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Good nutrition or alternatives to drugs alone does not oppose or contradict the orthodox forms of healing.
It complements them.
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The human body is very complex.
Although each person is similar in general structure and function, each is also uniquely different,
responding differently to similar stimuli, therapies and conditions. What may help one person in a certain circumstance or
condition, may not help another. This is also true with foods, environment, or
a particular food that may be nourishing to a healthy person may cause an allergic reaction in another.
. Each condition may also be unique.
Although thousands have had help from the natural methods described here, there have been and will be cases where destructive
pathological changes are so severe, and the bodies own healing mechanisms so weakened,
that the process of healing could be an extended process. Persevere, and your hard work will be amply rewarded.
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These therapies and/or nutritional suggestions are not offered a5 a cure,
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We offer this information along with suggested programs to those who want to, and are willing to, share responsibility for their
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Do not attempt to treat yourself for any serious condition. Consult your health care provider. However, if your health care
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second opinion from a diet conscience health care provider who is more aware of the natural methods of biological medicine,
because-after all, it is your health! D£D1CAT£D T 0 THOS£ 11{N£W
• To Stanley Ward {Father} Died-Colon Cancer -1986
Who the Allopathic Doctors claimed the only way to better
his future was to have an operation to remove part of the colon.
He trusted and had the operation. Major hospital. Never got better.
He lasted only a couple years in pain and loss of proper eating.
• To Carl Hoffman {Banker- Close friend} Died-Brain Tumor I 1995
Who allopathic Doctors claimed the only way was to undergo
a brain operation, chemotherapy, and radiation. So he did. Twice
Costs were well over the$ 100,000.00 mark.
He lasted approximately a year and seven months.
• To Sven Nylander {Photographer- Close Friend} Died-Hepatitis C
{ From transfusion of infected blood during open heart surgery }.
Infected blood given by at hospital.
• To George Weiss {Business associate -Very close friend}
Died Prostrate Cancer -1999 Did everything he was told.
Degrading life changing multiple surgeries costing over $175,000.00
• To George Kowalski- {Step Father} Died Lung Cancer- 1998
Doctors gave no other method than chemotherapy, radiation,
and refused an operative forum. { He didn't have insurance }.
• To all those Doctors who claimed to help my family and friends listed
above but had no authority to use other then
Operation, Chemotherapy, or Radiation and to what end?
It is my belief...
These fine fellows may not have died if any of them or myself at that time
would have had access to this therapy told here in this research.
D£D1CAT£D TO THOS£ STlll F1GHT1NG
To those who have been left behind by traditional methods and
unreasonable costs and are now awaiting their eventual end.
+ To all those who need help now.
• To all those who will need help in the future. •
~ Consider the contents within seriously.
~ It is true. All Documented throughout the World. 1l1trO~l-tCDOl1
This health procedure is to prolong your life in dignity
with self respect as long as possible till your body wears out.
Do not allow our body to die of a disease without dignity.
God has given you the procedure, pattern, cycle and therapy.
He has given you free will to use it for your enlightenment.
It is now your choice and only you are in control.
My name is Gary Ward. I am a Medical researcher.
Schooled in Pre Medical, Veterinary medicine,
Chiropractic, and a Master Herbologyist.
I came upon this therapy accidentally.
I was listening to the Art Bell show
in Los Angeles till three o'clock in the morning.
The host Art Bell was interviewing a Canadian, Paul Coulbeck,
on the new release of his book called "Granite Starship".
It is based on conversations with an alien Concerning
"The Nature of the Secrets of the Universe." NON-FICTION
Paul claims that he was abducted and educated to many things
that human kind must become aware of for survival.
Also the means of how mankind can servive if it uses the knowledge that
was given in the writings of all religions.
There were a few points that the alien brought up that really
changed my way of thinking.
First in Chapter 4 page 76
When you look at another person you are looking at external dead cells.
Skin, hair, fingernails toe-nails, all dead,
only the eyes are living visible cells."
Yes, and you have heard that the eyes are the mirrors of the soul.
Second in Chapter 7 page 132
" The majority are not wealthy because they refuse to abuse one another."
Third in Chapter 8 page 146
"Control is the game of the haves over the have-nots."
Fourth in Chapter 8 page 154
"Most people fill their own graves with what they put into their mouths."
Fifth in Chapter 8 page 154
In an explanation of how we would control sanitation,
when a need to eliminate waste in a very dedicated, concentrated
population area, it was as follows...
---~------2 "Oh, we know of that which you speak. We use it to make medicine.
Very powerful medicines are in your excretions.
Germs can mutate from antibodies to kill germs.
Viruses and bacteria have macrophage organisms that infect them and
make them sick and die.
We use bacteria urine as a disinfectant.
Many on your planet drink it."
My first thought was " What the hell was he talking about?
My second thought was
" What the hell am I thinking that this story may be true
and an Alien is really talking to Paul Coulbeck.
I immediately took on the project of health research on the
possibility of finding if there is some sort of cult that promotes
this anti-social type of action in their behavior.
I have opened up my eyes and heart to find that even though
this behaviorism has been used for centuries, it is truly kept secret by most
because of societies taboos of such behavior.
However... It is real. It does work. We have a built in pharmacy.
This is the most important concentrated piece of education
that you will run across on the basis that it is kept "Secret".
It does not easily get to be told to many
for they are afraid you may consider them foolish, ridiculous, nuts,
unscientific, backward, and unreasonable not to consider taboo.
You now have in your hands something that if you take seriously,
without having an accident or any massive trauma, you will live far many
more years than


  restored to full
health by urine‐therapy  end a well‐ balanced diet, not based on the
theories of the late ArnoId  Ehret and Co.!
And now to returnn to the rationale of rubbing, and  to supply some
details  of my own case  which  have not yet been mentioned.
During my first fast  on urine and water,  I was intrigued,  though not
alarmed, to notice the palpitation;  of my heart, which  at times were so 110
 pronounced  that I almost felt I had  two hearts, instead of one. I
ascribed  this, contrary to medical assumptions,  to the theory  that my
heart was  not getting d sufficient  supply of blood  to pulsate upon and
was therefore  accelerated  somewhat  like a watch when the controlling
hair‐spring is broken or out of order. It was then that once  again I got
an idea from the Bible;  this time from  the New  Testament:  for I read
"...when  thou fastest, anoint thy head and  wash thy face  (Matthew  VI,
17.) I am fully aware that the interpretation  I put on this injunction  may
seem farfetched,  but as I have said, it none the less gave me an idea,
and  having read it, proceeded  to rub my head, face, neck and  other
parts of my body with urine,  and the palpitations  ceased. Moreover,  by
this method, I have found it possible to fast ‐if not too ill to start with‐
without  interrupting  one's daily tasks.  Patients  with skin diseases, for
example, have fasted, carried on their work, and  to those not in the
know, have not seemed to be fasting at all. As for myself, I can
undertake  a fast if so minded  to encourage  others, and  not even a
doctor with his impressive  instruments  can detect from my heart, etc.,
that I am abstaining  from food. This, however,  would soon  become
apparent  if I attempted  to fast without the urine‐rubbings.
 111
 CHAPTER  XVIII.
WRONG. FEEDING  THE PRIME CAUSE OF DISEASES

In the little book  entitled Britain's Health, prepared by S. Mervyn
Herbert, we read the following  relative to nutrition:  "Recent scientific
investigations  indicate that it is all‐important  in national health, and
that the provision  of adequate  nourishment  for every man, woman  and
child in the community  should go hand in hand with the most
elementary  environmental  services,  such as sanitation,  housing and
'the provision  of pure water...  Vitamins are now a commonplace,  and
from their study has developed  a new  conception  of food  values."
It has been shown that the incidence  of tuberculosis  realised that they
may  eat as much as they  can and  still be suffering from  malnutrition  if
the food they  choose lacks  the important  protective  elements.  Nearly
everywhere  in the  tropics  can be found appalling cases of scurvy,
pellagra or beri‐beri which  have developed  not from  star:'ation  but
from lack of vitamins  or minerals."  (I should have said and instead  of or).
It has been known  that the incidence  of tuberculosis  rose in all the
countries  which  had suffered  from food shortage during the Great War
(1914‐1918).
"The incidence  of malnutrition  in Britain  cannot be described  with
accuracy,  but  authorities  on diet are agreed that it is sufficiently
extensive  to constitute  the most  serious danger to health at the present
time... Lack of money is unquestionably  responsible  for a large  part of
malnutrition,  but a good deal is due to the ignorance  which  results in
certain foods  of low nutritive  value being consumed  in excess."  112
 Precisely.  All of which  can be reduced to one sentence:  "The prime
cause of disease is the absence of substances  which should be in the
body and the presence of substances  which  should not be in the body.  "
(Doctors, Disease and Health, by Cyril  Scott.) The gist of it iras been put.
even more  tersely  by Major  C. Fraser Mackenzie,  C.I.E., viz.: "We are
made of what we eat, so if many organ becomes diseased,  it generally
means the food was wrong."  Reduced to even still further conciseness:
The cause of disease is an ill‐balanced diet.
Yet, provided  this is kept in mind, it is an unwise procedure  to lay down
any specific rules anent what precise foods  people should or should not
eat, for climate,  environment  and  personal "idiosyncrasies"  have to be
taken into account. The Eskimos  cannot be expected to live on the
same aliments as the Brazilians,  for example. As to personal
idiosyncrasies,  they are numerous  and some of them very peculiar.  The
case  could be mentioned  of a man  to whom fish is so violent a poison
that even if he licks  a postage  stamp  (the sticky  side contains fish‐glue)
his whole face  swells  up to such an extent that he cannot see out of his
eyes. There  are also persons to whom eggs in any form whatsoever  are
poison. Yet sometimes  such persons grow out of these peculiarities.
The writer knows of a woman  who could not touch  an egg, whether by
itself  or in a pudding or cake, until she had turned 70, and then, strange
to say,  eggs ceased t o disagree with her.
Rabid vegetarians,  as


 and ask,
and I would hear this gentle wisdom inside me. It would say: “It is good
that you are starting to ask Me for guidance, but don’t become obsessive. There is no need to ask for every single decision during a day. ” Should I
take my shoes off. Should I go out the door. Don’ t become obsessive
with it. Just trust in the Holy Spirit. Feel an opening to the guidance and
trust that you are going to do just great, that Spirit has got it. The Holy
Spirit is saying:  “I will direct you; just be willing to come in My
direction, and you will see that it is going to get easier and easier for
you. It will be more like a flow when you start to align your mind with
Me. ”
Many years ago, I sensed that I needed and wanted better
discernment betw een the ego and the Holy Spirit. I asked the Holy Spirit
for guidance. Me: Can Y ou give me something practical that can help me. Even
if it’s going to take time, I’m willing to work on it. Holy Spirit: Look at your life and start to consider how many of
your everyday actions are based on a fear of
consequences. T ake for instance your job. W ould you go
to that job every day unless you had a fear of
consequences. Me: Of course not. I would not be going to work every day if I
had no fear of consequences, if I didn’ t want some idea of
security for my future. Holy Spirit: This fear blocks a sense of being guided. Now go
through all the nuances that seem to be part of each day,
including the very subtle aspects, such as not wanting to
let people down, not wanting to hurt people’ s feelings, and
not wanting to step on anyone’ s toes. See what else is
based on the fear of consequences. I started  to do that with my life, to pay attention as I went through
my days. Something profound started to happen because I realized that
the opposite of fearing conseque nces is to be motivated by love. Imagine
if you were motivated only by love and nothing else. Imagine how
different it would be if there was no sense of fear pushing you. How
would your life go. You’d start to investigate what you do things for. Being motivated  by love helps you discern ego guidance from God’ s
guidance. When I started following love, I was amazed at the practicality and
ease that came with starting to hear this true guidance. If we need a word
of cheer  or comfort, it is there. If we need specific instruction, it is there. If we believe we need anything, that voice, that one voice, is always the
practical answer. And for me, that’s where the simplicity came in. I
found out that tuning into my inner voice, tuning into the Holy Spirit,
was really the only goal worth having. Life became very simple in that. Trying to listen to the ego is where the complexity seems to come in. But
once you understand how the ego works, you can lay it aside. Turning Away from Ego GuidanceThe ego is very ingenious. It even wants to come along on the spiritual
path. The ego can make you a polished spiritual self-concept. It can take
over any concept  just to preserve itself. It can be very sneaky. To get in
touch with whether you are follo wing the Holy Spirit or ego, you need to
discern how you truly feel. If you’re feeling happy, light, and peaceful,
that’s when the guidance is coming. If you try to listen to and follow
guidance and don’ t feel joy, you may have a discernment lesson going on
because the Holy Spirit always inspires a true sense of joy. A classi c exam ple of the sneak iness of the ego is when it starts
saying things like, “I kind of like this guidance thing. I can do anything
I’m pleased doing, and I’ll just call it guidance. ” Take a domestic
situation when you live with someone as an example. One party says: “If
you don’t take the garbage out…” and the other party says: “I was not
guided to take the garbage out. ” And the first one says: “I’m not guided
to take the garbage out either. ” You’ve got to watch this ego; it’s very
clever: “Well, my holy spirit told me…” “Well, actually, my holy spirit
told me…. ” You can tell that you’re listening to the ego when you start
using the word “my. ” This is the ego trying to use the idea of guidance
for its own purposes. The ego does not want you to have anything to do with guida nce
unless it is its own guidance—a nd it wants you to be a slave to it. The
ego likes that, but it is of fended by the Holy Spirit’ s guidance. It wants to
protect itself since the Spirit’ s guidance will undo it. Therefore, it wants
you to be dependent on it for everything. It does not want you to realize
that the mind is causative and that nothing can happen that the mind has
not asked for, that nothing comes from the “outside. ” When you realize
that nothing is external and that there are no external causes or effects,
the game is over for the ego. You have effectively ended its tyranny, this
false rulership, and you have accepted the strength and power exactly as
it is, in mind and as mind. One of the deep  truths that isn’t really known in the world is that if
you have a wrong-minded perception, a misguided behavior will always
follow. This is because thought s and images of forms are one and the
same. If you have wrong-minded thoughts, you will inevitably be
misguided. Actions and behaviors are not autonomous or separ ate from
your thoughts and beliefs. What you do comes from what you think. Without exception, this is so. What you do is determined by your
perception of a situation. There is great relief in knowing that what you
do comes only from what you think and believe and that there is nothing
outside of your mind. This is why you need guidance from a wisdom
beyond your own thoughts and belief system. You can relax and ease
your way into this alignment with the guidance of the Holy Spirit within. The difficulty is not really in finding out which voice is the Holy
Spirit’ s and which one is the ego’s. When you have fear in the mind, the
ego will actively  attack the Holy Spirit’ s guidance. So, there could be a
lot of attack thoughts or doubt thoughts coming up with certain
guidance. There fore, rather than asking whether it’s Spirit or ego, an
important step is to question what you are afraid of when you want to
know the guidance in a specific situation. And you can decide to be very
honest with yourself and look at what you’re afraid to lose. When what
you’re afraid to lose is not hidden, your mind is open to all possibilities
and all options. You will be in a space to tell the Holy Spirit, “Just show
me if it is Your will. ” Then you can feel the joy and peace that comes
with feeling the Holy Spirit’ s guidance. You will be able to see a lot of
signs and symbols. Symbols and metaphors of harmony and union align
the mind with the Holy Spirit. When you open your mind to guidance, you can see that guida nce
always offers a very obvious and easy option. The question of whether it
comes from the ego or the Spirit becomes unnecessary after you have
faced your specific fears. True guidance is always from the Spirit, and
the ego is only providing fears  and doubts that you need to heal and
clear, but never true guidance. Merging into a Glorious Flow
The experience of listening for true guidance is like being in a constant
state of prayer. All of a sudden, you feel how natural this is, and you
understand that you will need to make no decisions by yourself. You will
let Spirit decide for you. Be You in charge, Spirit. You know the way. You know the way out of the dream of separation. There is a shift
happening when you surrender  to Spirit this way. You come from anautonomous separate sense of self in a world apart and merge into a
glorious flow that has always been your natural state. It is absolutely
delightful to move into a day with an open mind that does not have a to-
do list and is not set on outcomes—being wide open to let the day be like
a blank canvas that can be painte d with all the beautiful splashin g colors. How free and how wonderful. “What is going to happen today. Oh, a
splash of green,  some red, some yellow. ” You can sit and behold the
painting as it appears right before you and really be in the glory of it,
without trying to control it, without trying to be the artist. Just be the
witness Self, the observer. It is delightful. Following guidance is a pathway to this ultimate experience. You
come without preconceptions, you come without ideas of outcomes, but
you come with a willingness to be shown, to receive that which is given,
and to trust that everything is for your awakening. That is what carries
you higher and higher to this ultimate experience. Spirituality must be practical. This is why it comes down to really
opening up to guidance day to day, to


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Krippaehne said that his friend has treated patients from all over the country, often
without charge, has given money to people in need, including members of the
university staff, without requiring repayment, and has put extra money back into
university research programs. “If he didn’t do charity work,” Dr. Krippaehne said,
“his net income would be significantly into six figures.” He also said that Dr.
Jacob, an associate professor of surgery and author of over 100 medical journal
articles, was a “catastrophe” when it came to business matters. Dr. Krippaehne made these statements on the witness stand, as the Justice
Department also brought criminal charges against Dr. Jacob for three counts of
improper payments to an FDA official and one count of conspiracy. The trial for
the surgeon and the FDA official took place in May 1982 but ended in a mistrial. The government bureaucrats continued their attack and pursued Dr. Jacob in a
second trial after Dr. Pani pleaded guilty to misdemeanor. Dr. Jacob welcomed the initial trial, stating that it would give him a chance to
vindicate the use of DMSO. At the second trial not only was he acquitted of all
the charges, but the Justice Department actually dropped the charges on the fifth
day of the trial, held October 29, 1982. Dr. Jacob was cleared completely and
received a semblance of an apology from the government. The grand jury
indictment was totally dismissed. In our interview, Dr. Jacob explained what happened: “Dr. K.C. Pani is a
friend of mine. His wife was my patient. I got to know him well. He had
horrendous medical bills. I loaned him money by personal check which Dr. Pani
returned by personal check. And this exchange of checks was the basis of the
indictment for conspiracy and giving an illegal gratuity to a government official. “I learned a lot from this experience. For instance, I was under the erroneous
impression that a Grand Jury of the United States hands down an indictment only
after it has sifted through all the evidence and has weighed it carefully. That isn’t
true at all. Most of the time the United States Grand Jury merely does what the
United States attorney tells them to do. This is what happened in my case. The
result is that the United States taxpayer has invested one to two million dollars in
investigating this case, sending inspectors and investigators across the country
several times, preparing for the trial, conducting the trial, and finally dropping the
charges to vindicate me and DMSO. Still, the prosecutors seemed to be
aboveboard. I developed respect for both United States attorneys. I had the feeling
that they were going through the motions of prosecution but that they almost wishthey hadn’t gotten involved in the case. Their hearts weren’t in it. “The judge had strong feelings that the case should be dismissed and he
relayed his feelings to the Justice Department. So, my attorneys and the
prosecutors worked out an arrangement where we mutually read statements in
open court that said in essence, I understand where people could interpret that our
exchange of checks was a conflict of interest, and I’m sorry such an interpretation
was made.’ The federal attorneys in turn stated, ‘We are dropping all charges
against Dr. Jacob, and we wish to take this opportunity to commend him for his
good services to the community.’”
Additionally, Dr. Jacob admitted that it had been “wrong” and “inappropriate”
for him to make payments to an FDA scientist even though the payments in no way
involved a conspiracy to clear DMSO and win its approval for other uses. The
government, furthermore, excused its own action by saying that its sole purpose
was to simply
“ensure that the integrity of the regulatory process is upheld.” In
effect, Assistant United States Attorney Richard E. Dunne III said that the Justice
Department wasn’t after Dr. Jacob as a profiteer because of his early financial
connection with Research Industries Corporation, the producer of Rimso-50, but
the case was pursued because DMSO could be considered the Laetrile (an anti-
cancer drug) of the eighties. DMSO is a drug that hundreds of thousands of people are using, and for which
there is a great public pressure to make legal nationally. There is also tremendous
congressional pressure to approve DMSO for general use. But the bureaucratic
record thus far is enormously distressing. There is a failure on the part of the FDA
to properly handle DMSO. The agency has undergone internal conflict as a result,
and the Inspector General is investigating that situation. DMSO has had inefficient
and ineffective overall review. Problems that have been discovered were not
expeditiously corrected, and it took the FDA an overly long time to make those
discoveries. Perhaps the FDA has perpetuated the greatest failure of all those
committed, because it is supposed to be the regulator beyond reproach guiding the
others to do what is good and true. The result is, as Senator Kennedy points out, that a travesty has been made on
the drug regulatory process and serious questions have arisen in the minds of
thousands of physicians and possibly millions of potential patients who need and
want to use DMSO. It may alleviate their suffering from a variety of ailments, but
the drug is being denied to them because of uncertainty as to its safety and
efficacy. The FDA itself has been a blot on the drug regulatory record. Senator Kennedy assured the public that this entire matter of allegedmisreporting, misstatements, and alterations of data was going to be evaluated for
criminal content by the United States Department of Justice. And it has been. Overall, charges have not been brought or they’ve been dropped without definitive
conclusions. Doctors and patients continue to use DMSO in spite of the cloud concerning
its safety. In over fifteen years of use, I have not heard of one patient complaining
of vision problems, and some of these patients have been using DMSO regularly
for ten, twelve, and even fifteen years without complaint. Even if nuclear sclerosis,
or progressive myopia, does occur in some people, it is hardly of clinical
significance in that patients are unaware of changes and do not complain of visual
impairment. All of the studies done up to now show that lens changes seen in
experimental animals are reversible simply by discontinuing the medication. A study by Dr. Jack de la Torre, reported in the
Journal of Toxicology
and
Environmental Health
 7:49–57, 1981, states: “Daily funduscopic examination
during the testing period failed to reveal any abnormalities in any of the monkeys
tested.... a double-blind slit lamp examination of the lens was performed the day
before saline or DMSO administration and then again 10 and 120 days after saline
or DMSO. No changes in refraction or translucency of the lens and no other
abnormalities were noted in any animal before, during, or eighteen weeks after any
drug administration.”
There is no therapeutically effective agent on the market that does not have the
potential of causing some untoward side effect. Although penicillin,
phenylbutazone, clofibrate, and even aspirin can cause death in some patients, no
one has suggested that these drugs be taken away from the people. “Adverse eye
findings” have been reported with
all
 of the arthritis drugs such as Anaprox,
Naprosyn, and Motrin (as per their package inserts). Yet, no one has suggested
that these minimally effective agents (about the same as aspirin) be taken off the
market because of these adverse eye findings. Even if the Scherbel findings are verified, DMSO will still be one of the safest
and most important agents when it’s made available. If a person is dying from a
stroke or severe burn, it is unlikely that he or his loved ones will worry about
clinically insignificant lens changes. Because of the question of eye changes, and in spite of many studies showing
that eye pathology does not occur, most physicians recommend, but do not insist
on, a slit-lamp eye examination every six months for patients using DMSO on a
continual basis. I can only hope that this scientific and bureaucratic bungling doesn’t setDMSO therapeutics back another twenty years. It seems that the American people
are entitled to a better performance from everyone involved—the FDA, the
medical researchers, and the private business sector. In the interest of the patients
who are suffering and are full of anguish, we must have a quick, accurate, and
definitive approval of DMSO for general medical use, as it is, indeed, the new
healing power. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS CONFIRMING DMSO’S VALUE
FOR SCLERODERMA
In 1986, the German journal
Dermatologische Monatsschrift
 published a scientific
article that verified the value of dimethyl sulfoxide in the treatment of
scleroderma. The solvent was combined with dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, and
administered as a local treatment that worked well. 3
In 1983, the Dimexide brand of DMSO was applied to Russian patients for
counteracting their scleroderma. Good therapeutic results were reported as
circumscribed drug therapy. 4
Again in 1983, skin manifestations in the form of scleroderma were improved
by the patients


 In religion, Divinity is
contextualized primarily as elsewhere in time and location and is also
described as having human motivations, limitations, and defects. Religion emphasizes belief rather than the inner realization of truth. In
religion, there is also a major emphasis on spiritual destiny in the future
after physical death rather than on the experiencing of spiritual truth in
the present. Q: What personality characteristics are favorable for the inner
pathway. A: Characteristically, devotees tend to be introspective, thoughtful,
reflective, curious, responsible, and attentive. There is usually an
aversion to violence, cruelty, nonintegrity, and the fanfare and drama of
glamour or vulgarity. There are the attraction to learning for its own
sake and the pleasure of discovery of basic premises. Q: What of the demands of daily life. A: The inner path is a way of continuously being with oneself and life in
the world, whereas religious observance tends to become
compartmentalized. Spiritual devotion is a continuous inner lifestyle
that incorporates constant watchful awareness. External occurrences aretransitory, whereas inner qualities of consciousness are more permanent. Inner work is a constant learning process whereby there are pleasure
and satisfaction in discovery and the unfolding of insight. The process is
self-rewarding and, paradoxically, this results in greater benefit and
enjoyment of formal religious participation or practices as well. The reflections of truth are everywhere to be seen and recognized in
multitudinous expressions. By internal observation, there develops an
inner wisdom that facilitates compassion and spiritual comprehension
rather than an ‘ought to’ discipline. With inner awareness, religious
guilt and preoccupation with sin diminish, and instead, one chooses
positive options rather than being controlled by negative programs
resulting in shame, fear, and guilt. Fulfillment of potential is rewarding and gratifying, which in turn
progressively reinforces motivation. Self-honesty brings greater inner
freedom as well as adaptational expertise and flexibility. It is not
necessary to withdraw from the world but instead to recontextualize it. Spiritual evolution results in greater capability due to the advancement
of consciousness that ensues. It is a matter of motivation. It is not
necessary to go into monastic retreat, although there may be such
periods that are beneficial. Q: What is a workable goal. A: To verify spiritual truth experientially and to become it rather than just
conform to it. The process is an unfolding of discovery resulting in
greater happiness and diminution of fear, guilt, and other negative
emotions. The motive is inner development, evolution, and fulfillment
of potential, which is independent of the external world. Life becomes
progressive rather than just repetitive. All experience is of equal value
and innately pleasurable so that life stops being an endless sequence of
alternating pleasure and displeasure. With inner progress, context
expands, resulting in greater awareness of significance and meaning,
and therefore, gratification of potential. Q: Inner spiritual work seems to require discipline and endeavor. A: These requirements are activated by intention. There is an innate
gratification in spiritual growth and the evolution of consciousness
itself. Progress is the consequence of clarification and greaterunderstanding that arise from the expansion of context. Recontextualization then results in transcending the distortions of
perception. Q: Inner work concerns focus rather than specific, special activity. A: The average person is focused on participating successfully in the world
and its activities via education, success, relationships, etc. The inner
work, ‘to know thyself’, is focused on inner comprehension of life
events, including expectations, motives, attitudes, and habitual thought
patterns. Curiosity arises :“Why do I see that situation the way I do. ”or,
“Why do I feel as I do. What is my prevailing attitude, and what
programs are actually running my mind. ” These questions lead to an
interesting discovery of prevailing presumptions about oneself, life, and
others. Prevailing goals and values become apparent for examination as
well as the degree to which they are prioritized. Q: That brings up the quote, “The unexamined life is not worth living. ”
A: Although the quotation might seem to be somewhat of an overstatement,
it does contain a valuable truth and observation, which is also validated
by the premises of quantum mechanics (the Heisenberg principle) in
that observation itself changes outcome as a consequence of not only
the introduction of the field of consciousness but also its intention. To a highly aware person, most people seem to walk about as if they
are in some kind of a dream state, unconscious and unaware of
themselves. Self-observation leads to awakening, which then motivates
the desire to learn, grow, mature, and evolve. Self-inquiry leads to
discovery and the unfolding of the layers that obscure the Self. With
self-inquiry, one examines the basis for faith and beliefs, and by
instituting spiritual techniques and criteria, proceeds to discover the
inner validation of spiritual truths for oneself. Thus, the field of inquiry
is the function of consciousness/awareness and the manner in which it
contextualizes the inner experience of self, others, and Divinity. There is a difference between having ‘heard’ a truth and having
discovered it as an inner reality. The way to ‘be it’ is to own it as an
experiential reality. Q: But is that not what is called ‘solipsism’. A: Solipsism is an intellectual belief that only the subjective experience of
the self is ‘real’. Thus, people live in different subjective realities. Solipsism is valid up to a point as it applies to the ego/self, i. e., each
person lives within their own perceptual version of reality. In contrast,
this limitation is transcended by the very process of inner spiritual work,
which progresses to the elimination of the limitations of perception (i.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What should one focus on in meditation? A: There are three basic styles that can be described that are effective and,
A:
Q: Does that not result in impairment of functioning? A: Yes. It may be necessary to leave the ordinary world for some years. At,
A:
Q: That sounds alarming.A: The entity who is alarmed and seems confronted by such a situation is,
A:
Q: What is the main difference between the inner pathway and traditional religious observance?,
A: The inner pathway focuses on the inner experiential realization and internal validation of spiritual truth, whereas traditional religious observance emphasizes conformity to external rituals, customs, and belief systems.
Q: What personality traits are favorable for the inner path?,
A: The inner path is more suitable for individuals who are introspective, thoughtful, curious, responsible, and attentive, with an aversion to violence, cruelty, and non-integrity.
Q: What is the primary goal of the inner spiritual work?,
A: The primary goal is to verify spiritual truth experientially and become it, rather than just conform to it.
Q: Is it necessary to be educated to pursue the inner path?,
A: No, it is not necessary to be educated to pursue the inner path; simple motivation and a willingness to learn are sufficient.
Q: How does one silence the mind?,
A: One cannot silence the mind; it stops on its own accord when the energy of interest is removed.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>While the gifts of God can be imitated, the forgery is not the genuine. This can be ascertained by consciousness level calibration. The genuine
siddhis start to emerge at calibration level 540 and become predominant inthe range of level 570. The promoted imitations calibrate from 155 to the
lower 400s. Notable also is that no Avatars or great Teachers recommend
the seeking of the supernatural. Miraculous phenomena are the spontaneous, nonvolitional emergence of
a potentiality’s emerging as an actuality as a consequence of karmic
propensities and local conditions, such as the level of the contextual field
set by the power of the prevailing level of consciousness. Mixing Levels
In addition to the ego/mind’s presumption that it ‘knows’ something
because it has heard about it (reading a book on golf does not make one an
expert golfer), there is the error of mixing levels of truth or abstraction. The
apparent realities of a specific level of consciousness are not necessarily
those of another level, as is indicated by the numerical designations of the
calibrated levels of consciousness. As an example, one can cite the well-
known saying of Ramana Maharshi that “there is no point in trying to save
the world because the world one sees does not even exist.” That is the truth
and experiential reality of consciousness calibration level 720, but it is not
the experiential reality of consciousness levels below it. It is necessary to be
true to the reality that is experientially valid and true at one’s level of
development. Each level also has its concordant capacities as well as its limitations,
which are quite different. For example, perhaps Ramana Maharshi could
safely walk across a busy highway with his eyes shut, but that is unlikely to
be the experience of the average person who is probably not able to imitate
the same behavior without getting run over. The error of mixing levels explains why there were people who took
LSD and then jumped out the window because they believed that they were
bodiless and could fly. The rules of out-of-body states are decidedly
different from in-the-body states. Comparably, one could make the


itating for some time I noticed, that my life has become much easi er. Most
problems, including stress, have been practically eliminated. I have found that nothing
is truly difficult to understand, you just need to learn to listen to your higher mind. I have also found that development of our wisdom is actually the purpose of our
existence. Life is just a lesson. If we do not learn, it becomes harder, until we  do. 32
TRUE HEALING – PRACTICAL ADVICE

  Detoxification

We will discuss only natural detoxification methods here. By natural I mean met hods of
assisting and/or enhancing the natural cleansing mechanisms the body alrea dy uses
everyday. Let us consider some of the organs which are responsible for the excretion of the t oxic
waste from our body, and see how we can assist in this process. Lungs. All our blood passes through the net of blood vessels in the lungs and is
oxygenated. This process provides oxygen, necessary to the process of extracting
energy from our food. Using this oxygen our body is able to oxygenate (burn) food as
well as toxins. Excretion is achieved by exhaling carbon dioxide together with ot her
(sometimes quite aromatic) gases. How can we assist? Surely lots of  clean fresh air
would make a difference. Improved breathing techniques could also help. According to
the teachings of yoga our breathing should be quite slow and contain four distinct
phases: slow inhaling, a wait period, slow exhaling another wait period. For some
people it happens so naturally, that they do not pay attention to it. However it is
possible to acquire bad habits, in which case some breathing exercises may help. F or
instructions regarding breathing technique, look up the books “The oxygen
breakthrough” or “Oxygen therapies” listed in References or read a book about yog a. Skin. Skin is the largest organ in our body. We tend to underestimate its function in the
metabolism process and in particular its excretion capacity. When we sweat, g lands in
our skin expel toxic waste, which usually does not smell nice. We should clean the skin
from such waste, because it clogs the skin, reducing the capacity to excrete more toxins. However, we should be careful which cleaning agents (solvents!) we use, because th e
skin also has the ability to absorb substances into our body. Techniques to accelerate
skin excretion (sweating) are for sauna and moderate exercise. Their rol es in the
acceleration of the detoxification processes are described in separate sec tions further on
in this book. Bowel. By weight, most of the solid waste leaves our body here. So any improvement
in the rate of detoxification should definitely start here. Colonic or even a simpl e enema
can relieve your body from many kilograms of toxic waste, you should not be attac hed
to at all. For more detail see a section about the enema later in this book. Urinary system. Most of the liquid or water soluble waste leaves our body through the
urinary system. How can we improve here? Drinking a lot (2-5 liters) of pure wate r a
day will make a great impact on the fluid exchange processes in our body, enabling
improved flushing of unwanted waste. After all, our body is 75% water and our brain is
90% water. Pure water (in contrast to water polluted with chlorine, fluoride pestici des
and other nasties) is necessary to the process of proper fluid exchange. 33  Accelerating the detoxification process. The natural detoxification processes performed by our body can be greatl y accelerated
with your conscious help, thereby providing the basis for spectacular recover y and
healing of your body. Notice, that many toxins accumulate in your body over your entire lifespan, and i t may
take a considerable amount of time to purify your body in the detoxification process,
using techniques described in this chapter, you should notice significant health
improvement almost immediately. Some of the most effective natural detoxification techniques are described below. Please read the information below with careful attention, making sure that you
understand everything thoroughly without a doubt. Your complete understanding is
necessary for your own safety and comfort. 1. Cleaning the bowel. Colonic or even a simple enema can relieve your body instantly from many kilo grams
of toxic waste. Below I describe a simple technique for performing a natur al enema. 1. Prepare the equipment for performing the enema. The best units available are
types used in hospitals, with a large capacity (2-3 liters) gravity tank, flex ible
hose and a nozzle to be inserted in the anus. Consult a friendly nurse if in doubt. Other units (enema syringe, see Fig.1 below) have a simple hand pump which is
used to pump water from any container into the flexible hose with a nozzle at the
end. Fig.1 Enema syringe (Higginson syringe). Valve is not necessary (it  makes
cleaning/drying difficult). Instead, you can squeeze section 2 of the flexible  hose with
your fingers before pressing the pump. 34  2. Prepare about 5 to 6 liters of water. Use lukewarm (body temperature) water
(preferably pure of filtered) for performing the enema. Avoid un specified
chemicals, Chlorine, detergents or soap etc. in the solution. If available, add a few
drops (3-5) of 3% hydrogen peroxide for every liter of water, (equivalent to 1
drop of 30% of hydrogen peroxide per 2 liters of water). Be very careful not to
exceed the specified concentrations of hydrogen peroxide. Similar concentrat ions
of hydrogen peroxide occur naturally in the rain water high in the mountains and
in some springs (Lourdes, France). Hydrogen peroxide inside your bowel breaks
down into pure water and pure oxygen. Extra oxygen is then used to oxidize
toxins directly and serves as a safe antiseptic. Some of the free oxygen enters  the
bloodstream right in the bowel, assisting greatly the surrounding cells in exc reting
toxins. Never use any chemicals, soap or detergents in the water for enema. The reason is simple: anything you put in will be immediately absorbed into your
blood stream. Adding chemicals, soap or detergents to your enema water makes
all procedure useless from the point of view of detoxification: you just add more
toxins. 3. Insert the nozzle into your anus and let the water flow in (or pump it in). Try to
allow as much as water you can. Without causing any excessive discomfort or
pain. If you feel pain, stop the flow of water immediately. 4. Try to hold the water inside your bowels for at least a few seconds. It would be
best if you could do a few steps, jumps and perhaps a few sit-ups whilst still
holding the water inside you. But do not force yourself. Do whatever comes easy. 5. Sit on the toilet and let go off the water slowly. Do not try to accelerate the flow
of whatever comes out by excessive pressure. You may cause yourself
unnecessary discomfort. Do not rush. Let the body take its time to perform the
cleansing. To assist your intestines in the transportation and excretion of wa ste,
you can gently massage your stomach with your hands. Wait until all the act ivity
in the bowel stops, and you do not feel any reason to sit on the toilet. Clean
yourself with a tissue. 6. Repeat the sequence of steps 3-5  two or three times, until clean water comes out
from your bowel. Congratulations. You have just relieved your body from the
extra burden: a few kilograms of toxic waste. You should find, that you have used
most of the water. The above procedure takes approximately one hour. 35  2.  fasting

Fasting is the extreme form of diet, in which you do not eat at all and you drink
only pure water.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        THE JOY OF PERFECT HEALTH

The reason and the ultimate cure for all diseases. Cure yourself forever. Dr. Tom J. Chalko MSc, DrEngSc, MIEAust. 2 We doubt everything and everybody, except our own ignorance
Master Ching Hai

 To my family, friends and teachers
  Thank you for your love patience and support

 Tom
  3 LIST OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION        5
WHAT’S WRONG WITH ORTHODOX MEDICINE. 7

  Bacteria and viruses       9
 The mind        11
 Medical education       12
 Progress        13
 Modern medicine: a summary     14

ALTENATIVE MEDICINE       15

THE HUMAN BODY – THE PERFECT HEALER    18

HOW WE DEVELOPE DISEASES      20

Diet and its consequences       22

TOXINS IN OUR LIFE       23

 Parasites and toxins       23
 Where are toxins. 25

DETOXIFICATION: A CONDITION FOR HEALING   27

      THE IMPORTANCE OF A PURE MIND     28

TRUE HEALING – PRACTICAL ADVICE     32

 Detoxification


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our  lives. The  Shapes  of  Ancient  PottCI  \
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THE    PRACTICE    OF    AYURVEDA
Modern  Utensils
The  pressure  cooker  and  enamelware  pot  are  definite
improvements  over  the  stomach  lining  of  an  animal. However,  our  modern  stand-up  work  tables  and  stoves
have  deprived  us  of  an  essential  sadhana — working  in
various  crouching  positions. These  provided  excel-
lent stimulation  of  the  vital  organs  and  tissues  as  well
as  a  means  of  receiving  the  earth's  energies  through the  womb  and/or  hara. Similarly,  a  gas  and  electric  stove  deprives  us  of  the
direct  exchange  with  the  fire  of  transformation  that
we  would  experience  with  a  wood-burning  stove. Of
the  two,  a  gas  burning  stove  is  far  better  than  an
electric  stove  since  the  direct  flame  still  provides  some
benefit. Electrical  applicances  generate  noise  pollu-
tion and  are  drying  to  the  internal  and  external  or-
ganism. When  electricity  passes  through  food  it  dam-
ages the  tanmatra,  or  energy  quanta  of  the  food,  which
aggravates  all  three  doshas,  and  Vata  in  particular. Microwave  cooking  is  hazardous  to  one's  health. It
transmutes  and  distorts  the  energy  structure  of  a  food,
depleting  food  of  its  ojas-producing  potential  and  of
its  memory. Electric  blenders,  food  processors,  dough-
kneading  machines,  and  so  on  have  definitely  removed
the  most  important  aspect  of  food  sadhanas  from  our
lives:  the  handling  of  fresh  grains,  beans,  vegetables,
and  spices,  and  their  transformation  through  pro-
cessing by  our  own  hands  and  feet. Dissonant  ma-
chinery cannot  refuel  and  refine  the  exchange  of  en-
ergy between  the  human  body  and  nature. Hand  grinders  certainly  generate  results  more
quickly  than  the  hard-to-find  giant  mortar  and  pestle. Hand  grinders  are  valid  kitchen  tools  because  our
hands  are  still  engaged  to  a  certain  degree. Even  the
occasional  use  of  a  blender  or  an  electric  coffee  mill  is
acceptable. While  I'm  not  proposing  that  we  revert
back  to  500  B. C.,  we  do  need  to  make  conscious  choices,
ones  that  allow  for  the  maximum  amount  of  human
exchange  with  nature. The  sadhanas  reaped  from
preparing  foods  with  hand  tools  are  irreplaceable. These  are  the  peaceful  weapons  that  were  given  to
humans  so  that  we  could  live  in  harmonic  vigor  with
nature. Walk  gingerly  through  the  maze  of  cooking
inventions. Consider  what  portion  of  your  vital  and cognitive  memory  you  are  willing  to  sacrifice  to  the
insipid  conveniences  of  modern  life. The  principle  of
sadhana  is  so  simple  that  it  becomes  impalpable. We
need  to  retrieve  our  innocence. We  need  to  learn
through  remembering. We  need  to  trust  that  the  jour-
ney of  time  holds  the  essence  of  all  knowing. We  need
to  embrace  our  ineffable  nature. We  need  to  find  our
stillness  amid  the  pother  and  welter  of  daily  life. We
need  to  ponder  these  things. Making  the  Transition
The  suggestions  listed  below  will  prove  helpful  at  the
beginning  of  your  food  transition. 1. Simplify  your  kitchen. Get  rid  of  all  utensils  that
are  not  being  used. 2. Discard  all  old  spices,  frozen  food,  and  canned
food. 3. Keep  your  cooking  space  neat  and  uncluttered. 4. Gradually  eliminate  most  electrical  appliances,
as  you  increase  your  inventory  of  hand-oper-
ated utensils. 5. Familiarize  yourself  with  your  new  foods. Begin
with  the  most  familiar  and  appealing  items. Secure  the  basics:  spices,  oils,  grains,  and  beans. If  possible,  buy  vegetables  daily  and  be  alert  to
their  quality. Use  as  many  fresh,  organically
grown  vegetables  and  herbs  as  you  can. 6. Be  conscious  of  maintaining  variety  in  your
menu. Take  pride  in  the  pleasing  and  artistic
presentations  of  your  food. Visually  pleasing
foods  stimulate  the  appetite  and  can  be  a  suc-
cessful way  to  impress  your  family  with  a  new
way  of  life. Always  discuss  the  food  changes
with  your  family  and  provide  them  with  infor-
mation on  the  wholesome  benefits  and  the  per-
sonal and  universal  need  for  these  changes. Conscious  awareness  needs  to  be  taught  gen-
tly. Your  changes  will  succeed  only  when  they
are  well  presented  and  backed  by  reason  and
thoughtfulness. When  a  feeling  of  deprivation
is  invoked,  all  else  fails. Remember  that  the
only  thing  you  are  being  deprived  of  is  harmful
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and  regressive  foods. Your  attitude  as  the  chef
will  make  the  difference  between  "Yuk. " and
"Wow. " 7. Be  alert  to  your  energies. At  stressful  times,  take
a  few  minutes  to  silence  your  mind  by  sitting  in
a  comfortable  place  and  taking  a  few  deep
breaths. In  the  beginning,  take  the  support  of
soothing  music,  soft  lights,  and  "saging"  the  air
(burning  dried  sage). These  are  all  tools  for  in-
viting stress  and  misery  to  leave  your  kitchen. Never  cook  when  you  are  dominated  by  anger
or  grief. Emotions  permeate  the  energies  of  the
foods  you  are  handling. 8. Consult  the  Food  Charts  (pages  74-130)  daily
on  meal  preparation,  food,  taste,  and  color  com-
binations. Use  these  as  guidelines  to  help  you
knowledgeably  orchestrate  meals. 9. Use  the  Seasonal  Menus  (pages  135-148). These
are  organized  according  to  body  type  and  are
specifically  designed  to  help  you  in  making  your
food  transition. 10. Clean  your  kitchen  thoroughly  after  each  meal. This  functions  as  a  beautiful  invitation  to  return
to  it. Enlist  the  help  of  your  family,  and  establish
routine  cleaning  duties  for  every  member  who
shares  in  the  meals. The  Puranas  are  replete  with  stories  that  elucidate
our  forgetfulness  of  the  self. There  is  an  ancient  story
of  a  guru  who  was  crossing  a  river  with  his  disciples. The  ten  of  them  set  out  together  on  a  journey  to  the
forest. After  they  crossed  a  turbulent  river,  the  guru


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 in conflict with others and with ourselves, becoming self-centered and egoistic. To find our basic trust is to reconnect with our natural state that we have become separated
from. “I like the sound of basic trust,” says Louise as she listens to me talk
about it. “Me, too,” I tell her. “Do you think this basic trust exists in all of us?” she asks. “Yes.”
“Where does this trust come from?”
“From the Oneness, which is our home,” I reply. “What happens to the basic trust?”
“Nothing, really,” I say. “It’s never really broken. It’s always with us, but
our perception obscures it.”
“Like clouds covering up the sun,” says Louise. “Practicing gratitude is one way to make the sun come out again,” I
suggest. “Gratitude helped me to say ‘yes’ again to my life,” Louise says. “Gratitude helps us to trust again,” I add. “From the One Infinite Intelligence comes everything we need,”
continues Louis e. “All the guidance, all the healing, and all the help. And
for that I am most grateful.”
“Amen,” I say. Gift of Everything
My start date for writing this book was January 21. I had put this date in
my calendar back in October. That gave me the necessary time to create a
space in my schedule so I could  write without distraction. Just a few days
before I was due to start, something unexpected happened. I woke up with a
pain in my butt. My left buttock felt sore. The nerve down my left leg was
stiff. I tried to carry on as normal, but I couldn’ t. I had a consultation with a
physiotherapist and also two sessions with a chiropractor. I tried to make
the pain go away, but it got worse. By the time I sat down to write, I was in a lot of physical pain. The
muscles in my left buttock were  knotted and bruised. A line of fire ran upand down the sciatic nerve in my left leg. My body was in a constant light
sweat. I carried my body around like it was a wounded animal. I was afraid
I wouldn’ t be able to write. My deadline didn’ t allow for any delay. Fortunately, the pain eased as I wrote. Sitting on a pile of soft cushions
helped. I booked a few more sessions with my physiotherapist and with a
craniosacral chiropractor. I really needed the pain to go way, but it kept
getting worse. Why now? I wondered. I was in good physical health. I hadn’ t fallen out
of bed. I hadn’ t gotten stuck in a yoga pose. I absolutely had to write the
book now, so the timing of my injury was inconvenient and significant. I
tried to ignore it, but it wanted my attention. I prayed for it to go away, but
it was still there. Eventually, it occurred to me that this injur y wasn’ t an
interruption in my schedule; it was my schedule. I needed to treat it with a
more healing attitude. Who better to talk to then than Louise Hay? Two days later, Louise and I talked on Skype. I told her about the
sciatica. She agreed that the timing was significant. “Every book I write is a
healing journey,” she told me. That’ s true for me, too. All my books have
taken me on journeys that never went according to plan. Not according to
my conscious plan, anyway. Often I had to get lost in order to find my way. On every journey I found unexpected treasures and happiness. “Well, how do you feel about having sciatica?” Louise asked me. “I don’ t want it, and I don’ t like it,” I told her. “So, you want it to go away,” she said. “Yes.”
“Are you afraid?” she asked. “Yes.”
“What are you afraid of?”
“I’m afraid I’ll put on weight because I can’t exercise,” I said. “Not very
deep, I know, but it’ s the first thing that comes to mind!”
“Don’ t judge the fear,” she told me. “Thank you,” I said, grateful for the coaching. “What else are you afraid of?” Louise asked. “I’m afraid that it will last forever.”
“You’re afraid of feeling trapped,” she said. “Yes.”
“Okay. The first thing you need to do is to dissolve this fear,” she said. “How do I do that?” I asked.“With love,” she said. My attitude had been full of judgment. I treated the sciatica like it was a
problem. I felt as if something was wrong with me. The timing was bad. I
was rejecting the experience. I wasn’ t open. I was busy. And I was afraid. And I collected a few more fears along the way. When I told a friend about
my sciatica, he told me that his dad had had to stop working because of
sciatica. Another friend told me that his girlfriend had had sciatica ever
since she was a teenager and that nothing could heal it. Louise encouraged me to change my attitude toward the sciatica. “Let’ s
not make this into a problem,” she said. “Let’ s affirm that out of this
situation only good will come.”  With the help of Louise’ s wise counsel, I
suspended judgm ent. I started to treat the sciatica as an experience, not a
problem. I decided not to resist the sciatica but to work in coop eration with
it, and very quickly, I noticed I was less afraid. The pain began to ease, too. Over the next couple of weeks, I went from 100 percent pain, to 90 percent
pain, to 75 percent pain. Louise also encouraged me to choose my words carefully when speaking
about sciatica. “Every cell of your body responds to what you think and
what you say,” she told me. Negative affirmations can spread like a virus
when you are ill or unhappy. “How are you?” your friends ask. “I’m not
well,” you affirm. “I’m in pain,” you tell them. Soon, all your friends know
what’ s wrong, and then they make regular calls for updates. “I’m still ill,”
you affirm. “The pain is wors e today,” you tell them. Sudd enly you’re
sending out hundreds of these mental tweets a day, and your body is reading
them all. In her book Heart Thoughts, Louise writes, “The body, like everything
else in life, is a mirror of your inner thoughts and beliefs.” She teaches us
that a healing attitude is about being receptive to the messages of the body. “Pain is often a sign that you are not listening to a message,” Louise told
me. “Therefore, start by affirming, I am willing to get the messag e. Pay
attention and let your body speak to you. Apologize for ignoring your body
and tell it you are all ears now. Be grateful that your body is trying to tell
you something. Your body isn’t trying to make things difficult for you; it’s
trying to help you. Your body isn’t against you; it’s showing you how to
love yourself and how to let life love you.”A few weeks ago, while aboard a flight to San Diego to see Louise, I read
When Things Fall Apart  by Pema Chödrön, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher. She
quotes one of her students, who said, “‘Buddha nature, cleverly disguised as
fear, kicks our ass into being receptive.’” This message seeme d somewhat
apt for my poste rior (notice how I didn’ t use the word pain) and me. During
that visit with Louise, she encouraged me to listen for the messa ge from the
sciatica. We had some big conve rsations about releasing old pain, forgiving
old wounds, living in the present, being more receptive, and, of course,
letting life love me. Slowly but surely, I have been  befriending my sciatica. One morning,
during a meditation, a question popped into my mind: How would I behave
if I was not afraid of this sciatica? Contem plating this question eased the
inflammation in my nervous system. My body felt more comfo rtable. The
sensation levels  dropped again to 60 percent, and then to 50 percent, and
then to 45 perce nt. I was less afraid now and more open to guidance and
inspiration. “The first thing I want you to do every morning is to thank your body for
all that it is doing to heal itself,” Louise told me. “Sorry, I can’ t do that,” I said. “Why not?” she asked. “Well, the first thing I do every morning is thank my bed for a good
night’ s sleep,” I told her. “Who taught you that?” she asked, laughing. “Someone I love and respect very much.”
“Well, she sounds very wise to me,” said Louise with a smile. “She is,” I said. “Always remem ber that your body wants to heal. And when you thank
your body for all that it’ s doing, it really helps your body to heal,” she said. Louise prescribe d one of her favorite affirmations for me. It is I listen
with love to my body’ s messages


 on metal, a shock wave went up his arm. Siddhartha’ s muscles
ached, and he knew that Devadatta had an advantage over him. This was his
cousin’ s first combat of the day, while Siddhartha had been fighting for
hours. He had to win quickly or his ener gy would fail. Knowing that
Devadatta was following his eyes as well, he made a feint, glancing right,
taking a half step in that direction. When Devadatta’ s dagger followed him,
the move opened up his body, and Siddhartha stuck his sword into the
exposed midrif f. It was incredible luck. If the blow had struck home, it
would have been fatal. But in the instant before the blade entered Devadatta’ s body, Siddhartha
heard his heartbeat thud in his ears with long stretches in between the
strokes. He felt the breeze blow the hairs on his forearm slowly, delicately,
back and forth, and each blink of an eye was like a door closing, leading to
blackness, before it opened again and the world reappeared. He felt very dif ferent from before—calm, free of anger. Out of the
corner of his eye he could see that the mood of the king had shifted. Suddhodana was returning to reason, and as he did, the thought of loss of
his only son was intolerable. Suddhodana was within half a breath of
stopping the fight. He had yet to register that Siddhartha was about to win. The last thing Siddhartha’ s eye caught was his sword inching closer to its
perfect tar get. Suddhodana shouted, “Stand back, a fighter is down. ” He wanted to run
forward and embrace his son. The prince stood over Devadatta’ s fallen
body, panting hard. “Get up,” he said. Devadatta was shaking his head. Instead of delivering
a fatal wound, Siddhartha’ s sword tip had been deflected, slicing the skin
over his heart. He spat out the dust he’d swallowed going down, aiming
deliberately at Siddhartha’ s feet. Siddhartha’ s eyes fixed on the slimy spot it
made. He held out his hand to Devadatta. “Y ou win, if it pleases you. ”
Devadatta refused the hand with contempt. “It’ s not going to be that
easy, boy,” he hissed. Siddhartha ignored the jibe and turned around. “I quit this fight,” he said in a loud voice, keeping his eyes away from
the king’ s. “I can’ t prevail over a better man. Give the honor to my cousin. ”
Suddhodana shook his head. “Y ou have prevailed. The contest is over,”
he shouted, but few heard him. Screams rent the air be cause, at the moment
when Siddhartha turned away from him, Devadatta lifted his dagger and
raked its rippled blade across the small of his opponent’ s back. Siddhartha
staggered. Devadatta brought back his arm to strike straight up into his
enemy’ s stomach as he doubled over. Siddhartha never gave him the chance. He reached out and grabbed
Devadatta’ s hair with one hand while batting the threatening dagger away
with the other. The gash it made across his palm was insignificant; rage
canceled out the pain. He banged Devadatta’ s skull into the packed dirt. The
first time was enough to make his opponent half senseless, but Siddhartha
repeated the action twice more. Devadatta’ s eyes betrayed panic when he
realized that he was alone and defenseless. The second time his head
smashed against the ground, his eyes glazed over; the third smash, and they
rolled up into his head. Siddhartha paid no attention. He lifted Devadatta’ s limp body of f the
ground in a wrestler ’s hold around the chest, squeezing the breath out of
him. It was remarkably easy to do, as if he were shaking a rag doll. Siddhartha locked his arms into a vice and leaned back, his face to the sky. Inside a voice said, “ This is freedom. This is what the gods feel like when
they mete out death. ” Siddhartha believed the voice and waited for the
moment when he would let Devadatta’ s body fall. As his face turned up to the sky, which was still divided between sun
and clouds, his arms felt Devadatta’ s body grow more and more still. Surrender, and be fr ee. For the first time since he could remember, a voice came to him from
another place. Siddhartha’ s grip weakened just a fraction.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: Who did Siddhartha shoot with his arrow?,
A: He shot at the back of one horseman and then at the other, hitting both of them.
Q: What did Devadatta say when he realized he was trapped?,
A: "I know who you want!" (referring to the fact that he would never be able to leave the village)
Q: What did the king decide about the fight between Siddhartha and Devadatta?,
A: He decided that the two princes would fight, as he could not decide against either of them.
Q: Who did Siddhartha see in his vision after jumping into the abyss?,
A: He saw his mother, his father, and Sujata, all of whom were smiling and peaceful.
Q: What did Siddhartha do after he discovered the bodies in the "house of the dead"?,
A: He got down and ran over to the wounded man, who was hit in the throat, and tried to help him.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>“I
don’t want anyone to think I have an expert barber.”
“No, you’re just another monk with hardly a stitch to wear,” Channa
said. They parted there by the river as the sun came over the treetops. Channa
refused to say farewell; he kept his arms tightly pinned by his side to deflect
Siddhartha’ s attempt to embrace him. As Siddhartha walked away, he
trained his eyes straight ahead for the first hour. The jungle canopy was
fairly dense, even though trees had been cut down to make the road. For a
while he hardly knew how he felt, except in the most basic physical ways. His body felt lighter; the slightest breeze ruf fled his thin silk shawl and
passed coolly over his skin. Being without long hair and heavy robes was
exhilarating and unnerving. Having been a hunter, he knew how to forage for fruit and wild greens;
in the past few years he’d spent days on long treks without provisions. But
it wasn’ t the physical necessities that worried him. T o really be Gautama, he
would need to find a teacher. There were forest hermitages scattered over
the countryside, most of them near big villages and towns. Saf fron-robed
beggars had become a common sight on the wide streets of cities beyond
the kingdom of Sakya. Their increasing numbers baf fled people, and the
priests muttered about shiftless pretenders. Some kind of spiritual ferment
was taking hold. Before he left home, Siddhartha was intrigued by this new
movement, which didn’ t even have a name yet. “It’s young rascals, these so-called holy men,” a silk merchant
complained. “They fear work like the plague. They’re abandoning the farms
and turning away from their parents. Nothing seems to hold them back,
certainly not respect.”
The merchant kept his own son tied close to his side with constant
demands and a trickle of money, not enough for him to leave or to get
married before the father arranged a match. “How do they live?” Siddhartha asked.“Like any other lazybones. I wouldn’ t leave meat hanging in my front
yard,” said the merchant. “Y ou never know when the gods might want it.”
Siddhartha ignored his cynicism. “Who teaches them?”
“You call it teaching? What are the temples for? Not that the priests are
much better, mind you.” Siddhartha pressed the point, and the merchant
eventually realized that he wasn’ t there simply to reinforce high-caste
prejudice. “I’m amazed that you care, Y our Highness. From what I can tell,
the young ones seek out the older ones. They move around the forest from
camp to camp, and the day they arrive at some makeshift school, they bow
down before the teacher and ask about the Dharma,  whatever his angle
happens to be. Dharma? The priests filled us with enough of that.” Dharma
could mean many things—a man’ s occupation, the rules of proper conduct,
a person’ s holy duties as outlined by scripture. In this case it was a
philosophy, a particular teaching that disciples committed themselves to
learn. “And which Dharma is attracting the most followers?” Siddhartha
asked. The merchant shrugged. “Who can say? The young ones keep
wandering. They’re restless and never stay anywhere very long.”
Other travelers that Siddhartha came in contact with were just as hostile. They would have been shocked if they could have penetrated Siddhartha’ s
defenses and seen what lay behind his hospitable smile. He belonged to the
same young, restless breed that disappeared into the forest for years at


, “I’ll never get over this”) has subsid ed and now
other aspects of the loss are popping their heads up at sixes and sevens or
higher, just allow for their passing, one at a time, EFT round by EFT round. When you get to this step again, keep following through  until you
experience relief, meaning that you are able to think of the tapping target
with neutrality. Or, you are able to think of the person or the event and have
more perspective than at the time of loss, for example.Step 7. If intensity is the same. Do you believe  logically that you can
never get over this? Do you believe emotionally that you can never get over
this? Get more specific. Is it too big? Is it that you don’t know how (yet) to
navigate this unknown territory? Is it because you never expected it to be
this way? Choo se one reason you can never get over this. We’re getting
more specific to get results. Tap with a more specific “I can’t get over this
because  … ” in mind, and see if it doesn’ t loosen “I can’t get over this.” Or
focus on your body sensations about never getting over this and tap around
following a body sensation relating to “never get over this”usin g Chase the
Pain. Or go to an earlier loss, and tap on one event related to that. Then
move on to step 10. Step 8. If intensity is lower. Choose a thought, phrase, feeling, or body
sensation that happens when you think of the loss you have identified from
step 1, such as: “I am so angry about what happened. It’s not fair. It’s ….”
Skip to step 10 when you are neutral or close to it here. As well, uncover
specific events by asking: What about it isn’t fair? You may have a laundry
list of tapping targets by asking this question. Write them down to tap on
now, one at a time before moving on. Step 9. If intens ity is higher. Keep on tappin g on the same target you had
in step 2. Allow yourself to take a few deep breaths, inhaling all the way
from the soles of your feet up through the top of your head, and then out. Again, inhale deeply now through the top of your head, down and out
through the soles of your feet. Repeat the process a few more times. Now
tune into both your tapping target and your body sensation. Start another
round. Here are possible setup statements to inspire you:
Even though I can’ t get over this, I love, honor, and accept myself. Even though a part of me belie ves I can’t get over this, I deeply and
completely accept all parts of me. Even though I can’t see how I’ll get over this, I accept myself and how
I feel right now.Focus in on your body sensations, and follow them. Allow yourself to
cry, or feel the feelings, and keep on tapping through the flood of emotions! Step 10. Retest your intensity. How much can’t you “get over this” now? Or how much is it not fair? Using the tapping example of “can’t get over
this,” ask yourself these questions:
How come I can’ t get over this? Answer: It’ s my fault. How is it my fault? Answer: I wasn’ t there for him at a critical moment. How so? Answer: When he was in the hospital that one time, I needed to
go home and rest, but he was in pain. Aha! A specific event underneath one of the many reasons why you
“can’ t get over this.” Tap on this with Tell the Story until intensity around
this particular event subsides. Step 11: Now, return to your original tapping target from step 2, here it’s
“I can’t get over this.” Now how much do you still believe, or what’ s left
relating to “can’ t get over this” or whatever tapping target you chose? Do
you see how you can begin to see some hope? Even if you have  shifted one
point, that’ s movement! Support for Getting through Grief >
In some cultures, the communi ty engulfs the mourner. I don’t mean they
share their condolences by delivering homemade food or sending cards. The
community sits with the mourners until they experience a breakthrough. If
we were  held through our grief with nothing expected, the experience
would be profound and healing  for all involved. Consider tapping when
you’re troubled by these issues: “Even though I need more than what I’m
getting right now, I love myself anyway” or “Even though I’m expected to
be norm al, and how is that even possible right now, I love myse lf anyway”
or “Even though I don’t have the support I need through this troubled time
….”
An alternative to traditional EFT is to tap continuously while expressing
phrases like these until you expe rience some relief:  “It’s possible for me torelease this grief, according to my own timing.” “I know this is hard. And I
can still do it.” “I am going through the hard stuff now and I’m okay.” “It
feels like my world is ending, but I’m still here. And I have more resources
than I can possibly imagine right now.” “I forgive myself for being scared. I
forgive myself for hurting. I forgive myself for lashing out. I forgive myself
for shutting down. I forgive myself for blaming. I forgive myself for
everything I did do, and for everything I didn’ t do ….” “I choose to love,
honor, and accept myself.” “I shower myself with compassion and
kindness.” “I am open to healin g, to my own wholeheartedness, to myself
and to all that is divine in my life.” “I feel the soles of my feet on the floor. I
feel the earth rising up to meet me.” “I choose to breathe in life, and to
release everything I no longer need or that is no longer serving me.”
Exercise: Releasing Learned
Helplessness and Burden
Grief can bring up fear and helplessness about everything you don’t know
how to do. You may wonder how to go on without the person in your life,
how to do the financial statemen ts, to parent on your own, to cook ….You
may be afraid of future losses. Add the word “yet” t o what you don’t know
how to do in your setup statements. “Yet” gives hope that you can figure it
out. It’s an alternative to the helplessness or hopelessness you might feel
about your loss. I don’ t know how to go on without this person in my life, yet …. I have no idea how to run the business, be a single parent, or cook a
decent meal, yet I’m open to learning. I have learned other things, so
it’s possible I can learn this, too. I am a resilient, capable, resourceful
human being. Step 1. Notice how you are feeling in your body. Make note of any
tensions or aches or pains befor e you get started. Now, aim one EFT round
at what you can’ t do or don’ t think you can learn how to do.Step 2. Now, try that same round, adding  “yet” to what you don’t know
how to do. Even though I have no idea how to do X yet, I deeply and completely
accept myself. Step 3. Remind  yoursel f of the many things you had no idea how to do or
that you thought were impossib le but you ended up doing. Tap all the tap-
down points, a single point, or the finger points as you list them aloud. What does it feel like in your body to acknowledge the capac ity to grow
and chan ge? You are reminding your system that you do, indeed, know how
to learn and even now are in the process of learning how to do—even this,
even this. Step 4. Now how do you feel about learning or about the grief target? See
if there has been any corresponding change in how you feel in your body. Case Study: Loss and Grief Shrunk Sima’ s World
Sometimes a person’ s world gets really small around the grief object or
person. The whole world can seem to revolve around the brief time of the
loss, which is just one snapshot in time rather than your whole  experience
over the course of many years with that person, place, or job. Sima and her husband had many good times during their fifteen years
together. At the time her husban d, Robert, contracted an incurable, painful
cancer, they had just moved to the land of their dreams, where they had big
plans for their careers. The illness was swift. Within months, Robert was
gone. Every time Sima thought of him, it was about the brief time in their
lives when he was dying. She had no access to the wonderful memories. She felt like she should have done more, especially at key moments in his
decline and treatment. She had many specific events holding this belief up. If only she had done something differently, he might have survived. She
understood this belief wasn’ t logical—that it was emotional. Sima was work ing with me about being stuck in her job. However,


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i m p o r t a n t  a s  t r a i n i n g  o u r  b o d i e s  a n d  i s  j u s t  a s  i m p o r t a n t  t o
o u r  h e a l t h. B e c a u s e  o f  t h e  w o r k  I  d o,  I  r e c e i v e  m a n y  l e t t e r s  f r o m
p e o p l e  a r o u n d  t h e  w o r l d. T h e r e  h a v e  b e e n  d a y s  w h e n  I  w a s
c o m p l a i n i n g  o r  w o r r y i n g  a b o u t  s u c h  m e a n i n g l e s s  t h i n g s  a n d
t h e n  r e a d  a  l e t t e r  f r o m  a  p a r e n t  w h o  h a d  l o s t  a  c h i l d,  a
s o l d i e r ’ s  f a t h e r  a s k i n g  f o r  a  p r a y e r,  o r  a  p a t i e n t  b a t t l i n g
c a n c e r. M y  p e r s p e c t i v e  w a s  t h e n  r a d i c a l l y  a n d
a u t o m a t i c a l l y  a l t e r e d. I  h a v e  t r i e d  t o  d e v e l o p  t h e  h a b i t  o f
g r a t i t u d e  a n d  p r a i s e,  a s  I  r e a l i z e  h o w  f o r t u n a t e  I  a m  a n d
a f f i r m  i t  w i t h  m y  t h o u g h t s. “ W o w,  w h a t  a  b e a u t i f u l  d a y  t h i si s ” — j u s t  a  s i m p l e  r e m i n d e r  o f  t h e  b e a u t y  o f  l i f e  w i l l
l i t e r a l l y  m a k e  y o u r  l i f e  m o r e  b e a u t i f u l. T h e  m e a n i n g  o f  a n y t h i n g  i s  t h e  m e a n i n g  w e  a t t a c h  t o  i t. I
r e m e m b e r  a s  a  c h i l d  t h a t  w h e n e v e r  I  w o u l d  c o m p l a i n  a b o u t
a  r a i n y  d a y,  m y  m o t h e r  w o u l d  s a y,  “ O h,  n o. T h e  f a r m e r s
n e e d  t h i s  r a i n. ” W h a t  t o  m e  w a s  a  d r a g,  t o  h e r  w a s  a  r e l i e f. A  h o u s e  l o o k s  s o  b e a u t i f u l  a n d  y o u  t h i n k  i f  o n l y  y o u
c o u l d  l i v e  t h e r e,  l i f e  w o u l d  b e  s o  l o v e l y ;  o n c e  y o u  o w n  i t,
h o w e v e r,  t h e r e ’ s  t h e  p r e s s u r e  o f  a  m o r t g a g e  t o  i m p i n g e
u p o n  a l l  t h a t  l o v e l i n e s s. Y o u  t h i n k  a  p u r s e  i s n ’ t  a l l  t h a t
g r e a t,  b u t  t h e n  y o u  s e e  i t  o n  s o m e o n e  e l s e  a n d  a l l  o f  a
s u d d e n  i t  l o o k s  f a b u l o u s. Y o u  t h i n k  y o u r  h u s b a n d  i s n ’ t  a l l
t h a t  w o n d e r f u l,  b u t  t h e n  s o m e o n e  e l s e  d o e s,  a n d  a l l  o f  a
s u d d e n  h e ’ s  f a b u l o u s. E v e r y t h i n g  w e  e x p e r i e n c e  i s  f i l t e r e d
t h r o u g h  o u r  o w n  t h i n k i n g. H o w  y o u  s e e  y o u r s e l f  i s  h o w  y o u
w i l l  t e n d  t o  s e e  y o u r  l i f e,  a n d  h o w  y o u  s e e  y o u r  l i f e  i s  h o w
y o u  w i l l  t e n d  t o  s e e  y o u r s e l f. I  h a v e  k n o w n  p e o p l e  w h o  h a d  s o  l i t t l e  a n d  y e t  t r e a t e d  i t
s o  w e l l. I t ’ s  n o  s u r p r i s e  t h a t  w h a t  t h e y  h a d  t h e n  i n c r e a s e d. A n d  I  h a v e  k n o w n  p e o p l e  w h o  h a d  s o  m u c h  a n d  t r e a t e d  i t
s o  p o o r l y. I t ’ s  n o  w o n d e r  t h a t  w h a t  t h e y  h a d  d e c r e a s e d. T h e
w o r l d  e x p a n d s  o r  c o n t r a c t s  a c c o r d i n g  t o  o u r  p a r t i c i p a t i o n  i n
i t. W e  a r e  o n e  h u n d r e d  p e r c e n t  r e s p o n s i b l e  f o r  h o w  w e
e x p e r i e n c e  o u r


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d w e l l  c a n n o t. O u r  o p p o r t u n i t y,  w h e n  i n  p a i n,  i s  t o
r e m e m b e r  t h a t  w h o  w e  r e a l l y  a r e  c a n n o t  b e  h u r t. W h e n  w e
l o o k  b e y o n d  t h e  m o r t a l  i n  o u r  p e r s e c u t o r,  w e  c a n  t h e n — a n d
o n l y  t h e n — e x p e r i e n c e  t h a t  w h i c h  i s  b e y o n d  t h e  m o r t a l  i n
o u r s e l v e s. W e  c a n  h a v e  a  g r i e v a n c e  o r  w e  c a n  h a v e  a  m i r a c l e ;  w e
c a n n o t  h a v e  b o t h. *  A n d  I  k n e w  t h a t  I  w a n t e d  a  m i r a c l e. I
d i d  n o t  w a n t  t o  c a r r y  a n y  t h o u g h t s  o f  m a l i c e  o r  r e v e n g e. Iw a n t e d  t o  b e  f r e e  o f  m e a n n e s s  s h o w n  t o  m e,  a n d  p e r h a p s  I
c o u l d  d o  t h a t  o n l y  b y  r o o t i n g  o u t  a n y  m e a n n e s s  w i t h i n
m y s e l f. I f  t h a t  w a s  t h e  l e s s o n,  I  w a s  w i l l i n g  t o  l e a r n  i t. A n d
t h e  l o v e  I  r e c e i v e d  d u r i n g  t h a t  t i m e — f r o m  t h o s e  w h o  b o r e
w i t n e s s  t o  m y  p a i n  a n d  d i d  w h a t  t h e y  c o u l d  t o  b r i n g  m e
c o m f o r t — m a d e  t h e  c r u e l t y  o f  t h e  s i t u a t i o n  b e a r a b l e. I f  w e  a l l o w  H i m  t o,  G o d  c o m p e n s a t e s  f o r  s u c h  d i f f i c u l t
t i m e s  b y  u s i n g  t h e m  t o  t u r n  o u r  l i v e s  i n t o  s o m e t h i n g  e v e n
b e t t e r  t h a n  b e f o r e. I n  t h e  s p i r i t u a l  a s  w e l l  a s  t h e  p h y s i c a l
w o r l d,  w h e n  t h e  s k i e s  a r e  d a r k e s t  w e  g e t  o u r  b e s t  v i e w  o f
s t a r l i g h t. A s  t h e  a n c i e n t  G r e e k  p l a y w r i g h t  A e s c h y l u s  w r o t e,
“ I n  o u r  s l e e p,  p a i n  t h a t  c a n n o t  f o r g e t  f a l l s  d r o p  b y  d r o p
u p o n  t h e  h u m a n  h e a r t  a n d  i n  o u r  o w n  d e s p a i r,  a g a i n s t  o u r
w i l l,  c o m e s  w i s d o m  t h r o u g h  t h e  a w f u l  g r a c e  o f  G o d. ”

T h e  D e e p e s t  W r o n g s

D o  y o u  p r e f e r  t o  b e  r i g h t  o r  t o  b e  h a p p y? *
C l e a r l y,  p e o p l e  d o  t e r r i b l e  t h i n g s  s o m e t i m e s. B u t  i f  o u r
f o c u s  i s  a l w a y s  o n  p e o p l e ’ s  g u i l t,  t h e n  w e  w i l l  f i n d
o u r s e l v e s  l i v i n g  i n  a  d a r k  a n d  v i c i o u s  u n i v e r s e. O u r
c a p a c i t y  t o  s h i f t  o u r  f o c u s  f r o m  g u i l t  t o  i n n o c e n c e  i s  o u r
c a p a c i t y  t o  c h a n g e  o u r  w o r l d. T h i s  d o e s  n o t  m e a n  w e
s h o u l d  l o o k  a w a y  w h e n  b a d  t h i n g s  h a p p e n  o r  c e a s e  t h e
s t r u g g l e  f o r  j u s t i c e. I t  j u s t  m e a n s  t h a t  t h e r e  i s  a  p e r s o n a lh o o k  w e  d o n ’ t  h a v e  t o  s l i n g  o u r s e l v e s  o n t o — t h a t  w e  c a n
a l w a y s  b e l i e v e  i n  t h e  b a s i c  g o o d n e s s  o f  p e o p l e  e v e n  w h e n
t h e i r  b e h a v i o r  d o e s  n o t  r e f l e c t  t h e i r  g o o d n e s s. C o n t r a r y  t o  p o p u l a r  o p i n i o n,  t h i s  i s  n e i t h e r  a  n a i v e  n o r  a
w e a k  p o s i t i o n. I t  d o e s n ’ t  m e a n  t h a t  w e  h a v e  i l l u s i o n s  a b o u t
t h e  n a t u r e  o r  t h e  p o w e r  o f  e v i l. Y e


  a  g o o d  i d e a! I  d o n ’ t  k n o w  w h y  i t  d i d n ’ t
s u c c e e d! ”  B u t  t h o u g h  w e  m i g h t  h a v e  t h o u g h t  s o m e t h i n g
w a s  a  g o o d  i d e a,  t h e  m o r t a l  m i n d  h a s  a  l i m i t e d  p e r s p e c t i v e
o n  “ g o o d  i d e a s. ”  B y  w h a t  c r i t e r i a  c a n  w e  d i s c e r n  a  t r u l y
g o o d  i d e a,  g i v e n  o u r  i n a b i l i t y  t o  k n o w  w h a t  w i l l  h a p p e n  i n
t h e  f u t u r e,  w h a t  l e s s o n s  n e e d  t o  b e  l e a r n e d  b y  w h o m,  a n dh o w  o u r  a c t i o n s  f i t  i n t o  G o d ’ s  l a r g e r  p l a n? A  b l e s s e d  i d e a
d o e s  n o t  c o m e  f r o m  t h e  m o r t a l  m i n d,  w h i c h  h a s  n o  i d e a
h o w  o u r  t a l e n t s  a n d  a b i l i t i e s  w o u l d  w o r k  b e s t  w i t h i n  a
l a r g e r  u n f o l d i n g  g o o d. A n d  f r o m  a  s p i r i t u a l  p e r s p e c t i v e,
t h e r e  i s  a  l a r g e r  p l a n  o f  u n f o l d i n g  g o o d,  a  w i l l - t o - h e a l i n g
t h a t  i s  b u i l t  i n t o  t h e  w o r k i n g s  o f  t h e  u n i v e r s e. W e  w i l l  b e
t o l d  e v e r y t h i n g  w e  n e e d  t o  k n o w  a n d  s h o w n  e v e r y t h i n g  w e
n e e d  t o  s e e. T h e  W h o l e  ( H o l y )  M i n d  ( S p i r i t )  o f  G o d
i m p r e s s e s  i t s e l f  u p o n  u s  w h e n  w e  p r a y  a n d  m e d i t a t e  a n d
s e e k  t o  f o l l o w  s p i r i t u a l  p r i n c i p l e s. A s  w e  o p e n  o u r s e l v e s  t o
r e c e i v e  H i s  g u i d a n c e,  o u r  t h o u g h t s  a n d  f e e l i n g s  f a l l  i n t o
p a t t e r n s  t h a t  l e a d  a l l  t h i n g s  w i t h i n  a n d  a r o u n d  u s  t o  r e a l m s
o f  d i v i n e  r i g h t  o r d e r. M i n i s t r y  I s  N o t  J u s t  f o r  M i n i s t e r s

W h e n  I  w a s  a  y o u n g  w o m a n,  I  r e m e m b e r  b e i n g
o v e r w h e l m e d  w i t h  t h e  t h o u g h t  t h a t  I  d i d n ’ t  k n o w  w h a t  I
s h o u l d  d o  w i t h  m y  l i f e. I  h a d  n o  i n k l i n g  t h a t  t h e r e  m i g h t
a l r e a d y  b e  a  d i v i n e l y  o r d a i n e d  p l a n,  s o m e  t r a c k  I  s i m p l y
h a d  t o  r i d e  m y  t r a i n  a l o n g. I  t h o u g h t  I  w a s  r e s p o n s i b l e  f o r
t h e  t r a i n  a n d  t h e  t r a c k. N o  w o n d e r  t h e y  w e r e  b o t h  s o  p o o r l y
b u i l t  a t  t i m e s. F o l l o w i n g  G o d ’ s  w a y  i s  n o t  s o  d i f f i c u l t  a s  i t  i s  d i f f e r e n t. *
W h a t ’ s  d i f f i c u l t  i s  r e t r a i n i n g  o u r  m i n d s,  g e t t i n g  o v e r  o u rr e s i s t a n c e  t o  t h i n k i n g  i n  s u c h  a  d i f f e r e n t  w a y  t h a n  w e ’ v e
b e e n  t a u g h t. I f  i n  f a c t  o u r  o n l y  f u n c t i o n  i s  l o v e  a n d
f o r g i v e n e s s,  t h e n  t h e  e n t i r e  w o r l d  a s  w e  k n o w  i t  i s  w r o n g. A n d  i t  i s. T h e  t h i n k i n g  o f  t h e  w o r l d  i s  1 8 0  d e g r e e s  a w a y
f r o m  t h e  t h i n k i n g  o f  G o d. *
I t  t a k e s  a  c e r t a i n  h u m i l i t y  t o  p r e s e n t  o u r s e l v e s  t r u l y
e m p t y  a n d  a v a i l a b l e  t o  G o d. B u t  w h e n  w e  d o,  w e  b e c o m e
f i l l e d  w i t h  i n f o r m a t i o n  w e  d o n ’ t  o t h e r w i s e  p o s s e s s. L i k e
w h a t  t o  d o  w i t h  o u r  l i v e s — w h i c h  i s  s i g n i f i c a n t  i n f o r m a t i o n
t o  b e  l a c k i n g. W e ’ r e  a l w a y s  w o n d e r i n g  w h e t h e r  w e