 with radiation therapy.
The most powerful oxidant used in holistic therapy is ozone, followed by the less damaging hydrogen peroxide, and then comes
sodium chlorite or MMS with its active component chlorine dioxide. Chlor ine dioxide is easiest to stomach and generally the preferred
option.
However, the best effect with the least damage to sensitive tissue results from using biological oxidants that are already naturally
used by the body for this purpose. These are mainly vitamin C, MSM, and to some degree also iodine. Vitamin C exists in an oxidised
form, called Dehydroascorbic Acid or DHA, and in reduced form as Ascorbic Acid (AA). They easily change into each other as parts of
a Redox System. Other suitable biological redox systems are the oxidised MSM with the reduced DMSO, and the oxidised iodine with
the reduced iodide as in Lugol’ s solution.
You may be surprised to read that Carbon Dioxide (CO2) has been successfully used as a natural oxygen therapy, especially with
asthma. CO2 as produced by cells is required as a signal for red blood cells to release oxygen into tissues. CO2 therapy is the only
method reported to heal "diabetic foot", a condition where diabetics develop gangrenous foot or leg ulcers. Conventionally this is
being treated with foot or leg amputation. A Japanese team  has shown that diabetic foot can be healed with CO2 micro-bubbles. I
expect that treating diabetic foot with topical DHA will give similar results. Preferably combine both methods. Also other skin
problems, including infections and injuries, as well as external tumours, may be treated in this way.
Vitamin C
I see the vitamin C redox system as a highly promising biological oxygen therapy for treating our modern diseases. A main feature in
this context is how vitamin C crosses cell membranes. To get in or out of cells, it does not cross cell walls on its own. Instead, to get
absorbed from food, or to get into other cells and organs, it has speciﬁc transporters. AA is actively carried across membranes by
sodium transporters. These are mainly present in the intestinal tract for vitamin C absorption but have only a limited capacity. This is
why in experiments small amounts of AA in food or supplements are absorbed nearly 100% while when taking 1 gram only 50% is
absorbed.
However, there is an additional transport system with a very high capacity. This is based on glucose transporters which carry DHA
across membranes. Most of the vitam in C inside the body gets into cells and especially into the brain as DHA. There it is immediately
reduced back to AA, mainly by glutathione. To get out of the cell it is again oxidised, and after crossing the membrane, it is once more
reduced. Therefore, by using more vitamin C as DHA we can absorb vastly greater amounts without getting diarrhoea or other
problems. In addition we get more oxygen into the intestinal wall. If a DHA solution is rubbed on the skin it is 12 times better absorbed
than AA (http://www.vitaminc.kiwi/ ).
After absorption from the intestines, vitamin C eventually enters the bloodstream as AA. Here most of it leaves the plasma and
accumulates in the red and white blood cells. When the blood ﬂows through an area with a raised carbon dioxide concentration as
from muscle activity, it releases some of its oxygen in addition to some of the AA. When encountering a cell membrane, the oxygen,
with the help of traces of copper, oxidises the AA to DHA so that it gets into the cell. Once Inside, DHA immediately loses an oxygen
ion and changes back to AA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehydroascorbic_acid ).
The key point here is that chemically stable molecular oxygen from the air is converted by vitamin C into reactive ionic oxygen. This
can then be released inside cells to kill any microbes or alternatively provide oxygen for energy production. Reactive oxygen is also
what the cells of the immune system need and use as ammunition, mainly in the form of hydrogen peroxide.
With this, vitamin C released inside an infected cell can destroy not only the invasive microbes but also their toxins which block the
oxidative energy metabolism in the mitochondria (the cell's power stations). The beauty of using vitamin C to destroy intracellular
microbes is that it instantly transforms back into the reduced form to protect sensitive cell structures from oxidative damage.
It had been expected that high intakes of vitamin C would reduce the amount of available protective glutathione, but research has
shown instead that amounts of glutathione in red and white blood cells are greatly increased (1) (2).
Liposomal vitamin C has been deve loped for better absorption and to get reduced vitamin C through membranes directly into cells.
But in this way no active oxygen is transported into cells to unblock infected mitochondria, and therefore it will be useless as an
oxygen therapy. However, it is still good to protect cells from damage during times of intensive oxidation such as with Radiotherapy,
Chemotherapy, Ozone Therapy and prolonged MMS/ClO2 Therapy.
The MSM - DMSO Redox Pair
MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane) is the oxidised form of the MSM - DMSO combination. MSM has two oxygens attached to a sulphur
atom. When losing one oxygen ion it becomes the antioxidant DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide). MSM occurs naturally in our blood at a
concentration of about 0.2 parts per million. A great plus for this system is that DMSO and MSM are highly soluble in both oil and
water. They are also small molecules so that they easily and rapidly diffuse through the cell membranes as well as through the cell
cytoplasm. They are not restricted by cell membranes like vitamin C and most other molecules. This makes the MSM – DMSO pair a
very ef fective oxygen transport system.
Inside cells MSM releases active oxygen just like DHA. While MSM is important to form connective tissue, it is also a valuable source
of biological sulphur, and its two methyl groups may be used for methylation reactions or just become oxidised in the citric acid cycle.
A potentially unwanted side-ef fect may be a strong body smell of garlic or sulphur if DMSO is used orally or if too much MSM has
been ingested so that only part of it is absorbed while the rest is then reduced to smelly dimethyl sulphide in the colon. Normally that
does not happen with 3 to 10 g of MSM spread out over the day but if it does then just reduce the intake. See More Energy & Less
Disease.10/30/24, 8:16 AM Health-Science-Spirit - Healing with Oxygen
https://health-science-spirit.com/Healing_the_Body/Healing-with-Oxygen.html 2/5MSM is interesting as it shows us what makes cells malignant. Melano ma cells of a highly aggressive strain were soaked in a 2%
MSM solution. After one day of exposure the cells had become completely normal and remained so indeﬁnitely. Also daughter cells
derived from them remained normal. However, DMSO did not normaliz e these melanoma cells. The only difference between MSM
and DMSO is an additional oxygen ion in MSM. I interpret this to mean that MSM has been enzymatically reduced to DMSO, and the
liberated active oxygen repaired the oxidative energy metabolism of the melanoma cells (3). This method could be used by keeping
tumours close to the skin soaked in a pack of MSM solution, possibly with the addition of oxidised vitamin C. It also shows that
oxygen therapy is the key to eliminate all cancers.
The Citric Acid Cycle
As a general statement we may say that a healthy body converts its food to lemon juice so that it can be oxidised to carbon dioxide
and water. In this way we gain the maximum amount of energy from what we eat, twenty times more than when it is only converted to
lactic acid. The main hurdle is right at the beginning of this process where the lack of oxidation prevents a part of our nutrients from
being converted to citric acid. At this stage this affects mainly glucose and fatty acids. This blockage causes our low energy. Normally,
speciﬁc enzymes inside cells split the molecular oxygen in a range of oxidative reactions called the citric acid cycle.
Figure 1 shows a diagram of the Citric Acid Cycle. You will see that the central biochemical molecule, which channels the broken-
down nutrients into the cycle, is pyruvic acid. One molecule of glucose is split into 2 molecules of pyruvic acid, but pyruvic acid can
also be converted back to glucose. The main problem that depletes our energy and leads to our modern diseases is a blockage in the
conversion of pyruvic acid to acetyl coenzyme A. This is due to the needed oxidation being more or less blocked by microbes and
their toxins.
The main enzyme required for this important oxidation step in the mitochondria is cytochrome c oxidase. This is where the main
microbial blockage is, and it is also related to the oxidised glutathione inside the cell after it has reduced DHA back to AA. When
being reduced again by the enzyme  glutathione reductase, oxidised glutathione can now channel its oxidation power into clearing
blockages in the citric acid cycle, such as enabling the production of acetyl-coenzyme A, and providing oxygen for the cycle to turn
over. Glutathione reductase therefore  is


 took place in the Now and
you remember it Now. The future, when it comes, is the Now. So the only thing
that is real, the only thing that ever is, is the N ow.
***

To have your attention in the Now is not a denial o f what is needed in your life. It
is recognizing what is primary. Then you can deal w ith what is secondary with
great ease. It is not saying, “I’m not dealing with  things anymore because there is
only the Now.” No. Find what is primary first, and make the Now into your friend,
not your enemy. Acknowledge it, honor it. When the Now is the foundation and
primary focus of your life, then your life unfolds with ease.

***

Putting away the dishes, drawing up a business stra tegy, planning a trip–what is
more important: the doing or the result that you wa nt to achieve through the doing?
This moment or some future moment?

Do you treat this moment as if it were an obstacle to be overcome? Do you feel you
have a future moment to get to that is more importa nt?

Almost everyone lives like this most of the time. S ince the future never arrives,
except as the present, it is a dysfunctional way to  live. It generates a constant
undercurrent of unease, tension, and discontent. It  does not honor life, which is
Now and never not Now.

***

Feel the aliveness within your body. That anchors y ou in the Now.

***

Ultimately you are not taking responsibility for li fe until you take responsibility for
this moment–Now. This is because Now is the only pl ace where life can be found.

Taking responsibility for this moment means not to oppose internally the
“suchness” of Now, not to argue with what is. It me ans to be in alignment with life.

The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise.  What Buddhists have always
known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolate d things or events. Underneath
the surface appearance, all things are interconnect ed, are part of the totality of the
cosmos that has brought about the form that this mo ment takes.
 When you say “yes” to what is, you become aligned w ith the power and
intelligence of Life itself. Only then can you beco me an agent for positive change
in the world.

***

A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accep t whatever arises in the Now–
within and without.

***

When your attention moves into the Now, there is an  alertness. It is as if you were
waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the d ream of past and future. Such
clarity, such simplicity. No room for problem makin g. Just this moment as it is.

***

The moment you enter the Now with your attention, y ou realize that life is sacred.
There is a sacredness to everything you perceive wh en you are present. The more
you live in the Now, the more you sense the simple yet profound joy of Being and
the sacredness of all life.

***

Most people confuse the Now with what happens in th e Now, but that’s not what it
is. The Now is deeper than what happens in it. It i s the space in which it happens.

So do not confuse the content of this moment with t he Now. The Now is deeper
than any content that arises in it.

***

When you step into the Now, you step out of the con tent of your mind. The
incessant stream of thinking slows down. Thoughts d on’t absorb all your attention
anymore, don’t draw you in totally. Gaps arise in b etween thoughts–spaciousness,
stillness. You begin to realize how much vaster and  deeper you are than your
thoughts.

***

Thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and whatever  you experience make up the content of your life. “My life” is what you derive your sense of self from, and “my
life” is content, or so you believe.

You continuously overlook the most obvious fact: yo ur innermost sense of I Am
has nothing to do with what happens in your life, n othing to do with content. That
sense of I Am is one with the Now. It always remain s the same. In childhood and
old age, in health or sickness, in success or failu re, the I Am–the space of Now–
remains unchanged at its deepest level. It usually gets confused with content, and
so you experience I Am or the Now only faintly and indirectly, through the content
of your life. In other words: your sense of Being b ecomes obscured by
circumstances, your stream of thinking, and the man y things of this world. The
Now becomes obscured by time.

And so you forget your rootedness in Being, your di vine reality, and lose yourself
in the world. Confusion, anger, depression, violenc e, and conflict arise when
humans forget who they are.

Yet how easy it is to remember the truth and thus r eturn home:

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the
content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in wh ich all things happen. I am
consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

Chapter 5
Who You Truly Are

The now is inseparable from who you are at the deep est level.

***

Many things in your life matter but only one thing matters absolutely.

It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether
you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are edu cated or not educated. It matters
whether you are rich or poor. It certainly makes a difference in your life.

Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking. But they don't matter absolutely.
There is something that matters more than any of th ose things and that is finding the essence of who your are beyond that short-lived  entity, that short-lived
personalized sense of self.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances  of your life but by realizing
who you are at the deepest level.

***

Reincarnation doesn't help you if in your next inca rnation you still don't know who
you are.

***

All the misery on the planet arises due to a person alized sense of me or us. That
covers up the essence of who you are. When you are unaware of that inner essence,
in the end, you always create misery. It's as simpl e as that. When you don't know
who you are, you create a mind-made self as a subst itute for your beautiful, divine
being and cling to that fearful and needy self. Pro tecting and enhancing that false
sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force.

***

Many expressions that are in common usage and somet imes the structure of
language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who they are. You say, “He
lost his life.” Or, “my life” as if life were somet hing that you can possess or lose.

The truth is you don't have a life, you are life, t he one life, the one conscious that
pervades the entire universe and takes temporary fo rm to experience itself as a
stone or a blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. Can you sense
deep within that you already know that. Can you sen se that you already are that?

***

For most things in life, you need time: to learn a new skill, build a house, become
an expert, make a cup of tea.

Time is useless, however, for the most essential th ing in life, the one thing that
really matters, self-realization–which means knowin g who you are beyond the
surface self, beyond your name, your physical form,  your history, your story.

You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The  only place where you can find yourself in the Now. Spiritual seekers look for sel f realization or enlightenment in
the future. To be a seeker implies that you need th e future. If this is what you
believe, it becomes true for you. You will need tim e until you realize that you don't
need time to be who you are.

***

When you look at a tree, you are aware of the tree.  When you have a thought or
feeling, you are aware of that thought or feeling. When you have a pleasurable or
painful experience, you are aware of that experienc e. These seem to be true and
obvious statements. Yet if you look at them very cl osely, you will find that in a
subtle way their very structure contains a fundamen tal illusion, an illusion which is
unavoidable when you use language. Thought and lang uage create an apparent
duality and a separate person where there is none.

The truth is you are not somebody who is aware of t he tree, the thought, feeling or
experience. You are the awareness or consciousness in and by which those things
appear. As you go about your life, can you be aware  of yourself as the awareness in
which the entire content of your life unfolds?

***

You say, “I want to know myself.” You are the I. Yo u are the knowing. You are the


 and have carried that
belief with you since you were a youngster in elementary school.
Your outer concept of yourself includes everything you believe about your
innate and learned talents and abilities. Your beliefs about your clumsiness,
coordination, athleticism, and musical and artistic talents are a partial list of
the ingredients that comprise the recipe of you. These descriptors also apply
to every thing else about your outer self. Your outer self-concept includes
how you view yourself in relationship to health: your immunity to, or
inclination towa rd, illnesses of all descriptions. You know if you are proneto being overweight or addicted to various substances such as sugar,
caffeine, fat, meat, dairy, and the like. You define yourself as prone to
catching colds or immune to such things, likely to gain weig ht, inclined
toward skin rashes, or predisposed to low energy or high sleep
requirements.
The point is that your outer self-concept comprises essentially everything
that you believe your body is capable or incapable of. Given a true/false test
on yours elf, you’d be able to say with certainty, Yes, these things are true
about me.  They are the beliefs—the ingredients—that you use to create you.
In addition to your intellect, talents, and physical body traits, you spice up
your outer self-conception with your personality traits. You know if you’re
assertive or shy, loud or quiet, pushy or obsequious, fearful or courageous,
daring or frightened—and this is only a partial list of personality descriptors
or spices. These individual qualities are interpreted as truisms defining
yourself and how you function socially.
I could continue detailing all of the other ingredients that go into making
your outer self-concept, but I’ve chosen to keep this book short, succinct,
and to the point.  At this point I’m simply encouraging you to recognize that
your self-concept contains a myriad of self-descriptors regardin g this thing
that you call your physical body, and that you probably regard them as
absolute truth.
Your Inner Self-Concept
This category can be pretty difficult to achieve in optimal proportions in
our culture. Y our inner self-concept involves your beliefs about the invisible
energy and intelligence that is the most significant portion of your being.
I’ve often referr ed to your inner world as “the ghost in the machine.” The
machine in my conceptualization is your body and its five sense s, as well as
all of the physic al components that make up your body. The tissue, bones,
rivers of fluids, organs, teeth, brain, and everything else are all the machine.
And within this machine is an invisible I that you call mind  or spirit
comprised of thoughts that direct the machine.
I once had a conversation with a neurosur geon who was disputing the
presence of this invisible world  by saying that he’d cut into thousands of
bodies and had never seen a soul. I remember his awkward look when Iasked him if he’d ever seen a thought while he was poking around inside a
brain.
Obviously there ’s an invisible inner as well as an outer part of your being.
You have a conceptualization  of yourself that involves this formless
invisible portion  of your being,  and you have a pretty specific idea about
just how far this inner portion of yourself can take you. You may believe
that your thinking apparatus is pretty phenomenal, though not
understanding exactly what it is—inside or surrounding you—that allows
you to scratch your forehead, or pick up a pencil, or move your feet on a
dance floor, or any of the infinite commands that your mind is capable of
directing all day, every day, and for as long as you are alive.
You also have a self-concept about what your inner energetic ghost
cannot  do. Is it capable of thinking  itself out of a serious disease, or is that
just a lot of nonsense? Can your invisible intelligence, your imagination,
perform feats of alchemy? Does your self-concept contain the power to
perform great—or even magical—acts of transformation?
Your self-concept is a blend of your beliefs regarding your connection to a
higher power. You believe some thing about the existence or nonexistence of
God. You have various points of view about how far faith can carry you.
Whether or not there is anything  within you that you can or cannot rely on
to perform mystical or miraculo us things is seasoned by your beliefs. You
have acquired specific beliefs concerning the power of your mind. You’re
generally confident that you can rely on your invisibleness to do the
ordinary things in life such as remember an unseen list of items stored
somewhere in your memory, and run errands on your way home from work.
But what do your beliefs cook up about your ability to create miracles?  Is
healing your body, or manifestin g a long-desired soul mate, an ingredient in
your self-concept?
Take a moment to examine that unseen list stored away in your mind. Ask
yourself, Wher e is it? How did I put it there? Wher e is the place I’m calling
“ther e”? What powers am I using to recall it? Wher e do these powers come
from? This is the list of ingredients that you use to create your inner self-
concept. You might then want to open up to there being other beliefs or
ingredients that you want to include, and contemplate other ways to season
your life.The fact is that an invisible list involves a catalog of inexplicable miracles
that you take for granted every day. Your inner self-concept tells you what
you believe your mind is capable of, and what it’s incapable of as well. You
know your mind, that invisible ghost in the machine, is unfathomable. But
you also know  that there are certain limits to what it can do.
Have you ever considered how you are creating your life with this inner
self-concept’ s list of ingredient s? If it seems interesting to consider some
changes, read on.
Changing Y our Concept of Y ourself
If you would like to become a person who has the capacity to have all of
your wishes fulfilled, it will be necessary for you to move to that higher
plane of existen ce where you are a co-creator of your life. This means that
you’ll need to undertake what is often presumed to be the difficult task of
changing your concept of yourself.
Recall that your concept of yourself is everything that you believe to be
true about your inner and outer self. Those beliefs have created the life
you’re now living—at what I call an ordinary level of awarenes s. To move
into the extraordinary space that I’m writing about in this book requires you
to chang e what you believe is true. This can be a laborious project and an
undertaking that, in my experien ce, few people are eager or willing to take
on. I am writing this book to give you some very specific guidan ce and help
in doing just that.
I’ll be quoting a man by the name of Neville Goddard, who wrote and
spoke to large audiences in America under the solitary name of Neville. A
popular speaker on metaphysical themes from the late ’30s until his death in
1972, Neville authored ten books in which he captured the sheer logic of
creative mind principles. His work has impacted me in a very profound
way; in fact, he’ s been a great mentor to me in the past few years.
Neville writes in a style that many might find strenuous to interpret, yet I
find his teaching congruent with much of my earlier writing on
manifestation and co-creation. That being said, Neville’ s teachings add a
dimension that I hadn’ t really contemplated in depth until now. While
studying his book The Power of Awareness, I bega n blend ing many of
Neville’ s teachings with other great thinkers’ ideas, revising and refininghis unique personal theology into a practice that feels to me is meant for the
world we inhabit today.
After giving each of my eight children a copy of The Power of Awareness,
they individually expressed a variation of this: “I love his ideas, Dad, but I
have to read each paragraph over and over and stop to think about what he’s
saying. I know he’s right and it makes perfect sense, but I need it explained
more—in words  that I can understand and apply.” Their comm ents fueled
my desire to share many of Neville’ s ideas, most of which are compatible
with my own, and create a synthesis addressing the power you have to
fulfill your 21st-century wishes.
I want to share with you my sense of what this great teacher ’s ideas can
do for you, as they have done for me. I know that Neville wouldn’ t mind
because he freely allowed stude nts and audience members to tape his talks
without charge. His tapes continue to informally spread his message today,
and I’ve listened to them while preparing to write this book.  I feel as a
kindred spirit to Neville, since I too have had the same policy during my
entire speaking career, and have been immersed in the same kinds of
spiritual inquiry as this great teacher who preceded me by a single
generation.
Here is what Neville had to say regarding changing your self-concept in
order to elevate your life: “If you refuse to assume the responsi bility of the
incarnation of a new and highe r concept of yourself, then you reject the
means, the only means, wher eby your redemption—that is,


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Drugs and Chemicals
Basically all drugs are more or less toxic, the more so, the more ‘powerful’  they are. Natural remedies cannot be patented, therefore
in order to maximize proﬁts the pharmaceutical industry routinely makes and sells synthetic versions of effective natural remedies.
Synthetic substances are usually more difﬁcult to detoxify than natural remedies and tend to create more problems the longer they
are taken. Often they become highl y addictive and after some time may cause the symptoms that they originally alleviated. This,
however, is rarely acknowledged by drug companies or medical practitioners, instead when a problem arises simply alternative or
additional drugs are prescribed.
A main problem is that drugs are tested individually for relatively short periods, but are then prescribed as drug cocktails for very long
periods. Drugs have not been tested under these conditions, and therefore all drug use, except as individual drugs for short periods,
is unscientiﬁc and unsafe. As a result of this, there are countless dangerous and fatal drug interactions and side-ef fects as reported in
numerous books, articles and statistics.
It is similar with the thousands of synthetic chemicals and heavy metals that are allowed by health authorities to contaminate our
living space. These are even less tested than drugs but also react with each other and with drugs in a brew that is impossible to
disentangle.
I want to mention just one instance of such a combination. The herbicide paraquat and the fungicide maneb are widely used in
farming and may remain present as crop residues. Each on its own did not cause a problem but if rats and mice were exposed to
both together, even at very low rates, they developed symptoms of Parkinson’ s disease. The leader of the research team said: "No
one has looked at the effects of studying together some of these compounds that, taken by themselves, have little effect. This has
enormous implications," and "it's a huge problem to start thinking about a nearly inﬁnite array of mixtures of chemicals, instead of the
risk that a single chemical might pose" (23).
We have similar problems with ﬂuoride and chlorine as well as mercury, aluminium, nickel and other heavy and toxic metals being
deliberately put into vaccines and used in dentistry. For a detailed documentation of the problems associated with heavy metals and
endocrine disrupting chemicals see Bernard Windham (24).
Sunlight
Health authorities and medical associations have campaigned strongly to avoid sun exposure of the skin. Presumably this causes
skin cancer, including melanoma that can kill. However, the vast majority is normal skin cancer that almost never kills, and there is
widespread doubt that melanomas are really caused by normal sun exposure, although there seems to be a link with sunburn.
Generally outdoor workers with the most sun exposure had the lowest rates of skin cancer and melanoma, while melanomas often
show up in ofﬁce workers. Melanoma often occurs on areas of the skin that had not been exposed to sunlight. Other studies show a
strong link between long-term exposure to ﬂuorescent lighting and melanoma (25). With the present campaign to replace all
incandescent light bulbs with ﬂuorescent ones, I expect a melanoma epidemic in ten to twenty years (26).
Now more and more research papers show that a vast number of diseases, and especially cancer, could be avoided by greatly
increasing our levels of vitamin D with suitable foods, supplements, and frequent or daily short sun exposure of the skin. Sunlight is
our main source of vitamin D. Research shows that there is a strong negative correlation between available sunlight and breast
cancer death rates - living in a sunny area is associated with lower cancer rates. Even skin cancer is inhibited by regular low-level
sun exposure; only sunburn is a strong skin cancer promoter. It has now been calculated that with these measures worldwide about
600,000 cases of colon and breast cancer could be prevented (27).
Furthermore, the researchers pointe d out that by increasing levels of vitamin D3 by regular sun exposure and other measures we
could prevent diseases that claim nearly 1 million lives throughout the world each year (28, 29).
The irony of all this is that the present skin cancer epidemic has, in my opinion, been manufactured by our health authorities and
medical experts. There are three conditions that make us susceptible to develop skin cancers with high sun exposure. These are
overacidity, a high ratio of omega-6  to omega-3 fatty acids, and a lack of antioxidants. The most common cause of overacidity is
Candida overgrowth, especially in combination with the ofﬁcially recommended diet high in cereals. Our omega-6 to omega-3 ratio
was always somewhat too high but it went off the chart when our health authorities recommended replacing saturated fats with seed
oils high in omega-6 fatty acids. This increased inﬂammatory conditions of all kinds, including tumors and skin cancers. To make
matters worse, health authorities also discourage and legally minimize the use of antioxidant nutrients.
With these measures health authorities created the conditions for an epidemic of skin cancers. Then they tried to prevent skin
cancers by recommending complete avoidance of sun exposure, which in turn caused large-scale vitamin D deﬁciency with an
estimated loss of 1 million lives each year. I sometimes ask myself if it is simply ignorance and incompetence or if there is something
more sinister to it.
The Obesity Epidemic
I could write a book about all the health problems caused by the medical-pharmaceutical complex and the neglectful way in which
health authorities contribute to our diseases. In addition to directly causing diseases, these same forces also prevent the healing of
these same diseases by restricting, suppressing and persecuting the practitioners of natural medicine as well as giving disease-
causing nutritional advice.
Until 1980 the rate of obesity and Type 2 diabetes was fairly stable. However, when health authorities in the U.S.A. started vilifying
foods containing fats and cholesterol, and recommended eating more carbohydrates instead, obesity increased from 15% of the adult
U.S. population to 25% within one decade and continued to rise to 32.9% in 2003-2004 (30). Type 2 diabetes became an epidemic as
well. In addition, for the ﬁrst time in history a large number of obese children developed Type 2 diabetes. Since then it is no longer10/30/24, 7:22 AM Health-Science-Spirit - Are Most Diseases Caused by the Medical System?
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these are iatrogenic diseases, caused by the medical system.
Natural practitioners are experts in preventing and successfully treating chronic diseases with nutrition and other natural methods.
This includes the metabolic syndrome which leads to diabetes, heart disease and overweight. It is routinely and quickly remedied with
proper nutrition, but with accepted medical practice it becomes a life-lon g condition managed with more or less toxic drugs. Surgery
is used for a wide range of conditions, and patients are severely traumatized or mutilated for life when these problems could be
successfully treated with natural therapies.
Vaccinations
Vaccinations are the proud showpiece of drug medicine in eliminating the dreaded childhood infections of previous centuries.
However, long-term statistics and diagrams tell a different story. Starting between 1850 and 1900 scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping
cough, and measles had declined by about 90% by the time general vaccination was introduced for each disease. While statistics
vary between different countries, this is generally true for England, the United States and Australia. Whooping cough had declined in
England by about 98.5% before a vaccine became generally available, and measles had declined by over 99%. Tuberculosis had
declined by 87% when antibiotics ﬁrst became available and by 93% before the introduction of the BCG vaccine. The death rate from
rheumatic fever had declined by 86% when penicillin was introduced (34). All of this has obviously more to do with better plumbing
than with vaccinations.
There are also statistics showing that death rates from targeted diseas es rose with the introduction of vaccines. Other side-ef fects
ascribed to modern vaccines are cot or crib death (SIDS), a strong rise in autism and ADHD, and shaken baby syndrome (spot
bleeding in the brain) which apparently landed innocent parents in jail. Experts strongly deny that there is a connection between
vaccines and autism, but it is strange nevertheless that the rates of autism have suddenly exploded after greatly increased numbers
of vaccinations in recent decades, and there is no obvious alternative  reason. Also autism is absent in Amish children who are
generally not vaccinated. Vaccinate d children are reported to have about 150% more neurological disorders such as ADHD and
autism compared to unvaccinated children (35).
Another curious aspect of vaccine safety statistics was highlighted by Dr Archie Kalokerinos. Working in the remote Australian
outback with Aboriginals he found that every second child died as a result of vaccinations. Because deaths commonly occurred about
3 weeks later, they were not recorded as vaccine-related; ofﬁcially reactions were limited to occur


through denial of the body. This took the form of denial of sense
pleasures and of sexuality in  particular, fasting, and other ascetic
practices. They even inflicted p ain on the body in an attempt to  weaken
or p unish it bec ause they regarded it as sinful. In Christianity, this used
to be called mortification of the flesh. Others tried to escape from the
body by entering trance states o r seeking out-of-body experiences. Many
still do. Even the Buddha is said to have practiced body denial through
fasting a nd extr eme forms of a sceticism for six years, but he  did not
attain enlightenment until after he had given up this practice.
The fact  is that no one has ever become enlightened through denying or
fighting the body or through an out-of-body experience. Although such
an experience can be fascinating  and can give you a glimpse of  the state
of liberation from the material f orm, in the end you will always have to
return to  the body, where the essential work of transformati on takes
place. T ransformation is thr ough  the bod y, not away from it. Thi s is why
no tr ue master h as ever advocated fighting or leaving the body, although
their mind-based followers often have.
Of the ancient teachings concerning the body, only certain fragments
survive, such as Jesus’ s statement that “your whole body will be filled
with ligh t,” or they survive as m yths, such as the belief that Jesus never
relinquished his  body but remained one with it and ascen ded into
“heaven” with it. Almost no one to this day has understood those
fragments or the hidden meanin g of certain myths, and the “you are not
your body” belief has prevailed universally, leading to body denial and
attempts to escape from the b ody. Countless seekers have thus been
prevented from attaining spi ritual realization for themsel ves and
becoming finders.

Is it pos sible to r ecover the lost teachings on the significance of  the body
or to r econstruct them fr om the existing fragments?
 There is no need for that. All spiritual teachings originate from the same
Source. In that sense, there is and always has been only one master, who
manifests in many dif ferent form s. I am that master, and so are you, once
you are able to a ccess the Source within. And the way to it is thr ough the
inner body. Although all spiritual teachings originate from the same
Source, once they become v erbalized and written down they are
obviously no more than collections of words — and a word is nothing
but a signpost,  as we talked about earlier. All such teachings are
signposts pointing the way back to the Source.
I h ave already s poken of the T ru th that is hidden within your body, but I
will sum marize for you again the lost teachings of the masters — so here
is an other signpost. Please ende avor to feel your inner body as you read
or listen.
SERMON ON THE BODY
What you perceive as a dense physical structure called the body, which is
subject to disease, old age, and d eath, is not ultimately real — is not you.
It is a m isperception of your e ssential reality that is beyond birth and
death, a nd is due to the limita tions of your mind, which, ha ving lost
touch w ith Bein g, creates the b ody as evidence of its illusory belief in
separation and to justify its stat e of fear. But do not turn away from the
body, for within that symbol of impermanence, limitation, and death that
you per ceive as the illusory creation of your mind is concealed the
splendor of your essential and immortal reality. Do not turn your
attention elsewhere in your search for the T ruth, for it is nowhere else to
be found but within your body.
Do n ot fight ag ainst the body, for in doing so you are fighting against
your own reality. Y ou ar e  you r body. The body that you can see and
touch is  only a thin illusory ve il. Underneath it lies the invisi ble inner
body, the doorway into Being, into Life Unmanifested. Through the
inner body, you are inseparably connected to this unmanifested One Life
— b irthless, deathless, eternally  present. Through the inner body, you are
forever one with God.
HA VE DEEP ROOTS WITHIN
The key  is to be  in a state of permanent connectedness with y our inner
body — to feel  it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform
your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the
higher i ts vibrational frequency  becomes, much like a light that grows
brighter as you turn up the dimmer switch and so increase the  flow of
electricity. At this higher ener gy level, negativity cannot af fect you
anymore, and you tend to attr act new circumstances that reflect this
higher frequency.
If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be
anchored in the Now. Y ou won’ t lose yourself in the external w orld, and
you won’ t lose y ourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and
desires, may still be there to some extent, but they won’ t take you over.
Please examine where your attention is at this moment. Y ou are listening
to me, or you are reading these words in a book. That is the focus of your
attention. Y ou are also periphe rally aware of your surroundings, other
people, and so on. Furthermore, there may be some mind activity around
what you are hearing or reading, some mental commentary. Y et there is
no need for any of this to absorb all  your attention. See if you can be in
touch with your inner body at the same time. Keep some of your
attention within. Don’ t let it all flow out. Feel your whole bo dy from
within, a s a single field of ener g y. It is almost as if you were listening or
reading with your whole body. Let this be your practice in the days and
weeks to come.
Do n ot g ive all your attention away to the mind and the external world.
By all means focus on what you  are doing, but feel the inner body at the
same tim e whenever possible. Stay rooted within. Then observe how this
changes your state of consciou sness and the quality of what you are
doing.
Whenever you are waiting, whe rever it may be, use that time to  feel the
inner body. In t his way, traf fic jams and lines become very e njoyable.
Instead of mentally projecting yourself away from the Now, go more
deeply into the Now by going more deeply into the body.The art of inner -body awareness  will develop into a completely new way
of li ving, a state  of permanent c onnectedness with Being, and will add a
depth to your life that you have never known before.
It is  easy to stay present as th e observer of your mind when  you are
deeply rooted within your body.  No matter what happens on the outside,
nothing can shake you anymore.
Unless you stay present — and inhabiting your body is al ways an
essential aspect of it — you wi ll continue to be run by your m ind. The
script in your head that you learned a long time ago, the conditioning of
your mind, will dictate your thinking and your behavior. Y ou may be free
of it  for brief intervals, but rarely for long. This is especially true when
something “goes  wrong” or ther e is some loss or upset. Y our co nditioned
reaction will then be involuntar y, automatic, and predictable, fueled by
the one basic emotion that underlies the mind-identified state of
consciousness: fear.
So w hen such challenges come, as they always do, make it a habit to go
within at once a nd focus as muc h as you can on the inner ener gy field of
your bod y. This  need not take long, just a few seconds. But you need to
do it  the  momen t that the challe nge presents itself. Any delay w ill allow
a co nditioned mental-emotional reaction to arise and take y ou over.
When you focus within and feel the inner body, you immediately become
still and  present as you are withdrawing consciousness from the mind. If
a r esponse is required in that situation, it will come up from th is deeper
level. Ju st as the sun is infinite ly brighter than a candle flame, there is
infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind.
As long as you are in conscious contact with your inner body, you are
like a tree that is deeply rooted in the earth, or a building with a deep and
solid fo undation. The latter analogy is used by Jesus in the generally
misunderstood p arable of the two men who build a house. One man
builds it  on the sand, without a foundation, and when the sto rms and
floods come, the house is swept away. The other man digs deep  until he
reaches the rock, then builds his


 wooden spoon (never leave a metal spoon in
starter).
Allow to sit for 3 to 5 days until sour odor is detected.
May cover loosely after 2nd day.
Remove ½ cup for bread recipe above.
Store covered in refrigerator adding half cup from dough after first rising.
Bring to room temperature 1 hour before starting each new recipe.
Sourdough Potato R ye Br eadYN
1 cup sourdough starter, 2 cups warm mashed potatoes, 1
 cups potato
cooking water, 2 cups whole wheat or rye Flour,i ¼ cup molasses
(unsulfured), and
  tsp caraway or fennel seed.
Mix ingredients in lar ge nonmetal bowl.
Cover and let stand in warm place for several hours (or overnight for a
very sour loaf).
Add the following: 1½ to 3 cups rye flour as needed to make a workable
dough.
Turn onto floured board and knead for 5-10 minutes.
Let dough rest for 5 minutes, then form into round or baton-shaped
loaves.
Place on nonstick bake sheet, or regular bake sheet (ungreased) that has
been well coated with raw oat flakes to prevent sticking.
Let bread rise until almost double (when bread does not spring back
when lightly touched).Bake at 350°F for 50 minutes to 1 hour.
For a very chewy crust, place a pan of water in bottom of oven to create
steam, or baste bread several times during baking with water.
For soft crust, do not steam or baste.
Immediately wrap loaves in cotton towels after removing from oven.
Let bread cool before cutting.
Sourdough Squash R ye Br ead
1 cup sourdough  starter, 2 cups pureed cooked squash (such as butternut
or kabocha), 1
 cups water, 2cups rye flour, ¼ cup honey, and ¼ cup
potato flour.
Mix dry ingredients in ceramic or plastic bowl.
Cover and let stand in warm place to rise (85 to 95 percent is ideal.)
Add 2 cups rye flour, then 1½ to 3 cups more rye flour until achieving
workable dough.
Turn onto floured board and knead for 5-10 minutes.
Let dough rest for 5 minutes, then shape into loaves or rolls.
Sprinkle bottom of baking pans with raw oats, then let rise for 2 hours or
until doubled in size.
Bake at 350°F for an hour.
Let loaves cool before slicing.
Carr ot Raisin Quick Br eadYN
1½ cups triticale or rye flour, 1½ cups brown rice or oat flour, 1 cup
whole wheat or rye flour, 5 cups carrots grated, 2½ cups orange pulp,
 –½
cup honey, 2 cups raisins, ½ tsp each of allspice and coriander, plus approx.
2 large navel oranges, peeled and ground.
Sift dry ingredients together.
Stir in raisins.
Mix the remaining ingredients, then gradually stir into dry mix.
Dough should be rather firm.
Divide in half and fill two nonstick bake pans.
Bake at 325°F for 50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
Let cool before removing from pan.Essene Br eadYN
This naturally sweet cakey bread is made with only sprouted grain.
The original Essene Bread recipe comes from The Essene Gospel of
Peace, a 2,000-year -old Aramaic text, which reveals the process of
sprouting wheat as follows: “Moisten your wheat, that the angel of water
may enter it. Then set it in the air, that the angel of air may also embrace it.
And leave it from morning to evening beneath the sun, that the angel of
sunshine may descend upon it.” This modern version differs from the
original only in the use of oven heat instead of the sun’ s.
For 1 loaf use: 1 quart of 2-day-old wheat, rye, or triticale sprouts.
Refrigerate sprouts for 1 day, uncovered, to dry slightly.
Do not rinse before grinding or you will wind up with more of a pudding
than bread.
Grind in hand or electric grind er or in the Norwalk® using the #2 grid
(second to the lar gest).
Feed sprouts gradually or they will become like cement in your grinding
mechanism.
Shape into 1½"-to-2" high loaf.
Place on nonstic k or regular baking sheet well coated with oat flakes to
prevent sticking.
Bake at 250-300°F for 1½ to 2½ hours (loaf should be nicely browned).
Cool thoroughly before slicing (chilled is best). Use serrated knife with a
gently sawing motion. It also helps to dip knife in cold water before slicing
bread.
VARIA TIONS IN  BREAD
Fruit Br ead
Add:
  or
  cup raisins or other chopped dried fruit, ½ tsp coriander,
and mace or allspice.
Onion or Garlic Herb Br eadAdd: 2 or 3 tbsp finely minced onion, or 2-4 cloves pressed garlic, ½ to 1
tsp dill, thyme, and caraway or fennel.
Wafers or Crackers
Form into ¼" patties or roll out on floured board and cut into squares. Bake
wafers or crackers on a nonstick or oat-coated baking sheet at a temperature
of 250-300° F for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
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��ve ounces of yellow gold in a conta iner and
cook in an earthen stove. Dip the gold in and out of the fat
one hundred times; likew ise in the vinegar. Take a pound
of this and you will outlast all nature; half a pound and you
will live two thousand years.’
Other elixirs  will even raise the dead, others will confer
‘everlasting vision’ and so etherealize the body that ‘in full
sun you will cast no shadow.’ In many cases strange and
grotesque ingredients are required, such as black dung
from a black cow, black  insects' blood, seeds of red ﬁr,
dragons' grease, ox gall, earthworm excreta; many of
these, of course, would be a disguise. Equally strange
ingredients were used in western alchemy: the urine of a
dog, the hairs of a white dog; the blood of a mouse, asses'
dung; while pearls and stones found in a crab's head are
speciﬁcs against heart trouble; a contraceptive is to bind
the head with a red ribbon or hold a stone found in the
head of an ass, and baldness can be cured  by the
application of bees burned to ashes.
Another recipe guarantees that ‘having eaten the
medicine for three years a man attains buoyancy of
movement and is able to travel great distances; stepping
over ﬁre, he is not scorc hed; dropped into water, he does
not get wet. He is able to appear and disappear at will. He
will be happy for ever.’Careful preparation is necessary before attempting the
work of making the elixir. In the ﬁrst place, both eastern
and western alchemy depended on astrology in calculating
the propitious times and seasons for experiments and for
compounding medicines and the elixir. Then the
alchemical work require d abstinence from certai n foods,
notably cereals and meat, for one hundred days, and a
ritual puriﬁcation which involved the use of perfumes in
washing the body and hair. The preparations should be
carried out in an uninhabited place, usually a sacred
mountain. This need for solitude in the work is insisted on
universally; it was a sine qua non for success. In China it
was the retre at to the mountain; in India to the forest ‘far
away from all unclean presence;’ in Babylon the alchemist
had to work alone, ‘a stranger shall not enter,’ while in the
West the same applied to the alchemist in his laboratory.
Ko Hung attributed the failure of the earlier alchemists,
employed by the Emperor Wu, in making gold and ﬁnding
the elixir to the fact that they attempted the work in the
palace and at court inste ad of the solitary retreat in the
mountains.
It is necessary to pay reverence to, and invoke, the
proper divinities and powers; to have faith and to be blest
by being born under the right stars. These ritual
preparations, and the condition that only initiates or
disciples are present during the work, are evident in all
branches of alchemy. ‘Common people or anything that
soils’ must be avoided and no disbelievers may be told of
the plans, for, if they blaspheme the divine medicine, the
preparation will not be successful. It is also necessary to
avoid any possibility of the evil eye. ‘Even a doctor... will
avoid being seen by fowls, dogs, children or women...
lest his reme dies lose their eﬀicacy.’ This last, however, is
at variance with the vital help given by wives who had the
necessary knowledge or ‘fate’ in cases where the man wasunsuccessful in his experiments. The Yellow Emperor, for
instance, was dependent on his Immortal maids and much
of the work needed the help of the yin female balance; in
the W est this was given by the ‘sister’ in the work.
For the ‘inne r alchemy,’ the esoteric side, to quote from
the Ts'an T'ung Ch'i, ‘Attention should be turned to the
well-being of the inner self so as to attain the state of
perfect calmness and freedom from matter. The primordial
substance, shining forth unseen, will illuminate the insides
of the body... Cessation of thought is desirable and
worries are preposterous.’ The concluding chapter of the
work makes it clear that immortality in its true sense, not
mere longevity, is to be achieved, for even a small quantity
of the elixir is enough to ‘confer tranquillity on the hun p'o
[soul], give it immortalit y and enable it to live with the
immortals.’
Chinese alchemy is full of accounts of the Pill of
Immortality, which is one of its chief distinctions from the
western branch with its emphasis on gold. The pill or elixir
has, though, close associations with the Persian haoma
and Indian soma  in that they, like the elixir, also cured
diseases as well as conferring immortality. According to
the Rig Veda, to drink soma  was to become immortal.
There is also a connection with the sacred mushroom, the
peyotl  of the Mexicans. The cult of all these substances
was based on the belief that it was possible to achieve
immortality, either by the concoction of a drug, whether
from mineral, plant or animal sources, which could both
rejuvenate and preserve the physical body, which became
so reﬁned that it developed the qualities of the hsien;  or,
alternatively, to reach the same results by yogic
techniques in breathing exercises, diet, sex and
meditation. This gave two ways of attaining immortality
suitable for diﬀerent temperaments.In preparing the elixir there are instructions as to the
control of the heat, always an important point in eastern
and western alchemy:
The ﬂame at the start should be weak as to be
controllable and should be made strong at the end.
Close attention and careful watch should be given so
as to regula te properly the heat or cold. There are
twelve divisions to the cycle. On completion of the
cycle a closer watch should be accorded. As the
breath expires, life is ended. Death expels the spirit.
The colour changes to a purple. Behold! Returned
medicine [huan tan] is obtained. This is then made
into pills. These are extremely eﬀicacious, although
their individu al size is so small that they occupy only
the point of a knife or the edge of a spatula.
If the compounding of the elixir is not properly carried
out ‘law and order will be upset’ and failure is inevitable,
‘for this is just as absurd as attempting to repair a
cauldron with glue, or to get rid of cold with ice, or as
reports of ﬂying tortoises or dancing snakes.’
On the esoteric level this control of the heat symbolizes
the need for a slow pace, within the capacities of the pupil,
at the beginning of the work; it warns the alchemi st not to
try and run before learning to walk.
The ‘Returne d Medicine’  or ‘Reverted Elixir,’ the most
prized and eﬀicacious of all, is the ‘nine-times cycled
elixir.’ This was placed in a reaction vessel and exposed to
the sun after the summer solstice. When the container
became hot a pound of cinnabar was put under the lid and
‘even while you are watching, with the full power of the
sun shining upon it, the whole content will suddenly glow
and sparkle with all the colours of divine light. It will
immediately turn into reverted elixir.’ After taking aspoonful of this you will unquestionably rise straig ht up to
heaven in broad daylight.
In the reﬁning process the highly signiﬁcant number
nine is constantly employed. There was the Divine Nine
Turn Method: putting the cinnabar through nine diﬀerent
processes in order to reﬁne it to the highest quality. It was
‘nine times subjected to the ﬁre at nine regular intervals of
time.’ This nine-times cleansing also appears in western
alchemy. The essential method in Chinese alchemy
appears to have been repeated conversion from a solid
state to a vapour, by heat in a sealed vessel, then allowing
solidiﬁcation again, this process being cyclic or a ‘turn.’
In the process of obtainin g the elixir there are the stages
of ‘red and white,’ familiar to both East and West. ‘You
must wash it until it becomes white and beat it until it
becomes red, then you will have an elixir which will endow
you with ten thousand years of longevity.’ This symbolism
appears universally in alchemy and is bound up with the
idea of the alchemist as midwife assisting the birth of the
ore from the womb of the Earth Mother. This is the white
of water and the red of blood in the birth. Also the white
ﬂower is silver, the feminine; the red ﬂower gold, the


 in divin e
right or der. Amen.DA Y 219
G o d ’ s  g r e a t n e s s  i s  a  g i f t  t h a t  I  h u m b l y  r e c e i v e.
G od’ s greatness is a gift that is of fered me, and it serves Him when I
receive i t. I have latent power that is mine to claim. I often lac k faith in
what exists within me because I lack faith in who exists within me.
T oday I accept with gratitude and humility the presence of God
within m e. I am a vehicle for the  ecstatic power of grace, always  ready to
move th rough the veins of m y consciousness and my body. God’ s
greatness is the antidote to the suf fering of the world.
God is gr eat, and God is within me for God is in my mind. I
surr ender my thoughts of br okenness and fear, to be r eplaced by
endless love. Thus shall I r ece ive the gifts of God and extend
them to the world.DA Y 220
FOR REFLECTION
O n  A c c e p t i n g  O u r  C a l l i n g
O ne o f the  most positive transition s you can make is from viewing your
work as a job to viewing it as a calling. A job is an exchange of ener gy in
which y ou do a material task an d someone provides money in exchange.
A ca lling, however, is an or ganic field of ener gy that emer ges from the
deepest aspects of who you are. It is the fulfillment of what God has
created you to be and do. Ap proaching your work as a jo b versus
approaching it as a calling make s all the dif ference in whether or not you
dwell in the miraculous universe.
Y ou hav e a calling simply because you are alive. Y ou have a calling
because you are a child of God. Y ou have a calling because you’re on
this earth with a divine purpo se: to rise to the level of your highest
creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally,
psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe  a more
beautiful place.
As you do this,  your entire life  becomes your ministry—a way to
serve God and to serve the world.DA Y 221
F o r g i v e n e s s  w o r k s  m i r a c l e s.
I n any moment, I choose where to put my focus. I can fo cus on
someone’ s guilt, or I can focu s on someone’ s innocence. By seeing
someone’ s innocence, I transcen d the ef fects that their guilt might have
had on me.
I a m only at the ef fect of what I accord reality. By for giving, I a ccord
reality to love, and therefore only love can touch me. Through
for giveness I let go of fear, to work a miracle instead.
The pow er of for giveness is a miracle of God, a shift i n
per ception fr om world to spirit, fr om past to pr esent, fr om fear to
love. It is God’ s gr eatest gift to  me and my gr eatest power. My
willingness to for give is my r efuge, my security, and my str ength.DA Y 222
I  l e t  g o  o f  m y  a t t a c h m e n t  t o  t h e  p a i n  o f  m y  p a s t.
O ften it’ s said we can be bitter or we can be better. T oday I choose not
to be bitter, for  my bitterness w ill create more reasons to be so. As I
rethink my past, for giving myself and others, I release myself from the
damage of old wounds.
My clin ging to old hurts might inspire sympathy for a time, or  even
temporary support from others. But it will not inspire invitation s to start
over, from other people or from the universe itself. I can have a
grievance or a miracle; I cannot have both.
I place my gri evances in the hands of God, and pray for
deliverance beyond my attachm ent to bitter wounds. I let go of
my grasping at what I cannot change, and pray for a miracle to
r elease me fr om my pain. I sur r ender all thoughts of judgment
and r evenge, that I might now be fr ee.DA Y 223
I  w i l l  n o t  p u n i s h  m y s e l f  f o r  t h e  m i s t a k e s  o f  m y
p a s t.
T he dark nights of my soul have taught me many things: about w here I
got it wrong and where I got it right in life; about who I’ve been and who
I c hoose to be now. I take respo nsibility for my mistakes, I atone for my
errors, I do what I can to make things right, and I allow for giveness and
mercy to wash me clean.
It ne ither serves me, nor anyone else, for me to beat up on myself
continually. Hav ing burned through appropriate remorse, I wish to move
ahead an d grow  from my mistakes. I will not stay stuck in the mire of
self-hatred. Alth ough I have ma de mistakes in my past I am n ot bound
by them  in the present—for m y atonement is sincere. God Himself
would not have me punish whom He Himself has for given.
Dear God,
Please help me accept Y our mer cy and for giveness.
May I be as kind to myself
As Y ou ar e to me.
May I begin again
W ith a heart that’ s clean of the guilt
I would lay upon myself.
Amen.DA Y 224
I  r e l e a s e  m y  c h a r a c t e r  d e f e c t s  t o  G o d.
I  kno w there ar e parts of me—how I think and behave—t hat are
dysfunctions embedded in my personality. I feel shame when I see them,
yet I will not look away. I see them and I atone for them. I release my
character defects and pray that God take them away.
I k now my defects are not wh ere I am bad, but rather where I’ve
been w ounded. But regardle ss of the events that led to their
development, I am fully respon sible for my defects now. I accept what
they are, surrendering them to God with a prayer that He pave a new
path in my consciousness. Thus  shall I, and those around me, be free of
who I used to be.
Dear God,
Please take fr om me
The things I do that deviate fr om love.
I surr ender the thinking
That binds me to dysfunction,
And pray that Y our spirit come upon me
And change me.
Return me to my essential self
That I might be in all ways
Who Y ou cr eated me to be.
Amen.DA Y 225
FOR REFLECTION
O n  S u r r e n d e r i n g  t o  G o d
S urrendering a situation to God means surrendering your thoughts about
it. Y ou’r e programming your mind to think thoughts that are the most
creative, positive, insightful, and beneficial. Y ou’re not giving up
responsibility or turning your power over to something outside yourself;
you’re taking the highest responsibility for your circumstances, asking
God to make your mind a literal touchstone for miraculous
breakthroughs. Y ou walk forward in the confidence that God provides.
Surrender make s way for a lar ger sense of self—not the false self,
but the true. It’ s an expansion o f our realization of who we are when we
allow ou r mind s to mer ge with  the field of the divine. Dropping our
sense of  physica l boundaries, we are open to the totality of our existence.
In our emptiness, we find our fullness in God.DA Y 226
I  b r e a k  f r e e  o f  t h e  t h o u g h t  o f  l i m i t s  t o d a y.
T oday I break free of a belief in limits, as there are no limits in the
Mind of God. There is no order of dif ficulty in miracles. The un iverse is
a field of quantum possibility, wherein nothing limits what love can do.
I d o not bow before the ego’ s d ictates of scarcity and lack. Rather, I
embrace the infinite abundance of God’ s universe. I face the wo rld today
knowing that anything can happ en, for there is no appearance of lack or
fear tha t can prevail upon the will of God. God is love, and fear is
illusion. Knowin g this, I am a n atural worker of miracles and a deliverer
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string whose  pitch varies as you slide your ﬁnger up and
down it.) The word that comes to mind when a scientist
thinks of such sudden changes is quantum. The word
denotes a discrete jump from one level of functioning to a
higher level—the quantum leap.
Quantum is also a technical term, once known only to
physicists but now growing in popular usage. Formally, a
quantum is “the indivisi ble unit in which waves may be
emitted or absorbed,” the deﬁnition given by the eminent
British physicist Stephen Hawking. In laym an’s terms, the
quantum is a building block. Light is built up from photons,
electricity from the charge of one electron, gravity  from the
graviton (a hypothetical quantum, not yet found in nature),and so on for all forms of energy—each of them is based on
a quantum and cannot be broken down into anything
smaller.
Both deﬁnitions—the discrete jump to a higher level and
the irreducible level of a force—appear to apply to certain
cases like Chitra’s. Therefore, I would like to introduce the
term quantum healing  to describe what happened to her.
Although the term is new, the process itself is not. There
have always been patients who do not follow the normal
course of healing. A tiny minority, for example, do not
waste away from cancer; others have tumors that grow
much more slowly than what the statistics for their
diseases predict. Many cures that share mysterious origins
—faith healing, spontaneous remissions, and the eﬀective
use of placebos, or “dummy drugs”—also point toward a
quantum leap. Why? Because in all of these instances, the
faculty of inner awareness seems to have promoted a
drastic jump—a quantum leap—in the healing mechanism.
Consciousness is a force that most of us undervalue.
Generally we do not focus our inner awareness or use its
real power, even in the most diﬀicult moments of crisis.
That may account for why “miracle” cures are greeted with
a mixture of awe, disbel ief, and reverence. Yet, everyone
possesses consciousness. Perhaps these miracles are
extensions of normal abilities. When your body mends a
broken bone, why is that not a miracle? As a healing
process, it is certainly complex, far too complex for
medicine to duplicate; it involves an incredible number of
perfectly synchronized processes, of which medici ne knows
only the major ones and those imperfectly.
The reason why curing cancer by yourself is a miracle but
mending a broken arm is not comes down to the mind-body
connection: The broken bone seems to mend itself
physically, without the intervention of your mind; yet, a
spontaneous cure of cancer—so it is widely believed—depends on a special quality of mind, some deep will to live,
a heroically positive outlook, or some other rare capacity.
This implies that there are two kinds of healing, one that is
normal, the other abnormal, or at least exceptional.
I belie ve that this distinction is false. The broken arm
mends because consciousness makes it mend, and the same
holds true for the miraculous cancer cure, the long-term
survival of AIDS, the healing by faith, and even the ability
to live to a great old age without falling prey to disease.
The reason why not everyone manages to take the healing
process as far as it can go is that we diﬀer drastically in our
ability to mobilize it.
We can see this in the way that diﬀerent people react to
disease. A minute fraction, far less than 1 percent, of all the
patients who contract an incurable disease manage to cure
themselves. A larger fraction, but still under 5 percent, live
much longer than average—this is conﬁrmed in the 2
percent of AIDS patients who have survived longer than
eight years, while the vast majority do not survive beyond
two. These ﬁnding s are not restricted to incurable disea ses.
Studies have generally shown that only 20 percent of
patients with serious but treatable disorders recover with
excellent results. That leaves nearly 80 percent who either
do not recover or only partially recover. Why is
unsuccessful healing so far out of proportion? What marks
a survivor as opposed to a non-survivor?
Apparently the successful patients have learned to
motivate their own healing, and the most successful have
gone much further than that. They have found the secret of
quantum healing. They are the geniuses of the mind-body
connection. Modern medicine cannot even begin to
duplicate their cures, because no cure that relies on drugs
or surgery is so precisely timed, so beautifully coordinated,
so benign and free of side eﬀects, so eﬀortless as theirs.
Their ability springs from  a level so deep that you cannotgo any deepe r. If we knew what their brains were doing to
motivate their bodies, we would have the basic unit of the
healing process in our hands.
—
As yet, medicine has not taken the quantum leap, and the
word quantum  has no clinical application. Because
quantum physics works with ultra-high-speed accelerators,
you may think that quantum healing uses radioisotopes or
X rays. But that is the opposite of what it means. Quantum
healing moves away from external, high-technology
methods toward the deepest core of the mind-body system.
This core is where healing begins. To go there and learn to
promote the healing response, you must get past all the
grosser levels of the body—cells, tissues, organs, and
systems—and arrive at the junction point between mind
and matter, the point where consciousness actually starts
to have an eﬀect.
The quantum itself—what it is, how it behaves—takes up
the ﬁrst half of this book. The second half then blends the
quantum into Ayurveda, making a marriage of two cultures
while trying to arrive at one answer. The scientiﬁc
worldview of the West surprisingly supports the vision of
the ancient sages of India. This is a journey that breaks
down barriers and ignores cultural fences. To me, the
whole story has to be found out. Chitra asked  me for it, and
so I am writing for her and all patients like her. Until they
ﬁnd an answer, their lives still hang in the balance.
EXPANDING THE TOPIC
Much can be said in favor of consciousness aﬀecting the
body, to the extent that the gap between “normal” healingand “miraculous” healing has closed even more over the
past few decades. The main obstacle, as far as mainstream
medicine is concerned, is a ﬁxed belief that the body
operates entirely like a physical machine. If that were so,
the following experiment would have failed.
The experiment was the brainchild of the pioneering
work of Harvard psycholo gist Ellen Langer, who as far back
as 1981 was testing the possibility that aging has a major
mental component. (The notion is actually ancient in origin.
The medieva l Indian philosopher and sage Adi Shankara
declared that people grow old and die because they see
other people grow old and die.)
In 1981, Langer took eight men in their seventies, all in
good health but exhibiting signs of age, and immersed
them for ﬁve days in an environment that was like time
travel going back to 1959, including the music and
television of the period, along with the movies and events
in the news. The men were told to act as if they were their
younger selves, becau se Langer had alrea dy done
experiments in which memory loss in the elderly could
sometimes be reversed by giving subjects an incentive to
remember. In other words, the mind was being motivated
to aﬀect the body.
Before enter ing the time-capsule environment, the men
were tested on various markers of aging such as grip
strength, dexterity, and how well they could hear and see.
At the end of the ﬁve days, the group had improved on
seven out of eight measures, including better vision, a
startling ﬁnding. They looked  younger as assessed by
outside judges. Thirty-three years ago Langer was
proceeding more or less intuitively, without the knowledge
into gene expression and neuroplasticity that we can turn
to today (more on those breakthroughs in later “Expanding
the T opic” sections).In another startling experiment, Langer went into a
retirement home and divided her subjects into two groups.
Both were given some houseplants for their room. One
group was told that they were responsible for keeping the
plants alive, and that they could make choices in their own
daily schedule. The other group was told that the staﬀ
would tend the plants, and in addition they were given no
choice in their ﬁxed daily  schedule. At the end of eighteen
months, twice as many subjects in the ﬁrst group were still
alive compared with the second group. (The same rationale
lies behind the accepted practice of giving the elderly a pet
to take care of. At the very least it improves their mood and
quality of life. It may prolong their lives as well.)
Aging and healing have in common that


 e. Y our p erceptions, interpretations, and
expectations inf luence every aspect of your mental and phys ical health.
Shifting your perspective and making new choices provide  you with
powerful tools to change your life.
The W indow to Renewal
One of the ways science makes major advances is by studying situations,
circumstances, a nd events that are the exception to the usual way things
work. These are sometimes ca lled anomalies, or exceptions to the rule.
Most sc ientists ignore anomalie s, but in fact, these are the ver y things we
should be studying. If something breaks the rule, no matter what it is, no
matter h ow infre quent it is, no matter how remote the probabili ty, it means
that a new possibility has arisen. And if a new possibility ha s presented
itself, there must be a mechanism. Even if only one person out of tenmillion c ures him self of cancer or of AIDS, we have to pay attention. Most
scientists tend to disregard eve nts that are so rare they do n ot regularly
infringe upon the prevailing view of the world. They may dismiss an
anomaly by saying that it is so rare—one in ten million—what’ s the point of
investigating it?
The point is tha t it doesn’ t matter if something happens only once in ten
million, because if it has ha ppened even once, there must be some
mechanism to account for its occurrence. And if there is a mech anism, then
as scien tists we  want to know what that mechanism is, becau se once we
understand the mechanism, we may be able to reproduce the phenomenon.
Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, and Einstein are examples of scientists
who questioned the prevailing a ssumptions of their time and exp anded their
view to include phenomena tha t had previously been ignored. These and
other great scientists paid attent ion to anomalies and sought to  understand
the mechanism that explains them. When something doesn’ t fit the
paradigm, doesn’ t fit the pattern, doesn’ t fit the theory, it forces us to
examine the model we are using. It compels us to expand or change the
theory to incorporate the exceptional situation.
A good example of this is a friend of ours who was diagnosed w ith AIDS
over fifteen years ago. He was close to death when he made the choice to
change his life. He started meditating, began eating a healthy diet, and made
the com mitment to eliminate toxins from his life. Fifteen year s later he is
feeling c ompletely well and has undetectable levels of the HIV  virus in his
blood. When we first met him, he was an anomaly, but now we know many
more pe ople like  him. Our theor y of consciousness predicts that if we reach
a c ritica l mass of people who ha ve the same experience, then it will become
true for everyone.
W e believe that these same principles apply to human aging. If we look at
recent historical  times we see that the average life expectancy  has shifted
remarkably. The average life span of a human being during the Roman
Empire was twenty-eight years. The average life span of a h uman being
born in the W estern world at the beginning of the twentieth century wasforty-nine years. Although in the past, high rates of infant mortality
influenced human life expectancy, the fastest-growing segment of the
American population today is over the age of ninety years.
A baby girl born in America today is expected to live just less than eighty
years; an infant boy has a life expectancy of almost seventy-four.
Historically, the re are many pe ople who have lived to ripe old ages and
have made major contribution s to civilization. Leonardo da V inci was
drawing sketche s in his sixties, Leo T olstoy was writing nov els into his
seventies, and Michelangelo was sculpting in his eighties. W inston
Churchill, with his fondness for cigars and Scotch, was active and
productive until  his death at age ninety. As our collective consciousness
embraces the belief that we can have the biology of youth with the wisdom
of experience, it will become the pervasive experience.
The Science of Aging
Recognizing tha t human beings do not age at the same rate, scientists have
described three dif ferent ways to characterize a person’ s age. The first is
chr onological age, which is what your birth c ertificate says. Y our
chronological age measures the number of rotations Earth has performed on
its axis and around the sun since you left your mother ’ s womb. Y our
chronological ag e cannot be altered through mind/body approaches, but it
has the least relevance to how you feel or function.
Biological age is a measurement of how well your physiological systems
are f unctioning. It is the most important component of the ag ing process.
Y our biological age is calculate d in reference to an average population of
people who have the same chronological age that you have. V alues for
almost every biochemical and physiological process can be determined for
dif ferent age groups. Known as the biological markers, or biomarkers, of
aging, these include blood press ure, amount of body fat, auditor y and visual
thresholds, horm onal levels, immune function, temperature regu lation, bone
density, skin thickness, cholesterol levels, blood sugar tolerance, aerobiccapacity, and metabolic rate (s ee the table on page 18). Once you know
your results, you can compare them with the group average and see if your
biomarkers are older or youn ger than your chronological peers. Y our
biological age can be very dif ferent from your chronological a ge. A fifty-
year -old who takes good care of herself can have the biology of a thirty-
five-year -old. Alternatively, a f ifty-year -old who has not been attentive to
his h ealth may h ave the biology of men many years older. Wh atever your
biological age is today, we believe we can alter it by implem enting the
changes recommended in this book.
Biological age is the key component of the aging pr ocess.
Psychological age is your subjective experience of  how old you feel. W e
meet ma ny people in their sixtie s who report that they feel better than they
did in their thirt ies. In prior tim es they may have been smoking two packs
of c igarettes a day, were unhappy in their jobs, and were not eating well.
Since instituting  the ten steps to reverse aging, their mental and physical
well-being has dramatically improved. They have learned to relax and enjoy
life, so although they are chro nologically older, they unequivocally feel
younger than they did years ago. Psychological age is closely linked to
biological age. When the body is functioning in a more ef ficient, ener getic
manner, we experience this vitality as feeling more alive.
Although we cannot reverse our chronological age, we can reverse the
more im portant measures of our biological and psychological age—and by
so doing can regain the physical and emotional vitality we had in the past.
The Biomarkers of Aging
AEROBIC CAP ACITY
ANTIOXIDANT LEVELS
AUDIT OR Y THRESHOLD
BLOOD PRESSUREBLOOD SUGAR REGULA TION
BODY F A T
BONE DENSITY
CHOLESTEROL AND LIPID LEVELS
HORMONAL LEVELS
IMMUNE FUNCTION
MET ABOLIC ACTIVITY
MUSCLE MASS
MUSCLE STRENGTH
SKIN THICKNESS
TEMPERA TURE REGULA TION
VISUAL THRESHOLD
Resear ch into Aging
In the 1970s, Alexander Leaf, a Harvard doctor, journeyed around the world
seeking the secret to a long, h ealthy life. He visited communities in the
southern republics of the former Soviet Union, northern Pakistan, and the
Andes Mountains of Ecuador, where it was rumored that many people were
living dy namic, vital lives well into their eighties, nineties, and beyond. In
many cases, these stories were t rue. Leaf discovered that the one consistent
feature o f these people living in widely separated regions of the world was
their atti tude about aging. Simply stated, in these societies, growing older
meant growing better; vibrant centenarians were revered for theirknowledge, phy sical vitality, and personal presence. They had the wisdom
of experience with the biology of youth.
Another interesting study was performed by Harvard psychologist Ellen
Langer. She took groups of men in their seventies and eighties and
encouraged them  to think and behave as if they were twenty ye ars younger.
After doing this for only five da ys, these men showed a number of physical
changes associa ted with age re versal. Their hearing and vision improved,
they per formed better on tests o f manual dexterity, and had improved joint
mobility.
Both of these studies tell us the same thing. Expectations determine
outcomes. If you expect your mental and physical capacity to diminish with
age, it probably will. If you have the expectations that you can grow
younger and live longer, this will be your experience. As more and more
people shift their expectation s and experience reversal of aging for
themselves, it will become the expectation


 an inferior formula.
Save your money, because your cells will see little, if any, benefit. Also, a
multivitamin containing iron, iodine or copper is not well designed because these
can cause loss of antioxidant nutrients in the formula. A formula that lists beta-
carotene without listing the source is most likely the inferior synthetic variety.
Vitamin E with a “dl” in front of it is the less desirable synthetic version. The best
solution is to research and understand the chemistry of the supplements thoroughly
or else purchase from a trusted source.
Based on what your body actually gets for what you pay, Beyond Health is the
least expensive brand and the best value on the market, which is why I recommend it
and use it myself. For more information about Beyond Health and Unique E go to
www.beyondhealth.com
 or call 800-250-3063.APENDIX C
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ERSONAL
P
RODUCTS
M
ost of the countless thousands of products on the market today do not meet my
criteria for both safety and effectiveness. Many are effective, but fail on the safety
issue. A few brands are in the acceptable category for use by most people. However,
especially for those who have health problems and are struggling to get well, I
recommend only those products that have met my standards for both effectiveness
and safety. Following is a list of products I have chosen for my own use. Most of
these are available at
www.beyondhealth.com
 or by calling 800-250-3063.
Cleaning Cloth
Most household glass, bathroom, and kitchen cleansers contain toxic chemicals
that are damaging to cells. The nontoxic answer is One Cloth. One Cloth cleans
almost anything with just water, even greasy stoves and car windshields. Use a spray
bottle with water instead of toxic chemicals. When a One Cloth gets dirty, just throw
it in the regular wash (do not use chlorine bleach and they will last through hundreds
of washings).
Deodorant
Most people use deodorants daily and are unaware that they are placing toxic
chemicals on a sensitive skin area where they can be absorbed into the body. Almost
all deodorants contain toxic chemicals such as aluminum compounds, triclosan, and
artificial fragrances, colors and preservatives. Even the “rock” deodorants are made
of aluminum salts. After two years of research, my choice is IndiuMagic.
IndiuMagic is a colorless, odorless liquid spray that is non-staining, non-allergenic,
safe, inexpensive and effective.
Fats and Oils
Certain fats and oils are essential nutrients. The body requires them every day for
good health. The problem is that most of the good fats and oils have been removed
from our modern diets and unhealthful fats and oils have replaced them. The fats andoils I choose to use follow.
Bariani Olive Oil
Most commercial olive oil is processed in a manner that damages its nutritional
content. Most of the time people are
not
getting what they
think
they are buying
when they purchase a bottle of olive oil (hence the scandal in the olive oil industry
which was first introduced to the public by my newsletter,
Beyond Health News,
and
was ultimately included in a worldwide broadcast by the BBC and by ABC news).
Almost all olive oil is processed and diluted in ways that result in the loss of
vitamins, essential fatty acids, antioxidants, and other nutrients, not to mention the
addition/creation of toxins. In my search for a healthful olive oil, I found only one
U.S. producer that’s doing everything right. Not surprisingly, this oil also has the
best flavor; the brand is Bariani.
Barleans Flaxseed Oil
Everybody needs essential fats. Flaxseed oil contains essential omega-3 and -6
fatty acids that are required for good health. In choosing an oil, look for one that is
as fresh as possible and unfiltered, so as to retain all its precious nutrients and
goodness. Barleans is my choice. It is a high-quality oil that is pressed daily, given a
four-month shelf life date stamp and expressed directly to your local health food
store.
Carlson Cod Liver Oil
Carlson Cod Liver Oil comes from the livers of fresh cod fish found in the pure
North Atlantic waters near Norway. It is a rich source of vitamins A and D along
with DHA and EPA (fish oils beneficial to human health).
Organic Ghee or Butter
Organic butter is acceptable when a fat is required, such as for frying. Do not
allow the butter to smoke, as it becomes toxic. Organic ghee (clarified butter) may
be a better choice since it lacks the milk proteins and is less allergenic than butter.
Ghee is made by removing all the milk solids and water from butter, leaving only
the fat. Ghee withstands higher temperatures well, making it ideal for cooking. My
choice is Purity Farms Organic Ghee.
Udo’s Choice Perfected Oil Blend
Udo’s Choice is a blend of organic, unrefined oils and nutritional co-factors that
balances the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids to coincide with those obtained from
traditional diets.Pesticides
Pesticides are among the most dangerous of all man-made chemicals. When we
are exposed to pesticides, not only do they harm us and our children; they harm all
life on the planet. Yet, there are times when it sure would be nice to have something
that effectively kills and repels bugs without doing harm to you, your children, your
pets, or the environment. I found such a product; it is called Orange Guard.
pH paper
pH balance is a critical part of cellular health. For monitoring the pH of urine and
saliva, pH paper in the range of 5.5 to 8.0 is ideal. pH paper in this range is available
at Beyond Health, along with guidelines on how to measure and control your pH.
Rebounding
Health is determined by many factors, including diet, toxins, genes, stress,
thoughts and emotions and
the amount of physical activity we get.
Research has
proven that the benefits of exercise are cumulative and that physical activity is
essential for health. Rebounding is a simple, easy, and inexpensive way to address
this problem without leaving your home.
If you consider buying a rebounder, do not purchase a cheap $50 mini-trampoline
at your local sporting goods store. This type of rebounder actually can do more harm
than good. Inexpensive rebounders tend to have bad springs; these cheap tube
springs do not absorb and cushion your weight properly, causing a bounce that is
abrupt and jarring. People have suffered permanent nerve damage from using such
units. Select a rebounder with fat, barrel spring that allows for smooth deceleration,
bringing you to a gentle stop. Another problem with cheap rebounders is poor-
quality matting material. Cheap mats stretch too much, do not support your feet
properly and thus place undue stress on your ankles, knees and back. By contrast,
good rebounders have high-quality mats that hold their shape and do not overstretch.
Other considerations for a rebounder include the strength of the frame, the height
and number of legs, the quality of the sewing that attaches the webbing to the mat
and the ease with which the unit can be folded, stored out of the way or made
portable. The rebounder I selected for my personal use is available through Beyond
Health.
Shampoo
All shampoos will remove oil and dirt from your hair, but the challenge is findingone without toxins. Common toxins include sodium lauryl sulfate and artificial
colors, fragrances and preservatives. Depending on the formula, other ingredients in
shampoo are capable of reacting with sodium lauryl sulfate to form nitrosamines,
which are powerful carcinogens. The brand I chose for my personal use is Aubrey
Organics. Aubrey makes a variety of shampoo products, so there is bound to be one
that is just right for you.
Skin Cream
Like shampoos, most skin creams contain a long list of highly toxic chemicals
including artificial colors, fragrances, and preservatives such as parabens (capable of
damaging sub-layers of skin even more severely than a bad sunburn— damage that
goes essentially unnoticed—until a cancer diagnosis). My search for a skin cream
that contained no toxins and only high-quality natural ingredients led me again to
Aubrey Organics, which makes a variety of safe and effective skin creams. My
favorite is their Green Tea & Ginkgo Moisturizer, which is available at quality
health and specialty stores or at Beyond Health.
Soap
Soaps generally come in either bar or liquid form and are made from either
vegetable or animal fats or synthetic detergents. There are enormous differences in
the amount of skin irritation caused by different brands of soap. Generally, soaps
made from glycerin are among the mildest. Soaps can also contain a variety of
toxins including artificial colors and fragrances as well as antibacterial chemicals. I
look for soaps that minimize both skin irritation and toxicity while still doing the
job. My favorites are soaps made by Weleda and Aubrey Organics. I also like Kirk’s
Castile bar soap and Dr. Bronner’s liquid soaps; both are effective, safe and
relatively inexpensive.
Sunscreen
This is a perspective issue more than a recommendation. Sunlight is a health
promoting, required nutrient. Sunburn, however, damages health. The answer