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A: The doctor's goal is for patients to be healthy and self-sufficient, and not rely on external treatments.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Thanks to God for the form in which it has made me arrive my healing. TESTIMONY 64*
HVP£RT£NS10N
Alicia De Higareda {Mexico}
I am cured of hypertension in only three months. I have not taken a single tablet, only Urine. Doing an fasting of 3 days,
1 feel very we11 and I am already working thanks to God. TESTIMONY 65*
D1AB£T£S~ FVNGl S1NVS1T1S
Araceli Ramos C. { Mexico }
Blessed it is God,
I have cured myself through the Urine of diabetes, fungi in the feet and sinusitis. God blesses them follow ahead, thanks. 90 TESTIMONY 66*
D1AB£T£S
Ora. Margarita G. of Guzman { Mexico }
I have 35 years of age. I am diabetic for 11 years with insulin and 3 years with homeopathic medicine. At the moment I am on no drugs, only the fasting dose of Urine. f am controffed totaUy. TESTIMONY 67*
SLOW' L£ARN1NG
Martha L Lopez { Mexico }
In the second week of my Urine-therapy, my vomiting along with chronic
difficufties disappeared in the morning. My daughter of 9 years with learning problems, improved her qualifications. She knows the tables and already she multiplies with ease. TESTIMONY 68*
D1AB£T£S
Hortensia To Rodriguez {Mexico}
In January 1996 they detected me having diabetes and tested me three times. I started with the Urine-therapy in March. After 15 days I went to make an analyses and I realize that I lowered to 145. Later 11eft it and 1 again initiated it one week ago, because 1 had a relapse; right
now I feel very well
TESTIMONY 69*
C1ST1C£RCOS1S
Irene Or of Hernandez { Mexico }
MY disease is cerebral Cisticerc6sis, I have taken my Urine 4 months and the
tumor in my head went away. They gave chemotherapy to me. I know that the best thing than God has given me is my health and although I
appear ill in my studies, in my body 1 do not feel anything bad. Every day I thank God to let me live with my husband and children. 91 TESTIMONY 70*
CANC£ROVS TVMOR
Mrs. Maria R. Sanchez { Mexico }
I was healed of a cancerous tumor that I had. In three months THANKS TO GOD,
I am cured and I feel very well. I ask everyone who believes in God to know that
diseases are a disguised blessing, as Jesus said. TESTIMONY 71 *
D1All£T£S
Maria of the R. Rivera { Mexico }
I was cured of diabetes taking 3 months my Urine with only 1 fast of three days. I am also cured of the nerves. This I did by means a person whom recommended to me that it take my Urine
and thanks to God atreadyl am cured. TESTIMONY 72*
D1AD£T£S
Irene Alvarez. { Mexico }
I am cured of diabetes taking Urine once in the mornings for one month. After doing a study of my glucose I find it had lowered. I also felt better in my heart and this was confirmed by the doctor
after doing an electrocardiogram. TESTIMONY 73*
£Pll£PSV
Yessica L. Delgadillo {Mexico}
I was ill of epilepsy. I was with allopathic methods for one year and instead of feeling some
improvement I felt worse. I began to loose my hair and my gums were inflamed. My disease was very hard for me and for my parents
who worried a lot when my eyes were rolling in my head
and I lost consciousness and had a lot of saliva in my mouth. I had other diseases in my throat, which were very prevalent every fifteen days. My Parents took me to the doctor and he prescribed penicillin that ended my
defenses. Later I tried a homeopathic but he was useless. I did not manage to cure myself until my parents asked
God and he listened to them. 92 My parents went to speak with the father of the temple and he gave us a gift. U was a book that taught them of Urine-therapy. In addition the Father commented that another Father had cured himself of the
same problem of epilepsy as I had. My parents told me to do it. They aJso took it for some sUght diseases that they have. Thank God we felt very well. In only two days taking it I have not returned to have any attacks much less to
suffer any colds or flu. I thank God for this medicine that was given to me and for
this faith that always I have had in him. He is the main thing to heal a11 and thanks
to him for this spring of life that returned my health. TESTIMONY 74*
PROBLEMS lN CARTllAG£S
Lupita S. Castaneda { Mexico }
It had problems of my cartilage. I am an athlete and I went to tears when I realized I no longer could run any more. So I began to take Urine for four months and I have felt far better little by little. Thanks to God I continue running. TESTIMONY 75 *
HVP£RT£NS10N AND COllTlS
Dr Teresa S. Rivas {Mexico}
I practice different alternative therapies. Days ago my mother called me by telephone telling me, " Daughter, I am very bad. I feel that I will die. I have very high pressure and my pupils are very expanded. My stomach feels very inflamed. 1 feet that 1 am going away to die...
Then I said to her, " Mother, fast for three days and drink your Urine. Mix the Urine with mud and rub it on the stomach and kidneys ". I was very surprised when she called me on the following day to say
that she felt like she was 15 years old. TESTIMONY 76*
VlC£RS GASTR1T1S. COllTlS
Mr. Ramon P. Gonzalez { Mexico }
My sufferings that got better are, ulcers, gastritis
(very acute acidness of my stomach for 45 years), nervous system very altered,
very strong disquiet, insomnia, colitis, and pains of my kidneys. I am very improved. 93 My problem with my prostate is a burning sensation and hemorrhoids. They disappeared after taking my Urine from 25th from March of 1995 to date. I feel better with many energies. TESTIMONY 77*
D1AB£T£S AND COLlTlS
Ma. Magdalena Bermudez { Mexico }
Without going to a conference,
I began to take my Urine by the desperation from my disease (diabetes). I listened that they had to make a fast. 1 wanted to prove it's possibilities but my stomach loosened and 1 moved black
particle balls out. I was scared to make the therapy further. Later I was told that it was a normal reaction. I then returned to the therapy and did not take insulin during that month. A great change came in my body. My sugar raised and I suffered an infection in my bladder. J did not stop taking the therapy until this 20th of June. Already I am cured. Thanks God. TESTIMONY 78*
F1BROAD£NOMA1' VAR1C£S
Mrs. Queta Aguilar { Mexico }
I initiated the method of therapy the 8th of May of 1998. I am 40 years of age


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PETER KELDER
2
PART ONE
One afternoon I dropped into the Travelers Club to escape
a sudden shower, and while seated in an easy chair waiting for
it to clear up I fell into a conversation with a most interesting
old gentleman; one who, although I did not know it then, was
destined to change the whole course of my life. I call him an
old man for that is exactly what he was. In his late sixties,
he looked every year his age. He was thin and stooped, and
when he walked leaned heavily on his cane. It developed that he was a retired British army officer,
who had likewise seen service in the diplomatic corps of the
Crown. There were few accessible places on the globe to which
Colonel Bradford, as I shall call him, although that was not his
true name, had not, at some time or other in his life, paid a
visit, and warming under my attention he related incidents in
his travels which were highly entertaining. Needless to say I
spent an interesting and profitable afternoon listening to him. This was some years ago. We met often after that and got
along famously. Many evenings, either at his quarters or at
mine, we discussed and discoursed until long past midnight. It was on one of these occasions 1 became possessed of a
feeling that Colonel Bradford wanted to tell me something of
importance. Something close to his heart which was difficult
for him to talk about. By using all the tact and diplomacy at
my command I succeeded in making him understand that I
should be happy to help him in any way possible, and that if he
cared to tell me what was on his mind I would keep it in strict
confidence. Slowly at first, and then with increased trust
he began to talk. While stationed in India some years ago, Colonel Bradford,
from time to time, came in contact with wandering natives
from the remote fastnesses of the country. He heard many
interesting tales of the life and customs of the country. One
story, which interested him strangely, he heard quite a number
of times, and always from natives who inhabited a particular
—3—district. Those from the other districts seemed never to have
heard it. It concerned a group of Lamas or Tibetan priests who,
apparently, had discovered “The Fountain of Youth. ” The
natives told of old men who had mysteriously regained health
and strength, vigor and virility shortly after entering a certain
Lamasery; but where this particular place was none seemed
exactly to know. Like so many other men, Colonel Bradford had become old
at 40, and had not been getting any younger as the years
rolled by. Now the more he heard this tale of “The Fountain
of Youth” the more he became convinced that such a place and
such men actually existed. He began to gather information
on directions, character of the country, climate, and various
other tid-bits that might help him locate the spot; for from
then on there dwelt in the back of his mind a desire to find
this “Fountain of Youth. ”
This desire, he told me, had now grown so powerful that he
had determined to return to India and start in earnest a quest
for the retreat of these young-old men; and he wanted me to
go with him. Frankly, by the time he had finished telling me
this fantastic story I, too, was convinced of its truth, and was
half-tempted to join him, but finally decided against it. Soon he departed, and I consoled myself for not going with
the thought that perhaps one should be satisfied to grow old
gracefully; that perhaps the Colonel was wrong in trying to
get more out of life than was vouchsafed to other men. And
yet—a Fountain of Youth. What a thrilling idea it was. For
his own sake I hoped that the old Colonel might find it. Months passed. In the press of every-day affairs Colonel
Bradford and his “Shangri-La” had grown dim in my memory,
when one evening on returning to my apartment, there was a
letter in the Colonel’s own hand-writing. He was still alive. The letter seemed to have been written in joyous desperation. In it he said that in spite of maddening delays and set-backs
he actually was on the verge of finding the “Fountain. ” He
gave no address. It was more months before I heard from him again. This
time he had good news. He had found the “Fountain of
Youth”. Not only that but he was bringing it back to the
States with him, and would arrive within the next two months. Practically four years had elapsed since I had last seen the old
man. Would he have changed any, I wondered. He was older,of course, but perhaps no balder, although his stoop might
have increased a little. Then the startling idea came to me
that perhaps this “Fountain of Youth’ might really have
helped him. But in my mind’s eye I could not picture him dif-
ferently than ] had seen him last, except perhaps a little older. One evening I decided to stay at home by myself and catch
up on my reading, maybe write a few letters. I had just set-
tled down to comfortable reading when the telephone rang. “A Colonel Bradford to see you, sir,” said the desk clerk. “Send him up,” I shouted, and casting the book aside I
hastened to the door. For a moment I stared, and then with
dismay I saw that this was not Colonel Bradford but a much
younger person. Noting my surprise the man said, “Weren’t you expecting
me. ”
“No,” I confessed. “I thought it would be an old friend of
mine, a Colonel Bradford. ”
“I came to see you about Colonel Bradford, the man you
were expecting,” he answered. “Come in,” I invited. “Allow me to introduce myself,” said the stranger, entering. “My name is Bradford. ”
“Oh, you are Colonel Bradford's son,” I exclaimed. “I have
often heard him speak of you. You resemble him somewhat. ”
“No, I am not my son,” he returned. “I am none other than
your old friend, Colonel Bradford, the old man who went away
to the Himalayas. ”
1 stood in incredulous amazement at his statement. Then it
slowly dawned upon me that this really was the Colonel Brad-
ford whom I had known; but what a change had taken place
in his appearance. Instead of the stooped, limping, sallow old
gentleman with a cane, he was a tall, straight, ruddy-com-
plexioned man in the prime of life. Even his hair, which had
grown back, held no trace of gray. My enthusiasm and curiosity knew no bounds. Soon I was
plying him with questions in rapid-fire order until he threw up
his hands. “Wait, wait,” he protested, laughingly. “I shall start at the
beginning and tell you al] that has happened. ” And this he
proceeded to do. Upon arriving in India the Colonel started directly for the
district in which lived the natives who had told of “The
Fountain of Youth. ” Fortunately, he knew quite a bit of their
—s5—language. He spent several months there, making friends
with the people and picking up all the information he could
about the Lamasery he sought. It was a long, slow process,
but his shrewdness and persistence finally brought him to the
coveted place he had heard about so often but only half-
believed existed. Colonel Bradford’s account of what transpired after being
admitted to the Lamasery sounded like a fairy tale. I only
wish that time and space permitted me to set down here all of
his experiences; the interesting practices of the Lamas, their
culture, and their utter indifference to the work-a-day world. There were no real old men there. To his surprise the Lamas
considered Colonel Bradford a quite novel sight, for it had been
a long time since they had seen anyone who looked as old as he. The Lamas good-naturedly referred to the Colonel as “The
Ancient One. ”
“For the first two weeks after I arrived,” said the Colonel, “I
was like a fish out of water. I marveled at everything I saw,
and at times could hardly believe what my eyes beheld. I soon
felt much better, was sleeping like a top every night, and only
used my cane when hiking in the mountains. “A month after I arrived I received the biggest surprise of
my life. In fact, I was quite startled. It was the day I entered
for the first time, a large, well-ordered room which was used
as a kind of library for ancient manuscripts. At one end of
the room was a full-length mirror. It had been over two years
since I had last seen my reflection so with great curiosity I
stepped in front of the glass. “] stared in amazement, so changed was my appearance. It
seemed that J had dropped 15 years from my age. It was my
first intimation that I was growing younger; but from then on
I changed so rapidly that it was apparent to all who knew me


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it is allowed to flow, it will stay pure. It does not seek the high spots to be
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and streams; courses to the sea; and then evaporates to fall again as rain. It
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don’t need to question the quantities that the Tao brings forth. The creative
Source is beautifully balanced in the principle of humility elucid


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your co-pilot on this project. To my husband, my spiritual partner, and the person without whom
none of the words on my pages  would have formed: Yogiraj Alan Finger. Thank you for allowing me to walk alongside you for the past fifteen years,
sharing the ISHT A lineage worldwide. Thank you for teaching me
everything I know in the process. Your endless support and blessings of this
book have meant the world to me. To Claire Kinsella-Holtje, for reminding me of the power of my own
unique voice. I could not have written this book without your mentorship
and validation. To my parents, John and Sheila Platt, who always supported the creative
energy within me, even if that meant spending most of my childhood upside
down or climbin g on the furnitu re. Thank you for encouraging my words to
go on paper from such a young age. To my sister, Emily, thank you for being my first teacher in life and a
role model for life. I am so grateful to you. Thank you to my editor, Gary Jansen; my publisher, Diana Baroni; and
everyone at Penguin Random House, including production editor Patricia
Shaw and designer Andrea Lau, for their unwavering support and patience
with me. You have made the art of writing a book pure joy and much less
daunting than I anticipated. And special thanks to Stephanie Singleton,
whose illustrations in this book captivate and celebrate the beauty of the
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A	Spiritual	Guide	for	Teens
DEEPAK	CHOPRA
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a	noted	Hindu	author	and	physician,	provides	a	blueprint	for	teens	who	are
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ISBN	13:	978-0-689-86216-8
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1. Spiritual	life. 2. Teenagers. [1. Spiritual	life. 2. Hinduism.] I. Title. BL624.C4767	2004
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To	all	the	teenagers	today	and	tomorrow	upon	whom	the	fate	of	the	world
depends
Every	child	that	is	born	is	proof	that	God	has	not	yet	given	up	on
human	beings. —Rabindranath	TagoreContents
Before	You	Begin
	…
Day	One
Do	I	Have	a	Soul? Day	Two
How	Do	Wishes	Come	True? Day	Three
What	Is	the	Supreme	Force	in	the	Universe? Day	Four
How	Can	I	Change	the	World? A	Soul	Alphabet
The	Last	WordBefore	You	Begin	…
A
	boy	of	fifteen	is	standing	on	a	high	green	hill	overlooking	a	valley. The
valley	is	even	more	green	and	lush. It	rolls	away	in	wave	after	wave	until	the
boy	thinks	it	must	never	end. “Do	you	see?”	a	voice	says. The	boy	turns,	and	next	to	him	an	old	man	is	standing. The	old	man	has	a
long	white	beard,	and	there	is	a	gleam	in	his	eye. “Yes,	I	see,”	the	boy	says,	but	his	heart	is	beating	so	fast	he	can	hardly
express	himself. “I	want	you	to	tell	me	what	you	see. I	have	to	be	sure	you	learned	your
lessons	well,”	the	old	man	says. Ordinarily	it	would	have	broken	the	boy’s	heart	to	say	good-bye,	because	he
thought	the	old	man	with	the	white	beard	would	be	with	him	forever. “I	see	that	all	this	is	mine,”	the	boy	says. “I	belong	to	the	universe,	and	it
belongs	to	me.”	He	stretches	his	arms
	out	as	if	he	could	own	it	all—the	high
hill,	the	green	valley,	the	whole	span	of	years	ahead	of	him. Somehow,	even
though	it	sounds	impossible,	he	does	own	it	all. “Never	forget	this,”	the	old	man	says. He	presses	his	palms	together	and	bows
in	respect,	and	the	boy	bowing	even	deeper,	does	the	same. And	that’s	the	last	I	saw	of	him. Because	I	was	the	boy	on	the	hill,	and	in	four
short	days,	the	only	time	we	were	together,	the	old	man	changed	my	life. Each	day	he	answered	a	question	that	you	are	going	to	read	about	in	this
book:
Do	I	have	a	soul? How	do	wishes	come	true? What	is	the	supreme	force	in	the	universe?How	can	I	change	the	world? These	are	big	questions,	and	when	I	was	young	and	bursting	with	idealism,
they	were	burning	questions. I	didn’t	just	want	to	know	the	answers—I
had
	to
know. There	will	always	be	burning	questions	in	life,	but	these	four	remain
special	because	they	start	a	spark,	and	from	that	spark	you	will	have	a	fire	in
your	heart. That	fire	will	make	you	live	your	life	with	excitement	and	passion. The	old	man	with	the	white	beard	showed	me	the	spiritual	side	of	life,	where
real	passion	and	excitement
	come	from. I’m	going	to	tell	you	about	our	days
together,	down	to	the	smallest	detail,	until	you	are	given	what	I	was	given. Then	you	can	be	transformed	too,	wherever	you	are. So	before	you	begin,
take	a	deep	breath. This	story	could	turn	out	to	be	yours.Day	One
:
Do	I	Have	a	Soul?Baba
W
hen	I	was	fifteen,	my	school	was	on	a	green	hillside


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HOW BACTERIA ACHIEVE ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE
Antibiotic resistance by bacteria refers to the ability of microorganisms to withstand
the killing effects of one or more antibiotics. Bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics are considered multidrug resistant and are referred more colloquially to as superbugs. Drug-resistant bacteria pose one of the most serious and growing threats to
health and survival and continue to be a global concern to contemporary medicine. Antibiotic-resistant infections complicate treatment and increase morbidity and mortality. These infections are difficult to treat with first-line antibiotics and often result in
second-line treatments that promote longer-lasting illnesses, more doctor visits or extended hospital stays, and the need for more expensive and less safe medications. Some resistant infections can cause death. The first step in the emergence of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms is a genetic
change in a bacterium. There are two ways that can happen. The first way is by spon -
taneous mutation of the bacterium’s DNA. Many antibiotics kill bacteria by inacti -
vating an essential bacterial protein, but either the microbe can develop a mutation that either prevents binding of the antibiotic to the protein or can increase the pro -
duction of that protein. Last, the bacterium can shed the targeted protein from its cell


 the same theme. Think on this deeply and you will see that it
is true. This is what I have called the
Sponsoring Thought. It is either a thought
of love or fear. This is the thought behind
the thought behind the thought. It is the  first
thought. It is prime force. It is the raw
energy that drives the engine of human
experience. And here is how human behavior produces
repeat experience after repeat  experience; it is why humans love, then destroy, then
love again: always there is the  swing from
one emotion to the other. Love sponsors
fear sponsors love sponsors  fear...
...And the reason is found in the first lie —
the lie which you hold as the truth about
God—that God cannot be trusted; that
God’s love cannot be depended upon; that
God’s acceptance of you is conditional; that
the ultimate outcome is thus in doubt. For if
you cannot depend on God’s love to always
be there, on whose love can you  depend? If God retreats and withdraws when you do
not perform properly, will not  mere morta ls
also?...And so it is that in the moment you pledge
your highest love, you greet your  greatest
fear. For the first thing you worry about after
saying “I love you” is whether you’ll hear it
back. And if you hear it back, then you
begin immediately to wor ry that the love
you have just found, you will lose. And so
all action becomes a reaction —defense
against loss —even as you seek to defend
yourself against the loss of God. Yet if you knew Who You Are —that you are
the most magnificent, the most  remarkable,
the most splendid being God has ever
created —you would never fear. For who
could reject such wondrous magnificence? Not even God could find fault in  such a
being. But you do not know Who You Are, and you
think you are a great deal less. And  where
did you g et the idea of how much less than
magnificent you are? From the  only people whose word you would take on everything. From your mother and your  father. These are the people who love you the
most. Why would they lie to you? Yet have
they not told you that yo u are too much of
this, and not enough of that? Have they  not
reminded you that you are to be seen and
not heard? Have they not scolded you in some of the
moments of your greatest exuberance? And, did they not encourage you to set
aside some of your wildes t imagining? These are the messages you’ve received,
and though they do not meet the criteria,
and are thus not messages from God, they
might as well have been, for they have
come from the gods of your universe surely
enough. It was your parents who taught  you that
love is conditional —you have felt their
conditions many times —and that is the
experience you take into your own love
relationships. It is also the experience you bring to Me. From this experience you draw your
conclusions about Me. Within this
framework  you speak your truth. “God is a
loving God,” you say, “but if you break His
commandments, He will punish you with
eternal banishment and everlasting
damnation.”
For have you not experienced the
banishment of your own parents? Do you
not know the pa in of their damnation? How,
then, could you imagine it to be any
different with Me? You have forgotten what it was like to be
loved without condition. You do not
remember the experience of the love of
God. And so you try to imagine what God’s
love must be like, based on what you see
of love in the world. You have projected the role of “parent” onto
God, and have thus come up with a  God
Who judges and rewards or punishes,
based on how good He feels about what
you’ve been up to. But this is a simplistic
view of God, based on your mythology. It
has nothing to do with Who I Am. Having thus created an entire thought
system about God based on human
experience rather than spiritual truths, you
then create an entire reality around love. It
is a fear -based reality, r ooted in the idea of
a fearful, vengeful God. Its Sponsoring  Thought is wrong, but to deny that thought
would be to disrupt your whole theology. And though the new theology which would
replace it would truly be your salvation,  you
cannot accept it, because  the idea of a God
Who is not to be feared, Who will  not judge,
and Who has no cause to punish is simply
too magnificent to he  embraced within even
your grandest notion of Who and What God
is. This fear -based love reality dominates your
experience of love; indeed, actually  creates
it. For not only do you see yourself
receiving love which is conditional, you  also
watch yourself giving it in the same way. And even while you withhold and  retreat
and set your conditions, a part of you
knows t his is not what love really is. Still,
you seem powerless to change the way you dispense it You’ve learned the  hard
way, you tell yourself, and you’ll be damned
if you’re going to leave yourself  vulnerable
again. Yet the truth is, you’ll be damned if
you don’t. [By your own (mistaken) thoughts about
love do you damn yourself never to
experience it purely. So, too, do you damn
yourself never to know Me as I really am. Until you do. For you shall not be able to
deny Me forever, and the moment will  come
for our Reconciliation.] Every action taken by human beings is
based in love or fear, not simply those
dealing with relationships. Decisions
affecting business, industry, politics,
religion,  the education of your young, the
social agenda of your nations, th e
economic goals  of your society, choices involving war, peace, attack, defense,
aggression,  submission; determinations to
covet or give away, to save or to share, to
unite or to  divide —every single free choice
you ever undertake arises out of one of the
only two  possible thoughts there are: a
thought of love or a thought of fear. Fear is the energy which contracts, closes
down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards,
harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens
up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares,
heals. Fear w raps our bodies in clothing, love
allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to
and clutches all that we have, love gives all
that we have away. Fear holds close, love
holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love
amends. Every human thought, word, or deed is
based in one emotion or the other. You
have  no choice about this, because there is
nothing else from which to choose. But you
have free choice about which of these to
select. You make it sound so easy, and yet in the
moment of decision fear wins more often
than not. Why is that? You have been taught to live in fear. You
have been told about the survival of the
fittest and the victory of the strongest and
the success of the cleverest. Precious  little
is said about the g lory of the most loving. And so you strive to be the fittest, the
strongest, the cleverest —in one way or another —and if you see yourself as
something less than this in any situation,
you fear loss, for you have been told that  to
be less is to lose. And so of course you choose the action
fear sponsors, for that is what you have
been taught. Yet I teach you this: when you
choose the action love sponsors, then  will
you do more than survive, then will you do
more than win, then will you do more  than
succeed. Th en will you experience the full
glory of Who You Really Are, and  who you
can be. To do this you must turn aside the
teachings of your well -meaning, but
misinformed,  worldly tutors, and hear the
teachings of those whose wisdom comes
from another  source. There are many such teachers among you,
as always there have been, for I will not
leave you without those who would show
you, teach you, guide you, and remind you
of these truths. Yet the greatest reminder is
not anyone outside you, but the voice
within you. This is the first tool that I use,
because it is the most accessible. The voice within is the loudest voice with
which I speak, because it is the closest to
you. It is the voice which tells you whether
everything else is true or false, right or
wrong,  good or bad as you have defined it. It is the radar that sets the course, steers
the ship, guides the journey if you but let it. It is the voice which tells you right now
whether the very words you are reading are
words of love or words of fear. By


ottenger states that "when additional growth stimulation is
applied to certain deficient children at the right time, before they have attained facial growth, material changes in the
contour of the face can brought about without the application of surgical appliances." IN EUROPE
In Europe a diet composed primarily of raw foods was employed in the treatment of disease as early as the latter part of the
nineteenth century. At that time the " Jungborn" a health resort located in the Hartz mountain region between Isenburg and
Hartzburg of Germany, was opened. The director of this institution was Adolph Just, a philosopher and naturalist, who
concluded from his observations of wild and domestic animal life that only raw foods were capable of building the health,
strength, and vigor that are normal in nature. At his resort, Mr. Just provided sun and air baths, special water baths, and
earth compresses as treatment in addition to raw foods. The diet consisted in the main of fruits, berries, nuts, and milk in
the uncooked state. In 1896, Mr. Just issued a number of case history records illustrating the results of his raw food and natural treatment
therapy. Among the diseases reported cured or benefited were inflammatory rheumatism, consumption of the spinal cord,
tuberculosis of the bones, dropsy, incipient dropsy, fistula of the rectum, cancer, nervous spasms, deafness, and various
digestive ailments and sexual disorders. Recoveries were often rapid as well as complete. Recovery from severe nervous
disorders was achieved in ten weeks, from deafness in eight weeks, from inflammatory rheumatism in nine days, and from
incipient dropsy in less than a week. Great improvement in cases of different forms of consumption was noted during the
first two weeks of treatment. In almost all cases treated at the " Jungborn" some benefit was reported, and the general
success was attributed largely to the use of raw foods. BIRCHER-BENNER
During the year, 1897, another great raw food institution was opened in Europe, this being the famous Bircher- Benner clinic
and sanitarium in Zurich, Switzerland, which continues operation in the present day. Here extensive use has been made of
raw foods, and some patients have been placed on an exclusive raw diet for a limited period of time when this was deemed
necessary. The late founder of the institution, Dr. Bircher- Benner, stated that "raw vegetable food is the most potent healing
copyright © Dr. Stanley S. Bass   (718) 648-1500    www.drbass.com 6factor that exists" which is able "to bring healing to very many widely 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 describes 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 reported
by Dr. Bircher to require one to three years, sometimes less, "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, spine, 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 dividing 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. HUMLEGAARDEN
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. I. 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 later utilized in their practice. The therapeutic successes attained 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. Patients 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." OTHERS
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
copyright © Dr. Stanley S. Bass   (718) 648-1500    www.drbass.com 7raised 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


, nor braving winter blasts of icy wind! After 3-4 weeks exercise can be cautiously
increased to 10 minutes. It’s also possible to start using a mini-trampoline, but only to the extent
of raising and lowering the heels a summer heat, nor braving winter blasts of icy wind! After 3-4
weeks exercise can be cautiously increased to 10 minutes. It is also possible to start using a mini-
trampoline, but only to the extent of raising and lowering the heels a dozen times without moving
the body, and later do a little stationary walking. Recovering patients can gradually step up their exercise program, with the proviso that if
they become seriously tired and unable to recover after a rest, the duration of the exercise must
immediately be reduced to the last level that was comfortable. Gentle Hatha Yoga exercises can
also be tried. But however well the patient feels, it is never wise to abandon healing in favour of
exercise. After complete recovery it is easy to rebuild muscle strength. Q: Why is it so important for patients to avoid getting a cold? Surely even mild fl u won’t do
us much harm? A: We have to assume that patients who have developed cancer have a seriously damaged,
weakened immune system. If it weren’t so, there could be no cancer! With the intensive Gerson
Therapy the immune system will be restored in time. However, that time could well mean a
whole year, and until then colds and flu, caused by viral infection, remain dangerous, since the
recovering immune system is not able to deal with them easily. Furthermore, viruses invade healthy cells and change their genes in the same manner as
cancer tends to change the genetic structure of normal cells. These changed genes are called
oncogenes. If the patient contracts a viral invasion before the immune system is sufficiently
restored, a dangerous, even potentially life-threatening situation arises, which must be treated
with ozonation, extra immune boosters, possibly selenium, and more. Therefore prevention is
obviously vastly preferable. Don’t allow anyone, especially children with colds or flu anywhere
near the patient! CAUTION: even if the patient recovers well from a cold or flu, it is possible that
tumor tissue recurs and grows. Q: I know that the purpose of the coffee enema is not to promote evacuation, but it does that
anyway, especially on the 5-a-day routine. So why must I also take that ghastly castor oil? A: Seriously ill cancer patients usually carry a huge toxic load of tumor tissue. As this load
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www.thegersonway.comis attacked by the recovering immune system and gets excreted, lar ge amounts of toxins are
released into the blood stream, collected by the liver, and released into the small intestine for
eventual evacuation. Most people don’t realize that the transit from the release by the liver/bile
system to the anus can take many hours, even with the regular five daily enemas. During that
time it is unavoidable for the body to re-absorb some of those toxins. Castor oil is needed to remedy that situation. The oil rapidly clears the entire intestinal tract,
not just the colon, and especially the small intestine, where the re-absorption would take place. The same cleansing effect would also benefit non-cancer patients who, due to so-called civilized
living, are carriers of large amounts of not just the colon, and especially the small intestine, where
the re-absorption would take place. The same cleansing effect would also benefit non-cancer
patients who, due to so-called civilized living, are carriers of large amounts of toxic substances
other than tumor tissue. They may well recover without the castor oil enemas, but using the
additional detoxifying by orally taken castor oil speeds up healing. Q: Can I do this therapy at the same time as receiving chemotherapy treatment? A: It seems a contradiction to poison the body on the one hand with chemotherapy drugs,
and on the other to detoxify it at the same time with coffee enemas, juices, etc. So sharp is
the contrast between the two approaches that patients who come to the Gerson Therapy after
chemotherapy has failed to help them, have to go on a reduced form of the Gerson programme
for at least six months, to allow for the gradual detoxification of the body. You may, however,
support your body during chemotherapy by switching to the Gerson diet and having no more
than 3 glasses of freshly made juice and one enema a day, as long as you realize that you are not
doing the Gerson Therapy. Q: If this therapy is so effective, why isn’t it recognized by the medical authorities? A:  As is well known, the present orthodox medical system is dominated by the huge and
powerful pharmaceutical companies. They even control, via substantial donations to medical
schools, what is being taught to medical students: drugs, drugs and more drugs to suppress
symptoms. But drugs never heal, with the result that chronic degenerative diseases are termed
“incurable.”
The Gerson Therapy cuts totally into drug use, and therefore drug sales, by healing the
body of its true underlying problems—the disturbances in the entire metabolism, the diminished
immune system and the damaged essential organs. Thus the whole body can be healed, “cured” of the underlying problems, and health is restored. The problem is that the big pharmaceutical companies cannot make money out of natural organic
food, such as a sack of carrots. So they fight the nutrition-based therapy as long as they can. They
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www.thegersonway.comQ: There are so many different kinds of cancer. How can the same therapy be right for all of
them? What about specialization? A: It is true that when the body is severely damaged by toxins, steady irritation, genetic causes
or any other reason, normally it is the weakest part that breaks down and allows the wild cell
growth, which equals cancer. Hence the wide variety of malignant disease. However, the Gerson
Therapy works on the entire organism; it restores the body’s defenses, so that it becomes able
to attack and destroy malignant tissue, which is actually foreign to it. The healthy immune
response kills and removes this “foreign” tissue, no matter what its name, origin or location! This doesn’t mean, of course, that precise minor adjustments are not made in the program,
according to individual needs. But beyond that, specialization is a mistake, since the bottom line
remains the need to heal ALL the body systems along with the immune system, including the
mineral balances, the hormone system, the essential organs—everything. Only that ensures true
healing. Q: Can the Gerson Therapy be used on small children, and how is it scaled down to suit
them? A: Yes, small children respond extremely well. (see Case No.15 in “A Cancer Therapy—Results
of 50 Cases,”  where the patient was an 8-months-old boy. Of course since then we’ve had many
successes, with patients ranging from toddlers to teens.) Medication is scaled down more or less
according to their weight, but they are well able to take juices, even from a nursing bottle, and
generally don’t need coffee enemas before the age of 2-3. Q: What’s the earliest age a baby can be given carrot juice? A: There are some babies that are allergic to EVERY type of milk: mother’s milk, when the
mother is ill, goat’s milk, soy milk, formula, everything. Such babies have been raised on
NOTHING but organic carrot juice, starting at a few weeks of age. The juice gives them all the
nutrients they need and they grow up totally well and healthy. Q: Some people are terrified of needles. Why can’t they take the liver extract with B12 by
mouth? A: People who are afraid of needles are surprisingly not afraid of putting every kind of poison
into their bodies, including nicotine, alcohol and all sortsof toxic painkillers and other drugs. The problem is that when they are terminally ill, the body is so severely depleted that oral
administration is insufficient to make up for the deficiency to stop cancer growth. The other
problem is that we already use liver powder, which is not enough, and B12 (which is needed to
enhance the production of healthy red blood cells) is poorly absorbed in almost all people. For
proper absorption of B12 orally, the body needs the so-called ‘intrinsic factor,’ which very few
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www.thegersonway.compeople have. So they must get B12 faster and more efficiently by intramuscular injection. By the way, if the injection is correctly delivered into the ‘gluteus medius’ (as Dr. Gerson
instructed), not into the ‘gluteus maximus,’ as most doctors and nurses wrongly do


 make them think that you lov e them, but
rather that you want them to be dif ferent. Y ou have to remember to go back
to what you fell in love with. All relationship s are about an opposite. Y ou don’ t need a mirror of
yourself—you’ve already got th at. Even with your children, the things that
usually endear you the most to them are the things they do that are not like
you. Those are often the things you respect the most. Y ou admire, for
example, your child who will st and up for what she thinks is rig ht and take
the sling s and arrows that go al ong with such fearlessness. Of course you
don’ t want her t o be contrary an d disobedient, but there’ s a part of you that
says, “Y ou know, I never had the courage to do that myself. I don’ t want her
to ever not  do that. ” When you ad mire such qualities, you can le arn from
them, and they become your teachers. Y ou can make something very positive and beautiful out of those
dif ferences. When you make conflict something to honor, to da nce with, to
celebrate, you become instant ly focused on solutions. Most often, the
solution to the d if ferences in any relationship lies in respecting, honoring,
and cele brating the very things t hat are dif ferent in the other person. Again,
you bring a win-win attitude to it. So when conflict crops up at wo rk, you have to take the same a pproach. Resist th e ur ge to be problem-oriented—that is, I’m going to make this
person wr ong, and I’m going to make myself right —or turn it into a contest. Y ou do not need  to feel threaten ed by the dif ferences in other people. Y ou
see t hat others a re on a dif ferent  part of the path than you are. Some people
are very ef ficient at getting things done, while others are slower. Instead of
making them wrong, you can refrain from being ego-involved in this at all. I think this one of the hardest things for us in the try-to-get-ahead-of-the-
other -guy, comp etitive-oriented W est to grasp. Y et we must try to get to the
point wh ere the dif ferences in other people are to be respected a nd honored,
accepted for what they are rather than treated as contests. Bringing in a
spiritual, right-brained, intuitive kind of approach isn’ t going t o make you
wimpy, weak, or less profitab le; in fact, it will bring you peace and
harmony. It will give you a sense of knowing what you’re about and why
you’re here, and that lack of the need to be right or to win or to put
somebody else down frees you up to do better. I hav e moved m uch more in this direction in my own life. I don’ t need to
make a contest out of every dif ference I have with others; instead, I
recognize those variations and look toward solutions. I dance with, even
enjoy, th e disco rd rather than tr eat it as something that shouldn ’ t be there. Since I’ ve given up some of my attachments to having to be right and
embarked upon a path of sending out love and peace and ha rmony and
contentment, I’v e never had more “success” come into my life. My books
and audio programs are very popular. The demand for my lectures has
increased, and people are inviting me to do things that never even came to
me before, such as create my own television shows and write plays. Success
as v iewed in an external fashion, as an achievement, has certai nly gone up
for me. Y et I’m talking about going beyond all of that. Again, the great irony is that wh en we get focused on following our bliss
and being in the service of others, all those things that w e seek so
desperately—the success, the achievement, the performance—seem toarrive in our lives in great amounts. But as long as we fin d ourselves
pushing for, demanding, chasing after, and striving for them, they will never
arrive. T he only  vehicle that’ s a vailable to take us from striving  to arriving
is detachment and acceptance. A NEW KIND OF APPROACH
When yo u are enlightened, you no longer see yourself as separated from
higher c onsciousness. Instead, y ou see it as what you are. The n you start
having dramatic new changes in your life. That old focus on accumulatio n and having to get things done is no
longer th ere, so  you become m uch more peaceful. Then after a while you
realize that Everything that I’m doing is all right. Even when I mess up,
even wh en the deal doesn’ t go t hr ough, ther e’ s something to learn. Ther e’ s
an opportunity in that obstacle or in that failur e. Y ou get this incredible
peace with all the things that you’re doing. Y ou see that this world of form is all an illusion and that  you are
destroying yourself with things that aren’ t even real. Why should you
concern yourself  with whether this person likes you or doesn’ t, whether you
get that money o r not, and all that. Y ou can’ t do anything with t hat anyway. Y ou tell yourself, I’m going to sto p messing myself up. I won’ t even think
like that any longer. Be fore long, instead of being full of anger and
disharmony, yo u become full of acceptance. Y ou have a n ew kind of
approach to all that you’re doing  in your life, and the only thing that matters
is love. Deep inside you—in that special place where you know that you are
thought and thought is you, and you are a higher consciousness—you feel
more productive  and less consumed with what other people a re thinking. Y ou find  yourse lf moving away from all the stuf f that used to  be such an
important part of your life, trying to get this one to like you a nd trying to
please that one, or being in an overbearing or controlling relati onship. Y ou
leave tha t all behind. Y ou avoid confrontation and conflict becau se that isn’ t
you any longer. Y ou’re much more peaceful with everything. After a while, you look for the beauty in what others do, and you see it in
everybody. Somebody will cut you of f on the freeway, somebo dy will yellat you, somebod y will be obnoxious toward you, somebody w ill not pay
their debt toward you—any number of things that at one time would have
driven you absolutely insane—and you understand, That’ s w her e the y ar e
on the path. Y ou know that everything that happens to you and everybody
you run into in your life are gifts. They teach you something abo ut yourself. Y ou think, All t hose people ar e just tests for me to see whether I can, in
fact, send them something positive and useful and not let them get to me. The minute a n egative person starts getting to you, what you’ve really
done is given up control of your life to them. Y ou’ve communicated that
their opinions of you are more i mportant than your own are. If you see that
person for where they are on the path, recognizing that the way they behave
has nothing to do with you, then you’re not going to ma ke yourself
miserable becau se they choose to act toward you in that way. Before long,
you can turn those kinds of people around. T ake three people looking at a given situation: one of them sees the
anger, an other one sees the hostility, and another one sees the lo ve behind it
all. The person who sees the lov e behind the encounter, wherever it may be,
has a much better chance of not only getting what they wa nt but also
helping to turn others around. For example, think of an airport, where there
are a lot of people fighting over how they’re going to get seated on a plane. I have found myself in a similar  situation to this many times. There will be
several people acting aggressively toward a clerk who is trying to do her
best and  be as polite as she can. But the person who is antagonistic can only
see the antagonism in another person. I’ll be admiring how well the attendant is handling all of th e people
giving her a hard  time. I recognize what a kind person she is and how she’ s
trying to  do her absolute best. When it’ s my turn to get up the re, I’ll say,
“W ow, y ou’re re ally having to struggle. Y ou sure have to put u p with a lot
when you do a job like this, but you handle it so well and don’ t lose your
cool. ” Y ou know what. She will often go out of her way for me. I might get
moved up to firs t class, get the very seat that I want, or simply b e rewarded
with a genuine smile. When y ou’re looking for the g ood, you can make almost any situation
turn arou nd for you. After a whi


gethat the thinnest man of a class was always thebiggest glutton. Each year, a prize of acombination knife, fork, and spoon, was given tothe grossest eater of the junior class. Within mymemory the recipient was always a very thinand cadaverous fellow. As a matter of fact, the hardest work done by
the body is performed within the body. It is thework of digestion, general metabolism, and theconstant and never-ceasing pumping of theblood through hundreds of miles of veins andarteries. If this work is measured in terms ofheat units thrown off (calories) the internalactivity of the body is as two to three parts ofthe whole heat energy released into thesurrounding air. It is quite possible to increase this heat
expense by 20 to 50 per cent. by merelyoverloading the stomach a little, and crowdingthe mechanism of metabolism to its utmost. Sometimes the crowding is carried so far thatthe organism cannot stand it; somethingbursts ; and, there you are—dead. CONTENTMENT. The supremest felicity is not wanting
anything. If one cannot think of a single thingin the wide, wide world, not even oblivion, thatthey would have in addition to what they areenjoying at the moment, their cup ofcontentment is full. In regard to eating, to have Fletcherized a
few morsels of the finest food that anyone'smother ever made, until there is no desire formore, and yet the contentment is of that calmsort that indicates that there is no overloadingof the stomach, is gastronomic Heaven, and itcarries with it a blanket of general contentmentthat covers the universe. On the other hand, to have eaten unwisely,
as the result of animal voracity, over-estimate ofcapacity, and greed of getting outside of all that
must be paid for, or, in slavish deference toaggressive hospitality, is Hell from the finish ofthe meal until the finish of the " spell ofsickness " that may follow the gorge. It werealmost impossible to sink into the depths ofsuch gluttony on any one, two or three of thebest dishes possible to imagine; only a modernmultiple mixed menu is liable to bring thisdegradation, and hence the menace of it. Suppose, again, you are framing up a
business deal, and have a customer " on thestring. " The best way to get at his heart andpocket-book is through the sociabilityaccompanying a sumptuous meal. You seek a Princess' Restaurant, a Ritz-
Carlton or a Waldorf, and make a spread of yourEpicurean generosity, your bank account, andyour business web or net. If you insist on fillingyour guests full of everything, you must set theexample. Results: Similar in all cases. Science is not even secure against the
temptation of the monumental menu. Thewriter has known the citadel of scientificconservatism to be captured by five-dollar still-wine and fifty-cent. cigars, as accompaniments
of six-course dinner-dreams. This, too, in theinterest of an Epicurean Economy that put all ofthe academic teachings in the back-number list,and favored fifty-cent. banquets with nary acigar to top off the feast. FLETCHERISM  AND POLITICAL  ECONOMY. It may be argued that the waste attendant on
sumptuous living is the most prolific means ofkeeping money in circulation : of putting breadinto the mouths of the servant class: and thatSpartan simplicity would throw the world backtwo thousand years in the civilized progress ithas made. That might be true of some forms of
sumptuousness, but not as to the wanton wasteof food through the temptations of magnificentmenus. Food is the realest of all forms ofwealth. Scarce ever a grain of wheat or kernelof corn is wasted. The story of the Englishmanwho visited Kansas, and from there took hometo London a colossal joke at the expense of cornand Kansas, illustrates the permanence andindestructibility of food wealth. Riding through the State, with a native
Kansan, an English globe-trotter wondered atthe endless fields of yellow " maize. " He called itmaize, but the Kansan called it " corn. " " What in the world do you do with all this
maize. " said the mobilized Cockney. " Oh, thatis easy," replied the native: " We eat what wecan and we can what we can't. " In due season this strange answer was
interpreted to the visitor and he determined tocan the joke for serving up at his club inLondon. Arriving in England, the joker made
deliberate preparations to open his can ofKansas corn to the best effect. He invited a setof chappies to dine with him and the pièce de
résistance was Kansas canned corn. Having engineered the matter to the right
point of curiosity, the host told the story of hisvisit to Kansas and finally exploded his finale in
this wise : " Do you know, these Americans outin the West are a jolly lot. They have a dry sortof wit, too. I was travelling in company with oneof them through the State of Kansas, which isthe great maize State of the country. They don'tcall it maize, however, they call it corn, and
what we call corn they call wheat. Well, I wasamazed at the miles and miles of maize—no punintended and no apology needed—and asked mycompanion whatever in the world they did withit all. And what do you think he said : He said,' We eat what we can and the rest we put up intins. '"
It took the perpetrator of the joke another
week to find out why no one laughed, andspoiled everything by still waiting for the pointafter the real explosion took place : and nointernational incident is recorded in the historyof that day. Yes, the really most vital wealth is stored in
the food treasuries. Profusion of it carries downthe prices and this raises wages by comparison. There is always a spot-cash market for food atsome price, which is not the case with manyother forms of property. But the waste of the food material itself is
insignificant compared to the waste of energythat must take place to get rid of it, the momentit is swallowed and beyond personal respons-ibility. The transportation of a car-load of wheatby rail from Saskatchewan to the Atlantic
seaboard by rail and across the ocean bysteamer is small as compared with the expenseof getting a mouthful of bolted bread through,an alimentary canal that is congested withindigestion. CHAPTER XIV
THE CRUX OF FLETCHERISM
The Value of Occasional Fasting—The Power of Freedom from
Indigestion—Muscles have Memories. ALMOST  everybody eats with sufficient care
most of the time ; otherwise, all would be on thesick-list all the time and the death-rate would
be increased enormously. Whatever sickness, depression, weakness and
other illnesses there are now are the result ofoccasional carelessness only. The remedy for lapses from carefulness is
knowledge of what the natural requirementsare, and training the muscles and functionsemployed in nutrition to work always withcareful deliberation and never allow themselvesto be hurried with their work. It should also be made a habit
NOT TO EAT ANYTHING
without a keen appetite. This involves knowinghow to recognise a true appetite and also how todetect a false craving. Waiting for a healthful
call for food, for any length of time, can do noharm, and should not cause any discomfort orinconvenience ; but exciting a false desire andtaking food before the body is " good and ready "for it, starts trouble brewing at once. If the worst results of premature or hurried
eating were immediately felt, no one would getin the habit of sinning in this manner. Likeauto-intoxication from excess of alcohol,poisoning from unnecessary or unwelcomefood—either an excess of it or when takenuntimely—is an aftermath of unhealthystimulation or exhilaration. The crux, then, of dietetic righteousness, or,
Fletcherism, is habituating the body to practisethat Eternal Vigilance, which is
THE PRICE  OF FREEDOM  FROM  INDIGESTION. It should be much easier to install a habit of
carefulness than it is to permit habits ofcarelessness. It is possible so to sensitize themuscles which control swallowing that they willrefuse to act and will cause choking if anattempt to swallow prematurely is made. Systematic attention to this detail of care for a
week will secure it as a permanent habitwithout need of any further attention to it. The statement that it is easier to do the right
thing than it is to do the wrong thing : and thatit is easier to fix firmly good habits than it is toacquire bad habits ; will probably be questionedor disputed by many; but practice of theprinciples which underlie Fletcherism will curesuch pessimism relative to the attitude ofMother Nature towards her most perfectproduct in general, Man. Man is given more liberty and more license
than any other natural expression and, with theendowment which we call " intelligence," he israised to a position of partnership in assistingnatural evolution and progress. From inklings of experience it is reasonably
inferred that Man is more susceptible toevolutionary influence than any of the animalkind ; that he can ever progressively trainhimself towards higher and highersupermanhood ; that he is able to performmarvels


ine
in
the
morning
and
at
noon
and
compresses
helped
me. Also,
breast
inflammation
during
breastfeeding
disappeared
practically
within
a
few
hours
after
compresses
with
baby's
urine. Example:
"Six
years
ago
I
had
a
cyst
removed
from
my
right
ovary
and
now
the
cyst
has
reappeared
on
the
left. The
doctor
advised
me
to
have
surgery. I
starved
for
10
days
and
drank
75
grams
of
urine
4
times
a
day. The
cyst
first
shrunk
by
half,
and
then
they
didn't
detect
it
at
all. Just
a
miracle.”
Recommendation:
This
woman
writes
that
she
had
constant
bowel
problems. These
must
be
removed
by
thorough
cleaning,
because
cysts
are
the
result
of
a
clogged
intestine. Example:
"The
nurse
has
mastopathy
of
the
right
breast. They
irradiated
her
24
times! Everything
was
fine
for
a
long
time,
but
then
the
breast
became
inflamed
again
and
turned
red. The
nurse
did
not
go
to
the
hospital
and
began
to
be
treated
with
urine
therapy:
drinking
urine,
compresses,
massages
with
urine
plus
10
days
of
fasting. Two
days
after
the
fast,
blood
serum
began
to
flow
from
her
chest. The
temperature
decreased
and
the
redness
subsided. The
only
thing
that
scares
me
is
that
the
blood
was
sometimes
dark
red. What
to
do
next?' Recommendation:
It
is
necessary
to
starve
only
after
thorough
cleansing
of
the
body. Already
at
the
beginning
of
the
cleansing
of
the
intestine,
liver,
etc.,
it
is
necessary
to
drink
urine
twice,
three
times
a
day,
100-150
grams
each,
and
apply
compresses
made
of
urine,
according
to
one's
choice,
preferably
in
the
form
of
clay
compresses,
so-called
cataplasms,
to
the
breast. If
the
problems
do
not
go
away
even
after
a
month,
then
it
is
necessary
to
proceed
with
water
and
urine
starvation. Example:
"I
had
a
bad
cold
and
cough
for
about
three
months. An
acquaintance
advised
me
to
drink
urine. I
didn't
have
to
prepare
for
it
in
any
way,
I
was
already
drinking
kerosene. I
started
drinking
half
a
glass
several
times
a
day
without
changing
my
diet. In
a
week
the
cough
got
over
me. In
addition,
the
swelling
of
my
lymph
nodes
disappeared
within
two
months." Example:
"The
neighbor
suffers
from
bladder
cancer. After
cleansing
her
bowels
and
drinking
fresh
urine,
her
urine
output
returned
to
normal
after
five
years." Example:
"I
had
a
malignant
tumor
the
size
of
a
pea
in
the
corner
of
my
right
eye
at
the
base
of
my
nose. I
started
treating
him
with
urine. I
didn't
rub
it,
just
touched
it
lightly. Two
weeks
later
I
found
out
one
morning
that
the
tumor
was
gone.' Example:
"I
follow
your
advice
and
without
starving,
I
got
rid
of
hemorrhoids,
pain
in
my
legs
and
lower
back
in
a
year,
I
forgot
what
a
cold
is
and
inflammation
of
the
upper
respiratory
tract
and
sinuses,
even
an
enlar ged
prostate,
which
the
doctors
already
wanted
to
operate
on
me
twice. I
am
a
war
invalid.' Example:
"I
want
to
tell
you
how
my
mother
treated
herself
with
urine
20
years
ago. The
diagnosis
was:
a
tumor
and
rupture
of
the
small
intestine. She
drank
urine
several
times
a
day
without
ceasing. The
crack
healed
and
the
tumor
disappeared. The
treatment
was
advised
by
a
woman
who
cured
herself
of
small
intestine
cancer
with
urine." Example:
"My
five-year -old
daughter
began
to
have
trouble
hearing
due
to
polyps. They
operated
on
her
twice,
but
the
polyps
reappeared. That's
why
I
started
to
drip
into
mydaughter's
nose
her
fresh
urine
half
a
pipette
into
each
hole
as
many
times
a
day
as
she
peed. The
treatment
lasted
two
weeks,
and
I
dripped
evaporated
urine
into
her
ears. The
result
is
100%
hearing. At
the
same
time,
the
doctors
determined
the
diagnosis:
deafness
of
the
2nd
degree." Example:
"The
patient
hit
herself
in
the
chest
three
years
ago. A
tumor
the
size
of
a
hen's
egg
appeared
at
the
site
of
the
bruise. The
doctors
decided
on
an
operation. The
patient
was
afraid
of
the
operation
and
began
to
drink
urine
in
the
morning
and
evening,
at
night
she
put
compresses
with
heated
urine
with
a
teaspoon
of
soda
and
a
teaspoon
of
vinegar. After
severe
itching
and
even
burning
of
the
skin,
she
stopped
using
the
compresses
for
a
while,
but
then
resumed
them
again. Within
a
month,
the
tumor
had
shrunk
considerably
and
they
canceled
the
operation. After
another
month,
the
tumor
completely
disappeared.' Comment
and
recommendation:
Never
add
the
above
ingredients
to
your
urine. It
was
these
that
caused
the
skin
burns. Example:
"We
got
acquainted
with
urine
therapy
when
our
family
was
hit
by
an
accident. My
father
(51
years
old)
was
told
by
doctors
that
he
has
terminal
cancer
of
the
pharynx
and
it
is
too
late
for
surgery. They
suggested
radiation. However,
we
rejected
this
because
it
has
helped
few
people
so
far. At
first,
the
father
also
refused
urine
therapy,
but
then
he
started
drinking
urine
with
compote
and
drank
it
down
with
water. A
year
has
already
passed
and
the
father
is
alive. Although
he
experienced
a
severe
crisis
associated
with
vomiting,
severe
coughing,
dischar ge
of
pus
and
temperature. We
were
afraid
that
he
was
about
to
die,
but
then
we
understood
that
the
process
of
purification
had
begun.' Comment:
Compresses
made
of
evaporated


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