 hundreds of millions of dollars to turn
American education around in that short a period of
time. Where did the money that inflamed this epidemic
come from? How was it spent? How did the mainstream
of experimental psychology meet up with a mainstream
of millions of dollars?
The answer, it must be admitted, is enough to make
one feel distinctly uneasy. The new psychology tapped
the richest existing vein of American wealth and
philanthropy and, in short order, won for itself the
backing of almost unlimited funds. Here were its new
buildings, its endowments, its publications, its research
facilities, transportation, salaries—the wherewithal to
spread like wildfire throughout the entire fabric of
American education.
The checks were to emanate not from the uptown
headquarters of Columbia Teachers College in New
York City's Morningside Heights, but from No. 26
Broadway, around the corner from the
43 44 THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION
financial capitol of the world on Wall Street.
No. 26 Broadway was the most famous business
address in the country, perhaps in the world. It was the
corporate home of the Standard Oil Company, owned
and operated by John D. Rockefeller, Sr. The story of
how the resources of the great oil monopoly came to be
used in the spread of a new psychology covers a period
of some 40 years, and begins with Mr. Rockefeller
himself.
As every school child used to know, Rockefeller
created one of the largest monopolies of his time. He
began in the oil business in  1863, and by 1880 had won
control of 95% of U.S. oil production. He controlled the
drilling for oil, the refineries, the prices, and the
transportation of crude and refined oil through an
intricate tank car system. He sabotaged his competitors,
hired spies to infiltrate the businesses of his enemies,
and squeezed out independent operators by carefully
conceived secret contracts. By 1910, when a glass of
beer cost a penny and a loaf of bread less than a nickel,
when a three-room apartment went for five dollars a
month and a good pair of shoes for a dollar, Rockefeller
had assets of over $800 million (in 1980's buying
power, that equates to over $10 billion).1
1. The story of John D. Rockefeller's rise to wealth is related in
Rockefeller family biographer and apologist Allan Nevins' Study in Power:
John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist and Philanthropist,  A Gift From God  45
Rockefeller liked to make  money. At age 41, he
was quoted as saying, "I have ways of making
money you know nothing of,"2 and later attributed
his money-making powers to a gift from God:
I believe the power to make money is a gift
from God—just as are the instincts for art,
music, literature, the do ctor's talent, yours—
to be developed and used to the best of our
ability for the good of mankind. Having been
endowed with the gift I po ssess, I believe it is my
duty to make money and still more money and
to use the money I make for the good of my
fellow-man according to the dictates of my
conscience.3
And make money he di d but, his conscience
notwithstanding, he became  one of the most hated
men in the country:
It was more than thirty years since he had
begun his career, and Rockefeller was the
central figure of the most spectacular success
story in business history. The Standard was
2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953).
2. Abels, Jules, The Rockefeller Billions: The Story of the World's Most
Stupendous Fortune (New York: Macmillan, 1965), 114-15.
3.   Ibid., 280. 46 THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION
indisputably the most powerful industrial org-
anization in the natio n, and the most visible
symbol of growing American might abroad.
But for Rockefeller pe rsonally the price had
been heavy: he had become identified with all
the excesses the Standard had committed in its
rise to power; hatred clung to him like iron
filings to a magnet...Rockefeller had pursued
his leviathan with co mplete dedication. But
now he found himself lashed to its back as
inextricably as Ahab, and  in equal danger of
being taken do wn for good.4
Rockefeller was excoriated by the organs of
public opinion, and was th e target of numerous
investigating committees. His fortune and holdings
were growing faster than he could control or
protect them. He needed a special assistant who
could both polish up his public image and act as
hatchetman in the consolidation of his far-flung
business empire.
Rockefeller, a Baptist, had over the years given
sums of money to various Baptist causes. By the
late 1880's, the church el ders felt bold enough to
ask Rockefeller to contribute to the rebuilding of
the University of Chicago, a Baptist school founded
4.   Collier, Peter, and David Horowitz, The Rockefellers: An American
Dynasty (New York: New American Library, 1976), 41.  A Gift From God  47
in 1856 as the Morgan Park  Theological Seminary.
Acceding to their request, Rockefeller became
immersed in the reconstruction of the university,
giving to it in 1887 the then-huge sum of $600,000. It
was during this involvemen t with the university that
he met Frederick Taylor Gates, a Baptist minister
who had previously worked for George A. pillsbury,
founder of the flour empire, in distributing
Pillsbury's last philanthropies before his death.5
Rockefeller was impressed by Gates' directness
and by the manner in which he handled financial
affairs. Constantly besieg ed by requests for money,
Rockefeller asked Gates to  work for him and take
the burden of philanthr opic decisions off his
shoulders. Gates was soon handling all re quests for
Rockefeller money, and doing what he could to
polish up the Rockefeller image. He also reorganized
Rockefeller's ownership of the great Masabi ore
deposits in Minnesota (whi ch provided 60% of the
nation's iron ore), buying out the stockholders of
personal holdings which were in trouble, and
eliminating unprofitable holdings from the Rocke-
feller portfolio.
Gates grew frantic, however, at the extent of
Rockefeller's financial hold ings, and of the threat
they contained for Rockefeller: "Your fortune is
5. Ibid., 49-50.  48 THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION
rolling up, rolling up like an avalanche! You must
distribute it faster than it grows! If you do not, it
will crush you, and your chil dren, and your children's
children."6 As Gates later recalled:
I trembled as I witnessed the unreasoning
popular resentment at Mr. Rockefeller's riches,
to the mass of people, a national menace. It was
not, however, the unreas oning public prejudice
of his vast fortune that chiefly troubled me.
Was it to be handed on to posterity as other
great fortunes have be en handed down by their
possessors, with scandalous results to their
descendants and powerful tendencies to social
demoralization? I saw no other course but for
Mr. Rockefeller and his son to form a series of
great corporate philanthropies for forwarding
civilization in all its elements in this land and
all lands; philanthropies, if possible, limitless
in time and amount, broad in scope, and self-
perpetuating.7
6. Ibid., 59.
7. Ibid. 6. Molding Hands
IF large philanthropy was to be the sol-
ution then there was only one way for the great
monopolist Rockefeller to go  about what he called
"the difficult art of giving":
If a combination to do business is effective in
saving waste and in getting better results, why is
not combination far more important in
philanthropic work?1
The game plan was simple: here was all this
Rockefeller money, and here was Mr. Rockefeller
being constantly badgered, scrutini zed, and hauled
into court; why not set up a monopoly on philan-
thropy, funnel into it large sums from the fortunes of
Rockefeller and the other industrial barons, and
distribute the money in a way guaranteed to ensure
1.   Rockefeller, John D., Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
(Toronto: McClannand & Goodchild, 1909), 165.
49 50 THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION
Mr. Rockefeller the respect and admiration of those
elements of society which had castigated him most? In
other words, it was time to launder the money.
The creation and funding of the University of
Chicago had done much to e nhance Rockefeller's public
relations profile among Ba ptists and educators.
Educational philanthropy, since it was paying off in
good publicity, might be the way to go


“I—I don’ t know,” was all I could think of to say.
“Doesn’ t your guilt simply immobilize you?” she asked.
“Yes.”
“And no amount of it can ever get you to go into rewind to correct what
you’ve done?”
“Yes again.”
“Then it seems to me that it’ s one thing to do something you dislike and
feel bad about it, and it’ s quite another to do something you dislike andcarry guilt around with you. It’ s double jeopardy, for crying out loud, and it
also seems irresponsible to me,” she said.
I had never thought of guilt as irresponsible before. I asked her, “How is
it irresponsible?”
“Obviously, if you are just going to choose an emotional reaction which
is going to be painful, and at the same time isn’ t going to lead to a
correction of the behavior you detest, then guilt immobilizes you and keeps
you feeling terrible to boot. T o me that’ s irresponsible.”
“But isn’ t your guilt also irresponsible?” I asked. “Don’ t you feel bad
when you do things you dislike, and isn’ t that called guilt?”
“Guilt on Uranus is necessary in order to correct what you have already
done, therefore it is a most responsible choice. On Earth, from what I can
gather from your questions to me, you can’ t replay your past, so I would
think it essential to learn from your mistakes, correct them in future
encounters, and sensibly shun the painful guilt. But then, I have dif ficulty
imagining a world without guilt. As painful as it is for a few moments, it
still serves such a wonderful purpose. No one on Uranus would be without
his guilt-prodder, I can assure you.”
I was impressed. I must say, greatly impressed. Just as with her worry-
wares, she was able to make an eloquent defense of guilt because it was
functional. I was beginning to see what she meant by being in a reality-
based culture. If an emotion didn’ t serve a purpose, she simply didn’ t use it.
All the guilt that I had heard defended throughout my life seemed utterly
pointless in the face of her logic.
I asked Eykis about conversations I had overheard on Uranus in which
people said the same foolish things I had heard so many times back home. I
gave her a list of sentences which included:
“You should have done it this way.”
“You wouldn’ t be having this problem if you’d only listened to
me.”
“You shouldn’ t have done it this way without consulting me.”
When I confronted her with the absurdity of such postulations, she acted
surprised at my having pointed them out.“Should-have, would-have, and could-have are very valuable tools,” she
explained. “They influence someone to activate the guilt-prodder and
ultimately get into rewind.”
“In what way?” I asked.
“By saying ‘you should have,’ obviously people are telling other people
that they didn’ t do something as well as they might have. The recipients
may then choose to feel guilty and re-do it, so as to please themselves and
behave more ef fectively in rewind.”
“But what if a person feels that he or she did it just the right way and
doesn’ t like that should-have,” I asked.
“Why, the recipient simply ignores the ‘you should have.’ Y ou see, the
purpose of ‘you should have’ is to give the option of re-doing. If one were
unable to go into rewind, there would be no sense in telling another person
‘you should have.’”
“But, Eykis,” I protested, “what if you really disliked what someone did
and you felt that person would have benefited by doing it your way? How
would you possibly inform anybody of the need to improve?”
“You mean, assuming the person can’ t go into rewind and re-do it?” she
asked.
“Yes, yes.” I had for gotten about that damned rewind thing here on
Uranus.
“The answer is so simple that it hardly bears saying. Y ou would tell the
person to work at not repeating that foolish behavior in the future. Y ou
would never say ‘you should have,’ since it serves no purpose. But a life
without rewind is dif ficult for me to imagine.”
“How do you handle criminals if you have no use for guilt?” I asked.
“I didn’ t say we had no use for guilt, you are the one who apparently has
no use for it. On Uranus, guilt is quite useful and criminals do not exist.
Anyone who behaves in a way that is contrary to the law is required to
accept responsibility for his behavior. Guilt helps. It makes one rethink
what he or she has done, then go into rewind and correct the wrong
behavior. Anyone who refuses must take responsibility for it.”
“Just how would a person do that?” I asked.
“Quite simply,” Eykis said. “Someone who has stolen property must
return it and pay restitution. Those who refuse are incarcerated and
permitted to work on construction projects that benefit everyone, such as
roads, libraries, schools, and all sorts of public service. Those who refuse todo such work live in solitary confinement until they choose to be
responsible. But our prisons are virtually empty, since going into rewind
through guilt eliminates the need for incarceration. It is a rare occasion
when a person chooses not to go into rewind in order to act in a law-abiding
manner the second time, or to be responsible through work projects. Since
these are such sensible choices, solitary confinement is almost never used.”
“But what about violent crime, in which someone elects to harm or even
murder another?” I asked.
“These concepts of harm and murder don’ t exist here, since we are
strictly reality-based. No one on Uranus is capable of even wanting to hurt
anyone because it serves absolutely no purpose, unless there is a rare
dependency-diode malfunction which I’ll soon explain. W e know
intuitively that each person has a right to be what he chooses for himself.
Consequently no one can choose to alter anyone else’ s humanity. I assume
by harm and murder you mean altering someone. W e can’ t do that, it simply
isn’t within our reality to think and behave in the ways you’ve described as
harmful.”
“But don’ t you think a person who could do that, and there are many on
Earth who can and do, should be made to feel guilty?” I asked.
“Not if the guilt cannot activate rewind,” she said almost instantly.
“But shouldn’ t they be made to repent and correct their ways?”
“Now you sound like you live here on Uranus. Repentance is internal and
voluntary, behavior is external. Changing a person’ s ways in the future is
possible. But why should that have anything to do with guilt? Can’ t a
person learn, repent, and grow, or even be confined, without the
accompanying guilt?” she asked.
“I’m not sure,” I replied.
“Well, I can tell you for certain that if guilt didn’ t lead to rewind, it would
never exist here on Uranus. Even if we had violent crimes against each
other, guilt wouldn’ t help to rehabilitate anyone and would very likely
encourage repetition of the of fensive behavior. As I said earlier, either you
go into rewind and correct the behavior while learning from it or you suf fer
society’ s punishment. However, the guilt won’ t correct anything when you
don’t have the rewind option.”
“If everyone is reality-oriented and can go into rewind to erase mistakes,
why did I see signs of the same social problems on Uranus that we have on
Earth? What about your prisons and abortion clinics?” I asked.“Those particular terms may apply on Earth. What you saw were houses
of correction and women’ s centers. On Earth perhaps these titles are merely
euphemisms for the coarser terms. On Uranus they are quite literal. People
occasionally commit acts which cannot be accepted by society; they would
correspond to ‘harming’ someone on Earth. Because of malfunctions in
dependency diodes or other explainable dysfunctions, a person may refuse
to go into rewind. He will need counseling to see why his actions were in
error. A house of correction is a rewind counseling service in a live-in
establishment. It is a house. It is for correcting  errors in thinking. In reality,
the people are not bad, they’re just wrong.
“Women’ s centers deal with all phases of a woman’ s life. There are
programs for physical fitness, sex education, general medical problems as
well as gynecological needs, fertility, pregnancy, nursing, and child care.
There is something of interest to any female of any age for body, mind, and
spirit. W ith rewind, we don’ t need abortions, but there are classes and
counselors to help women think things through so they don’ t have to make
rewind decisions on a regular basis. And, I might happily add, there is no
social stigma against anyone who chooses to bear a child, regardless of the
circumstances. The child will not suf fer, either.”
“Explain why the news report I saw when I first arrived carried stories
about drug centers. Why would such places exist in your culture?”
“Again those are literal, descriptive titles. All chemicals not acquired
from food are available only through a drug center. The doctors and
ph


 2:299, 1964. VII.
Spontaneous development
of a fluctuating injury
potential in tissue
The incidence of necrosis in pulmonary cancers is
difficult to estimate. According to Byrd et a!. (2),
cavitation develops in approximately 10 per cent of
primary pulmonary neoplasms. Found almost exclu
sively in squamous cell carcinomas, cavitation is rare
in undifferentiated and alveolar cell carcinomas (3, 5).
Because necrotic material is not always replaced by air
wh.ich is radiographically evident in cavitation, the 10
per cent value probably represents a low estimate for
the incidence of necrosis in pulmonary neoplasms. In
the author's experience, adenocarcinoma s and meta
staticcancers in lung may also be necrotic, but the lung
tumours wh.ich are most frequently necrotic are defi
nitely primary squamous cell carcinomas.
The low incidence of cavitation in such highly ma
lignant tumours as undifferentiated bronchogenic car
cinomas is difficult to explain. One possible explana
tion would be that such cancers tend to obstruct cen
tral bronchi by rapid and continuous overgrowth so
that endobronchial evacuation of the necrotic material
is seldom possible.
Rapid growth of a malignant tumour is generally
thought to cause imbalance between nutritional supply
and demand, leading to necrosis. Compression or inva
sion of an artery supplying the tumour may also pro
duce necrosis. Erosion of a nutrient vessel also may produce internal bleeding and thereby increase inter·
nat pressure, inducing necrosis. A thrombus in a blood
vessel in a lung cancer may be regarded as a metaboli
cally isolated tissue wh.ich will be subject to autolytic
changes.
Injury of tissue may be produced by circulatory,
metabolic, mechanical, chemical and electrical factors,
heat or radiation. From a physical point of view, any
of these sources can produce an electrical injury poten
tial.
Consider hepatic autolysis as an example of necrosis.
Almost no light microscopic changes can be seen dur
ing the first six hours (I). Thereafter, cell membranes
gradually disintegrate and nuclei start to show pykno·
sis. Mitochondria then begin to sweU and vacuoles
appear in the cytoplasm (II). After about 24 hours
karyolysis is observed. After 48 to 72 hours most cells
are necrotic. Electron microscopica lly, changes c.an be
observed soon after· hypoxia. Saladino and Trump
(13), studying slices of mouse liver, observed the earli
est autolytic changes in mitochondria after a mere S
minutes of hypoxia.
When lack of oxygen injures a tissue, lysosomes
liberate soluble hydrolytic enzymes (7). These en
zymes are most active in an acidic environment, spread
into different parts of the cell, and reach a maximum
Fluctuati ng injury potential 69 intracellular concentration afrer 3 to 4 hours (7). Lyso
somal enzymes appear to be of central importance in
proteolytic degradation of cells, a point recently
stressed by Marzella (12). After lysosomal enzymatic
digestion is established, other cellular enzymes are
then continually liberated in the tissue (1, 10, 14).
Hydrolases initiate lysosomal action in the liver of
starVed rats exposed to carbon tetrachloride, according
to De Duve, et al. (8). The soluble hydrolytic enzymes
are Feleased across the lipoprotein membrane of the
lysosome in a primary attack which appears to derive
from ischaemic injury to the cenrre of the lysosome. In
addition to the release of lysosomal hydrolases, autoly
sis is accomplished also by acid pbosphatases, cathep
sin, P-gJucuronidase, acid ribonuclease and acid des
oxyribonuclease (8, 9).
Studies in organs other than the liver further indi
cate that the liberation of lysosomal enzymes is one of
the earliest reactions in the development of autolysis
(12).
In its early stages, autolysis includes an increase in
tissue weight and then an accumulation of intracellular
calcium. Dawkins, et al. (6) have attributed the in
crease in weight to an oomotic effect. This osmotic
weight increase is also an indication of the ongoing
destruction of molecules, which as a physical process
can be characterized as a catabolic liberation of energy.
As cells die, they lose their metabolic functions and
become more acid in reaction ( 4). They change their
permeability characteristics for ions and macromole
cules. Inllux of water swells their protoplasm. Granu
lar bodies appear. Cytoplasm and nuclei coagulate and
disintegrate into debris (4).
The studies of electric potential of lung tumours and
granulomas (Chapter VI) revealed that potential gradi
ents of varying magnitude and polarity may be present
in lung lesjons, relative to a surrounding reference
tissue. These gradients may be electronegative, elec
tropositive or even zero. Usually, reproducible profiles
of potential could be obtained from any particular kind
of lesion.
No correlation could be found between the tissue
profiles of electric potential in different tumours of
corresponding size, location or histologic type. The
variability of the profiles of potential among different
tumours (and sometimes in different parts of the ru
mours) nullified attempts at quantitative correlation.
Empirically, however, it became evident eventually
that necrotic material could be obtained by aspiration
biopsy from most of the polarizing lesions.
This preliminary empirical information was next
turned into directed research attempting to explain the
finding of inconsistent electrical potential in histologi
cally similar lesions. Tumours are known sometimes to
contain internal bleeding or necrotic regions of varying
extent (2, 3, 5). These changes are a form of injury to
70 Fluctuating injury potential tissue, which should produce electrochemical injury
potentials. Necrosis or haemorrhage may well explain
why a tumour of particular histologic type, size and
location presents electric polarization in relation to
surrounding noninjured tissue in one patient while a
seemingly corresponding rumour in another paticm
does not show such changes.
Furthermore, focal autolysis in a lesion might be
expected to cause local variations in electrochemical
potential. Age of the locally degrading process may
also be a factor. Controlled research on these problems
would be extremely difficult to carry out in vivo in the
lung. As focal internal haemorrhage in a lesion is very
probably involved in the process of polarization, blood
was chosen as a readily accessible tissue to study in
attempting to explain the possible origin of electrical
polarization of lung lesions.
A. Degradation of blood
The development of local necrosis in a surviving sub
ject is not reStricted to hours or a few days. The whole
process may be found to modify the tissues during
months or even years. In the present in vitro experi
ments, the spontaneous degradation of blood during
hypoxia was studied over the relatively long time peri
ods of one to eight weeks. These studies were arranged
to simulate, at least approximately, the spontaneous
degradation of clotted blood inside a tumour.
Fresh human blood was studied under sterile condi
tions with regard to spontaneous pH and changes of
electric diffusion potential (Fig. VII: 1). Twenty to SO
ml of fresh sterile blood were placed in a sterile collo
dium bag which was suspended in a jar containing
I 000 ml of circulating Ringer's solution at 37•c.
Three Ag-AgCl electrodes with KCl bridges and three
pH electrodes were placed through holes in a rubber
stopper, fitted to the bag opening. A grounded refer
ence (Lazaran) Ag-Ag Cl electrode with KCl bridge
was inserted in the Ringer·'s solution. The surface of
the blood and the Ringer's solution was covered with a
2 em thick layer of sterile liquid paraffin to prevent
contact of air with the fluids. The entire apparatus was
then kept inside a sterilized plastic cover.
The pH of the blood and its change of diffusion
potential in relation to the grounded reference elec
trodes were recorded intermittently during the experi
mental periods, which var:ed from one to eight weeks.
Experiments on six different samples of human blood
and two samples of dog blood were performed. Sam
ples of the blood were taken at different times to
confirm bacteriologic sterility.
The results of these studies showed that pH of the
blood decreased rapidly during the first days (Fig. VII: 2). The three separate pH electrodes showed
some internal differences despite careful calibration
before the experiments. Control calibrations after the
experiments usually showed some differences among
the c:lectro


 cancer 313 Hormonal and cytostatic chemotherapy are occa
sionally useful. Nonetheless these chemical treatments
commonly fail. They also have undesirable side ef
fects.
Other techniques have also previously been intro
duced in attempts to improve the possibilities of rrear
ing lung tumours unsuitable for surgery. For example,
the author has tried the following measures : regional
perfusion of cytostatic compounds distal to a balloon
occluded pulmonary artery or vein, infusion of cyto
static compounds into intercostal and bronchomedias
rinal arteries proximal to a balloon-occluded thoracic
aorta, selective perfusion of a catheterized bronchial
artery, direct injection of cytostatic compounds into
the bronchus leading ro the region of a tumour and
also direct transthoracic injection of such compounds
into tumourous tissue after local elecrrocoagulation of
the centre of the tumour (39, 40). Other clinical at
tempts have been made ro improve the effect of radio
therapy by increasing the oxygen content of the tu
mour tissue ( 46, 68).
Diathermy is intended ro destroy tissue by the gen
eration of heat. This technique can be used with
"dry" electrodes in the lung only for treatment of
relatively small tumours (less than I em diameter ).
Regional cooling of tissue by circulating blood and
ventilation of lung may interfere with the tr.tnsmission
of heat. The use of liquid-perfused electrodes, as has
been shown in this study, improves the possibilities for
hear production and heat transmission. Wet electrodes
permit coagulation of somewhat larger tumours than
do dry electrodes. Electrocoagulation by liquid-per
fused electrodes can be made rapidly and relatively
simply with tumours less than one em in diameter.
Only occasionally can larger tumours be treated suc
cessfully with this technique (Fig. XVII: 5).
The use of direct current for treating tumours offers
different and, in some respects, improved possibilities.
Therapeutic effects are then induced by anodic liber
ation of protons as well as by electrophoretic and
electroosmoric events, which change the microenvir
onment of the ti~ues. Cells and tissues in the elcmic
field thereby undergo a variety of reactions. The eke·
rrolytic production of H2, 02 and Cl2 also produce
mechanical effects by compression of tissue, an effect
more pronounced around the cathode than around the
anode.
The ionization of water, which has a high dielecric
constant, indicates that the range of compound s which
undergo molecular splitting is wide. Biologic mole
cules with strong internal bonds will require higher
electrode voltage than molecules with weak internal
bonds, which indicart-s that rhe magnitude of applied
electrode voltage produces qualitative differences in
electrolysis of tissue.
At relatively low voltages, e.g., below 10 volts, ion-
314 Treatme nt of cancer izatioo effects and transport phenomena are compara
bly prominent while hear production is comparatively
negligible. Nevertheless, coagulation still takes place
due ro electrochemical precipitation of protein, an
effect which also occurs ar high voltages. Coagulation
appears around the anode as a central grey-white and a
surrounding black, dry region. The black anodic zone
has the general appearance of dry gangrene and is
produced by diffusion and migration of protons. The
central grey-white zone is caused by chlorine bleaching
the tissue.
Over biologically closed electric circuits (BCEC),
several biological effects are encountered. Extensive
thrombosis, for instance, is induced as far as several
em out into the tissues surrounding a spontaneously
polarizing tumour. Such extensive thrombotic changes
are also induced when a tumour undergoes treatmem.
These changes narrowing the lumens of vessels sur
rounding a tumour will obviously restrict its blood
supply.
An instructive example is the DC-treared patient no.
4, in whom one metastatic tumour, as large as a cher
ry, disappeared after a dose of I 00 coulombs. A second
tumour of the same size six weeks later received 180
coulombs under otherwise comparable conditions of
treatment. This tumour decreased only slightly in size
during the IS months rhar followed. Similar results
were obtained in patient no. 2. At first glance, these
fmdiogs do nor seem logical, but may be explained in
the following way:
If a dose of current is just sufficient to devitalize a
tumour, including a "minimum" of capillary throm
boses at its periphery, then the resorption of destroyed
material from the tumour should proceed relatively
rapidly, possibly after a recapillarization of the tissue
surrounding the tumour. On delivery of an "over
dose" of current, the destructive effects on the capil
laries and other component s of the tissues around the
tumour may become too extensive to allow sufficient
recapillarization for ready resorption of devitalized tis
sue. A sequestrari~m effect can then be expected to
ensue; a ball of dehydrated, decomposed tumour tis·
sue is formed, which probably best can be regarded as
a focus of dry gangrene.
The extensive dystrophic changes in lung tissue
around granulomas are a possibly related phenom·
enon. For example, radiograph s of the tuberculous
granuloma in Fig. IV: I show surrounding dystrophy,
which may be explained as a result of intense, sponta·
neous, focal, elecrrochemical polarization caused by
the tuberculou s agent.
The amount of electric energy which is delivered to
tissue from an external electric power source is deter
mined by integrating momentar y densities of current
flow and the duration of the treatment. Considerable
ionization and electric transports may therefore ensue spont2neously, at low den5ities of current flow over
long tissue periods. The size and shape of the electric
field will be determined by the sizes, shapes and posi
tions of the electrodes and the conductivity properties
of the tissues.
An obvious advantage in DC treatment is placement
of the anode in the tumour. Tumour cells are known
to possess an excess of fixed electronegative charges on
their surfaces. These charges will therefore be attract
ed inward toward the anode, which is a compelling
reason for placing only the electropositive electrode in
the tumour.
Another specific effect in DC treatment of tumours
is the selective attraction of leukocytes to the region of
the anode and the accumulation of leukocytes in ves
sels wh.icb direct tht flow of blood toward the cathode.
This effect appears probably beneficial for the healing
of tumours.
A potentially far-reaching possibility is the concept
of delivering via the blood stream an electronegatively
charged cytostatic compound during DC treatment. In
this way an increased amount of the cytostatic agent
might be accumulated in the tumour and in its sur
rounding tissue, at the same time as undesired general
effects could be diminished.
In spite of many differences, both radiation treat
ment and DC treatment ionize tissue, which may justi
fy some comparisons.
Ionization of tissue in DC treatment is induced from
the inside of a tumour. It is therefore far more selec
tive than tissue ionization by external radiation. DC
treatment should therefore make it possible to keep
the total ionizing dose relatively low. More<>ver, in
radiation therapy the ionization is "mixed", i.e., non
selective, while DC treatment selectively produces an
ions and cations and transports them in the electric
field. The photon energy in radiation therapy must be
h.igh enough to allow removal of electrons from their
orbits for a sufficiently long time to prevent them from
falling back into their orbits. DC and external radi
ation treatment s might therefore be advantageously
combined in the future, leading to a mutual and spe
cific enhancement of the beneficial effects of each.
The observation time of the DC treatments of the
cancers here reported is still relatively short, i.e., a few
years. Final judgment of the long-term results must
necessarily wait. Preliminary canclusions about the treat
ments nevertheless can be made.
1) DC treatrrunt appears UJ be a promising method for
weal therapy of ca•cer. Beneficial effecu have already
been obtained with a preliminary technique in 12 of 26
tumours in 20 patients. The technique is still far from
optimized. It depends on many technical and biologi
cal variables.
2) The results reported in 1978 of the treatments of
5 patients are still valid ( 4 I). It is possible to perform 5uccessful DC treatment of metastatic cancen in lungs
of patients who have been rejected for surgery, radio
therapy or chemotherapy because of poor general con
dition, cardiorespiratory ins


ing, to which  you  have  not yet become  accustomed.  It does
not make  any  difference  what  your  manifestations  have
been  up to date,  in your  Acknowledgment  of the Presence
of Life;  it is nothing,  to what  you  can  call  into  action,  as
you go forth!
Pardon  Me,  if I digress  just  a moment,  since  the Vibra-
tory Action  is Right.  I want  to place  this  before  you.  In
all the seeming  opposition  to This  "I AM"  Activity—for
no reason  at all, and  all the falsehoods  which  have  been
uttered  concerning  the Messengers  and  the Work,  during DISCOURSE  XVIII  281
the Washington  Class;  the Great  Cosmic  Laws  were  set
into action,  which  will  cause  opposition  to disappear  from
the Earth!  Watch  it! We do not talk  to hear  Ourselves,  but
We state  Laws.  We never  refer  to a personality,  when  We
are stating  These  Laws;  except  in some  specific  instance,
where  work  was  required.
Know  and  feel  the Power  in the last Decree  you  issued
in the opening  of the meeting!  If you  know  that  Decree
with  the  All-power  of your  feeling,  you  will  find  your
world  adamant  against  human  disturbing  conditions!
When  you  can say to all the appearance  world  and  human
creation:  "You  have  no power"!  Mean  It and  feel  It with
the Infinite  Power  of Light!  which  is your  Being,  then
you will  find  yourselves  Invincible  within  the Presence  of
Light!  It is Invincible  and  you  can  move  in the  world
everywhere,  releasing  the Inner  Power;  and  yet not accept-
ing the outer  into  your  feeling  world,  which  limits  and  dis-
turbs  you.
Therefore,  today  as the atmosphere  becomes  more  and
more  stilled  and  harmonized  in the room;  I want  to render
for you  a Service,  which  it has been  My Joy so many  times
to do! It is the releasing  and  dissolving  wherever  possible
of your  human  creation.  So you may  have  a Greater  Release
from  the pressure  which  has often  caused  you  to fail in the
achievement,  which  you  would  so love  to have  had.
Let Me urge  you  today,  to no longer  give  power  to per-
sons,  places  or conditions  to interrupt,  interfere  with—or
limit  you  in any  way!  Now  in order  to comprehend  this, 282 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
you must  realize  not one thing  can enter  your  world  or any
condition  whatever,  except  thru  your  attention,  by which
you connect  your  own  Life  Stream  with  it. It is IMPOS-
SIBLE  FOR  ANYTHING  TO  REACH  OR  ENTER
YOUR  WORLD  WITHOUT  YOUR  ATTENTION
UPON  IT.
That  is why,  Beloved  Ones,  today,  please  close  the door
and seal  it, on everything  which  has  been  in the past—up
to this  hour!  Close  it now  and  let Me help  you  to close  that
door!  Lock  it and  seal  it, so not once  again,  does  your  at-
tention  ever  go back  to what  has been,  whether  it is good,
bad or indifferent!  Erase  it! Shut  the door!  Then  as you
turn  and  face  your  "I AM  Presence,"  know  henceforth,
only  Its Intelligence,  Presence  and  Power,  with  all Its Glory
and Harmony,  are acting  in and  thru  your  body  and  feeling
world.  Then,  you  will  rejoice  so much  at the changed  con-
ditions.  Your  Life,  world  and  activity  will  be filled  with
successful  achievement,  with  happiness  which  you  cannot
comprehend,  until  you  do that!
Beloved  Ones,  do you  think  what  you  have  called  hap-
piness  up to this  time,  is Real  Happiness ? Oh,  you  cannot
believe  how  Great  the  Happiness  from  your  Presence  is,
until  you  begin  to experience  It. I tell you,  the Happiness
in the Acknowledgment  of your  Presence,  is the only  Real
Source  of Happiness  in This  Universe.  It continues  to pour
in at your  Call  and  as you realize  the imperative  need,  is for
you to keep  your  feeling  harmonious.  Then  no longer  your
qualification  of discord  clothes  your  Life  Energy.  You  will DISCOURSE  XVIII  283
feel and  know  definitely,  the Energy  has poured  forth  just
like a Mighty  River  out into  your  world  of action—harmo-
nizing  everything  and  holding  Its Dominion.  When  some-
thing  is required,  and  you  hold  the Harmony;  then  by a
Decree,  it comes  forth  and  acts  in your  world  with  the
Speed  of Lightning.
That  is the Law  and  Action  of the  "I AM  Presence."
There  are thousands  and  thousands  of the students  today,
who  have  experienced  It time,  and  time  again.  They  are
realizing  the only  reason  why  their  application  has not pro-
duced  extraordinary  results  in the  past,  was  because  un-
known  to themselves,  discord  was  still acting  in the feeling.
While  the intellect  was  refusing  it, still  in the feeling  the
qualification  of discord  was  going  on;  qualifying  the en-
ergy  with  the discord  of the past.  You  cannot  afford  to do
that!  YOU  MUST,  BELOVED  ONES,  TAKE  YOUR
STAND  AND  SHUT  THAT  THING  OFF  OR  SAY
TO YOUR  FEELING:  "STOP!  BE  SILENT"!  TURN
YOUR  ATTENTION  TO  THE  PRESENCE  AND
HAVE  ITS  GLORY  AND  BLESSING.
You do not perhaps  realize,  how  firm  you  must  be, to-
ward  your  own  feeling  world.  When  it has gained  a mo-
mentum  of centuries,  you  are under  its pressure.  You  might
say to Me:  "Well  suppose  I don't  know  I have  lived  before ?
Do I still  have  the accumulation  of the centuries  in this
embodiment"?  Yes!  I will  explain  to you  why.  Because
in all of the accumulation  of the centuries,  even  though
you did  not know  it could  be dissolved;  if you  have  not 284 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
set the Law  of Life  into  action  which  would  dissolve  it,
then  it still  remains.
All the  accumulation,  all the  discord  which  has  been
in your  experience  of the past,  still  remains  about  you  and
in your  world.  Believe  it or not!  You  meet  all that  accumu-
lation,  when  you  come  back  into  this  embodiment.  It is just
waiting  there  for you,  because  it belongs  to you;  and  you
cannot  get away  from  it, until  you  know  this Presence  of all
Life;  and  call It to use the Violet  Consuming  Flame  to dis-
solve  and  consume  every  bit of your  accumulation  of dis-
cord.  The  Mercy  or Glory  of your  Presence,  will  at your
call, dissolve  and  consume  every  particle  of your  accumula-
tion of discord  of the centuries;  in a few  weeks  or a few
months  at most,  if the person  is very  sincere  and  in earnest!
Therefore


play here or just want to enjoy a better, healthier sex life, for yourself or as
a couple, these techniques all begin with the breath. Prana  is the ancient
word for breath—or life force.  As the ancient yogic text Shiva Samhita,
says,
The wise man does not talk about the capacity of uttering words,
about sight, hearing, or meditation; he speaks only of the different
types of prana that makes all these things possible. Because
everything else is nothing but manifestations of prana.99,100
WOR TH W AITING FOR
Consciously controlled breathing has considerable benefits. Better
oxygenation gives you more energy, so tiredness doesn’ t curtail your
enjoyment or arousal. Sex that lasts longer before orgasm generally results
in a more intense orgasm and greater satisfaction. Awareness of the breath
can help you to overcome resistance, relax the muscles, and ease difficulty,
for example during anal sex.101
According to Urmila Neff, the way you breathe during sex has
“everything to do with its duration.” Both Tantra and Taoism recommend
deep nasal breathing from the diaphragm rather than fast, upper -chest
mouth breathing. In discovering  the functions of the vagus nerve and the
diaphragm, we have learned that there is a direct relationship between the
emotions and the breath, and this is thought to extend to sexual arousal too.
While the breath is constant and normally unconscious, we can choose to
change its depth and rhythm. By deliberately directing the breath, it is
possible to modulate the emotions and temper sexual excitement.
Another connection lies in the idea that the breath is a rhythmic
extension of the nervous and glandular systems. This idea of rhythm
throughout the systems and its place in the sexual experience has recently
been studied in the context of sexual trance.94There are various methods that can be used to stop ejaculation, but the
consensus is that fast breathing contributes to orgasm while slow breathing
helps delay (and intensify) it. The first and most basic way in which
breathwork can contribute is that it makes us more aware of the breath and
more attuned to the body. This is significant because unless you have a
certain awareness of your body, you are likely to employ any method of
delaying orgasm too late. Also, until you become accustomed to working
with the breath during rest, you will find it very difficult to adjust your
breathing during sex.
For men, tantric breathing for “sexual continence” has two basic
principles: first, rhythmic breathing through the nose to slow the
metabolism and activate the parasympathetic nervous system, and second,
breathing explosively through the mouth, which is import ant for the
expression of feelings.102 In yoga  and Tantra, slow nasal breathing is used
to contro l sexual energy. The fast breathing generates an explosive external
orgasm—the faster the breath, the more effectively it works. When
breathing is slower, we receive  more vital energy. When it speeds up, we
emit more energy. A daily practice of diaphragm breathing is essential to
controlling ejaculation and increasing erotic sensation in the body.
In the book The Multi-Or gasmic Man, authors Mantak Chia and
Douglas Abrams explain that because quick, shallow breathing increases
the heart rate, and a fast heart rate is synonymous with orgasm, deep, slow
breathing to slow the heart will control arousal and delay ejaculation.45 The
book describes how some men breathe quick, shallow breaths (the yogic
breath of fire) while others find that holding the breath for a few moments
on a deep inhalation lessens the ur ge to ejaculate.
In Tantra, once you have reached the goal to no longer ejacul ate, you
need to continue with the breathing exercises to learn how to channel your
sexual energy into conscious mental energy. Diaphragm breathing massages
the prostate and other internal organs, and it relieves the sense of pressure
many men experience when they don’t ejaculate. This tension in the genital
area is common for men who are new to sexual continence practice. It is
caused by a buildup of sexual energy in the pelvis. If this energy is not
diverted, it causes irritability, anxiety, and confusion. At this stage,
diaphragm breathing is used to guide the sexual energy up through thespine. Retaining sperm is not the only aspect to developing the ability to
experience multiple whole-body orgasms: sexual energy must be
transformed, and that is done with the breath.
BACK T O BASICS AND THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF
BREA THING
Learning any of these techniqu es begins with integrating light, slow, deep
nasal breathing. It forms the basis for healthy breathing and is developed in
the exercises in this book. Once you are familiar with how a healthy
breathing pattern feels, you will be much freer to enjoy more specific
breathing techniques. Becoming aware of your own breathing and that of
your partner opens the way to many avenues of exploration. For instance,
deep, mindful breathing can provide a way to relax and get in the mood
before foreplay. By becoming conscious of the breath as you bring air into
your belly, you can bring your awareness to the breath as it travels right
down into the genitals. This awakens the area, infuses it with energy, and
stimulates vasod ilation, increasing blood flow to your sexual organs. While
there are plenty of advanced methods out there, which are best approached
with a qualified teacher, there are also simple things you can do for better
sex.
When you breathe through your nose, you enjoy greater oxygen  uptake,
harness nitric oxide, and engage  your core for better movement.  Diaphragm
breathing activates muscles that stretch between the coccyx and pubic bone.
These are the muscles that contract during orgasm. By improving your
BOL T score, you are less likely to get out of breath. Just as increasing the
BOL T score can help alleviate breathlessness during exercise, reducing
your sensitivity to blood CO2 will help impro ve your stamina during sex.
This can be especially valuable in the control of asthma symptoms and in
alleviating the fear of exacerba tions. It may also provide relief for people
with epilepsy, because hyperv entilation during sex is known to trigger
seizures for some.103 In this context, Breathe Light  exercises and breath
holding following an exhalation  to improve the blood biochemistry should
first be practiced outside of the bedroom.It’s common to tense up and hold the breath as orgasm approac hes, but
scientists have proven that hypoxia reduces sexual arous al.104 This
tendency to hold the breath can often be caused by self-con sciousness.
Opening the mouth in the lead up to orgasm means you’re going to make
more noise. Many of us are conditioned by perceptions of how sex should
sound. We alter our sexual groans and grunts into moans and sighs, perhaps
to reflect what we’ve heard in erotic films. But it’s important not to imitate
the sounds you think are expe cted. This can repress orgasm and create
tension in the breath. Instead, if you continue breathing deepl y when the
orgasm begins, you will enjoy a full-body sensation.
The idea of breath holding during sex may become a little confused
with the idea that some peop le use behaviors such as asphyxiation or
hanging to induce arousal. Unfortunately, the severity of these “games” to
become aroused may gradually increase as tolerance to hypoxia develops,
so these  practices sometimes result in accidental death. A 2016 study
reports that the mechanisms by which these methods create heightened
pleasure for some people are complex and unclear,104 and, although this
relates to breathing practices and sex, there is not enough evidence to
explore them here.
PRACTICING ORGASMIC BREA TH
Breath retention is a feature of the Tantric practice of healing breath.105
This exercise has a ratio of 1:4:2 for inhalation, breath hold, and exhalation.
The retention is four times longer than the inhalation, and the exhalation is
twice as long. Breathe in for one second or heartbeat, hold for four seconds
or four beats of the heart, and exhale for two seconds or two heartbeats. To
practice this, you can gradual ly increase the length of the inhalation,
maintaining the ratios between in-breath, retention, and out-breath. It is
important not to practice too intensely to begin with. If you get dizzy or feel
your heart beating too fast, stop the practice and breathe normally.
The exercise asks that you don’t count mentally, because this takes the
focus away from  the breath. Instead, count using the heartbeat, or practice
while walking, using the paces to keep track. In other words, practice the
breathing during everyday life so that you feel the benefits during sex. Theobjective is to slow the breathin g and to instill a profound level of calmness
in the mind. This exercise is for men to practice in the lead up to orgasm to
delay ejaculation and for women to deepen their orgasm. The best way to
ensure you are able to bring your attention to the breath during sex, when
you are bound to have your mind elsewhere, is to practice the breathing
exercises for developing control of your breathing during day-to-day life.
Breath retention is also used in the yogic


 is the descent of consciousness and
energy into regions of increasing space-density involving the processes of manifestation and pre-materialization. This was the
earliest stage of our galaxy before it had a material presence. With the start of materialization at the highest levels of space-density,
the return journey leads along the path of evolution back to the origin. The whole round trip is basically a descent of consciousness
into matter and then back to the creator.
As humans we are the highest life form with a biological body. With this, we are also the only biological form on Earth that has the
ability to work actively towards the goal of raising our consciousness in order to return to our Source. However, this possibility is
realized and used only in the ﬁnal stages of our human evolution.
Basically this evolution is towards decreasing levels of space-density on all levels of our being. These include the etheric body, the
emotional body and the mental body. Working consciously towards this goal is called the spiritual path. It involves purifying and
gaining control over these three lower bodies by eliminating negative habits, emotions and thoughts and actively promoting positive
ones instead.
By developing spiritual knowledge and living according to our highest ideals, we build a higher mental body at much lower levels of
space-density than our existing mental body. The same happens with our emotional body. By habitually focusing on feelings of lowest
space-densities, such as the spiritual qualities of compassion, tolerance, devotion, selﬂess actions and spiritual love, we gradually
develop a higher emotional body.
At the same time, we refrain from negative or fear-based thoughts and feelings. This has the effect that thoughts and feelings with the
highest space-densities are eliminated from our present emotional and mental bodies. Therefore, we extend our mental and
emotional bodies towards lower levels of space-density and withdraw them from the densest levels. The combined effect of this is a
shift of our center of consciousness, of our'I AM', towards lower space-densities or higher levels of consciousness.
This is actually the general principle  of the evolution of consciousness on all levels. The'I AM' of a ﬁeld of energy builds itself ever
changing bodies through which its center of consciousness can gradually ﬂow towards levels of lower space density and higher
consciousness.
CONSCIOUSNESS
All that exists comes originally from the level of Divine consciousness. Through pulson actions it gradually descended to regions of
ever increasing space-density. Therefore, everything that exists is basically more or less compressed consciousness. This makes it
possible for lower levels of consciousness, such as material substance or cells within our body, to respond intelligently to our mental
and emotional levels.
However, the energy ﬁelds created during the manifestation phase of pulsons and twin-pulsons are basically short-lived and,
therefore, without a long-lasting center of consciousness or'I AM'. This comes into existence only when a twin-pulson becomes
deformed and its energy ﬁeld is able to stabilize itself by building a body.
Without any changes within its ﬁeld of manifestation, consciousness would be dormant. Active consciousness or awareness is
created when part of the polarity of its ﬁeld is bound or released by micro-ﬁelds or by a super-ﬁeld of opposite polarity. Each such
energy change within a twin-pulson ﬁeld is experienced by it as a spark of consciousness. A basic level of consciousness originates
from the ongoing oscillations of the twin-vortices of I AM ﬁelds. The turbulence between them produces a constant stream of micro-
pulsons, which in turn cause the polarity changes essential for conscious awareness.
However, in order to grow or ﬂow towards higher levels of consciousness there need to be interactions with outside inﬂuences. This is
not a problem, as no ﬁeld of conscio usness exists in isolation. There is a constant exchange of units of energy between ﬁelds at the
same level as well as polarity changes induced by neighboring levels.
Consciousness is not the same as awareness. While the consciousness of an I AM includes all energy changes within its ﬁeld,
awareness only involves those changes that come to the attention of the individualized ﬁeld, commonly non-repetitive changes or
those which involve a speciﬁc focus.10/30/24, 4:57 PM Health-Science-Spirit - The Science of Spirituality - Part 2
https://health-science-spirit.com/Science_%26_Spirituality/The-Science-of-Spirituality-Part2.html 3/5The existing multitude of interacting I AM ﬁelds creates an uninterrupted  stream of consciousness from the levels of highest space-
density to the pure Divine consciousness of the pre-created condition. Technically speaking, this ﬂow of consciousness back to its
origin proceeds through the building of forms of ever decreasing space-density.
Commonly this process involves a ﬁeld of consciousness building itself a body not only from the matter of its own level, but also an
additional body or vehicle at the next lower level. In the case of humans, for instance, the mental I AM uses thought forms to build a
structured mental ﬁeld or Self, the middle self, at its own level and through polarity interactions in addition an emotional body. The
emotional I AM of the lower self builds itself in addition an etheric body. Each individualized higher level of consciousness guides its
next lower level of consciousness to evolve towards its own lower space–density. The combined effect of all these individual streams
of consciousness ﬂowing towards lower space-densities produces the universal evolution of consciousness.
Therefore, an I AM guides the development of its bodily vehicle in such a way that the consciousness of the vehicle gradually
becomes transmuted into the consciousness of the guiding ﬁeld, while the guiding ﬁeld itself is equally being coerced towards its next
higher level of consciousness.
With this we may say that the crest of consciousness gradually ﬂows from the physical world of minerals into and through the plant
world in the form of life-force. This is then transmuted into emotional consciousness in animals and becomes mental consciousness
in humans and spiritual consciousness in super-humans.
From the point of view of a manifested twin-pulson we may say that, in the widest sense, it is a soul that uses micro-pulsons as
matter to form its body, while its super-pulson is its guiding spirit. The interaction of spirit, soul and body produces a ﬂow of
consciousness, which is the tool for transforming matter into spirit. In other words: the processes of manifestation and materialization
allow spirit to play with itself in order to experience being conscious.
From our present individualized perspective we all seem to be separate from each other, with a separate consciousness in each one
of us. However, imagine our bodies as the end points of different waterspouts all coming from the same big cloud. In this way the
higher we move in spiritual consciousness, the more we are all one.
TIME
Each energy change within a manif ested pulson ﬁeld is experienced as a spark of consciousness. The rate of production of such
sparks is experienced as time. With this, time is a byproduct of consciousness.
We may distinguish between different perceptions of time. The individual time of a self is linked to the oscillation rate of its attached
twin-pulsons. Our planet, for instance, has a reversal of its magnetic poles about every hundred thousand years. That is the
oscillation rate of its twin-vortices and, therefore, its individual time. In humans we may see their biorhythm cycles as indicators of the
individual times of their dif ferent energy levels.
Subjective time is our conscious awareness of the rate of change. For instance, if we walk somewhere for the ﬁrst time, the road will
appear much longer than when we walk repeatedly along the same road. This is due to the much greater rate of sense information
when we do something new or for the ﬁrst time. For the same reason time appears to slow down in dangerous situations or in
children as compared to the elderly.
The speed and direction of the stream of consciousness of the originating super-pulson of the system determine objective time. For
us as humans this is mainly linked to the conditions of our planet as well as to our solar system and our galaxy. In a still wider sense
we may link objective time to the rate of oscillation of the universe.
During the phase of manifestation and pre-materialization the stream of consciousness, and with this time, has the opposite direction
as during materialization and demanifestation.
This may cause distortions of time in a manifesting vortex with strong uncompensated polarities. Our normal time goes forward, while
in a manifesting vortex it goes backwards. Therefore, depending on the strength of the vortex this may slow down our time or stop
time altogether.
However, spiritual masters tell us that time, as we know it exists only in the materialized universe. In the higher spiritual regions time
as such becomes meaningless as everything is ‘eternal now’. This means, for the spirit there is no past or future. We can understand
this concept from our deﬁnition of consciousness.
What we experience as the progres sion of time can be understood as a change of focus of the guiding consciousness on different
events. All events happen now, but on different levels or fabrics of space-density. With our limited human awareness, we experience
the focusing on different events as the progression of time. However, the guiding consciousness of our life-stream can experience all
events simultaneously or focus selectively on any event at any level or quality of space-density.
This concept implies that some quality of space-density changes with time or from event


eneed tobreathe andweneed tosleep tostay alive, butthemedicos aretelling
usthatwemustn’ toverdo it!They apparently putbreathing andsleeping inthesame
category aseating, which wemust also dotostay alive. Weallknow thatovereating is
harmful. Buteating isavoluntary action. Wearealways consciously aware ofit.Ifwe
would eatonly when hungry andstop eating when hunger disappeared, wecould not
overeat. Thebody isself-regulating when itsinstincts arefollowed. Butweeatforother
reasons than hunger and genuine need, so our overeating results in health problems.
Now what about sleeping? This normal bodily need andfunction isalso regulated
naturally.Webecome sleepy when sleep isneeded. Ifwedon’tfight itoffbytaking pep
pills orcoffee,wenaturally drop offinto astate oiunconsciousness when ourbodies
need sleep. And wewinremain inthisstate until ournerve energyissufficiently recov-
ered—unless oursleep isprematurely puttoanendbyajangling alarm clock orother
disturbing influence. Itisimpossible tosleep ifwedonotneed sleep. Sleep cannot be
“stored up” for future use.
Airisanother ofthenormal needs oflife,andbreathing isnature’ sway ofsupplying
ourbodies with air.Breathing isthemost automatic andunconscious ofallourbodily
functions thatsupply life’sneeds from outside sources. Wecangoforweeks ormonths
without food andfordays without water,butgoing foronly afewminutes without airre-
sults indeath. Airissuch aconstant necessity thatbreathing must bedone unconsciously
while we sleep.
Now medical expertise istelling usinthisarticle thatifwebreathe toomuch fresh
air we can become sick!
Tobesure, there issuch athing asoverbreathing. Wecandoforced deep breathing,
butafter afewminutes ofitthebody responds toourfolly bycutting offoxygen tothe
brain. Hallucination andunconsciousness follow,putting anendtotheconscious forced
breathing, after which normalcy is restored.
This overbreathing isnotwhat thephysicians aretalking about, forthey say,“Hy-
perventilation—taking inairinexcess ofthatrequired tomaintain normal oxygen levels
intheblood—is anunconscious action onthepartoftheindividual...” How dothey say
wecan“over -breathe?” Bygetting toomuch oxygen inourair.This iswhy they claim
that too much fresh air is bad for us.
Just what isfresh air?Itistheopposite ofstale air.Stale airisairthathasbeen
breathed andexpelled. Thelife-giving oxygen hasbeen appropriated bythebody,and
carbon dioxide, awaste product, isgiven offalong with other waste gases ofelimination.
Ifonehadhishead enclosed inaplastic bagthatwassealed attheneck andhehadto
constantly breathe andrebreathe thesame air,hewould notlivelong. Itwould bemuch
thesame astrying toliveonone’sown feces andurine. Stale air,then, ispolluted air.The
airthatmost ofusbreathe inunventilated buildings andoutdoors inmetropolitan areas
isfurther polluted bytobacco smoke, factory smoke, automobile exhaust, aerosol sprays
andmany other contaminants. Fresh airisairthatiswithout such pollutants. Country
airiscalled fresh because plants andtrees growing there absorb thecarbon dioxide and
expel oxygen. What awonderful symbiosis exists here! Plant lifeandanimal lifeare
constantly supplying each other with theneeds oflife. Theairwaste product ofoneis
the necessity of the other.
Arethemedicos telling usthatnature goofed? Isthere toomuch oxygen intheairfor
ourhealth? Didnature mess uponherproportions? And should weregulate thisimbal-
ance ourselves bymaking sure thatwebreathe enough stale polluted airalong with our
fresh air?Well,they have actually stated thattoomuch fresh aircancause health prob-
lems, sothey really mean thatwecangetsick iftheairthatwearebreathing does notcontain some pollutants. Now aren’ tallthecigarette smokers going tolove that! When
they blow smoke inourfaces orcloud uptheoffices thatwemust work in,they can
tellusthatthey areperforming aservice forus,forhaven’ tphysicians said thatairtoo
fresh andpure isahealth hazard? And thisafter thesame medical profession hastold
usthatsmoking cancause cancer—and made thecigarette manufacturers post awarning
on cigarette packages.
Physicians have observed thatcertain ailments anddiscomforts follow aperson’ s
change from astale-air situation toafresh-air situation, andso,without understanding
thenature ofthese changes orthereasons forthem, they conclude thatfresh airisbadfor
us.What they failtorecognize isthissalutory physiological principle: When thebody’ s
condition is improved, the body begins improving itself!
Most ofusareliving atonly partofourhealth potential. Ourbodies areclogged up
with uneliminated debris andtoxins. This morbid matter cannot beeliminated because
oflack ofvitality,andvitality islacking because thebody isgetting insuf ficient rest,
sleep, fresh air, etc.
The body begins ahousecleaning when itscircumstances areimproved. When the
body gets more sleep, better food, more restandmore fresh air,itsvitality isenhanced.
Withincreased vitality thebody isbetter able tocope with life-threatening toxins. The
expulsion ofaccumulated toxic matters occasions symptoms which arecommonly mis-
labeled disease andrecognized asdangerous. Ifwebelieved thatsuch symptoms (which
areactually healing crises) really were dangerous, then weshould alsobelieve thatdrug
addiction ishealthful andgetting offdrugs isahealth hazard because thewithdrawal
symptoms experienced arepains, headaches, nausea andother illnesses. Weshould also
believe thatsmoking ishealthful because smokers who don’tgettheir accustomed dose
ofnicotine suffernervousness, irritability,sleeplessness, headaches, etc.Fortunately,we
know thatdrug addiction andsmoking areinjurious toourhealth, andweknow thatit
takes abitofpain anddiscomfort tobreak such habits. Wealsoknow thatitisdesirable
to do so and not a health hazard.
Itshould occur tousthatpolluted airisalso adrug—a poison—and most ofusare
sosteeped inairpollution thatsitamounts toanaddiction. Sowhen weindulge infresh
pure airandfailtogetourusual dose ofcontaminants, wemay suffervarious discom-
forts which areactually “withdrawal symptoms” similar tothose suffered bythedope
addict. Inboth cases therealdisease istoxemia, while thewithdrawal pains, which are
symptoms of toxin elimination, are a healthful sign.
Ifwewill butsufferthrough these discomforts andthebodily housecleaning that
they indicate, wewillsoon bemore vital than before—just asthedope addict isinbetter
health after he quits his habit.
Itshould beself-evident thatnoamount ofpolluted aircould ever behealthful. The
kind ofillogical reasoning which says thatpure airisunhealthy might beexpected from
those who have dethroned reason andaskustobelieve thatdrugs restore health. Itdates
back totheprevious century when medical advice would have uskeep doors andwin-
dows shut while sleeping. Remember -thenight airwassupposed tobebad. Atthattime
itwas also popular medical practice tokeep doors closed andshades drawn insick
rooms. Patients were denied fresh airandlight andlefttolanguish intheir own effluvia.
When feverish andsuffering from thirst, they were denied water.Nowonder somany of
them died.
Beassured thatfresh airisahealthful agency,andthesymptoms itbegets asnoted
intheAMA report areevidences ofbody improvement-not body destruction. Don’ tbe
taken in by error just because such reports are published in a prestigious journal.
Physicians think thatthey canregulate allournatural functions. They want usto
think thatthey arewiser than theintelligence ofthebody when they tellushow much
weshould sleep, how many calorics weshould eat,how many glasses ofwater perday
we should drink, and now, how much fresh air we should breathe!Ourown instincts, reason andcommon sense arefarbetter guides than anysuch ad-
vice thatcomes from themedical profession. Remember theAMA isatrade association
thatisinbusiness tomake money.Their business flourishes onsickpeople—not healthy
ones. Their advice andtheir ministrations canmake usworse, butthey cannever make
usbetter (except inthecase ofmechanical repairs). Under nocircumstances canthey
confer upon us improved health. Only our own practices can lead to health.
Souseyour own good sense.


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Ifaircirculation andwarmth areproperly met, thisstatement istrue. Thewater
bedenables fullbody weight tobeevenly distributed over theentire underside in-
stead ofatafewcontact points asonfloors andhard beds. This extra comfort dis-
turbs thebody lessthan when there arepressure points asinmuch conventional
bedding. Thebody canmore efficiently conduct thesleeping process duetofewer
disturbing factors.
Article #1: How To Put Yourself To Sleep Easily By A.F. Willat
Ifyouhave difficulty going tosleep when youfeelthatyouneed it,andyour brain is
soactive thatyoucannot stop thinking anditiskeeping youawake, youcanovercome
thetrouble byfollowing indetail acertain routine ofthinking positively.Thereason you
have this problem is because something important is on your mind at the time.
Some persons fallasleep easily because they donottake lifesoseriously anddonot
worry about other people andtheir troubles. They arenotso“unselfish” andjustaccept
lifeasitshows up.So,forthose persons who arealways concerned about others trou-
bles, the following procedure will put you to sleep very easily.
When youarethoroughly convinced thatyoureally need some sleep, allyouhave to
doistopurposely mixupyour thoughts socompletely thatyouwon’ tknow what you
were thinking about. It’sthatsimple, andyouneed only putyour mind onasimple, rou-tinesystem ofthinking which issoeasy tofollow thatitbecomes almost automatic to
continue itafter youhave been interrupted bytheinterjection ofunintentional andunre-
lated thoughts.
Before trying tofollow thismethod, youshould putyour body inanatural, relaxed
position with nothing todisturb your comfort. Liedirectly onyour back inastraight po-
sition andplace your arms alongside your body sothattheblood canflow freely.Then
place your legs inastraight position togetridofallthepossible kinks andbends inall
other parts of the body.
Putapillow under thehead, butnotunder theshoulders. Now,slowly take deep
breaths soyour lungs fillwith air.Then exhale alltheway toempty them completely.
Inhale again tofillthelungs normally,andthen trytoinhale alittle more after that. Ex-
hale normally, and then try to exhale still more.
Yournext step istoimagine walking over toablackboard with imaginary chalk in
your hand andslowly draw avertical straight linefrom near thetoptothebottom ofthe
board. Dothisseveral times more, asnaturally asyoucan. Now,imagine thatyour are
slowly drawing thefigure two(2)extending thefullheight oftheboard. Dothisafew
times inyour natural handwriting thatyoucanbeproud of.Itmust bedone easily.Next,
do the same with the other figures, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Any other routine system ofmixing upyour thoughts could beaseffective, butthis
method has been used for a long time and is perfectly satisfactory.
Ifyoudoitvery slowly,you’ll probably beasleep before youknow it,andwhen you
wake up you won’ t remember what figure you drew last.
Doing thethinking rapidly will only keep youawake. Using tenseconds ormore
todraw each figure willstop your thinking, you’ll become drowsy,andthen lose con-
sciousness entirely.
Even ifyoushould wake upinthemiddle ofthenight, youwillbeable toputyour-
self back to sleep more easily than before.
Youmust never doubt your ability tohave thisroutine plan work. Don’ tthink about
it.Justdoit,andknow thatifyoufollow thedirections correctly itwillputyoutosleep
every time.
Article #2: Rest: A Much-Neglected Health Factor By Hereward
Carrington, Ph.D.
Some New Highlights On This Subject
Awise oriental once said: “Hewho canperceive inaction inaction, andaction inin-
action, is wise among men.”
Itisduring thehours ofrestandsleep—when weseem tobemost passive—that
something within usisintensely active, rechar ging uswith vital energyforthenext day.
When weareactive, weareexpending energy;when weareseemingly inactive, we
arereceiving it.For“ener gyisalways noted initsexpenditure, never initsaccumula-
tion.”
Animals instinctively know this. Sodobabies! AstheIrishman once remarked,
“They sleep agood deal oftheir waking day.”Wespend athird ofourlives insleep,
anditsremarkable recuperative effects arewell-known. Have wenotallhadthisexpe-
rience? Wearetired—fatigued. Thehead nods foronly afewmoments, andyetwefeel
refreshed, invigorated. Those few seconds have changed our whole outlook on life.
Butitisnotalways necessary tosleep inorder toobtain these beneficial results. Rest
willrevitalize us,too;butmust betheright kind ofrest. Complete relaxation with the
eyes closed isapartofthisformula—but only apartofit.There isatechnique ofrest, as
there isforanything else. Thebest results areobtained only from theright kind ofrest.
How should one go about insuring this?
First ofall,afewobvious essentials. Theroom inwhich weareattempting torest
should beasquiet aspossible, andthelight subdued. There should beafeeling ofcer-tainty thatthere willbenodistraction anddisturbances. Themuscular system should be
relaxed, andthismay beaccomplished bygoing over thebody inthought, relaxing every
partofitinturn aswecome toit.(Deep breathing exercises willhelp inthis.) Certain
areas should receive particular attention, asthey arepoints oftensions; thesolar plexus,
theback oftheneck, thejaw,thethroat, theshoulders. Goover thebody several times
in this way, relaxing each point in turn as you come to it.
Recent researches have shown thatmerely closing theeyes rests thebrain andmind
inapeculiar way.Anelectric rhythm starts assoon astheeyes areclosed, andceases
immediately when they areopened. What theexact purpose andnature ofthisrhythm
are,stillremains toagreat extent amystery,butonemight well imagine thatthey serve
toclear “negative charges” from thebrain. Atallevents they denote recuperation. The
activity of the senses, and particularly the eyes, prevents this from occurring.
Fatigue isoftwokinds: muscular fatigue andfatigue ofthenerve cells. Theformer
iseasily overcome byashort period ofrest; every athlete knows this. Exhaustion of
thenerve cells, however,isanother matter; thisisdeep-seated, andtime isrequired to
rechar gethetiny “batteries.” Itisthislowering ofenergyinthenerve cells thatleads
TOphysical andeven mental trouble. Carried toanextreme, itleads to“nervous break-
down.”
This life-ener gyofours should becarefully conserved. When itisriotously expended
itmust bereplenished. Ifnot,werunintotrouble. Overwork, sexual excesses andpro-
longed strain waste theenergies. Butmore important than allthese aretheemotions.
These arethefactors which short-circuit thenervous system andexhaust itsreserve en-
ergies themost quickly.Any amount ofthinking willnever tireus,providing emotions
are not associated with these thoughts.
Allstrong emotions have thiseffect. Itiswell-known thatfear,worry,anxiety,anger
andsimilar powerful emotions willhave thisresult, butsowillintense excitement and
foolish enthusiasm! Takeafootball game. Theplayers become tired, butabrief period
ofrestrefreshes them, andthey areready to“raise hell” thatnight. Butthespectators are
exhausted! High tension over toolong aperiod hasthiseffect. And itisthesame inour
everyday lives. AsDr.Trallonce remarked, “Alifecannot beboth intensive andexten-
sive.” Arelatively calm andpeaceful lifewillinsure longevity; andinthemeantime will
insure freedom from nervous depletion and breakdown.
Allthisdoes notmean thatnormal enthusiasms should notbeindulged in,orthatone
should become ajellyfish, devoid ofenergetic thinking andacting. Provided destruc-
tiveemotions arenotpresent, these would represent merely awholesome, healthy life.
But, justaspowerful feelings candrain thecell-ener giesrapidly,lesspowerful ones, sus-
tained over long periods, willexhaust them slowly.Fears andworries particularly have
thiseffect. Sowill frustrations, resentments andinner disharmonies. These will fight
against one another and ultimately devitalize their host completely.
There isanoldsaying thataman canclimb mountains alldayandberelatively fresh
attheendofit,whereas ifhehastowash dishes fortenminutes heisexhausted! The
reason forthis, of


 stores have twoquart sprouting jarsavailable with stainless steel mesh
screens in plastic screw tops which, of course, do not rust.
Ialsohave adecorative, sprouting sphere called “Little Green Acre,” which thefold-
ersays “provides light, humidity andaircirculation inbalanced harmony fortrouble-free
sprouting, andisspecifically designed toutilize those light rays inthespectrum which
enhance sprout growth.” Idofind itsuperior inmany respects toother sprouting meth-
ods, butitisexpensive, andyoucandoquite well sprouting alfalfa, sunflower seeds,
azuki beans, mung beans andlentils inajar.Youmay find your sprouts dobetter inthe
twoquart wide-mouthed jarwith plastic screw topandstainless steel screen, rather than
theonequart Mason jar.Thesphere does prevent souring ofthemore difficult tosprout
soybeans andgrains, anddoes notrequire asmuch attention—rinsing andchanging the
water in the base just once a day.
Regarding thegarish color,mine ishalfruby red(top half) andhalfpurple. When I
bought mine (introductory price ataVegetarian Society Convention), itwasalso avail-
able in ruby red and green.
This sprouter produces agenerous harvest ofbeautiful, straight-up green-leaved al-
falfa sprouts, which canbeharvested gradually,ifdesired. Itisexcellent forallvarieties
of sprouts.
Another excellent sprouter isthe“Kitchen Garden Sprouter.”Itisteninches indiam-
eterandtwoandone-half inches deep. Waterflows through thebottom asthesprouts are
rinsed. Ithasaremovable divided traytomake four different compartments forsprout-
ing dif ferent seeds simultaneously without mixing.
26.4.8 Instructions for Sprouting in a Bowl
After soaking anddraining theseeds, putthem ina,bowl, fillthebowl with water
from thetap,cover with aplate andinvert anddrain. Allow thebowl tostand with the
dish ontoptokeep theseeds athigh humidity,buttheplate should notfitsotightly that
there is no air circulation.
Fillthebowl with water and drain two tofour times daily.Forbetter bottom
drainage, try inserting a strainer or colander in the bowl.
Another bowl method istheuseofaclay bowl inapanofwater.Theclay bowl (or
flower pot) absorbs enough water to keep the sprouts moist but not wet.
Some people usethese bowl methods very successfully,others prefer more sophisti-
cated sprouters.26.4.9 Sprouting in Sand or Soil
Sprouts canalsobegrown insand orsoil. Sunflower seeds andbuckwheat areespe-
cially recommended forthisuse.Plant inboxes orinthegarden, allow togrow toabout
twotothree inches tall,andsnip offthegreen leaves forthesalad. Soybeans, being sub-
jecttospoilage when sprouted theusual way,willobviously dobetter when sprouted in
sand or soil.
26.5. Questions & Answers
Ihave heard that blended salads have theadvantage ofenabling theconsumption
ofgreater amounts ofgreen vegetables than would bepossible ifeaten whole. Ifone
eats aregular raw salad, and anadditional amount ofblended salad, would you
still object to the use of the blended salad?
Ifthere isnodental problem (orother problem involving theuseofwhole raw
foods), there isnoreason why allthesalad desirable ornecessary cannot beeat-
enasintended byNature. When onehasafeeling ofsurfeit (or,preferably,before
such afeeling) after eating salad oranyfood, heshould stop eating, notforce more
food intohisbody by“drinking” it.Theuseofblended salads often results inbom-
barding thedigestive system with more bulk than canbecomfortably orefficiently
handled. Blending foods does notresult inmaking them easier todigest. Itdoes
bypass thenecessity forchewing, butthefood arrives inthestomach without suffi-
cient insalivation andwithout anysignals forthesecretion ofthenecessary gastric
enzymes and digestive juices.
Even though Ipersonally experienced serious digestion problems, relived bya
29-day fastin1967, today Ieatmountains ofrawsalad andexperience noproblems
asaresult. When mybody signals Ihave hadenough, Istop eating. Ihave exper-
imented with theuseofadditional blended salads, with negative results—cramps
anddiscomfort. Even ifovert symptoms donotoccur asaresult of“stuf fing” with
blended salads, future problems may beincubating. Enjoy your salads intheir most
appetizing and healthful form—whole, succulent and delicious.
Why doyouobject totheuseofhydroponic vegetables, andyetyouapprove the
use of sprouts, which are also usually grown without soil or sunshine?
Itistruethatsprouts arealso grown without soilorsunshine, butthey arehar-
vested before there is a necessity for the nutrients provided by the soil or sunshine.
Ifseeds aregrown beyond thesprout stage (tomaturity ornear-maturity), it
becomes necessary toprovide such nutrients. Hydroponic vegetables areprovided
with these nutrients through theuseofchemicals added tothewater inwhich they
are grown.
How much dried fruit should be used as part of the regular Hygienic diet?
Most dried fruit isvery sweet. Such concentrated sweets should beused spar-
ingly.Fresh whole fruit isbetter food, andmuch more acceptable totheorganism,
especially inwarm weather.Inseasons when fresh fruit isnotplentiful, orincold
weather when onemay feeltheneed forsome more concentrated food, dried fruit
may beused inslightly greater quantities. Wenever usedried fruit more than once
inthesame day,sometimes notatall.Areasonable amount (used with fresh fruit
andlettuce and/orcelery atafruit meal) would besixtoeight medium dates, three
tofivemedium figs, four tosixmedium soaked apricots, twoorthree tablespoons
ofraisins, etc.Ifoccasionally used with salad only andnofresh fruit, thequanti-tiescould beincreased toabout halfagain asmuch, ifwell tolerated. Overeating of
dried fruit can bring on symptoms of a cold.
Ifonenever gets beyond a“transitional” food program, canimproved health
be expected?
Usually atransitional food program (eating lessandeliminating allormost ani-
malproducts andalljunk foods, andutilizing alargepercentage ofuncooked food)
willresult insome health improvement, but,after acertain plateau isreached, no
further progress canbeexpected unless further improvements areinitiated. Ifone
expects significant health improvement, significant andcontinuing progress toward
trueHygienic living isnecessary.However,ifatransitional food program isaccom-
panied byaregular,vigorous exercise program, andattention totheother facets
ofHygienic living (unpolluted air;pure water; adequate restandsleep; sunbaths
andairbaths; mental andemotional poise; pleasant andsecure environment; cre-
ative, useful, rewarding activity; meaningful relationships with other people; per-
sonal control andself-mastery; recreational activity; comfortable temperature; nat-
ural light; moderation inallactivities; anddealing with illness byrestandabsti-
nence from food, rather than theuseofdrugs andtreatments) much greater progress
toward optimal health can be achieved.
Ifserious problems exist, itishighly inadvisable toindulge inanycompromise
totrueHygienic living. Animpaired organism should beoffered only those foods
which willprovide maximum nutritional value inreturn forthework thatmust be
performed in processing these foods.
Can people with conditions such asarthritis orhigh blood pressure be“cured”
by changing to a strict Hygienic food program, using mostly raw food?
Hygienists donotbelieve there areany“cures”—Hygienists merely assist the
body toheal itself. Most people who arereally introuble must start outwith a,ther-
apeutic fast(usually fourteen tothirty days). Pathological conditions may some-
times respond tothechange indiet, along with aregular,vigorous exercise program
andother changes inlifestyle, provided drugs arenotused. However,itmay take
along time before anyprogress isobserved. Ifthepathologies areserious andag-
gravated, thechanges indietandlifestyle will notaccomplish thedesired results
within any reasonable length of time, if at all.
Article #1: Well, You Wanted To Know By V.V. Vetrano, B.S., D.C.
Are there any recommendations for variations in summer and winter diets?
Summer andwinter diets must ofnecessity beslightly different because ofthe
different varieties offruits andvegetables thatareavailable during these seasons.
There aremore varieties offruit insummer than inwinter.Inthesummer,onecan
relysolely onfresh fruit forcarbohydrates whereas inthewintertime itmay benec-
essary tousesome dried fruit. Invery cold climates onemay increase theprotein
intake asprotein hasatendency


 containing or thought to contain arsenic. One dies; many live.
However,theman who “thinks” it’sagood idea todrink only distilled orfiltered or
mountain stream water,may,atinconvenient times, getcaught thirsty inanofficebuild-
ingorafriend’ shome orhemay justreact mechanically ashepasses adrinking fountain
andtake adrink offluoridated water assuming inhismind that“Itwon’ tkillhim.” But
when thesum total ofallthedamage toalllifedone bydrinking andusing fluoridatedwater isconsidered, itwillberecognized thatfarmore damage hasbeen done than was
done bytheonedose ofarsenic from which many learned their lessons. Here, noone
learns. Tothecontrary allarelulled intotheacceptance andfurther practice ofsomething
which gradually will leech thehealth potential oftheentire nation. And down, down,
down we shall go until we know again the company of the dodo bird!
This onepractice isonly oneofmany things wedothatsapus,drain us.And itis
ourrationalization ofeach one’sbeing only aminor thing. Wewrongly seenarcotics as
being more harmful than candy; alcohol asbeing more dangerous than white bread. The
listcould beadded toindefinitely.Weseethebiglieassinful butthewhite lieasexpedi-
ent.Weview therobber andthethief with disdain buttellourown children tolieabout
their ages toenter cinema orride thebusforlesscost. Less cost, myeye! The bomb-
ingofaBirmingham church thatkills little children ishorrible, Iagree. But, atleast it
shakes upandhorrifies thetotal nation andcauses ittoexamine itsconscience. And the
damage done isnothing when compared totheinsiduous moral erosion thattakes place
dayafter day,year after year,byindividuals collectively andsustainingly thinking, feel-
ing,voicing little hates, biases, prejudices against other human beings foranyreason be
it race, religion, business or politics.
Why isman forever fooled anddeluded bytheobvious? Why does heclutch sotena-
ciously toadollar billandlook sodisdainfully upon apenny? Itisrecognition ofthis
foible thatmakes beggars rich! And itdoesn’ tmatter what bethearea—food, drink,
health, crime, morality,everything. Itisnotthebig,obvious things wehave tofear.We
know thebigthings forwhat they are.Wehave notrouble relating bigthings totheir
results, to the damage they do.
Itisalittle thing done over andover foralong period oftime thatdoes widespread,
irreparable harm. Itisthevariety oflittle things which when considered inaggregate kill
individuals and nations.
Letuswork tobroaden ourpicture ofthepresent toinclude yesterday andtomorrow,
yesteryear andtheyears ahead. Let’sbecome aware, really aware thatanactisthesame
astheresult ofanact.Cancer ishorrible! Itisugly,painful, frightening, stinking. Noone
argues this. And ifthisbesothen allthings thatlead orcontribute tocancer areugly,
painful, frightening, stinking! It cannot be otherwise.
So,ifyouseeasingle, occasional, sociable cupofcoffee,with anoldfriend asbeing
“nice,” then brother,youareblind! And ablind fool atthat...because coffeeandstom-
achcancer arerelated. They areoneandthesame. And ifyousay,“Sowhat, I’llrunthe
riskforthepleasure ofthemoment,” then, brother,notonly areyouafool, youalsoare
insane!
Ifaman issitting inthemiddle ofthefloor hitting himself inthehead with ahammer
youhave notrouble adjudging himasnuts. And because hesays heenjoys each blow
knowing itwillfinally destroy himmakes himnolesscrazy.There isnodifference be-
tween him and ourselves except that we have more company.
Wewillbewise toexamine allourpractice’ sinunemotional, unfettered light without
reference toimmediacy ofpleasure, custom, tradition, conformity,external appearances,
likes ordislikes. Examine these practices anddetermine onebyonewhether they are
good orbad, healthful orharmful, right orwrong. Notjustalittle bitofoneandalittle
bitoftheother.Remember thatnothing canbeinnocuous. Make itclear cut,black or
white, nograys. And most important ofall!Remember thatthelessharmful itseems to
bethemore dangerous itactually istothegreatest number ofpeople over thegreatest
period of time.
And when youpick outtheharmfulness ofapractice, nomatter how small andin-
significant itmay seem tobe,then relate ittothebigdamage towhich itcontributes later
on.When youdothisyouwillseethelittle practice forwhat itreally is.Also, andjust
aspregnant, youwillseethebigdamage forwhat itreally is.Amorally sick society is
made upofmorally sick, singular persons. Awarisbuttheremote extension ofconflict
andgreed atthelevel ofindividuals. Hardened arteries arebuttheaccumulation ofmanysingle deviant actseach ofwhich seemed delightful atitsmoment butnone ofwhich can
be recalled a day after it has occurred.
Itcanbenoother way.Can it?Doyouseethebigpoint Iammaking? Warnever
caused greed, greed causes war.Hardened arteries never caused aman toeatgreasy
foods; greasy foods easily canberelated tohardening ofthearteries. Think about it.
Come tounderstand that anypractice, anyaction orreaction, anything that you do
thatyoucanrecognize tobeagainst your inner sense ofwell being, your fitness, your
longevity isbad, wicked, sinful, evilandmust beseen inthatlight. Toseeitinanyoth-
erlight isillusion, delusion, unreal. Youdon’thave tobeacollege graduate tounder-
stand these things. (Infact, itmay hinder your clarity.)Allyouhave todoistobequiet
within yourself andthink. Don’ t“work” at“think,” justbestillwithin yourself andthe
message will come through. Tryit.You’ll see.Life will belesshectic. “Control” will
come easier,because when onereally understands, heunderstands with hiswhole, en-
tireself—not justwith hismind. And when there isunderstanding, change inbehavior
comes. Youdon’thave to“struggle” or“fight.” Just learn tobroaden your concept of
today toinclude yesterday andtomorrow,yesteryear andalltheyears ahead. Ifyoudo,
there will be more of them. They will be better ones too.
Reprinted fr om The Health Crusader, September 1979
Article #2: Is This The Kind Of System You’d Like To Live Under?
Inthiscountry wehave what iscalled thecapitalist system. Itssolemotive istoproduce
forprofits. The other daywereceived abrochure from LITTLE FREE PRESS that
points outsome oftheinhumane drives ofourpresent system. LITTLE FREE PRESS
advocates asystem thatinvolves anon-money non-credit economy...avery challenging
concept. I have embellished their points somewhat but they areas follows:
1.The establishment (capitalism asasystem) israpacious andindifferent tohuman wel-
fare. Itplaces private profit above peddling ofpernicious products bythetobacco indus-
try,thedrug industry,thejunk food industry andtherecent mass manipulation offuel
supplies tojack uptheprices ofpetroleum products—price hikes thatbore norelation-
ship to costs...char ges all the marketplace will bear.
2.Polluting air,land andwater ismore profitable than recycling wastes inmost cases orin
installing equipment to prevent its release into the ecosphere.
3.Innuclear energyhuman safety andwelfare have been subjugated tothequest forprof-
its.Nuclear wastes arealegacy thatcanboomerang very quickly onusandkeep poster-
ity on the hook if not, indeed, outright suf fering, for perhaps thousands of years.
4.War and war industries are more profitable than peace.
5.Planned obsolescence ismore profitable than quality.Goods thatwill wear outfaster
arethus putonthemarket. Things aremade foruse,yes,butindustry needs repeat cus-
tomers tokeep sales andprofits high. Ifanautomobile lasted ingreat condition for50
years (asRolls Royces do), theautomobile industry wouldn’ tcome outnearly aswell
asthey presently do.Deliberate waste ofhuman andmaterial resources isbuilt into a
system geared to the profit system.
6.Discontented and unhappy people can be exploited for more profit and happy people.
7.Sickness anddisease arethebases forprofitable industries. Healthy people arenotcus-
tomers fordisease treating business. Inasmuch asthepetroleum industry,thedrug in-
dustry,thehospital industry andthemedical trades need diseased people fortheir profit