 hot—but no
cooler than room temperature), and eating foods with more moisture that
will add their moisture to your body, such as juicy fruits, avocados, summer
squash, soups and stews, and dairy products such as warm milk, raw butter,
ghee, and fresh yogurt. Do your best to minimize drying foods like popcorn,
crackers, white potatoes, beans, and dried fruits (unless stewed). FAVOR GROUNDING AND NOURISHING
OVER LIGHT
As much as possible, it is best to think in terms of grounding the lightness
of vata with sustenance—eating foods that of fer nourishment by giving you
stable ener gy. Examples include healthy fats, cooked grains, spiced milk,
root veggies, stewed fruits, and soaked nuts and seeds. Lighter foods like
raw foods and smoothies as well as stimulants like caf feine and processed
sugars should be minimized or avoided because they aggravate vata’ s need
for grounding and stability. FAVOR SMOOTH OVER ROUGH
Raw veggies (and some fruits!) are considered rough, especially ones that
are more fibrous. Even when cooked, there are some foods that will
aggravate vata dosha for the same reason; examples of these are kale,
broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and many beans. This is the main reason
why vata, defined by its rough quality, becomes balanced with foods that
are smoother, and the guideline for choosing foods during pregnancy and in
the weeks after is to favor smooth over rough: Think warm oatmeal,
blended soups, spiced milk, and yams, squash, and other root veggies. If
you do eat foods that are considered rougher, be sure to add the smooth
quality by adding more ghee or oils and add some vata-pacifying spices to
make them easier to digest.DIET AND NOURISHMENT
POSTPARTUM
In Ayurveda, digestion is compared to a fire. When the fire is bright and
strong, you can digest anything and get ener gy from it. When the fire is
weak, you cannot digest your food no matter how healthy it is, and you
experience symptoms like gas, bloating, constipation, and sluggishness. A mother ’s choice in foods and how well she digests her food have a big
impact on the quality of her breast milk as well as the quality of her
rejuvenation, strength, and comfort in the first six weeks after the baby’ s
birth. Mamas who follow the Ayurvedic postpartum diet protocols lose
unneeded pregnancy weight easily, have more stable moods and emotions,
and have a general sense of stability and well-being. The right food choices
will help speed up recovery time; ease cramping; provide deep
nourishment; assist in avoiding postpartum depression, anxiety, and
depletion; and prevent colic in the baby. Ayurveda teaches that during labor and birth, the digestive fire goes out
completely. The postpartum diet is therefore tailored to rekindle the fire by
introducing foods gradually, starting with easy-to-digest, simple, yet
nourishing and grounding foods. Almost all cultures from around the world
have a traditional “first food” following childbirth that is easy to digest. In
Ayurveda, it is kanji: a watery rice porridge cooked with digestive spices
and ghee. Try eating very simple foods for the first three days postpartum,
then slowly and gradually add more complex foods as the days go by and
your fire rekindles. In general, during the postpartum window a new mother needs
an extremely vata-reducing diet (small adaptations can be made
to suit mothers who are showing excess pitta or kapha);
an easy-to-digest diet;
her agni to be stoked and supported;
to eat freshly prepared sattvic foods;to eat ojas-producing foods;
to avoid heavy, hard-to-digest, tamasic foods and ama-producing
food;
to favor (generally speaking) ample warmth, oiliness, moisture
and love, and to avoid cold, dry, and rough. In particular, regarding diet, a new mother needs to eat foods that get the
bowels moving and encourage easy elimination. She needs nourishment
that is ener gy building and iron rich as well as grounding, and everything
she eats and drinks should be warm. A NUTRITION TIMELINE FOR THE POSTPARTUM
WINDOW
During the first ten days after birth, a new mother ’s diet should be focused
on rebuilding her digestive fire and supporting lactation. Everything mama
eats should not only be warm but also soupy and oily. Grains and soups
should be cooked for a much longer time with much more water than usual
—grains should be so soft they look like mush! Vegetables must be used
sparingly, if at all, because they are harder to digest and mama just doesn’ t
have the digestive strength to digest them properly yet. Unless the doctor contraindicates it, 2 or 3 tablespoons of ghee or a
suitable substitute such as sesame oil is advised at every meal for mama
during the first week after birth, gradually reducing consumption over the
six-week period back to the normal amount. If she has liver or gall bladder
issues, her doctor must be consulted on the use and amount of fats. (If she
had a cesarean birth, use half the amount of ghee or oil, especially until her
incision starts to knit together.) After the first ten days of the postpartum window, the Ayurvedic focus
shifts away from rekindling the fire and moves toward rebuilding tissues. A
mama should continue eating foods that are oily, soupy, and hot. Grains
don’t need to be quite as mushy, and it is now safe to introduce thickerstews, soft cheeses, fresh juices, and more vegetables if they are well-
cooked and well-oiled. During the final phase of the postpartum window (weeks 4–6 and after),
the Ayurvedic focus is mainly on mama’ s strong rejuvenation, as well as
digestion and lactation. Mama can now gradually eat more complex foods
that are still warm or room temperature and easy to digest. After your forty-two-day postpartum window is complete, you can
transition gradually back to your normal diet. Remember to keep eating
foods that are warm, cooked, moist, oily, and with good digestive
seasonings. Pay attention to the results of adding breads, complex sweets,
leftovers, soy, and dairy back into your diet. By consciously and gradually
introducing new foods, you will more easily be able to track what works for
you and your little hunny, as you both transition out of the nest and into the
world outside. NUTRITION ALTERATIONS FOR KAPHA OR
PITTA MAMAS
Kapha or pitta mamas will need to make some alterations to the general
guidelines for postpartum nutrition. If you are more kapha, are living in a
damp climate, or are experiencing symptoms of excess kapha (see chapter
1), you will need less fats and dairy. If you are more pitta, live in a hot
climate, or are experiencing symptoms of excess pitta, you will still need
support increasing your digestive strength, but you will need to use more
mild spices like fennel, cumin, and coriander rather than really heating
spices like dried ginger or cayenne pepper.FOODS TO AVOID POSTPARTUM
There are specific foods that are contraindicated for postpartum recovery
because of their degenerative qualities, or because they are hard to digest. Ysha Oakes’ s collection of postpartum recipes, Touching Heaven,  offers a
useful outline of foods that postpartum mothers are advised to avoid. The
following list is adapted from that book:
Cold foods and drinks. Ice cream, ice, salads, chilled foods and
drinks. Dried foods. Dried fruits (that are not rehydrated by soaking or
stewing), crackers, toast, white potatoes, grains such as millet,
brown rice and corn, unsoaked legumes, and protein powders. Heavy foods. Meats; fermented cheeses; homogenized,
pasteurized nonorganic milk; sour cream; yogurt; eggs; fried foods;
and many types of unsoaked nuts. Eliminate or minimize chicken or
fish for two weeks to a month, or more. Cold milk. Milk digests best when it has been boiled, as boiling
simplifies protein molecules, making the milk easier to break down. Warm milk can be used with unsalted grains, in puddings, with sweet
taste, and sometimes with dates (which act dif ferent from other
fruits), or with honey and ginger, cardamom, clove, or saf fron. Milk
should never be mixed with sour, salty, and astringent tastes, so
avoid it with lunch or dinner. Tomatoes, peas, peppers, sprouts, cruciferous vegetables, and
citrus. These foods can create gas for both mother and baby. Tomatoes and citrus can cause rashes for babies, as they are acidic,
so avoid them if possible. Also go easy on dark leafy greens during
the first postpartum weeks unless you are craving them. After two
weeks or so, dark leafy greens can gradually be added to the diet if
cooked well with ample oil or water.Hydrogenated or cooked vegetable oils


enzyme stomach or its equivalent that allows their exclusively
raw food diet to be predigested, relieving their digestive
organs of excess work. Humans also possess a food-enzyme
stomach which, as we have shown, is capable of relieving the digestive burden when food enzymes are included in the diet. In the chapters that follow, I will explain the role of food
enzymes in health and show how we can harness their energy-
giving properties for healing, greater health, and longer life. I
will also cover their application in the treatment of various
degenerative illnesses affecting mankind today. About Dr. Howell
   Dr. Edward Howell was born in Chicago in 1898. He holds
a limited medical license from the State of Illinois. (The
holder of a limited practice license must pass the same Board
Examination as a medical doctor. Only materia medica, obstetrics, and surgery are excluded.) In 1924, after obtaining his license, Dr. Howell joined the
staff of the Lindlahr Sanitarium in Illinois, where he remained until 1930. He then established a private practice for the treatment of advanced illness utilizing nutritional and physical therapies. For the next 40 years until his retirement
he spent three days each week with patients, while the balance of his time was devoted to various kinds of research. Dr. Howell is the true pioneer in his field, having been the
first researcher to recognize and delineate the importance of
the enzymes in food to human nutrition. In 1946 he wrote The
Status of Food Enzymes in Digestion and Metabolism, which
has recently been reprinted. He then took more than 20 years
to complete Enzyme Nutrition, of which this book is a
published abridgment. The original is approximately 700
pages long and contains over 700 references to the world's
scientific literature. Dr. Howell, now eighty-seven, is presently living in
Southwest Florida where he serves as Research Director for the Food Enzyme Research Foundation and continues his
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   Dr. Edward Howell
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Q: What is the author's philosophy regarding the concept of enzymes and vital energy?,
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Q: According to the author, what is the primary function of digestive enzymes?,
A: The author states that digestive enzymes are not the primary function of the body, but rather the body's metabolic enzymes that run the entire body.
Q: What is the significance of the Law of Adaptive Secretion of Digestive Enzymes?,
A: The Law of Adaptive Secretion of Digestive Enzymes suggests that the body adapts to the type of food being digested and adjusts the production of digestive enzymes accordingly. This means that the body will produce fewer digestive enzymes when food enzymes are present, which can lead to a conservation of the enzyme potential and a reduction in the risk of disease.
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A: The author believes that humans are the only species that relies solely on cooked food, which destroys enzymes and forces the body to produce more digestive enzymes, leading to an imbalance in the body's enzyme potential. He suggests that this is a major factor in the development of disease.
Q: What is the significance of the research on the pancreas in rats and dogs?,
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“Spiritual processing is like positioning
oneself


 doctors are like gardeners. The role of the Chinese doctor is to cultivate life. THE MOTIVE FORCE: QI
That which animates life is called Qi (“chee”). The concept of Qi is
absolutely at the heart of Chinese medicine. Life is dened by Qi
even though it is impossible to grasp, measure, quantify, see, or
isolate. Immate rial yet essential, the material world is formed by it. An invisible force known only by its eects, Qi is recognized
indirectly by what it fosters, generates, and protects. Matter is Qi taking shape. Mountains forming, forests growing,
rivers streaming, and creatures proliferating are all manifestations of
Qi. In the human being, all functions of the body and mind are
manifestations of Qi: sensin g, cogitating, feeling,  digesting, stirring,
and propagating. Qi begets movement and heat. It is the
fundamental mystery and miracle. Life cannot be separated from the way it manifests. When the
heart beats and the breath is warm, it is understood that life exists
within the body. When the heart stops beating and the body
becomes cold, the life force, or Qi, is no longer present. Life force
and Qi are one. Like fresh air, healthy Qi moves freely; like stale air,
stagnant Qi is heavy, oppressive, constrictive, and congestive. Like air, Qi has its own movement and also activates the
movement of things other than itself. Just as the wind moves the
trees, grasses, and water, so Qi moves the chest, causing inhalation
and exhalation. People do not inhale Qi. Rather, Qi is the motive
force that establishes respiration. In this way, Qi is the cause and
also the eect. The essence of food is also a form of Qi. This highly rened
essence is the source from which the material form of the body is
constructed. When the Qi of food and the Qi of air enter the body,
they become one entity known as “pure” or “righteous” Qi. Air Qi
represents the immaterial motivating aspect of Qi and Food Qi the
material or constructing aspect. Qi is both the foundation of
structure and the catalyst of transformation and movement. Scholar Nathan Sivin relates that by the year 350 in Chinese
writings about nature, the word Qi meant “basic stu. ” Hecomments that in Chinese thought there was a tendency
to think of stu and its transformations in a unitary way. … [Qi
is] simultaneously “what makes things happen in stu and
(depending on context) “stu that makes things happen” or
“stu in which  things happen. ”  … Qi is often the material basis
of activity, but the activity  itself is often also describ ed as
Qi. …  This is not an easy idea for moderns, with their clear
distinction between substance and function, to grasp. The
ambiguity is impossible to overlook, but discourse was adapted
to it, and the readers for whom it was intended did not
complain that it is confusing. By the time a medical literature
developed, its authors tended to use Qi predominantly in the
functional sense. 3
Medical under standing was generated from ideas about  nature. According to the ancient Chinese art of practical ecology, known as
Feng Shui (“Wind Water”), the earth has veins of energy that cours e
through it, hold it together, and act as a grid from which all life
derives its power. The movement of wind and water reects the
activity of Qi. The forces of Qi can work to our advantage or disadvantage. By
closely observi ng the formation of mountains, growth of trees, ow
of water, move ment of wind, and patterns of light and shadow, the
practitioner of Feng Shui places us in a favorable relationship to
these forces, to derive maximum benet from the environment. The
object is to align human dwellings, objects, and activities with the
current of Qi. The point of focus is the relationship between the
person and the patterns of Qi. This protects and enhances our power
and good fortune. The doctor as gardener practices Feng Shui in
that he seeks to place human beings in a benecial relationship to
Qi. THE MOTIVE  FORCE:  QIQi (pronounced “chee”) can be understood as the creative or
formative principle associated with life and all processes that
characterize living entities. All animate forms in nature are
manifestations of Qi. Qi is an invisible substance, as well as an
immaterial force that has palpable and observable
manifestations. Qi has its own movement and also activates the movement of
things other than itself. Qi begets motion and heat. Within the
context of the human person, Qi is that which enlivens the body
and is dierentiated according to specic functional systems. All physical and mental activities are manifestations of Qi:
sensing, cogitating, feeling, digesting, stirring, propagating. One Chinese ideogram for Qi is comp osed of an upper radical
representing “rising vapor” and a lower radical denoting
“grain. ” The steam that spirals from a pot of cookin g rice
symbolizes distilled essence, hence Qi can be transla ted as the
vapor of the nest matter. The highly rened essence of food
(Food Qi ) and air (Air Qi ) in the body become one entity known
as “pure” or “righteous” Qi. Defensive Qi (wei) is the activity of
adapting to inuences such as weather or mobilizing resistance
to pathogenic microorganism s and noxious substances in the
environment. Qi refers to resources the human organism
consumes, transforms, and transmits. HEALTH IN THE  GARDEN
A garden is a dynamic self-regulating system that transforms
sunlight (Yang) and water (Yin) into the living tissue of vegetation. Within the cycle of seasons, there is a time for sprouting, maturing,
ripening, harvesting, and composting. Through this process of
transformation the garden continuously sustains and re-creates
itself. This interplay of Yin and Yang is what enables life to
mushroom. Maximum growth in the garden derives from the proper balance
between the heat and light of the sun with the cool moisture of
water. The garden is healthy when rich growing conditions prevail
and when plants are resilient enough to tolerate adversity. An
occasional period of drought, a spring storm, an infestation of
insects, or the moldy fungus  that grows during periods of extended
humidity can be overcome by a vigorous ecosystem, adaptable
enough to recover once the hardship has passed. The gardener does not make the garden grow. Nature does. The
gardener is an ally who prepares the soil, sows the seeds, waters,
and removes the weeds, placing plants in the proper relation to each
other and the sun. If the gardener did not tend the garden, it would
lose its unique  identity and grow wild, merging completely with its
surroundings to blend with the larger environment. The gardener
protects the integrity of the garden by promoting growth in some
areas, restrictin g it in others, adding compost to keep the soil fertile. He observes and nurtures the interaction between the garden and
environment. HEALTH IN THE  MICROCOSM OF A  HUMAN BEING
Both the garde n and the human body are microcosms of nature. The
processes, cycles, and conditions that exist in a garden can also be
observed in the life of a human being. Like the earth, the human body is enveloped and permeated by
streams of Qi that link and enliven all its activities. The human body
is subject to similar rhythms and cycles as the garden. A person both
embodies and interacts with cycles—daily, monthly, seasonal, and
lifelong. Over millennia doctors observed cycles in nature and
conceptualized the body in these terms. They saw a human being as
a complete system unto itself with constellations of subsystems
within it. The body is not conceived of as cells, tissues, and other
structural components. Rather it is understood in terms of the
relationships among the constituents of form and process that
generate, regulate, and accumulate Blood, Moisture, and Qi. Just as earth is comprised of land, ocean, and atmospher e, so the
body is organized as Blood, Moisture, and Qi. The Blood  governs
tissue, the material form of the body. The Moisture  governs the
internal environment, the body’s inner ocean. The Qi governs the
shape and activity of the body and its process of forming and
organizing itself. Qi also means the totality of Blood,

QI, MOISTURE, BLOOD
Just as earth is comprised of land, ocean, and atmosphere, so
the body is organized as Blood, Moisture, and Qi. Blood  governs
tissue, the material form of the body. Moisture  governs the
internal enviro nment, the body’s inner ocean. Qi governs the
shape and activity of the body and its process of forming and
organizing itself. Qi also implies the totality of Blood, Moisture,
and Qi, the total summation of the life of the organism. Blood  is a material substance as well as the


breath for several seconds while remaining in the same posit ion. Slowly
lower your body to its original position, while exhaling very slowly through
the nostrils. Chapter 9. Learning to breathe correctly

Exer cise 1. T raining of a pause

Sitting on a chair, relax, lookin g slightly above the line of the eyes. We
relax the diaphragm, starting to breathe so shallowly that a feeling of lack
of air appears in the chest. In this state, you need to be for 10-15 minutes. In the event that there is a need to inhale a little deeper, you need to slightly
increase the depth of breathing. Breathing is performed as if the upper part
of the lungs. If everything is correct, then a feeling of warmth will surely
appear, then it will become hot, then there will be a desire to breathe deeply. In this case, such a desire should  be fought only by relaxing the diaphragm. Out of this state is carried out without changing the depth of breathing. After training, the pause between exhalation and inhalation should be 1-2
seconds longer. All exercises are performed only through the nose, and without noise. Did you do it? You don't feel unwell? Then you are ready to start other
exercises. Exer cise 2. Straining the muscles

Fig. 12

Fig. 13

Lie on your stomach, feel the inhale-exhale - the movement of the chest or
abdomen. Press the chin firmly into the fist or back of the hand. You can try
to open your mouth and tension the muscles of the lower jaw to increase the
pressure on the fist with the chin and remain in this position until you want
to inhale. Then strain any other muscle group - you can with an effort bring
the shoulder blades closer and raise the head as high as possib le, strainingthe muscles of the neck, and your arms are extended along the body. Pull
your hands - one, the other. Then stretch one leg, then the other, and all this
time you feel that the stomach and chest are motionless. It doesn’ t work -
take a look at the cat, which stretches sweetly, and you stretch too. So
advise modern experts. Exer cise 3. Holding your br eath

Fig. 14

Get up straight. Take a full breath. Hold your chest for as long as possible. Exhale forcefull y through an open mouth (Fig. 14). If you, having gained
experience, want to check how much your ability to hold your breath has
strengthened, then do this exercise with the clock, daily marking your
success. Performing this very important exercise aims to strengthen and develop the
respiratory muscles, and at the same time, the lungs. Frequent practice of
this exercise will inevitably lead to expansion of the chest. Yogis argue that
temporarily holding your breath after the lungs are filled with air is of great
benefit not only to the respiratory organs, but also to the digestive organs,
nervous system, and blood circulation processes. They are convinced thattemporarily holding the breath clears the air that remains in the lungs from
previous breaths and promotes the best absorption of oxygen by the blood. Yogis also claim that such a delayed breath collects the debris accumulated
there from the lungs and, when the air is exhaled, takes it away  with itself
due to the large force of exhalation. Cleansing the lungs is perha ps the most
important thing in holding your breath, and yogis recommend this exercise
to treat various disorders of the stomach, liver, and to treat blood diseases. They also find that performing the exercise helps to eliminate  bad breath,
which very often depends simply on poorly ventilated lungs. Chapter 10. 12 exercises that reduce breathing

According to the Buteyko meth od, breathing should be smooth and slow,
without deep and frequent breaths. As a result of training, the depth of
breathing is reduced by willpower, and breathing becomes superficial. Exer cise 1

Fig. 15

Fig. 16

Turn your head right, left, tilt it forward, backward, straining the neck
muscles, as shown on Fig.15 and Fig. 16. Exer cise 2

Fig. 17

Move one arm or both arms to the sides, straining muscles, as shown in
Fig.17. Exer cise 3

Fig. 18

Squeeze fingers into fists or squeeze any object, you can squeeze your own
fingers of the other hand or an elastic ring, Fig. 18. Exer cise 4

Fig. 19

Bring the fingers on both hands together and put them on a stool, table,
headboard of the bed and press on them as shown on Fig. 19. Exer cise 5

Fig. 20

Stretch your lips in a smile "to the ears", Fig. 20. Exer cise 6

Fig. 21

Pull lips out that they look like a straw as on Fig. 21. Exer cise 7

Fig. 22

Raise your eyes up as on Fig. 22. Exer cise 8

Fig. 23

Quickly-quickly rub by your palms of any part of the body: ears, neck, etc. as, for example, shown on Fig. 23. Exer cise 9

Fig. 24

Clasp your palms and make quick rubbing movements to warm your palms
as on Fig. 24. Exer cise 10

Fig. 25

Make a rotationa l motion with your hand, as if you were turning  the handle
of a meat grinder, as shown on Fig. 25. Exer cise 1 1

Fig. 26

Make rotational movements with the hands as on Fig. 26. Exer cise 12

Fig. 26

Shake your hands quickly-quick ly in the vertical direction; fingers can be
clenched into fists as shown on Fig. 26. 3 exer cises for getting used to shallow br eathing

1. You need to try to hold your breath until you feel a lack of air and stay in
this state for as long as you can, taking not deep breaths. If you want to take
a deep breath, start the exercise again. 2. Holding the breath when walking - hold your breath and walk around the
room until you feel a lack of air, then breathe and repeat the exercise again. 3. Breat he superficially for 3 minutes, gradually increasing the time to 10
minutes. These exercises should be tried as often as possible, at least 3-4 times a day
at certain hours. Chapter 11. 10 important exercises to learn how to
breathe properly

1. For the work of the upper parts of the lungs

Inhale for 5 seconds and exhale for 5 seconds, during which it is necessary
to relax the muscles of the chest. This is followed by a 5 second pause,
during which you need to be in a state of maximum relaxation. Repeat 10
times in 2.5 minutes. 2. Full br eath

Here you need to combine diaphragmatic and chest breathing. Within 7.5
seconds, a breath is taken, which is performed with diaphragmatic
breathing, and ends with chest breathing, followed by 7.5 seconds of
exhalation, whic h begins with the upper parts of the lungs, and ends with
the lower parts of the lungs, that is, the diaphragm, then follows  a 5-second
pause. Repeat 10 times in 3.5 minutes. 3. Acupr essur e of the nose

Press on your nose randomly with your fingers in several places at the time
of maximum pause. Repeat 1 time. 4. Full br eathing with nose
 Perform full breathing with the right, then the left half of the nose. Pinch
one or the other nostril. Repeat 10 times, (Fig 26). Fig. 26

5. Retraction of the abdomen

Perform retracti on of the abdomen for 7.5 seconds, on a full breath. This is
followed by a maximum exhale for 7.5 seconds, then a 5-second pause. This is all done so that the abdominal muscles are pulled in all the time. Repeat 10 times in 3.5 minutes, Fig.27. Fig. 27

6. Maximum lung ventilation

It is necessary to perform 12 as quickly as possible inspi rations and
exhalations. This means that you inhale for 2.5 seconds, and exhale for 2.5
seconds. And so you do it in one minute. After that, you imme diately need
to perfo rm a maximum pause on the exhale. The exhalation should be
maximal. Perform once. 7. Rar e breath, or br eathing by level

First level
Within 5 seconds, inhale, within 5 seconds exhale, pause for 5 seconds. This means that 4 breathing cycles should be done within minute. Performfor one minute, after which, without stopping breathing, you need to
perform the following levels. Second level
Inhale within 5 seconds, then 5 seconds pause, 5 seconds exhale, 5 seconds
pause. This means that


	total
equality. Likewise,	in	a	spiritual	field	of	power,	everyone	and	everything	is
attracted	and	influenced	by	virtue	of	its	own	constitution	or	spiritual	‘weight’,
vibration,	or	attractor	field. Some	entities	or	personal	egos	are	repelled	by	a	positive	field. Many
people	are	sincerely	‘turned	off’	by	anything	loving,	spiritual,	or	benevolent. Lots	of	people	really	hate	both	silence	and	peace;	it	drives	them	crazy. Are
not	solitary	confinement	and	silence	the	ultimate	punishment. It	seems	that	at	consciousness	level	200,	a	polarity	shift	occurs. It	is	as
though	from	200	up,	the	entity	is	positively	charged,	and	below	200,
negatively	charged. It	is	obvious	in	society	that	those	who	tend	toward
criminality	are	attracted	to	criminality	and	to	others	of	the	same	ilk,	whereas
those	who	choose	peace	and	love	are	attracted	to	others	with	the	same
propensities. Principles	that	are	obvious	and	attractive	above	the	level	of	200	can
become	repulsive	absurdities	and	are	often	ridiculed	below	the	level	of	200. Societies	whose	power	derives	from	keeping	the	consciousness	level	of	the
people	extremely	low,	such	as	the	recent	society	in	Cambodia,	even	take
official	political	positions	against	love	or	its	expressions. In	contrast,	peace	and	love	would	be	seen	as	the	greatest	of	opportunities
for	a	person	who	is	spiritually	motivated. Although	it	may	seem	absurdly
simple	and	obvious,	unfortunately,	to	most	of	mankind,	it	is	an	unfamiliar	fact
that	God	is	at	the	top	of	the	Scale	of	Consciousness	and	not	at	the	bottom. It	is
also	obvious	to	the	spiritually	advanced,	but	not	to	the	masses,	that	creation
and	power	radiate	from	the	top	down	and	not	vice	versa. The	power	of
creation	belongs	to	God	alone. The	physical	world	does	not	possess	the	power
of	creation	or	causality;	thus,	it	is	impossible	for	creation	to	proceed	from
form	and	materiality	into	life	and	eventually	nonform. People	are	not	‘co-
creators’	with	God. God	doesn’t	need	help. What	would	a	human	being	be
capable	of	co-creating,	anyway. God	is	beyond	all	form. Ordinary	people	think	in	terms	of	form. Why	would	that	which	is
omnipotent,	omnipresent,	and	formless	be	interested	in	worldly	games. There
is	nothing	that	‘needs’	to	be	created. The	effects	of	the	presence	of	God	emanate	from	the	Divine	Essence	itself
and	are	not	selective	acts	by	God. In	Reality,	there	are	neither	happenings	nor
events,	and,	therefore,	there	is	no	need	for	correction	or	intervention. Between	God	and	man	there	is	a	hierarchy	of	spiritual	energy	levels	and
fields	of	graduated	power. These	are	intuited	and	referred	to	as	the	Holy
Spirit,	the	Higher	Self,	the	Grace	of	God,	angels,	archangels,	and	heavens. Consciousness	levels	beyond	1,000	and	up	through	the	spiritual	hierarchy
represent	power	beyond	the	capacity	of	human	imagination. The	touch	of	an	archangel	is	so	powerful	and	devastating	that	the	ego	is	as
if	paralyzed	or	stunned	and	goes	silent. The	power	is	absolute	and	total. (An
archangel’s	power	calibrates	from	50,000	and	above. ) If	life	continues	in	the
form	of	a	physical	body,	it	may	take	years	to	be	able	to	function	again	in
worldly	terms. Each	existence	is	then	the	consequence	of	the	Presence	and	is	given	the
capacity	to	fulfill	its	destiny. The	strength	to	sustain	and	survive	the
enlightenment	experience	itself	is	provided	by	the	Holy	Spirit	as	a	powerful
energy	that	sustains	the	remainder	of	destined	life. It	is	by	means	of	the	Holy
Spirit	that	there	is	a	return	to	function	of	the	faculties	necessary,	but	they	have
been	transformed	forever. Even	the	‘experience’	itself	cannot	be	spoken	of	for
many	years. There	is	no	one	to	tell	and	nothing	to	report. There	is	no	speaker
and	no	one	to	decide	to	speak. Life	is	directed	and	propelled	by	the	Presence. The	illusion	of	an	independent,	personal	will	or	decision	maker	is	gone
forever. Perhaps	subsequent	actions	are	the	momentum	of	a	prior	covenant	or
commitment. Everything	happens	of	its	own. Ongoing	life	is	self-actualizing
and	fulfilling. There	is	no	personal	self	to	do	anything;	there	is	no	thinker	to
think,	no	actor	to	act,	no	doer	to	do,	no	decider	to	decide. All	verbs,
adjectives,	and	pronouns	become	meaningless. The	Reality	of	God
God	does	not	direct	floods,	conflagrations,	earthquakes,	volcanoes,
storms,	lightning,	or	rainfalls. These	are	impersonal	effects	of	conditions
within	the	physical	world	and	its	universe. God	does	not	get	mad	and	‘trash
out’	cities,	civilizations,	towns,	or	ethnic	groups. All	these	things	occurred	on
the	planet	before	there	were	any	living	societies. God	does	not	get	involved	in
human	conflicts,	political	and	religious	struggles,	or	strife. God	has	no
interest	in	war’s	battlefields. He	has	no	enemies	that	need	to	be	slain. There
are	no	‘Holy	Wars’—the	term	itself	is	self-negating	and	absurd. Infidels,	believers,	or	the	like	are	all	positionalities	of	the	human	ego. Even	sensible	humans	are	beyond	such	smallness	of	mind	and	its
judgmentalism. God	does	not	‘care’	whether	one	believes	in	‘Him’	or	not;
however,	the	consequences	will	be	quite	different. Love	gravitates	towards	heaven,	and	hate	sinks	into	the	other	direction. Goodness	rejects	no	one. Like	goes	to	like;	love	is	attracted	to	love. God	takes
no	actions	against	anything	or	anyone. Some	souls	are	attracted	by	light	and
others	by	darkness. The	selection	is	from	within	the	ego	and	not	imposed
from	without. God	Is	Beyond	Form
It	is	important	to	recognize	that	that	which	is	beyond	form	is	not	reached
through	form	or	by	the	manipulation	of	form. Therefore,	involvement	in
esoteric	or	occult	practices	is	a	snare	and	a	delay. These	practices	are	byways
that	lead	to	astral	planes,	enthusiasts,	and	proselytizers,	all	of	which	areendless	in	number. There	is	no	power	in	geometric	figures,	mandalas,	icons,
paintings,	statues,	or	recitations. Any	value	that	ensues	is	by	the	intention,
dedication,	commitment,	and	faith	of	the	believer. The	world	is	full	of	well-
intentioned	but	naïve	reciters	of	mantras;	lightworkers;	worshippers	of	sacred
objects,	amulets,	charts,	holy	places,	Druid	remains,	mystical	charms;	and
sites	for	pilgrimage,	such	as	Machu	Picchu,	Stonehenge,	the	pyramids,	the
Ganges,	ancient	temples,	energy	vortices,	and	all	the	rest. This	could	be	called
‘making	the	circuit’,	but	eventually,	one	has	to	go	within. “Heaven	is	within
you,”	said	the	Lord	Jesus	Christ. God	is	self-revealing	and	beyond	all	form,	yet	present	and	innate	within
all


. In
dealing with your shadow, you ar e aligning yourself with the
same inﬁnite power. After all is said and done, the
requir ements ar e not comple x:
1. Acknowledge your shadow when it brings
negativity into your life. 2. Embrace and for give your shadow. Turn an
unwanted obstacle into your ally. 3. Ask yourself what conditions ar e giving rise
to the shadow : stress, anonymity,
permission to do har m, peer pr essur e,
passivity, dehumanizing conditions, an “us
versus them” mentality. 4. Share your feelings with someone you trust:
a therapist, trusted friend, good listener,
counselor, or conﬁdante. 5. Include a physical component: body work,
energy release, yogic br eathing, hands- on
healing. 6. To change the collective, change yourself—
projecting and judging “them” as evildoers
only incr eases the shadow’s power. 7. Practice meditation in or der to e xperience
pure consciousness, which is beyond the
shadow. I’ve laid out a vision of unity as the solution to the shadow. The instant that life is split into good and evil, the self
follows suit. A divided self cannot mak e itself whole. Ther e
must be another level of life that is whole alr eady. Casting
their eyes over the invisible world, the ancient sages of
India r ealized that it was indescribable. The V edic scriptur es
from thousands of years ago wer e the ﬁrst to declar e,
“Those who know it speak of it not. Those who speak of it
know it not. ”
But of course people wer en’t thrilled to hear this teaching. They wanted help with their everyday pr oblems. If a vision
cannot be tur ned into practice, it’s arid and useless. The
ancient sages wer en’t trying to discourage their listeners. Quite the opposite, they wer e trying to give a r eliable map,
and wher e that map leads is to unity consciousness. My aim
in this part of the book has been to draw the same map in
vivid, moder n colors. Now it’s up to you to follow it. The
shadow isn’t a fearsome opponent, but a worthy one. Powerful as it is, the power of wholeness is inﬁnitely gr eater,
and by a miracle of cr eation it is within your grasp. OceanofPDF. comPART II
OceanofPDF. comMaking Peace with Ourselves, Others, and the
World
DEBBIE FORD
The story of the human being and the human psyche has
been e xamined, studied, and written about since the
beginning of our e xistence. Although it’s been r esear ched
and dissected by brilliant think ers, e xplor ed and e xplained
by the gr eatest intellects of all time, most of us ar e still
living in the dark, perple xed by the behavior of our friends,
our family members, our idols, and—mor e often than not—
ourselves. Disappointed by the condition of our own lives,
we for ge ahead each day hoping that our dark er impulses
and bad behaviors will miraculously disappear. Hurt time and again by the ﬂaws that we can’t seem to
shake free of, we silently pray that we will ﬁnd the courage
to give up our pr ocrastination, our overspending, our
chocolate, our r esentments, or our sharp tongues. Y et we
continue to succumb to our lower impulses, sabotage our
own desir es, and neglect our futur e. In an attempt to hide
our discontent, we put on a happy face, muster our best
“everything is ﬁne” look, and continue acting out in ways
that under mine our self -esteem and defeat our best-laid
plans. In the course of raising our childr en, chasing success, and
struggling to put enough away for vacation or r etirement,
answers to the very questions that will help us gr ow elude
us. Our deeper year ning for self -understanding gets buried
beneath the daily news, family issues, a health crisis, or a
common cold. An indignant neighbor, a disgruntled e x, or achild who has lost their way will literally suck the hours out
of our days and the money out of our bank accounts while
twisting our minds into believing that we can’t and won’t
ever have everything we want. Sometimes, we even for get
that we ever wanted anything diﬀer ent fr om what we have. The r epetitiveness of our to xic memory can lur e us into
years of accepting mor e of the same and wasting away in a
mediocr e existence that fails to meet even our own
expectations. Unfortunately, this method of survival strips us of the
ability to live the life that we wer e meant to live. The
emotional pain that surfaces as part of everyday life has us
wish away our past and become r esigned about our futur e. If we feel we have been deceived or conned or that we have
acted out of character, we become victims of the past and
hopeless about what’s to come. Cynical and sk eptical, we
fall pr ey to judgment, opting to point our ﬁnger at others
rather than look inside ourselves for the answers to our
woes. The r obotic natur e of our egocentric self rises up to
help us over come our feelings of insecurity and shame by
protesting our innocence and pr oclaiming our diﬀer ences. We think that if only we could just get that one person or
thing to change, we would feel better. We believe that if we
handle the one issue that we k eep complaining about or get
that one thing that we’ve been striving for, we will be happy. Rather than taking the time to pier ce the veil between who
we think we ar e and who we r eally want to be, we allow the
illusional life of a self that e xists in our minds to be in
contr ol. The pr oblem with this appr oach to life is that it pr events
us from discovering our true self, and it endangers the ar eas
of our lives that ar e most important to us. When we ar e
busy pr otecting ourselves fr om the demons that lurk in the
dark, we miss out on feeling joyful, fulﬁlled, and deeply
connected with those we love. Intent on hiding the dark erhalf of our human natur e, we fail to r each our full potential
and e xperience the depth and richness of our lives. We wer e bor n whole, and yet most of us ar e living as
partial human beings. W e each have the capacity to be an
important part of a grander whole. W e have the capacity to
leave this world a better place than we found it. W e are
meant to discover our authentic natur e—the state of being
in which we ar e inspir ed by ourselves, tur ned on, lit up, and
excited about who we ar e. We are meant to over come
adversity and manifest the gr eatest version of our own
individual soul, not a version of a self that is birthed out of a
fantasy. Big, blown- out fantasies about our lives stem fr om
the pain of our unr ealized potential, but true dr eams ar e a
reality we ar e willing to work for, ﬁght for, stay up late for—
this is a futur e that is within our r each. And ther e is only one
thing that can r ob us of that futur e, and that is our shadow—
our dark side, our secr ets, our r epressed feelings, and our
hidden impulses. The gr eat Swiss psychologist C. G. Jung tells us that our
shadow is the person we would rather not be. The shadow
can be seen in the person in our family whom we judge the
most, the public oﬃcial whose behavior we condemn, the
celebrity who causes us to shak e our head in disgust. If we
understand this cor rectly, we come to the startling and
sometimes sobering r ealization that our shadow is
everything that annoys, hor riﬁes, or disgusts us about other
people or about ourselves. W ith that wisdom in hand, we
begin to see that our shadow is all that we try to hide fr om
those we love and all that we don’t want other people to
ﬁnd out about us. Our shadow is made up of the thoughts, emotions, and
impulses that we ﬁnd too painful, embar rassing, or
distasteful to accept. So instead of dealing with them, we
repress them—seal them away in some part of our psyche,
so we won’t have to feel the bur den and shame they car ry
with them. P oet and author R obert Bly describes the shadowas an invisible bag that each of us car ries ar ound on our
back. As we’r e growing up, we put in the bag every aspect
of ourselves that is not acceptable to our families and
friends. Bly believes


absorption	of	life-essential
fats,	calcium,	and	vitamin	K,	gallstones	can	lead	to	life-threatening	diseases,	such	as
heart
disease,	osteoporosis,
	and
cancer. The	liver	uses	the	fat-soluble	vitamin	K	to	produce	the
compounds	responsible	for	the	clotting	of	blood. In	case	of	poor	vitamin	K	absorption,
hemorrhagic	disease
	may	result. The	body	cannot	fully	absorb	this	vitamin	when	a
problem	with	the	digestion	of	fat	exists. The	main	cause	of	inadequate	vitamin	K
absorption	is	an	insufficient	supply	of	bile,	pancreatic	lipase,	and	pancreatic	fat. It	stands
to	reason	that	following	a	lowfat	or	no-fat	diet	can	actually	endanger	your	life. Calcium	is	essential	for	the	hardening	of	bone	and	teeth,	the	coagulation	of	blood,	and
the	mechanism	of	muscle	contraction. Poor	bile	secretion	can,	therefore,	undermine	the
uptake	of	calcium,	a	mineral	the	body	requires	for	some	of	its	most	vital	activities. What	applies	to	vitamin	K	also	applies	to	all	other	fat-soluble	vitamins,	including
vitamins	A,	E,	and	D. The	small	intestine	can	only	absorb	vitamin	A	and	carotene
sufficiently	if	fat	absorption	is	normal. If	vitamin	A	absorption	is	insufficient,	the
epithelial	cells
	become	damaged. These	cells	form	an	essential	part	of	all	the	organs,
blood	vessels,	lymph	vessels,	and	so	on	in	the	body. Vitamin	A	is	also	necessary	to
maintain	healthy	eyes	and	protect	against	or	reduce	microbial	infection. Vitamin	D	is
essential	for	calcification	of	bones	and	teeth. 5
	It	is	of	great	importance	to	realize	that
supplementing	these	vitamins	does	not	resolve	the	problem	of	deficiency. 6
	To	sum	up,	without	normal	bile	secretions,	the	body	cannot	digest	and	absorb	enough	of
these	vitamins,	which,	in	turn,	can	cause	considerable	damage	to	the	circulatory,
lymphatic,	and	urinary	systems. Inadequately	digested	foods	tend	to	ferment	and	putrefy	in	the	small	and	large
intestines. They	attract	a	vast	number	of	bacteria	to	help	speed	up	the	process	of
decomposition. The	breakdown	products	are	often	very	toxic,	and	so	are	the	excretions
produced	by	the	bacteria. All	of	this	strongly	irritates	the	mucus	lining,	which	is	one	of	the
body’s	foremost	defense	lines	against	disease-causing	agents. Regular	exposure	to	these
toxins	impairs	the	body’s	immune	system,	60	percent	of	which	is	located	in	the	intestines. Overburdened	by	a	constant	invasion	of	toxins,	the	small	and	large	intestines	may	be
afflicted	with	a	number	of	disorders,	including
diarrhea,	constipation,	abdominal	gas,
Crohn’s	disease,	ulcerative	colitis,	diverticular	disease,	hernias,	polyps,	dysentery,
appendicitis,	volvulus,
	and
intussusceptions,
	as	well	as	both
benign
	and
malignant
tumors. Ample	bile	flow	maintains	good	digestion	and	absorption	of	food	and	has	a	strong
cleansing	action	throughout	the	intestinal	tract. Every	part	of	the	body	depends	on	the
basic	nutrients	made	available	through	the	digestive	system,	as	well	as	the	efficient
removal	of	waste	products	from	that	system. Gallstones	in	the	liver	and	gallbladder
considerably	disrupt	both	these	vital	processes. Therefore,	they	can	be	held	accountable
for	most,	if	not	all,	of	the	different	kinds	of	ailments	that	can	afflict	the	body. Removal	of
gallstones	helps	to	normalize	the	digestive	and	eliminative	functions,	improve	cell
metabolism,	and	maintain	balance	throughout	the	body. Disorders	of	the	Circulatory	System

For	descriptive	reasons,	I	have	divided	the
circulatory	system
	into	two	main	parts,	the
blood	circulatory	system
	and	the
lymphatic	system. The	blood	circulatory	system	consists
of	the	heart,	which	acts	as	a	pump,	and	the	blood	vessels,	through	which	the	blood
circulates. The	lymphatic	system	consists	of	lymph	nodes	and	lymph	vessels,	through	which
colorless
lymph
	flows. The	body	contains	three	times	more	lymph	fluid	than	blood. Lymph
takes	up	waste	products	from	the	cells,	as	well	as	cellular	debris,	and	removes	these	from
the	body. The	lymphatic	system	is	the	primary	circulatory	system	used	by	all	immunological
cells:	macrophages,	T-cells,	B-cells,	lymphocytes,	and	so	forth. An	obstruction-free
lymphatic	system	is	necessary	to	maintain	strong	immunity	and	homeostasis. Coronary	Heart	Disease

Heart	attacks	take	more	American	lives	than	any	other	cause. Although	it	occurs	suddenly,
a	heart	attack	is	actually	the	final	stage	of	an	insidious	disorder	that	has	been	years	in	the
making. This	disorder	is	known	as	coronary	heart	disease. Since	the	disease	plunders
mostly	prosperous	nations	and	rarely	killed	anyone	before	1900,	we	have	to	hold	our
modern	lifestyle,	unnatural	foods,	and	unbalanced	eating	habits	responsible	for	today’s
literally	heartsick	society. However,	long	before	the	heart	begins	to	malfunction,	the	liver
loses	much	of	its	major	vitality	and	efficiency. The	liver	influences	the	entire	circulatory	system,	including	the	heart. In	fact,	the	liver
is	the	greatest	protector	of	the	heart. Under	normal	conditions,	the	liver	thoroughly
detoxifies	and	purifies	venous	blood	that	arrives	via	the	portal	vein	from	the	abdominal
part	of	the	digestive	system,	the	spleen,	and	the	pancreas. In	addition	to	breaking	down
alcohol,	the	liver	detoxifies	noxious	substances,	such	as	toxins	produced	by	microbes. It
also	kills	bacteria	and	parasites	and	neutralizes	certain	drug	compounds	with	the	help	of
specific	enzymes. One	of	the	liver’s	most	ingenious	feats	is	to	remove	the	nitrogenous
portion	of	amino	acids,	since	nitrogen	is	not	required	for	the	formation	of	new	protein. It
forms
urea
	from	this	waste	product. The	urea	ends	up	in	the	bloodstream	and	is	excreted
in	the	urine. The	liver	also	breaks	down	the	nucleoprotein	(nucleus)	of	worn-out	cells	of
the	body. The	byproduct	of	this	process	is
uric	acid,
	which	is	excreted	with	the	urine	as
well. The	liver	filters	more	than	one	quart	of	blood	per	minute,	leaving	only	the	acidic	carbon
dioxide	for	elimination	through	the	lungs	(see
Figure	7
). After	it	is	purified	in	the	liver,	the	blood	passes	through	the
hepatic	vein
	into	the
inferior	vena	cava,
	which	takes	it	straight	into	the	right	side	of	the	heart. From	there	the
venous	blood	is	carried	to	the	lungs,	where	the	interchange	of	gases	takes	place:	Carbon
dioxide	is	excreted	and	oxygen	absorbed. After	leaving	the	lungs,	the	oxygenated	blood
passes	into	the	left	side	of	the	heart. From	there	it	is	pumped	into	the
aorta,
	which	supplies
all	body	tissues	with	oxygenated	blood. Figure	7
:	The	way	the	liver	filters	blood

Gallstones	in	the	bile	ducts	of	the	liver


 lovers, wer e told verbally or nonverbally, “Y ou’re
wonderful and beautiful.” L ove is to people what water is to
plants.Examining the past can help clarif y many of our
problems, but healing doesn’t occur in the past. It occurs in
the pr esent. Ther e is practically a mania these days for
blaming the events of our childhood for our cur rent despair. What the ego doesn’t want us to see is that our pain doesn’t
come fr om the love we wer en’t given in the past, but fr om
the love we ourselves ar en’t giving in the pr esent. Salvation
is only found in the pr esent. Every moment we have a
chance to change our past and our futur e by r eprogramming
the pr esent. Such a view is blasphemy to the ego and we
are judged harshly for espousing it. Although we might have
learned the ways of lovelessness fr om our par ents,
perpetuating their patter ns by denying them love now is
hardly the way out of the pr oblem. W e don’t get to the light
through endless investigation of the darkness. A fter a
certain point, the discussion always becomes cir cular. The
only way to the light is thr ough entering the light. “My par ents didn’t tell me I was beautiful. P oor me.” is
not a miracle-minded thought. R ather, it supports a feeling
of victimization. The miracle-minded attitude her e would be,
“My par ents didn’t tell me I was beautiful. The value of
knowing this is that now I’m clear er about why I don’t have
an easy time letting anyone else tell me that, and I
understand why I haven’t developed the habit of saying it to
others. I can develop the habit now. The choice to give what
I haven’t r eceived is always an available option.” A man
mentioned to me r ecently that when he was a child, his
father never gave him pr esents. I suggested that a healing
would come fr om his sending his father lots of pr esents now. I used to wor ry too much about whether or not I was
supported, and not enough about whether or not I was
actively supporting others. R omantically, I r ealized that I
needed to help a man feel mor e like a man, rather than
spend my time wor rying about whether or not he wasenough of a man. W e help another person access their
highest by accessing our own. Gr owth comes fr om focus on
our own lessons, not on someone else’s. A Course in
Miracles  teaches that “ only what you have not given can be
lacking in any situation.” I spent years waiting for a man to
make me “ feel lik e a real woman.” Only when I r ealized that
my feminine ener gy was not a man’s gif t to me, but rather
my gif t to myself and to him, did the men ar ound me start
to demonstrate the mor e masculine ener gy I craved. The fairy tale called “The F rog Prince” r eveals the deep
psychological connection between our attitudes towar d
people and their capacity for transfor mation. In the story, a
princess kisses a fr og and he becomes a prince. What this
signiﬁes is the miraculous power of love to cr eate a conte xt
in which people naturally blos som into their highest
potential. Neither nagging, trying to get people to change,
criticizing, or ﬁxing can do that. The Course says we think
we’re going to understand people in or der to ﬁgur e out
whether or not they’r e worthy of our love, but that actually,
until we love them, we can never understand them. What is
not loved is not understood. W e hold ourselves separate
from people and wait for them to ear n our love. But people
deserve our love because of what God cr eated them to be. As long as we’r e waiting for them to be anything better, we
will constantly be disappointed. When we choose to join
with them, thr ough appr oval and unconditional love, the
miracle kicks in for both parties. This is the primary k ey, the
ultimate miracle, in r elationships. 9. RELINQUISHING FEAR
“Perfect love casts out fear.”A good r elationship isn’t always crystals and rainbows. It’s a
birth pr ocess, of ten painful, of ten messy. When my daughter
was ﬁrst bor n, she was cover ed with blood and everything
else. Ther e was a lot to go thr ough befor e the Gerber baby
ﬁnally appear ed. A “spiritual r elationship” isn’t necessarily one in which
two people ar e smiling all the time. Spiritual means to me,
above all else, authentic. A t my New Y ear’s Eve service last
year, I said that we wer e together not for mindless but for
mindful celebration. That would include some grief and
acknowledgement of disappointments in the past year,
which would have to be pr ocessed and for given befor e we
could honestly celebrate the str oke of midnight and the
mark of a new beginning. And so it is that, in r elationships as well, we’r e brought
together for r eal work. R eal work can only occur in the
presence of rigor ous honesty. We all long for that, but we
are afraid of honestly communicating with another person
because we think they’ll leave us if they see who we r eally
are. A couple fr om my lectur es once came to me for
counseling. Earlier that day, the man had told the woman he
was br eaking oﬀ their r elationship. She was shock ed and
hurt and ask ed him if he would come with her to see me in
order to help her work thr ough the loss. As the two of them
sat acr oss fr om me on my couch, I assur ed Bob that I wasn’t
there to try to get them back together, but to join with them
in asking for peace. I remember ed a similar situation I had been in myself
once, and how brilliantly my therapist had handled it. I said
exactly the things that she had said. I said to him, “ Bob,
why ar e you so angry at Deborah?”“I’m not angry at her,” he said. “Well, you sur e sound angry,” I told him. “I know that it’s not my job to ﬁx Deborah,” he said. “I
don’t want to change her; I just want out.”
“Oh, I bet you think that’s so spiritual,” I said. He look ed surprised. I think he thought he’d been a good
A Course in Miracles  student. “You haven’t suspended judgment of Deborah,” I said. “You’ve withheld vital infor mation fr om her, data without
which she couldn’t function eﬀectively within the
relationship. Why don’t you tell her why you’r e so angry?”
Once again he r epeated, “I’m not angry.”
“Well,” I said. “Y ou’re an actor. Just pr etend you ar e. Go
on Bob, we’r e safe her e. Let her have it.”
And boy, once he got started, did he let it out. He told
her that she had no concept of how to live with another
person. She just did everything however she wanted to do
it, and if he wanted to come along, well that was just gr eat. I
don’t r emember e xactly what else he had to say, but ther e
was a lot of communication that came gushing out once he
allowed it to. When he was ﬁnished, Deborah, obviously
moved, said quietly and sincer ely, “I never knew that. Thank
you for telling me.”
They lef t my oﬃce and did not br eak up. Their
relationship, they later told me, was r eborn in that session. The anger that Bob was feeling was pent up ener gy that
came fr om the fact that he had felt it “unspiritual” to shar e
his honest feelings with Deborah as they went along.It’s far better to communicate than to suppr ess our
feelings. Anger is of ten a r esult of a series of
uncommunicated feelings building up inside of us and
ultimately exploding. In a holy r elationship, we consider it
part of our commitment to stay cur rent in the honest
expression of our feelings, and to support our partner in
doing the same. So much is then communicated as we go
along that the chances of anger building up inside either of
us is lessened. Until then, we must deal with what’s r eal. If anger comes
up, it must be accepted. If we think our partner won’t love
us if we get angry, then we stop being honest and the
relationship is doomed for sur e. I’ve suggested to couples
that they agr ee not to br eak up a r elationship because of a
ﬁght. It’s very important to have a safe space for ﬁghting. I
say


 the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you. Only
the stillness in you can perceive the silence outside. And what is stillness
other than presence, consciousness freed from thought forms. Here is the
living realization of what we have been talking about. CHRIST : THE REALITY OF YOUR DIVINE PRESENCE
Don’ t get attached to any one  word. Y ou can substitute “Ch rist” for
presence, if that is more meaningful to you. Christ is your God-essence
or the Self, as it is sometimes called in the East. The only d if ference
between Christ and presence is that Christ refers to your in dwelling
divinity regardless of whether you are conscious of it or not, whereas
presence means your awakened  divinity or God-essence. Many misunderstandings and false beliefs about Christ will clear if you
realize that there is no past or future in Christ. T o say that Christ was  orwill be  i s a contradicti on in terms. Jesus was. He was a man who lived
two tho usand years ago and re alized divine presence, his true nature. And so he said: “Before Abraha m was, I am. ” He did not say: “I already
existed b efore A braham was born. ” That would have meant that he was
still with in the dimension of time and form identity. The words I am  used
in a sentence t hat starts in the past tense indicate a radical shift, a
discontinuity in the temporal dimension. It is a Zen-like statement of
great profundity. Jesus attempted to convey directly, not through
discursive thoug ht, the meaning of presence, of self-realization. He had
gone be yond th e consciousness  dimension governed by time, into the
realm o f the timeless. The dim ension of eternity had come into this
world. E ternity, of course, does not mean endless time, but no time. Thus, th e man Jesus became C hrist, a vehicle for pure consciousness. And what is God’ s se lf-definition in the Bible. Did God say, “I have
always been, and I always will be. ” Of course not. That would have
given reality to past and future. God said: “ I AM THA T I AM. ” N o tim e here,
just presence. The “second coming” of Christ is a transformation of  human
consciousness, a shift from time to presence, from thinking to pure
consciousness, n ot the arrival o f some man or woman. If “Christ” were
to return  tomorrow in some externalized form, what could h e or she
possibly say to you other tha n this: “I am the T ruth. I am  divine
presence. I am eternal life. I am within you. I am here. I am Now. ”
Never personal ize Christ. Don’ t make Christ into a form identity. A vatars, divine mothers, enlight ened masters, the very few that are real,
are not special as persons. W ithout a false self to uphold, def end, and
feed, th ey are more simple, m ore ordinary than the ordinary man or
woman. Anyone  with a strong ego would regard them as insignificant or,
more likely, not see them at all. If you are drawn  to an enlightened teacher, it is because there i s already
enough presence in you to recognize presence in another. There were
many pe ople who did not recogn ize Jesus or the Buddha, as there are and
always h ave bee n many people w ho are drawn to false teachers. Egos aredrawn to  bigger egos. Darkness cannot recognize light. Only light can
recognize light. So don’ t believ e that the light is outside you or that it
can only  come through one particular form. If only your ma ster is an
incarnation of God, then who are you. Any kind of exclusivity is
identification with form, and identification with form means ego, no
matter how well disguised. Use the master ’ s presence to ref lect your own identity beyond name and
form ba ck to you and to become more intensely present your self. Y ou
will soo n realize  that there is no “mine” or “yours” in presence. Presence
is one. Group work can also be help ful for intensifying the light of your
presence. A group of people c oming together in a state of presence
generates a collective ener gy fie ld of great intensity. It not only raises the
degree of presence of each member of the group but also helps to free the
collective human consciousness from its current state of mind
dominance. This will make the state of presence increasingly more
accessible to individuals. Howe ver, unless at least one member of the
group is already firmly established in it and thus can hold the ener gy
frequency of that state, the eg oic mind can easily reassert itself and
sabotage the group’ s endeavors. Although group work is invaluable, it is
not e nough, and you must not come to depend on it. Nor must you come
to depend on a teacher or a master, except during the transitional period,
when you are learning the meaning and practice of presence. CHAPTER SIX
T H E  I N N E R  B O D Y
BEING IS YOUR DEEPEST SELF
Y ou spo ke earlier about the im portance of having deep r oots within or
inhabiting the body. Can you explain what you meant by that. The bod y can become a point of access into the realm of Being. Let’ s go
into that more deeply now. I am still not quite sur e if I fully understand what you mean by  Being. “W ater. What do you mean by that. I don’ t understand it. ” This is what
a fish would say if it had a human mind. Please s top trying to understand Being. Y ou have already had significant
glimpses of Being, but the mind will always try to squeeze it into a little
box and  then put a label on it. It cannot be done. It cannot be come an
object of knowledge. In Being, subject and object mer ge into one. Being ca n be felt  as the ever -present I am  t hat  is beyond n ame and form. T o feel and thus to know that you ar e  and to abide in that deeply rooted
state is enlightenment, is the truth that Jesus says will make you free. Fr ee fr om what. Free fro m the illusion  t hat  you  are nothing more than your physical body
and you r mind. This “illusion o f the self,” as the Buddha calls it, is the
core error. Free from fear  in  its countles s disguises as t he inevitable
consequence of that illusion — the fear that is your constant torm entor as
long as you derive your sense of self only from this ephemeral and
vulnerable form. And free from sin, which  is the suf fering you
unconsciously inflict on yoursel f and others as long as this illus ory sense
of self governs what you think, say, and do. LOOK BEYOND THE WORDS
I don’ t like the wor d  sin. It implies that I am being judged and found
guilty. I can understand that. Over the centuries, many erroneous views and
interpretations have accumulated around words such as sin, due to
ignorance, misunderstanding, or a desire to control, but they co ntain an
essential core of truth. If you are unable to look beyond such
interpretations a nd so cannot recognize the reality to which the word
points, t hen don ’ t use it. Don’ t get stuck on the level of words. A word is
no m ore than a  means to an end. It’ s an abstraction. Not unlike a
signpost, it points beyond itself. The word honey  isn’ t honey. Y ou can
study and talk a bout honey for as long as you like, but you won’ t really
know  i t until y ou taste  it. After you have tasted it, the word becomes less
important to you. Y ou won’ t be attached to it anymore. Similarly, you
can talk  or think about God  continuously for the rest of your life, but
does tha t mean you know or have even glimpsed the reality to which the
word points. It really is no more than an obsessive attachment to a
signpost, a mental idol. The reve rse also  applies: If, for  whatever reason, you disliked the word
honey, t hat might prevent you from e ver tasting it. If you had a strong
aversion to the word God, which is a negative form of attachment, youmay be denying not just the wo rd but also the reality to which it points. Y ou would be cutting yourself of f from the possibility of experiencing
that reality. All this is, of cou rse, intrinsically connected wi th being
identified with your mind. So, if a word doesn’ t work for you anymore, then drop it and replace it
with one that does work. If you don’ t like the word sin, the n call it
unconsciousness or insanity. That may get you closer to the truth, the
reality behind the word, than a  long-misused word like sin, and leaves
little room for guilt. I do n’ t l ike


 pressure and diabetes. Usually, as you may know by now, the
Gerson juicing program includ es thirteen glasses of fruit and vegetable
juices: one 8-ounce glass (225 grams) of orange juice, about five glasses
containing apples and carrots  in approximately a 35 to 65 percent
proportion, 1/3 apples to 2/3 carrots), three glasses of carrot juice given
with two capsules of liver powd er each, and four glasses of juice made with
various salad greens, also containing one small apple each. In order to
decrease his glucose intake somewhat, he was given not orang e juice but
grapefruit juice. And Frank’ s other juices contained fewer apples. He was
also given more green juices in the place of some of the carrot juice. Making an additional dietary adjustment which is usually done for
diabetics, this patient was not furnished with a fruit plate to eat in his room,
as the other patients ordinarily receive. Instead, Frank was serve d a plate of
raw vegetables: cut-up carrot sticks, green pepper strips, celery sticks, little
cauliflower heads, tomatoes—so that he would have something  to “nibble”
in case he was hungry. Outside of that, he could eat three full Gerson
Therapy meals at regular mealt imes. They included all organic vegetarian
foods, freshly prepared without any salt or fats, no frozen or canned foods,
and very limited herbal spices. Between his three meals and thirteen glasses of juice, plus his raw
vegetable plate daily, Frank was never hungry even for one moment. But he
did get rid of a pound a day for over two and a half months. Of course the
man was also administered the other components of the Gerson Therapy: 2
tsp of potassium compound in each glass of juice, along with a little
thyroid, Lugol’ s solution (iodine), and digestive enzymes. Frank was taken  off his antigou t medication from the first day and never
had another gout attack. He was also receiving the regular coffee enemas of
the Gers on Therapy and an intramuscular injection of 3 cc of crude liver
extract which contained 0. 1 cc of vitamin B12 daily. Exceptionally (this next
medication is not given to nondiabetic patients), he also received three
times daily 200 mcg of chromium picolinate, a glucose tolerance factor. Meantime, Frank’ s blood pressure came down (without salt and fat, the
Gerson Therapy  usually produces reduction of blood pressure within a few
days); therefore, his blood pressure medication was lowered. Within five weeks, not only had Frank Winslow lost 35 pounds, but his
blood sugar was a normal 105 (from a high of 240) without his receiving
any medication or insulin. He continued to lose 1 pound a day until he was
a reason ably normal 205 pounds (at a height in his stocking feet of 6 feet 2
inches or 190 cm). All this time, consuming the right foods, the patient was
able to eat according to his appetite’ s needs without being hungry at any
time. One very important aspect of Dr. Max Gerson’ s therapy is the coffee
enema. When a patient of this diabetic type with other comp lications of
illness is losing weight rapidly, he is also metabolizing many of the toxins
that are stored in the fatty tissue. In other words, when the fat dissolves, the
chemicals contained in the fatty tissue go into the general blood circulation
and poison the patient if one does not intensively detoxify. The coffee
enemas help to open the bile ducts in the liver and allow the toxins to be
eliminated throu gh the bowel. (See full details of the Gers on Therapy
procedure in our separate chapt ers about the juices, food preparation, and
coffee enemas. ) There are several interesting facts in this case that deserve attention. On
the one hand, it became obvious  to the Tijuana hospital’ s staff of physicians
that Frank was a typical case of low thyroid function, in addition to his
other problems. He was extremely overweight and had already suffered one
severe heart attack plus diabetes, all of which relate to his having a low
thyroid function. Also, both of his sons, aged fourteen and seventeen,
suffered from allergies and asthma, respectively. These are also signs of low
thyroid function (often hereditary) and immune deficiency. The boys had
them too. Still more astonishing in this family situation is the fact that Frank’ s
father, now about seventy-six years old, had been a patient on the Gerson
Therapy some seven years earlier, suffering from advanced pancreatic
cancer. His doctors had given him a “hopeless” prognosis, saying that he
had perhaps three to six months to live. He came to the Gerson Therapy
hospital facility in Tijuana, stayed faithfully on the Gerson Therapy, and
recovered comp letely. It is now over eight years since the senior Mr. Winslow’ s recovery, and the man remains well today. He too had already
suffered three heart attacks prior to his diagnosis of pancre atic cancer. Today, as well, he remains free of heart disease, is active and enjoying life. There is something to be learned by studying this unique family situation. We see here another member of the Winslow family with low thyroid
function, suffering heart attacks and eventually cancer. Even though the son
watched this dramatic recovery in his father, he allowed himsel f to become
so seriou sly ill that he was close to death before presenting himself for the
treatment which had already saved his father ’s life. An impo rtant factor in the Gerson Therapy for heart disease is the use of
thyroid medication to increase metabolism, burn off fats, and use up
cholesterol. Obviously, thyroid hormone must be started at a low level in
order not to overtax the damage d heart. Second, food supplementation with
flaxseed oil helps to dissolve fat and cholesterol deposits in the arter-ics and
increase the ability of the blood to carry oxygen. Also of great importance
is the use of potassium, which helps in enzyme function (also to dissolve
plaque) and keeps the blood from coagulating excessively; thus, potassium
reduces the danger of clots forming and causing heart attacks and/or
strokes. Dr. Gers on was aware early in the development of his therap y of the
extreme importa nce of potassium in treating all chronic disease. He stated
that, in his opinion, the beginning of all chronic degenerative disease is the
loss of potassium from the cell and the invasion of sodium (which we have
referred to as tissue damage syndr ome). In the area of heart disease, this
opinion about tissue damage syndrome was later stated by Professor
Demetrio Sodi-Pallares of the Mexico City University Medical School. He
wrote more than twelve books and over 300 articles on his treatment of
heart disease.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the risk of kidney disease for type 1 diabetics?,
A: The risk is double the percentage of type 2 diabetics.
Q: Can the Gerson Therapy reverse kidney damage in diabetics?,
A: The therapy can reverse kidney damage, but only if the damage is not too severe (less than 20% of normal function).
Q: What is the Gerson Therapy's approach to treating osteoarthritis?,
A: The therapy aims to rebuild the damaged joints and bones, but this process takes time and requires a long-term commitment to the program.
Q: What is the Gerson Therapy's approach to treating cancer?,
A: The therapy focuses on detoxification, nutrition, and relaxation techniques to promote healing, and patients are encouraged to become their own healers.
Q: Can the Gerson Therapy be used in conjunction with other treatments?,
A: The therapy should not be used in combination with other treatments, as it can be ineffective in such cases.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Clay poultice,  a soft composition powder mixed with water and applied
as a mud pack to an inflamed body part for purposes of absorbi ng toxins of
arthritis, cancer, insect stings, diarrhea, and poisons, it has an adsorptive
effect like that of charcoal. The clay poultice aids detoxification. Clay
powder can also be used interna lly to clear gastrointestinal difficulties and
inflammations. The procedure for applying a clay poultice should involve
the following steps:
1. Prepare enough warm water to mix the needed amount of clay powder
into a paste. 2. Apply the paste quickly to a square of clean muslin to prevent cooling. 3. Place the muslin on an area to be treated. 4. Cover the area with plastic and wool cloth. 5. Pin the covering in place and leave it on overnight or until dry. 6. Remove and gently rub the area with a cold wet cloth. 7. Repeat this procedure as required. 8. Discard used clay pack. References for Chapter Nineteen
1Schaefer, A. “Some characterist ics of cancer survivors.” Townsend Letter
for Doctors & Patients. 195:70-71, October 1999. OceanofPDF.comChapter Twenty
GERSON LAB TESTS EXPLAINED
In this chapter we explain the significance of certain laboratory tests that
are necessary for monitoring one’s healing progress. Laboratory testing of
blood and urine are a standard part of follow


know it—a realm of disordered thoughts, manufactured chaos, and
disconnected events—is not who we are, and we cannot feel safe within it. This is a deadly game, but it is a game we’re playing with ourselves. With our loveless thoughts we have concocted a loveless world. In closing
our hearts we have blinded our eyes. But God did not do this to us; we did it
to ourselves. There is a way to escape this pain. Yet it’s something the ego will not
tolerate. Escape  lies in surrende ring the belief that we are separate, which
the ego finds intolerable because the end of the separation is the death of
the ego. It becom es vicious in its drive to preserve its life. In its panicked,
hysterical drive  to perpetuate itself, the ego takes out all the stops to
convince us that the separation is real and that our oneness is the illusion. It
insists everyone is guilty, even ourselves. It insists we are isolate d specks of
nothingness afloat in a random, uncaring universe. How could this not produce a deep and abiding anxiety, routinely
suppressed yet always haunting us. And from that place of spiritual
ignorance, uninf ormed of who we are and who we are to each other, we
make endlessly foolish decision s. Insisting the separation is real, we look to
the material world for comfort  when our overidentification with it is the
actual source of our discomfort. We build our mental prison, then seek to
decorate it with gold. We use our mind s to attack and defend when the purpose of our lives is
to love and bless—all this in an unconscious drive to perpetuate the
separation that is the engine of our despair. Our thinking upside down, our
lives are upside down. Our hearts invalidated, our lives are filled with
suffering. Our minds confused, our world is filled with terror. Ah, but from this insanity we are miraculously saved.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the key to changing the trajectory of our lives?,
A: Even the tiniest thought of forgiveness, of mercy, of love.
Q: What is the primary problem that we need to address in order to change our lives?,
A: Our resistance to choosing love.
Q: What is the source of our problems, and how can we overcome it?,
A: The ego's thought system, which is a result of our own resistance to love; we can overcome it by recognizing our own role in perpetuating the cycle of lovelessness and choosing to change our behavior.
Q: What is the purpose of our lives, and how can we achieve it?,
A: Our purpose is to learn to think as God thinks, and we can achieve it by letting go of our ego and choosing to think with love.
Q: What is the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives, and how can we tap into its power?,
A: The Holy Spirit is a guide and a teacher, and we can tap into its power by quieting our minds and seeking its guidance in our thoughts, emotions, and actions.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Please show me the innocence in this person and myself, that I might be at peace. Amen
Prayer changes us on the level of cause. Effects of that change
automatically follow. Every thought is either love or fear. All negative thought is an expression of
fear. There is really only one problem (fear), and there is really only one
Answer (love). Love is our natural state, yet we’re thrown off our natural state as a
result of simply living in this world. That is the spiritual meaning of Adam
and Eve exiting the garden. All of us, including the person who treated you
unkindly, has been wounded by the world. Whereas the love of God is
meant to flow into us and extend through us, our woundedness forms an
obstruction to our ability to allow  that. Ego is when the wires get crossed in
our brains: in any moment, for whatever reason, we can’t see how to
express our love and still get our needs met. We become stuck in that
moment and fall asleep to who we are. That is what happened inside the person who hurt you. They fell asleep
to who they are; and in that state, they fell asleep to who you are too. Yet
the bigger problem is what happens now. Someone else having fallen asleep
to who they are, and to who you are, the temptation is for you to fall asleep
too. Your mission—and your miracle—is to remain awake. You can extend your perception beyond the realm of someone’ s
mistaken, lovele ss behavior, and choose instead to see their innocence. You
can be willing to remember what in your heart you know: that they are an
innocent child of God, just like you, and their behavior doesn’ t have to be
perceived as an attack. It is mere ly a bad dream, and you don’t have to enter
into it. Their behavior can be seen differently; what is not love can be seen
as a call for love.That does not mean the other person isn’t to be held accoun table. It
doesn’ t mean there isn’t a conversation to be had. It doesn’ t mean you’re to
surrender to unhealthy patterns of behavior related to them. Forgiveness
simply means you are lifted to a higher mental vibration, from which—and
only from which —you will be able to express your yes, and express your
no, from  a place that is nonreactive and responsible. And, by remaining
awake, you will help awaken the other person too. We are heir to the laws of the world with which we identify. If I choose
to perce ive your guilt as real, then the effects of it will be real for me. Forgiveness frees us from those effects. If I’m willing to see past your guilt
to the innocence beyond, I am freed from the effects of it. In freeing
someone else, we free ourselves. Recognizing that in an ultimat e sense only
love is real, only love then has an ef fect on us. Forgiveness then resets the trajectory of a relationship. It pierces the veil
and delivers us to oneness. It is the miracle that sets us free. It’s at this point that people might start telling you you’re in denial. “No,” they’ll say, “it did happen! And you have every right to be
angry!”
Of course you have a right to be angry; you have a right to feel
whatever you feel. But no, you don’t need  to be angry. What you need to be
is aware. Following the mystic Jesus doesn’ t make you any less psychologically
astute. Nothing could be more psychologically sophisticated than to
recognize how to navigate the deepest regions of the mind. And that’s what
spirit is: the deepest region of the mind. Choosing to extend your perception beyond someone’ s guilt isn’t
negative denial; it’s positive  denial. You’re not denying that something
happened, you’r e simply denying its power over you. You’re not looking
away from something; you’re looking through it, and past it. You’re
extending your perception into the light that will dissolve the effects of
darkness. Many people these days are aware of the concept of the “spiritual
bypass,” the idea that we’re pouring pink paint over an issue and simply
pretending it doesn’ t exist. That means we skip the important step of
owning our pain. That would indeed be negative denial.But that’s not what we’re talking about here. In fact, if anythin g we’re
talking about becoming even more attuned to our feelings—feelings such as
anger, shame, humiliation, embarrassment, rejection, and self-hatred. We’re
just not kidding ourselves that by analyzing them we’ll necessarily dissolve
the feelings, or that we have the power to simply tell those things to go
away. Rather, we bring them up in order to surrender them. Spiritual detox
works much like a physical detox; things must come up in order to be
released. Jesus cannot take from  us what we won’ t release to him. We say,
“This is how I’m feeling, but I am willing to see this differentl y.” That’ s a
more powerful way of shifting our emotions than simply telling them to go
away. And it’s when the miracle happe ns: not just when we “let go,” but when
we release something into the hands of God. We’re willing to see the love
that lies beyond the pain, whether it was love we weren’ t show n or simply
love we didn’ t know how to receive. The altar to God is in our minds, and
to put something on the altar means to put our thoughts about it on the altar. What we put on the altar is then altered. We’re willing to see something
differently. We’re willing for our thoughts to be lifted. And when they are,
we at last find peace. OceanofPDF.comThe Destination of Enlightenment
Imagine if, from the moment you were born, everyone who had ever met
you and everything that had ever happened to you had been ten on a scale
of one to ten in terms of compassion, mercy, and love. Think who you
would be today if that had been your experience. Now think who you are inste ad. Think of the places where your
emotional reacti ons are constricted by fear, where you lack trust or self-
confidence or a positive outlook


 hours a day and never sleeps. It is
always trying to help and preserve you from harm. Your subconscious mind is in touch with infinite life and boundless
wisdom, and its impulses and ideas are always life-ward. The gr eat
aspirations, inspirations, and visions for a grander and nobler life,
spring from the subconscious. Your profoundest convictions are those
you cannot argue about rationally because they do not come from your
conscious mind; they come from your subconscious mind. Your
subconscious speaks to you in intuitions, impulses, hunches,
intimations, urges, and ideas, and it is always telling you to ris e,
transcend, grow, advance, adventure, and move forward to greater
heights. The urge to love, to save the lives of others comes from the
depths of your subconscious. For example, during the great San
Francisco earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906, invalids and cripples
who had been confined to bed for long periods of time, rose up and
performed some of the most amazing feats of bravery and enduranc e.
The intense desire welled up within them to save others at all  costs,
and their subconscious responded accordingly. Great artists, musicians, poets, speakers, and writers tune in with
their subconscious powers and become animated and inspired. For
example, Robert Louis Stevenson, before he went to sleep, us ed to
charge his subconscious with the task of evolv-ing stories for  him
while he slept. He was accustomed to ask his subconscious to g ive
 88  him a good, marketable thriller when his bank account was low. Stevenson said the intelligence of his deeper mind gave him the  story
piece by piece, like a serial. This shows how your subconsci ous will
speak lofty and wise sayings through you, which your conscious mind
knows nothing about. Mark Twain confided to the world on many occasions that he never
worked in his life. All his humor and all his great writ-ings were due
to the fact that he tapped the inexhaustible reser-voir of h is
subconscious mind. • How the body portrays the workings of the mind
The interaction of your conscious and subconscious mind requires a
similar interaction between the corresponding system of nerve s. The
cerebrospinal system is the organ of the conscious mind, and th e
sympathetic systemis the organ of the subcon-scious mind. The
cerebrospinal system is the channel through which you receive
conscious perception by means of your five physical senses and
exercise control over the movement of your body. This system ha s its
nerves in the brain, and it is the chan-nel of your volitional and
conscious mental action. The sympathetic system, sometimes referred to as the in-v oluntary
nervous system, has its center in a ganglionic mass at the ba ck of the
stomach known as the solar plexus, and is some-times spoken of as
the abdominal brain. It is the channel of that mental action whic h
unconsciously supports the vital func-tions of the body. The two systems may work separately or synchronously. Judge
Thomas Troward says, “The vaguest nerve passes out of the cere bral
region as a portion of the voluntary system, and through it we c ontrol
the vocal organs; then it passes onward to the thorax sending out
branches to the heart and lungs; finally, passing through the
diaphragm, it loses the outer coating which distinguishes the ner ves of
the voluntary system and becomes identified with those of the
sympathetic system, so forming a connecting link between the two
and making the man physically a single entity. 89  “Similarly different areas of the brain indicate their con-nection
with the objective and subjective activities of the mind respectively,
and speaking in a general way we may assign the frontal portion of the
brain to the former and the posterior portion to the latter, wh ile the
intermediate portion partakes of the character of both.”
A rather simple way of looking at the mental and physical
interaction is to realize that your conscious mind grasps an idea, which
induces a corresponding vibration in your voluntary sys-tem of nerves. This in turn causes a similar current to be gen-erated i n your
involuntary system of nerves, thus handling the idea over to your
subconscious mind, which is the creative me-dium. This is how your
thoughts become things. Every thought entertained by your conscious mind and ac-cepted as
true is sent by your brain to your solar plexus, the brain of your
subconscious mind, to be made into your flesh, and to be brought forth
into your world as a reality. • There is an intelligence which takes care of the body
When you study the cellular system and the structure of the organs,
such as eyes, ears, heart, liver, bladder, etc., you learn they c onsist of
groups of cells which form a group intelligence whereby they  function
together and are able to take orders and carry them out in deduct ive
function at the suggestion of the master mind (conscious mind). A careful study of the single-celled organism shows you what goes
on in your complex body. Though the mono-cellular organism has no
organs, it still gives evidence of mind action and reaction per forming
the basic functions of movement, ali-mentation, assimilation, and
elimination. Many say there is an intelligence, which will take care of your body
if you let it alone. That is true, but the difficulty is that the conscious
mind always interferes with its five-sense evi-dence based on outer
appearances, leading to the sway of false beliefs, fears, and mere
opinion. When fear, false beliefs, and negative patterns ar e made to
register in your subconscious mind through psychological, emotional
 90  conditioning, there is no other course open to the subconscious mind
except to act on the blue-print specifications offered it. • The subconscious mind works continually for the common good
The subjective self within you works continuously for the genera l
good, reflecting an innate principle of harmony behind all things. Your subconscious mind has its own will, and it is a very real
something in itself. It acts night and day whether you act upon it or not. It is the b uilder
of your body, but you cannot see, hear, or feel it building, as all this is
a silent process. Your subconscious has a life of its own whic h is
always moving toward harmony, health, and peace. This is the divin e
norm within it seeking expression through you at all times. • How man interferes with the innate principle of harmony
To think correctly, scientifically, we must know the “Truth. ” To
know the truth is to be in harmony with the infinite intelli-ge nce and
power  of your subconscious mind, which is always moving lifeward. Every thought or action, which is not harmonious, whether through
ignorance or design, will result in discord and limitation of all kinds. Scientists inform us that you build a new body every eleven m onths;
so you are really only eleven months old from a physical standpoint. If
you build defects back into your body by thoughts of fear, anger,
jealousy, and ill will, you have no one to blame but yourself. You are the sum total of your own thoughts. You can keep from
entertaining negative thought and imagery. The way to get rid o f
darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat ; the way
to overcome the negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish. • Why it ’s normal to be healthy, vital, and strong it ’s abnormal to
be sick
The average child born into the world is perfectly healthy with all
its organs functioning perfectly. This is the normal state, and w e
 91  should remain healthy, vital, and strong. The instinct of self-
preservation is the strongest instinct of your nature, and it constitutes a
most potent, ever-present, and constantly opera-tive truth, inhe rent in
your nature. It is, therefore, obvious that all your thoughts, i deas, and
beliefs must operate with greater potentiality when they  are in
harmony with the innate life-principle in you, which is forever seeking
to preserve and protect you along all lines. It follows from thi s that
normal conditions can be restored with greater ease and certai nty than
abnormal conditions can be induced. It is abnormal to be sick; it simply means you are going a gainst the
stream of life and thinking negatively. The law of life is the  law of
growth; all nature testifies to the operation of this law  by silently,
constantly expressing itself in the law of growth. Where there  is
growth and expression, there must be life; where there is l ife there
must be harmony, and where there is harmony, there is perfect health. If your thought is in harmony with the creative principle of y our
subconscious mind, you are in tune with the innate prin-ciple of
harmony. If you entertain thoughts which are not in accordance with
the principle of harmony, these thoughts cling to you, harass you,
worry you, and finally bring about disease, and if persisted in,
possibly death. In the healing of disease, you must increase the inflow and
distribution