brain,	which	is	so	receptive	that	it	took	the	next
leap	and	learned	to	create	new	thoughts,	abilities,	and	memories	on	its	own.
Our	brains	are	still	acting	out	the	total	activity	of	the	cosmos,	but	we	happen
to	claim	that	“I	am	thinking”	when	it’s	just	as	true	to	say	“the	mind	field	is
thinking	through	me.”
Memes	and	the	Behavior	of	Beliefs
There’s	another	kind	of	filtering	that	limits	how	much	of	the	mind	field	we
can	perceive.	This	has	to	do	with	creating	beliefs	and	then	accepting	them	as
real.	A	belief	is	an	idea	we	hold	on	to.	For	example,	if	you	believe	that	God	is
good,	that	women	are	mysterious,	or	that	life	is	unfair,	you	have	taken
generations	of	shared	experience	and
reduced
	it	to	one	conclusion.	The
conclusion	may	be	right	or	wrong;	that’s	not	important	for	the	moment.
Beliefs	hold	us	together	as	a	society.	Such	shared	beliefs	give	us	a	clue	about
how	mind	might	exist	outside	the	body.We	all	carry	in	our	minds	a	large	database	of	information	that	we	consider
fundamental.	This	database	holds	everything	important	that	we	believe	about
the	world.	It	is	our	worldview.	We	depend	upon	it	to	survive	for	even	a	short
time.	Beliefs	evolve	over	the	centuries,	and	therefore	some	researchers	look
upon	beliefs	as	being	like	“virtual	genes,”	that	become	fixed	characteristics	of
the	brain.	These	mental	genes	were	named	“memes”	by	the	British
evolutionist	Richard	Dawkins,	who	founded	a	new	field	overnight	that	has
proliferated	considerably	since	then.
A	meme	is	often	compared	to	a	virus	that	spreads	from	person	to	person
until	an	entire	society	gets	infected.	It	wouldn’t	be	beneficial	to	our	species	to
become	infected	by	everything.	If	we	were	actually	open	to	all	new	ideas,	we
would	not	be	able	to	maintain	a	coherent	view	of	the	world.	Imagine	changing
your	view	of	the	opposite	sex,	for	example,	every	time	you	met	a	new	person.
In	order	to	evolve,	human	beings	had	to	make	sure	that	they	accepted	only
“good”	memes—ideas	that	promoted	a	coherent,	reliable	worldview—and
rejected	“bad”	memes,	ideas	that	moved	the	mind	in	the	opposite	direction.
The	basic	fact	that	we	can	track	the	spread	of	beliefs	the	way	we	track	the
spread	of	avian	flu	provides	us	with	another	clue	to	the	nature	of	the	mind
field:	it	is	dynamic,	shared,	evolving,	and	powerful.	It	is	capable	of
“infecting”	us	with	good	or	bad	beliefs	without	the	individual	actually	going
through	any	experience	at	all.	Thus	societies	fight	and	die	defending	a	God
few	have	personally	experienced.	Nietzsche	was	foreshadowing	memes	when
he	said	that	a	mistaken	idea	“grows	from	generation	unto	generation,	merely
because	people	believe	in	it,	until	it	gradually	grows	to	be	a	part	of
the
	thing
and	turns	into	its	very	body.	What	at	first	was	appearance	becomes	in	the	end,
almost	invariably,	the	essence,	and	is	effective	as	such.”
Creating	a	Worldview
The	Vedic	rishis	said	that	anything	we	experience	in	the	Akashic	field	was
created	by	our	own	consciousness.	Memes	offer	evidence	of	this,	as	a	means
to	create	the	worldview	that	we	then	believe	in.	There	may	not	be	much
incentive	to	adapt	to	new	ideas	on	our	own,	but	when	two	worldviews	clash,
as	Western	culture	is	clashing	with	radical	Islam,	the	pressure	to	cling	to	one
worldview	or	the	other	against	outside	threat	is	inescapable.	Our	very	survival
is	said	to	depend	upon	it.	(I	am	reminded	of	a	CNN	interview	with	a	right-
wing	Christian	operative	from	Indiana	who	said,	“As	long	as	liberals	and
atheists	despise	us,	we	will	never	go	away.”)
Two	people	with	different	worldviews	can	see	the	same	fact	and	give
totally	divergent	interpretations	of	it,	because	no	fact	or	event	is	perceived	by
itself.	Walking	down	the	street,	I	may	pass	a	woman	with	bright	red	lipstick,	a
faint	whiff	of	wine	on	her	breath	from	a	lunch	at	a	restaurant,	and	no	hat	onher	head.	In	my	worldview,	none	of	these	facts	triggers	any	particular	emotion
or	judgment,	so	this	is	a	neutral	encounter	that	barely	registers	on	me.
Therefore	you	might	assume	that	nothing	happened	in	my	brain.	Yet,	as	meme
theory	points	out,	a	great	deal	happened	tacitly.	The	sight	of	this	woman
entered	my	brain	as	raw	data	along	the	optic	nerve,	but	I	couldn’t	actually
“see”	her	until	that	data	passed	through	my	worldview.	Imagine	a	series	of
filters	marked	“memory,”	“beliefs,	“associations,”	and	“judgments.”	Each
filter	alters	the	raw	data	in	some	way,	invisibly	and	instantaneously.
Should	a	person	with	a	different	worldview	encounter	the	same	woman,
he	would	“see”	her	through	his	filters.	If	he	happened	to	be
a
	traditional
Muslim	or	a	Victorian	or	a	medieval	monk,	all	the	innocuous	features	that
entered	my	brain—the	lipstick,	the	smell	of	alcohol,	the	absence	of	a	hat—
might	cause	a	violent	reaction	in	his	brain,	and	generate	considerable	stress.
A	worldview	provides	fixed	grooves	for	behavior,	which	is	dangerous,
unfortunately,	much	of	the	time.	Traits	like	racism	and	warmaking	persist	as
automatic	reflexes.	Anatomically	the	human	nervous	system	is	divided	into
two	parts:	the	somatic	and	autonomic	nervous	systems.	All	information	in	the
body	that	you	are	conscious	of	comes	from	the	somatic	nervous	system;	all
information	that	you	are	unconscious	of	comes	from	the	autonomic	nervous
system.	Memes	occupy	a	fascinating	middle	ground,	a	shadowland.	When
you	can’t	get	a	catchy	song	out	of	your	head—one	classic	example	of	meme
behavior—you	are	totally	conscious	of	the	tune	but	unconscious	of	why	you
can’t	get	rid	of	it.
This	is	precisely	what	the	Bhagavad-Gita	means	by	the	binding	effect	of
karma.	You	may	be	completely	aware	that	you	have	a	certain	trait,	such	as
being	stingy,	irritable,	easily	flattered,	or	self-important,	but	you	cannot	say
why	that	trait	sticks	to	you,	however	much	you	dislike	it.
Worldviews	are	built	of	symbols	that	fulfill	a	need.	Take	any	charming
thing	in	the	environment—say,	the	late	Princess	Diana.	For	her	to	stay	in	your
mind	and	persist	there	longer	than	a	few	moments,	she	must	be	significant	to
you.	That	is,	she	is	a	sign	for	something	you	recognize,	and	I	would	add
something	you	value	and	desire.	On	a	global	scale	Princess	Diana	symbolized
beauty,	innocence,	vulnerability,	motherhood,	prestige,	sexuality,	and	more.
Like	all	the	best	memes,	her	negative	side	was	also	powerfully	symbol


/Curcuma zeodaria
Musta – Cyperus rotundus
Punarnava – Boerhavia diﬀusa
Meda – Polygonatum cirrh ifolium
Ela – Cardamom
Chandana – Sandalwood
Utpala – Water Lily
Vidari – Pureria tuberosa
Vrusha – Adhatoda vasica
Kakoli – Fritillaria roylei
Kakanasika – Martynia annua
Part 2 – Filter the Kashaya, Add Sugar and Filter Again.
After 12.288 litres of water in kashaya is boiled and reduced to 3.072 l itres, the
amla pack is taken out. Kashaya is ltered.
2.4 kg of Sugar is added when the Kashaya is still hot.
If it is hot, then it makes the sugar mixing very easy.•
•After sugar gets dissolved, this is again ltered to get rid of remaining waste
particles of sugar from the Kashaya.
Part 3 – De – Seed Amlas, Fry the Amla Pulp in Ghee.
After taking out amla fruits from the cloth packs, it is mashed and seeds are
removed. To this, 567 grams of ghee is added and fried. (Master Charaka
mentions to add equal amount of sesame oil to it).
After removing the seeds, some people remove the bre part of the amla
fruits by ltering through a cloth.
Take care not to fry amla in ghee for very long time. It may burn the paste
Part 4 – Fried Amla+Kashaya + Sugar S Boil
Ghee fried amla is added to the kashaya+sugar solution. It is boiled.
Boiling is continued till leha siddha lakshana (signs of completion of jams) is
seen.
Avaleha Siddha Lakshana –
Tantumatva – thread consistency
If you take a small piece of the mix between your thumb and index nger,
you can make 1–2 threads
Peedite Mudra – a part of the mix is allowed to cool down. After that, it is
pressed with nger. e nger prints become visible on the semi solid mix.
is sign is more appreciable after completion of chyawanprash making.
Signs to Observe While Boiling the Sugar + Kashaya + Amla Pulp Mix
e solution starts thickening.
Gandha Varna Rasodhbhava – e good aroma of amla and ghee
becomes more and more appreciable.•Apsu Majjati – If you drop the mix into water, it settles down at the
bottom, without spreading much.
Part 5: Semisolid Mass S Stop Heating, Add Spices (Prakshepa) S Add
Honey
Once the Kashaya turns semisolid and all the leha completion signs are found,
it is taken out of re. Allowed to cool down.
It is added with
6 Pala – 288 g of honey;
4 Pala – 192 g of Tugaksiri;
2 Pala – 96 g of Long pepper
1 pala – 48 g of each of –
Twak – Cinnamon
Ela – Cardamom
Patra – Cinnamon leaves
Keshara – Nagakeshar – Mesua ferrea
All the above are added when the semisolid mass is still lukewarm. It is stirred
continuously to obtain a blackish – brown.
And that is how, the great Chyawanprash is made.64. Home Remedy for
Strength and Immunity in
Chronic Lung Diseases
Y
In long standing lung diseases like tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis, chronic
asthma etc (chronic means long standing), immunity, body strength and lung
capacity to function normally gets depleted. Here is an easy home remedy,
using ghee, jaggery and long pepper powder.
What You Need?
Long pepper powder – 25 grams
Jaggery (brown sugar) – 25 grams
Ghee – 25 grams
Water – half a cup.
How to Make?
Take jaggery to a clean wide mouthed vessel.
Add half a cup of water.
Heat it to dissolve it.
Add ghee and long pepper fruit ne powder to the vessel.
Continue heating till all the water content evaporates.In the initial phase of heating the jaggery, ghee and long pepper powder
together, it formed a dirty mixed mass. But now, as you can see, the ghee has
got completely separated from rest of the ingredients. is is also one of the
things to observe to judge when to stop heating while making an herbal ghee
preparation.
Nearing to the end put a small piece of mass in the vessel to re. If it does
not make any sound, then it indicates that there is no more moisture in the
ghee. is is the time to stop heating.
Stop heating. Filter when it is hot.
You will get around 15–20 ml of nal product (ghee).
In the initial phase of heating, there will be no aroma. Nearing to the end,
ghee and long pepper give out good aroma.
How to Use?
Half to one teaspoon of this ghee is given once or two times a day, followed by
a cup of warm water, 2 times a day, before food, for a period of 1–2 m onths.
For those having recurrent lung problems (respiratory disorders), in a dose of
one teaspoon per day, it ca n be taken for 2–3 m onths.
What Are Its Benets?
It improves strength and immunity.
It improves digestion power.
It helps to improve immunity and lung power in people with chronic lung
diseases like tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis, chronic asthma etc.
It is good for people undergoing lung cancer treatment.
It is also good for people with smoking habit.Note that it is not a medicine to treat all above conditions. But it is a very
good supplement to maintain high energy levels during those illnesses.
How It Works?
People with chronic respiratory disorders often suﬀer from depleted strength,
loss of muscle mass, lack of digestion strength and immunity. is traditional
Ayurvedic recipe is tailor made for them.
Both ghee and jaggery have high nutritive value.
Ghee is a good anti aging and rejuvenating product. It helps to re-energize
and boost immunity.
Long pepper, being an essential ingredient in anti aging products like
Chyawanprash, is very good for respiratory and digestive systems. It also has
rasayana (anti aging, rejuvenating eﬀects).
How Long to Take?
It can be taken for a period of 2 weeks to 3 months, based on doctor’s advice.
Once Prepared, How Long Can It Be Stored?
It can be stored for 6 months to one year, in clean air tight container.
Safe for Kids?
It is safe to use this for kids above 5 years of age, for a short period of 1–2
weeks, under medical supervision.
During Pregnancy and Lactation?
Better to avoid during pregnancy.
Fine to take it during lactation period.
Side Eﬀects
Not suitable for people with diabetes.ough it is made in ghee medium, it does not increase cholesterol levels, in
the said dose.
It is even well tolerated in people with sensitive stomach or gastritis, who do
not tolerate spices.•
•
•
•65. How to Make Ayurvedic
Tablets?
Y
Vati Kalpana – tablet dosage form is secondary dosage form derived from
Kalka (herbal pastes). It is prepared with a combination of ne powder of
herbs and a gumming agent.
Idea of the tablet is to dissolve the gum agent at the level of stomach or
intestines to release out the powder, so that the powder gets absorbed into the
body.
Sometimes, the gum will be too sticky to get dissolved in stomach. So, along
with gum, they add – disintegrating agent as well.
So, these gum, disintegrating agent etc are called – excipients (extras).
Components
1. Raw drugs
Plant origin – Made into Fine powder
Mineral, metal – Made into bhasma, sindura
Sulphur, mercury – Made into kajjali
2. Sweeteners
Sugar, jaggery, honey – Made into syrup
Gum agents –•
•
•
•
•
•
•A solid dosage form of medication prepared by adding ne powder of
drug/drugs to liqueed Guda – jaggery,
Sharkara – sugar,
Guggulu – Commiphora Mukul
Madhu – honey,
water or any other liquid preparation.
Basic Types of Ayurvedic Vatis
Agni Siddha – involving heating or re. Used in non volatile
ingredients.
Anagni Siddha – without heating or re. Used in cases of Volatile
substances such as Lavangadi Vati (contains clove).
Synonyms of Tablet
Vataka, Vatika, Gulika, Modaka, Pindi, Guda (jaggery base tablets), Varti
(suppositories)
e term Vataka generally gives a sense that it is used in large doses,


 that will wow guests, serve
this smoothie in clear shot glasses. This gives everybody a taste
and signiﬁcantly reduces the calories in each serving. You can
ﬁnely chop maraschino cherries and drizzle chocolate syrup as an
alternate garnish.
R a s p b e r r y  A p p l e  C r u m b l e
Prep time: About 2 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
2 apples
2/3 cup lightly sweetened almond milk
1 cup frozen raspberries
2 tablespoons whey powder
2 tablespoons rolled oats (large-ﬂake oatmeal)
1 tablespoon honey
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Dir ections1 Peel the apples (if not organic), quarter them, and remove the
core and seeds.
2 Combine the milk, apples, raspberries, whey powder, oats,
honey, and cinnamon in the blender container.
3 Secure the lid on the container.
4 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are no
visible pieces of fruit in the mixture.
5 Pour the smoothie into 2 glasses, and enjoy!
Per serving: Calories 213 (From Fat 22); Fat 2g (Saturated 0g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 113mg;
Carbohydrate 44g (Dietary Fiber 8g); Protein 7g.
Tip: This makes a very thick dessert, and you may want to use a
spoon. If you want to drink it, use 1 cup of almond milk.
Fruit Mocktail and Cocktail
Smoothies
Along with my dessert smoothies (see the preceding section),
these are the least healthy sections of this book and you may
want to skip right over them. If, on the other hand, you enjoy
getting together for the occasional end-of-the-week drink with
friends, you can pick up some ideas about how to choose
nourishing beverages that can work within an overall healthy
diet.
Fruit mocktails are festive, social smoothies without alcohol.
Because they tend to be high in calories, they’re best consumed
as an occasional treat. The fruit sugars make them hard to
resist, and they’re so delicious that I’d wager even people who
actually drink alcohol would make the switch, but designateddrivers, pregnant women, or anyone choosing not to consume
alcohol will thank you for making them. You can make up a
blender full half an hour before an event, pour them into shot
glasses, and freeze them — just leave about 3/4 inch headspace
at the top of the smoothies and take them out of the freezer
within a couple hours.
Fruit smoothie cocktails are really just the same delicious
smoothies as mocktails with 1 ounce of alcohol per serving
added to the liquids. You can turn any of the fruit smoothies in
this chapter into a cocktail worthy of the best mixologist.
 For each ounce of alcohol spirits you add to a drink,
you’re adding about 100 calories.
Rimming mocktail and cocktail glasses
Rimming glasses is fun and easy to do. All you need is 1 cup granul ated
sugar, 1 tablespoon of your favorite ground spice (like cinnam on) or
freshly chopped herb (such as mint), and 1 or 2 lime or lemon wedges.
Follow these steps:
1. In a small bowl, combine the sugar and the spice or herb.
2. Spread the mixture evenly into a saucer  or shallow bow l.
3. Use a lime or lemon wedge to run around and wet the rim of each
glass.
4. Turn the glasses upside down and set the moistened rims into the
sugar mixture.
5. Twist and lift out.
Use a rimming mixture for one evening or event and then discard it.
Bacteria can grow in the mixture after it’s moistened.S t r a w b e r r y  D a i q u i r i  D e c o y
Prep time: About 3 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
1/2 cup cranberry or pomegranate juice
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
3/4 cup frozen strawberries
1/4 cup crushed ice
Dir ections
1 Combine the cranberry or pomegranate juice, lime juice, and
strawberries in the blender container.
2 Secure the lid on the container.
3 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 30 seconds. Add ice and pulse for 20 seconds
or until ice is evenly mixed in.
4 Pour the smoothie into 2 glasses, and enjoy!
Per serving: Calories 59 (From Fat 3); Fat 0 (Saturated 0g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 2mg;
Carbohydrate 15g (Dietary Fiber 2g); Protein 0g.
Tip: Add more lime juice until the desired sourness is achieved.
N a d a  P i ñ a  C o l a d a
Prep time: About 3 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
1/2 cup pineapple juice1/4 cup coconut cream or coconut milk
3/4 cup frozen pineapple chunks
1/4 cup crushed ice
Dir ections
1 Combine the pineapple juice, coconut cream or milk, and
pineapple chunks in the blender container.
2 Secure the lid on the container.
3 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 30 seconds. Add ice and pulse for 20 seconds
or until ice is evenly mixed in.
4 Pour the smoothie into 2 glasses, and enjoy!
Per serving: Calories 135 (From Fat 62); Fat 7g (Saturated 6g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 20mg;
Carbohydrate 19g (Dietary Fiber 2g); Protein 1g.
Tip: Coconut cream is a thick, pastelike liquid that is pressed from
the coconut ﬂesh, so it’s similar to and yet thicker than coconut
milk. You can make your own coconut cream by blending fresh
coconut ﬂesh with a small amount of water.
P e a c h  M i x e r
Prep time: About 3 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
1/2 cup peach or apricot nectar
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 ounces rum, gin, or vodka
3/4 cup frozen peach slices
1/4 cup crushed iceDir ections
1 Combine the nectar, lemon juice, alcohol, and peaches in the
blender container.
2 Secure the lid on the container.
3 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 30 seconds. Add ice and pulse for 20 seconds
or until ice is evenly mixed in.
4 Pour the smoothie into 2 glasses, and enjoy!
Per serving: Calories 130 (From Fat 0); Fat 0g (Saturated 0g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 5mg;
Carbohydrate 17g (Dietary Fiber 2g); Protein 1g.
Vary It! You can use pineapple or apple juice in place of the
nectar. Peaches, nectarines, plums, and apricots may be sliced,
frozen, and substituted in this recipe.
Preparing fruit
If you really want to get everything ready  for a smoothie in advance,  try
these tips:
 Buy organic ingredients so that you don’ t have to peel  them.
 Wash fruit and vegetables the night before, but leave them  whole
unless they take a long time to cut up.
 Store peeled and cut produce in an airtight bag in the refrigerator
and use within 24 hours. Wash, core, peel (if not organic), and cut fruit and veget ables into
pieces. Flash-freeze by layering the fruit or veget ables in one layer on a
baking sheet in the coldest part of the freeze r for an hour  or until solid.
Then store them in an airtight bag in the freeze r for up to three months.
Use as needed.
B e r r y  M i x e r
Prep time: About 3 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
1/2 cup cranberry or pomegranate juice
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
2 tablespoons honey
2 ounces rum, gin, or vodka
3/4 cup frozen berries (see Tip)
1/4 cup crushed ice
Dir ections
1 Combine the cranberry or pomegranate juice, lime juice, honey,
alcohol, and berries in the blender container.
2 Secure the lid on the container.
3 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 30 seconds. Add ice and pulse for 20 seconds
or until ice is evenly mixed in.
4 Pour the smoothie into 2 glasses, and enjoy!
Per serving: Calories 193 (From Fat 3); Fat 0g (Saturated 0g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 3mg;
Carbohydrate 33g (Dietary Fiber 3g); Protein 1g.Tip: This drink may be tart tasting, so you can use honey or agave


 vehicles of consumerism,
internalizing a highly-questionable promise inherent to this industry: Science can
conquer terrible and puzzling diseases- just like we conquered the moon-if it is just
given enough money.49
To avoid any misunderstandings: medicine has made tremendous achievements.
This applies first and foremost to reparative medicine such as accident surgery,
organ transplants or laser eye surgery. But, the various perils of modern medicine
are all-too evident in the ever-expanding field of so-called preventive and curative
treatments, particularly the growing arsenal of pharmaceutical drugs-in other
words, medicine that purports to be able to heal. 50
Take cancer, for example. In 1971, US President Richard Nixon at the behest of
public health officials (and above all, virologists), declared a "War on Cancer." The
medical establishment vowed there would be a cure at hand by 1975.51 But we are
still waiting. And there is "no evidence of the way cancer comes into being,"
according to German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum). 52
Mainstream cancer theories also show blatant contradictions. 53 Despite this,
hundreds of billions of dollars have already flowed into a compl_etely one-sided
cancer research focused on wonder-drug production. Above all, this set-up grants
pharmaceutical companies, researchers and doctors gigantic profits.
In contrast, even plausible alternative theories (which may be less profitable,
because they focus on lifestyle and environmental factors and not only on fatefully
appearing genes and viruses as causes) remain almost completely disregarded. 54 55
For instance, although official cancer theories assume that a third of cancer cases
could be prevented through a change of diet (above all more fruit and vegetables
and less meat), 56 cancer expert Samuel Epstein points out that the American National
Cancer Institute spent "just $1 million-that is 0.02 percent of its $4.7 billion budget
21 Introduction
in 2005-on education, press work and public relations to encourage eating fruit and
vegetables to prevent cancer."57
At the same time, the number of people who die from "non-smoking" cancers has
noticeably increased since Nixon's call to battle (even, it is worth noting, when one
takes into consideration that people on average have become older).58 Today in
Germany alone, 220,000 people die from this terrible disease annual ly; in the USA
there are almost 600,000 cancer deaths each year. 59 60
The situation doesn't look any better for other widespread illnesses such as
diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, or rheumatism. In spite of exorbitant
research budgets, the development of a cure is unforeseeable. Cortisone, for instance,
does help to alleviate acute rheumatic or allergic discomfort-but only during
cortisone therapy. If treatment is discontinued, suffering returns. At the same time,
cortisone, which also finds plenty of use in the treatment of viruses, is, like most
reputed miracle cures (magic bullets), connected with severe side effects. 61 Vera
Sharav of the New York City-based Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP),
an organization that fights for independent and ethically responsible medical
science, warns that "often enough, the medications are so toxic that they produce
precisely the diseases against which, as the pharmaceutical · manufacture rs'
advertising messages aim to convince us, they are supposed to be so active. And
then, new preparation after new preparation is given." 62
As relevant studies reveal, drug toxicities are so severe that the American "health"
industry's pill craze is responsible for about 800,000 deaths each year, more than
any illness (including cancer and heart attack). And in Germany, tens of thousands
of people are estimated to die each year due to improper treatment and prescription
of incorrect medications (there are no exact figures because certain interest groups
have successfully resisted the collection of the relevant informatio n). 63
The fact that a society calling itself enlightened is nevertheless dominated by the
belief that there is a healing pill for every little ache and pain or serious complaint
is substantially due to the persuasive craftiness of Big Pharma. Pharmaceutical
companies operating in the US spend approximately a third of their expenses on
marketing, which means that $50 billion per year is merely invested in advertising
their preparations as miracle cures to doctors, journalists, consumers and politicians. 64
With this, they have extended their sphere of influence in a most alarming way to
include institutions like the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), as well as the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the
independence and integrity of which is particularly important. 65 66 67 68
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in
April 2006, showed that "conflicts of interest at the FDA are widespread." It was
shown that in 73% of meetings, at least one member of the consulting team in
22 Society Under the Spell of a One-Dimensional Microbe Theory
question yielded conflicts of interest: being remunerated by Big Pharma, for instance,
through consultation fees, research contracts or grants, or stock ownership or
options. In nearly a quarter of contracts and grants, for example, sums of more than
$100,000 changed hands. The study found that these conflicts of interest influenced
voting behavior. When panel members with conflicts of interest were excluded from
voting, the judgment of the product in question was much less favorable. And even
though these conflicts of interest were so extensive, panel members with relevant
conflicts of interest were disqualified in only 1% of cases. 69 70
"Big Pharma money and advertising not only influence the perception of illness,
the demand for drugs, and the practice of medicine, but government budgets,
including health service and oversight agencies have become dependent on Big
Pharma money," says Vera Sharav of the AHRP. "An out of the box analysis opened
our eyes to a fundamental conflict of interest that has never been discussed. Public
health policies are not merely influenced by Big Pharma; they are formulated so as
to increase industry's profits because goveml?ent budgets are tied to this industry's
profits." In this context, a decisive event occurred in 1992 when the US Congress
waved through the "Prescription Users Fees Act" (PDUFA), which established the
"fast track drug approval service." According to Sharav, "the FDA has received $825
million in industry 'user fees'," and "other government agencies have similarly
become financially dependent on Big Pharma."71
The issue stirred up so much controversy that the British Parliament also opened
an extensive investigation. Their conclusions: The pharmaceutical industry's corrupt
practices and its massive influence upon parliaments, authorities, universities,
health professionals and the media were sharply criticized.72
In fact, "if prescription medicines are so good, why do they need to be pushed so
hard?" asks Marcia Angell, former Editor in Chief of the well-known New England
Journal of Medicine (NEJM). "Good drugs don't have to be promoted."73 Her opinions
are as simple as they are revealing, but unfortunately they don't register in the
consciousness of the modem believer in science. Our society that considers itself
particularly enlightened has become senselessly "overmedicated. "74
This pill-mania exists because we have a distorted comprehension of what causes
diseases-a comprehension that has been able to lodge itself firmly in our thought
processes over a period of more than 100 years. 75 To understand this, one must look
back to the middle of the 19'h century, when a true paradigm shift in the way we see
disease occurred. There was an about-tum, away from a complex, holistic view
concerning how diseases originate, to a monocausal and "one-dimensional" mindset,
to use a term from philosopher Herbert Marcuse. Through this, a false awareness
arose "which is immune to its falseness" because the dimensions of self-criticism and
the ability to look in various alternative directions is missing. 76
23 Introduction
This paradigm shift is largely due to the fact that from approximately the 16'"
century, in the course of the Enlightenment, the natural sciences began to develop
rapidly, and put the population under their spell with descriptions of very specific
phenomena. One need only remember the tremendous achievements of the English
physicist Isaac Newton, who described gravitation; or the invention of the steam
locomotive or even the printing press. But in the euphoric exuberance of progress,
particularly from the middle of the 19'" century, this thought pattern of specificity
that very particular chemical or physical phenomena have very specific causes-was
simply transferred to the medical sciences. Many researchers and interest groups
didn't even consider if this actually made sense.77
The dogma of a single cause for diseases was decisively shaped by microbiolo gy,
which became predominant at the end of the 19'" century, declaring specific
microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, fungi) to be the causes of very definite diseases;
inCluding mass epidemics such as cholera and tuberculosis.78 The founders of
microbe theory, researchers Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch, ascended in their
lifetimes to the heights of medicine's Mount Olympus.
And so with the microbe theory, the "corner


 all the damage he’d caused. But now that
he’d been eating the Engine 2 way, he imagined them sitting around like the
Maytag Repairman, bored and waiting for the phone to ring.
Several people talked about how their tastes had changed over the six
weeks. “Y ou don’ t need butter or cheese for food to taste good,” one
woman said, “and I never knew that before.” Another woman said, “Y ou
actually taste the real food and not what it’ s covered with.”
A physician participant said that he thought plant-based eating would be
harsh on his taste buds, but after just a few weeks he noticed that his palate
was changing: He no longer craved any of his old favorites, and found just
the thought of eating meat, cheese, or eggs unpleasant.
A number of participants mentioned how they’d never realized what a
wide array of food is available to plant eaters. They’d thought it was all
about carrots and lettuce. Now they’ve learned that it’ s not called the plant
kingdom for nothing.
Another subject that came up repeatedly was a change in bathroom
habits. Every single participant said he or she was pooping at least twice a
day—and sometimes up to four times—even though before the study many
had only been going a few times a week. One of the women’ s doctors had
told her that pooping twice a week was a normal condition called lazy
bowel syndrome. But once on the Engine 2 Diet, within one week she
started pooping once a day and twice a day thereafter.
Bowel movement improvement is one of the greatest rewards of a plant-
based diet, so it became a hot topic of conversation. My own term for the
act has always been “pooping,” but my participants came up with some
great phrases, such as “I now release hostages two to three times a day,” “I
drop the kids of f at the pool more than ever,” or from one of the triathletes:
“I am spending far less time in the men’ s library.”
The Pilot Study results were impressive, but the most important lesson I
took from them was that it wasn’ t just firefighters who can profit from theE2 Diet. It’ s everyone and anyone who can fog a mirror or think a thought.
Colin J. Wallis,  37
Director of Advancement, Lance Armstr ong Foundation
Think of it as a science project. Pay close attention to the inputs and
outputs. Monitor your sleep, exercise, ener gy, strength, mood, and
compare them with how you were on the traditional American diet.
This creates a bit of a game, and makes it easy to have fun and see the
results.
THE ENGINE 2 DIET
The Engine 2 Diet is a simple, easy-to-follow four -week program that
will enable you to reach whatever goal you choose, whether it’ s losing
weight, becoming physically fit, or reducing the precursors to disease, such
as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, blockage of the arteries,
high blood sugar, insulin resistance, or all of the above.
When you follow the Engine 2 Plan, you will:
• Lose weight
• Lose body fat
• Increase lean muscle mass
• Improve your cardiovascular health
• Free yourself from the shackles of chronic Western diseases
• Have fun learning how to make new, smart, and delicious food
choices
• Improve self-esteem and confidence
• Be instilled with a sense of personal power, because you, and you
alone, are in control of your health
• Absolutely love how you feel
The reason the program will help you lose weight is not because you will
be painstakingly measuring your portions or warily watching your calories,
but because you will be eating only satisfying, whole foods that are nutrient
dense as well as naturally low in calories and high in fiber.This kind of pure diet will also grant you clarity of mind and increased
energy. Ask the firefighters at Engine 2: Derick Zwerneman said, “I feel
clean and light.” Josh Miller told me he felt as though his “whole system
has been rebooted.” And Steve Martinez commented, “My whole body and
mind feel like your teeth do after a cleaning from the dental hygienist.”
So let’ s begin!
THE TWO ENGINE 2 DIET  PLANS
You have a choice of two plans—the Fire Cadet and the Firefighter.
For the most part, firefighters don’ t know how to do anything half-assed.
So when I ask people to start the diet, I seldom seek moderation. I ask
people to start at the highest possible level of commitment.
But for some, the diet can appear daunting, so I of fer the Fire Cadet
option for those who prefer a more gradual approach.
Others can char ge right in with the Firefighter plan—which I
recommend, because you’ll be setting yourself on a course to achieve better
results in terms of everything from weight loss to lowered cholesterol
levels. And isn’ t that worth two extra weeks of work?
But if you do start with the Cadet plan, you can always change your
mind and go full bore later. At the start of the E2 Pilot Study, the
participants were divided almost evenly between the Firefighter and the
Fire Cadet options. After the first week, however, almost 80 percent of the
Fire Cadets called me to say they wanted to join the Firefighter plan.
Fire Cadet
The Fire Cadet option is for those who don’ t like rushing into things, yet
still want to find that pot of health at the end of the rainbow. Over the first
two weeks, the fire cadet will wean him- or herself of f unfriendly foods
while eating an abundance of healthy, delicious ones.
Week One: No dairy of any kind. This includes all dairy—milk, cheese,
creams, yogurt, butter, ice cream, and sour cream.
Also, no processed or refined foods—and that means white rice, white
flour, white pasta, white bread, and anything else that is processed: cakes,
cookies, unhealthy chips, sodas, etc.
Week Two: Now you stop eating meat, chicken, eggs, and fish, and
continue to avoid dairy and refined foods. In other words, no pork, noturkey, no buf falo, no venison. Nothing that paws a hoof or flaps a wing.
Nothing with a face and nothing with a mother, on land or in water.
Week Three: Keep the lid on all oils. Yes, I want you to stop eating all
added or extracted oils, whether they’re olive, canola, coconut, or any other.
We don’ t eat baked goods with added oils, we don’ t use salad dressings
with added oils, and we don’ t cook with added oils.
Now you’re doing the whole shebang: no dairy, no refined foods, no
meat, and no oils.
Week Four: You’re still on the total E2 diet. You are digging in with both
heels and consuming only whole foods. You are living the dream! You are
nourishing yourself with only the best and brightest foods on earth: fruits,
vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds.
Please check out Part III of this book to see some of the excellent meals
you’ll be enjoying—breakfasts, lunches, and dinners that include delicacies
such as blueberry pancakes, French toast, pizzas, shepherd’ s pie, vegetable
curries, mushroom bur gers with sweet potato fries, orange mousse, and fruit
pie.
Firefighter
Starting on Day One, the Firefighter will jump in with both feet, eating a
diet filled with healthy whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and legumes, while
abstaining from all animal-based products and refined foods. What the Fire
Cadet will be practicing in Weeks Three and Four, the Firefighter will be
practicing for all four weeks—and happily so!
THIS IS THE SIMPLEST  PROGRAM  you can imagine. And to make it even
simpler, check out Part III’ s tips that make all this as easy as a healthy date
nut crust pie. And speaking of pies, you’ll also be able to eat delectable
cookies, casseroles, breads, soups, and so much more. After a while, you
won’ t even miss the foods you’ll be avoiding—which we’ll now talk about
in a little more detail.
Week One—Dairy and Processed Foods
I think of dairy products as meat, only in a liquid, cream, or solid form.
After all, they contain just as many concentrated, disease-promoting, and
nutritionally compromised calories.Dairy is ubiquitous in the American diet. The milk and dairy industries
have done an amazing job of propagating and maintaining the myth that we
need three servings of milk, cheese, and/or yogurt a day to maintain healthy
bones and overall health. We don’ t. In fact, the opposite is true—see page
35.
So instead of reaching for a glass of milk, sample the many wonderful
milk substitutes found in most supermarkets: soy, rice, almond, and oat
milk, for example. Use any one of these in recipes calling for milk.
Also remember to avoid all cheeses. Cheese is, simply put, a disease-
promoting, nutritionally vacant, calorie-dense food. It’ s loaded with
saturated fat and animal protein. Cheese also contains casomorphines (i.e.,
low levels of morphine), which is why so many people have such a hard
time kicking the cheese habit. No compromising here! No


 brain, too. There always were dogs in the house.
Perhaps the marvel is that he was no worse off, a tribute to human
strength in general.275Pushing Back Age
This chapter is a tribute to Jimmy, Nazy, Michele, Suzanne,
Marlena and all the others who achieved excellence with daily
care-taking of Mary Austin, deceased at 97.
It's true that we have to die sometime. But why die before our
life span is up? If many people can live to 100 years, then surely
this is the human life span, not three score and ten. Some
scientists think the true human life span is closer to 140 years!
And that we all lead  shortened lives. The shortening is due to
failure of some organ in us. Other organs are dependent on the
failing organ and begin to fail also. When the brain fails, death
occurs, sometimes in five minutes.
If we knew which organ is failing, we could come to its as-
sistance and prevent the collapse of the whole body. Often it is
easy to see which organ is failing. But whether this is the true
beginning of the body's problems we cannot know. Before death
there may have been appetite  loss. Before the appetite loss there
may have been a broken hip. Before the broken hip, dizziness.
Before the dizziness a blood pressure  or blood sugar  problem.
Before these, an episode of “flu ” or a dental “repair.” Some times
we know what started it all. But often we don't. Just make a guess
and begin somewhere.
Diet
If your aging friend or relative is in a home for the elderly,
you may be able to persuade him or her to choose a diet that is
wiser than the average diet people eat there. This can help a lot.
Just stopping drinking the coffee, decaf, iced tea and carbonated
beverages that are served, and switching to the recipes in this
book could get them off some of their medicines.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
276The beverages to encourage are sterilized milk and hot wa-
ter—delicious with whipping cream, honey and cinnamon. This
gets them away from solvents, oxalic acid  and caffeine.
Old age is not a time when you “no longer need milk.” Cal-
cium losses increase  in old age. Milk has the organic form of
calcium, chelated with lactic acid, and it has the cream to pro-
mote absorption. For this reason, milk should never be reduced
in fat content (not less than 2%). The cream is necessary  to im-
prove calcium absorption.
In old age it is downright dangerous to be taking many cal-
cium tablets. The stomach does not have the acid necessary to
dissolve them. They pass into the intestine, disturbing its func tion
and acid levels. With tablets, too, one must be careful with
dosages, while food is self limiting. No elderly person would be
able to drink more than one cup of milk at a time. This contains
250 mg. of calcium.
Milk, however, requires stomach acid to curdle it as the first
step in digestion. If there is not sufficient acid, it will pass undi-
gested into the intestine, causing new problems. We must listen  to
the elderly when they say milk gives them gas or other trou bles.
Having the milk warm to hot helps in getting digestion  started
in the stomach. Milk served hot with cinnamon accom plishes t wo
purposes: it will stimulate acid secretion and the cinnamon is an
insulin  aid. Milk served hot with honey adds the nutritive value
of honey, displacing the need for other unnatural sweets. The
meal should always include something sour to cur dle the milk. It
does not have to be added to the milk; it can simply be included
with the meal somewhere.
Lemon juice or vinegar  can be put in certain foods but the
most reliable way to get it into the diet is to put 1 tablespoon into
the water glass along with a teaspoon of honey. This gives the
water a “sweet and sour” flavor, enough to make it interest ing
throughout the meal. The fresh lemon juice or white dis-PUSHING BACK AGE
277tilled vinegar and a honey dispenser that is easy to use should
always be on the table. Bring these two items to your loved one
at the “home” if it cannot be provided regularly and reliably. Pop
in at mealtime to check up on it. Powdered vitamin C  (¼ tsp.) is
another useful acid if the first two are not effective enough.
The lemon and honey habit, alone, can add years (healthier
years) to an elderly person. The extra acid taken with lunch and
supper (the stomach has its own best supply of acid in the
morning, for breakfast) improves overall digestion  and helps
dissolve the calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, manganese, and
other minerals in the food so they can be absorbed.
The habit of using vinegar  and honey in water as a beverage
was made famous by Dr. Jarvis in his book Folk Medicine, circa
1960. He recommended apple cider vinegar  for its extra potas-
sium. In those days, vinegar was made of good apples. Now, all
the regular vinegars have mold in them. The toxin, patulin, in
moldy apples has been carefully studied by scientists. It taints the
vinegar as well as apple juice and concentrate made from them. I
have not tested patulin to see if it can be detoxified by vitamin C.
We must use only white distilled vinegar, even though it lacks
potassium, aroma and popularity.  Using  a variety of honeys can
make up for the need to vary the flavor. Get orange blossom,
linden blossom, buckwheat, wildflower, and sage honey, besides
clover blossom.
But honey is not perfect food. It usually has ergot  mold, a
very serious toxin. To detoxify the ergot, you simply add vita min
C to the honey as soon as it arrives from the supermarket. This
gives it plenty of time to react with the ergot before you eat it.
Bring your “fixed” honeys to the home.
If your elderly loved one has not tolerated milk in years, start
with the vinegar  and honey beverage, or lemon and honey, and be
patient until that is accepted. Then add only ¼ cup milk to the
day's diet, (in the morning, on homemade cereal). Go upTHE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
278very gradually and only when digestion  allows it. Of course, the
milk must be sterile.
If it is not sterile, the final warming will only increase  the
bacterial count. You must be sure of its sterility. Boil the milk
yourself. Near-boiling is not hot enough. It must be heated until it
bubbles up and almost goes over the container for ten sec onds.
Use a non-metal pot that holds one to two quarts. You may throw
away the skin. Then cool  and refrigerate.  Supply  it to the home,
too.
Milk that is marketed in paper containers that need no re-
frigeration has been sterilized; it is safe.
Once the body, even an aged body, finds a nutritious food that
does not cause troubles of its own, it asks for more. Your loved
one will accept it and drink it without forceful coaxing, if there is
no problem with it. As long as your loved one tries to avoid
drinking it, your challenge is to find the problem and solve it. It
is not a matter of taste or habit. It is a matter of di gestibility and
lack of toxicity. When your loved one is drinking three cups of
milk (or buttermilk or whey) a day and three cups of water, there
will be no room (nor request) for the usual coffee  and tea and
other bad beverages.
We all must die of something. But it needn't be a stroke, or
heart  failure, or cancer. Choose what seems to be the most
pressing problem to work on. Common problems that plague  the
aged are brain problems, incontinence, bad digestion, dia betes,
tremor, weakness, feeling cold, sensitivity to noise, losing the
sense of taste and smell, hearing  loss, insomnia, kidney and heart
failure.
Increase Oxygen
Brain problems include memory loss, communication defi cit,
dementia  (calling things by inappropriate names and sayingPUSHING BACK AGE
279inappropriate things). The brain is simply not getting enough
oxygen and food to work right. It is like having a pocket calcu-
lator with rundown batteries: it will give you wrong answers
(without telling you they are wrong). Not enough oxygen to the
brain is the main cause of memory loss, inability to find the right
words, getting words mixed up and not being able to speak in
sentences. You can prove this by providing oxygen from a tank;
modern equipment is very easy to use and inexpensive. If your
loved one responds well to a few hours of oxygen, you have
proof of the problem.
How can you increase oxygen in the brain?
1.Open the blood vessel s wider.
2.Increase pressure of blood running through the blood ves-
sels.
3.Raise the oxygen level in the air that is breathed. Less car-
bon dioxide, tobacco  smoke and auto exhaust. All these,
including a gas leak  from the pipes in


mirror, you think you are looking at yourself realistically, but your mirror
doesn’ t reveal the truth that endures despite all hurt:
You wer e created to be completely loved and completely lovable for your whole life.
In a way it is amazing that you do not realize this, because underneath
everything you think and feel, innocence is still intact. Time cannot blemish
your essence, your portion of spirit. But if you lose sight of this essence,
you will mistake yourself for your experiences, and there is no doubt that
experience can do much to obliterate love. In an often hostile and brutal
world, maintaining innocence seems impossible. Therefore, you find
yourself experiencing only so much love and only so much lovability.
This can change.Although you perceive yourself in limited terms, as a mind and a body
confined in time and space, there is a wealth of spiritual teaching that says
otherwise. In spirit you are unbounded by time and space, untouched by
experience. In spirit you are pure love.
The reason you do not feel completely loved and completely lovable is
that you do not identify with your spiritual nature. Your sense  of love has
lost one thing it cannot afford to do without: its higher dimen sion. What
would it be like to restore this lost part of yourself?
Mind, body, and spirit would unite—this union cr eates the love you have to give.
You and your beloved would unite—this cr eates the love you have to shar e.
In our deepest nature each person is meant to be the hero or heroine of an
eternal love story. The story begins in innocence, with a baby’ s birth into a
mother ’s loving  arms. It procee ds through stages of growth, as the young
child steps out into the world. With more and more experience the circle of
love widens, including first family and friends, then intimate partners, but
also taking in love of abstract things, like learning and truth. The ripening
journey brings us to love of giving, and the blossoming of higher values,
such as compassion, forgivenes s, and altruism. Finally there is the direct
experience of spirit itself, which  is pure love. The journey climaxes in the
same knowledge that a baby began with, although it couldn’ t voice that
knowledge: I am love.
You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love—that is the spiritual goal of
life.
Not many people find the spiritual goal of life. The aching need created
by lack of love can only be filled by learning anew to love and be loved. All
of us must discover for ourselves that love is a force as real as gravity, and
that being upheld in love every day, every hour, every minute is not a
fantasy—it is intended as our natural state.
This book is about reviving love stories that should never have faded.
The union of self and spirit is not only possible but inevitable. The spiritual
meaning of love is best measured by what it can do, which is many things.
Love can heal.Love can renew.
Love can make us safe.
Love can inspire us with its power.
Love can bring us closer to God.
Everything love is meant to do is possible. Knowing this, however, has only
made the gap between love and non-love more painful. Countless people
have experienced love—as pleasure, sex, security, having someone else
fulfill their daily needs—withou t seeing that a special path has opened to
them. Socially, the “normal” cycle of love is simply to find a suitable
partner, marry, and raise a family. But this social pattern isn’t a path,
because the experience of marriage and raising a family isn’t automatically
spiritual. Sad to say, many people enter lifelong relationships in which love
fades over time or provides lasting companionship without growing in its
inner dimension. A spiritual path has only one reason to exist: it shows the
way for the soul to grow. As it grows, more of spiritual truth is revealed,
more of the soul’ s promise is redeemed.
When you find your path, you will also find your love story. People today
are consumed by doubts about their relationships: Have I found the right
partner? Am I being true to myself? Have I given the best part of myself
away? As a result, there is a restless kind of consumer shopping for
partners, as if the “right” one can be found by toting up a potential mate’ s
pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical
standard. The path to love, however, is never about externals. However
good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this
moment is the “right” person, because he or she is a mirror of who you are
inside. Our culture hasn’ t taught  us this (as it has failed to teach us so much
about spiritual realities). When  you struggle with your partn er, you are
struggling with yourself. Every  fault you see in them touches a denied
weakness in yourself. Every conflict you wage is an excuse not to face a
conflict within. The path to love therefore clears up a monumental mistake
that millions of people make—the mistake that someone “out there” is
going to give (or take) somethin g that is not already yours. When you truly
find love, you find yourself.
Therefore the path to love isn’t a choice, for all of us must find out who
we are. This is our spiritual destiny. The path can be postponed; you can
lose faith in it or even despair that love exists at all. None of that ispermanent; only the path is. Doubt reflects the ego, which is bound in time
and space; love reflects God, eternal divine essence. The ultimate promise
on the path to love is that you will walk in the light of a truth extending
beyond any truth your mind presently knows.
I have structured the following chapters to lead the reader anew on the
path to love, from  the first stirrin gs of romance to the final stages of ecstasy.
Falling in love feels like an accidental occurrence to many people, but in
spiritual terms it is not—it is the entrance point to love’ s eternal journey.
Romance has several distinct phases for us to explore—attraction,
infatuation, courtship, and intimacy—each partaking of a special spiritual
significance.
In the dawning of the next stage, romance turns into a committed
relationship, usually marriage, and the path changes. Falling in love is over;
being in love begins. Spiritually, the word being  implies a state of the soul;
it is this state that a couple learn s to nurture through surrender, the key word
in every spiritual relationship. Through surrender the needs of the ego,
which can be extremely selfish and unloving, are transformed into the true
need of the spirit, which is always the same—the need to grow. As you
grow, you exchange shallow, false feelings for deep, true emotions, and thus
compassion, trust, devotion, and service become realities. Such a marriage
is sacred; it can never falter because it is based on divine essence. Such a
marriage is also innocent, because your only motive is to love and serve the
other person.
Surrender is the door one must pass through to find passion. Without
surrender, passion is centered on a person’ s craving for pleasure and
stimulation. With surrender, passion is directed toward life itself—in
spiritual terms, passion is the same as letting yourself be swept away on the
river of life, which is eternal and never -ending in its flow.
The final fruit of surrender is ecstasy: when you can let go of all selfish
attachments, when you trust that love really is at the core of your nature,
you feel complete peace. In this peace there is a seed of sweetness
perceived in the very center of the heart, and from this seed, with patience
and devotion, you nurture the supreme state of joy, known as ecstasy.
This, then, is the path to love outlined in the following pages, although it
isn’t the only one. Some people do not fall in love and enter into
relationships with a beloved. But this does not mean that there is no path forthem, only that the path has been internalized. For such people, the Beloved
is entirely within themselves from the very outset. It is their soul or their
image of God; it is a vision or a calling; it is a solitariness that blossoms
into love for the One. In its own way, such a love story is also about
relationship, because the final realizations are the same for all of us. To
realize “I am love” is not reserved only for those who marry. It is a
universal realization, cherished in every spiritual tradition. Or to put it most
simply, all relationships are ultimately a relationship with God.
I wanted this to be a practical work as well as, hopefully, an inspiring one.
Each chapter includes exercises (titled “Loving Practice”) that will enable
you to ground yourself in the insights discussed in the text. Following this
comes a love story (titled “In Our Lives”) to amplify the text in a more
personal way. I am involved in all these stories, usually as a sympathetic
listener to friends, patients, and fellow seekers. Sometimes I step beyond
that role to function as counselor or adviser, but I do not set myself up as a
professional therapist. I only want to open the way to insight, acting as its
midwife; it is


 waves enter the eye and sound waves the ear.
Surprisingly, this does not nally settle the question, because it isthe ow of attention, not photons or air molecules, that transmits
the powers we are talking about.
We have seen how the body can live or die on the basis of mental
interpretations. The age-old idea that our minds can interact with
the world needs to be more  closely examined. Otherwis e, we will
not be able to tell if we have turned our backs on superstition or
overlooked a dormant power  that might be awakened from its long
sleep.
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Magical Thinking
There was a time when I lived outside the reach of magic. I was a
new resident in Boston, working sixteen-hour shifts at the veteran’s
hospital. I barely had a free hour to be with my wife and was lucky
when I got home to spend three sweet minutes with our baby
daughter, who went to bed almost the instant I walked in the door.
My salary was meager, ve hundred dollars a month, and when our
tiny apartment began to close in on us, I decided that I had better
work harder. I began to moonlight. Instead of pointing the battered
VW toward Jamaica Plain at night, I drove the long road to an
emergency room in the suburbs, where I stayed on duty until dawn.
Another doctor worked with me, a seasoned trauma surgeon
named Karl. We were comrades in exhaustion, and to avoid
complete collapse we took turns catnapping. One of us curled up on
a gurney in the back corridor while the other propped his eyes open
at the nurses’ station.
No one could call such a life magical; the word would have had
no meaning for me. Life was dicult, and at times—as when I had
to perform a cesarean upon a woman who had just been murdered
—life was crushing. I worked without Karl that night, with a young
Irish nurse beside me. We didn’t have time to take the stretcher
upstairs to an operating room but had to stand there in the door of
the ER. The eeriness of the situation made both our hands shake.
The baby came out within two minutes after the mother died. We
waited tensely. It was breathing, then it wriggled.“The pretty thing’s all right,” the nurse whispered. She gently
cradled the infant to take it away to an incubator. I saw her smiling,
but at the same time she couldn’t stop the tears from rolling down
her cheeks. Joy was coming in on the heels of sorrow. When were
things ever dierent?  I thought. The world is a mill wheel, impartially
grinding out birth and death. A doctor dances on the edge of the
wheel, trying to keep one jig-step ahead of death so that birth might
have a better chance.
My assumption that things happen randomly in nature, without
any regard for human feeling s or hopes, was buttressed by a lifetime
of experience, not just one disturbing incident. However, a strange
coincidence started to unfurl that challenged my beliefs, making me
wonder if the mind is not in some way helping to fashio n events—
this is the beginning of what I mean by magic.
The coincidence started with something quite mund ane and
seemingly innocuous: Karl developed a cough. You couldn’t be
surprised, because he was a heavy smoker, even on the job. He had
the wracking, rasping cough that needs two packs a day to really
ripen. One night I confronted him and asked why in the world he
didn’t go and have a chest X ray, just in case. “Because if I see
cancer on it,” he said seriously, “it will scare me to death. ” The look
on his face told me to leave it alone.
Karl’s cough eventually got so bad, however, that it was clearly
interfering with his work. He bowed to my pleading and went for
the X ray. When we held the lm up in front of the viewing screen,
a gray shadow  as round as a penny could be seen in the lower lobe
of his left lung.
“My God,” Karl blurted out, “I do have cancer.” I told him we had
no conclusive proof, but within a few days he turned out to be right.
A week went by and he coughed up blood for the rst time. After
three weeks he was panting and short of breath. They gave him
heavy radiatio n, but he responded poorly, and within two months
my friend Karl died.
He was gone with shocking swiftness, and in the aftermat h I tried
to be fatalistic. Karl had succumbed to epidermoidal lung cancer, a
disease whose mortality rate approaches 100 percent. It wasreasonable to tell oneself that his chances had been statist ically very
slim, but then I happened to run across one of Karl’s old X rays,
taken ve years before. Curious, I held it up next to the new one
and shivered. You could hardly tell them apart—the same lesion, a
gray shadow as round as a penny, was visible in the earlier picture.
It looked a bit smaller and more vaguely dened, which was why it
had avoided rm diagnosis.
Karl’s body had lived with this little round shadow for ve years.
How could he suddenly die of it in a matter of two mont hs? Did he
actually scare himself to death, as he had predicted? Conventional
medicine would answer with a thundering “No!”—the mechanics of
malignant tumors are just that, mechanical. They work according to
the set laws of physics, chemistry, and biology, not accor ding to the
whim of a patient’s mind. You don’t die of a disease just because
you are afraid of it. And yet one had to wonder.
Puzzled by Magic
A fear is just a negative kind of wish. If fears can come true, so
can wishes in general. But neither one is supposed to. In fact, when
a psych iatrist sits down to interview a patient who migh t be going
insane, one of the chief symptoms he looks for is called “magical
thinking.” The hallmark of magical thinking is the person’s rm
belief that he can control reality with his mind. Stoplights do not
turn from red to green automatically—he wills them to. His
thoughts make people move toward him or away from him. If he
shuts his eyes and wishes hard enough, he can even make a
psychiatrist disappear.
The fact that a thought comes true does not necessarily make it
magical. People have sudden premonitions not to take a certain
ight and later read in the newspaper that the ight crashed. These
things happen, and once the moment of wonder passes, they are
usually dismis sed from our minds. However, what if a causal
connection is at work? Perhaps unseen powers warned those
travelers in order to save their lives. Now we are irting with magic.The next step could lead to mental disturbance. There are
paranoid schiz ophrenics who can no longer draw the line between
their mind and God’s. Such a person will begin to hold himself
responsible for world events—without his personal intervention,
earthquakes might topple the Empire State Building or nuclear
missiles come ying across the Arctic Circle. Some paranoiacs drive
themselves to stay awake around the clock, keeping watch like
fretful mothers  beside the cradle, so strong is their belief that reality
will disappear, vaporizing like a dream, unless they x their minds
on it.
However, that is only one aspect of a mystery that has puzzled
humankind for thousands of years. Can we in fact inue nce reality
with our thoughts? A pure mystic immediately says yes to this
question; a pure rationalist just as quickly says no. Most people,
however, nd themselves intrigued and confused. No one has ever
proved that thinking magically has to be wrong, and in some cases
there is no other way to explain why things happen the way they
do.
There is, for example, the rare phenomenon in which terminally
aicted patien ts suddenly intuit that, despite all the odds, they are
going to recover. This sudden  shift in awareness cannot be predicted
by either the patient or his doctor—it seems to strike with the
ckleness of lightning. A striking example (which came  to me via
Dr. Yujiro Ikemi, Japan’s leading researcher on spontaneous
remissions) is the terminal cancer patient whose tumor, often
massive in size, suddenly disappears, and as it does, or just before,
the patient knows it. At one moment he is subject to uncontrollable
mood swings, like any other  patient confronting death. All at once
despair gives way, not to hope, but to a calm, almost  unearthly
knowingness. “This tumor is going away” becomes as natural a
belief as “This cold is going away.” The shift in awareness has made
something happen in the body, or has given a signal that it has
already happened. Nobody really knows which.
Let us accept  that this may be magical thinking, not in the
disturbed sense, but as a potentially valid power of the mind.
Clearly nature


 After all, we  don't know how long any person
might have lived without life extending vitamin supplements. Though it can't be "proven," it makes perfect sense to me to spe nd
far less money on an intensive life extension vitamin program than I would certainly lose as a r esult of age -related sickness.
    Besides, I've already observed from personal use and from results in my clinical practice that life extension vitamin program s do
work. Whether I and my clients will ultimately live longer or not, the people who I have pu t on these programs, including myself
and my husband, usually report that for several years after starting they find themselves feeling progressively younger, grad ually
returning to an overall state of greater well -being they knew five or ten or fifteen ye ars ago. They have more energy, feel clearer
mentally, have fewer unwanted somatic symptoms.
    Sometimes the improvements seem rather miraculous. After a few months on the program one ninety year old man, an
independent -minded Oregonian farmer, reported  that he began awakening with an erection every morning; unfortunately, his 89
year old cranky and somewhat estranged wife, who would not take vitamins, did not appreciate this youthfulness. A few months
later (he had a small farm) he planted a holly orcha rd. Most of you won't appreciate what this means without a bit of explanation,
but in Oregon, holly is grown as a high -priced and highly profitable ornamental for the clusters of leaves and berries. But a slow -
growing holly orchard takes 25 years to began making a profit!
    A few older clients of mine reported that they noticed nothing from the life extension program, but these are unique people w ho
have developed the ability to dominate their bodies with their minds and routinely pay their bodies absolu tely no attention, driving
them relentlessly to do their will. Usually they use their energies to accomplish good, Christian works. Eventually, these de dicated
and high -toned people break down and die like everyone else. Will they do so later on life exten ding vitamins than they would
have otherwise? I couldn't know because I can't know how long they might have lived without supplementation and since they
refuse to admit the vitamins do them any good, they won't pay for them.
    Many on life extension prog rams experience a reverse aging process for awhile. However, after the full benefit of the
supplementation has worked itself through their body chemistry, they again begin to experience the aging process. I believe t he
process will then be slowed by their vitamins compared to what it would have been without supplements. But I can't prove it.
Maybe we will have some idea if the program worked 20 to 40 years from now.
    At this time I know of only two companies that make top quality life extension vitamin supplement formulas. One is
Prolongevity (Life Extension Foundation), the other, Vitamin Research Products. I prefer to support what I view as the altrui stic
motives  behind Prolongevity and buy my products from them. Unfortunately, these vitamin compounders can not put every
possibly beneficial substance in a single bottle of tablets. The main reason they do not is fear of the power -grabbing Food and
Drug Administrati on. This agency is threatening constantly to remove certain of the most useful life -extending substances from the
vitamin trade and make them the exclusive property of prescription -writing medical doctors. So far, public pressure has been
mobilized against  the FDA every time action was threatened and has not permitted this. If some product were included in a mix
and that product were prohibited, the entire mixed, bottled and labeled batch that remained unsold at that time would be wast ed, at
enormous cost.
    Were I manufacturing my own life extension supplement I would include the following. By the way, to get this all in one day, it
is necessary to take 6 to 12 large tablets daily, usually spread throughout the day, taken a few at a time with each meal. If you
compare my suggested formulation to another one, keep in mind that variations of 25 percent one way or another won't make a
significant difference, and adding other beneficial substances to my recommendations probably is only helpful. However, I wou ld
not want to eliminate anything in the list below, it is the minimum:

Beta-Carotene  25,000 iu  Selenium  100 mcg
Vitamin A  5,000 iu  Taurine  500 mg
B-1 250 mg  Cyctine  200 mg
B-2 50 mg  Gluthaianone  15 mg
B-3 niacinamid  850 mg  Choline  650 mg
B-5 750 mg  Inositol  250 mg
B-6 200 mg  Flavanoids  500 mg
B-12 100 mcg  Zinc 35 mg
PABA  50 mg  Chromium  100 mcg
Folic Acid  500 mcg  Molybdenum  123 mg
Biotin  200 mcg  Manganese  5 mg
Vitamin C  3,000mg  Iodine (as kelp)  10 mg
Vitamin E  600 iu  Co-Enzyme Q -10 60 mg
Magnesium  1,000 mg  DMAE  100 mg
Potassium  100 mg  Ginko biloba  120 mg
Calcium  1,000 mg  Vitamin D -3 200 iu

Please also keep in mind that there are many other useful substances not listed above. For example, every day I have a "green
drink," an herbal preparation containing numerous tonic substances like ginseng and also various forms of algae and chlorophy ll
extracts. My green drink makes my body feel very peppy all day, so it certainly enhances my life and may extend it. It costs ab out
$25,00 a month to enjoy that. I also use various pure amino acids at times. Phenylalyanine will make me get more aggressive
whenever I am feeling a little lackluster; this nutrient has also been used as an effective therapy against depression. Melatoni n
taken at bedtime really does help me get to sleep and may have remarkable life -extending properties. Other amino acids help my
body manufacture growth hormones and I use them from the time I begin training seriously in spring through the end of the
summer triathlon competition season. Pearson and Shaw's book (see Bibliography) is a good starting point to begin learning ab out
this re markably useful subject.

The Future Of Life Extension
    I beg the readers indulgence for a bit of futurology about what things may look like if the life extension movement continues  to
develop.
    Right now, a full vitamin and vitamin -like substance life extension program costs between $50 and $100 dollars per month.
However, pharmaceutical researchers occasionally notice that drugs meant to treat and cure diseases, when tested on lab anima ls
for safety, make these animals live quite a bit longer and function better. Though the FDA doesn't allow any word of this to be
printed in official prescribing data, the word does get around to other researchers, to gerontologists and eventually to that  part of
the public that is eagerly looking for longer life. T oday there are numerous people who routinely take prescription medicines
meant to cure a disease they do not have and plan to take those medicines for the rest of their long, long life.
    These drugs being patented, the tariff gets a lot steeper compare d to taking vitamins. (Since they are naturally -occurring
substances, vitamins can't be patented and therefore, aren't big -profit items. Perhaps that's one reason the FDA is so covertly
opposed to vitamins.) Right now it would be quite possible to spend ma ny hundred dollars per month on a life extension program
that included most of these potentially beneficent prescription drugs.
    As more of life -extending substances are discovered, the cost of participating in a maximally effective life extension prog ram
will escalate. However, those who can afford chemically enhanced functioning will enjoy certain side -benefits. Their productive,
enjoyable life spans may measure well over a century, perhaps approaching two centuries or more. Some of these substances
greatly improve intelligence so they will become brighter and have faster reaction times. With more time to accumulate more
wisdom and experience than "short livers" these folks will become wiser, too. They will have more time to compound their
investment a ssets and thus will become far more wealthy. They will become an obvious and recognizable aristocracy. This new
upper class will immediately recognize each other on the street because they will look entirely different than the short -lived poorer
folk and w ill probably run the political economic system.
    And this new aristocratic society I see coming may be far more pleasant than the one dominated by the oligarchy we now have
covertly running things. For with greater age and experience does really come gr eater wisdom. I have long felt that the biggest
problem with Earth is that we did not live long enough. As George Bernard Shaw quipped when he was 90 (he lived to 96), "here  I
am, 90 years old, just getting out of my adolescence and getting some sense, and  my body is falling apart as fast as it can."

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I would also like to thank Samantha Russo
and Dr Keith Scott for their contributions
to this book.Foreword
It is not often that a health related book is
both packed full of useful, scientifically
based information as well as important
practical guidance. The reason for the
quality of this book is that the author,
Gloria Halim is both a cancer survivor
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 the lungs are placed
side by side. This parallel position seems fairly impractical, as it increases
the r isk of food going down the wrong way, requiring the devel opment of a
complicated swallowing mechanism. The cause for this is likely to do with
our abil ity to speak and to enable us to swim, since both act ions require
voluntary control over breathing. Had Darwin investigated the negative
impact of mouth breathing in human beings, however, I have no doubt that
he woul d have considered the ability to mouth breathe to be a far worse
flaw in the evolution of our species than the risk of choking while eating.
The rest  of the animal kingdom  relies on nasal breathing for survival,
and mouth breathing usually on ly occurs as an adaptation within a species.
Birds, for example, are predom inantly nose breathers, aside from diving
birds su ch as penguins, pelicans, or gannets. Generally, when an animal
breathes through its mouth it is a sign of sickness, injury, or distress. Guinea
pigs and rabbits will continue to breathe through their noses even under
heavy e xertion and will only breathe through their mouths i f they have
developed a breathing abnormality. The sam e goes for all farm an imals,
including the cow, sheep, donke y, goat, and horse. Mouth breath ing in these
animals would be a clear sign al to a farmer or pet owner t hat there is
something wrong. Experience t ells the farmer that when a cow or sheep
stands m otionless with its neck extended and mouth open, it is very sick—
time to call the vet.
When it comes to the importance of breathing through the nose, there is
no distinction between prey and predator. Nasal breathing is especially
advantageous fo r horses and dee r, since it allows them to graze and breathe
at the same time, while their s ense of smell alerts them of approaching
predators. I, on the other ha nd, as a habitual mouth br eather, was
admonished as a child for che wing with my mouth open—much to the
dismay of my w ell-mannered table companions. Unlike the ho rse, I could
not eat and bre athe through my nose at the same time. And, unlike thehorse, I found m yself completely out of breath after attempting  even light
exercise—meanwhile, spend a day at the horse track and you will witness
these majestic animals running at speeds of up to thirty miles per hour while
maintaining nose breathing.
T o g et a n idea of the size of the nasal cavity, run your tongue f rom the
front of the roof of your mouth right back as far as it will go. Y ou may be
surprised to learn that the roof of the mouth is in fact the floor of the nose!
The nos e you see on your face  comprises approximately 30 percent of its
volume. It is the tip of the ice ber g, so to speak, with the remaining 70
percent of the n asal cavity set deep within the skull. Nature i s intelligent
and doe s not waste space; evolution has determined the impor tance of the
nose by the amount of space it occupies within the skull.
As air enters th rough the nose, it is swirled through scrolled, spongy
bones called turbinates,  w hich condition and guide inha led air into a steady,
regular pattern. The internal nose, with its cul de sacs, valves, and
turbinates, regu lates the direction and velocity of the air to  maximize
exposure to a ne twork of small arteries and veins and to the muc ous blanket
in o rder to warm, humidify, an d sterilize the air before it is d rawn to the
lungs. The late D r. Maurice Cottle, who founded the American Rhinologic
Society in 1954, stated that the n ose performs at least thirty functions, all of
which are important supplements to the roles played by the lungs, heart, and
other or gans. The lar ge amount of space in the skull devoted to the nasal
cavity provides an indication of the importance of the functions of the nose.
T o a ttain a high er BOL T score and improved sports performan ce, it is
imperative that nasal breathing is practiced at all times during rest. If your
BOL T score is less than 20 seconds, the only way to avoid overbreathing
during exercise is to breathe through the nose at all times, even while
training. An exception to nasal breathing can be made for a sho rt period of
time during intensive physical exercise, but this kind of training should only
be attempted when your BOL T score is greater than 20 seconds.
The Nose—A Most Important Organ
In the yoga book The Science of Br eath,  w ritten over a century ago, Y o gi
Ramacharaka said this about nostril versus mouth breathing: “One of thefirst lessons in the Y ogi Science of Breath is to learn how to breathe through
the n ostrils, and to overcome th e common practice of mouth br eathing.” It
seems th at little  has changed ov er the past hundred years—if anything, the
prevalence of mouth breathing has increased. Extolling the benefits of nasal
breathing, Y ogi Ramacharaka su rmises that “many of the diseases to which
civilized man is subject are und oubtedly caused by this common habit of
mouth breathing.” Below is a brief list of the functions of nasal breathing:
•   Nose breathing imposes approximately 50 percent more
resistance to the airstream in normal individuals than does
mouth breathing, resulting in 10 to 20 percent more O 2  uptake.
•   Nasal breath ing warms and humidifies incoming air. (A ir
entering the nose at 42.8˚F/6˚C will be warmed to 86˚F/30˚C
by t he time it touches the back of the throat, and a cozy
98.6˚F/37˚C—body temperature—upon reaching its final
destination, the lungs.)
•   N asal breath ing removes a significant amount of germs and
bacteria from the air you breathe in.
•   Nasal breath ing during physical exercise allows for a wo rk
intensity great enough to produ ce an aerobic training ef fect as
based on heart rate and percentage of VO 2  max.
•   As discussed in the next section, the nose is a reservoir f or
nitric oxide, an essential gas for the maintenance of good
health.
Now compare the benefits above with the ef fects of mouth breathing:
•   Mouth-breathing children a re at greater risk of developing
forward head posture, and reduced respiratory strength.
•   Breath ing thro ugh the mouth c ontributes to general dehydratio n
(mouth breathin g during sleep results in waking up with a drymouth).
•   A dry mouth  also increases acidification of the mouth and
results in more dental cavities and gum disease.
•   Mout h breat hing causes bad breath due to altered bacteri al
flora.
•   Breat hing thr ough the mouth has been proven to significant ly
increase the number of occurrences of snoring and obstructive
sleep apnea.
The Nose: A Gr eat Sour ce for Nitric Oxide
Until the  1980s the gas nitric ox ide (NO) was considered a toxi c substance,
causing smog and producing ha rmful ef fects in the environment. When the
first arti cle appeared discussing the importance of nitric oxide, the scientific
community foun d it dif ficult to conceive that a gas so toxic outside of the
body could play such a highly important role within it. And although nitric
oxide is  a relative newcomer to  the field of medicine, there are now over
one hundred thousand research  papers devoted to this gas, providing an
insight into how it has captured the attention of doctors and scientists alike.
In 1992, nitric oxide was proclaimed Molecule of the Y ear by the
journal Science  and  was descr ibed as a startl ingly simple molecule that
unites neuroscie nce, physiology, and immunology and revises scientists’
understanding of how cells communicate and defend themselves.
In 1998, Robert F. Furchgott, L ouis J. Ignarro, and Ferid Murad were
awarded the Nobel Prize for the ir discovery that the gas nitric  oxide is an
important signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system. W hen I first
began to  read about the benefits  of nitric oxide, I was astounded as to how
one sim ple gas could influence all major systems and or gans, help keep us
free from disease including cancer, promote a longer life, and even perform
better in bed.
Strangely, despite these life-changing attributes, it seems that few
people outside of the field of  medicine are aware of this gas and its
tremendous ben efits to health. O f the hundreds of people I have spoken towith high blood pressure, poor  cardiovascular health, asthma, and other
ailments, not one of them was aware of the importance of nitric oxide.
When it  comes to nasal breathin g and breath-hold exercises, nitric oxide
plays an  importa nt role. Nitric o


 fear they need more calcium to avoidosteoporosis and to give their children good teeth. What pasteurized milk actuallydoes to their children is make them calcium deficient and makes the children toxic,provoking many colds, ear infections, sinusitis, inflammations of the tonsils andlung infections, and, induces an allergy to milk in the children.
The Development Of Allergies
There are three ways a body can become allergic. (1) It can have a genetic
predisposition for a specific allergy to start with. (2) It can be repeatedly exposedto an irritating substance such as pollen when, at the same time, the body’smechanism for dealing with irritations is weakened. Generally weak adrenalscauses this because the adrenal’s job is to produce hormones that reduceinflammation. Once the irritating substance succeeds at producing a significantinflammation, a secondary reaction may be set up, called an allergy. Onceestablished, an allergy is very hard to get rid of.
(3) An allergy can develop in a way very similar to the second case, but
instead of being irritated by an external substance, it is irritated by repeatedlyfailing to properly, fully digest something. Pasteurized milk for example, basicallyimpossible to completely digest even in its low-fat form, often sets up an allergythat applies to other forms of cows milk, even raw, unpasteurized cows milk or
yogurt. Eating too much white flour can eventually set off a wheat allergy. My
husband developed a severe allergy to barley after drinking too much home-brewed beer; he also became highly intolerant to alcohol. Now he has allergicreactions to both alcohol and barley. And gets far sicker from drinking beer (twoseparate allergies) than from wheat beer, hard liquor or wine (only one allergy).
Eating too much of any single food, or repeatedly eating too much of an
otherwise very good food at one time, can eventually overwhelm the body’sability to digest it fully. Then, the finest whole food products may set up an allergicreaction. Worse, this allergic reaction itself subsequently prevents proper digestioneven when only moderate quantities are eaten.
An allergy may not be recognized as an allergy because it may not manifest as
the instant skin rash or stuffy nose or swollen glands or sticky eyes. that peopleusually think of when they think “allergic reaction.” Food allergies can cause manykinds of symptoms, from sinusitis to psychosis, from asthma to arthritis, fromhyperactivity to depression, insomnia to narcolepsy—and commonly thesymptoms don’t manifest immediately after eating. Frequently, allergic reactions
are so low grade as to be unnoticeable and may not produce an observablecondition until many years of their grinding down the vital force has passed. Whenthe condition finally appears it is hard to associate it with some food that has beenconsumed for years, apparently with impunity.
Thus it is that many North Americans have developed allergies to wheat, dairy,
soy products (because many soy foods are very hard to digest), corn and eggs.These are such common, widespread, frequently found allergies that anyoneconsidering a dietary cause of their complaints might just cut all these foods out ofthe diet for a few weeks just to see what happens. And individuals may be allergicto anything from broccoli to bacon, strawberries to bean sprouts. Unraveling foodallergies sometimes requires the deductions of a Sherlock Holmes.
However, food allergies are very easy to cure if you can get the suffererer to
take the medicine. Inevitably, allergic reactions vanish in about five days of
abstinence. Anyone with sufficient self-discipline to water fast for five days can
cure themselves of all food allergies at one step. Then, by a controlled, gradualreintroduction of foods, they can discover which individual items cause trouble.See Coca’s Pulse Test in the Appendix where you’ll find step-by-step instructionsfor allergy testing that are less rigorous, not requiring a preliminary fast.
Flour, And Other Matters Relating To Seeds
One of the largest degradations to human health was caused by the roller mill.
This apparently profitable machine permitted the miller to efficiently separatewheat flour into three components: bran, germ and endosperm. Since bread madewithout bran and germ is lighter and appears more “upper class” it becameinstantly popular. Flour without germ and bran also had an industrial application—it could be stored virtually forever without being infested by insects because whiteflour does not contain enough nutrition to support life. Most health consciouspeople are aware that white flour products won’t support healthful human lifeeither.
Essentially, white flour’s effect on humans is another demonstration of Health =
Nutrition / Calories. When the bran and germ are discarded, remaining are thecalories and much of the protein, lacking are many vitamins and minerals andother vital nutritional substances.
Whole wheat bread has been called the staff of life. In ages past, healthy
cultures have made bread the predominant staple in their diet. Does that meanyou can just go to the bakery and buy whole grain bread, or go to the healthfoodstore and buy organically grown whole wheat flour, bake your own, and be ashealthy as the ancients? Sorry, the answer is almost certainly no. There are pitfalls,many of them, waiting for the unwary.
White flour has one other advantage over whole wheat flour. It not only
remains free of insect infestation, it doesn’t become stale (meaning rancid). In thewheat germ (where the embryo resides) there is considerable oil, containing
among other things, about the best natural source of vitamin E. This oil is highly
unsaturated and once the seed is ground the oil goes rancid in a matter of days.Whole wheat flour kept on the unrefrigerated shelf of the store is almost certainlyrancid. A lot of its other vitamin content has been oxidized too. If the wheat flourhad flowed directly from the grinder into an airtight sack and from there directly tothe freezer, if it had been flash frozen and kept extremely cold, it might have astorage life of some months. Of course that was not the case. Maybe you’relucky and your healthfood store is one of the very few that has its own small-scaleflour mill and grinds daily. Probably not.
How about your baker’s whole wheat bread? Where does the baker get
flour? From the wholesaler’s or distributor’s warehouse! In fifty pound kraftpapersacks! How much time had elapsed from milling to wholesaler to baker tobaking? The answer has to be in the order of magnitude of weeks. And it mightbe months. Was the flour stored frozen? Or airtight? Of course not.
If you want bread made from freshly ground flour you are almost certainly
have to grind and bake it yourself. Is it worth the trouble? You bet. Once you’vetasted real bread you’ll instantly see by comparison what stale, rancid wholewheat flour tastes like. Freshly ground flour makes bread that can be the staff oflife and can enormously upgrade your health— if the wheat you use is any good.
But before we talk about wheat quality, a more few words of warning. If you
think wheat goes rancid rapidly, rye is even worse. Rye flour goes bad so fast thatwhen you buy it in the store it usually is the rye equivalent of white wheat flour.The germ has been removed. The bag may not say so. But it probably has. If youare going to make rye breads, even more reason to grind your own. Corn mealfrom the grocery store has usually been degerminated too. If it hasn’t been, the oilin the seed’s germ has probably gone rancid.
Grinding flour at home is easy these days. There is an abundance of at-home
milling products and no shortage of hype about them. You’ll find staunchadvocates of stone mills. These produce the finest-textured flour, but are costly.
The sales pitch is that stones grind at low temperature and do not damage the oils
(remember the development of rancidity is a function of temperature) or thevitamins, which are also destroyed at high temperature. This assertion is half true.If you are going to store your flour it is far better to grind it cool. However, if youare, as we do, going to immediately bake your flour, what difference does it makeif it gets a little warm before baking. That only accelerates the action of the yeast.
On the negative side, stone mills grind slowly and are very fussy about which
grains they will grind. If the cereal is a bit moist or if the seed being ground is alittle bit oily, the mill becomes instantly blocked.
Steel burr mills grind fast and coarsely and are inexpensivebut coarse flour
makes heavy bread. The metal grinding faces tend to wear out and have to bereplaced occasionally—if they can be replaced. Breads on the heavy side are stilldelicious; for many years I made bread with an inexpensive steel burr millattachment that came with my juicer.
Some steel burr mills will also grind oily seed like sesame and sunflower.
However, oily seeds can be ground far more easily half-a-cup at a time in a littleinexpensive electric spice/coffee mill, the sort with a single fast-spinning propeller.
I currently think the best compromise are hammermills. The grain dribbles into
a chamber full of fast-spinning teeth that literally pound the grain into powder.Since air flows through with the grain the flour is not heated very much. This typeof mill is small, very fast, intermediate in price between steel mills and stone mill,lasts a long time, but when grinding, sounds like a Boeing 747 about to take off. Itis essential to wear hearing protectors when using it.
Awareness of