 back of my head. I also felt that my shoulders left their place. I had colitis and stomach aches. Now already I can do everything without feeling more than natural fatigue. Today I no longer take large amounts of medicine and I no longer have any of my diseases, thanks to God. " World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward  155 OVERDOSE  “There was a person who illegally dealt in opium. This was disliked by his wife, and she always asked her husband to give up his illegal profession. But he would not listen. Finally the wife became desperate. In the absence of her husband, she took nearly 30grams of opium, dissolved it in water and drank it down. Consequently she fainted within half an hour. As soon as her husband returned home, he was at once very startled. Evening was approaching as he began to give his wife urine orally. This continued through the night, and in the morning she came to her senses. Her life was saved. ”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  ************************************ P ************************************ PARALYSIS  “My greatest achievement in the field of auto-urine therapy can be the miraculous recovery of my elder sister. She was bed-ridden for three months. Not to talk of getting up from bed she could not even,move her body below waist. Her left leg was slowly losing its tone. Even touching her affected part would give excruciating pain. Some bedsores also had erupted. In this condition I massaged her for two or three hours daily with urine, occasionally. even with fresh urine. Giving up all medication she was given her urine twice or thrice daily. Within a fortnight she was half way through recovery and by the end of the month she could get up and move. Today she is fully recovered. lt is now only four months since she began her treatment. Her left leg which was getting thinner Mas regained its natural tonal shape and is fully healthy. ”  from Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  PARALYSIS  “Shri Pritam Singh works in Gandhi Ashram, Hapur (Dist. Merath). His right arm was paralysed and the neck had turned to his left. Both the parts pained. A month’s allopathic treatment proved futile. Chaudhri Nekiram, the Ashram Manager, advised him to try urine treatment. After 15 days of thrice or four times in take of urine and its massage in the sun her was completely relieved of both his complaints.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What was the author's initial diagnosis and treatment plan?,
A: The author was diagnosed with osteoporosis and was told to take usual drugs, but he was advised to try urine therapy instead.
Q: What was the outcome of the author's treatment with urine therapy, and how did it affect his overall health?,
A: The author's health and energy improved significantly after two days of fasting on urine. He continued the treatment for six weeks and eventually became well, and his back straightened.
Q: Who helped the author with his health issues and what was the outcome?,
A: The author's sister-in-law gave him a book on urine therapy, and he followed the treatment, which led to his recovery.
Q: What was the outcome of the treatment of a patient with severe osteoporosis and deformative arthritis?,
A: The patient was not cured of the condition, but was able to recover and regain strength.
Q: What was the outcome of the treatment of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis?,
A: The patient was completely cured of the disease after undergoing urine therapy.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>The second day of taking my urine every morning, it did not hurt and I could move easily. I thank God for having me arrive at this treatment, remedy or means of healing. Due to this, I have been able to sleep very well and no longer have pains like back pain, fatigue and wounds from the fall. My son was suffering from cough that he would get rid of with anything, plus he suffer from very strong colds. I gave him the urine and stopped coughing in three days and he feels very energetic." Testimonials of Patients Cured by Urine Therapy http://paraisodelasalud.org/testimonios.htm  TUBERCULOSIS  A woman was diagnosed with tuberculosis (T.B.) after 9 months of chronic cold and coughing. Hundreds of injections, tablets, and capsules were administered by the doctors, but the blood and phlegm continued to cough up from her throat. She went to a special urine therapy center to try a urine-cum-fasting treatment. Over the course of 4 months, she did 2 long fasts of 19 days and 21 days length. After discharge of phlegm, she got back into eating food step by step. She reports: “I am now fully recovered and have experienced lightness of body. Since my recovery, I have never tried any medicine even when I am occasionally assailed by my old ailment, which I repel by dietary precaution and nature cure (urine therapy).”  from Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  TUBERCULOSIS 186  “Shri Harishchandra Desai from Baroda has informed that he could cure his brother's T.B. by this therapy. In addition he could get rid of his spectacles and piles too I He gained 15 lb. in one and a half month's experiment.”  Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  TUBERCULOSIS  “Gopal Shah had T. B. for the last 4 years. Doctors despaired of his case. He started Urine Therapy on January 15th  and continued it for three months. During the time he never fasted but used to take cow's milk, bread, and vegetables without any condiments. He cured himself completely and could walk two miles easily with vigor.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  TUBERCULOSIS  “M.Gupta wrote that he was at death's door due to T.B. but experienced a wonderful change for the better in only three days with Urine Therapy.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  TUBERCULOSIS  Judith A. Muñoz: "I live in the Salto, Jalisco. I feel good. I was sick with tuberculosis. I was miserable. The circulation was also affected, colitis and hemorrhoids. I give thanks to God and the people who attended the conference and gave their testimony. I feel great. Thank you." Testimonials of Patients Cured by Urine Therapy http://paraisodelasalud.org/testimonios.htm  TUBERCULOSIS OF BONE  “Miss K.  R. Shah, age seventeen, suffered from bone T.B. She was so weak that she could not get up from bed, nor was she able to turn  on one side or the other. She had a boil the size of a golf ball on her left thigh. Doctors forwarded the case to me. I gave her one dose of homeopathic medicine and opened the boil, and about a pound of pus was discharged from it. This discharge gave her some relief, and she had some sleep after a long period of sleeplessness. I gave her homeopathic medicine for some time but there 187 was no desired result, the disease could not be rooted out. It appeared that she would not survive, even for a week. I had to take recourse to Urine Therapy. She was given to drink one ounce of her own urine three times a day. She was permitted to take a simple and easily digestible diet. She applied the pads of urine on the boil. On the third day, the discharge of pus ceased, and the patient showed some appetite. On the sixth day, she asked for food twice and began to sit without any support. On the ninth day, she insisted on the third meal also and began to walk in the courtyard of the house. On the twelfth day, she asked for more food, but it was not allowed. On the sixteenth day, drinking of urine was stopped. Now she was healthy and used to walking outside the courtyard. Thus in 15 days of Urine Therapy, Miss K.R. Shah regained her health. In  addition, she recovered her appearance, color, appetite, weight, and vigor for a normal girl her age." Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  TUBERCULOSIS OF LUNG  “A man from Bombay had an attack of T.B., but doctors could not diagnose it,and so a cavity developed on the left lung. The right side also showed some effect. Under x-ray, the trouble was traced out at last. He was admitted to the Sarodaya Hospital at Ghatkoper. On advice, he began Urine Therapy and cured himself completely by his own urine.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  TUBERCULOSIS OF LUNGS  Shri Ramjibhai was suffering from T.B. of lungs for the last four years. First coughing and fever started. He became weak. He felt slightly relieved for four months when he was taking some medicines but again cough and fever was aggravated. Some other doctor treated him and he again felt better for three-four months. But soon condition worsened and he was advised operation. In the mean time Ramjibhai had to go to one of his relative's place. That relative had a great faith in nature cure and also in urine therapy. He encouraged him to try urine treatment before going for operation. He started this experiment with anointment of the body with urine. After a week Ramjibhai started drinking it. After fifteen days he met Shri Rao


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disperse Qi and Blood  resolve this congestion. Liver depletion occurs with deciency  of Blood  and Qi along with
stagnation of Blood  and Qi, requiring foods that nourish Qi and
Blood  and move Qi and Blood. Remedial principle: Tonify Qi and Blood, disperse Blood, dispel Heat;
½ oz. white peony root
1 oz. codonopsis root
¼ oz. carthamus owers
¼ oz. chrysanthemum owers
1 oz. lycii berries
12 red dates, soaked and pitted
2 bay leaves
6½ c. vegetable or chicken stock ( this page –this page )
1 leek (white and pale green portions only)
2 celery stalks1 c. eggplant
12 black or shiitake mushrooms (if dry, soaked), slivered
4 tbsp. sesame seeds
¼ c. pine nuts
1 tbsp. roasted sesame oil
¼ c. rice vinegar
1 tbsp. turmeric or ⅛ tsp. saron
• After soaking in boiling water to cover, chop the white peony
and codonopsis in bite-size pieces. Place the carthamus and
chrysanthemum owers and bay leaves in a muslin bag and set
aside. • Simme r the white peony, codonopsis, lycii, and red dates in the
stock for 1 hour. • While that is cooking, slice the leek and celery, and cut the
eggplant into cubes. • Add the vegetables and mushrooms to the stock, and simmer an
additional 30 minutes. • Toast the sesame seeds in a 350° oven for about 8–10 minutes
and the pine nuts for about 5 minutes. • Add the herbs in the bag, sesame seeds, pine nuts, sesame oil,
rice and vinegar, sesame oil, saron or turmeric, and simmer 5
minutes. Remove the bag and serve. For Blood Congestion
delete  lycii berries, vinegar, pine nuts, leek
add ¼ oz. ligusticum rhizome, ½ c. rice wine, 1 c. chives
For Qi Congestion
delete  codonopsis, eggplant, pine nutsadd ½ oz. dried tangerine peel (1 oz. fresh), 1 c. radish, ½ c.
uncooked brown rice (cook with herbs 1 hour), ½ oz. fresh ginger
For Heat
delete  vinegar, saron/turmeric, leek, eggplant, bay, pine nuts
add 2 beets, 1 c. tofu or tomato, ¼ oz. dried honeysuckle owers, 2
tsp. marjoram
For Wind
delete  vinegar, carthamus owers, leeks
add ¼ oz. peppermint or marjoram, 3 scallions
Supplement and Harmonize  Fire
Heart  congestion occurs when Heat and Dryness  cause Blood
stagnation and agitation of the Spirit  Cooling, moisturizing,
dispersing, and calming foods are indicated. Depletion of the Heart  results from deciency  of Qi and Blood  along
with stagnation of Blood  and restlessness of Spirit  Foods that nourish
the Blood  and Qi, activate circulation, and calm the Spirit  are
needed. Remedial princ iple: Tonify Qi, Moisture, Blood ; promote circulation
of Blood, clear Heat, soothe the Spirit
1 oz. codonopsis root
½ oz. carthamus owers2 oz. lotus seeds
1 oz. longan fruit
1 oz. lily bulbs
½ oz. lycii berries
6½ c. vegetable or chicken stock ( this page –this page )
1 c. beets
1 c. carrots
1 c. corn
1 tbsp. roasted sesame oil
3 tbsp. toasted coarsely ground sesame seeds
• Tie the codonopsis with string. Place the carthamus owers in a
bag and set aside. • Simmer all the herbs except for the carthamus in the stock for 1
hour. Remove the codonopsis, cool, cut into ¾-inch lengths,
and return to stew. • While the stew is simmering, cut the beets and carrots into
cubes, and if the corn is fresh, remove it from the cob. • Add the beets and carrots, and simmer for an additi onal 15
minutes. • Add the carthamus, corn, and sesame oil, and simme r for 5
minutes. • Serve, using the sesame seeds as a garnish. For Blood Stagnation
delete  longan, lily, beets
add 1 tbsp. turmeric, ¼ oz. ligusticum rhizome, 1 c. chives, 1
eggplant
For Heat
delete  longan fruit
add ½ oz. honeysuckle owers (place in bag and simmer 5 minutes)Supplement and Harmonize  Metal
Lung congestion occurs when Wind, Heat, and phlegm obstruct Qi. Foods that clear Wind, Heat, and phlegm, disperse Qi, and replenish
Moisture  are indicated. Depletion of the Lung occurs when Qi becomes decient  and Qi and
Moisture  become stagnant. Food that tonify Qi and disperse Moisture
and Qi are needed. Remedial princ iple: Tonify and disperse Qi and Moisture ; eliminate
Heat, Wind, and phlegm. 1 oz. astragalus
¼ oz. dried tangerine peel (½ oz. fresh)
1 oz. glehnia root
½ oz. American ginseng root
½ oz. almond or apricot seeds
¼ c. fresh ginger root, minced
5 c. vegetable or chicken stock ( this page –this page )
1 turnip
1 yam
1 fresh pear
6 scallions
½ c. uncooked white rice
• Place the astragalus and tangerine peel in a muslin bag.• Cover the glehnia and ginseng with boiling water, soak for 20
minutes, and cut into bite-size pieces. • Simmer the herbs in the stock for 1 hour. • Cut the turnip, yam, and pear into ½-inch cubes, and slice the
scallions. • Add the rice to the herbal stew, and simmer another 10 minutes. • Remove the muslin bag of astragalus and tangerine. • Add the turnip, yam, pear, and scallions, and place in a covered
casserole dish in a 400° oven for 15 minutes. • Remove the lid and cook for an additional 15 minutes. • Serve. For Heat
delete  ginger, scallions
add ½ oz. mint (1 oz. fresh)
For stagnation of  Moisture ( Phlegm )
delete  glehnia root, yams
add 1 oz. lily bulbs, 3 carrots
Supplement and Harmonize Water
Kidney  congestion occurs when Heat or Cold obstructs Moisture,
leading to accumulation of Dampness. Foods that disperse Moisture
and purge Dampness  are used, combined with either warming or
cooling ingredients. Depletion of the Kidney  occurs when Essence  or vital warmth
becomes decient. Foods that replenish Essence  and warm the bodyare needed. Remedial principle: Tonify Qi and Essence ; disperse Moisture ;
eliminate Cold. ½ oz. dioscorea rhizome
1 lotus seeds
1 oz. poria fungus
1 lycii berries
½ oz. rehmannia
½ oz. cornus fruit
1 inch fresh ginger, minced
1 clove garlic, minced
½ c. chopped cilantro or parsley
½ c. kidney beans
2 tbsp. ground pasilla chili (sweet)
1 tsp ground chili negro (hot)
6. c. vegetable or chicken stock or water
1 c. string beans
½ c. roasted peanuts
1 tsp. salt
• Break the dioscorea into ½-inch pieces. • Simmer all the herbs (excep t the cilantro or parsley), the kidney
beans, chili, and garlic in the stock or water for 1½ hour. • While this is cooking, diago nally cut the string beans and roast
the peanuts in a 350° oven for 10 minutes. • Add the string beans and peanuts, and cook for another 15
minutes. • Add the cilantro or parsley and salt to taste.For congestion of  Moisture
delete  lotus seeds, lycii, peanuts, salt
add 1 oz. corn silk (place in muslin bag), 1 c. sliced celery
For Cold
delete  ginger peel
add 1 tsp grated cardamom, 1 tsp. grated dry ginger
HERBAL BREADS AND  CAKES
To demonstrate the versatility of herbal cuisine, we ground a few
nourishing herbs into powder and used them like our. These
included millet, poria, diosc orea, and lotus seeds, which can be
ground into our in a food mill, if not available in powd ered form. After a hardy Chinese herba l soup, wholesome baked goods are a
treat. Preparing the recipes in this chapter has been a wonderful
adventure: tasting them, making adjustments, and lookin g forward
to a time


’s	attachment	to	it,	along	with	one’s	observations	that	cloud	the	search	for
Truth. Some	attractions	themselves	are	merely	time	wasters,	while	others	are
serious	traps	with	grim	consequences	in	which	the	unaware	become
immersed. On	the	other	hand,	it	is	sometimes	only	as	the	result	of	the	sheer
agony	of	one’s	having	gone	astray	that	hitting	bottom,	letting	go,	and
accepting	better	choices	occurs. Therefore,	one	can	never	say	it	is	wrong	for
anyone	to	follow	any	particular	pathway	for	it	may	be	the	very	means	of	their
ultimate	salvation,	as	painful	as	it	may	be. We	can	say	with	certainty	that
anything	that	fails	to	make	one	go	strong	with	the	muscle-test	method	is	not	a
direction	that	a	committed	spiritual	seeker	of	enlightenment	wants	to	follow. One	source	of	error	is	often	the	seemingly	innocuous	human	capacity	for
curiosity. The	lure	at	the	door	to	disaster	is	not	obviously	something	negative
but	a	more	sophisticated	bait	that	conceals	the	wolf	in	sheep’s	clothing. It	is
therefore	necessary	to	avoid	that	which	does	not	make	one	go	strong	with	the
muscle	test	because	that	which	makes	one	goes	strong	supports	life	and	leads
to	Truth. Can	one	explore	the	domains	that	lead	away	from	Truth	and	return
unscathed? The	answer,	at	least	for	the	present,	is	that	it	is	unlikely. Let	us
look	at	the	fact	that	seventy-eight	percent	of	the	world’s	population	tests	as
being	below	the	level	of	Integrity	(200).There	is	also	the	social	reaction	to	be
dealt	with,	which	might	be	called	the	‘crab	phenomenon’. In	a	pail	of	crabs,
as	one	or	more	try	to	get	over	the	edge	to	freedom,	the	other	crabs	reach	up
and	pull	it	or	them	back;	in	some	people,	there	is	a	contrary	reaction	toward
those	who	are	seeking	the	light. Indeed,	if	a	member	of	a	negatively	calibrated
cult	begins	to	discern	the	negativity	that	is	present	behind	the	façade	of
holiness	and	tries	to	leave,	they	are	often	denounced	and	subjected	to	abuse	or
even	violence. Most	traditional	pathways	therefore	recommend	that	one
congregate	with	others	who	have	a	similar	spiritual	dedication. It	is	also
significant	that	the	consciousness	level	of	mankind,	which	stood	at	190	for
many	centuries,	has	now	recently	jumped	to	207;	therefore,	the	sea	of
consciousness	of	mankind	as	a	whole	now	supports	the	positive	instead	of	the
negative. The	Spiritual	Direction
It	is	helpful	to	remember	that	neither	Truth	nor	Enlightenment	is
something	to	be	found,	sought,	acquired,	gained,	or	possessed. That	which	is
the	Infinite	Presence	is	always	present,	and	its	realization	occurs	of	itself
when	the	obstacles	to	that	realization	are	removed. It	is	therefore	not
necessary	to	study	the	truth	but	only	to	let	go	of	that	which	is	fallacious. Moving	away	the	clouds	does	not	cause	the	sun	to	shine	but	merely	revealsthat	which	was	hidden	all	along. Spiritual	work,	therefore,	is	primarily	a
letting	go	of	the	presumably	known	for	the	unknown,	with	the	promise	of
others	who	have	done	it	that	the	effort	is	more	than	well	rewarded	at	the	end. On	the	earthly	level,	gold	is	not	created	but	merely	revealed	by	chipping	away
that	which	obscures	it. One	of	the	main	spiritual	tools	is	intention,	which	sets	up	priorities	and
hierarchies	of	values	that	energize	one’s	efforts. Spiritual	work	is	a
commitment	and	also	an	exploration. The	way	has	been	opened	by	those	who
have	gone	before	and	set	the	possibility	in	consciousness	for	others	to	follow. Just	as	Roger	Bannister	broke	through	the	‘M-field’	of	the	four-minute	mile,
so	have	beings	of	advanced	consciousness	left	markers	for	others	to	follow. In
turn,	every	advance	that	we	make	in	our	awareness	benefits	unseen	multitudes
and	strengthens	the	next	step	for	others	to	follow. Every	act	of	kindness	is
noticed	by	the	universe	and	is	preserved	forever. When	seen	for	what	it	is,
gratitude	replaces	spiritual	ambition. In	traditional	Buddhism,	one	seeks
enlightenment	for	the	good	of	all	mankind;	all	gifts	return	to	their	source. In	due	time,	one’s	spiritual	intention	and	focus	come	to	replace	worldly
ambitions	and	desires. It	is	as	though	one	is	progressively	drawn	into	the	Self
as	if	there	were	a	spiritual	gravity	acting	by	attraction. A	style	of	knowingness
replaces	reason	and	logic,	and	intuitive	awareness	focuses	on	the	essence	of
life	and	its	activities	rather	than	on	goals	or	the	details	of	form. Perception	begins	to	change	and	the	beauty	of	creation	literally	shines
forth	from	all	persons	and	objects. A	simple	scene	may	unexpectedly
suddenly	become	overwhelmingly	beautiful	as	though	revealing	itself	in
three-dimensional	Technicolor. There	are	moments	when	suddenly	all	is	still,
and	the	experience	of	the	quality	of	All	That	Is	takes	place	within	an	all-
encompassing	Presence. It	is	this	Eye	of	the	‘I’	that	gives	the	sense	of	reality
to	life. That	which	enables	us	to	experience	what	we	think	of	as	an	individual
‘I’	is	actually	the	Infinite	‘I’. The	radiance	of	God	is	the	light	of	awareness	that	reveals	the	divinity	of
all	that	exists. In	the	stillness	of	the	Infinite	Presence,	the	mind	is	silent	as
there	is	nothing	that	can	be	said;	all	speaks	for	itself	with	completeness	and
exactitude. With	this	realization,	one	transcends	the	final	duality	of	existence
versus	nonexistence	because	only	existence	is	possible. The	opposite	of	Truth
does	not	exist	because	Reality	excludes	nonreality. In	this	realization	resides
the	peace	of	God. Evolution	Versus	Creation
This	is	a	favorite	source	of	contention	for	politicians,	school	boards,	and
courts. In	reality,	there	is	no	conflict. Evolution	and	creation	are	one	and	thesame. Creation	is	the	very	source	and	essence	of	evolution. Evolution	is	the
process	by	which	creation	becomes	manifest. The	physical	world	is	a	world	of
effects	and	has	no	power	of	causality	within	it. From	paleontology,	we	can	see	that	species	and	life	forms	have	changed
over	millions	of	years. Likewise,	the	early	versions	and	forms	of	mankind	that
are	available	for	study	demonstrate	a	progression	of	form. Evolution	occurs	as	a	progression	within	consciousness	itself	to	form
through	greater	adaptability	to	the	environment. This	evolution	occurs	on	the
plane	of	consciousness,	which	includes	intelligence	and	intention	as	well	as
aesthetic	awareness. Thus,	evolution	occurs	within	the	invisible	domain	of
infinite	potentiality	and	then	becomes	manifest	as	the	consequence	of
creation,	which	is	intrinsic	to	the	essence	of	the	universe	itself	and	is
continuous	and	ongoing. If	Creation	were	a	solitary	act	by	God	at	some	point	in	the	distant	past,
then	all	living	things	would	be	exactly	as	they	were	millions	of	years	ago. Inasmuch	as	neither	God	nor	Reality	has	any	beginning	or	end	and	exists
outside	of	time,	no	single	act	of	God	in	time	and	space	is	tenable. Continuous
creation


disputed that human natur e has a dark side, but was Jung’s
explanation actually useful or was it just a brilliant
intellectual invention. Only r ecently have bits and pieces of
proof been gather ed, and, if anything, they deepen the
mystery. For example, it has been known for decades that
when a person becomes lonely and isolated, as of ten
happens to widows in old age, the risk of disease and death
rises compar ed to that for people who have str ong social
connections. A happy mar riage mak es you healthy. At ﬁrst
this ﬁnding was har d to accept, because medical
resear chers saw no link between a mental state and the
body. How could the heart or a pr ecancer ous cell
somewher e in the body know how a person feels. It took the
discovery of so -called messenger molecules to show that
the brain translates every emotion into a chemical
equivalent. As messenger molecules str eam thr ough the
blood, cir culating to hundr eds of billions of cells,unhappiness or happiness gets transmitted to the heart,
liver, intestines, and kidneys. Suddenly mind-body medicine had a “ real” basis, because
nothing is mor e real than chemicals. But Jung was pr oposing
that unhappiness or happiness could be shar ed by whole
groups of people. Why does mass violence br eak out in Iraq
or Rwanda. W e can ﬁnd e xplanations in long-standing tribal
feuds and sectarian rif ts. Ar e these stor ed in the collective
unconscious, or do generations of par ents tell their childr en
to keep these ancestral grudges alive. It does no good to
shake our heads and mutter about uncivilized, barbaric
behavior. The gr eatest bloodbaths in history occur red during
the two world wars. Millions of civilized soldiers mar ched
into the jaws of death, men who wr ote poetry, played the
piano, knew Gr eek and Latin. A fterwar d, Eur ope look ed back
and called this slaughter insane, but eminently sane people
ran the war and died in it, and when conscientious objectors
protested, they wer e jailed or punished by being sent to the
front lines as medics, a tragic ir ony that killed many of the
people who hated war the most and wanted to pr event it. The unconscious has a goal, which is to k eep us
unconscious. Sometimes knowledge peeks out anyway. In a
famous social e xperiment at Stanfor d, psychologists
replicated prison conditions to try to understand how guar ds
treat prisoners. Under graduates wer e divided into two
groups, convicts and guar ds, and told to r ole-play any way
they wanted. The psychologists in char ge expected to be
able to see mark ed changes in the behavior of each gr oup,
and yet the e xperiment had to be cut oﬀ in a matter of
days. The students playing the part of guar ds began to
sever ely mistr eat the prisoners, to the point wher e
humiliation and se xually char ged abuse appear ed. This
stunning misﬁr e gave rise to the theory of “good apples in
bad bar rels. ”
The old way of thinking had told psychologists that a bad
apple can for ce a gr oup to misbehave. Common sense saysthat a gang leader can induce his passive followers to
commit crimes; college hazing goes too far because a small
core of bad apples puts peer pr essur e on others. Y et the
Stanfor d prison e xperiment told the opposite story. All the
participants wer e good kids studying at a pr estige
university. Their misbehavior didn’t occur because they
were bad apples, but because they wer e in bad conditions
that allowed dark for ces to emer ge. What the psychologists
were seeing was nothing less than an incubator for the
shadow, and the conditions that give rise to gr oup violence
were catalogued. The shadow can emer ge when ther e is complete
anonymity, as of ten happens when, instead of being
individuals, people become faces in a cr owd. This loss of
individuality incr eases if ther e are no consequences of one’s
bad actions. The absence of law and or der ampliﬁes the
eﬀect, as does being given per mission to behave beyond
normal morality. If authority ﬁgur es ar e present to actively
incite bad behavior and pr omise a lack of punishment, the
shadow surfaces all the mor e easily. We don’t have to mak e
the bar rel even worse by adding poverty, illiteracy, and old
tribal ties, but they obviously taint conditions even mor e. So
does any kind of “us versus them” thinking. When I say that the shadow can emer ge, I mean any kind
of mass pathology can appear. The Stanfor d prison
experiment r esurfaced to e xplain the abuses at Abu Ghraib
prison during the Iraq war. But if we r ealized that ghettos
are also e xamples of “bad bar rels” in which ther e are “good
apples,” we wouldn’t r esort to thinking of the under class as
morally inferior, or worse. The destruction of the ecosystem
is a for m of violence against the planet, yet it too involves
good people doing very bad things because they have been
given per mission to and they face no punishment (e xcept
for the long-ter m har m that we all face, which can be
ignor ed, denied, or put oﬀ until tomor row). When people
wake up fr om their misbehavior, they seem dazed andconfused. The violence they perpetrated seems lik e a
dream, even though they actively participated in hor rors lik e
war and genocide. The shadow traps us, ther efore, in two
ways. It k eeps us unconscious and then erupts with
incredible power whenever it wants to. You may say, “What does this have to do with me. ” Most
of us haven’t participated in an outbr eak of the shadow lik e
what occur red at Abu Ghraib. Instead of empathizing with
the soldiers who abused their char ges, we look for
scapegoats to punish, because the bad-apple e xplanation is
easier to live with. Y et when you do something as innocent
as drive your car, you ar e putting nineteen pounds of
carbon dio xide into the air, a gr eenhouse gas that is
imperiling the planet. As a society we could r ectify this bad
behavior in a few years, once we put our minds to it. The
solutions, fr om cleaner cars to mass transportation to
alternative fuels, alr eady e xist. Why don’t we e xploit them
fully. Because r emaining unconscious is easier. Skeptics have a right to point out that all of this still
doesn’t pr ove that ther e is a collective unconscious. Wher e
is the evidence that members of a society ar e invisibly
linked, without wor ds or peer pr essur e binding them. A new
ﬁeld of sociology is studying “social contagion,” a deeply
mysterious phenomenon that could change everything we
think about our behavior. We all e xperience how fads and
trends work. Out of the blue, everybody seems to be doing
something new, whether it’s te xting, ﬂeeing MySpace for
Twitter, or playing a new video game. F ads ar e contagious
behavior. You catch them fr om other people. Y et no one
knows how behavior goes viral. What mak es a gr oup of
people all decide to act the same way. This becomes a crucial medical question if you want a
group to stop doing something har mful—if you want to
persuade young people not to smok e, for e xample, or the
general population to stop getting obese. The most
advanced work on this question has come fr om tworesear chers at Harvar d, Nicholas Christakis and James
Fowler, whose new book, Connected,  was pr eviewed in a
recent New Y ork T imes  Sunday magazine article. Christakis
and F owler analyzed data fr om the nation’s biggest heart
study, which has followed thr ee generations of citizens in
Framingham, Massachusetts. They look ed into the behavior
of over ﬁve thousand people who wer e mapped accor ding to
ﬁfty-one thousand social connections with family, friends,
and cowork ers. Their ﬁrst discovery was that when one person gained
weight, started smoking, or got sick, close family members
and friends wer e around 50 per cent mor e likely to behave
the same way. This r einfor ces a social-science principle that
is decades old: behavior runs in gr oups. W e have all
experienced it as peer pr essur e or by observing behavioral
traits that seem to “ run in families. ” The r everse is also true. If you run with a healthy cr owd, you ar e mor e likely to adopt
healthy behavior yourself. Not just health is involved; almost
any behavior can be


, 165, 179; Exer
cises, 1� 144, 209,210, 214 ;exhaustion,
37; merid ian, 70, 162, 165, 177; problems
of, 143, 214
Hemorrho ids, 154, 214
Hepatitis, 214
Herbs, 23-24, 139, 171
Hsien, 201
Hyper-and hypog lycemia, 60, 216
Hystuectom y,43
Impotence, 15S, 214
Indigestio n, 103
Insomn ia, 71, 214
Insulin, 40
Internal Organ Relaxation, 1S8-160, 208,
210, 212, 21S
Intestines, see Large or Small
lmtstines
Iodine, 133
Jeo-Mo meridi an, ISS, 199
Kidney: 62, 1S2; Exen:ise, 1Sl-1S 2, 209,
210, 211, 213, 214 ; meridian, ISS, 162,
178; problems of, 68, 214
Kim Bong Han, 160, 161
Kingdom: Animal, 220; God, 220-2 21;
Human, 220; Vegetable, 220
Kirlian photograph y. 32 Index
..._.Tse, 14, 19
Large Heave nly Cycle, 203-204, 210
Large infatine: 65; meridian, 162, 165, 175
Laxat ives, 110
· -..... Lew is, Thomu, 161
""" Liver: 58, 66, 67; cancer, Ill; Bxercile,
149-1 51, 209, 210, 211, 212, 214, 215,
216 ; meri dian, 155, 162, 181
Lordosos, I 52
Lower Back Exen: ise, 152-154, 209,
210:211, 21S
' Lower Body and Sexual Glands Exen:ile,
ISS-1S7, 209, 212, 214, 215
Lumbago, IS2
Lung: 6S, 68; asthma, 139; bronchial
tubes, 139; coughing, 138; Exen:ise, 138-
144, 209, 210, 211; meridian, 162, 165,
172-174
Menopau se, 94
Menstruation: problems of, 214
Meridian: 34, 69, 160-16 3; Massage,
160-166, 209, 211, 212 ; Medi lllion, 37,
171-181, 209; Points o f Entty and Exit, 162
Monkey Exe n:ise, 62-63
Moonlight Contemplation, 184
Mother and Child Law, S4-5S
Mouth: Exm:ises, 130-13 2, 209, 211,
213, 216 ; problems of, 130, 132,216 : llli
va, 130-131
Muscle, 66
Near- and fars ightedoess, see E�. �
lems of
Neck: 113; pain, 134
Nei Ching, 29, 160
Nerve: 4S, 66, 67, 68, 71, 79, ISS; problems
of, 214
North Star Meditation, 182-184
Nose: Exercises, 127-128, 208, 212, 213;
sinus, 127
'-.. Obesity, 107-108, 163, 21S
Overacidit y, 148, 21S
'
223 Pancreas gland, 40, 41
Pineal gland, 40-4 1, 87
Pituitary gland, 40-4 1
Pneumo nia, 21S
Polyps, 154
Prematwe ejaculati on, 155
Prematwe labor, 95 Prostate gland: 88; cancer, 93;
problems of, 215
Prostatec tomy. 43
Reverse Crane I, 188-190, 210, 211, 215
Reverse Crane 0, 190-19 2, 210, 211, 215
Rheuma tism, 210
, Ringing ears, see Ear, probknu of
Runny nose, see Nose
Sciatica, 21 S
. Seven Glands System, 39-43, 87, lSI
-..... Sex glands, 39�. 41, 42-43, 67, 199-
200
Shoulder: pain, 68, 1 34
Sitting position, 117-119
Skin, 61, 6S, lSI
Sleep: as energizer, 33-34; position, 120-
121, 139
Slipped discs, 152
Small Heavenly Cycle, 201 -203, 210
Small intestines: 57; meridian, 162, 165, 177
Snori ng, 139
Solar Plexus Exerc ise: 107-112,209, 211-216
Spine: 87, 152; probl ems, 68
Spleen -pancreas: 60, 66; meridian, 70, ISS
162, 176
Standing position, 119
"' SIOmach: 60, 102; cancer, 148; Heal ing
Exerc ise, 148-149, 209; indigestion, 148;
meridian, 162,164, 176;pQn, 21S
Silas, 13, 37, SO
Sun Worship Exercise, IS4-1S S, 210, 214
Sunlight Conlem plation, 184
T'ai Chi Cluan, 16, 80
Tao of Revitalization: history of, 14; u
therap y, 16; types of, 14-15 Tao TeChing,
19, 170, 194
Taoism: Eight Pillan of, 19-28; symbol of
(Pa-Kua), 20, 64
Techniques for Relieving Pain, 134-13 5,
209, 210
Tennis elbow, 135, 210, 216
Tension,37
Thymus aJIDCI, 40, 41, 87
Thyroid aJIDCI: Exemse, 133, 216 ; iodiDe,
133; problems of 216
naer Exen:iiC, 58-59
Toe WilaJina and Body Stletchina, IS7-IS8,
208, 211, 214, 216 Index
Tooth decay, see MOUlla, probknu of
Toxins, lSI, 157
Triple Heater meridian, 162, 165, 179
Tu-Mo meridian, 199
Tuberculosis, Ill, 216
Tui-Na, 2S
Turtle: Exercise, 45, 113-116, 209, 210,
211,212,213, 214,21S, 216 ;mebho6sm,
114; nervous system, 113-114
Twelve Ne rve Exercises, 45, 79-86, 209,
214, 215, 217
Twelve Zodiac Exercises, 43, Sl, 71-79, 209
212, 217
Ulcer, 215, 216
Varicose veins, 163
Vertigo, 213
--.,...., Vilamin D, IS4
'V omiting, 215, 217
224 Walking, 120
Watches, 70-79
Water retention, 163,164
Weight Reduction Exercise, 145-148, 209,
211, 215
Wrinkles, 133, 211
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        However, it may be perfonned during the
daytime by simply imagining that the star is there above you. However,
always face the North Star when you are practicing this exercise. It will
182 Taoist Meditative, Contem plative, and Breathing Exercises
then be easy for your body to accept and receive the electromagnetic energy
coming from the star. I. Begin by sitting facing the North Star, which may be located by
frrst finding the Big Dipper. 2. Use your imagination and feel the light of the North Star come
down and meet you on the top of your head at a place called ''The
Meeting of All Points''. This point lies at the crown of the head at a
point equidistant between the ears. Figure 96. The


 removing  invisible sutures. My friend told me that anything could
happen and that when it took place for her the first time, the room actually
shook like a minor earthquake, so I might want to remove anything valuable
from high places in my bedroom in the event that I had the same
experience. Rayna sent me by FedEx (again from Brazil) water that had been blessed
by John of God,  which I was to place by my bedside. I was to wear white to
bed, and pray and be pure love. As I dozed off I had a picture of everyone I
could imagine in my mind, and I bathed them all in a cascade of pure love. The next morning I looked at my watch, a watch that has a ten-day power
supply source, a watch that has always kept perfect time to the second. It
was 7:05 A.M. The phone next to my bed rang, and my dear friend Kerry
asked me how the night went. I told her I was just waking up, and she said,
“But it’ s 8:25 A.M.  I’m at the airport!”
I assured her that her time was incorrect, and she was adamant that it was
8:25. It turns out that my precision-guaranteed watch had stopped for 80
minutes during the night! When I walked out to the kitchen, my children
jokingly asked if I’d been doing drugs—my pupils were tiny, my left eye
appeared to be scratched, my eyes were watering, and I looked to them as if
something very strange had happened to me. I felt like I was pure love. Everything I looked at I saw with new eyes: the tree was love, my plants
were love, the ocean was love, and every person I saw that day, I just
wanted to tell them how much I loved them. I was a walking being of love,
and it has not dissolved since then. Two days later, that same precision watch once again inexplicably lost
exactly 80 minutes. Then the next day, Rayna called and told me that the
clock on her automobile was 80 minutes slower than it was supposed to be,
and she sent me a photo verifyin g it. I have no idea what transpi red in those
80 minutes. Rayna hypothesized that the electromagnetic field of the
healing energies from the entities doing the surgical procedures through
John of God is so much more powerful than the field of the watch that I was
wearing, that while they were healing and removing the sutures it caused
the watch to stop. I admit I can’t give an intelligent answer, other than I wasbeing given absolute proof in a physical way that what was taking place
was not only real, but that I would be able to tell others of this phenomenon
because I live such a visible life. At any rate, my body has still been
detoxifying. I am feeling so much love for everyone, including a person
who engaged in litigation again st me, attempting to achieve financial gain
—something that once made me angry—and now all I can do is bathe him
in love as well. (And the litigation ended shortly thereafter as well.) At this point I would like to go back to my discussion of the orb
phenomenon that has recently infiltrated my life. The Heinemanns’ book
contains 65 color photos with orbs in them, taken at various functions all
over the world. After my experi ence with John of God, I learned that some
of those photos were sent to the authors showing orbs making themselves
visible in photos taken in Abadiania. They are reproduced in the photo
insert. Note the huge orb above John of God (João de Deus) while he does a
visible healing intervention, and a photo where the orbs cloud the image of
the entire healing encounter. The presence of these orbs with John of God,
as well as those that seem to be showing up at my speaking events, is a
synchronicity that defies my reasoning powers. Yet it is there, and I am
open to learning what it all means, or living with contentment in the
mystery. What I can report with certainty is that profound changes have
taken place in my body in both a physical sense, and even more
emphatically, in a feeling sense. When I receive d the diagnosis of leukemia, I had been told by several
physicians that I wouldn’ t be able to continue practicing Bikram  yoga four
days a week. The heat, I was informed, would be way too stren uous and it
would be ill-advised for me to continue this activity. Sure enough, I found
myself feeling so weak in yoga class that I ultimately abandoned the
practice. Yet one early morning while meditating, just 20 days following my suture
removal, I heard an inner voice saying, Do not go for a walk today. You can
now do yoga. I listened, and went to my first Bikram yoga class in 11
months. Although I was rusty, I completed the class, much to my renewed
joy. I had always loved yoga, and I had missed it terribly. I am back to an
early-morning class, four times a week, and my ability to hold the postures
in the heat have surpassed what I was accomplishing prior to my leukemiadiagnosis. I feel stronger, and those aches and pains that had returned when
I abandoned yoga are completely gone. A few days later, I celebrated my 71st birthday in a totally unique way. The overwhelming sense of love I felt after my experience with the healing
entities was dominating my every waking moment. That day I went out on
the stree ts of San Francisco and talked with an array of homeless people. I
felt compelled to simply love and give; to that end, I had a wad of cash with
me, and I passed out $50 bills to at least 30 different somewhat lost souls. When I returned to my hotel room, I sat on the bed and simpl y sobbed in
gratitude. I have never had such a memorable birthday, a day in which I felt
driven to reach out and give love, without any expectations in return. I now feel absolutely imbued by love. And while my body seems to be
detoxing, I’ve shifted my eating habits, and my body feels cleaner and
healthier. I have not partaken of new blood tests and medical evaluations,
because I trust in what I experienced to such a degree that I need no
external validation to assure me that these mysterious mystical events took
place. I was there for the surgery, and I was there for the suture removal. I
need say nothing more. I believe in miracles, and I also know that I am not this outer body. I have
no fear of death because I am birthless, deathless, and changeless. This is
my I am presence of being one with God. In addition to this feeling, it has
become clear to me since my John of God experience that I am more and
more in contact with what I can only label angelic guidance. In my morning meditations, I receive what feels like instruction on how to
conduct my day. Without exception, when I follow this guidance I find
myself encountering amazing opportunities to reach out and serve, and my
inner voice says, Follow through and be of service. One recent morning
provides an example of what I’m experiencing daily. By 6:30 A.M.  I’d conversed with a man who was struggling in his
marriage. I advised him to focus for the next 24 hours on unconditional
love. It was an unexpected, unplanned encounter, and I gifted him two
books and a copy of my movie, The Shift. He was elated and expressed thathe felt a huge burden had been lifted from his body as a result of our
conversation. On my way back home, I enco untered a homeless young man asleep on
the beach, gifted him $100, and talked to him passionately about seeking
help for his drug addiction. He smiled from ear to ear and said that I was the
first person he met on Maui who wasn’ t full of judgment toward him. When I got home, I discovered I’d taken the wrong key and was unable to
enter my apartment. On the way to the desk to retrieve a correct key, I
encountered a woman who had lost her son in an automobile accident some
two years earlie r. As we talked she told me how, just the day before, she
had seen for the first time a video of his second-grade graduation, which
was sent to her by a friend. Tears came to her eyes as she described having
to testify in a few days at the sentencing of the impaired driver who caused
her son’s death. We walked together to get the new key, and I invited her
into my home. I then gave her a copy of Anita Moorjani’ s descri ption of her
NDE in which she defines death as an awareness of coming into the light of
pure love. I said to this woman that after reading Anita’ s account, she might
have some of her anguish removed. I feel these three experiences of synchronicity were the outcome of my
hearing and responding to angelic guidance during meditation, directing me
to walk in a certain direction at a certain time. Three people’ s lives were
touched because  I was not only told where and when to walk, but also
because I felt compelled by inner persuasive forces to reach out and be of
service. These kinds of synchronicities as a result of inner


 the
king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t mak e Marianne
function again. The hysterical woman inside me was in a
maniacal rage, and the innocent child was pinned to the
wall. I fell apart. I cr ossed the line between in-pain-but-still-
able-to -function-nor mally, and the r ealm of the total bask et
case. I had what is commonly called a nervous br eakdown. Nervous br eakdowns can be highly under rated methods
of spiritual transfor mation. They certainly get your
attention. I have seen people have little mini-br eakdowns
year af ter year, each time stopping just short of getting the
point. I think I was luck y to get mine over with in one fell
swoop. The things I lear ned her e, I will not for get. As painful
as this e xperience was, I now see it as an important,
perhaps necessary step in my br eakthr ough to a happier
life. For one thing, I was pr ofoundly humbled. I saw very
clearly that, ‘of myself, I am nothing.’ Until this happens,
you k eep trying all your old tricks, the ones that never did
work but that you k eep thinking might work this time. Once
you’ve had enough and you can’t do it anymor e, you
consider the possibility that ther e might be a better way. That’s when your head cracks open and God comes in. I felt during those years as though my sk ull had
exploded. It seemed as though thousands of little pieces of
it had shot into outer space. V ery slowly, they began to
come together again. But while my emotional brain was soexposed, it seemed to be r ewired, lik e I’d had some kind of
psychic sur gery. I felt lik e I became a diﬀer ent person. More people have felt their heads crack open in some
way, than have admitted it to their friends. These days it’s
not an uncommon phenomenon. P eople ar e crashing into
walls today—socially, biologically, psychologically and
emotionally. But this isn’t bad news. In a way, it’s good. Until
your knees ﬁnally hit the ﬂoor, you’r e just playing at life,
and on some level you’r e scar ed because you know you’r e
just playing. The moment of sur render is not when life is
over. It’s when it begins. Not that that moment of eur eka—that calling out to God
—is it, and it’s all P aradise fr om then on. Y ou’ve simply
started the climb. But you know you’r e not running ar ound
in cir cles at the bottom of the mountain anymor e, never
really getting anywher e, dreaming of the top and having no
idea how to get ther e. For many people, things have to get
very bad befor e ther e’s a shif t. When you truly bottom out,
there comes an e xhilarating r elease. Y ou recognize ther e’s a
power in the universe bigger than you ar e, who can do for
you what you can’t do for yourself. All of a sudden, your last
resort sounds lik e a very good idea. How ir onic. Y ou spend your whole life r esisting the notion
that ther e’s someone out ther e smarter than you ar e, and
then all of a sudden you’r e so r elieved to know it’s true. All
of a sudden, you’r e not too pr oud to ask for help. That’s what it means to sur render to God. OceanofPDF.comCHAPTER 2
God
“You ar e in God.”

1. GOD IS THE ROCK
“There is no time, no place, no state wher e God
is absent.”
There have been times in my life—and they still happen
today, though they’r e mor e the e xception now than the rule
—when I have felt as though sadness would overwhelm me. Something didn’t tur n out the way I wanted it to, or I was in
conﬂict with someone, or I was afraid of what might or
might not happen in the futur e. Life in those moments can
be diﬃcult to bear, and the mind begins an endless sear ch
for its escape fr om pain. What I lear ned fr om A Course in Miracles  is that the
change we’r e really looking for is inside our heads. Events
are always in ﬂux. One day people love you; the ne xt day
you’r e their tar get. One day a situation is running smoothly;
the ne xt day chaos r eigns. One day you feel lik e you’r e an
okay person; the ne xt day you feel lik e you’r e an utterfailur e. These changes in life ar e always going to happen;
they’r e part of the human experience. What we can change,
however, is how we per ceive them. And that shif t in our
perception is a miracle. There’s a biblical story wher e Jesus says we can build our
house on sand or we can build it on r ock. Our house is our
emotional stability. When it is built on sand, then the winds
and rain can tear it down. One disappointing phone call and
we crumble; one stor m and the house falls down. When our house is built on r ock, then it is stur dy and
strong and the stor ms can’t destr oy it. W e are not so
vulnerable to life’s passing dramas. Our stability r ests on
something mor e enduring than the cur rent weather,
something per manent and str ong. W e’re depending on God. I had never r ealized that depending on God meant
depending on love. I had hear d it said that God was love,
but it had never kick ed in for me e xactly what that meant. As I began to study A Course in Miracles, I discover ed the
following things:
God is the love within us. Whether we “ follow Him,” or think with love, is
entirely up to us. When we choose to love, or to allow our minds
to be one with God, then life is peaceful. When
we tur n away fr om love, the pain sets in. And whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a
mental choice we mak e, every moment of every day.2. LOVE IS GOD
“Love does not conquer all things, but it does set
all things right.”
Love tak en seriously is a radical outlook, a major
departur e from the psychological orientation that rules the
world. It is thr eatening not because it is a small idea, but
because it is so huge. For many people, God is a frightening concept. Asking
God for help doesn’t seem very comforting if we think of
Him as something outside ourselves, or capricious or
judgmental. But God is love. W e wer e created in His image,
or mind, which means that we ar e extensions of His love. This is why we ar e called the Sons of God. We think we author ed God, rather than r ealizing that He
author ed us. The Course says we have an ‘authority
problem.’ R ather than accepting that we ar e the loving
beings that He cr eated, we have ar rogantly thought that we
could cr eate ourselves, and then cr eate God. Because we
are angry and judgmental, we have pr ojected those
characteristics onto Him. W e have made up a God in our
image. But God r emains who He is and always has been: the
energy, the thought of unconditional love. He cannot think
with anger or judgment; He is mer cy and compassion and
total acceptance. The pr oblem is that we have for gotten
this, and so we have for gotten who we ourselves ar e.
I began to r ealize that taking love seriously would be a
complete transfor mation of my thinking. A Course in
Miracles  calls itself a ‘mind training’ in the r elinquishment of
a thought system based on fear, and the acceptance
instead of a thought system based on love. Now, over a
decade since starting the study of A Course in Miracles, mymind is har dly the touchstone of holy per ception. I certainly
don’t pr etend to consistently achieve a loving perspective of
every situation in my own life. One thing I’m very clear
about, however, is that when I do, life works beautifully. And
when I don’t, things stay stuck. In order to love pur ely, we must sur render our old ways
of thinking. F or most of us, sur rendering anything is diﬃcult. We still think of sur render as failur e, as something you do
when you’ve lost the war. But spiritual sur render, although
passive, is not weak. A ctually, it is str ong. It is a balance to
our aggr ession. Although aggr ession is not bad—it is at the
heart of cr eativity—it needs to be temper ed by love in or der
to be an


— is  due to the fear of death. If you identify with a mental posit ion, then
if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened
with annihilatio n. So you as the ego cannot af ford to be wrong. T o be
wrong is to die. W ars have been fought over this, and countless
relationships have broken down. Once you have disidentified from your mind, whether you are  right or
wrong m akes no dif ference to your sense of self at all, so the f orcefully
compulsive and deeply unconscious need to be right, which is a form of
violence, will no longer be there. Y ou can state clearly and firmly how
you feel or wh at you think, b ut there will be no aggressiv eness or
defensiveness ab out it. Y our sen se of self is then derived from a deeper
and truer place within yourself, not from the mind. W atch out for any
kind of defensiveness within yourself. What are you defending. An
illusory identity, an image in y our mind, a fictitious entity. By  making
this pattern conscious, by witne ssing it, you disidentify from it. In the
light of your consciousness, th e unconscious pattern will then quickly
dissolve. This is the end of all ar guments and power games, which are so
corrosive to relationships. Power over others is weakness disguised as
strength. T rue power is within, and it is available to you now. So anyone who is identified with their mind and, therefore, disconnected
from their true p ower, their deeper self rooted in Being, will have fear as
their con stant companion. The number of people who have gone beyond
mind is  as yet extremely small, so you can assume that virtually
everyone you meet or know live s in a state of fear. Only the intensity of
it varies. It fluctuates between a nxiety and dread at one end of the scale
and a vague unease and distant sense of threat at the other. Mo st people
become conscio us of it only when it takes on one of its more acute
forms. THE EGO’S SEARCH FOR WHOLENESS
Another aspect of the emotional pain that is an intrinsic part of the egoic
mind is a deep-seated sense o f lack or incompleteness, of n ot being
whole. In some people, this is conscious, in others unconscious. If it is
conscious, it manifests as the unsettling and constant feeling of not beingworthy o r good enough. If it is u nconscious, it will only be felt indirectly
as a n intense craving, wanting and needing. In either case, people will
often enter into a compulsive pursuit of ego-gratification and things to
identify with in order to fill this hole they feel within. So they strive after
possessions, money, success, power, recognition, or a special
relationship, basically so that they can  feel better about themselves, feel
more complete. But even when they attain all these things, they soon find
that the hole is still there, that it is bottomless. Then they are really in
trouble, because they cannot delude themselves anymore. W ell,  they can
and do, but it gets more dif ficult. As l ong as the egoic mind is r unning your life, you cannot tr uly be at
ease; yo u canno t be at peace or fulfilled except for brief intervals when
you obtained what you wanted, when a craving has just been fulfilled. Since th e ego is a derived sense  of self, it needs to identify with  external
things. It needs to be both defended and fed constantly. The most
common ego identifications hav e to do with possessions, the work you
do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical
appearance, special abilities, re lationships, personal and family  history,
belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and
other collective identifications. None of these is you. Do y ou find this  frightening. Or is it a relief to know this. All of these
things y ou will have to relinqui sh sooner or later. Perhaps you find it as
yet h ard to belie ve, and I am certainly not asking you to believe  that your
identity cannot be found in any of those things. Y ou will know  the truth
of it for yourself. Y ou will know it at the latest when you feel death
approaching. Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret
of life is to “die before you die” — and find that there is no death. CHAPTER THREE
M O V I N G  D E E P L Y
 I N T O  T H E  N O W
DON’T SEEK YOUR SELF IN THE MIND
I feel that ther e is still a gr eat deal I need to learn about the workings of
my mind befor e I can get anyw her e near full consciousness or spiritual
enlightenment. No, you don’ t. T he problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level
of th e mind. Once you have understood the basic dysfunction, t here isn’ t
really much else that you need to learn or understand. Stud ying the
complexities of the mind may make you a good psychologist, but doing
so w on’ t take you beyond the mind, just as the study of madness isn’ t
enough to create sanity. Y ou have already understood the basic
mechanics of the unconscious state: identification with the mind, which
creates a false self, the ego, as a substitute for your true self rooted in
Being. Y ou become as a “branch cut of f from the vine,” as Jesus puts it. The ego ’ s needs are endless. It feels vulnerable and threatene d and so
lives in a state of fear and want. Once you know how the basic
dysfunction ope rates, there is no need to explore all its countless
manifestations, n o need to make  it into a complex p ersonal problem. The
ego, of course, loves that. It is always seeking for something to attach
itself to in order to uphold and strengthen its illusory sense of self, and it
will readily attach itself to your problems. This is why, for so many
people, a lar ge part of their sense of self is intimately connected with
their problems. Once this has happened, the last thing they want is tobecome free of them; that would  mean loss of self. There can b e a great
deal of unconscious ego investment in pain and suf fering. So once you recognize the root of unconsciousness as identification with
the mind, which of course inclu des the emotions, you step out of it. Y ou
become pr esent. When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as
it is without getting entangl ed in it. The mind in itself is not
dysfunctional. It is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek
your self in it and mistake it for  who you are. It then becomes the egoic
mind and takes over your whole life. END THE DELUSION OF TIME
It se ems almost impossible to disidentify fr om the mind. W e  ar e all
immersed in it. How do you teach a fish to fly. Here is the key: End the delusion of time. T ime and mind are
inseparable. Remove time from  the mind and it stops — unless you
choose to use it. T o be identified with your mind  is to be trapped in time: the compulsion
to li ve almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates
an endle ss preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to
honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The
compulsion arises because the past gives yo u an identity and the future
holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are
illusions. But without a sense of time, how would we function in this worl d. Ther e
would be no goa ls to strive towa r d anymor e. I wouldn’ t even know who I
am, because my past makes me w ho I am today. I think time is something
very pr ecious, and we need to learn to use it wisely rather than waste it. T ime isn’ t precious at all, becau se it is an illusion. What you perceive as
precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is
precious indeed. The more you are focused on time — past and future —
the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is. Why is it the most precious thing. Firstly, because it is the only  thing. It’ s a ll there is. The eternal present is the space within which your whole
life unfo lds, the one factor that r emains constant. Life is now. T here was
never a  time when your life was not  now, nor will  there ever be. Secondly, the Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited
confines of the mind. It is your o nly point of access into the timeless and
formless realm of Being. NOTHING EXISTS OUTSIDE THE NOW
Ar en’ t p ast and futur e just as r eal, sometimes even mor e r eal, than the
pr esent. After all,


’ s function is lowered by the consum ption of
fluorine (or chlorine) in drinkin g water, iodine is displaced from the gland. This weakens the immune syste m. Then a person’ s physiology is beset by
three types of pathology: (1) it’s unable to produce fever, (2) allergies and
infections result, and (3) food fails to be burned adequately. These three
pathologies result in a lack of energy and the storage of calories asexcessive fat. As shown, fluoridated and/or chlorinated drinking water
becomes the source of such thyroid gland pathology. Another problem  of low thyroid function is the development and deposit
of plaque in the arteries, called arteriosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. This leads to poor blood supply to the heart, the brain, and the extremities. Too often, heart attacks and strokes are the result of arteriosclerosis. Endocrinologist Broda Barnes, M.D., demonstrated that low thyroid
function and heart attacks are directly related. By administer ing thyroid
extract to his affected patients, Dr. Barnes was able to reverse the formation
of arteriosclerosis and overcome their dif ficulties with heart disease. With similar kinds of disease reversal occurring from the ingestion of
thyroid, it becomes obvious why Gerson Therapy patients take thyroid
extract on a regular basis five times per day
In the presence of low thyroid function, moreover, cancer rates go up. Many years ago, in certain areas of the United States, it was noted that an
unusually high number of people suffered from goiters (Graves’ disease). An affected person’ s body enlar ges the thyroid gland in its attempt to help
that gland produce more thyroxine. The reason this problem exists is lack of iodine in the soil and in the diet
of people living in those areas. If adequate iodine is supplied, most enlar ged
glands usually go back to their normal size. It was noted that in these
“goiter belts” around the United States there was also a higher cancer
incidence. In an effort to furnish the population in such goiter belt areas
with iodine, the U.S. government introduced “iodized salt.” Since it is
assumed that everybody consumes salt, the bureaucrats’ thinki ng was that
this iodine addit ion to salt woul d supply the necessary mineral to the entire
population. They were right—goiters almost disappeared after the iodizing
of salt. WHY LUGOL ’S SOLUTION  IS REQUIRED  IN THE GERSON  THERAPY
But iodized salt presents a new problem: as illustrated earlier by the
death of the three-month-old British baby, salt is a damaging and deadly
chemical. Dr. Gerson found that the beginning of all chronic disease is
marked by the loss of potassium from the cell and the invasion  of sodium
chloride, the flavoring chemical  compound that comprises salt. Salt inhibitsenzyme production at the cellular level. Furthermore, salt promotes
excessive cellula r mitosis (cell division). In other words, it prom otes cancer. Obviously, we must avoid taking in salt, and must obtain the body’ s needed
iodine from other sources. In order to resto re the thyroid and basal metabolism as well as the most
important physiological functioning of his patients, the immune  system, Dr.
Gerson used Lugol’ s solution, half-strength. Lugol’ s is a 5 percent solution
of potas sium iodide, iodine, and water. This enables patients as well as
healthy people to obtain iodine without ingesting harmful sodium. TAKING  LIQUID  POTASSIUM  COMPOUND  SOLUTION
Until their blood tests have been analyzed, patients with any history of
cardiac insuf ficiency, episodes of myocardial infarction, transie nt ischemic
attack, or other types of cardiovascular complications should not receive
potassium medicinal ingredients. Otherwise, potassium compound solution
(a liquid) is recommended for use in the Gerson therapeutic program in an
amount of 4 teaspoonfuls (tsp), ten times per day. This dosage represents
approximately 3 1/2 grams or 50 mEq each of potassium acetate, gluconate,
and monophosphate (a total of 14 grams or 150 mEq/day). Gerson patients  presenting themselves with a history of kidney (renal)
insuf ficiency or dysfunction, gastritis, nausea, significant bone  metastasis,
or any indication of bleeding problems should be started with just 1 tsp of
potassium compound solution ten times a day. Dosages may be slowly
increased with the patient maintained under observation by the Gerson
Therapy medical adviser. RIDDING  YOUR DRINKING  WATER OF  FLUORINE AND  CHLORINE
In order  to maintain the norma l thyroid function, it is imperative that
healthy persons, and particularly any Gerson Therapy patients, avoid
chlorine and fluorine, which damage the thyroid gland. If tap water is
chlorinated, the chlorine pollutant can be destroyed by boiling it. But boiling one’s drinking water does not get rid of fluorine’ s toxic
effects. On the contrary, since fluoride is added to water in the form of
sodium fluoride, a salt, boiling the water concentrates the fluoride. Some ofthe wate r evapo rates and less water volume is left to dilute the fluoride
salts. Also, various filter systems are commercially distributed for people who
are aware of water pollution or contamination. Unfortunately, the filters
remove much, but not all of the fluorides. Even a small amount left in the
water is harmful and cannot be tolerated by a seriously ill person. Therefore, if tap water is fluoridated, it should be distilled to remove all the
fluoride salts and make it acceptable for the Gerson patient. It is also
important to use a carbon filter in the water purifier, since certain volatile
fractions, such as commercially manufactured benzenes and other solvents,
pass through the distillation process. A numb er of articles have been published in magazines about the
possible danger of drinking distilled water. It is claimed that distilled water
“leaches” minerals from the body. Such leaching, if it really does occur, is
not a problem. First of all, minerals contained in some spring waters are
inorganic minerals and are poorly absorbed (that’ s why we need to eat
plants: they have  enzymes that convert the inorganic minerals to an organic
form that the human body can easily assimilate). Furthermore, these
inorganic miner als are not in good balance; often they contain too much
sodium and calcium, along with frankly harmful nitrates and nitrites. In
some cases, well-meaning distributors of mineral drinking water and bottled
water even add fluorides to their product. That’ s the wrong thing to do! It must be emph asized that the body’ s requirement for minerals should
not come from drinking water but from fresh fruit, salads, and vegetable
juices. These are amply supplied by the Gerson Therapy diet plan. Now readers may well ask: If Gerson Therapy patients cannot drink
water, why worry about its purity? Here are our answers:
1. While it is true that Gerson patients are not allowed to drink  water,
they are still going to cat soup made with water, drink teas made with
water, and cook some vegetables with a minimal amount of water. 2. More important, patients have three to five coffee enemas daily, made
with water, of course. These healing enemas are extremely important to
help detoxify the liver. But the colon is a highly absorptive organ. Not
only is caffeine absorbed from the coffee enemas, but chemical additives
in the water are easily absorbed, as well. Water used for enemas should
be the purest available.3. The fluoride molecule is a very small and active molecule and is
passed rapidly not only through the colon into the bloodstream, but also
through the skin. The water used for all the needs of the patient,
including soup, teas, cooking, internal enemas, and external washing,
must be free of chlorine and fluorine as well as other pollutants. 4. The water must be purified for any internal purpose. Each time the
American Dental Association and its members recommend that people
ingest fluorine, almost all of us who follow such an erroneous
endorsement become poisoned. Water purification can help eliminate
this. WHY COLD-PRESSED  FLAXSEED  OIL IS INGESTED
Dr. Gerson, in his earlier work with tuberculosis patients and with
persons sufferin g from many other chronic diseases, was very much aware
that these peopl e required some essential fatty acids in their diet. Until he
discovered that cancer patients could not tolerate any fats, he used raw egg
yolks and a little salt-free butter for noncancerous patients. Yet when
tumors in his cancer patients disappeared and he wanted to add some oil,
egg yolks, or butter to the indiv iduals’ nutrition, he found that their cancer
returned. Since other doctors and researchers were not able to observe cured cancer
patients, he had no guidance in regard to this cancer regrowth. Dr. Gerson,
therefore, had to experiment on his own patients. He selected those ill
people who were affected with external cancers (skin malignan cies such as
inflammatory breast disease), those lesions which were easily observed. Then, cautiously, after tumors had already disappeared, he added one or
another nutritional oil to the patient’ s diet


oy sauce
Tofu (cold)
Urad dal (split black
lentils)
dairy products
FriendliestEat in
ModerationOkay if
Eaten
RarelyAvoid
Cottage cheese
(from skimmed
goat’ s milk)
Goat’ s milk
(skimmed)
Yogurt (skimmed
and diluted)Buttermilk
Ghee
Goat cheese
(unsalted and
not aged)Butter
(unsalted)Butter (salted)
Cheese (soft
and hard)
Cow’ s milk
Ice cream
Sour cream
Yogurt (plain,
frozen, or with
fruit)
grainsFriendliest Eat in
ModerationOkay if Eaten
RarelyAvoid
Barley
Buckwheat
Cereal (cold, dry,
or puf fed)
Corn
Couscous
Crackers
Granola
Millet
Muesli
Oat bran
Oats (dry)
Polenta
Rye
Tapioca
Wheat branAmaranth
Durum wheat
flour
Quinoa
Rice
(basmati,
wild)
SpeltPasta
Rice cakesBread (with
yeast)
Oats (boiled)
Pancakes
Rice (brown,
white)
Wheat
beverages
FriendliestDrink in
ModerationAvoid
Aloe vera juice
Apple cider
Apricot juice
Berry juice
Black tea (spiced)
Blackberry tea
Carrot juice
Chamomile tea  Apple juice
Chai (hot spiced
milk)
Pineapple juiceAlmond milk
Carbonated
drinks
Cherry juice
(sour)
Chocolate milk
Coffee
Cold dairy drinks  Cherry juice (sweet)
Chicory
Cinnamon tea
Cranberry juice
Grain “cof fee”
Grape juice
Mango juice
Peach nectar
Pear juice
Pomegranate juice
Prune juice
Soy milk (hot and well-
spiced)Grapefruit juice
Iced tea
Icy cold drinks
Lemonade
Marshmallow tea
Orange juice
Papaya juice
Rice milk
Sour juices
Soy milk (cold)
Tomato juice
nuts
Friendliest Okay Once in a While Avoid
Charoli Almonds (soaked and peeled) Black walnuts
Brazil nuts
Cashews
Hazelnuts
Macadamia nuts
Pecans
Pine nuts
Pistachios
Walnuts
seeds
Friendliest Eat in Moderation Avoid
Chia  Flax SesamePopcorn (no salt, no butter) Pumpkin
Sunflower
oils
Friendliest, but Use
(Internally) in SmallExternal
Use OnlyOkay if
RarelyAvoidAmounts Used
Almond
Canola
Corn
Ghee
SunflowerSesame Flaxseed Apricot
Avocado
Coconut
Olive
Primrose
Safflower
Sesame
(internal
use)
Soy
Walnut
sweeteners
Friendliest Avoid
Fruit-juice concentrate
Honey (raw and not processed)Barley malt
Fructose
Jaggery
Maple syrup
Molasses
Rice syrup
Turbinado
White sugar
OceanofPDF. comglossary
Abhyanga: daily self-massage
Agad T antra: toxicology
Agni: “fire,” the force that governs digestion and metabolism
Ahara Shakti: appetite and digestive capacity
Akash: sky, ether
Alochaka: “criti c” — the fire that can “criticize,” or in another sense,
“perceive” visually
Alochaka pitta: subdosha located in the eyes and governs vision
Ama: undigested toxic matter
Amla: the sour taste
Ananda: bliss
Apana: downward moving
Apana vata: subdosha that resides in the nether regions and regulates the
flow of waste, ejaculate, and menstrual fluid
Arjuna: a key A yurvedic herb that heals the emotional aspect of the heart
Artha: money; also, the responsibility to earn money
Asafetida: a strongly aromatic spice used in Indian cooking
Asana: a yoga pose
Ashwagandha: a key Ayurvedic herb that is an effective weap on against
physical fatigue
Asthi: bone
Atta: chapati flourAvalambaka kapha: from avalamb,  “support,” thus the form of water that
gives support; this subdosha supports all other subdoshas and protects
the heart and lungs and strengthens the muscles
Bal Chikitsa: pediatrics
Basti: herb-based enemas that are a crucial cleansing stage in panchakarma
therapy
Beej-bhoomi: seedbed; in Ayurvedic terms, dosha imbalances make the
body a beej-bhoomi for disease to grow
Bhakti yoga: a form of yoga that teaches how to attain bliss through
worship
Bheda: last stage of disease, when it becomes chronic
Bhrajaka: means “to dif fuse” or “spread”
Bhrajaka pitta: subdosha that gives the skin radiance
Bodhaka: from bodh,  meaning “awareness”
Bodhaka kapha:  from bodh,  “awareness,” therefore Bodhak a kapha means
the form of water that helps us perceive taste — the first stage of
digestion; this subdosha helps us discriminate strong and subtle flavors
Brahmi: a key A yurvedic herb that enhances mental capacities
Chapati: griddle-cooked Indian bread
Charaka: the most revered A yurvedic physician of ancient times
Charaka Samhita:  Charaka’ s treatise on A yurvedic healing
Chatai: straw mat
Darshana: observation; the first stage in A yurvedic diagnosis
Dharma: religion, religious duty
Dhatu: tissue
Dhi: acquisition of knowledge
Dhriti: retention of knowledge
Dincharya: daily routine
Dosha: an individual’ s body and personality type
Dravyaguna: A yurvedic pharmacology
Garam masala: a hot spice mix, available in Asian grocery stores
Ghee: clarified butter
Graha Chikitsa: psychiatryGunam: inner beauty
Gunas: qualities, either physical or abstract
Hatha yoga: a form of yoga in which exercises or poses called  asanas are
practiced
Jaggery: an unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap
Jal: water
Jatharagni: digestive fire
Jnana yoga: a form of yoga that uses the intellect to help understand the
self
Kama: pleasure
Kapha: one of the three doshas; kapha is responsible for body structure
Karma: actions
Karma yoga: a form of yoga that teaches unselfish action
Kashaya: the astringent taste
Katu: the bitter taste
Kaya Chikitsa: internal medicine
Kheer: Indian rice pudding
Khichari: a rice and lentil dish
Kledaka kapha: the form of water that moistens; this subdosha controls the
enzymes and juices that are involved in the digestive process
Lassi: diluted yogurt drink that aids digestion and cools the system
Lavana: the salty taste
Madhura: the sweet taste
Majja: bone marrow
Mamsa: muscle
Mantra yoga: a form of yoga that teaches how to use sound and speech to
attain bliss
Marmas: 107 vital connecting points between mind and body
Matra: the quantity of food that is ideally suited to an individual
Matrakala: one-third of a second
Meda: fatty tissue
Moksha: the attainment of bliss
Mung dal: a yellow lentil that is light and nutritiousNasya: Medicated oil used to clean the nasal passages
Nighantu: an Ayurvedic treatis e Ojas (pronounced with a hard “j”): the
subtle essence of ener gy
Pachaka: pertaining to digestion
Pachaka pitta: from pachan,  “digestion,” subdosha that influences
digestion, assimilation, and metabolization of food
Panchakarma: seasonal rejuvenation therapy that uses five cleansing
actions (emesis, purgation, enemas, nasal cleansing, and blood
purification) to detoxify the body
Paneer: homemade cottage cheese (Indian-style)
Pitta: the dosha that regulates metabolism
Pragya aparadh: literally “a mistake of the intellect,” eg. refers to the
body’ s innate intelligence being compromised
Prakopa: the second phase of disease, in which toxins increase and doshas
are aggravated
Prakriti: the basic dosha type or constitution with which a person is born
Pramana: state of physical development in proportion to a person’ s age
Prana: life force, consciousness
Prana vata: from prana,  “life force”; chief subdosha, located in the head,
heart, chest, and sense organs and governs vision, hearing, smell, taste,
creative thinking, and enthusiasm
Pr


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amazing way it can help you. It could be and I believe it w ill be the
turning point of your life. • Everybody prays
Do you know how to pray effectively? How long is it since you
prayed as part of your everyday activities? In an emergency, in time of
danger or trouble, in illness, and when death lurks, prayers pour
forth—your own and friends. Just read your daily newspaper. It is
reported that prayers are being offered up all over the na tion for a
child stricken with a so-called incurable ailment, for peac e among
nations, for a group of miners trapped in a flooded mine. Later i t is
reported that when rescued, the miners said that they pra yed while
waiting for rescue; an airplane pilot says that he pray ed as he made a
successful emergency landing. Certainly, prayer is an ever- present
help in time of trouble; but you do not have to wait for troubl e to
make prayer an integral and constructive part of your life. The
dramatic an-swers to prayer make headlines and are the subj ect of
testimonies to the effectiveness of prayer. What of the m any humble
prayers of children, the simple thanksgiving of grace at the tabl e daily,
 5 the faithful devotions wherein the individual seeks only com-munion
with God? My work with people has made it necessary for me  to
study the various approaches to prayer. I have ex-perienced the power
of prayer in my own life, and I have talked and worked with m any
people who also have enjoyed the help of prayer. The problem  usually
is how to tell others how to pray. People who are in troubl e have
difficulty in thinking and acting reasonably. They need an easy
formula to follow, an obviously workable pattern that is sim ple and
specific. Often they must be led to approach the emergency. • Unique feature of this book
The unique feature of this book is its down-to-earth prac-ti cality. Here you are presented with simple, usable techniques and formul as,
which you can easily apply in your workaday world. I have taught
these simple processes to men and women all over the world, an d
recently over a thousand men and women of all religious affiliati ons
attended a special class in Los Angeles where I presented the
highlights of what is offered in the pages of this book. Many came
from distances of two hundred miles for each class lesson. The  special
features of this book will ap-peal to you because they show you why
oftentimes you get the opposite of what you prayed for and reveal  to
you the reasons why. People have asked me in all parts of the world
and thou-sands of times, “Why is it I have prayed and prayed and g ot
no answer?” In this book you will find the reasons for this common
complaint. The many ways of impressing the subconscious mind and
getting the right answers make this an extraordinarily valu -able book
and an ever-present help in time of trouble. • What do you believe? It is not the thing believed in that brings an answer to man’s  prayer;
the answer to prayer results when the individual’s sub-consci ous mind
responds to the mental picture or thought in his mind. This law of
belief is operating in all religions of the world and is t he reason why
they are psychologically true. The Bud-dhist, the Christian, the
Moslem, and the Hebrew all may get answers to their prayer s, not
 6 because of the particular creed, religion, affiliation, ri tual, ceremony,
formula, liturgy, incanta-tion, sacrifices, or offerings, but sol ely
because of belief or mental acceptance and receptivity about that for
which they pray. The law of life is the law of belief, and belief could be summed up
briefly as a thought in your mind. As a man thinks, feels, and believ es,
so is the condition of his mind, body, and circum-stances. A
technique, a methodology based on an understanding of what you are
doing and why you are doing it will help you to bring about a
subconscious embodiment of all the good things of life. Essential ly,
answered prayer is the realization of your heart’s desire. • Desire is prayer
Everyone desires health, happiness, security, peace of mind, true
expression, but many fail to achieve clearly defined results. A
university professor admitted to me recently, “I know that if I  changed
my mental pattern and redirected my emotional life, my ulcers would
not recur, but I do not have any technique, process, or modus
operandi. My mind wanders back and forth on my many problems,
and I feel frustrated, defeated, and unhappy.”
This professor had a desire for perfect health; he neede d knowledge
of the way his mind worked which would enable him to fulfill his
desire. By practicing the healing methods outlined in this book, he
became whole and perfect. • There is one mind common to all individual men (Emerson)
The miracle-working powers of your subconscious mind existed
before you and I were born, before any church or world existed. The
great eternal truths and principles of life antedate all religions. It is
with these thoughts in mind that I urge you in the following chapt ers
to lay hold of this wonderful, magical, transforming power, which wil l
bind up mental and physical wounds, proclaim liberty to the  fear-
ridden mind, and liberate you completely from the limitations of
poverty, failure, misery, lack, and frustration. All you have to do is
unite mentally and emotionally with the good you wish to embody,
 7 and the creative powers of your subconscious will respond
accordingly. Begin now, today, let wonders happen in your life! Keep on, keeping on until the day breaks and the shadows flee away. Contents
1. The Treasure House Within You... 19
• The master secret of the ages—The marvelous power of y our
subconscious—Necessity of a working basis—The duality of mi nd—
The conscious and subconscious minds —Outstanding differences and
modesof operation—Howher subconscious responded—Brief
summary of ideas worth remembering. 2. How Your Own Mind Works... 30
• Conscious and subconscious terms differentiated—Experi-
ments by psychologists—The terms objective and subjec -tive mind
clarified—The subconscious cannot reason like your conscious
mind—The tremendous power of sugges-tion—Different reactions to
the same suggestion—How he lost his arm—How autosuggestion
banishes fear—How she restored her memory—How he overcame a
nasty temper —The constructive and destructive power of
suggestion— Have you accepted any of these—You can counteract
negative suggestions—How suggestion killed a man—The power of
an assumed major premise—The subconscious does not argue
controversially—Review of highlights. 3. The Miracle-Working Power of Your Subconscious... 45
• Your subconscious is your Book of Life—What is im-pressed
in the subconscious is expressed—The subcon-scious heals a
malignancy of the skin—How the sub-conscious controls all functi ons
of the body—How to get the subconscious to work for you—Healing
principle of the subconscious restores atrophied optic ne rves—How to
convey the idea of perfect health to your subconscious mind—Idea s
worth remembering. 8 4. Mental Healings in Ancient Times... 55
• Bible accounts on the use of the subconscious powers—
Miracles at various shrines throughout the world—One universal
healing principle—Widely different theories—. Views of
Paracelsus—Bernheim’s experiments—Producing a blister by
suggestion—The cause of bloody stigmata— Healing points in
review. 5. Mental Healings in Modern Times... 66
• One process of healing—The law of belief—Prayer therapy i s
the combined function of the conscious and subconscious mind
scientifically directed—Faith healing, what it means, and how bl ind
faith works—Subjective faith and what it means—The meaning of
absent treatment—Releasing the kinetic action of the subconsc ious
mind—Summary of your aids to health. 6. Practical Techniques in Mental Healings... 75
• The passing-over technique for impregnating the subcon-
scious—Your subconscious will accept your blueprint— The scie nce
and art of true prayer—The visualization tech-nique—Mental mov ie
method—The Baudoin tech-nique—The sleeping technique—The
“thank-you” tech-nique—The affirmative method—The
argumentative method—The absolute method is like modern sound
wave therapy—A cripple walks—The decree method—Serve yoursel f
with scientific truth. 7. The Tendency of the Subconscious Is Lifeward... 90
• How the body portrays the workings of the mind—There-is an
intelligence which takes care of the body—The sub-conscious mind
works continually for the common good— How man interferes with
the innate principle of harmony —Why it’s normal to be healthy,
vital, and strong—It’s abnormal to be sick—Pott’s disease cure d—
How faith in your subconscious powers makes you whole—Pointers
to review. 9 8. How to Get the Results You


 f ar beyond myself, and i nclude a deeper consideration for hidden
suf fering in everyone. The scars  of the heart might be hidden fr om view,
but all of us carry them and all of us desire love. Dear God,
Please heal my selfish heart
And make me mor e sensitive
T o the pain of others. May I feel compassion
For all suffering,
Not just my own. May Y our heart beat
Thr ough mine. And so it is. Amen.DA Y 263
G o d  i s  b o t h  m y  m o t h e r  a n d  m y  f a t h e r. W hether I had the most wonderful parents, abusive ones, or even none
at al l, God is my ultimate mother and father. He is my source  and my
continual nurturer. My spiritual self is parented by God. As an adult, I  am reparented by Him. I receive the hea venly
inheritance of the mind that He  bequeaths to me. I am entitled as His
child to the miracles that follow, whenever I remember whose child I am. May I think and act as befits my true origin. I r eceive  God’ s par enthood and my identity as His child. I detach
fr om the  false conditioning of the world, r eceiving the love that is
my past,  my pr esent, and my fut ur e. I r ejoice in that which is my
true origin and my true life. Amen.DA Y 264
W h e n  j u s t i c e  c a l l s  t o  m e,  m a y  I  a l w a y s  r e s p o n d. T hough I live a life of plenty, there are those in the world who suf fer
unjustly. They are bowed down in sorrow and suf fering by systems over
which they have no control. May my life, in whatever way possible, help
ease the burden of those who suf fer from the injustices of the world. May I not for get that I am here to extend the compassion of God, to
help repair the w orld, to heal th e heart of humanity. Whatever I can do,
with my love an d with my ef for ts, may spirit guide me and give me the
power to do. Dear God,
May love pour down upon me
And use me as its vehicle. May my life in some way be of service
T o those who suffer. May my efforts in some way bring justice
T o those in need of it. May my life in all ways be
Y ours. Amen.DA Y 265
FOR REFLECTION
O n  K n o w i n g  T h a t  W h a t  W e  W a n t  A l r e a d y  E x i s t s
T he Bible’ s adage “Blessed are those who have faith and cannot see”
means “Empow ered are those who remember there is a truer truth, even
when circumstances tempt them to believe otherwise.”
When a pilot cannot see the ho rizon because of low visibility he or
she does n’ t assu me that the hor izon has disappeared. At a tim e of low
visibility, the pilot flies on instru ments that can gauge the situation more
clearly t han he or she can. Faith is like flying on instruments: i t’ s acting
on the assumpti on that just be cause you can’ t see a possibili ty at the
moment doesn’ t mean that it’ s not there. It’ s easy enough to have faith in  God’ s infinite abundance when we
have mi llions of dollars sitting in the bank; it’ s easy enough to have faith
in love when we’re receiving a  lot of it; and it’ s easy enough  to have
faith in the power of peace whe n there is no war. But when it’ s hard to
have faith is wh en we need it the most. By faith, we bring forth what we
want, by knowing that it already exists in a realm we cannot yet see.DA Y 266
M y  b o d y  i s  a  t e m p l e  t o  t h e  s p i r i t  o f  G o d. M y bo dy i s but a learning device, n ot my eternal home. I surrender  it to
God to use for H is purposes. May my body be a shining exampl e of how
the t hings of the  world, when re flecting holiness, take on the ra diance of
the spirit. May my  hands and feet, what I say, and what I do, all glorify the
higher purposes of God. May His guidance within my mind determine
the doings of my body. May my body be a temple to the emanations of
my soul. Dear God,
I surr ender to Y ou my body. Please use it for Y our purposes
And fr ee it fr om the clutches
Of fear. May love determine
Both its function and its activity. May I live in my body
In health and joy. Amen.DA Y 267
M a y  w a r  b e  n o  m o r e. I n a world where every child is born of God’ s love, where ever y heart
yearns to connect, and every mother prays that her child be p rotected,
still yet we wage war. God for give us. In a wor ld where  every heart yea rns for peace and every nation needs
a rest from violence, where everyone prays that war not come near them
if it need come at all, still yet we wage war. God for give us. Show us
another way. Dear God,
Please for give humanity
For the heinous thoughts
And cold, cruel actions
That occur on this blessed earth. May thoughts of peace
And yearnings for love
Swell up as though a mighty wave. May the world be washed clean
Of the wicked thoughts
Of fear and separation
That tear at our souls
And destr oy our bodies. May war be no mor e.
Amen.DA Y 268
D e a t h  i s  b u t  a  v e i l,  n o t  a n  e n d. W hile the body di es, the spirit does not. Let me not for get that those
whom I have loved but lost to death are not lost at all. Rather, th ey dwell
in th e pl acid rea lm beyond time and space. They are not lost to me and I
am not lost to them. May a golden cord entwine my h eart to those I love who have passed
beyond the veil. May my inner e ye be opened, that I might see t he reality
of e ternal life. M ay death not t empt me to for get that what and whom
God creates is created forever. Dear God,
I place in Y our hands my sorr ow
And grief
Over anyone’ s death. May my mind be healed of the delusions of the world,
That I might truly see
That life goes on for ever. May my heart be opened
T o the higher truth
Of life unending. And so it is. Amen.DA Y 269
I  a c c e p t  t h e  r e a l i t y  o f  w h a t  i s,  e v e n  w h e n  t h e
m o m e n t  i s  p a i n f u l. T ears can come bearing important gifts. Often it is our saddest moments
that lead to our greatest growth. One of the most powerful lines in the
Bible is one of its simplest: “Jesus wept.”
My task is not to avoid painful emotion, but rather to transform it at
its r oots. I can not do this if  I don’ t move through my emotions
authentically, tru ly asking myself what lessons they hold for me. If I
would tr anscend my sadness, I m ust experience it first; I am ready to do
both. T oday I allow myself permission to truly feel what is in my heart,
both the  happiness and the s adness ther e. I don’ t r esist th e
emotional waves  that rise up in me, but rather witness and accept
them an d surr ender them to Go d. That way they ar e alchemized
and turned into the bridge to my deliverance. Amen.DA Y 270
FOR REFLECTION
O n  H a v i n g  F a i t h  i n  M i r a c l e s
L ove’ s miracles are being created in every given moment, unobstructed
by anyth ing carried over from the past. That is the way the universe
operates. Faith in  love doesn’ t determine love’ s power, but it does
determine whether or not we  experience its power. Y ou can  misuse  the power of your mind, but you can’ t eradicate the
power of your mind. Y ou can put your hands in front of your eyes and
complain the room is dark, but you can’ t turn of