	morning,	a	nice	warm	bath	or	shower	might	be	relaxing	by	itself.
RELAX	TO
MUSIC
Try	a	routine	of	listening	to	some	music	you	find	truly	relaxing.	Music	can	help
to	powerfully	relax	your	mind.	Find	some	music	you	connect	to	with	a	slower
vibration	that	leaves	you	feeling	soothed	and	chilled	out.	No	stimulating	hip-
hop	or	hard	rock	at	this	time!
HONOR	THE
SACRED	HOUR
Treat	the	last	hour	before	bed	as	sacred	time	for	you.	Try	reading	something
relaxing	or	spiritually	uplifting,	or	meditating.	There	are	excellent	ways	to	set
the	energetic	tone	as	you	drift	into	sleep.	(See
Pillar	6
	for	more	specifics	about
meditation.)	Your	nighttime	reading	should	be	done	with	real	books	instead	of
an	electronic	reader	that	can	disrupt	your	internal	cues	and	sleep	patterns.
During	the	sacred	hour,	what	you	avoid	is	just	as	crucial	as	what	you	engage
in.	Avoid	stressful	or	stimulating	activities.	Late	at	night	is	not	the	ideal	time	to
complete	last-minute	work	on	a	presentation,	hit	the	gym,	or	engage	in	a
dynamic	Vinyasa	yoga	flow.	It’s	also	not	the
best	time	to	get	into	a	big
emotional	discussion	with	your	partner	or	a	friend.	You’ll	be	better	off	saving
that	for	morning	tea	or	a	Saturday	hike,	if	you	can	put	it	off	until	then.
Stressful	activities	just	have	no	place	before	bedtime.	They	can	induce	your
body	to	secrete	the	stress	hormone	cortisol,	which	can	make	you	feel	more	alert.
Chill	out	and	steer	clear	of	anything	non–chilled	out.
SECURE	THE	BEST	BEAUTY	SLEEP	POSE
Research	has	shown	that	exactly	how	you	sleep	on	your	pillow	can	influence	wrinkleformation.	One	study	from	the	journal	of
Clinical	and	Experimental	Dermatology
studied	mechanical	forces	on	the	face	and	how	they	influenced	wrinkles	and
superficial	facial	changes,	including	the	formation	of	crow’s-feet	and	lines	around
the	mouth.	They	found	that	redistributing	pressure	could	help	reduce	wrinkles.
3
So	what	can	you	do?	First,	ensure	that	you	have	the	right	kind	of	pillow	(see
this
page
)	and	avoid	sleeping	on	your	stomach,	which	may	create	pressure	and
enhance	wrinkles	to	an	even	greater	degree.	Also	avoid	crossing	your	legs	when
you	sleep.	It’s	not	only	bad	for	circulation,	but	can	also	twist	your	spine,	leaving	you
feeling	unbalanced	in	the	morning.	Try	sleeping	with	a	pillow	between	your	legs,
which	will	keep	your	legs	and	hips	more	balanced.
Create	a	Personal	Bedroom	Cave
One	of	the	most	important	routines	you	can	create	is	the	habit	of
sleeping	in
an	ideal	environment.	If	you	look	at	the	sleeping	habits	of	other	animals,
regardless	of	whether	they	sleep	during	the	day	or	the	night,	you	will	find	bears
and	bats	burrowed	deep	in	cool,
dark,	quiet	caves.	Let’s	take	this	cue	from
nature	as	a	guide	to	create	an	ideal
sleep	environment.	There	are	three	factors
that	are	essential	for	creating	your	own	personal	beauty	sleep	“cave”	right	in
your	own	home.
COOL
Warm	temperatures	might	feel	great	during	the	day	when	you’re	outside,
especially	if	you	like	to	hike,	bike,	or	go	to	the	beach.	But	high	temperatures	are
not	great	for	sleep.	In	fact,	some	research	has	shown	a	connection	between
insomnia	and	elevated	body	temperatures.
4
	You’ve	perhaps	already	experienced
how	much	easier	it	is	to	sleep	soundly	when	you	can	snuggle	under	the	covers.
When	you	sleep,	your	body’s	temperature	drops	mildly,	which	actually	helps
prepare	you	to	sleep	through	the	night.
While	the
National	Sleep	Foundation	recommends	a	cool	65	degrees
Fahrenheit	(18	degrees	Celsius)
5
	for	sleep,	somewhere	between	65	and	75
degrees	Fahrenheit	(18	to	24	degrees	Celsius),	depending	on	your	particular
body	constitution,	is	a	good	range	to	help	you	drop	off	to	sleep	faster	and	more
deeply.	Some	researchers	believe	that	keeping	temperatures	steady	throughout
the	night	is	important,	and	that	if	there	is	a	rise	or	fall	in	temperature	you
might	experience	less	quality	REM	sleep.	If	possible,	set	your	home
thermometer	to	hold	steady	at	a	certain	temperature.	From	a	beauty	perspective,
excessive	heat	can	cause	you	to	lose	even	more	fluids	throughout	the	night,	and
sleep	is	already	dehydrating.	Chronic,	excessive	nighttime
dehydration	over
time	can	contribute	to	drying	out	and	taxing	your	skin.DARK
Your	whole	bedroom	needs	to	be	as	dark	as	possible.	Move	as	much	electronic
equipment	out	of	your	bedroom	as	possible	(surely	the	printer	can	fit
somewhere
in	the	living	room)	and	get	rid	of	digital	alarm	clocks	that	are
plugged	in	and	introduce	their	own	lights	and	electromagnetic	frequencies.
Then	go	through	and	use	black	tape	to	cover	any	little	blinking	lights	that	can’t
be	avoided.	Light	tells	your	brain	that	it’s	time	to	wake	up,	and	even	a	small
amount	of	ambient	light	from	your	cell	phone	or	computer	can	disrupt	the
production	of	melatonin,
6
	which	regulates	sleep	cycles.
It’s	also	very	helpful	to	equip	your	room	with	heavy	blackout	shades	that
completely	block	out	the	sunlight	along	with	outside	streetlights	or	car	lights.
This	is	especially	important	if	you	live	on	a	busy	road	or	in	a	city.	An	eye	mask
is	also	a	great	tool	to	help	block	out	light.	If	you	don’t	like	the	feel	of	a	mask,
which	can	feel	constricting	to	some,	simply	drape	a	dark	T-shirt	over	your	eyes.
Strive	for	the	complete	darkness	of	a	deeply	burrowed	cave,	trying	to	re-create
that	natural	environment	of	peace	and	relaxation.
SACRED	BEDROOM	ACTIVITIES
There	are	(probably)	multiple	rooms	in	your	house	or	apartment	for	all	the
functions	you	perform	daily	as	a	human	being.	While	it’s	not	a	bad	idea	to	work	on
your	computer	at	the	kitchen	table	or	sometimes	eat	dinner	on	your	couch	in	the
living	room	if	you	feel	like	it,	it’s	important	to	keep	your	bedroom	activities	to	the
bare	minimum:	sleep,	relaxation,	and	sex.
That’s	it
.	Ban	laptops,	TVs,	and	work
materials	from	your	bedroom.	Keeping	your	bed	only	for	relaxing	or	lovemaking	will
help	strengthen	your	mental	association	between	your	bedroom	and	sleep—or
lovemaking	and	then	sleep,	on	those	occasions!
Some	light	reading	in	bed,	especially	of	inspiring	or	spiritual	material,	is	highly
recommended.	This	content	can	seep	into	and	positively	influence	your	mind	as	you
are	drifting	off	to	sleep.	But	TV,	with	its	stimulating	lights	and	images,	should	be
avoided.	Keep	your	TV	in	your	living	room,	not	your	bedroom.
QUIET
Depending	on	where	you	live,	you	may	not	be	able


” constantly appear to be
making decisions! More than that, the decisions they seem to
make are based on decisions made elsewhere. Subatomic particles
seem to know instantaneously what decisions are made
elsewhere, and elsewhere can be as far away as another galaxy….
the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics is that all of
the things in our universe (including us) that appear to exist
independently are actually parts of one all-encompassing organic
pattern, and that no parts of that pattern are ever really separate
from it or from each other.
To me, this simply is the scientific world beginning to catch up with all
that spiritual masters have been relating for centuries. Subatomic particles
are so small that they defy our rational understanding. They (you included)
are the very essence of the universe, and they do not behave in ways that
Newton and other early scientis ts formulated. They do not need time as a
variable betwee n one point and another. They are instantaneously both
particles at the very same time. As The Dancing W u Li Masters  points out:
A particle over here can communicate with a particle over there
(by shou ting at it, sending it a TV picture, waving, etc.), but that
takes time even if only milliseconds. If the two particles are in
different galaxies it could take centuries. For a particle here to
know what is going on over there while it is happening, it must be
over there. But if it is over there, it cannot be here. If it is bothplaces at once, then it is no longer a particle. This means that
particles are related with other particles in a systematic and
intimate way that coincides with our definition of or ganic.
Yikes! Subatom ic particles that are two places at the same time, defying
everything that we have come to believe about the nature of our existence
and that of the universe. After we read about the new discoverie s in physics
and the new questions being asked, it is evident that our old views are no
longer valid. Just because we cannot see how it is all connected does not
mean that it is not.
All that we think we know abou t how life hangs together is really some
kind of illusion  that we have perpetrated on ourselves because of our
limited vision. What appear to be inanimate objects such as stones turn out
not only to be alive in the same way that we are, but also in many
infinitesimal ways to be affected by stimuli just as humans are. The
distinction between animate and inanimate simply cannot be made when
you enter the world of quantum mechanics and try to determine how those
apparent subatomic particles, of which you and everything else in our
universe is composed, are all tied together. The point is that physics and
metaphysics show there is a pattern to the universe that goes beyond our
capacity to grasp it with our brains. Just the fact that we observe something
with our thoughts affects what we are examining, even though we may
think we are at a distance. That is how inextricably it all hangs together.
In this tiny little excursion into the world of the new physics, we find
those apparent subatomic particles are so small that one of them in an
empty fourteen-story building representing one atom would be the size of a
grain of salt. And don’t forget that a peek into our most powerful
microscope reveals millions upon millions of fourteen-story buildings, in
the tiniest object  we can observe. Armed with this, can you begin to believe
in the concept of synchronicity? How can you not? The essence of our
universe from the perspective of the tiniest particles at the subatomic level
outward to the endlessness of the void seem composed of a systematic,
synchronized pattern that we too are very much a part of. We are each a
subatomic particle, both here and someplace else at the very same time, all
connected in the inspiring patte rn of it all, behaving as unique beings and
yet at the very same moment connected to all other beings, just like those
subatomic partic les within an atom, within a molecule, within a cell, withina being, within a universe. It is synchronized and perfect, and so are we.
There are no accidents. The study of quantum physics reveals that the
tiniest particles all work with some mysterious perfection individually, and
in conce rt with all other particle s anyplace in the universe at the exact same
moment. No time lapse needed.
It does not seem difficult then to see that we are subject to the same
system—that we are part of the seemingly impossible synchronized dance,
and that while we appear to be making many decisions in the running of our
daily life, at the same time, and I mean the exact same time, we are also part
of the largest picture of all, which is already complete and perfect.
Accidents and random occurrences are simply out of the question.

EVER YTHING THA T HAS HAPPENED HAD TO HAPPEN;
EVER YTHING THA T MUST  HAPPEN CANNOT  BE ST OPPED

Think back to those examples I gave regarding Shirley Lorenzini and the
man in the Monterey bookstore. Every single event of my life before then
was necessary in order for me to be driving along Federal High way at that
moment, or to walk into the bookstore when I did. Had anything been
different, I would have been different, and something else would have had
to take place. But you know that nothing else could have taken place except
that which did. So whether I believe that I could have altered it or not, the
fact is that it came out exactly as it did, and nothing can change that.
The belief that we have a choice as things are happening is enough of a
reason to make it true for me. I see both contexts very clearly now, and one
does not preclude the other. As paradoxical as it may sound, “We are all
doomed to make choices.” Just as those subatomic particles can literally be
in two places at the same time, instantaneously connected in different
places, so too can I. It is simply in the way of things. I know  that I am
always making choices, and that each choice leads me to the next, and that
as long as I am not interfering with the flow of the energy that is the
universe, I am going in the appropriate direction. I know that when I say
yes to life, trust my intuition (which I cannot define), and keep moving in a
direction of harmony and love for myself and others, everything is balanced
and perfect. I also know that I have the power to interfere with the harmony
by acting in discordant and aggressive ways. My ability to think aligns me
in the universe much as the subatomic particles are aligned, even thougheverything that we observe with our senses tells us that it is all random. I
know that a closer, more thoug htful view reveals that nothing is random,
including myself and all of my choices.
You can use this alarming realization to benefit your life each day. Once
you know that everything that you encounter, everything that you think and
feel, everything that you do, is all part of the synchronicity of this universe,
and at the precise same instant  that you are directing it as well, you will
have removed the shackles from your life. You will begin to see that all of
your life steps are synchronized. You can stand in back of yourself, in your
mind, and see where your form  is heading. You can be detached from any
need to interfere  in an aggressiv e way with anyone, and be more receptive
to all that is surrounding you, as well as all that you are surrounding. You
can stop the endless analysis of everything and instead flow more
peacefully, knowing that the divine intelligence that supports your form is
working perfectly, and that it always will. How could it not? How could
anything so immense, so balanced, so perfect, not be trusted to continue that
way for you into infinity?
Trust in this. Know that it all hangs together in perfect harmony. Know
that you too are a part of that perfection, and that your every act, thought,
intuition, and placement anyplace is also part of that perfection. Once you
accept this synchronization of the universe, the seemingly impossible
coincidences are met with a nod and an inner knowing, rather than an
incredulous shock wave of disbelief about a series of happenstances.
But before you can begin to get this principle working at all times, you
need to let go of some old beliefs. Here are a few of the reasons you may
find it difficult to start applying the principle of synchronicity in your life.
Examine them carefully to test your willingness for allowing these
“miracles” into your life.

WHY  YOU MA Y FIND IT  DIFFICUL T TO EMBRACE
SYNCHRONICITY

We have  been taught not to believe something until we see it with our
own eyes. Since we cannot see synchronicity or experience it directlywith our own senses, we become skeptical of it. Our Western culture
teaches that all of the mysterious connections are really only random
happenstance, and it is easier to believe in these coincidences than in
something which eludes our senses.
We belie ve very strongly in our separation from the rest of humanity,
as well as in our individuality. We see synchronicity as a conflict with
our need  to be our own unique individual, separated out from the rest
of humanity. If everything is synchronized and


 : 11 5
AFTERMATH OF CASES
1. Shrimati Rajani is a widow and is a nurse in Dhariwal
(Punjab). Her daughter Chanchal Kumari aged eleven had four
tumours on throat. On her mother1s persuasion the young girl
started urine treatment. She took urine orally twice a day and
rubbed it on the body once a day. The urine massage was done by
her mother. In two months the girl was cured and all her growths on
her throat disappeared completely.
2. Shri Dinubhai Joshi (Advocate, ~ombay High Court) advised
his brother to take to urine therapy for curing his sore throat and
tongue. In three weeks he was cured of his trouble.
3. Mrs. Mistri from Bombay (Karve Road), informs that she could
cure her own sore throat and could get (id of tonsils of her son by
the use of urine by taking it orally and by its garglings.
CHAPTER X
STOMACH DISEASES
1. Hyper-acidity : Shri G. B. Kelkar is a Maharashtrian residing in
the Shrimali Society in Navarangpura Ahmedabad. In May 1958, he
sent me his experience about urine therapy :
111 used to suffer from severe pain in my stomach and had tremor
in my hands. A friend advised me to try urine treatment. I decided to
rub my palms with a·Jt0-1 ;rine. With rubbing for three days, the
tremor stopped. This encouraged me to continue the treatment
persistently. I suffered from serious hyper-acidity and had u;cers in
my stomach. I had taken medicines for 20 years but there was no
relief. I began gargling with urine and rubbed it on the entire body.
Within a week I gathered enough strength and thus encouraged I
decided to drink it. I used to drink a glassful of urine during the
whole day in three or four instalments. Within a week, I had such
relief as cannot be expressed in words. I continued drinking it for a 116 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
month and am now free from hyper-acidity. The ulcers in the
stomach have been healed and now I have good appetite, and
though I am 67, have strenght enough to do my usual work. All this
is due to urine therapy.11
2. Stomach-ache: Shri Chaturbhai Bhailalbhai lievs ih the village
Mogari near Anand. His wife was fat and often felt pairt in her
stomach. As the daughter of Shri Chaturbhai was cured of her
ear-trouble with urine therapy, he adopted it for the stomach-ache of
his wife also and started with rubbing urine. Within a week of
rubbing, there was considerable improvement. she felt some relife
and a feeling of vitality and vigour in here body. After that she also
fasted on urine. With the treatment of about a month, the stomach
pain disappeared and she became healthy, active and strong.
3. Constipation : Shri Pravinchandra Parikh is a resident of
Khaju~ini.Pole. in Kalupur, Ahmedabad and works in a shop of
Arvmo mil Is. Hts body was fatty due to constipation and his heart
and memory were very weak. Pravinchandra developed some faith
in urine therapy and began to drink urine secretly. Afterwards he
disclosed it to Shri Ranjitbhai and.reported that he felt excessive
heat in the body. Shri Ranjitbhai asked him not to be alarmed, as the
heat ~ould subside by itself. Pravinchandra also felt itching
sensations. Howerer he continued drinking urine thrice a day. Heat
subsdied after a few days of treatment. This treatment for two and a
half mon~hs eliminated his constipation totally and the body
became ltght. The weakness of heart and brain also disappeared.
Now he began to relish food. For two and a half months, he had
given up the use of salt and took khakhara (dry bread), milk and
vegetables in his diet.
4. Chronic Constipation : Shri Gamanlal K. Parikh is a resident of
Dhalni Pole, Ahmedabad. He suffered for many years from chronic
constipation and felt itching on the entire body. 0Ae night swellig
appeared on the whole body and his face looked fearful. He had
some acquaintance with Shri Ranjitbhai. So he se~t for him and
narrated the story of his trouble. He advised him to stop allopathic STOMACH DISEASES : 117
treatment and to begin urine therapy. Gamanlal agreed to this
suggestion. He used to pass urine only once a day in the morining.
So his son was asked to store his urine which was utilised in
rubbing his father. Just when the rubbing was being done on the
abdomen, he felt sensation for motion. On that day he had a very
loose motion and the bowels were cleared within a few minutes. At
noon and in the evening also he had clear motions. The next day
when Ranjitbhai came for rubbing. He was pleased to know that
there was 75% improvement. He continued the treatment for three
days more and was completely cured.
5. Permanent Constipation : Shri Keshavbhai Makanbhai is a
teacher in village Hajira, Surat. On the advice of his grandfather he
treated his three children with urine for their ailments. After this
incident he hppened to read my book which confirmed his faith in
urine therapy. He undertook urine treatment to get rid of his own
constant constipation. Here is his account of is cure:
111 started only with drinking urine on 1 0-4-59 and gradually
increased to 5 oz. a day till14-4-59 and gradually my constipation
disappeared. On 15-4-59 I took urine once in the morning only. I
was feeling very hungry indeed. My abdomen had became quite
soft. My chronic constipation was removed by the above treatment
Urine is the doctor of the farmers, my grandfather used to say.
"Con:tant constipation had badly affected my bowles and at
times sv.!fling appeared. For this I started again urine treatment on
5-11-59 for 15 days and I feel myself quite free from it.11
G. Indigestion, Gas-trouble & Constipation : Shri Laljibhai H.
Patel, aged forty-three, is a resident of village Aslali near
Ahmedabad.· After two mounths of urine treatment on his own for
his ailments, he came to me with an acquaintance and narrated the
story of his experience :
"I had been suffering from mild asthma which has now
disappeared after urine treatment. Only faith and self-control are
required in this treatment. Lack of will power always failed in giving 118 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
up the use of refined sugar and cigarettes. Had 1 left these two, 1
feel I would have attained benefit much earlier.
"~uring the first 8 dyas, I took entire urine passed during the
day-t1me. After that lused to drink it only four times a day. In the
last ten days, I took it only once a day. As a result, there was much
impr?vement in my gas-trouble and constipation. With the rubbing
of unne, the colour of my skin became faire, the perspiration of the
soles stopped. Moreover, the pimples on the face due to heat also
disappeared. B_ackache also was no more. Now 1 can work a good
deal without any difficulty."
Shri Laljibhai has mentioned in his account that he did not
o~serv~ the restrictions. This shows his humility and candour. 1
thmk h.1s carelessness in observing the restrictions is a warning to
others m that such carelessness is exhibited by nearly all patients.
However, he had reaped the fruits of urine treatment. Had he
observed the restrictions, the disease would have been got rid of
within 8 days instead of one and a half month.
After the completion of his treatment, Laljibhai came to me and
narrated an incident of his childhood. He said:
"When I w~s ten years old, blotches appeared on my entire body.
· I felt much pam. An old Vaidya of my village suggested to my father
that blotches would disappear if I took urine of a donkey for four
days! My father knew well that I would not drink donkey's urine
as such. Next day, while going out he told me. that he was going to
Ahmedabad to fatch medicine for me. Under such a pretext, he gave
me donkey's urine which I took with grimaces. 1 took this'medicine'
for four days and as a result all the blotches disappeared and 1 was
completely cured. Later, I came to know that the'medicine' 1 had
taken was nothing but donkey's urine! In this


	deepest	of	all	silences,
maha
samadhi
.
Ramana	could	remember	all	these	things	now	that	he	too	had	died.	He
looked	around.	There	was	no	one	to	greet	him,	no	family,	not	even	his	master.
For	a	second	a	shiver	of	fear	gripped	him,	then	it	faded,	and	with	it	the	power
to	think.	Ramana	didn’t	even	get	to	think,
There	goes	my	mind
.	He	slipped
effortlessly	to	where	mind	was	no	longer	needed.	There	was	no	whiteness
around	him	anymore,	but	even	this	perception	lasted	for	only	an	instant,
because	there	was	no	darkness,	either.	When	his	mind	slipped	away,	it	took
light	and	dark	with	it.Now	he	was	enveloped	in	silence,	which	came	as	an	indescribable	relief.
Like	thieves	in	the	night,	whole	worlds	wanted	to	enter	him	and	take	his
silence	away.	But	all	they	could	do	was	glance	off	him	ever	so	lightly,	like
feathers	off	a	rock.	He	was	impenetrable	now.	There	was	no	universe	and	no
God,	no	divine	presence,	no	love.
He	lingered	like	that,	in	the	womb	of	the	timeless,	for	a	while.	Then
Ramana	felt	a	soft	breath,	and	it	beckoned	him	back.	He	was	stirring	to	life
again.	Not	because	he	wanted	to	live	on	earth,	for	that	would	have	been	a
thought.	The	breath	was	its	own	reason.	There	was	a	split	second	when	he
could	choose	not	to	return.	Eternal	peace	was	just	as	possible	as	another
lifetime.
Only	then	did	he	realize	that	he	was	free	at	last.	Human	life	could	be	his
again,	only	now	he	also	would	have	eternal	peace,	the	two	together.	Ramana
smiled	to	himself,	if	one	can	say	that	the	cosmos	smiles.	The	breathing	grew
louder.	He	relaxed	and	let	it	carry	him	downward	back	to	earth.	One	breath,
then	another,	always	louder,	until	it	became	like	the	monsoons	drifting	down
the	mountain,	or	the	knocking	of	the	gods.	He	couldn’t	see	what	family	he
would	be	born	into,	but	Ramana	knew	his	new	purpose:	to	show	these
dreaming	humans,	whom	he	loved	so	much,	how	to	wake	up.READING	NOTES
There	will	never	be	a	definitive	book	on	the	afterlife,	which	I	think	is	good,
because	no	single	book	will	ever	convince	skeptics	or	console	everyone	who
has	wondered	what	happens	after	death.	What	might	change	society’s	fear	and
doubt	is	a	rising	tide	of	evidence.	Below	I	have	listed	every	book	and	Web
site	that	helped	me	write	this	book.	They	constitute	a	mountain	of	evidence
that	life	continues	after	death;	more	important,	each	one	is	a	symptom	of
rising	consciousness.	Too	long	has	death	been	a	mysterious	subject.	The	best	I
can	hope	for	is	to	shed	a	little	light	into	that	darkness,	but	I	couldn’t	have
done	it	without	the	countless	other	people	trying	to	shed	the	same	light.
Chapter	1:	Death	at	the	Door
We	have	entered	a	new	era	in	research	where	the	Internet	has	become	as
valuable	as	standard	book	references.	Besides	Googling	any	general	topic
(e.g.,	ghosts,	near-death	experiences,	heaven)	at
www.google.com
,	one	can
turn	to	the	ever-expanding	online	encyclopedia	at
www.wikipedia.com
.	The
only	flaw	with	Web	references	is	that	they	tend	to	be	overwhelming	in
number	but	sometimes	shallow	in	coverage.
The
	great	virtue	of	online
referencing	is	that	the	reader	can	go	deeper	than	the	author	on	any	particular
topic	with	the	push	of	a	button.
I	touched	only	briefly	on	the	physical	changes	caused	by	death.	Sherwin
B.	Nuland	won	a	National	Book	Award	on	the	subject	with
How	We	Die:
Reflections	on	Life’s	Final	Chapter
	(Knopf,	1994).	Nuland,	a	senior	Yale
physician,	goes	into	clinical	detail	about	the	biology	of	the	dying	process,
covering	heart	disease,	cancer,	Alzheimer’s,	and	AIDS,	among	other	topics,	in
his	exploration	of	how	every	person’s	death	is	as	unique	as	his	life.
Spiritual	experiences	also	cause	physical	changes,	making	them	just	as
real,	if	you	are	a	materialist,	as	the	changes	caused	by	death.	An	early	popular
book	on	the	subject	is	Nona	Coxhead,
Mindpower
	(Penguin,	1976),	which
emphasizes	research	into	ESP	and	other	areas	of	parapsychology.	For	a
contemporary	study	of	how	current	breakthroughs	in	brain	science	are
changing	our	view	of	consciousness,	I	turned	to	Joseph	Chilton	Pearce,
The
Biology	of	Transcendence:	A	Blueprint	for	the	Human	Spirit
	(Park	Street
Press,	2002),	which	is	refreshingly	humane	and	far-ranging.	Pearce	writes	for
the	general	reader	and	intersperses	neurology	with	intriguing	anecdotes.
I	have	tried	to	be	as	nontechnical	as	possible	when	discussing	the	vast
philosophical	system	known	as	Vedanta.	Readers	who	want	to	go	back	to	thesource	should	begin	with
The	Concise	Yoga	Vasistha
	(State	University	of	New
York	Press,	1984),	in	a	clear	and	readable	translation	by	Swami
Venkatesananda.	This	great	work	describes	the	education	of	Lord	Rama,	an
incarnation	of	God	in	human	form,	at	the	feet	of	an	immortal	rishi,	Vasistha,
who	tells	his	young	pupil	all	the	Vedantic	knowledge	about	death,
reincarnation,	and	the	projection	of	all	worlds	from	the	Self.	I’ve	kept	this
book	at	my	side	for	many	years.
T
EXT	NOTE:
p.	25
	Modern	attempts	to	weigh	the	soul	at	the	moment	of	death	are	discussed
online	at
http://www.snopes.com/religion/soulweight.asp
.
Chapter	2:	The	Cure	for	Dying
The	story	of	the	Tibetan	delog	Dawa	Drolma	is	recounted	by	her	son
Chagdud	Tulku	in	his	introduction	to	her	book,
Delog:	Journey	into	Realms
Beyond	Death
	(Padma	Publishing,	1995).	This	is	the	best	entry	into	personal
experiences	of	the	Bardo	that	I’ve	found.	The	classic	work	on	death	and	dying
in	the	Tibetan	tradition	is	the	now-famous	Tibetan	Book	of	the	Dead.	It	may
strike	many	Westerners	as	too	exotic	and	detailed	in	its	Buddhist	ritualism,
which	is	the	product	of	many	centuries	of	religious	practice.	More	accessible
is	Sogyal	Rinpoche,
The	Tibetan	Book	of	Living	and	Dying
(HarperSanFrancisco,	1993),	which	covers	the	same	ground.
Near-death	experiences	were	introduced	to	the	public	in	the	1970s	through
several	bestsellers,	one	of	them	being	the	immensely	popular
Life	After	Life
by	Raymond	Moody	(Mockingbird	Books,	1975),	a	quick	read	that	still
retains	the	ex


 heating, stir the contents continuously.
Boil and reduce the water quantity to 500 ml (half a litre). Filter it to get the
water decoction (Kashayam).
Step 2: Making the Anti Dandruﬀ Hair Oil –
Take this Kashayam in a wide mouthed, bigger vessel.
Add 500 ml of coconut oil to it.
Mix 10 grams of each herbs together with little water. Make paste and add it
to the oil + kashayam mix.
Heat the contents in mild re.
Stir continuously.
Heat it till all moisture content is lost and only oil and the herbal paste
remains at the end.
Signs to Observe
In the initial phase of heating, the total mass bears curdy and dirty appearance.
Slowly as you move towards the end of heating, the oil starts getting
separated from the rest of the ingredients.
In the initial phase of heating, no particular smell or color can be
appreciated in the mix.
Nearing to the end, the vessel yields good smell of oil and ingredients and
also exhibits good oil colour.e end stage is very important to know. At the end stage, there will be
thick frothing.
If you take the herbal paste from oil and put it directly on re, if there is no
sound (of moisture), it indicates that you should stop heating immediately. If
there is sound, it indicates that there is still remnant moisture. So, you need to
continue heating till there is no sound.
Nearing to the end, if you take out small amount of herb paste from the oil,
allow it to cool down a little, then roll between your thumb and index nger,
you can easily roll it to the form of a wick. It will be neither too smooth
(indicating water content) nor too granular/rough (indicating over – burnt
oil).
So, observe these features, stop heating the oil and lter it when it is still
hot. You need to lter when it is hot, or else the herbal paste will absorb all the
oil, resulting in loss of oil.
How to Store?
Preserve in air tight container. avoid direct exposure to air/sunlight/moisture.
Expiration Date
It can be safely stored and used for up to one year.
How to Use is Ayurvedic Remedy?
It can be used in place of regular hair oil.
You can apply it to the scalp, leave it over night and next day morning wash
hair.
Or it can be applied just half to one hour before washing hair.
A few drops of it can be applied to the scalp every day, even if you do not
wash hair every day.What Are Its Benets?
Useful to relieve dandruﬀ, scalp psoriasis, itching, eczema.
It can be applied during pregnancy, lactation and in children.
Is It too Cold or Is It too Hot?
It is neither too cold nor too hot. Hence, it usually does not worsen sinusitis
(like regular coconut oil does in some people).
Is It a Traditional Formula?
No. I have derived this based on ancient Ayurvedic text book references and
my clinical experience.
What If all the Ingredients Are Not Available?
Make the oil with whatever ingredients you can get.
Is Making Kashayam as First Step Very Necessary? Can’t we Make the Oil
Directly by Adding Herbs + Coconut Oil and Water?
For preparing traditional Ayurvedic oils, making Kashayam as the rst step is
necessary. It allows the oil to have both water soluble and fat soluble active
constituents of herbs.
As a short cut method, you can make the oil directly, without making
Kashayam. e results will be somewhat compromised.76. How to Make Herbal Oil
to Remove Burn Scars
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Here is a simple herbal oil that you can prepare at home to clear burn marks.
Burn mark means white or brown skin mark that remains after a burn wound
is healed.
It is in the form of oil. Even ghee can also be prepared with the same
ingredients.
Ingredients –
Tender leaf buds of Teak wood plant – Tectona grandis) 25 grams,
100 ml of coconut oil or sesame oil,
25 ml of water,
2–5 gram of cumin seeds.
Utensils Required
Mortar and pestle to make into ne paste
Wide mouthed steel vessel to process the oil
Spatula for mixing
Filtering cloth, collecting vessel.
Method of Preparation of Medicated Oil for Burn MarksTender buds of teak wood are collected and made into ne paste.
To this cumin seeds are added and mixed well.
is ne paste is kept soaking with oil for 2 hours.
is is taken in a wide mouthed vessel and water is added.
Further it is heated in very mild ame. During heating, constant stirring is
done with a spatula so as to prevent charring as well as sticking to the bottom.
On nding froth over oil, the oil is taken out of the re and ltered. is oil
will be dark red in colour.
Note: In case if the leaves are matured and tender buds are not available, such
a oil is pink in color; always prefer to get tender buds only as the pigmenting
agents are rich only in such tender leaf buds.
Action
Coolant, calms Pitta Dosha.
Improves complexion and skin texture.
My Experience with is Formulation: Other than burn marks, I am using
this recipe in the treatment of chloasma and in hyper – pigmentation cases
also.
It is a condent formulation that has potential to cure the pemphigus
vulgaris, removing skin tans also; I have prescribed this formulation with
encouraging results (along with oral medications).
Long term usage of cosmetics (especially in actors and drama artists who use
excessive cosmetic agents) causes roughness of the skin and if this is used its
undesired eﬀects can be reduced.77. Essential Oils Benets,
Usage, Side Effects, Types,
Advantages
By Dr. Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) and Dr. Manasa, B.A.M.S.
Y
Any oil which contains ‘the essence of the plant’s fragrance’ i.e. the characteristic
fragrance of the plant from which it is derived is called an ‘Essential Oil.’
Some oils are extracted or derived from the plant and parts of the plants.
ese oils carry the essence or fragrance of the plant. ese oils are called
essential oils.
erefore the term ‘essential’ has been used in terms of ‘fragrance.’
Denition based on the composition and ingredients of essential oil:
‘An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile
aroma compounds from plants.’
Other names – Volatile oils, Ethereal oils, Aetherolea, Oil of the plant (ex. Oil
of clove)
Methods in Which Essential Oils Are Extracted from Plants
Distillation (using steam) –
Raw plant material (owers, leaves, wood, bark, roots, seeds, peel) are put in
distillation apparatus. e steam passes over these parts and vaporizes the•
•
•
•
•
•volatile compounds in them. As the vapours ow through the coil they
condense into liquid. is liquid is collected in a vessel
Examples of the Essential Oils that Are Distilled –
Lavender oil, Peppermint oil
Tea tree oil, Patchouli, Eucalyptus oil
e re-condensed water (which is collected) is called hydrosol (herbal distillate,
hydrolat, plant water essence). ese are sold as another fragrant product.
Examples of Hydrosols Are –
Rose water
Lavender water
Lemon balm
Orange blossom water etc
Expression –
Expression means extraction of oils by pressing the source. All essential oils
were extracted by expression or pressing before distillation was discovered. e
oil is extracted by mechanical pressing or cold pressing.
Example – Citrus peel oils are expressed. Lemon oils or sweet orange oils are
obtained as by-products of citrus industry.
Solvent Extraction –
In this method a solvent such as hexane or super-critical carbon dioxide is used
to extract the oils from certain owers. ese owers contain too little volatile
oil. erefore they cannot be expressed. Also, their chemical components are
very delicate and easily denatured by the high heat used in steam distillation.
erefore the distillation cannot be used.Extracts from hexane and other hydrophobic solvents are called concretes.
Concretes are a mixture of essential oil, waxes, resins and other oil – soluble
plant materials.
Absolute Oil Extraction –
Concretes obtained in solvent extraction are fragrant but they contain
abundant of resins and non-fragrant waxes. Another solvent like ethyl alcohol
is used to extract fragrant oils from concrete. e remnant left over after waxes,
lipids, precipitates and ethanol are removed is called absolute.
Supercritica l carbon dioxide is used to extract both waxes and essential oils


g.Tip: You can use hot fudge sauce in place of the melted dark
chocolate. Try skipping Step 4 and drizzling the chocolate over
the smoothies in the glasses. Serve with a spoon.
G r a s s h o p p e r  P i e
Prep time: About 3 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 4 servings
Ingr edients
1 cup milk
1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
2 to 3 drops pure mint extract
2 cups fresh spinach
2 scoops chocolate ice cream
2 tablespoons melted dark chocolate
2 tablespoons crushed chocolate wafers, for garnish
Dir ections
1 Combine the milk, sweetened condensed milk, mint extract, and
spinach in the blender container.
2 Secure the lid on the container.
3 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 25 seconds or until smooth. Add ice cream
and start on a low speed, gradually easing toward high, blend
for 10 to 15 seconds or until mixed into milk mixture.
4 With the motor running on medium speed, add the melted
chocolate to the container through the opening in the lid. Blend
for 10 seconds or until mixed into the shake.5 Pour the dessert smoothie into 4 glasses, garnish the drinks
with crushed wafers, serve with a spoon, and enjoy!
Per serving: Calories 192 (From Fat 76); Fat 8g (Saturated 5g); Cholesterol 21mg; Sodium 99mg;
Carbohydrate 25g (Dietary Fiber 1g); Protein 5g.
Vary It! You can use fresh mint sprigs to garnish this dessert
smoothie.
Vary It! You can substitute low-fat ice cream (or ice milk) for any
of the regular ice cream ingredients called for here. Check the
amount of sugar in the lower-fat ice cream to see if you need to
reduce the sweetened condensed milk or other sweet ingredients
in the recipe.
L e m o n  C h i f f o n  C a k e
Prep time: About 3 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 4 servings
Ingr edients
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup vanilla or lemon ﬂavored yogurt
2 tablespoons frozen lemonade concentrate
2 scoops vanilla or lemon sherbet
4 chunks frozen banana
2 tablespoons crushed ladyﬁnger or lemon wafer cookies, for garnish
Dir ections
1 Combine the buttermilk, yogurt, lemonade concentrate,
sherbet, and banana chunks in the blender container.
2 Secure the lid on the container.3 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth.
4 With the motor running on medium speed, add the melted
chocolate to the container through the opening in the lid. Blend
for 10 seconds or until mixed into the shake.
5 Pour the dessert smoothie into 4 glasses, garnish the drinks
with crushed wafers, serve with a spoon, and enjoy!
Per serving: Calories 139 (From Fat 17); Fat 2g (Saturated 1g); Cholesterol 25mg; Sodium 102mg;
Carbohydrate 27g (Dietary Fiber 1g); Protein 5g.
Tip: Ladyﬁnger cookies or vanilla cookies are plain vanilla-
ﬂavored cookies shaped and baked in a long oval. You can make
your own or purchase them.
Tip: You can use one fresh banana, cut into chunks in place of the
frozen banana.
Dairy Mocktail and Cocktail
Smoothies
Why dairy cocktails and nonalcoholic drinks, you might ask?
First, because they’re delicious — think Bailey’s and Kahlúa —
and they supply protein and calcium for added nutrients.
However, as with most cocktail drinks, the calories are stacked
pretty high when these drinks are compared to plain vegetable
or even fruit smoothies.
The same amount of smoothie ingredients that serves two in
the fruit and vegetable section is suggested to serve four here.
Serve them in shot glasses and sip slowly if you want to lower
the calories you consume with each drink. Of course, if you
drink twice as many because they’re just so darned tasty, this
defeats that strategy.I suggest a darker alcohol such as amber rum, rye, or scotch,
instead of lighter spirits because the cream mixer can take the
stronger tasting liquor. If you prefer a lighter taste, of course,
you can use vodka, light rum, or gin. Liqueurs make good
additions to smoothies, and I use an orange-ﬂavored one in the
Orange Cream recipe here. Table 17-1 provides a brief list of
some liqueurs that add other ﬂavors you can experiment with in
smoothies.
C r è m e  C a s s i s
Prep time: About 3 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 4 servings
Ingr edients
1 cup 18 percent to 35 percent cream
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
1 scoop vanilla ice cream
2 cups fresh or frozen blackberries
2 teaspoons dark chocolate cocoa, optional
4 ounces amber rumDir ections
1 Combine the cream, yogurt, ice cream, blackberries, and cocoa
in the blender container.
2 Secure the lid on the container.
3 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are no
visible pieces of fruit in the mixture.
4 Pour the drink into 4 glasses, stir 1 ounce of alcohol into each
drink, and enjoy!
Per serving: Calories 353 (From Fat 213); Fat 24g (Saturated 15g); Cholesterol 87mg; Sodium 50mg;
Carbohydrate 18g (Dietary Fiber 4g); Protein 4g.
Vary It! Frozen fruit makes a smoothie thicker. You can use any
frozen berry in place of the blackberries. Raspberries, blueberries,
and strawberries work, as do other pieces of frozen fruit, so
experiment.
C a f é  a u  L a i t
Prep time: About 4 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 4 servings
Ingr edients
1/2 cup whole milk or 10 percent cream
1 cup plain yogurt
1 scoop chocolate ice cream
1/4 cup chocolate-covered coffee beans
2 tablespoons melted dark chocolate
Dir ections1 Combine the milk or cream, yogurt, ice cream, coffee beans,
and melted chocolate in the blender container.
2 Secure the lid on the container.
3 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are no
visible pieces of the beans in the mixture.
4 Pour the mocktail into 4 glasses and enjoy!
Per serving: Calories 149 (From Fat 68); Fat 8g (Saturated 5g); Cholesterol 11mg; Sodium 65mg;
Carbohydrate 17g (Dietary Fiber 1g); Protein 5g.
Tip: You can use chocolate syrup in place of the melted chocolate.
C r è m e  d e  B a n a n e
Prep time: About 4 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 4 servings
Ingr edients
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup plain yogurt
4 chunks frozen banana
1 scoop vanilla ice cream
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Dir ections
1 Combine the buttermilk, yogurt, banana, ice cream, cinnamon,
and nutmeg in the blender container.
2 Secure the lid on the container.3 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are no
visible pieces of fruit in the mixture.
4 Pour the mocktail into 4 glasses, and enjoy!
Per serving: Calories 88 (From Fat 19); Fat 2g (Saturated 1g); Cholesterol 8mg; Sodium 93mg;
Carbohydrate 14g (Dietary Fiber 1g); Protein 4g.
Tip: You can use one fresh banana cut into chunks in place of the
frozen banana.
O r a n g e  C r e a m
Prep time: About 4 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 4 servings
Ingr edients
1 orange
1 cup half and half (10 percent) or light (18 percent) cream
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
1 tablespoon grated orange rind
1 scoop vanilla ice cream
2 ounces orange ﬂavored liqueur
Dir ections
1 Grate 1 tablespoon of orange peel and set aside in a small bowl.
Peel and seed the orange and break it into quarters.
2 Combine the milk, yogurt, grated rind, orange sections, and ice
cream in the blender container.
3 Secure the lid on the container.
4 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are novisible pieces of fruit in the mixture.
5 Pour the drink into 4 glasses, stir 1/2 ounce of liqueur into each
drink, and enjoy!
Per serving: Calories 227 (From Fat 114); Fat 13g (Saturated 8g); Cholesterol 44mg; Sodium 51mg;
Carbohydrate 20


 be classified as bacteria.84 It was a perfect fit with
the concept of the enemy: if no bacteria can be found, then some other single cause
must is responsible for the disease. In this case, a quote by Goethe's Mephistopheles
comes to mind: "For just where no ideas are, the proper word is never far."85
40 Medicine Presents a Distorted Picture of Microbes
The photograph shows Dr. James Hiller (seated) and Vladimir Zworykin (standing) at the first
commercially operated electron microscope (EM), owned by the Radio Corporation of America
(RCA), in 1940. RCA sold this model to American Cyanamid for $10,000. The EM, invented in
1931, first made it theoretically possible to see viruses, which are not recognizable with a normal
light microscope, as the EM uses fast electrons, which have a much smaller wave length than
visible light, to depict a sample's surface. And since a micr oscope's resolution is limit ed by the
wavel ength, a much higher resolution can be achieved with an EM (currently approximately 0.1
Nanomet er= billionth of a meter) than with a light microscope (approximately 0.2 micrometer s =
millionth of a meter).
41 Chapter 1
The number of inconsistencies that arise from the theory of death-bringing
viruses is illustrated by the smallpo x epidemic, which even today people like to draw
upon to stir up epidemic panic.86 But was smallpox really a viral epidemic that was
successfully overpowered by vaccines? "Medical historians doubt this," writes
journalist Neil Miller in his book Vaccines: Are They Really Safe & Effective? "Not only
were there no vaccines for scarlet fever or the Black Plague, and these diseases
disappeared all the same."87
For example, in England, prior to the introduction of mandatory vaccinations in
1953, there were two smallpox deaths per 10,000 inhabitants per year. But at the
beginning of the 1870s, nearly 20 years after the introduction of mandatory
vaccinations, which had led to a 98% vaccination rate, 88 England suffered
10 smallpox deaths per 10,000 inhabitants annually; five times as many as
before. "The smallpox epidemic reached its peak after vaccinations had been
introduced," summarizes William Farr, who was responsible for compiling statistics
in London.89
From an orthodox view, the picture on the Philippines was no less contradictory:
the islands experienced their worst smallpox epidemic at the beginning of the 20'h
century, even though the vaccination rate was at almost 100%.90 And in 1928, a
paper was finally published in the British Medical Journal that disclosed that the risk
of dying from smallpox was five times higher for those who had been vaccinated
than for those who had not.91
In Germany statistics of smallpox mortalities have been collected since 1816.
There were around 6,000 smallpo x deaths per year until the end of the 1860s. In the
years 1870 -71, the number of victims suddenly jumped 14-fold to nearly 85,000
deaths. What had happened? The Franco-Prussian War was raging, and French
prisoners of war were held in German camp under the most miserable conditions
with extremely bad nutrition. As a result, the number of smallpox cases in the camps
increased exponential ly, even though all French and German soldiers had been
vaccinated against smallpox. Germans (themselves suffering from the war) were
likewise affected by the smallpox, although some of them had also been vaccinat ed.
When the camps were dissolved directly after the war, the number of smallpox
deaths also markedly declined. Three years later, in 1874, there were only 3,345
smallpox deaths in Germany per year. Prevailing medicine says that this reduction
was due to the Reichsimpfgesetz, a law that among other things stipulated that a
child had to be vaccinated "before the end of the calendar year following his year of
birth." But in fact, this law first came into effect in 1875, when the smallpox scare
was long past. "Improvements in hygiene, technology, and civilization much had
occurred at that time, which led to the reduction in illnesses and deaths," says
physician Gerhard Buchwald.92
42 Medicine Presents a Distorted Picture of Microbes
Irrespective of this, mainstream viral research and medicine exclusively assumes
that viruses are "infectious" pathogenic germs, which actively spread out in the cells
in a parasitic way (with the assistance of enzymes and other cellular components)
and multiply-ultimately attacking and sometimes killing cells. Or as a well-known
German daily newspaper puts it, in the typical sensationalized manner: "Viruses are
the earth's wiliest infectious agents: they attack animals and humans to enslave their
cells."93
As thrilling as this may sound, no scientific backing is provided for this statement.
To accept this, the existence of these so-called "killer viruses" must first be proven.
And this is where the trouble begins. Consequential, scientifically-sound evidence
has never been provided, even though it's as easy as taking a sample of patient blood
and isolating one of these viruses, in a purified form with its complete genetic
material (genome) and virus shell, directly from it, and then imaging it with an
electron microscope. But these critical initial steps have never been done with HSNl
(avian flu),94 the so-called hepatitis C virus,95 HIV,96 97 and numerous other particles
that are officially called viruses and depicted as attack-crazy beasts.
At this point, we encourage our readers to verify dominant virus theories
independ ently-as many people have done, among them Nobel laureates, top
microbiologists and researchers from other fields, serious journalists and Jay people
alike. We've asked for evidence from important institutions like World Health
Organization (WHO), the American Centers for Disease Control (CDC), or its
German counterpart, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Berlin. In the summer of
2005, for example, we contacted the RKI and requested the following
information:98
1. Please name the studies that indisputably show that the SARS, hepatitis C, Ebola,
smallpox and polio viruses and the BSE causative agent have been proven to exist
(complete purification, isolation and definition of biochemical properties plus
electron micrograph s).
2. Please name studies that indisputably show that the viruses named above cause
disease (and also that other factors like malnutrition, toxins, etc. do not at least
co-determine the course of disease).
3. Please name at least two studies that indisputably show that vaccinations are
effective and active.
Unfortunate ly, to date we have not (despite repeated questioning) yet had a
single study named to us.
Readers may wonder how it can be continually claimed that this or that virus
exists and has potential to trigger diseases through contagion. An important aspect
in this context is that some time ago, mainstream virus-science left the road of direct
43 Chap ter 1
observation of nature, and decided instead to go with so-called indirect "proof" with
procedures such as antibody and PCR tests.
In this book, we will often stray from the well-traveled road, but at this point we
must point out that these methods lead to results which have little to no meaning.
Antibody tests just prove the existence of antibodies-and not the virus or particle
itself to which the antibody tests react. That means: as long as the virus or cell
particle (antigen) has not been precisely defined, no one can say what these antibody
tests are reacting to; they are thus "unspecific" in medical lingo.99
It is no different with PCR (polymerase chain reaction), which is used to track
down genetic sequences, little genetic snippets, and then replicate them a million
fold. As with antibody tests, PCR probably has significance because it displays a sort
of immune reaction (as it is called in technical terms) in the body; or, to put it more
neutrally, some sort of disturbance or activity on a cellular level. But a virus with
indeterminate characteristics cannot be proven by PCR any more than it can be
determined by a little antibody test.100 Again, this is because the exact virus
determination has not been carried out.
In terms of genetics, these short pieces that are found using the PCR are not
complete and do not even satisfy the definition of a gene (of which humans are said
to have 20,000 to 25,000).101 In spite of this, it is suggested that "pasted together" they
would depict the whole genetic material of a given virus. But nobody has presented a
paper that shows an electron micrograph of this so-called reproduced virus.
Even if scientists assume that the particles discovered in the laboratory (antigens
and gene snippets) are the viruses mentioned, this is a long way from proving that
the viruses are the causes of the diseases in question, particularly when the patients
or animals who have been tested are not even sick, which, often enough is the case.
Another important question must be raised: even when a supposed virus does kill
cells in the test-tube (in vitro


 five years. One in every three people will
contract cancer in their lifetime, and one in four will die from it.
Cancer can be ruthless and take you down in a matter of months. Cancer
can be relentless and drag on for decades. Cancer often requires sur gery,
which can be disfiguring and painful. Cancer causes depression, with its
energy-zapping chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Cancer is horrific.
Cancer is everywhere. Take a look around you and you will see how it
has blemished almost every family in America—including the families of
our firefighters at the station: Steve Martinez’ s father died at fifty-two ofcolorectal cancer, James Garee’ s father died at fifty-seven of lung cancer,
and Scottie Walter’s seventy-one-year -old father just endured chemotherapy
for throat cancer.
How does this menace start? At the cellular level. Each of us has billions
of cells in our body. For the most part, these cells are programmed to grow,
divide, and then die.
Cancer begins when normal cells mutate and become abnormal due to
various environmental, nutritional, or chemical stresses. They then start to
grow and divide wildly, refusing to die, doubling every one hundred days—
and yet it can take ten to fifteen years before such cancers reach the size of
a match tip.
Eventually these renegade cells clump together to form a tumor, killing
off healthy tissue as it competes for space and blood vessels to acquire
nutrients. Parts of the tumor can even break away, spread throughout the
body, and start other tumors. This process, called metastasis, is usually a
death sentence.
But you can lower your cancer risk. Like heart disease, cancer loses its
power if you don’ t feed it the things it craves to flourish—dairy, meat, eggs,
oils, processed sugar, tobacco, and alcohol.
Even if you already have cancer, you can reduce its growth by lessening
your reliance on animal foods and reaching for plant foods.
Let’s explore why, starting with dairy products. Multiple studies show
that dairy products contain cancer -promoting saturated fat; animal protein;
and insulin-like growth factor -1 (IGF-1), a powerful growth-promoting
hormone and known cancer culprit.
Saturated fat suppresses the immune system and contains excessive
calories, which spur growth of all cells—even cancer cells. According to
The China Study’ s T. Colin Campbell, the animal protein in dairy foods
(even fat-free products) contributes to an acidic environment in which
cancer cells and tumors thrive.
As for IGF-1, this substance actually changes our hormonal balance,
according to Dr. John McDougall. In women, IGF-1 can increase estrogen
levels, known to promote breast and ovarian cancer, and in men, it can
increase testosterone levels, known to promote testicular and prostate
cancers.
In fact, a June 1999 article in the journal Alternative Medicine Reviews
reported that prostate cancer was more strongly correlated with theconsumption of nonfat dairy products than with any other food product.
Let’s remember where all dairy comes from—the cow. Cow’ s milk is 20
percent protein if it’ s whole (40 percent if it’ s skim), most of which comes
from casein—a dairy protein shown to be a tumor promoter. Furthermore,
the amount of fat in milk averages around 50 percent, a lar ge percentage of
which is saturated. The remaining 35 percent of milk’ s calories come from
the carbohydrate milk lactose, to which 70 percent of the world is
intolerant.
Cow’ s milk is fine for a calf who wants to gain one thousand pounds in
less than a year. Whenever possible, humans should stick to breast milk
until the age of two, and then make the switch to a milk substitute.
Meat is another problem. Meat protein creates an acidic environment
that is also a breeding ground for cancer cells and growth hormones. And
meat fat is a magnet for chemical carcinogens that are stored in fat tissue—
fiends such as mercury, dioxin, PCBs, and DDT.
Meat is also high in oxidants, such as iron, which not only oxidize
cholesterol—a process that makes it more easily deposited in your arteries
—but also promotes free radicals that mutate your cells’  DNA  and turn
them into renegade cancer cells.
To top it all of f, meat, with its lack of fiber, stalls fecal matter in the
colon for extended periods of time, which in turn can contribute to colon
cancer.
An eight-year study conducted in conjunction with the American
Association of Retired Persons that followed more than 500,000 people
between the ages of fifty and seventy-one showed that people who
frequently eat meat have a higher risk of several types of cancer—including
lung, colorectal, esophageal, liver, and pancreatic—than people who don’ t.
As for eggs, these devils are not as incredible and edible as the egg
industry wants you to believe. As mentioned, the yolk contains more than
200 milligrams of cholesterol, while the white is one of the most
concentrated sources of animal protein around. And you now know the
dangers of animal protein.
A twenty-year study of diet and ovarian cancer published in The Journal
of the American Medical Association showed that women who ate eggs
three or more days each week “had a three times greater risk of fatal
ovarian cancer than did women who ate eggs less than one day per week.”Oils, even so-called heart-healthy olive oil, are another debacle. Oil is
fat. As noted earlier, all vegetable oils are 100 percent fat and are the most
concentrated source of calories on the planet: 120 per tablespoon. Fat,
whatever its form—monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, or saturated—is
loaded with almost 10 calories per gram. Study after study has shown that
when the percentage of fat calories in the diet exceeds 15 percent of caloric
intake, cancer starts to rear its ugly head.
Sugar is yet another mess. Cancer cells swarm to sugar like bees to
honey, because it is an important source of food for them. So the farther you
stay away from packaged candies, sugary cereals, sodas, juice drinks,
refined grains, and alcohol, the better. Instead, swarm to the good sugars
found in fruits, vegetables, beans, and whole grains.
Kin Gill, 41
Lawyer
On Rip’ s diet, I’ve lost about eleven pounds, my cholesterol dropped
30 points, and my body fat fell 10 percent. One of the other great
things about the diet is that it’ s a socially responsible way to eat.
You’re being more sensitive to animals, to the environment. You’re
not putting a lot of methane out to keep the feedlots going, you can
focus on locally grown produce.
Enough about cancer promotion. Now let’ s look at cancer prevention.
More than twenty-five years ago, Dr. John McDougall published the first
study showing that women can treat breast cancer successfully without
surgery, chemotherapy, or drugs by making the switch from an animal-
based diet to a nutrient-dense plant-based diet.
Along the same lines, Dr. Dean Ornish completed a study in 1994
showing that nutritional intervention could halt, and even reverse, the
progress of early-stage prostate cancer.
Ornish’ s study involved ninety-three men with prostate cancer; for one
year, he put half of them on a low-fat, plant-based diet, and half on the
standard American diet. He also took blood tests to measure before and
after levels of their PSA. PSA, or prostate-specific antigen, is a protein
produced by the cells of the prostate gland; levels can be used to detect
tumors. Anything over 4.0 ng/ml (nanograms of PSA  per milliliter) is
considered elevated.At the start of the study, all of the men had PSA  levels between 4.0 and
10.0 ng/ml. The men eating the low-fat, plant-based diet saw a 4 percent
decrease in their PSA, while those in the control group (eating the American
diet) had a 6 percent increase. Powerful results!
In another study involving men with prostate cancer (this one from
2008), Dr. Ornish was able to show how disease-promoting genes can be
turned of f and disease-preventing ones turned on. After following a plant-
healthy diet for just three months, the study participants were able to change
the activity in close to 500 genes—with more than 453 turned of f and 48
turned on. The take away message: It’ s not all in the genes, it’ s in the food!
T. Colin Campbell has also shown that while cancers and tumors in
laboratory mice thrive on animal protein, plant protein almost repels cancer.
Why? As discussed, animal proteins are acidic, creating an ideal
environment in which cancer cells can thrive; plant proteins are alkaline,
making it almost impossible for cancer cells to take root and prosper.
Campbell’ s recommendation: “The more you substitute plant foods for
animal foods the healthier you are likely to be. I now consider an all plant
based diet the ideal diet for optimal health and to reduce disease risk.”
DESPITE ALL  THE EVIDENCE —and what I’ve described is just the proverbial
tip of the iceber g—America has yet to hear and fully digest the plant-based
message. As a result, the overall incidence of cancer has increased
dramatically.
In fact, a plant-based diet possesses an


 must not be “raw”. Get wheat-free, corn -free bread
at a natural foods store.
Lunch
It is better to have most of the day's calories in the middle of
the day than at the end. Arrange for dinner  at noon if possible.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
304Dinner
Choose any one.
1.Green be ans with potatoes, meat dish, cabbage apple salad,
water with lemon juice and honey, 1 cup hot milk. Water.
Fresh green beans, especially fava beans contain a sub-
stance that is described in old herbal literature to be espe-
cially beneficial to diabetics. Don't overcook them—it
might harm this substance.
For the same reason, don't use canned green beans. If
“fresh” isn't possible, choose “frozen” but rinse the
chemicals off before cooking. Potatoes (not overcooked),
peeled to make sure there are no blemishes (contain mold
and pesticide ) can be cooked with the beans. Cook with
onions and oregano for flavoring. Add fresh chopped
parsley  to the sauce or butter for both green beans and
potatoes. Fresh parsley has special herbal goodness (high
magnesium, high potassium, diuretic.)
The meat dish should be overdone. “Fast food” is
plopped from the freezer into the boiling grease which
browns the outside nicely but can easily leave the inside
undercooked. Meat must never be “rare.” There should be
no redness near bones! Canned meat is safe from parasites
but may have smoke flavoring  added (contains benzopy-
rene) or nitrates. Avoid these chemicals. Avoid MSG  too.
Whenever a meat dish is not accepted, substitute sardines.
Let them choose from a display of six kinds. Purchase the
flip-top cans to avoid eating metal grindings from the can
opening process.
Cabbage for salad should be chopped fine enough to be
digestible. Add finely chopped apples (peeled) and a few
apple seeds and whipping cream for the dressing.PUSHING BACK AGE
305Sweet things are reserved for dessert. Since a diabetic's
tissues are not absorbing sugar, they crave it more and
more. As the diabetes  improves they crave it less. For des-
sert, serve 1 tbs. of honey to satisfy this craving without
endangering their blood sugar  regulation. It can be used in
the hot milk or in other ways. Undercooking the vegeta bles
also helps slow down the sugar release. Never serve
mashed potatoes for this reason.
The drinking water should always have a little vitamin C,
lemon juice or vinegar  added, and 1 tsp. honey if de sired.
2.Asparagus, potato, raw salad, fowl dish, fruit, water with
vinegar  and honey, 1 cup hot milk.
The asparagus can be fresh or canned. Bake the potato:
not in aluminum  foil, not baked until fluffy. Don't let the
skin be eaten. Use genuine butter, only, or a homemade sour
cream  dressing (see Recipes ). Fresh chopped chives may
be added but no regular sour cream since this is very high
in tyramine, a brain toxin.
The raw salad should be chopped small enough to be
edible by dentures. Use homemade salad dressing with a
preference for oil and vinegar  styles.
The fowl dish should be very well done, never “fast
food”.
For dessert, fresh fruit chunks dipped in a homemade
honey sauce (honey, water  and cinnamon).  Less sweets  are
consumed if you dip the fruit rather than pour the sauce
over. Limit the total to 1 tbs. honey. Don't serve grapes or
strawberries due to the intense mold problem.
3.Soup, sandwich, fruit, hot milk, water.
Soup should be homemade from scratch. Add bones and 1
tbs. vinegar  (white distilled) or a tomato to the kettle to
ensure some calcium  leaches out of the bones. A fish
chowder serves this purpose very well, too.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
306The sandwich has lettuce, real butter, and whatever else
tastes good (no cheese, bacon bits or condiments). The
bread is wheat-free, corn -free, stored in freezer. Home-
made salad dressing can be added.
The fruit may be chopped with whipping cream, cinna-
mon and honey sauce (not more than 1 tbs. honey).
The water may be plain if there was vinegar  in the soup.
4.Fish, green beans, potatoes, other greens, fruit, hot milk,
water.
Fried or baked fish is served with lemon or lime. Green
beans are served with a cheese sauce  so a lot will be eaten.
(Cheese sauce: add milk, olive oil to a block of cheese.
Melt and cook at least 10 seconds.) Serve au gratin pota-
toes or scalloped potatoes or any kind of potatoes that will
be enjoyed. The extra greens can be beet greens, collards,
mustard greens or spinach served with a favorite dressing
to make sure it's eaten. (No croutons or bacon bits, though.)
Never serve dessert  if the plate has not been cleared.
Your loved one isn't hungry enough. If appetite  is very
poor, sweets will only worsen the problem. Try to change
the menu to stimulate the appetite. Acid foods stimulate;
spices and B-vitamins (especially B 1) stimulate; hot foods
stimulate. Much appetite is controlled by the liver and
brain. Toxins at either location (especially food-derived
toxins) tell the body to stop eating. Suspect food molds
first, bacteria and chemical additives next.
5.Asparagus, meat dish, white rice  (brown rice contains
mold), coleslaw, milk, water, ice cream.
A hot meat dish (no pasta, no wheat flour, no regular
gravy) can be fried, cooked or baked, but not grilled. As-
paragus is fresh, frozen or canned. Rinse if frozen. Fix it
differently than last time. Season rice  with parsley  and
minimal salt and pure herbs like thyme; no MSG or mixedPUSHING BACK AGE
307seasoning, make butter sauce. Dessert is homemade ice
cream (see Recipes ).
6.Fish or seafood  hot dish. Green peas or peas and onions.
Peeled sweet potato with butter (not canned). May switch
sweet potato with rice  on asparagus day. Sliced tomatoes
or cucumber or other raw vegetables with or without
dressing. Milk, 1 tbs. honey (can be used on sweet potato).
7.Chili or stew with unlimited rice -bread and butter. If chili
produces gas, stay away from it. Serve no canned  varie ties.
Grated carrot salad with stewed raisins added and heavy
cream. Milk, water as usual. Blueberry pie, sweet potato
pie, custard pie.
If more bread is requested, provide a wheat-free, corn -free
variety; but limit bread eating to “after main dish” eating. If not
enough milk is drunk: make custard pudding or rice  pudding so
the daily amount (3 cups) is consumed.
Supper
1.Tuna with salad dressing or tuna salad (no pasta ). Non-
wheat raisin bread (from natural foods store) and butter.
Milk, water.
2.Custard, cooked greens, baked potato. Rice-bread and
butter. Herb tea with milk added (single herb only, not
mixed herbs).
3.Vegetable soup, homemade, from scratch. Leftover meat
sandwich with rice -bread (no deli or cold cuts or luncheon
meat). Milk, water.
4.Baked squash with butter, rice  pudding with cinnamon,
raisins, and honey. Canned salmon  or sardines with wheat
free, corn  free bread. Milk, water.
5.Chili or  stew leftovers with wheat free, corn  free bread.
Custard pudding sweetened with honey, and nut-
meg/cinnamon mix. Milk, water.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
3086.Sardines and rice  bread or other wheat free, corn  free
bread. Homemade tomato juice  with celery, strained. Milk,
plain water. Pie a la mode (homemade pumpkin or squash
pie and homemade ice cream).
7.Potato salad. Leftover meat dish and beans, stewed toma-
toes, squash. Baked apple with cinnamon, cream and honey.
Milk, water.
Many diabetics  lose 50 points (mg/DL) of blood sugar  in a
few days on this diet. This is why: there is less bread than a dia-
betic  would prefer. There is very little cheese (it must always be
boiled in a sauce to sterilize). There is no fruit or vegetable juice
except homemade, and not much of that because it crowds out
milk and water. If your elderly loved one can't eat all this, make
sure there are no snacks consumed between meals that are for-
bidden.
There is no pasta  anywhere. Pasta is mold-ridden. Even after
cooking, it may be toxic. There is no wheat or corn  bread. The
menu is heavy on green beans and asparagus and cinnamon. If by
chance, your elderly person hates these and starves them selves to
get your sympathy,


. We all use the word love to mean many things, and to be in
love is often a complex, confusing state. Yet what I exper ienced was
incredibly simple:
Love is spirit. Spirit is the Self.
Self and spirit are the same. Asking “What is spirit?” is just a way of asking
“Who am I?” There isn’t spirit outside you; you are It. Why aren’ t you
aware of It? You are, but only in a limited way, like someone who has seen
a glass of water  but not the ocean. Your eyes see because in spirit you are
the witness to everything. You have thoughts because in spirit you know all.
You feel love toward another person because in spirit you are infinite love.
Restoring the spiritual dimensio n to love means abandoning the notion of
a limited self with its limited ability to love and regaining the Self with its
unbounded ability to love. The “I” that is truly you is made of pure
awareness, pure creativity, pure spirit. Its version of love is free from all
memories or images from the past. Beyond all illusion is the source of love,
a field of pure potential.
That potential is you.
WHAT IS THE PATH?
The most valuab le thing you can bring into any relationship is your spiritual
potential. This is what you have to offer when you begin to live your lovestory at the deepest level. Like the seed needed to start the life of a tree,
your spiritual potential is the seed for your growth in love. Noth ing is more
precious. Seeing  yourself with the eyes of love makes it natural to see
others that way too. You will be able to say of your beloved, as the poet
Rumi does:
You are the secret of God’ s secret.
You are the mirror of divine beauty.
The path to love is something you consciously choose to follow, and
everyone who has ever fallen in love is shown the first step on that path.
The unfolding of spiritual potential has been the chief concern of all the
great seers, saints, prophets, masters, and sages in human history. Theirs
was a carefully charted quest for the Self, a far cry from our notion of love
as a messy, emotional af fair.
In India, as I’ve mentioned, the spiritual path is called Sadhana, and
although a tiny minority of people give up normal life to wander the world
as seekers of enlightenment (these are monks, or sadhus ), everyone, from
those in the most ancient civilization of Vedic India until today, considers
their life to be a sadhana, a path to the Self. Although the Self seems
separated from us, it is actually intertwined in everything a person thinks,
feels, or does. The fact that you do not intimately know your Self is
amazing, if you come to think about it. Looking for your Self, the Vedic
sages declared, is like a thirsty  fish looking for water. But as long as the
Self has yet to be found, sadhana exists.
The goal of the path is to transform your awar eness fr om separation to unity. In unity we per ceive
only love, expr ess only love, ar e only love.
While the inner transformation  is taking place, every path must have
some outer form to sustain it. In India a person’ s nature leads him to the
style of path appropriate to reaching fulfillment. Some people are naturally
intellectual and are therefore suited to the path of knowledge, or Gyana.
Some are more devotional and are suited to the path of worship, or Bhakti.
Some are more outwardly motiv ated and are suited to the path of action, or
Karma.The three are not mutually exclusive; ideally, one would include  in one’s
lifestyle daily periods of study, worship, and service. All three approaches
would then be integrated into a single path. It is, however, entirely possible
to be so taken with a single approach that your whole existence may be
centered on reading the scriptures, contemplation, and scholarly debate—
the life of gyana. Or you may spend your time meditating, chanting, and
participating in temple rituals— the life of bhakti. Or you could do social
work, apply yourself to menta l and physical purification, and do God’ s
bidding in daily activity—the life of karma. Even in the most traditional
sectors of India today, these paths have broken down, giving way to modern
lifestyles in which study and work have little or nothing to do with spiritual
aspirations.
What does this mean for a Westerner who has never been exposed to
sadhana? I propose that being on the spiritual path is such a natural and
powerful urge that everyone’ s life, regardless of culture, obeys it. A path is
just a way to open yourself to spirit, to God, to love. These are aims we all
may cherish, but our culture has given us no established, organized way to
reach them. Indeed, never in history has a seeker been confronted with such
a disor ganized and chaotic spiritual scene.
What we are left with is relation ships. The desire to love and be loved is
too powerful ever to be extinguished, and fortunately a spiritua l path exists
based upon this unquenchable longing. The expression path to love is not
simply a metaphor; it reappears throughout spiritual history in many guises.
The most ancient version is the bhakti or devotional tradition from Vedic
India, in which all forms of love ultimately serve the search for God. The
Sufis of Islam have their own devotional lineage. Rumi, whom I quote so
often, was more than a poet; he was a great teacher of this path. To him God
was the sweetest, most desirabl e lover, whose touch he could feel against
the skin:
When it’ s cold and raining,
You are more beautiful.
And the snow brings me
even closer to Y our Lips.
The Inner Secret, that which was never born,
You are that freshness, and I am with Y ou now.Christ initiated another version of the path in his supreme teaching, “Love
thy neighbor as thyself.” Jesus always spoke of God as a loving father. The
Christian version of the path is therefore a relationship not so much
between lovers as between paren t and child or a shepherd and his flock (we
shouldn’ t forget, though, the image of Christ as bridegroom and the
worshiper ’s soul as the bride).
So it isn’t the tradition that is lacking. One might more fairly say that in
most religions the teaching of love, as originally presented, seems to have
faded, to have become more an ideal than a practical reality. But amidst all
the confusion and breakdown of traditional teaching, there is still the spark
of love that brings two people together, and out of that a path can be made.
Like the tiny spark of fire that consumes a forest, the spark of love is all
you need to experience love in its full power and glory, in all its aspects,
earthly and divine. Love is spirit, and all experiences of love, however
insignificant they seem, are actually invitations to the cosmic dance. Within
every love story hides the wooing of the gods and goddesses.
In a different age the most fleeting of infatuations had spiritual meaning;
the nearness of God in the beloved was taken seriously. Since the advent of
Freud, however, psychologists have assured us that falling  in love is
illusory; the sense of ecstasy that is part of falling in love isn’t realistic. We
must learn to accept the tempo rary nature of romance and disregard the
“projected fanta sy” that we might be as immortal and invulnerable as
passionate lovers feel. We would therefore have to be skepti cal of Walt
Whitman when he rapturously declares,
I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself,
(They do not know how immortal, but I know.)
And W. H. Aude n would have to be seen as indulging in hyperbolic fantasy
when he says, in the first rapture of love,
... in my arms I hold
The flower of the ages,
And the first love of the world.
The sense of delight, uniqueness, and blessing felt by lovers has its own
reality, but you must find it within. Romance and spirit are both states of
inner truth. In this book I am proposing that the two can be joined. Thedramatic psycho logical shift that occurs whenever we fall in love is actually
a tempo rary state of spiritual liberation, a glimpse of who you really are.
The ecstatic feelings that flow between lovers, their sense of being uniquely
cared for and protected, their belief in a timeless state of being—all these
are spiritual realities. The East has tended to retain the spiritual dimension
of falling in love, even at its most passionate, as in this line from Rumi:
Love is the way messengers from the mystery tell us things.
In this vision of love, which expands far beyond two people and their
infatuation, the acts of love join us to a reality that we yearn for but do not
know how to reach—the “mystery.”
In this book I will use the phrase  “spiritual master” to designate someone
who has achieved command over spiritual reality. Despite the huge cultural
differences betw een a Sufi mast er, a yogi, a Christian saint, and a Chinese


 later they were 34 percent higher
than normal. This implies that people who are near death can
postpone their passing in order to savor a day that is special to
them.
A simila r swing has been found with Jewish mortality just before
and after Passover (by contrast, non-Jewish control groups showed
no such eect, maintaining the same death rates throughout).
Finally, cardiologists have pondered the fact that heart-attack rates
are higher at 9 A.M. on Monday morning than at any other time of
the week. This is not exactly a randomly chosen hour.  For many
people, going back to work after the weekend is a return to harsher
realities. Have  some of them found the drastic escape route of
suering a heart attack instead of punching the time clock one time
too many?
These examples are limited to biological time, the hidden clock in
our cells. To see truly comprehensive mastery of time, one must turn
to dream s. Dream time lacks any xed sequence or logic altogether.
It can go backward or forward, speed up or slow down, come to a
halt or simply disappear—many dream events are frozen in a kind
of no-time without beginning or end. Flying through the clouds,
being caught in a riptide, or running down the street pursued by aphantom villain are dream events that can seem to last either an
instant or an eternity, as if time has ed the scene.
When we wake  up to the world of reliable clocks, time resumes its
creeping pace,  but that proves little about its real nature. Suppose a
man is sitting in a room idly looking out the window. Morning,
noon, and evening go by; he passively stares at people as they
parade before him and watches the events taking place on the street.
The same man could go to sleep at night and witness the exact same
people and events in a dream, but now morning, noon, and evening
occupy only two minutes of his sleep. Like the rest of his dream,
time was created by his brain. In what way is waking time any
dierent? The same brain cells process the passage of time in both
cases; therefore, waking time and dream time could both be self-
created.
If so, then time itself is only a personal perception, liable to the
same uctuations as a mood, reverie, fantasy, or any passing
thought. Psychologists already recognize that time contains a strong
personal element. All of us exercise some ability to manipulate time
according to our whims. If I am languishing in a dentist’s waiting
room, my unha ppiness make s time drag. To speed it up, I need only
go somewhere else—to an Indian restaurant perhaps—where I can
enjoy myself again. If I turn to something I nd deeply enjoyable,
time will start to y. The dierence between slow, dragging time
and swift, eeting time resides in my perception of the situation. As
long as I am free to move from the dentist to the restaurant, I have
personal control over how time feels.
But if I am forced by a sense of duty to remain at the dentist’s,
then I have no choice but to experience the creeping kind of time
that is oered there. This sort of compulsion has trapped all of us.
We stay in the same time-frame day after day because we think we
have to, or ought to. But this is only an agreement we made
somewhere along the line—we have even forgotten when. Anyone
can break free and reassert his ability to control time.
Time TravelersOne of the main themes of the world’s spiritual traditions is the
falseness of time, and one of the aims of enlightened teachers is to
break the spell of time that limits the minds of their followers. A
master in India once said to his disciples, “You have enclosed
yourself in the prison of time and space, squeezing your experience
into the span of a lifetime and the volume of a body. It is because of
this self-imposed illusion that all your conicts arise: life and death,
pain and pleasure, hope and fear. To end these problems, you must
rst end the illusion.”
“But how is that done?” a disciple asked.
The master replied, “You are caught in this world like sh in a
net. But all nets have holes. Find one, escape through it, and you
will see what reality actually is.”
Apparently the net of time is full of just such holes. It appears to
be objectively real but in fact may be no more than a notion
fostered in our minds. The great sage Shankara, who towers over
the whole tradition of Indian philosophy, once wrote, “People grow
old and die because they see other people grow old and die.” I
remember, on rst reading this sentence ten years ago, feeling a
mixture of disbelief and wonder. If Shankara is right, then aging is
not a xed biological proces s; it is just a bundle of perceptions we
have picked up, taken into our bodies, and given physical shape.
There is a revealing, although heartless, biology experiment in
which a rat is thrown into a tank of water. Rats are not adept
swimmers, and the animal will thrash around, trying vainly to climb
out of the tank, only to slip back down from the glass walls. After a
few minutes the animal is totally exhausted, on the verge of
drowning. The experimenter then pulls it out and allows it to rest.
The procedure  is repeated over the following days, and within a
short time, usually less than three weeks, the rat will have
undergone dramatic changes. The pressure of so much daily stress
will have aged its tissues enormously. If the experiment is kept up,
the rat will die of “old age” in a month; on dissection, its heart,
liver, lungs, and other organs will be as dark, tough, and brous as
those of a rat that lived a normal life span of two years or more.In essen ce, the experimenters sped up time and forced the rat to
absorb it into its body. The discolored, exhausted tissues that
resulted were like bits of frozen time given material expression by
the aging process. The same process happens in human beings,
although we absorb time more complexly, according to our own
personal value s. Unlike experimental rats, we can choose to live
with more or less stress; more importantly, we can interpret time
dierently and therefore cause it to change. Misusing this privilege
creates untold suering. I am not thinking just of people who place
themselves in desperately stressful situations, although millions do.
The deeper ignorance is that we do not realize that time does not
have to be frozen inside us.
Shankara’s seemingly strange idea that we grow old because we
watch others grow old may well be true. Partial validation has
already come from an ingenious study the Harvard psychology
department ran in the late Seventies. The Harvard team, headed by
Professor Ellen Langer, did not actually set out with Shankara’s
dictum in mind; they were testing whether aging is an irreversible
process, as is widely accepted. The National Institute on Aging takes
the ocial stand that there is no reliable method, through drugs,
diet, exercise, or mental techniques, to restore lost youth. Although
a large body of research backs up this position, Langer’s  team had
its doubts; they suspected that aging might be a creation of the mind
that the mind can undo.
To test this possibility, they rst placed a newspaper ad in a
Boston daily asking for men seventy-ve and older who would be
willing to go on a week’s vacation, all expenses paid. A group of
suitable volunt eers was chosen, placed in a van, and whisked o to
a luxurious retreat on ten acres of secluded woodland in the New
England countryside.
When they arrived at this isolated setting, the men were met with
a duplicate of daily life as it existed twenty years earlier.  Instead of
magazines from 1979, the reading tables held issues of Life and the
Saturday Evening Post from 1959. The radio played music from that
year, and group discussions centered on the politics and celebrities
of the era. A taped address from President Eisen hower was played,followed by the lm Anatomy of a Murder, which won the Academy
Award in 1959. Besides these  props, every eort was made to center
each person on how he felt, looked, talked, and acted when he was
twenty years younger.
The group had to speak exclusively in the present tense, as if 1959
were today (“Do you think Castro will become a puppet of
Khrushchev’s?”), and their references to family, friends, and jobs
could not go beyond that year. Their middle-aged children were still
at home or just going to college; their careers were in full swing.
Each person had submitted a picture of himself taken twenty years
before; these were used to introduce each one to the group.
While this week of make-beli eve went on, a control group of men
over seventy- ve also talked about the events of 1959, but using the
past tense instead of the present. Castro, Mickey Mantle,
Eisenhower, and Marilyn Monroe were allowed to have their real
futures. The radio played 1979 music, the magazines


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interminably and would not go away. She had a constant post -nasal drip. Though she enjoyed life, her body was a millstone around
her neck.
    I've had a lot of clients exactly like Alice. Sometimes they complain of headaches; sometimes cons tant yeast or bladder
infections. Whatever the complaints, the symptoms are rarely severe enough to classify themselves as someone who is seriously
ill, but their symptoms rarely go away and they almost never feel good. Medical doctors rarely find anything  wrong with them,
though they will frequently prescribe an antibiotic to treat a somewhat constant infection, or an antihistamine for sinus sym ptoms.
Getting a new prescription drug makes the complaint go away for a short time until their resistance is low ered again and the very
same complaint returns. These people frequently depend on over the counter pills and are routinely prescribed sleeping remedi es
and antidepressants. If instead of this route they will but take my medicine they are usually easy to fi x and afterwards are amazed
that it was all that simple and that so much of their life has been less than it could have been.
    Alice had been through the medical doctor route. She had become quite familiar with antibiotics for her colds and flu, and al so
took synthetic thyroid hormone –the doctor had diagnosed her fatigue as being caused by an underactive thyroid, which was partly
correct –but the thyroid medication didn't give her much more energy. Alice had been supporting this medical doctor in grand st yle
for over thirty years but never obtained the relief she sought.
    I put Alice through my usual two hour first -time-visit thorough analysis. For two weeks before coming to see me she had saved
tiny samples of everything she ate, wrapped them in plast ic film, carefully labeled, and put them in the freezer. Along with these
food samples and a typed list of all these foods, she brought a big box full of her condiments, herb teas, vitamins, spices,
prescription medications, over the counter drugs, oils, g rains, breads, crackers and small samples of her usual fresh vegetables and
fruits. Even her water. Her entire kitchen! By biokinesiology we proceeded to test all of her foods for allergic reactions. I  also
tested the integrity of her organs and glands and  in the process, got a detailed medical history and list of her complaints.
    Alice had exhausted adrenals, and they probably had been that way for thirty years. Her pancreas was now too weak to digest
the legumes that made up a large part of her vegetar ian diet. She was allergic to wheat, soy, and dairy products and had especially
been eating dairy in the mistaken notion that it was necessary to keep up her protein intake. Really very typical. So many he alth
food store shoppers these days mistakenly beli eve that, because they are vegetarian and do not eat meat, they especially need to
boost their protein intake with dairy and soy. Unfortunately, so many North Americans are highly allergic to dairy and
unfortunately, soy products are as hard or harder to d igest than cooked meats.
    Alice was especially shocked to discover that she was allergic to such foods as cabbage family vegetables, alfalfa sprouts an d
citrus. Most people don't think that anyone could be allergic to something as healthy as alfalfa sp routs. The doctor was right about
one thing; her thyroid was underperforming. He had not noticed that her heart was weak.
    Medical doctors rarely discover an organ weakness until that organ actually begins to catastrophically fail. A busy honest do ctor
will usually tell the complaining patient there is nothing wrong with them: go home, take two aspirin, accept the fact that y our
body is not perfect and don't worry about it. A hungry doctor will be delighted to perform countless lab tests, seeking any p ossible
reason for the complaint. This can go on as long as the patient has money or as long as the insurance company will pay. They
rarely find anything "wrong" and the patient is far better off if the doctor doesn't discover something "serious" to treat be cause
their treatment may carry with it consequences far more severe than the complaint. For example, I have seen dozens of people
whose lives were virtually ruined after surgical treatment for chronic back pain.
    Biokinesiology is actually a far more s ensitive system of analysis than lab tests. It picks up weaknesses at a very early stage so
total organ failure can be prevented. Rarely will any of the organ weaknesses I discover be confirmed by a medical doctor. Fi rst I
put Alice on a six week cleanse. She did one week on fresh, raw food; one week on dilute carrot juice with some green leafy
vegetables juice too; one week on water fasting; and then she repeated the series. After six weeks of detoxification, I gave Alice a
life extension megavitamin formu la, discovered she could not handle the acid form of vitamin C (that she had already been taking)
and had her start on protomorphogens to rebuild her weakened endocrine system, her exhausted adrenals and weak pancreas. She
also began taking pancreatic enzy mes when she ate vegetable protein. She was put on a maintenance diet that eliminated foods she
was allergic to; the diet primarily consisted of whole grains, nuts, cooked and raw vegetables, and raw fruits. On her mainte nance
diet Alice had a profound res urgence of energy and rediscovered a sense of well -being she had not known for decades. She began
to feel like she had when she was a child. Her constant sinus drip was gone. She was able to stop taking synthetic thyroid
hormones and instead, supported her  endocrine system with protomorphogens.

A Rampaging Infection
    At the age of 40, John, an old bohemian client of mine, came into a moderate inheritance and went "native" in the Fiji Island s in
the South Pacific. He spent about four months hanging out w ith the locals. Life there was so much fun that John completely forgot
that his body was actually rather delicate, that many of his organs were weak, and that to feel good, he had to live a fairly  simon -
pure life.
    But the jovial, accepting, devil -may-care Fijians enjoyed a constant party, even more so because John's money allowed the
Fijians to manifest powerful, tropical, home -grown strains of recreational herbs to smoke in abundance, beer and rum and worse,
the Fijians (and John) constantly used a ve ry toxic though only mildly -euphoric narcotic called kava, something Europeans usually
have no genetic resistance to. The Fijians (and John) also ate a lot of freshly -caught fish fried in grease, well -salted, and huge,
brain -numbing bowls of greasy starche s, foods that they call i'coi, or "real food" as opposed to things like fruit and vegetables that
aren't real food because they don't knock you to the floor for hours trying to digest them in a somnambulant doze.
    John miraculously kept up with this par ty for a few months and then, while scuba diving, got some small coral scratches on his
leg. These got infected. The infections got worse. Soon he had several huge, suppurating, ulcerous sores on his legs and wors e, the
infections became systemic and began  spreading rapidly. He was running a fever and was in considerable pain. So John booked an
emergency ticket home and fled to find Doctor Isabelle. When I met his plane he was rolled out in a wheelchair, unable to wal k
because of pain and swelling in his le gs.
    John was violently opposed to ordinary medical treatment; he especially would not have taken antibiotics even if he had died
without them because previous courses of antibiotics had been the precipitant of life -threatening conditions that first bro ught John
to my care. John used his last strength to get to me because he knew that had a hospital gotten its clutches on him the medic al
doctors would have done exactly as they pleased.
    I gave John a colonic, a gentle, mental spanking, and put him to  bed without any supper. He started water fasting and did
colonics every day. He began gobbling vitamin C (as calcium ascorbate) a few grams every hour. I put huge poultices on his so res
made of clay and chopped lawn grass (we needed a week or so before a tray of wheat grass would be ready). John's sores were
amazing. Every day a new one seemed to appear on a different part of the body. The old ones kept getting bigger and deeper. T he
largest original ones were about three inches in diameter, smelled horrib ly and had almost eaten the flesh down to the bone. His
pain was severe; there was no position John could assume that didn't irritate one sore or another, and it was a good thing my  house
was remote because John frequently relieved his pain by screaming. J ohn was never delirious, but he was always original. He did
not have to scream, but enjoyed its relief and howled quite dramatically. I wore earplugs.
    After about two weeks of water fasting, John counted up the total of his sores. There were forty thre e. Seven or eight of them
were enormous, two or three inches in diameter and well into the flesh, but the last ones to appear were shallow, small and s tayed
small. After that point no more new ones showed up and the