 opera houses
have shown a steady decline. Important light will be thrown on this phase of the problem--the cause of fewer good voices in
Italy today than of old--as we note the narrowing of the face and of the dental arches and as we
see the change in the form of the palate of the various primitive races. These changes occur even in
the first generation after the parents have adopted the foods of modern white civilizations. As we study the primitives we will find that they have had an entirely different conception of the
nature and origin of the controlling forces which have molded individuals and races. Buckle, (18) in writing his epoch-making "History of Civilization" about the middle of the last
century, summed up his years of historical studies with some very important conclusions, some of
which are as follows:
    2. It is proved by history, and especially by statistics, that human actions are governed by
laws as fixed and regular as those which rule in the physical world.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 18/250    3. Climate, soil, food, and the aspects of Nature are the principal causes of intellectual
progress. 6. Religion, literature, and government are, at best, but the products, and not the cause of
civilization. This important view was not orthodox and was met by very severe criticism. The newer
knowledge strongly corroborates his view. My early studies of the relation of nutrition to dental problems were related chiefly to growth
defects in the teeth produced long before the eruption of the permanent teeth, chiefly from one
year of age to the time of eruption. These often appeared as lines across the teeth. I was able to
trace these lines directly to the use of a few highly processed baby foods. I published an extensive
report on this phase of the problem, together with illustrations, in 1913. (19) These injuries are
disclosed with the x-ray long before the teeth erupt. These disturbances occur much less frequently
in connection with the baby foods used today. The problems of modern degeneration can in general be divided into two main groups, those
which relate to the perfection of the physical body and those which relate to its function. The latter
include character as expressed in behavior of individuals and of groups of individuals which thus
relate to national character and to an entire culture. In an enumeration of the phases in which there is a progressive decline of modern civilization, it
is essential that we keep in mind that in addition to an analysis of the forces responsible for
individual degeneration, the ethical standards of the whole group cannot be higher than those of the
individuals that compose it. That recent mass degeneration is in progress is attested by daily events
throughout the world. The current interpretation for individual character degeneration largely places
the responsibility on a conditioning factor which exerts an influence during early childhood and
therefore is directly related to the environment of the child. These, therefore, are postnatal
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Q: Who is the author of the book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration"?,
A: Weston A. Price
Q: What is the main purpose of the book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration"?,
A: The main purpose of the book is to find the causes of physical degeneration and provide a solution to correct it.
Q: What is the author's approach in the book?,
A: The author's approach is to analyze the physical and dental changes in isolated and modernized groups to understand the causes of modern degeneration.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the role of nutrition in modern degeneration?,
A: The author believes that nutrition plays a crucial role in modern degeneration and that it is the primary cause of the problem.
Q: What is the author's perspective on the importance of education in addressing modern degeneration?,
A: The author emphasizes the importance of education in preventing modern degeneration, suggesting that it is essential to educate people, particularly high school students, about the importance of nutrition and its impact on physical and mental development.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>An important contribution to this phase comes directly from the experience of
primitive races and indicates that a more fundamental conditioning factor had developed in the
prenatal period. If, therefore, large groups of individuals suffer from such a prenatal conditioning
influence, new light will be thrown upon the larger problems of group deterioration. History seems
to provide records of such mass degeneration as, for example, those which culminated in the so-
called "dark ages." That some such mass degeneration is now in progress is suggested by leading
students of human welfare. The regius professor of Greek at Oxford in his inaugural lecture in
1937 made the following observation: (20)
   In the revolution of thought through which we are living, the profoundest and most disturbing
element is the breakdown of that ethical system which, since the days of Constantine, has
imposed upon European culture at least the semblance of moral unity. In commenting on this important statement Sir Alfred Zimmern in his address on the decline of
international standards said that "Recent events should convince the dullest mind of the extent to
which international standards have deteriorated and the anarchy which threatens the repudiation of
law and order in favour of brute force." The problem of progressive decline in individual and group ethical standards is commanding the
attention of great international organizations. In discussing this problem before the International
Rotary at its meeting in San Francisco in June, 1938, one of the leaders in mass reform, Mayor
Harold Burton of Cleveland, stressed very important phases. He stated that the American boys
"are making irrevocable choices" between good and bad citizenship which "may make or wreck
the nation. It may be on the battlefield of crime prevention that the life of democracy will be
saved." He described great industrial cities as battlefields where "the tests of democracy are the
newest and sharpest." (21) ... "For centuries," he said:
... we have fought crime primarily by seeking to catch the criminal after the crime has been
committed and then through his punishment to lead or drive him and others to good citizenship. Today the greater range of operation and greater number of criminals argue that we must deal
with the flood waters of crime. We must prevent the flood by study, control and diversion of the7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 19/250waters at their respective sources. To do this we must direct the streams of growing boys in
each community away from fields of crime to those of good citizenship. If the "flood waters" that must be controlled lie farther back than the cradle, in order to
safeguard individual character and individual citizenship from prenatal conditioning factors which
have profound influence in determining the reaction of the individuals to the environment, it is
essential that programs that are to be efficient in maintaining national character reach back to those
forces which are causing the degeneration of increasing numbers of the population in succeeding
generations of our modern cultures. That the problem of mass degeneration constitutes one of the most alarming problems of our
modernized cultures is demonstrated by the urgency of appeals that are being made by students in
national and international affairs. The discussion of "An Ethical Declaration for the Times," (22) a
declaration of faith, is accompanied by a pledge. This pledge reads:
    I pledge myself to use every opportunity for action to uphold the great tradition of civilization
to protect all those who may suffer for its sake, and to pass it on to the coming generations. I
recognized no loyalty greater than that to the task of preserving truth, toleration, and justice in
the coming world order. The author emphasizes the great danger of taking for granted that the cultural progress that has
been attained will continue. There is probably no phase of this whole problem of modern
degeneration that is so brilliantly illuminated by the accumulated wisdom of primitive races as group
degeneration. They have so organized the life of the family and the individual that the nature of the
forces which established individual behavior and character are controlled. Our problem of modern degeneration involves both individual and group destiny. Our approach
to this study will, accordingly, involve first a critical examination of the forces that are responsible
for individual degeneration. In my search for the


 fields
of life-would not yield their secrets if we disturbed them by our
passage. So we had to use not a vessel that ploughed through their
surface but rather a hovercraft that does not disturb the terrain
over which it passes. In other words, our instruments and tech
niques were designed to measure and map the electro-dyn amic
fields with the minimum disturbance of their electrical poten
tials. With our instruments we could measure the voltage gradients
of living systems which are quite independent of changing
current and resistance. It must again be emphasized that our
measurements are as near as possible pure voltage measurements. To be sure this probably can never be done with absolute
accuracy. But, for all practical purposes, in our measurements the
current drain from the system being measured is reduced to the
minimum. Hence we do not disturb the living system while the
mCJsurement s are being made. All the necessary energy to keep
the instrument in operation or, if you like, our hovercraft hover
ing, is derived from external sources, not from the system being
measured. This is imperative. The beginning of our voyage is in a land-locked harbour where
there is a certain amount of information about the harbour and
its surrounding terrain. We know that living systems have elec
trical properties. Examples are the electro-ca rdiogram, the electro
encephalogram, the action current potential of nervous impulse,
45 THE FEMALE FIELD
electrical changes which are associated with muscle contraction
and, in all probability, the changes which occur during the
activity of glandular secretions. These are all well-recognized phenomena, but so far there has
been no general principle which would explain their existence. It has usually been assumed that all these changes in the electri
cal properties of a living system are the consequence of biological
activity. But it is our hunch that a primary electrical field in the
living system is responsible. The reason for this should be clear. When we pick up heart waves and brain waves from living
systems the pick-up electrodes are never, or very rarely, in
direct contact with the system under measurement. This means
there must be some forces in operation which transmit the
activity of muscle, or nerve, from the organ itself through the
tissues of the body to the electrode wherever it may be. One arm
and one leg, in the case of the cardiogram, or on the scalp in the
case of the Berger rhythms, or brain waves. It is generally accepted that the changes in the electro-cardio
gram, for example, which can be recorded from one arm and one
leg, are the result of some kind of transport, possibly of charged
ions. But the fact is clear to anyone who has examined these in
detail that the speed of the transmission is far too rapid to be
explained by the movement of a charged particle from cardiac
muscle to the far-distant leg. The assumption of a field, however,
gives an adequate foundation for the recording at the periphery
and at some distance, of the phenomena associated with a basic
biological property. With our craft hovering above the surface of the sea, and
thereby causing no wash or ripple in the sea itself, we leave the
harbour towards the distant buoy. This buoy is an unknown
differentiation on the surface of the sea. When we find it we must
tackle the question that this discovery poses: Is it really true
that all biological systems exhibit a significant set of electrical
properties. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to try to determine by
measuring of a variety of systems whether there are always
electro-metric properties in a living organism. So, over the last
thirty years, almost every form of living organism has been
46 THE FEMALE FIELD
studied, some of them quite cursorily and others in more detail,
from bacteria up to and including man. And so far as our present
information goes, there is unequivocal evidence that wherever
there is life, there are electrical properties. But again, it must be stressed that these electrical properties,
measured under the conditions of this trip, are voltage gradients,
not current movement, not changes in resistance to the passage of
current. These electrical voltage gradients in the living systems are the
logical consequences of the Electro-dy namic Theory and only to
be expected. But we must go beyond theory: its logical con
sequences must be put to experimental tests to develop what
Northrop has called epistemic correIa tions or what Margenau
has called the correspondencies between the logical conclusions
from the Theory and the findings in an experimental laboratory
where adequate controls can be instituted. 2
If there are electrical gradients-voltage gradients-in living
systems, what are their essential characteristics. They must have
magnitude and, since they are electrical, they must have direc
tional properties; in other words, polar properties, a positive and
a negative aspect. To learn more about these gradients one of the first things
undertaken in the laboratory was-naturally enough-to
measure human beings. At first sight, this could be an exceed
ingly complicated problem, but with the advice of Professor
Leslie Nims, a very simple approach was adopted. With our silver-silver chloride electrodes in a common physio
logical salt solution, the known self-potential in the electrode
was reduced by selection to a minimum, usually not greater than
one-half a millivolt. Then with two cups available, one electrode
Was introduced into the salt solution of one cup and another
electrode into the salt solution of a second cup. It was a simple
matter, then, to dip the finger of the hands into these cups; the
index finger of the left hand into the left-hand cup, and the index
47 THE FEMALE FIELD
finger of the right hand into the right-hand cup. This com
pleted the external circuit in the measuring device. Immediately it was clear that there was a voltage gradient
between the left �nger and the right �nger. This could be checked
readily, for all that was necessary was to move the right-hand
finger into the left-hand cup and vice versa. If the readings were
valid, the magnitude should be the same in the second series
of measurements as in the first. Normally, with our experiments
these measurements were repeated ten times, or until we had
reproducible, reliable results. As soon as it was found that such measurements could be made
readily, the question arose whether there was any significant
difference between human beings and those measurements. As a
result a great many measurements were carried out in the
laboratory, using the personnel of the laboratory as subjects. We
found to our delight that the magnitudes of the potentials were
rarely less than two millivolts and often many times higher. The spread-or magnitud e-of the measurements was so great
that it was found possible to divide human beings into four
categories. Individuals with low voltage gradients between the
right and left forefinger; at the other extreme, individuals with
voltage gradients between the right and left forefinger of some
thing in the order of ten millivolts. In between, there was a third
group, a low-high group, around five or six millivolts, and a
fourth high-low group around two to four millivolts. Interestingly enough, these were quite consistent during the
period of measurement but, what is more remarkable, they were
quite consistent with the passage of time. These experi ments were
carried out over many days to be sure that the results were re
liable. If the electrical gradients in the living system were the
result of the chemistry of the organism, the constancy which we
recorded would simply not be possible. We could not see any significant relationships between the
individuals with low potential gradients and those with high
potential gradients by any techniques which we were able to
devise. The subjects were all males, and it was suggested that
there might be an electrical difference between males and females. Hence, measurements were made on female members of the labor-
48 THE FEMALE FIELD
atory group, day after day, week after week, and month after
month. We found to our astonishment that during the course of a
month's measurements the female voltage gradients showed re
markable increases, a sharp rise, for a period of twenty-four
hours. This occurred on many occasions and gave us reason to
wonder as to the possible origin of this phenomenon. Examina
tion of the personal records of the females involved made it clear
that these rises in voltage gradient occurred during the approxi
mate middle of the menstrual cycle. Needless to say, this sug
gested at once that the rise might be associated with ovulation,
since the endocrinologists have been telling us for years that
ovulation occurs in the middle of the menstrual cycle and is, in
all probability, the cause of the onset of the menses. 3
This was an exciting event, for now we could see beyond the
first buoy a second buoy in the distance: a change in voltage
gradient associated with fundamental biological activity. Atten
tion must be called, however, to the fact that the change was
one of magnitude, not of the polarity of the measurements. Since not all mammals have the same history, it was necessary
to seek an animal in which the time of ovulation could be pre
dicted. Fortunately, the rabbit is such an animal. Proper stimula
tion of the cervix in the female rabbit


-wrong. He’ s not even into make-wrong. He’ s, “Here’ s where we are at and let’ s see how we can improve
from there,” so that everyone benefits. Well, that is a very advanced
spiritual concept, that everyone benefits and with an idea of integrity and
fairness and equality; and the same time, everything legal and cooperative. So a lot can be learned, and therefore I think it’ s a worthy enterprise. The negatives, of course, in current society are rather obvious to anybody
who’ s spiritually sophisticated at all. They hardly need calibration. Then we
calibrated a lot of the great criminals, famous criminals of ancient times to
find out... In other words, we’re trying to get a topography of the
evolution of mankind over recorded time. Where is Jack the Ripper? He’ s at
70. Where’ s Bin Laden? He’ s at 70. Where is a dinosaur? A dinosaur is at
70. The instinct of the dinosaur and the instinct of this person are the same. Jack the Ripper dismembers and rips to death its prey. I mean, it’ s almost
identical; it’ s almost like a dinosaur spirit got into a human body, you know
what I’m saying? I begin to wonder—is there a crossover? So anyway, it’s
an interesting work in that we are trying to develop a topography, a dif ferent
dimension of understanding human consciousness and its expression as
society, from Heinrich Himmler in World War II to Vicente Fox in today’ s
world. We did a lot of movie stars, famous singers, songs, and find out what
their general range [is], and then there are exceptions. Louis Armstrong,
way up in the 500s. The capacity to be loving at all times and in all places
apparently was the characteristic. So, it’ s just interesting, because you learn things because you see
everything in a dif ferent dimension now. And as you see the calibration, you
get, “Oh, I see. I get... oh, yeah, I see.” It’ s like you get greater depth
spiritually in comprehending the totality of human evolution, which in the
net ef fect is to develop a compassion for it, as almost an experiment of
creation. It’ s almost as though the evolution of life on this planet is almost
an experiment—to see where, if you let it loose without any guidance or
controls, what does it do? It ends up as a mollusk at the bottom of the sea
that creates 40 enzymes at one time. And it also creates saints—the same
life, but is it the same life ener gy or a dif ferent one, you know what I’m
saying? That leads to rather profound questions. The Karmic Shift of MankindWho was responsible for the massive shift in 1986? I’ve never fully
investigated it. I just assumed that the collective positive karma of mankind
had crested at that level. It happened to be at the time of the Harmonic
Conver gence. It happened to be at the time when Gorbachev pretty much
pulled the blocks out from underneath the Russian USSR, atheistic empire. It was also the time of other major events which were concomitant. You see,
when you go beyond causality, then you see that, let’ s say, a positionality
here can radiate forth in the world of manifestation in multiple ways
without one thing here necessarily being the cause  of this. In other words, a
positionality which surfaces in this way, it doesn’ t mean that the dissolution
of monolithic Communism was caused  by anything outside of itself, but it
occurred at the same time. There is undoubtedly more to the story. We’ll ask
it in a general way. First of all, I know there’ s more to the story. “There’ s
more to the story: resist” (T rue). Thank you. My own feeling was that it
came from higher dimensions as a result of the consequence of positive
accumulated karma of mankind. “That’ s correct: resist” (T rue). Well, we
won’ t go into the details of it. It would be as though the collective karma of
mankind as a whole had reached the point where it had crossed that
collective. Perhaps the last great finale of negativity was really World War II, in
which the negativity, satanic ener gy, was massive. That caused almost a
shock, but then, into the shock came that which was really more Luciferic
in that it was seeking power rather than destruction—in the form of
Communism and the USSR, which was really seeking power although it
took expression as cruelty, and Stalin really was responsible for more
deaths than Hitler. Nevertheless, it more or less ran its course. And of
course, it was Gorbachev—if you calibrate Gorbachev’ s heart chakra, it’ s
extremely high—so Gorbachev pulled the correct stops out, and the thing
collapsed of itself without a shot. Gorbachev did not fire a shot. So, the
West with all of its brave talk about “the war against Communism”—it was
not the war against Communism that defeated Communism. It was the
stops were pulled out by Gorbachev. Let’ s see what Gorbachev’ s heart is at. “We have permission: resist” (T rue). “Gorbachev’ s heart is over 540: resist”
(True); “560” (Not true); “550” (T rue). Wow. So, those people like Gandhi and Mandela and Gorbachev, people
who changed all political history, their power came from a heart chakra at
550 and over. That is encouraging, because then it means increasing one’ sown capacity of lovingness has the capacity to undo the negativity of the
world. In fact, it has the capacity to collapse whole empires. That which
collapsed the USSR was the radiance of the heart chakra of one man. However, that one man also represented something else that we write
about, and that is when we talk about attractor ener gy fields. We say that
each of these ener gy fields has an attractor pattern behind it. That brought
us to describing what we call “critical factor analysis,” one of the values of
kinesiology. Many interacting systems are so complex, they are not capable
of comprehension by the human intellect, nor by an assisted computer. A
computer is limited to the Newtonian paradigm. It cannot be programmed
for the nonlinear, by definition. Consequently, it can only mimic the
intellect; it cannot mimic human intelligence. In any case, some situations
are so enormously complex, they are beyond comprehension. This is a
problem run into by big governments historically. The complexity of
running a Roman Empire was staggering and, in the end, it just fell of
inertia. All the soldiers just married the local girls and settled down and quit
the army, and that was the end of the Roman Empire. No army could defeat
the Roman Empire. It was the most formidable army the world has ever
seen. It was unconquerable. And the Roman legions ruled all of Europe and
the Mediterranean for a thousand years; it was [an] army invincible that
ruled for a thousand years, and what brought it down—the kiss of a lovely
woman. The soldiers all around Hadrian’ s Wall and all over the place met
the local girls, fell in love with them and got married, and said, “The hell
with it,” and went to farming, and that was the end of the Roman legions. In any complex situation, there is what I call “the critical factor.” In a
giant clockworks, if you know where to touch the giant clockworks, you
can stop the entire clockworks by knowing precisely; the clockworks is so
complex that even a master watchmaker can’ t figure it out. The same with
an engineer. You see a locomotive running down the track with a hundred
cars behind it—there’ s an enormous amount of force. But if you know
where to touch the control in the cab, the engineer ’s cab, if you know where
to touch it, you can stop the whole freight train. And so, if correctly
positioned, then, knowing which of the pick-up sticks to pull out, the whole
thing collapses; but you have to know which one. Gorbachev was there and
Mandela was there. Each one was in a certain position. They also had a
certain amount of power, because each one of them calibrates around 550. In all of them, the power emanates from the heart. So the power of Love,then, is transformational. As we saw with the birth of Christ, it jumped the
calibration level of mankind 40 points, just the physicality being here, and it
jumped another 40 points when His teachings began to cross the Roman
Empire, and it totally changed Europe—the future of Europe and Western
civilization—for all time. So, an Avatar is one whose teachings and birth and presence
recontextualized the significance of all of life, for all of mankind,
throughout thousands of years. That’ s who we call an “A vatar.” It’s not the
same as like the Avatar Used Book Company that you see running around
town. Avatar —I always get a


them	even	if	you	wanted	to. For	men,	obviously,	things	are
different	and	they	can	go	on	and	on. Nature
knows
	how	long	it	takes
them
	to
grow	up! (I’m	joking	here.) But	for	the	other	half	of	the	human	race,
something	miraculous	occurs	to	your	body	every	month,	and	then	it’s	gone. It
is	simply	gone. I’ve	watched	with	awe	as	the	baton	of	voluptuousness	has	been	passed	to
my	17-year-old	daughter. Of	course	I	don’t	want	to	mimic	a	17-year-old’s
attractiveness,	but	I	do	want	to	hold	on	to	my	own	as	best	I	can. There’s	a
certain	psychoerotic	quality—I	always	feel	it	in	France—a	feeling	that	any
night	could	be	a	magic	night,	and	you	want	to	be	ready	for	it	if	this	one	is. I	remember	the	hormones	of	youth. I	remember	when	every	cell	of	my
body	screamed,	“Get	a	man! Get
any
	man!”	Later	they	were	just	as	apt	to	say,
“Whatever. I	don’t	care.”	My	body	isn’t	a	slave	to	itself	the	way	it	used	to	be,
but	my	soul	has	taken	things	to	a	whole	new	place. It’s	natural	that	there	are	years	when	the	thought	of	sex	is	pretty	much
everyone’s	preoccupation;	the	species	can’t	propagate	unless	young	people
move	the	process	forward. But	sometimes	it’s	when	the	urge	for	sex	becomes
a	little	less	urgent	that	the	urge	for	love	becomes	even	more	pure. The	urge
for	connection	itself	is	ageless;	what	changes	is	our	understanding	of	what
connection
means. Sometimes	people	know	a	lot	about	sex	but	not	much	at	all
about	love. In	the	realm	of	the	body,	something	starts	to	cool	off	as	we	age. But	in	the
realm	of	the	spirit,	things	are	just	heating	up. Mature	women	are	pursued	not
just	for	their	bodies	but	for	their
knowing. A	man	recognizes,	however
unconsciously,	that	a	woman’s	love	is	an	initiation	into	his	own	manhood. On
a	physical	level,	that	initiation	can	mean	something	as	crude	as	a	ride	in	the
backseat	of	a	car. But	on	a	spiritual	level,	it’s	the	result	of	an	internal
connection	that	sex	itself	cannot	guarantee. For	this,	a	man	needs	more	than	a
woman. He	needs	a	priestess. Every	woman	has	an	inner	priestess,	but	she	often	takes	a	few	decades	to
emerge. A	priestess	is	fierce—particularly	in	bed. Once	she	arrives,	she	is
looking	for	men	and	not	boys. It’s	not	enough,	at	a	certain	point,	for	a	man	to	just	know	how	to	handle	a
woman’s	body. He	has	to	learn	how	to	handle	a	woman’s
being,
	and	often	it’s
a	priestess	who	teaches	him. One	of	the	greatest	gifts	a	mature	woman	gives	a
man	is	that	what	makes	his	younger	girlfriends	swoon,	“Give	it	to	me! I’ll	doanything!”	makes	the	older	woman	go,	“Yeah,	so	what	else	have	you	got?”
For	her,	he’s	going	to	have	to	work	a	whole	lot	harder. And	that	pun	is
intended. If	what	you’re	up	to	is	producing	babies,	then	obviously	the	younger
woman	has	the	goods. With	a	younger	woman,	a	man	can	conceive	a	child. But	with	a	priestess,	he	is	often	more	likely	to	conceive	the	man	he	wants	to
be. Physically,	a	man	spreads	his	seed;	spiritually,	a	woman	spreads	hers. Ultimately,	we	impregnate	each	other	and	then	we	are	both	reborn. When	a
man	has	spent	magic	time	with	a	woman	mature	enough	and	wise	enough	to
have	entered	her	priestess	years,	he’s	the	one	who’s	likely	to	call	later	and	say,
“Honey,	I	think	I’m	pregnant.”	The	new	breed	of	hot	new	mama	has
miraculous	powers,	calling	forth	a	new	breed	of	man. O
NE	DAY	MY	DAUGHTER	CAME	HOME	AND	TOLD	ME
	I
JUST	HAD
	to	hear	this	great	new	song. It
was	a	cover	of	Bob	Dylan’s	“Lay,	Lady,	Lay.”	I	explained	to	her	that	in	my
day,	we	listened	to	the
real
“Lay,	Lady,	Lay.”	And	in	my	case,	as	I’m	sure	is
true	for	thousands	of	others	as	well,	we	did	a	whole	lot	more	than	just	listen. I’ve	asked	myself	often	in	the	last	few	years,	“What	did	my	mother	think	we
were
doing
	on	those	afternoons?”
I	read	a	quote	once	that	no	matter	how	old	we	are,	the	music	we	most	relate
to	is	the	music	of	our	youth. In	my	case,	that’s	definitely	true. And	the	songs	I
remember	most	are	the	songs	I	fell	in	love	to. From	Joan	Armatrading	to
Jefferson	Airplane	to	Van	Morrison,	there	are	phrases	of	songs	that	remind	me
of	things,	beautiful	things,	that	were	some	of	the	sweetest	moments	of	my
life. And	why	were	they	so	sweet? Because,	along	with	the	birth	of	my
daughter,	they	took	me	to	a	place	where	there	was	no	separation	between
myself	and	someone	else. And	that	was	real. The	love	affairs	we	had	in	our
youth	were	not	unreal,	so	much	as	the	personality	structures	we	went	on	to
develop	afterward	were	not	containers	for	that	much	reality. Some	of	what	we
call	“mature”	in	our	society	is	spiritually	regressive. I’ve	officiated	at	scores	of	marriages,	perhaps	even	more. I	believe	in	the
institution. But	far	too	often,	it’s	devastatingly	obvious	that	a	vortex	that	can
be	the	greatest	liberator	is	turned	by	the	ego	into	the	bleakest	prison,	not	only
for	the	body	but	for	the	soul. The	words
husband
	and
wife
	should	not	be
synonymous	with
roommate. Love	should	not	be	mundane. It	should	not	be
banal. When	it	becomes	that,	it	loses	its	magic. While	the	comforts	of	shared
coffee	cups,	someone	to	sort	through	the	bills	with,	conversations	about	thechildren,	and	admissions	of	fear	to	one	who	has	become	your	best	friend	are
all	a	part	of	what	make	long-term	nesting	wonderful,	emotionally	it	is	to	our
peril	when	we	allow	considerations	of	the	world	to	form	a	veil	across	the	face
of	love. I	was	sitting	next	to	a	man	on	an	airplane	once,	who	told	me	that	he	and	his
wife	were	excited	about	a	new	business	venture. For	the	first	time	in	their
marriage,	they	were	going	to	be	working	together. They	had	refurbished	a
carriage	house	in	back	of	their	home	and	had	turned	it	into	an	office. All	of
this	seemed	to	them	like	a	fabulous	setup	for	a	great	next	phase	in	both	their
careers	and	their	relationship. As	he	told	me	of	their	plans,	I	think	he	saw	me	choke	on	my	red	wine. “What?”	he	asked. “Nothing,”	I	responded,	aware	that	I	didn’t	even	know	this	man,	and	had	no
business	giving	him


 us in touch with our Self, that which is
greater than our own limited, small self. The complete resolution brings us into conscious
contact with something that is greater than the personal
self. Many people who have tried this attest to the fact
that when they surrendered the small self to someHANDLING MAJOR CRISES 257
thing greater than themselves, they came into contact
with that which they considered to be'real'.That per
sonal inner experience of spiritual reality takes one
from book learning to a profound inner conviction. Out of this inner conviction comes the willingness to
re-enter life again, to participate in it, and to take the
risks and chances. What is the inner experience of hitting bottom? It
comes out of the feelings of hopelessness and despair;
the person's small self is saying,"I, of my own self, can
not handle this." The person surrenders out of the
hopelessness, and from that comes the willingness to
let go, to surrender to something greater than oneself. At the very bottom, in the pits, one realizes and accepts
the truth that "I, of myself, my own individual personal
self, my own ego-self, am unable to handle this. I am
unable to resolve it." It is out of this defeat that victory
and success arise.The phoenix rises out ofthe ashes of
despair and hopelessness. It is not the despair and
hopelessness that are of value but the letting go and
the realization of the limitation of the small self. In the
middle of the catastrophe, the person says,"I give up. I
cannot handle this," and then may consciously or
unconsciously ask God for help. Due to the law of free will and the nature of con
sciousness being what it is, it is said that the great
beings that are willing to help all of us are waiting for
us to say"yes:' It is the sudden turning from the bottom
of the barrel to the willingness to accept that there is
something greater than ourselves that we can turn to. When the person says, "If there is a God, I ask him to
help me," then the great transformative experiences 258 HEALING AND RECOVERY
happen that have been recorded throughout history
from the very beginning. The beginning of the great worldwide organization
of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) came out of such an
experience. Bill W, the famous founder of AA, had hit
bottom. He was in a state of total despair and hope
lessness and gave up the personal self.At the time, he
was a nonbeliever, but he said,"If there is a God, I ask
him to help me." At that moment came a great trans
formative experience, the spiritual power ofwhich is
evidenced by the millions oflives that have been affected
by the energy that flowed out into the world as the
result of this man's sharing his spiritual experience. Obviously, letting go and hitting bottom are crucial. It is out of the awareness that we cannot change things
and are limited and powerless that we discover what
does have the power in the universe. That power
comes in and handles the experience, and we know
when that happens because of the profound state of
peace. Where there was agony, there is now a state of
infInite peace and an ineffable awareness of an InfInite
Presence. Historically, it has been a speCial occasion when a
realization of the truth has arisen, but that is not at all
necessary; it is only one type of experience. Actually,
this is the nature of spiritual work all the time.The per
son who is involved in spiritual work is always looking
at what is occurring in life, seeing it as the teacher, as
the grist for the mill.What is happening represents that
which is being worked on, so an acute catastrophe
would just be a continuation of the process that is
going on anyway.As a result, the person who is intensely HANDLING MAJOR CRISES 259
involved in spiritual work would then see it as a golden
opportunity, painful and regretful perhaps, but one of
great benefit.The essential nature ofspiritual work is to
remain focused on what arises from instant to instant
and become aware of'what'is experiencing andwhere
it is being experienced. There is a meditative and contemplative technique
that can be use to bring about the same result. It is the
process of constantly letting go of wanting to control
the experiencing as well as experiencing itself. There
then occurs the sudden realization that awareness is
being handled by some infinite aspect of conscious
ness (the Self); this may have been suspected previously
but not actually realized. After this realization, the
.awareness of the Presence occurs more frequently. Out of this experience comes an ever greater will
ingness to rely on that inner Presence, with less and
less reliance on the small self. Less frequently, then,
does the person look to the small self to handle life's
problems, as there is a progressive willingness to
surrender to one's higher Self.The progressive loss of
identification with the small self and the increasing
identification with the Presence, along with the will
ingness to surrender life and all ofits aspects to the will
of God, become the very core of the person's spiritual
exercise and experience. The acute catastrophic experience is a key learn
ing opportunity that teaches us to go to the very core,
to the very essence of the experience, to see what it
is and handle it at the level ofexperiencing within the
energy field of consciousness itself. There is the will
ingness to surrender and to let go of wanting to 260 HEALING AND RECOVERY
change what happened 'out there'.There is the letting
go of wanting to control by thinking about it and try
ing to handle it with the intellect and the emotions. There is the willingness to surrender to the essence
of the experience without calling it anything, or label
ing it, or putting names on it.There is the willingness
to handle the energy field of it and go directly to the
inner experience. The surrender to the inner experi
ence is the open doorway to the experience of some
thing greater than the small personal self. Each catastrophe, therefore, is a repeat a!ld repre
sentation of another opportunity for this great spiritual
learning experience; therefore, people who have been
through great catastrophic experiences express their
gratitude. Often people say, "Although I wouldn't
want to live though it again, I am very grateful for
that experience." How could a person be grateful for what the world
considers a terrible catastrophe or a dreadful, progres
sive illness? What they learned out of the catastrophe
was of such a great dimension that the price was worth
it because, through the realization of truth, they discov
ered the reconnection with the essential core of their
beingness. As we grow spiritually and become spiritually edu
cated, it takes less and less to bring about the willing
ness to face this inner experience. It could be said that
a person's 'bottom of the barrel' gets progressively
raised.The person does not have to go through agoniz
ing pain before they are willing to let go and surrender. More and more there arises a willingness to do it on a
daily basis so that it becomes part and parcel of one's HANDLING MAJOR CRISES 261
life, with the constant looking at how one is trying to
control things, or trying to change God's will, or how
one is going to try to change and control God. More
often there is the willingness to totally surrender at
great depth, and then one sees that surrender occurs at
different depths. In ordinary life, we surrender a little bit. Under
greater pressure, we are willing to surrender more
and realize that we do not have to put ourselves
under catastrophic pressure in order to be willing to
surrender at great depth. The transformation of per
sonality, the whole shift in one's spiritual position, tra
ditionally comes from surrendering at great depth. What does it mean to surrender at great depth? How
can we surrender at great depth without having to
put ourselves through a terrible emotional catastro
phe in order to accomplish the same spiritual work? By seeing the essential nature of the process, we
become educated. Our positions shift and we are dif
ferent in the way we are.We are willing to be with life
in all its expressions. The willingness is then experi
enced as an inner state of aliveness. Arising from that
is the willingness to take the chance because we now
know that we are accompanied by something greater
than the personal self. It is not the personal self that
has to handle what comes up in life. The Infinite
Presence that is always with us is more powerful than
the human will and ego. The self brings pain and
suffering; the Self radiates healing and peace. CHAPTER 9
Worry, Fear, and Anxiety
As discussed previously, holistic health uses the phrase
"body, mind, and spirit" frequently, so it will be helpful
to understand more about it.What does it really mean? Is it just a catch phrase or a slogan? Is'spirit' a meta
physical abstraction or a religious dictum? Is it a fantasy
of people who are not very well connected with the
real world? Defining this relationship again will help us
to speed up our work through greater understanding. Again


 dysfunction—a debatable opinion. Over thirty years ago Dr. Benjamin Feingold, M.D., developed a dietary treatment for this
condition, which is in strong sympathy with the Gerson principles. He excluded all artificial
flavors and colors, all preservatives, some kinds of sugars, yeast, salicylates, and prescribed
instead fresh, preferably organic foods. His method attracted enthusiastic support and sharp
criticism, the latter mainly from the food industry. Since then many naturopaths and nutritionists have had good results, treating ADHD children
by simply changing their diet to wholesome organic food, excluding all additives. Unfortunately
orthodox physicians, who are unfamiliar with dietary principles, prescribe hyperactive youngsters
the drug Ritalin, a highly addictive substance closely resembling cocaine. Not surprisingly the
side effects, including permanent brain damage, are dire. The drug is prescribed even for children
younger than six years old, sometimes on the say-so of a nurse who considers the child ‘ill
behaved’ and wants to keep him/her quiet and obedient—in fact zombie-like. It is a terrifying fact that nearly two million American children are drugged with Ritalin,
and the number is rising. Mothers are grateful for Ritalin, which eliminates their children’s
destructiveness and aggression, since they don’t understand the true—nutritional—cause of such
behavior, and therefore don’t know how to deal with it sensibly and effectively. Their pediatricians
don’t know, either, how to advise them correctly—all they are trained in is the use of drugs. ( see
Ritalin  in Chapter 5. pg. 64)
Even the mildest form of the Gerson protocol puts an end to ADHD in no time at all. Depression
All over the developed world depression is rapidly becoming a major mental health problem,
causing much suffering and incapacity, loss of earnings, plus growing expenditure on treatment,
mainly by drugs. According to the World Health Organisation, by 2020 clinical depression will
become the second leading cause of disability worldwide. Alarmingly enough, already now more
and more children and adolescents become depressed; many of them react by developing eating
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www.thegersonway.comWe need to differentiate between two kinds of depression: one caused by psychological, the
other by physical factors, although they often affect each other. Human life has never been free
from problems and difficulties, and the resulting depression needs to be alleviated by professional
psychological help and support. (Ways to deal with depression caused by a cancer diagnosis are
described in Chapter 24)
Here we are concerned with the physical basis of depression, turning our spotlight on the
brain. Clearly, our thinking, outlook, feeling reactions, handling of daily problems, as well as
control of movement, physical coordination and many more vital activities are directly related to
the brain. Thus its function is basic and depends on the health and correct working of the brain
cells. Although it is a relatively small organ compared to the total body mass, the brain uses up
some two-fifths of the body’s intake of oxygen and a fifth of its blood supply. We may safely
assume that it also requires a large amount of nutrients—vitamins, minerals and enzymes—to
perform its incredibly complex tasks. Since the so-called “normal” American diet is chronically
short of such nutrients, obviously the brain’s needs are not fulfilled. Yet as part of the Central
Nervous System (CNS), the brain’s tissues are so specialized that, unlike the tissues of other
organs, most of them are unable to re-grow, i.e., reproduce themselves. From this it follows that if the brain cells are inadequately nourished, they cannot function
properly, their fragile balance is disturbed and certain mental disturbances occur, including bi-
polar disorder, schizophrenia, insomnia, chronic anxiety, and, above all, depression. Most of
these conditions have been alleviated by up to 90% by vitamin (inositol) treatment (see Carl C.
Pfeiffer, Ph.D., M.D., Mental and Elemental Nutrients,  Keats Publishing, Inc.,1975. P.g145). Double Nobel Prize Laureate Linus Pauling has also stated that 60% of schizophrenics treated
with megavitamins either improved or had complete relief of symptoms (ibid., Pg.12). Dr. Abram
Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. first discovered that niacin (Vitamin B3) lowered cholesterol, and that
excess cholesterol was a contributory factor in schizophrenia. He was able to restore thousands
of schizophrenics to normalcy by treating them with megadoses of niacin and ascorbic acid
(Vitamin C.)
Under normal circumstances the brain is protected from the penetration of toxins (poisons)
by the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB), a membrane that controls the passage of substances from
the blood into the brain. The BBB can be damaged and broken down by microwaves, radiation,
hypertension ( high blood pressure),  infection, and most importantly by severe toxicity of the
organism, which stops the barrier from blocking the penetration of poisons into the brain.. Hence
the vicious circle of inadequate nutrition and toxicity spins on, and depression and other kinds of
mental ill-health set in. Almost as bad as the proliferation of clinical depression is the recent development of drugs to
relieve the condition. These highly toxic drugs are prescribed even for young children, although
the well-known side effects include severe worsening of the depression, to the point of suicide or Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 6 9Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comhomicide. By way of contrast, the standard Gerson treatment is able to alleviate the depression
fairly quickly, even in patients who have already undergone drug treatment and are suffering
from its side effects. The therapy’s detoxifying coffee enemas, and the flooding of all body
tissues, including the brain, with the needed nutrients, is the quickest and safest way to relieve
depression. Case History: Some eight years ago, as Charlotte Gerson was traveling far and wide all over
the USA, giving lectures to numerous groups, she stayed at a charming little motel. The manager,
P.B., was interested in her work, and in the course of their conversation he told her that he was
suffering from severe clinical depression, controlling the condition with prescription drugs. He
also admitted that he had been in Viet Nam and had been exposed to “Agent Orange.”
When Charlotte told him more about the nutritional approach to healing, P.B., aged around
50, purchased the Gerson publications and began to follow the therapy on his own at home as
best he could. In December of 2006 he reported that he had recovered, was able to discontinue all
medical drugs, felt very well, since he no longer suffered the side effects of those drugs, and led
a normal active life. Crohn’s Disease
The medical term for this condition is regional ileitis. It is a chronic inflammation of the
lower two-thirds of the small intestine, the ileum,  and as a rule alternates between periods of
aggravation and remission. The patient suffers from diarrhea, abdominal pain, weight loss,
anemia, and eventually, often after several years, intestinal obstruction. According to Taber’ s
Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, “The cause is unknown.” As orthodox medicine has no cure for
this condition, the final outcome is usually surgery, removing a large portion—or even the entire
length—of the colon, and installing a colostomy bag. Case History : M.G. was only 15 when she was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. She spent
much of that year commuting between her home and the General Hospital in Sault Ste.Marie,
Ont., Canada, missing much of her schooling. Several times when visiting the hospital she was
on the verge of developing bowel obstruction; being unable to absorb her food, she weighed only
78 lbs. Her physicians suggested surgery, but this was refused. Just in time her family discovered
the Gerson Therapy and the young girl started on it at home. Although her bowel was nearly
obstructed, the coffee enemas brought immediate relief and she no longer needed to visit the
hospital. After three months the pain was gone, her energy had returned; within one year she
gained 26 lbs and was able to attend school regularly. She remains well and at present is studying
medicine. Migraine
Migraines are described as frequently unilateral ( one-sided)  paroxysmal (sudden, severe) Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 7 0Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comattacks of headache. The sharp, throbbing pain is normally accompanied by hypersensitivity to
light and sounds, nausea and/or vomiting; attacks are recurring and can last from 4 to 72 hours. Migraines are extremely common: over 10 million Americans are regular sufferers. Medical
treatment is limited to pain relieving drugs, sometimes as powerful as morphine,


ogenic. We find more cancer in cows, pigs and
chickens today than ever before. And humans eat this. Some meat
producers (farmers and ranchers) have also lost their integrity and sense
of decency, and are grinding up their sick and dying cows, pigs and
chickens and mixing this “dead,” often “diseased,” meat into their regular
animal feed. This leads to “Mad Cow” and “Hoof and Mouth” disease. We see this now, especially in Europe, where meat growers have been
feeding dead sheep meat to living cows. Cows are vegetarians. Hogs are
not true meat eaters, either. This eventually leads to acidosis and diseasewithin these animals, just as it does within humans. High protein diets lower manganese levels resulting in spasms,
convulsions, neurotransmitter issues (myasthenia, S. O. B., heart
arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation, etc. ), neuromuscular problems,
Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease. Meat is full of dead blood cells (hemoglobin), which are full of iron. However, iron is a mineral, which if consumed in abundance can become
toxic, especially oxidized iron (not plant iron). Iron toxicity creates a
multitude of reactions within the body, including:
Decrease in chromium (needed in insulin transport issues)
Decrease in zinc (needed in insulin and energy production)
Damage to liver, pancreatic and kidney tissue
Lowering of calcium and calcium absorption and utilization
Increase in sodium levels (hence creating edema)
Increase in nitrogen and phosphorous levels (thus increasing acidosis)
Dizziness, equilibrium and spastic conditions by decreasing manganese
levels
Meat eating leads to high blood pressure from sodium retention and lipid
coagulation. Meat eating with vitamin C supplementation enhances iron absorption,
thereby magnifying iron toxicity
Red meat eating is linked to the increase of N-Nitroso compounds from
intestinal bacteria, which can be cancer-causing to the intestinal walls. Meat eating is known to be one of the chief and most direct causes of
tooth decay. These are just a few examples of why high animal-protein diets are
destroying the human race. Wake up and enjoy life without animal
products. Your body will love you for it, as it becomes odor-free and
vibrant. Love your planet and its animals too. COMPLETE PROTEIN OR COMPLETE MYTH. There is a myth about the need for “complete” amino acids or “complete
proteins” in the human diet. We have struggled with this misinformation for
years. Basically, the misinformation says that unless you eat foods containing
all the essential amino acids in one meal you will not have what you need to
create a “complete protein” and therefore your body will be protein deficient. This is one of the primary arguments for the consumption of meat and dairyproducts, or the consumption of soy products, beans, and white flour. Consider, however:
What is the diet of a wild horse, an elephant, or a cow. These are
herbivores and their strength is well known. Their diet is 100 percent
grass and vegetable matter. If they needed the “complete protein” that is
claimed, they must be getting it from plants. 70 to 80 percent of a grizzly bear’s diet is grass. Bears don’t eat much
meat. When they do, it’s generally the fat (not the protein) structure that
they’re after. Bears are omnivores. We are the highest species in the frugivore category, which is not
designed to eat meat. Raw foodists who eat a balanced variety of fruits, vegetables and nuts are
never deficient in the amino acids necessary for health. Quite the
opposite. Plant amino acids are more energetic and easy for your body to
break down and use. Meat requires a more radical and energy-robbing
digestive process to obtain the amino acids that comprise it. The other
important factor here is that meat protein leaves an acid reaction in the
body, creating more acidosis, whereas vegetables leave an alkaline
reaction, thus cutting acidosis. Your body requires live foods to make it alive. If the components are not
in fresh, organic fruits, nuts and vegetables you don’t need them. And
besides, there’s nothing healthy about eating old, rotten, dead tissue—dead
cells in stagnant blood. The constitution of man’s body has not changed to meet the new
conditions of his artificial environment that has replaced his natural one. The result is that of perpetual discord between man and his environment. The effect of this discord is a general deterioration of man’s body, the
symptoms of which are termed disease. — Professor Hilton Hotema,
Man’s Higher Consciousness

MODULE 4. 3
 Irritants and Stimulants
Most people consume large amounts of irritants and stimulants in their diets,
so called because these compounds
irritate
 and
stimulate
 tissue, causing
excessive mucus production and hyper-or hypo-activity of these tissues
(organs, glands, etc. ). Eventually, because of this abuse, these tissues fail,
leading to chronic and degenerative disorders. Some of the irritants that
people consciously or unconsciously consume each day are black pepper,
caffeine, salt, MSG, preservatives, chemical and refined sugars. The list can
get very long. These compounds irritate the mucosa of the GI tract, causing mucus
discharge, which becomes congested and impacted. They also create
inflammation in the body, as most of them are acidic, or heat-producing, thus
initiating an immune response. In the health field, however, Capsicum
(cayenne pepper) is used by many for both high blood pressure and for
increasing circulation. Cayenne pepper is not as irritating as black pepper. However, red pepper does stimulate the mucosa of the GI tract, which can
cause excessive mucus production. Mucus congestion is at the heart of
congestive conditions, including sinus congestion, bronchitis, pneumonia and
earaches. When an individual changes his or her lifestyle and begins to eat a raw,
living-food diet, the body changes. The more raw food you consume, the
more your body becomes pure and healthy. You will reach a point where you
will not be able to eat pungent foods anymore. Cayenne pepper, onions and
even garlic will become irritating to you. Stimulants are one of man’s passions. We intake hundreds of pounds
and/or gallons of these substances each year. Coffee, tea and soda are
consumed like never before. These drinks (being high in tannins, alkaloids,
sulfuric and phosphoric acids, and the like) not only stimulate tissues, but
also damage them. Do you know what happens to concrete if you pour soda
pop on it. It breaks it down. If you put a piece of meat into a glass of soda,
what happens to the meat. The same thing—it deteriorates. Soda pop
inflames and destroys the lining of your GI tract, not to mention the liver and
kidneys. Coffee and commercial teas are also highly consumed today. These
drinks irritate and stimulate the liver, GI tract, heart, endocrine gland system,
(thyroid, adrenals, pituitary, thymus, etc. ), and the kidneys. Among health-
enthusiasts, coffee enemas are also very popular. I do not recommend these,
however, because they are too stimulating to your intestines and liver. Theyonly serve to stimulate these tissues, eventually causing extreme enervation
and severe constipation. Use “good” herbal bowel regenerators that are non-
addicting, and will clean and restore good bowel function. (See Resource
Guide at the back of this book for recommendations of herb companies that
make good formulas. ) Chocolate is another stimulant that men, women and children love to
consume. Chocolate is highly acidic and has a high oxalic acid content. When
your body is acidic and you consume foods that are high in oxalates, these
oxa-lates bind with ionic calcium causing calcium oxalate stones, such as
kidney stones. Alcohol and refined sugars are other stimulants that are highly consumed
by people today. These are highly acidic and mucus-forming. Beer adds to
the yeast overgrowth in people, which creates the desire for more refined
sugars, keeping this wheel ever-turning. In diabetes, alcohol keeps the blood
sugar elevated and stimulates the adrenal glands, causing further weaknesses. Of course, fermentation of food sugars in the stomach also causes alcohol. Organic wine would be the only alcohol I would recommend, and very little
of that. Refined sugars are acid-forming and cause a great deal of mucus
production by the body. As previously stated, mucus becomes congestive
leading to allergies, bronchitis, pneumonia, colds, flu, mumps, sinusitis, and
all the “congestive” type conditions. Refined sugars, being acid-forming, also
add to the inflammation of tissue. Meat is also a well-known stimulant that is irritating and inflammatory to
our tissues. As we noted in the last section, meat is full of antibiotics,
hormones, nuclear wastes, steroids, adrenaline, pesticides, herbicides, and
several other toxic chemicals. These substances are all stimulants, irritants and
suppressors, all mixed together and found in the tissue of the meat. These
chemicals (and adrenaline) can give you a temporary feeling of energy, only
to make you more fatigued afterwards. Meat,


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Chapter 1: The Miracle of Fasting..................... 1
Helps You Enjoy a Super Charged, Healthy, Happy, Long Life .....1
Bragg Motto – I Love Life and I Want to Live!..................2Unhealthy Lifestyle Killing Millions Worldwide!................2Sickness is a Crime Against Your Body – Don’t Be a Criminal......3Life Can Be a Happy and Joyous Adventure ...................4
Chapter 2: What is the Miracle of Fasting?............. 5
What is the Most Significant Discovery of This Modern Age? (List) .5Fasting Conserves Energy – Your Vital Force ...................6We Live in a Poisoned World................................7
The Big, Filthy Sewer in the Sky Above Us .....................7Rivers, Lakes & Oceans Becoming Polluted ....................8Fasting – The Key to Internal Purification .....................9Poisons from Chemical Pesticides & Sprays ....................9Fasting Aids in Flushing Deadly Poisons from the Body .........11Health Menace – Waxed Fruits and Vegetables!................12Fasting is a Miracle – It cured my Asthma ....................12Synthetic, Toxic Food Additives Can Kill .....................14Salt Causes Edema, Kidney Problems, etc.....................16What Salt Does to Your Blood Pressure .......................16Why Cows are Given Large Amounts of Salt ..................17Americans Are Salt-a-Holics!...............................18Death Valley Hike Proved Salt Dangerous ....................18Fasting De-Salts Body Cells and Organs ......................22Fasting is the Great Cleanser and Purifier ....................23Do You Have Harmful Habits You Must Overcome?............25Fasting – The Key to Super Energy ..........................26Fasting – A Natural Instinct and Great Purifier ................27Jesus, His Disciples & All History’s Great Spiritual Teachers Fasted .. 28
Chapter 3: The Enemy Within Our Bodies ............. 29
Rid Yourself of Depression .................................30Unhealthy Lifestyle & Overeating are Killers ..................31Why Not Enjoy Life to 120 Years?...........................32Outwit Acidosis that Affects Millions ........................34Raw Fruits and Vegetables Are Mother Nature’s Miracle Cleansers ... 35Perfect Balancer – Apple Cider Vinegar ......................38To preserve health is a moral and
religious duty, for health is the basis
for all social virtues. We can no
longer be as useful when not well. – Dr. Samuel Johnson,
Father of DictionariesTHE MIRACLE OF
FASTINGvi
Chapter 4: Fasting Fights Deadly Acid Crystals ........ 39
Toxic Acid Crystals Can Cement Your Joints to Make You Stiff ....39
How Toxic Acid Crystals Build in Your Body ..................40
Back Pains – The Curse of Mankind .........................42Fasting for Purification ...................................43Victory Won By Fasting, Diet and Exercise ....................44
Mother Nature Works Slowly, But Surely .....................45
Chapter 5: Scientific Fasting Explained ............... 47
Fasting is as Old as Man ..................................48Fasting Awakens the Mind and Soul ........................49The Biblical Patriarchs Fasted ..............................50Fasting – The Safe, Perfect Cleanser .........................51Don’t be a Slave to Food ..................................51Plan Your Fasting Program Today...........................52Your Mind Must Rule Your Body to Fast Successfully ............53
No Heavy Breakfast Plan is Best ............................53Healthy Eating Habits Keep You Youthful ....................55Americans Love Social Eating!.............................56Keeping Internally Clean is Critical .........................56Are You Ready to Fast, Detox and Get Healthy?...............57Juice Fast – an Introduction to Water Fast .................... 58
Some Powerful Juice Combinations .........................59The 70% Watery Human..................................60
Chapter 6: Why I Drink Only Distilled Water!.......... 61
Hard Inorganic Minerals Cause Problems!.....


's most
marvclous  instrumcnc. Those o( us who are not geniuses know something
of thc same ability. Take for cxample thc anagram
l'OCATEJ.0JMC. You  can work  ovcr  thcse  lcuers  for
72 THE  WISDOM  OF THE  BODY
hours,  trying system  after system  of rearrangement
in order  to discover  tbe scrambled  word. Try,  in-
stead,  just looking  at the anagram  with  a relaxed
mind,  and in a very short space  of time  your  brain
will deliver  the answer  without  tbe sligbtest  effort. 1
We rightly  mistrust  the ··snap"  answers of strained
and wandering  minds,  but che rapid,  cffortless,  and
almost  unconscious  solution  of logical  problems  is
what  the brain  is supposed  to <leliver. Working rightly, tbe brain is thc highest form of
"instinctual wisdom." Thus il should work like the
homing instinct of pigeons and thc forrnalion of the
foetus in the womb -,vithout verbalizing the process
or knowing  "how"  it <loes  it. The  self-conscious
brain, like the self -conscious heart, is a disorder, and
manifests itself in the acute fecling of separation be -
twcen "I" and my experience. The brain can only as -
sume its proper behavior when consciousness is doing
what it is designed for: not writhing and whirling to
get out of present experience, but being effortlessly
aware  of it. 1 If you don't  succecd  within  one minute,  read  onl Otherwisc
you will  begin to be annoycd cither with yoursclf, or with  me, and
thc consequcnt  strain  will intcrícrc  with  thc process. 73

V. ON B E I N G  A W A R E

T H E QUESTION  "WMAT  SHALL  WE  DO  ABOUT  IT?" IS
only asked by those who do not understand the
prob - lem. If a problem can be solved at all, to
undersrand  it and to know what to do about it are
the same thing. On the other hand, doing
something about a prob - lem which you do not
understand is Iike trying to  clear away darkness
by thrusting it aside with your  hands. When light
is brought, thc darkncss vanishes  at once. This applies particularly to che problem now
be- fore us. How are we to heal che split
between 'T' and "me," the brain and the body,
man and nature,  and bring all  the vicious circles
which  ic produces  to an end? How are we to
expcrience  life as something  other than a honey
trap in which we are the strug - gling flies? How
are we to find security and peace of mind in a
world whose very nature is insecurity, im-
permanence, and unceasing change? Ali these
ques - tions demand a method and a course of
action. At  the same time, all of them show that the
problem has not been understood. We do not
need action -yet. We need  more  light. Light,  here,  meaos  awareness -to be aware  of
life,
of experience  as it is at this  moment,  without
any judgments  or ideas  about  it. In other
words,  you
75 THE  WlSOOi \l OF INSl:'.CURITY
have  to sec and  feel what you are experiencing as
it is, and notas it is named. This very simple
"opening  of the cyes"  brings  about  the most
extraorclinary  transformation  of undcrstanding
and living,  and shows that rnany of our mase
batlling problcrns are  pure illusion. This may
sound like an over -simplifica - tion because most
people imagine themselves to be  fully enough
aware of che present already,  but we  shall  sec that
this is far from  true. 1
Because awareness is a vicw of reality  free  from
ideas and judgments, it is clearly impossible to
define  an<l writc clown what it reveals. Anything
which can  be described is an idea, and I cannot
makc a positive  statement about something -the
real world -which is notan idea. I shall therefore
havc to be content with  talking about thc false
imprcssions,,vhich awareness  removes, rather
than che truth which it reveals. The  latter can
only be symbolized with words which mean  littlc
or nothing  to those without  a direct  under -
standing  of the truth  in question. What  is true  and positive  is roo real  and too
living
to be described, and ro try to describe it is like
put- ting red paint on a red rose. Therefore most
of what  follows will havc to havc a rathcr negative
quality. The truth  is revealed by removing things
that stand  in its light, an art not unlike sculpturc,
in which the anist  creares,  not by building,  but
by hacking  away. 1Thc word ":iwarencss"  is used in the sense givcn  10 it by J.
Krishnamurti, whose writings discuss this thcme with
cxtraordi - nary  pcrception. ON BEINC  AWARE
We saw that the questions about finding security
and peace of mind in an impermanent world showed
that the problem had not becn understood. Before
going any funher, it must be clcar LhaL the kind of
securily we are talking about is primarily spiritual
and psychological. To exist  at ali, human  beings
musl havc a minim um livelihood in terms of food,
drink,  and clothing -,vith  the understanding,  how -
ever, that it cannot last indefinitely. But if the as -
surance  of a mínimum  livelihood  for sixLy  years
would even  begin  LO saLisfy the heart of man, human
problems would amounc to vcry liule. Incleed, thc
very reason why we do not have this assurance is that
we want so much more than the mínimum neces -
sities. It musl be obvious, from the start, that there is a
contradiclion in wanting to be perfectly sccure in a
univcrsc whosc vcry naturc is momentariness and
íluidity. I3uL  thc contradicLion  lies a liulc  decper
than the mere conflict between thc desire for security
and the /acl of change. If I want tO be secure, that is,
protecte <l from the flux of life, I am wanting to be
separate from life. Yet it is t.his very scnse o[ scparate -
ness  wh ich  makcs  me fcel insecure. To be sccure
means to isolale and fonify Lhc "!," but it is jusL the
fecling of bcing an isolatecl "1" which makcs me feel
loncly and afraid. In Olher words,  Lhe more security
I can get, thc more  I shall  want. To put it still more  plainly:  Lhe desirc  for sewriLy
77 TIIE  WlSDOM  OF JNSECURITY
ánd the fecling  of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your  breath  is to lose  your  breath. A
society  based  on the qucst  for security  is nothing
but a breath -retention contest in which everyonc
is as taut  as a drum  and as purple  as a bcct. We look Cor this sccurity by fonifying and
enclos - ing ourselves  in innumerable  ways. Vve
want  the protection of being  "exclusive"  and
"special,"  seek - ing to belong to the safest church,
the best nation,  the highest class, the right set,
and the "nice" peoplc. Thesc dcfenscs lcad to
divisions bcL1vccn us, and so to more  insecurity
dcmanding  more  dcfenses. Of course it is all clone
in the sincere belief that we are  trying to do che
rigln things and livc in the best way;  but this,  too,
is a contradiction. 1can  only  think  seriously  of trying  to livc up
toan
ideal, to improve mysel(, if I am split in two picccs. Thcre  must  be a good .. 1.. who  is going  to improvc
thc bad  "me." "I," who has the bcst  intcntions,
will go to work on


 the answers to health issues?,
A: No one, except for the individual's own immune system.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the term "cure"?,
A: The author dislikes the term "cure" because it implies a permanent solution, which is not possible, as health problems can always return if the underlying conditions are not addressed.
Q: What is the author's stance on using supplements to boost the immune system?,
A: The author recommends using supplements, but only in conjunction with a healthy diet and a focus on optimizing the immune system, rather than relying solely on supplements.
Q: What is the author's recommended approach to health issues?,
A: The author suggests that people should focus on optimizing their immune system by giving their body what it needs and avoiding things that interfere with its functioning.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the effectiveness of colloidal silver (CS) in boosting the immune system?,
A: The author believes that CS is a powerful immune system booster, but it does not cure anything; rather, it enhances the body's self-healing ability, and it is important to start with a small dose and gradually increase it.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>By Deepak Chopra7 STEPS TO
RADICAL WELLBEING© 2015 The Chopra Center. All rights reserved. Published by Chopra Center Press, a division of Chopra Center Enterprises, LLC
2013 Costa Del Mar Road, Carlsbad, CA 92009 | chopra.com
Copy by Deepak ChopraALSO BY THE CHOPRA CENTER PRESS:
Books
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by Healing Your Emotions, by David Simon, M.D. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga Guidebook
21 Days of Inspiration
Wisdom for Living: Deepak Chopra’s Book of QuotesOnly a few decades ago, conventional medicine viewed the body as a machine
whose parts would inevitably break down until it could no longer be repaired. As a
medical student, I learned that random chemical reactions determined everything
that happened in the body, the mind and body were separate and independent
from each other, and genes largely determined our health and lifespan. Today scientific research is arriving at a radically different understanding: while
the body appears to be material, it is really a field of energy and intelligence that is
inextricably connected to the mind. We now know that what used to be considered
the “normal” experience of aging—a progressive descent into physical and mental
incapacity—is in large part a conditioned response. The mind influences every cell in
the body and therefore human aging is fluid and changeable. It can speed up, slow
down, and even reverse itself. There are many studies demonstrating the profound influence of the mind and
beliefs on aging. For example, a landmark study by Harvard psychologist Ellen
Langer, Ph.D., showed that the so-called irreversible signs of aging, including
deterioration in hearing, vision, manual dexterity, muscle strength, and memory,
could be reversed through psychological shifts in awareness and increases in
physical and mental activity. Even though we all have genetic predispositions, our health and aging aren’t
predetermined. By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus
our attention, we can transform our experience of our body to decrease our
biological age. These seven steps are practical ways to tap into your inner reservoir of unlimited
energy, creativity, vitality, and love. Love,GROW YOUNGER AND LIVE LONGER
7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING:  Grow Younger and Live Longer
www.chopra.comEvery day in every way, I am increasing my mental and physical
capacity. I am reversing my biological age by changing my
perception of my body, its aging, and time. 7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 1Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation. What you experience
as “reality,” including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits
of perception. While most people are conditioned to see the body as a static,
biological machine, you can begin to view it as a field of energy, transformation,
and intelligence that is constantly renewing itself. Begin to notice both your internal dialogue and how you speak about your body
and aging. If you find yourself saying things like, “I’m hitting the age where I’ll need
reading glasses,” “I’m too old to try yoga (or some other activity),” “I inherited my
dad’s bad back,” or other such statements, make a conscious choice to shift your
perspective and change what you tell yourself about your body and age. Keep in mind that your cells are eavesdropping on what you say, so unless you
want to have your father’s bad back or anything else that “runs in the family,” don’t
nurture that seed of intention in your awareness.CHANGE YOUR PERCEPTIONS OF YOUR BODY
AND AGING7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 1
www.chopra.comSTEP 1
“You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body
and by grasping the link between belief and biology.”
~ Deepak ChopraI prioritize self-care by meditating regularly, allowing
myself to rest in the sacred space of silent connection
so I may be calm and centered. 7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 2STEP 2
Meditation is a simple yet powerful tool that takes us to a state of profound
relaxation that dissolves fatigue and the accumulated stress that accelerates the
aging process. During meditation, our breathing slows, our blood pressure and
heart rate decrease, and stress hormone levels fall. By its very nature, meditation
calms the mind, and when the mind is in a state of restful awareness, the body
relaxes too. Research shows that people who meditate regularly develop less hypertension,
heart disease, anxiety, and other stress-related illnesses that speed up aging. Furthermore, new studies are finding that meditation literally restores the brain. A
groundbreaking study conducted by Massachusetts General Hospital found that
as little as eight weeks of meditation not only helped people feel calmer but also
produced changes in various areas of the brain, including growth in the areas
associated with memory, empathy, sense of self, and stress regulation. This study adds to the expanding body of research about the brain’s amazing
plasticity and capacity to grow and change at any stage of life. We can nurture our
brain’s power and maintain a youthful mind by developing a regular meditation
practice. Getting Started with Meditation
I usually recommend that people learn a traditional meditation practice from
a qualified instructor. That way, you know exactly what to do at any point in
meditation and with any experience that comes along. Often when people try
to learn on their own or from a book, they learn incorrectly and soon give up in
frustration because they aren’t experiencing the expected benefits. For those who
are interested, the Chopra Center offers instruction in Primordial Sound Meditation,
a natural, easy practice that dates back thousands of years to India’s Vedic traditionMANAGE YOUR STRESS WITH MEDITATION7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 2
www.chopra.comI honor my body’s need for rest by prioritizing deep,
revitalizing, undisturbed sleep. 7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 3Getting regular restful sleep is an essential key to staying healthy and vital, yet it is so
often neglected or underemphasized. There is even a tendency for people to boast
about how little sleep they can get by on. In reality, a lack of restful sleep disrupts
the body’s innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging
process. Human beings generally need between six and eight hours of restful sleep each
night. Restful sleep means that you’re not using pharmaceuticals or alcohol to get
to sleep but that you’re drifting off easily once you turn off the light and are sleep -
ing soundly through the night. If you feel energetic and vibrant when you wake up,
you’ve had a night of restful sleep. If you feel tired and unenthusiastic, you haven’t
had restful sleep. You can get the highest quality sleep by keeping your sleep cycles in tune with the
rhythms of the universe, known as circadian rhythms. This means going to bed by
about 10 p.m. and waking at 6 a.m. Ideally, eat only a light meal in the evening, before 7:30 if possible, so that your
sleep isn’t hampered by the digestive processes. You can go for a leisurely walk after
dinner and then be in bed by 10 p.m.
It’s also very helpful to download your thoughts from the day in a journal before
going to bed so that your mind doesn’t keep you awake.GET ABUNDANT RESTFUL SLEEP7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 3
www.chopra.comSTEP 3I lovingly nurture my body by listening to its needs and
responding proportionately with healthy, alive, vibrant
foods and lots of water. 7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 4There are “dead” foods that accelerate aging and entropy and others that renew and
revitalize the body. Foods to eliminate or minimize include items that are canned,
frozen, microwaved, or highly processed. Focus on eating a variety of fresh and
freshly prepared food. A simple way to make sure that you are getting a balanced diet is to include the six
tastes (sweet, salty, sour


 produce grown in dead soils. Howe ver, organically grown plants specifically
cultivated in highly composted soils rich with organic matter can contain plenty of B 12  and a host of other nutrients not found (or
found in short supply) in industrially grown produce. Organic matter, defined as anything that rots, is the root of organic fa rming and the engine that runs the entire web of life on
Earth. Fungi and bacteria eat the organic matter, and then they “p oop” … in the process contributing complex substances to the soil,
including vitamin B 12  and other nutrients, in profusion. Plants grown in such soils take up thes e nutrients through their roots. When we add chemicals to the soil, we destroy not only “pests” and the bac teria that produce vitamin B 12, but also the entire
pyramid of soil life (which begins with organic material, then fungi  and bacteria but also includes mites, then predatory mites,
springtails, and worms). Most agricultural soil in the United States  contains only 1 to 2% organic matter, a level that qualifies it as
biologically dead. The practice of farming with chemicals and not retur ning any organic matter to the soil is now more than sixty
years old. The far-reaching devastating side effects of this prac tice on all forms of life on Earth—and their delicately balanced
ecosystems—are too numerous to adequately describe in anything less  than a separate book. Therefore, I recommend getting to know the organic farmers at your local  farmer’s markets and making sure that they use
compost.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        heirloom tomatoes
Directions: Blend ¾ of the peaches with ¾ of the tomato. Thinly slice th e remaining ingredients and stir them into the soup for
added texture. Course Three: Blackberry Sesame Salad
1 lb. lettuce
4 oz. tomatoes
8 oz. blackberries
2 tbsp. raw, mechanically hulled tahini. Directions: Finely chop the lettuce into a large bowl. Slice the tomat o into wedges and toss with lettuce. Dress with a blend of
blackberries and tahini

Summer Menu Plan: Day Three

BREAKFAST
Honeydew Melon
3 lbs. honeydew melon

LUNCH
Figgy Delicious
1 lb. figs
1 lb. bananas
Directions: Blend with 16 oz. water, or to desired consistency. DINNER
Course One: Mango and Raspberry
8 oz. mango
8 oz. raspberries
Directions: Slice or cube the mango into a bowl and sprinkle with raspberri es. Course Two: Delightfully Cool Cukes
8 oz.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the main difference between the fuyu and hachiya persimmon?,
A: The hachiya is smaller in size and has a thinner peel than the fuyu.
Q: What is the definition of raw foods?,
A: Raw foods are defined as those that are whole and fresh, with all their original components intact.
Q: What is the difference in the way the human body processes vitamin B12?,
A: The human body can produce B12 on its own and also obtain it from the soil through the roots of plants, but the lack of organic matter in agricultural soils has led to a deficiency in B12.
Q: Can a person thrive on a fruit-only diet?,
A: No, a diet consisting only of fruit is not sustainable and can lead to nutritional deficiencies.
Q: What is the recommended daily intake of leafy greens?,
A: The book recommends consuming 2-6% of total calories from leafy greens, which translates to 1-4 pounds of greens per day.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>(I prefer vegan fertilizers and compost that don’t contain a nimal products or manure.) People find this difficult to hear, but I also believe that if you live where farmer’s markets and organic ally grown tropical fruits are not available, you would do well to
consider relocating. Of course, growing your own food would be best of all, and I hig hly recommend doing so, whenever possible. 2) We wash our produce. A hundred years ago, people tended to bathe once a week or less, on average, and they  did not concern themselves with
fastidiously washing the surfaces of their fruits and vegetables  as they do these days. In part, this is another result of agrochemical
food production, as people have been misled to believe that pesticide residues ca n be adequately washed off by rinsing or scrubbing
the outsides of their produce. In the past, when people ate lettuce, celery, carrots, and other vegetable s fresh from the ground, the soil left clinging to the
vegetables often contained vitamin B 12. They also obtained the nutrient from the bacteria-laden dirt that acc umulates near the stems
of apples, peaches, pears, and other core and stone fruits. But between the che micals we apply to the soils and our obsessive fear
of germs and bacteria, we effectively eliminate this source of the n utrient, as well. 3) We cannot absorb the B 12  we eat. Meat eaters easily consume enough B 12  because the bacteria that make it, live in the digestive tracts of li vestock, and it is distributed
in the muscle meats of the animals they eat. As described earlier, v egans who eat organically grown plants from richly composted
soils, and who don’t compulsively wash their produce, should also get ple nty of the nutrient. In both of these cases, vitamin B 12  deficiency is usually only a problem if you lack a chemical calle d the “intrinsic factor,”
which causes people to be unable to absorb B 12. How does this occur? It seems that intrinsic factor production is reduce d as
dietary fat increases. This is by far the most common cause of B 12  deficiency. Doctors can easily test whether a person has a normal
ability to absorb B 12. For those who do not, no amount of the vitamin in the diet will help. Thus, all of u s, vegetarians and meat
eaters alike, are at risk of B 12  deficiency. A high-fat diet increases this risk substantially, for two reasons. F irst, the colonies of B 12 -producing bacteria in our intestines
utilize carbohydrates for fuel. As the amount of fat in our diets goes up, t he amount of carbohydrate goes down, thus reducing the
quantity of fuel available to the microbe. Less fuel results in a smal ler colony and an overall decrease in B 12  production. Second, the
B12  uptake sites in our intestines become clogged when there is excess fa t in the diet, further reducing B 12  absorption. When
reduced B 12  production is coupled with impaired absorption, the likelihood of B 12  deficiency becomes predictable. 4) Medical B 12  standards are artificially high. The situation is further complicated by the fact that many refi ned starchy foods are “enriched” with a synthetic form of vitamin B 12. When doctors test for “normal” B 12  levels, their results are skewed towards the high end by the fact that  most people eat these
foods (mostly grain products—cereals, breads, pasta, cookies, cakes, etc.) on a daily basis. People who eat a grain-free diet not
supplemented by this poor imitation of the natural nutrient often  test “low” for B 12  even if their levels are healthy and they are totally
asymptomatic. This is because their B 12  levels are being compared to those of people who are consuming a B 12  supplement in their
food at almost every meal. How important is it to eat organically grown food? Organic produce is always to be preferred, but life is full of compromises an d choices. It may be better to eat commercially
grown raw vegetables than to eat cooked or steamed organic vegetables, but i t is a difficult choice. Organically grown produce generally contains more vitamins and min erals than conventional produce (see the FAQ on vitamin
B12  on page 254), and the fresher it is the better. Organic produce generally con tains little or no pesticide residue in comparison
with conventional produce; nevertheless, the amounts involved are not  usually critical to health, and it is far more important to avoid
the pathogenic effects from cooked food. To concern yourself with pesticide residues while eating cooked food is a prov erbial fire and frying pan situation. Neither is
good for us. The best solution is to consume only organic raw plants. Otherwis e, the decision is much like choosing whether to shoot
oneself in the foot or shoot oneself in the hand. In the case of cooked complex carbohydrates (grains, potatoes, corn, legumes), h owever, eating them both raw and free of
synthetic chemicals has recently become a matter of grave concer n. Commercial agroscientists are scrambling to counteract the
seriously negative press being caused by a recently discovered DNA-da maging carcinogen and neurotoxin called acrylamide. This
potent chemical killer was found in high concentrations in the food supply  in 2002 by a Swedish researcher. Scientists at the World Health Organization and elsewhere origin ally attributed shockingly high levels of acrylamide (found
most prominently in bread, chips, crackers, french fries, and other dry-cooked c arbohydrates) to the cooking process itself,
because they found


 Q: What is the final step? A:  E ventu ally, by surrendering every state to God, you enter a space
beyond all previous spaces. As each state comes on, be willing to
experience an even greater dimension. There is a state beyond all the prior
states. A state of pure austerity. I have spoken of it as the High Pass, and
detail it here because readers of this book will confront these s tates. When
you have surrendered everything to God through meditation and
contemplation, and let go of all attachments and aversions, you reach a very
High Pass where there is no one. In the High Pass, you’ve let go of the
attachment to the details of life, money and power, prestige, and  excitement
and thrills. There is nothing left except your own life. Y ou’ve let go of
everything this world cherishes, surrendered it all to God. Now, what do
you have left to surrender to God? Y our very life. In that moment, you
realize, I have nothing left. I surr ender my life to Thee, O Lor d. W ith that, there is a terrible fe ar of dying. When you exper ience the
agony of dying, you know you’ re in the right place. This is the  agony that
you agreed to go through. That which you have believed you were,
throughout all these lifetimes, al l the way back to eternity, practically down
to th e level of  the bacteria, n eeds to be surrendered. All through the
evolution of consciousness, that which you believed to be the very core of
your existence, you are now asked to surrender. The fea r of nonexistence comes up again. And then comes the
Knowingness th at it’ s safe to lay down your life to God, because you will
have the inner k nowingness, “A ll fear is illusion. W alk straig ht ahead nomatter what.” That was the Knowingness that came from many lifetimes
ago. Th at Knowingness has to come through with an absolute certainty
from ha ving heard it from that which has walked through the p ass. That is
why I am telling you this right now. “All fear is illusion.” Y ou lay down
your life  and surrender it to G od. Then, the Splendor of Div inity shines
forth as All That Exists now or  forevermore. That is the final doorway to
the U nknowingn ess and Allness of Divinity. Y ou thereby have owned your
own divinity. Y ou have no con trol over your l ife from that point on. Y ou serve God by
serving your fellows and all life. By loving and serving others, you serve
God, and they are not dif ferent from God, for God is in everything. Q: What is the benefit of learning teachings that seem
incompr ehensible at the time? A:  They only seem  obscure to the intellect. They plant the seed, a nd the
aspirant’ s spiritu al aura incorporates the transmitted ener gy field of the
teacher ’ s aura. Certain informati on is transformational in itself. Exposure to
high tru th initiates a yearning in the psyche. The Buddha made that
observation when he said that once a person has heard of enlightened truth,
they will never be satisfied with anything less, even though it takes
innumerable lifetimes to attain it. It is  very impor tant to understand that any devoted spiritual stu dent can
suddenly be at an extremely high level with no advance warning. Thus, all
students should  be instructed ahead of time as to how to handle very
advanced states of consciousnes s. It is not just a catchy phrase that says that
heaven and hell are only one-tenth of an inch apart. Y ou can, in fact, go
from the very depths of hell to the most extremely advanced states. One reason for the seemin gly endless delays on the way to
Enlightenment is doubt, which should be surrendered as a resi stance. It is
important to know that it is a ctually extremely rare for a human to be
committed to spiritual truth to the degree of seriously seeking
Enlightenment, and those who do make the commitment do so because they
are actually destined  for Enlightenment. At this time, spi ritual evolution is proceeding at an exhilarating pace, and
spiritual information never before available is now readily accessible. Theprogress of a spiritual student of today is already accelerated and
advantaged by access to spiritua l information that in past times was limited
to the very select few. Spiritual progress does not follow in convenient, definable, progressive
steps, as the Map of Consc iousness might seem to imply with its
progressive levels. The path is not linear. Unexpectedly, great leaps may
very well occur at any time, and all students should have the advantage of
knowing the necessary informa tion at certain points along th e way. The
knowledge that is needed at the “end” is essential right from the
“beginning.”
T o know  what it is necessary to know in order to reach Divi ne States
accelerates prog ress; otherwise,  there is an unconscious resista nce of fear
due to ignorance. This fear is overcome by the acquisition of the necessary
understanding; therefore, there is nothing left to fear, and all fear is an
illusion—a Kno wingness that is also required at very advanced states. Any
student who is serious about spiritual alignment and devotion to God, to
Love, to  T ruth, to fellow humanity, or to the alleviation of hum an suf fering
or suf fering in all sentient beings is already very far advanced. Consistent application of any spiritual principle can unexpectedly result
in a very major and sudden leap to unanticipated levels. At that point,
memory may not even be av ailable, and instead, the Knowingness of
Spiritual T ruth presents itself si lently. Spiritual students should  accept the
reality that they are alr eady gifted. A serio us reader of a book suc h as this
could hardly be otherwise. Divinity knows its own; therefore, to  accept that
truth is to already feel joy. T o not experience joy by understanding this
means that it is being resi sted. This awareness is reinforced by
understanding that, contrary to the dualistic Newtonian paradigm  of reality,
we a re n ot just the consequence of the past. On the contrary, our present
position is due to  the attraction of potentiality, because both the past and the
future are illusions. Therefore, commitment to Enlightenment now becomes
like a magnet p ulling us toward it, and the rate of evolution is up to the
individual’ s willingness to surrender resistances. Enlightenment is not a condition to be obtained; it is merely a certainty to
be s urrendered to, for the Self i s already one’ s Reality. It is the Self that is
attracting one to spiritual information.CHAPTER NINE
G U I D A N C E  F O R  S P I R I T U A L
S E E K E R S
T o seek Enlightenment is to seek entrainment to the most powerful
attractor patterns. Entrainment t o a certain ener gy field on the Map simply
means that one is under its influence, similar to a gravitational pull. When
the ener gy field is below 200, the entrainment has a destructive ef fect. This
is clinically observed in the failure of cocaine addicts to recover if they
continue to listen to violent rap or heavy-metal music. The entrainment of a
negative ener gy field is possible  to escape only through consiste nt exposure
to a higher one, as is said: “ Just keep coming back—you’ll get it by
osmosis.” Recov ering addicts who leave the supportive ener gy field of their
self-help programs rather predictably relapse, for now there is no
counterbalance to the downward  pull of the negative habits. Their assertion
that they can “go it alone” is a notorious symptom of the ego’ s arrogance
and Pride, calibrating at 175, w hich is below the power of the ener gy field
required for healing. Spiritual aspiran ts, on the other hand, are seeking to align themselves
with pow erful e ner gy fields that can lift them out of entrenched ego habits. The key is will, a  constantly re peated act of choice. Here, the chaos-theory
principle of sensitive dependenc e on initial conditions (a slight change, over
time, can have a major impact) provides a scientific explanation of the
traditional way of spiritual progress. In all spiritual disciplines, the opening
wedge predicated for advancing one’ s awareness is described as
“willingness.” History shows what has been clinically know n as well:
persistent willingness is the trigger that activates a new attractor field and
allows one to begin to leave the old. W e may visualize a lesser attractorfield approaching a greater one, at which point the introduction of a third
element (such as free will) suddenly creates a crossover (a “saddle
pattern”), and the change takes place. When s omeone suddenly goes from the influence of a lower attractor
field to that of a higher, it is often proclaimed a miracle. The unfortunate
verdict of human experience is that few escape the ener gy fields that
gradually come to dominate the ir behaviors. A currently popular spiritual
program designe