, or
devotion as a higher being.7. Being tossed around by the ups and downs of
momentary successes and failures.
I doubt that anyone who has honestly undertaken an inner
journey is immune to some  or all of these pitfalls. There is an
enormous gap between where you find yourself today (totally
dependent on the active mind ) and the reality you need to unveil.
It’s not waking up that is painful but the pitfalls. They are created
by the ego-personality, which thinks, mistakenly, that it deserves
its share of the goodies that are about to fall from the sky.
If you focus o n your experience here and now, the e go is
irrelevant, and many distractions can be avoided. Think about
parenting. Parents go through all kinds of troubles, worries,
everyday crises, and argumen ts with their children, but without a
doubt th ey know they love them. On the direct path you co nstantly
reinforce your purpose, which keeps the distractions at b ay. The
ancient Vedas declare that everyone is defined by their deepest
desires. Desire  leads to thou ghts, thoughts to words and actions,
actions to the fulfillment of desire. So in a very basic way, desire is
all you need. I f your deepest desire is to wake up, to esc ape the
illusion, to unveil reality, and  in the end to know who yo u really
are, the message gets through. Your deepest desire activates a level
of awareness that will get you to the goal.
Strange as it sounds, the dir ect path is valid only if it lea ds to
the plac e wher e you already a re. Each of us is already a co nscious,
creative being We are already in the state of wholeness, despite
our allegiance to mental constructs that impose all kinds of
limitations on us. The only change that’s needed is a shift of
identity, and yet no change is  more earthshaking. Once you realize
that you are whole, the transformation from human to
metahuman has occurred.
N a t u r e ’ s  H i d d e n  M e s s a g eWhat makes us whole alread y is that Nature is whole, and we
are par t of Nature. Such reasoning is totally sound, but it is hard
for man y people to accept. M odern physics holds that the universe
operates as a whole, each subatomic particle woven into the
cosmic fabric. But the method of science is to subdivide Nature
into smaller and smaller increments, and as the investigation
arrives at finer levels of exis tence, wholeness is lost from view.
This is more than a technical glitch. A crucial question is at stake.
Does the whole control the parts, or is it the reverse—there is no
whole e xcept f or an accumulation of parts? A new car is a whole
thing; we see it as one image and refer to it with one word. But just
as easily we ca n see a car the way a garage mechanic do es, as a
collection of parts: carburetor, driveshaft, transmission, and so on.
With lit tle or no effort, your m ind can shift from one view point to
the other.
The sam e hold s true for how you see yourself. In the mirror you
appear as a whole thing, a body; you refer to yourself by on e word,
your na me. Bu t if you sudde nly feel acute pain in the region of
your appendix,  you rush to the doctor—a kind of garage mechanic
for tissu es and organs—and you become a collection of parts. You
have the option to see yourself as whole or as a collection of parts.
When we come right down t o it, what is wholeness, any way?
It’s har d to imagine a more  baffling question. But without an
answer, living in wholeness is impossible. Fortunately, Nature
presents some inescapable clues, going back to the first
appearance of life on Earth. Life began 3.8 billion years ago when
RNA appeared and had the a bility to divide and replicate itself; a
billion years later, cells with outer membranes appeared on the
scene; j ump ahead another billion years or more and sing le-celled
organisms evolved into multicelled organisms.
The leap to multicelled organisms wasn’t due to physical
necessity—it was a creative breakthrough, and an astounding one.
For almost three billion years, single-celled organisms were
thriving, muta ting into new species on an endless conveyor belt
(which is still running at mid-ocean, where millions, perhaps
billions, of undiscovered single-celled creatures ride on its
surface). Life forms restric ted to single cells, or even more
primitive bacte ria and viruses, vastly outnumber, by far more than100 to 1, mult icelled life forms. DNA had achieved the ability to
fend off  enviro nmental hazar ds and laughed at death. The  trillions
of amoebas, blue-green algae, and simple fungi populating the
Earth to day are  clones of one  ancestor—it died as a physical object
but is nearly immortal as a package of knowledge inside DNA.
With su ch a successful enter prise showing no signs of wa ning,
there was no r eason to risk multicelled life, except for one: the
sheer exuberance of creativity. The basic challenge of creating
multicelled life  was how to reproduce a complex organism whose
moving parts aren’t the same. The task was like handing someone
the han dlebars of a racing bike and asking for the whole b ike to be
built from it, w ith the added c hallenge that no one had ever seen a
whole bike before. In your body, two stem cells might sit in
suspended animation for months or years, mixed in with fully
formed cells. When a stem cell is triggered into activity, it
specifically turns into a blood, brain, liver, or skin cel l, not a
generic human cell. The last generic cells in human development
disappeared in the womb by the fifth week of pregnancy, when a
ball of generic cells (the zyg ote) proceeded to the stage of the
embryo.
The early embryo doesn’t look anything like a mini–human
body, b ut its blobby pink ap pearance is deceptive. As the zygote
emerged from a single fertiliz ed egg, and then went from two cells
to four,  eight, sixteen, and so on, DNA was biding its tim e. With
precise timing, new instruct ions were sent out that altered the
destiny of the e mbryo, pushin g it closer to human form. Each new
cell was given its own separa te identity, through a bewilderingly
complex set of chemical signals that is even more remarkable than
DNA alone. We are far from being able to explain how a cell
understands w hat to do, but we know the general outline. In the
coming weeks of embryonic development not only will a brain cell
become differe nt from a liver  cell, but each brain cell travels to a
specific location, hooks up with similar cells that have made the
same journey, and undertake s a joint enterprise: creating a brain.
The same for each liver cell.
This process, known as “cell differentiation,” has been minutely
studied. It’s fascinating to observe so-called neuronal migration as
nascent brain cells, starting from their birthplace, are providedwith slick pathways to slide a long so that each reaches th e region
of th e brain th at needs to develop into vision, the fight- or-flight
response, emotions, higher thought, and so on. (I’m giving a
simplified picture, since neu ronal migration is multista ged and
extremely com plex.) To all ap pearances, a cell is a squishy bag of
water a nd soluble chemicals, but it is actually the repository of
every bit of knowledge pertaining to the history of life on Earth.
Creation looks like a process unfolding step by step, bit by bit,
but behind this appearance, one reality creates, governs, and
controls everything. Dividing life into its component parts—the
physical bits and pieces—is t otally artificial. Whether we go back
three b illion years or to the moment you were conceived  in your
mother’s womb, the same hidden message is present. The whole is
contained in the parts. Without the whole, the parts are
meaningless.
S e l f - R e g u l a t i o n :  T h e  G l u e  o f
E x i s t e n c e
If th e whole c reates, governs, and controls the parts, can we
observe it happening? Science doesn’t deny that the universe
operates as a w hole, but scientists maintain their insistence that
physical forces  glue everything together. As with everything else in
virtual reality, a story has been made up to satisfy the belief that
the universe must  be physical. The glue that really holds creation
together isn’t physical at all. It consists of self-regulation, or the
ability of every system to re main intact inside its own fe nced-in
world.
Self-regulation is why brain cells know that they aren’t
supposed to be liver or heart cells. Self-regulation is why your
body do esn’t fly apart into a  cloud of


rises
and	sunsets,	traditional	systems	worldwide	believe	that	there	is	power	in	syncing
up	your	activities	to	the	cycles	of	nature	such	as	the	moon	cycle.	Attuning	the
collective	natural	force	between	certain	activities	and	efforts	helps	us	live	more
in	harmony	with	nature.
The	new	moon	is	like	a	mini	New	Year’s	every	month.	Think	of	it	as	a
wonderful	way	to	refresh	each	month	and	create	new	goals	or	refocus	on	your
goals	with	new	vigor.	It’s	a	good	day	for	cleansing	and	a	great	time	to	start
implementing	positive	new	habits	to	benefit	your	beauty,	such	as	a
commitment	to	drinking	hot	water	with	lemon	each	morning,	drinking	more
fresh	water	and	giving	up	soda,	or	making	more	time	to	prepare	and	benefit
from	some	at-home	beauty	masks.	Why	wait	for	New	Year’s?	You	can	experiencea	personal,	renewed	commitment	to	improving	your	beauty	every	single	month.
The	full	moon	is	when	you	may	feel	the	strong	influence	of	completeness	in
your	projects.	You	can	time	your	creative	projects	or	goals	to	reach	their	peak	in
sync	with	the	full	moon.	Beauty-wise,	this	is	a	great	time	to	prepare	and	enjoy	a
very	nourishing	beauty	meal	that	may	take	a	little	more	effort	than	usual	for
you	and	your	loved	ones.	Try	to	enjoy	even	a	few	minutes’

“moon	bathing”	out
in	the	fullness	of	the	moon’s	natural	light,	which	has	a	cooling,	soothing	energy
that	balances	the	activating	sunlight	energy	in	your	being.
Ancient	mystics	believe	that	the	waxing,	or	growing	energy,	of	the	moon	is	a
great	time	for	fertility,	taking	in	nourishment,	and	building	on	your	intentions
from	the	new	moon,	while	the	waning	energy	that	comes	after	the	full	moon	is
a	good	time	for	taking	stock	and	cleaning	up	any	old	business.	This	might	be	a
great	time	to	clean	out	your	fridge,	kitchen	cupboards,	and	bathroom	cabinets
of	any	old	beauty	products	or	toxic	ingredients	that	don’t	serve	you	anymore.
Reclaim	only	what	is	fresh	and	supportive	of	your	life	force.
Balancing	the	Elements	in	Your	Body
According	to
Ayurveda’s
panchamahaboota
	theory,	everything	in	the	universe—
including	you—is	composed	of	five	main	elements:	earth,	water,	fire,	air,	and
space	(or	ether).	This	theory	holds	that	the	elemental	constitution	that	makes
up	your	body	is	not	unique,	but	it	is	shared	with	all	things	throughout	nature.
In	the	Chinese	medical	system	there	are	also	five	elements:	earth,	water,	fire,
wood,	and	metal.	Without	going	into	too	much	detail	about	these	complex
ancient	systems,	we	can	use	some	understanding	of	them	to	benefit	our	beauty
by	creating	more	balance.	According	to	Ayurveda,	an	imbalance	of	these
elements	can	lead	to	beauty	disorders	such	as
acne,	brittle	hair,	and	skin	that
ages	faster	than	it	should.
The
Ayurvedic
dosha
	theory	holds	that	we	all	possess	each	of	the	five
elements,	but	certain	elements	are	dominant	in	our	bodies.	Building	on	what
we	said	earlier	about	the
dosha
	system,	we	have	three	dominant	elements:
Vata
,
or	air	constitution,	is	represented	by	the	wind	in	nature;
Pitta
,	or	fire
constitution,	is	a	representation	of	the	sun;	and
Kapha
,	or	earth/water
constitution,	is	represented	by	the	rocks	and	solid	elements	on	earth	as	well	as
bodies	of	water.	When	we	are	out	of	balance,	the	elements	within	our	bodies	are
also	imbalanced.	On	the	other	hand,	balancing	our	elemental	constitution
promotes	health	and	delays	or	reduces	visible	signs	of	aging.	Radical	Beauty
requires	balance	and	avoiding	extremes	so	you	can	fully	express	your	natural
beauty.Again,	this	whole	concept	goes	into	much	more	depth,	but	there	are	some
general	principles	that	you	can	use	for	introspection	to	survey	potential	areas	of
imbalance	within	yourself	while	using	tangible	tools	to	work	on	creating	a
beautiful	balance	within	your	body,	mind,	and	spirit.	Here	are	some	of	the
symptoms	of	balanced	and	imbalanced	elements	and	a	sampling	of	the	most
effective	tools	to	get	back	in	balance.
VATA
	(AIR/WIND)
Like	the	wind,	this	represents	the	force	behind	all	movements,	including
internal	movements	such	as	digestion,	elimination,	breathing,	and	circulation.
Symptoms	of	balanced
Vata
:	creative	thinking,	inspired,	enthusiastic,
supple	skin
Symptoms	of	imbalanced
Vata
:
constipation,	excessive	worry	and
anxiety,	insomnia,	and	dry	skin
Some	basic	tips	for	balancing
Vata
	include	the	following:
•
Incorporate
abhyanga
	into	your	regular	daily	practice	with	a	real
commitment,	as	it	is	especially	important	for	helping	to	ground	and	destress
the	mind.
•
Get	to	bed	earlier	and	establish	a	regular	schedule	to	get	more	rest.
•
Protect	yourself	with	proper	measures	in	cold,	windy	weather	since	air-based
Vata
	types	may	be	more	susceptible	to	chills	and	imbalances	from	chilly
weather.
•
Prioritize	regular,	proper	elimination	(with	diet,	oxygen-magnesium
products,	probiotics,	etc.).
•
Establish	a	regular	daily	routine,	which	is	especially	important	for
Vata
.
•
Avoid
caffeine	and	stimulants.
•
Favor	fresh,	light,	and	easy-to-digest	foods.	Heavy	proteins	(
red	meat,	dairy,
and	the	like)	are	especially	hard	to	digest,	so	limit	or	avoid	them.
•
Avoid	foods	that	are	extremely	light	and	dry,	such	as	crackers,	cold	cereals,
and	packaged	snacks.
•
Incorporate	cardamom,	cumin,	ginger,	cinnamon,	salt,	cloves,	mustard	seed,
and	black	pepper	in	your	diet.
PITTA
	(FIRE/SUN)Fire	is	the	transformative	element	in	nature	that	can	enable	change,	so	it	has	an
important	role	in	digestion	and
metabolism,	governing	the	digestive
agni
	in
your	body.
Symptoms	of	balanced
Pitta
:	being	confident,	expressing	charisma	and
intelligence,	and	taking	action	with	a	clear	sense	of	vision,
direction,	and	purpose
Symptoms	of	imbalanced
Pitta
:	inflammation,	diarrhea,	indigestion,
heartburn,	hives,	skin	rashes,	chronic	irritation,	premature	graying
of	hair,
acne
Note:	Excessive	internal	overheating/
Pitta
is	considered	very	aging
.
Some	basic	tips	for	balancing
Pitta
	include	the	following:
•
Avoid	spicy	food,	such	as	chilies,	and	“heating”	foods	and	spices,	including
tomatoes,	radishes,	eggplant,	beets,	garlic,	onions,	peppers,	and	mustard
seed.
•
Avoid	the	tendency	to	overwork;	take	more	time	to	rest	and	rejuvenate.
•
Incorporate	more	cooling	foods,	such	as	green	leafy	vegetables,	zucchini,
green	beans,	and	cucumber


 and I again expressed
how I felt about it, without any anger or bitterness. We had a pleasant
exchange, and the dealer apolo gized, but felt that he could not refund the
money since we had signed the papers and after all a “deal is a deal.” I told
him that I did not respect this particular business practice, and I then let it
go. I did not need to forgive him, since I was not owning any anger about
the situa tion. I vowed I would look more carefully at contracts before
closing in the future. That was the end of it. Until the following letter
arrived some ten days later.
Dear Wayne:
After giving our conversation on the phone further thought, I
have decided to refund the $188.50 that is in question. I feel that
it was a misu nderstanding and not an attempt to mislea d.
However, our customers’  positive feeling toward us is very
important and I hope that this refund will be evidence of that.
If I can be of any other assistance, please let me know.
Thank you.I donated the money that I received to the End World Hunger cause, and
five days later I received a check for $988.50 from Argentina, for royalties
on something that I had written fifteen years ago. I gave six hundred dollars
of that money to help out some relatives, and six days later I received a
check for $6,269.50 from Mexi co, also totally unexpected, for something I
had done many years ago. For me, speaking from my heart, I truly know
there is truth in the maxim “What goes around, comes around.”
You know that there are certain  principles working within you to keep
you alive and functioning, such as salivation, digestion, elimination, and the
like. Know also that the principles of abundance, synchronicity,
detachment, and oneness are operative in the universe. All you have to do is
tune in to them and let them work through you exactly as do the principles
that maintain your physical perfection. When you are in harmony yourself,
you want to give that internal bliss away, and that is the focus of your life.
Since you are energy, and every thing else in the universe is also energy, all
you want to do is keep it flowing. No blockages, only flow. When you send
it out, it will keep coming back. Remember to give for the sake of giving,
and to keep it circulating as it flows back, and you will soon see it working
in your life.
If you doubt this principle it will not work in your life. Your doubt is the
blockage. But everyone that I know who has truly put it to the test finds that
it works beautifully. For me, I am beyond believing. I simply know it to be
true. Thus I seldom encounter those who might cheat me. Whe n I do, I act
from love rather than anger, with the realization that they canno t experience
what I am talking about while they are fixated on getting rather than giving.
The quality of their lives is affected by their thoughts of scarcity and trying
to get from others, and they believe they will never have enough. I believe I
will always have enough, no matter my circumstances. Consequently, I can
give, and it keeps coming back almost magically. I keep it all circulating,
since I do not want to be attached to any of it. People simply do not steal
from me.
This realization about giving hit me strongly a few years ago when I
began giving away large numbers of my book Gifts from Eykis. The more I
gave, the better I felt and the more abundance kept coming back into my
life. I realized that giving and receiving were the exact same thing. Nodifference. Ever y gift I gave gave me something back. I found a profound
shift taking place as I practiced giving.
This was not a conscious choice to be more philanthropic. I still resist
when someone tells me what to give. It was an automatic response to the
shifts that were taking place in my consciousness. The givin g was truly
enriching my life in ways that I had not anticipated. In a meditation one
night, I saw that we are truly here only to give, and that love is the most
important thing to be giving, regardless of the circumstances.
I still, however, have great difficulty in suspending anger when I see
evidence of man’ s inhumanity to man. The newspaper picture of the angry
young man who has just murder ed two innocent people is a very tough test.
I someti mes stare at that photo, which we all have seen, and ask myself,
“Am I capable of giving him love too?” I try to see that person as a tiny
baby. To see his innocence and the fact that he too, regardless of his crimes,
is deserv ing of love. This is admittedly a tough place to get to, particularly
when you or a loved one has been the victim. Our judgment of him does not
define him, he is already defined by his own thoughts and actions. Joel
Goldsmith, writing in Parenthesis in Eternity, says:
Loving our neighbor as ourselv es, then, is giving our neighb or
that same recognition of the godliness that we give ourselve s,
regardless of the appearance of the moment. That neighbor may
be the woman taken in adultery or the thief on the cross, but we
have nothing to do with that. What we have to do with is to love
all our neighbors by knowing their true nature, just as we would
be loved by having them know our true nature, in spite of what
outward appearance may temporarily be evident.
We can begin by sending love and compassion to the part of ourselves
who is struggling with pain and sorrow and anger. When we can truly be
there for ourselves, we are able to be a part of that universal energy, that
higher consciousness, that godliness that is in each and every one of us, and
we are able to give it even to those who harm us, because it is what we have
inside of ourselves. It truly is in every one of us, to be love, if we allow it.
Giving, in any capacity that you can muster, without any expectations of
return for your efforts, is the biggest step that you can take to bring
abundance into your life and to eliminate the need to forgive. Paradoxically,as long as you do not expect it, you will find yourself receivin g more and
more as well. Ultimately, you will discover that giving and receiving are
one and the same.

FORGIVING YOURSELF: AND WHY  NOT?

When you are living the principles discussed in this book, you will find
yourself being gentler to yourse lf. This is the act of self-for giveness, which
shows that you are living the awakened life. I have a beautiful pillow in my
office that says, “I’m allowed.” It was made by my sister -in-law many years
ago. For me it is a reminder that I am allowed to live my life as I please, to
make mistakes, to learn from those mistakes, and on and on. Many live
their lives believing they are not allowed. Judgmental adults succeeded in
convincing them that there are irrevocable rules which state what you can
say or not say, which order you never to be late, not to drink or smoke, to
hate the enemies assigned to you, never to masturbate, to disregard all
religions except the one you were born into, to dismiss those who appear
different from you, never to get divorced, and so on. At some point in your
life you adopted  these rules for yourself and made them a lifetime code of
conduct. Yet you also found that it was impossible to live up to all of them
all of the time. Consequently you filled yourself with guilt for not having
lived up to the judgmental code that was imposed upon you.
This guilty feeling is something that inhibits your own awakening, and
the only way to escape it is to forgive yourself for everything that you have
done. Once again, the absurdity of the need to forgive surfaces. You really
have nothing to forgive yoursel f for, and yet if you don’t, you still wallow
around in your own guilt. The more you learn the lessons of higher
consciousness and live your life from this perspective, the less inclined you
will be even to think about needing to for give yourself.
Look at any and all beliefs that you carry around with you in terms of
how well they serve you in living a life of harmony and purpose. If you
behave in a way that is in violation of those supposedly irrevocable rules,
you have not really done something wrong! You have merely done
something. And it is done. If you are, however, plagued with remorse and
guilt, then judging the action as wrong seems appropriate to prevent its
recurrence. Does it? Probably not. So, instead, learn from it by deciding if it
is something that you want to repeat based upon your values, and thenmove past it. It takes effort to determine if you are still opera ting on the
controls impose d by others. The effort is well worth it if you are not taking
responsibility for your own mind. You are allowed, plain and simple. You
do not need to be forgiven by anyone else, only yourself, and even that is
truly unnecessary once you accept yourself completely. You will know
when you have mastered the art of self-for giveness. When you are no


prosy by urine treatment
Kaviraj met him when he was on evening walk. The fisherman asked
him to prescribe any medicine for his ghastly disease. Kaviraj
showed him urine treatment and the fisherman started it at once.
After three weeks a watery ill-smelling substance began to ooze from
his body. The patient was so discouraged that he was on the point of
giving up the treatment. But Kaviraj persuaded him to continue it.
He used to visit the patient daily. Only day he had fever and it went
up to 105° He was uneasy for the whole night but the next day his
whole skin came out like the outer skin of a serpent. He was
besmeared with ashes. Two days after, he was given cow•s milk with
honey and he was given a full bath and was full cured. €: HA.PTER XV
EYE DISEASES
1. Glaucoma and Other Complaints : Shri Bhikhaji Kalaji aged
41 is a resident of Kasaiwada, Jamalpur, Ahmedabad. He suffered
from throbbing pain in the temples along with headache. His vision
was also dim and he was unable to see anything in the late evening
or at night. His eyes constantly remained red and watery. He
suffered from these troubles since a year. Though poor, he had
already spent Rs. 500/-. An eye-specialist of Ahmedabad examined
his eyes and said that they could be cured only when the excess
poisonous fluid behind the pupils is removed by an operation.
Bhikhaji was shocked. He feared that operation may result in
blindness which might leave his family in the lurch.
In the meanwhile he met Shri Ambalal Patel, Superintendent of
Ahmedabad Municipal Stores. The latter advised Bhikhaji for urine
treatment. So he began to wash his eyes twice or thrice a day with
urine and in addition drank three ounces of it once or twice a day.
Within a week he had some relief in his eyes and so he continued
the treatment with faith. Within the month of treatment, his
headache, throbbing pain in temples and pain in the eyes
disappeared totally. Natural whiteness returned to his eyes and
watering ceased. Not only his vision became clear, but
night-blindness was also removed.
On 3-11-58, Bhikhaji gave me a written account : "My body is in
perfect health and is more active than before. Now I am abte to read
newspapers which was impossible for me before the treatment. I
have been benefited to such an extent that I have given up even the
use of spectacles."
,,. 2 A. Freedom from Spectacles : Shri Ranjitbhai B. Parikh, was
getting his vision dim and he was compelled to use spectacles of-2
number. He began drinking urine through nose as prescribed in the
150. EYE DISEASES : 151
Sanskrit text Shivambukalp and practised it for five months as a
result of which the defect of reaction in his eyes was removed and
they appeared very bright.
There were certain reactions as well during the treatment. For a
couple of days, there was heaviness in his head and pricking
sensation in his throat. But gradually all the complaints ceased. There
was much elimination of phlegm through the nose. But ultimately,
health was restored and the experiment proved successful.
1 have come to the conclusion that vision improves within 4 to 6
weeks if the eyes are daily washed with fresh urine in the morning,
at noon and in the evening for about five minutes each time. The
best way is to blink eyes in two eye-wash cups full of urine.
2 8. Freedom from Spectacles : Shri Dasbhai in this letter of
21-7-60 also writes that at the ripe age of 73 he got rid of his
spectacles completely by washing his eyes daily with fresh urine.
3. Improvement of Eyes, Etc. : Shri Kalyanji Lakhani has
described the various benefits he derived from urine treatment:
1. He had been a slave to spectacles for the last 45 years. With
the putting of drops of urine, 4 days old, in the eyes, he is now able
to do without spectacles for a number of hours with no
inconvenience at all.
2. There was termor in his hands. With urine treatment, he is ab~e
to hold a cup or a dish.
3. Before treatment, he was compelled to urinate every 10 to 15
rninutes. Now it is so only after 2 or 2 112 hours.
4. His constant uneasiness of body has gone and instead he feels
vigour.,. • 'i..'
4. Eye-trouble : Shri Jaikishandas Panchal of Bombay takes gr"eat
interest in urine therapy. His neighbour, a wornan of 44 had pain in
the eyes for the past six years and she used spectacles. On Shri
Panchal's advice, the woman undertook urine treatment and it
proved successful. Here is her report is short: 152 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
111 had a severe pain in the eyes for the last six years. There was
irritation in the eye-lashes. I had to rub the eyes constantly and this
caused excessive pain. treatment frorr, the local K. E. M. Hospital for
two months gave no relief whatsoever. Then I consulted a private
doctor. The relief was there as long as the treatment continued. But
the pain revived as it was stopped.
111 started urine treatment on 3-8-60. I purchased an eye-cup and
washed my eyes with urine four times a day. Within a couple of
months, there was relief. Whithin three months, complete cure was
secured. Previously I suffered from long-sight, but now my sight is
normal. The spectacles are necessary only when some work is to
be done close at hand. My constant complain of headache also
vanished. Now I hav to discomfort whatsoever.11.
AFTERMATH OF CASES
1. Shri Venishankar M. Shukla aged 68 (Par Falia, Navsari) is a
retired man and had chronic glaucoma for the last six months. No
eye-specialist could cure him of his disease. On Doctor
Paragjibhai's advice he began urine treatment in August 1964. He
. drank half a pound of auto-urine and massaged with old urine daily
for 15 days. He used to wash his eyes in eye--cup 12 times a day.
He did not fast at all. Within one month he got rid of his disease and
'it has not recurred for the last four years and does all his writing and
reding work regularly.
2. Shri Amarsingh, son of Shrimati Asha Mehta, was a college
student and had granular conjunctivitis He could not read anything
after the disease got aggravated. Shri Hans advised himtb wash his
eyes with auto-urine. He started it at once but the eyes became red in
the beginning but the patient con,inued the experiment with patience
and he was completely cured within a month. rle beg~n to read even
more after the cure and sjll he has no complaint.
3. Shri Ratila Bhavanbhai (Village Tikaran, via Halavad,
Saurashtra) could completely got rid of his spectacles and could
cure pain in the chest by auto-uine. DISEASES OF NOSE, HEAD & MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY : 153
4. Shri Govindbhai D. Patel (Morbi, Saurashtra) informs that he
could cure his neighbours of their eye-troubles, swellings, and burns
by urine treatment.
5. Shri chimanla M. Shah (Rabari Chawl, Court Road, Borivali,
East-Bombay) informs that his friend was able to get rid of his
spectacles by auto-urine and another friend could cure his eczema
by the same treatment.
6. A doctor has cured his own cataract by urine treatment. Shri
Hans person~lly knows doctor Aumkarnath Jetali, M.D., and the
doctor has related his own story to him. He had cataract in his eye
and by urine treatment he got rid of it completely.
CHAPTER XVI
DISEASES OF NOSE, HEAD & MUSCULAR
DYSTROPHY
Shri Raojibhai had only very few.cases of nose and head but the
inveterate propagandist Shri Hans could cure such patients by urine
treatment.
1. Shri Kantilal B. Patel (Maninagar, Ahmedabad) had chronic
cold. He was 58 when he undertook the urine treatment. For the
last six years sticky substance constantly oozed from his nose.
sometime it was mixed with blood too. Doctors could not cure him.
He merely drank his morining urine constantly for seven months
and was completely cured.
2. Shri Raghava Panikar is 43 and


 two to four times the amount of calcium in the urine; the
higher the intake of meat and other animal protein, the greater is the calcium loss.
It is similar with sugar. After ingesting sugar, insulin blood levels are raised and these, in turn, raise the calcium level. When
individuals with a normal insulin response ingest 100 g of sugar, the loss of calcium in the urine approximately doubles. However,
many individuals have a poor sugar metabolism with an exaggerated insulin response as in hypoglycemia. In these individuals a test
load of 100 g sugar increases the calcium loss with the urine about four-fold. It is unconceivable that joints could remain healthy with
such huge and continuing loss of calcium.10/30/24, 3:31 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Arthritis & Rheumatism
https://health-science-spirit.com/Diseases/Arthritis-and-Rheumatism.html 2/11Another important nutrient for joint health is magnesium, which is also regulated by the parathyroid glands. If calcium is raised in the
blood, then magnesium is lowered and vice versa. This means, an increased magnesium intake will lower the calcium blood level and
therefore less or no calcium needs to be leached from bones and joints. With sufﬁcient magnesium intake calcium may even be re-
deposited into joints and bones. However, experience shows that a high calcium intake in this situation leads only to calciﬁcations in
the wrong places, such as spurs, kidney stones, ankylosis and arteriosclerosis.
With these insights we can also understand why the common medical advice for the prevention of osteoporosis - to ingest more milk
products and use calcium supplements - is generally ineffective. Clinical statistics show that calcium loss from the bones continues
unabated. Instead, the real solution is to minimize the intake of animal protein and sugar and increase the intake of magnesium and
boron. In addition, hormonal changes (menopause) play a role as well as vitamin D deﬁciency which can be prevented by moderate
sunbathing.
A diet high in meat and other animal  proteins contributes also to the formation of high levels of uric acid.  Purines  are formed from the
breakdown of nucleic acids, which are part of the nuclei of cells. Uric acid is formed from the oxidation of purines, but it can also be
synthesized from simple metabolic molecules. While it may not be advis able to eat large amounts of cooked beans and peas due to
their purine content, sprouted legumes are still recommended even with gout.
Sugars, especially fructose and the fructose part of household sugar, increase the production of uric acid and possibly the breakdown
of nucleic acids. However, an even stronger effect on uric acid production has alcohol, especially in the form of beer. 95% of those
affected with gout are males and of these the most common feature is high beer consumption.
Caffeine from coffee and theophylline  from tea are methylated  purines. While they do not seem to have a direct effect on uric acid
levels, they contribute to the loss of calcium and magnesium from the body. 300 mg of caffeine, which may be found in three cups of
coffee, doubles urinary calcium loss in both men and women.
SLUDGED BLOOD AND HYPERCOAGULA TION
A major contributing factor, especially with rheumatoid arthritis, is an overgrowth of the intestines with undesirable bacteria and fungi.
The main cause for this is usually antibiotic treatment, sometimes also the meat from animals reared with routine antibiotic feeding as
well as other drugs. The problem is aggravated by low gastric acidity as well as a diet high in sweet foods and fats.
Frequently the intestinal walls are damaged by a high gluten intake as well as by allergenic inﬂammations and this allows bacterial
decomposition products to enter the bloodstream and weaken the immune system as well as aggravate the joint inﬂammations.
Another contributing factor in this process is the use of aspirin and other analgesics that make the intestinal walls more porous.
This invasion of bacterial allergens combined with food allergens not only produces joint inﬂammations, but also a phenomenon
called'sludged blood': the red blood cells begin to aggregate and clump together.
In this condition they cannot be sufﬁciently charged with oxygen and in addition they clog the blood capillaries in the muscles, leading
to oxygen starvation, lack of nutrie nts and accumulation of metabolic waste products. This results in a generally sluggish blood
circulation, which is a major cause of the morning stif fness in arthritis.
The clumped blood cells and the resulting sluggish circulation could be directly observed in the capillaries of the conjunctiva of the
eyes of arthritics. This same cond ition is responsible for a raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate or E.S.R. in the blood with
inﬂammatory arthritis. A raised E.S.R. is usually indicative of a general infection or of inﬂammatory and widespread immune reactions
in the body.
In addition to infections, inﬂammations and allergies, also a high fat intake induces temporary  sludging  of the blood. This is probably
the reason for the improvement experienced on a low fat diet. Arthritics often have poor liver functions and a slow clearance of fat
particles (chylomicrons) from the bloodstream. This makes blood cells stickier, causing them to clump together and the resulting
oxygen deﬁciency increases the pain in the af fected area.
It has been shown that sludging  of the blood occurs temporarily in an area, which has been traumatized by a sudden impact injury
such as a fall or a strong blow. This localized  sludging  may be the cause of the frequently resulting 'traumatic arthritis'. To
clean sludged blood vessels see  Cardiovascular Disease. A similar ef fect to sludging is produced by hypercoagulation.
Hypercoagulation
Fibrin is a sticky protein  ﬁber. It naturally cross-links to form blood clots for sealing wounds to stop bleeding. The problem is that ﬁbrin
also starts cross-linking when non-bleeding inﬂammations are present as with diseases involving the blood circulation. Commonly
such inﬂammations are due to Candida and other microbes and toxins in the gut and blood.
The resulting excess of cross-linked ﬁbrin forms micro-clots that block blood ﬂow in capillaries, it also sticks to the walls of blood
vessels and narrows their opening, and it causes blood cells to clump together in a process called  hypercoagulation. Sticky blood
appears to be a precondition for tumours developing metastases, for cholesterol to clog up arteries, and it is also a common factor
leading to high blood pressure, heart infarct, stroke, deep vein thrombo sis, kidney disease, muscle pain as in ﬁbromyalgia, chronic
fatigue, circulation problems as in diabetes, fainting, declining memory and dementia.
Clumping can be seen with live blood analysis when erythrocytes aggreg ate, sometimes looking like many coins sticking together in a
column-like manner (rouleaux  formation ). Such clumped blood does not ﬂow freely like healthy blood, and cannot move through
capillaries so that many organs become starved of nutrients. Until sufﬁcient improvement with antimicrobial and cleansing
therapies, ﬁbrinolytic enzymes can decrease blood stickiness and clean out congested or blocked blood vessels.
Nattokinase,  originally from  natto, fermented soy traditionally used in Japan, may be the most effective   ﬁbrinolytic  enzyme. It is
commonly available as capsules with 2000 FU or units of ﬁbrinolytic  activity. The normal maintenance dose is one capsule each10/30/24, 3:31 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Arthritis & Rheumatism
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However, to clean already clogged blood vessels and dissolve clots a high dose of up to 12 spaced-out capsules may be used for
several months or until the blood circulation is sufﬁciently improved. As a high dose it may be used as 2 or 3 capsules 3 or 4 times
daily before meals and bedtime. A common warning is not to use nattokinase  by individuals with blood-clotting disorders leading to
excessive bleeding, and be extra careful when using blood-thinning drugs such as warfarin. A good article about  nattokinase  is
at https://www.healthscene.com.au/nattokinase-ﬁbrinolytic-enzyme/.
Serrapeptase  originally derived from silkworms, may be somewhat less effective in dissolving clots but it also dissolves other dead
tissue, such as scar tissue, adhesions and cysts. Commonly used are 20,000 to 80,000 units/capsule but even 250,00 units/capsule
are available. The maximum dose is up to 400,000 per day. It may be taken together with nattokinase.
Bromelain  breaks down all kinds of unwanted protein residues. Activity tends


 of the roots of brahmi (Bacopa monnieri) plant is applied
over the scalp in the disease of insomnia.
Pravala pishti (paste of pearl) is applied with ghee over the area aﬀected
with the disease herpes.
e paste of onion is applied over the forehead to relieve sinusitis.
Paste prepared from the powder of Haritaki (Terminalia chebula) with
honey is applied to treat whitish patches from the skin.
Paste prepared from arka patra (leaves of Calotropis procera) mixed
with castor oil is applied to reduce localized swelling.
Paste prepared from powder of shell mixed with honey or jaggery is
applied over swelling of the throat.
Paste prepared from black pepper and Moringa leaves is applied over
the forehead to reduce headache.
e above said examples are very few of the paste told in the Ayurvedic texts.
ere are many more formulations of lepa mentioned for diﬀerent diseases in
diﬀerent texts and folklore practice.90. Malahara Kalpana:
Ayurvedic Ointment
Preparation
By Prof. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
e word Malahara was adapted by Yograratnakara from the word Malaham or
Marham are basically originated from Unani system of medicine.
is is called as Malahara because it removes Mala (Residue etc) from
wounds, abscesses, skin disorders etc.
Ingredients
Any one among these are taken. It acts as base.
Guggulu, Rala (Sarjarasa), bees wax.
Sesame oil or coconut oil
Any one or more than one are to be taken as a base and ne powder –
camphor, copper sulphate, borax powder, zinc oxide powder etc medicinal
drugs are mixed uniformly in above mentioned base.
Method of Preparation of Malahara
I. Method – 1
e base of the Malahara kalpana is prepared by melting 1 part of Bees – wax
and 2–6 parts of coconut or sesame oil. If any physical impurities are seen in
the wax, it s hould be ltered through a cloth.To this as per the formulation, add the ne powder of various ingredients
and mix well. e ne powder may be of borax, sulphur, red ochre, camphor,
menthol, thymol etc are added.
Usually the amount of menthol and thymol is 1–2% of the total mass.
us prepared ointment must be preserved in a wide mouthed plastic or
glass container having tight tting corks.
II. Method – 2
Malahara kalpana also can be prepared by triturating method with the help of
ointment Slab and Spatula by following manner.
Here in this method medical drugs and little quantity of base is added.
Grinding is continued till they get mixed uniformly.
A simple Malahara combination –
Bees wax – 10 grams
Sesame oil – 50 grams
Turmeric – 5 grams
Aloe vera dry powder – 5–10 grams
Neem powder – 10 grams
Camphor – 3–5 grams
Take a wide mouthed vessel. Heat sesame oil, add bee wax and stir
continuously. Bee wax melts in the sesame oil. After it completely melts, lter
it across a clean cloth. Allow it to cool down.
While it is cooling down, add ne powder of rest of the ingredients. Stir
continuously till the whole mass becomes homogenous with one colour. Store
in a container.
Uses:Allergic hives, non healing wounds, dermatitis.
Options – If available, consider adding 5 grams of powders of
Khadira – Gum acacia – Acacia catechu and
Manjishta – Rubia cordifolia91. How to Make Facepack,
MouthWash, Body Lotion
from Curd?
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Curd is the most commonly used milk product in most part of the world. But
classical method of curdling is not carried by few of the people.
In fact sour buttermilk or sour curd should be added to the boiled and
cooled milk to prepare curd. It is called as ‘souring.’ But few use lemon,
tamarind, vinegar, amla juice etc.
Even though by these, curdling takes place, there is diﬀerence in the quality
of curds. ey may not be harmful. But true benet of classical curd cannot be
expected from those curds.
It is the reason, preferably to get desired quality and hence the benets in
1:50 ratio buttermilk and milk are be added.
1. Shower Body Lotion from Curd
100 ml curd and 4 cowries are taken together in a steel vessel and kept
overnight. Next day morning, this curd is taken and used while showering.
It is useful in eczema.
It cleanses and clears the lesions instantly and quickens the healing process.
2. Curd Energy Drink – Simple Lassi200 ml of curd is added with 20 grams of sugar candy and churned well. As
per ones desire mango juice or sliced banana can also be added. A pinch or two
of cardamom is added to it. – A cup of it is good to take per day.
3. Anti Diarrheal Remedy with Curd
50 ml of curd,
1 spoon of lime water,
2–3 grams of table salt and
a pinch of Ajwain (Carum) or Asafetida are taken together and mixed well.
is is given to drink to the patients who are suﬀering from chronic
diarrhoea followed with Indigestion, loss of appetite, bloating abdomen etc
4. How to Prepare Mouthwash with Curd?
1 spoon honey,
2 spoon of ghee and
4 spoon of curd are taken and mixed thoroughly.
is thick solution is used as mouthwash.
It is useful in the cases of the mouth ulcers or blisters of the mouth caused due
to chicken pox, oral thrush etc.  is can be practiced 2–3 t imes a day.
5. How to Prepare Face Pack Using Curd?
20 Grams each of fresh and wet turmeric and carrot are taken and pounded
well to obtain ne paste. To this 50 ml curd is added and mixed well. is is
used as face pack.
It enhances complexion and useful to get rid of blackheads.
Curd is not just a milk product of nutritional importance but also an
eﬀective home remedy contributing multiple health benets.1.
2.92. 10 Carrot Home
Remedies for Cholesterol,
Energy, Piles
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Carrots are the store houses of energy, health and medicinal values. It is the
vegetable of choice for skin diseases, diseases of the eyes, kidney and liver.
e beta – carotene found in carrots is packed with vitamin A. It is solely
responsible for the skin care, eye care as well as to promote the immune system
of the body.
Carrot is used to prepare side dishes, sweet preparations, pickles as well as
green salads. Its milkshake and fresh juices are also gaining importance in our
diet.
Carrot Home Remedies
Carrot Fine Paste for Skin Glow
Fresh carrots are made into ne paste. Little olive oil is added and
applied over face. Left on face for 10–30 minutes, then washed oﬀ.
is gives good glow to the face and takes away wrinkles. is helps to
make the skin soft and fair.
Carrot Leaf Juice in Haemorrhoids and Constipation
Fresh carrot leaves are crushed to obtain juice. Or leaves are used to
prepare salad. is is very eﬀective in constipation. e dose of crushed3.
4.
5.
6.leaf juice is – 10–15 ml, once or twice a day, after food.
Carrot Juice to Reduce the Cholesterol
Carrot juice is very eﬀective in lowering bad cholesterol. It also supplies
energy to the body and is a very good liver tonic. Dose of carrot juice is
– 50–100 ml, once or twice per day.
Fresh Carrot Intake Along with Curd or Butter Milk or Sprouted
Grains Prevents Aging
Fresh carrots are the best depots of beta – carotenoids. ey instantly
turn into vitamin A, once it enters into the body. So, intake of carrots
along with butter milk or curd or any suitable adjuvant like sprouted
green gram etc reduce the cell degeneration and thus slow down the
aging process.
Carrot Milk Shake or Carrot Sugar Candy for Fatigue
Carrot is possessing vitamin B complexes in signicant amount. So, the
carrot milk shake helps in cooling mechanism of the body. is helps
to relieve the fatigue, lethargy, muscle wasting etc.
Partially cooked


 such methods of extraction,
there is still much benefit derived from drinking such juices. The
inherent natural water in juices is after all, organic water and as such
it has great value. Such vitamins and mineral elements as are collected
in such juice are very beneficial.
When we speak of water, the first thought is quite naturally of
that which comes from the faucet or from the spring, or even rain
water. Few people stop to wonder if, or even to realize that, there is
vital organic as well as inorganic water. Nature has furnished
15 vegetation as the laboratory in which to convert the inorganic water
of rain and stream into life-containing atoms of vital organic water.
Not only is the water from the faucet inorganic, it is also, because of
the atoms that compose it are mineral elements, entirely devoid of
the life principle. Nearly all cities contaminate the water supply with
inorganic chlorine and other chemicals, making it truly unfit for human
or animal consumption. The water in the rivers and streams and from
the spring is also inorganic as is rain water.
The only source from which vital organic water is derived is
vegetation — our vegetables and fruits and particularly the juices
made from them. Such juices, however, must be raw to retain their
vital organic quality and must not be cooked, processed, canned, or
pasteurized.
When juices have been cooked, processed, canned, or pasteurized
all of the enzymes are destroyed and the atoms are then converted
into inorganic or dead atoms; this applies to the H20 (water) as well
as to the mineral and chemical atoms composing such juice.
To convert vegetables into liquid or semiliquid mush without
eliminating the cellulose is also of little value from the point of view
of juices. Drinking juices not only enables the body to assimilate all
of the vital elements in a swift and timely manner, but it does so
without burdening the digestive organs with the work entailed by the
presence of the pulp-cellulose.
Drinking juices which are properly made will enable the body to
assimilate them within ten to fifteen minutes. Whereas, the presence
of pulp in the so-called liquid, or liquefied, vegetables, or juices still
containing the pulp, will require hours to digest.
Furthermore, to drink juices from which the pulp has not been
extracted taxes the digestive organs more than eating and properly
masticating the raw vegetables and fruits themselves, as proper
insalivation and thorough mastication is essential to the complete
digestion of vegetables when the cellulose fiber is present. This is not
usually done if the fibers still remain a part of the mush or liquefied
vegetables; whereas, the juices from which the fiber has been removed
furnish, without interference, every particle of the nourishment
contained in the vegetable for immediate and quick assimilation by
the body.
Vegetable juices will contain all of the vital elements, that is to
say, all of the vitamins and vital organic minerals and salts contained
in the vegetable, if the juices are properly made by means of a thorough
16 trituration or grinding, which will rip open the fibers in the vegetable
and reduce the entire vegetable to a pulp so fine that it can be spread
almost like apple butter. By placing this pulp in a filter cloth and
squeezing it in a hydraulic or similar press — which need not be any
larger than can be conveniently handled on a kitchen table —
exercising many tons of pressure, we then get a juice which, in
comparison with that made inefficiently, is as different as cream from
milk.
ALFALFA
ALFALFA is a particularly valuable leguminous herb, not only
rich in the principal mineral and chemical elements in the constitution
of the human body, but it also has many of the trace elements obtained
from deep in the soil where the roots reach down 30 to 100 feet.
Of specific value, I would point out the rich quality, quantity and
proper balance of Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Chlorine,
Sodium, Potassium and Silicon in Alfalfa. These elements are all very
much needed for the proper function of the various organs in the
body.
While Alfalfa is widely used as forage for livestock, it is
nevertheless of immense value, in the form of juice using only the
leaves, when it can be obtained fresh. It is also known as Lucerne
grass, while in England it is known as Purple Medic.
Because Alfalfa adapts itself to widely varying conditions of soil
and climate, even thriving on alkali soil, there is no excuse for not
growing it on one's home grounds, as it is usually difficult to obtain
when living in the city.
When we are unable to obtain fresh Alfalfa, we sprout Alfalfa
seeds and eat the sprouts with our meals. They sprout easily and they
are very beneficial.
ALFALFA JUICE
Vegetation miraculously transforms and vitalizes inanimate
substances into living cells and tissues.
Cattle eat vegetation, raw, for nourishment. They take into their
system one living organism and convert it into a still more complex
live organism.
Vegetation, on the other hand, whether vegetable, fruit, plant, or
grass, takes inorganic elements from the air, water, and earth, and
converts them into live organic elements. To be specific, in order for
17 vegetation to flourish, it needs nitrogen and carbon from the air;
minerals, mineral salts, and more nitrogen from the earth in which it
grows; and of course, oxygen and hydrogen from water.
The most vital and potent factors in this process of conversion
are the enzymes and the life-giving influence of the rays of the sun
which generate the chlorophyll.
The chlorophyll molecule is made up of a web of carbon, hydrogen,
nitrogen, and oxygen atoms around one single atom of magnesium. It
is interesting to compare this design with that of the hemoglobin of
our red blood corpuscles, which has a similar web of elements girdling
an atom of iron instead of the atom of magnesium.
We find in this analogy one of the secrets of the value of
chlorophyll to the human system. Strict vegetarians — whose diet
excludes grains and starches but includes an abundance of fresh
juices with a good proportion of the green juices are healthier,
live longer, and are freer from degenerative ailments than those
who eat mostly cooked foods and little or no raw vegetables and
juices. It would seem that we have here fairly conclusive evidence
as to which diet regimen is the correct or natural one for healthy
human beings.
One of the richest chlorophyll foods we have is alfalfa. It is a
food that builds up both animals and humans, all things considered,
into a healthy, vital, and vigorous old age, and builds up a resistance
to infection that is almost phenomenal.
The juice of fresh alfalfa is too strong and potent to be taken by
itself. It is best taken with carrot juice, in which combination the
individual benefits of each juice are intensified. It has been found
very helpful in most troubles with the arteries and disfunctions
connected with the heart.
It is generally conceded by those who have studied the effects of
gas in the intestines that in a surprisingly large number of patients
suffering from heart trouble, this condition is caused not by any organic
disfunction of the heart. Rather it is caused from excessive gas in the
colon which press the walls of the colon against organs connected
with the heart. A few colonic irrigations or enemas as a rule have
frequently relieved this condition.The heart trouble disappeared until
the next accumulation of gas gave warning that the colon, not the
heart, needed a thorough reconditioning.
Besides benefit to blood and heart conditions, chlorophyll is most
useful in the relief of respiratory troubles and discomforts, particularly
is in the sinuses and in the lungs. Mucus is the underlying cause of
sinus infection and pains, as it is of bronchial and asthmatic conditions,
including hay fever.
Strict vegetarians who eschew cow's milk, flour, grain, and
concentrated sugar products, are not afflicted with these troubles,
particularly if they were brought up from childhood to shun and avoid
these foods. This is not by any manner or means fanatical. It is just
plain common sense and perfectly natural, and proved beyond question
or doubt from experience.
Those who have adopted such a vegetarian program later in life
have been able to help overcome these conditions without the use of
surgery or drugs.
After all, sinus infection is the work of our defensive friends, the
germs, trying to help us by breaking up mucous accumulations so
that these may be eliminated from the system. Instead of helping them
by cleansing the body of the waste matter by means of colonics and
enemas, attempts are made to "dry up" the mucus and "shrink the
membranes" with applications of adrenaline, epinephrine, or other
drugs. Even "sulfa" drugs now known to be virulent and pernicious
are sometimes used without regard, consideration, or understanding
of the eventual damage, injury or danger resulting from their use.
The most injurious results are essentially developed when the
waste matter, consisting particularly of these drugs and of the sewage
of


inddence alone should have been sufficient to
rouse a suspic:il m that something new that is common
hoth to man and his domt'stic animals, has been oper·
ating in their environment cluring th� pt"riod these
chant;es ha\'c occurred. This new factor is 1wt iar to
seek.
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general public in the United States and other countric.ll,
an impre�sivt: � ound of to�i�gJ�ic. �vesliga tions
had already 111in� �-
�t!;ous for lite from insectsto mam-
�· ln rats;-mice, -·ri.Lhhits, guinea pigs, cats, dog3,
due ·s, goats, sheep, cattle, horses and monkeys, DDT
produces functional disturb ances and degenerative
changes in the sldn, lh•er, gall bladder. lungs, kidney,
spleen, thyroid. adremtls, o,·aries, testicles, heart muscle,
blood v�sels, voluntary muscles, the brain and spinal
cord and peripheral nerves, g;l.'itrointestinal tract and
blood. The comp()u nd is equaUy dangerous to birds,
iish, crustac�ans, lizards, frogs, toads and snakes.•••
... •lJ. H. Mill• (Dc:..th itl thu Flo ridE� M.unhcs, Audubon
Maguitu�. Sept-Oct., 19�:!:) hM!I rtport.ed incredible denata ·
tian to wildlife in ti•� aunduu.ry u! tht Xntional Audubon
Society in Tam.pn D:ay, }'lorida, followin�: a.eriaJ •prnyinr
'l'dth DDT fnr the e<.ontrol of mosqu itoes. With ueb sutc:e•·
si"e aprt&�·ing the dclrtnu�tion of 1\'ll<llifu inen"aRd to\'Oral ·
folcl until the htlltthet 1\"l.!rtl li�rally tO\'Crt:d with tlta.tl fi!!lt
RUd ('l"&bs. The COIItC-ntrll.tion or Di>T iu tLt) tiPCnet o! c:rab4
lln�tly.&ud ntter!'ipraying in 11050 A'\'lltAg.d 2.18 p. p. m. The :\-J:tn,· of tht:. beueficial preda�or ins<."Cts li_kc <.lr�tb•l.m
ilit'_..,,-ladyhug,.: and praying manrid � may he evf"n mo_rr:
.;:usceptihle w ODT than crop eartng ;md other nuts
anc� insc:::ts: it is dcsir�d t::J kill. It was E:\·en kno"'n
hv 194.5 that IJDT is stored in the body fat of mammal..;
and :tppt•ars in th� milk ( 106, 118). \�'ith thi:.-i�n··
kno\\'leduc the �enes of carastrovhtc t'\'cnts that wl·
lowed th� most i ntensi\·e � Q(,.mau poi�....
io known human b.i)ltory,'shOUld not ha\'e surpriM:d the
i.."Cperts. · \"ct, far from admitt!�tg a ca�sal rel�tionship
"0 obvious that in any other ueld o£ btology H would
he instantly acrepted, virtually the entire apparatus
of l·.ommunication, lay and sci�ntific <t-like, has bt-en de
voted t(J dtmying. concccdiog. suppres!> in�. distorting
and attempts to conv ert into its opposite, the <1vtr·
whelmiun e"idc:nce. l..ibt.'l, �land��r and econ<mlic boy·
cott hav� not �n overlcx..,ked in this campai(. 'll (21).
-.�nd a ntw principle of toxicology ha!', it seems, he
come firmlv entn�n('.hell in the literature : no matter
he)\\' lethal a poison may he for all other form!' oi.an�
mal life. ii it doesn't kill human beings instant/)• Jt ts
safe. \Vhen ne,·cr:.hdess it unmist:lJkably does kill a
human, this wns the victim'::; own fault--either he was
"allerg ic'' to h: (the uncomJ)('nsable 11in!) or he didn't
usc it properly.
lt is possible.• to consider in this article only o1. very
small fraction of tht total e,·i<lence as it has already fill
ed many volumes ;mrl will undC'Iuhtedly fill many more.
•.... �Al�IJ�� \!!!����� ���!!� ya.ntit ie:;
e new potiOD.S.<5prca.over countrys1 c 'in agTi-
.c.u).tu.re, used as sprays and aerosol fogs in mosquito
control · operation� and "ppliecl in homes and gardens,
in hospitals and other institutions, in iood processing
plants and retail t•stahl ishmcnt s. In agricul ture alone
:?32 million pounds wc.�rc used in the Unitt:d St:1tt�S in
195l and 252 million pounds in 1952 (109); additional
millions o( pounds were of course used for the other
applications. HcrbiC'idcs of the chlorinated cyc lic hydro-
carbon group (r:.g. 2, 4-D, 2, 4, 5-T) prtwldt a further
source or e...xpnsure. (In 1952, sale of pesticide.'i in the
l.Jnited States amounted to 400 million dollars.)
Early in 1949, as a re.su!t of stu �ie.s during th:: pr�
vious ye-..tr, the author (9 -11) pubhshed repo� u nph·
t"�ting DDT prep aration �s i� the syr�dr��e �v1del�. a.t
tnbuted to a ·•v1rns � X" 1n man, tn X-c.hsease m
cattle and in often fat;tl syndromes in dogs and cat�.
The relaticjnship wa� prt)mptly denied by government
official s (12)� who providt=d no evirlencc to contest
rhe d.uthor's observations but relied solely on the
pre.stige: of go\'ernme.nt authority anrl sheer number�
of experts to bolster their position.
VVe had shown that exposure to DDT whether Ly
inhalation, ingestion or absorption irom th� skin, leads
to a hi:c.arrt= syndrome which resc:mbles other ailments
in individual details but which had nev�r been known
to occur in its entirt'.ty prior to the introduction oi the
c:hlorinattd cyclic hydroc arbo.n inr.ecticides. -r:his syn
drome occurred repeat�dly m hundreds of U\Hances
11ext year nfter DIOrt: apnying• the ronr,.utr:atiou of DDT in
tbft uabs "'Uf 46 p. p. m. and the dus:.n1etion of wHdlitf' 'WU
proportimJat.cly f.astf'r Mnd more e:l'knah·e. Yet *11 tills lie,.••
tat ion w:u�!or naught. for. reporta Milla, 0 None of tllt!IJ'IUI1·
ing11 l1ad �tnr utr.oet in mitigatia� the Jnosq uito situ:lli<m. ln·
�o;t.cad the ulo&qu.it.oe' inuciUIOd until now they are mort-nurr.·
cr�u• than t.ht>y werco bet'ore Lhe ad•cnt of DDT."
A><ER. JouR. DIG. Drs.
69 Chap ter 2
THE POISON CAUSE OF POLIOMYE LITIS AND
OBS TRUCTI ONS TO ITS INVESTIGATION*
RALPH R. ScoBEY,. M.D.
Syracuse, N. Y.
The disease that we now know as poliomyelitis was not desig
nated as such until about the middle of the 19th Century. Prior
to that, it was designated by many different names at various


them.
TOTAL CHOLESTEROL
The average American has a total cholesterol above 200 mg/dl. The
average American will also die of cardiovascular disease.
I’d like to see you aim to get yours below 150, even though your doctor
may tell you that below 200 mg/dl is good enough.
It can be done, and done quickly. At the start of the E2 Pilot Study, the
participants’  average cholesterol level was 182. By the end, it was a heart-
healthy 143.
LDL  AND HDL  CHOLESTEROL
As discussed, there are two types of cholesterol: LDL  (low-density
lipoprotein) and HDL  (high-density lipoprotein). Your LDL  is your Lethal
cholesterol and your HDL  is your Healthy cholesterol.
The average American has an LDL  cholesterol level well above 100
mg/dl. But I don’ t want your LDL  cholesterol to be average. I want your
LDL  to be E2 exceptional! As noted earlier, the magic number we’re
shooting for on the E2 diet is below 80. Get your LDL  below 80 mg/dl and
you are essentially heart attack proof.
McClaine Sampson, 34
Graduate Student
The reason I did this wasn’ t for health. It was for my weight. I wanted
to look good. If I look good on the outside, then I’ll feel good on the
inside. Maybe that sounds shallow, but I think a lot of women can
relate. What I’ve discovered is that eating poorly is like casual sex. It
feels really good and fun while you’re doing it, but almost
immediately afterward you have regrets and you have to start making
contingency plans.
Some medical professionals stress the importance of the cholesterol risk
ratio, which is your LDL  cholesterol divided by your HDL  cholesterol; thelower the ratio, the better—3.5 is generally seen as the cutof f between high
risk and low risk.
I—and many medical experts—don’ t agree. Too many people take
comfort in having a high HDL  cholesterol level while their total and LDL
cholesterol levels are in dangerous territory. The real goal here is to achieve
a total cholesterol under 150 and an LDL  under 80.
TRIGL YCERIDES
Even though I grew up in a medical household and was a triathlete for
more than a dozen years, I had never heard of a triglyceride until fifteen
years ago, when I started studying health and nutrition.
Triglycerides are fat globules in your bloodstream that many researchers
believe are a high-risk factor for heart disease.
Just as your body needs a certain amount of cholesterol for cell repair,
your body requires a certain level of triglycerides for fuel, particularly when
it requires ener gy between meals or when you’re exercising. However, too
many triglycerides in your blood can be dangerous, as high levels have been
shown to increase plaque formation, which as we know contributes to
stroke and heart disease.
The goal, then, is to keep your triglyceride level under 150 mg/dl—the
same as your ideal total cholesterol number.
Here are several ways to bring down elevated triglyceride levels:
a. Lose excess weight.
b. Eat whole, plant-based, high-fiber foods.
c. Exercise for thirty minutes a day.
d. Stop consuming excess calories—they’re converted into
triglycerides.
e. Watch your consumption of simple sugars such as alcohol, soda,
honey, molasses, white flour, white pasta, and white rice.
FASTING GLUCOSE/BLOOD SUGAR
One of the best markers for checking whether diabetes is on your
horizon is a fasting glucose test. Taken after you have fasted for twelve
hours, this test will tell you the amount of sugar in your blood. A highfasting glucose number is an indication that your body is having a dif ficult
time processing sugar.
A normal test result should be between 60 mg/dl and 100 mg/dl. If your
level is over 125 mg/dl, you should consult your doctor.
On the E2 Diet, you can lower your fasting glucose level and even
alleviate diabetes. For example, two E2 Pilot Study participants were Type
2 diabetics—one for five years and the other for twelve. Since going on the
E2 Diet, both have been able to get of f insulin, reduce their fasting blood
sugars from over 200 mg/dl to under 100 mg/dl, eliminate or reduce all
their oral medications, reduce their A1C levels from over 1 1 to under 7.5,
and of course, watch their weight drop.
BLOOD PRESSURE
Your cardiovascular system consists of an amazing pump (your heart)
and a set of pipes (your vessels). Every hour your heart pumps almost 70
gallons of blood to your 60,000 miles’  worth of vessels.
Your blood pressure is a good indication of the health of your
cardiovascular system. Unfortunately, almost one in three Americans has
high blood pressure.
Blood pressure is reported as two numbers in the form of a fraction, such
as 110/68. The upper number is called the systolic blood pressure and
represents the force your heart exerts on your arteries when your heart
squeezes. Systolic pressure should be 120 or below.
The lower number is called diastolic blood pressure, and represents the
force the blood exerts on your arteries when your heart relaxes. That
number should be 80 or below.
In America, we consider high blood pressure, or hypertension, to be a
natural part of the aging process, but this doesn’ t have to be the case. In
populations consuming a mostly plant-based diet, adults routinely have
blood pressure levels similar to those of their children.
E2 POP  QUIZ
Q: Which of these foods has the highest percentage of saturated fat:
butter, ice cream, steak, or cheese?A: Cheese has the most saturated fat, at almost 20 grams of saturated
fat per pound.
Thus, there is no reason why your blood pressure needs to increase as
you age—unless you are consuming an animal-product-based diet, in which
case it likely will go up, and you will have to go on medication to regulate
it.
There are three main culprits of hypertension—the reasons eating
animal-based foods is unhealthy.
The first bad guy is dietary cholesterol—if you eat animal-based foods,
you’re consuming a lot of cholesterol, which forms plaque inside your
arteries, which in turn causes them to become narrow, forcing your blood
pressure to rise.
The second is saturated fat, which attaches to the red blood cells, making
your blood overly thick and sludgy, which in turn causes your heart to work
harder. That, too, makes your blood pressure rise.
The third is excess sodium, which causes your body to retain fluids,
which remain in your bloodstream. Once again, this condition asks your
system to work harder, increasing your blood pressure.
How can you repair this situation? Eat the E2 way. There is no dietary
cholesterol in plant-based foods. There is no saturated fat in plant-based
foods (except coconuts). There is little sodium in plant-based foods. What
could be easier?
BODY  MASS INDEX (BMI)
BMI is the relationship between your weight and your height. With more
than 64 percent of America overweight and greater than 30 percent
considered obese, knowing your BMI may be the wake-up call you need to
put down the pizza and remote control and pick up the banana and the
walking shoes.
Too many Americans have become complacent with their weight and fall
into a BMI category that places them at high risk for chronic disease.
Recent studies have shown that the lower your BMI, the greater your
chances of avoiding chronic Western diseases. Take care of yourself and get
yourself down to a BMI that speaks to the seriousness of the obesity
epidemic in America.Visit www.theengine2diet.com  and use our handy BMI calculator, or
find your BMI on the chart below and then take a moment to reflect on the
dietary decisions you’ve made over the last ten years.
Keep in mind, though, that athletes and people with high muscularity
(such as body builders) may have a BMI that indicates they are overweight
when in reality their weight is healthy.
PERCENT AGE BODY  FAT
Knowing your BMI is a good wake-up call, but knowing your
percentage body fat can be a complete jolt. Carrying around excessive
abdominal as well as visceral fat (which surrounds your internal or gans) is a
health hazard. It puts you at an increased risk for all kinds of diseases, from
stroke and diabetes to cancer and heart disease.
The average male should have a body fat percentage of less than 20
percent, while a female’ s should be less than 25 percent. So when you
realize that your body is 30, 40, or even 50 percent fat, it may finally light a
fire under your ever -widening rear end.
Remember, muscle burns many more calories at rest than does fat. So
the more fat and the less muscle you have, the fewer calories you need to
maintain your weight, and the harder it will be to lose that weight.Lose the dietary fat, start building muscle, and watch your body-fat
percentage and pounds drop.
Many dif ferent methods are available for determining body fat, including
using calipers and underwater


 tion,
inflammation and other unknown ways. So zapping is an
imperfect solution.
Using a frequency generator to electrocute Adenovirus  (393
KHz for three minutes) is not effective either because you areTHE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
364not killing the mites and tapeworm  stages  at the same time, and
the Adenoviruses  are coming from them.
The best advice to stop a cold is to:
1.Eat sterile food for 24 hours.  Follow the Mold Free Diet
on page 365. Do not eat one questionable item.
2.Take vitamin C  (10 grams or 2 tsp.), a B50 complex  (2
tablets), and niacinamide  (3 500 mg tablets) to help de-
toxify the mycotoxins already in you. See Sources. It will
still take five or six hours for your white blood cells to re-
cover their ability to capture viruses, for the “gag” to wear
off.
3.Zap for seven minutes, killing all viruses, tapeworm  stages
and mites together. Wait  twenty minutes to let vi ruses and
bacteria in the dead larger parasites emerge. Zap a second
time for seven minutes to kill those viruses and bacteria.
Wait  twenty minutes to let any viruses infecting the killed
bacteria emerge. Zap a third time for seven minutes to kill
the last viruses.
4.Now you need only wait for your tissues to decongest and
stop making mucous, etc.
5.Immediately start the Bowel Program  (page 546) in case
yours is an E. coli  cold. You can't, and wouldn't want to,
kill all the bacteria in your bowel. Zapping kills the escap-
ees, though, to give a bit of relief, and the Bowel Program
stops the invasive E. coli.
6.Do additional zap ping as time permits until the Bowel
Program  has stemmed the invasion.
In five or six hours your cold could be gone.
Of all these measures, stopping mold consumption is the
most important. If you eat peanut butter  now, your cold willCURING THE COMMON COLD
365return with a vengeance. If you eat cheese it will  add Salmo nella
to your illness and you may develop a fever. Your own immune
system is the most powerful cold killer, so stop handi capping it.
Test yourself for the presence of molds to see if you are ac-
complishing your goal. The various molds I have tested had these
emitting frequencies: 77, 88, 100, 126, 133, 177, 181, 188, 232,
242, 277, 288, 295 KHz.
In about five hours, some relief will be felt. The time it takes
depends on how much mold you ate. But if you stop immedi ately
and eat only perfectly safe food, your illness will be over in the
shortest time. Shorter than merely zapping.
Mold Free Diet
Stick to this for 24 hours, even if you feel better much sooner.
Before starting to cook sterilize your kitchen sponge
(microwave it for three minutes), and wash hands.
Breakfast
•1 or 2 eggs any style. The egg  carton  and egg exterior  have
Salmonella  on them, so remove the eggs, replace the
carton, wash the exterior of the eggs and then your hands
again before cracking them. You don't want a Salmonella
infection added to your cold.
•Hash brown potatoes
•Pancakes or waffles with artificial maple syrup  made with
brown sugar and vitamin C.
•1 cup herb tea  with vitamin C, cinnamon, or other spice.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
366•Water with a tsp. of vinegar  and honey.
Lunch
•Soup without noodles, without rice  or any grain product.
•Homemade biscuits or bakery bread  with butter.
•Homemade pudding or custard, all ingredients well
cooked.
Supper
•Well cooked fish or seafood  (canned O.K., like sardines,
salmon  and tuna).
•Fresh green vegetables, in perfect condition.
•Cooked vegetables  with olive oil and salt (pure, see
Sources ).
•Canned beans, any variety.
•Baked or boiled potato (don't eat skin) with olive oil and
salt as described on page 310.
•Hot water with whipping cream and cinnamon.
•A perfectly unblemished banana.
•Water with lemon.
You can “mix and match” these safe foods. If you get a hefty
dose of mold at the outset of your cold, the toxicity lasts quite a
long time. Repeat the diet the next day and the next until you are
well. In animal experiments reported by scientists, tox icity from
mold usually lasted three weeks. Sometimes the real damage was
only seen after three weeks! Keep up your vigi lance. When you
decide to take some risks, make sure vitamin  C has been added
to the new food and mixed with it thoroughly.CURING THE COMMON COLD
367
Fig. 48 Goods baked in a panaderia (Mexican style bakery)
never tested positive to molds.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
368Prevention
What is the best way to prevent a cold? Stop eating moldy
food. We were never meant to eat rotting, spoiling food. We
were meant to be repelled by the bad odor, the bad appearance,
the bad taste. Our parents were supposed to teach us in child hood
to distinguish between good and bad food. This system no longer
works. By mixing spoiled food with good food, by add ing
flavors and changing the food consistency, parents can't
distinguish substandard foods, nor teach their children to.
We rely on government agency assurances, like beef  grades,
expiration dates, approved food colors and additives. And when
they fail? We land in a debacle such as the present one, where
large segments of society are ill with uncontrollable behavior
(called crime), suffer from hormone  imbalances and sexual dis-
turbances, are sidelined by chronic fatigue  and new illness. But
the greatest social disaster is lowered immunity—AIDS.
We cannot individually control the destiny of our species.
But we can get ourselves out of the path of the falling human tide.
We can dissent. We can say NO to rotten moldy food.
What about exposure to a cold? Won't you catch one if you're
in a roomful of coughing, sneezing people? Or you shake hands
with a coughing, sneezing person? Or you drink from the same
glass as a person with a cold? Or your child plays with the same
toys as sick children?
Yes, you will catch the virus, but you won't get sick. If you
are tracking Adenovirus  using the electronic techniques in this
book, you will see that it infects you immediately after eating
coughed-on food. It stays in you about twenty minutes. Then it
disappears, evidently eaten up by your white blood cells, pro-
vided there is no mold toxin in you. But if you do have a mold
toxin in you, the virus spreads, multiplies and gives you a cold! I
have only followed Adenovirus  behavior. There are numerousCURING THE COMMON COLD
369other “cold bugs” left for you to track. Each illness in your family
could provide you with a specimen to research.
This throws light on self infection, too. When we cough into
our hands and then eat with them, we self-infect. But it only
makes us sicker if we harbor molds.
Curing Symptoms
Cold symptoms  alone can be cured much faster than the cold.
Taking drugs proves that. Most of the drugs on the market can
cure some symptoms in less than one hour. But not without a
price, such as a harmful side effect.
Homeopathy can cure cold symptoms too, without side ef-
fects. There are three or four favorite homeopathic remedies for
colds and eight or nine less common ones. To use them you  read
the symptoms listed and take the remedy with the closest match.
Homeopathic Remedy For These Symptoms
Aconitum early cold with fever, headache, hoarse cough
Allium clear runny nose  with burning  of lips or eyes
Arsenicum sneezing cold, frontal headache, tickling cough
Belladonna high fever  cold with flushed face, throbbing head
Kali bi thick post nasal drip, colored discharge, sinus
headache
Spongia croupy cough
Fig. 49 Starter set of homeopathic remedies.
There are lots more remedies with fascinating symptoms to
try to match with your own. Books suggest that you start with a
6X or a 12X remedy, but success is more certain with 30X. Use
three remedies simultaneously. If you get total relief at some
point, stop. If the cold has moved or won’t budge, try another set
of three after an hour. Don’t take them within 15 minutes ofTHE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
370food or anything else. Homeopathy makes very interesting
reading.
Homeopaths say they stimulate the immune system specifi-
cally. My results show they do much more. They go right to the
gateways of your cells and evict the tiny parasite, bacteria or
virus stuck to the latch and trying to get in. Your immune sys tem


 need reassurance. He is the right person to ask for
this, not your best friend.”
Clearly Jeanne desperately wants her husband to say “I love you” at
times, yet she forces herself not to ask. She therefore pushes herself further
into self-doubt, by forbidding herself to ask for what she wants. This self-
denial is a resul t of shame, an emotion closely connected to deservedness.
“You need to realize that askin g to be loved is not only not shameful,” I
said, “it’s exactly what one shou ld do to get love. Shame tells us that love is
a small,  preciou s commodity that we have to beg for, like Oliver Twist
begging for another bowl of soup. But love is abundant, and asking for it
only reflects that you already perceive it to be yours.”
Whenever Alan  says that he loves her, Jeanne also needs to trust his
assurance, and if this proves difficult, she should resist the temptation to ask
for more reassurance on the spot—it will be more productive to work on
how she can learn to trust.Here the story comes to a parting between psychology and spirituality. In
psychological terms Jeanne’ s lack of self-worth is bound up in dark
memories from her past. As a small girl she was imprinted with experiences
that told her she wasn’ t good enough—we all have similarly painful
memories. Years later these were transferred to looks, age, and sexual
desirability. Jeanne would never accept herself as long as she was attracted
to men who she believed were more desirable than she, because any
comparison would put her in the shade. Being with Alan was a “solution”
born out of past conditioning that had to fall away.
Having gotten this far in her analysis, I told Jeanne that she could open
the trapdoor under which many secret hurts and shadowy fears lurk.
Confionting secret shame and guilt is a valid psychological approach to her
sort of problem. The unanswered question, however, is whether it is
possible to release every demo n and doubt, every painful memory and
negative energy. Few who have attempted such a massive under taking have
succeeded without the aid of spirit.
“I think it’s a good idea for you to work through personal issues,” I told
Jeanne, “but a lasting solution to whether you are deserving or not will only
come spiritually. Here’ s something useful to write down as a reminder:
“Spirit is always with me. It wants to lift my pain. It does this not by
abolishing painful memories but by putting me totally in the present, wher e
the past doesn’ t exist.
“The spiritual answer to any problem is immediate,” I said. “It’s our own
perception that is slow to catch on. God’ s ability to love us is limited only
by our ability to receive that love here and now. Since our loved ones
represent manife sted portions of God in our lives, the same could be said
for them. To receive God’ s love we need only increase our abilit y to receive
the love being reflected back in our intimate relationships.”
As for many people, what really lay at the heart of Jeanne’ s difficulties
was a tendency to pre-reject herself. Instead of assuming that she must be
imperfect, she could start noticing how her husband really feels. In my
experience, if you are getting stuck in negativity, you’re likely to assume
that other people feel the same way about you, and mostly that’s not true.
People who really love you keep on loving you, even when you’re not
loving yourself.At an unconscious level Jeanne’ s pre-rejection of herself has kept her on
the lookout for the slightest reason that someone else should also reject her.
The more accepting others are, the more she believes she has to be vigilant.
The hidden belief here is that the more loving her husband is, the smaller
the slip needed to destroy that love. In reality, love doesn’ t work this way.
Alan’ s deepenin g love for his wife would make him accept and forgive
more and more of what she sees as unworthy in herself. Thus the spiritual
truth is validated: the love you get is limited only by your ability to receive
it.
“It’s amazingly easy to shut someone else down,” I said. “Without
thinking about it we let pass countless occasions during the day when love
makes a tentative appearance—in other words, we turn our backs on spirit.
Your beloved may start to say something nice or give you an affectionate
touch or ask how you are feelin g. Notice how often this seed isn’t allowed
to grow, how quickly you simply cut the gesture of f or take it for granted. In
this way you limit the love you are receiving, rather than nurturing its faint
beginnings.”
“But I want Alan to love me,” Jeanne said. “Why would I cut off the very
thing I want?”
“Because negati vity inside says no when love is offered. Look at your
body language as well as your words, for you don’t have to say the word no
to shut Alan down. Do you detect a tendency to shrug, contract, bow your
head, or turn away when he tries to be loving? Keep the follow ing thought
in mind for similar situations:
Being shown a gestur e of love is like being offer ed a portion of God.
“Look into the eyes of your beloved and learn to believe that love is
really there. The ego, with all its fears and self-interests, blocks your ability
to perceive the portion of God that your beloved is offering you. Eventually
your expectations become self-f ulfilling; the more you shut down gestures
of love, the less motivated your beloved will be to make them.
“It isn’t easy to stop sending these automatic turnof f signals, but you can
take the first step by refusing to believe that no when someone else sees you
as lovable. Once you stop shutt ing love down, it will become easier to let
no be replaced by yes. This change shouldn’ t be forced. Allow Alan to payattention to you as much as he wants, without manipulation or rejection.
Start talking more about love in general with all those who are loving
toward you—they will enjoy this topic more than you realize.”
We were near the end of our time together, but Jeanne was a different
person from the woman who had walked in—she had the look of someone
much happier with herself. In parting I said, “When you find a genuinely
loving person, as you have, you will see that you are in his heart not
because you look a certain way or act a certain way, but because he is
following his own nature—loving others is just the easiest way he knows
how to be. Whe n you realize this, the whole problem of not deserving is
exposed for the illusion it really is.”
INFATUA TION
When attraction  reaches its peak, the phase known as infatuation begins. It
is the most delirious stage of love—immortalized by Romeo and Juliet,
Cyrano de Bergerac, and a thousand screen lovers—but it is also the most
controversial. It is a time of extravagant emotions and wild optimism.
Awareness of boundaries and limitations collapses, replaced by impossible
idealism, at least as seen by an outside observer. To her family Juliet was
not the sun or the moon, and Romeo’ s obsession with her was a danger to a
young girl’ s virtue and safety.
But outside standards matter not at all in this phase. Infatuated lovers
dwell so single-mindedly on their intoxicated emotions that they can hardly
eat or sleep, their work becomes only a distraction from their consuming
love.
Infatuation may be so extreme because it is a release from the loveless
constriction we call normal. In spiritual terms, being infatuated means
seeing another person as God, a divine being to be worshiped. In ancient
India, to truly see the divine and be bathed in its radiance was called Bhakti,
or devotion. From the devotional hymns of the Rig Veda, the oldest record
of human worship, to. the present, bhakti has been far and away the most
popular means of approaching  God. Religious worship, in the form of
prayers, offering s, and celebrations, is an all-consuming affair for a true
bhakta, who asks nothing more than to be intoxicated by the Lord.In the Old Testament, when the poet of the Song of Solomon rhapsodizes
about his love for God, his words gush as romantically as if he were
swooning over a woman:
You split me, tore my heart
open, filled me with love.
You poured your spirit into me;
I knew you as I know myself.
The parallel between a lover ’s intoxication and a saint’ s is impossible to
miss. It is in this phase of infatuation that lovers say they worship each
other. “I am in love with loving,” St. Augustine declares, echoing the
passions of a million secular lovers.
What makes romantic love seem so religious is this sense of merging.
The pouring of one spirit into another produces a ravishing ecstasy at its
most intense. Perhaps no word is more recurrent during the delirium of
infatuation than new. The release from old boundaries is like a birth that
makes all things new.
The source of this newness is not a new person, however, but a shift in
perception. The sensation of merging with another person comes about in
the brain


 I may not
even have heard of Yoga as such. But the central issues remain
much the same. Do I have a thread to follow? Will it lead back to its
source before it breaks?
Once the goal is reached, Yoga is said to liberate the seeker from
the limitations of ordinary life. The separation between body and
mind is healed, allowing the person to enter into a higher state offunctioning, both physically and mentally. I have already mentioned
the ability of some swamis to stop their respiration and heartbeat at
will. True yogis, however, would not stoop to consider any such
feats as a primary part of their development. They are too intent on
establishing, once and for all, the truth about mind, matter, and
spirit. In that sense, they are scientists in their own realm, keenly
observant and completely grounded in their inner experience.
My spiritual grandfather could not get enough of yogis, whom he
revered in the traditional manner as living saints. I vividly
remember his account of one. He came back from a pilgrimage to
the Himalayas  breathless with excitement. “I have seen the most
amazing sight!” he exclaimed to my mother. Then he noticed me
perking up my ears in the corner—I must have been about eight—
and his face clouded. “It might frighten him,” he said anxiously.
“No, it won’t,” I protested, not quite sure.
“No, no,” he demurred, shaking his head. It was a long time
before I found out the story. My grandfather had visited a distant
cave on the Ganges where a yogi lived, passing most of his day in
meditation. The yogi greeted my grandfather and his companions
cheerfully. As they talked, my grandfather could not help but notice
numerous double scars covering the yogi’s exposed arms and legs.
“What are those?” he asked one of his companions in a low voice.
The other man shrugged his shoulders, then all at once both of them
realized that these were the results of snake bites. That area in the
lower parts of the mountain s was infested with cobras. The two
visitors looked around nervo usly, and in a moment they spotted a
large cobra lazily moving in the grass.
“Baba,” my grandfather exclaimed to the saint, “you are living
with snakes all around you.”
“Snakes?” the yogi said. “I’ve never seen one here.”
“But you are covered with bites,” my grandfather protested.
The yogi gazed at him with penetrating sweetness. “Perhaps you
see snakes here, but I see only God, and believe me, sir, He does not
bite.”
At eight years old, I marveled at this story and believed it, but it
did not take. For me, the concept of Yoga became meaningful onlyin adulthood, when it was paired with the concept of Maya. Yoga is
the process that makes Maya less convincing, so that eventually one
is free to choose a wider reality than the one automatically
presented by the senses. The senses present a cobra, but the saint
sees only God—and reality shifts. What would have killed another
man cannot touch him because he has already died; he is dead to
the old, sense-dominated reality.
A subtle  aspect of identication is being overcome here. Generally
we cannot help identifying with the world. When the image of a
rose falls on the retina, it automatically makes an impression on the
visual center in the brain. No choice is consciously made, because
the nervous system has taken  instant possession of the image. Until
the attention wanders to another object, one’s awareness is
imprinted with a rose. This is therefore a kind of union, or Yoga, but
a false one, because it is so weighted in favor of the object. Seeing
the rose, I forget myself.
Most people have no idea that looking at things can be a kind of
bondage. A rose is a rose, re is re, water is water— all these
natural facts arrange themselves into a unity that seems
preordained, thanks to the automatic process of identication. But
to the yogi, the bondage of the senses is a serious handica p, because
it commits us to things “out there” and to our memories, which are
totally lled with things from the past. If I break my leg and feel
intense pain, my response seems unchallengeable when in fact it is
merely a repetition of an old way of responding that I learned years
ago. Can this old lesson be unlearned?
Anyone can distract himself from a mild headache by talking to a
friend or becoming absorbed in a book. The reason these
distractions work is that we have more choice over identication
than we realize. Even though the senses  stick to the world like glue,
we are still free to pull them  away to new objects of fascination.
There is no reason why this element of choice has to be foiled by
pain.
The Christian martyrs whom the Romans fed to the lions in the
rst and second centuries A.D. often welcomed their fate, seeing it asan opportunity to prove their faith, In The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine
Pagels cites letters in which condemned Christians begged their
friends not to intercede and save them from death. Motivated by
their zeal to literally imitate the events of Christ’s life, the martyrs
competed in the arena to show as much patience as they could,
singing hymns  and looking upward with expressions of angelic joy
as the beasts attacked them—we have this from reliable accounts by
amazed Roman onlookers. As much as anything else, Christianity
conquered the pagan world by rst awing the pagan mind, proving
beyond dispute that human will dictates to matter and not vice
versa.
Modern theories of pain concentrate on the complex neural
pathways of the pain signal and the various chemical triggers that
accompany the sensation of pain. Yet believing in Christ is not a
chemical event; it is a choice made in the mind. That is why the
yogi’s vocabulary, which deals in such abstract terms as
identication, is actually truer to life than the scientist’s concrete
terms. To get at the switch that turns pain o and on, one has to
step over the line that separates visible molecules from invisible
beliefs. In this abstract eld people decide whether or not something
will hurt them. They attach their sense of “me” to some events and
detach it from others.
There is a notable medical case, described by Stephen Locke and
Douglas Collig an in The Healer Within, concerning a foundry worker
whose legs fell into a vat of molten aluminum. Taken unconscious to
the hospital, he was hypnotized the instant he woke up by a
psychiatrist attached to the burn unit. The suggestion was planted in
the burned man’s mind that he had fallen into cool water instead of
700°F. molten metal. This suggestion took root and worked so well
that it not only canceled out the pain, but the patient recovered
quickly and with minimal scarring. This is the practical result of a
purely mental detachment.
A man who has solved the problem of identication may still feel
pain as a signal from his brain, but he will not convert it into my
pain, and that minuscule but all-important dierence cuts the cord
of suering. He no longer makes the mistake of thinking thatperception is ooding in to create his awareness; rather, awareness
is going out to create his perceptions. By returning our minds to the
depths of awareness where we are free to make our own experience,
Yoga opens up the possibility for uprooting all suering at its
source.
Can the Mind Free Itself?
Breaking down the mind’s illusion sounds desirable as an ideal,
but what does it amount to in practice? Many people try to
substitute “positive thinking” for the disturbing thoughts they want
to eliminate. On the surface this tactic may lead to some signs of
improvement. The mind can be forced into identifying only with
pleasant or uplifting things.  But in time the feared thoughts will
surface again (Freud called this “the return of the repres sed”), and
until then there is the exhausting eort of trying to maintain
constant self-control.
Some time ago I was consulted regularly by a woman who was
xated on positive thinking. She had been successfully treated for
breast cancer two years before but remained extremely worried
about a recurrence. Her anxiety was obvious to everyone around
her, but it was the last thing she herself wanted to confront. If I
even entertained the notion of saying, “You’re scared, aren’t you?”
her xed smile and upbeat manner made me feel gratuitously cruel.
I also felt increasingly nervous just being around her. She seemed
like a taut wire on the verge of snapping.
Finally, after not so subtly hinting that she might be creating a
false mood, I asked her point-blank to stop being so relentlessly
positive. “You mean it’s all right for me to have negative thoughts if
I want to?” she asked with touching incredulity.
“Yes, when they are natural and unavoidable,” I said.
Suddenly she burst out laughing. “Thank goodness,” she
exclaimed, “I needed permission from someone. I have read so much
about the damage you can do to your body with