 12 died of diseases otherthan diphtheria, so that the fatality rate should in reality be under 6%.
It is to be regretted that the cases treated with and without anti-
toxin are no longer listed separately in the Metropolitan AsylumsBoard’s Reports, and since 1930 the Board itself has ceased to exist.
From those cases that have been particularised, there seems to be no
denying that improved methods of nursing and medical treatment,which should reduce deaths, accomplish this to a lesser degree when
anti-toxin is administered.
The following table supplies proof of this view with regard to
infantile diseases. We see here the remarkable decrease in measles,
A Few Examples of the Cult in Theory and Practice
3131. This calculation is based on the years 1880–94 as the pre-anti-toxin period. Were the
comparison made from 1879–93, the increase would amount to 33.88%. The Registrar-General gives small support to the allegation that many of the earlier croup deathsshould have been classified as diphtheria.314   Béchamp or Pasteur?scarlet fever, and whooping cough – complaints not subject to treatment
by inoculation; while diphtheria, with its specific anti-toxin, shows an
increase of 102 per million. The contrast is striking.
Annual mortality per million at ages 1 to 5 years
in 1911–14 and 1916 (both sexes)1
                                            Death rate                   Increase (+) or decrease (–)
                                    1911-14           1916               between 1911-14 and 1916
Measles 2,643 1,225 –1,388
Scarlet Fever 369 227 –142
Whooping Cough 1,202 1,050 –152
Diphtheria 769 871 +102
The claim for immediate injection and the advantage of a first-
day inoculation as compared with a second day, and so forth, may
surely be dismissed for the following reasons. Before clinical symptoms
are manifest, it is impossible to tell whether the trouble would everbe serious, if indeed the diphtheria be genuine; and if, on the one
hand, it be asserted that the prompt administration of anti-toxin has
prevented dangerous illness, it is as easy to assert, on the other, thatthrough anti-toxin a mere mild sore throat has been aggravated into
severe sickness, sometimes complicated by heart trouble and paralysis.
The one method of argument is no more inexact and unscientificthan the other.
Also, one may ask; why, if diphtheria anti-toxin is such a reliable
remedy, should it have been found necessary to introduce the Schicksystem of preliminary test and subsequent immunisation? The
supposedly susceptible children should run small risk if provided with
an infallible cure. If, in answer to this, it is argued that the immunisationis for the prevention of diphtheria for all time, it may be retorted that
statistics show no improvement upon natural immunity; while,
moreover, in many cases the preventive has proved far more dangerousthan the disease.
1. Part of Table 34 on p.xiv of Registrar-General’s Report for 1916 (England and Wales).Cases of illness and death that have followed
the ‘Schick’ inoculation against diphtheria
A list of Immunisation Disasters, 1919–1941.
Year Place                                                      Injured               Died
1919 Texas, U.S.A. 60 10
1924 Bridgewater, U.S.A. 25 –
1924 Concord, U.S.A. 20 –
1924 Baden, Austria? 61927 Russia 2 12
1927 China 37 5
1928 Bundaberg, Australia 5 12
1930 Colombia, S. America 32 16
1932 Charolles, France 171 11933 Chiavari, Italy 29 1
1933 Venice and Rovigo? 10
1935 San Francisco 3 2
1936 France 75 1
1937 Waterford, Ireland 23 1
1938 Waterside, Canada 11 1
1941 Freiburg, Switzerland 4 11
                                                         Totals   497                 89
Over and above these mass disasters, there are too many tragic
cases of injury and death following inoculation for space to be allotted
to more than a few of them in this volume.
John Gordon Baker, aged 7 years, of Saxholm Way, Bassett, died
five days after his second inoculation against diphtheria.
Dennis Hillier, aged 11, a healthy boy from London, excelled in
games. He died two months after his second inoculation.
William Martin Graham, aged 4 years, of Bownem, Wigton, died in
the Birmingham Children’s Hospital two days after being inoculatedwith alum-precipitated toxoid.
Rosemary Jane Webb, Ernest Eales, Joan Hudgeon and many more
swell the lists of young victims who might be alive, but for Pasteurianmedical methods.
Neither has freedom from diphtheria resulted as a reward of the
grave risks taken. During the four years 1941-44, the Ministry of Healthand the Department of Health for Scotland reported almost 23,000
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315316   Béchamp or Pasteur?cases of diphtheria in immunised children, of which more than 180
proved fatal.
With regard to the decline of diphtheria in Great Britain during
1943 and 1944, we are reminded that 58 British physicians who signed
a statement in 1938 against compulsory immunisation in Guernsey
were able to point to the virtual disappearance of diphtheria in Swedenwithout any immunisation.
On the other hand, if we turn to Germany we find that, after Dr.
Frick’s order in April 1940 for the compulsory mass-immunisation ofchildren, this country in 1945 had come to be regarded as the storm-
centre of diphtheria in Europe. From some 40,000 cases, there had
been an increase to 250,000 cases.
An article in the March 1944 edition of a publication called Pour la
Famille  documents the rise in cases of diphtheria after compulsory
immunisation. For instance, the increase in Paris was as much as 30%;and in Lyons the number of diphtheria cases rose from 162 in 1942 to
239 in 1943. In Hungary, where immunisation has been compulsory
since 1938, the rise in cases was 35% in two years. In the canton ofGeneva, where immunisation has been enforced since 1938, the number
of cases trebled between 1941 to 1943.
A startling tragedy of Pasteurian preventive methods was the murder
of innocents at Lubeck, during the early summer of 1930, from B.C.G.,
or the Calmette Tuberculosis Vaccine, a culture administered by mouth
to newborn infants.
The Health Department of the city made an emotional appeal to
parents to allow immunisation of their children, whether likely to grow
up in a tubercular environment or otherwise. Of the 253 babiessubjected to the Calmette treatment, 69 died of it and 130 were made
seriously ill. In view of such a calamity it is not surprising that the
Reich Health Office decided that such prophylactics were not to berecommended, and the Reich Health Council
“...considers an extension and tightening up of the existing
regulations for the production, issue and employment ofvaccines of all kinds to be desirable.”
1
Finally, we have to remember what wonderful statistical boasts have
been demolished when genuine epidemics have made their appearance.
For some considerable time one of the trump cards, so to speak, of the
Research (i.e. vivisection) Defence Society was the anti-meningitis
1. The Times, 15th December, 1930.serum of Dr. Flexner and Dr. Jobling of the Rockefeller Institute, New
York. Remarkable statistics were produced without explanation. The
serum, first tried in the spring of 1907, was acclaimed as bringingabout a ‘complete revolution’. Yet what use was this wonderful cure
when a terrible outbreak of meningitis in New York, with a death roll
of 745 for the single month of July 1916, transformed the Americancapital into a city of mourning?
Flexner’s marvellous serum was so useless that we find it barely
gained a mention, and its discoverer confessed that ‘there exists atpresent no specific or curative treatment’.
It transpired, further, that this complaint, known also as spotted
fever, is, at any rate according to bacteriological diagnosis, fast losingits limitation to childhood. Outbreaks of it are said to have been frequent
among young men in military training camps. It has followed so
suspiciously in the wake of anti-typhoid and other inoculations that,instead of such measures having provided safeguards for health, it
would seem far more probable that they can be directly implicated in
causing sickness.
And now this brings us to a few lessons that we may be able to
derive from the inoculation experiments that were practised upon our
fighting men during the course of two World Wars.
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 as possible. By continuing to read a lot you remain at the intellectual level and that hinders the development of intuitive
abilities. Instead keep the subject in mind about which you want more information, ask your guidance for help and trust that the right
book will fall into your hands when needed. Even then, often you may not need to read the whole book but quickly ﬁnd what is
important for you.
One of the early sidetracks on the spiritual path are the many interesting books now available. If you do not control yourself, you can
easily become addicted to reading and spend the rest of your life reading interesting books on spiritual and related matters instead of
really doing what needs to be done. Therefore, move quickly through the information phase and start the real work. Whenever you
really need additional information, your spiritual guidance is likely to let you unexpectedly ﬁnd it.
If you are a practising member of a religious denomination, you do not need to be concerned that the spiritual path may be
incompatible with your religious beliefs. Instead, you may expect that it will increase your faith. If you discover a contradiction or
incompatibility here or there, put it on the shelf for the time being. Rem ember, the spiritual path does not have any doctrines. Any
writings about it are personal opinion s that you do not need to accept. On the contrary, walking the spiritual path means ﬁnding your
own insights and personal relationship with your God.
PURIFICA TION OR CLEANSING
The puriﬁcation period does not need to be a time of misery and suffering as it was for the mystics. Instead, it can be a time of
adventure and discovery. The greatest adventure is to discover yourself. By removing biological, emotional and mental blockages,
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main fun of the spiritual path is not the arrival at the end, but the whole long and interesting journey of getting there.
You do not need to make a sharp distinction between working on the biological, the etheric, the emotional and the mental level. They
are all closely related. It is just easier to write about one level at a time. You may concentrate on one level, say the emotional, which
also affects all the other levels at the same time, although the greatest impact will be directly on the emotional level. It is also easier
to start with concentrating on the body or biological level and then proceed to the etheric, emotional and mental level in turn.
In addition to purifying, we also aim to strengthen and balance each level to achieve an overall inner as well as outer harmony. We
may say that we move to sanitise and spiritualise all aspects of our Self.
THE BIOLOGICAL  LEVEL
While many great spiritual teachers have not placed much emphasis on the body, they nevertheless puriﬁed it just as a side effect of
their spiritual quest. See for instance the 40-day fast of Jesus of Nazareth in the desert, or the Buddha fasting until the imprint in the
sand where he was sitting in meditation looked like the hoof print of a camel. The Buddha is also quoted as telling his monks: "if you
want to be healthy, eat only one meal a day". Of course, that was in India, in colder climates more food is required.
Furthermore, in previous centuries all food was organic, and air and water were still unpolluted. We have to work hard on purifying
our bodies to get to the point where previous spiritual seekers started. Therefore, it has advantages for the later work on the higher
levels if we start with sanitising the biological level. For this I recommend:
•  The Basic Cleanse. This may be repeated from time to time, especially if you want to lose weight, also any other cleanse that you
    may prefer.
•  Test for food allergies and chemical sensitivities at the end of the Basic Cleanse, see Allergy Testing in Healing Foods.
•  Adopt a predominantly raw-food diet with plenty of fresh green and purple juices, see the High-Quality Diet in Healing Foods.
•  Select your food according to your metabolic and blood type as explained in Healing Foods.
•  Regular physical exercises and outdoors activity, yoga, stretching, shaking, walking and swimming.
•  Sanitise your teeth, bedroom and workplace.
THE ETHERIC LEVEL
The main features of the etheric level are the etheric body, the etheric part of the chakra system and the acupuncture system. For a
basic understanding of this level see the articles in the section on 'Energies'at this web site. This level determin es directly the basic
health of our body and how energetic we are. This is not only the energy of life and of the etheric blueprint of our body, but also the
energy of healing and manifestation.
In order to manifest something, be it our own health or healing someone else or manifesting a physical or social condition, we need to
do energy imagery: hold a clear visualisation or other form of guided imagery of the desired situation, ﬁll it with etheric energy and
expect it to manifest in your reality. This is the basis and the principle of all genuine magic. An important part of our work at the etheric
level is learning how to accumulate and direct etheric energy.
The most important principal to understand is that energy follows thought. However, mental and etheric energies exist on vastly
different density levels and do not affect each other directly. Therefore, they require the assistance of the emotional or feeling level,
which is sandwiched between the two. For learning to accumulate and direct etheric energies I recommend that you practise the
exercises described in Cultivating the Energy  and also in The Love Cure. When you are able to feel the energy ﬂows, you may also
try using them in guided imagery for healing and other manifestations.
Furthermore, by practising The Love Cure you automatically improve any weaknesses and imbalances in your chakra system. This,
in turn, will have favourable effects on your health, on healing your emotional level and building your light body. If you are so inclined,
you may in addition also acquire and use any of the various guided ascension and chakra meditations available on tape or CD from
New Age outlets.
For improving your acupuncture system see the article on Meridian Therapy, and use mainly mental tracing after you have learned to
feel the energy ﬂows. For more practical information on working at the etheric level you may see the various books on Kahuna Magic
such as the pioneering books by Max Freedom Long ('The Secret Science Behind Miracles' and 'The Secret Science at Work') and
the more recent 'Kahuna Healing' by Serge King and 'HUNA  - A Beginner's Guide' by Enid Hof fman.
THE EMOTIONAL  LEVEL
For most travellers this will be the most difﬁcult and possibly painful level to sanitise but it will also be the most rewarding. To start
with, I suggest that you read the articles in the section on HEALING OUR EMOTIONS, and especially the main article 'The World of
Feelings and Emotions '.
The important steps in healing our emotions are:
1. Removing emotional blockages and traumatic body memories.
2. Overcoming addictions and cravings.
3. Learning to freely feel and express our emotions without hurting others.
4. Using meditation and guided imagery to develop a higher emotional body by surrounding ourselves with positive and
uplifting feelings and emotions.
5. Using appropriate beliefs and mental awareness to react positively to daily events.
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https://health-science-spirit.com/Spirituality/An-Integrated-Spiritual-Path.html 2/7Experiment with the methods described in Mind Tools, especially emotional release, regression and the Emotional Freedo m
Technique. These are best practised in Healing Groups as described in the article on 'Healing Social Relationships '. Also rebirthing
may be used if you have the opportunity.
An excellent way of healing the emotional level as part of a total healing on all levels in the context of our spiritual development is the
system of Body Electronics devised by Dr John Whitman Ray.
Similar to Reichian Therapy and Bio-energetics, Body Electronics works mainly on the body, using sustained pressure to release
memories of emotional events that have been built into muscle structu res. Body Electronics is best practised as a group activity,
possibly after an initial assessment by a practitioner. Reichian Therapy and Bio-energetics, on the other hand, are mainly practitioner
based. For an excellent site on the work of Wilhelm Reich as well as links to other sites on emotions, sexuality and bio-energy see
http://www.orgonelab.org   or the Public Orgonomic Research Exchange (PORE) at http://orgone.org . For a link to Reichian or
orgonomic therapists see www.orgonomicscience.org, and for bio-energetic therapists see http://www.bioenergetics.com.au.
A relatively simple way to contact and release past emotional traumas is by using present emotional upsets. If something strongly
affects you emotionally, try to feel into yourself, possibly combined with a relaxation or meditation exercise, to discover why it upsets
you


 isn't good for your health.
The same is true of urea. People who have heard of uremic poisoning are
surprised when they read the medical research showing urea to be a
widely-used, FDA-approved medicine. But just like any other element in the
blood, urea only becomes dangerous to the body when the kidneys are
damaged or diseased and can't properly balance the amount of urea
(and all other substances) in the bloodstream.
Your kidneys aren't doing damage to your body by getting rid of particular
excess nutrients, they're just simply excreting the precise amount not
presently needed by your body at a given time.
And the same goes for practically every nutrient, enzyme, hormone,
antibody, etc. that are critical to your survival-- the kidneys keep what your
body needs at a certain time, and excretes what it isn't momentarily using
into your urine. And as medical scientists and doctors have discovered,
these urinary ingredients extracted from the blood can be therapeutic magic
bullets.
A Billion Dollar Industry
Despite what the public has been led to believe about urine, pharmaceutical
companies have grossed billions of dollars from the sale of drugs made from
urine constituents. Pergonal, a fertility drug made from human urine,
earned a reported $855 million in sales in 1992, and sales ($1400 a month per
patient) have increased yearly. Urokinase, a urine ingredient, is used in drug
form and sold as a "miracle blood clot dissolver" for unblocking coronary
arteries. Urea, medically proven to be one of the best moisturizers in the
world has been a boon to cosmetic companies who package it in expensive,
glamorized creams and lotions. Ever used Murine ear drops? They're made
from carbamide --another name for synthetic urea.
48 When you look at the real facts, the tragedy of the general disinformation
campaign on urine is surpassed only by the irony of our unwitting, and often
incredibly expensive purchases of what we all mistakenly but firmly believe
to be our bodies' "useless" and "offensive" waste-product, urine.
New Acceptance for a Misunderstood Therapy
Because of the nearly all-pervasive public misunderstanding about what
urine is and how it can be of immense medical benefit to us, the often
amazing anecdotal stories of healing and survival via urine have been
routinely ignored, ridiculed or have been written off as "old wives' tales."
But when people learn the real facts, these stories take on a significance that
not even doctors are now willing to ignore.
Since the first release of Your Own Perfect Medicine, rather than the doubt
and derision I expected to encounter, I was amazed at the tens of thousands
of people who have willingly accepted the information in the book. Many
people (including doctors) have come forward to tell me about their own
experiences or about news stories they've read that tell about using urine
medicinally and in survival situations:
Dr. David G. Williams, Alternative Newsletter, August, 1994:
"Several months ago I watched the movie Alive. It's the true story of a South
American soccer team whose airplane crashed in snow-capped mountains in
the dead of winter. The team was stranded for a couple months and survived
only by eating the flesh of those who had died either during the crash or later
from injuries. A portion of the movie focused on two individuals whose initial
wounds progressed into serious infections.
Knowing no way to treat these two, the survivors could only attempt to comfort
them. Eventually the infection led to death. Watching the intense suffering of
these people made me wonder if there was more that could have been done to
save them. I now feel it's very possible that these two people, and thousands of
others around the world would still be alive if they had been aware of the
therapeutic effects of urine.
With urine therapy, you get all the benefits of urea plus the additional
antibodies, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, hormones and more. "
Dr. William Hitt, Clinica Hitt, Mexico
January,1995
"Experience has shown that intramuscular injections of urine are the best
methods for handling a myriad of immunological illnesses including psoriasis,
basal call carcinoma, asthma and many other disorders. "
Reuter Report
49 August 14, 1990
"Four Sri Lankan commandos who drifted in a boat more than 1,000 miles to
Thailand after they had been ambushed and given up for dead were given a
rapturous welcome when they returned home. 'They managed to survive on the
boat by catching turtles and drinking urine,'a military officer said. "
Kyodo News Service, Tokyo
July 30, 1990
"A male cook was pulled out of the rubble of the Hyatt Hotel early Monday
morning, 14 days after a poweiful earthquake devastated the northern
Philippines, officials said. Dry, with only minor bruises on his body, he told
reporters he survived by drinking his own urine."
At a time when new viruses and bacteria are outwitting even the best efforts
of space-age medicine, and increasingly frequent natural disasters put basic
necessities out of reach, the facts about the one medical and survival tool that
the FDA can't regulate and that's always there when you need it most, may
well become the greatest survival lesson any of us will ever learn.
• The author of this article, Martha Christy, is a medical research writer, natural health
consultant and author of Your Own Peifect Medicine, as well as several other books on
natural healing. Your Own Pelfect Medicine is available for $23.90 from FutureMed, Inc.,
Box 13837, Scottsdale, AZ or call1-800-800-8849.
• Read Coen van der Kroon's bestselling book on urine therapy (over 100.000 copies sold in
Germany alone): The Golden Fountain: The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy (Amethyst
Books/Gateway Books, ISBN 0-944256-73-2)
• 1998: Second World Conference on Auto Urine Therapy in Germany!! Information: Coen
van der Kroon, Kinkerstraat 82-C, 1053 EA Amsterdam, The Netherlands, tel/fax:+ 31 20
683 5510, e-mail: cvdk@knoware.nl
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the first step to reversing this cycle in which the male pays an
unnecessarily stiff price for sexual satisfaction.
THE VOLUME OF SPERM FLUID LOST IN A LIFETIME
One may conservatively estimate the average American male
ejaculates 5,000 times in his lifetime, equal roughly to 4 gallons of
fluid. The Kinsey Report provided the following details on the
American male's normal frequency of ejaculation:22 Taoist Secrets Of Love
AGE
Puberty-15
16-20
21-25
26-30
31-35
36-40
41-45
46-50
51-55
56-60AVERAGE
EJACULATION
PER WEEK
3.17
3.3
4.14
3.51
2.9
2.42
1.95
1.8
1.54
1.09
More recent studies suggest that it is likely that the vital seed
is more frequently lost now than in the time of Kinsey's study
because the overall level of sexual stimulation and activity is pres-
ently higher. The effects of the sexual revolution, availability of
contraceptives, attitudes toward sex in television, film and maga-
zines has been particularly strong in encouraging premarital sex
among youth.
But to avoid any statistical inflation, let us use the estimate of
5,000 ejaculations per lifetime made by Kinsey in the 50's. To
calculate the flood of fluid normally lost: 5,000 (ejaculations) x 3
cc (fluid) = 15,000 cc.
This is 15 liters or roughly 4 gallons of fluid. The semen spent
in an average ejaculation has a volume of 2 to 5 cubic centimeters.
These drops contain 200,000,000 to 500,000,000 individual sperm
cells.
YOUR BODY HAS ATOMIC ENERGY IN IT!
This is an astonishing statistic: a single male ejaculation scatters
two to five hundred million sperm cells. Cast upon two hundred
and fifty million female eggs, a single ejaculation could conceivably
generate the present population of the United States. Multiplying
this figure by 5,000 ejaculations per lifetime yields a numerical
indication of the seminal power.
The normal male ejaculates enough semen to generate oneThe Biology Of Esoteric Sex 23
trillion human lives. Within a single man's loins sits the capacity to
sire more than two hundred times the present population of four
billion on the planet! In a very real sense every man can create a
stockpile of sex energy literally more potent than the atomic bomb.
If this immense reservoir of psychic energy were to be redirected
towards love and spiritual harmony, the possibilities for a peaceful
existence seem unlimited.
Some Western scientists may scoff at the idea that semen is an
immensely powerful substance. Yet no one can deny the pro-
digious life-potential in the seed of a single man. By gathering this
life-generating force within oneself, one collects tremendous en-
ergy.
The effects of conserving this energy would differ with every
individual. No man or race produces the same type of energy. Each
creates according to its own genius. One group develops enormous
physical force, another massive resistance to disease, another
clairvoyant powers, still another great longevity. But all men have
the inherent ability to substantially increase their active lifespan by
creatively adapting to their environment.
Scientists have tried to improve upon Darwin's thesis by
focusing on specific genetic impulses behind behavior that lead to
increased survival of an individual's gene pool. This correctly gives
a lot of evolutionary power to our sexual impulses, but ignores the
process whereby this sex energy is transformed into higher cre-
ative impulses of the mind and spirit. The evolved man directs his
animal body and instincts with his mind and spirit. The scientists
maintain the reverse is true. They are right, but only to the extent
that man's evolution back to his original self is incomplete.
Man is still bullied about by his biological urges. When man is
complete, and has truly integrated his still clumsy body with his
mind and spirit, his total freedom of spiritual being is beyond the
control of biological instinct. This does not violate the physical
laws of the universe; it simply postulates that we are beings with
the inherent power to cultivate our energy to a level of power
where it allows us to direct our bodies freely. It is not mind over
matter, as that implies a battle. It is more mind inside matter. The
revelations of mind have allowed us to create nuclear bombs and
send man to the moon, so why not use mind to direct its own body
which is immediately at hand?
Scientifically minded readers may refuse to accept this. No24 Taoist Secrets Of Love
proof is possible except in the experience given by daily cultivation
of one's chi. Many scientists may have thought it impossible to
have an orgasm without ejaculation, yet I and hundreds of my
students know it is only a matter of education, of training the mind
to control the chi in the domain of its body.
While science may analyze the chemical constituents of semi-
nal fluid, it cannot account for the human seed's life-genius. This is
beyond instrumental measure. How can one measure a human life?
Only a scientific philistine would try to reduce man to a mechanical
theory.
These and other scientific explanations pale before the power
of the seed's ability to make 4 billion unique human beings with
creative intelligence. Theoretical physics now acknowledges it is
impossible to scientifically analyze the ecstatic fact of creation.
Quantum physicists have accepted the likelihood that there is no
smallest particle, no physical building block upon which the cos-
mos is built. There are only the multi-universes of space and time
linked together by infinite fields of energy. These are currently
described as gravitational, weak and strong forces, and electro-
magnetism. Taoists view any attempt to describe the totality of
nature, the Tao, as futile. They found it far more useful to find
ways of experiencing deeper harmony with it.
Sexual energy is a field generated within the body and linked
to the larger cosmic fields in ways that no scientist can presently
understand. But there is no reason to wait 500 years for science to
come up with explanations of sexuality, as every man can experi-
ment with his own sexual energy field and draw his own conclu-
sions today. The Taoist masters were ancient scientists with a
genius for self-observation and were dedicated to furthering human
evolution. Each generation tested the practices taught to them by
their masters and tried to improve on it. The methods of chi
cultivation may have evolved over the millennia, but the principle
has remained the same: The ching or sperm power is a super potent
force readily available to men, awaiting only their harvest. Sexual
essence is a building block for expanding our personal universe,
the foundation for human love and evolution.The Biology Of Esoteric Sex 25
BIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF SEX HORMONES TO
HEALTH
Modern science has given us the opportunity to study the function
of sperm in the body in amazing detail. Each of the sperm cells
contains 23 chromosomes, prostaglandins, ions, enzymes, trace
elements and other essential parts of human life. Only the elements
of the egg and the nurturing environment of the mother are needed
to form a living human being of infinite potential.
The seminal vesicles, two little sacks collecting sperm at the
base of the bladder, are tied to the vas deferens. They produce a
yellow fluid that mixes with the sperm and thickens the seminal
fluid. This secretion contains the sugar, fructose, which nourishes
sperm cells.
The prostate gland also contributes to the reproductive secre-
tion. It surrounds the urethra (the main duct or tube running the
length of the penis) beneath the bladder. In ejaculation the prostate
jets forth a thin clear fluid which helps to propel the sperm. Cow-
per's glands along the urethra supply a few drops of alkaline secre-
tion, which serves to neutralize acid remaining from urination.
DIAGRAM 7
Testis
(manufactures sperm and
male hormones.)
PenisSeminal
Vesicle
(nourishes sperm with
yellowish fluid.)
Prostate Gland
(propels sperm
with clear fluid.)
Sperm
Palace
(Taoist energy point for
collecting sperm power.)
Epididymis26 Taoist Secrets Of Love
Dr. Beyoihn, a noted endocrinologist, stressed the impor-
tance of the hormonal function of semen production: "Sexual hor-
mones are important to our harmonious development. When men
abuse the reproductive function, the secretions of the sexual glands
are lost... resulting in mental and physical weakness, inability to
concentrate, and a less tenacious memory."*
Love-making is an internal exercise which helps restore im-
balances in bodily chemistry. A moderate amount of sex tends to
repair hormonal disturbances, to reduce cholesterol and blood
pressure levels. Sexual activity alters the body chemically. The
reason this happens is because each gland in the body affects all the
others. Thus when sex hormones are stimulated, it stimulates the
hormones secreted by the other major glands—adrenal, thymus,
thyroid, pituitary, and pineal. The illusion when you are young is
that you can stimulate your glands indefinitely, without paying a
price for it. Sex seems like a bottomless well of bliss. It is, if you
take the trouble to recirculate the sexual hormones


trusting this—not only for my children, but for everyone I encounter—I’m
more peaceful. And guess what? More, not less, seems to get accomplished
—on time and without problems that used to surface because of my
interference.
Change the way you think abou t the entire idea of success and power, for
this isn’t the result of obsessive accomplishment and continually following
directions. Start living in a world that you know 37th Verse works far better
with less meddl ing. You understand that not everyone will stop instructing
others and just allow the Tao to unfold, but you can be an observer,
watching others tap into their power by centering themselves.
Here’ s what Lao-tzu suggests for making this verse become your daily
reality:
Cultivate your unique, natural self.
Practice allowing your essential nature to shine by not enforcing
judgments on yourself that were imposed by others. Remind yourself that
you don’t have to do anything:  You don’t have to be better than anyone
else. Y ou don’ t have to win. Y ou don’ t have to be number 1 or number 27 or
any other number. Give yourself permission to just be. Stop interfering with
your unique natural being. Lighten the burden you carry to be productive,wealthy, and successful in the eyes of others; and replace it with an inner
assertion that allows you to access the Tao. Affirm: I am center ed in the
Tao. I trust that I am able to straighten myself out, and so is the world. I
retreat into silence, knowing that all is well.
Expect to see the essential natur e of others by r emaining silent.
Deliberately bite your tongue and zip your lips at the precise moment that
you’re tempted to get involved in the lives of those around you. Become
aware of your inclination to tell others, particularly your family members,
how they should be conducting their lives. Even if you hold off for a few
moments before you butt in to someone else’s business, you’re on your way
to allowing those around you to find their anchor of the universe within
themselves. This new discipline of resisting your habit to get involved by
pausing before interfering will enable you to see how capable everyone
truly is when they’re in the energy field of someone who allows rather than
dictates.

Do the T ao Now
Print or copy the first two lines of this 37th verse: “The Tao does nothing,
but leaves nothing undone.” Read the words repeatedly until you’ve
committed them  to memory; then go for a 30-minute walk and take note of
their truth. The air, sky, clouds, grass, wind, and flowers... nothing natural
that you see is undone, but nothing is taking place to work it all out. It is all
accomplished by the truth of these words.
I’m reminded of a 13th-century poem by Rumi called “Nibble At Me,”
which applies perfectly to this section of the T ao Te Ching:
Nibble at me.
Don’ t gulp me down.
How often is it you have a guest in your house
who can fix everything?
Let your all-knowing guest fix things while you live naturally.
OceanofPDF.comOceanofPDF.com38th Verse
A truly good man is not awar e of his goodness
and is ther efore good.
A foolish man tries to be good
and is ther efore not good.

The master does nothing,
yet he leaves nothing undone.
The or dinary man is always doing things,
yet many mor e are left to be done.

The highest virtue is to act without a sense of self.
The highest kindness is to give without condition.
The highest justice is to see without pr eference.

When the T ao is lost, ther e is goodness.
When goodness is lost, ther e is morality.
When morality is lost, ther e is ritual.
Ritual is the husk of true faith,
the beginning of chaos.

The gr eat master follows his own natur e
and not the trappings of life.
It is said:
“He stays with the fruit and not the fluff.”
“He stays with the firm and not the flimsy.”“He stays with the true and not the false.”
OceanofPDF.comLiving Within
Your Own Nature
Here’ s the message behind this seemingly paradoxical verse of the Tao Te
Ching: Your nature is to be good because you came from the Tao, which is
goodness. But when you’re trying to be good, your essential nature
becomes inopera tive. In your effort to be good, moral, or obedient, you lose
touch with your T ao nature.
There’ s one sentence in this verse that I pondered for days before writing
this short essay: “When the Tao is lost, there is goodness.” I felt perplexed
because it seemed so contradicto ry to what the Tao Te Ching was teaching.
Finally, in a moment of contemplation while I meditated on a drawing of
Lao-tzu, it became clear to me: Natur e is good without knowing it were the
exact words I heard in my meditation. I then understood what Lao-tzu
seemed to want me to convey about this somewhat confusing (to me) 38th
verse.
Live by your essential nature, the T ao, which is oneness; it has no polarity.
Yet the moment  that you know you’re good, you introduce the polarity of
“good” versus “bad,” which causes you to lose your connection to the Tao.
Then you introduce something new—you figur e that if you can’t be good,
you’ll try to be moral. And what is morality but standards of right and
wrong that you try to uphold? As Lao-tzu seems to be saying to me, The
Tao is oneness; it has no stand ards for you to follow. In other  words, the
Tao just is; it isn’t doing anything, yet it leaves nothing undone. There’ s no
morality; there is only the unattached Tao. It isn’t right and it isn’t fair, but
it is essential nature, and you’re encouraged to be true to your own.
As morality is lost, the idea of ritual surfaces, so you try to live in
accordance with rules and customs that have defined “your people” for
centuries. But I could almost hear Lao-tzu saying: The Tao is infinite and
excludes no one. Rituals keep you disconnected from the Tao, and you lose
them by trying. So you rely upon laws, further dividing yourself and
creating chaos for yourself. Again, the Tao just is its own true, essential
nature—it has no laws, rituals, morality, or goodness. Observe it and livewithin its nature. In other words, act without being concerned for your own
ego. Give as the Tao does, without condition or trying to be good, moral, or
just. Just give to all without preference, as Lao-tzu advises.
I admit that living by this 38th verse may be the total opposit e of what
you’ve learned in this lifetime. It certainly represents both an intellectual
and a behavioral challenge for me at times. You may appreciate knowing
that many of the scholars whom I researched regarding this verse said that
Lao-tzu wrote it (and the next one) in response to his opposition to
Confucius, his contemporary who laid out specific edicts and codes of
conduct for the people. What Lao-tzu seemed to be saying to me through
meditation was: Trust your own essential natur e. Let go of all polarities and
live in the indivisible oneness that is the Tao. The dichotomies of good/bad,
right/wrong, proper/improper, legal/illegal, and the like can be difficult—
just remember that when they surface, the T ao is lost.
Here’ s some more advice for you, through me, from Lao-tzu:
Live in your essential natur e by r ejecting artificial principles.
These principle s in descending order are goodness, fairness, rites, and
laws. Artificial goodness is an attempt to live by not being “bad,” so you
allow others to decide where you fit in on a goodness scale. Affirm: I am of
the Tao, a piece  of God, and I need no human-made device to confir m it.
Goodness and God-ness are one, and I trust who I am and will act from this
perspective. I am staying with this truth and not what is false. Furthermore,
see that the Tao isn’t concerned with fairness—give of yourself knowing
that this is an artificial contriva nce that cannot exist from a perspec tive of
oneness. You are from, and will return to, that oneness, regardless of your
opinions about it. So open up generously without desiring to be treated
fairly.
Abandon outmoded familial and cultural customs.
Relinquish rites that you feel compelled to follow simply because they’ve
been that way in your lifetime, and particularly in your family. Peacefully
affirm: I am free to live, trusting in the eternal Tao. I do not have to be as
my ancestors were. I relinquish ancient rituals that no longer work or that
perpetuate separation or enmity. Remind yourself that goodness isn’t
accessed by obeying laws; rather, it is what resonates with your essentialnature. You don’t need any sort of code to decide what is proper, good,


and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind -that is, by your
concept of yourself [and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true. What you
consent to can only be discovered by an uncritical observation of your reactions to life. Your reactions
reveal where you live psychologically; and
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 8 of 51where you live psychologically, determines how you live here m the outer visible world]. The importance
of this in your daily life should be immediately apparent.
The basic nature of the primal cause is consciousness. Therefore, the ultimate substance of all things is
consciousness.
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                           POWER OF ASSUMPTION
Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness. All
that befalls a man all that is done by him all that comes from him happens as a result of his state of
consciousness. A man's consciousness is all that he thinks and desires and loves, all that he believes is true
and consents to. That is why a change of consciousness is necessary before you can change your outer
world. Rain falls as a result of a change in the temperature in the higher regions of the atmosphere, so, in
like manner, a change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.
Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
To be transformed, the whole basis of your thoughts must change. But your thoughts cannot
change unless you have new ideas, for you think from your ideas. All transformation begins with an
intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step m the "renewing of the mind" is desire You must
want to be different [and intend to be] before you can begin to change yourself. Then you must make your
future dream a present fact. You do this by assuming the feeling of your wish fulfilled. By desiring to be
other than what you are, you can create an ideal of the person you want to be and assume that you are
already that person. If this assumption is persisted in until it becomes your dominant feeling, the attainment
of your ideal is inevitable. The ideal you hope to achieve is always ready for an incarnation, but unless you
yourself offer It human parentage, it is incapable of birth
therefore, your attitude should be one in which having desired to express a higher state -you alone accept
the task of incarnating this new and greater value of yourself.
In giving birth to your ideal you must bear in mind that the methods of mental and spiritual knowledge are
entirely different. This is a point that IS truly understood by probably not more than one person in a
million. You know a thing mentally by looking at it from the outside, by comparing it with other things, by
analyzing it and defining if [by thinking of it:] whereas you can know a thing spiritually only by becoming
it, [only by thinking from it]. You must be the thing itself and not merely talk about it or look at it. You
must be like the moth in search of his idol, the flame, who spurred with true desire, plunging at once into
the sacred fire, folded his wings within, till he became one colour and one substance with the flame. He
only knew the flame who in it burned, and only he could tell who ne'er to tell returned.
Just as the moth in his desire to know the flame was willing to destroy himself, so must you in becoming a
new person be willing to die to your present self. You must be conscious of being healthy if you are to
know what health is. You must be conscious of being secure if you are to know what security is. Therefore,
to incarnate a new and greater value of yourself, you must assume that you already are what you want to be
and then live by faith in this assumption which is not yet incarnate in the body of your life in confidence
that this new value or state of consciousness will become incarnated through your absolute fidelity to the
assumption that you are that which you desire to be. This is what wholeness means, what integrity means.
They mean. submission of the whole self to the feeling of the wish fulfilled in certainty that that new state
of consciousness is the renewing of mind which transforms. There is no order in Nature corresponding to
this willing submission of the self to the ideal beyond the self. Therefore, it is the height of folly to expect
the incarnation of a new and greater concept of self to come about by natural evolutionary process. That
which requires a state of consciousness to produce its effect obviously cannot be effected without such a
state of consciousness, and in your ability to assume the feeling of a greater life, to assume a new concept
of yourself, you possess what the rest of Nature does not possess Imagination the instrument by which you
create your world.
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 10 of 51Your imagination is the instrument, the means, whereby your redemption from slavery, sickness, and
poverty is effected. If you refuse to assume the responsibility of the incarnation of a new and higher
concept of yourself, then you reject the means, the only means, whereby your redemption that is, the
attainment of your ideal can be effected.
Imagination is the only redemptive power in the universe. However, your nature is such that it is optional
to you whether you remain in your present concept of yourself (a hungry being longing for freedom, health,
and security) or choose to become the instrument of your own redemption, imagining yourself as that
which you want to be, and thereby satisfying your hunger and redeeming yourself.
O be strong then, and brave, pure, patient and true; The work that is yours let no other hand do. For the
strength, for all need, is faithfully given From the fountain within you the Kingdom of Heaven.
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                           DESIRE
THE CHANGES which take place in your life as a result of your changed concept of yourself always
appear to the unenlightened to be the result, not of a change of your consciousness, but of chance, outer
cause, or coincidence. However, the only fate governing your life is the fate determined by your own
concepts, your own assumptions; for an assumption, though false, if persisted in will harden into fact. The
ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have
imagined that you are already that ideal. There is no escape for you except by a radical psychological
transformation of yourself, except by your assumption of the feeling of your wish fulfilled. Therefore,
make results or accomplishments the crucial test of your ability to use your imagination.
Everything depends on your attitude towards yourself. That which you will not affirm as true of
yourself can never be realized by you, for that attitude alone is the necessary condition by which you
realize your goal.
All transformation is based upon suggestion, and this can work only where you lay yourself completely
open to an influence. You must abandon yourself to your ideal as a woman abandons herself to love, for
complete abandonment of self to it is the way to union with your ideal. You must assume the feeling of the
wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality. You must imagine that you are
already experiencing what you desire. That is, you must assume the feeling of the fulfilment of your desire
until you are possessed by it and this feeling crowds all other ideas out of your consciousness.
The man who is not prepared for the conscious plunge into the assumption of the wish fulfilled in the faith
that it is the only way to the realization of his dream is not yet ready to live consciously by the law of
assumption, although there is no doubt that he does live by the law of assumption unconsciously. But for
you who accept this principle and are ready to live by consciously assuming that your wish is already
fulfilled, the adventure of life begins. To reach a higher level of being, you must assume a higher concept
of yourself.
If you will not imagine yourself as other than what you are, then you remain as you are, for if ye believe
not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins.
If you do not believe that you are He (the person you want to be), then you remain as you are. Through the
faithful systematic cultivation of the feeling of the wish fulfilled, desire becomes the promise of its own
fulfilment. The assumption of the feeling of the wish fulfilled makes the future dream a present fact.
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                        THE TRUTH THAT SETS YOU FREE
THE DRAMA of life is a psychological one in which all the conditions, circumstances, and events of your
life are brought to pass by your assumptions.
Since your life is determined by your assumptions, you are forced to recognize the fact that you are either a
slave to your  assumptions  or their  master.  To become  the master  of your  assumptions  is the key to
undreamed-of freedom and happiness. You can attain this mastery by deliberate conscious control of your
imagination. You determine your assumptions in this way: Form a mental image, a picture of the state
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human body at all ages.
Let’s take a good, hard look
at our young people. Never in
the entir e history of th e world
have so many drugs been used
by people under thirty! Why do
young people turn to drugs to chronic fatigue. He has no
energy, vitality, strength orkeep them going? Just take a ambition. He suffers from
look at the “junk” and “trash” extreme weariness physically
and mentally, which is toxicthey eat – that tells the entire state of physical deterioration.sad story! They do not derive
enough n utrients, vitamins and minerals f rom their daily
diet! In their ignorance, they try to gain energy by using
harmful stimulants such as coffee, sugared drinks,
tobacco, alcohol  and drugs. These d eficient, “d ope
addicts” are in danger of having children who are born
sickly and some with breathing and birth defects!
For many people, health is something they value only
when they have lost it or are in danger of losing it. W e
repeat, “W e live in a sick, sick, world – and it’ s getting
sicker ever y day!” T ake heed, repent and change now!
“Health” is an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning
“soundness.” The ancient Greek concept of “a sound mind
in a sound body” (mens sana in corpor e sana) gives the true
picture of health. W e have to place the adjective “good”
with this word “health” only when we contrast it with the
phrase “ill health” or “lack of soundness.”
This picture shows a victim of
Men do not die; they kill themselves. –  Seneca, Roman Philosopher
The natural healing force within you is the greatest force in getting well.
– Hippocrates, Father of Medicine, 400 B.C. 29 Miracle Mechanisms of the Body
If we had transparent skin and could look inside
ourselves, we would see the lungs taking air into their
delicately fashioned chambers. If we smoked, we would A healthy, energetic body and an alert, keen, healthy
mind make it possible for human beings to cope with
and bear the frustrations, worries, cares, tensions and
stresses of life a nd yet enjoy life and the joys of this world
... even as confused, feverish and mixed-up as it is today!
Where there is vigorous health, there is not even an
awareness of the complex mechanisms and chemistry that
go on inside of us to make this possible. W ithin our
bodies, the most magnificent chemical and mechanical
procedures known and unknown t o man are carried on.
We take our health for granted, as we do the moon
and the sun – usually even neglecting to be thankful.
We get up in the morning after a sound night’ s sleep,
ready to take on the day’ s work and expect to end the
day comfortably tired. It’ s best to earn your sleep with
work and exer cise – then you will sleep better for sur e!
see tobacco’ s vicious nicotine and tars coating these
pink, beautiful, healthy or gans to a sticky, deadly black.
If you smoke – stop now! The str ong sur vive longer!
We would see the heart receiving blood through
numerous intricate channels from the billions of our
body’ s cells and pumping it out, refreshed and purified,
by another route back to these same tissues. W e would
get an exact picture of our arteries, veins and capillaries.
Wecould see how much corrosion is taking place because
of our consumption of the heavy inorganic minerals and
toxic chemicals that are put into our drinking water. If
we could examine our arteries closely, we would see that
calcium carbonate and its associates are lining these pipes
and making them brittle – beginning to literally turn
our bodies into stone. Oh, if ever yone could see what
inorganic minerals do to the arteries – they would be
sure to follow the wise advice given in this book!
Remember, we ar e as young as our arteries!
Nature is the ultimate devine mystery –  www.wyland.com If we could look inside ourselves, we would also see
the digestive tract performing miraculous changes to the
foods and drinks we consume.
Wewould see it transform salads,
raw nuts, seeds, raw and cooked
organic vegetables, fruits and
other healthy foods into vital
substances our bodies’ cells need
and can use. People who live on
dead, devitalized diets would see
how the body’ s chemistr y labors
to handle burgers, hot dogs,
processed deli meats, high fat and sugar foods, ice cream,
candy, colas and all other “fast food trash” that insults,
sickens and clogs their digestive tracts and bodies!
Nitrates and nitrites are
harmful food additives.
If we could get a full view of the
largest or gan in the body, the liver,
we would see how it struggles to
handle alcohol, coffee, tea, cola, soft
drinks and other unhealthy liquids.
We would see the disastr ous effects
of the dangerous inorganic chemicals
that are added to our drinking water
by man. Also, Mother Nature can often do more harm
than man by contaminating water with inorganic
minerals such as calcium, magnesium and potassium
carbonates and many other substances. Looking closely,
we would see that the liver is hardening into stone.
Thousands of people die from a disease known as
cirrhosis of the liver – fibrosis, which is a hardening
caused by excessive formation of connective tissue
followed by contraction of the liver. Both hard water’ s
inorganic


 unhealthy food, treated with hormones, antibiotics and synthetic growth promoters. Whatever
they are forced to consume remains in the meat, eggs and milk products that finally land on our
tables, adding to the already heavy toxic load we are unwittingly carrying.
The body attempts to get rid of all these harmful substances to protect itself. Unfortunately
in addition to the massive burden of toxins it needs to deal with, it is also up against the problem
of deficiency.
Deficiency
Just like toxicity, this enemy of good health also starts in the soil. For well over 150 years
artificial fertilizers have been used increasingly in commercial agriculture, providing the soil with
three major minerals, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK). They do not provide the fifty or
so minerals and trace elements, which are essential to keeping the soil healthy and fertile, rich in
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www.thegersonway.comenzymes and micro-organisms that characterize naturally fertilized, humus-rich land. As a result
the impoverished soil can only produce deficient, nutrient-poor plants, which become our equally
deficient daily food.
This is then further depleted by processing. All canned, jarred, boxed, smoked, pickled,
bottled and otherwise preserved items are drained of their few remaining nutrients and damaged
by high heat and preservatives. They lack vitamins and enzymes. The latter, vitally important for
good digestion, are destroyed at a temperature of over 140o Fahrenheit, and can only be supplied to
the body by fresh raw fruits and salads. However, few people eat enough of these to get adequate
enzymes needed for a healthy system.
By now it should be clear that the two main enemies of good health, which the Gerson
program attempts to tackle as a first priority, namely toxicity and deficiency, add up to a single
vicious circle. If our food were truly nutritious, our bodies would be better able to deal with
toxicity. But it is not. As a result, sooner or later the degenerative process sets in, opening the door
to serious chronic disease.
Obviously, both enemies of health have to be dealt with in order to initiate healing and to
restore the body’s natural defenses. This is the subject of the following chapters.
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www.thegersonway.comChapter  4
The Body’s Defenses
The human body is a wonderful living precision instrument, whose every part is closely
connected to every other part. Each of its trillion cells has its own intelligence, function and place
in the total system. It is no exaggeration to say that the body is a living miracle, whose potential
is far from being fully understood. Despite the rapid development of high technology research,
scientists are only just beginning to unravel the enormous complexities of life on the cellular
level.
The body, left to its own devices and given the right conditions, functions in order to survive
and remain in the state of homeostasis, i.e., a state of dynamic equilibrium. In this state the human
organism maintains stability while adjusting to changing conditions. As soon as this stability
becomes endangered, several built-in defense systems spring into action. Let us now explore
these sophisticated systems in depth.
The Immune System
All through Nature, millions of living organisms prey on others. This applies to the human
body, too, as it is daily exposed to attacks by germs, viruses and parasites that carry disease. Its
main protector is the immune system, which has in recent times gained some recognition among
the general public, mainly through advertisements offering some preparations “to strengthen the
immune system.” Irrespective of whether these work or not, people buy them without knowing
anything about the immune system—what it consists of or even where it is located. Yet the subject
deserves attention.
The immune system is not a single organ or a single gland: its parts are located all over the
body. Several organs, such as the liver, the brain and the pancreas are so important that they have
their own immune mechanism, the reticulo-endothelial system, which gives them extra protection.
Then there is the lymphatic system, which transports excess fluid from body tissues into the
bloodstream. The lymph itself is a straw-colored liquid, containing cells which fight infection.
The system consists of some 700 nodes in a normal person, distributed all over the body. Unlike
the bloodstream, circulated through the pumping action of the heart, the lymph is moved round
the body by muscular action.
However, the main basic component of the system is located in the bone marrow, where the
white blood corpuscles are formed. When they are released, they are not complete. Some wander
to the thymus gland, where they are completed, and released as T-lymphocytes. Others drift to
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www.thegersonway.comthe spleen and lymphoid tissue and mature into B-lymphocytes. All of them have the job to ingest
germs, viruses, malignant cells or toxic substances, killing or otherwise neutralizing them.
As all other parts of the organism, the immune system is made up of cells that need to be
nourished. They require a full complement of minerals, enzymes and vitamins in their natural
form that is easily assimilated. Pills and drugs cannot cover that need—sometimes they are not
absorbed at all. Here, as in the rest of the body, the need is for fresh, living, organic substances to
nourish and maintain this essential life-preserving system.
The Enzyme System
Enzymes are generally poorly understood by the lay person. According to one authoritative
definition, they are “complex proteins that are capable of inducing chemical changes in other
substances without being changed themselves.” 1 Everything that happens in the body, from taking
a breath in order to supply oxygen to the blood to digesting food, and then on to combining
digested foods with oxygen in order to produce energy—hundreds of such processes require
enzyme activity.
The body must build its own enzymes, since it cannot utilize the ones found in raw foods
or animal products. In order to produce the hundreds needed, the organ systems require specific
minerals as catalysts. (Catalysts are substances that speed up a reaction without themselves being
altered.) Researchers Dixon & Webb2  did a detailed study into how the body builds enzymes.
They found that in most of the enzymes they studied, the body needed potassium as a catalyst,
while sodium acted as an enzyme inhibitor, i.e., blocking substance. Other research came up
with the finding that the body is unable to build enzymes from dead or processed foods. If it
doesn’t receive fresh living nutrients, such as the Gerson Therapy supplies, serious difficulties
will arise, particularly in patients already facing major health problems—poor digestion, poor
appetite, constipation, diarrhea and painful gas. The pancreatic enzymes are not doing their job of
attacking tumor tissue, the oxidizing enzymes are not producing adequate energy—to name just
a few deficiencies.
The reason why enzymes, especially pancreatic ones are able to attack and destroy tumor
tissue while digesting foods is this: they recognize tumor cells as ‘foreign,’ needing to be
eliminated. However, the basic function of these same enzymes is to digest proteins. Since the
average diet is high in animal proteins, most of the pancreatic enzymes are used for digestion, and
little—if any—is available to destroy tumor tissue, allowing the latter to grow and spread.
Clearly, inadequate enzyme activity is one of the major problems sick people, especially
cancer patients must contend with. The answer lies in providing them with toxin-free, i.e.,
fresh organic food, and speeding up their intensive detoxification by means of coffee enemas.
Moreover, supplying extra doses of digestive and pancreatic enzymes is an integral part of the
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www.thegersonway.comGerson protocol, alongside fresh juices with their high oxygen content.
The Hormone System
Hormones are substances produced in certain glands that release them directly into the
bloodstream and are therefore called endocrine, i.e., ductless glands. Most people associate
hormones specifically with sexual function, yet there are many others playing significant roles
in the body, e.g. insulin, thyroxin, adrenaline and more. Hormones, especially thyroxin and
adrenaline, regulate the entire metabolism.
The thyroid deserves special attention, as it is an important part of the immune system.
Among its many other functions it regulates body temperature, including fever. If and when the
organism is invaded by germs or viruses, the immune system responds by producing excess heat,
namely fever. We must remember that most germs and viruses, and even tumor tissue, do not


 and harmony. It’ s a
magnificent feeling, like you really are in touch with God.
THE LA WNMOWER MANTRA
There’ s a nice story of a man w ho was bothered by a car honking for his
neighbors next door. He said to his wife, “If I had magical powers, I would
be able to give that car four flat tires every time he comes here. Or I’d be
able to put a silencer on that h orn and wouldn’ t even be able  to hear it.
That’ s w hat I would do if I had magical powers.” She replied, “No. If you
had magical powers, you wouldn’ t be disturbed by that horn at all.”
Quieting your mind means that you’re no longer susceptible to all of the
external influences that are around you. For an example of this, you can
watch the US O pen T ennis Championships, which are played in  New Y ork,
right ne ar LaGuardia Airport. I’m always amazed when I s ee how the
players are able to play with the distraction and noise of jets flying
overhead. Y et when I’ve been really involved in a tennis match myself, I’ve
had jackhammers going next to me and not noticed them. My opponent
could be  going crazy from the n oise, but all my concentration is  on the ball.
The people who are really good at a game, or any activity that requires
concentration, know how to do that.
This makes me think of something that happened when I was on vacation
in Hawaii with my family some years ago. For seven days in a row, I got up
at 5:30 every single morning an d went out to meditate in a gras sy area next
to our hotel.
One day I was sitting on my m at, and I was in a blissful stat e. I felt a
Divine e ner gy g oing up and do wn my spine, and it felt so go od. All of a
sudden, I heard this noise. V rrm vrrm. V rrm vrrm vrrm vr rm vrrm vrrm
vrrm.  I  looked  up, and there was a mean-looking guy with a cigarette in his
mouth and tattoos covering his a rms. I realized that even though it was very
early in the mor ning, he was go ing to cut the grass. My first thought was,
Oh, no.  I stood up, gathered my mat, and started to leave. Then all of asudden, my intuition came to m e and said, “Go back. Go back a nd use this.
This is a metaphysical experien ce.” It’ s not that I was hearing voices; this
was an internal thing.
I thought, Huh?  But I put the mat back down, and within about two
minutes I went r ight back into m y meditative state. My intuition said, “Use
the l awnmower for a mantra.” So e very time I heard, V rrm vrr m vrrm  vrrm,
I’d think to myself, Oh yes.  I got back into that blissful state.
The guy cutting the grass came by my mat, and the sound was incredibly
loud. I thought, God, I’m her e and I’m listening, but why would Y ou send
this person to me at six in the morning? I see, this is a test.
After about 10 minutes, he finally finished, and I was happy he was done.
I wa s ge tting back into that very peaceful place when I heard  the loudest
noise I have ever heard in my life. My friend was back, and he had an edger
this time. As G od is my witness, this guy decided to edge my mat.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
I thought, Okay, God. I’m going to use the edger for a mantra. I’m
staying her e. I’ve got to turn this into something.  He wen t right by my mat,
Brrrrrrrrrrrrr. I  stayed with it. I didn’ t let the distraction get to me. It was
about half an hour of this, but the louder the edger got, the easier it got for
me.
He f inished his yard work, and I finished meditating. I’ll bet he  thought,
Boy, this  guy is in some kind of trance, or he’ s dead. One or the other.  It
really felt as if I had come out of a trance. When you end such a meditation,
it’ s like you can fly. Y ou can do anything, and all you have is love, all you
have is harmony, all you have  is peace for yourself and for the world.
Nobody and nothing can get to you, no matter what.
As I  wal ked tow ard this guy, I could see he was very tense. Now keep in
mind that I was  about a foot taller than him. He probably thou ght, This is
what I’m her e for. This guy’ s going to fight me.  I reached into my pocket,
where I found about eight dollar s, and gave them to him. I said, “Thank you
so much  for being here. I really needed you today.” He looked at me like, I
don’ t know what’ s going on her e, but I smiled and walked away.
It w as th e greate st evidence I’ve ever experienced to prove that when life
hands you lemons, you can make lemonade. I was taught that day that
everything that comes to you, y ou have the power in your mind to turn it
into whatever you want. W e a ll get lawnmowers coming into our livesevery da y. What  we do with them and how we handle them, well, that is the
way to our personal transformation.
CHAPTER 1 1
LIVE IN THE LIGHT
Ram Da ss tells one of my favorite stories of all time. It’ s about  his guru,
with whom he lived and worked  for years in India, a man he considered to
be the most spiritually advanced person he’d ever met in his life.
At that time Ram Dass was doing some experimenting with T imothy
Leary and the li ke, so he had three capsules of LSD with him. “ That would
be enough,” he said, “to put a horse into a tranquilized state  for several
days.” H e had planned to use this LSD for a number of months, just one or
two micrograms at a time.
His guru said to him, “Y ou have funny medicine... let me see it.” Ram
Dass showed him the capsules b ut warned, “Y ou don’ t want to take all three
of these.  Y ou should only take a few micrograms from one of t he capsules,
and that will give you the desired ef fect.”
His guru took all three capsules, put them in his mouth, and swallowed.
He went under his blanket, and then came out and did all these funny
things. Then he smiled and said, “Do you have any more? It doesn’ t seem to
be working.”
Ram Dass realized that the drugs had no ef fect on his guru at all. This
was his conclusi on, which is one of the greatest lines I’ve ever heard on this
subject: “If you’re already in Detroit, you don’ t have to take a bus to get
there.” In other words, when someone is already in the spiritual world, they
don’ t need anything to get them there.
Learning how to “get to Detroit” for us means achieving what we’ve
been tal king about in this book. It’ s when we are comfortably in the place
that is powerfully ours. It’ s when we understand that thought originates
with us, which means that life is our own creation. W e know th at our form
will sim ply pass  along, but we can’ t kill thought, so who we really are can
never die.When you are truly awake, w ith heightened spiritual awareness, you
know th at if you’re always looking for something, it will always elude you.
That’ s tr ue of anything in life. T ake success: Making a lot of money is not
what makes a pe rson successful. Rather, a successful person brings success
to everything that they do, and money is most likely only one of the benefits
that they get as a result.
Enlightenment is the same thing. Enlightenment is something  that you
bring to all of your interactions, all of your thought processes, all of your
life experiences. It’ s really an attitude or an approach to life. That attitude or
approach is literally one of “living in the light,” and that means you’re
moving toward yourself. Y ou’re  not ever moving away from yourself, and
you see the perfection in yourself and who you are. Y ou don’ t question the
universe. Y ou see everything a nd everyone in it as exactly where they’re
supposed to be. Y ou have an a bsence of judgment and negativity. Y ou’re
balanced as a human being.
Enlightenment i s a state of mind in which, once you have it, once you
accept y ourself and your perfection, then there’ s no more trying. Y ou are
already in Detroit.
IT ALL WORKS PERFECTL Y
Think about this: If you take a b ite of food and start to


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Ingredients

1.
1	large-sized	green	apple,	cored

1.
1	pear,	cored

1.
1/4	cup	cabbage

1.
1	small-sized	lime

1.
1/2	teaspoon	allspice

Directions

1.
Wash	all	ingredients	thoroughly.

2.
Now	process	all	ingredients	through	a	juicer	according	to	manufacturer's
recommendations.	Divide	among	2	glasses	and	serve

with	bendy	straws.Great	Clean	Green
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1/2	small-sized	head	green	cabbage

1.
1	pear,	cored

1.
1	orange,	peeled

1.
6	leaves	lettuce

1.
1-inch	ginger,	peeled

Directions

1.
Add	all	the	above	ingredients	through	a	juicer.

2.
Serve	right	away.

3.
This	beverage	lowers	blood	pressure	and	prevents	heart	diseases.Kiwi	and	Apple	Treat
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
2	kiwis,	peeled

1.
2	apples,	cored	and	diced

1.
2	large	handfuls	spinach

Directions

1.
Press	all	ingredients	through	a	juicer	according	to	manufacturer's
recommendations.

2.
Serve	chilled	and	enjoy!

3.
The	juice	speeds	up	the	rate	at	which	you	burn	calories.Carrot	Fennel	Delight
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	carrot

1.
1	fennel

1.
1	pear

1.
2	oranges

1.
1	small-sized	handful	parsley

Directions

1.
Blend	carrot,	fennel,	pear,	oranges,	and	parsley	together	until	you	get	a
smooth	juice.

2.
Pour	juice	into	two	glasses.	Garnish	them	with	orange	slices	if	desired.
Enjoy!

3.
This	is	an	easy	and	simple	way	for	winter	body	cleansing.Winter	Grapefruit	and	Fennel	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	grapefruit

1.
1	lime

1.
2	celery

ribs

1.
1/2	fennel

1.
1	orange

1.
5	leaves	Tuscan	cabbage

1.
1	small	handful	mint

Directions

1.
Add	all	of	the	above	ingredients	through	a	juicer.

2.
Serve	and	enjoy!

3.
You	will	punch	up	your	energy	levels	with	this	rich	vitamin	beverage!Pineapple	Ginger	Detox
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1/2	medium	pineapple,	rind	removed

1.
1	lemon

1.
1	orange,	peeled

1.
1"	ginger,	peeled	and	grated

Directions

1.
Add	all	the	above	ingredients	through	a	juicer.

2.
Pour	into	2	serving	glasses.

3.
Serve	and	enjoy.Winter	Celery	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
3	celery	roots

1.
2	pears

1.
1/2	teaspoon	ground	cloves

Directions

1.
Wash	all	ingredients	thoroughly.	Peel	celery	and	transfer	to	a	juicer.	Add
pear	and	ground	cloves.

2.
Press	your	ingredients	through	a	juicer	and	serve	right	away!Autumn	Refreshing	Juice
(Ready	in	about	15	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
4	parsnips

1.
2	carrots

1.
2	pears

1.
2"	ginger	root,	peeled

1.
1/2	ground	allspice

Directions

1.
Clean	your	ingredients	and	transfer	them	to	a	juicer.

2.
Press	the	ingredients	through	the	juicer	according	to	manufacturer’s
instructions.

3.
Pour	the	juice	into	two	serving	glasses.	Serve	with	bendy	straws.	Enjoy!p.Go-To	Green
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1/4	small-sized	honeydew	melon

1.
1	small-sized	pear

1.
4	leaves	kale

1.
1	cucumber

Directions

1.
Begin	by	removing	rind	from	honeydew	melon.	Then	place	the	melon	in
your	juicer.

2.
Add	the	pear,	kale,	and	cucumber.	Now	press	all	components	through	juicer
and	serve	in	a	tall	glass.

3.
Garnish	with	melon	balls	if	desired.	Enjoy!Favorite	Apple	Lemonade
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	small-sized	green	apple

1.
1	handful	spinach

1.
1/2	cucumber

1.
1/2	teaspoon	allspice

1.
1	lemon,	peeled

Directions

1.
Add	all	ingredients	through	a	juicer.

2.
Serve	the	lemonade	over	ice	and	enjoy!Winter	Gold
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	1)

Ingredients

1.
1	jicama,	peeled

1.
1	orange,	peeled

1.
1	tablespoon	mint

1.
2	sprigs	coriander

1.
1/4	teaspoon	turmeric

1.
1/4	teaspoon	ground	cloves

Directions

1.
Wash	all	your	ingredients	thoroughly.

2.
Press	the	ingredients	through	a	juicer	and	enjoy!	Serve	hot	or	cold,	it’s	up
to	you.Yummy	Fruit	Cleanser
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	1)

Ingredients

1.
1	mango

1.
1/2	cucumber

1.
1/2	yellow	pepper

1.
1	jalapeño

1.
1	lemon

Directions

1.
Press	the	ingredients	in	your	juicer.

2.
Serve	over	ice	cubes	and	enjoy!

3.
Note:	You	can	prepare	this	juice	all	year	round	for	cleansing	and	body
detox.
	Anti-Inflammatory	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	orange

1.
2/3	medium	pineapple

1.
1	lime

1.
1	small	handful	cilantro

Directions

1.
Remove	rind	from	orange	and	pineapple.	Cut	them	into	large	wedges;	then,
transfer	them	to	a	juice	extractor.	Add	lime	and	cilantro.

2.
Process	the	ingredients	in	a	juice	extractor.

3.
Lastly,	pour	prepared	juice	over	ice	cubes	in	glasses.	Serve	at	once.Chayote	Tomato	Booster
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	1)

Ingredients

1.
1/2	chayote

1.
1	tomato

1.
1	green	apple

Directions

1.
Wash	all	the	above	ingredients	thoroughly	and	replace	them	to	your	juice
extractor.

2.
Process	all	ingredients	using	the	juice	extractor.	Serve	in	a	large	jug	and
drink	immediately.

3.
Note:	Chayote	is	also	known	as	Mirliton.	This	vegetable	is	low	in	calories
and	it	is	a	rich	source	of	antioxidants	and	vitamins.Flavors	of	India
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
2	apples

1.
2	pears

1.
1/2	lemon

1.
2"	ginger

1.
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 o freedive, they said, all
anyone had to do was master the art of breathing.
T o them breathing wasn’ t an unconscious act; it wasn’ t something they
just did.  It was a force, a medicine, and a mechanism through which they
could gain an almost superhuman power.
“There are as many ways to breathe as there are foods to eat,” said one
female instructor who had held her breath for more than eight minutes and
once dived below 300 feet. “And each way we breathe will af fect ourbodies in dif ferent ways.” Another diver told me that some methods of
breathing will nourish our brains, while others will kill neurons; some will
make us healthy, while others will hasten our death.
They told crazy stories, about how they’d breathed in ways that
expanded the size of their lungs by 30 percent or more. They told me about
an Indian doctor who lost several pounds by simply changing the way he
inhaled, and about another man who was injected with the bacterial
endotoxin E. coli, then breathed in a rhythmic pattern to stimulate his
immune system and destroy the toxins within minutes. They told me about
women who put their cancers into remission and monks who could melt
circles in the snow around their bare bodies over a period of several hours.
It all sounded nuts.
During my of f-hours from doing underwater research, usually late at
night, I read through reams of literature on the subject. Surely someone had
studied the ef fects of this conscious breathing on landlubbers? Surely
someone had corroborated the freedivers’ fantastic stories of using
breathing for weight loss, health, and longevity?
I found a library’ s worth of material. The problem was, the sources were
hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years old.
Seven books of the Chinese T ao dating back to around 400 BCE  focused
entirely on breathing, how it could kill us or heal us, depending on how we
used it. These manuscripts included detailed instructions on how to regulate
the breath, slow it, hold it, and swallow it. Even earlier, Hindus considered
breath and spirit the same thing, and described elaborate practices that were
meant to balance breathing and preserve both physical and mental health.
Then there were the Buddhists, who used breathing not only to lengthen
their lives but to reach higher planes of consciousness. Breathing, for all
these people, for all these cultures, was powerful medicine.
“Therefore, the scholar who nourishes his life refines the form and
nourishes his breath,” says an ancient T ao text. “Isn’ t this evident?”
Not so much. I looked for some kind of verification of these claims in
more recent research in pulmonology, the medical discipline that deals with
the lungs and the respiratory tract, but found next to nothing. According to
what I did find, breathing technique wasn’ t important. Many doctors,
researchers, and scientists I interviewed confirmed this position. T wenty
times a minute, ten times, through the mouth, nose, or breathing tube, it’ s
all the same. The point is to get air in and let the body do the rest.T o get a sense of how breathing is regarded by modern medical
professionals, think back to your last check-up. Chances are your doctor
took your blood pressure, pulse, and temperature, then placed a stethoscope
to your chest to assess the health of your heart and lungs. Maybe she
discussed diet, taking vitamins, stresses at work. Any issues digesting food?
How about sleep? W ere the seasonal aller gies getting worse? Asthma?
What about those headaches?
But she likely never checked your respiratory rate. She never checked
the balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in your bloodstream. How you
breathe and the quality of each breath were not on the menu.
Even so, if the freedivers and the ancient texts were to be believed, how
we breathe af fects all things. How could it be so important and unimportant
at the same time?
—
I kept digging, and slowly a story began to unfold. As I found out, I was not
the only person who’d recently started asking these questions. While I was
paging through texts and interviewing freedivers and super -breathers,
scientists at Harvard, Stanford, and other renowned institutions were
confirming some of the wildest stories I’d been hearing. But their work
wasn’ t happening in the pulmonology labs. Pulmonologists, I learned, work
mainly on specific maladies of the lungs—collapse, cancer, emphysema.
“W e’re dealing with emer gencies,” one veteran pulmonologist told me.
“That’ s how the system works.”
No, this breathing research has been taking place elsewhere: in the
muddy digs of ancient burial sites, the easy chairs of dental of fices, and the
rubber rooms of mental hospitals. Not the kinds of places where you’d
expect to find cutting-edge research into a biological function.
Few of these scientists set out to study breathing. But, somehow, in
some way, breathing kept finding them. They discovered that our capacity
to breathe has changed through the long processes of human evolution, and
that the way we breathe has gotten markedly worse since the dawn of the
Industrial Age. They discovered that 90 percent of us—very likely me, you,
and almost everyone you know—is breathing incorrectly and that this
failure is either causing or aggravating a laundry list of chronic diseases.
On a more inspiring note, some of these researchers were also showing
that many modern maladies—asthma, anxiety, attention deficithyperactivity disorder, psoriasis, and more—could either be reduced or
reversed simply by changing the way we inhale and exhale.
This work was upending long-held beliefs in W estern medical science.
Y es, breathing in dif ferent patterns really can influence our body weight and
overall health. Y es, how we breathe really does af fect the size and function
of our lungs. Y es, breathing allows us to hack into our own nervous system,
control our immune response, and restore our health. Y es, changing how we
breathe will help us live longer.
No matter what we eat, how much we exercise, how resilient our genes
are, how skinny or young or wise we are—none of it will matter unless
we’re breathing correctly. That’ s what these researchers discovered. The
missing pillar in health is breath. It all starts there.
•       •       •
This book is a scientific adventure into the lost art and science of breathing.
It explores the transformation that occurs inside our bodies every 3.3
seconds, the time it takes the average person to inhale and exhale. It
explains how the billions and billions of molecules you bring in with each
breath have built your bones, sheaths of muscle, blood, brains, and or gans,
and the emer ging science of how these microscopic bits will influence your
health and happiness tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, and
decades from now.
I call this a “lost art” because so many of these new discoveries aren’ t
new at all. Most of the techniques I’ll be exploring have been around for
hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years. They were created, documented,
for gotten, and discovered in another culture at another time, then for gotten
again. This went on for centuries.
Many early pioneers in this discipline weren’ t scientists. They were
tinkerers, a kind of rogue group I call “pulmonauts,” who stumbled on the
powers of breathing because nothing else could help them. They were Civil
W ar sur geons, French hairdressers, anarchist opera singers, Indian mystics,
irritable swim coaches, stern-faced Ukrainian cardiologists,
Czechoslovakian Olympians, and North Carolina choral conductors.
Few of these pulmonauts achieved much fame or respect when they
were alive, and when they died their research was buried and scattered. It
was even more fascinating to learn that, during the past few years, theirtechniques were being rediscovered and scientifically tested and proven.
The fruits of this once-fringe, often for gotten research are now redefining
the potential of the human body.
—
But why do I need to learn how to br eathe? I’ve been br eathing my whole
life.
This question, which you may be asking now, has been popping up ever
since I began my research. W e assume, at our peril, that breathing is a
passive action, just something that we do: breathe, live; stop breathing, die.
But breathing is not binary. And the more I immersed myself in this subject,
the more personally invested I felt about sharing this basic truth.
Like most adults, I too have suf fered from a host of respiratory problems
in my life. That’ s what landed me at the breathing class years ago. And like
most people, I found that no aller gy drug, inhaler, mix of supplements, or
diet did much good. In the end, it was a new generation of pulmonauts who
of fered me a cure, and then they of fered so much more.
It will take the average reader about 10,000 breaths to read from here to
the end of the book. If I’ve done my job correctly, starting now, with every
breath you take, you’ll have a deeper understanding of breathing and how
best to do it. T wenty times a minute,