This  is the Explanation  of so many  Blessed  Precious
Ones.  There  are hundreds  today  who  are interested  in
Christian  Science,  who  have  had  that  exact  experience.
Sometimes,  they  fear  to go and ask why  or what  the reason
is. Let Me say to you tonight,  Precious  Hearts:—there  is not
one thing  in the whole  wide  world  of human  creation,
which  any  human  Being  in the Understanding  of his or 202 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
her "I AM  Presence,"  should  fear;  and  using  the terminol-
ogy of the blessed  Christian  Scientists,  they  mal  practice
themselves  and  do not know  it.
We have  no preference  for any  one!  We  state  the Law.
We love  every  one—the  Christian  Scientists,  Unity,  the
orthodox  people,  all mankind.  We  love  them  equally  the
same;  but  We  never  hesitate  to tell them  their  short  com-
ings.  If they  have  made  mistakes,  they  should  be strong
enough  to see it and  hear  it kindly.
It does  not matter  in what  source  your  seeking  has been;
THERE  IS ONLY  ONE  PLACE  IN THIS  UNIVERSE
WHERE  YOU  CAN  FIND  TRUE  PEACE,  REST  AND
SUCCESS.  IT IS TO  KNOW  IN  YOUR  FEELING,
YOUR  OWN  GOD  PRESENCE,  AS IT IS PICTURED
ON THAT  CHART!  IT IS THE  ONLY  PLACE  IN
ALL  THE  UNIVERSE,  BECAUSE  THE  "I AM  PRES-
ENCE"  BEATS  THE  HEART  OF  EVERY  HUMAN
BEING;  AND  GIVES  LIFE  TO  EVERY  HUMAN
FORM;  AND  THERE  IS NO  OTHER  ANYWHERE
IN THE  UNIVERSE!
To think  of God  as an Omnipresence,  is but to receive
a fragmentary  part  of Its Power.  Only  as you  have  an
Individualized  Focus,  can  you  have  a Greater  Power.  For
instance,  take  your  reading  glass:  if you  hold  it focused,
the sun  comes  thru  and  sets  the paper  on fire.  If you  keep
moving  the  reading  glass,  there  is not such  a focus.  This
is a very  good  simile  of mankind's  thought  and  feeling,
which  is swinging  all the time,  from  one  thing  to another. DISCOURSE  VIII  203
When  you  understand  your  Presence,  then  you  can
focus  your  attention  upon  the  Goal;  upon  the  objective
of your  Victory  thru  your  attention.  The  Energy  will  flow
there—the  Energy  from  the Presence,  perform  the Service
and win  the Victory  every  time.  Where  your  attention  is,
there  your  Life  and  Energy  flow.  If it be on the Presence,
the Energy  flows  in. If it be on the lower  things  of Life,
destruction  flows  into  your  Life  Energy  and  destroys  your
human  form.
Precious  People,  bear  with  Me  a moment.  Feel  this
deeply,  as I show  it to you!  Your  Life  follows  your  atten-
tion,  and  flows  to the objective,  upon  which  your  attention
is fixed  and  you  cannot  prevent  it! Therefore,  if your  at-
tention  has  been  fixed  upon  human  creations  and  limita-
tions,  you  have  to experience  human  limitations  and  cre-
ations  in your  world.  When  you  turn  it to the Presence  and
hold  it there,  keeping  your  feeling  harmonious,  you  will
quickly  begin  to release  a Greater  Intensification  of the
Light  and  Energy  from  your  Presence;  which  will  flow  in,
harmonize  and  produce  Instantaneous  Results  at your  Call.
It requires  momentum!  It requires  continued  activity!
When  we say—turn  to your  Presence,  we do not mean  all
day long;  but powerfully  and  definitely  several  times  a day.
There  are  a few  people  who  can  turn  instantly,  who
have  never  known  of the Presence;  and  feel  It so instantly
in their  feeling  and  intellect,  that  they  can upon  the issuing
of a Decree,  have  it fulfilled,  but those  people  are not many.
According  to the FEELING  OF  INTENSITY,  can  they 204 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
have  Those  Results;  but  if your  nature  is such  you  need
to make  definite  application,  then  do not hesitate  to con-
tinue,  until  the Results  are there.
Your  Application  to your  Presence  cannot  fail!  It is Self-
Luminous,  Intelligent  Substance  which  goes  forth  at your
Call;  there  is nothing  to resist  and  there  is nothing  can  in-
terfere  with  That  Light  which  goes  forth!  It will  dissolve
all unlike  Itself  as It goes  forth.  It is the Power  of the
Universe!  Therefore,  as you understand  It, and  as you make
your  Call  and  realize  why  It is not just  a Principle  of Life,
energy  and  action,  you  will  know  why  That  Light  cannot
be resisted.  It is because  the Light  is Self-Conscious  Intelli-
gence—Self-Luminous  Intelligent  Substance.
It is why,  Dear  People,  the most  terrific  viciousness  ever
focused  at two  human  beings,  has  been  focused  at these
Messengers,  for no reason  at all; but it does  not touch  them
nor interfere  with  This  Activity.  This  is why  We sometimes
take up these  points  with  the Blessed  Students;  because  for
the people  who  try to injure  them,  it is a pitiful  thing.  In-
dividuals  who  send  out  destructive  thoughts  and  feeling
will reap  them—every  one!
The Messengers  never  wished  harm  to any  human  Be-
ing in their  lives  and  never  shall.  They  love  and  bless  every
human  Being—even  those  who  criticize  and  condemn  them
and send  vicious  projections  at them.  They  know  the Law
and they  are living  It; but  the unfortunate  human  Beings
who  will  not  believe  that,  will  have  to reap  their  vicious-
ness sent  out.  They  are most  unfortunate  indeed,  for one DISCOURSE  VIII  205
day, they  will  understand  how  great  has been  their  mistake.
This  is why  We take  these  things  up concerning  your  ac-
tivities  definitely  and  clearly,  so all may  understand,  if they
will.  You  are soon  going  to have  to choose  whether  you  will
control  your  feeling  or not.  That  is why  I say this,  so pos-
itively.  Do not ever  look  around  and  blame  any  one else  for
anything.  You  are the only  person  who  is concerned.  If a
mistake  seems  to be made,  call  the Presence  into  action  to
correct  it and  take  your  mind  off it. Then  you  will  be Free!
IT IS THE  ONLY  WAY!  In this  Great  Release  of Light,
Power  and  Energy,  only  when  you  are ascended,  will  you
come  to know  how  great  has been  the Blessing  of this  night
and of this  day.  Sometimes,  We long  to release  within  you
the All-seeing-eye  which  makes  no mistakes;  so you  might
see what  is going  on in your  so-called  invisible


 2 meals daily, 6 days a week doesn’t burden and
exhaust the body’s digestive system and body’s bowel
eliminative powers ( we fast for 24 to 36 hour period
weekly). On this Bragg Healthy Lifestyle program, youdon’t overeat, you educate your bowels to move soon
upon arising and usually you have a bowel evacuation
within an hour after lunch and an hour after dinner.
Most people are sick or half sick most of the time. It
is our opinion that they enervate and overwork  their
body and exhaust themselves in trying to burn up allthose extra calories from all the excess foods they
consume!!! We don’t overeat and the only exception we
ever make for snacking between meals is to have someluscious, juicy organic fruit. In mid-afternoon, we have
a juicy organic apple or fresh pineapple, mango or
papaya. When melons are in season, we find nothingmore refreshing than sweet, ripe melons; our favorites
are watermelon, cantaloupe, casaba and honeydew.56Americans Love Social Eating!
The main reason why 65% to 70% of Americans are
overweight is because eating has become a fun, social
gorging event! People eat breakfast, eat at the coffee
break, eat at lunch and eat at their afternoon coffee break.They eat a large dinner and long before the big dinner
can be handled by the digestive system they are eating
again, plus drinking alcohol, colas or coffee whilewatching TV. No wonder they are constantly tired! It’s
because they enervate themselves by exhausting their
Vital Force. Even the healthiest person only generates
so much Vital Force daily and, if by over-eating habits
or other bad habits you exhaust your Vital Force, then
there is not sufficient energy for the needed work ofmastication, digestion, metabolism and elimination.
What happens? There is not enough Vital Force to
flush the waste out of the body, so this stockpiles andconcentrates and that’s how you build autointoxication.
Your troubles and premature ageing start right here!
Keeping Internally Clean is Critical
Sickness and premature ageing are no mystery. You
are punished by your bad habits, not for them! If you
keep stuffing food that cannot be handled in your over
loaded digestive tract, it then rots, putrefies and poisonsyour body’s billions of cells. You become prematurely
old, sick, and weak because you have not learned how
to keep your body healthy and clean inside! The secret
of health and long life can be summed up in three words:
“Keep Clean Inside!” Etch these words of wisdom deep on
the blackboard of your brain! Repeat them over and overagain as an affirmation... “Keep Clean Inside!”
Fasting is the best and most natural way of cleansing,
purifying and rejuvenating your body because it is Mother
Nature’s natural method. Nobody can do it for you. It is a
personal matter. It costs you nothing but a strong, positive
willpower! Remember, woe to the weak. Life is the survivalof the fittest... and fasting is a program of self-preservation!
Remember always, you are punished by your bad habits
of living, not for them, but by them! –  Paul C. Bragg57Are You Now Ready to Fast, Detox and
Get Healthy For A Long, Wonderful Life?
If you are convinced, without reservation that fasting
is a time to get detoxed and healthy, then you’re ready.
Remember, when you tell your conscious and your
subconscious mind you’re going to fast for internalpurity you set things in motion for success! You have
told every cell in your body that a fast is going to improve
your health. Your body’s cells will accept this command.
Start with a
24 hour distilled water fast. During these
24 hours you are going to put nothing into your stomach
except distilled water. If you eat fruit with this, it is nota fast; it is a fruit diet. If you drink fruit or vegetable
juices during this
24 hour period it ceases to be a
complete fast, and instead becomes either a vegetableor fruit juice fast. I want you to bear this in mind: a
complete fast is nothing allowed in the stomach except
distilled water! Your first fast may be easy or it may havesome rough spots. You may fast from lunch to lunch ordinner to dinner, as long as you abstain from food for
an entire
24 hours. If you are accustomed to coffee, tea,
beer or alcohol drinks, you might have reactions...one typical reaction appears in the form of a headache.
Why does this happen? Because the cells of your body
have conditioned themselves to regular dosages of astimulant. When you take the stimulant away from the
nerves and the cells there is bound to be a reaction. But
remember, this fast is going to help break that stimulanthabit, because during the
24 hour distilled water fast
you are flushing many of the buried poisonous residues
out of your body through your eliminative organs.
During their  24 hour fast, most people can carry on
their regular duties, even though they may have a little
discomfort. There may be some turbulence in the stomachbut, all in all, it should go smoothly and successfully if
you make your mind be master of your flesh. You are giving
the commands to your body from your higher brain cells.
You’re not going to be dragged down to the level of the
lower stomach cells. Remem ber it’s important everyday,
especially fast days, to drink ample water. Get started!58Juice Fasting – Introductory
Road to Water Fasting
Fasting has been rediscovered through juice fasting as a
simply delicious and easy means of cleansing and purifying
and rebuilding health and vitality.
To fast ( abstain from food ) is from the Old English
word fasten or to hold firm. It’s a means to commit oneself
to the task of finding inner strength through cleansing
of the body, mind and soul. Throughout history theworld’s greatest church leaders, philosophers and sages
including Socrates, Plato, Buddha and Gandhi have
enjoyed fasting and preached its many miracle benefits.
Juice bars are springing up everywhere and juice fasting
has become “in” with the Stars of Hollywood. The numberof Stars who believe in the power and effectiveness ofjuice and water fasting is growing. Some are: Steven
Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Kim Basinger, Alec Baldwin,
Christie Brinkley, Dolly Parton, Donna Karan, etc., andauthor Danielle Steel. They say fasting helps balance theirlives physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally.
Although a distilled water fast is best, an introductory
liquid juice fast can offer people an opportunity to givetheir intestinal systems restful, cleansing relief from the
commercial, high-fat, sugar, salt, protein and “fast foods”
diets that too many Americans exist on daily.
Organic raw live fruit and vegetable juices can be
purchased fresh from many health stores. You can alsoprepare these healthy juices yourself using a good homejuicer. When juice fasting, it’s best to dilute the juice with
3 distilled or purified water. This list gives you delicious
varieties. With vegetable and tomato combinations tryadding a dash of Bragg Liquid Aminos or herbs. Non-fast
days, try some of the nutritious green powders (barley,
chlorella, spirulina, etc.) to create a powerful health drink.When using herbs in these drinks, use 1 to 2 fresh leaves
or a pinch of dried herbs. A pinch of Dulse (seaweed) –
rich in protein, iodine and iron – is delicious withvegetable juices ( also sprinkled on salads, veggies,  etc. ).
Dine with little, sup with less; do better still, sleep supperless. – Ben Franklin
59Juicing has come a long way since Paul C. Bragg imported
the first hand operated vegetable-fruit juicer from Germanyand introduced juice therapy to America. Before this, juice
was pressed by hand using cheesecloth. Juices are now
considered an ideal health beverage worldwide!11. Asparagus, carrot, and mint
12. Carrot, celery, parsley, onion,       cabbage and sweet basil13. Carrot and coconut milk14. Carrot, broccoli, lemon, cayenne15. Carrot, cauliflower, rosemary16. Apple, carrot, radish, ginger17. Apple, pineapple and mint18. Apple, papaya and grapes19. Papaya, cranberries and apple20. Leafy greens, broccoli, apple21. Grape, cherry and apple22. Watermelon (include seeds)Here are Some Powerful Juice Combinations:
1. Beet, celery, alfalfa sprouts2. Cabbage, celery and apple3. Cabbage, cucumber, celery,     tomato, spinach and basil4. Tomato, carrot and mint5. Carrot, celery, watercress,     garlic and wheatgrass6. Grapefruit, orange and lemon7. Beet, parsley, celery, carrot,     cabbage and garlic8. Beet, celery, dulse and carrot9. Cucumber, carrot and parsley10. Watercress, cucumber, garlic
Fruit bears the closest relation to light.  The sun pours a continuous floodof light into the fruits, and they furnish the best potion of fooda human being requires for the sustenance of mind and body. –  Alcott
Dr. Koop & PatriciaBAD NUTRITION


 emptied again.
“The whole question of love is finding where you belong,” Elise went on.
“It’s never been easy for me, and even when I met Kent I wondered where
we would end up.”
“Not a hopeful way to begin,” I said. Elise laughed.
“We started out with a hideous honeymoon. That’ s what we both called
it. Rush ed plans, total disagreement over where to go, and when I finally
gave in to Kent’ s dream honeymoon, which was in Paris, we spent the first
two nights stranded in a snowbound airport outside Chicago. After such a
start, wouldn’ t you worry?”
“It must have gotten better,” I said.
“Yes and no.” It was Kent’ s voice this time coming through the darkness.
“We had anticipated working together at our own small business, but when
we got out here, the economy slumped. I wound up spending most of my
time uselessly at home while Elise worked a counter job in town. It was the
worst time to be apart, and the longer I found myself out of work, the more
depressed I got. It was all pretty unlivable.”
“They say you can’t live on love alone,” Elise remarked. “God knows we
tried, but you bring so much emotional baggage with you when you marry.
Particularly us, since we’d both been single until our forties. We were
extremely hard to please, like the grocery store cat.”They both laughed. You would never suspect, five years later, that
anything like a hideous honeym oon or the troubles that followed had ever
happened to this couple. I have rarely met two people who seem so
genuinely to belong to each other. The first thing that strikes an observer is
that Elise and Kent have learne d to turn love into play. Their eyes sparkle
when they look at each other; they laugh easily and find endless sources of
interest in their life. Their home in the New Mexico desert is crammed with
folk art, each piece purchased from an artist Elise and Kent personally
trekked to find in an exotic country.
It was disarming to enter this home, so full of light that at times I could
hardly tell it had walls. Every object had a story or a name. Ambrose was a
carved wooden armadillo six feet long from the highlands of Guatemala;
Matilda, a shaggy coyote sewn  from brown velvet, sat at the dinner table
looking absurdly gentle. Everything in their environment represents an
extension of how these two people love.
“If I tell anyone about you,” I said, “you will come off as dangerously
close to the perfect couple.”
“We’re not afraid to claim what’ s good about us,” Elise said. “Being fifty
entitles you to that.”
“We just know how to survive,” Kent put in.
“Meaning what?” I asked.
“Like Elise, I went through a lot of years when belonging to someone
else was hard. Part of this was personal—I really had no idea what an
intimate relationship meant, and getting close to anyone frightened me. But
I was also caugh t in the cross fire of a culture that expects a man to be hard
when he’s outside his home and soft and romantic when he comes back at
night. Love and power are hard to mix.”
We took this as a line of depar ture and talked about it for the next few
hours. “I agree,” I said. “But I think it’s about more than just being hard or
soft. There’ s a spiritual issue here. Human beings are the only creatures
born with a higher nature and a lower nature. At different times one may
suit the situation better than the other.”
“Define higher  and lower. Those terms make me nervous,” Elise said.
“In the West higher  and lower  are equated with sacred and profane, that
part which is close to God, and its opposite, which lives among the animals.Sex, being profane, is lower; love, being sacred, is higher. But in fact sex
and love are processes—they are ways of feeling and doing.
“In India it’s taught that the same life force, or Prana, runs through
everything. In Christian terms Prana is the ‘breath of God,’ which
transforms dead, inert matter to life. But even though Prana is the same
energy whereve r it flows, it gets colored. As sex the life force is not the
same as when it is love.”
“But why call these higher  and lower? ” Kent asked. “Is it lower to make
love to someone than to give alms to the poor? Love is love.”
“Ideally, yes. If you could just be in the flow of love, distinctions
wouldn’ t matter. But as everyone finds out, if a man loves his job and
devotes every waking hour to it, his wife doesn’ t consider that enough to
compensate for his absence; the lack of love on one side is still painful. So
the question is, how do you restore love on all levels?
“First, you’d have to know which levels we are talking about. For
thousands of years in India it has been taught that humans live on seven
levels. These are visualized as seven wheels or chakras  arrange d up the
body, starting from the lowest chakra at the base of the spine and ending
with the highest at the top of the head.”
None of this came as news to Elise or Kent, who had read a good deal of
metaphysics. “Will this really get us to love?” Kent asked. “Not many
people in the W est are going to plunge into esoteric knowledge, are they?”
“That’ s not where we have to head with this,” I said. “If you skip the
details, all that is being described here is a simple division between the
higher and lower energies. The bottom three chakras are locate d below the
heart. They have to do with survival, sexual drive, and a sense of power. If
we only lived in these three chakras, human beings would be fierce, self-
protective, instinctual creatures.
“Above the heart are the three higher chakras, devoted to will, intuition,
and freedom. If we only lived from these centers, human beings would see
themselves as divine. We would  never go to war, struggle for survival, or
create enemies. So why is our nature divided in such a radical way?
“The answer lies in the heart, the chakra that stands midway  between
higher and lower. The heart is the mediator, the chooser, the center of
feeling. It looks upon the higher and lower energies, and its response is
always the same: it loves both. The function of the heart isn’t to labelanything good or bad; it doesn’ t judge or reject. Out of love it blends high
and low until something new is created: a complete human being, totally at
ease with every aspect of himself.”
“So why do we struggle so hard?” Elise asked. “Your scheme has a
beautiful symmetry to it, which in my experience means it is probably
totally unworkable.”
“Who can really say?” I replied. “The problem is that so few people ever
get to test whether they can marry higher and lower. Our society, to be
brutally frank, is stuck in the bottom two chakras. Sex and survival
dominate our awareness. We laud the power brokers but rarely  the men of
peace; we judge  the powerless as weak and inferior, and we hand out few
rewards for spiritual achievement.”
“That sounds pretty accurate to me,” Elise said wryly.
“This imbalance is reflected in the way aggression and violence still
come forward to solve problems, which means that the lower chakras have
been threatened,” I said. “When anything is threatened, it gets activated;
that’s just how life works. So how does a person activate the higher
energies? What would it take to end a war with compassion? The answer is
actually simple: human beings will act out of their higher nature when they
become complete. What we call human today is really half a person.
“The only way to become complete is to call upon your heart to start
blending higher and lower. It won’ t do any good to shove violence and
aggression out of sight, or to pretend that we can be loving without facing
those dark areas in the psyche where fear and insecurity constantly prowl.”
It was night now, and the sky was full of stars in brighter splendor than I
ever see from the city. I stopped  talking, waiting to see how this perspective
would be received.
“I think I know where you’re  going,” Kent said. “The heart brings
together two opposite energies, as you call them, until they have no choice
but to face each other. Then what happens?”
“Only one thing,” I said. “You have a relationship. Instead of living in
two separate worlds, the high and low must look at each other. Isn’t this
what happens in marriage? You bring all of yourself under another person’ s
gaze, and you see the same in return. Y ou become mirrors to each other, and
when you look in those mirrors, what you see is sex, survival, will,emotion, purpos e, and love. It’s all there, but it isn’t whole. The fragments
don’t completely fit, therefore you get conflict and pain.”
“Isn’ t that


 actually this whole
process of divinity in motion, or consciousness in motion. When we
understand these  laws and apply them in our lives, anything we want can be
created, because  the same laws that nature uses to create a forest, or a
galaxy, or a star, or a human body can also bring about the fulfillment of our
deepest desires. Now let  s go over The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and
see how we can apply them in our lives.
1
The law of pure
potentiality
The law of pure potentiality
¶7
The source of all creation is pure consciousness, pure potentiality seeking
expression from the unmanifest to the manifest.
And when we realise that our true Self is one of pure potentiality, we align
with the power that manifests everything in the universe.
In the beginning there was neither existence
nor non-existence,
All this world was unmanifest ener gy...The One breathed, without breath, by Its own
power Nothing else was there...
 Hymn of Creation, The Rig V eda
The first spiritual law of success  is the Law of Pure Potentiality. This law is
based on the fact that we are, in our essential state, pure consciousness.
Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities and
infinite creativity. Pure consciousness is our spiritual essence. Being infinite
and unbounded, it is also pure joy. Other attributes of consciousness are
pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, invincibility, simplicity,
and bliss. This is our essential nature. Our essential nature is one of pure
potentiality. When you discove r your essential nature and know who you
really are, in that knowing itself  is the ability to fulfill any dream  you have,
because you are the eternal possibility, the immeasurable potential of all
that was, is, and will be. The Law of Pure Potentiality could also be called
the Law of Unity, because underlying the infinite diversity of life is the
unity of one allpervasive spirit. There is no separation between you and this
field of energy. The field of pure potentiality is your own Self. And the
more you experience your true nature, the closer you are to the field of pure
potentiality.
The experience of the Self, or  self-referral,   means that our internal reference
point is our own spirit, and not the objects of our experience. The opposite
of self-referral is object-referral. In object-referral we are alway s influenced
by objects outside the Self, which include situations, circumstances, people,
and things. In object-referral we are constantly seeking the approval of
others. Our thinking and our behaviour are always in antici pation of a
response. It is therefore fear -based.
In objec t-referral we also feel an intense need to control things.  We feel an
intense need for external power. The need for approval, the need to control
things, and the need for extern al power are needs that are based on fear.
This kind of power is not the power of pure potentiality, or the power of the
Self, or real power. When we experience the power of the Self, there is an
absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for
approval or external power.In objec t-referral, your interna l reference point is your ego. The ego,
however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your
social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on
approval. It wants to control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives
in fear.
Your true Self, which is your spirit, your soul, is ^completely free of those
things. It is immune to criticism, it is unfearful of any challenge, and it feels
beneath no one. And yet, it is also humble and feels superior to no one,
because it recognizes that everyone else is the same Self, the same spirit in
different disguises.
The Seven spiritual laws of Success
¶8
That s the essential difference between object-referral and self-referral. In
self-referral, you experience your true being, which is unfearful of any
challenge, has respect for all people, and feels beneath no one. Self-power
is therefore true power. Power based on object-referral, however, is false
power. Being ego-based power, it lasts only as long as the object of
reference is there. If you have a certain title   if you  re the president of the
country or the chairman of a corporation   or if you have a lot of money, the
power you enjoy goes with the title, with the job, with the money. Ego-
based power will only last as long as those things last. As soon as the title,
the job, the money go away, so does the power.
Self-power, on the other hand,  is permanent, because it is based on the
knowledge of the Self. And there are certain characteristics of self-power. It
draws people to you, and it also draws things that you want to you. It
magnetizes people, situations, and circumstances to support your desires.
This is also called support from the laws of nature. It is the support of
divinity; it is the support that comes from being in the state of grace. Your
power is such that you enjoy a bond with people, and people enjoy a bond
with you. Your power is that of bonding   a bonding that comes from true
love. How can we apply the Law of Pure Potentiality, the field of all
possibilities, to our lives? If you want to enjoy the benefits of the field of
pure potentiality, if you want to make full use of the creativity which isinherent in pure consciousness, then you have to have access to it. One way
to access the field is through the daily practice of silence, meditation, and
non-judgment. Spending time in nature will also give you access to the
qualities inherent in the field: infinite creativity, freedom, and bliss.
Practicing silenc e means making a commitment to take a certain amount of
time to simply Be. Experiencing silence means periodically withdrawing
from the activity of speech. It also means periodically withdrawing from
such activities as watching television, listening to the radio, or reading a
book. If you never give yourself the opportunity to experience silence, this
creates turbulence in your internal dialogue.
Set aside a little time every once in a while to experience silence. Or simply
make a commitm ent to maintain silence for a certain period each day. You
could do it for two hours, or if that seems a lot, do it for a one-hour period.
And every once  in a while experience silence for an extende d period of
time, such as a full day, or two days, or even a whole week. What happens
when you go into this experience of silence? Initially your internal dialogue
becomes even more turbulent. You feel an intense need to say things. I  ve
known people who go absolut ely crazy the first day or two when they
commit themselves to an extended period of silence. A sense  of urgency
and anxiety suddenly comes over them. But as they stay with the
experience, their internal dialog ue begins to quieten. And soon the silence
becomes profou nd. This is because after a while the mind gives up; it
realizes there is no point in going around and around if you   the Self, the
spirit, the choice-maker   are not going to speak, period. Then, as the internal
dialogue quieten s, you begin to experience the stillness of the field of pure
potentiality.
Practicing silen ce periodically as it is convenient to you is one way to
experience the Law of Pure Potentiality. Spending time each day in
meditation is another. Ideally, you should meditate at least thirty  minutes in
the morning, and thirty minutes in the evening. Through meditation you
will learn to experience the field of pure silence and pure aware ness. In that
field of pure silence is the field of infinite correlation, the field of infinite
organizing power, the ultimate  ground of creation where everything is
inseparably connected with everything else. 9The law of pure potentiality
¶
In the fifth spiritual law, the Law of Intention and Desire, you will see how
you can introduce a faint impuls e of intention in this field, and the creation
of your desires will come about spontaneously. But first, you have to
experience stilln ess. Stillness is the first requirement for manifesting your
desires, because in stillness lies your connection to the field of pure
potentiality that can orchestrate an infinity of details for you.
Imagine throwin g a little stone  into a still pond and watching it ripple.
Then, after a while, when the ripples settle down, perhaps you throw
another little stone. That  s exactl y what you do when you go into the field of
pure silence and introduce your intention. In this silence, even the faintest
intention will ripple across the underlying ground of universal
consciousness, which connects everything with everything else. But, if you
do not experience stillness in consciousness, if your mind is like a turbulent
ocean, you could throw the Emp ire State Building into it, and you wouldn  t
notice a thing. In the Bible is the expression


 will
satisfy ambition.

   To make for contentment, the work must occupy and
satisfy the mind. Idle minds  are dissatisfied minds. If asked
what prescription I would give children to secure their
future happiness, I would say: Teach then to love work!
work! work! We have overworked the old saying: “All
work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Now it is
reverse d to: ‘`All play and no work makes Jack a bandit. ‘

   If parents cannot keep children busy, the city, county, or
state should furnish work —not in industrial schools, but the
work that is best suited to each child. A child must be busy.
Christ got busy a t twelve years of age and earlier. We must
be busy.

   As I said, contentment comes with striving, not with
possession. This is a law of psychology as l well as of
physics. We should be happy that we are not contented; for;
if we were, we should not have  anything to overcome —no
reason for striving —and, of course, fail to enjoy the work
and labor of attaining.

    “Man never is, but always to be blest. (Pope.)” Because
Pope made that statement, it should not be taken too
seriously. I have found many peop le blest who did not
know it. There are more blessings in disguise than are
found in the limelight. One of the commonest blessings of
mankind is that about ninety -nine per cent of our wants we
never realize. If most people could cut out time as often as
they wish, their lives would be greatly shortened: “I wish it
were this time next year.” “I wish now were ten years from
now; I should then be through college and established in
business.”

   The disposition of most people is to seek abridgement.
Nature ab hors a vacuum, and that is what abridgements are.
“Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford” is the ideal of all.

   Short -cuts to success; a salesmanship that means coercing
the vacillating —those of weak will, those who can be
persuaded to buy prematurely, those who do not know their
own minds; in short, inducing people to buy what they do
not need and cannot afford is called good salesmanship.
What is the matter with the people today? General
indebtedness. The sales -people have made more than they
know how to spend w isely on themselves —they do not
know how to fill their vacuums. Those who have been
persuaded to run in high when they should have stayed in low—or, what would have been better, continued to ride a
bicycle or remained on foot —are distressed because of
prem ature supply. Both extremes lack poise, and build
restlessness and dissatisfaction. The automobile is a
necessity; but it has been forced into a luxury that has far
outrun necessity. It has built great fortunes at one end, and
marked poverty at the other e nd, that will create a financial
disease called panic, unless remedied soon. Panic is another
name for a vacuum which will be filled with much
unhappiness. A prediction of five years ago.

   Getting through school without filling in the time well, by
short-cuts, ponies, and favoritism, builds vacuity. Time and
honest labor are necessary for building character,
education, and ability in any and all lines. In the physical as
well as in the mental world the old Latin apothegm applies:
Cito maturum, cito putr idum —”Soon ripe, soon rotten.”
Athletes die early. Why? Development is forced. Excessive
use of the muscular system forces an extra supply of blood
to the muscles. This in turn forces an extra supply of food
to meet the demand of waste and supply. Overstim ulation
enervates, and the toxin fails to be carried out as rapidly as
formed; hence Toxemia is established, which gradually
brings on degeneration of heart and blood -vessels. “No
chain is stronger than its weakest link.” In athletics’ the
strongest links are in constant use for all the strength they have. The stability that youth gives tissue is rapidly ageing,
with the result that the athlete dies of senility in youth.
Fitzsimmons was called the “grand old man of the ring” at
thirty-five. In this saying, which was meant to be a
compliment to the king of athletes, was an expression of
scientific knowledge beyond understanding in the sporting
world —subconsciously building better than they knew; for
in reality he had aged himself by stressing his body.

   Youth wants to move faster than good, substantial growth
justifies. Young professional men are in hot -haste to
succeed their predecessors, always confident that they can
do more than fill their places.

   Today inexperience is hot -footing civilization to a quick
maturity, and obviously to a premature end. Hot -haste has
ill-prepared even those with age to be safe advisers.
Knowledge not seasoned by time, experience, and poise
never matures.

   Poise and equanimity have become meaningless terms in
this age. The elements of success which make for ideal
maturity are lacking in the welding influence of time and
experience. The present -day mind is athletic; it is
prematurely aged at the expense of time, which is required
for stabilizing. Hospitals, penitentiari es, and insane asylums cannot be built fast enough to accommodate the
prematurely senile. That is what disease is —old-age tissue
outrunning the supply of new.

   Too many abridgments, from the kindergarten to the high
school and on through college, leave  vacuums to be filled
by the lies of civilization, and the disease and unhappiness
that false knowledge and immature judgment bring.

   Personal peculiarities, affectations, and petty habits of all
kinds are boomerangs that return to poison life’s sweet
dreams.

   Nature smiles on those who are natural; but those who
persist in grimacing, mentally or physically, she joins in a
conspiracy to distort them at their pleasure. We can be
happy and contented, or we can be unhappy and
discontented. We can make our choice, and nature will do
the rest.

   I just came from a drug -store into which I had stepped to
purchase a tube of camphor ice. The druggist fumbled, and,
being self -conscious, his self -pity made it necessary for
him to say that he was feeling bad and had been lying down
most of the afternoon. He accompanied his remarks with a
sick grimace of his features and a bodily expression of weakness. He, no doubt, would have enjoyed discussing his
discomforts with me, but I ignored the subject and passed
out. He is cultivating a sick habit that will spoil his life and
make of him a bore to all except those who frequent his
shop hunting cures. “Misery loves company.” People with
the sick habit flock together, and never appear to tire
recounting and comparing t heir discomforts. The most
insignificant symptoms are retained in memory for years.
Self-pity causes them to exaggerate, and in time they
believe the worst possible about themselves. Such a life is
ruined, unless complete reformation is made. This state of
mind brings on enervation and Toxemia. The symptoms are
a general nervousness, indigestion, constipation, coated
tongue, anxiety concerning cancer or some other malady
that may prove fatal. The muscular system is more or less
tensed. The constipation is a ccompanied by an abnormal
contraction of the rectum. The entire body is abnormally
tense. Such patients have difficulty in going to sleep, and
when they are about to drop off to sleep they are awakened
with a jerk —a violent contraction of all the muscles. These
people are light sleepers, and complain that they do not
sleep at all. A few complain of headache and nausea. They
are imitators, and often develop new symptoms after
reading about disease or listening to others relating their
symptoms.
    Many of these cases of neurosis are operated upon for
various supposed abdominal derangements. Too often
doctors treat such people for what they say is the matter
with them. Occasionally we find self -sacrificing, amiable
women who are never robust, but who live an d work
beyond their strength for others. These mothers in early life
had ambitions for a career, and the disappointment brought
on a profound enervation, permanently impairing nutrition;
for the one great sorrow prevented a full return to normal.
Fortunate ly, surcease was found in doing for others; and in
time making others happy became a vicarious nepenthe so
perfect that those whom they soothed with their sweet
smiles and cheering words often said: “Aunt Mary, you
must have lived a charmed life in which n o sorrow ever
entered.” The answer would be more smiles and
encouragement.


UROPATHY, but she had tried all other options. Though she was single at the time, she wanted to healthy just in case things worked out with her boyfriend. She started drinking a spoonful of urine with orange juice and three days later was taking urine straight and chasing it the juice. She started hemorrhaging two weeks after she started the UROPATHY procedures, but she knew this was part of the healing crisis she would have to go through before regaining her health. Her conditions became gradually worst until she started delivering fibroid tumors with labor pain and other discomforts associated with having babies, though not as intense. She 197 had read the book and was familiar with the healing process and since her periods usually lasted two weeks she did not get too scared when going through the healing crisis which lasted about 10 days. Now she promotes UROPATHY to all her friends and sends me people to the lectures.”  Uropathy by Martin J. Lara  TUMOR OF UTERUS  “Maria, a lady living in my building, developed labor pain and minutes later spontaneously discharged a complete fibroid tumor from the uterus. She had been using the universal remedy (urine therapy) prophylactically (as a preventative medicine) for two weeks when she had this experience. Maria did not know that this tumor was developing in her body.”  Uropathy by Martin J. Lara  TYPHOID   Ms. W.M., The Netherlands "I discovered urine therapy in India, where I lived for quite some time. I regularly came across a man at the bank where I did my banking. One day he did not show up, and I heard from others that he had typhoid, a serious, debilitating and often fatal illness. I regularly inquired after his health, and heard that with each attack it was expected that he would die. Some time later, however, I saw him at the bank again, and he was in the pink of health! Only later did I hear from him how he had regained his health. I had told him that my own children were seriously ill, and he told me that he had cured himself of typhoid with urine therapy. My four children all had a blood disease known as mononucleosis. They were weak, fatigued and listless, and constantly ran a fever. I had my two youngest children urinate into a brown bottle, and later gave this to them as medicine, without letting them know that they were drinking their own urine. My nanny was a great help - she even encouraged me to try this method. She came from Kerala, a state in the south of India where, as she told me, many fishermen also used urine. They often cut themselves on the fish, causing rather nasty infections, in which case urine can be used as an effective remedy. For a few days, I had my children fast and massaged them every day for a few hours with urine. At first it was difficult, as my husband was completely against this method. Some time later, I had my children repeat the fast for a period of ten days, and they responded positively. Their health greatly improved: they regained their healthy 198 appetites, performed much better at school and were more creative. Apparently, they were cleansed on many inner levels. Of course, I also decided to try urine therapy. Ever since I was eighteen, I had suffered from bronchitis, sinusitis, and chronic anaemia. After trying urine therapy, I felt much better. Furthermore, the laboratory technicians were astonished at the sudden rise in my haemoglobin percentage, which had increased to the accepted standard! I later stopped using urine therapy, until I discovered that I had a tumour in my breast which was likely to become malignant. Initially, nobody wanted to help and support me in treating the tumour with urine therapy. The alternatives were chemical medication and probably a breast amputation. I wanted to prevent this at all costs. At that time, I met Elly, a Dutch woman living in an ashram in India. She supported me, and I went with my family to the ashram where I regularly drank my own urine. I decided not to constantly check and see if the tumour was still there, and at one point I discovered that it was gone. At that time, I had only drunk my urine, without massaging myself with it. I also used urine to heal wounds. I treated somebody with third-degree burns with urine therapy, and practically no scars remained. I also successfully applied urine compresses when my children had scrapes or were bitten by jellyfish or insects. I used to be a nurse, and know quite a bit about medicine. I worked in the operation room, in district nursing and in private nursing, and have seen allopathic medicine fail many times, which makes it easier for me to work with urine therapy. In India, I worked quite a lot with natural medicine. Whenever I heard about a therapy that helped improve health, I researched it and tried it out. In this way, I have become acquainted with a number of different therapies. But urine therapy beats them all! Nothing is better than urine therapy."  The Golden Fountain by Coen van der Kroon  ************************************* U *************************************  ULCER (Varicose)  “A man aged 27 presented a varicose ulcer...of the left leg...He had it for nearly 18 months without its having healed. During this time it had been treated with Eastoplast and various other substances. At the time the urea treatment was begun the ulcer was of oval irregular outline with everted swollen edges and a floor covered with a whitish, foul smelling slough. The ulcer received the urea dressings daily for 14 days. After 2 days the foul odor had disappeared and after 4 days the base of the ulcer was covered by a mass of bright red granulations (new tissue). By the 14th day the skin edges had 199 grown in and the size of the ulcer was 3/4 by 1/2 in. The floor was dry. The patient had a dry dressing and was discharged. The ulcer was again examined 10 days after the patient's discharge and was found to be completely healed.”  “Treatment of Infected Wounds with Urea”, 1938, by Leon Muldavis (Senior Casualty Officer at the Royal Free Hospital, London) and Jean M Holtzman (Demonstrator in Physiology, London School of Medicine for Women).  ULCER  Mr. Ramon P. Gonzalez { Mexico } "My sufferings that got better are: ulcers, gastritis (very acute acidness of my stomach for 45 years), nervous system very altered, very strong disquiet, insomnia, colitis, and pains of my kidneys. I am very improved.  My problem with my prostate is a burning sensation and hemorrhoids. They disappeared after taking my Urine from 25th from March of 1995 to date. I feel better with a lot of energy."  World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward  ULCER  Ma. Conception G. Mexico. "I cured myself of two duodenal ulcers, one of seven centimeters and another one of four centimeters. They were already bleeding and they were going to commit me to surgery.  Thanks to God I am cured."  World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward  ULCER OF BUTTOCK  “Master Godbole is a boy of 14 and lives in Bhilai (Bihar). In 1964 there erupted an ulcer on his buttock. He was to be operated after a week. But Shri K. G. Pandit applied fomentation with urine on the affected part twice a day. The boy felt some relief and went to sleep. Shri Pandit came at 8 in the morning and woke him up. He found that the bed sheet was soaked in blood and pus, as most of the congestion in the ulcer had been discharged. He washed the ulcer with hot urine, and for half an hour fomented the 200 wound and put a urine pack. In the evening when Shri Pandit came, he was surprised to find the boy playing. His pain had vanished. Only once more the wound was fomented and urine pack applied. Next day there was no sign of any wound and he went to school.”  from Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  ULCER OF MOUTH   Mr. X., India "The patient was around 60 years. There were ulcers and fissures on the tongue and in the mouth. In a corner of the mouth, there was a small tumour, which was diagnosed as cancer. Cobalt-ray treatment was given. This was followed by a terrible feeling of burning and soreness inside. The patient thought of resorting to Water of Life treatment and came to me. I examined all reports and the details of the treatment given. I then prescribed this treatment To take self-urine into the mouth, rinse the mouth with it and then to spit it out; this, five times a day, every time for 5 to 7 minutes; and then to drink the remaining urine every time. The patient had a little inflammation around the throat and under the ear. Urine was to be rubbed very lightly on these parts every morning and evening. One month's treatment showed a noteworthy improvement, with less inflammation. The pain and soreness in the mouth had lessened, and in that month the patient maintained status quo in weight, without losing it as he had been doing. The experiment was continued." (From: Auto Urine Therapy; Science & Practice, Vaidya Pragjibhai Mohanji Rathod, Bhavnagar (India) 1988)  URINARY PAIN  “During the course of my treatment, I caught cold in September, last year (1960). I


 exhausted and there is insufficient nourishment forthcoming, the body begins to consume nutrient -rich
muscle and organ tissue in a last -ditch effort to stay alive. Under these dire circumstances, the least essential muscles and organs
from the standpoint of survival are metabolized first. For example, muscles in the arm s and legs would be consumed early in the
process, the heart muscle used only toward the very end. The very last part of the body to be metabolized when one is starvin g and
as has come very close to death would be the brain and the nervous system.
    Starvation begins where fasting ends, which is when real hunger begins. If the return of hunger is ignored whenever it takes
place, whether it is in 30, 60, or 90 days depending upon body weight and type of fast, at that point exactly, not a day befo re,
starv ation begins very slowly. Usually it takes a considerable period of time after that before death occurs. It is important to n ote
that this discussion applies only to the abstention from food, not water. Death takes place very quickly in the absence of wa ter.
    The chart on the previous page shows numerically the phenomenal ability of the body to protect the most essential tissues of the
body right up to the time of death. If a person fasted for 30 days, the average time it takes for the return of hunger i n a person that
is not overweight, and then ignored the return of hunger, and continued to abstain from food –if the person could avoid forced
exercise, keep warm, and had enough hydration, it could take as much as an additional 20 to 60 days to die of star vation! At death
the body would have experienced losses of 40 to 60 percent of its starting body weight. (Ancel Keys et al, 1950) A emaciated
person can not afford to lose nearly as much weight as an obese person, and death under conditions of starvation w ill occur earlier.
In all cases of starvation the brain, nerves, heart, lungs, kidneys and liver remain largely intact and functional to the ver y end.
During a fast, it is almost impossible to damage essential organs, unless of course the person creates th e damage by fears about the
process, or by internalizing the fears of others. If those fears are present, the fast should not be attempted.

Weight Loss By Fasting
    Loss of weight indicates, almost guarantees, that detoxification and healing is occurrin g. I can’t stress this too much. Of all the
things I find my patients seem to misunderstand or forget after being told, it is that they can’t heal in a rapid manner with out
getting smaller. This reality is especially hard for the family and friends of some one who is fasting, who will say, "You’re looking
terrible dear, so thin. Your skin is hanging on your bones. You’re not eating enough protein or nutrient food to be healthy a nd you
must eat more or you’re going to develop serious deficiencies. You don’t h ave any energy, you must be getting sicker. You’re
doing the wrong thing, obviously. You have less energy and look worse every day. Go and see a doctor before it is too late." To
succeed with friends like this, a faster has to be a mighty self -determined p erson with a powerful ability to disagree with others.
    Medical personnel claim that rapid weight loss often causes dangerous deficiencies; these deficiencies force the person to
overeat and regain even more weight afterward. This is largely untrue, tho ugh there is one true aspect to it: a fasted, detoxified
body becomes a much more efficient digester and assimilator, extracting a lot more nutrition from the same amount food is use d to
eat. If, after extended fasting a person returns to eating the same n umber of calories as they did before; they will gain weight even
more rapidly than before they stated fasting. When fasting for weight loss, the only way to keep the weight off is to greatly  reform
the diet; to go on, and stay on, a diet made up largely of  non-starchy, watery fruits and vegetables, limited quantities of cooked
food, and very limited amounts of highly concentrated food sources like cereals and cooked legumes. Unless, of course, after
fasting, one’s lifestyle involves much very hard physical labor or exercise. I’ve had a few obese fasters become quite angry with
me for this reason; they hoped to get thin through fasting and after the fast, to resume overeating with complete irresponsib ility as
before, without weight gain.
    People also fear  weight loss during fasting because they fear becoming anorexic or bulimic. They won’t! A person who abstains
from eating for the purpose of improving their health, in order to prevent or treat illness, or even one who fasts for weight  loss will
not develo p an eating disorder. Eating disorders mean eating compulsively because of a distorted body image. Anorexics and
bulimics have obsessions with the thinner -is-better school of thought. The anorexic looks at their emaciated frame in the mirror
and thinks the y are fat! This is the distorted perception of a very insecure person badly in need of therapy. A bulimic, on the other
hand stuffs themselves, usually with bad food, and then purges it by vomiting, or with laxatives. Anorexics and bulimics are not
acceler ating the healing potential of their bodies; these are life threatening conditions. Fasters are genuinely trying to enhance t heir
survival potential.
    Occasionally a neurotic individual with a pre -existing eating disorder will become obsessed with fast ing and colon cleansing as
a justification to legitimize their compulsion. During my career while monitoring hundreds of fasters, I’ve known two of thes e. I
discourage them from fasting or colon cleansing, and refuse to assist them, because they carry the practices to absurd extremes,
and contribute to bad press about natural medicine by ending up in the emergency ward of a hospital with an intravenous feedi ng
tube in their arm.

Cases Beyond The Remedy Of Fasting
    Occasionally, very ill people have a l iver that has become so degenerated it cannot sustain the burden of detoxification. This
organ is as vital to survival as the brain, heart and lungs. We can get along with only one kidney, we can live with no splee n, with
no gallbladder, with only small pa rts of the stomach and intestines, but we can not survive without a liver for more than a day or
so. The liver is the most active organ in the body during detoxification. To reach an understanding of detoxification, it hel ps to
know just what the liver doe s for us on an ongoing basis.
    The liver is a powerful chemical filter where blood is refined and purified. The liver passes this cleansed blood out through  the
superior vena cava, directly to the heart. The blood is then pumped into general and system ic circulation, where it reaches all parts
of the body, delivering nutrition and oxygen at a cellular level. On its return flow, a large proportion of the depleted bloo d is
collected by the gastric, splenic and superior and inferior mesenteric veins that c onverge to form the large portal vein which enters
the liver. Thus a massive flow of waste from all the cells of the body is constantly flowing into the liver. The huge hepatic  artery
also enters the liver to supply oxygen and nutrients with which to susta in the liver cells themselves.
    The liver is constantly at work refining the blood. It is synthesizing, purifying, renovating, washing, filtering, separating, and
detoxifying. It works day and night without stopping. Many toxins are broken down by enzymes and their component parts ar e
efficiently reused in various parts of the body. Some impurities are filtered out and held back from the general circulation.  These
debris are collected and stored in the gall bladder, which is a little sack appended to the liver. After a meal, the conte nts of the gall
bladder (bile) are discharged into the duodenum, the upper part of the small intestine just beyond the stomach. This bile als o
contains digestive enzymes produced by the liver that permit the breakdown of fatty foods in the small intestine.
    Sometimes a large flow of bile finds its way into the stomach by pressure or is sucked into the stomach by vomiting. Excessiv e
biliary secretion and excretion can also result from overeating, which overcrowds the area. Sometimes colonics or massage ca n
also stimulate a massive flow of bile. Extremely bitter and irritating, when bile gets into the stomach the person either vom its or
wishes they could. And after vomiting and experiencing the taste of bile, wishes they hadn’t.
    When no food at all ente rs the system, the blood keeps right on passing through the liver/filter just as it does when we are eating.
When the liver does not have to take care of toxins generated by the current food intake, each passage through the liver resu lts in a
cleaner blood  stream, with the debris decreasing in quantity, viscosity, and toxicity, until the blood becomes normalized. During
fasting, debris from the gall bladder still pass through the small intestine and into the large intestine. However, if the bo wels do not
move the toxins in the bile are reabsorbed into the blood stream and get recirculated in an endless loop. This toxic recycling makes


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In d e x
abnormal placenta, 33
acid/alkaline balance, 73, 97, 107
alcohol drink, 89
alfalfa, 66, 68
allergies, 40, 177, 178
Alzheimer's, 174
American Medical Complex, vii
amino acids, 63
Amylase, 46
Anglo-Saxon, 48
antibiotic-free, 64
antibiotics, 162
apple juice or cider, 87
Aryans, 48
Asians, 48
backaches, 90
beet, 68, 89
Beta-Z, 65
bile flow, 87
biliousness, 90
biopsy, 34, 40, 41, 124, 129, 132, 135,
139, 155, 156, 161
Biopsy, 34, 124, 173
Blacks, 48
Bladder, 87, 90
blood supply, 45
bloodstream, 33, 87, 98, 138
Body Detoxification, 84
Bone, 159
Bone Cancer, 159bowel movement, 94
Breast, 40, 135, 136, 139, 145
Breast and Liver Cancer, 145
Breast Cancer, 135, 136, 139
Breathing Exercises, 100
British, viii, 48
bronchial system, 98
bucket, 95
buckwheat, 66
Burton Therapy, 134
buttocks, 95, 96
cabbage, 68, 97
cachexia, 46
Cadillac, 120, 142, 169
Cancer, vi, 11, 30, 31, 32, 34, 36, 39, 40,
41,44, 45, 46, 60, 65, 66, 68, 71, 73,
74, 87, 92, 94, 98, 119, 121, 124, 125,
128, 133, 135, 138, 139, 140, 142, 147,
153, 156, 157, 159, 163, 165, 166, 167,
168, 171, 173, 180, 191
C a n c e r H e ro e s'T e stim o n ia ls,  119
Cannibalize, 46
Carbohydrate (Sugar) Metabolism, 46
carbonated drink, 89
carcinoma, 132, 135, 136, 142
Cashew nuts, 62
cataracts, 179
Celtic, 48
chemicals, 78, 95, 156, 171
chemotherapy, vii, ix, 30, 33, 40, 44, 123,
128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 134, 137, 138,
142, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 156,
159, 164, 167
191
Winning The Cancer War
chiropractic adjustments, 76
chocolate, 74, 122
Cleansing The Colon, 92
Cleansing The Kidneys, 97
Cleansing The Lungs, 98
Cleansing The Skin, 98
Cleansing The Small Intestine, 90
clicking sounds, 77
coffee, 63, 74, 75, 87, 88, 89, 92, 93, 94,
95, 96, 97, 164
Coffee Enema, 92, 93, 94
cold packs, 77
Colon and Liver Cancer, 163
colon tube, 95, 96
C o m fo rt ca psu le s,  92
cooked meat, 65
CranioSacral Therapy, 79
Crises, 37
cucumber, 68
Cystic Fibrosis, 46
Cytosar, 143
dandelion, 68
dates, 73
Dental, 121
Dentists, 77, 79
dentures, 78
depression, 135, 136, 148, 153, 167, 168,
170, 172, 175
Detoxification, 45
diabetes, 10, 31, 46, 71, 150
Diabetes, 31
diathermy, 77
Diet, 45, 66, 68
difficulty chewing, 62Digest, 46
digestion, 36, 63, 72
Digestive Enzymes, 46
distilled water, 66, 97
dizziness, 77, 79, 162
Doctor of Chiropractic, 180
Doctor of Dentistry, 177
Doctor of Optometry, 178
Do-It-Yourself Pancreas Self-Examination,
36
Dr. Kelley's Pancreas Self-Examination
Procedure, 36
Dr. Kelley's Pancreass Self-Examination
Procedure, 36
Dr. Kelley's Self-Examination Procedure,
35
Dried unsulfered fruit, 68
drugs, vii, 77, 97, 122, 128, 129, 131,
147, 148, 151, 179
dysfunctional normal cells, 46
earache, 77
ectopic germ cell, 32, 33
Eggs, 63
elevation of body temperature, 45
emaciation, 46
emotional stress, 167
endive, 68
enema bag or bucket, 95, 96
enzyme inhibitors, 66
enzymes, 30, 31, 32, 35, 36, 62, 63, 65,
66, 72, 91, 167, 172
Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate), 87, 88
Essential Fatty Acids, 71
exercises, 99, 100, 147, 148
Exercising, 100
eyes, 35, 122, 155, 159, 168, 169, 179
Winning The Cancer War
Fasting, 90
Fat, 71
female sex hormones, 32, 65, 72
figs, 73
fluid retention, 98
focusing problems, 35
Formula F, 71
Fort Worth Star Telegram, 119
freeze, 73
French, 48, 95, 157
Fruit and Fruit Juices, 67, 68
gallstones, 90
gastrectomy, 142
gastroenterologist, 142
gene pool, 48
Germanic, 48
glaucoma, 1


. Rather than
make themselves and others miserable with guilt, they unceremoni-
ously pass when it comes along.
Similarly, people free of erroneous zones are nonworriers. Circum-
stances that drive many people to frenzy barely affect these individu-
als. They are neither planners nor putters-away for the future. They
refuse to worry and they keep themselves free from the anxiety that
accompanies worry. They don’t know how to worry. It is not a part
of their makeup. They are not necessarily calm at all moments, but
they are unwilling to spend present224 / Your Erroneous Zonesmoments agonizing about things in the future over which they have
no control. They are very present-moment oriented, and they have
an internal signal that seems to remind them that all worrying must
take place in the present moment, and that it is a foolish way to go
about living one’s current life.
These people live now, rather than in the past or the future. They
are not threatened by the unknown, and they seek out experiences
that are new and unfamiliar to them. They love ambiguity. They
savor the now at all times, aware that this is all they have. They don’t
plan for a future event and let long periods of inactivity elapse as
they await that event. The moments between events are just as livable
as those taken up by the events themselves, and they have an un-
canny ability to get every pleasure out of their daily lives. They are
not postponers, saving for a rainy day, and while our culture disap-
proves their behavior, they are unthreatened by self-reproach. They
gather in their happiness now, and when a future now arrives, they
gather in that one as well. These individuals are always enjoying
simply because they see the folly of waiting to enjoy. It is a natural
way of living, very much like that of a child or an animal. They are
busy grabbing present-moment fulfillment, while most people spend
their lives waiting for payoffs, and never being able to seize them.
These healthy people are strikingly independent. They are out of
the nest, and while they may have a strong love for and devotion to
family, they see independence as superior to dependence in all rela-
tionships. They treasure their own freedom from expectations. Their
relationships are built upon mutual respect for the right of an indi-
vidual to make decisions for himself. Their love involves no impos-
ition of values on the loved one. They put a high premium on pri-
vacy, which may leave others feeling snubbed or rejected. They like
to be alone at times, and they will go to great lengths to ensure that
their privacy is protected. You will not find these people involved
in numerous love relationships. They are selective about their love,
but they’re alsoPORTRAIT OF A PERSON WHO HAS ELIMINATED ALLdeeply and sensitively loving. It is difficult for dependent or un-
healthy people to love them, because they are adamant about their
freedom. If someone needs them, they reject such a need as hurtful
to the other person as well as to themselves. They want those they
love to be independent, to make their own choices, and to live their
lives for themselves. While they enjoy others and want to be with
them, they want even more for others to make it without crutches
or leaning. Thus, the moment you start leaning on these people,
you’ll find them disappearing, first emotionally, and then physically
as well. They refuse to be dependent, or depended upon, in a mature
relationship. With children, they provide a model of a caring person,
but they encourage self-reliance almost from the very beginning
with a great amount of love offered at every turn.
You will find an uncommon absence of approval-seeking in these
happy, fulfilled individuals. They are able to function without ap-
proval and applause from others. They do not seek out honors as
most people do. They are unusually free from the opinion of others,
almost uncaring about whether someone else likes what they’ve said
or done. They do not attempt to shock others, or to gain their approv-
al. These are people who are so internally directed that they are lit-
erally unconcerned about others’ evaluations of their behavior. They
are not oblivious to applause and approval; they just don’t seem to
need it. They can be almost blunt in their honesty since they do not
couch their messages in carefully worded phrases designed to please.
If you want to know what they think, that is exactly what you’ll
hear. Conversely, when you say something about them they will
not be destroyed or immobilized. They will take the data you
provide, filter it through their own values and use it for growth.
They do not need to be loved by everyone, nor do they harbor the
inordinate wish to be approved by all for everything that they do.
They recognize that they will always incur some disapproval. They
are unusual in that they are able to function as they, rather than
some external other, dictates.226 / Your Erroneous ZonesAs you watch these characters you will note a lack of enculturation.
They are not rebels, but they do make their own choices even if those
choices conflict with what everybody else does. They can ignore
petty rules if they make no sense, and quietly shrug at the little
conventions that are such an important part of so many lives. They’re
not cocktail partiers, nor do they engage in small talk because it’s
the polite thing to do. They are their own people and while they see
society as an important part of their lives, they refuse to be ruled by
it or to become a slave to it. They don’t rebelliously attack but they
do know internally when to ignore and function in a clear-headed
and sensible way.
They know how to laugh, and how to create laughter. They find
humor in virtually all situations, and they can laugh at the most
absurd as well as the most solemn of occasions. They love to help
others to laugh, and they are facile at creating humor. These are not
serious, ponderous folks who plow through life with a stony grim-
ness. Instead, they are doers, who are often scorned for being frivo-
lous at the wrong time. They do not have good timing for they know
that there is really no such thing as the right thing in the right place.
They love the incongruous, yet they are unhostile in their humor;
never, but never using ridicule to create laughter. They don’t laugh
at people, they laugh with them. They do laugh at life, and they see
the whole thing as fun, even though they are deliberate in their own
pursuits. When they step back and look at life, they know that they
aren’t going any place in particular, and they are able to enjoy and
create an atmosphere in which others can choose joy for themselves.
They are fun to have around.
These are people who accept themselves without complaint. They
know that they are human beings, and that being so involves certain
human attributes. They know that they look a certain way, and they
accept it. If they’re tall, that’s okay, but so is being short. Bald is fine,
and so is lots of hair. They can live with sweat! They are not phony
about their physical humanity. They’ve accepted themselves, and
therefore they are the mostPORTRAIT OF A PERSON WHO HAS ELIMINATED ALLnatural of people. No hiding behind artificialities, no apologizing
for what they are. They don’t know how to be offended by anything
that is human. They like themselves and accept what they are. Sim-
ilarly, they accept all of nature for what it is, rather than wishing it
were otherwise. They never complain about things that won’t change,
such as heat waves, rainstorms, or cold water. They accept them-
selves and the world as it is. No pretenses, no groaning, simply ac-
ceptance. Follow them around for years, and you’ll never hear self-
deprecation or wishing. You’ll see doers doing. You’ll see them ob-
serving the world the way it is, like a child who accepts the natural
world and enjoys it for all it’s worth.
They appreciate the natural world. They love being outdoors in
nature, and tripping around in all that is unspoiled and original.
They especially love things like mountains, sunsets, rivers, flowers,
trees, animals and virtually all flora and fauna. They are naturalists
as people, unceremonious and unpretentious, and they love the
naturalness of the universe. They are not busy seeking out taverns,
night clubs, parties, conventions, smoke-filled rooms, and the like,
although they are certainly capable of enjoying such activities to the
fullest. They are at peace with nature, God’s world, if you will,
though they are capable of functioning in a man-made world. They
are also capable of appreciating what has become stale for others.
They never tire of a sunset or a trip in the woods. A bird in flight is
a magnificent sight over and over again. A caterpillar never grows
tiresome, nor does a cat giving birth to kittens. Over and over again
they spontaneously appreciate. Some may find this artificial, but
these people don’t notice what others think. They are too busy in
awe of the vastness of possibilities for present-moment fulfillment.
They have insight into the behavior of


Mootra I Amaroli
{Hindi} {Sandscript}
U roth era pia {Spanish}
The Change of Social taboo
to
Scientific thinking.
Our blood is the life force of our existence.
The blood consists of red corpuscles {Hemoglobin carrying oxygen},
and blood serum.
This blood serum is 95% water and 5% urine and a mixture of our body
hormones, vitamins, and minerals, plus enzymes created by the food that
we have consumed and some created by the body. The waste product,
or excretion, both solid and liquid that the body no longer can use is
vacated by way of the bowels.
Those who take alternative vitamins and minerals and pass it out of the
system directly into the toilet create expensive waste for their not using
their urine as God intended.
Urine is not a waste. It is not unhealthy to consume at the proper time.
Urine is not dirty. Urine in fact is a clean substance.
It is in fact sterile naturally filtered blood.
It is 95% water and 5% harmless and mostly beneficial substances.
However we will find that as you read there are those of you who range
from total disgust to instant enthusiasm.
It is in fact our own personal, natural God given pharmacy.
"Wash your ears with it warm and it is good against deafness, noises and
rriost other ailments of the ears."
Wash your eyes with your own water and it cures sore eyes and clears and
strengthens the sight."
{Murine a classic over the counter for problems of the eyes. M -urine.}
"Wash and rub your hands with it and it takes away numbness, chaps and
sores and makes the joints limber."
"Wash any green wound with it and it is an extraordinary good thing."
"Wash any part that itches and it takes it {the itch} away."
{From The Water of Life, J.W Armstrong,
Health Science Press, London 1971, p.13.}
7 Acids in the system are the very root of most diseases in the human body.
The salts in the urine which has naturally twelve destroys these acids,
"It opens obstructions of the reins and urinary passages, dissolves
tartarous coagulations in those parts, breaks and expels stone and gravel.
{From: The Water of Life, J.W Armstrong,
Health Science Press, London 1971, p. 13-15.}
It saves Doctors from countless mistakes that are made selecting a correct
remedy from over three thousand drugs or the drug of the day that is
pushed on the Doctors by way of the pharmaceutical vendors.
In the early 1960s the Nobel Prize winner
Albert Szent-Gyorgi isolated 3-methyl glyoal in urine.
It has now been proven that this very substance destroys cancer cells.
The fetus 'breathes' urine into its system and the lungs cannot develop
properly without this liquid. We have been aggressively accepting this
liquid into our systems as we developed in our Mother's amniotic fluid.
Our present Doctors in this new 21st Century who operate on the embryo
within the Mother find that the surgical cuts made during the operation
cannot be found after birth. Can you now understand how it is so
vitally important to use urine on rashes, cuts, scraps, scratches, as well
as those who are with gangrene ready for amputation.
There comes a period in each of our lives where
a special window of time will open to you.
Many say we will all have our 15 minutes of glory.
This may be that time slot in the next 15 minutes as you read on.
You are about to find the most incredible information that will change your
way of how you were raised to think of society and your own body.
You may take this information as not possible to endure.
You may take this information as illegitimate and foolish.
Please reconsider centuries of usage, the poor as well as the rich including
Kings 'and Queens, Elite and the ordinary, uneducated as well as the highly
educated, all keeping themselves or curing themselves for a healthy
extended life in secrecy of their ways.
Curing themselves from simple to incurable diseases
as well as preventative health maintenance.
Reconsider the hundreds of testimonials from all over the world.
Educate yourself with the findings of this research. Use it.
Our Creator gave it to you. Specially designed for each person.
This, with God's will, could be your great day of education.
Your window may have just opened as you read to a life long
Self-therapy without cost.
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Washing
Wash the exterior of the body by means of washing the hair
with or without a showercap. Also the washing of the face, neck, hands,
and any body part that you have need to be kept clean, soft, pliable,
and aiding in the loss of wrinkles.
Next morning you will see your hair SHINE, your face feel new,
skin tight, radiant, and that was only the first day.
My suggestion is two weeks first time straight.
After you may go on one week on and one week off.
Any moles, scrapes, cuts, freckles you may want to reduce in size or color,
or possibly lose, every night continually until you reach your goal.
For those who are diabetic and have bruises or cuts that won't heal...
Moisten as many times per day the areas as you would have time for.
At night place a wet, thin gauze pad on top of your scraps or cuts.
If they are on your feet, wear your socks on top and put into ready for wash
area in morning. If you get up during night, hey what a better time then now
to rewet your washcloth or gauze again.
It will cut your time for new skin developing from one month to one week.
If you are in serious condition and it would normally take six months
for new skin, your development time will be approximately six weeks.
This is not only research, I was a diabetic and had cuts and bruises. I know.
Shower in the morning or wash face and body parts with water only.
Soap is not necessary and is contraindicated for plush skin.
We will get into use of fresh urine as a cologne or perfume later.
This is not the greatest part of the therapy. It can be used.
A slap of new fresh warm urine will bring out the pheromones from
The body and this is what the cosmetic companies have been trying for
years to perfect. They can't do so for personally it's your pheromones
That do the sexual attraction and it must be used warm as it first comes out
of the body. We are animals still, and it will bring out the animal in you.
Some women have mixed their special perfume with warm fresh urine.
A few drops will do. Don't go crazy.
Yes I understand. Your thinking, "what a jerk".
Don't try it. I know a lot of women and men that have tried it and it works.
Remember, fresh, warm, few drops, and bingo. Check it out.
For this one I'm sure you will not tell your best girlfriend.
Remember, your life should not always be an open book.
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Drinking
Thinking, Is he serious? You bet I am.
This is where it gets scientific, medicinal, and the Pharmaceutical
companies get "pissed" more than we do because we get our
pharmaceuticals free and natural and NEVER toxic to our system NEVER.
{Unless we are full of drugs, pharmaceutical or reacreational}.
Plus, we are not guessing at what's wrong.
We take our liquid in the morning and what we can't use in our body
immediately gets expelled for a new body assimilation later in the day.
However this time the body is recreating a host of
vitamins, enzymes, minerals itself and from the foods we have consumed
ready for reabsorption· into our cells from the drinking.
There are more than a dozen hypothetses relating to the re-absorption.
Lets look at a few.
1}. Nutrients
By drinking or massaging with urine, we possible re-use and re-absorb
many vitamins, salts, amino acids, hormones, and so forth as nutrients.
Vitamin 81 {Thiamin}, Vitamin 82 {Riboflavin}, Vitamin 86, Vitamin 812,
And many others.
2}. Hormones
Hormones are powerful molecules which once produced may cause
complete alteration in the balance of body processes, personality,
emotions, and state of mind. After the years of 40 to 50 there may be a
hormonal imbalance which now in this new age there are millions and
millions given" Premarin", a prescription drug short for
pregnant-mare urine. { See premarine farm section to learn more }.
Yes you read correctly. Pregnant female horse urine.
So why pay for animal hormone therapy when you can not only have


  Were I to "lay  down the law"  too forcibly for all and sundry,
I should also be termed a dogmatist.  It might likewise savour of the
dogmatic  if I were to say that one meal a day,  or two at most, are
sufficient  for the maintenance  of health and  strength.  Yet in my own
case,  I have found in the end that one meal suffices me. This is to say,
however,  whether it sounds  dogmatic  or not, namely that all violent
and  sudden alterations  in diet are only wise if undertaken  after a fast.
People who for humanitarian  reasons have suddenly taken to
vegetarianism  have frequently  had  to suffer for their high‐ mindedness.
Nature  objects to sudden changes of this kind.  Conversely,  people who
have found that vegetarianism  disagrees  with them and  then have
suddenly taken to flesh‐foods, have also had to pay for their policy. But‐
not so if they  have  made tie change after a urine‐fast, the length of
which  has been regulated  according  to their condition  and  the nature
(though not the name) of their malady.  116
 And here  let me add  a word to‐this  chapter regarding  the enforced
fasts of survivors in open boats, who when faced with a deficiency  of
water,  eventually  resort to drinking their own urine. A correspondent
has objectingly  written to me saying that there are a number  of cases
or record of sailors who have drunk  their own urine when adrift at sea,
and  have died  in consequence.  But  surely the writer is confounding
effect and cause, nor  does his deduction  tally with the Admiralty's
admission  that “the practice is harmless.”  The truth  is that these
unfortunate  men had  in all likelihood  only started to drink  their own
urine when in extremis. Had  they  started to take it from the first, they
would have modified  their actual  sufferings  from food and  water
starvation.  But of course in such cases one has to take into account  the
bad  effects of exposure and  the constant anxiety that attends  such
horrible experiences.  Unfortunates  who are cast drift  in a boat are,
needless  to say,  continually  harassed by the idea that they  are going to
perish from  hunger and thirst. Could  they  be freed from this idea  and at
the same time assured  that urine drinking is not only harmless  but
actually beneficial,  the experience  would hold for them less terrors. If it
was generally known that a man can subsist  for what may  seem to the
uninitiated  an extraordinary  long time on urine only, the knowledge
would prove  of enormous  value against  the debilitating  effect of fear‐
thoughts.  I may  mention that the longest fast I can record was that of a
man  who fasted 101 days for blindness  brought about by a sting in one
eye and  the l ong continued  use of atropin in both. But such a lengthy
fast  would not have been feasible without  the  urinerubbings  (in
addition to the urine intake)  which  play so i mportant  a part in urine‐
therapy.
 117
 CHAPTER  XIX.
SOME  PRACTICAL  SUGGESTIONS

In one of the American  States a law still exists making it illegal for a
husband to kiss his wife on a Sunday! Of course, no one pays the
slightest  attention,  because  the law is not and cannot be enforced,  and
because it only involves the parties concerned.  But it is a very different
matter wirh  laws involving huge commercial  interests A kiss is not a
manufacturable  commodity,  serums and  radium  plants  are ‐and  that is
the trouble.  To the pure in heart, which  means the unselfish,  altruistic
and  uncommercially  minded, it seems doubtless  a curious  irony that
the treatment  of certain said‐to‐be incurable  diseases has become
illegal  except at the hands  of those who cannot cure  them. This is
ostensibly  to "protect the public." Yet the logician  may  ask, to protect
the public from what or from  whom? We presume  from such persons
as fraudulently  profess to cure  what they  know  perfectly  well that they
are unable to cure,  and who merely trade on the innocence  and
ignorance  of the unwary. Well, such a law has its advantages,  but it also
has its, drawbacks.  Besides, it would be more  convincing  if the usual
measures  adopted  by the Medical Profession  wh agitated so that the
law should be passed, were (1) instrumental  in saving the lives of those
it professed  o protect, and (2) if those measures  were not of so highly a
lucrative nature. Operations  for cancer are more  costly to the patient
than a few relatively harmless  herbs sold by quacks (some of which
have been known  to do good) and a radium plant  is a coctly affair for
the purchasers  and very profitable  to its vendors, as also is radium  itself.  118
 Many doctors, as we have seen, of both the allopathic  and
homoeopathic  schools,  have warned their confreres  of the
unsatisfactory  results  obtained  both by surgery ‐aid  radium, but
without  any appreciable  effect, for the a iium or operative  treatment  is
still boosted as the “correct” treatment  for malignancy.
All the same


 in your healing and is not to be disregarded. These memories can
be essential inroads to the deeper healing of your mind and opening in
awareness. But remember: your egoic mind wanted every experience it
ever had, and now the best you can do is to let those experiences be your
inroads to the fundamental problem of separation, to heal your way back
to who you really are. The discovery of the power of our mind is essential in learning to
see that our thoughts always give us an experience of either peace or
turmoil. Peace of mind—as well as guilt, fear, and anger—is based on apresent decision, a decision you are making this very instant. Instead of
going on a witch-hunt into your past, or trying to affirm a better future,
the focus is on a present decision for peace. In A Course in Miracles, Jesus says: “One thing you must learn
about the goals the ego has given you, is that when you have achieved
them they have not satisfied you.” Think of all the goals we set. We are
told that goal setting is good, right? So, what are you if you don’t have
any goals? A lazy, no-good, rotten bum! Now, you are working with the
Course,  and what is it asking you to do? Give up all of the goals! Living
as if you are giving up all of your goals except for the one single goal of
present peace can take a while. We associate goals with the future, so
present peace feels like a very different kind of goal. That’ s why it can
be a bit difficult  in the beginning. Also, you can bank on hearing the ego
say, “Oh, come on, what a waste! You could be doing somethi ng really
productive. Present peace?” That’ s what you will have to face. And, as
long as you entertain that doubt thought, guess what? The world is going
to act it out for you. It might be from your parents, your neighbors, or
your spouse, “What? What’ s your goal? Your goal is present peace?”
Anyone can act it out for you because the world you perceive is a
reflection of your beliefs. So, if you have doubt thoughts about present
peace, guess where they’re going to show up: everywhere! When we accept that it is our divine birthright to be in a consistent
state of peace, we are taken in a whole new direction. We start to
acknowledge our true strength, and that strength is freedo m. The
thoughts of the ego, the thoug hts of temptation, can’t ever enter our
pristine, holy mind here. The light becomes so strong and so bright that
the thoughts of the ego can’ t even enter! Being Vigilant for Peace
Along the way, there are many instances where we can watch how part
of our mind wants to stray away  from the peace we are beginning to get
in touch  with. These moments of the journey are important as they are
opportunities to allow the fear to come up while still being able to follow
what our hearts are really telling us to do. As we trust the voice inside, orthe feeling inside our heart, we strengthen our trust in our direction
toward peace. This world is made up of countless distractions and tempo rary
pleasures to feel good for a short period of time. When we realize that
indulging in temporary pleasur e is an obstacle to a state of consistent
peace, we recognize that we need to take a deep look at what we choose
on a day-to-day, moment-to-mo ment basis. Our true purpose is to be
happy, not to achieve things or accumulate possessions. Understanding
that leads to peace of mind. The experience of freedom is of the mind
and not circumstance dependent in any way. We can get clear on what the ego is and then pull our mind back
from it, reclaiming the peace in the present moment. In other words, take
the juice away from the ego and reclaim the power of the mind by
consistently choosing peace. For as long as we think the ego has
something of value to offer us, our minds will be deprived of peace. We
need to be very vigilant not to make any exceptions. Nor should we
accept that there is any order of difficulty in any problem that we
encounter: an illusion is an illusion regardless of its seeming magnitude. When we go deeper, we realize that we can only give up what was never
real anyway. We come to see the false as false and illusion as illusion. When the resistance to peace has been removed, the light of Spirit shines
unobstructed in awareness. What makes peace of mind possible is trust in the Holy Spirit. Trusting in past learning and constructs of linear time means that there is
a fear of Spirit, a fear of the higher realms, a fear of love. So, to the
extent that you want to hold on to past learning, you will not be able to
rest in present peace. These are the phases most of us go through before
arriving back at peace:
1. First come your likes and your dislikes. Y ou start to become
aware of them and see how you would like more of your likes and
less of your dislikes. 2. Then you go a little further and start to feel that your mind is
powerful and that you can draw forth more of what you like and
less of what you do not like (manifesting).3. Then you go even a little higher, and you start to realize that your
mind is very powerful; it is the maker of this dream. 4. When you start to realize you thought you liked this and you did
not like that, but you really do not know what you want, it gets
humbling. Now you are open to peace of mind and to being given
an experience that is from far beyond your past learning. Y ou start
to use your powerful mind to experience only what you truly
want: peace of mind. The Only Answer Is Peace
The only way to experience this world accurately and peacefully is as a
unified whole. But this is generally not our experience when  we deal
with everyday problems and situations. Think of the 1,001 experiences
you’ve had recently. If you split one of these experiences off and think
that there’ s something wrong with it or that something could have been
better or differen t, then you’re seeing with the ego, which alway s tries to
solve situations through splitting of f. I call this fragmentation. If a money pit of a house had 142 problems and every one of those
problems were solved, as long as you hold on to a perspective of
fragmentation, there are going  to be more problems. But when the
purpose is changed to peace and to truth, the entire perspective of the
universe is transformed. Even if the problems seem to continue, we will
not expe rience them from a perspective of fragmentation, and we will
not see them as fragmented issues in and of themselves. If we are
focused only on the release of the blocks to peace of mind, we will
experience a flow of guidance as to how to deal with each and every
problem that appears. We will see problems as just a movie script
playing out on a screen, bringing us back to peace. We will no longer
want to give our power away to anything that takes away our peace. Thus, we have completely changed our perspective. Since the problem is in the mind, it can only be resolved in the
mind. The ego made the world to generate specific problems that have
no answers. It generates impossible problems with no true solutions.If we give our mind over to the Holy Spirit and inquire about a
whole new way of seeing—a  new vision—then we’re really going
inward toward the real solution. We are here to come back to a peaceful
foundation and experience. It is very practical. We just need to trust and
be willin g to unlearn things and ideas that we thought were solid facts
about ourselves and the world. The outcome is a tranquil mind. Peace of
mind is not a small gift to yourself—it’ s everything. Can you imagine
what it would be like to be perfectly peaceful, calm, and tranquil always? That is what time is for—to learn just that and nothing more. You can
allow yourself to be open-minded and flexible about things as you get
deeper and deeper into your practice. You can be very allowing and very
peaceful. Setting the Goal to Achieve Peace
There is a sectio n in A Course in Miracles  called “Setting the Goal” that
explains that if you put the goal of peace out in front in each situation,
you will perceive everything and everyone as supporting this goal. Setting the goal of peace is something that we can do at the very
beginning of any activity. The value of deciding for peace in advance is
simply that you will perceive the situation as a means to make it (peace
of mind) happen. This means that perception no longer needs to be the
determiner of our state of mind. When you set your mind in advance, you focus your mind on what
you want. This is the way to use time for healing purpo ses. The
separated mind believes in the past, the present, and the future even
though the etern al now is really  all there is. Believing that problems are
caused by past events pander s to the ego’s idea of separation and
distracts the mind from being present in the moment. Peace is really a
present choice