ccit ic vulnerable acupoint with a tinge r whik· di
recting thl· chi front his tdtl-tictl to his tingcr. These paralysis and St·xr4a l Vitality from the Sea of Chi
death points arc carefully catalogue d in kung fu n1anuals. It is be
lieved that sorne rnartial arts n1astcrs in China can still practice
ticu-hsueh. MIND OVER Bonv. Can a person really direct his o\vn rnind to control son1c of his
bodily functions. Curiously. quite a tcw mystical-sounding an
cient n1ind-body practices arc being contirmed in the modern
laboratory, either directly or indirectly. A few examples arc en
lightening. In recent centuries, Western scientists have sharply separated
the body from the mind. During much of this century, the physi
cian took care of the body, and the psychologist took care of the
mind. Each kept to his own territory, and neither realized that
what was happening in his own realm could strongly affect what
was happening in the other. Physicians have traditionally consid
ered the human body like a machine, functioning mechanical ly,
with the main causes of disease as bacteria, viruses, and other out
side agents. This paradigm is changing. For some decades physicians have
known that a few diseases are psychosomatic (affected by the
mind), but their scope was thought to be limited. Recent re
search, however, indicates that at least ninety percent of diseases
are affected by the patient's mind. The most exciting development in contemporary health sci
ences is the growing recognition of mind-body interaction. Since
the 1 96os, American scientists have become increasingly inter
ested in a phenomenon called biofeedback. Monitoring it in
volves hooking a person to an array of electronic devices that
record brain waves and physiological condition, then feed the in
formation back to him. The electrical potential of the human brain varies according
to different mental states, as is shown clearly by electroenceph
alography. Scientists have found four principal types of brain
waves: alpha (during deep relaxation), beta (during awake and
alert states), theta (while dreaming), and delta (in deep sleep, or
while under anesthesia). Biofeedback instruments enable a per
son to keep himself in profound relaxation, when his brain emits
149 mainly alpha waves. He can watch the mon itoring instru me nts
and, with a little practice, keep himsd f on alpha waves for long
stretches of time. It has been found that while in the alph a state one can con
sciously control the autonomic nervous systen1, wh ich regul ates
the normally automatic functioning of internal organs. Th is 1neans
that with the help of biofeedback, a person can learn to control or
at least influence his normally involuntary functions such as
heartbeat, blood pressure, and skin teinperature. Patients on bio
feedback programs have been able to "think" their way out of the
syn1ptoms of many ailments, including migraine headaches, ir
regular heartbeat, and high blood pressure. Biofeedback re
searchers believe that people who have mastered the alpha state
can keep in good physical health with little medicine. The findings on biofeedback, gathered from laboratories all
over the United States and elsewhere, fly in the face of orthodox
physiology, which claims that we cannot control our autonomic
nervous system voluntarily. The evidence to the contrary was
quite a discovery, but was it really. For many centuries Chinese
Taoists, Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhists, Tibetan lamas, and
Indian yogis have been exer cising extraordinary mental control
over their bodies through transcendental meditation, without
using any instruments. As a matter of fact, the techniques of biofeedback were in
vented after a Japanese scientist, intrigued by the remarkable
mental state of Zen meditators, monitored their brain waves. As
has been pointed out, Zen Buddhism originated in China, with
its meditative practice inspired by Taoism. For thousands of years
Chinese Taoists and Zen Buddhists have been using meditation as
a mind-body means to improve their health and longevity. The firm link between the mind and the body has been estab
lished further by contemporary scientists. In the 1980s a new
science was born: psychoneuroimmunology, which studies the
interplay an1ong the mind, the nervous system, and the immune
system. Among its findings are that the mind and body are in
constant dialogue. The n1any billions of neurons (nerve cells) of
the human brain arc endlessly whispering and shouting to each
other, and to cells elsewher e in the body. Our emotions can cause
the brain to produce any of the fifty known neuropeptides, or
brain chemicals. Sexual Vitality from the Sea ofChi
Numerous laboratory experiments have shown that when a
person becomes depressed or elated, angry or loving, when he is
stressed or relaxed, when he meditates or prays, his brain releases
specific neuropeptides into the bloodstream. These signal to
defense forces in his immune system, such as scavenger macro
phages and defensive "killer cells," and may strengthen or weaken
his immune system. Spontaneous remissions from a fatal disease
may be the work of the mind through neuropeptides. A person's
health may be subtly, or even powerfully, affected. The ancient
Chinese believed firmly that the body-mind approach could
bring good health and longevity. Modern scientists are proving what Eastern mystics always
believed: The mind is a powerful thing. For many centuries the
ancient Chinese have advocated the use of the mind to control,
discipline, and nurture the body for various purposes. In tradi
tional China the mind-body approach was popular and highly re
spected. Physicians emphasized mental hygiene and moderation
in lifestyle as a means to good health. Philosophers preached the
tranquility of the heart and the cultivation of the mind. Taoists
and Zen Buddhists used meditation and deep breathing to elevate
their consciousness and enrich their life-force. Martial arts mas
ters have performed incredible ph ysical feats through intense men
tal concentration. These feats, according to the ancient Chinese,
were manifestations of all-important chi. ExPERIMENTS ON CHI
Dir ect evidence of chi was collected in the late 1970s by Chi nese
scien tists in Hong Kong. Researchers conducted experiments on
two groups of people engaged in the conscious manipulation of
life-force. The first group includ ed Chinese physicians who treated
pati ents with men ta] con centr ation of thei r chi, without touc hing
their patients. The secon d group con sisted of kung fu masters
who em ployed their chi to perf orm pow erful feats of intern al
strength. The fir�t grc,up was made up of eight teams, each consisting
of a physician and a patient. I )uring the physi cians' treatments,
for every one of thl· teams, the tem per atu re of the tip of the physi
cian \ nose lowered a dc:g rcc or two, wluk that of the patient was THE ART OF TH E BEDCHAMBER
raised correspondingly. This temperature shift suggested an ex
change of energy between physician and patient, and hinted at a
flow of some form of energy from physician to patient. The find
ings were confirmed and measured by infrared instruments. The same instruments, when employed to detect energy from
the martial arts experts, failed to measure any change in the case of
a practitioner of chi-kung. Instead, scientists detected that one acu
point between his eyebrows was sending out an electrical charge
measured at I X Io-14 coulomb. Such an electrical charge has
never been detected in ordinary people. Another martial artist
was found to give off a magnetic force measured at I o to I 5
gausses, several hundred times that of the highest known emana
tion from a norn1al person. The researchers were puzzled that the energy generated by the
test groups appeared sometimes as heat and other times as elec
tromagnetic waves. These detectable but unexplained phenom
ena brought the scientists engaging in the research to coin the
term "human body field"; this force field of the human body has
yet to be explained by modern science. Whether one calls it ema
nation, bioplasma, or life-force, it seems that the ancient Taoist
concept of chi is not all hot air. CHI AND SEXUALITY
Almost all the classics and manuals of the ancient Art of the Bed
chamber directly advocate or subtly suggest the role of chi in
sexual activities, the erotic and health value of certain bodily se
cretions, the benefits of physical contact and sitnple proxin1ity
between opp osite sexes. Although son1e of these concepts were
cloaked in ancient super stition and the explanations couched in
metaphysic a l tt. ·rnls, the basic appr oach scen1s quite valid to the
n1odern obst. ·rver. In t:Kt, during the past few decades, medical
scit. 'ntists and sexologists have, through expcrin1ents and tests,
k·nt indirect


 and night. I didn’t  want to eat, and I didn’t want to sleep. I was
driven to perfect the program, its distribution, and the
support of the doctors who had entrusted their practices
to u s. I felt like life had giv en me this task, and I was
honored to do it. I had not  lost one drop of my early
focus or yearning to explore t he deeper inner states. This
surrendering t o life was  my  path to self-realization, and
there was no doubt that it was working. I was not living a
life based on w hat I wanted or didn’t want. Those types
of thoughts had ceased passing through my mind long
ago. I was way too busy tryi ng to do the work life had
given me. This was Karma yo ga at its highest. I had given
my life to the Universal Flow, and it had not only taken it
—it had devoured me in the process. I didn’t care at all
what happened to me. I car ed about the company, the
employees, the doctors, and, above all, the vision of
perfection that drove the very beat of my heart. As beautiful as that sounds, I found myself on a jet
flying to a tiny  airport somewhere in the middle of Texas
to meet  a total stranger and discuss arrangements to put
the company under his control. That was the bottom
line. Events had unfolded such that the greatest potential
for t he company had outgrown what we could provide by
ourselves. My discussions w ith John Kang about the
proposed deal had shown me how sharp Marty was. Control was definitely my ma jor issue. I wanted to be in
a p osition to keep the dream alive and protect the
company from being abused for strictly financial gain. Marty had agreed to put J ohn, me, and some other
Medical Mana ger Corporatio n board members on the
board of directors of the combined company. He also
agreed to make me co-chairm an of the board, and John
and I would become the co-CEOs. For added incentive,
the new  comb ined company would keep our name,
Medical Manager Corporation. Though I was a  novice at mer gers of public companies,
I w as astute enough to kno w what granting us these
high-level positions really m eant. It meant that Marty
was so confide nt of his position of power that he did not
feel the slightest bit threatened by ceding this amount of
power t o people with whom he had no history. Any way
you cut it, if the deal went through, Marty was going to
be my boss. T his was all th e more interesting since I
never re ally had a boss befor e, and I was fifty-two years
old. I had rese arched all I could about Marty. He was a
self-made billi onaire who bred and raced thoroughbred
horses for a h obby. He had grown up on Wall Street
buying and selling companies, and he had also built
some very successful compa nies from the ground up,
including Medco, which he had sold to Merck
pharmaceuticals for six billio n dollars years earlier. Most
important, he was highly respected in the upper echelons
of business. More than one a rticle about him freely used
the term “genius. ”
Marty h ad made an offer of $1. 3 billion for Medical
Manager Corporation. Our board of directors was
leaning very favorably toward the deal. I felt pretty
certain that all vectors were flowing in that direction—
that’s why I wa s flying out for this meeting. What I didn’t
know was what life would be  like in this larger corporate
environment. I realized I could never know beforehand,
and I was read y to surrender once again to the flow of
life. From a p ersonal point of view, I was much more
interested in seeing how Marty did with me than how I
did with him. I was a ponytailed, non-suit-wearing yogi,
and Marty was sure to be a more traditional
businessman. Was this going to work. Marty flew in on his jet w ith one of his business
development people. The meeting lasted only a few
hours and everything went fine, as would be expected
under these circumstances. W e each had already spent
sufficient time analyzing the proposed merger, so by thetime we met, the synergies  were quite clear. I found
Marty to be ve ry down to earth and approachable. He
was all busines s, and I really liked that. I made a point of
discussing (or more accuratel y—disclosing) the existence
of the Temple, and my commitment to meditation and
my alte rnative lifestyle. I knew I wasn’t going to give any
of that up, so it  seemed appropriate to let him know what
he was getting into. It was obvious that Marty was way
past the small stuff. He was  a big picture person, and
what he cared about was corporate development. He
couldn’t have cared less about my personal lifestyle, but
he paid close attention when I discussed how hard I
worked every day. He told me his wife did yoga, and I
figured that being from Calif ornia he was bound to have
been ex posed to the likes of me. As Marty and I shook
hands a nd went our own ways, there was no way I could
have known how much I would end up learning, both
personally and professionally, from this man. 4 7. M e r g i n g — B u t  N o t  w i t h  t h e  U n i v e r s e
O ver the  years, I had come to  see that I really had no
idea wh ere life was going to  put me on any given day. And, in  truth, it was none of my business. My job was to
simply continu e surrendering and serving what was put
in f ront of me. Such was th e case on the day I found
myself chairin g a Medical M anager Corporation board
meeting speci fically called to discuss the proposed
merger with Synetic. Medical Manager had a very active board of directors,
many of whom had tremen dous business experience,
including a previous treasurer of General Motors. The
board was seriously considering our various options
going forward. We had done $140 million of business the
previous year versus Synet ic’s $70 million. But the
tremendous potential value of its web portal had pushed
Synetic’s market value way beyond ours and made the
company an attractive partner. In the end, the board
unanimously decided to accept Synetic’s $1. 3 billion offer
for the company. I, of  cou rse, ha d never been in volved in a billion-dollar
merger before. But we had great outside counsel and a
good team of b ankers to assist us. I turned to Sabrina to
work by my si de on this enormous project. Marty had
put the merger on the fast track, and all the details had
to be worked out in a few weeks. We worked day and
night to get the final deal presented to both boards, and
the merger was announced publicly on May 17, 1999. The merger between Medic al Manager Corporation
and Synetic created quite a st ir. It was the main businessstory on CNN that evening and was prominent in the
Wall Street Journal  the next day. The new company kept
the Medical Manager Corporation name, and John Kang
and I were co -CEOs and sat on the board of directors
with Marty as chairman. Though I still lived at the
Temple of the Universe and simply drove across the
street to  get to work, my world had instantly expanded. My responsibilities now stretched beyond the practice
management business and included all the areas of
business Marty’s team had been working on. In truth,
that was the most exciting part of the merger. I now had
an entire team of world-class executives to work with. Marty surrounded himself w ith the best of the best, and
it was really an honor to get to work with these people. As it turned out, Synetic’s main competitors were our
old friends, WebMD and H ealtheon, who had merged
together by now. Their com bined company provided
serious competition for our health-care Internet portal. The question was simply one of time—would there be
enough time for us to build o ut our highly sophisticated
web of fering before Health eon/WebMD attracted too
much of the available funding. The answer to that question came on January 25,
2000, just six months after our merger with Synetic. We
awoke to the news that Healtheon/WebMD had
managed to acquire Envoy, the largest claims
clearinghouse in the industry, for $2. 5 billion. That was
quite an  acquisition consideri ng that Healtheon/WebMD
was a web start-up company reporting enormous losses,
and Envoy was a well-established, highly profitable
clearinghouse f or health-care  transactions. It was quickly
determined th at we could n ot maintain a competitive
position in light of this deal. From Medical Manager’s
point o f view, the deal meant that our competitor now
owned the clearinghouse through which we were
channeling all of our clients’


 diagnosed with a terminal illness but refuses to take the medicine. We have alienated ourselves from the whole by believing ourselves to be
separate parts. three essential questions

The non-dual understanding that lies at the origin of all the great religious,
spiritual and philosophical traditions is formulated in response to three exist -
ential questions: ‘How may we find lasting peace and happiness?’, ‘What is
the nature of reality?’ and ‘How should we live?’  you are the happiness you seek
The first question, ‘How may we find lasting peace and happiness?’, relates
to our inner life, and to this the non-dual understanding replies, ‘Peace and
happiness is the very nature of your being’. We arrive at this understanding by separating our self from everything
that is not essential to us: our thoughts, images, feelings, sensations, percep -
tions, activities and relationships. All that remains is our essential, irreducible
being. Divested of everything with which we previously defined our self,
we find our self empty, silent and at peace. The second question, ‘What is the nature of reality?’, relates to our outer life,
our relationship with all people, animals and our environment. In response
to this the non-dual understanding suggests, ‘We share our being with every -
one and everything’. That is, there is a single, infinite and indivisible reality
from which everyone and everything derives its apparently independent exist -
ence. As we sink more and more deeply into our being, it loses its agitation on
the inside and, at the same time, its limitations on the outside. The being
that we essentially are is the same being that everyone and everything essen -
tially is. Being is infinite and indivisible. Previously the multiplicity and diversity
of people, animals and things veiled their shared reality. Now they lose their
veiling power and become transparent to it. If we understand these two aspects of our self and lead a life, to the best
of our ability, in a way that is consistent with their implications, no other
spiritual instruction or practice is necessary. If we understand that happiness is the very nature of our being, we
cease expecting or demanding that other people and the world provide
it. Our happiness is no longer a hostage to circumstance. We cease using
the world to serve our happiness and instead use our happiness to serve
the world. If we understand and feel that we share our being with all people, animals
and things, no further code of ethics or morality is required. That under -
standing is the foundation of all ethical behaviour. The response to the third question, ‘How should we live?’, is an inevi -
table consequence of this understanding. When asked the same question,
174conclusion
St. Augustine replied, ‘Love, and do whatever you want’. That is, recognise
and feel the prior unity from which everyone and everything derives its
apparently independent existence, and act in a manner that expresses and
communicates this understanding in the world. There is almost no field of human endeavour in which it is not possible
to allow this understanding to inform our thoughts and feelings and to ex -
press itself in our activities and relationships. All the qualities that we most admire in a human being are those that ex -
press, or are informed by, the recognition that the nature of our being is hap -
piness and that we share our being with everyone and everything. Qualities such as kindness, humility, dignity, compassion, respect, gen -
erosity, courage, integrity, humour and creativity all arise from the recogni -
tion or intuition that beneath our differences we share our being. Such
qualities are expressions of the divine in a human being. For one in whom this understanding is alive, the unity of being increas -
ingly outshines the apparent multiplicity and diversity of people, animals
and things. Everything becomes transparent to and shines with its reality. know thyself

The unity of being is refracted through the faculties of thought and percep -
tion and appears, as a result, as a multiplicity and diversity of objects and
selves. If we take the evidence of sense perception and the categorising faculty
of thought at face value, and we consider everyone and everything a discrete
entity with its own separate and independent existence, then suffering, con -
flict and destruction are inevitable. Individuals pay for this paradigm with their happiness; humanity is pay -
ing for it with its sanity. If pursued unchecked, it must eventually lead to
a catastrophic outcome. If, instead, we take the evidence of reason and experience, we see through
the illusory appearance of separation to the single, infinite and indivisible
reality that underlies it and of which it is an expression. Every thought or feeling that we entertain, and every action or relation -
ship in which we engage, can be traced back to one of these two possible
perspectives. Our life as an individual and the destiny of our civilisation as
a whole depend upon which of these two perspectives we subscribe to. 175you are the happiness you seek
     It is in response to the paradigm of fragmentation and separation that the
founders of all the great religious and spiritual traditions have, in numerous
different ways, implored humanity to awaken to a single understanding:
happiness is the nature of our being, and we share our being with everyone
and everything. All that is necessary is to understand this, feel this and lead a life, to the
best of our ability, in a way that is consistent with it, engaging in activities
and relationships that, in one way or another, communicate and celebrate it. We cannot know the nature of the universe directly, because the instrument
through which we perceive and explore it, namely the mind, imposes its own
limitations on everything that it knows. We cannot see white snow through
orange-tinted glasses. However, we can know our self, because we have direct, unmediated
knowledge of our self before it is filtered through the limitations of thought
and perception. Divested of the limitations that our self acquires from
thought and perception, we know our self simply as infinite, impersonal,
self-aware being. Whatever the universe is, we as apparent individuals emerge from it. Therefore, whatever we essentially are must be the reality of the universe
from which we seem to emerge, just as the nature of the wave must be ident -
ical to that of the ocean. It is from this observation that the central tenet of all the great religious
and spiritual traditions is derived: in Christianity, ‘I and my Father are one’;
in Hinduism, ‘Atman and Brahman are identical’; in Buddhism, ‘Nirvana and
samsara are one’ and ‘Form is emptiness and emptiness also is form’; and in
Sufism, ‘Whosoever knows their self knows their Lord’. That is, the awareness
that is the essential nature of our self is the ultimate reality of the universe. Thus, self-knowledge is not only the direct path to peace and happiness;
it is also the pre-requisite for understanding the nature of the universe. The reason why scientists have yet to discover the nature of the universe,
in spite of searching for it for over two thousand years, is that they have yet
to recognise the nature of their own minds. If we make a deep investigation into the nature of our self, we find only
infinite, impersonal, self-aware being. It finds and knows itself. From a human
perspective these qualities, if we can refer to them as qualities, are felt as peace
176conclusion
and happiness in relation to our inner experience, and as love and beauty in
relation to all people, animals and objects. They are the very fabric of reality. In other words, the universe is a manifestation of joy, love and beauty. If this seems not to be the case, it is only because we believe ourself to be
temporary, finite and separate, and view the universe through the limitations
of this filter. For this reason, the words Know Thyself,  which stood, two and a half
thousand years ago, as an invitation to humanity at the dawn of Western
civilisation, now stand as a prayer to our world civilisation as a whole. The knowing of our own being is the means by which our innate peace
and happiness may be restored. It is the means by which tolerance, com -
passion, cooperation and harmony may be established between all peoples. And it is the foundation on which depends the reparation of our relationship
with nature. T o know the nature of one’s self is the great understanding upon which
any true civilisation must be founded. 177quotation sources
epigraph
J. Krishnamurti, from the essay ‘Creative Happiness’

introduction
T. S. Eliot, ‘Little Gidding’, Four Quartets  (Harcourt, 1941)

chapter one
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Section 7

chapter two
Ramana Maharshi, Who Am I? (Sri Ramanasramam, 2008 ; orig. 1923)

chapter three
Herman Hesse, Wandering  (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1972 )

chapter four
Attributed to the sixteenth-century Zen patriarch Ikkyu, source unknown

chapter five
Attributed to the thirteenth-century German Christian mystic Meister Eckhart, source
unknown

chapter six
Frances Nuttall, ‘The Prayer of the Chalice’ ( 1962 )

chapter seven
Alice Meynell, ‘T o the Beloved’, The Poems of Alice Meynell


	this	failure	of	nutrient	supplements	to	provide	any	proven	health
benefit. As	time	passes,	I	am	confident	that	we	will	continue	to	“discover”
that	relying	on	the	use	of	isolated	nutrient	supplements	to	maintain	health,
while	consuming	the	usual	Western	diet,	is	not	only	a	waste	of	money	but	is
also	potentially	dangerous. PRINCIPLE	#3
___________
There	are	virtually	no	nutrients	in	animal-based	foods	that	are	not	better
provided	by	plants. Overall,	it	is	fair	to	say	that	any	plant-based	food	has	many	more	similarities
in	terms	of	nutrient	compositions	to	other	plant-based	foods	than	it	does	to
animal-based	foods. The	same	is	true	the	other	way	around;	all	animal-based
foods	are	more	like	other	animal-based	foods	than	they	are	to	plant-based
foods. For	example,	even	though	fish	is	significantly	different	from	beef,	fish
has	many	more	similarities	to	beef	than	it	has	to	rice. Even	the	foods	that	are
“exceptions”	to	these	rules,	such	as	nuts,	seeds	and	processed	low-fat	animal
products,	remain	in	distinct	plant	and	animal	“nutrient”	groups. Eating	animals	is	a	markedly	different	nutritional	experience	from	eating
plants. The	amounts	and	kinds	of	nutrients	in	these	two	types	of	foods,	shown
in
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Q: What is the most effective way to prevent macular degeneration and cataracts?,
A: Eating dark green leafy vegetables, such as spinach and collard greens, which has been shown to reduce the risk of these diseases.
Q: What is the key to maintaining good health, according to the author?,
A: The author emphasizes the importance of a plant-based diet and encourages the reader to adopt a whole foods approach.
Q: What is the author's stance on the use of supplements?,
A: The author strongly advises against relying on supplements, as they are ineffective and potentially harmful.
Q: What is the author's view on the role of genetics in determining disease?,
A: The author believes that while genetics play a role, they are not the primary factor in determining disease; rather, environmental factors, such as diet, have a much greater impact.
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and	satisfaction. But	making	the	transition	is	a	challenge. There	arepsychological	barriers	and	practical	ones. It	takes	time	and	effort. You	may
not	get	support	from	your	friends	and	family. But	the	benefits	are	nothing
short	of	miraculous. And	you’ll	be	amazed	at	how	easy	it	becomes	once	you
form	new	habits. Take	the	one-month	challenge. You’ll	not	only	do	great	things	for	yourself,
you’ll	be	part	of	the	vanguard	working	toward	moving	America	into	a
healthier,	leaner	future. Glenn	is	an	associate	of	mine	who,	until	recently,	was	a	dedicated
meat-eater. In	fact,	he	was	recently	on	the	Atkins	diet,	lost	some
weight,	but	dropped	off	it	when	his	cholesterol	went	through	the	roof. He’s	forty-two	and	overweight. I	gave	him	a	draft	of	the	manuscript	for
the	China	Study	and	he	agreed	to	take	the	one-month	challenge. Here
are	a	few	of	his	observations:GLENN’S	TIPS
The	first	week	is	quite	challenging. It’s	hard	to	figure	out	what	to	eat. I’m	not
much	of	a	cook,	so	I	got	some	recipe	books	out	and	tried	creating	some	vegan
dishes. As	someone	who	would	swing	through	McDonald’s	or	heat	up	a
frozen	dinner,	I	found	it	annoying	to	have	to	cook	meals	each	evening. At
least	half	of	them	were	a	disaster	and	had	to	be	thrown	out. But	over	time	I
found	a	few	that	were	fantastic. My	sister	gave	me	a	recipe	for	West	African
peanut	stew	that	was	incredible	and	like	nothing	I	ever	tasted. My	mom	gave
me	a	vegetarian	chili	recipe	that	was	great. And	I	stumbled	on	a	great	whole
wheat	spaghetti	dish	with	lots	of	vegetables	and	a	faux	meat	sauce	(made
from	soy)	that	was	amazing. I	challenge	anyone	to	know	that	this	was	a	vegan
dish. But	all	of	this	does	take	time. I’m	rediscovering	fruit. I’ve	always	loved	fruit,	but	for	some	reason	I
don’t	really	eat	much	of	it. Maybe	it’s	not	eating	meat,	but	I’m	finding	that
I’m	enjoying	fruit	more	than	ever. I	now	cut	up	a	grapefruit	and	eat	it	as	a
snack. I	really	like	it! I	would	have	never	done	that	before;	I	actually	think	my
tastes	are	getting	more	sensitive. I	was	avoiding	eating	out—something	I	used	to	do	constantly—for	fear	of
not	having	a	vegan	option. But	I’m	getting	more	adventurous	now. I’ve	found
some	new	restaurants	that	have	some	great	vegan	side	dishes,	including	a
wonderful	local	Vietnamese	place	(I	know	that	most	Vietnamese	food	isn’t
strictly	vegan,	since	they	use	a	fish	sauce	in	many	dishes,	but	for	nutritional
purposes	it’s	very	close). The	other	day	I	got	dragged	into	a	pizza	place	with	a
large	group;	there	was	nothing	I	could	do,	and	I	was	starved. I	ordered	a
cheese-less	pizza	with	lots	of	vegetables. They	even	made	it	with	a	whole
wheat	crust. I	was	prepared	to	choke	it	down	but	actually	it	was	surprisingly
good. I’ve	brought	that	home	a	few	times	since. I’m	finding	that	cravings	for	meat	products	are	pretty	much	gone,
particularly	if	I	don’t	let	myself	get	hungry. And,	honestly,	I’m	eating
like	a
pig. Being	overweight,	I’ve	always	been	self-conscious	about	what	I	eat. Now
I	eat	like	a	madman,	and	feel	virtuous	to	boot. I	can	honestly	say	I’m	enjoying
the	food	I’m	eating	now	a	lot	more	than	before,	partly	because	I’m	fussier
now	in	what	I	eat. I	only	eat	foods	I	really	like. The	first	month	went	by	quicker	than	I	thought	it	would. I’ve	lost	eight
pounds	and	my	cholesterol	has	dropped	dramatically. I’m	spending	a	lot	less
time	on	this	now,	particularly	since	I’ve	found	so	many	restaurants	I	can	eat
at,	plus	I	cook	huge	meals	and	then	freeze	them. My	freezer	is	stocked	with
vegan	goodies. The	experiment	is	over	but	I	stopped	thinking	of	it	as	an	experiment	weeksago. I	can’t	imagine	why	I	would	go	back	to	my	old	eating	patterns.Part	IV
WHY	HAVEN’T	YOU	HEARD	THIS
BEFORE? O
FTEN	WHEN	PEOPLE	HEAR
	of	scientific	information	that	justifies	a	radical	shift
in	diet	to	plant	foods,	they	can’t	believe	their	ears. “If	all	that	you	say	is	true,”
they	wonder,	“why	haven’t	I	heard	it	before? In	fact,	why	do	I	usually


 reproduction was impaired. The animals
given sterilized milk grew less ra pidly than either of the other groups; reproduction was also less efficient, and
none of the animals in the third generation lived longer than a
day. Another investigator, S. Schmidt-Nielson, fed white rats
pasteurized milk and reported that the food produced
diminished vitality and early death in the offspring of mature animals. Daniels and Loughlin reported the failure of normal
growth in all rats given heated milk, whether evaporated,
condensed, or pasteurized. They also observed that this milk
increased the tendency of the animals to develop polyneuritis. Given adequate amounts of raw milk, none of the animals developed this disease, whereas three on pasteurized milk
were severely afflicted. Kitc hin and McFarland noted that
raw milk provided good growth curves in rats, whereas
growth among animals given pasteurized milk was poor. Russell observed that the addition of raw beef to a wheat-milk diet in rats improved reproduction and increased the
general vigor of the young. Abeline reported that rats fed
whole wheat bread baked at high temperatures were stunted
in growth and not so resistant to disease as were rats given
bread baked at low temperatures. In Finland, Dr. Reinius reported feeding rats a diet composed exclusively of food
heated in an oven at 140 degrees C. for 30 to 40 minutes. This
caused total cessation of grow th of the animals, which was
attributed to the destruction of certain amino acids by heat. McCandlish and Black, of the West of Scotland College of
Agriculture, tested raw and pasteurized milk on the growth
and health of calves. Fourteen calves of different breeds and sexes were divided into two groups of six and eight
respectively, one receiving raw milk from the age of five days
and the other receiving pasteurized milk from the same age. At the end of go days all calves on raw milk were alive and in
good health. Of those on pasteurized milk, two had died and
one had to be removed on account of unthriftiness. For the
first 60 days there was no significant difference in the rate of
growth, but after that period the calves on raw milk grew more rapidly. The calves on pasteurized milk consumed more
food per pound of weight gained, using 6 per cent more milk, 16 per cent more grain, and 43 per cent more hay. W. Catel, using goats, also found better results from the use
of raw milk. Animals so fed attained much better growth than
those using pasteurized milk, though some fared badly when
given milk from the bottle but thrived well on the mother's milk obtained naturally. Catel found that "The utilization of
fat, carbohydrate, protein, calcium, and phosphorus was less

 complete in the animals fed on heated milk; these animals
retained a very high proportion of choline in their food." Dried skim milk has been heralded as a "super food" in
some quarters, but experimental animals live very poorly on
this food after it has been heat-processed during manufacture
or at any other time. Dr. Joseph E. Muller, of Indiana University, found that white rats given unheated dried milk
had only 5.4 per cent dental defects, while the caries
incidence rose to 9.3 per cent when heated dried milk was
given. McClure and Folk likewise found that dried milk
produced dental caries in rats, with the amount of damage being parallel with the degree of heating the milk had
undergone. Kraft and Morgan, of th e University of California,
reported that the dried milk lost half of its growth efficiency
for rats if it had been cooked for 15 minutes, and all of its
growth value if cooked for 25 minutes. From Germany comes a report from Fink and Schlie, who tested 21 samples of dried
skim milk as contrasted to fresh skim milk. Of 200 rats given
the dried milk, 95 per cent died within 40 to 100 days, and 85
per cent of these had liver necrosis. All rats given the same
diet, but with fresh skim milk instead of dried milk, survived
the experiment with complete freedom from liver necrosis. Both mice and rabbits have been tested with raw and heat-
processed foods. Wilson and Cowel noted that young mice
thrive better upon raw milk than upon pasteurized milk,
possessing a higher weight average and much greater vitality. Marine and his associates fed a group of rabbits upon raw
cabbage and a group upon cooked cabbage. The former were healthy and displayed complete immunity to goiter, whereas
cooked cabbage was found to be goitrogenic and produced a high incidence of the disease among the animals. Cats and dogs fed commercial pet foods, which have all
been heat-processed, show various symptoms of disease in experimental tests. M. L. Morris fed a group of cats upon
fresh meat and all thrived well, but those animals given
samples of many different commercial cat foods did poorly in
comparison, and a number of the cats showed emaciation,
skin lesions, and neurological signs. Dr. Clive McCay has pointed out that "The meat meals commonly used in dog
feeds are often so over-heated in processing that they are
entirely devoid of vitamin B
1. Recently in a digestion trial of
meat meals made by students, the dog refused to eat and
became badly constipated." Koehn observed that dogs may appear healthy and thrive for long periods on cooked rations
containing cottonseed meal, "but eventually they will die very
suddenly." Dogs fed upon raw foods are resistant to
ex
perimental amoebic infection, but those animals given a diet of canned meat have very low resistance. E. C. Foust
found that he could produce amoebic infection at will in
poorly nourished animals and then establish a cure by feeding
raw liver. This food arrested the amoebic lesion and at the same time lessened the danger of secondary bacterial
infection. Magendie made extensive feeding trials with dogs to
determine the effects of raw bones. Animals given boiled
bones died within a couple of months, and those fed the heat-
processed bone extract, gelatin, for a few days, preferred to
die rather than eat more. Fresh raw bones, on the other hand, kept the dogs alive for long periods and appeared to afford
adequate nourishment. The canine experience with milk has been much the same. An English physician reported feeding puppies on pasteurized
milk, and the animals died. Other puppies were given raw
milk and thrived well. The American physician, Dr. Charles
Sanford, reported that "Dogs fed on pasteurized milk only are liable to have the mange and other disorders, while others of
the same litter thrive on raw, sweet and sour milk." E
XPERIMENTS WITH HEAT-PROCESSED FATS
   In England Dr. May Mellanby tested raw and heat-
processed fats in their relation to the dental condition of the
dog. Dr. Mellanby found that the inclusion of raw butter, raw butterfat, or raw cod liver oil in the dog's diet would, almost
without exception, insure good calcification of the teeth. When these foods were heated at 120 degrees C., however,
their calcifying potency was seriously reduced. This was
especially noticeable when the foods were exposed to oxygen during the period of heating. The loss of calcifying properties
was thought due to either impairment of the fat soluble
vitamins by heat or to the production during treatment of
harmful substances which in themselves interfere with teeth calcification. Heat-processed vegetable oils are staples of the dietary
throughout most of India. Accordingly, Indian scientists have made tests to determine their value. Ragu and Rajagopalan
heated groundnut, sesame, and coconut oils in an open iron
pan to a temperature of 270 degrees, C., as is the usual
practice in India, and these were fed to white rats. Those
animals receiving 315 per cent ration of heated oils developed
jaundice; at a 30 per cent level of oil feeding, all animals died
within a week. Conversion of feed was very poor in all
animals, and u pon auto psy the livers were found to be badl y damaged, congested, and discolored. Control animals,
receiving uncooked oils, utilized their food well and survived
the experiment in good health. Sir S. S. Sokhey, of the
Haffkine Institute, tested hydrogenated oils and noted that they produced inferior growth in animals and interfered with
the absorption of calcium in the body. The popular Indian
butter substitute, vanaspati— made from the heat-processed
oils of fruits, flowers, and vegetables—was fed to rats at the
Research Institute at Izzatnager, and animals of the third
generation became blind. Scientists of the Western world have also tested heat-
processed vegetable fats, as well as heat-processed animal
fats, and found these to be instrumental in producing cancer
and other diseases. British scientists injected 12 mice with
cottonseed oil pre-heated at te mperatures of 340-360 degrees
C. Two of the mice developed cancerous lesions at the site of the injection, whereas no animals of a control group injected
in the same manner with oil heated at much lower
temperatures developed cancer. Yet cottonseed oil has been
found to produce cancer even when heated at comparatively


 the
lubrication and the moistur e which we find lacking in so much of the food available today, it affects the bowel most adversely. We know that Grandma always took care of the bowel. She would use sulfur and molasses as one of the old remedies. She would
also use enemas to clear a bloc ked bowel. In days past, people were more familiar with bowel problems and how to care for them. We’ve gotten away from doing these things today and many people are suffering unnecessary sickness and disease because of it. This book is offered with the id ea that with this knowledge, an individual can learn what is necessary for proper bowel
management, and to show the results that can be obtained by just taking care of the bowel properly. No doctor should be witho ut
this knowledge; no doctor should practic e any system of healing without considering the care of the five elimination channels
(skin, lymph, kidneys, lungs, and in particular, taking care of the bowel). To this end, I give to you the best and most impo rtant
available knowledge concerning the non -surgical and drugless restoration of normal bowel function. CORRECT LIVING HABITS
If we lived correctly, there would be no need to concern ourselves with the bowel. However, most of us are not living right. We
don’t eat the right foods, we don’t get the r ight exercise, fresh air and sunshine. There are so many things we’re not doing right, we
can’t expect the bowel to function properly. What are the statistics on disease today, and what are doctors doing about it? V irtually
all of their attention is direct ed to treating physical problems and troubles which are products of bad living habits. Bad living habits
are too often picked up from this modern civilization. When I say modern civilization, I am talking about progress, and we al l like
to think of ourselv es as progressive people. But it is obvious that a lot of things we’ve progressed to are not good for our health,
and this is something we must correct. Doctors are not teaching people to live correctly, and they must begin to do this. I b elieve
every doct or should spend half of his time teaching his patients how to live right. What do our government health departments do? They watch for disease. They are really “disease departments.” When an epidemic comes along, they try to take care of it. We give
money to organizations and institutions, but do they try to find out how to prevent any disease? I see that one organization was
given a huge grant to study diet and nutrition and their effects on cancer. So, they are going to start by finding out how al cohol
affects cancer. I believe it is reasonable to ask why they aren’t conducting research to find out how to help prevent cancer. O f
course they are going to find that alcohol has a detrimental effect. That is a foregone conclusion. But they’re still not goi ng to tell
you how to prevent cancer, how to keep from getting it or even how to bring on a remission. So, I believe we must turn around. We must take a new direction in the way we look at health. AN OUNCE OF EDUCATION IS WORTH A POUND OF TREATMENT
We need to  know how to become healthy and how to stay healthy. There are different kinds of people, and we have to reach each
of them at their own level of understanding. Some people will pay anything to get well after they are sick. We find as far as  health
is conc erned, you can’t pay for it —you earn it. You work for it. So often the average treatments we have today leave the patient
void of knowledge, with no change of consciousness. Unless you elevate your mental attitude, your consciousness, you’re not
taking a b etter health path. Too many people with coffee -and-donut lifestyles go see the doctor, get a treatment, then go right back
out to that caffeine and sugar habit again. They will be back, you can bet on it! No one in a hospital should ever be allowed  to
leave until they are given a full day of instruction on how to manage their kitchens at home, how to feed their families and how to
prevent recurrence of the trouble that brought them there. Otherwise, they will soon be back in the hospital. You may think I ’m a
little harsh in this, but every doctor says that one operation leads to another. Do you know why? Because nothing was done to  deal
with the original cause which led to the first operation. LET’S OPERATE ON THE PROBLEM INSTEAD OF THE BODY
I ask my patien ts what operations they’ve had and almost invariably with everyone, the first is a tonsillectomy. The doctor
removes a lymph gland organ and this is one of the organs that eliminates catarrh, phlegm and mucus acids. It is the only par t of
the lymphatic sys tem that functions to externally throw off what your body can’t use. The next operation is the appendix; this is
also lymphoid tissue. What’s going on here? We don’t keep our bodies clean; we don’t know how to keep them clean. Cleanliness
can begin in many  ways but we can’t put new wine in old bottles. We can’t put clean food into a dirty body and expect good
results. We’re only going to get partial, perhaps even negligible results. We have to do better than that. We have been train ed to
believe that if the  bowel isn’t functioning correctly we can turn to laxatives. I believe there are more laxatives sold in this country
than any other drug with perhaps the exception of aspirin. Cold remedies are very heavy sellers, as are tranquilizers; but yo u will
find la xatives in almost every home. Somebody in each family always seems to be constipated; somebody in the family has bowel
trouble. When the children used to get sick, what did grandmother suggest? An enema of course. Grandma and grandpa used
sulphur and molas ses, and they had many other ways to take care of the bowel. But we find that laxatives are not the solution
to bowel problems. We have to go deeper. We must realize that the bowel has the poorest nerve structure of any organ in the b ody. Having the poores t nerve structure, the bowel can’t signal its problems. If you get a little pinprick on the finger you immediately
pull away from the pain that causes the distress. But there are no painful distress signals in the bowel because it has such poor
nerve react ions and nerve sup -plies. Where there is a problem in the bowel, and you feel it, you are really in trouble. You must
recognize that the average person doesn’t take care of the bowel until the very last thing. This was brought home to me espec ially
with th e death of the popular movie actor, John Wayne. We find that he first had an operation on the lung. Three months later, he
had an operation on the stomach. Another three months and he had an operation on the bowel. We tend to leave the bowel until
last. BACKGROUND EXPERIENCES
Often, parents neglect to teach their children about bowel movements and regularity. I grew up just like Topsy. If I was busy
playing, I let the bowel movement go; if it didn’t happen today, I’d wait until tomorrow. I had a patient fr om Brazil who was
having a bowel movement every 18 days, and her previous doctor told her that was normal. She experienced menstrual disorders
and constant headaches for years and she also had aching shoulders. I knew I didn’t have to do anything about the se symptoms. Instead, I took care of her bowel. You know, when she started having one bowel movement a day for a month’s time, her shoulde r
pains disappeared and her headaches were gone. After three month’s time, she no longer had her old menstrual problem s.

I once studied diet and wholistic healing methods with Dr. Glenn J. Sipes in a San Francisco college. One time he received a phone
call asking him to see someone in Walnut Creek, California, which is just the other side of Oakland. Because it was an e mergency,
he agreed to go and asked me to go with him. On arriving, we found a young man about 26 years of age, red as a beet and oozin g
liquid from his skin. He had extreme pain throughout his entire body and a very high fever. Dr. Sipes tapped the man’s bowel with
his fingers and asked when he’d had his last bowel movement. The young man said he couldn’t remember. Dr. Sipes turned to the
mother and asked her to prepare an enema, as the young man needed one right away. She asked what an enema was. Now, her e
was a mother who didn’t even know about enemas! There wasn’t a thing in that house to give an enema with, but Dr. Sipes was a
man who could always find his way out. He went outside, down to the creek and cut a piece of reed about 2 -1/2 feet long. He had
the mother fill up a kettle with warm water. He cleaned the pith out of the reed with baling wire, took some of the warm wate r and
blew it into the rectum, causing the man to eliminate. This procedure was repeated for over an hour. In an hour and a half, t he
man’s fever had completely dropped to normal. There was no more redness of the skin and no more pain in


 arises out of one of these three modalities. They may change during the
course of a day,
although one of them may be dominant during a certain stage in your
life. Each modality is appropriate to certain situations. The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and
enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of
consciousness. Y ou need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them
operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all from the
most simple task to the most complex. If you are not in the state of either
acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find
that you are creating suf fering for yourself and others.A New Earth
A C C E P T A N C E
Whatever you cannot enjoy doing, you can at least accept that this is
what you have to do. Acceptance means: For now, this is what this
situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly. W e
already spoke at length about the importance of inner acceptance of what
happens, and acceptance of what you have to do is just another aspect of
it. For example, you probably won't be able to enjoy changing the flat
tire on your car at night in the middle of nowhere and in pouring rain, let
alone be enthusiastic about it, but you can bring acceptance to it. Performing an action in the state of acceptance means you are at peace
while you do it. That peace is a subtle ener gy vibration which then flows
into what you do. On the surface, acceptance looks like a passive state,
but in reality it is active and creative because it brings something entirely
new into this world. That peace, that subtle ener gy vibration, is
consciousness, and one of the ways in which ti enters this world is
through surrendered action, one aspect of which is acceptance. If you can neither enjoy or bring acceptance to what you do stop. Otherwise, you are not taking responsibility for the only thing you can
really take responsibility for, which also happens to be one thing that
really matters: your state of consciousness. And if you are not taking
responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking
responsibility for life.A New Earth
E N J O Y M E N T
The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of
aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing. Enjoyment is the
second modality of awakened doing. On the new earth, enjoyment will
replace wanting as the motivating power behind people's actions. W anting arises from the ego's delusion that you are a separate fragment
that is disconnected from the power that lies behind all creation. Through
enjoyment, you link into that universal creative power itself. When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal
point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the
quality of your life increases dramatically. Joy is the dynamic aspect of
Being. When the creative power of the universe becomes conscious of
itself, it manifests as joy. Y ou don't have to wait for something
meaningful to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you
do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The waiting to
start living syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the
unconscious state. Expansion and positive change on the outer level is
much more likely to come into your life if you can enjoy what you are
doing already, instead of waiting for some change so that you can start
enjoying what you do. Don't ask your mind for permission to enjoy what you do. All you will
get is plenty of reasons why you can't enjoy it. Not now, the mind will
say. Can't you see I'm busy? There's no time. Maybe tomorrow you can
start enjoying.... That tomorrow will never come unless you begin
enjoying what you are doing now. When you say, I enjoy doing this or that, it is really a misperception. It
makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the
case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and
thus into this world from deep within you. The misperception that joy
comes from what you do is normal, and it is also dangerous, because it
creates the belief that joy is something that can be derived formsomething else, such as an activity or thing. Y ou then look to the world
to bring you joy, happiness. But it cannot do that. This is why many
people live in constant frustration. The world is not giving them what
they think they need. Then what is the relationship between something that you do and the
state of joy? Y ou will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present,
any activity that is not just a means to an end. It isn't the action you
perform that you really enjoy, but the deep sense of aliveness that flows
into it. That aliveness is one with who you are. This means that when
you enjoy doing something, you are really experiencing the joy of Being
in its dynamic
aspect. That's why anything you enjoy doing connects you with the
power behind all creation. Here is a spiritual practice that will bring empowerment and creative
expansion into your life. Make a list of a number of everyday routine
activities that you perform frequently. Include activities hat you may
consider uninteresting, boring, tedious, irritating, or stressful. But don't
include anything that you hate or detest doing. That's a case either for
acceptance or for stopping what you do. The list may include traveling to
and from work, buying groceries, doing your laundry, or anything that
you find tedious or stressful in your daily work. Then, whenever you are
engaged in those activities, let hem be a vehicle for alertness. Be
absolutely present in what you do and sense the alert, alive stillness
within you in the background of the activity. Y ou will soon find that what
you do in such a state of heightened awareness, instead of being
stressful, tedious, or irritating, is actually becoming enjoyable. T o be
more precise, what you are enjoying is not really the outward action but
the inner dimension of consciousness hat flows into the action. This is
finding the joy of Being in what you are doing. If you feel your life lacks
significance or is too stressful or tedious, it is because you haven't
brought that dimension into your life yet. Being conscious in what you
do has not yet become your main aim. The new earth arises as more and more people discover that their main
purpose in life is to bring the light of consciousness into this world and
so use whatever they do as a vehicle for consciousness. The joy of Being is the joy of being conscious.A wakened consciousness then takes over from ego and begins to run
your life. Y ou may then find that an activity that you have been engaged
in for a long time naturally begins to expand into something much bigger
when it becomes empowered by consciousness. Some of those people who, through creative action, enrich the lives of
many others simply do what they enjoy doing most without wanting to
achieve or become anything through that activity. They may be
musicians, artists, writers, scientists, teachers, or builders, or they may
bring into manifestation new social or business structures (enlightened
businesses). Sometimes for a few years their sphere of influence remains
small; and then
it can happen that suddenly or gradually a wave of creative
empowerment flows into what they do, and their activity expands
beyond anything they could have imagined and touches countless others. In addition to enjoyment, an intensity is now added to what they do and
with it comes a creativity that goes beyond anything an ordinary human
could accomplish. But don't let it go to your head, because up there is where a remnant of
ego may be hiding. Y ou are still an ordinary human. What is
extraordinary is what comes through you into this world. But that
essence you share with all beings. The fourteenth?century Persian poet
and Sufi master Hafiz expresses this truth beautifully: I am a hole in a
flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.A New Earth
E N T H U S I A S M
Then there is another way of creative manifestation that may come to
those who remain true to their inner purpose of awakening. Suddenly one
day they know what their outer purpose is. They have a great vision, a
goal, and from then on they work toward implementing that goal. Their
goal or vision is usually connected in some way to something that on a
smaller scale they are doing and enjoy doing already. This is where the
third modality of awakened doing arises: enthusiasm. Enthusiasm mans there is deep enjoyment in what you do plus the added
element of a goal or a vision that you work toward. When you add a goal
to the enjoyment of what you do, the ener gy?field or vibrational
frequency changes. A certain degree of what we might call structural
tension is now added to enjoyment, and so it turns into enthusiasm. At
the height of creative activity fueled by enthusiasm, there will be
enormous intensity and ener gy behind what you do. Y ou will feel like an
arrow hat is moving toward the tar get and enjoying the journey. T o an onlooker, it may appear that you are under stress, but the intensity
of enthusiasm has nothing to do with stress. When you want


 Graham
received national attention as he traveled throughout the eastern
states telling members of his audiences not to eat bread made
from bolted flour. Bakers and millers became so aroused that riots
t were started and barricades frequently had to be erected at lec-
tures for protection. Nevertheless Graham was neither a quack
nor a faddist and the medical press of the day gave him widespread
support. He arrived at the same conclusions through rational ob-
servation that nutritionists now do through experimentation. To
this day whole wheat flour is often called "Graham flour:' and
"Graham crackers7' are a well known food. I It was not until the twentieth century, however, that the most
conclusive and convincing evidence began to arrive as to the
effects of the process of refining, and then it came from scientists
in all parts of the world. From England in 1912 came the report
from Dr. Frederick Gowland Hopkins, of the University of Cam-
bridge, that the "superior value of whole wheat meal lies in the
fact that it retains certain food substances whose presence allows
I I our systems to make use of the tissue-building elements of the
grain:' In a series of experiments Dr. Hopkins showed that young
1 animals grow much more rapidly on brown flour than white
I flour, and he was able to alter at will the tissue-building rate of
I animals by altering the ratio of brown flour to white flour in the
diet. Also in England, Benjamin Moore, Chief of the Biochemical
Department of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, re-
ported that experiments with pigeons indicated the development
of a wide variety of pathological conditions resulting from white
t flour, even when unbleached. The pigeons fed such flour, he
reported, "all speedily developed marked symptoms of malnutri-
tion and serious nerve derangements. Besides losing weight they
, sit listless and shivering, lose power in their legs, suggesting nerve
I DANGERS IN MODERN FOODS REFINED GRAlN PRODUCTS
paralysis, while many develop convulsions17 The pigeons fed
whole wheat remained healthy and up to normal weight through-
out the length of the experiments. Just two years later, in France, similar experiments were con-
ducted yielding similar results. Two scientists, E. Weill and G.
Mouriquant, reported that the pigeons fed on refined barley
"showed similar waste and paresis of the limbs and wings as has
been frequently noted on a white bread diet. These symptoms
were followed by ataxic cerebellar or labyrinthine phenomenon - the animals falling backward or laterally with hyperextension of
the limbs and head, ending in death. A cataleptoid condition
sometimes preceded death where there had been no previous
symptoms17
In America T. B. Osborne and L. B. Mendell found that ani-
mals fed refined grains rapidly declined in health, even though ~
crystallized mineral salts were added to the diet. Other American
scientists made similar observations. In New York it was noticed
that both cattle and horses showed symptoms of acidosis, emacia-
tion, and anemia when fed degerminated corn meal, and prompt
recovery occurred when the animals were given whole grains and
fresh grasses. The famed breeder of thoroughbred horses, David
T. Arret, reported that his animals, when fed unprocessed and
unbleached grain foods, remained immune to all of the equine
diseases which were then so common among horses. The general
conclusion of scientific workers in America was summed up at
that time by Harvey W. Wiley with his statement that there
was "an almost universal consensus of opinion among dietetic
experts to the effect that properly ground whole wheat flour is a
more wholesome product both for children and grown people
than the fine white flour of commerce:'
While scientists in the western world were discovering the
effects of refined wheat, rye, barley, and corn, those of the Orient
were reporting that beriberi and general ill-health were wide-
spread in China and the entire Far East because of the increasing
use of refined polished rice. In the Philippine Islands, the health a ives official, Dr. V. G. Heiser, showed that beriberi among the n t'
was due to the consumption of polished rice. Dr. Fraser of Singa-
pore, Dr. DeHaan of Java, and Dr. Highet of Siam followed with
similar reports from their areas. In the famous Coulion Leper
Colony nearly all of the inmates fell ill with beriberi. ~reatment
consisted of replacing polished rice with the natural rice grain
and extra rice bran. In just sixty days the disease was not only
interrupted, but complete cures among many of the afflicted
were established. Since that time whole brown rice has come back
into use in many parts of the Far East, and when beriberi devel-
ops in other areas, the food is introduced as a specific remedy. Still more damaging evidence against the use of refined foods
has come in recent years, in particular with respect to the bleach-
ing of flour. In 1948 Dr. Anton J. Carlson, the world-renowned
physiologist of the University of Chicago, described the extreme
danger of nitrogen trichloride, used in the bleaching process. He
pointed out that the chemical causes running fits and epilepsy
in dogs, monkeys, and rats. He referred to the chemical as "a
nerve poison" which "changes a good protein into a bad one,
and causes nervous instability:' It should be noted that nitrogen
trichloride had been used for bleaching 90 per cent of all white
flour during the prior twenty years. Now its use is prohibited for
bleaching purposes, but other poisons are employed as substi-
tutes. Most flour is presently bleached with the well known
toxic chemical, chlorine dioxide, which was approved for use
over protests of U.S. Army nutrition experts. Chlorine dioxide
is much more powerful than nitrogen trichloride and need be
used in only one-third to one-half the quantity of the latter. According to Lockwood7s Flour Milling publication, the chem-
ical is "particularly valuable for bleaching very low grade flours:'
So the millers had good reason to welcome the change, but the
consuming public received a doubtful advantage. Along with bleaching, the use of chemical softening agents
is widespread and dangerous. Bakers use tlie softening agents so
that their bread will keep fresh-looking and soft for two weeks or DANGERS IN MODERN FOODS
longer. Until 1953, more than ten million pounds of bread each
year were treated with Polyethelene monstearate. This chemical
emulsifier was tested by Dr. John C. Krantz, who had been hired
by one of the chemical companies to test the harmlessness of
their product. But the experiments showed that white rats, mon-
keys, and rabbits did suffer when given the softener, some of
them developing spontaneous tumors, others dying, and some of
the rabbits being victims of cannibalism. Other scientists noted
damage to liver and kidneys when the softener was fed to animals. Polyethelene monostearate was finally banned after an exhaustive
hearing lasting 116 days and involving 160 witnesses, 17,000
pages of records, and more than 500 exhibits. Yet, in spite of
all the evidence presented against the chemical, the legal decision
was appealed to the Supreme Court, and the very firms whose
scientists had proved the dangers of the chemical fought for its
continued use up to the very end. Today we do not have Poly-
ethelene monstearate in our bread, but we do have other chem-
ical softening agents which may or may not present serious risks
to human health. Some nutritional scientists have apologized for the baker's
production of white bread on the grounds that the natural whole
grain product often becomes infested with vermin when not
transported and stored under refrigeration. As Prof. E. V.
McCollum remarks: "There are good and sound commercial
reasons why most people should eat white bread.... It is safest
and most economical to transport the flour and get it to the
consumer in the form of bread than it is if whole wheat flour
were used, since the latter tends to spoil more readily:' Whereas
this is a good argument for commercial profit, it is an argument
against good nutrition. The lower forms of animal life do not
infest white flour and white bread because these foods do not
offer them suitable nourishment. They need living foods, rich in
nutritional factors, in order to thrive. And man is no exception
to this rule. We are no more capable of being well nourished on
white flour products than are insects and vermin. REFINED GRAIN PRODUCTS
The fact that white bread is an inferior food does not mean
that we can automatically obtain good nutrition simply by pur-
chasing dark bread. Ordinary dark wheat bread is usually com-
posed of about one-third whole wheat flour and two-thirds white
flour. Ordinary rye bread, and even most pumpernickel breads,
are made from a combination of rye and white flours. Some loo
per cent whole grain products are available, but even they are
often inferior foods. They are not always free from the harmful
ingredients found in


 That this problem of serious degeneration of our modern civilization is not limited to the people
of the United States has been commented on at length by workers in many countries. Sir
Arbuthnot Lane, one of England's distinguished surgeons, and a student of public welfare, has
made this comment: (2)
   Long surgical experience has proved to me conclusively that there is something radically and
fundamentally wrong with the civilized mode of life, and I believe that unless the present dietetic
and health customs of the White Nations are reorganized, social decay and race deterioration
are inevitable. The decline in white population that is taking place in many communities throughout several
countries illustrates the widespread working of the forces that are responsible for this degeneration. In discussing this matter in its relation to Australia, S. R. Wolstenhole, (3) lecturer in economics at
Sydney University, predicts that:
    A decline in Australia's population is inevitable within 40 years because of the absence of a
vigorous population policy. Students of our modern social problems are recognizing that these problems are not limited to
health conditions which we have been accustomed to think of as bodily diseases. This is illustrated
in a recent discussion by Will Durant: (4)
   The American people are face to face with at least 4 major and militant problems that have to
do with the continuity and worthwhile progress of modern civilization:
1. The threatened deterioration of our stock. 2. The purchasing power of our people must rise as fast as the power to procure.... 3. The third problem is moral. A civilization depends upon morals for a social and
governmental order.... 4. The sources of statesmanship are drying up.... Dental caries or tooth decay is recognized as affecting more individuals throughout the so-called
civilized world today than any other affection. In the United States, England and Europe
examinations of highly modernized groups, consisting of several million individuals, reveal the fact
that from 85 to 100 per cent of the individuals in various communities are suffering from this
affection. As a contributing factor to absence from school among children it leads all other7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 14/250affections. From the standpoint of injury to health, it has been estimated by many to be the most
serious contributing factor through its involvement of other organs of the body. The Honorable J. A. Young, Minister of Health of New Zealand, strongly emphasized that the insidiousness of the
effect of dental disease lies in the fact that it is the forerunner of other far-reaching disturbances and
he has referred to the seriousness with which it is viewed in England as follows: "Sir George
Newman, Principal Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health in Great Britain, has said that 'dental
disease is one of the chief, if not the chief, cause of the ill health of the people.'" Dr. Earnest A. Hooton, of Harvard University, has emphasized the importance of oral sepsis and
the task of stopping tooth decay. In closing Chapter VII of his recent book "Apes, Men and
Morons," (5)  he states the case as follows:
    I firmly believe that the health of humanity is at stake, and that, unless steps are taken to
discover preventives of tooth infection and correctives of dental deformation, the course of
human evolution will lead downward to extinction.... The facts that we must face are, in brief,
that human teeth and the human mouth have become, possibly under the influence of
civilization, the foci of infections that undermine the entire bodily health of the species and that
degenerative tendencies in evolution have manifested themselves in modern man to such an
extent that our jaws are too small for the teeth which they are supposed to accommodate, and
that, as a consequence, these teeth erupt so irregularly that their fundamental efficiency is often
entirely or nearly destroyed. In discussing the strategic situation of dental science, Dr. Hooton states. In my opinion there is one and only one course of action which will check the increase of
dental disease and degeneration which may ultimately cause the extinction of the human
species. This is to elevate the dental profession to a plane on which it can command the
services of our best research minds to study the causes and seek for the cures of these dental
evils.... The dental practitioner should equip himself to become the agent of an intelligent
control of human evolution, insofar as it is affected by diet. Let us go to the ignorant savage,
consider his way of eating, and be wise. Let us cease pretending that tooth-brushes and tooth-
paste are any more important than shoe-brushes and shoe-polish. It is store food which has
given us store teeth. Students of history have continually commented upon the superior teeth of the so-called savages
including the human types that have preceded our modernized groups. While dental caries has
been found occasionally in several animal species through the recent geologic ages, the teeth of the
human species have been comparatively free from dental caries. Primitive human beings have been
freer from the disease than has contemporary animal life. This absence of tooth decay among
primitive races has been so striking a characteristic of human kind that many commentators have
referred to it as a strikingly modern disease. Dryer, (6)  in discussing dental caries in the pre-historic South Africans, makes this comment:
    In not one of a very large collection of teeth from skulls obtained in the Matjes River Shelter
(Holocene) was there the slightest sign of dental caries. The indication from this area, therefore,
bears out the experience of European anthropologists that caries is a comparatively modern
disease and that no skull showing this condition can be regarded as ancient. In connection with the studies reported in this volume, it is of particular importance that a desire
to find the cause of dental caries was the primary reason for undertaking these investigations. Since
it was exceedingly difficult to find in our modern social organization any large group with relatively
high immunity to dental caries, a search was made for such control groups among remnants of
primitive racial stocks that could also be examined at the point of contact with modern civilization
in order that the changes associated with their racial loss of immunity might be noted. Probably few
problems with which our modern social groups are concerned have been so inadequately
understood not only by the laity, but by the members of the medical and dental professions as has
this problem of the cause of dental caries. The problem of correcting dental arch deformities and thereby improving facial form has
developed a specialty in dentistry known as "orthodontia." The literature dealing with the cause of
facial deformities is now voluminous. The blending of racial stocks that differ radically in facial form7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 15/250has been said by many to be the chief factor contributing to the creation of deformities of the face. Crowded teeth have been said to be due to the inheritance of the large teeth of one parent and the
small bone formation of the other and that such inheritances would provide dental arches that are
too small for the teeth that have been made for them. A more general explanation for certain types
of deformity, particularly for the protruding of the upper teeth over the lower, is that they result
from thumb sucking, which tends to bring the upper arch forward and to depress the lower. Among the other contributing factors named have been faulty sleeping and breathing habits. To
these has been assigned much of the blame. This problem of facial form, as well as that of bodily
design, including dental arch design, is so directly a problem of growth, not only of individuals, but
of races themselves, that certain laws have been very definitely worked out by physical
anthropologists as laws of development. They have assumed that changes in physical type can
occur only through the impact of changes in the environment which have affected a great number of
generations. It is important to keep this viewpoint in mind as the succeeding chapters are read, for
they contain descriptions of many changes in physical form that have occurred routinely in the
various racial groups, even during the first generation after the parents have adopted the foods of
modern civilization. Many of our modern writers have recognized and have emphasized the seriousness of mental
and moral degeneration. Laird has made a splendid contribution under the title "The Tail That
Wags the Nation," (7)  in which he states:
    The country's average level of general ability sinks lower with each generation. Should the
ballot be restricted to citizens able to take care of themselves? One out of four cannot.... The
tail is now wagging Washington, and Wall St. and LaSalle Street.... Each generation has seen
some lowering of the American average level of general ability. In Laird's analysis of our present situation he has stressed a very important phase. While
emphasizing that the degeneration is not limited to restricted areas, he raises the question as to
whether local conditions in certain areas play important roles in the rate and extent to which
degeneration has taken place. He says further, (7)
   Although we might cite any one of nearly two dozen states, we will first mention Vermont by
name because that is the place studied by the late Dr. Pearce Bailey. "It would be," he wrote,
"safe to assume that there are at least 30 defectives per 1000 in Vermont of the eight-year-old


 pre
cise definition. Measurement of such fields indicates that forces
exist not only in but also otltside of the nerve dmill g exci tatio n.
Thus, to the study of steady state parameters of these fields
that have been recorded in amphibia and-as we shall see
plants, must be added these records of the changing properties
of electrical fields in association with biologic activity. To be sure,
the EEG and the EKG are instances of the same phenomenon
66 THE UBIQUIT OUS FIEL D
and in a sense the observations recorded here are no more than
might be expected. All of them are the direct consequenc es of
field properties of living systems. None of this implies that the field is conceived of as some
mysterious property of living things. It is not another name for
elan vital or entelechy. It is a definable concept capable of pre
cise measurement and is to be thought of in the same terms as
fields in the non-living Universe. Electric fields in physics are not only widely accepted, but
technologie s based upon them have been extraordinarily pro
ductive. In non-living matter, fields are definable in terms of
forces between charges. They are, in part, a measure of the re
lationships between entities. In living systems, therefore, since
the entities of which they are composed are the same entities as
are to be found in non-living matter, the same forces between
the units may be presumed. The basic difference between the two
lies in the enormously increased complexity of the necessary re
latednesses in living organisms. It would seem reasonable to assume, therefore, that the rela
tionship of entities in living organisms may be measured by field
properties just as successfully as in atoms or between atoms. It should be noted that the electro-static fields do not exist
in the absence of charges nor charges in the absence of fields. They are both fundamental properties of matter. In living
organisms it can be said that chemical components, wherever they
possess charges, cannot exist without fields nor can fields be
found except in the presence of charges. It is equally dear that the business of living is not a static
affair; it is a moving, dynamic process. For this energy is required
and it is the chemistry of biological systems which provides it. But energy is a scalar property and is. itself, indifferent to the
direction in which it flows. In general, it is the second law of
thermodynamics which directs the flow in such a manner as to
increase the entropy of the system. It seems from our observations that this direction is also
characterized by electrical gradien ts, much as though the second
law was augmented by electrical signposts. Moreover, these
electrical signs have an astonishing constancy in spite of the
67 THE UBI QU ITOUS FIELD
enormously complex chemical flux. Such constancy of directional
control, in fact, is one of the s triking attributes of the developing
organism. Quas i-electro- static fields, although changing slowly,
persist in time and can, perhaps to some approximation, be con
ceived as providing the necessary direction. The experiments reported by us in collaboration with Dr.
Mauro provide additional evidence of the validity of the original
assumption. 4
Pursuing our exploration of fields in widely-differen t living
forms, we made a study of the voltage-gradients in the marine
animal, Obelia, a polyp. These experiments were carried out
through the courtesy of the late Dr. F. S. Hammett, of the
Marine Experimental Station of the Lankenau Hospital Research
Institute. They were made on animals collected at the experi
mental station at Truro on Cape Cod. A series of measurements of the voltage gradients of definitive
stages in the life cycle of an Obelia hybrid was carried out. These
trace a rising curve of graded intensity parallel with the growth
from the anlagen to the complete functioning animal. The values
reach their peak in the feeding animal and then drop off as re
gression to the senile state begins. With the attainment of
senility and its consequent catabolic dissolution the direction
of the voltage gradient is reversed. Fluctuations in voltage gradient parallel the fluctuations in
developmen tal growth, as it progresses from an undifferentiated
to the differentiated state. The conclusion was made that the
growth and life cycle of an Obelia is characterized by definitive
and progressive changes in voltage gradient correlated with the
morphogen esis of the animal. There are a number of implications
cf this study which deserve further examination. In the extremely short life-cycle of Obelia it is possible to
cover the entire life span of the living organism in a relatively
short time. During the early growth and differen tiatio n of the
animal, increasing voltage gradients were recorded until a peak
68 THE UBIQUITOUS FIELD
was reached at the time when the animal was fully developed and
feeding. As is well-known, after this the activity of the animal begins
to decline and a regression occurs with senility until the so
called death of the particular hydranth. The electro-metric
correlates of this regression were clearly evident. This tends to confirm some observations made in the study of
mice that there is a fairly regular pattern of growth and de
velopment up to the eventual death of the living system. During
the first third of the animal's life, voltage gradients increase fairly
steadily. During the middle third, voltage gradients tend to
level off and form a plateau. The last third of an animal's life
shows evidence of regression with a consequent falling off of
voltage gradients until death itself ensues. All of these experiments show a relationship between the
growth and development of a living system and its electro-metric
correlates. One of the important consequences of the field theory,
however, is that the electro-metric characteristics of the system
in some way control the pattern of organization or, if you like,
the design of the system. 5
With the generous co-operation of the late Professor Edmund
W. Sinnott, a study was made of the electrical patterns in cucur
hits. In this field, Dr. Sinnott, an expert, has called attention to
the fact that the shape of gourds is not a function of the morpho
logical characteristics of the cellular components. The cucur bits
all have a characteristic building block, and yet the shape of the
gourd made with these building blocks differs. Just as one can
build a house with bricks of a uniform size and shape, the design
of the whole results in quite different external characteristics. Using cucurbit fruits, provided by Dr. Sinnott, electro-metrics
were made. In this study, potential differences were measured
along the axial and the equitorial diameters of young ovaries
and developing fruits of three races of wcurbita pe:po, differing
markedly in shape and designated as elongated, round, and flat. 69 THE UBI QUI TOUS FIELD
The size of the potential differences bears little relation to the
absolute size of the dimensions along which they occur, but the
ratio of the potential differences is closely correlated with
the ratio of the dimensions. As the fruit grow larger, the potential gradients tcnd in all
races to decrease, but the ratios between the gradients and the
true dimensions tend to increase in the elongate, to decrease in
the flat, and to be unchange d in the round race. To explain these various facts, it is tempting to suggest that
the pattern of potential differences here described may have some
causal relation to the morphological pattern which appears as the
fruit develops. The evidence here presented is in entire agree
ment with that obtained in animal material and may be inter
preted in the same way. The data offers for the consideration of
students of plant morphogenesis a series of new facts from a
field which, if well cultivated, may become very fruitful. The association with Professor Sinnott was extraordinarily
fruitful. Many suggestions were made as to the kind of electro
metric studies which could be made on growing systems. Two of
these were furthered. The first of these, following Professor
Sinnott, was carried out with the help of Oliver Nelson, at that
time a student in the Graduate School of Yale University, De
partment of Botany, and closely associated with the Connecticut
Agricultural Experiment Station. The suggestion was made that
electro-metric studies be made of a single seed. The choice was
necessitated largely by practical considerations and fell on corn
kernels-sweet corn kernels. With the co-opera tion of the Connecticut Agricultural Experi
ment Station, it became possible to study the electrical patterns
in several pure and hybrid strains of sweet corn. These seeds had
been under study for some time. The strains differ considerably
in genetic constitution and in the degree of hybrid vigour shown
in crosses between them. Four inbred strains were studied and
three hybrids. One of these was a mid-season yellow sweet corn,
an inbred of unknown orig in. Another was a semi-dwarf mutant
of P-39; it is normal in appearance but much reduced in size. It
has been shown by Singleton that they differ by only one gene. In this material, therefore, we had four stable pure strains of
70 THE UBIQU ITOUS FIELD
significantly different properties with which to correlate electrical
patterns. The three hybrids show a gradation of hybrid v;g


540, this
one’s born at 70. How would you explain that. A fickle God or careless
God. I don’ t know. “I just roll the dice, and some fell of f the table”. Little
kids were born with AIDS and died of starvation by age of six months. What kind of karma is that, huh. Born with a calibrated ener gy of 30, which
is not far from death. They’re born half dead into a family with no
resources, no money, no food, and all of them have AIDS, and they are
terminal cases of tuberculosis—if the AIDS doesn’ t get them, the TB will. Or the nearest warlord will slaughter them anyway. How to explain this. How can you believe in a just God who determines all events as though
He’s arbitrary, and yet have people coming into the planet on all these
various, dif ferent levels. “Karma is the explanation why children come into this world calibrating
at dif ferent levels: resist” (T rue). So, you see, you intuit the next step in
your own spiritual evolution. And you use consciousness techniques such as
kinesiology to af firm or deny them. Why. Because you begin to trust your
own spiritual inspiration. The Presence of God within you expresses itself
as spiritual inspiration, which is what leads you into spiritual pathways and
attending lectures and studying books and doing mantras, and all that. That’ s coming from a spiritual intuition. inspiration. It’ s not personal, so
you can’ t compliment yourself that you’re spiritually oriented; nor can you
attack yourself that you aren’ t. Consciousness itself is impersonal. Everybody has it. Awareness is
impersonal—everybody has it. The presence of the Self is ubiquitous in
everybody. So it’ s not something you can rate yourself one way or the other. It’s like you hear the call, and you become responsive to it. And now you
become curious about spiritual matters. You become interested in
overcoming defects, because your polarity is such in the gravity field of the
Universe of God that you are attracted to the Light. Once one is attracted to
the Light, one is attracted to the Light by virtue of all the spiritual decisions
that have been made in the past, so that your karmic propensity now is to be
attracted in this direction. Most people who are seriously spiritually devoted accept that as normal
and think, “W ell, isn’ t everybody that way. Doesn’ t everybody want to go
to church and give up sin and become a better person and go to heaven. ”
No. That is naive altogether. We see that 78 percent of the population
prefers it the other way. They will consciously choose that which leads in
the other direction. If given a choice, they will consciously choose it. That
is also partly because of what they have been up to that point. So that you
can’t really berate anybody for what they are at this point, because what
they are now is a consequence of what they have been. To many people it
would seem that the option of a dif ferent choice is not open to them. If
you’re out at sea and shipwrecked at sea, it’ s not an option to drink pure
water, because there isn’ t any. Many of the adolescents I see who come of f
the streets, a better choice is not really an option to them. It’ s not within
their conscious options. You know, when you go to make a choice, you havea certain number of options. And these kids don’ t have these three options. You either fight and kill, or you’re a coward and go down. So they’ve got
one choice. They’ve got one choice. It doesn’ t dawn on them that they
could leave their present environment. It’ s not a possibility. So it’ s almost as
though the positive options themselves are earned. The positive option is
not there unless you’ve earned the positive option, you might say. The Spiritual Heart
According to Ramana Maharshi, the seat of the heart is in the right side of
the chest. He was talking about the various levels of the aura which have
different languaging, depending on the spiritual tradition from which you
are speaking—in the Far East, or the Near East, or wherever. Anyway, he’s
apparently talking about a heart within the heart chakra as expressed in one
of the sheaths. So I’m not aware of what he meant by it, and it puzzled
many of his followers. Many people asked, and I for got what his literal
answer was. Let’ s see. We’ll ask it today. I don’ t know what the answer is
either. “What he meant was the spiritual heart: resist” (T rue). “That the
spiritual heart is positioned in a certain way within the etheric body: resist”
(True). “He’ s talking about the position of the heart chakra within the
etheric body: resist” (T rue). “And that it’ s not concordant with the physical
body: resist” (T rue). All right. So, he’ s saying it’ s not concordant
anatomically with the physical body. I only saw auras briefly in my lifetime, and it was with a lady who knew
how to see auras. I said, “I can’ t see auras. ” She said, “Oh, anybody can see
auras. Here, sit down. ” She told me how you see auras. She said, “Look
right over the head there and don’ t focus on the head, and you’ll see. ”
And then she showed me where to look and how to look, and by God, there
was one. Well, I didn’ t know if it was just suggestion. Don’ t forget, I’m
scientifically trained, you know, and I know a lot of suggestions. So I’m
saying to myself, “W ell, this is suggestion. ” So I thought, I’ll test her out. For one thing, when I saw this aura, it was gray, like this, and it was very
lopsided. It was not auras like they are in pictures—they look like halos, or
something. This person’ s sitting there, and here’ s this gray aura, and it is
way over this way, over his right ear. And I said, “Where do you see the
aura. ” She said, “It’ s way over his right ear. ” “Okay, I am seeing them. ”
Well, your fantasy would be that everybody’ s aura looks very neat, like anartist’ s drawing right around the body, you see. The ener gy field was way
over like that.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the significance of understanding karma and one's spiritual evolution?,
A: It helps to recontextualize one's spiritual work in this lifetime, facilitating spiritual progress and broadening one's understanding of the evolution of consciousness.
Q: What is the purpose of kinesiology in spiritual growth?,
A: It is a tool for verifying and confirming spiritual insights, not a means of determining one's moral character.
Q: What is the nature of consciousness, according to the speaker?,
A: Consciousness is impersonal, and everyone has it. It is not something that can be rated or judged.
Q: What is the speaker's perspective on the concept of a just God?,
A: The speaker believes that a just God is not possible, as it would require a level of consciousness that is not yet achieved by humanity.
Q: What is the significance of the spiritual heart and the karmic propensity?,
A: It allows one to transcend the illusion of causality and understand that each thing is an expression of the universe's unfolding, and not a product of personal choice.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Yes, I think that’ s specifically what we were saying this morning. The
soul automatically, because of what it has become, is like a cork in water
and automatically gravitates in the field of consciousness to that with which
it identifies. And therefore, destiny is ultimately perfect. “That’ s correct:
resist” (T rue). That’ s correct, yep. Automatically. So, the soul automatically
gravitates to what it’ s attracted to, to that with which it is compatible. Just
like the dog ran to love—if I hated dogs, I don’ t know, he might have
shrunk of f, or he might have tried... I don’ t know what he would have
done. I should ask him. OceanofPDF.comCHAPTER 10
Aim for the Highest Level of
Compassion
Two hundred is the dividing line between force and power; 540—is that the
difference between ego and one’ s higher calling? Well, don’ t forget, these
points are arbitrary—200 was not arbitrary; the calling it 200 was arbitrary. It was obvious that the world could be divided into that which makes you
go strong and that which makes you go weak. There is an interesting book called Red W orld/Gr een W orld by a lady
named Mar garet Chaney, and she said that there’ s Red people and Green
people, and there’ s Red foods and Green foods. Well, she was just using
that as a way of speaking. She’ s saying that people divide up into those
which react positively to certain kinds of food and those which react
negatively, and she grouped out two groups. There are the Red