Rava  Payasam,  320
recommended  foods
for  Kapha,  110-15
for  Kapha-Pitta,  121-27
for  Kapha- Vatta,  115-21
for  Pitta,  92-97
for  Pitta-Kapha,  104-10
for  Pitta- Vata,  98-103
for  Vata,  74-80
for  Vata- Kapha,  86-92
for  Vata- Pitta,  80-85
for  Tridosha,  128-30
recycling,  184-85
Red  Cabbage  and  Pepper  Aspic,  291
Red  Lentils  and  Basmati  Rice,  253
reverence,  151
rice,  160-63,  200.  See  also  basmati  rice,
brown  rice
RECIPES  USING
Collard  Nori  Rolls,  218
Rice  Nori  Balls,  216
Sweet  Rice  and  Aduki  Beans,  254
Rice  and  Aduki  Beans,  253
Rice  and  Wakame,  293
Rice  and  Whole  Mung  Beans,  253
Rice  Idli,  205
Rice  Nori  Balls,  216
Rice  Nori  Rolls,  217
Ricotta  and  Tofu  Quiche,  265
Ricotta  Fruit  Dessert,  315
Rishis,  8-9 Roasted  Breakfast  Grain,  222
Roasted  Peppers,  242
Rolled  Stuffed  Collards,  233
Rosewater  Pudding,  317
Rutabaga  Stew  with  Dumplings,  228
rye,  165 Rye  and  Corn,  208
Rye  and  Urad  Dosa,  204
Rye  Croutons,  281
sadhana(s),  5
cognitive  memory  and,  14
of  compassion,  332-33
daily,  186-89 of  devotion,  334
of  dhal,  171-73
food, 149-50
of  grain,  160-70
of  hands  and  feet,  153-55
for  the  heart,  151-53
for  the  kitchen,  155-60
of  love,  330-32
of  milk,  176-84
scheduling,  160
of  silence,  334-35
of  spices,  173-74 of  truth,  333 safflower  oil,  175
saffron,  300
Saffron  and  Apple  Pie,  312
Saffron  Basmati  Rice,  212
Saffron  Rice  and  Corn,  209
Sago  Payasam,  319 sahasrara,  33
salsify,  342
salt black,  296
rock,  300,  342
salty  taste,  59
Sambar  Powder,  304
sansho  leaves,  343
saraswati  nadi,  31
sarsaparilla,  300
sassafras,  300
Sauteed  Asparagus,  235
Sauteed  Broccoli  Pasta,  257
Sauteed  Red  Cabbage,  238
savoring  food,  152
seasonal  and  daily  activities
Kapha  types,  55
Pitta  types,  51-52 Vata  types,  47
seasonal  grains,  133-34 seasonal  menus.  See  menus
seasons,  131-32
prevalence  for  each  dosha,  132-33
seaweeds,  tastes  and  energy  of,  68
seeds,  tastes  and  energy  of,  69
seaweed
arame,  339
dulse,  340
hijiki,  341 kombu,  341
riverweeds,  342
seaware,  343
wakame,  343
RECIPES  USING
Arame  and  Carrot  "Tempura,"  294 Collard  Nori  Rolls,  218
Millet  Nori  Balls,  217
Millet  Nori  Rolls,  217
Oden,  294
Rice  and  Wakame,  293
Rice  Nori  Balls,  216
Rice  Nori  Rolls,  217
Squash  and  Seaweed  Soup,  286
Wakame  and  Bamboo  Shoot  Soup,  293
Wakame  Salad,  293
seitan RECIPES  USING
Chickpea  and  Seitan  Stew,  269
Seitan,  267
Seitan,  Daikon,  and  Carrot  Stew,  269
Stripped  Tarragon  Seitan,  268 Stuffed  Seitan,  268
Seitan,  267
Seitan,  Daikon,  and  Carrot  Stew,  269
352
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INDEX
self
cognitive  (collective).  See  ahamkara;
cognitive  memory
experiential  (individual).  See  ahamkara
Sesame  and  Onion  Sauce,  259
sesame  oil,  175
Sesame  Rice,  214
sesame  seed,  300
sexuality
Kapha  types,  53-54
Pitta  types,  49-50
Vata  types,  46-47
shankhini  nadi,  3 1
Shepherd's  Pie,  228
silence,  334-35
Sloppy  Joes,  262
Snow  Peas  and  Onions,  233
Soft  Breakfast  Rice,  220
Soft  Fried  Rice,  210
Soft  Millet  and  Carrots,  221
Soft  Rice,  210
sour  taste,  59
soursop,  343
South  Indian  Millet  Balls,  219
South  Indian  Steamed  Rice  Balls,  218
South  Indian  Wheat  Balls,  219
Soy  and  Orange  Peel  Brew,  324
soy  milk
RECIPES  USING
Morning  Booster,  325
Soy  and  Orange  Peel  Brew,  324
Warm  Spiced  Soy  Milk,  327
Warm  Soy  Chai,  325
Soybeans  and  Red  Cabbage  Dhal,  246
Space,  15-16,  18-19.  See  also  elements;
Vata  foods,  64
sperm  and  ovum  dhatus,  health  of,  26,  6 1
sperm  and  ovum  srotas,  29
Spiced  Broccoli,  239
Spiced  Rice  and  Millet,  216
Spiced  Vegetables,  242
Spiced  Vegetables  and  Curries,  239—42
Spiced  Wheat  Uppama,  206
Spiced  Yogurt  Drink,  327
spices
sadhanas  of,  1 73-74
tastes  and  energy  of,  68
Spicy  Home  Fries,  223
Spicy  Roasted  Eggplant,  231
spinach
RECIPES  USING
Mung  and  Spinach  Kuttu,  250
Spinach  and  Tofu  Curry,  224
Spinach  Masala,  223
Spinach  Sambar,  249
Spinach  "Souffle,"  229
Spinach  and  Tofu  Curry,  224
Spinach  Masala,  223
Spinach  Sambar,  249
Spinach  "Souffle,"  229 Split  Pea  Dhal,  245
sprouting,  173,  195
squash
gourd,  340 RECIPES  USING
Barley  and  Squash  Soup,  284
Creamed  Squash,  237
Karikai  (Squash  Curry),  227
Millet


 frustration and
depression, since some of the times, when I had to exit speedily from the room, I didn't make it to where I was headed. I'll leave that to your imagination.
   I developed a fear and apprehension about driving my car because there were many
times when "nature called" and the usual gas station couldn't be found or the spasm and "urge" came on so fast that it all happened right on the spot. I may be the only
person in the world who ever had a B.M. while driving a car at 70 miles an hour. I can laugh at it now, but it was sheer hell then.
   It was tough enough to have my podiatry practice and professional life suffer, but it
was even tougher to watch what was happening to my family and social life. I was
short on temper and patience. I was extremely irritable and depressed. There were
many arguments and misunderstandings, all ill-founded, with my wife and three-year-old son. I had changed; changed because my physical debility wa s finally affecting
my emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. But the pathetic part was that I almost didn't care.
   I remember one hospital administrator, a friend of mine, who observed me at staff
meetings over the years. He remarked to me one day, "Jack, you look like death
warmed over." Needless to say that remark didn't do much good for my psyche. I wonder how many people with whom I came in contact had similar thoughts?    The simple act of going out to a movie or  dinner became an ordeal because, first of
all, I didn't want to go. When I finally consen ted, the strategy had to be planned, such
as in what area in the theatre or restaurant would I sit where I'd be close to the
lavatory. I wasn't anxious to socialize with  friends. In fact, I tried to avoid social
situations. But when my wife and I did go to the homes of friends, I searched out the
location of all lavatories so as to have a place to escape when the need arose.
   I was becoming a recluse. This affected my wife, who needed a social outlet and
was also pregnant with our second child who would be born in two or three months,
December 1963. She was also teaching in public school three times a week. How Corinne coped with all these stresses without an emotional crack-up still amazes me
to this day. A most remarkable woman, as you will come to learn.
   Over the years, I have come in contact with many very sick people and heard them
utter a statement such as, "I wish I was dead." I didn't have much respect for a person
who could make a remark like that. Too dramatic, I thought. But then I had never
before been in any situation to warrant that kind of thinking. Never had I grasped the
full significance of someone wishing for death. Never, that is, until now. The increasing intestinal spasms, diarrhea up to thirty times a day, bleeding, pain,
poisonous effects of the drugs on my mind and body, plus a few other incidentals, had
put my life at such a low ebb that I finally did contemplate taking my life--suicide.
Suicide? It was difficult for me to realize that here I was considering something I had always abhorred.
   The thought would creep into my mind at various intervals during the day, but more
often on my "bad" days. As I recall, at this time, in the latter half of 1963, there were
no "good" days. I tried desperately to rid my mind of these thoughts, to think of
pleasantries and to see things in a positive perspective. But for me there were no
pleasantries and I had already become a negative person. Only 33 years old, but I had lived a lifetime.
   Corinne lived in constant fear and anticipation that each day I went to my office
might be the last time she would see me alive. I don't think she realized the
justification for these feelings because she never knew my inner thoughts, my deepest
and most private thoughts, although I believe she knew I was capable of causing my
own demise. But could I? It was this uncertainty that kept her in a constant state of tension and anxiety.
   After all, I did have the means. The necessary pills were in a drug cabinet in my
office. Being an expert pistol shooter and enjoying the sport, I owned a revolver. There were many days I would sit in my office and weigh in my mind which method
would be better. How would it feel with an overdose? How would it feel with a
bullet? I found it impossible to use my imagination with either method, though I
finally reasoned that the pills might be too slow. Quickly! That was the way I wanted
it to be. The decision was made. Now, do I have enough guts to do it? I knew I could not go on in the same manner. I was tired of pain, tired of suffering, tired of
vegetating--was tired of life. In my spare time at my office, I would sit back and
fondle the gun, hefting its weight and tossing it from hand to hand. Once in a while I
would mockingly place it to my head, then quickly pull it away as if it might accidentally go off by some quirk of fate. "It would be so quick," I thought. I
wondered if there would be much pain. Even so, "It wouldn't last long," I surmised.
   The weeks and months rolled by and I was still playing my little game, but I could
not bring myself to pull the trigger. Call it fear, cowardice, ethics, or whatever. Perhaps it was my moral and religious background. I knew that other people would
suffer for the rest of their lives--my moth er and father, my close relatives, my
children, and my wife. I couldn't do that to them. There must be another way.
Subconsciously, believe it or not, I still had hope. And there was to be another way
soon, a miracle, but not just yet. There was still more agony to experience. It was as if I had to fulfill certain requirements before  I could "graduate," before I would be
permitted to have body and soul reborn.
   About this time, along came another complication which I could have done without-
-hemorrhoids. This almost reinforced my suicidal contemplation, but it kept me too
busy to think about it. I had had some small hemorrhoids during the last year or two,
but because of increased rectal spasms and diarrhea with much straining, the small
ones got worse and many more developed, both internally and externally. This was
accompanied by bleeding and intense pain. The pain became intolerable with each
B.M. attempted. I couldn't determine if the bleeding was coming from the ulcerated colon, the hemorrhoids, or both.
   Dr. Kale tried to be conservative in the management of this problem since I was still
tapering down the steroid doses. I was advised on hot Sitz baths and instructed to use another drug called Anusol-HC, which is a suppository with cortisone, to be inserted
several times a day. Talk about pain! I worked up a cold sweat each time I tried to
push one of the suppositories past the hemorrhoids. I eventually had to stop this part
of the treatment.
   Of course, my ulcerative colitis was still under medical care and the many drugs
were regularly shifted from one dose to another. But the most enervating experience
now was the fact that each time I would see Dr. Kale, he would have to use the sigmoidoscope. This caused so much pain as it was pushed past the hemorrhoids that I
had to be all but held down during this procedure, which left me depleted physically and emotionally for a day or two.
   I found it very difficult to sit and also stand due to the severity of the hemorrhoids.
The pain was almost unbearable. Cushions did not help. There was almost no
comfortable position except over on my abdomen, but this position caused pressure
on my colon, which forced its spasm, making it compulsory for me to rush to the
lavatory.
   Dr. Kale was unhappy--but not as unhappy  as I--with this situation. He referred me
to a surgeon who, after much poking around, decided to needle them--inject them
with a medication. I recalled having this procedure performed in 1961 by Dr. Evans
and I didn't look forward to having it done again. Anyway, Dr. Cuttem, the surgeon,
instructed me onto the table. He told me to relax and then, with the accuracy of a
marksman, plunged the needle into the hemorrhoids. When I let out a scream he said, "Does that hurt?" How does one answer a stupid question? With watering eyes I said,
"You get up here and let me do it to you!"    This injection therapy was not too successful and Dr. Cuttem hesitated to repeat the
treatment, probably at the risk of a broken nose. He wouldn't consider surgery at this time due to the severity of the ulcerative co litis, plus the fact of possible danger from
the effects of the still present adrenal cortex atrophy from the cortisone (steroid)
drugs. This decision relieved my mind somewhat, because I did not relish the idea of


 angrier with Anita for not comprehending the problems
immediately. Anita also watche d her sister sail throug h her homework and
be praised, while Anita struggled and was ignored.
Interestingly, these stories from Anita’ s earlier life are core issue s that are
at the heart of her anxiety. They are the foundational energy disruptions that
by age sixteen, have globalized as anxiety about taking any test. What does
she need  to do now? For the time being she bookmarks the “today’ issue of
Saturday’ s test and taps on one of these events and any of the aspects that
arise, all the way down to zero. Maybe she taps on all three. Then she
returns to her present-day anxiety and checks it. When she has tapped
enough aspects down to zero, meaning they have no intensity anymore, she
no longer has a fight-or -flight anxiety response. She feels confident about
her future and understands that she has great potential. She no longer thinks
she is less than her sister. She can now effectively prepare with a clear head,
absorb the material better, make the decision to get proper rest, take the
time to study without worry, and be wholly comfortable taking the test.
Even if Anita doesn’ t do well on the test, she will now have more
resources availa ble to get the help and support she needs, and she will not
equate low test scores with being a failure and experiencing shame and
guilt.
Getting Specific with Events
Longer Than T wo MinutesBefore you start thinking, “I have to get this timing right! I can’t do it
unless my event s are under two minutes” I want to tell you that’s not it at
all. EFT takes practice, as I’ve mentioned before. How long, for example,
does it take a baby to crawl, and then to walk? The Buddhist tradition has
“precepts,” or simple guidelines from which to live. Each one starts with “I
undertake the practice to ….” This means it’s a given that we’re not going
to be perfect, that it’s going to take a while, and that we’ll make mistakes.
Keep this language in mind as you continue. Your EFT work is a practice,
and practice is never perfect.
Let’s try that collarbone tapping for about 60 seconds right now. Go
ahead, tap your collarbone points. While you are tapping, choose a song,
poem, story, or image you love. Go ahead and tap while focusing on that
“love” target. Or just become aware of your body and check into what’ s
happening insid e as you tap. Experience your body sensations without
judgment for 60 seconds of the T arzan tap.
What do you do when you have events that are upsetting that lasted for
extended periods of time? For example: The fight you had with your
spouse/friend that lasted a half-hour; the experience of how your mother
had you “tearing your hair out” when she visited for two days from out of
town; going to the doctor ’s and hearing the bad news about your or
someone else’s health, which lasted from the waiting room through to the
news to leaving the doctor ’s office—about an hour, in all; your
partner/roommate consistently neglecting to take the garbage out.
Let’s look at the first example, “fight with my husband that lasted half an
hour.” How could you approach tapping on this? Break the event down into
bite-sized pieces. Divide the half-hour fight into chunks of intensity. In this
case, four big chunks of a few minutes each, stand out: the tone of his voice
when he said something about  the mess after just walking in the door,
which we’ll call “his horrible tone”; about ten minutes into the fight, I
spoke about how hard I was trying to keep things in order and he mocked
me, which we’ll call “so sad”; about twenty minutes in, I hauled out all hispast wrongdoing s, which we’ll call “defending myself”; and finally, the end
after I locked myself in the bathroom, which we’ll call “ utterly defeated.”
Each of these tapping targets has a beginning, middle, and end. They are
short, less than two minutes in length. They carry an emotional char ge.
The event that stands out most right now is the start of the fight—“ his
horrible tone”— that’s where to start. The aspects might include: the look on
his face, his angry eyebrows, my surprise at his words, the cold tone of his
voice, my disap pointment that he wasn’ t happy to see me, he didn’ t see
anything else I’d done in the house, the feeling of all the air being taken out
of my lungs, the tightness in my shoulders when I remember what
happened, the hopelessness I felt about ever getting it right.
Sometimes, you may be sitting  on so many other past fights that are
similar in flavor that you will be surprised at the intensity of your feelings.
Be assured that tapping the specific fight events and the aspects within them
down to neutrality allows you to experience a huge release of intense
emotion stored up from the fight. Release will begin shifting the knee-jerk
motion of the pattern of fighting you and your spouse seem to get locked
into. You’re also building toward a more responsive, not reactive, future
relationship.
In situations like these, sometim es all the fights you’ve ever had flood to
mind. It can be tempting to careen toward another tapping target right away,
but see if you can stay with the one you’re on. Remember that you are
tuning into the energy disrupti on, and while you work on the one you
refocused on, you’ll be working  on clearing the others as well. There are
times, however, when the other, earlier fight is screaming at you at a 10,
while the current one is now down to a 3. I say it’s okay to shift gears for
the moment, knowing that you will return to the other tapping target after
you have resolved the bigger upset. Most important, keep tapping until you
gain clarity and neutrality about what to do next.
EFT won’t have  you tapping away upset only to remain passive in an
abusive situation. It also won’ t relieve you of all your remorse for saying
mean things so you can freely say them again in the next fight, for example.Tapping will remove the heavy layer of emotion covering up your common
sense and wisdom.
It’s not always easy to explore the aspects or details of upsettin g events,
especially seriously traumatic ones. Those stories are vital, however painful
they are—they hold your life. When you release the trauma and the fear
through tapping, you simultaneously transform and integrate those
experiences into your being in a way that’ s both empowering and healing.
So do you need to be searching diligently through your childhood to find
tapping targets? Hardly. In fact, in some cases, people just can’t take the
time or don’t have the bandwidth to go there right now, and that’s okay. All
work is good.
When to Seek Help, When to T ap on Y our Own
Please note: because I don’t know you or your situation, I cannot know
whether you can effectively tap on a significant issue on your own without
getting lost in the trauma again. Sometimes you won’ t know until you try,
and sometimes you will just know you are in over your head and need
resources to support you as you navigate through difficult issues. My
experience is that a lot of the trauma or energy disruption occurred because
we were  alone, unsafe, threatened, and scared. Having a tapping expert
guide us through the tapping process can be of enormous benefit. I
personally wasn’ t able to navigate my big issues on my own.
Would a single parent of three children under age five who recently lost a
spouse have the bandwidth to tap on her deep core issues from childhood all
on her own? Probably not. But she would be able to try something like
ducking into the bathroom and tapping on her feelings of being
overwhelmed. In this case, she would want to do everything she could to
siphon of f intensity so she could get through her day.
Is the person with significant financial issues a good candidate to plumb
the depths of his insecurities regarding money? Probably he could use a
practitioner ’s support for the deepest ends and the origins. But he might be
willing to take a dollar in his hand and tap on everything that comes upwhen he holds it and tunes into what it represents. He may also start tapping
each time he receives a bill in the mail or on the strong feelings that come
up each time he checks out at the grocery store.
Is everything going well except for one little issue that you’re wholly
ready to work on, or are you super -char ged and ready to head into the next
phase of your career except for the feeling of being stuck, unable to make
the leap? Working with a practitioner who can help you uncover your blind
spots makes sense.
If just thinking about tapping on your own issues feels like it’s too much,
that’s where you want to start tapping. Are you too scared to tap? Try:
“Even though I’m scared to tap, I deeply and completely accep t myself.”
Do you believe you are too messed up to tap? Then: “Even though I believe
I’m too messed up to tap, I love, honor, and accept myself,” or, “Even
though a part of me believes I can’t do


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t h e  p r o b l e m,  t h e  a n s w e r  i s  t o  m e d i t a t e.  T h e y ’ r e  r i g h t
b e c a u s e,  a s  E i n s t e i n  s a i d,  w e  w o n ’ t  s o l v e  t h e  p r o b l e m s  o ft h e  w o r l d  f r o m  t h e  l e v e l  o f  t h i n k i n g  w e  w e r e  a t  w h e n  w e
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a n d  t h a t ’ s  w h y  i t  c h a n g e s  o u r  l i v e s.
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e v e r y t h i n g  c h a n g e d,  a n d  w e ’ r e  b e i n g  f o r c e d  t o  l e a r n  a
d e e p l y  s p i r i t u a l  l e s s o n :  t h a t  t h e  o n l y  r e a l  s e c u r i t y  l i e s  i n  o u r
i n t e r n a l  s t r e n g t h.  A n y t h i n g  c a n  h a p p e n  t o  a n y o n e  a t  a n y
t i m e.  Y e t  o u r  d i s i l l u s i o n m e n t  s i m p l y  m e a n s  w e  w e r e
l a b o r i n g  u n d e r  a n  i l l u s i o n  b e f o r e — t h i n k i n g  e x t e r n a l  s a f e t y
c o u l d  b e  g u a r a n t e e d.  N o w  t h a t  w e  k n o w  w h i c h  h o u s e s  w e r e
b u i l t  o n  s a n d,  w e  h a v e  t h e  o p p o r t u n i t y  t o  r e b u i l d  t h e m  o n
r o c k.  E v e r y  t i m e  w e  m e d i t a t e,  i t ’ s  l i k e  w e ’ r e  c r e a t i n g  a
s e c u r e  u n d e r g r o u n d  l o c a t i o n  w h e r e  w e  c a n  r e t r e a t  w h e n
t i m e s  a r e  r o u g h.
I n  h i s  b o o k  T h e  S o u l ’ s  A w a k e n i n g,  p h i l o s o p h e r  R u d o l f
S t e i n e r  w r o t e,  “ H e  w h o  w o u l d  c r e a t e  t h e


 s u r e  r e g a r d i n g  s o m e o n e ’ s  p r o f e s s i o n a l
p e r f o r m a n c e  a n d  s h o w i n g  g r a c e  a n d  c o m p a s s i o n  t o w a r ds o m e o n e  w h o  h a d  s i m p l y  m a d e  a  m i s t a k e.  A s  m y  f o u r t e e n -
y e a r - o l d  d a u g h t e r  s a i d  t o  m e  a f t e r  l i s t e n i n g  t o  m y  e n d  o f  t h e
p h o n e  c a l l,  “ Y o u  d i d  g r e a t,  M o m.  Y o u  l e t  h e r  k n o w  s h e  h a d
d o n e  i t  w r o n g,  b u t  y o u  d i d n ’ t  s h a m e  h e r. ”
F r o m  a  p u r e l y  m o r t a l  p e r s p e c t i v e,  G o d ’ s  p l a n  m i g h t  h a v e
b e e n  t h a t  I  t a k e  a  v a c a t i o n.  B u t  o n  a  d e e p e r  l e v e l,  G o d ’ s
p l a n  h a d  t o  d o  w i t h  w h a t  C o n n i e  a n d  I  b o t h  l e a r n e d  f r o m
t h a t  e x p e r i e n c e :  s h e,  t o  b e  m o r e  c a r e f u l  i n  t h e  w o r k  s h e  w a s
d o i n g  f o r  h e r  c l i e n t s,  a n d  I,  t o  h a n d l e  s u c h  a  s i t u a t i o n
w i t h o u t  b e i n g  e i t h e r  t o o  e a s y  o r  t o o  h a r d  o n  s o m e o n e
a r o u n d  m e.
N o  m a t t e r  w h a t  g r e a t n e s s  m i g h t  o t h e r w i s e  u n f o l d  i n
C o n n i e ’ s  l i f e,  i t ’ s  b l o c k e d  i f  s h e ’ s  n o t  p e r f o r m i n g  a t  h e r
b e s t.  A n d  n o  m a t t e r  w h a t  g r e a t n e s s  m i g h t  u n f o l d  i n  m y  l i f e,
i t ’ s  b l o c k e d  b y  w h a t e v e r  i s s u e s  I  m i g h t  h a v e  i n  d e a l i n g  w i t h
p e o p l e.  A n d  t h a t  i s  G o d ’ s  p l a n — t h a t  t h e  b l o c k s  t o  o u r  i n n e r
l i g h t  b e  r e m o v e d,  t h a t  H i s  l i g h t  m i g h t  t h e n  s h i n e  t h r o u g h.
T h e  C o u r s e  i n  M i r a c l e s  w o r k b o o k  e x e r c i s e  “ I  a m  a m o n g
t h e  m i n i s t e r s  o f  G o d ”  s a y s,  “ I t  i s  n o t  o u r  p a r t  t o  j u d g e  o u r
w o r t h,  n o r  c a n  w e  k n o w  w h a t  r o l e  i s  b e s t  f o r  u s ;  w h a t  w e
c a n  d o  w i t h i n  a  l a r g e r  p l a n  w e  c a n n o t  s e e  i n  i t s
e n t i r e t y …. ” I t  c o n t i n u e s,

W h a t e v e r  y o u r  a p p o i n t e d  r o l e  m a y  b e,  i t  w a s  s e l e c t e d
b y  t h e  V o i c e  f o r  G o d,  W h o s e  f u n c t i o n  i s  t o  s p e a k  f o r
y o u  a s  w e l l.  S e e i n g  y o u r  s t r e n g t h s  e x a c t l y  a s  t h e y  a r e,
a n d  e q u a l l y  a w a r e  o f  w h e r e  t h e y  c a n  b e  b e s t  a p p l i e d,
f o r  w h a t,  t o  w h o m  a n d  w h e n,  H e  c h o o s e s  a n d  a c c e p t sy o u r  p a r t  f o r  y o u.  H e  d o e s  n o t  w o r k  w i t h o u t  y o u r  o w n
c o n s e n t.
          … Y o u  b e c o m e  a w a r e  a t  l a s t  t h e r e  i s  o n e  V o i c e  i n
y o u.  A n d  t h a t  o n e  V o i c e  a p p o i n t s  y o u r  f u n c t i o n,  a n d
r e l a y s  i t  t o  y o u,  g i v i n g  y o u  t h e  s t r e n g t h  t o  u n d e r s t a n d
i t,  d o  w h a t  i t  e n t a i l s,  a n d  s u c c e e d  i n  e v e r y t h i n g  y o u  d o
t h a t  i s  r e l a t e d  t o  i t.
 S o m e t i m e s  s o m e o n e  s a y s,  “ W e l l,  I ’ d  l o v e  t o  b e  o f f  d o i n g
G o d ’ s  w o r k,  b u t  I ’ v e  g o t  t h r e e  k i d s  a t  h o m e — I  c a n ’ t  g o
a n y w h e r e! ”  Y e t  m i n i s t r y  i s  d e t e r m i n e d  b y  i t s  c o n t e n t,  n o t  i t s
f o r m.  T h e r e  i s  c e r t a i n l y  n o  m i n i s t r y  m o r e  i m p o r t a n t  t h a n
p a r e n t i n g.  B


 fact, the
At the present time the level of truth of
(227)
consciousness, all spiritual teachings enormously destructive power of
the teachings of militant Islamicremain hearsay and are thus prone to
negative ener gy fields. Examples are
Buddhism
Fundamentalism is 130.
distortion and misunderstanding. unfortunately ready to hand.
(228)
The level of truth of the teaching of the
When we look at the decline of the
Scripture can be quoted to justify any
The trappings o£ Satanism spread as
Buddha was also originally at 1,000. By
level of truth of the world's great
position. The "righteous" ar e always
fashions of a pop youth subculture, its
the sixth century A.D., the level of truth
religions, we notice that those that are the
danger ous because of their imbalanced
primary vehicle being an overt musical
1 1 1
1 12
genre. But principles are implicit in
W e may wish to deny that such aresponse to the desecration of life. The
abuses become law and political
trappings, and principles generate spiritual plague, reminiscent of the
Dark body is the reflection of the spirit in its
extremists persuade with righteous
attractor fields. The ef fects are all too
Ages, could remain virulent in our
physical expression, and its problems are
slogans. The children of violence become
familiar to any clinical psychiatrist enlightened society. But such
perverse the dramatization of the struggles of the
its perpetrators because a confused
practicing near an urban area. The
influences do not operate in a moral
spirit which gives it life. A belief that we
society which has lost the capacity for
destruction of ener gy fields is vacuum or arise from a social matrix that
ascribe to "out there" has its ef fect "in
discernment necessary to protect its own
pathogenic. V ictims become desensitized
does not already incorporate
here." Everyone dies by his own hand.
consciousness can hardly hope to protectto distinctions between good and evil, a
preconditions for their growth. The
That is a hard clinical fact, not a moral
its young.
value inversion which can be clinically
paradox of our puritanical society is that
view.
An individual's level of consciousness is
examined. Habitués are found to directly
it encourages constant seduction but
The attempt to impose standards of
determined by the principles to which he
display "blown-out" acupuncture systems
denies satisfaction, so a perpetual
would-be absolute Good and Evil is, in
or she is committed. T o maintain
and desynchronization of the cerebral
frustration of normal outlets eventually
fact, one of the greatest moral pitfalls.
progress in consciousness there can be no
hemispheres in response to repetitive
finds release in perverse ones. If we lookBut without moralizing, we can plainly
wavering from principle, or the
negative patterns of the associated music,
more closely we may find that other
state that whatever calibrates above 200
individual will fall back to a lower level.
the net result of which is, in ef fect, a
elements of what we call civilization in
supports life and therefore may be
Expediency is never an adequate
hypnotic trance during which the listener
fact foster its persistence.
functionally defined as good, whereas
justification. If it is wr ong to kill
(230) is highly susceptible to the violent and
While the young are being programmed
whatever calibrates below 200 is another human being, that principle
blasphemous suggestion of the lyrics. In
by specialized TV and computer games
destructive, non-supportive of life and
can allow no exceptions, r egardless
this sense, these children become literallythat glorify violence, their parents are
can thus be declared functionally evil. By
how emotionally appealing a construct
enslaved, prone to later bouts of being brainwashed by adult media.
testing we can prove that a false premise
may be used to justify the exception.
irrational destruction in which they, in
Kinesiolocicalal testing showed a fairly
such as "the end justifies the means" is
Thus, a society which condones capital
truth, "don't know why" they act out
typical TV serial caused test subjects to
operationally evil, yet this is a routinely
punishment will always have a problem
posthypnotic suggestions. And the go weak (231) 1 13 times during a
single accepted justification for much of human
with murder. Both are products of the
influence persists.
episode. Each of these weakening events
behavior, from the peccadilloes of same level of perception. T o the
Continued weakening of the body and its
suppressed the observer's immunecommerce to the enormities of war. Such
murderer, the killing of the victim is also
immune system long after the music
system; each weakening reflected an
spiritual ambiguity, leading ultimately to
a justifiable exception.
stops is accompanied by an inversion of
insult to the viewer's central as well as
irretrievable confusion between
Once a principle is breached, its mutated
kinesiolocical response. Negative stimuli
autonomic nervous system. Invariably
functional good and evil, has always
form propagates like cancer. A society
that would make a normal person go
accompanying each of these 1 13
been the Achilles heel of human society.
which supports killing, whether in war,
weak cause a strong response while those
disruptions of the acupuncture system
(232) It is this process of perversion of truth
by the police or by the penal system,that would make a normal person strong
were suppressions of the thymus gland;
through a failure of discernment which
cannot at the same time ef fectively stop
now produce a weak one. Unaware that
each insult also resulted in damage to the
has provided the instrumentation of the
"criminal" killing. T o kill is to kill is to
they are the victims of a potent negative
brain's delicate neurohormonal and
decline in the world's great religions
kill; ther e is no escaping the fact. The
ener gy field, the members of this culture
neurotransmitter systems. Each negative
noted above. Religions which fall below
decision to kill or not is a basic issue on
sink into sometimes inescapable input brought the watcher closer to
the level of 500 may preach love but they
the path to r eal power. But this
subservience to forces beyond their
eventual sickness and to imminent
will not be able to practice it. And norudimentary step has not even been
comprehension. Y outh subjected to such
depression-now the world's most
r eligious system which encourages war
essayed by eighty-five per cent of the
physical, emotional and sexual abuse can
prevalent illness.
can claim spiritual authority without
(233) world's population or by virtually
suf fer permanent damage to the brain's
Subtle grades of depression kill more
the blatant hypocrisy that has made
any of its governments. Koko, the
neurotransmitter balance, becoming adult
people than all the other diseases of
atheists of many honest men.
famous simian resident of the Primate
depressives who habitually seek out
mankind combined. There is no
Society is collectively most vulnerable
Research Institute, who has worked for
abusive partners and must endlesslyantidepressant that will cure a depression
when the capacity to distinguish between
some years with a psychologist and
struggle against an inclination to suicide
which is spiritually based, because the
attractors and imitators or to perceive
developed a sophisticated sign language
that is, in fact, a lingering form of
malaise does not originate from brain
nuances of dif fering levels of vocabulary, is truthful, af fectionate,
posthypnotic suggestion. 2
dysfunction but from an accurate
consciousness is dulled. Thus do civil
intelligent and trustworthy; her integrity
1 13
1 14
genre. But principles are implicit in
W e may wish to deny that such a
response to the desecration of life. The
abuses become law and political
trappings, and principles generate spiritual plague, reminiscent of the
Dark body is the reflection of the spirit in itsextremists persuade with righteous
attractor fields. The ef fects are all too
Ages, could remain virulent in our
physical expression, and its problems are
slogans. The children of violence become
familiar to any clinical psychiatrist enlightened society. But such
perverse the dramatization of the struggles of the
its perpetrators because a confused
practicing near an urban area. The
influences do not operate in a moral
spirit which gives it life. A belief that we
society which has lost the capacity for
destruction of ener gy fields is vacuum or arise from a social matrix that
ascribe to "out there" has its ef fect "in
discernment necessary to protect its own
pathogenic. V ictims become desensitized
does not already incorporate
here." Everyone dies by his own hand.
consciousness can hardly hope to protect
to distinctions between good and evil, a
preconditions for


 a flurry of activity in the Institute for
Advanced Study of Hunun Sexuality, a nonprofit graduate school
in San Francisco. Its researchers conducted a double-blind study
of 1 6o nule and fenulc volunteers. According to Dr. Rayn1ond
Mcllvenna, the Institu te's dean of students and a n1ernber of its
board of trustees, the results of the study were "phenon1enal."
Both tnalc and tl.·rnalc test subjects clairned an increased interest in
sex, and son1e nin ety percent of the nll'n cbitned irnproved per
t'l1rtllJ IKt'.
Resea rcher s at the Instit ute subscqut·ntly found that a certain
ingr cdit ·nt in the you ng oats could rdeasc the tcstostcront' that
is bound with globul in in the bloodstrcarn. Testosterone is the
hormone responsibk t'llr sex ual.1rou sal in both rnen and worncn.
The portion tlut is hound to globu lin is biologically inactive, and
its percentage int"r eascs as people age. By frt·cing the bound tcs-tosterone into the body, tht' oats apparently inrrL'ascd the bio
logically activ e percentage of t his honnone, ther eby heighten ing
sexual desire. As a result of this study, a ront nlL'rrial product nm
sisting of extracts of green oats. nettks, and vitant in C is nnw
availabk in thL' United States.
THE MYTH AND SciENCE OF (;INSENG
The piece de rL�sistanc e of ancient Chinese aphrodisiac health
tonics is ginseng (Pcm,lx giuscug); it is surrounded by legend and
tnystique, and little-kno\vn tnodern scientific data. This humb le
looking root is atnong the best known and least understood in the
West. Most Westerners think of it vaguely as a panacea, an aphro
disiac, or an expensive nonsense steeped in superstition.
For centuries the Chinese have revered it as the plant of lite,
the root of rejuvenation. They call it ginseug, or "human root,"
because it often resen1blcs a human figure. They have clain1ed en
thusiastic ally that it invigorates the mind, rejuvenates the body,
protnotes longevity, prevents many diseases, and restores sexual
vitality.
In the past, Western scientists have been skeptical, ignoring or
ridiculing the value of ginseng. To the "rational" West, which
demands laboratory proof, anecdotal claims are subjective, un
scientific, and therefore to be discounted. Can tnoder n science
fully analyze a substance valued so highly by the Chinese for
thousands of years? In this century, a few non-Chin ese scientists
have n1ade isolated probes, but a serious assault began in I 96 I,
when Japanese and Soviet scientists independently studied the
root and found similar results. Today scientists in China, Japan,
Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Germany, Great Britain, and other
countries have greatly augn1ented their data.
In carefully controlled tests, laboratory mice and dogs given
ginseng were found to swim twice as long before exhaustion, to
increase their sexual activity, to minin1ize the trauma of stress,
and even to incur less radiation damage to the body. In hunun
beings, ginseng has been found to increase the overall efficiency
and accuracy of radio operators and proofreaders. In both hununs
and laboratory anitnals ginseng "tunes up" the central nervous
system (the brain and the spinal cord), normalizes blood pressure,
and alleviates incipient diabetes.
l.W Scientists have detennined that ginseng contains numerous
cornplex organic compounds. Of these, the n1ost significant were
at least fifteen saponins, substances found in various plants which
produce a soapy lather. Some water-soluble saponins stimulate
the central nervous system, while some alcohol-so luble saponins
sedate it. The latter also act like sex hormones for both males and
temales. Besides the saponins, ginseng contains essential oils,
fatty acids, mucilaginous resins, sugars, alkaloids, and silicic acid;
ginsenin, which resembles insulin; enzymes for digesting starch
and protein; flavonoids, which increase capillary elasticity; and
phytosterols, which promote hormone production. Ginseng also
contains traces of numerous minerals, including manganese,
magnesium, copper, cobalt, vanadium, iron, zinc, potassium,
calcium, sulfur, phosphorus, and germanium, which is known to
attack cancer cells. In addition, ginseng has vitamins B1, B7, Be!;
biotin; pantothenic acid; choline, which lowers blood pressure;
panaxic acid, which reduces cholesterol; panacene, which relieves
pain; panaxin, which tonifies the central nervous and cardio
vascular systems; panquilon, which stimulates the secretion of
pituitary, thyroid, and adrenal hormones ; and maltol, an antioxi
dant now recognized for its antiaging effects. It is very likely that
other components of the humble-looking root have yet to be iso
lated and identified, and that the properties and functions of those
already identified arc not entirely known.
Ginseng' s action is unique. It has ingredients that stinurlate the
central nervous systcn1 and others that sedate it. It has ingredients
that lower blood pressu re and others that elevate it. According to a
careful study conducted in an American university, howeve r, long
h:rnl usc n1ay rt·sult in a steady lowering of blood pressure, as
blood vessels in certain parts of the body arc relaxed. GinSl'ng
also lowers blood cholcstl'rol and nonnalizcs blood sugar. Gin -
...
seng conditi ons and soothes thl' central nervous systcrn, thereby
regulating and nornulizin� nujor body functions. It shidds the
body froan hann ful inner factors such as strl'SS, and detoxifies the
body frorn da rnagi ng outside derncnts such as clirnatic cxtrc-n1cs,
drugs. and l'Vcn radiation. Not only docs it stinnrlatc thl' Sl'Cfl'
tion of Cl'rtain honnones, but sornc of its cornponl 'nts bchavl' likl'
sex honnonl ·s� it Ius, for inst;UlCl\ an effect likt· that of estrogen
on rncno pausal won1cn and prl'Vents vaginal atrophy. Although
ginseng is not an inst�lnt aphrodisiac in the narr ow sensl'of the word, it is a top sexual nutrient, which preserves and restores sex
ual well-being in 111 iddlc-aged and older peo ple. And it has no
harntful side eftl.·cts i f taken regularly and in snull doses.
No otht·r single plant-no single iten1, in t:Kt-is known to
have such properties. Scientists coined the term "ada ptogen" to de
scribe a substanc e's ability to hdp the body adapt it sci f to diftl.·rent
conditions-if and when this is needed. This modern tcnn af
tinns what tht• Chinese have long known about the root, and the
uses to \vhich they put it. They have reserved it for ntiddk-aged
and older people. tor convalescents, f(x the phy sically and nlen
tally exhausted. Ginseng is not a tonic tor the young and healthy.
Is ginseng really the root of rejuvenation, as the Chinese have
claitned? With ntodern laboratory results incontplete but sugges
tive, the answer seen 1s to depend on where one's prejudice lies. No
wonder Chinese ernpcrors and polygantous husbands took it. No
wonder Soviet cosntonauts and Olytnpic athletes have taken it.
No wonder its prices have been pushed sky -high today through
avid purchases by tnany newly rich japanese businessmen.
Although North American ginseng (Panax quitzqu� {tllium) is a
close relative of the Oriental variety, it is less potent and different
in various properties. It has been used by the Chinese as a nu
trient, but not a sexual nutrient.
THE PLANT OF IMMOR TALITY
When the term "adaptogen" was coined, ginseng was the only sin
gle substance known to help the body regulate its functions as it
did. Since then, modern researchers have discovered other ada pto
gens. Among the latest to be tested in the laboratory is ling-chih, the
"divine mushroom" (Gan


,	you	watch	your	thoughts	and	emotions.	You	observe	the	interplay
between	your	mind	and	emotions	and	how	one	influences	the	other.

You	begin	to	realize	the	effect	of	your	thinking.	You	bring	your	thoughts	to
the	forefront	of	your	mind	as	opposed	to	allowing	them	carry	on	unnoticed	in
the	background.	From	this,	you	automatically	exert	more	control	over	your
thought	processes.	Just	as	you	would	immediately	drop	a	hot	item	from	your
hand,	the	realization	that	your	mind	determines	your	happiness	is	total	and
unquestionable.	This	is	awareness.

You	begin	to	understand	your	mind	as	a	tool	that	you	can	use	and,	at	the	same
time,	that	you	gain	more	control	over.	While	doing	anything	and	between
thinking	for	practical	purposes,	bring	attention	into	your	body	and	reduce
your	breathing.	You	follow	each	breath	and	feel	the	air	shortage.	You	breathe
through	your	nose	at	all	times:	during	exercise,	while	sleeping	and	when
engaged	in	any	other	activity.	You	feel	your	inner	body	throughout	the	day.

If	you	have	a	problem,	you	think	for	a	while	and	then	drop	the	thinking	and
merge	with	the	inner	body.	You	think	for	a	few	minutes	and	then	stop
thinking.	Does	this	mean	that	you	never	experience	anger	or	emotions,	or
hostility	or	agitation?	No.

You	will	have	emotions	and	you	will	get	angry,	but	less	frequently.	External
circumstances	and	events	will	not	affect	you	as	before.	The	more	stillness	you
bring	into	your	life,	the	less	you	react	and	the	quicker	you	overcome
situations.If	someone	cuts	you	off	while	driving,	you	might	honk	your	horn	but	you	will
return	to	stillness	a	lot	quicker.	If	your	mind	is	heavy,	it	is	probable	that	you
honk	your	horn	and	keep	it	pressed	for	a	long	time.	If	you	are	well	immersed
in	stillness,	you	might	have	no	need	to	honk.	You	let	it	go.	You	don’t
automatically	react.

By	feeling	the	inner	body,	you	can	sense	how	active	the	mind	is.	If	the	mind
is	stressed,	your	tummy	will	be	tense	and	hard	as	a	rock.	You	know	the	effect
that	anger	has	on	your	body	and	with	this	realization;	you	don’t	reinforce	it
with	continuous	thinking.	Instinctively,	you	are	aware	that	to	do	so	is	harmful.
After	a	while,	the	issue	fades	away.	You	understand	the	insanity	of	the	human
mind	and	do	not	identify	with	each	thought	as	being	real.	When	one	is	aware
of	the	effects	of	the	mind	and	how	it	causes	anger,	hatred,	tension	and	turmoil,
you	are	able	to	automatically	drop	an	issue	a	lot	sooner.Take	responsibility	for	your	own	life
D
epressed	and	anxious	people	also	need	to	be	accountable.	After	all,	the
problem	and	solution	are	both	in	the	same	place	–	your	head.	It	is	too	easy	to
run	to	the	doctor,	throw	money	at	him	and	allow	him	to	push	legal	drugs	on
you	without	attempting	to	address	the	cause	of	the	problem	in	the	first	place.
Not	all	doctors	are	like	this,	but	too	many	are.	A	person	on	continuous
medication	is	great	news	for	the	Western	health	model.	He	or	she	is	then	a
constant	customer	of	pharmaceutical	conglomerates	and	will	use	their
products	for	the	next	few	decades.

Some	people	tell	me	that	they	have	tried	breathing	exercises	and	that	they	did
not	work.	The	simple	answer	to	this	is	that	they	did	not	make	a	commitment
to	give	it	a	good	shot.	They	tried	for	a	few	brief	moments	or	maybe	a	day	or
two,	and	then	gave	up.	They	lacked	discipline.	Well,	I’m	sorry	to	tell	you	that
sometimes	we	need	to	put	in	effort	to	get	somewhere.	Watching	your	breath
should	not	even	be	considered	a	task.	Reconnecting	with	your	body	is	a
wonderful	thing	to	do.	It	has	taken	many	years	for	you	of	adding	thought	after
thought	to	get	you	to	the	point	where	you	are	today.	It	will	also	take	a	little
time	to	reverse	this	habit.	Like	all	habits,	the	mind	wants	to	retain	the	status
quo	and,	for	a	while,	will	be	resistant	to	change.	It	is	up	to	you	and	no	one
else	to	make	this	change.

For	many	people,	Western	society	is	a	cop	out.	We	have	graduated	into	instant
gratification,	looking	for	the	quick	fix	and	not	wanting	to	take	responsibility
for	our	own	lives.	If	you	don’t	give	this	a	good	shot,	then	I’m	sorry	to	say	that
you	have	not	suffered	enough.

People	often	tell	me	that	they	do	not	have	the	time	to	watch	their	breathing	or
feel	the	inner	body.	Again,	this	is	a	cop	out.	Breathing	or	feeling	the	inner
body	can	be	applied	during	any	activity	or	event.

I	can	honestly	say	that	if	you	reduce	your	breathing	and	feel	your	inner	body
as	often	as	possible	for	three	weeks,	you	will	be	a	changed	person	at	the	end
of	it.	You	will	have	clarity	of	mind	that	you	probably	have	not	experienced
since	when	you	were	a	child.	Remember,	you	once	had	clarity	of	mind.	You
once	lived	totally	free	from	repetitive	and	incessant	thinking.	You	once	lived
in	a	state	of	bliss.	This	has	all	been	covered	up	by	layers	of	conditioning	and
thought.	Go	back	to	your	original	state.	Go	back	to	how	your	life	was	during
the	first	few	years.	See	thought	as	something	that	you	can	choose	to	use	for	apractical	situation.	At	other	times,	connect	with	the	Now,	your	inner	body	and
your	breath,	and	the	layers	of	thought	activity	and	conditioning	will	dissolve
as	you	no	longer	place	attention	on	them.

It	is	not	difficult	to	watch	your	breath	and	still	your	mind.	This	is	the	natural
order	of	things,	all	we	are	doing	is	going	home.	What	is	difficult	is	living	in
the	incessant	noise	in	the	head	and	accepting	that	whatever	our	mind	throws
up	at	us	to	be	true.	I	don’t	know	how	people	live	like	this.	I	lived	this	way	for
many	years	and	I	suffered,	was	stressed	and	felt	fear	and	anxiety.	It	is	insane.Chapter	15
	What	to	do

The	number	of	times	you	take	attention	out	of	your	mind	and	put
onto	your	breath,	your	inner	body	or	your	senses	is	far	more
important	than	the	length	of	time	occupied	there	.Be	aware	many
time	throughout	the	day.A	foolproof	way	to	quieten	the	mind

If	you	find	it	difficult	to	still	the	mind	by	applying	one	of	the	practices,
then	apply	two	at	the	same	time.

While	reducing	your	breathing,	place	attention	on	your	inner	body.

While	feeling	your	inner	body,	put	your	senses	on	what	is	taking	place
around	you.	See,	listen	and	feel.

While	you	do	what	you	love	to	do,	apply	it	with	your	full	senses	to	stay
present	with	time.


than	a	very	small	fraction	of	cases	of	this	disease.
Genes	do	not	act	in	isolation;	they	need	a	trigger	for	their	effects	to	be
produced.	It	has	also	been	observed	that	after	one	member	of	identical	twin
pairs	gets	Type	1	diabetes,	there	is	only	a	13–33%	chance	of	the	second	twin
getting	the	disease,	even	though	both	twins	have	the	same	genes.
13,	20,	21,	25,	26
If	it	were	all	due	to	genes,	closer	to	100%	of	the	identical	twins	would	get	the
disease.	In	addition,	it	is	possible	that	the	13–33%	risk	for	the	second	twin	is
due	to	the	sharing	of	a	common	environment	and	diet,	factors	affecting	both
twins.
CHART	9.2:	RELATIVE	RISKS	OF	VARIOUS	FACTORS	ON
VARIOUS	DISEASE	OUTCOMES
Consider,	for	example,	the	observation	shown	in
Chart	9.3
,	which
highlights	the	link	between	one	aspect	of	environment,	cow’s	milk
consumption,	and	this	disease.	Cow’s	milk	consumption	by	children	zero	to
fourteen	years	of	age	in	twelve	countries
27
	shows	an	almost	perfect
correlation	with	Type	1	diabetes.
28
	The	greater	the	consumption	of	cow’s
milk,	the	greater	the	prevalence	of	Type	1	diabetes.	In	Finland,	Type	1diabetes	is	thirty-six	times	more	common	than	in	Japan.
29
	Large	amounts	of
cow’s	milk	products	are	consumed	in	Finland	but	very	little	is	consumed	in
Japan.
27
CHART	9.3:	ASSOCIATION	OF	COW’S	MILK	CONSUMPTION	AND
INCIDENCE	OF	TYPE	1	DIABETES	IN	DIFFERENT	COUNTRIES
As	we	have	seen	with	other	diseases	of	affluence,	when	people	migrate
from	areas	of	the	world	where	disease	incidence	is	low	to	areas	of	the	world
where	disease	incidence	is	high,	they	quickly	adopt	the	high	incidence	rates	as
they	change	their	diet	and	lifestyle.
30–32
	This	shows	that	even	though
individuals	may	have	the	necessary	gene(s),	the	disease	will	occur	only	in
response	to	certain	dietary	and/or	environmental	circumstances.
Disease	trends	over	time	show	the	same	thing.	The	worldwide	prevalence
of	Type	1	diabetes	is	increasing	at	an	alarming	rate	of	3%	per	year.
33
	This
increase	is	occurring	for	different	populations	even	though	there	may	be
substantial	differences	in	disease	rates.	This	relatively	rapid	increase	cannot
be	due	to	genetic	susceptibility.	The	frequency	of	any	one	gene	in	a	large
population	is	relatively	stable	over	time,	unless	there	are	changing
environmental	pressures	that	allow	one	group	to	reproduce	more	successfully
than	another	group.	For	example,	if	all	families	with	Type	1	diabetic	relatives
had	a	dozen	babies	and	all	the	families	without	Type	1	diabetic	relatives	died
off,	then	the	gene	or	genes	that	may	be	responsible	for	Type	1	diabetes	would
become	much	more	common	in	the	population.	This,	of	course,	is	not	what	is
happening,	and	the	fact	that	Type	1	diabetes	is	increasing	3%	every	year	is
very	strong	evidence	that	genes	are	not	solely	responsible	for	this	disease.
It	seems	to	me	that	we	now	have	impressive	evidence	showing	that	cow’smilk	is	likely	to	be	an	important	cause	of	Type	1	diabetes.	When	the	results	of
all	these	studies	are	combined	(both	genetically	susceptible	and	not
susceptible),	we	find	that	children	weaned	too	early	and	fed	cow’s	milk	have,
on	average,	a	50–60%	higher	risk	of	Type	1	diabetes	(1.5–1.6	times	increased
risk).
34
The	earlier	information	on	diet	and	Type	1	diabetes	was	impressive
enough	to	cause	two	significant	developments.	The	American	Academy	of
Pediatrics	in	1994	“strongly	encouraged”	that	infants	in	families	where
diabetes	is	more	common	not	be	fed	cow’s	milk	supplements	for	their	first
two	years	of	life.	Second,	many	researchers
19
	have	developed	prospective
studies—the	kind	that	follow	individuals	into	the	future—to	see	if	a	careful
monitoring	of	diet	and	lifestyle	could	explain	the	onset	of	Type	1	diabetes.
Two	of	the	better	known	of	these	studies	have	been	underway	in	Finland,
one	starting	in	the	late	1980s
15
	and	the	other	in	the	mid-1990s.
35
	One	has
shown	that	cow’s	milk	consumption	increases	the	risk	of	Type	1	diabetes	five-
to	sixfold,
36
	while	the	second
35
	tells	us	that	cow’s	milk	increases	the
development	of	at	least	another	three	to	four	antibodies
in	addition	to	those
presented	previously	(p.	190).	In	a	separate	study,	antibodies	to	beta-casein,
another	cow’s	milk	protein,	were	significantly	elevated	in	bottle-fed	infants
compared	to	breast-fed	infants;	children	with	Type	1	diabetes	also	had	higher
levels	of	these	antibodies.
37
	In	short,	of	the	studies	that	have	reported	results,
the	findings	strongly	confirm	the	danger	of	cow’s	milk,	especially	for
genetically	susceptible	children
.THE	CONTROVERSY	OF	CONTROVERSY
Imagine	looking	at	the	front	page	of	the	newspaper	and	finding	the	following
headline:	“Cow’s	Milk	the	Likely	Cause	of	Lethal	Type	1	Diabetes.”	Because
the	reaction	would	be	so	strong,	and	the	economic	impact	monumental,	this
headline	won’t	be	written	anytime	soon,	regardless	of	the	scientific	evidence.
Stifling	this	headline	is	accomplished	under	the	powerful	label	of
“controversy.”	With	so	much	at	stake,	and	so	much	information	understood
by	so	few	people,	it	is	easy	to	generate	and	sustain	controversy.	Controversies
are	a	natural	part	of	science.	Too	often,	however,	controversy	is	not	the	result
of	legitimate	scientific	debate,	but	instead	reflects	the	perceived	need	to	delay
and	distort	research	results.	For	example,	if	I	say	cigarettes	are	bad	for	you
and	provide	a	mountain	of	evidence	to	support	my	contention,	the	tobacco
companies	might	come	along	and	pick	out	one	unsolved	detail	and	then	claim
that	the	whole	idea	of	cigarettes	being	unhealthy	is	mired	in	controversy,
thereby	nullifying	all	my	conclusions.	This	is	easy	to	do,	because	there	will
always	be	unsolved	details;	this	is	the	nature	of	science.	Some	groups	use
controversy	to	stifle	certain	ideas,	impede	constructive	research,	confuse	the
public	and	turn	public	policy	into	babble	rather	than	substance.	Sustaining
controversy	as	a	means	of	discrediting	findings	that	cause	economic	or	social
discomfort	is	one	of	the	greatest	sins	in	science.
It	can	be	difficult	for	the	layperson	to	assess	the	legitimacy	of	a	highly
technical	controversy	such	as	that	regarding	cow’s	milk	and	Type	1	diabetes.
This	is	true	even	if	the	layperson	is	interested	in	reading	scientific	articles.
Take	a	recent	scientific	review
38
	of	the	cow’s	m


resistance to disease was noticed in the first and second generations in the "regenerating" animals, though there were
still allergic manifestations, and reproduction was erratic. In
the third generation there was considerable further
improvement, and by the fourth generation some of the
animals returned to completely normal skeletal and tissue
form.
   From these experiments, as well as all others which have
been reported, results of feeding raw and cooked foods under
laboratory conditions become readily apparent. It follows
that, almost without exception, experimental animals thrive
well upon an exclusive diet of raw foods. With general
uniformity they immediately suffer from various forms of deterioration—
physical, sexual, and mental—when given various forms of cooked foods. It has indeed been shown that
members of certain animal species fail to reach maturity and
reproduce if sufficient cooked foods are included in their diet.
The degree of damage may vary to some degree with different animals, but in no instance have large quantities of
heat-processed foods been consumed over a long period of
time without some harm being observed. The contrast is
clearly observed in all cases, a nd the many different animals
used in the experiments show that the results do not apply to only certain kinds of experimental animals, but may be
accepted as a general principle in all such nutritional work.

       5
RAW FOOD IN NATURE
MODERN NUTRITION has given the experimental aspect of the
use of raw foods, as applied to various animals. Other
biological sciences give another, and equally important,
aspect to the same subject. They show, through careful and
detailed observation of animals beyond the confines of
controlled experimentation, exactly how animals thrive in
states of captivity, complete domestication, less-restrictive domestication, and wild nature. In the former state the diet
may be primarily cooked or primarily raw, depending upon
animal species; in the next it is primarily cooked; in the third it is mainly or entirely raw, and in the latter it is exclusively
raw. These provide the contrasts that may be studied.

C
APTIVE ANIMALS
   In the modern zoological garden, we find evidence of
disease, though this is markedly less than formerly. The
captive animals, particularly the carnivora, were once fed
mainly upon cooked foods. The death rate was then very high
and the animals were valued accordingly. With the introduction of raw meat for the carnivora, the death rate
sharply dropped; the animals lived longer and reproduced
more successfully, with a proportionate drop in animal cost. Yet some of the animals are still fed largely upon cooked foods, and they suffer from much disease. Included among these are the primates. Forbes has pointed out that "the gorilla
is very delicate and rarely lives long in captivity, even in his
own land." A life span of 19 or 20 years is considered very
long for a typical zoological gorilla fed some cooked
foodstuffs. The orangutan is given canned fruit, bread, and even tea and coffee in captivity, and its life span is then very
short and it is subject to all of the diseases common in
civilization. The captive baboon, given cooked foods, is
subject to many respiratory diseases and often dies before
maturity is reached. The chimpanzee in captivity is probably better accustomed to a cooked diet than is any other primate.
Typical diseases under these conditions are listed as follows:
bronchial pneumonia, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, measles, cholera, grippe, colds, ulcers, colitis, tuberculosis, peritonitis,
hypertrophied liver, debility, and loss of hair.
 DOMESTIC PETS
   The ordinary house pets—dogs, cats, etc.—represent
domestic animals which are fed chiefly upon cooked foods, and they display a long series of physical defects. The
degeneration of the modern dog is so severe that it is
receiving national attention from dog breeders and dog lovers. Pure-bred dogs are developing poor eyesight,
impaired hearing, and such dulln ess of the sense of smell that
they are no longer useful for hunting purposes. One of the
most frequent symptoms of degeneration in dogs is weakness
of the hindquarters. This is well marked in the German shepherds, great Danes, and Boston terriers. Some great
Danes have such weak hindquarters they can hardly stand up,
while the Boston terrier has such narrow hips that normal
birth is often impossible. The dogs are also developing
human-like neuroses and cease to be dependable. Shepherds are easily upset and often become fear biters. The great Dane
was bred to hunt wild boars, but modern specimens
frequently quiver at the approach of a poodle. The cocker
spaniel is losing its reputation for being alert, friendly, and
dependable, and is now described as a shy neurotic. Poor behavior is associated with low resistance to physical
diseases, and indeed the modern dog is in need of the care of
the veterinarian as frequently as man needs the care of his
physician. Many dogs die young, and those that do reach an
advanced state of life are affected by senility in its most
advanced forms.
   The sad degeneration of our dogs is usually ascribed to
selective breeding practices, which build up undesirable
strains, or to careless breeding practices, which are not
selective enough. While selective breeding can bring out gradual physical deformation in dogs, as well as other
animals, it is extremely doubtful that this is responsible for
most signs of degeneration seen in the canine world. The fact
is that all types of experimental animals in laboratory work
suffer from basically the same physical and neurological defects as do dogs when they are placed upon a diet of heat-
processed foods. The modern dog is usually fed upon cooked
table-scraps or specialized canned pet foods and dog biscuits,
all of which have been thoroughly heat-processed. The stray
mongrel, living upon hand-cuts and garbage, actually has a better chance to secure ade quate nourishment than does the
finest and most expensive show-dog. All evidence points to
the fact that the degeneration seen in the modern canine
world is due, in great measure, to the almost exclusive use of heat-processed foods in feeding practices.
    Physical deterioration in domestic cats usually manifests
itself in the form of abnormal bone development, impaired
reproductive efficiency, together with bronchitis, distemper,
and other diseases. The cats are so under-developed in the area of the head and neck that few people even know what a
perfectly healthy raw meat-fed cat looks like. The British lay-
scientist, Anthony Ludovici, in making observations of
ordinary house cats, quite accidentally discovered that raw
foods were essential in providing rapid and painless parturition. When he fed the animals exclusively raw meat,
the mother cats actually seemed to enjoy the process of birth
and would purr as the kittens were being born. The cats
which consumed cooked meat and other heat-processed foods
had painful parturition in all cases. They groaned and appeared to undergo great pain throughout the entire period
of labor. Such observations remind us of controlled
laboratory experiments with cats. Certainly this animal is no
more able to attain good health on a heat-processed diet in the home than it is in the laboratory.

F
ARM ANIMALS
   Domestic farm animals, including cattle, horses, swine, and
poultry, have at various times been fed cooked foodstuffs, with a noticeable deterioration in physical condition.
Reproductive efficiency is severely impaired in these cases.
After his observations of cats, Ludovici made a study of the
feeding habits of sheep, cows, and horses. He found that these
animals reproduced without apparent pain or difficulty when they lived upon fresh green feeds during gestation. But when
cows and mares were given heat-processed cottonseed cake
and other artificial winter foods during gestation, labor was
often difficult and attended by death of the young.
   Present farm practices involve feeding animals mainly or
entirely upon raw foods. The dietary balance is established on
the basis of flesh, milk, and egg production rather than health,
and an excess of grains is often given to the exclusion of
other important dietary essentials. The inclusion of purified
nutrients with commercial feeds, the lack of fresh, green foods for some animals, together with extensive vaccination
and other medical procedures, tend to produce adverse
reactions in animal health in many instances. As a rule,
however, the liberal use of raw foods tends to offset, to some
degree, these factors, and farm animals as a whole are less affected by disease than are humans. According to Furnas, in
reference to domestic breeds, "it takes at least a dozen
average animals to have as much ill-health as a single
human." The animals usuall
y live several times as lon g as the period of growth. If they were as  ill as man, we would need
more than 150,000 veterinarians in the United States to take
care of them.

HEALTH IN WILD NATURE
   Within all branches of the wild animal kingdom, the
exclusive use of raw foods is the norm of existence.
Accordingly, a study of wild animal life might be expected to reveal the effects of a raw food diet. While many of the features of wild animal health are doubtless directly attributable to nutritive habits, this is not true in all cases.
There are often adverse factors in nature which are largely or
ent


 of extreme gas, spastic conditions, colitis, etc.
Liquid Chlorophyll —Very wonderful for the bowel. It is soothing and reduces inflammation, swelling and pain. It disinfects and
cleanses.
Niacin —Produces hot, red flush and is used to push the blood deep into underactive tissues so that we c an strengthen them with
vital nutritents.
Pancreatin —This is the one thing that helps most to bring down the mucus lining. It is a powerful digestant substance and loosens
the lining.

Mr. Irons produces most of these products and they are very good. Nature’s Sunshine is also producing similar products. Please
inquire for a very good all -around vitamin that is chemically balanced for both the adult and children. I have had many requests
from strict vegetarians about the use of the animal products in th is treatment. Specifically, the Pancreatin and Cod Liver Oil. For
those so concerned, I wish it were possible to recommend substitutes that are as effective as these. Unfortunately, I am not aware
of any at this time. It is particularly important to use th e Pancreatin as it has the unique ability to dissolve and digest the heavy
mucus encrustation that causes so much of the bowel troubles.
Vitamin A is not readily available in a natural form other than cod liver oil. There are synthetic forms available, but  I do not
recommend their use. Vegetarian A is usually a pro -vitamin A and of low potency.

I feel that the benefits of this treatment outweight the use of the animal products for the brief period that they are employ ed. Once
the bowel is re -established in to a healthier condition, then use of these substances can be discontinued.
Betaine HCL and herbal digestants have not given good results and are not recommended as viable substitutes for Pancreatin.
Papaya tea or extract help. Huckleberry tea or extract m ay also be a substitute. We have not tried these and therefore cannot report
on the effectiveness of them. If you suffer from an allergic reaction to any particular ingredient, then omit it from the pro gram until
it may be tolerated at a later time.

YOU W ILL NEED:
1. Two empty pint jars with tight covers.
2. Juice. (Your choice of fruit juice. Apple is preferred or vegetable juice or natural herb teas for a variety of special pu rposes.)
3. 10 ounces of intestinal bulk; or like amount of ground psyllium see ds. Also needed: 8 herbal laxative tablets or equivalent.
4. Two bottle Bentonite clay water, Veico 77, VIT -RA-TOX 16, Sonne7, Nature’s Sunshine. (More needed if used in enema.)
5. Two bottles Spring Green or Green Life tablets preferred or liquid chloroph yll or eight alfalfa tablets.
6. One bottle wheat germ oil capsules.
7. One bottle vitamin C, 100 mg tablets.
8. One bottle beet juice tablets.
9. Colema board or enema bag with a long colonic tip (size 24 to 30, which is available at your drugstore). Howe ver, for the best
results, a colema board is imperative.
10. One infant rectal syringe.
11. Calphonite or a calcium supplement like bone meal, etc.
12. Garlic capsules (used for certain conditions).
13. One quart apple cider vinegar (natural).
14. One pint  honey.
15. Niacin (50 -mg tablets).
16. Pancreatin tablets, quadruple strength, KAL brand or others.
17. Dulse tablets.
18. Cod liver oil, 1 pint —non-synthetic, Norwegian cod is best.
19. Flaxseed, 8 ounces.
20. Coffee, ground (1 pound) —not instant coffee.
21. Rectal ointment: K -Y Jelly.

The illustration indicates 3 inches only on the tip which is to be inserted into the rectum

7-DAY CLEANSING PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Eat NOTHING for the full 7 days, other than specified, during the program. If you experience a feeling of extreme hunger, you
may drink herbal teas, clear vegetable or potato peeling broths or diluted fresh vegetable juices. Plenty of liquid is essent ial to the
success of the cleansing program.

The evening before starting the program, take 2 herbal  laxative tablets. To ensure a more thorough elimination, use a baby enema
syringe to inject 1 cup olive oil into rectum and hold until morning. If necessary in the morning, use an enema to make sure the
lower colon is clean.

SKIN BRUSH
(Instructions on 9 0.) Your daily regimen should begin with skin brushing, 3 to 5 minutes.

CLEANSING DRINK
The cleansing drink consists of two parts to be mixed separately and drunk in succession.
The two -part drink will be taken five times daily.

RECIPE
Part One:
2 oz App le Juice
8 oz. water
1 tablespoon clay water
1 slightly rounded teaspoon intestinal cleanser
SHAKE WELL AND DRINK QUICKLY (mixture thickens).

Part Two:
10 oz. water
1 tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar
1 teaspoon honey

SUPPLEMENTS
It is easiest to prepare the whole day’s supplements at the beginning of each day. The supplements are to be taken 4 times each
day. Separate them into 4 containers, one for each interval. See schedule for appropriate times. There will be different prop ortions
on days One, Two and  Three. Day Three through Seven will be the same.
The following supplements are taken in one interval. The daily intake will be 4 times this amount.

DAY ONE:
Green Life - 12 each time
Niacin - 50 mg each time
Wheat Germ Oil - 1 capsule each time
Vitamin C  - 100 mg, 2 tablets each time
Pancreatin tablets - 6 each time
Beet tablets - 2 each time
Dulse tablets - 1 each time

DAY TWO:
Green Life - 18 each time
Niacin - 100 mg each time
Wheat Germ Oil - 1 capsule each time
Vitamin C - 100 mg, 2 tablets each tim e
Pancreatin tablets - 6 each time
Beet tablets - 2 each time
Dulse tablets - 1 each time

DAY THREE -SEVEN:
Green Life - 24 each time
Niacin - 150 mg up to 200 mg each time
Wheat Germ Oil - 1 capsule each time
Vitamin C - 100 mg, 3 tablets each time
Pancre atin tablets - 6 each time
Beet tablets - 2 each time
Dulse tablets - 1 each time

Along with the pill supplements, you will be taking cod liver oil, Calphonite and a flaxseed drink, which appear in the follo wing
daily time schedule.
To prepare flaxseed drink, soak 1 tablespoon of flaxseeds in 1/4 cup hot water for 8 hours (soak your first drink the night before
you begin the program). Strain and discard seeds; drink only the liquid.

TIME SCHEDULE
SKIN BRUSH
7:00 am: cleansing drink (see preceding page)
8:30 am: supplements and flaxseed drink, 2 tablespoons Calphonite
10:00 am: cleansing drink
11:30 am: supplements with tea or diluted juice
1:00 pm: cleansing drink
2:30 pm: supplements with tea
4:00 pm: cleansing drink
5:30 pm: supplements, flaxseed drink
7:00 pm: cleansing drink
Bedtime: immediately before retiring - 2 tablespoons Calphonite, 1 tablespoon Cod Liver Oil. (Bedtime should be no later than
9:30 pm.)
As you can see, your supplements are taken 1 -1/2 hours after the cleansing drinks.
The evening  of your first day on the program, you will have the first colema at 7:30 pm.
Thereafter, you are to have two per day - one at 7:30 am and the other at 7:30 pm. REST ½ hour after each colema

THE COLEMA
The secret of this cleansing program is to take a spe cial kind of enema called a “colema” twice a day, and perhaps even three
times. An inexpensive piece of equipment called a colema board is used which permits the user to comfortably lie down during the
treatments. It has a hole in one end that is placed ov er the toilet. There is either a 4 or 5 -gallon bucket hanging above, over a
shower rod, and inside the bucket is a tube that allows water to pass down the rubber tubing through a small plastic tube, wh ich is
inserted in the rectum. The plastic tube is smal ler than your little finger, and we find that toxic material goes right by it and
elimination can take place without having to remove the tube. So the water goes in and the toxic waste material comes out and  into
the toilet.

This program involves taking t wo colemas a day. I first thought this would perhaps weaken the bowel; but I found that as the water
went into the bowel, elimination


 busi-
ness or a  friend's good  fortune. It can be  anything, for on this foundation
you can put stubble,  or wood, or hay. You  are building  with hay when you
say of someone:  "I know  he was no good." They lived  in that state  con-
cerning  another  and then it came  to pass and they say:  "I always thought
he was like  that." Some  of us build  strange  things for another. We were
imagining  on the  only foundation, but we  have put stubble  on it instead  of
gold or silver, and  the day revealed  it, and  then we  cannot relate what
happens to anything  we have done.
The Hebrew meaning  of the  "stone" is to beget children. All the  events of
my life  are my children. Everyone  can build  on this one  foundation. "I am
laying  in Zion a  stone." What   stone? God  is burying  himself in everyone
in the  world. It is a  true stone, a  precious cornerstone, and  one who be -
lieves will not be  in haste. I have  seen an imaginal act take two years to
come  forth, but when it  appeared  what a  giant! I have  seen it come  in an
hour. But do not be  in haste  or think there  is any other  foundation and
like Peter turn to another  foundation, growing  violent  toward  those  who
would  lead Jesus to the  cross. But Christ said:  "I came  to move  toward
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haventhe cross. Get behind  me, Satan. You  are a hindrance to me."
If I am still in the  machine,  I think  the good things come  only by accident
or chance. Let   the wheel turn, for each must go through all the  furnaces
until he  awakens and  sees the  whole  universe  as infinite response. The
day will come  when every person, at a  certain  degree  of awakening, will
freeze an activity within himself, and  as it comes to a  stop within him,
that whole  section is "dead." The  laws of nature  are only free action, re -
peated  until they become  accepted  as a law. Yet you  will see leaves in
midair not falling, and people  moving  in space  will cease  to move  but will
not fall, for as you  stopped  the action  within yourself the whole thing
stopped.  And you will see the  whole  thing as Zion the desert and  the only
thing that makes it alive  is the  stone  buried  in it. But man becomes lost in
the things he  has made and  gives to them the  power. For example,
through the  use of his Imagination he  brings money into his world; then
he forgets that it was the  activity of his mind  that did  this, and  he sees in
the money itself the  power  to get  what he  desires. But when he  awakes
he will no longer  lose himself in his own creation.
I say to everyone  here:  there  is only one  stone.  If tonight there  is some -
one very ill who  needs your help  and you imagine  the best for him and
then you  get news that he  is worse  tomorrow, do not be  impatient, but
remain faithful to the  one stone  laid in Zion. What more  can you  do after
you have imagined? Someone  writes to you  about a  problem. Imagine  for
them what they desire  and then do not turn aside  to do anything  to make
it come  true. You  remain faithful, and  it will create  the conditions neces -
sary to bring  fulfillment.
You can look  at someone  with deep  concern and  want a  change. You  do
not voice it, but  lock it in, and  then forty eight hours later  there  is initiat -
ed what you  set in motion. And they wonder:  "Could  my problem be
traced  to so and so?" Just the  very thing  you had been thinking! You  en-
tertained  their problem with deep  concern, and  then you  will ask: “Did
you influence me  or did  I influence you?
When did  you entertain this thought?" And  they say:  "Just now," and  then
you say:  "Forty  eight hours ago I entertained  this thought, but I did  not
say it aloud." That makes no difference. All things by a  law divine  in one
another's beings mingle. We  all influence each other. We  are all interpene -
trated,  and the more one is deeply concerned  for another, the  more he is
penetrated  by another.
I say the  universe  is infinite  response,  but it also gives back  more than
you imagine. It is pressed  down and  running  over. Therefore,  to be nega-
tive can be  frightening. The  good will come  back a thousandfold, but so
will the  negative. But if I am optimistic  and do not  waver, I will bring  that
also pressed  down and  running  over. It is something  wonderful; it   will
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havencome  like a gusher. The  world  responds more  than it takes, and  it gives to
the individual more  than he  imagines good or bad.
I say to everyone  that the  greatest of books is the  Bible, but people have
organized  it, and  even say they have  found  the remains of Peter  or some
other  Biblical character. Peter  is not a  man, but a  state.  You rise up to the
crown of it all and  that is Christ. States are permanent but I am not fixed;
I am a  living  moving  being. I can be  praised  for one  state and then I see
a morning  headline,  say, and  move  from that true  foundation, and  then
the power rebukes me  as Satan, for I reacted  instead  of acted. Would you
like to be in the  state called  Peter, the  one addressed  in Matthew  16?
How? Let me  say, and  mean it:  "My Imagination is God  and there  is no
other." It is one  with the  supreme  power  and let me live  in that state, and
then I am being  addressed:  "You are blessed, Simon Bar Jona."  It means
the depth of my being  is giving  it to me. Can I do it? The  day that you  do
it and  remember  you did it, at that moment you  are relating  that story.
When   Peter  confessed:  "Thou  art the  Christ," that is the  stone  on which
the whole  thing rests, but when he  got away from that and  reacted,  then
he was called  Satan, or the  reactor.
God is begetting  sons by means of the  stone.  He buries himself in every
man in the  world, but he  is rejected.  I can tell you  these  things here, but
if I told  them across the  airways I would  be immediately turned  off. Peo -
ple cannot believe  they are  responsible  for their imaginal acts. They do
not want to believe  it. I cannot be  free of the  results of what I imagine.
Go out determined  to prove  it, and  having  proved  it, keep  the stone  alive.
There is no other  stone.  "No other  can any man lay, which is Christ
Jesus," But on this build anything  but build  gold, do not build  hay or stub -
ble. I want everyone  here to test it. Take someone  who is really dis -
tressed, and  if you  believe  in the  foundation you  will leave  here tonight
without any concern for them, even if you  receive  wires stating  things
are worse. It might take a  week or a month, but that which you have
imagined, if you  remain faithful to the  stone, will come.
I have  seen a  man looking  at a building  which is an inanimate  thing and
you would  say it could  not respond. How  can he  look at it and  see his
name  on it when he  does not have  a nickel? But he  did it. I know the man
[Neville's brother, Victor] and  in a way he  could  not have devised, the
building  became  his. Let no one  tell you  that something  cannot respond,
but when we are  still part of the  machine, we cannot quite  see that we
are the  cause  of everything  in our world, and  we hope good fortune  will
smile  on us. Then when you


 a single instance nor in a single trouble, remove any of the causes that are producing and
maintaining, even intensifying the trouble. They constitute symptomatic treatment and doubtful palliation, and produce
cumulative side -effects.

WHY SUCH A HURRY?
Why do we expect to get well in a hurry of a condition that requires a life -time for its development? Perhaps one is fifty years of
age and has had a chronic disease since the age of thirty -five, the cond ition slowly becoming worse during this time, despite (or
because of) the faithful employment of the commonly administered means of palliation. Before the disease became apparent at
the age of thirty -five, there was a long antecedent series of developments  that led up to the disease. It is literally true that the
disease had its initial beginnings with the first cold, colic, diarrhea or hives of infancy.

WHY SUCH RESISTANCE TO NEW HABITS?
This man has given the methods of cure a full fifteen years of time in which to restore health, but if he turns to Hygiene he
wants to get well over night! Not only is he in a hurry, hut he wants to achieve his recovery with as little disturbance of h is

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accustomed routine and as little change in his habits of living as possible. He may be willing to change his diet (temporaril y, of
course), but why should he give up smoking? He may be willing to fast, at least he may he willing to mi ss a few meals, but why
should he rest? He has no insurmountable objection to a temporary abandonment of coffee, but why should he exercise? He
actually enjoys sunbathing, but why should he not be permitted to overeat?
Certainly the man whose condition has  required a life -time for its evolution will require the employment of all of the means of
Hygiene to reorganize and re -constitute his organism. So long as even one of the causes that have contributed to the evolution
of his trouble is permitted to remain a part of his daily life, and this cause may be one of omission as well as one of
commission, it will contribute to the progressive development of trouble. All causes of weakness, impurity and suffering are to
be removed from the life of the individual, el se recovery will be retarded and full recovery prevented.
If we understand the nature of the phenomena with which we are dealing - we can both understand the
urgent need to remove the causes of the suffering of the sick man and the need for time for him to  evolve
into a state of health.

RECOVERY IS THE REVERSE OF DISEASE EVOLUTION.
It is essential that we recognize the fact that recovery of health is an evolution in reverse and that it requires time to be
completed. What we term disease is an evolution out  of wrong ways of life; recovery of health is an evolution out of correct
ways of living. As it takes time to evolve disease, so it requires time to erase the abnormal changes that have taken place i n the
tissues of the body and to evolve normal tissue to replace the abnormal tissue.

DRINKING RECOVERY
We can watch the evolution of pathology in the drinker, as he progresses from the so -called moderate drinker to the habitual
and so -called excessive drinker with the progressive weakening of the functions of his body and the slow evolution of liver
sclerosis, delirium tremens and insanity.
Is it to be thought that the effects of ten to twenty years of drinking can be erased in a few days or even in a few weeks, a nd full
health, with its integrity of structure and vigor of function, restored so quickly? If this could be done, then, certainly the evils of
alcoholism were not as great as we are accustomed to think.
The evolution of pathology out of any type of habitual or chronic poisoning, whether tobacco poisoni ng, drug poisoning, or a
general and persistent toxic state of the body arising out of lowered functioning power (enervation) resulting from an enerva ting
way of life, is not unlike the evolution of delirium tremens out of alcoholism. Likewise, the road ba ck, when the pathology has
arisen from some of these other causes, is a slow and gradual one.
In all pathologies, as they continue to evolve, a stage is reached sooner or later, from which there is no turning back. This  is the
stage of irreversibility. Whe n this stage is reached there is no longer any hope of recovery of health.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "CURE" AND HEALING?
The reader, versed only in the popular and classic ideas about health, disease and healing, will, perhaps, ask: what is the
difference betwee n being cured and recovering health? A cure is the application of something exotic (a drug or a treatment)
which, by virtue of its own power restores the sick man or woman to health. There is no such thing.
Recovery is the restoration of health by means of  the operation of forces intrinsic to the organism. This is the only force known
that is capable of restoring health. Healing is a biological process, not an art.

COMMON COLD
Let us take the common cold. It is estimated that the 190 million people in the United States have an average of four colds each
during the year. Some of these people have fewer than four colds, some have more than four. Now, it is acknowledged that
there is no known cure for the cold. There is no drug, no serum, no vaccine, no form of treatment that will cure a cold. People
treat themselves with all kinds of alleged remedies, but these do not cure the cold. Almost everybody one meets has one or
more cold cures, but none of them are genuine.
Yet, it is a matter of common observation that everybody who has a cold recovers; sometimes in a very few days, in some
instances in three to four weeks. Not so many months ago a prominent physician said that if one who has a cold is treated, he
gets well in two weeks, and if he is not treated, he  gets well in fourteen days. The important fact about these recoveries is that
these sufferers get well, but they are not cured for no cure is known. Recovery is said to be spontaneous. It is the result o f
lawful and orderly processes that take place in th e body of the sick person.

SPONTANEOUS RECOVERY IN ACUTE DISEASE
Diseases that get well in this manner are said to be self -limited. This simply means that they are brought to an end in a more or
less definite time by the organism itself and not by treatme nt. They are all spontaneous recoveries. These spontaneous
recoveries are the things on which all the alleged cures ride to glory. It will not escape the attention of the reader that t he self -
limited diseases are all acute; that the chronic diseases tend to run on for years and to grow progressively worse and that for
these, there are no cures. Almost anything seems to cure the self -limited diseases, nothing seems to work when the disease is
not self -limited.

NOT SICKNESSES, BUT SICK PERSONS RECOVER
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If we understand that it is the sick person that recovers and not the disease, we will understand that there is a vast difference
between treating disease (the popular delusional practice) and caring for a sick person. In the first case, the efforts are d irected
at controlling, suppressing, palliating and destroying symptoms and local pathologies; in the second instance, t he efforts are
directed at removing the causes that have impaired the body and at trying to supply the body with its physiological needs. Th ere
is no effort made to cure the disease, as it is well understood that healing is a biological process and that no  man can either
duplicate or imitate the process. There is no treatment of disease for the reason that there is no disease, per se, to treat.

THE SICK ORGANISM ACTS
Apart from the living organism, disease has no existence. Fever, inflammation, pain, discomfort, vertigo, nausea, vomiting,
griping, purging, coughing, sneezing, etc., etc., that are considered symptoms of disease, are all actions of the sick organi sm.
They are vital phenomena and do not require treatment.
To suppress diarrhea is to cause the retention in the bowels of the very objectionable materials the diarrhea is designed to
expel; to suppress a cough leaves the obstructing and irritating materials in the respiratory passages. This is not intellige nt
treatment.

TRUE RECOVERY IN TWO+ YE ARS
If we understand the nature of the phenomena with which we are dealing and its causes and if we realize that time is required
for the causes that are operating to impair the organism in which to evolve their effects, we can both understand the urgent
need to remove the causes of the suffering of the sick man and the need for time for him to evolve into a state of health. The
average chronic sufferer cannot expect to evolve into full health in less than two years and many will require more time than
this. A few will require less time.
Knowing this, we can, with patience and