 teach the health message as it is written in the Bi-ble. It is the drug establishment that says, "If you do anything to make America more healthy without drugs, I will put you in jail. " (These poor doctors who have been so brainwashed to use drugs will not be held guiltless when they stand before God. ) An officer of the law said to me sneeringly, "We cannot keep you
from worshipping the Lord as you see fit, but we can harass you 'til you wish you never had. " In harassing me they really do not harass me
at an. They only harass themselves. You cannot break the laws of the Bible. You cannot break God's laws of physics, chemistry or mathe-matics. You can only break yourself on those laws. I have seen the wrath of God come upon approximately 50 people. God blotted them out like you and I would a cockroach. When the adult saints are being persecuted, they do not hate the persecutor, they feel very sorry for him. They know exactly how to get even with their persecutors. They put their name on the top of their prayer list and there is no way for that person to get off. They pray for them without ceasing. They pray for them that God might do for them what He did for Saul on the road to Damascus. That He might reveal Himself to
them so that the person that was once their enemy could be their friend and could go into eternity and live forever as a friend. The devil numbers his children by hate, but God numbers His
children by love. God the Father is love. The Holy Spirit is love. The real saints of God are love. True love is a life of service. It is a life of enduring. It is a life of being a servant whether appreciated or not. 151 I am now a senior citizen. My children are an grown. They are an
self-supporting. However, there are times when they do need guid-
ance, or suggestions for guidance, and they ask for it. But they could very well get along without me. I am now financially independent enough that I do not have to do
this work for my daily bread. I served 38 years in agricultural engi-neering and it was through that that God was good enough to make it possible for my retirement in 1968. I wanted to go into research to know more about the mysteries about the laws that God has made. God began to send to me for help the ill, the cripple the lame, the
dying, that medicine had failed to cure. The Bible says, If your neigh-bor asks for help, give it to him and as often as "you do it unto the least of one of these my brethren, you do it unto Me. " I have made many errors and many mistakes, but they are mis-
takes of the mind and not mistakes of the heart. God has turned these mistakes into blessings. I am now teaching this Reams Biological Theory of Ionization
seminars to qualified people, in order to help carry out this vision of making America the healthiest nation on earth. knowing that the history of American liberty is written in blood. 152 CHAPTER 21
THE GREATEST LOVE OF MY LIFE

You must be born again. Today I died. I cried until I laughed and laughed until I cried and
cried until I laughed, with joy. because I had left my sardine-can world for a universe. I had left my sinful ways and God had permitted me to be born again into His Kingdom. This was no laughing matter at first; I was sorry for my sins. My
heart was broken, I was filled with grief, and then the Holy Spirit came in and took away all the grief. I don't know what He did with it, but it's gone. It's gone. and now I am free. God is truth. The Scripture says, Seek to know God, and "He shall
make you free," and this is what I was weeping about, because a new life had begun. I was only an infant, ye t an adult in years, but a babe
in Christ. No wonder I cried. because of the joys I had missed, of the liberty and the freedom that I had spurned. The things that I had once loved, I had no more desire for. The things that I once had no desire far, became as a beautiful garden of flowers. The ecstasy of the Spirit of God within me was like looking into  the face of a lily or an orchid,
or being lifted on the wings of a hummingbird. I was truly partaking of, I was suckling on the manna from Heaven, and drinking from a fountain that would never run dry. The book I had so often read as a history book became a message
from home. It became a guide, it became a map. It showed me where I was in life. It showed me where I wanted to go, and I then used that map. I still use it and it is like honey in the honeycomb. It is nourishing. It is surprisingly lasting in its joy. It is a history book. It is a physics book. It is a mathematics book. It is a religious book. It is a book of law. 153 It is a book of domestic tranquility. It is a book of health. It is a cook book. It is a book of fiction. It is a book of truth, divine truths. It is a book of heroism. It is a book for youth, for teenagers, for young married couples
and business men and business women. It is a book for executives, business managers. It is a book for school teachers, telling how to teach and what to
teach. It is a book of disappointment, of grief, of sins of the people. It is a book about farming, gardening, transportation, seamanship,
vessels, boats, trees, forestry, fish, birds, beetles and bugs. It is also a book of geography. It is a book about astronomy, about the creation, the formation. It is a book that no man has ever yet understood all about. It is a book about construction, about building of temples. It is a book about psychology and how to win friends and influ-
ence people. It also tells us how to do architecture, and why the Tower of Babel
fell (because of the poor architecture that was in it). It tells about what would happen when we disobey the law. It tells us about the rewards after this life. It tells us about God. It tells us about His Son, Jesus Christ. It is the first and only book that ever told us anything about Him. The rest are just counterfeits or duplicates of it. It tells us prophecy and predicts the future. It is clairvoyant in the fact that the clairvoyancy is the supremacy
of God. It is the finest book on astrology that was ever written. Instead of asking the stars what the future holds, it tells us how to
go to the Father himself and get the information firsthand instead of secondhand. 154 It is a book of stories, mistakes, heartbreaks, rejoicings. It is the story of humanities. The Bible, the Book of ALL books, the only lasting book, tells
about man's ways and how they differ from God's ways, and how God's ways can be in man and how man's ways can be God's ways. It is a book that I highly recommend to be read. It is a book that tells us about wisdom. It tells about knowledge. It teaches anyone how to be rich, infinitely rich. It teaches anyone how to be obedient. It teaches how to be a servant, how to be a workman that needs
not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. It teaches us how to defend ourselves. It tells us what to do in time of trouble. It tells us what to do in time of peace. It tells us what to do in time of war. It tells us how to prepare for the great tribulation. It tells us about the destruction of the great cities in a day of the
atomic bomb. It tells us about a King who is going to rule this whole earth. Many men have tried to become the rulers of the whole earth; all
have failed. but this new King who is coming, He is going to be the King of this planet as well as the universe. There are souls that are so small, that are limited to this univer se and to this planet, but there are
going to be souls that are not limited to  this planet or this galaxy. They
are going to be able to be sent on missions, and shall travel faster than the speed of electricity or the speed of light. This book also tells us of, or predicts the use of drugs. It predicts
the fall of churches. It predicts that some men will be lost. It is the greatest book I have ever read. I don't use it; I memorize
it. I carry it with me and I mark it. I leave something to show that this passage has blessed me, and I hope it blesses you. I recommend this book because it has given me life anew, and it
did something that no other book has ever done. It showed me that I did not have to die to go to Heaven, that I am there already, but one 155 day I shall be promoted to glory. This cationic body will be trans-
formed into an anionic body. This raiment that I have on will be
burned to a crisp, and I will be clothed in light. I will be clean, perfect again. I will be made young again, and I
will never grow old. This book called the Bible did all of this


, emotions, and
desires conve rge, or a pair of green glasses that makes the
whole world look green. Most people don’t realize how
consistent their pitch is, but others are quite aware of it—a
depressed person radiates depression, even when he forces
himself to act positive; a hostile person can set a whole
room on edge, even if he says the most harmless things. One’s level of consciousness ﬁts into broad guidelines. Nobody is absolutely hostile or joyful, intelligent or dull,
satisﬁed or discontent; dozens of subtle gradations exist in
every personality. The important point is that everything you think and do is
determined by this point—you cannot think yourself to a
higher or lower level of consciousness. This helps explain
why meditat ion is not simply another kind of thinking or
introspection, a mistake Westerners tend to make. It is
actually a way to slide to a new pitch. The process of
transcending, or “going beyond,” detaches the mind from
its ﬁxed level and allows it to exist, if only for a moment,
without any level at all. It simply experiences silence,
devoid of thoughts, emotions, drives, wishes, fears, or
anything at all. Afterward, when the mind returns to its
usual pitch (level of consciousness), it has acquired a little
freedom to move. From a medical standpoint, a disease may represent a
place on the violin string  that is out of tune. Yet, for somereason, the mind-body system cannot ﬁnd a way to let go,
to slide to a healthier pitch. If that is so, then medita tion
may be a powerful therapeutic tool, allowing the body to
get unstuck from the disease. Meditation researchers
caught on to this poten tial in the late 1960s when they
discovered that many college-age meditators who used
alcohol, cigarettes, and recreational drugs spon taneously
quit their habit within a few months of beginning to
meditate. We can call this getting unstuck from an old level
of consciousness that needed the drug; in terms of
neuropeptides, it may be that the meditation freed up
certain receptor sites by oﬀering molecules that were more
satisfying than alcohol, nicotine, or marijuana. —
By 1978, Robert Keith Wallace had spent more than a
decade validating separate mind-body eﬀects on
meditators. He decided to follow a new lead and investigate
a more complex, holistic  area, human aging. The aging
process has traditionally been accepted without question as
an inevitable  aspect of normal life, and variations in it have
been considered largely individual. Some people live longer
than others owing to privileged genes, a strong immune
system, or good luck, but there is no anti-aging factor that
can be applied to everyone. If there were, then 70-year-olds
would be more uniformly healthy in their bodily functions,
just as most 20-year-olds are. However, there is no scientiﬁc proof that aging is normal
—it is just something we all happen to do. So many stresses
are involved in “normal” living that the physiology  might be
considered under abnor mal pressure all the time—from
noise, pollu tion, negative emotions, improper diet,
smoking, alcohol, and so on. Just “the disease of being in a
hurry” hastens aging in almost everyone today. Ifmeditation counters these factors, then it might reveal
something entirely new about the aging process. Wallace set out to measure a group of adult meditators
for what is called biological age. Biological age shows how
well a person’s body is functioning compared to the norms
of the whole population. It gives a truer measure of how
the aging process is progressing than does chronological or
calendar age, because any two people who are both 55
years old by the calendar  will generally have very diﬀerent
bodies. Initially all that Wallace needed to test were three
rather simple variables: blood pressure, acuteness of
hearing, and near-point vision (the ability to see objects
close-up). All three steadily deteriorate as the body
biologically ages and therefore serve as convenient
markers. Wallace discovered that the meditators, as a group, were
signiﬁcantly younger biologically than their chronological
age. The diﬀerence between the two was not small, either—
the female subject who scored the best was fully twenty
years younger than her chronological age. Strikingly, how
much younger a person tested was closely correlated to
how long he had kept up his meditation practice. Wallace
found a dividing line between those who had meditated
fewer than ﬁve years and those who had meditated ﬁve
years or more. The ﬁrst group averaged ﬁve years younger
biologically, while the second averaged twelve years
younger. A backup study condu cted in England later
calculated that each year of regular meditation takes oﬀ
roughly one year of aging. Another ﬁnding that particularly
impressed Wallace’s team was that their older subjects
showed as good results as much younger people. A typical
60-year-old meditating ﬁve years or more would have the
physiology of a 48-year-old. Another important point raised by this remarkable study
is that the subjects were not trying  to age more slowly.They were simply removing an invisible barrier, and then
the desirable physical changes took place of their own
accord. This spontaneous ﬂowering seems to be quite
nonspeciﬁc; a 1986 Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance
study based on two thousand meditators in Iowa showed
that they were much healthier than the American
population as a whole in seventeen major areas of serious
disease, both mental and physical. This was a very
signiﬁcant improvement. For example, the meditation
group was hospitalized 87 percent less often than
nonmeditators for heart disease and 50 percent less often
for all kinds of tumors. There were equally impressive
reductions in disorders of the respiratory system, the
digestive tract, clinical depression, and so forth. Although
the study was limited to one group, this is very encouraging
news for anyone who wants to follow a holistic program of
prevention. —
The fourth state may play an important role in our future. At the source of human awareness lies a super-normal level
of consciousness—it can become normal, however, once we
have accustomed ourselves to experiencing it. If turiya is
the mind’s birthplace, then why can’t it be the mind’s
permanent home? This is the next area to explore,
investigating whether nature is uniﬁed not just in Einstein’s
hypothetical model but in ourselves. EXPANDING THE TOPIC
In hindsight, the practical side of this chapter, connecting
meditation with positive changes in the brain, has only
expanded. * Rese arch into medita tion continues apace,following the same lines I described thirty years ago. Vital
signs are seen to improve, and various eﬀects on brain
function can be observed with ever-increasing accuracy. Skeptics have been thoro ughly driven out of the debate on
these issues, but not on the notion of unbounded
awareness. Recognition of a fourth state of consciousness,
beyond waking, dreamin g, and sleeping, arous es ﬁerce
opposition because “unb ounded” would mean that mind
exists outside the brain. The path to proving the reality of unbounded awareness
isn’t by introducing cosmic mind, not if you want to
convince anyone who would suspect that God’s in the
wings. It’s more convincing, especially to doctors, if you
direct them to the intima te scale of the human body. When
someone asks, “Where is the mind located?” they will
automatically point to their heads. Why? Is it because  we
automatically expect to experience our thoughts in our
heads? That seems to be the case. When dream ing at night,
it gets a bit more ambiguous, since we feel that we are
“inside” our dreams. But for most of us, most of the time,
“my head” is where “my mind” is located. This response may feel true simply because so many
sense organs are located there: eyes, ears, nose, tongue. But we can easily undermine the commonsense model of
sight and sound taking place in the head. When a car
backﬁres behind you, the sound can’t be felt entering the
ear canal, being processe d in the inner ear and then in the
brain’s auditory center. There is no noise in the brain. Quite
clearly the sound of the backﬁring car comes from outside
you. In some cultures, hearing is a faculty that goes from
inside to outside, the opposite of what we assume. Think
about driving down the highway and suddenly noticing the
driver in front of you hitting the brakes. Your attention goes
out in order to see his rear lights go on. The senses follow
attention, which makes it plausible to say your mind wentoutside your body when you spotted the brake lights. We
casually adopt this model for vision when we say that
someone “shoots a glance” at someone else. Babies, we are told, have  a much more diﬀuse experience
of the ﬁve senses, perhaps mixing them


 certified instructors. PSM uses individualized mantras that arebased on the tim e, date, and pl ace of your birth. There are now over five
hundred certified Primordial So und Meditation teachers in the world. See
the appendix for information on finding a PSM teacher in your area. So Hum Meditation
Sit comfortably, where you will not be disturbed, and close your eyes. T ake a slow deep breath through your nose while thinking the word So. Exhale slowly through your nose while thinking the word Hum. Continue breathing easily, silently repeating, “So... Hum...” with
each inflow and outflow of your breath. Whenever your attention drifts to thoughts in your mind, sounds in
your environment, or sensations in your body, gently return to your
breath, silently repeating “So... Hum.”
Continue this process for twenty minutes with an attitude of
ef fortlessness and simplicity. When the time is up, continue to sit with your eyes closed for a few
more minutes before resuming your daily activity. When practicing this technique, you will have one of several experiences. Regardless of your experience, have an attitude of “no resistance.”
Relinquish your need to control or anticipate what is occurring during the
practice. Any of the following experiences are indications that you are
meditating correctly:
Y our attention is on your breathing as you silently repeat the mantra
“So Hum.”
Y our mind drifts of f into a stream of thoughts. Sometimes these
thoughts will be almost dreamlike and other times you may feel that
you are just thinking with your eyes closed. In either case, when youremember that your attention has drifted away from your breath and
the mantra, gently return to it. Occasionally at first, and more regularly after a while, you will have
the experience of a thoughtless state. Y our mind is silent and your
body is deeply relaxed. W e call this “going into the gap,” or the
experience of timeless mind. W ith regular practice, the inner silence
you experience in the gap will infuse every aspect of your life. There may be times in your meditation when you fall asleep. Because
meditation is a gentle, natural process, if your body is fatigued, it will
take this opportunity to sleep. Listen to this message from your body
and commit to getting the deep rest you need. One of the most  common complaints of a new meditator is “I a m having
too m any thoughts.” Thoughts a re a part of meditation and you c annot force
your mind to stop thinking. Jus t let the thoughts come and go and before
long you will find your mind quieting. When you first begin meditation,
you will experience relaxation w hile sitting with your eyes closed, but may
revert to your typical stressful reactions when resuming your usual
activities. Over time, more of the restful awareness gained in meditation
will carry over into your life. As you face the daily challeng es of being
human, you’ll find it easier to maintain your calm center. As you learn to
avoid unnecessary and overreac tive stress responses, you’ll slow the aging
process. The r estful alertness r esponse r everses the aging pr ocess. Restful Sleep
In addition to re stful awareness, you need a minimum of six to eight hours
of restful sleep e ach night. Restful sleep means that you drift of f easily once
you turn of f the light and sleep soundly through the night. If you have to get
up to go to the bathroom during the night, you are able to easily get back tosleep. Y o u will know you have h ad restful sleep if upon awakening you feel
ener getic, alert, and vibrant. If you feel tired and unenthusiasti c when you
wake up in the morning, you have not had a night of restful sleep. Restful sleep provides the foundation for your mental and physical well-
being. Millions of people suf fer  with some form of insomnia, resulting in
fatigue, lack of mental alertness, and weakened physical and mental health. It al so contributes to both mino r and major injury accidents. Studies have
shown that if you wake up at three in the morning and do not get back to
sleep, your immune cells do not work as well for the next twenty-four
hours. O nce you have a full night of sound sleep, they regain th eir disease-
fighting abilities. Like the rest of you, your immune cells get tir ed and need
their rest. It takes just a small shift in your attention and behavior to hav e sound,
restful s leep eac h night. Not gaining restful sleep is usually a result of poor
habits. B y chang ing your habits, you will avoid the entropy that comes with
fatigue and enliven the creativity, vitality, and age-reversing benefits that
come with restful sleep. PREP ARING FOR RESTFUL SLEEP
After a day of s timulating activity your body is ready for and  needs deep
sleep. Aim for a nightly six to eight hours of sound slumber without the aid
of medi cation. Hours of sleep before midnight are generally the most
rejuvenating. Th erefore, if you are sleeping eight hours between ten P.M. and six A.M., you will feel more rested than if you slept eight hours
between midnig ht and eight A.M. T o promote restful sleep, try the
following routine:
Evening RoutineEat a relatively light dinner. This should be no later than seven P.M. so
you do not go to bed on a full stomach. T ake a leisurely stroll after dinner. T o the extent possible, minimize exciting, aggravating, or mentally
intensive activities after 8:30 P.M. Bedtime
Aim to be in your bed with the lights out between 9:30 P.M. and 10:30
P.M. If you are not used to getting to bed this early, move your bedtime
up by half an hour every week until you are in bed by 10:30 P.M. For
example, if you usually watch television until midnight, try shutting it
of f by 11:30 for a week. Then aim for a half hour earlier, and finally
10:30 P.M. About an hour before bedtime, run a hot bath into which you place a
few drops of a calming aromatherapy essential oil such as lavender,
sandalwood, or vanilla. Y ou can also dif fuse this scent in your
bedroom. As your bath is running, perform a slow self-administered oil massage,
using sesame or almond oil (see the massage description on page 54). After your massage, soak in the warm tub for ten to fifteen minutes. While soaking, have the lights low or burn a candle, and listen to
soothing music (see our recommendations in the appendix). After your bath, drink something warm. It can be a cup of warm milk
with nutmeg and honey, or some chamomile or valerian root tea. If you
desire, have a small cookie or... If your mind is very active, journal for a few minutes before bed,
“downloading” some of your thoughts and concerns so you don’ t needto ruminate about them when you shut your eyes. Read inspirational or spiritual literature for a few minutes before bed. A void dramatic novels or distressing reading material. Do not watch television or do any work in bed. Once in bed, close your eyes and simply “feel your body”—this means
focus on your body and wherever you notice tension, consciously relax
that area. Then, simply watch your slow easy breathing until you fall asleep. Contingency Plan
If you still have trouble falling asleep, try putting something warm on
your belly in the area of the solar plexus. Use a warm water bottle or
heating pad to soothe your body and calm your mind. T ry silently repeating the sleeping mantra: Om Agasthi Shahina (Om
Ah-gah′-stee Shah-ee′-nah). T ry sleeping on your stomach with your feet hanging over the edge of
the bed. On cold nights, wear socks so your toes stay warm. If you wake up during the night and have trouble getting back to sleep,
try reclining in a soft, comfortable chair with a blanket. Y ou may find
it easier to drift of f in a slightly upright position. If all else fails and you continue to have disrupted sleep, try staying up
all night and avoid napping the following day. By nine P.M. the next
evening, your mind and body will be ready to sleep. This can often
reset your biological rhythms. It is  helpful to remember that if you are lying still in bed, silently
repeating the sleeping mantra, y our metabolic activity is nearly as low as ifyou were in dee p sleep. Even i f your mind is still somewhat active, your
body is getting the deep rest it n eeds. Therefore, do not worry if you are not
immediately falling asleep; by not worrying, you will quickly drift of f into a
deep slumber. Lack of r estful sleep accelerates aging. Restful sleep accelerates healing,
minimizes entr opy, and enlivens r enewal. Performing a Self-Massage
A massage gives you access to your inner pharmacy. Y our skin is a
rich source of age-reversing hormones that can be released through
massage. A slow, calming massage releases natural relaxing chemicals. A
brisk, invigorating massage releases


 (or induce) sleep. This practice enables you to sleep naturally and
healthily—giving your body the ability to build and repair cells, regulate hormonal
balances, and produce the energy you need to do the things you want to do.Breathing the Right Way
Do not take the breathing process for granted. The body can survive weeks
without food and days without water, but only minutes without oxygen. Oxygen is
our most vital nutrient, and we obtain it with every breath. The way you breathe can
substantially affect how you look and feel, your resistance to disease, and even how
long you live. We have control over our breathing; proper breathing technique is an
important part of optimizing the physical pathway. In our society, many people breathe incorrectly—either breathing too much or not
enough. Either way, oxygen shortages are produced at the cellular level. Underbreathing (one does not breathe in enough air) is uncommon and usually is the
result of serious physical compromise—such as when the lungs are failing. Much
more common is overbreathing, called hyperventilation (one breathes too much),
which also results in an oxygen shortage at the cellular level. How many people are
affected by overbreathing? Almost everyone on occasion, and many people breathe
this way chronically. Overbreathing often is the result of a stressful situation; the stress causes us to
breathe too deeply or too quickly, an automatic response preparing us for emergency
action. You may recognize this as “panic breathing”—gasping, chest breathing,
shallow breathing (panting), irregular breathing, rapid breathing or holding of the
breath. On occasion, overbreathing is not a problem, yet the stress of life causes
many of us to over-breathe chronically. Numerous side effects are produced,
including heart palpitations, irregular heart beat, dizziness, muscle spasms, muscle
fatigue, high blood pressure, poor memory, asthma attacks, poor concentration,
anxiety, among other symptoms. Overbreathing also causes constriction of the blood
vessels to the brain (and heart and elsewhere), resulting in up to a 50 percent
reduction of oxygen and glucose to the brain—immediately affecting one’s ability to
learn, think, remember and perform physically. Little wonder we feel dizzy or
lightheaded when stressed. Breathing too rapidly or too deeply causes the body to lose too much carbon
dioxide. Normally, oxygen is transported to tissues by bonding with hemoglobin in
red blood cells; carbon dioxide helps the oxygen to “break off” the hemoglobin so
that it can be used. Without sufficient carbon dioxide, the oxygen does not break off,
tissues become oxygen-deficient, and the result is cellular malfunction and disease. Oxygen deficiency is known to cause cancer. A separate problem, caused by
insufficient blood levels of carbon dioxide, is that blood pH can become too
alkaline. The body will compensate by dumping out alkaline minerals through the
urine, in order to rebalance blood pH. The result is a deficiency of alkaline minerals,
such as calcium and magnesium, which contributes to diseases such as osteoporosis. To breathe correctly, the important step is to bring in air down into the lungs, by
using the diaphragm, a deep abdominal muscle that nature intended for breathing.Breathing downward with the diaphragm (belly breathing instead of chest breathing)
is an effortless and efficient way to breathe. Unfortunately, people often use their
chest and upper back to breathe; chest breathing takes more effort, is less efficient
and interferes with normal breathing patterns. Breathing downwards with the
diaphragm (as opposed to outwards with the chest) moves the viscera (guts) down
and away, making more room for the lungs. This action creates the capacity for more
air in your lungs and more oxygen for your tissues, thus enhancing the function of
your entire respiratory system, whether you are exercising or at rest. Each breath
should begin downwards in the belly, only moving up into the chest when necessary. Correct breathing should be effortless, through the nose rather than mouth, and
relatively slow—at a resting rate of less than fifteen breaths per minute, preferably
eight to ten. Here is a simple test to check how you are doing: Lie on your back on
the floor, put a book on your abdomen, breathe through your nose, and watch to see
if the book goes up and down with each breath. Concentrate on belly breathing until
the book moves up and down. Next, count the number of breaths you take per
minute. Try to keep breaths per minute at less than fifteen and preferably less than
ten. Be careful not to overbreathe. The key word is effortless. Let your body do the
breathing for you, as it was designed to do. During aerobic exercise, keep the breath
down in the belly and out of the chest as much as possible, and I can almost
guarantee that your athletic performance and respiratory health will improve. Breathing has such profound effects, both physically and psychologically, that
many ancient traditions—such as meditation, yoga and martial arts—rely first and
foremost on breathing technique. Damage Control
Maintaining the body is one aspect of the physical pathway; preventing physical
damage is the other. Modern life exposes us to many different types of physical
damage—from sunburns to car accidents, from kitchen cuts and burns to
electromagnetic fields. Some physical hazards of modern life can be avoided, while
others cannot. Any time the body suffers damage, though, valuable resources
(nutrients) are used to perform repairs. Over time the loss of these nutrients impairs
cellular health, opening the door for further injury or disease. Sometimes repair is
not possible. Physical damage can lead to lifelong impairment or disability. To
prevent damage before it occurs, recognize physical hazards and take sensible
precautions. Here are some ways to protect yourself. Sunbathing Isn’t Always a Bad Thing
The body needs sunshine just as it needs food, although one must avoid too much
of either. Sunlight (full-spectrum light) is necessary for good health and animportant part of the physical pathway. Those warming sun rays feel good because
they are good; they help your body produce vitamin D, an essential nutrient for
building strong and healthy bones. The common belief that you should protect
yourself from the sun with toxic sunscreen is distorted and misguided. Sunlight is
not the problem; the problem is sunburn. Sunburns only happen from excessive and inconsistent exposure to sunlight, such
as when you stay in the sun too long or when your body is not used to it. Regular,
controlled exposure to sunlight helps the body produce vitamin D and adapt to the
sun. If your body is not used to it (and especially if your skin is fair), do not spend
all day under the hot sun. Start out with ten or fifteen minutes of sun per day,
gradually increasing your exposure as your body adapts to it. Also, beware of the
intensity of the sunlight, when the sun is most directly overhead (approximately 10
A.M. to 2 P.M.). If you want to protect your skin, using coat after coat of toxic sunscreen is a bad
idea. Some of the chemicals in sunscreen can break down when exposed to sunlight,
forming carcinogenic compounds. In other words, sunscreen may cause skin cancer,
rather than preventing it. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that as sunscreen use has
increased, so have skin cancer rates. Safer alternatives are available to sunburn and toxic sunscreen: Get regular sun
exposure, so that your skin can adapt. Dietary nutrients are helpful, including
magnesium, antioxidants (vitamins A C, E, selenium), and especially carotenes,
which sometimes are referred to as “nature’s sun umbrella.” Carotenes protect the
skin from sunlight; these nutrients are found in colorful vegetables and fruits, such
as carrots, sweet potatoes, bell peppers (red, yellow and purple), squash and others. Also, try the ancient custom of rubbing olive oil on the skin to help protect it from
sunburn, provided the oil is of high quality and still contains its natural antioxidant
chemicals. (Olive oil also is good if your skin is already burned.) People in
Mediterranean countries still use olive oil for sun protection today. If you must have
a sunscreen, consider one of the toxin-free sunscreens (see appendix C). Loud Noise Takes a Toll
Ever notice a ringing in your ears after listening to loud music or being around
loud noises? That is physical damage, both permanent and cumulative. A study in
the January 2001
Audiology
found that people who engaged in noisy leisure-time
activities, ranging from rock concerts to disco dancing to woodworking, have
increased risk of hearing loss for each five-year period of participation. Choose to
spend your time in less noisy places or wear hearing protection such as earplugs. Hearing loss is now epidemic in America. The hearing aid business grows every
year, which is not just a result of the population growing older. Noise causes other problems, too. Do you ever “jump” when somebody rings thedoorbell, when a car alarm goes off, or when the music suddenly is turned louder? In
many ways, noise can be stressful, causing both physical and psychological
problems. A study in the March 2001
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
found that children chronically exposed to transportation noise from road, rail and
air traffic had elevated blood pressure and elevated levels of stress chemicals. A
similar study in the February 2001
Psychological Medicine
found that children
exposed to chronic


 Expanding, the Restricting, and
the Static
56. Healthy and Unhealthy Motives in Desire
57. The Mass Image of Self-Importance
58. Desire for Happiness and Unhappiness
60. The Abyss of Illusion—Freedom and Self-Responsibility
62. Man and Woman
64. Outer Will and Inner Will
66. Shame of the Higher Self
68. Suppression of Creative Tendencies—Thought Processes
69. The Valid Desire to Be Loved
71. Reality and Illusion
72. The Fear of Loving
73. Compulsion to Recreate and Overcome Childhood Hurts
74. Confusions
75. The Great Transition in Human Development: From Isolation to
Union
77. Self-Condence: Its True Origin and What Prohibits It
80. Cooperation, Communication, and Union
81. Conicts in the World of Duality
82. Conquest of Duality Symbolized by the Life and Death of Jesus
83. The Idealized Self-Image
84. Love, Power, and Serenity as Distorted by the Idealized Self-
Image
85. Self-Preservation and Procreation86. The Instincts of Self-Preservation and Procreation in Conict
88. True and False Religion
89. Emotional Growth and Its Function
90. Moralizing—Disproportionate Reactions—Needs
92. Relinquishing Blind Needs
93. Main Image—Needs and Defenses
94. Split Concepts Create Confusion—Neurosis and Sin
95. Self Alienation—The Way Back to the Real Self
96. Laziness, Symptom of Self-Alienation
97. Perfectionism Obstructs Happiness—Manipulation of Emotions
98. Wishful Daydreams
99. Falsied Impressions of Parents: Cause and Cure
100. Meeting the Pain of Destructive Patterns
101. The Defense
102. The Seven Cardinal Sins
103. Harm of Too Much Love-Giving—Constructive and Destructive
Will
104. Intellect and Will as Tools or Obstacles to Self-Realization
105. Humanity’s Relationship to God in Various Stages of
Development
106. Sadness versus Depression—Relationship
107. Three Aspects That Prevent Loving
108. Fundamental Guilt for Not Loving—Obligations
109. Spiritual and Emotional Health Through Restitution for Real
Guilt
110. Hope and Faith
111. Soul Substance—Coping with Demands
112. Humanity’s Relationship to Time
113. Identication with the Self114. Struggle: Healthy and Unhealthy
115. Perception, Determination, Love as Aspects of Consciousness
116. The Superimposed Conscience
117. Shame and Unresolved Problems
118. Duality Through Illusion—Transference
119. Movement, Consciousness, Experience: Pleasure, the Essence of
Life
120. The Individual and Humanity
121. Displacement, Substitution, Superimposition
122. Self-Fulllment through Self-Realization as Man or Woman
123. Overcoming Fear of the Unknown
124. The Language of the Unconscious
125. Transition from the No-Current to the Yes-Current
126. Contact with the Life Force
127. Evolution’s Four Stages: Reex, Awareness, Understanding, and
Knowing
128. Limitations Created Through Illusory Alternatives
129. Winner versus Loser
130. Abundance versus Acceptance
131. Expression and Impression
132. The Function of the Ego in Relation to the Real Self
133. Love as Spontaneous Soul Movement
134. The Concept of Evil
135. Mobility in Relaxation—Suering Through Attachment of the
Life Force to Negative Situations
136. The Illusory Fear of Self
137. Inner and Outer Control—Love and Freedom
138. Desire for and Fear of Closeness139. Deadening of the Live Center Through Misinterpretation of
Reality
140. The Conict of Positive and Negative Pleasure as the Origin of
Pain
141. Return to the Original Level of Perfection
142. Fear of Releasing the Little Ego: Positive and Negative
Magnetic Fields
143. Unity and Duality
144. The Process of Growing from Duality to Unity
145. Responding to the Call of Life
146. Positive Concept of Life—Love Without Fear—Balance Between
Activity and Passivity
147. The Nature of Life and the Nature of the Human Being
148. Positivity and Negativity: One Energy Current
149. Cosmic Pull toward Union—Frustration
150. Self-Love as Condition of Universal State of Bliss
151. Intensity, an Obstacle to Self-Realization
152. Connection Between the Ego and the Universal Power
153. The Self-Regulating Nature of Involuntary Processes
154. Pulsation of Consciousness
155. Giving and Receiving
157. Innite Possibilities of Experience Hindered by Emotional
Dependency
158. The Ego’s Cooperation with or Obstruction of the Real Self
159. Life Manifestation as Dualistic Illusion
160. Conciliation of the Inner Split
161. Unconscious Negativity Obstructs Surrender of the Ego to
Involuntary Processes
162. Three Levels of Reality for Inner Guidance
163. Mind Activity and Mind Receptivity164. Further Aspects of Polarity—Selshness
165. Evolutionary Phases of Feeling, Reason, and Will
166. Perceiving, Reacting, Expressing
167. Frozen Life Center Becomes Alive
168. Two Basic Ways of Life, Toward and Away from the Center
169. The Masculine and Feminine Principles in the Creative Process
170. Fear of Bliss versus Longing for It
171. The Law of Personal Responsibility
172. The Life Energy Centers
173. Practices to Open the Energy Centers
174. Self-Esteem
175. Consciousness: Fascination with Creation
176. Overcoming Negativity
177. Pleasure, the Full Pulsation of Life
178. The Universal Principle of Growth Dynamics
179. Chain Reactions in the Dynamics of Life
180. The Spiritual Signicance of Relationship
181. The Human Struggle: Self-Division
182. Meditation for Three Voices: Ego, Lower Self, Higher Self
183. The Spiritual Meaning of Crisis
184. The Meaning of Evil and Its Transcendence
185. Mutuality, A Cosmic Principle and Law
186. Venture in Mutuality: Healing Force to Change Negative Inner
Will
187. Alternation of Expanding and Contracting States
188. Aecting and Being Aected
189. Self-Identication Determined Through Stages of Consciousness
190. Experiencing All Feelings Including Fear
191. Inner and Outer Experience192. Real and False Needs
193. Resume of the Basic Principles of the Pathwork: Its Aim and
Process
194. Meditation as Positive Life-Creation
195. Identication with the Spiritual Self to Overcome Negative
Intentionality
196. Commitment: Cause and Eect
197. Energy and Consciousness in Distortion: Evil
198. Transition to Positive Intentionality
199. The Meaning of the Ego and Its Transcendence
200. The Cosmic Feeling
201. Demagnetizing Negative Force Fields—Pain of Guilt
202. Psychic Interaction of Negativity
203. Interpenetration of the Divine Spark into the Outer Regions—
Exercises in Movement
204. What Is the Path? 205. Order as a Universal Principle
206. Desire: Creative or Destructive
207. The Spiritual Signicance of Sexuality
208. The Innate Capacity to Create
209. The Roscoe Lecture: Inspiration for the Pathwork Center
210. Visualization Process for Growth into the Unitive State
211. Outer Events Reect Self-Creation—Three Stages
212. Claiming the Total Capacity for Greatness
213. Let Go, Let God
214. Psychic Nuclear Points
215. The Now Point
216. Relationship of the Incarnatory Process to the Life Task
217. The Phenomenon of Consciousness218. The Evolutionary Process
219. The Christmas Message—Message to the Children
220. Reawakening from Anesthesia Through Listening to the Inner
Voice
221. Faith and Doubt in Truth and Distortion
222. Transformation of the Lower Self
223. The Era of the New Age and New Consciousness
224. Creative Emptiness
225. Evolution of Individual and Group Consciousness
226. Self-Forgiveness without Condoning the Lower Self
227. Change from Outer to Inner Laws in the New Age
228. Balance
229. Woman and Man in the New Age
229A. The Arosa Lecture—March 1975
230. Change: Reincarnation in the Same Life Span
231. New Age Education
232. Being Values versus Appearance Values
233. The Power of the Word
234. Perfection, Immortality, Omnipotence
235. The Anatomy of Contraction
236. The Superstition of Pessimism
237. Leadership—The Art of Transcending Frustration
238. The Pulse of Life on All Levels of Manifestation
239. Christmas Lecture 1975 and a Wedding Message
240. Aspects of the Anatomy of Love: Self-Love, Structure, Freedom
241. Dynamics of Movement and Resistance to Its Nature
242. The Spiritual Meaning of Political Systems
243. The Great Existential Fear and Longing
244


the animals) so as to give
Nature  her chance to do the work. And she will do it in her own way
provided she is not interfered  with. This I have observed  again and
again with regard to the movement  of the bowels  during a urine‐fast
plus plain cold water. Whereas t he "orthodox  " naturopath  thinks  it
necessary  to assist the bowels with enemata  during a fast on cold water
alone or on fruit juices (a mistaken policy) on no account  should such
measures  "be resorted to during a urine‐fast, for Nature  must be left to
determine  when the bowels  shall move. What we have to remember  is
that in fasting, urine, taken via the mouth heals, rebuilds and  re‐
conditions  the vital  organs including the intestines,  and  while this
process is taking place, often  the bowels  seem,  as it were, to go to
sleep and  relapse into a state  of inactivity,  which  in severe cases may 128
 even last as long as 19 days. Yet this  inactivity is an advantage,
especially  to sufferers from haemorrhoids,  as it gives the latter  a
chance  to heal. Thus, Nature,  if left alone does her work in her own way
if we only have the faith to trust her, even though at first  we may  not
understand  her mysteries. Verily, Nature's ways are not our ways, and
She defies and  contradicts  every superstition  and orthodox tenet,
practice and belief. 129

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AFTERWORD. WHITHER  MEDICINE. As I remarked  elsewhere,  he who makes a useful discovery  has a duty
to fulfil, it is to give that discovery  to the world. Even so, he may have a
further  duty‐and that is to warn the world  against what he has found to
be harmful. Both "big‐wigs"  and smaller  "wigs" in the  Medical
Profession  itself have done this at meetings of the fraternity  and  in
journals and  books  which  the public at large  do not read. Occasionally,
however,  a doctor or surgeon writes a book which  is not intended
exclusively  for the Profession. One such book which contained  many
“home truths” is Man  the Unknown,  by Alexis  Carrel of U. S. A. We not only live in an age when serums and  vaccines have become a
very lucrative fashion‐lucrative to their manufacturers  and  vendors‐but
we also live in an age of specialism  despite the warnings of many
physicians  themselves  about its dangers. Wrote  Dr. Carrel: " Much
harm is caused by the extreme specialisation  of the physicians. When a
specialist from the beginning  of his career confines himself  to a minute
part of the body, hu knowledge  of the rest is so rudimentary  that he is
incapable  of thoroughly  understanding  that part in which  he specialises. " Again, Dr. K. T. Morris wrote: " The patient who goes to a specialist on
his or her own resposibility. is jumping from the frying‐pan in to the
fire. " (See Fifty Years a Surgeon. ) Dr. W. H. Hay of the "Hay  Diet  " fame
may  also be cited. Relative to specialists,  he says: "Each sees the thing
he most  wishes to see in the patient, finds the thing he has been taught 131
 to ind, and unless superhuman  this  is wholly to be expected. " (See  a
New  Era of Health. ) Nor are warnings against specialism  confined to the
Western continents. In "an article,  Dr. B. Bhattacharyya  of Baroda, India,
after maintaining  that specialists  as a class  had  becorulcc  a menace  to
public health, went on to say:"  To set a specialist  and  study him in
relation to the special  organ in which  he specialises  will excite the mirth
even of the gods. " Finally, I may  cite Lord  Horder who, in a lecture
delivered  in the United States, declared:  "The spread of specialism  and
the increased  interest of the public in medical matters have both
combined  to narrow  the function  of the general practitioner  who is, or
who should be the clinician par excellence. I regard this as being no less
dangerous  to the public than it would be for the passengers  of the ship
if the captain left the bridge. and  the chief radio‐operator took his
place…" These are forceful  words. And yet they  are no more forceful
than the words many physicians  have used relative to the dangers of
serum‐therapy,  radium, or the unnecessary  interference  with the knife. And this is not all, for we find that statistics cannot  even be relied upon
to give the real facts. In a pamphlet  published  by The Ministry of Health
for official use,  Dr. Copeman,  one of its officials, gives an instance of a
large  institution  in Lone‐on where  107 cases had  been notified as
diphtheria,  of which  no less  tian 100 of them had  practically  nothing
the matter with them. Indeed,  we find doctors who, feel so strongly
about what goes on in their own profession  that they are sometimes
constrained  to express themselves  in terms so strong that they would
be regarded as libellous if voiced by a layman. For instance, we read:
"The history of the art of medicine so teems with delusive,  inefficient,
and  capricious  practices,  fallacious  and  sophistical  reasonings  as to
render


 thoughts about what
you want and don’t want, and how to force the world to be that way, you
will never be okay inside. You will lose much of the great power of abstract
thought because you cannot abstract from yourself. Life will become a
battle between reality and your mental preferences. This use of mind iscalled the perso nal mind because its thoughts are all about you and your
concepts, views, and preferences. The teachings of mindfulness, which center awareness on the current
moment, encou rage you to focus on something other than the personal
mind. Focusing on the moment is one way to get your consciousness off its
incessant addict ion to the personal. Another way to transcend the personal
mind is by using  your intellectual mind to create and do things that are not
personal in nature. This inclu des being an engineer who reasons out
problems or a medical researcher who studies diseases and how to cure
them. Artistry, computer science, mathematics—all of these are examples of
beautiful uses of the imperson al mind. The mind is great; it’s just not
supposed to be used for storing all your personal preferenc es and then
thinking the whole world is supposed to match what you stored. The outside world is simply not going to magically match what  you’ve
stored in your mind. In fact, it is not very intelligent to expect it to. Is it
really intelligent to devote your life to fighting with life so it aligns with
your past good and bad experiences. How can you enjoy life if you are
always worrying and struggling  to get it your way. That’ s what all of our
societies are doing, and that’s what almost every human being has done. People just haven’t evolved enough to learn not to do that. Rich people,
poor people, sick people, healthy people, married people, single people—
they all are bound in the same way. If they get what they want, they are
relatively okay. If they don’t get what they want, they suffer to a greater or
lesser extent. Fortunately, you do not have to live this way. There is a much
higher way to live life. But it requires that you change how you interact with
your mind and with the life unfolding before you. To understand this transformation, let’s first take a look at how you
even decided what you want and don’t want. If you pay attenti on, you will
see that your past experiences determine your preferences. You didn’ t just
make it all up from scratch—your views, opinions, and preferences are
formulated based on data from your past. For example, let’s say you are
totally secure in your love relati onship until you hear that your friends had a
breakup, and they are miserable. All of a sudden you start worrying about
your own relatio nship. You were fine before you heard about your friends,
but now you’re not. You stored the concept of a breakup inside  your mind,
even though it really had nothing to do with you. Y ou took it personally. Is it possible to process the information without it getting stuck in your
mind. Of course it is. Your friends had a problem, and they shared it with
you. It came into your mind, passed through your consciousness, and you
experienced the feeling of compassion. The interaction actually made you a
greater being. You were able to fully absorb the reality of life without it
getting stuck in your mind. If you want to recall it later, you can willfully
restore it from memory in all its glory. But it will not keep coming back up
by itself. Since it did not get stuck in the conscious mind, or shoved into the
subconscious, it will not advers ely affect your life. It actually made you a
better person because you were able to handle the experience. On the other hand, if you were not able to process the experience
without resistin g it, it will stay stuck in the conscious mind and create
havoc. If you really resist it, it will get shoved down into the subconscious
where it will fester and spread its disturbance throughout the mind. In either
case, you are storing what you are afraid of in your mind. If you do this, you
will be afraid of your own thoughts. How could you not be. You made a
collection of unpleasant thoughts in your mind, and they are going to keep
coming back up. Now, in order to live in there, the analytical aspect of mind
must be utilized  to figure out what needs to happen outside for you to be
okay. This is where preferences come from. They are simply attempts to use
outside events to solve the fact that you are not doing well inside. This
results in the constant practice of judging everything that’s unfolding based
on your preferences. It’s easy to see why people don’t agree with each other. Nobo dy else
has had the experiences that came in through your eyes. What you have
inside your mind is completely different from what others have  inside their
minds. It can’t be otherwise because the data in your mind came from the
experiences you had. Nobody else had those experiences, not even close—
not your spouse, your children, or your friends. Not only were your past
experiences different, but you processed them differently. We can certainly
force ourselves to conform to other ways of thinking in order to gain
acceptance, but that just makes living inside all the more complicated. You
not only have your default way of thinking resulting from your stored past
impressions, but now you must suppress parts of that in order to conform to
the “group” mindset. No wonder it gets messy in there. You are holding  all that persona l stuff inside your mind—the good, the
bad, and the ugly. The inevitable result is that if the moment in front of youhappens to align well with your stored patterns, you feel great. You feel
open, excited, and enthused. If it doesn’ t align well with your stored
patterns, you get upset. You immediately close, get defensive,  and maybe
even get depressed. Now we’re back to the question we asked earlier,
“What’ s it like living in there. ” Sometimes it’s nice; sometimes it’s not. Sometimes it’s heaven; sometimes it’s hell. This is why. It is not because
God made it that way. You did this. You were given free will, and what you
did with your free will was make a mess out of your mind. Instead of being
in awe that the moment in front of you even exists, you fight with it to make
it match what you want. Chapter 17. Serve Mind or Fix It
All your prefere nces exist  because you stored experiences from the past
inside your personal mind. This makes it dif ficult to live in there, but instead
of fixing it, you double down and try to satisfy your preferences. “I want to
feel good, and the way to feel good is by getting the house I want. ” “The
way to feel good is by owning the car I’ve always wanted. ” “The way to
feel good is by finding a better relationship—this one’s not doing it for me. ”
These attempts to compensate for your blockages are, at best, short lived
because you are not actually getting rid of the blockages. The foundationa l choice we have in life is either constantly contr ol life
to compensate for our blockages or devote our lives to getting rid of our
blockages. The fact is we stored these samskaras inside. We shouldn’ t have,
but we did. Now instead of getting rid of them, we expect the world to adapt
to them. We know it’s not going  to happen by itself, so we use the personal-
thoughts layer of mind to analyze how the world needs to be to match what
we want. We’re brilliant at figuring out how to make someone become
attracted to us, or to change things so they better fit our limitati ons. Almost
everything we do is governed by this personal-thoughts layer of mind. It is
the same analytical power of mind that Einstein used to see E = mc2, but
you’re using it to figure out what to do if someone’ s talking badly about
you. This entire layer of mind  intellectualizes and analyzes your stored
patterns to try to figure out how the world needs to be so that when it comes
in, it will feel good and never feel bad. That is why you tend to have so much trouble making decisions. You’re trying to figure out how each choice will make you feel later. “Where do I want to live. Should I change jobs. I need to figure this out. ”
You’re trying to mentally conce ptualize how the proposed action will match
the patterns you’ve stored inside. You don’t even think twice about it. “Ofcourse that’s what I’m doing. What else would I do. ” How about live in
reality and enjoy the moments that are unfolding in front of you. That’ s
what else you can do. Use your mind to be creative, inspiring, and do great
things. Don’ t let the mind always be thinking about itself and what it wants. Learn to enjoy life as it is—instead of limiting the ways you can enjoy it to
serve your past impressions. The self-centered, analyzing layer of mind is the worst. It is the model
you build about how everything and everybody needs to be for you to feel
okay, including the weather tomorrow. “It better not rain tomorrow, I’m
going camping. ” Now you’re getting


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Forty percent of the DHEA produced in a woman’s body is
made by the ovaries. After menopause, the ovaries quit manu-facturing this hormone. DHEA is considered the mother of allsteroid hormones, since it is the precursor to other hormones,most notably estrogen and testosterone. Clearly, replacing thishormone alone can help to reduce hot flashes and night sweatsand restore libido.100 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  The primary source of the remaining 60 percent of DHEA
is the adrenal glands, though DHEA production by the adrenalsalso declines over the years. People who have been exposed tohigh levels of stress during their life very often have low levelsof DHEA. As discussed earlier, DHEA is also known as an anti-aging
hormone. There appears to be a direct correlation betweenlevels of DHEA and longevity. People with the highest DHEAlevels seem to live longer lives. Perhaps this is related to the factthat DHEA stimulates the production of human growthhormone (HGH), sometimes referred to as the “fountain ofyouth” hormone. DHEA influences the immune system and helps prevent
cancer and arthritis. It’s also beneficial for the cardiovascularsystem. It has the same effect as the “good” cholesterol (HDL)on the “bad” cholesterol (LDL), in that it prevents its oxida-tion, which can cause damage to the coronary arteries. It is also known as a fat-burning hormone. The most likely
reason why it promotes weight loss is because it lowers insulinlevels, just as progesterone and testosterone do. DHEA tends to enhance one’s feeling of well-being. However, as with any hormone, replacement should be corre-lated carefully with need. Because DHEA can convert intoother hormones, it is absolutely necessary to check bloodlevels of this hormone prior to starting its use and to monitorthem during usage. When measuring DHEA, it is best to testDHEA-S levels rather than DHEA levels. Since DHEA levels change with age, so-called normal
levels are fairly low after menopause. My preference is toreplace DHEA to achieve levels consistent with those ofwomen about 40 years of age, which is in the neighborhood of250 mcg/dl. I start women whose levels are very low, around30 or less, with a dosage of 25 mg a day. Women with levels101 HORMONES FOR WOMEN  around 100 I start at 12.5 mg a day. I recommend obtaining
DHEA by prescription from a compounding pharmacy; thenyou are assured of receiving a pharmaceutical dosage in asustained-release form. Buying DHEA over the counter is lessreliable, since standards for regulating dosages are low ornon-existent. Hormones are potent chemicals, and one shouldbe careful when using them. The most common side effect of DHEA is acne—an
indication that most of the DHEA is being converted intotestosterone. The remedy here, of course, is to cut back on thedosage or the frequency of administration. Another approachmight be to switch to 7-keto DHEA, a form of DHEA thatdoes not convert into testosterone. It may be available at ahealth food store or possibly at a compounding pharmacy. Asuggested dosage is 100 mg/day. DHEA in any form is besttaken at bedtime.102 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  ANDROPAUSE— THE
MALE MENOPAUSE
chapter TWEL VE
Although this fact is often overlooked, men and women produce
exactly the same hormones. And most hormone levels inmen, just as in women, become lower as men get older. Sincehormones affect every system of the body, profound changesoccur as one ages. This shift in men, which begins around age 50,is known as andropause. Its characteristics include a drop inenergy, libido, stamina, and joi de vivre, associated with weightgain around the middle. Moreover, it is just as important for men to receive
bio-identical hormone replacement as it is for women. Theconsequences of altered hormone levels in men may lead toconditions such as coronary artery disease, Alzheimer’s disease,prostate cancer, osteoporosis, and depression. TESTOSTERONE
Unquestionably, the most important hormone to be consid-
ered for replacement in men is testosterone. It is most oftenthought of as a sex hormone, and it is, but it has otherfunctions that are probably more vital. 103T estosterone is the main hormone for the prevention of
Alzheimer’s disease. Studies done by the National Institutes ofHealth have confirmed this. It is the number one hormone affecting heart tissue,
including the coronary arteries, the conduction system, and,most important, the heart muscle itself. There are more testos-terone receptor sites in heart muscle than in any other musclein the body. T wo studies came out in 2003 demonstrating theuse of testosterone in men who had massive heart attacks, asituation that almost always results in congestive heart failure(CHF), a weakening of the heart muscle resulting in thebackup of fluid into the lungs and possibly the rest of the body.The men who received testosterone failed to develop CHF;those who did not went into heart failure. The development of osteoporosis, although not as com-
mon in men as women, actually has more dire consequences inmen. A fractured hip in a male, most commonly related toosteoporosis, is associated with a 25 percent mortality rate inthe first year of occurrence. T estosterone prevents and reversesosteoporosis. An extremely common consequence of low testosterone
levels in men is the onset of depression. They lose their interestin life, and their energy levels go down. Replacement of testos-terone brings back energy, restores lost strength and interest inlife, and leads to the buildup of muscle. Very often the libido returns too. I’ve seen male patients in
their 70s who hadn’t had sex in 25 years who, with testosteronereplacement, began having sex on a daily basis. Of course, theirpartners’ hormones had to be dealt with as well.104 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  THE CORRECT USE OF TESTOSTERONE
As with any other hormone, testosterone must be used correctly,
especially since testosterone can convert into other hormonesthat may cause other problems. It is


. ‘I still feel young, I sleep well, ride my horse, eat well, and swim every day,
so I still feel like a youngster, even though not so strong as I once was.’ ”
As we in the West age, our bodies lose muscle mass and replace it with
fat—at 65, almost half the body weight of both men and women is fat,
double what it was in their twenties. By comparison, nearly all the long-
living Abkhasia ns had lean physiques, with erect spines and firm muscles.Long after retirement, the oldest people thrived on outdoor life—they
tramped up to the high grazing areas in summer and dug potatoes in their
gardens. Even in cases where coronary arteries were blocked or other
damage had occurred to the heart muscle, the walking and climbing in
which everyone engaged seemed to of fset physical limitation. When Leaf brought back photographs of the long-living for National
Geographic  in 1972, millions of readers saw a face of old age that had
never been seen before in this country and scarcely imagined. Twenty years
later, we are facing a huge increase in all age groups over 65, and the long-
living Abkhasians are more and more fascinating to us. In their culture the
“new” old age has existed for generations. They traditionally led lives in
which all the right ingredients came together for conscious, purposeful
longevity—not just a longevity of survivors but of “youth in old age,” the
title Leaf chose for his book. Abkhasians managed to redefine youth so that it was not oppose d to long
survival. Someone could be chronologically old and yet young by their
standards. Jotting down his impression of one 98-year -old named Tikhed
Gunba, Leaf wrote, “Tikhed’ s blood pressure was 104/72 and his pulse was
regular at 84 [beats per minute]. He seemed a very placid individual with
much ‘mileage’ left. In the presence of two centenarians, Tikhed was still
regarded as a youngster.”
The Supercentenarian “Hoax”
Why, given this idyllic situatio n, haven’ t we all heard of Abkhasia? The
reason is that confusion and mistrust quickly clouded the initial reports
brought back by W esterners. What made Abkhasia so interesting in the mid-
1970s was not lifestyle but the phenomenon of supercentenarianism. The
then-Soviet government wanted to reap a harvest of propaganda by
claiming that their oldest people survived beyond anything known in the
noncommunist world. Tremendous focus was placed on individuals such as
Khfaf Lazuria, the most celebrated of the long-living.Khfaf Lazuria was reported to be the oldest woman who had ever lived. She died in 1975, claiming to be 140, which meant she had been born
twenty-five years before the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter that set
off the American Civil War. While alive, Khfaf Lazuria was a petite woman
of only four feet two inches tall. Although frail, she moved nimbly, was
always eager to meet visitors, could thread a needle without glasses, and
was a lively storyteller. Rare for a woman in Abkhasia, she liked to smoke cigarettes, a habit she
had picked up, she said, at age 100. (Since she was too old to be taken for a
woman, she liked to joke, she might as well act like the men.) Among her
colorful stories, Khfaf recounted her early memories of “the big war in the
North,” which Leaf guessed must refer to the Crimean War of 1853–56. That was also the period when she was abducted by Turks and not returned
home until ten years later, around the year Lincoln was assassinated. Perhaps even more remarkable than Khfaf Lazuria’ s claim to
superlongevity was that her immediate family boasted more than a dozen
members who had lived to be 100. Spellbound, Leaf accepted these tales completely; it therefore came as a
blow when large inconsistencie s began to surface. As it turned out, Khfaf
Lazuria had told every visitor a somewhat different story about herself,
freely changing her age, the number of husbands she’d had, how long her
parents had lived—in fact, few details remained constant. Leaf can be
forgiven for not knowing, as no casual visitor could, that one of the
cherished customs in Abkhasia was lying to strangers! Western visitors who
lingered long enough to acquaint themselves with the area learned that the
Abkhasian love of exaggeration was legendary, particularly if tall tales were
being spun to an outsider. When consulted about how old they thought the long-living actually
were, local gerontologists who had been sent into the region by the then-
Soviet government estimated that some of the long-living were certainly
quite old, upward of 115, but no one in the region who claimed to be 120,
much less 140 or 168, could supply reliable documents. In fact, since 90
percent of the local churches had been destroyed by the Soviets under
Stalin, almost no old records of births, communions, or marriage s existed in
Abkhasia.The final blow came when Zhores Medvedev, one of the most respected
Soviet geneticists, defected to the West in the early 1970s. Medvedev had
traveled through out the Caucasus and was intimately acquainted with the
methods of the gerontologists who worked there. In London he revealed
weaknesses in all the claims of superlongevity: Up to 98 percent of
Abkhasian old people were illiterate and many did not even know their
birthdays. For them, keeping track of time was haphazard, particularly
considering that there was an overlap of the Christian and Moslem
calendars in that region (the Moslem calendar is based on a ten-month
year). Soviet records before 1930 were nonexistent, and suspicions of a
deliberate hoax were raised when Medvedev pointed out that Stalin had
been born in Geor gia. Zealous attempts to convince him that he would live
a long life—som ething that most absolute despots are extremely eager to
believe—had added political fuel to the Abkhasians’ folkloric pride in
reaching extreme old age. The bubble quickly burst. In the cold light of day, there was really no
convincing evidence that families in the Caucasus had produced several
generations of centenarians. When the American yogurt company originally
conceived their campaign of the mother pinching her son’s cheek, they
wanted to find a mother and son who were both over 100 (this seem ed
plausible in a society where women married around 20), but this proved
impossible. Nobody could find a family in which parents and offspring
were both centenarians. Most investigators concluded that the Geor gian
supercentenarians were products of a traditional culture in which being as
old as possible had always been a cause for great social respect. Why We Need Abkhasia
Despite the inconsistencies in his findings, Dr. Leaf stood by the principles
of age preventi on he saw at work in the Caucasus. His work made a
significant difference in turning Americans toward more exercise and better
diet, particularly in terms of heart-attack prevention, but mounting
skepticism force d him to retrac t his support of superlongevity. Abkhasiashouldn’ t be dismissed, howev er; in a world where the vast majority of
societies condit ion their people to expect short lives and condemn the
elderly to a marginal existence, this one society fostered a conscious ideal
of old age as the most rewarding phase of life—and the reward was open to
all who wished to achieve it. To me, Abkhasi a was the place where the traditional concept  of “old”
never took root. The word was banished, and in its place the long-living
pursued an ageless lifestyle—they galloped their horses, worked under the
sun, and sang in choirs in which the youngest member was 70 and the
oldest was no (contrary to Soviet propaganda, which boast ed that the
minimum age was 90). Abkhasia proved that growing older can be a time of
improvement. Abkhas ians toasted one another with the words, “May you
live as long as Moses,” and they venerated the long-living as people who
were achieving an ideal. By far the greatest advantage the long-living enjoyed was this: They
trusted in their way of life. Abkhasians struck Western visitors as
remarkably attuned to the rhythms of life, precisely what we have lost in
this coun try. It’s worth quoting at length from Dan Geor gakas, an American
writer who traveled to Abkhas ia and was among the first to document
inconsistences in centenarian accounts of their age, and still found much to
admire. In his book The Methuselah Factors  Georgakas wrote, “Abkhasians
dislike being rushed, loathe deadlines, and never work to exhaustion. In the
same vein, they consider it extremely impolite to eat quickly or to eat too
much.…Their routines have a tempo more linked to biological rhythms than
the helter -skelter patterns that


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'rock'(Petra)and'oil'(Oleum).Thetermcommonly
referstotheliquidcrudeoilwhichcomesfrombe-
neaththeearth'ssurface,althoughpetroleumalso
occursintheearthingaseousorsolidforms,andafew
petroleumlakesortarpitsareknownthroughoutthe
world.Itisformedovermillionsofyearsfromthe
remainsofmarineplantandanimallifedeposited
underthesea,wheretheydecomposewithout
oxygen;heat,pressureandtimeconvertthisinto
petroleum. Petroleumwasknowntomanyancientpeoples,
whoreferredtoitas'burningwater'anduseditinthe
formofbitumentocaulkshipsandbuildroadsaswell
astogivelight.Morerecently, ithasprovideduswith
heatingandafuelforthiscentury'smachinery. Itis
refinedandprocessedintonumerousproducts,such
assolvents,paints,asphalt,plastics,cleansingagents,
waxesandjellies,medicines,explosivesandferti-
lisers.Thecrudeoilhasbeenusedforthetreatmentof
wounds. Thehomeopathicpreparation ismadefrompurified
oilorfromcrudeoilfromwhichatinctureisprepared
andthendilutedandsuccussedinthenormalway. GENERALSYMPTOMS
Dislikes:meat;fatty,richfood.Sweat:one-sided;
smelly. Worseforfreshair;duringthemorning;travelling
(boat,car,train,bus,etc.) ThisisasmallremedythatIhaveincludedbecause
ofitsusesintravelsicknessandnauseaduringpreg-
nancy.Thereisageneraldislikeoffreshairwhichalso
aggravatesthenausea. EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS
Confusedinfreshair.Forgetful.Irritable. Quarrelsome. PeopleneedingPetroleumwillbegenerallyworsefor
andalsomentallyconfusedoutinthefreshair.They
maynotrecognisewell-knownstreetsandmaymake
mistakesinfindingtheirway. PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Chilblains
SymptomsChilblains:onfeet,hands,toes;in-
flamed. INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Phosphoricacid(Pho-ac.) •129
Feetbecomecoldand'fallasleep'easily,andthe
handsbecomecoldandchapped.Thechilblainsare
painfulanditching,andoccurinthewinterduring
coldweather. Diarrhoea
SymptomsDiarrhoeaduringthedayonly.Pains
pressing.Withravenousappetite. Thisisaveryspecificdiarrhoeathatoccursonlydur-
ingthedayandisnotaccompaniedbyalossof
appetite. Headache
SymptomsPains:inbackofhead;pressing.With
heaviness;nausea(seebelow). Theheadacheusuallycomesonwhentravellingand
accompaniesthenausea. Nausea
SymptomsWithdizziness. Worseforfreshair. Thisnauseaisusuallyaccompaniedbydizzinessand/
orheadache. Travelsickness
SymptomsWithheadache(seeabove);nausea(see
above);vomiting. Worseforfreshair. Causestravelling. Petroleumisoneofthemaintravelsicknessremedies
andisindicatedwherefreshairactuallyaggravates. (ItistheoppositeofTabacum,whichhasnauseabut
isbetterforfreshair. )Thissymptomshouldhelp
todifferentiatebetweenthevarioustravelsickness
remedies. PHOSPHORICACID(Pho-ac.) Othername:glacialphosphoricacid
Phosphoricacidoccurseitherasaclear,colourless,
sparklingliquidorasatransparentcrystallinesolid-
dependingonitstemperature. Itisusedinthemanu-
factureoffertilisers,softdrinks(givingthemafruity,
acidicflavour),pharmaceuticals, gelatin,animal
feeds,waxes,polishes,dentalcementsanddeter-
gents.Itisalsousedintheprocessesofsugarrefining
andrustproofingmetals,andinotherindustrialuses. Medicinally itisoccasionallytakenasatonicto
stimulatethesecretionofgastricjuices,incombi-
nationwithquinineandstrychnine(thatis,withour
friendsNuxvomicaandChinal).Thehomeopathicremedyismadefrompulverised
phosphaterockwhichisdissolvedinsulphuricacid
andthendilutedbysuccussion. GENERALSYMPTOMS
Complaintsfrom:lossofbodyfluids.Eyesglassy. Facepale.Likes:fruit;refreshingthings.Painsin
bones.Sweat:clammy;profuse.Symptoms
one-sided.Thirstless. Befferaftersleep. Worseforcold;forsweating;duringtheevening;
duringthemorning;ononesideofbody. Phosphoricacidbenefitsthosewhohavebecomeweak
andtiredfromstudyingtoomuchorfromlosingalot
ofbodyfluids,forexampleafterdiarrhoea,aheavy
period,bleedingorvomiting.Thispictureoccursin
youngpeoplewithbonepainswhohavegrowntoo
fast,inpeoplewhoareacutelydepressedorthosewho
areconvalescingfromanillnesswheretheyhavelosta
lotoftheirownfluids.Theymaylookpaleandsickly
withdarkringsaroundtheireyesandthevsweatalot. Theywantrefreshingfoodtoeat,suchasfruitand
vegetables(inordertoreplacetheliquids),butmay
notbeespeciallythirstyandwilloftenfeeltiredafter
eating.Theyaregenerallyworseforcoldandbetterfor
asleep,evenashortnap. EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS
Apathetic.Complaintsfrom:disappointedlove;
excitement;fright;grief;humiliation;shock. Depressed.Forgetful.Homesick.Indifferentduring
afever.Irritable.Uncommunicative. Thesearepeopleinwhomtheacuteemotionaltrauma
hasanobviouscausesuchasdisappointment inlove,
shockandhomesickness,andthiscausesmental
apathy;theydonotwanttotalk,tothinkortoanswer
becausetheycannotconcentrate,andtheymayeven
forgetwordswhiletheyarespeaking.Theyappearto
bequiteindifferenttoeverything,especiallyduringa
fever.Theydonotweep;thereisatranquillityabout
them,averystilldepressiveness. PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Cough
SymptomsCough:dry;tickling;violent. Diarrhoea
SymptomsBelly/stomach: rumbling.Stools:pro-
fuse;thin;watery;white.Withoutweakness. Worseaftereatingsolid/dryfood. Causessummer;hotweather. NBSEEALSOPAGES203-26FORGENERALADVICE,DOSANDDON'TS. 130•Phosphorus(Phos.) INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA
Thisisaprofusesummerdiarrhoea. Itisnotasex-
haustingasyoumightexpect(anunusualandthere-
forehelpfulsymptom),althoughexhaustionmayset
inafterthediarrhoeahasstopped.Thepersonmay
passaninvoluntarystoolatthesametimeaspassing
flatulence.Theremaybegurglingandcramping,grip-
pingpainsandabloated,fullfeelinginthebelly,
although itisusuallypainless. Exhaustion
SymptomsExhaustion:nervous;paralvtic. Worseaftereating;inthemorningongettingup;for
slightestexertion;forwalking
Causesbreastfeeding; lossofbodyfluids;flu. Hairloss
SymptomsHairfallsout. Causesgrief. Headache
SymptomsInschoolchildren. Eyessmarting.Head
feelsheavy.Pains:intopofhead;inbackofhead;at
napeofneck;one-sided;pressing. Betterforexcitement. WorseforgettingupfromKingdown. Causeseyestrain;grief;mentalstrain,especiallyin
schoolchildren. Theseheadachesoccurinschoolchildrenwhohave
workedtoohardandwhoaresufferingfrommental
strainasaresult.Theheadfeelsheavy. Insomnia
SymptomsSleepunrefreshing.Waking:frequent;
aftermidnight. Shock
Causesemotionaltrauma. ThePhosphoricacidshockisonethathasbeencaused
byanemotionaltraumaandisaccompaniedbythe
typicalemotionalsymptoms. Phosphorus (Phos.) Othername:whitephosphorus
Thiselementhasanumberofforms.Themostcom-
mon,theyellowsolidcalledwhitephosphorus, is
anon-metallic,poisonouselementwidelyfoundin
nature.Itishighlyflammableandglowsinthedark.It
burstsintoabr


 The author has experienced "astonishing" results and has used the principles to manifest his own destiny.
Q: What is the author's approach to prayer?,
A: The author suggests replacing random thoughts with silent, intuitive prayer, and using it to connect with the divine energy within oneself.
Q: What is the author's message about the nature of the universe?,
A: The author emphasizes that there is no separation between the physical and spiritual worlds, and that we are all connected to the divine energy that is within us and in all living things.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>It is my choice to
live with the God force flowing unrestricted through me, and it is the
way of co-creating my life at this moment. Trust, then, is the corner-
stone of my praying, and with it comes the peace that is the essence
of manifesting. PEACE: THE RESULT OF TRUST
The highest self wants you to experience peace, which is a defini-
tion of enlightenment. You may recall that I wrote earlier in this book
that I define enlightenment as being immersed in and surrounded by
peace. The more you trust in the wisdom that creates all, the more
you will be trusting in yourself. The result of trusting is that an enor-
mous sense of peace becomes available to you. When the ego insists on winning, comparing or judging, you will
be able to soothe and calm the ego’s fears with the peacefulness born
of trust. When you are able to trust, you know that God and you are
one, like the glass of ocean water and the ocean itself. You are what
the God force is doing, just as a wave is what the ocean is doing. As this awareness grows you will discover that you are a more
peaceful person and, consequently, that enlightenment becomes the
way of your life. Being independent of the good opinion of others
and being detached from the need to be right are two powerful indi-
cators that your life is shifting toward a consciousness of trust in
yourself and trust in God. Yet there are many people in our lives who
disturb our state of peacefulness. Then, the question is how to han-
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dle those who consciously or unconsciously disturb our experience
of trust and peace. I once wrote an essay in a somewhat facetious tone titled “Your
Soulmate Is the Person You Can Hardly Stand.” The essence of the
essay was that the people in our lives who we agree with and share
similar interests with are easy to accept and actually teach us very lit-
tle. But those who can push our buttons and send us into a rage at
the slightest provocation are our real teachers. The person who is most capable of disturbing your state of peace
is a person who is reminding you that you are not truly in the state of
peace or enlightenment that results from trust. At that moment, this
person is your greatest teacher. This is the person whom you want to
treasure and thank God for sending into your life! When you can
transcend the rage, anger and upset which that person appears to
provoke, and instead say, “Thank you for being my teacher,” you have
acknowledged a soulmate relationship. Everyone in your life who can still push your buttons and send you
into that frenzied state is a master teacher disguised as a manipula-
tive, inconsiderate, frustrating, non-understanding being. The peace
that is enlightenment means that you are not only at peace with those
who share your interests and agree with you, and with strangers who
come and go, but also with those master teachers who remind you
that you still have some work to do on yourself. Give thanks for those great spiritual masters who have arrived in
your life in the form of your children, current or former spouses,
irritating neighbors, co-workers, obnoxious strangers and the like,
for they help you stay in an enlightened, peaceful state. They let you
know each day how much more work you truly have to do and in
what ways you have not mastered yourself. Peace occurs when your highest self is dominant in your life. When you begin to feel peace as the result of trust, you are enjoying
a healthy soul. Keep in mind that there is only one real soul, and that
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your personality is a vehicle for the whole. You cannot divide the infi-
nite. There is no division. You must trust this awareness. When you divide, you have moved out of identification with the
God force and have taken up shelter in the ego. It is here that you
will find an absence of peace and also an absence of trust in the wis-
dom that created you. There are many things that you can do ona regular basis to make this
second principle of trusting in the oneness a reality in your life. Here
are a few suggestions to nurture trust in yourself and in the oneness. HOW TO TRUST IN YOURSELF AND THE WISDOM THAT
CREATED YOU
Begin by admitting your confusion or failures. When you do this,
you are dismissing any illusion of trust, which is in reality a false
self-trust. Remind yourself that genuine trust involves letting go of
all conditioning that teaches you that trust in yourself is based on
being special or separate. When you are honest with yourself about every aspect of your
life, you discontinue identifying with separateness. You then become
ready for the insight that trust in yourself and trust in ultimate truth
are one and the same. Remind yourself often that you are a child of
God and that you have the God force within you. Let the statements
“T am it” and “It is me” rise from your inner being. Keep in mind that you cannot go to a higher ground if you are
hanging onto a lower level. You cannot leave the physical world if
you are so attached to it that you refuse to let go. The concept of
trust involves surrendering and trusting the God force. Imagine yourself falling from a precipice while clinging to a huge
rock, believing that it will protect you. Letting go of the rock is a
. metaphor for surrendering and trusting. You will continue to live
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and breathe in the physical earth plane, but you realize that you are
not only your body and mind, and that the rock is not your salva-
tion. Your needs and demands cease, and you are one with the man-
ifest consciousness. ;
Of course, you are literally still in the body, but you have also
joined the manifest consciousness. This trust allows you to partici-
pate in the act of creation. Your current world will be experienced
anew. The freedom and respect you receive from God will be
bestowed by you on the circumstances of your world. Acquire a rebellious attitude toward the philosophy that preaches a
style of God-as-boss who is authoritarian and a benevolent tyrant. Rejection of this model does not mean that you are an atheist, but
rather a believer in the true meaning of divinity. You are not required to feel inferior, to view yourself as a sinner
and to prostrate yourself before idols and dogma in order to believe
in God. Study St. Paul in the New Testament where he says, “Let
this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in
the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”
This is the kind of trust you must adopt in order to know your
divine self. Trusting does not mean you never experience life’s valleys. There
will be peaks and valleys as long as you live on this physical plane. There is no happiness without the opposite experience of unhappi-
ness. Opposites are the way it is in the physical plane. Expect that
this is also your reality. Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be dif-
ferent than they are. It is better to embrace trust when darkness is
present, knowing that light will follow. Begin to look for the lesson
in the darkness rather than cursing it. Trust allows you simply to
observe the dark and unhappy times rather than identifying totally
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with those aspects of life. From this perspective you are not at the
mercy of your ego energy, insisting that everything must be perfect,
and that when things are not, you have reasons to give up your trust
in the divine. The valleys are merely the way of the physical plane, but they are
not who you are. You are part of the unseen wisdom that created
this entire physical plane and you can trust in it uncategorically. There is timeless wisdom in this old idea of trust. Any person can
sense that problems are within, but the spiritually trusting person
realizes that the solution is also within. When you trust in yourself, you are not looking for solutions to
your life problems in someone or something outside yourself. Instead,
you remain in a state of trusting. Then, in a trustworthy manner, you
can proceed to attract the energy to you that provides the solution. Take your most serious problems and turn them over to God. Say
something like the following: “I have not been able to resolve these
issues in my life and I have used every technique I know. I would
like to show my trust in the divine force by simply turning them
over to your divine hands. As I do this I know that the divine force
that is you, God, is also me, and I trust that this action will lead to a
resolution of these problems.”
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anesthetic effect, for example in
relieving toothache. Self-help Uses
■ Acne & boils, p. 305. ■ Fever, p. 311. ■ Fungal skin infections, p. 304. ■ Neuralgia, p. 308. ■ Toothache, p. 308.Cloves, the dried flower buds of the clove tree, are
best known as a spice, but are also highly valued as an
herbal medicine, particularly in India and Southeast
Asia. Native to the Molucca Islands, cloves were one
of the earliest spices to be traded and were imported
into Alexandria in 176 ce. The cloves contain the best
essential oil, but the stems and leaves of the tree can
also be distilled for their oil. QCautions  External use can cause dermatitis. Do not take essential oil internally
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98Filipendula ulmariaKey medicinal plants
Creamy white
flowers smell
of almondsFilipendula ulmaria (Rosaceae)
Meadowsweet, Queen of the MeadowMeadowsweet
A perennial reaching  5 ft (1.5 m), with toothed leaves and clusters of creamy, scented flowers. Meadowsweet was called “meadwort”
in the Middle Ages, as it was used to flavor mead. Habitat & Cultivation
Native to Europe, meadowsweet
grows easily in damp places, preferring ditches and the banks of streams and rivers. It seeds itself freely, but can
also be propagated by root division  in autumn or spring. Leaves and flowering tops are harvested in summer when the flowers open. Key Constituents
■ Flavonol glycosides
 (approximately 1%), mainly   glycosides of quercetin
■ Phenolic glycosides (salicylates)
■ Volatile oil (salicylaldehyde)
■ Polyphenols (tannins)
Key Actions
■ Anti-inflammatory
■ Antirheumatic
■ Astringent
■ Diuretic
■ Stimulates sweating
Research
■ Salicylates The salicylates are
aspirin-type substances that help to reduce inflammation and
relieve pain, for example in arthritic conditions. However, they do not have the blood-thinning properties  of aspirin. ■ Protective combination
Unlike aspirin, which at high doses causes gastric ulceration, the combination of salicylates, tannins, and other constituents acts to protect the lining of the stomach  and intestines, while providing the anti-inflammatory benefit of the salicylates. Meadowsweet clearly illustrates the fact that herbal medicines cannot be understood  by considering their constituents  in isolation. Traditional &
Current Uses
■ Acid indigestion The herb
is a key remedy for acid indigestion
and gastroesophageal reflux,
and can quickly help to improve troubled digestions. Its mode of action is not well understood,
though its anti-inflammatory action
is clearly important. ■ Arthritis Meadowsweet is
commonly taken as a remedy for rheumatic and arthritic problems such as osteoarthritis, gout,
lumbago, and sciatica. It is a mild diuretic and is thought to help the kidneys to clear acid residues from the body, thereby relieving joint inflammation, which is often associated with acidity. ■ Digestive remedy
Meadowsweet is a safe remedy for diarrhea, even in children, and is  used with other herbs for irritable bowel syndrome.■ Other uses Meadowsweet has
traditionally been taken in much the same way as aspirin—to ease the pain and discomfort of headache, colds and flu, and toothache.Parts Used
Key Preparations
& Their UsesFlowering tops and leaves
contain salicylates that reduce inflammation. They are harvested in summer. Fresh flowering
tops and leaves
Infusion Make by adding freshly boiled water
to the herb (see p. 291). For indigestion, take 1/2 cup (100 ml) every 2 hours.Tincture (to make, p. 292). For painful joints, soak a pad in 5 tsp
(25 ml) tincture and apply to the area. Self-help Uses
■ Acidity with gastritis, p. 307. ■ Arthritis associated with acid
 indigestion or a peptic ulcer, p. 313. ■ Heartburn, p. 317.Tablets T ake for
rheumatic aches.In medieval times, meadowsweet was a favorite
strewing herb—Gerard wrote in his Herball (1597) that “the smell thereof makes the heart merry and joyful and delighteth the senses.” Salicylic acid isolated from the plant was first synthesized in  1860 and later used to develop aspirin. Nowadays, meadowsweet is taken for gastric problems and inflammatory conditions, such as arthritis. QCaution Do not take if allergic to aspirin.Dried flowering tops
and leaves
Decoction (to make, p. 291). For diarrhea, take 3⁄4 cup (150 ml) 2–3 times a day. Powder  For acidity, take 1⁄2 tsp mixed with a little water 3 times a day. US_098-099_Meadowsweet.indd   98 07/04/16   4:37 pm99Gentiana luteaKey medicinal plants
Decoction  (to make, p. 291). For anemia and weakened digestion,
take 5 tsp 3–5 times a day.Tincture  (to make, p. 292). For
poor appetite, take 2–5 drops
with water before meals.Root contains
bitter principlesGentiana lutea  (Gentianaceae)
Gentian
Gentian is a powerful bitter, and the herb is an essential
ingredient of traditional aperitifs and bitters such as
Angostura bitters. The customary aperitif about half
an hour before a meal is more than a social nicety—
the bitter constituents stimulate gastric juices and
prime the stomach, enabling it to cope effectively with
a heavy meal. Medicinally, gentian strengthens a weak
or underactive digestive system. Habitat & Cultivation
This largest member of the diverse
gentian family is native to the Alps and
other mountainous regions of central
and southern Europe from Spain to
the Balkans, flourishing at altitudes
of 2,300–7,900 ft (700–2,400 m). The large root crowns can be split or
the plant grown from seed. Due to
overharvesting from the wild, this is
now a threatened species, so buy only
cultivated root. It needs a loamy soil
and a sheltered site. The root is dug
up in early autumn and dried. Related Species
Many gentian species are bitter-tasting
plants and a number are used in herbal
medicine as a result, for example
Japanese gentian ( G. scabra ) and the
Chinese qin jiao  (G. macrophylla ). Key Constituents
■ Bitter principles
 (gentiopicroside, amarogentin)
■ Gentianose
■ Inulin
■ Phenolic acidsKey Actions
■ Bitter
■ Digestive stimulant
■ Eases stomach pain
Research
■ Amarogentin  Although present
in much smaller quantities than
gentiopicroside, amarogentin is the
constituent largely responsible for
the bitterness of gentian. It is 3,000
times more bitter than gentiopicroside,
and, tasted at dilutions of 1:50,000, it
is possibly the most bitter substance
on the planet. Traditional &
Current Uses
■ Origin of the name  Gentius,
king of Illyria in the 2nd century bce,
reputedly discovered the virtues of
the plant. The name gentian attests
to its use in classical times. ■ Action of bitter principles
There are 4 main taste receptors
on the tongue: sweet, sour, salty,
and bitter. It has been shown that
the bitter principles in gentian
stimulate the bitter taste receptors
on the tongue, causing an increase
in the production of saliva and
gastric secretions. This in turn
stimulates the appetite and improves
the action of the digestive system
in general. ■ Digestive stimulant  By
stimulating the action of the stomach,
many symptoms associated with
weak digestion, such as gas,
indigestion, and poor appetite,
are relieved. Stomach and other
secretions are improved, which in
turn helps increase the absorption
of nutrients. The herb also acts as a Gentian
An erect perennial
growing to 4 ft (1.2 m),
with star-shaped
yellow flowers and
oval leaves. stimulant on the gallbladder and liver,
encouraging them to function more
efficiently. Gentian is therefore useful
in almost any condition where the
digestive system needs to be toned
up. It is often taken as a digestive tonic
in old age. ■ Nutrient absorption
By improving digestive function,
gentian increases the absorption of
nutrients across the gut wall. It aids
the absorption of a wide range of Gentian  is a tall, attractive plant and