	ahead	of	them
with	lots	of	potential	cold	and	wind	exposure.	Be	sure	to	keep	your	hands
moisturized	with	a	good	hand	cream	(shea	butter	or	other	natural	ingredient
based),	and	reapply	often,	especially	after	washing	your	hands.
•
After	the	leisure	of	summer,	you	may	feel	an	increased	swirl	of	activities	in
the	fall:	kids	going	back	to	school,	increased	work	projects,	or	new-found
intensity	in	hitting	goals	by	the	end	of	the	year.	Be	sure	to	balance	the	stress.
Make	it	a	priority	to	create	downtime	for	yourself	as	the	holidays	gear	up	so
you	don’t	feel	overwhelmed	and	resort	to	stress	eating	or	other	unhealthy
outlets.	Take	time	to	cultivate	nurturing,	grounding	activities	such	as
meditation,	massages,	spending	time	at	home	reading,	or	whatever	makes
you	feel	soothed.
Making	an	effort	to	gracefully	acknowledge	the	energy	shifts	as	the	earth
makes	her	yearly	progression	around	the	sun	and	to	shift	your	daily	lifestyle
routines	in	accordance	with	the	different	seasons	is	an	important	way	to
maximize
your	health,	energy,	and	expression	of	beauty.	Whether	we	are	aware
of	it	or	not,	we	are	impacted	by	the	larger	energy	influences	of	our
environment.	Why	not	recognize,	embrace,	and	align	with	them	to	your
advantage?	You	only	have	heightened	beauty	and	a	greater	sense	of	energy	to
attain.	Start	applying	these	modifications	for	the	season	you	are	in	right	now	to
feel	more	in	tune	with	the	collective	universal	energy	of	which	you	are
intrinsically	part.SHIFT	14:
Balance
Solar	and	Lunar	Energy	and
All	the	Earth’s	Elements
Solar	Beauty
Of	course,	no	one	would	claim	that	going	out	and	baking	in	the	sun	is	good	for
your	skin.	By	now,	it’s	well	established	that	overexposure	to	the	sun	can	lead	to
skin
cancer	and	seriously	accelerated	skin	aging.	But	that’s	not	to	say	that	we
should	shun	the	sun	completely.	The	sun	is	a	vital	component	of	nature	that
provides	life	and	vitality	to	the	entire	planet,	including	us.	Even	in	the	dawn	of
increased	modernism,	we	cannot	divorce	ourselves	from	Mother	Nature;	our
connection	to	her	is	indivisible.
While	you	have	to	be	very	careful	about	how	and	where	you	engage	in	sun
exposure	(which	we	will	discuss	further	below),	we	don’t	want	to	completely
eschew	the	sun.
Robyn	Lucas,	an	epidemiologist	at
Australian	National
University	who	led	a	study	published	in	the
International	Journal	of	Epidemiology
,
concluded	that	far	more	lives	are	lost	to	diseases	caused	by	a
lack
	of	sunlight
than	to	those	caused	by	too	much.
1
	There	are	many	health	and	beauty
benefits
to	limited	sun	exposure,	including	the	following.
ENDORPHIN	AND
HORMONE	PRODUCTION
Just	being	around	sunlight—even	if	you’re	not	directly	exposed	to	it—can	help
improve	your	mood	by	causing	your	body	to	synthesize	“feel	good”	endorphins
and	hormones	such	as	serotonin.	This	can	be	as	simple	as	gazing	out	of	a
window	into	the	natural	light	while	eating	lunch	or	working	on	a	laptop
(though	you	won’t
absorb
vitamin	D	through	glass).	A	lack	of	sun	exposure	can
cause	a	melatonin	imbalance	and	lead	to	seasonal	affective	disorder	(SAD),	a
form	of	depression	caused	by	a	deficiency	of	natural	sunlight	during	the	winter
months.	This	is	a	very	real	issue	for	those	in	certain	environments	that	don’t
have	enough	sunlight,	and	it	demonstrates	how	important	natural	elementssuch	as	the	sun	are	to	our	beauty	and	well-being.	As	we	mentioned	in
Pillar	3
,
Peak	Beauty	Sleep,	it’s	critical	to	have	a	healthy	amount	of	daylight	to	balance
the	night.	Your	pineal	gland	produces	melatonin	based	on	the	contrast	of
bright	sun	exposure	in	the	day	and	complete	darkness	at	night.
2
	If	you	don’t
have	enough	exposure	to	daylight	during	the	day,	your	body	can’t	appreciate
the	difference	and	will	not	optimize	your	melatonin	production,	which	is
important	to	regulate	healthy	beauty	sleep	cycles.
3
VITAMIN	D	SYNTHESIS	AND
IMMUNE	BOOST
Sunlight	helps	your	skin	synthesize	vitamin	D,	which	makes	it	possible	to
absorb	calcium.	Vitamin	D	also	helps	with	skin	issues	like	psoriasis,	and	boosts
your	immunity	so	you	can	better	fight	infections	such	as	colds	and	the	flu.
Some	researchers	believe	it	may	even	help	protect	against	the	development	of
some
cancer	cells.
4
	Vitamin	D	is	really	a	hormone	and	not	a	vitamin,	and	it	has
been	shown	in	some	research	to	help	increase	testosterone	levels	in	men
5
	and
regulate	estrogen	and	progesterone	levels	in	women.
6
	This	assistance	in
balancing	hormones	is	another	huge	benefit	of	sun	exposure.	Though	you	can
supplement	with	vitamin	D,	it’s	preferable	and	more	reliable	to	get	vitamin	D
through	moderate	sunlight	exposure	whenever	possible.
IMPROVED
CIRCULATION	AND
METABOLISM
The	sun	is	good	for	blood	circulation,	which,	as	we	discussed	earlier,	is
important	to	ensure	the	optimal	distribution	of	beauty	nutrients	throughout
your	entire	body,	and	some	research	is	even	linking	sunlight	exposure	to	a
boost	in	metabolism.
7
POSSIBLE	PREVENTION	OF
HEART	DISEASE	AND	CANCER
New	research	out	of	the
Journal	of	Investigative	Dermatology
	has	found	that	when
sunlight	touches	the	skin,	a	compound	called	nitric	oxide,	which	helps	lower
blood	pressure,	is	released	into	the	blood	vessels.
8
	Head	researcher
Richard
Weller	and	his	colleagues	state,	“We	are	concerned	that	well-meaning	advice	to
reduce	the	comparatively	low	numbers	of	deaths	from	skin	cancer	may
inadvertently	increase	the	risk	of	death	from	far	higher	prevalent	cardiovascular
disease	and	stroke,	and	goes	against	epidemiological	data
9
,
10
	showing	that
sunlight	exposure	reduces	all-cause	and	cardiovascular	mortality.”
11
	The
researchers	noted	that	for	every	person	who	succumbed	to	skin	cancer,	about
sixty	to	one	hundred	people	succumb	to	stroke	and	heart	disease	linked	to	high
blood	pressure.	This	translates	to	eighty	times	more	people	dying	ofcardiovascular	disease	than	skin	cancer.
A	study	published	in	the	journal
Cancer
,	as	well	as	a	systematic	review
published	in	the
European	Journal	of	Cancer
,	found	that	insufficient	exposure	to
sunlight	can	be	a	risk	factor	for	cancer	in	western	Europe	and	North	America,
and	the	malignancies	that	showed	the	greatest	increase	with	inadequate
exposure	to	sunlight	were	reproductive	and	digestive	cancers,	namely	breast,
colon,	and	ovarian	cancers.
12
,
13
Sun	Exposure	vs.	Sun	Damage
You	may	be	wondering,	what	about	sun	damage	and	aging?	Again,	we	are
definitely
not


 dislike. They cannot know what they are doing to others,
because they feel no reference to others. They are sendin g out their
disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating
them for their behavior is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree and
destroying the appearance of the tree. The moss only knows  how to be
moss, and regar dless of your opinion about how it should not be behaving
in such mosslike ways, it will still continue doing all that it knows how to
do. Victimizers too are acting out on the basis of all that they know, and the
only way you can help them to stop behaving in such ways is to help them
to convert their disharmony into self-acceptance and self-lo ve, so that
eventually that will be all they have to give away.
This in no way implies that victimizers should not be held totally
accountable for their actions. But it is you I am talking to here, not the
abuser.
Compassion for others is impossible when you are filled with a belief
that you are separate and distinct from other human beings. Once you know,
truly know in your heart, that you are connected to all others,  even those
who behave in evil ways, you then have reference to the entire being called
Human Being. With this new awareness comes the ability to forgive, and
this is why spiritual masters talk about the ability to forgive as a guidingprinciple in life. They know that those who send out hatred are only acting
out from where they are and how they have been thinking up until this
moment. The enlightened person is sure enough of his own divineness that
he does not judge himself in any negative manner because of the actions of
others. Indeed, forgiveness is man’ s highest achievement, becau se it shows
true enlightenment in action. It illustrates that one is in harmony with the
very stuff of the universe, that is, with the energy of love. It is the ability to
give this love away in the most dif ficult of circumstances.
Our role models  remind us that the people who choose harm’ s way for
others know not what they do. For it is as true of anything I know about
human beings that we cannot give away what we do not have, and we only
give away what we do have. If we give away hatred or harm in any way, it
is because that is what we have. It is impossible for someone who has only
love within to give away hatre d. This is why your ability to forgive will
come automatically when you truly become awakened. Mark Twain said it
so beaut ifully, when he wrote: “Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.” A grand image indeed, and one to keep in
mind as you work on this universal principle of for giveness.

MY OWN VOY AGE OF FORGIVENESS

As I stood at my father ’s grave back in 1974, I was not aware of the
changes and challenges that lay ahead of me, but I knew that I was
participating in some very powerful drama. As I talked to my father, with
tears streaming down my face, I sensed something changing for me, and by
the time I left Mississippi, I knew that I was a new man. I knew  somehow,
in some inexplicable way, I had been sent to that gravesite for a reason.
Forgiveness, that is, correcting my misperceptions about why I was carrying
around all of that hatred for so many years, freed me to do the things that
were waiting for me. I created a life of excitement, abundance in every
sense of the word, and love that I had previously known nothing about.
I set about writing, speaking, making tapes, and doing a great deal of
media publicity over the years. I was making regular appearances on
national televisio n, speaking to large groups and earning more money than I
had imagined for myself. Then one day I received something in the mail
that was to put my newfound ecstasy to a real test. A registered letter
arrived from an attorney, inform ing me that I was going to be sued. ThoughI felt the lawsu it was without merit, I was in shock. No one had ever
threatened me with a lawsuit, and I did not even know an attorney.
After thousands of dollars and almost two years spent in legal battles, I
realized I had slipped back into old vengeful ways. The anger that I felt
filled me with a rage that was destroying me. I was not eating  properly. I
lost a great deal of weight. I felt terrible all the time, and still the anger
mounted in me. I felt like the ultimate victim. Not one day would go by
without me thinking angrily, “Why is this happening? Why won’ t it go
away?”
Then one evening, after giving a speech to a large group of people and
relating the story of how I had forgiven my father at his grave, and of all the
mysterious happ enings that had occurred in order for me even to find his
grave, a beautiful light explo ded inside of me. It finally hit me that
forgiveness is the key. Not hatred and anger, but forgiveness. In that
moment it was all over for me as far as that unjust lawsuit was concerned.
That night I had the first restful night’ s sleep in a long time. I thought about
the people who were suing me, and I sent them all forgiveness. The next
morning I completed my act of forgiveness totally. I was no longer going to
participate in this absurdity. I let go of thoughts about any problems that
might come my way, and instead I focused all of my thinking on the people
involved. My heart opened up to them and I stopped the angry thoughts.
That morning I sent them flower s and a selection of books to read. I notified
my attorney that I was through paying legal bills for this thing and that he
should simply stand by and not respond to anything else concerning this
case. My thoughts which previously were full of anger were converted to
love almost instantly. I knew in my heart that I could handle any
contingency that might arise from this case, and that it was all going to be
fine.
Three days later, I received a notice from the group’ s spokespe rson that
they were dropping the case, and apologizing for any problem s they had
caused. They had signed a release. It was all over!
While I had spent thousands of dollars, and lived a nightmare for two
years, I had finally learned the lesson of forgiveness that I had been
introduced to back in Biloxi. I had to re-create a miserable existence again
in order to have the message really clear this time, and all that I spent, and
all that I went through were all done for a powerful reason. To teach me the
lesson of love over hatred. To get it firmly entrenched this time. That theonly response to hatred is love; everything else will bring you down again. I
do not regret one penny that I spent on the experience. The moment I
switched from anger to forgiveness it was all over for me. I was free in that
one simple swift instant, and the rest simply had to be played out in form.
After that brush  with the legal system had disappeared from my life, I
made a pledge to myself that I would put forgiveness completely into
practice. I contacted every single person in my life toward whom I had any
hostile or even mildly annoyed feelings. I decided to clear them  all out with
forgiveness. I wanted to be absolutely certain that if I died in the next
moment, not one single person on this planet would have any leftover
animosity towar d me that I had not tried to rectify, even though it was
obvious to me that “none of it could have possibly been my fault.” (Don’ t
we all feel that way?) There were several people who had borrowed money
from me and obviously were not going to pay me back. I had not talked to
them in years, and the fact that they had not repaid the debts had damaged
our relationships. I sent each of those people autographed copies of my
books, some tapes that I had produced, and some flowers, with a note
saying that I was wishing them well, sending them love, and trusting that
they were happy and joyful. I did not mention the debt. In my heart I had let
it go by deciding that it was okay for them not to repay me. It was over, and
I had not only forgiven, but I had sent them expressions of love instead of
annoyance and bitterness.
In every other area of my life, I made an internal commitment to forgive,
regardless of how minor the events were. It only took a few hours and it
was all behind me. No enemie s left at all. No one to direct  any hatred
toward on the entire planet. No family members to blame for anything that
had taken place years and years earlier. No former colleagues or bosses with
whom I had disagreements. I was now on a forgiveness bandwagon, and it
was working dramatically.
My relationship to all of those people was clean, and I was not only
sending love, but receiving it as well! Several of the debts came in, and
though some have never been repaid, it is fine. I love them all, and now,
today, as I write this book, I cannot think of a


 in his knee-joints. Even after his
return from there, he continued drinking urine twice a day with
very good results. Now he is quite comfortable and happy.
AFTERMATH OF CASES
1. Shrimati Kalavati belongs to Punjab. She is a religious-minded
lady. She suffered from pain in her shoulders and there was stiffness
for three years. Doctors could not cure her but urine treatment with
regular drinking and massage cured her completely. Moreover she
got rid of her spectacles by applying urine drops in her eyes and by
washing them by urine. She has cured wounds and other ailments
by use o.f urine. She did all this at Shri Hans's suggestions.
2. Sflrimati X lives at Firozepur (Punjab) and is aged fourty-four.
She is somewhat fatty. Seven years before she had pain in her
knees, shoutders and other joints and slowly the pain covered the
wha}e body. There was swelling on alomst all joints. There was
diffculty in walking too. She started urine treatment on 12-5-66 at
Shri Hans's instance. She felt relief only in four or five days. Then
she fasred on urine for five days. There was an all-round reltfe to
her body. Her weight was reduced by about 12 lb.; constrpatk:m
disappeared; cold was no more; and now feels herself quite mormal.
3. Shrimati Y resides at Jadialaguru (Punjab). She is forty-five. Her
forehand used to become numb at night; such was her condition for
the last 12 years. Slowly numbness increased and there was a
sensation of heat too. On pressing the hand there was pain also.
She could not get any benefit by doctors' treatment. So she started
urine treatment in· 1965. She fasted on urine for five days and
massaged her hands with urine. She felt complete relief, cured SKIN DISEA5ES : 143
numbness of her hand and is quite normal now.
4 p· ·a N Bulsara (Bombay) wrote a letter to the edi~or,
Kais~r-e~~~nd a~d it is published in the 9th July issu~ of the da~y.
When she was fifty she accidE>ntally had some hard Impact on er
right knee and so the cartilages there were injure~.. She could ;:at
walk properly and afterwards she developed arthntls. It wa~ t en
d ct for a few mmutes. very difficult for her even to stan ere B
Bone-specialist gave a verdict that it was a very hard ~e.. y
chance she came to know about urine therapy and start unne
reatment She fasted on urine only for two days and massag~d her
tk cor.about two months and is quite all right now. If there IS any
nees,,. she can now
pain, she applies urine therapy an~ c~res It at. once. de t in urine
climb 300 steps in a very high bUilding. She IS an a p ~...
d ng woman of her tumour -uy treatment and she has cure a you
auto-urine!
CHA-PTER XIV
SKIN DISEASES ·
- 1 Bl'st...., due to Heat : Shri Juthabhai A. Shah, on Saba~ati
• 1 e.... h" body. in 1958~ He dectded Haritan Ashram, had heat erupttans o~ IS •... •. doctor
to make an experiment with auto-unne Without g<>l~g t~ a
nd an rubbing it on the whole body and drin1<1n~ It once or
a ic ~da During this period, yellow blistQrs of the Size of a.pea
tw e d y. h. hole body They were so close that even an 1nch appeare on IS w · · · h d
of skin was not free from their effect. There was much pam m an s
and feet. He fasted with urine for thre~ days and felt ~o ~::ena~~
The blisters· rendered massage impossible so h~ mere ~I became
his bod with urine. On the sixth day t e trou e.
er!ted and his feet were swollen. H~ noticed that sheer
exagg. h d ffect on the blisters So he requested b ·ng with unne a no e ·.
a e~~::r;riend to do the rubbing for him. The fri:nd did accordmgly
and the ripe blisters burst. The skin appeared.~htteh~s th~ f~~:z~~
out. It was as if his body was besmeared Wit w lte om. 144 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
took a bath with warm water and cleaned his body. This relieved
him a good deal.
Within five or six days, pus was eliminated from all the blisters.
His new skin appeared bright. His body became perefectly well and
after a couple of days he started his usual work.
2. Blisters : An account of Shri Keshavalal Makanlal (Weaving
Master) who got rid of his chronic constipation with urine treatment
and had cured his skin disease also:
"In 1948, blisters appeared on my whole body. There was acute
pain and sitting or sleeping was rendered difficult. 1 started
?esm~aring my.whole body every day with six ounces ·of clay soakd
m unne. I earned on this experiment for twenty days and 1 was
restored to perfect health."
If stung by poisonous fly, mosquito or other harmful insect one
should ~nstantly.rub urine on it to_ get rea~~ relief. Even the pois~n of
a scorp1on subs1des by the rubbmg of unne and placing bandages
soaked in urine on the skin.
3. Ringworm and Nettle-rash : Shri Shamalbhai is the organizer
of th~ Gram-Rakshak Dal of Kaira district. He had an alergy.
lmput1ty of blood resulted in ringworm on his body and its worst
a~act "":as on his nose. He also suffered from diabetes. He began
With unne treatment on his own in a faulty way. Without full
conside:ati~n of his bodily condition, he did not abstain from taking
sacchanne m tea even during the course of treatment. Within a
coupl~ of days, nettle-rash appeared on his entire body along with a
few p1mples. I suggested to him to stop saccharine and do the
rubbi.ng of uri~e with slight pressur so that the pimples may burst.
He d1d accordmgly and all his troubles disappeared within a couple
of days..
. Urine is chemical but is a natural one. Saccharine is on the other
ha:nd artificially synthesized chemical. Such a foreign stuff cannot be
expected to be absorbed within the system, at least at the time of
treatment. SKIN DISEASES : 145
4. Eczema : Shri Rasiklalbhai of Patan, is an agent for some tea
company in Bombay. His wife suffered from eczema on the fingers
of her hands. She was treated for a number of months by doctors but
there was no cure. She started urine treatment. Within afortnight the
fingers were cleaned up and not a trace of the disease was left.
5. White Leporsy : Shri Ranjitbhai Baladeobhai Parikh i~ nea~ly
32. About 15 years ago he suffered from white leprosy on h1•s ent1re
body. There were several patches of leprosy, big and. sma~l on the
head, face, chest, abdomen, hands and feet. Even. ~1s ha1r tu~ned
white. He happended to read Hatha Yoga Prad1p~ca. Therem ~
mention has been made of Shivambu-Kalpa. He obtamed ~ Sansknt
text of Shivambu-Kalpa. It has described a number of expenments o.n
urine. Ranjitbhai himself performed sam~ of them. He cured h1s
eye-trouble by drinking urine through h1s nose. He also treated
himself with urine to get rid of white leprosy.
By systematic taking and rubbing of urine, his white lepr~sy was
gradually reduced. Some patches of leprosy however pe~s1s~ed on
his forearms and feet. But those patches do not trouble h1m m any
way. There is no burning sensation even in summer.
Thereafter he started the use of urine in his family. Gradually th~
neighbours were also benefited by this handly treatment for the1r
minor ailments. Ranjitbhai had also undertaken the treatment of
serious ailments with success. ·
6. Degenerative Leprosy : Late Mr. Arrpstrong was an ex~ert in
urine treatment, but he did not have a chance to treat any pat1


,	195,	199,	202,	229
definition	of,	29
on	eternity,	121,	122,	125,	127,	210
on	expanded	awareness,	97
field	of	all	fields,	246
first	principles,	247
and	Jesus,	63,	64
on	Karma,	182
and	Koshas,	144,	147,	161
mental	structures	revealed	by,	235
on	need	for	shift	of	allegiance,	130
and	observer	effect,	163
as	observers,	162
and	“other	side,”	68,	98,	113
on	projection,	159
on	punishment	in	afterlife,	72
on	reincarnation,	178
on	source	of	mind,	219
on	suffering,	71,	74
teachings	on	afterlife,	173
teachings	on	ideas,	220
teachings	on	self-exploration,	102
use	of	subtle	powers,	114
on	wholeness,	150
See	also
	VedantaRitchie,	George,	73
Rumi,	25
Sacred	visions,	142
Sadness,	120
Sages,	8,	12,	13,	29
Saints,	8,	12,	13,	157
Salvation,	105,	124
Samadhi,	253
Samskara,	231,	232
Satan,	73,	75–77,	95,	194,	261
Sat	Chit	Ananda,	245–46
Satyavan,	21–22,	55,	82,	83,	107–9,	139–41,	156,	169–70
Savant	syndrome,	225–26,	268–69
Savitri,	1,	21–23,	32,	35–36,	45–47,	55–57,	69–70,	81–83,	93–94,	107–9,
119–20,	139–41,	155–57,	169–70
Schiavo,	Terri,	62–63
Schmidt,	Helmut,	202–3,	204,	210
Schrödinger,	Erwin,	209
Schrödinger’s	equation,	209
Schwartz,	Jeffrey,	222,	224
Science,	51,	62,	63,	194,	195,	241,	246,	247
Science	and	the	Akashic	Field
	(Laszlo),	206
Secular	culture,	76
Seer,	162
Self,	46,	115,	226
Self-awareness,	76,	114,	115,	188,	195,	201,	202
Self-exploration,	102
Self-image,	98
Self-judgment,	75,	185
Self-realization,	14
Self	system,	144–51
Self-worth,	74
Senses,	7,	46,	83,	127
Separation,	147,	148,	150,	151
Sequencing,	200
Serotonin,	224
Shadow	self,	142
Shakespeare,	William,	130
Shaman,	84–87
Sheldrake,	Rupert,	215–18,	243,	268
Shubda,	245Silence,	95,	125,	150,	153,	246,	253–54
Sin,	71–77,	105,	173
Skeptics,	51,	52,	74,	113,	194
Smith,	Huston,	41
Solid	objects,	3
Somatic	nervous	system,	230
Sorcerers,	132
Soul,	63,	68,	77
as	always	near,	37
in	astral	plane,	5
attachments,	9
bodhisattva,	15
bonds,	13
Christian,	31
compared	with	Atman,	30–31
creativity	of,	66,	239
departure	when	dying,	4,	25
as	disguised,	77
eternity	as	source	of,	121
identity	of,	237
and	karma,	9,	12,	14,	78–79,	171
lack	of	evil	within,	124
liberated,	122
and	love,	109
qualities	of,	64–66,	78,	93–94
regression,	171
and	relationships,	115
revelation	of,	78–79
seven	destinations	of,	95–96
slumber	of,	7–8,	9–10,	12
and	states	of	consciousness,	126–29,	137
and	subtle	senses,	117
survival	beyond	death,	46–47
upward	trajectory,	12,	14
in	Vedanta,	31,	37,	77
weight	of,	25
Sound,	7
Source	of	everything,	241–45
Space,	3,	197–98,	206,	211–13,	235
Spirit,	5–6,	10,	16
Spiritual	issues,	194
Spiritual	materialism,	262–63Spiritual	planes,	4
Spirit	world,	96
SQUID	(superconducting	quantum	interference	device),	242–43
Stability,	172,	179,	181
Stanford	University,	242
Stapp,	Henry,	222
Stevenson,	Ian,	174–75,	176,	266
Stroke,	223
Structure,	233,	235,	236
Subtle	breath,	144,	146–47
Subtle	objects,	126–37,	141–45,	165
Subtle	senses,	7,	117
Sudden	death,	8,	9,	109–10
Suffering,	10,	12,	71,	72,	73,	75,	77
Suicide,	8,	73
Survival,	215
Swann,	Ingo,	242–43
Symbolism,	160,	230
Tagore,	Rabindranath,	17,	33,	248
Talent,	13
Talk	therapy,	224
Technology,	193
Telepathy,	176,	215–18,	268
Teresa	of	Ávila,	Saint,	67
Theory	of	relativity,	143
Theosophy,	105,	265–66
Thought,	187,	200,	215–36,	219
Three-in-one	state,	162,	163
Tibet,	38,	39,	171
Tibetan	Book	of	the	Dead
,	183,	186,	257
Tibetan	Buddhism,	38–39,	144,	182–83
Time,	27,	198,	206,	210–13,	235
Total	recall,	177
Traits,	230
Transcendence,	96,	97,	102
Transcendental	movement,	104
Transformation,	2,	3,	6,	24,	219–20,	233,	237,	239
Transmigration,	96,	97
Truth,	74,	115,	215
Twins,	244Uncertainty,	179
Unconscious	impulses,	13
Understanding,	114,	185
Unfulfilled	desires,	8
Uniqueness,	178
Unity,	31,	162,	233
Universe:
Big	Bang,	27,	125,	162,	172,	199,	206,	212,	239
binding	effect,	181
coordination	of,	205,	207
dark	matter,	163
evolution	of,	238
“in-formed,”	220
re-creation	of	self,	173
Sat	Chit	Ananda,	246
self-awareness,	195,	199–202
unpredictability,	210
Unpredictability,	187–88,	210
Vacuum	state,	246
Van	Lommel,	Pim,	37,	42,	258
Vedanta,	122,	256
on	afterlife,	47,	83,	194
on	Akashic	dreams,	84
and	angels,	162
as	applicable	to	present	time,	30
on	bliss,	65
on	consciousness,	87
on	eternity,	64,	106
and	freedom,	71,	87,	88
and	God,	60
and	heaven,	58,	130


 Yusha – Kaiyadeva nighantu 5/85
Radish with its leaves, Dry ginger, Long pepper, Black pepper. It is useful in
insomnia.
Dadima Amalaka Yusha – Charaka Chikitsa 19/38
Pomegranate, Indian gooseberry,
It is useful in epilepsy, hallucinations. It energizes the person and revokes life
Vrushya Masha Yusha – Charaka Chikitsa 2/1/47
Black gram, Ghee, Rice. It is a good aphrodisiac.•
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Soup
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Preparation Method –
Bhavaprakasha text book explains in detail.
Ghee or sesame oil is taken in a vessel. Heated. Turmeric and asafoetida are
added and fried well. Boneless goat meat is added and fried.
en appropriate quantity of water, salt is added and cooked well in closed
lid. After cooking, it is  ltered. Obtained liquid is called Mamsarasa.
If required, spices like black pepper, betel leaf and clove are added.
According to Atreya Samhita, Leadwort, black pepper root, fruit, Java long
pepper, ginger, coriander, turmeric and rice are added to meat soup. is spice
group is called Vesavara.
Water Quantity –
As per Dravyaguna Vijnana –
If thick meat soup is to be prepared, then 8 part of meat is added with
64 parts of water.
If moderately thick meat soup is to be prepared, then 6 parts of meat is
added with 64 parts of water.
For thin meat soup, 4 parts of meat is added with 64 p arts of water and
soup is prepared.1.
2.Varieties of Mamsa Rasa
Krita mamsarasa – added with spices.
Akrta Mamsa Rasa.
Shadanga Yusha
One part of any herb is added with 2 parts of meat and 4 parts of water. It is
cooked till the water content reduces to a quarter. Contents are ltered across a
cloth. It is added with ghee and heating is continued for a while.
Benets –
To improve muscle strength
To regain lost strength in cases of chronic disorders such as cancer, tuberculosis
etc.85. Khada – Kambalika
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ese two are the special preparations of Yusha (broth of pulses).
ey are prepared with grains/ pulses, buttermilk and with spices.
Khada – types
Sa Takra Shami Khada and
Sa takra Shaka Khada.
Sa Takra Shami Khada
2 liters of buttermilk are added with 125 grams of green gram or black gram or
sesame seeds. It is boiled in an earthen pot in mild re and reduced to ½ or
1/4 part.
5 Grams of each of cumin and black pepper powders are fried in a teaspoon
of ghee.
ese two are mixed to the buttermilk.
Sa Takra Shaka Khada
2 liters of buttermilk + 125 grams of a powder prepared with wood
apple/Indian sorrel/black pepper or cumin powder. It is boiled in an earthen
pot and reduced to ½ or ¼ part. It is Satakra Shaka Khada.86. Raga and Shadava
Qualities and Health
Benets
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
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Ayurveda prescribes several food recipes which are tasty, carminative and
provide health benets along with nutritional components.
Reference: Charaka Samhita, Raja Nighantu, Bhavaprakasha Nighantu, Yoga
Ratnakara.
Raga Shadava –
Sour and sweet fruits like unripe mango, kapittha (wood apple), are taken and
kept dipped in salt for 5–10 days (may extend for 30–40 days also). To this
sesame oil, ginger etc are added and mixed thoroughly. is is called Raga
shadava.
is can be assumed as a semi nished product of pickle.
Raga –
Sugar candy, black salt, rock salt, fresh lime juice or juice of tamarind – grewia
fruit, blueberry and mustard powders are mixed together and preserved. is
mixture is used as the spice mixture for preparing pickle.
Shadava –It is the salted fruits of sweet or sour taste; bitter fruits and vegetables are not
used for this purpose.
Usually jujube – Kola (Zizuphus jujuba), wood apple – Kapittha (Feronia
elephantum) are used in general practice.
Swasthya Shadava –
e fruits like Elephant apple, tamarind, citron fruit, pomegranate are taken
individually or altogether and mixed along with sugar cane juice. is is called
Swasthya shadava. It is a classical fruit salad or sweet pickle.
Accha Raga –
Sugar candy, honey, jaggery etc sweet substances are mixed together and stored
in a container.
is thin sweet preparation is called Accha raga.
Qualities of Raga and Shadava
In general both Raga and Shadava are light for digestive, appetizer, pleasure
enhancing, tasty and nourishing in nature. Due to sweet, pungent, sour and
salty taste as well as deep penetrative quality, they clear the mouth.
But excess intake may decline the sexual virility, vitiate the blood and may
also decrease the eye sight. Occasionally they may cause gastric irritation as
well as skin disease too.•
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Buttermilk, Types: Ayurvedic
Method
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Buttermilk is one of the widely used food item. ere are many variants of
buttermilk with diﬀerent health benets. Here are the details about how to
make buttermilk from milk.
Interesting ings about Buttermilk
It is very easy to make at home.
If a curd is ready, you can make it within ve minutes.
It is said in Ayurveda – “Nectar is for Gods and Goddesses, buttermilk
is for human beings.”
How to Make Buttermilk from Milk
First you need to prepare curds from milk. Take 400 ml of curds. add
100 ml of water to it. Churn the curds just for one to two minutes.
You can churn it in a bottle/jar/mixer.
is 100:25 = curds: water ratio buttermilk is the most widely used
type of buttermilk. ere are a few other types of butter milk.
Types of Buttermilk
ere are ve types of making buttermilk.Full Cream Buttermilk: Curds is prepared from milk with cream. Such curd is
churned without adding any water.
No Cream Buttermilk: Curds is prepared from milk devoid of cream. such
curd is churned without adding any water.
Buttermilk: Prepared from the above – mentioned method.
Half Water Buttermilk: Take 100 ml curds add 50 ml of water and churn it
to get half water buttermilk.
No Fat Buttermilk: Churn curds till it becomes butter. Remove butter. e
remaining watery part is no fat buttermilk. It is also commonly used as
buttermilk.
Each of these can be used interchangeably as buttermilk substitute to one
another.•
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Ayurvedic Home Remedy
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is recipe has many benets. e beauty of this curds and amla recipe is – it
can be prepared within ve minutes. Ayurvedic medicines not only always
mean bitter Kashayams, or packed herbal supplements in tablet form. e real
Ayurveda starts from your kitchen. Appropriate combination of herbal recipe
can do wonders to your health and to your diseases.
What Is Amla?
Amla in English is Indian gooseberry, is well – known for its richness in
Vitamin C. Botanical name is Emblica oﬃcinalis (Linn.). Due to its richness in
health beneting active principles, it is widely used in Ayurvedic formulas such
as Chyawanprash, Brahma Rasayana etc.
Curds Recipe of Amla
Ingredients
Curds – 200 ml
Sliced Amla pieces – of one Amla (approx 10 g rams)
Grated coconut – three table – spoon
Green chilli – three small.
Salt – according to taste
Cooking oil – Sunower oil/coconut oil – two table spoons•
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Red chilli – one
Curry leaves – 5–6
Procedure of Curds and Amla recipes
Part 1
Take green chilli, Amla pieces and coconut in mixer and grind it to get a paste.
Add this paste to the cur


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action or change without altering or changing their own status.
With this brief explanation, you are better able to appreciate the
value, reason, logic and intelligence of choosing the food with which
you intend to nourish your body, not only food in the raw state, but
also food used and prepared so that it will nourish the cells and tissues
of your body in the most speedy and efficient manner possible.
The great Law of Life is replenishment. If we do not eat, we die.
Just as surely, if we do not eat the kind of food which will nourish the
body constructively, we not only die prematurely but we suffer along
the way.
Our body needs to be supplied daily with the same elements with
which it is composed. Due thought, attention and consideration to
the other two parts of our being, namely our mind and spirit, provides
our total life with complete health.
We can eat the finest and most constructive food in creation, but
this will not prevent the disintegration of the body if resentments,
fear, worry, frustration and negative states of mind are permitted to
obsess us.
Health is the indisputable foundation for the satisfaction of life.
Everything of domestic joy or occupational success must be built
of body wholesomeness and vitality.
Nutrition must be vital or organic. Salts and mineral matter must
4 be vitally organic in order that they may be assimilated by the human
body for the rebuilding and regeneration of the body cells and tissues.
The rays of the sun send billions of atoms into plant life, activating
the enzymes and by this force they change inorganic elements into
organic or life-containing elements for food.
Thanks to Scientific Research, we are now able to analyze and
know exactly the elements which foods carry, and to harmonize them
in the body according to its needs.
Our body is made up of many atomic elements. The principal
ones are:
Oxygen Calcium Sodium Chlorine
Carbon Phosphorus Magnesium Fluorine
Hydrogen Potassium Iron Silicon
Nitrogen Sulphur Iodine Manganese
Except for accidents, all the repair and regeneration of our body
must come from within. The body is out of balance when the blood
stream, cells, tissues, organs, glands and the rest of the body do not
contain these elements in proper proportion or are deficient. The result
is a condition that is just plain poisonous. It is called toxemia.
In order to regain and maintain the proper balance of health, most
of the food we eat must contain live, vital, organic elements. These
elements are found in fresh-raw vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds.
Oxygen is one of the most essential elements. As soon as food is
cooked, its oxygen is lost. The enzymes are destroyed at 130°F, and
most of the vital force needed for nourishment is dissipated.
The fact that for generations, millions upon millions of people
have lived and are living, who have rarely if ever eaten anything but
cooked foods, does not prove that their being alive is the result of
eating cooked foods. As a matter of fact, they are in a state of decadent
existence which is confirmed by the toxic condition of their bodies.
Else, why the overcrowding of inadequate hospital facilities? Why
the millions upon millions of pounds of painkillers sold annually?
Why such a high rate of incidence of heart trouble, diabetes, cancer,
emphysema, premature senility and premature deaths?
Our Creator developed the human body with an inherent colossal
amount of tolerance. When we eat anything that is "not good" for us
or that is incompatible with our nutritional requirements and balance,
we suffer. We are warned and punished by pain or by cramps, leading
eventually to disease and perhaps to any one or more of the infinite
number of ailments which afflict humanity.
*For more complete and instrueiive detai Is regarding these elements, read DIET & SALAD SUGGESTIONS,
by N.W. Walker, D.Sc, Ph.D.. Published by Norwalk Press.
5 Such punishment may not manifest immediately, nor be
immediately apparent, but because of the body's miraculous tolerance
we will be kept waiting for days, perhaps months or maybe years,
before the long-range retribution called for by Nature for the infraction
of her laws, catches up with us.
Once we discover the Natural means to regain and to maintain
our Health at a high rate of vibration, we experience the bliss which
results from putting that discovery into daily practice. It seems both
strange and pitiful that so many people will not consider the matter,
but will deliberately continue into inevitable toxemic decadence.
Mental and intestinal fortitude coupled with a little study could help
them avoid premature and often painful disintegration.
WHY NOT EAT THE VEGETABLES?
Without the knowledge of the principles involved in the use of
fresh-raw vegetable and fruit juices, one would naturally ask: "Why
not eat the whole vegetable and fruit instead of extracting the juice
and discarding the fibers?"
The answer is simple: solid food requires many hours of digestive
activity before its nourishment is finally available to the cells and
tissues of the body. While the fibers in solid food have virtually no
nourishing value, they do act as an intestinal broom during the
peristaltic activity of the intestines, hence the need to eat raw foods in
addition to drinking juices. However, the removal of the fibers in the
extraction of the juices, enables juices to be very quickly digested and
assimilated, sometimes in a matter of minutes, with a minimum of
effort and exertion on the part of the digestive system.
For example, it is well-known that celery because of its high
sodium chloride content is our best food to counteract the effects of
extreme heat. To eat the celery would involve so much time in the
process of digestion that one may readily be overcome by the intense
heat before the beneficial effects of celery can be obtained. On the
other hand, by drinking a glass or a pint of fresh-raw celery juice, we
get quick results. This has often made the sizzling Arizona desert
heat quite bearable for me.
Whole vegetables and fruits are composed of a considerable
quantity of fibers. Within the interstices of these fibers are enclosed
the atoms and molecules which are the essential nutritional elements
we need. It is these atoms and molecules and their respective enzymes
6 in the fresh-raw juices which aid the speedy nourishment of the cells
and tissues, glands, organs and every part of our body.
The fibers of vegetables and fruits are also valuable. When the
food we eat is raw, uncooked and unprocessed, these fibers act as an
intestinal broom. When food is cooked, the intense heat destroys its
life. Its fibers, having lost their magnetism through the heat, being
lifeless, dead, act in the nature of a mop swabbing through the
intestines, all too often leaving a coating on the walls of the intestines.
In the course of time this coating accumulates, putrefies and causes
Toxemia. The Colon then becomes sluggish and distorted and
constipation, colitis, diverticulosis and other disturbances result.
The juices extracted from fresh-raw vegetables and fruits are the
means by which we can furnish all the cells and tissues of the body
with the elements and the nutritional enzymes they need in the manner
they can be most readily digested and assimilated.
Notice that I said nutritional enzymes. This applies to the enzymes
in our food. The cells and tissues of our body have their own
corresponding enzymes which assist and cooperate in the work of
digesting and assimilating our food. In addition, the composition of
every atom and molecule in our body has a superabundant supply of
enzymes. The oxygen is collected by enzyme action and then by the
blood.
For example, the air we breathe is taken into our lungs as a
combination of approximately 20% Oxygen and 80% Nitrogen. The
air we expel from our lungs, is mainly carbonic acid and carbon
dioxide. What happens to the Nitrogen?
This is what happens when we breathe. Two main classes of
enzymes in our lungs come into action the moment air reaches the
tiny bunch-of-grapes-like interior of our lungs, known as alveoli. One
set of enzymes, known as Oxidase, separate the Oxygen while the
other set of enzymes, known as Nitrase, separate the Nitrogen from
the air. The Oxygen is collected, by enzyme action, by the blood and
circulates it through the body, while the Nitrogen, by the action of
"transportation" enzymes, passes into the body for protein generation.
Our entire system is composed of innumerable enzymes. These
enzymes are found throughout the mouth, stomach and intestines.
More than a dozen of them are involved in the digestion and
assimilation of our food. They work in conjunction with the enzymes
that are also found in the atoms and molecules contained in the food
itself.
7 COOKED FOODS
As a rule it will do no great harm to occasionally eat a little cooked
food, but never fried food provided that a sufficient quantity of raw
food is also eaten. We are now living in the Atomic Age, and to slow
ourselves down by eating much cooked food creates a physical and
mental conflict within us which is a handicap blocking the


day, it is a huge challenge to find what is termed the polio virus where the patient's
nerve cells are damaged, that is to say, in spinal cord tissue.114
In 1954, Bernice Eddy, who was then responsible from the US government's
vaccine safety tests, also reported that the Salk vaccine had caused severe paralysis
in test monkeys. Eddy was not sure what had triggered the paralysis symptoms: a
virus, some other cellular debris, a chemical toxin? But it contained something that
could kill. She photographed the monkeys and submitted them to her boss-but he
turned her down and criticized her for creating panic. Instead, of course, he should
have taken her misgivings into account and started extensive inquiries. But Eddy
was stopped by the microbe establishment and even had to give up her polio research
shortly before her warnings had proven themselves justified.m
On 12 April 1955, Salk's vaccine was celebrated nationwide as a substance that
completely protected against polio outbreaks. US President Dwight Eisenhower
awarded Salk a Congressional Gold Medal. American and Canadian television joined
in the celebration. And on 16 April, the Manchester Guardian joined the party, stating
that "nothing short of the overthrow of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union
could bring such rejoicing to the hearths and homes in America as the historic
announcement last Tuesday that the 166-year war against paralytic poliomyelitis is
almost certainly at an end."117
But the triumph was short-lived. Medical historian Beddow Bayly wrote that
"Only thirteen days after the vaccine had been acclaimed by the whole of the
American Press and Radio as one of the greatest medical discoveries of the century,
and two days after the English Minister of Health had announced he would go right
ahead with the manufacture of the vaccine, came the first news of disaster. Children
inoculated with one brand of vaccine had developed poliomy elitis. In the following
days more and more cases were reported, some of them after inoculation with other
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This photograph from 1953 is said to be the first electron microscopic depiction of a polio virus.
But the photograph shows nothing but white dots. In order to call these dots polio viruses with
any certainty, the panicles would have had to be purified, isolated, imaged with an electron
microscope and precisely biochemically characte rized. But no scientist has ever undertaken
this, not even the so-called pioneers of polio research at the beginning of the 20'h century, such
as Karl Landstei ner, Erwin Popper, Simon Flexner and Paul Lewis; nor, decades later, Renata
Dulbecco, Gilbert Dalldorf and Grace Sickles; nor Nobel laureates John Enders, Thomas Weller
and Frederick Robbins. The researchers did spiritedly claim that they had "isolated" a virus;
but in truth, they had done nothing more than take a sample of spinal tissue or even feces
from a person or animal affected by polio, and inject this mix (which could have been laced
with all sons of things) into the brains of test animals. If the animals ultimately became ill, the
researchers just assumed that a virus was responsible. But whatever ultimately made the animals
ill; there was no proof that it was due to a virus, because the basic requirement of virus isolation
(as described above) simply has not been fulfilled.116
66 The Microbe Hunters Seize Power
brands of the vaccine." According to Bayly, "Then came another, and wholly
unlooked -for complication. The Denver Medical Officer, Dr. Florio announced the
development of what he called'satellite' polio, that is, cases of the disease in the
parents or other close contacts of children who had been inoculated and after a few
days illness in hospital, had returned home [and] communicated the disease to
others, although not suffering from it themselves." 118
Within only two weeks, the number of polio cases among vaccinated children
had climbed to nearly 200.119 On 6 May 1955, the News Chronicle quoted the US
government's highest authorit y on viruses, Carl Eklund, who said that in the country,
only vaccinated children had been afflicted by polio. And only, in fact, in areas
where no polio cases had been reported for a good three-quarters of a year. At the
same time, in nine out of ten cases, the paralysis appeared in the injected arm.120
This triggered panic in the White House. On 8 May, the American government
completely halted production of the vaccine.121 A short time later, a further 2,000
polio cases were reported in Boston, where thousands had been vaccinat ed. In
"inoculated" New York, the number of cases doubled, in Rhode Island and Wisconsin,
they jumped by 500%. And here as well, the lameness appeared in the inoculated
arm in many children.122
Apart from that, an objective look at statistics would have shown that there was
no reason to celebrate Salk's vaccine as the great conqueror of an alleged polio
virus. "According to international mortality statistics, from 1923 to 1953, before the
Salk killed-virus vaccine was introduced, the polio death rate in the United States
and England had already declined on its own by 47% and 55% respectively," writes
scientific journalist Neil Miller (see diagram 2).123
In the Philippines, only a few years before the US catastrophe, the first polio
epidemic in the tropics occurred spontaneousl y, in fact, with the introduction of the
insecticide DDT there.124 Around the end of World War II, US troops in the Philippines
had sprayed masses of DDT daily to wipe out flies. Just two years later, the well
known Journal of the American Medical Association reported that lameness among
soldiers stationed in the Philippines could not be differentiated from polio, and it
had advanced to become the second most common cause of death. Only combat
exercises were said to have claimed more victims. Meantime, populations in
neighboring areas, where the poison had not been sprayed, experienced no problems
with paralysi s.125 126 This is further evidence that DDT poisoning can cause the same
clinical symptoms as polio (which is claimed to be conditional upon a virus).
Young people in industrialized countries are hardly acquainted with DDT
anymore. It stands for dichlorodi phenyltrichloroethane, and is a highly toxic
substance first synthesized at the end of the 19'h century, in 1874, by Austrian
chemist Othmar Zeidler. Paul Hermann Muller of Switzerland discovered its insect
67 Chapter 2
PUBLIC HEALTH ASPECTS OF THE NEW INSECTICIDES
Mos.Tos 5. BtSKlKD, fi.I.D.
jl\: 1945, against the advice of investigators who had
studied the pharma cology of the compound (70) and
found it daugerous for all forms of life, DDT ( chloro
phenothane, wcnlorodiphenyl-t nchloroetha ne) was re
leased in the. United :,cates and other countries lor
general use by the public as an insecticide. Contrary
to popular opmion, 1JD·r was not the f1r.st of rhe cnlori
natea cyclic nydroCarbous to be studied for its pesticidal
properues, nor indeed is it the most poten t compound
oi tne group. In 1!134, lour yea rs before DDT was in
troduced for thls purpose in Switzerland, an American
entomolo gist ( 17-19) reported on the insecticidal prov
erties of me chlorinated naphthalenes, compounds snown
shortly thereafter to be extremely toxic for man
(�3. 45).
Soon after the introduction of DDT for wide:;pread
use as a household, public health and agricultural in-·
secticide, ir bec ame evident that virtually all forms of
insects were propagating strains completely resistant
to this compound. 'this led to a frantic search for more
and more potent insecticides (which also turned out· to
be more and more toxic for animals and man). One
after another new compounds were introduced, the total
list being very long indeed. I.n addition to nwnerous
variants of DDT itself, in widespread u·se appeared
chlordane, toxaphen e (chlorinated camphene j, �n
£ene hexachloride (hexachlorocyclohexa ne) and its
gamma isomer, lindane (gammexane ), heptachlor, and
finally, going full circle, the incredibly deadly 'aldrin
and dieldrin, both chlorinated naphthalenes (31, 33-
37, 46, 52). In addition, the organic phosphor us com
pounds, closely related to the "nerVe gases" of chemical
warfare and lethal for man in minute doses, have also
been wid ely used in agr icuhure -parath ion, tetraethyl
pyrophosphate (T E P P), hexaethyltetraphosphate
(HETP


 step-ups with each leg, and then run another quarter mile. It
was a nice simulation of how it felt to run after working out my legs on the
bike. I now incorporate step-ups into my firefighter exercise routine to aid
in developing my leg strength, for when I have to climb stairs carrying a lot
of equipment.
Find a step or a bench that is level with or stands just below your knee.
Place one foot flat on top of the step and then push into a standing position.
Lower yourself in a smooth, controlled motion.
Note: This exercise’ s effectiveness is dependent on pushing of f with
your raised leg and keeping the rear leg completely relaxed.
As your strength improves, you can increase the height of the step and/or
hold some weights in your hands (soup cans or 5-pound dumbbells).
Beginners: Use your body weight only, doing 5 to 10 reps on each leg.
Intermediate: Add 5-pound weights in each hand. Do 15 to 25 reps on
each leg.
Advanced: Add 10 pounds in each hand; do 30 reps on each leg.

2. Upper  Body: Downward Dogs
Namaste! It’ s time to tap into your inner yoga. I’ve been doing yoga for
more than fifteen years and absolutely love it. It is a centering and relaxing
workout.
The downward dog is a combination strength and stretch move and
should be a mainstay in everyone’ s yoga repertoire. To do it, make your
body an inverted V by placing your weight on your hands and feet andholding your bottom high in the air. Concentrate on breathing in through
your nose—letting the breath fill up your belly and then exhaling slow and
steady on a three count.
Beginners: Hold the downward dog position for 5 slow and relaxing
breaths followed immediately by 15 to 30 seconds of child’ s pose. Get on
your knees and sit back so your bottom is resting on the soles of your feet,
then lean forward with your arms over your head and place your forehead
on the ground and completely surrender yourself to gravity. Do 3 to 5
rounds.
Intermediate: Downward dog for 5 slow and relaxed breaths followed by
5 push-ups. Do 5 rounds.
Advanced: Downward dog for 5 slow and relaxed breaths followed by
10 push-ups. Do 5 rounds!
3. Cor e: V-Ups or  Pike-Ups
These exercises can help you get the proverbial six pack—or at least, so
claim people who do them.
Depending on your ability, do one of two exercises: seated V-ups or
pike-ups.
Seated V-up: Sit on your butt with your arms by your sides, your hands
on the ground and your fingers pointed forward, and your feet flat on the
ground. Pull your knees together into your chest, raise your feet of f the
ground two to three inches, and balance on your butt. Extend your legs and
feet forward on a five count until they are straight out in front of you. Hold
this pose for one second and then bring your knees back to your chest.
Pike-up: I learned this exercise from watching the University of Texas
diving team as I swam up and down the adjacent pool—they would do 100
at a time! Lie face up on the ground with your arms over your head. In onefluid motion, bring your arms and legs up at the same time until your hands
touch your feet. Come back down to the starting position.
Beginners: 5 to 10 seated V-ups.
Intermediate: 15 to 25 seated V-ups.
Advanced: 30 to 50 pike-ups.

4. Cardiovascular: Mountain Climbers
These exercises will get your heart rate up in a hurry. Pretend you are less
than one hundred feet from the top of Mount Everest. This is your last push
to the top! Start in a push-up position, lying with your face down, your
hands on the ground (or leaning on a table or desk), and your shoulders
directly over your hands. Thrust your right leg up toward your chest while
the other leg stays extended (almost in a jumping motion). Now alternate,
extending the right leg and thrusting the left leg forward.
Continue as fast and furiously as you can for the specified time interval.
Beginners: Start with your hands on a table or desk for a greater angle;
do 10 to 20 reps.
Intermediate: Start on the ground in the normal push-up position; do 25
to 35 reps.
Advanced: Start on the ground in a normal push-up position; do 40 to 50
reps.
Warm Down
Let’s go back and do 10 more meditative sun salutations from the Carl
Sandbur g stretching routine.
THERE! THA T’S THE E2 EXERCISE PLAN.  Not so bad, is it? And if you get so
good at these exercises you can do the advanced level for the full circuit,visit www.theengine2diet.com  fitness for more fun and exhilarating
workouts that will challenge you still further.
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MAKING IT  WORK
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THE E2 ATTITUDE
In order to be accepted as a probationary firefighter by your new
crew, you must show that you’re willing to do whatever it takes. Your duties
will be many and often tedious: You’re expected to get to the fire station
forty-five minutes before shift change and check the unit’ s supplies and
medical gear; answer the phone after no more than two rings; wash the
urinals and crappers; clean any dirty dishes and glasses lying around the
station; lock up the station at night; be the first one out of bed after the 7
a.m. tone goes of f; get the newspaper and place it on the kitchen table;
make cof fee for those who need stimulants to start their day; clean and
wash the engine after morning cleanup; assist in all station tours; and order
any needed supplies.
At the end of six months, if you’re fortunate enough to pass your
territory, policy and procedures, and firefighter exams, you will be
welcomed into the firefighter fold with open arms and warm hearts as you
begin one of the world’ s greatest jobs. Making it through these first six
months can be a challenge, and having a positive attitude can make all the
difference.
Similarly, your attitude will be your most important asset as you start the
Engine 2 Diet. You, too, will have to be thick-skinned, because even some
of your best friends may try to beat you down and get you to return to your
old ways. You need to feel so good about the diet that you don’ t care what
others say. After all, nobody on this planet cares about your own health as
much as you should. Only you can take responsibility for your health. So if
you want to be the healthiest person you can be, the E2 Diet is the way you
should eat and don’ t let anyone tell you otherwise.Over the course of the next four weeks, you will build character and
determination as you become empowered by eating health-promoting and
nutrient-rich foods. You will quickly realize how many of your friends,
family members, and fellow Americans unconsciously throw piles of
grease, suet, lard, and toxic waste into their precious bodies with a “This
won’ t harm me” or “Why not live a little?” attitude that eventually bites
them in the ass. Or heart. Or brain.
I firmly believe your attitude is the most important tool you have in life.
With the right attitude, you can achieve anything—and I mean anything. So
as you embark on the four -week E2 Diet, you will need to dig deep into
your emotional closet, find your best attitude, and wear it for the duration of
the program. Before long, you won’ t have to work at it. It will become a
natural extension of your being.
Your first day on the E2 Diet will be the first day of the rest of your
healthy, uplifting life. So get on board the Engine 2 fire engine and fire up
for a great ride!
Here are some tips to keep your attitude positive and your motivation
solid.
Find an E2 partner or friend. Nothing helps more than sharing the
experience with someone else. Quite a few couples participated in the E2
Pilot Study, and it brought them closer as they made healthy meals—and
avoided temptation—together.
Not long ago my wife, Jill, and I took a hike on the Austin Greenbelt, an
eight-mile dirt trail that meanders next to beautiful Barton Creek. We
invited co-firefighter and friend Matt Thomson; his wife, Erin; and Matt’ s
parents, Reggie and Brenda.
We started the hike from the western trailhead, which begins with a steep
one-half-mile-long downhill trek (nicknamed “the Hill of Life”) to get to
the part of the trail that runs along the creek. Matt and I ran and swam for
close to an hour while Jill, Erin, and Matt’ s parents hiked around before we
met them at the base of the Hill of Life for the hike back to our cars. Reggie
and Brenda were whipped while Jill, who was carrying our four -week-old
baby in a sling around her chest, was fresh as a daisy.
Reggie and Brenda decided right then and there to make some serious
lifestyle changes. Matt and Erin enthusiastically recommended the Engine 2
Diet, which they had just


 the virus itself at
365 KHz.
But the AIDS  is not gone. This depends on removing ben zene
from your body and keeping it out of your  body.  Keeping  it out
on alternate days or 5 days of the week will not suffice. It must
be out consistently. Only then can your thymus  and bone marrow
recover.
As your thymus  recovers your immunity returns. Immunity to
all the diseases that lurk at very low level in our bodies. They
are already in us. We have accumulated them in a lifetime.
Mumps, measles, chicken  pox, CMV, Staphylococcus  aureus, E.
coli, are all there. Until now they have been controlled–kept
down–by an ever vigilant immune system. If this system fails you
are an easy target for any and all of these invaders.
Method Of Treatment
As soon as you find you are HIV  positive, don't  panic.  It was
inevitable. It is also inevitable for many others with unex-
plainable risk factors. If you have a source of infection with the
intestinal fluke and at the same time a source of benzene, HIV and
AIDS  are a logical result. You must stop the source of both.
Purchase or make a zapper or use somebody's frequency
generator (434 KHz to 421 KHz giving 3 minutes to each KHz).
Kill your flukes immediately. Take vitamin B 2 immediately to
help detoxify benzene (three 100 mg. tablets 3 times a day, 9
altogether). Zap daily until you feel completely well: no night
sweats, no coughing, no symptoms of any kind.
Remember parasites are all around us. We pick them up
daily. And your weakened immune system lets everything  gain a
foothold in your body. Avoiding benzene will restore your
immunity. Use the benzene pollution list to guide you.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
354Benzene Polluted Products
THROW THESE OUT
Your health is worth more than the fortune you spent on them!
•Flavored food, yogurt,
jello, candies, throat  loz-
enges, store-bought cook-
ies, cakes•Vaseline products
(NoxzemaTM, Vick'sTM, Lip
TherapyTM), chap stick,
hand cleaners
•Cooking oil  and shorten ing
(use only olive oil, butter
and lard )•Vitamins  and other health
supplements, unless tested.
•Bottled water, whether
distilled, spring, mineral,
or name brand. Bottled
fruit juice.•Rice cakes, even the plain
ones
•Personal lubricant, in-
cluding lubricated condoms
•Cold cereal, including
granola  and health brands•Baking soda and corn-
starch  (see Sources )
•Toothpaste, including
health brands•Soaps, hand cream s, skin
creams, moisturizers
•Chewing gum
•Ice cream  and frozen yo-
gurt•Flavored pet food, both for
cats and dogs
•Bird food made into cakes
•Pills and capsules. At least
a third of all I test are
polluted. This includes
herbal extracts and pre-
scription drugs. Test yours
and switch brands until you
find a safe one.
Fig. 44 Mexican made candy
with no benzene.CURING HIV/AIDS
355It is impossible for me to have tested
every batch of every food and product,
but so many test positive you simply can
not risk any of the foods and prod ucts on
the list.
Learn to use the Syncrometer  to do
your own testing. While you are learn-
ing, observe the rules perfectly. There is
no half way measure with benzene. Take
an attitude of over-compliance, not
“getting away” with as much as pos sible.
Over-compliance can bring back radiant
health, strength you never knew you had,
a beautiful normal body again! You will be able to resume your
plans for education, professional life, personal relationships,
free of the sword hanging over you. You will not be infectious to
anybody. Let over-compliance enthuse you.
There are 2 extra rules that help eliminate benzene buildup:
Fig. 45 Pollutants are
in unlikely places
Fig. 46 Every brand of popcorn  and corn  chips I tested had
zearalenone  contamination.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
3561.Never eat moldy or grilled food s including popcorn, corn
chips, grocery store breads, pasta, nuts, alcoholic bever-
ages, toast, brown rice  (white is OK).
2.Always take Vitamin B 2 (three 100 mg tablets three times a
day) and vitamin C  (1/8 tsp. with each meal).
Plan For The Future
After you are well again, you may wish to indulge in some
philosophy. How did an obscure virus–a snail virus!–become a
human virus? This is not so bizarre. After all, rabies virus comes
to us from animals, and many encephalitis  viruses come from
mosquitoes. How did HIV  spread so rapidly? How did a
pollutant as dangerous as benzene get to be in our very food? Are
other parasites getting set to spring on us? What must be done to
protect ourselves and loved ones from future disasters? Would
getting away from fossil fuel be a big answer? Would getting
away from preoccupation with chemistry be a big an swer?
Would more disclosure of industrial practices be an an swer?
Should the government agencies responsible for food and product
safety be depoliticized? Should public inspection of food
manufacturing be a right? Should disclosure of foreign origins of
food ingredients be mandatory? Would communicat ing with other
cancer and AIDS  survivors be useful? The com puter age  would
make communication possible. Communication leads to answers.
Answers might lead  to new policies. Policies supported at the
grass roots level can bring about change.
Over 50 case histories of cured HIV  victims  are the sub ject
of another book17 along with more detailed instructions and
suggestions.
                                                            17The Cure for HIV  and AIDS, by the same author, New Century
Press, 1993.357Curing The Common
Cold
Sometimes you can zap Adenovirus, the common cold virus,
at 393 KHz for three minutes with a frequency generator and be
rid of your cold, magically, in five minutes. But magic and luck
are not really responsible for this. And most of the time the cold
will reappear a few hours later.
Homeopathy, too, can immediately banish your cold symp-
toms. The reason is not mysterious either. But, this time, the cold
reappears later in a different location. Choose the right
homeopathic remedy for that, and you can chase it away again.
Tapeworm Stage or Mites
The fascinating story of how we really “catch” a cold kept
me spellbound for a year. I was hot on the heels of Adenovirus
wherever it might be in my body. Sometimes I saw it; some times
I didn't. Sometimes I had cold symptoms; sometimes I didn't.
Sometimes I could zap it; sometimes it did no good.
It is now apparent to me that Adenovirus  isn't our (a human)
virus at all! It belongs to other parasites. Parasites as varied as
tapeworm  stages  and mites. Perhaps it belongs to many other
parasites, as well. My evidence comes from a tapeworm stage,
cysticercus  of Diphyllobothrium erinacea, the mites Sarcoptes
and Dermatophagoides, and our own colon  bacteria, E. coli.
The tapeworm  stage  flies in the dust as eggs, you can trap
these by setting out a pint jar with a little water in it. In three
days' time you are likely to find its frequency near 487 KHz in
your jar. You are also likely to find it on your kitchen sponge,THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
358since you wipe up dust each day. To test it, place it in a plastic
bag, wet it thoroughly and search from 510 KHz downward, one
KHz at a time. The various tapeworm stages emit between 510
and 440 KHz.
If you have a household pet, you will always  be able to find a
tapeworm  stage  in your sponge or in a dust sample you collect
from the table or kitchen counter in the morning. Gather dust with
a damp bit of paper towel, put it in a plastic bag. Then wash your
hands or you may accidentally eat some.
This, of course, happens to every household member. Eating
the dust off the tables, inhaling the dust, and eating off surfaces
wiped by the kitchen sponge happens to everyone. And every one
“catches” colds. If you search for Adenovirus, though, in your
dust sample, it isn't there!
Similarly, you can search for the mites in your house dust.
Search near the frequencies given for them. There is a good
chance you will have one that is not given, because the list is so
incomplete. Name it after yourself. Compare notes with others;
maybe it is common


 is a shift in perception, for those who cannot find
love perceive themselves as not being lovable. This is not true, but they
make it seem true by linking their perception to a powerful system of
beliefs.
What cr eates r omance is the ability to see yourself as lovable.This shift in perception happen s not by changing who you are but by
seeing who you are and then shining it forth. If you were able to exhibit the
full grandeur of your being, your whole life would be a romance, one long
love story dedic ated to ecstasy and joy. Rumi puts it elegantly when he
declares,
By God, when you see your beauty
You’ll be the idol of yourself.
Nothing is more beautiful than naturalness. It alone contains the mystery
and allure that spark romance. Trying to be cosmetically attractive is beside
the point, for we are talking here about authenticity.
We all covet images of intensely desirable people, generally actors and
models who make their living by appearing to be desirable. In reality,
however, they are likely to be extremely insecure about their desirability,
since their value is subject to the whims of a public they have  never met.
Aspiring to these images is aspiring to be something that you are not.
The farther you are from the desired image, the harder you must try to
suppress who you really are. The tendency is to make yourse lf more and
more inauthentic, until, if you “succeed” in becoming as desira ble as your
image, you will have thrown away what is most desirable in yourself—your
unique, multifaceted being. This being doesn’ t live up to any single image,
ugly or beautiful, desirable or undesirable, because it expresses the shifting,
changing light of life. This light is nothing if not ambiguous. Your being
contains shadows and hints of meaning; it is mysterious to the core.
To be authentic, you have to be everything that you are, omitting nothing.
Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate.
The play of these opposites is what constantly moves life forward; the river
of life expresses itself in all its changes from one opposite to another. If you
can truly embrace these opposites within yourself, you will be authentic,
and as your self-acceptance expa nds until there is nothing to be ashamed of,
nothing to hide, your life will take on the generosity and warmth  that marks
every great lover.
Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity.The ultimate ambiguity that each of us expresses is not that we can be
both good and bad, loving and unloving, but that we are spirit and flesh at
the same time. Nothing could be more ambiguous than this, or more
alluring.
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Accepting Ambiguity
MOST OF US waste our time trying to become more attractive, particularly by
concentrating on the most superficial level of attraction, the physical. Not
only is physical beauty temporary, which means that fixating on it will pay
decreasing dividends over time, its ideals are never met either.
If you are imprisoned by phys ical images, you are certain deep down
inside that you will never be attractive enough. This certainty leads women
to obsessively improve their inevitable weak points through cosmetics and
clothing. Although men may trivialize the beauty issue as female vanity,
their own huge expenditures on sports cars, designer golf clubs, and power
suits is a produc t of the same insecurity. There is only one way to break out
of the self-defeating syndrome of “I’ll never look good enough.”
What will r eally make you attractive is not working on your weak points but embracing them.
Embracing your weaknesses is the same as accepting yourself, and
nothing is more attractive than people who are comfortable with
themselves. Weak points do not have to be physical—any trait that you
think makes you unattractive falls into this category, including
psychological foibles, lack of money or success, low social standing, and
past actions you feel must be covered up.
A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and
weaknesses, is not flawed but complete. At any given moment our behavior
has shadings; it is never a simple matter of black or white. These shadings
are what I call the appeal of ambiguity, which the following exercise helps
to develop. Approach it as a free-form activity, in keeping with the spirit of
ambiguity.
FILLING IN THE  SHADOWSThe purpose of the following exercise is to take any quality you think you
possess and demonstrate that you also possess its opposite—and many
variations in between. You can perform this exercise in your head, but I
recommend pencil and paper.
Write down or think about one particular thing that makes you
unattractive to others. It can be physical or psychological, whatever comes
first to mind. Let’ s say it’ s “I’m too selfish.”
Ask yourself if you also have the opposite trait, which is “I’m considerate
of other  people’ s needs.” Or, if this sounds too altruistic, try “I am not
selfish all the time.” (This has to be true, since no one can be selfish 100
percent of the time.) Having set this down, notice that being considerate
doesn’ t cancel out being selfish —it adds another shade to the picture. All
traits, good and bad, are relative. They can never completely describe who
you really are.
Who you r eally ar e is not a collection of parts but a whole. Seeing yourself as whole is the first
step towar d seeing yourself as truly attractive.
We are all temp ted to pick ourselves apart; it is this act of self-criticism,
not the pieces themselves, that makes you feel unattractive.
Now move on to another undesirable quality; this time choose one that is
trivial enough that you are ashamed of admitting you even care about it—
for example, “My hips are too big.”
Now find the opposite of feeling ashamed of this trait, which can be
phrased in several ways, such as “Marilyn Monroe had big hips, and she
looked beautiful,” or “The last time I felt good about myself, I wasn’ t
thinking about my hips,” or “Someone who really loves me has assured me
that hips are not what matters to him.”
These responses  work on different levels. If your friends say they don’t
notice your hips, the issue may become not whether they are right but
whether you trust them. By seeing more ambiguity in the situation, you start
to grasp how complex and interconnected everything about you is. As you
break the grip of your conditioning, challenging your notion of a bad or
weak quality by considering its opposite, you free your mind  to see the
larger picture about yourself.You can turn this into a very creative exercise. Suppose you write down
“I bad-mouth my best friends,” a characteristic most of us would find
extremely unattractive. The offsetting quality might be “I really  do love my
best friends.” What is the relationship between these opposing traits?
Perhaps you aren’ t comfortable telling your best friend when you are angry
or disappointed;  perhaps you lash out indiscriminately when you feel bad
about yourself; perhaps you want to be liked so much that you criticize your
friends to reinforce someone else’ s opinion.
All these alternatives undersco re a single truth: you are only human.
When you realiz e that the same is true of every person you’ve ever met (as
well as every media darling celebrated in our society), you will gain a sense
of comfort with both the most attractive people  and the least attractive. The
closer you come to seeing the appeal in all people, the closer you come to
God’ s perspective.
Equality is the first step towar d acceptance, and acceptance is love.
Try articulating a few more of your worst qualities, then move on to your
good ones. What is most attractive about you? “I have lovel y eyes.” “I
adore my children.” “I contribute time to helping cancer patients.”
Whatever you write down, see if the opposite isn’t also present. “My eyes
aren’ t very lovely when I’m jealous or mean.” “My children can make me
feel like running away.” “Sick people depress me so much, I don’t care if I
ever see another one.” Whatever you find in yourself that is nice or good, it
is inevitable that the contrary impulse also exists in you. No saint has ever
lived who did not blame and hate God in her darkest hour; no lover is so
smitten that he has not noticed the allure of another woman.
The final stage of this exercise involves reading the following list:
It is all right to be good and bad.
I like feeling more than one way about the people who are closest to me.
Niceness can have an edge; snideness can be amusing.
My best friend wouldn’ t be shocked to see me at my worst. My worst enemy would be pleasantly
surprised to see me at my best.
Living up to my self-image is more exhausting than I let on.
I’ll never be perfect. I can live with that.
An angel is assigned to people who can laugh in the face of misery.
It’s all right to find the villain sexy and the hero boring.
I will trust the next person who tells me I look good.
Letting the demons run can be very educational sometimes.The worst thing anyone says about me contains some truth—about them.
You are likely


 the three of us sat in my oce, she talked anxiously about
what steps we could take, including putting her father on dialysis.
Harold, however, settled into his chair and looked unconcerned.
When I looked at his blood tests, I immediately saw why hisdaughter was upset. Harold’s BUN, or blood urea nitrogen, was near
90; a normal level is around 10. Another indicator called creatinine
was also extremely elevated.
Everyone collects nitrogenous wastes in his blood as the residue
of prote in breakdown in the cells. This waste is toxic in any large
amount and would quickly become lethal if the body did not have a
way of constantly disposing of it through the kidneys. When a
doctor sees a high BUN or creatinine level, it indicates  serious if
indenite kidney problems. Harold was very close to the point
where dialysis is automatical ly called for. That was what his family
doctor had insisted upon, but Harold had refused.
Harold should have been in considerable discomfort, but when I
ran down the typical symptoms of kidney failure—nausea, dizziness,
weakness, and loss of appetite—he said that he felt ne, maybe a
little tired. I must have looked disbelieving, because before I could
question him again, he said, “This isn’t a new problem, you know.”
“Oh?” I said. “When did you rst nd out about it?”
“About forty-ve years ago,” he answered, giving me a
mischievous look.
A man who had lived with chronic renal failure for forty-ve
years would be plagued by a host of symptoms, not to mention
permanent damage to the bones, eyes, lungs, and blood vessels,
among many other possible sites, including the kidneys themselves.
But Harold insisted that he had rst heard about his problem during
World War II when an army doctor told him that his blood tests
qualied him for immediate  medical discharge. He was told point-
blank that with his elevated BUN levels, he had no more than ve
years to live.
Harold exhibited no sympt oms then, and since there was no
eective treatment for chronic renal failure, he took his discharge
and went away. Five years later he returned to see his army doctor,
only to learn that the doctor had died.
“It bothered me that he wasn’t around anymore, since he knew
my case,” Harold said, “so I went home without seeing anybody
else.” It was the mid-Fifties before he sought out another kidney
specialist. This doctor panicked when he saw Harold’s BUN levelsand told him that he had very little time to live—his only hope was
that a new technology then in its rst stages of development, kidney
dialysis, might  be perfected in time to save him. Harold went away
again and bided his time.
“I thought the kidney machine was going to be the answer, so I
kept a lookout for it,” he said. About ten years later, he read in the
papers that dialysis had come into practical use. He returned to the
kidney specialist, only to nd that the second doctor had now died.
Harold’s count s continued to get gradually worse, and ve years
ago, when he applied for health insurance, a third specialist told
him that he was so sick he should either go for regular dialysis or
consider a kidney transplant.
“That really shook my daughter,” he said. “And I kept thinking
that I should do something, so last month I called the doctor back.
His nurse told me he had just died of a heart attack.”
The three of us sat there for a second, but what could we say? We
all burst out laughing at the same time. “I mean, if I have outlived
three kidney specialists,” Harold said, bewildered by his good
fortune, “I think I should just stay away from doctors altogether. It
would be much safer for them.”
I had to agree.
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Thread to Freedom
“I’m not afraid. I realize that deciding to have this surgery means
that I’m taking  a big risk. I might be fed on a tube for the rest of my
life. It doesn’t matter, just so we do something. I’ve never felt fear at
the prospect of death. I just wanted to reassure you about that.”
It was a very unconvincing speech. As Lou was delivering it, I
watched his darting eyes and the uncontrollable tremor in his
hands. He tried not to notice how much his true feelings were
coming through. Perhaps he really didn’t notice.
How could we defuse some of this pent-up fear, I wondered. It
was not an easy task, considering how swiftly the catastrophe had
fallen.
Two months before, there had been no signs of trouble, unless
having a life that is too perfect is a sign of trouble. Lou was an
American living in Spain on a private income and following his
passion, which  was art history. When he began to feel ill, the
symptoms were almost trivial. His Spanish-born wife always served
wine at dinner, but Lou began to notice that just one glass of the
local red wine was enough to give him a sudden attack  of nausea
and diarrhea.
He complained to an internist in Madrid, who reassured Lou that
he probably had a transient intestinal virus. When the problem
persisted, however, the doctor decided to run some diagnostic tests.
A CAT scan detected a suspicious mass about ve centimeters long
at the head of the pancreas. A needle biopsy was taken, and in a fewhours the hospital lab sent back grim news. The mass was
adenocarcinoma, a deadly cancer of the pancreas.
Even now, when he had only a fty-fty chance of surviving for
six months, Lou was still free of pain. His body showed no sign of
cachexia, the wasting away of tissues typical of the end stage of
cancer. If he hadn’t been so conscientious about invest igating his
bouts of indigestion, Lou might still have considered himself
healthy.
“It’s bizarre waking up every  morning feeling so good,” he said.
“Just as I start to think about  whether to play tennis or sort through
some drawings, I remember that I am a terminal case, and then I
can’t work up the energy to do anything.” A shadow crossed his
face. “If only I could hold on to that rst moment.”
More than usual, I felt a personal need to help. Lou had own
back to America for treatment, but the standard interventions with
surgery and radiation were grim aairs. The pancreas is the body’s
chief source of digestive enzymes; once it is removed, the patient
loses almost all of his ability  to digest food. Replacement enzymes
can be provided, but as yet they are feeble substitutes for the body’s
natural processes.
When I was training in endocrinology, I spent a rotation on the
oncology ward s at Boston’s Baptist Hospital, doing workups for a
famous pancreatic surgeon who was a prominent attending
physician. His patients lay in bed looking horrible— moribund,
cachectic, yellow with jaund ice. Since they would never again be
able to eat properly after their surgeries, these patients spent weeks
hooked up to IV tubes being fed entirely on drip. In the end, after
the expenditu re of enormous eort and care, the vast majority
survived barely a few months.
My rst priori ty was to save Lou from that grim scenari o. I was
not his primar y-care physicia n; he had been referred to me because
his doctor had read a book of mine and felt that a mind-body
approach might help ease Lou’s massive anxiety. However, I
couldn’t help feeling that Lou was as anxious about his treatment as
about his disease. I advised  him to consider not havin g surgery.
With it, his life expectancy might be prolonged slightly, at leastaccording to the statistical tables, but his own comfort needed to be
weighed in the balance. Did he want to go through so much misery
for such a small gain? Lou listened carefully but was not persuaded
by my arguments.
“My instincts tell me not to have an operation,” he said, “but
what if I am dying six months from now after doing nothing? It
would be so cruel to my wife, and I would feel too guilty hurting
her that way.”
After much soul-searching, he agreed to a compromise. Instead of
having the entire pancreas removed, he would undergo  a limited
procedure that leaves most of the organ intact. He would then still
be able to eat normally in the weeks to come. As the operation
loomed nearer, however, Lou’s moods started swinging drastically.
Sometimes he came into my oce acting condent, even ebullient,
about his chances; more often he was somber and depressed. His
normal self, with its normal relationship to the body, had collapsed
in confusion. Nothing was properly connected anymore. His body
was no longer his; it was a strange, fearful object. He wanted to
distance himse lf from this thing, but he was becoming more and
more mesmeri zed by it. Stare at a monster long enoug h and you
become the monster—that adage was coming true for Lou.
One day I asked him to close


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food just eaten.
    1. Stop smoking entirely for at least five days before you do a cigarette test;  allergies to cigarettes can take five days to clear.
Besides, you shouldn't smoke, anyway!
    2. For the first three days, count your resting pulse immediately after awakening in the morning (for one entire minute), and
record the reading.
    3. During the first three days, take your resting pulse half an hour and again one hour after each meal. It if has elevated more
than 12 beats above the resting rate you found upon arising that morning, you may assume that some food at the meal you just ate
was an a llergen. Temporarily, eliminate from your diet all the foods eaten at the previous meal until you can check them one -by-
one a few days later. At the end of these first three days you may not have many foods left that you can eat. That is okay an d to be
expected; it is time to begin adding foods back to the diet.
    4. Most people who are allergic to foods are allergic to one or more of the following: corn, wheat, milk and cheese, yogurt,
meat, alcohol, tobacco. It would be very wise to eliminate these food s too for the first three days, until they are tested.
    After three days on this regimen, you can assume that many of your usual allergic food reactions have ceased or at least
diminished significantly and that you probably can get reasonably accurate t esting results on individual foods. A good indicator of
having problems with food allergies in general can also show up during these initial days. If you have eliminated a large num ber of
foods and your resting pulse upon awakening has slowed down by sever al beats, you can assume you are allergic to foods you
were eating.
    I would not be at all surprised that by the end of the third day you were only eating a very few fruits and vegetables and ha d
eliminated everything else. A more effective variant of t he testing procedure calls for a three or four day water fast to clear all
allergies with absolute certainty, and then to introduce foods one at a time as described below.
    On the fourth and subsequent few days, take your resting pulse upon arising and then eat a modest quantity of a single food: for
example, eat a slice of bread, or a medium sized glass of milk, or an orange, or two tablespoons sugar in dissolved in water,  or a
few dried prunes, or a peach, or an egg, or a medium -sized potato, or a cup of black coffee without sweetener, or a few ounces of
meat, or a stick of celery, or half a cup of raw cabbage, or an onion, or a date, or a few hazelnuts, etc. Count the pulse on e half
hour later and again one hour after eating the test item.
    If any food raises the resting pulse over 12 beats per minute above your morning resting pulse, that food should be eliminated;
you are certainly allergic to it or can't digest that much of it. If your pulse has not returned to its morning resting rate one hour
later, you are still having an allergic reaction to the food you ate previously and cannot get a decent result on another food  until
either your pulse slows again or until the next morning. You may, however, continue to eat other foods that you know do not
provoke allergic reactions. Because reactions to a food may not clear for many hours, it is wise to eat only small quantities  of
individual foods if you wish to test many of them in a single day. If a food causes no acceleration of pulse (at least 6 beat s above
your estimated normal maximal) that food can be tentatively labeled non -allergenic.
    After a few days of testing one food an hour, you will become weary of the routine and wish to eat more normally. It may also
occur that you cannot test more than  one or two foods a day from the very first day because allergic reactions do not clear quickly
enough. No problem, the testing period can go on at a lower level of intensity for many weeks, trying one new food each morni ng
upon arising. As you eliminate a llergens from your diet one by one, your resting pulse should drop somewhat and it should be
easier to discern allergic reactions. After you have worked through all the items in your normal dietary, it would be wise to  retest
the foods a second time, break ing your fast with one different test item each morning. This second testing round may reveal a few
more allergic reactions that were obscured by other allergic reactions the first time through.

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