ancelot Law Whyte
and Trigant  Burrow. 1 Whytc  calls  this disease  the
"European dissociation," not because it is peculiar to
Europcan -Amcrican  civilizalion,  bul because it  is
specially  charactcristic  of it. BOlh Whyte and Burrow have givcn a clinical de-
scriplion or diagnosis of thc schism, lhe details of
which necd not detain us herc. ll is simply saying in
"medica. '' Janguagc that we have allowed brain think -
ing to develop and dominate our lives out of ali pro -
ponion to "instinctual,visclom," which wc are allow -
ing to slump  imo alrophy. As a conscquence,  we are
al war wilhin ourselvcs -thc brain dcsiring lhings
which the body docs not want, and the body desiring
lhings which the brain clacs not allow; the brain giv-
ing directions  which  the body  will not follow,  and
1Of L. L. \Vhy1c's  books,  The Ncxt  Deut:lopmcnt  in  Man
(Henry 1 -1011, Ncw York, 19. 13) i quite rcadablc and dccply  in1cr -
c11ing. whilc '/'he U11itnry l'rinriplc in Phy sics nnd Diology (1 lcnry  l-
loll. Ncw York, 19,19) is s1ric1. ly for 1hc sci<:ntific rcadcr. Burrow's
Socio/ IJn. sis of C1mscio11sness  (London,  1927) and Tite Structure
of lnsanity  (Londou,  19, 2)  are  unhappily out of print, bu1  mos1
oí 1hc material is containcd in his Neurosis of Man (Routledge,
London, 19,¡8). Thcre are prob bly  01her scicntis1s "·orking on the
same  li11cs,  hui I :un not awarc  of thcm. THE  WISDOM  OF THE  BODY
the body giving impulses which the brain cannot
un- derstand. In one way or another civilizcd  man  agrees
with  St. Francis  in thinking of the body as
Brother Ass. But even theologians have
rccognizeci that the source  of evil and stupidity
lies not in the physical organism  as a whole, but in
the cut -off, dissociated brain which  they  term  the
"will. " 'When we compare human with animal desire
we find  many  extraordinary  differences. The
animal  tends to cat with his sLOmach, and the
man with his  brain. Whcn the animal's sLOmach is
full, he stops  eating, but the man is never sure
whcn to stop. When  he has eaten as much as his
belly can  cake, he still  feels empty, he still fecls an
urge for further gratifica - tion. This is largely
dueto anxicty, to the knowledge  that a constant
supply of food  is uncenain. There - fore eat as
much as you can whilc you can. lt is due,  also,  to
the knowlcdgc  that,  in an insecure world,  pleasure
is uncertain. Therefore  the immcdiate  pleasure of
eating must be cxploited to  the full, even  though  it
<loes  violence  to the digestion. Human desirc tencls to be insatiable. We are so
anxious for pleasurc that wc can ncvcr get enough
of it. Vi/e stimulate our scnse organs until thcy
bccome  insensitive,  so that  if pleasure  is to
continue  they  must have stronger anc. l stronger
stimulants. In self - defense  the body  gets  ill from
the strain,  but the brain  wants  to go on and on. The  brain  is in pursuit
59 THE  WISDOM  OF INSECURITY
of happiness, and because the brain is much more
concerned about che futurc than the present, it
con- ceives happiness as the guaramee of an
indefinitely  long future of pleasures. Yct the brain
also  knows  that il does not have an indefinitely
long future, so that, to be happy, it must try Lo
crowd ali the pleas - ures of Paradise and eternity
into thc span of a few  ycars. This is why modern civilization is in almost
every  respect  a vicious circle. lt is insatiabl y
hungry  be- cause its way of life condemns it
LOperpetuar frustra - cion. As we have secn, che
root of this frustration is that we live for Lhc
future, and the future is an ab- straction, a rational
inference from experience, which  exists only for
thc brain. The "primary conscious - ness," thc
basic mind which knows reality rather than  ideas
about it, does not know che futurc. lt lives com•
plctcly  in the prcsent, and  perccivcs  nothing more
than what is at this momcnt. Thc ingcnious brain,
howcver,  look s at thaL  part  o[ present  experience
called memory, and by studying it is able to  make
predicLions. Thesc predictions are, relatively, so
ac- curate  and rcliablc  (e. g.,  "cvcryone  will die")
that  the future assumes a high clcgrce  of reality -so
high  that  che prcsenL  loses  its value. But thc future  is still not here,  and cannot
become
a part  of experienced  realiLy  until  it is present. Since  what  we know  of the future  is made  up of
pun:ly. 1bsLract. ind logi<. al  clcmcnts -
inferences,
60 THE  WJSDOM  OF THE  SODY
guesses, deductions -it cannot be eaten, felt,
smelled,  seen, heard, or ochenvise enjoyed. To
pursuc it is to  pursuc a conslantly retreating
phantom,  and  thc faster you chasc it, thc  faster
it runs ahcad. This is  why all the affairs of
civilization are rushcd, why  hardly anyone
enjoys what he has, and is forever  seeking more
and more. Happincss, then, will con - sist, not of
solid and substantial realities, but of such
abstract and superficial things as promises,
hopes,  and assurances. Thus thc  "brainy"  economy  desi gn ed to  produce
this happiness is a fantastic vicious circlc which
must  either manufacture more and more
pleasures or col - lapse -providing a constant
titillation  of the ears,  eyes, and nerve ends with
incessant streams of almost  inescapablc noise and
visual distractions. The per - fect "subject" for
the aims of this economy is the  person who
continuously itches his ears with thc  radio,
preferably using the ponable kind which can  go
with him at all hours and in all places. His cyes
Ait without rcst from television scrcen, to
newspaper,  to magazine, keeping him in a son of
orgasm -with - out-release through a series of
teasing glimpse s of  shiny automobiles, shiny
female bodies, ancl other  sensuous surfaces,
interspersed wilh such restorers of sensitivity -
shock  trcacments -as "human  intcrest'"  shots of
criminals, mangled  bodies, wrecked air- planes,
prize fights, and burning buildings. The lit -
erature or discourse  that goes  along  with  this is
sim-
61 THE  WJSDOM  OF INSECURITY
ilarly  manufactured  to tease without satisfaction,
to replace  every  partía. gratification  with  a new
desire. For this stream  of stimulants  is designed
to pro- duce cravings for more and more of the
same, though  loudcr  and faster,  and thesc
cravings  drive  us to do work  which  is of no
intercst  save  Cor thc moncy  it pays -to buy more
lavish  radios,  sleeker  automobiles,  glossier
magazines,  and bctter  television  sets,  ali of
which  will somehow  conspire  to persuade  us that
happiness  lies just arouncl  the comer  if we will
buy
one more. Despite the immense hubbub


 consequence
of plunder, famine, and pestile nce. When good times came, city
people stuffed themselves, so that overeating became the mark of prosperity and privilege. As privileged classes arose, ruling the cities and taking over the
land, with power over supplies, glu ttony became their habit, while
the masses often knew hunger. The situation grew worse with the
rise in power of the city states in  the Middle Ages, and very much
worse with the Industrial Revolution. Its initial impact brought such disorder that starvation often overtook the cities. As a result of this background of general scarcity, the demand
for food, and ever more food, was the pivot of all the movements of
emancipation which began actively in  the seventeenth century. This
demand was eventually met by the agricultural revolution, the use
of chemical fertilizers, the importation of foreign foods in exchange for industrial products and the refining of cereals, which enabled prolonged storage and easy trans portation. Food production was
thus geared to quantity rather than quality. A century ago, every reasonable person would have praised the
measures taken by the authorities and the industrialists, and blessed the scientists who were increasingly responsible for processed natural foodstuffs, increasing their size and yield, introducing preservation, colouring, conditioners and a soaring list of chemicals. But in a rising spiral of disaster, the arrogant interferences with
nature have become apparent in the recent decades, in a planetary ecological collapse. Excessive applications of chemical fertilizers, with insufficient
or absent organic contributions, have led to a breakdown of some of
the world's most fertile soils, calling for ever higher applications in
a desperate attempt to keep up the yield, and ending in disasters like the American Dust Bowl. More recently it has been found that excess nitrate fertilizers are accumulated in food plants, and, when eaten, are converted to the highly cancerous nitrosamides. The overspill of nitrates into rivers a nd lakes, encouraging the prolific
growth of toxic blue-green algae,  has sterilized many waters with
once abundant fish life. Mineral nitrates are manufactured into proteins by plants, the
source of all animal protein. Too much nitrate abnormally stimulates plant growth, just as too much protein abnormally
stimulates the growth-rate and size of animals. Superficially, this
increase in growth and body size seems nothing but good, although
the loss of taste of the overgrown  vegetables, and the diseases which have increased as human stature has increased in the last decades in
the most prosperous countries, should have warned that something was wrong. In the stampede for quantity, a basic biological principle has
been forgotten, namely, that any pl ant or animal has a specific size
and weight, written down in its gene tic constitution, the result of a
long evolution. Only within this range of size is optimal efficiency or health possible. Insufficiency or excess are bound to levy a physiological price. In the course of evolution, insufficiency has
occurred frequently enough for animals to become equipped with
guidelines of reaction, in restlessness and hunger—plants, alas, cannot move. But excess has been so rare, that neither plants nor animals have any defences against it. Fed to excess, they get bigger
and bigger, the physiological tax increasing proportionately. As the
yield and the size of plants have been artificially stimulated, so the
plant disease and the plant parasites have increased, calling for an ever increasing array of the most poisonous chemicals in an attempt to control the scourge. In animals and men, the excessive stimulation of growth has also been attended by an increasing
recourse to drugs of one kind or another. Just as over-fed rats get bigger and suffer increasingly from
heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, liver disease, so do humans. Athletes appear particularly prone to certain diseases, and their life-span is less than average, not b ecause of the physical strain they
subject themselves to—the body thrives on that—but because of
their thoroughly abnormal and excessive feeding. It is undeniable that chronic malnutrition since the Dark Ages
in Europe, led to a stunting of the population. The over-fed
privileged classes were probably oversized, a factor no doubt in their often brutal domination of the masses. While it is difficult to
define the specific range of the human species—racial difference are
important—it is in all likelihood significantly less than the size attained by the so called 'best fed'  nations, which has increased for a
century as the quantity of animal foods increased in the diet. Plant breeding has been size and calorie conscious. Foods new
to the West, high in calories like the potato, and sugar, joined in the
rush for quantity, much helped by a cheapening of flour by refining,
with the result that, by the clo se of the nineteenth century, the
masses in the industrial countries not only ate to their full, but had become gluttons, overeating daily. The evil of the new abundance in calorie foods lies in the
excessive provision of calories without a sufficiency of the other
essentials, the vitamins and minerals, many of them needed for the
efficient use of the calories. So it is that foods like white flour and sugar, and indeed potato and other preponderantly starchy foods, can only be properly metabolized by tapping into the body's reserves of certain vitamins and minerals. When these reserves run
low, zeal and efficiency fall, and ultimately, disease results. With the new abundance, in a few decades, diseases which had
formerly largely attacked the privileged, became the common affliction of the masses—diseases of the blood vessels, of the heart, strokes, kidney diseases, and the increasing list of diseases
associated with over-weight. While this abundance gives to youth a
greater appearance of health in increased stature, maturity and old age are increasingly associated w ith the functional, degenerating diseases, of which cancer and heart disease now claims the largest
number of victims. But the young are also becoming affected by such disease. Although hygiene overcame premature death due to infections,
and so increased the life-span from the beginning of the nineteenth
century, the virus diseases have in creased steadily. The virus barely
deserves the designation of being alive: it is no more than a minute cluster of protein molecules, ve ry closely related to the DNA and
RNA proteins manufactured by the genes in the cells of all plants
and animals. There is increasi ng evidence that viruses can arise
within the body, owing to faulty manufacture of RNA by the genes. Once manufactured, they continue replicating their kind by forcing the genes of other cells to manufacture the mistake that brought them into being, so that viruses assume an apparent independence. The demarcation between unnatura l virus and natural gene is
becoming all the more blurred, as the protein processes of the cell are unravelled. It may well turn out that viruses are the result of faulty protein metabolism, which could mean faulty protein feeding. It is certainly striking that as the amount of high protein animal
foods has increased in the diet of the prosperous communities, so
have the virus diseases. Some cancers are now suspected of being virus induced. Although the eye is easily deceived by size, assuming that large
size is the right size, many people are now sensing the deception. This illusion is a part of the quantity bias of quantity-geared,
materialistic industrial civilizati on. Once sensitivity is restored,
there is an inherent aversion to the oversized, just as the oversized
flowers produced by horticulturists are felt by the more sensitive to be vulgar and monstrous. There is a 'feel' about the large fruits and vegetables which is wrong. Perhaps those closer to the soil have
retained something of this sensitivity, for the more canny farmers do
not use chemicals or insecticides on the crops they will consume themselves. More people are realizing that the risk of a maggot is preferable to an invisible puff of arsenic. Until the full momentum of the industrial revolution was felt in
the furthest lands, the varieties of human dietary were infinite. Some
were no doubt as deviant as the modern diet, but many others were
more humanly compatible. In many parts of the world, especially in the more congenial and benevolen t environments, human beings
abandoned the ways acquired in the Ice Ages for patterns of life closer to the human norm, in soil-respecting farming communities
and in peaceful relationship with their neighbours. This was largely
the case in India before the popul ation stampede and nutritional
failures of modern times, in the Polynesian islands, among the native tribes of South America. Possibly these more gentle and humane peoples escaped the worst onslaught of the Ice Ages; the
full anger against nature seems to be  particular to the more Northern
peoples, in Europe as in the Far East, and it is these peoples,
particularly the Europeans, who are responsible for what has become an unwhole, and a denaturing planetary civilization. It is this planetary influence wh ich is so distressing, for the few
remaining instances of a more humanizing situation are being
rapidly assaulted. Soon, there will be no evidence left of a once
happier and fairer condition. The de leterious influence of the West
on the more benign peoples of the earth, in the guise of colonialism, of warfare, of alcoholism, of comme rcial exploitation, of disease, is
well known. What is as yet not realized, is that the gluttony of the West, which may well have fed its  restlessness and anger, and so
prompted its planetary dominance, h as been largely paid for by the
misappropriation of planetary resources and the further impoverishment of the poorer peoples of the earth. 10


 obvious they had extensive knowledge about healt h and had already worked with people in a similar
situation to mine, with improvements. If I didn’t like the way it was wor king, I could always go back to the way I was eating now. I
didn’t have anything to lose by cutting out fats except my illness. There wasn’t really much of a decision left to make. I started eliminating fat from my diet that very day, and I began exp eriencing some very heavy elimination. I didn’t eat any
overt fats for six months, because I didn’t know about 80/10/10, and I thought the idea was to eat as little fat as possible, so I did. This meant no avocado, olives, or durian, and of course no nuts or seeds. Also, I didn’t know about Doug’s V egSource board, so I went back to eating a ra w diet with fat in it. The elimination slowed
way down. I ate that way for the next six months, even though I felt terr ible again, until I saw Doug speak at the Living Light House
in Santa Monica. I got to ask him some questions, which he was very willin g to answer, and I cut the fat again. Except this time I ate
an 811  diet, which meant that I ate a little fat once in a while. I had so many wonderful improvements, but I still didn’t have the full  health picture. So I saved up a little cash and had a
private consultation with Dr. Graham. During the consultation, we sa t down face to face within two feet of each other. This was
really helpful to me, because I got a sense of what he was all about. I found a  genuine, caring individual who was absolutely
interested in improving my health. It was hard to imagine what he woul d come up with to help me, because I was following the diet
to a T. At the time, I thought that was what it was all about. What I didn’t realize, is that diet is only one part of a healthy lifes tyle, and that you’re only as strong as your weakest link. Those were only words to me at the time, but after he found an aspect of my lif e that needed some work and I worked on it, my
health improved dramatically. That means I felt better. What greate r gift could anyone give to me? I felt more energy, and I enjoyed
living more. That’s the best gift you can get! One of the topics we covered in the consultation was Doug’s sports cam p, called Health and Fitness W eek. He thought it was
important for me to attend, and he asked me what he could do to make it possible. I  didn’t see how I could ever work it out at the
time, because I had just spent all my extra money on this consultation, a nd I had so little time. But I took a risk, because it seemed
like I needed so much to happen. I told him all the conditions it would take to make it  possible for me to come, and he helped me
work it all out! I was just amazed by the honesty, sincerity, knowledge, and de dication of this person standing right in front of me,
along with his sincere desire to help me with my personal health issu es. I attended the sports camp, and it was the best thing I could have done. It was s o helpful and beneficial that I ended up signing
up for the following year’s sports camp before I left. This was the jump-start I needed to get headed down the road to true health. If
you can figure out any way to make the next camp, I recommend that you do it, wh atever it takes! I’ve been on the 80/10/10  diet for a year now and have had the most remarkable success with it! I ju st want to share this with
people. When you start to feel really good after not feeling so good for a long tim e, you want to let other people know that they can
feel better, too. People sometimes ask me what I typically eat in a day, so I will share it w ith you. I usually eat three meals a day, once in a
while only two. I normally eat my breakfast at around 10 a.m. Yesterday (Apri l 2005), I ate 12 ounces of blueberries, 8 ounces of
raspberries, 8 ounces of boysenberries, and about 4 green baskets of strawberrie s. I ate lunch at 2:30 p.m., which consisted of 6
cherimoyas and 4 capotes. I ate supper at 7:30 p.m.—about 8 pickling cucum bers, 1½ heads of red butter lettuce, about 5 lbs. of
tomatoes, and a couple of celery stalks. Today as I write, it’s 10:30 a.m. After I do my last set of 100 stomach crunches an d maybe some push-ups, I will eat
breakfast, which will be 12 ounces of blueberries and about 4 or 5 basket s of strawberries. If I’m still hungry, I’ll eat a papaya. For
lunch I will eat at least 4 or 5 more cherimoyas, because I already fel t them and they are perfectly ripe! I’ll also eat some capotes
and 2 or 3 mangos. I’ll probably have a similar supper, but I might hav e some avocado if it ripens up or some sugar snap peas,
depending on how I feel at suppertime and what exercise I’ve done today. The first benefit I noticed from 80/10/10  was that I didn’t feel spacey or bloated when I ate sweet fruit. That  was a great relief
to me, because I loved to eat sweet fruits, but getting bloated and spacey made  it very difficult to work, exercise, or focus on
projects. The next amazing benefit I experienced was that I started t o be able to exercise without all the pain and discomfort that
had made it next to impossible for me to exercise more than one day a week. The pa in has improved to the point now that I can
exercise every day, which is wonderful, because I get a lot of very good bene fits from exercising. The third improvement was that I
didn’t need to eat late at night in order to fall asleep. This helped me not  to wake up as groggy and out of it in the morning. Now I
can get going earlier and start doing things I need to do, like work or exercis e or take care of the kids. I’ve had other side benefits,
like my body getting more toned and looking better. Also, being stronger overall  is nice, too. It’s hard to explain how much better my life is now as compared to the w ay it was before I was following 811. It’s like I’m a
new person who is not horribly sick with candida and whatever other problems I  might have had. Not only has my life improved tremendously, but I continue to get better daily. This is fantastic beyon d anything I could have imagined the day I first heard Doug
and Rozi speak about food during the Raw Passion event. Not only have these two people dedicated their lives to sharing health wi th as many people as possible, but they have also
identified some of the most important keys to achieving and maintaining  ideal health. If anyone is interested in health, they should start following the 811  way of life. I can’t imagine anything that a person could
possibly do that would be anywhere near as important—or as helpful. 811  is a healthy way to live life, and there’s so much more to
it than just diet. Food is only one part of the whole picture of health. One of the things that really impressed me about the 811  lifestyle is that emotional stability is considered just as importan t as
diet or any other factor of healthful living. Emotional work has been the m ain focus of my life for the last 35 years. When I heard
Rozi explain that we need to feel all our feelings no matter what they  are, I realized that she understood feelings in the same way I
did, and I consider feelings to be what I know most about in the world. So there you have it: Doug and Rozi have developed a system of living that i ncorporates all of the important factors to achieve
optimal health for human beings on this planet. I plan on following this li festyle and learning more and more about myself and about
health every day. I wish everyone who reads my story the best of luck on the ir path to better health. Laurie Masters, San Jose, California
During my first five or so years of eating a substantially raw diet, I  blew through at least one 32-ounce bottle of flax oil each
month. I ate an avocado most every day and night, and I ate plenty of prepared nut  and seed dishes. For about a year, I brought an
almond/raisin torte (with my special lemon-date-spearmint frostin g) to every raw potluck. Like my raw friends, I was eating a ton of fat and didn’t know it. I thought I wa s eating a fantastically healthful diet. I ate
dishes like raw granola, oat groats blended with soaked almonds, or bananas and al mond butter for breakfast. These probably
averaged 250 fat calories. Lunch was usually a salad with one avocado (and t hat addictive lemon/oil/Bragg/garlic dressing). Between my lunch and dinner salads, I would down


 130 and below) that only their r eligion is the “right”
one. Calibration Levels of Some T eachers and W ritings in the 600s
T eachers
Abhinavagupta 655
Aurobindo 605
Karmapa 630
Kasyapa 695
Lao-tzu 610
Magdebur g 640
Muktananda 655
Satchidananda 605
T owles, J. 640
V ivekananda 610W ritings
Abhinavagupta 655
A Course in Miracles (workbook) 600
Aggadah 645
Genesis (Lamsa Bible) 660
Gospel of St. Luke 699
Gospel of St. Thomas 660
Kabbalah 605
Midrash 665
New T estament (King James) 640
Psalms (Lamsa Bible) 650
T eachings of Lao-tzu 610
V ijnana Bhairava T antra 635
Calibration Levels of Some T eachers and W ritings in the 700s
T eachers
Bodhidharma 795
Charya, Adi Sankara 740
de León of Granada, Moses 720
DÐgen 740
Eckhart, Meister 705
Gandhi, Mahatma 760
Maharaj, Nisar gadatta 720
Maharshi, Ramana 720
Patanjali 715
Plotinus1 730Shankara 710
T eresa of Ávila, St. 715
T eresa, Mother 710
W ritings
The Cloud of Unknowing 705
Diamond Sutra 700
Heart Sutra 780
Koran 700
Lotus Sutra 780
New T estament (King James, minus Revelation) 790
Ramayana 810
Rig V eda 705
Y oga Sutras (Patanjali) 740
Zen teachings (Bodhidharma) 795
Calibration Levels of Some T eachers and W ritings at 850+
Bhagavad Gita 910
Lamsa Bible (minus Revelation and Old T estament,
except Genesis, Psalms, Proverbs)880
Nicene Creed 895
Upanishads 970
V edas 970
Zen teachings (Huang Po)2 850
Zohar 905SPIRITUAL PRACTICES AND EXPERIENCES
Consciousness calibration yields a list of representative spiritual practices
and experiences that are integrous and therefore beneficial. All of these
denote devotion  and are common to genuine religions. By in tention, the
devotee sanctifies both self and others, as well as places of worship. Because of intention, all styles of blessing and prayer calibrate over 500,
and their collective ef fect can immeasurably impact the over all level of
collective human consciousness. Calibration levels do not indicate that one level is “better” than another
but only  dif ferent, analogous to the selection of clubs when playing golf,
which d epends on whether one is going to putt, chip, or drive. Therefore,
ef ficacy is the result of intention and not just a technique in itself. Many
spiritual students have explored a variety of these app roaches and report
pragmatic and experiential bene fit. Simply reading the lists gives assurance
that one is headed in the right direction. Practices
Aum (mantra) 210
Baptism 500
Bathing in the Ganges 540
Confirmation 500
Devotional acts 540
Devotional burning of incense 540
Genuflection 540
Golden Rule 405
Gregorian chants 595
Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) 390
Japa 515
Jesus Prayer 525
Kirtan 250
Kneeling to pray 540Last Rite 500
Lord’ s Prayer, The (traditional) 650
Om (pronounced om as in loan) 740
Om Mani Padme Hum 700
Om Namah Shivaya 630
Prayerful hand clasp 540
Prayer of Jabez 310
Prayer of St. Francis 580
Random Acts of Kindness 350
Saying the Rosary 515
“Shanti Shanti Shanti” 650
Surrender (at depth) one’ s will to God 850
Surrender the world to God 535
T urning prayer wheels 540
T welve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous 540
T ranscendental Meditation 295
V isualization (healing) 485
W ailing W all 540
W alking the Labyrinth 503
What is held in mind tends to manifest 505
Experiences
Buddha-nature 1,000
Christ Consciousness 1,000
The Supreme 1,000
Near -death experience 520+
Satori 585Enlightenment 600+
Christian Communion 700
Passover 495
Dur ga Puja festival 480
Ramadan 495
Sweat-lodge ceremony 560
Smudging 520
The see ker is advised to avoid exploring spiritual experiences that
calibrate below the critical line of integrity (200), even if merely out of
curiosity. Just because something is labelled “spiritual” does no t mean it is
trustworthy and, in fact, may be a major distraction. For example, the
“occult” calibrates at 135–18 5, divination game boards at 175, and
transmediumship at 190. The application of spiritual principles to many human dilemmas is
widely acknow ledged as ef ficacious, even when there is no original
conscious motivation, such as the hopeless alcoholic who, after being
ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings by the judge,
miraculously rec overs and becomes an inspiration to others by practicing
the s piritual principles of “carry ing the message to others”—that is, sharing
rather than proselytizing. Spiritual integrity manifests as hope, faith, charity, and inspiring others
by e xample. Integrous spiritual or ganizations that have an open  door grow
by attraction rather than by promotion, and they are devoid of dogma. Reliance on the power of the field is indicated by the group exp erience that
people “get it by osmosis” instead of by intellectualization. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
1Plotinus’ s availa ble writings, as listed in the Great Books of the W estern
W orld, calibrate at 503. Plotinus himself in later life calibrated at 730. 2The Zen  teachin gs of Huang Po  are problematic in that they describe the
Pathway of Negation and mistak enly declare the V oid State (cal. 850) as the
Ultimate Condit ion of Buddhahood (cal. 1,000). Subsequent to his classicalsermons about the V oid, he himself transcended the limitation and
eventually reached consciousness level 960 later in life. Therefore, negate
only the linear, but do not negate the nonlinear Reality of Love. Negate only
special, limited personal attachment, which is a limiting emotionality. Divine L ove is a universal quality and a nonlinear context that is innate as
the Radiance of the overall context.G L O S S A R Y
Attractor pattern:  See Ener gy field. Chaos theory:  The science of pr ocess  as opposed to state. This theory
originates in the discovery of pa tterns within a condition of unpr edictability. The view it pro poses discerns global possibilities rather than local events,
and enta ils a topologic system using patterns and shapes to visualize the
intrinsic form of a complex system, which, though locally unpredictable, is
globally stable. Chaos theory recognizes the capacity of a complex system
to simultaneously give rise to both turbulence and coherence. In the late 1800s, Jules Henri Po incaré noted that Newtonian physics was
mathematically accurate if the interaction studied was between  two bodies
only, but that t he addition of a third element made Newton’ s equations
unreliable—only approximations could be obtained. This nonlinearity
implied that any system over time could, by feedback and repetition,
become unpredi ctable. Lorenz’ s  1963 article, “Deterministic Nonperiodic
Flow,” provided a new paradigm of science, termed chaos theory  by James
Y orke a nd T ien-Y ien Li in th eir famous paper “Period Three Implies
Chaos.” Chaos theory encompasses such subjects as period doubling,
iteration, fractal s, and bifurcation, and recognizes that within f inite space,
there are  an infinite number of dimensions. The first meeting on Chaos at
the New  Y ork Academy of Scie nce was in 1977, and in 1986, t he academy
had its first meeting on chaos theory in medicine and biology. Consciousness:  C onsciousness  is the irreduci ble substrate of existence,
formless yet inclusive of all form. It is infinite, with no beginning and no
end. The field of consciousness, in other terminology, is called the Buddha-
nature o r the Mind of God. It


 not seen for a long time,
and who then met in the street, they did not recognize me! I ascend
on top of success! I started my new life... But this I was little. Now I knew I could weigh it
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164as much as I need, I can lose weight almost to
each plate. My ultimate goal was a mark of 60 kilograms. Now, when I knew exactly what to do to effectively
weight loss, lose 20 more pounds proved to be much
easier than ever before. It took another four months, and I reached my
goal! Today my weight - 58 pounds, I could easily support him
and I feel wonderful. Now I live exactly the life that we dream about - life
beautiful and confident woman! Myth of the eighth. Many people believe that dry fasting can cure any
incurable diseases and even cancer, the fourth stage. Dry fasting is very effective treatment can cure a variety of
disease, especially in the initial stages. But even this method has
its indications, contraindications, and limit their opportunities. Particularly well to this method in inflammatory processes. Short dry fasting can be successfully used
not only in the treatment of colds, but also in all
when there is inflammation of any internal organ
(And outside too). Dry hunger successfully treats boils on
skin, inner ear inflammation, inflammation of the periosteum, with
injuries, bruises, fractures, concussions, suppuration, colds,
infections. Starvation can not heal broken bones, but the swelling
and inflammation of water scarcity will be held as quickly as possible. After a concussion should be mandatory preventive
dry starvation. After a concussion is a brain edema
tissue - from him and all the trouble. The quicker stops swelling,
the faster the recovery will come. Prolonged dry
Hunger is very effective in such severe diseases as
rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, arthrosis deformans
and many others. It is well absorbed ovarian cysts disappear
benign tumors. The most annoying that this method of appeal, when all
modern methods of treatment have been exhausted. During his grasp, as
drowning man a straw. The organism is fully poisoned
chemistry, hormones and radiation. All natural defenses
body completely overwhelmed and paralyzed and the sick person
sense of hopelessness is beginning to pass the maximum period of fasting
without prior purification and training of the body. That such
cases necessarily be serious complications and death
outcomes. Me in my practice had to deal with such
cases. Yes, I have been cured of cancer cases in the initial stage,
but these people took a few courses of dry fasting, left
cities to live in nature and completely change your lifestyle, here
they have good results. All other patients with an oncologist who
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165went chemotherapy, radiation, which starve yourself
at home, could only prolong life and its quality. All
needs to be done on time. Of course, during fasting may die, but
not from starvation, but from the fact that our body is overfed to failure
scored all sorts of filth, and they begin to move. During
fasting may die terminally ill man, but he will die
not from starvation, but from his illness. Similarly, he could die
after a meal that is so hearty meal after tens of thousands die
patients with heart disease. You can die from their own
stupidity, if not to observe fasting method (a little bit, but still
is there) and, especially when exiting from fasting (if horrible). But what is here then self-starvation? Starvation - that's life! But our stupidity and limited
guaranteed to lead us to death. Myth of the ninth. Many people write that during the dry fasting should be done
enema of salt water and rinse your mouth with water, it helps
passage of dry starvation. During a total (wet), fasting the body is completely
reconstructed on endogenous food, and if it's time to start
drink juice, eat an apple, etc., then this unique mechanism
completely broken, the same thing happens with dry fasting. During dry fasting the cells of our bodies begin to
develop its own high-quality water from its own internal
reserves, and in contact with water in the mouth or intestine, these
mechanisms are broken. All of my patients who tried
rinse your mouth with water, they say that first becomes so well
but then increased dryness several times, and go through starvation
virtually impossible. As well as an enema of salt, the effect
no purification, but the thirst is provoked, and pass the full
dry limotherapy virtually impossible. That swim
and pour cold water at the end of fasting is sometimes possible. But if hunger is tolerable and evenly, then it is better not
do. Health - it is work, work - is patience, patience - this suffering,
suffering - the cleansing and purification - it's great! " DRY IN MEDICAL Starvation
VARY SM Zabol Wani Hl
Undeniable effectiveness of different types of fasting, but in this
chapter, I want to tell you about those diseases in which the most
effectively dry starvation. Disease - this is the way in which nature shows that
your body is full of toxic substances and the internal
poisons. 166
166Our ancestors hundreds of years eating the same food until
rapid technological advances of the twentieth century has not changed
content products. Organism because of some half a century to reorganize
not able to. Because he does not understand preservatives
can be stored for long products, and food additives,
that make it more tasty and sold. However, with regard to
drugs: they are the active ingredient, relieves,
about 10%, the rest - ballast substances that
not digested and not wanted by the body somewhere, right
to the intercellular substance, postponed. Whether it reacts
something to this body? Of course - diseases. Typical disease
in Europe is the flu. I too went to the side, if it became
describe in detail the multiple causes of influenza. The fact is
that nature uses heat to
burn garbage that has accumulated in the body, using special
secretions or by the formation of the Cathars. Disease called
influenza, and a predisposition to it, there are people who
eating too much and mostly food that promote
formation of toxins, such as meat. Characteristically, the so-called
good times, when the European population is well nourished,
Pandemic flu is almost stopped, and during the lean years
After the war, the disease has completely disappeared. in those years in the country,
in which hunger has reached huge proportions and it lasted a very
long raged among the weakened population, particularly in winter,
various epidemics, whereas influenza has completely disappeared. This
because people do not poison themselves with meat and too much
quantity of food, and the process of withdrawal of poisons not represent a large
problem for the organism. Despite the fact that populations of rare
exception, held foggy, rainy, windy autumn and winter
with a temperature close to zero, in unheated rooms, influenza
was not! Thus, poor nutrition is less harmful
than ample! Here's the explanation. The body is intoxicated, authorities
struggling to cope with "garbage", the immunity falls - and in the body
begin to breed germs and bacteria. Physio-Naturopath
Chuprun argues that in this case is not blatantly microorganisms
grab our body and the body itself as it "invites" them
to itself. For what? To pathogenic microorganisms "ate" our Slags
which the body does not know what to do. Then turn on the team, "temperature". and the body begins
expel zasidevshihsya "guests". The immune system throws in the course of
secret weapon, such as macrophages. and a night or two body
regaining the lost balance. If this process was applied
with pills, then they will become additional slag, which are so
and settle into not had time to cleanse the body. But people do
so from year to year. At the immunity appears drug dependence, it becomes
"Lazy", and should be - like a pack of hungry wolves. Hunger, you
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167help show the nature of the decay products and poisons that have accumulated
in your body. It is known to every wild animal: when animals
sick, they did not touch the food. Anyone notice
that the disease is no appetite. So inherent nature. The human body is surprisingly long cost small
amount of food, switching primarily to food, air
and water. On the other hand, the body seems unable to
cope with the problem of withdrawal from the body in the normal way
too much food, how it would not have tried. If we overeat
then neustranyaemye poisons deposited in the body, and the body is forced to
cleared by the Cathars and fever. As a result of dry fasting is an active cleansing
organism from its own internal waste - an organism like
feeds on itself. Fasting - a universal and comprehensive
method, that it has almost nothing to add. During the absolute
fasting self-dissolution (autolysis) of dead cells and protein
mass increases sharply, and in this case there is no need for assistance
microbes and viruses. Therefore, they are removed by the body,
which includes the mechanisms of immune protection. Fasting DRY WITH ACUTE Zabol Vania
First of all, clarify - what is the disease


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TIBETAN VRINE ANALYSIS
Urinalysis
Just as one looks into a mirror and you see an image, so does a
qualified physician look into a patient's urine and from this see the
disorders of a patient. Information is provided by H.H. Dalai Lama's personal physician. I sincerely hope this information will help you too. The discussion of urinalysis has many parts: preparation for urinalysis, the
proper time for observation, the vessel or cup in which the urine is placed
for diagnosis, and the manner in which the coloration changes due to
passing through the various organs. Also, there are four general types of
urinalysis: or ordinary persons without any major illness, of persons with
disorders, or persons of the verge of death, and of persons affected by
spirits. Thus, altogether there are eight general subtopics. ~1}.. PR£PARAT10N FOR VRlNALYSlS
If a patient's urine is to be diagnosed in the morning,
then the night before there are certain types of behavior that
should be followed. One should avoid any strong tea as well
as very much yogurt or any beer or alcohol. The reason for
this is that taking any of these substances affects the coloring
and so forth of the urine, making it difficult for diagnosis. Furthermore, during the night preceding urine diagnosis,
one should not go without liquid altogether, such that the following
morning one is extremely thirsty. In other words, just be normal,
take sufficient liquids so you are not terribly thirsty. One should not have sexual intercourse the night prior to diagnosis. Nor should one stay awake at night; get a good night's sleep. One should also not go to excess in moving about or in trying
to stay in just one position. Nor should one allow a great deal
of tension or a great deal of thinking. Do not go to any excess prior to diagnosis. 58 With respect to the urine to be diagnosed,
it should not be that from urinating during the time before four or five
in the morning; since urination at such a time is affected strongly by
the food taken the previous meal, it is not good for diagnosis. One should use the urine that builds up in the hours around four or
five in the morning. If one does not urinate during the night, then do
not collect the first half of the urination when you rise;
use only the later half.../ 2}. TlM£ FOR VRfNAl VSlS
There are three aspects of urinalysis:
color, vapor arising from the urine,
and the albumin which is a cloud like substance in the urine. The time for such diagnosis is after dawn.../ 3}.. TH£ V£SS£l
The vessel in which the urine is to be placed is most often a
white porcelain cup which is such that its color will not affect
the appearance of the color of the urine. Otherwise, an aluminum pot can be used. One should not use vessels that color the urine, such as clay,
copper, brass, or any other colored pot; they make the urine
appear to have another color, and it will be difficult to tell what
the natural color of the urine is. A white cup is best and not one with a pattern in it. If it is impossible to get one of these three appropriate types,
one can line another type with a piece of white paper.../ 4}.. COlORATlO}I CHANG£5
With respect to variations in the urine, the fourth topic, the text
speaks first of the digestive process. In the stomach, food is
differentiated or separated into a nutritious or more subtle part
and a less nutritious or unrefined part. The refined or better
part goes into the blood. The more wasteful product goes into
the intestines. In the intestines it is divided in two, that is, into
solid and liquid parts. The liquid portion of this waste goes
from the intestines to the urinary bladder. 59 With regard to the separation in the stomach, the finer or more
nutritious part goes to the liver. Within this, there is another
separation between the more nutritious and the less, with the
more nutritious part becoming blood and the less nutritious
going to the gall bladder. In the gall bladder there is further
separation, the finer substance becoming lymph. The more wasteful part become albumin, the cloud-like
substance which appears in the urine; the albumin goes
together with the urine and accumulates in the urinary bladder. It is because of this separation in the process of digestion that
food which has been ingested affects or transforms the color
of the urine. The albumin, or cloud-like substance, basically appears in
urine due to blood and bile problems. Therefore, the condition
of the body in terms of heat and cold is indicated in the urine. Just as in the market place when a merchant has something
illegal to sell and does not actually reveal it, holding it under a
garment, describe it and from that you can tell what he has
hidden, so from the urine it is possible to tell the types of
disorder or lack thereof in a person's body. v' ;}.. TH£ VRTN£ OF H£Al THY PERSONS
If one looks at the urine of a healthy person, one finds that its
color is more or less the bright, cheerful yellow of the butter
on top of the milk from a "dri", the female counterpart of the
yak [yak only being males]. The odor is like that of the cream
that rises to the surface of milk. The vapor is neither terribly
strong or weak, neither big or small, and the duration of the
vapor-before the urine gets cooler and vapor stops-is neither
terribly long or short. The bubbles or froth are nothing
spectacular- neither terribly long or short, big or small, rather
moderate froth on top of the urine. The albumin, for a healthy person, is simply mixed up together
with the urine, pervading it. Also, for a healthy person there is
not much chyle {the oily substance normally rising to the
surface of the urine}; just a little bit comes to the surface. As the vapor gradually vanishes, one finds that a little darker
color converges toward the center of the cup of urine, just as
breath on a mirror gradually converges in the center and
disappears. After the urine has cooled off, its color is light,
clear, and yellowish; it is transparent. 60 v" 6}. TH£ VRlN£ Of' DlS£AS£D 1'£RSONS
Concerning the urine of persons with disorders,
there are two aspects to the discussion:
general and specific diseased urine. 7}. DlAGNOSlNG VRlN£
There are three times for diagnosing the urine:
when it is hot, then when it is lukewarm,
and finally when it is completely cooled off. There are three times for diagnosing the urine:
when it is hot, then when it is lukewarm, and finally when it is
completely cooled off. There are nine types of diagnosis that are broken down into
three groups relative to the three times. First, when the urine is
hot, one checks the color, the vapor, the odor, and the type of
bubbles or froth. When it is lukewarm, one checks the cloud
like albumin and the oily chyle that rises to the top. When the urine is cooled off completely, one checks the time
of the variation of the color, then how it changes, and finally
postponed analysis. When patients are not able to come
themselves, their urine is sent, in Tibet by yak,
in India by other means. It is rather old by the time it arrives,
and so the doctor checks anything, but with a different type of
diagnosis, because the urine the older. This is called "postponed analysis". We return to the first of the nine, the color,
which is investigated when the urine is still quite hot. The urine of a person with a wind ailment ailment is like water
from a mountain spring, light blue in color and transparent. A bile disorder will manifest in the urine as a more yellow,
perhaps even an orangish, color. If the urine is very pale, or
whitish, this indicates a phlegm disorder. Question: Is there a difference between the blueness of the
urine or wind disorder and the paleness of a phlegm disorder? Answer: The urine of a person with a phlegm disorder is a bit
milky as if someone took milk and dropped it into the urine;
you cannot see through it. For the wind disorder it is very
clear, like mountain spring water. 61 If the urine is red, it indicates a blood disorder. If


 anatomy, and it is directly con-
nected with Vortex “C” in the throat. Vortexes
one in either knee. These Psychic Vortexes revolve at great speed. When all are revolving
at high speed and at the same rate of speed the body is in perfect health. When one or more of them slow down, old age, loss of power, and senil- ity wet in,
   RITE NUMBER ONE
“The first Rite,” continued the Colonel, “is a simple one. It
is for the express purpose of speeding up the Vortexes. When
we were children we used it in our play. It is this: Stand erect
with arms outstretched, horizontal with the shoulders. Now
spin around until you become slightly dizzy. There is only one
caution: you must turn from left to right. In other words, if
you were to place a clock or watch on the floor face up, you
would turn in the same way the hands are moving. “At first the average adult will only be able to spin around
about a half-dozen times until he becomes dizzy enough to
want to sit or lie down. That is just what he should do, too. That’s what I did. To begin with, practice this Rite only to the
point of slight dizziness. As time passes and your Vortexes
become more rapid in movement through this and other Rites,
you will be able to practice it to a greater extent. “When I was in India it amazed me to see the Maulawiyah,
or as they are more commonly known, the Whirling Dervishes,
almost unceasingly spin around and around in a religious
frenzy. Rite Number One recalled to my attention two things
in connection with this practice. The first was that these
Whirling Dervishes always spun in one direction—from left to
right, clockwise. The second was the virility of the old men;
they were strong, hearty, and robust. Far more so than most
men of their age. “When I spoke to one of the Lamas about this he informed
me that while this whirling movement of the Dervishes did
have a very beneficial effect, yet it also had a devastating one. It seems that a long siege of whirling stimulates into great
activity Vortexes ‘A,’ ‘B,’ and ‘E.’ These three have a stim-
ulating effect on the other two— ‘C’ and ‘D.’ But due to
excessive leg action the Vortexes in the knees—'E’ and ‘G’—
are over-stimulated and finally so exhausted that the building
up of the Vital Forces along with this tearing down causes the
participants to experience a kind of ‘psychic jag’ which they
mistake for something spiritual, or at least religious. “However,” continued the Colonel, “we do not carry the
whirling exercise to excess. While the Whirling Dervishes may
spin around hundreds of times, we find that greater benefit is
obtained by restricting it to about a dozen or so times, enough
so that Rite Number One can stimulate all the Vortexes to
action.”

  Rite No.2

—10—RITE NUMBER TWO
“Like Rite Number One,” continued the Colonel, “this second
one is for further stimulating to action the Seven Vortexes. It is even simpler than the first one. In Rite Number Two one
first lies flat on his back on the floor or on the bed. If prac-
ticed on the floor one should use a rug or blanket under him,
folded several times in order that the body will not come into
contact with the cold floor. The Lamas have what might be
called in English a ‘prayer rug.’ It is about two feet wide and
fully six feet long. It is fairly thick and is made from wool and
akind of vegetable fibre. It is solely for the purpose of insula-
tion, and so has no other value. Nevertheless, to the Lamas
everything is of a religious nature, hence their name for these
mats—‘prayer rugs.’
“As I said, one should lie full length on his ‘prayer rug,’ or
bed. Then place the hands flat down alongside the hips. Fingers should be kept close together with the finger-tips of
each hand turned slightly toward one another. The feet are
then raised until the legs are straight up. If possible, let the
feet extend back a bit over the body, toward the head; but do
not Jet the knees bend. Then, slowly lower the feet to the floor
and for a moment allow all muscles to relax. Then perform this
Rite all over again. “One of the Lamas told me that when he first attempted to
practice this simple Rite he was so old, weak, and decrepit that
he couldn’t possibly lift up both legs. Therefore he started out
by lifting the thighs until the knees were straight up, letting
the feet hang down. Little by little, however, he was able to
straighten out his legs until at the end of three months he
could raise them straight with perfect ease. “T marveled at this particular Lama,” said the Colonel,
“when he told me this. He was then a perfect picture of health
and youth, although I knew he was many years older than I. For the sheer joy of exerting himself he used to carry a pack
of vegetables weighing fully a hundred pounds on his back,
from the garden to the Lamasery, several hundred feet above. He took his time but never stopped once on the way up, and
when he would arrive he didn’t seem to be experiencing the
slightest bit of fatigue. I marveled greatly at this, for the
first time 1 started up with him, I had to stop at least a dozen
times. Later I was able to do it easily without my cane and
with never a stop, but that is another story.”
—u—
Rite No.3
    —n—RITE NUMBER THREE
“The third Rite should be practiced immediately after prac-
ticing Rite Number Two. It, too, is a very simple one. All one
needs to do is to kneel on his ‘prayer rug,’ place his hands on
his thighs, and lean forward as far as possible with the head
inclined so that the chin rests on the chest. Now lean back-
ward as far as possible; at the same time the head should be
lifted and thrown back as far as it will go. Then bring the
head up along with the body. Lean forward again and start
the rite all over. This Rite is very effective in speeding up
Vortexes ‘E,’ ‘D,’ and ‘C’; especially ‘E.’
“I have seen more than 200 Lamas perform this Rite to-
gether. In order to turn their attention within, they closed
their eyes. In this way they would not become confused by
what others were doing and thus have their attention diverted. “The Lamas, more than two and a half millenniums ago, dis-
covered that all good things come from within. They discovered
that every worthwhile thing must have its origin within the
individual. This is something that the Occidental has never
been able to understand and comprehend. He thinks, as | did,
that all worthwhile things must come from the outside world. “The Lamas, especially those at this particular Lamasery,
are performing a great work for the world. It is performed,
however, on the astral plane. This plane, from which they
assist mankind in all quarters of the globe, is high enough
above the vibrations of the world to be a powerful focal point
where much can be accomplished with little loss of effort. “Some day the world will awaken in amazement to what the
unseen forces—the Forces of Good—have been doing for the
masses. We who take ourselves in hand and make new crea-
tures of ourselves in every imaginable way, each is doing a
marvelous work for mankind everywhere. Already the efforts
of these advanced individuals are being welded together into
One Irresistible Power. A new day is dawning for the world—
it is already here. But it is only through individuals like the
Lamas, and you and me that the world can possibly be helped. “Most of mankind, and that includes those in the most en-
lightened countries, like America and England, is still in the
darkest of the Dark Ages. However, they are being prepared
for better and more glorious things, and as fast as they can be
initiated into the higher life, just that fast will the world be
made a better place in which to live.”
—B—

  Rite No.4

—4—RITE NUMBER FOUR
“Now for Rite Number Four,” said the Colonel. ‘The first
time I tried this it seemed very difficult, but after a week it
was as simple to do as any of the others. “Sit on the ‘prayer rug’ with the feet stretched out in front. Then place the hands alongside the body. Now raise the body
and bend the knees so that the legs, from the knees down, are
practically straight up and down. The arms, too, will be
straight up and down while the body, from the shoulders to the
knees, will be horizontal. Before pushing the body to a hor-
izontal position the chin should be well down on


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69 Living W ithout Enemies
70 Living a God-Realized Life
71 Living W ithout Sickness
72 Living with A we and Acceptance
73 Living in Heaven’ s Net
74 Living with No Fear of Death
75 Living by Demanding Little
76 Living by Bending
77 Living by Of fering the Surplus
78 Living like W ater
79 Living W ithout Resentments80 Living Y our Own Utopia
81 Living W ithout Accumulating
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
OceanofPDF.comPreface
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their
minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw
Change Your Thoughts—Chang e Your Life is the end product of my
yearlong journey of research, contemplation, and application of the Tao Te
Ching, a book of wisdom that’s been translated more than any volume in
the world, with the exception of the Bible. Many scholars consider this
Chinese classic the ultimate discourse on the nature of existence; and it
continues to be a valuable resource for achieving a way of life that
guarantees integrity, joy, peace, and balance. I recently read about someone
who overcame life-threatening addictive behaviors by reading and
rereading the 81 verses of this ancient text. Just imagine! In fewer than 100
short passages, it describes a way of living that’s balanced, moral, and
spiritual; and that works for all facets of life on Earth. Legend tells us that the Tao Te Ching was authored by Lao-tzu, a prophet
who was also the keeper of the imperial archives in the ancient capital of
Luoyang. Seeing the continual decay during a period of warring  states, Lao-
tzu decided to ride westward into the desert. At the Hanku Pass, a
gatekeeper named Yin Hsi, knowing of Lao-tzu’ s reputation for being a
man of wisdom, begged him to record the essenc e of his teaching. Thus, the
Tao Te Ching was born out of 5,000 Chinese characters. In all my readin g on the origin s of the Tao Te Ching, I never found a
definitive histor ical record of its writing... yet today it survives in
thousands of versions in virtually every language. In fact, after reading this
classic text one morning and then taking  in a different interpretation that
afternoon, I was hooked. I ordered more translations, five of which were
quite old and five of which were more modern (you’ll find their titles in the
Acknowledgments). Since neither Lao-tzu nor the origins of his verses are
historically certain, I was fascinated by the different ways the 5,000
characters were interpreted by scholars in the editions I studied—especially
when you consider that many of these ancient Chinese symbols are no
longer in use and invite dif fering translations themselves.I then felt called upon to write  an essay for each verse that showed its
valuable wisdom applied to the 21st century. From those ten transla tions I’d
gone over, I pieced together the 81 passages in Change Your Thoughts—
Change Your Life, based on how they resonated with me. This book is my
personal interpretation of the T ao Te Ching, each verse of which gave me an
insight into life and nature. As you read on, know that these pages were
pasted together from what I personally felt were  the most useful aspects of
those ten different translations I studied, and I apologize for any exclusions
(or if the inclusions don’ t seem to be a perfect fit). One of the many gifts of the Tao Te Ching is its mind-stretchin g quality,
especially in the way that Lao-tz u uses irony and paradox to get you to look
at life. If you think that being forceful is the appropriate response, Lao-tzu
urges you to see the value in being humble. If action seems called for, he
asks you to consider nonaction. If you feel that grasping will help you
acquire what you need or want, he counsels you to let go and be patient. And just what is this thing called “the Tao”? As we’re told in the 1st
verse, to name it is to lose it, so here’ s the best that I can come up with: The
Tao is the supre me reality, an all-pervasive Source of everythin g. The Tao
never begins or ends, does nothing, and yet animates everything in the
world of form and boundaries,  which is called “the world of the 10,000
things.”
Commentaries on the Tao Te Ching generally interpret Tao as “the Way,”
Te as “the shape and power” (that is, how the Tao manifests), and Ching as
“book.” Every translation I read referred to the Tao as the Way with a
capital W, and Te as adding light or color to the Way. Well, as I look at the
name I’ve carried with me for over 65 years, Wayne Dyer, I realize what
may have attrac ted me to study ing and writing these essays! As you can
see, the first three letters of my name make up the word Way, while a dyer is
one who adds light or color. It’s no wonder why I’ve been  so totally
involved in reading, writing, interpreting, and, most significantly, putting
into practice these 81 verses. In The Wisdom of China and India, Dr. Lin Yutang states, “If there is one
book in the whole of Oriental literature which should be read above all
others, it is, in my opinion [Lao-tzu’ s] Book of Tao.... It is one of theprofoundest books in the world’ s philosophy...” As you read Change Y our
Thoughts—Change Your Life, you’re going to find your way through Lao-
tzu’s mystical and practical philosophy, along with the joy of applying it to
your life in today’ s modern world. Writing this book was a complete surrender to ideas that didn’ t always
seem to fit a linear rational approach, and it has changed me in a way that’s
like the Tao itself: unexplainabl e and unnameable. Once I knew  that I’d be
spending a year on this project, its creation came abou t in the following
way, which I have journaled for you:
I awake befor e 4 a.m., meditate, consume juices and
supplements, and enter my sacr ed writing space. On a table, I have
some framed drawings of Lao-tzu: In one he’ s clad in simple r obes,
in another he’s standing with a staff, and in a third he’s astride an
ox. I ease into my work and read one verse of the Tao Te Ching,
letting the words stay with me and inviting the forces of both the
outer and the inner life to inform me. Some of the passages contain ideas that seem to be directed to
political leaders —yet in all cases I keep the average reader  in
mind. In other words, I seek the wisdom for everyone, not just for
those in positions of government or business. I jot down a few notes, and for the next three days I think about
what Lao-tzu is offering. I invite the Tao to be with me throughout
the day in all my activities as a backgr ound to the title of this book. “Change your thoughts, Wayne,” I tell myself, “and watch how
your life changes.” And my thoughts do change. I feel the Tao with me, always there, always doing nothing, and
always leaving absolutely nothin g undone. As I’m now Seeing with
a capital S, the landscape looks differ ent. The people I See are
godly creations who are ignoring their own natur e, or even more
poignantly, need ily interfering in the affairs of others. I have a
differ ent perspective now: I feel more peaceful and patient. I keep
being reminded of the cyclical natur e of the world of the 10,000
things and have powerful insigh ts that change what I see. I know
that we humans  are like the rest of the natural world and thatsadness, fear, frustration, or any troubling feeling cannot last. Natur e doesn’ t create a storm that never ends. Within misfortune,
good fortune hides. Following my days of thinking and then applying the wisdom of a
particular verse, I look into the eyes of Lao-tzu’ s pictur e in the
early morning, and I wonder, What did you mean? How does this
apply here, today, to anyone who might want to live accor ding to
these majestic teachings? What happens next is mind-bl owing in that it simply comes. Through the ages, through the atmospher e, through my purple pen
and onto the page, flows what I can only call automatic writing. I
know I don’t own it. I know I can’t touch it, feel it, see it, or even
name it, but the words arrive in the world of the 10,000 things. I
am grateful, bewilder ed, astonis hed, and overjoyed. The next day I
begin another four-day advent ure with this wisdom a Chinese
master recorded 2,500 years ago, feeling so blessed, honor ed, and
completely awes truck by


:  Alleviates lower back pain, addresses
urinary disorders, improves posture, helps ease the symptoms of
perimenopause and menopause, and eases sciatica. Helpful tips: Place a cushion or a pillow underneath your torso
for a more therapeutic variation. If you have any ankle, knee, or hip
sensitivity, practice Reclined Pigeon pose instead. If your hips are
off the ﬂoor, place a rolled towel or a cushion underneath your
lifted sit bone. OceanofPDF.comFIRE LOG POSE: AGNISTAMBHASANA
Overview:  Fire Log pose targets the deep external rotators in
the hips, which help to stabilize us. Because this shape yields such
an intense physical response in the body, it teaches us how to rest
in the awareness of what we are feeling without judgment or
manipulation. As we become more aware of our sensations, the
sensations shift and dissolve into awareness itself. How-to:  From Bound Angular pose, take hold of the right foot
with both hands and gently place the right ankle on top of the left
thigh. Stack the right shin on top of the left shin so that the ankles
and knees are aligned directly on top of each other. Anchor your
sit bones down into the ﬂoor as you lengthen your spine toward
the ceiling. Stay here or begin to fold forward over the legs,
deepening the stretch in the outer hips.Benefits:  Physically, Fire Log pose stretches the knees, the inner
thighs, the outer hips, and the lower back. Energetically, this pose helps to reduce tension in the mind. It
works on the second chakra, freeing both emotional and sexual
energy to help increase creativity and our sensory connection to
the world. Engage mula bandha. Stimulates apana and vyana vayu. Therapeutic applications:  Alleviates lower back pain, helps
relieve the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause, and
eases sciatica. Helpful tips:  If your hips or lower back are tight, place a blanket
or a cushion underneath your sit bones. If your knees are sensitive,
place a block underneath the top knee or practice Supta
Kapotasana (see this page) instead. OceanofPDF.comSEATED FORWARD BENDS
Although a growing number of humans sit for most of
the day, we do not necessarily know how to sit in a way
that’s healthy for our spine and our organs. This category
of poses teaches us how to keep the spine aligned, the
breath balanced, and the organs spacious in a seated
position. Energetically, seated forward bends open the
back of the body, which activates the passage of tamas,
the quieting, pacifying part of our body. They also deeply
stretch the hamstrings, which energetically store a lot of
our patterning and limiting beliefs. For this reason, seated
forward bends are a profound way to close the physical
practice. They actively help free us from bondage,
transitioning our minds from the outer, sensory world to
an internal, quiet space of pure consciousness. OceanofPDF.comSTAFF POSE: DANDASANA
Overview:  Staff pose is to the seated poses what Mountain pose
is to the standing poses. In the case of Staff pose, the sit bones are
like our feet, anchoring and rooting us to the Earth, while the spine
rises toward the sky. Practicing Staff pose every day not only
strengthens the core and stabilizes the spine but also empowers us
to hold ourselves up from the center of our being, establishing a
sense of autonomy, individuation, and connection to pure
potential. How-to:  From a seated position, extend both legs out in front of
you. Adjust your seat from side to side, so you feel your sit bones
and not your tailbone on the ﬂoor. Engage your quadriceps and
spread your toes. Lengthen your spine toward the ceiling, stacking
your rib cage over your pelvis and your shoulders over your rib
cage. Keep your hands alongside your body and create spaceacross your collarbones, softening the tops of the shoulders and
releasing them away from your ears. Allow your head and neck to
ﬂoat freely atop your spine. Benefits:  Physically, Staff pose strengthens the legs, the core,
and the upper back. It stretches the calves, the hamstrings, the
chest, and the shoulders. Energetically, this pose is both grounding and liberating. By
balancing the front and the back of the body evenly, this pose
takes us into satva guna. It activates the ﬁrst and third chakras,
creating steadiness, stability, and self-empowerment from within. Staff pose helps position the spine, which also energetically aligns
the two central channels that run along it: sushumna and brahma
nadis. Stimulating these channels facilitates both manifestation and
transcendence. Engage mula and slight uddiyana bandha. Engage ashvini
mudra to lengthen the front of the body. Stimulates apana vayu. Therapeutic applications:  Staff pose strengthens the core, which
can be helpful for children with sensory processing issues. It also
corrects poor posture, addresses osteoporosis and other bone
deﬁciency issues, and relieves lower back conditions. Helpful tips: If your hamstrings or lower back muscles are tight,
place a blanket or a cushion underneath your seat. If your
hamstrings are very restricted, bend the knees. OceanofPDF.comHEAD TO KNEE POSE: JANUSIRSASANA
Overview:  Although the English translation of this pose is “head
to knee,” we are actually lengthening our belly button to our knee
and our head to our shin. This profoundly releasing pose opens
the whole back of the body while also providing a slight twist over
the extended leg. It is cleansing and replenishing, and it helps us
to get unstuck as we move deeper inward to the essence of our
being. How-to:  From Staff pose, bend the right leg, and externally
rotate the right thigh open, placing the sole of the right foot on the
inner left thigh. Inhale and lengthen the spine, rotating your torso
over the extended left leg. As you exhale, hinge at your hips,
keeping your lower belly engaged, your spine long, and your
shoulders away from your ears. Continue to breathe your way into
the pose, lengthening as you inhale and deepening over the
extended leg as you exhale. Eventually, rest your abdomen onto
your thigh, your forehead onto your shin, and your hands around
the foot of the extended leg if that is available to you. Benefits:  Physically, Head to Knee pose stretches the
hamstrings, the inner thighs, the outer hips, the lower back, theupper back, and the back of the neck. It helps with digestion and
facilitates exhalation by gently compressing the diaphragm up. Energetically, Head to Knee pose releases the unconscious
patterning that gets locked in the backs of the legs. It stimulates
the ﬁrst chakra, creating a ﬁrm and solid connection to the Earth,
facilitating a sense of freedom to release and let go with the
exhalation. This pose helps us to detoxify ourselves, both
physically and energetically, of what is no longer serving us. Opening the passage of tamas also calms and quiets the mind,
encouraging a deep connection inward. Engage mula, uddiyana, and jalandhara bandha. Engage
ashvini mudra to lengthen the front of the body. Stimulates apana
vayu. Therapeutic applications:  Head to Knee pose relieves scoliosis,
lower back pain, menstrual discomfort, and symptoms of
menopause. This pose can also alleviate headaches, anxiety, and
fatigue, and improve digestion. Helpful tips: If your hamstrings or lower back muscles are tight,
place a blanket or a cushion underneath your seat. If your hands
don’t reach your foot, place a strap or a belt around the sole of the
extended foot and continue to lengthen through the spine as you
fold over the extended leg. OceanofPDF.comWIDE-ANGLE SEAT POSE: UPAVISTA KONASANA
Overview:  This pose can either be deeply releasing or deeply
challenging, depending on your unique anatomy and constitution. Wide-Angle Seat pose can sometimes force us to confront our
limitations, triggering frustration and discouragement. By
surrendering our expectations and accepting our own personal
range of motion, we can open to the grace of contentment and
self-acceptance in this pose. How-to:  From Staff pose, open the legs wide in a “V” shape. Adjust the lower part of your thighs so you tilt at the pelvis and not
at the waist. Place your hands either behind you or in front of you
on the ﬂoor. As you inhale, lengthen your spine by ﬁrming your
belly and lifting your chest. As you exhale, fold forward, lowering
your torso toward the ﬂoor. Benefits:  Physically, Wide-Angle Seat pose stretches the calves,
the hamstrings, the inner thighs, and the lower back. It strengthensthe muscles along the spine and stimulates the abdominal organs. Energetically, it


’s team findings and further tested DMSO for bacte -
ricidal and bacteriostatic properties against a variety of microorganisms where they observed growth inhibition at concentrations of 40%–50% (Table 5.1). Pottz et al. 9 found that the bactericidal concentration of DMSO required to inhibit
the growth of E. coli, A. cloacae, P. vulgaris, beta-hemolytic streptococci group A,
Salmonella paratyphi B, and C. albicans was 30%, and for P. aeruginosa, it was
10%. D. pneumoniae  was most sensitive to DMSO and required only  5% concentra -
tion (Table 5.1). S. aureus and Streptococcus faecalis required a 40% and a 50%
concentration respectively. These microorganisms are responsible for many serious infections, which if left
untreated can have organ damage consequences or be fatal to the host. For example, 102 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
certain strains of E. coli, which includes serotypes O157:H7, O104:H4 in contami -
nated food or water, can secrete Shiga toxigenic toxins that can result in bloody diar -
rhea and cause severe damage to the lining of the intestines and kidneys.10
A. cloacae  is a rod-shaped bacterium generally found in normal gut flora that
sometimes causes respiratory and urinary tract infections. Strep throat from beta-
hemolytic streptococci group A is a common throat infection in school-aged children that can lead to a spectrum of more serious diseases including glomerulonephritis and rheumatic fever. 11
S. paratyphi  B and S. faecalis  are contaminants in food and water that often infect
the intestines and urinary tract. P. aeruginosa  and Candida  species are opportu-
nistic pathogens commonly found in hospital intensive care units where they can cause stubborn infections in patients after surgery. 12 In this list of microbes, the most
sensitive microorganism to DMSO appeared to be D. pneumoniae  (now known as
Streptococcus pneumoniae ),9 which is a major cause of pneumonia and a host of
other infectious diseases such as meningitis, endocarditis, and brain abscesses.13
Shiga toxins from Shigella dysenteriae  or E. coli  inhibit cell-free protein synthe -
sis resulting in multiple cytotoxic effects including neurotoxicity and enterotoxicity. Shiga toxin secreted by Shigella also binds to specific receptors on the cells’ surface in order to attach and enter the cell where it can inactivate the 60S ribosomal subunit to inhibit protein synthesis and cause the destructive lesions seen in shigellosis. DMSO is reported to reduce the endocytosis that occurs after Shiga toxin release and prevent both the cytotoxicity and binding of the Shiga toxin, possibly by its ability to prevent mem -
brane permeability or by inhibiting translocation of the toxin from the cell surface. 14
It was assumed from Pottz et al.’s9 original study that DMSO’s antibacterial action
may have been through the neutralization of penicillinase, an enzyme produced by some bacteria that provide resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics like penicillin. Further TABLE 5.1
DMSO Bactericidal Activity
Test Microorganism DMSO Minimal Inhibitory Concentration
0 10 20 40 50
E. coli ++++ ++++ + − −
Aerobacter cloacae ++++ ++++ + − −
Pseudomonas aeruginosa ++++ ++++ ++ − −
Proteus vulgaris ++++ ++++ ++++ − −
S. aureus ** ++++ ++++ ++ − −
Streptococcus pyogenes * ++++ ++++ + − −
Salmonella schottmulleri ++++ ++ ++ − −
Diplococcus pneumoniae ++++ − − − −
Candida albicans ++++ + + − −
Notes:  *, beta-hemolytic streptococcus group A; **, coagulation positive; +, very
mild growth; ++, mild growth; ++++, strong growth in blood agar or broth
cultures; −, negative growth.9103 DMSO in Basic Microbiology
experimentation with DMSO to test the possibility that it neutralizes penicillinase’s
protective action on bacterial growth exposed to penicillin proved negative. Pottz et al.9
concluded from their extensive findings that the killing action of DMSO on bacteria was not through neutralization of penicillinase. Pottz’s study speculated that, instead, DMSO’s antibacterial action may have been due to dissolution of susceptible micro -
organisms by some unknown mechanism exerted by DMSO. 9 This assumption was
supported by microscopic analysis of D. pneumoniae smears, which showed that the
majority of these microbes had dissolved into a sediment after contact with DMSO.9
It is known that the gram-positive microbe S. aureus  can be cleared from murine
lungs by the bactericidal action exerted by phagocytosis from resident alveolar macrophages without significant contribution from polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs). 15 PMNs’ bactericidal intrapulmonary killing activity is more prominent
against gram-negative bacteria such as P. aeruginosa. Recent evidence indicates
that actual phagocytosis of bacteria may not be necessary for intrapulmonary kill of gram-positive microbes and that the majority of inhaled staphylococci in mice are killed without being ingested by resident alveolar macrophages. 16,17
One theory is that reactive oxygen metabolites, including the oxidant superoxide,
and the radical hydroxyl anion are secreted by phagocytes to create the alveolar bactericidal activity. With this in mind, DMSO was used to test its ability as an antioxidant and hydroxyl radical scavenger to see whether the rate of pulmonary bactericidal activity against P. aeruginosa  and S. aureus  was depressed in infected
mice. Intratracheal and aerosol delivery of these bacteria were given to mice. 18
DMSO at doses of 50–165 mg/mouse was administered intraperitoneally 30 min
before challenge with S. aureus  and pseudomonas delivered by either intratracheal
or aerosol route.18 DMSO was observed to have no activity in inhibiting macrophage
killing of S. aureus  but did cause a dose-dependent inhibition of pseudomonas clear -
ance from the lungs of treated mice,18 supporting the assumption that alveolar bac -
tericidal action against pseudomonas by PMNs is done through the production of reactive hydroxyl anions that are inhibited by the action of DMSO as a hydroxyl radical scavenger. Conversely, DMSO’s lack of effect in allowing the clearance of S. aureus  from infected murine lung suggests that phagocytic alveolar macrophages
fail to produce reactive oxygen for bactericidal activity,
19 but this assumption has
been challenged by others.20
The question arose whether using DMSO clinically for a variety of ailments
might predispose the user to bacterial infections by inhibiting phagocyte bactericidal activity. This concern grew from an in vitro  experiment where DMSO treatment
of human and mouse neutrophils and mononuclear phagocytes caused a dose-dependent inhibition of the killing of E. coli  and Listeria monocytogenes. However,
when the experiment was repeated in vivo  using mice, results showed that adminis -
tration of DMSO prior to subjecting mice to E. coli  and L. monocytogenes  infection
caused only a slight and nonsignificant decrease in the subsequent in vitro  bacteri -
cidal activity of neutrophils and macrophages from those mice. 21 Repeated injections
of mice with physiologically relevant doses of DMSO did not increase the lethality of either E. coli or L. monocytogenes, nor did it inhibit the clearance of a sublethal
Listeria  challenge from the spleen and liver of these mice. The findings indicated that
clinical usage of DMSO does not predispose human subjects to bacterial infection. 21104 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
Bacterial endotoxin from gram-negative pathogens can directly injure lung endo -
thelial cells in culture. This injury is unaffected by antioxidants such as superoxide
dismutase or catalase because they are unable to enter cells. Bacterial endotoxins are prevented by DMSO, which penetrates cells to exert antioxidant activity. 22 Since allo -
purinol can inhibit direct lung cell injury from endotoxin, it is probable that xanthine oxidase, which allopurinol is known to inhibit, may be a source of oxidant generation in lung endothelial cells. Current data suggest a two-stage oxidant process of lung cell injury where there is direct injury of the cell both by intracellular generation of toxic oxidants and triggering of an inflammatory response. 22 Inflammatory cells that
have been activated to adhere to lung cells are able to enhance the injury


latest	book	is
INFINITE	SELF:	33	STEPS	TO	RECLAIMING	YOUR	INNER	POWER. Stuart’s	books	have	been	translated	into	12	languages. Our	spiritual	process	through	life	is	the	journey	from	ego	to	spirit. Because
the	ego	is	usually	insecure,	it	has	many	needs	and	impulses	to	gratify,	and
many	fears	it	must	assuage. The	ego	has	to	sustain	its	ideas	and	the	precious
image	it	has	of	itself. Attitudes	become	sacrosanct. It	is	natural	that	the	human	personality,	and	the	ego	that	dwells	within	that
personality,	would	gradually,	through	self-confirmation,	crown	itself	king	or
queen	of	all	it	surveys. Over	time,	orders	and	desires	of	that	royal	personage
become	edicts	that	cannot	be	challenged	or	broken. Keeping	the	king	happy
and	giving	the	ol’	slob	what	he	wants	become	“Job	One.”
If	a	person	is	very	bright	or	quite	successful	in	human	terms,	it	doesn’t
usually	take	him	or	her	long	to	elevate	oneself	to	the	status	of	a	demigod. Once	the	ego/personality	has	invested	itself	as	a	god,	then	extremes	of	self-
importance	flow	from	that. Orders	are	given,	demands	are	made,	and
situations	are	manipulated. Softness,	spirituality,	and	appreciation	are
repressed. Anyone	defying	the	king	and	queen’s	edicts,	or	the	image	they	hold
of	themselves,	will	feel	the	full	wrath	of	a	despotic	regime. Our	modern	society	breeds	despots. Compared	to	our	ancestors,	things	are
cozy	and	self-indulgent. All	the	ego	will	ever	need	is	at	its	fingertips. We
don’t	dig	for	food,	chop	trees,	haul	sewage—things	are	provided	almosteffortlessly. In	these	conditions,	it	is	natural	that	humans	would	lose	sight	of
gratitude,	investing	instead	in	accolades	and	importance;	we	become	slaves	to
the	effort	of	trying	to	keep	the	ego-king	or	queen	happy. And	there	you	were,	suddenly,	a	spiritual	being	in	a	diaper,	born	into	a	strange
world	of	gratification	and	self-importance,	indulgence	and	mayhem. One	so
young	has	no	way	of	challenging	the	collective	legislation	of	the	ego. Soon
you	were	trained	to	compete	and	strive	and	demand. You	were	taught	the	need
to	keep	the	ego	happy	at	all	costs. History	is	the	story	of	conflicting	political	egos	and	their	struggle	for
importance	and	power. Your	personal	history	tells	of	the	same	wars	and
struggles,	treaties	that	were	written,	territories	that	were	conquered,	the
struggles	you	went	through	sustaining	the	kingdom	of
self. In	the	turmoil	of
these	self-centered	laws,	the	sight	of	God	is	lost,	and	the	reason	and	meaning
of	life	are	set	aside. Spirituality,	for	most,	is	an	underground	resistance
movement	that	scurries	about	in	dark	alleys	when	the	ego	sleeps. So	what	of	the	quest	for	the	holy	grail,	the	sacred	journey? To	me	it	seems	to
be	a	journey	of	just	under	12	inches,	as	we	travel	from	the	head	to	the	heart,
from	thinking	into	feelings,	from	demands	and	gratification	to	appreciation
and	humility. The	spiritual	journey	culminates	in	the	death	of	the	ego	and	the
crowning	of	spirit. As	I	mentioned	in	my	book
Whispering	Winds	of	Change,
	the	story	of	the
crucifixion	is	a	symbolic	teaching	that	represents	our	spiritual	journey. You
see	the	ego/personality	epitomized	by	the	Nazarene,	dying	on	the	cross,
racked	with	anguish. Mary	Magdalene	and	the	other	women	at	the	foot	of	the
cross	represent	the
yin
	softness	of	our	infinite,	spiritual	self	that	can	do
nothing	to	save	the	ego. The	women	can	only	wait. Once	the	Nazarene	dies,	he	is	placed	in	a	tomb	for	three	days. That	is
symbolic	of	silence,	meditation,	and	prayer. It	represents	introspection,
discipline,	humility	and	gratitude—qualities	you	take	on	as	you	journey
inward	through	the	dark	caverns	of	the	inner	self. During	the	introspection
and	healing,	you	prepare	for	the	awesome	presence	of	the	Holy	Spirit,	the
return	of	God	in	your	life. After	the	three-day	period	in	the	tomb,	the	Nazarene	rises	from	death	to
ascend	into	heaven,	at	which	point	he	assumes	a	new	identity—he	becomes
Christos,
	the	Divine	Light—infused	with	the	living	spirit,	immortal,	returnedonce	more	to	the	presence	of	God. Our	journey	is	the	same. On	this	holy	journey,	we	heal	ourselves,	and	we
contribute	to	the	overall	healing	of	the	planet,	for	nothing	will	be	right	until
the	ego	is	deposed. Put	away	foolish	things	that	cannot	last. Embrace	spirit	with	humility	and
gratitude,	and	step	to	the	infinite	self	within. It	seems	to	me	a	beautiful	thing,
that	deep	within	us	all,	we	each	know	how	to	make	that	sacred	journey. I	feel	truly	thankful	to	live	in	this	modern	age,	so	cozy	and	fairly	effortless. It
is	such	a	perfect	time	in	history	for	making	personal	breakthroughs	and
spiritual	transitions. Cool,	utterly	cool,	in	my	view. The	Most	Amazing	Day
Margaret	Olivia	Wolfson
Margaret	Olivia	Wolfson

is	an	internationally	acclaimed	storytelling	artist
and	personal	growth	consultant. Her	unique	performances,	presented	with
music,	have	delighted	audiences	at	the	Kennedy	Center,	the	United	Nations,
the	Sydney	Opera	House,	the	National	Theater,	and	Princeton	and	Harvard
Universities,	to	name	just	a	few. She	is	the	author	of	THE	TURTLE	TATTOO:
TIMELESS	TALES	FOR	FINDING	AND	FULFILLING	YOUR	DREAMS,	and
MARRIAGE	OF	THE	RAIN	GODDESS. Margaret	lives	in	New	York	City. I	thank	you	God	for	this	most	amazing
day:	for	the	leaping	greenly	spirits	of	trees
and	a	blue	true	dream	of	sky;	and	for	everything
which	is	natural	which	is	infinite	which	is	yes. —e.e. cummings
Outside	my	window	is	a	scene	of	breathtaking	beauty. Tree-topped	cliffs
tower	along	the	river,	and	each	time	the	sun	tumbles	loose	from	the	summer
clouds,	it	splashes	the	leaves	with	light	and	glitters	the	river	with	gold. Inside,	more	images	nourish	my	eye. A	Buddha,	his	eternal	belly	laugh
masterfully	captured	by	a	Filipino	woodcarver,	stands	on	a	cherrywood	table
—a	cluster	of	quartz	crystals	twinkling	at	his	feet. A	grouping	of	photos—
family,	friends,	and	faraway	places—rounds	out	the	charm	of	this	display. Further	contributing	to	this	most	amazing	day	is	a	feeling	of	contentment—
arising	from	the	fact	that	I	am	engaged	in	a	cherished	activity. I	sit	and	write
in	a	clean	and	peaceful	apartment,	a	cup	of	apple	blossom	tea	nearby,	its
steam	swirling	upward,	sweetening	the	air. Taking	all	this	in,	I	am
overwhelmed	with	a	soul-w


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Trace elements  69
Tuberculosis  40, 42-43 U
Uric acid 56-59, 82, 84, 105
Urinary Tract  54, 140, 147
V
Vegetables 59, 91, 98, 101,
103, 106, 111
Viral attacks  7
Vitamin E, chart  114
Vitamins  41, 109, 156
W
Watermelon Flush  117-118
Y
173
Youthfulness  128
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