 Can you now understand how it is so
vitally important to use urine on rashes, cuts, scraps, scratches, as well
as those who are with gangrene ready for amputation.
There comes a period in each of our lives where
a special window of time will open to you.
Many say we will all have our 15 minutes of glory.
This may be that time slot in the next 15 minutes as you read on.
You are about to find the most incredible information that will change your
way of how you were raised to think of society and your own body.
You may take this information as not possible to endure.
You may take this information as illegitimate and foolish.
Please reconsider centuries of usage, the poor as well as the rich including
Kings 'and Queens, Elite and the ordinary, uneducated as well as the highly
educated, all keeping themselves or curing themselves for a healthy
extended life in secrecy of their ways.
Curing themselves from simple to incurable diseases
as well as preventative health maintenance.
Reconsider the hundreds of testimonials from all over the world.
Educate yourself with the findings of this research. Use it.
Our Creator gave it to you. Specially designed for each person.
This, with God's will, could be your great day of education.
Your window may have just opened as you read to a life long
Self-therapy without cost.
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Washing
Wash the exterior of the body by means of washing the hair
with or without a showercap. Also the washing of the face, neck, hands,
and any body part that you have need to be kept clean, soft, pliable,
and aiding in the loss of wrinkles.
Next morning you will see your hair SHINE, your face feel new,
skin tight, radiant, and that was only the first day.
My suggestion is two weeks first time straight.
After you may go on one week on and one week off.
Any moles, scrapes, cuts, freckles you may want to reduce in size or color,
or possibly lose, every night continually until you reach your goal.
For those who are diabetic and have bruises or cuts that won't heal...
Moisten as many times per day the areas as you would have time for.
At night place a wet, thin gauze pad on top of your scraps or cuts.
If they are on your feet, wear your socks on top and put into ready for wash
area in morning. If you get up during night, hey what a better time then now
to rewet your washcloth or gauze again.
It will cut your time for new skin developing from one month to one week.
If you are in serious condition and it would normally take six months
for new skin, your development time will be approximately six weeks.
This is not only research, I was a diabetic and had cuts and bruises. I know.
Shower in the morning or wash face and body parts with water only.
Soap is not necessary and is contraindicated for plush skin.
We will get into use of fresh urine as a cologne or perfume later.
This is not the greatest part of the therapy. It can be used.
A slap of new fresh warm urine will bring out the pheromones from
The body and this is what the cosmetic companies have been trying for
years to perfect. They can't do so for personally it's your pheromones
That do the sexual attraction and it must be used warm as it first comes out
of the body. We are animals still, and it will bring out the animal in you.
Some women have mixed their special perfume with warm fresh urine.
A few drops will do. Don't go crazy.
Yes I understand. Your thinking, "what a jerk".
Don't try it. I know a lot of women and men that have tried it and it works.
Remember, fresh, warm, few drops, and bingo. Check it out.
For this one I'm sure you will not tell your best girlfriend.
Remember, your life should not always be an open book.
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Drinking
Thinking, Is he serious? You bet I am.
This is where it gets scientific, medicinal, and the Pharmaceutical
companies get "pissed" more than we do because we get our
pharmaceuticals free and natural and NEVER toxic to our system NEVER.
{Unless we are full of drugs, pharmaceutical or reacreational}.
Plus, we are not guessing at what's wrong.
We take our liquid in the morning and what we can't use in our body
immediately gets expelled for a new body assimilation later in the day.
However this time the body is recreating a host of
vitamins, enzymes, minerals itself and from the foods we have consumed
ready for reabsorption· into our cells from the drinking.
There are more than a dozen hypothetses relating to the re-absorption.
Lets look at a few.
1}. Nutrients
By drinking or massaging with urine, we possible re-use and re-absorb
many vitamins, salts, amino acids, hormones, and so forth as nutrients.
Vitamin 81 {Thiamin}, Vitamin 82 {Riboflavin}, Vitamin 86, Vitamin 812,
And many others.
2}. Hormones
Hormones are powerful molecules which once produced may cause
complete alteration in the balance of body processes, personality,
emotions, and state of mind. After the years of 40 to 50 there may be a
hormonal imbalance which now in this new age there are millions and
millions given" Premarin", a prescription drug short for
pregnant-mare urine. { See premarine farm section to learn more }.
Yes you read correctly. Pregnant female horse urine.
So why pay for animal hormone therapy when you can not only have
human hormone therapy but your own selected personal therapy?
With this self-therapy we should also be aware of a hormone called
Melatonin. This powerful anti cancer human hormone availing a very
easy method for falling asleep or an aid for jet lag. The pills that are sold
in the nutritional stores are normally hormonal extract from pigs.
Also lets not forget dopamine, insulin, corticosteroids, gonadotropin,
prolactin, vasopressin, thyroxine, adrenaline, testosterone, progesterone,
and many others.
10 It is suggested to use your first urination after you get up in the morning.
The reason is that enzymes and hormones are more concentrated and
collected all during the night. The method for collection is do not drink the
first 20% because that part is mostly oil and bile. Do collect the
centerportion for drinking. The last 20% may have sediment.
So, only the central portions, warm immediate after releasing.
NEVER drink that which has been left open to the air for a time.
This is when bacteria originate in the atmosphere and multiply quickly
3}. Enzymes
Many enzymes are contained in urine. Protease,
Beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase, alpha-amylase, lysozyme.
This gives great explanation to why urine therapy is affective against
strokes, heart attacks, arteriosclerosis, embolism, etc. One enzyme
Urokinase is well known for its vasodilatation and resembles nitroglycerin
and its ability to strengthen the arteries.
Urokinase is extracted from urine and brought into the medical
marketplace on a large scale. An American company has developed a
special filter that collects the proteins and has 10,000 Porta-Johns.
This collection of urine and the transition to Urokinase give to a annual
market sales of $500,000,000.00 from unsuspecting donors.
4}. Urea
Urea in amniotic fluid is by the most part urine from the fetus. *
Starting in the second month it is essential for proper development of the
pulmonary system.* Urea also affects the brain and central nervous
system. Utilization of urea is sometimes used during brain surgery to
minimize pressure on the brain and spinal cord. Chiropractors as well as
myself are fully aware of the health problems caused by the pressures or
subluxations of the spinal column and pressure on the brain. Urea tends to
shrink the spinal column and brain therefore reduces this pressure.
Urea is an oxidizing substance. It dissolves fats and other natural body
-secretions. Urea is also more effective when warm or when heated.
5}. Salts
The drinking of salts as urine is by nature a salt solution is an important
therapeutic remedy. It relieves such problems as constipation, asthma,
stomach ulcers, indigestion, and elimination of certain parasites.
6}. Immune System
Urine is not toxic, however there may be some toxic substances in urine
available in small amounts, especially if someone is in contact with a
11 new disease and does not know it or is ill. We will talk more of this under
the definition of Homeopathy and the law of similars. These are the
med


 MAN SHOULD KNOW
ABOUT FEMALE SEXUALITY 267
The Uterus 268
Ovulation 268
Fertile Mucus 269
Nonfertile Mucus 269
Menstruation 269
Periods 270
Emotional Changes 271
Women's Sexual Anatomy 271
Inner Lips 271
The Shaft of the Clitoris 272
The Glans 272
The Position of the G-Spot 272
The Walls of the Vagina 273
The Cervix 274
Love Muscle 274
Sexual Response Cycle 274
Chapter 18: SUMMARY OF THE SEVEN STAGES OF TAOIST
ESOTERIC YOGA 277
The Small Heavenly Cycle (Microcosmic) 277
The Tongue is a Switch of the Circuit 279
The Seven Esoteric Formulas of the Seven Books of
the Tao 279
First Formula: Fusion of the Five Elements 279
Second Formula: Lesser Enlightenment of Kan and
Li 280
Third Formula: Greater Enlightenment of Kan and Li
282
Fourth Formula: Greatest Enlightenment of Kan and
Li 283
Fifth Formula: Sealing of the Five Sense Organs.. 283
Sixth Formula: Congress of Heaven and Earth
Immortality 284
Seventh Formula: Reunion of Heaven and Man. True
Immortal Man 285ABOUT THE AUTHOR — Mantak Chia
The author of this book, Mantak Chia, was born in Thailand
on April 4,1944. When he was six or seven years of age he learned to
"sit and still the mind" from Buddhist monks while on a summer
vacation. This is not to say that he was passive and quiet as a child.
In fact, he excelled in track and field events during his grammar
school days in Hong Kong. It was during that time that he learned
the traditional Thai Boxing and met Master Lu, who taught him Tai
Chi Chuan. Shortly thereafter, Master Lu introduced him to
Aikido, Yoga and more Tai Chi. His knowledge of esoteric practice
did not begin, however, until he was eighteen and he had returned to
Thailand. It was at that time that a senior classmate, Cheng Sue Sue,
a student of Yi-Eng, taught him the level of Tao Esoteric practice up
to the Reunion of Man and Heaven.
When he was in his twenties, Master Chia studied with Master
Meugi in Singapore, who taught him Kundalini Yoga and the Bud-
dhist Palm. With the Buddhist Palm, he was soon able to eliminate
blockages of flow of life-force in his internal organs and to drive
cold, wet or sick energy out of patients who came to see his Master,
thereby restoring them to health. The young Mantak Chia felt, how-
ever, that Kundalini Yoga produced too much heat and could be
dangerous and so he later combined it with elements of Taoist prac-
tice, which had cooling effects.
Later, in his twenties, he met and studied with Master Pan
Yu, who had created a synthesis out of Taoist, Buddhist and
Ch'an teaching, and Master Cheng Yao-Lung, who had also cre-
ated a new system by combining Thai Boxing and Kung Fu. From
Master Cheng Yao-Lung, he learned the Shao-Lin secret method
of internal power as well as the Iron Shirt method called "Cleans-
ing the Marrow and Renewal of the Tendon". From Master Pan
Yu, he learned a variation of Kundalini and the "steel body", a
technique that is said to keep the body from decay. Master Pan Yu
still lives and practices in Hong Kong, where he treats patients by
transmitting his life-force to them. To better understand the
mechanism behind the healing energy, Chia also studied Western
medical science and anatomy for two years.
Yet, with all of these achievements, Master Chia was the man-
ager of the Gestetner Company in Thailand, was in charge of sales
of offset machines and was well acquainted with the working of
the company's copying and printing machines. He may well be theonly Taoist master in the world with a computer in his living room.
He is also married and has a son. His wife Maneewan works as a
medical technician. He is, in short, living proof that his practice is
very much down-to-earth, striving to enhance everyday life and
not requiring retreat from society to a hermit's life.
The main thrust of Chia's intention is to strip away the mys-
ticism, the mumbo-jumbo, the powers vested in the Guru, the re-
liance on things-other-worldly or magical. He seeks to present, in-
stead, a fully predictable working model that might be considered
as a scientific means of dealing with energy systems. In time, he
hopes this will lead to technological developments that might serve
to simplify or speed the means whereby such progress might be
made. It is with such hopes that he beckons members of the
medical community to investigate what he has to offer. There are
already physicians and lawyers and computer programmers, who
have experienced, first hand, the benefits that Master Chia's meth-
ods provide. It is up to them and others in the scientific commun-
ity to join Master Chia in his lifetime task of bridging the gap be-
tween reason and spirit, mind and body, science and religion.Mantak Chia,Universal Tao World Headquarters
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Taoist "Dual Cultivation" and
the Quest for Sexual Love
by Michael Winn
"What a pity! A mountain peak as tiny as one square inch has been
the source of great inspiration and misery for centuries."
—Anonymous Chinese Poet on man's obsession with woman's sex.
Thousands of books have been written attempting to help men and
women resolve the problems arising from the endless search for
sexually fulfilling love. What could possibly be written that is new?
Taoist Secrets of Love is not just another flowery philosophi-
cal treatise on the ecstasies of oriental love. Rather it is a pragmatic
handbook that distills the secret teachings on sex of four different
living Taoist masters sought out by Mantak Chia during fifteen
years of travel and study in the Far East. As he put it, "I read a ton
of books telling me how great esoteric love-making was, but none
of them explained precisely how it was done. So I decided to write
it myself."
Most books on Taoist sex fail to instruct on how to transform
sperm energy once it is held in, where to store sex energy in the
body, how to best exchange it with a woman, and give cursory
treatment to the retention of semen. Chia synthesized the ancient
Taoist practices into simple but powerful methods that can be
easily learned by western men. This first volume is directed pri-
marily at men, simply because most men are sexually weaker than
women and lose more energy through sex than women. A later
volume will describe the esoteric Taoist sexual practices for
women, which includes voluntary arrest of the menstrual flow.
The sexual imbalance between men and women is obvious. A
woman can sexually receive her man for as long as she pleases, and
thus the Taoists say her yin essence is nearly inexhaustible. A
man's love making is limited to the amount of energy he has to
keep his erection. His yang essence is more easily tired. A woman


 “storm” and then allow it
to be felt in your body—obser ve it without judgment, just like the tree
bends in the wind. As rigidity reappears, notic e that as well, allowing the
winds to blow as you exercise the Tao in place of ego! Seek to uncover the
root of your stiffness and achieve greater flexibility in the storms of life.
When seen as this kind of opportunity to open to the Tao energy, storminess
can be transformed into exhilara ting events that uncover more of your true
nature of love.
Do the T ao Now
Listen to someone express an opinion that’s the opposite of yours today. It
could be on any of a variety of topics, such as politics, the environment,
religion, drugs, war, the death penalty, or what have you. Refuse to impose
your position, and instead remark, “I’ve never considered that point of
view. Thank you for sharing your ideas with me.” By allowing a contrary
position to be heard, you’ll dismiss ego’s attitude and welcome the
flexibility of the T ao.
OceanofPDF.com23rd Verse
To talk little is natural:
Fierce winds do not blow all morning;
a downpour of rain does not last the day.
Who does this? Heaven and earth.

But these ar e exaggerated, for ced effects,
and that is why they cannot be sustained.
If heaven and earth cannot sustain a for ced action,
how much less is man able to do?

Those who follow the W ay
become one with the W ay.
Those who follow goodness
become one with goodness.
Those who stray fr om the W ay and goodness
become one with failur e.

If you conform to the W ay,
its power flows thr ough you.
Your actions become those of natur e,
your ways those of heaven.

Open yourself to the T ao
and trust your natural r esponses...
then everything will fall into place.OceanofPDF.comLiving Naturally
Every thing that composes ultimately decomposes. Notice that I put the
emphasis on the word thing— that’s because all things on Earth are
temporary and in a constant state of change. Since you’re on this planet,
you too are a part of this always-changing and always-decomposing
principle. In this 23rd verse of the Tao Te Ching, you’re asked to observe
the ways of nature and then make the choice to live harmon iously with
them.
Nature doesn’ t have to insist, push, or force anything; after all, storms
don’t last forever. Winds blow hard, but then they subside. The Tao creates
from an eternal perspective, but everything is on its return trip home the
moment it comes into being. So Lao-tzu instructs that if you live
harmoniously with this simple principle, you’ll be in tune with nature. Let
go of a desire to force anyone or anything, and choose instead to
consciously be part of the cycli cal pattern of nature. Lao-tzu reminds you
that not even heaven can sustain a forced action. In its inherent beingness,
all action has a temporary existence and returns to a calmer state. In
contemporary language, we’d say that “everything blows over.”
The teachings of this passage invite you to pause in the midst of strife or
tension and remember that serenity and peace are on the way. This verse
emphatically points out that you always have a choice! In every single
situation, you can choose to observe exaggerated and forced energy. It
might be verbally attempting to control a situation or cursing  how life’s
events are unfolding; regardless, these moments can be invitations to open
to the Tao even  while in the midst of chaos and angst. This is how to
“follow the Way”: Remember how nature blows hard and then returns to
calm. Follow the goodness of the Tao and you become goodness. Stray
from goodness and you become one with failure.
You are part of the law of form in time and space, comp osing and
decomposing. Everything in nature is returning to its Source.... The
question is, do you wish to participate consciously with this natural
goodness, or would you rather spend your moments in anxiety and failure?
The Tao response to this crucial question isn’t within your ego, for itstrongly believes in your ability to force things, to make things happen, or
to be the person  in charge. The Tao points out that the Way is responsible
for everything, with a naturalness about it that isn’t forced. It reminds you
that what seems so devastating in the moment is benev olent perfection in
another moment. When you conform to the naturalness of the universe, you
cooperate with this all-creating power that flows  through you. Suspend ego-
driven plans and instead particip ate in the power that created you—allow it
to be the guiding force in your life.
Here’ s what Lao-tzu says to you, through me, from his 2,500year -old
perspective in this verse of the T ao Te Ching:
Change your life by actively observing natur e’s way.
See how thunderstorms or fierce winds are temporary conditions that
pass, instead of thinking of them as destructive or inconvenient events.
When what seems like a forcef ul, uncomfortable situation arises, seek the
natural cycle. Affirm: This is a tempo rary setback. I am going to release
myself from having to be the person in contr ol. Then observe what you’re
feeling, with openness to what is, in this moment. Remember that this is
nature’ s method. Center your mind in a natural way, in perfect rapport with
the patience of the universal T ao.
Change your life by trusting your ability to r espond naturally to the
circumstances in your life.
At first this may involve observing yourself in a friendly way instead of
responding immediately. When  you feel your inclination to make your
opinion known, let this urge silently tell you what it truly wants. Your body
knows how to be at peace and wait out the storms of life, but you need to
allow it to feel that you’re welcoming its signals. Be still and allow yourself
to be in harmony with the creative T ao, opening yourself to its power.
T. S. Eliot evokes the natural cycle in his poem “Ash-W ednesday”:
Because I know that time is always time
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is actual only for one time
And only for one placeI rejoice that things ar e as they ar e...
That’ s the idea: Rejoice in the stillness of the T ao.
Do the T ao Now
Spend an entire day noticing nature and the countless instances that it
cycles organically. Seek at least three ways that you’d like to be more
natural in your response to life. The cat curling languidly in the sun might
symbolize how you’d like to be. Or perhaps it’s the dawn slowly
illuminating the dark without rushing. Maybe you prefer to focus on the tide
comfortably coming in and out, apparently without judgment. Find your
symbolic images, whatever they may be, and invite their counte rparts in the
Tao to blossom within you.
OceanofPDF.com24th Verse
If you stand on tiptoe, you cannot stand firmly.
If you take long steps, you cannot walk far.

Showing off does not r eveal enlightenment.
Boasting will not pr oduce accomplishment.
He who is self-righteous is not r espected.
He who brags will not endur e.

All these ways of acting ar e odious, distasteful.
They ar e superfluous excesses.
They ar e like a pain in the stomach,
a tumor in the body.

When walking the path of the T ao,
this is the very stuff that must be
uprooted, thr own out, and left behind.
OceanofPDF.comLiving
Without Excess
In this verse, Lao-tzu advises that the path of the Tao needs to be cleared
of any weeds of excessive perso nal importance. After all, accomplishments
derive from the all-creating Source that Lao-tzu calls “the Tao.” Everything
that you see, touch, or own is a gift from the Tao; thus, it is your duty to
suspend your ego and seek an attitude of gratitude and genero sity for the
Tao’s creativity. In this way, you walk the path of the Tao by becoming like
it is, which is always existing in a state of unlimited giving. It is to this state
that the 24th verse of the T ao Te Ching ur ges you to return.
Notice how the natural flow of the Tao operates: It asks nothing of you as
it provides you and everyone else with unlimited supplies of food, air,
water, sunshine,  land, and beaut y. It is always creating for the benefit of all,
and it has no need for prideful boasting or demanding something in return.
This poem by Hafiz bears repeating here to illustrate this point:
Even
After
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,

“You owe
Me.”
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the
Whole
Sky.The sun symbolizes the Tao at work: It offers its warmth, light, and life-
giving energy to all, illuminating the globe without any demand for
recognition. Imagine if the sun needed attention and demanded accolades
for its efforts


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wizards,	he	wasn’t	one	of	the	dour,	glum	ones.
He	said,	“I’ve	thought	of	an	excellent	project	for	us	today.	We’re	going	to
chase	a	rainbow.”
This	sounded	like	something	you’d	say	to	a	five-year-old,	but	I	knew	he	had
something	else	in	mind,	so	I	rushed	back	inside,	stuffed	some	food	in	my
pockets,	and	was	back	out	the	door	in	two	minutes.	Baba	was	still	peering	at
the	sky.	“It	doesn’t	look	like	rain,”	he	said.
“Not	much	chance	for	a	rainbow,	then,”	I	said.	Baba	had	already	started	to
stride	away	quickly	in	his	usual	fashion.
“We	don’t	have	to	rely	on	chance,”	he	said	over	his	shoulder.	“Not	that	much
happens	by	chance.”
Not	when	I’m	with	you,
	I	thought.	We	walked	down	the	road	and	then	cut
across	a	broad	field,	where	it	was	cooler	and	more	lush.	“What	do	you	think	a
rainbow	is?”	he	asked.
“It’s	sunlight	that	has	been	bent	by	the	raindrops.	Each	one	acts	like	a	tiny
prism.”	I	knew	this	from	grade-school	science.“Or	it’s	a	little	hint,”	said	Baba.
“A	hint	about	what?”
“How	the	universe	was	made,”	he	said.	“In	a	rainbow	you	can	see	the	whole
universe.	What	is	the	universe?	Light	and	space.	Some	of	that	light	has
become	matter,	and	some	of	that	matter	is	water.	So	everything	the	universe	is
made	of	shines	through	a	rainbow.	Every	particle	in	creation	contains	the
whole.”
We	were	still	climbing	the	hill,	going	higher	than	we	had	anytime	before.	It
was	getting	hard	to	hike	and	talk	at
	the	same	time.	“Then,	we’re	actually
chasing	the	universe?”	I	asked.
“In	a	way.	But	I	think	the	hint	that	we’re	following	is	even	bigger,”	said	Baba,
who	gave	no	sign	that	he	noticed	how	tired	I	was	getting.
“What’s	bigger	than	the	universe?”	I	asked.	With	every	foot	we	climbed	I	saw
that	Baba	was	working	himself	into	a	better	mood,	and	now	he	was	wearing
his	I	know	a	secret	smile.
“Someone	who	can	change	the	universe,”	Baba	said.
“And	who	can	do	that?”
“You,”	he	said.	“Nobody	else	but	you.”
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HAT
	I	L
EARNED
A	lot	of	the	time	spirituality	is	about	the	impossible,	and	this	fourth	day	was
no	exception.	I’m	sure	you’ve	heard	it	said	that	youth	is	the	most	idealistic
time	of	life.	Kids	want	to	change	the	world,	and	by	the	time	they	grow	up,
they	realize	that	they	can’t.	The	world	is	just	going	to	be	the	way	it	is,	and
there’s	nothing	one	person	can	do	about	it.	Baba	didn’t	subscribe	to	that
belief.	Yet	he	was	very	far	from	being	a	starry-eyed	idealist.	To	him,	changing
the	world	is	the	most	natural	thing	anyone	can	do.	In	fact,	it’s	impossible
not
to	change	the	world.	So	he	went	a	step	further	and	told	me	I	could	change	the
universe.
The	secret	is	invisible,	as	always.	Look	at	a	distant	galaxy	whose	light	takes
millions	of	years	to	get	to	Earth.
	Do	you	feel	far	away	from	that	galaxy?	Youreyes	say	that	you	are,	but	beneath	the	surface	there	is	no	distance	at	all.
Physics	tells	us	that	a	single	electron	cannot	vibrate	without	making	the	whole
universe	shake.	Every	particle	is	part	of	a	single	field	that	stretches	to	infinity
in	all	directions;	this	field	feels	and	senses	every	single	event	instantly,	no
matter	where	it	happens.	As	one	witty	physicist	said,	“If	you	tickle	the
universe	over	here,	it	laughs	over	there.”
Imagine	a	small	compass	with	its	needle	pointing	north.	It	has	no	idea	that	a
huge	magnetic	field	is	causing	this,	because	the	field	is	invisible.	But	if	you
move	the	compass,	the	field	will	pull	the	needle	back	in	line	without	a	pause.
There’s	no	need	to	send	a	signal	to	the	magnetic	North	Pole	and	then	receive
one	back.	The	field	has	sensed	the	compass	and	changed	it;	and	in	return	the
compass	has	changed	the	field,	because	no	tiny	part	can	shift	without	shifting
the	whole.
You	are	part	of	the	cosmic	field.	Your	body	flows	with	magnetism,	just	like	a
compass,	along	with	chemical	and	electrical	energy.	So	your	every	thought	is
taking	place	not	just	in	your	head,	but	in	the	field.	Your	mind	is
eavesdropping	on	the	universe.
Spirituality	is	a	step	ahead	of	science	in	one	small	way:	It	believes	that	the
field	is	alive	and	intelligent.	The	whole	universe
thinks
.	There	are	some	hints
at	this.	Several	years	ago	a	colorful	experiment	was	conducted	using	nonsense
words.	Children	from	Japan	were	shown	a	poem	in	Japanese	and	other	words
that	formed	nothing	but	nonsense.	They	could	easily	pick	out	which	one	was
the	poem.	Then	the	same	words	were	shown	to	Western	kids	who	only	spoke
English.	Strangely,	they	also	showed	an	ability	to	pick	out	which	words	were
a	Japanese	poem	and	which	ones	were	nonsense.	How	did	they	do	it?	It	was
as	if	they	picked	this	knowledge	out	of	thin	air—or	as	we	would	say	out	of
the	field.
Does	the	field	know	Japanese?	Maybe	it	knows	a	lot	more.	Albert	Einstein
himself	said	that	when	he	plunged	deep	into	the	laws	of	nature,	he	was	trying
to	figure	out	how	God’s	mind	worked,	which	is	the	same	as	saying	that
creation	has	a	mind.	I	think	it	does,	and	so	did	Baba.	Your	intelligence	is	the
same	as	cosmic	intelligence.	The	eye	keeps	fooling	you	into	thinking	that	the
world	is	huge	and	you	are	small.	But	Baba	never	stopped	trying	to	get	me	to
stop	believing	my	eyes.
There	was	once	a	great	teacher	who	had	many	devoted	followers.	One	day	a
young	man	came	to	him	feeling	very	dejected	and	said,	“You	are	so	far	aboveme	that	I	can	never	rise	that	high.	Lying	in	bed	at	night,	I	think	of	Jesus	and
Buddha	and	all	the	great	masters.	How	can	anyone	as	weak	as	me	find
enlightenment?”
The	teacher	thought	for	a	moment	and	said,	“You	see	yourself	as	small	and
weak	because	you	look	with	physical	eyes	and	not	the	eyes	of	the	soul.	I	see
the	light	in	you,	and
	it	is	the	same	light	that	was	in	Jesus,	Buddha,	and	all	the
saints.	Today	it	may	be	a	small	light,	but	its	size	doesn’t	matter.	Your	light
makes	you	one	with	the	enlightened.	Just	keep	working	until	your	full	glory
fills	the	world.”Out	of	My	Way!
B
aba	was	serious	about	taking	me	on	a	search.	It	was	starting	to	feel	like	a
safari.	We	trudged	uphill	and	down	without	saying


ate, a dopamine agonist and psychostimulant.
65
However, a recent Cochrane Central Register analysis of 20 traumatic brain injury
RCTs using dopamine agonists including methylphenidate showed no trend toward
efficacy and safety when measures of cognitive and neuropsychological function
were applied.66 One major concern of these RCTs was the high risk of bias involved
in each investigation, which consisted mainly of selection reporting bias and the lack of information to determine the efficacy of randomization.
66 This search analysis of 211 DMSO in Clinical Neuroprotection
the relevant literature concluded that dopamine agonists such as methylphenidate,
amantadine, and bromocriptine cannot be recommended as part of the acute treat -
ment regimen to preserve cognitive function following traumatic brain injury.66
The other two drugs found to have efficacy in the review of Lu et al.59 of brain
trauma treatments were the calcium channel antagonist nimodipine and progester -
one, a reproductive hormone involved in pregnancy and the menstrual cycle. The activities of progesterone and DMSO in traumatic brain injury (TBI) are discussed in detail in the “DMSO Compared to Progesterone for Traumatic Brain Injury” sec -
tion. This section includes two most recent clinical trials reported in December 2014, showing no benefit to patients treated for TBI using progesterone.
As for the calcium channel blockers, Harders et al.
67 reported on a prospective, ran -
domized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of nimodipine on 123 patients to treat subarachnoid hemorrhage secondary to traumatic brain injury and found that 6 months after this treatment, significantly less unfavorable results in terms of severe disability, vegetative state, or death resulted when compared to a placebo-treated group.
Again, however, a systematic review of RCTs using calcium channel blockers,
including nimodipine for acute traumatic head injury, showed considerable uncer -
tainty over its effects. The use of nimodipine after blunt head injury revealed an increase in adverse reactions suffered by the group receiving this treatment, a finding that implies the drug is harmful for some patients.
68
With regard to progesterone, two RCTs, reported in 2007–2008, showed positive
data for this drug. In the first trial, 159 randomized patients were randomized to receive progesterone (N = 82) or a placebo (N = 77) within 8 h of injury. All patients were evaluated after 3 and 6 months of follow-up. Improved neurological outcome and lower mortality rate were reported for the progesterone-treated group at both time points.
69
The second trial using progesterone was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-
controlled trial consisting of 100 adult brain trauma patients who were treated within 11 h of injury with a postresuscitation GCS of 4–12. After 30 days postinjury, only moderately injured patients (GCS 9–12) showed lower mortality rate than placebo and possible  signs of benefit when compared to the placebo group. The mortality
rate reduction was marginally significant when the treatment group was compared with placebo.
70 Stein et al.71 theorized that the possible mechanisms of progesterone
neuroprotection may lie in its ability to lower brain edema and downregulate the inflammatory cascade associated with traumatic-induced brain swelling.
More recently, a Cochrane Injuries Group’s Specialised Register analyzed 3 small
RCTs involving 315 people treated with progesterone or placebo for traumatic brain injury and concluded that progesterone may improve the neurologic outcome of patients with traumatic brain injury but cautioned that evidence for effectiveness remains insuf -
ficient.
72 This Cochrane analysis recommended that multicenter RCTs are needed to
examine whether any benefit for head injury is provided by progesterone therapy.72
DMSO IN TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
Although much has been learned in the past 25  years about the cellular and molecular pathologies associated with traumatic brain injury, the hunt for effec -
tive treatments has been a historical disappointment. This failure to find an 212 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
effective treatment for traumatic brain injury may have more to do with choice of
the experimental model than with the choice of what end points may be relevant to the human injury.
For example, there are two major flaws in correlating the effectiveness of a ther -
apy for brain trauma using small animals as the injury model. The first flaw is that the animal models used to test potential treatments for head injury, such as rats, cats, rabbits, sheep, pigs, and mice,
73 all have cerebrovascular supplies that are inherently
dissimilar to humans or nonhuman primates and this dissimilarity creates a variable tolerance when trauma is applied to their brains.
Human and nonhuman primate brain is highly organized and lacks the col -
lateralization of cerebral vessels found in small mammals, so its vulnerability to brain trauma or ischemia is much greater than that of small mammals. The second major flaw may be an inherent ineffectiveness of the treatment being tested. These two experimental flaws may help explain why dramatic therapeutic responses often reported as breakthroughs in the head injury field using small animals sub -
jected to head injury later are shown to have almost zero correlation to the human counterpart.
Consequently, extrapolations relating the success of these therapies in small ani -
mal models to humans are at best uncertain and impossible to predict.
To complicate matters, traumatic brain injury in humans can result in focal
pathology due to the formation of hematomas and vessel infarction, or diffuse injury involving spreading edema, activation of inflammatory cytokines, release of excit -
atory neurotransmitters, and diffuse axonal injury.
74 Some but not all of the patho -
logical processes are easy to create in a small animal model but difficult to clinically assess posttrauma after a treatment is delivered due to the variability and tolerance associated with each animal species.
From this perspective, DMSO had a distinct advantage when it was first tested
for traumatic brain injury in the early 1970s because nonhuman primates were used. For reasons discussed in Chapter 8, using nonhuman primates, whose brains very closely resemble human brain, means that the injury will closely reflect the human injury and if the treatment works in the nonhuman primate, it is also likely to work in people.
75–78 The only caveat in the use of a nonhuman primate is that human trau -
matic brain injury is more complex than the controlled laboratory injury monkeys experience.
The results of these brain injury studies showed DMSO had a dramatic positive
effect on ICP, CPP, cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen, CBF, and survival.
75–78
CPP is defined as the net pressure gradient that drives CBF to perfuse the brain.
It is generally measured as the MAP minus ICP (MAP − ICP). CPP in adults is normally between 70 and 100 mmHg, while the normal ICP ranges from 5 to 15 mmHg.
79,80
It is important that CPP be maintained at narrow limits during trauma to the
brain, because if it is too low, it can contribute to both brain ischemia and irreversible
brain damage and if it is too high, it can raise ICP and increase the risk of complica -
tions or death.79 One standard technique of lowering ICP after brain trauma in people
is to induce controlled hyperventilation in order to maintain PaCO2 at the low end of
normal, that is, 35–40 mmHg.79213 DMSO in Clinical Neuroprotection
The basic studies on the use of DMSO for traumatic brain injury previously
reported in monkeys75–78 led to several pilot clinical trials using IV DMSO on head-
injured patients. One early study by Waller et al.81 tested DMSO on 11 adult patients
with high ICP and a GCS score of 4–6 following brain trauma or subarachnoid
hemorrhage. All 11 patients had failed to respond to standard therapy and were con-sidered to be on the verge of dying. DMSO was given as a rapid bolus intravenously in a 40% or 10% solution at 1 g/kg. This dose was repeated every 6 h as needed to maintain the ICP below 20 mmHg.
81
In all patients, DMSO effectively increased diuresis and reduced the ICP where
standard therapy had failed. DMSO treatment showed that three patients who were expected to die survived with good recovery; the other eight patients died despite their initial normalization of the intracranial hypertension, which could not be con -
trolled after several days.
81
The ability of DMSO to maintain CPP above 60 mmHg as shown by
Brown et al.77,78 after severe brain trauma may explain the benefit seen in Waller’s
et al.81 results on patients with lethal ICPs. This conclusion has support from a pre -
liminary study showing the importance of maintaining CPP from sinking too low in the presence of high ICP.
77
The findings from the study by Waller et al.81 indicated that aggressive manage -
ment to keep CPP above 60 mmHg can lead to good neurological outcomes despite the presence of extremely high ICP. Such a process may work by lowering cerebro -
vascular resistance, which will increase CBF to supply low perfusion brain regions where undamaged but dysfunctional penumbral brain cells at risk of dying can be rescued.
A study by Marshall et al.
82 was reported several years after the Wall


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Paul & Patricia Lift W eights (photo) ........................  50
Chapter 4 : Water & Its Effects on the Human Bod y...... 51
The Stones W ithin Us ....................................  51
Silent, Painless Gallstones May Become Noisy and Painful ......  52
Apple Cider V inegar Combats Gallstones .................... 53
Kidney Stones ..........................................  54
The Urinar y System (graphic) ............................. 54
Don’ t Drink Inorganic Mineralized W ater ...................  55
Dolomite T ablets – Inorganic & Unhealthy ...................  56
What is Gout? (graphic) ..................................  56
Healthful W ays to Alleviate Gout (graphic) ..................  58
Four T ypes of Joint Movement (graphic) .....................  59
Organic Fr uits and V egetables – Nature’ s Finest ...............  59
Arthritis and Rheumatism ................................  60
Posture Chart (graphic).................................. 61
Health Hints for Aching Muscles and Joints ..................  62
vi When you sell a man a book you don’t just sell him paper, ink and glue, you sell
him a whole new life! There’s heaven and earth in a real book. The real purpose
of books is to trap the mind into its own thinking.  – Christopher Morley Contents
Chapter 4 : Water & Its Effects on the Human Body (Continue d).....
The Bones of the Human Body (graphic).................... 63
Posture Silhouettes (chart) ................................  64
Don’ t Let Y our Brain T urn to Stone .........................  64
Nervous System is Communication Network of Body (graphic) ... 65
How the Brain Functions .................................  66
Adult Brain (graphic) ....................................  67
The Brain Needs High Quality Nutrition (graphic) .............  68
Organic Minerals are Essential to Life (graphic) ...............  69
Formula for Creating a Human Being ...................... 70
The Body is Composed of Organic Minerals .................. 70
Lower Respirator y System (graphic) ........................  72
Inorganic W ater T urns People to Stone ......................  72
Stone Lady Myster y Solved ............................... 73
Bone Spurs and Moveable Joint Calcification .................  74
Deposits in the Heel (graphic) ............................. 74
Do It Y ourself Calcification T est............................  75
Organic Calcium is Important for a Fit Heart ................. 76
New Info Regarding Calcium Requirements for Healthy Bodies .. 76
Calcified T oenails and Finger nails ..........................  77
Mineral Deposits in the T oes (graphic) ...................... 77
Inorganic Deposits Cause Bad Posture ......................  77
Ways to W alk, Sit and Lounge (graphic) ..................... 77
Water – Curse of Millions of Aching Backs ...................  78
Proper W alking Posture and Lifting Posture (graphic) ..........  78
The Parade of the “Living Dead” ...........................  79
Check Y our Mattress (graphic) .............................  79
Mankind is Sick & Growing Sicker .......................... 79
Cold Feet and Cold Hands ................................  80
Clogged Pipes (graphic) .................................. 81
Stop Kidney Stones Cold .................................. 82
Exercises for Healthy Feet (list) ............................  83
Head Noises and Ringing in Ears ...........................  84
The Human Ear (graphic) ................................  84
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Natural Foods Help Protect Y our Eyes .......................  86
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 vortices are spawned from this turbulen ce between the galactic twin pulsons, and these become the
twin-pulsons of stars. This may be seen as a general principle in that smaller and denser pulsons are created by a super-twin-pulson,
and these are then used to compensate its polarities and eventually materialize its ﬁelds.
Therefore, this model attributes the wheel-like rotation of galaxies to the spinning (etheric) ﬁelds of galactic twin-vortices rather than
to missing dark matter as current theories suggest. Alternatively, we may say that dark matter is a galactic pulson ﬁeld. This model
also explains why galaxies, stellar bodies and particles all have a spin (except for 'dead' stellar bodies that no longer have a twin-
pulson).10/30/24, 4:57 PM Healing Yourself - Energy & Matter in Five Dimensions
https://health-science-spirit.com/Science_%26_Spirituality/Energy-Matter-in-5-Dimensions.html 3/9Another consequence of this theory is the conclusion that galaxies, quasars and possibly other stellar bodies consist of equal parts of
matter and antimatter, each separated from the other by an 'empty' or non-materialized middle-ﬁeld.
Matter in the galactic center is compacted due to the strong polarity of the core of the galactic super-ﬁeld.
One possible ﬁve-dimensional interpretation of the birth of a galaxy may be described as follows. Within a super-galactic high-
pressure ﬁeld a galactic twin-pulson will manifest with a high-pressure core and a low-pressure shell. Materialization starts in such a
way that matter particles form in the galactic shell and anti-particles in the galactic core. With this, the ﬁrst signs of a manifesting
galaxy would be a huge hydrogen cloud slowly rotating within a magnetic ﬁeld.
Eventually stellar pulsons are created within the turbulence of the galactic twin-vortices. These move immediately into the galactic
ﬁeld of opposite polarity. Within areas of higher polarity these remain initially unpaired, while in the weaker polarity near the galactic
middle-ﬁeld stellar twin pulsons may form and start materializing.
Within stellar HP ﬁelds of the galactic shell most hydrogen becomes ionized, and protons tend to be expelled into the galactic shell.
This then gives the appearance of electron clouds embedded within vast hydrogen and proton clouds. The opposite processes take
place in the galactic core.
Stellar ﬁelds may cross the galactic middle-ﬁeld, and cause violent matter-antimatter reactions when combining with their counterpart,
either in the middle-ﬁeld or in the opposite galactic ﬁeld. This may be a main energy source of quasars, and a cause of unidentiﬁed
gamma ray sources.
Furthermore, stellar vortices are still being periodically created between the galactic super-vortices. At some stage the polarities of
the galactic super-ﬁelds will have been compensated by stellar pulsons of opposite polarity. Now new stellar pulsons will move into
the galactic ﬁeld of like polarity to combine with a stellar pulson of opposite polarity.
With this a stellar twin-pulson forms, and the process of materialization can begin. Stellar HP shells should continue to have a surplus
of negative particles with a surplus of positive charges in LP cores. In this more conventional model the core as well as the shell of
stars within the shell of our galaxy consists of matter, while those in the galactic center consist of antimatter.
As an alternative possibility of the birth of a galaxy, matter and antimatter particles may only form within strongly polarized stellar
ﬁelds and not already in the galactic ﬁelds. In this case large clouds of hydrogen and anti-hydrogen would not precede the formation
of a galaxy but only the birth of stars, and the early galactic development would be much less violent. However, in this case all stars
in the shell of our galaxy would have a matter shell and an antimatter core. The opposite matter-antimatter distribution would exist
within the core of our galaxy.
This means that in this case the internal energy production of all stars is mainly due to matter-antimatter reactions within their middle-
ﬁelds. Gamma radiation due to matte r-antimatter reactions near the middle-ﬁeld of a star can be expected to create cascades of less
energetic particles and radiation while traveling through its shell. With this, also highly energetic events at the surface of our sun are
likely to originate near its middle-ﬁeld.
Furthermore, violent events such as supernovae are then due to the matter shell of a dying star falling into its antimatter core due to
the premature departure of its twin-pulson.
Therefore, galaxies may basically create the atoms out of which their stars are formed. Stars materialize from the ﬁrst level of galactic
twin-pulsons. According to the Pulson Theory, the universe consists of equal amounts of matter and antimatter, and the more radical
version allows also stars and comets to have antimatter in their core.
In the galactic center stars and matter are compacted due to the strong polarity of the core of the galactic super-ﬁeld. On an
astronomical scale this is the same  type of force as the so-called strong force of atomic particles that holds the nucleons tightly
packed in the atomic nucleus, just on a much lower level of space density. In the galactic center a relatively small area has been
spotted with a million stars tightly packed into it. Energetically this would be the same structure as a nucleon (proton or neutron)
within an atomic nucleus.
There are massive clouds of dense  gas circling the center. Anywhere else in the galaxy these would be forming stars but in the
galactic centre it is different. These clouds do not form stars until a certain threshold is reached and then gigantic clusters of stars are
formed all at once.
My interpretation of this is that the matter in each cloud is compacted by a super-pulson creating a super-ﬁeld or group-ﬁeld. At a
certain stage in the manifestation phase of the super-pulson the materia lization process begins with the simultaneous appearance of
many stars. These galactic nucleons should continue expanding for some time.
Galaxies also have the equivalent of electrons or planets. These are the globular clusters, each containing from ten thousand to one
million stars within a relatively small space. Most globular clusters move around the galactic center in highly excentric elliptical orbits
that take them far outside the Milky Way. Our galaxy has 180 to 200 globular clusters; most other galaxies have globular clusters as
well, some up to several thousand. If we could make same-size models of atoms, solar systems and galaxies they would all look
alike.
The same principles that apply to a galaxy also apply to the Universe as a whole. It starts with the formation and ends with the
dissolution of its primary twin-pulson. It can be expected to move in an endless series of manifestation and demanifestation cycles.
There may, of course, be an inﬁnite number of universes.
Comparing Pulson Theory and Orthodox Theories10/30/24, 4:57 PM Healing Yourself - Energy & Matter in Five Dimensions
https://health-science-spirit.com/Science_%26_Spirituality/Energy-Matter-in-5-Dimensions.html 4/9This model shows a main differenc e between the Pulson Theory and orthodox theories of evolution and cosmology. Expressed
satirically orthodox cosmology in essence states that in the beginning there was Nothing. Then Nothing exploded in a Big Bang and
that created Everything.
Reacting to fundamental laws, simple ingredients combined by chance to form a highly complex universe.
The Pulson Theory, on the other hand, assumes instead that our physical universe precipitated from higher dimensional planes of
existence. Its evolution is being guided by pre-existing ﬁelds in a wide range of dimensional levels. These higher-dimensional ﬁelds
with lower space-density counteract the Second Law of Thermodynamics and lead to increasingly complex structures. The Second
Law of Thermodynamics says in ef fect, that if a system undergoes spontaneous change, it moves from order to disorder.
PHYSICAL  PHENOMENA
Magnetism
Cosmic and stellar magnetic ﬁelds are postulated to be due to the spin of vast vortices that bind and circulate clouds of electrons.
There are vast magnetic ﬁelds all over the universe, and astrophysicists are at a loss for an explanation. According to this theory it
means that there are vast super-gal actic pulsons everywhere. Also the magnetic ﬁeld of our planet should ultimately be due to the
two planetary vortices. Magnetic poles may be located at the densest parts of these vortices.
This lets us understand the shifts and reversals of our earth magnetic poles primarily as the oscillations of pulson vortices, which may
in a secondary action cause shifts and reversals in the ﬂow of magma, see also Fig. 6. (Go to Diagrams )
The deviation of the magnetic axis of our planet from its rotation axis may be due to the interaction of the planetary vortices with
those of the solar system or with internal energy structures.
A conﬁrmation of the vortex nature of magnetism may be found in ‘Magnetism and its Effect on the Living System’


 proceed to be judgmental about this thing that I don’ t like in the
news or whatever it is. When that happens, I don’ t stop myself and say, “I
shouldn’ t be doing this.” Instead, I accept that I still have some  judgmental
stuf f in me. I know that as long  as I’m judging other people, I’m defining
me, not them. T hen the next tim e I’m less inclined to do that, and the next
time I’m even less inclined, and so on.
Eventually you get to the point where you can see people’ s beh avior for
what it is. Y ou don’ t have to like it, you don’ t have to tell yourself that they
have a right to hurt others, or anything like that. Y ou just stop judging it.
Y ou see them for where they are on the path, and then you do the same
thing to yourself. Y ou see where you are, and then you realize that
everything you’re doing is necessary to get you to the next step and beyond.
Y ou’ll see yourself as having to go through all this in order to get past it, to
get to the point where your higher self is in char ge rather than your ego.
EVER YONE IS A TEACHER
I t ravel all over the world, and I know that every person I encounter has
something to teach me—it may  be to be a little more generous and give a
little mo re, or it may be to just give a smile or to be loving, but there is a
lesson there.In fact, I have a very strong b elief that everyone who comes into our
lives, from the stranger sitting next to us on the bus to our family members,
is a teacher. The key is to take the point of view of the student, eager to
learn what they have to teach us. When you look at it that way, taking away
some of your snobby attitudes, and your holier -than-thou, better -than-
somebody-else, ego-driven kind of thinking, you open yourself up to
frequent guidance from the universe.
T ake tha t little old lady who’ s d riving in front of you at 20 mile s an hour
in her 1976 cream-colored Cad illac, of which she can hardly see over the
steering wheel.  W ell, she signed an oath that she will drive around
aimlessly, testin g your ability to  ef fectively deal with her. She is a gift from
God. Y ou need to stop being mad at her for being who she is and what she’ s
about and understand that she’ s  exactly where she’ s supposed to be. She’ s
there to teach yo u a very importa nt lesson. In that moment that you’re about
to get angry and  speed around her (and maybe even have a ca r accident),
that’ s the moment she teaches you the lesson: Y ou have to slow down.
Relax.
There’ s an old s aying that you will not be punished for  you r an ger; you
will be punished by  your anger. That makes a lot of  sense to me. It isn’ t like
there’ s going to be a Judgment Day in which somebody’ s going  to tally up
how many times you were angry and give you points or whatever. Instead,
what happens is that you find yourself living with that anger.
When y ou expect the world to be the way you want it to be instead of
honoring it and celebrating it the way it is, you will be punished by your
anger. Anger, hatred, and bitterness—as well as all the stuf f that comes out
of you in the name of getting som ebody else to change or not liking the way
the world is—becomes what  you’re constantly marinating in. It is
something that you live with a ll the time, so that’ s all you h ave to give
away. It intensifies the stress tha t you’re living with, and it raises your heart
rate and creates all kinds of physical maladies.
So don’ t give anyone else control over the Divine part of you, the
intelligence that  suf fuses your form and constitutes your entire humanity.
Think of yourself as connected  to and part of it all, rather than someone
who is being victimized. Remem ber, everything that happens is part of the
perfection of the Divine plan.
That’ s a  very nice place to get  to. It doesn’ t take away your ability to
make choices; it takes away your wanting the world to be as you think itshould be instead of as it is. It’ s all in how you perceive things  and choose
to proce ss them. If you see everybody as a teacher, then you’ll always be
open to the universe’ s education.
Even those who cause us deep anger and frustration and might be termed
“petty ty rants” c an bring us inv aluable lessons. Society has handed us this
idea that they ar e bad, so we should have hatred toward them or, at the very
least, ignore them. As we’ve lea rned, however, everyone or everything that
comes o ur way has some kind of purpose. W e can’ t be awake beings with
heightened spiritual awareness or be authentically free if we believe that
only the things that we like and approve of are part of the Divin e plan. No,
everything  is part of the Divine plan, pe riod. W e don’ t have to like or
understand it in order for it to be part of Divinity.
My fath er was a petty tyrant, y et he influenced me in dramatic ways. I
call him my gre atest teacher, as it was the act of for giving him that brought
me to a higher level of awareness. I can also think of many of the people
whose lives I have touched as a therapist and as a friend, and see that the
person t hey hav e a great deal of enmity and anger toward was  one of the
greatest teachers of their  lives.
If you look at the times when yo u have moved to a higher spiritual place
in your life, you’ll often find that it was preceded by some kin d of a fall,
such as a divorc e, a bankruptcy, or an unexplained illness. This is true not
only for each on e of us individually but also for us collectively. V ery often
the dif f iculties and conflicts that nations go through teach us how to
transcend that level of thinking for resolving our disputes.
Every single fall of your life, an d every single petty tyrant that has ever
showed up, has really been an opportunity for you to advance  spiritually.
Believe it or not, the ego is terr ified of your fall—it would rath er that you
have a nice, steady stream of misery. It doesn’ t want you to have a major
crisis. It doesn’ t want you to have a heart attack. It doesn’ t want  you to have
a divorc e. Y our ego knows that when you fall, that’ s when you tend to find
God. That’ s when you go to t he higher part of yourself, and the ego is
terrified of either the higher self or of God being a part of your life.
W ith this new p erspective, I’m sure that if you look back you can see
how every fall y ou’ve experienced has actually been an ener gy propeller to
get y ou to a higher level of awa reness. Therefore, I suggest that when you
encounter a petty tyrant in your life now, instead of viewing them as
someone to be ignored or angry at, ask, What is this doing for me now sothat I generate ener gy to move me along spiritually?  That’ s a great ancient
teaching, and it applies in all of our lives.
All of the beliefs that I’ve talked about in this chapter are huge. The
notions that you are separate, you are important, you are distinct, you need
to be of fended, y ou have to cons ume, you have to be in comparison to other
people, are all ideas that the false self has used. Such message s have been
absorbed collectively in our society as well: The world ego keeps people
from knowing the celestial light  by focusing whole cultures on what makes
us separate from each other, so we can build weapons to destroy  each other
and therefore stay in constant  states of confli ct. It’ s done at the collective
level; it’ s done on the individua l level. But these are things that we can all
transcend.
When y ou shift to a mind-set th at we are all one—and know the peace,
bliss, an d joy of harmony that c omes with this—you will perform at higher
and higher levels. Again, the iro ny is that you’ll have all you ne ed, coming
to you in the amount that is suf ficient to take care of you, yet you will not
be a ttached to a nything considered valuable in the world of f orm. When
you’re unconcerned about being  special and separate, genuine success will
be yours.
CHAPTER 8
SURRENDER AND GO WITH
THE FLOW
There is  a fundamental understa nding that comes with awakening, which
is th at th ere is an order to thing s and each of us


infinite possibilities of enlightenment, andamong them cultivation of the honesty andunselfishness which she herself typifies.CHAPTER XI
ALL DECENT EATERS ARE FLETCHERITES
Dietetic Righteousness—The Disgrace of Sickness—The Optimism of
the Fletcherite.
IN order that there shall be no
misunderstanding let us agree upon thedictionary definition of " Decent." It is " Havingpropriety of conduct."
Let us also take the dictionary definition of
Fletcherite, as an agreed meaning. It is: " Onewho practises Fletcherism."
Fletcherism, in turn, is defined as " A method
of thorough mastication recommended byHorace Fletcher."
No self-respecting person wishes to be
indecent about anything, and especially aboutthings that are sacred.
I use the term " Indecent " because it has an
ugly look and sound. It is more than thoughtlessor careless. It is positively indecent and nothingless. So is ugly and irreverential eating moreculpable than mere heedlessness when we cometo consider what it means in the way ofconsequences. It spells Indecency from the
beginning to the end of the process involved inthe act.
You may have a very poor opinion of the
namesake in the case, but you must be glad thathe discovered for himself that decent eatingmeans recuperation of health if it has beenshaken : preservation of health if it is afortunate possession : and epicurean enjoymentthat cannot be realized in full without it.
I repeat that the term Fletcherite is not a
personal monopoly but a popular and dictionarycreation. I am selfish enough to be glad thatGladstone escaped the distinction of having hisgreat name used as a designation of decenteating.
DIETETIC  RIGHTEOUSNESS.
When I was called upon to deliver an address
before the New York Academy of Medicine on" Possibilities of Recuperation after Fifty," Iused a phrase of my own coining, " DieteticRighteousness," and was later called to accountfor having been irreverent in using sacredterms in connection with food and eating. " ByGeorge! " I replied, in righteous indignation,
" Is there anything more sacred than servingfaithfully at the altar of our Holy Efficiency? "" Is there any righteousness more respectablethan that which furnishes fuel for healthyefficiency and moral stability? " And thequestion may now be repeated, " Is there? "
As for indecency : Is there any conduct
having less propriety than regarding ourwonderful mouth, with its prodigious potencyfor protection and pleasure, as a mere food anddrink hopper for good material, which becomesreally swill in the alimentary canal if it is notproperly treated in the mouth? Can any onethink of anything more indecent than offensiveodours which are the inevitable tell-tale ofindecent eating, and which are eliminated frompossibility of development if eating has beendecently performed? The penance, or evenpleasure, of frequent bathing, in order that thetell-tales of indecency may not become public,does not atone for the sinning in the beginning.The real damage has been done in the, and tothe, delicate alimentary canal, with conse-quences to be realized later on in terms ofodious disease or premature death. These are
the inside facts in the case made bare by frankpresentation.
THE DISGRACE  OF SICKNESS.
I believe it was the great American
philosopher, Emerson, who said that it is " Agreater disgrace to be sick than to be in thepenitentiary. When you are arrested it isbecause you have broken a man-made statute,but when you are ill, it is because you havedisobeyed one of God's laws." As elsewhereremarked, it is almost impossible in civilizedsurroundings not to disobey some of the naturallaws: body-ventilation, first of all; but nosinning is so dreadfully punished as indecenteating persistently practised.
Some of the ancients believed that the
mysterious Something that they called the Soulwas located in the stomach and not in the heartor brain. There was reason for thus placing thelocation, because the bad effect of unhappythought or anything that " touches the heart" isfirst felt in the stomach if it has any troubles ofits own at the moment to worry about, due toindecent haste or carelessness in eating. To the
habitual Fletcherite such double disaster doesnot come. Easy digestion has been assured bybeginning it in the manner required by MotherNature, and to arrest it by unfavourable psychicinfluence for a little time does not result in theproduction of those poisons which wear out thebody faster than any other cause. The worst ofnews may be sprung on one as a terriblesurprise, and cloud the happiness for a timewithout causing damage to the delicate vitalorgans. Thus the misfortune, or its opposite in
disguise, as the case may be, does not set up a
vicious circle of accumulating bad effects. Thethorough Fletcherite is a philosopher, with asolid foundation for his or her faith in the Goodthat may be lodged in even seeming misfortune,and the recovery from the shock ofdisappointment, in order to discover the Good atnext hand, is as speedy as desired. The faithfulone is ever ready to go before the bar of Death'sTribunal for the approving judgment his dieteticrighteousness is sure to secure. Good circles ofhealthy cause and effect have been swirlingabout in the organism as the result of faithfuldecent eating, and Nature or Nature's God
never fail to perpetuate the evolution of theGood.
THE OPTIMISM  OF THE FLETCHERITE..
Fairness or politeness to the part of the
wonderful alimentary canal which MotherNature has assigned to herself to manage isnothing more than common decency; and noprivacy of privilege can ever excuse anyindecent eating. Just think of all the latitudeMother Nature has given her favourite childman in the way of easy convenience in doing theright thing in eating. He is not compelled to eatevery few minutes to keep himself alive, as he iscompelled to do in breathing : or every few days,as in hydrating his internal economy withmoisture. Never is he caught with his bunkersempty of food for fuel or repair material. Be heas thin as a hatpin, comparatively, he hasstored under his skin enough nourishment tolast him comfortably for a month. Neither is heterrorised by the conventional gnawings ofhunger. He is  per force wise as to the physiologyof nourishment and his stored resources within,
and turns any impatience for his habitualrhythm of feeding into a savings bank fund foruse when convenient. He is not frightened todeath, as indecent thinkers or eaters are, by theprospect of a fast lasting a few hours or days.He knows that he has on him and in himenough reserve supply of nourishment in theform of visible or interstitial fat, and othernecessary supply, to last for a long time, forty orfifty days, at least, and there is plenty of timefor expected or unexpected relief to happen. He
comes to know the value of his mechanism, and
the mental and soul essence it produces andsupports. His knowledge of his ownresourcefulness is sufficient to enable him toconserve all his vital strength until hoped forrelief comes. Or, being in tune with the goodintentions of the Universal Life of which he is apart, he never dreads the promotion we calldeath. It is merely a station on the road ofevolution, and just as sure as we are of deathand taxes, so is a faithful Fletcherite certainthat he is travelling the road of naturalevolution. He has not only eaten decently in theway of fulfilling the natural mechanical and
chemical requirements in the mouth, but he hasabstained from eating when the mental statewas not favourable, and has refrained fromworry when the prospect of a meal was deferredfor a little while or indefinitely. He may havebeen whinnying like a healthy horse inanticipation of revelling in the delights ofdelicious taste, and yet is not filled withdisappointment at the postponement of theexpected pleasure if the dinner appointment isupset or delayed.
This quite Utopian possibility of stable
equanimity is the assured result of consistentdecent eating, and thinking relative tonutrition. It is the constitution and bye-laws ofFletcherism.
As a natural presumption, when decency in
one direction leads to such delightful fruition,the opposite of it, indecency, must swing itspendulum to the extent of its full scope in thecontrary direction, and it does, for compensationis one of the laws of Nature that must befulfilled. It is true that Nature is always tryingto accommodate herself to any abuse. She maypermit being so much accustomed to it that the
punishment of it at the moment is not noticed.She even encourages the acceleration of thevicious circle that leads to momentarybankruptcy of resistance, penitence, and reform,as in the case of " bilious attacks." The man whotakes his daily or hourly prescription ofalcoholic stimulant is permitted to believe thatif a little seems good, more should be betteruntil he is landed under the table. He becomesmore and more efficient in " standing " theabuse until " under the table " means " underthe sod." The abuses have, however, been justas disagreeable to Normality all the way alongas the first drop of alcohol was distasteful to theinfant in arms. So, too, with tobacco, in


 acids. Normally, this
occurs only to neutralize excess acids in the urine. However, with heavy meat eaters this may also be used to dispose of surplus
amino groups, requiring additional acid ions for neutralization.
The most common cause of over alkalinity is a sluggish metabolism (slow oxidizers), which leads to a lack of normal metabolic
acids. Patients with cardiovascular and other degenerative diseases are often affected in this way. The inﬂammation response is
suppressed and histamine remains tightly bound to proteins making skin and body insensitive. When the body is too alkaline, use
plenty of acid fruits, ascorbic acid, possibly cider vinegar and take acids with protein meals.
The Regulation of Body Acidity
The body tries to maintain the acidity of the blood constant within a very narrow band between pH 7.35 and 7.45. This is actually
a slightly alkaline reaction. "pH" is a measure of acidity or alkalinity and indicates the hydrogen ion concentration in a ﬂuid. These
hydrogen ions are the actual originators of acidity. A pH of 1 indicates the highest hydrogen ion concentration and with this the
highest acidity. At the other end of the scale is a pH of 14 with the lowest hydrogen ion concentration arid the highest alkalinity. A
pH of 7 is neutral.
In younger years our metabolism often is too fast, too many acids are being produced and the body becomes chronically
overacid. Later in life, however, with decreasing muscle activity and vitality, more and more potassium is lost from the cells and
the metabolism becomes sluggish. With this, the body often becomes chronically too alkaline. If the blood is too acid, this is called
Acidosis, and when it becomes too alkaline, we speak of Alkalosis.
By excreting with the urine either more acid or more alkali, the body tries to maintain a normal blood pH level. In addition, the
breathing rate may be changed: increased volume of breathing makes  the blood more alkaline by releasing additional carbon
dioxide into the air. Decreased breathing, on the other hand, increases the carbon dioxide level in the blood and makes it more
acid. The balance in the blood between carbon dioxide and sodium bicar bonate (baking soda) is the main "buffer system" to keep
the blood pH constant.
If the body succeeds with these measures of changed' urine pH and adjusted breathing rate to keep the blood pH within the limits
of 7.35 and 7.45 despite a deranged metabolism, then the acidosis or alkalosis is said to be compensated. If, however, the pH
exceeds these limits, then the condition is called 'uncompensated'.
If the metabolism is efﬁcient then the acidity of the urine depends mainly on the acidity or alkalinity of the diet. A diet high in acid-
forming foods will naturally produce acid urine. This is not dangerous as such, but it is an indicator that the diet is unbalanced and
may in time lead to exhaustion of the alkali body reserve.
Likewise, on a diet rather high in alkaline-forming foods, the urine is always quite alkaline. This can easily lead to stone-formation
in the urinary tract and shows that the cells have not enough fruit acids for efﬁcient energy production. This often causes elderly
heavy meat eaters to become too alkaline while young vegetarians commonly use too much sweet food and that makes them too
acid.
A normal mixed diet, containing abou t 80% of alkalizing and 20 of acidifying foods should give slightly acid morning urine of about
pH 6.4, provided the metabolism is reasonably efﬁcient. Urine formed in the body after meals is naturally slightly alkaline as a
result of the production of gastric acid.
Test Your Body Acidity
In order to obtain an indication of the acid-alkaline balance of your body, you may test your ﬁrst morning urine from time to time. In
evaluating the result you should take into account if your present diet in general and the last meal in particular was generally
balanced or rather acid or alkaline forming. If you test the urine during the day, the result may be much more variable because of
the alkaline tide after eating.
Indicator paper for testing the acidity of body ﬂuids should preferably have a range from about pH 5.5 to pH 7.5. However, it may
be available only from 5.4 - 7.0 or from 6.0 - 8.0. If you expect to be too acid then buy the low pH and if too alkaline the high pH10/30/24, 7:21 AM Health-Science-Spirit - The Acid-Alkaline Balance
https://health-science-spirit.com/Healing_the_Body/Acid-Alkaline-Balance.html 3/6paper. You may obtain it from a scientiﬁc supply shop, possibly also from a chemist, a health professional or a health food
supplier. For an approximate test you may also use litmus paper.
In addition, it is valuable to check the saliva acidity, especially if there are any digestive difﬁculties and if you do not seem to get
sufﬁcient value out of your food, also as part of allergy testing. An allergenic food makes the saliva too acid. The saliva
approximates the pH of the lymph ﬂuid.
Normally, the saliva acidity before a meal is 6.4 -6.7, while 30 - 60 minutes after the meal it should be above 6.8. If the level is
below 6.4 before the meal and especially if the pH after the meal rema ins below 6.8, we may assume that the contents of the
small intestines are too acid for the pancreas enzymes to unfold their full activity. In this case you may take an alkaliser 2 to 3
hours after the meal.
With suitable test paper or better with a digital pH meter you can also try the following test 2 to 3 hours after a meal: Accumulate a
lot of saliva in the mouth and then swallow it. Fill the mouth with saliva a second time and again swallow it. Then test the pH in the
newly formed saliva. It should be nearly neutral or slightly alkaline, best between 6.9 and 7.4. If it is much lower you may wait 2
hours and then repeat the test. If the saliva remains acid the body is generally overacid and mineral or calcium deﬁcient. With
allergies and often with advanced cancer the body is very acid, down to pH 4.5, due to overproduction of lactic acid.
Instead of using pH strips you may use the yellow powder turmeric or possibly just some curry powder. Dissolve a teaspoon of the
powder in half a litre of methylated spirits or rubbing alcohol, shake and let it settle to produce a yellow solution. However, in an
alkaline solution it becomes a ruby red, it turns colour right at a pH of 6.8, the pH that urine and saliva should be most of the time.
To make a test pour some of the yellow solution into a test tube or a small drinking glass. Add a few drops of urine or saliva, if it
turns red then what was added had a pH greater than 6.8, if it stays yellow then the pH is still acid and less than 6.8.
Also red cabbage juice can be used as pH indicator. Finely chop some red cabbage, pour hot or boiling water over it and soak for
10 to 20 minutes, then ﬁlter through some gauze or tissue. In a small clear glass add a small amount of the ﬁltered juice to a
similar amount of a test liquid (e.g. urine, saliva, lemon juice or sodium bicarbonate), stir gently and compare with the colour chart.
Keep the rest of the juice refrigerated, use within a week or two. Also other purple juices containing anthocyanin work in a similar
way, just experiment.
Alkalizing and Acidifying Supplements
If one wants to alkalize the body quickly because of a cold or pain, then it is advisable to take half a teaspoon of baking soda with
water before breakfast for several mornings and possibly also at bedtime. Drink another glass of water or herb tea afterwards to
ﬂush it quickly through the stomach. On a low sodium diet use potassium bicarbonate or Milk of Magnesia instead. You may use
Food-Muscle-T esting to ﬁnd a suitable alkaliser. Also over-breathing, breathing faster and deeper than necessary, makes the body
more alkaline by releasing excess carbon dioxide with the breath.
Commercially a mixture of 2 parts of baking soda and I part of potassium bicarbonate is available and may generally be used for
alkalizing the body during an allergic reaction or after a meal if the pH remains below 6.5, take half a teaspoon of the alkaliser in
water or herb tea. If the pH remains between 6.5 and 6.8 after the meal, a quarter teaspoon is sufﬁcient.
If, on the other hand, the level is above 6.7 before the meal and especially if the pH does not rise much after a meal, the body
may have difﬁculty producing gastric acid. In this case you may take one or two hydrochloric acid tablets with proteins, depending
on the size of the meal. These tablets contain hydrochloric acid bound to Betaine or Glutamic Acid, sometimes also pepsin is
present.
You may


 individual attributes
and erro neously links them to t hree of the Chinese medical co ncepts of the six
exogenous Pernicious Influences.
The celebrated physician of the T ang Dynasty, Sun Simiao (581-682 A.D.),
a devot ed Buddhist, tried in his writings to reconcile these two medical
traditions. He wrote on a wide field of medical topics including alchemy, bone
setting, B uddhist spirituality and etiology based on karma, states and treatment of
possession, acupuncture and bo tanical medicine. But, in general, even in Sun
Simiao’ s exposit ion a genuine understanding of the theoretical concepts of Indianmedicine was lacking, and on ly some comparatively minor elements were
eventually incorporated into Chinese medicine.
China in turn h ad a lot to of fer to India in terms of theory an d practical
medicine. In this context Y i Xing (635-731 A.D.), a Chinese Buddhist monk who
studied in India at Nalanda University between the years 671- 695 ad. and who
thus had a good insight into both systems of medicine, has remarked that “... in
the healing arts of acupuncture, moxibus-tion and in diagnosis through pulse,
China has never been supersed ed by any country of Jambudvipa (India).” Y i
Xing also observed many bene ficial practices in India including the usage of
therapeutic fasting that were dif ferent from those of his native land. But for some
obscure reason, the useful Chinese techniques of acupuncture did not seem to
have lef t a great impression on A yurvedic and Buddhist medicin e, for no records
point to its adoption in India. Y i Xing is said to have brought more than 400
Buddhist texts back with him to  China; of which 56 he translated into Chinese
himself. In recording his own journey, he also included biogr aphies of a lar ge
number of Chinese monks who were traveling to India mainly by the sea route.
In spite of the seeming lack o f interest in Chinese acupuncture among
Buddhists in India there appears  to have existed in Sri Lanka an indigenous form
of a cupuncture.  Even in prese nt day Sri Lanka one comes across reports of
acupuncture bei ng used by traditional healers in cases of snake bite, and the use
of ac upressure on elephants! Dr.  A. Jayasuria suggests that this unique system of
acupuncture wa s a branch of Deshiya V edakamae, an ancient medical system
practiced on that island well before the arrival of A yurvedic medicine during the
middle o f the 3rd century B.C. This does not however preclude the possibility of
Chinese acupun cture having influenced the development of this healing science
in S ri L anka, sin ce contact between these two lands did exist a s far back as the
2nd century B.C.
The Sri  Lankan system of a cupuncture utilized a lar ge number of
therapeutic poin ts (nilas, meaning command point) along with a lar ge number of
forbidden points that closely resemble the present day concept of the Marmas in
A yurveda. In contrast to the Chinese system, however, a uniq ue feature of Sri
Lankan acupunc ture is the absen ce of any concept of Meridians  (jingluo). In Sri
Lanka th e utiliz ation of acupuncture in veterinary medicine seems to have been
practiced to a m uch greater extent than even in China, and an cient charts have
been found illustrating the points for use in treating, among others, elephants,
water buf falo, tigers and pigs. King Buddhadasa (reigned 33 7-365 A.D.) hasbeen reported to be a well-verse d sur geon and acupuncturist himself who treated
both human beings and animals alike.
T ibetan medicin e clearly shows the impact of both A yurveda a nd Chinese
medicine. A yurv eda entered T ibet in the wake of Buddhism around 6th century
A.D., and still remains at the core of T ibetan medicine. King Srongtsan Gampo,
who reig ned in the first half of t he 7th century A.D., was respon sible for opening
T ibet’ s doors to new cultural and religious influences from the surrounding
kingdoms. It was during this period that even the T ibetan alphabet was adopted
from Sanskrit. The king was  s o keen on the study of medicine that he had a
medical conference or ganized inviting doctors from India, Persia and China. It
was recorded at that time tha t each representative translated  into T ibetan a
medical work from their respective country.
Over the ensuing centuries T ibetan doctors acquired further texts and
knowledge from  neighboring lands, and today T ibetan written medical tradition
is a repository for many classical A yurvedic texts that have become extinct in
their nat ive Indi a. Even the mo st important text in T ibetan me dicine, the Four
T antras (Gyiishi)  i s consi dered to be of Indian o rigin. Buddhist legend says that
Jivaka, the Buddha’ s physician actually wrote down these m edical teachings
which o ver the centuries were s upplemented by writings of other distinguished
Indian and T ibetan doctors.
T ibetans acknow ledge the influence of Chinese medicine in the practices
of ac upuncture, the system of pulse diagnosis and inspection of the tongue. Pulse
diagnosis (nadi pariksha) makes its appearance in mainstream A yurvedic
literature only during the 12th century A.D., with the Sharngadhara Samhita.
India’ s system of pulse diagnosis in all probability came from the Muslim
medical system of Unani T ibbia or from T ibetan, both of which may have
originally acqui red this knowledge of the pulse from the Chinese. T ibet’ s great
contribution to A yurveda has been the detailed development of urine analysis
(mutra pariksha).
T ibetan medicine had also developed a rather sophisticated knowledge of
anatomy, which  was acquired from their long-standing experience with human
dissection. T ibetans, out of necessity, had long ago adopted the practice of
“celestial burial” because of their country’ s harsh terrain in which the ground is
frozen for extended periods d uring the year and the scarc ity of wood for
cremation. This form of so-called burial, still widely practiced, p roceeds with the
ritual dis section of the deceased, and then followed by the feeding of the parts to
vultures on the hill tops. Over time this anatomical knowledge f ound its way intoA yurveda and to a lesser extent into China. Indeed, T ibet was th e site of two well
known Buddhist medical centers (Chogpori and Menchikhang), between the
twelfth t o sixtee nth century A.D., where monks came to study even from foreign
countries.
During t he golden age of Budd hism, many techniques and other practical
aspects of medicine were excha nged between China and India, and one area in
which th is is certainly evident is in medicinal pharmacology. China imported
hemp, s andalwood, cardamom, long pepper, camphor, calamus root, datura and
cinnamon from India, while India obtained rhubarb, sarsaparilla, angelica,
licorice, ginseng, mugwort and tea from China. The exchange of ideas stimulated
each other ’ s understanding of the pharmacodynamics of plants and minerals, and
ushered in new advancements in the preparation of these plant/mineral based
medicines (see illustration 20).The alchemical schools of both countries were predominantly responsible
for the exchange of this knowledge. These schools in those days were intimately
linked to the rel igious institutio ns of T aoism and T antra, and to a lesser extent
Buddhism. Historically the Chi nese had a more highly advanced knowledge of
the alche mical a rts since the times of the Han Dynasty, and they  are credited with
considerably aiding the advancement of Indian alchemy. The earliest adept at
alchemy known  to have traveled  between the two countries was  Siddha Bogar, a
famous Chinese alchemist, who  during the 3rd century A.D. journeyed, taught
and eventually settled in what is  now T amil Nadu in southern India. Legend has
it that Bogar al so returned briefly to China with a group of Indian disciples
before settling back in T amil nad. Unlike most Chinese travelers to India,
however, Bogar was apparently a T aoist rather than a Buddhist.
Alchemy has two forms of expression: an outward search, dealing with the
transformation of substances for the benefit of the adept, and an inward quest,
dealing with special internal practices for personal transformation. External
alchemy stimulated intense research into plants and minerals, generating new
knowledge that was imbibed into such diverse fields as medicine, metallur gic
sciences, botany or even in w arfare (as with the discovery of gunpowder).
Initially gunpowder, literally a “fire drug” (huoyao), was a prod uct of alchemical
experimentation that was subsequently used as a medicine to cure skin


 (125 mL) of the herbed sugar
until thic k. W ith  the motor runn ing, add yolk mixture to the food processor
through the opening in the lid, processing until the mixture is thick and
smooth. T ransfe r the mixture to a lar ge bowl and stir in orange  rind. If themixture is too thick, stir in 1 or 2 tablespoons (15 or 25 mL) orange juice
until it is the consistency of thick cake batter.
3. In  a separate bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Spr inkle 1 tbsp
(15 mL)  of the herbed sugar over and beat until the peaks hold their shape.
Fold hal f of the meringue into t he almond mixture until just ev enly mixed.
Quickly fold the other half into the mixture, being careful not to overmix in
order to keep the air in the whites.
4. Gently spoon the batter into th e prepared pan. Bake in prehea ted oven for
35 minu tes or until set in the centre and a golden colour. Le t cool on a
cooling rack until the sides h ave shrunk away from the pa n. Remove
springform pan sides and transfer to a serving plate.
5. M eanwhile, make Orange Sa uce. In a saucepan, combine o range juice
and remaining herbed sugar. Bri ng to a boil over medium-high heat. Lower
the heat and boil lightly for 10 minutes or until thickened slightly. Remove
from hea t and stir in the liqueur, if using. Drizzle orange sauce over the top
of the cake and l et stand for 20 minutes or longer before serving. Or make a
puddle o f orange sauce on each serving plate and arrange a slice of cake on
top. Dust with powdered sugar and garnish with an herb sprig, if using.c a n d i e d  c i t r u s  p e e l
Simmering citru s peel in a simple syrup made fr om granulated sugar and
water is  one of the oldest form s of pr eserving the unique fra grance and
taste of citr ons, oranges and lemons. This method can be used for any thick-
rind citrus fruit or for fr esh gingerr oot.
The peel—the rind and pith—simmers slowly in heavy simple syrup that
turns it to candy, but first it is s immer ed thr ee times in salted w ater. T riple-
boiling the peel helps r emove some bitterness fr om the inner pith, but if you
include the pith, this confection will still be bitter -sweet and will dance on
your tongue long after the candy has disappear ed.If you like sweet and salty toge ther in the same bite, try r olling the sugar -
dusted a nd part ly dry citrus strips in coarse sea salt, but be car eful not to
load it on. Y ou want just enough to give a slight hit of salt with the sugar.
If you pr efer to candy only the z est (rind), use a vegetable peeler to r emove
1/2-inch (1 cm)-wide strips of zest fr om the fruit without any  of the pith
attached to it. Boil zest-only strips once in salted water and then  pr oceed to
step 3.
MAKES ABOUT 2 CUPS (500 mL)
2 navel oranges
1-1/2 tsp (7 mL) salt, divided
1–1/4 cups (300 mL) granulated sugar + 1/4 cup (50 mL) appr ox, for
coating
1–1/4 cups (300 mL) water

1. W ash oranges. T rim away th e ends of the oranges. Cut the oranges into
quarters and remove the inner  flesh sections, leaving the rind and pith
intact. S et the inner flesh aside f or another use, such as a fruit salad. Cut the
peel into strips that are roughly 1/4 inch (5 mm) by 2 inches (5 cm).
2. In  a saucepan, combine peel strips with 2 cups (500 mL) cold water (the
strips should be generously cove red). Add 1/2 tsp (2 mL) salt and bring to aboil over medium heat. Boil g ently for 2 minutes. Strain, dis carding the
water. Repeat this step 2 more times. Rinse well with cold water.
3. In  a heavy-bottomed saucepa n, combine sugar and water. Bri ng to a boil
over medium heat, stirring con stantly to dissolve the sugar. A dd drained
peel stri ps, redu ce heat and simmer gently for 1 hour. Stir the strips once to
distribute them evenly in the sugar water but after that, leave them to
simmer, without stirring. Check on the pan occasionally to ma ke sure that
the syru p is simmering gently and not scorching. A heavy–botto med pan is
essential. After 1 hour, check on the pan every few moments. The water
should b e almost evaporated and the strips should be translucent and soft
but not mushy.
4. Meanwhile, prepare parchment or waxed paper by sprinklin g it with 3
tablespoons (45 mL) granulated sugar. Remove the pan from t he heat and
using tongs, transfer the candied strips from the syrup to the sugared paper.
T oss we ll to coat the strips and s prinkle with more sugar if need ed to evenly
coat them. Use a fork to separate the strips. Let cool and dry overnight on
the paper over a wire rack. Store in an airtight container in a cool place for
1 w eek or pack into freezer containers, seal, label and store for up to 9
months.
Use: Dip the ca ndied peel in ch ocolate and use as a sweet confection; use
to decorate cakes or muf fins, or chop and add to the batter of baked
goods. I have used peel as swizzle sticks for cocktails, and it i s especially
nice with rich chocolate mousse or brownies.
s p i c e d  p i c k l e d  o r a n g e s
I lik e the unusual sweet-tart flav our and decorative uses for this  condiment.
It c omplements game meats, pork (especially ham), turkey and sharp
cheddar cheeses. This r ecipe is easy, and it uses the whole slice d fruit with
only the ends an d seeds r emoved. I’ve tried grapefruit but find that they ar e
just too bitter in this r ecipe. W i de-mouth pint (2-cup/500 mL) jars ar e bestfor p acking the slices, and sma ller oranges work better than the lar gest
ones.
Use a wide-bottomed canning kettle or saucepan (not a Maslin pan)
because the slices will have to b e boiled in batches—the wider the pan, the
less time it will take. This is best if left to infuse for a month or so. I am
always surprise d at the range of flavours that this r ecipe  generates.
Sometimes the r esult is very sweet; other times it is very tar t because it
depends on the variety of oranges used.
MAKES ABOUT 8 CUPS (2 L) 6 oranges
2 cups (500 mL) white wine vinegar
1 cup (250 mL) br own sugar
1 tsp (5 mL) salt 4 allspice berries
2 cloves
2 cardamom pods, crushed
1 cinnamon stick, 3 inches (8 cm)
1 star anise
1 tsp (5 mL) pink or gr een pepper corns
1 tsp (5 mL) coriander seeds
 1. Scrub the ora nges following directions on Citrus Fruits. T rim away and
discard or reserve the ends for another use. Slice the tri mmed fruit
crosswise into 3/8-inch (1 cm) s lices. T ry to keep the slices the same width
and thinner rather than thicker. Y ou should get 4, possibly 5 slices from
each orange depending on the  size. Remove and discard seeds and set
orange slices aside.
2. Heat five 1-pint (2-cup/500 mL) jars in boiling water, and scald the lids,
lifter, funnel and tongs ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ).
3. In a w ide-bottomed canning kettle or saucepan, combine vinegar, brown
sugar an d salt. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring constan tly until the
sugar is dissolved and the brine is boiling rapidly Add allspice, cloves,
cardamom, cinn amon, star anise, peppercorns, coriander seeds and 8 orange
slices or  enough  to simmer cov ered by the brine. Boil the orange slices,
turning once or twice with tongs, until the peel is soft but not mushy.
4. Using  tongs, fill a hot jar wit h slices, slightly twisting them so that they
fit the jar. Leave a 1/4-inch (5  mm) headspace. Run a thin non-metallic
utensil around the inside of the jar to allow air to escape. Pour hot brine
over slic es, leaving a 1/4