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ill
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lli
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272.lli
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redox reactions 141. 322
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thromboses 215. 21J
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l•rgccell 1.2
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of b...,.S< 16. 2(16, 277
squamous cell 2.1
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Cardiac pacemaker ~!.ZL llL ill
Cardiac standstill!.QL.lli
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in injury 286
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115-119, 31S-323 Catabolic process o( injury I.2&::Z2l
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fat "cells" ~
fibrosis ill
fibrous strand 2!8
fibrous tissue ~ 2.1&
type of fibrotic tissue ill
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accumula tion U
electroosmos is 81
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of variable a hili lies to survive l21
sensith•e to heat ill
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separation 200.
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2£l
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ill
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prc


 governed,  and  it was. Then,  still  people
will continue  their  inharmony. The Release  and  Activity  of the Goddess  of Liberty  and
Myself  today,  together  with  Saint  Germain  and  the Other
Ascended  Masters  who  are assisting,  give  you  the Full
Feeling  of the Importance  of This  Great  Light;  and  the
Importance  of your  own  Decrees  for the Freedom,  Health,
Blessing  and  Supply  of everything  which  you  require. Think  of it. human  Beings  are living  in ill health,  limita-
tions  of every  description,  when  the Greatest  Intelligence
in the Universe  is beating  their  Hearts. They  are in those
conditions,  because  they  have  forgotten  the Presence  was
there. Dear  People,  if you  will  understand,  not in your  head,
but in your  feeling  that  your  Presence  is there;  and  It will
answer  your  Call  with  Its Resistless  Power  and Intelligence,
there  is not one thing,  you can ask,  which  will  not be yours,
if it be Constructive. Remember,  your  Higher  Mental  Body  which  stands  be-
tween  your  physical  body  and  your  God-Self,  is your  Dis-
criminating  Intelligence. Your  Higher  Mental  Body  will
not longer  release  Its Energy,  if you  are going  to use it
destructively. The  only  energy  which  is used  destructively,
is what  mankind  has already  accumulated  from  the past. You might  say to Me:  "Why  does  mankind  continue  to do
that". Because  the  Energy  which  is All-powerful,  is
charged  into  the feeling  world. Sometimes  it is what  the
people  have  accumulated  from  previous  destructive  activ-DISCOURSE  VIII 201
itics;  and  they  can only  continue,  while  the energy  already
accumulated  lasts. When  it is gone,  they  cannot  gather  any
more. That  is what  is the matter  with  people  today,  who  have
been  powerful  and energetic  and they  collapse. They  think,
what  has  happened  to Me. What  has  become  of This
Power,  I was  once  able  to use to bless  others  and  myself. There  have  been  so many  Christian  Science  practitioners
who  have  come  to the Messengers  in secret,  saying  those
very words:  "What  has  happened  to me. I have  been  a
practitioner  for years,  but what  has happened  now. I don't
seem  to be able  to do the same  things,  I once  did". This  is the Explanation. Precious  People,  they  were  using
mental  power  and  did not know  it. When  they  exhausted
their  reservoir  of energy  which  had  already  been  drawn
forth,  they  did not know  how  to release  more. No one can
release  It without  this  exact  Ascended  Master  Knowledge
of the "I AM  Presence"—except  in a fragmentary  manner. Once  the Energy  which  was  gathered  about  them  is gone,
without  the Call  to the "I AM  Presence";  you  cannot  re-
place  it in this embodiment. This  is the Explanation  of so many  Blessed  Precious
Ones. There  are hundreds  today  who  are interested  in
Christian  Science,  who  have  had  that  exact  experience. Sometimes,  they  fear  to go and ask why  or what  the reason
is. Let Me say to you tonight,  Precious  Hearts:—there  is not
one thing  in the whole  wide  world  of human  creation,
which  any  human  Being  in the Understanding  of his or 202 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
her "I AM  Presence,"  should  fear;  and  using  the terminol-
ogy of the blessed  Christian  Scientists,  they  mal  practice
themselves  and  do not know  it. We have  no preference  for any  one. We  state  the Law. We love  every  one—the  Christian  Scientists,  Unity,  the
orthodox  people,  all mankind. We  love  them  equally  the
same;  but  We  never  hesitate  to tell them  their  short  com-
ings. If they  have  made  mistakes,  they  should  be strong
enough  to see it and  hear  it kindly. It does  not matter  in what  source  your  seeking  has been;
THERE  IS ONLY  ONE  PLACE  IN THIS  UNIVERSE
WHERE  YOU  CAN  FIND  TRUE  PEACE,  REST  AND
SUCCESS. IT IS TO  KNOW  IN  YOUR  FEELING,
YOUR  OWN  GOD  PRESENCE,  AS IT IS PICTURED
ON THAT  CHART. IT IS THE  ONLY  PLACE  IN
ALL  THE  UNIVERSE,  BECAUSE  THE  "I AM  PRES-
ENCE"  BEATS  THE  HEART  OF  EVERY  HUMAN
BEING;  AND  GIVES  LIFE  TO  EVERY  HUMAN
FORM;  AND  THERE  IS NO  OTHER  ANYWHERE
IN THE  UNIVERSE. To think  of God  as an Omnipresence,  is but to receive
a fragmentary  part  of Its Power. Only  as you  have  an
Individualized  Focus,  can  you  have  a Greater  Power. For
instance,  take  your  reading  glass:  if you  hold  it focused,
the sun  comes  thru  and  sets  the paper  on fire. If you  keep
moving  the  reading  glass,  there  is not such  a focus. This
is a very  good  simile  of mankind's  thought  and  feeling,
which  is swinging  all the time,  from  one  thing  to another. DISCOURSE  VIII  203
When  you  understand  your  Presence,  then  you  can
focus  your  attention  upon  the  Goal;  upon  the  objective
of your  Victory  thru  your  attention. The  Energy  will  flow
there—the  Energy  from  the Presence,  perform  the Service
and win  the Victory  every  time. Where  your  attention  is,
there  your  Life  and  Energy  flow. If it be on the Presence,
the Energy  flows  in. If it be on the lower  things  of Life,
destruction  flows  into  your  Life  Energy  and  destroys  your
human  form. Precious  People,  bear  with  Me  a moment. Feel  this
deeply,  as I show  it to you. Your  Life  follows  your  atten-
tion,  and  flows  to the objective,  upon  which  your  attention
is fixed  and  you  cannot  prevent  it. Therefore,  if your  at-
tention  has  been  fixed  upon  human  creations  and  limita-
tions,  you  have  to experience  human  limitations  and  cre-
ations  in your  world. When  you  turn  it to the Presence  and
hold  it there,  keeping  your  feeling  harmonious,  you  will
quickly  begin  to release  a Greater  Intensification  of the
Light  and  Energy  from  your  Presence;  which  will  flow  in,
harmonize  and  produce  Instantaneous  Results  at your  Call. It requires  momentum. It requires  continued  activity. When  we say—turn  to your  Presence,  we do not mean  all
day long;  but powerfully  and  definitely  several  times  a day. There  are  a few  people  who  can  turn  instantly,  who
have  never  known  of the Presence;  and  feel  It so instantly
in their  feeling  and  intellect,  that  they  can upon  the issuing
of a Decree,  have  it fulfilled,  but those  people  are not many. According  to the FEELING  OF  INTENSITY,  can  they 204 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
have  Those  Results;  but  if your  nature  is such  you  need
to make  definite  application,


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solving.72
OceanofPDF.comTCHAPTER FOUR
THE VAGUS NERVE AND THE HEART-
BREATH-BRAIN CONNECTION
o really understand the powerful interconnections between the
breath, heart, and brain, we must take a journey along the wandering
vagus nerve  and through the autonomic nervous system (ANS). This
chapter will cover a lot of ground. If we seem to be heading away from the
central issue of breathing, you will soon see how the vagus nerve connects
with the breath in powerful, life-transforming ways. The vagus nerve (the tenth cranial nerve or CN X) has multiple
branches that diver ge from two thick stems rooted in the cerebellum or
“little brain” (the area at the lower back of the brain) and the brain stem.1–3
It can be found behind the artery in your neck where you feel for your
pulse. Vagus, to wander  in Latin, comes from the same root as our words
vagabond, vagrant, and vague. The name gives some clue to just how
extensively this nerve travels. During its journey through the body, the
vagus nerve supplies nerves to the heart, respiratory system, and
gastrointestinal tract, reaching the lowest viscera of the abdomen. It is the
most wide-ranging cranial nerve  in the human body and is responsible for,
among other things, many functions of the mouth, including speech,
appetite control, and even vomiting. Ultimately, it conducts nerve impulses
to every major or gan in the body.4
The vagus nerve is made up of 80% to 90% afferent (body to brain)
nerve fibers.2 This means that most of the information it conveys travels
from the body to the brain. Instead of orders flowing from the brain,
affecting the various physiological systems and organs, the afferent fibers
take information back from the body to the brain.5 The heart, however, isinnervated with efferent (brain to body) vagus fibers—a top-down line of
communication.6 The resulting two-way flow of data provides the building
blocks for feedback loops in which information from the brain impacts the
physical systems of the body and vice versa. Many studies have shown the vagus nerve’ s positive potential to
influence physic al health, mental health, and cognition. This nerve can be
stimulated to reduce anxiety, alleviate depression, and even inhibit
inflammation to fight disease in the body by combating the cortisol-
producing stress response we know as fight or flight. To understand the vagus nerve’ s importance to the heart-breath-brain
connection, we need to start our journey by looking at the two sides of the
ANS, beginning with the fight-or -flight response. THE V AGUS NER VE AND AUT ONOMIC BALANCE
The fight-or -flight response is the body’ s instinctive survival mechanism. From a simple evolutionary perspective, it allows mammals, including
humans, to react to situations that may be life threatening. When humans
lived in constantly unsafe environments, it was useful for fighting off
enemies and hunting for food. While it still has a valuable role to play in
keeping us safe in the modern world, problems arise when we have the
same response to things that are probably not fatal. We migh t be fearful
about giving a presentation, turning up for an interview, receiving an
unexpected bill, or even being blocked on social media. When fight or
flight is constan tly in overdrive, the result is chronic stress, that all too
common modern-day malady. Fight or flight is controlled by the sympathetic nervous system  (SNS),
which is one-hal f of the overall ANS. The vagus nerve is the main driver of
the other branch of the ANS, the parasympathetic nervous system  (PNS)1. While the sympathetic nervous system triggers fight or flight, the vagus-led
PNS is responsible for rest and digestion, the state in which the body
perceives no threat, the mind is relaxed, and digestion is active. Crucially,
as we will discover, it is throug h the ANS that the respiratory system, lung
ventilation, and blood-gas excha nge connects with the working of the heart
rate and blood vessels. Ideally, the two responses of the ANS, fight/flightand rest/digest, work in balance.7 The primary purpose of the ANS is to
regulate the body’ s main functions. The SNS (sympathetic nervous system) prepares the body for external
challenges. It increases metabolic output, stimulates and prepares the
muscles, and mobilizes existing energy reserves. It also constricts the blood
vessels, increas ing heart rate and blood pressure. In contrast, the PNS
(parasympathetic nervous system) focuses inward, supporting growth,
restoration, reproduction, relaxation, and conservation of energy. It
maintains the balance of heart frequencies; notably, it reacts much faster to
external and internal changes than the SNS, responding within just one
second, in contrast to the five or more seconds it takes the SNS to kick in.8
These two oppo sing forces within the ANS are never static. The system
continually fluctuates to maintain a stable internal environment that
operates within healthy paramet ers. This constant balancing act to maintain
homeostasis  is key to keep ing organs working properly. For example, if
your body temperature is too high, the ANS adjusts to bring it back to the
optimal tempera ture of 37° Celsius (98.6° Fahrenheit). This is not just a
reactive system  that waits passively to meet the next external crisis; it
works incessantly to promote stability within the body. While the two branches of the ANS may seem to function in opposition,
they often operate in syner gy to meet metabolic demands. For example,
during exercise,  PNS tone decreases while SNS activity increases. There
are even unique situations when both PNS and SNS are either inhibited or
activated.9 For example, sexual arousal in adult humans is characterized by
the excitement of both. Homeostasis (balance or equilibrium) is a fundamental goal of all
biological systems.10 In humans, it operates at the level of the whole body,
within tissues, and even in individual cells. Where homeostasis can be
described as a healthy, dynamic feedback and regulation system, stress can
be defined simply as any autonomic state that reflects a disturbance of that
balance. Stress is a state where a psychological, environmental, or physical
situation, whether a single event or a long-term issue, disrupts the body’ s
ability to self-re gulate. Modern life presents us with a world where it can be
difficult to maintain that balanc e. Think about some of the terms used todescribe an emotional upset: you are “out of whack,” you feel “all over the
place,” or you are literally “of f balance.”
Stress can manifest itself in each of the three dimensions of
dysfunctional breathing. It can show up biomechanically as imbalances in
the respiratory muscles. This can lead to neck and back pain, upper chest
breathing, and poor diaphragm control. Biochemically, chronic
hyperventilation can impact the body’ s delicate pH balance. Psychologically, anxiety, depression, and anger can destroy your
equilibrium. Living in a constant state of fight or flight poses the danger of cortisol
overload. Cortisol is the primary stress hormone.11 When released into the
bloodstream, it enhances the brain’ s use of glucose (blood sugar ) and makes
substances that repair tissues more available. In essence, it prepares the
body to escape from the saber -toothed beast and not bleed too much if that
doesn’ t work out. Aligned with that purpose, cortisol also curbs bodily
functions that aren’ t immediately essential to the fight-or -flight situation. It
alters immune system responses and suppresses digestive, reproductive, and
growth processe s. As you migh t expect, it communicates with the parts of
the brain that control mood, motivation, and fear. Ideally, the body’ s stress response is self-limiting. Hormones go back to
normal levels after the perceived threat has passed, and the body returns to
homeostasis. However, when stressors are constantly present or stress is
chronic (which  is like signing up for a long-term fight-or -flight
subscription), a cortisol imbalance occurs. Considering how many of the
body’ s processes cortisol can suppress, it is hardly surprising that people
who suffer from  high levels of stress display a plethora of physical and
mental conditions, including anxiety, heart disease, weight gain, digestive
problems, depression, headaches, sleep disorders, poor memory, and
decreased ability to concentrate. On the other (balancing) side of the ANS, we find the well-studied
connection between the vagus nerve and the parasympathetic nervous
system (PNS), the rest and digest side of the ANS. The vagus nerve, which
sends impulses to all the major organs and is particularly conn ected to the
heart and respir atory system, secretes a brilliantly useful substance called
acetylcholine  or ACh.Acetylcholine (ACh), the first neurotransmitter ever to be identified,12
was discovered in 1913 by English chemist Arthur Ewins.12


41
One thing that is known is that while menopause is a natural
progression, smoking significantly impacts the age at which it occurs. Women who smoke enter menopause about a year and a half earlier than
those who don’t.41 This already points to an obvious link between
menopause and overall well-being and more specifically, respiratory health. Early menopause is a known risk factor for various illnesses, including
cardiovascular diseases and osteoporosis. Early menopause is also directly
linked to mortality in general57. There are correlations between natural
menopause and lung health, but studies have largely failed to factor in other
things during a woman’ s life that are known to affect the function of the
lungs.57As women live longer, they will spend more years in postmen opause,
and scientists recognize that this makes it essential to understand how
hormonal shifts during this period affect the health of the lungs.57
Fortunately, the fact that proges terone levels drop after menopause means
that there is a large study population available in which reduc ed hormone
levels can be examined, and scientists are beginning to explore these
connections in more detail. A 2009 paper found that not only were estrogen and progesterone levels
significantly lower in postmenopausal women, the pressure of blood CO2 at
rest was much higher too58. This is because the central chemoreflex drive to
breathe is lessened after the menopause. This change is related to the
decrease in sex hormone concentrations and complex blood acid-base
interactions. This finding has important implications in understanding why
sleep-disordered breathing becomes more common after menopause. It is
also useful in determining the effects of HRT on ventilatory control and on
blood pH, at rest and during exercise, in both healthy women and those who
are unwell.58
The authors of a 2020 study published strong evidence of a connection
between early menopause and reduced lung function. This was the first long
running study to confirm a relati onship between pulmonary health and early
natural menopause. Using data about lung function collected when
participants were 7 and 53 years old, researchers found that women whose
menopause occurred before they were 45 had poorer lung function than
those who experienced menopau se aged 45 or later. This is the first study to
take into account factors earlier in the lives of the women, such as
childhood asthma, socioeconomic status, and parental smoking.59
By identifying that this relationship exists, scientists have made it
possible to assess women with a higher potential risk of lung problems or
those women who might be likely to develop lung disease when
menstruation ends. Early menopause triggers a susceptibility to respiratory
disease and a vulnerability to environmental factors such as air pollution
that has not previously been recognized. It is unclear whether changing
hormone levels directly accele rate the decline in lung functi on in some
women, but a clear link between estrogen fluctuations and pulmonary
health exists.Women whose respiratory function is poor before menopause may be at
an even greater risk, especially  if they are subject to other factors, for
example, regula r exposure to toxins at home or at work. Women who have
an existing lung condition, such as COPD, and experience early menopause
may subsequently suffer a more serious and progressive version of the lung
disease.59 The study recommends that the impact of menopause on asthm a
be reevaluated. It also suggests that immune dysfunction connec ted with the
main estrogen of menopause may be significant in a chronic condition
called bronchiectasis, a disorder of the airways that mainly affects
postmenopausal women. A high proporti on of the women in this study who experienced early
menopause had also had early menarche. It is believed that these women
may be generally at higher risk for lung dysfunction or disease. Interestingly, women in this same group were more likely to smoke and to
use hormonal therapies. Women in the study cohort who were still
menstruating had the lowest rate of respiratory symptoms and diseases. While this study  represents a step forward in research on the topic, more
work is needed to understand the mechanisms of menopaus e and lung
function. Howev er, it is importa nt that early menopause is understood to be
a risk factor in respiratory health. IMPACT OF HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPIES ON THE
BREA TH
As menopause occurs, many women choose to take a HRT for either shorter
or longer periods. There has been some uncertainty about the safety of these
medications, largely because of reports from the Women’ s Health Initiative
study, which condemned the therapy as unsafe due to links with increased
risk of coronary heart disease and breast cancer.60 The uptake of HRT
declined as a result of this publicity. It was subsequently shown that the risk
of breast cancer was low and only relevant for women with a very long
exposure to a combined HRT regimen, and that for some, estrogen may
actually reduce susceptibility. More recently, these findings were again
contradicted in research published in the British Journal of Cancer, which
reported that women taking combined HRT are nearly three times more
likely to develop breast cancer than nonusers, with risk increasing withlonger HRT use. The “Breast Cancer Now Generations Study” provided a
comprehensive update about HRT use, suggesting that many previous
investigations were not so thorough and may have “underestimated the
increased risk of breast cancer by up to 60%.61 Importantly, the heightened
risk level appears to return to normal once HRT use ends.61 There is not
thought to be increased risk for coronary disease.60
Overall, the link between meno pause and lung health is still not well
understood. Despite the fact there has been a certain amount of research
focus on HRT, the underlying condition of menopause itself has barely been
studied. What literature there is on HRT and respiratory health returns
confusing results. Research into asthma and other respiratory symptoms tends to indicate
an incre ased risk for women who take HRT, especially nonsmokers and
women with a lower BMI. However, studies of lung functio n suggest a
beneficial or at least a neutral connection with HRT.41 As we discovered
earlier, studies often contradict each other for various reasons. There may
be differences in BMI between study populations, clinical practice around
HRT use isn’t always the same,  the type and duration of HRT differs, and
there are variations in study design and even in the assessment of
menopause. There are also complex problems around distinguishing the
effects of HRT from symptoms of menopause itself. Fundamentally, as
studies have explained, more knowledge of biological mechanisms is
needed before it is possible to return truly accurate results. In 2017, Science Daily  reported the results of new research, presented at
the European Respiratory Society International Congress, which
demonstrated that oral HRT can slow the decline in lung function in
middle-aged women.62 The study followed 3,713 women for two decades
between the early 1990s and 2010 and found that those who took HRT for
two years or longer did better on lung function tests than women who had
never taken HRT. Lung function is at its best during the midtwe nties. From
then on, it decre ases incrementally. One thing that accelerates lung decline
is menopause— which raises the question, could HRT at least partly
counteract it? The wom en’s lung health was tested at the start of the survey and again
20 years  later. The measurement used was forced vital capacity  (FVC),which assesses the volume of air that can be exhaled from the lungs after
taking the deepest possible breath. Women who used HRT lost, on average,
46 milliliters less lung volume over the 20-year period than those who had
never taken it. To put this finding into context, 46 milliliters is
approximately the amount of lung volume that would be lost by a woman
who smoked a pack of cigarettes every day for three years. While
researchers do not believe this is likely to be clinically significant for
healthy women, for women who have airway disorders, the decline in lung
function could lead to increased breathlessness and fatigue, decreased
ability to work, and poorer quality of life.62
While the study does not advocate either for or against HRT, the
findings do demonstrate the importance of female sex hormones for the
maintenance of healthy lungs in middle-aged women. This research
provides another piece in the puzzle in understanding the relationship
between menopa use and lung health. The fact remains that women and their
doctors need to be better infor med about the health changes that happen
after menopause. Women with existing respiratory conditions such as
asthma should be closely observed during the menopausal transition, and
advice about medication should  be more personalized and take changing
hormonal levels into account. OSTEOPOROSIS AND BREA THING P ATTERN DISORDERS
Osteoporosis is a condition prevalent in postmenopausal women that might,
at first, appear to have no connection with breathing.63 It is a disease of low
bone mineral density or excessive bone loss and is a common cause of bone
fractures in older women. Osteoporosis affects 200 million women
worldwide, with nearly one in two women over the age of 50 likely to
suffer an osteoporosis-related fracture.


 blow came,
you would already be numb. The problem, however, is that such a coping mechanism was only
intended for emer gency purposes; it was manufactured to save you from
imminent danger, not to take you through life. It was not meant to
fundamentally alter your system of emotional responses, and yet that is
what occurred. At a very young age you were exposed to what your psyche perceived as
danger, and now your subconscious mind does not make a distinction
between dangerous threat and tolerable stress. It doesn’ t know what to let in
and what to guard against, so it guards against everything,  just in case. Central to the holistic healing of your weight issue is that you develop a
new skill set with which to deal with unpleasant emotions. An emotion
swept under the rug is not an emotion that goes away; it’ s simply an
emotion that is put somewhere other than where it should be put. It
becomes inert rather than dynamic ener gy, stored within you rather than
being released. As noted previously, ener gy cannot be uncreated. And emotions are
powerful forms of ener gy. If you’re too frightened to feel a feeling, its
energy still has to go somewhere. Actually, an emotion is not dangerous
until it’s disowned, for that’ s when it commonly gets projected onto others
and/or compressed into your own flesh. That only produces more feelings—
shame, humiliation, embarrassment, and failure—resulting in an endless
barrage of twisted reasons telling you why you might as well just give up
and eat more. Defending against being overwhelmed by your emotions, you actually
create emotions that are overwhelming. Y ou begin by trying to keep your
emotions at bay, eat them, go numb instead of feeling them—and in so
doing, create a situation that causes you an endless run of painful emotions. By trying to escape your feelings, you create a whole slew of them that will
arrive full force once you realize what you’ve done. The only feelings you
really need to fear are those you ignore. In Greek mythology, Poseidon is god of the sea. If he tells the waves to
calm down, then the waves calm down. In the New T estament, Jesus
walked onto the water and stopped the storm. Both are metaphysical
descriptions of the ef fects of Divine Mind on the storms of the inner self. Spirit is the master, not the slave, of the inner sea. Y our task, therefore, is to
give your feelings to God, that you might be lifted above the storms of your
subconscious mind. The storms are raging for one reason only: your inner
self will not be ignored. Your thinking that you alone can control the overwhelming force of
unprocessed feelings is like a small child thinking he or she can stand on
the beach and make the waves stop. Y ou might grit your teeth and make it
through the morning; you might white-knuckle it and make it through
lunchtime; you might even somehow be able to make it till 10 P. M. But at
some point, the now angry wave of “I will be fed”—“How dare you say
‘No’ to me. How dare you say ‘No’. ”—will catch you by the ankles and
drag you to the kitchen or whatever place you keep your stash. And the
craving, once more, will win. Your craving for food is an emotional temper tantrum, as a part of you
that feels unheard is demanding to be heard and will be heard. Y ou have two
choices: you can feel your emotion, or you can listen to the cruel command
to do something to temporarily assuage the pain of not feeling it. Clearly,
feeling the emotion would be a more functional choice. If you have no template for honoring feelings, processing them, bearing
witness to them, surrendering them, and watching them miraculously
transform, then they can appear in your life as frightening ener gy ruling you
instead of being ruled by you. It’ s time to end your emotional slavery by
building your spiritual mastery. Spiritual mastery does not emer ge from self-will but from surrender of
self-will. Once you’ve felt a feeling and surrendered it, you are not simply
left with it, as if you’re dangling from an emotional clif f and about to fall
into an abyss from which you can never escape. When you give a painful
emotion to Divine Mind, you give it to a power that can take it from you by
changing the thoughts that produced it. Any feelings you surrender for divine transformation will be
transformed, and anything you cling to will not be transformed. Surrendering your feelings involves feeling them first, yes, but then it
involves giving them up. It’s actually ironic that you should be afraid of feeling your feelings; as
an overeater, what you have created for yourself and have had to endure are
some of the most painful emotions there are. The horrible feelings of failurethat are endemic to the chronic overeater make your tolerance for pain
already higher than you think. The pain you’re trying to avoid is nothing
compared to the pain you’ve already lived through. The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung said: “All neurosis is a substitute for
legitimate suf fering. ” Any pathological tendency—overeating included—
represents the twisted ener gies of unprocessed pain. The pathology is not
ended by suppressing your pain, but by feeling the legitimate suf fering it is
seeking to express. Spiritual healing is a process. First you feel the feeling; then you feel
whatever pain might legitimately arise from it; then you pray to learn
whatever lesson the pain can teach you; then you seek to for give; and, at
last, the grace of God is given you. Y ou emer ge from the experience no
longer suf fering, and having grown as a human being. When you are more
attuned to growing spiritually, you need not grow so much physically. The
energy is released and let out, no longer pushed into your flesh. You’re afraid of feelings the way you’re afraid of food: you’re afraid that
once you start, you may never stop. But the truth is, feelings are only out of
control when they’re not handed over for divine resolution. Given to Divine
Mind, they’re lifted to divine right order—where they will be appropriately
felt and then appropriately dissolved. So too shall it be with food appetites,
for they are mere reflections of your turmoil or peace. The fact that a feeling is painful is not necessarily a reason to avoid it. Perhaps you did something to sabotage yourself in a relationship; unless
you feel the remorse, how will you recognize your self-destructive pattern. Perhaps your spouse left you; your sadness is understandable given that you
were married for 30 years. Perhaps your child is seriously ill; your grief and
fear are simply signs that you are human. These feelings, when handled appropriately, become stations on the way
to grace. Y es, you will emer ge as someone who has grown and will no
longer self-sabotage, but first you had to feel the pain. Yes, you will emer ge
from your divorce strong and free to love again, but first you had to feel the
pain. Yes, you will become the warrior parent who takes char ge of your
child’ s healing, but first you had to feel the pain. Our suf fering does not make us weak; only our avoidance of suf fering
makes us weak. And that avoidance—the avoidance of legitimate suf fering—is unfortunately bolstered by the cultural attitudes of a society obsessed
with cheap and easy happiness. Several years ago, one of my daughter ’s teenage friends—a golden boy
of extraordinary beauty, talent, intelligence, and kindness—shot and killed
himself with his father ’s hunting rifle. There were so many aspects of the
situation rife with horror (including his having been one more statistic
involving the connection between teenage use of antidepressants and
suicide). As a mother, I felt, as did all the parents in my daughter ’s circle of
friends, a deep concern for my child’ s pain. I remember telling my shattered, darling girl, her face streaming with
tears, that there are some times in life when the worst thing that could
possibly happen does happen. I told her that Robbie’ s death was a full-tilt
catastrophe, and nothing I could say would change that. That Robbie was
alive forever in the arms of God, but that didn’ t make this human tragedy
any less horrible. That every tear she felt like crying was a tear she had to
cry, and she would know when she had cried enough when she didn’ t have
any more tears left. I remember seeing a look of relief on my daughter ’s face when I told her
this; she needed desperately to be given permission to feel her feelings and
not suppress them. Indeed, I cried with her. The last thing I ever would have
wanted to do is delegitimize or circumvent her grief. I remember saying at a grief support group I led years ago for people
who had lost their loved ones, “Hey, guys, remember. This is a grief support
group, not a grief denial  group. ” Grief is a way that our emotional
ecosystem, imbued with the same genius as every other aspect of nature,
processes an otherwise too shocking emotional reality. The fact that you ar e sad doesn’ t inher ently mean that something’ s wrong. It simply means that you ar


 was fired. One day, when his spirits were at their lowest ebb and he had about given
up, he came across a book that depicted the joys of surrendering one’ s will
to universal will, and since he was about to give up anyway, he decided to
try this. He was astounded at the peace and serenity that came to him from
the simple act of psychological submission. He took a humble job in a new
television station and started on the road back. His friends noticed the change in him. He had ceased being an agitator. He
no longer undertook action for the primary reason of getting something
done, but now seemed to do things through an inner joy in their actual
doing. There was about him a quality of tolerance and understanding, of
humility, that made his presence on the team a delight to all. W ithin a few
months he was given a responsible job; within two years he headed the
station. The title “General Manager” no longer is on Jim’ s door, though. Asked why not, he replies, “The General Manager is upstairs.”

The Eternal Sour ce

The French biophysicist and philosopher Pierre Lecomte du Noüy wrote,
“Let every man remember that the destiny of mankind is incomparable, and
let him above all never for get that the divine spark is in him and him aloneand that he is free to disregard it, to kill it, or to come closer to God by
showing his eagerness to work with Him and for Him.” This, of course, is
the exact psychic position that we must strive for if we would lead an
effective and enlightened life. The knowledge of our eternal source and our
subsequent identification with it leads us into actions and attitudes that have
a broader and more universal viewpoint than any possible to the egoistic
self. Our power of decision enables us to grow in any direction that we
choose, and once we have shucked of f the limiting and restricting presence
of the surface self, we then are able to expand into a kind of cosmic
perception that enables us to perform all work intuitively and with an
effectiveness and skill heretofore denied us. You may be sur e that you will not be a victim of lethar gy when you
surrender your life to the Secr et Self. Instead, you will become much mor e
dynamic. The meaningless pattern of your human existence will be alter ed
completely, and you will come to see the invisible shape of your destiny. When the veil is lifted at last, you will find that the desir e to hasten or r etard
or change events has gone; what will be will be, and that is enough. Just to
be able to r ecognize that ther e is a gr eater plan enables one to abdicate
from any attempt to run it. This does not take one out of the ar ena; it
plunges one in mor e deeply. All that is sacrificed is the limited view of the
surface self. Y our outer mien may be full of action and thunder and
dynamics, but inwar dly you ar e ser ene, sur e about all things, because, as
Trimalchio says, “Our Mother, the earth, is in the middle, made r ound like
an egg, and has all good things in herself, like a honeycomb.”

Conditioning the Subconscious

As long as we are focused in the sensory area of our awareness, we are
never master of our own house, for our true motivations spring out of
subterranean areas that we are not aware of and do not control. That is why
people often are unable to achieve results through positive thinking. The
subconscious always directs us; the conscious mind is only its agent. Themore self-suf ficient the conscious mind seems, the more it is used as a tool
by the subconscious. Y ou cannot issue orders to the subconscious; that is
the wrong psychic approach. The subconscious must perceive, then accept. It does not respond to coercion. But even though the conscious mind cannot
order the subconscious about, it can condition it to react dif ferently. If we
are fearful, we cannot make ourselves brave by an act of will, but only by
conditioning our subconscious to promote feelings of bravery in us. For this reason periods of meditation are very important. Through them we
can change our awareness of prosperity, health, and happiness as the
conscious mind impinges a conditioning quality upon the subconscious. We can choose consciously the path to follow, but only the long lines of it. Our daily choices are enforced in us by the subconscious, for we always act
and think intuitively and instinctively. If we are displeased with our actions
and our circumstances, we must condition the subconscious to inspire in us
different thoughts and dif ferent actions. This power of auto-conditioning is
available to all. W e can accomplish it by daily periods of meditation or
simply by keeping within our consciousness at all times an awareness of the
thing that we want to become. Realize this: when the chips are flying, we
have to go with the personality and sense of self that already has been
installed in the subconscious, for in times of action all our thoughts and
movements are instinctive. Facing Hidden Facts

It takes firm-heartedness to face the fact that you have chosen every
circumstance and thing in your life, not consciously, of course, but
subconsciously. People who are sick usually are appalled at the idea that
they have chosen to be sick, dumbfounded at the ef frontery of anyone
suggesting that they can get well by simply choosing to be well. If
somebody explains the conditioning quality of positive thinking, they
sometimes try it for a time but usually without visible results, for they thinkpositively negatively, telling themselves that they are well while they know
that they are sick. People can become well by choosing to become well, but
they seldom become so the moment after making this choice. It first is
necessary for them to embark upon a program of conditioning their
consciousness into awareness of health. They have become sick because
their consciousness picked up an awareness of sickness; and this must be
cast out, replaced; and the task will not be accomplished in a day. Curiously,
other people sometimes have more ef fect on our subconscious than we
ourselves do. A good hypnotist often is able to ef fect amazing cures. These
are usually temporary, however, because the hypnotist-instilled idea is soon
dissipated and replaced by the prompter that caused illness in the first place. The individual’ s conscious mind put the sickness prompter in the
subconscious and will continue to do so until the pattern of thinking is
changed. Grasping Shadows

There is no short and easy road to reconditioning your subconscious. Hypnotism and psychoanalysis are no panaceas. The reconditioning can be
done only by yourself, and it takes concentration and continued ef fort; but
there is always the great consolation that in the end you will be master of
your own life. It is curious how often the things that we set our minds to
evade us. It sometimes seems that the mere act of focusing our attention
upon some objective causes that objective to become impossible to
accomplish. Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;Let her alone; she will court you. — BEN JONSON

There is a deep underlying psychological reason why our conscious
purposes are often defeated, and that is because they often are at odds with
our subconscious purposes. If we fail, it is because we subconsciously wish
for failure, even though our conscious minds seem to desire success above
all things. But the conscious mind itself can do nothing; it is always in the
grip of the subconscious. It can only condition the subconscious and
thereby receive its cooperation in the accomplishment of conscious
objectives. All decisions are made subconsciously, and if we do not fight
them, they are made swiftly and easily. Attempting to make our choices
consciously in the heat of action only sets up conflict between the conscious
mind and the subconscious mind, and in the end the choice is made by the
subconscious anyway. If the choices made by the two minds are opposed,
then we may see failure growing out of our ef forts at success, or illness
growing out of our ef forts at health, or hate growing out of our ef forts at
love. The sphere of ef fectiveness that the conscious mind has over the
subconscious is this: by it we can choose consciously to become the sort of
people we would like to be. W e can become courageous and ener getic and
loyal and trustworthy and full of love and kindness and tolerance by the
simple use of conscious conditioning methods, by concentrating our
attention on the things we would like to become, by allowing these
impressions to seep down to subconscious levels via our imagination. If we
do this continually and with regularity, sooner or later we begin to act and
think in just the way that our consciousness is focused upon. W e then are
able to behave in every situation instinctively and naturally, in the manner
we always have desired. W e literally have remade ourselves in the image of
our desires through focusing our attention upon that image and allowing it
to seep down into the subconscious. W e are able to act and think according
to a sense of self that we have made up in our minds. Our power of choice
st


AMAHA  SOU HU
 Heart/Anahata
OM YAM NAMAHA  OM AIM HRIM KLIM
CHAMUNDAYE VICHE  KLIM
 Solar Plexus/Manipura
OM RAM NAMAHA  OM SHRIM NAMAHA  HRIM
 Seat -of-the-Soul/Svadhishthana
OM VAM NAMAHA  OM HRIM NAMAHA  GLOUM
 Base -of-the-Spine/Muladhara
OM AIM NAMAHA  OM AIM NAMAHA  AIM

[From left to right, give each column of mantras from the bottom
(the Base -of-the-Spine) to top (the Crown) ]

Bija Mantras of the Elements

Earth

LAM

Water

VAM

Air

YAM

Fire

RAM

Ether/Akasha

HAM

Instructions
1. First, place yourself in a meditative posture, sitting in a comfortable chair before your altar,
the physical focus of your worship. If possible, you should set aside a chair that is used only
during your meditations and invocations. You should consecra te this chair by the momentum of
your Heart Flame as a focus of the Atomic Accelerator that is used by the Ascended Masters in
the Cave of Symbols. Chelas who have passed certain initiations are bidden to sit in the Atomic
Accelerator to have the atoms and  molecules of the four lower bodies stepped up by the currents
of the Ascension Flame in preparation for the ritual of the return, the alchemical marriage that is
the soul's reunion with the Spirit. 2. Place your feet flat on the floor, your hands cuppe d in your lap, your head erect, eyes level,
chin drawn in for the disciplined flow of the energies of the heart through the throat chakra. 3. The "Call to the Fire Breath," the invocation of the Goddess of Purity given to the devotees
of the Holy Spirit,  should now be recited three times. Give it slowly, rhythmically, with feeling. Absorb each word and each concept with the conviction held in heart and mind that you are
here and now a joint heir with Christ. And as the beloved Son, the beloved Daughter, you are
claiming your inheritance. Yours is an inheritance of the Sacred Fire that issues forth from the
Heart of Beloved Alpha and Omega, who keep the flame of the Father -Mother God in the
Central Sun. The Immaculate Concept, t he fiery blueprint according to which your soul was created in the
image of the Divine One, is now impressed upon your four lower bodies. This fiery blueprint is
magnetized by the Coil described earlier in this lesson, which you now bring to the fore of
consciousness as the pivot of your call to the Fire Breath. The fullness of the joy which you
claim is the fullness of the expression of Divine Love. 4. Now visualize the buoyant energies of love being magnetized by this Coil and by the
energies of the hea rt (which from our previous exercises you hold in mind as the focus of the
interlaced triangles superimposed with the Name of God). It is essential that you hang above
your altar the Chart of the Presence. [Where possible,] your eye level when you are stan ding
should be at the eye level of the lower figure in the Chart, so that the Christ Self and the I AM
Presence are above you. 5. Therefore, in all of your meditations and invocations, you should imagine through the
imaging of the eye that all energy rel eased through the chakras comes forth from the I AM
Presence, through the Christ Self, descending over the Crystal Cord into the heart chakra,
thence throughout the four lower bodies. Establish in mind, then, the concept of a perpetual
flow from the heart of the individualized God Self to the heart of the Christ Self to your own
Threefold Flame pulsating in the rhythm of God's Heartbeat. The sealing of your aura within the
very heart of the expanding Fire Breath of God is accomplished by your I AM Presence through
the Christ Self in answer to your call. Remember, it is God in you who is the decreer, the
decree, and the fulfillment of the decree. 6. Visualize your aura as an ovoid of White Light extending beneath your feet, beneath the Coil,
above your head and above the Coil. See the aura increasing in the intensity of the Light as that
energy is expanded from the heart chakra and thence from all of the chakras as the Sacred Mist that is cal led the Fire Breath of God. Let its Purity, Wholeness and Love fill the ovoid of your
aura; and feel your mind and heart disciplining that energy and holding it in the creative tension
of your Cosmic Awareness. 7. Conclude the giving of the call (three times) with the acceptance. Now you are ready for the
exerci se of the integration of the Eighth Ray. 8. To the count of eight beats, draw in through your nostrils the sacred breath. When you first
begin this exercise, you may wish to count the eight beats by the gentle tapping of your foot. The breath is drawn i n through the nostrils. As you breathe in, push your abdominal muscles
out, letting the air completely fill your lungs. Let your lungs be inflated like a balloon. See the
air that you draw in as the pure White Light. Please take your right hand. Take you r index finger and your middle finger and fold them to the
base of your thumb in this manner, so that the little finger and the ring finger are left without
being folded. Keep your index finger and your middle finger in this position. Now place your
thumb on your right nostril. To the count of eight, you will inhale through the left nostril. [Messenger inhales and taps a count of eight.] At the count of eight, take the little finger and the
ring finger and close the left nostril. When you have both nostril s closed—the right with the
right thumb and the left with the ring finger and the little finger —you will have the retaining of
the breath to the count of eight. Then you remove the thumb from the right nostril and exhale
through the right nostril to the co unt of eight. [Messenger exhales to the count of eight.] Again, you retain the breath to the count of eight and you are holding. You have closed the right
nostril, and you are still having the left nostril closed. Now, this is the stopping of the breath. It
is a moment of supreme absorption, and it is a moment of the Sacred Fire acting within you. This is the first half of one pranayama. With the ring finger and the little finger closing the left
nostril, you draw in the breath through the right to the co unt of eight: one, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight. Close the right nostril and to a count of eight [hold]: one, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight. Now you raise the ring finger and the little finger and exhale through the left to the co unt of
eight: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Now you hold for the count of eight again:
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. What you are doing —you have completed one
pranayama. And then you start again. Close right nostril with  right thumb. Inhale through the left: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Retain: [one,] two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight. Exhale right: [one,] two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Retain:
[one,] two, three, four, five, six, se ven, eight. Draw in through the right, the same one you
exhaled through,... three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Retain: [one,] two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight. Exhale through the left: [6 -second pause] seven, eight. Retain: [one,] two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight. That was a second pranayama. 9. Now to the count of eight beats, hold in the air and visualize it penetrating your physical form
as the essence of the Holy Spirit, which nourishes, stabilizes and balances the interchange of
energy in the physical atoms, molecules and cells. You start again. Draw in. [Messenger inhales to a count of eight.] Drawing in through the left. Close the left. [8 -second pause] Retain with the left. [8 -second pause] Exhale through the right. [Messen ger exhales to a count of eight.] Retain eight: [one,] two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight. Draw in through the right. [Messenger inhales to a count of eight.] Retain: [one,] two,
three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Exhale through the left. [Messen ger exhales to the count of
eight.] Retain: [one,] two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Draw in through the left. [Messenger inhales to a count of eight.]


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w a y  s h e  t a u g h t  t h e m. S h e  u s e d  t o  g i v e  h e r  w h o l e  s o u l  t o  p e o p l e  w h o  w e r e
i l l. M o s t  o f  D r  B u t e y k o ’ s  p r a c t i t i o n e r s  w e r e  n o t  d o c t o r s  b y  p r o f e s s i o n. P r o f e s s i o n a l  d o c t o r s  f i n d  i t  h a r d  t o  l e t  g o  o f  t h e  i d e a  t h a t  h i g h l y  c o m p l e x
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p s y c h o l o g i c a l  b a r


people	a	big	enough	lie,	often	enough	and	vigorously	enough,	they	will	believe

it. That’s	what	the	newspapers	are	doing	about	Salk	Vaccine	which	has	been

thoroughly	discredited	by	facts	printed	in	Capsule	News. Take	Miami,	Fla.,	for

instance,	where	the	cash	receipts	from	the	March	of	Dimes	racket	was	lagging

behind. The	HERALD	there	printed	a	falsehood—in	both	an	editorial	and	a	local

column. It	said	the	reason	polio	increased	tenfold	in	Massachusetts	in	1955	was
	that	"no	child	there	had	been	given	Salk	vaccine." Mrs.	Alice	Wellesley	of	Coral

Gables	immediately	challenged	this	falsehood. She	sent	to	the	HERALD	a	letter

from	the	Massachusetts	State	Health	Dept. stating	that	130,000	children	in	that

state	were	inoculated	before	authorities	got	wise	to	themselves	and	checked	the

disaster	by	banning	all	further	Salk	inoculations. A	copy	of	Capsule	News	giving	the	real	figures	and	facts	in	the	case	was	sent

along	with	it. The	editor	of	the	HERALD	was	asked	to	give	equal	space	and

prominence	to	truth	that	it	had	given	to	the	Big	Lie. No	soap. As	we	go	to	press

these	communications	had	apparently	been	thrown	in	the	HERALD’S	big	waste

basket,	kept	for	just	such	purposes. February	25,	1956

The	New	England	Journal	of	Medicine	has	just	given	a	graphic	illustration	of

how	the	Infantile	Paralysis	Foundation	procures	"official"	figures	alleged	to

prove	that	Salk	Vaccine	reduced	polio	this	summer	instead	of	doubling	it—as	it

actually	did. An	8-page	explanation,	accompanied	by	many	charts,	graphs	and	tables,	so

confusing	as	to	need	the	explanation	explained. It	starts	off	with	a	false

assumption,	or	presumption,	thus:	“It	is	ironic	that	Massachusetts	should	have

had	its	largest	epidemic	of	poliomyelitis	just	before	the	time	when	polio	vaccine

was	to	become	available	in	sufficient	quantities	to	protect	the	whole	of	the

younger	generation.”

Yet	its	accompanying	graph	showed	that	the	epidemic	didn’t	start	until	July	15th

and	didn’t	reach	its	peak	until	August	19th. Everyone	knows	that	Salk	Vaccine

was	released	April	12th	with	a	great	ballyhoo	campaign,	and	all	five	of	the

Rockefeller	laboratories	already	with	huge	stockpiles	of	the	deadly	concoction

on	hand. Its	"proof’	that	Salk	Vaccine	cut	down	polio	cases	presumably	was	in	this

paragraph	‘The	rate	of	cases	per	100,000	among	the	unvaccinated	was	157	and

among	the	vaccinated	63.’	However,	it	made	the	mistake	of	giving	on	another

page,	the	number	of	kids	vaccinated	and	unvaccinated,	160,565	and	268,532

respectively. That	would	have	made	it,	IF	TRUE,	145	cases	among	the	vaccinated	and	553
	among	the	unvaccinated,	total	698,	children	14	and	under. On	another	page	it

gives	the	total	cases	reported	(3,819)	of	which	2,573	were	of	the	14-and-under

age	bracket. Quite	a	difference	between	2,573	and	698. On	such	"figuring"	as	this,	the	NFIP	gleefully	reports	that	Salk	Vaccine,	the

medium	by	which	it	hopes	to	extract	$47	million	from	the	public	this	year	in

contributions,	cut	polio	60%. November	1,	1955

THE	$	SIGN	BEHIND	SALK	VACCINE—The	National	Foundation	for

Infantile	Paralysis	is	asking	the	charitable	public	for	$47	million	this	winter. It

has	taken	in	$249	million	since	a	group	of	racketeers	surrounding	FDR	in	1934

conceived	the	idea	of	using	his	birthday	as	a	get-rich-quick	springboard. Twelve

years	and	a	quarter	billion	dollars	have	failed	to	produce	even	hope	of	a	polio

preventive. Hart	Van	Riper,	medical	director	for	NFIP,	pessimistically	said	last

winter	‘if	Salk	Vaccine	isn’t	successful	the	Foundation	will	have	to	go	out	of

business.’

Now,	$47	million	is	a	whale	of	an	incentive	to	stay	in	business...the	expenditure

of	even	one	million	brings	a	lot	of	power,	lots	of	power. That	is	why	Salk	shots

were	adjudged	"safe"	many	months	before	this	deadly	concoction	was	even

tested,	and	why	the	tests	were	ignored	and	production	continued. That	is	why	the

six	laboratories	licensed	to	manufacture	this	concoction	had	their	shelves	so	well

stocked	when	"the	word"	was	flashed	out	of	Washington. Even	the	stupidest

medical	politician	realized	there	might	be	a	serious	kickback. And	there	was. So,

in	licensing	five	laboratories	owned	or	controlled	in	whole	or	in	part	by	the	Drug

Trust	(the	Rockefeller	interests)	they	added	a	sixth	owned	entirely	by	the	Cutter

family. This	was	to	be	the	goat—and	it	was. Sharp	&	Dohme,	a	subsidiary	of	Merck	whose	directorate	is	loaded	with

Rockefeller	Boys,	is	a	good	example. The	last	report	in	Poor’s	Manual	of

Industrials	shows	Merck’s	operating	income	$22,895,454,	real	assets	(property)

$61,583,858—a	36%	earning	on	actual	investment. This	tremendous	profit	is

reflected	in	the	stock	market,	where	Merck’s	16-2/3c	par	value	common	stock

sold	at	from	$17	to	$23	in	1954. Their	1955	profit	sheet	should	be	a	humdinger. You	can	go	down	the	line	of	the	others—Parke-Davis,	Eli	Lilly,	PitmanMoore

and	Wyeth—and	get	the	same	picture. Even	the	independent	Cutters	didn’t	do	so

badly	with	an	18%	earning	on	its	assets	of	$3,809,531. In	the	Oct.	1	issue	we	showed	that,	contrary	to	official	reports	funneled	to	press

and	public	thru	USPHS	and	NFIP,	Salk	vaccine	hadn’t	cut	polio	in	half	at	all. We

gave	detailed	figures	in	many	states	showing	that,	in	spite	of	the	mild	summer,

polio	had	increased	in	these	places	from	two	to	tenfold. And	Salk	shots	were	the

only	things	these	poor	kids	had	that	they	didn’t	nave	in	the	past. November	16,	1955

WHY	THE	SALK	CONCOCTION	FAILED—Propagandists	for	those	who

profit	from	Salk	vaccine	can’t	even	tell	the	same	story	at	the	same	time. On	Oct

2	Sec	of	Health	Folsom	told	the	world	Salk	shots	have	cut	polio	50%	or	more’. Nov.	8th	the	same	party	upped	his	cock-and-bull	story	to	‘80-90%	effectiveness’. Now	comes	Brother	Salk	himself	with	this	confusing	double	talk	‘I	am	looking

for	a	newer	vaccine	that	is	not	a	newer	vaccine	but	will	be	100%	effective’. Figure	that	one	out. Figures	printed	by	us	Oct.	15th	showed	that	polio	had	increased	from	100%	to

500%	in	many	states	and	1,000%	in	Massachusetts. Actually	no	polio	vaccine

can	be	effective	as	a	preventive	because	vaccine	is	based	on


 must be spent in
dealing with it. Unfortunately some of this gooey substance hardens and
adheres to the lining of the intestines and prevents the absorption of nu
trients into the body. Result: lethargy. Also the by-products of milk diges
tion leave a great deal of toxic mucus in the body. It's very acidic, and
some of it is stored in the body until it can be dealt with at a later time. The next time you are going to dust your home, smear some paste all
over everything and see how easy it is to dust. Dairy products do the same
to the inside of your body. That translates into more weight instead of
weight loss. Casein, by the way, is the base of one of the strongest glues
used in woodworking. Dr. Norman W. Walker, the hundred-and-sixteen-year-old health spe
cialist referred to earlier, has studied this subject for well over half a
century and considers himself an expert on the glandular system. He
states that a major contributing factor to thyroid problems is casein. The
fact that dairy products are highly processed and always have traces of
penicillin and antibiotics in them places even more of a burden on your
system. Many people are allergic to antibiotics, and no one suggests taking
drugs when well. One should endeavor to ingest as few drugs as possible. The body must expend energy to break them down and remove them. In
the New England Journal of Medicine, Doctors Holmberg, Osterholm, et
al., reported that "The widespread practice of feeding antibiotics to cattle
to speed their growth creates potentially deadly bacteria that can infect
humans. Seventeen persons became sick and one died because a herd of
South Dakota cattle was fed antibiotics. "1 In an editorial in the same
issue Dr. Stuart Levy, the senior editor of the journal, said, "Surely the
time has come to stop gambling with antibiotics. Although their use as
feed additives had a major role in advancing livestock production in the
past, the consequences of this practice are now too evident to overlook. "2
It was pointed out that "thousands of pounds of antibiotics were used in
the fifties. Today it is millions of pounds." The danger is there! 'Holmberg, Osterholm, et al. "Drug Resistant Salmonella from Animals Fed Antimicrobials." New
England journal of Medicine Ml (1984): 617. 2Stuart Levy. "Playing Antibiotic Pool." New England )ournal of Medicine 311 (1984): 663. DAIRY PRODUCTS • 83 The most serious difficulty with dairy consumption is the formation of
mucus in the system. It coats the mucous membranes and forces every
thing to transpire in a very sluggish fashion. Vital energy is always being
squandered. It is a situation that must be rectified and avoided. Weight
loss is made two or three times more difficult when the system is over
laden with mucus. Have you ever talked to people who every ten words or so make a kind
of guttural sound as they try to release the mucus from behind their
noses? Sounds something like slurf! The next time you meet a person like
that, inquire as to what extent he or she eats dairy products. The chances
of the answer being seldom or never is very small! One of the most outspoken authorities challenging the traditional view
of dairy products is Dr. William A. Ellis, a retired osteopathic physician
and surgeon. Dr. Ellis is a highly respected individual in the scientific
community and has researched milk and its related problems for forty-two
years! The link he shows between dairy products and heart disease, arthri
tis, allergies, and migraine headaches is impressive. He also makes two
other important points. First, he says that there is "overwhelming evi
dence that milk and milk products are a major factor in obesity." Sec
ond, he states, "Over my forty-two years of practice, I've performed more
than twenty-five thousand blood tests for my patients. These tests show,
conclusively, in my opinion, that adults who use milk products do not
absorb nutrients as well as adults who don't. Of course, poor absorption,
in turn, means chronic fatigue. "3
Now, all these problems exist even if dairy products are eaten properly
combined. Since any dairy product is a concentrated food, no other con
centrated food should be eaten with it. However, milk is usually con
sumed with a meal or with cake or cookies, or in oatmeal—all violations
of proper food combining. Cheese is usually eaten on crackers, or in a
sandwich, or with fruit—all violations of proper food combining. Taken
alone, dairy products are enough of a hindrance to the body, but im
properly combined they are a catastrophe. And, yes, this includes yogurt. What? "Why, yogurt is a health food!" Hardly. It is made from cow's
milk, and cow's milk is for baby cows. The friendly bacteria you are
supposedly getting when you eat yogurt are something that your body
already produces in quantities about which it knows best. All that busi
ness about Russians living to be one hundred and thirty years old by
eating one of the current commercial yogurts is a joke. They never saw
that product before the film crew showed up with their cameras. It's
'Samuel Biser. "The Truth About Milk." The Healthview Newsletter, 14, Charlottesville, Virginia
(Spring 1978): 1-5. 84 • FIT FOR LIFE plenty of fresh air, hard physical labor, pure water, and pure foods raised
by their own hands that contribute to their longevity!4
If you are going to eat dairy products, please combine them properly
for the least amount of detriment. Milk should be taken absolutely alone. It's the most mucous-forming food on the planet, and it doesn't go well
with anything. If you want cheese, either chop it up in chunks and have
it in a salad (without croutons) or melt some over some vegetables. Don't
eat yellow cheeses, because they're soaked in chemical dyes. There may
be some pizza fans out there who are getting ready to tear out these
pages. If you want pizza once in a while, fine. At least be aware of the
potential harm it causes and don't abuse it. If you have pizza one day,
the next day clean up. Do what is in the best interest of your organism. Want some Haagen-Dazs? Don't have it right after a spicy Italian meal. Have it once in a while on an empty stomach so your system will at least
have a fighting chance. Same with yogurt. Don't have it with fruit on the bottom; it will all
ferment and putrefy in your system. Have it plain on an empty stomach,
or make it into a salad dressing. Fix a salad and mix yogurt through it. Some people insist that dairy products are necessary for calcium. We're
led to believe that milk is a major source of calcium, and if we don't
drink milk, our teeth will fall out and our bones will collapse. First of all,
the calcium in cow's milk is much coarser than in human's milk, and is
tied up with the casein. This prevents the calcium from being absorbable. Second, most milk-drinkers and cheese-eaters consume pasteurized, ho
mogenized, or otherwise processed products. This processing degrades the
calcium, making it very difficult to utilize. Even if raw products are con
sumed, there's so much harmful potential in milk, it's not worth some
possible good. Would you eat tobacco leaves for their high amino acid
content? The human body is remarkably adaptable, but cow's milk sim
ply isn't designed for humans.5
The fact is that all green leafy vegetables contain calcium. All nuts
(raw) contain calcium. And raw sesame seeds contain more calcium than
any other food on earth. Also most fruit contains ample calcium. If
you're eating fruits and vegetables daily and some raw nuts even occa
sionally, you can't have a calcium deficiency. The best sources of cal-
4The Russians do cat yogurt, but in small amounts. The yogurt is quite fresh, and it is not fermented
to the degree that commercial yogurt is. 'Herbert M. Shclton. Ph.D. The Hygienic Care of Children. Bridgeport. Connecticut: Natural
Hygiene Press, 1970. N. W. Walker, M.D. Diet and Salad Suggestions. Phoenix, Arizona: Norwalk Press, 1971. Hannah Allen. "Lesson #33, Why We Should Not Rat Animal Products in Any Form." In The Life
Science Health System. Austin. Texas: Life Science, 1984. DAIRY PRODUCTS • 85 cium are raw sesame seeds, all raw nuts, kelp, dulse, all leafy greens, and
concentrated fruits such as figs, dates, and prunes. And if you're still
worried, sprinkle some ground raw sesame seeds on your salad or on your
vegetables every so often, and you couldn't have a calcium deficiency
even if you wanted one. We certainly are not dependent on our bovine
friends for calcium. From what does the cow attain all its calcium? Grain
and grass! Cows sure as life don't drink milk or eat cheese for it. It is important


was really the only goal worth having. Life became very simple in that.
Trying to listen to the ego is where the complexity seems to come in. But
once you understand how the ego works, you can lay it aside!
Turning Away from Ego GuidanceThe ego is very ingenious. It even wants to come along on the spiritual
path. The ego can make you a polished spiritual self-concept. It can take
over any concept  just to preserve itself. It can be very sneaky. To get in
touch with whether you are follo wing the Holy Spirit or ego, you need to
discern how you truly feel. If you’re feeling happy, light, and peaceful,
that’s when the guidance is coming. If you try to listen to and follow
guidance and don’ t feel joy, you may have a discernment lesson going on
because the Holy Spirit always inspires a true sense of joy.
A classi c exam ple of the sneak iness of the ego is when it starts
saying things like, “I kind of like this guidance thing. I can do anything
I’m pleased doing, and I’ll just call it guidance.” Take a domestic
situation when you live with someone as an example. One party says: “If
you don’t take the garbage out…” and the other party says: “I was not
guided to take the garbage out.” And the first one says: “I’m not guided
to take the garbage out either.” You’ve got to watch this ego; it’s very
clever: “Well, my holy spirit told me…” “Well, actually, my holy spirit
told me….” You can tell that you’re listening to the ego when you start
using the word “my.” This is the ego trying to use the idea of guidance
for its own purposes.
The ego does not want you to have anything to do with guida nce
unless it is its own guidance—a nd it wants you to be a slave to it. The
ego likes that, but it is of fended by the Holy Spirit’ s guidance. It wants to
protect itself since the Spirit’ s guidance will undo it. Therefore, it wants
you to be dependent on it for everything. It does not want you to realize
that the mind is causative and that nothing can happen that the mind has
not asked for, that nothing comes from the “outside.” When you realize
that nothing is external and that there are no external causes or effects,
the game is over for the ego. You have effectively ended its tyranny, this
false rulership, and you have accepted the strength and power exactly as
it is, in mind and as mind.
One of the deep  truths that isn’t really known in the world is that if
you have a wrong-minded perception, a misguided behavior will always
follow. This is because thought s and images of forms are one and the
same. If you have wrong-minded thoughts, you will inevitably be
misguided. Actions and behaviors are not autonomous or separ ate from
your thoughts and beliefs. What you do comes from what you think.Without exception, this is so. What you do is determined by your
perception of a situation. There is great relief in knowing that what you
do comes only from what you think and believe and that there is nothing
outside of your mind. This is why you need guidance from a wisdom
beyond your own thoughts and belief system. You can relax and ease
your way into this alignment with the guidance of the Holy Spirit within.
The difficulty is not really in finding out which voice is the Holy
Spirit’ s and which one is the ego’s. When you have fear in the mind, the
ego will actively  attack the Holy Spirit’ s guidance. So, there could be a
lot of attack thoughts or doubt thoughts coming up with certain
guidance. There fore, rather than asking whether it’s Spirit or ego, an
important step is to question what you are afraid of when you want to
know the guidance in a specific situation. And you can decide to be very
honest with yourself and look at what you’re afraid to lose. When what
you’re afraid to lose is not hidden, your mind is open to all possibilities
and all options. You will be in a space to tell the Holy Spirit, “Just show
me if it is Your will.” Then you can feel the joy and peace that comes
with feeling the Holy Spirit’ s guidance. You will be able to see a lot of
signs and symbols. Symbols and metaphors of harmony and union align
the mind with the Holy Spirit.
When you open your mind to guidance, you can see that guida nce
always offers a very obvious and easy option. The question of whether it
comes from the ego or the Spirit becomes unnecessary after you have
faced your specific fears. True guidance is always from the Spirit, and
the ego is only providing fears  and doubts that you need to heal and
clear, but never true guidance.
Merging into a Glorious Flow
The experience of listening for true guidance is like being in a constant
state of prayer. All of a sudden, you feel how natural this is, and you
understand that you will need to make no decisions by yourself. You will
let Spirit decide for you. Be You in charge, Spirit! You know the way.
You know the way out of the dream of separation. There is a shift
happening when you surrender  to Spirit this way. You come from anautonomous separate sense of self in a world apart and merge into a
glorious flow that has always been your natural state. It is absolutely
delightful to move into a day with an open mind that does not have a to-
do list and is not set on outcomes—being wide open to let the day be like
a blank canvas that can be painte d with all the beautiful splashin g colors.
How free and how wonderful! “What is going to happen today? Oh, a
splash of green,  some red, some yellow.” You can sit and behold the
painting as it appears right before you and really be in the glory of it,
without trying to control it, without trying to be the artist. Just be the
witness Self, the observer. It is delightful.
Following guidance is a pathway to this ultimate experience. You
come without preconceptions, you come without ideas of outcomes, but
you come with a willingness to be shown, to receive that which is given,
and to trust that everything is for your awakening. That is what carries
you higher and higher to this ultimate experience.
Spirituality must be practical. This is why it comes down to really
opening up to guidance day to day, to letting Holy Spirit go before you
and lead you in the decisions of your life. You are making decisions to
unwind from the ego-thought system. The only way you authentically
unwind is to decide with God, to decide with Spirit, as you move
forward. It is beautiful and very, very practical. It can almost become
like the song of your heart: “Today I will make no decisions by myself.
Instead, I want to be led. I am ready to be led.” As you get into the joy of
joining, it becomes obvious that this is truly the way because there is
lightness and happiness with it.
We can get to an experience of this gentle presence and guidance
together with others. If two individuals are deeply attuned to each other
and to the Holy Spirit, they can actually hear the same guidance
simultaneously. This is a glorious experience. It’s like becoming one
with another being. This is an experience apart from time, a holy instant
when you see no difference between yourself and the other. In that
moment, there are no bodies or persons. It is a true moment of being one
mind. You can experience great harmony when you have synchronicities
like this. You look into each other ’s eyes and say: “Are you hearing what
I’m hearing?” “Mmm mmm…” You don’t even have to finish a sentence
because you are both feeling the intuitive yes.Exercise: Opening to Spirit’ s Guidance
To listen to a recorded version of this exercise, go to
http://www.newharbinger.com/41870.
Before you begin this exercis e, take a few breaths and relax
your mind. Close your eyes and take as much time as you need to
feel present and focused. As you move through this assignment, I
encourage you to allow any reactions or emotions to come up
freely. Don’t restrict or censor yourself.
Think of an area in your life where you feel you need some
direction right now, big or small. Close your eyes and relax into a
space where you feel attentive, clear, and calm. Bring the area to
mind and hold it in awareness as you prepare to offer it to the
Holy Spirit. Allow any images to appear in your mind that
represent the essence of this issue for you. Take your time. Now,
imagine a large round golden platter in front of you, and see
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Cosmic Wealth
A Guide to Living the Prosperity of a Rich Inner Life

By

Marie Mohler
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Cosmic Wealth
A Guide to Living the Prosperity of a Rich Inner Life

Copyright © 2009 by Marie Mohler

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Dedication
  This book is dedicated to my extraordinary family. CLF, JB, Jb, and CJ – Without you, our expanding experience  of life’s greatest riches would not be.  Thank you for your courage, compassionate witness, and commitment - to release  resistance and allow our buoyant inner rising.  I have  oceans of love for each of you.  Namaste.
 Acknowledgements
/G01 There are a few additional pe ople that I would like to
honor for the special gifts they have given me throughout my
journey.
I am grateful for the good friends in my life, who knew
me prior to this karmic task, i nner quest, and larger journey.
And I wish to thank the friends who continue to honor me, as  I embrace the art of conscious creation.  Loving others when we do not necessarily understand their journey is a special kind of grace, and it is a most unique gift that we can give to, and
receive from, our extended human family.  I thank you.
I would like to specifically th ank two special friends.
To my noble friend Halo, you have shown me the power of  real love to heal, prevail, and transform.  You are a touchstone
in my life.  I am grateful.  An d to my special hawk friend, I am
grateful for your gifts of grace, strength, vision, and divine
wisdom in my life.  Thank you.
I would like to thank all of the conscious and
inspirational music makers in the world, who lift our spirits
with their talents and inspire our hearts in special life-affirming
ways.  Conscious music holds a significant uplifting and
vibrational place in all of our lives, supporting us to rise and to
dream our own dreams.  Corrinne May, Kavin Hoo, and Karen
Drucker are some of my favorite musicians.  Their music lifted me like wings of an angel, helping me to find my own music
within and to rise to the truth of my light.  Thank you.
 I am also grateful for the many lightworker s in the world
today, who are living their spirit and honoring their divine purpose - to bring greater truths into our heart consciousness.  A new earth is forming for all.  Thank you.
/G01 Lastly, I would like to thank God, Mother Earth, my
spirit guides, my animal guides, and all of the angels of light
that lovingly guide my life expe rience and my ever-expansive
/G02/G03/G03/G04/G05/G01/G06/G07/G08 rney.  Thank you for reminding me how to truly
believe /G09/G01/G0A/G07/G05/G01/G0B/G04/G0C/G0D/G02/G03/G0E/G01/G0F/G04/G01/G10/G07/G01/G0A/G02/G03/G11/G01/G10/G0B/G04/G01/G0F/G12/G0E/G02/G13/G01/G12/G0E/G12/G02/G03/G09/G01/G12/G03/G11/G01/G0A/G07/G05/G01/G0C/G07/G14/G02/G03/G0E/G01
me every step of the way.  Thank you all.

Contents
Preface /G01        8
I n t r o d u c t i o n         1 0 /G01
Chapter One