 (body or cytoplasm) to the nucleus. These workers are called the
endoplasmic reticulum (ER for short).
Extra-cellular substances = substances outside the cells
Intra-cellular substances = substances inside the cells

The Golgi apparatus is named for Camillo Golgi (individuals who
discover things like to put their names on them). Golgi was an Italian
histologist who uncovered the function of these curved stacks of membrane-
bound sacs within cells, which act as factories. They collect, modify, package
and distribute the proteins and lipids that are manufactured by the ER. These
proteins are present in large amounts in the pancreas, salivary glands, liver,
and other organs.In our cities we have transporters and storage facilities. These are called
vesicles within cells. Secretory vesicles break off from the Golgi apparatus
with the materials manufactured by the ER, and carry these to the outer cell
membrane
wall, where this material is then dumped or carried out into the
world of the body. Some vesicles act as holding tanks until the “created” or
“manufactured” product is needed. An example of this is the hormone
insulin, which is held in vesicles in the beta cells of the pancreas. When the
body’s blood glucose levels rise, these vesicles then release their stored
insulin into the blood to assist cellular utilization of glucose.
As in any city, we need protection from invaders. Many cells act as
protectors of the body. These are called immune cells. Within each cell, the
lysosomes are vesicles that contain a variety of enzymes that are used for
intracellular sanitation and elimination (digestive) functions. Macro-phages
(the white blood cells, or WBCs, for example) ingest bacteria (antigens or
pathogens). The lysosomes within your cells “eat” or “digest” (break apart)
and destroy the invader.
Now what’s a city without power? The powerhouse for a cell is its
mitochondria. These are bean- or rod-shaped organelles (specialized organs
or structures) that produce, store and release adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
This is the energy source for most chemical reactions within the cell.
Mitochondria use oxygen (oxidative metabolism) which allows ATP to be
produced.
The skeletal portions of the cells (or the “structures” of the city) are called
cytoskeleton, which is made up of proteins (chained and bound amino acids).
Within the cytoskeleton there are several structures, all of which play a role in
its flexibility, shape and size. These are called microtubules, microfilaments
and intermediate filaments.
It is noteworthy to mention that some cells have cilia, which are hair-like
extensions from the outer membrane wall. They can vary in number from one
to thousands. Their coordinated job is to move mucus. You can especially see
this in the respiratory tract where mucus is secreted by the lymphatic mucosa
of the lining of the lungs and bronchi. The action of the cilia allows the body
to keep its lungs clear of dust or other particles that could damage (or affect)
its functions.
Some cells have what are called microvilli, which are projections of the
outer cell membrane wall. This is especially true of kidneys and intestinal wall
cells where additional absorption of nutrients is necessary.Now you can see how a cell “acts like” and is “created like” a city. All the
worlds (creations) of God are just a mirror reflection of each other, from the
macrocosm (the largest “world”) to the microcosm (the smallest).
To understand the nature of your cells, it’s also important to understand
the different ways that nutrients or elements can enter through the cell
membrane wall. Basically, there are two conditions diffusion or osmosis that
allow this process to happen.
How Nutrients Enter the Cells
D
IFFUSION
Molecules or substances move from a higher or greater concentration of
particles into a lesser concentration in a solution. A common example of this
is how a concentrated sugar cube disperses in a glass of water.
O
SMOSIS
This is a type of diffusion in which molecules or substances move from a less
concentrated solution to a higher or more concentrated solution or fluid.
Osmosis and the rate of osmosis depend upon several factors that facilitate
this action. First and primarily, the osmotic pressures on each side of the cell
membrane wall. Secondly, the permeability of the membrane. Thirdly, the
electrical potential across the membrane wall and its pores.

A great percentage of osmosis and “facilitated” diffusion requires an
“active transporter.” An active transporter simply means that a “carrier” or
“transporter” (like a bus) is used to assist the movement of a molecule or
substance through a cell membrane wall. An example of this is insulin, which
is a carrier or transporter of glucose into a cell. Note that this type of activity
requires a small amount of energy since this is an active transport, not a
passive one. This energy comes from the cell mitochondria in the form of
ADP (adenosine di-phosphate), which comes from stored ATP (adenosine
triphosphate). A carrier or transporter can be a hormone, protein, steroid or
mineral.
When you are seeking true healing, health and vitality, therefore, you
must think cellularly. Healing must happen at the cellular level for true,
lasting health and vitality to exist. Spiritually speaking, all life, no matter how
small or how large (atoms to universes and everything in between), when
manifested physically, must have a mental body (mind portion) and an
emotional body (astral portion). This is true for each of your cells, as well asfor all plants, all animals, and your entire body. A great example is
documented by Christopher Bird and Tom Hopkins in their book
The Secret
Life of Plants,
 which tells about the ability of plants to feel and remember.
These abilities become more obvious in animals, and more so with human
beings.
Cells respond to external stimuli not only from hormones, minerals,
sugars, proteins and the like; their ability to function is greatly affected by the
body’s pH factors (acidosis), by congestion, types of foods consumed, and
chemical consumption. They also respond to thoughts and emotions
(feelings). The types of thoughts and feelings you have, harbor or carry
around with you play a major role in cellular functioning. To enjoy a state of
total health and vitality it is necessary to clean (detoxify) your body, your
mind and your emotions, and thus set yourself free.
As the initial parent cell divides, tissues are formed, then organs and
glands, and so on. There are two types of cell division—meiosis and mitosis.
Through meiosis and mitosis the body grows and repairs itself. Let’s now
examine the grouping of cells called tissues.
Types of Cell Division
M
EIOSIS
A cell divides with only half of the chromosomes of the related somatic or
non-reproductive cell. (These cells replace.)
M
ITOSIS
Cells divide each with the same number of chromosomes as the parent, or
somatic cell. (These cells create.)

MODULE 2.4
Tissues

Most of your individual cells are grouped together to form tissues. Then
tissues can be grouped together to form organs and glands. There are four
primary types of tissues that comprise, line, support, protect or control the
basic structures of your body.TYPES OF TISSUES

EPITHELIAL
 — Covers the surface and linings of the body’s cavities or
from glands. Found in the digestive tract, lungs, blood vessels, etc.
CONNECTIVE
 — This type of tissue is supportive and holds all cells,
organs and glands together.
MUSCULAR
 — These tissues support your skeletal structure and are used
for movement of various structures, including your limbs.
NERVOUS
 — These tissues comprise your information highway, the
nervous system. These tissues are highly charged and allow electrical
transmissions to take place.
Disease is Not Found in Healthy Tissue
When tissues, organs, or glands fail to do their job, this sets up a domino
effect throughout your body, causing many different disease symptoms.
Vibrant health = healthy tissue

Tissue regeneration = alkalization + detoxification + nutrition + energy =
vibrant health

Remember that all your tissues are made up of individual cells, each
requiring nutrition, energy and proper elimination.
Now let’s examine the tissues called organs and glands in each body
system.
MODULE 2.5
The Cardiovascular System and Blood

HEART
Your heart is a four-chamber holding and receiving organ with a system of
valves that allow blood in and out. You have two chambers on the right and
two chambers on the left. The upper chambers are called atrials and the lower,
larger chambers are called ventricles. Fresh, oxygenated blood comes from
the pulmonary arteries into the upper left atrial and moves through the mitral
valve into the lower left chamber (left ventricle), then out into the body to
feed and oxygenate. This blood comes back around after making its journey
through miles of the vascular system, back into the upper right arterial, then
down to the right ventricle, and then off to the lungs for more oxygen. Your
adrenal glands play a major role in how
strongly the heart


 were from fairly dubious sources,
with only one exception they all had something very positive to say about Aloe Vera. Such a high
 PART I

THE HISTORY

As I said in the introduction, it was the history of Aloe Vera that first aroused my fascination with the
plant, for it has truly stood the test of time and has been associated with some remarkable people.

The name Aloe Vera, or true Aloe, is probably derived from the Arabic word ‘ALLOEH’, Syrian
‘ALWAI’ or Hebrew ‘HALAL’ meaning a ‘shining bitter substance’. Hence the old laxative remedy ‘bitter Aloes’, still listed in the US Pharmacopoeia today.

The German Egyptologist, George Ebers (1837-1898) bought an ancient papyrus, now called the Ebers
Papyrus, dating from the reign of the Pharaoh Amen-Hotep in 1552 BC. This ancient medical treatise
listing the use of plant materials as cosmetics and drugs, including Aloes, was found between the knees of a mummy excavated near Thebes in 1858. This papyrus demonstrated the use of Aloe Vera during the
preceding 2,000 years and listed twelve different formulae for Aloe Vera preparations.

Over the centuries, there have been many references to Aloe Vera, in many different cultures, from the
Ancient Greeks and Romans to Babylonian, Indian and Chinese peoples. Important thinkers such as Celsius from the time of Jesus Christ, through to the Roman physician, Pliny the Elder and the Greek
Dioscorides all supported the therapeutic importance of Aloe Vera. Galen, the father of modern medicine,
who was the first doctor to describe how the heart and circulation worked, is known to have used it.

The first reference to Aloe Vera in English was made in AD 1655 in a translation from Dioscorides by
John Goodyear. Dioscorides wrote that this bitter tasting strongly scented liquid had “the power of
binding or procuring sleep, of drying, of thickening bodies, and loosening of ye belly and of cleansing of ye stomach”. In addition “it stops ye spitting of blood and it cleanseth ye icterus (liver)” and finally, “it
properly healeth exulterated genitalls”. Dioscorides wrote De Materia Medica from which this was
translated in AD7O-90. In this treatise he catalogued and described more than 600 plants and plant
principles.
 Dioscorides certainly got it right when it came to treating genital lesions as a most recent paper by Dr T A
Syed et al, published last year, showed that a topical 0.5% Aloe Vera extract in a randomised double blind
trial, significantly healed the lesions of genital herpes faster than a control, and prevented recurrence.

Traders first brought Aloe to London in 1693 and, by 1843, 4,227 gourds were being imported each year.
Although physicians had prescribed Aloe for more than 2,000 years, it was not until 1851 that T & H.
Smith of Edinburgh discovered Aloin, which they believed in small doses acted as a tonic assisting
digestion and exerting a special influence on the liver. In larger doses it became a strong laxative.
Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries Aloe remained one of the more popular prescribed and over the counter medicines.

The presence or absence of Aloin in modern Aloe Vera products is a controversial issue. Some companies
filter it out, whereas others leave a little in, so I will look at this closely in the section on Anthraquinones,
in which chemical group it falls.
 THE PLANT AND ITS STRUCTURE

In order to understand Aloe Vera's ability to act as a medicinal herb one must have some knowledge of its
general structure and the contents of the leaves. So, first let us look at it from a botanical point of view
and see where it fits into the plant kingdom.

Description

Aloe Vera is a succulent belonging to the lily family (Liliacae). In this family there are about 3,700
species of flowering plants, but also included are garlic, onion and asparagus of which the former is also
accredited medicinal properties. Aloe Vera itself, forms part of a subspecies (the Aloinae) of which there
are at least 200 to 300 types. No one seems to know exactly how many there are.
Most species are non-toxic but there are about 15 poisonous ones containing a deadly hemlock-like
substance - the method chosen by Socrates to commit suicide.

Of the true Aloes there are probably only four or five with documented medicinal benefits. These are:

1. Aloe Barbadensis Miller sometimes called: Aloe Linne or Aloe Vulgaris or the Curacao Aloe.
2. Aloe Perryi Baker, the Socotrine Aloe or Zanzibar Aloe.

3. Aloe Ferox often called Cape Aloe
 4. The last two and least popular are Aloe Arborescens and Aloe Saponaria which are mainly used
in Japan.

Of all of these, Aloe Barbadensis Miller is the most potent and is the one generally used in commercial
preparations in the UK and USA.
It is really the only species that should be called Aloe Vera and this name should really be reserved
exclusively for the barbadensis Miller variety. This is because it was first referred to by this name in a
South African publication “Flora Indira” by N L Burman in 1768. This description preceded the
publication of Miller's dictionary by at least ten days! This gives it priority.
The species is indigenous to Africa, but these plants have become widely distributed both in the Near and
Far East as well as the West Indies (Aloe Vera arrived on the Caribbean island of Barbados in about
1650), and the drier parts of Europe such as Spain.
 Aloe Vera thrives in warm, rather arid areas. Its one great enemy is frost, so it grows well as a pot plant in
the home, but not outside. If you have one growing on your window-sill, when you next get a bite, a sting
or a burn, just cut off a leaf and squeeze the gel out on to the painful area and rub it in. Feel the 'First Aid
Plant' at work!

The Structure

The plant takes four to five years to reach maturity when its leaves, which grow from a short stem, are
about 60 cm (2 feet) in length and about 8-10 cm (3-4 inches) wide at the base. The leaves taper to a point
and possess soft marginal spines. If the stem is cut transversely the leaves can be seen to be growing in a
rosette pattern.

From the middle of the mass of dark-green leaves, the flower stem develops reaching about 90 cm (3 feet)
in length and has long, rather tubular yellow flowers. At the base of the mother plant little'suckers', or 'pups', grow which are easily separated to make new cuttings. The plant can also reproduce by cross
fertilisation. In the wild the method of pollination is often by humming birds.

Aloe Vera, being a perennial, has the life span of about twelve years, but the leaves are usually harvested
at about three to four years of age. When the outer leaves are harvested, possibly up to three times a year,
the plant is able to'seal' itself against water loss. This protective habit is peculiar to succulents. Within a
few seconds of the wound being inflicted it films over and during the next few minutes a rubber-like protective coating stops further loss of sap, so the stem does not become dessicated and continues to live.
In a short time the wound heals completely. No wonder it's called the Wand of Heaven!

Inside the Leaf

The structure Of the Aloe leaf (seen below in cross-section) shows the outer-rind about fifteen cell layers
thick. This is dark-green in colour and has a hard, waxy surface. The hardness is due to the large amounts
of calcium and magnesium present in it. The greenness comes from chlorophyll which uses sunlight,
carbon dioxide and water to manufacture the Aloe Vera gel. Below the rind are vascular bundles, or tubes,
of xylem and phloem. The xylem transports water and minerals from the roots upwards into the leaves, providing ingredients for the manufacturing process.

The phloem transports the synthesised materials down to the roots and other parts of the leaf. Small
pericyclic tubules connect these, and larger tubules running lengthwise down the leaf take nourishment to
the young 'pups'. Next comes a mucilage layer of long, chain polysaccharides, (the relevance of which
will be discussed later), forming a container to hold the inner parenchyma or gel. It also maintains the sterility of the inner gel.

When a leaf is cut and held up, sap will quickly drain out of the larger tubules and, if this were used on its
own, it would provide a stunning laxative, because it is composed largely of anthraquinones which we
will look at in the next section.

The leaf and Its contents

In analysing the contents of the leaf, I shall be looking at the three essential ingredients:

- the sap
- the mucilage - the parenchymatous


OURSE  XXII  347
With  great  firmness  stand  by the Power  of your  Life,
to which  you  have  not  heretofore  given  very  much  con-
sideration.  You  have  accepted  It constantly  in the  small
part of It which  has been  flowing  forth  into  your  world  of
action;  because,  unless  you  know  the  Source  of a thing,
unless  you  know  the Power  which  is there,  how  can  you
have  its use?
If you  have  a piece  of machinery  in the  mechanical
world;  and  it has many  levers,  setting  certain  parts  of that
machinery  into  operation;  if you  pull  the wrong  lever,  you
will get a wrong  result;  but if you  understand  your  levers
and pull  the right  one,  you  will  have  the exact  result  you
expect.  It is identically  the same  way  in applying  the Great
Laws  of Life!  Once  you  understand,  you  have  the Author-
ity to act in the human  octave  in your  human  form,  to call
forth  the  Power  of Life,  to produce  Harmony  and  Per-
fection  in you  and  your  world,  then  you  are complying
with  the Law  of Life  and  Its Requirement.  As you  go on,
continuing  to call It forth,  clearer  and  clearer  will  come  the
Understanding  from  within  you,  of what  This  Application
means  in the Requirement  of your  Life.  Then,  as you  un-
derstand  more  and  more,  the  Power  released  is greater;
your  confidence  is strengthened,  and  you  say:  well  I accom-
plished  that!  Then  you  go on, and  on, from  one  achieve-
ment  to another.
Beloved  People  of America,  and  Beloved  "I AM"  Stu-
dents,  you  have  nothing  in the future  to fear,  not one thing!
In This  Understanding  of the Law  of Life,  you  become 348 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
Master  and  Controller  of the ENERGY  which  flows  forth
at your  command.  I say,  "at your  Command,"  because  you
are the Decreer  for your  world,  as to where  and  how  that
energy  is going  to act.  At your  Command,  the Power  of
the Energy  of Life,  will  flow  forth  to a given  objective;  if
you understand  the Power  of Concentration  and  the need
of holding  your  attention  upon  your  Goal!
Perhaps  you  do not  realize  and  understand  that  your
concentration  is your  attention!  When  you  hold  your  atten-
tion fixed  upon  a given  objective  to be attained,  the Power
of Life  flows  thru,  with  Its Infinite  Irresistible  Power  and
acts,  until  you  have  the results,  you  desire.  That  is why  your
fixed  attention  upon  a thing,  understanding  the Power  of
Life,  will  release  the  Infinite  Power  of action  there;  the
Power,  Substance  and  Intelligence  to constantly  govern  the
activity,  until  the result  is attained.
When  you  wish  to accomplish  a thing,  decide  upon  what
you want  to do; so far as your  outer  intelligence  will  in-
struct  you!  If you  are uncertain  in any  way,  call the Power
of your  "Mighty  I AM  Presence,"  which  is your  Individ-
ualized  Presence  of God—the  Presence  of Life,  into  action
to instruct  you;  to stand  by and  see that  you  do the RIGHT
THING,  if there  seems  to be a lack  of understanding  in
the outer  consciousness!  You  are not taking  chances.  You
are not dealing  with  indefinite  results;  but you  are the DI-
RECTOR  OF  THE  ENERGY,  to produce  the certain  re-
sult you  require.
If you  will  do this,  any  one can prove  This  Great  Law  to DISCOURSE  XXIII  349
himself  or herself;  and  to the whole  world;  because  you
are a Part  of the Great  Life  and  Its Mighty  Activity  in the
human  octave.  All human  forms  which  are here  in em-
bodiment  at one time,  are a Part  of the One  Great  Life,  and
Its Mighty  Action!  To the degree  Individuals  understand
how  to call  forth  the Greater  Power  and  Action  of Life,
will they  become  a GREATER  PART  IN THE  EXPAN-
SION  OF THAT  ONE  GREAT  LIFE.
I ask  you  to observe  the  vast  number  of mankind  on
Earth  and  how  each  one  is different.  No one has identically
the same  desire;  no two  are just  alike.  Then,  you  can  see
how  earnestly  Life  has tried  to find  a means  of expression;
to pour  Its Perfection  into  the Earth,  where  mankind  hav-
ing forgotten  Life,  has  charged  and  filled  its atmosphere
with  discord,  limitations  and  distress  of every  kind!
Mankind  had  wholly  forgotten  there  was  an Individ-
ualized  Great  Presence  of Life,  and  how  each  one  could
call and  release  a Greater  Power,  a Greater  Intelligence!
People  did not know  it was  possible.  Even  with  all the at-
tempts  which  have  been  made  to instruct  mankind  in the
Higher  Ideals  of understanding,  still  the people  felt a mys-
terious  condition;  that  it had  to be done  in some  compli-
cated  manner;  so Individuals  might  seek  from  another,
some  peculiar  manifestation  of the  Explanation  of Life!
That  is where  the confusion  of mankind  has come  in, con-
cerning  the Entire  Universe.  In fact,  It was  so simple  the
mass  of mankind  has not believed  It.
In the Application  of Life,  again  it is simple,  but  very 350 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
Powerful  and  Majestic  in Its Action,  and  will  produce  exact
results.  Therefore,  if you  want  to be Free,  first  you  must
keep  yourself  obedient  to Life,  which  is Harmony.  That
is the Out-pouring  of Divine  Love,  thru  the  Individual.
The human  cannot  generate  Divine  Love;  because  it is
charged  with  human  qualities;  but  in its capacity  to call
forth  from  the  Presence,  Life's  Power—which  is Wholly
Pure  and  Perfect—the  outer  self  can  call  and  send  forth
in a Mighty  Stream  of Action,  by currents  of Energy—the
Power  of Divine  Love,  which  harmonizes  each  one's  world!
It prepares  the way  for the Great  Intelligence  of Life,  to
bring  about  conditions  to produce  the  Perfection  the  In-
dividual  requires!
Therefore,  if you  want  to understand  This,  try it out!  If
you do not succeed  to your  fullest  desire,  remember  a great
city is not built  in a day!  You  are a World  within  yourself.
Beloved  Individuals,  do you quite  understand  that ? You  are
an Individualized  World  within  yourself,  within  your  own
feeling  world  and  its capacity.  Therefore,  when  you  turn
to the Presence  of Life,  with  the desire  to perfect  yourself,
you are perfecting  the World!
You might  say to Me—my  world  is of small  dimension
—but  who  shall  say how  far reaching  that  world  of yours
will become  or how  it will  expand ? You  are One  in Life


 to
be acceptable and good.
   Grains were known to be good food. Human teeth were not capable of properly
crushing them. Artificial methods came into  use. The crushing of wheat between two
stones relieved the human teeth of much of their natural function. Elaboration on this principle led to the development of wheat flour as we know it today. Modern milling
has robbed food of certain valuable ingred ients. The sweetness of fruits was acceptable
and valuable to our early ancestors, but chemistry concentrated the sweetness and
cheapened it so that sugar became a universal food.
   In the development of these two foods much was left out, and we now know that some
of the things omitted were and are necessary to optimum functioning of life processes.
In an effort to make foods more acceptable to the taste and to keep food supplies over the winter's season, sterilization by heat and the exclusion of microorganisms brought
about the conditions which resulted in the canning industry. The factory production of
sugar has robbed another class of food of valuable ingredients. Canning has also
contributed to the deficiency picture by robbing certain foods of valuable chemical elements.
   When these changes in food were first developed, no one believed that anything was
being done which was detrimental to our food supply. But now it is well known that factory processes--heating, canning, and ster ilizing--have a definitely bad effect, and
that this bad effect is the removing of certain health promoting elements which formerly
existed in the natural food. The question then  arises--What are these elements, and what
has their absence from modern food done to the average so-called civilized individual?
   Before discussing the individual elements that are lacking in modern foods, we should
understand that most of our thinking processes are on the basis of relativity. Do we
know whether a child in school is a normal, healthy child or not? Do we know that a
boy on a football team in college is a normal, healthy individual or not? Do we know a
private in the army who has passed the physical examinations is a normal, healthy
individual? Is the doctor who writes your pres cription a healthy or a diseased person? Is
your minister, your grocer, your secretary, a normal, healthy individual? It is quite
obvious that the standards of the present time are wrong standards. We have been afflicted by mass diseases for so many decades that the average layman and the average
doctor, and quite obviously the average dentist, does not know what is normal.
   The standards of the present time have been built up from population averages, just as
the standards of the insurance companies have been compounded of groups of
policyholders. Both of these are false standards, but standards of groups of human individuals "as is." In the future when the human family takes advantage of the
scientific aids to optimum health now available, the standards will be quite different. A
decayed tooth will be looked upon as a very rare disease. Persons will not be afflicted
with arthritis or neuritis before the advan ced ages. Most of the chronic diseases that
afflict middle-aged persons at the present time will have disappeared.

  CHAPTER II
WHY WE MUST HAVE VITAMINS
   The young animal coming into the world receives a diet of milk. The milk contains
fats, proteins, sugars, and minerals. With the exception of water, the needs of the young
animal are completely supplied by this one food. After a certain time, in order to
develop properly, the young animal must provide himself with other foods. One of the
first needs is food that contains iron, as  Nature supplies the young animal with iron
enough to last only a few months. Milk supplies calcium for the growing bones of the young, and must also supply protein for building muscle, brain, and other bodily
structures. The milk supplies certain elements which convey the ability to resist
infections. The most common of these is vitami n A which is to be found in the fat in the
milk. The protein elements in the milk ca rry all of the vitamins of the vitamin B
complex. The milk contains some vitamin C and perhaps, if the mother has been exposed to sunshine during her period of pregnancy, the milk contains the bone-
building element, vitamin D. The young animal, then, receives from his parents the
vitamins necessary to life--the sugars constituting a good part of the solid material in the
milk. The sugars are burned to supply energy.
   In the early months and years of life, the young animal is exposed to various types and
kinds of infections. The only way in which the organism is enabled to resist such
infections is through the optimum functi oning of the various glands, and the proper
working out of body chemistry. It is a fact that well-fed animals survive exposure to
infections which readily kill animals which are not thus well nourished.
   While the functions of various vitamins and minerals overlap to a very great degree,
there is to some extent a specific action, and this specific action has much to do with
ability or lack of ability to resist infections. Vitamin A, for instance, has something to do with protecting eyes from infections. The person who is lacking in vitamin A may
develop a mild or severe eye infection, depending on the degree of the deficiency. The
severe infection will inevitably lead to such  destruction of the eye tissues as to produce
permanent blindness. Deficiency eye diseases are the best examples of infections built
up on a deficiency basis.
   For years the scientific men of the orient debated the question as to whether beriberi
was a mild infection of the nervous system, or an outright lack of building material necessary for nerve tissue. It is now quite apparent that the symptoms are those of a
low-grade infection superimposed on diet deficiency. In the case of scurvy, it is not the
same problem as in the past. It was formerly thought that lack of vitamin C was a lack
of actual building material. The person with advanced scurvy has for years had the
symptom of leakage of blood vessels under the skin. It was thought that the leakage was due to the fact that the cement substance in the walls of the capillaries was lacking to
such a degree that the blood oozed out between the poorly cemented cell walls. Whether
or not there is some lack of building material we do not know. It is evident that leakage
does take place, but it is also evident that low-grade painful infections run concurrently with the progress of the disease.
   The most apparent of these infections take place in the mouth. The person with scurvy
has infections existing in the gums, and the infections are those of the common pus-producing types of microorganisms. In other words, here as in deficiency diseases of the
eye, there are innumerable evidences of inf ection eagerly crowding in on tissues which
have lost their defenses on account of certain vitamin starvation. Lack of vitamin A and vitamin B and vitamin C opens the door to the entrance of infectious disease of, the eye,
the nervous system, and the mouth. Apparently the processes move up and down like
the arms of a scale. As vitamin and mineral intake is up, infection is down. As vitamin
and mineral intake is down, infection is up.
   Vitamin D is the substance necessary to the proper building of teeth and bones.
Whether a lack of vitamin D is accompanied by some sort of low-grade infection, we do
not know. Apparently the disease produced by lack of vitamin D is purely a chemical reaction; but while vitamin D has been thought of as simply a protector of bone and
teeth, its effect is apparent in other parts of the body. Undoubtedly there is a relation
between this vitamin and protection from infections. This was one of the earliest facts
discovered in connection with vitamins.
   It is now well known that exposure to sunshine protects the individual from
tuberculosis. Exposure to sunshine is the best way of getting vitamin D. The short
waves of light from the sun acting on the ergosterol in the skin produce vitamin D.
These short waves penetrate the cornea and the other transparent structures of the eye;
impinge directly through the transparen t blood vessels of the retina, and produce
vitamin D by direct action on the blood stream in that manner. So even with the body completely covered up with clothing, a person outdoors in sunshine will receive some
vitamin D through the eyes.
   Tuberculosis is a virulent and stubborn infection. However, early cases treated with
vitamin D alone (exposure to sunshine) may be cured. Apparently the only persons who
do develop tuberculosis are those who are lacking in vitamin D. We must conclude,
then, that the effect of vitamin D is not comple tely a chemical effect, but that it is also a
highly infection-resisting life element.
   In the breaking up of the vitamin B complex, several new vitamins. have been
discovered. The first of these is riboflavin. It has been found to be necessary for the existence of every cell in the body. Clinically, the reduction in the amount of riboflavin
results in sores developing in and around the mouth. These sores are actually small
ulcers, and are associated with infectious mi croorganisms. In other words, infections of
the lips and mouth occur in the persons who are deficient in riboflavin. Some kind of a
barrier has been broken down in the person who is deficient, which allows these germs to flourish and to produce ulcers and sores in this part of the anatomy. Here again is
illustrated in a specific way infection intruding itself immediately


 one
wants to be and even prete nds to be, so that on the surface of
consciousness the ego becomes almost convinced of being theidealized self-image. This surface conviction is constantly
counteracted by the unconscious knowledge that this image is
untrue, with the result that secretly the whole personality feels
fraudulent and terried of exposure. It is a signicant sign of self-
acceptance and growth when a human being is capable of allowing
the egotistical, irrational, outright destructive part to manifest in the
inner awareness, and acknowledges it in all its specic detail. This
alone will prevent a dangero us indirect  manifestation of which the
person’s consci ousness is not aware because it is not connected with
it, so that the undesirable results seem to come from outside.
So the conscious ego has to reach down and say, “Whatever is in
me, whatever is hidden that I ought to know about myself, whatever
negativity and destructiveness there is should be out in the open. I
want to see it, I commit myself to seeing it, regardless of the hurt to
my vanity. I want to be aware of how I deliberately refuse to see my
part wherever I am stuck, and how I therefore overconcentrate on
the wrongs of others.” This is one direction for meditation.
The other direction must be toward the universal higher self,
which has powers that surpass the limitations of the conscious self.
These higher powers should  also be called upon to expose the
destructive little self, so that resistance can be overcome. The ego-
will alone may be incapa ble of accomplishing this, but your
conscious self-determining ego can and must request the higher
powers to help. The universal consciousness should also be asked to
help you to understand the expressions of the destructive infant
correctly, without exaggeration, so that you do not go from ignoring
it to making it a monster. A person can easily uctuate from an
outer self-aggr andizement to a hidden, inner self-deprecat ion. When
the destructive infant reveals itself, one could fall prey to believing
that this destructive self is the ultimate, sad reality. For a complete
perspective on the revelation of the egotistic infant, one needs to ask
constantly the guidance of the universal self.
When the infant begins to express itself more freely because the
ego allows it and receives it as a non-judgmental, interested, open
listener, collect this material for further study. Whatever reveals
itself should be explored for origins, results, further ramications.Ask yourself what underlying misconceptions are responsible for the
hate, spite, malice, or whatever negative feelings come to the
surface. When the misconceptions are recognized, guilt and self-hate
diminish proportionately.
Another question to ask is, what are the consequences when for
the sake of a momentary satisfaction you give in to the destructive
impulses? When questions like these are clearly worked out, the
destructive aspects weak en—again in proportion to the
understanding of the particu lar cause and eect. Without this part
of the pathwork, the task is only half done. Meditation must deal
with the entire problem of unconscious negativity step by step.
The interaction is threefold. The observing ego must initially want it
and commit itself to reaching in and exposing the negat ive side. It
has also to ask for the help of the universal self. When the infant
reveals itself, the ego should  again  ask for the help of the universal
self to strengthen the consci ousness for the further work, which is
the exploration of the underlying misconceptions and the heavy
price paid for them. The universal self can help—if you allow it—to
overcome the temptation to give in again and again to destructive
impulses. Such giving in does not necessarily result in action, but
manifests in emotional attitudes.
The Meditative Attitude
Such meditation requires a great deal of time, patience,
perseverance, and determination. Remember that wherever you are
unfullled, wherever there are problems, wherever there is conict
in your life, your attitude should not be to concentrate with woe on
others or circumstances outside your control, but to reach into
yourself and explore the causes embedded in your own egocentric
childish level. Meditation is an absolute prerequisite here: It means
ingathering yourself;  calmly, quietly wanting to know the truth of this
particular circumstance and its causes. Then you need to quietly
wait for an answer. In this state of mind, peace will come to you even
before you fully understand why you have a particular negativity.This truthful approach to life will already give you a measure of the
peace and self-respect you lacked as long as you held others
responsible for what you had to suer.
If such meditation is cultivated, you will discover a side of
yourself that you have never  known. In fact, you will come to know
two aspects: The highest universal powers will communicate
themselves to you to help you discover your most destructive,
ignorant side, which needs insight, purication, and change.
Through your willingness to accept your lower self, the higher self
will become more of a real presence in you. In fact, you will
increasingly experience it as your real self.
Many people meditate, but they neglect the two-sidedness of the
endeavor and therefore miss out on integration. They may indeed
actualize some of the universal powers that come into play
wherever the personality is suciently free, positive, open, but the
unfree, negative, closed areas are neglected. The actualized
universal powers will not, by themselves, enforce an integration
with the undeveloped part of the self. The conscious ego-self must
decide for this integration and ght for it, otherwise the universal
self cannot get through to the blocked-o areas. Partial integration
alone with the universal self may lead to even greater self-deception
if the consciousness is deluded by the actually existing partial
integration with divine powers and becomes even more  prone to
overlook the neglected side. This makes for lopsided development.
The Changes Eected by the Pathwork Meditation
When you go through the entire process, a tremendous
strengthening of your whole self takes place. Several things begin to
happen within  your personality, my friends. In the rst place, your
conscious ego-personality itself becomes stronger and healthier. It
will be stronger in a good, relaxed sense, with more determination,
awareness, meaningful directedness and a greater power of
concentration with one-pointed attention. Second, you will cultivate
a much greater self-acceptance and understanding of reality. Unrealself-hate and self-disgust will go away. Equally unreal claims for
specialness and perfection also stop. False spiritual pride and vanity
as well as false self-humiliation and shame disappear. Through the
steady activati on of the higher powers, the self feels less and less
forlorn, helpless, lost, hopel ess, or empty. The whole sense of the
universe in all its marvelous possibilities reveals itself from within,
as the reality of this wider world shows you the way to accept and
change your destructive inner child.
This gradual change enables  you to accept all your feelings and
let the energy ow through your being. When you accept your
small, petty, mean side without thinking that it is the total, nal
reality, then the beauty, love, wisdom, and innite power of the
superior self become more real. Dealing with your lower self leads
to balanced development, integration, and a deep, reassuring sense
of your own reality. Realistic, well-founded self-liking must result.
When you see the truth in yourself and it becomes second nature
to want and commit yourself to this truth, you will detect an ugly
side in you, which until this point you were too resistant to see.
Simultaneously, you also detect this great, universal, spiritual power
that is in you and that in fact is you. Paradoxical as it may seem, the
more you can accept the mean little creature, the ignorant little
infant in you without losing your sense of self-worth, the better you
will perceive the greatness of your innermost being, provided you
truly do not use your discoveries about the little self to beat yourself
down. The lower self wants to seduce the conscious ego to stay
within the narrow connes of neurotic self-beating, hopelessness,
and morbid capitulation, which always cover unexpress ed hatred.
The conscious  ego must prevent this stratagem using all its
knowledge and resources. Observe this habit of self-beating,
hopelessness, and capitulation in yourself and counteract it—not by
pushing it underground again, but by using what you know. Talking
to this part of yourself you can bring to bear on it all the knowledge
of your conscious ego. If this is not sucient, request the powers
beyond your consciousness to come to your help.
As you get to know both the lowest and the highest in you, you
discover the function, the capacities, but also the limitations of theconscious ego. On the conscious level the ego’s function is wanting
to see the full truth of both the lowest and highest in you, wanting
with all of its strength to change and give up destructiv eness. The
limitation is that the ego-consciousness cannot


-known Natural Hygienist, describes how fasting works in his book Program for Dynamic Health:‘Natural Hygiene offers supervised bed rest and fasting in a calm, quiet environment as the most effective, efﬁcient and sensible means of dealing with (most) illness and disease.It is obvious and provable that healing (and getting well) is a normal activity of the body.  When you burn, bruise or cut yourself or when a surgeon operates or sets a broken bone, it is the body that heals itself, not the bandage, stitches, cast nor the surgeon.  Healing is a normal body process which goes on all the time in relation to the amount of energy available for it.The body only has so much energy available to do all the things it has to do.  The amount of energy consumed in physical movement each day is signiﬁcant.  The energy used in eating, digesting, absorbing and assimilating food is tremendous.  Bed rest and fasting allow the body to save all this energy and use it to repair tissue, restore function and ‘clean house’ in general.’Water fasting, when done properly, can open up doors to a whole new level of health.  It is truly an amazing experience and will deﬁnitely lead to a new respect and awareness for the body’s innate ability to heal itself.Introduction to Water Fasting
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!7WATER FASTING IS NATURAL AND SAFEThe initial reaction of many people when they hear about water fasting for the ﬁrst time is ‘that’s not healthy’ or ‘that can’t be natural’ or ‘that sounds extreme and dangerous.’  It is very common to see people resist the idea.  One thing to recognize is that all animals in nature fast when they are sick.  They ﬁnd a place to hide and rest and they do not eat until they feel better.  It’s a natural instinct for them, as it should be for humans.  Except humans have been re-conditioned by western medicine and drugs companies to believe the ‘pill for every ill’ theory.  By now people should be well aware of the fallacy of that claim.When animals fast, they don’t take supplements or wheatgrass shots or juices; they simply drink water and naturally abstain from all food until they feel well.  Little did we know how intelligent they really are, to rest and let the body heal itself!  We have much to learn still.It is important to prepare the body well for a water fast, being sure that there are no mineral deﬁciencies, cleaning the colon with some intestinal cleansing and then moving gently into pure water by drinking only juices for a number of days.  If someone is extremely toxic from a typical Standard American Diet and they have never done any type of cleansing before, then they are not a safe candidate for water fasting.  They would need to do a lot of gentle cleansing ﬁrst, build up their mineral and vitamin reserves and ensure an alkaline pH at the very least.  The point is not to suffer through the process, Introduction to Water Fasting
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!8rather to create a safe, comfortable, stress-free environment for the body to fully rest, re-balance, re-charge and heal.Water fasting is certainly not a new concept or some type of ‘fad’ diet.  Almost all the great spiritual leaders including Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed and Gandhi practiced fasting.  Susan Schenck in the book The Live Food Factor writes:‘The Bible mentions fasting 74 times.  Moses, David, Elijah, Jesus and others mentioned in the Bible fasted for as long as 40 days and 40 nights, a length commonly referred to as the master’s fast.  During the Golden Age of Greece, the great philosopher Pythagoras required his disciples to fast for 40 days before being initiated into the mysteries of spiritual teachings.  Plato, Socrates and Aristotle also required their students to take fasts.  They believed only through fasting could the mind be puriﬁed enough to understand the deep teachings of life’s mysteries.’Water fasting is not recommended for everyone.  Clearly it is not a good idea for pregnant women and for people with certain types of cancers or heavy metal toxicity.  If you have certain medical conditions which require medication, you may need to seriously consider the safety of doing a water fast for you.  If your life is extremely stressful and you cannot create a quiet, peaceful space for yourself, then it may not be the right time for you to try a fast.  If Introduction to Water Fasting
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!9you have any doubts or fears about water fasting, it is also not recommended.  For a longer fast and ﬁrst-time faster, I would always advise that one be supervised by an experienced professional.WATER FASTING IS NOT STARVATIONIt is very important to understand the difference between starvation and water fasting.  Starvation occurs when an individual is denied all access to food without a choice, usually under extremely stressful conditions.  The body is often already under-nourished, lacking minerals and in an acidic condition.  This is not a state where any healing whatsoever can take place.Water fasting is done as a personal choice, in a safe, restful and peaceful environment.  The individual has already prepared the body physically and mentally and is fully nourished with a complete reserve of vitamins and minerals.  In these conditions, the body can easily turn it’s energies inward and go into a very deep and profound type of healing.WHAT TYPE OF WATER IS BESTThis is a very common question for people considering doing their own water fast, and there are a few different opinions out there.  Many experts will advise using distilled water for a water fast.  There is an interesting book about the beneﬁts of distilled water by Norman Walker called ‘Water can undermine or save your health!’ which I recommend if you are Introduction to Water Fasting
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!10interested to learn more about distilled water vs. other types of water (mineral, ﬁltered, salt, etc).  At a minimum, it is essential not to drink water with any chlorine or ﬂuoride in it.  I did my fasts in Thailand, a country with beaches, a warm climate and nice, inexpensive accommodation. However, there is no access to distilled water, so I chose to buy the best quality mineral water I could buy, and I used that for the duration of my water fast.In my case, I bought a glass pitcher and I ﬁlled the bottom of the pitcher with a few pieces of rose quartz, amethyst and clear quartz.  I would then transfer the mineral water into the pitcher, and I would drink the water from there.  The crystals help to energize the water with the natural frequencies of Mother Earth. Particularly those crystals help to amplify a sense of calm, peace, clarity and love.HOW LONG TO WATER FASTThe length of your water fast really depends on your personal goals for what you are trying to achieve with your health and your spirit.  Initially I would recommend that anyone new to water fasting just try to do 3 days and 3 nights on pure water.  This is a gentle introduction and will give you an idea of what to expect.  3 days is very safe for the body and you really cannot do any damage even if you break the fast incorrectly.Next time, you may plan to try for 7-10 days of only water to experience a slightly longer fast.  Remember, you have have plenty of time to achieve a long fast.  It is better to prepare slowly and gently and really be ready for Introduction to Water Fasting
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!11a long fast.  Rushing into the deep end is not going to help you in the long run.The goal of doing shorter fasts is to train yourself mentally and physically for a positive experience.  Also it gives you an opportunity to break the fast properly - believe me, that is equally as important as the fast itself.  When you feel conﬁdent with your skills and knowledge, you will be ready to try a fast of 14 days or more.WEIGHT LOSSClearly you will experience weight loss during a water fast, and at a much faster rate than during a juice fast.  On average, a person will lose 1/2 pound or 1/4 kilogram per day.  You can expect to gain some of that weight back as soon as you start eating again, but if you break your fast well and maintain a healthy diet after the fast, you can keep at least 40% of the lost weight off.HUNGERMany people worry about hunger during a water fast, and they fear that they would be far too hungry to ever get past one day.  Usually a person may feel some mild hunger pains in the ﬁrst 24-36 hours of the fast, and after that the hunger subsides.  True!  At that point, the body will turn to it’s natural fat reserves and start metabolizing and feeding from it’s own fat.  This is completely natural and is how the body is meant to perform!  Fat is not supposed to be stored in Introduction to Water Fasting
!www.healthybliss.net!!!!!!!!!12huge excess on the body, weighing down the structure, putting stress on the organs and muscles.  It is there as a fuel, a food that the body can use when in need.  When the body goes into this mode, all hunger subsides.  Do you really think bears hibernate all winter feeling hungry?The human body can safely exist for 40 days without any food.  THE ULTIMATE FASTWater


ated cocoanut and sugar. Berries of any kind
may be used instead of larger fruit. Frost the top lightly with
cocoanut and sugar. Eat with or without whipped cream.

CRUSHED STRAWBERRIES.
Where strawberries are small or inferior in appearance
they may be crushed, sweetened and mixed with the beaten
whites of two or three eggs. Berries and eggs should first be
thoroughly chilled on ice, then served as soon as mixed.

STRAWBERRIES AND ORANGES.
Cover a quart of ripe strawb erries with powdered sugar.
Pour over them half a teacupful of orange juice and serve at
once. This is very delicious.

STRAWBERRIES AND WHIPPED CREAM.
Select nice, ripe, sweet berries, wash thoroughly, then
cap and put first a layer of berries, then powdered sugar, until
the dish is filled, and cover with whipped cream; beaten
together with the whites of two eggs and a spoonful of
powdered sugar.

PEARS AND CREAM.
Take ripe, mellow pears. Peel and slice them, and
sprinkle lightly with powdered sugar. Just before serving add
a spoonful of whipped cream to each dish.

PEACH AND APPLE MUXIT.
(Mellow Apples, Ripe Peaches, Ground Nuts.) Slice very
thinly mellow apples. Put in a salad bowl. Crush half as many
very ripe peaches which mix with whipped cream. Cover
apples with this and serve. A few ground nuts can be added
with marked improvement in nutritive value.
 FRUIT MEDLEY.
Cut a hole in the stem end of an orange large enough to
admit a spoon, and after the inside  is taken out fill the orange
with small bits of pineapple, ba nanas, oranges, apples, raisins,
but before serving, grape or fruit juice of any kind poured
over it will improve it. Sugar may be added if desired.

FRUIT DESSERT.
 Oranges,   Cocoanut,
Whipped Cream.
Cut sweet oranges in small pieces, grate the cocoanut;
put a layer of each until the dish is well filled, and cover with
whipped cream.

AMBROSIA.
 Oranges,   Malaga Grapes,
 Bananas,   Cocoanut,
 Cocoanut,   Dates,
 Pineapple,   Nuts.
Slice bananas and cut in small pieces the other fruits,
removing the seeds from grapes. Put a layer of each until the
dish is filled. Then cover the top well with grated cocoanut,
and a few nut meats.

BANANAS AND CREAM.
There is nothing more nutritious and delicious than a
very ripe banana sliced with dates and nuts and served with
thick cream.

FIG BUTTER.
Select nice fresh figs and grind them. This makes a
delicious butter. Served with unfired wafers and cream cheese
is very delicious.

DATE AND NUT BUTTER.
Dates and nuts ground together make a very delicious
butter or paste.

SNOW PUDDING.
 Jelly Powder,   6 Eggs,
Cream.
Prepare one package of jelly powder. Then take thev
whites of six eggs stiffly beaten, and thoroughly beat into the
jelly when partly cool. Set on ice until ready to serve. Serve
with thick cream.
 GRAPE TRIFLE.
 Grapes,   Vanilla,
 Sugar,   Cream.
Put through a sieve two pounds ripe grapes; add sugar to
taste. Put into a glass dish and cover with whipped cream
flavored with vanilla. Serve very cold.

ALMOND CUSTARD.
 ½ box Jelly Powder,  4 tablespoons Sugar,
 1 pint Rich Milk,   1 tablespoon Bitter Almond,
 2 Eggs,  1 cup  Whipped Cream.
Prepare jelly powder. Then dissolve in one pint of warm,
rich milk. Add two well-beaten eggs, one tablespoon of sugar
and one tablespoon extract of bitter almond; to this add one
cup of whipped cream, and beat lightly. Pour into a deep
glass dish, and when set place a few blanched almonds or
pecans over the top and serve.

FRUIT AND NUT  MEDLEY.
 Bananas,   Oranges,
 Pineapples,   Dates,
Pecans.
Slice bananas, cut oranges and pineapple in small pieces.
Take the stones out of dates and put a layer of each until the
dish is filled, and a few nut meats on top. This makes a very
pretty and delicious dish.

LEMON TRIFLE.
 Lemons,   Grape Juice,
 Sugar,   Cream,
Nutmeg.
Two lemons, juice of both and grated rind of one, a scant
cup of sugar, I cup grape juice, I pint of cream, whipped stiff
and sweetened, a little nutmeg. Strain the lemon before
adding the grape juice and nutmeg. Whip gradually into the
whipped cream. Serve in glasses. Soon after it is made it
should be eaten.

A SIMPLE DESSERT.
 Eggs,   Peaches,
 Sugar,   Dates,
Cream.
Beat the whites of six eggs in to a very stiff froth, then
add gradually 6 tablespoonfuls powdered sugar, beating at
least 15 minutes. Then beat in one heaping tablespoonful of
fresh peaches (mashed) and as ma ny seedless raisins or dates
cut fine. Serve with thick cream.
 FRUIT AND NUT CUSTARD
 1 pint Milk,   2 oz Sugar,
 2 oz. Grape Juice,  Protoid nuts and Raisins,
Dessertspoonful Liquid Rennet.
Add grape juice, rennet and sugar to the milk, lukewarm.
Put nuts and raisins in custard cups. Pour the milk and
combination over it. Allow to cool. Serve with whipped
cream.

APPLE FROST.
 1 Cup of Cream,   1 Lemon,
 5 Eggs,   4 Apples (grated),
Jelly Powder.
Beat cream stiff, sweeten to taste. The whites of eggs
beaten lightly, to which add the juice of lemon, whip slowly
into this the cream. Have prepared three table-spoonfuls of
jelly powder and when nearly cooled mix all together, beating
thoroughly.

APPLE SNOW.
Peel and grate six nice apples, not too tart, and add the
well-whipped whites of three eggs; sweeten to taste. Beat
well until it is thoroughly mixed. Flavor with vanilla and
serve with sweet cream. Tahlman sweet apples preferred.

APPLES WITH OLIVE OIL.
Peel a ripe apple, cut in ei ghths or sixteenths, place in a
sauce dish and pour over it a few spoonfuls of olive oil. This,
eaten with nuts, makes a delicious breakfast.

APPLES.
The acid of apples is among the most healthful of
substances taken into the human stomach. It rouses the action
of the liver when torpid, and thus enables it to eliminate and
throw off the germs of bilious disorders and those of other
diseases arising from slow blood poison. They must also be
classed as among the most important and valuable of the
vegetable growths, especially for that class who work with
the brain.

ORANGES ICED.
These make a very ornamental dish, and can be used for
decorations. About eight fine sweet oranges should be peeled
and quartered, and a soft ic ing made of two pounds of
powdered sugar and the white of ten eggs. Each section
should be thoroughly dipped until  covered with icing, and
then strung on a thread and suspended in the oven or sunshine
to dry. Care should be take n not to have enough heat to
brown them, and if not thoroughly covered they should be
redipped. This is a very delicious and novel dish.
 RASPBERRIES ICED.
Beat the white of one egg and stir in with it two table-
spoonfuls of cold water. Immerse in this the raspberries one
by one; drain and roll them in finely powdered and sifted
sugar. Lay them on paper to dry,  and arrange them with other
fruits in a dessert dish. Time to dry, six or eight hours.

CURRANTS (No. 1.)
Mash a large cupful of ripe currants, squeeze through a
cloth strainer, sweeten the expressed juice, and pour over a
dish of whole currants. Serve very cold.

CURRANTS (No. 2.)
Select large bunches of ripe currants, dip in frothed white
of egg, roll in powdered suga r and serve on the stem. This
makes a beautiful table decoration.

PINEAPPLE.
(To Cut for Serving.)
Pare a pineapple so that the fruit shall be wasted as little
as possible, and in order to do this notch it, in and out, and
carefully remove all the specks and eyes. Pick the fruit from
the core with a silver fork in  pieces as large as a bean or shred
it on a slaw cutter. Place in a dish and set on ice until wanted.

PINEAPPLE.
(Served Whole.)
Where the pineapple


can know all the facts about gravity, but if we do not have an awareness of why gravity
works, we know nothing. We can know all the facts about electricity, and we can even use
electricity, but if we have no awareness of what electricity is and of why  it works, we know
nothing. We can know all the facts about light, and we can even use light, but if we have no
awareness of what light is and of why  it works, we know nothing.
Likewis e, we can know all the facts about change, but if we have no awareness of what
change is and of why  it occurs, we know nothing.
For instance, we may not know that...
NOTHING CHANGES FOR THE WORSE. EVERYTHING ONLY CHANGES FOR THE
BETTER.  That’s a pretty big statement, and I understand if it’s hard for you to believe. Yet it is
true. Let’s step back a little from this enormous idea and give it some basis in physics. Yes, I
said physics.
I have been saying that the mind is a mechanism. Now I want to say, so  is life. All of life is
a mechanism, and like all mechanisms, life operates on energy. Unlike most other
mechanisms, life is the energy on which life operates. That is, it feeds on itself.
And so, stars implode and entire star systems disappear into black  holes; and so,
earthquakes and tornadoes and hurricanes ravage the earth; and so, big fish consume little
fish; and so, humans are born, live their lives, and die —ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Yet the
energy of none of this —none of it — disappears, but mer ely changes form. Energy is never,
and can never be, lost; it can only be transformed.
It is through the transformation of energy that light is produced. It is through the
transformation of energy that heat is produced. It is through the transformation of energy
that electricity is produced. It is through the transformation of energy that gravity is
produced. It is through the transformation of energy that everything  is produced, including
Life itself.
Energy acts upon itself. The transformation of energy p roduces energy in formation.
Energy is life’s information. Life is always in formation. It is forever forming itself into
something it was not before it became what it is. It is through the becoming that life
breathes life into Life itself. In simple terms, this is called change.
Yes, there’s that word again... change.
That is what life is all about. Life nourishes life through the process of life itself, in which
life changes its form a hundred million times in the blink of an eye, a million  million tim es
in seconds, a billion  million times in a minute, and more times than Time itself can count in
the time that has passed since counting began.
Change for the worse  is literally impossible within the expression of energy that we call
Life. That’s because L ife itself can fundamentally alter itself in only one direction: the
direction that evolution requires; the direction that expansion demands, the direction that
keeps it flourishing. Things can only change for the better, things can only improve,
because “ improvement” is the only Nature of God.
Put another way, God has no intention of doing Itself in.
Life is God’s way of proving Itself to Itself. The process by which It does this is called
Improvement.
But wait a minute! Who even says there is a “God”?
I do. But I am not using the word God as many other people do. I do not use the word to
denote or describe a huge Super Being existing somewhere in the cosmos, exhibiting
proclivities and tendencies, needs and desires, frustrations and emotions identical to t hose
of humans. I am not talking about an Entity Divine who has needs that must be fulfilled or
else, who presumably has a temper (or, at least, a determination to punish those who
disobey), and who also has, presumably, a penis, and, presumably, fair skin, and,
presumably, no wife, but One Son.
This is not the God I am referring to when I use the word “God.”  I am referring to the Source of Supreme Intelligence manifesting itself as the Pure
Energy that we call Life itself. I am referring to the Largest Manifestation of a System That
Replicates Itself in Smaller and Smaller Versions through a Process That Empow ers the
System Itself to Exist and to Expand. I am talking about the biggest undifferentiated stem
cell in existence, from which life in all its forms emerges.
Indeed, in my understanding and experience the words “God” and “Life” are
interchangeable, and i n this equation evolution is the constant. It is the ever -present
mandate of Life itself. It is the continual, the unending adjustment, adaptation, and
alteration of All That Is. No adjustment, adaptation, or alteration contracts  Life, but can only
expand  it. No adjustment, adaptation, or alteration diminishes  Life, but can only enhance  it.
Life evolves to higher and higher levels of complexity. Life could not devolve  if it wanted
to. It is incapable of doing that.
Now, it is true that life can look like  it is devolving. Changes can look like  they are not “for
the better.” But, in fact, change can only be for the better or it would not occur. All spiritual
masters know this. That is why all spiritual masters teach, e ach in their own articulation...
... judge not by appearances.
Life is eternally functional, adaptable, and sustainable. These are the Basic Principles of
Life, and they cannot be violated or rendered in any way inoperable, or Life would cease to
be.
All of this becomes much easier for people to comprehend with my simple substitution
of the word God for the word Life. Suddenly, everything is made clear. God is eternally
Functional, Adaptable, and Sustainable. These are the Basic Principles of God, and they
cannot be violated or rendered in any way inoperable, or God would cease to be.
When human beings embrace the extraordinary idea presented here, the process of
change will be seen for what it is: the ultimate expression of Divinity Itself, sustaining Itself
through adaptations that render Itself eternally magnificent.
Change is an announcement of Life’s intention to go on. Change is the fundamental impulse
of Life itself.
Again I want to tell you that I don’t think that a lot of people see it this way.  If they saw it
this way they would heed the injunction of Christ, and “be not afraid.” Yet “ye of little faith”
are afraid. Thus it was that Franklin Roosevelt was moved to say, “We have nothing to fear
but fear itself.”
I’m going to take that one step fu rther. I’m going to say...
We have nothing to change but Change itself.
Today I awakened quieter than God
and stretched my Self toward the sky
to caress the celestial bodies
with the
Body of God  All night long
The Sun awaited my eyes.
And now that they are upon Her
She rises, as Divined as every siren
every muse
every
Body of God.
Even Ocean sways and rocks
in gentle wait for me to wake
even Moon
even Sky
even Silence
Even Silence awaits the Awakening of my voice
that will tenderly kiss Its body of sound s
still
in the Body of God.
—‘The Body of God’  © 2009 Em Claire  18.
THE SIXTH CHANGE
I HOPE YOU HAVE  considered The Fifth Change carefully, and that, given the information
and the insights you’ve received here, you feel that you can go ahead and embrace it, along
with Changes One, Two, Three, and Four.
I want to say that if there were one change on my list of nine that could do the work of
all the others, Change #5  would be it. This is a change that can change the way change is
experienced even as change is taking place. Isn’t that a change you would like to make?
Sure it is. We’d all like to make a change like that at times such as the moment you are
experiencing r ight now.
Now I know that the way you’d  like to change things is to change the fact that anything
changed at all! It may look as if you can be happy again only if you can change what
happened. But here’s the news: that’s not going to make you happy.
If kee ping things the way they were was going to keep things happy, what has just happened
wouldn’t have happened.
Now you might be able to put in place yet another  change, following the change that has
just occurred, which could return things to something resembling  the way they were
before, but they will never again be exactly the same —and you would not want them to be.
Always remember this: you cannot change what’ s been changed, because that’s already in
the past, but you can change the future, and that’s where your power lies.
Your decision will be, do I want to change the future so that it duplicates my past? Or do
I want to change the future so radically that


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satisfaction. Idle people be come sensitive to the small
inharmonies and discomforts encountered in daily life. They
are worried by trivialities and find many imaginary obstacles
in their path. For an active worker these things do not exist. A
passive life is a short life and afforts a sense of slavery. When
we look back on an inactive life, we find that the hours and
days have passed rapidly and that the feeling of slavery leads
with force and speed towards death. On the other hand, a life
filled with superior activities ap pears long and gives a sense
of fertility and harmony. Life is a frame and its value depends
on what we put in it. What counts is not chronological, but
psychological time.
The third enemy of the will is sensuality. It consists in
the predominance of a group of inferior emotions. Love, on
the contrary, is the predominance of superior feelings. This
sensuality is another specific symptom of the age we live in.
Ninety per cent of all nervous disorders are derived from a
single source—sensuality and its consequences. The material
source of sensuality is excess of energy and over-secretion of
the glands. Instead of being turned into useful channels, this
excess takes the form of sensuality and becomes a blind and
destructive force within us which destroys us if it continues to
predominate. It is necessary that there should be instruction in the laws of sexual hygiene, so that young people at the period
of increased glandular activity may know how to solve their
problems of sex as they arise. At present they are given much
useless knowledge, but left without intellectual or moral
support at a time when they most need it.
One of the most formidable enemies of the will is
disease. Muscular or nervous pain paralyses the will. On the
other hand, when we are in a dynamic and healthy condition,
the will obeys our commands. Good health is the will's
greatest friend. But health itself is rare and is the possession
only of a small group of people—those that have will power.
So often a vicious circle is set up.
There are two false conceptions current with regard to
the will. There are those who hold that the will is entirely free
and that there is consequently no need to educate it. This is
indeterminism. At the other extreme is the view that the will
cannot be educated. This deterministic outlook tends to or
results in pessimism. The truth is that the will is not entirely
free nor entirely incapable of education. It has enemies which
have to be overcome by the use of a certain psychological
technique. The key to the education of the will is the direction
of the feelings by a powerful creative imagination.
Every great value in human culture owes its creation to
the exercise of human will. To-day we see many valueless
politicians enjoying the limelight and gambling with human
life and happiness, while great scientists who render real
services to mankind are neglected or even persecuted. The
latter are governed by will, the former by blind emotion and
inferior instincts. The true values remaining after the passage
of an epoch are not the deeds of soldiers and dictators, but the
patient researches of philosophers and scientists. Man is
governed by the true values of the past and leaves only true
values for the future. And these true values are the product of
the small aristocracy of the will. Will is the master key to the
future. It is not only necessary for the enjoyment of health,
but a great moral duty owed to human culture.
For health, harmony and balance, three things are
needed: will, will and will.

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1.   Spend as much time as possible in the fresh air.
2.   Always take a cold or lukewarm  shower in the morning when you wake
and in the evening before you go to bed.
3.   Devote   one  half-day   a  week   to   alternate   sun-baths and
waterbaths (swimming where possible).
4.   Go for 30-50 minutes walk in the fresh air after lunch and supper every
day breathing deeply and rhythmically.
5.   Do some simple physical culture exercise for 10-15 minutes every
morning on rising.
6.   Always sleep in a cool, airy and quiet place.
7.   Follow the middle path of moderation and naturalness in all things,
particularly in food, rest, work, recreation and sleep.
8.   Beware of psychic toxins (inharmonious thoughts and feelings)   even
more than  of chemical poisons.    Be   an   optimist   and   have
confidence   in yourself,  in human  progress  and  in  the  forces of
nature.
9.   Be a sincere altruist, love and help others.   Appreciate people's good
qualities and forgiv e their bad  ones.
10.   Enjoy  the  beauties   of  nature  and  the  masterpieces of literature,
the arts an d philosophy.
11.   Study and observe the natural and cosmic laws and live in complete
harmony with the natural and cosmic forces.
12.   Do everything possible to propagate cosmotherapy, and  spread the
knowledge  of the contents of this booklet in order to lessen the
suffering and chaos around you.

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 experimentation settings which are not a part of
your life). Your thoughts are your own, uniquely yours to keep,
change, share, or contemplate. No one else can get inside your head
and have your own thoughts as you experience them. You do indeed
control your thoughts, and your brain is your own to use as you so
determine.
Your minor premise is hardly debatable if you examine the re-
search as well as your own common sense. You cannot have a feeling
(emotion) without first having experienced a thought. Take away
your brain and your ability to “feel” is wiped out. A feeling is a
physical reaction to a thought. If you cry, or blush, or increase your
heartbeat, or any of an interminable list of potential emotional reac-
tions, you have first had a signal from your thinking center. Once
your thinking center is damaged or short-circuited, you cannot ex-
perience emotional reactions. With certain kinds of lesions in the
brain you cannot even experience physical pain, and your hand
could literally fry on a stove burner with no sensation of pain. You
know that you cannot bypass your think-center and experience any
feelings in your body. Thus your minor premise is lodged in truth.
Every feeling that you have was preceded by a thought, and without
a brain you can have no feelings.
Your conclusion is also inescapable. If you control your thoughts,
and your feelings come from your thoughts, then you are capable
of controlling your own feelings. And you control your feelings by
working on the thoughts that preceded them. Simply put, you believe
that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy because of the thoughts that you have
about the people or things in your life. Becoming a free and healthy
person involves learning to think  differently. Once you can change
your thoughts,12 / Your Erroneous Zonesyour new feelings will begin to emerge, and you will have taken the
first step on the road to your personal freedom.
To look at the syllogism in a more personal light, let’s consider
the case of Cal, a young executive who spends most of his time ag-
onizing over the fact that his boss thinks he is stupid. Cal is very
unhappy because his boss has a low opinion of him. But if Cal didn’t
know that his boss thought he was stupid, would he still be un-
happy? Of course not. How could he be unhappy about something
he didn’t know. Therefore, what his boss thinks or doesn’t think
doesn’t make him unhappy. What Cal thinks makes him unhappy.
Moreover, Cal makes himself unhappy by convincing himself that
what someone else thinks is more important than what he thinks.
This same logic applies to all events, things and persons’ points
of view. Someone’s death does not make you unhappy; you cannot
be unhappy until you learn of the death, so it’s not the death but
what you tell yourself about the event. Hurricanes aren’t depressing
by themselves; depression is uniquely human. If you are depressed
about a hurricane, you are telling yourself some things that depress
you. This is not to say that you should delude yourself into enjoying
a hurricane, but ask yourself, “Why should I choose depression?
Will it help me to be more effective in dealing with it?”
You have grown up in a culture which has taught you that you
are not responsible for your feelings even though the syllogistic truth
is that you always were. You’ve learned a host of sayings to defend
yourself against the fact that you do control your feelings. Here is
a brief list of such utterances that you have used over and over. Ex-
amine the message they send.
•“You hurt my feelings.”
•“You make me feel bad.”
•“I can’t help the way I feel.”
•“I just feel angry, don’t ask me to explain it.”TAKING CHARGE OF YOURSELF  / 13•“He makes me sick.”
•“Heights scare me.”
•“You’re embarrassing me.”
•“She really turns me on.”
•“You made a fool of me in public.”
The list is potentially endless. Each saying has a built-in message
that you are not responsible for how you feel. Now rewrite the list
so it is accurate, so it reflects the fact that you are in charge of how
you feel and that your feelings come from the thoughts you have
about anything.
• “I hurt my feelings because of the things I told myself about
your reaction to me.”
• “I made myself feel bad.”
• “I can help the way I feel, but I’ve chosen to be upset.”
• “I’ve decided to be angry, because I can usually manipulate
others with my anger, since they think I control them.”
• “I make myself sick.”
• “I scare myself at high places.”
• “I’m embarrassing myself.”
• “I turn myself on whenever I’m near her.”
• “I made myself feel foolish by taking your opinions of me more
seriously than my own, and believing that others would do the
same.”
Perhaps you think that the items in List 1 are just figures of speech,
and that they really don’t mean very much, but are simply figures
of speech that have become clichés in our culture. If this is your ra-
tionale, then ask yourself why the statements in List 2 did not evolve
into clichés. The answer lies in our culture, which teaches the
thinking of List 1, and discourages the logic of List 2.
The message is crystal clear. You are the person responsible14 / Your Erroneous Zonesfor how you feel. You feel what you think, and you can learn to think
differently about anything—if you decide to do so. Ask yourself if
there is a sufficient payoff in being unhappy, down, or hurt. Then
begin to examine, in depth, the kind of thoughts that are leading
you to these debilitating feelings.
Learning Not To Be Unhappy: A Tough Assignment
It is not easy to think in new ways. You are accustomed to a certain
set of thoughts and the debilitating thoughts that follow. It requires
a great deal of work to unlearn all of the habits of thought you have
assimilated until now. Happiness is easy, but learning not to be un-
happy can be difficult.
Happiness is a natural condition of being a person. The evidence
is plainly visible when you look at young children. What is tough
is unlearning all of the “shoulds” and “oughts” that you’ve digested
in the past. Taking charge of yourself begins with awareness. Catch
yourself when you say things like, “He hurt my feelings.” Remind
yourself what you’re doing at the moment you’re doing it. New
thinking requires awareness of the old thinking. You have become
habituated in mental patterns that identify the causes of your feelings
as outside of yourself. You have put in thousands of hours of rein-
forcement for such thinking, and you’ll need to balance the scale
with thousands of hours of new thinking, thinking that assumes
responsibility for your own feelings. It is tough, damn tough; but
so what? That certainly is no reason to avoid doing it.
Think back to the time you were learning to drive a stick shift
automobile. You were faced with what seemed to be an insurmount-
able problem. Three pedals but only two feet to make them work.
You first became aware of the complexity of the task. Let the clutch
out slow, ooops too fast, jerky business, gas pedal down at the same
rate as you release the clutch, right footTAKING CHARGE OF YOURSELF  / 15for the brake, but the clutch must go in, or you jerk again. A million
mental signals: always thinking, using your brain. What do I do?
Awareness,  and then after thousands of trials, mistakes, new efforts,
the day comes when you step into your car and drive away. No
stalling, no jerking and no thinking.  Driving a stick shift has become
second nature, and how did you do it? With great difficulty. Lots of
present-moment thinking, reminding, working.
You know how to regulate your mind when it comes to accom-
plishing physical tasks, such as teaching your hands and feet to co-
ordinate for driving. The process is less well-known but identical in
the emotional world. You’ve learned the habits you now have by
reinforcing them all of your life. You get unhappy, angry, hurt and
frustrated automatically because you learned to think that way a
long time ago. You have accepted your behavior and never worked
at challenging it. But you can learn to not be unhappy, angry, hurt,
or frustrated just as you learned to be all those self-defeating things.
For example, you’ve been taught that going to the dentist is a
nasty experience, and one that is associated with pain. You’ve always
felt that it is unpleasant and you even say things to yourself like, “I
hate that drill.” But these are all learned reactions. You could make
the whole experience work for rather than against you by choosing
to make it a pleasant, exciting procedure. You could, if you really
decided to use your brain, make the sound of the drill signal a
beautiful sexual experience and each time the brrrrrr sound ap-
peared, you could train your mind to envision the most orgiastic
moment of your life. You could think something different about
what you used to call pain, and choose to feel something new and
ple


other things were totally forbidden. My father followed the regime
religiously. I was also carefully watching the progress.
"When I consulted the doctors and surgeons again, I was+.ld that
something miraculous had happend to my father inasmuch as his
cancer was cured 75% in one and a half month. CASES OF CANCER : 1 07
"I was over fubiliant to hear this and was anxiously waiting for
cent percent cure. Lastly some ten days ago, I went to an eminent
doctor with my father for check-up. According to his opinion, the
cure was almost complete and the patient might be feeling that he
was completely cured."
2. In 1954, when urine therapy was not known to me, Shri
ChhaganlaJ T. Patel (Ahmedabad) aged fifty-one, working in Messrs.
Chimanlal M. & Co. (lal darwaja), had developed cancer on his
tongue. Shri Babubhai, a young man and an employee of the same
firm, was very much interested in the medical science. In the course
of his search for this knowledge, he read the famous book of
Armstrong. He asked his co-worker Shri Chhaganlal Patel to try the
urine treatment.for cancer. The latter agreed to this proposal and
began the treatment. In due course, he met with success and got
rid of his trouble.
After three years of this incident when I published my on
experiences about urine therapy, Shri Babubhai Soni came to me
with Shri Chhaganlal Patel. With deep· faith and enthusiasm, they
narrated their own experiences of urine therapy. On 17-10-58, Shri
Chhaganlal pate! sent the following account:
"In 1954, I observed a boil on my tongue. At the time of ta~ing
the meals or drinking liquids, I used to feel a burninig sensation on
my tongue. Shri Babubhai continued' to press me to take to urine
therapy as I had already been treated by medical experts. After three
months of hard trial, I was convinced about the efficacy of
auto-urine. With the intake of urine, the burning sensation
diminished and I felt some strength as well. But for an early and
complete cure, I consulte Dr. Haribhakti. He advised an operation.
1 was then operated and was advised to go to the Civil Hospital for
the examination on the operated organ. I was not to take solid diet
for three or four days after operation. So there was an automatic
fast. During this period, 1 took urine in as much quantity as I could.
Drinking of auto-urine resulted in the healing of the wound caused
by operation within three days. I had kept the doctor informed of 108 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
my condition. The doctor was greatly astonished to know that the
wound was healed as if magically within three days and I had no
pain any more. Shri M~danmohan Sheth advised me to go at once to
Tata Hospital at Bombay. But I knew very well that I had been
cured by the urine treatment. I, therefore, continued drinking urine
but in order to honour the advice, I went to Tata Hospital. The
operated part of my tongue was treated with radium rays. But the
fact is that there was no need of any treatment; since my wound had
been already healed up and I had no pain whatsoever. The doctors
of Tata Hospital asked me to go there again after one month. During
that period, I continued drinking urine and as a result of it, I had
gained 13 lb. in weight. When after one month I visited the Hospital
again, the doctors were surprised to see marked improvement. Now,
they gave me neither any medicine nor the rays, but I was asked to
go there again after two months. During that period, there was a
total gain of 23 lb; in my weight. I ate well and felt strength and
vigour in my body. Since then, three years have passed but the
increase in my weight is still maintained. At present my age is 51
but I feel myself as strong as a man of 41.11
According to Civil Hospital's report, the above-mentioned case of
Shri Chhaganlal patel was one of cancer. He had faith in urine
therapy and has told me that he had been cured by urine treatment.
But since he was operated · by the doctor, the latter too has a
chance to say that had the operation been not performed, there was
no chance of any cwre. However, the history of cancer is sad. Rarely
had any patient attained complete cure by knife and radiation.
Can.cer of Throat : I give below an account of another case after
careful scrutiny which was also undertaken by Shri Babubhai Soni.
A Jain monk of forty-five, was suffering from cancer. He had a
tumour of cancer on his neck. In Bombay he had been treated
electrically. As a result of which the tumour disappeared but
reappeared on the other side. Intense coughing was also present.
The doctor treating the patient had told cancer to be its cause. The
doctor also advised him to go Tata Hospital. Shri Babubhai met him CASES OF CANCER : 109
the day before, he, was to leave for Bombay and informed him
about urine therapy. Besides that he also gave him a copy of the
Water of Life to read. The patient postponed his programme for
Bombay. After going through the book, the very next day he started
drinking all the urine passed during the day and also observed fast.
With the drinking of urine, his body become light and soft The
cough disappeared in three days. As a result his faith in urine
therapy increased. He continued drinking urine, Some days later,
the monk had clear motions and sound sleep after many months.
The urine maintained his strenght during the period of fast. The
monk was fully relieved of his trouble with this treatment, i.e. only
by auto-urine without its rubbings. Shri Babubhai met him after
nearly three months of the experiment and was told that the monk
had no trouble whatsoever. That monk still lives and travels in
Gujarat.
Shri Babubhai also treated his son with urine. The boy was
always indisposed. With the rubbing of urine he now enjoys better
health and playfully digests whatever he eats. Shri Babubhai wi4tes:
11A number of persons carry out this experiment.and ad!ie~
good results. Many of them do not disclose their experiments olit,·of
fals~ shame but the changes that I notice in their bodies reveal their
use. of urine but they hesitate to declare it publicly. I hold.that i.f
man at large adopts urine t~erapy, no disease would be incU,raflle.11
Cancer of the Stomach : The first patient of cancer of stoma<:h
was treated by urine application directly under my guidance. Shd
Mafatlal Chandulal Shah is the member of th municipality, Palanpur.
His three years old son Subhash fell a victim to cancer~ Shri
Chandulal Shah adopted urine treatment and was able to avoid the
untimely death of his dear son. ln his letter, dated 22-4-196l, he
writes to me :
·uLast year my younger son Subhash fell ill. He had a tun:tWf Qf
cancer in his stomach and pus in his testicles. The testides,haa·to
be operated to remove put. But the wound of the operation would
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not heal. At last I had him examined in Tata Hospital at Bombay.
Mr. Borji, a doctor of this hospital, examined him and after giving
X-rays diagnosed that there was tumour of cancer in his stomach.
The doctor further opined that the patient would have to be
subjected to deep X-rays on his stomach and testicles.
11ln the newspapers, I had read about urine therapy. I decided to
try the same. Following the kind advice of Shri Popatla Zaveri and
the instructions given in the book Manav-Mutra, I kept Subhash on
fast for two days only. during the fast, he was given to drink boiled
water and all the urine he passed. His entire body was rubbed with
his own urine every morning and evening. After four days, boils
appeared on his head and the rest of the body. Pus oozed out of the
body. Pieces of cloth soaked in urine were applied. After seven days'
treatment, the wounds were healed up. He was given very light and
easily digestible diet. Drinking and rubbing of urine continued daily.
Consequently, the wound on his testicles was healed too. The urine
treatment continued for one month and he was completely cured.
Now there was no trace of tumour in his stomach. He was then
examined by the doctors who reported that the boy had no
disease. The experiment however continued. After one week our
doctor accompanied me and Subhash was examined in the general


body with urine, and then
rubbed  him for about two hours with my own. En passant, I may
remark that the most  important  parts of the body to rub are the face,
neck and  feet. After the rubbing, Mr. P. was washed down with  plain,
warm tapwater.  The following  day the treatment  was continued  for
some hours. Subsequently  Mr. P. came to my house every morning to
be rubbed  in the same manner. He did not enter the Nursing Home for
observation  or the exploratory  operation.  With regard to food, he was
allowed  to eat once a day,  but only such foods  as I advocated.  After one
month of treatment,  he was so far i mproved that he was able to return
to business. In twelve weeks he registered  complete  health, and no sign
either of the valvular  disease of the heart or the suspicious  l ump in the
solar plexus  remained;  a fact which  his doctor cheerfully  and
ungrudgingly  admitted.  Not once  since the day Mr. P. began the
treatment  did he have a heart attack,  and  so little did he fear a
recurrence  that he consigned  his drug tablets  to the flames!
Should it be supposed  that I am the only one who practises urine‐
therapy  with success, the following  casehistory  will serve to contravene
the assumption.
Mr. R. Heart disease with dropsy. Feet,  legs and  abdomen  greatly
swollen. Heart much dilated. Doctor took a very serious view of the
case,  and gave the patient only a month  to live. He was then induced to
try treatment  in a well‐ known  Naturopathic  Establishment.  The
treatment,  however,  proved so unsuccessful  and the patient was in
such a critical condition  that he was requested  to leave; seeing that he
was expected to die within a fortnight.  Mr. R. then heard of the
courageous  Naturopath,  Mr. Oliver Warnock‐Fielden, of Harrow who 63
 eventually  cured him with urine‐therapy  in six weeks. During the fast
his weight was reduced from about 12 to 7 stone 11½  lbs. Mr. R. had
been a very excessive  smoker,  and contrary to instructions,  smoked to a
certain extent during the fast ‐ a matter which  somewhat  delayed
progress.  Needless to say,  his doctor was very surprised  at his cure; the
more  so as Mr. R. had  thought it s ise not to divulge the modus
operandi.  As things stand at present, many people who do something
so unconventional  as to drink  their own urine are afraid to be
ostracised  by Their fears are quite understandable,  but  society.
obstructive  to the spread of urine‐therapy as a means of helping
suffering humanity.
I may  here  add  a word to this chapter  relative to what has been
pronounced  to be one of the causes of heart disease it modern times,
viz., serums and  vaccines.  According  to Dr. Benchetrit  these measures
"are  principally  responsible  for the increase of these two really
dangerous  diseases, cancer and  heart disease." The doctor adds: "I
have been for a long time a serologist  and I know  what I am talking
about." Dr. Benchetrit  is by no means the only doctor to criticise the
practice of employing  harmful preventatives  (or  alleged  to be
preventatives)  against  acute infectious  disease. Dr. S. S. Goldwater,
New  York Commissioner  of Hospitals,  pointed  out in The Modern
Hospital  Magazine  that measures  used to check contagious  diseases
may  permit of longer  (?) life but not of stronger life. "Chronic diseases,
" he adds, "are  growing at such a rate that America  may  become a
nation  of invalids. More  than half  the hospitalbeds  in the United States
to‐day are occupied by sufferers from chronic mental and physical
diseases. Middle‐aged and elderly persons are not the only sufferers;  64
 many children are victims. " (See  Health Practitioners  Journal, June,
1944.)
One may ask, if sera  and  vaccines are liable eventually  to produce
heart‐disease and  other  chronic serious ailments, why then are they
boosted by the B.M.A.? For, first  of all, as Dr. Alfred Pulford, M.D., has
tersely  remarked:  " Any one who can prevent an occurrence  positively
that he does not know  is bound to occur is indeed a seventh day
wonder  "; and  secondly certain renowned  bigwigs in the Medical
Profession  have demonstrated  that the most  " deadly " germs are
harmless  in a healthy body.  We read that " Prof. Metchnikoff  said he
found the bacilli of Asiatic cholera in the waters of many to alities, but
no epidemic or plague or disease was ever known  to be at any of these
places before or after his findings…  Prof. Tentenkoffer  swallowed
several million germs of the deadly (?) Asiatic cholera… Nothing
happened.  To verify the test, Prof. Emmrich  made a culture from the
intestines  of newly  dead victims of the disease, and  swallowed  millions
of germs, with no noticeable  results! To test even more thoroughly,  and
in far more  frightful conditions,  Dr. Thomas Powell  allowed the germs
of seven deadly (?) diseases to be shot i nto his blood‐ stream‐and