based medical practice" w ill transform to a thoughtful, preventive approach to health care. More importantly, simple
physiology-based cures to early disease eme rgence will  become available w ell before irreversible damage can
establish. DYSPEPTIC PAIN
A newly recognized emergency thirst signal of the human body. Dyspe ptic pain is the most important signal for the human body. It  denotes dehydratio n. It is a thirst signal of the
body. It can occur  in the very young, as well as in older people. Chronic and persiste ntly increasing dehydration is
the root cause of almost all currently encountered major diseases of the human body. Of th e dyspeptic pains, that of gastritis, duodenitis, and heartburn should be treated with an increase in water intake
alone. When there is associated ulceration, attention to the daily diet to enhance the rate of repair of the ulcer site
becomes necessary. Accor ding to Professor Howar d Spiro of Yale University, i t is generally understood that 12 percent of those with
dyspepsia develop ulceration in their duodenum after six yea rs, 30 percent after 10 years and 40 percent after 27
years. It is the dyspeptic pain that is of significance, although the condition develops importance once the ulceration
is viewed through the endoscopic examination. It seems that medical practice is becoming more and more a visually
oriented discipline rather than the perceptive and thought-based art that it was at one time. It is the pain associa ted with these differently classified conditions that forces the person to consult a medical
practitioner. It is this pain that is now g etting much attention even though many different jargons are attached to the
local conditions seen through the endoscope. The common factor is the dyspeptic pain. The local tissue  change is
the descrip tive explanation for the changes brought about by the basic common f actor, name ly the initiating
dehydration. How am I able to make such claims? I have treated with only water well over 3000 persons with dyspeptic pain who
had other distinguishing characteristics to  classify them according to those jargons. They all r esponded t o an
increase in their water intake, and their clinical problems associated with the pain disappeared. The report of my
new way of treating dyspeptic pain with water was published as the editorial article in the Journal of Clinical
Gastroenterology in June of 1983. At a certain threshold of dehydration, whe n the body urgently calls for water, nothing else can substitute. No
medication other than water is effective. One of the many patients I treated with water stands out and proves this
fact. He was a  young man in his middle twenties. He had suffered from peptic ulcer disease for a number of years
before the crisis t ime, when I met him. He had the usual diagnostic procedures performed on him and received the
label of "duodenal ulcer." He  had been given antacids and brand name cimetidine medications. Cimetidine is a form of very strong medication that blocks the action of histamine on its "2nd" type receiver points,
generally known as "re ceptors" in the body, and, in this case, known as histamine 2 or Hz receptor. It just happens
that some cells in the stomach that produce the acid are sensitive to this medication. Howev er, many, many other
cells in the body that do not produce acid are also sensitive to this blocking action of the medication. That is why this
medication has many other side effects, (including impotence in the young) and has proven extremely dangerous in
the chronically dehydrated older age group.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        YOUR BODY’S MANY CRIES FOR WATER
F. Batmanghelidj, M. D. DISCLAIMER
The information and recommendations on water intake presented in this book are based on training, personal
experience, very extensive research, and other publications of the author on the topic of water metabolism of the
body. The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use or the discontinuance of any
medication as a form of treatment with out the advice of an attending physician, either directly o r indirectly. The intent
of the author, based on the most recent knowledge of micro-anatomy and molecular physiology, is only to offer
information on the importance of water to well-being, and to help inform the public of the damaging effects of
chronic dehydration to the body—from childhood to old age. This book is not intended as a replacement for sound
medical advice from a physician. On the contrary, sharing of the information contained in this book with the
attending physician is highly desirable. Application of the information and recommendations described herein are
undertaken at the individual's own risk. The adoption of the information should be in strict co mpliance with the
instructions given herein. Very sick persons with past history of major diseases and under professional supervision,
particularly those with severe renal disease, should not make use of the information contained herein without the
supervision of their attending physician. All the recommendations and procedures herein contained are made without guarantee on the part of the author or
the publisher, their agents, or employees. The author and publisher disclaim all liability in connection with the use of
the information presented herein. CONTENTS
Preface. ……. xi
Introduction: Don't Treat Thirst With Medication.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: Who wrote the book "Your Body's Many Cries for Water"?,
A: F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.
Q: What is the author's purpose in writing the book?,
A: To inform the public about the importance of water to well-being and to help the public understand the damaging effects of chronic dehydration on the body.
Q: What is the author's criticism of the medical community?,
A: The author criticizes the medical community for ignoring the importance of water in the human body and for using chemicals and procedures to treat dehydration instead of promoting water intake.
Q: What is the author's proposal for addressing the health care crisis in the US?,
A: The author suggests that the public take control of their own health by adopting a preventive approach to health care and recognizing the importance of water in the body.
Q: What is the author's claim about the role of water in the human body?,
A: The author claims that water regulates all functions of the body, including the activity of all solutes, and that dehydration can cause a wide range of diseases.
Q: What is the author's main criticism of the NIH?,
A: The author accuses the NIH of ignoring his research and not taking his views on chronic dehydration seriously, and instead, perpetuating the use of chemicals and procedures to treat dehydration.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>The first time I set eyes on the young man was at eleven one evening in the summer of 1980. He was in such pain
that he was almost se miconscious. He was lyin g folded in the fetal position on the floor of his room. He was
groaning steadily, unaware of his environment and the worried people around him. When I talked to him, he did not
respond. He was n ot communicating with those around him. I had to shake him to get a response. I asked him wha t was the matter. He groaned, "My ulcer is killing me." I asked him how long he had had the pain. He said his pain started at one in the afternoon, immediately after his lunch. The pain increased in intensity a s time
passed. I asked him what he had done to get relief and if he had taken any medication. He replied that he had taken
three tablets of cim etidine and one whole bottle of antacid during this time. He indicated that he got absolutely no
relief, even with this amount of medication, in the ten hours sin ce his pain first started. When so much medication cannot relieve the pain of peptic ulcer disease, one automatically becomes suspicious of
"acute abdomen," som ething that might possibly need surgical exploration. Maybe his ulcer had perforated! I had
seen and assiste d in the operation of patients with perforated peptic ulcers. Those persons were devastated—very
much like the young man before me. The test is very sim ple; such patients develop a very rigid abdominal wall,
almost like a wooden board. I felt for the rigidity of the wall of the abdomen in this young man. Fortunately, he hadnot perforated. His a bdominal wall was soft, but tender from the pain. He was lucky he had not perforated, although
if he had continued like this, the acid would have punched a hole through his now inflamed ulcer. The arsenal of medications in such circumsta nces is very limited. Three cimetidine tablets of 300 milligrams each
and one full bottle of antacid could not relieve the pain. Often, such cases would end on the operating table of a
knife-happy surgeon. Because of my extensive experience with the pain-relieving property of water in dyspeptic
pains, I gave this man two full glasses o f water—one pint. At first he was reluctant to drink the water. I told him he
had taken the usual medications without any re sult. He should now try "my medication" for this disease. He had no
choice. He was i n severe pain and did not know w hat to do about it. I sat in a corner and observed him for a few
minutes. I had to leave the


 key area for sexual arousal and orgasmic brinkmanship.
Q: What is the purpose of the Saliva Fountain exercise?,
A: The exercise is designed to stimulate the saliva glands and aid digestion.
Q: What is the primary goal of the Kitten Stretch exercise?,
A: The exercise aims to stimulate the sacrum and coccyx, which control movements and sensations throughout the lower limbs and genital and anal areas.
Q: What is the purpose of the erotic kiss?,
A: The kiss is an essential part of love-play, and it is crucial for the partner to be aware of the other's reactions and preferences to ensure mutual satisfaction.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>An erotic massage can be a whole-body affair, beginning at
fingers and toes and progressing along the limbs to the rest of the
body. This easily takes an hour. Partners may prefer an abridged
version concentrating on the torso and thighs, which takes 20
minutes or less. The partner being massaged should try to relax,
at times with eyes closed, and breathe slowly and deeply with the
diaphragm. Manipula tive techniques arc numerous, and include
effleurage (long, rhythmic stroking), tapotement (patting, per
cussing), petrissag e (compressing, kneading), rubbing, pinching, Sprin.� Urmr�fiy a"d Pracoclt Tease
207 ANCIENT SECR ETS FOR MODER N LOVERS
pressing, scraping, grasping, hammering, shaking, and vibrating. The n1asseur or n1asseuse performs these with thumb and finger
pads, fingers, palms, palm edges, fists, and even soles and elbows. It is fascinating to listen to the rhythm of massage as performed
by an expert; it may resemble a work of classical music, from the
prelude, through the 1nain section with its changing cadences, to
the grand finale. Head and neck: Stroke with the fingers of both hands, with moder
ate pressure, from the middle of the forehead to the sides. Press on
the temples with the fingertips, moderately and rhythmically. Massage both sides of the chin with the fingers. With the thumb
and index finger of one hand, press and pinch the back of the
neck, starting from the base of the skull and moving down to the
base of the neck. Next stroke the sides of the neck with the fingers
of both hands. Shoulders: With the thumb and index finger of one hand, pinch
the tendons between the back and sides of the neck and the shoul
ders. Start with light pinches; if your partner responds favorably,
increase the pressure to firm. Knead the muscles on the outside of
both shoulders. Upper back: With the partner lying prone, the masseur or mas
seuse kneels astride the waist. The best way to massage the back is
with acupressure. Use the thumb pads to press with moderate
firmness between the roots of the ribs, about 1 'h. inches from the
spine, and on either side. Press tor about 3 or 4 seconds, then re
lease, and move to the next points, and the next, until you reach
the waist. An invigorating harnnter massage with the fists is great
for the fleshy part of the upper back. Lower back: Stroke the arl'a with tingers and pahns, while kneel
ing astride the partner's knees. Com bin e the tnassagc with pres
sure on the love points, especially the in1portant mitz,\!-tl'letl. Buttocks: After pressing the love points in the sacr al-co ccygeal area,
usc the ntassage techniques best for the fleshy but tocks proper. Kneel astride your partnl·r's thighs. Use the pahns to press both
checks with the force of your body weight for about 10 seconds. Then soothe the buttocks w ith tingt·rs stroking upward vt·rtical ly,
left tingcrs on left buttock, right on right. Star t fron1 the valley
and strokt• to both sidt·s. Nt·xt press and palp ate the butt ocks
tnodcratdy with both paln1s, so that vital energy flows front your
hands to your partnt•r's body. Grasp a hand ful of flesh wit h all
your fingers, and knead \Vith finn prt•ssurc. Then knead all over
the buttocks. Percussion on the butt ocks is particularly stitnulating. With
the edgt·s of both paln1s, chop the left and right buttocks alter
nately. rapidly and with tnodcratt' force. You n1ay usc your own
steady rhythn1 or follow that of a recorded tunc. Progress to an
other fonn of percussion by slapping the buttocks with partially
cupped hands. Don't n1ind the resulting noise; the massage is ex
tremely invigorating-and fun too. Breasts: Let your partner lie supine, with arms slightly extended,
and teet about 12 inches apart. The front of the body is to be mas
saged. With your fingers, sweep your partner's body-from toes
to legs, thighs, torso, and finally down the arms. Do this a few
times for a tranquilizing effect. To massage a woman's breasts, use
only the palms, except when you are pressing love points lightly. Put one palm under a breast, lift it slightly, and stroke it with the
palm. Meanwh ile, with the spread fingers of the other hand,
press very gently, with the same rhythm as for the palm move
ment. Move to the other breast. Only feather-light stroking should
be used on the nipples. Massage of the breasts is best combined
with the game of love points for this area and the Breast Circles
exercise done by the massaged partner. Cinnabar field: This soft, unpr otected portion of the body is very
vulnerable in kung fu-and in love-play. Massage the area with
one or both palms, pressing down lightly. This is best done if the
active partner kneels astride and on the partner's thighs, or kneels
between the partner's spread thighs. Combine the massag e with
the game of love points for this area and the Cinnabar Field Mas
sage. Since the cinnabar field region is where life-force and sexual
chi are generated, be sure to recharge it with your deft hands. Groin: With the pads of three extended fingers, massage along
one groin of the partner, then the other. A bit of scented oil will SpritJ.� Buttr�fiy tmd Pracock Ttase
209 protect the tender skin here frotn friction. A woman doing the
massaging should use her free hand to push the man's genitals
slightly to the side. Thighs: Grasp the front muscles of the thigh with the fingers and
thumbs of both hands, and knead. Grasp up and down between
the groin and the knee. Then press moderately with the thumb on
points about an inch apart, down a line. Move to a line about 1 1h
inches to the side. Finally, stroke lightly on the inside of the thighs
with the finger pads. By then the partner being massaged should
spread his or her thighs wide apart and bend the knees, to facili
tate the next massage. Perineum: Press the perin eum love point, hui-yirz, rhythmically, and
then n1assage the entire perineum, from the edge of the anus to
the edge of the vulva or the botton1 of the scrotum. If this is done
with finesse, the sexual life-force of the massaged partner will
flare up, so that the partners can go directly to coitus, or to more
intense love games such as Playing the Flute or Jade Fountain. THREE fOUN TAINS
The triple game of Three Fountains is based on the Art of the
Three Peaks, which enables a man to obtain sexual nutrients from
the three peaks of a woman's body: the Red Lotus Peak (tongue),
the Twin Lotus Peaks (breasts), and the Purple Agaric Peak (cli
toris). On each peak is a fountain: the Heav enly Fountain, the
Twin Fountains, and the Jade Fountain, respectively. The triple
gan1e may be played separately, or in sequenc e during love-play. It
is described here as three individual gan1es:
H£'al'l'tliy Formtaiu: This love garne, which can be played betw een
partner s dur ing dl·ep kissing, involves stirnulating secretion of
the partner's saliva, and drinking it as an elixi r. While kissing, use
your tongue to caress you r partner's tongue. Then use the tip of
the ton gue to sweep ove r and titil late the roof of your partner's
rnouth next to the n1olars on both sides, wher e ducts leading frotn
saliva glands arc located, and to sweep the floor of your partn er's
n1outh along the inside of the teeth and especially next to


 the whole nightmare
had begun—it was over. The government agreed to drop
all charges against me. I didn’t feel joy, and I didn’t feel relief. What I felt was
a d eep sense of appreciation that in the end, truth
triumphed. It may have taken divine intervention, but
the truth won. Tempering this feeling, however, was the
fact tha t John Kang and John Sessions were still headedfor trial. I had been exposed to all the documents in the
case, and the o nly things I ever saw being done willfully
wrong w ere the actions of Bo bby Davids and his group. I
knew th at John Kang and John Sessions had both just
done their jobs to the best of  their ability. I worked with
Randy s o that he and his team  could do all they could to
provide support during the trial. They couldn’t
participate directly, but they were present and wrote up
most of  the summaries, mot ions, and other documents
needed during and after the proceedings. The trial went extremely well. John Kang’s attorney
turned out to be an excelle nt litigator, and he pretty
much handled all the cross-examination of the
government witnesses, including Bobby and his
paramour from  the accounting department, Caroline. By
the time the government rested its case, the defense
attorneys felt that almost every government witness had
been turned into a favorable witness for the defense. That being the case, the defe nse also rested. Given what
had taken place in that cour troom over the past month
and a half, no one coul d possibly feel that the
government h ad proven its case beyond a reasonable
doubt. With both sides havin g rested, the case went to
the jury. The jurors did not deliberate  very long. After only five
or s ix hours, t hey announce d that they had reached a
unanimous verdict. Given what had transpired during
the trial, that seemed like a reasonable amount of
deliberation. On March 1, 2010, the jury gathered back in
the courtroom and read the verdict: guilty as charged. The defense was stunned. The judge dropped his head
into h is hands. What had happened? Post-trial
interviews with the jurors showed that the case was
pretty much over after opening arguments. The
government had presented such a simplistic,
overwhelming view of what had been done wrong in the
company that most jurors had  made their minds up rightthen. Just hearing the govern ment tell its story had been
enough for most of the jurors. It was very sad. Our legal
system had not worked. The truth had not been
uncovered, and John Kang and John Sessions awaited
sentencing. Only one glimmer of hope was still burning. The
defense had filed a motion for dismissal based on the
statute of limitations, and the judge had not yet ruled on
that motion. On May 27, 2010, almost three months after
trial, Judge Norton issued his ruling and dismissed the
entire case against John Kang and John Sessions. In that
ruling, the judge took the opportunity to again and again
chastise the government for what had happened in this
case. Among his other comp laints, he questioned why
the government would kee p so many people under
indictment for five years and then drop all charges just
before trial. Judge Norton pointed out that this had
helped drive the pretrial defense cost of the case to more
than $190 million. I wa s p leased t hat John Kang and John Sessions were
free with nothing on their rec ords. I was also encouraged
that at least so meone had noticed the absurdity of what
had taken place. But it wasn’t necessarily over: the
government had the right to appeal the judge’s dismissal. In c ase that ha ppened, the defense had filed a motion for
retrial. This motion was based  on the bold argument that
the jury had been mistaken—the weight of the evidence
presented at trial did not support the verdict. On
January 19, 2011, almost a year after trial, the whole
truth and nothing but the tru th finally broke through. On
that day, when Judge Norton signed his ruling regarding
the retrial motion, Jefferson,  Mason, and Madison must
have breathed a sigh of relief. After two hundred years of
interpretations of what they  had intended—the system
had worked. Truth and Justic e would have the final word
after all.It ha d b een mo re than seven years since Bobby Davids
had walked into the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charleston
and beg un telling his lies. That web of illusion gained
momentum and ensnarled everything in its way. But it
did not make it past the chief U.S. judge of South
Carolina. Judge Norton had sat through the entire trial
and heard all the evidence. The jury may have been
willing to accept the government’s story at face value—
without holdin g prosecutors  to a reasonable burden of
proof—but the  judge was not. In case his dismissal order
was overruled, Judge Norton not only approved the
defendants’ m otion for a ne w trial, but in a nineteen-
page opinion he tore the gove rnment’s case to shreds. He
stated that the government had not proven that there
was any conspiracy among the executives, but to the
contrary, the evidence supported that the executives at
Medical Manag er believed that the accounting was being
done p roperly. He went on to state that he found the
government’s chief witnesses, Bobby and Caroline, to be
noncredible, and that Caroline appeared to just be
parroting Bobby’s words. I r ead Judge N orton’s ruling  with a sense of awe and
relief. N ow it was over. In  the end, the person who
mattered most had seen through the noise and
recognized the  truth. I didn’t know that a judge could put
aside th e jury’s verdict because he believed it was not
supported by the weight of the evidence. Judge Norton
made it  clear that he not onl y had the right to put aside
the verdict, he had the obligation. This was the
Constitution in its finest hour. It was framed to protect
the citiz ens from their government. But, alas, it is just a
piece of paper. The judge is th e only agent through which
that protection  can come to life. In my eyes, both of the
judges in this case are heroes. They showed why our
separate bran ches of government create important
checks and balances against one another. These judges
had tak en a vow to protect the Constitution, and they
selflessly did just that.54  It is worth noting that years earlier the federal prosecutor in South
Carolina who originally filed the charges had resigned, and the
Department of Justice in Washington had pretty much taken over the case. 5  For those interested, the government chose not to appeal Judge
Norton’s dismissal of the case. In the end, all the indicted Medical
Manager executives walked away free.5 6. R e t u r n i n g  t o  t h e  B e g i n n i n g
W hen the smoke cleared, the whirlwind of life had
dropped me off exactly whe re she had picked me up. After forty years, I still lived j ust down the field from the
house I had built when I  moved to the woods to
meditate. I was still meeting with people every morning
and evening for services in the Temple, including the
large Sunday morning gathe rings started back in 1972. But the original ten acres the Temple sat on was now
surrounded by nine hundred acres of rolling fields and
beautiful forests over which life had made us steward. The foundatio ns of my life  had remained completely
undisturbed throughout this entire dance with the
Universal Flow. The legal ordeal quickly became a distant memory,
almost a dream. It had c ome and gone, just like
everything else. I could clea rly see that because I had
inwardly surre ndered each step of the way, no scars were
left on my psyc he. It had bee n like writing on water—the
impressions only lasted while the events were actually
taking place. Yet in the moment of actual experience,
each twist and turn had re ached deep inside me and
forced me past foundatio nal fears and personal
boundaries. A s long as I was willing to accept the
purification po wer of life’s flow, I kept coming out on the
other side a transformed person. How could I consider
this a bad experience when it created such beauty and
freedom within me? To the co ntrary, I stand in awe of all
that has happened since I started this amazing
experiment of acceptance and surrender.One thi ng is for certain: he who left on this journey—
never returned. The flow of life had served as sandpaper
that, to  a great extent, freed  me of myself. Unable to
unbind myself from the incessant pull of my psyche, in
an act of sheer  desperation, I had thrown myself into the
arms of life. F rom that point forward, all I did was my
very be st to serve what was put in front of me and let go
of what  it stirred up within me.


-four	grant-years	of	funding. In	other	words,
because	we	had	more	than	one	research	program	being	conducted	at	once,	my
colleagues	and	I	did	seventy-four	years’	worth	of	funded	research	in	less	than
thirty-five	years. From	this	research	I	have	authored	or	co-authored	over	350
scientific	articles. Numerous	awards	were	extended	to	me	and	to	my	students
and	colleagues	for	this	long	series	of	studies	and	publications. They	included,
among	others,	the	1998	American	Institute	for	Cancer	Research	award	“in
recognition	of	a	lifetime	of	significant	accomplishments	in	scientific
research…	in	diet,	nutrition	and	cancer,”	a	1998	award	as	one	of	the	“Top	25
Food	Influentials”	by
Self
	magazine	and	the	2004	Burton	Kallman	Scientific
Award	by	the	Natural	Nutrition	Food	Association. Moreover,	invitations	to
lecture	at	research	and	medical	institutions	in	more	than	forty	states	and
several	foreign	countries	attested	to	the	interest	in	these	findings	from	the
professional	communities. My	appearance	before	congressional	committees
and	federal	and	state	agencies	also	indicated	substantial	public	interest	in	our
findings. Interviews	on	the
McNeil-Lehrer	News	Hour
	program,	at	least
twenty-five	other	TV	programs,	lead	stories	in
USA	Today,
	the
New	York
Times,
	and	the
Saturday	Evening	Post
	and	widely	publicized	TV
documentaries	on	our	work	have	also	been	a	part	of	our	public	activities.THE	PROMISE	OF	THE	FUTURE
Through	all	of	this,	I	have	come	to	see	that	the	benefits	produced	by	eating	a
plant-based	diet	are	far	more	diverse	and	impressive	than	any	drug	or	surgery
used	in	medical	practice. Heart	diseases,	cancers,	diabetes,	stroke	and
hypertension,	arthritis,	cataracts,	Alzheimer’s	disease,
impotence	and	all	sorts
of	other	chronic	diseases	can	be	largely	prevented. These	diseases,	which
generally	occur	with	aging	and	tissue	degeneration,	kill	the	majority	of	us
before	our	time. Additionally,	impressive	evidence	now	exists	to	show	that	advanced	heart
disease,	relatively	advanced	cancers	of	certain	types,	diabetes	and	a	few	other
degenerative	diseases	can	be	reversed	by	diet. I	remember	when	my	superiors
were	only	reluctantly	accepting	the	evidence	of	nutrition	being	able	to
prevent
heart	disease,	for	example,	but	vehemently	denying	its	ability	to
reverse
	such
a	disease	when	already	advanced. But	the	evidence	can	no	longer	be	ignored. Those	in	science	or	medicine	who	shut	their	minds	to	such	an	idea	are	being
more	than	stubborn;	they	are	being	irresponsible. One	of	the	more	exciting	benefits	of	good	nutrition	is	the	prevention	of
diseases	that	are	thought	to	be	due	to	genetic	predisposition. We	now	know
that	we	can	largely	avoid	these	“genetic”	diseases	even	though	we	may	harbor
the	gene	(or	genes)	that	is	(are)	responsible	for	the	disease.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        PRAISE	FOR
THE	CHINA	STUDY
“
The	China	Study
	gives	critical,	life-saving	nutritional	information	for	every
health-seeker	in	America. But	it	is	much	more;	Dr. Campbell’s	exposé	of	the
research	and	medical	establishment	makes	this	book	a	fascinating	read	and
one	that	could	change	the	future	for	all	of	us. Every	health	care	provider	and
researcher	in	the	world	must	read	it. ”
—-J
OEL
	F
UHRMAN
,	M. D. Author	of	the	Best-Selling	Book,
Eat	To
	Live
“Backed	by	well-documented,	peer-reviewed	studies	and	overwhelming
statistics	the	case	for	a	vegetarian	diet	as	a	foundation	for	a	healthy	life-style
has	never	been	stronger. ”
—B
RADLEY
	S
AUL
,	OrganicAthlete. com
The
China	Study
	is	the	most	important	book	on	nutrition	and	health	to	come
out	in	the	last	seventy-five	years. Everyone	should	read	it,	and	it	should	be	the
model	for	all	nutrition	programs	taught	at	universities. The	reading	is
engrossing	if	not	astounding. The	science	is	conclusive. Dr. Campbell’s
integrity	and	commitment	to	truthful	nutrition	education	shine	through. ”
—D
AVID
	K
LEIN
,	Publisher/Editor
Living
Nutrition	Magazine
“
The	China	Study
	describes	a	monumental	survey	of	diet	and	death	rates	from
cancer	in	more	than	2,400	Chinese	counties	and	the	equally	monumental
efforts	to	explore	its	significance	and	implications	for	nutrition	and	health.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the main focus of Dr. Campbell's book, "The China Study"?,
A: The book provides a comprehensive and scientifically-based guide to nutrition and health, emphasizing the importance of a plant-based diet in preventing and reversing chronic diseases.
Q: Who has endorsed "The China Study"?,
A: The book has been endorsed by numerous experts in the field, including Dr. John Robbins, Dr. Robert Goodland, Dr. Dean Ornish, and many others.
Q: What is the main theme of Dr. Campbell's research?,
A: Dr. Campbell's work focuses on the connection between diet and health, and he has conducted extensive research to understand the relationship between diet and disease.
Q: What is the main message of the book "The China Study"?,
A: The book emphasizes the importance of a plant-based diet in preventing and reversing chronic diseases, and provides scientifically-based evidence to support this claim.
Q: What is the author's intention with this book?,
A: The author, Dr. Campbell, aims to provide a comprehensive and scientifically-based guide to nutrition and health, empowering readers to make informed decisions about their diet and health.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>But	funding	of
genetic	research	continues	to	spiral	upwards	in	the	belief	that	specific	genes
account	for	the	occurrence	of	specific	diseases,	in	the	hope	that	we	somehow
will	be	able	to	“turn	off”	these	nasty	genes. Drug	company	public	relations
programs	now	depict	a	future	where	each	of	us	will	have	a	personal	ID	card
cataloging	all	of	our	good	and	bad	genes. Using	this	card,	we	will	be	expected
to	go	to	our	doctor,	who	will	prescribe	a	single	pill	to	suppress	our	bad	genes. I	strongly	suspect	these	miracles	will	never	be	realized,	or	if	tried	they	will
have	serious,	unintended	consequences. These	futuristic	pipe	dreams	obscure
the	affordable,	efficacious	health	solutions	that	currently	exist:	solutions
based	in	nutrition. In	my	own	laboratory	we	have	shown	in	experimental	animals	that	cancer
growth	can	be	turned	on	and	off	by	nutrition,	despite	very	strong	genetic
predisposition. We	have	studied	these	effects	in	great	detail	and	have
published	our	findings	in	the	very	best	scientific	journals. As	you	will	see
later,	these	findings	are	nothing	short	of	spectacular,	and	the	same	effects
have	been	indicated	over	and	over	again	in	humans. Eating	the	right	way	not	only	prevents	disease	but	also	generates	health
and	a	sense	of	well-being,	both	physically	and	mentally. Some	world-class
athletes,	such	as	ironman	Dave	Scott,	track	stars	Carl	Lewis	and	EdwinMoses,	tennis	great	Martina	Navratilova,	world	champion	wrestler	Chris


pread	from	her	ovaries	to	her
lymph	system. 1
	Friends	and	fellow	churchgoers	had	told	her	and	her	husband
about	the	Laetrile	treatment	and	its	ability	to	cure	advanced	cancer. In	the
magazine	article,
1
	Sylvia’s	husband	said,	“There	are	at	least	a	dozen	people	in
this	area	who	were	told	they	were	going	to	be	dead	from	cancer	who	used
Laetrile	and	now	they’re	out	playing	tennis. ”
The	catch,	however,	was	that	Laetrile	was	a	highly	contentious	treatment. Some	people	in	the	medical	establishment	argued	that	animal	studies	had
repeatedly	shown	Laetrile	to	have	no	effect	on	tumors. 1
	Because	of	this,	the
U. S. Food	and	Drug	Administration	had	decided	to	suppress	the	use	of
Laetrile,	which	gave	rise	to	the	popular	clinics	south	of	the	border. One
famous	hospital	in	Tijuana	treated	“as	many	as	20,000	American	patients	a
year. ”
1
	One	of	those	patients	was	Sylvia	Dutton,	for	whom	Laetrile
unfortunately	did	not	work. But	Laetrile	was	only	one	of	many	alternative	health	products. By	the	end
of	the	1970s,	Americans	were	spending	$1	billion	a	year	on	various
supplements	and	potions	that	promised	magical	benefits. 2
	These	included
pangamic	acid,	which	was	touted	as	a	previously	undiscovered	vitamin	with
virtually	unlimited	powers,	various	bee	concoctions	and	other	supplement
products	including	garlic	and	zinc. 2
At	the	same	time	in	the	scientific	community,	more	and	more	health
information,	specifically	nutrition	information,	was	being	generated	at	a
furious	pace. In	1976,	Senator	George	McGovern	had	convened	a	committee
that	drafted	dietary	goals	recommending	decreased	consumption	of	fatty
animal	foods	and	increased	consumption	of	fruits	and	vegetables	because	of
their	effects	on	heart	disease. The	first	draft	of	this	report,	linking	heart
disease	and	food,	caused	such	an	uproar	that	a	major	revision	was	required
before	it	was	released	for	publication. In	a	personal	conversation	McGovern
told	me	that	he	and	five	other	powerful	senators	from	agricultural	states	lost
their	respective	elections	in	1980	in	part	because	they	had	dared	to	take	on	the
animal	foods	industry. At	the	end	of	the	1970s,	the	McGovern	report	succeeded	in	prodding	the
government	to	produce	its	first-ever	dietary	guidelines,	which	were	rumored
to	promote	a	message	similar	to	that	of	McGovern’s	committee. At	about	thesame	time,	there	were	widely	publicized	government	debates	about	whether
food	additives	were	safe,	and	whether	saccharin	caused	cancer. PLAYING	MY	PART
In	the	late	1970s	I	found	myself	in	the	middle	of	this	rapidly	changing
environment. By	1975	my	program	in	the	Philippines	had	ended,	and	I	was
well	into	my	experimental	laboratory	work	here	in	the	United	States,	after
having	accepted	a	full	professorship	with	tenure	at	Cornell	University. Some
of	my	early	work	on	aflatoxin	and	liver	cancer	in	the	Philippines	(chapter
two)	had	garnered	widespread	interest,	and	my	subsequent	laboratory	work
investigating	nutritional	factors,	carcinogens	and	cancer	(chapter	three)	was
attracting	national	attention. At	that	time,	I	had	one	of	only	two	or	three
laboratories	in	the	country	doing	basic	research	on	nutrition	and	cancer. It	was
a	novel	endeavor. From	1978	to	1979	I	took	a	year-long	sabbatical	leave	from	Cornell	to	go
to	the	epicenter	of	national	nutritional	activity,	Bethesda,	Maryland. The
organization	that	I	was	working	with	was	the	Federation	of	American
Societies	for	Experimental	Biology	and	Medicine,	or	FASEB. Six	individual
research	societies	made	up	the	federation,	representing	pathology,
biochemistry,	pharmacology,	nutrition,	immunology	and	physiology	The
FASEB	sponsored	the	annual	joint	meetings	of	all	six	societies,	and	upwards
of	more	than	20,000	scientists	attended. I	was	a	member	of	two	of	these
societies,	nutrition	and	pharmacology,	and	was	particularly	active	in	the
American	Institution	of	Nutrition	(now	named	the	American	Society	for
Nutritional	Sciences). My	principle	work	was	to	chair,	under	contract	to	the
Food	and	Drug	Administration,	a	committee	of	scientists	investigating
potential	hazards	of	using	nutrient	supplements. While	there,	I	also	was	invited	to	be	on	a	public	affairs	committee	that
served	as	liaison	between	the	FASEB	and	Congress. The	committee’s	charge
was	to	stay	on	top	of	congressional	activity	and	represent	our	societies’
interests	in	dealings	with	lawmakers. We	reviewed	policies,	budgets	and
position	statements,	met	with	congressional	staffs,	and	held	meetings	around
big,	impressive	“boardroom”	tables	in	distinguished,	august	meeting	rooms. I
often	got	the	feeling	I	was	in	the	citadel	of	science. As	a	prerequisite	to	representing	my	nutrition	society	on	this	public	affairs
committee,	I	first	had	to	decide,	for	myself,	how	nutrition	is	best	defined. It’s
a	far	more	difficult	question	than	you	may	think. We	had	scientists	who	were
interested	in	applied	nutrition,	which	involves	people	and	communities. We
had	medical	doctors	interested	in	isolated	food	compounds	as
pharmacological	drugs	and	research	scientists	who	only	worked	with	isolated
cells	and	well-identified	chemicals	in	the	laboratory. We	even	had	people	who
thought	nutrition	studies	should	focus	on	livestock	as	well	as	people. Theconcept	of	nutrition	was	far	from	clear;	clarification	was	critical. The	average
American’s	view	of	nutrition	was	even	more	varied	and	confused. Consumers
were	constantly	being	duped	by	fads,	yet	remained	intensely	interested	in
nutrient	supplements	and	dietary	advice	coming	from	any	source,	whether
that	source	was	a	diet	book	or	a	government	official. One	day	in	late	spring	of	1979,	while	doing	my	more	routine	work,	I	got	a
call	from	the	director	of	the	public	affairs	office	at	the	FASEB	who
coordinated	the	work	of	our	congressional	“liaison”	committee. Ellis	informed	me	that	there	was	yet	another	new	committee	being	formed
within	one	of	the	FASEB	Societies,	the	American	Institute	of	Nutrition,	that
might	interest	me. “It’s	being	called	the	Public	Nutrition	Information	Committee,”	he	told
me,	“and	one	of	its	responsibilities	will	be	to	decide	what	is	sound	nutritional
advice	to	give	to	the	public. “Obviously,”	he	said,	“there’s	a	big	overlap	between	what	this	new
committee	wants	to	do	and	what	we	do	on	the	public	affairs	committee. ”
I	agreed. “If	you’re	interested,	I	would	like	to	have	you	join	this	new	committee	as	a
representative	of	the	public	affairs	office,”	he	said. The	proposal	sounded	good	to	me	because	it	was	early	in	my


 duplicated by Dr. William
Shive and his colleagues at the University of Texas. Dr. Shive
found that raw cabbage juice—as well as the juices of some other vegetables—tends to prevent ulcers and to cure them. He studied 100 cases in which the ulcerous condition was so
severe that the use of the bland diet and anti-ulcer drugs had
failed. But the drinking of one quart of fresh, raw cabbage
juice per day by these patients brought about marked
beneficial results. The use of raw cabbage juice in amounts
less than one quart per day promotes less rapid recovery than
does the full quota but it is of definite value, and even a glass
of juice per day tends to reduce or eliminate the pain in some
cases. The raw cabbage juice is also an important aid to normal elimination and it improves the general health of the
ulcer patient as well as promoting recovery of his primary affliction. The "scraped apple" diet is an old German folk remedy for
both diarrhea and constipation. Modern scientists have
employed raw apple in the treatment of these same conditions
with very good effects. T. L. Birnberg treated diarrhea in children with raw, grated apple and obtained completely
successful results in 88 per cent of all cases. He noted relief
from abdominal pain achieved almost immediately, normal stools achieved in 24 hours, reduction of fever within 48
hours, and disappearance of mucus in 60 hours. The
beneficial effects of raw apple in these cases are attributed to
the presence of "hydrophilic colloids" in the food which absorb excessive water and furnish bulk to control peristalsis. Of particular interest is the therapeutic value of raw honey. This food has long been known as a "folk medicine" for hay fever and asthma, and recent experimental studies conducted
at the William Beaumond General Hospital in El Paso, Texas
have shown that raw honey containing the pollen of the
offending grasses or weeds builds up a natural resistance to
these agents in the body, thereby offering relief to the hay fever victims. Studies made by P. E. Weesen of the
Frauenfelder Sanitarium of Europe showed that patients given
raw honey exceeded all others both in strength and healthy
appearance. Dr. Paula Emrich tested 100 children, and found
that those given raw honey achieved a 12 per cent increase in hemoglobin content of their blood over the others. Dr.
Rolleder
gave a smaller quantit y of raw hone y to 58 children of an Austrian orphanage and noted a hemoglobin increase of
8½ per cent. Dr. Schacht of Wiesbaden claimed to have cured
many supposedly hopeless cases of gastric and intestinal
ulcers with raw honey, and the celebrated Father Sebastian Kneipp remarked that "smaller ulcers in the stomach are
quickly contracted, broken and healed by it." Surprisingly,
raw honey has even been given to treat diabetes. Dr. A. Y.
Davidov of Russia noted that it tended to prevent acetonemia,
and in spite of its high sugar content, its use was associated with the actual reduction of sugar in the urine. The American
physicians, Dr. L. R. Emerick of Eaton, Ohio, and the late Dr.
R. J. Goss of Middlebury, Vermont, have treated hundreds of
diabetic patients with raw honey, achieving remarkable
success and vast improvement in the weight, strength, and
appearance of many patients. The value of raw liver in treating pernicious anemia is now
well known. As early as 1926 Drs. Murphy and Minot were
curing severe cases of this disease with raw liver, and they
claimed there was some unidentified factor in the food which
stimulated the growth of red corpuscles. At first this was
called the "red blood vitamin." It is now known that there are two such factors, folic acid and vitamin B
12, both of which
are destroyed by heat. Thus, whereas well-cooked liver is
practically useless in these cases, raw liver brings about
consistent and rapid recovery. For perhaps the same reason
raw liver, given to weak and undersized children, has been reported to increase vigor and strength and improve the rate
of growth. Other raw meat products are also of unquestioned
therapeutic importance. When tuberculosis was still a
common disease in this country, frail and consumptive people would be seen going to slaughterhouses to obtain draughts of
fresh blood, which were believed to be of great value in such
cases. In countries where tuberculosis remains prevalent, this
practice is still followed, with reportedly good results. On a
clinical basis the celebrated French physiologist, Prof. Charles Richet, was among the first to use raw beef juice in
the treatment of tuberculosis, and he reported excellent results
in this practice. More recently other European physicians are
following this same method, and they apply the term,
"zomotherapy" to designate treatment of disease with raw meat or raw meat-juice. They claim success with
zomotherapy in treating many conditions, including anemia,
neurasthenia, debility, convalescence, and latent, incipient, or
active tuberculosis. Few raw foods have been as highly recommended as
sunflower seeds
, squash seeds, pumpkin seeds, and watermelon seeds in the treatment of disease. Several years
ago, J. I. Rodale noticed that sunflower seeds, when used in
their raw state, effected a remarkable cure for some cases of
bleeding gums. After his report on this subject was published, new evidence accumulated which indicated that raw
sunflower seeds were also useful in treating gum sores,
dermatitis, rheumatism, rheumatic fever, arthritis, and kidney
disease. The teeth were said to improve under the sunflower
seed treatment, as was the condition of the eyes. Raw squash and pumpkin seeds have been recommended as worm
expellents. An infusion made by soaking dried watermelon
seeds in water was an old Indian folk treatment for kidney
and bladder infections, and many in modern life have also
testified as to the efficiency of this treatment. The watermelon seeds may also be eaten in their fresh state with
good results. While much of the evidence in favor of these
uncooked seed foods is in the form of testimonials rather than
clinical data, it is too extensive to be ignored. Whether we
consider the seeds as effective "folk medicine" or just good
food, they are doubtless of much value in modern nutrition. Raw foods have even been used to improve the intelligence
quotients and mental attitudes of backward children. In
Germany, Dr. Lottner reported an experiment in which 33
children, having low intelligent quotients and attending a
school for backward children, were given a raw breakfast
each morning. This was in the form of "muesli" an uncooked porridge made from oat flakes, milk, fruits, nuts, and honey. The children given the raw breakfasts rapidly improved over
all the others. They did better work in dictation, arithmetic, letter-cancelling, and drawing completion tests. They were
also less restless, did not become tired as rapidly as before,
and showed better concentration in accomplishing their daily
work. C
LINICAL APPLICATION OF THE RAW FOOD DIET
   If the simple addition of certain raw foods to a normal diet
produces such startling changes in human health, it may be
expected that a diet composed entirely, or nearly so, of raw foods would be much more beneficial and achieve more rapid
and far-reaching results. This has been shown to be true at the
Pottenger Sanitarium in California, where a large variety of
raw foods has been employed for therapuetic purposes. Dr. Pottenger writes that "the highest grade of raw milk,
raw meat, raw vegetables, and fruit products obtainable" are
used in the clinical work. He points out that "we have been able to im
prove the physiolo gic res ponse of children who have previously been developing in a deficient manner"
similar to the experimental animals which were fed upon
heat-processed foods. Even defective facial growth has been
improved, and Pottenger states that "when additional growth stimulation is applied to certain deficient children at the right
time, before they have attained facial growth, material
changes in the contour of the face can be brought about
without the application of surgical appliances." In Europe a diet composed primarily of raw foods was
employed in the treatment of dis ease as early as the latter part
of the nineteenth century. At that time the "Jungborn" a health resort located in the Hartz mountain region between
Isenburg and Hartzburg of Germany, was opened. The
director of this institution was Adolph Just, a philosopher and
naturalist, who concluded from his observations of wild and
domestic animal life that only raw foods were capable of building the health, strength, and vigor that are normal in
nature. At his resort, Mr. Just provided sun and air baths,
special water baths, and earth compresses as treatment in
addition to raw foods. The diet consisted in the main of fruits, berries, nuts, and milk in the uncooked state. In 1896, Mr. Just issued a number of case history records
illustrating the results of his raw food and natural treatment therapy. Among the diseases reported cured or benefited were
inflammatory rheumatism, consumption of the spinal cord,
tuberculosis of the bones, dropsy, incipient dropsy, fistula of
the rectum, cancer, nervous sp asms, deaf


 or culture experience the benefits of proper bowel function. Too few people live in a manner that enables t hem
to maintain the  natural balance of the body. Therefore, if we are going to live unnaturally, it would be wise to learn what is
necessary to counteract some of the maladies that we create in our personal environment. Sometimes I wonder if a person can e ver
be truly happy or healthy while living in a city where natural processes are so disturbed, and often absent altogether. Are we trying
to keep people well against all odds? The medical arts today spend much time and money patching up the effects of an
environment that is actually toxic and hazardous to health. Most of today’s doctors are treating people for ailments that are direct
results of “civilized” living. These “environmental ailments” are ‘ reaching epidemic proportions, and rather than eliminate the
cause of the d isturbance, it is a case of keeping people going while they continue to addictively tear themselves down. True, lasting
and abiding health is the result of conscious discipline in cleanliness of body, mind and spirit. All else is a compromise. When the bo dy becomes polluted with toxic substances, those forces that maintain health and vitality diminish in proportion to the
extent of the invasion. As they diminish, the morbid (disease producing) substances flourish. Such is the case with intestina l flora. Intestinal flora are those micro organisms which live in the bowels of man. There is a great variety of these microscopic life forms
and they play a very important role in health and disease. Where health and vitality are found, we invariably find the friend ly and
beneficial microbes. Where there is decay and disease we find the organisms that perform this function. There is no aspect of
earthly life in which these life forms do not have an important role to play. They are everywhere; we literally live in an ocean of
them. They work unceasingly to bring about the transformations that they are designed to produce. To a large extent the flora  in
the bowel determines the state of health in an individual. The large bowel is in fact a mobile compost heap, constantl y giving up
finished compost and taking on new materials for treatment. As everyone knows, a compost heap is a very special thing. Here i s
where the waste products of living things, both animal and vegetable, | are collected for the purpose of promoting a process of
decay and breakdown. When the process is completed, we have the finest beginnings for new life to get started. Out of the old  and
dead, comes the new and alive. What is at the interface of this paradoxical phenomenon? Bacterial and micro life fo rms. They are the recyclers, the transformers. They are nature’s labor force, accomplishing some of the most complex chemical reactions known to man. We are constantly
trying to copy or somehow utilize the processes they are capable of producing. Some of t he deadliest substances in existence are
produced as metabolites of these bacteria. All life upon the planet is affected by their presence. It has been determined tha t the
colon contains not only 400 to 500 varieties of bacteria, fungi, yeast and virus, bu t that the populations vary from the center of the
colon to those living in the mucous lining; from those inhabiting the right side to those that inhabit the left side of the b owel. Research has found evidence which indicates that the mucus secreted by th e intestine very much determines the kind of bacteria
that will grow there. In addition, it has been found that it takes more than a year on the average for a new diet to produce any
noticeable change in the flora. Of those things that greatly alter the ba cterial life in the colon, drugs are the most powerful. In
particular are the “broad spectrum” antibiotics. It has been found that antibiotic -treated animals have higher blood cholesterol
levels. Those bacteria which help control cholesterol levels are kil led off by the drug. These drugs can also cause inflammation of
the intestinal wall. Antibiotics will, as a rule, wreak havoc in the intestinal ecology, and should, if possible, be avoided. In
addition, there is an immunity reaction that can occur in which  the body develops an inability to utilize the drug, therefore putting
the beneficial qualities of it out of reach. Overuse develops this syndrome and makes it ineffective in many cases. Penicilli n is one
in particular that has seen much abuse and in a tim e of great need, may prove to be powerless in many people. WHAT CONSTITUTES POOR INTESTINAL FLORA? Those things which man loathes most, morbid substances, are the same things provided by bacteria that can and do live in man’ s
intestines. I believe the pre ponderance of unfriendly bacteria in the average American bowel would reach as high as 85%.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        The cellular metabolism becomes
sluggish, repair and growth are delayed and the ability to elimina te waste materials is lowered. The cells, instead of being alive and
active, become dead and inactive. This process results in a decline in tissue and organ functional ability. Dr. Alexis Carrell, at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, took sm all pieces of heart tissue from a chicken embyro to
produce one of the most remarkable experiments in medical history. He attempted to demonstrate that under suitable conditions,
the living cell could live a very long time, perhaps indefinitely. The heart tissue was immersed in a nutrient solution from which it
obtained its food. Likewise, waste material was secreted by the heart tissue into this same solution. Everyday the solution w as
changed, taking away waste substances and providing fresh nutrients. It  is amazing to report that this chicken heart tissue lived for
29 years in this fashion. It died one day when the assistant forgot to change the metabolized polluted fluid. In other words,
autointoxication claimed this great masterpiece of experimental sci entific investigation. Said Carrell of this experience, “The cell is
immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats which degenerates. Renew this fluid at intervals, give the cell something  upon
which to feed and, so far as we know, the pulsation of l ife may go on forever. ”

The primary causes of constipation can be summarized as follows: faulty nutrition, ignoring the call to eliminate, lack of ph ysical
activity, emotional and mental distress, extrinsic poisons and medications and lack of adequate amo unts of water. Faulty nutrition,
as we have already seen, is a major underlying factor in constipation. Processed, devitalized foods low in fiber or bulk are not
suitable substances to promote health and well -being. Ignoring the call to eliminate feces or urine contribute greatly to cellular
congestion, autointoxication and eliminative organ distress. The lack of physical exercise makes weak and flaccid muscle tone
incapable of holding up under the demands of poor diets and extra eliminative duty. Emotional  and mental strain and tension
produce unfavorable conditions in the digestive and eliminative organs, causing them to become tense and underactive. These a lso
cause chemical imbalances and abnormal secretions to occur, generally upsetting the whole organi sm. Extrinsic poisons, such as
tobacco, coffee, alcohol, chocolate and sugar, have unfavorable effects upon digestion and elimination by upsetting gastric
secretions and nerve responses. Medications have a very upsetting effect upon these life -giving funct ions. They cause many
afflictions in the bowel. Antibiotics, such as penicillin and sulfa, can completely eliminate the favorable intestinal flora,  leaving the
opportunity for reinfestation by harmful bacteria and virus. Laxatives are irritating to the bow el and are dangerous if used
frequently. Most people also do not drink enough water; they are chronically dehydrated. This causes all body tissues and fluids to becom e
thicker and more viscid. The mucous lining in the colon changes in consistency, failin g to provide a slick lubrication for the
movement of feces. Poor living habits contribute a great deal to poor bowel function. Not following a good program denies the
body regularity and consistency. It never knows what’s coming next and can’t depend upon a regular routine. It is always on the
defensive. This situation results in a depletion of vital nerve force and undermines the body’s ability to set periods of res t and
activity. Today, there are more than 45,000 laxative and cathartic remedies being manu factured and used by Americans alone. Even when used sparingly and in an emergency, these substances should be used with great caution, if at all. The mechanism of
elimination is very delicate and easily upset. Once disturbed, it will often require weeks, maybe months, before it becomes
regular again. These substances, in order to evacuate the colon, are essentially poisons and irritants. They contribute nothi ng to
restore normal or natural processes of defecation. The poisoned colon tries to evacuate the offending substance as quickly as
possible, and pushes everything out including the compacted feces. Oftentimes, these harsh poisonous substances are absorbed
through the lymph and blood vessels and find their way to all parts of the body. This situation c ontributes to addiction and
overuse of these substances. Dependency upon laxative compounds will in time, permanently destroy the normal ability of the
bowel to eliminate naturally on its own accord. Laxatives tire out the bowel muscle by keeping it consta ntly working. Without rest,


 judge righteous judgment.”
(John 7:24). Here we find Pilate playing the same part as Isaac. There are two sons. All the characters as they appear in this story can apply to your own life. You have a son that is robbing you this very moment of that which you
could be. If you came to this meeting tonight conscious of wanting something, de -
siring something, you walked in the company of Barabbas. For to desire is to confess that you do not now possess what you desire,
and because all things are yours, you rob yourself by living in the state of
desire. My savior is my desire. As I want something I am looking in to the
eyes of my savior. But if I continue wanting it, I deny my Jesus, my sav -
ior, for as I want I confess I am not and “except ye believe that I AM He
ye die in your sins.” I cannot have and still continue to desire what I have. I may enjoy it, but I cannot continue wanting it. Here is the story. This is the feast of the Passover. Something is going to
change right now, something is going to passover. Man is incapable of
passing over from one state of consciousness into another unless he re -
leases from consciousness that which he now entertains, for it anchors
him where he is. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenYou and I may go to physical feasts year after year as the sun enters the
great sign of Aries, but it means nothing to the true mystical Passover. To
keep the feast of the Passover, the psychological feast, I pass from one
state of consciousness into another. I do it by releasing Barabbas, the
thief and robber that robs me of that state which I could embody within
my world. The state I seek to embody is personified in the story as Jesus the Savior. If I become what I want to be then I am saved from what I was. If I do
not become it, I continue to keep locked within me a thief who robs me of
being that which I could be. These stories have no reference to any persons who lived nor to any
event that ever occurred upon earth. These characters are everlasting
characters in the mind of every man in the world. You and I perpetually
keep alive either Barabbas or Jesus. You know at every moment of time
who you are entertaining. Do not condemn a crowd for clamoring that they should release Barabbas
and crucify Jesus. It is not a crowd of people called Jews. They had noth -
ing to do with it. If we are wise, we too should clamor for the release of that state of mind
that limits us from being what we want to be, that restricts us, that does
not permit us to become the ideal that we seek and strive to attain in this
world. I am not saying that you are not tonight embodying Jesus. I only remind
you, that if at this very moment you have an unfulfilled ambition, then
you are entertaining that which denies the fulfillment of the ambition, and
that which denies it is Barabbas. To explain the mystical, psychological transformation known as the
Passover, or the crossing over, you must now become identified with the
ideal that you would serve, and you must remain faithful to the ideal. If
you remain faithful to it, you not only crucify it by your faithfulness, but
you resurrect it unaided by a man. As the story goes, no man could rise early enough to roll away the stone. Unaided by a man the stone was removed, and what seemingly was dead
and buried was resurrected unassisted by a man. You walk in the consciousness of being that which you want to be, no one
sees it as yet, but you do not need a man to roll away the problems and
the obstacles of life in order to express that which you are conscious of
being. That state has its own unique way of becoming embodied in this
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenworld, of becoming flesh that the whole world may touch it. Now you can see the relationship between the story of Jesus and the sto -
ry of Isaac and his two sons, where one transplanted the other, where one
was called the Supplanter of the other. Why do you think those who com -
plied the sixty odd books of our Bible made Jacob the forefather of Jesus? They took Jacob, who was called the Supplanter, and made him father of
twelve, then they took Judah or praise, the fifth son and made him the
fore of Joseph, who is supposed to have fathered in some strange way
this one called Jesus. Jesus must supplant Barabbas as Jacob must sup -
plant and take the place of Esau. Tonight you can sit right here and conduct the trial of your two sons, one
of whom you want released. You can become the crowd who clamors for
the release of the thief, and the judge who willingly releases Barabbas,
and sentences Jesus to fill his place. He was crucified on Golgotha, the
place of the skull, the seat of the imagination. To experience the Passover or passage from the old to the new concept of
self, you must release Barabbas, your present concept of self, which robs
you of being that which you could be, and you must assume the new con -
cept which you desire to express. The best way to do this is to concentrate your attention upon the idea of
identifying yourself with your ideal. Assume you are already that which
you seek and your assumption, though false, if sustained, will harden into
fact. You will know when you have succeeded in releasing Barabbas, your old
concept of self, and when you have successfully crucified Jesus, or fixed
the new concept of self, by simply looking MENTALLY at the people you
know. If you see them as you formerly saw them, you have not changed
your concept of self, for all changes of concepts of self result in a changed
relationship to your world. We always seem to others the embodiment of the ideal we inspire. There -
fore, in meditation, we must imagine that others see us as they would see
us were we what we desire to be. You can release Barabbas and crucify and resurrect Jesus if you will first
define your ideal. Then relax in a comfortable arm chair, induce a state of
consciousness akin to sleep and experience in imagination what you
would experience in reality were you already that which you desire to be. By this simple method of experiencing in imagination what you would ex -
perience in the flesh were you the embodiment of the ideal you serve, you
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenrelease Barabbas who robbed you of your greatness, and you crucify and
resurrect your savior, or the ideal you desire to express. Now let us turn to the story of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane. Bear
in mind that a garden is a properly prepared plot of ground, it is not a
wasteland. You are preparing this ground called Gethsemane by coming
here and studying and doing something about your mind. Spend some
time daily in preparing you mind by reading good literature, listening to
good music and entering into conversations that ennoble. We are told in the Epistles, “Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever
things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are
pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;
if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
(Phil 4:8). Continuing with our story, as told in the 18th chapter of John, Jesus is in
the garden and suddenly a crowd begins to seek him. He is standing there
in the dark and he says, “Whom seek ye?”
The spokesman called Judas answers and says, “We seek Jesus of
Nazareth.”
A voice answers, “I am He.”
At this instant they all fall to the ground, thousands of them tumbled. That in itself should stop you right there and let you know it could not be
a physical drama, because no one could be so bold in his claim that he is
the one sought, that he could cause thousands who seek him to fall to the
ground. But the story tells us they all fell to the ground. Then when they regained
their composure they asked the same question. “Jesus answered, I have told you that I am He: if therefore ye seek me,
let these go their way.” (John 18:8). “Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.” (John 13:27). Judas, who has to do it quickly, goes out and commits suicide. Now to the drama. You are in your garden of Gethsemane or prepared
mind if you can, while you are in a state akin to sleep, control your atten -
tion and not let it wander away from its purpose. If you can do that you
are definitely in the garden. Very few people can sit quietly and not enter a reverie or a state of un -
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havencontrolled thinking. When you can restrict the mental action and remain faithful to your
watch, not permitting your attention to wander all over the place, but hold
it without effort within a limited field of presentation to the state you are
contemplating, then you are definitely this disciplined presence in the gar -
den of Gethsemane. The suicide of Judas is nothing more than


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The Secret to Health 125
The Secret to the World 141
The Secret to You 155
The Secret to Life 177
Biographies 185 A year ago, my life had collapsed around me. I'd worked myself
into exhaustion, my father died suddenly, and my relationships
with my work colleagues and loved ones were in turmoil. Little
did I know at the time, out of my greatest despair was to come the
greatest gift. I'd been given a glimpse of a Great Secret—The Secret to life. The
glimpse came in a hundred-year-old book, given to me by my
daughter Hayley. I began tracing The Secret back through history. I couldn't believe all the people who knew this. They were the
greatest people in history: Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, Hugo,
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ing desire to share The Secret with the world consumed me, and I
began searching for people alive today who knew The Secret. One by one they began to emerge. I became a magnet: as I began
to search, one great living master after another was drawn to me. ix x Foreword
When I discovered one teacher, that one would link to the next,
in a perfect chain. If I was on the wrong track, something else
would catch my attention, and through the diversion the next great
teacher would appear. If I "accidentally" pressed the wrong link
on an internet search, I would be led to a vital piece of informa-
tion. In a few short weeks I had traced The Secret back through the
centuries, and I had discovered the modern-day practitioners of
the Secret. The vision of taking The Secret to the world in a film had become
fixed in my mind, and over the following two months my film and
television production team learned The Secret. It was imperative
that every team member knew it, because without its knowledge,
what we were about to attempt would be impossible. We did not have a single teacher secured to film, but we knew The
Secret, and so with utter faith I flew from Australia to the United
States where the majority of the teachers were based. Seven weeks
later The Secret team had filmed fifty-five of the greatest teachers
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step, with every breath, we used The Secret to create the The Se-
cret. We literally magnetized everything and everyone to us. Eight
months later The Secret was released. As the film swept the world, stories of miracles began to flood in:
people wrote about healing from chronic pain, depression, and
disease; walking for the first time after an accident; even recovering
from a deathbed. We have received thousands of accounts of The Se-
cret being used to bring about large sums of money and unexpected Foreword xi
checks in the mail. People have used The Secret to manifest their
perfect homes, life partners, cars, jobs, and promotions, with many
accounts of businesses being transformed within days of applying
The Secret. There have been heart-warming stories of stressed re-
lationships involving children being restored to harmony. Some of the most magnificent stories we have received have come
from children using The Secret to attract what they want, including
high grades and friends. The Secret has inspired doctors to share
the knowledge with their patients; universities and schools with
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nominations and spiritual centers with their congregations. There
are Secret parties being held in homes around the world, as people
share the knowledge with loved ones and families. The Secret has
been used to attract all manner of things—from a specific feather
to ten million dollars. All of this has taken place in the few months
since the release of the film. My intention in creating The Secret was—and still is—that it will
bring joy to billions around the world. The Secret team is experi-
encing the realization of that intention every day, as we receive
thousands upon thousands of letters from people across the world,
of all ages, all races/ and all nationalities, expressing gratitude for
the joy of The Secret. There isn't a single thing that you cannot do
with this knowledge. It doesn't matter who you are or where you
are, The Secret can give you whatever you want. Twenty-four amazing teachers are featured in this book. Their
words were filmed all over the United States, all at different times. xii Foreword
yet they speak as one voice. This book contains The Secret teach-
ers' words, and it also contains miraculous stories of The Secret in
action. I have shared all of the easy paths, tips, and shortcuts that I
have learned so that you can live the life of your dreams. You will notice throughout the book that in certain places I have
capitalized the word "You." The reason I did this is because I want
you, the reader, to feel and know that I created this book for you. I
am speaking to you personally when I say You. My intention is for
you to feel a personal connection with these pages, because The
Secret has been created for You. As you travel through its pages and you learn The Secret, you will
come to know how you can have, be, or do anything you want. You
will come to know who you really are. You will come to know the
true magnificence that awaits you. With the deepest gratitude I wish to thank every person who
has come into my life and inspired, touched, and illuminated me
through their presence. I would also like to acknowledge and express my gratitude to the
following people for their magnificent support and contributions
to my journey and to the creation of this book:
For generously sharing their wisdom, love, and divinity, I pay
homage to the featured co-authors of The Secret: John Assaraf,
Michael Bernard Beckwith, Lee Brower, Jack Canfield, Dr. John De-
martini, Marie Diamond, Mike Dooley, Bob Doyle, Hale Dwoskin,
Morris Goodman, Dr. John Gray, Dr. John Hagelin, Bill Harris, Dr.
Ben Johnson, Loral Langemeier, Lisa Nichols, Bob Proctor, James
Ray, David Schirmer, Marci Shimoff, Dr. Joe Vitale, Dr. Denis Wait-
ley, Neale Donald Walsch, and Dr. Fred Alan Wolf. The magnificent human beings that make up The Secret production
team: Paul Harrington, Glenda Bell, Skye Byrne, and Nic George. xiii xiv Acknowledgments
Also to Drew Heriot, Daniel Kerr, Damian Corboy, and to all who
journeyed with us in the creation of the film The Secret. Gozer Media, for the creation of the superb graphics and for im
pregnating them with the feeling of The Secret: James Armstrong,
Shamus Hoare, and Andy Lewis. The CEO of The Secret, Bob Rainone, who was delivered to us from
heaven. Michael Gardiner and the legal and advisory team across Australia
and the United States. The Secret website team: Dan Hollings, John Herren, and all at
Powerful Intentions who manage and run The Secret Forum, along
with the wonderful people on the forum. The great avatars and master teachers from the past, whose writ-
ings lit a burning fire of desire within me. I have walked in the
shadows of their greatness, and I honor every one of them. Special
thanks to Robert Collier and Robert Collier Publications, Wal-
lace Wattles, Charles Haanel, Joseph Campbell and the Joseph
Campbell Foundation, Prentice Mulford, Genevieve Behrend, and
Charles Fillmore. To Richard Cohn and Cynthia Black of Atria Books/Beyond Words,
and Judith Curr of Simon & Schuster, for opening their hearts
and embracing The Secret. For their editing: Henry Covi and Julie
Steigerwaldt. Acknowledgments xv
For their generosity in sharing their stories: Cathy Goodman; Susan
Sloate and Colin Halm; Susan Morrice, director of Belize Natural En-
ergy; Jeannie MacKay; and Joe Sugarman. For their inspirational teachings: Dr. Robert Anthony, Jerry and Es-
ther Hicks and the teachings of Abraham, David Cameron Gikandi,
John Harricharan, Catherine Ponder, Gay and Katie Hendricks,
Stephen MR Covey, Eckhart Tolle, and Debbie Ford. For their gen-
erous support: Chris and Janet Attwood, Marcia Martin, members
of the Transformational Leaders Council, the Spiritual Cinema Cir-
cle, the staff at Agape Spiritual Center, and the assistants and staff
of all the teachers featured in The Secret. My precious friends for their love and support: Marcy Koltun-
Crilley, Margaret Rainone, Athena Golianis and John Walker,
Elaine Bate, Andrea Keir, and Michael and Kendra Abay. And my
amazing family: Peter Byrne; my very special sisters: Jan Child
for her invaluable help with this book, Pauline Vernon, Kaye Izon
(deceased), and Glenda Bell, who is always by my side and whose
love and support knows no limits. My courageous and beauti-
ful mother, Irene Izon, and in memory of my father, Ronald Izon,
whose light and love continue to shine through our lives. And finally to my daughters, Hayley and Sk


 then the sad story of how these new
settlers were breaking down as rapidly as the former occupants. The lower photograph in Fig. 7 is of a family of four children in whose faces the tragic story is
deeply written. Everyone is a mouth breather and everyone has rampant tooth decay. These
people are products of modernization on this island which one time produced vigorous children
and stalwart men and women. It is important to compare the faces of the children of the Isle of
Bardsey shown in Fig. 7 below with those shown in Fig. 7 above living in an isolated district in the
Isle of Harris. As we will see later, the facial deformity does not reach its maximum severity until
the eruption of the second dentition and the development of the adult face, usually at from nine to
fourteen years of age. In cases of extreme injury, however, we find it appearing in the childhood
face during the period of temporary or deciduous dentition. These children will, doubtless, be
much more seriously deformed when their permanent dentitions and adult faces develop. It is
important for us to keep this picture in mind in its relation to the high incidence of tuberculosis as
we read succeeding chapters and find the part played by modernization in breaking down the
defense of individuals to infective processes including tuberculosis. In Fig. 6 (lower left) is a young girl from the Isle of Bardsey. She is about seventeen years of
age. Her teeth were wrecked with dental caries, the disease involving even the front teeth. We ate
a meal at the home in which she was living. It consisted of white bread, butter and jam, all
imported to the island. This is in striking contrast with the picture of the girl shown in Fig. 6 (lower
right) living in the Isle of Lewis, in the central area. She has splendidly formed dental arches and a
high immunity to tooth decay. Her diet and that of her parents was oatmeal porridge and oatcake
and fish which built stalwart people. The change in the two generations was illustrated by a little girl
and her grandfather on the Isle of Skye. He was the product of the old régime, and about eighty
years of age. He was carrying the harvest from the fields on his back when I stopped him to take
his picture. He was typical of the stalwart product raised on the native foods. His granddaughter
had pinched nostrils and narrowed face. Her dental arches were deformed and her teeth crowded. She was a mouth breather. She had the typical expression of the result of modernization after the
parents had adopted the modern foods of commerce, and abandoned the oatcake, oatmeal
porridge and sea foods.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 40/250FIG. 8. From left to right. These pots of soil growing oats contained decreasing
amounts of smoke-thatch. Only the first produced mature grain. This is in accord
with the belief and practice of the native Gaelics. Since a fundamental part of this study involves an examination of the accumulated wisdom of the
primitive racial stocks, it is important that we look further into the matter of the smoked thatch. I
was advised by the old residents that a serious conflict existed between them and the health
officials who came from outside to their island. The latter blamed the smoke for the sudden
development of tuberculosis in acute form, and they insisted that the old procedure be entirely
discontinued. For this purpose the government gave very substantial assistance in the building of
new and modern homes. The experienced natives contended that the oat crop would not mature in
that severe climate without being fertilized with the smoked thatch. While they were willing to move
into the new house, they were not willing to give up the smoking of the oat straw used for the
thatch to prepare it for fertilizing the ground. I brought some of this smoked thatch with me both
for chemical analysis and for testing for the influence on plant growth. This was done by adding
different quantities of the smoked thatch to a series of pots in which oat seeds were planted. In
Fig. 8 will be seen the result. The pot to the right shows the result of planting the oats in a sandy
soil almost like that of the Islands of the Outer Hebrides. The oats only grew to the fuzzy limited
condition shown. As increasing amounts of this thatch were added to the soil, there was an
increase in the ruggedness of the plants so that in the last pot to the left tall stalks were developed
heavily loaded with grain which ripened by the time the growth shown in the other pots had
occurred. The chemical analysis of the thatch showed that it contained a quantity of fixed nitrogen
and other chemicals resulting from the peat smoke circulating through the thatch. This explains the
confidence of the hardy old natives who insisted on being permitted to continue the smoking of the
thatch even though they did not live in the house. A dietary program competent to build stalwart men and women and rugged boys and girls is
provided the residents of these barren Islands, with their wind and storm-swept coasts, by a diet
of oats used as oatcake and oatmeal porridge; together with fish products, including some fish
organs and eggs. A seriously degenerated stock followed the displacement of this diet with a
typical modern diet consisting of white bread, sugar, jams, syrup, chocolate, coffee, some fish
without livers, canned vegetables, and eggs. 7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
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Key to Location of Indian and Eskimo Groups Examined in Canada
1. (Cleveland, Ohio)  21. Bethel Island, Alaska
2. Six Nation Indian Reservations,
Ontario 22. Holy Cross, Alaska
3. Tuscarora Indian Reservations,
New York 23. McGrath, Alaska
4. No. Vancouver Indian
Reservation, British Columbia  24. Eklutna, Alaska
5. Craigflower Indian Reservation,
Victoria, British Columbia  25. Telegraph Creek, British
Columbia
6. Skeena River, British Columbia   26. Dease Lake Indian
Reservation, British Columbia
7. Ketchikan, Alaska  27. McDames, British Columbia
8. Wrangell, Alaska  28. Liard, British Columbia, Yukon
Border
9. Juneau, Alaska  29. Edmonton, Alberta
10. Sitka, Alaska  30. Winnipeg, Manitoba
11. Cordova, Alaska  31. Broken Head Indian
Reservation, Manitoba
12. Valdez, Alaska   32. Sioux Lookout, No. Ontario
13. Seward, Alaska  33. Ombabika, No. Ontario
14. Anchorage, Alaska  34. Toronto, Ontario
15. Stoney River, Alaska  35. Loretteville Reservation,
Quebec
16. Sleet Mute, Alaska  36. Caughnawaga Reservation,
Quebec
17. Crooked Creek, Alaska  37. Vergennes, Vermont
18. Napaimute, Alaska  38. Saranac Tuberculosis
Sanitarium, New York
19. Bethel, Alaska  39. Mohawk Reservation, Ontario
20. Kokamute, Alaska

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ISOLATED AND MODERNIZED ESKIMOS
DURING the rise and fall of historic and prehistoric cultures that have often left their monuments
and arts following each other in succession in the same location, one culture, the Eskimo, living on
until today, brings us a robust sample of the Stone Age people. The Maya race is gone, but has left
its monuments. The Indian race is rapidly changing or disappearing in North America. The Eskimo
race has remained true to ancestral type to give us a living demonstration of what Nature can do in
the building of a race competent to withstand for thousands of years the rigors of an Arctic climate. Like the Indian, the Eskimo thrived as long as he was not blighted by the touch of modern
civilization, but with it, like all primitives, he withers and dies. In his primitive state he has provided an example of physical excellence and dental perfection
such as has seldom been excelled by any race in the past or present. We are concerned to know
the secret of this great achievement since his circumscribed life greatly reduces the factors that may
enter as controlling units in molding this excellence. While we are primarily concerned in this study
with the characteristics of the Eskimo dentition and facial form and the effect upon it of his contact
with modern civilization, we are also deeply concerned to know the formula of his nutrition in order
that we may learn from it the secrets that will not only aid the unfortunate modern or so-called
civilized races, but will also, if possible, provide means for assisting in their preservation. It is a sad commentary that with the coming of the white man the Eskimos and Indians are
rapidly reduced both in numbers and physical excellence by the white man's diseases. We have
few problems more urgent or more challenging than that means shall soon be found for preventing
the extermination of the primitive Americans. Many reports have been made with regard to the
condition of the teeth of the


. Hence. both emotion s and stimuli evoke the same
energy. Emotions can be equated with energy.' THE FIELD AS A SIGNPOST
6
Behaviour is the reaction of a living �ystem to the co-ordina ted
and integrated stimuli resulting from changes in the physical and
chemical environments. In the case of man, at least, to the
physical factors of environ ment the ideological environment
must also be added because an idea is just as valid a stimulus to
the nervous system as a kick in the teeth. As a matter of fact, it can be shown, without much question,
that ideas arc actually more important as stimuli to the nervous
system than any of the others. One needs only to look at the
history of the outstanding figures of the last two or three hundred
years who, rightly or wrongly, had ideas which profoundly
affected whole generations. This is true of dictators, politicians,
philosophers, religionists or military leaders. As ideas are-or induce-em otions which evoke energy in
the nervous system, electro-metric studies of this phenomenon
seem relevant to the study of human behaviour, even if they offer
no hope of improving it. At the least we may be able to learn a
little about how the machine works, even if we cannot under
stand how the driving ideas originate. Though man, over the years, has acquired an extraordinary
control over his physical environment, the problem of human re
lations remains unsolved. We seem to be no better off in dealing
with each other than were our remote ancestors. Part of the
reason for this, of course, is to be found in the enormous com
plexity of the nervous system of man and the lack of real under
standing of the way the protoplasm of nervous tissue operates. So any approach to the problem of human behaviour should start
with a better understanding of the nervous system. For whether
it is an idea, an emotion or a kick in the teeth which triggers the
activity of the nervous system, a basic requirement, needless to
say, is the storehouse of energy made availahle by the chemical
flux of protoplasm as noted in the previol1s chapter. Though the energy required to make an adjustment is derived
from this chemical activity, the direction in which the energy
flows, and the way in which it is used, is a consequence of the
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pattern of organization of neural tissues. It is not enough, there
fore, to know the details of the complex structures involved, but
rather to have some over-all grasp and underst anding of the way
the nervous system works. Analysis of the units is of vital im
portance, even down to the sub-microscopic level, but equally
important is a grasp of the relationships between all the com
ponent parts. Since behaviour, moreover, is the result, in part, of the im
pact of one organism on another, no real picture of the forces
which make man operate the way he does is possible without a
complete knowledge and understanding of the structure and
function of the nervous system. The results of many years of study have tended to emphasize
certain rather stereotyped activities. As a result, the electrical
circuit analogies tended to lead investigators away from the basic
fact that each neurone is in itself a living organism. These elec
trical circuit analogies, partly impired by the modern computer,
are derivable directly from the fundamental propert y of proto
plasm, and more particularly, from the all-or-none response of a
nerve cell. Even the simplest protoplasmic system can be stimulated by
changes in the physical, chemical and ideological environment,
can transmit these effects through its substance, can coordinate,
correlate and integrate all the varieties of stimuli and can, as a
result, make that adjustment necessary for the continued exist
ence of the system. The behaviour of even the simplest organism
is parodic in that it 'functions in accordance with its inherent de
sign'. * One of the greatest difficult ies in assaying behaviour lies
in its complexity, in the lack of objective measurement and in
a very great influence of the subjective. In the literature, the description of hehaviour of even the
simplest organisms is coloured by anthropom orphisms. The criti
cal study of behaviour, moreover, almost invariably involves
some disturbance in the organism under study. Ideally, any
measurement must involve no alteration in the thing measured
during the measure ment. This is difficult to achieve even in
* King, 1945. 91 THE FI EL D AS A SIGNPOST
physical systems. It is peculiarly difficult in biological systems
unless we employ the techniques described in the preceding pages. Our experiments had offered some signposts to a better under
standing of the human nervous system. We had found with corn
kernels-it will be remembe red-evidence of a close correlation
between a measurable, electro-metric charact eristic and both the
genetic constitu tions and also their subsequent productivity in
the field. A study, too, of the sensitive plant Mimosa, had yielded evid
ence that in this particular living form, the protoplasmic mechan
ism showed characteristics very similar to those found in the
nervous system. In other words, the nervous system in higher
forms and in a relatively-simple system like a plant had similar
electro-metric responses. All this, admittedly, is a very modest approach to a better
understanding of the human nervous system. But, at least, it is
a beginning and, as Confucius said: 'The longest journey starts
with the first step.' Perhaps the most important aspect of the first step is that L
field measurement s make it possible to measure the effects of
various stimuli to the nervous system. For, in the history of
science, the ability to measure something has often-if not
always-been the foundation-stone of progress. 7
As everyone knows, there is speculation whether the Universe
is an expanding one or a closed system, whether it is governed
by a static set of laws or is a dynamic, active Universe in which
growth and development occur. It is clear enough that the laws of
the Universe, as we know them, are not happenstanc e phenom
ena hut are closely integrated in a unit. The statement that the biologist makes, that the living organ
ism is more than the sum of its parts, applies equally to the
Universe. The living organism, also, is a whole unit, no part of
which can go off on a tangent by itself without disaster to the
living system. There is no reason to suppose that this same
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general principle cannot be applied to human behaviour, for
human behaviour is not the result of the imposition of legalistic
and moralla ws on the biological laws of the organism, but rather
behaviour is the comeqence of the activity of the nervous system
of man. The nervous system of man is an organized, designed,
dynamic machine. Many people object at once to this spuriously-lab elled'materi
alistic' approach to the Universe. But this is nonsense. The Uni
verse is not only a machine but also has certain qualitative
attributes. We talk about the beauty of the star-filled night,
the odour of a bed of lilies-of-the-valley; and we could go on
almost indefinitely listing the qualitative attributes of the things
that are common to our environment. These qualitative characteristics do not control the physical
system but are attributes of it, and if our modern concepts are
anywhere near right, there is an interchange, which the experts
call 'feed-back relationships', between the qualitative attributes
of the physical system and the activity of the system itself. Just
how this is accomplished, we do not know. We ought to know,
and in time we probably will know. In the meantime, we should remember the fact-pointed out
by Sir Charles Sherrington several decades ago-that the mind
of man does not exist in time, does not occupy space, and in
volves, so far as anyone knows, no energy transformations. But
the nervous system, through which the mind of man works, does
exist in time, does occupy space, and does require energy trans
formations. Admittedly, this is a mystery. How can a non-material attri
bute such as the mind of man actually influence the organic
nervous system? It can be argued that moral law is an example
of this kind of thing. Moral or spiritual laws do not exist in time,
do not occupy space and, so far as anyone knows, do not involve
energy transform ations, and yet we have evidence, sketchy to be
sure, that the so-called spiritual side of exist ence, does influence
human behaviour. How this discrepancy between mind and
body achieves this, no one knows. There is one profound difference, however, between natural
and moral laws. Moral laws are not laws operative in the Uni-
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verse-the laws of Nature-but are sheer inventions of the mind
of man. Man, unfortunately, is an egocentric person. He is
primarily concerned with himself, his continued existence and
his sense of well-being as he adj usts to his physical and mental
environmen t. Everything he docs, therefore, tends to be coloured
by his own personal stake in the matter. No one of us has any personal stake in the law