 our foods are not properly broken down, either
from a weak pancreas, stomach and intestinal tract, or from bad food
combinations, one will experience gas formation from fermentation and/or
putrefaction. The greater the gas problems, the greater the weakness and/or
bad diet choices.
The body breaks down the foods you eat into the following: Proteins are
broken down into amino acids for building and repair material.
Carbohydrates (starches and complex sugars) are broken down into simple
sugars for fuel. Fats are broken down into fatty acids and glycerol, for
building, repair and emergency needs.
It is important to remember that we have alkaline digestive enzymes in
the mouth for carbohydrate and fat digestion. We have acid (pepsin) digestive
enzymes in the lower stomach for initial protein digestion. Then we have
alkaline digestive enzymes in the pancreas and throughout the first part of the
small intestinal tract to finish up the job for proteins, starches, sugars and fats.
It is also important to understand that most of our processes are alkaline in
nature.
Digestion is the first process that must take place in a healthy body and
many people fail right here. If you are very thin or lack adequate muscle
tissue, it is a strong probability that your body has not been digesting
(breaking down) your foods adequately.ABSORPTION

Once foods are broken down, we must now absorb these building materials,
fuels and other components, which include: tissue salts, vitamins, tannins,
alkaloids, flavins, and the like. These components are now carried by the
bloodstream to the cells for energy, stimulation, building and repairing, or
stored for future use. Absorption is accomplished through the villi (fingerlike
projections on the surface of certain membranes) and small pores all along the
mucous membranes of the small and large intestines. This absorption should
be simple, but most people’s intestines become impacted with a thick rubber-
like substance called “mucoid plaque.” This thick plaque, which develops in
the GI tract, is made of gluten, mucus, foreign protein, and other food by-
products that act more like glue than nutrition! Refined sugars, grains, meats,
and dairy products are the foods that are most responsible for the formation
of this plaque. This “mucoid plaque” blocks the nutritional components of
our foods from being adequately absorbed into the body. (I have seen
patients who have eliminated buckets of this “black” plaque from their
intestines.)
Most of us fail in the second stage of food utilization to some extent
because of this congestive mucoid plaque. Again, if you are thin,
malnourished or lack adequate muscle tissue, a malabsorption issue must be
considered.
UTILIZATION

We must get nutrition to and into our cells. The blood system and its
highways (the vascular system) are the transport system. Most of the
absorbed nutrition must first pass inspection by the liver, which can create
further chemical changes, store nutrients, or pass them on unchanged to the
rest of the body for utilization. The number of processes the liver can carry
out is miraculous. It can create its own amino acids, change sugars to fats,
and vice versa. It can create or destroy.
Now a little secret. This is where the importance of acid and alkaline
comes in. If our body (including our blood) becomes more acidic, our
nutrition becomes anionic (coagulating). In other words, our building
materials (fats, fuels, minerals, and other compounds) start sticking orclumping together. Most of the foods commonly eaten by humans are acid
forming. Acidity, which is heat-producing, causes inflammation in the walls
of the vascular highway and throughout the body. Lipids (fats) begin sticking
to the walls of the vessels in hopes of buffering this inflammation. But lipid
bonding also causes lipid stones, such as gallbladder and liver stones.
Cholesterol is the most common anti-inflammatory lipid that the body uses to
fight this inflammation. When the tissues become acidic and thus inflamed,
the liver will produce more cholesterol to fight it. But that means that blood
cholesterol levels begin to elevate. Minerals too start bonding and form
“rock-type” stones, which show up as kidney stones, bone spurs, and the
like.
Cell membrane walls have tiny portholes that will not allow this
“clumped” nutrition to be absorbed. When red blood cells start clumping
together, blocking proper oxygen transport, or utilization, this creates cellular
starvation, which causes hypo-active conditions of glands and organs, loss of
systemic energy, loss of muscle tissue, and finally death.
Many glands supply hormones, steroids, and the like, to assist utilization.
As these glands become hypo- or underactive as described above, the
utilization of calcium and other constituents is affected, creating many disease
symptoms. For example, one of the jobs of calcium is to help transport
nutrients across cell membrane walls. When the thyroid gland becomes
hypoactive this slows or stops calcium utilization, which has a domino effect,
causing cellular starvation. This, of course, makes tissue even weaker and the
cycle just gets worse and worse until death. Most people fail in the utilization
of their nutrition to some degree.
ELIMINATION

What goes in must, for the most part, come out. If it comes out looking the
same way it went in, that’s a problem. (You should not see undigested foods,
except corn, in your stools.) When the elements in food are broken down into
their simplest forms for utilization by the cells, there are many by-products
from this process—including gases, acids, cellular wastes, undigested
proteins, and unused material like vitamins and minerals —that need to leave
the body.
The body is always trying to eliminate in ways that we often do not
understand. An example would be cold and flu-like symptoms, wheresneezing, coughing, sweating, aching, fevers, and diarrhea are experienced.
These symptoms are elimination processes used by the body to purge itself of
mucus, parasites, toxins, and the like.
If we do not eliminate our wastes, we build congestion
interstitially
(around cells) and
intracellularly
 (inside cells), causing further cellular decay
and death. Good elimination means moving our bowels three times a day,
urinating adequately, sweating, and breathing properly. All of us fail in this
category to some extent or another. By correcting digestion, absorption,
utilization, and elimination we can regain our energy, build vitality and
vibrancy, and live a disease-free life.
MODULE 2.2
The Body’s Systems

Structures and Functions

Your physical body is comprised of many systems, which in a combined
effort keep it alive and well. These systems make up the organs, glands,
blood supply, lymph tissue, muscles, bones, etc. Each system has its own
unique job to do to support the whole. As previously stated, these systems
depend upon each other for the running, maintenance and repair of the body
as a whole entity.
The infrastructure of the human body is like a society: The glandular
system is the government. The nervous (electrical) system is the information
highway, without which communication throughout the cities (cells, organs
and glands) is crippled. The police department consists of small immune cells
called lymphocytes (white blood cells), neutrophils, basophils, and
macrophages. For added protection we have the military, which are the NK
(natural killer) cells the large T and B cells. Of course there are factories, like
the liver, bone marrow, glands and some organs. And trash pick-up and
waste disposal are done by the lymphatic system, colon, kidneys, lungs and
skin. However, without general laborers a society would have all chiefs and
nothing would get done. The majority of the cells in the body act as laborers.These cells comprise all the systems, including the skeletal system (bones),
muscular system, and connective tissue.
Most of this society’s food is supplied externally by what we feed the
body. However, many nutrients are grown by “farmers” called bacteria. It is
through their actions and transmutation techniques that many co-enzymes
(vitamins or helpers) are produced.
Stepping down into a smaller world we find the cells themselves. Each
cell is a city unto itself—a microcosm of the larger society of the whole body.
God’s worlds are merely a reflection of each other, as all life forms and
structures require other life forms and structures to exist. Consciousness, or
the awareness behind all things, is the driving force.
In the following pages of this section I have detailed the various systems
and their structures and functions that comprise the physical body.
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

STRUCTURES
 — Heart, vascular system (arteries, capillaries and veins),
and the blood (also part of the digestive system).
FUNCTIONS
 — The circulatory system is comprised of the pathways within
the body through which the physical life force of the body flows. It
distributes nutrients, building materials and fuels for cellular life and activity;
works with the lymphatic system in removing metabolic and other wastes
from the body; helps keep the body alkaline; is used to help regulate body
temperature; and carries oxygen for oxidation purposes (antioxidant and
biological transmutation responses).
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

STRUCTURES
 — Mouth and salivary glands, stomach,


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nutritional supplements,
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pancreatic enzymes,
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parsley,
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patchouly oil,
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pau d’arco,
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peppermint oil,
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pepsin,
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pepsinogen,
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peptidase,
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petrochemicals,
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pH,
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cooking and,
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protein consumption and,
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phosphate of iron,
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of potash,
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of soda,
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phosphorus (P),
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phytochemicals,
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pineal gland,
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pipsissewa,
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pituitary gland,
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plantain,
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plasma,
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plasma membrane,
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plastics,
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platelets,
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Poison Control Centers,
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poke root (pokeweed),
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polarity therapy,
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polio vaccine,
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pollution,
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polysaccharides,
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phosphate of,
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sulphate of,
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potential energy,
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pro-enzymes,
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progesterone,
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propylene glycol,
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propylgallate,
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prostaglandins,
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prostate gland,
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protease,
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proteids and non-proteids,
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protein(s),
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complete,
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digestion,
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food combining and,
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total,
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usability,
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protozoa,
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PSA (prostate-specific antigen),
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radiation,
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regeneration,
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RNA (ribose),
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rose oil,
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rosemary oil,
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rosewood oil,
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saccharin,
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sage oil,
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salad,
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salts,
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sandalwood oil,
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sandwich, veggie,
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saturated fats,
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saunas,
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saw palmetto,
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Schroeder, Henry,
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selenium (Se),
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self-antigens,
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senna,
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shavegrass,
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Short-Grain Whole Brown Rice,
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Siberian ginseng,
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herbal rejuvenation for,
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elimination and detoxification,
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moisturizers,
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skin brushing, dry,
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slant boarding,
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slippery elm,
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soaps, natural,
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soda,
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chloride of,
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phosphate of,
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sodium bicarbonate,
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sodium erythorbate,
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sodium fluoride,
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sodium laureth/lauryl sulfate (SLES/SLS),
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solvents,
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soups,
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properties of raw,
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soy myth, the,
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spinal cord


 in the lack  of Understanding  of all
Life means,  you  have  constantly  been  misusing  that  which
would  otherwise  produce  Perfection ? You  have  done  this,
by your  lack  of Understanding  and  wrong  qualification  of
the one  Mighty  Energy  of Life!
Suppose,  one of you  poured  forth  a great  Power  of Divine
Love  and  Blessing  to another;  and  the one receiving,  would
interpret  It in human  qualities,  you  would  have  lost  the
Blessing  completely.  Do you  not see that ? See how  man-
kind  in the great  energy  which  would  so bless  Individuals,
in their  mistaken  qualification  of it have  been  producing
the opposite  effect  of what  they  intended—if  not at first,  it
grew  into  that.
In This  Explanation,  I am charging  into  your  feeling
world,  the  Comprehension  of it—the  anchoring  of My
Power  to hold  this  sustained  for you,  if you  care  to accept
it. I would  not  intrude,  I assure  you,  if you  do not  care
to do this!  It is here  ready  to serve  you,  but I would  like  so
much  to set you  Free.  If you  care  to accept  It into  your  feel-
ing world  for constant  action,  I assure  you  before  the close
of This  Class,  you  will  know  what  Happiness  and  Freedom
mean.
Freedom  is not license,  Beloved  Ones!  Freedom  is the
Greatest  Consideration  for  the  Rights  and  Blessings  of 336 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
others;  and  I want  you  to feel  that  tonight.  Feel  Our  Free-
dom,  which  is the Divine  Order  of Life,  acting  within  your
feeling  world—the  most  Beautiful  Thing.
I say for your  encouragement,  to Me it is quite  wonderful.
While  I have  been  Flashing  These  Words  to you,  in your
comprehension  and  acceptance  the Light  expanding  within
your  bodies,  has sent  forth  Its Radiance.  Now  you  feel grati-
tude,  you  feel  kindliness  and  all that,  so far as you  are ca-
pable  in the outer  expression;  but think  how  much  Greater
is your  Light,  which  I see releasing  Itself;  and  going  forth
from  within  your  physical  body—how  much  greater  It is!
Then,  do you not see, how  We who  are able  to see the slight-
est Manifestation  or Radiance  going  forth,  are able  to de-
termine  who  is accepting ? Do you  not see, how  We are able
to determine  who  is accepting  or who  is not? To the degree
you are accepting  may  We  render  Assistance.  All  this  is
quite  Natural,  only  mankind  has  not believed  It. Individ-
uals have  thought  the Great  Presence  of Life,  would  flood
them  with  every  good  thing  without  effort  upon  their  part.
In your  requirements  in the commercial  world,  you  think
you must  labor  so many  hours;  that  you  must  put  forth
tremendous  physical  effort.  Well  at the  present,  you  do
have  to do so; but look  at the great  Truth  of Life!  If you
would  decree  for your  Presence  of Life,  to release  from  Its
Treasure-house  the Limitless  supply  of money;  all else  re-
quired  for your  Service  to the Light;  or whatever  you  wish
to do; you  would  have  fulfilled  the requirements  of Life.
If you  reach  out  here  thru  your  physical  efforts  without DISCOURSE  XXII  337
That  Call,  you  will  find  yourself  making  more,  more  and
more  physical  effort  with  less and  less results!
This  is why,  as the Messengers  have  told  the students
thruout  the classes,  as long  as you  reach  out to your  fellow-
man  for something;  believing  it must  come  from  there,  so
long  will  you  remain  limited;  and  ofttimes  more  and  more.
Life has  always  wanted  you  to turn  to Its Mighty  Focus,
which  the "Mighty  I AM"  is; because  It is your  supply  of
everything  which  exists  in the World.  You  may  not quite
see this;  but  unless  the Power  of your  Presence  acts  thru
your  human  efforts,  it amounts  to nothing,  as many  of you
have  found.
You work  and  strain  and  struggle  with  great  stress  in
your  human  efforts;  and  barely  have  enough  to cover  your
back  and  to feed  yourself.  That  is not Right!  When  Nature
has provided  everything  in lavish  abundance  for all man-
kind's  requirements;  what  has  happened,  when  some  of
mankind  do not have  abundance ? Because  they  have  been
reaching  out  more  and  more  to human  Beings,  persons,
places  and  conditions—expecting  to receive  from  there.
Turn  to your  Beloved  "Mighty  I AM  Presence"  and  I am
now  speaking  directly  concerning  your  money  supply!  If
you will  listen,  FEEL  and  turn  to your  Presence,  accept  It
as the Treasure-house  of your  world;  make  the Call  to your
Presence,  to release  into  your  hands  and  use the money  and
supply  you  require;  then  the Wisdom  of the Presence  with
Its Light  Rays,  will  reach  out!  Whatever  channels  the Pres-
ence  in Its Great  Wisdom  wishes  to use,  will  come  to your 338 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
assistance.  There  is nothing  in the World  can  stop  it. Oh,
FEEL  that,  Beloved  Ones,  tonight!  I want  to see you  Free
from  these  things  which  distress  and  agitate  you  so greatly.
We look  among  mankind  and  see thousands  of people
committing  suicide  every  year;  because  they  do not have
food  and  shelter.  YOU  CANNOT  GET  AWAY  FROM
YOURSELF!  NEVER  CUT  OFF  YOUR  SPAN  OF
LIFE,  THINKING  TO  BE  FREE.  YOU  ONLY  IN-
TENSIFY  DISTRESS,  MANY  MANY  FOLD!  DO  YOU
UNDERSTAND,  BELOVED  ONES,  ALL  THOSE
CONDITIONS  ARE  MENTAL?  IF YOU  LOSE  YOUR
BODY,  WHICH  IS YOUR  ARMOR  OF  PROTEC-
TION  TO YOUR  FEELING  WORLD,  THE  DISTRESS
WILL  BE FAR  GREATER,  THAN  IT WAS  BEFORE!
SO DON'T  THINK,  YOU  CAN  RUN  AWAY  FROM
ANYTHING  IN  LIFE.  Straighten  up your  spine  and
make  your  call  to the Presence.  Then,  if you  are firm  and
determined,  see how  quickly,  It will  clear  your  world  and
release  into  your  hands  and  use whatever  you  require.
There  is not one  in America  who  needs  to be limited,  if
he or she would  understand  This  Law  of Life,  which  Be-
loved  Saint  Germain  has  brought  forth  to you  and  apply
It. It is so practical,  the most  practical  thing  in all Life!  You
must  see This  for It is Life's  Great  Power  acting,  and  only
awaiting  your  Call  thruout  these  many  many  centuries.
Tonight,  My Joy is so great  in being  able  to


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THE NATIONAL MALNUTRITION*
D. T. QUIGLEY, M. D., F. A. C. S.

Published by The Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Copyright 1943 D. T. Quigley Seventh Printing of Second Edition December, 1952
Printed in U.S.A. by The Olsen Publishing Co., Milwaukee, Wis.

 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1: Our Dietary Needs Chapter 2: Why We Must Have Vitamins Chapter 3: Why We Must Have Minerals Chapter 4: Our Dietary Intake (What Do We Get) Chapter 5: What Are The Results Of Our Dietary Errors
Chapter 6: How Widespread Are Deficiencies
Chapter 7: Cancer-Its Treatment And Prevention
Chapter 8: Nutritional Treatment Of Anemia
Chapter 9: What Must Be Done?

*The Soil and Health Library wishes to extend its sincere thanks to Kay Morgan of
Irving, Texas, for having donated a copy of this book.

 INTRODUCTION
   Since the first use of the word "vitamin" the problem of nutrition has been more or
less confused. With the discovery of new vitamins confusion increased. When minerals
were added to the necessary articles required for good nutrition the bungling and
muddling connected with pontifical pronouncements from supposed high places made it
more difficult for anyone, doctor or layman, to get at the truth. The matter would not
have been so hard to untangle had not the whole question been saturated with the poison of commercialism. The selling of bad food had become one of the biggest if not actually
the biggest of business enterprises. The usual scientific discussions which always follow
the introduction of new ideas in medicine were not allowed to proceed as usual in an
unbiased way, but commercial interests began in a most insidious way to combat
scientific fact with ridicule, endowed res earch (endowed in one direction), and other
well tried and tested methods. As the purveyors of good food were practically
unorganized and had smaller investments, erro rs were allowed to go unchallenged, the
general confusion on the subject of nutriti on increased and the sabotage on the health
and well being of the American people proceeded apace. Under the stress of war the
will to better health has been developed. The bad qualities of certain foods were
admitted. It was conceded that white fl our and sugar were producers of the most
dangerous diseases. An unsatisfactory compromise was made and the false statements
foisted on the people to allay general unrest. In effect the bad food purveyors now said: our


; when you believe that any state other than
the one you express now is alien to you—intrinsically alien, and
your real, nal, xed self is what you dislike. As long as that is the
case, you remain trapped in a vicious circle.
In order to come out of this circle, life must be understo od in its
essence. No matter how xed your life may appear, it is only one
tiny part of the whole story, my friends. Underneath  all these
personality traits you believ e are xed, nal things, the uid lifeexists like a winter stream under the snow. It is constan t; feelings
branch out of it in all directions, spontaneously and wondrously
forever self-renewing. Its life pulsates vibrantly; it is movement
itself. Above all, it is a life in which you are free at any moment to
think new and dierent thoughts that create a new and dierent life
expression and personality.
You see, as long as you ignore the true state of life, hence your
own true state, you cannot give yourself the fundamen tal respect
that you deserve as a human creature. As long as you confuse life
with death, with inanimate  matter, you will despair. And even
inanimate matter, as you now know from present-day science, has
an intrinsic life and incredible movement, once this life is released.
Think about this, my friends. Even an apparently dead object is not
dead; it contains life, movement, and utter change. Think of the
movement, life, and change in every atom of the deadest-seeming
matter.
So, nothing in the universe actually exists that is lifeless. How
much less so with consciousness! Your thinking is a constant
movement. The only trouble  is that you have conditioned yourself
to let it ruminate in habitual  negativity, self-rejection, and needless
limitation. But once you decide to use your thinking in a new way,
you will experience the truth of life’s hopeful changeability, its
endless possibi lities to move in new directions. You can constantly
expand your thinking, take in new ideas, embrace new realizations,
and therefore bring to yourself new will-directions, new expansions,
new aims, new energies, new feelings. All of this is personality
change. Without your being  quite aware of it, these new ways of
thinking and feeling chang e those attitudes you now dislike so
much.
When I talk about new ways of being, I want to make it quite
clear that this does not mean they have not existed in you as a
dormant essence. They are only new as far as your awareness is
concerned, for they are all there, constantly ready to be used for the
asking. But as long as you enclose yourself within the narrow
framework of your limited perceptions of yourself and of life, you
cannot use what is already there. Perceive yourself as fertile soilbefore the seeds are planted. Fertile soil contains incredible power
to bring about new expressi ons of life. The potentials seethe in it,
whether or not the seeds  are actually put in. Your entire
consciousness and aliveness are the most fertile soil imaginable. The
fertile soil is constantly there with incredible power to bring forth
new expression s of life in your thinking, your feeling, your willing,
your energies, your possibilities of action and reaction.
Each situation you are in contains new possibilities for reaction.
You have choices all the time. You can be in a new situation and
automatically fall into the old conditioned reexes, your negative
approach, without paying attention to what you are doing. Perhaps
you moan about the misery of life because this or that has happened
to you that you do not like, and you never see the connection
between your discontent and failures on the one hand,  and your
one-sided, negative automatic reactions on the other. As long as you
assume that this habitual approach is the only one possibl e, you will
not grasp the possibilities and powers in your life.
Thus, when you feel unhappy  or hopeless, question yourself: “Do I
not have anoth er way to react to this situation that seem s to befall
me out of nowhere and to which I choose to react negatively,
destructively, making myself hopeless, complaining and feeling
angry about it?” This choice is yours. Your anger and complaints
against the world are wasted, for all that energy could do so much
to build new life for you if it were used properly. You cannot change
others, but you can certainly  change your own attitudes and your
thinking. Then life oers its limitless possibilities to you.
First, your thinking and your attitudes change; then the feelings
follow suit; then your actions and reactions begin to respo nd to new
spontaneous impulses. And these, in turn, bring forth new life
experiences. The more you experience the chain reaction of this
process, the more you also perceive that you are a living, moving,
endlessly changing unit of life expression. And no trait merits
evaluating and rejecting your whole self because of it. Once you
perceive this, you can aord the wonderful, relieving  luxury of
calmly admitting any undesirable, ugly trait, without in the least
disliking yours elf for it; without in the least losing your sense ofbeing a divine expression, no matter what the traits may be. Then,
and only then, can you really transform these traits.
Paradoxical as this may seem, the total self-rejection, the
destructive kind of guilt under discussion is incapable of overcoming
anything. You will not understand why, my friends, unless you see
that it is impos sible to overcome anything when you believe you are
a xed,  unchangeable blob. You have heard that according to your
belief you must experience, but when you have built a false belief
system you cannot see beyon d it. Your actions then are determined
by your beliefs and must thus provide proof of their veracity, no
matter now mistaken those beliefs are and how many other
alternatives exist in reality.
Thus, if you are convinced that you cannot change, you cannot
even take a meaningful step in the direction of change. Therefore,
you cannot experience chang e and must be convinced that change is
impossible. The negative conviction makes it also impossible to
summon the necessary eort for bringing change about. The energy,
the discipline, the stamina, the initiative essential for eecting a
change will be comparative ly easy to muster when you know a
change is possible; when you know that change merely means
bringing out your dormant  qualities. When you know that, no
matter how ugly the traits may be, you will not despair about being
unlovable. You will make available the powers in you to surge
forward; you will be able to dip into the resources of your innermost
being that enable you to overcome any ugly destructive trait.
The power that created the universe, with everything in it,
including all that you are, possesses the strength to change
anything. For even the things that should be changed were created
by that same power and must, in essence, be something other than
they appear now. This power is also you and is manifest once you
contact it deliberately. This can be done only when you know of the
source within you, which is forever changing, moving, and
expanding with innite possibilities.
Reconnection with the Instinctual Lifef
You see, my friends, the life that is inherent in nature is also in
you. Bare will and intellect are sterile, as you well know. Only the
feeling of life, the natural life, can indeed bring you the fulllment
without which  life is a sorry aair indeed. This is what we have
been talking about and aiming for on this path. Now why has
humanity lost touch with the source of its own life, the source of its
feelings, the source of its instincts, the source of its own nature,
deep inside the self? Only because you are so terried of your
destructiveness and do not know how to handle it. So civilization
has for millennia denied the instinctual life in order to preserve
itself from its dangers. But by doing so humanity has cut o its
connection with the essence  of life itself. It had not realized that
there are other ways to eliminate the distorted, perverted, natural
forces, ways that need not deny life itself. The instinctual life has
always been wrongly equated with destructiveness.  Only as
humanity matu res is it capable of learning that the instinctual life
does not need to be denied in order to avoid evil. Indeed, it should
not be denied, for doing so defeats life every bit as much as the
feared evil itself. Only within the deep core of the instincts can God
be found because only there can true aliveness be found. Thus
humanity must nd another means to handle its destructive instincts
if it is not to annihilate itself by dierent but just as fatal ways as
giving vent to those negative instincts.
This lecture will give you an additional tool to meet your
destructive side. You will learn to value and nurture the deep
instincts you have always so distrusted and to nd the truth of the
living creative spirit in and through them. You will then joyfully
further your instinctual life, unfold


 W e can’ t solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them. This
popular saying has been widely attributed to Einstein, but its exact origin is unknown.
17 Exercise: Moving from Opinions to Prayer. Prayer  simply means intention or desire. Here
it refers to the desire for truth, Spirit.
18 It states that if you find resistance strong and dedication weak, you should not fight
yourself. ACIM, T-30.I.1:6–7.
22 Lesson 2 of A Course in Miracles  teaches that  you have given everything you see all the
meaning that it has for you. ACIM, W-pI.2.
23 My thoughts ar e images that I have made.  ACIM, W-pI.15.
24 A Course in Miracles  teaches us that without attack thoughts in our mind, we cannot see a
world of attack. ACIM,  W-pI.55.3.(23):3.26 W ith the help of the miracle, the mind is turned right side up, away from its former upside-
down way of being, experiencing, and operating. The Levels of Mind Diagram,
Foundation for the A wakening Mind,
https://livingmiraclescenter.org/doc/levelsofmind.pdf.
28 That’ s not the r eason why. The pr oblem’ s not out ther e; you have to look inside.  Resta
Burnham. 2000–2002. “That’ s Not the Reason Why.” Music of Christ.  Cincinnati, OH:
Foundation for the A wakening Mind. http://livingmiracles.or g/thats-not-the-reason-why.
30 W atch the Disney movie, The Kid. Jon T urteltaub, director. 2000. The Kid, Walt Disney
Pictures.
32 It is fr om your peace of mind that a peaceful per ception of the world arises.  ACIM,  W-
pI.34.1:4.
32 The miracle is a lesson in total per ception.  ACIM,  T-7.IX.7:4.
41 This means that the experience of guilt is solely a result of the purpose the ego gives to
things. The ego’ s purpose for the body is pride, pleasure, and attack. ACIM, T-6.V.A.5.
46 For you must learn that guilt is always totally insane, and has no r eason.  ACIM, T-
13.X.6:3.
46 All anger is nothing mor e than an attempt to make someone feel guilty. ACIM, T-
15.VII.10:3.
46 A Course in Miracles states that guilt feelings are just a sign that we don’ t know that God
Himself orders our thoughts and also that we believe we can think apart from Him.
ACIM, T-5.V.7:1–6.
48 Jesus told the parable of the prodigal son, where the one son left after asking for his
inheritance. The Holy Bible, New King James V ersion.  1979. Luke 15:1 1–32. Nashville,
TN: Thomas Nelson Publishing.
49 Whenever the pain of guilt or the desire to be right arises, remember that if you yield to it,
you are deciding against your happiness, and you will not learn how to be happy. ACIM,
T-14.III.3.
51 I am the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. This is how a
man must think of himself in his heart because this is what he is.  ACIM, T-1.III.2:3.
54 But the need to be defensive can only come when we have identified with an illusion of
our self. ACIM, T-22.V.6:1.
55 When the Self is realized and there is an experience of pure oneness, there are no longer
any experiences of private thoughts, yet the condition of being in this world is to believe
in those thoughts. In fact, they are believed to be the only reality. ACIM, W-
pI52.5(10):2–3.
56 If we had to give a definition of God’ s will for us, it would be perfect happiness. ACIM,
W-pI.101.
57 And yet it is only the hidden that can terrify, not for what it is, but for its hiddenness.
ACIM, T-14.VI.1:4.61 Every thought you keep hidden shuts communication of f. ACIM, T-15.IV.7–8.
62 This holy instant, this moment, is the recognition that all minds are in communication.
ACIM, T-15.IV.6.
67 This is because thoughts and images of forms are one and the same. ACIM, W-pI.15.
68 You will let Spirit decide for you. ACIM, T-5.VII.6:1 1.
69 Today I will make no decisions by myself.  ACIM, T-30.I.2:2.
74 The question becomes, Can I shift my perception and come to the trust that leads to an
experience of literally being sustained by the love of God? ACIM, W-pI.50.
79 There came a point when Jesus said to me, “Okay, that’ s the last job you will have working
for a paycheck and reciprocity.” “Reciprocity” is the practice of exchanging things with
others for mutual benefit. It occurs when the contribution of each party meets the
expectation of the other party. It stems from an idea of lack; that there is only so much
money, time and other means to go around. A belief in risking loss is behind reciprocity.
But God’ s unlimited love is free and is what truly sustains us.
80 the son of man has no place to lay his head.  The Holy Bible, NKJV, Luke 9:58.
81 “Except ye become as little childr en…” ACIM, T-1.V.3:4.
88 The practice is to come back to the mind, to come to a deeper point of not knowing how or
what to judge, to the place inside where we actually don’ t know what is good or bad. See
the “Moving from Opinions to Prayer”  exercise in chapter 1.
88 …In no situation that arises do you r ealize the outcome that would make you happy.
ACIM, W-pI.24:1.
89 I do not per ceive my own best inter ests. In no situation that arises do you r ealize the
outcome that would make you happy. Ther efore, you have no guide to appr opriate
action, and no way of judging the r esult. What you do is determined by your per ception
of the situation, and that per ception is wr ong. ACIM, W-pI.24.1:1–3.
90 You will also r ecognize that many of your goals ar e contradictory, that you have no unified
outcome in mind, and that you must experience disappointment in connection with some
of your goals however the situation turns out. ACIM, W-pI.24.6:2.
91 What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past,
present and to come, ar e gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?
Perhaps you have misunderstood His plan, for He would never offer pain to you. But
your defenses did not let you see His loving blessing shine in every step you ever took.
While you made plans for death, He led you gently to eternal life.  ACIM, W-pI.135.18.
91 It’ s like the movie August Rush, which is a beautiful example of how everything is
orchestrated perfectly even when things don’ t look good. August stays committed to his
calling and inner certainty. David Hof fmeister. 2017. Movie W atcher ’s Guide to
Enlightenment.  Kamas, UT : Living Miracles Publications. See also https://mwge.or g.
97 To say the words, “I want peace,” actually means nothing. But to mean them is everything.
ACIM, W-pI.185.1:1–2.97 Like Dorothy in The W izard of Oz, all that she had to do is click her heels together, the
little ruby red slippers, three times, and say the words, “There’ s no place like home,” to
go home! V ictor Fleming and King V idor, directors. 1939. The W izard of Oz. Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer.
98 One thing you must learn about the goals the ego has given you, is that when you have
achieved them they have not satisfied you. ACIM, T-8.VIII.2:5–6.
101 There is a section in A Course in Miracles  called “Setting the Goal” that explains that if
you put the goal of peace out in front in each situation, you will perceive everything and
everyone as supporting this goal. ACIM, T-17.VI.
112 A Course in Miracles  has nine chapters dedicated to special relationships! ACIM, T-15–
24.
113 Each teaching-learning situation is maximal in the sense that each person involved will
learn the most that he can fr om the other person at that time.  ACIM, M-3.4:1.
116 The Holy Spirit’ s temple is not a body, but a r elationship.  ACIM, T-20.VI.5:1.


 water after the lumps are out. Then beat
again until it bubbles. Have gem pans and oven very hot and
pans well oiled. Put batter in to pans and bake quickly.

UNLEAVENED HYGEIA GEMS.
Whip one egg to a creamy froth to which add three cups
of ice cold milk, a pinch of salt, and three heaping cups of
Christian's Combination Cereal Meal, or enough to make into
a batter. Stir into this a small piece of melted butter and place
in very hot gem or muffin pans oiled with butter and bake in a
very hot oven. This will make about one dozen gems.
This bread can be made extremely delicious by omitting
the butter and adding one-half cup of grated protoid nuts to
the ingredients above named.
Note:—Cooked bread has become such an universal
article of diet and modern milling and bolting processes have
so perverted and changed the nutritive value of the Natural
grain that we therefore have prepared this special meal,
making an exception in this case, and give the above recipe
for making a perfectly pure, delicious and wholesome article
of unfermented bread.

Note:—The raising and lightness of all unleavened bread
depends entirely upon the difference in temperature between
the batter and the oven. If the batter is made ice cold and
aerated well in mixing, and placed immediately in a very hot
oven, the expansion of the air contained in the batter caused by heating will raise the bread, making it as light as if made
with baking powder.
SANDWICHES.

The sandwich has become a part of the traveler's bill-of-fare.
The few recipes given here are only suggestive of the
combinations that can be made in elementary foods.

APPLE AND NUT SANDWICHES.
Cut apples into very thin slices and lay between unfired
wafers. Slice Brazil nuts and place a layer of nuts over the
apples.

LETTUCE AND CHEESE SANDWICH.
Spread unfired bread thickly with fresh Philadelphia
cheese and lay on this a crisp lettuce leaf that has been dipped
in salad dressing. Keep in ice box until ready to serve.

CHEESE AND DATE SANDWICH.
Spread the unfired cracker with Philadelphia cream
cheese, then a layer of date butter, and cover the other piece
of bread with cream cheese also, and press both firmly
together.
Fig butter and unfired crackers also make nice
sandwiches.

CREAM CHEESE SANDWICH.
Spread the cheese between unfired wafers, making the
cheese as thick as the wafer.

RIPE OLIVE SANDWICH.
Remove the pits from the olives, chop fine with nuts and
place between the unfired wafers.

CHIPPED BEEF SANDWICHES.
Spread sweet butter or cream cheese on unfired wafers,
placing a layer of chipped beef between the wafers. This
makes a very delicious sandwich.

ANCHOVY SANDWICH.
Soak the anchovies for an hour or two. Then remove
bones and chop fine with tender pieces of celery. Cover
unfired wafers with sweet butter, spread this between, and
serve on a dish garnished with parsley.

RAW BEEF SANDWICH.
After scraping the raw beef, season it with salt and
pepper and spread between unfired wafers.
NUTS.

NUTS average from 50 to 70 per cent. fat and from 15 to 33
per cent. proteids. They are, therefore, measured by their
chemical food values, the natural substitute for meats, to say
nothing of their superiority in purity and cleanliness. They
may constitute a part of every elementary meal.
The preparation of nuts requires no recipes, They
compose, however, a part of many dishes, recipes for which
are given, and into which they are put in some form owing to
their delicious flavor when mixed with other foods and their
high nutritive value.

FOR BLANCHING ALMONDS.
Soak almonds over night, or seven or eight hours, in cold
fresh water. The covering will be easily removed and they
will have become very crisp and edible. The old method of
blanching almonds has always been to emerse them in boiling
water, which cooks and tou ghens the nut, making it very
difficult both of mastication and digestion.
SALAD DRESSINGS.

THE objection to nearly all salad dressings is that they contain
either vinegar, or chemical acids. These condiments set up
immediate fermentation when mixed with cereal starch,
which is contained in bread a nd other cereal foods eaten at
the same time, and hyperpepsia (sour stomach) is the natural
result.

HYGIA SALAD DRESSING.
 2 Eggs,   1  cup Whipped Cream,
 ½ Lemon, Sugar,
 2 tablespoonfuls Olive Oil,  Salt.
To the yolks of the eggs, beaten very stiff, add the oil and
juice of the lemon very slowly, beating hard all the while,
until it has all been added and is quite thick. Then add the
beaten white of eggs, salt and s ugar to taste, and last, one cup
of whipped cream; whip all together until very stiff and set on
ice until ready to serve.

WHIPPED CREAM FOR SALAD DRESSING.
Place in a soup bowl one cup of very thick cream. Whip
with Dover egg beater until very stiff. Add to this two
teaspoonfuls of powdered sugar. Beat thoroughly again. This
makes a very delicious dressing for all sweet fruit salads. If
very heavy cream cannot be procured, add to it the stiffly
beaten white of an egg.
SALADS.

IN living upon uncooked foods, vegetable salads become
absolutely necessary. The elementary bill of fare cannot be
balanced without a certain percent, of chlorophyll, which is
only obtainable in green plants. All green vegetables are also
rich in organic mineral salts, which is one of the most
necessary articles in vegetable nutrition. In addition to these
material values, they are highly ornamental, and no dinner is
complete without them.

BANANA SALAD.
 Oranges,   Pecans,
 White Grapes,   Bananas.
A strip of the peel of a nice large banana may be turned
back, and most of the pulp carefully scooped out. To fill the
space left by the removal of the pulp prepare a mixture of
thinly sliced banana, shredded orange or grape fruit, seeded
white grapes and a few Pecan meats in small pieces. In their
season, cherries may be added. Mix all this well in a salad
bowl, with whipped cream, and fill banana peel. Serve on
lettuce leaf.

CHERRY SALAD.
 Cherries,   Apples,
 Lettuce,   Whipped Cream.
Stone nice, ripe sweet cher ries, cut equal quantity of
sweet apple with it, then serve on crisp lettuce leaves with
whipped cream.

FRUIT SALAD.
 Lettuce,   Dates,
 A few Malaga Grapes,   2 Bananas
 1 Orange,   Pecan Meats,
Whipped Cream.
Cut the bananas, oranges, dates and grapes all into small
pieces. Serve on lettuce leaf with a few pecans, or some kind
of nuts, and a spoonful of whipped cream. This makes a very
beautiful dish as well as delicious.

GRAPE FRUIT SALAD.
 Lettuce,   Grape Fruit,
Salad Dressing.
Remove the seeds or center of grape fruit with a sharp
knife. Cut the edible portion into small bits and serve on
lettuce leaf with salad dressing.  Makes a very dainty salad.
 ORANGE AND APPLE SALAD.
 1 Apple,   2 Oranges,
 Lettuce,   Ground Nuts,
Salad Dressing.
Cut in small pieces the orange and apple. Serve on a
lettuce leaf with a dash of ground nuts and oil or salad
dressing.

APPLE SALAD.
 6 Apples,   1 head of Lettuce,
 Celery,   Dressing.
Take six good-sized tart apples, pare them carefully, and
scoop out a good portion of the inside. Fill this cavity with
finely chopped, tender celery and ground nuts. Serve on
lettuce leaf with salad dressing or whipped cream.

PINEAPPLE SALAD.
 Pineapple,   Strawberries.
Lettuce.
Cut pineapple in small pieces. Wash tender leaves of
lettuce and spread pineapple on them, with very ripe
strawberries over the pineapple. Serve with salad dressing.

CHEESE EGGS.
 Cream Cheese,   Lettuce,
 Milk or Cream,   Olives,
 Blanched Almonds,   Radishes.
Moisten slightly cream cheese with milk or cream.
Mould cheese around blanched almond the size of robin's
egg. Arrange in nest of lettuce leaves and garnish with ripe
olives and tuliped radishes.

APPLES—CRESS SALAD.
 Cress,   Pecan Nuts,
 Apple,   Hygia Dressing.
Wash thoroughly water cress, placing it in salad bowl


 that sponsored those thoughts. Finish the
following sentence...
My truth about this situation is that... ... now complete the sentence. You might write, My truth about this situation is that... it
is hurtful...  or... it is dangerous...  or... it cannot be  solved...  or... it....
Now, look at the Judged Past Data from which this truth emerges. See now if you can
look past that Judged Past Data for just a moment, to the Factual Past Data. What is factual,
without making a judgment one way or the othe r, about situations such as the present
situation? What has your past told you, factually, about these situations?
Pretend that you are Mr. Spock on the starship Enterprise. Look at it logically. Looking at
Past Data logically, and utterly without judgment, what do you see is true about the last two
or three times this sort of thing has happened to you? Has it inflicted any kind of life -
damaging injury, from which you have not been able to recover? Have you, in fact,
recovered from a lot worse than this? Ha ve, in some instances, things even turned out for
the better when all was said and done? What is the Factual  Past Data about all of this?
Now look to see... does this impact your truth about the Present Moment experience in
any way? Can you cause it  to impact your truth in any way? If you could, how would you
cause it to affect your truth? Could you go so far as to create a brand new truth about what
just happened?
Can you see yourself elevating from the Imagined Truth to the Apparent Truth?
This stuff w orks, my wonderful friend. This stuff works. But right now, listen to what
your mind is telling you. Is it saying, “Yeah, yeah, for you it works. But for me, life is a
constant struggle” —? Is that what your mind is saying right now? If not, great. But if i t is,
then start where Mary O’Malley, in her deep wisdom, would advise: curiosity and
compassion. Just allow yourself to be curious about what your mind is saying, and have
compassion for what you learn. Mary softly suggests asking these questions of yours elf:
What is the way through this? What am I really? What is asking to be seen? What do I need
to say, do, or be that is for the highest good? What is needing my loving attention? What is
the next step in my life?
“Bear witness.” Watch gently where your mi nd is going, what your mind is doing. Do not
make yourself “wrong” for it. Do not scold yourself or berate yourself, and above all, do not
abandon yourself. Just be with yourself and be curious about yourself and ask yourself
questions about yourself. And most of all, love yourself through all of it.
Stay with yourself, bring yourself to the present moment, maybe by just listening to your
breath, maybe by looking at something in the room. Then quietly, softly, give yourself
permission to make a new choice i f you wish. Embrace a new truth.
We will conclude part 1  of this extraordinary exploration of how you can change
everything... with a final insight about the Mechanics of the Mind:
TRUTH IS CREATED, IT IS NOT DISCOVERED.
God  says, “Lay the Hammer down.”
Which is really my own voice, make no mistake.
And it is your own voice, too.
So “Lay the Hammer down”
and bring your hand to your lips,  or lay it against your heart, whispering
“Sweet forgiveness,”
though there is nothing to forgive.
All we do is try to Love.
It appears as everything: anger, fear, and hurt of every kind.
But all we do is try to Love.
There is nothing to forgive
save, lifting the Hammer again...
—‘Lay the Hammer Down’  © 2007 Em Claire  PART TWO
The  System of the Soul
And how knowing about that can help you create the changes in your life, rather than endure
them  16.
THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING
NOW WE LAUNCH INTO  what I consider to be the most exciting portion of this or any other
book.
Did I just say, “Or any other book?” Yes, I did. Because I don’t think there’s any book ever
written  that contains information more vital, more crucial, more critical, more important,
more empowering, and more directly connected to your ability to experience life as you
have always wished and hoped and aspired to experience it, than the information you are
going to be given right now.
I hope you will make notes in the margins everywhere. I hope that the pages become
ragged and dog -eared and thin from wear. If you’re readin g this electronically, I hope you
will highlight every line and paragraph that shouts to you in your soul’s own voice: This is
what you came here to hear.
I want to tell you now about the System of the Soul.
The Mechanics of the Mind were just that: the me chanics, the interlocking, interacting
devices in what I like to call “the engine of your experience.” What we’ll be examining now
is the fuel. This is where the engine gets its power. And when we finish with the
explorations in the second part of this boo k, you’ll have everything you need to change
everything when everything changes.
In a world that is constantly changing and a personal life that seems buffeted by major
changes every time you turn around, it is important to understand how and why you
exper ience change the way that you do, so that you can change  your experience of change if
you wish.
It is not easy to observe collapse, calamity, and catastrophe and remain at peace. Yet it
can be done —and here, you and I are going to look at how.
We’ll begin our exploration of the System of the Soul by announcing that you have  a soul.
This is not a “given” for all people. There are those who believe that humans are simply
particular forms of life, that there is no “spirit” that lives inside of them. The discus sion that
follows presumes that the previous statement is mistaken. It further presumes the
existence of what we might call an Oversoul —or what some people refer to as God.
These presumptions are based on more than blind faith. They are based on observation,
logic, and the extrapolation of both.
We know from just a casual look at the Universe that energy exists. This energy appears
to be at the core of every living thing —and, indeed, of everything, whether we normally
refer to it as “living” or no t.
For instance, to use our previous example, a rock.
A rock appears to be inert, and would not normally be categorized as a living organism
in the usual use of those words. Yet if you define that which lives as that which moves
according to an impeccable and precise design (which seems to suggest some level of intelligence  at its core) that is clearly part of a larger and elegant system, then rocks are
very much alive —for a close examination of rocks under a powerful magnifier will reveal a
microcosm that is a virtual duplicate of the macrocosm.
It has not been lost on scientists and it should not be lost on you that telescopes and
microscopes see the same thing: a system  of particles or “balls” of energy, whirling at
terrific speed around a core, or nucleu s, the whole configuration of which is held together
by some invisible yet obviously present and pervasive force.
Put another way, peer deeply into the sub -molecular structure of a rock (or anything )
and you will see a small “universe.” You will also see t hat something is driving that universe.
This “something” cannot be seen. Its effects  can be seen, but the energy itself that creates
those effects is not visible to the naked eye.
Does this mean that energy does not exist? It does not.
All that can be seen  is not all that is.
Now I come to tell you that what we have decided to call “the soul” is part of that which
cannot be seen: an energy system that makes all things move and animates life. So, too, is
what we have decided to call “God.” In fact, God is the system itself.
God Is the Largest Manifestation of a System That Replicates Itself in Smaller and Smaller
Versions through a Process That Empowers the System Itself to Exist and to Expand.
This is the System of the Soul, and it is impeccable. Its functio ning is perfect. Its design is
elegant. Its purpose is clear. Its power is immutable.
It can be no other way or the System itself would dis -integrate. That is, it would stop
integrating itself, and thus, cease to be.
This would mean that God is in everythi ng; that life is in everything. And this is true. And
at a soul level, we know this. That is why we personify inanimate objects. We give our boats
names and we fall in love with


 is explored at length in the
Conversations with God  dialogues).
When we begin to live in this way, we immediately become
compelled to share it with others, in hopes that they, too, may feel
the profound sense of joy and purpose that we feel. And we begin
“giving people back to themselves”—a term used frequently in
Conversations with God to mean showing others back to the truth of
Who They Are (as Divine entities having a physical experience upon
the Earth),  just as we, too, have come to remember this powerful
and life-changing truth about Who W e Really Are.
So in this sense everyone is a healer, whether we have a
medical degree (or some other spiritual or alternative healing
credential) or not. Each of us holds the capacity to walk upon this
Earth in a way that is Divine  and, in doing so—as we heal our own
false thoughts of who we thought we were, and step into our True
and Highest Self— we may also heal others of any false thoughts
about Who They Are.And this summarizes what I believe it means to be spiritually
healthy, and spiritually thriving.
So as we bring this book to a close, I invite you all—as readers
—to go forth on your journey as the grandest version of the greatest
vision ever you held about Who You Are. You are nothing  less than
Divine, and it is time that you truly know this about yourself.
And I invite you now to live it —more than you ever have before.
You will find that in doing so your “spiritual health” will soar... and I
would not be surprised if you notice improvements in your physical
health and well-being as well. For the two are fundamentally linked,
and your physical being is the greatest platform ever on which to
bring forth the qualities of Divinity Itself.

NEALE: I think the good doctor has stated it perfectly. “Good health”
is simply knowing Who You Are (an Individuation of Divinity)—and
then, demonstrating that. I join in Dr. Cooper ’s invitation.
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ADDITIONAL RESOUR CES
You may continue the dialogue that you have found here by going to:
www.GodandMedicine.info

As well, you may discuss and explore any aspect of the messages in
Conversations with God at www.CWGConnect.com, a resource site
offering an extensive array of audio, video, and written content from
Neale in which he expands on the CwG  material and its application.About the Authors

NEALE DONALD WALSCH  is a modern day spiritual messenger
whose work has touched the lives of millions. He has written twenty-
nine books on contemporary spirituality in the twenty years since he
reported havin g an experience in which he felt the presence of The
Divine, began writing questio ns to God on a yellow legal pad, and
received answers in a process that he describes as exactly like
taking dictation. What emerg ed from that encounter was the nine-
part Conversations with God series, which has been published in
every major language of the world.
Mr. Walsch has told his readers and the media—which has
brought global attention to his experience—that everyone is having
conversations with God all the time, and that the question  is not: To
whom does God talk? The question is: Who listens?
He says his whole life has been changed as a result of his own
decision to listen. He took notes on the questions in his heart and the
answers he was receiving, so that he would always remember his
exchanges with Deity. It wasn’t until later that he realized he was
being invited to place these words into the world, as one of many
throughout history who have made their very best effort to hear and
to articu late God’s messages. He knows that everyone is receiving
these messages, and invites all people everywhere to both share
them and live them as best they can, for Neale believes the world
would change overnight if only a fraction of its people embraced
God’ s most important message of all: You’ve got me all wrong.
DR. BRIT COOPER,  M.D., is a physician


 otherwise. Change is tough. If you’re
like most people, every
1fiber of your being will resist having to take on the hard work of
eliminating the thoughts that support your self-forfeiting feelings
and behavior. But despite the “worms” I think you are going to like
this book. I love it! And I loved writing it.
While I do not believe that mental health should be treated in a
flip manner, neither do I support the notion that it must be a humor-
less enterprise, filled with arcane jargon. I have tried to avoid intric-
ate explanations, largely because I do not believe that “being happy”
is a complex affair.
Being healthy is a natural state, and the means for achieving it are
within the grasp of each one of us. I believe that a judicious mixture
of hard work, clear thinking, humor and self-confidence are the in-
gredients of effective living. I do not believe in fancy formulas, or
historical excursions into your past to discover that you were
“harshly toilet trained” and that someone else is responsible for your
unhappiness.
This book outlines a pleasant approach to achieving happiness—an
approach that relies on responsibility for and commitment to your-
self, plus an appetite for living and a desire to be all that you choose
to at this moment. It’s an uncomplicated approach, a common sense
approach. If you are a healthy, happy human being, you may find
yourself thinking, “I could have written this book.” You are right.
You don’t need a professional background in counseling and a
doctorate in the helping professions to understand the principles of
effective living. You don’t learn them in a classroom or in a book.
You learn them by being committed to your own happiness and by
doing something about it. This is something I work on every day,
while simultaneously helping others to make similar choices.
Each chapter of this book is written like a counseling session. This
approach is aimed at providing as much opportunity for self-help
as possible. A particular erroneous zone, or kind of self-destructive
behavior, is explored, and the historical antecedents for the behavior
in our culture (and therefore in you) are examined. The emphasis is
on helping you understand why you2 / Your Erroneous Zonesare trapped in this self-defeating zone. Then specific behaviors that
fall into this erroneous zone are detailed. The types of behavior we’re
talking about are everyday acts that may seem perfectly acceptable,
but are, in reality, harmful to your own happiness. There are no ex-
amples from severe emotionally disturbed clinical cases, but rather
the daily neurotic messages that we all send out. After a look at the
behaviors in the erroneous zone we go on to an examination of the
reasons  for hanging onto behavior which does not make you happy.
This entails a hard look at the psychological support system that
you have erected to maintain self-defeating behavior, rather than
giving it up. This section is an attempt to answer the questions,
“What do I get out of my behavior?” and “Why does it persist if it
is injurious to me?” As you examine each erroneous zone, you’ll
undoubtedly note that each of the “payoff” sections has similar
messages. You’ll discover that the reasons for keeping neurotic be-
havior are fairly consistent across all of the erroneous zones. Essen-
tially it is safer to hang onto a learned response, even if it is self-de-
structive. Moreover, you can eliminate having to change and take
responsibility if you keep the erroneous zones intact. These payoffs
of safety and security will be evident throughout the book. You’ll
begin to see that your psychological maintenance system functions
to keep blame off you and the opportunity for change at bay. The
fact that you maintain many self-defeating behaviors for the same
reason only makes total growth more approachable. Eliminate these
reasons and you’ll eradicate your erroneous zones.
Each chapter concludes with some straightforward strategies for
eliminating self-nullifying behavior. This format is exactly what a
counseling session is all about; that is, exploration of the difficulty
and where it surfaces, a look at the self-defeating behavior, insight
into the “Why” of the behavior and concrete strategies for eliminating
the troublesome area.
Occasionally this approach may strike you as repetitious. That’s
a good sign—a sign of effective thinking. I have been aINTRODUCTION—A PERSONAL STATEMENT  / 3therapist for many years. I know that effective thinking—thinking
which can alter self-destructive behavior—does not occur just be-
cause something is said. An insight must be repeated, and repeated,
and repeated again. Only then, when it is fully accepted and under-
stood, do you begin to alter behavior. It is for this reason that certain
themes must be hammered at again and again in the pages of this
book, just as they must be brought up again and again in successive
counseling sessions.
There are two central themes that wind throughout the pages of
this book. The first involves your ability to make choices about your
own emotions. Begin to examine your life in the light of choices you
have made or failed to make. This puts all responsibility for what
you are and how you feel on you. Becoming happier and more ef-
fective will mean becoming more aware of the choices that are
available to you. YOU ARE THE SUM TOTAL OF YOUR CHOICES,
and I am just “far out” enough to believe that with an appropriate
amount of motivation and effort you can be anything you choose.
The second theme that will be emphasized within these pages is
that of taking charge of your present moments. This is a phrase that
will reappear many times. It is an essential part of eliminating your
erroneous zones and creating your happiness. There is only one
moment in which you can experience anything, and that is now, yet
a great deal of time is thrown away by dwelling on past or future
experiences. Turning your now into total fulfillment is the touchstone
of effective living, and virtually all self-defeating behaviors (erro-
neous zones) are efforts at living in a moment other than the current
one.
Choice and present-moment living will be stressed on almost
every page of this book. With a careful reading, you’ll soon begin
to ask yourself questions. that have never occurred to you before.
“Why am I choosing to feel upset right now?” and “How can I make
more effective use of my present moments?” are the internal queries
of a person moving away from erroneous zones toward self-reliance
and happiness.4 / Your Erroneous ZonesThis book concludes with a brief portrait of a person who has
eliminated all erroneous zones and is living in an internally rather
than externally controlled emotional world. The following twenty-
five questions are designed to measure your capacity to choose
happiness and fulfillment. Go through the questions as objectively
as possible and assess yourself and how you live your present mo-
ments. “Yes” responses indicate personal mastery and effective
choice-making.
1. Do you believe that your mind is your own? (Chapter I)
2. Are you capable of controlling your own feelings? (Chapter
I)
3. Are you motivated from within rather than from without?
(Chapter VII)
4. Are you free from the need for approval? (Chapter III)
5. Do you set up your own rules of conduct for yourself?
(Chapter VII)
6. Are you free from the desire for justice and fairness? (Chapter
VIII)
7. Can you accept yourself and avoid complaining? (Chapter
II)
8. Are you free from hero worship? (Chapter VIII)
9. Are you a doer rather than a critic? (Chapter IX)
10. Do you welcome the mysterious and the unknown? (Chapter
VI)
11. Can you avoid describing yourself in absolute terms?
(Chapter IV)
12. Can you love yourself at all times? (Chapter II)
13. Can you grow your own roots? (Chapter X)
14. Have you eliminated all dependency relationships? (Chapter
X)
15. Have you eliminated all blame and fault-finding in your life?
(Chapter VII)
16. Are you free from ever feeling guilty? (Chapter V)INTRODUCTION—A PERSONAL STATEMENT  / 517. Are you able to avoid worrying about the future? (Chapter
V)
18. Can you give and receive love? (Chapter II)
19. Can you avoid immobilizing anger in your life? (Chapter XI)
20. Have you eliminated procrastination as a life-style? (Chapter
IX)
21. Have you learned to fail effectively? (Chapter VI)
22. Can you enjoy spontaneously without having a plan?
(Chapter VI)
23. Can you appreciate and create humor? (Chapter XI)
24. Are you treated by others the way you want to be? (Chapter
X)
25. Are you motivated by your potential for growth, rather than
a need to repair your deficiencies? (Chapter I)
At any given moment of your life, you can choose to say yes to
all of the questions above if you are willing to repeal many “shoulds”
and “oughts” that you have learned throughout your life. The real
choice is whether you decide to be personally free or remain chained
to the expectations that others have of you.
A friend of mine, Doris Warshay, after hearing one of my lectures,
wrote a poem to me which she titled New Directions.
I want to travel as far as I can go,
I want to reach the joy that’s in my soul,
And change the limitations that I know,
And feel my mind and spirit grow


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water was to be eliminated from her body, she was not given any
water to drink. The treatment had already been continued for long
and the patient was unwilling to prolong it. Her attendant informed
me that she was taking water secretly because she could not control
herself.
I felt this would not do. It would give the treatment an ill name. I
instructed Ranjitbhai to give up the treatment. The blood-pressure
had come down from 240 to 150 and we could consider our
tre.ttment as successful. After that the lady was treated by a Vaidya
for five weeks and she unfortunately expired. In my view the urine
experiment was successful. I do not claim that urine can avoid even
death. The doctors held that he patient could be cured if
blood-pressure came down even to 170-175. For this purpose they
had cut out the nerves by two operations but he pressure did not
abate. They had, therefor, lost all hope. With the treatment of unine,
blood-pressure was brought down from 240 to 150 and many of her
pains disappeared. This is no ordinary success. It is unfortunate that
she coLld not control hereself. The urine cure is not to be blamed for HIGH BlOOD-PRESSURE : 87
this. Thank God, (had the intuition to stop the treatment in time so
as to save the urine treatment from getting a bad name. Such cases
can. enlighten the path of any person engaged in research work on
urine therapy.
Low Blood-pressure : Shri Devdas Pandya of Nadiad (of Kala
Mandir) suffered from low blood-pressure and was feeling
discomfort and weakness due to it. He had a relative who was a
Vaidya and wanted him to undertake urine treatment. He devised a
trick for this. He used to collect urine of Shri Pandya on the pretext
of its examination and returned the same telling him to be cowls
urine! Shri Pandya used to drink it thinking it to be so. As a result,
his blood-pressure went up from 11 0 to 122 and weakness
diminished.
Had the Vaidya asked him in the beginning to drink auto-urine,
he would not have done so. So he was compelled to give it in the
name of cow1s urine. Now he has overcome nause and can
participate in a number of activities without feeling any exer;ion.
AFTERMATH OF CASES
1. Shri Ratilal Mody (7, Triveni Plot No. 62, Sion, Bombay) had
tried this therapy in full faith. He was fuffering from blood-pressure
for the last 30 years and had diabetes and eczema too! He could
bring under control blood-pressure· and diabetes and could. cure
eczema. This is a case of three-in-one-cure treatment. It IS no
wounder urine thrapy is really an ali-in-one-cure treatment.
2. Shrimati Saralaben R. Desai, (Vadifalis, Store Sheri, Surat) aged
thirty years,'had. high blood-pressure during pregnancy.
Blood-pressure durJng pregnancy is certainly a serious sy.mpt?m.
Doctors could not'bring it down. She began to take auto-unne 1n 4
oz. dose. She could not fast nor did she rub urine. Even then
blooil:pressure became normal and delivery was quite easy. She
recommended all pregnant women to take auto-urine to keep free
from big or small ailments during pregnancy. CHAPTER IV
TUBERCULOSIS
T. B. of Lungs : On the 12th and 13th March 1960, we held a
seminar on urine therapy in Harijan Ashram, Ahmedabad. The chair
was occupied by Dr. Pranjivandas Mehta,.M.D.M.s., the Director of
Ayurvedic Research Institute, Jamnagar (Saurashtra). A number of
doctors and Vaidyas participated in it. About 40 people related their
ideas and experiences about urine therapy. Shri Rambhai Himabhai
Patel, a farmer from Navagam (Ahmedabad), gave his account of
recovery from T.B. of lungs by the application of urine. The
chairman was surprised to hear his account and asked him to send a
written statement. It is as follows:
"I had been suffering from T.B. of lungs for the last four years. It
was preceded by cough and fever. I had been reduced to a bare
skeleton. I took the treatment of doctors and had some relief. In the
next winter, there was a relapse and cough and fever attacked me
·again. Another doctor advised me to undergo an operation and get
rid of the affected ribs.
"But God willed otherwise. I happened to go to a relative. He
asked me to try urine treatment before undergoing operation and I
agreed..
"I started with rubbing of urine on the 7th auspicious day of the
dark half Chaitra. After a week, drinking of urine was also begun.
After two weeks, I saw Shri Raojibhai and related to him my
experience. He listened to me with much interest and gave further
instructions. After that there was considerable improvement. Eleven
months have passed since then but I have never been obliged to see
any doctor or take any medicin. There is considerable improvement
in my appetite and power of digestion. Motions are regular. While
working in the field on two or three occasions, I got drenched in the
rains but there was no adverse effect on my healtp. The experiment
88 TUBERCULOSIS : 89
has been continued for cough were experienced but they
disappeared after three or four days. Neither had I to take doctor's
medicine, not to keep in bed. Really this experiment is very
effective and encouraging."
Dr. Gunanidhi Bhatt, a homoeopath, has his dispensary near
Fernandiz Bridge, Gandhi Road, Ahmedabad. He has successfully
cured two T. B. patients with urine, though they were declared
as incurable. He has given me a report of the cases is writing,
on 13th November 1948.
Case No. I : "Shri K. D. Mehta, twenty-five years of age,
Suakadi Sheri, Ahmedabad, was an unmarried youth. About a
dozen doctors had diagnosed him a T. B. patient and had given
treatment. They had given up the case as incurable.
;'Occasionally he had attacks of blood-vomiting and dysentery.
The temperature continued from 100° along with cough. He could
not relish or digest any food. His body was reduced to have
skeleton. Even the slightes exertion caused gasping.
, "I gave him homoeopathic treatment for abou~ four months and
he felt some relief. After two months, the patient again sent for
me and after examination. I found that the disease was still there.
I advised him to drink an ounce of his own urine in the morning
and it was gradually increased to 3 oz and thrice a day. He was
also advised to rub urine before going to bed and wash the body
with warm water the next morning. The improvement began with
the first day ·of the treatment and a gradual relief was felt in
dysentery, fever digestion, vomiting, weakness and anemia. Due
to dysentery, the weight had been reduced to 80 lb. but it
increased to 1 00 lb. by two month's treatment. There was an
astonishing improvement in his appearance, nature, colour and
vigour in the body. Nobody could say Shri Mehta had suffered
from a fatal disease. I had permitted him· from the very beginning
to take a simple and digestible diet as it was dangerous to keep
such a week patient on fast."
Case No. II : "Miss K. R. Shah of Ahmedabad, aged seventeen, 90 : AUTO-URINE THERAJ>Y
suffered from bone-T. B. She was so weak that she could not get up
from the bed, nor was she able to t-urn on one ~ide or the other. She
could not even take a cup of tea. She had a boil of the ::lze of a
guava on her left thigh. Dqctors forwarded the -:ase to me. I gave her
one dose of homoeopathic medicine and opened the boil and about
a pound of pus was discharged from it. This. discharge gave her
some relief ailld she had some sleep after a long period· of
sleeplessness. I gave her homoeopathic medicine for some time but
there was no desired result; the disease could not be rooted out.
T~1ere was no change in cough, fever andweakness. The pus also
ccntinued. It appeared that she would not survive even for a week I
had to take recourse to the urine treatment.
"She was given to drink one ounce of auto-urine thrice a day. She
was permitted to take simple and easily digestible diet. She applied
the pads of urine on the boil. On the third day, the discharge of pus
ceased and the patient showc:.


notes as A.B.C. cases.
I will briefly cite one more  of the serious cases.  Man  of 60, after two
years'  constant medical supervision  and treatment  for heart, developed
Bright's disease. Finally, given up by his two doctors, specialist was
called  in. He saw the victim at the stage when his eyes were starting
from his head, tongue was  dreadfully  swollen  and  protruding  from
mouth, whilst  his lips were three  times their normal  size. Specialist  said
the case  was hopeless.  Nothing more  to be done.  I undertook  the case.
Patient passed  40 pints of water five days later, and  returned to
business in six weeks ‐ cured.
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 CHAPTER  VIII.
A CASE  OF LEUCOCYTHAEMIA  OR LEUKAEMIA
(Splenic Anaemia)

That remarkable  naturopath,  the late Louis Kuhne, of Leipsic, declared
that disease was a unity, and  with trifling variations  should be always
treated in the same way. He maintained  that all diseases, no matter
what their names or sites, invariably  rise from  the same cause, viz., an
encumbrance  of foreign matter  in the body.  He said it was absurd to
treat an organ separately  (as specialists  often do) for, as goes without
saying, any organ or limb  is a part of the body, and  to think to cure  an
eye, an arm, a leg or what‐not merely  by treating it locally is the height
of pseudo scientific folly! If an eye is diseased,  there  is something  in the
body itself  which  is causing that disease. For instance, he gives the case
of a woman  who was going blind. He treated her whole body, ridding it
of its " cloggings,  " and  the eyetrouble  cleared up automatically.  She
had  suffered for years from bleeding piles;  the orthodox  physicians,
having finally operated on her. Soon afterwards  she started to lose her
sight. The safety‐valve  had been blocked up by this  measure,  the
operation,  declared Kuhne, and  the poisons went to her eyes. (See The
New  Science of Healing.)
Kuhne effected many remarkable  cures by his method, but would have
effected even a greater number  had  he known the value of urine as a
means of replacing wasted tissue. Yet he was right when he declared
that all diseases (except those caused by traumatism  or structual
defects) could be cured by one means, as I myself have demonstrated.  57
 The name of the disease is of merely academic  interest, and  has
nothing to do with the curing of it. All the same,  for the  sake of
convenience,  and to prove  this fact, I have advisedly  specified  the
diseases treated, and  will now give the case‐sheets relative to what is
termed Leucocythae  nia or Leukaemia.
The patient, Mr. P.C., was brought in a taxi to my house by two of my
"disciples.  " He was too ill to walk  into my room unsupported,  looked
very pale  and  wretched,  and altogether  was  obviously  in a very bad  a
state. His age was  48, he had  lost 4 stone in one year, and another
stone during some weeks of medical treatment.
After I had examined  him, I said in effect: "Mr. P.C., your condition  is
medically  tabulated  as leucocythaemia  or splenic anaemia, and
according  to the Medical Profession,  you have but three months to live.
Your disease has been brought  about by an ill balanced,  denatured  diet.
None the less you can be saved by fasting and urine‐therapy."  I went on
to explain the details.  Then he told me his story. The gist of it was as
follows
Shortly before Easter  of that year (1927) he had  developed  a cold, for
which  he had "doctored"  himself. By the Good  Friday, his condition  had
been such that his wife and  his brother  had  become alarmed and  sent
for a young physician  who had  diagnosed  high  bloodpressure.  On a
second  examination  the following  day,  however,  he had said it was not
high  blood‐ pressure  after all, and  that he had  found  traces of other
symptoms,  which  he did not particularise.  A specialist was then called
in. He examined  the patient, pointed  out the region of the swollen
spleen to the general practitionerand  diagnosed  the case  as 58
 leucocythaemia.  Mr. P.C. was then informed  that the disease was rare
in England, and asked if he had ever been to the East or the Tropics? His
relatives were told that the malady always proved fatal, but that the
patient might live from three  to six months  if given deep X‐ray
treatment,  drugs, and  a series of injections.  (No mention was made of
diet, except that liver would be good for the patient.) Mr. P.C.
accordingly  attended at the local  infirmary,  where  he was examined  at
various times by the visiting physicians,  who became  interested  in him
as "a somewhat  rare  specimen."  All of them were unanimous  as to the
name of the disease and  the length of time the patient had  still to live.
His blood  was tested by the staff pathologist  and  registered  at 556,000
more  white  corpuscles  than red ones per cubic millimeter.