ippin g away that
which obscures it.
One of the main spiritual tools is intention, w hich sets up priorities and
hierarchies of values that ene r gize one’ s ef forts. Spiritual work is a
commitment and also an exploration. The way has been opened by those
who hav e gone before and set th e possibility in consciousness for others to
follow. Biologist Rupert Sheldrake has demonstrated the influence of
morphogenetic fields (M-fields); that is, when someone adv ances in a
particular area, this success increases the likelihood that the rest of the
species can do the same. Just a s Roger Bannister broke through the “M-
field” of the four -minute mile, so have beings of advanced consciousness
left markers for others to follow.
Every advance we make in our a wareness benefits unseen multi tudes and
strengthens the next step for others to follow. Every act of kindness is
noticed by the universe and is preserved forever. When seen for what it is,
gratitude replaces spiritual ambition. In traditional Buddhism, one seeks
Enlightenment for the good of all humankind; all gifts return to their source.
In due time, one ’ s spiritual intention and focus come to replace worldly
ambitions and desires. It is as t hough one is progressively drawn into the
Self, as if there were a spiritu al gravity acting by attraction. A style of
knowingness rep laces reason and logic, and intuitive awareness focuses on
the essence of l ife and its activ ities rather than on goals or the details of
form. P erception begins to change, and the beauty of creation literally
shines forth from all persons and objects. A simple scene may u nexpectedly
suddenly become overwhelmingly beautiful, as though revealing itself in
three-dimensional T echnicolor.
Q&A
Q: Y ou advise, “Live your life like a prayer.” That seems differ ent fr om
focusing on certain spiritual activities—is it?
A:  By  intention, your entire lif e becomes devotional. Y ou yourself
become the prayer. By virtue of that, Divinity is invoked, and then through
the heart, through that devotion, through the alignment with D ivinity, allhumankind is empowered. The re is no value in keeping a scorecard on
yourself: How far have I come? How far do other people think I have
come?  T he only person you have to answer to is yourself. When yo u do
everything you can to fulfill your potential, knowing you are answerable for
who you are and what you have done with that, even your m istakes are
sanctified. It is assuring to know that the motivation to seek God is God. It’ s
by the Grace of God that you are even interested in spiritual tru th. Nobody
seeks God except under the influence of Divinity, because left to their own
devices, people would never think of it.
Q: What is spiritual “pr ogr ess”?
A:  The approach to spiritual progress is not one of “getting somewhere,”
as there  is no “where” to get. Instead, authentic spiritual teachings guide
you to transcend the ego and she d all illusions so that T ruth stands revealed.
The work is to  surmount and transcend the common human failings
inherent in the s tructure of the human ego. Whatever defects you have are
not personal; they are not just yours but in fact are the problem of the
human e go itself. The ego itself is not personal. Y ou would li ke to think,
Oh, me and my pr ogr ess, or Me and my sins, or Me and my difficulties, but
what yo u are talking about is no t your personal self. The problem  is the ego
itself, which you inherited by becoming a human being. Th e ego is a
product of the brain and the f unction of the brain; details of how this
expresses itself dif fer based on past karma.
Q: Y ou say the ego isn’t “bad”—that it’ s best to tr eat it as a little “pet,”
which brings humor into the pr ocess. Could you elaborate?
A:  Humor  is one of the most valuable spiritual tools, about which,
historically, little has been said. Laughing at the melodrama of the ego puts
us way ahead of  its game. Come dy arises as a result of the comparison that
is made between perception and essence. For example, the comedian says,
“What’ s a New-Ager?” Pause. “Somebody who goes to the sto re and buys
all th e V enus fly traps, then wants them to become vegetarians!”  W e get the
absurdity of trying to convince  a carnivorous V enus flytrap t o become a
vegetarian: “Y ou like cucumbers, don’ t you, sweetheart? Here— try a pieceof toma to!” The  joke helps us laugh at the ego’ s naïveté and immaturity,
wanting others to conform to its spiritualized ideals and morality.
Humor i s quite dif ferent from ridicule or malice, as it is compas sionate in
accepting human limitations a nd foibles as being intrinsic. It therefore
assists i n “wear ing the world li ke a light garment” and illustr ates that, in
being like the reed that bends in the wind, you survive by being
lighthearted, instead of being broken down by rigidity. The capacity to
laugh at yourself is essential  to positive self-esteem. T o respond to
everything as though it were hig hly important is a result of the v anity of the
narcissistic core of the ego (for example, being “sensitive” or “of fended”).
“Don’ t take yourself so seriously” is wise guidance.
Humor is an e xpression of freedom and joyfulness, and laughter is
biologically healing. While guiltiness and “sackcloth and ashes” penance
were em phasized in past centuries, it can be seen that on the Map of
Consciousness, they calibrate qu ite low. God is found at the top of the Map,
not at the bottom. Faith, Love, and Joy are the high road; doom and gloom
merely l ead to sadness and despondency. Self-hatred blinds awareness of
the Self as a reflection of Divine Creation.
Q: What about diets, rituals, exer cises, br eathing techniques, mantras,
and symbols?
A:  Non e o f these is necessary. It’ s useful to recognize that religion s have
their own agendas and limitations. The spiritual pathway to Enlightenment
is unique. It is not the same as “practicing a religion.” Religions tend to
emphasize historical events, their geographical locations, and past cultures
with political alliances. Enlighte nment happens in the present moment and
is outsi de time, history, or geography, which are therefore irrelevant.
Theology is concerned with the consciousness level of the 400s;
Enlightenment is concerned with the levels of 600 and over.
Q: What of music, incense, and ar chitectural beauty?
A:  T hese are insp irational and supportive of a spiritual and reverential
mood an d attitu de and help to remove the focus of attention from thoughtcontent. Beauty is uplifting and calibrates in the high 500s, which is akin to
perfection.
Q: What is the risk of spiritual knowledge?
A:  The downside of spiritual education is the buildup of the vanit y of “I
know” a nd the devaluation of people who are “not spiritual.” The ego takes
personal credit for spiritual co mprehension instead of realizing that the
capacity for understanding itself is a spiritual gift from God. Gratitude is the
antidote for pride. If one acqui res information and feels grateful about it,
then spiritual pride doesn’ t gain a strong foothold.
Spiritual pride can work in two  directions, either by augmenting vanity
or, paradoxically, by your taking  the position that you’re worse than others.
The position of I a m just a worth less worm  is just a vanity in rags instead of
robes.
Q: Is ther e a momentum to spiritual work?
A:  Once you cross the critical line of Courage (200), the rest becomes
accessible. The more you advance, the more you are likely  to further
advance; and the more you ad vance from wanting to advance, the more
advanced you get to be! Once you even begin to become interested in
spiritual matters, you’re already on your way and there’ s no ne ed to worry.
Nobody would be interested in a book like this unless you were destined for
its truth,  any more than you’d be at diving lessons unless you we re planning
to go deep-sea  diving. The B uddha said that once you’ve heard of
Enlightenment, you’ll never be satisfied with anything less. T o merely have
heard of it already imprints your consciousness.
THE MOST V ALUABLE QUALITIES AND A TTITUDES
FOR THE SPIRITUAL SEEKER
People often ask, “What are the qualities and attitudes needed to  advance
in consciousness?”Start wi th certainty and a feel ing of security instead of self-doubt or
timidity. Accept without reservation that you are worthy of the  quest, and
be resolved to


uples in opening bodies and submitting the animals
to the most cruel sufferings.”1
But, atrocious as is their torment, victims of the knife were and are
few in number compared with the millions of animals that suffer in
pathological laboratories, sometimes undergoing tests as fantastic andmisleading as they are cruel, since they can never furnish real evidence
of disease under natural conditions.
As examples might be mentioned birds and rats kept in cramped
cages, slowly devoured by fleas, so that some ‘scientist’ can deduce
whether the fleas convey sleeping sickness, without regard to the
fact that the inevitable bad health of creatures thus tormentedcannot with certainty guarantee anything other than the
callousness of their tormentors.
Or, again, the test of milk by its injection into guinea pigs, which,
kept in covered tins, would by the mere fact of such unhealthy captivity
be made liable to tuberculosis. Yet for this the ratepayer dips into his
pocket, while for all he can tell, the milk he consumes may have comefrom a consumptive cow wading through a filthy farmyard and milked
by a diseased individual into a dirty utensil.
Hygienists in some part avert such conditions, leaving Pasteurians to
torment their guinea pigs. The amount of harm that has ensued from the
diversion of attention from real to false factors in the causation of ill health
is probably incalculable. An example in this connection, with regard toplague in India, is the amount of time and money wasted over fleas and
rats that might be expended upon the insanitary huts standing on filth-
trodden soil, which Dr. Charles Creighton, in a treatise on the subject,
2
has clearly shown to be breeding grounds of the pestilence.
To return to the subject of milk, admirers of Pasteur may point in
pride to the preservative method named after him; but even here thepraise is so faint as to be damning.
If we turn to the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts  for September
19, 1919, we find an article entitled Problems of Food and our Economic
Policy, by Professor Henry E. Armstrong. Here we are told that:
“the great reformer of recent times has been the chemist
Pasteur – the extent to which he has influenced our doingsis astounding.”
1. Les Annales, Paris, April, 1908.
2. Plague in India, Charles Creighton, M.D.Professor Armstrong then shows how, thanks to Pasteur,
“wines were sterilised and the Grand Vin, the result of a
fortuitous concourse of organisms, became a great rarity;the quality of wines was reduced to a low general average,though of course much was saved from the sewer. Beersuffered a like fate, though on the whole the changes weremuch to the public advantage.
But the real harm was done  when milk was tampered with…
Dilution became a general practice; the public suffered fromoccasional dishonest tradesmen, and was in some instancesdeprived of the advantages up till then derived from dealingwith the majority of purveyors who were honest. The blowwas made all the heavier by the introduction of newengineering techniques for the separation of the cream. ThenPasteur’s teaching became operative once more; aided thistime by Koch – milk was not only diluted, but also sterilised.Some lives may have been saved, but the step has undoubtedly
been productive of untold misery.
Not a few of us have long held, on general grounds, that
a material produced as milk is cannot be heated above blood-heat without diminishing its dietary value. Recentobservations show indeed that the anti-scorbutic advitant,which is none too abundant a constituent, is affected,although apparently the fat-soluble anti-rachitic and water-soluble anti-neuritic factors are not destroyed; but difficultieshave been encountered in localities where the milk supplyhas been systematically sterilised, and it may well be that itsuffers in quality in ways not yet elucidated.
The inquiries thus far held into the effect of sterilising
are in no way satisfactory and are open to criticism on accountof their incompleteness and unscientific character. The risksfrom typhoid and other similar infections are now slight, andthe main object of sterilising milk is to secure the destructionof the organism which is held to be responsible for tuberculardisease. But it may well be that in destroying some one orother mysterious constituent of the advitant class, the foodvalue is so lowered that effects are produced which renderthe system specially sensitive to tubercular infection; suchinfection seems always to be with us, apart from milk.Moreover, when milk is sterilised, the lactic organism isdestroyed and it becomes a particularly favourable nidus forthe growth of putrefactive organisms: it is therefore a potentcause of infantile diarrhoea.”
A Few Examples of the Cult in Theory and Practice   311312   Béchamp or Pasteur?Thus the verdict of time and unbiased criticism continue to
pronounce judgment on the works of Pasteur. But if the mere
consumption of impoverished food can be believed to be so injuriousto the consumer, what must be the effect of the deluge of sera and
vaccines introduced directly into the bloodstream?
In spite of the modern medical mania for inoculations, a
remarkable ignorance on the subject prevails among those most ready
to submit to inoculation. Many cannot even distinguish between a
serum and a vaccine.
Serum, the colourless part of the blood, is usually, for use in
inoculation, taken from the blood of a horse into which diseased matters
have previously been injected. The strength of this serum is generallytested upon guinea-pigs, that is to say, by their recovery or death from
the sickness created by its injection into their bodies. Animal suffering
comes into play in this connection from start to finish, while, as regardsthe human race, considering the danger of the introduction of the
serum of one species into that of another, it is, perhaps, fortunate that
serum therapy, although originally acclaimed as the panacea for allills, has yielded in popularity to vaccine therapy.
The latter, needless to say, has no connection with cows. Under
Pasteur’s tutelage, precision in nomenclature was as much lost asprecision in theories. The name ‘vaccine’ is now applied to micro-
organisms and their surrounding medium abstracted from a sick body,
the organisms being left to multiply in a suitable nutritive substance,known as a ‘culture’, afterwards being usually killed by heat and
prepared in various ways, according to the prevalent fashion. The
nostrum is finally sold as a cure, or, more often, a preventive againstthe disease with which the micro-organisms were originally associated.
In this case animals are spared a part in the preparation, though, owing
to their use as test subjects, suffering is for them by no means prevented.
We are here reminded of the homeopathic law of cure; that ‘ like
cures like’, though what a contrast is presented to Hahnemann’s
scientific precision in allowing for individual idiosyncrasies. Whereashe applied his drugs by way of Nature’s laboratory – the stomach –
the Pasteurian system, on the contrary, introduces substances directly
into the blood, regardless of Nature’s precaution, i.e. the efficientcoverings with which she has protected this lifestream against all
external intrusions.
It has indeed become the fashion for humanity to consider itself
wiser than – choose which name you will – Nature or Providence.We are well aware of the array of statistics with which Pasteurians
confront the critics of the system of inoculation. In reply we would say
that statistics are worthless in proving results without full investigationand thorough allowance for the specific conditions from which they
are derived.
For instance, it is easy to parade a fall in the diphtheria fatality rate
since the introduction of anti-toxin. Yet that fall does not confirm the
merits of the serum if it is seen merely to be the result of a case rate
inflated by a bacteriological – as opposed to a clinical – diagnosis andthe inclusion as diphtheria of cases which in the past would have been
considered to be merely sore throat, tonsillitis, laryngitis, etc.
This altered diagnosis in itself prevents proper comparison between
past and present case rates. But if, with an inflated case rate, there is
an increase, instead of a decrease, in the death rate, such an increase is
surely highly significant. For instance, we find that, for the fifteen yearssubsequent to the introduction of anti-toxin, the number of deaths in
England and Wales from diphtheria became 20% greater than they
had been for the fifteen years prior to the serum treatment.
1
Though the Metropolitan Asylums Board’s report of cases may seem
to show at first sight – by a decreased death rate – that advantage
accrues from the use of the anti-toxin, their detailed particulars showthe opposite to be the case. Whereas for the years 1895 to 1907 there
were 63,249 cases of diphtheria treated with anti-toxin (of which 8,917
died, giving a fatality rate of 14.09%), there were for the same years11,716 cases not treated with anti-toxin, of which only 703 died, giving
a fatality-rate of 6%. Footnotes to the tables show that of the latter
cases, 55 were moribund when admitted and


 the animal world?............................ 27
- Uniqueness of the body camel.................................................. 30
- Natural and artificial hypobiosis man..................... 34
- Can yoga fall into suspended animation?.................................................... 43
- On the phenomenon of somatic.......................................................................... 56
Historical information about dry limotherapy......................... 60
- Secrets of the Japanese monks................................................................. 66
- Fasting and spiritual practices of the New Age................................ 69
- Interesting facts about dry fasting........................................ 82
- A woman who does not eat.................................................................. 86
- Solntseedy........................................................................................ 90
Dry (absolute) limotherapy............................................ 95
- Hidden body reserves............................................................ 95
- Unexplained properties of water........................................................ 100
The main therapeutic mechanisms of dry fasting............................ 106
- Anti-inflammatory and immunostimulating mechanism... 106
- Mechanism of acidification of the internal environment (acidosis ).... 112
- Autolysis............................................................................................. 116
- Rejuvenating mechanism............................................................ 121
- Extension of youth and the quality of life....................................... 125
- Preventive Mechanism........................................................ 133
Types of dry fasting and their differences................................ 138
- Full Dry Fasting (technique Shchennikova. LA )................ 139
- Dry Cascade Fasting (technique Lavorovna. VP ).............. 141
- Dry Fractional Fasting (technique Filonov. SI )....... 141
- Semi-dry starvation....................................................................... 144
- Combined starvation......................................................... 145
- Indications and contraindications
for the dry fasting................................... 149
Myths about dry limotherapy................................................. 150
Dry limotherapy in various diseases................ 165
- Dry fasting during acute illness..................................... 167
- Dry fasting in chronic diseases.......................... 177
For short-term dry fasting
at home.......................................................................... 254
- Food preparation for fasting........................................... 254
- Colon Cleansing.................................................................... 267
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333- Liver cleansing............................................................................ 277
- Accelerated cleansing of the body.................................................. 281
- Method of wet fasting
varying duration.......................................................................... 282
- Physiologically useful fasting (FPG) by Arakelyan........ 293
- What are accompanied by starvation?...................................................297
- Dry Fractional starvation..................................................... 304
- How to carry out SFG...................................................... 307
- Recommendations for SG.................................................. 308
- Output of dry fasting. Recommendations................................... 315
- Complications of withdrawal from starvation.......................................... 320
- Blogs and testimonials of patients....................................................... 322
- Conclusion...................................................................................... 331
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M., 1979.
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Book 1, Part 2, p. 177, Moscow, 1999
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337<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|><|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>AN INTEGRA TED SPIRITUAL  PATH
by W alter Last
Presently travellers on the spiritual path have two important advantages as compared to those in former centuries. We now have
published information on the nature and variety of spiritual pathways so that we no longer need to ﬁnd our way alone in the darkness
of ignorance.
Furthermore, with the information explosion in recent decades and the learning of technical skills, our capacity to understand and
communicate has greatly increased. What formerly could only be expressed as incomprehensible mysticism, can now be understood
and presented in rational and scientiﬁc terms. This makes it much easier for us to come to the stage of illumination instead of being
bogged down for long time spans in emotional misery, which formerly was the lot of most mystics.
In the following, I want to give some helpful information on the various stages of a modern spiritual path and on the different
components and tools that you may incorporate into your individualised approach. There is now so much information available on
ascension, the path of yoga, working with energies, healing the emotions and the mind and so forth that your problem is not to ﬁnd
information, but to develop the ability  to discern and know what is right for you. You can do this by keeping your highest goal in mind
and asking your inner or higher guidance for help.
Beware of getting sidetracked by psychic abilities or happenings. Developing psychic abilities can be fascinating, but is no more
spiritual than material, emotional or mental activities. However, psychic activities can be more deceptive than other activities. Most
psychic happenings take place on the astral level or open us to astral inﬂuences. Spirit entities operating on this level commonly are
less spiritually developed than someone on the spiritual path and often give misleading or mischievous information. They also love to
imitate or pretend being a high spiritual entity or even God.
Churches, sects and cults commonly have astral counterparts that feed on the devotion of their followers and try to lure potential
recruits just as much as commercial  advertisers. But these astral entities  are more dangerous because they are usually hidden from
our awareness and their intentions and methods may not be clean. Already St. John  of the Cross, a highly respected mystic of the
sixteenth century, advised his followers to be wary of visions and voices as these commonly come from a lower level and tend to lead
the spiritual seeker astray. They will disappear when moving the conscio usness higher into more spiritual regions. The only thing that
protects us from being used or misled by lower spirits but at the same time remaining open to contact with truly high spirit beings is
the purity of our consciousness.
AWAKENINGS
Do not worry wondering whether you had already a spiritual awakening and are now on the spiritual path or not. Just start or continue
searching for spiritual information, reading interesting books and visiting spiritual web sites. You will be doing the right thing. By
always keeping your goal in mind, you will quite naturally be attracted to what is important and right for you.
While in the beginning it is helpful and necessary to read quite a bit from different sources to get a good overview, later it is better to
read as little


 instantaneous therapeutic benefits under any
circumstances.
For years, people have said to me, "Well, I have heard of people surviving by
ingesting their own urine, but I thought it was just a myth." Myth it isn't.
Medical fact it is. As Dr. John R. Herman remarked in his article which
appeared in the New York State Journal of Medicine in June, 1980:
"Auto-uropathy (urine therapy) did.flourish in many parts of the world and
continues to flourish today.... there is unknown to most of us, a wide usage of
uropathy and a great volume of knowledge available showing the multitudinous
advantages of this modality. Actually, the listed constituents of human urine
can be carefully checked and no items not found in human diet are found in it.
Percentages differ, but urinary constituents are valuable to
human metabolism."
Your Body's Own Super-Nutrition Therapy
In 1975, one of the founders of Miles Laboratories, Dr. A.H. Free, published
his book Urinalysis in Clinical Laboratory Practice, in which he remarked
that not only is urine a sterile body compound (purer than distilled water),
but that "it is now recognized that urine contains thousands of compounds,
and as new, more sensitive analytical tools evolve, it is quite certain that new
constituents of urine will be recognized."
44 Among the urine constituents mentioned in Dr. Free's revealing treatise is a
list of nutrients that will knock your socks off. As Dr. Free comments, the
ingredients listed below are only a few critical nutrients found in urine:
Alanine, total..... 38 mg/day
Arginine, total..... 32 mg/day
Ascorbic acid..... 30 mg/day
Allantoin..... 12 mglday
Amino acids, total..... 2.1 g/day
Bicarbonate..... 140 mg/day
Biotin..... 35 mglday
Calcium..... 23 mg/day
Creatinine..... 1.4 mg/day
Cystine..... 120 mg/day
Dopamine..... 0.40 mglday
Epinephrine..... 0.01 mglday
Folic acid..... 4 mg/day
Glucose..... 100 mg/day
Glutamic acid..... 308 mglday
Glycine..... 455 mg/day
Inositol..... 14 mg/day
Iodine..... 0.25 mg/day
Iron..... 0.5 mg/day
Lysine, total..... 56 mg/day
Magnesium..... 100 mg/day
Manganese..... 0.5 mglday
Methionine, total..... 10 mglday
Nitrogen, total..... 15 g/day
Ornithine..... 10 mg/day
Pantothenic acid..... 3 mg/day
Phenylalanine..... 21 mg/day
Phosphorus, organic..... 9 mg/day
45 Potassium..•.. 2.5 mg/day
Proteins, total..... 5 mg/day
Riboflavin..... 0.9 mg/day
Tryptophan, total..... 28 mg/day
Tyrosine, total..•.. 50 mg/day
Urea..... 24.5 mg/day
Vitamin B6..... 100 mg/day
Vitamin B12..•.• 0.03 mg/qay
Zinc..... 1.4 mg/day
As you read over this extraordinary list of nutritional elements, you can
begin to understand why the stories you may have heard of people surviving
on their own urine are true.
But what about other elements in urine that you've heard about?
Clearing Up the Misconceptions
If you asked a person on the street what uric acid is, he or she would
invariably answer that it's a toxic body waste. No so, say medical researchers
at the University of California at Berkeley who in 1982 reported they had
discovered that "uric acid destroys body-damaging, cancer-causing free
radicals and is considered to be one of the physiological factors that enable
human beings to live so much longer than other mammals."
But what about urea? Urea is in urine and isn't that the toxic stuff that
causes uremic poisoning? Actually, medical researchers discovered many
decades ago that urea, far from being a toxic body waste, is an incredibly
versatile, far-reaching and effective medicinal agent.
In numerous medical studies, it was shown that urea is one of the most potent
non-toxic virucidal agents ever discovered. In one particular study, the rabies
and polio virus [sic] were killed so quickly and efficiently by concentrated
urea, that even the laconic researchers themselves were surprised:
"Urea is such a relatively inactive substance and certainly not a protoplasmic
poison such as are most virucidal agents, that it is in a way surprising that
rabies and poliomyelitis are killed so easily by urea solutions" (McKay &
Schroeder, Society of Experimental Biology, 1936).
In reality, Urea is an FDA-approved medicinal agent that doctors and
researchers utilize in an amazing variety of therapeutic modalities. Because
of its remarkable and comprehensive anti-neoplastic (anti-tumor) properties,
it's presently being used in anti-cancer drugs and is extensively studied for
use in cancer treatments.
46 The urea compound drug, glicazide, is used successfully by the medical
establishment in treating both insulin-dependent and non-insulin-dependent
diabetics.
As a natural diuretic, urea is unparalleled, and is a proven and accepted
treatment in cases of edema or swelling such as excess cerebral and spinal
pressure, glaucoma, epilepsy, meningitis, even premenstrual edema and
many other disorders in which excess fluid is a problem.
As one American neurosurgeon reported regarding a patient who nearly died
form complications following brain surgery:
"Urea was administered intravenously as an emergency measure. Within 20
minutes from the start of injection, her blood pressure had returned to
normal.... from this time on her recovery was uneventful. In this case, urea
was definitely life-saving, because prior to its administration, the patient's
survival was unlikely. In many similar instances urea was found to be life-
saving" (Dr. M. Javid, University of Wisconsin).
The Physiological Answer to a Therapeutic Mystery
The medical findings on urine and urine constituents are overwhelming, and
yet it's difficult for most people to understand why our bodies excrete
elements that are so obviously valuable to human health and well-being.
The commonly-asked question,
"If your urine is so good for you, why does your body excrete it?" is best
answered by looking into how our kidneys function. As your blood moves
through the circulatory system, it flows through the kidneys at a rate of
about 1200 ml of blood per minute. Inside the kidneys, the blood is
continuously filtered through a huge system of minute tubules called
nephron which sift out excess water, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, salts, and
hundreds of other elements including vital antibodies, urea and uric acid.
A large portion of these key physiological elements are reabsorbed into the
bloodstream, but a certain amount of critical blood constituents are pooled
by the kidney into a liquid which doctors refer to as a "plasma ultrafiltrate"
(we call it urine). Much of this sterile, nutrient filled ultrafiltrate, or urine, is
reabsorbed and some remains in the kidney for a period of time and is
eventually released into a tube called the urethra which empties the urine
into the bladder where it is finally excreted. Now you're probably wondering
why the body excretes valuable nutrients, water, hormones, enzymes, etc.
that are critical to body functioning. Doesn't it make more sense to retain
these elements? If urine is a collection of such life-sustaining elements,
why does the body get rid of it?
The answer is that the kidneys excrete a portion of urine as a way of
removing certain key elements in your blood that are simply not needed at a
specific point in time. For instance, you've just been out jogging.
You come home and have one or two big glasses ofwater to drink.
47 Now at this point you've probably taken in more water than your body
actually needs. But not to worry --your kidneys will balance the amount of
water delivered into your bloodstream by your copious water drinking and
through the urine will excrete whatever amount of water from the blood that
isn't needed at the time.
Now water is certainly a life-sustaining element the body cannot do without.
So why is it excreted from the body? The answer is obvious.
There's too much water in your system and it needs to be excreted.
It's a physiological fact that in order for us to function normally, the amounts
or concentrations of every element in our blood must be carefully and strictly
controlled and this is done by the kidneys. Too much water in the blood is
fatal. Too much salt in the blood is deadly. As wonderful a nutrient as
vitamin C is, too high a concentration of it or any nutrient could kill you.
This is why the kidneys excrete valuable elements from the body -
too much of any good thing


 goal of Taoists is to cultivate the life energy to the highest
level possible, bringing good health and deep fulfillment of the
human aspiration for wholeness. The early sages observed the nat-
ural process of the raw chi of the universal elements—sun and
earth, food and air—being transformed into ching, or sex energy,
and in the male stored as sperm. The next step is far more subtle
and difficult to observe. The sperm energy is mixed with the chi of
the human vital organs and refined into shien, or spirit. In short,
sex energy offers a link between our biological and metaphysical
identities, between the animal and the divine. Sexual ability gives
man the divine power to re-create himself, but it also binds him to
his animal body and that of his lover.*
The Taoists believe that you can use any substance or force
that exists in the universe to feed the process of cultivating your
spirit, and thereby free yourself of the limitations of your animal
body. Everything has energy in it, and human consciousness can
absorb that energy if it so desires. But some substances are easier
for the human body to change into a useable form than others. For
example, you can absorb the energy from eating a good hot meal
more easily then you can from sitting on the beach under the sun.
The solar energy is too raw and too powerful to be easily "di-
gested" by the body. Sunlight will burn you severely if you try to
absorb too much. But your body can easily assimilate a plate of
food and function for a long time on the calories and nutrients
digested.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUNGER AND SEXUAL DESIRE
What is the difference between food and sex as energies that our
bodies crave to be fed? Many people confuse the hunger for food
and sex as being similar biological desires that are both necessary
for survival. Clearly they are connected, as many people feeling
sexual frustration turn to food for gratification. An imbalance in
*If you are interested in a fuller elucidation of the working of chi energy in the spiritual
realms, read two books by Taoist Master Ni, Hua Ching: "Tao: The Subtle Universal Law"
and "The Taoist Inner View of the Universe and the Immortal Realm" (College of Tao, 117
Stonehaven Way, Los Angeles, CA 90049). There are many volumes in Chinese on this
subject, but I feel these are the best translations and commentary on the Taoist canon
available in English. Ni's translation of the I Ching is preferred over those of western
scholars, who don't understand fully the esoteric aspects of these classic texts. His transla-
tion is titled "The Book of Changes and The Unchanging Truth."18 Taoist Secrets Of Love
ching (sex) energy ranks as a major cause of obesity—when you
are sexually frustrated, food is the easiest substitute.
The major difference between food (chi energy) and sex
(ching essence) is that sex energy, because it has already been
refined and produced inside the body, is much easier to "digest" or
"absorb" than a raw substance like food. Food must be broken
down and connected before it supplies any useful energy. Sexual
essence is already in a state of readiness that is linked within milli-
seconds to our hormonal and nervous system. The image of sex or
the mere thought of it can instantly enter our brain and alter our
entire psychological state as well as our bodily feeling.
Thus sexual energy potentially has a far higher value than
food as a kind of "nourishment" needed for human emotional
maturation and spiritual growth. That is why sex was also consid-
ered a department of Chinese medicine and treated so matter-of-
factly. A Taoist doctor might prescribe a two week round of love
making in certain positions to heal your illness. Human love, ex-
pressed through the function of sexuality, was seen as the most
potent medicine you could take. It was a kind of "human herb"
that could cure most ailments as it restored the flow of chi which
governs our organ vitality and general immunological system.
People become obsessed by their relationships as the ex-
change of sexual energy that occurs is the most important source of
sustenance in their lives after food. Relationships invariably get
complicated because although your friends and lovers are visible
and tangible beings, the sexual energy you are constantly exchang-
ing and transforming into emotion and spirit with them is invisible.
It can be known only through your feelings and intuition.
A relationship fails when the spirit of it is not properly culti-
vated, and you force yourself to "eat" negative, or poisonous,
sexual energies without transforming them into positive or neutral
energies. When the imbalance in energy becomes strong enough,
divorce occurs unless the couple finds another way to correct it.
Reading pornographic magazines or masturbation are other exam-
ples of negative cultivation of your ching, because they stimulate
the "yang" essence in your sperm without balancing it with a real
woman's "yin" sexual energy.
The major difference between ching, or sex essence, and food
and sunlight energy is that your ching chi is physically manufac-
tured and stored inside your body. This precious substance—What Is Chi Energy? 19
sperm, with its extraordinary power to mate with a female egg and
create another life—is manufactured and stored in your testicles
for safekeeping. The point is that you are free to tap into your
supply of sex energy at anytime by drawing the sperm power from
the testicles.
DIAGRAM 5
The modern character for fire can be
interpreted as: the primordial element
of fire, physical fire, or psychic heat
burning beneath the Taoist cauldron.
If you run out of sperm your body automatically makes more.
This allows you to be physically ready for your lover at all times.
Even if you are alone, without a lover, and never intend to procre-
ate, your body produces the sperm and transforms it into creative
sexual energy. So you can always transform this stored sex energy
into spirit, your pure awareness, and express it through creative
personality at will. So in fact "ching" is internal energy that nour-
ishes us night and day without ceasing. The process of refinement
is partly automatic, and partly voluntary. We can either help or
hinder the process of transforming our sex energy into creativity
depending on how aware we are of our internal process. Yet, like
breathing, we draw on this source of energy constantly without
being aware of it.
Freud stumbled partially upon this truth many millennia after
the Taoist masters had clearly mapped out the role of sex in shap-
ing our destiny. Freud didn't realize that the mental neuroses he
discovered could be healed by cultivating the sexual and other Chi
energies within the body. When these energies are re-balanced
through proper love-making and meditation, the mind is re-pat-
terned and freed of old traumas and habits. Taoist cultivation of
one's sexual energy is an extremely powerful tool for self therapy.
So powerful, in fact, that it should be used only by those who have
achieved a certain degree of integration in the body, mind, and20 Taoist Secrets Of Love
spirit. Severly imbalanced individuals may release more energy
than they can safely deal with, and should see a psychiatrist before
attempting to learn the Taoist methods.
DIAGRAM 6
The average male spends about Vs of
his lifetime to produce sperm. This energy
can be cultivated for health & spiritual
development.100% Life force energy v
30% to produce
sexual energy
70% Is used for dally work,
digestion etc.
This unique human freedom of utilizing our sexual energy so
flexibly does not come without it's price. The price is that we
spend an estimated 25% to 40% of our chi energy taken in through
food, air, and sunlight just to manufacture this sperm energy and
maintain sexual readiness. Why does the body spend so much of its
valuable resources to produce billions of sperm cells and regulate
them with an accompanying hormonal system? Simply to produce
a few children over the course of a lifetime? Nature is not that
extravagant. The enormous investment of our bodies in producing
this sperm energy is to speed our overall evolution. The more
successful man is in transforming his stored energy into higher
creative and spiritual energy, the more rapid his evolution. This
path of Taoist cultivation of chi energy is simply an attempt to most
efficiently utilize the natural gifts every man is born with to evolve
the maximum possible in a single lifetime.CHAPTER 3
THE BIOLOGY OF ESOTERIC SEX
Ordinarily discharge of the seminal fluid completes the act of love.
As soon as the fluid is spent, the body strains to replace it. The
faster sperm is used, the more the body is forced to produce. Quite
obviously, production of this nutritionally rich and psychically su-
perpotent substance requires an enormous amount of raw mate-
rials. The reproductive glands receive these raw materials from the
blood stream. In its turn, the blood withdraws the precious ele-
ments from every part of the body, liver, kidney, spleen, etc.,
including the brain.
Every organ pays heavy tribute to the glands that produce the
sexual seed. Because a single drop of semen houses such pro-
digious life energies, frequent loss of fluid depletes the body sys-
tems of their most precious nutrients and speeds the inevitable
physical decline into old age. Retaining the seed within the body is


s the str ong.
The obscur e outlasts the obvious.

Fish cannot leave deep waters,
and a country’ s weapons should not be displayed.
OceanofPDF.comLiving in Obscurity
A large part of your growing-up life lessons revolved around the words
Notice me! You were taught that the more attention you received,
particularly for being a “good little person,” the more status and approval
you’d get from your peers (as well as the adults you knew ). Become
number one, you were told, earn that gold star, win that championship, get
the best grades, become valedic torian, attain that letter sweater, gather up
trophies, and so on. Such lessons were all about rising to the top of the
crowd and evaluating yourself based on how you stacked up competitively
with everyone around you.
When you change the way you think about your place in the great scheme
of thing s, you’ll discover that “the wisdom of obscurity” allows you to
eliminate competition from your life and retreat into quiet strength. In other
words, Lao-tzu is asking you to take it easy and base your view on entirely
new criteria. As you do, your world will begin to reflect a gentle, low-key
soul who outlasts those who measure their strength by how much status
they have compared to their peers.
This verse opens with the idea of understanding the dichotomous nature
of the material world and then encourages you to become an astute observer
of your life. Feeling belittled means that you must know what it’s like to be
important; the idea of being weak grows out of having known what it’s like
to feel strong. As one translation of the Tao Te Ching (The Way of Life
Accor ding to Lao Tzu, translated by W itter Bynner) reminds us:
He who feels punctur ed
Must once have been a bubble,
He who feels unarmed
Must have carried arms,
He who feels deprived
Must have had privilege...
Avoid the pitfalls of feeling weak, unimportant, stressed, or fearful by
transcending the thinking that got you there in the first place. Keep in mindthat if you feel weak, you must  have had the opposite perception of being
strong at least once. If you experien ce stress, you have an idea of what
being unstressed is like. By becoming independent of the need to compare
yourself and fit in, you choose the path that Lao-tzu calls “the wisdom of
obscurity”—that is, you release your need to be more anything in the eyes
of others.
Lao-tzu concludes this elegant verse with the metaphor of fish leaving the
deep water—when they try to examine the surface and see the “big world”
beyond those depths, the little guys no longer endure because they’re
captured by a net. Hence, you find the great lesson of this 36th verse: Stay
under the radar and you’ll outlast all who strive to be recognized. When you
shift to this viewpoint, your desire for obscurity will surpass your need to
be seen as strong and above everyone else—and you won’ t end up all alone
in your trophy room!
Here’ s what Lao-tzu offers you from 25 centuries ago, when he dictated
this enduring tome of wisdom:
Strive to know oneness by seeking awar eness of opposites.
Make every effort to stay in a state of oneness in your mind. For example,
if you’re tired, remind yourself that you know what being rested is like.
Recognize the opposing feelin g so that you can know both of them
simultaneously. Do this with any sensation: If you’re depressed, weak,
jealous, unloved—anything—the antithesis of what you’re going through is
within your experiential fram ework. Seek the 36th Verse opposite feeling
right in the mom ent and be at one with it in your mind, for this will provide
you with a balanced sense of being at peace within yourself. This is
oneness, wherein you entertain extremes and use your mind to be like the
Tao, which never divides anything. How can oneness be broken apart? It
would no longer exist if you could split it up.
Withdraw yourself and allow others.
Monitor your inclinations to compare yourself to others or to stay within
the “system.” A system is designed to get you to behave just like everyone
else, as it contrives to make comparisons determine your success or
happiness. The Tao Te Ching urges you to seek obscurity: Draw little or noattention to yourself, and don’t ask to be recognized. Instead, allow, allow,
allow.
Let other people flourish, waxin g on about their strength and popularity.
As Lao-tzu says, you must deliberately grant others the right to expand, but
take your own lesson from the fish that endure and stay in the deep waters
of your T ao-directed soul.
Do the T ao Now
Give yourself an assignment to be as much in the background as you can
for an entire day. Stifle inclinations to compare yourself to anyone else or to
draw attention to yourself. You can accomplish this by making a
commitment to be interested in others today, substituting the pronoun I for
you. So instead of saying, “I did this kind of work for years; let me tell you
how you should proceed,” remark, “You seem to be doing so well with your
new business.” In the language of the Tao, stay soft and gentle and you will
endure.
OceanofPDF.com37th Verse
The T ao does nothing,
but leaves nothing undone.
If powerful men
could center themselves in it,
the whole world would be transformed
by itself, in its natural r hythms.

When life is simple,
pretenses fall away;
our essential natur es shine thr ough.

By not wanting, ther e is calm,
and the world will straighten itself.
When ther e is silence,
one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.
OceanofPDF.comLiving in Simplicity
I call this the “Bite your tongue, zip your lips” verse of the Tao Te Ching.
The paradox inherent in the two opening lines intrigues me enormously:
“The Tao does nothing, but leaves nothing undone.” Just imagine what
we’re being told to consider in this verse—do nothing and everything gets
done. It obvious ly contradicts all that you and I have been taught. Doing
nothing in our culture suggests a lazy, unsuccessful, and quite possibly
worthless individual. So for a moment, let’s modify the way we think about
living simply and doing nothing.
Of all the troubles that are reported in the media—including wars,
terrorism, famine, hatred, crime, and disease—how many are the result of
interfering with the natural unfolding of creation? How much of the
essential nature of ourselves and our planet is able to shine through? What
would Earth be like if govern ments didn’ t meddle in everyone’ s lives?
What if no one could be perceived as an enemy? Could there be a world
where groups of people never got together to control others or to invade or
conquer—how about where oceans, mountains, natural resources, air,
plants, and animals were respe cted and allowed to flourish without any
interference? Suppose that such a place of simplicity and lack of
interference existed... it would be acting exactly as the Tao does, doing
nothing and yet leaving nothing undone.
Now shift out of this highly imaginative scenario and begin to reconsider
what’ s meant in this passage by the concept of powerful individuals
transforming the world. When they’re interfering with natural rhythms, they
ultimately create difficulties that are inconsistent  with the Tao. Try to
visualize great leaders who are instead centered in the Tao—th ey bite their
tongues and zip their lips rather than act in a hostile way, and they refuse to
participate in activities that cause harm to anything on the planet. Yes, this
may be a fantasy, but it’s not an impossibility when you think like a sage
and are centered in the Tao.
The 37th verse of the Tao Te Ching can also help you change the way you
look at yourself. Let’s say that you’re accustomed to equating the idea of
success with a take-char ge kind of person. You believe that this individualallocates responsibilities to others because he or she is a leader who’ s
willing and able to tell others what to do and how to do it. Well, this view is
completely out of harmony with the Tao, which “does nothing” and “leaves
nothing undone. ” As you alter the way you look at your own power and
success, you’ll begin to replac e strong desires with calm contentment.
When you start to allow your true nature—wh ich is the anch or of the
universe—to shine through, you’ll recognize that the way you look at things
has absolutely changed.
I’ve used this simplicity lesson in dealing with all of my children. When I
step in and tell them “how,” I create resistance. But when I bite my tongue,
zip my lips, and retreat into silence, they not only figure it out themselves,
but a calm energy replaces their frustration. I’ve learned that my kids know
how to be: They too have the anchor of the universe within them. They too
are centered in the do-nothing, get-everything-done Tao. They too have an
essential nature that they’re listening to. As I’ve gotten more adept at


 although it has to be conceded that they are greatly
enhanced by having the author's own working copy of his book to hand. Certainly he is very much alive in
his printed work, but curiously more so in the handwritten additions one encounters with excitement here
and there. The reader will find these printed in the body of the text, surrounded by brackets, since in every
case it was clear precisely where they fell.
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Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.
                NEVILLE
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                        I AM
All things when they are admitted are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is
light.  Eph. 5:13
THE  "light"  is  consciousness.  Consciousness  is  one,  manifesting  in  legions  of  forms  or  levels  of
consciousness. There is no one that is not all that is, for consciousness, though expressed in an infinite
series of levels, is not divisional. There is no real separation or gap in consciousness. I AM cannot be
divided. I may conceive myself to be a rich man, a poor man, a beggar man or a thief, but the  center of my
being remains the same regardless of the concept I hold of myself. At the center of manifestation there is
only one I AM manifesting in legions of forms or concepts of itself and "I am that I am."
I AM is the self-definition of the absolute, the foundation on which everything rests. I AM is the first
cause-substance. I AM is the self-definition of God.
I AM hath sent me unto you.
I AM THAT I AM.
Be still and know that I AM God.
I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM I may
forget who I am, where I am, what I am but I cannot forget that I AM. The awareness of being remains,
regardless of the degree of forgetfulness of who, where, and what I am.
I AM is that which, amid unnumbered forms is ever the same. This great discovery of cause reveals that,
good or bad, man is actually the arbiter of his own fate, and that it is his concept of himself that determines
the world in which he lives [and his concept of himself is his reactions to life]*  [*Bracketed material is
explained in the publisher's Px.--Ed. s note. ]
In other words. If you are experiencing ill health, knowing the truth about cause, you cannot attribute I Am
the  illness  to  anything  other  than  to  the  particular  arrangement  of  the  basic  cause-substance,  an
arrangement which [was produced by your reactions to life, and] is defined by your concept "I am unwell."
This is why you are told "Let the weak man say, 'I am strong' " (Joel 3:10), for by his assumption, the
cause-substance I AM is re-arranged and must, therefore, manifest that which its rearrangement affirms.
This principle governs every aspect of your life, be it social, financial, intellectual, or spiritual.
I AM is that reality to which, whatever happens, we must turn for an explanation of the phenomena of life.
It is I AM's concept of itself that determines the form and scenery of its existence. Everything depends
upon its attitude towards itself; that which it will not affirm as true of itself cannot awaken in its world.
That is, your concept of yourself, such as "I am strong," "I am secure," "I am loved," determines the world
in which you live. In other words, when you say, "I am a man, I am a father, I am an American," you are
not defining different I AM's; you  are defining different concepts or arrangements of the one cause-
substance the one I AM. Even in the phenomena of nature, if the tree were articulate it would say, "I am a
tree, an apple tree, a fruitful tree."
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 6 of 51When you know that consciousness is the one and only reality-conceiving itself to be something good, bad,
or indifferent, and becoming that which It conceived itself to be -you are free from the tyranny of second
causes, free from the belief that there are causes outside of your own mind that can affect your life.
In the state of consciousness of the individual is found the explanation of the phenomena of life If man s
concept of himself were different, everything m his world would be different. His concept of himself being
what it is, everything in his world must be as It IS.
It IS dearly clear that there is only one I AM and you are that I AM. And while I AM is infinite, you, by
your concept of yourself, are displaying only a limited aspect of the infinite I AM.
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul. As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let
each new temple, nobler than the last. Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast Till thou at length art
free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
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                       CONSCIOUSNESS
IT IS only by a change of consciousness, by actually changing your concept of yourself, that you can "build
more  stately  mansions"  the  manifestations  of  higher  and  higher  concepts.  (By  manifesting  is  meant
experiencing the results of these concepts in your world.) It is of vital importance to understand clearly just
what consciousness is.
The reason lies in the fact that consciousness is the one and only reality, it is the first and only cause -sub
stance of the phenomena of life. Nothing has existence for man save through the consciousness he has of it.
Therefore, it is to consciousness you must turn, for it is the only foundation on which the phenomena of life
can be explained.
If we accept the idea of a first cause, it would follow that the evolution of that cause could never result in
anything  foreign  to  itself.  That  is,  if  the  first  cause-substance  is  light,  all  its  evolutions,  fruits,  and
manifestations would remain light. The first cause-substance being consciousness, all its evolutions, fruits,
and phenomena must remain consciousness. All that could be observed would be a higher or lower form or
variation of the same thing. In other words, if your consciousness is the only reality, it must also be the
only substance. Consequently, what appears to you as circumstances, conditions, and even material objects
are really only the products of your own consciousness. Nature, then, as a thing or a complex of things
external  to  your  mind,  must  be  rejected.  You  and  your  environment  cannot  be  regarded  as  existing
separately. You and your world are one.
Therefore, you must turn from the objective appearance of things to the subjective center of things, your
consciousness, if you  truly desire  to know  the cause of the phenomena  of life, and how to use this
knowledge to realize your fondest dreams. In the midst of the apparent contradictions, antagonisms, and
contrasts of your life, there is only one principle at work, only your consciousness operating. Difference
does not consist in variety of substance, but in variety of arrangement of the same cause-substance, your
consciousness.
The world moves with motiveless necessity. By this is meant that it has no motive of its own, but is under
the necessity of manifesting your concept.
Consciousness'(is?) the arrangement of your mind, and your mind is always arranged in the image of all
you believe and consent to as true. The rich man, poor man, beggar man or thief are not different minds,
but different arrangements of the same mind, in the same sense that a piece of steel when magnetized
differs not in substance from its demagnetized state but in the arrangement and order of its molecules. A
single electron revolving in a specified orbit constitutes the unit of magnetism. When a piece of steel or
anything else is demagnetized, the revolving electrons have not stopped. Therefore, the magnetism has not
gone out of existence. There is only a rearrangement of the particles, so that they produce no outside or
perceptible effect. When particles are arranged at random, mixed up in all directions, the substance is said
to be demagnetized but when particles are marshaled in ranks so that a number of them face in one
direction, the substance is a magnet. Magnetism is not generated; it is displayed. Health, wealth, beauty,


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 standards of safety and effectiveness. It’s more toxic than lead by
the EPA’s standards and accumulates in the body. The maximum allowable
lead in drinking water: 0.015 mg/liter; the maximum allowable for fluoride:
4.000  mg/liter. – Health Action Network – www.hans.org
• Fluoridation: A Health Violation of Medical Ethics
Fluoride is a pharmacologically active substance unrelated to water purification.
There is no possibility of obtaining individual informed consent for medication
with this experimental drug when it is placed in a public water system. For these
reasons, fluoridation violates the Nuremburg Code of medical ethics and
human rights. – Health Action Network
• Fluoride: Industrial Waste
The fluoride in your water is actually toxic waste left over after the manufacture
of aluminum and chemical fertilizers.
– Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, Fluoride, The Aging Factor
• Environmental Protection Agency Infighting
EPA toxicologists have long been asking that the standards for water fluoridation
be revised, while EPA administrators continue to reject their warnings and have
even disciplined employees who have spoken out. – The Pittsburgh Press
• Fluoridation is Big Business
Despite the fact that it doesn’t actually prevent tooth decay in children or
adults, government officials still devote our tax dollars to fluoridation. Several
other countries tried it and stopped when their research showed that the risks
far outweighed the benefits. In this country, the big companies that make huge
profits from selling this toxic waste material are so powerful that the facts
are swept under the rug. – Let’s Live! May 1996. This magazine,
originally called California Health News, was started by Paul C. Bragg, who
changed the name because, he said, “Everybody wants to – Let’s Live!”
• Mohawk Indians’ Fluoride Tragedy
In the period from 1960 to 1975, a Mohawk Indian tribe in the Northeast U.S.
was all but obliterated by fluoride contamination. Cows, fish and children all
suffered from tooth and bone deformities caused by wastes from two major
metals manufacturers. (Now all Indian reservations have fluoridated water!)
– “Fluoride: Commie Plot or Capitalist Ploy?” by Joel Griffiths
23 24 More Shocking Fluoride Updates...
• Fluoride is Highly Toxic
The fact is that fluoride is more toxic than lead and just slightly less toxic than
the killer arsenic. – Gary Null, The Fluoridation Fiasco
• Use Non-Fluoride Toothpaste
Fluoride in toothpaste is absorbed through the lining of the mouth, and in only
one or two brushings, a milligram of fluoride enters your body.
– Health Action Network
• Fluoridation Increases Lead Contamination
Fluoride leaches lead from plumbing and water mains. In Tacoma, Washington,
where lead content of water had risen above EPA limits, fluoridation was halted
because of equipment failure. Officials were surprised at the resulting 50%
drop in lead contamination.
– Letter from C.R. Myrick, Water Quality Coordinator, Tacoma, WA
• Fluoride Affects Immune Function
Because of its disabling effects on enzyme activity, fluoride reduces resistance
against infection. – Complementary Medical Research
• Fluoride Adversely Affects Central Nervous System
Scientific studies link fluoride to learning disabilities and coordination problems.
– Townsend Letter for Doctors
• Fluoride and Decreasing Birth Rates
Fluoride is found to decrease fertility in studies of animals and humans.
– Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health
• Highly Publicized Fluoride Studies Show Medical Mistake
The high doses of sodium fluoride used in clinical studies of this drug are
known to lead to a condition called osteofluorosis. This means abnormal bone
growth and calcification of tendons and ligaments. Although this may help
prevent spinal fracture and compression, it also increases risk of hip fracture
and causes arthritis-like pain.
– Open letter from pioneer John Lee, M.D., to C.Y.C. Pak, M.D., regarding
Dr. Pak’s study on sodium fluoride in the Annals of Internal Medicine
• Juice Drinks Contain Dangerous Levels of Fluoride
42% of commerically prepared juices contain toxic levels of fluoride. Grape juice
is especially bad because of fluoride-containing insecticides used on grapes.
– Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry
• Danger is Not Only in The Water, but in Processed Foods
There are no regulations on fluoride content of processed foods. Many of these
packaged foods are loaded with deadly fluoride. – Health Action Network
• Tooth Decay Decline Unrelated to Fluoride
Tooth decay has declined worldwide, with no difference between countries
with or without water fluoridation. – Health Action Network
There are thousands of case histories of people who have overcome
health problems when they began drinking distilled water.
 – Dr. Clifford Dennison Ed.D., Author, Why I Drink Distilled Water
 More Shocking Fluoride Updates...
• The Sad, Unnecessary Epidemic of Dental Fluorosis
This disease, marked by tooth enamel malformation, mottled-discoloration
and brittleness, affects up to 30% of children living in areas with fluoridated
water. Only 10% of children in non-fluoridated locations have dental fluorosis.
– Public Health Service figures
• H. Dean Changes His Mind and Retracts Fluoridation Endorsement!
H. Trendly Dean, the original promoter of water fluoridation, admitted under
oath in 1955 that it doesn’t work as a remedy for tooth decay.
– Fluoride, Vol. 14, No. 3, July 1981
• Study Reveals That Fluoride Causes Tooth Decay
Children in India who drank fluoridated water suffered from significantly more
tooth decay than children who did not. Especially at risk were children with very
little calcium in their diets.
– The Journal of the New Zealand Pure Water Association
• Children Poisoned by Toothpaste
When Crest fluoride toothpaste was first sold in the 1950s, warnings that it
should not be used in children under six were eliminated from the package –
because they damaged sales! When two children in Tacoma, Washington,
began to throw up every night before bed, doctors told the parents that
their toothpaste was to blame! At last fluoride danger warnings are now
mandatory on all new fluoride toothpaste labels! – The Fluoride Report
25
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers are instructed to drink distilled water.
– Dr. Edward M. Wagner, Author, How to Stay Out of The Doctor’s Office
Keep T oxic Fluoride Out of Y our W ater!
Most water Americans drink has fluoride in it, including tap,
bottled and canned drinks and foods! Now, ADA (American Dental
Assoc.) is insisting that the FDA mandate the addition of fluoride to
all bottled waters! Defend your right to drink pure, nonfluoridated
tap and bottled waters! Challenge and stop local and state water
fluoridation policies! Call, write, fax or e-mail your state officials and
congress people and send them a copy of this revealing book.
CHECK FOLLOWING WEBSITES FOR FLUORIDE UPDATES:
• www.fluoridation. com • www.keepersofthewell.org
• www.fluoridealert.org • www.bragg.com
• www.fluoride-journal.com
• www.bruha.com/fluoride
• www.gjne.com/cfsdwh
• www.nofluoride.com
• www.zerowasteamerica.org/fluoride.htm
Danger – Don’t Drink W ater
Contaminated with Sodium Fluoride
Fluoride is one of the most potent poisons known to
man. Selling this poison swells the bank Caution:
accounts of the big companies who, in Toxic Water
Chemical Drinkturn, often pay big dividends to their
stockholders. This money is made by
selling a waste by-product! All these
industries had to do, using the media and
powerful lobbies, was brainwash the public
into accepting their false statements that
fluoride added to their water would pr event tooth decay.
Now the drinking water in most cities is being
fluoridated due to the powerful organizations who are
sponsoring this mass poisoning. In our opinion, many
early deaths today are caused by premature damage
to our arteries due to sodium fluoride, that also damages
the heart, lungs, liver, brain and other vital or gans!
Read and reread this book carefully! More than 85
combined years of resear ch has gone into acquiring and
compiling this vital information for your health.
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Scientists around the world agree that the health of the world’s
waters will be one of the most important health environmental
issues of this 21st century.  – www.wyland.com (see page 123 )
Who wants to return to the old days when food had a taste and water didn’t
and you couldn’t even see the air you breathed? The realization of the
deterioration of the environment and of problems of population, food, power
and water, has been growing on us through a frightening total of isolated
reports. Penguins accumulate DDT in Antarctica, the California red


oxide is only available in higher concentration, it must  be
diluted to 3% or below. It must never be used internally.
Room Ozone generators are routinely used in Gerson clinics and are recommended to
patients living at high altitudes (above 3000 feet), and/or in areas where toxic sprays have been
used, or where there is a great deal of industrial air pollution. Inhaling ozonated air is refreshing
and energizing, and has even been seen to improve patients’ mood.
An innovation in the field of diet affects certain patients who are lactose-intolerant, i.e.,
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www.thegersonway.comunable to tolerate the defatted and pre-digested milk proteins, such as. yogurt and cottage cheese
that are normally added to the protocol after 6-10 weeks. In these cases vegetarian protein-rich
materials, such as Spirulina, are used.
Grapefruit Seed Extract : since patients’ immune competence is generally low, great care
is taken to protect them from catching colds or, worse still, flu. This extract, which has antiviral
and antibacterial properties, was recently added to the program and has been found useful.
Taken orally and used as a gargle, it can ward off a cold, if taken at the very first suspicion of
trouble. Another excellent preparation is the homeopathic Flu Solution, by Dolisos America, Inc.
(www.dolisosamerica.com )
Tahebo or Pau d’Arco : This is the inner bark of the Andean pine tree, traditionally used
for healing purposes by many tribes in the South American Andes. Made into tea, it has been
used, in addition to the Gerson treatment, on a number of patients, who found it a valuable extra,
increasing their well-being and even helping to reduce tumors. Tahebo consists of thin woody
splinters, which have to be stteped for 5-10 minutes in simmering distilled water and strained
before serving. As this remedy is being used by a number of tribes, it is known as Tahebo, Pau
d’Arco or Lapacho.
Selenium : This chemical element has been found by several researchers, including Dr.
Schrauzer of the University of California at La Jolla, and Professor Harold Foster of Victoria,
B.C., Canada, to be an important stimulant for the immune system. For that reason it is in cluded
in the Gerson treatment of many patients.
The GKI Treatment : The intravenous glucose-potassium-insulin (GKI) drip was developed
by famous heart specialist Dr. Demetrio Sodi-Pallares. The glucose and insulin provide the energy
needed to transport the potassium across the cell membrane into the tissues. Since the Gerson
protocol is high in both glucose and potassium from the juices and the potassium salts, only a
small amount of insulin (3-5 mg) is used, administered subcutaneously (injected under the skin).
Chromium Picolonate : It has been found that chromium, in the form of picolonate, stimulates
the production of insulin by the pancreas. Capsules or tablets of 200 mg of this substance have
been added to the protocol, particularly for diabetics, to help alleviate their defi ciency.
These are just some of the items added in recent times to the basic Gerson program in order to
increase its effectiveness. Needless to say, they must be proven to be “non-toxic.” Prior to making
them available to patients, Charlotte Gerson tries them out on herself. Since she is very sensitive
to any toxic substance, she can usually tell immediately if any new item is of questionable safety.
Only when she is satisfied that they are safe are they cautiously administered to a few patients,
whose response is than carefully evaluated. By testing promising innovations and possible
additions with extreme caution, it can be ensured that the Gerson Therapy does its work well
under today’s increasingly difficult circumstances.
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www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 3
Knowing the Enemy
The Gerson approach to health and sickness is so different from the usual medical procedures
that it is important to understand its basic principles thoroughly. Once that has happened, the
therapy’s theory and practice become totally clear and display their profound logic. In fact, many
recovered patients admit that they chose the Gerson program in the depths of a life-threatening
health crisis, because it made sense and held the credible promise to cure them. (We only wish
that those who condemn and dismiss the therapy out of hand took the trouble to find out just what
they are attacking.)
The therapy’s aim is to deal with the cause of disease, not with its symptoms, and its focus is
on what it sees as the two major enemies of health, namely toxicity and deficiency. Both are the
result of today’s de-natured, artificial lifestyle; both are to some extent connected to the modern
Western diet and to our polluted environment. Let us take a close look at them.
Toxicity
To start with the absolute necessity of life, namely the air we breathe, it is contaminated with
the exhaust fumes of road traffic, the invisibly tiny particles that fly off tires and nestle in our
lungs, the residues of aircraft fuel descending from the sky, plus the poisonous fumes of countless
industrial procedures belching out of factory chimneys or from the neighborhood dry-cleaning
establishment. Water, another basic essential of life, is just as bad, contaminated with chlorine
and fluoride and with the residues of a wide variety of drugs, which resist all existing purification
techniques (except distillation). Industrial and agricultural run-off contaminates rivers and lakes.
The latest addition to environmental pollution is electrosmog, the invisible but constantly
thickening electromagnetic fields surrounding us everywhere. Indoors they are produced by TV
sets, refrigerators, computers, microwave ovens and cellular phones. By interfering with the
natural electromagnetic fields of the human body, they have a harmful impact on health. Outdoors
radio masts serving cellular phones are causing serious concern: clusters of diseases, mainly
cancer, have been found in the vicinity of newly erected masts. ( see Chapter 5, pg.28, pp.3 )
Over to food. Here toxicity starts in the soil and in the plants that grow in it. Highly poisonous
pesticides, fungicides, herbicides and other chemicals used in commercial agriculture, often till
the day of harvesting, leave residues on the plants that become our food. Many of these poisons
are systemic, meaning that they permeate the produce and cannot be removed by washing.
Unless we eat only organically grown foods, our daily intake is richly laced with a cocktail of
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www.thegersonway.comagrochemicals, whose cumulative effect has never been tested. And as if all this were not bad
enough, in the course of food processing vast numbers of chemical additives are introduced,
many of which are unsafe—and worse.
Their purpose is to extend shelf life, almost indefinitely; to make the product look more
attractive, and to substitute artificial flavors for the missing natural ones. Food cosmetics, as
they are ironically called, solely serve the profit-centered interests of the manufacturers and have
nothing to do with healthy nutrition. On the contrary. But the dangers of food additives should not
blind us to the fact that the first major culprit of the average modern diet is salt (sodium), the very
substance that is hardest to avoid. Despite official warnings against its overuse, salt consumption
in the Western world is alarmingly high, causing the body to retain water in the cells, leading to
edema. Salt also puts an unreasonable burden on the kidneys, raises blood pressure, deadens the
taste buds so that more and more is needed to produce an effect, and interferes with the digestive
process. Salt, as we shall see later, also plays a dangerous role in the cellular process leading to
cancer.
Since meat is a valued staple item of the modern diet, it may sound surprising that excess
animal proteins behave as toxins in the body. But the fact is that the human organism with its
long intestinal tract is not designed to cope with a diet high in animal proteins. (By contrast the
intestinal tract of carnivores, such as lions and other big cats, is short, hence the waste products
of the digested meat are quickly eliminated.) The ideal diet for humans should be predominantly
plant-based, with a minimum of animal protein. Today the opposite applies.
Yet as we go through life, we become less able to digest animal proteins, so that its poorly
digested, incompletely broken down parts linger on in the body as toxins. The animal fats
contained in almost all meat, poultry and dairy produce are also inadequately digested as the body
ages and its enzymes no longer function efficiently. Last but not least, food animals are raised
on


 each who I r eally am unless
they com e with love or harmon y.  As you’re telling the person you’re very
sorry, you can tell yourself, They didn’ t get to me. They’r e not r eaching me
with that. ”Sure enough, she stood there and watched as scores of people got of f, and
many of them did say something nasty to her on the way out. Each time, she
sort of smiled and gave them instructions on where to get help from the
airline.
I stayed  behin d to see how it went for her. As the last person
disembarked, sh e told me, “Th at was fantastic. This is the first time that
we’ve ever had a circumstance like this where I didn’ t let it bother me.”
I sai d, “Y ou don’ t ever have to let stuf f like that into your life. The more
you keep it awa y from you, the  more you allow yourself the right to have
only wh at you want to enter yo ur consciousness. I make this choice all the
time. W hen I’m  driving, for ins tance, and somebody gives me the finger, I
don’ t take any o f that inside. Instead, I think, Oh, that’ s them, and that’ s
how the y’r e r eacting to my for m.  If som ebody comes to me with love,
serenity, peace, joy, ease, or the like, then they can have all of me. I will
respond back with that. Y ou let in whatever you want.”
That’ s w hat a quiet mind does for you. Meditation allows you to select
what you allow into who you r eally are without having to be beholden to
every sin gle person and action o ut there that doesn’ t fit in with t he way you
want it to be. Having a quiet mind, in a practical sens e, is truly
understanding th at what I’m tal king about here is not just for discussion—
it’ s for application.
EVER YDAY BENEFITS OF MEDIT ATION
Please know that meditation doesn’ t require somebody teaching you
exactly how to do it; in fact, that would defeat the purpose. I have meditated
for a long time, but no one ever taught me how. I learned how to train my
mind on  my own, yet I’ve created miracles in that space for my self, as well
as in the world that I came back to when I left the meditation.
I fin d it interesting that we crea te a light with our eyes closed in a dark
room. W e don’ t really need our  eyes to create light, but we definitely need
our minds. If you doubt that your mind is capable of creating illumination—
or colors, smells, and sounds—remember that we do this all the time in our
dreams, which is a state of pure  thought. When you meditate, you want to
get your mind to a similar place.A self-h ypnotic state is the first  thing that you want to train yo urself to
get to. Here, yo u go into what is called an “alpha state.” Like  I said, you
don’ t need to be taught exac tly how to get here, but you may find
inspiration in what I do: I use a  24-second shot clock, which i s what they
use at NBA gam es. It’ s got thes e little lights, starting at 24, then it counts
down to 23, 22, and so on, to 1. If a thought of any kind enters my mind
anytime between 24 and 1 (other than the picture of the number), I need to
start over at 24. If I get to 16 and think, Oh, I can’ t for g et my dentist
appointment tomorr ow morning, that’ s followed by the thought, Back to 24
I go.
Be p atient with yourself as you practice meditating this way. Y ou can use
any sort of cloc k or timer that  counts down, but you don’ t want to give
yourself too much or too little time, so consider beginning with the number
24, like I do. It w ill take you a few days to get to 1 but keep at it. When you
go from  24 to 1  without having an intervening thought, you will be in an
alpha state.
Y ou’ll know that you’ve reach ed an alpha state when you raise your
hands an d your arms feel very light. Or your head will suddenly  feel almost
weightless, like you’re starting to leave your form. Then after a few days or
weeks, y ou’ll be  able to go into alpha without the 24-second clock. Y ou’ll
be able to do it just through your breathing.
Once yo u feel comfortable getti ng into this alpha state, you can bring up
topics to your higher self. Y ou might ask questions that you have about your
life, abo ut strugg les that you ma y be having with your children, about your
relationships, about where you ought to be going, what kinds of decisions
you’re not sure about making, anything like that.
As you go into a meditative st ate, what happens is that you leave this
world of  form and enter into the formless, dimensionless world  of thought.
Y ou then  realize that you’re the w itness, watching yourself t hink and then
react to the thought. Y ou can ask yourself, What’ s t he solution to this? Wha t
can I do? Why is this a pr oblem  for me? Why am I cr eating this in my life?
Why am I having such a difficult time with my partner? Why am I
consistently cla shing with this particular person on the job? What is it
about me wher e I always set u p myself to fail?  Answers begin to come,
floating right into your consciousness from your higher self, from the
Divine.Now, ho w you apply this in you r own day-to-day life becomes the very
essence of awakening. Y ou can meditate before a client meet ing and see
how you want it to work out. While you cannot control how other people
are going to ac t or react, beca use that’ s for them, you are in control of
yourself. Y ou can certainly ma ke an impact on how that other person is
going to react t o you with how  at peace you are with yourself and how
unattached you are to the outcome. Y ou’re focusing on How I can serve this
other person?  rather than What is going to come to me?  Y ou can do this in
all o f yo ur relationships: look fo r the beauty and joy in your ow n mind, and
see how you want those relationships to be.
When I first got into a regular meditation practice, I would feel so
blissful toward everybody I saw I could hardly stand myself. I would just
look at them an d think, Ah, ar en ’ t they terrific?  I had this connectedness
with everyone I came face-to -face with, from my family m embers to
complete strang ers. Blaise Pascal once said that “All of humanity’ s
problems stem from man’ s inabi lity to sit quietly in a room alone,” and that
makes sense to me. I could never imagine wanting to hurt anybody after
coming out of that state.
When talking about meditation, I also like to use the example of having
two selves: one self is a thought and the other self is in form. I f you say to
yourself, Y ou jerk, you shouldn’ t have done that, you’ve got two people
there. Y ou’ve got the person who is doing the name-calling— that is, the
thought who is saying “you jerk”—and then you’ve got the jerk, who is the
body that has to react to what kind of thoughts you have. So  if you call
yourself a jerk, you have a thought of jerk and you have the jerk who has to
react. M editation can help you to bring those two selves into harmony so
that self one, the thought, and self two, the body, are in unity. Y ou are only
calling yourself what you want y ourself to be, and you are only seeing what
it is that you want in your mind for your body to do.
Y ou can start to apply this by c losing your eyes and getting in to a very
quiet space. In fact, all you have to do if you don’ t have time to meditate is
take the last hour before you go to sleep and use it in this way, because it
will give  you a strong sense of total rest and relaxation, like y ou’ve never
experienced before. An hour of meditation will give you eig ht hours of
deep, restorative sleep. It’ s that powerful.
It’ s said that this practice can ev en alter our own chemistry. Y o u can use
meditation to reach an ecstatic, b eautiful, exquisite high state that people sodesperately look  for in chemica ls. I think it would be especially beneficial
to teach young p eople about the power of their mind, so that they wouldn’ t
be temp ted to chase counterfeit freedom. Personally, meditation  has always
filled me with the most wonderful sense of peace