ontologist Paul Niehans had advo
cated that the secretions of endocrine glands, especially the gonads
(sexual glands), were related to longevity. Niehans claimed that
Parr's long life was due to his unusually abundant and durable
genital secretions from his oversized testicles. Serge Voronoff, a Russian aristocrat, was physician to the
Egyptian khedive early in this century. The large harem in the royal
palace was. guarded by eunuchs, and Voronoff reported that these
unfortunate castrates as a rule were quite sickly and aged rapidly. None of them was known for longevity or creative achievement. Voronoff successfully transplanted testicular tissue of young
animals, some rams and a bull, to the testicles of older creatures of
the same species, and found apparent rejuvenation. By the I 920s
he was ready to attempt human testicular transplants. Since for le
gal and ethical reasons he could not obtain hun1an tissue, he tried
to graft testicula� tissue from chimpanzees on men. Today we
know why he failed, as transplantation between different species
without an effective immunity-suppressing drug does not work. A man begins to grow old once he reaches his twenties. His
secretion of testosterone, the principal male sex hormone, de
clines gradually -but not abruptly-throughout his life. A man ages, and his SL'Xual power wanes steadily yet gradual ly. In con
trast, a wotnan's secr etio n of estrogen, the principal tl. ·male sex
honnone, dL·dines abruptly during tnenopausc, when tnenstrua
tion ceases. ShL· experiences a host of drarnatic physiological and
psychological chang es at n1enopause. The abrupt decr ease of es
trogen production causc·s her ovaries to atrophy, her vaginal lubri
cation to dry up. and her arteries to harden-in short, she ages
t:1ster than a nun. Such conditions in a won1an, if severe, can be rcn1cdied with
estrogen horr none therapy. Sirnilarly, a nun can be "rejuvenated"
with chernically synthesi zed testosterone horn1one. But hormone
ther apy disc ourages the production of natural hormones; the
body' s feedba ck rnechanisn1 n1akcs the glands "lazy," and once
horn1one therapy stops. the body's natural production of hor
n1ones will be even less than before. Persistent hormone therapy. son1e fear, increases the chances of cancer. The production of sex hormon es can be increased and main
tained at a higher level naturally. As was pointed out earlier, in
recent years an increasing amount of evidence has shown that sex
ual activity among healt hy men and women tends to boost the
secretion of sex hormone s as well as other substances, such as beta
endorp hine, the hormone responsib le for "runner's high" and
other euphoric feelings. An experiment conducted at the famed
Max Planck Institute in Munich in 1974 showed that even visual
arousal in the form of a sex movie can raise the level of testoster
one in n1ale test subjects. All these findings suggest that various forms of sexual arousal,
ranging from visual stin1ulation to sexual int ercourse, tend to en
courage the production of sex hormones, which improves sexual
stamina and probably helps keep people more youthful and live
longer. Here modern sexologists and gerontologists have had an
unexpected encounter with ancient Taoists. SEX AND ENJOYME NT
Whether the goal of sex is procreation only or pleasure depends
on deeply entrenched religious and social attitudes in each cul
ture. Althoug h the idea that the sole purpose of sex is to propagate
the human race may seen1 a medieval concept few people now be
lieve, it survives in some cultures. The idea that sex itself is in1-AN CIENT SECRE TS FO R MODERN LOV E RS
moral and dirty lurks within certain segments of Western society,
and perhaps in the subconscious of many who consider them
selves sexually liberated. For many years this attitude toward sex,
found often in the United States, has amazed and amused people
from other lands. While Hollywood and Madison Avenue end
lessly dish out titillating and suggestive images of voluptuous
ness, the laws of some states treat any sexual activity other than
conventional heterosexual intercourse as a crime. These laws,
which vary somewhat from state to state, have labeled sodomy
an umbrella term covering anal intercourse and genital kissing-a
crime even in the marital bed. In certain states, technically it is un
lawful for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays. In spite of such laws and the attitudes behind them, however,
many Americans have been practicing what they do not preach. They have experimented and diversified their sexual practices, al
beit not with the rel ish of the French or ancient Chinese. This ex
perimentation was revealed not long after World War II by the
pioneering sexologist Alfred Kinsey, director of the Institute for
Sex Research at Indiana University. His findings, based on in
terviews with some five thousand men and an equal number of
women, disconcerted. many when they were published. He re
ported that many Americans practiced masturbation and homo
sexuality, had premarital and extramarital relations, and engaged
in other sexual activities then consider ed shocking. One of his
more interesting findings was that heavy petting, oral sex, and
prolonged foreplay were all comn1on atnong college-educated and
high-income respondents, whereas those on the lower rungs of
the education and incon1e ladders tended to skip such prelimin
aries and go directly to intercourse. Kinsey stirred up a furor. He
was denounced by church leaders, even n1ctnbcrs of the press, as
offensive, an1oral, and antifatnily. The n1on1entun1 created by Kinsey paved the way for the cele
brated tcan1 of Willian 1 Masters and Virginia Johnson, with their
revolutionary approach to sexology. Their adtnittedly controver
sial techniques of studying sex in the laboratory shed tnuch light
on hitherto murky areas of hun1an sexuality, at least fron1 the
physiological angle. The ancient Chinese considered food and sex as essentials to
life; by thentsclves they were neither n1oral nor in11noral. Procrea
tion was etnphasized because of the need for heirs, but there were Tlrt' AI)'Siic Almtcr ��r tire Grtltto, and A1tHias mrd Jolmson
still n1any ways to increase enjoyntent in bed, just as there were
many ways to increase enjoyn1ent at the table. Modern Western
attitudes abou t sex arc in this respect not so diffC. ·rcnt front ancien t
Eastern attitudes. Early Western sexologists did not believe that won 1en enjoyed
sex. Sir Williat n Aston, a prorn inent English Victorian physician
and the author of severa l books on sexology. wrote: "The ntajor
ity of wonten (happily tor thcnt) are not very n1uch troubled with
sexual feeling of any kind. A rnodest wontan scldon1 desires
any sexual gratitication. " He called the attribution of sexual feel
ing to a wotnan a "vile aspersion. " Even the Gennan psychiatrist
Richard von Krafft-Ebing. considered the founder of modern
sexology. says in his Psychopathia Sexual is ( 1 886) that the sexual
desire of a normal won1an was srnall; if it were not, "the whole
world would becorne a brothel. " This Victorian dogtna was shattered by Sigmund Freud, fa
ther of psychoanalysis, who boldly disagreed with the idea that
"good" won1en had no sexual desire. More recent sexologists, in
cluding Kinsey and Masters and Johnson, have listed many symp
tonls of female sexual manifestatio ns before and during coitus. These include sexual flush, nipple erection, breast engorgement,
muscular contractions, hyperventilation, increased heartbeat, el
evated blood pressure, sweating, and lubrication of the vagina. These symptoms were observed and recorded more than a
thousand years ago as the Arcane Maid's Nine Essences; as the El
enlental Maid's Five Desires, Five Sytnptoms, and Ten Move
ments; and as the manifestations described by the Mystic Master
of the Grotto, all cited in earlier chapters. Ancient sexologists
were convinced of the existence of fen1ale sexual desire and con
sequently devised bedroom techniques for men to satisfy women
at every sexual union. After all, some of these sexologists were
women; they did not need men to tell them whether won1en had
any sexual desire. LovE -PLAY
Love-play includes a variety of well-known and little-known sex
ual


 twelve-by-twelve-foot room in the woods by
myself writing this program, one could never have
imagined that it would lead to the Smithsonian. As i t turned out, I would have to return to DC once
again in August of 2000 on a  very important trip. I had
been asked to represent the company at a meeting with
the Department of Justice (DOJ). Before larger
companies can combine, the U.S. government reservesthe right to determine if the combination could stifle
competition and violate antitrust laws. In the case of the
Healtheon/WebMD–Medical Manager merger, the
government requested very detailed information and a
face-to-face meeting. The reason for this was that
Medical Manager Netw ork Services was sending so many
claims to Envoy that the g overnment was concerned
about allowing  us to become part of the same company. My immediate  reaction to this situation was one of deep
humility. Had  Medical Manager actually reached the
point o f success that the U.S. government had to be
concerned about the very antitrust laws I had studied in
business school? No, not really, but we were going to
have to convince them of that. Sabrina and I flew up to Washington to prepare for the
Justice Department meeting. It was around that time I
began to notice that my life was becoming filled with
more an d more  attorneys. We met for a strategy meeting
at th e o ffice of  one of the largest law firms in D.C. There
were attorneys  everywhere, but one always stood out
from t he rest. Jim Mercer was Marty’s litigation
specialist, and he understood both the law and business
at a  phenomenal level. I had learned to have great
respect and confidence in Jim, and I was glad he would
be present at the DOJ meeting. I, of course, had never previously dealt with the Justice
Department. It was not exactly my everyday experience
to be entering  the DOJ building surrounded by a large
team o f attorneys. Nevertheless, after hours of very
intense questio ning, Sabrina and I managed to address
the governmen t’s concerns satisfactorily. When it was all
said and done, the merger was not going to pose any
anti-trust problems. Though we were very relieved when
the ordeal was over, it had ac tually turned out to be quite
a learning experience. All this exposure to intensely powerful people and
situations was having a profo und effect on the psyche Iwatched so diligently. I had never been exposed to this
powerful lifest yle. Nothing in me got off on it or wanted
anything from it, but it did make me deal with parts of
my being that I would not ha ve faced otherwise. If I saw
any weakness,  fear, or anxiety come up, I just deeply
relaxed back into where I w as watching from. I simply
kept let ting go of whatever c ame up. This is where life
had tak en me, and I used all these situations as a way of
letting go of m yself. It was definitely working. I kept
being pushed into strongly positive and negative
situations, and I increasingly found myself in a very clear
and un disturbed state. It seemed that the more
challenges life put me through, the less my inner energy
flow was affected by outer conditions. What years of
willful meditation had not gotten rid of, life’s situations
and cha llenges were rooting out of me. As long as I made
getting rid of myself my only  goal, every situation was a
fruitful experience. If I’d had any other goal, I think the
constant press ure would have been overwhelming. I
found that I actually got more peaceful inside as I dealt
with the ever-increasing magnitude of challenges. Life
was mo lding me each day to become who I needed to be
in o rder to handle tomorrow’s tasks. All I had to do was
let go and not resist the process. For the next few years, my Medical Manager Practice
Services Division continued to grow to its peak financial
success. We grew to more than twenty-three hundred
employees and were gene rating more than three
hundred millio n dollars a year in revenue. We were the
most widely installed practice management vendor in the
country, and we had begun turning our attention toward
building a fully computerized electronic health record. It
was a period with tremendous challenges that I thought
was putting me through un precedented growth. Little
did I know that life’s portal of dramatic change was
about to open up once again. When it did this time, it
would complet ely redefine for me what it meant to go
through a transformational growth experience.S e c t i o n  I X
Total Surrender5 0. T h e  R a i d
I t was Wednes day, September 3, 2003. I remember
because on Wednesdays I go into Gainesville in the
morning to see Dr. Chance fo r a health tune-up. After the
appointment, I noticed I had a voice mail from Lisa
Elliot, the resident attorney at the R&D facility in
Alachua. She said it was ver y important, so I returned
her call while still in the parking lot. I got Lisa on her cell
phone, and she was very glad  to hear from me. Her voice
was un characteristically tense, and I realized that
something was  very wrong. She began by telling me that
I n eede d to come to work right away because the FBI was
there, a nd they wanted to se e me. My first thought was
about a federal marshal who  had come to the facility a
few years earlier looking for a prior employee. I asked
Lisa if they w ere looking for someone. She said, “No,
THE FBI is here—twelve to fifteen agents plus the
Sheriff’s Department. They’ve taken over the entire
facility. They’ve shut down all the phone lines and the
entire comput er system. This is a full-blown raid. Helicopters ar e flying overhead, agents are armed, and
there’s a search warrant. You need to come here right
away!”
I clearl y hear d the words she was saying, and I
understood the sense of urgency with which they were
said—but the situation was so absurd that I could not
relate to  it in any manner. It was like—maybe they have
the wrong address. I guess that’s why it didn’t disturb
me. In fact, it  sounded like it was going to be rather
exciting getting to show them they had made a mistake. I
asked Lisa what was going on. Why were they there? Shesaid she  had no idea, but apparently the same thing was
happening at our offices in Tampa and at corporate
headquarters i n New Jersey. She had been trying to call
Charlie Mele, our general counsel, but she couldn’t get
through. The phones wer e down corporatewide. I
assured her that I would be there right away. During the twenty-minute drive back to the office, I
tried ca lling ev eryone I could think of who might have
some informat ion. I still had absolutely no idea what was
going on when I pulled up to  the R&D facility. The front
drive was completely blocked off with Sheriff’s
Department vehicles, and the  employees showing up for
work were being turned awa y. I pulled up to a deputy
and identified myself. He made a call on his radio and
immediately signaled to the others to let me through. As
I drove  up the long and winding drive through the
beautiful hayf ields, law enforcement vehicles were
scattered every where. When I approached Building 1, I
saw th e Sheriff’s Depart ment’s forty-foot Mobile
Command Center stretched across our parking lot. We
had five buildings by then, and FBI and Sheriff’s
Department personnel were positioned around all of
them. There were, indeed, two helicopters buzzing
overhead. I think they ended  up being part of the media
coverage. I parked  in my normal spot a nd made my way into the
building. The place was swarming with law enforcement
officers. I was met by f our or five agents who
immediately w alked me into the back conference room
where I was to  spend the day. I requested that our in-
house attorney, Lisa, be present, and she was brought
into the room. The agents identified themselves as from
the FB I and Treasury Dep artment. They were very
professional and businesslike. I was presented with a
search warrant, which Lisa had already reviewed, and I
was informed that the warra nt gave them full control of
the facility. They had the righ t to take any and all itemsthat fell  within  the itemized c ategories. They asked me to
sign a paper acknowledging that I had been served the
warrant. I glanced at Lisa, an d she nodded that I should
sign. I had a bsolutely no idea what to do; I was
completely out of my element. The only frame of
reference I had for this sort o f thing was the movies, and
I doubted that was going to be of much help. I as ked the ag ents in charge if they could help me
understand what was going on. They didn’t say much


“Backed	by	well-documented,	peer-reviewed	studies	and	overwhelming
statistics	the	case	for	a	vegetarian	diet	as	a	foundation	for	a	healthy	life-style
has	never	been	stronger.”
—B
RADLEY
	S
AUL
,	OrganicAthlete.com
The
China	Study
	is	the	most	important	book	on	nutrition	and	health	to	come
out	in	the	last	seventy-five	years. Everyone	should	read	it,	and	it	should	be	the
model	for	all	nutrition	programs	taught	at	universities. The	reading	is
engrossing	if	not	astounding. The	science	is	conclusive. Dr.	Campbell’s
integrity	and	commitment	to	truthful	nutrition	education	shine	through.”
—D
AVID
	K
LEIN
,	Publisher/Editor
Living
Nutrition	Magazine
“
The	China	Study
	describes	a	monumental	survey	of	diet	and	death	rates	from
cancer	in	more	than	2,400	Chinese	counties	and	the	equally	monumental
efforts	to	explore	its	significance	and	implications	for	nutrition	and	health. Dr.
Campbell	and	his	son,	Thomas,	have	written	a	lively,	provocative	and
important	book	that	deserves	widespread	attention.”
—F
RANK
	R
HODES
,	P
H
.D. President	(1978-1995)	Emeritus,	Cornell	University
“Colin	Campbell’s
The	China	Study
	is	an	important	book,	and	a	highly
readable	one. With	his	son,	Tom,	Colin	studies	the	relationship	between	dietand	disease,	and	his	conclusions	are	startling. The	China	Study
	is	a	story	that
needs	to	be	heard.”
—R
OBERT
	C.	R
ICHARDSON
,	P
H
.D. Nobel	Prize	Winner,	Professor	of	Physics
and	Vice	Provost	of	Research,	Cornell	University
The
China	Study
	is	the	account	of	a	ground-breaking	research	study	that
provides	the	answers	long	sought	by	physicians,	scientists	and	health-
conscious	readers. Based	on	painstaking	investigations	over	many	years,	it
unearths	surprising	answers	to	the	most	important	nutritional	questions	of	our
time:	What	really	causes	cancer? How	can	we	extend	our	lives? What	will
turn	around	the	obesity	epidemic? The	China	Study
	quickly	and	easily
dispenses	with	fad	diets,	relying	on	solid	and	convincing	evidence. Clearly
and	beautifully	written	by	one	of	the	world’s	most	respected	nutrition
authorities,
The	China	Study
	represents	a	major	turning	point	in	our
understanding	of	health.”
—N
EAL
	B
ARNARD
,	M.D.,	President
Physician’s	Committee	for	Responsible	Medicine
“Everyone	in	the	field	of	nutrition	science	stands	on	the	shoulders	of	T.	Colin
Campbell,	who	is	one	of	the	giants	in	the	field. This	is	one	of	the	most
important	books	about	nutrition	ever	written—reading	it	may	save	your	life.”
—D
EAN
	O
RNISH
,	M.D.,	Founder	&	President
Preventive	Medicine	Research	Institute	Clinical	Professor	of	Medicine,
University	of	California,	San	Francisco
Author,
Dr.	Dean	Ornish’s	Program	for	Reversing	Heart	Disease
	and
Love	&
Survival
“
The	China	Study
	is	the	most	convincing	evidence	yet	on	preventing	heart
disease,	cancer	and	other	Western	diseases	by	dietary	means. It	is	the	book	of
choice	both	for	economically	developed	countries	and	for	countries
undergoing	rapid	economical	transition	and	lifestyle	change.”
—-J
UNSHI
	C
HEN
,	M.D.,	P
H
.D.,	Senior	Research	Professor
Institute	of	Nutrition	and	Food	Safety,
Chinese	Center	for	Disease	Control	and	Prevention
“All	concerned	with	the	obesity	epidemic,	their	own	health,	and	thestaggering	environmental	and	social	impacts	of	the	Western	diet	will	find
wise	and	practical	solutions	in	Dr.	Campbell’s
The	China	Study.”
—R
OBERT
	G
OODLAND
,	Lead	Advisor	on	the	Environment
The	World	Bank	Group	(1978-2001)
“Dr. Campbell’s	book
The	China	Study
	is	a	moving	and	insightful	history	of
the	struggle—still	ongoing—to	understand	and	explain	the	vital	connection
between	our	health	and	what	we	eat. Dr.	Campbell	knows	this	subject	from
the	inside:	he	has	pioneered	the	investigation	of	the
diet-cancer	link	since	the
days	of	the	seminal	China	Study,	the	NAS	report,
Diet,	Nutrition	and	Cancer
and	AICR’s	expert	panel	report,
Food,	Nutrition	and	the	Prevention	of
Cancer:	A	Global	Perspective. Consequently,	he	is	able	to	illuminate	every
aspect	of	this	question. Today,	AICR	advocates	a
predominantly	plant-based
diet
	for	lower	cancer	risk	because	of	the	great	work	Dr.	Campbell	and	just	a
few	other	visionaries	began	twenty-five	years	ago.”
—M
ARILYN
	G
ENTRY
,	President
American	Institute	for	Cancer	Research
The
China	Study
	is	a	well-documented	analysis	of	the	fallacies	of	the	modern
diet,	lifestyle	and	medicine	and	the	quick	fix	approach	that	often	fails. The
lessons	from	China	provide	compelling	rationale	for	a	plant-based	diet	to
promote	health	and	reduce	the	risk	of	the	diseases	of	affluence.”
—S
USHMA
	P
ALMER
,	P
H
.D.,	Former	Executive	Director
Food	and	Nutrition	Board,	U.S.	National	Academy	of	Sciences
The
China	Study
	is	extraordinarily	helpful,	superbly	written	and	profoundly
important. Dr.	Campbell’s	work	is	revolutionary	in	its	implications	and
spectacular	in	its	clarity. I	learned	an	immense	amount	from	this	brave	and
wise	book. If	you	want	to	eat	bacon	and	eggs	for	breakfast	and	then	take
cholesterol-lowering	medication,	that’s	your	right. But	if	you	want	to	truly
take	charge	of	your	health,	read
The	China	Study
	and	do	it	soon! If	you	heed
the	counsel	of	this	outstanding	guide,	your	body	will	thank	you	every	day	for
the	rest	of	your	life.”
—J
OHN
	R
OBBINS
,	Author	of	the	Best-Selling	Books
Diet	for	a	New	America
	and
The	Food	Revolution
“
The	China	Study
	is	a	rare	treat. Finally,	a	world-renowned	nutritional	scholarhas	explained	the	truth	about	diet	and	health	in	a	way	that	everyone	can	easily
understand—a	startling	truth	that	everyone	needs	to	know. In	this	superb
volume,	Dr.	Campbell	has	distilled,	with	his	son	Tom,	for	us	the	wisdom	of
his	brilliant	career. If	you	feel	any	confusion	about	how	to	find	the	healthiest
path	for	yourself	and	your	family,	you	will	find	precious	answers	in
The
China	Study. Don’t	miss	it!”
—D
OUGLAS
	J.	L
ISLE
,	P
H
.D.,	&	Alan	Goldhamer,	D.C. Authors	of
The	Pleasure	Trap:	Mastering	the	Hidden	Force
That	Undermines	Health	and	Happiness
“So	many	diet	and	health	books	contain	conflicting	advice,	but	most	have	one
thing	in	common—an	agenda	to	sell	something. Dr.	Campbell’s	only	agenda
is	truth. As	a	distinguished	professor	at	Cornell


landmark	report. They	knew	that	the	report	could	greatly	influence	national	opinion	about	diet
and	disease. Mostly,	they	feared	that	the	great	American	diet	was	going	to	be
challenged,	perhaps	even	called	a	possible	cause	of	cancer. James	S.	Turner,	chairman	of	a	related	Consumer	Liaison	Panel	within	the
NAS,	was	critical	of	the	Food	and	Nutrition	Board	and	wrote,	“We	can	only
conclude	that	the	[Food	and	Nutrition]	Board	is	dominated	by	a	group	of
change-resistant	scientists	who	share	a	rather	isolated	view	about	diet	and
disease.”
3
After	being	denied	control	of	this	promising	new	report	on	diet,	nutrition
and	cancer,	the	pro-industry	Board	needed	to	do	some	damage	control. An
alternate	group	was	quickly	established	elsewhere:	the
new	Public	Nutrition
Information	Committee. Who	were	the	leaders	of	the	new	Public	Nutrition
Information	Committee? Bob	Olson,	Alfred	Harper	and	Tom	Jukes,	a	long-
time	industry	scientist,	each	of	whom	held	a	university	faculty	position. I	wasinitially	innocent	of	the	group’s	purpose,	but	by	our	first	meeting	in	the	spring
of	1980,	I	had	discovered	that,	of	the	eighteen	members	on	that	committee,	I
was	the	only	individual	who	did	not	have	ties	to	the	commercial	world	of
food	and	drug	companies	and	their	coalitions. This	committee	was	a	stacked	deck;	its	members	were	entrenched	in	the
status	quo. Their	professional	associations,	their	friends,	the	people	they
fraternized	with,	were	all	pro-industry. They	enjoyed	the	meaty	American	diet
themselves	and	were	unwilling	to	consider	the	possibility	that	their	views
were	wrong. In	addition,	some	of	them	enjoyed	handsome	benefits,	including
first-class	travel	expenses	and	nice	consulting	fees,	paid	by	animal	foods
companies. Although	there	was	nothing	illegal	about	any	of	these	activities,	it
certainly	laid	bare	a	serious	conflict	of	interest	that	put	most	of	the	committee
members	at	odds	with	the	public	interest. This	is	analogous	to	the	situation,	as	it	unfolded,	surrounding	cigarettes
and	health. When	scientific	evidence	first	emerged	to	show	that	cigarettes
were	dangerous,	there	were	hordes	of	health	professionals	who	vigorously
defended	smoking. For	example,	the
Journal	of	the	American	Medical
Association
	continued	to	advertise	tobacco	products,	and	many	others	played
their	part	to	staunchly	defend	tobacco	use. In	many	cases,	these	scientists
were	motivated	by	understandable	caution. But	there	were	quite	a	few	others,
particularly	as	the	evidence	against	tobacco	mounted,	whose	motivations
were	clearly	personal	bias	and	greed. So	there	I	was,	on	a	committee	that	was	to	judge	the	merit	of	nutrition
information,	a	committee	that	was	comprised	of	some	of	the	most	powerful
pro-industry	scientists. I	was	the	only	one	not	hand-picked	by	the	industry
cronies,	as	I	was	there	at	the	behest	of	the	director	of	the	FASEB	public
affairs	office. At	that	point	in	my	career,	I	had	not	formed	any	particularly
strong	views	for	or	against	the	standard	American	diet. More	than	anything,	I
was	interested	in	promoting	honest,	open	debate—something	that	would
immediately	put	me	at	odds	with	this	new	organization.THE	FIRST	MEETING
From	the	first	moment	of	the	first	meeting	in	April	1980,	I	knew	I	was	the
chicken	who	had	wandered	into	a	fox’s	den,	although	I	went	in	with	high
hopes	and	an	open,	though	naive,	mind. After	all,	lots	of	scientists,	myself
included,	have	consulted	with	companies	while	working	to	maintain	an
objective	mind	in	the	best	interest	of	the	public	health. In	the	second	session	of	our	first	committee	meeting	the	chairman,	Tom
Jukes,	passed	around	a	proposed	news	release,	handwritten	by	himself,
regarding	the	mission	of	the	committee. In	addition	to	announcing	our
formation,	the	news	release	listed	examples	of	the	kind	of	nutrition	frauds	that
our	committee	intended	to	expose. As	I	scanned	the	list	of	so-called	frauds,	I	was	stunned	to	see	the	1977
McGovern	dietary	goals
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	on	the	list. First	drafted	in	1976,	these	relatively
modest	goals	suggested	that	less	meat	and	fat	consumption	and	more	fruit	and
vegetable	consumption	might	prevent	heart	disease. In	this	proposed	news
release,	they	were	described	as	nothing	more	than	simple	quackery,	just	like
the	widely	condemned	Laetrile	and	pangamic	acid	preparations. In	essence,
the	recommendation	to	shift	our	eating	habits	to	more	fruits	and	vegetables
and	whole	grains	was	a	fraud. This	was	the	committee’s	attempt	to
demonstrate	their	ability	to	be	the	supreme	arbiter	of	reliable	scientific
information! Having	looked	forward	to	my	membership	on	this	new	committee,	I	was
shocked	to	see	what	was	emerging. Although	I	had	no	particular	predilection
toward	any	one	type	of	diet	at	the	time,	I	knew	that	the	landmark	diet,
nutrition	and	cancer	panel	that	I	was	on	at	the	National	Academy	of	Sciences
would	likely	recommend	something	similar	to	McGovern’s	goals,	this	time
citing	cancer	research	instead	of	heart	disease	research. The	scientific	results
with	which	I	was	familiar	very	clearly	seemed	to	justify	the	moderate
recommendations	made	by	McGovern’s	dietary	goals	committee. Sitting	next	to	me	at	our	first	meeting	was	Alf	Harper,	whom	I	had	held	in
high	esteem	since	our	days	at	MIT	where	he	was	the	General	Foods	Professor
of	Nutritional	Sciences. Early	in	the	meeting,	when	this	handwritten	proposed
news	release	was	passed	out	to	the	committee	members,	I	leaned	over	to
Harper	and	pointed	to	the	place	where	it	listed	McGovern’s	dietary	goals
amongst	other	common	scams	and	whispered	incredulously,	“Do	you	see
this?”
Harper	could	sense	my	unease,	even	disbelief,	and	so	quickly	spoke
up. In
a	patronizing	tone,	he	said	to	the	group,	“There	are	honorable	people	in	our
society	who	may	not	necessarily	agree	with	this	list. Perhaps	we	should	put	iton	hold.”	A	reluctant	discussion	ensued,	and	they	decided	to	forgo	the
proposed	press	release. With	the	conclusion	of	the	news	release	issue,	the	meeting	came	to	an	end. As	far	as	I	was	concerned,	it	was	a	dubious	beginning,	at	best. A	couple	of	weeks	later,	back	in	upstate	New	York,	I	turned	on	a	morning
TV	news	show	and	Tom	Brokaw	appeared	on	the	screen	and	started	talking
about	nutrition	with	Bob	Olson,	of	all	people. They	were	discussing	a	recent
report	that	Olson	and	friends	had	produced	at	the	National	Academy	of
Sciences	called	“Toward	Healthful	Diets.”	This	report,	which	was	one	of	the
briefest,	most	superficial	reports	on	health	ever	produced	by	the	NAS,
extol


 given further
clarification through observations of animal life by biologists
and zoologists. In addition, a number of physicians have
applied nutritive knowledge on the effects of cooking to
clinical
practice, and the results give a clear picture of this phase of nutrition. Incidental facts and reports, given in many
texts and journals of nutrition and medicine, tell the story of
heat-processing foods as it is related to human health. Correlation of these important facts in the science of
nutrition has been inadequate, however, and as a result few
dietitians and physicians are familiar with sufficient data to enable them to make application of the knowledge in their
practice. The layman is equall y unfamiliar with the necessary
facts and hence fails to apply them in his own life. As a result
most nutritional thought has, and continues to be, centered
upon the selection of foods, with little thought as to the preparation of foods. The different foodstuffs have been
divided into classes, depending upon the source of supply,
and recommendations have been made on the basis of
"balancing" the diet correctly between the different food
types. This has been the essence of nutrition in practice, both for preventive and therapeutic purposes. People have thought
far more of what they should eat than they have of how they
should prepare the foods they do eat. From the standpoint of modern nutritional science, this state
of thought is based upon fallacy and tends to lead to much
confusion in the planning of nutritional regimes. Selection of
foods is of worthy consideration, but it falls far short when not combined with adequate knowledge of how the respective
foods should be used. Actually, far more research has been
done on the effects of different methods of food processing,
particularly heat-processing, than has been done on a
comparison of different food types in an identical physical state. Often, when different food types have been compared,
no thought has been given to the different conditions under
which the foods have been prepared. Consequently the designation of "protective foods" in modern nutrition pertains
more accurately to foods in a certain and earlier stage of processing than it does to foods of a certain type and source. This all finds important correlation with our concept of the
elixir of life. Essentially raw f ood constitutes the elixir of life. Used as a small fraction of the normal diet—perhaps ten per
cent or less—it is often sufficiently potent to preserve life and is capable of sustaining the state of health seen in civilization. Used in greater amounts, it provides correspondingly more
noticeable and effective results. Used as the exclusive source
of nutriment, it becomes an elixir of extreme potency which
effects an astonishing transformation in physiological
efficiency throughout the body. In this treatise we shall consider raw food in all of its
ramifications and uses. The
purpose is to determine both the theoretical and practical value of raw food in comparison
with the same values for heat-processed food. Our guides in
this determination are strictly scientific and involve in their
final conclusions only the established facts which have found general acceptance in the science of nutrition. The analysis as
a whole may show the way to a practical and effective mode
of human nutrition, as well as indicate the therapeutic
possibilities and medical properties of raw foods. 2
RAW FOOD IN CHEMICAL
COMPOSITION
THE VALUE OF FOOD in animal and human nutrition is
dependent largely upon its chemical composition. The essential nutrients of food are proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and vitamins. Hormones and enzymes also play a
role of some importance. When the body receives adequate
quantities of these nutritional factors, with minimum
quantities of toxic and non-usable factors, the body responds
favorably and functions in a state of health. As the proper balance is altered, with decrease of the necessary nutrients,
and increase of the toxic substances, the body fails to operate
at optimum efficiency and various manifestations of disease
tend to develop. The application of heat to plant or animal substances tends
to produce marked changes in chemical composition. These
have been carefully determined in accurate tests by many nutritional scientists. The data on the subject is voluminous
and covers the majority of common foods and the majority of
elements and activators in nutrition. The effects of cooking
may then be determined, and to some degree measured,
insofar as they relate to the destruction of essential nutrients
and the consequent impairment of the food in question. E
NZYMES
   The presence of enzymes determines the "life" of foods. Enzymes are catalysts manufactured by the living cells of
plant or animal tissue to carry out the chemical processes
which are necessary for the cells to continue their existence as a living force. When the enzymes of a seed are destroyed,
the seed has lost its potency for growth and is described as
being "dead.'Indeed the status of being "alive" or "dead" in
all foods may be defined according to the presence of
enzymes. Some of the more common enzymes found in raw food are protease, lactase, lipase, diastase, catalase,
salolalase, peroxidase, aldehydase, phosphatase and amaylase. It is noteworthy that all enzymes are heat-labile. Indeed,
they are destroyed at temperatures which have little effect on
some minerals and vitamins. Enz
yme destruction starts at about 118 degrees F, and by the time a temperature of 140
degrees F. is reached, all enzymes have been lost. Thus the
comparatively low temperatures used in pasteurizing milk,
and in cooking other foods by the most advanced low-heat methods, still destroy every enzyme found in food. As all of
the inter-related chemical reactions of living matter are
controlled by enzymes, the destruction of the enzymes during
all cooking processes may lower the quality of food and
render it less suitable for the sustenance of life in the human
body. M
INERALS AND VITAMINS
   Of great importance in consideration of cooking is the loss
of minerals, which occurs in varying degrees in all cases. Many of the minerals are water-soluble, and hence they are
dissolved out of the food into the cooking water, which in
turn is usually discarded. Phosphorus, calcium, iron, iodine,
sulphur, copper, and the trace minerals are those usually lost in this way. The total loss may vary from as little as five to
ten per cent to as high as nearly100 per cent, depending upon
the mineral in question, the food being cooked, the amount of
water present with the food, the temperature, and the length
of the heating process. The average loss under the usual commercial methods of preparing vegetables is about 50 per
cent of the minerals originally present in the foods. When
vegetables are lightly steamed the average loss is only about
one-third this much. With the "waterless" cooking utensils,
which distribute the heat evenly throughout all sides of the container and thus prevent burning with little or no water, the
loss is also reduced. When large amounts of cooking water
are used, but served with the food, the consumer still receives the soluble minerals. It is believed that certain minerals may
be damaged by heat even though they are not lost. This is due
to the change brought about in their physico-chemical state
which renders them less soluble and hence less assimilable by the body. Vitamins are lost in the cooking process in two ways. Some, such as carotene and vitamins A and C, are destroyed when the plant enzymes cause the vitamins to combine with
oxygen, thus inducing oxidation. Certain others are not
destroyed, but they are soluble in water and hence dissolved
out of the food. Vitamin D and some of the B complex
vitamins are lost in this manner. The amount of heat necessary to reduce the vitamin content of foods is not great. Even the comparatively low application of heat as used in
pasteurization of milk destroys much of the vitamin A and
enou
gh (25 to 50 per cent ) of the vitamin C to eliminate the milk's antiscorbutic qualities. Of the B vitamin group, much
of the riboflavin, pantothenic acid, and pyridoxine, about half
of the inositol, and most of the folic acid and thiamine are lost
when foods are cooked in the usual manner. As is the case with minerals, the losses are less, though significant, if the
food is steamed. In all cases the less heat applied and the shorter the cooking time, the less is the total amount of loss. P
ROTEINS AND FATS
   Cooking tends to coagulate the proteins of food and, with
the exception of egg white, render them less digestible. Some
of the sensitive amines are changed by heat, and others are
destroyed. Both the cystine and cysteine are so denatured in the presence of heat and water that, according to Ragner
Berg, they are "rendered valueless for nutritive purposes. " The most important of all protein components, lysine, is
destroyed by heat, as is the essential glutamine. Other protein
factors are transformed and modified to lower forms and
hence rendered less available to the body. Cooking decidedly alters the fat of food and usually renders
it less digestible. In the process of frying, the fat so permeates
the food and surrounds the individual food particles that they
do not readily yield to the action of digestive juices. For this reason foods which are fried in fat are very difficult to digest. If sufficiently high temperatures are


ipa tion. Laxatives, taken as an aid in elimination, either act to increase the amount of liquid retained in the feces, or act as a l ubricant to
allow for easy passage. Oftentimes laxatives are compounded to be an irritant or poison and stimulate the muscle walls to cau se
abnormal contractions to expel the irritating substances. It is very easy to become dependent upon these drugs and t hereby
permanently destroy normal bowel function. The expulsion of liquid feces or diarrhea, can be produced by excessive use of
laxatives, nervous stress, infection or the presence of toxic substances in the bowel. Proper bowel management enhances the
natural flow and rhythm of the digestive organs providing regular, painless and efficient functioning as described in this chapt er. THE SHAPE OF THE COLON
A healthy, normally functioning bowel is shaped as seen in the illustration on the next page. The cecum is located in the lower
right abdomen. From there the bowel rises up into the ascending colon until it reaches the first turn toward the left. This t urning
point is called the hepatic flexure because of its proximity to the liver. From there the bowe l travels across the abdomen beneath
the stomach until it reaches the second turn called the splenic flexure. This section of the bowel, the transverse colon, is the only
organ within the body that makes a transit from right to left. In a normal bowel the transverse colon makes a slightly upward grade
to the splenic flexure. From the splenic flexure, the bowel moves down as the descending colon until it reaches the sigmoid c olon
just above the rectum. Here in the sigmoid is the holding place for feces waiti ng to be eliminated. The rectum continues from the
sigmoid and makes an ‘s’ -like bend into the anus where the anal sphincter muscle is found. NORMAL DIGESTIVE TRACT
CHAPTER 3
AUTOINTOXICATION
In the preceding chapter, I discussed the anatomical and phy siological functioning of an idealized bowel. Unfortunately, there are
many obstacles we must be aware of that interfere with this ideal. Autointoxication is the result of faulty bowel functioning  which
produces undesirable consequences in the body and is the root cause of many of today’s diseases and illnesses. If we can make the
analogy of the large intestine, or colon being the body’s waste disposal or sewer system, we can begin to understand the proc ess
more clearly. Imagine what would be the result of a pump failure in a city’s sewer system or what would happen if all the pipes got
plugged up with some unmovable material so that the system failed to move waste? It wouldn’t take very long before a crisis
developed and a huge sanitation problem would thre aten health and society. From open sewers in the past sprang the devastating
plagues and diseases that literally destroyed whole cities and populations. When the sewer backs up, we have an immediate hea lth
problem potential. Call the plumber! In addition t o the above scenario there is the possibility that the proper functioning of the
waste elimination and treatment process can be shut down due to a power failure. The works themselves are O.K. but the energy
that feeds all the machinery is shut off or is on ly partially available. We can liken this to what happens in our bodies when food is
nutritionally deficient and fails to give us energy. All the above conditions are being experienced in our bowels today. Why? The
full explanation would fill volumes and v olumes. We can distill the main causes for brevity and still get the message however. Basically, modern civilization, especially the industrialized nations, have the greatest bowel disturbances. We find that nat ive
peoples living close to the land and natu re do not experience these problems and such diseases as diverticulitis and colitis are
virtually unknown. So what is it that makes these bowel disturbances in our culture? It’s hard to point a finger at any one a spect in
particular because they are all co ntributing in varying degrees. Individuals suffer from one aspect more intensely than another due
to environmental factors and personal living habits. In general, the overall major contributing factor is our straying away from a simple, natural lifestyle,  wherein all the preconditions
for happy, healthy living are found. We find that the further we stray from natural processes and the more we depend upon
unnatural and artificial processes our disease and illness increase in frequency and intensity. In part icular, we find that the food
situation has contributed most heavily to imbalances in people’s bodies today. The way we grow, harvest, process and market o ur
food is at the root of much disharmony in our population. Economic factors have totally overruled all other considerations in food
marketing and distribution. Vital, nourishing, life -giving food simply cannot be had when it is treated as it is today. Unfortunately our foods are hybridized to promote high yields, follow specific climatic conditions, mee t harvesting and processing
requirements, and have economically advantageous marketing and shelf life characteristics. Nutrient quality, freshness, taste  and
vitality as it becomes part of the human body is totally neglected. Processed, cooked, dried, roas ted, burned, chemicalized,
embalmed, preserved foods do not react well in the human body. In fact, they produce very unpleasant things, as you will witn ess
later in this book. Anyone who is aware of health conditions as they exist today is familiar with th e case against the present system
of food production. Therefore, let us go on to the other considerations that are responsible for bowel troubles today. As a r esult of
our poor food conditions, the body is not able to get the proper nutrition. Food grown o n poor soil does not have all the vitamins,
minerals and enzymes necessary for good health. Our people are growing up with shortages in their nutritional balance. These
shortages produce abberations in body chemistry which reflect in disease, illness and u nbalanced mental states. Additionally, processed, devitalized foods are notoriously lacking in fiber and bulk. They tend to be dry, goopy, sticky and pasty. They do not do well in making the transit in the bowel. They have a tendency to stick to the inside s like glue and are difficult to
move out. A constant diet of this kind of food puts one upon the path to all the things we are going to discuss in this book. Unfortunately this process gets started early in life. Other factors we should consider in auto intoxication are the stresses and tensions put on the members of modern society. When the
body is under stress and strain, as is so often en -countered today, it needs an extra amount of nutrition to cope with the increased
needs caused by this stress. Sadl y, the food eaten is so deficient that the body is always in a state of “catching up!” Never getting
what is required, a vicious cycle is set up where starvation of vital tissues begins to occur. This situation is in itself st ress
producing and vitality re ducing. Symptoms such as lack of energy, tiredness, irritability, restlessness, intolerance, quarrel -
someness, fatigue, lack of endurance and increasing frequency of illness are all products of the things I’ve been discussing. Now let’s combine these condi tions and see what happens. First of all, the sewer lines are beginning to get plugged up because of
all the glue in the pipes. This causes a backing up of all systems. Waste material is staying around longer than it used to. There
hasn’t been a reduction in the need to eliminate those materials and therefore the machinery has not had a break, but must instead
labor even harder to move the same amount of materials. We find that more electricity is required to do this extra work and a ll
equipment is now oper ating at a higher wear rate and will require additional maintenance to keep it all going. The possibility of
equipment failure has increased due to the overload. Now imagine a brown out or worse yet, a complete failure in the energy
supply. All systems com e to a very sticky halt. When the bowel becomes encrusted with unexpelled fecal material due to poor
dietary habits, the absorption of vital nutrients slows down to the degree of encrustation. This is equivalent to a brown out. The
energy cycle is short ci rcuited and a downward spiral of tissue integrity ensues. In addition, the accumulations on the bowel wall
become a breeding ground for unhealthy bacterial life forms. They begin to multiply on this putrid, decaying material and the  stage
is set for seriou s consequences. The heavy mucus coating in the colon thickens and becomes a host for putrefaction. The blood
capillaries to the colon begin to pick up the toxins, poisons and noxious debris as it seeps through the bowel wall. All tiss ues and
organs of the body are now taking on toxic substances. Here is the beginning of true autointoxication on a physiological level. By this time, there is little to no existent friendly bacteria in the bowel. The colon has been completely overrun by harmful, toxin -
producing  virus and bacteria. The sewer is backed up and the power has been turned off. Call the doctor! It is an indisputable fact
that not only illness and old age, but even death are due to the accumulation of waste products of body chemistry and, on the  other
hand, to the inability of the body to replenish its cellular structures and organs with fresh vital nutrients. Therefore, immu nity and
freedom from disease can


 your awareness increases and the ego is no longer running
your life, you don't have to wait for your world to shrink or collapse
trough old age or personal tragedy in order for you to awaken to your
inner purpose. As the new consciousness is beginning to emer ge on the planet an
increasing number of people no longer need to be shaken to have an
awakening. They embrace the awakening process voluntarily even while
still engaged in the outward cycle of growth and expansion. When that
cycle is no longer usurped by the ego, the spiritual dimension will come
into this world through the outward movement thought, speech, action,
creation as powerfully as through the return movement stillness, Being,
and dissolution of form. Until now, human intelligence, which is no more than a minute aspect of
universal intelligence, has been distorted and misused by the ego. I call
that intelligence n the service of madness. Splitting the atom requires
great intelligence. Using that intelligence for building and stockpiling
atom bombs is insane or at best extremely unintelligent. Stupidity is
relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous. Thisintelligent stupidity, for which one could find countless obvious
examples, is threatening our survival as a species. W ithout he impairment of egoic dysfunction, our intelligence comes into
full alignment with the outgoing cycle of universal intelligence and its
impulse to create. W e become conscious participants in the creation of
form. It is not we who create, but universal intelligence that creates
through us. W e don't identify with what we create and so don't lose
ourselves in what we do. W e are learning that the act of creation may
involve ener gy of the highest intensity, but that is not hard work or
stressful. W e need to understand the dif ference between stress and
intensity, as we shall see. Struggle or stress is a sign that he ego has
returned, as are negative reactions when we encounter obstacles. The force behind the ego's wanting creates enemies, that is to say,
reaction in the form of an opposing force equal in intensity. The stronger
the ego, the stronger the sense of separateness between people. The only
actions
that do not cause opposing reactions are those that are aimed at the good
of all. They are inclusive, not exclusive. They join; they don't separate. They are not for my country but for all of humanity, not for my religion
but the emer gence of consciousness in all human beings, not for my
species but for all sentient beings and all of nature. W e are also learning that action, although necessary, is only a secondary
factor in manifesting our external reality. The primary factor in creation
is consciousness. No matter how active we are, how much ef fort we
make, our state of consciousness creates our world, and if there is no
change on that inner level, no amount of action will make any dif ference. W e would only re. create modified versions of the same world again and
again, a world that is an external reflection of the ego. A New Earth
C O N S C I O U S N E S S
Consciousness is already conscious. It is the unmanifested, the eternal. the universe, however, is only gradually becoming conscious. Consciousness itself is timeless and therefore does not evolve. It was
never born and does not die. When consciousness becomes the
manifested universe, it appears to be subject to time and to under go an
evolutionary process. No human mind is capable of comprehending fully
the reason for this process. But we can glimpse it within ourselves and
become a conscious participant in it. Consciousness is the intelligence, the or ganizing principle behind the
arising of form. Consciousness has been preparing forms for millions of
years so that it can express itself through them in the manifested. Although the unmanifested realm of pure consciousness could be
considered another dimension, it is not separate from this dimension of
form. Form and formlessness interpenetrate. the unmanifested flows into
this dimension as awareness, inner space, presence. How does it do that. Through the human form that becomes conscious and thus fulfills its
destiny. The human form was created for this higher purpose, and
millions of other forms prepared the ground for it. Consciousness incarnates into the manifested dimension, that is to say, it
becomes form. When it does so, it enters a dreamlike state. Intelligence
dreams, but consciousness becomes unconscious of itself. It loses itself
in form, becomes identified with form. This could be describe as the
descent of
the divine into matter. At that stage in the evolution of the universe, the
entire outgoing movement takes place in that dreamlike state. Glimpses
of awakening come only at the moment of the dissolution of an
individual form, that is to say, death. And then begins the next
incarnation, the next identification with form, the next individual dream
that is part of the collective dream. When the lion tears apart the body of
the zebra, the consciousness that incarnated into the zebra. form detachesitself from the dissolving form and for a brief moment awakens to its
essential immortal nature as consciousness; and then immediately falls
back into sleep and reincarnates into another form. When the lion
becomes old and cannot hunt anymore, as it draws its last breath, there is
again the briefest of glimpses of an awakening, followed by another
dream of form. On our planet, the human ego represents the final stage of universal
sleep, the identification of consciousness with form. It was a necessary
stage in the evolution of consciousness. The human brain is a highly dif ferentiated form through which
consciousness enters this dimension. It contains approximately one
hundred billion nerve cells (called neurons), about the same number as
there are stars in our galaxy, which could be seen as a macrocosmic
brain. The brain does not create consciousness, but consciousness
created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its
expression. When the brain gets damaged, it does not mean you lose
consciousness. It means consciousness can no longer use that form to
enter this dimension. Y ou cannot lose consciousness because it is, in
essence, who you are. Y ou can only lose something that you have, but
you cannot lose something that you are. A New Earth
A W A K E N E D  D O I N G
A wakened doing is the outer aspect of the next stage in the evolution of
consciousness on our planet. The closer we get to the end of our present
evolutionary stage, the more dysfunctional the ego becomes, in the same
way that a caterpillar becomes dysfunctional just before it transforms
into a butterfly. But the new consciousness is arising even as the old
dissolves. W e are in the midst of a momentous event in the evolution of human
consciousness, but they won't be talking about it in the news tonight. On
our planet, and perhaps simultaneously in many parts of our galaxy and
beyond,
consciousness is awakening from the dream of form. This does not mean
all forms (the world) are going to dissolve, although quite a few almost
certainly will. It means consciousness can now begin to create form
without losing itself in it. It can remain conscious of itself, even while it
creates and experiences form. Why should it continue to create and
experience form. For the enjoyment of it. How does consciousness do
that. Through awakened humans who have learned the meaning of
awakened doing. A wakened doing is the alignment of your outer purpose. what you do
with your inner purpose awakening and staying awake. Through
awakened doing, you become one with the outgoing purpose of the
universe. Consciousness flows through you into this world. It flows into
your thoughts and inspires them. It flows into what you do and guides
and empowers it. Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you
are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined
by your state of consciousness. A reversal of your priorities comes about when the main purpose for
doing what you do becomes the doing itself, or rather, the current ofconsciousness that flows into what you do. That current of consciousness
is what determines quality. Another way of putting it: In any situation
and in whatever you do, your state of consciousness is the primary
factor; the situation and what you do is secondary. Future success is
dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the
actions emanate. That can be either the reactive force of the ego or the
alert attention of awakened consciousness. All truly successful action
comes out of that field of alert attention, rather than from ego and
conditioned, unconscious thinking. A New Earth
T H E  T H R E E  M O D A L I T I E S  O F  A W A K E N E D
D O I N G
There are three ways in which consciousness can flow into what you do
and thus through you into this world, three modalities in which you can
align your life with the creative power of the universe. Modality means
the underlying ener gy. frequency that flows into what you do and
connects your actions with the awakened consciousness hat is emer ging
into this world. What you do will be dysfunctional and of the ego unless
it arises out of one of these three modalities. They may change during the
course of a day,
although one


, the consequences may be adverse in certain respects. Normal physiological function is disturbed by the ingestion of large quantities of hormone substances. One of the most common
risks believed associated with the consumption of hormonized
flesh is that of causing sterility in the male. Another risk involves
the possibIe production of cancer. Four distinguished physicians,
Dr. G. F. Knight and Dr. W. C. Martin of the American
Academy of Medicine, Dr. R. Inglesias of the University of Chile,
and Dr. W. F. Smith of New York, have written a simultaneous
report on the risks of hormone injections which was submitted
to the Food and Drug Commissioner of the United States
government. Among other evidence, the report points out that
mice, rats, and guinea pigs given the hormones developed polyps,
fibroids, and tumors and soon wasted away and perished. The
physicians concluded that the introduction of hormones into
the food supply presented the problem of cancer exposure in
human beings from birth onward. I It has been objected that, with reference to poultry, the area
of the animal in which the stilbestrol pellets are implanted is
removed and thrown away, so that no unabsorbed stilbestrol
reaches the consumer. This may be an acceptable theory to many,
but it does not work out well in practice. Occasional sampling by
the Food and Drug Administration of stilbestrol-treated chick-
< ens which are shipped in interstate commerce reveals the fact
that some 60 per cent of the sampled birds still contain portions
of unabsorbed stilbestrol in areas which would remain with the
consumer after the normal severing of the head from the carcass. Hormonized flesh, therefore, is not acceptable in any plan of
good nutrition. Whenever possible the normal flesh of non-
treated animals should be given preference to that which has
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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA I. The Science of Nutrition
11. Common Salt. 111. Refined Grain Products. IV. Refined Sugar. v. Meatproducts. VI. Fish Liver Oil. VII. Milk. VIII. Cheese. IX. Canned Foods. x. Condiments. XI. Alcoholic Beverages. XII. Coffee, Tea, and Cocoa. XIII. SoftDrinks. XIV. Drinking Water. xv. Confections. XVI. Ice Cream. XVII. The Practical Application
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A LL HUMAN LIFE CENTERS AROUND
food. For perhaps ninety per cent of the earth's population, the
problem is simply one of getting enough food to survive. For the
remaining ten per cent, including most Americans, the problem
is to select the most appropriate foods from the great abundance
i that is available. It is here that the power of selection may be
instrumental in determining the full course of human life. It may
lead to a condition of vital, vibrant health, or it may lead to
disease and premature death. Unfortunately, this power of selec-
tion usually follows the latter course. Due to careless and indis-
criminate use, without the slightest concern for the science of
nutrition, it has become one of the prime causes of physical
deterioration in man. If only natural foods were available for human consumption,
the question of selection would not assume such great importance. But natural foods comprise only a very small portion of the mod-
ern dietary. Our foods are usually deficient in necessary nutri-
tional factors, and they contain excessive quantities of harmful
substances. The deficiencies result largely from current methods
of refining and processing foods, and the presence of harmful
substances is due in some cases to the natural composition of the
original foods, but more often to the addition of poisonous chem-
icals or purified nutrients in the manufacture of food products. The possible presence of strontium-go or other radioactive ele-
ments in food products is also assuming increasing importance. The best example of the adulteration and poisoning of our
general food supply may be noted in a report of the U. S. Food
[31 DANGERS IN MODERN FOODS THE SCIENCE OF NUTRITION
and Drug Administration, which has estimated that 704 chem-
icals are presently used in or on foods. Of these, only 428 are
considered relatively safe. The remaining 276 chemicals have
either not been tested sufficiently to assure their safety or they
are considered definitely poisonous by nutritionists and health
officials. However, it must be recognized that even the 428 "safe"
chemicals are designated as such only insofar as they have not yet
been incriminated as specific causes of disease in the amounts
used. In instance after instance, chemicals which had previously
been certified as "safe" are found quite harmful and later banned
from use in food. It must be understood that no prior clearance or testing is
required for any new chemical additive to be used in food prod-
ucts. Actually a poison may be consumed regularly year after year
by millions of people before its use in food is questioned. Some
chemicals are not even tested until a long series of complaints
from consumers are received. The Food and Drug Administration
may ban use of a poison in food only after it has been proven
decidedly harmful to humans in the amounts used, and that may
require years of investigations, hearings, and trials, during which
time there is no consumer protection. Once the poison is pro-
hibited, there is nothing to prevent the manufacturer from using
another, equally as harmful, for the same purpose. Thus our
protection from toxic chemicals in food products rests upon an
inadequate law which offers limited protection only after one has
been poisoned. This is very important in the science of nutrition, for the nu-
tritionist believes that the basic causes of most forms of disease
are based upon the chemistry of the body. Deficiencies of essen-
tial chemicals, and excesses of toxic substances, completely upset
the normal physiological activity of the body, lower its basic
efficiency, and induce the development of disease. A proper chem-
ical balance is necessary to assure good health and freedom from
disease. This can only be established through consumption of
foods, which are in themselves complete nutritional units. There
must be adequate amounts of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, min- erals, vitamins, enzymes, and hormones, and these must be com-
bined in a manner which permits the full utilization of all food
factors. At the same time, the foods must be free from toxic
substances which can interfere with digestion, assimilation, and
metabolism, and act as a general barrier to physiological efficiency. To the degree that the finished food pattern meets all of these
requirements is its biological value rated. This is the viewpoint of modern nutrition. It is not necessarily
the viewpoint of every branch of medicine. Some theories as to
the nature and cause of disease are based upon bacteriology;
others find their foundation in the mind and nervous system, and
chiropractic and related fields give disease a mechanical basis. It is not our purpose here to consider the value of each. Each
theory may be applicable in certain cases, but the nutritionist
believes that his has a greater application over a wider variety of
conditions than any other. He states that the bacteriological,
mental, and mechanical conditions of the body are dependent to
a large degree upon the initial state of chemical balance. Today many people are familiar with nutritional theory and
isolated segments of biochemical data. Less well known, however,
are the total implications of the numerous dietary experiments
and the practical application to human life of all knowledge thus
gained. Here we shall consider this latter phase of nutritional
science, as it is related to the quality and value of our most com-
mon foodstuffs. At the same time the theoretical value of the
foods will be reviewed from the standpoint of chemistry, in its
possible relation to the experimental and clinical results. The
conclusions thus arrived at may not coincide with our past con-
cepts as to what constitutes an adequate diet, nor will they
necessarily agree with the nutritional implications associated with
the commercial distribution of many common foods. They are,
however, factual and accurate as regards present knowledge of
t nutrition. They may help to point the way to a more practical
mode of human dietary habits, as well as act as a limited guide
for constructive and healthful meal planning. COMMON SALT
II. Common Salt
s ALT IS A CHEMICAL COMBINATION
of the


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reviewed at length the researches that I had conducted to throw light on this problem. The
evidence seemed to indicate clearly that the forces that were at work were not to be found in the
diseased tissues, but that the undesirable conditions were the result of the absence of something,
rather than of the presence of something. This strongly indicated the need for finding groups of
individuals so physically perfect that they could be used as controls. In order to discover them, I
determined to search out primitive racial stocks that were free from the degenerative processes
with which we are concerned in order to note what they have that we do not have. These field
investigations have taken me to many parts of the world through a series of years. The following
chapters review the studies made of primitive groups, first, when still protected by their isolation,
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Chapter 3
ISOLATED AND MODERNIZED SWISS
IN ORDER to study the possibility of greater nutritive value in foods produced at a high
elevation, as indicated by a lowered incidence of morbidity, including tooth decay, I went to
Switzerland and made studies in two successive years, 1931 and 1932. It was my desire to find, if
possible, groups of Swiss living in a physical environment such that their isolation would compel
them to live largely on locally produced foods. Officials of the Swiss Government were consulted
as to the possibility of finding people in Switzerland whose physical isolation provided an adequate
protection. We were told that the physical conditions that would not permit people to obtain
modern foods would prevent us from reaching them without hardship. However, owing to the
completion of the Loetschberg Tunnel, eleven miles long, and the building of a railroad that crosses
the Loetschental Valley, at a little less than a mile above sea level, a group of about 2,000 people
had been made easily accessible for study, shortly prior to 1931. Practically all the human
requirements of the people in that valley, except a few items like sea salt, have been produced in
the valley for centuries. A bird's eye view of the Loetschental Valley, looking toward the entrance, is shown in Fig. 1. The people of this valley have a history covering more than a dozen centuries. The architecture of
their wooden buildings, some of them several centuries old, indicates a love for simple stability,
adapted to expediency and efficiency. Artistically designed mottoes, many of them centuries old,
are carved deep in the heavy supporting timbers, both within and without the buildings. They are
always expressive of devotion to cultural and spiritual values rather than to material values. These
people have never been conquered, although many efforts have been made to invade their valley. Except for the rugged cleft through which the river descends to the Rhone Valley, the Loetschental
Valley is almost completely enclosed by three high mountain ranges which are usually snow-
capped. This pass could be guarded by a small band against any attacking forces since artificial
landslides could easily be released. The natural occurrence of these landslides has made passage
through the gorge hazardous, if not impossible, for months of the year. According to early legends
of the valley these mountains were the parapets of the universe, and the great glacier of the valley,
the end of the universe. The glacier is a branch of the great ice field that stretches away to the west7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 21/250and south from the ice-cap of the Jungfrau and Monch. The mountains, however, are seldom
approached from this direction because of the hazardous ice fields. The gateway to them with
which the traveling world is familiar is from Interlaken by way of the Lauterbrunnen or Grindelwald
valleys. Fig. 1. Beautiful Loetschental Valley about a mile above sea level. About two thousand Swiss live here. In 1932 no deaths had occurred
from tuberculosis in the history of the valley. At the altitude of the Loetschental Valley the winters are long, and the summers short but
beautiful, and accompanied by extraordinarily rapid and luxuriant growth. The meadows are
fragrant with Alpine flowers, with violets like pansies, which bloom all summer in deepest hues. The people of the Loetschental Valley make up a community of two thousand who have been a
world unto themselves. They have neither physician nor dentist because they have so little need for
them; they have neither policeman nor jail, because they have no need for them. The clothing has
been the substantial homespuns made from the wool of their sheep. The valley has produced not
only everything that is needed for clothing, but practically everything that is needed for food. It has
been the achievement of the valley to build some of the finest physiques in all Europe. This is
attested to by the fact that many of the famous Swiss guards of the Vatican at Rome, who are the
admiration of the world and are the pride of Switzerland, have been selected from this and other
Alpine valleys. It is every Loetschental boy's ambition to be a Vatican guard. Notwithstanding the
fact that tuberculosis is the most serious disease of Switzerland, according to a statement given me
by a government official, a recent report of inspection of this valley did not reveal a single case. I
was aided in my studies in Switzerland by the excellent cooperation of the Reverend John Siegen,
the pastor of the one church of this beautiful valley. The people live largely in a series of villages dotting the valley floor along the river bank. The
land that is tilled, chiefly for producing hay for feeding the cattle in the winter and rye for feeding
the people, extends from the river and often rises steeply toward the mountains which are wooded
with timber so precious for protection that little of it has been disturbed. Fortunately, there is much


 results, under normal
conditions, in the appearance of ovulation some nine hours after
stimulus. The following experiment, therefore, was set up: A rabbit was
stimulated, and nine hours later anaesthetized. Its abdomen was
then opened and a salt-filled chamber was placed around the
ovary. The cold electrode was attached to the anima l's body, and
the 'hot' electrode, connected to the grid of the first tube, was
placed in the salt-filled chamber not too far away from the ovary
itself. Then, with a microscope, the surface of the ovary was itseH
continuously examined while the changes in voltage gradient
between the two electrodes were recorded on the recording gal-
49 THE FEMALE FIELD
vanometer. It was thus possible to see the event of ovulation
through the microscope and, simultaneously, the recorded
changes in voltage gradient on the recorder. To our delight the moment of rupture of the follicle and the
release of the egg was accompanied by a sharp change in the
voltage gradient on the electrical recorder. This experiment was
carried out enough times until it was perfectly clear that there
could be little or no question that the electrical change was
associated with the event of ovulation. If, in an experimental animal, electrical changes were seen to
coincide with ovulation, then it might be possible to assume that
the observed voltage-gradients in women might serve to time ovu
lation in human beings. This is a very important problem, for the
exact time when eggs are released from the human ovary has not
been really determined. As these voltage gradients occur during
the middle of a menstrual cycle then, if the Knaus theory is
correct, ovulation occurs in the middle of the cycle, and therefore
the electrical changes in the human female should indicate the
time of ovulation in that particular individual. This is not an easy experiment to perform on humans but,
through a fortunate set of circumst ances, it was possible for us to
do a study on one girl. It was necessary for her to have an elective
laparotomy and she was willing to corne into the hospital and
have the operation performed at a time when our electrical
records indicated that it was the right time to do it. She was in
the hospital for fifty-six hours before the operation and during
that time was continuously measured by the recording galvan
ometer. There were times, of course, when short gaps occurred in
the record for a variety of physiological reasons, but the fact
remains that there was a rather astonishing consistency in
the electric measurements. The measurements were made between the central abdominal
wall, as a reference electrode, and the wall of the vagina in the
vicinity of the cervix, as the active electrode. When the electrical
records showed this marked change in voltage gradient in the
patient, she was moved to the operating room and, under the skill
ful hands of Dr. Luther Musselman, a laparotomy was perform ed,
50 THE FEMALE FIEL D
an ovary uncovered, and a recently ruptured follicle noted. This,
obviously confirmed the findings in the rabbit. 4
At this point occurred one of the most interesting events of
this adventure in science:
Dr. John Rock, of Brookline, Massachusetts, head of a gynae
cological hospital, evinced interest in the techniques and under
took to develop the procedures in his hospital. We gave him all
the advice and help that we could, and eventually he set up a
number of measurements at that hospital. He reported in a paper
some ten or more instances of ovulation occurring in the middle
of the menstrual cycle as indicated by electrical measurements. He completed these experiments, or at least the first of them, how
ever, before we had been able to find a suitable patient for our
work in New Haven. Like the gentleman he is, he withheld publi
cation of his findings until after we were able to publish ours. Subsequently, he continued these experiments and confirmed our
original findings. An accident occurred, however, when a house officer inad
vertently made some measurement s on a female patient not in
the middle of the menst rual cycle. He found to his dismay-and
that of the rest of the observers- that these electro-metric
changes did not always come in the middle of the cycle. It will be recalled that the Knaus theory holds that ovulation
occurs in the middle of the menstrual cycle. This theory was
based on statistical measure of pregnancies following returning
soldiers during the first World War; and there is probably little
question that the statistics are valid so far as groups are con
cerned. Unfortunately, that does not demonstrate beyond per
adventure that in every individual ovulation must necessarily
occur in the middle of the menstrual cycle. Dr. Rock felt, how
ever, that the statistical evidence was valid; and therefore any
changes in electro-metrics of the living patient, not in the middle
of the cycle, could not be related to ovulation. This terminated
51 THE FEMALE FIELD
Dr. Rock's experiment, much to our dismay, but we persisted,
nevertheless, in our study. With the help of Dr. Dorothy Barton, an extended study
was Illade of a group of women in the New Haven Hospital,
most of whom were nurses living a fairly rigorous existence, with
more regularity than most of us undergo. These women included
subjects of all ages. Some of them were post-menopausal. One of the interesting consequences of this study was the fact
that about thirty per cent of the women seemed to ovulate in the
middle of the cycle, granting the validity of the electro-metric
technique. But in all probabili ty-accor ding to electrical measure
ments-twa-thirds of the women ovulated over the entire men
strual cycle, even during the menses. This was at variance with
the endocrinological theory of ovulation and was difficult for
many people to accept. Women over the menstrual period and in the non-fertile
period and those in the so-called menopause, showed no such
electro-metric changes with the passage of time. This was true
whether the menopause was the natural one or one resulting
from surgery of the generative tract. For a number of years measurements were made on patients,
sent in by surrounding doctors, to time ovulation in their par
ticular instances. One of the patients sent to us was one who had
been married for a number of years without issue. The question
was raised, of course, as to the reason for the infertility. Though
all the known techniques of that time were employed no signifi
cant fact was uncovered to explain why there was no fertile result. The patient was taught to make the measurements herself and
did them religiously once a day, day-after-day, for many months. At no time was there any evidence of voltage variations. Subse
quently, when a laparotomy was required, it was found that the
patient had atrophied ovaries, apparently caused by their early
involvement in tuberculosis. At no time had she ovulated and
there were no electro-metric changes. This raises the question of the necessarily causal relationship
between ovulation and the onset of menst ruation. In the group
of patients studied, moreover, while the great majority showed
fairly regular menstrual periods of the average length, there were
52 THE FEMALE FIELD
a number whose menstrual histories were very irregular. One
patient in particular exhibited menstruation only three times in
a year, and yet during that year there were three instances where
there was a marked electro-metric change unrelated to the onset of
menstruation itself and suggested that ovulation had occurred. The evidence is clear. Like brain waves and heart waves, electro
metric changes occur during ovulation and can be recorded in
the living subject. Furthermore, the results show that ovulation
may take place at any time in the menstrual cycle, although in
the majority of women studied the ovulation record showed the
usual mid-cycle peak. It is equally clear that there is no necessary
relationship between ovulation and menstruation, for either may
exist without the other; ovulation may occur without menstrua
tion and menses without ovulation. 5
Published reports of our experiments with women were read
by the distinguished obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dr. Louis
Langman, of New York University and Bellevue HospitaL As a
result, he carne to the writer's laboratory and discussed the ques
tion of whether or not the electro-metric timing of ovulation
could be used in connection with artificial insemina tion. More
over, because the reports indicated that electro-metric records
suggested relationship between the developing ovaries and its
follicle, he further questioned whether or not they might not be
used to detect cancer. The result was a rewarding and very fruit
ful association over a number of years. Starting with the assumption that the electro-metric peaks
occurring during the menstrual cycle of normal women indicated
ovulation, Dr. Langman decided to use the technique as a means
of determining when best to employ artificial insemination. As
a result, he was equipped with the necessary technical apparatus,
including the electrode, the high input impedance amplifier and
the G. E. photoelectric recorder. Since Dr. Langman had had indifferent success in a series of
ten cases, using other timing procedures, artificial insemination
53 THE FE


 kick out of people using the word avatar  in
the advertising of some program or something, because they don’ t
understand what Avatar is. Avatar is of such enormous power that it changes
all of mankind for thousands of years henceforth. It is the ideal by which
everything else is measured. Every action of mankind, every court decision,
every headline in the newspaper is unconsciously, if not consciously,
measured according to the teachings of the Buddha or Christ or Muhammad
or so. Muhammad calibrated at 700. You see, Buddha was 1,000; Christ was
1,000; Krishna was 1,000. All the great enlightened, fabled gurus of ancient
times—Zoroaster at 1,000. Muhammad I’ve repeatedly calibrated at 700, so
there was not the enormous power of spiritual truth to overcome, let’ s say,
the tribal proclivities of that part of the world, perhaps, so the teaching
breaks through—it breaks through. But don’ t forget, it broke through in
Christianity also in the middle. Certainly, the end times being positioned. The truth of Christianity has broken through by some primitive negativity
and savagery, which expressed itself in that way. And now we see it sort of
delayed in the coming from that part of the world. So, the spiritual person now is confronted with how to contextualize and
comprehend and understand the current world events, but then again, it has
been that way since I have been on the planet. World War I had just expired,
and then came the Great Depression, and then World War II, and I don’ t
know how many wars since then. And so, we’re always confronted with the
spiritual—the seeming  spiritual dilemmas of the expression of the ego, in its
expression as the actions, collective actions, of society. In any case, all any of us can do is within our own heart to reach the
highest level of compassion and understanding and try to recontextualize it
compassionately, because in so doing, we undo it. So each of those who
were able to undo great negativity did so because in a way, their heart wassupported by the hearts of all of us. They just didn’ t reach 550 all by their
lonesome, out there on an ice floe, you know. So, the evolution of the
consciousness of mankind is dependent on all the contributions of all of us. So, each one of us counts, and each one of us counts quite decisively. Each
one of us certainly counts quite decisively. “That’ s a fact: resist” (T rue). You know, I’ve always been suspicious of holy-sounding religious
teachings, you know what I’m saying. Holy-sounding religious teachings,
you say, “Yeah, right.” I want to see, is that a fact, or is that not a fact? The Harmony of the Universe
There’ s the question of where astrology, for instance, fits into this whole
picture. Well, if the universe is one karmic whole, one karmic oneness, then
all that’ s within the universe, including its physical expressions as the
planetary systems, et cetera, is part and parcel of that harmony, huh? Therefore, the planets are also in harmony with that universality. I would
see it that, from a high level—we’ve said that archangels calibrate 50,000
and up, and you realize that we’re talking about logarithmic progression
here—one archangel at 50,000 that even thinks of you is likely to knock
you out of your body for some 20 or 30 years. And you’re lucky to breathe
again. Well anyway, so from some very higher level of Divinity, then... let’s say, if everything is the interaction of ener gy fields, which can be
represented symbolically as an attractor field, that means that all things are
therefore in harmony. So, I don’ t see a constellation as causing something
within human experience on this planet. I see a third factor out here. Because of this third factor, this constellation is in this position and this
event is happening commonly within the human experience, but this
astrologic position is not causing the human experience. Both the human
experience and the astrologic positionalities are expressing. So, if it is the
time for great harvesting, let’ s say, that which is supportive of life in all of
its expressions is expressing itself astrologically this way and has greater
crops on this planet at this time, right? And then, at a later time in the cycle,
the harvesting goes down and the astrologic position at that time is
different. So, to explain the harmony of the universe, which is consistent with the
concept of the holographic universe and also the nonlinear dimensions of
reality, it isn’ t that “this” on this side of the universe is causing  “this,” but itis concordant; and those of you who are familiar with advanced theoretical
physics know that the spin of an electron on... and the spin of an electron
in another part of the universe—this one is not causing  the spin of this
electron, but if this one stops and reverses, so does this, but there’ s no
connection between the two of them. Which means that which you want to
call “cause” is really just a terminology, a verbalization and a concept, and
not a reality. But if you want to say there is a cause, the cause would then be
outside both the electrons and that which causes this electron to go this way
and this one, this way. So, this electron is not causing this. So, to me, an
astrologic position does not cause  pots and pans to break, but the timing of
pots and pans breaking is simultaneous with that but not caused by that, you
understand? Simultaneity does not mean causality. Just as peace appearing
on the earth and all people praying for peace—it doesn’ t mean necessarily
that the praying for the peace is causing  the peace. But the appropriate time
is an appropriate time for all things. And the appropriate timing of peace
appearing and the appropriate time of praying for peace are probably
simultaneous but not causal. Some Spiritual Sayings Are Not Accurate
There are a lot of sayings, you know, spiritual sayings that are not exactly
accurate. I mean, if they were all accurate, everybody would be enlightened. A lot of them are greatly inaccurate. To say, “All things are possible with
God,” is usually a hypothetical statement to counter somebody else’ s
argument in order to prove that you’re right. In usage, when looked at
exactly, it cannot be so, because that which God cannot be is “not God.”
“All things are possible with God” is usually used to explain or give some
kind of reification of the potential truth of something preposterous and quite
unlikely. However, there is a correct usage to it within the infinite power of
God in another context, in another sense... No, it’ s still not true. Because
of the nature of creation itself that each thing becomes the essence of its
own potentiality as the fulfillment of its own karma, there can’ t really be the
fulfillment of something else’ s karma, or a bird would turn into a toad. No,
a toad can only become a toad. So, we could say that that which “is” cannot
become that which it is not. It can only be that which it is. That has to do
with the self-identity of reality. The most dif ficult thing to see about in the
enlightened condition—let’ s say, the radical sense of “I”—the thing thatmakes it the most dif ficult to understand is that everything is radically only
that which it is. It sounds like a nonsensical statement, but the ego cannot
deal with anything except creating—cannot make any statement without
creating a duality, thereby negating the reality of that which it is attempting
to describe. Even the word is is incorrect. The radical reality of that which
sits and speaks through this is-ness here is beyond is-ness; it is beyond
beingness. Even a transitive, intransitive verb is incorrect. There is neither a
subject nor a predicate. There is neither a “this” doing a “that,” nor a “here”
as compared to a “there.” Those are all positionalities within mentalization. Those are all mentalizations. No such thing can be. The only thing that’ s
possible is the reality of the cat being absolutely, completely, 101 percent
cat—not caused by anything extraneous to itself. The only absolute
statement of truth that’ s possible is the word I. To say “am,” the suf fix “am”
to “I,” is already a negation of the reality of the truth of “I,” “is-ness,” and
“beingness,” because the radical reality of that which I am is beyond either
“is-ness” or “beingness.” It is beyond existence or nonexistence. All such
terminologies are mentations. So the most dif ficult thing about seeing the
truth of the reality of who you are is the radical identity of the self as the
Self. That which you subjectively experience as Self is that and nothing
else. Then the ego comes in and tries to destroy that realization by adding
all kinds of adjectives, adverbs. “I am that


	unsolicited	advice. But	he	persisted. He	asked. And	once
you	do	that	with	me,	expect	opinions. “Well,	what	I’ve	learned,”	I	told	him,	“is	that	when	a	woman	is	working,
she’s	in	a	masculine	mode. But	that	same	mode	that	works	so	well	at	work
needs	to	transition	to	a	feminine	mode	if	she	wants	to	be	as	successful	at	love
as	she	is	at	work.”	Again,	I’ve	researched	this. “Go	on	…	,”	he	said. “So	it	probably	seems	great	to	you	now,	that	you	and	your	wife	will	be	able
to	just	walk	the	little	path	from	your	office	to	your	kitchen	and	keep	the	same
conversation	going	while	you’re	preparing	dinner	that	you	were	having	at	the
office.”
“Is	that	bad?”	he	asked. “No,	it’s	not	bad,”	I	said,	“except	possibly	for	your	marriage. You’ve	taken
the	psychic	gestalt	of	a	business	partnership	and	literally	given	it	the	run	of
your	house. And	in	time,	that	will	include	your	bedroom.”
“Whoa,”	he	said. Men	get	very	alert	when	the	subject	turns	to	sex. “So	I
shouldn’t	work	with	my	wife?”
“I	didn’t	say	that!”	I	responded. “But	I	do	know	this:	If	this	kind	of	thinking
makes	sense	to	you—if	you	feel	that	you	and	your	wife	want	to	protect	the
erotic	quality	of	your	marriage	from	encroachment	by	a	business	mentality—
then	I	would	suggest	you	take	30	minutes	apart	from	each	other	between
office	hours	and	evening	hours. She	needs	at	least	that	much	time	to	switchpsychically	into	another	mode. Meditation,	walking,	soft	music,	candles,
bubble	baths,	whatever	her	soul	craves	as	a	balm	to	her	nervous	system—such
time	should	be	ritualistically	built	into	your	lifestyle,	or	you’re	going	to	start
finding	that	a	businesswoman	has	shown	up	in	your	bed	where	an	erotic
goddess	used	to	be.”
Weeks	later	I	received	a	thank-you	note	from	him. And	after	that,	one	from
his	wife…	. *
Romantic	love	is	a	force	of	nature. Like	an	ancient	goddess,	it	likes	to
receive	gifts. It	must	be	honored,	respected,	protected,	and	cherished. Otherwise,	it	simply	leaves. Dear	God,
Please	make	me
a	master	at	love. Reveal	to	me	its	mysteries,
and	give	to	me	its	magic. And	may	I	never	use	its	power
for	any	purposes
but	the	ones	You	intend. Amen
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A
FRIEND	TOLD	ME	HER	DAUGHTER
	was	getting	married	at	the	age	of	40. “That’s	great!”	I	said. “Is	she	madly	in	love?”
“Well,	I	don’t	know	if	it’s
like
	that	at	40,”	she	responded. I	thought	to	myself,
But	why	not? Real	passion	doesn’t	emerge	from	the
body	but	from	consciousness. Should	the	age	of	the	body	determine	the	heat
of	the	soul? Love	itself	doesn’t	diminish	as	we	age;	what	diminishes	too	often
is	how	willing	we	are	to	stand	up	and	meet	it. We	love	fiercely	and	fearlessly
when	we’re	young,	until	we	learn	what	there	is	to	be	afraid	of. And	then	we
start	to	load	layer	upon	layer	of	unprocessed	hurt	onto	more	and	more
relationships,	to	the	point	that	our	bitterness	and	fear	have	all	but	capped	our
capacity	for	all-out	bliss. The	age	of	our	cells	has	absolutely	nothing	to	do	with	our	ability	tomagnetize	or	hold	on	to	love. Midlife	is	not	the	time	to	say,	“Oh	well,	I’ll	just
settle	for	something	comfortable	now,”	and	simplistically	conclude	that	the
years	of	heat	are	behind	us. That	heat	was	not	a	function	of	our	age. It	might
move	around	from	chakra	from	chakra,	but	heat	will	always	be	heat. Love	doesn’t	lose	its	edge	and	become	boring	as	you	get	older	unless
you
do. If	anything,	age	makes	you	more	able	to	appreciate	things	in	others	that
you	used	to	be	unable	to	see	because	you	were	so	busy	looking	at	yourself. Until	you	inhabit	the	entirety	of	your	being,	you	keep	seeking	your
completion	in	someone	else. And	that	will	never	work,	of	course. Romance
isn’t	here	to	complete	your	universe	but	to	expand	it. Yet	it’s	pretty	difficult	to
appreciate	that	concept	until	the	notion	of	an	expanded	universe	is	attractive
to	you. John	Mayer	sings	a	song	called	“Your	Body	Is	a	Wonderland.”	What’s
really	cool	is	when	you	can	add,	“And	so	is	your	mind,	and	your	heart,	and
your	soul.”
You	can’t	see	the	true	wonderland	in	another	person	until	you’ve	explored
the	one	inside	yourself. That	starts	happening	at	a	certain	age,	whether	you
wish	it	to	or	not. And	it	changes	you. Accumulated	experience	of	the	world
both	breaks	your	heart	and	opens	it. I	remember	lying	in	the	dark	one	night
right	after	a	school	shooting,	when	my	grief	for	the	victims’	families	felt	like
more	than	I	could	bear. I	turned	to	my	love	and,	for	just	one	moment,	felt	an
exquisite	understanding	of	the	profound	juxtaposition	of	pain	and	pleasure
that	lies	at	the	heart	of	the	human	experience. I	loved	in	a	different	way	before
I	understood	suffering. Age	wears	you	down,	but	as	it	does,	it	softens	you	as
well. I	knew	in	that	moment	that	there	are	no	guarantees. There	is	no	certain
bulwark	against	human	suffering. Neither	this	relationship,	nor	any	other
circumstance,	can	possibly	protect	me	against	the	potential	for	heartbreak;
whatever	valleys	are	my	fate	will	occur	no	matter	what. But	there	is,	when	we
are	open	to	the	experience,	the	glorious	beauty	of	an	appreciated	now. When
we	no	longer	take	the	good	in	life	for	granted,	we	have	a	humility	and
gratitude	that	more	than	compensate	for	what	no	longer	remains	of	our
innocence. Innocence	leaves,	but	love	remains. There	is	nothing	to	do	with
this	but	receive	its	truth. I	opened	my	arms	and	I	drank	him	in. B
EYOND	OBVIOUS	PROPRIETIES
,	I
DON’T	THINK	IT	SHOULD	MATTER
	how	old	your	lover	is	any
more	than	it	should	matter	how	old	your	doctor,	teacher,	or	car-insurance
salesperson	is. What	matters	is	the	soul	growth	that	brings	two	hearts
together. Every	relationship	has	a	natural	arc,	a	time	that’s	perfect	for	the
lessons	that	the	relationship	is	here	to	teach	us. Some	are	long	and	some	are
short. Love	will	never	bow	to	time	because	love	is	real	and	time	is	not. Amoment	of	true	love	is	more	important	to	some	of	us	than	decades	of
domestic	timeshare. Love	is	an	adventure	of	the	soul,	whether	as	a	love	affair	that	is	short	but
intense,	or	as	a	marriage	that	lasts	until	death	do	us	part. In	the	words	of	Ram
Dass,	we