. The quality of our li fe is the sum total of our experiences. Short
cuts are needed sometimes, but  the richness of life comes from taking the
longer route. This is a journey we can take right there in our own kitchen.
As I  me ntioned before, chopping, stirring and tasting will not only give you
the nour ishment you need, but i t will also add joy and satisfaction to every
meal you consume. Immerse yourself in the experience and see what
happens.
The proc ess of meal preparation, setting up the table and creating a calming
and invi ting environment nourishes us on more levels than just the physical.
Here are a few things to keep in mind as you for ge forward in y our kitchen.
The more we are  at ease in the k itchen and preparing healthy foods, the less
reliance we place on the food corporations to do that for us.
1. Keep fo od simple. Simplicity attracts wisdom! One of the things I
learned from my father is that simple living leads to high thinking.
2. Simple dishes are richer in tas te and nourishment. Our physiology
recognizes and understands the simple tastes and ingredients better
than the complex ones, and it works seamlessly to extract nutrients
from it. Simplicity and goodness go together like a slice of fresh bread
and butt er with your favorite herb or spice sprinkled onto it. W hen itcomes to  food, less is always m ore: the fewer ingredients you use the
better tasting the food is.
3. Recipes provide the basic foundation for a dish and many require
special ingredients to make them just right. However, they can be
daunting if we don’ t recognize the ingredients or we don’ t have them
on hand. Always practice one n ew recipe at a time. Get a gener al idea
about what you are cooking fro m the recipe itself but be willing to be
creative about it. Add somethi ng new, take something away. Allow
your senses, and your intuition, to guide you, and just flow with it. Be
willing t o mess around and crea te. If the dish does not turn ou t well,
and you don’ t like it, there is a lways pizza! Ther e is  no perfection,
only a pr ocess.
4. Cooking is mostly an art with a  little bit of science. By understanding
the basic  scienc e of cooking, an d combining flavors, there is a  lot of
room to  play and create. Experi enced cooks don’ t measure, or follow
specific steps, they create mo stly by feel. Cultivate that i n your
cooking by being playful, veeri ng away from the recipe and allowing
your ow n creati vity to kick in. Improvise, substitute, and add m ore or
less of an ingredient. Y ou never know what you might invent. Allow
your senses to guide you. The worst-tasting dish will teach you the
most. Experimenting is what makes cooking fun and joyful.
5. Is th is go od for me? Is this okay  to eat? Let your experience guide you.
All of us are eq uipped to know how eating something makes u s feel.
W e don’ t need any scientific res earch to validate our experience. T rust
your own experience. T une into your body. What do you fe el like
eating? What taste? What texture? Go for it! Don’ t force yourself to
eat something just because y ou believe it is good for you. The
enjoyment of food is an import ant ingredient in your healing jo urney.
W ith the  abundance and variety of foods available today, we can all
find many dif ferent foods that we like and enjoy.
6. Let your  kitchen  be a place of j oyful memories, rich aromas, laughter
and healing. Go out for the evening, in your kitchen.
7. There ar e many things we have to be serious about in our lives, but
cooking does not have to be o ne of them. Approach it light ly and
playfully. Food is our medicine and the kitchen is our pha rmacy!
Engage your senses, taste as you eat, play your favorite music, light acandle, add a bit of this and that, chop, grind and mix. Make your own
recipe from what you have in the fridge and the pantry. How do you
think I came up with the recipes here? There is planning, then there is
play. Leave room for play!
8. Don’ t for get the most important  part! T o sit down, enjoy your c reation
and relax! Don’ t contain your enjoyment, express it freely! This
positive experience will reinforce your ef forts and invite you to
continue to play in the kitchen.C H A P T E R  1 8N o t e s  A b o u t  t h e  R e c i p e s
1. This boo k contains only a handf ul of my favorite and frequently-made
recipes, enough to get you start ed on healthy A yurvedic meals. They
are prese nted in alphabetical order, using the translated English names
(which mostly are the names of the main ingredients). The Indian
names are included in parenthesis where possible.
2. The reci pes are balancing for al l doshas unless otherwise specified in
the comments section of each recipe.
3. Most re cipes ca n be enjoyed f or either lunch or dinner, with  a few
exceptions. T o make it easy for you, I’ve categorized the recipes as
suitable for B (Breakfast), L (Lunch), D (Dinner), C (Chutney or
Sauce), HB (Hot Beverages), a nd S (Sweets/Dessert). Y ou can also
refer to the index to find recipes under each section.
4. I h ave or ganized  the ingredients in table form so you will have an “at-
a-glance” idea of all that you may need to collect before trying the
recipe. Some of the “ingredients” such as a pot or a pan m ay be
obvious to some of us who are very comfortable in the kitchen, but I
am hope ful the novices among us will become comfortable and self-
reliant i n the kitchen as well, so I have listed those items un der the
“Kitchen Gear” column. I’ve excluded the more common gear such as
a k nife or a cutting board, but p lease note they are needed for almost
every recipe.
5. Y ou don ’ t need a lot of compli cated kitchen gear. Here are the  items
that you are most likely to need:
2 -3 medium saucepans with lids
a small frying pan to prepare tarka
2 medium pots
a ka dai ( this is a thick rounded p an used mostly in Indian cookin g
for deep frying)
a tawa (this is another Indian flat disc-shaped frying pan to make
chapati, Indian flat bread; you c an improvise by just using a non-stick frying pan)
1-2 mix ing bowls, a cutting bo ard, a sharp knife, lar ge serving
spoons, a rolling pin, a blende r, a small food processor, sma ll
containers for storing spices.
6. The “Herbs and Spices” column you’ll find with each recipe includes
things l ike sugar, salt, baking powder etc., unless that is the main
ingredient in a recipe. My cookie recipe is the only one where sugar is
one of the main ingredients and therefore sugar moves to the “Main
Ingredients” column for that one. I’ve included in the “Herbs and
Spices” column anything that adds accent, flavor, or texture to the
main ingredients, such as salt. It is not an herb or a spice, but is
included in the herbs and spic es column as it can’ t be in the main
ingredient colum n. Y ou may not ice some inconsistencies in the recipes
depending on how the items are used.
7. Cooking is not an exact science. If it were, it would take all the fun and
creativity out of it. I learned to know the right amount of an ing redient
instinctively by the smell, color and texture of the dish, and by
experimenting. I seldom measure any ingredients and it was hu mbling
to work backwards for this book to find exact measurements.
Regardless, ther e is room to play in the recipes and to be creative. Y ou
will notice that I have provi ded a range of amounts for some
ingredients and I invite you to adjust to your preferences. If c ooking
with spices is ne w to you, then I recommend using the lower ra nge to
start; you can always add more according to taste. The same is true of
ghee or oil. If y ou like your dis hes to be a little more oily (and  some
dishes ta ste better, and are mor e nourishing, when more oily, as I’ve
mentioned in some recipes where that applies) adjust accordingly.
Preparation times and serving sizes are also approximations.
8. I refer to two techniques in some of the dishes.
The first one is T arka.  T arka is a way to maximize the flavor of
spices before adding them to the food, and to infuse flavo r,
aroma, richness and color into the dish. T arka is prepared in a
small pa n separately from the main dish, in the case of


 one really knows, and resp ected
scientific journals routinely turn down research papers on
psychedelics. Pollan’s book should be read to get the c omplete
story about the future promise of these substances. Particularly
intriguing is the use of “micro-dosing,” in which tiny amounts of a
psychedelic are taken on an everyday basis, enough to loosen the
grip of the DMN but not alt ering normal thinking. The hope is
that, instead of altering the mind in a drastic, trippy way, micro-
dosing will permit self-aware ness to observe and reflect upon new
possibilities that a person cannot access under normal conditions.
There’s no doubt, from a meta viewpoint, that psychedelics
weaken or dissolve the mental constructs that keep virtual reality
intact. Some people feel that tripping has tapped into Mind at
Large. T his sounded highly desirable to Huxley, who was an early
champion of  guided psychedelic trips into expanded
consciousness; this was his ultimate goal. To become respectable,
psychedelics h ad to get pas t their hippie image, however, and
brain scans proved to be the key. But the respectability  lent by
brain scans also contains a flaw.
To a neuroscientist, the DMN is like the adult in the room, a
brain region that keeps our  wilder, more primitive impulses at
bay. Thus a sp ecialized group of cells has taken over th e exact
function that Freud assigned to the ego. It is typical of our age that
psychiatry is highly dependent on pharmaceuticals to combat
anxiety and depression, re placing years of expensive, time-
consuming talk therapy. As psychiatry has become a matter of
shifting aroun d molecules in the brain, so has everyth ing else
about th e mind. But the notio n that “brain creates mind” i s just as
fallacious here as elsewhere.
The fallacy crops up glaringly  in the DMN, because if it in deed
controls the balancing act tha t is the adult mind, who gave it such
ability? How did it learn ab out the benefits of adulthood in the
first pla ce? Th e first answer that comes to mind is that th e DMNarose a s a survival mechanism, but there’s no proof of this—it’s
just a blanket generalization from the stock-in-trade of
Darwinians. C ountless peop le function well in society without
bothering to grow into mature adults.
Researchers treat the DMN as if it were a conscious agent with
flexible intentions and good judgment. Attributing such q ualities
to b rain cells i s a form of magical thinking. Clumps of ch emicals
don’t understand how life works; only consciousness does.
After trying a number of different drugs, Michael Pollan had his
most profound experience without them. He was shown how to go
into a trance state simply through breathing rapidly and l istening
to rh ythmic drumming. His r eaction: “Where in the world has that
been all my life?” It was in Mind at Large.
All drug s have side effects, so me of them unpredictable, but the
pitfalls of psychedelics are unique. If you go inside and mess
around with a piano’s strings, music starts to come out sounding
distorted. To go into the mo st sensitive areas of the higher brain
incurs a similar risk, but my point isn’t to sound alarms g rounded
in fe ar and suspicion—quite the opposite. Mind at Large contains
the full range o f human potential, and it can be accessed n aturally
through yoga, meditation, and various contemplative p ractices.
These p ractices also bring beneficial brain changes, accom plishing
this thr ough th e most natural of mechanisms: the mind learning
to know itself.
The tim e for psychedelics to come out of the shadows is now,
giving u s a balanced picture  of what is at stake and also at risk.
The sud den feeling that we c an fly turns out to be a fatal delusion
if we test it by jumping off a high building, as has happened more
than on ce. The  insights that dawn during a trip often turn out to
be unin telligible on returning  to a normal waking state. The bigger
picture goes beyond psychedelics. Pollan encourages “neural
diversity” in the epilogue to his book. But, for me, the mind-
altering effect of LSD bears fruit only if it leads to self-aw areness.
A dr ug can sho w you what lie s beyond the limited mind; o nly self-
awareness allows you to inhabit Mind at Large permanently.
The opposite of self-awareness is the mechanistic view that a
human being is a brain pupp et, a subordinate of neural activity.Insofar as psychedelics have medical uses, we should cheer them
on. But  Huxley ’s insight that Mind at Large is the real is sue still
holds true.
What separates us from Mind at Large—or metareality—is the
thinnest of veils. It takes only the merest thought. I found this out
recently when I was doing t he tree pose with a yoga instructor.
The tree pose requires delicate balance on one foot, and I’ve gotten
better at it, but suddenly that morning I began to wobble.
Immediately the instructor said, “What were you thinking about?”
It was the right question to a sk, because I had lost my clear, open
state o f mind as a result of a distracting thought (ab out the
medical benefits of psychede lics, as it happens). It takes a clear,
open state of mind, uncluttered by random thoughts, to do a lot
more in life tha n holding a yo ga pose. Such clarity is what Mind at
Large feels like. It is what freedom feels like. It is the door to
metahuman.
In Part Two, we’ll make everything personal by showing how
each person can experience the shift to Mind at Large. A c ollective
awakening is made possible only when individuals wake up—and
nothing is more urgent. As  a bridge, let me undersco re how
extraordinary waking up is, and how unpredictable.
Waking up makes us more h uman and more real at the same
time, because we are the species of consciousness destined—and
designed—to know our sour ce completely. If a single vision can
unite the human race, this is it.T7

P U T T I N G  E X P E R I E N C E  F I R S T
he punch line to an old jo ke has gotten embedded in
popular cultur e. As I first heard it, the joke involves a lost city
slicker stopping his car on a country lane to ask a farmer how to
get to a certa in town. The farmer scratches his head with a
bewildered loo k and says, “Sorry, mister, but you can’t g et there
from here.”
Why does the joke make us laugh? The humor is rooted in the
fact that you can get anywhere on the map from anywhere else.
But if the city slicker had asked the farmer how to get to
metareality, he ’d have gotten the same answer, only this time it
wouldn’t be funny—at least not to me.
You cannot get to metareality by clinging to virtual reality. The
reason for this has been ex pressed in various ways ever since
Homo sapiens  rea lized that th ere is a dimension of life beyond the
everyday. Being stuck in virtual reality is like being under a
hypnotic spell,  and we can’t break the spell as long as it has us in
its grip—there  is no hypnotist standing by who can s nap his
fingers and break the spell  for us. Or we are like dreamers
captivated by the dream’s illusions, and we cannot wake up as long
as t he dream lasts—there is  no one standing beside the bed to
shake us awake.Spells, dream s, enchantments, illusions, wizardry and
witchcraft, mis chievous gods —every culture has invented versions
of th e s ame ide a that reality i s deceptive. “You can’t get the re from
here” a s long as you are entangled in a complete, all-env eloping
trick of the m ind. Figuring out how to wake up, theref ore, has
been a mysterious business. Up until now.
Life pro ceeds b y knowledge and experience, and Part One was
all abo ut the knowledge of metareality. So where will the
experience com e from? Why didn’t we delve into it first? It’s easy
to be impatien t (the male sex, in particular, is notorious  for not
reading the manual or asking  for directions when lost), but in this
case knowledge and experien ce can’t be separated. You can’t jump
into the deep end of the p ool and figure out how t o swim.
Consciousness must be reframed from the ground up; perceptions
must shift; interpretations have to be abandoned. Nothing can
remain quite the same in the leap from human to metahuman.
As all-encompassing as virtual reality is, a loophole exists,
which is nothing more th an experience itself. What is an
experience? Sa iling the Atlantic in a one-man boat is very different
from cl imbing


	activity.
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	Research	on	the	“color	temperature”	of	light	and	its	effects	on
the	brain	suggests	that	the	“temperature”	of	the	light	is	more	important	than	its
brightness.	This	means	that	on	a	color	spectrum,	yellow-white	through	red
lights	(which	are	considered	low-color-temperature	lights)	have	a	far	less
detrimental	effect	on	our	systems	than	the	blue	lights	on	the	other	end	of	the
spectrum.
Research	has	now	pinpointed	that	electronics	emanate	blue	light,	which
affects	the	brain	more	strongly	than	other	colors	and,	in	particular,	disturbs	our
sleep.	In	other	words,	reducing	light	all	around	can	be	very	helpful,	but	it’s
critical	to	reduce	blue	light	specifically.	Unfortunately,	blue	light	is	emitted
strongly	and	consistently	from	many	different	electronic	devices.	Using	these
devices	near	bedtime	can	have	a	detrimental	effect	on	your	sleep	patterns	and
consequently	your	natural	beauty	expression.
A	photoreceptor	in	the	eye	called	melanopsin	plays	a	role	in	establishing	our
day/night	cycles	and	is	particularly	sensitive	to	a	narrow	band	of	blue	light	in
the	460–480	nanometers	(nm)	range.
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	Researchers	at	the	University	of
Pennsylvania
School	of	Medicine	and	School	of	Arts	and	Sciences	studied	the
biological	effects	of	blue	light
8
	and	found	that	melanopsin	is	very	sensitive	to
blue	light,	which	is	emitted	by	digital	devices,	including	smartphones,	tablets,
and	computers.
9
This	means	that	if	you	work	on	a	tablet	or	laptop,	or	look	at	your
smartphone	before	bed,	you	might	find	your
sleep	is	delayed.	This	results	in	all
of	the	adverse	beauty	and	wellness	implications	we	mentioned	earlier,	including
accelerated	aging,	reduced	performance	in	all	your	tasks,
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	and	suppression	of
natural	human	growth	hormone,	which	you	need	to	increase	muscle	mass	and
induce	tissue	repair.
Electronics	and	Sleep	Don’t	Mix
An	alarming	51	percent	of	people	who	text	specifically	in	the	hour	before	going
to	bed	reported	they	were	less	likely	to	get	a	good	night’s	sleep,	“every/almost
every	weeknight.”
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	In	a	similar	fashion,	up	to	77	percent	use	their	computers
or	laptops	in	the	hour	before	bed.	Of	those,	50	percent	reported	they	were	less
likely	to	get	a	good	night’s	sleep,	“every/almost	every	weeknight.”
12
According	to	more	than	thirty	years	of	studies	conducted	at	the	Division	of
Sleep	Medicine	at
Boston’s
Brigham	and	Women’s	Hospital	and
Harvard
Medical	School,	the	light	from	electronics	has	a	significant	effect	on	circadian
(i.e.,	daily)	rhythms	of	waking	and	sleeping.	Throwing	off	your	circadianrhythm	affects	how	quickly	you	fall	asleep	as	well	as	the	quality	of	sleep	you
get.
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	According	to	Dr.
Charles	A.	Czeisler	of	Harvard	Medical	School,
“Artificial	light	exposure	between	dusk	and	the	time	we	go	to	bed	at	night
suppresses	release	of	the	sleep-promoting	hormone	melatonin,	enhances
alertness	and	shifts	circadian	rhythms	to	a	later	hour—making	it	more	difficult
to	fall	asleep.”
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Answering	work	e-mails	late	at	night,	whether	from	your	boss	or	regarding
pending	stressful	deadlines,	might	also	stir	up	anxiety	that	is	not	so	conducive
to	sleep.	You	may	be	wondering,	what	about	e-readers?	These	are	one	of	the
newest	electronic	phenomena	to	have	an	effect	on	our	brains	and	biorhythms.
A	report	from	the
Proceedings	of	the	National	Academy	of	Sciences
	found	that	using
such	devices	near	bedtime	caused	users	to	take	longer	to	fall	asleep	and	led	to
disturbances	in	their	circadian	rhythm,	suppression	of	the	sleep-inducing
hormone	melatonin,	delays	in	the	timing	of	REM	sleep,	and	decreased	alertness
the	next	morning.
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In	short,	the	bright	light	from	these	devices	stimulates	your	brain	and,
unfortunately,	makes	it	think	it’s	daytime.	This	keeps	your	brain	alert	instead	of
allowing	it	to	wind	down	when	it	senses	that	it	is	night.	While	there	are	some
apps	you	can	download	onto	devices	to	help	reduce	the	emission	of	blue	light,
there	is	still	some	remaining	stimulation	from	your	electronic	devices.	You’d	be
better	served	turning	them	off	earlier	every	evening.
Action	Steps	to	Align	Yourself	to	Nature’s
Rhythms
Here	are	some	of	the	most	important	steps	you	can	take	to	cut	down	on	sleep
disturbances	from	artificial	lights—especially	electronic	devices—to	promote
Peak	Beauty	Sleep.
FOLLOW	THE	ONE-HOUR	RULE
It’s	critical	to	put	down	your	devices,	including	tablets,	cell	phones,	and	e-
readers,	at	least	an	hour	before	bed	if	you	want	to	get	that	profound	beauty
sleep	that	is	critical	to	how	you	feel	and	look.
USE	AIRPLANE	MODE
While	you’re	at	it,	be	sure	to	fully	turn	off	your	cell	phone	when	you	go	to	bed
—or	at	least	put	it	in	airplane	mode.	That	way	you	won’t	be	disturbed	by	the
sounds	or	lights	from	nighttime	calls,	texts,	and	e-mails.	Plus,	by	cutting	off	thesignal,	you’ll	have	fewer	electromagnetic	frequencies,	or	invisible	electric	and
magnetic	fields	radiating	away	from	appliances	that	may	have	potentially
harmful	health	effects,	targeted	at	you	during	the	night.	You	certainly	don’t
need	that	signal	beaming	at	you	all	night	long.
FLASHLIGHT	IT	TO	THE	BATHROOM
We	all	have	to	get	up	in	the	middle	of	the	night	for	a	bathroom	break
sometimes.	If	you	turn	on	the	bathroom	light,	however,	the	brightness	can
interrupt	your
circadian	rhythms,	making	it	difficult	for	you	to	go	back	to
sleep.	Instead,	try	using	a	night-light	in	the	bathroom	that	isn’t	visible	from
your	bedroom,	or	keep	a	dim	flashlight	next	to	the	bed.	Avoid	drinking	large
quantities	of	fluids	before	bedtime	as	well,	in	order	to	avoid	this	problem
altogether.
CHANGE	YOUR	ALARM
Unfortunately,	LED
alarm	clocks	pose	the	same	problems	as	other	electronic
devices:	they	introduce	a	source	of	light	into	your	room	that	disrupts	your
circadian	rhythm.	Your	alarm	clock	also	gives	off	an	electromagnetic	frequency
(EMF).	Some	studies	link	EMF	exposure	to	melatonin	interruption	and
depletion	in	rodents	and	humans,
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	which	is	not	good	since	melatonin	is	a
hormone	necessary	for	sound	sleep.	Switch	to	a	battery-operated	alarm	clock	or
use	your	phone’s	alarm,	which	should	be	in	airplane	mode	at	bedtime	and
throughout	the	night.	Avoid	placing	other	electronic	devices	such	as	radios	or
MP3	players	on	your	bedside	table	as	well.
CAN’T	SLEEP?	CHILL	OUT
If	you	simply	can’t	fall	asleep	for	more	than	half	an	hour	or	so	and	are	finding
yourself	getting	increasingly	agitated,	get	up	and	go	into	the	other	room	and	read
a	book	or	magazine,	listen	to	some	relaxing	music,


 drenching rain. I obeyed a very strong impulse
to stop and give her a ride. As she got into the car, she explained that her car
had stalled in the rain, and she needed a ride to a telephone so that she could
call for assistance. I decided to drive her home instead.
As we introduced ourselves, Shirley exclaimed in stunned surprise that
she had been told by two frien ds that she should contact me about some
personal matters in her life. As a matter of fact, she had been told that day
that she would meet me soon. I dropped her off at her apartment, gave her a
copy of Gifts from Eykis, and encouraged her to contact my wife about
some concerns that she had told me she had about childbearing.  My wife is
an expert in this area, and I felt that they would become friends.
Several weeks later, Shirley came to our home with a videotape which
was to become the impetus for my exploration into some of the
metaphysical principles which are a part of my life today. All because of a
“chance” meeting in a rainstorm.
Shirley had several long talks with my wife about the value of using her
creative powers to visualize herself giving birth to a baby. She affirmed her
ability to create such a situation, though she was unmarried and uninvolved,
and thirty-eight years old. Two years later, the following letter arrived from
Shirley.Dear Marcie and Wayne:
Remember me? The wet hitchh iker, befriended by a blue auto
whose driver ’s tapes echoed the theme of my health clinic?
Shirley Lorenzini—here I am, almost two years in Los
Angeles. Marcie, you will beam at hearing that I am blissfully
married. My husband just had his vasectomy reversed, and
parenthood is looming. Life is wonderful. I’m enclosing a little
snapshot of us one hour after the wedding festivities. Thus the
relaxed look. Joe is everything I had on my list. Thanks for your
belief and encouragement that he would show up.
Wayne, I love seeing you in my Nightingale-Conant literature
and I quote you often in my health discussions. Just last week I
told the story of your stopping on Federal Highway to rescue me
from three miles of torrential hiking. That incident was
providential. I think of it so often to remind myself of the
miraculous nature of life. Did I create that incident out of just
having listened to your tapes and needing to meet you? Did God
know that I needed a morale booster?
And then, Marcie, you appear, so genuinely loving and
listening. Listening to all my dreams and fantasies. Assuring me
that I’ll be a happy wife and mother.
You two are really angels.
So on your next magical appearance in California, please call.
Hugs to all of you,
Shirley
So many truly wonderful things have come about as a direct result of my
following an impulse to give a woman a ride. Shirley became a catalyst for
me, and we became catalysts for her on her own journey. My life took a
sharp turn, and some of the material that she felt compelled to bring to me
altered my own spiritual journey in a way that I could not have predicted.
Moreover, Shirle y became a great friend to us, and we helped her to believe
in her own power of co-creation and visualization, truly helped  her to beat
all of the odds,  including having a vasectomy reversed, and becoming a
mother to a beautiful little soul who was absolutely destined  to be with
Shirley and Joe.How can we possibly know what seemingly insignificant event is waiting
to change the course of our life? And what role do we play in it all?
Synchronicity is the basis for allowing these forces to meet and work for us
in our life, but we must say “Yes” to life. One “No” response anywhere
along the path stops the flow of energy. This is why I believe so strongly in
the notion of positiveness. Every single positive response in life allows the
next one to flow, not as a cause and effect, but as a continuation of the
energy that is in each of us and in everything else in the universe. You, with
your own mind as the source of thought, which is the source  of energy,
which is really the source of life, can make all the difference in the world. A
“No” response to that intuitive  knowingness within you, stops it all, and
you stay stagnant. But one positive “Yes,” one internal acknowledgment
that you choose to go with that flow of energy, and it continue s in its own
perfectly miraculous way.
As human beings we are the very source of thought, that eternal
connection to the divine intellig ence that is in and in front of and behind all
form. Our willingness to say yes, to be positive, unafraid to take the next
step, to go with our internal intuition (thoughts), gives us the power to co-
create with that divine intelligence that is our universal essen ce. We can
make choices in a completed universe, and our willingness to say yes to life
allows it to flow.
The stories of my experience in Monterey and our “chance” encounter
with Shirley are but two in a list that could go on for a hundred more pages.
They are simply a part of the tapestry of my life today. I see them because I
believe, and the more I know this within, the more evidence I have for it
every day.
A few months ago I was reading  a fascinating novel called Winter ’s Tale
by Mark Helprin. Toward the end of the book, the author included a short
chapter that was completely separate from the story he was telling. I must
have read this chapter, “Nothing Is Random,” fifty times, and I still had
great difficulty in accepting it as I read it. Today, I know it is true for me,
and it is how I now see this entire onesong. With the permission of the
author and the publisher, I reproduce it here.
Nothing is random, nor will anything ever be, whether a long
string of perfectly blue days that begin and end in golden
dimness, the most seemingly chaotic political acts, the rise of agreat city, the crystalline structure of a gem that has never seen
the light, the distributions of fortune, what time the milkman gets
up, the position of the electron, or the occurrence of one
astonishingly frigid winter after another. Even electron s,
supposedly the paragons of unpredictability, are tame and
obsequious little creatures that rush around at the speed of light,
going precisely where they are supposed to go. They make faint
whistling sound s that when apprehended in varying combinations
are as pleasant as the wind flying through a forest, and they do
exactly as they are told. Of this, one can be certain.
And yet there is a wonderful anarchy, in that the milkman
chooses when to arise, the rat picks the tunnel into which he will
dive when the subway comes rushing down the track from
Borough Hall, and the snowflak e will fall as it will. How can this
be? If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how
can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is
predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be
determined. No matter, it all happened at once, in less than an
instant, and time was invented because we cannot comprehend in
one glance the enormous and detailed canvas that we have been
given—so we track it, in linea r fashion, piece by piece. Time,
however, can be easily overcom e; not by chasing the light, but by
standing back far enough to see it all at once. The universe is still
and complete. Everything that ever was, is; everything that ever
will be, is—and  so on, in all possible combinations. Though in
perceiving it we imagine that it is in motion, and unfinished, it is
quite finished and quite astoni shingly beautiful. In the end, or
rather, as things really are, any event, no matter how small, is
intimately and sensibly tied to all others. All rivers run full to the
sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are
redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that
have begun and ended in golden dimness continue, immobile and
accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate
time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but
as something that is.How radically different this point of view may be from that which you
likely have assumed over a lifeti me. How could everything be synchronized
when it appears  to the naked eye that everything is happening in a random
fashion? If you want to begin to see how this all might be possible, I
suggest that you initiate a fascinating study of quantum reality  by reading
Gary Zukav’s The Dancing Wu Li Masters  and Fritjof Capra’ s The Tao of
Physics. Both of these books give an overview of the new physics and how
“hard scientific evidence” fits in with the metaphysics I have been
postulating. Here is a brief taste of The Dancing W u Li Masters :
The astounding discovery awaiting newcomers to physics is that
the evidence gathered in the development of quantum mechanics
indicates that subatomic “particles


 the general
hospital at Nagpur. His blood and urine were tested. They declared
that Subhash had no cancer at all. He now hale and hearty...
Important lnstuctions for Cancer Treatment : In a case of
cancer urine treatment should be adopted with proper consideration
of the nature of the patient and his capacity for taking urine.
Whereas in other diseases urine treatment can be undertaken
gradually, in cancer it should be begun immediately. This is so due
to the fact that growth in cancer is very quick. Besides this, the
patient may have pain and pus in his ears and acute, intolerabel
headache. To get relief from that unbearable pain the patient even
during the course of urine treatment is tempted to take some
soomthing tablets or medicine. The patient should not invite more
misery and make urine treatent ineffective by taking such medicines.
\ CASES OE. CANCE~ : 111
In addition to rubbing and drinkig, the patient of cancer should
observe the following treatments :
1. Wash the ears gently by pouring urine among them through a
syringe; put a few drops in ea,:-h 0f them and then plug them with
cotton soaked in urine. This should be doen twice a day.
2. Keep continuously the cloth-packs of urine on the head. (It
would be better if the head is shaved before doing so.)
3. Have mouth-wash with fresh urine twice or thrice a day. This
should be done by thorough gargling.
4. If cancer be on tongue, it should be rubbed repeatedly with a
~loth-piece soaked in urine.
. 5. Put hot-urine packs on the tumour or growth and thus foment
the affected portion.
6. Drink the entire urine passed during the fast period and desist
from any diet, fruits or juices. There is nothing to be alarmed if
vomiting or loose motions start during the days of fast. The contents
of vomiting and stools should be observed and noted carefully
without any nausea. As the filth is cleared off, vomiting and loose
motions will automatically cease. The fast may be terminated the
next day and no urine need be taken on that day. The quantity of
food may be gradually increased as the digestive power recovers
and normal diet can be resumed i 11 course of time.
After the fast till the full strenght is not regained the patient is
advised to take three ounces of urine once or twice a day; similarly
rubbing and dieting should be continued. A patient of cancer must
not use salt at all till complete recovery is made.
AFTERMATH OF CASES
1. Kaviraj Kaushik Jira of Firozpur district (Punjab) is a popular 112 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
Vaidya. He has developed deep interest and fa1th.n urine therapy
after reading the Hindi. translation of Manav Mutra. He has used this
therapy on a number of patients, suffering from not only cancer and
leprosy but other dangerous diseases also. Here is related a case of
cancer cured by.him by urine therapy alone. Sant Kalasinhji aged
seventy-five suffered from asthma. 'Thereafter he used to get blood
,pJong with cough. Doctors opined tnat it was due to the cancer of
throat and it emitted very bad smell. Urine~soaked cotton was
applied on the wound, and was changed every three hours. He got
some relief. He was given urine to drink under a pretext. After two
months blood stopped. Doctors opined that he was fully cured.
2. A harijan Woman named Zando was emitting blood through
mouth even in ordinary cough. She was hospitalized more than
once but with no improvement. doctors opined that she had
developed the cancer of throat. She was then given urine treatment
under pretext for three days. Blood stopped at once. After coming to
realize the remedy, she drank urine willingly and rubbed it on her
chest for 40 days and could cure herself com~letely. She is now
quite hale and hearty.
3. Shri chhabildas Champaneria is a resident of Bulsar and is
aged sixty-two. He developed throat cancer in 1962 when hewas in
Africa. His throat was quite sore. He quite knew the usalessl'less of
allopathic treatment in caru:er. So he began with urine tlllerq;pycon
2:2-9-62. He used to dr·ink auto-urine three tifl'les a day aRd ap.p.¥y
u:rin~... pa~ks on the throat-tumour and put udne-4rops in the eal'~· rn
one month he completely cured himself of cane.er.
4. Shri Pukhraj Kucheria informs from Daman (Dist. Bulsar) that
he app~ied ufine treatment on two patient of canc;er and T.B. and
he could ~chieve suc;c.ess i r:1 both the cases.
5. Shri Umacharan Sarsvati (Vidtage"SJnhpur, Narasinhpur, M.P.)
writes that he applied urine therapy on himself for manY ailments CASES OF CANCER : 113
like loss of hunger, baldness, and eyNroubles. He cured his village
friends and could get rid of T.B. asthma and stomach ailments.
6. Shri Viren Shah (Shivaji Cutlery Mart, Dadar, Bombay 2) cured
his uncle's cancer by urine therapy and could cure arthritis of his
friend by the same method.
7. Shri Morarbhai R. Patel (Akoti, Bardoli) writes that he had
cancer on his right lung. He could cure it by urine treatment.
8. Shri Maganbhai K. Vaidya (Amalsad) states that he cured two
cancer-patients by urine treatment.
Shri Dinubhai R. Joshi (Advocate, Bombay High court) made a
statment in Malad Seminar on urine therapy that on his advice a
friend was cured of his stomach cancer, another of his throat cancer
and some friends of their small or big ailments by urine therapy. He
emphasized the fact that there were many a people who take
advantage of this therapy but do not dare to declare its benefits
openly.
Cancer of the Womb : Shri Hans relates a case of the cancer of
womb. A wife of small factory~owner had a small child and to avoid
another pregnancy she had inserted a loop. She had leucorrhoea
and so the after-effect of loop was very serious. She had now the
cancer of the womb. There was no benefit from doctor·s"ffeat~~f.
So she undertook urine treatment. She drank auto~urihe as well as
massaged her back and abdomen and. a douche of nim
leaves-boiled urine was given in the vagina. It was given twice a
day. In 40 days she was completely cured. CHAPTER IX
GROWTHS
Some people suffer from hard boils when young or grown up.
These are due to either T.B. or cancer. Sometimes they are
non-malignant and cause swelling on the face and eye~ also. If
these growths are interfered with by injections and operat1ons ~nd
are not cured at an early stage with simple treatments, they turn mto
cancer.
Shri juthabhai Amarsi Shah, a resident of Harjian Ashram,
Sabarmati, has a 14 years old son, Bharat by name. Some hard boils
appeared on both sides of his throat. He could drink even water
wit:, difficulty due to the swelling in the mouth. The doctc~ could.
not give him medicine fearing that the tonsils may be ~ipe ~nd ma~
burst within the throat causing risk of life. He, therefore, adv1sed Shn
juthabhai to take the boy to Dr. Suman shah but he was not easily
available in time. So the father and son returned home.~
Shri Juthabhai had read the Water of Life-the famous book by
Armstrong. He advised this treatment to his son. Father1s sensible
talks appealed to the son and he agreed to giv~ it a. tria.l. On. the
first day, Bharat very reluctantly took some of h1s unne ~~ a smgle
draught but vomited at once due to rausea and some unne came
out with it. However, he felt less pain on that day. Next day he
t.1ok urine In larger quantity. There was no vomiting and had more
relief. Consequently. he became hopeful of cure. On ~he. third ~ay,
he took six to ten ounces of urine without any hes1tat1on w1thm
thrE:e days of-urine treatment, he was completely.relieved of pain.
However he continued the t·eatment for four to s1x days r:nore and
on sixth 'day the hard boils en both sides of his throat disappeared.
This successful end made both the father and the son confirmed
votaries of urine therapy.
114 STOMACH DISEASES


	I	was	born	and	saw	the	light
I	was	no	stranger	in	this	world
Something	inscrutable,	shapeless,	and	without	words
Appeared	in	the	form	of	my	mother
.
So	when	I	die,	the	same	unknown	will	appear	again
As	ever	known	to	me
,
And	because	I	love	this	life
I	will	love	death	as	well
.Without	death	there	can	be	no	present	moment,	for	the	last	moment	has	to
die	to	make	the	next	one	possible.	There	can	be	no
present
	love,	for	the	last
emotion	has	to	die	to	make	a	new	one	possible.	There	can	be	no	present	life,
for	the	old	cells	in	my	body	have	to	die	to	make	new	tissue	possible.	This	is
the	miracle	of	creation,	which	in	every	second	is	one	thing:	life	and	death
joined	in	an	eternal	dance.	It	would	be	a	catastrophe	to	exclude	death	from	the
dance.	That	would	guarantee	a	universe	with	no	chance	for	renewal.
Fortunately,	creation	wasn’t	set	up	that	way.	We	live	in	an	endlessly	re-
created	universe.	On	the	other	side	of	our	fears	and	doubts,	our	deepest	prayer
should	not	be	for	life,	which	we	have	in	abundance.	It	should	be	a	prayer	to
lead	the	cosmic	dance,	for	then	the	angels	and	gods	themselves	will	have
someone	to	follow.E
PILOGUE
M
AHA
	S
AMADHI
THE	MONSOON	RAINS
	swept	down	from	the	mountain	overnight.	Ramana	could
hear	it	in	his	sleep	like	warm	dull	thunder	on	the	roof,	or	the	knocking	of	the
gods.	It	was	loud	enough	to	make	him	restless	but	not	to	wake	him	up
completely.	He	had	dim	thoughts	of	closing	the	window	by	his	bed.	He
remembered	the	small	hole	in	the	roof	that	needed	a	bucket	underneath	to
catch	the	drip.	Yet	for	some	reason	he	couldn’t	feel	rain	splashing	from	the
windowsill	and	heard	no	dripping	sound.
Strange
,	he	thought	drowsily.
The	dull	thunder	continued,	hour	after	hour.	Too	many	hours.	Ramana
opened	his	eyes,	flicking	his	gaze	to	the	windowsill	and	the	place	under	the
hole	in	the	roof.	Both	were	dry.	Where	was	the	water?	Why	was	it	still
thundering?
Then	he	knew.	It
was
	the	gods	knocking.	Death	had	come	like	the
monsoons,	the	season	of	year	Ramana	loved	the	best.	He	wasn’t	surprised	that
he	could	still	feel	his	body	or	that	the	room	was	intact.	His	old	master,	who
had	died	sixty	years	ago,	told	him	how	things	would	be.	Sixty	years?	Could
that	be	right?	Suddenly	Ramana	couldn’t	remember	how	old	he	was	himself.
Seventy-five,	eighty?	This	confusion	triggered	a	change.	His	body	began	to
feel	lighter,	as	if	age	were	slipping
away
.	He	was	rising,	the	whole	room	was
rising,	in	fact,	and	the	dull	thunder	began	to	fade.
Ramana	wondered	if	he	was	about	to	disappear,	but	the	world	saved	him
the	trouble	by	disappearing	first.	He	had	never	much	believed	in	the	world,	so
this	didn’t	surprise	him.	For	one	last	moment	he	was	still	in	bed,	looking	out
the	window	at	a	sky	that	turned	from	blue	to	a	soft	white,	and	then	there	was
only	whiteness	and	no	room.	He	looked	down,	and	his	body	was	gone	too.	It
had	slipped	away	so	easily	that	he	was	reminded	of	something	his	master	had
told	him:	“The	body	is	like	a	cloak.	For	the	enlightened,	dying	is	like	letting
the	cloak	fall	to	the	floor.	For	the	unenlightened,	it	is	like	ripping	off	a	cloak
that	is	sewn	on.”
What	would	slip	away	next?	Ramana	could	still	pose	mental	questions,	so
his	mind	hadn’t	left	him.	He	saw	himself	as	a	boy	of	twelve,	when	he	first
met	his	master,	who	lived	in	the	same	forest	retreat	that	became	his	after	the
master	died.	The	old	man	sitting	in	lotus	position	on	a	worn	deerskin	had	said,
“Do	you	want	to	learn	from	me?”	The	boy	nodded.	“Is	it	because	your	parentsthink	it	would	be	a	good	thing?”	The	boy	nodded	again.	Then	the	master
waved	his	hand,	sending	Ramana’s	parents	out	of	the	room.
When	they	were	alone,	the	master	said,	“Come	to	me	when	it’s	your
desire,	not	that	of	your	parents.”
“Why?”	Ramana	asked.	“My	parents	only	want	what’s	good	for	me.”
“That’s	not	enough,”	the	master	replied.	“You	can’t	be	with	me	and
remain	like	ordinary	people.	Ordinary	people	need	the	support	of	family,	or
they	would	die	of	loneliness.	They	need	the	support	of	society,	or	they	would
have	no	friends	or	spouse.	They	need	the	support	of	their	bodies,	or	they
would	starve.	And	most	of	all,	they	need	the	support	of	their	minds,	or	they
would	go	crazy.”
“I	don’t	see	why	you’re	telling	me	this,”	said	the	boy.
“Because	if	you	lose	family,	friends,	your	body,	and	your	mind—all	of
which	you	must—I	don’t	want	you	to	die.	I	want	you	to	be	free.”
The	boy	didn’t	come	back	for	ten	years,	and	even	then	the	master	laughed
and	said	he	had	been	quick	about	it.	“After	what	I	told	you,	most	people
would	stay	away	forever.”	During	his	period	as	a	disciple	Ramana	had	found
the	teaching	difficult.	He	often	stumbled	but	never	fell.	Everything	his	master
foretold	came	true.	The	time	came	when	the	disciple	no	longer	needed	the
support	of	his	family.	But	this	wasn’t	a	loss,	because	he	now	saw	them	with
great	compassion.	He	didn’t	need	the	support	of	society,	but	this	wasn’t	a	loss,
because	he	saw	himself	as	part	of	all	humanity.	He	didn’t	need	the	support	of
his	physical	body,	but	this	wasn’t	a	loss,	because	his	body	took	care	of	itself
better	when	he	stopped	worrying	about	it.
The	one	thing	Ramana	never	quite	gave	up	was	the	support	of	his	mind.
“Ah,	you	fear	that	without	a	mind	you	will	die,”	his	master	said	patiently.
Ramana	adopted	the	same	patience.	He	learned	to	go	inward	in
samadhi
	to
experience	silence,	and	over	the	years	this	became	home	to	him,	a	place	free
of	the	constant	activity	of	the	mind.
On	the	day	his	master	died,	Ramana	knelt	by	his	bed	and	wept.	“So	you
imagine	that	I	am	leaving	you,”	his	master	whispered.	“Your	mind	still	has
you	in	its	spell.”	He	said	this	affectionately,	not	in	reproof,	and	that	consoled
Ramana.	An	hour	later	his	master	went	into	the


 heating and nish it.
An example – Amla Hair Oil
Amla powder – 50 grams
Coconut oil – 500 ml
Amla kashaya – 1 liter
Amla Kashaya –
250 Grams of Amla powder + 4 liters of water
Boil and reduce to 1 liter.
Examples of Other Oils
Brahmi oil – In place of amla, use Brahmi.
Brahmi amla oil – instead of amla, use Brahmi + Amla = 50:50Dhurdhurapathradi taila – in place of amla, use leaves of Datura metel.
Ksheerabala Taila –
Bala – Country mallow (root) – Sida cordifolia
Sesame oil
Milk.73. How to Make Hair Oil at
Home with Amla
Y
Amla oil is very eﬀective hair oil for most of the hair problems. It also helps to
relieve headache, dizziness and other Pitta related symptoms. Here is a
traditional Ayurvedic way of preparing Amla hair oil.
Amla for Hair Growth
Amla is very rich in nutrients and anti oxidants. ese nutrients and phyto –
chemicals not only benet our stomach, when applied as hair oil, they also
impart nourishment to the skin and hair.
How to Make Amla Hair Oil at Home?
What You Need
Amla powder – 250 grams + 100 grams
Water – 4 litres
Coconut oil – 500 ml
Why Coconut Oil?
Most of the Ayurvedic oils are prepared with sesame oil base. But for hairs,
coconut oil is a better choice because of high nutritive value. But people with
sinusitis, cold problem may not tolerate coconut oil. ey may use sesame
oil/mustard oil in place of coconut oil.
ProcedureFirst Amla kashayam is prepared. Kashayam means water decoction.
Add 250 grams of amla powder for 4 litres of water and boil and reduce to 1
litre.
Rules for making Kashayam like maintaining low ame, continuous stirring,
using a wide mouthed vessel etc are followed.
After the decoction is boiled and reduced to 1 litre, the liquid is ltered to
get Kashayam.
Take the Kashayam in a wide mouthed vessel.
Take 100 grams of amla powder in a small bowl; add little water to make it
into Amla paste.
Add this amla paste and 500 ml of coconut oil to the amla kashayam.
Heat this mixture of oil, Amla kashayam and Amla paste in mild heat till
only the coconut oil remains.
Signs to Observe
Initially the whole mass turns into muddy. Slowly as water starts evaporating,
the oil starts getting separated. e liquid starts getting clearer.
Initially water bubbles will be visible. At the end stage, when water is
completely evaporated, the bubbles stop and frothing sets in. Indicating to
stop the oil heating.74. How to Make Bhringraj
Oil for Hair Growth
Y
Bhringraj oil and hair growth are almost synonymous in Ayurveda. It is one of
the widely used hair oils to promote hair growth, improve its quality, to relieve
split hairs, grey hairs etc. Let us learn today a simple way of preparing
Bhringaraj hair oil.
Before You Start –
I have derived this formula on my own. You are free to add or delete any
ingredient.
I have given the quantities in ml. I also have given the quantities in parts. If
you are not familiar with ml then just calculate the quantities in parts. You can
consider 1 part = 1 ounce.
What You Need?
Coconut oil – 500 ml (10 parts) – Usually hair oils are also prepared with
sesame oil base. But coconut oil is the preferred choice.
Cow milk – 250 ml (5 parts) – cow milk comes with nutrition and we want to
add that nutrition value into our hair oil. Remember that for all Ayurveda
medicine preparation, whenever milk is told, pre-boiled milk only should be
taken.
Grated coconut – 200 grams
Herbal powders•
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•Amla – Indian gooseberry – powder – 50 grams (1 part) – rich in anti oxidants
and must have in all hair oils.
Bhringaraja – Eclipta alba – another must have in all hair oils. – 50 grams (1
part)
Yashtimadhu – liquorice powder – 50 grams (1 part)
Triphala powder – promotes natural hair colour. Also useful to relieve skin
diseases of the scalp and to relieve dandruﬀ – 50 g rams (1 part)
Aloe Vera – pieces of leaf – 25–50 grams (1/2–1 part)
Hibiscus ower paste – 25–50 grams (1/2–1 part)
How to make? It involves 2 parts.
Part 1 – Making Kashayam
Kashayam is the water extract of the herbs.
Take all the herb powders – Amla, Bhringaraja, Liquorice, Triphala,
Aloe vera – into a wide mouthed vessel. (total – 250 grams – 5 parts)
While adding herbs, keep around 10 grams (1/5th part) of each of these
herbs separately. add the remaining part of the herbs to the vessel.
Add 1 litre water to it (20 parts)
Boil this powder water mix till you get around 500 m l (10 parts)
While boiling stir continuously. Boil in mild re. Taking a wide
mouthed big vessel helps avoid spilling of boiling Kashayam.
After getting 500 ml (10 parts), lter the Kashayam.
Part 2 – Bhringaraja Tail (Oil) Preparation
Take 500 ml (10 parts) coconut oil in a big wide mouthed vessel.•
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•Add 500 ml (10 parts) of Kashayam to it.
Add 250 ml (5 parts) milk to it.
Put grated coconut powder into a mixer/grinder, add a little water, and
grind it. A dd the ground coconut along with liquid to the vessel.
Add chopped hibiscus ower pieces into the vessel.
Start heating the whole mixture in m ild re. Stir continuously.
Observations
e mixture now contains 500 ml (10 parts) of coconut oil and all
other powders and water. e goal is to evaporate all the water content
from the mixture and get only the oil. So, at the end you will get
around 450–500 ml (9–10 parts) of the oil.
In the initial phase of boiling the oil, there will be larger bubbles. ese
bubbles indicate water being evaporated.
In the initial phase, the whole mass looks dirty. But as the process
moves on, the liquid becomes clearer.
At the end stage, the vessel will start emitting aroma, the powders turn
into a paste, which you can roll into the form of a wick, there will be
profuse frothing. Big bubbles disappear.
If you take the powder paste to re, it will not produce sound. It
indicates that there is no moisture in the oil and the Bhringraj oil is
ready.
Stop heating at this precise point and lter it when it is hot.
Shelf Life
If you store in air tight container, this oil is good to use for upto one and half
years.Preservatives required – None.
How to Use?
It can be applied at night and next day morning head bath can be taken. But
for some people, applying coconut oil at night may cause worsening of
sinusitis. For such people, it ca n be applied half an hour before bath.75. How to Make Ayurvedic
Herbal Anti Dandruff Hair
Oil at Home?
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For dandruﬀ, scalp psoriasis, itching, eczema etc, an anti dandruﬀ hair oil is
the best medicine for external application. Here is a hair oil that you can make
at home using simple ingredients.
Ingredients
Aloe vera leaf pulp or dry powder – 50 g rams
Triphala powder – 50 grams (Triphala is a mix of three fruits – Amla,
Terminalia chebula and Terminalia bellirica)
Neem powder – 50 grams
Manjishta – Rubia cordifolia – Indian madder – 50 g rams
Yashtimadhu powder – Licorice – 50 g rams
Water – 1000 ml (1 litre)
Coconut oil – 500 ml (half litre)
Procedure
Step 1: Make Kashayam –
Take all the herbal powders in a clean wide mouthed vessel. But keep 10 grams
of each powder aside from this, which will be used later. So, 40 grams of eachof the herbal ingredient, including aloe vera is added to 1 liter of water. Heated
in mild re.
While


butterfat; and whipping cream (also called heavy cream)
weighs in at 30 percent butterfat. Of course adding creamto smoothies makes it creamier and denser, but it’s the fat
that makes the drink so rich. For people who are
undernourished and/or underweight, cream is an excellent
addition to smoothies.
 Crème fraîche: In France, raw cream is thickened by
bacteria for a slightly tangy, thick and velvety smooth
texture. Depending on the cream used to make it, crème
fraîche may be as low as 20 percent or as high as 48
percent butterfat, so use it in smoothies with caution.
 Sour cream: Similar to crème fraîche, sour cream is
fermented cream. By U.S. law, the butterfat must be 18
percent or more, so reduced-fat sour cream is technically
not sour cream. Commercial sour cream may contain
gelatin, ﬂavorings, vegetable enzymes, and sodium citrate.
B o r s c h t
Prep time: About 4 min • Blending time: 1 min • Cooking time: 3–5
min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
3/4 cup fresh carrot juice
1/2 cup plain yogurt
1 cup fresh spinach
2 tomatoes, peeled and quartered
2 small, cooked beets, peeled and quartered
2 teaspoons chopped fresh dill
2 sprigs fresh dill, for garnish (optional)
Dir ections
1 Combine the carrot juice, yogurt, spinach, tomatoes, beets, and
chopped dill in the blender container.2 Secure the lid on the container.
3 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are no
visible pieces of vegetable in the mixture.
4 Pour into a saucepan and heat over medium-high heat for 3 to 5
minutes or until hot; or pour into a microwave-safe bowl and
microwave on high for 1 minute or until hot.
5 Pour the soup into 2 bowls, garnish with dill sprigs (if using),
serve with a spoon, and enjoy!
Per serving: Calories 127 (From Fat 16); Fat 2g (Saturated 1g); Cholesterol 4mg; Sodium 179mg;
Carbohydrate 24g (Dietary Fiber 4g); Protein 7g.
Tip: If you own a Vitamix blender, skip Step 5 and run the
machine at high for 4 to 6 minutes or until the soup is hot.
Vary It! Use 1/2 cup cottage cheese or 1/4 cup sour cream in place
of the yogurt if you want.
C r e a m y  T o m a t o  S o u p
Prep time: About 3 min • Blending time: 1 min • Cooking time: 1–5
min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
1/2 cucumber
1 carrot
1 cup vegetable or chicken broth
4 tomatoes, quartered
1/2 cup drained yogurt or Greek-style yogurt
1 cup chopped kale or Swiss chard
1/4 cup cilantro or parsleyDir ections
1 Peel the cucumber and cut it and the carrot into chunks.
2 Combine the broth, tomatoes, yogurt, kale, cilantro, cucumber,
and carrot in the blender container.
3 Secure the lid on the container.
4 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are no
visible pieces of vegetable in the mixture.
5 Pour the soup into a saucepan and heat over medium heat,
stirring constantly for 5 to 10 minutes or until hot; or pour into
a microwave-safe bowl and microwave on high for 1 minute or
until hot.
6 Pour the soup into 2 bowls, serve with a spoon, and enjoy!
Per serving: Calories 160 (From Fat 25); Fat 3g (Saturated 1g); Cholesterol 4mg; Sodium 589mg;
Carbohydrate 29g (Dietary Fiber 4g); Protein 8g.
Tip: If you own a Vitamix blender, skip Step 5 and run the
machine at high for 4 to 6 minutes or until the soup is hot.
Tip: Stir constantly while heating to keep yogurt from curdling.
Vary It! You can garnish the soup with a tablespoon of drained
yogurt if you want.
C h i c k e n  S a l a d
Prep time: About 4 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
1 cup chicken broth2 cups fresh or chopped frozen spinach
1 cup coarsely chopped cabbage
1 carrot
2 tablespoons whey powder
1 tablespoon sunﬂower seeds
1 cup shredded, cooked chicken
Dir ections
1 Combine the broth, spinach, cabbage, carrot, whey powder, and
sunﬂower seeds in the blender container.
2 Secure the lid on the container.
3 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are no
visible pieces of vegetable in the mixture.
4 Add the chicken to the container and pulse for 10 to 20 seconds
or until just mixed in but still in pieces.
5 Pour the smoothie into 2 glasses, serve with a spoon, and enjoy!
Per serving: Calories 227 (From Fat 62); Fat 7g (Saturated 2g); Cholesterol 62mg; Sodium 664mg;
Carbohydrate 10g (Dietary Fiber 3g); Protein 30g.
Dessert Smoothies
Sometimes we just crave a treat or we want something to mark
a special occasion or to celebrate an important event. Dessert
smoothies are sweet treats that ﬁt those requirements perfectly
— they’re served in tiny portions, once in a while. The reason
we love them is that they’re rich in cream, ice cream, sweetened
syrups like butterscotch and chocolate, nuts, sweetened dried
fruit, and other forbidden ingredients.You know they aren’t a bit healthy, fresh fruit notwithstanding,
but how can you resist these sugary, creamy treats? The answer
is to blend your own iced desserts with less sugar (and other
sweeteners) without using high-fat cream and ice cream.
The following list details the calories found in three frozen
ingredients so that you can make an informed choice of what to
use in smoothies meant to be a treat:
 Frozen yogurt: It’s (just barely) a healthy alternative to ice
cream. Consisting of milk solids, sugar (or other
sweeteners), milk fat, yogurt culture, ﬂavorings, and
sometimes colorants, frozen yogurt is perceived to be
healthier, but the sugar and fat still make it a sweet treat.
For any probiotic effect, be sure to buy yogurt and frozen
yogurt that contains live and active cultures. Freezing
doesn’t kill the bacteria, but commercial products that are
heat-processed at temperatures over 113°F do kill bacteria.
One scoop of regular frozen yogurt has about half the
calories and fat of ice cream.
 Ice cream: A custard of eggs, milk, and/or cream is mixed
with sugar (or other sweeteners), fruit, or other ﬂavorings
and stirred while chilling to incorporate air that prevents
large ice crystals from forming. The result is a smooth and
creamy semisolid froth that may be scooped and molded.
Commercial products have between 10 percent and 16
percent fat, milk solids, sweeteners, stabilizers, and
emulsiﬁers and water (from the milk).
 Ice milk: Originally, when a frozen dairy product contained
less than 10 percent milk fat, it couldn’t be called ice
cream, so it was called ice milk. Changes in USDA rules in
the 1990s allowed a 10 percent or less milk fat product to
be called low-fat ice cream in the United States. The
problem with lowering the fat is that usually sugar isincreased and the total number of calories is not
signiﬁcantly reduced.
S ’ m o r e s - i e s
Prep time: About 4 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
1/2 cup skim or 1 percent milk
1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
2 scoops chocolate ice cream
2 tablespoons melted dark chocolate
2 tablespoons crushed graham crackers, for garnish
Dir ections
1 Combine the milk, sweetened condensed milk, yogurt, and ice
cream in the blender container.
2 Secure the lid on the container.
3 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 25 seconds or until smooth.
4 With the motor running on medium speed, add the melted
chocolate to the container through the opening in the lid. Blend
for 10 seconds or until mixed into the smoothie.
5 Pour the dessert smoothie into 4 glasses, garnish with crushed
graham crackers, serve with a spoon, and enjoy!
Per serving: Calories 367 (From Fat 117); Fat 13g (Saturated 8g); Cholesterol 30mg; Sodium 178mg;
Carbohydrate 54g (Dietary Fiber 2g); Protein 11


 the incidence of disease in a population or individual is a
complex product of the conditional probabilities of certain gene components
interacting with a diverse range of environmental triggers." Above all, nutrition has
a significant influence on many diseases, in that it modulates complex communication
between the 100 trillion microorganisms in the intestin es!63 "The microbes are part
of our extended symbiotic genome and as such are in many ways just as important
as our genes," says Nicholson.64
How easily this bacterial balance can be decisively influenced can be seen with
babies: if they are nursed with mother's milk, their intestinal flora almost exclusively
contains a certain bacterium (Lactobacillus bifidus), which is very different from the
37 Chapter 1
bacterium most prevalent when they are fed a diet including cow's milk. "The
bacterium lactobacillus bifidus lends the breast-f ed child a much stronger resistance
to intestinal infections, for instance," writes microbiologist Dubos.65
This is just one of countless examples of the positive interaction between bacteria
and humans. "But unfortunately, the knowledge that microorganisms can also do a
lot of good for humans never enjoyed much popularity," Dubos points out. "Humanity
has made it a rule to take better care of the dangers that threaten life than to take
interest in the biological powers upon which human existence is so decisively
dependent. The history of war has always fascinated people more than descriptions
of peaceful coexistence. And so it comes that no one has ever created a successf ul
story out of the useful role that bacteria play in stomach and intestines. Alone the
production of a large part of the food that lands on our plates is dependent on
bacterial activity." 66
However, haven't antibiotics helped or even saved the lives of many people?
Without a doubt. But, we must note that as rec�ntly as 12 February 1941, the first
patient was treated with an antibiotic, specifically penicillin. So, antibiotics have
nothing to do with the increase in life expecta ncy, which really took hold in the
middle of the 19'h century (in industrialized countries), almost a century before the
development of antibiotics. 67 And, plenty of substances, including innumerable
bacteria essential to life are destroyed through the administration of antibiotics,
which directly translated from the Greek, means, "against life."68 In the USA alone,
millions of antibiotics are now unnecessarily administered.69 70 This has profound
consequences, as antibiotics are held responsible for nearly a fifth of the more than
100,000 annual deaths that are traced back to side effects of medicines in the United
States alone. 71 72
The over-use of antibiotics is also causing more bacteria to become resistant.
Today, 70% of microbes held responsible for lung illnesses no longer respond to
medications. 73 The increase in resistance prompts the pharmaceutical sector to
conduct more intensive research for new antibiotics. But the discovery of such
molecules is a long, difficult and costly process (about $600 million per molecule).74
For many years, no important new antibiotic has come onto the market. At the same
time, increasingly stronger preparations are being introduced, which only leads to
the bacteria becoming even more resistant and excreting even more toxins.
A key question, such as the causes of pulmonary or middle-ear infection, cannot
be answered by simply branding the microbes as lethal enemies and wiping them
out. And yet people stick to vilifying the microbes because they are caught in their
concept of the enemy and their tunnel vision is directed only at germs.
This is a perception that actually began with Louis Pasteur, who as an acclaimed
researcher spread the opinion that bacteria lingered everywhere in the air. And so
38 Medicine Presents a Distorted Picture of Microbes
the idea was born that bacteria (like fungi and viruses) would fatefully descend
upon human and animal like swarms of locusts. For about ten years, doctors have
speculated that even heart attacks are an infectious disease, triggered by the
Chlamydia pneumoniae bacterium. Because of this some patients were treated with
antibiotics-but recently a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine
stated quite plainly that there is no benefit from this.75
Another issue when considering reports that E. coli bacteria have been detec
ted in drinking water, is the false notion that someho w on their forays these
germs discovered a stream and then contaminated it. In fact, E. coli gets into drink
ing water through human or animal excrement, which serves as food for the
bacteria.
Bacteria do not live isolated in an open atmosphere. Rather, they always exist
together with cells and tissue parts. 76 Just like a fungal culture, a bacterial culture
does not simply consist of bacteria or fungi; rather, a terrain always exists as well.
And depending on the (toxicity of a) terrain, there are different (toxic) germs. Let's
recall a well-known phrase from Claude Bernard (1813 -1878), one of the best
known representatives of a holistic approach to health: "The microbe is nothing, the
terrain is everything."
If we ask bacteriologists which comes first: the terrain or the bacteria, the answer
is always that it is the environment (the terrain) that allows the microbes to thrive.
The germs, then, do not directly produce the disease. So, it is evident that the crisis
produced by the body causes the bacteria to multiply by creating the proper
conditions for actually harmless bacteria to mutate into poisonous pus-producing
microorganisms.
"Under close observation of disease progression, particularly in infective
processes, damage to the organism occurs at the beginning of the disease-and only
afterwards the bacterial activity begins," says general practitioner Johann Loibner.
"Everyone can observe this in himself. If we put dirt into a fresh wound, other
bacteria appear as well. After the penetration of a foreign body, very specific germs
appear which, after removal or release, go away on their own and do not continue
to populate us. If we damage our respiratory mucous membrane through hypothermia,
then those bacteria accordingly appear which, depending on the hypothermia's
acuteness and length, and the affected individual's condition, can break down the
affected cells and lead to expulsion, catarrh."
This would also explain what the dominant medical thought pattern can't
comprehend : why so many dif ferent microorganisms are in our bodies (among them
such "highly dangerous" ones as the tuberculosis bacillus, the Streptococcus or the
Staphylococcus bacterium) without bringing about any recognizable damage. 77 They
only become harmful when they have enough of the right kind of food. Depending
39 Chapter 1
on the type of bacterium this food could be toxins, metabolic end products,
improperly digested food and much more.
Even surgery makes use of this principle, using little sacks of maggots to clean
wounds that are particularly difficult to sanitize. The maggots eat only the dead or
"broken" material. They do not touch healthy, living flesh. No surgeon in the world
can cleanse such a wound so precisely and safely as these maggots. And when
everything is clean, the feast is over; the maggots don't eat you up, because then
they wouldn't have anything more to eat.78
Pasteur finally became aware of all of this, quoting Bernard's dictum-"the
microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything"-on his deathbed.79 But Paul Ehrlich
(1854-1915), known as the father of chemothe rapy, adhered to the interpretation
that Robert Koch (just like Pasteur in his "best days") preached : that microbes were
the actual causes of disease. For this reason, Ehrlich, whom his competitors called
"Dr. Fantasy,"80 dreamed of "chemically aiming" at bacteria, and decisively
contributed to helping the "magic bullets" doctrine become accepte d, by treating
very specific illnesses successf ully with very specific chemical-pharmaceutical
preparations.81 This doctrine was a gold rush for the rising pharmace utical industry
with their wonder-pill production.8 2 "But the promise of the magic bullet has never
been fulfilled," writes Allan Brandt, a medical historian at Harvard Medical
School.83
Virus es: Lethal Mini-Mo nster s?
This distorted understanding of bacteria and fungi and their functions in
abnormal processes shaped attitudes toward viruses. At the end of the 19th century,
as microbe theory rose to become the definitive medical teaching, no one could
actually detect viruses. Viruses measure only 20 -450 nanometers (billionths of a
meter) across and are thus very much smaller than bacteria or fungi-so tiny, that
one can only see them under an electron microscope. And the first electron
microscope was not built until 1931. Bacteria and fungi, in contrast, can be observed
through a simple light microscope. The first of these was constructed as early as the
I7th century by Dutch researcher Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723).
"Pasteurians" were already using the expression "virus" in the 19th century, but
this is ascribed to the Latin term "virus" (which just means poison) to describe
organic structures that could not


 that helped their body
metabolize away the plaque buildup in their arteries.
Second, by consuming only fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and
legumes, the patients allowed the arteries themselves to heal at a cellular
and metabolic level. A plant-based diet permits the silky lining of thearteries to produce nitric oxide, an element crucial to their health that cleans
the blood, heals the endothelium (making it slippery instead of sticky), and
allows the capillaries, arteries, and veins to relax, letting more blood flow to
the heart.
Corroborating this research, in 2004 Cornell professor Dr. T. Colin
Campbell, the project director of the China-Oxford-Cornell Diet and Health
Project, published The China Study, a book chronicling the results of a
thirty-year investigation of nutrition and health that examined more than
6,500 people in sixty-five dif ferent Chinese villages. The New York Times
referred to this study as the “Grand Prix” of all epidemiological research.
Among the study’ s findings: American men are seventeen times more
likely to die from heart disease than rural Chinese men. During one three-
year period in the study, Campbell even found certain areas in China with
populations over 100,000 where not a single person under the age of sixty-
five had died from heart disease.
All of the Chinese subjects ate a predominantly whole food, plant-based
diet, containing few to no packaged products (or meals at restaurants). As a
result, their average total cholesterol ranged between 81 and 135.
Conversely, the typical American eats an animal-based diet with close to
40 percent of his or her calories coming from animal products, 50 percent
from refined and processed sources, and only 10 percent from plant foods.
Not surprisingly, Americans, who also rely heavily on packaged food
products, have an average total cholesterol of 215.
The Framingham Study, the lar gest equivalent review of diet and heart
disease among Americans, had results similar to those of The China Study.
The study was initiated because heart disease had become so prevalent in
this country during the last century that, in 1948, researchers from the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) began what has become the longest
ongoing investigation into the causes of heart disease ever conducted.
After compiling data on almost everyone in the entire town of
Framingham, Massachusetts, the NIH researchers were able to determine
that the leading risk factors for heart disease were (1) high cholesterol
levels, (2) high blood pressure, and (3) cigarette smoking.
Further research over the last half century has confirmed these findings.
Today, a high cholesterol level is still the number one risk factor for heart
disease, greater than smoking, high blood pressure, family history, stress, or
obesity.Interestingly, nobody in the Framingham Study whose total cholesterol
level was under 150 without using cholesterol-lowering drugs ever had a
heart attack. Once again, as Dr. William Castelli, the former director of the
Framingham Study, puts it: Keep your total cholesterol under 150 and you
protect yourself from ever having a heart attack.
And get this! Some 35 percent of all heart attacks documented in the
Framingham Study occurred in people whose total cholesterol level was
between 151 and 200, numbers the American Heart Association and most
physicians will tell you are rock solid.
This research indicates that the only way to become truly rock solid is to
get your total cholesterol below 150 and your LDL  cholesterol below 80.
You can best do this by eating a delicious plant-based diet.
The sooner you can start, the better of f you’ll be. For example, autopsies
of young American soldiers from the Korean and Vietnam Wars confirmed
that 80 percent already had plaque deposits greater than 50 percent of the
width of their coronary arteries, while the Korean and Vietnamese soldiers
examined, who had eaten a plant-based diet, had little to no plaque.
We also know from the landmark PDA Y (Pathobiological Determinants
of Atherosclerosis in Youth) Study, begun in 1985 and supported by the
NIH’ s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, that adolescents who died
from accidents, homicides, and suicides already had the makings of fatty
plaque lesions in their coronary arteries. In other words, dangerous levels
can build up long before you hit the age most people associate with heart
attacks.
STROKE
Stroke is a silent killer that hits like a well-camouflaged assassin perched
in a tree. Stroke attacks with no warning signs, and results in death 25
percent of the time. Of every five people who die of stroke, three are
women and two are men. Nearly 700,000 Americans suf fer strokes
annually, and 150,000 of these victims die.
A stroke is similar to a heart attack, but af fects the brain. It can occur in
one of two ways. The first type, called ischemic stroke, is the result of a
blood clot, or a narrowing of the arteries to the brain.
The second type, hemorrhagic stroke, occurs when one of the arteries
leading to the brain ruptures. In both cases, there isn’ t enough oxygen-richblood feeding and nourishing the brain. Nerve cells in the brain then die,
affecting the part of the body those cells controlled.
Strokes range from ministrokes called TIAs (transient ischemic attacks)
lasting from one to twenty-four hours, to full-blown strokes causing
complete paralysis or death.
Stroke and heart disease are both diseases of the cardiovascular system.
As with heart disease, in a stroke your vessels (another term for capillaries,
arteries, and veins) can’ t keep pace with the massive quantities of fat,
grease, and cholesterol you consistently ask them to process. Plaque
deposits start to accumulate until you develop either lar ge, stable plaques,
which cause narrowing of the arteries, or the small, delicate ones that
rupture and cause a clot.
Keeping your blood pressure in check can minimize stroke risk—but
eating meat, dairy, eggs, and added oils raises blood pressure in several
ways. First, narrowed and clogged vessels require an increase in pressure to
circulate blood throughout the body. Second, the saturated fat in meat and
dairy makes the blood thicker, which again requires an increase in pressure
to move it through the body. Third, animal products are notoriously high in
sodium, causing the body and blood to retain fluid, which again causes an
increase in blood pressure.
Americans consume far too much sodium, not only from animal-based
products but also from canned and packaged goods and restaurant meals.
Instead, we should be increasing our intake of potassium, a mineral that
removes sodium from the blood and, in turn, reduces blood pressure. This is
why stroke expert Dr. Mitchell Elkind of Columbia University’ s
Department of Neurology suggests that to reduce stroke, people should “eat
a diet rich in fruits and vegetables high in potassium, along with a low-fat,
low-sodium diet.”
According to the Framingham Study, for every three additional servings
of fruits and vegetables you eat a day, the risk of stroke is reduced by 22
percent. And according to a ten-year study presented at the 1993 meeting of
the American Heart Association, female survivors of strokes or heart attacks
could cut their future stroke risk by eating spinach, carrots, and other fruits
and vegetables containing vitamins C, E, and B2 and beta-carotene.
(Vitamin C is present in many foods, including citrus fruits, bell peppers,
and kale. Vitamin B2, or riboflavin, and vitamin E can be found in leafygreen vegetables and nuts, as well as in many other plant-based foods. Beta-
carotene is a form of vitamin A present in fruits and vegetables.)
So be proactive. Eat a whole food, nutrient rich, plant-based diet. Never
allow the building blocks of stroke and heart disease—artery-clogging
saturated fat, dietary cholesterol, and acidic animal protein—into your
body.
Stroke can hit anyone at any time. For example, I can remember when
my grandfather, the great doctor Barney Crile, suf fered a stroke in his late
seventies. He was standing in his kitchen when he suddenly fell over
backward and landed on one of his two cats, Sunday Morning in the
Twilight Gleaming (a crazy-pills long name for a cat the size of a dog). The
cat came out of it fine, but Barney wasn’ t as lucky. He had partial paralysis
to the left side of his body and his quick wit and brilliant mind were dulled.
I am confident Barney could have avoided his stroke if he hadn’ t been
such a lover of dining on all things animal. He was a madman when it came
to eating anything and everything. He would jump out of the car when he
saw fresh road kill, scoop it up, take it home, skin it, and incorporate it into
the family dinner. A menu of ten dif ferent meals that hung on the kitchen
wall epitomized the Crile eating style. First on the list: bear balls roasted in
bacon fat.
Don’ t eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that
you will never fall over on your cat.
CANCER
Cancer. The C word. It fans fear in the hearts of Americans. And
rightfully so. Cancer is the second-leading cause of death each year and,
according to the American Hospital Association, will surpass the number
one cause, heart disease, within


vement, less depression, less dizziness, less irrita bility
after clearing these up. Remember that eating bacteria andPUSHING BACK AGE
299killing them later will not solve the problem. Stopping eating
them will.
Other Clues
Digestion problems that remain after eliminating bacteria can
be diagnosed in a rational way. Ask these questions:
•Is the stool orangish-yellow, or very pale, instead of
greenish brown? If so, bile  isn't getting delivered to the
small intestine from the liver.
•Is there abdominal pain? (More about this on page 97). It
may be due to Ascaris, flukes, or other parasites.
•Is there constipation? This will let wastes accumulate, all
the longer for bacteria to thrive on them.
•Is there bloating? This is due to gas made by bacteria.
•Does the stool float? If so, it must be lighter than water and
contain fat or a great deal of undigested material.
Liver Bile
Bile is necessary for digestion. Absorption of fat and cal cium
depends on bile  mixing with the food. When fat isn't ab sorbed, it
stays in the intestine. Fat is lighter than water; it makes the stool
float. Feces should not float. When the stool floats you can
assume that calcium  isn't being absorbed either, leaving the
blood in a deficit which will be taken from the bones.
If the stool floats or is orangish in color prepare your elderly
person for a liver cleanse (page 552) to clear a bile  duct  of ob-
struction. They get quite fond of these cleanses and will ask to
have one. Liver cleanses are completely safe, even for persons in
their 80's. One of the stones pictured on page 554 came from a
woman age 97. The general rules apply to the extremely eld erly:
kill all parasites first by zapper if possible, otherwise byTHE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
300herbal parasite killing. Do a kidney cleanse (page 549) first,
using half a dose instead of the regular dose, for three to six
weeks. Attend your loved one in person for the liver cleanse,
have a commode at bedside, protect bedding from accident: use
paper underwear if necessary. Share the joy of getting gallstones
out painlessly with your loved one; let them see and count them if
they wish before you flush them (use a flashlight).
Be extra careful with the skin cleansing. Hot water soothes
and heals. Use starch  skin soother to dispense onto the wet pa per
towel, besides borax solution and alcohol. Don't use ordi nary
soap. The starch skin softener gives the smoothness of soap, and
prevents the pain of friction. An elderly person may have no
diarrhea  at all with the Epsom salts! Evidently the body absorbs
all the magnesium so eagerly, none is left in the intes tine to
absorb water and create diarrhea. It is especially impor tant
though to rehydrate your elderly person after a diarrhea. This
time they do not balk at water consumption. The liver cleanse, it
seems, gives them new thirst as well as new appetite. But it
doesn't last long. As the stones from the far corners of the liver
move forward, they compact into larger stones and plug the ducts
again. Their previous symptoms return. Try to give a cleanse
once a month until the dark color of the stool returns and it no
longer floats.
The benefits of a liver cleanse will last longer if valerian
herb  is taken the day after the cleanse and from then forward. It
may be preventing spasm  of the bile  duct s. Use 2 oz. of the herb
(cut) in 3 cups water. Simmer for 5-10 minutes, let settle or
strain. Add honey to sweeten. Give a few tbs. every 4 hours (or 6
capsules) for several days followed by a daily dose at bedtime.PUSHING BACK AGE
301Constipation
If constipation  is a problem, use an herbal product rather than
a drug  until you have removed the cause. Cascara sagrada  (half
dosage) or prunes  work for many people. Adding rough age to
the diet is a good solution but often doesn't work. If you try bran,
you should add vitamin C  and boil it, first, because it is very
moldy. But even eating tree branches for supper won't move a
bowel  that has the wrong bacteria in it.
Bacteria are part of the cause; and part of the result! Consti-
pation increases the bacteria level which causes further consti-
pation! You may solve the  constipation  problem  immediately  by
zapping. Even though this kills some “good” with some “bad”
bacteria, no harm is done. The stool is recolonized in one to two
days.
Poop Your Troubles Away
Two bowel  movements  a day are the minimum necessary  for
good health. The first one should be in the morning. The morning
cup of water, drunk at the bedside has the magical ability to
move the bowels. Cold water may fail. But the water effect only
works in the early morning. Waiting until after breakfast may not
work. Notice the energy lift your loved one gets from this most
primitive body cleanse. Take advantage of this to exercise  them.
Go immediately for the morning walk. This might be the only
time of day they can enjoy  their walk.
Walking  and liver cleansing  are the most  health-promoting
activities you can do for your loved one.
Make walking as essential as eating. Walking is not merely
walking about the house or shopping. Walking should be done
outdoors. Walking is a brisk exercise, done as speedily as possi-THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
302ble and lasting at least ½ hour. Only if the weather doesn't allow
outdoor walking can an indoor walk be substituted. Don't let your
elderly person choose whether they will walk that day. To
overcome resistance, find a cheerful neighborhood person will-
ing to do this task for pay. The need to respond to a new stranger
energizes the elderly more than your persuasion can.
Sugar Regulation
Diabetes is a common development in the elderly. If your
loved one is already on a pill for beginning diabetes, take this as
your challenge never to let it get worse. It is not a chronic meta-
bolic deterioration. It is a destruction of the pancreas
(specifically the islets) by the pancreatic fluke  which is attracted
to the pancreas by wood alcohol. Zap flukes and eliminate wood
alcohol as described in the section on diabetes (page 173).
Use no artificial sweetener  and no beverages besides milk,
water and the recipes given in this book. This is one regimen
your loved one will not resent. They are well motivated to pre-
vent the need for giving themselves daily shots of insulin. Use
this motivation to acquire the taste for new foods and beverages.
Elderly Person’s 7 Day Diabetic Diet
Daily supplements:  4 chromium  (200 mcg. each), 1 or 2 B-
50 complex, vitamin C  (1,000 mg. or ¼ tsp.). Take with food.
Breakfast
Choose any one; they need not be in order.
1.Two eggs, (replace carton and wash hands and eggs before
cracking), wheat-free, corn -free bread, not toasted (special
breads can be found in the freezer section of natural foodPUSHING BACK AGE
303stores), with butter and 1 tbs. orange blossom honey. 1
peeled pear, raw, with whipping cream. One cup hot milk
with cinnamon.
2.Old fashioned oats, with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon and 1/8 tsp.
vitamin C, stirred in just before serving. Mix whipping
cream with sterilized milk to make a “half n half” for the
cereal. 1 tbs. honey. 1 banana. One half cup milk, one half
glass water with honey and vinegar.
3.Fried potatoes with 2 eggs (use only butter, olive oil or
lard), 1 cup hot or cold milk. A quartered orange (wash the
orange before quartering).
4.Cream of rice, with homemade “half n half” or whipping
cream, cinnamon and vitamin C  stirred in. 1 cup milk, 1
banana.
5.Cottage cheese, cooked in covered skillet to sterilize. Add
chives or peeled fruit (not canned). Wheat-free, corn -free
bread, or rice  bread with 1 tbs. honey. 1 nectarine or piece
of melon. 1 cup hot milk. Water with vinegar  and honey.
6.Pancakes or waffles with butter and eggs (no sweetening ).
Fruit (peeled), hot milk, water.
7.Fruit cup, large bowl of peeled, chopped mixed fruit with
whipping cream and 1 tbs. honey and rice  bread or other
wheat-free, corn -free bread with unsalted butter. 1 cup hot
milk with cinnamon.
Remember, all honey must be pretreated with vitamin C. All
fruit is peeled and free of blemishes and soft spots. All milk,
cream, butter must be sterilized for 10 seconds at full boiling
point. Butter


ordinary room, but for a moment not ordinary. The path to love always
opens unexpecte dly. Our world contains such chaos and confusion that it is
a miracle there is a path at all. Yet as long as there is separation, there will
be a bridge. “I think you’ve gotten at one of my secrets,” Delaney said after
a pause. “I had lost faith that anybody out there really would love me as
much as I wanted her to.”
“Love doesn’ t take faith,” I said. “Because separation is an illusion,
believing in it is what takes faith. Love is real. It can be held, nurtured, felt,
learned from, and depended upon. So abandon your faith. Stop wishing and
hoping, and turn your efforts to what is real. Duality is so flimsy that it is
ready to fall apart at any moment. In our imaginations we believe that love
is apart from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready to
accept it.”
OceanofPDF.comTHE PATH
IN THE WEST  what we generally call love is mostly a feeling, not a power.
This feeling can be delicious, even ecstatic, but there are many things love
is meant to do that feelings cannot.
When love and spirit are brought together, their power can accomplish
anything. Then love, power, and spirit ar e one.
There has never been a spiritual master—not Buddha, Krishna, Christ, or
Mohammed—who wasn’ t a messenger of love, and the power of the
message has always been aweso me: it has changed the world. Perhaps the
very immensity of such teachers has made the rest of us reticent. We do not
accept the powe r love can create inside us, and therefore we turn our backs
on our divine status.
India is a society where every person is divine, but only a few realize it.
Strangely, the same can be said of the West. The only difference is that you
can see holy men bathing in the sacred rivers of India, while our holy men
go unnoticed, hidden from sight in monasteries or the grave. “Let them be
rich in the West,” my friend Lakshman would say loudly. “There, saints
have to be dead to be real. Ours are walking around outdoors!”
Outdoors, but not always that easy to find. Countless seekers have
traveled through India without meeting any genuine saints. Or rather they
did not perceive them to be holy. Thanks to Lakshman, a man who
combines boisterous exuberance with deep reverence, I’ve had occasion to
feel the presenc e of yogis and sages in their Himalayan caves or rickety
wooden ashram s on the Ganges. Lakshman told me a story about how he
gained his first belief in saints. We were sitting in a café in La Jolla,
California, worlds away from our origins, watching the blue Pacific roll in
the sun.
“For a long time, Deepak, I wasn’ t a believer in these so-called saints.
Half of them are scoundrels, idle beggars wandering from door to door,
taking advantage of people’ s innocent faith to get a handout. One suspectsthat the rest are probably psychotic. Or so I thought. My family in
Bangalore is very Westernized; we started a computer software company
ten years  before the explosion of technology in South India. We keep up our
daily puja prayers at the altar in the dining room, but it’ s a formality.
“I live in an old part of the city. From my window I can see medieval
Shiva temples being blackene d by fumes from thousands of scooter
rickshaws and battered lorries. Old India and new India come together in a
war zone of screeching sensory  assault—that is what I wake up to every
day.
“One morning I couldn’ t bear to fight the traffic, so I decided to walk to
work. My parents’ factory is not far from the center of town. You know
how the sidewalks are in India— impossible! Ten minutes from home I was
totally frustrated, pushing my way through a sea of peddlers, beggars,
layabouts, and twenty thousand  other working people trying to get to the
same place I was. The image of a dry Ganges flowing with humanity came
to mind. Well, it came to mind later, since all I felt at the time was irritation
and exhaustion.
“Rounding a corner I saw a knot of people gathered around something.
Of course they blocked the whole sidewalk, and this being India, traffic had
stopped while taxi and lorry drivers got out to have a look too. Something
in me snapped, and I furiously pushed through, shouting for everyone to get
out of my way. No one did. In five seconds I was embedded in a pack of
shoving bodies, unable to escape.
“You can’t imagine how it felt. Of course you can, having been there
yourself. But there I was, on the verge of screaming, when I suddenly felt
everything in my mind stop. My anger and frenzy, my preoccu pations, the
constant flow of associations—the whole baggage simply disappeared,
leaving behind an empty mind. I’m no fool; I had read scripture s and knew
all that stuff about an empty mind being the silence of God. But on the
streets of Bangalore! Somehow I managed to push my way forward. There
in the middle of the pack was a small woman in a white sari, sitting with her
eyes closed. She must have been about thirty, I suppose, and something
about her told me she was from a country village.
“To this day I have no idea why she had stopped in the middle of the
sidewalk like that. She sat completely still, not minding the crush around
her. Actually, the crowd was acting quite respectful on the whole; she wassurrounded by a ring of people on their knees. I got a little nearer, and the
most remarkable thing happened. My empty mind began to have something
in it, not a thought but a sensation. Mother. That’s the only way I can
describe it. It was as if all the mothering feelings that women give to their
families were inside me, but with much greater purity and clarity.
“I wasn’t thinking of my own mother. There was just this feelin g. It grew
stronger, and I saw, like a revealed truth, that this woman on the sidewalk
was emanating the energy of ‘mother ’ from its very source. I also saw with
complete clarity  that my own mother had been trying to express this same
energy. However imperfectly, she was connected to a reality that doesn’ t
depend on this mother or that mother. It is just ‘mother,’ the endless love of
the feminine toward everything in creation.
“The next second I was on my knees, only a few feet from this saint on
the sidew alk. She had her eyes open now and was smiling at all of us. Her
smile somehow  made my experience far more intense. I had a flashing
glimpse of thousands upon thousands of souls wanting to be here on earth
to experience the preciousness of being a mother.
“What came to me then was forgiveness: I realized that all the people
who can’t love, even the most evil and criminal ones, are trying to express
this divine energy. We are all on the path, and despite our differences, being
on the path makes us much more similar than we realize.”
Lakshman’ s voice trailed off. Although his encounter had lasted only a
few minutes, its effect was permanent. He remains awed that the mere
presence of a saint can uplift  ordinary awareness (this effect is called
Darshan  in Sanskrit). More important, he became convinced that a path to
the divine is real, since he had now met someone who was at the end of that
path.
I can speak from  experience too. I never had the startling breakthrough
Lakshman did, but my parents were devout, and my retired grandfather
frequently spent  his afternoons on the veranda soaking up the darshan of
swamis and saints. A boy doesn’ t grasp much of the deeper meaning of
such experiences; that came only when I was an adult, after sitting myself
with strange, otherworldly recluses and feeling utterly loved in their
presence.
Their surroundings were some times appalling, with nothing to eat or
drink but a dipper of greenish water. There would often be no recognitionthat I had walked into the saint’ s presence, no smile or encourag ing gesture.
Yet the moment I closed my eyes, I was in a remarkable space. I had been
welcomed to a dance, the play of the universe, which was takin g place not
as whirling stars and galaxies but in pure silence. A blissful coolness
penetrated my body, and I lost awareness of the sticky shirt clinging to my
back and the suffocating trappe d air. The sensation was one of peace, but
there was an extraordinary vibrancy to it, as if thrills of invisible energy
were running through me. At times it was almost more than I could bear.
My inner space seemed to be exploding. I was suspended in emptiness that
was not empty but teeming with everything ever created or to be created—
the womb of the cosmic mother. And it was all in me.
These are memo ries that make me sure that our current concept of love is
not adequate