 the necessity that the human body be properly built,7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 246/250especially that of the mother-to-be. She shows clearly that the shape of the pelvis is determined by
the method of life and the nutrition. In all primitive tribes living an outdoor life childbirth is easy and
labor is of short duration. She shows that this is associated with a round pelvis and that the
distortion of the pelvis to a flattened or kidney shape, even to a small degree, greatly reduces the
capacity and therefore the ease with which the infant head may pass through the birth canal. In Dr.
Vaughan's wide experience she has observed two ways by which a rough estimate of the pelvic
shape and capacity may be anticipated: first, by the gait of the individual, because the angle of the
hips is determined by the shape of the pelvis; and second, by the teeth and jaws. She has
recognized an association between facial and dental arch deformities and deformed pelvis.
    During my investigations in eastern Australia I was informed that the birth rate among the whites
had declined over a large area and to such an extent that many families had no children and many
women could produce only one child. The diets used in that district were very largely refined
white-flour products, sugar, polished rice, vegetable fats, canned goods and a limited amount of
meat. The alarm regarding the declining birth rate in Australia has recently been a matter of
discussion by the New South Wales legislature as indicated by an Associated Press dispatch from
Sydney, Australia, dated August 1, 1938: "A'stork derby' with sweepstakes prizes was proposed
in the New South Wales Legislature today to boost Australia's falling birth rate."
  A report just received from the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture,
Washington, presents figures for the average amount of the various foods used in different income
groups in different parts of the United States. These showed that in general about one-third of the
income up to $2500 was spent for food per family; further, that the total flour equivalent ranged
from 0.39 to 0.50 pound per capita per day. These quantities will furnish about 829 to 1063
calories per day, per capita. It will be seen at once that this provides a large number of the calories
required for growing children and sedentary adults per day. With this number of calories derived
from refined flour products there is no adequate provision for a normal amount of such body-
building materials as minerals and vitamins. These have been removed, largely, in the milling
process, and are largely denied to our modern civilization insofar as the cereal foods are
concerned. This includes vitamin E, so essential for the functioning of the pituitary gland, the master
governor of the body.
    One of the most important lessons we may learn from the primitive cultures is the detail of their
procedures for preventing dental caries. Since I have devoted an entire chapter (Chapter 16) to
this I will make only a brief comment here. Simply stated, the practical application of the primitive
wisdom for accomplishing this would involve returning to the use of natural foods which provide
the entire assortment of bodybuilding and repairing food factors. This means the recognition of the
fact that all forms of animal life are the product of the food environments that have produced them.
Therefore, we cannot distort and rob the foods without serious injury. Nature has put these foods
up in packages containing the combinations of minerals and other factors that are essential for
nourishing the various organs. Some of the simpler animal forms are able to synthesize in their
bodies some of the food elements which we humans also require, but cannot create ourselves. Our
modern process of robbing the natural foods for convenience or gain completely thwarts Nature's
inviolable program. I have shown how the robbing of the wheat in the making of white flour
reduced the minerals and other chemicals in the grains, so as to make them sources of energy
without normal body-building and repairing qualities. Our appetites have been distorted so that
hunger appeals only for energy with no conscious need for body-building and repairing chemicals.
    A first requisite for the control of tooth decay is to have provided an adequate intake of the
body-building and repairing factors by the time the hunger appeal for energy has been satisfied. A
sufficient variety of foods must be used to supply the body's demand for those elements which it
needs in large quantities, that is, calcium and phosphorus, and the other elements which it needs in
smaller quantities, though just as imperatively. One of the serious human deficiencies is the inability
to synthesize certain of the activators which include the known vitamins. This makes necessary the
reinforcement of the nutrition with definite amounts of special foods to supply these organic
catalysts, especially the fat-soluble activators, including the known vitamins, which are particularly7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 247/250difficult to provide in adequate quantities. I have shown that the primitive races studied were
dependent upon one of three sources for some of these fat-soluble factors, namely, sea foods,
organs of animals or dairy products. These are all of animal origin. I have indicated in Chapter 16
the nutritional programs that have proved in clinical testing adequate for providing the body with
nutrition that will not only prevent tooth decay, but check it when it is active. The stress periods of
life, namely, active growth in children and motherhood, do not constitute overloads among most of
the primitive races because the factor of safety provided by them in the selection of foods is
sufficiently high to protect them against all stresses. I have indicated the type of nutrition that is
especially needed for these stress periods in our modern civilization. Also, that it is not necessary
to adopt the foods of any particular racial stock, but only to make our nutrition adequate in all its
nutritive factors to the primitive nutritions. Tooth decay is not only unnecessary, but an indication of
our divergence from Nature's fundamental laws of life and health. (See Chapter 16 for primitive
menus.) The responsibility of our modern processed foods of commerce as contributing factors in
the cause of tooth decay is strikingly demonstrated by the rapid development of tooth decay
among the growing children on the Pacific Islands during the time trader ships made calls for dried
copra when its price was high for several months. This was paid for in 90 per cent white flour and
refined sugar and not over 10 per cent in cloth and clothing. When the price of copra reduced
from $400 a ton to $4 a ton, the trader ships stopped calling and tooth decay stopped when the
people went back to their native diet. I saw many such individuals with teeth with open cavities in
which the tooth decay had ceased to be active.
    In undertaking to make practical application of primitive wisdom to our modern problems, the
field is so broad that only a limited number of items may be included. It is important to emphasize
the difference between the procedures used in the preparation of boys and girls for life in many of
the primitive groups, and in our modern social organization. Few people will realize the remarkable
training given the primitive children, with the fathers and mothers as tutors. To illustrate, among the
Indians of the far North in Canada near the Arctic Circle, the girls rather than the boys select a
companion for life. This is done with the help of her parents. Before a boy is considered worthy of
consideration he must demonstrate that he can build the winter cabin, provide the firewood for
maintaining the home of the parents, and all of the provisions of wild game, during the trial period
of several weeks. After an adequate demonstration of bravery as well as of skill, in which the boy
must kill a grizzly bear, he is accepted into the home for a period of trial marriage. The girl has the
privilege of making her choice by trial, but when the choice is made there is complete faithfulness
on the part of both. Girls are prepared for life's duties by being taught to make clothing, prepare
food, care for children and assist in the maintenance of the home. I have seldom, if ever, seen such
happy people as these forest Indians of the far North.
    In Chapter 10, in discussing the Australian Aborigines, I have similarly described the
preparation of boys for the responsibility of manhood. No modern college graduate has to win his
spurs under more exacting examinations and tests than do those boys.
    In Africa several specialties call for special training. The medicine men spend several years
under the training of a tutor. Each boy must provide a specified number of cattle per year which
are eaten by the group.
    Probably the most indelible impression that is left by my investigations among primitive races, is
that which came from examining 1,276 skulls of the people who had been buried hundreds of
years ago along the Pacific Coast of Peru and in the high Andean Plateau, without finding a single
skull with the typical marked narrowing of the face and dental arches, that afflicts a considerable
proportion not only of the residents in modernized districts in Peru, but in most of the United States
and many communities of Europe today. I know of no problem so important to our modern
civilization as the finding of the reason for this, and the elimination of the cause of error. Perhaps
few will recognize the significance of this important point. This may be the reason why the


 floats freely in the body, or, forms into encapsulated cysts. She
and Ken looked-up Ascites on the Internet and were horrified to find that there was
almost nothing on the subject. They then designed a website about Ascites and their
experiences, www.asciteshelp.com. It is one of the most outstanding sites on the net
and Cindy and Ken's trials and tribulations give hope to thousands.
Although it is against the law for me to disagree with her doctor, I  do not think
Cindy had Ascites. As the medical community has been beguiled, this is the way I  see
this potentially terminal condition: It has been my experience (as in Cindy's case) that
these multiple fluid cysts are a result of taking my enzymes, and that the body's self
defense forms pockets of very toxic metabolic wastes. If these toxic wastes were not
captured in cysts they are usually fatal.
This was also the case with Dr. Pamela and the after effects of Chelation Therapy
that removed toxic metals from her body. In Dr. Pamela's case, a fluid cyst twice the
size of the kidney was formed to hold these toxic substances until they could be
safely removed from the body. Of course, the ignorant physician wanted to remove
the kidney. These fluid cysts are life saving back-up systems Yahweh, God Almighty,
has built into this most perfect instrument of all creation.
Cindy is a "Gate Rattler".  Even when she was in extensive pain, her desire was to
live and not rattle the front gates of heaven. Whenever she was pushed to her limit,
she would have visions of St. Peter, looking in his book telling her that she had not
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been invited to visit heaven so soon.
In fall of 2003, about every ten days to two weeks while experiencing extensive
pain from Ascites fluid buildup, Cindy had many opportunities to rattle St. Peter's
pearly gates. He would go to the throne room and say to Yahweh, God Almighty,
"This cute little ol' Florida heifer might be coming to visit us!" God would say, "Send
her back - she has much more work to do."
This affair with St. Peter went back and forth over 40 times whenever Cindy had fluid
buildup. St. Peter was tired of hiking to the throne room so he would shout over to
God. "God, that cute little ol' heifer from Florida might try to visit us again." God
would shout back, "Tell her, not yet, go home and get to work!"
Cindy would have made it inside the pearly gates if it had not been for her
radiologist and doctor. Every time she would come in to see them when these fluid
cysts filled up, the radiologist would get out his big long needle and drain another
cyst. This procedure is called Paracentesis.
On September 1, 2003, the Oncologist report stated that the tests performed on the
Ascites fluid showed that the cancer cells were well differentiated, a very positive sign
considering cancer cells are very aggressive, and are typically fragmented and poorly
differentiated. Cindy was getting better!
Although in my opinion, Cindy did not have Ascites, it is no wonder the medical
profession called these fluid cysts Ascites. They filled-up to the point of causing near
death, then she would rattle Peter's pearly gates and have her little affair with him.
What I  am trying to say is, Yahweh, God Almighty, has a lot of back-up systems built
into his created masterpiece.
World War III
We have been plunged into World War III by our Common Enemy. The major
dilemma we are encountering is that you and I, do not recognize that we are in the
middle of World War III, let alone who is our enemy. No metabolic program will
keep you well and healthy when you are subject to being attack by biological warfare
agents via Chem-trails, vaccinations, drugs, contaminated food and "treated" water.
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The Panc reatic  Study
The Medical Establishment has for many years
endeavored to discredit Dr. Kelley's most successful
Cancer Paradigm developed in 1963.
A Review of Dr. Kelley's
Pancreatic Cancer Patients
The Medical Establishment has for many years endeavored to discredit Dr. Kelley's
most successful Cancer Paradigm developed in 1963.
A medical journalist obtained authorization under the guidance and direction of
Dr. Robert A Good, Ph.D., M.D. president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center in New York City to review Dr. Kelley's records. The objective of the Medical
Establishment was to prove beyond a shadow of doubt, that Dr. Kelley was an
unorthodox quack. Dr. Kelley's objective was to prove beyond a shadow of doubt
that the Kelley Paradigm is the only scientific basis for the Cure of Cancer. Dr. Kelley
had some 33,000 well-documented medical records of his Cancer Patients. The
documentation was so overwhelming this Study continued for over 5 years.
Legally the definition for a Cancer Cure is, a patient must be free of Cancer five
years after initial diagnosis. The study was approached from two general parameters.
First parameter was for all types of Cancer. The results indicated a 93% Cure Rate,
after their physicians dismissed the patients, stating no further orthodox medical
therapy could be helpful for them. In other words, their disease processes had
exceeded the therapeutic limits of Orthodox Medicine and they could no longer be
helped. Thus the standard Orthodox Death Sentence - go home and die!
Dr. Kelley often states, "it is possible to Cure only 97% of Cancer Patients as in 3%
of those diagnosed with cancer, the Patient has a death wish, or more frequently the
next of kin (wife, husband, parents, children) have a Death Wish for the Cancer
Patient." The conditions for success of the 97% of those Cancer Patients are two in
nature. One, the patient must have at least 6 months of time to get well into the
Kelley Program and two, one must follow the protocol exactly and faithfully. After
the first six months, there is an excellent prognosis for recovery. The Cancer patient's
road to success is difficult and usually takes an additional 18 months of intense
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therapy, which can only be accomplished by the Patient. When recovery has been
gained, one must keep in mind that for the remainder of one's life Diet and
Pancreatic support is mandatory for a Cancer free life.
The Pancreatic Study
Introduction
The Second parameter of the review dramatically supports the above paragraph. In
the Second parameter of the study, there was a 100% cure rate for Pancreatic Cancer
Patients who carefully, faithfully and completely followed Dr. Kelley's Metabolic
Protocol.
The Orthodox Medical Cure Rate for Pancreatic Cancer is 0%. Although the
following study includes only a very few Pancreatic cases for various reasons and
whims of the reporting journalist, it is the most significant and successful Pancreatic
Cancer Study in the world to date. This study alone proves Dr. Kelley's objective, the
Kelley Metabolic Cancer Paradigm is the only scientific basis and protocol for a
Cancer Cure.
The Study
Twenty-two (22) patients were selected for the study. Seventeen (17) of these
patients had died. Five (5) patients were cured
Compliance
Compliance, that is how rigorously each patient followed his or her Metabolic
Program was determined from several sources. Interviews with patients, family
members, physicians, supplement purchases and Dr. Kelley's notes.
Ten (10) of the twenty-two (22) patients had consulted Dr. Kelley only once, and
had never followed the Metabolic Program, not even for a single day. All patients
died.
Another seven (7) patients pursued their Metabolic Program only partially and
sporadically, for periods of time ranging from four weeks to thirteen (13) months. All
these patients, too, were dead. None of these patients had used the Kelley Metabolic
Program at all during the three months prior to their death.
Patients failed to follow the Metabolic Program, or followed it incompletely, for a
number of reasons. One patient, who died the day after visiting Dr. Kelley, was too
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sick to begin. Another patient, whose disease had already bankrupted him, could not
afford the supplements. Several patients gave up on the regime because their
physicians strongly opposed Dr. Kelley's approach. In addition, several found the
lifestyle changes, the diet and detoxification too unappealing.
The reasons for non-compliance can be summarized as follows:
Reason for Non-Compliance # Patients
Too sick 1
Couldn't afford 1
Too much trouble or physician opposition 10
Reason unknown 5
Five (5) of the twenty-two (22) patients followed the full Metabolic regimen as
prescribed, and for periods ranging from two to ten (10) years. Each enjoyed a
complete regression of disease, and four (4) were still alive when this report was
published (1987). One (1) patent died after eleven and one half (11.5) years, of
Alzheimer's Disease, of course Cancer Free.
Grouping of Pancreatic Cancer Cases
Group I
Patients who never used the Metabolic Program
Median survival time: 67.0 days
Mean survival time 62.7 days
Group II
Patients who used the


 along with
a negative emotion and a destructive process occur
ring in consciousness. The negative views of God cor
relate with lower levels of consciousness (below cali
bration level 200).
Health can be viewed as the expression of unop
posed aliveness resulting from the removal of its obsta110 HEALING AND RECOVERY
cles, including all that is negative. Health results from
transcending limitations and feelings of separation.
Since we have the power of refusal, we can refuse
things in our life that are negative.
If our mind can become programmed in a nega
tive direction, we can choose to program it in a posi
tive direction as well. Health is an expression of self
esteem. Just how does one learn to love one's real
self? How is the body experienced, and how is one's
relationship to that body? There is a sublime state
called 'nonexperiencing the body'in which the body
is barely experienced as even existing. It is something
one catches out of the corner of the eye and not cen
tral to experiencing at all. It means letting go of iden
tifying oneself as physicality.
At the bottom ofthe Map of Consciousness, there is
identification of ourself as being the body, but as we
move up higher in consciousness, this lessens and
lessens until identification with the body is transcended,
and we move to the realization of the Self as spirit.
It is necessary to look at the relationship between
mind and body because of its great importance in the
field of health and something that really is not clearly
understood. A basic principle that is demonstrated
clinically is that we are subject only to what we hold
in mind.This is a principle ofhealing and health, with
two sides to the coin-one side being illness and the
other being health.They are the opposite sides of the
coin of the same understanding that heals and brings
about health-that we are subject to what we hold in
mind.
A good clinical example is that of multiple personHEALTH 111
alities; another example is hypnosis. Under hypnosis, a
suggestion can be given to a patient that they are aller
gic to the roses on the desk, and that when they get up,
they will get hives, a rash, and start sneezing. Then
amnesia is created for the suggestion. When the person
wakes up from the trance, all of a sudden, they start to
wheeze, get hives, and develop a rash. The body is
responding to what the mind believes. With hypnosis,
the symptoms can be induced, along with most any ill
ness, by convincing the patient that the program is
true; and then amnesia can be created for memory of
the programming process. This' illustrates how an ill
ness comes out of a program or belief system, which,
in ordinary life, is often unconscious.
In the laboratory, this occurs as a psychological
experiment. It is important to remember, however, that
in everyday life, people have been programmed (hyp
notized) thousands of times. This occurs when sitting
in a trance in front ofa television. There is no conscious
memory of the process; the program went in, and the
person is now subject to it for the rest of their life.
Because ofchildhood amnesia, many people cannot
remember what happened to them before the age of
five years, and some people have very little or even no
memory of anything from their entire childhood. Even
in people with good memories of childhood, there are
vast areas of vacant forgottenness. In those areas are
the many programs that are now expressing in various
forms ofill health, such as catch phrases like "Heart dis
ease runs in our family."
"Being overweight runs in the family;'"Allergies run
inourfamily;or"Everybody inourfamily has hayfever." 112 HEALING AND RECOVERY
These thoughts become a program that goes into the
mind, and we can see that it is the same as though the
person were hypnotized. Until that program is brought
to the conscious mind and cancelled, it remains opera
tive within the unconscious mind (e.g., a chill or a draft
causes colds).
Another example of the power of mind over body
is in the cases of so-called multiple personality. These
have been gaining increasing attention within the
field of psychiatry and are found to be far more com
mon than was previously believed. The consciousness
of one personality is adopted by the patient and oper
ative within that body for varying periods of time; it
could be minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even years.
While that second personality is operative, the patient
is subject to all the belief systems held by that person
ality. If that personality happens to believe it has an
ulcer, a weight problem, allergies, diverticulitis, colitis,
back trouble-whatever it believes-while it is operative
in the body, those physical abnormalities are actually
brought into existence.
The reverse side of this occurs when that personal
ity leaves, which sometimes comes about through
intoxication or shifts in emotionality or life circum
stances, and then the other personality enters the body.
Because the other personality has no such beliefs, the
body promptly heals itself of all those illnesses.
Why does the mind have such power over the
body? We will consider the physics involved, which
will make it easily understood. The energy of the
physical body calibrates at about 200, as does the
earth itself. The energy field of the mind is stronger HEALTH 113
and often calibrates up to 499. The 400s are in the
energy field of the intellect, reason, logic, mind, and
what the mind believes. Therefore, ifa thought is held
in mind that says strawberry seeds, caraway seeds, or
any kinds of seeds give me diverticulitis, then the
power ofthat thought coming out of the energy fields
of perhaps 300 to 400 overpowers the body at the
energy field of 200. The body is overpowered by the
influence of the pattern of the belief.
All thought has form, so the form in the personal or
collective unconscious, or in the collective or social
consciousness, is present in great detail. Ifwe buy into
a thought or go into agreement with it, the effect is to
bring it into our own consciousness, which then
expresses itselfwithin the body.The body will do what
the mind believes. The healing of the body and the
achievement of health are accomplished not just by
addressing the body directly, but also by addressing the
.mind and moving into the field of consciousness. Ifthe
body is expressing that which is held in consciousness,
then it is necessary to look at what that is.
Often we are not aware of what is being held in
consciousness, in which case it would be called 'being
unconscious'. There may be no recall of ever having
had·such a thought, but the body expresses what must
be. It is like an x-ray telling us what is being held in
mind since it is presenting itself in the body. For exam
ple, a person develops clinical diabetes and says, "I
don't remember anything ever being said about that in
my family. No one in my family has diabetes. I don't see
where it could have arisen in my mind."We know that
somewhere in the collective unconscious is the belief 114 HEALING AND RECOVERY
of diabetes and all that goes with it. Ifwe do individual
research with the patient long enough, we will
uncover the origin of the program, which confirms
that the program exists. Ifthe person thinks they are
subject to an illness, then the belief system also has to
be healed. It is necessary to heal where the origin of
the illness began.
Health is the result of positive mental attitudes. It
originates in the field of consciousness and reflects a
level of consciousness that expresses itself on the
lower physical plane. An expression of health origi
nates from the fields above Neutral-out of
Willingness, and out of lovingness, inner joyfulness,
and an inner state of peace.That which is mental cal
ibrates in the 400s, and that which is of Love is at 500
and above. Spirit dominates at level 500 and becomes
increasingly consciously aware that it is Spirit.
Therefore, the intellect is not man's highest faculty,
contrary to the age of reason as expressed in other
learned works or by those intellectuals who believe
that the intellect is man's highest attribute. The intel
lect is only in the 400s.There is the nonlinear energy
field called consciousness, which is beyond mind,
logic, and reason and transcends mentalization, reveal
ing a whole different paradigm and way of being.
If we understand illness, then we will also under
stand its reverse, which is health. In illness, there is
always unconscious guilt (calibrates as true), a state
ment reaffirmed by research. There are whole·systems
of how to let go of unconscious guilt through the
process of the willingness to forgive, to let go of criti
cism and judgment, to let go of right and wrong as an HEALTH 115


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www.thegersonway.comPLEASE NOTE : Many spices are high in aromatic acids, which are irritants and are likely to
counteract the healing reaction. This is why only the following mild spices are permitted, to be
used in very small doses:
Allspice, anise, bay leaves, coriander, dill, fennel, mace, marjoram, rosemary, sage, saffron,
tarragon, thyme, sorrel, summer savory. In addition, chives, onion, garlic and parsley may be
used in larger amounts.
Two herb teas, chamomile and peppermint, are frequently used by Gerson patients. For details
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All About Enemas
To the uninitiated the coffee enema is the most surprising and apparently bizarre element of
the Gerson Therapy. Critics like to attack and ridicule it, without bothering to find out its purpose
and function. Yet without this simple tool of detoxification the Gerson method wouldn’t work.
Before going into details, let us make clear why this is so.
The moment a patient is put on the full therapy, the combined effect of the food, the juices
and the medication causes the immune system to attack and kill tumor tissue, besides working
to flush out accumulated toxins from the body tissues. This great clearing out carries the risk of
overburdening and poisoning the liver, the all-important organ of detoxification, which in a cancer
patient is bound to be already damaged and debilitated. It was this recognition that prompted Dr.
Gerson some 70 years ago to incorporate the coffee enema in the program, for he realized that
without this additional means of detoxification the liver was in danger of becoming comatose,
which could severely damage or even kill the patient. How the coffee enema prevents this will be
explained fully in this chapter.
Generally speaking, any kind of enema introduces a substance into the rectum in order to
empty the bowel, or to administer nutrients or drugs. It is a medical procedure of great antiquity:
Hippocrates, the Greek “father of modern medicine” prescribed water enemas for several
conditions some 2600 years ago. In India, enemas were recommended for inner cleansing by
Patanjali, author of the first written work on yoga, in around 200 B.C. According to tradition, the
ibis, a sacred bird of Ancient Egypt associated with wisdom, used to administer itself an enema
with its long curved beak. Closer to our own time, a lady in the court of King Louis XIV of France
is reported to have taken an enema under her voluminous skirts, and “Le Malade Imaginaire,”
i.e., The Hypochondriac, in Moliere’s play of the same title, enjoyed an enema on stage.  It is
only in recent times, and mainly in English-speaking countries, that this simple and safe cleansing
method had fallen into disuse.
The use of coffee  as enema material began in Germany towards the end of World War I.
(1914-1918).The country was blockaded by the Allies, many essential goods—among them
morphine—were not available, yet trainloads of wounded soldiers kept arriving at field hospitals,
needing surgery. The surgeons had barely enough morphine to dull the pain of the operations, but
none to help patients endure the post-surgical pain; all they could do was to order water enemas
to be used.
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www.thegersonway.compatients’ pain, began to pour some of the leftover coffee into the enema buckets, figuring that since
it helped the surgeons (who drank it), the soldiers (who didn’t) would also benefit from it. And
indeed the soldiers reported pain relief. This accidental discovery came to the attention of two
medical researchers, Professors Meyer and Huebner, at the University of Goettingen in Germany,
who went on to test the effects of rectally infused caffeine on rats. They found that the caffeine,
travelling via the hemorrhoidal vein and the portal system to the liver, opened up the bile ducts,
allowing the liver to release accumulated toxins. This observation was confirmed seventy years
later, in 1990 by Dr. Peter Lechner, oncologist surgeon at the District Hospital of Graz, Austria,
after running a six-year controlled test on cancer patients following a slightly modified version of
the Gerson Therapy. In his report1 he quotes independent laboratory results, identifying the two
components of coffee that play the major role in detoxifying the liver. (see Chapter 8, pg. 75 )
Dr. Gerson became aware of the benefits of enemas early on in developing his treatment, and
they have remained a cornerstone of his therapy to this day. It is important to realize that while
the patient is holding the coffee enema in his or her colon for the suggested 12-15 minutes, the
body’s entire blood supply passes through the liver every three minutes, i.e., 4-5 times in all,
carrying poisons picked up from the tissues. These are then released through the bile ducts, due
to the stimulation of the caffeine. However, in order to leave the body, these toxins still have to
travel through the small intestine (25-27 feet), through the colon (4-5 feet), and out via the rectum
and the anus. Naturally on this long trip a small amount of the released toxins is re-absorbed into
the system and can cause the patient discomfort, especially in the early phase of the therapy, when
detoxification had only just started. This is the reason why, in the beginning, five or even more
enemas are taken daily, to keep up the elimination process, and why the more rapid Castor Oil
Treatment (see below) is also part of the program, for the average patient.
Important warning : although high colonics have become fashionable among some
celebrities, they must not be used by Gerson patients. Already Dr. Gerson had stated this very
clearly, and we can only reiterate his conclusion. These are the reasons behind the ban:
In high colonics up to 5 quarts of water is forced into the whole length of the large intestine,
under pressure that can easily distend it. When the water is released, it washes out the fluids,
enzymes, minerals and other nutrients from the colon, together with the friendly bacteria which
are vital for good digestion. This can increase the risk of a mineral imbalance.
On the other hand, high colonics don’t serve the all-important reason for the use of coffee
enemas, namely the opening of the bile ducts, which helps the liver to release toxins and
cleanse itself. On no account should anyone make the mistake of thinking that high colonics are
interchangeable with coffee enemas.
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www.thegersonway.comBasics, and How to Use Them
The basic components of the coffee enema are these:
1) Organic, medium or light roast drip ground coffee,
2) Filtered, or if from a fluoridated source, distilled water,
3) Enema equipment.
The equipment must be carefully chosen, as not all products on the market are suitable. The
earliest type, the combination syringe, is a rubber hot water bottle, complete with appropriate
tubing and rectal or vaginal tip. This works well for occasional use or travel, but it is difficult to
clean. Other rubber bags, not “combination syringes,” have a much wider opening, which makes
them easier to clean. However, they don’t stand up well to constant use.
 Most popular among Gerson patients is the plastic bucket, which has an easy to read register
of ounces, viz. of a quart. This shows how much of the coffee the patient has introduced into
the rectum. The bucket is easy to clean and has only one drawback: if dropped or cleaned too
vigorously, it can break and must be replaced.
 That risk is avoided by choosing a stainless steel bucket, now available at the relatively
cheap price of about $30, including the needed attachments. It is unbreakable, easy to clean, even
with very hot water, which shouldn’t be used with the plastic bucket. The rubber tubing needs to
be replaced occasionally. The only disadvantage of this type is that, not being transparent, one
cannot check how far the


 food
program, which is to say, nothing cooked. It makes a huge difference in the
level of vitality you can achieve. One should at least consider eating 80
percent raw foods and 20 percent cooked.
Here are a few things to keep in mind as you begin this process:
1
.
I do not recommend any kind of animal products at all, due to their huge
toxicity and acidic factors. They cause disease instead of rebuilding your
body. If you are going to eat meat, you should not eat it more than three
times a week, and only at lunch. This will allow the bulk of the digestive
process, which is acidic, to take place. Some believe that the body
doesn’t produce hydrochloric acid after 2:00
P.M.
 I personally have
never seen any scientific evidence to support this theory. However, light
alkaline meals in the evening will give you more energy, better sleeping,
and better healing potential.
2
.
Never eat meat with a starch. If you enjoy that heavy feeling, I suggest
you replace meat with a baked potato. You can use real butter, or natural
oils like olive oil, but no salts, sour cream or cheese. A baked sweet
potato would be preferable to an ordinary potato.
3
.
If you just want something hot, I would suggest a cup or bowl of
homemade vegetable soup (no tomatoes), steamed vegetables, or stir-fry
vegetables, along with a salad. (See our recipe section at the end of this
chapter for various soups you can make.)
4
.
Demand organic, vine-ripened foods that are chemical-free and
irradiation-free. We cannot allow the destruction of our foods or we will
all die. In a world where cancer is soon to be in every other person, it is
time for every individual to stand up and take charge of their own health.No one else will.
5
.
The focus for the first two or three months of detoxing should be on
low-protein, or “no-protein” type foods. This includes avoiding meat,
beans and nuts. Nuts, of course, are your best source of amino acids, and
would be my choice if you felt that you needed this type of food.
ONE DAY AT A TIME FOR FIVE DAYS

Take each day as it comes. Try to eat all raw fruits and vegetables that day.
The next day, try again. Keep trying each day until you have eaten all raw,
uncooked fruits and vegetables for five days straight. Feel the difference
between all raw and just some cooked foods. The difference is like night and
day.
Some days you may only want to eat fruits, which is great. Fruits have
the greatest cleansing power of all foods. Their high energetics makes them
an unmatched nerve and brain food.
Another method I’ve found to be successful is to eat all raw foods from
Monday through Friday. Then on Saturday and/or Sunday, if you must, have
your cooked vegetables with rice, etc. Get a cycle going for yourself. Your
body loves cycles. It loves habit. It actually depends and functions better on
routine.
As time goes on you may want to incorporate some fasting into your
program. This will accelerate the detoxification process. Give fasting your
best shot. The longer you last, the healthier you will get. Recondition yourself
by retraining your eating habits.
I designed this menu in our “Getting Healthy” program to be easy and yet
effective. Enjoy the clean feeling and the sense of vitality that raw foods
offer. You will never regret this journey into vibrancy, longevity and
spirituality.
HOW MUCH FOOD AND HOW OFTEN?

There has always been the question of: “How much and how often should a
person eat?” It is my personal opinion that we should eat only one-to-three
different foods at a time, and eat as often as we like, but only when we arehungry. Our society recognizes eating only three times a day: breakfast, lunch
and dinner. Because of this, we tend to overeat and combine many different
types of foods at the same meal. This only serves to overwork the GI tract
and digestive organs, causing mal-digestion and malabsorption of our
nutrients. Thus, people in our culture “five” mostly on fermentation and
putrefaction by-products.
Lack of Funds? Make Food Your Medicine
Lack of funds is a common problem that most of us have experienced. My
answer to this is simple: “You must always eat.” But
what
 you eat has
everything to do with your health. Instead of buying meats, which can be
expensive, spend that money on fruits and vegetables. Your goals and
priorities should always include your health.
Disease can be extremely expensive compared to getting healthy. A good
example of this was a young man who came to me with stomach cancer. He
had just been diagnosed at a cancer center in Tampa, Florida. The oncologists
there told him that they needed to remove two-thirds of his stomach. He also
needed some chemotherapy, and I believe radiation therapy as well. The cost
would be somewhere around $100,000 for all of this, after which he had a
twenty-five percent chance to live. They charged him $5,000 just to diagnose
him and report their findings. It took me fifty-nine days to help him cure
himself of stomach cancer, at a cost of $1800.00. So if you think natural
health is costly, think again.
Instead of buying items of desire, buy only out of necessity. Use any
funds you have left for good quality herbs or herbal formulas that will help
you achieve your health goals. Disease can leave you penniless; health will
leave you rich.

MODULE 7.5
The Detox Vitality Menu

This menu is set up for a four-week transition from heavy toxic food to pure,
more alkaline food, leading to detoxification and regeneration of your
system. While this menu is designed for beginners in this process and for“social eaters,” meaning those who eat out a lot, it is not necessary to use the
cooked vegetable and grain alternatives that are offered. Instead, for those
who want to engage this process more dynamically right from the beginning,
or those who are under the care of a health professional for particular medical
conditions, including cancer, MS, Parkinson’s, spinal cord injuries,
Alzheimer’s, and other conditions, this menu can simply be replaced at any
time with the choice to eat only raw fruits and vegetables (See Menu for the
Bold, which follows). Remember, you have the freedom to make your life
what and how you want it. OK, now let’s have fun and eat.
TODAY’S SPECIALS

Always feel free to eat only fresh, raw fruits and/ or vegetables in place of
this menu for greater detoxification and regeneration.
Breakfast
Choose one.

1
.
Fruit
2
.
Melon
Pick any single or combination of fruits or melons that you like. Some
dried fruit or coconut may be added to the fruit meal.

Between Meal Juice
Drink an 8 oz. to 10 oz. glass of freshly juiced vegetable or fruit juice.

Lunch
Choose one.

1
.
Large Salad, with a side of:
**
Vegetables, steamed or raw Vegetable soup, no tomato Stir-fryvegetables
2
.
Fruit
3
.
Melon
Between Meal Juice
Drink an 8 oz. to 10 oz. glass of freshly juiced vegetable or fruit juice.

Dinner
Choose one.

1
.
Large Salad, with a side of:
**
Vegetables, steamed or raw Vegetable soup, no tomato Stir-fry
vegetables
2
.
Fruit
3
.
Melon
Snacks
In between meals, snacks must consist of fresh fruits, dried fruits and
fruit or vegetable juices only.

**
 Do not mix starches and proteins at the same meal. Pick one or the other.

MODULE 7.6
The Detox Menu for the Bold
 This menu is for the serious-minded individual who truly wants to achieve
dynamic health and vitality. This menu should also be followed by those with
chronic and especially degenerative conditions or injuries, like cancer,
diabetes, MS, Parkinson’s, spinal cord injuries, or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Try to acquire organic foods if possible. If not, wash, wash, wash your
produce! Place two capfuls of hydrogen peroxide and the juice of two fresh
lemons in about a sinkful of water. You could also add a pinch of salt. Let
your fruits or vegetables soak for about five minutes, then rinse. You may
scrub them if you wish with a vegetable brush.
Be happy when you eat, and relax. Try not to drink when you eat. Keep
your eating simple and fun.
TODAY’S SPECIAL

Breakfast
Choose one.

1
.
Fruit
2
.
Melon
Pick any single or combination of fruits or melons that you like. Some
dried fruit or coconut may be added to the fruit meal.

Between Meal Juice
See
 recommended juices.

Lunch
Choose one.

1
.
Large Salad2
.
Fruit
3
.
Melon
Salad may consist of any raw vegetables.
(See
 additional salad
suggestions among recipes in
Module 7.9
.)

Between Meal Juice
See
 recommended juices.

Dinner
Choose one.

1
.


 triphylla.
They often produce too extensive a reaction.
When we warned against indiscriminate medication
with the theriac Mithridatic even when advised by an experienced physician, we had in mind the sick only. As
to those of good health, it ha s already been mentioned as
a good health rule to take the theriac every ten days.

NOTHING ABSOLUTE IN MEDICINE
The physicians have already mentioned that there is
nothing absolute in medicine and that everything depends
on specific conditions, as when they advise one to take
the theriac every ten days for the health's sake.
It is not proper for one who has a warm constitution to
take [the theriac] or to take it in the summer or in a period
of great heat or when the stomach has any trace of a bad
moisture.

EMETICS
And when it is said that to vomit once or twice a
month is good for the health, this is so provided a man
has no weakness in his chest or fullness or pain in his
head. Vomiting is of no help when it is very cold. And
every time it is allowed, it is under the conditions we
have mentioned.
We have advised employing light medications and we
mentioned some of the appe rtaining regulations. If one cannot find a very experienced physician, he may turn to
any physician he can find, if  there is no alternative.
Sometimes even a small amount of a medication will be
injurious if the physician errs  and applies it to the wrong
place.

GALEN : WATER IS AMBIVALENT
Galen has already explained to us that sometimes he
tells a patient to drink wate r until saturation, in order to
cause perspiration, soft stools, absence of fever and
perfect health. And sometimes if one is allowed to drink
water when it is improper for him, it can cause the
patient's death or a chronic disease from which he can
never be cured. And the conditions in which the drinking
of water is allowed or prohibited have already been
explained.
And as with drinking water, [one must be careful one
understands] how careful we have  to be in drinking other
fluids. When it is time to drink and we do not know
whether to permit the drinking of water or not, one may
take the normal amount to which he is accustomed. In the
same manner if we are not certain whether to give a
patient food or prevent him from taking it, we should give
him a small amount of it. When one cannot reach a very intelligent physician,
one should follow the habits he is accustomed to when he
is well, but take only a little of  what he usually takes. One
must be careful always to pr eserve the strength of the
patient while he is taking nour ishment. It is advisable to
take light nourishment, if he is allowed to take any, such
as chicken soup, meat broth, th e yolk of a soft-boiled egg
and wine, or even a little heavier food, such as chicken
meat.
One must never forget to strengthen the physical
powers with food and the em otional powers through the
aroma of warm fragrant i ngredients, such as musk,
amber, basilicon, and lignaloes for illnesses accompanied
by a feeling of cold, and by co ld ingredients, like those
prepared from roses, nilufa r, myrtle and violets, in
illnesses accompanied by warmth.

THE ROLE OF MUSIC
And in order to strengthen the vital powers, one should
employ musical instruments a nd tell patients gay stories
which make the heart swell and narratives that will
distract the mind and cause them and their friends to
laugh. One should select as attendants and caretakers
those who can cheer up the patient. This is a must in every illness. In the absence of a physician one must
figure it out himself.
The physicians have advised every physician that if he
can manage to control the illness with diet alone, he
should not employ medicaments, and if he cannot
accomplish this without medical healing, he should
employ ordinary medical means, such as a medical
regimen and therapeutic foods. If this medical regimen
does not help, one can try light medication: if it helps, it
is good and if it does not help the patient, one may
undertake stronger and stronger measures.

COMPOUND DRUGS
If one can manage well with one individual drug, one
should not use a compound one; or one should use a
medication which is compounded of the fewest possible
ingredients. One should use medications compounded of
multiple ingredients only when  compelled to do so. All
these provisions are made when one is regulated by a
good physician and this is even  more the case when there
is no physician at all. One should be careful not to
employ strong medications or many medicinal
ingredients. It is best to be  satisfied with ordinary and mild care. This is the amount we found proper to write on
this topic.

CHAPTER III

The Care of My Lord in Particular, According to
the Condition He Complains of

It has been the consensus of medical opinion that the
foundation of health is that th e excrements should be soft
and if they are hard one should make them soft. Their
retention produces very bad fu mes that enter the heart and
the brain and cause dehydrati on and confusion of the vital
spirits. They produce bad t houghts, apprehensiveness and
exhaustion and prevent the e limination of superfluities
from digested materials. A special effort is needed to
soften the stool.

IBN ZUHR ON LAXATIVES
Ibn Zuhr, let God remember him for good, said: The
best way to soften the stool is by taking a fluid of rhubarb
and tamarind. Your insignificant servant was told of my
lord's disposition, that it is  good for him to soften his
stool with amaranth prepared in a fat chicken with saffron seeds, sugar, lemon water and mangelwurzel, that were
boiled with it, without dis carding the water. And he
should make it a habit during a meal to eat first green
leafy vegetables spiced with a sauce made of barley and
good oil. After this my lord can eat whatever he wishes.
And when he has finished his meal he should suck on
quinces, pears, an apple or a pomegranate with its seeds.
And the vegetables which my lord takes should be, first,
beets, mountain spinach, spinach  or rape-wine, whichever
he has, mixed in good olive oil and barley sauce.
But if he has to soften his stool with medication, he
should take a gram of good rhubarb and pound it, and an
ounce of the tamarind fruit, pur ified and cut as thin as
possible, and soak them overnig ht in a liter and a half of
water, boiled well and simmered. In the morning it should
be strained over three ounces of filtered syrup of roses.
After he takes this he shoul d abstain from food until the
completion of six hours from the rising of the sun.

FOR CONSTIPATION
If the stools have become very  hard it is best that he
should take cassia fistula. A nd here is the mode of its
preparation: oxtongue herb—f our drachmas; licorice,
cleaned and shelled, herba fontis, barberry seeds—three drachmas of each; althea seeds—five drachmas; moist
roses of seven petals, anethum—seven hearts. All should
be soaked in one and a half  liters of warm water a day
and a night, then it should be boiled and crushed and
strained over twenty drachmas  of cassia fistula, twenty
drachmas of almond oil and one ounce of sugar. He
should take it and wait until it completes its action and its
evacuation. He should then eat a boiled chicken. If it is
not the proper time for finding moist roses he should
place over it three ounces of st rained rose syrup. And I
know that one who reads this paragraph will wonder, and
say: It is not right to use barberry seeds, because they
have the character of preven ting the softening of stools
toward which you aim. One should know that barberry
seed has the property of prev enting the injury caused by
cassia fistula, of strengt hening the intestines and
preventing tenesmus. This is what the old practitioners
taught us. And the physicians also mention that oxymel of
roses causes softening. It is proper that my lord should
possess it also and should take it when it is very hot to
soften the stool.
Its mode of preparation: One should take a liter of very
strong vinegar and throw into it one hundred moist rose
leaves, which have been placed in the sun for one day.
Next morning one should remove the roses and place other rose leaves in the vi negar, the same number as
before. And one should not refrain from changing the
rose petals every day for fo rty days. And one should take
this vinegar and make of it a syrup, three pounds of sugar
for every three ounces of vinegar.
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 it. The heart is one of the things that we would view as most
crucial to keeping us alive. I mean, without a beating heart, who are
we?
So I was intrigued about this surgery from the moment I walked
into the room.
I vividly  remember standing in the operating room and helping
out the anesthetist, who was putting the patient “to sleep” for the
operation. And one thing that struck me in this moment  is that, in
order to put a patient “to sleep”—most people don’t know this, but we
have to paralyze their muscles. Because if we’re going to put a
breathing tube in, and their muscles are not paralyzed, they will
reject the breathing tube. That is, they won’t relax enough to let it in.
We also don’t want the patient to reject the surgery, or to “fight back”
(as their muscular reflexes will counteract what the surgeon is trying
to do), so this is another reason that temporary paralysis  is needed
before making the first incision.
We then bring the patient’ s state of consciousness all the way
down to what one might call a “drug-induced coma.” What this
means is that when the patie nt is undergoing surgery, they are not
actually in the state of “sleep,” where one might have dreams orother relatively  active patterns of brain activity. Rather, if we were to
measure the patient’ s brain activity on an EEG (an
electroencephalogram), it would show a pattern equivalent to being
completely unconscious and comatose.2
Also, when the patient “wakes up” from the surgery, assuming
that the anesthetic was administered correctly, they will have total
amnesia around it; that is, they will have no recollection  that the
surgery ever took place, save the remnant wounds of the operation.
If this all soun ds kind of like “science fiction,” don’t feel alone.
This is exactly how I felt when I was present in the room, observing,
as a young medical student. But it is real. And it is remarkable.
Getting back to this patient, he also could not breathe for
himself (since his muscles were paralyzed), so we had to “breathe”
for him using ventilation techniques. And furthermore, because this
particular surgery involved the heart, his heart was no longer beating
while we worked on it. Instead, he was attached to a
“cardiopulmonary bypass machine”—tubing that carried his blood
and circulated it around and oxygenated it, performing the functions
that the heart and lungs normally do.3
So here I was, standing in the operating room, with the patient’ s
blood being pumped in tubes that stretched around the room—no
beating heart,  no functional lungs, no active memory, his brain
activity depres sed to the level of someone who is comato se, and his
muscles paralyzed. I remember thinking to myself in that moment,
“Oh, my gosh,  if this doesn’t cause us to question Who We Are?”; if
this doesn’t cause us to take a double take on “What is life?”, then
what would?Take away our heart, our brain function, our lungs, our muscles,
and Who Are W e?
So the biggest thing I learned from these experiences in
medical school is that physicality and spirituality are not separate.
Our physical selves, clearly, to me, are nothing  without that constant
and eternal link to the spirit ual energy, and this became evidently
clear to me in those moments.

NEALE: So what you’re saying is that there is an energetic
component to life that animates all of physic ality. An Essential
Essence.
And, thinking through what I’ve just heard you say, obviously
what they’re doing in the operating room is... they’re applying
substitutes for the mechanisms of the body. And they have a
substitute for the heart, which  substitutes for the heart’ s mechanism,
a subst itute for the lungs, and so forth. But the Essential Essence
must be remaining with that body—otherwise it would be a cadaver.
Because there is no substitute for the fundamental energy of life
when that energy of life is no longer flowing to the body, and that
fundamental energy is not flowing from any machine.

DR. COOPER: That’ s a good way of looking at it!

NEALE: So how does this relate to a person who is not under
sedation, and walking around living a normal life?

DR. COOPER:  Well, to me, how I took that and applied it to my own
everyday life—obviously not under sedation—is I thought to myself:It is clear, without a doubt, that there is this spiritual energy that
animates our physical presence, which can’t be substituted for.
It is also clear  that we don’t see it as such, generally. Most of
humankind does not see this remarkable tool that we have!
Conversations with God talks about the eternal link we have to
God, and with this comes the idea that spirituality can help us in
times of challenge or hardsh ip or struggle. And yet ironic ally, when
we find ourselves in times of challenge, hardship, or strug gle, I have
observed that much of huma nkind will resort to “physical” solutions
to the problem and not even consider a spiritual point of view.
For me, when I started to see before my very own eyes that this
spiritual presence always accompanies us, it made it less of an
esoteric concept and more of a real down-to-Earth thing. I began to
embrace the idea that not only is this “spiritual presence” with me in
every moment of every day, it actually is Who I Am.
And if it is Who I Am, then it must be able to be used as a
wonderfully assistive tool in my toolbox of how to walk through my
life.

NEALE: So if this Spiritual Energy is Who We Are—if that is what
you’re telling me—then how come it automatically leaves the body if
the heart stops functioning?
What is the reason—what is the connection—when the heart
stops functioning? If there is no substitute mechanism, no machine in
an operating room keeping things going... you’re on the street hit by
a car and you can’t get to the hospital fast enough, and there is no
substitute functioning for the heart—the heart just stops beating—it’s
over. Then this “presence” you are talking about, this life force,leaves you, presumably. So the spiritual aspect of Who You Are
appears to be dependent on the physical mechanism of the body in
order to remain with the body.
And when the physical mechanism fails—that is, when the
heart stops beating—then the spiritual essence apparently has no
choice but to say: “W ell, take care of yourself, we’re out of here. Bye-
bye!” And the Spiritual Essence leaves.
So the question becomes, “What comes first, the chicken or the
egg?”
Does the spiritual essence make a decision to leave, at some
level of spiritual functioning, and is that what causes the heart to stop
beating if it doesn’t have a substitute mechanism? Or, does the heart
stop beating first, and then the spiritual mechanism says: “Well, if
you’re not going to keep beating, I’m out of here!”
And what comes first, the chicken or the egg?
And the questi on is posed in reverse, or course, at birth. In the
first moments of life. And by the way, this is a question that doctors
have been debating and society has been debating for several
thousand years: When does physical life begin?
Does life as we have defined it begin at the first beat of the
heart in utero; when the fetus  is in the mother ’s womb and it’s just an
inert mass of cells, until the first heartbeat and then suddenly, one
presumes, we say it’s alive!? Or, do we say it’s not alive until it’s
actually been given birth, until it actually exits the mother ’s body?
So the Intersection between physicality and spirituality seems
to me to be where it’s at. And we have to pose the question: where
do the physical and the spirit ual energy intersect... and in a sense
collide.I once wrote a little booklet called Heart Start, Love Start  with a
maternity ward  nurse who wanted to address the question, When
does life begin? At the moment of birth, or at the moment that the
heart starts in utero?  Or, even before then?
Medical science now says it’s when the embryo becomes
“viable.” And “viable” is unde rstood to mean that the embryo is able
to live by itself outside the womb.
But, spiritually speaking, one could, and many have, argued
that this is not true; that life does not start when the embryo
becomes viable and is able to live outside the womb. Life begins
when a body exists inside  the womb, at the moment the heart has
started beating.
“Oh, oh,” the doctor says. “Oh, oh, I hear a heartbeat!” You
know, the baby’ s heart has started beating. And somewhere
between four and six weeks of gestation, one suspects, the heart
starts beating. And I have been intrigued for fifty years by the
question: Why does the heart suddenly start beating?  Who turned
the switch? And,


 in every way, including your health. If  you were asked to choose between shooting yourself in the foot
or shooting yourself in the hand, hopefully your choice would be not to shoot yours elf at all. Choosing between the lesser of two
evils is not the point of The 80/10/10 Diet. Each situation calls for the application of intelligence. You may oft en have to make
decisions regarding the quality of your food. Knowing the ideal will serve  you extremely well: whole, fresh, ripe, raw, organic, low-
fat plants.
That said, I must emphasize that habitually eating a high-fat raw  diet is profoundly damaging to the body, and we do ourselves
no favors by rationalizing, “I know all this fat isn’t so great for me, but at least it keeps me raw.” If I found myself—on rare occasion
—with only high-fat raw or low-fat cooked plant-food options, I would make one  of two choices: Either I would forgo eating
altogether by skipping that meal, or I would indulge in the high-fat meal  and then follow it with a day or more where I eat no overt
fat whatsoever. The occasional high-fat meal (preferably about six, a nd an absolute maximum of twelve times per year)  is certainly
an allowable exception, as the goal is to keep the overall  diet as close to the 80/10/10  parameter as possible.
I do realize, however, that for various reasons some people find themselves  ongoingly  unable to eat enough fruit to make a
low-fat raw vegan diet feasible for them. For such people, I must admit tha t eating in the 80/10/10  proportion, regardless of the
food choices, wins hands down over habitually partaking of the high-fat foods popu lar at raw potlucks, restaurants, festivals,
retreats, and workshops. If high-fat raw or low-fat cooked seem your only options, choose the low-fat option, every time.
If you must eat gourmet raw for a handful of “transitional” months, go ah ead … but keep your eye on the 80/10/10rv  target, if
health is your goal. Please, keep in mind that by far the easiest transi tion to this way of eating is invariably the shortest one, as
verified by the many who have gone before you.

Why Raw Fooders Eat So Much Fat Just as in the mainstream population, many raw fooders have been taught  to fear sugar and, therefore, to fear fruit. Eating lots
of low-calorie greens and shunning fruits forces us to consume fats f or satiation and caloric sufficiency.
Whereas Americans consume between one-third and one-half of the ir calories as fat, most raw fooders consume at least 1½
times that amount. They eat a continuous stream of nuts, seeds, oils, cocon uts, olives, avocados, and other fatty fruits. Even when
the quantities eaten look small, the calories in these foods add up quickly. A s a result, many raw fooders attempt to live on a diet
where fat accounts for 50, 60, and even 70-plus percent of the mix. Here are some of  the reasons why:

Nuts and Seeds in Place of Meat and Dairy
Raw nut and seed loaves, pâtés, and cheeses are staples in every raw  gourmet kitchen and sure-fire favorites at raw food
restaurants. But nuts and seeds pack a caloric wallop that even the fat tiest meats cannot touch.

Seeds Instead of Grain
Flax seeds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, hemp seeds, and several other s have become popular as the “meal” of dehydrated
crackers. Some are more gelatinous than others, but seeds typically  are “sticky” enough to hold together when dehydrated, creating
a reasonable facsimile of a cracker.
These dehydrates look, feel, and taste pretty much like crackers. They hold di ps as well as any cracker. Of course, in contrast
to crackers made of grains that offer only a small percentage of their c alories from fat, the majority of calories in these crackers
(even when “cut” with a huge proportion of vegetables) come from f at, ranging from about 50 to 70%. But they remind us so much
of “real” crackers when we eat them that it is difficult to remembe r they are more than half fat. And what do we eat them with?
Why, a nice fatty nut and veggie spread, a seed cheese, or guacamole, of cour se.

Fat in Raw vs. Traditional Crackers
(percentage of calories)

66%: Sunflower flax crackers: (half sunflower seeds, half flaxseeds )
58%: Flax crackers (all flaxseeds)
49%: Veggie flax crackers (10 C. vegetables, 2 C. flaxseeds) †
47% Ritz  (9 Ritz = 140 calories)
38%: Nabisco Wheat Thins (15 Wheat Thins = 140 calories)
34% Triscuit (7 Triscuits = 140 calories)
22%: Nabisco Snackwell’s Wheat (10 Snackwells = 140 calories)
0%: Rice cakes (4 cakes = 140 calories)

†The “V eggie Flax” cracker listed above is an actual recipe from a r ecently published book by a popular raw food chef. In all
likelihood, at 49% fat, it is among the lowest-fat nut/seed-based cracker bei ng consumed in the raw food world today, as flaxseeds
contain the least fat (58%) among the nuts and seeds, and the recipe is loa ded with vegetables. The regular flax crackers shared at
potlucks and sold at festivals are virtually always significantly  higher in fat.
This “low-fat” cracker recipe yields approximately a hundred 3   3-inch crackers and contains a total of 1,840 calories, or
18.4 calories per cracker. Thus, about 8 of these raw crackers provide the caloric  equivalent of 9 Ritz, 15 Wheat Thins, 7 Triscuits,
10 Snackwells, or 4 rice cakes.

Nuts As Pastry Substitutes
Raw food chefs steer clear of bread, because it is a cooked food. But they still li ke to make pastries, pies, cookies, and other dishes that traditionally call for dough. Hence, they have learned to make pas try dough out of crushed nuts and even fluffy “bread flour” out
of leftover nut-milk pulp—both of which work exceptionally well, if your  goal is delicious food without regard for health.
Tastewise, raw pastries are definitely a hit. But the caloronutrie nt ratio is all wrong. As the following table shows, the fat in a
raw pie crust makes the Pillsbury Doughboy look lean.

True, raw pie crusts usually contain sweet fruits such as dates or r aisins, and many fillings also contain fresh fruit. These fruits
decrease the overall fat percentage of the recipe, but in even the best  case, not likely lower than 40% of total calories. But do not let
the percentages fool you. A raw fruit pie with a nut-based crust has a t remendous quantity  of fat, even before the filling and topping
are added. It is important to understand both calories and caloronutrient rat io in order to fully grasp the caloronutrient picture.

Coconuts for All Occasions
Creative raw food chefs have devised a wide range of culinary applicati ons for coconut meat and dried shredded coconut. Coconut
meat shows up in raw items such as icings, sauces, soups, smoothies, chee ses, and creams, whereas the shredded variety adorns
granolas, cakes, candies, cookies, pie crusts, tortes, and more.
Many raw fooders plow through a case of young coconuts weekly; some even dail y. In addition to the high fat inherent in such
a diet, imported coconuts are dipped in fungicide, thus contaminating both the  meat and the liquid.
Packaged or bulk shredded coconut, like all other products dehydrated to a crisp, is not  really a food in any sense of the
word. It is a party item at best. If you include dried coconut at all among  your list of acceptable “foods,” I urge you to use it
sparingly (maybe once or twice per year for very special occasions), and t o purchase only the unsweetened, organically grown
product. Otherwise, even the shredded coconut found in health-food stores usu ally contains sulfites to prevent browning, and often
other chemical preservatives and additives. Most commercial air-dri ed coconut is dehydrated at temperatures between 170 and 180
degrees F.

 Coconut Facts
Coconut is a versatile food with a delicious, unique taste. The fruit of th e coconut consists of a green or yellow-brown fibrous
husk inside which the coconut itself is found. The nut itself has a har d outer shell with a kernel inside.
In the young “green” coconuts, the kernel is soft and jelly-like, and th e central cavity is filled with coconut water. As the
coconut matures, the kernel becomes harder and the amount of water decrea ses. The edible parts are the water and meat or jelly.
Below are some of the many ways coconuts are used as


. Hawkins
calibrated the levels of consciousness of r epr esentative teachers, spiritual
literatur e, practices, and experiences. For practical convenience, these lists
ar e r eprinted her e fr om  T ra nscending the Levels of Consciousness, and
mor e co mpr ehensive lists can be found in  T ruth vs. Falsehood and the  Book
of Slides.
It is  important to r emember tha t the calibration numbers ar e not value
judgments. A calibration of 970  is not “better than” 610. In fac t, a teacher
or w riting at 605 (or 310, for that matter!) is likely to be mor e helpful to
mor e people than one at 970. The mind is sever ely limited by its dualistic
natur e and pr ojects its judgme nt of better/worse onto a simp le number,
ignoring the overall context, which is nonlinear. By comparison, one would
not say that the highest elevation on an altimeter is “better tha n” another
elevation. If a p lane needs to la nd, or avoid a pocket of turbulence, a wise
pilot gui des it to whatever elevation the situation r equir es. The same is true
in medicine. W ise physicians know the right medicine (and in the right
dose) to  apply to a given malady. They ar e car eful not to pr escr ibe the most
powerful tr eatment in many cases, because the patients wouldn’ t be able to
handle it. Just so, each ener gy field serves perfectly in a certain context.
Ther e is no “goo d” or “bad” en er gy field; ther e is only the needed wisdom
to discern which ener gy is best for a given situation. Dr. Hawkins told me
one time, “Many people can’ t handle love, so it’ s best to give them
something else.”
While the scale of 1 to 1,000 i s linearly pr esented in or der to  help the
mind to  grasp the existence of attractor patterns of differing  degr ees of
power, the overall terrain of the Map is nonlinear, in that everything withinit is of e qual va lue. A tr ee is not better than a bir d, nor a bir d  better than
the wind. Each makes its vital contribution to the evolution of life.
Just so, each of the teachers an d writings on the lists below make their
contribution. Th ey all calibrate at the rar e levels of 600-plus o n the Map.
These levels of consciousness ar e beyond duality and ther efor e transmit
trustworthy spir itual guidance. The fact that one scriptur e is at 600 or 700
rather t han 900 might indicate that passages wer e included in that
“canon,” which  contain anthr opomorphic depictions of God, j ustifications
of violen ce, and/or sociocultural practices inherited fr om histor ical eras. A
wise stu dent of spiritual literatur e knows, for example, that Jesus Christ’ s
Sermon on the Mount calibrates at a higher level than many oth er verses in
the N ew T estament. W e may assume that the calibration of a writing is a
composite of all its verses; some individual verses, and even chapters, may
calibrate below 200.
One importance  of the following  lists is that spiritual truth is found in all
the gr eat r eligions. This statement is in stark contrast to the claim of
fundamentalists (cal. 130 and below) that only their r eligion is the “right”
one.
Calibration Levels of Some T eachers and W ritings in the 600s
T eachers
Abhinavagupta 655
Aurobindo 605
Karmapa 630
Kasyapa 695
Lao-tzu 610
Magdebur g 640
Muktananda 655
Satchidananda 605
T owles, J. 640
V ivekananda 610W ritings
Abhinavagupta 655
A Course in Miracles (workbook) 600
Aggadah 645
Genesis (Lamsa Bible) 660
Gospel of St. Luke 699
Gospel of St. Thomas 660
Kabbalah 605
Midrash 665
New T estament (King James) 640
Psalms (Lamsa Bible) 650
T eachings of Lao-tzu 610
V ijnana Bhairava T antra 635
Calibration Levels of Some T eachers and W ritings in the 700s
T eachers
Bodhidharma 795
Charya, Adi Sankara 740
de León of Granada, Moses 720
DÐgen 740
Eckhart, Meister 705
Gandhi, Mahatma 760
Maharaj, Nisar gadatta 720
Maharshi, Ramana 720
Patanjali 715
Plotinus1 730Shankara 710
T eresa of Ávila, St. 715
T eresa, Mother 710
W ritings
The Cloud of Unknowing 705
Diamond Sutra 700
Heart Sutra 780
Koran 700
Lotus Sutra 780
New T estament (King James, minus Revelation) 790
Ramayana 810
Rig V eda 705
Y oga Sutras (Patanjali) 740
Zen teachings (Bodhidharma) 795
Calibration Levels of Some T eachers and W ritings at 850+
Bhagavad Gita 910
Lamsa Bible (minus Revelation and Old T estament,
except Genesis, Psalms, Proverbs)880
Nicene Creed 895
Upanishads 970
V edas 970
Zen teachings (Huang Po)2 850
Zohar 905SPIRITUAL PRACTICES AND EXPERIENCES
Consciousness calibration yields a list of representative spiritual practices
and experiences that are integrous and therefore beneficial. All of these
denote devotion  and are common to genuine religions. By in tention, the
devotee sanctifies both self and others, as well as places of worship.
Because of intention, all styles of blessing and prayer calibrate over 500,
and their collective ef fect can immeasurably impact the over all level of
collective human consciousness.
Calibration levels do not indicate that one level is “better” than another
but only  dif ferent, analogous to the selection of clubs when playing golf,
which d epends on whether one is going to putt, chip, or drive. Therefore,
ef ficacy is the result of intention and not just a technique in itself. Many
spiritual students have explored a variety of these app roaches and report
pragmatic and experiential bene fit. Simply reading the lists gives assurance
that one is headed in the right direction.
Practices
Aum (mantra) 210
Baptism 500
Bathing in the Ganges 540
Confirmation 500
Devotional acts 540
Devotional burning of incense 540
Genuflection 540
Golden Rule 405
Gregorian chants 595
Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) 390
Japa 515
Jesus Prayer 525
Kirtan 250
Kneeling to pray 540Last Rite 500
Lord’ s Prayer, The (traditional) 650
Om (pronounced om as in loan) 740
Om Mani Padme Hum 700
Om Namah Shivaya 630
Prayerful hand clasp 540
Prayer of Jabez 310
Prayer of St. Francis 580
Random Acts of Kindness 350
Saying the Rosary 515
“Shanti Shanti Shanti” 650
Surrender (at depth) one’ s will to God 850
Surrender the world to God 535
T urning prayer wheels 540
T welve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous 540
T ranscendental Meditation 295
V isualization (healing) 485
W ailing W all 540
W alking the Labyrinth 503
What is held in mind tends to manifest 505
Experiences
Buddha-nature 1,000
Christ Consciousness 1,000
The Supreme 1,000
Near -death experience 520+
Satori 585Enlightenment 600+
Christian Communion 700
Passover 495
Dur ga Puja festival 480
Ramadan 495
Sweat-lodge ceremony 560
Smudging 520
The see ker is advised to avoid exploring spiritual experiences that
calibrate below the critical line of integrity (200), even if merely out of
curiosity. Just because something is labelled “spiritual” does no t mean it is
trustworthy and, in fact, may be a major distraction. For example, the
“occult” calibrates at 135–18 5, divination game boards at 175, and
transmediumship at 190.
The application of spiritual principles to many human dilemmas is
widely acknow ledged as ef ficacious, even when there


 from hydrophobia in France been
diminished by the anti-rabies medication?”1
“No.”“Does this mortality tend to augment with the intensive
rabies methods?”
“Yes.”“Where then is the benefit?”
As we have seen, the benefit lies in the monetary returns to be gained
by manufacturers of vaccines. Pasteurism has become a vested interest,
and one unfortunately supported by that powerful trade union, themedical establishment.
Far be it from us to deny that Pasteur’s place in the world of science
was gained by genius – but it was a genius for business, and he wascertainly not of the order of intellectuals who are above the temptation
of money.
Although he professed reverence for religion, we find, on the
authority of Dr. Lutaud,
2 that he secured the election to the Institute of
the physiologist Paul Bert, who had been objected to as an atheist. Dr.
Lutaud claims that he did not resile, as well, from bringing about thiselection at the expense of his old friend and benefactor Davaine. To
complete matters, he also made a condition of it that Bert, a member
1. Études sur la Rage et la Méthode Pasteur, p.404.
2. ibid, p.409-10.of the Budget Commission and influential with the Government, should
obtain for him a pension of 25,000 francs.
We, who live in an age of advertisement and unceasing adulation
of celebrity, can appreciate Pasteur’s power in this direction. Ambition
was his driving power, and even before any triumph had fallen his
way, his mind was set firmly upon honour and glory.
Early in his married life, when, according to his biographers ‘success
did not come’, Mme Pasteur wrote to her father-in-law:
“Louis is rather too preoccupied with his experiments; you
know that those he is undertaking this year will give us, ifthey succeed, a Newton or Galileo.”
1
The admiring wife was unaware of her testimony to her husband’s
self-interest; there is certainly no allusion to any excitement as to the
secrets that Nature might unfold. The exaltation of the individual ismade the pivot of hope. More than this, as we study his life we find,
throughout, his cleverness in allowing others to sound his praises, while
at the same time he himself gave vent to self-depreciation; he thus,apparently, clothed himself in a humility seemingly not quite sincere;
we can take note of his indignation against those, like Béchamp, who
in asserting their just claims in any way detracted from his own honour.
On no account would we deny his power in gaining affection.
Parents, sisters, wife and children all appear to have lavished love upon
him; while he also seems to have held the devotion of those who workedfor and with him, and, on his side, to have been as good a friend to
those as he was a bitter antagonist to all who differed from him.
The claim of a tender heart has been advanced by his admirers. In
his biography we read:
“He could assist without too much effort, writes M. Roux, at a
simple operation such as a subcutaneous inoculation, andeven then, if the animal screamed at all, Pasteur wasimmediately filled with compassion, and tried to comfort andencourage the victim in such a way which would have seemedludicrous if it had not been touching.”
2
Such a comment certainly shows that M. Roux was himself too
devoid of sensibility to be a fit judge of it.
He goes on to describe the first trephining of a dog for Pasteur’s
benefit, and concludes:
1. The Life of Pasteur, René Vallery-Radot, p.78.
2. ibid, p.318.
Conclusion   347348   Béchamp or Pasteur?“Pasteur was infinitely grateful to this dog for having borne
trephining so well, thus lessening his scruples regardingfuture trephining.”
So the gradual hardening process went on until any original
compunction was blunted, leaving Pasteur unimaginatively callous
to the sufferings he caused. An example may be taken from thejournal L ’Illustration :
1
“The inoculated dogs are shut in circular cages, provided
with a solid, close network. It is one of these dogs, in theparoxysm of rabies, which Pasteur showed us, observing:‘He will die tomorrow.’
The animal looked at him, ready to bite. Pasteur having
kicked the wires of the cage, the animal dashed at him. It bitthe bars, which became red with bloody saliva. Then, withits jaws bleeding, it turned, tearing the straw of its litter,back into its kennel, which it had gnawed the preceding night.From time to time it uttered a piercing and plaintive cry.”
This teasing, worrying kick at the bars of the cage of his piteous
victim, a dog – that true friend of man, coerced to suffer torment in
the service of this ‘science’ – is a fitting commentary upon the heart ofLouis Pasteur. Tenderness may have been for him all right in its place,but it was quite out of place when it stood in the way of ambition.
Personal success dominated all other considerations, and the
attainment of this was made easy by a forcefulness and tenacity nothingshort of remarkable. Such traits are seen everywhere to be more cogent
factors of worldly success than high intellectual ability. Of the latter,
his childhood gave little evidence. His son-in-law honestly tells us:
“Those who would decorate the early years of Louis Pasteur
with wonderful legends would be disappointed: when heattended the daily classes at the Arbois College he belongedmerely to the category of good average pupils.”
2
His strongest force was his willpower, of which he wrote to his family:
“To will is a great thing, dear sisters, for action and work usually
follow, and almost always work is accompanied by success.”3
Here again, as ever, we find success the leading motive of his life.
Had he not put personal ambition before love of science, it would seem
1. May 31st, 1884.
2. The Life of Pasteur, p.7.
3. ibid, p.15.impossible for him to have opposed the fellow worker whose ideas, in
numerous instances, he unquestionably pirated. Had his forcefulness
and great business ability been harnessed to Béchamp’s idealisticintellect and all-round knowledge, incredible advances might have been
made in science, rather than years being wasted on unsatisfactory
theories at the cost of vast animal suffering and a dangerous form ofexperimentation on human beings.
Time has, indeed, brought him triumph in the form of worldly
acclamation. This is hardly surprising, for the way of popularity isthrough the wide gate, easy of entrance and undemanding. Pasteur,
although during his life reviled and exposed by a few keen-sighted
observers who saw through his pretences, was in general a popularman, and his cult of the microbe is a popular theory which the least
scientific can easily understand: riches and prosperity attend upon it,
as glory and renown attended upon him. Why should the ambitiousimitate the self-immolation of the truthseeker Béchamp, who in his
lonely apartment passed away almost unrecognised?
Truth, not self, was Béchamp’s lodestar. Like Galileo, the simplest
observation led him to his great discoveries, and, like Galileo, incessant
persecutions, clerical and scientific, pursued him with unrelenting
malignity. It was not through a lack of hatred among his opponentsthat he escaped the fate of Servetus, and his great work, Les Microzymas,
an inclusion in the Roman Index.
Never had Truth a more zealous advocate than the man who, with
Professor Estor, beheld with awestruck amazement the unfolding of
Nature’s secrets. With his extraordinary powers of labour, he amply
justified Carlyle’s definition of genius – ‘the capacity for taking infinitepains’; while, also, he absolutely exemplified the reverse side of
abnormal faculties, which may be described as the capacity for doing
with infinite ease that over which others are required to take infinitepains. From his boyhood, ordinary studies were to him the lightest of
labour, while for his incessant researches no toil was too insistent, no
sacrifice too great.
Altogether he stood on an ethical plane elevated above much of his
surroundings. He was surrounded by callous experimenters, men such
as Claude Bernard, whose own daughters felt compelled to forsakehim and undertake animal rescue work as atonement for their father’s
vivisectional atrocities.
Yet Professor Béchamp stands out in marked contrast, innocent of
cruelty, convicted only of pity. In his own multifarious experiments we
Conclusion
349350   Béchamp or Pasteur?come upon no record of brutality, and, in reference to Magendie’s work,
he does not fail to voice sympathy for ‘ la pauvre béte,’ Magendie’s
miserable victim.
The fact of Béchamp having delved so much deeper into knowledge
than his callous contemporaries may well be an instance of the
advantage of not blunting a scientific mind by familiarity with cruelty.His imagination possessed to the end the pristine


 day. This also has a mildly
laxative effect. Best grind it fresh in a coffee grinder. Alternatively use a blender, screen it through a strainer and add the coarse
residue to the blender again with the next lot.
Ground linseed may be refrigerated for a few days but is better stored in the freezer. For individuals with malabsorption problems and
for those wanting to improve their skin, linseed oil may also be rubbed into parts of the skin that are protected from the sun. In
addition, I recommend unheated extra virgin olive oil internally as well as on the skin. This is a good source of squalene, a strong
antioxidant that is also important for our energy production and a key ingredient for the healing properties of shark liver oil.
The main sulfur amino acids are L-cysteine and L-methionine; eggs are a good source of these but they can easily be produced from
other sulfur-rich food such as onion s. The best supplement form of organic sulfur is MSM. In addition to linseed oil, in her famous
cancer therapy Dr Budwig recommends quark made from raw fermented skim milk as the main source of these sulfur amino acids.
However, according to the blood group diet this may only be suitable for individuals with the blood groups B or AB.
As supplements do not use the D,L(or d,l)-forms of cysteine or methionin e, only the natural L-forms. While cysteine is very important
for detoxiﬁcation and energy production, new research shows that it may also act as a neurotransmitter in the brain and high doses
can create an imbalance in the brain of susceptible individuals. Therefore, it is generally best to obtain it or synthesize it from sulfur-
rich food. High doses of methionine, on the other hand, can cause a problem in individuals who are deﬁcient in vitamin B6. Problems
can be avoided by supplementing it together with vitamin B6.
LAXA TIVE FOODS
For the improvement or maintenance of good health it is desirable to have two or three bowel movements daily. A better lifestyle and
raw food will do much to achieve this goal, but initially it may be necessary to include some laxative foods as well.
BRAN:  A mild laxative; however, it accentuates mineral deﬁciencies. Wheat bran is not suitable for anyone who is sensitive to wheat.
I do not recommend wheat bran but you may experiment with rice bran, provided that you take trace mineral supplements with bran-
free meals.
FRESHL Y FERMENTED FOODS - These often have a strong laxative action.
ISOT ONIC FLUSH - Add 9 g of salt (approximately 1 heaped teaspoonful) to 1 liter of water or use 1 cup of seawater diluted with 3
cups of fresh water. Drink this within a few minutes on an empty stom ach, and take no food or other drink for the following 30
minutes. This is excellent for cleanin g the whole of the gastro-intestinal tract, but it should not be used if a severely restricted intake
of sodium is indicated for other conditions.
LINSEED  - Mildly laxative and soothing for irritated bowels. Preferably use ground linseed, otherwise one tablespoon of dry seeds
with water some time before meals and at bedtime; swallow whole. If the intestines are irritated (white inner irises), use fenugreek or
pure slippery-elm powder with linseed.
MAGNESIUM SALTS - Take 1 tablespoon of Epsom salts with water. Milk of magnesia may be neutralized with ascorbic acid,
alternatively try increasing amounts of magnesium chloride.
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strengthen bowel functions and overcome gas formation. Continue for two months or as required. Do not use mustard seeds if the
intestines are irritated.
PRUNES  - May be taken raw, soaked or cooked.
PSYLLIUM HULLS  - are preferable to bran. Stir a teaspoonful in a large glass of water and drink immediately about 30 minutes
before meals as often as required for either laxative action or weight reduction.
SENNA  - Pods, powder or leaves may be added to herb teas.
URINE - Drinking a cupful of your diluted morning urine has a good laxative ef fect.
WATER - Drinking a large quantity of water within a short period will cause part of it to rinse the bowels. Take 2 large glassfuls or
more of (warm) water before breakfast.
Disclaimer: The aim of this web site is to provide information on using natural healing methods to aid in the treatment of illness and health improvement.
The author cannot accept any legal responsibility for any problem arising from experimenting with these methods. For any serious disease,
or if you are unsure about a particular course of action, seek the help of a competent health professional.
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Summary	Of	A	New	Earth:	Awakening	To	Your	Life’s	Purpose,	By	Eckhart
Tolle
Sapiens	Editorial
©	2017	Sapiens	Editorial	/Sapiens	Editorial
All	rights	reserved.
Author:	Sapiens	Editorial
Contact	Data	(sapienseditorial@gmail.com)
ISBN:	9783962175139
	SUMMARY	OF

A	NEW	EARTH:

AWAKENING	TO	YOUR	LIFE’S	PURPOSE

BY	ECKHART	TOLLE

SUMMARY	WRITTEN	BY:
SAPIENS	EDITORIAL
	CONTENIDO

ORIGINAL	BOOK	DESCRIPTION
AGONY	OR	TRANSFORMATION?
CONQUER	YOUR	EGO	AND
CHANGE	THE	WORLD
OUR	INNER	AND	OUTER	MADNESS
CHANGE	IN	CONSCIOUSNESS,	CHANGE	IN	BEHAVIOUR
IN	SEARCH	OF	THE	SOLUTION
EGO:	THE	ROOT	OF	OUR	PROBLEM
A	LINK	TO	EGO:	THE	“ME”
WE	ARE	NOT	OUR	ROLES
THE	EGO	AND	THE	BODY	OF	PAIN
ACCEPTING	THE	PRESENT
THE	SHADOW	LIVING	IN	YOU
HARMONIZING	EXTERNAL	AND	INTERNAL	OBJECTIVES
ACCEPT	AND	ENJOY:	TWO	KEY	ACTIONS	FOR	LIGHTENING	LIFE
ABOUT	SAPIENS	EDITORIAL
	ORIGINAL	BOOK	DESCRIPTION

With	his	bestselling	spiritual	guide
The	Power	of	Now
,	Eckhart	Tolle	inspired
millions	of	readers	to	discover	the	freedom	and	joy	of	a	life	lived	“in	the
now.”	In
A	New	Earth
,	Tolle	expands	on	these	powerful	ideas	to	show	how
transcending	our	ego-based	state	of	consciousness	is	not	only	essential	to
personal	happiness,	but	also	the	key	to	ending	conflict	and	suffering
throughout	the	world.
Tolle	describes	how	our	attachment	to	the	ego	creates
the	dysfunction	that	leads	to	anger,	jealousy,	and	unhappiness,	and	shows
readers	how	to	awaken	to	a	new	state	of	consciousness	and	follow	the	path	to
a	truly	fulfilling	existence.

Illuminating,	enlightening,	and	uplifting,
A	New	Earth
	is	a	profoundly
spiritual	manifesto	for	a	better	way	of	life—and	for	building	a	better	world.AGONY	OR
TRANSFORMATION?
CONQUER
YOUR	EGO	AND	CHANGE	THE
WORLD

On	a	daily	basis,	news	on	the	radio,	newspapers,	and	television	show	us	the
evils	that	afflict	our	world.
War,	violence,	and	human	catastrophes	that	affect
us	to	a	greater	or	lesser	degree.
Although	we	see	that	in	some	aspects	society
improves,	there	are	always	facts	that	show	us	how	society	in	general	is
dominated	by	endless	violence	from	a	breed	that	is	never	satisfied	and	only
causes	destruction.

Because	of	this,	as	Eckhart	Tolle	says	in	his	work,	"a	significant	portion	of	the
Earth's	population	will	soon	recognise	if	it	has	not	already	done	so,	that
humanity	now	faces	a	harsh	choice:	evolve	or	die."

What	is	the	origin,	the	reason	for	all	of	this	decadence	in	the	world?
That
cause	is	in