 it. On the other hand, to love another person
involves openin g up your whole  being. What makes the risk possible is the
ingredient of spirit.
Spirit is the real you, beyond all divisions into good and bad, desirable
and undesirable, lovable and unlovable. Love exposes this reality, which is
why falling in love is a blessed  state. For many people it is the only one
they will ever know in a lifetime. The spiritual overtones of romantic love
are unmistakab le. First there is a tremendous emotional opening, a
liberation. Your whole being flows toward your beloved as if the two of you
share the same feelings, the same likes and dislikes, almost the same breath.
The secondary effect of this inrush of delight is a release of cares andanxiety; the cloud of infatuation  swallows up worries over such trivialities
as money, career, and the fate of mankind. Even if you had no spiritual
background at all, you would have tasted the soul’ s sweetness by falling in
love. As the great Persian poet Rumi says,
When love first tasted the lips of being human,
It started singing.
This blessing of falling in love comes from spirit, but it can be blocked by
ego. Ego is responsible for protecting your self-image; it creates the
compartments where everything undesirable about you has been hidden.
What blocks love is not the presence of these shadow energies but the
division of the psyche that came about when your ego started building inner
walls. Love is a flow, and walls keep the flow out.
In spiritual terms, this is the problem of duality. By dividing good from
bad, right from wrong, we essentially insist that parts of ourselves are
unlovable—why else would we keep them out of sight? We turn ourselves
into packages, exactly the kind Delaney talks about. The packa ge seems to
contain only good and worthy things, but if another person ventures to love
us, the whole package spills open, and a lot of what it contains isn’ t so nice.
The cruelest consequence of duality is that we believe in the rightness of
shutting love out. “Being open ” is equated with “being weak.” “Being
closed” is equated with “bein g strong.” And society reinforces these
dualities by reminding us, day in and day out, that this is not a world where
love is safe.
As with most people, I don’t encounter much love except inside my
home. On waki ng I see my wife’ s face beside me, and many mornings I
marvel at the ineffable love this sight inspires, something far more delicate
and moving than I can put into words. Yet beside my bed also lies the
newspaper I read to get to sleep, and in it is all the hatred anyone could
imagine. On every page I confront the catastrophic failure of love. There is
personal failure  in the overwh elming amount of divorce, litigation, and
social bitterness we’ve learned to live with. There is public failure in the
war, street crime, and oppression we all go to bed praying will not strike us.
Although no one can say where  love went, it is a dangerous sign that we
are surrounded by so many imag es pretending to be love. Every day we aresaturated, drow ned with images of romance from books and films,
bombarded with sex from advertisements, and goaded on all sides to
become more attractive in order to win attention from a “perfect” lover.
Delaney was struggling in the swamp of non-love, as we all are, trying to
find something he really couldn’ t name.
“What if you sat down and imag ined the perfect woman waiting out there
for you,” I told him. “You’ve probably done it many times, only to give up.
Well, I think you’re going to find that woman, and it will happen the instant
you can let go of her image. It sounds like a paradox, but letting go has to
be the first step in finding someone to love you, because love is never an
image. Love doesn’ t depend upon external values at all.”
“I know  that,” he said, with sudden and surprising gentleness. “I felt I
had no choice but to have some  kind of image in mind. Otherwise, it was
like looking in the dark.”
“Most people have that worry,” I said. “It reflects their own secret belief
that they are not all that desirable themselves, and also their fear of
loneliness. At least they have an image to keep them company. There’ s a
deeper issue here, though. Does love ever come from outside ourselves?”
“Of course it does,” he said.
“Go into it more deeply,” I urged. “All of us believe in duality, which
creates the perception that people are separate. You and I seem separate,
sitting here in this room. We have separate bodies, separate minds, separate
memories and backgrounds. Separation is the foundation of our whole
existence. But part of you hates living in separation—it hates the fear,
loneliness, suspi cion, and alienation that come with being totally isolated.
This part of you calls upon love to solve its pain. If only you can find
someone to love you, perhaps the separation will be healed.”
“You don’ t make my life sound very pretty,” Delaney mourned.
“No,” I said. “But in their heart of hearts most people feel the pangs of
separation; it’s not a secret. Let me ask you, Do you really belie ve there’ s a
perfect somebody out there waiting for you? As common as that myth is,
the reality is different. The somebody waiting for you is always a reflection
of yours elf. Out of our loneliness, all of us seek a source of love that will
fill up the lack we feel inside, and that’s exactly what happens, no more and
no less.”
“I don’ t know how to respond to that,” Delaney said.“If you observe yourself closely  enough,” I said, “you’ll see the patterns.
Most men, for example, feel a lack of tenderness, which they hope to find in
a woman. Most women feel a lack of strength, which they hope  to find in a
man. Whatever the need is, the person who fills it becomes the source of
love.
“The question is, how do we keep this going? Can the person who
happens to match our needs continue to make us feel loved? I don’t think
so. We all have too much hidden inside; there is too much healing to do. So
in time the outside source of love fades; it stops being effectiv e. And then
certain truths dawn:
“You can never r eceive mor e love than you ar e prepared to r eceive.
“You cannot give mor e love than you have to give.
“The love reflec ted from another person has its source in your own heart.
The reason love from outside sources stops working is that you haven’ t
solved separation, only papered it over.”
“So then what?” he asked.
“You stand at a crossroads. You can go out again and search for love
from some new source, you can make do with what you have, you can turn
to satisfactions other than love, or you can be totally honest and give up the
search for externals altogether.”
Here we had reached a critical point. The path to love begins when you
realize that separation, loneline ss, and the pain of isolation are real. Not
many people want to face this fact, and therefore they resign themselves to
a sadly constrict ed amount of love. As a healer, love knows no limits, but
you must be willing to bring your whole being to it. Only then does the
balm of love flow.
“There’ s something I really admire in you,” I told Delaney. “I think
you’ll be surprised what it is. You haven’ t settled for imitations. In some
part of yourself, you are waiting  for the real thing.” Delaney met my eyes;
he nodded ever so slightly. “It’s such a hard thing to talk about,” I said,
“this nameless longing that only love can fill. What are we waiting for?
What is the real thing, if not the flood of images about roman ce, sex, and
endless pleasure  that the ideal lover is supposed to gift us with? In reality
we are the gift and we are the giver.
“Duality is and always has been an illusion. There is no one out there
waiting for you. There is only you and the love you bring to yourself. Inspirit you are united with all other souls, and the only purpose of separation
is for you to rejoin that unity.”
“Which makes love the only blessing,” Delaney said quietly. We sat for a
moment, letting  his words sink in, for it was as if he spoke from my heart
too. “Yes,” I said. “Love is the only blessing, and that means  all love. If
love is the ultim ate reality, as the great teachers tell us, then the slightest
gesture of connection is a gesture of love. To reach across the wall of
separation, whet her to friend, lover, family, or stranger, is to act in the name
of love, whether we consciously realize it or not.”
We had reached a special mom ent, which we both wanted to appreciate
in silence. We had been talking in Delaney’ s office in suburban Boston, an


 eld. The universe’s
electromagnetic eld is invisible, all-pervasive, and capable of
responding to the slightest change within itself. As the earth’s
magnetic pole shifts, every compass on the planet follows it; in
return, if you take a compass out of your pocket, the earth’smagnetic eld is aected by a minuscule amount. In short, no part
of the eld can move without moving the whole.
If we transpose this understa nding onto the mind, it would mean
that each of our thoughts aects all other minds, not because we are
exercising psychic powers, but because every mind is a small
outcropping in the eld. This is a sweeping paradigm that I am
introducing here, and I have every intention of pursuing its many
ramications. Yet if we ignore the huge questions that loom up
before us, the idea of belonging to one interwoven intelligence is the
logical conclusion of the argument that reality “in here” is
connected to reality “out there.” For what is more likely to connect
the two than intelligence?
If a person’s mind is engagin g in a creative give-and-take with the
world—as we concluded when we looked at perception—there must
be some sort of common ground. It may sound absurd to claim that
anyone’s mind can aect a boulder or a tree, but inside our brains,
mental activity is constantly altering the structure of brain
chemicals. These chemicals are made of molecules and atoms, as are
boulders and trees. Just because a carbon atom resides in the gray
matter of your brain does not bring it any closer to the mind than if
the atom  resided in a tree. There is still the impassable gulf between
mind and matter to contend with.
Magical thinking provides us with evidence that we are bridging
that gulf all the time. Actually, this linear image is far too static,
since elds are continually pulsating with life. It is much closer to
the truth to say that mind and matter join in a dance, moving
instinctively together, aware without speaking of where their next
step will fall. To bring this metaphor to life, I can present  Sheila, an
Englishwoman in her mid-fties who was profoundly aected by
one magical thought.
Thirty years ago, as a young girl fresh out of convent  school,
Sheila conceiv ed a child out of wedlock. Her family, who were
devout Catholics, could not accept this pregnancy. Sheila herself
realized that she was not ready to raise a child alone, and although
she was distraught about giving up her baby, she decided to carry itto term and allow the adoption agencies to nd the infant a home.
As she told me in a remarkable letter:
“I watched my baby being born, in the mirror they placed at the
foot of my bed. I remember my sense of wonder, excitement, and
achievement when this beautiful tiny boy appeared. I remember as
well the sense of loss that came from having no one to share these
feelings with.
“The moment my baby was born, we both started to cry. I held
him close to my heart, trying  to comfort the two of us and to feel his
heart beating in unison with mine. For six days I bottle-fed him
while the slow, relentless adoption procedures took over our lives. I
wasn’t counseled, other than to be told that I was ‘a poor dear’ who
should forget what had happened, go out, and start all over again. A
deep sense of grief settled into my soul.”
A suitable family had been found for her infant son, and Sheila
agreed not to interfere in his growing-up years or even to make her
existence known. In return, she asked that he keep the name she
had given him, which was Simon. For twenty years she kept her
promise, although the separation became harder rather than easier
for her to bear as time went on. She was never able to have another
child, fearing to repeat the intense trauma of her rst birthing
experience.
Finally, when Simon turned twenty-one, Sheila decided to return
to England from her home abroad and ask for a meeting with him.
Since she did not know the whereabouts of the adoptive family, she
hired a detecti ve agency to make an investigation. In the meantime
she retreated to stay with old friends in Oxford. At this point an
event took place that lifts Sheila’s story to a new sphere.
“To pass the time, I took long walks among the dreaming spires of
Oxford. I found myself captivated by the medieval air of the town.
One afternoon, after visiting Christ Church College, I walked
through the meadows down to the riverbank. An Oxford eight
rowing crew was practicing nearby.
“All at once, an eerie feeling crept up my spine. For no reason my
adrenaline started pumping, my palms grew sweaty and my mouth
dry. My mind became very alert, and I heard the word ‘Simon’ringing in my ears. I rushed back to my friends’ house, stunned. I lay
on the sofa in front of the re, feeling very cold, shaken, and
confused. Somehow I knew that my son was a student at Oxford and
that I had seen him rowing on the river that afternoon!
“A second wave of insight came over me, and I said aloud, ‘I
know somethi ng that I shouldn’t know. He is studying medicine.
Simon is following in his grandmother’s footsteps.’ [Sheila’s mother
was a practicing internist.] I had no idea where this state of
heightened awareness came from.”
Her friends hastened to borrow a college roster, and as she had
intuited, it contained a listing  for her son. Sheila was troubled at her
uncanny know ledge, but since she had no idea what to do next, she
did nothing. The detective agency called with a repor t verifying
other details of her intuition; they were amazed that she knew them
already.
Our conventional study of human psychology cannot explain this
occurrence, yet there is no doubt in my mind that Sheila
“magnetized” this event, drawing to herself the lost child she had
ercely longed to regain. It was as if all her pent-up frustration
could no longer be held back. It had to break free, and to do that, it
broke down the articial barrier between inner and outer reality.
There is another detail of Sheila’s story that provokes in me a
sense of both awe and gratitude. As it turned out, her uncanny
insights did not lead to a happy reunion with Simon. His adoptive
family put strong pressure on him to reject the sudden appearance
of this unwanted woman in their life. It took another nine years
before mother and son found the mutual courage to meet and accept
each other.
Their emotiona l reunion took place in 1989, when Simon, now a
practicing physician in Oxford, invited his mother to visit him.
Despite her trepidation, Sheila’s most cherished hope was realized—
she was accept ed for who she was, on her own terms, and welcomed
as a member of Simon’s family. Soon after she arrived at his home,
her son suggested that they go for a walk through the woods near
his old college. By chance he picked the same riverbank whereSheila had seen the rowing team years before. She told him about
her intuition, and he listened mesmerized.
“It’s true,” he said in a halting voice, “I was rowing that day, and I
remember looking up to see a woman standing alone on the
riverbank. I felt the hair rise on the back of my neck. My spine
tingled, and I became very agitated. She seemed to be watching me.
Then the thought ashed into my head, ‘She is your mother.’ ”
Sheila and Simon fell silent. It was impossible for them to
comprehend how they had been brought together, but they felt that
something supernatural had occurred. “We walked to the chapel at
Merton College,” Sheila said. “Simon took o my gloves and gently
held my hands while we prayed in gratitude. ‘I’m embarrassed,’ he
whispered. ‘It’s like being on a rst date.’ I laughed, and tears
trickled down our cheeks, softly and silently. They seemed to wash
away the pain in my heart, leaving only love and forgiveness. I
wasn’t sure who or what was being forgiven, but at that moment I
felt free of my old anger and loneliness.”
Sheila’s tale is extraordinar y, but I think it illustrates a much
wider phenomenon. The world “in here” is meant to ow into and
merge with the one “out there,” and if we oppose this ow, we only
postpone the day when the mind reaches out to restore the natural
scheme of things. This must be happening, in both small  and large
ways, much more often than we notice or care to admit. One is led
to believe that magical thinking is an act of healing, and the most
magical minds are therefore the healthiest.
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ritic deposits. Poultices not only feel very comforting, but they have the effect of softening up deposits and t umors so
that a detoxifying, fasting body is more able to re absorb them. Poultices draw, pulling toxins out through the  skin, unburdening
the liver. Clay (freshly -mixed potters clay I purchase from a potters' guild), mixed with finely chopped or blended young wheat
grass (in emergencies I've even used lawn grasses) makes excellent drawing poultices. Without clay, I've also  used vegetable
poultices made of chopped or blended comfrey leaves, comfrey root, slightly cooked (barely wilted) cabbage leaves, slightly
steamed onion or garlic (cooked just enough to soften it). These are very effective to soften tumors, abscesses and ulcers. Aloe
poultices are good on burns. Poultices should be thought of as helpful adjuncts to other, more powerful healing techniques an d not
as remedies all by themselves, except for minor skin problems.
    Poultices, to be effective, need to be trowel ed on half an inch thick, extending far beyond the effected area, covered with cheese
cloth or rags torn from old cotton sheets so they don't dry out too fast. Fresh poultices needs to be applied several times d aily. They
also need to be left on the body u ntil they do dry. Then poultices are thrown away, to be followed by another as often as patience
will allow. Do not cover poultices tightly with plastic because if they don't dry out they won't draw much. The drawing is in  the
drying.
    Sometimes poultic es cause a tumor or deposit to be expelled through the skin rather than being adsorbed, all with rather
spectacular pus and gore. This phenomena is actually beneficial and should be welcomed because anytime the body can push
toxins out through the skin, th e burden on the organs of elimination are lessened.
    Wheat grass juice has a powerful anti -tumor effect, is very perishable, is laborious to make, but is worth the effort because it
contains powerful enzymes and nutrients that help detoxify and heal whe n taken internally or applied to the skin. As a last resort
with dying patients who can no longer digest anything taken by mouth I've implanted wheat grass juice rectally (in a cleansed
colon). Some of them haven't died. You probably can't buy wheat grass juice that retains much medicinal effect because it needs to
be very fresh and should be drunk within minutes of squeezing. Chilled sharply and immediately after squeezing it might maint ain
some potency for an hour or two. Extracting juice from grass takes  a special press that resembles a meat grinder.
    The wheat is grown in transplant or seedling trays in bright light. I know someone who uses old plastic cafeteria trays for t his.
The seed is soaked overnight, spread densely atop a tray, covered shallow ly with fine soil, kept moist but not soggy. When the
grass is about four inches high, begin harvesting by cutting off the leaves with a scissors and juicing them. If the tray con tains
several inches of soil you usually get a second cutting of leaves. You need to start a new tray every few days; one tray can be cut
for three or four days. (Kulvinskas, 1975)
    More wheat grass juice is not better than just enough; three ounces a day is plenty! It is a very powerful substance! The fla vor of
wheat grass jui ce is so intense that some people have to mix it with carrot juice to get it down. DO NOT OVERUSE. The
energizing effects of wheat grass can be so powerful that some people make a regular practice of drinking it. However, I've s een
many people who use whea t grass juice as a tonic become allergic to it much as antibiotic dependent people do to antibiotics.
Better to save wheat grass for emergencies.
    I also have treated my own breast cancers –twice. The first time I was only 23 years old. One night I notic ed that it hurt to sleep
the way I usually did on my left side because there was a hard lump in my left breast. It was quite large –about the size of a goose
egg. Having just completed RN training two years prior, I had been well brain washed about my poor prognosis and knew exactly
what requisite actions must taken.
    I scheduled a biopsy under anesthetic, so that if the tumor was malignant they could proceed to full mastectomy without delay. I
was ignorant of any alternative course of action at the time.
    I might add that before I grew my first tumor I had been consuming large amounts of red meat in a mistaken understanding
gained in nursing school that a good diet contained large amounts of animal protein. In addition to the stress of being a ful l time
psychology graduate student existing on a very low budget, I was experiencing I very frustrating relationship with a young ma n
that left me constantly off center and confused.
    A biopsy was promptly performed. The university hospital's SOP required t hat three pathologists make an independent decision
about the nature of a tumor before proceeding with radical surgery. Two of the pathologist agreed that my tumor was malignant,
which represented the required majority vote. But the surgeon removed only th e lump, which he said was well encapsulated and
for some reason did not proceed with a radical mastectomy. These days many surgeons routinely limit themselves to
lumpectomies.
    I never did find out why I awakened from general anesthetic with two breast s, but I have since supposed that due to my tender
age the surgeon was reluctant to disfigure me without at least asking me for permission, or giving me some time to prepare
psychologically. When I came out of anesthesia he told me that the lump was malign ant, and that he had removed it, and that he
needed to do a radical mastectomy to improve my prognosis over the next few years. He asked me to think it over, but he signe d
me up on his surgery list for the following Monday.
    I did think it over and fou nd I was profoundly annoyed at the idea of being treated like I was just a statistic, so I decided that I
would be unique. I made a firm decision that I would be well and stay well –and I was for the next fifteen years. The decision
healed me.
    When I wa s 37 I had a recurrence. At the time I had in residence Ethyl and Marge, the two far -gone breast cancer cases I already
told you about. I also had in residence a young woman with a breast tumor who had not undergone any medical treatment, not
even a lumpec tomy. (I will relate her case in detail shortly.) I was too identified emotionally with helping these three, overly -
empathetic due to my own history. I found myself taking on their symptoms and their pain. I went so far into sympathy as to g row
back my tum or–just as it had the first time –a lump mushroomed from nothing to the size of a goose egg in only three weeks in
exactly the same place as the first one. Just out of curiosity I went in for a needle biopsy. Once again it was judged to be
malignant, and I got the same pressure from the surgeon for immediate surgery. This time, however, I had an alternative system of
healing that I believed in. So I went home, continued to care for my very sick residents, and began to work on myself.
    The first thing I h ad to confront about myself was that I was being a compassionate fool. I needed to learn how to maintain my
own personal boundaries, and clearly delineate what stuff in my mind and my body was really mine and what was another's. I
needed to apply certain m ental techniques of self -protection known to and practiced by many healers. I knew beyond doubt that I
had developed sympathetic breast cancer because a similar phenomena had happened to me before. Once, when I had previously
been working on a person with very severe back pain with hands -on techniques, I suddenly had the pain, and the client was totally
free of it. So I protected myself when working with sick people. I would wash my hands and arms thoroughly with cold water, o r
with water and vinegar after contact. I would shake off their "energy," have a cold shower, walk bare foot on the grass, and
visualize myself well with intact boundaries. These prophylaxes had been working for me, but I was particularly vulnerable to
people with breast cancer.
    I also began detoxification dieting, took more supplements, and used acupressure and reflexology as my main lines of attack.
My healing diet consisted of raw food exclusively. I allowed myself fruits (not sweet fruits) and vegetables (including a lot  of raw
cabbage because vegetables in the cabbage family such as cauliflower and broccoli are known to have a healing effect on cance r),
raw almonds, raw apricot kernels, and some sprouted grains and legumes. I drank diluted carrot juice, and a chlorophyll drink
made up of wheat grass and barley green and aloe vera juice. I took echinaechia, red clover, and fenugreek seeds. I worked all  the
acupuncture points on my body that strengthen the immune system, including the thymus gland, lymph nodes, and spleen. I also
worked the meridians, and reflex points for the liver, and large intestine. I massaged the breast along the


from diseases.
It belongs to the cabbage family known ascruciferous vegetables and health
organizations have singled out cruciferous
vegetables as must have foods,
recommending we eat them several times
a week because they are linked to lower
rates of cancer. Like all cruciferous
vegetables, broccoli naturally contains
two important phytochemicals, indoles
and isothiocyanates. Researchers at the
John Hopkins University School of
Medicine in Baltimore isolated from
broccoli an isothiocyanate, called
sulforaphane, which increases the activity
of a group of enzymes in our bodies that
kill cancer-causing agents.
Broccoli provides a high amount of
vitamin C, which aids iron absorption inthe body, prevents the development of
cataracts and also eases the symptoms of
the common cold. The folic acid in
broccoli helps women sustain normal
tissue growth and is often used as a
supplement when taking birth control pills
and during pregnancy. The potassium in
broccoli aids those battling high blood
pressure, while a large amount of calcium
helps combat osteoporosis.
Brussels Sprouts
Brussels sprouts are loaded with vitamin
A, folacin, potassium and calcium. They
are very high in fibre and belong to the
disease-fighting cabbage family. Likebroccoli and cabbage, fellow cruciferous
vegetables, brussels sprouts contain a
phytochemical known as indole, which
may help protect against cancer.
Brussels sprouts are also rich in vitamin
C, another anti-cancer agent. The health
benefits of this vegetable are remarkable:
it boosts immune function, strengthens the
heart and capillaries and helps lessen
asthma symptoms. Brussels sprouts are
high in vitamins A, K and B6, and are a
good source of folate, fibre, potassium,
phytonutrients and antioxidants. They are
high in complex carbohydrates, low in fat
and cholesterol and are one of the few
vegetables that have over 2 grams of
protein per serving.One of the most important features of this
vegetable is its ability to reduce the risk
of many types of cancer including lung,
colorectal, prostate and breast cancers. In
addition, brussels sprouts may help
prevent strokes, hypothyrodism and
cataracts. A diet high in brussels sprouts
can also lower the chance of developing
multiple sclerosis, high blood pressure
and diabetes.
Another unique characteristic of brussels
sprouts and other cruciferous vegetables
such as cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli
and kale are their high sulforaphane
content. Sulforaphane is a phytonutrient
that is formed when cruciferous
vegetables are chopped or chewed. Ittriggers the liver to produce enzymes that
detoxify
cancer-causing
 agents. The
phytonutrients in brussels sprouts and
other cruciferous vegetables actually
signal our genes to increase production of
enzymes involved in detoxification and
help clear potentially carcinogenic
substances more quickly than any other
vegetable.
Bulghur
The health benefits of bulghur wheat
include helping to prevent constipation
and cancer and reducing the risk of
diabetes and heart disease. Bulghur
contains a compound called ferulic acidwhich can prevent nitrates and nitrites,
common in many foods, from converting
into nitrosamines, which have been linked
to cancer. Bulghur wheat also contains
lignans, which are considered cancer
warriors due to their high antioxidant
properties. These super healthy lignans
also prevent cholesterol from being
damaged by free radicals which makes it
easier to stick to the arterial walls. Less
cholesterol on the artery walls means less
chance of developing heart disease.
A diet rich in bulghur wheat also adds
more fibre that not only provides more
heart disease, diabetes and cancer
prevention, but the insoluble fibre it
contains helps eliminate waste from thebody faster, making it helpful in
preventing and treating constipation,
diverticular disease, haemorrhoids and
intestinal polyps.
Bulghur wheat also has one of the highest
mineral contents of any food. It is rich in
iron, phosphorus, zinc, manganese,
selenium and magnesium. It is the perfect
addition to any meal that is high in
nitrates.
Butternut Squash
Butternut squash is low in fat and delivers
an ample dose of dietary fibre, making it
an exceptionally heart-friendly choice. Itprovides significant amounts of potassium
important for healthy bones and vitamin
B6 essential for the proper functioning of
both the nervous and immune systems. The
folate content adds yet another boost to its
heart-healthy reputation and helps guard
against brain and spinal cord-related birth
defects such as spina bifida.
The colour of butternut squash signals an
abundance of powerhouse nutrients known
as carotenoids, shown to protect against
heart disease. In particular, the gourd
boasts very high levels of beta-carotene,
identified as a deterrent against breast
cancer and age-related macular
degeneration, as well as being a supporter
of healthy lung development in foetusesand newborns. It is also rich in vitamin C
and may have anti-inflammatory effects
because it is rich in antioxidants.
Cabbage
Cabbage is a good source of vitamins C
and B6, potassium, folic acid, biotin,
calcium, magnesium and manganese.
Studies have indicated that increased
cabbage intake may inhibit the metastatic
capacity of breast cancer (i.e. that it may
inhibit the spread of cancer cells in other
parts of the body), and cruciferous
vegetable intake may reduce breast cancer
risk. Other research data provides strong
evidence for a substantial protective effectof cruciferous vegetable consumption on
lung cancer and it has been associated
with a decrease in gastrointestinal,
prostate and bladder cancers. The anti-
cancer properties of cabbage are due to its
phytochemical compounds called
glucosinolates, which work primarily by
increasing antioxidant defence
mechanisms, as well as by improving the
body’s ability to detoxify and eliminate
harmful chemical hormones.
Cabbage is a good source of the amino
acid glutamine, which increases the
body’s ability to secrete human growth
hormone (HGH). Glutamine also has
anti-
inflammatory

properties and assists with
immune system regulation and intestinalhealth. Research at the Stanford University
School of Medicine demonstrated that
fresh cabbage juice is extremely effective
in the treatment of peptic ulcers.
Carrots
Carrot is a root vegetable that offers a
good source of antioxidants. It is known
scientifically as Daucus Carota. Carrots
are rich in vitamins A, C and K, and
potassium. They help in reducing
cholesterol, aid in the prevention of heart
attack and in warding off certain cancers.
Most of the benefits of carrots are
attributed to their beta-carotene and fibre
content.British researchers discovered that
increasing beta-carotene consumption
from 1.7 to 2.7 milligrams a day reduced
lung cancer risk by more than 40 percent.
The average carrot contains about three
milligrams of beta-carotene. In a study,
researchers at the Danish Institute of
Agricultural Sciences found that a
substance called falcarinol found in
carrots has been found to reduce the risk
of a wide range of cancers. Another study
shows that women who ate raw carrots
were five to eight times less likely to
develop breast cancer than women who
did not eat carrots.
Carrots have antiseptic properties and
therefore can be used as a laxative,vermicide and as a remedy for liver
conditions. Carrot oil is good for dry skin.
It makes the skin softer, smoother and
firmer. Carrot juice improves stomach and
gastrointestinal health.
Cauliflower
Cauliflower is a cruciferous vegetable
containing many of the same cancer
fighting properties as broccoli, kale and
cabbage, which have become poster
children for cancer prevention. The
isothiocyanates formed when cauliflower
is chewed activate liver enzymes that
detoxify cancer-causing chemicals. The
isothiocyanates along with anotherchemical, sulforaphane, stop the
proliferation of cancer cells in the
laboratory. Cauliflower is also a good
source of indoles. These are chemicals
which subtly alter oestrogen metabolism
so that weaker oestrogens are produced
that are less likely to cause breast and
prostate cancer.
Cauliflower is a surprisingly good source
of vitamin C. A single serving of
cauliflower provides over half of the
recommended daily requirement of
vitamin C.
CeleryCelery leaves have a high content of
vitamin A, while the stems are an
excellent source of vitamins B1, B2, B6
and C with rich supplies of potassium,
folic acid, calcium, magnesium, iron,
phosphorus, sodium and essential amino
acids. Nutrients in the fibre are released
during juicing, aiding bowel movements.
The natural organic sodium (salt) in celery
is safe for consumption and essential for
the body. While many foods lose nutrients
during cooking, most of the compounds in
celery hold up well. The important
minerals in this magical


 your blood flow, increase delivery of oxygen to
working muscle s, and reduce the symptoms of anxiety associated with
overbreathing. Returning your breathing habits to the natural and ef ficient
methods you were born with wi ll also allow you to enjoy better health and
maximize the potential of your sports or exercise performance. Use the
following exerci se to encourage abdominal breathing during rest and sports
until it again becomes second  nature. As the objective of the Oxygen
Advantage program is to restore light, abdominal breathing with a high
BOL T score, the exercise below forms the foundation upon which
remaining exercises are practiced.Br eathe Light to Br eathe Right
( A mor e advance d version of th is exer cise can be found in Part IV : Y our
Oxygen Advantage Pr ogram under Br eathe Light to Br eathe Right
(Advanced Method). )
During the process of breathing, oxygen is drawn into the lungs and
excess carbon dioxide is exhaled. The respiratory center located in the brain
continuously m onitors blood pH, carbon dioxide, and to a l esser extent
oxygen. When the level of carbon dioxide in the blood increases above
programmed levels, the respiratory center transmits impulses that tell the
respiratory muscles to breathe in order to remove the excess gas. When we
breathe too much over a period of hours to days, as in the case  of chronic
stress, the respiratory center adjusts to a lower tolerance of carbon dioxide.
Having a lower than normal tolerance to carbon dioxide results in the
respiratory cente r increasing the rate of impulses to the respirato ry muscles.
The result is habitual overbreathing and excess breathlessness during
physical exercise.
Y ou are  practicing this exercise correctly when you slow down and
reduce y our breathing suf ficien tly to create a tolerable need for air. The
need for  air signifies an accumulation of arterial carbon dioxide, the goal of
which is to reset  the respiratory center ’ s tolerance to this gas. T o assist with
this, it is very helpful to exert gentle pressure against your chest and
abdomen with your hands. T ry to maintain the need for air for the duration
of 4 to 5 minutes.
T o p ractice this exercise, it can b e very helpful to sit in front of a mirror
to observe and follow your breathing movements.
•   Sit up straigh t. Allow your sh oulders to relax. Imagine a pie ce
of string  gently holding you up from the top of the back of your
head. At the sa me time, feel the space between your ribs
gradually widening.
•   Place one hand on your chest and one hand just above your
navel.•   Feel you r abdomen gently moving outward as you inhale and
gently moving inward as you exhale.
•   A s yo u breathe, exert gentle pressure with your hands against
your abdomen and chest. This s hould create resistance to your
breathing.
•  Breathe against your hands, concentrating on making the size of
each breath smaller.
•   W ith e ach bre ath, take in less air than you would like to. Mak e
the in-breath smaller or shorter.
•   G ently slow d own and reduce your breathing movements un til
you feel a tolerable hunger for air.
•   Brea the out  with a relaxed exhalation. Allow the natur al
elasticity of your lungs and diap hragm to play their role in each
exhalation. Imagine a balloon slowly and gently deflating of its
own accord.
•   Whe n the in-breath becomes smaller and the out-breath is
relaxed, visible breathing movements will be reduced. Y ou may
be able to notice this in a mirror.
By using a simple exercise like this, you can reduce your breathing
movements by 20 to 30 percent.  If your stomach muscles start to contract orjerk or feel tense, or if your breathing rhythm becomes disrupted or out of
control, then the air shortage is too intense. In this situation, a bandon the
exercise for 15 seconds or so and return to it when the air s hortage has
disappeared.
At fi rst, you may only be able to  maintain an air shortage for 20 seconds
before the ur ge to breathe is too  strong. W ith practice, you will be able to
maintain an air shortage for longer periods. Remember, you a re trying to
create an air shortage that is tolerable but not stressful. Aim to m aintain this
tolerable “air hunger” for 3 to 5 minutes at a time. Practicing 2 sets of 5-
minute exercise s is enough to help you reset your breathing center and
improve your body’ s tolerance for carbon dioxide.
When you practice Breathing Light, the accumulation of carbon dioxide
in th e bl ood wil l result in certai n physiological changes in the body. These
include:
•   A  fee ling of increased warm th resulting from the dilation of
blood vessels
•  A rosy red color coming into the face
•   Increa sed prod uction of watery saliva in the mouth, which is an
indication that your body is going into relaxation mode and
activating the parasympathetic nervous system
All of these ch anges are normal and should not cause dis comfort.
However, if you experience dizziness or anxiety while practicing an
Oxygen Advantage exercise, th en it is better to refrain from doing this
exercise and contact an Oxygen  Advantage practitioner who can establish
that you  are doing the exercise correctly. For a list of practitio ners, please
visit OxygenAdvantage.com.
T iming Y our Br eathing: A Fundamental Err or
Y ou ma y have noticed that while we attempt to reset breathing volume
toward n ormal, there is no sug gestion of changing the number of breathsper minu te, or to time the lengt h of each breath. This is deliberate—using
time to measure  the size of a breath is a fundamental error. Modern W estern
society s eeks to quantify everything in terms of measurement, including our
breathing, but when it comes to retraining poor breathing habits, it is not the
timing that needs to be focused on. Altering the number of breaths per
minute or counting the size of  each breath in seconds has taken root in
many br eathing techniques but actually has little or no ef fect in addressing
poor breathing habits.
For exam ple, te lling someone to inhale for 2 seconds and exhale for 3
seconds does not provide guida nce on whether they should tak e in a very
gentle breath or a huge inhalation of air. The volume of a gentle breath
would be far less than the volume of a lar ge breath, and si nce we are
concerned mainly with volume and reducing it toward normal, counting the
length of a brea th using seconds does not work. The following illustration
shows two dif ferent breaths, each with an inhalation length of 2 seconds
and an exhalation of 3 seconds. Note the dif ference in the amount of air
taken into the lungs by each breath, despite them being the same length:Similarly, is it n ot possible to ad dress poor breathing habits by c hanging
the number of b reaths per minute. T ake, for example, an indi vidual who
breathes 20 breaths per minute, with each breath consisting of 500ml of air.
This bre athing p attern provides a total volume of 10 liters per m inute. And,
since 10 liters of air per minute is too much, the individual may be
mistakenly instr ucted to remedy this by reducing the number of breaths per
minute from 20 to 10. However,  changing the number of breaths  in this way
will sim ply resu lt in each brea th doubling in size to compen sate for the
reduction of breathing rate. There will be no change to breathing volume
and the individual’ s symptoms will persist.
There is  only one way to chang e your breathing volume and r ate, and
that is by slowin g down and dim inishing the size of each breath  in order to
create a shortage of air. In time, as breathing volume chan ges toward
normal, you will obtain a higher BOL T measurement and the  number of
breaths you take per minute w ill automatically reduce. T o reiterate, it is
impossible to change breathing  volume by altering breathing r ate, but thebest way  to naturally alter your breathing rate is to reduce you r breathing
volume. As your BOL T increa ses, not only will the size of each breath
decrease, but so too will the number of breaths taken per minute.
Learning and applying the above exercise to your daily breathing will
provide an excellent foundation on which to build a more ef ficient
breathing technique during sports. Just as if you were building the house of
your dreams, the most crucial aspect is the foundation. There is no point
building a beautiful structure on  top of a weak foundation. T o d o so would
be futile, as the building would t opple soon after it was built. The same rule
applies w ith addressing your breathing volume. Breathing Ligh t to Breathe
Right is the fou ndation on top of which we simulate high-altit ude training
during many sports activities,


 us to a topic I call healthfood junkfood. Many people improve their
diet, eliminating meat and chemicalized food in favor of whole grains andorganically grown foods, but they then proceed to make these otherwise goodfoods into virtual junkfood by preparing them incorrectly. In my travels, I’venoticed this same thing happens everywhere on Earth. What should be health-producing dietaries are ruined by frying, salting and sugaring.
Healthfood junkfoods include organically grown potato chips deep fried in
cold pressed organic unsaturated canola oil (made rancid by frying) sprinkled withnatural sea salt; organically grown oat and nut granola roasted with cold-pressedunsaturated oil (made rancid by roasting) hideously sweetened with honey; carrotcake made with rancid whole wheat flour, cold pressed unsaturated oil (maderancid by baking), honey, and cream cheese (salted); whole wheat cookies (stale,rancid flour) sweetened with honey, made with vegetable oil baked at high heat(rancid); whole wheat pizza vegetarian style with lots of soy cheese; whole wheatpizza vegan style with lots of real raw milk cheese; organically grown corn chipsdeep fried in cold pressed vegetable oil with or without natural sea salt, yogurtsmade from powdered milk without an active culture of beneficial bacteria andcovered with highly sugared fruits, etc. These foods may well represent animprovement over the average American diet, but they still are not healthy foods,and should never be used in a diet for a sick person. Nor are they worthy of aperson attempting to maximize health.
The problem with healthfood junkfoods is not their major ingredients, but how
they were combined and processed and adulterated. Remember, fats, animal orvegetable, subjected to high heat become indigestible and toxic and makeanything they’re cooked with indigestible; salt is a toxic drug; cheese, hard enoughto digest as it is, when raised to high temperatures as it is when making pizza,becomes virtually indigestible and cheese inevitably contains a lot of butterfatwhich, though saturated animal fat, when raised to high temperatures, stillbecomes slightly rancid. And all these foods represent indigestible combinations.
My clients almost never believe me when I first explain the idea of food
combining. They think if it goes in one end, comes out the other, and they don’tfeel any unpleasant symptoms in between, then it was digested. But bad foodcombinations have a cumulative degenerative effect over a long period of time.When the symptoms arrive the victim never associates the food combination withthe symptom because it seems to them that they’ve always been eating the food.
Mainstream nutritionists have brainwashed the public into thinking that we
should have a representative serving from each of the “four basic food groups” ateach and every meal, plus a beverage and a desert. Or, as my husband Steve isfond of quipping, a “balanced meal” has four colors on every plate: somethingred, something green, something white and something yellow. But the balancedmeal is a gastronomic catastrophe that can only be processed by the very youngwith high digestive vitality, the exceptionally vital of any age, people with cast ironstomachs which usually refers to their good heredity, and those who are veryphysically active.
Few seem to realize that each type of food requires specific and different
digestive enzymes in the mouth, stomach, and intestine. Carbohydrates, fats,proteins—each requires differing acid or alkaline environments in order to bedigested. Proteins require an acid environment. Starch digestion requires analkaline environment. When foods in complex combinations are presented to thestomach all together, like a meal with meat, potatoes, gravy, vegetables, bread,butter, a glass of milk, plus a starchy sweet desert, followed by coffee or tea, thestomach, pancreas, liver and small intestine are overwhelmed, resulting in thefermentation of the sugars and starches, and the putrefaction of the proteins, andpoor digestion of the whole. It is little wonder that most people feel so tired aftera large meal and need several cups of strong coffee to be able to even get upfrom the table. They have just presented their digestive tract with an immenselydifficult and for some an impossible task.
For the most efficient digestion, the body should be presented with one simple
food at a time, the one bowl concept, easily achieved by adherence to the oldsaying, “one food at a meal is the ideal.” An example of this approach would beeating fruits for breakfast, a plain cereal grain for lunch, and vegetables for supper.If you can’t eat quite that simply, then proper food combining rules should befollowed to minimize digestive difficulty, maximize the adsorption of nutrients fromyour food, and reduce or eliminate the formation of toxemia, and of course foulgas.
In general, fruit should be eaten alone unless you happen to be hypoglycemic
or diabetic in which case fruit should be eaten with small quantities of a vegetableprotein such as nuts, or yogurt and/or cheese if able to digest dairy. Starchesshould be eaten with vegetables, which means that a well combined meal wouldinclude a grain such as rice, millet, buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa, corn, wheat,rye, oats, spelt, potatoes, or starchy winter squash combined with raw or cookedvegetables. Protein foods such as meat, eggs, beans, lentils, tofu, split peas,should be combined with vegetables, raw or cooked. But protein should never becombined with starches. The most popular North American snacks and mealsalways have a starch/protein combination, for example: meat and potatoes,hamburger in a bun, hot dog with bun, burrito with meat or cheese, meatsandwiches, etc. It is little wonder that intestinal gas is accepted as normal, andthat over time these hard to digest combinations eventually cause health problemsthat demand attention.
Another sure fire way to ruin any food, including the very best available is to
eat in the presence of negative emotions generated by yourself or others.Negative emotions include fear, anger, frustration, envy, resentment, etc. Thedigestive tract is immediately responsive to stress and or negative thoughts. Itbecomes paralyzed in negative emotional states; any foods eaten are poorlydigested, causing toxemia.
It is natural for a person who has lost a loved one or suffered a great loss of
any kind to lose their appetite for a period of time. This reaction is pro-survival,because while grieving, the body is griped by powerful negative emotions. Thereare people who, under stress or when experiencing a loss, eat ravenously in anattempt to comfort themselves. If this goes on for long the person can expect tocreate a serious illness of some kind.
Individual sensitivity to this type of overeating is dependent upon genetics and
personality and who is generating the negative emotions. Self generated negativeemotions are very difficult to avoid. If you are unable to change your ownemotional tone or that of others around you, then it is important to eat very lightly,eat only easily digested foods such as raw fruits and vegetables, raw juices,steamed vegetables, and small servings of whole grains, nuts and seeds.
Diets To Heal The Critically Ill
A critically ill person is someone who could expire at any moment; therapeutic
interventions are racing against death. Can the body repair itself enough beforesome essential function ceases altogether? If there already exists too muchdamage to vital organs the person will die. If there remains sufficient organfunction to support life, enough vital force to power those functions, and a will tolive, the body may heal itself if helped by the correct therapeutic approach. Butthe therapy does not do the healing; the body does that by itself—if it can. Thisreality is also true of allopathic medicine.
I believe fasting is the therapy that almost invariably gives a critically ill person
their very best chance of recovery. If a patient dies while fasting they almostcertainly would have died anyway, and if death comes while fasting, it will bemore comfortable, with less pain, and with more mental clarity.
Critically ill people may have, among other things, any of the following
diagnoses: advanced cancer, advanced aids, heart failure, very high bloodpressure, kidney failure, advanced liver disease, advanced emphysema,
Food In The Order Of Digestive Difficulty
Individual digestive weaknesses and allergies are not taken into
account in this list:
Hard To Digest: Meat, fish, chicken, eggs (if cooked), all legumes
including soy products, peanuts and peanut butter, beans, split peas, lentils,chick peas, dairy products such as cheese, milk, butter milk, nuts and seedsand their butters.
Intermediate: all grains--quinoa, amaranth, millet, spelt, rye, wheat,
oats, barley.
Fairly Easy:  Brussels sprouts, green beans, green peas, broccoli,
cauliflower, raw cultured milk products, asparagus, cabbage, sproutsespecially bean sprouts, kale, other leafy greens.
Very Easy:  fruits, vegetable juices, fruit juices, broth (clear).
No Effort:  herb tea, water.
pneumonia or other catastrophic infections, especially those that seem
unresponsive to antibiotics, strokes, emboli, sclerotic vessels as found inarteriosclerosis, severe nerve degeneration interfering with nerve transmission tovital organs.
Treating the critically ill does not have to be an all or nothing, ideological
choice between holistic medicine and AMA style medicine. It is important for thecritically ill and their families to know that if they use standard medical treatmentsuch as drugs or surgery, these measures can and should be combined withnatural


, we have limitless resources and the
people yield themselves with perfect
7. Ibid., 8.
8. Ibid., 9. 56 THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION
docility to our molding hands. The present
education conventions fade from their minds, and
unhampered by tradition, we work our own good
will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We
shall not try to make these people or any of their
children into philosophers or men of learning, or
men of science. We have not to raise up from
among them authors, editors, poets or men of
letters. We shall not se arch for embryo great
artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors,
preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we
have an ample supply.
The task we set before ourselves is very simple as
well as a very beautiful one, to train these people
as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where
they are. So we will organize our children and
teach them to do in a perfect way the things their
fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect
way, in the homes, in the shops and on the farm.9
A similar view of the power of philanthropy was
9. Gates also had strong views about fund-raising. Once, when asked
about the feasibility of getting repeat ed donations from alumni he advised
that people, having given once, were "more likely to give again when they
could afford to. 'People bleed more eas ily after a vein has been opened,' he
remarked." (According to Fosdick, op. cit., 135.)  Molding Hands  57
expressed by Board trustee Waiter Hines Page
(later to become editor of the Atlantic Monthly,
ambassador to Great Britai n, and early advocate of
America's entry into Worl d War I) to the first
executive secretary of th e Board, Wallace Buttrick:
...the world lies before us. It'll not be the same
world when we get done with it that it was
before: bet your last penny on that will you!10
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.'s attention, however,
was not just on grandly paternalistic schemes of
social control. McClure's Magazine had begun pub-
lication of its serializati on of Ida Tarbell's muck-
raking book, The History of the Standard Oil
Company. Rockefeller was being hounded each day
by hundreds of letters de manding or pleading for
money, while the newspapers and magazines con-
stantly attacked him and his organization.
Under the accumulating pressures, the body
that he had pushed so remorselessly for the
past forty years finally rebelled. Letters bet-
ween Rockefeller and his wife during this
period tell of sleepless nights. He began to
suffer from serious digestive disorders, and
10.   Fosdick, op. cit., 12. 58 THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION
his doctor insisted that  he retreat from his
cares...almost overnight the people who visited
Rockefeller came away shocked by his stooped
and careworn demeanor...His face had
become deeply lined; he had put on weight,
sagging at the midsection. He was ravaged by a
nervous disease...which left him wit hout any
hair on his body, and in the first noticeable
vanity of an otherwise spartan life, he began to
worry about his baldness, hiding it first with a
grotesque black skull cap and later with a series
of ill-fitting white wigs, each of them a slightly
different length so that he could imitate a
natural growth of hair over a two-week
period.11
Rockefeller's greatest desire at this time was to
buffer himself against his enemies and against public
opinion by pouring millions into whatever medical or
educational charities Gates could find. He had
enthroned Gates as his financial overseer, and had
increasingly turned over the job of laundering his
wealth to his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who over
the years would seek out larger and more effective
ways of investing the Rockefeller fortune toward, in
Fosdick's words, "this goal of social control." These
men, it can safely be said, con-
11.   Collier and Horowitz, op. cit., 45. Molding Hands  59
spired to control Ameri can education while but-
tressing the Rockefeller fortune against all attacks,
ensuring that their autocrat ic views would prevail.
With the General Educatio n Board, Rockefeller's
"education trust," a virtually unlimited source of
funds was to be made av ailable to th e Wundtian
psychologists' ambitious designs on American edu-
cation.  7. Round Numbers
THE first contact between the two forces
occurred during the height of anti-Rockefeller
publicity in 1902:
Hardly had Dr. Buttrick opened his two-room
office on Nassau Street in 1902 when a request
came from Dr. James E. Russell, dean of
Columbia University's Teachers College, and
there was a note of urgency about it. The
morning's mail had already brought in two
letters from the South, Russell explained, and
each day would bring in more—all from teachers
seeking scholarship aid so  that they might come
North to complete their professional training...
The General Education Board acted promptly,
and within a few weeks scholarships of $300
each had been awarded to six normal school
teachers in the South.1
1.   Fosdick, op. cit., 298-99.
61 62 THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION
The innocent precedent was set, and the game
was on. Teachers College needed money in order to
accommodate its growing enrollment, expand its
curriculum, and "influence American education, in
accord with and even beyond its ambitions."2 Dean
Russell was to find his stable  base of funding in the
Rockefeller fortune, as expr essed in this letter from
John, Jr., to Russell in late 1902:
As a thank offering to Almighty God for the
preservation of his family and household on the
occasion of the destruction by fire of his country
home at Pocantico Hills, New York, on the
night of Sept. 17, 1902, my Father makes the
following pledge:
Understanding that the total indebtedness of
Teachers College at the present time amounts to
$200,000 in round numbers, which same was
incurred partly because of a deficit in last
year's running expenses, and partly by reason of
certain necessary repairs and alterations; as soon
as he shall receive satisfactory evidence that
this entire indebtedness had been wiped out
my Father will contribute two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) as an
endowment for the College.
Furthermore, during a period of two years
2.   Joncich, op. cit., 189. Round Numbers  63
from that date, my Father will duplicate, dollar for
dollar, all contributions in cash made by others
toward endowment, up to a total from him of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)...3
As a result, Teachers College experienced a
"meteoric rise":
Only fifteen years after the move to 120th Street,
Teachers College will meet the Rockefeller
endowment terms and cover an entire city block
crammed with seven buildings. Its facilities will
operate from early morning to ten o'clock in the
evening, for ten months of the year...Its enrollment
is to be exceeded in size by only ten universities in
the entire United States; only Columbia, Harvard,
and Chicago will have more students seeking ad-
vanced education in 1912 as, amazingly, Teachers
College becomes the fourth largest graduate
school in the nation.4
Thus Teachers College was able to expand at a time
critical to its success and hard on the heels of a massive
population increase among school-age
3. Ibid., 189-90.
4. Ibid., 190. 64 THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION
children. The number of public school enrollments
reflected this increase, rising from 9,900,000 in 1880 to
12,700,000 only ten years later, and continuing to rise
rapidly thereafter. The number of colleges increased
from 350 in 1880 to nearly 500 in 1900, with college
enrollment doubling over the same period, and
continuing to expand into the early years of the new
century.5 There was an urgent need for teachers, and
Teachers College was now firmly established and ready
to fill that need with a methodology most schools of
educa-cation didn't have—"educational" psychology.
The year after Rockefeller's General Education
Board had set Teachers College financially on its feet,
Thorndike published the first volume of his
masterwork, Educational Psychology. By 1904, he was
entrenched as full professor and head of the new
department of educational psychology at Teachers
College. That same year, after a decade in Chicago
experimenting with children, John Dewey joined the
faculty of Columbia University as a member of the
departments of philosophy and education, in a unique
position to influence advanced students in Teachers
College.6 With Russell, Cattell, Thorndike, and the
other Wund


 character. I decided to plunge ahead with our interview, to
learn all I could that night. She had told me that this would be her last
opportunity to speak in depth, since her work was piling up. She had also
said she was putting everything in order so that she could accompany me
back to Earth for a brief two-week observation of her own. All my talk
about anxiety attacks without anxiety attacking, elevator phobias though
elevators were not programmed to scare people, and other mysterious
happenings had piqued her interest in my place of origin. She was clearly
interested in seeing it firsthand.
“Will your family object to your leaving without taking them along?” I
asked.
“I won’ t allow them to be upset,” she said innocently.
“But how can you allow or not allow someone else to be upset?”
“I’ll hide their feeling-hurters and disconnect the anger terminals from
their portable units,” she said, as I almost literally picked myself up from
the restaurant floor.
“Okay, okay, I give up, what is a feeling-hurter?” I asked in amused
wonderment.
“You mean to tell me that on Earth people can’ t hurt other people’ s
feelings?”
“Of course they can, it happens all the time, but what has that to do with
a feeling-hurter?” I asked.“Once again you puzzle me, but I’ll restrain myself until I see your
people with my own eyes. I can’ t imagine how anyone can hurt another ’s
feelings without the benefit of a feeling-hurter. But to answer your question,
a feeling-hurter is a very light-weight portable machine which you carry on
your belt or in your purse. It comes in many dif ferent models depending on
how much you’re willing to spend. The typical feeling-hurter has three
buttons specifically programed for basic family members. One is for
siblings, one for parents, and one for grandparents or anyone else who may
be living in the home. Y ou can order more expensive varieties that include
in-laws, co-workers, and even strangers if you want to spend the extra
money.”
“But how do they work?” I wanted to know.
“They operate through invisible lasers. If you want to hurt your sister ’s
feelings, for example, you aim it directly at her, and zap! Y ou push the
button marked sibling and she’ll generally respond in a whiny tone, ‘Mom,
he just hurt my feelings.’ Make sense?”
“Sense,” I exclaimed. “It’ s absolutely phenomenal. Y ou mean that on
Uranus one cannot hurt someone else’ s feelings without a feeling-hurter?” I
asked.
“How would it be possible?” she shot right back. “How could anyone
hurt someone’ s feelings without a feeling-hurter?”
I didn’ t want to go into it. So I simply shrugged of f her rhetorical
questions and put it into that ever growing category of “W ait and you’ll see
when you get to my house.”
But I must say I did think about her question long and hard. I knew that
Eykis, who was already greatly baf fled by my inability to answer her
questions intelligently, would not be satisfied with my reply. Maybe a visit
back to Earth would clarify things for her, although I was already beginning
to be certain that her visit would only confirm her recent conclusions about
us Earthlings.
“So your family won’ t be able to have hurt feelings about your trip
because you are going to hide their feeling-hurters,” I restated, to be sure
I’d recorded it properly.
“Either I’ll hide them or I’ll disconnect the wife/mother terminals. They
would be inconvenienced to be completely without their feeling-hurters for
two weeks, so I’ll just disconnect those lasers that would af fect me.”“Amazing, absolutely amazing,” was all I could say. “And those anger
buttons you mentioned, do they work in a similar way?”
“Almost exactly,” she replied, “except that they aren’ t portable. Anger is
too serious an emotional response for people to be carrying around anger -
provokers, so the terminals are fixed within the home. The government
restricts the sale of anger -provokers because they can be dangerous.
Although no one would, as you say, ‘harm’ anyone else, still, a provoked
attack of anger can create things like tantrums, shouting, kicking inanimate
objects, and the like. So we seldom use our anger -provokers. But you can
definitely make someone else angry here on Uranus by pushing the right
combinations of buttons.”
“So you are going to insure that your family isn’ t upset at you by actually
tampering with their buttons, so to speak.”
“I will simply inform them that I don’ t want them to hurt my feelings. I
don’t want them to make me angry and vice versa. Then I’ll show them
what I’ve done and no one will be hurt. Can you suggest a way to handle it
any better?” she asked quite sternly.
“Not at all,” I replied without hesitation. “Y ou really have a terrific plan
there. In fact, I’d love to take some of those toys back home with me.”
“You mean that you don’ t have feeling-hurters and anger -provokers on
Earth?” she wanted to know.
“Right again, Eykis,” I said.
“So no one can make anyone angry or hurt anyone else’ s feelings on
Earth. Right?” she asked, almost hopefully.
“Wrong again, Eykis,” I said.
“I know, I know. We’ll wait until we get there,” she said. I feared that she
was anticipating some kind of alien technology that would help explain
Earthling thinking and behavior. She was in for a shock.
It occurred to me that without their mechanical instruments, the people of
Uranus would never suf fer the pain of anger or insult. Why introduce such
destructive emotions into society? I wondered. I asked Eykis directly.
“Much earlier in our history, we found that without a range of emotion
we had no stimulation for creativity. We were exceedingly dull. This
technology was as wonderful an advance as, say, the automobile. But, like
cars, it got out of hand. W ith cars there is the tendency to get a bigger,
faster, newer, more complex model every year. That was becoming the case
with feeling-hurters and anger -provokers. Competition and status dictatedthe purchase more than actual need. Now there is government regulation, as
with auto emissions and so on. Our scientists seek alternative devices also,
just as we investigate mass transit, but the use of these emotion zappers is
deeply rooted in the society and won’ t change until a clearly superior
system has been proved to be ef fective and readily available.”
“Aren’ t your family members somewhat dependent on you? W on’t they
miss you while you’re gone?” I asked, changing the subject from feeling-
hunters and anger -provokers.
“Dependency is very important for young children. How else would they
survive?” she asked me right back.
“I’m not talking about very young children. I’m talking about young
people who can think for themselves, who would survive without their
parents, teenagers for example. I’m also talking about adults who become
dependent upon each other within the family. How about that?” I asked.
“I see. W ell, in almost all cases we disconnect the dependency diodes
from our young children about the age of eleven, and then dependency—
absolutely relying on anyone else—is impossible. I must admit, however,
that some people on Uranus do have dependency needs beyond age eleven,
often well into adulthood, and occasionally throughout their entire lives.”
I now felt as if I had finally gotten hold of something I could relate to.
This was very Earthlike, and I didn’ t want to let it go. “So why would
anyone want to remain dependent after he is able to think, feel, and live as
an independent-thinking person?” I asked, almost as if I were a prosecuting
attorney who had finally trapped a key witness and caught him in his own
illogic.
“Haven’ t you ever heard of defective dependency diodes?” she asked,
showing her disdain for my prosecutor -like tone. “Dependency is like an
illness. W e don’ t get angry at people for being sick. No one can help it if he
has defective dependency diodes. The person to whom it happens usually
remains dependent for a while. Rather than thinking for himself, he often
wants others to do his thinking for him. He blames his parents for his
problems and in fact he is right. Only parents control dependency diodes
and a miscalculating parent can create a dependency that might even last.
Fortunately, all the dependency diodes are operating properly in my family.
I have a whole group of people in my family who can think for themselves,
who never blame me for their problems, and who share and love each other
very much. I’m thankful that all my dependency diodes disconnectedproperly. With the exception of my husband’ s jealousy-jam, which he rarely
uses, we have a wonderful family of interdependent and independent
functioning people. No one wants to put the control of his life in anyone
else’s power, since that would take away what we prize most on Uranus—
freedom. But we must thank the skillful parents for disconnecting the
diodes


static forces, attrac·
tivc and repulsive forces of the van der Waals' type are im
portant for structural development. F = force; R =distance
dependen,ce of potential energy; d = distance between two
particles. Vander Waals' forces are both (a) long-range at·
tractive and (b) short-range repulsive. The relationship of
force F and distanced is expressed as the resultant force c,
i.e., a+b, represented by the curve c:k/tP, where k is a con
stant that depends on the particles. At any distance shorter
tlun d, the repulsive force increases mpidly, which prevents
maner from collapsing.
that when values of d are less than those for wruch
U ltfJ is :zero, the U AB rapidly increases in positive
value. This positive potential energy function counter·
acts the possibility of collapse of matter.
The principle is illustrated in Fig. V111: I, showing
the well known distribution curve of resultant poten
tial energy (c), composed of attractive (a) and repulsive
(b) forces. Such forces vary experimentally and theo
retically for different kinds of matter and their degree
of purit}• (4). For instance, different kinds of carbon
(such as coal, graphite, and diamond) present a wide
range of internal cohesion. Fixed angulation or rota·
tion of particles also influence the resulting forces.
In a system of many particles it is assumed that most
but not all of the concentration forces are pairwise
additive (3).
Among the three types of so-called long-range
forces, e/ectroscacic forces (I) are either repulsive or
attractive. They also are pairwise additive according to
the principle of superposit ion (simple addition) of the
fields. Electrostatic forces dominate large separations.
In the case of dipole-induced dipoles (II), however, the
forces are not pairwise additive. They arise by the
interactions of the permanent electrical moments of
76 Concentration-dispersion forces particles. The long-range dispersion forces (Ill) are ex
clusively attractive and pairwise additive. These forces
are also called c®centration forces (9, 10, II).
Thus, long-range for·ccs acting upon several parti
cles can be written as a sum of the individual electrical
forces and dispersion (concentration) forces, when
consideration is given to the spatial orientations and
rotational moments of the participating particles.
Derivation of the contributions of the long-range
forces to U AB have been given by Hirschfelder, et al.
(6), as follows:
I) The long-range electrostatic forces may be written
as a series
U electrostatic= VN•+ UJlQ+Uw+...
where each partial term is a potential energy function
of separation, orientati.on, as well as electrical mo
ments of the particles (see also Fig. X: 2). Up,u repre
sents the potential eneTgy function of the electrical
charges J1 + and Jl-of a IJJI dipole. It may be described
by the fu.nction (p2/d3) f, where f is a function of
angulation and d the distance between the two charges.
UpQ is a similar function between the neighbouring
and attracting opposite charges of the I'Jl dipole and
another dipole of charges Q+ and Q-. U00 is the
similar function for the QQ dipole. Likewise, all other
combinations of dipoles in the given collection of parti·
cles are added into this electrostatic series. The values
of U!lQ and UQQ are much smaller than UpJl. They
fall off, according to Margenau (II), proportionally to
d-• and d-5, respectively, whereas U,up is propor
tional to d-3.
II) The long-range inducrio11 forces produce balanced
net forces between panicles without additive effect on
surrounding matter (3). Their importance for structur
al development within a given field should therefore
depend to a large extent on the dielectric properties of
the material in which induction takes place.
III) The third type of long-range forces, the concen
tration forces (dispersion, London-van der Waals, co
hesive adsorption forces), are believed to arise as a
specific dipole effect on a particle by electron move
ment in an adjacent particle. Thus London (9, 10) has
shown that the overall energy function Ud;sp may be
written as a series of exclusively additive terms propor
tinal to -kld6 for each pair of particles. The concen
tration forces can be determined but require know
ledge of the particular wave function for ground and
excited states of the electrons. Formulas for their cal
culation have been developed (8, 10, 13, 15).
The counterba lance of the negative long-range at
tractive forces is the repulsive short-range van der
Waals' forces. These forces rapidly increase their
dominance within distances of approximately 3 A.
Tills effect depends on the increasing repulsion caused
by t'verlap of the electronic charge clouds of particles as they move closer to each other (II, 12). This repul
sive potential ener«Y is described by a term propor
tional to t""' or d-• where p and n are constants (n
varies between 9 to 24) (3).
1\ potenual tuncuon lor overlap repulsion between
water molecules was described by Kamb (7) in the
form
u,.pu, =A" ( ~ )'.
where o•276x 10-1 em ("collision diameter'' of the
molecules ). Two pairs of coefficients and exponents
were derived: A*=2.1 kcal molufe-1, n= 10 and A •=
4.0 kcal mol-1, ns9 for ice of IWO different energy
contents.
Interatomic forces and short-range molecular forces
are known to be integrated into the combined or hy
brid movements of orbital electrons around atoms of a
molecule (3, 4). Two electrons move with opposite
spins in each orbit around the molecule, producing
internal bonds of the molecule within certain sections.
The variations in electron density of certain sections of
the orbits allow interactions between adjacent mole
cules. When external forces have vanished, this muru
al process produces an equilibrium configuration of
the participating nuclei. The short-range repulsive
forces must then be balanced by an electrostatic attrac
tive charge. This attraction is limited to the binding
regions of the molecule, whereas all other regions tend
to separate the molecules. A specific molecular orien
tation takes place at the binding sites. The balance of
the forces involved in the binding follow the Hell
mann-Feynman rule (3, 4), which states that the
forces acting on the nucleus of a separated molecule
are the sum of the electrostatic forces arising from the
other nuclei and the force derived from electronic
charge density.
In the discussion on physicochemical potential, the
chemical potential contains the activity component a1•
The innuence of this factor is not simply a maner of
concentration of j. The "total activity" of solute j is
related to both iu concentration and other energy
components, which are included as an activity coeffi
cient, y1:
The activity coefficient is usually synonymou s with the
electric characteristics of solute j and differs for
charged particles in water solution by their electrical
charge from the activity being caused only by the
concentration. This variation was recognized by De
bye and Hiickel (I) who also found that, as the concen
tration increases, the electrical fields of the ions inter
fere increasingl y with each other. Consequently, local
accumulations of a species of ions of varying concen
tration will interact different internally and with sur-rounding reactants. The activity facton for ions in
solution also vary by their different net electric charge
in relation to the activity of surrounding media. In
arldition, thermal factors, pressures, gravity and exter
nal electric fields will, of course, also inlluence ionic
dispersion. In a local region around any ion, the elec
tric forces influence the movement of other ions. As
concentration increases, the distance between ions de
creases, which facilitates ion-ion interactions.
The presented view of ionic potential has its corre
spondence in the molecular potential of certain bio
logically active nonionic compounds. Associated prob
lems are particularly considered in the presentation of
Ll-te ionar~rgonar concept of energy exchange over
biologically closed electric circuits (Chapter XIII), an
important prerequisite for the utilization of their bio
logically stored electrical energy.
This c.olldttued survey of some clraraeteris1ics of molecu
lar and particulatt forces of attraction and repulsion may
an jim imprmion umr far distant from problems of
srrucrural rrwdif ~eation in biological materia!. II is not so.
These forces constitute


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 Energy
flows  forth  and  out into  your  world,  you  will  find  those
who  hated  you  will  turn  and  love  you;  those  who  opposed
you, will  want  to serve  you  in the Glory  of Life;  because
your  Out-pouring  of Love  has touched  their  world,  refined
it; and  made  it responsive  to the Power  of Life  which  is
Light.  Life  is acting  everywhere!
Precious  Ones  in this audience  today,  do you understand,
you are but the Individualization  of the One  Great  Life ?
If one of you sitting  in this audience,  were  suddenly  to turn
and hate  the rest,  then  those  in the audience  to some  degree
—knowingly  or unknowingly,  would  be affected  by that
feeling  which  was  sent  into  the room,  if they  did not un-
derstand  how  to protect  themselves.  Individuals  are doing
this constantly  and believing  they  are not affected  by it; but
too late,  they  realize  they  are their  own  destruction.
DON'T  EVER  AGAIN  BLAME  ANY  PERSON,
PLACE  OR CONDITION  FOR  ANYTHING  WHICH
EXISTS  IN YOUR  WORLD!  Then,  you  will  be in a po-DISCOURSE  XXII  289
sition  to call the Powers  of your  Presence  forth  to cleanse,
purify  and  set your  world  into  order;  and  have  the Glory,
the Presence,  and  the Perfection  of All Life  acting  in your
world.
Think  of it! Never  in the experience  of outer  activity  have
such  things  been  done,  and I just refer  to two or three.  The
Great  Victory  you will  understand  by His Name,  is all Vic-
tory implies.  His Name  is a Quality,  a Power,  an Authority!
When  He has  offered  to charge  the Substance  of Light,
which  is His  Power  of Victory  into  the feeling  world  of
every  honest,  sincere  student;  in the Name  of God,  your
"Mighty  I AM  Presence,"  do you realize  what  that  means
to you!  His  Power  is Assistance  for Victory  in your  world
on the side  of Light!  The  Mighty  Goddess  of Liberty  has
offered  to charge  your  world  with  Her  Power  of Liberty;
which  is Her  Quality  of Action  to give  you  Assistance.  In
My Humble  Efforts,  "I AM"  the Director  of Those  Mighty
Light  Rays,  I offer  to dissolve  and  consume  your  human
creation;  as I find  Individuals  who  are Earnest,  Honest  and
Sincere  in making  their  Application.  Where  their  Streams
of Life  make  it possible  for Me to render  that  Service,  I
never  lose  an opportunity  to give  Assistance;  to dissolve
and consume  the remainder  of their  human  discordant
qualities,  which  have  been  drawn  into  the feeling  world.
Remember,  everything  in Life  is a Trinity  of Action.
Perhaps,  I should  explain  to you why  these  particular  qual-
ities are being  charged  into  the feeling  world  of the students
everywhere.  The  demand  for the World  and  our America 290 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
especially,  is Victory  thru  Liberty—in  the acknowledgment
of the Presence  of all Life,  which  is the "Mighty  I AM."
America  must  have  Invincible  Protection.  It is not a matter
of can it, but America  must  have  It! We are the Power  and
the Authority  by the Full  Co-operation  of the Cosmic  Be-
ings of Light.  Then  can  you  tell Me honestly  from  your
Heart,  there  is any human  creation  in the Universe  which
has any Power  to oppose  Our  Authority  of Life ?
AWAKEN  TODAY,  BELOVED  ONES,  IN  THE
FULL  FEELING  OF  WHAT  THIS  MEANS.  Let  Me
remind  you  again,  that  which  We  refer  to as the Cosmic
Light,  is not just  an Universal  Activity  which  is prevalent
everywhere!  The  Cosmic  Light  to which  We  refer,  is a
Consciously  Drawn  and  Projected  Power  of Light  Sub-
stance  into  the Earth;  by the Great  Group  of Ascended
Masters  and  Cosmic  Beings,  from  what  you  have  come  to
know  as the Great  Central  Sun;  which  is the Heart  Focus
of Life  and  Light  to This  System  of Worlds.
Now  is the only  time,  It has ever  acted  upon  the Earth
in more  than  two million  years,  because  the need  is so great;
in order  to hold  the unity  in This  System  of Worlds.  Your
planet  has become  known—Oh,  let us put it, as a "shadow
planet";  because  of the discord  long  generated  by mankind.
Do you  realize  what  it would  mean,  if the Earth  failed  in
its Expansion  of the Light  as required;  in relation  to the
other  planets  of This  System ? You  don't  know  that,  the
intellect  cannot  comprehend  it, but We do!
Do you  wonder  why  Beloved  Saint  Germain  wanted  to DISCOURSE  XXII  291
bring  forth  This  Light  to the Earth,  in the last effort  to free
mankind ? Let Me tell you something,  you  could  never  re-
pay Him  in a million  years  for the Service,  which  He has
rendered  to the Earth  and to mankind.  Then,  to think  there
are Individuals  in America  so depraved,  as to condemn,
criticize  and  put forth  the vicious  fiendish  false  statement,
that the Messengers  are trying  to replace  Beloved  Jesus  with
Saint  Germain;  trying  to ridicule  the Dictations  of These
Great  Beings  of Light!  The  ignorance  and  fiendishness  of
unfortunate  Individuals,  is but a claw  of the sinister  force,
to spread  their  poisonous  breath  among  the students.
I say to you  Beloved  People  of Detroit,  fiendish  human
Beings  will  pay  the penalty,  as no human  Being  on the
face of This  Earth  can understand;  for the falsehoods  they
have  spread  concerning  the Messengers  and  This  Work—
not the Messengers  so much,  as This  Work,  which  is the
Light  of every  human  Being's  Life.  You  watch!  The  end
of their  rope  is at hand.  Human  Beings  so imbued  with
the fiendishness  and falsehood  as to spread  apparent  opposi-
tion to This  Light,  do it only  to gain  money.  They  have
failed,  as all destructive  forces  must  fail!  I say that  to every
human  being  who  opposes  This  Light;  because  there  is
nothing  the Messengers  give  forth,  which  is not beautiful
and constructive,  and  for the Freedom  of mankind.  It is a
Service  to the Earth  which  has never  been  rendered.
If you allow  yourselves  to be affected  by such  false  things,
you will  pay  the penalty;  and  you  will  continue  in your
limitations.  I speak  with  Authority!  I want  the Blessed  Peo-292 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
pie and Students  to have  their  Freedom;  and  be untouched
by the fiendish  falsehoods  which  are spread.  Therefore,
stand  in the Light  of your  "I AM  Presence,"  Beloved  Ones,
and have  your  Freedom!
When  human  Beings  allow  destructive  qualities  to pour
forth,  they  must  pay  the penalty;  because  it is the Law  of
their  Life!