 vibrationa l offerings.  And imagine your
vibrational offering of say two complimentary desires - that
you are intending to manifest.  We’re creating an image here,
for example’s sake.  And let’s say there is also a defaultDefault Truths 33
truth/desire that is vibrating, below the detection of your
conscious self’s radar.  This is what a sound recording of those  vibrational energies might look like.
1. Chosen Desire #1
beep      beep        beep           beep
2.) Chosen Desire #2
/G1E/G09/G09/G16            /G22/G04/G04/G0D /G01      beep   beep            beep     beep
3.) Your Default Truth/Desire
Beep  Beep  Beep  Beep  Beep  B eep  Beep  Beep  Beep  Beep
Can you see the different rate of the vibrational signals
that you are sending out and into this vibrational universe, in
terms of your deepest, truest, core desires?  In this example, Desire 1 and Desire 2 are sending the message about the positive feelings and things that you /G0F/G09/G05 /G01/G02/G03/G10/G04/G03/G11/G02/G03/G0E/G20/G01/G01/G2C/G07/G1C ever,
this seemingly rogue default truth or desire, that originated at
some previous point in some other  life experience, is out-firing
the others in desire, strength, and amplification.  Sometimes in order to know that we have an unconscious pattern of belief or thought existing within us, we have to be willing to observe it
in our experiences to know that it is there.  In this case, it is the
/G0F/G18/G04/G05/G0C/G0D/G05 /G01/G07/G0A/G01/G10/G0B/G04/G01/G11/G04/G16/G02/G05/G04/G01/G12/G03/G11/G01/G02/G10/G16/G01/G0D/G0B/G19/G16/G02/G13/G12/G0C/G01/G0F/G12/G03/G02/G0A/G04/G16/G10/G12/G10/G02/G07/G03/G01/G02/G03/G01/G07/G08/G05/G01/G0C/G02/G14/G04/G16/G09/G01
despite the presence of a stro ng intention and the positive
vibrational work offered to summon its attraction, that cues  us – to let us know that a default truth from another previous experience, time, and creative birt h is still active in our sentient
system.    If this is the case for you, then therein lies the gift.  The absence of your desire, despite your continued conscious work, is your inner guidance system communicating with you.  In the case of the person who desires weight loss, with the intention  to experience a kind of /G02/G05/G0F/G10/G01/G02/G17/G12/G10/G24/G06/G10/G03/G0E/G02/G01 -filled, joyful fit-ness /G09/G01/G10/G0B/G04/G01
/G11/G04/G0A/G12/G08/G0C/G10/G01/G10/G05/G08/G10/G0B/G01/G28  that is predominantly  active  - is some belief or
sentient feeling that is still a ttracting the need for greater Cosmic Wealth
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weight, insulation, or some feeling state along those lines.
The reason that default truths appear  to be hidden, rogue,
and misfiring vibrations is because we have forgotten /G12/G10/G07/G0A /G06we /G01
launched that desire, or that trut h, into being.  So, say at the age
of two, continuing with the fitn ess example, that we did not feel
safe in our home environment.  And thus to feel better, we vibrationally expressed a desire  to feel insulated and safer,
while in the experience of that condition.  That  desire could
have vibrationally attracted and created the gaining of weight,
in this example, to match the de sire for increased safety and
insulation.  The desire then was perfectly in alignment with  our needs and experience /G0F/G01/G06/G01/G02/G0F/G01/G06/G01/G03/G19/G05 /G20/G01/G01 /G23/G12/G0F /G09/G01 /G14/G05/G06/G0E/G09/G05/G14 /G20/G01/G01/G1D/G03/G11/G01/G12/G16/G01/G1C/G04/G01
grew, we may have lost our connection with our magical belief in the universe and universal laws.  And so we may have taken on more and more concrete thinking.  And we trusted our sentient system less and less.  And over the years, we simply forgot that we had launched that  creative desire, that met our
experiential circumstance and need for increased safety and
insulation /G0F/G01/G06/G01/G02/G0F/G01/G06/G01/G03/G19/G05.  And now, here we are a great while later,
awakening back into the truth of our beautiful selves and our powerful creative nature, and we cannot seem to manifest the health, well-being, and /G17/G03/G01-ness that we desire.  We see only
now, with this new and expand ed understanding, how that
default truth really was a positive prior creation, under those conditions;  but in the absence of a greater consciousness, we left it to continue vibrating indefinitely, by default.  Without this
conscious, expanded lens, we just seem to be hitting a brick wall with ourselves.
The concept of default truths resembles a flavor of
the energies of karma.  Karma is another, often misunderstood, cosmic concept in today’s world.  Karma can essentially be defined as:  our thoughts, feelings, words, and actions, positive
/G05/G0A/G08/G09 /G0C/G05/G0E/G0F/G01/G03/G13/G05 /G09/G01/G13/G05/G04/G12/G10/G02/G03/G0E/G01/G12/G01/G13/G0B/G12/G02/G03/G01/G07/G0A/G01/G13/G12/G08/G16/G04/G01/G12/G03/G11/G01/G04/G0A/G0A/G04/G13/G10/G01 – whereby we
will personally experience the effe ct of every cause that we have
created.  To me, karma is a kind of spiritual mentor, that guides us into greater awareness of our true, divine, creative power.  We can create with /G10/G07/G13/G05 /G01/G07/G05/G01fear /G20/G01/G01/G1D/G16/G01/G1C/G04/G01/G05/G04/G28 experience the “fruits” Default Truths 35
or effects of our past creations, within /G0F/G0C/G11 /G01 /G12/G13/G05/G07/G16/G16/G01/G0C/G02/G0A/G04/G10/G02/G0F/G04/G16/G09/G01/G1C/G04/G01
begin to awaken to a larger cosm ic picture of universal laws,
principles, and expansive truths.  We essentially learn from
/G07/G12/G09/G04/G05/G10/G13/G05/G04 /G09/G01/G10/G0B/G05/G07/G08/G0E/G0B/G01/G07/G08/G05/G01/G07/G1C/G03/G01/G13/G05/G04/G12/G10/G02/G07/G03/G16/G01/G12/G03/G11/G01/G07/G08/G05/G01/G04/G26/G0D/G04/G05/G02/G04/G03/G13/G04/G16/G01/G07/G0A/G01
those creations, how to consciously use our creative essence  for higher good and for the greater good.  All are designed to facilitate our spiritual growth, divine expansion, and soulful
ascension.  We can turn away  from these truths and their
guiding light, or we can embrace them and begin to live in greater flow.  The choice is ours to make.
We have the opportunity now to see the presence of
default truths, and resistances, from prior creations /G01/G02/G03/G04 /G01/G0C/G02/G0A/G04/G10/G02/G0F/G04/G09/G01
/G12/G16/G01/G1C/G04/G0C/G0C/G01/G12/G16/G01/G10/G0B/G07/G16/G04/G01/G10/G0B/G12/G10/G01/G12/G05/G04/G01/G16/G10/G02/G0C/G0C/G01/G02/G03/G01/G04/G26/G02/G16/G10/G04/G03/G13/G04/G01/G0A/G05/G07/G0F/G01 past /G01/G0C/G02/G0A/G04/G10/G02/G0F/G04/G16/G


 Salad  with  Orange  Fennel  Dressing
(omit  the  orange)
Carrot  and  Raisin  Stuffed  Tofu
1  glass  spring  water
EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
1  cup  comfrey  tea  brewed  in  milk  and  water
Spring
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
granola  or  wheat  bran  cereal  in  Warm  Spiced  Soy  Milk
1  cup  chrysanthemum  tea TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  fennel  tea
melon  or  papaya  with  whipped  cream
DINNER  (6-7)
Soybean  and  Red  Cabbage  Dhal
Saffron  Basmati  Rice
broccoli,  cauliflower,  and  Brussels  sprouts  with  pepper,
sauteed  in  Ghee
LUNCH  (12-1)
Sauteed  Asparagus
Glazed  Carrots  with  Saffron  Basmati  Rice
Mango  and  Melon  Custard
1  glass  spring  water EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
1  cup  coriander  tea
A %&
TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  peppermint  tea
ricotta  chesse  and  fruit  dessert Summer
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
puffed  oats  cereal  with  Warm  Saffron  Milk
'/2  cup  aloe  vera  drink
LUNCH  (12-1)
Carrot  and  Cucumber  Aspic
sprouted  wheat  berry  bread
1  glass  spring  water
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EATING    WITH    THE    CYCLES    OF    NATURE-SEASONAL    MENUS
MENUS  FOR  PITTA  TYPES  (continued)
TEA  (3-4)
1  glass  sweetened  lemonade
Pineapple  Kanten  with  almond  cookies
DINNER  (6-7)
Aduki  and  Shallot  Dhal  with  Chapati
Dried  Masala  Okra
sauteed  mushrooms  and  green  peppers  in  soy  oil
1  glass  spring  water
date  balls  rolled  in  shredded  coconut
EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
1  cup  mint  tea
Summer
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
melon  with  lime  juice
shredded  wheat  in  Soy  and  Orange  Peel  Brew
1  apple LUNCH  (12-1)
Sauteed  Broccoli  Pasta
Bibb  lettuce  with  wheat  crisps
1  glass  spring  water
TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  fennel  and  coriander  tea
blueberry  muffin
DINNER  (6-7)
Tofu  Stuffed  Squash
Broccoli  Rabe  with  Lemon
Bulgur  and  Peas
sliced  fresh  fennel  bulb
homemade  ice  cream
EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
1  cup  lemongrass  tea
LUNCH  (12-1)
chickpea  humus  with  an  avocado
fresh  Belgian  endive
whole  wheat  toast
1  glass  spring  water
TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  cool  orange  peel  tea
grapes  and  tangerine
maple  syrup  cookies
DINNER  (6-7)
baked  potatoes  with  Ghee  and  coriander
Ratatouille
Amasake  and  Cardamom  Pie
EVENING  BREW  (7-7:30)
1  cup  dandelion  tea
Summer
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
Coconut  Oatmeal  Porridge
1  cup  peppermint  tea Fall
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
Cream  of  Wheat  Porridge
1  cup  chamomile  tea
LUNCH  (12-1)
Couscous  and  Carrots
Steamed  Broccoli,  Cauliflower,  and  Carrots  with
Carrot  and  Oat  Sauce
pear  juice  diluted  with  mineral  water
TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  peppermint  tea
fruits  in  season,  or
roasted  sunflower  seeds  with  turmeric
DINNER  (6-7)
Tofu  Tempu 1. 1
boiled  buttercup  squash  with  daikon  i.ulish
radicchio  and  cucumber  salad
EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
l  cup  Fennel  tea
ii  l
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THE    PRACTICE    OF    AYURVEDA
MENUS  FOR  PITTA  TYPES  (continued)
Fall
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
Wheat  berries  and  Cloves  with  Dry  Coconut  Chutney
1  cup  Morning  Booster
LUNCH  (12-1)
Bulgur  and  Peas
cauliflower  and  endive  salad  with  Orange  Fennel  Dressing
1  cup  barley  tea EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
1  glass  apple  cider  mixed  with  fresh  apple  pulp
Winter
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
Sago  Payasam  (tapioca) '/2  melon
1  glass  vegetable  juice
TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  Cardamom,  Coriander,  and  Fennel  Tea
sweet  berries  with  cream
DINNER  (6-7)
Stuffed  Mushrooms  with  Brown  Gravy
white  basmati  and  wild  rice  (equal  amounts)
Peppermint  and  Walnut  Mousse
1  glass  spring  water
EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
1  cup  lavender  tea,  brewed  in  milk
Fall
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
cooked  rolled  oats  and  figs
with  milk  and  unrefined  brown  sugar
1  glass  pear  juice
LUNCH  (12-1)
Split  Pea  Dhal
Dosa  (wheat  and  chickpea)  or  Chapati
3  radicchio  leaves
1  cup  comfrey  tea
TEA  (3-4)
Pear  Lassi
rice  cakes
DINNER  (6-7)
Chickpea  and  Seitan  Stew
couscous
steamed  broccoli  rabe  and  collard  greens
142 LUNCH  (12-1)
whole  wheat  pasta  with  Sunflower  Seed  Sauce
Watercress  and  Sesame  Seeds
(substitute  sunflower  for  sesame  seeds)
TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  spearmint  tea
Fruit  Cobbler
DINNER  (6-7)
Lima  Bean  Soup
Aviyal  (spicy  vegetables)
Cumin  Basmati  Rice
Clay  Pot  Baked  Apples
EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
Warm  Barley  Brew
Winter
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
Cream  of  Wheat  Porridge
1  glass  warm  spring  water
LUNCH  (12-1)
Fennel  Roasted  Eggplant
pita  bread  or  Oil  Roti
Black  Bean  Chili
1  glass  apple  juice  diluted  with  water
TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  peppermint  tea
dried  fruits  with  roasted  pumpkin  seeds
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EATING   WITH    THE    CYCLES    OF    N  ATU  RE  — S  E  ASON  AL    MENUS
MENUS  FOR  PITTA  TYPES  (continued)
DINNER  (6-7)
Brown  Rice  Kichadi
Stripped  Tarragon  Seitan
steamed  mustard  greens
Cherry  Strudel
EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
Warm  Sandalwood  Milk  Brew
Winter
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
Soft  Rice  and  Mint  Chutney
1  cup  Energy  Shake
LUNCH  (12-1)
Karhi  (Yogurt  Soup)  with  Chapati
fresh


09
T his f ir st st ep is a c r uc i al st ep, w hic h is t o g et as muc h w ast e out of t he bod y
as
possi ble. A g ain, t his is c r itic al. Y ou c annot er adic at e a par asit e if y our bod y
is f i l led
w it h it s f a v or it e f ood or if t he pl ac es w her e t he immune s y st em w ould
t ak e t he
par asit e ar e f i l led. Y ou must t ak e out t he tr ash, and t his means
empt y ing t he gut.
C lear ing t he smal l int estine c an be
ac c omplished b y dr ink ing 1 quart of
w at er
f or eac h 60 pounds of bod y
w eig ht eac h d a y
as a f ir st st ep. T hen,
t ak e c ast or oi l (3 t o 6
t ablespoons)
onc e a w eek, or 1 bott le of
mag nesium
c itr at e w eek l y, or D r D aniels ’
V it alit y
C apsules d ai l y as dir ec t ed
on
w w w. v it alit y c y c les. c om

M an y people
pr ef er D r D aniels ’ V it alit y
C apsules as
t he y c an be ad just ed f or y our
per sonal
c omf ort.
D ai l y w ar m w at er enemas using
disti l led
w at er (1 quart) ar e also v er y
helpf ul, espec i al l y
f or t he w eek
bef or e and w hi le y ou ar e t ak ing
tur pentine.w w w. vit ality cy c les. c omT he most neg lec t ed portion of t he gut is t he smal l int estines.
T his part must be
empt y, as t he f inal c ur e f or y east in v ol v es t he
immune s y st em dumping y east f r om
al l o v er t he bod y int o t he
smal l int estines v i a t he bi le duc t. If y our smal l int estine is
slug g ish, t he bi le duc t is bloc k ed, and t he immune s y st em
c annot do it s part t o heal
y ou.5 S teps to S uccess
S t ep 1
N ot e
If y ou ar e ha v ing 3 or mor e
bo w el
mo v ement s a d a y, y our smal l
int estine is most li k el y c lear.
1 9
In moder n times, w e ha v e al l t hese ne w f ang led diseases t hat ar e
w er e so r ar e just 2
g ener ations ag o. W h y is t hat?

A f t er seeing t he mir ac ulous c ur ing po w er s of tur pentine, I
belie v e it
is bec ause our g r eat-g r andpar ent s t ook t heir tur pentine t w ic e a y ear.
B ec ause
m y obser v ation has been t hat in moder n man, onc e his
bo w els ar e c lear ed out and
tur pentine is administ er ed t w ic e a w eek,
t hese r ar e c onditions ac tual l y r ec ede or impr o v e.

S o, it mig ht be t hat t hese medic al dif f ic ulties ar e simpl y a f unc tion of
t his lost k no w ledg e
t hat has not been applied.

I ha v e had people c al l me up long-dist anc e t o sa y, " O h, D r. D aniels, I
f eel so muc h bett er.
C an I t ak e mor e tur pentine?"
I t el l t hem, " W el l,
y ou c an do an y t hing y ou w ant, but I w ould not r ec ommend mor e
tur pentine. "
W hen tur pentine is used, par asit es ha v e t o be manag ed b y t he immune
s y st em. Inc r easing t he dose
of tur pentine c an br ing on a c leansing r eac tion if t he amount
of par asit es dec iding t o lea v e e x c eeds
t he immune s y st em ’ s abi lit y t o dir ec t t hem.

For t h is
r e as o n, g e t t i n g gr e a t r es u l ts w i t h t ur p e n t i n e m e a ns t h a t y o u ar e a t t h e r i g h t d os e
f or y o u. I t
d o es n o t m e a n t h a t a h i g h er d os e is b e t t er.
1 0
S t ep 2:
S t op E atin g C an di d as
F a v o rit e F ood
0 1 0 2 0 3
T his is an y f ood t hat is
blended, c ook ed, or
mi x ed
w it h somet hing
else bef or e y ou bu y it.
Y es, t hat
means r ic e mi l k,
r ic e c ak es, ener g y bar s,
g r anol a, et c.
A lso, c on v ert
al l be v er ag es t o w at er. N o
alc oholic
be v er ag es ar e t o
be c onsumed.B r eads r isen w it h y east
ar e a major hazar d.
S tudies
done in t he ‘90s
t o anal y ze t he y east in
w omen w it h
r ec ur r ent
v ag initis f ound t heir
y east w as t he same
str ain
of y east used in mak ing
br ead. S o, st op eating
br eads, meat, and d air y.
T hese "f oods " ar e al l f ul l
of
par asit es t hat str ess
y our s y st em and mak e
y our
bod y unable t o c ur e
it s C andid a.F or t he pur poses of
suc c eeding w it h t he
C andid a
C leaner, y ou c an
r educ e t he off ending
f oods b y
50% f or a per iod
of 1 mont h bef or e
st arting
tur pentine—t hat
is, if y ou ar e not able t o
eliminat e
t hem
c omplet el y f r om y our
diet.
2 0
C as e S tu di e s
T ur pentine and sug ar c annot be t ak en c asual l y. Y ou r eal l y do need t o f ir st open up
t he bo w els and g et t hem g oing.

O ne e x ample I ’ d li k e t o g i v e y ou is a patient w ho c ame t o me m y medic al pr ac tic e
y ear s ag o. She w as a beautif ul It ali an l ad y, v er y y oung, ma y be 30-somet hing, and
she
had t his
c omple x ion t hat w as v er y lump y and bump y.
A t f ir st g l anc e, y ou w ould t hink, " O h, w hat an a w f ul c ase of ac ne!"
She had t his lump y,
bump y f ac e and she t old me ho w muc h it bot her ed her. It made
her v er y self -c onsc ious,
and she w ant ed t o g et r id of al l t hose lumps and bumps.
I e x pl ained t o her t hat d air y
pr oduc t s had t o g o, and meat, and so on.
She said, " W el l,
I ’m It ali an and I eat c heese. "
" W el l, t hat’ s a c onsider ation, " I r eplied.
In t he end, she
w as able t o st op eating a f e w of t hose pr oblematic f oods, and so
t hese lumps t


 were all discussing one subject--food. (Later on, I too would succumb to
this pastime.) I noticed the furnishings were modest and there was a cleanliness that
shone throughout. There was a characteristic aroma which permeated the air. It was from a marvelous vegetable soup brewing in the kitchen.
   I asked to see Dr. Gross. In a few minutes, I was warmly greeted by a beautiful
young woman who introduced herself as Mrs. Joy Gross, Dr. Gross' wife. Since I didn't have the strength to carry my l uggage, Joy went outside and brought the
suitcases in. Then she grabbed the suitcases under one arm and me with the other arm,
because I was so weak, and took us all upstairs to a room on the second floor. This
was to be my home for a while.
   It was a bright, cheery room with two beds. (For the first few weeks I occupied this
room, I had it all to myself.) At the time, I really wasn't interested in the physical
layout. I was too sick, too weak and had a widespread infection in the bowel, accompanied by a fever. My only desire at the moment was to just drop into bed and
stay there, which I did after quickly unpacking.
   Perhaps I should explain here that hygienic institutions are not fancy, plush spas
with matching fancy prices. They are clean, pleasant, and are within reach of the
average person's finances. The costs could probably be compared to a stay at an
average motel--but in addition you get the doctor's care and attention several times a
day, plus his being available 24 hours a day. The food is included when you are eating and you also benefit from the doctor's advice and educational programs concerning
your new way of life.
   If you compare the cost of a stay at a hygienic institution and the cost of a stay at a
general hospital, you will find the cost of one week at the hygienic institution will
equal about one day in the general hospital. You will learn and build good health in the hygienic institution, but I doubt if you will in the general hospital (barring
emergency care, certain "necessary" surgeries, etc.).
   I fell asleep almost immediately, but was awakened soon after by a knock at the
door. It was Dr. Gross. He sat on the edge of my bed and we talked for a half-hour or
so and he told me that I would be fasting--no food, just water. I was mentally prepared
for that, but I didn't know for how long, so I asked him, but he wouldn't commit
himself because he really did not know. He told me that each individual is different and each problem is different, so we would take each day as it came. Dr. Gross had an
idea of approximately how long he would like me to fast, but, of course, he wouldn't
tell me. In our previous little interview he sized me up quite well and knew not to give
me a projection too far in advance    Dr. Gross saw how tired I was and told me to try and get some sleep, after which I
was to weigh myself and keep a daily record of my weight changes. When I awoke, I put myself on the scale and recorded 140 pounds in the first page of my diary. I was
starting this fast on Thursday, September 3, 1964, at 140 pounds, a 30-pound deficit
from my so-called normal weight of 170 pounds (too heavy). I spent a good part of
this day sitting outside and getting a little sun. ( The first week was spent almost
entirely in bed, except for the frequent bowel activity which necessitated me ambulating to the lavatory. Even though I was to abstain from food, except water, for
the next six weeks, there was bowel activity every day except for the last few days of
the fast. It took about nine or ten days for my body to eliminate the infection and
bring down the fever. At no time were any drugs, vitamins, or supplements
administered. Everything accomplished was by the body's own ability when left unmolested.) This first fasting day was rather  uneventful. No unusual thirst or hunger.
Malaise and weakness present. About a dozen B.M.s (diarrhea) with no blood. Slept
fair. Short periods of insomnia and restless ness; but not as intense as before coming
here. Up twice during the night for B.M.s.
   Here follow selections from my diar y for the period of my fast and recovery:
   Friday, September 4, 1964 --Fast, 2nd day: My weight this morning is 139 pounds; a
loss of one pound. Sensations of hunger at scattered intervals. Very weak and tired.
Some light-headedness on getting up, due to decrease in blood pressure. No headache.
No unusual thirst. Six watery B.M.s. today and no blood. Feet, legs, and thighs have
dull ache. This, coupled with insomnia and restlessness, makes it difficult to fall
asleep. Very poor night due to uneasiness plus four or five trips to the lavatory.
   Saturday, September 5, 1964 --Fast, 3rd day: Coating on tongue, foul breath and
taste beginning, as is the thickening of saliva. (This is normal on a fast and occurs in
varying degrees, as the body eliminates its wastes or toxic load, which has been accumulating for years. There were many mornings I'd have to take a knife blade and scrape the coating off. I could taste salt, plus many of the drugs coming through the mucous membranes of my mouth. There is nothing known to man that equals the fast
as a means of increasing elimination of waste from the blood and tissues.) Weight this
morning is 137-1/2 pounds; a loss of 1-1/2 pounds from yesterday and a total loss of
2-1/2 pounds in two days of fasting. No hunger or desire for food, although I can taste
certain foods in my mind as I think about them. Very comfortable day. Weakness and
tiredness has decreased since yesterday and I feel more alert. Very little thirst. Five
B.M.s. today (diarrhea with some blood). Low back (sacral) pain makes it difficult to
get from lying to sitting or sitting to standing position, supposedly due to breaking up of calcium deposits in that area, which most people accumulate as age increases. This
is quite common and lasts only three or four days, followed by comfort and increased
suppleness in the area. Much insomnia and restlessness--very annoying. Blood
pressure a little low, but good quality pulses. Must be careful on standing up. If too
rapid, light-headed to almost blackout. Difficult to sleep--restless. Up twice during night for trips to lavatory. Could feel spasms in the large intestine. Blood pressure
118/75.
   Sunday, September 6, 1964 --Fast, 4th day: Weight this morning 136-1/2 pounds; a
loss of one pound from yesterday and a total loss of 3-1/2 pounds after three days of
fasting. Walking labored. Sense of well-being all day. Light-headed in upright position. Occasional but negligible nausea. No natural hunger or true desire for food.
(Usually, sick people like myself have no desire to eat anyway, even though we are forced to as part of medical treatment. The sick body does not have the capacity to
properly digest and assimilate or absorb food and this weakens the body further. The
fast provides the needed rest for the digestive organs. Now, the average person will
experience hunger for about the first three days, after which it subsides and the faster
becomes comfortable. I've heard many people state that they tried fasting, couldn't tolerate the hunger, and swore not to fast ag ain. The problem was that they didn't fast
beyond three days--they never experienced the most comfortable phase of the fast.)
Low back-sacral-pain quite intense when maneuvering into different positions, but
most intense when in a bent-over position and trying to straighten up. (Much gas is
present most of the time throughout my fast.) Five diarrheal episodes with clot-like material present. Very bad night. Terrible insomnia and restlessness. Not much sleep.
Awakened during night for three bouts of diarrhea. (The average person, by this stage
of the fast, has ceased to have B.M.s--not tr ue of those with severe, chronic, ulcerative
colitis.) Blood pressure 118/78.
   Monday, September 7, 1964 --Fast, 5th day: Weight 134 pounds; a loss of 2-1/2
pounds from yesterday and a total loss of six pounds after four days of fasting. Low
back pain much eased. Tired, weak, and sluggish, but feel fine mentally and in good spirits. Blood pressure 115/72. Tongue quite coated. Breath and taste very foul. True
desire for food absent, but talked much about  it and could taste, in my mind, whatever
I imagined. Slight increase in thirst, although water is beside me and I drink only
when thirsty--never forced. (There is so me dehydration when fasting, but depending
on the productivity of the fast, our own senses determine how much water is needed. There were some days when a total of two glasses satisfied me and


plied it was about thirty seconds. It had a beginning, middle, end, and a
few big emotional peaks. It was perfect for Tell the Story. I explained the
technique to him and “pre-framed” (let him know in advance) what to
expect from this process: I would likely cut him off in mid-story if it looked
like he was experiencing intensity but my intention was not to be rude, only
to make sure we tapped the emotional charge out of each aspect he felt so
we could resolve the trauma at its roots.
Roger didn’ t believe there was any trauma relating to this unknown story;
he wanted to tap on his today anxiety. I explained that because this
particular story came to mind as we tapped on the physical places where he
was feeling anxiety, then the story was probably related to the anxiety, even
if he felt nothing right now. These little stories from childhood, as noted,
can be the cornerstone of core issues now playing themselves out in a
person’ s current-day challenges. Is it a coincidence that the story comes to
mind when tapping on anxiety? Nope, it’s cooperation—the conscious and
subconscious working together. My sense was that Roger ’s story had laid a
big part of the foundation for his anxiety.Step 2. Name the story. He named his story “The Goulash Scare” and it
can be summari zed as such: Around the age of six, while eating dinner,
Roger witnessed his alcoholic mom throw a pot of Hungarian goulash at the
wall after his dad angered her. Roger ’s physical sensations as we discussed
them made it clear that this was a bigger story than he thought. Using
intuition, attentio n, and EFT, everything counts. When you have an intuitive
insight, follow it. The worst that can happen is that it goes nowhere. Your
subconscious mind doesn’ t operate in the same paradigm that your
conscious mind  does. It has a bigger picture than your ego and knows
exactly how to express what it needs to heal when you’ve given  it the green
light.
Do you have a story you want to work through? Name it now.
Step 3. Don’ t go into the story yet—check for intensity first. If there is
intensity just thinking about the story’ s title, tap on that first until you get
below a 5. Follo w along with the example below; insert your own title into
the tapping statements.
“Guess how upset you might be if you did have feelings about the
Goulash Scare,”  I suggested, performing a bit of Tearless Trauma and what
we call sneakin g up on a problem in EFT. He guessed that the intensity
would be a 10 if he did have feelings about it, which he again insisted that
he didn’ t.
Using only two pieces of inform ation—a guessed intensity number of 10
and a story title—we globally tapped on the title, “Goulash Scare.” “Even
though I’ve got this Goulash Scare story…” (insert your title if you want to
work on one). His emotions began to spike up. He reported feeling upset
and unidentified feelings relating to this event that happened thirty years
ago. We tapped three rounds on just guessing until intensity dropped to a 1,
which meant he was ready to start telling the story.
Step 4. Start at a neutral place telling your story now. Roger started from
as neutral a place as he could find—before the actual event. The family was
seated at the table, just tucking into lunch, and his mother and father werediscussing something. When Roger got to the part where his dad said, “I’m
fed up with doing everything myself,” Roger ’s voice softened and slowed.
He indicated to me that he was also feeling sadness. It was time to stop
telling the story and to start tapping on the ener gy disruption.
Step 5. Stop when intensity rises and tap on just that one aspect.  We
stopped the narration and took an intensity rating. Roger said he was at a 7
of sadness intensity, with a strange lump in his throat; a 7 as well. I asked if
there was any other body awareness relating to what Dad said in the
Goulash Scare. Roger replied that the tightness in his chest was back and it
was a 10 again.
If you are tapping with this example, tune into both emotional and
physical sensations.
Step 6. Perform the EFT basic recipe on the one highest aspect you
uncovered. Here’ s what we did with Roger:
Karate chop:  “Even though I’m feeling tightness in my chest when I
think about Dad saying, ‘I’m fed up with doing everything myself ’ in
the Goulash Scare, I deeply and profoundly accept myself.”
“Even though in the Goulash Scare Dad said, ‘I’m fed up with doing
everything myse lf,’ and I have  this tight feeling in my heart region
right now about that, I deeply and profoundly accept myself.”
“Even though I feel my heart all tight when I think about this Goulash
Scare, I deeply and profoundly accept myself.”
We then tapped down the sequence of points. After just a few rounds,
Roger ’s anxiety over his dad’s words went down to zero and the chest
feeling had dropped to a 3. I decided we’d continue—meanin g the chest
would be bookmarked for the moment—and recheck that 3 rating after a
few rounds. He started telling the story again from the beginning, and this
time when he got to the part about what his dad said, the soft voice and
lump in his throat spiked at a 9. We tapped on these aspects until they
subsided, somewhat. I asked him what feeling the soft voice  and throatlump might be relating to, and he answered “sadness” that spiked at a 10.
The chest tightness was also back. We left the chest for the moment and
tapped on the sadness about what his dad said. Clearly, emotions were
jumping around  as the disruptio n cleared. We had only just gotten to this
one part of the story, and alread y he had released a significant amount of
emotion. Here’ s one setup: “Even though I’ve got what Dad said in my
throat and in my voice, I deeply and completely accept myself.” (Note that
physical express ion of upset is part and parcel of EFT.)Another setup was:
“Even though I’m sad about Dad’ s words in the Goulash Scare, it happened,
and it’ s over now.”
Step 7. Tap on aspects one at a time. Go with the highest intens ity aspect
first. Is anyth ing standing out about your example? Give it a number  on the
intensity scale and start tapping.  As for Roger, the tightness subsided as did
the sadness, and he was now feeling fear about what Dad said. Again, we
had not gone beyond that one point in the story.
We continued, with his starting at the beginning and carefully tapping at
each aspect that had intensity throughout the story. We used the intensity
scale as a continual feedback loop to know when to move forward. We
moved forward when his intensity on an aspect subsided to below a 2. After
about forty minutes, we were closing in on the end of the story.
Like many peop le, Roger had wanted to run through the entire story all at
once. But think of a traumatic story in your own past. How far has telling
that story over and over again—worrying it like a bone—without tapping
gotten you? In Roger ’s case, I would have done him a disservic e to let him
do that. We wouldn’ t have found all the troubling aspects of the story nor
been able to collapse them. Aspects are like diamonds in the rough—you
wouldn’ t throw one of those out, would you?
In the Goulash Scare memory, we tapped on aspects that included: the
look on Dad’ s face; the angry look on Mom’ s face; the tone of Dad’ s voice;
the soun d of Mom’ s footsteps;  seeing her stomp away; the color of the
tablecloth; the sight of goulash on the wall; the sound of the dish crashing;the feeling of being frozen; the fear; helplessness; the need to be really,
really quiet; the confusion; and more.
Step 8. Test results. Your event is resolved when you have no intensity at
all when  you think of the story. By the time we got to running through the
whole thing as if it were a movie with deliberate exaggeration, making it
bigger, brighter, louder, angrier, and so forth, he was laughing about how
silly the goulash looked sliding down the wall, “like a Jackson Pollock
painting,” he said. There were no lurking aspects uncovered. He still
couldn’ t scare up any upset. His whole body had relaxed, I noticed. He
reported later that his short fuse had lengthened a bit and that while out with
his children, something that normally would have put him into anxiety
mode didn’ t even register on the anxiety Richter scale.
Clues that EFT is working are those cognitive shifts, insights, or “aha!”
moments. Roger suddenly realiz ed that in order to be safe, he had appeased
his mother his entire life. His enabling of his mom today stemmed


t h a t  h e  h i m s e l f  e m b o d i e d.
I n  t h e  B i b l e  i t  i s  s a i d  t h a t  t h e  H o l y  S p i r i t  w i l l  g i v e  u s  a
n e w  m i n d.  A n d  w h o  a m o n g  u s  c o u l d  n o t  u s e  t h a t?  I t
b e c o m e s  f r u i t l e s s  t o  a s k  G o d  t o  c h a n g e  o u r  w o r l d  o n c e  w er e c o g n i z e  t h e  w o r l d  i s  m e r e l y  t h e  r e f l e c t i o n  o f  o u r  t h o u g h t s.
W h a t  w e  p r a y  f o r  i s  t h e  h e a l i n g  o f  o u r  m i n d s.
I t ’ s  i m p o s s i b l e  t o  m a k e  y o u r  l i f e  n e w  w h e n  y o u r  m i n d  i s
r u n n i n g  o l d  t a p e s.  T i m e  a n d  t i m e  a g a i n,  w e ’ v e  b l o w n  i t  a t
e x a c t l y  t h e  s a m e  p l a c e  i n  a  r e l a t i o n s h i p  o r  s a b o t a g e d  a
p r o f e s s i o n a l  e n d e a v o r  i n  e x a c t l y  t h e  s a m e  w a y.  Y e t  w e  f e e l
p o w e r l e s s  t o  s t o p  o u r  s e l f  d e f e a t i n g  b e h a v i o r.  W h a t ’ s  t h e
p o i n t  o f  a t t r a c t i n g  a n  o p p o r t u n i t y  i f  w e ’ r e  o n l y  g o i n g  t o  r u i n
i t  a n y w a y?
W e  p a y  a  h i g h  p r i c e  f o r  r e f u s i n g  t o  a c c e p t  t h e  p a r t  w e
p l a y  i n  c a u s i n g  o u r  p r o b l e m s ;  i f  I  d o n ’ t  s e e  I  c a u s e d  i t,  t h e n
I  c a n ’ t  s e e  I  c a n  c h a n g e  i t! *  B u t  o n c e  I ’ m  w i l l i n g  t o  t a k e
t o t a l  r e s p o n s i b i l i t y  f o r  m y  o w n  e x p e r i e n c e,  I  c a n  s e e  t h e
v a l u e  o f  i n v i t i n g  t h e  H o l y  S p i r i t  t o  e n t e r  m y  m i n d  a n d  f i l l
m e  w i t h  H i s  s p i r i t.  C o n s c i o u s n e s s  p r e c e d e s  f o r m,  a n d  t h e
p e r f e c t  f o r m  a r i s e s  f r o m  a  c o n s c i o u s n e s s  o f  t o t a l  l o v e.
T o t a l  l o v e  s e e m s  l i k e  a  v e r y  t a l l  o r d e r  u n t i l  w e  c o n s i d e r
t h e  r e a l i t y  t h a t  t o t a l  l o v e  i s  w h a t  w e  a r e.  S o  w h e r e ’ s  t h e
d i s c o n n e c t?  W e  a s k,  “ I f  I  a m  l o v e,  a n d  l o v e  c r e a t e s
m i r a c l e s,  t h e n  w h y  i s  m y  l i f e  s o  s c r e w e d  u p? ”
A t  a  c e r t a i n  l e v e l  i t ’ s  n o t  o u r  d i v i n e  r e a l i t y  t h a t ’ s  t h e
i s s u e —  t h e  i s s u e  i s  h o w  m u c h  o f  t h a t  r e a l i t y  w e  a l l o w
o u r s e l v e s  t o  e x p e r i e n c e  a n d  e x p r e s s.  I n  t h e  i n t r o d u c t i o n  t o  A
C o u r s e  i n  M i r a c l e s,  i t ’ s  s t a t e d,  “ T h e  c o u r s e  d o e s  n o t  a i m  a t
t e a c h i n g  t h e  m e a n i n g  o f  l o v e,  f o r  t h a t  i s  b e y o n d  w h a t  c a n
b e  t a u g h t.  I t  d o e s  a i m,  h o w e v e r,  a t  r e m o v i n g  t h e  b l o c k s  t o
y o u r  a w a r e n e s s  o f  l o v e ’ s  p r e s e n c e,  w h i c h  i s  y o u r  n a t u r a li n h e r i t a n c e. ”  L o v e  i s  a l l  a r o u n d  u s,  b u t  w e ’ r e  i n  t h e  m e n t a l
a n d  e m o t i o n a l  h a b i t  o f  d e f l e c t i n g  i t.
W i t h  e v e r y  a t t i t u d e  o f  a t t a c k  o r  d e f e n s e,  w e  s e n d  l o v e
a w a y.  W i t h  e v e r y  p e r c e p t i o n  o f  a n y o n e ’ s  g u i l t,  w e  t e l l  l o v e
t o  l e a v e.  W i t h  e v e r y  t h o u g h t  o f  l i m i t e d  p o s s i b i l i t y,  w e  t e l l
m i r a c l e s  w e  d o n ’ t  w a n t  t h e m.  A n d  t h e n  w e  w o n d e r  w h y
w e ’ r e  d e p r e s s e d.
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h u m b l e d  o n  t h e  s u b j e c t,  h a v i n g  l e a r n e d  t h e  h a r d  w a y  h o w
i m p o r t a n t  i t  i s  t o  m o v e  s l o w l y  o n  t h e  i n s i d e  w h e n  t h i n g s  o n
t h e  o u t s i d e  a r e  m o v i n g  f a s t.  W h i l e  I  d o n ’ t  f e a r  c h a n g e  i n
a n d  o f  i t s e l f,  I  f e a r  m y s e l f  w h e n  I ’ m  n o t  s l o w  a n d  c o n s c i o u s
a n d  p r a y e r f u l  w h i l e  i t ’ s  h a p p e n i n g.I n  1 9 9 2  m y  f i r s t  b o o k,  A  R e t u r n  t o  L o v e,  w a s  p u b l i s h e d.
T h a n k s  t o  O p r a h  W i n f r e y  a n d  h e r  g e n e r o u s  e n t h u s i a s m  f o r
t h e  b o o k,  m y  w o r l d  c h a n g e d.  M o n e y  c a m e  t h a t  I  h a d  n e v e r
h a d  b e f o r e,  a l o n g  w i t h  p r e s s  a t t e n t i o n  a n d  a  s l i g h t  c e l e b r i t y
s t a t u s.  I  d i d n ’ t  t h i n k  o f  i t  a s  i n c r e d i b l e ;  I  j u s t  t h o u g h t  o f  i t  a s
l o t s  t o  d o!  I  b e c a m e  a  c h i c k e n  w i t h  m y  h e a d  c h o p p e d  o f f,
n o  l o n g e r  t a k i n g  a s  m u c h  t i m e  t o  l i s t e n,  t o  r e f l e c t,  t o
m e d i t a t e,  t o  t h i n k.  A t  a  t i m e  w h e n  I  m o s t  n e e d e d  t o  r e p a i r
t o  m y  i n n e r  r o o m,  t o  a s k  G o d  t o  e n t e r  a n d  e x p l a i n  t h i n g s  t o
m e,  I  w a s  b e g i n n i n g  t o  f o r g e t.  I  w a s  m o v i n g  t o o  f a s t.  I  p u t
s o m e  s e c o n d  t h i n g s  f i r s t  a n d  s o m e  f i r s t  t h i n g s  s e c o n d  i n
w a y s  I  w o u l d  c o m e  t o  r e g r e t.
I  r e m e m b e r  r e c e i v i n g  m y  f i r s t  r o y a l t y  c h e c k,  m o r e
m o n e y  t h a n  I  h a d  e v e r  s e e n.  A n d  p e r h a p s  p a r t i c u l a r l y
b e c a u s e  I  w a s  l i v i n g  i n  L o s  A n g e l e s  a t  t h e  t i m e,  I  b o u g h t
i n t o  t h e  n o t i o n  t h a t  i f  y o u  h a v e  t h e  g o o d  f o r t u n e  t o  h a v e
m o n e y,  y o u  m u s t  b u y  a  h o u s e.  B u t  I  r e m e m b e r  p r a y i n g
a b o u t  t h i s,  a n d  m y  g u i d a n c e  w a s  c l e a r  t h o u g h  i t  s e e m e d  o d d
t o  m e :  “ R e d e c o r a t e  y o u r  c o n d o. ”
I  k e p t  h a v i n g  t h a t  t h o u g h t :  “ R e d e c o r a t e  y o u r  c o n d o. ”
B u t  p e o p l e  a r o u n d  m e  l a u g h e d  a t  s u c h  a  t h o u g h t.  W h y
w o u l d  I  r e d e c o r a t e  m y  c o n d o  w h e n  I  c o u l d  a f f o r d  a  h o u s e?
A  C o u r s e
i n  M i r a c l e s  s t a t e s  t h a t  t h e  H o l y  S p i r i t  o f t e n  g i v e s
g u i d a n c e  t h a t  s o u n d s  s t a r t l i n g  a t  t h e  t i m e,  b u t  I  g u e s s  I
f o r g o t  t h a t  p a r t.  I  w e n t  w i t h  t h e  v o i c e s  o f  t h e  w o r l d  i n s t e a d
o f  t h e  v o i c e s  o f  m y  h e a r t.I n  t h e  g r e a t e r  s c h e m e  o f  t h i n g s,  w h e t h e r  o r  n o t  y o u
p u r c h a s e  a  h o u s e  i s  n o t  w h a t  m a t t e r s.  B u t  i t  m a t t e r s  i n d e e d
w h e n  t h e  v o i c e  i n  y o u r  h e a r t  l o s e s  v o l u m e  i n  y o u r  h e a d.
W h y  w a s  t h e  H o l y  S p i r i t  d i r e c t i n g  m e  t o  r e d e c o r a t e  m y
c o n d o?  B e c a u s e  I  n e e d e d  t i m e  t o  a d j u s t  t o  t h e  n e w  t u r n  m y
l i f e  h a d  t a k e n.  I  n e e d e d  t i m e  t o  g r o w  i n t o  m y  n e w


?)) may be made by
attitudes. For example, an image ofarm of the subject, simultaneously telling
Do a trial run with the prospective
either the questioner or the test subject.
Nelson Mandela will make all test
him to "resist," (i.e., against the subject. Ask the candidate to think of
Each time a question is stated, the test
subjects go strong, even racists who
downward pressure). A normal subject is
someone he or she loves, then press
subject is told to resist and the tester
resent him. The music of Bach makes
able to resist the pressure and keep the
down with two fingers on the wrist of the
presses down quickly with two fingers an
everyone go strong, even if they do not
arm extended parallel to the ground.
arm extended out to the side, parallel to
the test subject's extended wrist.
personally like it, just as heavy metal
the ground. A normal subject will go
Occasionally there are persons who are
In our research we frequently used teamsmusic makes all subjects go weak, even
quite strong and be able to resist firmly.
unable to keep their arm extended when
of test subjects. For example, twenty,
if they personally prefer it.
Next, have the party think of someone he
any downward pressure is applied, due to
thirty, or up to 1,000 people were divided
This confirmability of results has been
or she hates or fears or has a resentment
previous contact with weakening ener gy
into two-person teams who took turns as
observed during the last twenty years by
toward (alternatively, Adolph Hitler). A
fields or negative health conditions; these
tester and test subject. The whole group
thousands of clinicians using kinesiology
normal subject will go very weak and be
are not suitable test subjects. Some of
was asked the same question at the same
in their everyday clinical practices or for
unable to resist downward pressure an histhese subjects can recover by thumping
time, or was divided into subgroups for
research. The results, in fact, are more
or her wrist. Run through a few more
themselves over the thymus gland (at the
independent research projects. In a group
consistent than conventional diagnostic
contrasting pairs of stimuli to establish
top of the breastbone) in a "one-two-
of 100 people (fifty two-person teams),
methods used in traditional medicine
consistency of response and develop a
three" rhythm, while they smile and think
perhaps one or two will have dif ficulty in
(e.g., a weak heart never tests strong with
rapport between tester and subject. Some
of some (248) one they love. They will then
obtaining the same results as the others.
kinesiology but may give an erroneous
sample ideological, visual and auditory
"go strong" and respond normally, but
They can be taken aside to do thenormal EKG tracing-a well-known fact).
stimuli with predictable responses are:
the "fix" may last for only four hours and
"thymus thump," described above, which
(249)
this "thymus thump" will then have to be
will return their responses to normal, and
APPENDIX C
repeated.
T est W eak
T est Str ong
they can then rejoin the group.
(250)
V ideotapes
Hate Love
Using the above method, test results
Step 2
are one-hundred percent replicable over
V ideo demonstrations of the various
Swastika American
flag
Keep the testing situation impersonal;the course of time so that any group of
subjects and techniques described herein
refrain from smiling or making personal
Stalin Mahatma
Gandhi
people anywhere will always produce the
are available from:
comments. Keep the environment free of
Gangster Rap music
Classical music
same results; for example, the image of
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such as pets or intrusive children.
weak, even if they never heard of him or
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midline. Also remove watches or
Step 6
After establishing that the test subject
jewelry, including necklaces. Be aware
The test can also be performed by
reacts reliably and is in a normal state,
that aberrant stimuli such as a tester's
holding test objects next to the solar
proceed with the topic under
perfume or after -shave lotion may af fect
plexus of the test subjects. They will be
investigation by making declarative
the test results. T o improve
found to go weak in response to artificial
statements. Questions should always be
concentration, have the test subject close
sweetener, pesticides, or even a picture of
posed as a declaration of fact. It is
his or her eyes.Hitler concealed in a manila envelope.
useless to ask questions about the future
They will go strong in response to
Step 3
as the test results will have no reliability.
nutritious food, beneficial medicines and
Always preface the investigation with the
If subjects repeatedly go weak, evaluate
nutrients, a concealed picture of
statement, "It is safe for me to make
the examiner's voice. The occasional
Abraham Lincoln, etc.
inquiry into (the specific topic)." (Y/N?)
Level
Log
Emotion
Life V iew
Enlightenment
700 – 1000
Ineffable
Is
PPeace
600
Bliss
Perfect
Joy
540
Ser enity
Complete
O
Love
500
Rever ence
Benign
Reason
400
Understanding
Meaningful
W
Acceptance
350
Forgiveness
HarmoniousW illingness
310
Optimism
Hopeful
E
Neutrality
250
T rust
Satisfactory
Courage
200
Affirmation
Feasible
R
Pride
175
Scorn
Demanding
F
Anger
150
HateAntagonistic
Desir e
125
Craving
Disappointing
O
Fear
100
Anxiety
Frightening
Grief
75
Regr et
T ragic
R
Apathy
50
Despair
Hopeless
Guilt
30
BlameEvil
C
Shame
20
Humiliation
Miserable
Power vs Force: the hidden determinants of human behaviour; David R.
Hawkins, M.D, Ph.D.
E
Shame: (20)
craving more important than life itself. Desire has to do with
The level of shame is perilously proximate to death, which may be
accumulation and greed. W ant can start us on the road to achievement.
chosen out of Shame as conscious suicide or more subtly elected by
Hence Desire can become a springboard to yet higher levels of
failure to take steps to prolong life. In shame we hang our heads and
awareness.
slink away, wishing that we were invisible. It’ s destructive to emotional
and psychological health, and makes us prone to physical illness.
Anger: (150)
As people move out of Apathy and Grief to overcome Fear as a way of
Guilt: (30)life, they begin to want; Desire leads to frustration, which in turn leads to
Guilt manifests itself in a variety of expressions, such as remorse, self-
Anger. Anger expresses itself most often as resentment and revenge
recrimination, masochism, and the whole gamut of symptoms of
and is, therefore, volatile and dangerous. Since Anger stems from
victimhood. Unconscious Guilt results in psychosomatic disease,
frustrated want, it’ s based on the ener gy field below it. Frustration results
accident proneness and suicidal behavior. Guilt provokes rage and killing
from exaggerating the importance of desires. Anger leads easily to
frequently is its expression.
hatred, which has an erosion ef fect on all areas of a person’ s life.
Apathy: (50)
Pride: (175)
This level is characterized by poverty, despair, and hopelessness. The
In contrast to the lower ener gy fields, people feel positive as they reach
world and the future look bleak. Apathy is a state of helplessness, its this
level. However Pride feels good only in contrast to the lower levels.
victims needy in every way, lack not only the resources, but the ener gy
Pride is defensive and vulnerable because it’ s dependent upon external
to avail themselves of what may be available. Unless external ener gy is
conditions, without which is can suddenly revert to a lower level. Pride is
supplied by a caregiver, death through passive suicide may result.
fueled by the inflated ego which is always vulnerable to attack. Hence
the downside of Pride is arrogance and denial. These characteristics
Grief: (75)
block growth.This is the level of sadness, loss and dependency. Those who live at this
level live a life of constant regret and depression. This is the level of
Courage: (200)
mourning, bereavement, and


 they consider it taboo.\ N l. I 1-' N T S f- <. R f' l S I < ) R M ( ) I> 1: R N I ( ) V 1: N \
166 on religious or moral grounds. ( )thers feel the �arne, hut engage
in it anyway-and enjoy the forbidden fruit. Still others do not
practice it, out of ignorance or unin ug inativ e sex uality.
Modern sexology has evolved consider ably from K rafft-Ebing,
who lumped sexual deviation with sexual crin1c, to Masters and
Johnson, who recommend sex play to treat impotence and other
sexual dysfunctions that come between partners. Today's sexolo
gists and sex therapists place increasing importance on sex play as
part of healthy sexual union.
Masters and Johnson introduced "sensate focus exercises"
carefully regulated, progressive love-play designed to arouse the
sexual desire of each partner. An important feature of their ther
apy for the male's temporary impotence is the nondemanding na
ture of the exercise. No matter how aroused partners are, they are
not to have intercourse until the man's erections have become reg
ular and reliable. This assuages the male fear of performance, the
principal cause of this form of impotence.
Masters and Johnson chan ged the term "foreplay," which has
been used popularly, to "noncoital sex play." As they and their
cowriter, Robert Kolodny, explain in Masters and Johnson on Sex
and Human Lovin g, such activities need not precede actual inter
course. Sex play can be enjoyed before, during, or after coitus
or even without it. This last poss ibility is indicated by a recent
American poll in which many women responded that they found
love-play essential in sex, and in many cases even preferable to in
tercourse.
While today's sexologists' ideas on love-play might have
shocked early Western sexologists, they are in broad agreement
with the teachings Taoist sexologists propounded centuries ago.
The ancients put great emphasis on love-play, and came up with
various means to harmonize the Yin and Yang embodied in the
partners. This is evident in the graphic instructions in many an
ancient sexology classic. As is stated explicitly at the opening of
The Class ic of the Elemental Ma id, sex play was not only pleasurable
by itself, but essential to avoid sexual dysfunction.
SEXUAL Musc LEs
In the 1940s, the gynecologist Arnold Kegel introduced a revolu
tionary treatment for urinary stress incontinence (inability to con-trol urine) in his patients. Instead of pert'ilnning surgery, as was
traditional. he taught the wonten to strengthen their puboror
cygeus tnusdcs with exercise. These tnuscles, tound betwet·n the
pubic bone and the coccyx, arc controlled in a cotnplex nunnt•r by
the pudendal nerve, which is linked to the gt·nitals, and the pdvic
nerve, which is linked to tht· uterus (the prostate in tnen) and the
bladder.
The exercise, which involvt·d contraction of the n1uscles,
not only helped Kegel's patients control urination, but as a sur
prise bonus enabled son1e of then1 to have orgasn1 for the first
titne in their lives. Sexologists Be verly Whipple and John Perry
claimed in 1980 that their research confirmed that this exercise,
v.rhen done by both male and fetnale partners, greatly enhanced
their sex lives, improving n1ale erection and female orgasmic ca
paCity.
How "revolutionary " was this discovery? For more than ten
centuries, adherents of the Art of the Bedchamber had been ex
ercising their genital area, including the pubococcygeus muscles,
to enhance their sex lives.
FEMALE ORGASM
In the West, until the mid-twentieth century, many people still
believed the Victorian myth that women were neither interested
in nor capable of orgasm. Even some physicians and medical sci
entists shared this belief Contempo rary sexologists, including
Kinsey and Masters and Johnson, have found that women can
have orgasm, and multiple orgasms.
In the politically more authoritarian but sexually less inhib
ited East, female orgasm has been taken for granted for centuries ;
indeed, earnest efforts to bring it about resulted in the Taoist Art
of the Bedchamber. As we have seen, the art revolves around the
major technique of male orgasmic brinkmanship; such control by
the male is necessary because, according to the Taoists, the female
is the stronger sex. Since the male is temporarily incapacitate d by
orgasmic ejaculations, and the female can "come, and come again,"
brinkmanship is essential to buttress male endurance, at least un
til the female "rejoices," and at most so she can have repeated
orgasms. AN CIENT SECRE TS FOR MODERN LOVERS
MALE ORGASM AND EJACUL ATION
There has been a considerable difference between the East and the
West in the assessment of male orgasm as wel l. In the East, the
various schools of Taoist sexologists were always cautious about
male ejaculation ; this caution mi ght be extreme, as in the pluck
and-nurturists' "never," or moderate, as in the mainstream advice
for ejaculation regulated according to age and health. In the West,
until recent years male ejaculation at orgasm was taken for granted
as the logical denouemen t, and often the sole purpose, of sexual
intercourse. The second-century Greek physician Galen advised
men to ejaculate at every coitus; he believed the retention of sperm
was harmful. This view was echoed adamantly by the gynecolo
gist Theodore Van de Velde in his 1928 bestseller Ideal Marriage.
He criticized another doctor, Alice Stockham, for recommending
male nonejaculation in her late-nineteenth-century book Karezza,
and yet another, Marie Stopes, for mentioning but not condemn
ing it in her book Married Love. "Karezza," also known by its Latin
name, coitus reservatus, is a method mention ed also in Tantric litera
ture, which, as was pointed out earlier, may have been inspired by
Taoist sexology. It has been practiced by Arabs-including Aly
Khan, whose sexual staying power was legendary-and by mem
bers of the Oneida Communit y, a group engaging in communal
polygamy in upstate New York during the second half of the
1 8oos. The Oneida technique was a pale and listless version, in
volving only occasional movement of the male organ. The Taoist
version is much more dynamic.
Van de Velde's "urgent warning against Karezza " was prob
ably responsible in part for the consensus atnong Western sex
ologists that coitus without the tnan's orgastnic ejaculation was
harn1ful to hin1. Masters and Jo hns on disputed this opinion. They
also recognized that tnale org asn1 and tnalc tjaculation n1ay not be
the sante. They not only suggested that a n1an need not tjaculate
t•vt'ry titne. but even introduct'd their own techniqut'to delay
tnale ej�Kulation. Their.. squeeze technique," probably Tantric in
inspi ration. requires the rnan to withdr aw when he tcels his eli
nux is near, and then the won1�u1 to pinch his penis frenulun1
(under the glans ridgt·) with her thun 1b and two tlngers.
The best Taoist ntethod ditlcrs fron1 the "squeeze technique "-The Mystic Master of the Grotto, and Masters and Johnson
and perhaps is superior to it-in that it does not require with
drawal, or any effort by the woman, or-if the man wants to be
discreet-even the woman's awareness. The art of male orgasmic
brinkmanship will be described in detail in chapter 16.
The mainstream Taoist concept of sexual health may have
gotten support, however tenuous, from a recent experiment con
ducted at the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Nancy Os
trowski and other researchers found that male golden hamsters
allowed to have sex on demand showed a weakening of defensive
"killer cells" in their immune system. As this experiment was
only tentative, it must be augmented by further tests. For now we
can only assume from its findings that since the male hamsters
probably ejaculated every time, the weakening of their immune
system was a result of ejaculation. We might extrapolate further
and apply this to ejaculation in men. It is conceivable that ex
perimen tation on human beings will conclude that while sexual
activities strengthen health in the long run, ejaculation lowers im
munity, at least tem porarily.
THE G SPOT
Now that they agree that women do have orgasm, contemporary
sexologists have found themsel


 do not even realise it as such; we consider
it the natural state.
     This syndrome has a simple symptom: suffering! Our suffering, whether
it be an intense emotion of hatred, anger or jealousy that erupts temporarily
in response to a particular circumstance, or simply a mild but chronic feeling
that something is missing, is the litmus test that indicates we have overlooked
our essential nature or being and that, as a result, its innate peace and hap -
piness has been obscured.
     Just as physical pain is a signal from the intrinsic intelligence of the body
letting us know that the body requires attention, so suffering is a message
from the happiness that lies in the depths of our being: ‘You are looking for
me in the wrong place! I am not caused by anything outside of you. I am
the nature of your being; there is no other place to find me. T urn towards
me and I will take you into myself.’
     As the Sufi mystic Bayazid Bastami said, ‘For thirty years I sought God.
But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker
and I the sought.’  * Whenever we are seeking happiness, it is in fact our
innate happiness that is seeking us. The happiness we seek is the happiness
we are.
     The great understanding that lies at the heart of all the main religious
and spiritual traditions consists of two essential insights: happiness is the
very nature of our self, and we share our being with everyone and everything.
12* As quoted in James Fadiman and Robert Frager, Essential Sufism  (HarperCollins, 1997 ). the search for happiness
     The second insight will be touched upon towards the end of this book.
As regards the first, in order to liberate this happiness from its hiding place
in the depths of our being and bring it out into our lived and felt experience,
it is necessary to go to one’s essential being or self and recognise its nature.
     This is why self-knowledge stands as the foundation of all the major
religious and spiritual traditions. It is the great understanding that gives us
access to the peace and happiness that is our very nature.
13 chapter two
Know Thyself
Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted
by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for their self,
which is solely due to the fact that happiness is their real
nature. Hence, in order to realise that inherent and
untainted happiness, which indeed one daily experiences
when the mind is subdued in deep sleep, it is essential
that one should know oneself.
ramana maharshi

In the Christian tradition it is said, ‘The kingdom of heaven is within you’.
What is the kingdom of heaven if not a realm of eternal happiness? The es -
sential message of Christianity is that this realm of eternal happiness lies
within us; it is the nature of our being.
     In the Vedantic tradition of India we find the same understanding con -
densed into three Sanskrit words, sat chit ananda. Sat refers to being, chit to
knowing, consciousness or awareness, and ananda  to peace or happiness.
Thus, sat chit ananda  means simply that to know the nature of one’s being
is happiness itself.
     In Buddhism it is said that the very nature of one’s mind is inherently free
from any imperfection. Cautious not to objectify happiness as a state of mind,
the Buddhist teaching refers to it simply as the end of suffering. Thus, all that
is required to access that happiness is to know the nature of one’s mind.
     Indeed, if we were to distil the essential understanding contained in all
the great religious, spiritual and philosophical traditions into a single phrase,
it would read something like this: ‘Happiness is your nature’ or ‘You are hap -
piness itself’.
     It follows that in order to access the peace and happiness for which all
people long above all else, all that is necessary is to understand the nature of
one’s self. For this reason, the words Know Thyself  were carved onto the  you are the happiness you seek
entrance to the temple of Apollo in Delphi, thus standing at the very origin
of Western civilisation.
    We all seek happiness, but most of us seek it in objective experience.
In the approach that is being suggested in this book, we seek peace and hap -
piness at its source, namely, in our self or our being. For this reason it is some -
times referred to as the direct path to peace and happiness.

a softening of attention

What does it mean to know oneself? In the early 1980s, I went with my
brother Andrew to a series of Alfred Brendel’s recitals of Beethoven’s piano
sonatas in London. During these recitals my attention was in general fully
absorbed in the music, but from time to time I noticed a softening of its focus.
     On one occasion, my attention relaxed sufficiently that I became aware
not only of the music but of the fact that I was listening to the music.
In other words,  I became aware that I was aware.
     There was nothing extraordinary about this. On the contrary, the fact of
simply being aware, or awareness itself, was clearly the most familiar and inti -
mate aspect of my experience. However, I had previously overlooked it, so
exclusively focused was I on my experience – on this occasion, the content of
the music.
     In time, my attention was again drawn to the music, but I noticed that
at certain points during the recital it spontaneously disengaged from it and
returned effortlessly to the fact of being aware. It even felt at times as if my
attention were being pulled backwards, away from its content, towards the
fact of simply being aware, or awareness itself.
     After some time, I noticed that I had the ability to travel backwards and
forwards with my attention, between the music in the foreground and the
presence of awareness in the background.

I began to explore this new faculty, and at some point it became clear that
in between the background of being aware and the foreground of the music
there was an intermediary layer of experience, a middle ground, so to speak,
of thoughts, feelings and sensations of the body.
     There were now three elements of my experience: one, the external world
(consisting of the concert hall, the audience and the music); two, my mind
16know thyself
and body (comprising the internal world of thoughts, feelings and sensations);
and three, in the background, the fact of being aware or awareness itself.
     It was as if I had taken a step back from my mind and body, with which
I normally identified myself. They were now part of the foreground of my
experience and I was standing as the presence of awareness behind them,
watching them just as I was watching the performance.
     As my attention travelled back and forth between these three realms,
it occurred to me that the person I normally considered myself to be – my
mind and body – was itself part of the objective content of experience that
I was aware of, along with the auditorium, the audience and the music.
     In particular, I noticed that my thoughts and feelings were a layer of
experience that not only was added to my experience of the world, like subtitles
superimposed upon a movie, but also through which I interpreted the world.
     Some time later I would also notice that my experience of the world was
itself filtered through my sense perceptions, which impose their own limita -
tions on whatever is perceived. This would, in turn, give rise to the question
as to what the world is in itself, beyond these limitations. But for now, this
challenge to my customary sense of myself was enough.

a shift in identity

At some point a question spontaneously arose in my mind: Who am I really?
Am I the thoughts, feelings and sensations that I am aware of, or am I the
one that is aware of them?
     I was familiar with the Indian sage Ramana Maharshi’s use of such ques -
tions, a method known as ‘self-enquiry’, but had found it rather heady and
abstract. No doubt the question that emerged at this stage was prompted by
my previous interest in these matters, but nevertheless it arose in me this time
as if for the first time and was profoundly connected to my experience.
     This questioning was not just a mental exercise. Nor was it a method
I was practising in order to bring about a certain result. It seemed to be taking
place spontaneously, although I was cooperating with it.
     It became obvious that whatever it is that knows our thoughts and images
is not itself a thought or image. What is that?
     Whatever it is that is aware of our feelings and sensations is not itself
a feeling or sensation. What is that?
17you are the happiness you seek
     Whatever it is that perceives the world is not itself a sight, sound, taste,
texture or smell. What is that?
     It is simply that which knows or is aware. It is our self. It is awareness or
consciousness itself. *

Until this recognition I had considered myself to be a person, a body-mind,
an amalgam of thoughts, feelings and sensations. It seemed to be myself
as this person  who was aware of the world. As such, I considered awareness


	each	involving	a	team	of	experienced	researchers	at
prestigious	institutions,	provide	compelling	evidence	that	food	can	protect
against	macular	degeneration.	Both	studies	were	published	a	decade	ago.	One
evaluated	diet
41
	and	the	other	assessed	nutrients	in	blood.
42
	The	findings	of
these	two	studies	suggested	that	as	much	as	70–88%	of	blindness	caused	by
macular	degeneration	could	be	prevented	if	the	right	foods	are	eaten.
The	study	on	dietary	intakes
41
	compared	356	individuals	fifty-five	to
eighty	years	of	age	who	were	diagnosed	with	advanced	macular	degeneration
(cases)	with	520	individuals	with	other	eye	diseases	(controls).	Five
ophthalmology	medical	centers	collaborated	on	the	study.
Researchers	found	that	a	higher	intake	of	total	carotenoids	was	associated
with	a	lower	frequency	of	macular	degeneration.	Carotenoids	are	a	group	of
antioxidants	found	in	the	colored	parts	of	fruits	and	vegetables.	When
carotenoid	intakes	were	ranked,	those	individuals	who	consumed	the	most
had	43%	less	disease	than	those	who	consumed	the	least.	Not	surprisingly,five	out	of	six	plant-based	foods	measured	also	were	associated	with	lower
rates	of	macular	degeneration	(broccoli,	carrots,	spinach	or	collard	greens,
winter	squash	and	sweet	potato).	Spinach	or	collard	greens	conferred	the	most
protection.	There	was	88%	less	disease	for	people	who	ate	these	greens	five
or	more	times	per	week	when	compared	with	people	who	consumed	these
greens	less	than	once	per	month.	The	only	food	group	not	showing	a
preventive	effect	was	the	cabbage/cauliflower/brussels	sprout	group,	which
sports	the	least	color	of	the	six	food	groups.
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These	researchers	also	looked	at	the	potential	protection	from	disease	as	a
result	of	the	consumption	of	five	of	the	individual	carotenoids	consumed	in
these	foods.	All	but	one	of	these	five	showed	a	highly
significant	protective
effect,	especially	the	carotenoids	found	in	the	dark	green	leafy	vegetables.	In
contrast,	supplements	of	a	few	vitamins,	including	retinol	(preformed
“vitamin”	A),	vitamin	C	and	vitamin	E	showed	little	or	no	beneficial	effects.
Yet	again,	we	see	that	while	supplements	may	give	great	wealth	to
supplement	manufacturers,	they	will	not	give	great	health	to	you	and	me.
When	all	was	said	and	done,	this	study	found	that
macular	degeneration
risk	could	be	reduced	by	as	much	as	88%,	simply	by	eating	the	right	foods
.
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At	this	point	you	may	be	wondering,	“Where	can	I	get	some	of	those
carotenoids?”	Green	leafy	vegetables,	carrots	and	citrus	fruits	are	all	good
sources.	Herein	lies	a	problem,	however.	Among	the	hundreds	(maybe
thousands)	of	antioxidant	carotenoids	in	these	foods,	only	a	dozen	or	so	have
been	studied	in	relation	to	their	biological	effects.	The	abilities	of	these
chemicals	to	scavenge	and	reduce	free	radical	damage	are	well	established,
but	the	activities	of	the	individual	carotenoids	vary	enormously	depending	on
dietary	and	lifestyle	conditions.	Such	variations	make	it	virtually	impossible
to	predict	their	individual	activities,	either	good	or	bad.	The	logic	of	using
them	as	supplements	is	much	too	particular	and	superficial.	It	ignores	the
dynamic	of	nature.	It’s	much	safer	to	consume	these	carotenoids	in	their
natural	context,	in	highly	colored	fruits	and	vegetables.
The	second	study
42
	compared	a	total	of	421	macular	degeneration	patients
(cases)	with	615	controls.	Five	of	the	leading	clinical	centers	specializing	in
eye	diseases	and	their	researchers	participated	in	this	study.	The	researchers
measured	the	levels	of	antioxidants	in	the	blood,	rather	than	the	antioxidants
consumed.	Four	kinds	of	antioxidants	were	measured:	carotenoids,	vitamin	C,
selenium	and	vitamin	E.	Except	for	selenium,	each	of	these	nutrient	groups
was	associated	with	fewer	cases	of	macular	degeneration,	although	only	the
carotenoids	showed	statistically	significant	results.	Risk	of	macular
degeneration	was	reduced	by	two-thirds	for	those	people	with	the	highest
levels	of	carotenoids	in	their	blood,	when	compared	with	the	low-carotenoidgroup.
This	reduction	of	about	65–70%	in	this	study	is	similar	to	the	reduction	of
upwards	of	88%	in	the	first	study.	These	two	studies	consistently
demonstrated	the	benefits	of	antioxidant	carotenoids	consumed	as	food.
Given	experimental	limitations,	we	can	only	approximate	the	proportion	of
macular	degeneration	caused	by	poor	dietary	habits,	and	we	cannot	know
which	antioxidants	are	involved.	What	we	can	say,	however,
is	that	eating
antioxidant-containing	foods,	especially	those	containing	the	carotenoids,	will
prevent	most	blindness	cases	resulting	from	macular	degeneration.	This	in
itself	is	a	remarkable	recommendation.
Cataracts	are	slightly	less	serious	than	macular	degeneration	because	there
are	effective	surgical	options	available	to	restore	vision	loss	caused	by	this
disease.	But	when	you	look	at	the	numbers,	cataracts	are	a	much	larger
burden	on	our	society.	By	the	age	of	eighty,	half	of	all	Americans	will	have
cataracts.
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	Currently	there	are	20	million	Americans	age	forty	and	older	with
the	disease.
Cataract	formation	involves	the	clouding	of	the	eye	lens.	Corrective
surgery	involves	removing	the	cloudy	lens	and	replacing	it	with	an	artificial
lens.	The	development	of	the	opaque	condition,	like	the	degeneration	of	the
macula	and	so	many	other	disease	conditions	in	our	body,	is	closely
associated	with	the	damage	created	by	an	excess	of	reactive	free	radicals.
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Once	again,	it	is	reasonable	to	assume	that	eating	antioxidant-containing
foods	should	be	helpful.
Starting	in	1988,	researchers	in	Wisconsin	began	to	study	eye	health	and
dietary	intakes	in	over	1,300	people.	Ten	years	later,	they	published	a	report
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on	their	findings.	The	people	who	consumed	the	most	lutein,	a	specific	type
of	antioxidant,	had	one-half	the	rate	of	cataracts	as	the	people	who	consumed
the	least	lutein.	Lutein	is	an	interesting	chemical	because,	in	addition	to	being
readily	available	in	spinach,	along	with	other	dark	leafy	green	vegetables,	it
also	is	an	integral	part	of	the	lens	tissue	itself.
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	Similarly,	those	who
consumed	the	most	spinach	had	40%	less	cataracts.
These	two	eye	conditions,	macular	degeneration	and	cataracts,	both	occur
when	we	fail	to	consume	enough	of	the	highly	colored	green	and	leafy
vegetables.	In	both	cases,	excess	free	radicals,	increased	by	animal-based
foods	and	decreased	by	plant-based	foods,	are	likely	to	be	responsible	for
these	conditions.MIND


, Dr.
Bircher-Benner, stated that "raw vegetable food is the most
potent healing factor that exists" which is able "to bring
healin
g to ver y man y widel y spread disorders of health and serious diseases, in quite astonishing fashion, where all other
curative measures have failed." He called raw food "sunlight
food" and referred to his delicious preparations of fruits,
vegetables, nuts, honey, milk, and other foods, all in their raw state, as "sunlight dishes." The success of this sanitarium has
been so phenomenal that it has attracted patients from all over
the world. It is best known for its treatment of digestive
diseases. So astonishing was the recovery, on a strictly raw
diet, of one supposedly incurable patient suffering from the Herter-Heubner disease that it attracted the attention of the
children's hospital in Zurich, which in turn introduced a raw
diet for its coeliac patients. The medical director of the
hospital at the time published a monograph giving an account of the "staggering success" thus achieved.
   Today Dr. Ralph E. Bircher carries on the important work
of his father at the clinic and sanitarium, with equally satisfactory results. He descri bes raw food in relation to "the
five zones of its influence." In the first zone the effects are
noticeable within a few days, with the "return of appetite,
rapid fading of unnatural thirst" and "much better digestion."
In the second zone, embracing weeks of time, the circulatory system responds to the curative effects of raw food. The third
zone "needs months to become effective" though some
improvement may be noticed almost immediately. It covers
the endocrine glands and metabolism. The fourth zone,
embracing the capillary system and secondary effects on all parts of the organism, is repor ted by Dr. Bircher to require
one to three years, sometimes le ss, "to show the effects of its
domain." The entire four-fold action, according to Dr. Bircher, "generally brings about a complete change in
obstinate cases of many chronic conditions such as stomatitis
and ulcers, sprue, amoebic dysentery, lambliosis and malaria,
kidney troubles, jaundice, eczemas and urticaria, headaches,
and schizophrenias, also in cases of varicose, thrombophlebitis and many other conditions." The fifth zone
applies to the constitution itself, from which our diseases and
infections originate. It means a fundamental change in the
physiological efficiency of the entire body, with new vitality and vigorous health.
   At the First Medical Clinic of the University of Vienna, two
scientists, Eppinger and Kaunitz, tested the Bircher-Benner raw food diet as a means of improving the interchange of
energies and substances between the ends of the blood vessels
(capillaries) and the tissue cells of the body. Under normal
conditions of life, the blood gives up its nutritive substances,
and the cells give up their waste substances in this interchange through two fine membranes and a narrow
dividin
g interstice. Often, however, the cells lose a part of their "selective capacity" because of salt penetrating the cell
wall, distortion and spasms of the capillaries, a sticky coating
of blood globules, waste products being scattered around the
cells, and reduction of the chemical, physical, and electrical tensions which promote the nutritive interchange. When this
happens, cells cannot rejuvenate fast enough; bacteria tend to
multiply too rapidly, and the general cause of many clinical
symptoms of disease is in existence. Eppinger and Kaunitz
studied this condition and tried every possible means of restoring normal selective power in the cells once this had
been lost. Only one measure was found to be successful. This
was the application of an exclusive raw food diet "exactly
according to the prescriptions of Dr. Bircher-Benner." Under
the influence of this diet, the life-giving tensions between capillaries and cells grew and the capillaries were slowly
restored to a normal, vigorous condition.
   In Denmark an exclusive raw diet consisting of fruits,
vegetables, nuts, cornmeal, sprouted grains and legumes,
honey, and milk is given for all patients who visit the
"Humlegaarden" a sanitarium located near Humlebek. Dr.
Kristine Nolfi, medical director of this sanitarium, was formerly associated in medicine and surgery with the
Communal Hospital in Copenhagen and also with the State
Hospital in Pediatrics. During her years of hospital training
she suffered from weak digestion and catarrh of the stomach,
and in the winter of 1940 and 1941 she observed the symptoms of cancer. A trial microscopy taken at the Radium
Centre in Copenhagen was positive, indicating there were
cancer cells. Dr. Nolfi treated herself with an exclusive raw diet and recovered excellent health. This success prompted
her to open the "Humlegaarden" where not only all patients,
but even members of the hospital staff, live entirely upon
foods which have not been treated by heating. About one
thousand patients annually visit this sanitarium, and doctors from Denmark and foreign countries also visit the place and
make observations which are late r utilized in their practice.
   The therapeutic successes at tained at the "Humlegaarden"
are said to be phenomenal. Dr. Nolfi attributes this to the
consumption of raw foods, and in particular to the use of raw
garlic and raw potatoes. Patient s at this sanitarium recover
from all manner of diseases, including cancer, sterility, obesity, diabetes, heart debilitation, high blood pressure,
rheumatism, epilepsy, asthma, and many others. In some
cases even grey hair darkens in color. According to Dr. Nolfi,
the raw diet "has a curative effect not only for a particular
disease and on an individual organ, but on the organism as a whole. It cures not only the diseases contracted during our
 short span of life, but also those determined by hereditary
predispositions."
   Dr. K. Eimer, of the University Medical Clinic at Marburg-
Lahn, has employed the raw diet in the treatment of many
different diseases. He reports that no gastric disturbances
occur on the diet and that the relatively large amounts of cellulose in the raw vegetable foods appear to aid peristalsis.
He found the raw diet to be especially suitable in cases of
renal or cardiac oedema or the oedema of obesity, with the
elimination of superfluous water and salt being rapidly
achieved. In diseases of the circulatory system, the diet was found to usefully supplement other treatment, and high blood
pressure and diabetes were found to be benefited through the
use of raw food. The blood was improved on the raw diet,
and the alkali reserve was raised an average of 20 per cent
among the patients. Dr. Eimer also reported that the refractive
index of the serum increased through the use of raw foods.
   Of equal importance is the experience of Dr. Joseph Evers
in Germany, who has treated 600 cases of multiple sclerosis
with diets containing no refined foods, and consisting chiefly
of raw fruits, raw nuts, raw ve getable roots, raw honey, raw
grain sprouts, uncooked coarse rolled oats, wholemeal bread,
raw ham, raw bacon, and raw chopped beef. Dr. Ever's dietary treatment was set up under the controls of recognized
scientists and tested in different universities, clinics,
hospitals, and sanatoriums. Results were surprisingly good,
and 42 per cent of all patients showed improvement or
complete recovery. This percentage might appear to be low, but for multiple sclerosis, which consistently fails to yield to
orthodox medical treatment, a single recovery is worthy of mention.
   In the city of Munich, the German physicians, Friedrich and
Peters, employed a raw diet consisting chiefly of fruits and vegetables, and small amounts of meat. Many very severe
cases of liver cirrhosis, with ascites were treated. Results,
surprisingly, were quite successful, and a number of most
striking cases have been cited by the physicians to show the value of raw foods in the treatment of this disease.
   Other physicians and scientists who have studied the raw
diet in relation to therapeutic uses are D. C. Hare, J. F.
Kinderheilk, W. Heupe, I. Kanai, and M. Kuratsune. Dr.
Hare, of the Royal Free Hospita l in England, placed arthritic
patients on an exclusive raw diet for two weeks followed by a
predominantly raw diet for several weeks. Most of the
patients began to feel better within one to four weeks, with marked im
provement continuin g thereafter. Kinderheilk found the raw diet to be of value in avitaminosis, nephritis,
diabetes, and chronic constipation. In cases of cardiac disease
he noted that it promoted the excretion of superfluous water
and was thus helpful to the patients. Dr. Heupe, working at the University Medical Polyclinic in Frankfurt, reported the
diet to aid in the treatment of  diarrhea of children, in heart
and kidney diseases, and in obesity and diabetes. Kanai, of
the University of Berlin, studied the effect of raw


 to avoid
recurrence of ulcerated leg problem. He was told that he had a year’s work a head of him. Although the ankles were now normal at
the beginning of each day, swelling continued to occur around 11 a.m. or noon, particularly in the right foot. On the day pat ient
returned home, he was able to wear shoes comfortably for the first time in  over a year!
PATIENT 2
Patient’s complaints were psoriasis, diabetes and arthritis.
HISTORY. Patient developed psoriasis 7 years ago. First symptoms were scaling of scalp and of facial skin under beard.
Condition became progressively worse until 3 years a go, when fingernails began showing pits and creases. A year later, Patient
developed diabetes and began taking insulin. Six months after the appearance of the diabetes, arthritis set in. First symptom s
were fluid in the knee and inflammation of the elbow, A physician diagnosed the condition as psoriatric arthritis. Patient found that
Western medicine could do nothing for his condition. He was taking 20 aspirin per day for relief from arthritic pain, insulin  shots
for the diabetes and the psoriasis was growi ng worse. He began to experience depression and hopelessness.
IRIS ANALYSIS. Inherent weaknesses in bowel and bronchials. Catarrhal congestion in lungs. Lymphatic rosary. Kidney
weakness. Nerve rings. Pancreas weakness. Toxic thyroid. Scurf rim. Drug depos its - iron, sulfur and iodine.
PROGRAM. Patient was placed on a seven -day tissue -cleansing program. From monitoring blood sugar level, Patient found it
necessary to reduce insulin requirement gradually from 18 units down to nothing by the fifth day when blood sugar level remained
within normal limits (70 -110) without insulin.
RESULTS. Arthritis improved dramatically. Patient had difficulty putting on socks before but can now do that without problems.
Walking was painful and is now normal. The severity of the diabetes is reduced. Psoriasis has improved but will take time to get
skin back to normal. Skin is moister than before. Psoriasis peels in larger areas; peelings come off easier and there is litt le
bleeding. Patient is in excellent spirits, looking for ward to bicycling when he returns home.
PATIENT 3
Subject has had cancer for the last eight years. This is a cancer of the breast. Surgery removed a lump and it was found to b e very
malignant. Mastectomy was advised. Patient refused any further surgery and  searched for alternative treatments and cures. She
first went to laetrile therapy. Soon afterwards was under the care of a natural hygienist for 5 years. She followed a very st rict
program during this time. Breast became harder and harder. At one point a lump appeared near the surface and ruptured leaving an
open, bleeding unhealing sore. Patient had taken Dr. Jensen’s lectures and courses in the past and at these times was advised  to
control a calcium deficiency and metabolic imbalance. Her doctor back ho me consistently refused the calcium control stating that
it would be fatal for her to do so. She was afraid to not follow his advice and did not adjust the calcium as recommended. Pa tient
has had over 300 colonic treatments during this time. She was advise d by Broda Barnes to stabilize her thyroid activity as he felt it
was out of balance. This could cause a calcium upset. At one point, X -rays were taken of the back, revealing it to be like that of an
18 year old.
Patient’s health deteriorated rapidly.
She was advised at this point of advanced bone cancer. Her pelvic bone looked like Swiss cheese. She was told that she had 2
weeks to live and to go to Hawaii for her last days. Patient immediately started calcium treatments and looking after her cal cium
needs. By now the tumor had broken through causing unbearable pain. She was taken to a hospital and given morphine. Her
condition warranted being put on a terminal list during this visit. She left the hospital and went to New Mexico and underwen t heat
treatment s. During her visit there she broke her leg. By now the cancer was a large, oozing, bloody, open sore and was beyond a
surgical remedy. During this period she gave her life over to the Lord and experienced a major turning point. She advises tha t
holding an y negative thought patterns or resentments is absolutely lethal to well -being. These things will cause death to approach
and cannot be indulged in if recovery or healing is to take place.
She started to take Dr. Jensen’s advice wholeheartedly at this time.  Combined with new attitude and nutritional improvement, the
tide was turned and the tumor started to recede and heal. She has since taken the 3 -day cleansing treatment. The tumor is gone and
all signs of the cancer are gone also. Laboratory tests are nega tive. This woman is a very good patient in that she did not give up
and was willing to work hard and change her attitudes about life.
PATIENT 4
Phone call came today from a colema patient telling me that approximately the first part of November 1980, she s tarted wheezing
and coughing; also experienced aching all over the body. These were some of the past problems coming back. In August 1979, sh e
had a bad cold with wheezing. October of the same year, had to go into hospital in New York with a chest cold; ag ain in
November, had to be hospitalized for the same trouble; got to the point she could not take care of child. She came here in Fe bruary
1980 for a cleansing treatment, has had second treatment and has followed the maintenance program. When the past prob lem
recurred, she stopped her solid foods and used only potato peeling broth and soup; during this time, she took two colemas a d ay.
Within two days, she was feeling much better and is doing fine now. “Tell the Doctor thank God for the Colema!”
PATIENT 5
The following is a letter received from patient B.F., who received colema treatment in April 1980. Here is her report: “I am
dropping this note to let you know that the Tissue Cleansing Regimen which I took the first week in April cleared up the cyst s in
the breast which had troubled me. I hope to see Dr. Jensen at the Nutrition Workshop that he is going to teach in New Lebanon,
New York this summer from July 21 -28. I plan to drive over for the day and, if possible, have Dr. Jensen examine me. He had
wanted to do so and he will be able to see the changes in me since I have been following the colema regimen.
PATIENT 6
I had a call the other day from a man - a personal friend of mine who has been assisting in the care of an elderly lady, probably
around 70. For  the past couple of years she has had arthritis and last year she had to have an operation to have the spleen removed.
They couldn’t control the blood count unless the spleen was taken out. She got along fairly well after the operation but then  her
arthrit is came back still more. She had extreme pains throughout the whole body to the place where she could not control it and she
had to be taken into the hospital where they could not find anything wrong with her. X -rays showed nothing. The pain was so
extreme  they went into the bowel and found an obstruction. When she died, they said she died of septic shock. This is not unusual
because it follows the pattern that we see with so many people.

PATIENT 7
Phone call in October. This person started the tissue clea nsing treatment in June, the June before 1980 and her problem was
degenerative disease in the female organs, principally the uterus. She was advised to have a complete hysterectomy because of
suspicions of a very serious degenerative nature. Four months la ter this woman went for her Pap test and an elimination. They
found every -thing normal. She has finally returned to work and is very thankful for what has happened.
PATIENT 8
Twenty -six-year-old mother of three diagnosed as having Multiple Sclerosis. She h as not been given any hope of overcoming this
disease from her doctor. They have offered her nothing, no dietetics, no nutritional counseling, and no encouragement. She ha s
been told by her professional guides that she can’t get well with any treatments. T hat she must accept her condition and live with
it. With nothing to lose from this prognosis, she has been working with our system and reports that her vitality is better, s he feels
better and her nerves are much better; she is digesting her food better an d her bowels are better.
PATIENT 9
This lady has gone through the tissue cleansing treatment twice. She has had considerable problems dealing with the spine, ne ck,
joints, abdominal disorders, digestive disturbances, lung disturbances, bronchial problems; going through the change of life.
The cleansing treatment was 11 months ago and the second was 7 weeks later, as we advised. Following that, she has been livin g a
fairly good life from a food and mental standpoint; adjusting her job; trying to do as much a s she can for herself; having more
sunshine treatments during the summer; circulation treatments through Kneipp baths; and trying to readjust her life to such a n
extent that she built herself up


 to  become  and animate  His creation, man.
God then goes through all of the  experiences of knowing  good and evil
and even death, in confidence, that man will eventually awake  from this
dream of life  to once again know  that he  is God. There  is only God  in the
universe, fragmenting  himself as humanity, and  God plays all the  parts in
this time space dream.
Your own wonderful human imagination is God  in action. I am is Christ in
you (your savior). And  Christ is the  Power  of God  and the Wisdom of God.
God speaks to us through desire,  urging  us to reach higher  and higher
levels of awareness. Exercising  his own wonderful human imagination to
achieve  these  desires, man is actually  experiencing  God in action.
Through faith in his imagination, man will eventually conclude  that Christ
(the Power and  Wisdom of God) is within him as his imagination. At the
end of this fabulous journey or dream of life,  man will awaken to remem -
ber that he  is God, the  Father, enhanced  by the  experiences he  put him -
self through; when he  forgot that he  was God. Man’s sole  purpose  is to
experience scripture  (all of the  states of consciousness personified  as men
in the  Bible).
Man’s goal is to reach the  state called  Jesus Christ. Then he  will know  that
he really is the  Father  (Jesus) and  that his son is Christ (all of humanity
fused  into one  being). Man may have  many goals in the  meantime  – to
accumulate  possessions, to become  powerful, to   become  famous, or to
express anything  that he  desires. Eventually the  hunger  to know God  will
come  upon him, and  he will then have  the experiences that are  necessary
to bring  to his remembrance that he  truly is God, the  Father.
Case Histories
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenThis Story concerns a  woman (who will be  referred  to as Mrs. A.B). She
knew  that “imagination creates reality”  and had taught this principal to
her three children, ages 12, 10, and  6. She  had practiced  this principal for
years to obtain the  things she  desired.
Although her  husband  had also heard  this teaching, he  had not put it into
practice and   actually was quite  skeptical about results. One  Sunday after -
noon, this family went for a drive  and came  upon a  new tract of homes for
sale. As this was a  lovely rural area,  they stopped  to look  at the new
models. They all loved  the area, and the homes were  large and beautiful
with all sorts of modern amenities. On the  way home, they talked  about
how wonderful it would  be to own a  new home  in this tract. They already
owned  a home;   however, they had  borrowed  money on it and  had very
little equity that could  be derived  from its sale. The  husband  said that al -
though he  would  like to buy the  home, it was not possible  as they could
not raise  the money required  for the  down payment. Even if they  sold
their present home,  the real estate  agent’s commission would  equal the
little equity  they would  realize.
Mrs. A.B. told  her husband  that the  only way they could  obtain the  down
payment would  be to sell their home  on their own, thereby keeping the
commission for themselves. The   husband  was very pessimistic  about this
but told  his wife  to go ahead  and place an ad  in the  paper  although he
knew  “it wouldn’t do any good.”  He was sure  that there  was no  chance of
selling  the house  in this way. The  wife placed  a small ad  in the  newspaper
advertising  their house  for sale.
A few nights later  when the  husband  had gone to bed  early, she and her
children drove  to the  tract of new homes. She  felt that if she could walk
through the  new house  and capture the  feeling  of actually living  there,
she would  obtain her  “dream home.”  It was dark  when they got there, but
they found  one of the  houses unlocked. She  and the three children  walked
through the  house.  The children decided  on which bedroom each would
occupy if they actually lived  there. The  mother  instructed  the children to
actually sleep  in the  new house  in their imagination that night, and she
intended  to do the  same. For the  next few days, they imagined  living  in
their new  home  and taking  walks in the  woods that were adjacent to the
tract.
That same  week,  a man answered  the ad in the  paper. He  did not seem
very enthusiastic  about buying  the house  but returned  later that day with
his wife. He  told Mrs. A.B. that they had  decided  to buy the  house  for the
price she  was asking. When Mrs. A.B. expressed  concern as to how  they
would  go about placing  the home  in escrow, he  told her that he  was a  real
estate  agent and  would  go through the  company he  worked  for. This fami -
ly received  the exact amount of money necessary for a  down payment on
their new  home. The  escrow  was very short, and  the family moved  into
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haventheir new  home  a month later.
Mrs. A.B. knew that if she  imagined  herself sleeping  in her  new home, she
would  eventually sleep  there  in the  flesh. Her  children also learned  how to
obtain their heart’s desire  through the  use of imagination.
*****
Mrs. C.D. had  recently been divorced  and needed  to work  to support her
children as her  husband  refused  to pay child  support. Although her lawyer
suggested  taking  him to court  for non payment, the  woman did  not wish to
do this. As part of the  divorce settlement, she  was awarded  a very old
and not very reliable  car. One  Friday night as she  was driving  home  from
work, it was raining  very hard  and most intersections were  flooded. She
was about a  mile from her  home  when she  stopped  at a Stop sign. A
truck coming  toward  her from the  opposite  direction went through the  in-
tersection, spraying  a great deal of water  as he  drove  past. The  engine  of
the woman’s car died  and she was unable  to start it again. She  removed
her shoes before  stepping  out of her  car as the  water  was more  than an -
kle  deep. She  raised  the hood and began to dry off the  distributor cap
with her  handkerchief. She  was crying  at this point and  her tears mingled
with the  rain. She  finally got her  car started  and managed  to get home  to
her children. She  realized  that it was necessary to have  a dependable car
if she  was to work  and support her  children. She  had no money for a
down payment on a  newer car and  she did not earn enough to make car
payments.
She went to work  the following  Monday and  a co-worker  asked  her to go
to lunch. The co- worker  had just purchased  a new Pontiac Tempest and
insisted  that Mrs. C.D. drive her  new car back  to the  office. Although Mrs.
C.D. protested  that she  did not wish to drive  someone’s new car, she did
get behind  the wheel and  drove  back to work. While  she was driving the
new car, she  captured  the feeling  that this was her  car and  she felt the
thrill  of owning  it. For the  rest of the week, while she drove back and
forth to work  in her  old  car, Mrs. C.D. imagined  that she  was driving a
brand  new car of her  own.
The next Friday, Mrs. C.D.’s ex- husband  called  and asked  if she would like
to have  a new car. This was the  first time  since their divorce several
months earlier  that he  had offered  to do anything  for her, including paying
child support. The  ex-husband  was now  working  for a new car dealership
and told her that, as a  salesman, he  was eligible  to buy a  certain make of
car for no money down and  with very low  monthly payments. He said he
was willing  to make the  monthly payments in lieu  of child  support and
asked  her to come  to