 evidence of a
comprehensive cleansing. But it’s worth empha-
sizing that you should drink an additional
amount of water o nly after the bulk of the
cleansing solution comes out — after you defe-
cate no fewer than 4 -5 times.
Additional fluid intake can be combined with
intake of bran (3 -4 spoons). Bran contains a lot
of so -called indigestible fibers in its structure.
These fibers, which have a low absorption capac-
ity, will gently complete the processes of cleans-
ing the walls of the digestive tract, stimulate stool
evacuation (usually after intestinal sorbent
cleansing there’s a delay of stool for 1 -2 days).
Besides, as a result of the bacterial flora breaking
up micro -cellulose contained in bran, fatty acids
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and restoring the surface layer of the colon.
 After you finish the procedure, it is recom-
mended to have a refreshing shower or bath.
After the end of the digestive tract cleansing
(for our purposes, it will be the time of the last
cleansing waters discharge), you need to refrain
from eating for 2 -3 hours. It’s advisable to start
your food regimen with rice porridge (optionally
with a small amount of butter) or other  gruels
(buckwheat, millet). You should abstain from
meat, spicy, sour foods, as well as fatty foods for
the next 24 hours.
If you follow all the listed instructions and di-
rections precisely, you shouldn’t have any side
effects or complications. But if you carry out the
intestinal sorbent cleansing procedure
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sive influx of sodium chloride and water into the
blood. This, in turn, will lead to an increase in
the amount of ci rculating blood, a minor in-
crease in arterial pressure, an additional burden
on the myocardium and an increase of the kid-
neys’ excretory function.
It has to be mentioned that such side effects
pose no threat to the functioning of the men-
tioned organs and systems and disappear with-
out exterior assistance within a very short
amount of time. In the worst -case scenario, you
can take some diuretics (i.e., furosemide). Also,
there’s no need to attach great importance to pe-
riodic spastic pains in the course of the  advance-
ment of the fluid along the gastrointestinal tract,
they appear unexpectedly and disappear quickly.
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stroke your stomach clockwise, or apply some-
thing warm to your stomach.

Contraindications
When discussi ng the contraindications, we
have to note that the spectrum of diseases that
allow to cleanse the intestines is virtually unlim-
ited. However, certain difficulties may arise, for
instance, when the digestive tract patency is dis-
rupted, and also in the early  postoperative pe-
riod, when there is a risk of developing func-
tional intestinal insufficiency. In our opinion,
the use of this method in case of acute diseases
or an acute exacerbation of a chronic disease is
inexpedient. In such cases, it’s recommended  to
confine yourself to a course of sorbent intake.
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massive uncontrolled influx of water and salt
from the intestines into the blood, which makes
us include in the list of contraindications (or, ra-
ther, a need  to consult a specialist) for using this
method diseases and conditions such as stage 3 -
4 hypertensive disease, renal hypertension, stage
3-4 heart failure, cerebrovascular disease, stage 3
chronic renal failure, cholecystitis.
After conducting intestinal sorbent cleansing, a
person, despite their sense of well -being and
good mood, might feel tired for a period of time
(1-2 days), as if after prolonged physical activity.
This proves that after the cleansing, important
and energy -intensive reconstructive and  restor-
ative processes begin in the organism, in the
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systems.
 What can cause such energy demands?
 First of all, the processes of restoring parietal
intestinal structures, which are ‘washed away’
during the sorbent cleansing; second, activation
of the mechanisms of endotoxin discharge into
the blood and subsequent temporary increase in
the activity of the natural detoxification systems
of the organism; third, adaptive reconstruction
of the systems and organs under the stress of in-
testinal sorbent cleansing.

9.4. Liver cleansing
Everybody says that you need to cleanse your
liver… ‘Why do I need to cleanse my liver, if it
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feel better after the “Liver cleansing” program,
but I’m feeling great now, without any cleans-
ing,’ you’ll answer.
Let’s take a different approach to this problem.
Nobody questions the fact that the oil filter in
your car (beloved Lada, Ford, Mazda, or Por-
sche) has to be changed. In general, it might be
good to clean the engine and the injector system.
Why? What for? Well, because, if you don’t do
it, the engine or the injector, or both, will fail at
some point. And to get it all repaired, you’ll have
to pay LOTS of money. If we were t o draw an
analogy, then the liver is our filter. And as you
can’t replace it, you have to clean it. And, of
course, it’s perfectly clear, that if you don’t do
this, your individual system will give up and it’ll
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the function carried out by the liver are among
the most important in the organism. Toxins are
stored everywhere in the body, especially in the
fat tissues. They are particularly numerous in the
liver, which is our organism’s filtration plant.
Accordi ng to medical statistics, 4 -5 kg of chem-
icals enter the human body only from food and
drinks (including alcohol) every year. All this
goes into the liver and stays there.
People who disregard liver cleansing, end up
on a hospital bed sooner or later. The l iver,
which is full of toxins, is unable to discharge
them, which is akin to having a bomb filled with
several kilograms of poison inside your body.
Who needs liver cleansings? This question
can’t be answered unambiguously. I believe that
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cleansing system and their time should be se-
lected individually.
What’s required for a cleansing, in order for
you to get the maximum result with minimum
effort?
First of all, your emotional state. Neutral or
positive mood, rel axed state, calmness — all of
these are required for success. If a person ap-
proaches cleansing as if it’s slave labor, then they
feel a certain degree of tension: physiologically,
the body is in a state of defense, which means
contraction: smooth muscles ( vascular, duct, in-
testinal walls) spasm, which results in hindered
discharge of toxins.
Secondly, it’s your attitude to get a positive re-
sult (a lack of a result is also a result). Humans
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a guarantee of a ple asant cleansing. When en-
gaging in a cleansing, a person becomes an ex-
plorer. When a person is curious to know the re-
sult, they have no fear, but have an interest:
what’s


us, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, chronic fatigue, and depression.
Excitotoxins are used heavily in both sweet and salty snack foods, and no law s restrict the use of these substances. Fast-food
chains hire food chemists to load our pizzas, tacos, fried chicken, bento boxes, an d the like with as much of these deadly additives
as possible, which keep us feeling “high” and coming back for more. A ll of the salty soy products, as well, (whether or not they
purport to contain MSG) are laden with highly excitotoxic free glutam ates. This is of special concern for the raw food community,
which tends to consume a tremendous amount of soy sauce, shoyu, liquid aminos, miso, and tamari.
In his personal film documentary, “Supersize Me,”  Morgan Spurlock created a vivid description of his experience living
exclusively on McDonalds’ food for 30 consecutive days. Although he did not sp ecifically use the term “excitotoxins,” he clearly
described the symptoms of addiction and withdrawal he experienced during th at month. News of the widespread use of excitotoxic
additives in junk foods is getting enough press that people are com ing to perceive a whole new level of reality in the 1960s Lay’s
potato chip jingle “nobody can eat just one.” Can you forget the tast e of Planter’s dry-roasted peanuts? (“Monosodium glutamate”
sits unabashedly on the label). Other junk foods, like Frito Lay’s “pla yfully mischievous” Cheetos snacks, boast multiple sources of
excitotoxic free glutamate. (Flamin’ Hot Cheese Flavored snacks, for  example, list monosodium glutamate, autolyzed yeast extract,
hydrolyzed soy protein, and sodium caseinate on the ingredient label.)

Fiber
Our commonly consumed cooked foods—meats and refined grain products—are ex tremely low in fiber. In fact, animal foods
contain no fiber.
Many health-minded people, thinking they are doing their bodies a favor, ende avor to eat whole-grain complex carbohydrates
to get fiber in their diets. They are on the right track, as fiber is wh at we remove from whole grains in order to make refined grains—
and dietary fiber is absolutely essential for digestive and overall he alth.
Unfortunately, these health seekers have been misled to believe tha t the fiber in grains is good for us. This is not true. There
are two broad categories of fiber, referred to as soluble and insoluble. Soluble f iber is an essential nutrient (one we cannot make
within our bodies and must therefore eat), found primarily in fruits and t o some degree in vegetables. It absorbs water and helps to
keep the stool bulky and soft. It functions as a sticky gel-like absorptive medi um to keep all substances moving through the intestines. Insoluble fiber is found primarily in grains.
Pectin and guar are the two most common soluble fibers. They are used in re cipes as thickeners because of their ability to hold
water. They also slow sugar absorption from the intestines, functionin g as built-in protection that prevent the sugars in fruits from
being absorbed into the bloodstream too rapidly. Ironically, in their isolated for m, pectin and guar are being used by the medical
establishment in the treatment of diabetics, while doctors insist th at diabetics should not consume fruit.
Before doctors truly understood the function of fiber, it used to be describ ed as a “scrub brush” for the intestines. The
insoluble fibers in grains (raw, sprouted, or cooked), however, are harsh on our de licate digestive tracts. Since they do not absorb
water, their edges and points remain sharp. These fibers literally sc rape at the delicate walls of our intestines, irritating them and
causing a thickening of the intestinal wall. This makes the fiber  less irritating but also reduces the body’s ability to absorb nut rients.
This irritation of the intestines and colon is what gives bran its re putation for encouraging bowel function. The body senses an
irritant and attempts to expel it as rapidly as possible, along with whate ver else is in the colon at the time. Anyone who uses bran
fiber for this purpose has noticed that after a short time they must inc rease the quantity of bran that they use in order to get the same
effect. The more the body increases the thickness of its mucous membran e to protect itself from irritation, the more bran must be
ingested. It is an endless cycle, similar to that of all substance abus e.
Reduced absorption, impeded assimilation, adhesion development, scar-tissue  formation, leaky gut syndrome, irritable bowel
syndrome, spastic colon, colon blockages, diverticulitis, ulcerative c olitis, Crohn’s disease, and other digestive maladies are often the
outcome of consuming insufficient fiber or fiber that is too harsh. The s oft, soluble fibers found in fruits and vegetables are necessary
for optimum digestive and colon function.

Refined Simple Carbohydrates: Junk Food
The second category of carbohydrates is the refined simple carbohydrates  found in cookies, cakes, candies, and other
confections. Refined sugars are also added to drinks, cereals, complex carbohy drate foods of all types, and anywhere else that you
see the word “sweetener” or “sweetened.” If the ingredient list inc ludes corn syrup, fructose, galactose, sucrose, dextrose,
maltodextrin, dextrin, maltose, levulose, lactose, or almost any word ending  in “ose,” refined sugars have been added.
If people don’t eat lots of fruit, they typically eat something swe et at almost every meal anyway. Orange juice, sweetened
cereals, jellies, jams, sweet rolls, and sugar in coffee ensure that  the day starts off with sweets. Lunches and dinners usually are not
complete unless some type of sweet dessert follows. Be it coffee and cake, mi lk and cookies, or any of dozens of other typical
combinations, we have found a way to replace the healthy “sweet and j uicy” provided by fruit with unhealthy, refined sweet and
(well … wet, or at least gooey) choices.
Refined simple sugars, a category that includes table sugar, are t he classic all-time-best examples of “empty calories,” that is,
calories without their full complement of original nutrients inta ct. In all forms of refined foods, some part or parts of the original
nutrient package have been removed. Regardless of method, the refining of  a food reduces its nutritional value and creates nutrient
imbalances. In my opinion, refined foods have no place in the diet of anyone wis hing to improve their nutrition or any aspect of their
health.
Foods can contain partially empty or completely empty calories, depending upon  the amount of refinement the food has
undergone. When people add such empty calories to other ingredients t o create a dish, I refer to the finished product as “junk
food.”
Consumers have come to mentally lump all sugars—in fact all carb ohydrates—into one group, to which they attribute mostly
negative connotations. Along with complex carbohydrates, refined sw eets and fruits are commonly considered nothing but “another
source of sugar.”
The meat and dairy industries like to point fingers at sugars, declarin g them synonymous with empty calories. They have done
such a good job of marketing that to this day most people do not understand the differ ences between refined simple sugars (empty-
calorie junk foods) and the simple sugars in fruit (health food), thinki ng that “sugar is sugar.”
The empty calories in refined simple carbohydrates are so devoid of food value  as to bankrupt you nutritionally while they also
function as stimulants. Both the stimulation and the nutritional de ficit accelerate aging.

Fruits: Whole-Food Simple Carbohydrates
Whole, fresh fruit is the third and most overlooked source of carbohydrates. Fr uit comes in an intricate, highly nutritious
package that matches our nutritional needs better than any other cat egory of food. I recommend that virtually our entire
carbohydrate intake—80% of calories or more—come from the simple sugars  in whole, fresh fruit. These sugars are the optimal fuel
source for humans. The soft, water-soluble fiber in whole fruits allows  their sugars to absorb slowly and gradually, so high blood
sugar is not an issue (as long as your diet is low in fat … see Chapter 2.)
Fruits are the obvious choice for obtaining our carbohydrates, as they provi de the only substantial and healthful whole-food
source of simple sugar. Many classically trained nutritionists, an d most doctors, still erroneously refer to fruits as complex
carbohydrates, because some of their fiber (such as the skins, pith, etc.) i s composed of complex carbohydrates. Though these indigestible fibers are complex carbohydrate in nature, virtually al l of the carbohydrate calories in ripe fruit are simple mono- and
disaccharides. This misunderstanding has long been pointed out by sports phy siologists, who rely on the fact that the sugars in fruit
are simple in design and hence work extremely well before, during, and aft er all physical exertions.
Fruits never require cooking in order to be delicious and nutritious, and our bodi es digest them quickly and easily. (Some
vegetables with


, hay fever,sinusitis, etc. Though one can then discover specific allergens and try to removethem from the environment or diet, often this case can be solved far more easilyby complete withdrawal from all salt. This rests the adrenals and they mayrecover their full function; almost certainly their function will improve. The asthma,allergies and etc., gradually vanish.
Most of us don’t need to eat salt as a nutrient. There’s enough sodium in one
dill pickle to run a human body for a year. There’s enough natural sodium in manytypes of vegetables to supply normal needs without using table salt. Perhapsathletes or other hard working people in the tropics eating deficient food grownon leached-out depleted soils, people that sweat buckets day after day may needa little extra sodium. Perhaps. Not having practiced in the humid tropics myself, Ihave no definitive answer about this.
Unfortunately, the average American is entirely addicted to salt and thinks food
tastes lousy without it. To please the average consumer, almost all prepared foodscontain far too much salt for someone suffering from exhausted adrenals.Interestingly, Canadians do not like their foods nearly as salty as Americans, andprepared foods like soups and the like in cans and packages that look just like theones in American supermarkets (though with French on the back panel) have tobe reformulated for our northern neighbors. I’ve observed that Canadians aregenerally healthier than Americans in many respects.
We would all be far better off consuming no salt at all. Those with allergies or
asthma should completely eliminate it for a month or two and discover if thatsimple step doesn’t pretty much cure them. The trouble is that bakery bread isroutinely two percent salt by weight. Cheese is equally salted or even more so.Canned and frozen prepared food products are all heavily salted. Restaurantmeals are always highly salted in the kitchen. If you want to avoid salt you almosthave to prepare everything yourself, bake your own bread, abstain from cheese
(though there are unsalted cheeses but even I don’t like the flavor of these), and
abstain from restaurants. My family has managed to eliminate all salt from ourown kitchen except for that in cheese, and we eat cheese rather moderately.
Sugar is a high-caloric non-food with enormous liabilities. First, from the
viewpoint of the universal formula for health, no form of non-artificial sweetenercarries enough nutrients with it to justify the number of calories it contains, noteven malt extract. White refined sugar contains absolutely no nutrients at all; the“good” or “natural” sweets also carry so little nutrition as to be next to useless.Sweets are so far over on the bad end of the Health = Nutrition / Calories scalethat for this reason alone they should be avoided.
However, healthy people can usually afford a small amount of sin; why not
make it sweets? In small quantity, sugars are probably the easiest indiscretion todigest and the least damaging to the organ systems. Although, speaking of sin, asEdgar Guest, the peoples’ poet, once so wisely quipped, (and my husbandagrees) “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.” Sugar is a powerful drug! Peoplewho abuse sweets set up a cycle of addiction that can be very hard to break. Itstarts when the body tries to regulate blood sugar. Kicked up to high levels byeating sugar, the pancreas releases insulin. But that is not the end of the chainreaction. Insulin regulates blood sugar levels but also raises brain levels of anamino acid called tryptophan. Tryptophan is the raw material the brain uses tomanufacture a neurotransmitter called serotonin. And serotonin plays a huge rolein regulating mood. Higher brain levels of serotonin create a feeling of well-being.Eating sugar gives a person a chemical jolt of happiness. Heavy hits of high-glycemic index starch foods are also rapidly converted to sugar. So don’t giveyour kids sweets! Or huge servings of starch to mellow them out. It is wise not tostart out life a happiness addict with a severe weight problem.
Now that the chemistry of sugar addiction is understood, there currently is a
movement afoot to cast the obese as helpless victims of serotonin imbalances andto “treat” them with the same kinds of serotonin-increasing happy drugs (like
Prozac) that are becoming so popular with the psychiatric set. This promises to
be a multiple billion dollar business that will capture all the money currentlyflowing into other dieting systems and bring it right back to the AMA/drugcompany/FDA nexus. The pitch is that when serotonin levels are upped, thedesire to eat drops and so is weight. This approach is popular with the obesebecause it requires no personal responsibility other than taking a pill that reallydoes make them feel happy. However, the same benefit can be had by strictadherence to a low-fat, low-carbohydrate diet. Eventually, the brain chemistryrebalances itself and serotonin levels stabilize.
Remember, the pancreas has another major service to perform for the body:
secreting digestive enzymes to aid in the digestion of proteins. When the dietcontains either too much protein or too much sugar and/or high-glycemic indexstarch foods, the overworked pancreas begins to be less and less efficient atmaintaining both of these functions.
Sometimes a stressed-out pancreas gets overactive and does too good a job
lowering the blood sugar, producing hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is generallyaccompanied by unpleasant symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness, blurred vision,irritability, confusion, headache, etc. This condition is typically alleviated by yetanother hit of sugar which builds an addiction not only to sugar, but to food ingeneral. If the hypoglycemic then keeps on eating sugar to relieve the symptomsof sugar ingestion, eventually the pancreas becomes exhausted, producing aninsulin deficiency, called diabetes. Medical doctors treat diabetes with insulinsupplements either oral or intramuscular plus a careful diet with very low andmeasured amounts of sugar and starch for the remainder of the persons inevitablyshortened and far less pleasant life. However, sometimes diabetes can becontrolled with diet alone, though medical doctors have not had nearly as muchsuccess with this approach as talented naturopaths. Sometimes, long fasting canregenerate a pancreas. It is far better to avoid creating this disease!
Glycemic Index
(compared to glucose, which is 100)
Grains Fruits V egetables
all bran 51 apples 39 baked beans 40
brown rice 66 bananas 62 beets 64
buckwheat 54 cherries 23 black-eyed peas 33
cornflakes 80 grapefruit 26 carrots 92
oatmeal 49 grapes 45 chic peas 36
shred. wheat 67 orange juice 46 parsnips 97
muesli 66 peach 29 potato chips 51
white rice 72 orange 40 baked potato 98
white spagetti 50 pear 34 sweet potato 48
whole wheat spagetti 42 plum 25 yams 51
sweet corn 59 raisins 64 peas 51
Nuts Baked Goods Sugars
peanuts 13 pastry 59 fructose 20
sponge cake 46 glucose 100
Meats white bread 69 honey 87
sausage 28 w/w bread 72 maltose 110
fish sticks 38 whole rye bread 42 sucrose 59
Dairy Products
yogurt 36 whole milk 34 skim milk 32
The dietary management of hypoglycemia requires that not only refined but
also unrefined sugars and starches with a high glycemic index be removed fromthe diet. (The glycemic index measures the ease with which the starch isconverted into glucose in the body, and estimates the amount of insulin needed tobalance it out.) This means no sugar, no honey, no white flour, no whole grainssweetened with honey, no sweet fruits such as watermelons, bananas, raisins,dates or figs. Potatoes are too readily converted into sugar. Jerusalem artichokesare a good substitute.
People with hypoglycemia can often control their symptoms with frequent
small meals containing vegetable protein every two hours. When a non-sweet fruitis eaten such as an apple, it should be eaten with some almonds or other nut orseed that slows the absorption of fruit sugar. Hypoglycemics can improve theircondition with vitamins and food supplements. See the next chapter.
Allergies to foods and environmental irritants are frequently triggered by low
blood sugar. Mental conditions are also triggered by low blood sugar levels,frequently contributing to or causing a cycle of acting out behavior accompaniedby destruction of property and interpersonal violence, as well as psychosis andbouts of depression. It is not possible to easily deal with the resulting behaviorproblems unless the hypoglycemia is controlled. Unfortunately most institutionssuch as mental hospitals and jails serve large amounts of sugar and starch andusually caffeinated beverages, with a high availability of soda pop, candy, andcigarettes at concessions. If the diet were drastically improved, the drugs given tocontrol behavior in mental hospitals would be much more effective at a lowerdose, or unnecessary.
The insulin-cycle overworked pancreas may eventually not be able to secrete
enough enzymes to allow for the efficient digestion of foods high in protein. Asstated earlier, poor protein digestion leads to a highly toxic condition fromputrefied protein in the intestines. This condition is alleviated by eliminating animalproteins from the diet and taking digestive aids such as pancreatin pills with mealsto assist in the digestion of vegetable proteins.
Food Combining And “Healthfood Junkfood.”
This brings


QUENCY upon which we live. You might
say wave length, or vibrations, which mean the same thing.
However, frequency is the correct word. When God made man,
Adam, He made him in His own image and Adam had a log frequency of 24 (.0000024). Then God made woman, and He made her on a log frequency of 26 (.0000026). Everything He created He created on a frequency according to his kind. He created a dog on a log frequency of 38 (.000038) for the male, and 40 (.000040) for the female. He cre-ated horses on a log frequency of 44 (.000044) for the stud, and 46 (.000046) for the fern ale or mare. When He created citrus He created a different log frequency, an odd number with the frequency of 9 (.0009).
Animals and plants that have an even number for their frequency,
require male and female. They have to breed, or, there has to be a 42 cross between the male and fern ale plant in order for fruit blossoms to
form. In plums there are male and female trees. The sour plums are
the male trees and the female are the sweet plums. It is the same with cherries. It takes a male and a female plant to make the cherry blos-soms fertile, or to pollinate the cherry blossoms so they will be sweet or sour cherries.
In citrus there is an amazing fact that does not have any particular
bearing upon the frequency but it just happens to be peculiar. The fern ale blossoms have five petals, and the male blossoms have four petals. The female blossoms come out first, and just when they are ready to fall then the male blossoms come out, and then the bees take the pol-
len from the four-petal blossoms to the five-petal blossoms and ferti-lize it, then fruit sets on  the tree. The thing that is amazing about this is that five plus four is nine-which just happens to be a coincidence. I don't think it has any real scientific va lue, but it brings us back to the
first chapter of Genesis when God said: Go and produce after his own kind. The "kind" is cattle, moose, elk, deer, buffalo-all having the same frequency. There are many different species of sheep, and they have the same frequency. There are many different species of cats, house cat, bob cat, etc., and they have the same frequency. This is true of lions, squirrels, etc., which are in the cat family.
All plants, according to their kind have the same frequency. There are many different varieties of peaches, yet all have the
same frequency. There are many different varieties of oranges, grape-fruit, tangerines and yet they have the same log frequency.
It is beautiful how God created each thing after its kind, and some
of the species are so far off from the original and yet it will not cross with its own kind. But still the way God made or designed is shown in the Book of Genesis.
You might ask, "Well, if everybody is on the same frequency, why
don't all people look alike? Why are there different species?"
There are different species because there are different ways to
place the atoms together, in which the patterns of anions and cations even within the same organs come together to make what we call MI-CRONAGE. 43 The difference in micronage is the difference in species and or-
gans within any individual. It is also what keeps one human being
from looking exactly like another human being. It is the way the ani-ons and cations are stacked together in the element which makes the compound, which makes the micron of the structure to the person and still be in the same frequency according to its kind.'
You might also ask, "If that is true, then why the difference in col-
or?"
Milli-micronage is the path of the electron in orbit which deter-
mines the color. The light strikes the electron shell and a prism of
light forms what is known as color. Where there is no light there is no color. Under milli-micronage we ha ve milli-milli micronage, which is
identity. Even identical twins are different.
They are not exactly alike in God's sight. No two blades of grass,
drops of water, or snowflakes are alike because of the difference in the anionic and cationic molecular structure from which the atoms are made.
Every kind and species of life can be expressed in mathematical
terms because of the above facts. The frequency, the micronage, make It possible for every degree of life from perfect health to bad health to be expressed in mathematical terms. The following facts prove that this RBTI equation is accurate and without these facts there would be no way to prove tha~ the equation of perfect health would be accurate.
It is the varying patterns of compound energy that determines the
structure of plants and animals, the difference in various organs of the plant and animal.
This brings us to one of the essential rules of physics and all bio-
logical life: Anionic plant load makes growth. and cationic plant load
makes Fruit. There is no exception to this rule.
Plants that come to bearing age and shed their blossoms instead of
making fruit have plant food that they are taking from the soil that is anionic plant food, or alkaline. If it is very acid (cationic) too early then the plant tries to bear fruit when it is too small. Many times women when they are pregnant crave sour pickles because their body is too alkaline, and they need more energy. By taking in something on 44 the acid side (acetic acid or vinegar), it gives them more energy from
their food, and therefore supplies the body with the energy needed to
produce another person. If the body is too acid the mother does not crave pickles but is in need of more calciums in her diet. RBTI labora-tory tests indicate the balance that determines resistance which indi-cates cause and effect, which also may be used to calculate the potas-sium or the calciums, or any other element needed to cause the body chemistry to be perfect again. Nature does its best to do this without outside help, but the Bible says that in the time of the end "the earth shall wax old like agarment" (Isa. 51 :6). This means that the soil will be depleted of many of its vital min eral elements, and especially cal-
ciums, which are so essential to human life.
All plants and all animals use more calciums by weight and by
volume than all the other elements combined. It is a very necessary el-ement in the human diet.
Calcium is a single and plural ward. There are more than a quar-
ter of a million different kinds of calciums. In this book we will use the word calciums to emphasize the plural aspect.
Calciums can be divided into seven different classifications. Six of these CALCIUMS are essential to biological life. There is
only one of the classification of calciums that is fatal to biological life, which would be pure calcium hydroxide. However, it is very easy to add too much of one classificati on kind and not enough of the other
five kinds, or any combination between these extremes.
The second element our bodies need most is PHOSPHATES. Without phosphates you will not have any bones, fingernails or
teeth. It is the phosphate of calciums that form the foundation struc-ture for our bones and teeth.
The next element in volume that is needed is POTASSIUM. I'm speaking of it in this order because I do not count water as an
element but as a compound.
WATER is the best and finest catalyst known throughout all na-
ture. A catalyst is something that joins two or more elements or com-pounds together without becoming a part of the union as such. As a minister may marry a man and a woman without becoming a part of 45 the union. The minister would be the catalyst. Also, as a wrench
would join a nut and a bolt together without becoming a part of the
union. The wrench would be the catalyst, it is the joining agent.
Water is also the best of all cleansing agents known to man. There is nothing as good to cleanse this temple that God has given
us as clean, clear, distilled drinking water. Most people do not drink enough water. I often have people say to me, "Mr. Reams, I never drink any water."
My reply is: "What do you think you are? A Volkswagen!" We are water-cooled mechanisms, and water is just as essential to
us as it is to plants. If we do not drink enough water to wash out the worn-out cells then our bodies will temporarily store or collect these worn-out cells. Just as a bad apple in a barrel of good apples, it will make the other apples bad more quickly.
This also happens in our bodies. In our bodies these worn-out cells collect in the weakest part, of-
ten causing pain in that part of the body-the knees, or joints, or mus-cles. The doctor will diagnose the pa in and treat the hurts, without
knowing where those worn-out cells originated.
However, he is doctoring the effect and not the cause. In the RBTI
we work on the CAUSE and pay very little attention to the effect. The effect is the result of a cause, and th e cause is a result of a mineral de-
ficiency. Therefore, we can conclude that all diseases


be solved. That this is one of those You’re
going to let  me hang here with...  Perhaps this is a good time to go over once
more how it is that I interact with you,
because you think it is a question of My
desire, and I’m telling you it’s a question of
yours.
I want for you what you want for you.
Nothing more, no thing less. I don’t sit here
and make a judgment, request by request,
whether something should be granted you.
My law is the law of cause and effect, not
the law of We’ll See. There is nothing you
can’t have if you choose it. Even before you
ask, I will ha ve given it to you. Do you
believe this?
No. I’m sorry. I’ve seen too many prayers
go unanswered.
Don’t be sorry. Just always stay with the
truth—the truth of your experience. I  understand that. I honor that. That’s okay
with Me.
Good, because I don’t beli eve that
whatever I ask, I get. My life has not been
a testimony to  that. In fact, I rarely get what
I ask for. When I do, I consider myself
damned lucky.
That’s an interesting choice of words. You
have an option, it seems. In your life, you
can either be damned lucky, or you can be
blessing lucky. I’d rather you be blessing
lucky —but, of course, I’ll never interfere
with your decisions.
I tell you this: You always get what you
create, and you are always creating.
I do not make a judgment about the
creation s that you conjure, I simply
empower  you to conjure more —and more and more and more. If you don’t like what
you’ve  just created, choose again. My job,
as God, is to always give you that
opportunity.
Now you are telling Me that you haven’t
always gotten wha t you’ve wanted. Yet I am
here to tell you that you’ve always gotten
what you called forth.
Your Life is always a result of your thoughts
about it —including your obviously  creative
thought that you seldom get what you
choose. Now in this present instance  you
see yourself as the victim of the situation in
the losing of your job. Yet the truth  is that
you no longer chose that job. You stopped
getting up in the morning in  anticipation,
and began getting up with dread. You
stopped feeling happy about your  work and
began feeling resentment. You even began fantasizing doing something  else. You think
these things mean nothing? You
misunderstand your power. I tel l you this:
Your Life proceeds out of your intentions for
it. So what is your intention  now? Do you
inten d to prove your theory that life seldom
brings you what you  choose? Or do you
intend to demonstrate Who You Really Are
and Who I Am?
I feel chagrined. Chastised. Embarrassed.
Does that serve you? Why not simply
acknowledge the truth when you hear it,
and move toward it? There is no need to
recriminate against yourself. Simply notice
what  you’ve been choosing and choose
again.  But why am I so ready to always choose
the negative? And then to spank myself for
it?
What can you expect? You were told from
your ea rliest days that you’re “bad.” You
accept that you were born in “sin.” Feeling
guilty is a learned response. You’ve been
told to feel guilty about yourself for things
you did before you could even do  anything.
You have been taught to feel shame for
being born less than perfect.
This alleged state of imperfection in which
you are said to have come into this world  is
what your religionists have the gall to call
original sin. And it is original sin —but not
yours. It is the first sin to be perpetrated
upon you by a world which knows nothing
of God if it thinks that God would —or
could —create anything imperfect.  Some of your religions have built up whole
theologies around this misconception.  And
that is what it is, literally: a misconception.
For anything I  conceive —all that to  which I
give life —is perfect; a perfect reflection of
perfection itself, made in the  image and
likeness of Me.
Yet, in order to justify the idea of a punitive
God, your religions needed to create
something for Me to be angry about. So
that even those people who lead exemplary
lives somehow need to be saved. If they
don’t need to be saved from themselves,
then they need to be saved from their own
built-in imperfection. So (these religions
say) you’d better do something about all of
this—and fast —or you’ll go straight to  hell.
This, in the end, may do nothing to mollify
a weird, vindictive, angry God, but it does  give life to weird, vindictive, angry religions.
Thus,  do religions perpetuate  themselves.
Thus,  does power remain concentrated  in
the hands of the few, rather  than
experienced though the hands of the many.
Of course you choose constantly the lesser
thought, the smaller idea, the tiniest
concept of yourself and your power, to say
nothing of Me and Mine. You’ve been
taught to.
My G od, how can I undo the teaching?
A good question and  addressed to just the
right person!
You can undo the teaching by reading and
re-reading this book. Over and over  again,
read it. Until you understand every
passage. Until you’re familiar with every
word.  When you can quote its passages to others, when you can bring its phrases to
mind in the midst of the darkest hour, then
you will have “undone the teaching.”
Yet there is still so much I want to ask You;
still so much I want to know.
Indeed. You began with a very long list of
questions. Shall we get back to it?
  Chapter 8
When will I learn enough about
relationships to be able to have them go
smoothly? Is there a  way to be happy in
relationships? Must they be constantly
challenging?
You have nothing to learn about
relationships. You have only to
demonstrate what  you already know.
There is a way to be happy in relationships,
and that is to use relationships for their
intended purpose, not the purpose you
have designed. Relationships are
constan tly challenging; constantly calling
you to create, express, and experience
higher and  higher aspects of yourself,
grander and grander visions of yourself,
ever more  magnificent versions of yourself. Nowhere can you do this more
immediately,  impactfully, an d immaculately
than in relationships. In fact, without
relationships, you  cannot do it at all.
It is only through your relationship with
other people, places, and events that you
can even exist (as a knowable quantity, as
an identifiable something) in the  universe.
Remember, absent everything else, you
are not. You only are what you  are relative
to another thing that is not. That is how it is
in the world of the relative,  as opposed to
the world of the absolute —where I reside.
Once you clearly understand th is, once you
deeply grasp it, then you intuitively bless
each and every experience, all human
encounter, and especially personal human
relationships, for you see them as
constructive, in the highest sense. You see that they can be used, must be used, are
being used (whether you want them to be
or not) to construct Who You Really Are.
That construction can be a magnificent
creation of your own conscious design, or
a strictly happenstance configuration. You
can choose to be a person who has
resulted simply fr om what has happened,
or from what you’ve chosen to be and do
about what has happened. It is in the latter
form that creation of Self becomes
conscious. It is in the second experience
that Self becomes realized.
Bless, therefore, every relationship, and
hold each as special and formative of Who
You Are —and now choose to be.
Now your inquiry has to do with individual
human relationships of the romantic sort,  and I understand that. So let Me address
Myself specifically, and at length, to  human
love relationsh ips—these things which
continue to give you such trouble!
When human love relationships fail
(relationships never truly fail, except in the
strictly human sense that they did not
produce what you want), they fail because
they were entered into for the wron g
reason.
(“Wrong,” of course, is a relative term,
meaning something measured against that
which is “right” —whatever that is! It would
be more accurate in your language to say
“relationships fail —change —most often
when they are entered into for reasons not
wholly beneficial or conducive to their
survival.”)  Most people enter into relationships with an
eye toward what


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1979, another package of data was submitted to
the agency by Research Industries. This package contained not fifteen patients of
Dr. Stewart, but forty.”
“We have looked at that data, and it is apparent that a good many of those
patient reports had been available prior to the NDA submission and were
contemporary with Dr. Stewart’s other patients,” said Dr. Hensley. “It appeared,
therefore, that a selective submission of data had been made to the original NDA.”
Thus, the researcher chose certain patients to represent his clinical trials and
sent them for submission by RIC to the FDA. Or, RIC did the selecting from the
whole group of fifty-five patients and sent along just fifteen.
What of the newly introduced batch of forty people who used DMSO and
whose cases weren’t revealed until three years later? Dr. Hensley said, “Many of
the patients—in fact, I guess the majority of those that are truly interstitial cystitis
—had either fair or poor responses to the treatment.”
So there have been definite questions raised about both of the studies that were
the basis for the NDA approval of DMSO employment against interstitial cystitis.
No wonder the FDA has been so stubborn about giving approval for DMSO
medical usage in general.
Following the Kennedy hearings, the FDA appointed a DMSO “Steering
Committee.” This committee brought in a new group of investigators—
pharmacological, toxicological, chemical, and medical professionals—who had
nothing to do with the initial approval of DMSO for interstitial cystitis. These new
investigators were paid for their work by the FDA. They reviewed the entire
matter, and their conclusion was that Drs. Shirley and Stewart were quite sloppy inrecording their data. Because of this they were disqualified as investigators for the
FDA thereafter.
However, the FDA, even after this thorough review of the entire matter,
allowed the approval of DMSO for use against interstitial cystitis to stand. They
found that the two physicians had been careless rather than dishonest in their
reporting.
Such carelessness in medical research is simply an expression of human error,
particularly in relation to the employees one depends upon. As interstitial cystitis
is a rare disease and difficult to find, the FDA physician-investigators in
Cleveland or Birmingham, Alabama, had patients come in for checkups from all
over the country. (The FDA requires a minimum of fifty patients from two
investigators to approve a drug for prescription use in a specific condition.) On the
approval sheets, the FDA had listed various parameters for the investigators to
follow and fill in. Certain employed research associates—frequently college
students—filled in the answers to questions that they asked the participating
patients.
One of the questions on the approval forms concerned ophthalmology. The
research associates (dental students) would ask the patients, “Have you had your
eyes checked?”
The patients most often said, “Yes!”
The next question was, “Have you had any problems with your eyes?”
The patients replied, “No!”
The research associates then wrote on the approval forms: “Ophthalmology
negative.”
These patients had been examined by ophthalmologists in areas far distant
from the research facilities in Cleveland or Birmingham. The physician-
investigators did not have those eye examination records as part of the patients’
files. Thus, upon “for cause” evaluation of the records, the FDA declared the
investigators’ record response for vision unsubstantiated. Later, despite being
disqualified as FDA investigators, Drs. Shirley and Stewart were able to show that
these ophthalmologic examinations were, in fact, carried out. And as the FDA
found that the interstitial cystitis protocol was correct, DMSO remains an
approved medication for treatment of this bladder problem.
Senator Kennedy emphasized that there were a series of collective failures
among the several people involved with this NDA procedure. The FDA found
failures by the investigators doing the clinical work, the sponsor supplying the
drug, the physician-monitor checking methods, and the FDA medical officer actingas liaison for the NDA. There was a failure to write up accurate case histories, a
failure to keep adequate records of drug accountability, a failure to obtain
institutional review committee approval, and a failure to maintain documentation
of informed patient consent. In questioning the patients, the FDA believed that
most of the required eye and laboratory examinations possibly were never
performed at all and they found the lack of records just sloppy reporting. In some
of the cases report forms were, in fact, altered between the first and second FDA
inspections so that FDA officials remain suspicious. They still think that there was
insufficient reporting or alleged misreporting of toxicological ophthalmic effects in
the patients.
Looking at just one of the people who failed in all this, Kennedy wondered
whose responsibility at RIC it was to detect the various DMSO problems that
apparently went undetected right through the NDA approval process. “Senator, I
believe that the ultimate responsibility, certainly, lies with me,” said Henry Moyle.
“I signed the documents that went into the FDA.”
Here we see a businessman who had protected his investment. Kennedy asked
Moyle, “What would be the impact on Research Industries if, as a result of these
problems, the FDA determined that it could no longer maintain the approval of
DMSO for treatment?”
“Well, Senator, we are a small company,” answered Moyle. “We believed
when we started with this application that it would not take nearly this long, and
we have stretched it out. On our marketing, we are not yet breaking even. So, we
would have real problems. I suppose we would have to dispose of our subsidiary,
Terra; that would be too expensive an operation to be able to continue with. If we
did that, we would no longer have a lab approved for good manufacturing
practices, and it took us three or four years to get that approval at the FDA. So
that would be an impossible burden; I do not know what we would do.”
CLEARING UP POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST FOR
DR. JACOB
Surgeon Stanley Jacob has treated tens of thousands of patients at his modest
office at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center. He now sees more than
200 people a week, some with the most serious health problems such as spinal
cord injuries, Down’s syndrome, stroke, spondylitis, burns, cancer, scleroderma,
herpes zoster, and worse. Dr. Jacob has become known nationwide and overseasfor the excellence of his work in making known the new and varied uses for
DMSO. The weight of his discovery of the medical properties of dimethyl
sulfoxide is enough to plant him firmly in the medical history books. He is an
admirable scientist.
Still, with all these patients coming to his office door and the reputation he has
established, Dr. Jacob’s annual salary was only about $45,000 ten years ago. With
raises in steady increments, his salary probably doubled by 1992. The University
of Oregon doesn’t pay its research physicians on a par with industry, whose
physicians average around the $200,000 a year level. Moreover, Dr. Jacob’s
current salary is probably 25 percent of what he could earn as a surgeon in solo or
group private practice.
Why, then, does he do it? And why has he continued taking DMSO himself
since 1963? Dr. Jacob says “not for any medical problem but because if any side
effects are going to develop, it’s better that they raise their ugly head in my body
than anyone else’s.”
His dedication and sacrifice are undeniable. For almost twenty years Stanley
Jacob has been struggling with the FDA and the scientific community to get
dimethyl sulfoxide approved for national distribution and generally accepted for
medical use. The father of five children ranging in age from fourteen to thirty-nine
years, Dr. Jacob believes that the failure of his three marriages may be attributed
to his total involvement with the legalization of this pharmaceutical solvent. He
says it is his “obsession.”
The doctor expects to devote the rest of his working life proving the worthiness
of DMSO in the pharmacopeia of every physician for a vast array of health
problems. Retirement is not for him. “I might spend a little more time with family,”
Jacob says, “but my research interests wouldn’t change. I couldn’t begin to scratch
the surface of DMSO’s uses in the years remaining to me.”
All this sounds highly idealistic; he is a magnanimous individual, the image of
a truly good man. And this really may be the case—unless you gain access to
certain other facts that don’t generally get broadcast.
During Senator Kennedy’s devastating cross-examination of Research
Industries Corporation President Moyle, the Senator learned that Jacob was the
physician-monitor for those series of studies on DMSO for scleroderma and
interstitial cystitis, mentioned earlier. Errors in accuracy related to the clinical
trials may be Jacob’s responsibility rather than Moyle’s, as Dr. Jacob was
obligated to inspect the trials in progress and check the records being kept.
While the royalties Jacob receives on the patents for DMSO medical uses arestill relatively small, as DMSO’s popularity in medicine increases, the royalties
could become huge. At present he turns over royalty money to the University of
Oregon Health Sciences Center for the Department of Surgery and for DMSO
research, but at any time Jacob could retain the money for himself. It is not held in
trust


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There is a sacredness to everything you perceive wh en you are present. The more
you live in the Now, the more you sense the simple yet profound joy of Being and
the sacredness of all life.

***

Most people confuse the Now with what happens in th e Now, but that’s not what it
is. The Now is deeper than what happens in it. It i s the space in which it happens.

So do not confuse the content of this moment with t he Now. The Now is deeper
than any content that arises in it.

***

When you step into the Now, you step out of the con tent of your mind. The
incessant stream of thinking slows down. Thoughts d on’t absorb all your attention
anymore, don’t draw you in totally. Gaps arise in b etween thoughts–spaciousness,
stillness. You begin to realize how much vaster and  deeper you are than your
thoughts.

***

Thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and whatever  you experience make up the content of your life. “My life” is what you derive your sense of self from, and “my
life” is content, or so you believe.

You continuously overlook the most obvious fact: yo ur innermost sense of I Am
has nothing to do with what happens in your life, n othing to do with content. That
sense of I Am is one with the Now. It always remain s the same. In childhood and
old age, in health or sickness, in success or failu re, the I Am–the space of Now–
remains unchanged at its deepest level. It usually gets confused with content, and
so you experience I Am or the Now only faintly and indirectly, through the content
of your life. In other words: your sense of Being b ecomes obscured by
circumstances, your stream of thinking, and the man y things of this world. The
Now becomes obscured by time.

And so you forget your rootedness in Being, your di vine reality, and lose yourself
in the world. Confusion, anger, depression, violenc e, and conflict arise when
humans forget who they are.

Yet how easy it is to remember the truth and thus r eturn home:

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the
content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in wh ich all things happen. I am
consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

Chapter 5
Who You Truly Are

The now is inseparable from who you are at the deep est level.

***

Many things in your life matter but only one thing matters absolutely.

It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether
you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are edu cated or not educated. It matters
whether you are rich or poor. It certainly makes a difference in your life.

Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking. But they don't matter absolutely.
There is something that matters more than any of th ose things and that is finding the essence of who your are beyond that short-lived  entity, that short-lived
personalized sense of self.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances  of your life but by realizing
who you are at the deepest level.

***

Reincarnation doesn't help you if in your next inca rnation you still don't know who
you are.

***

All the misery on the planet arises due to a person alized sense of me or us. That
covers up the essence of who you are. When you are unaware of that inner essence,
in the end, you always create misery. It's as simpl e as that. When you don't know
who you are, you create a mind-made self as a subst itute for your beautiful, divine
being and cling to that fearful and needy self. Pro tecting and enhancing that false
sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force.

***

Many expressions that are in common usage and somet imes the structure of
language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who they are. You say, “He
lost his life.” Or, “my life” as if life were somet hing that you can possess or lose.

The truth is you don't have a life, you are life, t he one life, the one conscious that
pervades the entire universe and takes temporary fo rm to experience itself as a
stone or a blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. Can you sense
deep within that you already know that. Can you sen se that you already are that?

***

For most things in life, you need time: to learn a new skill, build a house, become
an expert, make a cup of tea.

Time is useless, however, for the most essential th ing in life, the one thing that
really matters, self-realization–which means knowin g who you are beyond the
surface self, beyond your name, your physical form,  your history, your story.

You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The  only place where you can find yourself in the Now. Spiritual seekers look for sel f realization or enlightenment in
the future. To be a seeker implies that you need th e future. If this is what you
believe, it becomes true for you. You will need tim e until you realize that you don't
need time to be who you are.

***

When you look at a tree, you are aware of the tree.  When you have a thought or
feeling, you are aware of that thought or feeling. When you have a pleasurable or
painful experience, you are aware of that experienc e. These seem to be true and
obvious statements. Yet if you look at them very cl osely, you will find that in a
subtle way their very structure contains a fundamen tal illusion, an illusion which is
unavoidable when you use language. Thought and lang uage create an apparent
duality and a separate person where there is none.

The truth is you are not somebody who is aware of t he tree, the thought, feeling or
experience. You are the awareness or consciousness in and by which those things
appear. As you go about your life, can you be aware  of yourself as the awareness in
which the entire content of your life unfolds?

***

You say, “I want to know myself.” You are the I. Yo u are the knowing. You are the
consciousness through which everything is known and  that cannot know itself. It is
itself. There is nothing to know beyond that. And y et all knowing arises out of it.
The “I” cannot make itself into an object of knowle dge, of consciousness.

So you cannot become an object to yourself. That is  the very reason the illusion of
egoic identity arose because mentally you made your self into an object. “That's
me,” you say, and then you begin to have a relation ship with yourself and tell
others and yourself your story.

***

By knowing yourself as the awareness in which pheno menal existence happens,
you become free of dependency on phenomena and free  of self seeking in
situations, places, and conditions. In other words,  what happens or doesn't happen
is not that important anymore. Things lose their he aviness, their seriousness. A
playfulness comes into your life. You recognize thi s world as a cosmic dance, the
dance of form. No more and no less.
 ***

When you know who you truly are, there is an abidin g alive sense of peace.  You
could call it joy because that's what joy is, vibra ntly alive peace. It is the joy of
knowing yourself as the very life essence before li fe takes on form. That is the joy
of being, of being who you truly are.

***

Just as water can be solid, liquid, or gaseous, con sciousness can be seen to be
frozen as physical matter, liquid as mind and thoug ht, or formless as pure
consciousness. Pure consciousness is life before it  comes into manifestation and
that life looks at the world of form through your e yes because consciousness is who
you are. When you know yourself as that, then you r ecognize yourself in
everything. It is a state of complete clarity of pe rception. You are no longer an
entity with a heavy past that becomes a screen of c oncepts through which every
experience is interpreted. When you perceive withou t interpretation, you can then
sense what it is that is perceiving. The most we ca n say in language is that there is a
field of alert stillness in which the perception ha ppens. Through you, formless
consciousness has become aware of itself.

***

Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Des ire is the need to add something
to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All  fear is the fear of losing
something, and thereby become diminished and be les s. These two movements
obscure the fact that being cannot be given or take n away. Being in its fullness is
already within you, now.

Chapter 6
Acceptance and Surrender

Whenever you are able, have a “look” inside yoursel f to see whether you are
unconsciously creating conflict between the inner


 excelsior (Oleaceae)
Ash
Description Deciduous tree growing to 130 ft
(40 m). Has pale grey bark, black conical leaf buds,
and bright green leaves with 7–13 oval leaflets.
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214Gale Ga officinalisother medicinal plantsPart Used Bark.
Constituents Angostura bark contains bitter
principles, quinoline alkaloids including cusparine,
and 1–2% volatile oil. The alkaloids have antimicrobial activity against the tuberculosis bacillus.
History & Folklore Angostura is a traditional
tonic and fever remedy in South America, used chiefly for digestive infections. Native Amazonians also use the plant as a fish poison. Angostura has been used as a source of “bitters,” although it is unknown whether it is an ingredient of the cocktail flavoring bearing its name as the drink’s composition is a trade secret.
Medicinal Actions & Uses A strong bitter
with tonic properties, angostura stimulates  the stomach and digestive tract as a whole. It is antispasmodic and is reported to act on the spinal nerves, helping in paralytic conditions. Angostura is typically given for weak digestion, and is considered valuable as a remedy for diarrhea and dysentery.  In South America, it is sometimes used as a substitute for cinchona (Cinchona spp., p. 80)
to control fevers.
 QCaution Use under professional guidance only.Medicinal Actions & Uses A valuable
diuretic, cleavers is often taken for skin diseases such as seborrhea, eczema, and psoriasis; for swollen lymph glands; and as a general detoxifying agent in serious illnesses such as cancer. The plant is commonly prepared in the form of an infusion, but for conditions such as cancer, it is best taken as a juice, which is strongly diuretic. The juice and the infusion are also taken for kidney stones and other urinary problems.
Research According to French research (1947), an
extract of the plant appears to lower blood pressure.
Related Species The Mexican G. orizabense is
used by the Mazatecs to treat intestinal parasites  and to relieve fever. G. umbrosum from New Zealand has been used to treat gonorrhea. See also lady’s bedstraw (G. verum, following entry).
Galium verum (Rubiaceae)
Lady’s Bedstraw
Description Short, sprawling perennial growing
to 32 in (80 cm). Has whorls of narrow dark green leaves and tufts of very small bright yellow flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Found throughout
Europe and western Asia, and naturalized in North America, lady’s bedstraw thrives in dry meadows, along roadsides, and in wayside places. It is gathered when in flower in summer.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents Lady’s bedstraw contains iridoids
(including asperuloside), flavonoids, anthraquinones, alkanes, and rennin.
History & Folklore The name of this
pleasant-scented herb derives from its traditional use as a stuffing for mattresses. In medieval times, it was used as a “strewing” herb on floors. Lady’s bedstraw curdles milk and gives a yellow color to cheese produced from the curd. In his Irish Herbal (1735), K’Eogh states, “when applied to burns, the crushed flowers alleviate inflammation, and when applied to wounds, they can heal them.”Galega officinalis (Fabaceae)
Goat’s Rue
Description Bushy perennial growing to about
3 ft (1 m) in height. Goat’s rue has compound leaves with lance-shaped leaflets and delicate pink pea-type flowers on terminal spikes, and produces red-brown seed pods in autumn.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to Asia and
continental Europe, and naturalized in Britain, goat’s rue grows in damp and low-lying areas. It is harvested in summer.
Goat’s rue was once taken to treat the plague.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents Goat’s rue contains alkaloids
(including galegine), lectins, flavonoids, and tannins. Galegine strongly reduces blood-sugar levels.
History & Folklore Formerly used as a
treatment for the plague, goat’s rue has been widely cultivated as a cattle feed.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Today, goat’s rue
is chiefly used as an anti-diabetic herb, having the ability to reduce blood-sugar levels. It is not a substitute for conventional drugs, but can be valuable in the early stages of type 2 diabetes and is best used as an infusion. The herb has the effect of increasing breast-milk production. It is also a useful diuretic.
Caution Use as part of the treatment of
diabetes only under professional supervision.Galium aparine (Rubiaceae)
Cleavers,
Goose Grass
Description Straggling, square-stemmed
annual growing to a height of 4 ft (1.2 m) with whorls of lance-shaped leaves, clusters of small white flowers, and small, round, green fruit with hooked prickles.
Habitat & Cultivation Common throughout
Europe and North America, cleavers is found  in many other temperate regions, including in Australia. It grows prolifically in gardens and along roadsides, and is gathered when just about to flower in late spring.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents Cleavers contains iridoids
(including asperuloside), polyphenolic acids, anthraquinones (only in the root), alkanes, flavonoids, and tannins. Asperuloside is a  mild laxative.
History & Folklore The name cleavers
refers to the plant’s ability to cling (or cleave)  to fur or clothing. Dioscorides,  a Greek physician of  the 1st century ce,  considered it useful for countering weariness,  and described how shepherds used the  stems to make sieves  for straining milk.
Dried aerial partsGalipea officinalis
syn. G. cusparia (Rutaceae)
Angostura
Description Evergreen tree growing to
49 ft (15 m) with grey bark, shiny bright green
leaflets, and foul-smelling flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Angostura is native
to some Caribbean islands and to tropical South America. The bark is gathered throughout the year.
Lady’s bedstraw is used as a diuretic.
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cold” herb used mostly to relieve symptoms
associated with heat. These include fever, irritability,
restlessness, insomnia, cystitis, painful urination, and
jaundice. The fruit staunches bleeding and
is taken for nosebleeds, and urinary and rectal
bleeding. The essential oil is an antiseptic and has
a reputation for being an aphrodisiac.
Related Species The fruit of the northern
Indian G. campanulata  is cathartic and used to
expel worms. G. gummifera, from eastern India,
is antiseptic and digestive. The Pacific region
G. taitensis  relieves headaches. The African
G. thunbergia  is used to relieve constipation.
Cautions Avoid in diarrhea. Do not take if taking
prescribed medication for high blood pressure.nor applied (even well diluted) to the skin of
children under the age of 12 unless with
professional supervision.
Gardenia plays a
significant role in
Chinese herbalism. Wintergreen makes an
effective liniment for
sore muscles and joints.Medicinal Actions & Uses A slightly bitter-
tasting remedy, lady’s bedstraw is used mainly as a
diuretic and for skin problems. Like its close relative,
cleavers ( G. aparine, preceding entry ), the herb is
given for kidney stones, bladder stones, and other
urinary conditions, including cystitis. It is occasionally
used as a means to relieve chronic skin problems
such as psoriasis, but, in general, cleavers is preferred
as a treatment for this condition. Lady’s bedstraw
has had a longstanding reputation, especially in
France, of being a valuable remedy for epilepsy,
though it is rarely used for this purpose today.
Related Species G. elatum  has also been
considered a remedy for epilepsy in France.
(See also G. aparine, preceding entry.)
Gardenia jasminoides syn.
G. augusta, G. florida (Rubiaceae)
Gardenia,
Zhi Zi (Chinese)
Description Evergreen shrub growing to 61⁄2 ft
(2 m). Has green leaves, scented double flowers,
and orange-red fruit.Gelidium amansii (Rhodophyceae)
Agar
Description Seaweed with red-brown,
translucent, multi-branched ribbons and fronds
growing to about 3 ft (1 m) in length. It has spherical
fruit that appears in late autumn and winter.
Habitat & Cultivation Agar is native to the
Pacific coasts of China and Japan and the coast of
South Africa. It grows to a


 the late stages, recovery
is not always possible.
Bronchial asthma, which is defined as recurrent paroxysms of difficult breathing (dyspnea) and
coughing, is a catarrhal condition involving the mucous membrane of the lower respiratory
passages. The asthma is more or less spasmodic and is always accompanied by catarrhal
affections in other parts of the body. There is a catarrh of the nose and throat, commonly sinusitis,
often gastritis or colitis and metritis or cystitis. Indeed, the catarrh exists for some time before
asthmatic symptoms appear.
Asthma is found everywhere, in all classes of peple. It is found in both warm and cold
countries, in wet and dry climates, in high and low altitudes, among the rich and in the poor, the
high and the low, the short
and thin, the fat and the lean, the light and the dark. Men, women and
children develop the disease and it is seen at times in pampered animals. In those very climates to
which asthmatics are sometimes sent to seek a
cure
, people native to the community and the
climate often develop asthma.
Two people practice bad habits for years, one of them being about as indulgent as the other, and
one of them develops asthma, the other develops arthritis. Why does one pay for his bad habits in
one way and the other in another? We are in the habit of saying that this is due to diathesis or
predisposition, but these are words that explain little.
Why is one so disposed and the other differently disposed? Why does one man develop kidney
disease and another man develop gallstones? Why do two men equally exposed to the rigors of a
blizzard not both develop pneumonia? Why does one have pneumonia and the other only a cold?
Why does one man have bronchial catarrh for years and never develop asthmatic symptoms, and
another have the same catarrh and also the asthmatic symptoms? It is now customary to say that one
is allergic and the other is not, but this is another word that explains nothing.
The asthmatic is a neurotic; by this, I mean that he is predisposed to develop nervous diseases.
But what is the predisposition? The answer, I believe firmly, lies primarily in constitutional
weaknesses, growing, in many instances, out of heredity, in other cases out of larval deficiencies,
resulting from faulty nutrition in the parents and grandparents.
Other factors that may be involved in producing what is called predisposition are habit and
environmental stresses. Tobacco stresses the heart and lungs overeating stresses the liver and
kidneys; too much physical activity stresses the heart and joints; fear stresses the heart and nervous
system. These are but samples of stresses to organs and systems that are part of the conventional
ways of life. Such stresses weaken and impair organs and functions and lay the groundwork for
90local pathological evolutions.
Cold and heat and dryness and wetness and other environmental factors may place enough stress
upon the body to do harm. Sudden extremes of such factors may precipitate a crisis.
We trace asthma, as we do all other so-called diseases, to a blood and flesh condition which we
denominate toxemia. It is caused by a mode of living that expends nerve energy excessively, brings
on a state of nerve fatigue which we call enervation, so that the functions of life are carried on at a
low physiological level. Consequently, elimination of waste is checked so that it tends to
accumulate in the blood, lymph and tissues.
The presence of more than a physiological amount of waste in the body—at all times there is
waste being carried by the blood and lymph away from the cells for excretion—results in irritation
and inflammation. In those individuals in whom this development takes place, the foundation for
asthma is laid in the respiratory tract.
That this explanation of the cause of asthma is valid is shown by the fact
that elimination of
toxemia, restoration of normal nerve energy and correction of the mode of living results in a
permanent clearing up of symptoms and the individual no longer suffers with asthma. As no other
means of care results in a more rapid freeing of the body of its toxic load than physiological rest,
nothing brings relief from asthmatic paroxysms as certainly and as speedily as the fast.
But relief is not all the sufferer wishes. He wants to get well and this is precisely what he
accomplishes if the fast is conducted long enough and his mode of eating and living after the fast
are made to conform to his genuine physiological needs.
The length of the fast required to enable the asthmatic to breathe freely and easily will depend
on the severity of the condition. Usually within twenty-four to thirty-six hours the worst cases are
enabled to lie flat in their beds and to breathe easily and sleep. Breathing is not normal at this
stage, as the stethoscope quickly reveals. There will be rales in the lungs, as there will be mucus
in these structures. Indeed, the secretion of mucus will not cease for several days.
I favor carrying the fast to the clearing up of all abnormal sounds in the lungs, if this is possible.
In very thin and weak individuals this is not always to be recommended. In such instances, a fast as
long as it is safe must be followed by a period of light eating and then another fast is
recommended. In long-standing cases of this kind, several short fasts and periods of careful
feeding may be required before full recovery results.
Some fasting advocates advise not taking nourishment until at least thirty-six hours after all
asthmatic symptoms have cleared up. But these experts also urge a return to the fast if eating is
followed by asthmatic sensations. The recurrence of symptoms so soon after eating is resumed is
certain evidence that the fast has not been carried far enough to permit full systematic readjustment.
I do not favor playing with asthma in this manner. In the long run, where a more extended fast is
possible, it will prove more effective and the results will be far more satisfactory.
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Arthritis: Two Years or Twenty-eight?
“Two years!” exclaimed a patient, when told it would require a minimum of two years for him to
get well of his arthritis by fasting and other
Hygienic
 methods. “I have taken twenty-eight years
already. What are two more years?”
He had been a bacteriologist working in a laboratory and giving nothing more than the usual
attention to his health, when he developed the first signs of arthritis. He was in intimate daily
contact with physicians of the highest order and received the best care the profession had to offer
in this disease. But, as is generally known and is admitted by the profession, no cure for the
disease exists. Palliation—relieving symptoms without removing the cause of the disease—is all
that is provided, and this does not prevent the spread and intensification of the trouble.
With the passage of the years, joint after joint became involved until, when the foregoing remark
was made to a
Hygienist
 who had been consulted, the patient was a twisted and distorted man
walking with the aid of crutch and cane, in a much stooped position. He was unable to turn his
head from side to side, and in constant pain.
He was told that there was a possibility that some of his joints were ankylosed—fused—and
that, if so, these joints would remain ankylosed. There is no way to un-fuse ankylosed joints. They
remain fixed, immovable. The good news was, in this case, however, that he could be freed of
pain. He could be restored to usefulness and he could enjoy life.
This man underwent a lengthy fast—one of thirty-six days. There was great improvement. He
was freed of pain, witnessed the disappearance of swelling from some of his joints, its reduction
in others and the slow return of movement to joints that had long been stiff.
Two years were not enough. It took four years to complete all the improvement possible in this
man. During this time he had a second long fast and several fasts of a few days each. His eating
between fasts was carefully supervised; he was given daily sun baths and after a certain
amount of
initial improvement had been made, he was given daily exercise.
Result: his spine is almost straight, the use of his arms and legs is normal, he can turn his head,
he walks in a nearly upright position, he does not use cane or crutch, he has no pain, he looks the
“picture of health,” and he works like a slave.
He has remained in excellent health with no recurrence of pain or swelling for a period of seven
years, and feels so well that he has taken on a lot of political activities in addition to his regular
work, which is enough for one man.
His was an extreme case and required a lengthy period for recovery. Let us consider for contrast
a milder case, of shorter duration with less joint inflammation and stiffness: Mrs. G. was forty-four
years old. She was the wife of a Canadian school principal. Her arthritis was of but a few months
standing, but it was painful and crippled her movements. Mrs. G’s physician could promise her
nothing but temporary relief which was aspirin or cortisone for the rest of her life. He told her
there would be a probable spreading and increase of pain. She journeyed to the States and
underwent a fast. The fast lasted only three weeks, but it freed her of all pain and inflammation and
restored normal movement to her


 increased by the art ofarrangement. There is no way of judging whateach sort of relish is : It may be fish, fowl,vegetable, tuber, side-meat, or a combination ofnuts or fruits, as far as the intelligence of theuninitiated goes.
There were several members of the party offoreigners of different degrees of prejudice
against anything strange in appearance. To one,all of the comestibles were " utterly impossible,"and remained so to the end; while to otherscuriosity got the better of suspicion, and finallythe appetites looked forward to dinner-timewith especial cordiality, for the rice-mountainrelish-cordon and the complicated combinationwere digested with ease.
The standard dish, however, of the Javan
dinner is boiled potatoes and beefsteakswimming in a pint of good butter gravy, so thateven the conscientious dietist with vegetarianpreferences may revel in something that smacksof home and mother, with such an abundance ofluscious fruits that nothing but gustatorydelight happens as a usual thing. Still, it is thesame in Java or Japan, in London, Paris,Berlin, Vienna, Rome or New York, thedigestion of food is under the control of the headand therefore may be called head digestion.
PROFESSOR  FISHER 'S EXPERIMENT.
The most important large experiment for the
testing of head digestion under conditions ofHORACE  FLETCHEK  IN HIS MASTER  OF ARTS ROBES.
THE AUTHOR  ON HIS SIXTIETH  BIRTHDAY, PERFORMING  FEATS OF
AGILITY
AND STRENGTH  WHICH  WOULID  BE REMARKABLE, EVEN IN A YOUNG
ATLETE.
strict scientific control was that inaugurated
and conducted by Professor Irving Fisher, ofYale University, in America.
Professor Fisher occupies the Chair of
Political Economy at Yale, has made extensiveresearches into the factors that influence theeconomies or extravagances of living, and isPresident of the Committee of One Hundred ofthe American Association for the Advancementof Science on Health.
Professor Fisher's interest in my revelations
and tests relative to the potency of headdigestion came primarily from a personal testwhich worked wonders for him in establishing afoundation for good health. He was notesatisfied with the later Chittenden experiments,because they substituted academic prescriptionfor natural selection in formulating the rules ofthe inquiry. Like myself, in conducting theoriginal researches, Professor Fisher realizedthat the practical value of my discoveries wasthat no one needed a biological chemist to orderhis meals for him or tell his appetite what hisbody needed in the way of food elements.
The Fisher experiment worked with nine
healthy undergraduates who were ambitious totake high scholastic honours, and who had little
time for athletics or any form of physicalexercise, they being types of the averageUniversity undergraduate.
A generous table was supplied them with
meat and every variety of food that usuallycomposed college fare. The only instructionswere that thorough mastication and especialattention to the enjoyment of the food asrecommended by me in my books should befaithfully performed. This course was pursuedfor half a year, and for the rest of the year, inaddition to the careful head treatment andenjoyment, preference was to be given to foodsknown to be low in nitrogen content; but not tothe extent of suppressing any distinct call ofappetite for them.
In the first half of the experiment the men
held their own on about 40 per cent. less food,computed by cost, and increased their strength-endurance ability by something more than 100per cent., with the added felicity of feelingunusually fit all of the time, entirely escapingthe slack or sick spells they had beenaccustomed to, and improving greatly in theirgeneral studentability, that is: power of
concentration, memory, mental comfort,profundity of sleep, etc.
During the second half of the experiment still
more improvement was secured owing to thereadiness of the body to accommodate itself tothe wish by favouring the economies.
I have not a copy of the report at hand. It is
included in the publications of Yale Universityabout 1905.
While all of the abundance of confirmatory
evidence which has accumulated since 1898 isvaluable and gratifying, the verdict of theunremitting observation since then is that theproblem of nutrition is always a personal one.After fifteen years of devotion to the study ofthe head-end question, with due attention to thetell-tale excreta and the product expressed interms of energy and general comfort, I amunable to predict what my body is going to wantto-morrow in the way of nutrition supply. I cansay with some confidence that if I go on doing asI have been accustomed to doing daily, and noshock of grief or surprise intervenes to upset allcalculations, I am likely to find nutritivesatisfaction as expressed by appetite among the
foods that are commonly agreeable to me.
If I am compelled or impelled to do a great
stunt of walking or other unusual exertion, orreceive crushing news, all my presentpredictions may be useless. The body itself,from the hair on the head to each finger or toe-nail will know what it wants and will havegiven to the caterer Appetite its requisitioncovering the need. In the meantime each braincell and all of the bones have not beenneglectful of their sustenance requirements, norhave they been backward in letting Appetiteknow.
It is fortunate that the common needs of
digestion may be supplied from a limited rangeof food varieties. Milk is all-sufficient always forgeneral supply of the nutritive requisites. In theplebeian potato, which has attained to royalrank as the result of the extensive experimentsof Dr. Hindhede,* of Denmark, in co-operationwith Madsen the Faithful, has been found full
* Dr. Hindhede, Protein and Nutrition: an Investigation.
London, 1913, Ewart, Seymour & Co., Ltd., Burleigh Street,
W.C.nourishment for ten months, at least, when
supplemented by butter or margarine to furnishthe fuel supply. Even in this surprisingrevelation no academic prescription wasinfallible. Potatoes differ in nutritive value asmuch as 50 per cent. Fresh-cooked and well-cooked ones alone fill the bill of sufficiency, andfull head-work in assuring easy digestion wasmade the first rule of the test. For four months Iserved as a check test-subject and speak fromexperience.
Nothing is ever accomplished except by a
division of labour and on the just division ofresponsibility depends the success of effort.
Nature has given to us the head-end of
responsibility.CHAPTER IX
QUESTION PRESCRIPTION AND
PROSCRIPTION
The Protein Enthusiast—Doubting Thomases
THE only completely accurate prescriber of
nutrition for living creatures is Mother Natureherself, and if she does not prescribe anything
by the undoubted approval of appetite sheproscribes it.
One of the rules which have governed my
quest for optimum human nutrition in themidst of the twentieth century food supply andother conditions, has always been to go toNature for final advice in the matter.
When I say " Question Prescription and
Proscription " I mean that the most positiveprescribers of food have something in the foodline or advice to sell, and they proscribe aspositively anything that competes with theircommercial product.
My eyes were opened to this possible snareand delusion by a great doctor of medicine,*
who is also one of the most ardent economists Ihave ever met—not a miser in any sense, but areligiously philosophical economist. He isalmost as righteously indignant against anywho use the trust which is placed in them byclients or patients for the selling of high-pricedfoods as he is at the makers, advertisers,retailers and prescribers of alcohol as abeverage. In his just opinion it is as wicked, oralmost as wicked, to advise unprofitableextravagance of any sort as it is to prescribepoison.
To this discriminating philosopher food is the
basis of health-wealth, and sacred to its divineusefulness.
The great harm that was done to the world by
the academic prescription of excessive proteinrations
 † was that it started a vicious circle of
extravagances which led as surely to untimelydeath as murder. The perpetrators of thispernicious prescription were innocent ofintention to do harm ; in fact, they were full of
* Dr. M. Hindhede: Copenhagen, Denmark.
† Voit, Atwater, etc.the most generous of motives in issuing their
poisonous advice, and one of the mostprominent, at least, paid the penalty by dyingmiserably of his own fatal ignorance.
I may also say that it is " presumption,"
advisably, for almost all prescriptions of foodwhich do not have their basis on the naturalbody calls are presumptuous. Nature knows! Ifgiven a chance to show her knowledge Natureprescribes rightly and delivers her message inthe form of appetite and the other instincts. Shewill do this in the midst of the most complicatedof artificial food mixtures, as I have reason to
know from personal experience, confirmed by
many others over and over again.
Therefore, I may say more surely than ever,
that whatever
NATURE  PROVIDES  and PERMITS  as
NOURISHMENT  I HAVE  NO RIGHT  TO PRO SCRIBE.
THE ONLY PRE SCRIPTION
that Honesty approves is the Optimum
Economic Nutrition; and my