choice, environment, or circumstances, the use of an abundant variety
of fresh-raw vegetable and fruit juices is fundamentally essential. It
is important to bear in mind that vegetable juices are the builders of
the body, while the fruit juices are principally the cleansers of the
body. The former contain a higher proportion of protein elements;
while the latter contain a higher percentage of carbohydrate elements. It is interesting to the laymen, but probably unprofitable to cancer
and other similar foundations, to realize people who live solely on
fresh-raw foods supplemented with a sufficient volume and variety
of fresh-raw vegetable and fruit juices, rarely develop cancers. On
the other hand, the faith manifested by so many cancer afflicted
32 individuals in the raw food and juices regimen seems to be a very
definite indication that fresh-raw carrot juice has an indisputable value
in this respect. To us this indicates a thoroughly unorthodox but perhaps highly
efficient and much less costly line of investigation. Research along
this line which has already been successfully carried on for years by
those seeking and using Nature's help, may be highly disconcerting
to some scientists but, undoubtedly, extremely beneficial to the ones
afflicted. We have found and we hope that the world in general will soon
find, that the cleansing of the body by colon irrigations and enemas,
and by eating sufficient raw food as well as drinking a sufficient
volume and variety of fresh-raw vegetable juices daily, will afford us
little or no cause to know from further personal experience what
sickness and disease feel like. CARROT JUICE MOLECULE
LIKE BLOOD MOLECULE
By means of the latest super-microscopes, it has been possible to
determine that the carrot juice molecule is exactly analogous to that
of the blood molecule, a most interesting and revealing fact. No
wonder we have found the juice of carrots so extremely beneficial. CELERY JUICE
The greatest value of raw celery lies in the fact that it contains an
exceptionally high percentage of vital organic sodium. It is one of
the chemical properties of sodium to maintain calcium in solution. This is particularly the case in the human system, as we will presently
see. Raw celery contains more than four times as much vital organic
sodium as it does calcium. This fact makes it one of the most valuable
juices for people who have used concentrated sugars and starches
more or less consistently all their lives. Bread, biscuits, cakes, cereals,
doughnuts, spaghetti, rice—in fact every food and food product
containing flour—comes under the classification of concentrated
starch. White, brown, and every kind of sugar which has been
manufactured or processed, and every food product containing any
of it (including candies, "soft drinks," commercial ice creams, etc. ),
come very definitely under the classification of concentrated
carbohydrates. 33 Experience has definitely taught us, however, that such foods are
destructive; and their continued use results in a nourishment-
deficiency. What follows is an alarming number of ailments. We have found that such concentrated carbohydrates are without
question among the most destructive of our "civilized" foods. The
human digestive processes were never intended by Nature to be called
upon to convert these so-called foods into nourishment for the cells
and tissues of the body. Even from before adolescence, the results of
such food are apparent in the degeneration of the human system. To
consider the brief span of two or three score years as constituting old-
age is nothing less than a downright insult to Nature and to our Creator. It is a shameful admission that we do not know how to live and have
not taken the trouble to learn the first principles of regenerating our
body. It is a confession that we eat ourselves into the grave by catering
to our appetites. In the first place, calcium is one of the most essential elements in
our diet; but it must be consumed organically, and through vitally
ORGANIC atoms. When any calcium-containing food is cooked or
processed, as in any of the above mentioned carbohydrate foods, the
calcium is automatically converted into INORGANIC atoms. As such,
they are not soluble in water and they cannot furnish the nourishment
which the cells in our body require for regeneration. Furthermore,
enzymes, destroyed at temperatures of I30°F and above, convert the
atoms into dead matter. The result is that such foods literally clog up
the system resulting in conditions as arthritis, diabetes, coronary
(heart) disturbances, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, gall and kidney
stones. In the second place, these deposits of inorganic calcium, being
void of life, increase cumulatively when nothing is done to rid the
body of them. In the presence of vital organic sodium, however, and
with the assistance of other elements and processes described later in
this book, they can be dislodged and maintained in solution until they
have been eliminated from the system. These processes are set forth
in greater detail in our discussion of Arthritis in this book. Sodium plays a very important part in the physiological processes
of the body. One of the most important being the maintenance of the
fluidity of the blood and lymph in preventing their becoming too thick. The only sodium that is of any value in this respect, however, is the
vital ORGANIC sodium which is derived from fresh vegetables and
some fruits. 34 CELERY IS RICH IN SALT (SODIUM)
The "regular" Table Salt is composed of insoluble inorganic
elements. Varicose veins, hardening of the arteries and other ailments
have been traced to the excessive use of this type of salt. Salt is necessary in the generation and functions of digestive fluids
in the system. Without salt good digestion is virtually impossible, but
such salt must be entirely soluble in water. Every cell in the body is constantly bathed in a solution of saline
water, and if this is not maintained at its required level dehydration
sets in. In the commercial production of TABLE SALT extremely high
temperatures are used running around 1500°F to solidify the salt with
additives and adulterants to coat the salt crystals to cause the salt to
pour readily under nearly all conditions. Such salt is not completely water soluble. To overcome this handicap, whenever we need to use salt, we use
ROCK SALT, the pure Rock Salt used in water purifiers. Rock Salt is obtained from soil sodium rock formations and is
not subjected to heat. This salt we have found to be soluble in water
and its use, in moderation of course, is found to be compatible and
satisfactory. In order to use it, we grind it to the fineness we desire, in
a small nut or coffee-grinder, such as the Moulinex or any of the
similar grinders sold by Health Food Stores. Such Rock Salt is a natural catalyst which the enzyme's in the
body can cause to be utilized constructively. Rock Salt will usually be found to contain the following elements:
Sodium Chloride 90% to 95%
Calcium Sulphate. 05% to 1%
Magnesium Sulphate. 05% to 1%
Magnesium Chloride. 05%tol%
The moisture content may run from 2Vi% to 6%, while occasionally
there is a trace of "insoluble matter. " The "regular Table Salt" is likely to contain in addition to the
above elements in quite different proportions:
Potassium Chloride Sodium Sulphate
Potassium Sulphate Barium Chloride
Magnesium Bromide Strontium Chloride
Calcium Chloride
Most of these elements tend to inhibit the dissolving of the salt in
water. 35 During hot, dry weather, we have found it most soothing and
comforting to drink a tumblerful of fresh-raw celery juice during the
morning, and another in the afternoon between meals. This has the
effect of normalizing the body temperature, with the result that we
are perfectly comfortable while those around us are drenched in
perspiration and sweltering in discomfort. Sodium is one of the important elements in the elimination of
carbon dioxide from the system. Deficiency of vital organic sodium
results in bronchial and lung troubles, which are aggravated by the
presence of extraneous matter in the lungs, such as tobacco smoke. Such deficiency is one of the concomitant causes of premature aging,
particularly in women. As a matter of fact, women who smoke age
about 15 years during every 5 years in which they smoke. Nicotine is to a great extent the cause of so-called "frayed nerves. " Smoking does not in any way alleviate, but rather aggravates this
condition. The use of tobacco creates only a temporary state of mental
well-being at the cost of more or less permanent degeneration of
tissues, though of course, advertising speaks falsely to the contrary. Tobacco smoke has the effect of inhibiting the taste buds. The combination of celery with other juices is generally beneficial,
and certain formulas have been used to help clear up deficiency and
other conditions in the body, with almost phenomenal results. When
combined with other juices, the proportion of the elements in each
individual juice is of course changed to correspond to the sum total
of the similar elements in the other juices. Thus we get a totally
different formula when juices are combined than we have in any one
of the juices individually. It is the discovery of the effect of these
combinations and formulas that has proved of such immeasurable benefit
to ailing humanity


 lose weight—many became
involved solely for the health benefits. Still, the women lost between 2 and
26 pounds, and the men lost between 2 and 31 pounds. Furthermore, the participants noted that other conditions—from kidney
stones to acne, from constipation to low ener gy—also began clearing up. Here are some of their stories:
One man said that his sister, a vascular sur geon at a major Dallas
hospital, found it hard to believe his total cholesterol level could drop from
214 to 135 in just a few weeks and wanted to make sure that he was firingon all cylinders. Because he’d had other health issues besides high
cholesterol, she gave him a treadmill stress test to assess his overall fitness,
which he aced. After that, and after reading several articles about my
father ’s research on reversing heart disease, she asked her brother to send
her photocopies of as many Engine 2 recipes as possible. Another man, who lost 20 pounds and whose cholesterol dropped from
216 to 125, told me that he’d always imagined that little green men were
working inside his body to repair all the damage he’d caused. But now that
he’d been eating the Engine 2 way, he imagined them sitting around like the
Maytag Repairman, bored and waiting for the phone to ring. Several people talked about how their tastes had changed over the six
weeks. “Y ou don’ t need butter or cheese for food to taste good,” one
woman said, “and I never knew that before.” Another woman said, “Y ou
actually taste the real food and not what it’ s covered with.”
A physician participant said that he thought plant-based eating would be
harsh on his taste buds, but after just a few weeks he noticed that his palate
was changing: He no longer craved any of his old favorites, and found just
the thought of eating meat, cheese, or eggs unpleasant. A number of participants mentioned how they’d never realized what a
wide array of food is available to plant eaters. They’d thought it was all
about carrots and lettuce. Now they’ve learned that it’ s not called the plant
kingdom for nothing. Another subject that came up repeatedly was a change in bathroom
habits. Every single participant said he or she was pooping at least twice a
day—and sometimes up to four times—even though before the study many
had only been going a few times a week. One of the women’ s doctors had
told her that pooping twice a week was a normal condition called lazy
bowel syndrome. But once on the Engine 2 Diet, within one week she
started pooping once a day and twice a day thereafter. Bowel movement improvement is one of the greatest rewards of a plant-
based diet, so it became a hot topic of conversation. My own term for the
act has always been “pooping,” but my participants came up with some
great phrases, such as “I now release hostages two to three times a day,” “I
drop the kids of f at the pool more than ever,” or from one of the triathletes:
“I am spending far less time in the men’ s library.”
The Pilot Study results were impressive, but the most important lesson I
took from them was that it wasn’ t just firefighters who can profit from theE2 Diet. It’ s everyone and anyone who can fog a mirror or think a thought. Colin J. Wallis,  37
Director of Advancement, Lance Armstr ong Foundation
Think of it as a science project. Pay close attention to the inputs and
outputs. Monitor your sleep, exercise, ener gy, strength, mood, and
compare them with how you were on the traditional American diet. This creates a bit of a game, and makes it easy to have fun and see the
results. THE ENGINE 2 DIET
The Engine 2 Diet is a simple, easy-to-follow four -week program that
will enable you to reach whatever goal you choose, whether it’ s losing
weight, becoming physically fit, or reducing the precursors to disease, such
as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, blockage of the arteries,
high blood sugar, insulin resistance, or all of the above. When you follow the Engine 2 Plan, you will:
• Lose weight
• Lose body fat
• Increase lean muscle mass
• Improve your cardiovascular health
• Free yourself from the shackles of chronic Western diseases
• Have fun learning how to make new, smart, and delicious food
choices
• Improve self-esteem and confidence
• Be instilled with a sense of personal power, because you, and you
alone, are in control of your health
• Absolutely love how you feel
The reason the program will help you lose weight is not because you will
be painstakingly measuring your portions or warily watching your calories,
but because you will be eating only satisfying, whole foods that are nutrient
dense as well as naturally low in calories and high in fiber.This kind of pure diet will also grant you clarity of mind and increased
energy. Ask the firefighters at Engine 2: Derick Zwerneman said, “I feel
clean and light.” Josh Miller told me he felt as though his “whole system
has been rebooted.” And Steve Martinez commented, “My whole body and
mind feel like your teeth do after a cleaning from the dental hygienist.”
So let’ s begin! THE TWO ENGINE 2 DIET  PLANS
You have a choice of two plans—the Fire Cadet and the Firefighter. For the most part, firefighters don’ t know how to do anything half-assed. So when I ask people to start the diet, I seldom seek moderation. I ask
people to start at the highest possible level of commitment. But for some, the diet can appear daunting, so I of fer the Fire Cadet
option for those who prefer a more gradual approach. Others can char ge right in with the Firefighter plan—which I
recommend, because you’ll be setting yourself on a course to achieve better
results in terms of everything from weight loss to lowered cholesterol
levels. And isn’ t that worth two extra weeks of work? But if you do start with the Cadet plan, you can always change your
mind and go full bore later. At the start of the E2 Pilot Study, the
participants were divided almost evenly between the Firefighter and the
Fire Cadet options. After the first week, however, almost 80 percent of the
Fire Cadets called me to say they wanted to join the Firefighter plan. Fire Cadet
The Fire Cadet option is for those who don’ t like rushing into things, yet
still want to find that pot of health at the end of the rainbow. Over the first
two weeks, the fire cadet will wean him- or herself of f unfriendly foods
while eating an abundance of healthy, delicious ones. Week One: No dairy of any kind. This includes all dairy—milk, cheese,
creams, yogurt, butter, ice cream, and sour cream. Also, no processed or refined foods—and that means white rice, white
flour, white pasta, white bread, and anything else that is processed: cakes,
cookies, unhealthy chips, sodas, etc. Week Two: Now you stop eating meat, chicken, eggs, and fish, and
continue to avoid dairy and refined foods. In other words, no pork, noturkey, no buf falo, no venison. Nothing that paws a hoof or flaps a wing. Nothing with a face and nothing with a mother, on land or in water. Week Three: Keep the lid on all oils. Yes, I want you to stop eating all
added or extracted oils, whether they’re olive, canola, coconut, or any other. We don’ t eat baked goods with added oils, we don’ t use salad dressings
with added oils, and we don’ t cook with added oils. Now you’re doing the whole shebang: no dairy, no refined foods, no
meat, and no oils. Week Four: You’re still on the total E2 diet. You are digging in with both
heels and consuming only whole foods. You are living the dream! You are
nourishing yourself with only the best and brightest foods on earth: fruits,
vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds. Please check out Part III of this book to see some of the excellent meals
you’ll be enjoying—breakfasts, lunches, and dinners that include delicacies
such as blueberry pancakes, French toast, pizzas, shepherd’ s pie, vegetable
curries, mushroom bur gers with sweet potato fries, orange mousse, and fruit
pie. Firefighter
Starting on Day One, the Firefighter will jump in with both feet, eating a
diet filled with healthy whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and legumes, while
abstaining from all animal-based products and refined foods. What the Fire
Cadet will be practicing in Weeks Three and Four, the Firefighter will be
practicing for all four weeks—and happily so! THIS IS THE SIMPLEST  PROGRAM  you can imagine. And to make it even
simpler, check out Part III’ s tips that make all this as easy as a healthy date
nut crust pie. And speaking of pies, you’ll also be able to eat delectable
cookies, casseroles, breads, soups, and so much more. After a while, you
won’ t even miss the foods you’ll be avoiding—which we’ll now talk about
in a little more detail. Week One—Dairy and Processed Foods
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through and the guys will figure out you’re just doing it to get ahead. Y our
actions will backfire in a way that will be disadvantageous to you. When I was a young stay-at-home mom, I noticed that all th e other
moms around me spent most o f their time volunteering at the  elementary
school and carting their kids a round to several sporting teams and other
extracurricular a ctivities. I fell into the trap of wanting to be like them. I
thought I should be the perfect mom and that I could achieve th at by doing
the thin gs they did. I exhausted myself by volunteering m y time and
chauf feuring my  kids to many activities. Then one day I woke up and found
myself m iserable. I also noticed that my kids were miserable too. All the
volunteering too k time away fro m parenting. And the overscheduling didn’ t
give my kids time to play and be kids. Once I realized this, I cut
volunteering down to once a month and made my kids choose at most one
extracurricular activity at a time. Everyone was happier when I was truthful
to myself. R EFLECTING ON  S PEAKING  T RUTH
T ry this interesting exercise. During the day, focus on your words and see if
they ma tch how  you truly feel. Resist the temptation to judge or admonish
yourself; just notice. Y ou may be amazed to discover times when you don’ t
think yo u’re “stretching the truth” but you are. Keep in mind that I’m not
talking about joking around or exaggerating to prove a poin t but rather
deliberately chan ging the truth t o mislead another person or you rself in any
way. For example, if you get on the scale to weigh yourself and you weigh
160 pounds, but you tell your spouse, who asks, that the sca le read 150
pounds, that’ s deliberate. Y ou might think, “W ell, what’ s the harm in that?It’ s j ust a numbe r on a scale.” That might be so, but if it weren’ t a big deal,
why would you change the number? Ultimately, speaking truth and being mindful of your inner truth is about
flexing a muscle so you can live  a life of excellence, marked by coherence
between body, mind, and spirit. The more you flex your muscles of
deception, the bigger they get. And the more you flex your truthfulness
muscles, the bigger those get. In the end, you have greater gains  when your
truthfulness muscles are flexed and toned. Living i n and speaking truth doesn’ t mean you always have to t ell all. It
is yo ur absolute right to say things such as “I’d rather not say,” “I’m not
sure righ t now,” or even “Now isn’ t the right time for me to exp ress this.” If
truth means you will hurt some one and that isn’ t where you’d  like to go
with the  conversation, you can always stay silent, unless staying silent
means you might harm them. F or example, if your friend asks  you if you
love her  new red dress and you don’ t like it at all, you could  either stay
silent or say som ething like, “I really like the flowered dress you wore last
week.” Y ou’re u sing a softener t o avoid hurting her feelings, bu t you’re not
lying. H owever, if she says to you, “What do you think about th is new guy
I’m dating?” And you google t he guy and find out he has a police record
and you  don’ t tell her, then you could potentially be harming  her by not
revealing the truth. Do you see the dif ference? As y ou g o through your day with this exercise, say to yourself, “Is what
I’m about to sa y going to hurt my integrity in any way?” and  “W ill I be
disconnecting fr om my spiritual self by saying what I’m about to say?”
Y ou’ll notice that if you can a nswer those questions honestly, you’ll go
about your day honoring truthfulness. Healing the Spiritual Body
Gaining the awareness of the fifth chakra is like awakening from a deep
slumber. Y ou begin to see thing s dif ferently. W ords spoken or written take
on new meaning. As you emer g e from the darkness of the lower chakras,
spiritual truths seem to fall into place and link together like the pieces of a
puzzle t hat seemed so complicated before. Y ou may find yourself on a
sudden spiritual  journey, seeking to take in as much information as youpossibly can. It’ s an exciting tim e for you as you begin to wond er where all
this wonderful truth has been hiding your whole life. A W AKENING T O THE  T RUTH
Have you ever r ead a really goo d book with an important message and then
picked i t back up several years later and gotten a completely dif ferent
message? That is what it feels like to awaken to spiritual tru ths. An old
adage says, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” At this
stage of our chakra journey, we have traveled far into a spiritual plane
where things just start to make sense. Y ou might feel that before this moment, you were like a p iece of
seaweed being tossed around by  the waves with absolutely no control over
your thoughts, feelings, emotio ns, and destiny. Now you’re beginning to
understand that you ar e  th e ocean. How  empowering it is to realize that
when you align yourself with the creative force of the enti re universe,
everything is possible. Y ou are at the point in your spiritual development that you are so
ecstatic you want to shout from the rooftops to everyone a round you,
“Don’ t y ou see this? Don’ t yo u understand? This is amazing!” But alas,
everyone aroun d you is not on your spiritual path, and they don’ t
understand. They are like you w ere before you awakened. In the  beginning,
it ca n be  frustra ting. Y ou want to share all this wonderful know ledge. Y ou
want oth ers to see that we are n ot our bodies but spiritual bein gs having a
human experien ce. W ith the knowledge gained from your heart chakra, you
can reach back in and have co mpassion for those who have n ot yet seen
what you see. Y our faith grows by leaps and b ounds as you test out this new spiritual
awareness. Y ou may be shy to share your joy, but it’ s necessary that you do
so in order to share these spir itual truths with others, just as  they were
shared with you. VISHUDDHA GUIDED MEDIT A TIONSit comfortably and close your eyes. Bring your attention and
awareness to the area of your throat. If it’ s chilly in the room,  cover
your throat with a warm scarf. Or if you prefer, you can use your
hands: crisscros s your hands to  make the shape of a butterfly, and
gently place your palms agains t your throat. This will bring warmth
and healing ener gy to the fift h chakra. Set the intention to bring
healing to your neck, throat, thyroid gland, parathyroid glands, jaw,
mouth, tongue, vocal cords, and ears. As you settle in to relaxing all
these pa rts of your body, ask the question, “How do I know my  inner
truth?” By simply asking the q uestion, you’ll find that the an swers
will app ear. Then bring your aw areness back to the word truth. Ask
your higher self to access your inner truth. Bring to your awareness dif ferent aspects of your life, and
continue to ask your higher self, “What is my inner truth here? ” Start
with the most important things in your life, such as your family,
friends, and other relationships, then go to your personal health and
well-being, continually asking yourself, “What is my inner truth
here?” Next, expand outward to your work or career, and ask yo urself,
“What i s my inner truth here?” Then go to your passions, gift s, and
talents: “What is my inner trut h here?” Next, consider the m aterial
items in your life — finances, money, home, cars, and other m aterial
goods — and ask yourself, “What is my inner truth here?” Finally, go
to y our spirituality, your belief s, your ideals, your values, an d ask,
“What is  my inner truth here?” T ake some time to go over other areas
of your life that come up for you now, repeating the same question:
“What is my inner truth here?”
Listen to what comes up. Acknowledge it with a nod. T ry not to
judge whatever comes to you i n this conversation with your higher
self. When you’re finished, than k your higher self for all the in sight. Y ou can seal the  meditation by chanting the mantra sound HUM  three
times. When yo u feel ready, you can sl owly open your eyes and return  to
activity.


, and to be aware of one's own growth and progress.
Q: What is the author's view on the concept of punishment and forgiveness?,
A: The author does not believe in divine punishment; instead, they suggest that our perception and understanding of love and compassion can help us grow and overcome our pain and limitations.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>A time will
come, a state of awareness will grow, that transcends the suffering. Spirit
will dominate the mind instead. By bringing compassion to you, I can
reassure you that you are not abandoned; you are just at a difficult
crossroads on the journey of love. At every stage of love the goal should be kept in mind. Uniting romance,
relationship, and ascension is a code of compassion, which goes as follows:
Be kind to yourself and others. Come from love every moment you can. Speak of love with others. Remind each other of your spiritual purpose. Never give up hope. Know that you are loved. If you practice these few things,  you will be open to receive every lesson on
the path in the spirit in which it is given—as an expression of divine love. The horrors of the world are undeniable, and few people even dream that
they will go away. But they will, because love is the supre me reality,
compared to which all else is temporary, fleeting, and unreal. The love you seek is seeking you at this moment. Your longing, your
deep fantasies about being loved are mere shadows of the meltingsweetness that makes spirit want to love you. Be honest about your seeking,
and be alert to the moments when love is showing itself to you. You are the
only means that love has for conquering its opposition; theref ore you are
infinitely precio us in the eyes of spirit. The messages of love may not be
clear to anyone else around you, even those most intimate to you. That
doesn’ t matter; they are meant for you and you alone. Be assured of that. And above all, be like Laurel. Keep looking for clues. OceanofPDF.comINDEX
The page references in this index correspond to the printed edition from
which this ebook was created. To find a specific word or phrase from the
index, please use the search feature of your ebook reader. Acceptance:
and allowing, 203
and equality, 77–78
Action:
of God, 244, 247
and karma, 35
and kriya, 239, 242
Afflatus, 293
Allowing, and control, 197–201, 203
All this is That, 275
Ambiguity, 73, 74–78
Ananda, 66–68, 70
Ananda Shakti, 238–41
Angels, 15, 276
Archetypal ecstasy, 285–86
Artha, 131
Ascension, 272–73, 274, 326
Associations, 1 17–20
Attachment, 189–224
allowing and control in, 197–201
and dependency, 192
and detachment, 192
and exclusivity, 190
and fear, 201–4
and karma, 193–97loving practice, 205–17
and need, 190, 204, 205, 208
and nonattachment, 192, 197–201, 204
in our lives, 218–24
spiritual, 193–97
and survival fear, 214–15
and unity, 191
Attention, 52
on the heart, 53–54
second, 244–47, 251, 259
Attraction, 64, 66–87
and authenticity, 72–73
fantasy and fear in, 68–70
and lovability, 70–73
loving practice, 74–78
meaning in, 66
in our lives, 79–86
search and, 68–70
Attractiveness, and deservedness, 82
Authenticity, 72–73
Awareness, 105, 106, 1 12, 170, 327
and ecstasy, 294, 295
and passion, 249
and reality, 251
as Shiva and Shakti, 242, 243, 249
and sutra, 305–6
Balance, homeostatic, 42
Being, 239, 295
Beliefs, 48
Bhagavad-Gita, 11–12, 13, 195–96, 243, 275–76
Bhakta, 87, 88
Bhakti, 35, 36
Black holes of fear, 212–15
Bliss, 92, 242
and ananda, 66–68, 239–41
consciousness, 66–68Bondage, 193
Bonding, 129
Boredom, 261–71
Boundaries, 265–68, 271
ego, 291
and sex, 136–37
Brahma, 243
Brain, physiology of, 244
Chakras, 317
Chastity, 139
Chitta Shakti, 238–40
Civilization and Its Discontents  (Freud), 10
Clarity, 299
Cloud of Unknowing, The  (Anonymous), 196–97
Commitment, 100, 108–9, 157, 160
Communication, and courtship, 129–30
Communion, and kriya, 242
Compassion, 326–28
Competition, 129
Concealment, and Shiva, 247, 248
Consciousness:
bliss, 66–68
expansion of, 290–92
Control:
allowing and, 197–201, 203
ego and, 199–200
of fear, 199–200, 201–4
and happiness, 40
separation and, 202–3
sex and, 134
Courtship, 64, 106–30
and commitment, 108–9
and communication, 129–30
defenses dismantled in, 1 15–16
and equality, 127, 129–30and false love, 1 12–14
and fear, 110–1 1, 115
love vs. ego in, 107–1 1, 116
loving practice, 1 17–22
and need, 108, 109
in our lives, 123–30
and projection, 1 13–14
and sensitivity, 128–29
and trust, 109–1 1
truth vs. falsity in, 1 11–16
Creation:
divine, 1 1, 225–26
and five cardinal beliefs, 251–52
and Shakti, 227–28, 229, 240, 242, 249
and Shiva, 247, 248
Creative ener gy, 230
Creative potential, 237
Creativity:
and second attention, 251
and sex, 149–50, 226, 237
Death:
anticipation of, 222
dying unto, 218–24
fear of, 221–22
God’ s presence in, 247
as healing, 9
peacefulness of, 247
as transition, 222
Defenses, dismantling of, 1 15–16
Dendrites, 90–91
Deservedness, 82
Desire:
denial of, 267–68
and icha, 241
and intimacy, 131–34, 135and passion, 227, 269–71
and religion, 133
sexual, 229
suppression of, 139–40
Despair, 213
Destruction, and Shiva, 247, 248
Devotion, 35,36, 87–88, 274
Dharma, 131, 158–63, 166–68
choosing your own, 167–68
and free will, 167
meanings of, 160–61
power of, 166–67
and spiritual equality, 163
Dionysus, 285–86
DNA, 244
Duality, 24–28
and dharma, 166
and self-love, 103–4
Ecstasy, 272–321
as ananda, 66–68
and ascension, 272–73, 274
and ego sur gery, 279–82
and inspiration, 299–306
and intimacy with yourself, 273–76
loving practice, 299–313
in our lives, 314–21
reaching, 290–98
as sacred journey, 285
and silence, 290, 294–95
as spiritual release, 286–90
and transformation, 293, 295
varieties of, 283–86
and wholeness, 289–90
Ego:
boundaries of, 291and control, 199–200
cosmic, 275, 276
and equality, 127
vs. falling in love, 24, 1 16, 165
isolation of,


 never know the exact point when things start sliding beyond
repair. The ups and downs of the market seemed to be no worse
than before, but I couldn’t keep my grip somehow. My real estate
holdings began  to crumble, and no matter what I did, the collapse
accelerated. I had started drinking heavily, and my wife was very
distraught when I stopped relating to her and the children. It wasn’t
deliberate on my part; I had become swept up in a nancial
nightmare, and all I could think of was how to save myself.”
Spiraling deeper into his troubles, Patrick learned to meditate. He
learned almos t on a whim, but from the outset the impact was
dramatic. “The rst time I meditated came as a revelation, if for no
other reason than the comfort I felt in letting go of my huge internalstruggle. The moments of actually transcending—that is, reaching
the silent level of the mind— were very brief at rst. Several times I
asked, ‘Is this all there is?’ There was not much clear transcending
in my meditations, only the coming and going of periods of silence. However, I couldn’t deny that when I opened my eyes, I felt
changed.”
A single meditation can change people because it has allowed
them to release  part of the false self for good. Without our realizing
it, holding on to old feelings,  habits, and lifelong conditioning takes
eort. The isolated ego defends itself by remaining constantly on the
alert. Is this situation a threat? Is that person going to do what I
want? The constant need to protect oneself psychologica lly may be
too subtle to notice, but it occupies an enormous part of everyone’s
unconscious life. As we saw, meditation does not deal in meaning. The old
conditioning is released without talking about it, feeling it, or
having much conscious exper ience of letting it go. Instead, the mind
is shown how to cross over from activity to silence, and this process
accomplishes the desired result. The stresses lie in the gap between
the active and silent mind; touching this gap with one’s awareness is
enough to release them. Since it takes mental activity to keep the
false self going, ending the activity loosens the false self’s grip. It is
not that a person tries to detach himself from his fears; they detach
themselves from him. “Meditating made me feel that I was putting the pieces together
again, but I was not out of the woods yet,” Patrick recalls. “The
damage done to my personal life ran very deep. One day I came
home to nd that my wife had locked me out of the house. No one
answered the phone when I called, and I felt angry and hurt. Miserably I walked over to the park and sat down to meditate. It
didn’t seem to do any good. I felt restless and upset the whole time. “But when I opened my eyes, a remarkable thing happened. My
mind was suddenly very quiet. I tried to think a thought, and one
came, but it immediately settled back into the silence, like a drop
merging into a still pool. I began to notice that the light around me
looked brighte r than usual, and when I heard some childr en playingnearby, their voices struck me as being the most joyful sound I had
ever heard. “It is hard to recapture how free I felt just at that momen t. It was
like having all these dead layers fall o to expose some sensitive,
living part of myself. I walked around a little, and everything had
taken on the same vibrant quality. My intense feelings of aloneness
and shame were now completely gone. I was totally dierent from
the suering person who had sat down on a park bench half an hour
before.”
I believe Patrick had hit upon the breakthrough that meditation
causes: the self expands beyond the connes of the ego, at rst
gradually, but with greater  and greater intensity, until it is in
complete union with everything. “I and the world are one,” an
ancient Upanishad declares. The transformation of the small,
isolated self into something universal may come only in glimpses,
but this is the true self. It is only a matter of time before one lives its
truth permanently. At the height of his experience, which lasted for half an hour,
Patrick was approached by a panhandler. “Up to this point I was
completely lost in myself. I saw this derelict walking towards me—it
makes me ashamed to use that word. He did not look like a derelict
to me then; he was beyond that kind of value judgment. He was as
alive and vibrant as everything else. “When he was about three feet away, I looked right into his eyes. For some reason, they were changed. They looked shining and soft. I
asked him what he wanted,  and he hesitated, confused. Then he
said, ‘I don’t want nothing. I just hope you’re happy, man.’ It
sounded funny  coming out of him, and I could see his surprised
reaction to his own words. It was as if he had been draw n into my
experience. In an amazingly  joyous voice, I said, ‘Yes, I’m happy,
very, very happy.’ I mean, I wanted to embrace this dilapidated,
lthy guy. “He was walking away by now. I turned and started to go o in
the other direction, but when we were about twenty feet apart, I
looked over my shoulder. He was staring at me with disbelief. When
he caught my gaze he turned away for good. I wonder what he sawin my eyes at that moment? Probably disbelief, too, but I hope he
saw more. For a few seconds back there, I deeply loved him.”
Unconditional Love
This strange encounter between Patrick and the derelict brings us
to the issue of unconditional love, which has become a catch phrase
in popular psychology. The objection I have felt about unconditional
love is that it runs complet ely against the grain of normal love,
which is based upon relationship. The love that exists between
husband and wife is not the same as that between mother and child. The dierence is based upon the type of relationship the two people
have. Where there is no relationship, it is hard to see how love can
ow. In this case, though, Patrick had no relationship whatsoever with
the derelict. They were total strangers who had every reason to feel
suspicious and hostile toward each other. However idealistically one
may want to feel, a shambling, smelly man in raggedy clothes is an
object of love to practically nobody; usually he is an object of
revulsion whom we assiduously avoid in order not to be exposed to
feelings of fear and contempt. But it is at the point where all relationship ceases that the
opportunity for unconditional love actually arises. When you have
no relationship to another person, you are automatically thrown
back upon yourself. The feelings that come out have no basis in
what you need or want from others—they simply come out. If I get
bumped in the street and feel angry, the emotion arises
spontaneously. I may feel guilty about it the next mom ent, but in
that split second it was the only choice my self could make. My level
of awareness did not oer me a better response. In Patrick’s case, his
level of awareness had leaped far beyond its normal limits; this
expansion dictated the response that spontaneously poured from
him. I imagine  his meditation on the park bench was not the sole
cause of this sudden change ; in India they speak of the “Yoga of
desperation,” a breakthrough into higher consciousness resultingfrom a predica ment so terrible that the psyche can nd no other
way out. Whatever the precise mechanism, Patrick found himself in a state
transcending normal perception. Like a yer breaking through a
dense cloud layer to nd blue sky and brilliant sun above, he
discovered that to look at anything was to see it in the light of love. He could not help himself, just as I could not help my anger on
being bumped in the street. The rishis speak of unconditi onal love, in fact, as a transcendental
quality that becomes infused into the mind during meditation. When
the mind goes beyond normal waking awareness, the transcending
process brings  one in contact with unconditional love in its silent,
unmanifest state. “Unmanifest” means that this love is not directed
at anything; it simply vibrates within the nature of the silent
witness, like a radio signal silently waiting for a radio to pick it up. At the end of meditation, the person returns to the waking state
bringing some of this transcendental quality into his everyday
consciousness. A new vibration has been added that alters, however
subtly, the person’s former awareness. This explanation is a twist on the usual understanding of
unconditional love. By denition, you can love someone
unconditionally only if your love does not alter no matter what the
other person does. This aspect of “no matter what” implies a
superhuman eort of will. One cannot help but imagine a plaster
saint who returns rudeness, anger, jealousy, in


 of my readers are feeling a littl e overwhelmed by all these warnings and "beware ofs," and intricacies. They are
used to taking no responsibility for securing their own food supply quality and have come to expect the "system" to protect t hem. I
believe it is not because of lack of governm ent intervention, but because of government intervention itself, our food system is very
perverse. Until our mass consciousness changes, if you wish to make yourself and your family truly healthy, you are going to have
to take charge and become quite a dis criminating shopper. Unconscious consumers are on a rapid road to the total unconsciousness
of death. And again, let me remind you here that this one small book cannot contain everything you should know. The bibliography at the
end of should become your gu ide to earning your post -graduate education in nutritional health. Freshness Of Fruits And Vegetables
Most people do not realize the crucial importance of freshness when it comes to produce. In the same way that seeds gradually  die,
fruits and vegetables  go through a similar process as their nutritional content gradually oxidizes or is broken down by the
vegetables own enzymes, but vegetables lose nutrition hundreds of times more rapidly than cereals. Produce was recently part of a
living plant. It was co nnected to the vascular system of a plant and with few exceptions, is not intended by nature to remain intact
after being cut. A lettuce or a zucchini was entirely alive at the moment of harvest, but from that point, its cells begin to  die. Even
if it is n ot yet attacked by bacteria, molds and fungi, its own internal enzymes have begun breaking down its own substances. Vegetables, especially leafy vegetables, are far more critical in this respect than most ripe fruits. All, however, deteriora te much
like ra dioactive material; they have a sort of half -life. The mineral content is stable, but in respect to the vitamins and enzymes and
other complex organic components, each time period or "half life" results in the loss of half the nutrition. Suppose a lettuc e has a
half life of 48 hours, two days after harvest only 50 percent of the original nutrition remains. After two more days, half th e
remaining half is gone and only 25 percent is left. After two more days half of that 25 percent is lost. Thus six days afte r harvest
and a lettuce contains only bout 12 percent of its original nutrition. A two day half -life is only hypothetical. Those types of
produce I classify as very perishable probably do have a half -life of from 36 to 48 hours. Moderately perishable produ ce has a half
life of about 72 hours; durable types of produce have half lives of 96 hours or longer. Vegetable Storage Potential
 Very Perishable  Moderately Perishable  Durable
lettuce  zucchini  apple
spinach  eggplant  squash
Chinese cabbage  sweet peppers  oranges
kale broccoli  cabbage
endive  cauliflower  carrot
peaches  apricots  lemons
parsley   beets

    The half life of produce can be lengthened by lowering its temperature. For that reason, sophisticated produce growers usuall y
use hydrocooling. This process dumps a just -cut vegetable into icy water within minutes of being harvested, lowering core
temperature to a few degrees above freezing almost immediately. When cut vegetables are crated up at field temperatures, and
stacks of those crates are put in a cooler, it can take the inside of the stack 24 hours, or longer, to become chilled. Home gardeners
should also practice hydrocooling. Fill your sink with cold water and wash/soak your harvest until it is thoroughly chilled b efore
draining and refrigerating it. Or, harvest your garden early in the morning when temperatures are lowest. Still, when yo u buy produce in the store it may have been sitting at room temperature for hours or possibly days. The bottom line here: fresh is equally as important as unsprayed or organically grown. The Real Truth About Salt And Sugar
    First, let me remind c ertain food religionists: salt is salt is salt is salt and sugar is sugar is sugar. There are no good forms of salt
and no good forms of sugar. Salt from a mine and salt from the sea both have the same harmful effect; white sugar, natural br own
sugar, hone y, molasses, corn syrup, maple syrup, whatever sweet have you. All are sugars and all have the similar harmful effects. I know of no harmless salt substitute that really tastes salty. Nutrisweet is basically harmless to most people and can be us ed as a
very satisfactory replacement for sugars. (A few people are unable to tolerate nutrisweet, causing the anti -chemicalists to circulate
much anti -nutrisweet propaganda, but you should carefully consider this thought before dismissing nutrisweet –there is almost no
food substance that some people are not allergic to or unable to digest. The fact that nutrisweet is made in a chemical vat a nd the
fact that some cannot handle nutrisweet does not make it "of the devil. " And its not all black and white with the oth er items either. Sea salt does have certain redeeming qualities not found in mined salt
and under certain very special conditions, eating small quantities of salt may be acceptable. Similarly, some forms of sugar are not
quite as harmful as other forms, th ough all are harmful. The primary health problem caused by table salt is not that it contributes to high blood pressure in people with poor kidneys,
though it does that. It is not that eating salt ruins the kidneys; salt probably does not do that. The  real problem with salt is that
sodium chloride is an adrenal stimulant, triggering the release of adrenal hormones, especially natural steroids that resist
inflammation. When these hormones are at high levels in the blood, the person often feels very good, has a sense of well -being. Thus salt is a drug. And like many drugs of its type, salt is a habituating drug. However, we are so used to whipping our adr enals
with salt that we don't notice it. What we do notice is that we think we like the taste of salte d food and consider that food tastes flat
without it. But take away a person's salt shaker and they become very uncomfortable. That's because the addict isn't getting their
regular dose. What's wrong with repetitive adrenal whipping is that adrenal fo rtitude is variable; many people's adrenals eventually fail to
respond to the prod of salt and the body begins to suffer from a lack of adrenal hormones. Often those inheriting weak adrena ls
manifest semi -failure in childhood. The consequence is that ordin ary, irritating substances begin causing severe irritation. The
person becomes allergic to pollen, dust, foods, animal danders, etc. We see asthma, hay fever, sinusitis, etc. Though one can  then
discover specific allergens and try to remove them from the e nvironment or diet, often this case can be solved far more easily by
complete withdrawal from all salt. This rests the adrenals and they may recover their full function; almost certainly their f unction
will improve. The asthma, allergies and etc., graduall y vanish. Most of us don't need to eat salt as a nutrient. There's enough sodium in one dill pickle to run a human body for a year. The re's
enough natural sodium in many types of vegetables to supply normal needs without using table salt. Perhaps athle tes or other hard
working people in the tropics eating deficient food grown on leached -out depleted soils, people that sweat buckets day after day
may need a little extra sodium.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the author's opinion on the use of butter and margarine?,
A: The author advises against using margarine and recommends using high-quality, raw, and unpasteurized butter, as it is a more nutritious option.
Q: What is the author's stance on dairy products?,
A: The author is critical of dairy products, stating that they are hard to digest and can cause health problems, especially in people who are not genetically adapted to digest them.
Q: What is the author's view on the role of salt in the diet?,
A: The author considers salt to be a toxic drug that can lead to adrenal fatigue and a range of health problems, including allergies and digestive issues. They recommend avoiding salt and sugary foods.
Q: How can one avoid the pitfalls of whole grains?,
A: The author suggests that people should grind their own grains at home, as commercial stores often sell stale or rancid products. They also advise against eating a variety of foods at one meal, as this can lead to poor digestion and toxicity.
Q: What is the author's approach to treating critically ill patients?,
A: The author believes that the body has the ability to heal itself, and that the role of the therapist is to provide the correct therapeutic approach, rather than the therapy itself doing the healing.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>I believe fasting is the therapy that almost invariably gives a critically ill person their very best chance of recovery. If a patient
dies while fasting they almost certainly would have died anyway, and if death comes while fasting, it will be more comfortabl e,
with less pain, and with more mental clarity. Critically ill people may have, among other things, any of the followi ng diagnoses: advanced cancer, advanced aids, heart
failure, very high blood pressure, kidney failure, advanced liver disease, advanced emphysema, pneumonia or other catastrophi c
infections, especially


 food, they continued to lose both weight and strength. Their parents began to despair
of their lives. They knew of deaths in the disease in Mexico and began to fear that they were going
to lose both of their daughters. Then a New Yorker visited the family. He told them of
Hygiene
 and urged them to give it a
117chance to restore the health of the two girls. The mother brought them to this country, where they
were given a fast of only one week each. The diarrhea ceased, they became more alert and developed a demand for food. The sisters
were fed on a diet of fresh fruits, non-starchy vegetables and minimum quantities of proteins and
carbohydrates. Their recovery was rapid and they put on weight on a diet that would not ordinarily
sustain weight. Now after the passage of more than fifteen years, these two young ladies are still
enjoying excellent health. Ulcerative colitis is but a further evolution of mucous colitis. The chronic inflammation has
resulted in hardening and ulceration of the membrane of the colon. Severe ulcerative cases may
evolve out of acute colitis, but this is not the rule. Those who carry out the instructions given for
mucous colitis will not evolve ulcerative colitis. In a syndicated newspaper article published Oct. 24, 1962, Walter C. Alvarez, M.D., whom I
have already quoted in this work, declared that chronic ulcerative colitis is “unfortunately … a
disease which we physicians do not understand well. We don’t know for sure what causes it.” He
explains that no germ or virus has been found that can be blamed as causing the often severe
diarrhea and says that some cases seem certain to start with a nervous cause, such as an unhappy
marriage. He adds that some physicians are sure that the disease begins and is kept going by “an
allergic sensitiveness to some food or foods.” Then he says: “However it starts, it often ends with
a bad ulceration of the inner lining of the large bowel.”
The patient develops fever, there is diarrhea with blood and pus in the
feces, and, eventually,
the colon shrinks and becomes deformed and shortened. In ulcerative colitis constipation
frequently alternates with diarrhea. This condition may evolve after years of suffering with chronic
colitis or it may evolve immediately after a severe acute inflammation of the colon. In either case, it is correct to say that when colitis has passed through the successive stages of
irritation, inflammation, ulceration and induration, it is ready for the evolution of cancer, which
needs but the addition of a continuous bath of decomposition from excess and unsuitable food. It is
essential to understand that all chronic forms of inflammation begin with irritation, followed by
inflammation and ulceration. If the location favors stasis—stoppage of the blood flow—induration
and cancer follow. In its origin irritation is absolutely innocent of all taint of malignancy, hence
there is no reason why it cannot be remedied. When ulcerative colitis is established cancer is not far away. Indeed, the objective symptoms of
cancer and ulcer are far from pathognomic—that is, undeniably proving the presence of either. But
there seems to be no reason to doubt that eating to the point of keeping the colon and rectum
saturated with putrefaction is the one and only way to complete the evolution of cancer of the
bowel. The beginning of the trouble is simply inflammation, which is absolutely innocent of all
taint of malignancy until the diseased membrane of the colon or rectum has been mascerated, so to
speak, in a continuous bath of decomposition. The care of chronic inflammation of the colon and rectum should be successful at any stage
before the beginning of malignancy. After the malignant stage is reached, hope flies out the
window. This is to say, when colon disease has evolved through irritation, inflammation,
ulceration, and induration to cancer, any remaining possibility of recovery is wrecked by methods
of diagnosis and treatment that set up psychosis or mental depression as deadly as cancer itself. Operation for cancer of the rectum or colon, making an artificial anus above the cancer, a
questionable palliation, creates a blind pouch out of the cancerous portion of the colon or rectum,
thus producing a miniature gehenna within the patient’s body. 118Alvarez says: “In a few cases, if no medical treatment helps, as the last resort the colon can be
removed surgically.” The drug treatment he describes is purely symptomatic: barbiturates to
enable the patient to sleep, copavin or codeine to “quiet” the bowels and “give rest,” extra fluids,
and “some iron” for his anemia. He recommends antibiotics and cortisone-like drugs for other
symptoms. One gets the idea that “treat the symptoms as they arise” is still
good medicine
. Reverting to the article by Alvarez, he also says: “… The patient should be kept in bed a while,
on a liberal diet, and one tasty enough so
that he will eat it, and not leave it on his plate. He must
have enough food and vitamins so that he can keep up his nourishment.”
This is a slightly different way of expressing it, but what he says is only a restatement of the old
advice that the patient must “eat plenty of nourishing food to keep up his strength.” Eating prevents
the bowel from healing and keeps alive the disease process. If the fast were instituted at the outset
of the diarrhea, the formation of the ulceration could perhaps be avoided. The remainder of the advice as to treatment which is given by Alvarez may prove enlightening. He says: “He will probably need barbiturates so that he can sleep at night, and he should have
copavin, or codeine, to quiet his bowels and give him rest. He may need extra fluids, and he may
need some iron for his anemia. One authority on this disease, Dr. J. A. Bargen of the Scott & White
Clinic of Temple, Texas, gives an antibiotic, Azulfidine, which helps in some cases. Dr. Kirsner,
of the University of Chicago, Dr. Ingelfinger, of Boston, and other authorities get results in some
cases by giving cortisone-like drugs for a while. In a few cases, if no medical treatment helps, as a
last resort the colon can be removed surgically.”
Apparently from this, the authorities are floundering about, trying first one thing and then
another, hoping that something may prove to be of value. But without a knowledge of cause, there
is nothing constructive that they can do. To remove the colon as a last resort certainly does not
remove the cause of the suffering. It seems to be an open confession of failure. It is essential to understand that irritation is absolutely innocent of the taint of malignancy, hence
there is no reason why it should not be remediable. Malignancy is the ending, not the beginning of
the pathological process. Those who carry out the instructions given for mucous colitis will not
evolve ulcerative colitis. 11929
Psoriasis and Eczema
A college youth in his twenties—with all the high ambitions of the average young man—found
himself forced to face a situation apparently beyond help. His entire body, his limbs, his neck, his
face were covered with a mass of scaly eruptions. The scientific name for the skin trouble is
psoriasis. He had been afflicted for a number of years; his eye lids were covered
with eruption,
his fingers were covered, even his lips. He had tried all the usual “remedies,” without avail. X-
rays, salves, ointments, cortisone and other drugs had proved to be of only brief help if any at all. The physician asserted, “We are doing everything we can. There simply isn’t a specific cure.”
Year after year, this patient with psoriasis was treated by skin specialists, otherwise called
dermatologists, and all their treatments led to nothing but more inflammation and disfigurement. The patient turned at last to a wild non-medical question: Would fasting help? Investigating, he
was told: “It might.” As a result, the youth journeyed to an institution that cares for clients with
fasting and other nutritional measures. He was placed upon a fast and given daily sun baths. Under such circumstances one may almost
watch the melting away of the skin disease and the restoration of a clean skin. Within weeks this
young man’s skin was clear. He could look in his mirror again; he could face the world happily. The human skin, the largest organ of the body, ranks with the liver and the brain in the number
and versatility of its functions. A highly complex organ containing nerves, blood vessels, glands,
pigment cells and fat, this waterproof and gasproof structure invests the body like an envelope,
standing between the delicate inner organs and the external environment. It is the body’s radiator
and air conditioner, regulating through sweating, the temperature of the body, and in the same
process helping to maintain water balance in the body. To a slight extent, it excretes waste. Its pigment protects against an excess of the sun’s rays. Using the sun in the process, it manufactures vitamin D. It stores fat and blood, and is the largest
sense organ of the body, nerve endings in the skin enabling us to feel heat, cold, pressure, all the
sensations of finger-tip touch. Commonly abused in a variety of ways, the


 Ida knew all about my interest in her. "On Sunday it is my turn to clean up, polish and straighten up
everything about the place," she explained. "I thought maybe you
would walk home with me sometime after Sunday School and I did
not want you to find everything all messed up." Much to my surprise, I bantered:
"Well, let's go right now and see what kind of a housekeeper you
are." After that pleasant visit I went with Ida regularly to whatever
young people's gatherings there were. I liked the community and was
enjoying life as I never had before. When I revisited Alabama in May,
1949, I learned from Dr. Ogletree, a fe llow dentist, that his sister, Ida,
a great grandmother now, was living in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. My work on the farm was not too hard but before long my old
discontent was urging me to move on to greener pastures. I had heard
my mother and uncle talk a lot about Judge T. A. Street, who ran a
large farm on the banks of the Tennessee River in Marshall county. Judge Street was mother's second co usin. Before the War between the
States, he had owned slaves and run a large cotton plantation. So I
made up my mind to visit Judge Street at Beard's Bluff. In August crops were laid by and farm work was light. One day I
caught a ride with a neighbor who was driving his wagon to
Guntersville. From there it was only three miles to Judge Street's
house. It was past dinner time when I arrived, hot, tired and hungry, at
the Street house on Beard's Bluff. The family had never heard of me
but they knew my mother's brother, their kin. They received me kindly and scared up some lunch for me. I stayed all night and the next
morning rode to town with Judge Street in his buckboard. During that
ride he and I made a trade. I was to return at New Year's, January 1,
1888, and run his farm. In Guntersv ille I caught a ride back to Andy
Cash's house with another neighbor. So that night I was back on the
old job, jubilant over the prospect of a new start in life for the year to come. CHAPTER 4. I ACQUIRE A HUNGER FOR
KNOWLEDGE

On the last day of December, 1887, I arrived at the Street home
to begin my job with the new year. Since leaving Judge Street in August I had not once thought of writing to him. Until then I had received little schooling and no social training. But I found my job
waiting for me. That was the first responsible position I had ever held. I was to
take care of the livestock, keep fires going in the big house, cultivate a
one acre garden and grow a corn crop on the bottom land along the
river. In later years I was to realize that was the luckiest break of my
life. The Streets were counted am ong Alabama's finest families and
they took me in as one of them. The Street home stood on Bear d's Bluff overlooking Tennessee
River. The farm, where before the war, slaves had cultivated cotton, lay spread out in the valley below. Strung along the bluff were numerous slave cabins. Some of Judge Street's former slaves lived
there. Aunt Dinah, the cook, had been a slave in her young days. When I went there share croppers ha d taken over most of the cabins,
but I lived with the family. My two year stay with the Streets was the
best education I ever received. At the outset I became aware of my lack of booklearning. Everyone in the household was a booklover and
read after supper. There was nothing for me to do till bedtime but read
also. Kindly Judge Street helped me to get started. -. "How far did you go in school, George?" he asked me. "Through
the blueback speller and McGuffey's 5th Reader." "Well, then, maybe
you would like this book." Judge Street reached into the well-filled bookcase and pulled out
"The Life of David Crockett." Soon I was lost in the book. Its pages
recreated my own boyhood. You ng Crockett had a bringing-up
strikingly like my own. Then I realized for the first time how much
alive a book could be. After that, I devoured "Daniel Boon e," a history of the late war,
lives of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, two or three of Amelia
Barr's novels and ever so many more whose authors and titles have
slipped my mind. At the outset my job consisted mainly of getting wood chopped
to keep several big fireplaces supplied, and to see that the numerous
horses, mules, work oxen, beef steers, yearlings, milk cows, sheep and
hogs on the place were fed regularly. Like all the farm people in that
country, the Streets ran their hogs in the Tennessee river hollows and
swamp to fatten them on the mast, as the abundant crop of acorns,
hickory nuts, beechnuts were called. Just to keep the hogs tame, I
would ride into the woods once a week to feed them a sack of corn. At
first I'd call "Co-pee, pig-ope," and that would bring all the hogs
within hearing. To avoid having to feed the neighbors' swine, I used a
trick which my father had taught me. He would yodle to his hounds to
call them from a fox chase and put them on a hotter trail without
calling the other hounds. As I dished out corn to the Street hogs, that I
could tell by the crops in their ears, I made up a call of my own and yodeled it—a long, low chant that would rise to high C, then drop to a
deep bass, with weird, wavering notes strung between. Pretty soon,
when I'd go back to that spot and start my call, I'd hear a chorus of
grunts and a roar over by the river and a bunch of hogs would come
running. Over the hill to the right a big boar would let out a snort and bring in his troop. None but the Street hogs would answer my call—I had taught them the yodle when no other hogs were near. At corn-planting time in April and May, T. A. Street, Jr.,
(Atkins), then 16-years old, was home from school. Though five years
younger than me, Atkins proved to be one of the best teachers I ever
had. Until he was quite a big boy, Atkins himself had no teacher but his mother; but, in that day, Julia Ann Street, one of State's Pioneer College Women, was counted among Alabama's most efficient
teachers. When one of her sons, E. C., the youngest now in Waco,
applied for admission to the University of Alabama, the examiner had
said to him:
"I do not know anything about Scotsboro Academy where you
attended, but anybody who has passed Julia Ann Street's tutoring can
enter this university." Two older brothers had graduated at the
Politecnic. Years later one of his old school mates told me about Atkins' first
day at the boarding school in town. Atkins did not know how to act and was laughed at for his awkwardness until he walked up to the blackboard and demonstrated a theorem in geometry. This occasion
was his first school. All his life he had been a great reader and he
never forgot anything. Now young Atkins was to take me in hand and teach me, as his
mother had taught him. That spring he and I took two big mules, he plowed one and I the other. We plowed long rows of bottom land for
planting corn. As we walked side by side behind our plows, Atkins
would tell me a story, like that of Joseph. I never had heard of Joseph...... "Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was
the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors".... and so on till Joseph had interpreted Pharaoh's dream. "Now you tell me the story," Atkins would say to me. I'd begin with, "Israel loved Joseph..." and repeat the story of
Joseph complete. Then Atkins, well pleased, would tell me:
"You didn't skip a single point, George. You have a wonderful
mind. All it needs is cultivating." After that from his well-stored memory, Atkins would pour out
tales endlessly and have me repeat them. When I told my young tutor
one day that I had never looked inside a grammar, he began drilling
me in the naming and using parts of speech: "The red bird sings in the sweetgum tree." "Bird is a noun, sings a verb, the and and red are adjectives... now you tell me." In that manner, as we walked behind our plows day after day
lessons would go on. My young teacher worked with me patiently, and
with utmost tact, corrected my errors. He took keen delight in seeing
me pick up grammar just from this 16-year old. Along in my second year with the Streets, after the crops had
been laid by in August, I suddenly decided to visit home. I had been
gone almost three years. During my  visit


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a last resort. Don’t Leave It Until It’ s T oo Late
According to American research, 95 percent of head circumference growth
for the average North American  white child takes place by the age of nine. Development of  the lower jaw, however, continues until approximately the
age of eighteen. Based on these observations, for correct craniofacial growth to take
place, early intervention with  nasal breathing and tongue posture is
essential. The negative ef fects of mouth breathing on the stru cture of the
jaws and face will have the most impact when they occur before  puberty, so
there is only a  brief window of opportunity to avoid the need for
orthodontic treatment and significant changes in a child’ s facial structure. My daughter is three years old. She first began to breathe occa sionally
through her mouth at the age o f eight months during teething, and since
then I have been encouraging her to breathe through her nose. I set an
example by breathing through m y own nose all the time, and congratulate
her any time she has her mout h closed. As we live in the co untryside, Ioften comment that Charlie the  donkey breathes through his nose, as does
Snowball the cat. Such clever animals! Genetically, ther e would be a high likelihood for my daughter  to be a
mouth breather as both my wif e and I had severe respiratory complaints
while growing up. The earlier you begin to encourage your children to
breathe through their nose and e nsure the correct positioning of the tongue,
the bett er. Not only might yo u help them avoid orthodontic treatment
altogether, but the shape of their face, their general health, and their
athleticism will be significantly influenced during these fe w short  years. Even genetic predispositions can be minimized when the right action and
behavior is enshrined. A few years ago I wrote a self-help book for children, teenagers, and
parents entitled Buteyko Meets Dr. Mew: Buteyko Method for Childr en and
T eenagers  about the craniofacial changes associated with mouth breathing. I
put extensive amounts of resear ch into the subject and included  many peer -
reviewed paper s and studies to support my claims. Most parents are
shocked when they realize that crooked teeth, narrow faces, lar ge noses, and
undeveloped jaws can be avoided if a child is simply encouraged to breathe
through his or her nose. Not only is sports performance a f fected, but
lifelong health! W e cannot be dispassionate about the impac t of mouth
breathing on the development of our children. The detrimental e f fects that I
suf fered from a childhood of br eathing through my mouth needn’ t happen
to anyone else, armed with the knowledge we have about the benefits of
nasal breathing.CHAPTER 14
E x e r c i s e  a s  i f  Y o u r  L i f e  D e p e n d s  o n  I t
F or two million years we survived without supermarkets, convenience
stores, microwa ves, or McDonald’ s. In the past, in order to feed ourselves
and our families, muscle move ment was required to collect berries and
vegetation or to track down an  animal—often over several days—until it
collapsed from exhaustion. Compare that to today’ s couch  potato lifestyle—do you know many
people w ho could adequately feed themselves if there was no food available
for conv enient purchase? One thing is for sure—a major shif t of attitude
would b e required. In order to eat, we would have to perform regular and
sustained physic al exercise, something that the human body is built for and
thrives u pon. W hy should we st op it now, simply because hunti ng our own
food is no longer necessary? And while it might be too late f or many of us to become elite athletes,
we can still enj oy and derive considerable benefit from regular physical
exercise. Even if you have lived a relatively sedentary life until now, you
can dev elop your fitness slowly and steadily and bring about positive
changes to your health. There is a great feeling of self-esteem and
accomplishment when we get up of f our backsides or move away from the
computer. If you exercise for an hour per day, five times per week, for just a
few weeks, you will experience a remarkable dif ference in your sleep
quality, mood, and state of health. Despite the advances of med ical science, the diseases of modern
civilization cont inue to increase, and it could be ar gued that we  are passing
responsibility for our health to pharmaceutical companies rather than
making changes to our lifestyle and diet to prevent illness in the first place.Each year, more and more people are developing asthma, heart disease,
diabetes, high blood pressure, an d cancer. Not only that, but new “diseases”
are being invented all the time—and some might say it’ s because the market
conditions and share prices of b ig pharmaceutical companies dictate a need
for n ew markets and ever -increa sing sales. W e may be living longer, but at
the expense of consuming vast quantities of medication as soon as we
approach fifty or sixty years of age. A far better option to help prevent the
onset of diseases—and one that involves no toxicity or expense—is to take
a reg ular fast wa lk or jog. If you haven’ t exercised regularly before, please
pay a visit to your physician to get the all clear before starting. One thi ng that pretty much all health professionals agree o n is the
importance of regular physical exercise, taken within our limits. Dozens of
studies over the last few years have shown that regular physi cal exercise
provides many health benefits, including a reduced risk of cardiovascular
disease, cancer, and diabetes. Studies as far back as the 1950s have investigated the relationship
between regular physical exercise and cardiovascular health. One of the
earliest w as conducted by Dr. Jeremy Morris, who studied the incidence of
heart att acks in 31,000 transport workers. Morris found that bus conductors,
who spent most of their day climbing up and down the stairs of double-
decker buses, averaging betwee n 500 and 700 steps per day, h ad reduced
incidences of heart disease than their bus-driving counterparts, who spent
90 p ercent of t heir day sitting down. Not only this, but he art disease
developed by the bus conductors tended to present later in life and was less
likely to be fatal. The same study was replicated using over 100,000 postal workers, and
once again it was found that those who spent their day on foot or cycling
while delivering  the mail had fewer incidences of heart disease compared to
workers in sedentary occupations such as telephonists, civil service
executives, and clerks. Dr. Mor ris’ s findings are just as relevant today as
sixty years ago, and since more and more of us spend our working day
behind a desk, there is an increased need to perform regu lar physical
exercise. Even more important is that we perform this exercise within our
own personal limits. The bes t way to ensure that w e exercise within our capabilities is by
nasal breathing,  and an importa nt consideration is the length of time youcan com fortably hold your breath, or your BOL T measurement. When your
BOL T s core is less than 20 seco nds, your breathing volume will be greater
than what your body requires, resulting in a risk of overbreat hing during
physical exerci se. All breathing should be through the nose when
performing phys ical exercise so as not to increase breathing v olume even
further. When your BOL T score is grea ter than 20 seconds, it’ s fine for you to
breathe through  the mouth during exercise for brief periods of time. However, it is o nly when your BOL T score is greater than 30 seconds that
intense physical exercise can be performed without undue risk of
overbreathing. T he goal for seri ous athletes, of course, is to attain a BOL T
score of 40 seconds. Only with a high BOL T score of 40 seconds is breathing volu me at a
normal level. Anything less indicates habitual overbreathing. And while it
would b e a normal expectation f or athletes to possess a high BOL T score, in
reality this is s eldom the case. I have measured the BOL T scores of
hundreds of athletes, ranging fro m weekend warriors to elite Ol ympic-level
athletes, and guess what? The v ast majority of BOL T measurements were
less than 20 seco nds. Some, in f act, have been less than 10 seconds, as low
as any person with severe asthm a. It is shocking to think of th e stress that
such overbreathing is placing on the body during intense physical exercise,
so a nyone serious about exercis e should aim to reduce their breathing and
increase their BOL T score. Like any  change  to your routine, the best way to determine the benefits
of reduc ed breat hing, nasal breathing, and a higher BOL T score is to put the
Oxygen Advant age program


 requirement (the dose recommended by the FDA as being
‘generally recognized as safe’) they should not expect to see any therapeuticeffect unless they have scurvy, beri beri, rickets, goiter, or pellagra. In these days of vitamin-fortified bread and iodized salt, and even vitamin C
fortified soft drinks, you almost never see the kind of life-threatening deficiencystates people first learned to recognize, such as scurvy. Sailors on long seavoyages used to develop a debilitating form of vitamin C deficiency that could kill.Scurvy could be quickly cured by as little as one lime a day. For this reason theBritish Government legislated the carrying of limes on long voyages and today thatis why British sailors are still called limeys. A lime has less than 30 milligrams ofvitamin C. But to make a cold clear up faster with vitamin C a mere 30 mg doesabsolutely nothing! To begin to dent an infection with vitamin C takes 10,000milligrams a day, and to make a life threatening infection like pneumonia go awayfaster might require 25,000 to 150,000 milligrams of vitamin C daily, administeredintravenously. In terms of supplying that much C with limes, that’s 300 to 750 ofthem daily—clearly impossible. Similarly, pellagra can be cured with a few milligrams of vitamin B
3, but
schizophrenia can sometimes be cured with 3,000 milligrams, roughly a thousandtimes as much as the MDR. There are many many common diseases that the medical profession does not
see as being caused by vitamin deficiencies. Senility and many mental disordersfall in this category. Many old people live on extremely deficient diets comprisedlargely of devitalized starches, sugars, and fats, partly because many do not havegood enough teeth to chew vegetables and other high roughage foods, and theydo not have the energy it takes to prepare more nourishing foods. Virtually all oldpeople have deficiency diseases. As vital force inevitably declines with age, thequantity and quality of digestive enzymes decreases, then the ability to breakdownand extract soluble nutrients from food is diminished, frequently leading to seriousdeficiencies. These deficiencies are inevitably misdiagnosed as disease or aging. Suppose a body needs 30 milligrams a day of niacin to not develop pellagra,
but to be fully healthy, needs 500 milligrams daily. If that body receives 50milligrams per day from a vitamin pill, to the medical doctor it could not possiblybe deficient in this vitamin. However, over time, the insidious subclinical deficiencymay degrade some other system and produce a different disease, such as colitis.But the medical doctor sees no relationship. Let me give you an actual example.Medical researchers studying vitamin B
5 or pantothenic acid noticed that it could,
in what seemed to be megadoses (compared to the minimum daily requirement)largely reverse certain degenerative effects of aging. These researchers weremeasuring endurance in rats as it decreased through the aging process. How theymade this measurement may appear to some readers to be heartless, but the bestway to gauge the endurance of a rat is to toss it into a five gallon bucket of coldwater and see how long it swims before it drowns. Under these conditions, theresearcher can be absolutely confident that the rat does its very best to stay alive. Young healthy rats can swim for 45 minutes in 50° Fahrenheit water before
drowning. Old rats can only last about 15 minutes. And old rats swim differently,less efficiently, with their lower bodies more or less vertical, sort of dog paddling.But when old rats were fed pantothenic acid at a very high dose for a few weeksbefore the test, they swam 45 minutes too. And swam more efficiently, like theyoung rats did. More interestingly, their coats changed color (the gray went away)and improved in texture; they began to appear like young rats. And the rats onmegadoses of B 5 lived lot longer—25 to 33 percent longer than rats not on largedoses of B
5. Does that mean “megadoses” of B 5 have an unknown drug-like
effect? Or does that mean the real nutritional requirement for B 5 is a lot higher
than most people think? I believe the second choice is correct. To give you anidea of how much B
5 the old rats were given in human terms, the FDA says the
minimum daily requirement for B 5 is about 10 milligrams but if humans took as
much B 5 as the rats, they would take about 750 milligrams per day. Incidentally, I
figure I am as worthy as any lab rat and take over 500 milligrams daily. My point is that there is a big difference between preventing a gross vitamin
deficiency disease, and using vitamins to create optimum functioning. Any sickperson or anyone with a health complaint needs to improve their overallfunctioning in any way that won’t be harmful over the long term. Vitamin therapycan be an amazingly effective adjunct to dietary reform and detoxification. Some of the earlier natural hygienists were opposed to using vitamins. However, these doctors lived in an era when the food supply was better, whenmass human degeneration had not proceeded as far as it has today. From theirperspective, it was possible to obtain all the nutrition one needed from food. Inour time this is unlikely unless a person knowingly and intelligently producesvirtually all their own food on a highly fertile soil body whose fertility is maintainedand adjusted with a conscious intent to maximize the nutritive content of the food.Unfortunately, ignorance of the degraded nature of industrial food seems toextend to otherwise admirable natural healing methods such as Macrobiotics andhomeopathy because these disciplines also downplay any need for foodsupplementation. Vitamins For Young Persons And Children
Young healthy people from weaning through their thirties should also take
nutritional supplements even though young people usually feel so good that theyfind it impossible to conceive that anything could harm them or that they evercould become seriously sick or actually die. I know this is true because Iremember my own youth and besides, why else would young people so glibly ridemotorcycles or, after only a few months of brainwashing, charge up a hill into thebarrel of a machine gun. Or have unsafe sex in this age of multiple venerealdiseases. Until they get a little sense, vitamin supplements help to counteract theirinevitable and unpreventable use of recreational foods. Vitamins are the cheapestlong life and health insurance plan now available. Parents are generally verysurprised at the thought that even their children need nutritional supplements; very
few healthy children receive them. A few are given extra vitamin C when acutely
ill, when they have colds or communicable diseases such as chicken pox. Young people require a low dose supplement compared to those of us middle-
aged or older, but it should be a broad formula with the full range of vitamins andminerals. Some of the best products I have found over 25 years of research andexperimentation with young people are Douglas Cooper’s “Basic Formula” (lowdose and excellent for children) and “Super T Formula” (double the dose of BasicFormula, therefore better for adolescents and young adults), also from DouglasCooper Company; Bronson’s “Vitamin and Mineral Formula for Active Men andWomen” and Bronson’s “Insurance Formula.” “Vitamin 75 Plus;” and “Formula2” from Now Natural Foods are also good and less costly. Healthy very small children who will swallow pills can take these same
products at half the recommended dose. If they won’t swallow pills the pills canbe blended into a fruit smoothie or finely crushed and then stirred into applesauce. There are also “Children’s Chewable Multi-Vitamins + Iron” (1-5 yearsold) from Douglas Cooper that contains no minerals except iron, Bronson’s“Chewable Vitamins” (make sure it is the one for small children, Bronson makesseveral types of chewables) and a liquid vitamin product from Bronson calledMultivitamin Drops for Infants. These will be a little more costly than cutting pillsin half. There is also an extraordinarily high quality multivitamin/mineral formula for
children called “Children’s Formula Life Extension Mix” from Prolongevity, Ltd.(the Life Extension Foundation), it is in tablet form, and slightly more expensive. I hope that my book will be around for several generations. The businesses
whose vitamin products I recommend will not likely exist in twenty years. Evensooner than that the product names and details of the formulations will almostcertainly be altered. So, for future readers discovering this book in a library ordusty shelve of a used book store, if I, at my current level of understanding, weremanufacturing a childrens and young adults vitamin formula myself, this is what it
would contain. Any commercial formulation within 25 percent of these figures plus
or minus would probably be fine as long as the vitamins in the pills were of highquality. Vitamin C 500 mg B
1 30 mg
Vitamin E 50 iu B 2 30 mg
Vitamin A 500 iu B 3 niacinamide 100 mg
Vitamin D 25 iu B 5 50 mg
Magnesium 100 mg B 6 30 mg
Calcium 400 mg B 12 30 mcg
Selenium 10 mcg Chromium 20 mcgManganese 2 mcg Biotin 30 mg
Zinc 5 mg Iodine (as kelp) 5 mg
PABA


 respect from others. If others don’t respect you, and your value
depends on how others see you, then it’s unimaginable for you to have self-
respect. You become a hostage to this low-level ego energy, which has you
constantly striving for self-respect through others. Your ego’s belief that you’re separate from everyone, separate from
what’s missing in your life, and most egregiously, separate from God,
further hampers your ability to live up to the intention of respecting
yourself. Ego’s idea of separation fosters your feelings of being in
competition with everyone, and evaluating your worth based on how
frequently you emerge as a winner. As a hostage to your ego, self-respect is
unavailable because you feel judged for your failures. It’s out of this bleak
picture, produced by the negative ego, that self-rejection emerges. It
captures you and makes a hostage of you, never allowing you to play host
to that from which you originated. Being a host to God means always seeing your authentic connection to
your Source. It’s knowing that it’s impossible for you to ever be
disconnected from the Source from which you came. Personally, I
thoroughly enjoy being a host to God. As I write here each morning, I feel
that I’m receiving words and ideas from the power of intention, which
allows me to bring these words to this page. I trust in this Source to provide
me with the words; therefore, I’m trusting in the Source that brought me
into this physical world. I’m eternally connected to this Source.This awareness simply doesn’t include a lack of respect for intending this
book into form. The conclusion I’ve come to is that I’m worthy of my
intention to write this book and have it published and in your hands today. In other words, I respect the piece of God that I am. I tap in to the power of
intention, and my feeling of respect for it enhances my respect for myself. So, by loving and respecting yourself, you’re hosting God and inviting
the energy of Creation to your consciousness, to your daily life, as you
connect to the power of intention. The energy of intention and your self-respect. If you don’t believe that
you’re worthy of fulfilling your intentions for health, wealth, or loving
relationships, then you’re creating an obstacle that will inhibit the flow of
creative energy into your daily life. Recall that everything in the universe is
energy, which moves at various frequencies. The higher the frequency, the
closer you are to spiritual energy. In the lower frequencies, you find
shortages and problems. Intention itself is a unified energy field that intends
everything into existence. This field is home to the laws of nature, and is the
inner domain of every human being. This is the field of all possibilities, and
it’s yours by virtue of your existence. Having a belief system that denies your connection to intention is the
only way you’re unable to access the power of intention from the infinite
field. If you’re convinced that you’re unworthy of enjoying the field of all
possibilities, then you’ll radiate this kind of low energy. This will, in fact,
become your attracted energy pattern, and you’ll send messages to the
universe that you’re unworthy of receiving the unlimited abundance of the
originating Spirit. Soon you’ll act on this inner conviction of self-disrespect. You’ll regard yourself as separate from the possibility of receiving the
loving support of the originating field of intention, and you’ll stop the flow
of that energy into your life. Why? All because you see yourself as
unworthy. This disrespect alone is sufficient to impede the arrival of your
intentions into your life. The law of attraction attracts disrespect when you’re affirming that
you’re unworthy of being respected. Send out the message to the providerof all that you’re unworthy, and you literally say to the universal Source of
all, Stop the flow of anything I desire, which is coming in my direction,
because I don’t believe I’m worthy of receiving it. The universal Source will
respond by halting this flow, causing you to reaffirm your inner conviction
of unworthiness and attract even more disrespect in a multitude of ways. You’ll disrespect your body by overfeeding it and poisoning it with toxic
substances. You’ll display your lack of self-respect in how you carry
yourself, how you dress, how you fail to exercise, how you treat others... on and on goes the list. The antidote to this dreary picture is to make an internal commitment to
respect yourself and to feel worthy of all that the universe has to offer. If
anyone is entitled to success and happiness, everyone is, because everyone
is always connected to intention. Simply put, disrespecting yourself is not
only disrespecting one of God’s greatest creations, it’s disrespecting God. When you disrespect your Source, you say no to it, and you turn away from
the power of intention. This stops the flow of energy that allows you to put
your individual unbending intent into practice. All of the positive thinking
in the world will do you absolutely no good if those thoughts don’t emanate
from respect for your connection to intention. The source of your thoughts
must be celebrated and loved, and this means having the self-respect that’s
in harmony with the omniscient Source of intelligence. What’s the source of
your thoughts? Your beingness. Your beingness is the place from which
your thoughts and actions come. When you disrespect your being, you set
into motion a chain reaction culminating in unfulfilled intentions. Self-respect should be a natural state for you, just as it is for all of the
animal kingdom. There’s no raccoon out there who believes himself
unworthy of what he intends to have. Were that so, the raccoon would
simply die by acting on the basis of his inner conviction that he was
unworthy of food or shelter, and whatever else raccoons desire. He knows
he’s respectable, never finds any reason for self-repudiation, and lives out
his raccoon-ness in perfect order. The universe provides, and he attracts
those provisions into his world. What You Think of Yourself Is
What You Think of the WorldHow do you see the world you live in? What do you think people in
general are really like? Do you believe that evil is triumphing over good? Is
the world filled with egocentric, selfish people? Can the little guy ever get
ahead? Are government entities and all their representatives corrupt and
untrustworthy? Is life unfair? Is it impossible to get ahead if you don’t have
connections? All of these attitudes emerge from your own assessment of your personal
interaction with life. If your thoughts reflect a pessimistic view of the
world, then that’s actually how you feel about yourself. If your thoughts
reflect an optimistic view of the world, then that’s how you feel about your
life. Whatever attitude you have about the world in general is a good
indicator of the respect you have for your abilities to intend into this world
what you desire. Pessimism strongly suggests that you don’t subscribe to
the idea that you can access the power of intention to help you create your
own blissful reality. I recall hearing the following conversation after the events of 9/11 in New
York City. A grandfather was talking to his grandson, telling him, “I have
two wolves barking inside of me. The first wolf is filled with anger, hatred,
bitterness, and mostly revenge. The second wolf inside of me is filled with
love, kindness, compassion, and mostly forgiveness.”
“Which wolf do you think will win?” the young boy inquired. The grandfather responded, “Whichever one I feed.”
There are always two ways to look at the conditions of our world. We can
see the hate, prejudice, mistreatment, starvation, poverty, and crime and
conclude that this is a horrible world. We can feed this barking wolf and see
more and more of what we despise. But this will only fill us with the same
things that we find so malignant. Or we can look at the world from a
position of self-love and self-respect, and see the improvements that have
been made in race relations in our lifetime; the fall of so many dictatorships,
lower crime rates, the dismantling of the atrocious apartheid systems, the
elevated consciousness of the environmental movement, and the desire on
the part of so many to rid our world of nuclear weapons and instruments of
mass destruction. We can remind ourselves that for every act of evil in theworld, there are a million acts of kindness, and we can then feed the second
wolf that barks from a position of hope for humanity. If you see yourself as
a divine creation, you’ll look for this in your worldview, and the gloom-
and-doom naysayers will have no impact on you and your self-respect. When you have a gloomy picture of what the world looks like, you’re
unreceptive to the potential assistance that’s there to help you with your
own individual intentions. Why would others want to come to your aid
when you view them as contemptible? Why would the universal force be
attracted to that which repels it? How could a world that’s so corrupt ever
be of assistance to someone who has noble intentions? The answers to these
questions are obvious. You attract into your life what you feel inside. If you
feel that you’re not worthy of being respected, you attract disrespect.