	a	nice	park,	or	just	a	field	of	grass,	lie
down	sometimes	so	your	spine	has	full	contact	with	the	earth.	You	can	even
try	taking	a	nap	on	your	back	in	the	grass;	you’ll	wake	up	feeling	radically
recharged.
It	seems	so	simple,	but	remember	that	some	of	the	most	beautiful	things	in
life	are	truly	simple.	Pets	and	children	intuitively	love	to	frolic	in	the	grass,	and
it’s	time	for	all	of	us	to	focus	on	reestablishing	that	sacred	connection.	Nature
is	so	healing	to	us;	all	we	have	to	do	is	reach	out	and	make	contact	with	her,
and	she	will	help	us	heal	from	the	inside	out,	while	your	beauty	benefits	as	well.
You	will	be	able	to	feel	how	authentically	good	earthing	is	for	you	because	the
more	you	participate	in	earthing,	the	more	reconnected	and	recharged	you	will
feel	in	the	most	Radically	Beautiful	way.
Making	Our
Indoors	Closer	to	Nature
Though	it	would	be	ideal	to	be	outside	in	nature	more,	the	fact	is	that	most	of
us	spend	the	vast	majority	of	our	time	indoors.	We	certainly	can’t	change	that,
and	we	also	can’t	control	everything	in	our	environments,	such	as	when	you’re
walking	down	the	street	and	a	passing	bus	blows	a	spray	of	nasty	exhaust	on
you,	or	when	you	step	into	a	restaurant	and	get	a	whiff	or	two	of	nasty	cigarette
smoke	from	the	smokers	lined	up	outside.	You	also	can’t	help	it	if	the	soap	in
public	restrooms	contains	chemicals	like	sulfates	that	you	wouldn’t	want	to	use
at	home,	or	you	step	into	a	taxi	saturated	with	a	sickeningly	sweet	air	freshener
dangling	from	the	rearview	mirror.
Studies	on	human	exposure	to	air	pollutants	by	the
Environmental
Protection	Agency	(EPA)	indicate	that	indoor	levels	of	pollutants	may	be	two	to
five	times—and	even	upwards	of	over	one	hundred	times—higher	than	outdoor
pollutant	levels.
9
	While	this	may	seem	shocking	if	concerns	about	indoor
pollution	have	never	really	crossed	your	mind,	further	consider	the	fact	that
indoor	air	pollutants	have	been	ranked	among	the	top	five	environmental	risks
to	public	health.
The	problem	is	that	with	air-conditioning,	heating,	and	modern	office
buildings	and	hotels,	many	windows	are	permanently	sealed,	and	very	little
circulating	air	enters	indoor	spaces.	This	allows	indoor	pollutants	to
accumulate	to	levels	that	can	affect	your	health	and,	yes,	your	beauty.	Taking
measures	to	reduce	indoor	pollution	is	especially	important	for	those	who	are
pregnant,	nursing,	or	have	children,	as	these	pollutants	may	even	disrupt
normal	brain	and	organ	development.
10
	Anything	toxic	is	not	in	alignmentwith	the	natural	biorhythms	of	your	body	and	is	going	to	create	free	radicals,
disrupt	your	system,	and	diminish	your	natural	beauty.
But	we	are	not	completely	helpless	to	external	factors.	We
can
	control	our
personal	environments	to	a	great	extent,	and	there	is	much	you	can	do	to
transform	your	personal	environment	into	one	that	nourishes	rather	than
hinders	your	beauty.	It’s	empowering	when	you	realize	all	you	can	do	to	make
these	important	shifts.	There	are	a	lot	of	them.
Here	are	some	measures	you	can	take	to	reduce	toxicity	in	your	home	and	in
any	indoor	spaces	you	spend	time	in.
DITCH
AIR	FRESHENERS
Nobody	likes	a	smelly	bathroom,	but	spraying	air	fresheners	into	the	air
regularly	is	far	worse	for	you	than	enduring	temporary	unpleasant	bathroom
smells.	A	study	from	the
University	of	Washington	found	that	eight	unnamed,
widely	used	US	air	fresheners	released	an	average	of	eighteen	chemicals	into	the
air,
11

including	some	volatile	organic	chemicals	(VOCs)	that	are	considered
toxic	or	hazardous.
If	you	want	to	make	your
home	or	office	smell	fresh	(as	we	all	do),	just	open
a	window,	burn	a	nontoxic	soy	candle,	fill	an	essential	oil	diffuser,	or	crack
open	a	box	of	good	ol’	baking	soda,	which	naturally	helps	to	fight	odors.	Also
work	to	get	rid	of	the	source	of	the	smell	in	the	first	place;	it	might	mean
replacing	something	that’s	old	or	past	its	prime	(like	an	old	carpet),	which
would	end	up	being	a	positive	change	all	around.
USE	NATURAL	CLEANING	METHODS
It’s	absolutely	critical	to	reduce	toxic	cleaning	products	in	your	home	across	the
board—from	dish	soaps	to	carpet	cleaners,	all	surface	and	cleaning	sprays,	and
so	on.	Go	green	all	the	way!	Your	health	and	beauty	are	worth	it.	Get	a	big	trash
can	and	clean	house	(pun	intended),	ridding	your	whole	space	of	toxic
chemicals.	You	can	find	some	nontoxic	DIY	natural	cleaning	products	to	get
your	space	spic-and-span	without	any	toxic	petroleum-based	chemicals	(see
this
page
).	Lemons,	baking	soda,	and	vinegar	are	fantastic	natural	cleaning
ingredients,	and	you	might	be	surprised	at	how	well	they	work	compared	with
their	toxic,	chemical-filled	counterparts.
VACUUM	REGULARLY
Regularly	vacuum	all	indoor	spaces	using	an	appliance	with	a
HEPA	filter,
which	stands	for	“high-efficiency	particulate	air.”	A	HEPA	filter	is	a	type	ofmechanical	air	filter	that	works	by	forcing	air	through	a	fine	mesh	filter	that
traps	harmful	particles	and	ensures	they	don’t	get	blown	back	out	into	your
space	(which	obviously	would	defeat	the	purpose	of	your	hard	work!).	These
particles	include	pollutants,	allergens,	dust,	and	brominated	fire-retardant
chemicals	(known	as	PBDEs).	Be	sure	to	wash	out	your	filter	regularly.
MOP	IT
According	to	the
Environmental	Working	Group,	ordinary	house	dust	is	a
complex	mixture	of	pet	dander,	fungal	spores,	particulates	from	indoor
aerosols,	soil
tracked	in	by	foot	traffic,	volatile	organic	compounds	(VOCs)	that
evaporate	at	room	temperature,	and	traces	of	metals,	and	these	contaminants
may	degrade	more	slowly	in	dust.
12
	Regular	mopping,	especially	with	the	use	of
microfiber	mops,	captures	dust	and	dirt	from	surfaces	that	vacuuming	tends	to
leave	behind.	You	can	mop	with	plain	water	(after	vacuuming),	a	nontoxic	soap,
or	some	diluted	white	vinegar.
KEEP	A	STRICT
SHOE-FREE	POLICY
If	you’ve	ever	traveled	to	Asia,	you	know	that	in	many	countries	it’s	customary
to	remove	your	shoes	upon	entering	a	home	or	traditional	restaurant.	This	is	an
excellent	policy	to	greatly	reduce	pesticides,	pollutants,	and	toxins	that	can	be
tracked	into	your	home	from	the	bottoms	of	shoes	and	then	absorbed	through
bare	feet	(yuck!).	This	is	especially	true	if	you	practice	yoga	at	home	and	place
your	face	near	the	floor,	or	if


, 163–206, 257, 277
from children, 179–80, 183, 198, 204–5
defined, 163–64
from external opinions, 175
implementation of, 199–206
love and, 176–77, 182–84, 188, 197–98, 201
from outcome, 175, 177from ownership, 184, 200–201
paradoxes of, 163–64, 174, 175, 177–78, 183–84, 188,
190, 192–93, 195, 200–201
resistance to, 196–98
suffering eliminated by, 180, 183–84, 185
determination, 52
Divine Romance, The  (Yogananda), 102–3, 187
dreams, 48, 56–68
awakening from, 58, 60–61, 62, 67–68, 80–81, 109–10,
130, 163, 218
beginnings and endings missing from, 57, 63–64, 77–79
cause and ef fect unconnected in, 76–77
consciousness in, 58, 59–60, 67–68, 108, 163
creation of all needs in, 57, 65–66, 68, 78–79, 107–8
as formless world, 56, 58, 60, 67, 1 10, 130, 217–18
of God, 108, 109, 208, 248
obstacles as opportunities in, 57, 64–65, 78
oneness and, 107–10
as out-of-body experience, 56–57
physical reactions to, 58, 66–67, 79
seven rules applying in, 56–58, 65–68, 76–81
singleness of, 109–10, 208
spiritual masters in, 59
time in, 58, 61–62, 76, 77
waking dreamer of, 58–68, 76–80
wet, 58
Dyer, Jim, 256
Dyer, Marcie, 27, 41, 176–77, 230–31, 236
Dyer, Melvin L yle, 3–8
Dyer, Wayne W.:
books by, 8–9, 39, 40, 48, 92, 126, 195, 209–10
career of, 5–9, 32, 39–47, 135–41, 209–10, 232–35,
272–75
childhood of, 3–4, 39–40, 58–59, 135–36, 169–70
family of, 3–5, 27, 39–40, 41, 58–59, 87–89, 141, 255–
56
Greek Marathon run by, 226–28philosophy of, 18–27, 40, 43–45, 92, 227–28, 272–75
transformation of, 3–9, 27, 40

Einstein, Albert, 54, 100
on oneness, 84
time as viewed by, 50, 62, 76
Ellis, Albert, 39
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 39, 173, 185
endlessness, 57, 63–64, 77–79, 121, 158–59, 218–19, 248
enemies, 253, 278
attachment to past and, 184, 186
reevaluation of, 1 16
energy:
flowing of, 165, 169, 223, 238, 244, 248, 281
of giving, 205
mental, 215
muscular, 215
music as, 206
thought as, 223
in universe, 52, 129, 165, 166–69, 209, 21 1, 220, 223,
244, 251, 280
enlightenment (awakening), 45, 149, 165, 186, 196, 198, 202, 219, 257,
268–69, 271, 284
process of, 134–231, 250
Stage One of, 222–24, 228, 250
Stage Two of, 224–28, 251
Stage Three of, 228–231, 251
suffering as part of process of, 224–25, 226, 227, 228,
231, 251
eternity:
in Bible, 76
as concept, 64, 76
in each moment, 78
exercise, 23–24, 34, 187

failure, 54–56, 284–85
faith, 245
Farther Reaches of Human Natur e, The  (Maslow), 210
fear, 78–79, 148
of changing, 72
of death, 16, 19, 60, 63, 68, 109
of not having enough, 130
Spinoza on, 28
of unfamiliar, 72
Feild, Reshad, 221
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 190
flow charts, 194
flowing, 164, 193, 196, 199, 201, 206, 209
of ener gy, 165, 169, 223, 238, 244, 248, 281
of thought, 223, 229
forgiveness, 8, 9, 257–91
anger and, 259, 263, 266, 269–70, 272–74, 277, 280–82
Christ as teacher of, 266, 269
giving as key to, 277–83
implementation of, 276–83
judgmental habits and, 259, 267–68, 283
lack of, suf fering caused by, 257
of oneself, 283–85
resistance to, 261
spiritual masters as teachers of, 263, 266, 269–70, 271
form:
attachment to, 186–88, 203
changes in, 14, 17, 60
connectors of, 251–52
death as transition of, 63, 109, 287
defined, 13
formlessness vs., 77, 163, 217–18, 221, 246, 248
God as support of, 17, 1 19, 167, 238
hidden, 212
identification with, 70, 186–88, 192, 245, 250
as illusion, 107–8intelligence as support of, 18–19, 72, 75–77, 167, 199,
208, 233, 238
invisible, 212–14
labeling and, 1 14
suffering as dependent on, 109, 182, 203, 251
in transformation, 13–14, 15
vibrations of, 51
formlessness, 73, 121, 164, 186
acausality of, 77
connectors in, 217–21
in dreams, 56, 58, 61, 67, 81, 109–10, 217–18,
form vs., 77, 163, 217–18, 222, 245, 247–48
of thought, 214, 218–20, 220–21, 230, 232–33
freedom:
abundance and, 134–35
defined, 134–35
expansion of, 134–35
in universe, 134–35
free will, 235, 239, 245, 248
Frost, Robert, 41–42
Fuller, Buckminster, 18

Gandhi, Mohandas, 128, 131
Gibran, Kahlil, 179–80
Gifts fr om Eykis  (Dyer), 39, 126, 195, 234–36, 281
giving, 159–60, 168, 184, 194–96, 204
energy in, 205
as key to for giveness, 277–83
goals, paradoxical approach to, 1 15
God, 15, 29, 76, 123, 186, 229, 246, 254, 255, 269
as dreamer, 108, 109, 208, 248
Gandhi on, 128
infinity and, 218–19
Jung on, 17–18
as oneness, 90as support for form, 17–18, 1 19, 167, 238
universe supported by, 211, 219, 238


 tv-1ice or thrice a day. He did accordingly and.got fid.of
trouble withrn ·a week. Nettle-rash stilt troubled· him~ ~so be·
continued the treatment and ultimatety the con.stlpatiOfn; was~
,;emov.ed and rettt.rasn cure.<.L.. His allergic condition was
d~inated.
•ncidentatly I wish to point out that in a case of bleeding piles.,
bteeding stops rf a pi-ece of doth soaked in urine be kept on the piles
re.g!Jla~v.
U.T.-1-3
157 158 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
3. Inflammation of the Uterus : A lady in Dhalni Pole,
Ahmedabad, suffered form pain due to inflammation in the uterus
after' her marriage. She got herself treated by doctors and Vaidyas
but did not have any relife. Shri Ranjitbhai informed her husband
that urine treatment would eliminate her trouble. She was
persuaded to take urine. One day she took all the urine passed. This
worked as a miracle and the serious trouble disappeared with a
day's drink only. Before the treatment she was unable to walk
. even a litt~e distance. But after the treatment, She could go to the
river for her b~ths.
AFTERMATH OF CASES
. 1. Shri Shambhushankar Trivedi cured his major and minor
troubles by urine treatment. He cured his piles, got rid of spectacles
and nocturnal discharge by drinking auto-urine and urine massage
for one month. He is hale and hearty even at 70.
2. Shri sitaramji Chaudhary suffered from fistula for 15 years. He
was operated' twice but the disease prevailed. He took to urine
treatment and began to apply urine-soaked cloth ori the wound. In
seven months the disease vanished.
3. Shri Vinod Kanaji Motiwala of Bombay aged 26, was sufferi.ng
from apoplexy for the last 1 2 years. He tried various pathies but to
no avail. At last he started urine therapy and could cure such an old
and dangerous disease. He Still continues the urine treatment to
protect himself frbm its sudden attack.
4. Shri Bhuvaneshwar Pande, Gandhi Ashram, Pataranga ( U.P.)
had pain and swelling in right testicle and thigh. No rnedicene could
cure him. He fasted on auto-urine for two days, massaged with
urine for 15 minutes daily and used to drink urine about four times
a day. He was particular about dieting. He was completely cured.
5. Shrimati Mahimq is a self-controlled lady. She had a very big
tumour in her armpit. She cured her tumour by urine treatment in no
time. ELEPHANTIASIS AND OTHER AILMENTS : 159
6.'shri Ratimuni related his urine treatment experi~nces to s.hri
, Hans In 1961 in Bihar his toe was badly hit and cured It by applymg
urine~pads. Another time he was operated for some trouble but the
surgeon's wound did not heal. so he aplied urine-pads and healed
the wound.
7. Shri Mangilal Maloviya is a naturopath and he had~ bad prick
in his left foot. He at once urinated over it and put a unne-soaked
bandage over it.
Pain at once subsided and the deep wound healed in no time
without any pus formation.
8. Shrimati Prabhavati is 45 and suffered from.leucorrhoea. She
took urine treatment. She fasted on during for el~ht days, drank
urine for one month and massaged with urine durem the treatment.
She applied urine-soaked cotton in vagina. She was completely
cured.
9. Shri Keshavbhai G. Patel, Manager, ~darsh Dairy, Bombay;
s~:~ffered from whirling sensation in the bram due to gas or ot~e
disturbance for the last 25 years. He used to take myrobalan pow ~r
daily but in case he forgot to take it, there wou~d surely be t~ ~
sensation. He took urine treatment and the sensation has gone o
ever and he has· left the powder too.
10 Shrimati Ashaben (Red Cross, Chandigadh) has a son. who
suffer~d from apoplexy. He could not be cu~ed. C?nce the dtsease
became very grave. Ashaben began to give htm unne treat~ent..ln
a few days the body began to recover as he passed out a. toxi~S
. by way of loose motions and along with it there was a very btg
worm 7 inches long. The boy recovered fully and the doctors
wonderd at the speedy and complete recovery of the boy.
Syphilis : Syphilis cases were also. the.~fter~ath of cases which
were treated after passing away of Shn RaoJibhat.
1. Shri Chhaganlal (Mangrol) informs that a f~rmer ~ged 30 had
syphilis. He w<fs completely cured by urine treatment. I I 160 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
2. Similarly, the same person informs that one Harij«• Shri Raja
Arjan aged 35 has the same disease and he too was fully cur~d by
urine therapy.
3. Shri Raghubirsingh Chaudhari aged 60 (Village Sirbali, ·dist.
Merath) ~ad syphilis and there was pus formation and burning
sensation on the spot. He suffered from this disease for two years.
He began urine treatment by drinking it thrice a day and putting
urine~soaked pad on the spot during the whole night. He could cure
himself only in three weeks• time and could free himself completely
from such a de-adly disease.
CHAPTER XIX
'INTERNAL INJURIES.
There is a big trvst for the propagation of naturopathic treatment
at Malad (Bomba¥J and a hospital of naturopathy is run by it. Dr.
Krishna Verma, an expert nature-curist treats the patients here for the
l·ast 40 years. Dr. Verma has written about some successful cases of
~ment witb. u:n1-oe. Her,e is tJ1,e summaliy :
'l§hri R-aojlb'nai Mantbha:i Patel is not a professionad physi-ciafl.
H:e i5 a sociail worker amd has published ;hts experieoces of urirte
~erapy Without carif.lg for the popular likes or dtslikes with a
~oothrqpk ~for •t'! Comfl"lt.'fl weJ>fare. I ha•e pyrcl'l.ased and
sa;,dJed ~e ~k ef late Mr. Ar.mstwRg.. rhf! water of Life and
cweft1J~ made afl experime!ilt on a B'lla:tia I ady accotJrdi ng to the
method given in the book. The results were satisfa..;cory. As. a
pl!tysidaA, I was benefi,tednby my own experience also. Here is the
story of the case of tt:le tady.
''The lady slipped and fe:H down. She got some inner injury
resulting in disturbance of menstruation. Ht!r system of digestion
was also affected and the bowels did not work properly. She
developed constipation too. First of all she had allopathic treatment INTERNAL INJURIES : 161
and when it proved useless, Ayurvedic treatment was tried. The
troubles could not be cured. Even chromopathy wa~ tried. But due to·
the absence of diet control and irregular life,,the condition of the
woman became worse day by day and she was so emaciated that
her life was in danger. Some of her relatives advised her to see me.
when 1 observed her for the first time, her condition put me in doubt
about the cure and I refused to treat her. But o'lpersistent request, I
admitted her to my hospitaL
11The condition of the patient was then serious. Monthly course
had stopped, motions were almost absent and she-passed har~ly
about 6 oz. of urine in 24 hours. It was of deep chocolate colour ltke
that of a hours and was extermely ill-smelling. lnflammati<>n was on
her hands, feet, breast and eye-lids.
"The treatment was commenced on the basis of Armstrong's book
but with a slight difference. She was made to drink as much of
auto-urine as was possible for her. Warm water was also given. She
was daily rubbed with urine and was given a ~un


 antioxidants and have anti-allergic and anti-inﬂammatory properties. In this way, they are
especially beneﬁcial with inﬂammatory forms of arthritis. In particular, some  ﬂavonoids  inhibit the autoimmune reactions around the
joints. A good diet contains 1g or more of ﬂavonoids. They are also available as supplements.
The amino acid D,L-phenylalanine can be effective as a pain reliever. It may take up to 3 weeks to get results. Commonly 750 mg 3
times daily has been used; if not effective double the dose for another 3 weeks. Inﬂammation and swellings may be reduced. A
similar beneﬁcial effect has been found with the amino acid tryptophan. Patients who had been treated with tryptophan for depression
also had relief from arthritis. Also the amino acid L-histidine may be beneﬁcial.
Mucopolysaccharides, also called  proteoglycans, form long chains which are the basis of the cartilage and connective tissue.
Normally  proteoglycans  make up about 80% of cartilage. In arthritic cartilage this may be reduced to 40% or less.
Ingesting proteoglycans as food or supplements has been shown to be very beneﬁcial.
These can be supplied from green-lipped mussel (Perna  canaliculus). Several experimental studies have shown signiﬁcant
improvement in most patients with long-term supplementation. In addition, calf cartilage has been used with good results, especially
injections of pre-digested cartilage. Now also liquid oral bovine cartilage is available, otherwise you may use shark cartilage, but it is
more difﬁcult to digest and absorb. Other foods rich in proteoglycans  are Aloe  vera, oats, okra, sweet potato leaves, shark ﬁn soup,
Irish moss and especially broth of ﬁsh heads.
The amino sugar glucosamine is a main raw product for the synthesis of proteoglycans. Supplying sufﬁcient glucosamine, about 1.5 g
per day, helps to restore normal cartilage composition and is very beneﬁcial for affected joints, N-acetyl glucosamine is the preferred
variety. Also other types of glucosamine may be used, add MSM as well.   Another basic building block of cartilage
is chondroitin sulfate.
Yucca is one of the few herbs’  that have been scientiﬁcally assessed in the treatment of diseases. Of 149 arthritics 61% had less
swellings, pain and stiffness. Some required several months of treatment  before improving. Encouraging reports are also available for
the bitter root of devil's claw.
Protein-digesting or proteolytic  enzym es are well known for their anti-inﬂammatory properties.  Bromelain, an enzyme from pineapple,
was found to improve most inﬂammatory arthritic conditions.
WASTES, T OXINS AND MICROBES
Tense muscles surrounding a joint have a further strong inﬂuence on joint deterioration. Such muscle tensions may originate from
overwork of this particular muscle group or the cause may be unreleased emotional tensions. If we feel an emotion but do not
properly act to release it, then this energy is stored in a corresponding muscle in the form of a permanent contraction of some muscle
ﬁbers.
This is called muscle armoring. Unreleased anger may, for instance, affect the shoulder muscles  and unreleased sexual tension may
amour pelvis and hip muscles. An armored muscle has a permanently contracted core with greatly reduced blood and lymph10/30/24, 3:31 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Arthritis & Rheumatism
https://health-science-spirit.com/Diseases/Arthritis-and-Rheumatism.html 5/11circulation. This in turn encourages the accumulation of toxins and metabolic wastes in this area. Such armored muscle groups
around a joint will also prevent an adequate supply of nutrients from reaching the joint.
Furthermore, armored muscles, because of their lack of nutrients, tend to produce large amounts of lactic acid. This in turn liberates
histamine and leads to inﬂammations. At the same time, these over-acid  conditions contribute to the erosion of bones and joints (e.g.
osteoporosis). On the other hand, when conditions are too alkaline (e.g. when the metabolism slows down with advancing age) then
calciﬁcations will occur as with joint deformities.
While armored muscles will in this way lead to malnourishment of joints and to arthritis, also the reverse is true: an inﬂamed joint will
lead to muscle tension and armoring around it and this in turn will further contribute to the long-term joint deterioration.
Dental Hazards
In addition to an unhealthy intestinal ﬂora, another main source of endogenous toxins, those produced within the body, are dead
teeth. Dead teeth are even more dangerous than mercury amalgam ﬁllings and having two different kinds of metal in the mouth.
Teeth with a root canal ﬁlling, a post-crown and sometimes also teeth with large ﬁllings or pins are dead.
Dead teeth slowly disintegrate and cause a chronic  osteitis  with softenin g and inﬂammation of the surrounding jawbone. Toxins are
continuously released into the surrounding tissue and blood stream. This process may continue even after removal of a dead tooth if
the diseased bone is not curetted or scraped out back to the healthy jawbone, or if any fragments of root or metal remain embedded.
In addition, in the acupuncture system each tooth is related to a speciﬁc energy meridian, organ and also joint. Therefore, an
interference ﬁeld in a speciﬁc tooth can trigger or intensify arthritis in a related joint. To give some examples, number 3 teeth in all
locations are associated with the hips, the lower 6 to 8 and the upper 4, 5 and 8 are related to the shoulders and elbows, also to the
hands, feet and toes in various locations, numbers 1 to 3 in all locations connect to the feet, back of knees and sacrococcyx  and
lower 4 and 5 and upper 6 and 7 to the front of knees and the jaws.
To avoid problems, all dead teeth should be removed and any areas of osteitis  curetted. If in doubt about the condition of the jawbone
with missing teeth consult a therapist who does electro-acupuncture testing as with Vega equipment. As there are no nerves, there
may be no pain to indicate  osteitis. Many testimonials of former sufferers attest to the beneﬁts of having hidden dental hazards
removed. For further details see the article on  Dental Problems.
The P.C. Microbe
As a result of the accumulation of waste products and the chronic release of endogenous toxins in combination with food allergies
there is a serious decline in our immune functions, which then allows the proliferation of harmful internally generated microbes.
Virginia Livingston-Wheeler has named this endogenous microbe Proge nitor  Cryptocides  or short P.C. It normally lives in a virus-like
form in a beneﬁcial symbiosis within our body cells, but when our immune system becomes too weak, P.C. can leave the cells and
start an uncontrolled growth with changes in size and shape to bacterial and fungus-like forms.
In its virulent condition P.C. has been shown by various researchers to be a major factor in the development of the group of collagen
and connective tissue diseases. These include rheumatoid arthritis and even cancer. P.C. attacks mainly the areas with the lowest
vitality by releasing enzymes, which lead to a localized disintegration of the collagen structure.
This allows any cancer cells, which may be present to become embedded and start growth as a tumor. If this process of connective
tissue disintegration starts in the joints the immune system initially contains the damage by inﬁltrating the attacked area with a large
number of white blood cells. These release enzymes, which dissolve the fragments of denatured cartilage resulting from the activity
of P.C. and most likely also try to kill P.C. This process looks superﬁcia lly as if the immune system destroys its own tissue and is
therefore called an autoimmune disease.
In animal experiments it has been shown that the injection of large doses of virulent P.C. culture leads to tumor development while
lower doses lead to various forms of degenerative connective tissue diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis. Finally, the immune
system becomes too weak and the body limits the damage by calcifying the joint.
The most effective treatment for most cases of arthritis, but espec ially for rheumatoid arthritis are Intestinal Sanitation  and
Antimicrobial Therapy as explained in  The Ultimate Cleanse.
Poor Elimination
Generally, in arthritis the organs of elimination are weak, leading to mucus congestion of the lymphatic system and to fatty
degeneration of organs and muscles.
Uric acid is an especially unpleasan t metabolic residue because of its low solubility, which leads to deposits of needle-like crystals.
These crystals irritate muscles and joints and greatly add to the pain caused by tight muscles with tension and inﬂammation. This
results in gout


tered and stored.
is oil is a traditional practice in  Guni tribal people. is unique practice
is found in Maharashtra as well as Rajasthan. Preferably red colored ladies
ngers are used here.1.95. 4 Cucumber Remedies
for Urinary Calculi,
Gastritis, Burning Urination
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Cucumber is a well known diuretic and natural complexion enhancer. It is a
potent moisturizer by both oral intake and external application. Like
watermelon, cucumbers are made up of high amount of water which fulls the
daily need of water content especially in summer.
Cucumber is rich in vitamin K, B1, B5, B7. Copper, potassium, vitamin C,
and Manganese, beta – carotene, antioxidant avonoids such as quercetin and
kaempferol.
Ayurveda explains Cucumber as Trapusa. According to the classical literature
it is a coolant and potent enough in the treatment of oedema, bilious
conditions, head ache, ascitis, urinary calculi, burning urination etc.
Cucumber is mostly used as a vegetable also. Its tender fruits are taken in
raw form itself. Ripened fruits are rich in water content and hence in its
diuretic eﬀect too.
Cucumber Fresh Pulp Juice in Urinary Calculi
6–10 cucumber pieces are taken and crushed well to obtain fresh juice.
To 1 cup of this juice, 3–5 grams of sugar candy and a pinch of
cardamom powder are added and this is administered 2–3 times a day,2.
3.
4.30 minutes before food. is remedy is safe to continue for very long
periods of time.
is helps to expel out the small gravels of the urine (urinary
calculi).
Or else this can be used as a vehicle/after drink with any of the
diuretic medicine.
Pulp Jaggery Mixture in Gastritis and Lethargy
Mature cucumber fruit is cut from one of its ends. Seeds are separated.
To around 50 grams of these slices, jaggery 20–30 grams is added and
scooped.
Some add half a teaspoon of cardamom and black pepper.
Or instead,
pulp is taken and to that by adding jaggery it can be ground well in
mixer or grinder.
is is taken in the evening hours, before food, in a dose is
pacies lethargy as well as acid peptic disorders.
Cucumber Seed with Buttermilk in Acidic Urine/Burning
Sensation in Urine
A stful of cucumber seeds are collected and it is soaked in butter milk
for overnight. Next day morning this is churned well in a mixer or
grinder. To this little sugar can be added.
is helps to pacify burning caused during urination.
Cucumber Fine Paste Application Around the Eyes for Burning
SensationTender cucumber is taken and it is made into ne paste (or else sliced
fruits can also be applied).is paste is applied around the eyes and
retained for a period of 1–2 hours. It helps to relieve burning sensation
in the eyes.
Similarly this is used (especially sliced pieces) as natural moisturizers
especially after removing the makeup.
Cucumber is a natural coolant. While travelling in summer it is
always better to eat the sliced cucumber instead of opting for chemicals
laden cool drinks.96. 5 Ashwagandha Home
Remedies: Vigour,
Tiredness, Allergy
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Winter cherry – Ashwagandha is a well known Ayurvedic herb. It is also called
Indian Ginseng due to its potent rejuvenative and aphrodisiac properties.
Botanical name – Withania somnifera Dunal.
e term somnifera refers to the substance which induces sleep.
Various synonyms referred in Ayurveda for Ashwagandha like Balada,
Pushtida, Balya, Vrishya etc suggest the nutritive and rejuvenation benet of
the herb.
Ashwagandha refers to smell of the drug similar to the body of horse. It also
symbolically represents the sex power enhancing nature. It is said that
Ashwagandha gives a person, the sexual drive of a Ashwa (horse).
e somniferin chemical constituent of the drug is well known for its
sedative and anxiolytic eﬀect. Due to sedative eﬀect, the roots are used in
anxiety, nervousness, fatigue, giddiness, fainting, loss of sleep etc. In case of
premature ejaculation resulted due to anxiety it has shown very signicant
benet.
Winter cherry is used in the preparation of several simple medicaments and
few such recipes are mentioned here below –1.
2.
3.
4.
5.Aswagandha Milk for Rejuvenation and Promotion of Vigour
4–5 roots of Ashwagandha (5–10 grams of coarse powder can be used)
are cooked well with 200 ml of milk and 400 ml of water. is is
ltered and consumed when it is lukewarm. is promotes the vigour
and is an established rejuvenator.
Aswagandha Remedy for Tiredness in Old Age
Fine powders of Ashwagandha, Kapikacchu – Mucuna pruriens and
Sesame seed are taken, mixed thoroughly.
It is administered in a dose of 5 grams, with a cup of warm milk.
It is useful to relieve tiredness, fatigue and geriatric problems such as
arthritis.
Ashwagandh for Allergic Rhinitis
Equal amount of Turmeric – Ginger and winter cherry ne powders
are taken mixed well. 3 grams of this mix powder is consumed early in
the morning and in late evenings along with warm water or lukewarm
milk, before food. is is useful to relieve allergic rhinitis.
Milk Processed Ashwagandha Root Powder as Rejuvenator and in
Leucorrhoea
100 Grams of Ashwagandha roots are selected and soaked in cow’s
milk. Later it is boiled in this milk. Further it is dried under sunshine.
e procedure is repeated for 7 times.
2–3 Grams of this powder is taken daily along with a teaspoon of
ghee. is improves reproductive health of both men and women. It is
a specic remedy for leucorrhoea.
Ashwagandha Powder with Ghee for Low Sperm Count2–3 Grams of Ashwagandha root powder is mixed with honey and
ghee and taken regularly. is helps to relieve the senile debility and
seminal disorders especially oligospermia.
Ayurveda is rich with rejuvenation and aphrodisiac herbs. ose who
are not aware of it on due consultation with herbalists can practice
simple formulations and get the benet out of it. is builds
condence with herbs and also easily you will get safe and eﬀective
medicines.1.97. 5 Cashew Nut
Remedies for Strength,
Weight, Bone Mass
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Cashew nuts are well known as low fat food. On an approximation 82% of its
fat is unsaturated fatty acids and 66% of these fatty acids content are better for
the heart.
Cashews are the dry fruits which are liked by most of the people that is why
cashew has become a very important nutritional supplement as well as health
rejuvenation.
Cashews are rich in Vitamin B2, B3, C or E, magnesium and pantothenic
acid. Cashew nuts also possess anti cancer properties. e proanthocyanidins, a
class of avonoids that prevent cancer cells from further dividing and
spreading throughout the body is found in cashews.
Cashew nuts are also appreciated for its richness in copper content in natural
form. is enhances hair color and can lead to perfect jet black shade of hair.
Cashew Nut Remedies
Daily Intake of Cashew Nuts, Raisins and Almonds to Gain Body
Strength and Lustrous Skin
2–3 cashew nuts, 10–12 raisins and 1–2 Badam (almond) during night
or evening helps to get good digestive re, stamina and to gain good2.
3.
4.
5.sleep. is also contributes good lustre to the skin as well as
strengthening of the hair roots.
Cashew Nut Milk Increase Sexual Libido
1 cup of milk is taken and it is cooked with 5–6 cashew nuts or else
this is churned well in mixer. is serves the daily requirement of the
essential nutrients and improves body strength as well as sexual libido.
Cashew Powder and Ground Nut Recipe to Gain Healthy Weight
50 Grams of cashew nut and


 The first
convenient dumping ground is the bile duct, which carries it to the
gall bladder. The next most convenient place is what we may term the
dead-ends of blood vessels either in the abdomen, resulting in tumors,
or in the anus, resulting in hemorrhoids. Such inorganic calcium atoms
as happen to get past these usually end up in the kidneys.
A few atoms of inorganic calcium, either in the gall bladder or in
the kidneys, may not do much harm, but with a continuance of the
use of bread, cereals, cakes, and other flour products, the deposits
become progressively cumulative and result in the formation of gravel
or stones in these organs.
It has been found from long experience that the removal of
these deposits or encumbrances by means of surgery is often
unnecessary except, perhaps, in the most extreme cases; and even
then, it is doubtful if better results could not be obtained by helping
Nature, the Great Healer, by the intelligent use of natural means.
Lemon juice, in the proportion of the juice of one lemon to a
tumblerful of hot water, taken many times a day, supplemented with
a tumblerful of the combination of carrot, beet, and cucumber juice
three or four times a day, has helped a great many sufferers to
experience with satisfaction the disappearance of both gravel and
stones sometimes within a matter of a few days or a few weeks.
23 A perfect example would be to share the experience of a business
man well into his forties. He stood prominent in the business world
having successfully placed on the highway to fortune, several of the
large nationwide chainstores in this country and one or two in Great
Britain. He has suffered acute pains for more than twenty years.
X-rays were taken with and without idophthalein, which is a dye used
to detect problems in what appeared to be the gallbladder area. The
Dr.'s diagnosis was confirmed with the results of the tests. He was
suffering from stones in his gallbladder. Fear and aversion to surgery
was the only thing keeping his gallbladder where it belonged.
He was then told about the success of JUICE THERAPY, read
one of the earlier editions of this book, and sought aid from a person
competent and experienced in this treatment. It was explained to him,
that in order to receive a relatively quick treatment with these juices
that he may experience, for a short time, more agonizing pain than he
had before. These pains could last for a few minutes or maybe even
and hour or so at a time, but would eventually cease all together with
the passing of the dissolved calcium. He drank ten or twelve glasses
of hot water with the juice of one lemon in each throughout the day
and about three pints of carrot, beet and cucumber juice daily. On the
second day he did have some terrific spasms of pain for 10 to 15
minutes each. By the end of the week the crisis arrived and for about
half an hour he rolled on the floor in agony; but the pain suddenly left
him and a short while afterward stones passed out and caused a reaction
like mud in his urine. That evening he was a different man. The next
day he took a long trip—from New York to Washington and on to
Canada—with me in my car, feeling 20 years younger and marveling
at the simplicity of Nature's miracles.
This is not an isolated instance. Thousands the world over have
testified with gratitude to the benefits derived from fresh-raw
vegetable juices.
The combination of carrot, beet, and cucumber juice gives us one
of the finest cleansing and healing aids for the gall bladder, liver,
kidneys, and the prostate and other sex glands.
Something else to bear in mind is the fact that when we eat meat
an excessive amount of uric acid is generated in the system, which
apparently cannot be completely eliminated by the kidneys, thus
causing a definite strain on these organs, reacting on the rest of the
body. This combination of juices is therefore invaluable in this respect
to help cleanse the system. At the same time, it has been found
24 advisable to eliminate concentrated sugars and starches, as well as
meat, for awhile at least to give the body the opportunity it needs to
readjust itself to normalcy. Once the healthy condition of the body
has been reestablished then of course, we should know from experience
that to devitalize it again, if we choose to do so, we need only to go
back to eating devitalized foods. It is truly gratifying to find that
many have no desire to return to a mediocre or worse state of health.
They have experienced the realization that health, vigor, energy, and
vitality are well worth retaining and that it is not a sacrifice to exchange
what they thought was palatable with what they now know is more
nutritional.
Nevertheless, nourishing foods are, and can be made, palatable
by the simple method of learning how to do it. Study my book DIET
& SALAD SUGGESTIONS.
BRUSSELS SPROUTS JUICE
The juice of Brussels Sprouts combined with that of carrot, string
bean, and lettuce furnishes a combination of elements which helps to
strengthen and regenerate the insulin generating properties of the
pancreatic functions of our digestive system. For this reason, it has
been found of inestimable benefit in cases of diabetes.
This benefit, however, has been derived when all concentrated
starches and sugars were avoided altogether and when colonic
irrigations and enemas were used regularly to cleanse waste matter
from the system.
CABBAGE JUICE
Duodenal ulcers have responded almost miraculously to the
drinking of cabbage juice. The only drawback is the frequent
generation of excessive gas. In any case, plain carrot juice has been
used with equal success and most people find it more palatable.
Cabbage juice has wonderful cleansing and reducing properties.
Sometimes it has a tendency to cause distress because of gas forming
in the intestines after drinking it. Such gas is the result of waste
putrefactive matter present in the intestines being broken up by the
cabbage juice, which causes a chemical reaction to set in and may
form gas. This is a natural condition—sulfuretted hydrogen, a foul
smelling gas, being the outcome of the cleansing elements in the juice
acting on and dissolving the waste matter. Enemas and colonic
irrigations help to remove both this excessive gas and the waste matter
causing it.
25 The most valuable properties in cabbage are the high sulphur and
chlorine content and the relatively large percentage of iodine. The
combination of the sulphur and chlorine causes a cleansing of the
mucous membrane of the stomach and intestinal tract, but this only
applies when cabbage juice is taken in its raw state without the addition
of salt.
When excessive gas or other distress is experienced after drinking
raw cabbage juice, either straight or in combination with other raw
vegetable juices, it may be an indication of an abnormal toxic condition
within the intestinal tract. In such case it has been found advisable,
before much of the juice is used, to cleanse the intestines thoroughly
by drinking carrot, or carrot and spinach juice daily for two or three
weeks and taking enemas daily. It was found that once the intestines
were able to assimilate cabbage juice, it was invaluable as a cleanser,
particularly in the case of excessive adipose weight.
When raw cabbage juice is added to raw carrot juice, it forms an
excellent source of Vitamin C as a cleansing medium, aiding
particularly where infection of the gums is present resulting in
pyorrhea. When boiled or dehydrated with excessive heat, however,
the effectiveness of the enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and salts is
destroyed. One hundred and twenty pounds of cooked or canned
cabbage could not furnish the same vital organic food value that is
assimilated from drinking one-half pint of straight raw cabbage juice
when properly prepared.
Cabbage juice has been used very effectively to help the relief of
ulcers and constipation. As constipation is usually the primary cause
of skin eruptions, these have also been cleared up with the judicious
use of this juice.
The addition of salt to cabbage or its juice not only destroys its
value, but is also harmful.
RAW CARROT JUICE
Depending on the condition of the individual, raw carrot juice
may be taken indefinitely in any reasonable quantities—from one to
six or eight pints a day. It has the effect of helping to normalize the
entire system. It is the richest source of Vitamin A which the body
can quickly assimilate and contains also an ample supply ofVitamins
B, C, D, E, G, and K. It helps to promote the appetite and is an aid to
digestion.
It is a valuable aid in the improvement and maintenance of the
bone structure of the teeth.
26 Nursing mothers should drink plenty of raw carrot juice, properly
prepared, to enhance the quality of their milk, as a breast milk diet
may under certain circumstances, not provide sufficient vital foods.
During the last months of pregnancy, raw carrot juice, taken in
sufficient quantities, tends to reduce the possibilities of puerperal
sepsis at childbirth. One pint of carrot juice, daily, has more
constructive body value than 25 pounds of calcium


Ar o THf us::sr
0.1 "Blitz Fog" pesticide
package (one percent
DDT, plus the suspected
carcino gens chlordane
and lindane) from
Northern Industries,
Milwaukee, Wiscon sin,
USA; in gardens,
the insecticide was
dispersed with an
atomizer ("Blitz Fog''
thermalized insecticide
dispenser ) fastened
to a motor-oper ated
lawnmower's exhaust
opening; in the early
1950s, the American
chemical industry
produced around 100
million pounds of DDT
a year.
77 Chapter 2
An airplane releases a 10% concentr ated fog of DDT powder over approximately 1,200 sheep to
combat ticks at Hoover Ranch in Medf ord, Oregon, 1948.
Bracero workers being fumigated with DDT in 1956 as part of the entry process into the US.
78 The Microbe Hunters Seize Power
This photograph was taken on 13 April 1955 and published on the following day in the Toronto
Telegram newspaper (no longer exists). A beaming nurse shows a newspaper headline to a polio
patient hooked up to a respirator. The caption reads: "Vaccine 'Triumph' Ends Polio Threat." The
scene well illustrates that the medical field wore rose-tinted glasses in terms of polio vaccinations.
In her gleefulness, the nurse entirely overlooks the psychological effect that the headline must
have upon the seriously ill patient laying before her. It was too late for him to take this (pur
ported) medical triumph, so he would have had to continue eking out his life as a paraplegic. Of
course, there was, as shown, no vaccine triumph whatsoev er, for the polio fuss had largely passed
before mass inoculations were finally carried out.
Since a number of prisoner test patients dropped out of the study, data on adverse
effects were largely eliminated, so the study's results were worthless. Cottam points
out that Hayes had most likely engaged in researcher bias to substantiate his initial
views on pesticid es: "Perhaps he is like many human beings who when subjected to
criticism become more and more dogmatic in maintaining their initial stand."
79 Chapter 2
Pesticide historian Pete Daniel goes a step further in saying that "[the officials in
charge] knew better, but the bureaucratic imperative to protect pesticides led the
division into territory alien to honesty."156
It would be years before the US government held a hearing on DDT and even
longer until they finally prohibited it in 1972. Unfortunate ly, the government
discussions were not widely reporte d, so the general public remained unaware of
the connection between polio (in humans!) and pesticides, and other non-viral
factors. To achieve this at the beginning of the 1950s ten years before Carson's Silent
Spring, someone would have had to have written a bestseller which described the
reperq.1ssions of DDT (and other toxins) in humans. Unfortunately, this was not the
case; and it was not until this book, Virus Mania, was published.
"Carson's book was good, but it was restricted to the damage to animals, whereas
one looks in vain for descriptions of statistical trends or analyses in the work," says
Jim West. "Even the research scientists Biskind and Scobey, who had clearly described
the damage that DDT causes in humans, were practically unmentioned by Carson.
Now who knows what kind of editorial censoring process her book had to go through
before its publication."
West points out that this type of censorship became the norm in future virus
research : "One needs only consider that her work had been financed by the
Rockefeller Foundation. This makes one sit up and take notice, for the Rockefeller
Foundation has supported the significant orthodox epidemic programs, including
the HN = AIDS research and numerous vaccination programs. And the great
Grandfather Rockefeller had made his money by selling snake venom and pure
mineral oil as a universal cure. Carson's book prompted public outcry, which
contributed to DDT's ultimate prohibition. But this was a deceptive victory, which
only helped to secure the public belief that democratic regulative mechanisms still
functioned effectively. In actual fact, the chemical industry-because the public
thought the poisonous demon had then been defeated-was able to establish its
likewise highly toxic organophosphate on the market without a problem. And,
fatally, nobody discussed its important central topic: that poisons like DDT could
cause severe damage like polio."
80 The Microbe Hunters Seize Power
This blue iron lung-a respirator y machine for patients afflicted with polio-was the first from the
company John Emersonis. The company owner tested the machine himself by spending the night
in it. The machines were first used in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1931 in order to save the life
of a priest suffering from polio.
A suppon- brace from the
1950s, composed of metal
suppons connected by leather
straps. With it, polio patients
were able to replace their
missing muscle functions, at
least to some extent.
81 Chapter 2
Gajdusek's "Slo w Viru s": Infinite Leeway for Expl anations
The virus hunters still had many weapons to pull from their box of tricks. Such as
the concept of the "slow virus": a virus capable of "sleeping" in a cell for years before
striking with its pathogenic or fatal effects. The claim that a disease takes a very
long time (decades) to "break out" gained popularity in the 1960s, when virus
hunters convinced the medical establishment that the virus concept could even be
imposed on cancer15 7 158-that is, a disease that generally appears after years or
decades. 159
But despite a most arduous search, researchers were simply unable to find any
active viruses in tumors. The disappointment and frustration was correspondingly
great.160 But a new theory was soon develop ed: that a virus could provoke an
infection, then lie dormant in a cell for as long as it wanted-and finally, at some
point, even trigger cancer, and even when the virus is no longer present. Just as with
polio earlier, the nucleic acids of a so-called slow virus have neve r been isolated and
the particles have never been imaged with an electron microscope, 161 but the virus
hunters embraced this suspect theory and adapted it to a number of modern
ailments. 162
· Scientist Carleton Ga jdusek prodded the slow virus concept along to serve not
only an explanatory model for HN I AIDS.163 In the 1970s in Papua New Guinea,
Gajdusek researched a sponge-like alteration in brain tissue associated with
dementia, which was predominantly spread among the female population there.164
The disease, called kuru, was only observed in two clans; they often intermarri ed,
and, according to Gajdusek, maintained a cult of the dead ritual that involved eating
the brains of their deceased (something which was later revealed as a myth).
These transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (softening of the brain), as
they are called, appear sporadically and end, mostly fatally, within five years. They
are generally extremely rare (approximately one case per million people), but are
represented within some families with a frequency of 1 in 50, which could point to
a genetic cause.165 Despite this Gajdusek received the Nobel Prize in 1976 for his
slow virus concept. With this endorsement his idea that this spongelike alteration in
brain tissue was produced and transmitted by a pathogen achieved widespread
acceptance as fact.
A close look at Gajdusek's trials on apes, with which he aimed to show
transmissibi lity, should have shocked the scientific community into disbelief. But
instead, they recognized these papers as proof of transmissibil ity and ignored the
fact that neither feeding the apes brain mush, nor injecting them with it had any
affect on the chimpanzees. So, Gajdusek conducted a bizarre experiment, in order to
finally induce neural symptoms in the test animals.
82 The Microbe Hunters Seize Power
He ground up the brain of a kuru patient into a mush full of proteins, along with
a number of other substances, and poured this into the living apes by drilling holes
into their skulls. This so-called disease's alleged transmissibilit y was founded only
upon these experimentsP66 How could it possibly derive proof of Gajdusek's
cannibalistic hypothesis? Particularly since the hypothesis indicates that the disease
could appear in humans through ingestion of infected brains, and not through direct
surgical insertion into the brain.
To compound matters, Gajdusek was the only living witness of cannibalism on
Papua New Guinea. He reported on these cannibalistic rites in his 1976 Nobel Prize
winning lecture, even documenting them with photographs. But in the mid-1980s,
it was discovered that Gajdusek's photos, with which he aimed to document the
cannibalism, actually showed pig flesh, not human flesh. An anthropological team
looked into this claim and they did find stories of cannibalism


 refined one. On the other hand, R yvita makes a R ye and Oat
Bran Cracker. The first ingredient is whole grain rye flour. Excellent!
So keep your eye out for the word “whole” to ensure that what you’re
getting is truly a whole grain product.
Natural or  Healthy
Too often, when you see the word “natural,” it means someone is trying
a little too hard to get your attention. Just because something is labeled as
natural doesn’ t mean it’ s healthy.
For instance, Earth Balance makes a product they call a “natural buttery
spread.” They also claim it is “non-GMO,” contains “100 percent expeller
pressed oils,” is “nonhydrogenated,” and “100 percent vegan/non dairy.”
I’ll have you know that 1 tablespoon contains 120 calories.
James Rae, 38
Firefighter
I was always a big ol’  redneck. Ate a lot of steak, foods like that. I
was basically a train wreck. My cholesterol level was 344 and I had a
family history of heart issues—every male in my family except my
dad died before the age of fifty-two, and my dad, at fifty-four, had a
quadruple bypass. And still I ate whatever I felt like.
Then Rip and Josh and I decided to see who could lower their
cholesterol the most, and we did it by eating nothing but plant-based
foods. Mine went down to 196. That convinced me this was the way
to go. But it’ s not just that my cholesterol level is lower, it’s also thatI feel cleaner. I truly believe that if someone like me can do it, anyone
can.
And guess what? All 120 calories come from fat. You can put lipstick on
a pig, but it’ s still a pig. You can dress up a buttery spread to look healthy,
but if it’ s 100 percent fat, it’ s all fat.
As you can see, I was able to uncover the hype about numerous foods by
following Rule 1: Never, ever believe the claims on the outside of a
package or box.
If you’re like me—someone who seldom has the patience to read
instructions—I want you to take a deep breath and relax. Label checking
can be a lot of fun, and within two to three trips to the grocery store, you’ll
find it will be a breeze.
WHEN READING THE “NUTRITIONAL  FACTS” LABEL  on a product, focus on four
items, as stated in Rule 2:
The Number  of Servings Per  Container
Does this product contain one, two, three, four, or seven hundred
servings? You must first know this number to be able to estimate how many
total calories, fat calories, grams of sodium, grams of fiber, and so on you
are eating.
For example, a can of Amy’ s Black Bean Chili has two servings per can,
which is realistic given its size. On the other hand, a king-size Snickers bar
has three servings per bar. Who eats one-third of a Snickers bar? With 170
calories per serving, that totals 510 calories per bar.
The same holds for a 20-ounce bottle of soda that claims to have only
100 calories per serving, but contains 2.5 servings per container, and thus
actually has 250 calories. Remember our “fat-free” container of Pam, with
702 servings per container? Same principle.
Fat Content
When it comes to fat, food companies go even farther out of their way to
make nutritional labels misleading. They use three dif ferent units (calories,
grams, and percentages) on their labels, but never tell you exactly what
percentage of the calories in that product come from fat.The only way for you to know the amount of calories from fat per
serving is to divide the listed number of calories from fat by the total
number of calories per serving. Instead, most people look at the percentage
of total fat highlighted in the “Percent of Daily Value” section of the
nutritional label, thinking that this number represents the food’ s total
percent calories from fat content. It doesn’ t.
For example, that Amy’ s Black Bean Chili can mentioned earlier has a
total fat content of 2.0 grams. Sounds almost fat-free, right? But 1 gram of
fat contains a little more than 9 calories, or to make the math easy, we’ll
round that up to 10. Multiply 2.0 grams by 10 calories and you’ll get 20
calories. This result means 20 calories of fat are in each serving.
In order to figure out the percentage of fat per serving, take the total
number of calories per serving and divide it by the calories from fat per
serving. Amy’ s chili has 200 calories per serving, divided by 20 calories
from fat—that means the chili gets 10 percent of its calories from fat.
Remember, the E2 rule is to keep the total calories from fat in each food
below 25 percent, and to find that, we divide the calories from fat by the
total number of calories per serving.
Added No-No’ s: Sodium, Sugar, Fats
Companies list their products’  ingredients in descending order by weight.
The first ingredient weighs the most, the last ingredient weighs the least.
Our goal is to avoid products that contain too much junk in the first half of
the list.
Added Sodium
According to the Institute of Medicine, a division of the National
Academy of Sciences, the recommended sodium intake for adults is
between 1,200 and 1,500 milligrams per day.
This may sound like a lot, but the average American actually consumes
4,000 milligrams per day. After all, just a teaspoon of table salt contains
2,200 milligrams.
Too much sodium in the diet is associated with hypertension (high blood
pressure), a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke.
Take a look at the amount of sodium in some of the packaged, canned,
and boxed goods in your home and you’ll be blown away. For example, any
can of commercially produced soup will have upwards of 500 to 1,000milligrams—per serving! And most cans contain two to three servings per
can.
Here’ s an easy rule of thumb to control sodium: Limit the amount of
sodium per serving to the number of calories per serving—and of course the
fewer, the better.
Let’s go back to our can of Amy’ s Black Bean Chili with its 200 calories
per serving. Check the nutritional label for sodium—you’ll see that the can
has 680 milligrams per serving. This figure is more than three times higher
than we want (200 milligrams to match the 200 calories). And if you were
to consume the whole can, which has two servings, you would be taking in
1,360 milligrams of sodium.
Added Sugars
Americans are overconsuming refined and simple sugars at an
astonishing rate. This trend only contributes to the obesity epidemic and all
the other diseases associated with it.
Sugars occur naturally in many foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains,
and legumes. There’ s nothing wrong with these foods, despite their sugar
content, as they are filled with fiber, vitamins, minerals, and nutrients.
However, when sugars are refined, adulterated, and processed, they
become empty calories: They contain almost no nutritional value, can raise
cholesterol levels, and make a beeline for your waistline.
These simple sugars can appear on a label as evaporated cane juice,
evaporated cane juice syrup, sugar, brown sugar, fructose, high fructose
corn syrup, corn syrup, molasses, honey, barley malt, and beet sugar. Four
grams of any of these devils is the equivalent of 1 teaspoon, which equals
16 calories.
Many people, especially kids, drink three to five sodas a day. Each soda
has the equivalent of 10 teaspoons of sugar in it, meaning you’re consuming
30 teaspoons of sugar (or 510 to 850 empty calories) if you drink three
sodas a day.
Excessive sugar is found not just in snack foods, but in foods we rely on
for meals. For example, it’ s difficult to find a boxed cereal that doesn’ t have
four to six dif ferent types of sweeteners in the first half of the ingredient
list. Kellogg’ s Low Fat Granola with Raisins lists five dif ferent types of
sugar in the first half of its ingredient list: sugar, corn syrup, molasses, high
fructose corn syrup, and malt flavoring. Cheerios, on the other hand, is awhole grain product and has just one sweetener: sugar. This is a better
choice.
Still, my preference is that you eat a cereal containing no added sugars,
such as Grape-Nuts or Bob’ s Red Mill Thick Whole Rolled Oats, and add a
natural sweetener such as sliced fruit. Now that’ s a winner!
Besides the number of dif ferent sugars found in food products, also bear
in mind the quantity of sugars. As mentioned, 4 grams of sugar equals 1
teaspoon. Knowing this fact gives you a way to measure the number of
teaspoons per serving. So when you look at the label of our Kellogg’ s Low
Fat Granola with Raisins and see 18 grams of sugar per serving, just
perform a simple calculation: 18 grams divided by 4, or 4.5


 doesn't need a lot of acid: "just potatoes, bread and
pasta, please, and skip the sauce.” Ascaris  inhibits acid pro-
duction by the stomach. This can result in an aversion to meat.
It doesn't take much acid to digest pure starch  and get it on its
way out of the stomach. And out of the stomach means  relief:
relief of the pressure on the diaphragm  and liver, heartburn, that
too-full feeling, and other digestive disturbances.
Sugar
Your body runs on sugar. If you are short on sugar it will turn
fat into sugar. If you are short on both, it will turn your muscles
into sugar. However eating more sugar doesn't cure the craving.
You have to find out why you are so short, in spite of eating it.
The first thing to try is 1 mg chromium  (five 200 mcg tab lets,
see Sources ) per day. If you still crave sugar after a week the
problem is something else. Perhaps you have pancreatic fluke s
upsetting your sugar regulation. Kill them and go off commercial
beverages that may contain wood alcohol. Sugar regulation is
very complex, but these two approaches help most of the time.
Dislikes
Respect your body's opinion when it says, “No, I don't want
to eat that.” Our education about nutritive value of food may be
sound but there are other facts to consider. We should take a
lesson from nursing  babies: when they refuse to nurse, there is
something unpalatable in the mother's milk. Usually the mother
has eaten onions or members of the cabbage family. The babyTHE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
376tries it once, and learns to reject it immediately. The baby's liver,
in its wisdom, does not want the baby to eat what it can't
properly digest. The mother may feel: “Now, this breast  milk  is
good for you and drink it you must, or you shall go hungry.”
Unfortunately, this works for 2-year-olds and up. They are forced
to eat carrots, peas, and other vegetables; vegetables that taste
terrible, (modern agriculture has ruined the flavor). They alone
taste the bitterness of PIT, a cyanide-related chemical, and very
difficult for the liver to metabolize. Broccoli and onions may
burn the tongue  with its sulfur -containing acids. Green beans,
onions, garlic, eggplant, all have unique chemicals in them. If you
or your child are not ready to eat them, avoid them carefully, so
you don't get a surprise dose of the toxic chemical.
The more mold a child eats, inadvertently, in peanut butter,
bread, potato chips, syrups, the less capable the liver is of de-
toxifying foods. This will certainly increase the “pickiness” of a
child's appetite. If your child has too many foods on her or his
personal “off list”, let this signal you to improve liver function.
Stop the barrage of chemicals that comes with cold cereal s,
canned soup, grocery bread, instant cheese dishes, artificially
flavored gelatin, canned whipped cream, fancy yogurts and
cookies or chips. Move to a simpler diet, cooked cereal  with
honey, cinnamon and whipping cream (only 4 ingredients), milk
(boiled), bakery bread, canned tuna or salmon, plain cooked or
fried potatoes with butter, and slices of raw vegetables and fruit
without any sauces, except honey or homemade tomato sauce, to
dip into.
It is frustrating to cook “a fine meal” for the family and find
everybody likes it except Ms. Picky. The good news is that she
can usually think of something she would rather eat. If it's nu-
tritious, be thankful. If it's not say No.
Adults should hide their junk food, including everything off
limits to children. Don't “hide” your junk food in the refrigera tor
and lower level cupboards! Treat yourself as well as yourBODY WISDOM AND WHY BAD FOOD TASTES GOOD
377child. If a food tastes bad, don't eat it. If you crave it, try to un-
derstand the message.
Outwit The Cravings
Here are some examples. Suppose you crave these items:
•Pickles. They supply vinegar  and are often loved by per-
sons with little acid in their stomachs or a lot of yeast
(vinegar is a yeast inhibitor). Start drinking water with
lemon juice or vinegar and honey.
•Bacon. The fat soothes the stomach and slows down di-
gestion. Switch to butter and cream, with meals.
•Sugar coated cereals. Loved by persons with disturbed
sugar regulation. Kill parasites, avoid wood alcohol, use
chromium  tablets and a lot of cinnamon.
•Crunchy munchies. Your jaw  and teeth want some work to
do. Try salads, an apple, raw sunflower seeds (beware of
moldy seeds, nuts and dried fruit).
•Ice cream. Ice cold food stimulates the thyroid ; loved by
low thyroid persons. Clean up the thyroid by doing dental
work and liver cleanses.
•Caffeine -laced beverages. Stimulate many body tissues,
raise blood pressure. Loved by low energy people. Do a
general body and environment cleanup. (There are people
who say coffee  puts them to sleep. Insomnia has better
solutions than caffeine, though.)
•Candy. The more you eat the more you crave because
chromium  is being used up as you eat it and yet it is nec-
essary to utilize more sugar. Give yourself chromium
(GTF) tablets totaling 1 mg. (1,000 mcg.) a day and watch
your sugar craving shrink.
•Pretzels. You want salt plus crunch.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
378•Potato chips. You want salt, grease, starch  and crunch. No
wonder they are so popular!
If your body still has its wisdom, or most of it, why can't it
detect the mold in peanuts, crackers and bread for us? There is a
very sound reason. Our food manufacturers have gone to great
lengths to fool our native senses. Salt and sugar, roasting and
flavoring, do most of it.
Your body is accustomed, natively, to interpret sugar, salt,
and flavors as “good, good, good.” Of course, the mold is “bad,
bad, bad.” But when you mix them, what is your body to read?
The “goods” always win; manufacturers don't stop until they do.
More flavorings are added. The result is that you can be eating
rotten moldy food without knowing it.
Food that is predominantly concocted can't be interpreted by
your body wisdom. You must use your second-best ally, your
intelligence.
How would you interpret these situations, taken from real
life:
•An elderly person can't stand butter, wants and enjoys
margarine.
•A child prefers canned spaghetti for the real thing.
•A child wants to eat  only sweets, everything else must be
coaxed down.
•A young man needs “his” beer  to enjoy a cook-out.
•A young man with serious mental illness drinks half a
gallon of Mellow YellowTM a day.
•A child wants ketchup on everything.
•A pregnant  woman puts herself on a pickled pigs feet and
white bread diet.BODY WISDOM AND WHY BAD FOOD TASTES GOOD
379Back To Normal
Body wisdom was not meant to substitute for parental
teaching. They must both be there. But when there is conflict,
trust your wisdom. Will you ever get your primitive body wis-
dom back and enjoy vegetables, fruit, simple styles of cooking
and baking them? Yes, to a considerable extent. You'll hold your
nose at all seeds and nuts and most flour  (they smell so rancid).
You'll back away from cookies and cakes, especially icing (they
taste like you imagine shortening tastes). You'll re treat from deep
fat fried foods: the dripping grease will just undo the appetite.
You'll say “No thanks” to canned food and metal cutlery  (you can
taste the metal now). You'd have to force yourself to eat grocery
bread (it's so doughy and sour smelling). Wheat germ smells
terrible (rancidity). Even vitamin tablets may smell awful.
Has life been ruined, now that plain potatoes and butter taste
good? Your body wisdom has returned. You are the true gour met.
It is as different as corn  on the cob is from the canned vari ety.
Perhaps you are “spoiled” now by eating un-rotten food. Accept
the charge with humor and dignity—as long as you're not
expected to eat any more spoiled, moldy food.
Toxic Food
Grilled food develops benzopyrenes  in it that are very toxic.
In an age of lowered immunity, it makes little sense to de-
liberately poison the food with benzopyrenes. Especially for
children, who will be faced with new viruses and parasites in
their lifetimes. Will they be able to overcome them or succumb at
middle age? Only the strength of their immune system de cides
this.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
380Benzopyrenes must be detoxified using the liver's valuable
benzene-detoxification system. With so many benzene-polluted
items, there is hardly enough detoxification capability to get


 the transcendent wonder of infatuation has no difficulty shining through
the physical delight—in love, the immanent and the transcendent are one.
OceanofPDF.comLOVING  PRACTICE
Seeing Beyond
NOT ONL Y INF ATUA TED lovers have a sense of living in two worlds. The literal
meaning of transcending  is “going beyond,” and at moments of clarity it is
possible for anyone to be aware that reality isn’t confined to the five senses.
Peak experiences open up windows to spirit. Yet “going beyon d” is not an
accurate descrip tion of the experience of transcending, since there is no
distance to cover; spirit never leaves us, it is only overlooked.
This practice trains you to stop overlooking the spirit and love that
surround you, waiting to be noticed.
Although it means “going beyond,” a better way to describe transcending is
“seeing beyond. ” What can you see beyond the apparently solid facade of
life, the constant flow of time, the limitations of space, and the laws of
cause and effect? If the answer is very little, the reason is that your
perception has not been trained for such vision. Yet every day contains
clues of the second reality we all inhabit, which is timeless, unbounded,
causeless, and intimately tied to our needs on the path to love.
First examine the following list to determine if you have experienced
these sorts of clues:
1. In the midst of danger or crisis, have you suddenly had the feeling of
being completely safe and protected?
2. Have you been with someone who was dying and felt a sense of peace
or a coolness in the air when the moment of passing came?
3. Have you known someone who recovered from an “incurable” illness?
4. Have you prayed and had your prayer answered?
5. Have you ever witnessed a soft light around another person or
yourself?6. Have you ever asked for silent guidance or the answer to a dilemma
and received it?
7. When looking at a sunset, a full moon, or something of great natural
beauty, have you felt yourself expand as if you were no longer
enclosed within the physical limits of your body?
8. Have you experienced a silencing of your mind, perhaps just before
going to sleep or on first waking up?
9. Have you felt a loving presence when you most needed it?
10. Do you ever hear an inner voice you feel you can absolutely rely on?
(This voice doesn’ t have to speak in words; it can also be a strong
feeling or intuition.)
11. Have you felt wonder at the sight of a newborn child?
This isn’t a quiz. You aren’ t trying to answer yes to as many questions as
possible, but if you did say yes to any of them, pick the one that resonated
most for you. Let us say it was the first one: feeling a sudden sense of safety
and protection in the midst of crisis or danger. Close your eyes and put
yourself back into that situation ; see all the details of where you were, who
you were with, what time it was, and so on. Try to relive the moment, but
instead of being the person who was reacting at that moment, ask to be
given a larger perspective. Ask to see the meaning of what was happening,
and request that the meaning be as specific as possible. Take a deep breath
and listen to whatever response comes.
If you do not get a specific answer, ask for all blocks to the truth to be
removed, and take another deep breath. Does an image come  to mind, a
story, a phrase? Whatever come s, take it to be your answer. If you get only
confusion or resistance, relax and wait a moment.
Now interpret your answer. Do any of the following meanin gs come
through?
I am loved.
I am safe.
A part of my self watches over me.
I know.
I am.
The light is with me.
God is real. God is.
Nothing is wrong.
I am at peace.Things are OK.
I can love.
Everything is one.
These are the messages that love is trying to send you at every moment.
Each is extreme ly simple yet eternally true. You do not have  to have an
extraordinary or peak experience to receive such messages, but peak
experiences do bring sudden clarity. The walls of old conditioning, habits,
and expectations drop away at such moments.
None of these messages has to come through literally as described above.
Perhaps at the bedside of a dying person you felt a warm glow in your heart
and a sense of calmness. This can be interpreted in many ways—pick the
one that fits your experience most closely.
Go through your most vivid experiences of spirit, soul, God, or love, and
again look for messages that they may have contained for you. Having done
this with your memories, you are now ready to apply the same technique to
the present.
Attune yourself to spirit, and it will speak to you in love.
Spirit isn’t a phenomenon; it is the whispered truth within a phen omenon.
As such, spirit is gentle, it persuades by the softest touch. The messages
never get louder, only clearer. If you have the slightest hint of
communication from spirit, ask for clarification; look at the preceding list if
you need to. At first the links to spirit may seem tenuous and fragile, but as
you grow more confident, you will find that your life is full of meaning,
that every moment has an aspect that goes beyond if you have the vision to
find it.
OceanofPDF.comIN OUR LIVES
... But Never the Bride
CLARE IS ONE  of the few people you’ll meet who has never complained about
her love life. The truth is that she is rarely not in love. As a teenager she
covered the walls of her bedroom  with glossy photos of Hollyw ood leading
men, falling in love with each in turn. After she grew up she continued to be
easily smitten, and her attitude toward any man she had fallen for—warm,
admiring, a bit timid, yet eager to find out all about him—won her a great
deal of attention in return.
But Clare was also ruthless. She would tear down the photos of any
heartthrob who slipped from her high expectations, and this is true of her
today. A man has to be powerfu l, well off, handsome, and self-a ssured even
to attract her notice. Few have been able to live up to her ideal of a
“perfect” lover. In college Clare had a few discreet affairs with her
professors, preferring older men who had achieved academic recognition.
This was not difficult to do, since she was attending a prestigious Boston
women’ s college, but afterward she continued to gravitate toward married
men. Within a few years Clare found that not many women approached her
with anything but feelings of distrust and suspicion.
She barely noticed. While circulating as a young journalist among the
politicians and power brokers of Boston, she was in a perpetual glow of
infatuation. Clare had a knack for bringing out the best in any man she was
smitten by—wh ich made her a top-notch interviewer. Her subtle surrenders
brought the charm out in men who actually possessed very little.
The only flaw in her love life was that it wasn’ t real—few of these
powerful men ever came home with her, and no relationship extended
beyond a few months of hit-and-run hotel stays. Ten years passed. All of
her frien ds from college had gotten married. Clare continued to live in
fantasies that faded once her “perfect” men turned out to be fallible after all.“Is it my fault if they all let me down?” she mourned. Increasingly she
became aware of a lingering sense of loneliness; after getting burned by an
older man in public office whose wife detected their affair, Clare sought
fewer opportunities for seduction, except in fantasy.
Fantasy can be exciting and diverting, but it is almost never associated
with insight. In fact, Clare seem s to use her fantasies of a perfect lover to
preclude any possibility that she might see into herself. Her obstacle in life
appeared to be that the right men were all unavailable, but in truth she
picked them because  they were unavailable. Ensuring in advance that there
is a fatal flaw in your partner makes it easy to reject before you get rejected
yourself. In this regard Clare was a master.
When I met with Clare, as part of a teaching workshop on healing, she
was full of opinions about how men have lower spiritual vibrations, about
how uncomforta ble she is in the presence of lowerchakra energies, and the
like. “Then why do you fall for so many men in the first place?” I asked.
She looked taken aback.
“I don’t think this is so much about what’ s going on with men as it is
with you,” I said. Clare has a genuine commitment to her healing work, and
I felt we could talk frankly about her fears and inner wounds. I suggested
that we explore the issue of fear and fantasy, since the two are so closely
intertwined.
“In your situation fear of commitment seems to be critical, especially
since your chief complaint is that men don’ t commit to you,” I said.
“I can’t be responsible for that,” Clare protested. “They come  and they
go. It’ s their choice.”
“But this is a reflection of a fear you may not be facing in yourself. Fear
of commitment comes in


 they fell asleep at
night when they had the sensation of lightness or oating—again,
this echoes the meditation whose instruction is to be weightless  whilelying in bed. A spiritual exercise that seems so dicult to an adult,
“seeing a beauteous person as if for the rst time” is completely
eortless for a four-month-old. He greets the sight of his mother, the
most beauteous person in his universe, with adoration and delight,
day after day. As long as she is in the room, his eyes remain xed on
her, unable to see anything else. To be, for a newborn, is to be in
the center of a magical world.
Some children can remember the magic suusing into much later
stages of development. At ve and six, the poet William
Wordsworth saw the mountains, lakes, and meadows around him
“apparelled in celestial light,” and had to cling to a tree to remind
himself that material things were not visions. Without this eort, he
tells us, he would have been swept away into an ideal world of pure
light and divine feeling. Seeing through Maya, then, may be much
more natural than we suppose. Who knows how many of us have
played in elds of light only to lose the memory of it? What is
certain is that our current ideal of a sound psychological upbringing
is rooted in the real, not the ideal. Through many repeate d lessons a
child is taught that the rough  bark of a tree is more real than divine
feelings; as soon as he is old enough to go to the playground he
nds out that sidewalks skin knees and sts hurt when they hit your
face.
In meditation, a yogi erases this rough sense of reality and points
himself back toward the light, the ideal, the divine. Yoga aims for
perfection, which means living from one’s creative core twenty-four
hours a day, without disguise or evasion, free of any form of
unreality. The successful yogi does not simply contac t the all-
knowing nucle us, he becomes  it. As beautif ul as that sounds, the
adult mind instinctively holds aloof. Our experiences of pain and
disillusion are extremely convincing, whereas the premises of Yoga
seem far removed. “Anythin g can be accepted as true today,” a
friend of mine likes to say, “as long as it isn’t the Truth.” He has
understood the reality principle all too well.
The Flash of InsightFortunately, higher reality has a way of breaking out
unexpectedly. There are moments when the all-knowing nucleus of
the self defeats the mind’s narrow prejudices. We call these ashes
insight, and they give us a good sense, at least in passing, of what it
must be like to be enlightened. As the Vedas put it, the enlightened
mind is like the sun, compared to which all other minds are like
candles. But a candle has value, because once it is lit, the darkness
cannot be total. In the ash of insight, a corner of the self is
revealed for what is really there.
One silently exclaims “Aha!”  and a bit of the truth is brought out
from under wraps.
Insight is not always deep or lasting—psychiatrists spend huge
amounts of time shoring up new insights and making sure that the
patient does not lose hold of old ones and regress. Nor does the
body always follow the mind’s lead into a healthier state. Even so,
the moment of insight often manages to shift the entire self, and
that is the key to its power.
A social worker in his early forties tells this story: “I was walking
down the hall at work, and I was casually sharing some opinions
with a friend. I told him that I felt he was taking his cases too
personally and might be applying a lot of unnecessary guilt to them.
Suddenly he turned on me and snapped, ‘You’re imposing your own
emotions on me, and I resent it.’ Then his voice softened a little and
he said, more reasonably, ‘It’s just something you should work on.
I’ve noticed that you have a habit of imposing your own hostile
feelings on other people.’
“I didn’t know what to say. I gured he would apologize for
attacking me. Instead, he simply walked away. When I got to my
oce, I sat down at my desk, but it was impossible to work, I was
feeling so angry.
“I simmered for a few minutes like a child on the verge of
throwing a tantrum. I felt outraged and extremely sorry for myself.
Why would a friend betray me like this? To discharge my anger, I
started talking  out loud to him, imagining that he was in the room.
‘You don’t seem to care how much you’re imposing your hostile
feelings on me! You have really hurt me, and I have to tell you thatyour accusation is totally and completely unfounded.’ This ploy
made me feel better for a few seconds, but some rational part of me
knew that I wasn’t merely the victim of a pointlessly cruel remark.”
At this point a surprising process of emotional release began. “All
at once, I began to split into layers. It was the most extraordinary
thing. To describe it completely would take a long time, so many
images began to ash by in my mind. I saw my self-pity as a defense
against a huge amount of anger, which was out of all proportion to
what my friend had said—I  wanted to kill him! Then I saw my
father as he looked years ago. He was asking me to do chores
around the house, something I hated as a boy. Clearly the same
overblown resentment was at work.
“That stage lasted no more than a split second. Images were still
whizzing by in my mind; it was like watching myself from the
viewpoint of a pebble falling down a well.”
In rapid succession, he saw that his anger at his father was
connected to feeling that he could never win his father’s love. Then
he saw that he had never been able to take criticism from his
brothers or male friends, either. Images of them ashed by, stirring
up a whirl of emotions and memories.
“By now only half a minute had passed, but the pebble was still
plummeting, faster and faster. Instead of feeling giddy and
disoriented, my mind was actually quite clear. I was appreciating
every new angle and seeing it truthfully. Strangely, whenever my
feelings started  to run away with me, a detached, calm, inquisitive
voice in my head kept repea ting, ‘Well, is it true? Do I impose my
feelings on others?’ Whereve r this voice was coming from, it wasn’t
going to be dismissed with half-truths.”
During this entire process, this man had lost consciou sness of
things around  him. He was concentrating with intense focus, as
most of us cannot, on the dynamics of moving out repressed
feelings. In a few more seconds, the sensation of being a rock
plummeting down a well ended.
“The thing is, I didn’t feel myself hit bottom. I passed through all
these layers, expecting to wind up God knows where. Instead, all
that happened was that I came to again and noticed that I wassitting at my desk. I took a deep breath—apparently I had been
holding it the whole time—a nd went back to work, feeling calmer
though still wounded. It was only an hour later that the insight
came. I was sitting at lunch with a few co-workers, people whom I
know inside out and who frankly have ceased to interest me for
years. Suddenly, they seemed appealing, even fascinating.
“They looked at me with aection in their eyes, they laughed
when I said something funny, and I laughed with them. It was the
most peculiar thing, until I realized, with a ash of recognition,
what had happened: I wasn’t imposing my feelings on them
anymore. It hadn’t occurred  to me that these people had nothing
new to oer because I wasn’t giving them a chance. As soon as I
backed o, they opened up, like shy owers. The change in my
awareness had released something new in them. To see them open
up like that was very intima te, and at the same time it came as a
great relief.”
Craig’s Story
At the ash of insight, psychiatry and Yoga are one—the
revelation of the knower is the goal of both disciplines. However,
psychiatry is content with a ash: insight is basically a tool, not a
permanent state. Patients come to therapy for various reasons—to
relieve unhappiness, to sort out unwarranted guilt or anxiety, to
correct self-defeating behavior, and so on—but they do not come to
wake up from the dream of Maya. If anything, that would be seen as
a confused, disabling fantasy, far removed from the sensible,
rational end product of successful therapy.
Psychiatry is an imperfect healer because it is wounded itself. Its
reality does not include a core of magic; in fact, many therapists do
their utmost to stamp out any signs of magic in


 miracle in the present?
Are you blaming yourself and others, or blessing yourself and others? Are
you clinging to your faith in the reality of the disaster, or opening your
mind to the possibility of a miracle? Realign your thoughts with the
thoughts of God, and in any given instant the universe is ready to begin
again. The laws of time and space are more malleable than we think.
Mistakes and wrong turns need not throw us off. The capacity for
correction is built into the unive rse, just as it is into the working s of a GPS.
If you’v e progra mmed an address into your GPS but then take a different
turn than it recommends, the GPS automatically creates a new route. And so
does the universe.
Perhaps you thought you’d get to where you wanted to be financially
through achieving a certain credential, doing a particular job, or making a
particular inves tment. But then something happened: the economy
worsened, you made a mistake, or someone else did. The Law of Divine
Compensation gives us the assurance that the universe will simply create a
new route. What is lacking shall become abundant, and what is wounded
shall be healed. From “out of the blue”—or miracle-mindedness—miracles
will flow forth naturally. Why? Because perfection is your etern al home, to
which the universe is program med to return you whenever you have
deviated, for whatever reason, from the thoughts that get and keep you
there.
That is how loved you are.
OceanofPDF.comChapter 2
The Power of Faith
Years ago, early in my career as a speaker, I had what I thought was a
great idea for an evening of spirituality and musical entertainment. It
actually was a great idea, but I had another  idea that wasn’ t so great: that
instead of telling people how great the evening was going to be, I’d surprise
them with it once they got there! Marketing genius, I know...
So, of course, not that many people came. After all, I’d promo ted it as if
you had to just trust me that it would be worth your while!
I had rented a huge, beautiful theater; we had fabulous musicians; the
evening was really first class and wonderful. Among those who were there,
a common comment was, “Wow, if I’d known how great this evening was
going to be, I would have brought ten friends!” If only.

Faith is not just a theological principle; it is a mental and
emotional muscle.

My parents had flown from Houston to Los Angeles for the occasion, and
at the end of the show they came backstage to congratulate me. As my
father put his arms around me, I burst into tears.
“Oh, Daddy,” I sobbed. “It was such a bomb!”
“What are you talking about?” he exclaimed. “It was wonderful!”
“Yeah, but not enough people were here,” I complained. “Daddy, I lost ten
thousand  dollars!”“Aw hell, Little Sister,” he said to me. “First of all, I’m proud of you that
you’ve made ten thousand you could lose, and I’m proud of you that you
risked it on something so great. If anybody gives you trouble about this, you
just tell them you can absorb the loss. ”
The next day, and for several days thereafter, a girlfriend of mine who was
one of the singe rs in the show kept fretting about my financial loss. But
instead of joining in with her dismal, albeit compassionate, outlook, I took
my father ’s advice and kept saying, “Toni, I can absorb the loss.” I said it so
often I began to convince mysel f, and in time I think I convince d her, too. I
didn’ t have control at that point over what had happened in the past, but I
had control over how I dealt with it now. I had made a mistake, yes, but the
universe wouldn ’t hold me to it. The path toward, or away from, financial
recovery lay in how I chose to think about what had happened: as proof of
utter failure and doom, or as an opportunity to forgive myself and attract a
miracle.
What I needed more than anything right then was faith—faith that I could
go forward and ultimately recoup my losses.

FAITH IS NOT just a theolog ical principle; it is a mental and emotional
muscle. It is an aspect of consciousness, a function of the mind.  With every
attitude we demonstrate faith—either faith in what can go wrong or faith in
what can go right. Our problem is that we tend to have tremendous faith in
the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.
Our faith itself is a potent force: we increase a thing’ s power by increasing
our belief  in its power.
Like any muscle, faith grows strong when used and weak when unused.
When faith in love and its miraculous authority becomes a thought form
that guides our thinking, it turns into an extraordinary power that transforms
our lives.
It is not enough that spiritual power exists; we must have faith that it
exists in order to use it on our behalf. Faith affects our psychological and
emotional state, which greatly influences how we experience what is
happening.
When you’re sitting in front of a pile of bills you don’t know how you’ll
pay, or are being hounded by creditors, or are afraid you’ll lose your home;when you’re confronted by images of economic gloom and doom,
recession, and hardship every day, it’s easy to fear that your financial state
will only get worse. It seems easier to have faith in the power of economic
loss than to have faith in the possibility of economic recovery.
But faith isn’t blind; it’s visionary. Having faith in a positive outcome
doesn’ t mean you’re denying a problem or ignoring obstacles; it simply
means you’re af firming a solution.
If you believe that economic disaster is the bedrock reality of your
existence because your physical senses and mortal circumstances
practically screa m that it’s so, then that belief is a powerful force. Your
belief is literally being used against you.
But if you see your current economic hardship as what it really  is—a
temporary deviation from love’ s perfection, happening within the mortal
realm but in ultimate reality not happening at all because only love is real—
then your vision works a miracle. It frees your energy, thoughts, and
emotions, opening your mind to new possibilities.
For that is what a miracle is: a shift in thinking which then shifts your
experience. This shift in perception—your willingness to look beyond
appearances—enables you to invoke a different set of probabilities going
forward. It enables you to see beyond what’ s happening to what could  be
happening, thus creating the space for something new.
Faith is power. It changes your life by changing you. It places you on a
different ground  of being within  yourself. It gives you a confidence based
on something that’s in you but not of you, that can do for you what you
can’t do for yourself. It keeps you from sinking into victim consciousness—
a stance  that attracts more victim ization—and lifts you to positivity, which
attracts more positive outcome s. Where we put our faith literally and
directly influences what happens next.
The Bible’s adage “Blessed are those who have faith and cannot see”
means “Empowered are those who remember who they are even when
circumstances would tempt them to believe otherwise.”
It’s easy enough to have faith in God’ s infinite abundance when you have
millions of dollars sitting in your bank account, but what’ s important to
remember is that everything seen begins in a place that was first unseen.
When a pilot cannot see the horizon because of low visibility, he or she
doesn’ t assume that the horizon has disappeared. At a time of low visibility,the pilot flies on instruments that can actually gauge a situation more
clearly than he can. Faith is like flying on instruments: it’s acting on the
assumption that just because you can’t see a possibility at the moment
doesn’ t mean that it’ s not there.
And faith is not just knowing  that love is always there: faith is also
knowing that that which is not love is not really there! Yes, of course it is
there within our three-dimensional mortal reality—the bills, the foreclosure,
the pink slip, the recession—but that reality is not ultimate  reality. Your
power to invoke ultimate truth lies in your clarity about what is truth and
what is illusion. With every thought we think, we display either faith in love
or faith in fear.
Faith in love:  “I lack a job as the world defin es it, but my divine function
is established by God. I am here to love and be loved, and that is what
establishes my worth. No worldly rejection establishes my value in the
universe, and no material lack diminishes my fullness in God.  I atone for
my errors and forgive others for theirs. I place this situation of apparent lack
in His hands and rest in absolute  faith that it is miraculously changing even
as I speak this wor d.”
Faith in fear:  “I am a complete failure. I’m too old to get another job;
they’re only hiring younger people. The economy won’ t be picking up for
years. All the jobs are taken. The system