 morning, when another runner saw him suddenly
collapse onto the path. The man rushed to help, but Malcolm’s
brother was already dead, the victim of a massive heart attack. He
was fty years  old, seven years younger than Malcolm, and he had
no previous history of heart disease.
On Tuesday, the wife of Malcolm’s best friend, who was a local
pediatrician in his late forties, called up weeping incoherently. Her
husband was driving home from the hospital that afternoon when
he slumped over the wheel of his car. He, too, had been struck with
a fatal heart attack without anyone suspecting that he had heart
disease.
These two losses aected Malcolm deeply. Numbed and shaken,
he began to dwell moodily on the uncertainty of life. By week’s end,
he decided to consult a doctor about his own heart. His cardiologist
ran an EKG, which proved normal, but since his brother’s heart
attack might point to a famil y predisposition, Malcolm was asked to
take a treadm ill test. He performed extremely well, taking his
heartbeat up to 180 without suering pain, nor were there
indications of any distortions in his heartbea t. “Stop worrying,” his
cardiologist reassured him, “you have the heart of a twenty-year-
old.”
The next day, however, Malcolm was sitting at a red light in
morning trac, continuing to obsess over the two deaths that hadleft such a gaping hole in his life. He missed the light turning green.
Suddenly he found himself at the head of three lanes of angrily
honking cars trying to zoom around him. Confused and disoriented,
he took a few seconds to regain his composure, and as he shifted
into gear, he noticed a funny sensation in the middle of his chest—
he couldn’t tell whether it was pain or pressure, but it made him
feel momentarily dizzy.
Malcolm decided to consult another cardiologist, who spotted
some potential irregularities in the way the rst treadmi ll test had
been conducte d. “Why don’t you have another stress test?” he
advised. “Just  to make sure.” Malcolm showed up early at the
testing laboratory and was told that he would have to wait for the
patient in front of him. He sat down and peered in through the lab
window to see a t-looking man in running shorts walking briskly
on the treadmi ll. As if in a silent movie, the man opened his mouth
without emitting a sound, clutched spasmodically at his chest, and
fell to the oor. The nurse hustled Malcolm away. In a few minutes
he learn ed that the man had died of a coronary. His own test was
postponed for another week.
Malcolm feared that he was being followed by a curse. Greatly
distressed, he returned home and for the rst time began  to notice
denite twing es of pain in the area of his breas tbone. He
immediately reported this symptom to his new cardiologist. “Look,”
the doctor said, “no treadmill test is all that reliable. If you really
want to be sure about your heart, let’s do an angio gram.” An
angiogram, which allows the heart to be observed on a monitor
while the coronary arteries are illuminated with an injection of dye,
is considered the gold standard for assessing coronary heart disease.
The test was run, and if Malcolm had feared the worst, it now
came true. Two of his coron ary arteries were 85 percent blocked,
causing blood ow to his heart to be dangerously restricted. His
chest pain suddenly increased in intensity and frequency. It began to
show the prole of typical angina, coming on whenever he exerted
himself physically. Alarmed, his cardiologist put him on
nitroglycerine pills to control the attacks. All next week Malcolm
stayed home from work, but to combat his dejection, he decided tonish some home repairs, which required climbing a ladder and
setting in some heavy window sashes.
On his next visit to the doctor, he mentioned that he had been
doing this work without any chest discomfort. His cardiologist
looked aghast.  “You can’t do that kind of thing! Don’t you realize
that with coronary arteries as blocked as yours, you could suer a
heart attack at any moment?”
Upon hearing these words, Malcolm felt squeezing chest pain that
left him breathless—it was his rst attack of unstable angina, a late
and very serious symptom of heart disease. It is called “unstable”
because the bouts of pain start coming unpredictably, with or
without physic al exertion. His cardiologist felt that they had no
choice but to operate. Malcolm underwent a double bypass graft
that Friday. It was less than a month after the two fatal heart attacks
that had sent him into a tailspin.
Nor was this the end. When I saw him four months later,
Malcolm’s newly grafted coronary vessels were still open, but his
chest pain had not abated. Today he still exhibits all the classic signs
of unstable angina. He has to avoid even the least stress and
therefore has been forced into early retirement. Since a stroll to the
refrigerator is now enough to trigger a burst of chest pain, he is
almost completely housebound. Presumably his high anxiety level
triggers his attacks, either by causing spasms of the coronary
arteries or by creating psychosomatic pain.
“What do you think caused all this?” I asked him.
“I lie awake thinking about it,” he said mournfully. “Did I do this
to myself, or am I just incredibly unlucky? No one’s given me any
kind of acceptable explanation. Let’s call it a mystery and leave it at
that.”
Time and the Perceiver
If Malcolm’s condition had taken forty years to develop instead of
four weeks, there would be no mystery. We would just say that he
grew old. Coronary artery disease aicts so many old people that it
was long considered a norm al part of the aging process, and evennow, when heart disease is known to be preventable and therefore is
not, strictly speaking, norm al, it remains the leading cause of
mortality among the elderly. Historically, medicine has not been
able to hunt down the cause of aging or even describe it well, but by
denition getting old is something that takes a long time to happen.
A heart  that ages in a month is acting in a fashion that is highly
abnormal, even bizarre.
There is more than a hint that Malcolm somehow gener ated the
series of event s that victimized him, although his consciousness did
not recognize the fact. To begin with, explaining his case as the
product of random chance is not convincing. The timing and
orchestration of events following the death of his brother is just too
perfect. They unfold like a well-crafted play, with rising  dramatic
tension and a swift, gripping denouement. Malcolm has no
knowledge of how he might have done all this. To hasten the aging
process implies  the ability to control it, but that implies control over
time itself, which is clearly impossible—or so we assume.
If we step outside the limited world view of science, explanations
do exist. First we can challe nge the basic assumption that time is
objective. The clocks we depend upon to tell us the time appear to
tick their hours and minutes independent of our inuence, and daily
events appear to be jumbled up with no rhyme or reason; but from
another viewp oint, all this is only the conventional treatment of
time which all of us happen  to share. We have made a collective
agreement that time has certain unalterable features: it moves
forward, it is measured by clocks, it is uniform everywhe re, it waits
for no man.
Yet this agreement is not ironclad, and at certain moments time
turns inexplicably exible. Recently a Swiss friend of mine, also a
physician, read me a curious and moving newspaper story about a
coal mine disaster in Germany. A small group of miners were
trapped underg round after a massive cave-in. They realized that the
air in the mine shaft would last only a limited number of hours. As
it turned out, just one of the group was wearing a wristwatch, and
he began to announce the time while the men anxiously awaited
rescue. To sustain hope in the others, he did not announce the righttime, however ; he called out one hour whenever two hours had
passed. Six days later, a rescue team found the trapped miners;
astonishingly, they were all still alive with one exception—the man
who wore the watch.
In essence, the man with the watch fooled the others into
breaking their agreement about what constitutes real time.
Tragically, he could not fool himself. Can it be that time will wait
for one man and overtake another, depending on what  each one
expects? In the spring of 1990, sociologists from the University of
California at San Diego reported that Chinese mortality dropped by
35 percent the week before the Harvest Moon Festival, one of the
most auspiciou s days in the Chinese calendar, and one where special
importance is given to elder s. When the festival ended, death rates
climbed again, and by a week


 natural lines of l ymphatic
drainage from the area.
    Last, and of great importance, I knew that the treatment would work, and that the tumor would  quickly disappear. It did vanish
totally in three months. It would have gone away quicker if I had water fasted, but I was unable to do this because I needed
physical strength to care for my resident patients and family.
    Eighteen years have passed si nce that episode, and I have had no further reappearance of breast tumors. At age 55 I still have all
my body parts, and have had no surgery except the original lumpectomy. Many, viewing my muscles and athletic performance,
would say my health is exception al but I know my own frailties and make sure I do not aggravate them. I still have exactly the
same organ deficiencies as other cancer patients and must keep a very short leash on my lifestyle.
    If for some reason I wanted to make my life very short, al l I would have to do would be to abandon my diet, stop taking
supplements, eat red meat and ice cream every day and be unhappy about something. Incidentally, I have had many residential
clients with breast cancer since then, and have not taken on their sym ptoms, so I can assume that I have safely passed that hurdle.
    I've helped dozens of cases of simple breast cancer where my treatment began before the cancer broadly spread. Kelly's case
was not the easiest of this group, nor the hardest. Sometimes ther e was lymphatic involvement that the medical doctors had not yet
treated in any way. All but one of my early -onset breast cancer cases recovered. I believe those are far better results than achieved
by AMA treatment.
    Before I crow too much, let me str ess that every one of these women was a good candidate for recovery –under 40 years old,
ambulatory and did not feel very sick. And most importantly, every one of them had received no other debilitating medical
treatment except a needle biopsy or simple lum pectomy. None of these women had old tumors (known about for more than six
months) and none of the tumors were enormous (nothing larger than a walnut).
    Clearly, this group is not representative of the average breast cancer case. Hygienic therapy for c ancer is a radical idea these
days and tends to attract younger people, or older, desperate people who have already been through the works. In every one of  my
simple cases the tumors were reabsorbed by the body during the thirty days of water fasting and t he client left happy.
    Except one. I think I should describe this unsuccessful case, this "dirty case," so my readers get a more balanced idea of ho w
fearsome cancer really isn't if the sick person can clearly resolve to get better and has no problem ab out achieving wellness.
    Marie was an artisan and musician from Seattle who grew up back East in an upper -middle class dysfunctional family. She was
in her late twenties. She had been sexually abused by an older brother, was highly reactive, and had nev er been able to
communicate honestly with anyone except her lesbian lover (maybe, about some things).
    Three years prior to coming to see me Marie had been medically diagnosed as having breast cancer and had been advised to
have immediate surgery. She ignored this advice; Marie never told her friends, said nothing to her family and tried to conceal it
from her lover because she did not want to disrupt their life together.
    On her own, she did begin eating a Macrobiotic diet. In spite of this diet, t he tumor grew, but grew very slowly. After two years
the tumor was discovered by her lover, who after a year of exhausting and upsetting arguments, forced Marie to seek treatment.
Since Marie adamantly refused to go the conventional medical route, she ende d up on my doorstep as a compromise.
    By this time the tumor was the size of a fist and had broken through the skin of the left breast. It was very ugly, very hard.
Biokinesiology showed the usual deadly triangle and other associated organ weakneses typ ical of cancer. Marie began fasting on
water with colonics and poultices and bodywork and counseling and supplements. At the end of the water fast, Marie looked muc h
healthier, with clear eyes and clear skin and had a sort of shine about her, but the tumor  had only receded enough for the skin to
close over it; it was still large, and very hard. To fully heal, Marie probably needed at least two more water fasts of equal  length
interspersed with a few months on a raw food diet. But she lacked the personal tou ghness to confront another fast in the near
future. Nor was she emotionally up to what she regarded as the deprivation of a long -term raw foods healing diet.
    So I advised her to seek other treatment. Still unwilling to accept standard medical management of her case, Marie chose to g o
to the Philippines to have "psychic surgery." She was excited and optimistic about this; I was interested myself because I wa s
dubious about this magical procedure; if Marie went I would have a chance to see the results (if any) on a person I was very
familiar with. Marie had her tickets and was due to leave in days when her lover, against Marie's directly -stated wishes, called her
parents and informed them of what was happening.
    The parents had known nothing of Marie's cancer and were shocked, upset, outraged! They had not known Marie was a lesbian,
much less that their daughter was flirting with (from their view) obvious q uackery. Their daughter needed immediate saving and
her parents and brother (the one who had abused her) flew to Oregon and surprisingly appeared the next day in a state of viol ent
rage. They threatened lawsuits, police, incarceration, they threatened to h ave their daughter civilly committed as unable to take
care of herself. They thought everything Marie had done for the last three years was my fault. I was lucky to stay out of jai l. Of
course, all of this was why Marie had not told them in the first place ; she had wanted to avoid this kind of a scene.
    Marie did not have enough personal integrity to withstand the domination of her immediate family. They put her in a hospital,
where Marie had a radical mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. Assured that  they had done everything that should have been
done, the self -righteous parents went back home. Marie never recovered from chemotherapy and radiation. She died in the hospital
surrounded by her lesbian friends who took dedicated, ever -so-sympathetic turns  maintaining an emotional round -the-clock vigil.
    Marie's death was partly my fault. She was an early case of mine. At the time I did not yet understand the total effect of la ck of
ethics and irresponsibility on illness. Had Marie really wanted to live in the first place, she would have sought treatment three
years earlier. In our counseling sessions she always evaded this question and I had not been wise enough to pin her down with  my
knee on her chest and make her answer up. Marie had too many secrets from everybody and was never fully honest in any of her
relationships, including with me. I think she only came to Great Oaks at her lover's insistence and to the day she died was t rying to
pretend that nothing was wrong.
    All Marie really wanted from her life was to be loved and have a lot of loving attention. In the end, her dramatic death scene
gave her that, which is probably why she manifested cancer and kept it and eventually, died from it.
    The name for this game is "secondary gain." A lot of sick people are playing it. Their illness lets them win their deepest desire;
they get love, attention, revenge, sympathy, complete service, pampering, create guilt in others. When sick people receive to o
much secondary gain they never get well.
    One of  the hardest things about being a healer is that one accumulates an ever -enlarging series of dirty, failed cases like this one.
It is depressing and makes a person want to quit doctoring. Whenever I get involved with a case I really want them to get bet ter.
My life is put entirely out of joint for several months dealing with a residential faster. My schedule is disrupted; my famil y life
suffers; my personal health suffers. No amount of mere money could pay for this. And then some of these people go and wast e all
my help to accomplish some discreditable secret agenda that they have never really admitted to themselves or others.

Constant Complaints
    Alice was a middle -aged woman who couldn't understand why she had always felt tired, even when she was young. Her life had
been this way ever since she could remember. Most puzzling to her was why her life was so Job -like. She did everything the
proper way. Doing things correctly was important to her, and fitted her Puritan background. Alice supported all the ri ght causes,
did good works, was active in a Unitarian church and bought all her food at the healthfood store –and made sure it was organically
grown.
    But in spite of Alice's righteous living, her existence was a treadmill of constant, minor complaints. She was constantly
exhausted, so much so she had difficulty getting up in the morning and feared she might have chronic fatigue syndrome (whatev er
that is). Alice suffered bouts of depression over thoughts like these, and had many acute illnesses like cold s that


 juice effectively
balance the body’s blood pH, neutralizing
acidity. Celery juice acts as the perfect
post-workout tonic as it replaces lost
electrolytes and rehydrates the body withits rich minerals.
Celery has been known to contain eight
families of anti-cancer compounds.
Among them are the acetylenics that have
been shown to stop the growth of tumour
cells, phenolic acids which block the
action of prostaglandins that encourage the
growth of tumour cells, and coumarins
which help free radicals from damaging
cells and prevent the formation and
development of stomach and colon
cancers. The juice has been shown to
effectively and significantly lower total
cholesterol and LDL (‘bad’) cholesterol.
The natural laxative effect of celery helps
to relieve constipation. It also helps relax
nerves that have been overworked byman-made laxatives.
The potassium and sodium in celery juice
help to regulate body fluid and stimulate
urine production, making it an important
way to rid the body of excess fluid. The
polyacetylene in celery is an amazing
relief for all inflammation such as
rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, gout,
asthma and bronchitis. Celery promotes
healthy and normal kidney function by
aiding elimination of toxins from the body
and thereby preventing the formation of
kidney stones. A compound in celery juice
called phtalides helps relax the muscles
around the arteries, dilating the vessels
and allowing the blood to flow normally,
which in turn lowers blood pressure.Chickpeas
Chickpeas (garbanzo beans or kabuli
chana) belong to the class of food called
legumes or pulses. They have a delicious
nutty taste and buttery texture, and make
tasty dishes like hummus, falafels and
curried chole. They contain a good amount
of molybdenum, manganese, folate, fibre
and tryptophan, and provide important
nutrients such as protein, copper,
phosphorus and iron. The nutrition profile
of chickpeas makes them an important
source of protein and fibre for vegetarian
diets.
Chickpeas contain phytochemicals calledsaponins which act as antioxidants. They
help to lower cholesterol and could lower
the risk of breast cancer, protect against
osteoporosis and minimize hot flushes in
post-menopausal women.
Chickpeas can also boost your energy
levels because of their high iron content.
The soluble fibre helps stabilize blood
sugar levels. Including chickpeas
regularly in your diet can lower LDL
cholesterol. They contain significant
amounts of folate and magnesium. Folate
lowers the level of amino acid and
homocysteine, and strengthens the blood
vessels.Citrus
The first thing that comes to mind when
we think of vitamin C are various types of
citrus fruit as they offer numerous health
benefits. However, don’t restrict citrus
fruit to just the provision of vitamin C as
they are also rich in other important
nutrients like folate, potassium, thiamine,
niacin and fibre, amongst others.
Additionally, they are high in antioxidants
and are fat free, sodium free and even
cholesterol free.
Oranges are one of the major fruits that
fall under the category of being vitamin C
rich. Other citrus fruits include limes,lemons, grapefruits, tangerines,
clementines, satsumas and mandarins.
Eating citrus fruit regularly can keep your
heart healthy. Studies have shown that they
prevent a rise in levels of oxidized LDL
and also help to lower blood pressure. A
growing body of research is establishing a
strong role for vitamin C in protecting the
body against cancer. Though the research
is still not complete, there is evidence that
citrus fruit helps prevent the formation of
cancers, slow the growth of existing
cancers, and also help in killing cancer
cells already present in the body. This
will be true especially for citrus fruit such
as lemons and limes as they are good for
cleansing the body. The acid scours theintestinal tract, eliminating toxins and
neutralizing harmful bacteria.
Cloves
Cloves are the fruit of a tree indigenous to
Indonesia. In addition to their culinary
uses, cloves have mild analgesic
properties and oil of clove has long been
used in dentistry as a treatment for
toothache. Cloves are loaded with many
highly effective antioxidants including
procyanidin and quercetin. There is also
evidence that eugenol and eugenol acetate
inhibit platelet aggregation and thus
protect against heart attack and thrombotic
stroke.Due to its antiseptic properties, clove oil
is useful for wounds, cuts, scabies,
athlete’s foot, fungal infections, bruises,
etc. It can also be used to treat insect bites
and stings. Clove oil is very strong in
nature and should be diluted before using.
Furthermore, it should not be used on
sensitive skin. Clove oil has cooling and
anti-inflammatory effects, which help in
clearing the nasal passages. This
expectorant is useful in various
respiratory disorders including coughs,
colds, bronchitis, asthma, sinusitis and
tuberculosis. Chewing a clove bud eases
sore throats. Both clove and clove oil are
useful for boosting the immune system. Its
antiviral properties and ability to purify
blood increases your resistance todiseases.
Coconut
Coconut is a tropical fruit rich in protein
that is found in the African, Asian and
Caribbean regions and in India. The flesh
of the coconut is very good for destroying
intestinal parasites, which we may get
from eating infected food. Coconut water
is good for kidney and urinary bladder
problems. Coconut oil is good for the
immune system as it contains
antimicrobial lipids, lauric acid, capric
acid and caprylic acid, which have
antifungal, antibacterial and antiviral
properties. The human body convertslauric acid into monolaurin, which it is
claimed helps in dealing with viruses and
bacteria causing diseases such as herpes,
influenza, etc.
When applied on infections, coconut oil
forms a chemical layer which protects the
infected body part from external dust, air,
fungi, bacteria and virus. It is most
effective on bruises as it speeds up the
healing process by repairing damaged
tissues.
According to the Coconut Research
Center, coconut kills viruses that cause
influenza, measles, hepatitis, herpes,
SARS, etc. It also kills bacteria that cause
ulcers, throat infections, urinary tractinfections, pneumonia, etc. In addition, it
helps in controlling blood sugar and
improves the secretion of insulin.
Ingestion of coconut oil occurs primarily
through cooking oil. It helps improve the
digestive system and thus prevents various
stomach and digestion-related problems
including irritable bowel syndrome. The
saturated fats present in coconut oil have
anti-microbial properties and help in
dealing with various bacteria, parasites
and fungi that cause indigestion. Coconut
oil also helps in the absorption of other
nutrients such as vitamins, minerals and
amino acids.Corn
Corn, alternatively called maize, is one of
the most popular cereals in the world and
forms the staple food in many countries. It
not only provides the calories for daily
metabolism but is a rich source of
vitamins A, B, E and many minerals. Its
high fibre content ensures that it plays a
role in the prevention of digestive
ailments like constipation and
haemorrhoids as well as colorectal
cancer. The antioxidants present in corn
also act as anti-cancer agents and may
help prevent Alzheimer’s.
Being rich in phytochemicals, cornprovides protection against numerous
chronic diseases. It is rich in vitamin B
nutrients, especially thiamine and niacin.
Its consumption can provide a large chunk
of the daily folate requirement and a rich
source of beta-carotene which forms
vitamin A in the body, essential for the
maintenance of good vision and skin. Corn
kernels are rich in vitamin E, a natural
antioxidant essential for growth.
Corn also contains abundant phosphorus
as well as magnesium, manganese, zinc,
iron and copper. Phosphorus is essential
for the maintenance of normal growth,
bone health and normal kidney function.
Magnesium is necessary for maintaining
normal heart rate and for bone strength.Corn also contains trace minerals like
selenium.
According to studies carried out at
Cornell University, corn is a rich source
of antioxidants, which fight the cancer-
causing free radicals. It is a rich source of
the phenolic compound ferulic acid, an
anti-cancer agent which has been shown to
be effective in fighting tumours in breast
and liver cancers. The vitamin B12 and
folic acid present in corn prevent anaemia
caused by the deficiency of these vitamins.
Courgettes
Courgettes are an excellent source ofmanganese and vitamin C and a very good
source of magnesium, vitamin A, fibre,
potassium, folate, copper, riboflavin and
phosphorus. High intake of fibre rich
foods helps to keep cancer-ca


 as you will see in the followin g chapters.
T ake yo ur time to become fa miliar with the techniques of abdominal
breathing and reduced breathing before you move on.CHAPTER 5
S e c r e t s  o f  A n c i e n t  T r i b e s
I n 1974, twenty-o ne-year -old T om Piszkin was attending the University of
California at Berkeley. He was a runner and worked part-time in the
sporting goods department at Montgomery W ard in Oakland. On October
24 h e finished his shift and made his way to a bus stop near the Oakland
Coliseum, know n as one of the tougher parts of town. Soon afte r, T om was
confronted by four young men who demanded he give them everything he
had. Th ree of the four youths drew handguns and pressed them against
T om’ s head, chest, and leg. In s hock, when T om stood up to take his wallet
from his pocket, he was shot po int-blank in the middle of the chest by a.38
special. The bullet bore through T om’ s sternum and entered h is left lung.
T om recalls that, surprisingly, the shot didn’ t cause him a lot of pain.
Following an operation to remove the lead fragments, T om was
dischar ged from the hospital and resumed running within a month, but
recovering from such a traumatic experience was slow and arduous. T om’ s
journey to restore his lung capa city took over a decade as he continued to
fall short of his expectations, despite working hard at his fitness routine.
Above a ll else, T om wanted to r egain the level of athletic fitness he enjoyed
before h e was shot and was determined to figure out a way to lim it his heart
rate duri ng his workout sessions. Intuitively, he figured that by reducing the
stress on his body during exercise, he would be able to improve his overall
fitness a nd endurance. T om theorized that it would help to restrict his
breathing in order to maintain a  steady and manageable exercise intensity
—“like a governor on a lawn mower engine”—a solution th at was also
much cheaper than buying a heart rate monitor.T om soon realized that if he co uldn’ t sustain his pace while b reathing
exclusively through his nose during training, then he was worki ng too hard
and goin g too fast. At first, he  found breathing through his nose during
physical training a little challenging, but soon discovered  that nasal
breathing could more easily be maintained by placing tape ove r his mouth.
Not only did T om  tape his mout h during training, he also did it during sleep
to en sure that he  continued nasal breathing during the night. One year after
beginning his reduced breathing training, T om went for a lung c apacity test.
His results showed that he was at 130 percent capacity for his weight and
age.
T om has since dedicated his life to his two passions of spo rts and
inventing. He is currently a triathlon coach at the University of C alifornia at
San Die go and creator of T itan Flex bikes. He is also certified  as a USA
Olympic T riathlon coach. After  thirteen years of serving at the leadership
level in the T riathlon Club of San Diego, he was inducted into their hall of
fame.
Switching to nasal breathing after spending years mouth breathing
requires courage  and commitment. Sometimes it is necessary to take one
step back to m ove two forward if you want to truly im prove your
performance.
If you observe y our teammates or competitors during physical e xercise,
you will  no doubt notice that m ost will be breathing through th eir mouths.
A qu estion I ofte n hear is: “If nasal breathing is so good, then why do most
elite athletes breathe through their mouths and not their noses?” A simple
answer i s that W estern breathin g habits have become so far removed from
what they should be that mouth breathing has become the norm.
Our ance stors used their noses to breathe during physical exercis e, as do
present-day indigenous tribes, including the T arahumara, the famed running
tribe of Northern Mexico. When researchers studied the nasal-breathing
T arahumara trib e over the cours e of a 26-mile run, they were a stounded to
find that their average heart rate was a surprisingly low 130 beats per
minute. Compa re this with the normal average heart rate of a W estern
marathon runner, which lies between 160 and 180 beats per minute, and you
can see how nasal breathing a llows for a calm and sustaine d breathing
pattern e ven when engaging in intense physical exercise (more on this in
chapter 11). Breathing through the mouth is a relatively modernphenomenon and does nothing to improve performance—in fact, it impedes
it.
Harvard-educated anthropologist W ade Davis has devoted much of his
life’ s work to t he study of indigenous cultures, especially in North and
South A merica. T o date, he has lived with fifteen groups of indigenous
people, includin g tribal hunters of the Amazon whose senses are so attuned
that they  can smell the urine of  an animal from forty paces and determine
whether it is from a male or female.
While st aying w ith the tribe, Da vis, who is also a triathlete, was allowed
to ac company them on hunting expeditions. Hunts began in the  morning at
a pa ce a lternating between a jog and a run. As soon as they pi cked up the
trail of an anim al, the hunters switched to running in order to catch up.
When th e anima l became aware of the hunters, it would speed away, but
they would continue to follow in  close pursuit. The hunters wer e persistent,
increasing their pace so as to give their prey little time to rest, and each time
they lost sight of it they would continue on doggedly until they tracked it
down again. This pattern could  continue over many hours, po ssibly even
days, but the h unters’ tenacity would eventually pay of f and  the animal
would c ollapse from exhaustion, enabling them to capture it at close range.
While Davis had a hard time ke eping up with the hunters’ pace, what was
most im pressive to him was that  they never opened their mouths  to breathe.
Just like  our ancestors, present -day indigenous tribes are able to run at a
high intensity with their mouth s closed over a relatively long duration of
time, a feat that civilized man seems to have for gotten. It is time to go back
to basics.
Initially, breathi ng through the n ose might feel strange during e xercise,
especially if you are used to breathing through your mouth. Bu t remember
that the nose is made for breathing, and nasal breathing ensures a number of
benefits that are essential not only for good health but for impr oved sports
performance, including:
•   Filteri ng, war ming, and humidifying air before it is drawn in to
the lungs
•  Reducing the heart rate
•   Bringing nitric oxide into the lungs to open airways and blood
vessels•  Better oxygen delivery throughout the body
•   Redu ced lact ic acid as more oxygen is delivered to workin g
muscles
The pace at whic h you are able to exercise during a half hour of  training
while br eathing through your nose will depend on your BOL T score. Below
are s ome guidelines that are influenced by your nostril and airway size. For
example, an athlete with lar ge nostrils will experience less resistance to
breathing, enabling exercise at a higher intensity with his or  her mouth
closed. Here is a general guideline of exercise ability (with  the mouth
closed) according to BOL T score:
•   If yo ur BOL T score is 5 seconds, your ability to walk is
seriously hampered. Climbing one flight of stairs will be
challenging, req uiring you to sto p every 3 or 4 steps in order to
take a rest.
•   If your BOL T  score is 10 seconds, you will be able to walk
slowly.
•   If your BOL T  score is 20 seconds, you will be able to walk
quickly or jog lightly.
•   If your BOL T score is 30 seconds, you will be able to jog at a
medium to fast pace.
•   If  your BOL T score is 40 seconds, you will be able to ru n
quickly.
By increasing your BOL T score, no matter the size of your airways, you
will exp erience lighter breathin g and be able to train at a higher pace, for
longer d istances, while breathin g through the nose. Y our fitness levels will
soon increase well beyond what  they were before, and nasal breathing will
become much easier during exercise. W ithin 6 to 8 weeks your BOL T
measurement sh ould increase by 10 to 15 seconds, resulting in a  significant
improvement to your fitness.Dr. Bill  Hang is an orthodont ist from California. For the past few
decades he has e xamined the mouths and airways


 healing methods. It is always desirable to quit all addicting substances,start a whole foods diet, (as light as possible), and add meganutrition(supplements) to the medical doctor’s treatments. Few medical doctors are soarrogantly partisan as to assert that natural measures will do any harm as long asthe MD is still allowed to prescribe as they please.
Holistic support will not only lessen the side effects of the medical treatments
but will speed up healing and often reduce the required dose of prescribed drugs.I have had several clients with cancer who chose to have surgery, radiation andchemotherapy, but stayed on a raw food diet and took high doses of supplementsthroughout the treatment. These people amazed the attending physician by feelinggood with little if any fatigue, no hair loss, or flu symptoms. The same can be trueof other conditions.
Ethyl always comes to my mind when I think of how much healing power can
still be left in a dying body. She (accompanied by her husband for support) cameto Great Oaks School with terminal cancer, heart failure, advanced diabetes,extreme weakness, and complete inability to digest. Any food ingested just cameback up immediately. Ethyl had large tumors taking over the breast, sticking outfrom her skull, and protruding from her body in general. The largest was the onein the left breast which was the size of a big man’s fist.
She did have one crucial thing going for her, Ethyl was a feisty Irish red head
who still had a will to live, and a reason to do so. She and her husband, who had
just retired, had dreamed their whole life of touring the US and Canada in their
own RV the minute he retired. The time had finally arrived but Ethyl was too ill tosupport her own weight (only 90 pounds) and to top it off was blind from diabeticretinopathy. The doctors had done everything they could to her, and now judgedher too weak to withstand any more surgery (she had already had her right breastremoved). Radiation or chemotherapy were also considered impossible due toheart failure. They sent Ethyl home to die, giving her a few days to a month atmost.
Any sensible hygienist trying to stay out of jail would have refused to take on
this type of case because it was a cancer case where death was likely. Treatmentof this highly lucrative disease is considered the AMA’s exclusive franchise, evenwhen the medical doctors have given up after having done everything to a bodythe family can pay for or owe for. Whenever a person dies under the care of anyperson who is not a licensed M.D. there must be an autopsy and a criminalinvestigation in search of negligence. If the person dies under the care of an M.D.the sheriff’s assumption is that the doctor most assuredly did everything he couldand should have done and death was inevitable. By accepting Ethyl I had areasonable likelihood of ending up in trouble; but being foolish, brave and(stupidly) feeling relatively immune to such consequences (I was under 40 at thetime), it seemed important to try to help her. So, undaunted by the task,regardless of the outcome, I proceeded logically, one step at a time. Today, withmore experience and a modest net worth I wouldn’t want to have to defend in alawsuit, and at age 55. possessing no spare five to ten years to give to the State to“pay” for my bravery, I would probably refuse such a case. Fortunately I have notbeen confronted with this problem lately.
Since Ethyl was unable to digest anything given by mouth, she was fed rectally
with wheat grass juice implants three times a day. She was carried to the colonictable for a daily colonic. Wheat grass and clay poultices were applied to hertumors three times a day. She received an acupressure massage and reflexology
treatments during the day, plus a lot of tender loving care. This program continued
for a month during which the tumors were being reabsorbed by the body,including the large, extremely hard tumor sticking out the flesh of the right breast.
Ethyl complained of severe pain as the large tumor in her breast shrank. While
it had been getting larger and pressing ever harder on all the nerves, she had littleor no sensation, but as it shrank, the nerves were reactivated. Most people thinkthat a growing tumor would cause more pain than a shrinking one. Often theopposite is true. Pain can be a good sign that the body is winning, an indicator toproceed.
By the second month, Ethyl, gradually gaining strength, was able to take wheat
grass and carrot juice orally, and gradually eased into raw foods, mostly sproutsand leafy greens such as sunflower and buckwheat greens grown in trays. Shestarted to walk with assistance up and down the halls, no longer experiencing theintense pain formerly caused by a failing heart, and most surprising of all, hereyesight returned, at first seeing only outlines, and then details.
The third month Ethyl enlarged her food intake to include raw foods as well as
the carrot and wheat grass juice and sprouts, plus vitamin and mineralsupplements to help support her immune system and the healing process. All thetumors had been reabsorbed by her body and were no longer visible, her heartwas able to support normal activity such as walking, and nonstrenuous householdchores, and her diabetes had corrected itself to the point that she no longerrequired insulin and was able to control her blood sugar with diet.
Her husband was then instructed in her maintenance and they went home to
continue the program. The last I heard from them they had made two lengthy tripsaround the US in their RV and were enjoying their retirement together after all.
My treatment worked because the most important factor in the healing of the
critically ill person is not give them more nourishment than their body is able toprocess. The moment the digestive capacity of the sick person is exceeded, thecondition will be exacerbated and in a critically illness, the person is likely to die.
If the body still has sufficient organ integrity and vital force to heal itself, it will do
so only if given the least possible nourishment that will support life–provided noessential organs are hopelessly damaged. If the liver and kidneys are functional,and the person has done some previous dietary improvement and/or cleansing,success is likely, especially if the person wants to live.
A person in critical condition does not have time to ease into fasting by first
spending a month or two on a raw foods diet. This means that the person who istaking care of the critically ill person must be experienced enough to adjust theintensity of the body’s healing efforts and accurately assess the ability of theperson to process toxic waste products clamoring for removal so the ailing bodyis not drowned in it’s own poisons. It is often necessary to use clear vegetablebroth, vegetable and wheat grass juices, and fruits juices, or whole sprouts toslow down the cleansing gradient and sometimes, to resupply the tissue’sexhausted nutritional reserves.
I wish all cases of critical illness had such a positive outcome as Ethyl’s, but
unfortunately they don’t. I had Marge on the same program at the same time. Shealso had cancerous tumors all over her body and had similarly been sent home todie. In some ways Marge’s body was a more likely candidate for survival thanEthyl’s. Marge did not have heart failure or diabetes and was still able on arrivalto at least take small amount of water orally and walk to the bathroom. Put on asimilar program, her tumors also shrunk and were reabsorbed and she too wenthome.
But Marge did not really have a strong reason to live. Although her husband
was by her side throughout the treatment program, Marge was deeply upsetbecause she was estranged from one of her sons who she had not seen for over10 years. When she went home from Great Oaks, the son finally consented to seehis mother, went to the effort of trying to work things out with her, and finallyconfessed that under it all he still loved her.
At that point Marge died in peace. She had accomplished the last thing she
wanted to take care of and her will to live did not extend beyond that point. Hadshe died several months earlier as predicted by the medical profession, Margewould have been unable to resolve this relationship. This was what Marge’s lifewas pivoting on at the end. I was glad to assist her in doing what she needed todo. Her husband and other family members found it difficult to understand, andthey were hurt that Marge did not wish to continue her life with them.
Diet For The Chronically Ill.
The chronically ill person has a long-term degenerative condition that is not
immediately life threatening. This condition usually causes more-or-less continuoussymptoms that are painful, perhaps unsightly, and ultimately will be disabling oreventually capable of causing death. To qualify as “chronic” the symptoms musthave been present a minimum of six months, with no relief in sight. People withthese conditions have usually sought medical assistance, frequently have hadsurgery, and have taken and probably are taking numerous prescription drugs.
Some examples of chronic conditions are: arthritis, rheumatism, diabetes, early
onset of cancer and aids, asthma, colitis, diverticulitis, irritable bowel syndrome,some mental disorders, arterial deposit diseases, many of the itises(inflammations).
Before fasting, the chronically ill often do have time to prepare the way with
limited dietary reform, and frequently begin to feel relief quite quickly. Beforeactually fasting they should limit their diet to raw foods and eliminate all toxicfoods like alcohol, coffee, tea, salt, sugar and recreational drugs for two months if


tians, Dewey set the ball rolling for an
amalgam of
5. Cremin, et al., op. cit., 6.
6. Ibid., 45-6.  Round Numbers  65
"educational" psychology and socialism. It became
known as "Progressive Education" and, emanating from
Columbia's Teachers College for the next half-century,
it slowly but surely became commonplace in every
school in the country.  8. A Showplace
To Dewey and Thorndike, the schoolroom
was a "great laboratory" in which to do their
research and refine "the modification of instincts
and capabilities into habits and powers."1 Yet there
was no large laboratory school at Columbia, no
institution filled with wi lling or unknowing subjects
for the great psychologi cal experiments of the
Wundtians at Teachers College—not until 1917, that
is, when an offer to estab lish such a laboratory school
came from Abraham Flexner of the General
Education Board.
Abraham Flexner was an able fund-raiser, an
experienced educator, and an organizer who felt he
had the solution to both the supposed failure of
American education and to the need of the General
Education Board to disbur se the Rockefeller mil-
lions.2 Educated at Johns Hopkins University and
1. Ibid., 44.
2. Flexner's very readable autobiography, I Remember, he later
brought up to date and reprinted under the title Abraham Flexner: An
Autobiography (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960).
67 68 THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION
the University of Berlin, he apparently had little contact
with the Wundtian psychologists at each institution.
Flexner's experience in education came from fifteen
years of running his own preparatory school in
Louisville, Kentucky, and from his studies in German
and American education while a researcher at The
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,
in New York City. In 1913, Flexner left the Carnegie
Foundation and went to work for the General Education
Board, first as assistant secretary for four years, then as
secretary (principal executive officer) running the
operations of the Board for eight years in partnership
with its president, Wallace Buttrick.3
The resident intellectual and educator on the Board,
Flexner's forte was in digesting large amounts of
information and making them palatable to others: his
specialty was education. While Rockefeller and his son
wanted only the relative peace and tranquility of
millions in the bank, divorced from the manner in
which those millions had been gained and safe from
governmental and public att acks, Flexner saw more
clearly than any other how that money could be used to
further
3. In 1928, Flexner resigned from his position as a trustee of the General
Education Board in order to devote all of his time to the establishment and
operation of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, home of the atomic
bomb.

A view of Russell Hall, Teachers College of Columbia University.
Teachers College Library, Speci al Collections, TCana Collection.

John D. Rockefeller: "I believe th e power to make money is a gift
from God."
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: "I was in a unique position. I could
talk with father at the strategic moment."
Frederick T. Gates, the Baptis t minister: "... unhampered by
tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and
responsive rural folk." A Showplace  69
progressive Education in  the United States.
Flexner's first impact on American education
had taken the form of "Germanizing" American
medical education. While at the Carnegie Founda-
tion, Flexner was asked to do a major study of
medical schools in the United States and Canada. In
eighteen months, Flexner visited each of the 155
medical colleges in th e U.S. and Canada.4 He was
appalled by conditions which he considered
inexcusable when compared with the medical
schools he had seen in Ge rmany. Nonetheless, he
did find several medical sc hools of which he ap-
proved, most notably his alma mater, Johns Hop-
kins, which he considered to be "the one bright
spot, despite meager endowment and missing clin-
ics."5
Support for the "modernization" of American
medical colleges rapidly de veloped in the General
Education Board, which wa s looking for ways to
expand its philanthropy beyond the narrow band of
assistance to rural Southern education. Carnegie,
who had fostered the st udy initially, would have
nothing to do with medical funding, as "the practical
Scot could see no point in helping insti-
4. Flexner used the same method of wh irlwind, firsthand observation in
his grand tour of European red light  districts, preparing his 1914 book,
Prostitution in Europe.
5. Fosdick, op. cit., 152. 70 THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION
tutions which had allowed themselves to get into so
abysmal a situation."6 But at the request of the
Carnegie Foundation, Flexner took off again, this
time to survey medical school s in England, Scotland,
France, Germany, and Austria. It was while he was
writing up his final report that Gates invited him to
have lunch with him. Gates was strongly interested
in German medicine, and was opposed to the
traditional homeopathic medicine used by
Rockefeller's pers onal physician, Dr. H.F. Bigger,
with whom he often had h eated arguments. In the
short meeting, Gates asked Fl exner what he would do
if he had $1 million to work with in developing
medical education in th e United States. Flexner
replied that he would give it to Johns Hopkins.
Gates sent Flexner off to his alma mater with the
agreement that if Flexner could make a convincing
case for the donation, it would be given by the Board.
It was several years before Flexner finally cashed in,
securing a $1.5 million gift  from the Board to the
German-oriented Johns Ho pkins University. That
same year (1913), he left Carnegie and joined the
Board to direct the allocation of Rockefeller millions
to the development of chemically oriented medicine
in the United States.7
6. Ibid., 153.
7. The disparity between Rockefe ller's funding of German med-
icine, and his own personal disdai n for it, is ably described in A Sbowplace  71
By the time Flexner joined the Board, his attack
on American medical educ ation, which had been
front-page news across the country, had resulted in
the number of medical scho ols in the United States
dropping from 147 to 95.8 Naturopathic medicine
was on the decline in this country, as it was proving
particularly unsusceptible to Rockefeller funding.
Over the years (until 1960), the General Education
Board would give a total of over $96 million9 to
medical schools which, like Johns Hopkins,
disregarded naturopathy, homeopathy, and
chiropractic in favor of medicine based on the use of
surgery and chemical drugs. The Board's
sponsorship of chemical medicine on the one hand
and psychology on the other would culminate in
1963 when a group of researchers at Johns Hopkins
developed the use of Ritalin  to "treat" children who
were regarded as "troubled" or too active. The
effects of this merger of  chemical medicine and
Wundtian psychology upon American education are
thoroughly documented in The Myth of the
Hyperactive Child, and Other Means of Child
Control, by Divoky and Schrag.10
Collier and Horowitz, op. cit., 59-61. See also Abels, op. cit., chapters 28-
30, passim.
8. Fosdick, loc. cit.
9. Ibid., 328.
10.   Schrag, Peter, and Diane Divoky, The Myth of the Hyperactive Child
& Other Means of Child Control (New York: Random  72 THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION
Flexner's second major contribution to the trans-
formation of American education and society came
in 1916, with his plan to create an experimental
laboratory school, backed  by Rockefeller money,
which would be a showplace for the Progressive
Education practices of Dewey and Thorndike.
Flexner presented his views to the public in a short
tract called "A Modern School."11 In it, Flexner
attacked traditional American education and
proposed a sharp break with workable educational
practices. His experimental school would eliminate
the study of Latin and Greek. Literature and history
would not be complete ly abolished, but new
methods would be instituted for teaching these
subjects, classical literatu re would be ignored, and
formal English grammar would be dropped. Flexner
wasn't just throwing out the baby with the bath
water; he was blowing up the tub.
House, 1975). For a deeper account of the broad general effects of this type
of merger, see Schrag's devastating Mind Control (New York: Pantheon,
1978).
11.


 flawlessly. Believe me, I’ve seen families where everyone is
dependent and obsessed with loyalty to the unit, instead of loyalty to being
individuals within the unit. This can be a nightmare. But it’ s all in the hands
of the diode manipulators.” She stopped and looked at me. I knew what was
coming. Sure enough…
“You look bewildered again,” she said. “T ell me, how could there ever be
any dependency, as you put it, when the diodes are working properly? Don’ t
tell me…”
“You guessed it,” I murmured.
“You mean no dependency diodes on Earth?”
“You said it.”
“And you still have dependencies in people after age eleven?”
“Yes indeed, but before you swallow that one, let me ask you another
question,” I begged her.
“Okay, shoot,” she said. She was picking up my Earthly vernacular.
“I just let that jealousy-jam thing go by. What do you think I’m thinking
about that one?”
“I’ll bet you’ve never heard of jealousy-jam, and that you still have
jealousy on Earth. And that I won’ t be able to comprehend how that is
possible until I see it for myself when we get to Earth next week. How did I
do?” she inquired.
“You’ve got it one hundred percent correct,” I said, “and I am even going
to try and tell you about this jealousy-jam I’ve never heard about,” I stated,
taking pleasure in our role reversal. “When your husband wants to make
you jealous, he puts this jam on his toast and eats it, then he is jealous,
right?”
“Almost,” she said, stifling her laughter to avoid being impolite. “First,
you don’ t eat jealousy-jam. Y ou simply rub some on your fingers. And
second, you don’ t make yourself jealous with jealousy-jam, you make
someone else jealous. So my husband would rub some of the jealousy-jam
on my fingers, or vice versa, and then he would be able to say, ‘You’re
making me jealous.’ Y ou see, the cause of neurotic behavior is alwayslocated in the other person. Jealousy-jam on my fingers makes him jealous.
Jealousy-jam on his fingers makes me jealous. Got it?”
“Why would he want  to be jealous?”
Eykis dropped her gaze for the first time and blushed rosily. “It is the
finest stimulus for arousal,” she said with honesty and embarrassment,
struggling for control of her constricted voice. “W e enjoy convincing each
other there is no cause for jealousy in reality.”
I grinned. “That’ s one jam I’d like to try, then!” I teased.
She smiled and relaxed. “I’m sure you would,” she said, able to resume
her usual unwavering eye contact. I felt myself reddening this time.
“You know,” I said, “what really scares me is that I think we are
beginning to understand each other.”
She smiled and wanted to know if I knew enough yet for us to begin the
preparations for our visit to Earth.
I was thrilled that after so many hours of being together we had finally
figured out, although only in a minute way, something about our separate,
unique realities.
“Before we close,” I almost pleaded, “let me ask you a few more
questions. I think I know how your reality is indeed separate from ours, but
I want to verify it for myself.”
“All right,” she answered willingly. “And I’ll suspend my questions for
you until we get to Earth. But to be perfectly honest with you, I must admit
that while I am exceedingly pleased that you’re seeing how my reality
system works, I am more than confused about how yours works. I just can’ t
seem to understand it. Everything seems so alien. Y ou tell me repeatedly
that you have the same emotional reactions we do, and yet I’ve failed to
grasp how or why you get them. But I’ll be patient. There must be some
sensible explanation that simply eludes me at the moment.”
She was definitely wrong about the sensible explanation. But I didn’ t
want to say or do anything that might discourage her, or add to her
bewilderment. W e spent another hour talking about almost all the topics on
the list of things I wanted to know. I’d learned by now to suspend my
disbelief and I was no longer surprised at what appeared to be absolutely
ridiculous assertions. I’d finally given up trying to see her through my own
reality. I accepted her for what she presented herself to me as being. I’d
finally learned to stop judging her and to see that she was incapable of
distorting the truth. Eykis was in fact the personification of an acceptinghuman being, living comfortably with the reality of her society and eager to
grow with each new experience.
I had read a great deal about no-limit people firmly entrenched in their
own reality. They seemed to be superior human beings who could transcend
themselves and all their petty concerns and involve themselves in a strong
sense of purpose and mission. They were reality-based people who never
forgot the vital truth of what is. But Eykis’ truths were so new to me; so
foreign. I’d for gotten that a person’ s reality is just that, and that it is not
something to scof f at but something to enter and accept. Still, even I had to
admit that this was a very dif ferent reality. Gadgets and jams, lotions and
diodes, anxiety attack reports, and more. But so what! Isn’ t the reality of a
supposed schizophrenic just as unbelievably bizarre and unreal? And hadn’ t
I learned long ago that walking in someone else’ s shoes was far more
reality-based than pretending that their shoes were unwearable?
Eykis allowed me to view myself objectively. She made it possible for
me to see my prejudices and judgments by demonstrating that she was
incapable of the same prejudices and judgments. She showed me her world,
and I’d wasted my ener gy in being flabber gasted and incredulous. In the
time that Eykis and I had spent together I learned as much about myself as
about Uranus. Mostly I’d discovered that my disbelief in her reality was
related to a simple fact. I was attempting to understand her as I was, rather
than as she was. I vowed to stop this kind of assessment. I had prided
myself in never behaving that way with anyone on Earth, and yet I was
being as ethnocentric as I could be with Eykis on Uranus. Consequently,
when she said things that would have shocked me only yesterday, I reacted
with calm resolve today. I was beginning to understand her reality and that
understanding came from listening, not ar guing or even questioning.
As she told me about blame points, calculated by blame bankers, I
understood what she was saying. Blame points were assigned by blame
banks which informed the government division. T axes were paid
accordingly. On Uranus it made sense to blame. Self-rejection lotion was
also easy for me to consider now. Some people actually used it to stimulate
self-awareness. The end result was improved self-understanding, since self-
contempt sloughed of f with dead skin. I didn’ t question this sensible
reasoning for so much self-rejection on Uranus. The lotion was available to
cause these temporary problems, leading to positive results. Otherwise, as
Eykis had said to me, “How else could you explain people participating inso much self-rejection?” She elaborated on the importance of fearing failure
on Uranus. Fear worked in conjunction with those worry-wares and actually
helped one to avoid failure by fearing it. Again, who was I to ar gue?
The second simple fact that accounted for my disbelief in Eykis’ reality
stemmed from its utterly sensible nature. Something was missing on this
planet of Uranus even though it looked the same as Earth. I felt that the
“missing link,” so to speak, was precisely what gave my own planet its
distinctive (and unfortunate) character and history. Everything seemed to
have such a common-sense explanation. On Uranus, people had reasons to
be neurotic. The reasons were tied to their reality. In contrast, I could never
think of a reason rooted in reality for anyone on Earth to be neurotic or even
unhappy. And Eykis’ incredulity at my inability to give a sensible answer
was quite disturbing to me. She couldn’ t grasp an “unreal” or senseless
explanation, her reality simply didn’ t provide for it. Y et, she was always
polite and willing to wait and see. It was when she talked about love and
loving, sex and sexuality that she really touched my soul. Such a simple
definition, so easy a concept. I knew as I listened over and over to what she
told me of love and loving that I’d never even experienced such a joy, nor
had I known anyone who ever had. Not on Earth at least. And most
frightening of all, I didn’ t know if it was even possible to experience it in
my reality, unless Eykis showed me the way. But that, too, was impossible
to consider. I wouldn’ t want to even chance my dependency diode being
defective, or having her use jealousy


Planck concept of
the liquid junction potential (see Chapter Xlll). He
80 Water thereby identified fundamental physical characteristics
of molecules and cells. Diffusion potentials across
membranes and electrical phenomena of living cells
and tissue became to a certain extent explainable.
Bethe and Toporoff (I I) next pointed out, in osmo
tic studies, that the direction of deviation of the con
centration potential from the liquid junction potential
correlates with the electrokinetic charge of a mem
brane.
Teorell (82, 88) formulated in the 1950's his
"ftxed" charge theory, that ionic membranes have
two Donn:~~n equilibria and one net diffusion potential.
Meyer and Bemfeld, (57) in particular, and later many
others (17, 24, 37, 38, 43, 44, 55, 56, 66-69, 71-74,
77, 79, 80, 93) have further extended the basic concept
of fixed charges of membrane s and their many impor
tant functions in biology. For example, fixed surface
charges are considered to exist on the surface of both
plant and animal cells (I, 36, 90-92). Large molecules
of organic substances containing a polar part are often
arranged periodically in so-called pseudocrystallinic
aggregates (15). Such aggregates are present in cellu
lose, wood, silk and cotton wool, as well as in many
animal proteins (3, 29). Some of these aggregates are
in the form of surface-coating lipoproteins with a mi
celle structure. The polar parts of these molecules at
the cell surfaces are thought to act as ftxed surface
charges (27). The water-absorbing properties of many
substances are also considered to depend on the ftxed
charges of the absorbing material. Cotton wool, which
has a large surface per weight, may absorb as much
water as 25 times its weight (3).
The surfaces of cells are known to carry fixed elec
tropositive and electronegative charges (92). A surplus
of negative charges almost always characterizes the
surfaces of cells (1, 92). Two adjoining cells electro
statically attract each other at certain sites where the
flXed charges have opposite polarity (1, 4, 36, 38, 50,
75, 91). These charges are important for the mechani
cal strength of tissue. Fixed surplus charges are also
important constituents in the structural prerequisite s
for transmembranous and regional transport of water
in interstitialtissues(61, 75, 94).
D. Liquid water: structure
and energy
Before we can discuss electroosmosis adjacent to
lung lesions, some physical properties of water must
be reviewed (26, 42, 44, 62, 77). The structural fea
tures of liquid water depend largely on its ability to
form bonds by combinat ions of the molecular orbits of
electrons of its hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Liquid water also appears in polymers that possess a varying
degree of vibrational characteristics (7, 8).
In ice, representing the lowest energy level of water,
hydrogen -bonded clusters of water molecules form te
trahedrons (26). As energy content in liquid water
increases, the numbers of tetracoordinated bonds de
crease. Thus triple, double and unbonded water mole
cules appear progressively as energy increases to the
level of vapour, which represents the highest level of
energy content (60, 75). The difference in energy be
rween the levels for the tetrrabonded and unbonded
water molecules is estimated to be 2. 7 kcal/mole.
Brownian and vibrational moveme nts of water mole
cules constitute an important part of their total free
energy content.
Because a water molecuJe possesses a permanent
dipole moment, it will orien.t itself within an electric
field, i.e., liquid water is "structured" in a way similar
tO what takes place in the formation of ice (60). An
augmentation of the dipole moment will also develop
when the molecule is exposed to an electric field.
E. Electroosmosis: transport
mechanisms Types I-IV
Tbe mode of water transport in electroosmosis is
known to a certain extent (44, 70, 77).
Transport of water by use of fixed charges on cellu
lar surfaces can be demonstrated in the following ex
periment (Fig. IX: 1). Cotton wool is packed in the
lower part of a U-shaped glass tube, forming "capilla
ries". A matrix now exists of spaces or channels among
the cotton fibres. Water is poured into the tube. Two
clean platinum electrodes are immersed in the water.
When an electric potential is applied between the elec
trodes, water moves from the positive to the negative
side of the system until an equilibrium is obtained
berween the electroosmotic and hydrostatic pressures.
This flow of water, against a hydrostatic pressure, may
be regarded as a primitive form of "active transport"
(defined as transport against an energy gradient), for
which the presence of suitably sized capillaries lined
with fixed charges is just as essential as the applied
elt-ctric field. Such transport of warer (electroosmotic
water transport of what may be called Type I) can be
assumed to take place without concomitant electrolysis
of waler molecules. In a simplified version, Fig. IX: 2
illustrates this electroosmotic transport of Type I.
I. Type I electroosmosi.s
When an applied electric field is strong enough to
break up clustered water mol.ecules, a field orientatio n
or "structuring" of the molecules wiU take place.
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Fig. IX: I. Electric transport of water. Conon wool is
packed in the lower part of aU-shaped glass tube, which is
partly filled with water. Two clean platinum electrodes are
immersed in the water. When an electric potential difference
is applied between the electrodes, water is moved in lhe
.. capiUariesu of the wool from the c:lcctropositivc to the eJcc·
tronegativc side of the system. An equilibrium is obtained
between opposing ele<:troosmotic and hydrostati c forces.
Simultaneously, the molecules and dielectric compo
nents of the matrix will increase their dipole moments.
The dimensions of the matrix of "capillaries" are also
important. Lined with fixed charges, the capillaries
must be smaU enough to prevent hydrostatic return.
Under these conditions, water will move in the capil
laries in a predictable way.
Negative surface charges of the capillaries will push
some of the oriented molecules (Fig. IX: 2, site X) and
puU some of them (site Y). Vibrational and rotational
movements of the water molecules can still take place
in irregular capillary channels (77). Certain molecules
will be transported along the matrix secondary to the
motion of the molecules in sites X and Y. The pres
ence or absence of net electrostatic forces on a mole
cule of water in the matrix largely depends on the
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nisms can be identified. Type I transport requires fixed elec
tric charges on the surfaces of the dielectric matrix (e.g., cot
ton wool). These charges are negative in cotton wool and tis
sue, leading to a net movement of water molecules from an
ode to cathode. The energy for this l1'1lnspon is suggested 10
deri\'C from the applied c:lcctric field transforming the: energy
of the water molecules. The transformations include break
ing of clustered wate.r molecules, and reduction of their vi
brational and rotational molecular movements. A net move
ment of water is produced by electrostatic interaction be
tween the die-lectric matrix and aligned water molecules.
Type I I transport is electrophoretically linked and requires a
closed electric circuit but no fixed surface charges on the d.i-
location of the fixed negative charges in relation 10 the
actual charge distribution of!he water molecules. Dur
ing transport in the matrix,!he dipoles of the molecule
and the fiXed charges are exposed 10 synchronously
fluctuating


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Afterword: a discussion of
principles and consequences of
biologically closed electric
circuits (BCEC)
A. Structural and functional
coordination in biology
Structural organization has long been recognized as a
dominating characteristic of biological systems. Many
attempts have been made to identify factors which
determine structural development. Such attempts have
led to theoretical concepts of an extrabiological guid
ing principle, an "entelechey" according to Driesch
(21i), the "embryonic field" of Spemann (R9) and the
"biological field" of Weiss (97). More specific func
tions have been introduced by Ingvar (43), Lund (54)
and Gurwitsch ( 40) in terms of bioelectric phenomena.
For instance, Ingvar showed that external electric
fields are capable of orienting growing structures in
vitro. This result led Burr and Northrop (19) to for
mulate an "electrodynamic theory of life" based on
interdependence between biologic particles. These
correlations, they suggest, depend on interactions be
tween particles and fields at the atomic level. Accord
ing to this theory, "the pattern or organization of any
biological system is established by a complex electro
dynamic field, which is in part determined by its
atomic physicochemical component$ and which in part
determines the behaviour and orientation of those
318 Principles and consequepces of BCEC components". In this theory the characteristic rela
tionships of the elements of any biological system are a
function of the field of the system. This theory is built
on the basic principles of molecular forces, which
evidently must be involved in the structural arrange
ments of nonorganic as weU as organic components.
The present work can be regarded as an extension of
such a theory. ID fact, a combination of superimposed
forces over "large" distances and the action of "local"
physicochemical forces can be described in terms of
hiologically closed electric systems.
B. BCEC systems and their
physicochemical activation
Nearly the entire content of this book serves one
main purpose: to focus attention on the existence and
function of an important biological principle, the bic>
lcgically closed electric circuit. To accept this concept
will require reviewing actual data in order to overcome
an abundance of possible objections. The conse
quences of the concept appear manifold and useful.
They therefore merit some closing considerations. A simplified expression of the principle follows from
the enormous importance of closed electric circuits in
modern electronic technology. Is it seriously plausible
that biology can "afford to ignore" the exceedingly
efficient principle of transporting electric energy over
closed circuits? A "yes" to this question means that we
continue an unchanged view of biochemical reactions.
A "no, means that we must revise extensively our
present concepts of conversion of energy in biochemi
cal reactions. The question we have formulated is
simple but the answer is difficult and exceedingly
important. In the author's opinion, biologically closed
electric circuits do exist. Among these circuits, vascu
lar-interstitial closed electric circuits (VICC) represent
energy pathways available in all vascularized tissues.
The vascular system thereby includes a new essential
function. This function is for vessels to serve as electri
cally conducting "cables" which are capable of con
necting different regions of tissue over conducting
interstitial fluid.
Arguments will be presented in this discus_ ~ion that
closed circuits other than VICC must also exist. Parts
of such closed circuits may consist of different combi·
nations of VICC branches, incretory and excretory
ducts of glands and different conducting media. These
media may include secretions and collections of electri
cally conducting fluids, e.g., peritoneal, pleural and
cerebrospinal fluid. This prediction is possible as long
as at least one insulated and conducting branch, i.e.,
the vascular branch, is available. It should not be
surprising, moreover, if walls of tissues, e.g., glandu
lar ducts, also possess their own relatively insulating
properties around their conducting media. The func
tion of BCEC systems also depends closely on the


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 with reproductive function and decreasing in
menopause when estrogen production declines.36
Hyperventilation during the second part of the menstrual cycle can
contribute to temporomandibular pain. This is partly due to
hyperventilation-induced adapta tions in posture and to changes in the blood
acid-base balance. For instance, the respiratory alkalosis that occurs when
blood CO2 drops is known  to trigger musc le pain, while overbreathing can
cause a forward head posture.
Postural adaptations including a forward-thrust of the head and rounded
shoulders are common among people with dysfunctional breathing patterns.
This often begins in childhood  due to open mouth breathing caused by
swollen adenoids. Equally, there  is a chicken-and-egg scenario where poor
posture from sedentary desk work can adversely impact breathing.37
According to a 2019 article on the website Spine Universe, which describes
sitting as “worse  than smoking” in terms of health, 70% of people spend six
or more hours a day sitting down.37
A forward head posture contributes to TMD because it reduces
“freeway space.” Freeway space is the distance between the upper and
lower teeth when the jaw is in its rest position. When the head is pushed
forward, the back teeth connect and pressure on the temporomandibular
joint increases. Restoring freeway space is considered important in treating
TMD.29
As with other pain conditions, symptoms of TMD fluctuate cyclically in
line with the menstrual cycle. In the luteal phase of the cycle, estradiol and
progesterone are released. Both hormones cause blood CO2 levels to fall,38
affecting the amount of air breathed per minute.12 The pain associated with
temporomandibular disorder increases toward the latter part of the
menstrual cycle, peaking in the first three days of menstruation when
progesterone levels increase and then decline. A second spike in pain
coincides with ovulation,36 when estrogen levels fluctuate.  The worst pain
corresponds with low or changin g estrogen levels.36 While the influence of
sex hormones on pain is still relatively unstudied, the general consensus is
that changes in breathing patterns across the menstrual cycle likely
contribute to temporomandibular joint pain.MIGRAINE
Temporomandibular joint disorder is a risk factor for migraine39 and tension
headache.40 At the same time, psychological conditions such as depression
and anxiety are common to people with temporomandibular pain,
migraines, and tension headaches.41 It has been suggested that rather than
the problem in the jaw causing  the headache or migraine, these disorders
develop and progress via the same underlying imbalances in the central
nervous system.39 This may be why relaxation techniques that influence the
nervous system are effective for the relief of both migraine42 and tension
headaches.43
A case describ ed in the Journal of Neur ology, Neur osurgery &
Psychiatry  in 2004 demonstrated that hyperventilation,44 both during rest
and following physical exertion, “may cause severe, acute, ‘explosive’
headaches” and that these could  be prevented with relaxation exercises and
physical therapy. The precise cause of the headache in this case study was
not identified, but researchers suggested that breathing exercises may
prevent excessive hyperventilation after exercise, although they “would not
prevent physiological exercise induced hyperventilation.” They suggest that
hyperventilation should be considered in all patients whose headaches are
triggered by exertion.
It is important to remember that you can prevent exercise-induced
hyperventilation by practicing nasal breathing while exercising and by
improving your BOL T score. You can also make a conscious effort to bring
your breathing and heart rate under control after exercising with a slow
breathing practice.
Hypercapnia (high blood CO2) has been found to stop the onset of
migraines by increasing cereb ral oxygenation—by dilating the blood
vessels in the brain. Researchers in a 2018 pilot study tested to find out
whether a self-administered partial rebreathing device would be effective
for migraine patients.45 A partial rebreathing device is exactly what it
sounds like—a machine through  which the patient “rebreathes” exhaled air,
which has higher levels of CO2 than room air. To some extent, the same
effect can be achieved by wearing a face mask or covering.Eight women and three men with an average age of around 35 took part
in the trial. They each self-administered either the rebreathing device or a
placebo in response to migraine attacks. The results showed that the partial
rebreathing device increased end-tidal CO2 by 24% and maintained oxygen
saturation at over 97%. The intensity of headache symptoms after two hours
was significantly less with the rebreathing device. What’ s more, the device
became more effective the more  it was used, with even better results with
consecutive treatments. There were no adverse reactions, and side effects
were nonexistent or mild. The researchers concluded that induced
hypercapnia presents a promising alternative or add-on treatment for
migraine patients and further work should be done to investigate the
benefits in a lar ger population.
The fact that the efficiency of the rebreathing device increased from one
treatment to the next corresponds with what we know about reduced-
volume breathing. Regular pract ice of breathing exercises to increase levels
of CO2 results in reduc ed sensitivity to CO2, and lighter, slower breathing,
as evidenced by a higher BOL T score.
The 2018 hypercapnia study was preceded nearly 40 years earlier by an
investigation into the relationship between migraines and blood CO2.46 A
1980 paper described the effects of CO2 on blood vessel s and circulation in
the brain, noting that anesthetists “regularly hyperventilate patients to
reduce brain volume during neurosur gery.” The researchers hypothesized
that, if migraine falls into two categories, dilatory and constriction-based,
retaining CO2 during sleep could trigger migraines by dilating the blood
vessels, or hyperventilation provoked by “excitement, anxiety, or
expectation of physical or sexual activity” could trigger migraines by
constricting the blood vessels.
The results showed that hyperventilation occurred at the peak of the
migraine, making the attack seem worse than it was. The researchers
suggested that not only was the perception of the migraine heightened but
symptoms were increased by the constriction of the blood vessels caused by
the hyperventila tion. This suggests that CO2 may play a part in the onset
and persistence of migraines.
In 2015,  another paper in Medicine  found a correla tion between sleep-
disordered breat hing and migraine in adults but not in elderl y people.47While more research is needed, it is thought that poor breathing patterns
during sleep could be either a trigger or a predisposing factor for the
development of migraines.
None of these papers mention the connection between the incidence of
migraine and the menstrual cycle.48 Various other studies have identified an
increase in the risk of migrain e without aura on the first two days of
menstrual flow, a reduced risk coinciding with the time of ovulation, and
much more prolonged headache s three to seven days before menstruation.48
(Aura is a common neurologic al symptom of migraine usually involving
visual disturbances such as flashing lights before the eyes, tunnel vision,
and temporary blind spots.)
In one 2004 study, researchers observed that women were 25% more
likely to suffer from a migraine in the five days before their period, with the
risk increasing to 71% in the two days before, peaking on the first day of
menstruation and on the next two days. This was confirmed in 2007 when
scientists found that the highest occurrence of migraine coincided with the
first three days of a woman’ s period.49 Menstr ual migraine is linked to
increased menstrual disability and distress—a fact that recently led to the
development of specific diagnostic criteria for menstrual migraine.48
Pure menstrual migraine and menstrually related migraine are slightly
different. To characterize the migraine type, menstruation is defined either
as bleed ing as part of the norm al menstrual cycle or as the withdrawal of
progesterone in women who take combined oral contraceptives  or cyclical
hormone replacement therapy. Pure menstrual migraine is a migraine
without aura that occurs on the first day of menstruation or the two days
either side of it, in two out of three cycles, with no incidence at other times
in the cycle. Most women will suf fer from menstrually related migraines—a
migraine without aura that occurs at other times of the month.48
Interestingly, the estrogen steroid hormone estradiol, which is
implicated in temporomandibula r joint pain, is also a factor in the onset and
progression of menstrual migraines. Scientists claim that by maintaining
levels of estrogen during the luteal phase of the cycle, it is possible to
prevent menstrual attacks.50 This is particu larly relevant for women who
take hormonal contraceptives or those with irregular periods. It has been
suggested that continuous hormones in place of the usual “thre e weeks on,one week off” (known as a 21/


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Suppressed Facts About Vaccination

By
Eleanor McBean
1957 PREFACE
CHAPTER I THE POISONED NEEDLE
WHERE HA VE THE "GREAT STRIDES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE" TAKEN US?
THE INSIDE STORY
V ACCINATION IS BASED ON A FALSE PREMISE
V ACCINATION LOWERS RESISTANCE AND INVITES DISEASE
SUMMARIZING THE CASE AGAINST V ACCINATION
CHAPTER 2: SMALLPOX DECLINED BEFORE V ACCINATION WAS
ENFORCED
CHART SHOWING DECREASE IN SMALLPOX DEATHS AFTER DECLINE OF
V ACCINATION
STA TEMENTS OF HEALTH OFFICIALS REGARDING V ACCINATED SMALLPOX
UNV ACCINATED DISEASES DECLINED FASTER THAN V ACCINATED
SMALLPOX
REPORT FROM BRITISH INDIA
WORLD’S WORST RECORD IN MEXICO
EVIDENCE FROM ITALY
CHART SHOWING INCREASE OF SMALLPOX UNDER COMPULSORY
V ACCINATION
HIGH SMALLPOX RATE IN V ACCINATED EGYPT
IMMUNIZATION INCREASED DIPHTHERIA IN SOME COUNTRIES
IMMUNIZATION INCREASED DIPHTHERIA IN SOME COUNTRIES
DECLINE OF V ACCINATION IN UNITED STA TES
CHAPTER 3: V ACCINATION HIT BY DOCTORS
GOVERNOR HAS SUSPICIONS
CHAPTER 4: THE HISTORY OF V ACCINATION
WHO STARTED V ACCINATION AND WHY’
V ACCINATION IS NOT SCIENTIFIC
INCREASED DEATH-RATE AFTER V ACCINATION WAS ESTABLISHED
TUBERCULOSIS CAUSED BY V ACCINATION
V ACCINATION IS OF VERY ANCIENT ORIGIN
INOCULATION IN AMERICA
V ACCINATION BASED ON DAIRYMAID’S STORY — NOT SCIENTIFIC
V ACCINATION DOES NOT IMMUNIZE, SAY AUTHORITIES
WHAT HAPPENED TO JENNER’S LIFETIME IMMUNITY?
JENNER’S ATTITUDE TOWARD COMPLAINTS AND DISASTER OF
V ACCINATION
ENGLISH GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED JENNER IN HIS VENTURE
EVEN JENNER RECOGNIZED THE FAILURE OF V ACCINATION
RE-V ACCINATION DESTROYS PROMISED IMMUNITYJENNER FANS RESENT THE TRUTH
RECORDS SHOW RE-V ACCINATION FAILS
CHAPTER 5: CANCER CAUSED BY V ACCINATION
PHOTOGRAPHS OF FA TAL CANCER CASES CAUSED BY V ACCINATION
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY REVEALS STARTLING FACTS
DOCTOR FORESEES A NATION OF INV ALIDS
FAULTY CANCER RESEARCH IMPEDES PROGRESS
THE MEDICALLY MADE IRON CURTAIN
90 PER CENT DIE OF MEDICALLY TREATED CANCER
CANCER — NO MYSTERY
LYMPHATIC INVOLVEMENT IN CANCER
DOES DIET HA VE ANY EFFECT ON CANCER?
HOW SHALL WE LEARN ABOUT FASTING?
WHAT KILLED BERNARR MACFADDEN?
WHAT’S WRONG WITH EARLY DIAGNOSIS?
CHAPTER 6:      SYPHILIS AND V ACCINATION
ENCYCLOPEDIA ON V ACCINAL SYPHILIS
MORE EVIDENCE
COMPARISON OF SMALLPOX, COWPOX AND SYPHILIS
WHY V ACCINATION CANNOT IMMUNIZE AGAINST SMALLPOX
CHAPTER 7: OTHER DISEASES CAUSED BY V ACCINATION
GOVERNMENT REPORTS REVEAL MORE DEATHS FROM V ACCINATION
THAN FROM SMALLPOX
30,438 SOLDIERS WERE STRICKEN BY V ACCINATION DISEASE
DEFECTIVE TEETH AND EYESIGHT TRACED TO V ACCINATION
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE CAUSED BY V ACCINATION
WHAT OTHER AUTHORITIES SAY ABOUT V ACCINATION AND DISEASE
V ACCINATION INCREASES COMMON DISEASES SUCH AS MEASLES
INFLUENZA, CHICKEN-POX, MUMPS, SCARLET etc
CITY SURVEY BEFORE AND AFTER V ACCINATION SHOWS INCREASE IN
DISEASE
CHART SHOWING INCREASE IN DISEASE BEFORE AND AFTER
V ACCINATION CAMPAIGN
FALSIFIED SMALLPOX REPORTS
POST-WAR GERMANY REVEALS TRUTH ABOUT V ACCINATION
WHAT DOES V ACCINATION DO TO THE BODY?
V ACCINE CANNOT BE MADE SAFE
CASE HISTORIES
CHAPTER 8: DEATHS FROM V ACCINATION
FIVE HUNDRED KILLED BY V ACCINATION IN FIVE MONTHS IN U. S.SOLDIERS DISABLED AND KILLED BY V ACCINATION
PHOTOGRAPHS OF VICTIMS OF V ACCINATION
V ACCINATION DEATHS NOT REPORTED
V ACCINATION DEATHS IN COLORADO  CHAPTER 7: OTHER DISEASES
CAUSED BY V ACCINATION
GOVERNMENT REPORTS REVEAL MORE DEATHS FROM V ACCINATION
THAN FROM SMALLPOX
30,438 SOLDIERS WERE STRICKEN BY V ACCINATION DISEASE
DEFECTIVE TEETH AND EYESIGHT TRACED TO V ACCINATION
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE CAUSED BY V ACCINATION
WHAT OTHER AUTHORITIES SAY ABOUT V ACCINATION AND DISEASE
V ACCINATION INCREASES COMMON DISEASES SUCH AS MEASLES
INFLUENZA, CHICKEN-POX, MUMPS, SC