 most widely used juices—out of cans. Fresh-raw tomato juice is most beneficial and has an alkaline reaction
if digested when no starches or sugars are present in concentrated
form; but if these are present and eaten or drunk during the same
meal, then the reaction is definitely acid. Tomatoes have a fairly high citric and malic acid content, and
some oxalic acid. These acids are all needed and beneficial in the
processes of metabolism, provided that they are vital organic. When
tomatoes are cooked or canned, these acids become inorganic and, as
such they are detrimental to the system, although their injurious effect
is insidious and may not manifest immediately. Some instances of
kidney and bladder stones are the result of taking cooked or canned
tomato or its juice, particularly with starches and sugars. Fresh-raw tomato juice is rich in sodium, calcium, potassium,
and magnesium. There are innumerable varieties of tomatoes, all of which, if used
fresh and raw, make excellent and beneficial juices. STRING BEAN JUICE
This juice is of particular benefit to diabetics. Diabetes is a dietary
disease resulting from the excessive consumption of concentrated
starches and sugars, and is aggravated by the consumption of meat. It is definitely conceded that the hypodermic injection of Insulin
does not furnish a cure for this disease. Diabetes is not a hereditary
disease. It may, however be caused by the hereditary habit of the
excessive use of concentrated carbohydrates. The feeding of inorganic,
cooked flour and grain products and pasteurized or boiled cow's milk
to infants is the contributing factor in the development of diabetes in
children and adolescents primarily and in adults eventually. Insulin is a substance that the pancreatic gland secretes to enable
the body to properly utilize natural sugars (not the manufactured
sugars) as fuel for energy to carry on its activities. As we have
previously pointed out, the body can only use, constructively, the
natural vital organic sugars which fresh-raw vegetables and fruits
furnish in abundance. It cannot use starch nor manufactured sugars
as such, but must reconvert them into "primary" sugars. Starch is an
inorganic product and the sugars which are converted from it in the
body are, of course, also inorganic. Inorganic elements have no enzyme
life or vitality. The pancreas therefore works overtime in this
58 reconversion process, only to receive lifeless atoms in return, which
have no regenerative or constructive quality whatsoever. This results
in what is known as diabetes. The fact that excessive adipose tissues accumulates in diabetics
is the result of the false inorganic Insulin stimulus, which not only
does not burn up the waste matter, but actually helps it to accumulate. It has been found that string beans and brussels sprouts when made
into juice, contain elements which furnish the ingredients for the natural
insulin for the pancreatic functions of the digestive organism. In cases of diabetes, the entire elimination of all concentrated
starches and sugars of every nature whatsoever, and the drinking of a
combination of the juices of carrot, lettuce, string beans, and Brussels
sprouts at the rate of about two pints daily, besides one pint daily of
carrot and spinach juice, gave results which were satisfactory and
beneficial. Of course, colonic irrigations and enemas were used
regularly and liberally. TURNIP JUICE
No vegetable contains as high a percentage of calcium as the
juice of turnip leaves, the calcium being more than one-half of all the
other minerals and salts combined. It is therefore a most excellent food for growing children and for
anyone having softening of the bones in any shape or form, including
the teeth. By combining turnip leaf juice with carrot and dandelion
juice, we obtain one of the most effective means of helping the
hardening of the teeth as well as the entire bone structure of the body. The very high magnesium content of the dandelion together with
calcium in the turnip leaves and the elements in the carrot combine
to give the bone structure firmness and strength. The potassium content is also very high in turnip leaves, which
results in this being a strong alkalinizer, particularly when combined
with celery and carrot juices. It is therefore excellent to reduce
hyperacidity. Turnip leaves also contain much sodium and iron. Calcium deficiency, strange as it may sound to the uninformed,
results very frequently from drinking pasteurized cows milk. Of
course, the constant use of concentrated flour, grain, and sugar
products also results in calcium deficiency because, although these
products have an exceedingly high calcium content, this type of
calcium is just as inorganic as that used in making cement. *
•Read more on this subject in ihe Book DIET & SALADS. b> N. W Walker. D Sc. Ph. D. 59 The cells and tissues of the body cannot use these types of
inorganic calcium atoms for constructive purposes. In fact the blood
stream (as a result) must move them out of the way so they will not
interfere with its operations and activities. Just as we brush things aside that interfere with our own freedom
of action, so the blood sweeps many of these inorganic atoms into the
terminal ends of blood vessels. As the most convenient of these are
located in the rectum, they receive a gradual accumulation of this
debris until they enlarge enough to be uncomfortable, when their name
is changed to Hemorrhoids. As most people include an excessive amount of devitalized,
inorganic food in their daily meals, it is only natural to find that
probably one-half of them have hemorrhoids, and know it, while the
remainder may have them and do not know it. We have not known of a single case of hemorrhoids among the
many adults of all ages who have been lifelong abstainers from these
inorganic foods. On the other hand, we have seen an unending
procession of people victimized by attempts to cure this natural
affliction by means of injections, electric coagulation, and surgery. We had one very typical case come to our attention. It was a
prominent lawyer. His protruding hemorrhoids were painful,
distressing, and embarrassing. He suffered to such a degree that he
could not walk many blocks without having to stop in the first
inconspicuous place to propel them back into place. This gentleman had been drinking a variety of juices daily for
many months without telling anyone of his main trouble. He modified
his diet slightly, still eating his meat and potatoes, bread, doughnuts,
and other injurious foods, with little or no apparent effect on his
affliction. One day he wagered the owner of the juice bar, where he had
become a regular customer, that no juice could help hemorrhoids. The owner asked that he drink two pints of a combination of carrot,
spinach, turnip, and watercress juice daily, and follow a rigid raw
vegetable and fruit diet and watch the results. In less than one month, this lawyer came to the juice bar, jubilant,
after having been carefully examined by his physician who declared
that there was no indication whatever of his erstwhile hemorrhoids. This is not one isolated instance. This combination of juices has
helped innumerable sufferers when they did in fact adhere rigidly to
natural foods and natural methods. 60 WATERCRESS JUICE
This juice is exceedingly rich in sulphur, which represents more
than one-third of all the other mineral elements and salts combined in
the watercress. Nearly 45% of the elements in watercress are acid
forming, including sulphur, phosphorus, and chlorine. As it is a very
powerful intestinal cleanser, it should never be taken alone, but should
always be used with other juices, mixing it, for example, with carrot
or celery. Of the alkaline elements, potassium predominates, being slightly
more than 20%; calcium is about 18%; sodium, 8%; magnesium,
5%; and iron about one-fourth of one per cent. A combination of carrot and spinach juice with some lettuce,
turnip leaves, and watercress juice, contains the components essential
for the normal regeneration of the blood and particularly for increasing
oxygen transmission in the blood stream. For anemia, low blood
pressure, and low weight, this forms an excellent food combination. A combination of carrot, spinach, turnip leaf and watercress juice,
has the properties that help to dissolve the coagulated blood fibrin in
hemorrhoids or piles, and many kinds of tumors. Two pints of this
combination taken daily, when all flour and sugar products and
preferably also meat, have been eliminated from the diet, have been
found to dissolve these conditions in from one to six months in a
perfectly natural manner, provided that there has been no surgical
interference, in which event it may take longer. Read the section
coveringTurnip Juice, in which the question of hemorrhoids has been
gone into more fully. Watercress Juice is a valuable adjunct to carrot, parsley and potato
juices, as a combination to help emphysema victims. The
predominance of phosphorus and chlorine has thereby proved to be
beneficial. OH. SO YOU HAVE A COLD-HAVE YOU. Is your breathing congested. Are you sneezing. Do you have a
general "letdown" feeling. For many, many years investigators have been


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times. 6. Arm Cir cles
Start by holding your arms straight out by your side, perpendicular to
your body. Now move both arms using a circular motion, tracingrings in the air. Do ten forward circles, then ten backward circles. THE E2 EXERCISE PROGRAM
I recommend doing the following Engine 2 Exercise Program twice a
week. This will serve you well as a strength training and aerobic workout. The shorter the rest interval you take between each exercise, the better
aerobic workout you will receive. In addition, another three times during
the week enjoy a pure aerobic activity for 20 to 40 minutes. This can
include walking, jogging, biking, swimming, rowing, basketball, and/or
tennis. The goal is to get the heart rate elevated to about 70 to 80 percent of
maximum. Here is a chart to help you schedule each during the twenty-eight days.The E2 Exercise Program consists of three rounds of four exercises. All
three rounds combine simple body strength exercises along with an aerobic
exercise. Each round follows this rhythm: First you work the lar ge, powerful leg
muscles. Second, you work the upper body muscles of the chest, back,
shoulders, and arms. Third, you focus on the supporting muscles
surrounding the spine and hip area, known as the core. Each round ends
with a cardiovascular exercise to tar get the heart and lungs. Round 1
1. Legs: Body Weight Air Squats
These little puppies don’ t seem like much at first, but once you get up to 50-
plus repetitions, they rock’n’roll.Standing in front of a chair, bench, or Swiss ball with your feet shoulder -
width apart, pretend you are going to sit down, lowering your bottom until
it barely touches the surface. Then rise back up to the standing position. Form is important. Sit back into the squat with your heels, not your toes. Beginners: 10 to 15 reps.
Intermediate: 20 to 40 reps.
Advanced: 75 to 100 reps.
2. Upper  Body: Push-Ups
The standard push-up is a wonderful, time-honored body weight exercise
for everyone. Begin by assuming the plank position, or the starting position
for all push-ups: Lie down, place your toes and hands on the ground, then
push up on your arms so your back is straight, not swayed—as if there were
a plank between your head and feet. Next, lower yourself down toward the
ground, stopping when your nose and chest are one inch away. Remember
to keep your abs slightly engaged. Now push yourself up to the starting
plank position again. Beginners: Do incline push-ups. Here, instead of lying on the ground,
brace yourself against a wall, table, countertop, or desk—at any angle you
can handle. Lower yourself on a three count, hold it for one count, and then
push up on a three count. Do 10 reps.
Intermediate: Do 25 reps of normal push-ups. If you start to fizzle out,
lower your knees to the ground, take a small break, and finish the set. Advanced: Do normal push-ups, but with your right leg, then your left
leg, raised in the air for 10 reps each. Next, place both feet down for a final
20 reps, for 40 reps total. 3. Cor e: Flutter  Kicks
This is a fun exercise. Pretend you just fell of f the Titanic and your only
hope of survival depends on your being able to kick your way over to a
lifeboat one hundred yards away (you will make it, by the way!). Lie down
on your back with your hands under your tailbone. Raise your legs together
6 to 12 inches of f the floor. Now move one leg up and one leg down in a
deliberate, scissors-type motion. Each kick counts as one repetition. (Concentrate on keeping your lower back pressed down into the floor to
avoid straining your back.) Beginners: 20 reps.
Intermediate: 100 reps.
Advanced: 200 reps.4. Cardiovascular: Squat Thrusts
This exercise works the heart and lungs as well as developing your agility,
timing, coordination, and strength. Begin in the standing position with your
hands by your sides. Now bend over and place your hands on the ground in
front of each foot. Keep your legs slightly bent. Next, throw both legs
behind you like a kicking donkey so you are in the plank pose. Immediately
bring both legs back up to your chest so you are once again in the squatting
position. Last, stand back up. Beginners: Walk your legs back one at a time into the plank position
instead of thrusting them, then walk back into the squatting position, then
stand up: 10 reps.
Intermediate: Squat down, donkey-kick your legs out into the plank
position, thrust them back in to your chest, and then instead of standing up,
jump in the air: 20 reps.
Advanced: After thrusting your legs out into the plank position, add a
push-up, then thrust your legs back to your chest and stand: 30 reps. Round 2
1. Legs: Lunges
The standard lunge is a graceful and dynamic exercise, and a must for
anyone who wants to build leg strength, improve balance, and get chiseled
muscles.Start by standing upright with your feet shoulder -width apart. Take a
large step forward with your right leg and lower yourself until your thigh is
parallel with the floor or your opposite knee gently hits the ground. Next,
push backward of f the same leg and return to the starting position. Repeat
with the left leg. This completes one lunge repetition. (Be sure to keep your hands by your side or on your hips for balance and
stability; don’ t rest them on your thighs.) Beginners: 5 reps.
Intermediate: 10 reps.
Advanced: 20 reps, and holding 5- to 10-pound weights in each hand. (The weights may be in the form of canned goods, heavy pieces of fruit, or
even the blocks of cheese and meat you’ll be throwing out.) 2. Upper  Body: Seated Chair  Dips
This exercise feels like a breeze at first, and then about three quarters of the
way through, it starts to burn—but so very nicely. Sit in a chair or on a bench, then slide yourself forward so your bottom
starts to fall of f the front. Grasp the front of the chair or bench with your
palms placed downward and your fingers pointed forward. Keep your feet
pointed upward so your weight is on your heels and not your toes. Lower
yourself with a straight back until your arms are at a 90-degree angle. Now
push yourself back to the starting position. Beginners: Keep your knees bent at 90 degrees, with the soles of your
feet on the ground, going down until your arms are parallel with the chair: 5
to 10 reps.
Intermediate: Place your legs straight out in front of you with heels on
the ground: 30 to 50 reps.
Advanced: Use the same form as intermediate, but do 60 to 80 reps.

3. Cor e: Plank Pose
This core exercise works the abs, the pelvic floor, the hips, and the
stabilizing muscles of the back. Get ready for a sweet burn and, perhaps, to
shake like a leaf. When doing this exercise, remember to engage your abs and extend out
through your head and through your feet. I challenge you to work up to 5
minutes of this—if you can, you are an Engine 2 workout animal! To do the plank pose, lie facedown and place your toes and elbows on
the ground. Then push up so your back is perfectly straight. Beginners: 30 seconds. Stay in this pose for as long as possible, but use
your knees if necessary (take as many 5-second breaks as you need until
you can work up to 30 seconds). Intermediate: Stay 2 minutes (take 2-second breaks if necessary). Advanced: Hold on for 5 minutes (or at least 4)! 4. Cardiovascular: Jumping Jacks
This is an old-time favorite that you probably did in middle or high school
gym class. It is an excellent cardio exercise, especially when performed
very fast. Start in a standing position with your hands by your sides. Jump up
while spreading your legs apart and touching your hands together over your
head. After you land, jump up again, this time bringing your legs back
together and your arms by your sides. The move counts as one jumping
jack. Beginners: 20 reps.
Intermediate: 50 reps.
Advanced: 100 reps.
(For the really advanced, try Funky Feet Jumping Jacks: Do a regular
jumping jack, followed by one in which you place your right foot forward
and left foot back, then another placing your left foot forward and right foot
back. Finally, do another regular jumping jack.) Round 3
1. Legs: Step-UpsI loved doing this exercise when I trained for triathlons. I’d run a quarter
mile, do ten step-ups with each leg, and then run another quarter mile. It
was a nice simulation of how it felt to run after working out my legs on the
bike. I now incorporate step-ups into my firefighter exercise routine to aid
in developing my leg strength, for when I have to climb stairs carrying a lot
of equipment. Find a step or a


 xation p ose, for about
five even, slow breaths before moving on to the next pose. Headstand — Salamba Sirsasana : This pose is for advanced yoga
students only. If  you’re new to doing headstands, it’ s best to use a wall as a
support. Bring your mat to the  wall. Begin the pose on your hands and
knees about five inches away from the wall. Come down to your elbows,
and fold your h ands in front of you. Y our folded hands and elbows will
form a triangle. Make sure y our elbows are directly underneath your
shoulders. Lock your shoulders and shoulder blades back toward your spine
to have a strong support. Open  the palms of your folded hands and bring
your thu mbs straight up. Y ou’re forming a cup for your head. P lace the top
of y our head on the floor, with the back of your head in your cu pped hands. Lift your pelvis in the air so y ou’re standing on your tiptoes, as in the
dolphin pose. Y our body will lo ok like an upside-down letter V. W alk your
feet toward your elbows. When you feel ready, lift your legs straight up and
toward the wall. Y ou might want to do one leg at a time. Y ou can rest your
legs on the wall and then readju st your posture to maintain the  pose. Stay
for up to three minutes. As you hold your headstand, the crown of your
head will barely touch the floor. T o come down, gently lower one leg at a
time. Go  into child’ s pose (balasana) as a counterpose: lower your hips to
the floor, and then extend your torso forward and rest it between your
thighs, with your forehead on the floor. Healing the Emotional and Energetic Body
By the time you arrive at the seventh chakra, you have worked through
blockages in your emotional body and have brought awareness to your
shadows. Through your practice of meditation, you will experience
increasingly frequent peak states and moments of bliss.P EAK  S T A TES
Chances are, you have had mom ents in your life when everything seemed
perfect. In these moments you w ere on top of the world. Life flowed, and
you kne w that nothing could go wrong. Y ou may have been ta king care of
your bab y, maki ng love, or wor king on a passion project. Mayb e you were
just walking in n ature or observing a sunset, and time stood still while you
experienced wonder and awe. Peak states are when you transcend space and time. At first, these
moments seem to come out of nowhere. They’re amazingly perfect, and you
don’ t w ant them to end. But when you try to grasp them or make them
occur ag ain, the y don’ t come w hen you want. For example, yo u go hiking
and hav e a marvelous feeling of connectedness, and then you tell a friend
about it, ur ging her to join you the next time. Y et the next time isn’ t quite as
magical, and you’re disappoi nted because you really wanted her to
experience the same feeling you had. That is generally how peak states
work. They happen when you mer ge into oneness through surrender, but
you can’ t necessarily replicate them. The more you practice meditation and
accept t he seventh chakra’ s spiritual gifts, however, the more readily you
will experience peak states. B LISS
I describe bliss as an extended peak state. In peak states, you experience
bliss. Bu t because of the turmoi l of the mind, as soon as you realize you’re
in bliss your mi nd comes in and gives you reasons why you s houldn’ t be,
and the peak state ends. That pesky mind of yours (and mine) can be a big
buzzkill. Bliss is not happiness. Happiness is a transitory state that is based on
external factors such as people, places, or things. Bliss comes from a place
that is internal. It comes wh en you repeatedly turn inward through
meditation, and over time you will find that you can remain there for
extended periods. Once you attain bliss, it can’ t be taken away from you. Y our bliss comes from oneness with God and divine unconditional love. Healing the Spiritual Body
Y ogastah, kuru karmani. Established in being, perform action. — B HAGA V AD  G IT A  2:48
E ST ABLISHED IN  B EING
Most people search their whole  lives for a solid spiritual connection but
never attain it. Remember the song lyric “Looking for l ove in all the wrong
places”? Many look for enlight enment in all the wrong places, such as in
material items, experiences, and other people. They are constantly
searching the world outside the mselves for the answers, when the answers
they seek are inside. When y ou finally come to an understanding that your spiritual
connection is here — that it never left you and that you can experience it
now — you may  crave it all the time. It can be all too easy to want to stay
in bliss and joy. So you want to do yoga five days a week, spend hours daily
in medit ation, a nd attend as ma ny spiritual gatherings as you can for fear
that this  connect ion might leave you. As a former yoga studio owner, I have
seen yoga students search for bliss in the same way they might search for a
buzz from alcohol. They need it and feel that they “gotta have it.”
T rue peace comes from a seventh chakra awakening that you don’ t need
to chase something that is ever present. Y our peace, joy, and bliss are there
when you wake up, eat breakfast, do the dishes, dress your kids, go grocery
shopping, drive, and do thousands of other things as you go about your day. In th e Hindu sp iritual text the Bhagavad Gita, which means th e “Song
of the Lord,” Arjuna, a warrior, has a conversation with his charioteer,
Krishna, who is God incarnate. Arjuna is worried about many things and
does not  want to perform his duty out of fear. Krishna helps Arj una see that
as long as he is connected to God, he can let go and perform  action. It
comes from the realization th at he, Arjuna, is not in char ge of what
happens; God is. When you’re aware that you are  tethered to God, your actions, whatever
the outc ome, are  divinely guided. But you have to let go of fear and plungeinto your daily activities. B. K. S. Iyenga r, one of the greatest yogis of our modern age, was a
householder. He  had a wife and kids. He explains that staying true to your
duties as a hu sband, provider, and father is enlightenme nt. As an
enlightened bein g, you’re no good to the world if you stay hidd en in a cave
or a n en closed room, living alone and meditating all day. Part of living an
enlightened life is going out there, established in being — meaning
connected to God and your higher self — and actually living. The grea t sages and saints of all  time, from whom we have learned, did
this. For  example, Jesus of Nazareth spent three years of his life, leading up
to his death, fac ing all kinds of adversity. He didn’ t say, “I’m j ust going to
stay ove r here and pray to my Father and meditate. Apostles, y ou guys go
out and preach for me.” He went out there and healed the sick, talked about
God to people who thought he was not only crazy but also an imposter, and
inspired thousands with his words, all while people were plotting to kill
him. T alk about taking action! Another aspect of living life es tablished in being is authenticity — in
other w ords, being yourself. Y ou are not Mahatma Gandhi or Mother
T eresa, n or could you be them if you tried. Even in enlightenment, you are
still you. Y ou have your personality, your unique gifts and talents, and your
flaws. Many seekers try to be just like the spiritual masters the y love. But,
of course, when they try to be someone else, they invariably fall short. They’re left wearing a mask, and they become unauthentic. Since I’ m a yoga and meditation teacher, I meet all types of  people. Some people in New Age circles try to be perfect spiritual beings. They
speak their own language, alw ays talking about the chakras and saying
words in Sanskrit. That’ s well an d good, but there can be a disingenuous air
to it all. I’ve seen the same thin g in Christian circles too. Just because you
understand spiritual truths doesn’ t mean you must act a certain way and use
a dif ferent vocabulary. In fact, w hen you really understand spiritual truths,
you bec ome even more down-to-earth. Y ou’re even more in touch with
what it means to be human. Y ou can relate better to humanness


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Kartikeya for their help, interest and support in the completion of this book.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: Who are the authors of this book?,
A: Dr. Ravi Ratan and Dr. Minoo Ratan
Q: What is the focus of the book?,
A: The focus of this book is on providing a health perspective on the chakra system, not on promoting kundalini awakening practices.
Q: What is the purpose of the book?,
A: The purpose of the book is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the chakra system and its association with health, as well as to demystify the concept of chakras and their attributes.
Q: What is the significance of the gunas in the context of the chakra system?,
A: The gunas (tamas, rajas, and sattva) are associated with the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, and ether) and are necessary for the functioning of the lower chakras, as they are interdependent and help in the process of evolution.
Q: What is the significance of the five elements in the context of the chakra system?,
A: The five elements (earth, water, fire, air, and ether) are associated with the lower chakras and are necessary for the functioning of the body, as they are interdependent and help in the process of evolution.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Ether is considered to be the most vital of the five elements, as without
space no movement or circulation is possible. Without circulation everythingwill become so gross that life simply cannot exist. This element is associated
with the vishuddhi (thr oat) chakra. The importance of the five elements in our lives can also be recognised
through the fact that our physical bodies can survive without food (which
nourishes the earth element) for about 21 to 30 days and without water for
seven to 10 days. If our body temperature moves beyond or below the
normal range of temperature we can survive for only a few hours. Air
sustains life; without air we can survive only for a few minutes. This body of
ours is a potential space. Our blood, lymph, breath, food and everything in
the body moves because there is space inside; without the space we will just
be dead. When a person dies all the energies leave the physical body along
with the space, which is why bodies turns rigid. Ayurveda insists on the
balance of the fiv e elements as the f oundation of good health. Nadis
Our bodies ha ve four main systems of distrib uting prana:
◼ The circulatory system: comprising arteries, veins and lymphatic
systems. ◼ The nervous system: including the central, sympathetic and
parasympa thetic nerv ous systems. ◼ The endocrine system: comprising various ductless glands that
regulate body physiology and various aspects and functionings of the
physical bod y through the secr etion of hor mones. ◼ The nadis: the conduits of ener gy in the subtle bod y.The subtle body consists of a channel system of energy known as nadis. The word ‘nadi’ originates from the Sanskrit word nad, meaning ‘mo vement’. According to Rig Veda (sacred text) it also means ‘stream’, although the
literal meaning of nadi is ‘flow’. As part of the circulatory system the physical
body has various streams such as arteries, veins and lymphatic vessels; these
are channels for the flow of consciousness. As both negative and positive
energy flow into the body through a complex circuit like meridians, similarly
consciousness flows into the body through nadis. The ego or ahamkara does
not reside in the ph ysical bod y but in the subtle bod y, and moves in the nadis. When awakened the dormant energy of kundalini also works through the
nadis. According to tantric texts, there are 72,000 nadis (channels) in our body
that are the conduits of pranas. Of these numerous nadis, 10 are significant
and three of those 10 are the most significant; they form the basis of
kundalini tantra. T hese three nadis ar e:
◼ ida (left or lunar nadi), r epresenting the cooling ener gy of the moon
◼ pingala (right or solar nadi), representing the heating energy of the
sun; and
◼ sushumna, which is closely associated with the spine and spinal
cord at the subtle level. Sushumna runs through the centre of the
energetic spine and corresponds to the spinal canal; chakras are
strung upon it like lotuses. Sushumna, considered to be the most important of all of the nadis, starts
at the muladhara (base root) chakra and culminates at the sahasrara (crown)
chakra.From a numerological perspective 7 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 0 adds up to 9, which
in a spiritual sense is considered to be the number of completion. This is why
mala or prayer beads have 108 or 54 beads, both of which add up to 9. Our
physical body has nine openings or doorways through which we experience
the world, and the pranas can enter or leave the physical body from these
doorways. The nine body openings are associated with our sense organs: two
eyes, two nostrils, two ears, the mouth, the anus and the genitals. Most of the
nadis begin or ter minate at these openings. Control of the nadis enables us in turn to control the ego, the mind and
the senses, as the pranas moving with the breath kindle the body’s fire and
are carried to the mind. Nadis move in the body through each and every part, being the subtle
counterpart of the physical flow of nervous energy and blood. They are not
described in terms of structures but rather as conduits or channels. Ida
represents conscious energy and knowing, while pingala is vital and life-
giving; they are roughly translated as mind and body. As we discuss the
polarisation of the individual, mind and body themselves are polarised but
complementar y to each other. Ida represents the moon’s energy and pingala
the energy of the sun. Sushumna, representing the spirit or consciousness, is
supreme and is the c hannel for kundalini shakti. The ancient discipline of swar yoga (the yoga of breath) states that our
temperament and nature change according to the dominance of our
breathing nostrils. At any given time our breath does not come in equal
volume through both nostrils, except for a brief period. Most of the time one
nostril is more active and dominant than other one, and this dominance
alternates between left and right nostrils in a r egular pattern. The left nostril is associated with the ida nadi, which connects with the
right hemispher e of the brain, while the right nostril is associated withpingala nadi, which connects to the left hemispher e of the brain. The
movement of energy through these nadis, from one hemispher e to the other,
happens simultaneously with the change of breath from one nostril to the
other. Therefore, when the right nostril dominates pingala is active and the
left hemisphere dominates. When the left nostril dominates ida is active and
the right hemispher e dominates. When both nostrils operate evenly both
hemispher es operate in unison. When energy concentra tes in the left hemispher e, solar energy is drawn
by the right nostril and a person becomes more active, verbal, intellectual,
extroverted, ambitious, creative and masculine. Conversely, when the right
hemispher e dominates it draws on lunar energy through the left nostril, and
a person is characterised by femininity, passivity, introversion, emotional
responses and orienta tion to sight and sound. The three nadis — ida, pingala and sushumna — start from the
muladhara chakra at the pelvic floor. From here sushumna flows directly
upwards within the central canal to the sahasrara chakra, while ida passes to
the left and pingala to the right, crisscrossing each other at each higher
chakra. Sushumna flows inside the central canal of the spinal cord, while ida and
pingala flow simultaneously on the outer surface of the spinal cord but still
within the bony vertebral column. In human physiology, these two nadis
roughly correspond with the two halves of the autonomous nervous system:
the sympathetic and the parasympa thetic. Pingala coincides with the
sympathetic nerves, which are responsible for stimulation and the
acceleration of activities; it tends to utilise a lot of internal energy. The
sympathetic nerves speed up the heart, dilate the blood vessels, increase the
respiration rate and intensify the ef ficiency of the e yes and ear s and so on.The parasympa thetic nerves directly oppose the sympathetic nerves as
they reduce the heartbeat, constrict the blood vessels and slow the breathing
rate so that a person becomes an introvert. The flow of prana in ida and
pingala is completely involuntary. Basically, the pingala nadi represents the
components of action and controls all of the vital processes, while the id


ives within are invariably fashioned from the past. It is yesterday’s
hurt that I am defending against today, last year’s glory  I want to
relive, a bygon e love I want to nd again. The boundary-m aker who
wields such enormous power  over us is the intellect, the part of the
mind that judges and categorizes our experiences. We have already seen that the mind creates boundaries for its
own self-prote ction. Because it can push dangerous feelings out of
sight, shoving our childhood fears and primal aggression back down
into the underworld of the unconscious, the intellect plays a crucial
role in making us feel safe. Anytime we nd ourse lves in a
psychologically threatening situation, the mind faces a decision. “Will this perso n hurt me? Is it dangerous to feel this emotion? DareI say what I really think?” Whatever answer the mind  comes up
with becomes the provisiona l reality we act upon, and the shifting,
jumbled heap that these provisional realities amount to is Reality
itself. Since life never ceases bringi ng us a new wave of challenge every
day, the intellectual decision s we make spin on forever. The number
of questions that arise over the tiniest experience is awe inspiring. Is
it desirable or undesirable? To be repeated or not to be repeated? Right or wrong, good or bad, nice or nasty? Once each decision is
made, it gets led away in memory, to serve as a referenc e point for
future experience. Let us say that my rst time horseback riding
made me feel better / was good / nice / worth repeating. The next
time I think of going riding, these judgments will color my decision. They do not force me to get back up on a horse, but I cannot totally
discard them either. Two years ago I gave a lecture in Germany. A woman came up
afterward to say that she worked for a large municipal aquarium
and had often observed an interesting phenomenon there. Whenever
the thick glass partitions in the main tank were pulled out to be
cleaned, the sh would swim  right up to the spot where the glass
used to be, and just before crossing it, they would turn back, warded
o by a barrier that didn’t really exist. My imagination was quite caught by this observation. Our own
uncrossable boundaries are nothing more than wrinkles in our mind
that another wrinkle labels as too ugly, fearful, loathsome, or
terrifying to confront. If I see an old enemy who insulted me ten
years ago, I will nd it almost impossible to overlook my former
injury. The old judgments crop up in my mind automatically,
erecting a wall, and the person who could be my friend is shut out,
rejected in advance. In turn, when he senses my coldness, his
defenses are raised, until we both nd ourselves hiding behind
barricades that serve no purpose, that lack all reality. The moment
soon passes, and yet there has been no relationship at all, only the
stale repetition of outworn memories. And the most frustrating part
is that my tormentor today is myself left over from yesterday.The rishis pondered this problem posed by the intellect, which is
like a bread knife, constantly  cutting the ow of life into neat slices
of experience, each one labeled and judged. They saw that this
slicing up of reality, although necessary to the thinking process, was
basically false. Life is a river, not a dripping faucet. The rishis
therefore contended that any experience which depends upon slices
of time and space is not an experience at all. It is a ction, a
shadow, a notion of life that has no actual life in it. By endlessly
interpreting the world in bits and pieces, we are losing it at every
instant, allowing it to slip through our ngers like sand. To have
reality that is whole and thus truly real, one must rise above the
intellect, discarding its neat slices of experience. Like day-old bread,
they only go stale anyway. “I Am the Field”
In place of a world sliced up into bits and pieces, the rishis oer
us a continuum—a owing river—that begins inside our awareness,
expands to create all the things and events “out there,” and then
returns to its source, dissolving back into awareness again. Ultimately, the rishis’ perception can only be tested by rising to
their state of consciousness. But let us suppose that they might be
right. Then it should be possible, if only for an instant, for us to see
what they saw. A teacher I know from Oregon, now in his early
forties, apparently had just such a glimpse as he was meditating. The experience began in familiar territory:
When I started to meditate one morning, I felt as if a
powerful magn et was pulling me down into myself. For some
minutes I continued to sink deeper and deeper, using no
eort on my part, until all sense of outside stimuli faded
away. I sat with my breathing stilled, but my mind was alert
in the unbroken silence. I knew that I had transcended to the
point where my individual self had dropped out completely,
taking with it all sense of time, space, direction, or any kind
of thought.At this juncture, a person usually continues to experie nce the
transcendent silence or else begins to rise toward the surface of the
mind, carried by a sudden thought or feeling. However, this time
something new happened. Out of the absolutely uniform  eld of silence, a faint point of
awareness arose. It was the most delicate feeling of “I-ness,”
just a wisp of personal consciousness, and with it came the
sensation of “turning”—that is the only way I can describ e it. This turning must have acted  as a spark, because sudden ly I
was surrounded by an enormous expanse of light. There was
nothing existin g but light, and I intuitively knew it to be
intelligence, or consciousness, taking on visible form. Even though I was sitting with my eyes closed, I could see
that everythin g outside myself was also made of the same
brilliant white light. My body, the tables and chairs, the walls
and windows, the building and all that lay beyond it—
everything was molded from this intelligent light, which
pulsated with life. After a moment or two the light gradu ally
faded. I was left alone, sitting in silence again, but now it was
dierent, as if I had swallow ed the world and for the rst
time felt full. Extraordinary as this experi ence is, it strikes me as even more
remarkable that my friend found it normal  He said that the
“turning” which sparked his vision could also be called a “self-
reection.” In other words, he felt that behind the alluring surface
of his vision, he was actually catching sight of himself. After a
lifetime of being distracted by things “out there,” he nally saw the
seer. Yet we can’t fully comprehend his experience until we get
closer to what  this inner “turning” of awareness is and how it can
carry us out of ourselves into the eld where light and mind,
nothing and everything, mingle as one. It is extremely intriguing that the word “eld,” which modern
physicists use to describe the most fundamental forces in nature,
was a divine word in ancient India. When Lord Krishna reveals hisinnite greatness to the warrior Arjuna in the Bhagavad-Gita, he
says, “Know me as the eld and as the knower of the eld.” The
Sanskrit word, kshetra, can mean a battleeld (Arjuna and Krishna
happen to be talking in the middle of a battleeld, just before two
mighty armies clash), but the deeper meaning of kshetra  comes very
close to what a physicist means when he says “quantum  eld” or
“electromagnetic eld.” These elds are innite and all-pervasive;
without them, reality could not exist. Lord Krishna was making the
same point about himself. Before there can be a photon of light, there must be the eld of
light; before an individual electron, the eld of electricity; before an
isolated bar magnet, the earth’s magnetic eld. The eld of light
that my friend saw as the source of everything around him was not
a physical eld, however, but a eld of awareness. He was
perceiving his consciousness as light, but this is not so dierent from
ordinary perce ption as it might seem. When we see light, our brains
are actually selecting totally abstract qualities from out of the eld
and interpreting them as light. In fact, everything we see, touch,
hear, taste, or smell has been selected from the innite reservoir of
vibrating energy in the eld. Think of a rose leaf and a rose thorn. Both are nourished by the
same sunlight, being constantly bombarded by the sun’s entire light
spectrum. Photosynthesis is basically the same in each, and if you
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 long, long life. These drugs being patented, the tariff gets a lot steeper compare d to taking vitamins. (Since they are naturally -occurring
substances, vitamins can't be patented and therefore, aren't big -profit items. Perhaps that's one reason the FDA is so covertly
opposed to vitamins. ) Right now it would be quite possible to spend ma ny hundred dollars per month on a life extension program
that included most of these potentially beneficent prescription drugs. As more of life -extending substances are discovered, the cost of participating in a maximally effective life extension prog ram
will escalate. However, those who can afford chemically enhanced functioning will enjoy certain side -benefits. Their productive,
enjoyable life spans may measure well over a century, perhaps approaching two centuries or more. Some of these substances
greatly improve intelligence so they will become brighter and have faster reaction times. With more time to accumulate more
wisdom and experience than "short livers" these folks will become wiser, too. They will have more time to compound their
investment a ssets and thus will become far more wealthy. They will become an obvious and recognizable aristocracy. This new
upper class will immediately recognize each other on the street because they will look entirely different than the short -lived poorer
folk and w ill probably run the political economic system. And this new aristocratic society I see coming may be far more pleasant than the one dominated by the oligarchy we now have
covertly running things. For with greater age and experience does really come gr eater wisdom. I have long felt that the biggest
problem with Earth is that we did not live long enough. As George Bernard Shaw quipped when he was 90 (he lived to 96), "here  I
am, 90 years old, just getting out of my adolescence and getting some sense, and  my body is falling apart as fast as it can. " Vitamin Program For The Sick
    No matter which way you look at it or how well insured you may be against it, being sick is expensive (not to mention what it
does to one's quality of life), and by far the best thing to do is to prevent it from happening in the first place. However, most people
do not do anything about their health until forced to by some painful condition. If you are already sick there are a number o f
supplements you can take which have the potential to shorten the duration and severity of the illness, and hopefully p revent a
recurrence. The sicker you are, the more supplements you will require; as health is regained, the dosage and variety of substances can be
reduced. In chronic illness, megadoses of many nutrients are usually beneficial. Any sick adult should b egin a life extension
vitamin program unless they are highly allergic to so many things already that they can not tolerate many kinds of vitamins a s
well. In addition to the life extension program, vitamin C should be taken by the chronically ill at a dose  from 10 to 25 grams
daily, depending on the severity of the condition. Many people want to know whether or not they should take their regular food supplements during a fast. On a water fast most
supplements in a hard tablet form will not be broken dow n at all, and often can be seen floating by in the colonic viewing tube
looking exactly like it did when you swallowed it. This waste can be avoided by crushing or chewing (yuck) the tablets, befor e
swallowing. Encapsulated vitamins usually are absorbed, b ut if you want to make sure, open the capsule and dump it in the back of
your mouth before swallowing with water. Powdered vitamins are well absorbed. On a water fast the body is much more sensitive to any substance introduced, so as a general rule it  is not a good idea to take
more than one half your regular dose of food supplements. Most fasters do fine without any supplements. Many people get an
upset stomach from supplements on an empty stomach, and these people should not take any during a water f ast unless they
develop symptoms of mineral deficiencies (usually a pre -existing condition) such as leg cramps and tremors, these symptoms
necessitate powdered or well -chewed -up mineral supplement. Minerals don't taste too bad to chew, just chalky. The same suggestions regarding dosage of supplements for a water fast are also true for a juice fast or vegetable broth fast. O n a
raw food cleansing diet the full dose of supplements should be taken with meals. There exists an enormous body of data abou t vitamins; books and magazine articles are always touting some new product or
explaining the uses of an old one. If you want to know more about using ordinary vitamins you'll find leads in the bibliograp hy to
guide your reading. However, there is one "old " vitamin and a few newer and relatively unknown life extending substances that are
so useful and important to handling illness that I would like to tell you more about them. Vitamin C is not a newly discovered vitamin, but was one of the first ever id entified. If you are one of those people that just hate
taking vitamins, and you were for some reason willing to take only one, vitamin C would be your best choice. Vitamin C would be
the clear winner because it helps enormously with any infection and in i nvaluable in tissue healing and rebuilding collagen. If I
was going on a long trip and didn't want to pack a lot of weight, my first choice would be to insure three to six grams of vi tamin C
for daily use when I was healthy (I'd take the optimum dose –ten g rams a day –if weight were no limitation). I'd also carry enough
extra C to really beef up my intake when dealing with an unexpected acute illness or accident. When traveling to far away places, exposed to a whole new batch of organisms, frequently hav ing difficulty finding healthy
foods, going through time zones, losing nights of sleep, it is easy to become enervated enough to catch a local cold or flu. If I have
brought lots of extra vitamin C with me I know that my immune system will be able to conqu er just about anything –as long as I
also stop eating and can take an enema. I also like to have vitamin C as a part of my first aid kit because if I experience a
laceration, a sprain, broken bone, or a burn, I can increase my internal intake as well as app ly it liberally directly on the damaged
skin surface. Vitamin C can be put directly in the eye in a dilute solution with distilled water for infections and injuries,  in the ear
for ear infections, and in the nose for sinus infections. If you are using the acid form of C (ascorbic acid) and it smarts too much,
make a more dilute solution, or switch to the alkaline form of C (calcium ascorbate) which can be used as a much more
concentrated solution without a stinging sensation. Applied directly on the skin C in solution makes a very effective substitute for
sun screen. It doesn't filter out ultraviolet, it beefs up the skin to better deal with the insult. I believe vitamin C can deal with a raging infection such as pneumonia as well or better than antibiot ics. But to do that, C is
going to have to be administered at the maximum dose the body can process. This is easily discoverable by a 'bowel tolerance test'
which basically means you keep taking two or three grams of C each hour, (preferably in the powdere d, most rapidly assimilable
form) until you get a runny stool (the trots). The loose stool happens when there is so much C entering the small intestine t hat it is
not all absorbed, but is instead, passed through to the large intestine. At that point cut ba ck just enough that the stool is only a little
loose, not runny. At this dose, your blood stream will be as saturated by vitamin C as you can achieve by oral ingestion. It can make an important difference which type of vitamin C is taken because many people are unable to tolerate the acid form
of C beyond 8 or 10 grams a day, but they can achieve a therapeutic dose without discomfort with the alkaline (buffered) vita min
C products such as calcium ascorbate, sodium ascorbate, or magnesium -potassium asco rbates. Vitamin C also speeds up the healing of internal tissues and damaged connective tissue. Damaged internal tissues might includ e
stomach ulcers (use the alkaline form of vitamin C only), bladder and kidney infections (acid form usually best), ar thritic disorders
with damage to joints and connective tissue (alkaline form usually best). Sports injuries heal up a lot faster with a therape utic dose
of vitamin C. As medicine, vitamin C should be taken at the rate of one or two grams every two hours (d epending on the severity
of the condition), spaced out to avoid unnecessary losses in the urine which happens if it were taken ten grams at a time. If  you
regularly use the acid form of vitamin C powder, which is the cheapest, be sure to use a straw and di ssolve it in water or juice so
that the acid does not dissolve the enamel on your teeth over time. And this is as good a point as any to mention that just like broccoli is not broccoli, a vitamin is not necessarily a vitamin. Vitamins are made by chemi cal and pharmaceutical companies. To make this confusion even more interesting, the business names
that appear on vitamin bottles are not the real manufacturers. Bronson's Pharmaceuticals is a distributor and


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the food raw. It is my considered opinion that most, almost all, the credit for
"The Town Without a Toothache"—which is also a town with
relatively little tummy ache or othe r common ills when  these foods are
used in natural state—is due the soil in which our food and feed crops
grow. It is a soil richer than any other I know about in life-giving minerals and activators. The reader will ask: Why cannot the farmer in other parts have
his soil analyzed to see what it lacks, when matched against the
formula for a completely fertile  soil—and then add the needed
elements? Theoretically, I see no reason why that cannot be done, but in
practice the thing is di fficult. However, desp ite that "conservation
day" program on the Widow Thrasher's farm in Maryland a few years
back, and the many shows of that sort put on over the country, it is a
fact that soil which has been wearing out or washing away over a
hundred years cannot be rebuilt in a day. Restoring the soil is a long
slow process—like growing cover crops and plowing them under. It is true, however, that a lot can be done with a rundown and
worn-out farm toward making it immediately productive. First, add a
generous supply of humus in the form of cow manure, or leaf mold or
plowed under trash. Finally add a mixture of more compost. If the
land slopes, better terrac e it to keep the rain from carrying off the soil
and the fertilizer with it. A field th at is so treated will grow a better
crop of wheat, corn or beans, which would analyze high the essential
food minerals, but, I dare say, it will not match wheat grown in our
Deaf Smith County mineralized soil. That wheat is so valuable and so
rare, that I agree with my fellow researcher, A. W. Erickson: "There
should be an act of Congress to prohibit the use of wheat grown in the
high plains mineralized area for any other purpose than food for man." The same statute ought to prohibit the refining of that wheat for
man's food. I would add a clause fo rbidding the manufacture and sale
of white flour. In fact, that process is an act of robbery. It strips the
wheat of the minerals and vitamins essential to body building. To
obtain the full food value of wheat use it freshly ground—but use the
whole grain. In Bernard Macfadden Health Review (September, 1950), I find
support for my theory. The editor-publisher headlines his leading article: "Death Penalty in Russia, Im prisonment in England... for
Selling White Bread." Mr. Macfadden cites his own 50-year fight
against white flour, and he comments:
"We still have white bread... now enriched with synthetic
elements but this does not in any wa y equal the superior food that is
supplied by the whole grain... Nature's way of building human
strength." Only lately the findings of Dr. Ar thur J. Mitteldorf, with Armour
Research Foundation in Chicago, have added immensely to the weight
of evidence concerning the need of trace elements in food that both animals and people consume. The spectograph used for chemical analysis will reveal the
presence of trace elements which ordinary methods pass by. If those
elements are missing from the green grass, hay or grain that the milk
cow, beef steer, pig or laying hen feeds upon, the animals suffer
certain ills. There is evidence that folks who consume the milk, butter, beef, pork or eggs will suffer the same sort of deficiencies—or
anyway "may not be as healthy as they could be." All toll, there are about 20 elements, says Dr. Mitteldorf, which
animals must have in adequate amounts, if they are to keep in the pink
of condition. There are oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, phosphorus, potassium, nitrogen, magnesium, calcium and sulphur. Those may be called the basic elements which the living body requires to keep
functioning. Among the trace elements, Dr. Mitteldorf mentions six as
essential to the plans upon which animals and humans feed: Copper,
boron, iron, manganese, molybdenum and zinc. He lists four others as essential to animals, though plants can do without them, sodium, cobalt, chlorine and iodine. Now, as Dr. Mittledorf explains, it is impossible to find the trace
elements, let alone measure them with a kit containing a few
chemicals. That is like seeking a missing person, with no clues at all to
his whereabouts among the million residents of a large city. As yet only a few farmers give a thought to supplying their soil
with trace elements. The greater number do not know there is such a
thing. Those who do, mostly lack facilities for analyzing their soil for
the trace minerals. By shotgun methods they easily can put out too
much copper, boron or chlorine, and thereby damage their crops. Spectographic analysis is expensive but once the job is done, the
farmers over the entire area will be informed as to what elements they
should add for a completely fertile soil. As a rule, it takes very little
per acre to do the job. A ton of hay contains one-tenth of an ounce of
boron. To supply that only about 10 pounds of borax to the acre is
needed. That is true as to all the other trace minerals. The farmers' immediate need, says Dr. Mitteldorf, is to get a full
scale analysis of the different kinds of soil and the crops that grow in
each kind. When that was done, the experts could compile deficiency
tables, showing exactly what was needed to make each kind of soil completely fertile. Then the farmer could take a sample of his soil to
the county agent to get it typed. A look at the tables would show him
what trace elements he must add and how much of each to get his soil
just right. Reader, I have said, and I now repeat, that the fluorine needed for
preventing tooth decay were best adde d to the soil rather than to the
drinking water, as several cities ar e doing experimentally. Care would
be needed not to supply too much and thus damage crops. Still, the
tests made for Deaf Smith County indicate that the growing plants
would not store up enough fluorine to harm the people who consumed
them as food. The Twining Laboratori es in California found up to 790
p.p.m. of fluorine in Deaf Smith County wheat. Compare that with 2.2 p.p.m. in the Hereford drinking water. Yet people eat the wheat
without being poisoned. The fluorine in the wheat is organic hence
non-poisonous. A COMPARATIVE TABLE
 Reader, suppose we put the two lists side by side:

I. Mineral elements in the
human body as shown by
spectograph analysis:

1. Calcium
2. Phosphorus 3. Potassium
4. Iron
5. Copper
6. Zinc 7. Chlorine
8. Sodium
9. Magnesium
10. Manganese 11. Sulphur
12. Boron
13. Aluminum
14. Fluorine
15. Iodine 16. Nickel
17. Arsenic
18. Silver II. Elements in Deaf Smith County
wheat as revealed by a recent
spectograph analysis: by
Twining Laboratories at
Fresno, California :
1. Calcium
2. Phosphorus 3. Potassium
4. Iron
5. Copper
6. Zinconium
7. Chlorine 8. Sodium
9. Magnesium
10. Manganese
11. Sulphur 12. Boron
13. Aluminum
14. Fluorine
15. Iodine
16. Nickel 17. Strontium
18. Chromium
19. Molybdenum
20. Silicon

CHAPTER 28. HOW PURE MILK BUILDS SOUND TEETH
 Reader, would you like to have my formula for building sound
teeth in one line? Well, then, here it is:
Drink plenty of pure raw milk every day. I have observed in routine exam inations of school children's
mouths here in Hereford that the children whose families kept cows,
as a rule, had perfect teeth. It is also true, almost without exception, that my adult patients
who had lived until middle age or older without tooth decay had been
heavy milk drinkers all their lives. My theory is that milk, through the medium of native grass— or
better, green wheat—that the cow fe eds upon, takes up the essential
body-building (and that includes tooth-building) elements from our
mineralized soil and makes over those elements into a form that the body can assimilate more readily than it can assimilate any other foodstuff. That, of course, is the effect which Dr. C. A. Pierle, Canyon
chemist, had in mind when, at the outset of my investigation, he gave
me that wise counsel: "Watch the milk drinkers." I am convinced that
where a person drinks plenty of pure raw milk, it makes up for the
deficiencies in poor food otherwise. During my 30 years dental
practice in Hereford, I cannot recall having found a patient with a bad
mouth who had consumed milk enough in his diet. That is assuming
that the milk was taken raw, not pasteurized. One difficulty is that so much milk is


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 improve my prognosis over the next few years. He asked me tothink it over, but he signed me up on his surgery list for the following Monday. I did think it over and found I was profoundly annoyed at the idea of being
treated like I was just a statistic, so I decided that I would be unique. I made afirm decision that I would be well and stay well—and I was for the next fifteenyears. The decision healed me. When I was 37 I had a recurrence. At the time I had in residence Ethyl and
Marge, the two far-gone breast cancer cases I already told you about. I also hadin residence a young woman with a breast tumor who had not undergone anymedical treatment, not even a lumpectomy. (I will relate her case in detail shortly. )I was too identified emotionally with helping these three, overly-empathetic due to
my own history. I found myself taking on their symptoms and their pain. I went so
far into sympathy as to grow back my tumor—just as it had the first time—a lumpmushroomed from nothing to the size of a goose egg in only three weeks inexactly the same place as the first one. Just out of curiosity I went in for a needlebiopsy. Once again it was judged to be malignant, and I got the same pressurefrom the surgeon for immediate surgery. This time, however, I had an alternativesystem of healing that I believed in. So I went home, continued to care for myvery sick residents, and began to work on myself. The first thing I had to confront about myself was that I was being a
compassionate fool. I needed to learn how to maintain my own personalboundaries, and clearly delineate what stuff in my mind and my body was reallymine and what was another’s. I needed to apply certain mental techniques of self-protection known to and practiced by many healers. I knew beyond doubt that Ihad developed sympathetic breast cancer because a similar phenomena hadhappened to me before. Once, when I had previously been working on a personwith very severe back pain with hands-on techniques, I suddenly had the pain,and the client was totally free of it. So I protected myself when working with sickpeople. I would wash my hands and arms thoroughly with cold water, or withwater and vinegar after contact. I would shake off their “energy,” have a coldshower, walk bare foot on the grass, and visualize myself well with intactboundaries. These prophylaxes had been working for me, but I was particularlyvulnerable to people with breast cancer. I also began detoxification dieting, took more supplements, and used
acupressure and reflexology as my main lines of attack. My healing diet consistedof raw food exclusively. I allowed myself fruits (not sweet fruits) and vegetables(including a lot of raw cabbage because vegetables in the cabbage family such ascauliflower and broccoli are known to have a healing effect on cancer), rawalmonds, raw apricot kernels, and some sprouted grains and legumes. I drankdiluted carrot juice, and a chlorophyll drink made up of wheat grass and barley
green and aloe vera juice. I took echinaechia, red clover, and fenugreek seeds. I
worked all the acupuncture points on my body that strengthen the immune system,including the thymus gland, lymph nodes, and spleen. I also worked the meridians,and reflex points for the liver, and large intestine. I massaged the breast along thenatural lines of lymphatic drainage from the area. Last, and of great importance, I KNEW that the treatment would work, and
that the tumor would quickly disappear. It did vanish totally in three months. Itwould have gone away quicker if I had water fasted, but I was unable to do thisbecause I needed physical strength to care for my resident patients and family. Eighteen years have passed since that episode, and I have had no further
reappearance of breast tumors. At age 55 I still have all my body parts, and havehad no surgery except the original lumpectomy. Many, viewing my muscles andathletic performance, would say my health is exceptional but I know my ownfrailties and make sure I do not aggravate them. I still have exactly the same organdeficiencies as other cancer patients and must keep a very short leash on mylifestyle. If for some reason I wanted to make my life very short, all I would have to do
would be to abandon my diet, stop taking supplements, eat red meat and icecream every day and be unhappy about something. Incidentally, I have had manyresidential clients with breast cancer since then, and have not taken on theirsymptoms, so I can assume that I have safely passed that hurdle. I’ve helped dozens of cases of simple breast cancer where my treatment
began before the cancer broadly spread. Kelly’s case was not the easiest of thisgroup, nor the hardest. Sometimes there was lymphatic involvement that themedical doctors had not yet treated in any way. All but one of my early-onsetbreast cancer cases recovered. I believe those are far better results than achievedby AMA treatment. Before I crow too much, let me stress that every one of these women was a
good candidate for recovery—under 40 years old, ambulatory and did not feel
very sick. And most importantly, every one of them had received no other
debilitating medical treatment except a needle biopsy or simple lumpectomy.None of these women had old tumors (known about for more than six months)and none of the tumors were enormous (nothing larger than a walnut). Clearly, this group is not representative of the average breast cancer case. Hygienic therapy for cancer is a radical idea these days and tends to attractyounger people, or older, desperate people who have already been through theworks. In every one of my simple cases the tumors were reabsorbed by the bodyduring the thirty days of water fasting and the client left happy. Except one. I think I should describe this unsuccessful case, this “dirty case,”
so my readers get a more balanced idea of how fearsome cancer really isn’t if thesick person can clearly resolve to get better and has no problem about achievingwellness. Marie was an artisan and musician from Seattle who grew up back East in an
upper-middle class dysfunctional family. She was in her late twenties. She hadbeen sexually abused by an older brother, was highly reactive, and had neverbeen able to communicate honestly with anyone except her lesbian lover(honestly?, maybe, about some things). Three years prior to coming to see me Marie had been medically diagnosed as
having breast cancer and had been advised to have immediate surgery. Sheignored this advice; Marie never told her friends, said nothing to her family andtried to conceal it from her lover because she did not want to disrupt their life. On her own she did begin eating a Macrobiotic diet. In spite of this diet, the
tumor grew, but grew very slowly. After two years the tumor was discovered byher lover, who after a year of exhausting and upsetting arguments, forced Marie toseek treatment. Since Marie adamantly refused to go the conventional medicalroute, she ended up on my doorstep as a compromise. By this time the tumor was the size of a fist and had broken through the skin of
the left breast. It was very ugly, very hard. Biokinesiology showed the usual
deadly triangle and other associated organ weakneses typical of cancer. Marie
began fasting on water with colonics and poultices and bodywork and counselingand supplements. At the end of the water fast, Marie looked much healthier, withclear eyes and clear skin and had a sort of shine about her, but the tumor had onlyreceded enough for the skin to close over it; it was still large, and very hard. Tofully heal, Marie probably needed at least two more water fasts of equal lengthinterspersed with a few months on a raw food diet. But she lacked the personaltoughness to confront another fast in the near future. Nor was she emotionally upto what she regarded as the deprivation of a long-term raw foods healing diet. So I advised her to seek other treatment. Still unwilling to accept standard
medical management of her case, Marie chose to go to the Philippines to have“psychic surgery.” She was excited and optimistic about this; I was interestedmyself because I was dubious about this magical procedure; if Marie went Iwould have a chance to see the results (if any) on a person I was very familiarwith. Marie had her tickets and was due to leave in days when her lover, againstMarie’s directly-stated wishes, called her parents and informed them of what washappening. The parents had known nothing of Marie’s cancer and were shocked, upset,
outraged! They had not known Marie was a lesbian, much less that their daughterwas flirting with (from their view) obvious quackery. Their daughter neededimmediate saving and her parents and brother (the one who had abused her) flewto Oregon and surprisingly appeared the next day in a state of violent rage. Theythreatened lawsuits, police, incarceration, they threatened to have their daughtercivilly committed as unable to take care of herself. They thought everything Mariehad done for the last three years was my fault. I was lucky to stay out of jail. Ofcourse, all of this was why Marie had not told them in the first place; she hadwanted to avoid this kind of a scene. Marie did not have enough personal integrity to withstand the domination of
her immediate family. They put her in a hospital, where Marie had a radical
mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. Assured that they had done everything
that should have been done, the self-righteous parents went


 thoughts will then become what you say in silent, prayer-like
messages to yourself: I am success; I am abundance. When you’re success
itself, when you’re abundance itself, you’re in harmony with the all-creating
Source, and it will do the only thing it knows how to do. It will be endlessly
giving and forthcoming with that which has no resistance to it—namely,
you. You’re no longer vibrating to scarcity; your every individual
vibrational utterance is in concert with what you summon from your
Source. You and your Source are one in your thoughts. You’ve chosen to
identify thoughts of resistance and have simultaneously decided to stay out
of your own way. As you practice allowing and living the faith of least resistance, success
is no longer something you choose; it’s something that you are. Abundance
no longer eludes you. You are it, and it is you. It flows unimpeded beyond
your resistance. Herein lies another clue to the free flow of abundance: You
must avoid becoming attached to and hoarding what shows up in your life.Abundance, Detachment, and Your Feelings
While it’s crucial for you to have a firm vibrational match-up with the all-
creating abundance of intention, it’s just as crucial for you to know that you
can’t hang on to and own any of the abundance that will be coming your
way. This is because the you that would like to hang on to and become
attached to your success and your wealth is not really you, it’s that
troublesome ego of yours. You’re not what you have and what you do;
you’re an infinite, divine being disguised as a successful person who has
accumulated a certain amount of stuff. The stuff is not you. This is why you
must avoid being attached to it in any way. Detachment comes from knowing that your true essence is a piece of the
infinitely divine field of intention. It’s then that you become aware of the
importance of your feelings. Feeling good becomes much more valuable
then polishing your jewelry. Feeling abundant surpasses the money in your
bank account and transcends what others may think of you. Genuinely
feeling abundant and successful is possible when you detach yourself from
the things you desire and allow them to flow to you, and just as important,
through you. Anything that inhibits the flow of energy stops the creating
process of intention right where the obstacle is erected. Attachment is one such roadblock. When you hang on to that which
arrives, rather than allowing it to move through you, you stop the flow. You
hoard it or decide to own it, and the flow is disrupted. You must keep it
circulating, always knowing that nothing can stop it from coming into your
life except any resistance you place in its way. Your feelings and emotions
are sensational barometers for detecting resistance and evaluating your
ability to experience success and abundance. Paying attention to your feelings. Your emotions are the inner
experiences that tell you how much of the divine energy you’re summoning
for the manifestation of your desires. Feelings can be measuring tools that
gauge how you’re doing in the manifestation process. An exceptionally
positive emotional response indicates that you’re summoning the divine
energy of intention and allowing that energy to flow to you in a nonresistantmanner. Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, unmitigated optimism,
unquestioned trust, and even illumination indicate that your desire to
manifest success and abundance, for example, have an extremely strong
pulling power from the universal Source to you. You must learn to pay
close attention to the presence of these feelings. These emotions aren’t just
facets of your life that are empty of energy—they’re agents that are in
charge of how you clean and purify the connecting link to intention. These
emotions tell you precisely how much of the life force you’re summoning,
and how much pulling power you have going for you at that moment. Abundance is the natural state of the nature of intention. Your desire for
abundance must flow free of resistance. Any discrepancy between your
individual intention or desire, and your belief concerning the possibility of
summoning it into your life, creates resistance. If you want it but believe it’s
impossible or that you’re unworthy, or that you don’t have the skills or
perseverance, then you’ve created resistance and you’re disallowing. Your
feelings indicate how well you’re attracting the energy necessary for the
fulfillment of your desire. Strong feelings of despair, anxiety, blame, hate,
fear, shame, and anger are sending you the message that you want success
and abundance but you don’t believe it’s possible for you. These negative
feelings are your clues to get busy and balance your desires with those of
the universal mind of intention, which is the only source of that which you
desire. Negative emotions tell you that your pulling power from intention is
weak or even nonexistent. Positive emotions tell you that you’re connecting
to and accessing the power of intention. Concerning abundance, one of the most effective ways to increase that
pulling power from intention to you is to take the focus off of dollars and
place it on creating abundant friendship, security, happiness, health, and
high energy. It’s here that you’ll begin to feel those higher emotions, which
let you know that you’re back in the match game with the all-creating
Source. As you focus on having abundant happiness, health, security, and
friendships, the means for acquiring all of this will be flowing toward you. Money is only one of those means, and the faster your vibrational energy
around abundance radiates, the more money will show up in significant
amounts. These positive feelings as indicators of your pulling power forsuccess and abundance will put you into an active mode for co-creating
your intentions. I’m not suggesting that you just wait for everything to fall into place. I’m
suggesting that by declaring, I intend to feel successful and attract
prosperity, your emotional energy will shift and you’ll act as if what you
desire were already true. Your actions will be in harmony with the faces of
intention, and you’ll be provided with what you are, rather than attempting
to be provided with what’s missing. At this point in my life, I refuse to participate in any desire unless I have
total, nonresistant knowing that it can and will manifest into my life from
the all-creating Source of intention. My desires for personal indicators of
abundance have all manifested by practicing what I write here, and in the
ten-step program that follows. I’ve been able to allow by removing
resistance and connecting to my originating, all-creating Source. I trust in it
completely. Over the years, I’ve learned that when I’ve desired something
seemingly impossible, I felt poorly as a result. I then figured that I should
desire less, but all that did was make me even further removed from the
unlimited power of intention. I was still in vibratory disharmony with the
abundance of the universe. I began to understand that my being in harmony with abundance didn’t
cause others to be poor or hungry. On the contrary, the abundance I created
gave me the chance to help eradicate poverty and hunger. But the
significant awareness was realizing that I had less of a chance to help others
when I was in the lower frequencies. I learned that I had to get myself into
vibratory harmony with my Source. One of my reasons for writing this
chapter in this fashion is to convince you that you don’t have to ask for less,
or feel guilty about wanting abundance—it’s there for you and everyone in
an unlimited supply. I live and breathe what I’m writing here about success and abundance. I
know beyond any doubt (resistance) that you can attract abundance and feel
successful by absorbing the messages of this chapter, which, like theabundance you seek, have flowed from that universal Source through me
and onto these pages. There’s no discrepancy between my desire to write it
all out here and my willingness to allow it to flow unimpeded to you. How
do I know this? My emotion in this moment is ineffable bliss, serenity, and
reverence. I trust this emotional state, which indicates to me that I’ve been
utilizing a very strong pulling power to create these messages from the all-
creating Spirit of intention. I’m in vibratory harmony and abundance, and
feelings of success are my intentions herewith manifested. Try it on
anything you’d like to see flowing abundantly into your life. Making Your Intention Your Reality
Below is a ten-step program for implementing the intention of this
chapter—that is, to feel successful and attract abundance into your life:

Step 1: See the world as an abundant, providing, friendly place. Again, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at
change. When you see the world as abundant and friendly, your intentions
are genuine possibilities. They will, in fact, become a certainty, because
your world will be experienced from the higher frequencies. In this first
step, you’re receptive to a world that provides rather than restricts. You’ll
see a world that wants you to be successful and abundant, rather than one
that conspires against you. Step 2: Affirm: I attract success and abundance into my life because
that is who I am. This puts you into vibratory harmony with your Source. You goal is to eliminate any distance between what you desire and that from


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doubt we’d be so lucky this time! The terrible reaction that does take place when you touch poison ivy
or poison oak is because of the irritating oil in the plant called urushiol. This oil will stick to just about anything, so if your towel or clothes brush
past a plant and you touch it before washing it, you can get a rash. The
rash is not contagious, but can be spread if you touch something else
before the urushiol has been washed off of your hands/skin/clothes.Poison Ivy & Poison Oak
-Urushiol will penetrate the skin,
sinking into the lower layers of the
dermis and wreaking havoc. If you
know you touched the plant, wash
the affected area ASAP with cold
water. Cold water is important-
warm or hot water will open up
your pores, which is like laying out
the welcome mat for urushiol. -The rash, assuming it is not
unusually severe; will clear on its
own within a week or two. -Because it is an allergic
response, some people will
have a more violent reaction to
poison ivy or poison oak, while a
small percentage of people are
completely immune to it. -An ounce of prevention is worth
a pound of cure here. If you are
in an area with poison ivy or
poison oak, be aware of not only
yourself, but of your pets as well! A dog that runs past poison ivy
can easily spread the oil onto your
skin the next time you reach down
for a well-intended pat on the
back. 201Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingBentonite clay is an incredible substance, particularly when it comes to anything that is irritating your skin. Not
only does it soothe your painful rash, but it can help dry it out if you have blisters. It also acts as a natural shield
against urushiol-in fact; it is the base of an OTC topical medication targeted as a shield against exposure to the
dreadful oil. It will also actively draw oil out of your skin-hence why it is used as a face mask for people with oily
skin.Bentonite Clay
-1 tablespoon of bentonite clay
-Fresh water1. Mix a little fresh water with the dry bentonite clay until a paste forms. 2. Spread thinly over rash to soothe it. Y ou can reapply this as often as
needed, but for the best effects rinse off the old layer first. 202Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Poison Ivy & Poison OakY ou will need… DirectionsBaking soda can help heal, soothe, and dry your rash. Toss in a handful of dried oats as well-they will make the
water silky and soothing.Baking Soda Bath
-1 cup of baking soda
-1 cup of dried oats
-Cheesecloth (optional)1. Fill a bathtub with warm water. When it’s halfway full, add 1 cup each of
baking soda and oats. 2. Soak for as long as needed for relief. To keep the oats from clogging
up your drain, try wrapping them in a piece of cheesecloth and tying it
off. 203Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Poison Ivy & Poison OakY ou will need… DirectionsNothing is worse than being driven crazy by an itch you can’t scratch! I would say that part of the healing
process of the rash is possibly the most brutal, but it’s important you don’t scratch to reduce the risk of infection,
and potential scarring. When you have healing scabs or blisters, spritz a little of this on to relieve the itch. The
eucalyptus can help with inflammation and creates a cooling sensation. The witch hazel will also help with
inflammation and itching, as well as drying out any open blisters. It has been commonly used to treat chicken
pox because it gives such great relief. Anti-Itch Spray
-1 tablespoon any liquid oil
-A small spray bottle -Witch
hazel
-1 tablespoon of any liquid oil
-5 drops eucalyptus essential
oil1. Fill your spray bottle almost full, leaving room to add the oils. Once
you’ve added them secure the top of the bottle and shake well. Spray
directly onto rash for relief. 204Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Poison Ivy & Poison OakY ou will need… DirectionsSummer is a glorious time and people revel in it, but as with all things
good, there must be some kind of bad. In this case, it’s sunburn. Too much time spent in the sun results in your skin being totally
bombarded with UV rays. When our skin is exposed to these rays, it
ups its production of melanin, the pigment that gives our skin its color. This is why you get tan-all the extra pigment acts as a shield for the
deeper layers of skin, and subsequently make your skin appear darker. Genetically, people with fair skin will always produce less melanin, and
thus will be more likely to burn. They simply don’t have enough of a
shield. The opposite holds true for people with darker skin. I used to burn. A lot. I am not fair skinned by any means, but I was
getting treated for acne and that made me extremely susceptible to
burning. I spent more nights than I care to remember lying in bed with a
fan pointed at me, slathered in aloe. Prevention is the best thing you can do here, but if you end up burned
anyways, don’t despair at a long and painful healing time-the remedy is
probably just in your kitchen.Sunburn
-The first thing you probably want
to do is hop in a cold bath or
shower-don’t. That cold is going
to make your pores seal off as
they try to trap heat-the last thing
you want with sunburn. The best
temperature is tepid, or lukewarm,
water. Cucumber Lotion
-If you’re in a pinch, a chilled
mashed up cucumber will work as
well! 205Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingOne of the easiest and quickest ways to bring about relief is in the form of a cucumber. Not only does the
plain old coolness of it work, but it also has analgesic (pain-killing) properties. The addition of sage adds to the
cooling sensation, and helps with circulation, helping skin heal faster. The aloe vera gel is simply unbeatable
when it comes to soothing burned skin.Cucumber Lotion
-1/2 cup fresh sage leaves
-1 fresh, crisp, cucumber
-Sieve and cheesecloth
-A pestle
-Boiling water
-Glass jar
-Aloe vera gel 1. Bring a pot of water to a boil. 2. Take your sage leaves and place them in a heat safe bowl. Just barely
cover with boiling water, and leave to steep for 20 minutes. 3. While the sage steeps, grate a fresh cucumber and place in
cheesecloth lined sieve. 4. Place the sieve over a bowl-NOT the one with sage-and use a pestle
(or something similar) to push the cucumber through the cheesecloth,
releasing its juice. 5. Strain your sage leaves, and then mix the infused water with the
cucumber juice, now adding in the aloe vera gel. Bottle, refrigerate, and
apply as needed as often as you’d like. Use it within 1 ½ weeks. 206Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com SunburnY ou will need… DirectionsThis cream contains several ingredients, including water, witch hazel, aloe vera gel, mint leaves, and baking
soda, all of which relieve sunburn for various reasons. Aloe is an obvious go-to, while water works as a good
medium for the cream. The witch hazel contains properties (resin, procyanadins, and flavonoids specifically)
that help lessen inflammation, and in turn lessen the pain caused by it. The menthol in mint creates a cooling
sensation, and baking soda also helps with inflammation while fighting off infection (in case you have scratched
at it.) Y ou can experiment by adding or subtracting other helpful ingredients to find out what works best for you.DIY Burn Cream
-1 tablespoon of witch hazel
-2 tablespoons of aloe vera gel
-2 ¼ teaspoons of baking soda
or cornstarch
-1-2 cups of fresh mint leaves,
or 1/2 teaspoon of peppermint
oil
-2 tablespoons fresh, clean,
water 1. If you are using peppermint leaves, place them in a pot and add just
enough water to cover them. Bring the water to a boil and then simmer
for 1 hour before straining. Use this water in place of the fresh water
called for in the ingredients. 2. Stir the cornstarch or baking soda into your water, making sure it is
cool if you are using infused. 3. Place all of your ingredients in a food processor and blend until
thoroughly incorporated. 4. Transfer to a glass jar or similar container with a tight fitting lid, and
store in the refrigerator for 24 hours to let the cream fully infuse. Y ou
can then apply as needed. Making some ahead of time and keeping it in
the refrigerator ensures that you will always have a handy cream to heal
any sunburn you get during the hot summer months. This will