 into the duo denum. It is these contractions
which account for the common 'hunger pangs', a pathological
demand for more food due to wrong  feeding, often exacerbated by
spices added to foods. Unlike a ppetite, this is not pleasant; relief
only comes, transiently, as more food is taken in, a vicious circle at times leading to a visibly pathological gorging.
The real reason why many people prefer cooked to raw food is
that it is much easier to overeat the cooked. Romans insisted on
over-cooked foods, for they were easi er to regurgitate. Hot food is
also easier to abuse of than co ld. When the overworked stomach
cries for mercy, and seizes up when given cold food, it will be induced to open out with hot food, one more device for fooling
nature. The insistence on 'piping hot'dishes is a sure sign that the
natural gastric functions have been thoroughly sabotaged, the stomach, an over-irritated, beaten, humiliated organ, capable of accepting any abuse. The association of ulceration and cancer with hot, particularly fried food, seems clear.
Boiling not only softens vegetable fibres and overcomes the
reek of raw animal food, but subtly alters proteins, dissolves out
minerals, and makes the starches and sugars more quickly absorbable, by no means an advantage, for the continuous flooding of the blood with too easily absorb ed sugars is probably the cause of
an ultimate breakdown of sugar meta bolism, resulting in diabetes, in
abnormal fat deposition in tissues, in blood vessel degeneration,
especially when combined with satur ated animal fats. But frying is
undoubtedly much worse, for heat forms extremely irritating substances, many of which are carcinogenetic. The oil used again and again in restaurant kitchens, in many fish-and-chip shops, is as
potent a cancer producing brew as one can find in any laboratory.
The art of cooking means replacing the natural flavours lost by
the action of heat, of solution, of dissipation and storage, and today, of intensive agriculture and the industrialization of food production. A battery of flavours, spices, condi ments is always ready to hand in
every kitchen. But it is salt which is the pivot of gastronomy, so
much so, that everyone accepts that salt is a natural and necessary
addition to food. Since the basal needs of salt arc no more than two or three grains, and most people add twenty to thirty times this amount to their daily foods, one is evidently dealing with a dietary perversion. Salt craving in man and in animals is probably the craving for minerals, due to a deficiency in the food, or disease,
when the body can waste phenomenal amounts of minerals. In
nature, animals drawn to the rare  saltlicks are invariably diseased.
Normal animals will not touch salt,  although salt hunger is common
in animals associated with man, no doubt due to mineral-defective food. In the human diet, mineral deficiency is most probably due to
losses in cooking. Raw foods often have a discernible mineral tang,
which is rapidly lost in cooking. Th ere is a further reason in the fact
that if salt is added to the food, the body is so disturbed as to become very wasteful of it, often overspilling large amounts of salt
in the urine and sweat. Animal foods are rich in salt, so that on a mixed diet, even without added salt, there is a mineral disturbance,
leading to salt craving. It is at last becoming realized that the
common, virtually universal abuse of salt is incriminated in a long list of diseases, more particularly involving the heart, the kidneys, changes in the lens of the eye, blood pressure and oedema.
Cooking has not only facilitated the eating of animal foods, but
has enabled the eating of many food articles which could not be
eaten in a raw condition, a fact which should make any such food
suspect in the first place, however palatable it may become after cooking and preparation. Take the case of the potato. Available in
Europe from the sixteenth century, it played a leading part in the
population increases. Not only is it unpleasant in the raw, but it
contains a poisonous alkaloid, wh ich is enormously increased
during the formation of the 'eyes' in storage. This alkaloid, solanin, reduces the oxygenerating capacity of the blood, blocks enzyme systems, and poisons the nerves. Recently it was discovered with considerable alarm, that foetuses could be permanently damaged if
pregnant mothers ate spoiled or germinating potatoes. Possibly all
members of the solatium group should  be considered suspect, for all
have alkaloids, some immediately fatal, such as deadly nightshade.
That the Aztecs ate large quantities of solanum vegetables is hardly
a recommendation.
In the case of spinach or rhubarb, cooking shows how
dangerous foods can be made so pa latable as to be eaten to excess.
Man is not ideally adapted to most  mature green leaves, but rather
to tender shoots, and in moderation, for shoots are not over-abundant in nature. Some shoots, ho wever, and many mature leaves,
have large amounts of oxalic acid, which the liver cannot efficiently
metabolise. When eaten, the aci d base balance of the body is
threatened, calcium mobilized and wasted. In the raw state, such
foods are unpleasantly acid, and no mo re than a bite would be taken.
Cooked, dressed with butter and bechamel, spinach becomes delectable and rhubarb delicious, good examples of the dangers of
gastronomy. Children, however, are often wiser, for in spite of such
subterfuge, they appear to have an innate aversion to such foods.
Many people would be prepared to defend the art of cooking
for the pleasure that it brings to  a usually boring and frustrated
existence. Unfortunately, these pl easures are transitory. After many
a good meal, the bodily disquiet is all too apparent, in the flushed
face and the beating heart. Only a few lucky people get away with it
for any time. Usually, the price is paid depressingly early, when one should still be in the prime of life, at fifty, sixty, young still for a creature evidently designed for a very long existence. The trouble is that most people cannot conceive that simple, natural foods can afford pleasure. Only an overall reform of life attitudes, a revival of
the meaning of purity, of beauty, can enable the sensing of the
arcadean joys to be had in natural eating.
Natural eating does not mean crude, unattractive, unimaginative
eating. On the contrary, the natural appeals of natural food can be enormously extended, if not by cooking, by presentation and
preparation. The raw components need not be limited and dull, and
with a minimum amount of cooking, a thoroughly satisfactory and humanly enhancing diet presents itself. The art of it remains, and has the beauty and purity which all art should bestow upon the
human. By comparison, the art devices of gastronomy are no different from the false beauty of lipstick and pancake makeup.

13. The Costs of Confusion

Living in an age when the human being is looked upon as an
accidental production of a Universe without meaning, subject to a
nature prone to catastrophe, man is  seen as no more than a cunning,
randy naked ape. It would seem re asonable that people should grab
for the immediate pleasures and sa tisfactions that existence can
provide, without asking too many questions, particularly those
involving right or wrong, good or bad. Philosophers themselves,
who in the past have preoccupied themselves with the ideal, have
come to the conclusion that only existence counts, that ideals are
one more manifestation of illusion.
For those who believe that ma n is naturally an idealizing
creature, however opportunistic and existentialistic he may appear,
the modern situation can only be interpreted as the crisis of blindness and atrophy brought about by long ages of confusion, originally initiated by nature's own hostilities in the trials of the Ice
Ages, but perpetuated ever since by an inability to feel and think
clearly again. After many thousands of years of endeavouring to find the lost wisdom of which every one feels his due, the modern age has come to accept the impossib ility of wisdom. It is a tragic
situation, all the more tragic in that science has come to confirm the
apparent futility of man.
Although most people do not like the effort involved in feeling
and thinking deeply about such problems, and prefer to take life as it comes, clearly the way out of the present confusions, with their
roots in the most distant past, can only be found by some very deep and passionate thinking indeed. In facing the problem examined in
this book—the question of right eating—a practical resolution it not
enough. To have any effect, it must be backed by belief that man has meaning, that essence is what primarily matters, for existence
can only have meaning when it complies with essence, with the rules set by nature for human existence, the opposite of the usual
opportunism.
The problem is a circuitous one; living existentially, one comes
to believe that only existence matters. In the case of food and feeding, it is simply not felt po ssible that there can be any ideal
pattern; like all things, food is an occasion for the natural
opportunist scramble. It is generally believed that the gory,


dose until the "die-off" symptoms disappear. Then increase the dose again
and let the patient settle on it. Keep on increasing the dose until a therapeu
tic level is reached. This period of building up the dose can take from a few
weeks to a few months in different patients. It is very individual and depends
on how much overgrowth of pathogenic microbes the person has in the gut.
The therapeutic dose level of probiotic is individual and your health prac
titioner should be able to help you with that. Here are general guidelines;
An adult should have around 15-20 billion of bacterial cells per day.
An infant up to 12 months of age can have 1-2 billion of bacterial cells per
day.
A toddler from 1 to 2 years of age can have 2-4 billion of bacterial cells per
day.
A child from 2 to 4years of age can handle 4-8 billion of bacterial cells per
day.
A child from 4 to 10 years of age can have 8-12 billion of bacterial cells per
day.
From the age of 12 to 16 we can increase the dose to 12-15 billion per day.
Once die patient has reached the therapeutic dose level it should be
maintained for around six months on average. It takes at least this length of
time to remove the pathogenic flora and start re-establishing normal gut
flora. Adhering to the diet is absolutely essential in this period. If you carry
on feeding your pathogens in the gut with sugar and processed carbohy
drates then the probiotic will not have much chance of helping you.
After the therapeutic period is over the dose of the probiotic can be
reduced to a maintenance dose level, which the patient has to adhere to for
many years. It is important to reduce the dose as gradually as you have
been increasing it. Observe any reactions in this period. The maintenance
dose is very individual. Usually it is half of the therapeutic dose. In some
cases the patient's maintenance dose is the same as the therapeutic.
A lot of patients ask: Why do we have to have the maintenance dose? In
other words why do we have to carry on taking the probiotic?
this: we have been designed by Nature to have these bacteria every day
with every mouthful of food or drink. We have changed our environment,
water and food to such a degree that we are depriving our bodies of these
vital bacteria. For people who have good, healdiy resident gut flora it may
not present a big problem. However, for patients with GAP Syndrome it is a big problem. For GAPS people it is particularly vital to consume probiotic
bacteria every day of their lives, because they do not possess their own.
Their gut got populated by pathogens instead of beneficial bacteria and
these pathogens are extremely difficult to drive out because they occupy
different niches in the gut. To get into any of those niches the beneficial
bacteria have to fight quite a battle. In fact probably the only time in our
lives we have to populate our gut with beneficial bacteria is at birth, when
the gut is sterile. Unfortunately most supplemental probiotics do not settle
or colonise on the gut wall. They do their work in the lumen of the gut and
then come out of the system. We have not yet found a way to replace the
pathogens on the gut wall with beneficial bacteria. So, patients with GAP
syndrome need to carry on taking probiotic indefinitely. To maintain the
probiotic you do not have to carry on taking commercial preparations. You
can supplement your diet with fermented foods in the form or home-made
yoghurt, keffir, sauerkraut and other home-made fermented foods.
One of the concerns about probiotic bacteria is that many of them do
not survive the stomach acid. Patients with GAP Syndrome usually have
low stomach acidity, so this is not a big problem for them. But to make sure
that your probiotic survives the stomach acid the general rule is to take it
with food or after food, whenmost stomach acidis bound to foodparticles.
Some manufacturers put an enteric coating on their probiotic capsules to
protect them from stomach acid. I do not support this practice for two rea
sons. First, the stomach needs probiotic bacteria just as much as any other
part of your..digestive system. In a stomach with low acidity all sorts of
pathogens grow on the stomach walls. We need probiotics to deal with
these pathogens. Second, patients with digestive abnormalities are often
not able to break down the enteric coating on capsules. These capsules go
in and out almost unchanged without doing any good.
Perhaps not all bacterial species in your probiotic will survive the
stomach acid. But, an important point to make here is that even dead the
probiotic bacteria will do a lot of good in your gut. Their cell walls contain
substances to stimulate immune response and they will also absorb toxins
removing them from the body. A lot of food manufacturers have picked up
on this fact and are planning to start adding dead probiotic bacteria into
various foods.
In conclusion, probiotic supplementation is absolutely vital for treating
any of the GAPS conditions. Even in those cases, where the patient does
not present with severe digestive problems I find that with the use of diet
and probiotics a considerable improvement can be achieved. 2. FATS:
THE GOOD AND THE BAD
The human brain is about 60% fat (dry weight). Eveiy membrane of every
cell and every organelle inside of cells are made of fats. Many hormones,
neurotransmitters and other active substances in the body are made of
fats. Fats are extremely important in our diet. The question is - what fats?
There has been a great deal of conflicting information and misinforma
tion about fats. In our modern society fats have been pronounced as evil and
the food industry has sprung up to produce an abundance of low-fat and no-
fat products. Saturated animal fats, including those in meat, butter and eggs
have been blamed for all sorts of ills, so the industry, again, has been quick to
provide us with synthetic substitutes, butter replacements and spreads.
People heard that vegetable oils are better for you, so a variety of different
vegetable oils have become the cooking oils instead of traditionally used
lard, goose fat and pork dripping. What the public does not know is how all
these processed oils and fats are made and what exactly they contain.
Hydrogenation and trans-fats
Margarines, butter replacements, "spreadable" vegetable oils, shortenings
and many other artificial fats are hydrogenated to increase their shelf-life
and to make them the right consistency. You can find hydrogenated oils in
most processed foods: chocolates, ice-cream, biscuits, cakes, breads and
pastries, pre-prepared meals, crisps, snacks, etc. Hydrogenation is a pro
cess of adding hydrogen molecules to the chemical structure of oils under
high pressure at a very high temperature (i2O-2io 0C or 248-4ioo°F) in the
presence of nickel, aluminium and sometimes other heavy metals.
Remnants of these metals stay in the hydrogenated oils. Nickel and alu
minium are both heavy metals, adding to the general toxic load which the
body has to work hard to get rid of. Heavy metals, particularly aluminium,
have been linked to many degenerative conditions, including Alzheimer's
disease and dementia. But that is not the main problem with hydrogenated fats. Hydrogenation
changes the chemical structure of the natural oils producing a whole host
of very harmful fats. Many of these changed fats have not even been
studied yet and we don't know what havoc they can wreck in the body. But
a group, called trans-fats, have received a great deal of attention. These are
unsaturated fatty acid, very beneficial for us in a natural state, whose
chemical structure has been changed through processing. Trans-fatty
acids are very similar in their structure to their natural counterparts, but
they are somewhat "back to front". Because of their similarity they occupy
the place of essential fats in the body while being unable to do their job
making cells in a way disabled. All organs and tissues in the body get
affected. For example, trans-fats have great immune-suppressing ability
playing a detrimental role in many different functions of the immune
system. They have been implicated in diabetes, atherosclerosis, cancer,
neurological and psychiatric conditions. They interfere with pregnancy
and conception, normal production of hormones, the ability of insulin to
respond to glucose, the ability of enzymes and other active substances to
do their jobs and have damaging effects on liver and kidneys. A breast
feeding mother would have trans-fats in her milk fairly quickly after ingest
ing a helping of a "healthy" butter replacement. A baby's brain has a very
high percent of unsaturated fatty acids; trans-fats would replace them and
interfere with the brain development. It is estimated that an average intake
of trans-fatty acids in the western diet is 9-12 g a day, twice as much as our
consumption of the rest of unnatural substances in foods. Given their abil
ity to impair bodilyfunctions on the most basic biochemical levels, there is
no doubt that their role in our modern epidemics of degenerative disease
is


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1 large onion, diced
1/2 small celery knob, diced
2 stalks celery, diced
2 large potatoes, diced
1 leek, diced
parsley
2 quarts water
Dice all vegetables. Place vegetables, parsley, and water in covered saucepan and bring to boil.
Lower heat and cover. Simmer 1-1/2 to 2 hours. Mash through food mill.
Sweet and Sour Cabbage Soup
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Serves 2-4
2 medium onions, sliced
1 medium white (or green) cabbage, cut into thin strips
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 medium tomatoes, chopped
1 tbsp. sugar
juice of 1 large lemon
3 oz. raisins
1 qt. water
Slice the onion and sweat gently in a little water for a few minutes until softening. Cut the
cabbage into thin strips and add to onion, mixing well. Add crushed garlic. Chop the tomatoes
and add together with the sugar, lemon juice, raisins and water. Bring to a boil and simmer until
the cabbage is al dente  (about 10 minutes ). Serve this hearty soup as a main dish with bread
followed by fruit for dessert.
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Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Serves 2-4
1 lb. tomatoes, chopped
1 carrot, chopped
1 stick celery, chopped
1 onion, chopped
1 red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
little orange juice
yogurt
Chop tomatoes, carrot, celery and onion. Seed pepper and chop. Put all into a lar ge pot and
cover with water. Bring to a boil, turn down the heat and simmer until vegetables are tender.
Purée. Add the orange juice. Reheat gently. Add a swirl of yogurt before serving.
Tomato Soup with Potato and Onion
2 large tomatoes, diced
1 medium onion, diced
2 medium potatoes, diced
1 tsp. wine vinegar
small bay leaf
Dice all vegetables. Place all ingredients in covered saucepan, cover with water and cook over
low flame for 35-40 minutes. Mash through food mill and serve hot.
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Baked Pepper and Tomato Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves 2-4
3 red bell p eppers
6 large tomatoes
1 medium red onion, finely sliced
3 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
juice of 1 large lemon
3 tbsp. fresh, chopped mint
flaxseed oil
Cook the peppers and tomatoes whole until somewhat cooked but still fi rm. Skin the peppers
and tomatoes, chop roughly and place in a serving dish.  Finely slice the onion and very thinly
slice the garlic.  Add to the mixture in the dish.  Add the lemon and mint. Mix well.  Sprinkle with
a little flaxseed  oil.
Baked Potato and Parsnip Rosti*
* Rosti means “broiled” or “roasted” (i.e., top-browned)
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 1-1/4 hour
Serves 2
8 oz. parsnips, cored, peeled and coarsely grated
8 oz. potatoes, peeled and coarsely grated
1 onion, finely chopped
2 tbsp. fresh chives, finely chopped
herbs
3-1/2 oz. yogurt
a little grated horseradish (optional)
Core the parsnips, and peel and c oarsely grate the potatoes and parsnips into a large bowl.  Add
finely chopped onion, chives, herbs and yogurt.  Mix until well combined. Put the vegetable
mixture into a shallow dish and cover.  Bake for 1 hour at 375°  F (190° C). Remove the lid and
bake a little longer until it begins to brown  and the top is crispy. Serve with a crisp salad or a
vegetable (or both).
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Baked potatoes should be thoroughly washed, not scraped or peeled. Bake in a low oven at 300°
F (149 ° C) for 2 or 2-1/2 hours or, alternatively, bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour at 350 ° F (177°
C).
Baked Potato with Beet
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 1-1/2 hours
1 baking potato
1 onion, sliced
cooked beet, diced
yogurt
dill
Bake the potato in its skin.  Slice the onion and cook gently until beginning to soften.  Dice the
beet, add to the onion and warm through.  When the potato is cooked, split it open and spoon in
the beet mixture.  Top with dollops of yogurt and sprinkle with dill.  Serve with a green salad.
Baked Potato with Beet and Onion
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
1 baking potato
1 large onion, peeled
beet, diced and cooked
yogurt
dill
1 tsp. flaxseed  oil (optional)
Scrub the potato and place whole into a casserole dish with a lar ge, peeled onion.  Add a little
water and bake until both are cooked.  Chop the cooked onion and put into a saucepan with the
diced, cooked beet. Heat through.  Split open the potato and fill with the onion and beet mixture.
Mix together the yogurt, dill and flaxseed  oil (if using the flaxseed  oil, wait until the potato is no
longer steaming) and drizzle over the top.  Serve with a green salad.
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Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Serves 2
1 lb. tomatoes, sliced
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 medium onion, chopped
bread crumbs (or a handful of rolled oats)
dill
flaxseed oil
Slice the tomatoes and put into a baking dish.  Crush the garlic, chop the onion and sprinkle over
the tomatoes.  Cover with bread crumbs  (or rolled oats) and bake for about 20 minutes at 325° F
(170° C). Just before serving, sprinkle with dill and flaxseed oil.
Beets
Bake at 300-350 ° F (149-177 ° C) or boil beets in their jackets.
Beets, Cooked and Creamed
3 beets, cooked and chopped
6 tbsp. yogurt
1 tbsp. fresh chives, snipped
2 tbsp. onion, finely chopped
parsley, finely chopped
Put cooked, chopped beets into a saucepan with the yogurt, chives and onion and heat gently.
Put into serving dish and sprinkle with chopped parsley.
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Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 1 to 1-1/2 hours
Serves 2-4
6 beets
yogurt
2 tsp. horseradish
chives
Cook the beets until tender.  Remove the skin and cut into quarters.  Combine the yogurt and
horseradish and pour over the beets.  Garnish with chopped chives and erve immediately.
Bessarabian Nightmare
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 40 minutes
Serves 2
tomatoes, skinned and sliced
onions, sliced
red (or green) bell pepper, seeded and sliced
garlic, crushed
herbs
flaxseed oil
Skin the tomatoes.  Slice the tomatoes, onions and peppers.  Arrange in layers in an oven-proof
dish.  Sprinkle with crushed garlic and herbs.  Cook slowly, then chill and serve cold, adding a
little flaxseed oil before serving. A strange name for a delicious dish!
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becomes
extremely
strong
and
intelligent,
after
eight
one
shines
like
gold,
etc.
Even
in
today's
India,
many
adepts
of
gurus
or
teachers
of
the
East
regularly
drink
urine.
At
the
same
time,
they
walk
almost
naked
and
are
never
sick.
According
to
them,
urine
is
more
nutritious
than
milk.
One
of
the
conquerors
of
Mount
Everest,
Morris
Wilson,
attributed
his
extraordinary
health
and
strength
mainly
to
fasting
associated
with
drinking
urine
and
massaging
his
entire
body
with
his
own
urine.
He
took
these
methods
from
Tibetan
lamas
and
Indian
yogis.
Records
from
the
tsarist
archives
testify
to
the
extraordinary
effects
of
the
combination
of
starvation
and
urinotherapy,
where
it
is
written
about
settlements
in
Siberia,
when
people
ate
practically
nothing,
only
drank
their
own
urine.
They
were
never
sick
and
had
a
healthy
skin
color.
I
too,
after
several
years
of
applying
cleansing
peels
and
urine
therapy,
switched
to
only
one
meal
a
day,
like
in
Babylon
or
ancient
Greece.
My
organism
is
clean
and
therefore
energy
can
flow
freely,
urine
therapy
exceptionally
increases
not
only
my
energy,
but
also
my
defenses,
and
it
also
suppresses
my
appetite.
Only
in
the
morning
I
prepare
a
vitamin
bomb
every
day
from
papaya,
oranges,
raisins,
carrots,
apples,
etc.
I
drink
half
a
liter
of
juice
in
the
morning
and
half
in
the
evening.
Otherwise,
I
usually
treat
myself
to
a
bottle
of
wine
or
a
few
glasses
of
cognac
in
the
evening,
when
with
the
help
of
urine
therapy
I
can
easily
suppress
the
feeling
of
hunger.
Once
a
week,
at
a
social
party,
I
enjoy
a
moderate
amount
of
some
goodies,
e.g.
fish,
crabs,
shrimps,
or
a
piece
of
chicken.
Yemeni
vegetable
specialties
are
also
excellent.
The
next
day,
however,
I
will
do
a
thorough
cleansing
of
the
entire
body.
In
two
months
in
Yemen,
I
lost
6
kilograms,which
is
a
clear
proof
that
urine
therapy
has
a
great
effect
on
weight
loss
and
is
essentially
irreplaceable.
So
if
I've
convinced
you
just
a
little
with
my
introduction,
read
on.
Although
many
will
oppose
your
feelings
and
established
prejudices,
I
believe
that
at
the
end
of
the
book
you
will
agree
with
me,
and
many
of
you
will
at
least
try
urine
therapy,
this
miraculous
treatment
that
is
coming
back
to
us
from
the
depths
of
the
millennium.
How
is
urine
produced?
Urine,
or
urine,
is
a
liquid
product
of
the
excretion
of
a
living
organism,
which
is
formed
in
the
kidneys
and
exits
through
the
urinary
tract
system.
In
24
hours,
a
person
produces
800-1800
milliliters
of
urine,
which
is
on
average
50-80
percent
of
the
fluids
taken.
Normally,
more
urine
is
excreted
during
the
day
than
at
night,
on
average
in
a
ratio
of
4:1.
The
functional
unit
of
the
kidney
that
produces
urine
is
the
nephron.
The
number
of
nephrons
in
both
kidneys
reaches
two
million.
The
total
surface
of
the
inner
layer
of
nephrons,
through
which
urine
is
filtered,
is
5
to
8
square
meters,
which
is
two
to
three
times
the
surface
of
the
body.
In
the
nephrons,
urine
is
formed
as
a
result
of
four
processes:
filtration,
reabsorption,
secretion
and
osmotic
concentration.
F
i
l
t
r
a
c
e
-
takes
place
in
the
initial
part
of
the
nephron,
where
the
blood
flows
under
a
much
higher
pressure
than
in
all
other
capillaries.
This
is
explained
by
the
fact
that
the
inlet
arteriole
is
approximately
30
percent
larger
in
diameter
than
the
outlet
arteriole.
This
excess
pressure
allows
the
glomerulus
to
filter
out
hemoglobin
and
blood
proteins,
or
blood
colloids.
So
primal
urine
enters,
which
contains
the
same
substances
as
blood
plasma.
Sugar,
salts,
urea,
amino
acids
and
everything
that
is
normally
contained
in
the
blood
or
is
artificially
introduced
into
it
are
found
in
the
same
concentration
in
the
original
urine.
R
e
a
b
s
o
r
b
c
e
-
begins
in
the
renal
canal
after
the
exit
of
primary
urine
from
the
glomerulus.
The
canal
is
washed
with
blood,
which,
due
to
saturation
with
hemoglobin
and
proteins,
significantly
changes
its
osmotic
pressure.
The
result
is
a
pressure
difference
between
the
blood
washing
the
canal
and
the
original
urine
inside
it.
Thanks
to
this,
the
diffusion
of
water
from
the
area
of
  lower
osmotic
pressure
to
the
area
of
  higher
pressure
begins
through
the
epithelium
(lining)
of
the
canal,
which
functions
as
a
semi-permeable
membrane.
Together
with
water,
a
number
of
substances
that
were
originally
dissolved
in
the
blood
are
absorbed
into
the
blood.
This
is
how
passive
reabsorption
takes
place.
In
addition
to
it,
there
is
an
active
transfer
of
substances
needed
by
the
organism
from
primary
urine
to
the
blood.
This
process
requires
a
lot
of
energy
and
therefore
kidney
tissue
consumes
more
energy
than
heart
tissue
.
Sodium
chloride,
or
table
salt,
under goes
the
greatest
reabsorption.
In
24
hours,
the
renal
tubules
reabsorb
about
1,200
grams
of
sodium
chloride
from
the
original
urine.
Therefore,
for
example,
reducing
salt
intake
lowers
blood
pressure.
S
e
k
r
e
c
e
-
it
is
carried
out
by
the
cells
of
the
kidney
channels
through
the
active
selective
transfer
of
substances
useful
for
the
organism
(amino
acids,
vitamins,
phosphates,
glucose)
from
primary
urine
back
to
the
blood
and


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“Urine Charge” decal<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Table	of	Contents

Title	Page
Dedication
Introduction
CHAPTER	1	-	Gallstones	in	the	Liver:	A	Major	Health	Risk
The	Importance	of	Bile
Disorders	of	the	Digestive	System
Disorders	of	the	Circulatory	System
Disorders	of	the	Respiratory	System
Disorders	of	the	Urinary	System
Disorders	of	the	Nervous	System
Disorders	of	the	Bone
Disorders	of	the	Joints
Disorders	of	the	Reproductive	System
Disorders	of	the	Skin
CHAPTER	2	-	How	Can	I	Tell	If	I	Have	Gallstones	?
Signs	and	Marks
CHAPTER	3	-	The	Most	Common	Causes	of	Gallstones
Dietary
Pharmacological	Drugs
Lifestyle
Miscellaneous	Causes
CHAPTER	4	-	The	Liver	and	Gallbladder	Cleanse
Preparation
The	Actual	Cleanse
The	Results	You	Can	ExpectHaving	Difficulties	with	the	Cleanse?
CHAPTER	5	-	Simple	Guidelines	to	Avoid	Gallstones
CHAPTER	6	-	What	Can	I	Expect	from	the	Liver	and	Gallbladder	Cleanse?
A	Disease-Free	Life
Improved	Digestion,	Energy,	and	Vitality
Freedom	From	Pain
A	More	Flexible	Body
Reversal	of	the	Aging	Process
Inner	and	Outer	Beauty
Improved	Emotional	Health
A	Clearer	Mind	and	Improved	Creativity
CHAPTER	7	-	What	People	Say	About	the	Liver	Cleanse
CHAPTER	8	-	Frequently	Asked	Questions
Afterword
Appendix
Notes
Further	Reading
Index
About	the	Author
Copyright	PageTo	all	those	who	dare	take	responsibility	for	their	own	health	and	who	care	about	the
health	and	well-being	of	their	fellow	human	beings.	And	especially	to	all	those	health
practitioners	who	have	given	this	liver	cleanse	procedure	to	their	patients	so	they	can
achieve	a	high	degree	of	physical	and	mental	wellness

Introduction

Many	people	believe	that	gallstones	can	be	found	only	in	the	gallbladder.	This	is	a
commonly	made	yet	false	assumption.	Most	gallstones	are	actually	formed	in	the	liver,
and	comparatively	few	occur	in	the	gallbladder.	You	can	easily	verify	this	assessment	by
giving	yourself	a	liver	cleanse.	It	matters	little	whether	you	are	a	layperson,	a	medical
doctor,	a	scientist,	or	someone	whose	gallbladder	was	removed	and,	therefore,	is	believed
to	be	stone-free.	The	results	of	the	liver	cleanse
1
	speak	for	themselves.	No	amount	of
scientific	proof	or	medical	explanation	can	make	such	a	cleanse	any	more	valuable	than	it
already	is.	Once	you	see	hundreds	of	green,	beige-colored,	brown,	or	black	gallstones
floating	in	the	toilet	bowl	during	your	first	liver	cleanse,	you	will	intuitively	know	that
you	are	on	to	something	extremely	important	in	your	life.	To	satisfy	your	possibly	curious
mind,	you	may	decide	to	take	the	expelled	stones	to	a	laboratory	for	chemical	analysis	or
ask	your	doctor	what	she	thinks	about	all	that.	Your	doctor	may	either	support	you	in	your
initiative	to	heal	yourself,	tell	you	this	is	just	ridiculous,	or	warn	you	against	it.	However,
what	is	most	significant	in	this	experience	is	that	you	have	taken	active	responsibility	for
your	own	health,	perhaps	for	the	first	time	in	your	life.

Not	everyone	is	as	fortunate	as	you	are.	An	estimated	20	percent	of	the	world’s
population	will	develop	gallstones	in	their
gallbladder
	at	some	stage	in	their	lives;	many
of	them	will	opt	for	surgical	removal	of	this	important	organ.	This	statistical	figure	does
not	account,	though,	for	the	many	more	people	who	will	develop	gallstones	(or	already
have	them)	in	their
liver
.	During	some	thirty	years	of	practicing	natural	medicine	and
dealing	with	thousands	of	people	suffering	from	all	types	of	chronic	diseases,	I	can	attest
to	the	fact	that	each	one	of	them,	without	exception,	has	had	considerable	quantities	of
gallstones	in	his	or	her	liver.	Surprisingly,	only	relatively	few	of	them	reported	to	have	had
a	history	of	gallstones	in	their	gallbladder.	Gallstones	in	the	liver	are,	as	you	will
understand	from	reading	this	book,	the	main	impediment	to	acquiring	and	maintaining
good	health,	youthfulness,	and	vitality.	Gallstones	in	the	liver	are,	indeed,	one	of	the	major
reasons	people	become	ill	and	have	difficulty	recuperating	from	illness.

The	failure	to	recognize	and	accept	the	incidence	of	gallstone	formation	in	the	liver	as
an	extremely	common	phenomenon	may	very	well	be	the	most	unfortunate	oversight	that
has	ever	been	made	in	the	field	of	medicine,	both	orthodox	and	complementary.

Relying	so	heavily	on	blood	tests	for	diagnostic	purposes,	as	conventional	medicine
does,	may	actually	be	a	great	disadvantage	with	regard	to	assessing	liver	health.	Most
people	who	have	a	physical	complaint	of	one	kind	or	another	may	have	perfectly


, so that the sole of the right
foot is on the ﬂoor to the outside of the left sit bone. Roll the left
thigh open toward the left and place the left foot to the outside of
the right sit bone. Root down evenly through both sit bones. Hug
the right knee with the left arm. As you inhale, reach the right arm
toward the ceiling. On the exhale, lower the arm down behind you,
resting the ﬁngertips on the ﬂoor behind you. Lengthen your spine
as you inhale, and rotate around the axis of your spine as you
exhale, keeping your chest lifted and the shoulder blades moving
in toward one another and down the back. Allow the crown of the
head to lengthen toward the ceiling as you root down evenly into
both sit bones.
Benefits:  Physically, this pose strengthens the obliques, the
abdominal muscles, and the back. It stretches the external rotators
of the hips and the shoulder girdle. The pose aids in digestion by
massaging the internal organs and, like a sponge, gently
compresses and plumps up the intervertebral discs, leading to a
longer, healthier spine.
Energetically, this pose stimulates the third chakra, which
strengthens and promotes transformation. It stimulates the agni,
the digestive ﬁre of conversion that helps us metabolize our food
and process our thoughts and feelings. This pose can also help
release stagnant energy by rinsing out blood from the organs and
bringing in fresh blood and renewed energy.
Engage mula, uddiyana, and jalandhara bandha. Stimulates
samana vayu.Therapeutic applications:  Alleviates constipation, sluggish
digestion, asthma, sciatica, scoliosis, and lower backache.
Helpful tip: If your hips are tight and your spine is rounded,
either sit on a blanket or keep the lower leg extended straight out
to get more length in the spine.
OceanofPDF.comRECLINED TWIST POSE: JATHARA PARIVARTANASANA
Overview:  This calming and therapeutic pose is excellent for
regulating the nervous system, relieving lower back pain, and
learning the art of surrender. Once you come into the shape of the
pose, let the pose do the work for you.
How-to:  From Constructive Rest pose (see this page), walk the
feet in so that they come directly underneath your knees. Take your
arms wide in a “T” shape and align your wrists with your shoulders.
Inhale and lift your hips, shift them over to the right a couple of
inches, and lower them back down. Lift your feet off the ﬂoor and
drop them over to the left so that you make a right angle with your
hips, knees, and ankles. Take hold of the top right thigh with your
left hand to keep the legs stacked and either keep your gaze
toward the ceiling or over your right arm.
Benefits:  Physically, this pose stretches the outer hips, the
illiotibial (IT) band, the hamstrings, the lower back, the chest, andthe shoulders. It aids in the digestive process by massaging the
digestive organs.
Energetically, Reclined Twist pose works on the third chakra to
help stoke the digestive ﬁre. A relatively passive pose, it connects
us to our more lunar, feminine energy.
Engage slight jalandhara bandha. Stimulates samana vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  Relieves scoliosis, lower back pain,
fatigue, and constipation, and eases the pain of osteoporosis.
Helpful tips: Place a blanket in between the knees if your hips
are tight. Place a blanket underneath the extended arm if your
shoulders are tight. For a deeper stretch in the hamstrings and
outer hips, keep the legs straight.
OceanofPDF.comSEATED HIP OPENERS
This category of poses stimulates the second chakra,
which is governed by the element of water. Water gives
rise to taste, feeling, creativity, sensuality, and sexuality.
Because the hips are the energetic storehouse of our
unprocessed emotions, deep hip openers can release
suppressed feelings when we hold them for an extended
period of time. By freeing up this region of the body, we
allow ourselves to experience our feelings more fully,
which helps us to show up more wholly.
OceanofPDF.comRECLINED PIGEON POSE: SUPTA KAPOTASANA
Overview:  This profound stretch releases our hips and lower
back, leading to greater overall ease and mobility. By locating our
awareness on one single point of sensation, we enter the stage of
dharana, relaxed concentration.
How-to:  From Constructive Rest pose (see this page), cross your
right ankle on top of your left thigh. Flex the right foot to engage
the muscles around the knee joint. Interlace your ﬁngers behind
the left thigh and lift the left foot off the ﬂoor, gently drawing your
left thigh closer toward you as you consciously move your right
thigh away from your body. Stay here and breathe, resting your
awareness in the area where you feel sensation in the body.
Benefits:  Physically, Supta Kapotasana stretches the hamstrings,
the outer hips, and the piriformis muscle.
Energetically, this pose calms the nervous system and relaxes
the mind. It stimulates the second chakra, freeing up unprocessedemotions, which prompts creativity, sensuality, and sexuality.
Engage slight jalandhara bandha. Stimulates apana and vyana
vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  Relieves lower back pain and sciatica;
suitable for pregnant practitioners in their ﬁrst and second
trimesters.
Helpful tips: If you cannot reach the back of the leg with the
hands, use a strap, or lower the foot to the ﬂoor or rest it against a
chair.
OceanofPDF.comBOUND ANGULAR POSE: BADDHA KONASANA
Overview:  This pose, often referred to as “Cobbler’s pose,” is
commonly assumed by the shoemakers and other artisans of India.
Because the Western population is used to sitting in chairs, ﬁnding
comfort in Bound Angular pose may be challenging. In addition to
providing a deep stretch in the hips, it teaches us how to ﬁnd grace
in awkward and uncomfortable situations.
How-to:  From Staff pose (see this page), bring the soles of your
feet together and spread your knees wide apart. Adjust the ﬂesh of
your buttocks so that you are sitting on your sit bones and not on
your tailbone. Inhale and lengthen your spine. As you exhale,
begin to hinge forward at your hips, keeping your spine long and
your shoulders away from your ears. Continue to breathe your way
into the pose: Inhale, lengthen; exhale, deepen.Benefits:  Physically, this pose stretches the knees, the inner
thighs, the outer hips, the lower back.
Through the lengthening of the inhale and the deepening of
the exhale, we learn how to be guided by the breath and not the
ego. Energetically, Bound Angular pose teaches the qualities of
deep reﬂection and contemplation. This pose stimulates the
second chakra, cultivating the qualities of ﬂuidity, ﬂexibility,
sexuality, and sensuality.
Engage mula bandha, uddiyana bandha, and jalandhara
bandha. Engage ashvini mudra. Stimulates apana and vyana vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  This pose soothes menstrual
discomfort and sciatica. It relieves lower back pain and symptoms
of menopause, stimulates the reproductive organs, and increases
sexual energy.
Helpful tips:  If your hips or lower back are tight, place a blanket
underneath your sit bones. If you have any knee sensitivity, place a
block underneath each knee.
OceanofPDF.comEASY SEAT: SUKHASANA
Overview:  Easy Seat is most often used for meditation and
contemplation. The Sanskrit word sukha is translated as
“sweetness” or “ease.” Although this pose may not be inherently
easy for all bodies, it is in our approach to the posture that the
most signiﬁcant beneﬁts are reaped. Easy Seat reminds us that the
path to joy is joy itself.
How-to:  From Staff pose (see this page), rotate your right thigh
open and place your right foot in toward your groin. Rotate your
left thigh open and put your left foot in front of the right foot,
sitting in a cross-legged position. Adjust the ﬂesh of your buttocks
so that you are sitting on your sit bones and not your tailbone. Now
allow the torso to naturally lengthen away from the pelvis, using
the abdominal muscles to support the lower back and the muscles
along the spine to support the upper back. Relax the tops of theshoulders and feel the head and neck naturally ﬂoating atop the
spine. Rest your hands on your knees and relax your facial muscles.
Benefits:  Physically, Easy Seat stretches the hips and the knees,
strengthens the muscles along the spine, tones the abdominal
muscles, and supports


 body's needs.

FOOD AS SEX
The instinct of eating is so basic, so much more frequent and urgent than the instinct of reproduction (sex), that the
sensual enjoyment of food easily replaces t he urge for sex.
This probably explains why bingeing in eating so frequently replaces the frustration of loneliness, when
companionship of the opposite sex is lacking.

FOOD AS DRUG
It is a known fact that stuffing oneself with food causes most of the bloo d to leave the brain and enter the stomach
area to digest the food. This dulls and drugs the mind and effectively shuts off the thinking process, acts as an
emotional anesthesia, effectively allowing us to escape from thoughts and feelings of inferiority, sorrow, loneliness,
regret, boredom, guilt pressure, fear, low self -esteem, self -hatred, etc.
Unfortunately, using food as an escape mechanism from emotional problems only drives the problems in the
unconscious mind temporarily.
Suppressing these problems causes them to burst forth into the consciousness with increased force, demanding
attention from the conscious mind until they are properly dealt with.
They can be released and eliminated by facing them squarely with full attention and being willing to fee l them totally
without attempting to escape the pain involved. Often within minutes, they begin to weaken and dissipate in intensity.
Persistence, courage and repetition lead to success and freedom.

HOW TO ENHANCE THE ENJOYMENT
To return to our main topic. ----
Now, since the sensual enjoyment of food is the key factor that Nature uses in enticing all living creatures to seek
food for its bodily needs, it is important that we direct our attention to methods of enhancing our enjoyment of food to
its highest  peak. Let us take a look at some of the psychological implications connected to eating.
To begin with, we should eat only when hungry. This insures our maximum enjoyment and relish of the food. We
should first enjoy the sight and aroma of the food and feel gratitude. Then, as we put the food in our mouth, it is good
to close our eyes to help us concentrate our attention - on the taste of the food and to shut out all distractions.
Be total in eating with no other thinking. Do not read while eating, or li sten to TV or converse with anyone. To do so
will withdraw most of your attention from the sensual enjoyment of the food. The attention is drawn to the emotions if
you are watching TV, - to the intellect, memory and reason if you are talking or reading. Wh en eating you should be
totally immersed - - - - in the taste of the food. Nothing else should exist for you at this moment but the taste and
enjoyment of the food.
It should be chewed thoroughly, till every last bit of taste is extracted before being swal lowed in a liquefied form.
SATISFIED WITH 50% LESS
I repeat --
Nothing else should exist for you at this moment but for you to be totally lost and dissolved in - the taste of the food.
You will be so thoroughly satisfied with a much smaller amount of food that you will be content to stop eating long
before you feel any distension in the stomach. When I began to eat with total attention, I stopped totally satisfied with
50 to 40 % less than the amount I used to eat before, and with much greater, contentment.
If you eat unconsciously, without awareness, you will invariably eat too much because you don't know what you're
doing. You stopped only when your stomach felt distended, or even bloated.
Now, eating with attention, you hardly even feel your stomach. It b ecomes difficult to overeat, because your sense of
taste is so satisfied that you are almost impelled to stop long before in comparison to your earlier eating habits.
Remember, the rule is: if you don't enjoy your food, you will have to eat more to compens ate. If you enjoy your food
you will eat less, there will be no need to compensate. Trust your body, because it has a wisdom of its own and will
tell you through your sense of taste when to stop eating. Some days you will need more food and other days less.

CONTENTMENT AND BLISS

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You are able to leave the table feeling such profound contentment and bliss that it carries over into your emotions for
hours after eating. You will find your disposition to be one of great contentment, peace and kindness when talking to
others. You will find yourself happy for almost no special reason you can think of. You will not find yourself impelled or
driven into social relationships du e to a feeling of emptiness, because your intense sensual enjoyment of your food
has brought you into a state of utter tranquility.
Since you have not overeaten, you do not feel sleepy and your mind feels fresh and capable of thought and work, if
necessary. Your sleep is more restful, dreams are more pleasant, Your personality will change drastically.
Since you are in a state of utter contentment, you will radiate your feelings outwardly in expressions of kindness and
love - rather than in impatience, irrit ability, sarcasm as previously, before you changed your eating habits.

NO EXAGGERATION
I am sure that the reader at this moment feels that all this is pure exaggeration. It doesn't seem possible that such a
simple act could lead to such a revolutionary ch ange in all your feelings and behavior. Yet, I must insist that not only is
there no exaggeration, but rather, I am trying to hold back and understate my expressions of the wonderful and
profound effects of this very simple practice.
It is a fact that the less you eat, the longer you live, the slower you age, and the more energy is available for physical
and mental work. The body has more energy left for detoxication and rejuvenation. By eating with attention, you will
be satisfied with very much less, 40 t o 60% of before, and you will digest and assimilate more from less food.
The amount of energy you will save by eating and digesting less will be enormous. Within a few weeks you will see
more youthful changes in your appearance. Your mind and feelings will  soar with inspiration which will carry over into
all your thoughts and activities.

IMPOSSIBLE TO GLUTTONIZE
It may seem logical to many people that eating while watching TV or having pleasant conversation actually enhances
the meal, makes it more pleasan t and enjoyable - but the exact opposite is true.
You will need almost double the amount of food before you stop eating - due to the division of attention causing a
great loss of eating and tasting.
I have found in endless experiments with myself that it i s almost impossible for me to gluttonize when I eat with total
attention to the taste of the food. I would literally have to force myself to eat more than 60% of what I usually eat when
not paying attention
The small amount of pleasure gained by the distra ction is miniscule compared to the tremendous loss of taste
satisfaction and ecstasy as compared to eating with full attention.

A SIMPLE WAY TO BEGIN
The conditioned addiction caused by almost a lifetime of combining eating with reading, talking, or watch ing TV is
very pernicious and may be very difficult to break, even though fully attentive eating is the usual, the most natural way
of eating for all living creatures.
A simple way to begin, is to try 1 meal a day for 5 days without distractions. When it becomes easier, try 2 meals and
continue it until it becomes easy and enjoyable.
Then you can add the final meal. (And snacks if desired).

BREAKING FREE FROM COMPULSIVE EATING
Geneen Roth in her book, "Breaking Free From Compulsive Eating" (a Signet Book)  advocates eating anything you
desire, whenever you like, even junk food with one condition - that you eat it slowly, chew it thoroughly, and eat it with
total attention and without distraction. The result is that you are quickly satisfied with a small amo unt before you stop
eating.
She claims that since she was free to eat anything at will, but with attention, the thoughts of food gradually began to
vanish, leaving her free for a much more active social life and relationships. The previous suppression of h er
appetites had led to obsession with food.
FOOD ADDICTION
I have one patient, a woman who was addicted to food all her life, with bulimia, who vomited up her food after every
meal. She swears that for 2 years now, since eating with attention, and since n othing is forbidden, she has stopped
thinking of food, except when hungry and then she is satisfied with a small amount of food.
For those who feel they cannot give up junk food or diet at all, they can begin with this approach provided that they eat
with total attention. Then when ease and comfort is gained with attentive eating, they can begin to upgrade the quality
of their food, combine foods properly, etc.

THE BOOK OF SECRETS
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in vol. 3 of "The Book of Secrets", containing Discou rses on Vigyana Bhairava Tantra on
the ancient scripture on Tantra by Lord Shiva (in 5 vols. ) which contain all of 112 meditation techniques known, has
this to say on p.19:

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	they	have	nothing	to
do	with	the	essence	of	health	and	disease.	Disease	ensues	when	cells
malfunction.	The	symptoms	may	vary,	the	solution	is	always	the	same:
Normalize	cell	function	through	the	six	pathways.
Perception	is	everything.	Perceived	symptoms	become	the	“problem”	that
medicine	seeks	to	stop.	For	example,	if	the	perceived	problem	is	high	blood
pressure,	medicine	aims	to	lower	pressure	with	a	variety	of	toxic	drugs.	If	the
perceived	problem	is	a	germ,	medicine	aims	to	kill	the	germ	with	toxic
antibiotics.	Meanwhile,	both	of	these	problems	are	merely	symptoms	of
malfunctioning	cells.	Using	drugs	to	lower	the	blood	pressure,	therefore,	does
not	solve	the	problem	that	is	causing	the	elevated	pressure.	And	likewise	with
drugs	used	to	kill	germs.	Germs	can	contribute	to	cellular	malfunction,	but
germs	are	present	constantly	and	everywhere	in	our	environment.	Killing	the
germs	that	are	causing	an	infection	does	not	make	the	person	healthy,	nor	does	it
make	the	person	more	resistant	to	subsequent	infections.	In	fact,	they	become
less	resistant	because	the	drugs	that	kill	the	germs	also	damage	and	weaken	thebody.
When	one	has	an	infection,	masking	the	symptoms	of	the	sickness	(fever,	etc.)
serves	little	purpose	other	than	making	the	sick	person	more	comfortable.	For
example,	treating	fever	with	over-the-counter	drugs	is	a	common	practice.	Yet,
fever	is	natural	and	beneficial;	there	is	no	reason	to	use	drugs	for	this	purpose,
especially	because	the	drugs	inflict	harm.
By	focusing	on	symptoms	and	taking	drugs,	we	do	not	cure	disease;	we
merely	invent	ways	to	allow	sick	people	to	continue	living	their	lives	more
comfortably.	Short-term	relief	has	its	place	but	is	not	a	long-term	solution.	For
example,	angioplasty	may	prevent	the	immediate	death	of	a	patient	by	increasing
blood	flow	to	the	heart;	however,	only	by	eliminating	deficiency	and	toxicity	can
the	heart	disease	be	reversed,	and	this	will	not	happen	under	the	guidance	of	a
conventional	physician.
More	Than	a	Sum	of	Our	Parts
Modern	medicine,	pumped	up	with	huge	amounts	of	talent	and	money,	is	a
strange	dichotomy—technologically	advanced	and	cutting-edge,	yet	obsolete
and	ineffective.	Medicine	does	a	superb	job	managing	medical	emergencies	and
disease	symptoms,	but	is	woefully	incapable	of	curing	disease	or	promoting	a
lifetime	of	wellness.	In	medical	schools,	physicians	study	one	organ	or	system	at
a	time	and	then	specialize,	without	developing	an	understanding	of	health	or	the
body	as	a	whole.	A	lack	of	holistic	understanding	and	appreciation	transfers	to
medicine’s	focus	on	disease	rather	than	health.
Actually,	our	modern	health-care	system	is	a	disease-care	system.	Our	health-
care	providers	are	paid	for	treating	disease,	not	for	preventing	disease.
Treatments	can	continue	for	the	entire	life	of	the	patient.	Our	current	system
does	not	offer	financial	incentives	for	health,	but	provides	a	lot	of	money	for
treatments	of	disease.
We	need	to	examine	the	roots	of	modern	conventional	medicine.	“Modern
medicine”	is	based	on	a	seventeenth-century	understanding	of	the	human	body,
and	it	has	failed	to	incorporate	the	most	important	scientific	discoveries	of	the
twentieth	century.	Wrapped	in	the	cloak	of	modern	science,	at	its	core,
conventional	medicine	is	based	on	archaic	concepts	that	presently	are
scientifically	obsolete	and	invalid.
Allow	me	to	explain	what	I	mean.
Beginning	with	Isaac	Newton’s	discovery	of	the	laws	of	motion,	the	human
body	and	the	universe	both	became	regarded	as	a	clockwork	mechanism.	From
this	perspective,	anything	can	be	dissected	into	parts,	studied	scientifically	andunderstood.	Medicine	of	the	time	followed	this	mechanistic	concept:	Take	the
machine	apart,	study	the	parts,	understand	how	they	work	and	use	that
understanding	in	medical	care.	People	began	to	believe	they	could	control	health
simply	by	understanding	the	mechanical	workings	of	the	physical	body.	Many
people	still	believe	this,	although	it	isn’t	true.	Today	the	medical	establishment
continues	to	regard	the	body	as	a	complex,	glorified	machine;	the	focus	is	on	the
parts,	not	the	whole.
Disease	is	seen	as	confined	to	specific	locations	or	organs,	rather	than	as
affecting	the	whole	person.	Treatments	regularly	remove	or	replace	body	parts
without	addressing	the	reasons	that	something	went	awry.	By	assuming	the	body
is	a	machine	that	cannot	heal	itself,	the	only	effective	therapies	are	thought	to	be
those	that	come	from	the	outside,	such	as	mechanical	techniques,	surgical
invasion	and	powerful	drugs.	The	pharmaceutical	drug	industry	“fixes”	health
problems	by	adding	molecules	to	the	body	that	are	designed	to	control	the
function	of	certain	body	parts,	without	seeking	to	understand	or	remedy	the
reasons	for	the	malfunction.	A	dysfunction	in	the	body’s	self-regulating	and
balancing	mechanisms	is	caused	by	cellular	malfunction,	and	it	affects	the	whole
body,	not	just	a	part	of	it.	With	machines,	the	function	of	the	whole	can	be
predicted	by	the	sum	of	the	parts,	but	humans	are	not	machines.	A	living
organism	is	much	greater	than	the	sum	of	its	parts.	We	are	alive,	and	our	minds
influence	our	bodies.
In	the	early	twentieth	century,	Albert	Einstein	challenged	existing	perceptions
and	fundamentally	changed	the	way	people	view	the	world.	By	proving	that
matter	and	energy	are	one,	Einstein	brought	forth	a	new	field	for	studying	the
laws	of	the	universe,	quantum	physics,	in	which	human	beings	are	regarded	as
networks	of	complex	energy	systems	that	interact	with	physical	and	cellular
systems.
We	human	beings	are	not	Newtonian	in	nature,	but	rather	Einsteinian.
Humans	are	matter,	but	we	are	also	multidimensional	energy	systems,	and	our
thoughts,	beliefs	and	attitudes	create	energy	fields	that	influence	our
biochemistry	and	affect	our	health.	Yet	our	physicians	continue	to	use	the
mechanical	Newtonian	model.
No	Ground	to	Stand	On
We	are	brought	up	to	think	of	medicine	as	scientific	and	that	the	techniques
and	procedures	used	by	our	physicians	are	the	result	of	extensive	scientific
study.	Not	so.	Several	studies,	including	a	1978	report	by	the	U.S.	Office	ofTechnology	Assessment,	have	estimated	that	no	scientific	basis	exists	for	80	to
90	percent	of	all	procedures	used	in	medical	practice.
In	fact,	traditional	or	allopathic	medicine	has	no	general	theory	of	the
organism,	health	or	disease—no	unifying	framework	to	tie	it	all	together.
Without	a	theory	and	a	framework,	there	is	no	understanding	of	what	the
problems	are,	how	they	developed	or	how	to	solve	them,	and	everything
becomes	an	ad	hoc	experience.	The	mechanistic	manner	in	which	medicine	is
practiced	today	has	never	been	proven


cured in 2 to 4 days. Practice until the original strength, freshness, calm sleep, good appetite and
good remembrance is back again”.
Are there any adverse reactions with OP?
Dr Karach said: “some people in whom various illnesses are simultaneously manifest, an
apparent worsening of condition is possible. This is due to primary infection first being depleted,
causing secondary infections to dominate temporarily. After a few days secondary infection will
disappear while another may be stimulated into activity. Such symptoms are usually apparent in
persons suffering from chronic or terminal illnesses. Under these circumstances Dr Karach
recommends that the affected person steadfastly continues the treatment even if fevers are
initiated. Dr Karach maintains just when these symptoms appear the oil treatment will facilitate
rapid healing. Should the treatment be broken for one reason or another the overall effects will be
slowed down. For these reasons Dr Karach maintains that an apparent worsening of health is an
excellent sign that disease is progressively being removed from the body”.
Examples : To cite examples: - (a) Itching of the skin during infection and inflammation of an
injury or wound and the same itching may be present in an aggravated manner during cure of the
wound/injury. (b) A bone breaks due to an accident. The pain at the time of setting is more severe
and also during the process of healing.
Advice on how to deal with healing reactions
• Do OP as usual or increase to two or three times a day or even stop for a few days
depending on the severity and your reaction.
• Take medicine under the advice of a doctor for a minimum period, for relief and continue
OP after the reactions is over.
• It is not necessary that there will be healing reactions for all cases. Most of the cases are
chronic and the patient has been suffering for long and possibly under treatment. Healing
reaction appears more severe and one gets the feeling that disease is aggravating. At
such time one is inclined to stop OP, do not stop but continue OP. This is a sure sign
before cure. Recognize it as a reaction and continue OP and you will be cured with in a
short time and you will know the state of disease free health which makes you happy.
Sample testimonies of different disease cured
There are many testimonies of disease cured from different people, differing in age, sex and
duration of disease. More examples are given in my book “Oil Pulling – A Universal Remedy”.
Sample testimonies of chronic diseases cured are appended below for showing the curative effect
of OP.
Forty five year old Asthma and Allergy cured
I am 56 years old. I have been suffering from allergy and asthma from the age of 11 years
when I had my first menses. Whenever I had head bath after monthly periods I was
suffering from asthma, cough and phlegm.  It was very severe. This was lasting for about 3-4
days every month. In addition whenever I had head bath I used to suffer from the same type of
allergy. I had tried all types of treatment for 45 years to get rid of this but without any success. I
was spending my life with medicines but without cure. They had even diagnosed as a heart
problem. I had lost hope of living. Life seamed a big burden and uncertain.
At this stage, on 3rd March 94 I met you (T Koteswara rao) in a marriage and you came to me and
explained to me about OP and encouraged me to practice it. 2 months after practicing my
problems of health became a little more severe and I took them as healing reactions and
consoled myself with the hope that I am going to be cured totally after the reactions. These
reactions lasted for about 2 months. Now after 9 months of OP I have become wonderfully
healthy. Asthma has gone, no pains in the joints or body, no spots or discoloration of the
skin instead the skin has acquired a new shine, digestion has improved and I can eat
anything without the fear of allergy. It is really enjoyable to eat things, which you like
instead of fearing about allergy and asthma.
My advice to all women is, do OP for all your problems you will remain healthy and your looks will
improve.
Ms.V.Lakshminarsamamba, Krishna Dt, A.P
Allergy Asthma- Exhilarating Experience
On the first day of OP Feb 25, 1995, I felt an exhilarating feeling of freshness in the mouth.
Because of OP, addiction to cigar smoking cured on Mar 28, 1995. I was able to work with
increased energy, concentration and less impatience. My nostrils were clear and clean.
I had food allergic asthma from September 1975. By end of March '95, I gave up the use of
inhalers for asthma.
Numbness in hands and legs disappeared in April 1995.
Discomfort in my feet and joints due to walking disappeared by April '95.
The food tastes better and I feel more energetic.
I am enjoying the freshness of mouth, good health and very sound sleep due to OP.
Prof V.R.R.M. Babu, (57 years), Geology Dept, Andhra University, Waltair
Allergic bronchitis with wheezing
For the last three months, my wife and I are doing OP regularly. I suffer from severe running
nose. Now after I started doing OP, the running nose has become very mild and it persists
only for a day or so. I also used to get severe bouts of cough and with great difficulty
manage to get the sputum out. Now the running nose does not follow by cough.
My wife used to develop allergic bronchitis with wheezing due to dust or after severe cold
and on long journeys. She tried OP for three months and did not develop wheezing or
severe cough.
Dr. P.V.R.D.N. Prasad Sarma, (practicing since 1955), Machilipatnam, AP
Cancer cases
Most importantly, I want to write about  three cases of cancer. In two cases, biopsy report
confirms “schirrus type of carcinoma of uterus”.  In the third case, it is malignant growth
of a tumor of a size bigger than tennis ball on the jawbone.  This case is also of a woman on
homeopathy medicines. Within two months of OP, in both cases of carcinoma of uterus
bleeding reduced, general condition improved and they are confident that their disease will
go. You know confidence/faith contributes to cure more than medicine.
In the  case of malignant tumor after a month of OP, pus came out of a hole in the tumor on
the jawbone. The pus stopped after three weeks, the hole closed and the size of tumor
came down to almost normal.  In these cases, my medicines must have given temporary relief. I
am hoping they will totally heal.
In case of joint pains the improvement that would have resulted in eight months with my
medicines, have come within two moths of OP.
For allergy, asthma and tooth diseases, the results are wonderful.  My medicines must have
given o nly temporary relief. I am hoping OP will heal them totally.
Dr.S.Chandramouli, Homeopath, Gollalamamidalam, E.G. Dt., A. P
Constipation – Piles -“With OP Health Is Great Wealth”
I have been practicing OP for the last one year with Til (gingelly -sesame) oil  for fifteen to
twenty minutes daily in the morning without fail. I am 82 years old. I have been suffering from
constipation and piles for the last four decades. I consulted many doctors, used many
medicines but with only temporary relief.
Within two weeks of practicing OP, I started getting relief. There was no pain during motion.
Inflammation and piles decreased. I started having free and clear evacuation. I am sleeping
peacefully and happily at night. Indigestion, lack of appetite has gone. Decades old pain has gone
just by doing OP with gingelly (sesame) oil. Our Ayurvedic treatment is a comprehensive solution
for all diseases. It is good for all to practice. -“With OP Health Is Great Wealth”.
                            Padma Bhusan Sri Kalogi Narayana Rao, People's Poet, Tirupathi, A.P
Diabetes - Pregnancy - Child birth
My age is 41 years. I am a diabetic patient with no children. After doing OP for three months, I
became pregnant. At the time of pregnancy, my blood sugar increased. I stopped OP for about a
month thinking it was aggravating my problem. Having come to know that aggravation is a sign of
cure, I started OP again. The sugar level came down and I continued OP throughout my
pregnancy. After a caesarian operation, I gave birth to a baby. The doctors checked for sugar,
both for the baby and me. We both were free from sugar. The wound healed well and stitches
removed on the seventh day. Doctor was astonished at this. I found OP benefited me in the
following ways:
I weigh 90 Kgs. height 4’11” with weak twisted foot. By walking, the foot used to become septic
and pus used to ooze. By OP and walking daily, I became strong and was able to walk up the
steps without difficulty.
OP reduced sugar gradually and diabetes cured. The skin became clear and shining and the
spots on the body disappeared.
The body became strong, teeth firm; gums healthy and the hair turned black and stopped


. The patient must be fortunate; his physician must be
extremely knowledgeable about the dosage and timing of
the chemotherapy, both of which are absolutely vital. Thenthe cancer may be defea ted, adding years of useful life to
the patient’s existence.
Ironically, the therapy may fail because it strips the body
of the very intelligence that usually guards it from  disease.
Many anti-cancer drugs are extremely damaging to the
body’s immune system; they directly suppress the bone
marrow, which manufa ctures our white cells, with
devastating eﬀect on the white-cell count in the blood. As
the course of chemotherapy continues, the patient  becomes
more and more susceptib le to new forms of cancer, and in a
certain numb er of cases—as high as 30 percent for breast
cancer—new cancer appears and the patient dies.
Moreover, it is sometimes not statistically possible to kill
every malign ant cell. It has been estimated that a typical
cancer patient may have 10 billion cancer cells. If his
chemotherapy is 99.99 percent eﬀective, there would still
be 1 million survivors, more than enough to start over
again.
Cancer cells are not created equal; some are hardier than
others and therefore more diﬀicult to kill. It may be that
destroying the weaker cells acts as a kind of Darwinian
selection, leaving the ﬁttest to survive. In that case,
chemotherapy would actually promote a more virulent
disease than it cured. (Likewise, the persistent
staphylococcus infections  that patients come down with in
hospitals are often highly resistant to antibiotics, because
only the most vicious bacteria can live in the sterile
environment of operating rooms and withstand the
continual bombardment of penicillin injections.) One can
easily conceive of a strain of “super cancer” that might
arise from one or two malignant cells that had the
strongest resistance to treatment.
In any case, the early promise that chemotherapy would
wipe out cancer in our generation, widely believed in the
1950s, has sobered. Now a few cancers at a time aredefeated, such as lymph ocytic leukemia in children and
some kinds of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, while other major
killers, such as lung and brain cancers, are virtually
untouchable through chemotherapy.
—
Nothing I have said so far about the body’s know-how is
hypothetical. We have all been informed, doctors and public
alike, about the body’s wondrous intricacy. Yet we persist in
thinking of the body in an obsolete mold, as basically
matter, but with a smart technician inside who moves the
matter around. This technician was once called a soul; now
it tends to be demoted to a ghost inside the machine, but
the same emphasis remains. Because we see and touch our
bodies, carry  their solid weight around with us, and bump
into doors if we don’t watch out, the reality of the body
appears to be primarily material—such is the bias of our
world.
But the bias has a huge blind spot in it. Despite the
overwhelming superiority  of the body’s know-how, which
scientists freely acknowledge, a minute amount of time and
money is spent trying to grasp the living body as a whole,
and for very good reason. The Greek philosopher
Heraclitus made the famous remark, “You cannot step into
the same river twice,” because the river is constantly being
changed by new water rushing in. The same holds true for
the body. All of us are much more like a river than anything
frozen in time and space.
If you could see your body as it really is, you would never
see it the same way twice. Ninety-eight percent of the
atoms in your body were not there a year ago. The skeleton
that seems so solid was not there three months ago. The
conﬁguration of the bone  cells remains somewhat constant,
but atoms of all kinds pass freely back and forth throughthe cell walls, and by that means you acquire a new
skeleton every three months.
The skin is new every month. You have a new stomach
lining every four days, with the actual surface cells that
contact food being renew ed every ﬁve minutes. The cells in
the liver turn over very slowly, but new atoms still ﬂow
through them, like water in a river course, making a new
liver every six weeks. Even within the brain, whose cells
are not replaced once they die, the content of carbon,
nitrogen, oxygen, and so on is totally diﬀerent today from a
year ago.
It is as if you lived in a building whose brick s were
systemically taken out and replaced every year. If you keep
the same blueprint, then it will still look like the same
building. But it won’t be the same in actuality. The human
body also stands there looking much the same from day to
day, but through the processes of respiration, digestion,
elimination, and so forth, it is constantly and ever in
exchange with the rest of the world.
Certain atoms—carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen
—pass through the body very quickly, being an essential
part of the things we use up the fastest—food, air, and
water. If it were up to only these four elements, we would
be creating new bodies for ourselves literally every month.
However, the pace of renewal is slowed by other elements
that do not ﬂow through us very rapidly. The calcium bound
into our bones can take a whole year to replace itself—
some authorities extend the time to several years. Iron, the
component that makes red blood cells red, is held onto
quite tenaciously, being lost mainly through the sloughing
of dead skin cells or the actual loss of blood.
Even though  the rates of change may diﬀer, change is
always there. What I am calling “intelligence” takes on the
role of guidin g this change so that we do not collapse into a
heap of brick s. That is one of the most obvious facts aboutthe physiology, but intelligence is so changeable, so quick
on the move—in other  words, so alive —that medical
textbooks devote almost no space to it at all.
To get an idea of how limited our current knowle dge is,
consider the structure of a neuron. The neurons that
compose the brain and central nervous system “talk” to one
another across gaps called synapses. These gaps separate
the tiny branchlike ﬁlaments, the dendrites, that grow at
the ends of each nerve cell. Everyone possesses billions of
these cells, divided between the brain and the central
nervous system, and as we saw, each one is capable of
growing dozens or even hundreds of dendrites (the total
estimated at 100 million million), meaning that at any one
time, the possible combi nations of signals jumpin g across
the synapses  of the brain exceed the number of atoms in
the known universe. The signals also communicate with
one another at lightning speed. To read this sentence, your
brain takes a few milliseconds to arrange a precise pattern
of millions of signals, only to dissolve them instantly, never
to be repeated again in exactly the same way.
In medical school, we were taught a simple model of how
neurons communicate: an electrical charge forms on one
side of the synapse, and when the charge is large enough,
it jump s like a spark across the gap to deliver a signal to
another nerve cell. Assuming that this is the correct
mechanism (in reality it isn’t), the description we learned in
our neurology textbook in 1966 told us next to nothing
about how neurons act in real life; the book model makes
sense only for a single nerve cell, isolated, stopped in time,
and stripped of context. In truth, the action taking  place at
the gaps in the nervous system is like that of a cosmic
computer reduced to a microcosmic scale. This awesome
computer operates continuously, handles hundreds of
programs at a time, deals in multiple billions of “bytes” ofinformation every second, and, most miraculous ly of all,
knows how to run itself.
It is not really our medical training that was at fault here.
How can any textbook possibly describe this whole
process? To think is to form patterns inside ourselves that
are just as complex, ﬂeeting, and rich in their diversity as is
reality itself. Thinking is the mirror of the world, and
nothing less. Science simply does not have the tools to look
at such a phenomenon, which is at once inﬁnite and alive.
The living body will not stop to be studied, certain ly not as
a whole. So when it delivers a shock to science, as in a
spontaneous cure of cancer, medicine all but halts in its
tracks, bewildered to ﬁnd that life does not behave as
neatly as the laboratory model.
In 1986, a shock was delivered that could turn the whole
ﬁeld of brain research on its head: a Mexican neuro-
surgeon, Dr. Ignacio Madrazo, successfully implanted
healthy new cells into the brain of a patient with
Parkinson’s disease.
Not only did the transplant take, which previously was
considered impossible, but the patient showed an amazing
85 percent return to normal functioning. Before the
surgery,


understanding
	is	drawn	to	the
truth.	There	is	a	constant	need	to	know	more.	A	high	value	is	placed	on	living
your	own	truth,	which	you	associate	with	integrity	and	honesty.	You	trust	your
mind	to	guide	you	forward.	You	have	no	time	for	secondhand	opinions	and
conventional	wisdom.	You	look	up	to	people	who	have	insight	and	can	impart
it	to	others.	Your	streak	of	skepticism	keeps	you	from	following	anyone	who
hasn’t	earned	your	respect	for	telling	the	truth.	In	your	mind,	you	distinguish
between	appearances	and	reality.	There	are	moments	when	reality	seems	quite
mysterious	to	you.	The	material	world	doesn’t	tell	the	whole	story.	You	want	to
go	beyond,	or	transcend.	The	way	you	do	this	is	primarily	by	going	deeper	into
your	personal	understanding	and	self-awareness.	At	your	best,	you	feel	secureenough	to	open	new	doors	that	take	you	into	the	unknown.
The	Awakening	Process:	Finding	Your	Beauty	in
the	Light
A	beautiful	transformation	begins	to	take	place	when	you	see	that	you	belong
in	the	light.	When	people	successfully	find	a	way	to	live	in	the	light,	their
experiences	on	the	path	turn	out	to	be	very	similar,	because	there	are	certain
stages	that	apply	to	almost	everyone.
Stage	1:	First	Signs	of	Awakening
Stage	2:	Opening	the	Door
Stage	3:	Dedication	to	the	Path
Stage	4:	Resting	into	Existence
Stage	5:	The	True	Self	Becomes	the	Only	Self
Radical	Beauty	is	universal.	These	are	stages	of	awakening	experienced	for
thousands	of	years	in	every	culture.	Even	though	social	roles	have	changed
dramatically	and	society	has	become	much	more	secular,	you	will	discover	that
your	personal	journey	will	repeat	the	same	soul	journey	that	was	undertaken	at
the	time	of	the
Buddha,
Jesus,
Saint	Teresa,	and	anyone	alive	today	who	lives	in
the	light.	Let’s	look	more	closely	at	how	the	five	stages	unfold.S
TAGE	1:	FIRST	SIGNS	OF	AWAKENING
Being	beautiful	means	seeing	yourself	that	way,	and	for	this,	you	must	be	wide
awake.	Because	the	light	of	awareness	exists	in	everyone,	it’s	hard	to	imagine	a
life	that	doesn’t	contain	moments	of	awakening.	But	many	other	things	happen
during	a	typical	day,	and	it’s	quite	common	not	to	notice	the	first	signs.	Let’s
say	that	you	wake	up	one	day	and	there’s	a	sense	of	lightness	and	ease	as	you
begin	your	day.	The	lightness	stays	with	you	and	even	increases	instead	of
fading.	You	may	think	to	yourself,	“I’m	having	a	good	day.”	People	smile	at	you
more	than	usual;	the	things	you	need	to	accomplish	are	done	more	easily—it’s
as	if	all	the	gears	are	lubricated,	with	minimal	friction.	You	go	to	bed	feeling	a
sense	of	ease	and	fulfillment,	yet	when	you	wake	up	the	next	morning,
everything	has	gone	back	to	normal.	You	face	a	day	of	duties	and	demands	that
feels	like	every	other	day.	The	memory	of	your	very	good	day	quickly	vanishes.
Yet	what	you	actually	experienced	that	day	was	a	sign	of	awakening,	giving
you	a	clue	to	the	inner	beauty	you	could	be	radiating	all	the	time.	We	said	that
when	you	are	struck	by	something	beautiful	outside	yourself,	you	are	actually
communicating	with	your	own	inner	beauty.	Likewise,	when	your	existence
feels	lighter	and	easier,	that’s	your	inner	beauty	also	being	reflected.	You	are
glimpsing	the	truth	of	who	you	really	are,	because	beauty	and	truth	cannot	be
separated.	They	are	qualities	of	pure	consciousness,	pure	being.
At	this	early
stage,	terms	like
pure	consciousness
	and
pure	being
	hardly	seem
relevant,	because	they	are	too	foreign	to	your	daily	experience.	Even	so,
everyone’s	life	contains	glimpses	of	beauty,	love,	joy,	and	fulfillment	that
register	on	the	emotional	level.	The	problem	is	that	we	need	to	do	more	on	the
mental	level.
We	need	to	recognize	that	a	sign	of	awakening	has	appeared.
We	need	to	give	significance	to	this	experience.
We	need	to	value	and	pursue	it.
People	get	stuck	in	everyday	existence	and	accept	as	normal	a	life	where
there’s	no	expectation	of	waking	up.	Glimpses	of	the	light,	however	striking,
don’t	propel	them	into	a	new	kind	of	normal,	which	is	higher	and	better.	But	if
you	mentally	notice	what’s	happening	to	you	and	give	it	significance,	instead	of
saying	to	yourself,	“I’m	having	a	good	day,”	you’ll	say,	“I’m	being	touched	by
the	light.”	This	simple	shift	is	enough	to	reframe	your	whole	experience,
making	it	a	clue	to	higher	consciousness.Please	glance	back	at	the	list	on
this	page
	that	outlined	the	most	common
signs	of	awakening—each	is	a	moment	in	the	light.	Keep	noticing	such
moments	and	pause	to	let	them	sink	in.	Turn	inward	and	relish	what	is
happening	instead	of	simply	letting	it	pass.	Let	every	image	of	beauty	you	see—
from	those	you	love,	from	children	at	play,	from	glorious	nature—really	sink	in.
Savor	the	moment	as	a	precious	gift.	You	are	venturing	into	the	experience	of
communing	with	your
true	self.	The	more	you	do	this,	the	more	you	will
naturally	want	to	pursue	these	beautiful	experiences.	You	are	beginning	to	wake
up	to	your	spiritual	beauty.S
TAGE	2:	OPENING	THE	DOOR
Once	you	taste	beauty,	you	want	more.	At	a	certain	point,	once	you	notice	and
value	the	signs	of	awakening,	you	feel	the	desire	to	explore	what’s	happening	to
you.	There’s	a	sense	of	curiosity	about	what	your	life	might	be	like	if	it	changed
in	unexpected	ways.	You	might	also	feel	restless	and	dissatisfied	with	how	things
are	going	presently.	At	this
stage	people	make	a	conscious	decision	to	let	in	the
light.	A	major	decision	involves	being	kinder	and	more	compassionate	to
yourself.	Let’s	look	into	this	shift,	which	brings	in	much	more	light	the	more
you	experience	it.
When	we	are	kind	to	other	people,	we	let	them	know	that	they	are	good	and
lovable	just	as	they	are.	Self-compassion	is	saying	the	same	thing	to	yourself.
Pause	for	a	moment	here.	Do	you	love	yourself	just	as	you	are?	The	way	that
people	answer	this	question	reveals	a	great	deal	about	themselves,	because	quite
often	we	are	waiting	for	the	day	that	someone	else	will	treat	us	as	good	and
lovable,	without	criticism	or	reservation.
If	you	are	fortunate,	this	has	already	happened	to	you.	But	the	world’s
wisdom	traditions	teach	that	the	love	you	receive	from	outside	is	a	reflection


, it is very important-even necessary- that you concen
trate on the purpose of the physical motions, fordoing so will enhance
the results. It will unify the body and mind to bring full power to your
purpose. Never try to use the mind to force the natural processes by
ima gining fires growing in the pubic area. The use of imagination
does not apply to this exercise.
Second Stage:
I. Tighten the muscles around your anus and draw them up and in.
When done properly it will feel as if air is being drawn up your
rectum, or as if your entire anal area is being drawn in and upward.
Tighten as hard as you can and hold as long as you are able to do so
comfortably.
2. Stop and relax a moment.
3. Repeat the anal contraction s. Do this as many times as you can
without feeling discomfort. At first you may find that you are able to
hold the anal sphincter muscles tight for only a few seconds. Do not
be discouraged and please persist. After se veral weeks you will be
able to hold the muscles tight for quite a while without experien cing
weariness or strain.
NOTE A: As you do the second stage of the exercise, you should
concent rate on feeling a tingling sensation (similar to an electric
shock) ascend along the pathway of the seven glands. The sensation
lasts for fractions of a second and results naturally. Do not try to force
this with mental images.
Some teachings suggest that thoughts should be used to help or
guide energy flow. Those who make these suggestions misunder
stand the nature of energy.
There are six forms of energy: mechan ical energy, heat energy,
sound energy, radiant energy, atomic energy, and electrical energy.
We emit electrical energy. The electrical energy in man differs
drastically from that used to run a house. The electrical current in the
average home fluctuates at 60 cycles per second; in men, 49,000,000
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cycles per second. The latter figure is about half that of light, which
travels at 186,000 miles per second. So when a man starts to think,
breathe, or visualize to help the energy reach its destination, the
electrical energy will have already reached its destination. Our
thoughts, breaths, etc. are too slow to guide the flow of electrical
energy.
What occurs at the unconscious level was not meant to be subject to
the control of the conscious mind. If the conscious mind interferes
with someth ing it was not evolved to control-helping or guiding
electrical energy through visualization, thoughts, etc. -it can cause a
great deal of mental and physica l damage. Its interference with the
natural progress of energy can cause schizophrenia, brain damage,
and other pro blems. Taoists call these calamities ''Disintegration into
Evil''. I have personal ly seen many such disintegrations in the East
and West.
The Deer Exercise is extremely safe-provided, that is, it is not
supplement ed with techniques of other teachings. For show, various
incompatible techniques are often thrown together to create spectacu
lar techniques, but the results are often disastrous. Lao-Tse said,
''My way is simple and easy.'' And true Taoist method s are simple
and easy.
N01E B: To determine whether or not the Deer Exercise is having an
effect on the prostate gland, try this test: as you urinate, try to stop the
stream of urine entirely through anal muscle contractions. If you are
able to do so, then the exercise is effective.
NOTE C: If an erection occurs while practicing this exercise, then
place the thumb of the hand cupping the testicles at the base of the
penis next to the pubis and press down sharply, while massaging the
area of the pubis with the other hand. This will inhibit the flow of
blood into the penis and maximize the build-up of energy within the
sexual glands. (Tao of Sexology deals with the issue of proper orgasm
without ejaculation to control the loss of energy during masturbation
or sexual intercourse. The teachings stress that one does not wish to
experience ejaculation following this exercise, or at other times,
except for purposes of procreation, as this dissipates the energy which
has begun to build as a consequence of this exercis e. Taoism stresses
the use of this energy for elevating spirituality, so that mankind can
meet physical, mental, and spiritual aspirations at one time.)
NOTE D: Always concen trate on what you are doing.
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Proper hygiene must be prac ticed in conju nction with the exercise. We
need to take the time daily to wash our entire bodies, including all the
open ings to the body. Soc ial mores train us to wash the face, mouth, and
teeth thorou ghly. But we often neglect to wash the anal opening due to
social taboos surrounding this part icula r area of the body. Please, take the
time to clean the anal ope ning and the genitals so that germs and feces do
not have a chance to collect, which can lead to infections, cancers,
hemorrhoids or other weaknesses in this area of the body. Refer also to the
Sun Wo rship Exercise.
Pressure is being placed on the prostate gland as it is gently massaged by
the tightening action of the anal muscles. (The anus can be thought of as a
little motor which pumps the prostate gland.) Thus stimula ted, the prostate
begins to secrete hormone s such as endorph ins, which produce a natural
high. When the prostate goes into spasms, a small orgasm is experienced.
By alternate ly squeezing and relaxing the anus during the Deer Exercise, a
natural high is produced without having to jog ten or more miles or endure
its side-effects.
Among other things, this exercise cures and prevents hemonboids and cures
problems of the prostate, such as weaknes s, enlargement, and cancer. It
strengthens the nerve endings around the pubis and penis and may be used to
correct problems of impotence and premature ejaculation. Contraction of the
anal muscles will also help enlarge the head or bulb of the peni s, which will
give the man more pleasant sensations during sexual intercourse.
It is crucial to learn control over the anal muscles if one is to master the
later meditative and breathing Internal Exercises. These muscles may be
described as a door or a lock. When shut, they close off the upper body and
allow the energy to collect and build in the abdominal channel. Without this
build-up of energy, it will be impossible to properly stimulate the sexual
organs, and in tum, the other glands of the body. It is essential then to gain
mastery over this lock if one is to strengthen one's system sufficiently to
beg in to energize the spiritual centers in the body.
THE DEER EXERC ISE FOR WOMEN
The benefits women can deri ve from the Deer Exercise are numerous
and noteworthy.
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Taoism provides a way for a woman to elimina te the problems related to
the menstrual period, even in the middle of a period. These problems
include emotional ups and downs, water retention, hormone blockages,
cramps, and abnormal flow of blood. (A light menstrual flow indicates
blockage and body poisoning. If the period suddenly stops-without the
influence of the Deer Exercise -disease is indicated.)
The exercise strengthens the muscles of the rectum and prevents and/or
cures hemorrho ids. It cures and prevents vaginal problems such as infec
tions, discharges, colitis, and leucorrhea. It increases the circulation in the
sexual organs and energizes the pubic area.
The vagina greatly benefits from the Deer Exercise. It becomes tighter,
meatier, and more flexible. So a woman who has had children can greatly
benefit from the Deer, as the man's pleasure is increased during inter
course. (Childbirth can leave the vagina loose and enlarged, resulting in a
great loss of penile sensation for her partner during intercourse.) By
performing the exercise, a woman can energize and tighten her vagina.
In addition, the Deer stimulates natural estrogen production. The exer
cise stimulates the pro duction of the female honnone estrogen and causes it
to spread throughout the vagina, uterus, breasts, and ovaries. A surge in
estrogen levels can greatly relieve the symptoms of menopause and re
juvenate a woman. For thousands of years, the Deer was effectively used
for maintaining a youthful countenance. Historical records show that
women famous for their beauty consistently use the technique. An added
benefit is that the increase in estrogen results naturally and that the body
naturally balances the increased estrogen level with other substances.
The fact that estrogen is produced naturally is very important. The body
knows what amount of estrogen it needs at any given time. A doctor
administering man-made estrogen, a drug that is not balanced with the
other substances normally occurring within the body, cannot know what
exact level of the hormone is needed in the bloodstream. Every hour the
hormone level in the blood changes and it would be impossible to follow it.
Moreover, man-made estrogen will eventually cause problems by either
over-or