 nuts for
decorating.
Layer the meringue circles with the cream, sprinkling every cream layer
with the coarsely chopped hazelnuts. Cover the top with a thin layer of the
cream. Peal the tangerines and separate them into segments. Decorate the
top with the segments of tangerines and the 10-15 whole hazelnuts.
Refrigerate.
Peanut butter pie
6 eggs
2 tablespoons of butter
1 cup of peanut butter
2 cups of carrot pulp left after juicing carrots (you can use winter squash as a
substitute, peelit and chop very finely)
'ls cup of honey
1 cup of ground almonds
2 large cooking apples
a handful of raisins Peel the apples, cut them into small pieces and place them into a greased
baking dish. Sprinkle the raisins on top of the apples.
In a blender put the rest of the ingredients and blend well. Put the mixture
on top of the apples. Smooth the top and bake at 150°C for 40-50 minutes.
Russian custard
for one person:
2 eggyolks
%-i teaspoon of honey
multiply the ingredients for the number of people to be served.
Russian Custard can be used instead of cream on fruit or you can serve it
on its own with some chopped nuts on the top or pieces of fruit. It can also
be used instead of cream in making cakes. Separate the eggyolks from the
whites, add the honey and whip the mixture until it goes thick and almost
white. As well as being a delicious desert, it provides very good nutrition.
Get your eggs from a source you trust. Free range organic eggs are the best.
Apple sauce
5-6 large cooking apples
72 cup butter
1-2 cups water
1-2 cups honey
Peel and core the apples, cut them into pieces and cook in a pan with the
water until soft. Take off the heat and add butter. Cool down, mash and
sweeten with honey.
You can make pear sauce the same way though you may not need to add
honey, as pears are naturally very sweet.
This sauce will keep well in the refrigerator and can be served with some
yoghurt, chopped nuts, Russian custard or on its own.
Birthday cake
Make an apple sauce from 5-6 large cooking apples and cool it down. Make
it quite sweet as the pastry of the cake is not going to be sweetened. You can
make a pear sauce instead of apple.
Separate yolks and whites of 6 eggs into two large bowls. Whip the yolks
until thick and light in colour. Whip the whites until firm and no longer runny. Combine the two and add 2 cups of ground almonds. Mix well. Bake
in a cake tin lined with greased baking paper for 40 minutes to 1 hour at a
temperature of 150°C (300°F). Test with a dry knife whether it is cooked
inside (the knife will come out dry if the cake is ready). Depending on the
oven the baking time may vary. When ready allow the cake to cool down.
Now the fun part starts. With a long knife cut off the top of the cake
making sure that this layer is no more than 1 cm thick. Put it aside for using
as the top of your cake later. Using a table spoon carefully spoon out the
inside of the cake in medium sized chunks into a separate dish leaving just
an outside shell, which will look like a dish ready to be filled. Fill it up with
layers of your apple sauce (or pear sauce), frozen raspberries, chopped
nuts and chunks of cake, which you spooned out before. Here you can
really improvise by using different berries, stoned cherries, pieces of soft
fresh fruit, chopped nuts and seeds (sesame, poppy, and sunflower). When
the "cake dish" is filled, cover it with the top layer you removed earlier.
Spread the remaining apple sauce on and decorate. To decorate you can
use fresh fruit, berries, nuts and desiccated coconut. After decorating is
done, put the cake into the refrigerator. It is best to make this cake the day
before the party so it has the time to "mature" over night.
This is the basic recipe. You can improvise by adding seeds, chopped nuts,
grated carrot or pumpkin into the pastry before baking, filling it with different
combinations of fruit and berries, and decorating it any way you like.
Children like to be involved in decorating. Any of the decorating ingredients,
which I have mentioned before, are optional depending on your family's sen
sitivities. These are fruit, berries, nuts, seeds, fresh mint leaves and coconut.
Ice-cream
Buy in advance some very ripe bananas (with brown spots on the skin),
peal them and put in the freezer. On a day when you want to make the ice
cream, get these frozen bananas out and leave them in the room for about
30 minutes to slightly defrost. Blend them in a food processor. Add a little
bit of water to make a good creamy consistency. You can blend in some
fresh or frozen berries, pieces of fruit, desiccated or fresh coconut to the
mixture and some coarsely chopped nuts to make different flavours.
Fresh coconut
When you are buying a coconut, make sure that the shell has no cracks or
any other damage to it. Put the nut close to your ear and shake it. If the coconut is healthy, you will hear its juice splashing inside. When a coconut
is damaged and its juice has leaked out, then it will be rancid and unsuit
able to eat.
When you bring your coconut home, the fun bit starts. You will need a
screwdriver and a hammer. At the top of the coconut there are three round
dots. Push your screwdriver through 2 of those dots to make 2 holes. Drain
the juice through one of the holes allowing the air to get inside through the
other hole. The juice is very nourishing and can be used in cooking or
drunk as it is. It should have a fresh sweet taste. If the juice tastes rancid,
then there is no point in cracking your coconut, it will be unsuitable to eat.
After draining the juice crack the shell with the hammer and separate the
pulp from the shell. Rinse the pulp with the water to wash off any small bits
of shell. There are number of ways to eat it:
• Cut the pulp into small pieces and eat it as it is. It has a very pleasant
sweet taste.
• Grind it in your food processor to make sweets (next recipe).
• Put the pulp through your juicer to produce a thick coconut cream,
which can be diluted with water to make a delicious coconut milk. The
cream and milk can be added to your cooking, used as a dressing for
fruit and vegetable salads, as a cream for cakes or a replacement for
custard.
• Mince the coconut pulp to use in your baking, home made ice-cream
and other desserts, soups, stews, salads and sauces.
A word of caution for children and adults with diarrhoea. Coconut is
very fibrous and may make the diarrhoea worse, so initially I suggest
putting the coconut through a juicer, which would separate the fibre from
the rest of it. This way you can enjoy the freshly made coconut milk and
cream, getting all the good nutrition from them without the fibre.
Coconut sweets
1 medium-size coconut
1 cup of dried fruit (can be any of the following: dried apricots, figs,
dates or raisins, or a mixture of them. Make sure they are not
sorbated or coated in starch)
1 cup of sesame seeds or ground almonds
Soak the dried fruit for 6-8 hours. Drain. Make two holes in the coconut and drain the liquid. Put the liquid
through a fine sieve and reserve for the recipe.
Shell the coconut and rinse the pulp to wash away small bits of shell. Cut
the coconut pulp into pieces small enough to put through your grinder or
juicer.
Grind the coconut pulp with the dried fruit. Mix well in your food pro
cessor or by hand. If the mixture is too dry, add some liquid from the
coconut, which you have reserved.
With your hands roll small balls from the mixture and coat them in
sesame seeds or ground almonds. Place on a large plate and refrigerate.
9. Egg-free recipes
Eggs are used in baking as a binder to keep all the other ingredients
together. Some children have a true allergy to eggs and have to avoid them.
The following ingredients will act as a binder in your baking instead of
eggs.
• Gelatine, well dissolved in a small amount of hot water;
• Pumpkin, baked and mashed;
• Butternut squash and other winter squashes (acorn, turban, hubbard,
spaghetti), baked and mashed;
• Banana, mashed;
• Apple, baked and mashed or made into an apple souse;
• Pear, baked and mashed or made into a sauce;
• Zucchini (marrow or courgettes), baked, mashed and drained of
excess liquid.
Egg-free hreadlcake/muffin mixture
2 cups of ground nuts (almonds, cashews, walnuts, hazels, etc.)


 and thin, and had
lost his hair. Despite the unfamiliar surroundings and his inability to understand English, the boy
showed remarkable discipline and consumed the unaccustomed saltless vegetarian food and the
raw juices without any fuss.
After returning to Hungary, his mother reported that in three months on the Therapy the boy’s
tumor had disappeared. Two years later she sent us some photographs of T., showing a strong,
well-developed, healthy-looking ten-year-old child.
His dramatic recovery was underscored by another fact. Prior to his journey to Mexico, being
treated in Hungary with chemotherapy, he was one of a group of seven children, all suffering from
Ewing’s Sarcoma, and all receiving the same chemotherapy treatment at the same hospital. While
T. had survived and was fit and well, the six other children from his group were all dead.
The last news of the young patient was received in March of 2006, when his mother reported
that he was then 20 years old and enjoyed continued good health.
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Gerson Therapy Recipes
Introduction
The basics of food preparation for a Gerson patient are explained in detail in Chapter 7.
Please familiarize yourself with those instructions before attempting more varied recipes as given
in this chapter.
Recipes using yogurt should be used as per Gerson doctor’s instruction; or if the patient is
using this book on his own, a cancer patient should not use yogurt before 6-10 weeks on the strict
beginning treatment.
100% organic, unsalted rye bread is permitted and is readily available in health food stores,
including at “Whole Foods.”   However it is important not to make a meal out of a “sandwich.”
A patient should not eat bread until he/she has consumed a complete healing  Gerson meal, with
the important foods: salad, soup, potato and vegetable, and raw or stewed fruit.
Since the Gerson Therapy is work-intensive, it is also unwise to bake bread for the patient
since that is very time-consuming.  Also, the patient should not have more than two small slices of
bread in the course of the day.  Bread is a snack-type food, not valuable for restoring the body.
Recipes
Last, but far from least, this chapter contains a treasury of recipes, which add variety, pleasure
and super-healthy nutrition to Gerson-style meals. However, there are some important points to
remember. First and foremost, please study and learn by heart the basic rules for food preparation
described in Chapter 12, “Preparing Food and Juices—The Basic Rules.” If you are a Gerson
patient, newly embarked on the full intensive therapy, you need to limit your food intake to the
basic recipes contained in that chapter for the first three months and eat no dairy produce for the
first six weeks. After three months, you may introduce some variety by using different salads,
dressings and vegetable courses, always remembering that the “‘Special Soup’ or ‘Hippocrates
Soup’” and the baked potato are essential parts of the healing diet and must not be omitted.
 If you are not ill but wish to improve your health and well-being by switching to the Gerson
lifestyle, you may of course enjoy the recipes freely. Even so, please use the slow, low heat,
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www.thegersonway.comwaterless or minimum-water cooking method, described in Chapter 12, in order to preserve
precious nutrients.
 You will find no recipes for bread or other flour-based baked goods in this chapter. The only
acceptable bread—unsalted, organic rye bread—is available at good health food stores, so there
is no point in baking bread at home. Patients are allowed two small slices of bread a day, but only
after eating the complete Gerson meals consisting of salad, soup, potato with vegetables and fruit.
Bread must not take the place of any of these items.
  Yogurt, when permitted, must be certified organic and fat free (or extremely low fat). A few
recipes refer to “thick yogurt.” To make this, hang some regular yogurt, placed in several layers
of cheesecloth, over the sink or in a cheesecloth-lined strainer over a bowl, and allow it to drain
overnight
 The only permitted sweeteners are organic clear honey, and organic raw brown sugar, which
is available in various shades ranging from light beige to dark brown. In the recipes, these
ingredients are referred to as “honey” and “sugar.”
 In order to avoid repetition, let us list some general rules that apply throughout this chapter:
•  All fruits and vegetables must be washed before use. If the water supply in your area is
not fluoridated, purified or distilled water (produced by reverse osmosis) may be used, both for
washing produce and for cooking. If the water supply contains fluoride, only distilled water is
permissible for cooking and as a final rinse for fruits and vegetables. (see Chapter 9, “The Gerson
Household,” p. 93, for distillers, and Chapter 5, “Breakdown of the Body’s Defenses,” p. 37, for
fluoride.)
• When baking, the oven should always be preheated.
•  “‘Special Soup’ or ‘Hippocrates Soup ’” are interchangeable terms for the same staple item
of the Gerson diet. In some recipes, it is referred to as “soup stock.” For a detailed description,
see Chapter 12, “Preparing Food and Juices—The Basic Rules,” p. 109.
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www.thegersonway.comDips
Carrot and Dill Dip
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves 4-8
1 lb. carrots, scrubbed, unpeeled
4 tbsp. thick yogurt
2 tbsp. dill weed  (or 2 tsp. dried dill ), finely chopped
1 tsp. flaxseed oil
juice of 1 small lemon
Simmer carrots until just tender. Drain and leave until cooled. Put through the food mill. Mix in
thick yogurt, dill, flaxseed oil and lemon juice; mix well. Chill in the refrigerator. Serve as part
of a large salad, or as a dip with carrot, zucchini  and bell pepper sticks. Also delicious on bread.
Orange Pepper Dip
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serves 6
2 orange (or red) bell peppers
10 oz.  yogurt
1/2 tsp. organic tomato puré e
Seed and dice one of the peppers very finely and mix with the yogurt and tomato puré e. Slice
the remaining pepper lengthwise in half and remove the seeds. Place the yogurt mixture into
each pepper half. Place on a serving dish with thin strips of carrot, zucchini  and celery.
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www.thegersonway.comAppetizers
Celer y Root  Rémoulade Appetizer
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Serves 2-4
celer y root, grated
radic chio lettuce
2 or 3 varieties of loose leaf  lettuce (butter or red leaf lettuce)
green onions (or chives), chopped
parsley (or tarragon)
Dressing:
vinegar
water
honey
yogurt
Combine the dressing ingredients. Grate the cele ry root  and add the dressing. Place lettuce
leaves on a plat e and top with celery root. Sprinkle with chopped green  onions (or chive s) and
parsley (or tarragon).
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Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 50 minutes
Serves 2
1 eggplant
water
1 small onion, chopped
1/2 tbsp. organic tomato pur ée
parsley (or cilantro), chopped
lemon wedge
yogurt
Prick the skin of the eggplant  all over. Place directly onto the oven rack (or use a small baking
dish) and bake for about 40 minutes  near the top of the oven at 375°  F (190° C), turning  once
after 20 minutes.  Remove from oven and cool.  When cool, peel away the stalk and skin, and
chop the flesh until you


 the iodine. Shirley was instructed to take
microgram doses of iodine in the form of Atomidine
®
 (Edgar Cayce’s iodine formulation) three days per
week. Since
reducing her dose, all of her hypothyroid symptoms have improved and she is not having palpitations. Shirley’s case is
very rare. I have only had to use microgram amounts of iodine a few times over the last 12 years. This has occurred in
patients who are extremely sensitive to nearly everything.
The above cases illustrate that every patient needs to have an individualized treatment plan. Those that are sensitive to
medications may need a lowered dose, and may need to titrate their dose of iodine. If one is deficient in iodine, it is rare not to be
able to find an appropriate dose to improve the clinical condition.
Amanda, a 23-year-old fitness instructor, complained of coldness of her extremities and fatigue. “I teach four aerobic
classes per day and I am exhausted after each class,” she said. Amanda’s saliva/serum of iodide could not be calculated
since her iodine level was too low. In addition, she was found to have a large amount of bromide in her serum (127mg/L).
As established in
Chapter 11
, bromide is a toxic halogen that inhibits iodine absorption and binding in the body. Amanda
was started on 25mg/day of iodine/iodide (Iodoral
®
). Immediately, her symptoms improved. “I was not exhausted after
teaching my aerobics class. Also, my hands and feet warmed up,” she said. Amanda was also complaining of a rash on
her skin after teaching a pool aerobics class. The pool was sanitized with bromine. After taking the
iodine, the rash
immediately disappeared. Follow-up testing revealed that Amanda’s saliva/serum iodide improved to 42.5 and her serum
bromine level fell to 16.7mg/L.
Update on Amanda’s case: Amanda has now been on iodine for three years. “I would not stop taking it because it
makes me feel so good. The biggest difference I have found is that my energy level declines when I go a few days without
iodine,” she said.
New (5
th
 Edition) update on Amanda’s case: Amanda continues to take 25mg/day of iodine. She has had her first
baby and took the same dose of iodine throughout her pregnancy. Amanda recently reported to me, “Of all the things I
have taken over the years, iodine is the best. If I miss taking it for a few days, I start to get puffy and my energy drops.
My body will tell me when I forget to take iodine. I never want to stop taking it.”
Amanda’s case is very common. The correction of iodine deficiency can resolve the symptoms of hypothyroidism. In fact, if
there is iodine deficiency and hypothyroidism present, iodine deficiency needs to be corrected first. This was explained in
Chapter
6
. In Amanda’s case, correcting an iodine deficit was probably helping the body rid itself of the toxic halide bromine. The
improvement in her skin was evidence of this.
Kim, a 42-year-old business woman, wanted desperately to have another child. She said, “My son is 11 and I want
him to
have a brother or sister.” Kim had two miscarriages over the last two years and she had a difficult time getting
pregnant. Her first pregnancy was very hard for her as she was extremely fatigued and had a very difficult delivery. Kim
was diagnosed with hypothyroidism after the birth of her first child and placed on thyroid hormone (Armour
®
 thyroid). “I
did feel better with the Armour
®
 thyroid, but I was still cold. The worst thing was that my energy never really returned
after the birth of my son,” she said. Kim heard a lecture that I gave on iodine and had her iodine levels checked. Her
iodine-loading test was low at 22% excretion (normal >90%) and she was placed on 50mg/day of Iodoral
®
. “I felt a
huge change immediately. My energy returned and all of my remaining hypothyroid symptoms resolved within weeks. It
felt like a miracle,” she said. Kim became pregnant shortly after starting the iodine supplementation and she delivered a
healthy baby boy nine months later. During the pregnancy, she continued the iodine supplement. “At 42 years old, thiswas the easiest pregnancy. I gained 16 pounds and could fit into all my regular clothes right after I delivered. My midwife
was amazed at how easy this pregnancy was on me. I wasn’t even fatigued after the delivery. I wish that I had taken
iodine earlier in my life,” she claimed.
Kim’s story is repeated over and over in my practice. Iodine supplementation often helps improve a hypothyroid
condition.
Many times, even with the supplementation of thyroid hormone, some hypothyroid symptoms still remain. My experience has
shown that the best results in treating a thyroid condition will occur when iodine deficiency is rectified.
1
 Vitale, M. Endocrinology. 2000 Feb; 141(2):598-605.Chapter 15
Questions and Answers
CHAPTER 15: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
This chapter will help to answer common questions regarding iodine.
Q: Is there a difference between Lugol’s iodine and tableted Lugol’s such as Iodoral
®
 or Iodozyme HP™?
A: No. All three items contain iodine and iodide. Two drops of Lugol’s equals one Iodoral
®
 or Iodozyme HP™ tablet
(with both supplying 12.5mg of iodine/iodide). Lugol’s solution has a fairly strong metallic taste that many find offensive.
For doses under 50mg, I generally prefer tableted iodine. For doses greater than 50mg, I suggest taking Lugol’s iodine
since the price is less expensive.
Q: Do children need iodine?
A: Yes. Children and adults need adequate amounts of iodine. Children need smaller amounts due to their size. Iodine
dosing guidelines for children were covered in
Chapter 10
.
Q: Is the iodine patch test reliable?
A: No. The iodine patch test does not provide useful information on the body’s total iodine status. Approximately
20% of the body’s iodine load is found in the skin. The iodine patch test may provide information about how much iodine
is in the skin, but the studies have not been done to verify that. One study found that over 85% of the iodine applied to
the skin sublimated (evaporated) into the air. A more reliable indicator of the total body iodine load is the 24-hour
urinary iodine-loading test.
Q: If I have no thyroid gland, do I need iodine?
A: Yes. Iodine is found in all the tissues of the body, not just the thyroid gland. Even without a thyroid gland, the rest
of the body needs iodine.
Q: Does iodine supplementation cause goiter?
A: No. Iodine deficiency causes goiter. Medical research has shown this for over 100 years.
Q: Does everyone need to take 50mg/day of iodine?
A: No. There is no single dose that is effective for everyone. I suggest working with a health care provider who is
iodine knowledgeable.
Q: Is iodine deficiency more prevalent now than it was in the past?
A: Yes. Due to the increased toxicity of our modern
surroundings, iodine deficiency is more pronounced now. The
onslaught of chemicals and goitrogens such as bromine and fluoride has risen dramatically over the last 40 years. What
has happened to our iodine levels during that time period? They have fallen by over 50%. Goitrogens can bind to iodine
receptors and also bind to and damage the transport mechanisms for iodine. Goitrogens can exacerbate the iodine-
deficiency problem that already is present. Combined with a declining nutrient level in our food supply, it is no wonder
that people need to ingest larger amounts of iodine compared to past times.

Q: Does iodine cause autoimmune thyroid illness such as Hashimoto’s and Graves’ disease?
A: No. Autoimmune thyroid illnesses have been increasing over the last 40 years, while iodine levels have been
falling. If iodine was the cause of autoimmune thyroid illness, as iodine levels fall, you would expect to see a decline in
the incidence of Hashimoto’s and Graves’ disease. That has not happened. In fact, the opposite has happened–over the
last 40 years, autoimmune thyroid illnesses have increased at epidemic rates.

Q: Are there side effects with iodine supplementation?
A: There are potential side effects from supplementing with anything, iodine included. With proper follow-up visits
and
monitoring, adverse effects are easily treated.
Chapters 5
-
7
 review how to minimize adverse effects with
autoimmune thyroid disorders and
Chapter 13
 describes the adverse effects of iodine in more detail.

Q: Why hasn’t conventional medicine recognized that iodine deficiency is still present today?
A: A natural product cannot be patented. A patentable product can be very profitable for a pharmaceutical company.
Big Pharma cartel’s main interest is to make a profit. Big Pharma has shown little interest in any natural


	pp.101–16.
p.	204
	“On	the	most	profound	level	…”	quoted	from	McTaggart,
The	Field
,	p.
122.
p.	209
	An	easily	accessible	presentation	of	the	paradox	known	as
Schrödinger’s	cat	can	be	found	online—see
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci341236,00.html
Chapter	14:	Thinking	Outside	the	Brain
Current	speculations	about	“extended	mind”—the	possibility	of	intelligence
outside	the	brain—cover	a	wide	range	of	science.	A	good	overview	is
provided	in	Part	2	of	McTaggart’s
The	Field
,	pp.	99–179,	told	largely	from
the	perspective	of	field	theory	in	physics.	For	firsthand	research	and	in-depth
thinking,	the	best	source	is	Rupert	Sheldrake,	who	made	a	first	impression
with	his	impressive	book	on	evolution,
The	Presence	of	the	Past:	MorphicResonance	and	the	Habits	of	Nature
	(Park	Street	Press,	1995),	in	which	he
brilliantly	speculates	on	how	life	could	have	evolved,	and	continues	to	evolve,
through	its	own	self-interacting	intelligence.
Undaunted	by	the	outrage	his	nonmaterialistic	theory	causes	among
Darwinians,	Sheldrake	has	challenged	them	to	replicate	his	own	experiments.
His	research	into	the	telepathic	parrot	and	other
psychic
	pets	is	contained	in
The	Sense	of	Being	Stared	At:	And	Other	Unexplained	Powers	of	the	Human
Mind
	(Three	Rivers	Press,	2004)	and
Seven	Experiments	That	Could	Change
the	World:	A	Do-It-Yourself	Guide	to	Revolutionary	Science
	(Park	Street
Press,	2002).	His	entire	output	has	been	immensely	influential	on	me,	and	I
cannot	imagine	an	open-minded	person	who	would	not	be	deeply	intrigued.
I	have	only	sketched	in	the	burgeoning	field	of	information	theory,	which
is	fascinating	but	not	yet	expanded	to	cover	a	topic	as	specific	as	the	afterlife.
My	introduction	to	the	subject	came	from	Hans	Christian	von	Baeyer,
Information:	The	New	Language	of	Science
	(Weidenfeld	and	Nicolson,	2003),
which	is	readable	and	free	of	higher	mathematics.
Savant	syndrome	has	become	a	widely	publicized	phenomenon.	My	first
acquaintance	with	it	came	from	Oliver	Sacks,
The	Man	Who	Mistook	His	Wife
for	a	Hat:	And	Other	Clinical	Tales
	(Touchstone,	1998),	which	gives	a
neurologist’s	firsthand	account	of	meeting	autistic	children	with	extraordinary
abilities.	Sacks’s	interest	in	“other	brained”	people	ventures	into	no	spiritual
speculations.	Joseph	Chilton	Pearce	does,	in
Evolution’s	End:	Claiming	the
Full	Potential	of	Our	Intelligence
	(HarperCollins,	1992).	His	lengthy	first
chapter	on	savant	syndrome	links	it	to	a	nonmaterial	field	of	intelligence	that
we	all	tap	into.	A	nice	online	article	on	savant	syndrome	and	its	link	to	genius,
“The	Key	to	Genius,”	can	be	found	at
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/genius_pr.html
.
I	became	intrigued	by	memes	from	online	reading.	The	Internet	is	rife
with	discussions	of	these	“mental	genes.”	For	the	definition	of	memes,	see
http://www.intelegen.com/meme/meme.htm
.	For	examples	of	memes,	see
http://memetics.chielens.net/examples.html
.	The	evolutionist	Richard
Dawkins,	who	invented	the	term,	discusses	it	in
The	Selfish	Gene
	(Oxford
University	Press,	1990).	My	fascination	with	memetic	theory	falls	short	of
agreeing	with	it,	however.
T
EXT	NOTES:
pp.	216–18
	A	full	account	of	N’kisi,	the	telepathic	parrot,	is	in	Sheldrake,
The
Sense	of	Being	Stared	At
,	pp.	24–27;	the	statistical	analysis	of	the
research	results	is	on	pp.	300–305.
p.	220
	Amit	Goswami’s	statement	“The	universe	is	always	putting	new	wine
into	old	bottles	…”	is	quoted	from	a	personal	conversation.pp.	225–26
	The	remarkable	story	of	a	musical	savant	named	Rex	can	be	found
online	 at
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/20/60minutes/main957718.shtml
p.	226
	The	story	of	the	“automobile	savant”	is	told	in	Pearce,
The	Biology
of	Transcendence
,	p.	82	(see	above).
p.	226
	The	story	of	the	child	prodigy	who	is	enrolled	at	Juilliard	was	told	on
CBS	News	and	can	be	found	online	at
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/24/60minutes/main657713.shtml
Chapter	Fifteen:	The	Mechanics	of	Creation
The	topic	of	emergence—the	appearance	of	a	new	phenomenon	in	Nature—is
discussed	lucidly	for	the	general	reader	online	at	Wikipedia	(see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
).	I	have	also	benefited	enormously
from	the	physicist	Amit	Goswami,	who	has	written	extensively	on	creative
leaps	made	in	nature—see
The	Self-Aware	Universe
	(Tarcher,	1995).	One	of
the	boldest	attempts	to	combine	the	physical	and	spirituality	can	be	found	in
Ervin	Laszlo,
Science	and	the	Reenchantment	of	the	Cosmos:	The	Rise	of	the
Integral	Vision	of	Reality
	(Inner	Traditions,	2006).	Both	authors	are	scientists
who	refuse	to	accept	the	schism	between	the	scientific	and	spiritual	views	of
the	world.
Remote	viewing,	the	preferred	term	now	for	what	used	to	be	lumped
under	the	rubric	of	clairvoyance,	is	emerging	from	the	fringes.	Readers	can
browse	a	dedicated	Web	site,
http://www.farsight.org/

that
	contains	copious
information	on	the	subject.	There	is	also	a	recent,	extensively	researched
book,
Remote	Viewing:	The	Science	and	Theory	of	Nonphysical	Perception
(Farsight	Press,	2005).	A	veteran	of	the	military’s	secret	remote	viewing
program,	Project	Stargate,	has	written	about	his	experiences	and	outlines	how
anyone	can	learn	the	skill	with	enough	self-discipline	and	dedication—see
Joseph	McMoneagle,
Remote	Viewing	Secrets:	A	Handbook
	(Hampton	Roads,
2000).
T
EXT	NOTES:
pp.	242–43
	The	story	of	the	psychic	who	could	see	inside	the	SQUID	comes
from	McTaggart,
The	Field
,	pp.	142–46.
p.	243
	The	experiment	in	remote	viewing	that	I	participated	in	was	run	by
Marilyn	Schlitz,	director	of	research	for	the	Institute	of	Noetic	Sciences.
See	their	home	page	at
http://www.noetic.org/
.	This	site	leads	to	a	wealth
of	material	on	every	aspect	of	science,	spirituality,	and	the	paranormal.	To
my	knowledge,	this	is	the	most	extensive	and	wide-ranging	institute	of	its
kind,	and	I	have	been	inspired	by	their	work	for	twenty	years.p.	244
	“Then	at	thirteen	minutes	…”	quoted	from	an	online	interview	with
Cleve	Backster	in	which	he	also	discusses	his	astonishing	research	on
telepathy	in	plants—


 to facilitate the
movement of energy up to the crown. Engage ashvini mudra to
create length in the spine. Stimulates apana vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  Helps to relieve mild headaches and
fatigue, and can alleviate mild backache.
Helpful tips: If your hamstrings are tight and your hands don’t
reach the ﬂoor, you can either place your hands on a chair or on
blocks directly underneath your shoulders. For a more restorative
option, place a bolster or a block underneath your forehead. Reach
your arms out toward the wall opposite you, supporting yourself
on your ﬁngertips and releasing your chest toward the ﬂoor.
Variation:  For the added beneﬁt of opening the shoulders, try
this same posture with your ﬁngers interlaced behind you at the
small of your back. Draw your shoulder blades in toward one
another and press the palms of your hands together. Inhale and lift
your sternum toward the ceiling, keeping your lower belly
engaged. As you exhale, hinge at your hips, and lower the torso
toward the ﬂoor, lifting your arms away from your lower back. If
your shoulders are tight, use a strap in between the hands instead
of interlacing the ﬁngers.OceanofPDF.comHALF-FORWARD BEND POSE: ARDHA UTTANASANA
Overview:  Often referred to as “Prepare pose,” this asana
“prepares” us to step back to Plank, jump back to Low Push-Up,
and fold forward over the legs with a long spine and an open
heart.
How-to:  From intense stretch pose, inhale and slide your
ﬁngertips onto the ﬂoor, directly underneath your shoulders, and
reach the center of the chest forward. Gaze forward to the front
edge of your mat. Release the shoulder blades down, away from
the ears, and keep the back of your neck long.
Benefits:  Physically, Half-Forward Bend pose strengthens the
legs, the abdominal muscles, the muscles along the spine, and the
back of the neck. It stretches the hamstrings and opens the chest
and shoulders.Energetically, this pose increases focus. It works on the ﬁrst and
third chakras, cultivating both strength and ﬂexibility at the same
time.
Engage mula bandha and jalandhara bandha. Engage ashvini
mudra to lengthen the spine. Stimulates udana vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  Helps relieve lower back pain and
hamstring injuries, and it’s useful for pregnant practitioners.
Helpful tip: If your hamstrings are tight, either bend your knees
or place a block underneath each hand.
OceanofPDF.comINTENSE STRETCH POSE: UTTANASANA
Overview:  Intense Stretch pose is true to its name; it is a pose
that is an intense release for the entire back of the body. This pose
is usually offered as part of a more extensive sequence of postures,
as in Sun Salutations. When it is held for long periods of time, it
creates a profound sense of release in the physical, mental, and
energetic layers of your being.
How-to:  From Mountain pose, place your hands on your hips.
Inhale and lift your sternum toward the ceiling, keeping your lower
belly engaged. As you exhale, hinge at your hips, and lower the
torso down toward the ﬂoor. If your hands do not reach the ﬂoor,
bend your knees, or place blocks underneath each hand.
Benefits:  Physically, Intense Stretch pose stretches the calves,
the hamstrings, the hips, and the back. It strengthens the ankles
and the quadriceps. The pose helps to create traction in the spine.Intense Stretch pose stimulates the digestive process by directing
circulation to the abdominal organs. It also acts as a mild inversion,
bringing blood to the brain and oxygenating your body’s cells.
Energetically, Intense Stretch pose facilitates a sense of letting
go by lifting the diaphragm up, which encourages the exhalation. It
opens the back gates of all chakras, pacifying their rajasic qualities
and increasing tamas—the quality of inertia. Uttanasana is also
energetically cooling and can help us to see things from a new
perspective.
Engage mula, uddiyana, and jalandhara bandha to facilitate the
movement of energy up to the crown. Engage ashvini mudra to
create length in the spine. Stimulates apana vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  Intense Stretch pose is helpful for
people with osteoporosis and sinusitis. It alleviates anxiety, fatigue,
and headaches.
Helpful tips: Bend your knees or use blocks underneath each
hand if your hamstrings are tight. Hold on to the opposite forearm
with each hand and let your head and neck release toward the
ﬂoor to make this pose more energetically passive.
OceanofPDF.comSUN SALUTATION VARIATIONS
The Sun Salutation is a full-body warm-up and prayer
to the sun. By practicing Sun Salute variations, we practice
the art of vinyasa, which involves linking each breath with
movement. We invigorate the body by initiating each
posture from breath, build cardiovascular endurance,
increase our ﬂuidity, and create a moving meditation to
anchor our mind.
OceanofPDF.comSUN BREATH: SURYA PRANA
Overview:  The Sun Breath series is a helpful place to begin
learning Sun Salutations for the ﬁrst time. It facilitates the beneﬁts
of connecting breath and movement without putting any strain on
the joints. It is safe for anyone with wrist or shoulder injuries or
those who want to moderately build heat in the body without too
much intensity.
How-to:  From Tadasana, follow each step, one breath per
movement.
Inhale: Upward Worship pose
Exhale: Intense Stretch pose
Inhale: Half-Forward Bend pose
Exhale: Intense Stretch pose
Inhale: Upward Worship poseExhale: Mountain pose
Benefits:  Physically, the Sun Breath series opens the shoulders,
the chest cavity, and the hamstrings. It strengthens the muscles
along the spine as well as the lower abdomen.
Energetically, this series is energizing, stimulating, and
uplifting. It works on all the chakras and balances opposing forces,
such as moving up and moving down, breathing in and breathing
out, opening the front and opening the back of the body, which
also opens each chakra’s front and rear gates.
Engage vajroli mudra for Urdva Hastasana; ashvini mudra for
Uttanasana and Ardha Uttanasana. Refer to individual poses for
bandhas. Stimulates vyana vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  The Sun Breath series can help reduce
anxiety and restlessness.
Helpful tips: Place a block underneath each hand for the
forward bends. Bend the knees if you have any lower back issues. If
the shoulders are tight, keep the hands shoulder-distance apart in
Upward Worship pose.
OceanofPDF.comSUN SALUTATION A: SURYA NAMASKAR AOverview:  There are traditionally eleven poses linked together
that make up the Sun Salutation A sequence. The series is a full-
body warm-up that works on the dualities of right and left, up and
down, inhalation and exhalation, strength and ﬂexibility, and
expansion and contraction. Through the practice of Sun
Salutations, we invoke the qualities of the sun that are within us all:
heat, radiance, energy, light, and magnetism.
How-to:  From Mountain pose, follow each step, using one
breath per movement:
Inhale: Upward Worship pose
Exhale: Intense Stretch pose
Inhale: Half-Forward Bend pose
Exhale: Low Push-Up pose
Inhale: Upward-Facing Dog pose
Exhale: Downward-Facing Dog pose
Inhale: Gaze up to your hands
Exhale: Step or jump your feet to your hands
Inhale: Half-Forward Bend pose
Exhale: Intense Stretch pose
Inhale: Upward Worship pose
Exhale: Mountain pose
Benefits:  Physically, Sun Salutation A aids in cardiovascular
health by increasing blood ﬂow throughout the body. Like the Sun
Breath, this sequence of postures is energizing, awakening, and
heat building. It strengthens the muscles in the legs, the abdomen,
the upper body, and the back. It also opens the hamstrings, the
quadriceps, the upper back, and the chest.
Energetically, Sun Salutation A enables us to embody the
qualities of the sun: warmth, energy, radiance and tejas, the
magnetism that is created by the essence of ﬁre. It works on all thechakras, especially the third and fourth chakras. There is a
harmonizing effect that comes from stretching and strengthening
the muscles and opening the front and back of the body, bringing
us into satva guna. When done rhythmically on the breath, Sun
Salutation A can induce the beneﬁts of a moving meditation, which
include


 eaten at the same meal with vegetables, are superior in all the nutrients
needed to rebuild health.
As we go higher on the scale of quality, we begin to include protein rich food which may be eaten in the unfired (raw)
state, such as cheese which is made from raw milk and unsalted.
Then we ascend to the nuts and seeds which are eaten in the natural state (raw and unsalted).

HIGHEST QUALITY - RAW FOOD
To summarize: the closer the food comes to the natural state in which it occurs, or the closer to its raw, unfired (raw)
form, the higher its quality.
In this condition, all the enzymes are found intact. The amino acids are in their finest form. The minerals, vitamins,
trace elements, carbohydrates and "life force" are present. The life force, in turn is capable of reproduc ing healthy
tissue.
This same classification of quality which we analyzed in relation to protein rich foods applies to the carbohydrates (the
starch and sugar -rich foods), the fats and the mineral -rich foods.

TOXIC SUBSTANCES
The quality of a nutritional program is also improved by omitting toxic substances such, as coffee, tea, chocolate,
tobacco, salt, pepper, etc. from your diet.

FOODS AND RECOVERY FROM ILLNESS
What is the relation of quality of foods to recovery from illness?
It is this in a nutshell:  The higher the quality of food we eat, the quicker we recover from disease, provided we are
able to digest and assimilate properly.
To this must be added the knowledge of
•   proper food combining
•   proper order of eating the different kinds of food at a meal: e.g. the most easily digested food should be eaten
first, the more complex one second, and the most concentrated item last
•   the correct quantity of food to be consumed (of each type) in the meal
•   the correct time for eating (when hungry, and not by the clock)

REMARKABLE CHANGES
Now - what happens when a person follows these rules and makes a decided improvement in the quality of food
consumed?
Remarkable things begin to happen to the body as well as the mind. The amazing intelligence present in every cell of
the body and the wisdom of the body in its operation, immediately becomes manifest.
The rule may be stated thusly: When the quality of the food coming into the body is of higher quality than the tissues
which the body is made of, the body begins to discard the lower grade materials and tissues to make room for the
superior materials which it uses to make new and healthier tissue.

NATURE SELF -CURING
This is the plan of Nature - the body is very selective and always aims for improvement for better health. The body
always tries to produce health and always will, unless our interference is too great. Only then do we fail to recover and
degenerate further into disease.
The self -curing nature of many conditions such as colds, fevers, cuts, swelli ngs, injuries, etc., furnishes endless
examples of how the body tends towards health - always - unless we do something to stop the process.

SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS
What are the symptoms or signs which become evident when we first begin to omit the lower grade foods and instead
introduce superior foods - those which are most alive, more natural than we are accustomed to?
Usually within three days, the symptoms vanish and we feel stronger due to the recuperation which follows.

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To a lesser extent the same process occurs when we abandon lower quality foods and replace them with better
foods.

LOWER QUALITY - MORE STIMULATING
Lower quality has undergone more preparation.
Spices,  salt and other ingredients have been added, as they tend to be more "stimulating" than less prepared and
more natural foods. Animal foods such as meat, fowl, fish etc. are more stimulating than cheese, nuts and vegetable
proteins.
Consequently the withdrawal of stimulation which follows the abandonment of animal food produces a slower heart
action - a resting phase - which registers in the mind as relaxation or a decrease of energy. This initial letdown lasts
about ten days or slightly longer, and is followed by an increase of strength, a feeling of diminishing stress and greater
well-being.

AVOIDING FAILURE
Now let us return to the symptoms which occur in the process of regeneration. The person who starts a better diet,
stays on it for three days to a week and then quits will say, "Oh, I felt better on the old diet - the new one makes me
feel weak." He failed because he didn't give his body a chance to adjust and complete its first phase of action -
recuperation. If he had waited a while longer, he  would have begun to feel better than before he started.

RECUPERATION - PHASE ONE
During the initial stage (lasting about ten days on the average to several weeks in others), the vital energies which are
usually in the periphery or external part of the bo dy such as the muscles and skin, begin to move to the vital internal
organs and start reconstruction.
This shunting of much of the power to the internal region produces a feeling of less energy in the muscles, which the
mind interprets as some weakness. Ac tually, the power is increased, but most of it is being used for rebuilding the
more important organs and less of it is available for muscular work.
Any weakness which is felt here is not true weakness, but merely a redeploying of forces to the more import ant
internal parts.

RELAX FOR SUCCESS
Here it is important for the person to stop wasting energy, and to rest and sleep more. This is a crucial phase, and if
the person resorts to stimulants of any kind, he will abort and defeat the regenerative intent of  the body. It is impor -
tant that he have patience and faith and just wait it out, and after a while he will get increasing strength which will
exceed by far what he felt before he began the new program.
Success in recovery or improvement of health hinges upon the correct understanding of this point - realizing that the
body is using its main energies in more important internal work and not wasting it in external work invol -ving muscle
movements. Be wise, take it easy here and relax. Just coast in,. your work and social obligations until you're out of the
woods.

RETRACING - CLEANUP
Retracing: As one continues on the improved diet and gradually raises the food quality, interesting symptoms begin to
appear.
The body begins a process called retracing.
"Now w e have a chance to get rid or this old garbage and build a beautiful new house. Let's get started immediately.
Let's get this excess bile out or the liver and gall bladder and send it to the intestines for elimination. Let's get the
sludge moving out of th e arteries, veins and capillaries. These smelly, gassy, brain -stupefying masses have been
here too long - out with them!
These arthritic deposits in the joints need cleaning up! Let's get these irritating food preservatives, aspirins, sleeping
pills and dr ugs out of the way, along with these other masses of fat which have made life so burdensome for us for so
long.
Let's get going till the job is done - till we have a beautiful house - and from there on we'll keep it a beautiful ideal
model house."

CATABOLISM - ELIMINATION
During the first phase (called catabolism), the accent is on elimination, or breaking down of tissue. The body begins to
clean house. - In short, to remove the garbage deposited in all the tissues - everywhere. During this period. the body
removes the ashes from the furnace preparatory. So getting a better fire.
Here the accentuation is on removal of the gross and immediate body obstructions. Wastes are dis -carded more
rapidly than new tissue is made from the new food. This becomes evident as weight loss.

STABILIZATION
This persists for a while and is then followed by the second phase - called stabilization.

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Here the weight remains more or less stable. During this phase, the amount of waste material being discarded daily is
equal to the amount of tissue which is being formed and replaced by the newer, more vital food. This occurs after the
excess of obstructing material in the tissues has been removed.

ANABOLISM - BUILDUP
This state persists for a while and is then followed by a third phase - a build -up period called anabolism, wherein
weight starts to go up, even though the diet is lower in  calories than it was before. At this point, much or more of the
interferring wastes have already been discarded. -
The tissues which have been formed since the diet was raised in quality are more durable and do not break down
easily. Also new tissues are now being formed faster. This is due to the improved assimilation made possible by the
ceasing of wrong food combining.
The body's need for the usual amounts of food decreases, and we are able to maintain our weight and increased
energies with


	especially	from	medical	X	rays.
Optimizing	Your	Physical	Pathway
This	chapter	began	with	a	comparison	between	your	body	and	your	car.	Your
car	will	provide	better	service	and	last	longer	if	you	take	good	care	of	it.	Even	an
old,	beat-up	car	can	be	restored	to	good	function	with	tender	loving	care.	The
same	is	true	of	your	body.	To	move	yourself	in	the	right	direction	on	the
physical	pathway,	maintain	your	body—with	good	nutrition,	exercise,	sleep,
proper	breathing	and	natural	sunlight—	and	protect	your	body	from	physical
harm,	including	loud	noises,	sunburn	and	radiation.	Making	even	minor
adjustments	to	your	physical	pathway	can	make	a	big	difference.	As	always,	the
choice	is	yours.9
T
HE
F
ENETIC
P
ATHWAY
“Genetics	may	load	the	gun,	but	environment	pulls	the
trigger.”
Pamela	Peeke,	M.D.,	M.P.H.
Fight	Fat	After	Forty
O
ne	of	the	most	manipulated	terms	in	conversations	about	health	is	the	word
“genetic.”	Almost	weekly	in	the	news,	genetic	discoveries	are	announced,
proclaiming	the	genetic	origins	of	a	myriad	of	problems—from	cancer	to
compulsive	shopping.	Scientists	usually	describe	a	gene	as	being	associated	with
a	particular	disease	(rather	than	directly	causing	it),	but	the	details	become
distorted	and	misinterpreted.	Many	are	confused	about	what	genes	are	and	how
they	work.
We	end	up	being	misled	into	believing	that	genes	control	health
directly—which	is	not	accurate,	because	the	environment	we	create	for	our	cells
controls	the	expression	of	our	genes.
While	true	genetic	diseases	do	exist,	they	affect	less	than	5	percent	of	the
population.	Heredity	is	trumped	by	environment,	and	you	control	your
environment.	You	have	control	over	the	rate	at	which	you	age	and	the	diseases
that	you	will	(or	will	not)	develop.	Turn	the	right	genes	on,	and	keep	the	wrong
genes	off.	Health	is	not	about	genes;	it	is	about	cells.	Once	again,	we	are	in
charge.	Use	the	six	pathways	to	optimize	the	health	of	your	cells,	and	you
control	the	expression	of	your	genes.
Will	the	Weakest	Link	Fail?
What	about	the	genetic	predisposition	to	disease	we	hear	so	much	about?
What	about	health	problems	that	“run	in	the	family”?
Think	of	a	genetic	predisposition	to	disease	as	a	weak	link	in	a	chain—a	weak
link	with	the	potential	to	break,	but	only	if	excessively	stressed.	In	the	right
environment,	the	weak	link	will	function	just	fine.	If	the	chain	does	break	(if
sickness	does	occur),	it	is	not	accurate	to	say	that	the	weak	link	(the	“bad”	gene)
is	the	sole	trigger	of	the	problem.	Excess	biological	stress	is	the	trigger,	and	this
we	can	control.
By	enhancing	the	function	of	cells,	genetic	predispositions	can	remain
potential	problems,	rather	than	becoming	real	problems,	regardless	of	what	“runsin	the	family.”	Unfortunately,	people	often	give	up	to	their	genetic
predispositions,	relieving	themselves—at	least	in	their	own	minds—of
responsibility	for	their	actions.	The	genetically	predisposed	person	might	say
nonchalantly,	“There	is	nothing	I	can	do;	weight	problems	run	in	my	family”	(as
they	gulp	down	a	burger,	fries	and	large	shake).	The	thinking	that	genes	and
germs	are	the	primary	factors	determining	our	state	of	health	is	outdated	and
fatalistic.	Genes	and	germs	are	factors	worth	considering,	but	they	are	not	the
causes	of	disease	that	we	typically	understand	them	to	be.
Let	us	consider	genes,	what	they	are,	how	they	work,	and	what	we	all	can	do
to	put	the	potential	for	health	back	into	our	own	hands,	regardless	of	which
genes	we	have	inherited.
Nature	Versus	Nurture
Genes	are	the	blueprints	or	“plans”	for	life;	they	are	the	instructions	that	tell
our	bodies	how	to	develop	from	one	single	cell	into	an	entire	human	being.
However,	only	about	one-quarter	of	our	genes	express	(“turn	on”)	automatically,
determining,	for	example,	whether	our	eyes	are	blue	or	our	hair	is	curly.	Imagine
most	other	genes	as	a	set	of	coded	instructions	that,	much	like	a	computer
program,	sit	dormant,	essentially	doing	nothing,	until	you	activate	them.
Most	genes	require	some	sort	of	trigger	(environmental	or	psychological)	in
order	for	them	to	express.	Just	because	a	certain	trait,	“bad”	or	“good,”	runs	in
the	family	does	not	mean	that	every	person	in	the	family	possesses	that	trait	or
will	express	it	even	if	they	possess	it.	We	often	worry	far	more	than	we	need	to
about	genetic	inheritance.
Most	important	is	the	environment	you	create	for	your
cells	based	on	what	you	eat	and	how	you	live	your	life.
You	cannot	control	your
heredity;	you	can	control	the	environment	you	create	for	your	cells.
Rather	than	thinking	of	genes	as	an	absolute	and	unchanging	set	of
instructions,	one	might	think	of	them	as	a	variety	of	possibilities—a	set	of	“what
if”	instructions.	If	certain	circumstances	are	present,	then	a	person’s	genes
express	in	a	particular	way;	if	other	circumstances	are	present,	those	same	genes
express	in	a	different	way.	Biochemist	Roger	Williams	maintained	that	genes
alone	are	entirely	useless	threads	of	chemicals.	Genes	alone	do	not	determine
our	sickness	or	health.
If	genes,	in	the	form	of	cellular	DNA,	were	the	primary	control	of	the	cell—if
they	were	the	“brain”	of	a	cell,	so	to	speak—then	the	cell	would	die	without
them,	but	this	does	not	happen.	Scientists	commonly	perform	a	process	called
denu-cleation,	a	process	whereby	the	nucleus	of	a	cell	and	its	DNA	are	removed.After	this	process,	cells	continue	to	perform	normal	functions	for	months.
Consider	how	changes	in	diet,	lifestyle	and	environment	over	the	past	one
hundred	years	have	coincided	with	massive	increases	in	rates	of	chronic	disease.
For	example,	in	1900	cancer	affected	only	3	percent	of	the	U.S.	population;	now
about	50	percent	of	all	men	and	40	percent	of	all	women	develop	cancer	in	their
lifetime.	Our	environment	has	changed	so	radically	that	blaming	disease
increases	solely	on	inherited	genes	is	illogical.
Consider	how	environmental	factors	can	affect	genetic	expression.
Environmental	temperature,	for	example,	affects	the	expression	of	genes	that
control	the	coloration	of	Himalayan	rabbits.	These	rabbits,	accustomed	to	cold
temperatures,	usually	have	black	ears,	forepaws,	noses	and	tails,	but	when	raised
in	warm	temperatures	they	have	no	black	markings	at	all.	Same	rabbits,	same
genes,	but	different	environments	and,	therefore,	different	expressions	of	genes.
Similarly,	plants	with	the	genetic	capacity	to	flower	and	fruit	only	do	so	when	a
precise	set	of	environmental	requirements	(such	as	temperature,	sunlight	and
moisture)	“turn	on”	the


 have tremendous longevity and are never sick. For instance,
there are freshwater trout and there are ocean-water trout, and they couldn’t be more different in
seawater Minerals and the Coming Agricultural Revolution
their health patterns—but, genetically, they’re practically identical. However, because of the lack of
minerals in freshwater, freshwater trout are always sick in some way. So this inspired Dr. Murray to do
some tremendous research on animals—chickens, pigs, every kind of animal—and what he saw was
tremendous differences in their health and how they grew.
Mike : How much research did he do with humans?
Hartman : Well, remember, he grew up in a time when lab instruments were not particularly sensitive
and with very little funding, so I would say his human research was fairly limited, although he did get
interesting results. I encourage people to read his book, “Sea Energy Agriculture,” which is available
from us. It’s really his quest to find out what is special about seawater and all the experiments that he
did. Another interesting thing that people recognize commonly now is that the absence of lithium in
your diet causes bipolar disorder. People are sensitive to it, and this is fairly understood now, twenty-
something years after Dr Murray’s death. Every disease, I think, at the end of the day, will be traced to
some missing element.
How humans are really seawater creatures
Mike : Ultimately, if you go back into our ancestry, we have strong ties to seawater. We even have ocean
chemistry inside us, and in the first stages of fetal development, we actually grow gills, just like fish.
Hartman : I’m glad you brought that up, because your blood plasma, which is the clear part of your
blood, is like seawater—every element in the same proportion. In fact, there was a French doctor who,
in the early part of the 19th century, did therapy that injected clean seawater intravenously into humans.
He had tremendous results with terminal patients and extremely ill patients, and it’s a therapy that is
still ongoing today. There’s a South American doctor who—and I know PETA people will be appalled,
and I love animals too—but he drained out three quarters of the blood from a dog and replaced it with
clean seawater, and the dog was up and running around half an hour later, no problem.
Mike : Wow, that’s very interesting. It’s definitely a horrifying experiment, and I’m against experimenting
on animals, but it certainly demonstrates an interesting point because you can imagine that most
people’s blood is lacking some of these elements.
Hartman : Another interesting discovery that is now well known is that seawater, hemoglobin and
chlorophyll have very similar chemistries, except that seawater is based on sodium, human blood is based
on iron, and chlorophyll is based on magnesium. Other than their prime elements being different, the
other elements fall in order, in proportion. And chlorophyll and hemoglobin have very similar carbon
chemistry. They are the same shape molecule, the only difference being the iron and the magnesium.
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It’s very easy for the body to convert chlorophyll, like you have in wheatgrass juice, to blood. I mean,
it’s a tremendous treatment for somebody who, for instance, is anemic.
Mike : I think it’s important to connect these dots again. Chlorophyll is the blood of plants, hemoglobin
is the oxygen-carrying part of blood in people, and ocean water is the blood of the earth. That is
wonderful.
Getting Ocean Grown seawater concentrates
Mike : Your website, again, is OceanGrown.com. Can you give us a little description of what people
can get there. What can they order, and how do they get it?
Hartman : Let me give you some background. We’ve been in business five years, and we’ve been on
the market two years. But we’re trying to build a distribution network, so typically we try to dissuade
commerce through the website because we try to encourage our distributors. If there is no distributor
in your area, we’d be happy to take the order, but, wherever possible, we try to push orders through
distribution. We have a growing loyal following of distributors, and that’s coming along very well.
Mike : How do people find local distributors?
Hartman : Just drop us an email and we’ll respond.
Mike : So there are retail stores in cities around North America where people can find this?
Hartman : Yes, and it’s growing all the time. Someday, I hope we’ll be in the big box stores. You’ll be
able to find it on every shelf like you see Miracle-Gro today.
Mike : I don’t know if you can answer this, because of the pending patent, but people are going to
wonder where your ocean water is from? I hope it’s not from Miami Beach.
Hartman : I’m glad you brought that up, because, typically, when people first hear about Dr. Murray,
they race down to their local ocean if they’re fortunate enough to live near one. But think about what
ends up in coastal waters. You’ve got chemical plants dumping things in there. You have sewage and
all kinds of other things going in that coastal water that I don’t think you’d want in your food—heavy
metals in odd proportions and that kind of thing. What we typically do is go out to sea at varying
distances, anywhere from 30 to—our longest trip was 600 miles—and we are in very clean areas. We
process the water at sea, so what we have when we come back is a concentrate that’s ready to package
and ship, but we don’t do that just yet. What we do is quarantine that product in our distribution
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center and send samples out to an environmental lab to get tested for volatile organic compounds, like
chemicals and pollutants. We don’t ship that product unless there is no detectable pollution, and there
are 70 different things that they look for, and their detection limit is half a part per billion. When that
test result comes back, it has to say ND next to every pollutant: “non-detectable.” When we get that
test result back, we liberate whatever that voyage produced to be packaged.
Mike : So you’re saying there is still ocean water that’s fairly clean on this planet?
Hartman : There is, but not coastally. You can’t just run a pipe down to your local coast. Even if you’re
on some island in the Caribbean and you think, “Well, maybe I’ll just put a pipe in the water,” you
might be lucky. But if you look at the boating regulations at what can be dumped at sea, it’s pretty
staggering what boats are allowed to dump if they’re far enough away from a coast.
You know, God invented this; we’re not taking credit for inventing seawater. What we’re trying to do
is collect it in a way that doesn’t damage it or change the proportion of it or hurt the aerobic bacteria
that are in it. We are very careful about how we do it and where we do it, and we work to make sure
that it’s pollutant free, and we try to make it as economic as possible to ship. We are within a year of
having a higher concentration, which will further reduce the shipping costs. But before I forget, I just
want to mention this aerobic bacteria. Seawater has about five times more aerobic bacteria—and that is
the friendly kind, the kind that stimulate roots to pick up elements and nutrition—than the healthiest
soils. To give you an idea of what aerobic bacteria can do, they can help the soil fix nitrogen, which is
very important to soil. The role of the bacteria is terribly important. It comes with seawater, and we do
everything we can to make its life happy and healthy and to preserve it in our product.
I think Dr. Murray mentions in his book that seawater bacteria can fix 40 pounds of nitrogen per acre.
Currently, chemical farmers are putting about 200 pounds of nitrogen on an acre, let’s say, to grow corn,
so that alone will help them reduce the need for that much nitrogen. You say, “Why do they have to
add anything at all?” Well, the reason they have to add nitrogen in the first place is because they use
highly hybridized species of corn that require it, and it’s kind of a self-fulfilling process. You have these
companies that are hybridizing corn, and they need more of the product they sell.
What about the salt in seawater?
Mike : Here’s a common question that I’m sure you must get: If there is salt in seawater and you put
seawater on your crops, won’t it increase the salt content of your tomatoes? What about people who are
worried about too much salt in their diet? It sounds like a silly question, but I’m sure you get it.
Hartman : It’s a great question. Think about when you go to a hospital. What’s the first thing they
give you?
0seawater Minerals and the Coming Agricultural Revolution
Mike : Sodium chloride.
Hartman : They give you a saline solution. So what is so important about sodium that it happens to be
number one in seawater and number one in health care? Well,


 will not become the treatment of
choice. Although patients may long for such approaches,
most doctors still fear and distrust them.
But even if Dr. Simonton’s patient were one of a kind, he
is enough to rock our conception of how the body cures
itself, for here is nature ﬁnding a way to combat death that
no doctor had ever tried—and here also is the dark
possibility that what the doctor usually tries is not helping
nature but stiﬂing it.
Curious and adventurous doctors have ﬂocked to
experiment with mind-body innovations over the last
decade, from biofeedback and hypnotism to visualizations
and behavior modiﬁcation. The results across the board
have been amorphous and hard to interpret. Psychologist
Michael Lerner spent three years conducting an in-depth
study of forty clinics oﬀering alternative approaches to
cancer, whose metho ds ranged from herbs and
macrobiotics to visualization of positive mental images. He
found that these “complementary cancer centers” were
sought out by patients who were generally well educated
and prosperous, that the doctors running the clinics were
also serious and well intentioned, but that nothing close to
a cure for cancer had been discovered anywhere he visited.
When he interviewed the patients, a fairly large
proportion (40 percent) thought that they had experienced
at least a temporary improvement in the quality  of their
lives. Another 40 percent reported that they experienc ed
actual medical improvements in their condition, lastingfrom a few days to a number of years. About 10 percent fell
at the extreme ends of the spectrum, one group saying that
they got nothing from the treatment and the other that they
were now partially or wholly recovered from their disease.
Generally, the record of alternative approaches is that they
give a measure of comfort and relief to patients, but
disappointingly, the remission rates are not radically
diﬀerent from those of standard therapy.
There are other problems that run deeper than
inconsistent results: the mind-body ﬁeld continu es to be
plagued by an inability to rigorously prove its basic tenet,
that the mind inﬂuences the body toward either health or
disease. It seems utterly self-evid ent that sick people and
healthy people enjoy diﬀerent states of mind, but the causal
connection is still elusive. In 1985 a major study of breast
cancer conducted at the University of Pennsylva nia failed
to ﬁnd any correlation between the mental attitude of
patients and their chances of surviving their disease
beyond two years. In an editori al accompan ying the study,
which appeared in the prestigious New England Journal of
Medicine, the whole concept of emotions aﬀecting cancer
was denounced. “Our belief in disease as a direct reﬂection
of mental states,” the editorial declared, “is largely
folklore.”
In response, letters deluged the journal, most of them
from physicians who heatedly disagreed with the editorial’s
conclusion. It certainly seems unreasonable to discount
mental attitu des as a factor in illness, much less as folklore.
Every practicing physician knows that the patient’s will to
recover plays a vital part in his treatment. Wedded as they
are to “hard” medicine, most doctors nonetheless cannot
condone the idea that attitude, belief, and emotions do not
play their part. Hippocrates stated at the dawn of Western
medicine that “a patient who is mortally sick might yet
recover from belief in the goodness of his physician.”Numerous modern studies have corroborated this, by
showing that people who trust their doctor and surrender
themselves to his care are likelier to recover than those
who approach medicine with distrust, fear, and antagonism.
In the wake of the edito rial, tempers ﬂared and lines of
allegiance were drawn, while the issues became even more
confused. Three separa te studies of breast-cancer survival
rates from the mid-1980s came up with three entirely
diﬀerent results. In one, the women who displayed strong
positive attitudes tended to outlive those who were
negative, and it did not matter if their diseases were more
advanced—positive emotions, it seemed, helped them
recover from a late-sta ge, metastasized cancer, while
patients with negative emotions died from small tumors
that had been diagnosed relatively early.
A second study, however, found that any strong attitude,
if expressed rather than held back, helped in survival of
this very deadly disease. While the ﬁrst ﬁnding bolsters
common sense—the idea that positivity is better than
negativity—the second does much the same from  another
angle, the idea being that it is better to ﬁght than to give
up. Publicity was given to a so-called cancer personality,
who bottles up emotions and somehow converts repression
into malignant cells. The opposite would be the “strong will
to live” type, who can be either positive or negative.
All of this follows a certain logic, except for the study that
appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine  to begin
with, second ed by supporting studies, which found no
correlation between any emotional pattern and surviving
breast cancer beyond two years. Even as it grew in
popularity, becoming one of the most welcome innovations
since the Salk vaccine, the concept of mind-body medicine
was shaken. Now, a familiar pattern has emerged, in which
the public is informed of some elating break through,followed by disappointing  clinical results that are generally
known only in restricted medical circles.
A classic example was the division of heart-attack
patients, more than three-quarters of them middle-aged
males, into high-risk Type A personalities and low-risk Type
B’s. The Type A personality was supposed to be a hard-
driving, compulsive worker, constantly racing deadlines
and churning his system with stress hormones, as opposed
to the relaxed, tolerant, more balanced Type B. Type A
suﬀered from  “the disease of being in a hurry”; therefore, it
seemed logical that his heart would eventually rebel,
leading to a coronary.
Unfortunately, controlled  studies have indicated that this
widely accepted division is not so neat. It turns out that
most people have some Type A in them and some Type B,
and that tolerance for stress varies widely, with certain
groups stating that they thrive on it. Finally, a 1988 study
found that if a man actually has a heart attack, Type A’s
survive better than Type B’s. Their drive to succeed
apparently turns into a beneﬁt once the coronary strikes.
The intricacies of the mind-body relation were not to be
easily solved. If one asks why a positive mind cannot be
easily correla ted with good health—it appears to be one of
the most obvious facts of life—the answer has to do with
what you mean by “mind ” in the ﬁrst place. This is not a
philosophical question but a practical one. If a patient
comes in with cancer, is his mental state judged by how he
feels on the day of the diagnosis, long before,  or long
afterward? Dr. Lawrence LeShan, author of the pioneering
studies from the 1950s  correlating emotions to cancer,
went back into the childhoods of cancer patients to ﬁnd the
black seed that poisoned their psychology, and he theorized
that it lay dormant in the subconscious for years before
inducing their disease.In my own practice, I saw a lung-cancer patient who had
lived comfortably with a coin-sized lesion in his lungs for
ﬁve years. He did not even suspect that it was cancerous,
and since he was in his sixties, the lesion was growing
quite slowly. However, as soon as I told him that the lesion
was consistent with a diagnosis of lung cancer, he became
terribly agitated. Within a month he started to cough up
blood; within  three, he was dead. If his state of mind
contributed to this untoward haste, it apparently acted
quickly. This patient could live with his tumor, but he
couldn’t live with the diagnosis.
Even more basic is this question: Is the “mind” that a
doctor is interested in the patient’s overall personality, his
subconscious, his attitudes, his deepest beliefs, or
something not yet understood and deﬁned by psychology?
It may be that the releva nt aspect of the mind involved in
getting sick or getting well is not even speciﬁcally human.
An Ohio University study of heart disease in the 1970s
was conducted by feeding quite toxic, high-cholesterol diets
to rabbits in order to block their arteries, duplic ating the
eﬀect that such a diet has on human arteries. Consistent
results began to appear in all the rabbit groups except for
one, which strangely displayed 60 percent fewer symptoms.
Nothing in the rabbits’ physiology could account for their
high tolerance to the diet, until it was discovered by
accident that the studen t who was in charge of feeding
these particular rabbits liked to fondle and pet them. He
would hold each rabbit lovingly for a few minutes before
feeding it; astonishingly, this alone seemed to enable the
animals to overcome the toxic diet. Repeat experiments, in
which one group of rabbi ts was treated neutrally while the


	muscles	up	toward	your
spine,	rounding	your	spine	to	the	ceiling	as	you	tuck	your	tailbone	under	and
bring	your	chin	toward	your	chest.	This	arch	is	known	as	“cat”	since	it
resembles	a	cat	arching	its	back.	Inhale	and	relax	your	belly	so	it	drifts	toward
the	ground	for	the	“cow”	portion	(resembling	the	bulge	of	a	cow’s	pronounced
udder),	lifting	your	head	so	you	are	facing	forward,	opening	your	back	into	a
slight	backbend,	and	sliding	your	shoulder	blades	down	your	back.	Continue	to
flow	your	spine	through	several	rounds	of	these	arching	motions,	feeling	the
movement	of	each	vertebra.
BEST	TIME	TO	PRACTICE:
	Try	practicing	a	few	rounds	of	this	right	on	your
bedroom	floor	upon	waking	(or	near	your	kitchen	while	heating	up	the	water	to
make	your	hot	water	with	lemon!)	to	get	energized	for	the	entire	day	ahead.
OTHER	TIPS:
	Be	sure	to	practice	this	on	a	yoga	mat	or	a	carpet	to	provide	some
padding	for	your	tender	knee	joints.PARSVOTTONASANA
	(
PYRAMID	POSE)
BENEFITS:
	This	pose	stimulates	and	tones	your	abdominal	organs	and
supports	digestion.	It	also	improves	your	posture	and	balance.
DESCRIPTION:
	Start	in	a	wide	stance	with	your	right	leg	forward	and	pointing
straight	ahead	and	your	left	leg	behind	and	pointed	at	a	45-degree	angle.	Square
your	hips	so	both	are	pointing	straight	forward.	On	an	exhale,	fold	forward
from	the	hips	until	your	torso	is	parallel	with	the	floor	or,	if	comfortable,	fold
in	more	deeply	toward	your	right	leg,	placing	your	fingertips	on	the	floor	or	on
two	blocks	on	either	side	of	your	right	leg.	Breathe	deeply	for	five	to	ten
breaths.	Repeat	on	the	other	side.
BEST	TIME	TO	PRACTICE:
	Any	time	of	the	day.
OTHER	TIPS:
	This	and	other	forward-bend	poses	are	great	to	call	upon	when
you	feel	stressed	or	overwhelmed.UTKATASANA
	(
CHAIR	POSE)
BENEFITS:
	Not	only	does	this	stimulate	your	abdominal	organs	and	promote
cleansing	but	it	is	also	a	powerful	pose	to	tone	your	thighs	and	entire	legs.
DESCRIPTION:
	Begin	in
Tadasana
	(
Mountain	pose),	with	your	feet	touching
and	your	spine	erect.	Move	back	and	down	as	if	you	are	going	to	sit	down	in	a
chair;	this	might	only	be	a	few	inches	back	to	start	if	you	are	a	beginner.	Then
lift	your	arms	in	front	of	you	at	around	ear	level	with	your	palms	facing	each
other,	your	shoulder	blades	moving	down	your	back,	and	your	chest	broad
while	you	root	back	strongly	into	your	heels.	Keep	drawing	in	your	abdominal
muscles	to	support	your	back	as	you	“sit”	back.	Breathe	deeply.
BEST	TIME	TO	PRACTICE:
	Any	time	of	the	day.
OTHER	TIPS:
	For	an	added	bonus,	add	a	round	or	two	of
Kapalabhati
	breath
(
this	page
)	while	in	Chair	pose.UTTHITA	TRIKONASANA
	(
EXTENDED	TRIANGLE	POSE)
BENEFITS:
	This	excellent	pose	stimulates	digestion	and	elimination	while
providing	a	wonderful	stretch	all	along	your	leg	muscles,	back,	chest,	shoulders,
and	oblique	muscles.
DESCRIPTION:
	Begin	in
Tadasana
	(Mountain	pose).	Step	back	with	your	right
foot,	turning	it	outward	at	a	45-degree	angle,	toward	the	top	corner	of	your	mat.
Point	your	left	toes	forward	so	that	your	hips	open	to	face	the	side	of	the	mat.
Inhale	and	move	your	arms	out	in	a	T	shape,	with	your	palms	down	and
shoulders	relaxed.	Exhale	and	push	your	hips	toward	your	back,	right,	foot.
Lengthen	your	spine	while	keeping	both
legs	straight.	Keep	your	left	quad
muscle	engaged	and	rotated	outward.	Move	your	left	hand	toward	your	shin,	a
block,	your	ankle,	or	the	floor	while	your	right	arm	moves	up	toward	the
ceiling.	Keep	your	spine	and	torso	lengthened	as	you	breathe	for	at	least	five
breaths.	Repeat	on	the	other	side.
BEST	TIME	TO	PRACTICE:
	Any	time	of	the	day.
OTHER	TIPS:
	It’s	easy	in	this	pose	to	collapse	down	into	your	spine	as	you	try
to	reach	your	leg	while	in	this	sideways	position.	A	block	is	especially	helpful
here	to	help	establish	the	feeling	of	lifting	upward	instead	of	drooping	downinto	your	lower	leg.BHUJAṄGASANA
	(
COBRA	POSE)
BENEFITS:
	This	is	one	of	the	most	effective	poses	to	support	optimal	digestion.
It	also	works	well	to	increase	your	circulation	and	stimulate	your	kidneys	while
stretching	your	spine	and	activating	your	thyroid.	This	balances	your
metabolism	and	helps	you	feel	revitalized	and	radiant.
DESCRIPTION:
	Begin	by	lying	on	your	belly.	Place	your	palms	under	your
shoulders	with	your	fingertips	pointed	straight	forward	and	your	elbows	tucked
straight	back	behind	you,	close	to	your	rib	cage.	Lengthen	your	legs,	with	the
tops	of	your	feet	pressing	down	into	your	mat	and	your	toes	pointing	straight
back	behind	you.	While	you	inhale,	press	your	hands	or	fingertips	down	into
the	mat	to	gently	lengthen	your	arms	as	you	stretch	back	into	a	backbend.	Do
not	strain.	Only	bend	as	much	as	feels	natural.	Lift	your	chest	up	and	radiate
your	heart	wide	open,	rolling	your	shoulder	blades	down.	Breathe	in	this
backbend	for	at	least	five	breaths.	To	come	out,	bend	your	elbows	to	gently
lower	back	down	to	your	mat.
BEST	TIME	TO	PRACTICE:
	In	the	morning	or	afternoon;	backbends	can	feel	too
stimulating	in	the	evening.
OTHER	TIPS:
	Try	different	variations,	such	as	staying	on	your	hands	and
coming	up	to	your	finger	pads,	to	see	which	version	feels	best	for	you.	You	can
also	try	carefully	turning	your	head	from	side	to	side	while	in	the	backbend	for
a	gentle	neck	stretch.DHANURASANA
	(
BOW	POSE)
BENEFITS:
	This	pose	stretches	and	stimulates	your	abdominal	organs	and	is
great	for	enhancing	detoxification.	It	also	is	a	great	pose	for	strengthening	your
back	muscles	and	thighs.
DESCRIPTION:
	Lie	on	your	stomach	with	your	arms	by	your	sides	and	your
palms	facing	upward.	Roll	your	shoulders	up	and	back.	Bend	both	knees,
flexing	your	heels	and	bringing	your	feet	toward	your	buttocks.	Grasp	your
outer	ankles	with	your	hands	if	possible,	or,	if	not,	energetically	press	your
ankles	and	feet	toward	one	another.	Keep	breathing	deeply	as	you	press	your
knees	toward	each	other	into	the	midline	and


 suffered from tuberculosis.) This exercise is recommended for
the treatment of emphyse ma, asthma, as well as skin problems (Taoists
consider the skin to be the "third lung").
'
Figure 8. Eag le Exer cise.
61 The Internal Exercises
Outstretched wings effortlessly holding the eagle aloft mark the eagl e.
The reader should also remember that, when it is flying, the eagle's eyes
are open and see everyth ing.
Begin the Eagle Exercise by standing still. Take a few deep breath s whil e
imagining yourself an eagle.
When the visualization is complete, begin to walk slowly with your anns
held out to the side in a slant, or with your hands gently clasped behin d you.
As you walk, imagine you are an eagle, effortlessly floating through the
blue sky, untouchable, divine. Your body should be very relaxed, but your
mind and eyes should be very alert, noticing everything without focusing
on any one thing in particular.
Continue the exercise as long as the mind does not wander. If it does,
stop and begin again. Though this exercise can be performed anytime,
anywhere, it is especial ly effective if done outdoors, after the evening
meal.
THE MONKEY EXERC ISE
To the ancient Taoists the monkey (or ape) epitomized boundless activ
ity, curiosity, and free will. The monkey is con stantly acti ve, whether on
the ground, swinging in the trees, or leaping play fully about, uninhibited
by any cultural convention s.
The monkey is associated with the water elem ent, so the Monkey
Exercise stimulates the functions of the kidneys and bladder. This exerc ise
is recommended for those feeling confined or restricted by circums tances
in which there is a lack of freedom. To the Taoist will power resides in the
kidneys. The Monkey Exercise is also recommended for any problems
involving the kidneys, bladder, and urinary tract.
As the embodi ment of free will, the monkey inspires an exerc ise that is
free-style in the broadest sense. This exercise is best done in private as the
presence of others might be inhibiting.
Begin by standing or sitting. Take a few deep breaths whil e imaginin g
yourself as a monkey. When the visualization is com plete, kick off your
shoes, throw off your clothes, and begin to act like a little monkey. Sit on
the floor, crouch in a chair, leap about, bounce up and down, hang upside
down or by one arm, whatever is physically possible to do without strain or
exertion.
62 The Internal Exercises
Figure 9. Mon key Exer cise.
This exerc ise is complet ely free-style ; all the mov ements and actions
should act out impulses and whims as they occur to you. Monkeys also rub
and scratch themselves a great deal. You may do this also, espe cially in the
area of the kidney s.
EIGHT DIRECTIONAL EXERC ISES
All the elements of the univ erse occ upy space and are theref ore direc
tional. Since we are a part of the universe, we are influenced by space and
are therefore dire ctional also. Directional ity arises wherev er elect ric forces
are present, and elect ric forces are everywhere becaus e they are a property
of atoms. The elect ric forces are the means whereby two magnets, for
example, are drawn together or repel led apart. The se forces are also the
means whereby a weak magnet is made more power ful. This ''rechar ging ''
of electrical forces involves correct orientation of a body, or ''rechar gee'',
with respect to the ''recha rger''. For exa mple, the north pole of a m agnet
must be placed against the sout h pole of another magnet in order for
magnetic induction to take place. In magnets, as in other substan ces,
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''recharging'' is actually a re-ordering of atoms or groups of atoms so that
electrical energies are heightened.
It was after repeated experiments on the energizing properties of direc
tionality that the Taoists developed eight directional exercises for energiz
ing mankind. The exercises involve the execution of correct actions in
correct directio ns. The forms of these exercises were modeled after the
eight trigrams of the Pa-Kua and were called Eight Brocade Pieces. (The
word "brocade" was used to express its preciousness to generations of
people.) These exercises can also be called The Eight Directional Exercises
or Eight Energizing Exercises.
Before you do these exercises, use a compass to determ ine the northern
direction of the magnetic pole in your area (it is indicated as north by your
compass), not the northern Pole of the earth's axis of rotation. Use this
direction as a point of reference when doing the exercises.
The exercises are as follows:
Northwest For the Northwe stern Exercise, orient the front of
the body toward the northwest. Stand with the feet
shoulder-width apart. Point the toes inward. This
takes the pressure off the nerve endings in your
heels and prevents imbalance in pressure. Now
pretend you are lifting a barbell of medium weight
(to prevent too much straining). While keeping
Figure 10. Northwest ern Exercise.
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the legs straight, bend down to pick up an imagi
nary barbell. Lift the barbell to waist level. Then
lift the barbell as high as possible above your
head. Really visualize that you are lifting a bar
bell. Then reverse this procedure. Do the exercise
as many times as you wish. This exercise helps
increase strength and benefits the lungs and large
intestine.
For the Northern Exercise, have your torso
oriented in the northerly direction. Spread the feet
wide apart. Pretend you are shooting an arrow
from a bow. Shoot to your right and shoot to your
left. Your head, anns, and torso change positions,
but your feet remain stationa ry. Really visualize
that you are pulling a taut bowstring and shooting
an arrow. Do this exercise as many times as you
wish. This exercise is good for the lungs, kidneys,
large intestine, bladder, skin, and bones.
Figure 11. Northern Exercise.
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Northeast
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Facing northea st, bend down and touch the toes
with your fingertips. Keep the legs straight and
bend at the waist and pelvis as much as possible.
Then imagine that you are a mounta in. This posi
tion may be held for as long as you wish. This
exercise is good for the spleen-pancreas, muscle,
and digestion.
Figure 12. Northeastern Exercise.
In the morning, stand under the sunlight and face
east. Place your feet shoulder -width apart. Point
the toes inward and close your eyes. With your
arms hanging at your sides, tum the upp er body to
the right and left sides. Let your head tum with the
torso, and let the eyeballs trace the source of
radiant heat emitted by the sun. Never move your
feet. Your mind should follow these
movements-never let it wander. Do this as long
as you like. This exercise is good for the nerv es,
liver, eyes, gallbladder, and weight reduction.
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Figure 13. Eastern Exercise. Figure 14. Southeastern Exercise.
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Southeast
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South Facing southea st, stand with your feet shoulder
width apart. Point your toes inward and raise
yourself on your toes. Lower yourself. Do this
seven times as a set. If you wish you may do more
sets. Do not let your mind wander from your
actions. This exercise benefits the nerves, liver,
gallbladder, and heart.
Facing south, rotate your hips as if you had a
boola-hoop around you. You may change the
direction of rotation. Never let your mind wander
onto other subjects. Do this as long as you wish.
This exercise is good for the sexual organs.
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Figure 15. Southern Exercise. Figure 16. Southwestern Exercise.
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Southwest
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West Facing southwest, pose as if you were about to
fight. Bend the knees slightly. Bend the anns
slightly and clench the fists. Make your eyes
bulge out with rage. Your mind must be with your
body. Hold this pose as long as you wish. This
exercise benefits the digestive system, lungs, and
nerves.
Facing west, stand with your feet shoulder-width
apart. Point the toes slightly inward. Raise one
hand up in the air. Then bring the hand down and
raise the other hand. Try to keep your abdomen
still. As you do this your mind should follow these
actions. Do this exercise as many times as you
like, as this exercise helps lower back pain, shoul
der pain, kidney problems, and spinal problems.
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Figure 17.
Western Exe rcis e.
These exercises are extremely versati le as they can be done anywhere,
anytime. In two min utes, a hom


 of the spinal cord,
tuberculosis of the bones, dropsy, incipient dropsy, fistula of
the rectum, cancer, nervous sp asms, deafness, and various
digestive ailments and sexual disorders. Recoveries were often rapid as well as complete. Recovery from severe
nervous disorders was achieved in ten weeks, from deafness
in eight weeks, from inflammatory rheumatism in nine days, and from incipient dropsy in less than a week. Great
improvement in cases of different forms of consumption was
noted during the first two weeks of treatment. In almost all
cases treated at the "Jungborn" some benefit was reported,
and the general success was attributed largely to the use of
raw foods.
   During the year, 1897, another great raw food institution
was opened in Europe, this being the famous Bircher-Benner
clinic and sanitarium in Zurich, Switzerland, which continues
operation in the present day. Here extensive use has been
made of raw foods, and some patients have been placed on an
exclusive raw diet for a limited period of time when this was deemed necessary. The late founder of the institution, Dr.
Bircher-Benner, stated that "raw vegetable food is the most
potent healing factor that exists" which is able "to bring
healin
g to ver y man y widel y spread disorders of health and serious diseases, in quite astonishing fashion, where all other
curative measures have failed." He called raw food "sunlight
food" and referred to his delicious preparations of fruits,
vegetables, nuts, honey, milk, and other foods, all in their raw state, as "sunlight dishes." The success of this sanitarium has
been so phenomenal that it has attracted patients from all over
the world. It is best known for its treatment of digestive
diseases. So astonishing was the recovery, on a strictly raw
diet, of one supposedly incurable patient suffering from the Herter-Heubner disease that it attracted the attention of the
children's hospital in Zurich, which in turn introduced a raw
diet for its coeliac patients. The medical director of the
hospital at the time published a monograph giving an account of the "staggering success" thus achieved.
   Today Dr. Ralph E. Bircher carries on the important work
of his father at the clinic and sanitarium, with equally satisfactory results. He descri bes raw food in relation to "the
five zones of its influence." In the first zone the effects are
noticeable within a few days, with the "return of appetite,
rapid fading of unnatural thirst" and "much better digestion."
In the second zone, embracing weeks of time, the circulatory system responds to the curative effects of raw food. The third
zone "needs months to become effective" though some
improvement may be noticed almost immediately. It covers
the endocrine glands and metabolism. The fourth zone,
embracing the capillary system and secondary effects on all parts of the organism, is repor ted by Dr. Bircher to require
one to three years, sometimes le ss, "to show the effects of its
domain." The entire four-fold action, according to Dr. Bircher, "generally brings about a complete change in
obstinate cases of many chronic conditions such as stomatitis
and ulcers, sprue, amoebic dysentery, lambliosis and malaria,
kidney troubles, jaundice, eczemas and urticaria, headaches,
and schizophrenias, also in cases of varicose, thrombophlebitis and many other conditions." The fifth zone
applies to the constitution itself, from which our diseases and
infections originate. It means a fundamental change in the
physiological efficiency of the entire body, with new vitality and vigorous health.
   At the First Medical Clinic of the University of Vienna, two
scientists, Eppinger and Kaunitz, tested the Bircher-Benner raw food diet as a means of improving the interchange of
energies and substances between the ends of the blood vessels
(capillaries) and the tissue cells of the body. Under normal
conditions of life, the blood gives up its nutritive substances,
and the cells give up their waste substances in this interchange through two fine membranes and a narrow
dividin
g interstice. Often, however, the cells lose a part of their "selective capacity" because of salt penetrating the cell
wall, distortion and spasms of the capillaries, a sticky coating
of blood globules, waste products being scattered around the
cells, and reduction of the chemical, physical, and electrical tensions which promote the nutritive interchange. When this
happens, cells cannot rejuvenate fast enough; bacteria tend to
multiply too rapidly, and the general cause of many clinical
symptoms of disease is in existence. Eppinger and Kaunitz
studied this condition and tried every possible means of restoring normal selective power in the cells once this had
been lost. Only one measure was found to be successful. This
was the application of an exclusive raw food diet "exactly
according to the prescriptions of Dr. Bircher-Benner." Under
the influence of this diet, the life-giving tensions between capillaries and cells grew and the capillaries were slowly
restored to a normal, vigorous condition.
   In Denmark an exclusive raw diet consisting of fruits,
vegetables, nuts, cornmeal, sprouted grains and legumes,
honey, and milk is given for all patients who visit the
"Humlegaarden" a sanitarium located near Humlebek. Dr.
Kristine Nolfi, medical director of this sanitarium, was formerly associated in medicine and surgery with the
Communal Hospital in Copenhagen and also with the State
Hospital in Pediatrics. During her years of hospital training
she suffered from weak digestion and catarrh of the stomach,
and in the winter of 1940 and 1941 she observed the symptoms of cancer. A trial microscopy taken at the Radium
Centre in Copenhagen was positive, indicating there were
cancer cells. Dr. Nolfi treated herself with an exclusive raw diet and recovered excellent health. This success prompted
her to open the "Humlegaarden" where not only all patients,
but even members of the hospital staff, live entirely upon
foods which have not been treated by heating. About one
thousand patients annually visit this sanitarium, and doctors from Denmark and foreign countries also visit the place and
make observations which are late r utilized in their practice.
   The therapeutic successes at tained at the "Humlegaarden"
are said to be phenomenal. Dr. Nolfi attributes this to the
consumption of raw foods, and in particular to the use of raw
garlic and raw potatoes. Patient s at this sanitarium recover
from all manner of diseases, including cancer, sterility, obesity, diabetes, heart debilitation, high blood pressure,
rheumatism, epilepsy, asthma, and many others. In some
cases even grey hair darkens in color. According to Dr. Nolfi,
the raw diet "has a curative effect not only for a particular
disease and on an individual organ, but on the organism as a whole. It cures not only the diseases contracted during our
 short span of life, but also those determined by hereditary
predispositions."
   Dr. K. Eimer, of the University Medical Clinic at Marburg-
Lahn, has employed the raw diet in the treatment of many
different diseases. He reports that no gastric disturbances
occur on the diet and that the relatively large amounts of cellulose in the raw vegetable foods appear to aid peristalsis.
He found the raw diet to be especially suitable in cases of
renal or cardiac oedema or the oedema of obesity, with the
elimination of superfluous water and salt being rapidly
achieved. In diseases of the circulatory system, the diet was found to usefully supplement other treatment, and high blood
pressure and diabetes were found to be benefited through the
use of raw food. The blood was improved on the raw diet,
and the alkali reserve was raised an average of 20 per cent
among the patients. Dr. Eimer also reported that the refractive
index of the serum increased through the use of raw foods.
   Of equal importance is the experience of Dr. Joseph Evers
in Germany, who has treated 600 cases of multiple sclerosis
with diets containing no refined foods, and consisting chiefly
of raw fruits, raw nuts, raw ve getable roots, raw honey, raw
grain sprouts, uncooked coarse rolled oats, wholemeal bread,
raw ham, raw bacon, and raw chopped beef. Dr. Ever's dietary treatment was set up under the controls of recognized
scientists and tested in different universities, clinics,
hospitals, and sanatoriums. Results were surprisingly good,
and 42 per cent of all patients showed improvement or
complete recovery. This percentage might appear to be low, but for multiple sclerosis, which consistently fails to yield to
orthodox medical treatment, a single recovery is worthy of mention.
   In the city of Munich, the German physicians, Friedrich and
Peters, employed a raw diet consisting chiefly of fruits and vegetables, and small amounts of meat. Many very severe
cases of liver cirrhosis, with ascites were treated. Results,
surprisingly, were quite successful, and a number of most
striking cases have been cited by the physicians