 can do for you, especially when herpes hits the mouth.”
Herpes zoster or shingles is a viral nerve infection that produces a painful
inflammation of the sections of nerves emerging from the spinal cord. The
varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chicken pox, is responsible. Fever and prostration frequently accompany the pain. There are associated chills,
gastrointestinal disturbances for three or four days, and a feeling of overall
discomfort. On the fourth or fifth day, characteristic crops of tiny, red, acutely
sensitive blisters appear on the skin. They mostly erupt on the chest, and spread
along one side of the body following the course of the affected nerve. (
Herpes
means “creeping,” and
zoster
 means “girdle.”)
A form of herpes zoster that inflames the nerves leading to the face and eyes,
such as the type invading Vernice Reed’s mouth, is especially dangerous because
it may damage vision. An ordinary attack of shingles runs its painful course in a few days or weeks
and does not leave residual difficulties. One attack will
usually confer immunity. In some cases, most frequently in elderly people, there is a persistence of pain
called postherpetic neuralgia that may be disabling, and which hangs on long after
the blisters of shingles disappear. Mrs. Reed’s dentist was correct in this case. There is no specific therapy forherpes zoster. Sometimes corticosteroids help if given before the symptoms
become established; otherwise, the patient just has to wait for the disease to run its
course. Mrs. Reed decided to experiment on her own with DMSO, for she keeps it on
hand all the time as a first-aid remedy. She took one teaspoonful of the full
strength concentration and combined it with one teaspoonful of distilled water to
make a 50 percent swabbing solution for her whole mouth and upper throat. She
swabbed and gargled three times through the day and by the evening she had no
more pain. “The next day I did the swabbing again,” Mrs. Reed said. “I combined aloe
vera with the mixture this time, because aloe vera eases the stinging that
accompanies use of DMSO. The following day there were absolutely no more
blisters. I didn’t need to swab anymore. My mouth has never had any blisters
since.”
DMSO FOR HERPES ZOSTER: A STUDY OF FORTY-SIX
PATIENTS
Whether you call it shingles or herpes zoster, the disease is a pain for the victim. The condition is especially disconcerting when it appears around the breast area of
women and the belt area in men, probably because of constant friction of clothing
in those particular places. If it strikes the face or rises in the scalp, the symptoms
are a terrible itch and searing pain. In 1971, Dr. William Campbell Douglass, now of Clayton, Georgia, did a
clinical investigation on the local application of DMSO for patients suffering with
herpes zoster and had some fine results. Table 12.1
 summarizes the study. It
illustrates that the sooner DMSO treatment is given for herpes zoster, the better the
skin lesion response will be. And it’s probably true that when the condition is
treated with DMSO early enough in the acute phase, the postherpetic neuralgia
syndrome won’t occur either. If you are going to use DMSO to relieve the symptoms of shingles, I suggest
you do it under the supervision of a physician following a certain procedure. The
material is applied directly to the skin lesions. Put the 75-percent liquid strength
onto the sensitive area as often as it is tolerable, realizing that it will sting. If the
blisters are too sensitive to accept this high-strength DMSO, dilute it with water to
bring down
the concentration. Experiment with how much water to add. You mayfind it comforting to sit in front of a revolving fan to cool the burning feeling from
DMSO application on the lesions. Caution: While it is less effective, I recommend
only a 50-percent solution be used for treating the face, neck, and scalp. In his study, Dr. Douglass frequently combined dexamethasone (Decadron)
with DMSO. There was no noticeable difference with this drug combination as
compared to the DMSO used alone. In Table 12.1, the spinal areas are listed
merely as location markers showing the approximate place the herpes zoster was
present. Note the unusual cases where good results were acquired even after
patient number 24 had the condition for four-and-a-half years and patient number
37 had it for one-and-a-half years. DMSO has become a specific remedy to overcome the symptoms of herpes
zoster, particularly to relieve the pain that follows the course of the involved
nerve. Those patients who have itching but no neuralgia do not feel much relief of
the itching; in fact it may increase. In general, DMSO applied to herpes zoster with
skin eruption appears to shorten the course of the disorder and to prevent
postherpetic neuralgia. AN ENGLISH STUDY OF SHINGLES
Just before the Douglass study took place, a research group in Oxford, England,
investigated the use of a combination of the antiviral drug, idoxuridine, and DMSO
for treating shingles. Although systemic idoxuridine was tried against this viral
nerve disease with equivocal results, the Oxford investigators reasoned that, since
the varicella-zoster virus is related to the herpes simplex virus, and since DMSO-
idoxuridine has been useful against herpes simplex lesions on the skin and mucous
membranes, it was worth a try. The idea was to prevent virus replication, thus
ameliorating the disease and, not incidentally, the pain. The English investigators’ trick worked. Continuously applied 40 percent
idoxuridine in purified dimethyl sulfoxide clears up the herpes zoster lesions
quickly. The continuous administration is achieved with a piece of lint, soaked in
the drug, placed over the vesicles, and kept on the skin by a gauze bandage. The
lint is resoaked daily. “The patients were delighted, for the pain disappeared within a median of two
days. Healing also appeared to be accelerated,” the researchers reported in the
British Medical Journal
 of December 26, 1970. 1
 Some skin peeling occurred after
treatment was ended, but only one subject in this uncontrolled trial had asecondary bacterial infection. Table 12.1
 DMSO Study on Herpes Zoster (H.Z.) and Postherpetic Neuralgia (P.H.N.) RESULTS
William C. Douglass, M.D. Patient
Diagnosis
Duration
Location
RX
Good
Fair
Poor
Inconclusive or Unknown
1
Herpes Zoster w/Neuralgia
7
 days
T-10
DMSO 90%
X

2
Post Herpetic Neuralgia
I
1
⁄
2
 yrs
T-5
DMSO 90%

X

3
P.H.N. 14 days
T-10
DMSO 90%
X

4
H.Z. w/Neuralgia
7 days
T-14
DMSO 90%
w/Decadron
X

5
P.H.N. 4 mo. T-8
DMSO 70%

X

6
P.H.N. 14 days
T-12
DMSO 90% w/Decadron
X

7
P.H.N. 3 wks
T-5
DMSO 50% w/Decadron
X

8
H.Z. 3 days
5th cranial
DMSO 50% w/Decadron
X

9
H.Z. 7 days
L-5
DMSO 90% w/Decadron

X

10
H.Z. 4 days
L-5
DMSO 90%
X

11
H.Z. 5 days
T-5
DMSO 50% w/Decadron
X

12
H.Z. w/Neuralgia
7 days
T-6
DMSO 9% w/Decadron
X

13
H.Z. w/Neuralgia
4 days
C-5
DMSO 50% w/Decadron
X

14
P.H.N. 6 mo. T-5
DMSO 90% w/Decadron
X

15
P.H.N. 30 days
T-4
DMSO 90%
X

16
P.H.N. 5 mo. 5th cranial
DMSO 50% w/Decadron
X

17
P.H.N. 5 mo. T-4
DMSO 90% w/Decadron
X

18
H.Z. 5 days
L-l
DMSO 90% w/Decadron
X

19
H.Z. 2 days
T-3
DMSO 90% w/Decadron
X

20
H.Z. 5 days


 a remote rural area for
years of meditation, solitude, and adjustment to the state. Within the condition, understandings spontaneously arose that were
without thought. As a prior Hinayana Buddhist, I had believed that the
ultimate reality of the Buddha nature was ‘Nothingness’, or ‘Void’. Thatwas an error because voidness itself is a belief system that, however, had
recurred as an experiential reality during meditations in this lifetime. With the constant pursuit of the pathway of negation (attachment or
aversion to form), the condition of voidness would return—enormously
impressive, infinite, beyond space, time, or description; omnipresent, all-
pervasive, and beyond all thought or volition. Yet, despite its seeming
nonlinear totality, there was the awareness of the absence of a critical
quality that had been experienced as a youth in the snow bank—the
exquisite softness, the at-homeness, the familiarity, the recognition of the
essence of the totality of Reality as all-inclusive Love. This quality of Love
is beyond joy or ecstasy and is intrinsic to the state of Peace. Strikingly, the Void is very similar to the Ultimate State, except that it is
devoid of the Love that is the very essence of Divinity. Without Love, the
Void is like infinite, timeless, empty space. Devoid of the quality that
identifies it as Divinity, the Void is a limitation. This appeared to be the
final, great polarity/duality of the seeming opposites, the resolution of
which permitted the Realization of the Self as the Allness and Oneness out
of which Creation emerges. (The above paragraph calibrates at 1,000.) The Development of Consciousness Research
After years of solitude, there was a stirring to once again include the
world. People asked questions, and so a sharing/teaching function began. Yet, there was still no way to explain the inner state or demonstrate a
pathway other than by the traditional modes of providing information,
inspiration, and instruction on meditation. Then, fortuitously, there was an invitation to attend a lecture on
kinesiology in a class taught by Dr. John Diamond. While the class and the
teacher contextualized the kinesiological response as a local phenomenon, it
was witnessed by this state of consciousness as an impersonal response of
universal consciousness itself. It was obvious that the field of consciousness
is like an infinite, motionless electrostatic field capable of responding
concordantly to the level of strength of the energy of a stimulus. It was easily demonstrated that what is true or prolife resulted in a
positive response (“yes”). In contrast to falsehood or a stimulus of energy
inimical to life, the response was muscular weakness (a “no”). Then it
became clear that the response was actually not a “yes” versus a “no,” but a
“yes” or a “not yes.”With study, the kinesiological response was found to occur along a
gradient that was aligned with the level of energy of a stimulus. A spectrum
of responses appeared concordant with the quality of the stimulus. This
observation led to the experimental improvisation of an arbitrary
mathematical scale. Critical to the development of an empirical clinical science of
consciousness calibration research was a fortuitous observation that
whereas fluorescent light, pesticides, and artificial sweeteners made
everyone go weak, they did not do so in a group of students of A Course in
Miracles after they had progressed to about Lesson 75 (the Course consists
of 365 daily lessons). Thus, the kinesiological response was related to the
level of consciousness (cessation of seeing oneself as a victim of external
‘causes’ and re-owning one’s power). By research and observation, it was discovered that all life in all its
expressions reflects an innate level of energy, from weak to strong. This
spectrum led itself to the development of a calibratable numerical scale that
proved, however, to be impractical due to the extreme numbers that were
required to keep pace with their numerical designation. This problem was
solved by utilizing a logarithmic scale (to the base 10) that permitted the
pragmatic use of an arbitrary scale ranging from 1 to 1,000. Calibration level ‘1’ reflected the first discernible energy of life
(consciousness) on this planet (bacteria) and continued through the plant
and animal kingdoms to level 1,000 as the ultimate possibility on earth. Level 1,000 turned out to be the consciousness level reached by only a few
people in all of human history—the great avatars, such as Jesus Christ, the
Buddha, Krishna, and Zoroaster. The energy-spectrum scale numerically reflected the calibration of the
consciousness level of all possibilities of animal or human life. By use of
the scale, one could track the evolution of consciousness from its first
appearance as life to its ultimate expression as the state of Enlightenment
itself. There followed years of research and application of calibrating the
consciousness levels of thousands of individuals, places, concepts, writings,
belief systems, emotions, intellectual levels, and even more importantly, all
spiritual states, religions, spiritual teachers, spiritual pathways, saints, and
sages. In every religion, the mystics (i.e., Self-realized, Enlightened)calibrated the highest on the scale of consciousness but were very few in
number. On the calibrated scale, 600 was the level that differentiated enlightened
states of nonduality from saintly, unconditional states that calibrate in the
high 500s and include many spiritual teachers and famous saints. Level 500
indicated a change in paradigm from intellectualization to experiential
subjectivity and denoted various levels of love. It was also notable that only
4.0 percent of the world’s population reached calibration level 500, and
only 0.4 percent reached level 540 (Unconditional Love). Consciousness
level 600 was extremely rare. The level of the 400s represents intellect, reason, logic, science, and the
Newtonian paradigm. For most educated spiritual seekers, the 400s
represent a springboard but also often a great barrier, and it is notable that
Einstein, Freud, and Sir Isaac Newton all calibrated at 499. The 200s and
300s indicate integrity, goodwill, morality, and overall goodness of
intention. Then came the crucial discovery that consciousness level 200 is critical
because it demarcates truth from falsehood. It was also noted that levels
above 200 represent power, and those below 200 represent force. The levels
below 200 descend into the obvious egotisms as well as animal instincts of
pride, desire, greed, anger, hate, guilt, shame, and apathy. The calibrated
levels also correlate with the capacity for spiritual insight, emotionality, and
perceptions of the world and self. The calibrated scale and its correlations
enabled the construction of the now widely known Map of Consciousness. The ego/mind is a dualistic construction that originated as animal
consciousness which, eons later, evolved through primitive hominids and
finally to Homo sapiens, in which a prefrontal cortex was added to the old
animal brain, providing the capacity for linear conceptual thought. Thus,
initially, the mind primarily became a new tool for the expression of animal
instincts through what is now called the ego. Examination of the mind structure shows that its function is comparable
to the hardware of a computer, and the software represents the programming
by society as well as by inherited influences. The fundamental innocence of
mankind is based on the reality that the human mind is incapable of
discerning truth from falsehood. It has no innate defense against the
utilization of its hardware to play any introduced software program withoutprior approval, discernment, or options of the will (e.g., the impact of the
media). Due to the nature of the software and the underlying hardware, the
mind’s primary illusion is the differentiation of consciousness into a basic
duality of a personal I/ego/self as being separate from the Infinite Self as
the source of consciousness/awareness. In this illusory error, the ego
identifies with content instead of context and is therefore subject to the
vicissitudes of animal motives, feelings, and faulty intellection. The calibrated level of consciousness indicates the degree of
impairment of the capacity for recognition of Reality by substitution of
perception, distortion, and the misidentification of appearance with essence. Also of great interest was the discovery that every single action, feeling, or
thought registers permanently beyond time and space in the all-
encompassing contextual field of consciousness. Therefore, any event,
whether a thought, feeling, or action, is forever identifiable and retrievable
by appropriate means, such as the consciousness calibration technique. The fields of consciousness consist of energy vibrations whose patterns
leave a distinguishable track and are experienced as subjectivity. Out of the
patterning of the vibrational track arise the forms inherent in karmic
consequences of acts of the will. The dualistic structure of the ego stems
from the core factor of linear positionality. A centralizing image of a
personal self emerges as the belief of an individual personal self as an
agent, i.e., the ‘thinker’ of thoughts, the ‘doer’ of actions, and the repository
of guilt and self-blame. Some qualities are rejected and become buried in
the unconscious, along with their emotions, which are the residuals of
animal instincts. Only after evolution to consciousness level


 inner world in which I invite you now. /G28 Spirit 1/5/09

It continually amazes me, upon  reflection, that no matter
how many channelings I receive, books from conscious teachers that I read, or life experiences that I have – the core messages
within them are always the deriva tive of Source. That is the
root message in the “already is” application of the Law of
Attraction;  that the ultimate essence of anything that you desire is the essence of Source, and that the ultimate essence of who you really are is the true essence of Source. In this way, we are
always the potential  vibrational match of anything we can ever
need, want, or desire. We sim ply need to relax into the easy
feeling essence, within ourselves and our desires, to bring the vibrations into harmonic alignmen t. This is the grand Source-
ful string that connects us all,  and expands our non-physical
essence toward greater understanding and light-filled expansion. There is a new consciousness, a new energy, coming to our earth experiences. It rests within the mystical world of the non-physical. And yet it is mo re real than anything we can
physically see. I have transcrib ed two Spirit messages in this Cosmic Wealth
 96
final chapter, that speak to these expansive energetic shifts
and our ultimate experience of cosmic wealth. They seem to summarize the essence of the vastness of our earth experiences and our non-physical truths. I offer them to you now, for your
own reflection. We believe the time has come for all beings to awaken to
their inner, dormant light. It is a light so bright, so full, so
rich - it would astound even the most skeptic of you. Because
you cannot see it, with your out er eyes, does not mean it does
not live within you. Inner eyes, inner vision, is a way to see,
feel, and perceive that vastn ess of all that you really are. Energies surrounding the earth, and within the Earth herself,
are flowing toward the greatness of the illuminating light. As these non-physical energies fill more of the spaces within the
earth’s atmosphere, the vibrationa l essence within all of you -
will turn toward that which burn s as bright, in its likeness. Where is that. They will turn inward – for within is where
the same eternal light exists. And they will begin to see it – with a new lens, an old lens rea lly, but to them - a new one,
of inner vision. Of energetic vision. Creative vision. Believing vision. There is nothing to fear. Some, who would say they prefer the
darkness, then have lost their contrast. Darkn ess can only be
desirable to those removed so fa r from their light that they
would deny the sun. Yet, they cannot separate themselves
from their “already is” truth and brilliant light. While some may continue to deny, or resist, the approaching new energetic
realities, it is the same as deny ing the presence of air on your
planet. Unseen, but very  much in existence. There you see that the shift in energies brings a new age of
expansively supportive and lovi ng energy. We want you to
know that this energy already burn s bright in all of you – it
is only a matter of allowing it in your field of consciousness. We understand your desire to live in the familiar. The world
of what, you believe, appears to  be “known. ”  Yet expansion
requires an expectation and a llowance of change. The Living the Prosperity of a Rich Inner Life 97
“known” qualities of change often are believed to mean
the “not good” or the “not wa nted. ”  But truthfully, if we
understood “change” as an ever expansive richer Source-full
flow, we would allow it instantly, and all of its feeling good-
ness. You are doing your pa rt beautifully and rem arkably. We love
seeing you relax and expand, relax and expand. Some will
expand with ease, and some with willful fight. But expansion
always comes. It is your natu re to expand. The earth itself
naturally expands. Fighting e xpansion does not stop change. It simply creates resistance, and thus challenges, in finding
ways to feel good. We suggest beginning to believe in your inner power, your
inner light, as the flow of change shifts the world perspective. It is in allowing, that you can a ll receive the greater truth that
exists in all that is, of wh ich you are an essential part. Be the person you want to be, th rough the allowance of all that
you already are. Live the life you desire to live, through the allowance of all that you already have. Become your original
self and you have won the lottery of earth life. In that
“original” state, everythin g already is, that could ever
potentially be wanted. You ha ve only to expand what you
already are. Everything else is an illusion of resistance to  that natural flow. /G39/G10/G17/G01/G11/G10/G01/G16/G09/G10/G16/G1A/G09/G01/G1A/G09/G0F/G01/G1F/G10/G01/G10/G0A/G01/G0F/G15/G09/G01/G13/G1A/G1A/G12/G19/G13 on, that they see as
being real. /G1D/G02/G05/G1A/G06/G10/G05/G01/G06/G03/G01/G06/G0E/G07/G24/G06/G07/G0C/G05/G06/G0D/G02/G07/G03/G0D/G05/G06/G0F/G01/G06/G01/G03/G19/G05/G24/G06/G18/G1A/G06/G10/G03/G04/G01/G05/G0C/G03/G0C/G0E/G06/G01/G07/G06/G01/G02/G05/G06/G20/G17/G05/G05/G10/G06/G0E/G07/G07/G11/G21/G06
or “doesn’t feel good” cue in  their vibrational system. /G2E/G15/G0B/G0F/G01/G13/G0A/G01/G0F/G15/G09/G1C/G01/G0B/G08/G09/G01/G19/G10/G01/G11/G13/G19/G0C/G10/G0E/G0E/G09/G0C/G0F/G09/G11/G2A/G01/G0F/G15/G0B/G0F/G01/G0F/G15/G09/G1C/G01/G11/G10/G0E/G2D/G0F/G01/G0A/G09/G09/G1A/G2F /G01
/G15/G13/G05/G09/G1A/G07/G0C/G05/G06/G17/G05/G05/G10/G04/G0A/G06/G06/G29/G0C/G1A/G06/G11/G05/G19/G07/G0C/G04/G01/G09/G0F/G01/G03/G07/G0C/G06/G07/G17/G06/G0F/G0C/G0E er tells you that they
feel. That has simply become a default truth. Their illusion
has simply become a default trut h. They do not know this of
course, and therefore believe the truth of it, not knowing any
better to double check their feelin g state, their allowing state, /G15/G07/G16/G0F/G02/G13/G01/G17/G04/G12/G0C/G10/G0B
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/G01/G02/G05/G03/G09/G06/G04/G01/G0F/G01/G05/G06/G07/G17/G06/G17/G10/G07/G14/G0A/G06/G06/G27/G05/G06/G14/G07/G12/G10/G11/G06/G04/G0F/G1A/G06 – is that anger giving you
what you want or pushing it fa rther away. To be truthful,
most would admit, perhaps even tually, that it has gotten
farther away. Everyone feels. You cannot fully disconnect from your
feelings. Your emotional guidance system is simply the
register of Source energy. It is  the meter that shows how close
or how far from Source energy yo u have become. Like a metal
detector, or the game HOT/COLD, it beeps when you are close,
and the trail gets cold as you mo ve farther away. The cold in
this case is the experience of da rkness. You have  left the warm
glow of the light. When it is darker inside, you begin to reach
for a flashlight, or a match. In the darkness, cold, and anger of
having lost your flow,  often – it is when people find the match
– the vibrational match – to the feeling of light. Surrendering
at that point of darkness is the release of full resistance, and so
often you will see someone make a complete turn around in this
instance. Why. For they have  buoyantly bounc ed and risen
right back up to their true  light. Without resistance,
they re-instated all that they  originally are. You see. So no.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the author's message about the importance of embracing change and expansion?,


  fortify  them-
selves and  bend  with  the  harsh  winds;  the  light,  golden wheat  provided  the  fat  and  strength  to  the  European
farmers  to  sow  virgin  lands  and  leave  a  legacy  of  green
fields;  the  American  maize  allowed  the  indigenous  people
to  keep  the  soil  and  water  alive  through  reverence  and
sowing  of  the  land. In  all  cultures  throughout  all  time,
human  dignity  was  maintained  through  the  grain. From  the  perspective  of  sadhana,  the  grain  is  the
seed  of  memory. It  was  brought  to  life  by  Gaja,  the
eternal  elephant,  who  carries  the  memory  of  plants
and  herbs. This  memory  has  been  kept  alive  in  the
ahamkara  of  all  elephants  on  the  planet. In  order  for
humans  to  sustain  the  memories  of  grains,  vegetables,
fruits,  or  herbs,  the  elephant  must  remain  a  thriving
species. While  the  form  of  these  plants  may  exist  after
the  elephant  becomes  extinct,  the  spirit  of  cosmic
memory,  which  each  seed  holds  from  the  beginning
of  time  and  which  is  transmuted  in  the  vital  energy
system  of  humans  and  other  living  creatures,  will  die. And,  in  time,  so  will  the  human  species. We  must  begin  to  perceive  all  plants,  and  the
sadhana  of  planting,  as  reaching  as  far  as  the  galaxies
and  stars. This  process  is  not  only  about  topsoil,
composting,  companion  planting,  sowing,  maintain-
ing, and  then  reaping  the  bounty  of  nature  for  whole-
some survival. Hold  a  seed  in  your  hand  and  know
that  it  unfolds  from  within  itself  the  entire  creation,
that  this  seed  is  the  linkage  to  all  memory  of  this  plant
from  the  beginning  of  time. The  magical  quality  of
healing  that  resides  in  a  grain  or  an  herb  comes  from
the  very  memory  of  its  seed,  whose  potency  has  been
collected  for  more  than  twenty  billion  years  of  origi-
nal existence. Food  is  memory,  and  the  grains  hold
the  nectar  of  this  memory. Rice:  The  Holy  Grain
It  is  said  in  the  Vedas  that  the  entire  universe  is  held
within  each  grain. Rice  has  been  the  primary  food  for
most  ancient  cultures. It  is  the  most  widely  consumed
grain  in  the  world — more  than  thirty  thousand  vari-
eties of  rice  are  currently  cultivated. Ninety  percent  of
the  rice  in  the  world  is  grown  in  India,  China,  and
Japan. The  components  of  a  grain  of  rice — the  husk,  bran/
germ,  and  endosperm — symbolize  the  cosmic  gunas
160 J@jfr
FOOD    SADHANAS
of  sattva,  rajas,  and  tamas,  respectively  the  harmony
or  protection,  dynamism,  and  inertia  of  the  living
universe. The  grain  endures  the  seven  stages  of  life,
from  seed  to  sprout,  to  seedling,  to  young  plant,  to
mature  plant,  to  flowering  plant,  to  fruitful  plant. In  the  Asian  countries,  a  spiritual  aura  surrounds
the  planting,  harvesting,  and  preparing  of  rice. In  In-
dia, it  is  cooked  in  hundreds  of  ways  and  used  as  an
offering  to  the  gods  during  religious  ceremonies. Rice
is  the  first  food  an  Indian  bride  offers  to  her  husband
at  her  nuptials;  it  is  the  first  solid  food  an  Indian  mother
offers  her  newborn. In  India,  the  grains  of  rice  are
regarded  as  two  brothers,  close  but  not  stuck  together. In  China,  the  word  for  rice  is  synonymous  with  food. A  typical  Chinese  salutation  upon  greeting  someone
is  "Have  you  had  your  rice  today?" In  Japan,  cooked
rice  is  the  same  word  for  meal. Japanese  children  are
encouraged  to  eat  every  grain  of  rice  by  calling  each
grain  a  little  Buddha. In  Thailand,  the  dinner  bell  is
expressed  by  the  resounding  words,  "Eat  rice!" During  the  Vedic  period  in  India,  the  inedible  husk
Planting  Rice —
Sadhana  to  Invite  Humility was  removed  and  the  remaining  whole  grain — with
bran  and  germ  intact — was  eaten. This  was  called
brown  or  unpolished  rice. There  was  no  oiling,  bleach-
ing, parboiling,  pearling,  or  powdering. Later,  during
the  time  of  the  Moguls,  rice  had  to  be  polished  or
white  before  it  was  considered  edible. Even  though
India  is  still  not  bleaching,  pearling,  or  powdering  its
rice,  there  is  excessive  use  of  white  and  parboiled  rice. Today  only  the  very  poor  villagers  avail  themselves  of
brown  rice. Generally,  its  quality  is  excellent,  since  it
has  been  husked  and  winnowed  by  the  energies  of  the
hand  and  heart. Rice  Bran. The  bran  is  the  nutrient-rich  outer  layer
of  a  rice  kernel. When  this  bran  remains  on  the  ker-
nel, the  rice  is  brown;  when  it  is  removed  by  milling,
the  rice  is  white. Bran  has  a  sweet,  nutty  flavor  and  is
an  excellent  source  of  rice-oil,  minerals,  and  fiber. Until  recently,  most  of  the  rice  sold  in  the  United
States  was  white,  with  the  separated  bran  used  exclu-
sively as  an  animal  feed  supplement. Rice  bran  needs
to  be  used  shortly  after  its  removal  from  the  grain,
since  its  oil  content  causes  it  to  turn  rancid  quickly. Parboiled  Rice. Research  reveals  that  rice  was  be-
ing parboiled  in  northern  India  more  than  two  thou-
sand years  ago. In  parboiling,  the  rice  is  steamed  and
dried  before  milling,  forcing  some  of  the  nutrients
from  the  bran  layer  to  penetrate  the  endosperm. Par-
boiling a  grain  makes  it  easier  to  digest,  although
many  nutrients  are  sacrificed  in  the  process. Instant  or  Precooked  Rice. This  rice  is  milled  and
polished  to  remove  the  bran  layers ,\\\i\  genu  and  is
then  completely  cooked  and  dried. While  this  rice
takes  very  little  time  to  prepare,  it  has  little  or  no
nutritive  value. White  Rice. White  rice  has  the  lite  supporting  brail
and  germ  removed  and  is  milled  and  polished,  c  k>m
mercial  white  rice  is  often  coated  with


le,"  229 Split  Pea  Dhal,  245
sprouting,  173,  195
squash
gourd,  340 RECIPES  USING
Barley  and  Squash  Soup,  284
Creamed  Squash,  237
Karikai  (Squash  Curry),  227
Millet  and  Squash  Soup,  283
Squash  and  Onion  Aspic,  291
Squash  and  Potato  Souffle,  226
Squash  and  Seaweed  Soup,  286
Steamed  Snow  Peas  and  Acorn  Squash,
232
Tofu-Stuffed  Squash,  266
Yellow  Squash  and  Baby  Onions,  232
Squash  and  Onion  Aspic,  291
Squash  and  Potato  Souffle,  226
Squash  and  Seaweed  Soup,  286
srotas,  27-29
stagnation,  27
Steamed  Artichokes,  238
Steamed  Broccoli,  Cauliflower,  and
Carrots,  231
Steamed  Snow  Peas  and  Acorn  Squash,  232
Stripped  Tarragon  Seitan,  268
Stuffed  Artichokes,  234
Stuffed  Seitan,  268
subtle  body
chakras,  31-33
nadis,  30-31
sunflower  oil,  175-76
Sunflower  Sauce,  260
sushi  rice,  163
sushumna  nadi,  30,  31
svadhisthana,  32
sweat  srotas,  29
Sweet  and  Sour  Landcress,  235
Sweet  and  Sour  Tofu,  264
Sweet  and  Sour  Vegetables,  232
sweet  brown  rice,  163
sweet  potato
RECIPES  USING
Karikai  (Daikon  and  Sweet  Potatoes),
227
Shepherd's  Pic,  228
Spicy  Home  Fries,  223
Sweet  Potato  and  Artichoke  Soup,
287
Sweet  Potato  Curry,  24 1
Sweet  Potato  and  Artichoke  Soup,  287
Sweet  Potato  Curry,  241
Sweet  Rice  and  Aduki  Means,  254
Sweet  Spiced  Pull.ui,  212
sweet  taste,  59
sweeteners,  tastes  and  energy  of,  68-69
Tamari  and  Ginga  Sauce,  276
tamarind,  KJ0,  W3
making  paste,  il>r> Tamarind  Rice,  213
taro  root,  343
tastes,  59
anatomy  of,  62
combinations  and  progression  in
meals,  134-35 doshas  and,  58
examples  according  to  the  elements. 64-65
of  foods,  66-70
stages  of,  62
transformation  of,  59-61,  62
teas,  tastes  and  energy  of,  70
Tempura,  294
Tempura  Batter,  294
texmati  rice,  163
Thyme  and  Vinegar  Dressing,  280
time  and  timelessness,  1 1-12 animals  and,  12
times,  prevalence  for  each  dosha,  131-32,
132-33 tofu
RECIPES  USING
Baked  Spiced  Tofu,  266
Burdock  Sauce,  263
Carrot  and  Raisin-Stuffed  Tofu,  265
Lemon  Broccoli  Tofu,  263
Natto-Stuffed  Tofu,  265
Oden,  294
Pan-Fried  Tofu,  26
Ramps  and  Tofu  Stew,  262
Ricotta  and  Tofu  Quiche,  265
Sloppy  Joes,  262 Sweet  and  Sour  Tofu,  264
Tofu  and  Broccoli,  262
Tofu  and  Ricotta  Cheese  Sauce,  259
Tofu  Fried  Rice,  254
Tofu  l.isagna,  258
Tofu-Stuffed  Squash,  266
Tofu  Tempura,  264
Tohi  and  Broccoli,  262
Tofu  and  Ricotta  (  heesc  Sauce,  2  >9
Tofu  Fried  Rice,  254
Tofu  Lasagna,  258
Toru-Stufled  Squash,  266
Tofu  Tempura,  264
Tooi  i  thai  and  Cabbage  Kuttu. 2  '>»
[001  I  'Hal  and  BggpUnl  Kuttu.! -1
Tool  Etasam,  2 1'toovai  dhal,  172
transmutation,  21-22 [ridosha
recommended  foods  for,  128  10
Tridosha  Sambar,  2 18 intkalc,  166
truth,  133
turmeru. 101
umeboahi  plums,  \  i  < Universal  Trifle,  mi
353
jmt. INDEX
uraddhal  172
l  i. id,  Mung,  and  Rice  Dosa,  203
urinary  srotas,  29
utensils
ancient,  157
modern,  158,  192,  193-94
Vada,  207
Vadai,  201
Valencia  rice,  163
Vanilla  Flan,  318
varak,  301
varuni  nadi,  31
Vata,  16,  18-19. See  also  Air;  doshas;  Space
beneficial  tastes,  58
body  type,  36,  37,  38,  39,  40,  41
daily  sadhana,  187
eating  utensils,  157
features  of  foods  that  nourish,  60
five  airs  of,  24-25
menus,  135-39
natural  tastes,  58
nature  and  tastes  of,  57-58
personality,  44—48
prevalent  seasons  and  times,  131-32,
132
recommended  foods  for,  74-80
Vata- Kapha
prevalent  seasons  and  times,  133
recommended  foods  for,  86-92
Vata- Pitta
prevalent  seasons  and  times,  133
recommended  foodsjor,  80-85
Vedas,  8
Vegetable  Dumpling  Soup,  287
fegetable  Pullau,  241
Vegetable  Stir- Fry,  230
Vegetable  Stock,  281
-Vegetable  Uppallia,  206- vegetables
preparing,  195-98 tastes  and  energy  of,  66
RECIPES  USING. See  also  specific
vegetables
Aviyal,  239
Spiced  Vegetables,  242
Sweet  and  Sour  Vegetables,  232
Mixed  Vegetable  Sambar,  248
Tridosha  Sambar,  248
Vegetable  Dumpling  Soup,  287
Vegetable  Pullau,  241
Vegetable  Stir- Fry,  230
Vegetable  Stock,  281
Vegetable  Uppama,  206
vijnanamaya,  21
vipaka,  60,  61,  62
virya,  60,  61,  62
vishuddha,  32
vishvodara  nadi,  3 1
Wakame  and  Bamboo  Shoot  Soup,  293
Wakame  Salad,  293
walnut  oil,  176
Warm  Almond  and  Nutmeg  Brew,  326
Warm


 will be a rainbow plate, a wobbly cup with hearts, or a baby rabbit salt pot
painted pink—th e sort of thing that would not be out of place on the big old
table at the Mad Hatter ’s tea party in Alice’ s Adventur es in W onderland. Christopher is nearly six months old now. I feel like I’ve know n him my
whole life. Sometimes when our eyes meet, the roles we are playing
disappear. I stop being a dad and he stops being a baby, and it’s like we are
two soul friends  hanging out. I’ve had exactly the same experience with Bo
many times. I can’t imagine life without them, and it feels like we were
always meant to be together. Louise believes that we choose the family that
can give us the lessons and gifts we most need for our life journey. In her
book You Can Heal Y our Life, she writes,
I believe we are all on an endless journey through eternity. We come to this plane t to learn
particular lessons that are necessary for our spiritual evolution. We choose our sex, our color,
our country; and then we look around for the perfect set of parents who will “mirror” our
patterns. Hollie and Bo call to say that they are on their way home and they have
gifts for Christopher and me. I put the phone down, and I notice that
Christopher is smiling. Christopher smiles a lot. Most babies do. It’s in their
nature. However, when Christopher gets into one of his smilin g moods he
can’t stop himself. He ends up smiling at everything, even inanimate objects
like an empty flower vase, a vacuum cleaner, or a screwdriver. I gather up
Christopher in my arms and take him over to the mirror that sits over our
fireplace. “Dear Christop her, it is my great pleasure to introduce you to
Christopher,” I say, pointing to his reflection in the mirror. Christopher
stops smiling. I’m caught by surprise. I thought he’d be full of smiles when
he saw himself in the mirror. After all, he smiles at everyt hing else. I
introduce Christ opher to his reflection again. And, once again, Christopher
doesn’ t smile. In fact, his face has barely any expression on it. It’s as if he
hasn’ t seen anything. Not even an empty flower vase. Why didn’ t Christopher smile at his reflection? Well, I did some research
on the psycholo gy of childhood development, and I discovered that it’s
common for young babies not to smile at themselves in the mirror. Theydon’t recognize themselves. Why is this? I asked Louise abou t it. “Young
babies are not identified with their body yet,” she said in the matter -of-fact
way that is so characteristic of her. Young babies are like soul birds that fly over their body and have yet to
land in them. When they look in the mirror, they don’t point at the body and
think, That is me,  or This is mine. Babies are just pure consciousness. There
is no thought of I. They have no self-image. They  have not made a persona
or mask. They do not experienc e neurosis as yet. They are still full of the
original blessing  of spirit. They are identified only with their original face,
as Buddhists call it, which is the face of the soul. Children commonly begin to identify with the image in the mirror
between 15 and 18 months of age. This is the Mirror Stage, or stade du
miroir, as the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan called it. No wonder Elliot was
having such a good time at our Thanksgiving feast. Sure enough, when
Christopher reached Elliot’ s age, he started to kiss the mirror, too. He’d also
kiss the big round bath tap in our family bath, shiny spoons, steel
saucepans, glass doorknobs, and anything else that caught his reflection. From about three years old, the mirror becomes a friend. Children love
what they see in the mirror. This is the time when they learn I have a body. They still wear their body lightly, though. The body is not who they are, but
it is a necessary form for the human experience. This is a time to try on
faces, to pull poses, to play peekaboo, and to invent silly dances. Christopher and Bo are highly amused by the image they see in the mirror. They often play games with their image, just as Peter Pan plays with his
shadow. Experimenting with being a me is fun at first but not forever. As we take
on the identity  of a separate  self—an ego—there is a shift in our
psychology. We become self-conscious in front of the mirror. We are
camera shy. We either crave attention or we avoid it. We take a detour out
of love and into fear. We start judging ourselves, and we lose sight of our
original face. The self-image that appears in the mirror is made up of
judgments. It is not the real you. The soul bird, which is our true nature, still sings, but it is difficult to
hear her song above the raucou s shrieks of a self-image, or ego, that feels
separate and afraid. The beauty  we once saw in the mirror is still with us,
but it is distorted by our self-ju dgment. We can see it again the instant we
stop judging, but judging is now a habit we are identified with. We haveconvinced ourse lves that judging is seeing, but the opposite is true. You can
see only when you stop judging. Myth of Inadequacy
“My first suicide attempt was at nine years old,” Louise tells me. “What happened?” I ask. “Well, obviously it didn’ t work,” she says. “The world would never have met Louise Hay if it had,” I tell her. “That’ s true,” Louise replies with a smile. “So, what happened?”
“I was told neve r to eat certain berries on the hillside because they were
poisonous and I’d die. So one day, when things were too bad, I ate the
berries and lay down to die.”
Louise and I are sitting in front of a full-length mirror in her office at her
home in San Diego. We are sharing our childhood stories. It is Louise’ s idea
that we do this in front of the mirror. She looks directly into the mirror as
she speaks. She maintains a steady eye contact with her reflection. I am
struck by how honest and vulnerable she allows herself to be. She speaks
with a soft and kind voice as she recounts her childhood. Her words still
carry some sadness. She is full of compassion for her nine-year -old self. “Why did you want to kill yourself?” I ask. “I didn’ t feel loveable,” she says. “Did you ever feel loveable?” I ask. “Yes, in the beginning. But everything hit the fan after my parents
divorced. My mother remarried, to a man who abused me physically and
sexually. There was a lot of violence in our home.”
“I am so sorry to hear that, Lulu,” I tell her. “The family message was I am not loveable,” she says. When Louise was a teenager, a neighbor raped her. The man was
sentenced to 16 years in jail. Louise left home at 15 years old. “All I wanted
was for people to be kind,” she says, “but I had no idea how to be kind to
me.” Things went from bad to worse. “I was starved for love, and I was a
magnet for abuse,” Louise tells me. She went to bed with anyo ne who wasnice to her. Soon  she was pregn ant. “I couldn’ t take care of a baby, because
I couldn’ t take care of me,” she says. When it’s my turn for my child hood story, Louise begins by asking me,
“What is it you most wanted when you were a child?” I look deep into my
reflection in the mirror. My mind is blank at first. Soon the memories
return. “I wanted to be seen,” I tell her. She asks what I mean by that. “I felt
like I wanted someone to tell me who I am and why I am here and that
everything will be okay,” I explain. As a child, I was full of wonder, and
full of those big questions like Who am I? and What is real? and Why do I
have a life? When I was little, we moved from house to house. Mum wanted  to be far
away from her parents. Dad was always busy chasing work. Somehow we
ended up back in Winchester, England, not far from Mum’ s family home. We rented a little house called Honeysuckle Cottage, and I have a lot of
happy memorie s from that time. Later, when I was nine years old, we
moved to a village called Littleton, into a house named Shadows. I
remember thinking that it was a strange name for a home. “Did your parents love you?” Louise asks. “Yes, most definitely, but it was complicated.”
“What happened?” she asks. “My mum suffered from depression that would come and go, and come
back again. The depression always arrived unannounced. Sometimes it
would settle in for weeks. Mum just lay in bed, and we’d pray for the
med


;
Siddhartha did not harbor the necessary seeds of delusion. T o destroy him,
the demon needed a completely dedicated ally, a vehicle for evil who had
no thought of his own soul. Such an ally would be recklessly evil, but in
that he would not be unique. His uniqueness would lie in remaining
unmoved by Siddhartha’ s compassion; he would hate it and want it
destroyed. W ould Devadatta give him that precious opening? Watching Devadatta continue his enraged progress toward the royal
apartments, Mara decided to precipitate a crisis. He couldn’ t use brute
force, but an enticing accident opened another way. Devadatta happened to
pass by the room where a certain girl waited. She was unsuspecting andvulnerable. T o bring forth a demon in the flesh, nothing works better than
flesh itself. It was no trick at all to turn Devadatta’ s rage in the direction of lust. Mara wafted a faint perfume in his nostrils, planted an arousing image of
swelling breasts, whispered in Devadatta’ s ear that he could not rest tonight
until he forced his will on somebody whose pain would bring him pleasure. Mara pushed the small switches needed. Devadatta barely suspected that he
was being manipulated. He only knew that he had to have a woman now. The insidious mechanism, so subtle in its creation, so violent in its outcome,
was set. SUJATA ST ARED WITH LONGING  out the high open window, placed close
enough to the banquet tent that she could hear music rise and fall on the
evening breeze. By the light of torches she saw Siddhartha approach in his
resplendent outfit, and her fraught emotions made her believe that she saw
him shudder as he entered. Catching sight of him made her shudder. She
couldn’ t completely understand what this meant. She was only fifteen, but
that’s old enough to understand many things. For instance, she understood
that she must never tell anyone her real story. Kumbira had gathered Sujata with the other unmarried young women to
watch the spectacle from a distance. This would be their sole participation
until the secret hour when the men would be allowed near them. “Here’ s a cream to rub out dark spots and lime juice to tighten
wrinkles,” Kumbira said, herding them around a table like an anxious
madam whose girls must please if she wants to be paid. She had never
seduced a man herself, but she was obsessed with the tricks of seduction. Buckets of snow bundled in straw had been fetched by runners from the
mountains so the girls could dip their breasts in ice water to firm them up. “Those of you who are smart won’ t eat tonight, but if you are starving, no
onions and lots of sweet fennel seed.”
Only Sujata had held back, bored and detached from the excited
preparations. She even considered paying a lower servant to sneak radishesand onions into her room since she didn’ t want to attract any men that night. Any but one. Their toilette complete, the other ladies-in-waiting sat on
pillows near the balcony, dreamily feeding their fantasies. They wore gauzy
sleeping gowns. Bowls of food covered the low settees in the center of the
room. A few woman nibbled and gossiped lazily. Was I ever so young? Kumbira wondered. She eyed them with envy and
dislike. Scraps of conversation floated past her like eiderdown. “Did you
see what she was wearing? It might have looked good on her ten years
ago.” “Do you suppose she knows?” “Knows? Her lover beats her and
won’ t give her money for a thing.” Kumbira couldn’ t remember being like
that, ever, but she must have been. And now she knew as much about the
empire as the king himself, although it would be her head if she ever told
anyone. Kumbira watched the young girl sitting apart from the others. She ate
from a bowl of grapes, one at a time. Since she had arrived, brought to court
at night in a ramshackle wagon with torches on either side, then rushed into
the women’ s quarters without a proper introduction to anyone, Sujata had
kept her own counsel. Kumbira hoped that the girl, whoever she was, had a
strong sense of self-preservation. She must realize the danger in luring the
attentions of a prince like Siddhartha. The door curtains suddenly exploded in billows of velvet, and through
them burst Devadatta. It was too early, and Kumbira saw immediately that
he was in a state. “Hush!” she warned the girls, who had started squealing and drawing
together like startled mice. Devadatta brought danger with him, not
seduction. Kumbira strode forward, putting herself between the intruder and
her char ges. “Y ou’re not allowed in here,” she snapped. Devadatta scowled insolently. “I didn’ t come for you, hag. I want one of
them. That one.” He pointed to Sujata. Kumbira’ s first impulse was to let him take her. She couldn’ t turn him
away, not aroused and angry. If she summoned the guards, provided they
weren’ t too drunk to put up a fight, they couldn’ t lay hands on someoneprotected by the king. Perhaps it would be better if Devadatta used her and
Siddhartha found out about it. That course of action would nip the prince’ s
interest in the bud. The king wouldn’ t appreciate complications. But Sujata drew back, eyes wide with fright and her hand to her mouth. Her pulse beat rapidly in the hollow of her throat. Kumbira’ s eyes weren’ t
so old that she couldn’ t see that. She felt herself moved to protect the girl. And perhaps the prince as well. Devadatta crossed the room. The other girls parted as if they were the
wake left by his rage. He closed his fist on Sujata’ s arm. T errified, she tried
to pull away. She dared not struggle because striking a member of the royal
family would put her in peril. Her fear made Devadatta’ s eyes glint. Even
the small fight she put up brought a predator ’s smile of anticipation to his
lips. “Young prince,” Kumbira said in a level tone that she hoped wouldn’ t
provoke him. “I appreciate your lust. But not this one.”
Devadatta glared at her. “Why not?”
Leaning close, Kumbira whispered, “It’ s her day of the month.”
“You’re lying.” Devadatta studied Kumbira’ s face suspiciously. It
wasn’ t in his nature to be blocked; there would be an outlet tonight,
everything else be damned. “If she is untouchable, why is she here with
clean women?”
But Kumbira had learned two generations ago to lie. She did it with a
flat voice and no trace of defensiveness, maintaining eye contact. “She
should be isolated, yes. But I’m old and softhearted, and this being a royal
feast day—”
Devadatta cut her of f. “Softhearted as a cobra, you old whore.”
Kumbira held his gaze, not giving him any indication that she
disapproved of the way he treated her. She knew how to follow up a lie.Devadatta turned away and grabbed another girl. This one went willingly,
even though he almost yanked her of f her feet. Sujata turned to Kumbira like someone in shock. W ithout warning, she
fell against Kumbira’ s breast, gripping her tight enough to hurt. “Thank
you,” she whispered ur gently. “Thank you a thousand times.”
The nakedness of the girl’ s feelings moved Kumbira. In her long life of
tough resilience and calculation, only Siddhartha had ever had such an
effect on her. She almost wrapped the girl, who had broken down in tears,
in her embrace. Then she caught herself and realized what she was about to do—with all
the others watching, girls who had no pity for Sujata and would be deriding
her the moment they were alone. Grabbing Sujata by the shoulders,
Kumbira pushed her away. “You think I did this for you?”
A confused look filled Sujata’ s face. She wiped away her tears with the
backs of her hands. “What kind of ninnies are they sending to court?” Kumbira demanded. She reached into her sari and took out the gold coin Siddhartha had given
her. “You’re paid for,” Kumbira said brutally. “By the prince.”
“Oh.” Sujata’ s voice was flat and weak. “He’d never for give me if I broke our bar gain,” Kumbira added. “Not
without consulting him first.”
The room was silent. The others knew they were witnessing a choice
humiliation, fodder for backdoor gossips. Imperceptibly gaining control,
Sujata drew herself up. “In two seconds you’ve been kind and cruel to me. What am I supposed to think?”
“Think yourself lucky,” Kumbira snapped. “T ry that.” She turned her
attention


 to
the point that she no longer needed pain medication. Now, when pain does arise, she does her pacing, which means she taps as
she wheelchairs  from room to room until the pain subsides. Arianna has
also resumed activities such as going to church, taking daylo ng outings,
writing books, and more. What happens most times is when a person taps on one specific event, the
pain in their bodies jumps all over the place during the unraveling of the
story’ s intensity, dissipating with the resolution of the ener gy disruption. In Arianna’ s case, her pain would jump all around her foot and leg that
weren’ t there. So, if we were tapping Tell the Story on a specific event,
such as “When I got the phone call from the hospital about Danny,” or the
“Wild West Fiasco,” the unbearable pincer pain might start at the toe and
then expand to all the toes, then it would change to a burnin g sensation,
then it might feel like her whole foot was being sawed off at the ankle, thenit would shift again to a scrat chy feeling, and then it woul d disappear
completely—in exact accordance to her complete neutrality around our
tapping tar get. While Arianna was feeling this pain, I wasn’ t insensitive to her anguish,
but I also knew that the pain was relating to the part of the story that she
was on in Tell the Story. I was merely tracking her pain as we kept the
primary focus on the story’ s emotional aspects she was unraveli ng with Tell
the Story. It was pretty profound. Please note, I managed these sessions extremely closely so she didn’ t get
lost in any messes after the sessions. She also had mental health support and
other resources in addition to working with me. As we had rapport and a
longer -term clinical relationship, I knew how much she could handle. This
is important especially when working with severe trauma, as she had
experienced. If you find yoursel f falling deeper into a hole and tapping isn’t
helping, it means you need additional resources, such as a mental health
expert and an experienced EFT professional. I have also worked in
conjunction with mental health professionals per legal permission of the
client. Gold Standard EFT T echnique: Chasing the Pain
Chasing the Pain is the physical  counterpart to the Tell the Story and Movie
techniques covered in Chapter 4. This time, however, the story is not one
you tell with your words—it’ s the one your body is generously sharing with
you as the pain or awareness shifts throughout it while you tap. For
example, perhaps the emotional upset relating to something that happened
between you and your partner this morning is a 10 on the rating scale. In
your body, you feel tightness in your shoulders as you think of the words
that were said. Instead of going into the story about the argument, start
tapping on the body sensation,  creating an EFT setup that reflects the tight
shoulder feeling. The pain often shifts, as the technique’ s name implies. Maybe now the awareness of pain might shift to your heart, which feels
heavy. You would then tap on the heavy heart feeling. Then the pain mightjump back to the shoulders but perhaps a little bit down to the right. The
pain can literally  jump around like a ping-pong ball in a high-stakes game. Your job is to track the pain and tap on it as it moves around until finally
you experience relief from both pain and the starting emotiona l upset. As
the physical pain lessens, the tapper also experiences an emotional release. If you don’t have a specific incident relating to your body concern, no
matter. You don’t even need to know the specific incident upon which you
are tapping because your body knows and is doing the work on your behalf. You can feel your way through the story with your body as guide. Chase the Pain also allows you to sneak up, if you will, on an emotional
issue by tapping  on the symptoms in the body relating to the issue. It spares
the user excess emotional pain by focusing on physical symptoms instead. The conscious mind gets so caught up in tracking the physic al, that the
normal walls a person would put up in going to a painful emotional place
are bypassed altogether. Sneaky, and it works—quickly. The Chase the Pain technique often links a body sensation to a specific,
emotionally charged incident and then releases both the pain and charge of
the event; oftentimes the body sensations will do it for you. Sometimes, you
will need to tap on the emotional aspects relating to the event. Is knowing what the incident was to resolve the physical symptom
essential. No. For example, many of us experienced birth trauma—fetal
distress syndrom e, premature labor, a C-section, induced birth, suction birth
—when we were born, and the ensuing fear of being stuck in the birth canal
or separated from mother post-b irth. We have no conscious memory of that
or what any ensuing emotions are linked to, yet the sensory feelings and
emotions are still there. We can tap on the body feeling; we don’t need to be
conscious of the content. It’ s okay to tap on feelings that arise. With Chase the Pain, we are not trying to get rid of pain or symptoms;
rather we are softening into them. We are nonresistant, going into the
feeling of the symptoms fully and deeply with our full attention while
tapping, in full acceptance with an affirmation. We simply chase the pain
around the body, a process that often leads to core issues still held in thebody’ s tissues that in my practice leads to regular relief from physical
symptoms. Addressing the physical can resolve the emotional. Addressing
the emotional can resolve the physical. They are interwoven by design. After all, it’ s within the body where feelings first arise. This syner gistic combination is powerful enough that it can in many cases
bring relief to numerous body  symptoms, unraveling the incidents and
emotions underl ying the physical pain altogether. Please note that I’m not
stating a direct correlation between illness and emotion or in any way
saying that we cause our own illness. Life is far more complicated than this
type of black-an d-white thinking. What I am saying is that tappi ng can help
manage pain and calm you down. A colleague who had been sidelined with back pain for decades used
Chase the Pain and would often get good results, but certain circumstances
when she wasn’ t supported would bring all the symptoms back quickly. Her
breakthrough in back pain relief  came when she had a realization: “I didn’ t
need to tap on other people’ s anger. Rather, I needed to acknowledge their
anger and then tap on all the reasons, images, words, and feelings around
my own anger. ”
Case Study: Relief from “Love Hurts”
Belief with Chase the Pain T echnique
Lois, age 41, is an entrepreneur and serious amateur athlete. Unfortunately,
she had been sidelined for the past several months by severe, mysterious
(according to the doctors), fibromyalgia-like pain. She sought me out for pain relief: “It hurts so much,” she said. Years
back, Lois had let go of the idea of marriage, so when she met a wonderful
man and they decided to marry, she wanted to relish every part of the
process, includi ng planning the wedding. He even had three children, of
whom he shared physical custody, which fulfilled Lois’ s dream of having
children. However, her horrible pain was marring everything. The physical pain had started about the time she began planning the
wedding. It was so severe it forced her to cut back on her client load andinterfered with the joy she had anticipated planning every detail of the
wedding. Lois and I worked together for about four sessions, using Chase the Pain
on her worry that she would not get to enjoy her new life. When we first
spoke over the phone, she referenced her mother several times, who had
tried to control Lois as a child. She had forced her to dress a certain way to
keep up appearances, and now she was trying to butt into the wedding
plans. Lois was having none of it; this wedding was going to be done her
way. I heard in Lois’ s voice the extreme anger about her mother; a clue. What she shared along with my intuition led me to consider that she was
experiencing “mother stuff,” and I wondered if it was playing a role in the
pain problem. However, Lois didn’ t want to work on any early memory
involving her mother when I asked. “I’ve done so much mother work,” she
said, “I’m not willing to do any more. ” I let it be for the time being. Besides, she was too angry abou t her today troubles destroying her dreams
and life. We instead employed the Chase  the Pain technique on her pain, her upset
over being so sick, and her worries about not enjoying her new life. She had
been getting worse as the months passed and the wedding drew near. As we tracked her body pain all over the map, she grew increasingly
angry. “It still hurts. Nothing ’s going to work. ” The pain was like a
jumping bean, moving from her back to her sacrum to her chest to
somewhere else. Each shift was another aspect and tapping round with the
EFT basic


 e n o u g h  s e x  b u y  u s
l o v e. C a n  f o u r  h u n d r e d  b i l l i o n  d o l l a r s  a  y e a r  i n  m i l i t a r y
e x p e n d i t u r e  b u y  u s  p e a c e. “ M y  k i n g d o m, ”  s a i d  J e s u s,  “ i s  n o t  o f  t h i s  w o r l d. ” T h e
p r o b l e m s  o f  t h e  w o r l d  w i l l  n o t  b e  s o l v e d  o n  t h e  l e v e l  o f
c o n s c i o u s n e s s  w h i c h  i s  t h e  p r o b l e m. J e s u s  a l s o  s a i d,
“ G r e a t e r  w o r k s  t h a n  I  d o  w i l l  y o u  d o. ”  H e  d i d  n o t  s a y  w e
d o  t h e m  n o w ;  h e  s a i d  w e  w i l l  d o  t h e m. W e  w i l l  d o  t h e m
w h e n  w e  h a v e  e v o l v e d  t o  t h e  n e x t  s t a g e  o f  o u r  s p i r i t u a l
m a t u r i t y,  a  p r o c e s s  t h a t  H e,  a m o n g  o t h e r s,  w i l l  l e a d  u s  t o. W h y,  i n  a  w o r l d  t h a t  p r o c l a i m s  s o  m u c h  f a i t h  i n  G o d,  a r e
w e  s o  l o a t h  t o  l e t  G o d  s h o w  u s  h o w  t o  m o v e  t o  t h e  n e x t
l e v e l  o f  o u r  h u m a n i t y. W h a t  i s  o u r  r e s i s t a n c e  t o  t h e
a s s u m p t i o n  o f  o u r  o w n  g r e a t n e s s  a s  c h i l d r e n  o f  t h e  L i g h t. W e  a r e  H i s  b e l o v e d  c h i l d r e n,  i n  w h o m  H e  i s  a l r e a d y  w e l l
p l e a s e d. I f  H e  c r e a t e d  u s  p e r f e c t  a n d  h a s  g l o r i o u s  p l a n s  f o r
u s  i n  h e a v e n,  t h e n  w h y  a r e  w e  s o  i n t e n t  o n  p l a y i n g  s m a l l
w h i l e  w e ’ r e  s t i l l  o n  e a r t h. I s  G o d  w i t h h o l d i n g  H i s  g r e a t n e s s
u n t i l  w e  d i e,  o r  a r e  w e  r e s i s t i n g  H i s  g r e a t n e s s  w h i l e  w e  y e t
l i v e. T h e  e g o  w i l l  s a y  a n y t h i n g  t o  k e e p  u s  f r o m  G o d,  a n d
“ Y o u ’ l l  s e e  H i m  l a t e r ”  i s  o n e  o f  i t s  f a v o r i t e s. G o d  i s  a  b l e s s i n g  t h a t  p e r m e a t e s  o u r  e n t i r e  b e i n g,
e v e r y w h e r e  a n d  a l l  t h e  t i m e. B u t  i t  i s  n o t  e n o u g h  t h a t  G o d
b l e s s e s  u s ;  w e  h a v e  t o  r e c e i v e  t h e  b l e s s i n g  g r a c e f u l l y  t o
e x p e r i e n c e  i t  f u l l y. H o w  w e  r e c e i v e  s o m e t h i n g  i s  a si m p o r t a n t  a s  w h a t  w e  a r e  r e c e i v i n g. I f  w e  a c c e p t  a  g i f t  w i t h
g e n u i n e  g r a t i t u d e  a n d  h u m i l i t y,  g i v i n g  p r a i s e  a n d  h o n o r  t o
t h e  g i v e r,  t h e n  o u r  b o u n t y  w i l l  i n c r e a s e. W h e n  w e  s i m p l y
t a k e  a  g i f t  f o r  g r a n t e d,  h o w e v e r,  n o t  g i v i n g  t h a n k s,  t h e n  o u r
g o o d  w i l l  s h r i n k. H o w  m a n y  t i m e s  h a v e  w e  c a s u a l l y
m i n i m i z e d  a n  o p p o r t u n i t y,  n o t  r e c o g n i z i n g  s o m e  a w e s o m e
g i f t  o f  l i f e  a n d  l o v e  u n t i l  i t  w a s  t o o  l a t e. W e  l e a r n e d  t h e
h a r d  w a y  h o w  m u c h  p o w e r  w e  h a v e  t o  m a k e  t h i n g s  l e s s,  b y
s i m p l y  t h i n k i n g  t h e y  a r e. W h o  a m o n g  u s  h a s  n e v e r  t h r o w n
a w a y  a  b l e s s i n g,  t o o  c o c k y  a n d  s p o i l e d,  p e r h a p s,  t o  s e e  i t
f o r  w h a t  i t  w a s. C o u n t l e s s  d a y s  a n d  n i g h t s  h a v e  g o n e  b y  i n  w h i c h  I  h a v e
f a i l e d  t o  e v e n  n o t i c e  t h e  s u n  o r  m o o n. I t ’ s  s o  e a s y  t o  t a k e
f o r  g r a n t e d  t h e  g l o r y  t h a t  i s


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a l l  g o o d. I t  c a n  b e  a  d i f f i c u l t  p r o c e s s  t o  t a k e  t h a t  k i n d  o f  b r u t a l l y
h o n e s t  l o o k  a t  y o u r s e l f. I t  c a n  l e a d  t o  p a i n f u l  s e l f -
c o n d e m n a t i o n,  t h e n  a  n e e d  f o r  s e l f - f o r g i v e n e s s  t h a t  c a n  b e
a t  l e a s t  a s  h a r d  a s  f o r g i v i n g  o t h e r s.S o m e t i m e s  w e  r e a l i z e  s o m e  p a r t  o f  o u r  p e r s o n a l i t y  i s
f e a r - b a s e d  e g o. O t h e r s  m i g h t  j u d g e  u s  f o r  i t,  b u t  t h a t  i s n ’ t
e v e n  w h a t ’ s  i m p o r t a n t. I n  f a c t,  i t  i s  i r r e l e v a n t  b e c a u s e  o n l y
s o m e o n e ’ s  e g o  w o u l d  f e e l  t h e  n e e d  t o  p o i n t  o u t  y o u r s. Y o u r
e g o  i s s u e s  d o n ’ t  m a t t e r  b e c a u s e  o f  o t h e r  p e o p l e ’ s  j u d g m e n t s
o f  y o u ;  t h e y  m a t t e r  b e c a u s e  t h e y  a r e  b l o c k i n g  y o u r  l i g h t,
y o u r  j o y,  a n d  y o u r  a v a i l a b i l i t y  t o  G o d  t o  u s e  f o r  H i s
p u r p o s e s. S i x t y  w a t t s  c a n ’ t  m o v e  t h r o u g h  a  t h i r t y - w a t t  b u l b. Y o u ’ r e  o n  t h i s  e a r t h  t o  s h i n e  y o u r  l i g h t  f o r  t h e  s a k e  o f
t h e  e n t i r e  w o r l d. T h e  p l a c e s  i n  y o u  w h e r e  y o u  a r e
s e e m i n g l y  b l o c k e d  i n  y o u r  a b i l i t y  t o  d o  t h a t  c a n  b e  r e l e a s e d
t o  G o d  f o r  h e a l i n g. O n c e  y o u  a d m i t  y o u r  d e f e c t  a n d  a s k
H i m  t o  t a k e  i t  a w a y  f r o m  y o u,  H i s  r e s p o n s e  t o  y o u r
i n v i t a t i o n  w i l l  b e  q u i c k  a n d  s u r e. H e  r e m e m b e r s,  e v e n
b e t t e r  t h a n  y o u  d o,  t h e  p a i n  a n d  s u f f e r i n g  t h a t  l e d  t o  y o u r
w e a k n e s s. H e  w a s  t h e r e  f o r  y o u  w h e n  i t  h a p p e n e d,  H e  c r i e d
t e a r s  a s  H e  w a t c h e d  y o u  d e v e l o p  y o u r  d y s f u n c t i o n  a s  a
c o p i n g  m e c h a n i s m,  a n d  H e  r e j o i c e s  a t  t h e  i n v i t a t i o n  t o  h e a l
y o u  n o w. S u c h  a r e  t h e  m i r a c l e s  o f  G o d,  a n d  t h e y  w i l l  t o t a l l y
t r a n s f o r m  y o u r  l i f e. W h a t e v e r  w e  r e f u s e  t o  l o o k  a t  i n  o u r s e l v e s,  w e  m o r e
e a s i l y  p r o j e c t  o n t o  s o m e o n e  e l s e. O n e  o f  t h e  b e n e f i t s  o f
f a c i n g  o u r  o w n  w e a k n e s s e s  i s  t h a t  i t  h e l p s  u s  g r o w  m o r e
c o m p a s s i o n a t e  t o w a r d  o t h e r s. I n  a n y  s i t u a t i o n  t h e r e  i s  a  f o c u s  t o  o u r  p e r c e p t i o n. G o d
w o u l d  h a v e  u s  e x t e n d  o u r  p e r c e p t i o n  b e y o n d  w h a t  t h e
p h y s i c a l  s e n s e s  p e r c e i v e,  t o  t h e  l o v e  t h a t  l i e s  b e y o n d. F o rw h e n  w e  s e e  t h a t  l o v e,  w e  c a n  c a l l  i t  f o r t h. T h e  p h y s i c a l
s e n s e s  r e v e a l  a  v e i l  o f  i l l u s i o n :  w h a t  p e o p l e  s a i d  a n d  d i d  o n
t h e  m o r t a l  p l a n e. B u t  w e  l i f t  t h e  v e i l  b y  s e e i n g  b e y o n d  i t
a n d  i n v o k i n g  a  t r u e r  t r u t h. T h a t  i s  o u r  p u r p o s e  i n  e a c h
o t h e r ’ s  l i v e s :  t o  i n v o k e  e a c h  o t h e r ’ s  g r e a t n e s s  a n d  w o r k  a
m i r a c l e  i n  e a c h  o t h e r ’ s  l i v e s. A c c o r d i n g  t o  A  C o u r s e  i n  M i r a c l e s,  i t ’ s  o u r  j o b  t o  t e l


 b a n g e d  a  f i n g e r  w h e n  w e  w e r e  a n g r y? ) ;  i f  w e ’ r e
v i b r a t i n g  a t  a  h i g h  e n e r g y,  w e ’ l l  a t t r a c t  m i r a c l e s. P e o p l e  w i l l  c a l l  o u t  o f  n o w h e r e ;  s i t u a t i o n s  w i l l  j u s t  s e e m
t o  i m p r o v e ;  a b u n d a n c e  o f  a l l  k i n d s  w i l l  j u s t  a p p e a r. A n d
w h e n  t h e y  d o,  i t  i s  g o o d  t o  a c k n o w l e d g e  t h e m. W e  o f t e n
b u i l d  a n  a l t a r  t o  o u r  d i s a s t e r s,  g i v i n g  t h e m  s o  m u c h  t i m e
a n d  a t t e n t i o n  a n d  e n e r g y. B u t  d o  w e  d o  t h e  s a m e  f o r  o u r
b l e s s i n g s? A r e  o u r  m i n d s  t r u l y  d i s c i p l i n e d  t o  c a l l  f o r t h  a n d
a c c e p t  t h e  g o o d? W e ’ r e  l i v i n g  d u r i n g  a  “ c e l e s t i a l  s p e e d - u p ”  i n  w h i c h
e v e r y t h i n g  i s  m o v i n g  m o r e  q u i c k l y — i n c l u d i n g  u s! *  O u r
i s s u e s  a r e n ’ t  c o m i n g  t h r o u g h  i n  s l o w  g e n t l e  b r e e z e s
a n y m o r e,  b u t  i n  h u g e  t o r r e n t i a l  s t o r m s! A n d  t h a t ’ s  n o t
b e c a u s e  w e ’ r e  f a i l i n g ;  i t ’ s  b e c a u s e  w e ’ r e  a v a i l a b l e,  G o d
k n o w s  i t,  a n d  t h i s  i s  i t. I  r e m e m b e r  w a t c h i n g  t e l e v i s i o n  o n e
n i g h t  a b o u t  t h e  D - D a y  i n v a s i o n,  h o w  t h e  A l l i e d  f o r c e s  h a d
r e h e a r s e d  i t  f o r  m o n t h s,  a n d  t h e n  o n e  m o r n i n g  t h i n g s  w e r e
d i f f e r e n t :  t h i s  w a s  r e a l. T h i s  i s  a  c r i t i c a l  t i m e  i n  a l l  o u r  l i v e s  b e c a u s e  i t ’ s  a
c r i t i c a l  t i m e  o n  e a r t h. E a c h  o f  u s  h a s  t h e  o p p o r t u n i t y  n o w  t o
g r o w  i n t o  t h e  f u l l n e s s  o f  o u r  d i v i n e  p o t e n t i a l  i n  o r d e r  t o
t a k e  o u r  p l a c e  i n  G o d ’ s  p l a n. T h e  p l a n  e x i s t s  i n  t h e  M i n d  o fG o d,  a n d  t o  t h e  e x t e n t  t o  w h i c h  w e  s u r r e n d e r  o u r  t h i n k i n g
t o  H i m,  w e  t a k e  o u r  p a r t. O u r  p r i m a r y  f u n c t i o n  i s  t o  s t a n d
i n  t h e  l i g h t  o f  w h o  w e  a r e  a n d  b e c o m e  t h e  p e o p l e  w e  a r e
c a p a b l e  o f  b e i n g. F r o m  t h a t,  a l l  g o o d  w i l l  f o l l o w. A n d  w e  s t e p  i n t o  t h a t  l i g h t  i n  a n y  m o m e n t  w e  c h o o s e. W h e n  o u r  h e a r t s  a r e  c l o s e d  t o  l o v e — w h e n  w e ’ r e
j u d g m e n t a l,  w i t h h o l d i n g,  u n f o r g i v i n g — w e  a r e  l i t e r a l l y  n o t
b e i n g  o u r s e l v e s. W e  a r e,  i n  t h o s e  m o m e n t s,  c h o o s i n g  t o  b e
h o s t a g e  t o  t h e  e g o  r a t h e r  t h a n  h o s t  t o  G o d. O u r  f u n c t i o n,  o u r  h a p p i n e s s,  a n d  o u r  p u r p o s e  a l l
e m a n a t e  f r o m  t h e  s a m e  p o i n t  o f  p o w e r :  o u r  c a p a c i t y  t o
e m b o d y  l o v e  i n  a n y  g i v e n  i n s t a n t. A n d  l o v e  i s  m o r e  t h a n
“ b e i n g  n i c e. ”  I t  i s  t h e  s u r r e n d e r  o f  a  s e p a r a t e  s e n s e  o f  s e l f,  a
c l a i m  t o  t h e  t o t a l i t y  o f  l i f e  a s  p a r t  o f  o u r s e l v e s. K n o w i n g
t h a t  w e  a r e  p a r t  o f  t h e  w h o l e,  w e  s h i f t  o u r  p e r s p e c t i v e  f r o m
a  s e n s e  o f  i n d i v i d u a l  i d e n t i t y  t o  a  s e n s e  o f  u n i v e r s a l
c o n n e c t i o n. I t


, from the
600. Once experienced, it reprograms theimage blots out the joyous brilliance that
consequences. The cost of such stolen
pleasures of the exercise of power in its
experiencer so that he is never (85) content
is the true essence of their identities,
pleasure is the desperation of addiction,
varied forms to the beautiful trophies of
with ordinary consciousness again. The
which therefore goes unrecognized. That
and finally both the addict and society
self-indulgence. The realization that the
hero of the movie discovers this fact
this joyous, peaceful, fulfilling state is
pay the price. pleasures denied oneself are being
when he is unable to find happiness again
really one's own essence has been a basic
Ours is a society which idealizes the
enjoyed by others begets the outrage of
in the ordinary world after returning from
tenet of every great spiritual teacher (e.g.,
pleasureless-hard work, stoicism, selfrevolution or, sublimated, the repression
Shangri-La. He then gives up everything
"the kingdom of God is within you").2
sacrifice, restraint, etc.--and condemns
of restrictive laws against the pleasures
in order to seek out and return to that
A "high" is any state of consciousness
pleasure in most of its simpler forms,
of one's peers. state of consciousness, spending years in
above one's customary level of
frequently even declaring these illegal. The moral code thus functions as a
a struggle, which almost costs him his
awareness. Therefore, to a person who
(Politicians, whether secular or rationalized exploitation of the life life,
to find Shangri-La again. lives in (86) Fear, moving up to Courage is
ecclesiastic, understand this phenomenon
ener gy of the masses through a calculated
This same reprogramming process occurs
a high. T o people who live in hopelesswell. Part of the standard repertoire of
distortion of values. The illusion
in people who have reached high states
Apathy, Anger is a high (for instance,
local politicians to gain headlines today
prof fered is that the more hellish one's
of consciousness by other means, such as
rioters in third-world ghettos). Fear feels
is the public announcement of intent to
life, the more heavenly will be one's
the experience of Samadhi through at least better than Despair, and Pride
prohibit Playboy Magazine in the reward. This distorted coupling of
meditation, or near death experiences. feels far better than Fear. Acceptance is
prisons, for instance, or deny the inmates
pleasure with suf fering has produced a
Such individuals are frequently observed
much more comfortable than Courage;
tobacco or TV. )3 In our society, morally perverse social milieu, in which
to have changed forever. It is not
Love makes any lower state seem
unfulfilled promise and enticement are
pain becomes associated with pleasure.uncommon for them to leave all that the
comparatively unattractive, While joy
legiti- (87) mized, but satisfaction is
In this atmosphere the insane alternation
material world represents and become
surpasses all lesser human emotions,
denied. Commercialized sexual allure,
of suf fering and euphoria that typifies
seekers after truth. Many who had
ecstasy is a rarely-felt emotion in a class
for instance, is used to sell products
addiction becomes at least provisionally
transcendental experiences with LSD in
by itself. The most sublime experience of
endlessly, but the enjoyment of actual
tenable, in a deadly antisocial game of
the 1960s did the same thing. Such
all is the state of infinite Peace so
commercial sex is forbidden as immoral. winning and losing the forbidden high. higher states are also attained through the
exquisite that it belies all attempts atHistorically, alt ruling classes have From the same life-view arises
society's experiences of love or religion, classical
description. achieved status and wealth by controlling
current method of "treating the problem"
music or art, or through the practice of
The higher the attainment of each of
society through some form of puritanical
by playing the other half of the game:
spiritual disciplines. these states, the greater is its power to
ethic. The harder underlings work and
(88) denying the substance of abuse. By
The high state which people seek, by
reprogram the subject's entire life. Just
the more meager their pleasures, the
doing so, we have cr eated a
whatever means, is in fact the experience
one instant in a very high state can
richer will be the ruling system, whether
marketplace that is so highly lucrative
field of their own consciousness (Self). Ifcompletely change a person's orientation
that be a theocracy, aristocracy, oligarchy
and easily enter ed that a whole
they are spiritually unsophisticated and
in life, his goals and values. It can be said
or corporate industrial barony. Such
criminal industry flourishes as a
lack a context with which to comprehend
that the individual who was, is no more,
power is built upon the forfeited pleasure
r esult, corrupting life on multiple
the experience, they believe it is created
and a new person is born out of the
of workers. Experientially, as we have
levels. The arrest of a drug kingpin, for
from something "out there" (i.e., a guru,
experience. Through hard-won progress
seen, pleasure is merely high ener gy. instance, has no ef fect at all on the drug
the music, the drug, the lover, etc.). All
on a dedicated spiritual path, this is the
The ener gies of the masses have been co-problem; before he is even jailed he will
that has actually happened is that, under
very mechanism of spiritual evolution. opted over the centuries to produce for
have been replaced by a new incarnation. special circumstances, they have The permanent high-state experience
that the overclasses the very wealth of
In the recent demise of the South
experienced what is, in r eality, "in
may be legitimately attained only
pleasures denied the underclasses. American drug lord Escobar, he was
her e." The majority of people are so
through a lifetime of dedicated inner
In truth, the pleasure of the life ener gy is
instantly replaced by three new kingpins,
divorced from their own states of pure
work can, however, be reached
mankind's basic capital; robbing man of
so the hydra now had three heads instead
consciousness that they do not recognize
temporarily by artificial means. But thethis has resulted in the wide division
of one. 41
42
Society's drug pr oblem r equir es a precision and all contingencies are
weakness signals pathology in the (90)
A statement may be true at a high level
social appr oach calibrating at 350, and
investigated, including timing, markets,
corresponding or gan. Kinesiology is of understanding but be
society's curr ent anti-drug pr ogram advertising and subpopulations to
be already widely used to confirm both
incomprehensible to the average mind. calibrates at only 150. It is ther efor e
addressed. diagnosis and the ef ficacy of a probable
Its value may therefore be corrupted
ineffective and the money spent on it is
Scientific Inquiry. Science provides a
therapy. The right dose of the right
when the statement is distorted by the
wasted. Field of kinesiolocicalal explanation thatmedicine can also be determined by the
limitations of the listener. This has been
of fers a group of inquirers excitement
patient's kinesiologic response. Similarly,
the fate of r eligions thr oughout the
Industrial and Scientific Research
eclipsing any parlay game. (It is also
aller gies can be detected, and the need
ages, when pr onouncements
The diagnostic method we have fascinating for a group to compare what
for nutritional supplements may be originating fr om (91) high levels of
described quickly tracks fruitful areas for
they have discovered with the discoveries
determined. awar eness wer e later misinterpr eted
research and development in science and
of other groups using the same method.) by followers vested with authority. industry. Historical examples illustrate
Research in Theology, Epistemology and
In a more general application, avenues
Such distortion can be seen to an extremehow the use of this method could save
Philosophy
for fruitful research can be identified
degree in fundamentalist sects of any
years of ef fort and millions of dollars. quickly, and it will be discovered that
Though the validity of its application
religion. The fundamentalist's
Materials Research. Thomas Edison often the most valuable insights to
be may vary with the capacity for awareness
interpretation of religious teachings,
tested over 1,600 substances before he
obtained have to do with the range and
of the observer, the technique of using
proceeding always from negativity, is
arrived at tungsten as the most suitable
dimension of that research. Because this
kinesiology to ascertain truth itself removed by this negativity from
truth. element to be used for his historic
method bypasses limitations of context,
calibrates at a


 cries of the body for
water are treated as abnormal and dealt with by the use of medications. The human body can become dehydrated even when abundant water is readily available. Humans see m to lose
their thirst sensation and the critical perception of needing water. Not recognizing their water need, they become
gradually, increasingly, and chronically dehydrated with progress in  age (see Figures 1 & 2). Further confusion lies
in the idea that whe n we're thirsty, we can substitute tea, coffee, or alcohol-containing beverages. As y ou will see,
this is a  common error. The "dry mouth " is the very last sign of dehydration. The body can suffer from dehydration even when the mouth
may b e fairly moist. Still worse, in the elderly, the mouth can be seen to be obviously dry and yet thirst may not be
acknowledged and satisfied. WATER HAS OTHER I MPORTANT  PROPERT IES
Scientific research shows that water has many other properties besides being a solvent and a means of transport. Not having paid attention to the other properties of water in the regulation of different functions in the body has
produced the pitiful confusions that are infrastructure to our so-called, scie nce-based modern medicine. •Water has a firmly established and essential hydrolytic role in all aspects of body metabolism—water-dependent
chemical reactions (hydrolysis). Similar to the chemical powers of water that make a seed grow and produce a new
plant or a tree: the powe r of water that is used in  the che mistry of life. • At the cell membrane: the osmotic flow of water through the membrane can generate "hydroelec tric" energy
(voltage) that is converted and stored in the energy pools in form of ATP and GTP—two vital cell battery systems. ATP a nd GTP a re chemical sources of energy in the body. The energy generated by water is used in the
manufacture of ATP a nd GTP. These particles are used as "cash  flow" in elemental exchanges, particularly in
neurotransmission. • Water  also forms a particu lar structure, pattern and sh ape th at seems to be employed as the adhesive materia l in
the bondage of the cell architecture. Like glue, it sticks t he solid structures in the cell membrane together. It
develops the sticki ness o f "ice" a t higher body te mperature. • Produ cts manufactu red in the brain cells a re transported on "waterways" to their destination in the nerve endings
for use in the transmission of messages. There seem to exist small waterways or microstreams along the length of
nerves that "float" the packaged materials along "guidelines," called microtubules (see Figure 3). • Proteins and the enzymes o f the body function more efficiently in solutions of lower viscosity; this is tr ue of all the
receptors (receiver points) in the cell membranes. In solutions of higher viscosit y (in a dehydrated state), proteins
and enzymes become less efficient (possib ly includes the recognition of thirst of the body). It follows that wat er itself
regulates all functions of the body, including the activity of all the solutes it carries around. The new scientific truth
(paradigm shift)—"Water, t he solven t of the body, r egulat es all functions, inc luding the acti vity of the solutes it
dissolves a nd circulates"—should become the basis of all future approach to medical research. When the body is d ehydrated, apart from the establishment of a "locked-in" drive for wat er intake, a rationing and
distribution system for the available water in the body becomes operative according to a predetermined priority
program—a form of drought management,
It is now scientifically clear that the histamine directed and operated neurotransmitter system becomes active and
initiates the subordinate systems that promote water intake. These subordinate systems also redistribute the
amount of water in circulation or that can be drawn away from other areas. Subordinate systems employ
vasopressin (vays o-press-in ), renin-angiotens in (RA), pro-stagland ins (prosta-gl an-din, PG) and  kinins (ky-nin) as
the intermediary agents. Since the body doe s not have a reserve of water to dr aw on, it operates a priority
distribution system for the amount of water that is already available or has been supplied by its intake.In the amphibian species, it has been shown that histamine reserves and their rate of generation are at minimal
levels. In the sam e species, histamine generation becomes established and gets pronounced whenever the animal
is dehydrated. A proportionate increase in the production rate and storage of the neurotransmitter histamine for rationing regulation
of the available water in dehydrated animals—d rought management—becomes established. Hista mine and its
subordinate water intake and distribution regulators, prostaglandins, kin ins, and PAF (another histamine associated
agent) also cause pain when they come across pain-sensing nerves in the body. The above "view shift" in medicine establishes two major points that have been disregarded until now. One, the
body can become dehydrated as we progress in age. At the same time, it disregards "dry mouth" as the only
indicator of body thirst. Two, when t he neurot ransmitter h istamine generation and  its subordinate water regulators
become excessively active, to the point of cau sing allergies, asthma, and chronic pains in different parts of the body,
these pains sho uld be translated as a thirst signal—one variety of the crisis sig nals of water shortage in the body. This "paradigm shift" will now make it possib le to recognize many different associated signals of general or local
body dehydration. The adoption of the "view shift" (new paradigm) dictates that chronic pains of the body th at cannot be easily
explained as injury or infection should first and foremost be inter preted as sig nals of chronic water shorta ge in the
area where pain is registered—a local thirst These pain signals should be first considered and excluded as primary
indicators for dehydration of the body before any other complicated procedures are forced on the patient. Non-
infectious "recurring" or chronic pains should be viewed as indicators of body thirst. Not recognizing the thirst signals of the body will undoubtedly produce complicated problems in the present way of
treatment of these conditions. It is all too easy to assume these signals as co mplications of a serious disease
process and begin to treat signal-producing dehydration with complicated procedures. Although water by itself will
alleviate the condition, medications or invasive diagnostic procedures m ay be forced on the person. It is the
responsibility of both patients and their doctors to be aware of the damag e chronic dehydration can cause in the
human body. These chronic pains include dyspeptic pain, rheumatoid arth ritis pain, a nginal pain (heart pain on walking, or even at
rest), low back pain, intermittent daudication pain (leg pain on walking), migraine and hangover headaches, colitis
pain and its associated constipation (See figure 4 on page 23). The "view shift" dictates that all these pains sh ould be treated with a regular adjustment to daily water intake. No
less than two and a half quarts (two and one half liters) in 24 hours should be taken for a few days prior to the
routine and regular use of analgesics or other pain-relieving medications such as antihistamine or antacids—well
before permanent local or general damage can establish and reach an irreversible disease status. // the problem
has persiste d for many years, those who wish to test the pain relieving property of water should make sure their
kidneys can make sufficient urine so that they do not retain too much water in the body. Urine output should be
measured against water intake. With increase in water intake, the urine output should also increase. This new understanding of the physiology of pain production in dehydration will shed light on cause of disease in
future medical research. It exposes as detrimental to the well-being of the body the long-term use of pain
medications for "killing" a cardinal signal of chronic and local dehydration of the body.In their own right, these pain-killers (analgesics) can ca use fat al side effects, apart fro m the dam age th at is caused
by the ongoing dehydration that is temporarily sile nced without removing the root cause of these pains—
dehydration. Very often, these analgesics cause gastrointestinal bleeding. A few thou sand people die every year
from this complication of frequent analgesic intake. It is now (1994) clear that over-the-counter pain-killers can in
some people cause liver and kidney damage and act as people killers. The scientific background for the above views is already available to scientists in pain research. This brief is
intended to brush aside the professional resistance of the AMA and the NIH which are aware of my findings and
have, contrary to their oath and obligations to the society, refused to propagate it to the ultimate benefit of the public. This "view shi ft" on the role of water in the body can work won ders in the future practice of clinical medicine—which
is why these professional bodies, who gain by the perpetuation of their past ignorance, have not engaged in the
dissemination of information about the problems associated with lack of suff icient water in the human body. The moment medical professionals adopt this paradigm shift, the present form of "ignorance of the human body


 around the glans;
she can do the same with her own saliva. The woman can vary the
caress by pumping the shaft up and down with her grasping hand,
but she must take care not to bring the man to ejaculation, unless
this is intended. This stop-and-go technique can help the man de
lay or avoid ejaculation, while giving him great pleasure and rous
ing him tremendously. If she desires, the woman can supplement her cares sing with
kissing the stalk. While holding the shaft, she can tentatively kiss
the glans, then take it from there. Tlu· Alchemy (?f Dt•sire
11)1) AN CIENT SECRE TS FOR MODERN LOVERS
Love-play between partners is an extremely intimate and per
sonal act. It is best tailored by the partners themselves according
to their aesthetics and desires. They can create their own play of
love--cotnedy, drama, or fantasy. As the ancient Taoists shrewdly
found out, by harmonizing Yin and Yang through love-play, a
couple can augment greatly their sexual energy for a fulfilling
sexual union. 15
Spring Butter fly and
Peacocl� Tease
Love Games /or Grown-ups Onl y
PLAYING AT LOVE is most delightful when it is spontaneous and
whimsic al. At times, however, one can enliven it with some cho
reography. Love games add variety, excite the imagination, and
stimulate creativity. Following are suggested love games for mod
ern lovers, adapted from or inspired by ancient Chinese sexolo
gists. SPRING BuTTERFLY
This titillating game was invented by Chinese painters and cal
ligraphers of yore. It requires a Chinese brush-pen, which has a
soft, delicate pointed brush of sable, fox, or rabbit hair set in a
thin bamboo tube. These brushes are available in Oriental sta
tionery stores and bookstores; if you cannot find one, buy a
Western-style artist's paintbrush. Avoid "fiat" or "bright" brushes,
which are square-edged. A "round" brush is serviceable, but the
best is a "long," or pointed, brush. Avoid also stiff brushes, such
as those made of hog bristle; camel or squirrel hair is adequate,
but springy, soft sable is the best. The brush-pen is the butterfly in springtime, and the nude
body of the passive partner is the flower-covered landscape of
201 hills and dales. This partner should lie totally relaxed, with eyes
closed. Apply the springy tip of the brush to the partner's body
like a flirtatious butterfly-here, there, everywhere. The tip of the
brush first flits lightly over hands and feet, then moves to arms,
legs, and other parts of the body. The "artist" concentrates on
such sensitive spots as the fingertips, the palms, the insides of the
elbows, the armpits, the soles, between the toes, behind the knees,
and especially the insides of the thighs. Various parts of the face,
including the lips, are titillated next. Then down the neck to the
breasts, the cinnabar field, and the groin. The butterfly touches
arc delicious to the closed-eyed partner-especially as it is not
known where they will land next. The tiny, electric spasms cre
ated on the skin are likely to bring forth a plea for firmer caresses. The artist should not give in to such a plea until the moist landing
is ready. For this exquisite stage, dip the tip of the brush in a little aro
matic oil. On a woman, caress her areolas and nipples with the
oiled brush; go around and around, and flit between the breasts. Next, open her legs and let the butterfly flirt along her perineum
and vulva. Then brush her clitoris, first in upward strokes, next in
a circular motion. On a man, brush his perineum and scrotum
and the exposed glans. You may give your loved one a n1arvelous,
unforgettable hour with this extraordinary game. A woman with long eyelashes can turn them into spring but
terflies by blinking at her partner at extrcn1cly close quarters. A
n1an can con1mandeer his moustache for the san1e purpose. Such
tnaneuvers n1ay prove exhausting, however, if the whole territory
is to be covered. PEACOCK TEASE
This gan1e was invented centuries ago, when the peacock feather
bcca n1e a decoration of tneri torious serv ice to the etnperor. No
blcnH. 'n who were interested in a dift crcn t type of tneritorious ser
vice used a pea coc k feather playfully on their won1en. Nowada ys
either partn er, tnalc or fenulc, can usc the tcather on the other. feathers frmn ostriches, pheasan ts, storks, and even chickens also
can be used. He advised that featht'rs do not have as wide a varia
tion in pressu re as an artist' s brush. SPIDER ·s LEGs
In this French lovc-gatnc. J'•lftcs d',ml�l! "t;f, the tingt·rtips ;1nd tin
ger pads play on the par tner's body hair. and occasiona lly skin,
with the lightest toucht ·s possible. Likt · thl· spring butt erfl y, the
spider can go all over the body. SILK TEASE
For this love ganll\ a scarf or ling erie of genuine silk is preferable;
otherwise soft acetate \vill do. Do not use nylon, as it is too stiff
Crun1ple the scarf or other iten1 slightly in your hand, and usc it
to caress various parts of your partner's body. Silk gives a rich,
luxurious sensation, quite different from that of brush-pens or
feathers. SNIFF-KISSING
The snitT-kiss is used here to its full extent if your partner's skin is
perfumed lightly with crushed jasmine or tuberose, or if your
partner's body emits its own sexual aroma. Begin by inhaling and
sniffing the breath of your loved one. Nudge your nose on your
partner's cheeks, eyelids, and neck, and continue the scented pil
grimage up the peak and down the valley. The natural scent of
aroused genitals is a strong aphrodisiac between lovers. ToNGUE SwE EP
This game may-and quite naturally does-start with a roving
kiss. The tongue is lavished on a partner with touches ranging
from the lightest tickling with the tip to a firm brushing with its
rough surface. Zero in on the ear cavity, under the chin, and the
palms and soles. Then target the navel, the breasts and nipples, in
side the thighs, and the perineum. A thorough tongue tease will deplete your supply of saliva,
no matter how much you may drool. Intersperse the sweep with
sniff-kisses. 203 A N C I f N T S E C R F T S 1-' ( l R M ( l I > 1; H N I ( ) V fl. I� S
LovE PoiNTS
An1ong the most fascinating but least known aspects of ancient
Chinese erotica is the system of specific acupoints along the body's
meridians that when properly stimulated cause immediate sexual
arousal, long-term boosting of sexual stamina, and/or tunc-up of
the autonomic nervous system controlling many sexual sensa
tions and functions. Each of these love points is a carefully mapped
acupoint in classical acupuncture. Each has an equivalent interna
tional code number used by Western and other non-Chinese re
searchers in acupuncture. The hui-yin point on the perineum, for
example, now carries the international label "CV-1" (number 1
point of the conception vessel). In traditional acupuncture, most
of these acupoints have general health as well as sexual functions. The love points are presented here in a very simplified man
ner, and are selected accor ding to the zones of the body rather
than a specific meridian. This is for the practical use of modern
lovers who do not have the time or patience to spend months
studying such acupoints. The love points can be located on the
relevant maps on this page and the following two pages; individ
ual names are given only for selected points. Love points are scattered all over the human body, but the ma
jority are concentrated on the torso. Acupressure, not acupunc
ture, may be used on love points; indeed, some love points should
never be pricked by needles. Some points may be stroked or gently
pressed and vibrated with the fingertips, while others may be
massaged with the palm. It is at times difficult to locate love
points and other acupoints on the body, but in many cases they
can be found if finger pressure causes a sensation of tenderness. Partners who