted by phagocytes to create the alveolar bactericidal activity. With this in mind, DMSO was used to test its ability as an antioxidant and hydroxyl radical scavenger to see whether the rate of pulmonary bactericidal activity against P. aeruginosa  and S. aureus  was depressed in infected
mice. Intratracheal and aerosol delivery of these bacteria were given to mice.
18
DMSO at doses of 50–165 mg/mouse was administered intraperitoneally 30 min
before challenge with S. aureus  and pseudomonas delivered by either intratracheal
or aerosol route.18 DMSO was observed to have no activity in inhibiting macrophage
killing of S. aureus  but did cause a dose-dependent inhibition of pseudomonas clear -
ance from the lungs of treated mice,18 supporting the assumption that alveolar bac -
tericidal action against pseudomonas by PMNs is done through the production of reactive hydroxyl anions that are inhibited by the action of DMSO as a hydroxyl radical scavenger. Conversely, DMSO’s lack of effect in allowing the clearance of S. aureus  from infected murine lung suggests that phagocytic alveolar macrophages
fail to produce reactive oxygen for bactericidal activity,
19 but this assumption has
been challenged by others.20
The question arose whether using DMSO clinically for a variety of ailments
might predispose the user to bacterial infections by inhibiting phagocyte bactericidal activity. This concern grew from an in vitro  experiment where DMSO treatment
of human and mouse neutrophils and mononuclear phagocytes caused a dose-dependent inhibition of the killing of E. coli  and Listeria monocytogenes. However,
when the experiment was repeated in vivo  using mice, results showed that adminis -
tration of DMSO prior to subjecting mice to E. coli  and L. monocytogenes  infection
caused only a slight and nonsignificant decrease in the subsequent in vitro  bacteri -
cidal activity of neutrophils and macrophages from those mice.
21 Repeated injections
of mice with physiologically relevant doses of DMSO did not increase the lethality of either E. coli or L. monocytogenes, nor did it inhibit the clearance of a sublethal
Listeria  challenge from the spleen and liver of these mice. The findings indicated that
clinical usage of DMSO does not predispose human subjects to bacterial infection.
21104 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
Bacterial endotoxin from gram-negative pathogens can directly injure lung endo -
thelial cells in culture. This injury is unaffected by antioxidants such as superoxide
dismutase or catalase because they are unable to enter cells. Bacterial endotoxins are prevented by DMSO, which penetrates cells to exert antioxidant activity.
22 Since allo -
purinol can inhibit direct lung cell injury from endotoxin, it is probable that xanthine oxidase, which allopurinol is known to inhibit, may be a source of oxidant generation in lung endothelial cells. Current data suggest a two-stage oxidant process of lung cell injury where there is direct injury of the cell both by intracellular generation of toxic oxidants and triggering of an inflammatory response.
22 Inflammatory cells that
have been activated to adhere to lung cells are able to enhance the injury by generat -
ing and releasing extracellular oxidants, but this process can also be neutralized by DMSO’s anti-inflammatory action.
22
The inability of many antibiotics to enter the blood–brain barrier in mammals
has been a limiting factor in the treatment of bacterial brain infections such as life-threatening meningitis and brain abcess.
23 Although pathogens can invade the brain
in a variety of ways, the main pathway is through the bloodstream, where they can enter the subarachnoid space in places where the blood–brain barrier is vulnerable, for example, the choroid plexus. There is some controversy regarding the ability of DMSO to potentiate the penetration of molecules, including antibiotics, across the blood–brain barrier. Previous studies have shown that DMSO enhances the penetra -
tion into the brain of the protein tracer horseradish peroxidase and of ketoconazole, an antifungal agent.
24,25 The ability of DMSO to carry molecules across the blood–
brain barrier may depend on the size of the molecule to be delivered, its polarity, and molecular weight; however, the exact mechanism for achieving such penetration is unknown.
26 It has been suggested that molecules that exceed 70,000 Da (a unit
of atomic mass) cannot be delivered by DMSO through the blood–brain barrier,25
suggesting that DMSO may shrink the endothelial cells’ tight junctions that make up the blood–brain barrier to allow small molecules to pass through. This idea was tested on seven healthy adult mares using trimethoprim (TMP)–sulfamethoxazole (SMZ), an effective antimicrobial combination against gram-negative organisms.
27
A solution of 40% DMSO was injected intravenously at 1 g/kg for 30 min followed immediately after by TMP–SMZ at a combined dosage of 44 mg/kg. The mares were also given the same treatment a week later without DMSO. The combination TMP–SMZ was 543 Da combined, well under the 70,000 Da theoretical limit of DMSO to enhance molecule penetration into the brain. It was found that DMSO was not able to enhance the penetration of TMP–SMZ into the cerebrospinal fluid but did delay


, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Medical
Center, Chicago, Illinois.
In Vitro and In Vivo Effects of Dimethylsulfoxide on Streptomycin Sensitive and
Resistant Escherichia Coli.
 W.E. Feldman, J.D. Punch, and P.C. Holden,
Richmond, Virginia.
Tolerance of In Vitro Neuritic Development to DMSO.
 Fred Jerrold Roisen,
Ph.D., College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Rutgers Medical School,
Piscataway, New Jersey.
DMSO: A Tool in Sperm Motility Control Studies.
 Leonard Nelson, Ph.D.,
Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, Ohio.
Interferon Production in the White Mouse by Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO).
Michael Kunze, M.D., Institute of Hygiene, University of Vienna, Austria.
Effect of Dimethyl Sulfoxide and Hydrogen Peroxide on Tissue Gas Tensions.
Beart Myers, M.D., and William Donovan. Surgical Research Laboratory,
Veterans’ Administration Hospital, and Louisiana State University School of
Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Effect of DMSO on the Hypothalamic-Pituitary Adrenal Axis of the Rat.
 J.P.
Allen, M.D., Brooks Air Force Base, and C.F. Allen, Southwest Foundation for
Clinical Research, San Antonio, Texas.
Effects of DMSO and a Corticosteroid on Normal and Infected Anal Sacs of
Dogs.
 J.G. Kilian, Syntex Research, Palo Alto, California.
The Effect of Dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) on Cholinergic Transmission in Aplysia
Ganglion Cells.
 Makoto Sato, M.D., Ph.D., and Masashi Sawada, Ph.D.,
Neuroscience Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Oregon
Medical School, Portland, Oregon.
Protective Effect of Dimethyl Sulfoxide on Brain Cells Against Sonic Stress.
Ramon Lim and S. Mullan, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.DMSO in CNS Trauma.
 J.C. de la Torre, H.M. Kawanaga, C.M. Johnson, D.W.
Goode, K. Kajihara, and S. Mullan, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Experimental Design of Clinical Trials Testing the Efficacy of 90% DMSO
Solution in Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System in the Dog.
 E.G. Averkin,
Syntex Research, Palo Alto, California, and T. O’Brian, D.V.M., Tauton,
Massachusetts.
Introduction Study for a New Topical Medication With DMSO in Dermatology.
Dr. Lazaro Schatman, Alvear and Israelita Hospitals and Railway Polyclinic
Services, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Experimental and Clinical Evaluation With Topical DMSO in Vascular Disorders
of the Extremities.
 A. Kappert, M.D., University of Bern, Switzerland.
DMSO Therapy in Chronic Skin Ulcers.
 Rene Miranda, M.D., University of
Chile.
DMSO Therapy as Toxicity Reducing Agent and Potentiator of
Cyclophosphamide in the Treatment of Different Types of Cancer.
 Jorge Cornejo,
M.D., Military Hospital, Santiago, Chile.
Clinical Experience With DMSO as a Solvent for Antiviral Agents.
 B.E. Juel-
Jensen, H.A., D.M., University of Oxford, England.
DMSO Therapy in Severe Mental Retardation in Mongoloid Children.
 M.
Aspillaga, M.D., M. Sanchez, M.D., G. Morizon, M.D., and Lucila Capdeville,
M.D., Santiago, Chile.
DMSO Therapy Applied to Non-Mongoloid Children Oligophrenia.
 Dra. Ana
Giller and Dra. Maria E.M. de Bernadou, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Oral DMSO in Mental Retardation: A Preliminary Controlled Study.
 J.M.
Gabourie, J.W. Becker, B.D. Bateman.
DMSO Therapy in Brochiolitis, Tinnitus, and Diminished Hearing.
 Aristides
Zuniga, M.D., Manuel Arriaran Children’s Hospital, Santiago, Chile.Evaluation of DMSO Therapy in Chronic Respiratory Insufficiency of Broncho-
Pulmonary Origin.
 Renato Eulufi, M.D., University of Chile.
DMSO in Retinal Disease.
 Robert V. Hill, M.D., University of Oregon Medical
School, Portland, Oregon.
DMSO Therapy in the Treatment of Secondary Sterility (Inflammatory Tubal
Obstruction).
 Hugo Venegas, M.D., Naval Hospital, Valparaiso, Chile.APPENDIX III
Directory of Physicians Worldwide Who Can Provide
Information on DMSO Treatment
The physicians recorded here who can provide information on DMSO treatment
follow the protocol of the American College of Advancement in Medicine. The
listing is based on the membership directory of the American College of
Advancement in Medicine (ACAM). Please be aware that the use of DMSO is not
approved or disapproved by ACAM. The listing of ACAM members is provided
here because these are open-minded, progressive, knowledgeable, skilled, and
trustworthy physicians who know more about the applications and effects of
DMSO than any other health professionals in the world. Oftentimes many of them
instill DMSO as part of their chelation therapy for patients.
A key giving information about each physician is provided before the list. For
an updated directory or the most current listing of ACAM doctors in a particular
geographic region, contact the American College of Advancement in Medicine,
23121 Verdugo Drive, Suite 204, Laguna Hills, California 92653; (714) 585-7666
within California or (800) 532-3688 outside California.
Members of the American College of Advancement in Medicine include
diplomates (indicated by
DIPL
), diplomate candidates (indicated by
D/C
), and
licensed physicians who may administer DMSO therapy (indicated by
P
).
A
diplomate
 of the American College of Advancement in Medicine is an
individual who:
1
.
Is a graduate of an approved school of medicine (D.O. or M.D., or foreign
equivalent);
2
.
Is currently licensed to practice in the state or territory where he/she conducts
practice;
3
.
Has been recommended (by letter) by two ACAM diplomates;
4
.
Has successfully completed the written examination of ACAM;
5
.
Shows evidence of being responsible for the administration of therapeutic
programs approved by ACAM;
6
.
Has satisfied the requirements for preceptor training as outlined in the
protocol of preceptorship;
7
.
Has successfully completed the oral examination of the American Board ofChelation Therapy (ABCT);
8
.
Submits ten acceptable questions and answers with references for use in
future written exams.
A
diplomate candidate
 of the American College of Advancement in Medicine
is an individual who:
1
.
Is a graduate of an approved school of medicine (D.O. or M.D., or foreign
equivalent);
2
.
Is currently licensed to practice in the state or territory where he/she conducts
practice;
3
.
Has been recommended (by letter) by two diplomates;
4
.
Has successfully completed the written examination of the American Board of
Chelation Therapy, and is in the process of completing the remaining
requirements for ABCT.
To get in touch with the American College of Advancement in Medicine,
contact one of the following:
ACAM HEADQUARTERS ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Edward A. Shaw, Ph.D. Executive Director
Sally Bonebrake Administrative Services Coordinator
Grace Claus Membership Services Coordinator
Nancy Morgan Books and Literature Coordinator
HEADQUARTERS ADDRESS
American College of Advancement in Medicine Suite 204
23121 Verdugo Drive Laguna Hills, CA 92653
(714) 583-7666 (800) 532-3688
Please note that this directory of physicians who use alternative healing
methods may not be republished, reprinted, sold, or duplicated in whole or in part
in any form or by any means for any commercial purpose or for the compilation of
mailing lists without the prior written permission of this book’s author or the
American College of Advancement in Medicine.Key to Worldwide American College of Advancement
in Medicine Physician’s List
PROFESSIONAL LEVEL CODES
DIPL
Diplomate
D/C
Diplomate candidate
P
Licensed physician who follows the program now put forth by the
American College of Advancement in Medicine.
SPECIALTY CODES
A
Allergy
AC
Acupuncture
AN
Anesthesiology
AR
Arthritis
AU
Auriculotherapy
BA
Bariatrics
CD
Cardiovascular
CS
Chest Disease
CT
Chelation Therapy
DD
Degenerative Disease
DIA
Diabetes
EM
Environmental Medicine
END
Endocrinology
FP
Family Practice
GE
Gastroenterology
GER
Geriatrics
GP
General Practice
GYN
GynecologyHGL
Hypoglycemia
HO
Hyperbaric Oxygen
HOM
Homeopathy
HYP
Hypnosis
IM
Internal Medicine
LM
Legal Medicine
MM
Metabolic Medicine
NT
Nutrition
OBS
Obstetrics
OME
Orth


ignment with the wholeness o f life.

***

True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had
completely chosen whatever you feel or experience a t this moment. This inner
alignment with Now is the end of suffering.

***

Is suffering really necessary. Yes and no. If you h ad not suffered as you have, there
would be no depths to you as a human being–no  humi lity, no compassion. You
would not be listening to this now. Suffering crack s open the shell of ego. And then
comes a point where it has served its purpose.

Suffering is necessary until you realize that it is  unnecessary.

***

Unhappiness needs a mind-made me with a story, the conceptual identity. It needs
time, past and future. When you remove time from yo ur unhappiness, what is it that
remains? The “suchness” of this moment remains.  It  may be a feeling of heaviness
of heaviness, agitation, tightness, anger or even n ausea. That is not unhappiness
and it is not a personal problem.
There is nothing personal in human pain. It is simp ly an intense pressure or an
intense energy you feel somewhere in the body. By g iving it attention, the feeling
doesn't turn into thinking and thus activate the un happy me. See what happens
when you just allow a feeling to be.

***

Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you ta ke each thought that comes
into your head for the truth. Situations don't make  you unhappy. They may cause
you physical pain, but they don't make you unhappy.  Your thoughts make you
unhappy. Your interpretations, the stories you tell  yourself make you unhappy.
“The thoughts I'm thinking right now make me unhapp y.” This realization breaks
you unconscious identification with those thoughts.

***

“What a miserable day.” “He didn't have the decency  to return my call.” “She let
me down.” Little stores we tell ourselves and other s, often in the form of
complaints. They are unconsciously designed to enha nce our always deficient sense
of self through being right and making something or  someone wrong. Being right
places us in a position of imagined superiority and  so strengthens our false sense of
self, the ego. This also creates some kind of enemy. Yes, the ego needs enemies to
define its boundary. And even the weather can serve  that function. Through
habitual mental judgment and emotional contraction you have a personalized
reactive relationship to people and events in your life. These are all forms of self-
created suffering but are not recognized as such be cause to the ego they are
satisfying. The ego enhances itself through reactiv ity and conflict. How simple life
would be without those stories.  “It is raining.” “ He did not call.” “I was there, she
was not.”

***

When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is now.
Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.

***

Suffering begins when you mentally name or label a situation in some way as
undesirable or bad. You resent a situation and that  resentment personalizes it and
brings in the reactive me. Naming and labeling are habitual but that habit can be broken. Start practicing not naming with small thin gs. If you miss the plane, drop
and break a cup, or slip and fall in the mud, can y ou refrain from naming the
experience as bad or painful? Can you immediately a ccept the “isness” of that
moment.

Naming something as bad causes an emotional contrac tion within you. when you
let it be without naming it, enormous power is sudd enly available to you. The
contraction cuts you off from that power, the power  of life itself.

***

They ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Go beyond good
and bad by refraining from mentally naming anything  as good or bad. When you go
beyond the habitual naming, the power of the univer se moves through you. When
you are in a nonreactive relationship to experience s, what you would have called
bad before, often turns around quickly, if not imme diately through the power of life
itself. Watch what happens when you don't name an e xperience as bad and instead
bring an inner acceptance, an inner “yes” to it, an d so let it be as it is.

***

Whatever your life situation is, how would you feel  if you completely accepted it as
it is, right now?

***

There are many subtle and not so subtle forms of su ffering that are so normal, they
are usually not recognized as suffering and may eve n feel satisfying to the ego.
Irritation, impatience, anger, having an issue with  something or someone,
resentment, complaining. You can learn to recognize  all those forms of suffering as
they happen and know at this moment I am creating s uffering for myself.

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for y ourself, you are probably creating
suffering for others too. These unconscious mind pa tters tend to come to an end
simply by making them conscious, by becoming aware of them as they happen.
You cannot be conscious and create suffering for yo urself.

***

This is the miracle. behind every condition, person  or situation that appears bad or
evil, lies concealed a deeper good. That deeper goo d reveals itself to you, both within and without through inner acceptance of what  is. “Resist not evil” is one of
the highest truths of humanity.

***

A dialog:

"Accept what is."

"I truly cannot. I am agitated and angry about this."

"Then accept what is."

"Accept that I am agitated and angry? Accept that I  cannot accept?"

"Yes. Bring acceptance into your non-acceptance. Br ing surrender into your non-
surrender. Then see what happens."

***

Chronic physical pain is one of the harshest teache rs you can have. Resistance is
futile is its teaching. Nothing could be more norma l than an unwillingness to suffer.
Yet, if you can let go of that unwillingness, and i nstead allow the pain to be there,
you may notice a subtle inner separation from the p ain, a space between you and
the pain, as it were. This means to suffer consciou sly, willingly. When you suffer
consciously, physical pain can quickly burn up the ego in you since ego consists
largely of resistance. The same is true of extreme physical disability. “You offer up
your suffering to God,” is another way of saying th is.

***

You don't need to be a Christian to understand the deep universal truth that is
contained in symbolic form in the image of the cros s. The cross is a torture
instrument. It stands for the most extreme sufferin g, limitation, and helplessness a
human being can encounter. Then suddenly that human  being suffers willingly,
consciously, expressed through the words, “not my w ill, but thy will be done.” At
that moment, the cross, the torture instrument show s its hidden face.

It is also a sacred symbol, a symbol for the divine. That which seemed to deny the
existence of any transcendental dimension to life, through surrender becomes an
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fully soaked and cooked before it is safe to eat.
(Sweet cassava is safe to eat without such processing.)
Tapioca  is a native Brazilian name for the processed
root, which is used in commercial food preparation
as a thickening agent. The Witoto of the Colombian
Amazon poison fish with the water used to wash
bitter cassava. The Makuna use the wash water
to treat scabies.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Cassava root is
easily digestible and makes a suitable, if low-protein,
food for convalescence. The bitter variety may
be used to treat scabies, diarrhea, and dysentery.
Cassava flour may be used to help dry weeping
skin. In China, a poultice is made of cassava, wheat
flour, and ginger ( Zingiber officinale, p. 155) to draw
out pus when infection is present.
Caution  Raw bitter cassava is toxic and has
caused many deaths. The root must be carefully
soaked and cooked before eating.
Maranta arundinacea
(Marantaceae)
Arrowroot
Description  Perennial growing to 61⁄2 ft (2 m).
Has a creeping rhizome, many long-stemmed oval
leaves, and flowering stems with clusters of creamy-
white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to northern
South America and the Caribbean islands, arrowroot
is cultivated mostly on the island of St. Vincent. The
rhizome is unearthed 10 to 11 months after planting.
Part Used  Rhizome.
Constituents  Arrowroot contains 25–27%
neutral starch.History & Folklore  In Central America, the
Maya made the root into a poultice for smallpox
sores, and an infusion for urinary infections.
Arrowroot was a staple food of the Arawak people
of the Caribbean. The plant reputedly gets its name
from its use to treat poisoned arrow wounds—
presumably as a drawing poultice.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Arrowroot is
used in herbal medicine in much the same manner
as slippery elm ( Ulmus rubra, p. 145), as a soothing
demulcent and a nutrient of benefit in convalescence
and for those with weak digestions. It helps to relieve
acidity, indigestion, and colic, and is mildly laxative.
It may be applied as an ointment or poultice mixed
with antiseptic herbs such as myrrh ( Commiphora
molmol, p. 85).
Self-help Use  Acidity & indigestion, p. 307.
Marrubium vulgare (Lamiaceae)
White Horehound
Description  Square-stemmed perennial
growing to about 20 in (50 cm). Has toothed,
downy leaves and double-lipped white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to Europe,
white horehound is naturalized in North and
South America. It flourishes in dry, bare, or open
areas, and is gathered in spring.
Parts Used  Leaves.
Constituents  White horehound
contains the diterpenes marrubiin
(0.3–1.0%) and marrubenol,
tannins, and 0.06% volatile oil.
Marrubiin is thought to be
chiefly responsible for the
herb’s expectorant and bitter
activity. It also acts on the heart
to correct an irregular heartbeat.
History & Folklore  White
horehound has been a remedy for
chest problems since ancient times, perhaps
most frequently taken as a syrup made with
honey or sugar. The Greek physician Dioscorides
(40–90 ce ) recommended a decoction of white
horehound as a treatment for tuberculosis,
asthma, and coughs.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  White horehound
is helpful for wheeziness, bronchitis, bronchiectasis
(a damaged air passage within the lung), bronchial
asthma, non-productive coughs, and whooping
cough. The herb apparently causes the secretion
of a more fluid mucus, which is readily cleared
by coughing. As a bitter tonic, white horehound
increases the appetite and supports the function
of the stomach. It is widely used in Mexico to
help control type 2 diabetes. The herb may also
act to normalize heart rhythm, improving
its regularity.Marsdenia condurango
syn. gonolobus condurango
(Asclepiadaceae)
Condurango
Description  Climbing vine growing to 33 ft
(10 m). Has heart-shaped leaves and funnel-
shaped, white-green flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Condurango is native
to deciduous forests of the Andes in Peru and
Ecuador. It generally grows at altitudes between
3,300–6,600 ft (1,000–2,000 m). The bark is
collected year round.
Parts Used  Bark, latex.
Constituents  Condurango bark contains
glycosides (based on condurangogenins), a volatile
oil, and phytosterols.
History & Folklore  Early in the last century,
condurango was erroneously yet widely believed
to be a remedy for cancer.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  The bark’s
main effect is to stimulate stomach secretions.
It is often used in South American folk medicine
as a potent bitter and digestive tonic. Condurango
is a specific treatment for nervous indigestion
and anorexia nervosa, since its bitterness slowly
increases the appetite as well as the stomach’s
ability to process more food. The herb is also
thought to stimulate the liver and pancreas, and
may be taken for liver disorders. Condurango
also encourages menstruation. The caustic
white latex has been applied topically to
remove warts.
Research  The condurangogenins in
condurango may act to counter tumors.
The whole plant, however, does not seem
to impede cancer development.
Caution  The latex is poisonous and should not
be taken internally. Cassava  is a staple food in many tropical regions
of the world.
Dried herb
Medicago sativa (Fabaceae)
Alfalfa,
Lucerne
Description  Perennial herb growing to 32 in
(80 cm). Has 3-lobed leaves, flowers that range
in color from yellow to violet-blue, and spiraling
seed pods.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to Europe,
Asia, and North Africa, alfalfa is found in meadows
and in both open and cultivated areas. Grown as
a fodder crop in temperate climates, it is harvested
in summer.
Parts Used  Aerial parts, seeds, sprouting seeds.
Constituents  Alfalfa contains isoflavones,
coumarins, alkaloids, vitamins, and porphyrins.
The isoflavones and coumarins are estrogenic.
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234Melaleuca leucadendronOther medicinal plants
History & Folklore  Though mostly used as
an animal feed, alfala seeds have been consumed
as food for thousands of years. Pliny (23–79 ce) records that alfalfa was brought to Greece by Darius, King of Persia (550–486 bce), during his attempt to conquer Athens.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Alfalfa is perhaps
more therapeutically useful as a food than a medicine as the seeds are taken to help lower cholesterol levels. In view of alfalfa’s estrogenic activity, it can prove useful in treating problems relating to menstruation and menopause.
Cautions  Do not take alfalfa alongside the
anticoagulant medication warfarin. Avoid sprouted seeds in compromised immune states. Using large amounts is not advisable in pregnancy or in autoimmune diseases.
Melaleuca leucadendron
(Myrtaceae)
Cajuput
Description  Aromatic, evergreen tree growing
to 130 ft (40 m). Has peeling bark, pale green
oval leaves, and clusters of small white flowers  on long spikes.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to Southeast
Asia, cajuput is cultivated for its essential oil and timber. The leaves and twigs are gathered throughout the year.
Part Used  Essential oil.
Constituents  The volatile oil contains
terpenoids, mainly cineole (50–60%), beta-pinene, alpha-terpineol, and others. Cineole is strongly antiseptic. Early investigations suggest the fruit  may have antiviral properties.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Cajuput is
normally combined with other essential oils such as eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus, p. 96). Its antiseptic properties treat colds, sore throats, coughs, and, especially, chest infections. The diluted oil may either be steam-inhaled or applied to the chest  or throat to treat laryngitis, tracheitis, and bronchitis. As cajuput stimulates the circulation and is antispasmodic, it is used as a friction rub
for rheumatic joints and neuralgia.
Related Species  Niaouli (M. vir


 restore
normal liver function so that bile chemistry may become normal again and cease precipitating the
mineral elements and thus end the making of stones.
In a few weeks then, the normal bile will cause a disintegration of the stones already formed, the
sand will pass into the intestines and will be voided. As the liver cannot be restored to health
without restoring the whole body to health, no treatment directed at the liver will serve these ends.
A general or systemic housecleaning followed by a genuine health-building program is essential.
Perhaps I can do no better than end this chapter with a quotation from Geo. S. Weger, M.D.,
who had an extensive experience with gallstones, both as a regular physician and as a
Hygienist
.
He says: “Given proper assistance, the chemistry of the body can be so altered that stones soften,
disintegrate, and pass out with but slight discomfort. We have treated many cases and seldom have
we found it necessary to resort to surgery. It is a remarkable fact that this softening occurs very
rapidly on a complete fast. Frequently patients coming for treatment for different ailments develop
hepatic colic from the eighth to the tenth day of fasting.
“In these, the presence of gallstones may never have been suspected. The same is true of stones
in the kidneys. In recurrent attacks there is no treatment in the intervals to equal a diet restricted to
fresh fruits, salads, and cooked non-starchy vegetables. It can be safely predicted that there will be
no recurrence in those patients who follow instructions as to diet and exercise. In most instances if
the gall stone is not larger than a small olive it will become soft and pass out without resort to
surgery and its consequent risks. The exceptions are in those run-down people who have no
reserve vitality or courage left to sustain them for a reasonable time, while nature is establishing a
normal chemical balance.
135“Extreme caution and conservatism on the part of the physician is
necessary in determining the
proper course in a given case. The process of recovery may seem slow but it is in reality
marvelously rapid compared with the long time it takes for the stones to form. While most cases
can get well by fasting and dieting and while such treatment is always in order, it must be borne in
mind that atrophy or gall bladder disease may be the result of longstanding, unrelieved cases.
Without recourse to olive oil, bile salts, and the hundred and one remedies that are generally
prescribed, our percentage of non-surgical recoveries is so high as to warrant a favorable
prognosis if the patient cooperates in the removal of first causes. It should be borne in mind that
while surgical interference is often the only recourse, this procedure does not remove the cause of
gallstones nor prevent recurrences. Therefore correct diet and other accessory health measures are
just as necessary after operation as they were before.”
13635
Tumors of the Breast
One of those rare young women, possessed of great beauty of form and features, just married and
alarmed about a growth of her left breast—a lump nearly as large as a billiard ball—had for four
months suffered considerable pain. She had not consulted a physician for fear he would pronounce
it cancer and want to remove her breast.
It was 1927 and that year the country went through the first “cancer week.” New York’s
newspapers carried columns each day about cancer and urged all people to see their physicians for
a check-up. Lumps, moles, bleeding, loss of weight and other such symptoms were indicative of
possible cancer. The propaganda was deliberately designed to frighten the public.
The young woman, whose home was in White Plains, New York, was duly frightened. She
consulted a physician. He told her that she had cancer and that the breast would have to be
removed immediately. She did not want to lose her breast—she did not want to be disfigured.
She consulted a second physician. He made the same diagnosis and urged immediate removal of
her breast. A third physician rendered an identical verdict. A fourth was consulted with the same
outcome: “The breast must come off at once.”
But there was one paper in New York that did not carry the scare
propaganda that was being
distributed from some central source. The New York
Evening Graphic
, a Macfadden publication,
often assailed for many reasons, right and wrong, refused to join in the effort to frighten everybody.
The present writer had a daily column in the
Graphic
.
I devoted a column to the cancer propaganda and pointed out that many people who did not have
cancer were being frightened into operations. I denounced the fear program as a crime against the
welfare and sanity of the public. The young woman read my column and came in to see me.
It was eight o’clock on a Friday evening when she entered my office. I examined her breast and
decided that she did not have cancer, but that she was suffering from an enlarged gland. I advised
her to fast. She took the advice. I instructed her to return to me at the same time on the following
Monday evening. When she came in on Monday evening she was a very happy woman, her face
wreathed with smiles. I invited her to sit down and without questioning her or waiting for her to
say anything, I said, “Go ahead and tell me the story.”
It was a simple story, but it was a happy one. I have listened to similar stories many times
through the years that have since elapsed. ‘‘When I awoke this morning,” she said, “there was no
pain in my breast. There has been no pain all day. This evening at five o’clock, when I went to take
a bath, I said to my sister: ‘I would like to feel my breast to see if the lump is still there, but I’m
afraid to …’ My sister said: ‘Don’t be a child, go ahead and find out.’ I investigated nervously and
it is gone.”
I listened to the story with great satisfaction and took the note of her elation and relief. I
examined her breast and found no trace of the lump. The young woman remained under my care for
the remainder of two weeks and was discharged.
I had occasional contact with this woman for thirteen years after her recovery and during this
period there was no recurrence of the “tumor.” I have been able to maintain contact with
subsequent cases for as many as twenty years and they have suffered no recurrence of their
“cancers.” Hers was one of two such “cancers” that fully recovered in three days.
137I have seen a large number recover in a week, several more to recover in two weeks, and many
to become free of their breast “cancers” in three to six weeks. I am sure that not all such cases of
“cancer” find their way to me or to my institution. There must be many thousands of them who
submit to operations every year, either for the removal of the lump or for removal of the whole
breast.
I have seen enough of them to know that there is a wide difference between cancer and a
diagnosis of cancer. I am sure that these are the only kinds of “cancer” that are
cured
 by early
surgery.
I have never seen a case of undoubted cancer recover, no matter how cared for nor by whom. I
am convinced that cancer is an irreversible pathology and that the only remedy for the condition is
prevention. I am
sure that it can be prevented and that this can be done by a well-ordered life, one
that maintains a high state of health at all times.
I think that I should call attention to the fact that all four of the diagnoses in the case of the young
woman, which I have just described, were made without a biopsy, which is a procedure of taking
out some of the tissue of the lump or growth and examining it under the microscope. Each man
advised an operation upon the basis of a wild guess.
The biopsy is far from infallible, often finding cancer where none exists, but it is probably far
more accurate than merely feeling of the breast, at these men did. Their diagnoses may be said to
have been made on suspicion. Or, perhaps they were merely floating with the propaganda tide. At
any rate, they all agreed without knowing the others’ diagnosis, that the young woman had cancer
of the breast and that an immediate operation was urgent.
Fortunately for women, not more than one such lump out of ten thousand is cancer. Most of the
lumps will quickly clear up when the mode of living is corrected. Just as fasting causes the body to
use up its excess fat in nourishing the vital tissues so it causes the break down, by the process of
autolysis
, of growths or tumors (neoplasms) and uses the nutritive elements contained in these with
which to nourish the vital tissues.
In like manner, dropsical swellings, edematous swellings, deposits and infiltrations are
absorbed and the usable portion are used as food; the non-usable portions are excreted.
To understand this, it is necessary for the reader to know that tumors (new growths) are
composed of the same kinds of tissue of which the normal parts of the body are constituted.
Tumors are named according to their composition. Thus a fatty tumor is called a
lipoma
; a
muscular tumor is called a
myoma
; a nerve tumor is called a
neuroma
; a bone tumor is called an
ostemoma
; an
epithelioma
 is made


 as the politician uses his reason to justify an atomic overkill,
entailing the murder of millions, so the nutritionist assures one that
fried brains are a good source of protein. This is the frailty of
reason—its easy misuse for inhuman ends by minds no longer
sufficiently irradiated by the humanizing resources.
There is a sinister ally to such humanly debasing habits. Protein
products foreign to the normal physiology of the body provoke
chaotic reactions when eaten. In a wild attempt to allay the intruding substances, the body produces too mu ch of the allaying chemicals,
an excess which has the malicious result of demanding more, and
ever more, of the foreign substances. The essential abnormality of
all animal foods is shown by the habituation and craving they
provoke, a demand which can come to defy all sense and economy.
In this manner, eating habits which comply with the secret
desires of a disturbed mind are fortified by an insidious
biochemistry.
Food habits also reflect the life-hatred which goes with a
hardening of the heart to a harden ed existence, as in the barely
believable hideousness of the d eath-dealing industries supporting
every civilized table. This life-hatred, and the hatred of nature
which accompanies it, goes back to the onset of the Ice Ages, which
chased the earliest humans from thei r earthly paradise. No longer
guided by instinct, but by cortical conditioning, human beings are
able to adopt virtually any ruse in order to survive, no matter how
unbiological. But the fact that humanization occurred in idyllic
conditions, left humans badly equippe d for the periodical geological
and climatic cataclysms of earth hist ory. While in all other animals,
instinct would insist that the normal habits were reverted to as soon
as conditions returned to normal, in the case of man, cortical
conditionings, revived in each succeeding generation by social
customs, tend to persist. Animal foods, and the vast machinery of
suffering their eating entails, have become one of the most
entrenched of social customs, defended by science as natural and
beneficial, and ardently insisted upon by the public.
Admittedly, attempts are made to give such horrible habits a
veneer of aesthetic appeal. Cooking of animal foods removes the
reek of raw flesh, and sauces help to smother the sheer animality of
the ingredients. Here and there, vegetables, fruits and even flowers
come into the decoration of some recipe as if to humanize the
offence, sometimes ludicrously, as the ears of roast pork stuffed
with flowers. But the underlying ugliness is scarcely covered, as
most children show in their initial protests.
One is entitled to enquire how it is  that science, which claims to
operate on impartial reasoning, has failed to point out the
unbiological and irrational features in such patently inhuman habits.
The environmental crisis is proof enough that science is no impartial
observer to the follies of an age, of a culture, and indeed serves
them faithfully. Most scientists, and science as a whole, show the
same spirit of aggressiveness and in consideration regarding nature
which dominated Palaeolithic existence.
The science of nutrition shows this insensitivity more than
most. While physics and astronomy tend to attract the philosophers,
nutrition seems to entice the extroverts, with an aversion to more
profound thinking, in league with the disinclination to food
fussiness shared by the common man. The fact is that nutritional
science arose in a time when the industrial revolution had so
disorganized an ancient way of life as to make poverty and
undernutrition the rule among the masses, and the European
influence in many parts of the world had sabotaged long-tried food
habits and let loose widespread starvation. Nutrition has accordingly
been haunted by insufficiency, and has been preoccupied with
ensuring quantity. It is only quite recently that excess has been seen
as a danger as much as deficiency. But the philosophy of biology has also been guilty of failing to
provide such a subsidiary science as nutrition with proper guidance.
Vicing to comply with the mechanical ideals, most biologists have
been singularly blind to the most explicit characteristic of life, its
functional integration and wholeness, in terms of which alone a
living organism can be normal. As a result, biological thinking has
largely missed the meaning of normality, and commonly mistaken
the average for the normal. Accordi ng to this crude way of thinking,
since most people are in some way sick, sickness must be the
normal human condition, and since most people like eating meat,
meat eating is normal. Nutrition, in line with the thinking and
feeling of the age, has been crude and permissive, backing the
common greeds and perversions of taste with the hollow voice of
authority.
As a result, bad, inhuman food habits, inherited from the Ice
Ages, have been made more wid espread and acceptable than they
might otherwise have been, for in the past, the peasantries,
whenever circumstances permitted, adopted dietary habits much
closer to the human norm than usually prevails among the
scientifically guided civilized. Under the banner of emancipation,
nutritional science has in fact help ed to make available to the
masses the greeds and perversions once the preserve of the
privileged classes.
Nature is not mocked. The price paid for this conspiracy is
colossal. Given sufficient time, science may well become wiser and
a better guide. In the past decades, its crudities have given way to a
greater degree of sensitivity, of humility when faced with the
complexities of living phenomena. But there is in all probability not
enough time. In hatred and ugliness, man will have exterminated his
own kind long before. It has beco me a desperate survival necessity
to find an alternative meaning to being human, a change which is
likely to demand a revolution in all human aspects and activities,
most of all, in that most important of functions, eating.

5. Flowers, Fruits and Brain Cells

Until the Cretaceous period, the Age of Chalk, which began 136
million years ago and lasted 71 million years, there was little colour
in the world, apart from the mostly hidden colour of minerals, the
greens of chlorophyll, and the bl ues of sky and water. Then a
remarkable event occurred. The l eaves of certain plants became
modified, in the incredibly rapid time of a few million years, into
sepals and petals, which became filled with the brightest of
pigments, providing thousands of different hues. At the same time,
insects, which had been fearsome, ugly if not revolting creatures
until then, also became resplendent in colour. As if not to be left
out, the ungainly reptiles managed to sire some of the most
exquisite of coloured creatures, the tropical tree lizards, and tropical
fish became iridescent living jewels. Clearly, nature at that time had
moved into an orgy of artistic expression.
As already suggested, the lavish  presence of flowers in the
environment of human genesis was indispensable for the evolution
of the human colour sense. Botanists believe the origin of flowers occurred somewhere in Southern Asia, judging from the diversity of floral species still surviving there, as well as of some of the more primitive kinds. It is from there that flowers have spread all over the world, some regions and continents being more favoured than
others. Another momentous event occurred in the Cretaceous which
greatly influenced this distribution, and may have played a hand in the creation of the mammals, for th is manmaking line also arose in
the Cretaceous.
Prior to the Cretaceous, the c ontinents had been amassed
together around Africa; they then began drifting apart. Asia and the
Americas moved the furthest away. The flowers spread easily all
over EuroAsia, except in those re gions then covered by ocean—
regions now occupied by immense deserts and high mountains, the
Himalayas. The flowers also occupied the Americas, by a
landbridge with Asia which persis ted into human times. Africa,
however, possessed a considerable obstacle to the spread of
flowers—an ocean, which is now th e Sahara, and the impenetrable
tropical forest-belt stretching right across the continent. As a result,
Africa is a continent poor in fl oral species, except for the north,
where flowers have crept in from the near East, and in the extreme
south, where flowers may have trav elled by a landbridge with Asia
over what is now only a scattering of islands across the Indian
Ocean.
The fact that EuroAsia is rich er in flower species than Africa
would indicate that humanization is more likely to have occurred
somewhere in Asia, as was once believed, rather than in Africa, now
the most favoured site, in view of the large number of hominid
remains found there. But as anthropologists agree, this may be
fortuitous; abundant remains may yet be found in Asia, or possibly
once abundant remains have been subsequently effaced by geological events, which have been particularly intense in Asia,
with the rising of the Himalayas, still rising when the earliest men
were on the scene. This inference is further supported by the fact
that the low lying fruits, like the apple family, which presumably
formed the essential part