 the body clean inside and outside.
You must live by divine intelligence and wisdom.
The human body is a miracle, give it the best. Within us is the inherent
potential to become perfect! It is the intent of our Creator for us to have a
physically perfect, healthy, happy and peaceful long life!
My father and I have been able to discard all of the civilized world’ s
heavy, refined and processed foods. We love our Bragg Health y Lifestyle
and all the nutritious, delicious, healthy foods. We work daily on our
individual internal purity to keep our bodies clean and healthy!Please decide now to begin your Bragg Healthy Lifestyle
Journey to Higher, Total Health for T otal W ellness! “One
step is the beginning of a 10,000  mile journey.”
Enjoy a Tireless – Ageless – Painless Body
Living The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle
Most people have a dreadful fear of growing old. They are afraid of
becoming a burden to themselves, their family and friends. This is not
inevitable!
However, don’t despair in your golden years – enjoy them! My dad, Paul
C. Bragg, said life’s second half is the best and can be your most fruitful
years! Linus Pauling and Grandma Moses and the amazing Mother Teresa
have all proven that! Three famous men – Conrad Hilton, JC Penney and
foot Doctor Scholl were all Bragg health followers and lived strong,
productive, active lives to almost 100. Million s of others worldwide have
lived long, healthy lives following The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle.
We teach you how to forget calendar years and to regain not only a
youthful spirit, but much of the vigor of your youth. It’s your duty to
yourself to start to live The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle today – don’t
procrastinate!
Square your shoulders and look life straight in the face. Keep premature
ageing out of your body by follo wing The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle System.
You must eat foods that have a high energy life vibration (an abundance of
raw, organic fruits and vegetab les) and do a water fast one day a week.
Exercise and also do some Bragg Super Power Deep Breathing. Get 8 hours
of restful sleep at night and keep your body relaxed. Don’ t let anything rob
you of your emotional and nervous energy and precious Vital Force. Do
read our Nerve For ce book.
Your body is being made anew every day! Premature ageing and senility
result from toxic debris build up that accumulates when you live an
unhealthy lifestyle. Eat right, exercise for good circulation throughout your
body, and there will be little or no buildup of toxins that will clog up and
prematurely age your body!Cultivate and hold onto the spirit of youth and it will be yours!  You can
feel younger! You can look younger! Keep your spine straight to maintain
high energy level. Do The Bragg Posture Exercise (page 114) and follow
The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle daily and you’ll see miracles!
If you find yourself already in the clutches of premature ageing, begin
your fight for the return of your youthfulness. Start your own Bragg Health
Crusade today to revitalize your priceless body and health! We have faith
you can do it!
Train your body as an athlete would. Follow our clear, concise
instructions and soon you will regain strength, virility, energy, vivacity and
enthusiasm! Enjoy that most precious of all earthly gifts – the power and
joys of youthful, healthful living. Men and women can become more
youthful no matter what their age! Go for it! You can retain the spirit of
youth beyond the century mark, just like the Hunzas and Geor gians of
Russia are still doing!
Start Your Detox Water Fast Today and Flush
Toxic Poisons Out of Your Body!
1. Eliminate the toxic foods of civilization from your diet forever! See
page 21 for the foods to avoid list.
2. Complete a water -only 24 hour fast every 7 days. Our book The
Miracle of Fasting  has more information you need to know on this
tremendous subject. Y ou will extend your life, plus save 15% off your
annual food bill! Read pages 91-104  for more fasting information.
3. Eliminate breakfast. If this proves too dif ficult, have only fruit juice
and/or fresh or ganic fruit, perhaps with some raw wheat germ and
honey or try our Bragg Healthy Energy Smoothie  (page 122). Some
people are so habit-bound to a big breakfast that it takes a little time to
eliminate this heavy unnecessary  meal. If you still feel you need more
in your stomach in the morning, try a bowl of organic oatmeal, whole
grain cereal or a  poached  egg on whole grain toast. But always
remember a regular heavy breakfast is the most useless and ener gy-
robbing meal of the day!Every morning upon rising have a Bragg Vinegar Cocktail (recipe on
page 122). Mix 1 to 2 tsps of Bragg Organic Raw Apple Cider Vinegar (with
the “Mother” ) with equal amount of raw honey in glass of distilled or
purified water (diabetics omit honey, use herb stevia page 130). Read our
book Apple Cider Vinegar Miracle Health System for more insight into this
miracle health tonic (page xii, 152 ).
Living The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle You Will
Gain Super Energy
When you give up breakfast you will be thrilled and have all the more
Super Energy to enjoy! In our personal lives, my father and I do most of our
creative work in the morning. And when it’s time for our daily physical
activity – such as hiking, swim ming, tennis or other sports – we are still
filled with vital strength. Rem ember, it takes a tremendous amount of
energy to digest a heavy breakfast. You cannot put your energy in two
arenas at once, into both food and activity. People often wonder why we
accomplish so much between 6 a.m. and noon. It’s because we have not
dissipated our Vital Force on a big breakfast. Our daily Apple Cider
Vinegar Cocktai l, whole or juiced fruit or Bragg Energy Smoothie (page
122) is all we need – and we have inexhaustible super ener gy!
You Must Earn Your Food
4. By noon you are ready for the first meal of the day. You have earned it.
You have used both mental and physical ener gy. Always start this first
important main meal with a lar ge health salad consisting of coarse
vegetables – all raw (grate finely  if chewing problems, etc.). Make the
base of your health salads from “Nature’ s Broom ” veggies – chopped
or grated cabbage, carrots, beets and celery. To this base you can add
any fresh, raw or ganic vegetables you desire: broccoli, cauliflower,
turnips, cucumbers (with their unwaxed green skin), lettuce, radishes,
parsley, peas, avocado, tomatoes, green onions, mushrooms, red/green
bell peppers or any other fresh, raw vegetables. See salad recipe page
123.Top this wonderful mixture with a fresh salad dressing made of Bragg
Organic Raw Apple Cider Vinegar (with the “Mothe r” enzyme ), honey and
Bragg Organic Olive Oil. See recipe on page 123. Always eat your fill of
raw salad first! Never let hot food touch your mouth until you have finished
your health salad! The salad is the internal broom, purifier and strong
fighter that pushes toxins out. Toxins just have to move out of the body
when these live nutrients in the raw salads get to work.
Eat Slowly & Chew Thoroughly For Health
If you have not been used to eating a large raw vegetable salad, go
slowly! Eat slowly and always chew thoroughly. Remembe r that your
stomach has no teeth! You may say to us, “Raw salad fills me with gas” or
“Raw salads do not agree with me.” We can only answer, “The salads agree
with you, but you don’t agree with them! ” When a salad does not agree with
you, it shows that you have sluggish, unhealthy bowels. In that case there is
only one thing to do – gradually change at the speed that fits your condition,
also try Beano. Slowly you will improve to gracefully accept and enjoy
these nourishing  salads. Remember, salads are the master internal cleansers
and “Mother Nature’ s Broom”.
People with bad dentures or loose teeth, the sick, even toddlers who need
nutritious salads, but can’t chew well, it’s best to finely grate or blend their
salad – it’ s delicious.
Everyone is different and this is why you should keep a daily journal
(page 133) recording your food intake and your reactions for: mucu s,
headaches, eliminations, energy levels, mood swings, sleep patterns, etc.
Start today!
5. What to eat after your salad if more is desired? Best would be soup or
lightly steamed veggies, greens, carrots, peas, stringbeans, corn,
carrots, beets, broccoli or any vegetables desired and a baked potato or
whole grain pasta, or lentils and brown rice, tofu, etc. ( recipe page
123).
6. Now what about protein? If you feel you must eat meat, do so. Just


 process of forming and
organizing itself. Qi also implies the totality of Blood, Moisture,
and Qi, the total summation of the life of the organism.
Blood  is a material substance as well as the process of
generating, distributing, and storing nutrients. Moisture  is an
amorphous substance as well as the process of generating,distributing, and storing uid. Qi is an invisible substance, as
well as an immaterial force that manifests as movemen t and
activity through which it is palpable and observable. Moisture
cannot be separated from the function of moisturizing, Blood
from nourishin g, nor Qi from moving. They are part of a
continuum of tangible forms and immanent functions.
Within the body, every phenomenon is a product of the
interaction of Blood, Moisture, and Qi. Without proper Moisture,
the Qi becomes hot and agitated and the Blood  dries up and
congeals. Without Blood, Moisture  is dispersed and Qi is
scattered. Without Qi, Moisture  and Blood  stagnate, coagulate,
and cease circulating. Each constituent exists as an individual
entity and yet depends comp letely upon the larger system, the
body. All functions and processes are interdependent,
cogenerating, and mutually regulating.
Moisture, and Qi, earth, sea, and air, the total summation of the life
of the organism, body, or world.
Within the body, every phenomenon is a product of the
interaction of Blood, Moisture, and Qi. Without proper Moisture, the
Qi becomes hot and agitated and the Blood  dries up and congeals.
Without Blood, Moisture  is dispersed and Qi is scattered. Without Qi,
Moisture  and Blood  stagnate, coagulate, and cease circulating. Each
constituent exists as an individual entity and yet depends
completely upon the larger system, the body. All functions and
processes are interdependent, cogenerating, and mutually
regulating.
Together, Blood, Moisture, and Qi represent the visible and
invisible, gross and rened, substance and process of the soma and
psyche. Blood  is a material substance as well as the process of
generating, distributing, and storing nutrients. Moisture  is an
amorphous substance as well as the process of generating,
distributing, and storing uid. Qi is an invisible substance, as well as
an immaterial force that manifests as movement and activitythrough which it is palpable and observable. Moisture  cannot be
separated from the function of moisturizing, Blood  from nourishing,
nor Qi from moving. They are part of a continuum of tangible forms
and immanent functions. Just as ice, water, and steam are three
manifestations of the same molecular entity, Blood, Moisture, and Qi
are three manifestations of the same “life force.” In death, a
disorganization of the continuum occurs: tissue and spirit become
separated from form and process.
PATTERNS OF  HARMONY IN THE  HUMAN GARDEN
Nature, like a symphony, is composed of complex interweaving
patterns of form and movement. These patterns are recapitulated in
every smaller system. The body is to nature as a violin is to an
orchestra. The strings are to a violin as the organs are to the body.
The musical vibrations of each string are like the functio ns of each
organ. For the orchestra to play a symphony in harmo ny, all the
instruments must be tuned to each other—all the strings of each
instrument and all the notes of each string must be played  in tune. If
a single instrument is out of tune, the whole sound is dissonant
rather than harmonious.
This illustrates an aspect of Chinese philosophy known  as the
theory of correspondence. Simply, this theory states that in order for
a larger  system  to be in balance as a whole, each smaller system
within it must itself be balanced. This principle of harmony is the
same at each level of complexity. Patterns of harmony in one system
both reect and generate patterns of harmony in other systems, as
well as at greater and lesser orders of complexity.
Correspondence thinking postulates that events occur in
association with each other, linked by a mutual force regardless of
their location in time and space. Qi is the medium that links all
events with each other, transcending time and space because
patterns are formed that persist beyond their moment  of origin.
Causal thinking, which dominates Western philosophy, postulates
that events occur in a series,  like a line of falling dominoes, one acttriggering another in spatio-temporal sequence. As we have seen,
Western medicine emphasizes the single cause that triggers a
particular pathologic or physiologic process. The linear continuum
of time and space links events, and an occurrence in the past only
inuences a current condition indirectly through the causal chain.
Chinese medi cine, on the other hand, presumes that if you
reorganize the existing pattern of disharmony into a harmonic
pattern of relationships, the original cause will disappear because
the conditions  in which it was rooted cease to exist. Chinese
medicine treats conditions, whereas Western medicine treats causes.
For the doctor  of Chinese medicine the issue is the same as for the
conductor of a symphony: it is not how the instrument makes sound,
but rather the pattern of sound that the instrument emits.
LOSS OF  ADAPTIVE  ABILITY:  DISEASE
In Chinese medicine, health is the ability of an organism to respond
appropriately to a wide variety of challenges in a way that insures
maintaining equilibrium and integrity. Disease represents a failure
to adapt to challenge, a disruption of the overall equilibrium, and a
rent in the fabric of the organism.
The source of disease is any challenge to the body with which it is
unable to cope, whether it is a harmful substance or a bad feeling.
Disease is a manifestation of an unstable process, a pattern of
disharmonious relationships. When defenses are weakened and
resources exhausted, a multiplicity of factors conspire to permit
illness. The adage “The man is not sick because he has an illness,
but has an illness because he is sick” aptly expresses this view.
Lack of sunlight, depletion of the soil, overgrowth of weeds, all
restrict the bounty of the garden. Similarly, deciency or excess of
Qi, inadequate nutrition, or poor circulation of Blood  and Moisture
weaken health. Too much sun burns the plants, too much wind dries
them out, too much water rots their roots. Yet in the absence of
light, water, and air, the plants cannot germinate or grow. Theclimates, emot ions, and activities of life are not intrinsically good or
bad. It is their excess or deciency that distorts the pattern of ow.
The Body As Garden
The gardener may occasionally need to apply strong measures like
poison or re to control marauding insects or weeds. But he has to
be careful not to damage the garden irreparably while he is
attacking the pest. Doctors as gardeners protect the Qi at the sametime as they attack the disease. Simultaneous with the struggle to
ght the disease, the doctor  of Chinese medicine strives to restore
the resilience and strength of the body. This adapta bility and
fortitude constitutes the condition of health. If in the process of
attacking the disease the Qi is dissipated, this undermines a person’s
capacity to recover health.
The gardener is like the herbalist when he nourishes with compost
or adds minerals to the soil, using material substances to promote
growth. And he is like the acupuncturist when he builds fences, digs
ditches, ponds, and channel s for irrigation, adjusting the ow of
water and wind.
OBSERVING THE  SIGNS: DIAGNOSIS
The gardener crumbles the soil between his ngers; he looks, listens,
senses, kneeling among the plants. On the basis of his observations,
he judges the garden’s needs.  When the plants look lush and full, he
assumes condi tions are right for proper growth. If the leaves are
yellowed and oppy, he may see this as a sign that the soil is too
damp, so the roots can’t breathe. He can raise the bed and aerate
the soil, permitting better drainage. If the leaves are withered, dry,
and spindly, the gardener should water more frequently.  When the
garden grows but does not produce fruit, more nutriment has been
used than has been replenished and the gardener enriches the soil
with compost.
Like the gardener, the doctor observes the patient and perceives
signs and symptoms to determine the nature of the proble m at hand.
He synthesizes all impressio ns to make a diagnosis. The doctor’s
diagnosis may sound similar to the gardener’s. They use the same
vocabulary. Both are concerned with the balance of heat and cold,
moisture and dryness, and the excess or deciency of these
conditions. A person, like a garden, is subject to external excesses of
Heat, Cold, Wind, Dampness, and Dryness, as well as to deciencies of
Blood, Moisture, and Qi.For example, a lack of Moisture


baby colic," would never be known.
A mother should never nurse her baby when she is in the
least over-heated or chilled with cold or laboring under any great emotion, such as grief, sympathy or anger. Fear and
anger change the milk of the mother to a poison. Children
have been thrown into spasms and known to die from nursing
just after the mother had undergone these conditions.
It is customary to begin feeding children at the age of
nine months such things as oatmeal, crackers, and white
bread. It would be very difficult to select anything in the food
line more mischievous than these articles. They are composed
very largely of starch, which the infant stomach cannot
digest, and none of its intestinal organs can assimilate.
The making and selling of penny confections ought to be
prohibited by law. The man who makes the all-day sucker
and other cheap filthy candies and confections to give to
innocent children for their pennies is a criminal, and ought to
be deprived of his liberty, and put out of business. It is not
uncommon for children at the age of ten, especially in cities,
to be afflicted with well-devel oped cases of acute indigestion,
which stunts the growth of both body and brain, from the
baneful effects of which they never can recover.
It looks incredible indeed that from the great faculties of
teachers, in no institution of learning in this land has there
ever come one suggestion—one hint, as to what kind of
material would make the best blood, build the best body and
brain It seems as if the thought would sometimes come to
these instructors of the youth of the land that the brain of the
children with which they are so industriously laboring
depends entirely for its size, quality and activity upon the
body, and the body depends entirely upon the material out of
which it is constructed. Some day the professors will begin to
think along these lines/and the food question will become a
part of the school and college curriculum. FOOD VALUES AND TABLES.

THE following tables were compiled from analyses made by
government experts in the Agricultural Department at
Washington.
We give a table on flesh foods, not because we endorse
or recommend them, but because it affords an opportunity of
comparison, which is the best means of acquiring knowledge:
The superiority of nuts in every life-giving property will
be noticed at a glance—for inst ance, the fuel value of pork-
sides, the meat which contains the greatest amount of fat, and
but little else, is only about 2,500 heat calories per pound,
while all the shelled nuts given in the table except one show a
fuel value in excess of the fattest meat, while most of them
run above 3,000, or from thirty to fifty per cent. greater than
meat as a fuel or heat producing article.
The thing, however, that ma kes nuts such an'excellent
article of food is that their nutritive elements are almost
perfectly proportioned; that is to say, a normal body requires
so much water, proteids, carbohydrates, mineral salts and fat
to sustain it healthfully each twenty-four hours, and in nuts
these elements are found more correctly proportioned
according to the requirements of the body than in any other
article of food known to science:

 HOW TO BEGIN THE USE OF UN-
COOKED FOODS.

IN dealing with the human body we must respect the laws of
heredity and environment. What might have been natural a
thousand years ago may be very unnatural to-day, and what
was decidedly unnatural at that remote period of time may
have become natural. The human body has the faculty of
adjusting itself even to false conditions, through the long
process of time.
The experiment may have killed a million or two people,
and dethroned the mental and moral machinery of as many
more, and shortened up the life period of several billion more,
but "Stickatitiveness" will in time work things around until
the very laws of nature seem to change to fit the false
condition.
This, however, in reality is not true. The price for every
violated law must be paid, and so long| as it is violated, just
so long will nature demand her settlement. The real penalty is
the difference between what man is find what he would have
been had he lived in obedience to the laws of his
organization.
Since people have evolved into their present habits and
customs, to correct them they must evolve out of them.
Therefore in adopting the use of uncooked foods, it is safest
to start on the evolutionary plan, gradually increasing the
number of uncooked dishes, and decreasing the number of
cooked ones, until all cooked and devitalized foods have been
eliminated and the system has had time enough to adjust itself
to the new conditions. This process can be hastened by
simplifying the diet—by limiting it to a few things, which
contain all the elements of nourishment.
Such foods should be selected as are not commonly
cooked, such as all kinds of nuts or bananas and cream, for
the heavy portion of the meal; and milk, dates, figs, lettuce or
cabbage, and juicy fruits, melons  and berries, to close with.
The mixing of the following articles in the process of
mastication develops a very delicious taste:

Pecan meats and cabbage.
Protoid nuts and apples.
Heavy cream and sweet apples.
Nuts, lettuce and olive oil.
Bananas, cream, dates and nuts.
Bananas, figs and cream.
Flaked wheat, dates, cream and nuts.           Thoroughly
Flaked oats, dates, cream and nuts                masticated.
Sweet apples, nuts and cream.
Soaked prunes and cream.
Soaked evaporated p eaches or apricots,
         raisins and cream.
Unfired bread and cream cheese.
Unfired bread, pecan meats.
Unfired bread, sweet butter and Brazil nuts.   Thorough mastication develops in all uncooked foods a
new and delicious taste. When the saliva, which is an alkaline
substance, begins to act upon the starch and other parts of
these foods the change that takes place in the blended articles
above tabulated creates a deliciousness that will win at once
those who try these blends follo wed by thorough mastication,
RECIPES.

IN bringing about any change in the habits of people, it
becomes necessary to pursue lines of least resistance. So
firmly fixed in the minds of the public is the idea that foods
need preparation, need fixing or something done to them
before they can be eaten, that in  order to induce them to take
any step in the direction of correct feeding it becomes
necessary to in some way prepare even elementary, or foods
in their natural condition. In reality foods in their natural
condition require but little preparation.
The object, however, of the following recipes has a
threefold purpose; first, to make the change from the old to
the new, or from the unnatural to the natural way of living, as
little radical as possible. Second, to group foods into such
combinations as will chemically harmonize when mixed in
the stomach; and third, to make them attractive to the vision.
There is nothing that invites us with a richer welcome—
nothing that excites the desire to eat—nothing that arouses
every organ of digestion more than nature's richly colored,
luscious and odorous edibles.
The recipes given here prove that there is a far wider
scope for variety and display than most people would
suppose. They are the results of long, careful and tedious
experimenting. They are offered as a help to those who desire
to take up the new or natural method of living. The old
proverb which says "There is nothing new under the sun" was
very sorely tried in the preparation of this work (unless we
are willing to go back to a time when man loped on his all-
fours through the forests of the Orient). In all the great New
York libraries there was not a book to be found that was of
any material aid to us in this work. It has all been drawn from
original labors. Many things th at seemed theoretically certain
were by practical experimenti ng proven to be untrue. After
several thousand experiments, we learned that in matters of
diet the laws of environment and heredity must be
considered. It is not necessary to eat cold foods in order to eat
uncooked foods.
The recipes given here we regard as little more than
suggestions. We sincerely hope that those who deem it worth
their while to give any thought to the kind of material out of
which they build their bodies and brain, will take up this great
work and carry it on to higher and higher degrees of
development.
Difference in temperature is the only scale by which to
measure motion, or all expressions of energy. Food,
therefore, should never be eaten very cold nor very hot, but as
near the temperature of the body as possible, cold food must
be brought to the temperature of the body at the expense of
energy. Icy drinks are responsible for much stomach trouble.
They do violence to every law governing health. Many things
in the uncooked bill-of-fare may be heated up to 140° or 150°
Fahr., if


,	the	study	of	body	language,	papillary-response	EEG
changes	in	the	brain,	fluctuations	in	breathing	and	blood	pressure,	galvanicskin	response,	dowsing,	and	even	the	Huna	technique	of	measuring	the
distance	that	the	aura	radiates	from	the	body.	Some	people	have	a	very	simple
technique	that	utilizes	the	standing	body	like	a	pendulum	(fall	forward	with
truth	and	backward	with	falsehood).
From	a	more	advanced	contextualization,	the	principles	that	prevail	are
that	Truth	cannot	be	disproved	by	falsehood	any	more	than	light	can	be
disproved	by	darkness.	The	nonlinear	is	not	subject	to	the	limitations	of	the
linear.	Truth	is	of	a	different	paradigm	from	logic	and	thus	is	not	‘provable’,
as	that	which	is	provable	calibrates	only	in	the	400s.	Consciousness	research
muscle	testing	operates	at	level	600,	which	is	at	the	interface	of	the	linear	and
the	nonlinear	dimensions.
Discrepancies
Differing	calibrations	may	be	obtained	over	time	or	by	different
investigators	for	a	variety	of	reasons:
1.		Situations,	people,	politics,	policies,	and	attitudes	change	over	time.
2.		People	tend	to	use	different	sensory	modalities	when	they	hold	something
in	mind,	i.e.,	visual,	sensory,	auditory,	or	feeling.	“Your	mother”	could
therefore	be	how	she	looked,	felt,	sounded,	etc.,or	Henry	Ford	could	be
calibrated	as	a	father,	as	an	industrialist,	for	his	impact	on	America,	his
anti-Semitism,	etc.
One	can	specify	context	and	stick	to	a	prevailing	modality.	The	same	team
using	the	same	technique	will	get	results	that	are	internally	consistent.
Expertise	develops	with	practice.	There	are	some	people,	however,	who	are
incapable	of	a	scientific,	detached	attitude	and	unable	to	be	objective,	and	for
whom	the	muscletesting	method	will	therefore	not	be	accurate.	Dedication
and	intention	to	the	truth	have	to	be	given	priority	over	personal	opinions	and
trying	to	prove	them	as	being	“right.”APPENDIX	D
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 of the teaching, the essence of th is book which is not in the words
but within yourself. It is good to remember that, t o feel that, as you listen.

The words are no more than signposts. That to which  they point is not to be found
within the realm of thought but a dimension within yourself that is deeper, and
infinitely vaster than thought.  A vibrantly alive peace is one of the characteristics
of that dimension. So whenever you feel inner peace  arising as you listen, the book
is doing it work and fulfilling its function as you r teacher. It is reminding you of
who you are and pointing the way back home.

This is not a book to be read from cover to cover a nd then put away. Live with it.
Pick it up frequently. And, more importantly, put i t down frequently. Or spend
more time holding it than reading it. Many readers will feel naturally inclined to
stop reading after each entry, to pause, reflect, b ecome still. It is always more
helpful and more important to stop reading than to continue reading. Allow the
book to do its work, to awaken you from the old gro ves of your repetitive and
conditioned thinking

The form of this book can be seen as a revival for the present age of the oldest form
of recorded spiritual teachings, the sutras of anci ent India. Sutras are powerful
pointers to the truth in the form of aphorisms or s hort sayings with little conceptual elaboration.  The Vedas and Upanishads are the earl y sacred teachings recorded in
the form of sutras, as are the words of the Buddha.  The sayings and parables of
Jesus, too, when taken out of their narrative conte xt could be regarded as sutras as
well as the profound teachings contained in the Tao  Te Ching, the ancient Chinese
book of wisdom.

The advantage of the sutra form lies in its brevity. It does not engage the thinking
mind more than is necessary. What it doesn't say, b ut only points to, is more
important than what it says.

The sutra-like character, of the writings in this b ook is particularly marked in
chapter 1, Silence and Stillness, which contains on ly the briefest of entries. This
chapter contains the essence of the entire book and  may be all that some readers
require. The other chapters are there for those who  need a few more signposts.

Just like the ancient sutras, the writings containe d within this book are sacred and
have come out of a state of consciousness we may ca ll stillness. Unlike those
sutras, however, they don't belong to any one relig ion or spiritual tradition, but are
immediately accessible to the whole of humanity.

There is also an added sense of urgency here.  The transformation of human
consciousness is no longer a luxury, so to speak, a vailable only to a few, isolated
individuals, but a necessity if human kind is not t o destroy itself. At the present
time, the dysfunction of the old consciousness and the arising of the new are both
accelerating.  Paradoxically, things are getting wo rse and better at the same time,
although the worse is more apparent because it make s so much noise.

This book, of course, uses words that in the act of  reading or listening, become
thoughts in your mind. But those are not ordinary t houghts: repetitive, noisy, self-
serving, clamoring for attention. Just like every t rue spiritual teachers, just like the
ancient sutras, the thoughts within this book don't  say “look at me", but “look
beyond me.” Because the thoughts came out of stilln ess, they have power, the
power to take you back into the same stillness from  which they arose. That stillness
is also inner peace. And that stillness and peace i s the essence of your being. It is
the stillness that will save and transform the worl d.

 Chapter 1
Silence and Stillness

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you
lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is in separable from stillness. This is
the “I Am” that is deeper than name and form.

***

Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillne ss? The inner space or awareness in
which the words on this page are being perceived an d become thoughts. Without
that awareness, there would be no perception, no th oughts, no world.

You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

***

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise  of thinking. The equivalent of
external silence is inner stillness.

Whenever there is some silence around you — listen to it. That means just notice it.
Pay attention to it. Listening to silence awakens t he dimension of stillness within
yourself, because it is only through stillness that  you can be aware of silence.

See that in the moment of noticing the silence arou nd you, you are not thinking.
You are aware, but not thinking.

***

When you become aware of silence, immediately there  is that state of inner still
alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of  thousands of years of collective
human conditioning.

***

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awarene ss rest upon it. How still they are,
how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach y ou stillness.
 ***

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness,  you become still yourself. You
connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a on eness with whatever you perceive
in and through stillness. Feeling the oneness of yo urself with all things is love.

***

Silence is helpful, but you don’t need it in order to find stillness. Even when there
is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underne ath the noise, of the space in
which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness
itself.

You can become aware of awareness as the background  to all your sense
perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of a wareness is the arising of inner
stillness.

***

Any disturbing noise can be as helpful as silence. How? By dropping your inner
resistance to the noise, by allowing it to be as it  is, this acceptance also takes you
into that realm of inner peace that is stillness.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is — n o matter what form it takes
— you are still, you are at peace.

***

Pay attention to the gap — the gap between two thou ghts, the brief, silent space
between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap
between the in-breath and out-breath.

When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of “something” becomes — just
awareness. The formless dimension of pure conscious ness arises from within you
and replaces identification with form.

***

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is w here creativity and solutions to
problems are found.
 ***

Is stillness just the absence of noise and content?  No, it is intelligence itself — the
underlying consciousness out of which every form is  born. And how could that be
separate from who you are? The form that you think you are came out of that and is
being sustained by it.

It is the essence of all galaxies and blades of gra ss; of all flowers, trees, birds, and
all other forms.

***

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a
thing, and it is not of this world.

***

When you look at a tree or a human being in stillne ss, who is looking? Something
deeper than the person. Consciousness is looking at  its creation.

In the Bible, it says that God created the world an d saw that it was good. That is
what you see when you look from stillness without t hought.

***

Do you need more knowledge? Is more information goi ng to save the world, or
faster computers, more scientific or intellectual a nalysis? Is it not wisdom that
humanity needs most at this time?

But what is wisdom and where is it to be found? Wis dom comes with the ability to
be still. Just look and just listen. No more is nee ded. Being still, looking, and
listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence  within you. Let stillness direct
your words and actions.

 Chapter 2
Beyond the Thinking Mind

The human condition: Lost in thought.

***

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned with in the confines of their own
thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made,  personalized sense of self
that is conditioned by the past.

In you, as in each human being, there is a dimensio n of consciousness far deeper
than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence,
awareness, the unconditioned consciousness. In the ancient teachings, it is the
Christ within, or your Buddha nature.

Finding that dimension frees you and the world from


 to give you a sampling of what is possible when we
use the inherent  power that is a part of our very essence—called the I am
presence—for the fulfillment of our Divinely aligned wishes.
I felt called to invite the entire group of women into my home and to talk
to Nicollette about the wishes fulfilled teachings that I was channeling and
writing about each and every day, and had been for several months. I spent
an hour or so with Nicollette while her mother, grandmother, and two of
Linda’ s friends stayed in the background. During this time I felt in my body
that something stupefying and mystical was energizing not only me but the
entire room.
At the end of our time together, I insisted that Nicollette spend an hour
with my friend Kate MacKinnon, a craniosacral therapist who was visiting
and offering me CST treatments. I had set up an appointment for myself
with Kate for the following day. I gave my appointment to Nicollette, and
what follows are two descriptions of the event that transpired. The first is
Linda’ s letter to Kate about her understanding of the entire experience.
Hi Kate,
I wanted to tell you that befor e Hawaii, Nicollette did not know of
Wayne Dyer at all. She is a university student consumed with classes,
assignments, work, and parties and has never been to his lectu res orread his books. She still knows very little of him other than she is now
reading The Power of Intention.
On Satur day I arrived in Hawaii with my husband, Gord, and son,
Jason. Nicollette  called me from Victoria, B.C., the next day. She said
she had experie nced a weird headache the night befor e, and now her
face was going numb on the left side. She was having difficulty
smiling on one side and was worried. She sent a pictur e of herself
from her phone and we told her to go to the emer gency room now and
get it looked at, for it may be a stroke or something! Nicollette  didn’ t
want to go because she said she had too much schoolwork to do, had
final exams to study for, and didn’ t feel well enough to go. I insisted
we needed a professional assessment. She went and was triaged
immediately thr ough and given a battery of tests.
She called me about an hour later and said she was diagnosed with
a very sever e case of Bell’s palsy—cause unknown. They had theories
of causes, but didn’t see the other physical effects of these causes and
so the doctors were stumped  by her condition. She was given
prophylactic antiviral medicatio n and high doses of prednisone.  It not
being a life-thr eatening conditio n, they said, “Sorry, this is all we can
do—time will tell,” and she was sent home.
Nicollette was beside herself with grief. She called us and was so-o-
o upset. We suggested that if the doctors said it was okay, then she
would come to Hawaii or I’d fly home to be with her. She spent the
next two days seeing differ ent physicians making sure she could
travel. She arrived in Hawaii on T uesday.
We could  see that her paralysis was worse when she arrived—it was
definitely progressing. It worsened for several days thereafter. I was in
contact with our doctor at home and sent him another picture of
Nicollette in full paralysis. He told me that based on what he saw in
the photo, it was a sever e case. He told us to be pr epared that ther e’s a
strong possibility that she may only partially recover from this or …
perhaps not at all! Furthermor e, this type of palsy (Ramsay Hunt) can
be quite  painful and may have nasty side effects from the nerve
damage that has been done.
At the doctor ’s request, we went to the local drugstor e and
purchased full-c overage eye patches and eye lubrications so her lefteye would not ulcerate, as it was no longer closing.
A week or so passed, paralysis  continued, no movement, nor any
taste sensation on her left side of her tongue. Her left eyebr ow nerves
were blown out, eye couldn’ t close, nostril and mouth affected as well.
She was having difficulty chewi ng. Nicollette was in a state of stress,
distress, and shooting pain.
The universe intervenes—we meet Dr. Wayne Dyer on the
promenade.
We spent about an hour with Wayne in his condo. Wayne was totally
focused on Nicollette’ s state of mind and on healing. She was wanting
to heal right now, being told she has the power to heal, but didn’ t
know how to get to the place to tap into that healing. Wayne put his
hands on her face and spoke to her over and over again, the same
words until she got it—I am paralysis-fr ee! My girlfriends in the
backgr ound were crying, my mother awestruck … as we were leaving
his condo, Wayne insisted that Nicollette must, simply must, have a
session with his CST therapist the next day. Since time was an issue,
he gave his appointment to Nicollette. He made the arrangements.
Nicollette came into the therapy session with much gratitude and the
new thinking that she will be healed. But she said that one of her
barriers to healing was that she couldn’ t get to a place of completely
“letting go and letting God” because she was in fight-or -flight mode.
“How can I get to a state of physical relaxation and heal when I don’t
know how to r elax my body?”
I recall she expressed these concerns to you and you unders tood
what she was saying. You asked her (as Wayne had asked her, too)
what was going  on in her life befor e this had happened. She said,
“Nothing. Every thing’ s fine. I was studying for my final exams in
economics and computer science, and at the same time I needed to
create a paintin g for my art class and write an essay on it. My
roommate is moving out and also I’m anxiously waiting to find out if
I’m going to be accepted to McGill University in Montr eal. Lots on
my plate, but I am handling it.”
You said to her, “Nicollette, that isn’t nothing. That is a lot of
something. We see here how the mind and mind-filled stress can affect
the body. This is the mind/body connection, or rather disconnection.”Once we got back to Vancouver, Nicollette and I met with our family
doctor. He told my daughter that this was indeed a “very moderate”
case. To translate, by his expression and from what he had told me
over the phone in Hawaii, it was actually sever e. Nicollette knew  what
he meant. She knew it was sever e, but it didn’ t bother her beca use as
far as she was concerned, she was healing. Our family docto r then
went on to provide statistics of differ ent levels of recovery and to
prepare us that this type of paralysis can take two years or more to
come back from, if you do come back. We were to schedule another
appointment in four weeks wher e Nicollette would be referr ed to a
neurologist.
I can’t say for sure when she actually had visible improvement, for
she went back almost immediately to the University of Victoria to
make up all the work that she had missed while in Hawaii. She went
back with the confidence of simply moving forwar d. I was surprised
that she was leaving us and getting right back into her university life
after what our family doctor had said, and given that she was still
paralyzed.
No matter what I thought or what I said, in true Nicollette
conviction, she continued to tell me, “Mom, you don’t get it! Didn’ t
you hear what Wayne said? I am healed and paralysis-fr ee. Didn’ t you
hear me say that, too? What part of that don’t you understand? I am
healed—it’ s just that you and everybody else in this world can’t see it
yet!”
Four weeks later she is paralysis-fr ee.
Namaste,
Linda
The words I am healed  and I am paralysis-fr ee that Nicollette spoke, even
though the physical evidence strongly indicated otherwise, may sound
strange or even absurd to you as you read this. But I assure you they will
make sense as you read Wishes Fulfilled.
The second description is Nicollette’ s recollection in a letter to the
craniosacral therapist, Kate MacKinnon.
Hi Kate,Thank you so much for letting my mom know about Dr. Dyer ’s radio
show today. My family and I listened to it this evening, and I am so
grateful that you made it possibl e for all of us to hear those wonderful
things. This is truly, and has been, an amazing experience. I can’t
thank you enough for all that you have done.
Initially, at the time of my diagnosis with Bell’s palsy on the first day
of spring, I just could not move the left side of my bottom lip as much
as I could the right side. Four days later I couldn’ t move the entire left
side of my face at all; I couldn’


 explores the world ﬁrst in a rational way, emotional exhaustion - develop your 'gut feeling'.
Bent to the right :  arrogance, deﬁance - become centred.
Bent to the left :  playful attitude
Long, graceful :  proud attitude.
Heavy, short :  forceful attitude.
Throat
A channel for vocal expression of emotions.
Tight, sore, weak :  blocked verbal expressions of emotions and tears - let go, speak out, weep.
Jaw and Chin
A channel for verbal expression, biting.
Receding :  frozen, suppressed verbal emotions - learn to speak out.
Protruding :  determined.
Strongly protruding :  deﬁance, arrogance - relax.
Clenched :  forceful self-control, suppressed anger - let go, relax.10/30/24, 2:59 PM Health-Science-Spirit - The World of Feelings & Emotions
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An outside mirror of our emotions.
Changing expressions :  show how we wish to appear to the world.
Chronically tense muscles :  show conﬂict between what we show and how we really feel.
Eyes
The 'windows of the soul', reﬂecting health and emotions.
Large, round :  warm, loving personality.
Protruding :  reaching out forcefully (thyroid problems).
Deep- set : critically observing, withholding expression.
Wide-open baby eyes :  tries to hold, to draw close, not fully matured.
Nearsightedness : frozen fear (early childhood), focus  on immediate problems, introspective, rational - release fear, look into the
future.
Farsightedness  : suppressed anger, focused outward, extrovert -release anger, develop inner self.
CHARACTER STRUCTURE
The same emotions and suppressed feelings that shape our body and are expressed in our 'body language' form also our character.
Wilhelm Reich believed that without suppressed feelings we would not have a character, as we know it. We would all be open, free
and loving in our relationships and dealings with each other.
Suppressed feelings, on the other hand, inhibit the free ﬂow of feeling energies in our body and this causes us in our social
interactions to react subconsciously to our suppressed feelings rather than to the immediate situation at hand. The various forms of
inhibition of the free and natural ﬂow and expression of feelings in dif ferent individuals are their 'character'.
Depending on the nature of our suppressed feelings, Wilhelm Reich and his followers in bio-energetic and other forms of
psychodynamic bodywork commonly distinguish between ﬁve character structures: schizoid, oral, psychopathic, masochistic and
rigid. Commonly we represent mixtures of two or more of these types but with one character type usually dominant. The following is a
condensation of the works of Alexander Lowen, John Pierrakos  and Barbara Brennan.
The Schizoid Character
In the schizoid individual the main emotional trauma occurred around the time of birth. This may have been a distressing birth
process or hostility from one or both parents towards the baby, commonly the baby was unwanted and it felt abandoned by the
mother, either physically or emotionally.
The baby deals with this by withdrawing into itself, closing itself off from the world. This same technique is then used in later life
whenever the individual feels threatened. The basic subconscious fear or anxiety is the feeling of being unwanted, having no right to
exist, a psychological split between the desire to live in the physical world and a wish to withdraw into the spirit world.
In communications with others this type tends to intellectualise and use impersonal language. The body structure is with elongated
limbs and digits and weak joints, the body appears uncoordinated with right-left imbalances and often cold hands and feet. The
energy structure is 'ungrounded' or 'airy-fairy' with frozen core energies. Schizoids tend to be rather spiritual and creative but in need
of grounding and becoming an integrated whole.
The Oral Structure
The oral phase of our development is the period when we are totally dependent on the mother and normally breast-fed. The normal
emotional development may be interrupted when the baby feels abandon ed because the mother may have left or died or is when sick
or for other reasons she could not fulﬁl the baby's need for physical and emotional nourishment.
The child is forced to become independent too early but that leaves it insecure with a tendency to cling and grab, it has a decreased
natural aggressiveness with an increased inner need to be taken care of. There is a subconscious fear of being left alone, not getting
enough or what one wants or needs. The individual feels deprived and empty and does not want to take responsibility. Resentment is
common and a forced show of independence easily crumbles under stress.
The oral personality has experienced many disappointments and rejections and feels a strong need for warmth and support from a
mothering partner. In later life s/he may become bitter because there was never enough to be satisﬁed, 'the world is unjust'.
The body is generally underdeveloped and may look immature with a weak, narrow chest and shallow breathing. The energies are
mainly in the head with a good intelligence, while the body energies and emotional energies are rather subdued. The main task in
personal development is to give up playing the victim and learn to trust that the universe will provide.
The Psychopathic Personality
The psychopathic structure emerges in early childhood due to a covertly seductive parent of the opposite sex. The child was
antagonistic to the parent of the same sex and tried to get what it wanted by manipulating the parent of the opposite sex. This pattern
is continued in adult life by trying to gain power, control and desire fulﬁlment by manipulating others.
Deep inner feelings of inferiority are covered by superﬁcial feelings of superiority and contempt. This person believes: "I am right, you
are wrong", s/he wants to win and does not take defeat easily. Inwardly the psychopath feels the need for others but fears appearing
to be dependent or even look like a victim. Pleasure comes second to conquest and control. Needs are fulﬁlled by making others
need him or her. The will is the predominant mental function.10/30/24, 2:59 PM Health-Science-Spirit - The World of Feelings & Emotions
https://health-science-spirit.com/Healing_Our_Emotions/The-World-of-Feelings-Emotions.html 6/7The upper half of the body is comm only overdeveloped and the lower half underdeveloped. The chest is wide but the pelvis narrow
and the legs weak. Correspondingly, the main energy ﬂows are centred in and around  the upper body and the front of the head. The
life task is to learn true surrender and humility by admitting the inner longings and needs.
The Masochistic Character
The parents and especially the mother were domineering and gave love in a conditional way. The mother may have been self-
sacriﬁcing and the child was made to feel guilty whenever it was resisting and trying to assert itself. This made it feel trapped,
defeated and humiliated. Therefore, the real feelings were held inside and creativity suppressed. Much anger, hate and resentment is
hidden underneath a submissive and polite exterior.
The individual complains a lot and dwells on the negative side of things. By subconsciously provoking others s/he may be given an
excuse to become angry, to let of steam, but generally the outward attitude is to please others.
The body may be heavily built with overdeveloped muscles and short neck and waist. Tensions are strongest in the neck, jaw, throat
and pelvis. The energies and emotio ns are internalised. To become free, the masochist needs to express feelings and become more
assertive and aggressive.
The Rigid Structure
The child felt its sexuality rejected, especially by the parent of the opposite sex. Sexuality at this age may mean innocently touching
or playing with the sexual organs which is strictly forbidden by the parent, and a longing to be close to the parent of the opposite sex
by being touched and cuddled rema ins unfulﬁlled. The child deals with this perceived rejection by developing a rigid muscle structure
that makes it easier to suppress the feelings of wanting and longing.
As an adult the rigid individual will hold back, remain controlled, holding back the expression of feelings and not daring to surrender.
Pride does not allow him or her to reach out to fulﬁl his or her needs; instead s/he prefers to manipulate to get what s/he wants.
While there is a high degree of outer control and success in the social and physical world, the rigid person tries to protect the inner
vulnerability and is afraid of getting hurt. A strong ego is used to avoid letting go of inner feelings. A common complaint is that s/he
does not experience strong feelings.
The energies remain on the periphery while the core is contracted. The body is well balanced and appears energetic and integrated.
The individual needs to open up and share all feelings.
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 devoid of beauty, of inner essence,
with ver y few exceptions. The reason is that the people who cre ate those
things ca nnot —  even for a moment — free themselves from their mind.
So they are never in touch with  that place within where true creativity
and beauty arise. The mind lef t to itself creates monstrosities, and not
only in art gal leries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial
wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.
REALIZING PURE CONSCIOUSNESS
Is pr esence the same as Being?

When you become conscious o f Being, what is really happening is that
Being becomes conscious of itself. When Being becomes conscious of
itself — that’ s presence. Since Being, consciousness, and life are
synonymous, we could say that presence means consciousness becoming
conscious of itself, or life attaining self-consciousness. But don’ t get
attached to the words, and don’ t make an ef fort to understand this. There
is nothing that you need to understand before you can become present.

I do understand what you just said, but it seems to imply that Being, the
ultimate transce ndental r eality, is not yet complete, that it is under going
a pr ocess of development. Does God need time for personal gr owth?
Y es, but  only as seen from the limited perspective of the m anifested
universe. In the Bible, God declares: “I am the Alpha and the Omega,
and I am the living One.” In the timeless realm where God dwel ls, which
is also your  home, the begin ning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega,
are one, and the essence of everything that ever has been and ever will be
is et ernally present in an unmani fested state of oneness and perfection —
totally beyond anything the human mind can ever imagine or
comprehend. In our world of seemingly separate forms, however,
timeless perfection is an inconceivable concept. Here even
consciousness, w hich is the lig ht emanating from the eternal Source,
seems to be subject to a process of development, but this is du e to our
limited perception. It is not so in absolute terms. Nevertheless, let me
continue to speak for a moment about the evolution of consciousness in
this world.
Everything that exists has Bein g, has God-essence, has some d egree of
consciousness. Even a stone has rudimentary consciousness; otherwise, it
would not be, and its atoms and molecules would disperse. Ever ything is
alive. Th e sun, the earth, plants, animals, humans — all are expressions
of consciousness in varying degrees, consciousness manifesting as form.
The world arises when consciou sness takes on shapes and forms, thought
forms and material forms. Loo k at the millions of life forms on this
planet alone. In the sea, on land, in the air — and then each life form is
replicated millions of times. T o what end? Is someone or something
playing a game, a game with form? This is what the ancient  seers of
India asked themselves. They saw the world as lila, a kind of divine
game th at God is playing. The individual life forms are obviously not
very imp ortant in this game. In the sea, most life forms don’ t survive for
more tha n a few minutes after being born. The human form turn s to dust
pretty qu ickly to o, and when it is gone it is as if it had never bee n. Is that
tragic or cruel? Only if you create a separate identity for each  form, if
you for g et that its consciousness is God-essence expressing itself in
form. But you d on’ t truly know  th at until you realize your own God-
essence as pure consciousness.
If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth
certificate, tell him about his f amily history, and two minutes later hegets eate n by another fish — th at’ s tragic. But it’ s only tragic  because
you projected a separate self where there was none. Y ou got hold of a
fraction of a dy namic process, a molecular dance, and made a  separate
entity out of it.
Consciousness takes on the disguise of forms until they re ach such
complexity that it completely loses itself in them. In present-day humans,
consciousness is  completely identified with its disguise. It only knows
itself as form an d therefore lives in fear of the annihilation of its  physical
or psyc hological form. This is the egoic mind, and this is where
considerable dysfunction sets in. It now looks as if something had gone
very wro ng som ewhere along the line of evolution. But even this is part
of lila, t he divine gam e. Finally, the pressure of suf fering created by t his
apparent dysfunction forces consciousness to disidentify from form and
awakens it from its dream of for m: It regains self-consciousness, but it is
at a far deeper level than when it lost it.
This pro cess is explained by Je sus in his parable of the lost s on, who
leaves h is father ’ s home, squanders his wealth, becomes destitute, and is
then forced by his suf fering to return home. When he does, his father
loves him mor e  than before. The son’ s state is the same as it was before,
yet not the sam e. It has an added dimension of depth. The parable
describes a journey from unconscious perfection, through apparent
imperfection and “evil” to conscious perfection.
Can you now se e the deeper and  wider significance of becoming present
as t he watcher of your mind?  Whenever you watch the mind, you
withdraw consciousness from mind forms, and it then becomes what we
call the  watcher or the witne ss. Consequently, the watcher — pure
consciousness beyond form — becomes stronger, and the mental
formations beco me weaker. When we talk about watching the mind we
are pers onalizing an event that is truly of cosmic significance: Through
you, consciousn ess is awakening out of its dream of identifica tion with
form and withdrawing from form. This foreshadows, but is already part
of, an event th at is probably still in the distant future as far as
chronological ti me is concerned. The event is called — the en d of the
world.When conscious ness frees itself from its identification with physical and
mental forms, it becomes wh at we may call pure or enlightened
consciousness, or presence. This has already happened in  a few
individuals, and it seems destine d to happen soon on a much lar g er scale,
although there is no absolute guarantee that it will  hap pen. Most h umans
are still in the grip of the egoic mode of consciousness: identified with
their mi nd and run by their mind. If they do not free themselves from
their mind in time, they will be destroyed by it. They will experience
increasing confu sion, conflict, violence, illness, despair, madne ss. Egoic
mind has become like a sinking ship. If you don’ t get of f, you will go
down with it. The collective eg oic mind is the most dangerous ly insane
and dest ructive entity ever to in habit this planet. What do you think will
happen on this planet if human consciousness remains unchanged?
Already for most humans, the only respite they find from their own
minds is to occasionally revert to a level of consciousness below thought.
Everyone does that every night during sleep. But this also happens to
some e xtent through sex, alcohol, and other drugs that suppress
excessive mind activity. If it weren’ t for alcohol, tranquilizers,
antidepressants, as well as the illegal drugs, which are all consumed in
vast quantities, the insanity of th e human mind would become even more
glaringly obviou s than it is already. I believe that, if deprived of their
drugs, a lar ge part of the p opulation would become a danger to
themselves and others. These drugs, of course, simply keep you  stuck in
dysfunction. Their widespread use only delays the breakdown of the old
mind structures and the emer gence of higher consciousness. While
individual users may get some relief from the daily torture inflicted on
them by their minds, they are prevented from generating enough
conscious presence to rise above thought and so find true liberation.
Falling b ack to a level of consc iousness below mind, which is the pre-
thinking level of our distant ancestors and of animals and plants, is not
an optio n for us. There is no wa y back. If the human race is to survive, it
will have to g o on to the next stage. Consciousness is evolving
throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn’ t make
it, this wouldn’ t  matter on a cosmic scale. No gain in consciousness isever lost, so it w ould simply express itself through some other f orm. But
the very fact tha t I am speaking here and you are listening or rea ding this
is a clear sign that the new consciousness is  gaining a footh old on the
planet.
There is nothing personal in this: I am not teaching you. Y


 apples, 5 tbsp cider vinegar, 1 tsp brown sugar, 2 large lemons, 6 or
8 sprigs fresh mint, and 200 g (6-8 oz) of nonfat yogurt (optional).
Chop tomatoes, slice spring onions, core and slice apple.
Put these into a saucepan with the cider vinegar and sugar.
Bring to a boil and simmer gently for 30 minutes.
Put through food mill.
Either leave to cool, adding last ingredients later, or add the lemon juice
and beat in the yogurt (if used) immediately.
Just before serving, add the chopped mint, leaving some scattered over
the top of the soup for decoration.
Makes 4 generous or 6 small servings.
Tomato Soup with Potato and Onion
2 large tomatoes, 1 medium onion, 1 tsp brown sugar, 2 medium
potatoes, 1 tsp wine vinegar, and a small piece of bay leaf.
Wash and dice all vegetables.
Place all ingredients except sugar in covered saucepan with water to
cover.
Cook over low flame for 1 hour.
Mash through food mill and add sugar to taste.SAUCES AND  DIPS
Apricot Sauce
¼ cup dried apricots unsulfure d, 1 cup pure water heated, and ½ cup
fresh apple or orange juice.
Wash and drain apricots.
Combine with water and soak for several hours.
Add juice and stew over low flame until apricots are very tender, about
1½ hours.
Puree sauce in blender or by putting through Foley food mill or the
Norwalk® juicer.
Baba Ghanoush
1 large eggplant, 2 cloves garlic, 1 tsp lemon juice, 1 tbsp chopped
parsley, and lemon wedges.
Bake eggplant for 1 hour and when cool enough, peel, and drain off
excess liquid, squeezing gently.
Blend with garlic until fairly smooth, add lemon juice and parsley.
Mix well.
Serve with raw dipping vegetables such as celery, carrots, cauliflower,
and peppers.
Golden Gravy
1 small potato quartered, 4 carrots sliced, 2 tsp cider vinegar or lemon
juice, 1 cup soup stock or water, 1 small onion diced, ¼ tsp dill, marjoram
or thyme, and 1 tsp parsley minced.
Combine ingred ients and stew over low flame for 1½ to 2 hours or until
tender.
Remove potato skins and puree.
Golden SauceCombine in a covered casserole : 1 small sweet potato or yam quartered,
2–3 carrots coarsely chopped, 1 small onion diced, ½ cup soup stock, ½ cup
tangerine or orange juice, and a pinch of thyme and rosemary.
Bake in low oven until tender (approx. 2 hours).
Put through Foley food mill or spin in blender adding more juice to
achieve desired consistency.
Add 2 tsp parsley and serve.
Ketchup/Catsup
3 tomatoes, ½ head of garlic, ½ onion,
  cup (½ oz) vinegar, ¼ tsp dill,
and ½ cup Sucanat (or ganic brown sugar).
Place all ingredients in pan and bring to a boil.
Cook until tender and put through food mill or liquefier until smooth.
Parsley Y ogurt SauceDAIR Y
½ cup minced onion, 1 tsp fresh grated horseradish or ½ tsp dried
horseradish (optional), 1 cup nonfat yogurt, 1 tbsp lemon or lime juice, 1
tsp maple syrup or honey, and ¼ cup minced parsley.
Cook onions over low heat until tender and translucent.
Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
Blend onions with horseradish, yogurt, citrus juice, and sweetener in
blender until smooth.
Stir in parsley.
Plum Sauce
½ lb plums, ½ tsp lemon juice, 1 slice toast diced, 1 tsp brown sugar, and
2 tsp bread crumbs.
Wash plums.
Remove pits and place in saucepan with water to half cover.
Cook 15 minutes and strain through food mill.
Add sugar, bread crumbs, and lemon juice.
Replace in saucepan.Cook 3 minutes longer.
Serve over toast if desired.
Tomato Salsa
1 medium tomato finely choppe d, green onions or 1 medium red onion, 2
tbsp fresh coriander leaves (cilantro) chopped, and 3 tbsp lemon juice.
Combine ingredients (don’ t overdo the lemon juice), cover, and chill.
Best eaten fresh but can be kept for up to 2 days in the refrigerator.
Tomato Sauce, No-W ait (this sauce is raw)
1 lb Roma Tomatoes cut into pieces, 3-4 cloves of garlic, 3 sprigs of
parsley herbs, and 1 tsp linseed oil.
Place linseed oil in blender and start.
Begin adding pieces of tomato and other ingredients a little at a time.
Allow to whip for a minute or so until all ingredients are mixed.
Yields about 2-3 cup of sauce.
Tomato Sauce
Combine in large pan: 4-6 large tomatoes, 4-5 large onions peeled and
sliced, 1 large or 2 medium potatoes with skin diced, 2-3 cloves garlic, a
pinch of marjoram, and a pinch of thyme.
Stew and let simmer for 1 hour and pass through Foley food mill.
One can also add a little celery or green pepper for taste.
Tomato Sauce, Fr ench
1 onion,  ½ stick celery, ½ small carrot, 1½ pounds tomatoes, a few sprigs
of flat leaf parsley, 1 clove garlic, and 1 bay leaf.
Cook chopped onion, carrot, celery tomatoes, parsley, garlic, and bay
leaf.
Puree and serve hot or cold.
Makes 1¼ pints.FRUITS AND  DESSER T
Fruits
Most fresh fruits can be eaten unpeeled when ripe.
Of course, fruits like oranges and bananas should be peeled.
Always wash fresh fruit.
Dried fruits should be washed in clean, lukewarm distilled water and
soaked overnight in water (little more than to cover).
Use the same water and cook in covered saucepan until tender.
Dried fruits must be unsulfured.
The following fruit recipes are taken from Dr. Max Gerson’ s personal
files.
Desserts
Desserts should never replace the meals or juices of the therapy.
At the risk of sounding like your mother, we advise to “clean your plate
before dessert, dear!”
Do not eat or use as ingredients in desserts: ice cream, fat, white flour,
baking soda, candy, chocolate, cream, or salt. Have fun!
Sugar
Use only brown (Sucanat) or raw sugar, light honey, maple syrup, or
unsulfured molasses.
Syrup
Boil 1 1b brow n sugar in 1 quart of water and 1 cup apple juice until
dissolved.
Keep in covered jar.
Apples, Baked2 medium apples, 1 tsp raisins, and 2 tbsp water.
Wash, core, and cut apples in half.
Place with raisins in pan or baking dish in oven for about 15 minutes
until done then broil under flame until golden brown about 5 minutes.
Apple halves should stay whole.
Honey may be added to raisins to taste.
Apple and Banana
½ cup applesauce, ½ raw sliced banana, and juice of ½ lemon.
Serve raw or place applesauce and banana in covered saucepan  and heat
slowly.
Serve with lemon juice.
Apple Cake with Maple Y ogurtDAIR Y
1½ lbs cooking apples, 1 lemo n, 1 oz rolled oats, 1 oz oatm eal, 2 oz
sultanas or raisins, 4 oz brow n sugar, 4 oz whole wheat flour, 1 tsp
potassium baking powder, ½ cup fresh apple juice, yogurt, and maple syrup.
Put peeled and chopped apples into a large bowl and sprinkle with lemon
juice.
Combine rolled  oats, oatmeal, raisins, sugar, flour, and baking powder
and mix well.
Stir this mixture into the apples.
Pour mixture into cake pan and bake at 350° F for 20-35 minutes or until
lightly browned on top.
Serve with yogurt mixed with 1-2 tbsp maple syrup.
Applesauce, Cooked
3 medium apples pared, cored, and sliced.
Add honey or brown sugar to taste.
Put apple slices in saucepan half covered with cold water.
Boil until soft, about 15 minutes.
Put through food mill and mix with honey.Applesauce, Fr esh
3 medium apples pared, cored, and sliced.
Add honey or brown sugar to taste.
Run apples through the grinder portion of the juicer.
Season to taste and enjoy.
Apple Spice CakeYN
Combine: ¼ cup honey or maple syrup, 1 cup fresh applesauce, 1½ cups
oat flour, and ¾ cup whole wheat flour or triticale flour.
Sift together: ¾ cup crude brown sugar, a pinch of allspice, a pinch of
mace, ¼ tsp coriander, and 1 tsp Featherweight sodium-free baking powder
d (optional).
Add: 2 cups raisins or chopped dates.
Combine wet and dry ingredients.
Pour into nonstick oblong bake pan.
Mix crumb topping and sprinkle on top.
Bake at 325° F for 40 minutes or until cake tests done.
Serve with a spoon


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beliefs, since in Chinese thought spirit and matter were
not sharply divided; both were held to operate together in
the world of Nature, so when the body had been
suﬀiciently puriﬁed and etherealized it could continue to
exist in this world, or in the heavens, or both. Thus, having
reached this state, some of the Immortals ascended to
heaven while others chose to remain on earth. In the
Mesopotamian-Mediterranean religions this conquest of
death took the form of the perennial theme in mythology
of the cult of the Dying God who dies only to come to life
again; such are Osiris, Dionysos, Attis, Odin and all the
messiahs and culture heroes.
In the Pao P'u Tzu, Ko Hung argues the case for
immortality from observations of metempsychosis:
‘Creatures which ﬂy and run, and creatures which crawl,
all derive a ﬁxed form from the Foundation of Change. Yetsuddenly they may change the old body and become totally
diﬀerent things. Of those changes there are so many
thousands and tens of thousands that one could never
come to the end of detailing them.’ In his autob iography
he also argues that:
The shallow-minded... merely say that because they
see no genii in their world it is not possible that such
things exist But what is so special about what our
eyes have seen? Why should there be any limit to the
numbers of marvellous things that exist between sky
and earth, within the vastness of the Unbounded? All
our lives we have a sky over our heads but never
know what is above it; to the end of our days we walk
the earth without ever seeing what is below it. Our
bodies are our very own, but we never come to
understand how our hearts and wills become what
they are. An allotment of life is ours, but we never
understand how its actual measure is achieved; and
this is even more true in the case of the more
abstruse patterns governing gods and genii... isn't
it a sad spectacle to see people relying upon the
surface perceptions of eyes and ears in judging the
existence of the subtle and the marvellous?
The famous  Eight Immortals or Genii, the most
celebrated of all the hsien, seem to be a later form of the
Eight Worthi es of the Early Han dynasty, since they do not
appear until the thirteenth century, though most of its
members are associated with the T'ang dynasty. They are
immensely popular ﬁgures in Chinese art, being portrayed
in every medium: painting, embroidery, scrolls, fans, jade
and wood carvings, on vases and all ceramics. They
represent a complete cross-section of the people, as has
been said, male and female, rich and poor, old and young,
military and scholarly, noble and peasant and they alsocover a wide historical range, though only three of them
can be ident iﬁed as historical ﬁgures; the others  are the
stuﬀ of legend and fable, ‘wild history;’ but all are subjects
of a huge volume of romance, legend and popular
veneration. They are said to be ‘the embodiment of the
ideas of perfect but imaginary happiness which possess
the minds of the Chinese people.’
The Eight Immortals crossing the sea.The earliest,  said to be the founder of the group, was
Chung-li Ch'üan. He was reputed to have been a Han
marshal, but there is no historical evidence for this. His
birth was accompanied, traditionally, by various
marvellous phenomena. He was converted to the Tao by an
aged man and left his rank and profession to become a
wanderer. He became an alchemist, transmuted metals
into silver in a time of famine and distributed it among the
poor, so saving many lives. The secret of immortality was
revealed to him while meditating; a stone wall broke and
revealed a jade casket containing the secret. After
following the instructions his room was ﬁlled with rainbow
clouds and music; a crane then came to carry him
heavenwards. During his journeyings he met the Taoist
adept T'ao Hung-ching, who gave him ‘a pinch of the Great
Monad,’ a ﬁre-charm and some spiritual elixir. (The Great
Monad is the Tao, the cosmic force that pre-ex ists the
manifest world.) Chung-Ii Ch'üan's attributes are a
feathered fan and a ﬂywhisk, or sometimes a two-edged
sword and the peach of immortality. He is depicted as a fat
and bearded old man scantily clad.
Chang Kuo was a hermit who rode a miraculous white
donkey that could cover immense distances in a day.
Sometimes he rode facing the head, sometimes the tail of
the donkey. When Chang Kuo dismounted he folded the
donkey up like paper and put it away; when he wanted it
again he sprayed water over it from his mouth and it
became a donkey once more. Various emperors tried to
lure the adept to the court, but he refused all invitations,
even to marry an Imper ial Princess, until the ﬁnal one
from the Empress Wu Tse T'ien. He went to court, lay
down and died; but this was only a ruse for escaping from
imperial importunities. His body was seen to decompose (a
diﬀerent version of the empty-coﬀin theme), but this, too,
was a trick as he was seen alive and well in the mountainsa short time afterwards. He is portrayed seated on his
donkey and holding a ﬁsh-drum and castanets or a phoenix
feather.
Lü Yen, or Lü Tung-pin, was a scholar of the T'ang
dynasty who came from an oﬀicial family; in spite of failing
his degree he became a patron of literature. He had a
dream of future success, high oﬀice and glory followed by
disgrace, exile and misery, so he renounced worldly
ambition and retired to the mountains. He met, and
became a pupil of, Chung-Ii Ch'üan and was tested by
ordeals and a host of demons. He experienced the time-
illusion when cooking some millet, dreaming a life-time of
history; but on waking he found the millet still uncooked.
He is depicted as a scholar and his attribute is a magic
two-edged sword which  conferred invisibility and with
which he defeated demons. He founded the traditio n of the
Elixir of Life which is associated with the T'ang dynasty,
during which it was developed but kept esoteric. Lü Yen
claimed that he obtained his knowledge from the Master of
the Pass, Kuan Yin-hsi, the man who had asked Lao Tzu to
write down his wisdom before disappearing over the Pass
to the West. This was the traditional origin of the Tao Tê
Ching.
Li T'ieh-kuei, ‘Li with the staﬀ,’ is portrayed as an ugly
beggar, leaning on a crutch. Originally an imposing and
handsome man, he left his body behind when he went oﬀ
in spirit to meet Lao Tzu in a sacred mountain. One story
is that he was gone so long that a disciple had his body
cremated. Another version is that he left instructions for
his body to be cremated after seven days; on the sixth day
the disciple who was looking after the body had news that
his mother had died and, feeling sure that Li would not
return, cremated the body. Returning on the seventh day,
Li's spirit saw only a heap of ashes, and so he entered the
body of a beggar who had just died by the roadside. Hethen lived on in the disgu ise of a crippled beggar, leaning
on a staﬀ. He is often accompanied by a crane of
immortality and has a gourd-bottle from which a vapour
(his spirit) rises; he used to hang the gourd up at night and
jump into it and stay there till morning. After entering the
beggar's body Li went to the disciple's house and stopped
the preparations for the mother's funeral by restoring her
to life.
One version of his departure from the world was that he
changed into a dragon  and ascended heave nwards;
another was that he told a disciple that if he stepped on a
leaf ﬂoating on the water it would bear him safely. The
disciple refused, whereupon Li said he was obviously too
heavy with the cares of the world and then steppe d on the
leaf himself and vanished.The Immortal Wnag-tzu Ch'iao playing the sheng
while riding through the clouds on a crane.
Han Hsiang Tzu was a nephew of the renowned  T'ang
poet Han Yü. He was born with all the marks of a hsien
and devoted himself to alchemy and to ﬁnding the elixir.
He was killed falling from the Peach Tree of Immortality,
which he had climbed in an attempt to pl


 v e r y  e n c o u n t e r  i s  a  h o l y  e n c o u n t e r.
M y goal today is to give and receive love, which is another wa y of
saying, “May God’ s will be done.” T oday I see every interaction as a
holy encounter, in which love is the true bottom line; may I be within
each encounter the best person I can be.
I intend that every situation be one in which I express my truest, most
loving s elf. Wha t happens beyond that, I leave to the intelligence of the
universe. I’m not going anywher e to get anything, but to give m y all. I’m
not going into a n interview, for instance, to try to get a job; I’m going
there to do my job!
Dear God,
May my pr esence today,
Wher ever I am,
Be a blessing on all beings.
May my expr ession, my wor ds and my actions
All align with Y our divine will.
Amen.DA Y 195
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O n  C h a n g i n g  Y o u r  M i n d
I f yo u think of yourself as being at the ef fect of a random universe that
does not  care about you, then you will experience your life tha t way. If
you thin k of yourself as being at the ef fect of a loving universe that does
care about you, then you will experience your life that way.
No m atter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to
think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is o ften our
willingness to change our min ds. Despite what might seem to be the
saddest and most intractable situ ation, we have the power to believe that
something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can
happen. This gives us vision, w hich gives us conviction, which gives us
power.DA Y 196
I f  I  c o w e r  f r o m  m y  g r e a t n e s s,  I  w i t h h o l d  f r o m  t h e
u n i v e r s e.
U nlimited potenti al lies within me, waiting to be activated b y my
readiness to express it. Knowing this, I am a magnet for worldly success.
As I  wor k from joy, the world w ill respond with joy. As I open m y heart,
the way will be made clear for me.
Such owning of my power is an  af front to my ego. But I take a stand
for my greatness today, that the ego shall fall away.
I wil l not be tempted by false humility today. Rather, I r emembe r
that it is humble, not arr ogant, to r eceive and expr ess the powe r
of God. The power of God is unlimited everywher e, including
within me.DA Y 197
I n  o r d e r  t o  g o  d e e p,  I  m a k e  s u r e  I  g o  s l o w l y.
W hen things in the world are troubling, my need is not to join in the
chaos but to cleave to the peace within.
The way  to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn
to slow down. The only way to spread one’ s influence wide is to learn to
go deep. The world I want for myself will not emer ge from e lectronic
speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in my soul.
Then, an d only then, can I create a world that delights my spirit instead
of one that shatters it.
Dear God,
May I r emember to go deep in each moment,
T o truly see and hear and r eflect
On what is happening all ar ound me.
May the depth of my vision and the clarity of my per ceptions
Then deliver me
T o a peaceful place.
Amen.DA Y 198
T o d a y  I  b l e s s  t h e  w o r l d.
A s I wake up today, I bless the world. I pray to be a serv ant to
something holy and true. I breathe deeply and surrender myself to God’ s
plan for my life. I devote this day to miracles.
W orking miracle s is the calling  of my soul, the call to leave behind
the t houghts of fear and replace them with the thoughts of love. Fear is
dying aw ay, in me and in the wo rld. And love is upon us all, if I allow it
within me.
Love is tender but love is str ong. The meek shall inherit the earth
for one r eason only: their str ength will literally take the place
over. T oday may the meekness w ithin my soul become a powerf ul
for ce in my life.DA Y 199
T o d a y  I  m a k e  l o v e  m o r e  i m p o r t a n t  t h a n  t h i n g s.
O ften I have gotten things that I th ought would make me happy, only to
find that they did not. This external searching—looking to anything other
than lov e to complete me and to be the source of my happiness—is the
meaning of idolatry. Money, sex, power, or any other worldly satisfaction
of fers mere temporary relief for minor existential pain.
When I attach value to things that aren’ t love—the money, car,
house, prestige— I am loving things that can’ t love me back. I am
searching for meaning in the meaningless. Material things, of
themselves, me an nothing. It’ s not that they’re bad; it’ s tha t they’re
nothing.
T oday I will not  look to nothingness for an experience it canno t
give me. I look to love, to connection, to beauty, and t o
for giveness to satisfy my soul. As I do so, I will find ther e a peace
that the material world cannot bring. And fr om that place, I wi ll
dwell mor e peacefully in the world.
I d etach fr om an y false beliefs that the material world is the
sour ce o f my good. I embrace in stead the understanding that it is
only in the discernment of meaning that I can find my solace. I
find inne r peace as I detach fr om the belief that the outer world is
my salvation.DA Y 200
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O n  E n l i g h t e n m e n t
Y ou are loved, and your purpose  is to love. From a mind filled with
infinite love comes the power to  create infinite possibilities. W e have the
power to  think in ways that refl ect and attract all the love in th e world.
Such thinking is called enlighten ment. Enlightenment is not a pr ocess we
work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.
Enlightenment is the answer to every problem. In any situation where
you seem to be at the ef fect of forces over which you have no control,
remember that God dwells within your mind, and there are no forces
over which He has no control. Therefore, through His power wi thin you,
there are no mo rtal conditions over which you are powerless. W henever
your go od is obscured by the appearances of an unloving world, the
universe is programmed to lift you out of that condition and return you to
an abundant state.DA Y 201
T o d a y,  h o w  I  d o  t h i n g s  i s  a s  i m p o r t a n t  a s  w h a t  I  d o.
E verything I do is infused with the ener gy with which I do it. I know
that what I’m feeling is commu nicated subconsciously to everyone, and
every thought I think creates form in some way.
T aking responsibility for my ener gy is as important as t aking
responsibility for my behavior, and today I will do that. I see k in any
situation to be a  blessing, a mira cle-worker, an expander of love. That is
my only goal, that I might experience true peace.
Every thought, every feeling, every action has consequences
beyond what we can see. I pray today that the emanations of my
mind an d heart  be purified of fear and uplifted to the level of
divine right or der. May I thus be an instrument of peace.DA Y 202
I  a m  w i l l i n g  t o  l o o k  a t  w h a t  I  n e e d  t o  l o o k  a t.
H aving asked God to heal my life, I know a light will shine on things
that I need to look at. I might see things about myself that I’d rather not
see, and today I commit to myself that I will not look away.
Light cannot be poured


 all brain processes, the mind-
body connection is directly engendered in our genes. The
same is true for healing,  another process that cannot take
place absent genetic activity. However, most geneticists
don’t think in such broad terms; our research studies are
extremely detailed and focused (my specialty is the
neurodegenerative disorder Alzheimer’s disease). The mind
is all too often left out of the equation, and as for quantum,
the word has traditionall y had no bearing on our training,
being the province of physics.
Quantum Healing  looked past this long-accepted
compartmentalization, opening up genetics, along with
every other corner of physiology, to quantum thinking. I
didn’t delve into the mind-body connection when I ﬁrst
began my quest to end Alzheimer’s disease, but since it’s a
brain disorder, I discovered common ground with a broad
thinker like Deepak. After getting  excited about how our
interests and passions overlapped, we wrote a book, Super
Brain,  together. The gist of the book, based on solid
neuroscience, is that the brain is plastic, inﬂuenced by
thoughts, feelings, choices, and most important, self-
awareness. We also explored a radical possibility that
Quantum Healing  ﬁrst proposed: What if the mind is
creating the brain at the same time that the brain is
creating the mind? This was a mind-blowin g (or brain-
blowing) idea, because it ﬂew straight past the insistence
that only physical processes matter in the brain
(materialism) and that every answer lies at the level of the
neuron (reductionism).The basic research that was showing how messenger
molecules carry information from the brain to every cell in
the body was new when Quantum Healing  was published.
Now our knowledge in this area is extremely sophisticated.
The next frontier is the mind-gene connection. Here
Deepak and I have found the most exciting possibilities. We
are actively pursuing the beneﬁcial genetic chan ges that
occur in meditation and other contemplative practices.
Long portrayed as spiritual, these are actually mind-body
techniques that speak to every cell and even deeper, to
every gene. The implications are explosive when it comes
to cutting-edge science in preventing or reversin g chronic
disorders, attacking the causes of aging, and ﬁghting
against the subtle imbal ances that lead to inﬂammation,
now the prime suspect in many disorders, including cancer.
We are proposing that lifestyle choices, insofar as they
aﬀect a person’s genes, can lead to transformati on at the
level where personal evolution occurs. Genes are not the
ﬁxed, stable, immovable entities I was taught about; they
are ﬂuid and dynamic, and their activities are altered by
every experience, thought, word, and action in a person’s
life. So, why not direct your experience to inﬂuence your
genes in the most positive ways? Ground is being broken in
“self-directed biological transformation” (SDBT), our
phrase for personalized conscious evolution. (And a new
book is emerging from this concept, titled Super Genes,  to
bring SDBT into the practicalities of daily life.)
Quantum Healing  didn’t set out to cure cancer or
Alzheimer’s or any other  intractable disease. It set out to
see the human body, and human existence in general,
through wiser eyes. As a scienti st I’m passionate about
genes and the brain; as a person I’m totally fascinated by
the origins of consciousness. Quantum Healing  galvanized
my intuition that these areas do not have to be separated.
They belong together naturally, and once we feel securethat self-awareness is integral to the healthy workings of
the body, it will be integral to existence itself. Beyond that,
the possibilities are inﬁnite.
—
Rudolph Tanzi, Ph.D., is director of the Genetics and Aging
Research Unit and vice chair of neuro logy at
Massachusetts General Hospital. He also serves as the
Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at
Harvard Medical School.
OceanofPDF.comWhen ﬁrst published, Quantum Healing  was a provocative
title based on a controversial idea. The idea was that the
mind inﬂuences the body either to be sick or well. Twenty-
ﬁve years ago the mind-body connection struck most
doctors as weak science,  bad science, or not science at all.
Their medica l school training taught them about  systems,
organs, tissu es, and cells—end of story. Somewhere on the
fringes lurked the placebo eﬀect, a suspicious oddity few
doctors paid attention to. Patients got better when given
sugar pills they thoug ht were drugs. Sometimes the
placebo eﬀect was just as eﬀective as the drugs. Why?
Hardly anyone cared. Placebos were dismissed as
psychosomatic. In other words, they weren’t “real
medicine.” I vivid ly remember the reaction of hospital
colleagues in Boston when they discovered my newfound
interest in the mind-body connection. With a frown or a
pitying smile they asked, “Do you really believe in such a
thing?” Almost three decades later I can reply, “You don’t?”
Controversial ideas have a way of becoming main stream,
and that’s what happened to the mind-body connection. No
longer does anyone have to defend their belief in
meditation, yoga, stress reduction, anger management, and
a host of positive lifestyl e changes. These measures have
one thing in common: Better messages are being sent fromthe mind to the body. With better messages a higher state
of wellbeing is possible. No one disputes this anymore.
The ﬂoodgates have opened, and today Quantum Healing
could be doubled in size by introducing just a fraction of
the new evidence supporting the mind-body connection.
Medical school training is still about systems, organs,
tissues, and cells, but that’s no longer the end of the story.
A new ﬁeld known as integrative medicine has sprung up
since 1989. It incorporates what used to be called
alternative medicine, along with traditional healing
modalities like Ayurveda, which played a large part in my
own journey, as this book recounts.
Yet the mystery of healing is far from solved. I was
baﬄed by Chitra, the ﬁrst patient mentioned in the book,
who somehow recovered from breast cancer without
beneﬁt of conventional treatment (only to die just as
mysteriously). Such cases of spontaneous remission
continue to occur. Just this month I encountered a young
man who had struggled with stomach cancer for six years,
ﬁnally giving up on chemotherapy because  of its
debilitating side eﬀects.
His cancer had metastasized throughout his body, to the
bones and liver. Given six months to live, he traveled to
India, where his family originated, and renounced the
hectic life of New York City for the peace and quiet of the
rural countryside. He took up meditation and yoga. He
became a strict vegetarian. He immersed himself in the
most traditional practices of Ayurveda, practices that have
roots going back thousands of years. As of three months
ago his scans show that he is entirely free of cancer.
There are thousands of spontaneous remissions of cancer
found in Western medica l journals, and yet it’s fair to say
that they make hardly any diﬀerence in the routine practice
of oncology, not directly at least. Cancer treatment has
advanced over the past quarter century, but the path it hasfollowed—toward genetics, sharply focused drugs, and
more precise statistics—has little to do with the mind-body
connection.
Instead, the inﬂuence of spontaneous remissions has
been indirect, by motiva ting research into heali ng itself.
Genetics is a crucial key in cancer, and the mind can
inﬂuence genes. Literally thousands of genetic markers are
improved through meditation, for example. Inﬂammation
could be just as crucial in the onset and spread of cancer,
and inﬂammation is stress related. Stress is a reaction that
begins in the mind, and a person’s mindset can be changed.
Lifestyle choices that lead to obesity, lack of sleep, and
distorted biorhythms are being connected to cancer, and
these bad choices can be reversed.*1
In short, there’s nothing about cancer that is separate
from the mind in one way or another. This realization led
the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to announce
the following in 2008: “Only 5–10% of all cancer cases can
be attributed to genetic defects, whereas the remaining 90–
95% have their roots in the environment and lifestyle.”*2
This represents an enormous shift in attitude. When I was
in medical school, 95 percent of cancers were considered
nonpreventable.
If Quantum Healing  is to remain relevan t, a new
controversial idea is needed. What if all healing is
quantum? Then every barrier separating mind and body
would come down. Every cell would be conscious, not just
brain cells. Beyond the boundary of the skin, all of life
would be conscious, arising on a