,  it can  be cured.  In the interest  of
broade ning our awareness of the  body’s ever- changi ng state  of
health,  we suggest  that once  a month, ideall y after  each  menstrual
period,  women  regularl y incorpor ate into their  practice  a sim ple
technique  of breast  self- examination  for early  detection  of breast
cancer.  Always look  thoroug hly for any changes  that your breasts
may have  underg one since y our last checkup.  Stand  in front  of a
mirror and beco me fam iliar with their  appea rance. Is there  any
unusual  dimpling  or puckering  of the  skin, discoloration,  ulceration,
hardeni ng or lump? Have the  superficial  blood  vessels  grown larger
or increased  in nu mber?  Has the size, shape  or contour  of your
breasts  change d? Next, elevate  your hands  above  your head  and
ask y ourself the same questions.
    After  completing  the breast  massage,  the genital  area  should
be massaged.  Using the  sam e cloth  and fingertip  circular  motions,
cover  the entire  mons and  labial  area  inch b y inch. After  having
sufficiently  stimulated  the clitoris,  warm, moist vaginal  secretio ns
will mark the bod y’s readi ness  for the egg’s  insertion.  (For  a more
detailed  appr oach  to breast  massage,  return  to Chapter  6).
C. Sum mary of Egg Exercises Step-By-S tep
1. Insert  the Egg
   When you feel y ou are read y, insert  the egg into the  vagina,
large  end first.
2. Horse S tance  Alignment
Align your body in the basic  Horse  Stance  described  earlier.
- 189  -Egg Exercise s
3. Contract the First Section
   Isolate  and contract  the muscle groups  responsible  for closing
the external  vaginal  orifice  tightl y. This w ill help  to keep  the egg in
the vaginal  canal.
4. Contract the Second Section
   Inhale  and contract  the vaginal  canal  muscles im mediately  in
front of the cervix  so that  you are now contracting  two sections  at
the same ti me. Keep both points  closed.  There  is no need  to use
hard muscle contracti ons. The strength  required  depends  a great
deal on the control  of these  muscles you have  gained  by practicin g
the Ovarian  exercises  of Chapters  5 and 6.
Ovaries
Uterus
Bladder
Vagina
Fig. 7.5 Moving the Egg up.
- 190  -Chapter  VII
5. Squeeze the  Third  Section
   Slightly squeeze  the egg from the  middle of  the vaginal  canal
until y ou feel that you have  a good  grip on it. Inhale  and squeeze
again,  gradu ally increasing  the squeeze,  and then  inhale  more and
squeeze  harder  (Fig.  7.5) Once  you feel y ou have  a good  grip on
the egg,  slow ly move it up  and dow n. Start  with a slo w motion,
graduall y increasing  to a fast mo tion. When you are out of breath,
exhale  and rest.  The resting  period  is ver y important.  It is at this
time that you will feel Chi build  up in this area.  Try to ma ster each
movement before  continuing  to the  next  step.
Fig. 7.6 Using the Second  Section  to move the Egg Sideways.
- 191  -Egg Exercises
6. Use the  Second S ection  to Move the Egg Left and Right
   Next mo ve the  egg left and right  using  the top, or second,  section.
Practice  until y ou master this action.  (Fig.  7.6)
7. Use the  First Section  to Move the Egg Left and Right
   Next mo ve the  egg left and right  from the  botto m, or first,  section.
Using the  mind and  som e muscle movement are  important  since
you cannot  move the  egg with hard  muscle contractions  alone.
There  are many involuntar y muscles wi thin the vaginal  canal which
the mind and  Chi Muscle  help  to mo ve.
Fig. 7.7 Using Both  Sections to move the Egg Sideways.
- 192  -Chapter VII
8. Use Both  Sections  to Move the Egg Left and Right
   Now move the  egg left and right  as y ou wish, holding  it by  the
top and botto m mu scles. Master  this step  before  continuing  to the
next exercise.  (Fig.  7.7)
9. Use Both  Sections  to Tilt the Egg
   Next tilt the  egg up and dow n from the  top and the botto m. Mas ter
this action.
10. Combine all Movements
     Com bine all of  these  movements, mo ving the egg left and  right,
tilting it up and  down, moving it up  to touch  the cervix,  and then
down to the  external  vaginal  orifice.  Rest. All during  the Egg Exercise
the contraction  of the  vaginal  canal  in the area in front  of the  cervix
and the external  orifice  is to  remain constant  until  you have  finished
moving the egg.
     This particular  Egg Exercise  should  be practiced  two to three
times per  week. You may, and should,  perfo rm this very  same
exercise  daily  without actually  inserting  the egg by follow ing the
same sequence  using  the contractile  strength  of the  vaginal
muscles to suck  in an  imaginary  egg and move it up,  down, left
and right.
     To enhanc e your development  you should  begin  using  a smaller
egg. Later  the larger  eggs  may  be used  to ma rk the  progr ess in
your “sucking”  abilities. Eventuall y the practice  of egg- sucking  will
beco me so ma stered  that you will be able  to suck the  egg into the
vagina  from  the outside  with a vacuum-like force.  Such a po werful
sucking  activity  enhanc es experie nces  in your life such  as
childbearin g or lovem aking.  Imagine  the intense  pleasur e of your
lover  as y ou demonstrate  to him  your power and skill.
D. Egg Exercise  during  Ovarian Breathing and Orga smic Draw
  Once  you master the Egg Exercise  described  above,  you can
combine the practice  with Ovarian  Breathin g and the Orgasmic
Draw. Each  will enhance  the others  practice.
1. Prepare  with  Breast Mass age
   Prepare  with the breast  massage  until  you feel yourself ready,
and insert  the egg into your vagina.
- 193  -Egg Exercises
2. Align Yourself  in the Horse Stance
   Align your body in the basic  Horse  Stance  described  earlier.
3. Clo se the External  Vaginal  Orifice
    Isolate  and contract  the individual  muscle grou ps responsi ble
for tightly  closing  the external  vaginal  orifice.
4. Gather the Energy at the  Ovarian  Palace
   Gather  the energ y from the  ovaries  and the breasts  at the
Ovarian  Palace.  Inhale  slowly and deeply. Draw the sexual  energ y
down through  the uterus  to the clitoris  and hold  it there.
5. Grip and Move the  Egg
   Contract  and hold  the lower; then  middle and upper  vaginal
muscles and feel your grip on the egg.  Then push  the egg deepl y
up into the  vaginal  canal.  Move it up and  down and feel the
increasing  sexual energy.
6. Begin Ovarian Breathing and the  Orgasmic Draw
   As yo u feel more energy  gathe r at the vaginal  canal,  follow  the
procedu res of Ovarian  Breathin g and the Orgasmic Draw. Pull the
energy  to the  front  part of the perineum, to  the sacrum, T-11,  C-7,
C-1, Jade  Pillow, and crow n. Circulate  the energy  in the brain  and
bring  it do wn the front  channel  to the  third  eye, tongue,  throat,  heart
center  solar  plexus  and navel.  Collect  the energy  at the navel.  Please
revie w the details  of the practice  of O


 and allergies for years, perhaps even decades. Of course it will take time for
you to get used to not having to deal with your old symptoms. It takes time also to learn to believe that nature really has i ts
remedies there at hand, for us to use.

By the way, if you ever run short of apricot seeds, then don't forget you can eat prune/peach/nectarine/cherry/plum/apple see ds, or
bitter almonds/macadamia nuts, lentils, butter beans and so on...to provide you with vitamin B17. You could even make your  own
bread using millet grain and or adding linseed if you like.

What is contained within our diets has changed so much over the last sixty years or so. Just adding vitamin B17 back into you r diet
on a regular basis, and I hope honey too, brings you that  much closer to nature!

You may find yourself benefiting in other ways from taking vitamin B17 in your diet. Myself, and others have commented how
life seems less stressful.
I would just like to point out here that, if your asthma and allergies do totall y disappear as a result of this program (and I really
hope they do), you have shown a susceptibility to asthma and/or allergies. Thus, if at some stage in the future you stop taki ng the
B17 rich food your body requires, for a prolonged period of time, your  asthma and/or allergies could return.

It is also worth you being well aware that vitamin B17 is also an alternative therapy for healing cancer. There are various c linics
that report extremely high success rates, treating all forms of cancers; with B17 a vitally important component of their cancer
remedies. Cancer it seems may also be strongly linked to a lack of vitamin B17 within ones' diet!

If you know of anyone with any form of cancer I recommend that they take a look at the website www.1cure4cancer.c om as soon
as possible!

Look after yourselves, and best wishes.

Graeme

If you wish to e -mail me to let me know how you get along I would be pleased to hear from you. Unfortunately I cannot promise a
reply if I get completely over -run by e -mails.

This b ooklet is based solely upon my own opinion; others may choose to disagree as they so wish. Various sources were consulted
in the writing of this booklet. The book,' World Without Cancer' by G. Edward Griffin, and statistics from Asthma in America a
landmar k survey, were also consulted.

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CHAPTER 4    Hormone Fatigue and Rhonda Y.               35
CHAPTER 5   Migraine Headaches and Karen H.               47
CHAPTER 6   Postpartum Depression and Susan B.         53
CHAPTER 7    Fibromyalgia and Janet L.                          59
CHAPTER 8   Osteoporosis—Myth versus Reality            67
CHAPTER 9    DHEA—Key to Well-Being                      75
CHAPTER 10 Menopause and Perimenopause                 79
CHAPTER 11 Hormones for Women— 91
The “How- T o” Chapter
CHAPTER 12 Andropause—The Male Menopause 103
CHAPTER 13 Adult-Onset Diabetes and Louis R. 115CHAPTER 14 Psychogenic Medication


 ourselves or anyone else. However hurtful someone is, he is
doing the best he can, given the limits of his consciousness.
•  Forgiveness of others comes only when you can release your own hurt.
The more complete your release, the more sincere the for giveness.
•  No one can really hurt you unless you give them the power to do so.
This power lies in your own unresolved pain. You can take control of
the old pain and reclaim power over your emotions. Until you do that,
your feelings will continue to be tossed around at the whim of others.
•  Outside even ts have no powe r to hurt you. The hurt comes when an
interpretation occurs in your mind. You can live beyond interpretation,
in a state of witnessing, the pure, untouchable awareness that is the
real you.
Again, the reason this exercise defeats aging is that it puts you back into
the present, and present-moment awareness never ages. It is the same when
you are 5 or 85. The discovery of freedom in the present opens the door for
the perm anent experience of timelessness, in which past, present, and future
are revealed as illusions compar ed to the true reality, which is always here
and now.
OceanofPDF.comPART
FOUR
The Science of Longevity
OceanofPDF.comI’VE NEVER MET Belle Odom, but I’m looking at her picture in the morning
newspaper. She is a tiny old lady, smiling and waving a frilled lace
handkerchief. Belle is in the paper because she has achieved the remarkable
age of 109. Despite the fact that she is older than several states in the
Union, her eyes look clear and alert; the accompanying article says that her
mind is sharper than those of many younger residents at the nursing home
where she lives.
I can imagine the fuss everyone  made over Belle to get her ready for her
moment in the sun. There she sits in a cheerful old-lady print dress, pink-
flowered with a wide lace collar, bought for the occasion no doubt. The
article rattles of f some statistics about people who live to be 100 or more:
80 percent of all centenarians are women
75 percent are widowed
50 percent are in nursing homes
16 percent are black (the general population is only 12 percent black)
This last figure is relevant because Belle is a black woman, born and
raised in rugged  Texas farm country. Until she turned 100 she lived alone in
a cabin without running water; now she is the star resident of a Houston
nursing home. No mention is made of her health, but it is probably frail—
life flickers like a guttering candle when one reaches the limits of human
longevity.
At 109, Belle has moved far beyond biological probability and into a
mysterious and uncertain surviv al. There is a riddle attached to longevity,
because science still cannot predict who will live to extrem e old age.
Genetics does not hold the entire answer—no centenarian has ever been
recorded who had a centenarian father or mother. Lifestyle is also
problematic—someone like Belle, raised on a marginal diet and grinding
physical labor, had a horrendous lifestyle by modern standards, yet she has
outlived 99.999 percent of her generation, including those who lived in far
better circumstances. Of ficially, the oldest survivor in American history wasDelina Filkins, a country woman from Herkimer County, New York, who
died in 1928 at 113. (Unof ficial claims to much higher ages are frequently
made, and there is little doubt that some unsung individual has survived 115
years or more.) Belle isn’t challenging the record yet, but even to be a
contender puts her in the longevity elite.
“Are you lonely?” a reporter asks her.
“Yes’m, sometimes I am,” Belle replies. The very old are inevitably
alone, having outdistanced the family and friends with whom they started
out on life’s journey. Belle is typical in this regard. She has buried three
husbands, one brother, and six sisters. (Unlike most women of her
generation, Belle had no children.) Even her nieces are far too old to take
care of her now.
It’s said that in a typical climbi ng season on Mt. Everest, an average of
sixty-four climb ers arrive at base camp; of this number, which is a tiny
fraction of the world’ s skilled mountaineers, one-third attempt the final
assault on the peak. Two climbe rs will perish in the attempt, and only four
will succeed. Belle Odom is like one of those four climbers standing ten
yards from the summit of human longevity, exhausted, hardly able to take
another step, but there.
In the next few decades, the mountaintop is going to become much more
crowded. Barring a premature heart attack or a fatal disease or accident, you
and I are likely  to make it at least to base camp. Ages of 85 and 90 are
going to become as common in the future as they were rare in the past.
Newspapers will carry notices of people reaching their hundredth birthdays
as routinely as they now print announcements about the birth of twins. Only
when someone reaches 1 10 will it be considered an event.
Can you imagin e what you will be like the day you turn 100? It’s a big
conceptual leap, comparable to asking a 2-year -old to imagine being
middle-aged. But think of yours elf at 50 (perhaps you are already there) and
then try to grasp  this staggering fact: The day you turn 50 is going to be
your second birth. In all likelihood a complete lifetime lies ahead of you,
lasting at least thirty or more likely forty, fifty, or even sixty years. For
every previous generation, 50 was a time for winding down. Children were
grown up, off to college, possibly even married with their own children.
Career was a settled matter, and a person pretty well knew whether he was asuccess or failure. The idealism  of youth had long faded; the midlife crisis
had been  weathered either as a full-blown tempest or, if one was lucky, as
only brooding squalls on the horizon.
But to be born at 50! Little in life has prepared us for this. Yet according
to a California health department study, if medical science could wipe out
just one major health risk, arteriosclerosis, the average life expectancy for
women in California would rise to 100—the average.
Compared to your first birth, the one you will experience at 50 has both
pluses and minuses. In both instances, a completely new and unknown
existence opens up, but the great advantage of your second birth is that you
can plan ahead.  Your first birth was thrown at you, complet e with total
strangers who turned out to be your parents, an awkward, unformed body
that had to be trained to perform the simplest tasks, and a bewildering world
of chaot ic sight s and sounds your brain had to mold into something that
made sense. By age 50, all that work has been done, and as fearful images
of the “old old age” rapidly dissipate, the obvious disadvan tage of the
second birth—not having a new body—will not be so crippling. Disease
and infirmity will be long delayed, if not conquered.
Fired by the possibilities of planning a whole new lifetime, I decided to
take the opportu nity seriously. I set aside all the stereotypes of old age that
clutter the mind  and approached my second birth (which is only four years
away) with a wish list. What  would I want should I live to be 100?
Immediately the following desires came to mind:
I want to survive even longer, if possible.
I want to remain healthy.
I want a clear, alert mind.
I want to be active.
I want to have achieved wisdom.
As soon as I wrote down these desires, a surprising thing happ ened—they
all seem ed withi n my reach. Why shouldn’ t I have as much life as possible?
As long as life is good, it’s only natural to want more of it. Why shouldn’ t I
be healthy? I know what to do to be healthy today, and I can live tomorrow
the same way. My mind is clear and alert now; there is no reason why itmust dim with time, assuming that I keep using it. I’ve always been active,
so why fear that I’ll sink into a chair one day, never to get up again? And if
wisdom isn’t mine yet, that’s all the better; wisdom is a gift that arrives in
its own time. My other desires would be meaningless if I didn’ t expect this
final golden fruit to be bestowed when I am ready.
With this simple  list I had turned survival from a threat into a desirable
goal, because on my list were things I truly wanted. Accordin g to public-
opinion polls, 80 percent of Americans say yes to the question “Are you
satisfied with your life today?” A majority, however, say they don’t want to
live to be 100, so they must share an expectation that the road between
today and 100 brings loss. This self-fulfilling prophecy can be changed only
by choosing to impr ove with age. Old age is a grace if you reach it with joy,
creativity, and curiosity. These qualities require living fully


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acid.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Colic
SymptomsVomitsour.
Babiessufferfromcolicwithacidity,vomitingor
curdledmilkandsour-smelling, green,watery
diarrhoea.Thisisagoodremedyforsimplecolicwith
acidity(andsourness)wheretherearenootherguid-
ingsymptomsthatwouldleadyoutoprescribe
anotherremedy.
Headache
SymptomsFacepale.Painsinforehead.
Causesmentalexertion.
Belly/stomach bloated.Indigestion
SymptomsBelchessou*
WithHEARTBURN.
Acidity,sourburpsandpainswillcomeontwohours
aftereating.Natrumphosphoricum willneutralisethis
acidity.Theheartburnofpregnancy isoftenrelieved
bytakingthisremedy.
Natrumsulphuricum (Nat-s.)
Othernames:sodiumsulphate;Glauber'ssalt
Thismineralsaltisfoundcombinedwithcalcium
sulphateinthemineralglauberite,inseawater,inthe
watersofmostsalinesprings(mineralspawaters)and
inmanysaltlakesinRussia.Itisalsofoundinthe
mineralsmirabiliteandthenardite.
INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Natrumsulphuricum(Nat-s.)•121
Sodiumsulphatewasfirstisolatedbyseventeenth-
centuryGermanchemistJohannGlauber(hencethe
nameGlauber'ssalt,andthemineralnameglauber-
ite).Hecalledthesalt'salmirabilis'andextolledits
medicinalqualitiesaswellasitspotentialforbenefitto
industry.Glauberwasinadvanceofhistimeinfore-
seeingthelikelybenefitsoftheapplicationofchem-
istrytoindustryandpublishedmanyofhisforty
publishedworkstothatend.
Commercially, thesaltisusedinthemanufactureof
certainpapers,paperboard,glass,indyeingandtan-
ningprocesses,inthemanufactureofdetergentsand
asarawmaterialfortheproductionofvariouschemi-
calsandmedicines.Medically, itisusedmainlyasa
laxativeandexternallyforinfectedwounds.
Thehomeopathicpreparation ismadefromsodium
sulphatebytrituration.
GENERALSYMPTOMS
Complaintsfromaccident/injury tothehead.Hot
flushes.Likescolddrinks.Sweatfrompain.Taste:
mouthtastesbadinthemorning;bitter.Tongue
green.
Betterforfreshair.
Worsefordamp;forhumidity;forwetweather;for
lyingdown;duringthemorning;aftereatingstarchy
food.
Thosebenefitingmostfromthisremedyareextremely
sensitivetodamp,tocoldandwet,ortohotandwet.
Theircomplaintsmayresultfromlivinginadamp
houseforalongperiodoftime.Theydislikehot,stuffy
atmospheresandalwaysfeelbetterforsomefreshair.
Theyareattheirworstinthemornings.
Natrumsulphuricum istheremedythatismostoften
neededforcomplaintsthatariseafteraheadinjury.
EMOTIONAL/MENTAL SYMPTOMS
Depressed.Jumpy.Wearyoflife.
Theseindividualsfeelconfusedanddepressed,es-
peciallyafteraheadinjury.Theybecomeutterlysick
andtiredoflife(havingbeenquitehappybeforethe
injury)andmayalsobecomeover-sensitive tonoisein
thisstate.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Backache
SymptomsPainssore,bruised.
Causesinjurytospine.
Colic
SymptomsWithindigestion(seebelow).Cough
SymptomsCoughduringthedayonly.Mucusgreen.
Worsefordamp,wetweather.
Diarrhoea
SymptomsBelly/stomach: gurgling;rumbling.
Stools:smelly;thin;watery.Wind:loud;smelly;
spluttering.
Betterforpassingwind.
Worseaftergettingup;duringthemorning;after
eatingfruit/starchyfood.
Causeseatingfruit.
Thediarrhoeamaycomeonaftereatingstarchyfood
likepotatoesandbreadorafterfruitorvegetables.The
personfeelsexhaustedafterthediarrhoea,andpasses
windwithitorwantstopassastoolbutonlymanages
topasswind.Itisworstinthemorningafterfirst
gettingupandmovingabout.
Flatulence
SymptomsWind:loud;loudduringstool;smelly.
Withdiarrhoea(seeabove);rumbling.
Betterforpassingwind.
Worseafterbreakfast.
Thereisanurgeforastoolbutonlysplutteringwindis
passed.
Headache
SymptomsEyessensitivetolight.
Causesheadinjury.
GiveafterArnicaifthatremedyhasnotworkedand
thepainsremain.
Headinjuries
Symptomsofheadache(seeabove).
IfArnicahasbeengivenforaheadinjuryandthe
swellinghassubsidedbutpainremains,orifthereare
anyothersymptomsafterabangorafall,thena
courseofNatrumsulphuricumwillclearthesesymp-
toms.Sometimessmallchildrenchangecharacterafter
abadfall,frombeingcheerfulandeasy-goingto
obnoxiousandscreamingallthetime,anditisposs-
ibletomistakethisforteethingandgiveChamomilla,to
noavail.Dobecarefulwithheadinjuries,especially
withsmallchildren,whoareaccidentprone.
Indigestion
SymptomsBelching:bitter;sour.Belly/stomach
bloated.Flatulence:windafterbreakfast.
Betterafterpassingastool.
Worseaftereatingstarchyfood.
Thepersoncannotdigeststarchyfood,suchaspota-
toes,andthetonguemaylookgreenishbrownordirty
NBSEEALSOPAGES203-26FORGENERALADVICE,DOSANDDON'TS.
122•Nitricumacidum(Nit-ac.) INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA
green.Thiscolicorrumblinginthestomachisbetter
forpassingastool.
Nitricumacidum(Nit-ac.)
Othernames:aquafortis;nitricacid
Nitricacidisanimportantmineralacid.Itisoneofthe
earliestnitrogencompoundstobepreparedandused;
inthethirteenthcenturyitwasknownasaquafortisor
eauforte,anditwasusedasatonic.
Purenitricacidisacolourless,extremelycorrosive
liquidwhichfumesstronglyoncontactwithmoistair.
(Freenitricacidisfoundinmoistairinthedischargeof
atmospheric electricity,orlightning.)Thefumescan
causenitrousgaspoisoning,andspillageoftheacid
causessevereburnsandstainstheskinvellow.
Poisoningsproducegastro-enteritis withburning
painsintheoesophagusandabdomen,bloodv
diarrhoea,collapseanddeath.
Commercially, itisusedprimarilyinthemanufac-
tureofammoniumnitrateforfertilisersandexplos-
ives,although itisalsousedindyesanddrugs,
plastics,lacquersandsyntheticfibres.Medicinally,
itspowerfullycorrosiveactionisusedtoremove
warts,althoughmuchcareneedstobetakeninits
application.
Thehomeopathicpreparation ismadefrom"nitric
acidpreparedbymixingpure,pulverisednitrewithan
equalamountofphosphoricacid;thisisthendistilled
andsuccussed.
GENERALSYMPTOMS
Anaemia.BreathsmellyDischargeslikeammonia.
Likesfatfattvfoods.Pains:inbones;flyingaround;
needle-like;splinter-like;appearanddisappear
suddenly.Sweat:onsinglepartsofthebody;smelly;
sour;fromslightestphysicalexertion.Tongue
cracked.
Betterforlyingdown.
Worseforcold;forfreshair;atnight;onwaking;for
lossofsleep;fortouch;forjarringmovement;for
walking.
NitricumacidumisverysimilartoHeparsulpllwith
offensivenessonbothphysicalandemotionallevels.
Theirurinesmellsstrongly(itisoftencomparedtothat
ofhorses)andtheirsweatisalsofoulsmelling.They
willoftenhavesmellybreathandacrackedtongue.
Theylovefatty,friedfoodsandwilleatthefaton
meat.
Nitricumtypesareweakandchillyandworseforcoldandatnight.Thisisoneofthe'coldest'remedies
intheMateriaMedica.
Theirpainscomeandgoandaredeepinthebones.
Thesepeopleareverysensitivetobeingtouchedor
jarred,whichaggravatestheirsplinter-likepains.
Theyalwaysfeelgenerallybetterforlyingdown.
Theysufferfromnervousexhaustion


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The complainer always feels shortchanged and deprived, and
consequently becomes envious and bitter toward those who
seem to have been blessed with what is missing in his or her own
life. The complainer feels isolated and separate from goodness
and joyfulness. Because the fullness of life seems to be occurring
elsewhere, the complainer is full of ingratitude.
To become adept at manifesting one’s desires, it is crucial
to have an attitude of unconditional love, allowing you to feel
supported and given a gift by life. The inner experience of
complaining and feeling deprived leads to being angry at the
universal source that seems to have denied you the benefit of
its infinite supply. The very attitude of wanting to complain is
enough to guarantee that you will continue to feel short-
changed in life. Complaining is an expression of the absence
of love in your inner world. When you feel love, there is no
room for being upset with God for not delivering your ego’s
demands.
The ego constantly instructs you to need and want more,
and tells you that complaining helps. The problem with this is
that the ego is never satisfied. No matter how much you feed
the ego, it will give you a new list of demands almost immedi-
ately after being satisfied. If you give it alcohol until it buzzes,
and sex until it collapses in ecstasy, and drugs until it is flying
high, and money and cars and anything else that you can think
of, the next morning it will have an even longer list of
demands. The ego is never satisfied, and lives with the slogan
that more is always better, and if more does not arrive precisely
when the ego is feeling the need, then you have every right to
complain. This is a huge obstacle to an attitude of gratitude,
and an even larger impediment to manifesting the essence of
the desires of your heart.
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Taking what you have for granted. Taking things and people in your
life for granted drains you of the joy that you could be experi-
encing if you were feeling grateful. Taking things for granted
means going through life unaware of the multitude of gifts that
are here in each and every moment.
Think of the activities and experiences that would be missed
if they suddenly disappeared, and cultivate an awareness that
does not take life for granted. Strive to be alert to being a love
finder. Remind yourself that there are no ordinary moments.
Kicking a ball around with a child, watching the shape of the
clouds in the early morning, hearing the sounds of the seasons,
saying good night to a loved one—every single experience of life
is an opportunity to experience gratitude or its opposite, a feel-
ing of ennui. It is always a choice.
Sleepwalking through life is a choice to impede the gratitude
that is necessary for you to become a manifester. If you take
everything for granted with an absence of joy and appreciation,
you will never be able to see the clues that are surfacing that will
give you the impetus to take action on your desired manifesta-
tion. The appearance of the right person or the unexpected gift
that may be the beginning of your manifestation will be greeted
with a shrug and a disinterest that will prevent you from receiv-
ing its blessing. Be awake and fully appreciative of everything and
everyone.
Change an attitude of ingratitude by imagining, just for a
moment, how empty your life would be without those blessings.
Often, we fail to appreciate our loved ones and all of the gifts of
the universe until it is too late and they have left our lives. I think
of this often in relation to my own children. I know that all too
soon they will be gone from our home and living their own lives
with their own primary families. I often sit in amazement, feel-
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ing how much I love each one of them. Marcelene and I make a
habit of putting our arms around them, and just telling them
how lucky we are that they are a part of our lives, and how privi-
leged we feel to be their parents.
This act of love discourages us from taking each other for
granted. An expression of gratitude toward grandparents, co-
workers, spouses and even the pilots flying an airplane you are
on is a way out of the ennui trap. Discontinue taking life for
granted. Live with an appreciation for life that cultivates grate-
fulness.
APPRECIATION AND DEPRECIATION
When we depreciate something, we devalue or diminish its worth.
We depreciate things or people by expressing disapproval or dislike.
When we appreciate something or someone, we give value with
approval and praise. When we appreciate things, we mean to
increase their worth.
It is impossible to feel grateful for something or someone we do
not value. Begin to see things and people as they truly are rather than
your assessment of them, which is an inner judgment. Each person is
a child of God. See the unfolding of God in each person you meet.
Then you are able to appreciate them. When you fail to do this, you
depreciate them.
Your experience of misery, emptiness and fear is related to your
depreciation of what shows up in your life. Think of everything that
you criticize regularly and you will see where you have failed to
appreciate. If you find fault with blacks or whites, Muslims or Jews,
Iraqis or Americans, the young or the old, what you are doing is
devaluing groups of people. The moment you participate in the
depreciation process, you block your ability to experience gratitude
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and, consequently, you obstruct your ability to manifest prosperity,
love and joy.
Essentially, the activity of depreciation means that you are not
sensing the beauty of life. Rather than reinforcing the misperceptions
of your ego, become an appreciator and, therefore, a manifester by
seeing the Christ shining back at you in the other person or groups of
people.
CULTIVATING AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE
Below are some suggestions for activating the practice of grati-
tude. Make the shift to being grateful for all that you are, and all that
you have, and you will facilitate your ability to manifest into your life
the essence of all that you desire.
Develop an awareness of yourself as a recipient rather than as a vic-
tim. Virtually everything that you possess in your life is because of
the efforts of others. Your furniture, automobile, home, clothes,
gardens, yes, even your own body are all, in some way, gifts from
others. Without those efforts of thousands and thousands of peo-
ple all working in harmony, you would have nothing showing up in
your life.
Even if you are a “self-made person,” you could not have gone
past the first moment of your independence without the gifts of the
very basics that you used to become self-made in the first place. Just
remind yourself of this fact each day and gratitude will begin replac-
ing cynicism.
Practice a silent expression of gratitude when you start to see your
desires manifesting from the universal source. A very private, sim-
ple, “Thank you, God, I see you working in my life and I acknowl-
edge with love my appreciation for all that you bring to me” is all
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that is needed. These private and firm inner reminders to be thank-
ful will keep you from getting blocked by those obstacles you have
just read about.
Become a person who is willing to tell those around you how much
you appreciate them. Make a concerted effort to say aloud how
much you love your family members without making it a phony rit-
ual. Be willing to say aloud what a lovely home you have and how
much you appreciate it, or to express appreciation to someone who
does your laundry or cooks a fine meal for you. Do this in a sincere
fashion and you will see how quickly this attitude is reciprocated
and appreciated.
You can practice this attitude of gratitude with strangers. Do
small favors like returning a shopping cart to the store rather
than leaving it in the parking lot, or telling a waitress how much
you appreciate her kind attention to details. The more you are
willing to express gratitude, the more you are cultivating an
experience of unconditional love, which, as you know, is the
secret to manifesting.
Be thankful and avoid complaining as much as possible. Remember
my own personal slogan, “Don’t complain, don’t explain.” Catch
yourself as you are about to find fault with someone or some condi-
tion. Then, instead, find something to say that reflects a willingness
to be a love finder: “They probably haven’t been taught how to per-
form that task properly” rather than “No one can do anything right
anymore. I don’t know what the world is coming to.”
The more you practice not criticizing and not complaining, the
more that vacuum within you will fill with love and appreciation.
Give yourself a specific period of time to practice avoiding com-
plaining and faultfinding, perhaps thirty days. You will experience
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the emptying of rancor and complaints from your inner self and the


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202
OTHER MEDICINAL p LANT sDictamnus albus
Dictamnus albus (Rutaceae)
Dittany,
Burning Bush
Description  Strongly aromatic, bushy, and hairy
perennial growing to 32 in (80 cm). Has compound
leaves and spikes of 5-petaled white or pink flowers streaked with purple.
Habitat & Cultivation This herb grows in
southern and central Europe and northern Asia, preferring warm, wooded areas. The flowering tops are gathered in late summer, the root generally in autumn.
Parts Used  Root, flowering tops.rapidly strengthens the heartbeat, but is excreted very slowly. Digoxin is therefore preferred as a long-term medication.
History & Folklore In medical history, foxglove
is best known as the discovery of William Withering, an 18th-century English country doctor. Curious about the formula of a local herbalist, he explored the plant’s potential medical uses. His work led to the production of a life-saving medicine.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Foxglove has a
profound tonic effect on a diseased heart. Heart disease worsens when the heart’s ability to maintain normal circulation decreases. Foxglove’s cardiac glycosides enable the heart to beat more strongly, slowly, and regularly, without requiring more oxygen. At the same time, it stimulates urine production, which lowers the volume of blood, and thus lessens the load on the heart.
Related Species Woolly foxglove (D. lanata)
is today the main source of cardiac glycosides.
 RQ Cautions
Potentially fatal in  overdose. Use only  under professional
supervision. This
plant is subject to
legal restrictions.
Common foxglove
enables the heart
to beat more
evenly and is an
invaluable remedy
for heart disease.Digitalis lutea (Scrophulariaceae)
Y ellow Foxglove
Description Erect perennial growing to 3 ft
(1 m). Has narrow, lance-shaped leaves, and long spikes of yellow, bell-shaped flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to western
and central Europe, this herb grows in woodland areas, on roadsides, and in mountainous regions. It is cultivated for medicinal use in Russia. The leaves are harvested in the second summer of growth.
Parts Used Leaves.
Constituents Y ellow foxglove contains
cardiac glycosides (including the cardenolides  alpha-acetyldigitoxin, acetyldigitoxin, and
lanatoside). All act to strengthen the beating  of a weakened heart.
History & Folklore Unlike the closely
related common foxglove (D. purpurea,  following entry), yellow foxglove does not  appear to have played a significant role in  European herbal medicine.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Y ellow foxglove
is little employed in herbal medicine, but in fact
it is a less toxic alternative to purple foxglove and woolly foxglove (D. lanata). It has similar medicinal actions but its alkaloids are more readily metabolized and flushed out by the body. Like other foxgloves, this plant supports a weakened or failing heart, increasing the strength of contraction, slowing  and steadying the heart rate, and lowering blood pressure by strongly stimulating the production  of urine, which reduces overall blood volume.
Related Species Common foxglove
(following entry).
 RQ Cautions Excessive doses of yellow
foxglove can prove fatal. Use only under professional supervision. This plant is subject
to legal restrictions in some countries.Dittany flowers were formerly used to make a preparation
that was sniffed up the nose as a treatment for head colds.
Constituents  Dittany’s potent volatile oil
contains estragol and anethole, and a toxic
alkaloid, dictamnin.
History & Folklore  Dittany exudes such large
amounts of volatile oil that in hot, dry conditions, a match held close will cause the whole plant to burst into flames. The plant has been used to flavor liqueurs and has been brewed as a tea in parts  of Siberia. In European folk medicine, dittany was considered an antidote to poison, pestilence, and  the bites of all types of venomous animals.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Very rarely used
by herbalists today, dittany has an action similar
to that of rue (Ruta graveolens, p. 265), in that
it strongly stimulates the muscles of the uterus, inducing menstruation and sometimes causing abortion. By contrast, its effect on the gastrointestinal tract is antispasmodic. Dittany relaxes the gut and acts as a mild tonic for the stomach. The plant has also been used as a treatment for nervous conditions.
 RQ Cautions  This herb is toxic. T ake only
under professional supervision. Do not take  during pregnancy.Digitalis purpurea
(Scrophulariaceae)
Common Foxglove,
Purple Foxglove
Description  Perennial growing to 5 ft (1.5 m).
Has a single erect stem, broad lance-shaped leaves,
and bell-shaped, purple-pink or white flowers in long spikes.
Habitat & Cultivation This herb is native to
western Europe. Though it is also cultivated, the wild plant is considered superior. The leaves are picked in summer.
Parts Used Leaves.
Constituents Foxglove contains cardiac glycosides
(including digoxin, digitoxin, and lanatosides), anthraquinones, flavonoids, and saponins. Digitoxin
US_202-223_Digitalis_lutea_Iris_versicolor.indd   202 26/02/16   12:47 pm203 OTHER MEDICINAL p LANT sEchium vulgar E
Dipsacus fullonum  (Dipsacaceae)
Teasel
Description Perennial with a spiny ridged stem
growing to 61⁄2 ft (2 m), lance-shaped leaves, and
lilac-colored flowers blooming from hooked heads.
Habitat & Cultivation Common throughout
Europe and western Asia, teasel thrives on open
areas, roadsides, and banks. It is cultivated only on a
small scale. The root is unearthed in late summer.
Part Used Root.
Constituents Teasel contains inulin, bitter
substances, and a scabioside.
History & Folklore Traditionally, the root
was used to treat conditions such as warts, fistulas
(abnormal passages opening through the skin), and
cancerous sores. The water that collects in the leaf
was called “Venus’s bath” by early herbalists, and was
thought to be very beneficial for the eyes.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Teasel root is
little used medicinally today, and its therapeutic
applications are disputed. It is thought to have
diuretic, sweat-inducing, and stomach-soothing
properties, cleansing the system and improving
digestion. Due to its apparent astringency, teasel is
considered helpful in diarrhea. It is also thought to
increase appetite, to tone the stomach, and to act on
the liver, helping with jaundice and gallbladder
problems. A new application of teasel, so far
unsubstantiated, is in the treatment of Lyme disease.Sundew was once considered a refreshing herb because
it maintained its “dew” even in full sun.
Dorema ammoniacum (Apiaceae)
Ammoniacum
Description Very large perennial herb growing
to a height of 10 ft (3 m), with a stout stem,
compound leaves, and umbels of white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Ammoniacum is native
to central Asia, Iran, and northern Russia. When
pierced, the stem exudes a milky gum, which is
pressed into blocks and then ground into a powder.
Part Used Oleo-gum-resin.Constituents Ammoniacum contains a resin
(60–70%), gum, volatile oil (including ferulene and
linalyl acetate), free salicylic acid, and coumarins.
History & Folklore Ammoniacum’s medicinal
value has been appreciated since ancient times, and
is mentioned by Hippocrates (460–377 bce). The
herb’s common name reputedly derives from
the Temple of Jupiter Ammon in Libya, in an area
where it was commonly collected.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Used in both
Western and Indian medicine, ammoniacum is still
listed in the British Pharmacopoeia  as an antispasmodic
and as an expectorant that stimulates the coughing
up of thick mucus. It is a specific treatment for
chronic bronchitis, asthma, and persistent coughs.
Ammoniacum is also occasionally used to induce
sweating or menstruation.
Other Species Ammoniacum is medicinally
similar to asafoetida ( Ferula assa-foetida, p. 210)
and galbanum ( Ferula gummosa, p. 211).Habitat & Cultivation Sundew grows in
Europe, Asia, and North America, and is found
in marshy ground at altitudes up to 5,900 ft
(1,800 m). Formerly it was picked while in flower
in summer. As it is now rare, it should


 in the certain triumph
of beauty over ugliness, of truth over error, of good over egotism and hatred.
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only effective means of collective progress, and that nothing true, beautiful or
good can be built upon hatred, the spirit of party, cliques, rivalry, revenge and
oppression.
9.  We believe that there cannot fail to be universal sympathy for every
sincere  effort to  do  good,  even when it seems to  be  in  opposition,  as the
ways  of realizing a better future are as numerous as are human temperaments.
10.  We firmly believe that we shall overcome evil, not by attacking it,
but by maintaining and strengthening the good.

Evil exists not;
    Only the past.
    The past is past.
    The present is a moment.
The FUTURE is all!
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 SLEEP, A SOURCE OF HARMONY

FROM a physiological point of view sleep is a process of
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with for some days. Sleep supplies something even more
important than the elements furnished by food.
In the waking state there is a difference between all plants,
animals and men, and also bet


 A N D  U P  F O R  Y O U R  H E A L T H!
When we become the authority on our own health and healing,  we can use
the reso urces available to us i n the most ef ficient and appropriate way.
Many times, we must address our physical symptoms to get relief from
them, so we can think straight and function, but our focus on health can’ t
end ther e. When  we can step up to what we expect of ourselves,  we can use
the med ical system, both conventional and alternative, in the most informed
and ef fe ctive wa y. When we stand up for our own health, we won’ t buy into
a pre determined  medical system that is laid out before us to blindly follow.
W e w ill no long er be lulled into  the concepts of health-related c omforts and
conveniences, but rather rise up to the challenge of facing our fears and
becoming whole.
Steve, a 40-year -old man, came to see me. He had had learning disabilities
all his life due to an injury durin g his birth. He managed his daily functions
very car efully an d methodically.  It worked for him. He lived with  his mother
but had a job, and he was doing his best. Although he did not completely
understand healing, he was drawn to it and that is one of the r easons he
came to see me. He also wanted to learn about how to liv e a healthy
lifestyle. Upon meeting with him, I r ealized that he was actually mor e
functional than he thought. He had a job, he cleaned his home, he did the
best he could do every day.
What wa s gettin g him down was that he would never be like other 40-year -
old men who wer e married with their own homes and c hildr en. In
comparison, he felt small and h ighly inadequate, but otherwis e okay with
his l ife. I asked him what it wo uld be like if he lived somewher e wher e all
the 40-y ear -olds wer e exactly like him. His eyes lit up and he  smiled. By
himself and with himself, he was actually quite content. The thought that he
was actually okay, or good enough, lit him up. His struggle was not his
disability; his struggle was the meaning he gave his disability by comparing
himself with others. The r evela tion that he actually was okay struck him
deeply and he looked like a differ ent person. His body perked up, his eyesshone an d ther e  was a smile on his face. At the end of his appo intment, as
he w as leaving, he nodded his head and kept r epeating to himself, “I am
okay! I can do this! This is good!”
Isn’ t that what we all want? T o know, that we are going to be okay
regardless of our challenges and our struggles? The struggles don’ t need to
go a way for us to be okay, we have to tap into something bigger  in us that is
far m ore powerful and potent than our struggles. When we limit a person to
their dia gnosis, we limit their view of themselves. They becom e the illness
and can’ t get be yond it. The thi nking that we are just our body is limiting
and gets in the way of our healing. When we look at illness from the
viewpoint of what caused it, r ather than how it has shown up, we are
creating space to work at its root cause, instead of masking it.
T o know  that we have cr eated something gives us the power to un-
cr eate it.
This motivates us to look deeper, to heal, rather than to give in and succumb
to our misfortune. Connecting to our own power is the most healing thing
we can do for ourselves.
No one is broken, nobody! No ne of us are victims! Life is no thing but a
series of  opportunities for Self-realization. It is up to us to cho ose to view
our cha llenges as opportunitie s. How long can we keep running and
repeating the same old patterns? Sooner or later, we must step up! I
recommend sooner!
The Universe will always suppo rt our higher intentions and asp irations, our
higher purpose of serving others and spreading goodness in the world. Y ou
have the ultimate responsibility for your health. Don’ t reduce your life to a
script an d a pill. Y our struggles won’ t lessen with that. Sedating or numbing
our min ds to the pain will only  prolong the suf fering. A wakening to our
struggles not only lessens them, but will also awaken us to our T ruth.
Allow yourself to come alive and to feel deeply, instead or rushing to block
your pat h with a pill. Feeling deeply is your ultimate strength; it is what you
can af ford to do. Let fear be a catalyst instead of an obstacle. Don’ t
normalize pain and suf fering, it isn’ t why you are here, you are here to heal.There is a yearning in all of us, a fire to awaken to that part of ourselves
which is  much lar ger than we can imagine. Connect with tha t yearning.
Nothing creates a bigger burden for our souls than not showing up for
ourselves.
Expect more! If you expect to w alk away with a script, then that’ s what you
will get. Don’ t be taken in by dumb and embarrassing marketing. “W e call
our patie nts by their first name,” the hospital ad says. Seriously? W e should
drool ov er that?  I like to know what they were calling their patients before.
By their  disease? The standards have become so low that we actually are
impressed if we are called by own first names. The same g oes for the
standards for early detection, so- called “prevention.” If it is detected, it isn’ t
prevented. W e must raise the bar as to what prevention is. Prev ention is in
your kitchen, in how you live. It isn’ t in a blood test. A blood test is a
warning. Why must you need a warning? It is your health, your life, isn’ t it?
Bigger a nd filled -to-capacity ho spitals are signs of a sick nation and it isn’ t
anything to boast about or to be proud of. I dream of a world where the
hospitals becom e the healing and health education centers. State-of-the art
medical equipment, a new wing, and expensive artwork in the  lobby isn’ t
my visio n. I will applaud when the medical world is concerned more with
creating goodwi ll than collecting patients; where instead of bo osting their
egos, they are boosting our con fidence in creating our own he alth; where
they view the opportunities to m ake a lasting dif ference in the lives of those
who cross their path, instead of maintaining a limited fixati on on their
bottom l ine. The  Universe never supports greed or personal nar row-minded
agendas; it will always support our big visions and higher purpose. W e can,
at our individual levels, have a big vision for our health and our life.
I dream of a wor ld where old age is not equated with disease. D isease is not
a fu nction of ag e. W e can’ t ha ve a mindset of being disease-ridden at a
certain age. W e can’ t hold on to the cause of death of our parents and their
parents. Keep your mind young  and keep your beliefs young. Age matters
but how you age matters more. Y our mindset, and your beliefs, are
everything when it comes to your health. Aging is not a dise ase. If you
believe that you are doomed because you are old, then you ARE doomed.W e can run, but we can’ t hide f rom our higher calling. When we don’ t do
all that we can do, our soul will seek us out and confront us and we’d better
have an answer for it. Live today according to your bigger purpose and
calling, and your last day will be a quiet celebration of knowi ng that you
have done all that you could do. Y ou can be the source of guidance and
healing. Ultimately, we have to answer to our soul alone, and not to our
boss, our CFO or our insurance companies.
I want a world where the healing heart of the physician is more valued than
the medical equipment he or sh e uses. A world where compassion, time,
connection and Consciousness are a norm, and not an uphill bat tle for those
desiring to heal. W e don’ t need  state-of-the art equipment, we need more
healing hearts and hands, a reassurance that we are going to be okay, a
reminder that we are more than our symptoms and diagnosis. If the medical
world practiced  some common sense and wisdom, we might require less
testing. The medical processes  are more fear -driven than what we truly
need. There is m ore documenting but less listening. Machines c an only test
what’ s going on physically, whe n the true healing is something that happens
at a mu ch deeper


 reason at all—oblivious to their
life-or-death s ituation. Suc h freedom is absent in creatures
hemmed in by physical ev olution. Only Homo sapiens  turns
extreme risk-t aking into fun. We choose our own motiv es, and
personal realit y moves with our intentions. It would be horrifying
to find yourself in a dark alley facing an assailant armed with a
knife, b ut som eone with appendicitis, blocked coronary arteries,
or a tumor willingly undergoes the controlled violence presented
by knife-wielding surgeons. Once consciousness interprets a
situation in a specific way, th e reality of the situation fits whatever
consciousness has decided.
The virt ual rea lity that surrounds us permanently is a cons truct
that fits so many motives, intentions, decisions, and
interpretations that we’ve lost track of them all.

This chapter has dived into deep water, and some issues get
complex. But the purpose of the chapter is simple—to close the
gap be tween illusion and reality. No one’s body is going to
vaporize. The commonsense world will be there to greet yo u when
you wake up tomorrow morning. Yet everything is entangled in
illusion, makin g the commonsense world unstable at its core. By
testing the very limits of time, space, matter, and energy, we are
testing our own creative po wer. Moving a mountain with yourmind is nothing next to mo ving the whole world, which is our
ultimate goal.I6

E X I S T E N C E  A N D
C O N S C I O U S N E S S  A R E
T H E  S A M E
have strong memories, growing up in India, of attending
schools taught by Catholic  missionaries. The Old Testament
wasn’t light reading—I came away remembering sin, wars, laws,
lamentations, a nd plagues. But there’s a verse very early o n, after
the seven days of creation, in which God “was walking  in the
Garden in the cool of the day” (Genesis 3:8). God was still on good
terms with Adam and Eve, a nd, in my imagination, the moment
was perfect for a casual conve rsation. None occurs. Adam and Eve
aren’t a ctually there at first, h aving hidden from God out of shame
for thei r nakedness. But in my imaginary conversation, they would
ask a crucial question: “Why did you do it? Why did you create the
world?”
In reply, God would say, somewhat sheepishly, “There wasn’t
any reason. I just had to. I couldn’t help myself.”
Modern cosmology has come up with no better answer. The
universe is self-creating. It exists just because it has to exist.
Everything sin ce the big bang has unfolded of its own  accord,
driven b y natural forces. We a lmost didn’t make it. Physicists havecalculated that the balance of creation and destruction was
extremely delicate in the beginning. Destruction came within a
hairbreadth of  winning out, because all but the tiniest fra ction of
primal mass and energy coll apsed within itself, returning to the
vacuum state, as it is know n. As little as one part in a billion
escaped the jaws of destruction—a metaphor for gravity, the force
that caused the collapse of e verything else—but one billionth of
creation was enough to enab le trillions of stars and galaxies to be
formed. (This didn’t happen quickly, though. It took 800 million
years for the oldest star to coalesce from interstellar dust.)
A se lf-creating universe is our version, with many bells and
whistles attached, of the eighteenth-century notion of God as a
cosmic clockm aker who wound up the early universe, set it going,
and departed to let it operate  mechanically. But self-crea tion is a
sticky b usiness. Who or what got the process going? The creator’s
creator wasn’t a problem for the ancient Jewish rabbis—they
accepted God on faith as always existing. Finding a similar
nonfaith agent has proved all but impossible.
I’m arg uing in this book tha t consciousness is the only viable
self-creator, turning itself into mind, body, brain, and universe.
That’s a radical departure from physical explanations of the
cosmos. As in the Book of Ge nesis, consciousness creates because
it h as to. It only needs to ex ist in order to start the ball rolling.
(Where did existence come from? We don’t have to worry about
that, because if nonexistence existed, it wouldn’t be nonexistence.)
Just because it exists, pure consciousness generates reality as
we know  it. The ancient Indi an scriptures speak of myriad worlds
spinning into creation like motes of dust dancing in a sunbeam.
But in the same sunbeam we see myriad thoughts, feelings,
sensations, and images, too, the entire content of the human
mind. Faced with staggering overload, our minds have to generate
a livabl e world to inhabit—a human world—and the virtual reality
that we created was inevitable.
But simply reducing the teeming multiplicity of raw reality
wasn’t enough. The human world contains meaning. Where did it
come from? It was always there, as a primary trait of met areality.
Pure consciousness created a universe filled with meaning.
Everything we can say about being human—our joy, love, vitality,intelligence, a nd infinite potential—needed no creator. Those
qualities came  with existence, right off the bat. Without w heels, a
car isn’t a car.  Without humanity, the cosmos isn’t a cos mos we
could ever relate to, or even inhabit.
The universe was created for us because there is no other
alternative. Creation cannot be whole unless we are who le. Once
this secret is re vealed, metahuman can free itself from sel f-doubt,
confusion, and sorrow. They are the stepchildren of illusion.
A  S p e c i a l  C r e a t i o n
Pure consciousness cannot be interviewed, like talking to God,
even in an imaginary conversation. But the notion of self-creation
has always been viable. We  can accept without question that
Homo sapiens  cre ated its ow n version of reality. We are still at it,
with no signs of stopping. It makes no sense to claim that our
remotest ancestors somehow learned to be creative. Creativity is
intrinsic to us, like breathing.
Somehow we picked up a lo t of old habits that consciousness
had got ten use d to. All life forms are wrapped up in self-c reation,
but they are c ontent to let it roll over them. The ancestor of all
mammals was a shrew-like cr eature named Juramaia  t ha t liv ed in
tree ferns around freshwate r lakes 160 million years ago. The
discovery of this creature in China in 2011 pushed the ancestry of
all “tru e” mammals back by 35 million years. (A true m ammal
species is one in which the fetus is nurtured by a placenta in the
womb. This accounts for 95 percent of all mammals, the other
portion being marsupials like possums and kangaroos that give
birth t o tiny babies that finish their maturation inside the
mother’s pouch.)
Juramaia  did n’t know t hat it would be anything but a shrew,
and you’d think, looking at its five-inch skeleton, that only modern
shrews would descend from it, not all true mammals. No  trace of
dogs, cats, bats, elephants, o r whales is visible. It took a lot of
inference to suggest that Juramaia  had a placenta, since no softtissues are preserved in fossils. Yet guesswork isn’t needed when it
comes t o know ing that a plac enta was the key. Once it appeared, a
unique feature never seen before, a door was opened. What rushed
through it wasn’t Juramaia, which eventually became extinct, but
self-creation. An unstoppable habit took a leap forward. From
then on, true mammals could be small, big, or mammoth. They
could s wim, walk, crawl, burrow, or fly. Nothing was fixed or
permanent—except a placenta. Nature took a creative leap without
precedent, wit h barely a hin t in all past life forms that t his new
kind of birth was possible.
This brings up a second mi sconception, that evolution is all
about p rogress. Creativity doesn’t need to progress; it is already
complete. Ever y life form is a complete creative act. In the case of
Juramaia, a tiny shrew-like creature wasn’t better than what came
before. Marsupials could have ruled the Earth—they became the
only indigeno us mammals in Australia. Much earlie r, eggs
evolved, and they kept on h atching, just as they did during the
reign of the dinosaurs. Live birth wasn’t better—today some
sharks lay eggs while others give birth to live young. There is no
straight-line progression from early life forms to us. Billion-year-
old microbes, one-celled animals, and blue-green algae continue
to e xist because their adaptation to the Earth


	skin,	and	reduced	elasticity.
9
	They
also	found	that	those	in	the	quality	sleep	group	recovered	more	efficiently	from
damage	and	other	stressors	like	exposure	to	the	sun.
10
	This	shows	that	sun	is
not	the
only
	big	issue	with	skin	aging.	Other	factors,	such	as	the	quality	of	your
sleep,	may	reduce	your	skin’s	ability	to	recover	from	sunlight	exposure.
Need	more	proof?	A	study	at
Sweden’s
University	of	Stockholm	found	that
sleep	deprivation	produced	visible	signs	of	aging,	including	increased	hanging
eyelids,	darker	circles	under	the	eyes,	more	wrinkles	and	fine	lines,	swollen	eyes,
and	more	pronounced	droopy	corners	of	the	mouth.
11
	Anything	that	promotes
the	use	of	the	word
droopy
	to	describe	your	face	must	obviously	be	avoided	as
much	as	possible!
WEIGHT	GAIN
In	general,	those	who	do	not	sleep	well	tend	to	weigh	more	than	those	who	get
good	levels	of	sleep.
12
	A	University	Hospitals	Case	Medical	Center	clinical	trial
found	that	poor	sleepers	were	nearly	twice	as	likely	to	be	overweight	than	those
who	slept	well.	In	their	study,	23	percent	of	the	“good	quality”	sleepers	were
obese,	versus	44	percent	in	the	group	that	reported	poor	sleep	quality.
13
	A
Wisconsin	Sleep	Cohort	study	found	that	as	hours	of	sleep	per	night	went
down,
body	mass	index	(BMI)	went	up	proportionally.
14
	This	further	disputes
the	vastly	oversimplified	approach	that	what	is	on	your	plate	and	how	much
you	work	out	are	the	only	factors	that	determine	your	weight.
In	another	study	published	in	the
American	Journal	of	Epidemiology
,	women
who	slept	5	hours	or	less	a	night	had	a	15	percent	higher	risk	of	becoming
obese	than	women	who	slept	7	hours	a	night.	Over	the	course	of	the	sixteen-
year	study,	the	women	who	got	less	sleep	also	had	a	30	percent	higher	risk	of
gaining	30	pounds	than	the	women	who	got	7	hours	of	sleep	per	night.
15
You	may	be	wondering	exactly
how
	sleep	affects	your	weight.	It	turns	out	that
a	lack	of	proper	sleep	can	disrupt	the	key	hormones	that	control	appetite,
making	those	who	sleep	poorly	more	hungry	than	those	who	sleep	well	throughthe	night.
16
	A	study	published	in	the
Journal	of	Clinical	Endocrinology	and
Metabolism
	looked	at	the	connection	between	sleep	and	the	hormone	leptin,
which	controls	appetite,	and	found	that	circulating	levels	of	leptin	in	your	body
are	influenced	by	the	quality	of	your	sleep.
17
	This	means	that	the	more	sleep
you	get,	the	better	your	body	becomes	at	sensing	when	it	is	full.
The	connection	between	sleep	duration,	body	weight,	metabolism,	and
specific	hormones	was	backed	up	by	a	team	of	researchers	from	the
Stanford
University	School	of	Medicine,	who	found	that	getting	less	sleep	can	lead	to
higher	levels	of	ghrelin,	a	hormone	that	triggers	appetite,	and	lower	levels	of
leptin,	which	tells	your	body	it’s	full,	as	well	as	an	increased	BMI.
18
	In	other
words,	the	less	you	sleep,	the	hungrier	you	will	be	and	the	more	food	it	will	take
to	make	you	feel	full!
The
Harvard	School	of	Public	Health	suggests	that	not	getting	enough	sleep
leads	to	other	factors	that	contribute	to	weight	gain.	For	example,	people	who
don’t	sleep	enough	may	be	too	exhausted	to	exercise,	leading	to	weight	gain.	Or
perhaps	these	people	simply	have	more	opportunities	to	eat	since	they	spend
more	hours	of	the	day	awake.	And	we’ve	all	experienced	pesky	food	cravings.
When	sleep	deprived,	you	may	feel	more	emotional,	fatigued,	and	susceptible	to
cravings.	One	study	showed	that	the	amygdala,	a	set	of	neurons	in	the	brain
responsible	for	emotional	reactions	in	the	decision-making	process,	was	more
active	when	subjects	did	not	get	adequate	sleep.
19
Interestingly,	the	ease	with	which	you	gain	weight	or	maintain	a	healthy
weight	may	be	related	to	childhood	sleep	patterns.	A	recent	study	in	the
Archives
of	Pediatrics	and	Adolescent	Medicine
	found	that	not	getting	enough	sleep	in	early
life	(through	preschool)	can	be	a	long-term	risk	factor	for
obesity
throughout
life.
20
	The	study	also	found	that	napping	was	not	a	viable	substitute	for
nighttime	sleep	as	it	relates	to	obesity	prevention.
21
	If	you	are	a	parent,	you	can
rest	assured	that	your	perhaps	frequent	bedtime	battles	are	well	worth	it	for	the
sake	of	your	child’s	long-term	health.
HORMONAL	IMBALANCE
Hormones	are	chemicals	that	are	produced	by	different	organs	and	glands	and
send	important	signals	to	different	parts	of	the	body.	As	hormones	largely
regulate	repairs	that	take	place	in	the	body,	impacting	how	you	look	and	feel,	it
is	essential	to	balance	your	hormones	in	order	to	express	your	Radical	Beauty.
Hormones	can	be	compared	to	keys	that	“unlock”	certain	cells	but	not	others.
Like	keys,	different	cells	fit	with	specific	hormones.	When	the	“key”	is	turned
and	the	cell	is	“unlocked,”	it	receives	a	signal	to	multiply,	make	proteins	orenzymes,	or	perform	other	vital	tasks,	including	releasing	other	hormones.
There	is	a	high	level	of	intelligence	with	hormones.	Some	may	fit	with	many
types	of	cells	but	have	different	effects	on	each	type	of	cell.	For	example,	a
hormone	may	stimulate	one	type	of	cell	to	perform	a	task,	while	the	same
hormone	turns	off	a	different	type	of	cell.	To	complicate	this	even	more,	the
way	a	cell	responds	to	a	specific	hormone	may	change	over	time.
While,	thankfully,	our	bodies	and	all	their	intrinsic	parts	perform	their
duties	without	us	having	to	direct	them,	it’s	important	that	we	create	an	ideal
environment	for	our	hormones	to	function	properly.	The
National	Institute	on
Aging	teaches	us	that	hormone	production	fluctuates	during	the	day	and	also
during	different	points	in	your	life.
22
	While	some	natural	fluctuations	are
normal,	we	want	to	avoid	the
unnatural
	variations	that	occur	if	you	don’t	get
enough	sleep	on	a	consistent	basis.	Restoration	is	key	to	your	all-around	well-
being	and	for	your	natural	beauty	to	express	itself.
It’s	been	well	documented	that	inadequate	sleep	can	negatively	affect	certain
hormone	levels	in	the	body.
23,
24
	In	addition	to	its	effects	on	the	hormones	that
control	appetite,	a	lack	of	sleep	causes	your	body	to	produce	excess	amounts	of
the	hormone	cortisol,	which	can	break	down	your	skin	cells	and	contribute	to
various	skin	issues.
25
	Cortisol	is	a	stress	hormone	that	tends	to	accumulate
around	the	stomach,	unfortunately	leading	to	weight	gain	specifically	in	the
belly	area,	as	stomach	fat	cells	are	s


 really the hookup of thoughts, the essence
of our universe, this vibrating energy that we cannot see or define.
Similarly, the hookup between your thoughts and those of someone else is
easier to consider with the idea that thought is energy flowing unimpeded in
the universe, not just in one individual. Those seeming coincid ences seem
elegantly appropriate when we are tuned in to the dimension of thought.
The answ er for me to the question “What are these connectors made of?” is
simply: “They are thoughts.”
Thoughts contemplated as energy are hooking up not out of coincidence,
but because we are both the source of thought and a part of universal
thought. The ability to be thoug ht and create thought gives us the ability to
make virtually any connection to thought that we choose. As we awaken to
this probability, coincidences no longer are surprising. Before long we
come to expect them. And then, trans-form-ation, as we are able to create
them at will. Acknowledgment of synchronicity in our lives nurtures our
divine connection to the invisible, formless world. It allows us to begin theawakening process and to see that we can use our ability to think and be
thought, to reshape and redirect our entire lives.

THE AWAKENING PROCESS

Stage One: Your beginnings on the path. Remember when your
heart was broken and you felt that you would never get over the
trauma? Your mind probably seemed to be working against you
because of your endlessly painf ul thoughts of how miserable you
were right then and how awful the future seemed. Perhaps it was
a roman tic crisis, a divorce, a financial disaster, an illness or
accident of some kind. You were unable to view it with hindsight.
The experience of a crisis immo bilizes us for a long period of
time. Our mind is focused on the disaster aspects of the situation,
and we are unab le to function effectively. We are unable to sleep
or eat, and do not know how we are going to get past the terrible
set of circumst ances. We use our minds to focus on what is
wrong, how painful it is, and how terrible it is going to be in the
future. Advice from friends and relatives seems unrelated to our
problem and usually results in anger and frustration. We cannot
see any way out of our misery.
This is a typical response for all of us who are traveling our life
paths in the belief that the extern al signposts are all there is to our
reality. We cannot imagine that there is a valuable lesson in the
trauma. We reject any suggesti ons that someday we will recall
this experience as a necessary  step in our development. We
simply want to wallow in our hurt, believing that someone or
something outsi de of us is creating this pain, and wishing that
those externals would change.
I acknowledge having been in this place for a part of my life. I
can recall being immobilized over romantic and family crises, and
being so sad and weepy that I functioned ineffectively. My mind
seemed to be stuck in place on a particular problem and I was
unable to go more than a few minutes without having those
thoughts in my head. I felt possessed by the problem, and couldnot imag ine why this was happening to me, nor could I visuali ze
anything positive ever resulting from these dif ficulties.
All of us at this point on our personal journey of awakening are
possessed by our traumas. We truly believe that the events are
making us unhappy, and have not yet learned that we are strande d
in the misery by the way that we are processing the events.
J. Krish namurti, in his Commentaries on Living, writes of a
man who is reacting to the loss of his wife:
“I used to paint, but now I can’t touch the brushes, or
look at the things I have done. For the last six months I
also have seemed to be dead….  The other day I picked
up the brushes, and they were strangers to me. Before, I
didn’ t even know  I held a brush in my hand; but now it
has weig ht, it is cumbersome. I have often walked to
the river, wanting never to come  back; but I always did.
I couldn ’t see people, as her face was always there. I
sleep, dream and eat with her, but I know it can never
be the same again…. I have tried to forget, but do what
I will, it can never be the same again. I used to listen to
the birds, but now I want to destroy everything. I can’t
go on like this, I haven’ t seen any of our friends since
then, and without her they mean nothing to me. What
am I to do?”
The widower describes dramatically how his mind is stuck in
suffering. All of us have exper ienced or will experience similar
painful emotion s. We are unable to consider that there may be a
gift in the unfolding drama that is our life in the moment.
Stage Two: The middle ground. As we become more awakened,
we use our power to create our world through thought in a much
more transcende nt way. Looking back, we almost always see the
benefit to us. The divorce that we thought we would never getover now seems to be the best thing that ever happened. Youthful
crises which felt life-threatening  at the time now seem a natural
part of our devel opment. The bout with alcohol addiction that was
ruining a life is now viewed as the most important thing ever
experienced—it taught how much strength was really deep down
inside, even though days of drunkenness seemed to destroy all
that was important at the time. The bankruptcy is seen as the
necessary catalyst that caused the shift to a more rewarding way
of life. The severe illness is recognized as the message to
reexamine priorities and slow down. Hindsight provides new eyes
to see the oppor tunity in what was happening at earlier stages of
life.
Stage Two is the middle ground  of enlightenment because it is
the place where we no longer need hindsight to see the
opportunity. As we approach this stage we are becoming aware of
the benefit right now, as it is happening. We stop focusing on
thoughts of what is missing and stop catastrophizing about the
future. Instead we shift to “Wha t is in this for me right now? How
can I turn this into an opportunity without having to go throug h
years of sufferin g before I see how necessary this all is?” This is
an impo rtant step in the enligh tenment process, and helps us to
see how synchronized the onesong really is. Certainly we still
experience the pain and suffering, but we simultaneously know
that there is something magnificent in this as well. We are able to
be gentle and accepting with ourselves, and to honor and love
even the part that is creating this crisis. We probably will not
cognitively unde rstand why this pain is occurring right now, but
we will have an underlying knowingness and belief in the value
of it.
I heard Ram Dass describe his feelings during the death of his
beloved stepmother. He wondered why she was required to suffer
so, in the advanc ed stages of melanoma. He knew in his heart that
suffering was a part of the journey, and that it always led to
something grander, but this, this horrible pain, this beautiful
woman whom he loved so dearly—why? As she passed through
the final stages before her death, he noticed that she was
becoming more peaceful, and he saw a look of exquisite serenityand joy overtak e her, and she seemed to enter a new realm, a
blissful state, as she left her form. The suffering was over, since
pain is experienced by the senses in form. She was free, and Ram
Dass, watching this scene unfold, said to himself, “Yes, and even
this too leads to a higher state.” He saw that the suffering was
leading to something grander for her, and he did not need to wait
several years to realize it. As she left, he was at peace with her
departure, for he knew that death is a reward, not a punishment.
He had that peace within himself too, knowing that the sufferin g
had within it a blessing.
Stage Two, then, involves being in the present moment with
everything that we are experiencing, rather than having to spend
long periods of time suffering  before we realize the blessing
inherent in the struggle. I became aware that I was past Stage One
on October 15, 1982, in the city of Athens, Greece. I had decided
to run the original Greek Marathon, and after a training program,
had made the trip to Greece. The distance of twenty-six-pl us
miles was not threatening to me, since I had already completed
four marathons. But I had no idea what I was going to encount er
when fifteen hundred of us lined up at the starting line in
Marathon, a tiny fishing village twenty-six and a fraction miles
from the finish line at the Olympic Stadium in Athens.
The race was delayed by about an hour because of some
technical snafus. It was 10:20 A.M. when we finally began, and the
temperature was eighty-eight degrees, heading upward into the
hottest part of the day. The terrain


 bad about-it. It tastes
and smells better than those ill-smelling medicines given to you.11
Saying thus I drank about 4 oz. urine while he was watching me. At
once he went to his mother, took a glass, passed urine in it and
drank a little. His hesitation diminished. Thus he got the means of
curing his disease.
Thereafter some friends brought to my notice the fact that the
rubbing of urine had very good effect on child's paralysis.
Whooping Cough : Shri Chandrakant of Ahmedabad (Rajpur,
Government colony, Block G), came to the Urine Therapy Centre to
receive instructions about urine treatment to be given to his wife.
He reported that this baby was cured of whooping cough by
urine treatment. With a view to confirming the report, he had
submitted the following statement on 31-5-61 :
"I hereby state that last year my little son got whooping cough
when I was on service at Surat. The allopathic and Ayurvedic
medicines were tried. During the period my mother went there. She
made the young patient drink his own urine after every call. Thus the
old cough was cured by this simple treatment. We practised this
treatment ever after when ever the boy and any trouble.
"Thus with gradual improvement, the whooping cough was
totally cured. His health which had gone down has been fully COUGH AND COLD : 95
totally cured. His health which had gone down has been fully
restored."
AFTERMATH OF CASES
1. Shri Mukundrai D. Yy'i'!. ~n,xtor Street, Mahuva, Saurashtra)
had informed that he had used urine therapy for cough and cold and
he had recovered from both of them and in addition got complete
relief from other ailments.
2. The school-teacher from Chandranagar (Sankheda, Dist.
Baroda) took to urine therapy and got rid of not only cough but
gas-trouble, pain in throat and chest, rheumatic pain in hands and
feet, and other ailments. He began to use this therapy on the
children of his school for their eye, skin and other ailements and it
has proved a blessing to them all.
3. Shri Rayashibhai Raojibhai (Sujapur, M.P.) had written that he
derived much benefit from the use of urine therapy in cough and
.,'&her ai I ments.
4. Shri Nariniprasad Roy, Mill Can Inspector, (New India Sugar
Mills, P.O. Manasi, Dist. Munger, Bihar) stated in his letter that the
could derive much benefit by urine therapy on cough, cold and
other ailments.
5. Shri Mangulal Shankarlal (UIIasnagar, Kalyan Camp, Room
No. 2, Barrack 406). had informed in writing that the could cure his
daughter's cough and cold by urine.
6. Shri B.Y. Bhagat from Surat wrote that his friends and their
wives utilized auto-urine and could derive much benefit. He has not
mentioned their ailments. CHAPTER VI
FEVERS
lnflue~za : Influenza has become a common malady these days.
It undermmes the vitality and creates a lot of trouble. The patient
becomes extremely weak and the ill-effect continues for long even
after t~e fever _disappears. Urine works like a miracle against it.
Some mformat1on about it was sent to some daily papers of
Ahmedabad by the office of Bharat Sevak Samaj for publication but
n~ne. of them. cared to publish it. Thereafter Dr. Manubhai Patel, the
D1stn~t Med1cal Officer, Mehsana, sent a report of his own
expe.nence to the same office. This important report was also not
publ1shed by the newspapers.
I could not understan.d the attitude of the newspapers. It appeared
to ~e that they are ma1nly after advertisements only! 1 think it is
the1r duty to acquaint the public of anything of general intereste and
common welfare. I am giving below the report of Dr. Manubhai
Patel:
11This year in~luenza bro~e out. There is hardly and need to say
much about th1s. The pat1ents of this disease are considerably
worried while the doctors treat them very lightly.
111 am ~ ~actor of allopathy by profession. My remarks about
co-profess1on1sts may displease them. But 1 do not want to conceal
or ~urde~ ~uth. The physicians begin their treatment merely on the
bas1s of. VISible symptoms without probing into the underlying roots
of the d1sease.
11The modern allopaths.use strepto-penicillin injections APC
t~blets ~nd other medicines of the sulpha group. It is true that the
d1sease ·~suppressed by this treatment but it badly affects the heart
and the k1dneys. A number of patients have insomnia.
'1A good number of patients of influenza come to me f~r
treatment. On the basis of my own experience, 1 can claim 'that the
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one.
11ln 1931, when I was in Africa, this disease spread out among the
aborigines residing in forests of Uganda. I was anxious to know
about their method of is treatment. For this purpose, I investigated
and was surprized to know that some Protestant priests were treating
them by the application of auto-urine. By this treatment, Africans
had recovered their health in a short time. Then I took some interest
in this method of urine treatment. I cannot forget the love and
sympathy of those priests. They gave me two books on urine cure so
that I can understand the scientific method of this therapy. In 1942,
during the military service, I myself and other European officers of
my rank adopted urine treatment against a number of diseases.11
Shri Ranjitbhai Baladevbhai Parikh is a man of selfless service.
He wa~ benefited by urine treatment. Now he is giving this
treatment to others also. There was an outbreak of influenza in
1958. As he was drinking urine daily, Ranjitbhai was saved from any
contamination but one of his nephews Dilip fell a prey to it
Ranjitbhai advised him to drink auto-urine. After half an hour the
patient had a strong vomit of some yellow and black substance. His
chest ana ·omach became light and influenza disappeared. The
patient did not teel further necessity to drink urine again. In this way
Shri Ranjitbhai cured a number of patients but never cared for any
publicity.
CHAPTER VII
ASTHMA
1. Asthma of Twelve Years : Though I had experienc:= of urine
treatment on asthma, I would not rest satisfied with.. it I wish every
family to derive benefit from such experience and every
grandmother and mother to start using this invaluable substance to
cure the diseases of their young children. God has created all th.:
living organism with the same elements and nature has provided 98 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
every ~rganism wit~ the same fluid to maintain health. Why then
shoul_d 1t not be poss1ble to cure all the diseases in human organism?
That IS why I felt that others should have experief,lce·similar to mine.
B~t due to the natural difference or the diffe'rence in intensity of
?1seases,_ there may be slight difference in the method of treatment,
1ts durat1on and actions and reactions, but the ultimate result should
\ be the same.
. There are_ many thin_gs in the world which can be performed by
!a1t~ only. St1ll I do adm1t that ·success can be expedited by the help
of s1cence.
This. experiment is not meant for the impatient, distrustful and
fickle-mmded people. I would request such persons not to undertake
su_ch. experiments. After having experimented on myself 1 was
thm~mg about the next step. There is an old maxim that if you want
a thmg to be done, then do it yourself first. It so happened that 1 had
founda pa~ient ready in my own family. My daughter-in-law had
~· suffenng from asthma for the last 12 years. It was extremely
pamfut even to see her pathetic condition in winter and monsoon.
She took large number of medicines, many injections of arsenic
~nd. other drugs were injected and various medical tablets and
hqwdswere administered. She was also treated by homoeopathic
d~r for :s months. Ayurvedic herbs were also tried out, but her
cooo1to.n dtd not improve.
last May, she v·=nt to Bombay. There, due to moisture in the air
symptoms. of asthma appeared even during hot summer. On 7th Jun~
1958, he returened ~ 1 AhmedGbad. At that time