ite is a refined lime product with a very high absorption rate which
promotes the dissolving of precipitated calcium settled in the join ts.

THE CLEANSING PROGRAM
I would like to discuss one of the most important aspects of the bowel management program, the one most neglected and the one
no one wants to talk about. I think we are all in a bowel mess because we grew up like Topsy, and now w e have to talk about it.
We have to begin to correct old errors by learning the right way to take care of the bowel. Cleansing, detoxification and
elimination are words we all hear. but they are seldom used in connection with the bowel. When I look over al l the programs that
were developed to take care of the bowel and all the various techniques we’ve had in bowel cleansing, I have come to the
conclusion that a real cleansing process should be one that reaches every cell in the body. In general, we can say that the blood is
only as clean as the bowel, and since the blood circulates through every organ in the body and reaches every cell in the body,
toxins in the blood due to a dirty bowel contaminate the entire body. To properly cleanse the body tissue we mu st start by a
thorough cleansing of the bowel. We have to utilize energy to rid the bowel of toxic material. We find, too, that the bowel h as
to take care of acids. Catarrh elimination through the bowel is actually part of our own body being eliminated. No w, I’ve heard the
bowel called a cesspool and I’ve heard it called the dirtiest part of the body. I point this out because the average person d oesn’t
want to talk about it; such discussion is thought to be socially unacceptable. Bowel problems should be di scussed, however,
because most people need some help. There is nothing to be ashamed of in discussing the bowel. It is merely a natural part of  the
body. Care of the bowel should be a routine part of a total health program. Bowel action is one of the end r esults of metabolism:
the elimination of broken down cells and tissue plus the fermented and putrified food wastes. Bowel action is far worse when there
is a lazy colon. The colon is made up of muscle structure that moves toxic materials along by peristalt ic motion, and if there is
flabby muscle structure throughout the body, you can be assured that the bowel is even flabbier.

“IT’S NOT ONLY WHAT YOU EAT —IT’S WHAT YOU ABSORB THAT COUNTS”
In managing the bowel, there are ways to get good results, and first of all, we must change the diet. Unless we do this, we w ill
become “doctor shoppers.” The symptoms just stay with us because we aren’t dealing with the cause of the problem. Every organ
in the body works with every other organ. The body is a community of various organs working for the good of the whole human
being.

A short word on intestinal cultures before the story. While I was at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Dr. DeFoe, who delivered t he
famous Dionne quintuplets in Canada, telephoned Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and said he was about to lose two of the babies
because of their poor bowel conditions. Dr. Kellogg immediately sent off an acidophilus culture, and a week later, Dr. DeFoe
called t o say the two babies were much improved. He felt that Dr. Kellogg had saved the babies’ lives with the acidophilus culture.

In discussing the many types of diets that are appropriate during the different stages of disease, we must be sensitive to wh at the se
stages represent in terms of digestive ability. For instance, we can’t immediately give a big raw salad to one who has coliti s; we
must first cleanse and give the bowel tonicity in preparation for more efficient digestion and absorption. Going through t he 7-day
elimination program will give us a head start. We must be able to absorb the nutrients that we are rebuilding our bodies with  or
those nutrients will be lost. Once absorption has been increased we take the body step by step along a graduated food regime. We
may have to use broths and light soups at first, then go on to steamed, pureed vegetables and fruits. Raw, liquefied salads c an be
given as the bowel becomes able to handle more bulk. We must move slowly but surely along the tissue cleansing and  rejuvenating
system, keeping in mind that even as it took time to pollute our bodies to the point of disease, so it will take time to reve rse the
process.

POOR ASSIMILATION LEADS TO NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES
Personally, I wonder if a toxic body can even a bsorb the right chemical elements at all. If body tissue is unable to function at the
normal metabolic rate, regeneration and rebuilding would take a great deal longer than otherwise. Can digestion be good in a toxic
body? It is impossible to build healthy  tissue without effective digestion and assimilation. Nerve conduction is not as effective as it
should be when the metabolic rate is low. It is entirely possible to have good nerve flow and nerve function in the body, but  if the
body chemistry is not righ t, improvement through rejuvenation will be limited and incomplete. A complete tissue detoxification
program requires that we take care of all five elimination channels. Underactive tissue can not get rid of toxic wastes prope rly. I
want to place a special  emphasis on this. When we rid the body of toxins, we often notice a subsequent remission of some
degenerative disease stage.

CLEAN TISSUES FUNCTION BETTER
There are many therapeutic approaches to restoring or maintaining health today. However, the presen ce of toxic settlements in the
body prevents any of these methods of treatment from being completely successful. If a treatment does not work toward complet e
detoxification, the rejuvenation of tissue will not take place as it should. The complete rejuvena tion process involves the
replacement of old underactive tissue with new, clean, efficiently working tissue. This is what brings a degenerative conditi on to a
state of recession and remission. Many kinds of processes can be used to bring this about, and th is is what the doctor must be alert
for.

The natural immune system can only be built up in a clean body, a body with a minimal amount of accumulated toxic material.
The presence of significant quantities of toxic material in body tissue means that the bod y’s natural defenses have been overcome.
When health is restored through a tissue cleansing program, the immune system will also be restored as we return to a healthy  diet,
exercise, fresh air, sunshine and a positive outlook on life. Most people believe t hat tissue rebuilding depends upon a nutritious
diet, and this is basically correct. But it also depends on good nerve force, good circulation and adequate rest. We have don e
experiments to show what can be accomplished by tissue detoxification. In a perio d of only seven days of fasting, taking
nutritional supplements and bowel cleansing, almost unbelievable results have been observed and recorded. As these methods ar e
further understood and tested; we may hope to find them in hospitals and sanitariums in t he treatment of disease. In order to
reverse the disease process, we must consider Hering’s law of cure, which states that all diseases are cured from within out,  from
the head down and in reverse order as their symptoms first appeared in the body. This me ans we have to return over the same
‘track” we traveled to get the disease. No disease can exist without toxic material in the body, so the first step toward rem ission is
detoxification.

To administer drugs in response to a disease condition brought on by  toxic accumulations can only add to the problem. Although
temporary relief may be obtained, the residual drug settlement will, over the long term, simply increase the toxic burden of the
body. Please remember that this program is designed to be part of a preventive health care system in which the results of bad habits
may begin to be reversed. No good results of lasting quality will be had as long as destructive habits are continued. This pr ogram
is for the person who is wanting and willing to start over a new. Taking up the life -generating practices marks the beginning of a
new day toward the harvest of renewed health and vitality. Throughout this book, we have stressed the importance of cleanline ss
as the vehicle by which health is regained and maintained.  The degree to which the colon is inhabited by harmful bacteria,
parasites and other dangerous organisms varies greatly among individuals. What one person is able to hold in the bowel withou t
obvious effects may be hazardous to others.

SANITATION & CLEANL INESS IMPORTANT NOTE
Contamination by one individual of another must be avoided. This important point is best accomplished by each person having
their own personal colema board and tip. DO NOT ALLOW ANOTHER PERSON TO USE YOUR BOARD OR TIP UNLESS
THE EQUIPM ENT HAS BEEN COMPLETELY STERILIZED.

Microscopic organisms are very easily transferred to the colon by the use of unclean colema rectal tips. Store your rectal ti p in a
bottle of germicidal solution when not in use. Sterilize the interior tube to which the  rectal tube is attached before use to ensure
against infection. We have endeavored to make this system as easy as possible to keep clean by making it simple and


 see these  children arriving  from the  other  islands at the  be-
ginning  of the  school year with their new  clothes and  their new  books.
They thought it was exciting, not knowing  what it was all about. But then
the time came  for the  parents to kiss them goodbye  and leave  them in
this strange  place, and  many a  child cried  himself to sleep  not just for a
night but for the  whole  term, such was their homesickness and  loneliness.
But the  parents did  it in love  and left them there. Many sent their children
on to England  for still higher  education at great sacrifice, and  they could
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havennot afford  to bring  them home  for vacations, so they had  to wait years to
see them again.
But they did  it in love  and only love.
An infinite  being  of love  did the same  thing to us. We  were "dead." We
were fully made and  perfect but we were  like the statue  of Galatea. And
then to quicken man and  make him like  God, he  had to drive  him out  not
in space, out in mind. So God  became  man, the  thing that was dead, and
to do it he  had to lower  himself to this level which in  comparison to the
higher  states would  be called  "dead." This garment of skin you  wear has
been long  in preparation for the  Son of God. We are told: “And He clothed
them in garments of skin." It is for schooling  purposes.
Why are  we here? To make images. The  whole  universe is an image of
cosmic  fancy. We  are learning, so we begin with the  simplest things a job,
a new home, a  change  in environment. We  do it in the  same  way as our
Father  did it, but this is a  classroom so we make mistakes  but the  fault is
not ours for we  are not yet awake. There  was the  perfect system, existing
for its creator, and  then God  set free certain portions of it, and  so he “pre -
pared  the way for his banished  ones to return." God  seeks what has been
driven away, so that he  may say:  "This, my son, who was dead  [and] is
alive again." So we  are the one he is seeking.
There  is something  hidden in this coat of skin that he  is seeking.
We must get beyond  the senses and  begin to create.  So I say to everyone
that we  must start the  art of creating, no matter  how simple  or how big
the thing is, no matter  what it is that is creating. We  create  by faith, and
faith is belief in the  thing not yet seen. We  create  by assembling  an image
that implies we  now have what we  want in this world, and  if we are faith-
ful we bring  it to pass, and  as we do it we begin to move  through this
labyrinthine  way for the  return of his Son. "Whom God  has afflicted He
will comfort and  call his friend." So if you  are hurt do not believe  that it
was because  of what you  did in the  past. No. We  pass through the  fixed
labyrinthine  ways that he  has prepared  for the  return of his Son. So the
Son finally  awakens and  he walks with me  through the  whole  roadway of
these  states.
You can create  anything  in this world  if you  know  who you  are, and  if you
do not know, that is why these  platforms exist to teach you, for we  are all
interlaced. You  may think  you are  insignificant; you  may even be  in jail
but even behind  bars you are creating. And  you need not remain in jail if
you know  who you  are.
Have you ever flown over  a lake or over  the ocean? A friend  recently flew
in from San   Diego. He had  been in the  navy and  he had always owned
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenboats, but he  had never  before  observed  what he  saw now from the  air.
He was on the  ocean side  as the  plane  took off from San Diego, and  look-
ing down he  saw this little  thirty- footer  coming  in the  opposite  direction.
He noticed  the wake of this little  ship and watched  it widen, and nothing
interrupted  it. When his plane  turned  inland  he was flying  at three hun -
dred miles per  hour, but looking  back he realized  that this little  boat doing
maybe  thirty knots was troubling  the entire  Pacific. As far  as the eye could
see this wake  was moving  and nothing  could  stop it and  the occupant of
that boat was totally unaware  of what he  was doing.
We are all like  that. You  think you can imagine  and not affect others? It is
like the wake:  in time  it encompasses the  whole  world. It starts as a little
"v" but it grows wider  and wider. Everyone  will be  in some  way influenced
by my pattern. If one  knows what he  wants for himself or for others and
remains faithful to it, he  does not have  to ask:  "Who will help  me?" For
every person who must play a  part will play it to make possible  the fulfill -
ment of that dream.
A lady said  to me  the other  night:  "Look  at my hands! A week  ago they
were blistered  as if with acid; now  there  is no scar, but it took me five
days of revision to bring  about what you  are seeing." For unnumbered
days prior to this nothing  happened, but five  days of revision brought this
about. She  produced  in her  own body this change. This seems stupidity to
the rational man; to the  Greek  it is foolishness and  to the  Jew a stumbling
block.  It means that the  man of reason cannot comprehend  it; he  cannot
believe  that one  can create  by imagination. The  way is prepared  for you,
for there  are unnumbered  states, and  we can create  states to deliver  oth-
ers and pull them out of those  into which they have  fallen.
We are here on the  earth as in a  great schoolroom. We  were not sent here
to be punished, but to learn to become  creators like  our Father. There  is
no "original sin" for God  made the  decision to send  me to "school." In fact
I was "dead." I existed  only for God, the creator of the  perfect system,
and then came  the decision to subject me  to this schoolroom  in the  hope I
would  be set free in the  glorious liberty of the  sons of God. Given the
choice, what child  would  go to school? But  loving  the child the parents
subject it to that training. How  many years are  taken from children's lives
and given to learning? It is the  same  with us, only it is a  vaster  school. So
let no one  tell you  that you  did anything  wrong  in being  born. These  coats
of skin were  prepared  for us, for they help  man the invisible  reality to be -
come  conscious. And  then some  certain teachers  sent by God tell them of
the only value  in the  world  and that is to awake. But if in the awakening,
you want a  better  home,  a finer job, better  health, then try to create  it.
Failure  does not matter;  you are learning. If you  persist you  will win. You
create  by faith. By faith the  worlds were  made and  sustained.  Things that
are made are  made from things that do not appear. So what would  it be
like if you   were  the man you  want to be? See  the world  as you would
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenlike to see it.
Let me  define  Imagination for you. It is spiritual sensation, but the word
"spiritual" is to   most of us something  that is not practical  the incorporeal
as opposed  to the  corporeal. But Imagination is the  power  to perceive
what is absent from the  senses. Take a  rose there  is not one  here but
right now  could  I sense  it in any way? Smell it? Touch it? I can, though it
is absent from the  senses. That is Imagination. If Imagination creates re -
ality, such perception of what is absent from  the senses makes it so. We
have unnumbered  case histories to prove  it


 symptoms, i t
has no meaning to him. When a physician prescribes for a patient and leaves him he has no more idea than the man in the
moon in what condition he will find his patient upon his next call. The very best of them cannot tell whether or not
"complications" will develop in a given case. They are never certain that their patient will im prove and cannot be sure that he will
not grow worse. When the physician finds a change of symptoms in his patient, he cannot tell whether this change is due to
food, drugs, fear, excitement caused by visitors, improper nursing, or to something else. He is  likely to conclude that it is a
"peculiarity of the disease" or an "unusual development." Every first -class physician knows that "modern medicine" cannot
predict anything. Yet, if they had a true science, if they knew real causes and had a valid plan of c are, they would be able to
predict - prognose - with something like precision, the outcome of the diseases in the patients they treat. Their very masking of
symptoms with drugs stand in their own light and prevents them from knowing the true conditions of their patients.

HOW ARE DISEASES NAMED?
What is disease? We apply this term to a group of abnormal signs and symptoms. We group these symptoms into vaguely
defined symptom complexes give the complexes names and then go after them with hammer and tongs. St ereotyped treatment
is the rule under this way of regarding disease. Quinine for malaria anti -toxin for diphtheria, arsenic for "syphilis", digitalis for the
heart, operation for appendicitis, morphine for cancer, the anti histamines for colds. In not one instance do we seek to find,
understand and remove cause.

MEASLES
Let us look at measles, which is defined as a "catarrhal fever, a typical enanthom," (eruption on the mucous membranes of the
eyes, nose, throat, occasionally bronchus and gastro -intestinal  mucous membrane). "The internal enanthema (eruption) is to be
expected, or suspected, when the exanthema (external eruption) fails to show up.
All of the symptomatology of measles, carefully compiled by the makers of medical text -books, as well as of all other so -called
diseases, has very little meaning for the physicians of the various schools of so -called healing. What does it mean? It means
that all of the eruptive fevers - all of the so -called diseases of the mucous membranes, those of the nose and lips, those
involving the throat and lungs, and ending with pneumonia, and all of those that involve the outer skin - are but different forms
of elimination of pent -up by -products of metabolism. They are processes of vicarious or compensatory excretion.

ACUTE DISEASE = DAMAGE REPAIR
Exaltation of function - rapid heart action, rapid breathing, diarrhea, increased temperature, etc., etc. - as seen in the various so -
called acute diseases, represents efforts of the body to eliminate toxins and repair damages.  In this respect, exaltation of
function is desirable and beneficial under certain conditions. Such exalted function indicates a wrong somewhere and this
wrong should be searched for and righted without depressing or weakening the sum of the vital energy.

THE COMMON COLD
A cold is a catarrhal disease, a "catarrhal fever," and is a process of vicarious elimination. Contrary to popular belief, a cold is
not something that we "catch," but it represents a process of getting rid of something we have slowly accu mulated. What does
cold weather have to do with the cause of colds? People "catch" colds as often in warm weather as in cold weather. An
increase in temperature may precipitate a cold as often as will a decrease in temperature. They have colds as often in dry as in
wet weather. Men have colds as often as women, although they dress heavier. Indeed, men have more catarrh than women,
because they dress more warmly, dissipate more and eat more.

TOXEMIA
Back of every catarrh is a toxemic state. Catarrh is impos sible in the absence of toxemia. Toxemia is produced by anything and
everything that enervates the body. Enervation inhibits (checks) excretion (elimination) permitting the accumulation of
uneliminated waste. The accumulation of body waste - end-products o f metabolism - produces toxemia.
Toxemia is the universal, basic cause of all so -called disease. Adventitious complicating causes may be super -added to
toxemia. By checked elimination is not meant constipation, but checked excretion through all of the excr etory organs of the
body. Toxemia is not caused by constipation and is not removed by laxatives, enemas and colonic irrigations. Nor will the use
of kidney medicines increase elimination through the kidneys. None of the so -called blood -purifiers can be of any value in
remedying toxemia.
The ultimate cause of mankind's many so -called diseases lies in the enervating habits of mind and body practiced almost
universally. Because this is so, the ultimate remedy for our diseases is a correction of the habits of l ife.

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IF NO ATTENTION TO CAUSE - NEW PROBLEMS
Today, as in the past, when a man becomes ill - he takes a pill from a box, potion from a bottle, gets an injection of a  poison
from a hypodermic syringe, or has an organ removed. No attention is given to cause. His life is not changed, his habits are n ot
corrected, and in a short time he is sick again. Neither the physician nor the patient is able to trace a connection bet ween the
two so -called diseases. So -called health is again restored and the incident passes from memory.
Again, within a short time, another illness (which is as much of a surprise as were the prior two illnesses) develops and sti ll no
thought is devoted t o its connection with the two preceding illnesses. So long as the real nature of disease and real source of
cause are not understood, this will continue to be true.

TOXEMIC CRISIS = STEAM SAFETY VALVE
The medical axiom that "all diseases tend to recovery"  is much overworked, and by no school more than by the old school or
self-styled "regulars." Why? Because the primary cause, the universal cause of disease - toxemia - is not known. The many
diseases which the medical tongue so flippantly describes as func tional derangements that "tend to recovery," are simply crises
in toxemic saturation. In their alleged "self -recovery" in spite of "cures", palliations, and the "chief function of the physician to
guard against complications," there is no recovery at all.
Like the escape of excess steam through the safety -valve of an engine, the steam pressure is lowered for the time being; but
unless the cause of toxemic saturation is removed, crises will recur time after time, as the toxemia continues to in -crease, and
the "curing" has to be done over and over again.
This requires that the wisest of physicians must be constantly busying himself "guarding against complications" - complications
that he is almost always responsible for building.

CRISIS WILL FOLLOW CRISIS
What is a self -limited disease? Disease is remedial effort. It is a process of purification and repair. When the process of
compensatory elimination that is called disease, has reduced the toxemia to the toleration point, the symptoms subside
spontaneously an d the disease is said to be cured. But the patient is not well. He is still toxemic. The cause of the toxemia has
not been removed.
The toxemia will again rise above the toleration point and another crisis will develop. Crisis will follow crisis until orga nic change
takes place. Gastric ulcer, diabetes, Bright's disease, heart disease, diseases of the arteries or nerves, cancer, etc., foll ow in
the wake of recurring crises.

PROGRESSIVELY MORE SERIOUS DISEASES
Instead of seeing in these changes a progressive pathological evolution of which cancer, diabetes, disease of the heart and
arteries etc., are but end -points - the wisdom of all the ages of medical science is expended in a herculean effort to prove that
established pathology is its own cause.  On the day that medical savants succeed in lifting themselves by their own boot -straps,
they will also succeed in proving that pathology is its own cause.

ANYTHING CAN BE A "CURE"
Here in this land of so -called self -limited diseases is where all the curi ng methods and systems shine. Just as anything and
everything seems to cure a cold, so anything and everything that may be used with which to treat the patient suffering with
measles or pneumonia or gonorrhea, etc., will appear to cure. Here in the realm of "self -limited" disease the regular and the
irregular cults, the faddists and the mountebanks, every phase of the curing system from the erudite professor


. This veterinary has asked "Are our cows
degenerating?" It is of interest that a type of deformity commonly recognized among veterinaries as
a distortion of the head presenting a lack of development of the bones of the middle part of the
face including the upper jaw is commonly called "bull-dog calf." This is particularly important in
connection with the frequent human deficiency of lack of development in the middle third of the
face. Williams emphasizes the common knowledge that Boston bull-dogs are not prolific and
because of the difficulty of giving birth to their young, some veterinarians resort routinely to
caesarian section. Fortunately, seriously deformed specimens are seldom born alive and usually do
not continue to term. Williams states that Loje has observed ten grossly deformed calves of a
particular type that were traced to the same sire; also a series of five with this deformity reported
by Hutt were traced to one sire. Among the deformities in domestic animals cleft palate or absence
of palate is very common. These studies on domestic animals strongly emphasize two facts; first,
that deformities among these animals are very similar to those that develop in humans, and second,
that the defects are largely related to the original germ cells and that the male may provide the
defect quite as well as the female. Several of the primitive races have understood and provided
against these mishaps.
    Moench and Holt of the Cornell Medical School and New York Hospital (17) have made
important studies on humans and have found a very high incidence of sterility when abnormal forms
of spermatozoa reached 25 per cent. Among the abnormal forms they found one particular family
with a particular type of abnormal sperm reaching 12 per cent. Their breeding record was
decidedly bad and fetal malformations repeatedly occurred. In their group, in 63 sterile matings the
men were normal 21 times and abnormal 37 times. They listed over 40 different abnormal or
deformed types of sperm. They conclude:
1. In a normal semen the abnormal sperm heads do not exceed 19 to 20 per cent.
2. When the sperm head abnormalities reach 20 to 23 per cent, impaired fertility can be
assumed.
3. When the sperm head abnormalities are above 25 per cent, clinical sterility is usually
present.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 209/250    An important contribution to the question of the relation of the germ cells of the father to the
type of defects that are prevalent in his family history has been made in recent studies conducted in
Germany. (18)
   Two German surgeons concerned with enforcing the sterilization law in Berlin have taken
advantage of their opportunities to make an important contribution to the study of fecundity.
    Several studies have been published previously, of the spermatozoa of normal men. This book
offers a study of the spermatozoa of men who had been diagnosed as hereditarily defective. At
the time of the operation, the upper part of the vas deferens was washed out, and the sperm
thus obtained were studied in great detail, 20 different types of abnormality being distinguished.
    In their control studied, the normal man is found to produce 19 per cent of morphologically
defective sperm. By contrast, the chronic alcoholic patient produces 75 per cent of defective
sperm.
    Previously it has been assumed that as much as 25 per cent or 30 per cent of abnormal sperm
were a good evidence of lowered fertility if not of sterility. But the fertility of these chronic
alcoholics was not diminished, the authors claim.
    In cases of inherited mental defect, 62 per cent of abnormal sperm were produced,
accompanied by low fecundity,--as is the case generally with the mentally defective male. On the
other hand, in hereditary deafness, 62 per cent and in hereditary blindness 75 per cent of
defective sperm appeared.
    Epilepsy and schizophrenia (dementia praecox) both supposed to be constitutional in origin,
show less abnormality of spermatozoa (58 per cent and 54 per cent respectively) than blindness
and deafness.
    The fact that in the past almost the entire emphasis of change in physical, mental and moral
qualities has been assigned to the forces of heredity, strongly emphasizes the lack of information
regarding the nature of the forces at work and the points at which their influence constitute the
determining factors. The data previously presented in this chapter dealing with the role of vitamins
A and E throw valuable new light on this phase. It is important, however, that new data are
available dealing with the factors which injure the germ cells and which Tredgold has spoken of as
"poisoned germ cells."
   In a personal communication received from Professor T. S. Sutton of the College of Agriculture,
Ohio State University, he makes the following observation:
    For several years we have been interested in the study of the effects of vitamin A deficiency.
Right now our main consideration is the effect of this deficiency on reproduction. We find that a
diet low in vitamin A will cause reproductive failure, which seems to be caused chiefly by a
degeneration of the germinal epithelium of the gonad. This is particularly true in the case of the
male. I think we have rather convincing evidence that this is a direct dietary damage to the
gonad (ovary or testis), rather than a disruption of the endocrine balance which might result in
sterility as appears to be the case in vitamin B deficiency.
The degenerative processes which occur in nerve tissues due to vitamin A deficiency have been
studied by Professor Sutton and his associates. (19) They have been able to show detailed
progressive degeneration within nerve fibers as a result of vitamin A deficiency.
    In the light of the newer information it is quite clear why we may have anyone of the following
distinct expressions in the reproductive process, namely, physical excellence of succeeding
generations (such as obtains among many of the primitive races as I have shown); complete
reproductive failure or sterility or partial failure resulting in defectives of various types at the
borderline between these two phases. It is the rapid and progressive increase in this last group
which constitutes the progressive degeneration of our modern civilization.
    One of the main problems in this study has to do with the relation of nutrition to the modification
of the growth of the child, both in its formative period and in the stage of adolescence. I have
shown that in many of these primitive racial stocks there occurs in the first generation after the
displacement of native foods by imported foods a marked change in facial and dental arch forms.
These changes happen most frequently in the later children in the families and come about7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 210/250notwithstanding the impact of heredity through all the previous generations of excellent physical
development. Clinically, the evidence is abundant, that this change occurs in these primitive racial
stocks regardless of color, geographic location, temperature, and climate. We are apparently
dealing here with a factor which, while it may be related to the germ plasm and to the prenatal
growth period, clearly involves other forces than those that are at work in the case of hereditary
defectives. Since these changes have to do directly with disturbances in growth of the head,
particularly of the face and of the dental arches, we are concerned with such evidence as may be
available as to the nature of the forces that readily affect the anatomy of the skull.
    The general architecture of the body is apparently determined primarily by the health of the two
germ cells at the time of their union. This architectural design may not be completely fulfilled due to
interference with nutritive processes both before and after birth. In this large problem of the
relationship between physical design of the body and resistance or susceptibility to disease, we
may have determining factors operating at different periods in prenatal and postnatal growth. The
accumulating evidence strongly emphasizes that disease susceptibility is a widely variable factor
and associated with certain types of developmental disturbances.
    In a discussion of tuberculosis susceptibility before a meeting of specialists in that field, emphasis
was placed upon the fact that other factors than the bacteria played controlling roles in the matter
of susceptibility to tuberculosis.
    Weisman has recently made an important contribution to the problem of physical development
and susceptibility to tuberculosis. He has presented (20) statistical data indicating the type of chest
deformity which predisposes an individual to tuberculosis. He states:
    In a study previously made on the shape of the normal and of the tuberculosis chest, it was
found that the average normal chest was flat and wide and that the average tuberculous chest
was deep and narrow. It was also shown that the deep chest was an underdeveloped, primitive
type of chest, resembling an infant's chest in shape. Later studies on the shape of the chest and
on environment showed that children from the poorer socio-economic environments had on the
average a deeper chest, weighed less and were shorter than the children from the higher socio-
economic levels. An investigation recently made on the incidence of tuberculosis in the various
school districts in Minneapolis revealed that there is a very high incidence of tuberculosis
among the children from the slums where the deep chest prevails. Ten times as many cases of
tuberculosis were reported from a school district which is perhaps the poorest in the city as
were reported from the best school districts.
    This study, which shows that there is a definite correlation between the deep chest and the
positive reaction to tuberculin adds one more link to the chain of


 certain symbols or
something that you’re going to accelerate, or you’re going to bypass karma,
or some of these outlandish promises they make. Transcend karma? Yeah,
right. Because you’re trying to transcend karma, you’ve just created new
karma called “trying to transcend karma.” You know what I’m saying. To
get away from these footprints in the snow, you’ve merely created some
new footprints in the snow. You haven’ t gotten away from leaving
footprints in the snow. So I say that everything you need to know spiritually
has been said, and it’ s being said in a live body.
What’ s Important Is Integrity in a T eaching
There are certain things that were taken by inner dictation, and when you
calibrate the ener gy field, it’ s 600. Well, any teaching at 600 is worth
following, whatever its source. Generally, though, you’ll find they’re in the
high 200s. Most of the channelers and channeled entities are in the high
200s, no matter what titles they may tell you. It’ s always “Master
Somebody” or “Baba Somebody,” but they are all in the high 200s. There’ s
nothing wrong with the high 200s, because what’ s important is integrity.
Integrity is over 200. So it can be integrous ignorance. What is said is so,
but it is not a very high truth. So, unless you can verify the truth of a
teaching, I wouldn’ t bother following it; and what can be learned that you
need to know? So, you’ll find it’ s entertainment.
If you realize it’ s entertainment—and it probably has a certain reality
within a certain narrow sense of what’ s real—then it’ s harmless, but I see
too many people swept aside by that which is not so harmless and its
purpose and intention is to deter you from the pathway.
The dif ficulty with that which has denied God—which is called the lower
astral—is, it hates that which af firms God. You’ll notice that as you gobelow 200, you get into levels of that which hates holiness, purity, and spits
upon it. There’re certain neighborhoods that will take you there; you just try
being pure and see how long you last. It’ s despised. The leader of
Cambodia, Pol Pot, any kind of af fection or love was against the law. You
could be executed for any display of any kind of a positive feeling; it was
actually illegal to have a positive feeling or to express it. The Japanese in
Manchuria, the same thing. To bayonet an innocent baby in the arms of its
mother showed that you had achieved the ultimate: the hard, uncaring, cold-
killer consciousness of that which denies God. So, the lower astral is full of
entities who have made that kind of a decision. Wanting to adopt them as
your spiritual mentor is not really the best advice.
Illnesses and Karma
When will a certain illness remit? In spiritual evolution, we said that karma
plays a very heavy component. Having strangled a lot of people to death
might delay your recovery from COPD in this lifetime—who knows? You
know what I’m saying? Don’ t forget, the evolution of consciousness
throughout time, it was at 190 for centuries, and before it was 190, it was
much lower than 190. It was way back at 50 or 60 or 70. It was normal in
those times to enslave or kill those you conquered. They weren’ t violating
any social standards or doing anything immoral. So, when you look back at
previous lifetimes, you’re going to discover what life was like in those
times. You can’ t contextualize it in terms of the year 2002. To execute one’ s
captives was normal, expected; in fact, you got executed for not executing
them! You understand? So, you have to have a certain context and
understanding when you begin to do any kind of karmic research and
realize what you’re talking about is the entity that lived in times when
living by your wits was the top of society. Royalty lived by their wits and
nipped each other in the purse as often as possible, and in the bed in
between. So you can hardly be surprised to find that the kinds of actions
that may have had unfortunate karmic consequences in this lifetime, if you
put ’em in the context of that time, weren’ t really all that bad, so as to
prevent yourself from attacking yourself spiritually. It can be that in this
particular lifetime, one won’ t allow a certain thing to heal until one feels
one has achieved the karmic purpose of that and sort of finished it, youmight say. So you might hang on to an illness—not consciously, but karmic
propensity may see to it that it persists for a while.
“The pain in the nervous system from 800 and up is due to the fact that
the human nervous system hasn’ t evolved to that level yet: resist” (T rue).
“But it does as a consequence of the spiritual work: resist” (T rue). Well,
questions arise constantly. People are growing and evolving and learning,
and we do the same thing, and so we are always asking questions.
Somebody asked, “Why do you think the evolution of consciousness
becomes painful beyond a certain level?” It’ s great up to about 700; then
about 800 it gets painful. And I’ve always intuited that the nervous system
is not equipped for it and not evolved that far. It could be in a few thousand
years, but at this point, the nervous system is not that evolved. However, as
you progress in consciousness, the nervous system does begin to adapt to it.
It actually strengthens; the nerves actually get thicker and capable of
handling more spiritual ener gy.
Understanding Christ Consciousness
Has Jesus Christ ever physically reincarnated on the earth plane? “Jesus
Christ has reincarnated on the earth plane: resist” (Not true). No, my own
understanding of the second coming of Christ is that it occurred in 1986.
The New Age people got really wild. There was a book, in fact, that Jesus
Christ was secretly living in Brooklyn somewhere!
My understanding is that the human being, because he identifies himself
as a physicality, expects that the second coming of Christ is going to be a
physicality. My understanding of Christ Consciousness is that it’ s a level of
consciousness. And what reappears and dominates the planet is Christ
Consciousness and therefore, a physicality is really irrelevant and
immaterial. In 1986, the consciousness level of mankind—probably has to
do with the karma of human evolution—jumped from 180 to 207. When it
jumped from that which is negative to that which is positive, to me, that’ s
the real re-emer gence of the Christ Consciousness. When that which
represents Love, truth, and integrity prevails over that which is destructive
and nonintegrous, to me, that’ s the return or the emer gence of Christ
Consciousness in the form of Consciousness. I don’ t know that somebody at
the level of Christ would be interested in physicality. He might do it as ateaching tool. I myself wouldn’ t choose it, necessarily. I mean, you’d have
to appear on TV. You know what I’m sayin’, and all.
When Certain Things in Your Life Keep Recurring
Is delving into past lives helpful? Yes. We’ve tried to demonstrate it up
here. You see, sometimes, mysteriously, strange things happen recurrently
in your life. There’ s no rational explanation. There was one series of rather
very strange kinds of events. They kept recurring... all were in dif ferent
countries and dif ferent circumstances, and the same kind of thing would
recur. I mean, I just knew there was something—I didn’ t believe in karma
in those days, but I knew it was something on some other level. And I
would tell my analyst about it, and he’d say, “It’s just your paranoia. You’re
connecting this all together as a logical sequence, because that’ s a quality of
the human mind.” I said, “That’ s true.” But statistically, that’ s very, very
unlikely, you know, that these strange things would recur. Of course, later
on when I did check it out karmically, then it just verified what I sort of
intuited as a fact. Then the question is, “Now what do you do about it?”
Well, you pray very intensely, and whatever the defect was in a past life that
accounts for this, you refute it—declare one’ s choice of the opposite,
dedicate one’ s life to the opposite. So, if you’ve been miserable toward little
dogs... Let’ s say this lifetime, you’re always getting bitten by dogs; you
know what I’m saying. You begin to wonder, “Is there something about me?
Do dogs hate me, or what the hell is it?” You can be in the middle of
nowhere and a dog comes out of somebody’ s apartment and bites you in the
leg. You begin to wonder if you were once cruel to dogs and tortured them
to death, or something. It does make


, but fear, as we ordinarily experience
it, is of the future. Fear is emotionally experienced in
everyday life by the average person as worry, anxiety,
or panic.The process going on in consciousness is that
of deflation. For example, the animal shrinks when it is
frightened.
Remember in grade school when the teacher called
on somebody for an answer, everyone would shrink
and hide behind the person in front of them? Fear is a
shrinkingness and a fear of the future, yet it has a lot of
energy. Ifwe know what to be afraid of, the energy of
fear can really be beneficial as caution. A MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS 21
The lower states on the Map actually represent the
failure to face the energy field above them.The way out
of depression is to look at the fear that is underlying
the depression and notice how it usually takes the
form of "I have lost the source of my happiness." All
these levels below Courage· have a negative energy
field stemming from the same thought-that happi
ness comes from outside oneself. Putting one's survival
on something outside oneselftherefore results in states
of powerlessness, victimhood, and weakness by virtue
of having projected the source of one's power outside
of oneself.
Underlying depression is the fear that one has lost
something, because grief has to do with loss. Getting a
person to face that fear and handle it rapidly over
comes the depression. Later, we will look at how con
sciousness views fear and will present the specific
technique of how to let go of resisting the energy field
of fear by letting it run out so that depression sUbse
quently disappears.
The energy field above fear is Desire, which cali
brates at 125. It is still a negative energy field, which
one experiences in ordinary life as 'wanting'.There are
the general feelings of wantingness and cravingness,
which are part of the field of addictions and can
become obsessions and compulsions. The process
going on in consciousness is entrapment. One is run by
what one desires, and the source of happiness is seen
as external. Advertising takes advantage of this by cre
ating a desire via an unconscious connection; it is a
symbolization with something archetypal in the uncon
scious mind that creates a desire. 22 HEALING AND RECOVERY
Desire can run an entire lifetime. It can be the moti
vation to become successful or famous, to have a lot of
money, to be a celebrity, or to acquire whatever one
thinks is going to bring happiness, including a special
relationship. Wantingness and cravingness are often
insatiable as they originate from an energy field that
can never really be satisfied. It is an ongoing, contin
uous energy field that keeps creating more desire.
However, the energy field can be used positively as
motivation and intention towards fulftllment of poten
tial and inner goals. Failure to internalize goals leads to
frustration and resentment.
Anger, which calibrates at 150, is accompanied by a
large amount ofenergy. Ifthe angry person knows how
to utilize that anger constructively instead of destruc
tively, the energy of anger can then lead to progress.
11Irough television, people in the third-world countries
began to see what other people had, which fired up
their desire, led to frustration and anger, and culmin
ated in that energy being utilized to create entire
social movements, changes in the legislature, and con
structive changes in SOciety. Thus, anger can be uti
lized to energize resolve and determination.
The anger we witness or experience in daily life is
usually in the form of resentment. At a more severe
level, it may lead to hatred, grievances, grudges, and
eventually even to murder or war.The process going on
in consciousness is one of expansion; for example,
when an animal is angry, it swells up.When the cat gets
angry, its tail swells up to almost twice its normal size,
and the cat tries to look imposing. The biological pur
pose of expansion is to intimidate one's apparent A MAP aF CONSCIaUSNESS 23
enemy.The energy of anger can be utilized positively to
pursue something better for oneself and thus move up
to Pride.
Pride calibrates at 175, which denotes far more
energy than the levels below it. However, Pride still has
a negative direction. We have heard that "pride goeth
before a faIt' There are many famous examples in history
indicating that pride is a very vulnerable position (e.g.,
hubris). Pride can be useful in that it has much more
energy than the lower levels of consciousness. It
expresses itselfin daily life as arrogance, contempt, and
sarcasm. The downside of it is really denial, and the
problem is that the process in consciousness is one of
inflation.
We say that a person in Pride has a swelled head, is
too big for his britches, is unteachable, cannot hear, or
has a closed mind.This level of consciousness leads to
a polarized position of opinion that puts the person
constantly on the defensive for being 'right', so the
world must be wrong.The energy is dissipated in end
less defensiveness.
A reason for pride relates to an underlying fear.
Once the person faces the fear, they can let go ofpride.
These negative fields tend to reinforce each other;
seldom do they occur alone. One predominates, but all
are really feeding into each other so that one has grief
over one's anger; one has anger over one's pride; one
has fear over one's grief, and so on.They all tend to rein
force each other, so an emotional upset is usually com
posed of a combination of all these negative energy
fields. The techniques and realizations necessary to
overcome the negative energy fields are described in 24 HEALING AND RECOVERY
detail in Transcending the Levels ofConsciousness.
By being willing to surrender the ego's narcissistic
emotional payoffs of the negative energy fields, one
then progresses to the first level of true power, called
Courage, at calibration level 200. Something crucial
now happens at thiS level because it has an enormous
amount of power. It is obvious that Courage settled the
United States ofAmerica. Courage created all the great
industries and was the basis for man's getting to the
moon.The Marines start at the level of Pride but really
move up to the more stable level of Courage. Why? It is
not so much in the increment of the twenty-five-point
increase, although that is sizeable.The critical element
is that the energy field is now positive because the per
son values truth rather than falsehood, and integrity
instead of temporary gain.
Above level 200, one is no longer the victim
because the energy field is now positive. One might say
that this field is like an antenna, and below the level of
Courage, the antenna is tuned to the negative, thus
pulling adversity into the energy field.
At level 200, energy goes positive, so the field stops
pulling negativity from the universe to itself.A person
is now in a different condition as well. One is able to
face, cope with, and handle things, and, for the first
time, able to be appropriate.
At the level of Courage, people still experience the
lesser negative feelings, but they now have the power
to handle those energies. The critical process is one of
empowerment. A person becomes re-empowered by
telling the truth.This is obviously critical in the recov
ery from all illnesses. It is very visibly so in the millions A MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS 25
of recoveries of members of Alcoholics Anonymous,
where Step 1 and all the basic steps are admissions of
the truth.
When people admit they are powerless over some
thing, instead of going weak with the muscle test, they
suddenly go strong.When they get rid of the arrogance
of pride, they may still have other negative feelings.
Persons at the level of Courage who plan to ask their
boss for a raise may still have knots in their stomach, be
angry, and even feel hopeless about getting one. They
might even be arrogant, but now, at the level of
Courage, they have enough power to handle all that
and be appropriate. They are then able to face it, cope
with it, and function in an effective way in the world.
The next major level is that ofNeutral at 250,where
the energy field is positive and even more aligned with
.Truth.The emotion ofNeutralis self-trust. Forexample,
it is 'okay' ifone gets the job and 'okay' ifone does not.
The process going on in consciousness is detachment.
One is not attached to any particular outcome and is
no longer a victim. The person now has a great deal
more power and is not dominated by aversions or crav
ings.The upside of this can be the okayness of life; the
downside of 'unattached' can· be detached or flat. At
Neutral, one is no longer suffering painful emotions
and now


 at age 38 and was left with
dangerously high blood pressure—240/110 (normal 120/80), also uncontrolled by drugs. In
addition he suffered from gout. If he omitted his gout medication for a single day, he had to
endure an excruciatingly painful attack.
On the Gerson Therapy he was eating mainly vegetables, raw salads with green juices, and
his diet was restricted to one potato a day; instead of oatmeal in the morning he received a plateful
of mixed raw vegetables. He also used the usual enemas and took chromium piccolinate along
with the other Gerson medication. Insulin had to be continued at the start of the treatment as
needed, the requirement being checked by regular blood tests.
R.H. lost 1-2 pounds a day without ever being hungry. On top of his three regular meals he
was given a plate of raw vegetables for snacks in his room. (Non-diabetic patients receive a fruit
plate to eat as snacks during the night or between meals, should they feel hungry.) His vegetable
plate contained carrot and celery strips, tomatoes, cauliflower florets, and radishes. His gout
medication was discontinued immediately after starting the treatment, without bringing on an
attack.
At the end of 10 weeks the patient’s blood sugar was normal and he was able to discontinue
the insulin injections. His weight had come down by almost 100 pounds, and at 6’2” he weighed
an almost normal 210 pounds. Finally his blood pressure had also dropped to a normal level
without the need for drugs.
Part II
Confronting Chronic Conditions
Unfortunately the diseases described so far are not the only ones inflicted on us by the faulty,
health-destroying dietary habits of modern civilization. Nowadays people truly dig their graves
with their teeth, not realizing the harm they are doing to themselves. And as various serious
diseases have crept up on us silently, becoming part of our way of life—and death, we tend to take
them for granted and no longer question their growing prevalence, or why they cut short the lives
of so many people in their prime.
Now is the moment to ask questions, listen to the answers and change our lives for the better.
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www.thegersonway.comthe right one. And this applies as much to the killer diseases we have reviewed as to the many
chronic degenerative conditions that can drag on for many years, causing much pain, discomfort,
depression and poor quality of life. Modern medicine can ease the pain with allopathic drugs,
but is unable to eliminate the basic problem; indeed many people believe that their arthritis or
osteoporosis is incurable. But they are wrong. And although the Gerson Therapy’s best-known
achievement is its successful healing of cancer, it also has an extraordinary track record in dealing
with so-called incurable chronic conditions.
Chronic Immune-Deficiency Diseases
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
This condition is also known as ME, standing for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. Along with
many other diseases caused by inadequate immune competence, it is spreading dramatically.
Sometimes referred to as “Yuppie Syndrome,” it used to be known as the Epstein-Barr disease.
That was a more accurate description, since its cause was found to be the body’s inability to
overcome the Epstein-Barr viral infection. As there are no medical treatments to overcome
viruses—antibiotics are useless against them—the disease is considered not only incurable but
also untreatable.
In due course, with people suffering from worsening symptoms of weakness, inability
to concentrate, aches and muscle pains, it was discovered that the underlying cause was not
exclusively the Epstein-Barr virus, viz. that this virus had possibly mutated into other forms, and
that perhaps other viruses were also involved. At this stage the disease was re-named as Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome, referring to one of its main symptoms. Unfortunately the change of name still
left it ‘incurable.’
Case History: What we already know about the Gerson Therapy’s ability to rebuild a
damaged, severely deficient immune system should make it clear why it is so effective against
this condition. One patient’s dramatic response to the therapy illustrates the process well. It
concerns W.D., a middle-aged engineer who after twenty years was forced to leave his job, when
the viral infection hit him. He was given the California ‘Disabled Driver’ plaque, although there
was some doubt as to whether he was able to drive at all. At times he was even unable to find his
own car, could not balance his checkbook, and complained of “the black cheesecloth that falls
over me.” On the full therapy, in his own words he soon felt “not as well as my colleagues, as I
had wished, but much better, with new energy, a brighter outlook, and feeling again like 25 at age
55! My coordination, eyesight and hearing are so good—I can do everything today that I couldn’t
do at 30.”Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007.  All rights reserved.
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www.thegersonway.comMultiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is supposed to be an autoimmune disease. In such diseases it is
claimed that the patient’s immune system attacks its own tissues and causes lesions or other
damage. In MS, it is stated, “Infiltrating lymphocytes ( white blood corpuscles), predominantly T-
cells and macrophages, degrade the myelin sheath of nerves.” 1 Nerves are conductors of electrical
impulses and require insulation in the form of myelin sheaths, in order not to short out. When the
myelin sheath is damaged, electrical shorts occur, sending false messages along the nerves. These
cause the typical symptoms of MS.
MS usually develops in people aged between 20 and 40 and is more common in colder
climates than in milder ones. Its symptoms include poor coordination, unsteady gait, nystagmus
(uncontrolled eye movements,) and urinary urgency. In the early stage of the disease it often goes
into spontaneous remission, only to recur in a more severe form. Eventually many sufferers have
to use a wheelchair; some even become bedfast.
The only difficulty in applying the Gerson therapy to MS is that in the early weeks of the
treatment MS patients typically experience a worsening in their condition. This is probably
caused by the detoxification process removing the products of the infection from the lesions
in the myelin sheaths. The cleansing causes an additional temporary loss of insulation and in
consequence a worsening of symptoms. This understandably scares the patients, several of whom
have abandoned the therapy, mistakenly assuming that it didn’t work and was instead aggravating
the disease.
Yet if an MS patient persists, the cleared lesions, with the help of the hyper-alimentation
and detoxification of the Gerson program, allow the sheaths to re-form, proving that MS is not
incurable. Also, since the therapy actively restores and strengthens the immune system, clearly
MS cannot  be an autoimmune disease. If it were, an enhanced immune system would make
recovery impossible.
Case History:  Born in 1960, J.S. was raised on a ranch, where he lived all his life, exposed
to a wide range of agricultural toxins. He suffered several accidents, the first serious one at the
age of 6, which left him with an uneven gait. After a severe fall causing injury to his shoulder, he
was given powerful painkillers to enable him to function.
The first symptom of an as yet unknown disease was a fall, caused by his inability to control
the movement of his leg. Subsequently he lost most of his sight in one eye. In March of 1995, when
he was 35, J.S. was examined by a neurologist at the Benefis Hospital in Great Falls, Montana,
and found to be suffering from Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Although this disease often brings on
partial remissions followed by exacerbation, J.S. enjoyed no periods of ease—his condition went
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www.thegersonway.comIn February of 1996 J.S. embarked on the full intensive Gerson Therapy. His energy increased
almost at once, his walk became even, and he was able to work on the ranch while staying on
the demanding Gerson schedule. By the Fall of that year his eyesight had improved and his other
symptoms were gone. By 2002 his only remaining symptom of MS was a somewhat weakened
sight in his affected eye. To date, J.S. is able to manage 16-hour days on the ranch and is no longer
affected by heat, which used to debilitate


 have a
vital relationship with every cell in the body.
Body Fuels
Glucose and fructose are essential simple sugars required to “run” your
body, just as your car needs fuel to run.
Simple sugars require much less insulin than complex sugars.
Complex sugars, like maltose, dextrose, and refined sucrose must be
broken down into simple sugars before the body can use them. This
creates heavy insulin requirements and also leads to excessive glucose,
causing fat storage.
Amino acids are your building materials, and sugars (glucose, fructose,
etc.) are your fuels.
Never use proteins for fuels. This creates tissue damage, cancer, and
death. Proteins are building materials, not fuels.
THYROID/PARATHYROID

The thyroid/parathyroid gland must also be considered because of its control
of metabolism and calcium utilization factors. Without proper calcium
utilization all the cells in the body can become weakened. Calcium also plays
a role in zinc, selenium and iron utilization, which affects glucose utilization
and cellular functions.
HYPOTHALAMUS AND PITUITARY

Another area of weakness to consider in diabetes is the hypothalamus and
pituitary gland. The posterior part of the pituitary gland, controlled by the
hypothalamus (the master computer in the body), releases an anti-diuretic
hormone which when underactive causes diabetes insipidus. It is also
important to note that the transverse bowel is at the heart of eighty percent or
more of the upper brain weaknesses, including
and especially the pituitary
and hypothalamus areas. With a greater understanding of the GI tract,
especially the colon and its relationship to the organs and glands, you will
appreciate why a healthy GI tract is necessary to assist the health of the rest of
the body.
GI TRACT AND DIABETES

Your gastrointestinal tract has a relationship to all the organs and glands
within your body. Just as the hub is the center of a wheel, the GI tract is
considered the hub of your body. When the GI tract gets impacted with
putrefying plaque from meat and flour products, the resulting inflammation
and toxicity produced is echoed to the related areas. This is why cleaning and
strengthening the GI tract is vital to your success in any disease condition,
including diabetes.
THE TRUE CAUSES OF DIABETES
There are many theories regarding what causes diabetes, from plaqued
cholesterol around the beta cells, to autoimmune problems, to genetics.
Others say it’s from stress and obesity.
Every cell in your body is a genetic cell. Some become weaker than
others depending upon the above. These weaknesses are magnified and
passed on through each new generation. Because of our unawareness of this
fact, the human species is currently facing serious tissue weaknesses,
resulting mainly in chronic and degenerative diseases.
Remember there are only two causes of disease, any disease. Number one
is toxicity and number two is acidosis, in the form of inflammation. These
two causes are the effects of what you eat, drink, breathe, what you put on
your skin, as well as what you think and feel. These are the ways that you
either strengthen your body or weaken it and the cells within it.
TREATING DIABETES

I have always put diabetics on a raw fruit and vegetable diet. This type of diet
will clean and rebuild the pancreas and adrenal glands. Food combinations
are also vital to follow (see instructions for food combining in
Chapter 7
,
Eating for Vitality),
 as the fermentation and putrefaction of foods adversely
affect the pancreas and blood sugar levels. I also use an herbal detox program
and a pancreatic support formula with the diet (see
Chapter 8
 for herbs and
herbal formulas that provide this support). In type II diabetes, if you follow a
good detox program and use high quality herbs, you should be off insulin
within three to eight weeks.
I would always advise the assistance of a qualified healthcare practitioner
who can help guide you though this detoxification process. It is vital that you
watch your blood sugar levels. They can drop very fast and you do not want
to give yourself too much insulin when your blood sugars are more
normalized. This could put you into a coma.
Use common sense. Take your time and be smart in what you do. If you
are on insulin, and you’re self-regulating or checking your sugars daily, you
do not have to worry if your sugars temporarily go up. Some fruits may
temporarily raise your blood sugars. If you notice a particular fruit doing this,
just eliminate that fruit until you stabilize your sugars. Remember your goal isto clean and regenerate the pancreas and adrenal glands, not to treat diabetes.
Don’t forget that complex sugars like sucrose, maltose and dextrose can
overload your system with glucose. Trying to drive this excessive glucose
into your cells with insulin is not the answer. Avoiding these complex-sugar
foods is the answer.
You will also note that proteins, especially meat, will also raise your
blood sugars. Meat is not a balanced food, as it consists of mostly protein.
Therefore your body will break down fat and convert this to glucose for
balance. The responding glucose will then raise your blood glucose levels.
There are so many contributing factors to diabetes. Keep it simple. Eat
the food that was designed for your body—fruits, vegetables and nuts.
“There are no incurable diseases, only incurable people.” This means that
some people will not be cured because they don’t want to be. Many use their
disease for attention from family members or others. Many individuals
become lost to themselves and seek love and attention from others as a
support mechanism. Become strong in yourself; spend time alone with
yourself.
Learn as much as you can about foods and their true effects upon tissue.
Never fear God and nature. The devastating effects of diabetes are great, but
its cure is simple. If it takes you six months to a year to cure yourself, that’s
better than a lifetime of misery. Be free of your diseases. Get healthy.
MODULE 5.8
Weight Loss and Control: Addressing the Cause

There are many reasons why people are overweight. Obesity has become a
big problem in the world, especially in the United States. Secretary of Health
and Human Services, Tommy Thompson, quoted in the New
York Times,
January 2003, said that 50 million adults, or 25 percent of the adult
population of the U.S., are obese. If figures for obesity in children were
added this would greatly increase the numbers.
In obesity one must always address the causes, not the effects. Because
the social consciousness sees fat as excessive, unhealthy, a sign of the loss of
control, or as a bad thing, we seek at all costs to rid it from our bodies. Someindividuals give up and surrender to it, hiding their angers and anxieties deep
within them. This of course can compound the problem.
Let’s examine the reasons behind obesity. First and foremost we have the
endocrine glandular system. Show me obesity and I’ll show you an
underactive condition of the thyroid and adrenal glands. Hypothyroidism is
one of the most common causes of obesity. Many medical doctors use a
blood test to determine the hypo- or hyperactivity of the thyroid gland. They
generally test the TSHs, T3s and T4s in your blood to determine how your
thyroid is functioning. (See
Appendix D
 for a complete overview of blood
tests and how to interpret your own results.) After years of observation it has
become quite evident to me that these tests are highly inaccurate. This is why
the Basal Temperature Test (see
Appendix A
) was designed. I’ve seen
thousands of cases in which a person’s T3s and T4s are normal and the
patient is sitting in front of me with cold extremities, loss of hair, fatigue,
brittle or ridged fingernails, heart problems, depression or voice weakness,
just to name a few of the classic signs of hypothyroidism.
The adrenal glands are the second most common cause of obesity when
the adrenal cortex becomes hypoactive. This can affect various steroids that
deal with carbohydrate metabolism, which means that complex sugars
(starch) and even glucose can be easily converted to fat instead of properly
metabolized. Of course the master gland, the pituitary, can also be involved.
The third and most popular cause of obesity is dietary habits. We are a
society that loves disaccharides. These are complex sugars, including sucrose,
dextrose, maltose and lactose. Our body can only use simple sugars: glucose;
fructose; or in infants, galactose. All complex sugar molecules must be
broken down into simple sugars before cells can use them for energy. The
excess is then converted into and stored as glycogen or as fat. The average
American diet also includes a great many saturated fats which, in an acidic
environment, saturate even further. This makes them unavailable to cells for
nutrition and energy. This also creates a glue-like condition within the blood
and vascular system. Stones, plaque formation and the sticking together of
red blood cells are side effects.
Starches, such as grains, have become very popular among homo
sapiens. Unsprouted grains are very low in available nutrition, acid-forming,
fattening, hard to digest, and are a gluey starch. The reason we feed grain to
cattle and hogs is to fatten them up for


 of humor developed sever e abdominal distention. This distention had
begun two weeks prior to that time and was shortly followed by nausea and
vomiting. The latter became more severe and gradually more foul-smelling.
There was no fever, but discomfort developed into pain in the abdomen.
She had a histor y of two other episodes of this nature. One occu rred four
years prior to the present illness, wherein she was hospitalized and
decompressed with a Miller -Abbott tube, saline enemas, and cathartics.
(The second is part of this series as Case No. 32. She had responded well
two years before to the use of castor oil packs on this occasio n.) Physical
findings upon examination revealed a plus-three ankle edema, markedabdominal distention with drum-like stretching of the skin of the abdomen,
and active peristalsis with frequent peristaltic rushes. She had not had a
good bowel movement in “a long time.” She had taken a mild laxative
several times before calling me to her home. Diagnosis was intestinal
obstruction due to fecal impaction.
Therapy consisted of diet and castor oil packs. She was placed on nothing
by mouth except ice chips for forty-eight hours. The packs were begun
immediately—without the use of the heating pad as normally instructed—
and they were continued without interruption for six full days. As soon as
the packs were started, all the symptoms eased up and the vomiting slowed
down. An evacuant rectal suppository was used after forty-eight hours, with
good returns, and the vomiting stopped. Distention rapidly disappeared and,
at the end of the six days, the belly was flat, the ankle edem a had been
completely relieved, and the patient was having normal bowel movements,
telling jokes and watching television again. The family reported her in
“remarkable” condition. Her diet by this time was back to normal.
Response was rated as excellent to single therapy.
Case No. 42. A sixty-five-ye ar-old housewife was seen initially within
several hours of the onset of severe right upper quadrant pain, nausea, and
vomiting, follow ing the ingestion of a heavy meal the prior evening. She
gave a history of having had hypertension for some time and of being
overweight, but no past history of gall bladder disease. Examination
revealed tenderness over the area of the gall bladder. There was no mass
palpable, but there was question  of increased dullness to percussion in the
area where the gall bladder lies. Blood pressure was 142/86. Temperature
was normal. Body weight 166 pounds. The diagnosis was acute
cholecystitis (inflammation of the gall bladder).
Food was withh eld until nausea left. The only therapy used was castor oil
packs, applied all night long each night for six nights. The vomiting stopped
the first night. Pain was “fifty percent less” the following morning, then
gradually subsided. Examination on the sixth day showed the absence of
any tenderness. Two pain pills were used during the first day of therapy. On
the evening of the fourth, fifth, and sixth days of therapy, the patient was
instructed to take one ounce of olive oil by mouth.
Response was rated as excellent to single therapy.Case No. 44. A sixty -two-year -old retired carpenter injured his right
index finger twenty-four hours before coming to our office. He had run a
splinter into the tissues of the dorsum of the finger near the nail, but he
thought he had gotten all of it out. However, the next day, the finger was
inflamed and very tender and he sought help. Examination showed a
puncture wound  of the dorso-medial aspect of the finger and, surrounding
the puncture site, the tissues were acutely inflamed, causing moderate
swelling of the entire distal end of the finger. A small incision was made,
enlar ging the wound, and a 5/8" intact wood splinter was removed,
releasing one-half to one-and-a-half cc. of pus which had formed in the
irritated area. Diagnosis was infected puncture wound of the right index
finger.
A dressing was fashioned for the finger made of soft flannel cloth soaked
in casto r oil, around which was wrapped plastic, then a simple gauze
dressing. This was allowed to remain in place for forty-eight hours. On
examination at that point, all swelling, inflammation, and tenderness were
absent and the incision healed. It should be noted here that usual response
to removal of a foreign body that has caused a local cellulitis is rapid repair
and healing, but it seldom is seen to respond this quickly with usual post-
operative care.
Response thus was rated excellent to single therapy.
Case No. 58. A thirty -nine-year -old music teacher presented himself with
the complaint of having had a right-sided headache for the past thirteen
days. He had no prior history of such difficulty, and all meas ures he had
taken had not produced any significant results. Examination  revealed a
normal blood pressure of 120/9 0. There was rather marked tenderness on
palpation, but all other findings were well within normal limits. He had
used salicylates and spasmolytic s and had been given manipula tive therapy
to the upper spine and neck, but the headaches had persisted. Diagnosis was
right-sided headache associated with right cervical muscular spasm.
The patient was instructed to use castor oil packs as a type of muffler
around his neck, overlapping  them onto his upper back toward the
shoulders, and using the heating pad, adjusted so that it would be
moderately hot. This, applied when he went to bed, was to be used most of
each night. After two nights of treatment, the headache disappea red, and thepatient discontinued the treatme nt. Examination on the seventh day showed
absence of any tenderness in the previously described areas.
Response was rated excellent to single therapy.
Case No. 73. A twenty-one-year -old housewife who had wrestled with
the problem of obesity (220 pounds) for several years presente d herself in
our office with the complaints of a sensation of pressure and gas in the
lower abdomen when walking or being physically active in any way. The
condition had persisted for a period of two to three weeks. She had had no
serious illnesses  in the past and had experienced no symptom s like these
before this time. Examination revealed a normal blood pressure of 130/75
and the obesity described. Exam ination of the pelvis showed an ill-defined
mass in the area of the right tube and ovary which was quite tender on
palpation. Vagina and uterus were nor-mal. There was no fever. Diagnosis
was probably ovarian cyst, although it was difficult to rule out tubal
pathology.
No therapy was used except castor oil packs, which were applied for one
hour daily over the lower abdomen for a period of seven days.
Examination after the seven days of therapy revealed that the sensation of
a mass was still present but considerably smaller, and the tenderness was
lessened to a similar degree. The patient stated that all pain in the lower
abdomen had disappeared with therapy continuing. Still later examination
revealed that all signs of the mass had disappeared.
Response was rated excellent to single therapy. (A postscript to this case
history is in order. This same woman returned still later for care for
pregnancy, and it was determined that she must have been about two weeks
pregnant when she was seen with the pain in the lower abdomen. What this
means in reference to the signs and symptoms observed has not been
determined at this writing.)
Perhaps the procedure of presen ting six cases that were rated excellent in
their response when no therapy other than the packs was utilized might be
classified as putting one’ s right foot forward.
However, nonresponsive cases can be found in the Appendix, and I will
comment on some of them.
There is another reason which prompted the use of these particular case
reports. They represent a good cross section of how the packs are used mostof the time and the general areas of the body that receive most attention
from this oil from the Palma Christi.
There is something mysterious in the manner in which these applications
of hot castor oil, soaked in flannel cloth and applied to the skin,  bring about
a sometimes startling change in the way the body is functioning. Even now
it has caused me at times, while  I watch what is going on with unbelieving
eyes, to ask myself, “What happened?” What really goes on within the body
that restores a disturbed gravid uterus to normal? That cures a muscular
spasm and dissipates a headache? That allows an inflamed gall bladder to
regain its health? That heals an infected wound? That gets rid of a
threatening appendicitis as if it were no more than a mild cough? That
mobilizes a fecal impaction which hours earlier had threatened a life? That
rids the body of a disturbance in the reproductive system that might have
dislodged a pregnancy before the mother even knew she was carrying a
child? What happens when castor oil is applied, many times without any
heat, that can have such an effect? How is it absorbed? Why does it work?
How  does it work?
These are questi ons whose answers are hard to come by. There are those
who will say


this process  is, because  it is nota "what" -that is, a
thing definablc by sorne  fixed concept or mcasure.
If we wam to keep the old  language,  still using
such  terms  as ''spiritual"  and "material,"  the
spiritual  must  mean  "the  indefin - able,"  that
which,  because  it is living,  must  evcr  escape thc
[ramework of any fixcd form.  Matter is  spirit
namcd.
Aftcr  ali Lhis,  thc brain  dcscrvcs  a word  for
itselfl
For thc brain, including its reasoning and calculat•
ing centers, is a pan and product of che body. It is
as natural as the heart and stomach, and, rightly
used, is  anything  but an enemy  of man.  Ilut to be
used  rightly it must be put in its place, for the
brain  is made forman, not man for his brain. In
other words,  the function of thc brain is to serve
che prcsent and the real,  not to send  man  chasing
wildly after  thc phantom  of the futurc.
Furthcrmore,  in our habitual  state  of mental
ten- THE  WISOOM  OF INSECURJTY
sion lhe  brain does not work properly, and this is one
reason why its abstractions seem LO have so great a
realily. Whcn the hcan is out of ordcr, wc are clearly
conscious of  its beating;  it bccomes  a distraction,
pounding within lhc breast. lt scems most probable
that our preoccupation with thinking and planning,
togethcr with  the sense of mental  fatigue,  is a sign
of sorne disorder of the brain. The brain should, and
in sorne cases <loes, calculate and reason with the un•
conscious case o( che  other bodily organs. After all,
the brain is nota muscle, and is thus not dcsigned for
effon  and strain.
But whcn people try to think or concentrate, thcy
behave as if they were trying to push  their brains
around. They screw up their faces, knit thcir brows,
and approach mental problems as if they wcre some -
thing likc  heaving bricks.  Yet you do not have  to
grind  and strain  LO digcst  íood,  and still lcss to scc,
hear,  a11CI reccivc  other  ncural  imprcssions.  Thc
"lightning  calculator"  wfio can sum  a long  column
of figures ata glance, the intellcctual gcnius who can
comprchcnd a wholc page of rcading in  a few scc -
onds, and the musical prodigy, such as  lozart,  who
seems to grasp harmony and countcrpoint from baby -
hood, are examplcs of che propcr use oí man's most
marvclous  instrumcnc.
Those o( us who are not geniuses know something
of thc same ability. Take for cxample thc anagram
l'OCATEJ.0JMC.  You  can work  ovcr  thcse  lcuers  for
72 THE  WISDOM  OF THE  BODY
hours,  trying system  after system  of rearrangement
in order  to discover  tbe scrambled  word.  Try,  in-
stead,  just looking  at the anagram  with  a relaxed
mind,  and in a very short space  of time  your  brain
will deliver  the answer  without  tbe sligbtest  effort. 1
We rightly  mistrust  the ··snap"  answers of strained
and wandering  minds,  but che rapid,  cffortless,  and
almost  unconscious  solution  of logical  problems  is
what  the brain  is supposed  to <leliver.
Working rightly, tbe brain is thc highest form of
"instinctual wisdom." Thus il should work like the
homing instinct of pigeons and thc forrnalion of the
foetus in the womb -,vithout verbalizing the process
or knowing  "how"  it <loes  it. The  self-conscious
brain, like the self -conscious heart, is a disorder, and
manifests itself in the acute fecling of separation be -
twcen "I" and my experience. The brain can only as -
sume its proper behavior when consciousness is doing
what it is designed for: not writhing and whirling to
get out of present experience, but being effortlessly
aware  of it.

1 If you don't  succecd  within  one minute,  read  onl Otherwisc
you will  begin to be annoycd cither with yoursclf, or with  me, and
thc consequcnt  strain  will intcrícrc  with  thc process.
73

V. ON B E I N G  A W A R E

T H E QUESTION  "WMAT  SHALL  WE  DO  ABOUT  IT?"  IS
only asked by those who do not understand the
prob - lem. If a problem can be solved at all, to
undersrand  it and to know what to do about it are
the same thing.  On the other hand, doing
something about a prob - lem which you do not
understand is Iike trying to  clear away darkness
by thrusting it aside with your  hands. When light
is brought, thc darkncss vanishes  at once.
This applies particularly to che problem now
be- fore us. How are we to heal che split
between 'T' and "me," the brain and the body,
man and nature,  and bring all  the vicious circles
which  ic produces  to an end? How are we to
expcrience  life as something  other than a honey
trap in which we are the strug - gling flies? How
are we to find security and peace of mind in a
world whose very nature is insecurity, im-
permanence, and unceasing change? Ali these
ques - tions demand a method and a course of
action. At  the same time, all of them show that the
problem has not been understood. We do not
need action -yet. We need  more  light.
Light,  here,  meaos  awareness -to be aware  of
life,
of experience  as it is at this  moment,  without
any judgments  or ideas  about  it. In other
words,  you
75 THE  WlSOOi \l OF INSl:'.CURITY
have  to sec and  feel what you are experiencing as
it is, and notas it is named. This very simple
"opening  of the cyes"  brings  about  the most
extraorclinary  transformation  of undcrstanding
and living,  and shows that rnany of our mase
batlling problcrns are  pure illusion. This may
sound like an over -simplifica - tion because most
people imagine themselves to be  fully enough
aware of che present already,  but we  shall  sec that
this is far from  true.  1
Because awareness is a vicw of reality  free  from
ideas and judgments, it is clearly impossible to
define  an<l writc clown what it reveals. Anything
which can  be described is an idea, and I cannot
makc a positive  statement about something -the
real world -which is notan idea. I shall therefore
havc to be content with  talking about thc false
imprcssions,,vhich awareness  removes, rather
than che truth which it reveals. The  latter can
only be symbolized with words which mean  littlc
or nothing  to those without  a direct  under -
standing  of the truth  in question.
What  is true  and positive  is roo real  and too
living
to be described, and ro try to describe it is like
put- ting red paint on a red rose. Therefore most
of what  follows will havc to havc a rathcr negative
quality.  The truth  is revealed by removing things
that stand  in its light, an art not unlike sculpturc,
in which the anist  creares,  not by building,  but
by hacking  away.
1Thc word ":iwarencss"  is used in the sense givcn  10 it by J.
Krishnamurti, whose writings discuss this thcme with
cxtraordi - nary  pcrception.  ON BEINC  AWARE
We saw that the questions about finding security
and peace of mind in an impermanent world showed
that the problem had not becn understood. Before
going any funher, it must be clcar LhaL the kind of
securily we are talking


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