emory	accounts	for	cultures	sharing	the	same	myths	and
archetypes.	Venus	and	Mars	are	invisible	beings,	yet	present	and	alive.	The
Akasha	remembers	every	god
created
	by	humans	and	every	epic	battle,
romance,	and	quest.	We	tap	into	them	all	the	time	as	the	human	story
continues	from	age	to	age.
The	brain	has	a	locatable	memory	center,	but	mind	isn’t	confined	to	the
brain.	Consider	a	deeply	meaningful	experience	in	your	life—a	first	kiss,	or
the	last	time	you	saw	a	beloved	grandparent.	That	memory	is	the	remaining
trace	of	an	event	in	time	and	space.	The	experience	can	still	be	activated	in
your	brain,	which	means	that	millions	of	molecules	that	could	be	flying
randomly	through	your	neurons
know
	that	they	have	to	stay	together	in	order
for	your	memory	to	continue,	year	after	year,	without	fading.	How	could	they
know	this,	since	molecules	aren’t	intelligent?	The	physical	basis	for	memory
remains	totally	unknown	to	neurologists,	so	we	can	only	speculate.
Somehow	your	first	kiss	has	an	afterlife.	The	afterlife	isn’t	physical,
because	there’s	absolutely	no	difference	between	the	hydrogen,	oxygen,
nitrogen,	and	carbon	in	a	neuron	and	those	same	elements	in	a	tree,	a	dead
leaf,	or	decomposed	soil.	Neurons	aren’t	immortal.	They	die,	just	as	the	rest
of	the	body	does,	and	atoms	fly	in	and	out	of	them	every	second.	How,	then,
does	a	memory	get	transferred	to	a	new	atom,	or	to	a	new	neuron	when	the
time	comes	for	the	old	one	to	perish?	No	physical	process	for	this	has	been
identified,	so	perhaps	memory	actually	persists	on	a	nonphysical	level.
Neurologists	would	defend	to	the	hilt	the	opposite	idea,	that	mind	arises	only
in	the	brain,	using	CAT	scans	and	MRI	imaging	to	prove	the	point.	But	those
images	are	only	maps.	They	show	the	terrain	of	the	brain	as	an	idea	or
emotion	crosses	it;	they	don’t	prove	that	the	brain
is
	the	mind,	any	more	than
a	footprint	in	the	sand	is	the	same	as	a	foot.	Imagine	that	you	could	map	every
vibration	in	the	tiny	nerve	endings	that	line	the	inner	ear.	When	graphed	on	a
chart,	there	would	be	an	extremely	complicated	pattern	for	every	word	and
sentence	the	ear	receives,	but	that	pattern	is	only	a	map	of	a	word,	not	the
territory	itself.	A	powerful	sentence	like	“I	love	you”	is	more	than	the	map	of
its	vibrations,
since
	even	the	most	perfect	map	cannot	contain	love’s	power,
meaning,	significance,	and	overall	intent.
Memory	seems	to	be	a	field	effect.	For	you	to	think	the	word	“rhinoceros”
and	see	a	mental	image	of	that	animal,	millions	of	brain	cells	have	to	act
simultaneously.	(We	will	leave	aside	the	more	difficult	question	of	why	you
picked	“rhinoceros”	out	of	all	the	words	you	could	have	chosen,	since	any
word	choice	can	be	based	on	reason,	emotion,	nonsense,	or	private
associations	in	memory.	A	computer	can	be	taught	to	select	any	given	word,
but	it	has	no	special	reason	to	do	so—you	do.)	The	neurons	involved	in
choosing	the	word	“rhinoceros”	don’t	run	through	the	alphabet	until	they	get
to	“R”;	they	don’t	sound	out	one	syllable	at	a	time,	nor	do	they	leaf	through	azoological	photo	archive	to	match	the	right	word	to	the	right	image.	Instead,
the	correct	brain	activity	arises	simultaneously.	The	brain	is	acting	like	a	field,
coordinating	different	events	at	the	same	time,	except	that	we	know	the	brain
isn’t	literally	a	field.	It’s	an	object	made	of	seemingly	lifeless	chemicals.
A	compass	needle	moves	because	it’s	responding	to	the	Earth’s	magnetic
field.	What	if	the	same	thing	is	true	for	brain	activity?	What	if	the	mind	field
is	sending	signals,	and	billions	of	brain	cells	arrange	patterns	in	response	to
what	the	field	is	saying?	A	team	of	innovative	scientists	has	proposed	exactly
that.	Henry	Stapp,	a	theoretical	physicist	from	Berkeley;	Jeffrey	Schwartz,	a
neuropsychiatrist	at	UCLA;	and	Mario	Beauregard,	a	psychologist	from	the
University	of	Montreal,	have	crossed	disciplines	to	formulate	a	workable
theory	of	“quantum	mind”	that	may	revolutionize	how	mind	and	brain	relate
to	each	other.	Central	to	their	theory	is	“neuroplasticity,”	the	notion	that	brain
cells	are	open	to	change,	flexibly	responding	to	will	and	intention.
They	acknowledge,	to	begin	with,	the	usual	scientific	explanation	that
“the	mind	is	what	the	brain	does,”	but	there	are	many	flaws	in	such	an
explanation,	as	we	have	seen.	They	propose,	therefore,	that	exactly	the
opposite	is	true.	Mind	is	the	controller	of	the	brain.	In
their
	view,	the	mind	is
like	an	electron	cloud	surrounding	the	nucleus	of	an	atom.	Until	an	observer
appears,	electrons	have	no	physical	identity	in	the	world;	there	is	only	the
amorphous	cloud.	In	the	same	way,	imagine	that	there	is	a	cloud	of
possibilities	open	to	the	brain	at	every	moment	(consisting	of	words,
memories,	ideas,	and	images	it	could	choose	from).	When	the	mind	gives	a
signal,	one	of	these	possibilities	coalesces	from	the	cloud	and	becomes	a
thought	in	the	brain,	just	as	an	energy	wave	collapses	into	an	electron.	Like
the	quantum	field	generating	real	particles	from	virtual	ones,	the	mind
generates	real	brain	activity	from	virtual	activity.
What	makes	this	reversal	important	is	that	it	fits	the	facts.	Neurologists
have	verified	that	a	mere	intention	or	purposeful	act	of	will	alters	the	brain.
Stroke	victims,	for	example,	can	force	themselves,	with	the	aid	of	a	therapist,
to	use	only	their	right	hand	if	paralysis	has	occurred	on	that	side	of	the	body.
Willing	themselves	day	after	day	to	favor	the	affected	part,	they	can	gradually
cause	the	damaged	sites	in	the	brain	to	heal.	Similar	results	have	been	found
with	aging.	Older	people	who	have	begun	to	show	signs	of	senile	dementia
such	as	memory	loss	can	slow	down	and	even	reverse	their	symptoms	by
exercising	their	brains	(one	software	manufacturer	has	even	brought	out	a
“brain	gym,”	a	program	that	looks	like	a	video	game	but	in	fact	consists	of
exercises	that	strengthen	specific	areas	of	the	brain).	Children	born	with
cerebral	palsy	have	recently	regained	use	of	their	paralyzed	limbs	through
similar	therapies	in	which	the	unaffected	arm,	for	example,	was	kept	in	a
sling,	forcing	the	child	to	use	the	paralyzed	arm;	in	time,	the	brain	healed
itself.	It	showed	neuroplasticity.Putting	mind	before	brain	may	have	many	far-reaching	consequences	in
medical	therapies.	For	example,	patients	suffering	from	obsessive-compulsive
disorder	(OCD)	are	rout


 body. These may be
religious (seeing the body as sinful) or based on personal
aversion (for example, being repelled by the body’s messier
functions).
Physical beauty or ugliness becomes a ﬁxation.
You have poor body image because you are overweight,
aging, or subject to social attitudes about physical
perfection and desirability.
You don’t feel physically lovable or desirable.
You neglect to keep your body clean, well cared for, and active.
You think that earthy people are stupid or crude.
When we list all the ways we put down our bodies, it becomes evident
that we live in a disembodied age to a shocking degree. Mass media
overloads us with fantasies of a perfect body that never ages while robbing
us of the real blessing of being embodied. The embodied state allows us to
feel the physical side of bliss-consciousness, which is a vibra nt sense of
aliveness as we move through our day.Exercise
Every step you take to welcome  your own physicality is a step into the
light. Look at the two lists above that outline the qualities of being
grounded versus the qualities of being disembodied. Pause to reflect on how
you can adopt more grounded beliefs and turn them into enjoyable actions,
like walking in Nature, partici pating in a sport, taking part in forms of
physical recreation, or going for a massage.
As you engage in this activity, no matter how simple it is—yo u might
just lie spread-eagle on the warm ground in summer or (believ e it or not)
hug a tree—refle ct on how bless ed you are to be embodied. Bring a positive
feeling toward your body whenever you can. Drop the casual habit of
disparaging your body. Through these steady steps of becoming more
grounded, you are removing another layer of obstacles between you and
your true self.
THURSDAY
Resilience
Begin by silently repeating today’ s theme:
I bend ﬂexibly with every experience.
I bend ﬂexibly with every experience.
The physical flexibility that comes from practicing the asanas, or
postures of yoga, is visible evidence of something rooted in consciousness:
resilience. Bad things happen to everyone, no matter how much we wish
they wouldn’ t. What matters is not the bad things themselves but how
we respond after they occur. Resilience is the ability to bounce back from
pain and advers ity. The opposite of resilience is being stuck and unable to
move on.
Listing the qualities of resilien ce erases the line we draw between
physical, mental, and psycholo gical. It requires a holistic conception toreally embrace your own resilience, which can take you beyond surviving
to thriving in the face of changing experiences.
YOU SHOW RESILIENCE WHEN…
You bend and adapt to change.
Your body is ﬂexible and agile.
You are open-minded toward people who are different from
you.
You don’t exaggerate what happened in the past.
You let your emotions rise and fall naturally, without trying to
force or suppress them.
You don’t insist on always being right.
You are not afraid of what life brings you.
The future holds no apprehension.
The emotional state of others doesn’t throw you.
You can renounce the belief “My way is best.”
You face new challenges with optimism.
You view every day as a new world.
You stretch yourself in any way you deﬁne that term.
None of these qualities is meant to be forced. They are a natural part of
everyone’ s exist ence. It takes effort to move away from resilie nce into the
condition of rigidity, or stuckne ss. It isn’t necessary to go into detail about
all the ways that stuckness occurs. We all have a good grasp of what is
involved, but if you need a reminder, return to the list above and just flip
each entry to its opposite. If you don’t adapt to change, don’t approach
challenges optim istically, don’t accept people who are different from you,
and so on through the list, you are rigid and stuck.
Why do we stay stuck? We get a false sense of security from being rigid
in our ways. We put up an inflexible front to the world, yet behind it, we are
afraid to be truly open, free, accepting, emotionally honest, and optimistic.In a state of fear, something as precious as love becomes a sourc e of anxiety
if we have experienced enough unloving behavior and been scarred by it.
Learning to be resilient should proceed with an eye to your inner
comfort and discomfort. A stiff emotional body needs to be treated with
care, like a stiff physical body. The important thing is to resist the false
security of being rigid and stuck—the shell you are hiding inside is
suffocating to the spirit.
Exercise
Having read this discussion, no doubt you can see where you are
resilient and where you are stuck. There is always a path to follow that
shifts the balanc e, day by day, toward becoming more resilient. To stay on
the path, however, it must be appealing and bring satisfaction. Besides
bringing a false sense of securit y, being stuck makes you feel good, after a
fashion, because  you know that you are always right, that you don’t need to
change, and that your fixed beliefs and attitudes are fine just the way they
are.
The key warning here is that your stuckness indulges an illusion. Giving
up on love, for example, indulges a person’ s anxiety about asking for and
receiving love. Somehow you need to break the ice that makes being stuck
cold and lonely, no matter how good the front you put up. Start  by looking
over the listed qualities of resilience and, for each one, devise a step you
can take that will feel good enough for you to continue on the path.
You might stand and stretch while listening to music, moving on to
dance exercises you can do at home. You might spend more time with the
happiest people you know or show a little more affection to a family
member than either of you expect. Resilience isn’t a trait society teaches us
to value, but that doesn’ t matter. Awareness, like pure water, needs to flow,
and being resilient is how you open the gates inside yourself.
FRIDAYIn Perfect Sync
Begin by silently repeating today’ s theme:
I live in the ﬂow of creative intelligence.
I live in the ﬂow of creative intelligence.
You are designe d to have mind and body in perfect sync. One of the
greatest deceptions in life is the helpless appearance presented by a
newborn baby. Unable to do much more than nurse at the breast, cry, and
sleep, a day-old infant doesn’ t reveal what it really is—a miracle of
organized intelli gence. In the last few days of pregnancy, for example, the
infant brain is developing millions of new brain cells a day. This process
continues after the infant is born. It is beyond imagination how a brain that
has no language, reason, fully formed emotions, or ideas prepared itself for
all of that, and more. It’s as if a house knew how to build itself from the
materials in the aisles of Home Depot.
Self-creation cannot happen  on the physical plane without
consciousness. You can’t assemb le the ingredients of a neuron and expect it
to reach  a tipping point when— V oila! —a swirl of chemical soup becomes
conscious.
If existe nce were ideal, mind and body would remain in perfect
synchronization, and in a healthy person they work flawlessly 99 percent of
the time. It takes interference to throw off the flow of creative intelligence
that unites mind and body. The symptoms of meddling are all too common.
SYMPTOMS OF BEING OUT OF SYNC
Irregular or poor-quality sleep, insomnia
Fatigue, lack of energy
Depression
Digestive problems
Overeating, loss of natural hunger rhythms
Inability to focus and pay attentionSusceptibility to colds and infections
Getting easily distracted
Sensitivity to minor stress
Slow or inadequate healing
This whole list could be titled “When the miracle goes wrong.” Each of
these symptoms indicates that the miraculous flow of creative intelligence
that everyone was gifted with at birth has become distorted. Without the
word cr eative  added, the picture is woefully incomplete. Once it has been
programmed, a computer can imitate intelligence by doing all kinds of
things the mind does, and AI (artificial intelligence) is fast reaching the day
when the imitation will be so lifelike that your computer will sound and feel
human. Already there are software programs that effectively conduct
psychotherapy, for example. A robot voice imitates a genuine therapist
using verbal prompts like “How do you feel about that?” and “When did
you start to feel this way?” User s of the program come away feeling better,
they say.
But no matter how sophisticated  AI becomes, it cannot do what you do
every second: take raw information pouring into the brain from the five
senses and create the entire three -dimensional world you perceive. Cameras
aren’ t eyes. They see nothing. Therefore, a computer camera sees nothing
until a human eye is present. When you were in the wom b, creative
intelligence created your eye from a blob of undif ferentiated cells, and
within the eye specific cells were assigned to carry out visual processing.
Yet that isn’t enough for turning visual images into something you see.
Vision


.
The con ditioned mind has no choice but to respond to all kinds of
external limita tions. Once a wish, hope, or dream manages to turn
into rea lity, we cling to wh at we have created. We ignore the
inevitable ruin  of all things—one day the things we’ve built will be
relics like the Parthenon or the Egyptian pyramids.
Creation that is lasting must be built upon the timeless. That’s
not possible with physical things, and since physical objects
represent ideas, even ideas cannot truly last in the face of the
ravages of time. In the timeless, what lasts isn’t an idea or a thing
but creativity itself. The “stuff” of creation is our own awareness
and its infinite  capacity to cre ate. By waking up, you creat e on the
basis of  being a creator, not o n the ideas and things that surround
you. Yo u are beyond things and ideas, a conscious being of
timeless dimension.
For Today
Timeless  i s a concept that feels very fa r removed from daily life,
but it comes c loser when you realize what time is. Time is the
process of creation and destruction. Therefore, if you don’t
identify with creation and de struction, you stand in the timeless.
You have a cho ice to shift you r allegiance to the timeless w heneveryou wan t. Stop  for a moment  to look around the room. When you
return to reading this page, everything you looked at is in the
process of decaying, dissolving, and fading away. But did time take
away th e present moment? No—it only took away the things you
noticed in the present moment. The present moment constantly
renews itself. It stands for the timeless that persists in the activity
of time.  When you are awake, the timeless takes precedence over
everything else. This shift allo ws you to celebrate creation without
feeling anxiety over things passing away.
YOUR EXPERIENCE:

 DAY 30

Knowing that we are free, the future of humanity can go
beyond birth, death, and all the stories in between.
If you could land anywhere in history, you could seek out
people who are awake. The y would always be a minor ity, and
perhaps a tiny sliver of a minority. But counting noses is n’t how
waking up works. If you want to know if human beings ca n swim,
you on ly need to find one example. Likewise, one aw akened
person tells you that waking  up is possible, and, even more, that
everyone is part of the process. Waking up isn’t learned; it is not
acquired behavior. It is a state that all of us already exist in. The
only thing that happens when you wake up is that you realize who
you rea lly are. Humanity is a lready free—we wouldn’t be here as
conscious bein gs if that weren’t true. Only the stories we tell
ourselves block our view of our true nature.
This interference pattern, like a fuzzy television picture, doesn’t
affect re ality. The broadcaste r is still sending a clear picture, even
if our receiver  isn’t picking i t up. When you wake up, the signal
and the receiver are both c lear and in tune with each other.
Thoughts and feelings come and go without creating interference.
This is what it means to be in the world but not of it.
For Today
You can  be in poverty for two reasons—either you are act ually
poor or  you are rich but don ’t know it. In relation to the infinite
potential that is our true nat ure, we feel limited in everyday life.
So whic h is it? Are we actuall y limited, or do we not know that we
are unli mited? The answer isn’t given by looking at conditions on
the ground. The richest, smartest, most gifted, and happiestperson can wind up leading a very limited life. The answer is only
available in your own awareness.
Sit for a moment and try to  think of a forbidden thoug ht. It
could be something you have  refused to consider for any  kind of
reason—it is too shameful, outrageous, antisocial, demeaning, or
anything else forbidden. The instant such a thought occur s to you,
it is no longer forbidden. In fact, no thought has ever be en truly
forbidden. You cannot limit thought, and since thoughts spring up
from silent awareness, you c annot limit the possibility that any
thought will be born. Because your entire life—and the life of
humanity—is based on consciousness, you too are unlimited. You
can sto p buying into all t he stories about birth, death, and
everything in between. Knowing that you are unlimited means
that no story can limit your possibilities.
YOUR EXPERIENCE:

 DAY 31

You can enjoy the movie while knowing at the same time
that you created the movie. That is the awakened state.
The everyday world operates  by opposites. There is a positive
and a negative  pole to every experience. To navigate thro ugh life,
people try to g rasp the positive pole, but this effort never frees
them fr om the  specter that th e negative will also have its day. The
ultimate polarity is attachme nt and detachment. Spiritual  seekers
learn that detachment is positive, because being attached (i.e.,
stuck, clinging, buying into the illusion) leads to pain and
suffering.
In a land where it always rain s, it’s hard to stop using the word
wet. I n a world ruled by opposites, it’s hard to stop using a w ord
like detachment. But in the larger picture there is neither
attachment n or detachment. Each depends on the other;
therefore, each leads to the other. Bad breakups show how  hard it
is to detach from somethi ng (or someone) you were deeply
attached to. But we have to re late; that’s what the relative world is
all about.
In the awakened state, thin gs change. You know that you
created the movie, so you can enjoy it without buying into it. This
doesn’t mean that you detach yourself. Directors love the movies
they make. But they also do n’t keep reminding themselves that
they created the movie as they watch it. They take for granted that
they are its creator. Likewise, when you are awake you know that
you created the movie you are living, but you don’t dwell on it. You
are too busy be ing immersed in the now. Being a creator sits at the
back of your awareness, and this behind-the-scenes knowledge is
enough.For Today
Right now there are things y ou’re attached to and things you
aren’t attached  to. If you are a parent with a young c hild, for
example, you allow your child a certain amount of freedom while
also stepping in when needed. This alternation between standing
back an d getting involved is the day-to-day business of being a
parent. Yet in the back of y our mind you know that you are a
parent; this is your status, a nd you don’t need to bring it to the
fore all the time.
Now co nsider how you parent yourself. In the same fas hion,
you let yourself go some of th e time, while at other times you step
in to monitor your behavior. It is impossible to let yourself go all
the time and equally impossible to rein yourself in all the time. Yet
no m atter which mode you ar e in, in the back of your mind  is your
sense o f self. Sit quietly for a moment and experience your sense
of s elf. Hasn’t it always been  there, through thick and thin? Your
sense of self sit s at the back of your mind at all times, not needing
to be brought to the fore.
When you wake up, the sense of self looms large at first. You
experience wit h astonishmen t that everything emerges from your
sense of self—all thoughts, words, actions, the outside and inside
world. Such a realization can’t dawn without bringing a sense of
wonder and awe. But in time the sense of self, having reali zed how
infinite it is, retreats once more to the back of your mind. Two
people can buy popcorn at the movies, with only one of them a
wealthy man. Both eat the same bag of popcorn and pay t he same
price for it. Bu t the one wh o knows he is wealthy stores a very
different set of possibilities in the back of his mind. This is what it
feels like to be  awake, knowing that every small action is backed
up by infinite possibilities.
YOUR EXPERIENCE:

  FOR EVER Y DA Y

Waking up is always in the now. There is no time schedule
for realizing that you are the dreamer, not the dream.
A month of aw akening has passed. You’ve taken the jou rney
that goes from here to here. B ecause there is no distance between
here an d here,  a month was enough to complete the jour ney. But
in a nother framework, no ti me is ever enough. Only w hen the
timeless is your playground does “from here to here” no longer
matter. The now swallows up all beginnings, middles, and
endings.
Being here now was never a goal the way becoming a good
person or raising your childre n


	works,	people	who	relate	with	others	do	help	each	other
through	adversities,	allowing	for	greater	health	and	wellness	than	people	who	areisolated	and	alone.
Although	relationships	cannot	be	put	onto	a	slide	and	examined	under	a
microscope,	many	studies	have	cited	the	effects	of	relationships—or	the	lack	of
relationships—on	health	and	disease:
•	People	who	are	single,	separated,	divorced	or	widowed	are	more	than
twice	as	likely	to	die	than	their	married	peers,	and	five	to	ten	times	more
likely	to	be	hospitalized	for	mental	disorders.
•	Social	isolation	is	as	big	a	risk	factor	for	disease	as	smoking.
•	People	with	minimal	social	connections,	such	as	those	with	few	friends	or
family	and	people	who	tend	not	to	participate	in	their	communities,	are	two
to	five	times	more	likely	to	die	prematurely	than	those	with	more	extensive
social	ties.	These	differences	are	independent	of	age,	sex,	and	ethnic	or
cultural	background.
•	Studies	of	medical	students	during	stressful	exam	periods	found	that	the
biggest	drop	in	immunity	occurred	in	students	who	reported	being	lonely.
•	When	experimental	subjects	were	injected	with	cold	viruses,	individuals
with	fewer	social	ties	were	four	to	six	times	more	likely	to	develop	colds	as
those	who	had	more	social	ties.
•	The	death	rate	among	Russian	men	increased	by	nearly	40	percent
following	the	fall	of	communism,	attributed	to	social	instability.
Love	is	a	deep	and	vital	part	of	ourselves	and	a	critical	aspect	of	the
psychological	pathway.	There	is	love	for	oneself,	for	other	people,	for	pets,	love
in	spiritual	practice	and	much	more.	True	love,	of	course,	is	unconditional,
existing	for	its	own	sake	because	you	choose	it	and	want	it	in	your	life.
Finding	and	feeling	love,	however,	can	be	a	challenge.	Anger,	frustration,
fear,	jealousy,	apathy—all	can	interfere	with	our	ability	to	love	ourselves	and
those	dear	to	us.	Part	of	being	able	to	love	is	being	able	to	have	compassion	both
for	yourself	and	for	the	people	around	you.	Understanding	the	obstacles	that	you
face	in	your	life	makes	it	possible	and	easier	to	understand	the	obstacles	others
face.	Within	this	perspective,	you	can	have	compassion	for	anyone,	even
someone	who	mistreats	you.	Likewise,	having	compassion	for	yourself	is	not
only	possible	but	essential!	Sometimes	we	succeed	and	sometimes	we	fail;
facing	life’s	obstacles	is	challenging,	as	we	all	know,	but	without	compassion
and	love,	obstacles	may	seem	insurmountable.
If	we	do	not	fill	our	lives	with	love	and	compassion,	then	we	make	room	for
their	opposites,	such	as	anger	and	hostility,	which	are	incredibly	harmful	to	our
health	and	happiness.	As	Redford	Williams,	M.D.,	author	of	the	book
AngerKills,
wrote:	“Getting	angry	is	like	taking	a	small	dose	of	some	slow-acting
poison	every	day	of	your	life.”	At	the	Behavioral	Medicine	Research	Center	at
Duke	University,	Williams	has	researched	the	effects	of	anger,	particularly	how
stress	chemicals	cause	heart	disease.	He	found	that	chemicals	released	by	the
body	during	periods	of	anger	and	hostility	damage	the	lining	of	arteries.	Another
study	reported	in	a	1980	issue	of
Psychosomatic	Medicine
found	that	people	who
are	cynical,	who	have	hostile	attitudes	and	who	have	suppressed	anger	have
more	atherosclerosis	and	blockage	of	coronary	arteries	and	are	more	likely	to
have	heart	attacks.
The	Power	of	Prayer
Perhaps	the	best	way	to	maintain	love	and	compassion	in	your	life	is	to
consciously	seek	and	practice	it.	Enlightened	leaders	and	global	spiritual
traditions	advocate	spiritual	practice	as	the	essential	foundation	of
comprehensive	health	and	vitality,	including	all	aspects	of	a	sound	mind	and
body.	This	book	does	not	advocate	any	specific	religion	or	spiritual	practice,	but
does	recommend	some	type	of	practice.	Why?	Because	being	self-involved,	self-
centered	and	“stuck	in	your	own	head”	is	so	easy.	Only	when	body,	mind	and
spirit	are	fully	integrated	can	you	truly	optimize	your	health.
Spiritual	practice	brings	about	measurable	changes	in	the	brain	and	in	overall
health.	Larry	Dossey,	M.D.,	in	his	book
Healing	Words,
described	“one	of	the
best	kept	secrets	in	medical	science”:	the	benefits	of	prayer.	Dr.	Dossey	defines
prayerfulness	as	“a	feeling	of	love,	compassion	and	empathy	toward	another,”
and	he	explains	that	prayer	is	“a	powerful	and	legitimate	(if	often	overlooked)
method	of	healing.”	Dossey	uses	an	impressive	array	of	evidence	to	show	that
prayer	can	have	a	positive	effect	on	health.	A	1988	study	conducted	in	San
Francisco	investigated	the	effects	of	prayer	on	the	cardiovascular	health	of	393
coronary-care	patients.	Unknown	to	the	patients	involved,	one	group	was	prayed
for	and	the	other	was	not.	At	the	end	of	the	ten-month	study,	the	prayed-for
group	was	five	times	less	likely	to	require	antibiotics	and	three	times	less	likely
to	develop	a	condition	in	which	the	lungs	fill	with	fluid.	Dr.	Dossey’s	research
also	found	that	prayer	can	have	beneficial	effects	on	various	living	cells	and
organisms,	including	mice,	chicks,	fungi,	yeast,	bacteria	and	enzymes.	In	the
October	2001	issue	of	the
Journal	of	Reproductive	Health,
researchers	at
Columbia	University—expressing	great	surprise	at	their	own	profound	findings
—announced	that	when	complete	strangers	prayed	for	women	who	went	to	a
fertility	clinic,	the	women	had	twice	the	pregnancy	rate	as	women	for	whomprayers	were	not	given.
How	does	spirituality	influence	health	and	performance,	and	how	do	we
integrate	it	into	health-care	promotion	and	practice	as	professionals	and	as
individuals?	No	one	scientifically	understands	the	mechanisms.	Nonetheless,	the
scientific	data	prove	that	spirituality	does	work.	Such	data	pose	profound
questions.	Perhaps	these	precise	questions	are	the	ones	we	need	to	be	asking	in
order	to	develop	a	more	complete	understanding	of	health.	Even	if	we	don’t	have
all	the	answers,	we	can	still	benefit	from	the	power	of	spiritual	practice.
A	Great	Opportunity
While	health	generally	is	measured	and	understood	at	the	physical	level,	as	we
have	discussed,	psychological	health	and	physical	health	are	indivisibly	one	and
the	same.	What	goes	on	in	your	mind	is	also	going	on	in	your	body,	and	the
good	news	is	that	you	have	a	wide	menu	of	practical,	productive,	self-
empowering	and	exciting	options	to	promote	psychological—	and,	therefore,
physical—well-being.
Too	many	people	fall	into	self-defeating	lifestyle	patterns.	If	you	want	to


becoming white or gray.
                                                      Mrs AVL Umamaheswari, Commercial Tax Dept, Eluru, A.P.
Diabetes
At the advanced age of 74, it is unjust to expect miraculous result from any kind of therapy. Yet I
must say that what I have experienced through OP therapy is almost a miracle and quite
unbelievable. Diabetes has been troubling me for the past 13 years.  Now my blood sugar
level is normal, though I do not take any medicine. I have discontinued all medication including
vitamins, enzymes etc.
        Swami Swarupanand Bharati, (Formerly K.R.K.Chetty,IPS,D.I.G.(Retd)), Hyderabad
Retired Brigadier’s report on major problems of health-Heart
I had a heart attack in Febraury 1987. Angiography revealed 2-vessel disease. RCA, CTX
fully blocked, and LCA clear. For more than 11 years, has been on medicines.  I had
Parkinson’s disease for the last 5 years and been on medicines.
I started regular OP on Feb 15, 1998 and completed 5 months. I do it only once everyday in the
morning. The results are -
Blood Pressure: There has been a distinct drop. Now it is generally 130/80.
Breathlessness - Disappeared. This means increased exercise tolerance.
Insomnia: Now I have sound sleep. No longer getting up several times for going to the toilet
 Snoring - Totally gone much to the satisfaction of other family members
Phlegm - It used to be a major problem. Now totally cured
Gums - Much healthier, red, and no longer bleeding
Teeth - Cleaner and healthier
Itching - Disappeared
Blood clots near the ankles -  90-95% disappeared. Skin, which used to be black, has become
whitish (due to better blood circulation)
Blood vessels  - Used to be bulging out prominently, especially on the back of the palms. Now
the hands are smooth and arteries/veins have become soft.
Temperament -  Now much more tolerant with 90% improvement
Involuntary tremors -  The improvement is 40 %
Reduced limbs functioning -  Especially in the right arm and leg, there is significant
improvement, manifested by improved handwriting to about 60-70%
Swollen feet/ ankles -  Swelling has reduced to the extent of 50-60%
Eyesight -  Been using reading glasses for the past 25 years and am pleasantly surprised to
manage playing bridge for the first time without spectacles
Vertigo -  For the first time in my life, I had a few incidents. Investigation revealed very high blood
sugar levels controlled by exercise and food control
Memory -  There is much improvement in memory
General -  Improved breathing, better blood circulation, better reflexes, better exercise tolerance,
and cool temper and can easily walk with out fatigue
Medicines -  Tapered down in a systematic manner, sleeping pills no longer needed, and
Parkinson’s medicines not required
      The digestion is perfect. Speed of writing, tying of turban and strength of right arm shows
overall improvement. The shine and health of the skin is also improving.
Brig (Retd) T.S.Chowdary, (63years), Janakpuri, New Delhi
Retired Civil Surgeon’s Report- Left Ventricular failure
I had recently suffered from Left Ventricular failure. After 15 days of starting OP, I could find
the change in my condition as evidenced by the echocardiogram. I was suffering from
Acid Peptic disease (duodenal ulcer) for the past 30 years, and OP has miraculously given
relief and I have stopped using antacids.
I had Benign Hypertrophy of Prostate since some years, and after OP nocturnal frequency
of urine is much reduced.
Some minor ailments like stomatitis (inflammation of the mucus membrane of the mouth),
glossitis (inflammation of the tongue), itching of skin on chest and neck, discoloration of
skin have also gone.
After OP, I saw my palms appeared definitely bright and full-blooded. So I went to the laboratory
and got my HB tested. I was surprised to see that my hemoglobin content of blood has risen
from 11gms to 12.4gms within a period of 2 months.
             Dr. N.Ranga Rao, Dy. Civil Surgeon (Retd.), Peddapuram, A.P
(Mouth) Halitosis- bad smell in Mouth
I have been suffering from bad smell in the mouth and pyorrhea for the last eight years. Mouth
smell has not gone except visiting the dentist and getting things cleaned, and medication,
Medication and dental cleaning was giving me only temporary relief. After five months of OP bad
smell in the mouth has completely gone whereas, pyorrhea has decreased and I feel confident
that I will be normal without this problem. OP has helped me to bring back my self-confidence in a
helpless state. With your kindness I am breathing happily and feel that you have given me rebirth.
                                                                                G.B.Rao, Rajamundry, A.P
I am one of the old patients suffering from mouth ulcer since last 12 to 15 years. After going
through the article published in Kannada Prabha daily I started "OIL PULLING" twice in a day
(morning & evening) from 27th of June 1995 along with medicine. During initial 2-3 months period
I got only 25 % benefit. After that I got more benefit in 4-5 months period. After completing 6
months I got 100 % result and at the same time I slowly reduced my medicines. Now after
completing of 7 months I have completely stopped the medicines and I have no complaints of
mouth ulcer since last 2 to 3 months. So I am happy to say that I got 100 % relief/cure of my old
sickness of mouth ulcer from "OIL PULLING".
Salamander Shiny Parkal, Manipal.
Myasthenia Gravis (MG) [Double Vision]
In my 36th year in 1980, I had suddenly developed double vision and right eyelid closing.
Diagnosed as myasthenia gravis, medicine (prostigmine) prescribed.
During the year 1993, I started practicing OP. I used medicine for one month along with OP. Later
I stopped medicines and continued OP. Myasthenia Gravis cured without medicines. When I
stopped for one month, it came up again. Now I do OP only and do not use any medicines.
                                                           T.Brahmaji Rao, Pedavadlapudu, Guntur Dt. A.P
(Pains) Back Pain, Neck Pain
I had back pain  for the past ten years and have been taking treatment for the same with several
doctors and traction was also given for sufficiently long time without any improvement. I never
used to go to bed without a medicine like Brufen, Voveran and others daily.
After reading the essay by Sri Tummala Koteswara Rao on OP, I started practicing OP with
sunflower refined oil and started finding improvement within fifteen days and I was much relieved
of the pain within three months. Now it is six months since I have been doing it and 90% of the
pain is relieved. Now along with the back pain, the pain in my neck and arm pits has also
gone.I am not taking any medicine for the back pain. I do not dare to stop OP.
After finding good results myself, I started giving lectures in Telugu on "Keep Fit with OP" in
various local schools and associations and all of them are doing and most of them are very much
benefited.
                                                Dr.V.Prabhakar(48years) MDS (Madras), Guntakal A.P
Back pain and Arthritis
I have been suffering from arthritis in the knees for the last 10 years and pain in the lower back for
the last two decades. I have tried several allopathic medicines and got a temporary relief. I started
doing OP from Nov 17 1995 and observed miraculous changes happening. Within 5 days, my
arthritis in the knees and lower back pain completely cured. It is just unbelievable how arthritis of
the knees cured, which the allopathic medicines could not do.
Subedar Juvva Gandhi, Sub-area HQ, Karnataka, Bangalore.
Knee and Ankle Pain
Though I was reading the reports of the efficacy of OP in curing certain diseases in “Andhra jyoti”,
I did not begin until my brother, got relief from asthma and advised me to practice. I was not able
to sleep under a fan or in the open as my nose used to block. Cold-water bath was another curse.
After practicing OP, I am able to sleep right under the fan with full speed with no discomfort. The
occasional asthmatic or esonophilia attacks vanished. The pain on the left knee and right ankle
for three to four years are no longer there. A small eruption on my skull - five years old - vanished.
- 20 years old piles - has miraculously vanished.
Prof.T.Venugopal Rao, Principal, Vishaka Institute of Professional Studies, J.R. Nagar,
Vishakapatnam, A.P.
(Skin) Eczema Cured
I am 79 years and have retired as a teacher. I wanted to be healthy by doing OP and have been
practicing once


 from your head
or lift the body with your neck. Keep the spine long and breathe
normally. Allow your breath to be fluid and easy. Exhale and slowly
come down. Let the body relax completely.
Benefits : This pose stren gthens the back, stretches the abdominal musc les,
and is helpful with uterine and ovarian problems.
Figure 12. Cobra pose.
VII. LOCUST  POSE— Salabhasana (30 seconds to 1 minute)Continue to lie facedown and stretch the arms back by your sides,
either next to your hips or under the thighs. Face your palms to the
ceiling. Bring your feet together and feel the entire back lengthen. Rest
your chin gently on the floor.
On the inhalation, raise both legs, lengthening them out from your
hips. Keep lengthening the entire spine as the legs extend upward and
back. Stretch the thighs and keep both legs fully extended and straight.
Keep breathing easily, hold for a few breaths, then release the legs
down slowly.
Repeat the pose 1 to 3 times. Be careful not to hold the breath in this
pose. Use the inhalation to lift the legs. Keep lengthening the spine to
prevent straining or hyperextending the lower back.
Don’ t force your body to try to achieve a perfect pose. You may wish
to raise one leg at a time, lengthening each leg out from the hips, then
progressing to raise both legs at once.
Figure 13. Locust pose.
Benefits : This posture strengthens the lower back, aids in digestion, and
benefits the bladder, prostate, uterus, and ovaries.VIII. SEA TED TWISTING POSE— Marichyasana (About 1
minute)
Sit with the legs extended straight out in front of you. Keep the spine
lengthened, the head and neck free.
Bend your left knee and keep the sole of the foot on the ground. Bring
your heel toward the buttocks just above the inner part of the right
knee. The inner side of the your left foot should touch the inner side of
the outstretched right thigh. Actively extend your right leg straight out
in front of you, lengthening through the back of your leg and heel.
Bring your left hand on the floor behind you, and the right arm on the
outside of the left knee. If it is dif ficult to do this, just grasp the knee
with your hand. Inhale, lift the rib cage, lengthen your spine vertically
upward, and as you exhale, twist from the base of your spine to the
left.
Figure 14. Seated twisting pose.
As you twist, keep opening the chest to the left and let your head
follow the movement of your spine, following in the direction of the
twist. Continue to elongate your spine and open your chest as you
breathe. Try not to collapse the front of your body. If you can
comfortably keep the spine long in this posture, continue to bring theleft hand around the back onto the right thigh. Go only as far as you
can without strain.
Keep breathing normally and hold the pose for a few breaths. Release
slowly, then repeat on the other side. It is especially important to use
your breath in this pose and to allow the twist to come from the
exhalation. Always twist on a lengthened rather than a compressed
spine.
Benefits : This posture increases circulation to the abdominal organs,
relieves tightness in the shoulders and upper back, stretches the neck, and
stimulates the adrenal glands, liver, and kidneys.
IX. ST ANDING FOR WARD BEND— Uttanasana (UP to 1
minute)
Stand up and bring your feet together in a parallel position, about hip
distance apart. Stand evenly on both feet and lengthen the spine as you
lift and open your chest. Keep your head and neck long and free. Look
straight ahead and breathe normally.
Allow your arms to hang loosely at your sides and keep the shoulders
relaxed. Look straight ahead and breathe normally.Figure 15. Standing forward bend.
On the inhalation, slowly extend your arms over the head as you lift
and expand the chest. On the exhalation, bend the body forward and
down, lengthening the entire spine. The arms and head follow in the
same line with the spine. Let your knees soften or bend freely and
bring your hands to the floor. Keep your elbows and shoulders relaxed
and don’ t lock the knees.
Keep breathing easily. Hold the pose for a few breaths. On the
inhalation, lift your arms from the upper back as you open the chest
forward and up. Come all the way up to a vertical position, arms over
your head. Exhale and lower your arms down to the sides.
Benefits : This posture tones the liver, stomach, spleen, kidneys, and spine,
and soothes and cools the mind.Figure 16. Standing forward bend.
X. AWARENESS POSE—Chitasana (At least 1 minute)
Lie down on your back so that both sides of the spine rest evenly on
the floor.
Lengthen your legs away from the pelvis and let them fall open to the
sides. Release your head, neck, shoulders, and hips. Allow the arms to
rest loosely next to the body. Face your palms upward.
Now let your body be completely relaxed. Close your eyes and rest for
at least 1 minute. Allow the breath to be easy and free.
Benefits : This pose invigorates and refreshes both the body and the mind,
removes fatigue, and is soothing for the entire system.Figure 17. Awareness pose.
BALANCED BREA THING ( Pranayama )
Time: 5 minutes
Repetitions: 1 set in the morning and 1 set in the evening
Breathing exercises in Ayurveda are a gentle form of balancing the breath
—moving from one nostril to the other—a technique called Pranayama. Its
purpose is to make the respiratory rhythm more regular, which in turn has a
soothing effect on the entire nervous system (that is why we call this a
“neuro-respiratory ” exercise at our Center). A few minutes of balanced
breathing, sittin g quietly with eyes closed, is very relaxing; many people
feel a pleasant lightness in the head afterward and a warm glow inside.
Pranayama is the best prelude to meditation, since it effortlessly focuses
your attention inward and reduces the scattered thoughts and “noise” that
usually fill the mind.
Modern medicine has discovere d that brain function is divided between
the right and left cerebral hemi spheres, each of which contributes its own
emphasis. Right-brain activity is intuitive and feeling; left-brain activity is
rational and organized. Using the technique of Pranayama, Ayurveda has
found a way to “talk” to both hemispheres and bring them into balance.
When the breath becomes more balanced, several things happen: you switch
your breathing from the right to the left nostril at regular intervals, your
mind becomes more clear and alert, and one side of the body is not
noticeably weaker than the other.We recommend 5 minutes of Pranayama morning and evening every day
as part of the ideal Ayurvedic daily routine.
A few pointers before you start:
Any form of straining must be avoided—if you begin to feel dizzy or
start to pant, stop for a moment and sit quietly with your eyes closed
until you feel normal again. Do not snort in order to clear a clogged
nostril. It is not advised to use antihistamines to open your nose before
starting. If aller gies or a cold have blocked your sinuses, just skip
Pranayama until they clear up naturally.
It is normal for the mucous membranes to contract when you first learn
to do this exercise. Just let them relax. Within a few days, they will
adjust normally to the new routine.
Perform Pranayama in a quiet room without radio, music, or TV. Keep
your eyes closed. If you feel anxious at any time, stop the exercise for
a minute, but do not get up immediately. Sit quietly with your eyes
closed until you feel relaxed again. If the uncomfortable sensation
persists, lie down for a few minutes until it passes.
Never hold your breath or count how many seconds you inhale and
exhale. These instructions are sometimes seen in yoga books or are
given out by yoga teachers. All such practices run contrary to the
purpose of this exercise, which is to allow the body to balance the
breath itself. Your natural breathing rhythm is right for you.
HOW  TO PERFORM BALANCED BREA THING (Pranayama)
Find a comfortable chair that allows you to sit upright with your spine
straight and both feet on the floor—it is best not to lounge back ward while
doing Pranayama. Close your eyes, let your mind rest, and place your righthand in the illustrated position—your thumb goes beside your right nostril,
your two middle fingers beside your left nostril.
To perform the exercise, gently  close one nostril, then the other, as you
breathe normally. To keep your arm from getting tired, it helps to tuck your
right elbow in close to your ribs, but don’t prop it up on your chair or on a
table.
The basic rhythm of Pranayama is:
Gently close the right nostril with your thumb and slowly exhale
through your left nostril


less
detrimental	effect	on	our	systems	than	the	blue	lights	on	the	other	end	of	the
spectrum.
Research	has	now	pinpointed	that	electronics	emanate	blue	light,	which
affects	the	brain	more	strongly	than	other	colors	and,	in	particular,	disturbs	our
sleep.	In	other	words,	reducing	light	all	around	can	be	very	helpful,	but	it’s
critical	to	reduce	blue	light	specifically.	Unfortunately,	blue	light	is	emitted
strongly	and	consistently	from	many	different	electronic	devices.	Using	these
devices	near	bedtime	can	have	a	detrimental	effect	on	your	sleep	patterns	and
consequently	your	natural	beauty	expression.
A	photoreceptor	in	the	eye	called	melanopsin	plays	a	role	in	establishing	our
day/night	cycles	and	is	particularly	sensitive	to	a	narrow	band	of	blue	light	in
the	460–480	nanometers	(nm)	range.
7
	Researchers	at	the	University	of
Pennsylvania
School	of	Medicine	and	School	of	Arts	and	Sciences	studied	the
biological	effects	of	blue	light
8
	and	found	that	melanopsin	is	very	sensitive	to
blue	light,	which	is	emitted	by	digital	devices,	including	smartphones,	tablets,
and	computers.
9
This	means	that	if	you	work	on	a	tablet	or	laptop,	or	look	at	your
smartphone	before	bed,	you	might	find	your
sleep	is	delayed.	This	results	in	all
of	the	adverse	beauty	and	wellness	implications	we	mentioned	earlier,	including
accelerated	aging,	reduced	performance	in	all	your	tasks,
10
	and	suppression	of
natural	human	growth	hormone,	which	you	need	to	increase	muscle	mass	and
induce	tissue	repair.
Electronics	and	Sleep	Don’t	Mix
An	alarming	51	percent	of	people	who	text	specifically	in	the	hour	before	going
to	bed	reported	they	were	less	likely	to	get	a	good	night’s	sleep,	“every/almost
every	weeknight.”
11
	In	a	similar	fashion,	up	to	77	percent	use	their	computers
or	laptops	in	the	hour	before	bed.	Of	those,	50	percent	reported	they	were	less
likely	to	get	a	good	night’s	sleep,	“every/almost	every	weeknight.”
12
According	to	more	than	thirty	years	of	studies	conducted	at	the	Division	of
Sleep	Medicine	at
Boston’s
Brigham	and	Women’s	Hospital	and
Harvard
Medical	School,	the	light	from	electronics	has	a	significant	effect	on	circadian
(i.e.,	daily)	rhythms	of	waking	and	sleeping.	Throwing	off	your	circadianrhythm	affects	how	quickly	you	fall	asleep	as	well	as	the	quality	of	sleep	you
get.
13
	According	to	Dr.
Charles	A.	Czeisler	of	Harvard	Medical	School,
“Artificial	light	exposure	between	dusk	and	the	time	we	go	to	bed	at	night
suppresses	release	of	the	sleep-promoting	hormone	melatonin,	enhances
alertness	and	shifts	circadian	rhythms	to	a	later	hour—making	it	more	difficult
to	fall	asleep.”
14
Answering	work	e-mails	late	at	night,	whether	from	your	boss	or	regarding
pending	stressful	deadlines,	might	also	stir	up	anxiety	that	is	not	so	conducive
to	sleep.	You	may	be	wondering,	what	about	e-readers?	These	are	one	of	the
newest	electronic	phenomena	to	have	an	effect	on	our	brains	and	biorhythms.
A	report	from	the
Proceedings	of	the	National	Academy	of	Sciences
	found	that	using
such	devices	near	bedtime	caused	users	to	take	longer	to	fall	asleep	and	led	to
disturbances	in	their	circadian	rhythm,	suppression	of	the	sleep-inducing
hormone	melatonin,	delays	in	the	timing	of	REM	sleep,	and	decreased	alertness
the	next	morning.
15
In	short,	the	bright	light	from	these	devices	stimulates	your	brain	and,
unfortunately,	makes	it	think	it’s	daytime.	This	keeps	your	brain	alert	instead	of
allowing	it	to	wind	down	when	it	senses	that	it	is	night.	While	there	are	some
apps	you	can	download	onto	devices	to	help	reduce	the	emission	of	blue	light,
there	is	still	some	remaining	stimulation	from	your	electronic	devices.	You’d	be
better	served	turning	them	off	earlier	every	evening.
Action	Steps	to	Align	Yourself	to	Nature’s
Rhythms
Here	are	some	of	the	most	important	steps	you	can	take	to	cut	down	on	sleep
disturbances	from	artificial	lights—especially	electronic	devices—to	promote
Peak	Beauty	Sleep.
FOLLOW	THE	ONE-HOUR	RULE
It’s	critical	to	put	down	your	devices,	including	tablets,	cell	phones,	and	e-
readers,	at	least	an	hour	before	bed	if	you	want	to	get	that	profound	beauty
sleep	that	is	critical	to	how	you	feel	and	look.
USE	AIRPLANE	MODE
While	you’re	at	it,	be	sure	to	fully	turn	off	your	cell	phone	when	you	go	to	bed
—or	at	least	put	it	in	airplane	mode.	That	way	you	won’t	be	disturbed	by	the
sounds	or	lights	from	nighttime	calls,	texts,	and	e-mails.	Plus,	by	cutting	off	thesignal,	you’ll	have	fewer	electromagnetic	frequencies,	or	invisible	electric	and
magnetic	fields	radiating	away	from	appliances	that	may	have	potentially
harmful	health	effects,	targeted	at	you	during	the	night.	You	certainly	don’t
need	that	signal	beaming	at	you	all	night	long.
FLASHLIGHT	IT	TO	THE	BATHROOM
We	all	have	to	get	up	in	the	middle	of	the	night	for	a	bathroom	break
sometimes.	If	you	turn	on	the	bathroom	light,	however,	the	brightness	can
interrupt	your
circadian	rhythms,	making	it	difficult	for	you	to	go	back	to
sleep.	Instead,	try	using	a	night-light	in	the	bathroom	that	isn’t	visible	from
your	bedroom,	or	keep	a	dim	flashlight	next	to	the	bed.	Avoid	drinking	large
quantities	of	fluids	before	bedtime	as	well,	in	order	to	avoid	this	problem
altogether.
CHANGE	YOUR	ALARM
Unfortunately,	LED
alarm	clocks	pose	the	same	problems	as	other	electronic
devices:	they	introduce	a	source	of	light	into	your	room	that	disrupts	your
circadian	rhythm.	Your	alarm	clock	also	gives	off	an	electromagnetic	frequency
(EMF).	Some	studies	link	EMF	exposure	to	melatonin	interruption	and
depletion	in	rodents	and	humans,
16
	which	is	not	good	since	melatonin	is	a
hormone	necessary	for	sound	sleep.	Switch	to	a	battery-operated	alarm	clock	or
use	your	phone’s	alarm,	which	should	be	in	airplane	mode	at	bedtime	and
throughout	the	night.	Avoid	placing	other	electronic	devices	such	as	radios	or
MP3	players	on	your	bedside	table	as	well.
CAN’T	SLEEP?	CHILL	OUT
If	you	simply	can’t	fall	asleep	for	more	than	half	an	hour	or	so	and	are	finding
yourself	getting	increasingly	agitated,	get	up	and	go	into	the	other	room	and	read
a	book	or	magazine,	listen	to	some	relaxing	music,	or
meditate.	Whatever	you	do,
don’t
	do	anything	stimulating,	such	as	go	on	your	computer	or	watch	television.	The
other	thing	to	avoid	is	staring	at	the	clock	or	constantly	checking	the	time	on	your
phone.	(There	goes	that	blue	light	again!)	Focusing	on	the	time	can	stress	you	out
and	make	it


 weak animals would not live to be sold as food.
   Hogs raised by confinement feeding frequently are so weak they can hardly walk,
have poor thin fuzzy hair, diarrhea, sore eyes, and deformed jaws. The farmers know very well that they cannot feed their brood sows and hens in this way, for the babies
would be born or hatched dead, deformed, or so weak that most would die, so they
keep the prospective mothers in green fields of grass where they get fresh food. The
food faddists' idea that fertile eggs are be tter is correct, but not for the reason usually
given. The male chicken's fertilization of the hens has no food advantage, but it is the
green grass pasture on which breeding hens are kept that makes the difference.
   Many farmers seem to have forgotten that all livestock including chickens relish
tender green grass better than any other feed, and do best when eating it. Cattle
especially thrive on good grass above all,  and beef from grass and grain feeding
combined has a rich red color, fragrant golden yellow fat and a taste that is in a class
by itself. Eggs from chickens receiving gr een grass have brilliant orange colored
yolks that do not easily break in the pan, and a delicious flavor entirely different from the musty tasting confinement eggs. And oldtimers remember how good fresh country
pork used to taste, with its sweet aromatic fat, not slimy and rancid like commercial pork is today. It is still that good when the pigs are raised in green fields. Chicken
feeds now are such a fake that the mills even put in a yellow dye to imitate the skin appearance given by the yellow carotene vitamin normally in a healthy chicken.
Feedlot beef often shows dark streaks of ro t in the center of the bones, and if the
segments of red meat are pulled apart one can see that the fibrous muscle sheaths have
already been turned brown by microbes, because the meat lacks the anti-microbic
defensive powers found in normal animals. Most livestock on the market today are like old-time sailors who have been eating stale food on a long sea voyage, weakened
and sickened by scurvy and beri-beri.
   The livers from confinement fed livestock are abnormal and show the depletion of
vital substances by their pale yellowish or pinkish color. Healthy livers are dark wine
red. This was evidently known in very early times, for weak and worthless creatures
were called "white livered" or "lily livered." The liver condition is a good indicator of quality.

17. SMOKED AND SALTED MEAT AND FISH
   Food scientists have published extensivel y on the deterioration of fatty materials in
smoked and salted meat and fish. There are certain microbes which are able to thrive
in spite of the salt in these items, and these microbes split up and deteriorate the fatty
materials into fatty rubbish  which causes arteriosclerosis. The bluish or greenish
iridescent colors in hams are due to these microbes.
   Bacon, ham, corned beef, etc., are really hardship foods invented long ago so the
livestock could be butchered in the fall and the meat preserved for winter use. These
foods have little nutritional value, actually poor foods by any standard, yet sell at a
high price due to the labor expended on them. Now that it is possible to store meat by
freezing there is no longer any reason to eat  these stale items. Thin broiled slices of
fresh or frozen pork taste far better than bacon, and what could taste better than a
roasted fresh leg of pork? There is no longer any reason to eat bacon and ham.
   It has been known for many years and repeatedly proven by animal experiments that
burned, smoked, or heat browned materials are a powerful and certain cause of cancer
if applied or eaten over a long period of time. These materials are also extremely toxic
to the body in general. Cigarette smoking for instance causes cancer not because of
the materials used but simply because of the burning and consequent production of
tars. There are other known causes of cancer, such as certain chemicals, and some
unknown causes as well, so it certainly would not be correct to say that smoked foods
are the cause of cancer. But they are definitely a contributing cause, and so is any
other food if it is excessively browned or subjected to smoke or oily fumes in cooking
or in processing.

18. GENERAL FOOD PRACTICES
   Many people have a perverse obsession in wanting to "make" something out of food, and keep it
around for days. They mess about with recipes, meas uring cups, grinders, mixers, graters, slicers,
juicers, blenders etc, putting in long hours of work damaging their food so it will choke their arteries
and give them cancer. Those chipped-up slaws, cakes and pies, biscuits, ground-up casserole dishes,
hamburgers, brown gravy, big pots of stew or dried beans and ham that are re-heated for three days, are
slow tickets to misery and the graveyard. Paradoxical as it may be, the people that do such things the
most are often the ones we admire the most, for their conscientious good intentions and energy, even if
it is misdirected and destructive. Some of the nicest widows and sick people I know are like this. They are constantly chipping and chopping, marinating, mixing things together. These good people mean to do the right thing, bless their hearts, but they just have the wrong idea. Original food items should not
be looked at as raw materials to "make" some artifici al thing out of. Foods are very delicate materials,
which can be easily damaged. With few exceptions, anything you do to food reduces its health value.

   This brings us to the essential point: Treat f ood gently, until it goes between your teeth. Don't grate
and grind it. Prepare and serve it as nearly intact as you can. tutting it up only enough to get it in the pot or serve it conveniently. Don't over-cook it to a mush, don't overheat it, don't brown it. Realize that you
can eat better without all this self-destructive hard work. Try the following menus. Also see diet section
page 39.

19. MENUS AND BEVERAGES

BREAKFAST MENU
FRUIT, VEGETABLE, OR JUICE COURSE
Your choice of raw fruit, like apple, orange, gr apefruit, (no lemon or lim e) pear, grapes, melon,
bananas, strawberries, etc. Your choice of celery sticks, raw carrots, broccoli, cabbage, etc. Your
choice of juice fresh-squeezed then and there. Canned tomato juice as second choice.
MEAT OR EGGS COURSE
Eggs (no more than three) boiled, scrambled, poached, any way you like except fried. Oil is not necessary for scrambling. Keep the heat low and tumble them continuously with a spatula to keep from
browning.

Your choice of any FRESH meat, poultry, or seafood. Not cured meat or sausage or imitation meat. Try
some pork chops, or other cuts of fresh pork or beef cut thin so they will cook fast. Don't let them
brown, see cooking section page 35-38.
STARCH COURSE
Potatoes, cooked any way you like except fried or browned. Can be quickly cooked if sliced, even
quicker and better if parboiled previously. See be low and pages 35-38. Eaten with butter and salt,
potatoes are a treat.
BEVERAGE
Try not to drink much fluid with meals, not even s oup. Have your beverage earlier or later. See below.

LUNCH OR DINNER MENU
MEAT COURSE:
Your choice of any FRESH meat, poultry, or seafood, cooked any way you like as long as it is not
ground up, fried, or browned. Vapor  cooking per pages 35-38 is the best and easiest. Pork chops, steak,
stew meat, small roasts, chicken, veal, turkey, fish, shrimp, oysters, crabs, clams. No imitation meat, no
cured meat, no ham, no bacon, no sausage.
VEGETABLES:
Your choice of at least two or more vegetables, at least one being a green or leafy kind like turnip
greens, cabbage, broccoli, spinach, etc. Either cooked or raw. Potatoes, any kind, cooked any way but fried. If you vapor cook, you can fix all of this in th e same bowl. Try cauliflower, zucchini, celery, etc.

SALAD:
Your choice of the usual salad items such as lettu ce, red leaf lettuce, raw carrots, celery, tomato,
cabbage, red cabbage, avocado, melon. Go slow on such things as green peppers and onions, unless
you have a strong stomach. If desired, season with salt and pepper, vinegar, and virgin olive oil. Caution: Don't fine-chop, shred or grate. Red leaf lettuce is more digestible than white, if you have a
weak stomach.

DESSERT:
Your choice of fruit, raw carrots, celery sticks, etc.  Fruit salad with apple, celery, grapes, carrots,
raisins, melon, etc. is very good if freshly ma de. Less good for you, but permissible are occasional
small servings of


 this as another
act of surrender of the perso nal in order to serve what
life was doing. I just relaxe d and let go of whatever
resistance cam e up inside of me. That is how I had been
handling this entire ordeal, and it made that period of
my life  a profound and powerful part of my spiritual
journey.January 2005 brought the next major step in the
process. The government accepted plea agreements from
Bobby Davids and two of his collaborators in the
kickback schemes. These people agreed to pay
restitutions to the company, and Bobby agreed to serve a
year and a day  in prison. Not bad, considering when it
was all said a nd done he admitted to stealing $5.4
million in fifty-three kickbac k schemes over a five-year
period. The only charge Bobby Davids and the others
faced was one count of mail fraud.
The rest of us were pretty much beside ourselves. It
didn’t b ode we ll for us that the government was willing
to l et these pe ople off so lightly in exchange for their
testimony against us. We had also found that Bobby had
been ha ving a n affair with a  woman in the accounting
department. She was a CPA and the comptroller for the
dealer acquisitions program. To a large part, it was her
cooperation that allowed Bobby to get his schemes past
accounting, the auditors, and the executives. Yet she was
not charged at all. It was at that point that I started to
realize just how much the cards were stacked against us.
The gov ernment was letting admittedly guilty people go
in order to get  their testimony. These people were just
pointing up the ladder to get the spotlight off themselves.
Regardless, the story in the papers read that some
Medical Manag er executives had pleaded guilty to being
involved in accounting fraud, and more people were
likely to be charged. The whole thing was a PR nightmare
for WebMD and the Medical Manager Practice Services
Division. The last thing in the world I wanted to do was
hurt the  comp any. After twenty-five years of committed
service, it was time to resign. On February 9, 2005, I sent
my resignation letter to WebMD’s CEO. It may well be
the only resignation letter written under these
circumstances that was ever signed, “With great love and
respect.” I meant every word of it.I w as amazed that after all th ose years my inner state
was not affected by leaving the company. I woke up the
next morning, went to the T emple as I always did, then
walked up to the old Personalized Programming office
building on Temple grounds. That building had been
converted into  a house, but no one was living there. My
old office had been used as a study, and it still had the
same d esk and furniture as fifteen years earlier. I found
that I was just  as comfortable with this office as I was
with th e executive suite down the road. In fact, I was
more c omfortable. I had always liked simplicity; that’s
why I had moved out to the woods in the first place.
Sitting quietly in that office, I could see that this terrible
situation was bringing about amazing changes—both
inside and out. Life had alw ays done that to me, and
accepting those changes was my great experiment. I
knew that this attack by the government was no
exception. I just had to be willing to go wherever it took
me.
In t he meantime, I had been  given the space to begin
writing the books I always knew I was going to write.
There were two of them: The first would impart what I
had learned since first noticing my mental voice talking
while I was sit ting on that c ouch so many years ago. It
would b e a journey back to th e seat of Self that could be
taken b y anyone in the world. It was to be called The
Untethered Soul.  The second book would be the stories
of th e m iraculous flow of events that happened over the
years as  I let g o and let life unfold naturally. It would be
called The Surrender Experiment.  I couldn’t start that
book yet, because I had no idea how this latest chapter
would play out. So in the midst of all this change and
uncertainty, I began working on The Untethered Soul.
Karen E ntner had lived at the Temple for more than
fifteen years. She had grown into a management position
at M edical Manager where  she was a phenomenally
productive em ployee. As head of the documentation andcomputer-based training departments, she had been
writing under my supervision for years. Shortly after I
left the company, she expressed an interest in helping
with my book. So now I ha d a book to write and the
perfect person to assist with the process. The Temple, the
book, and periodic conversa tions with Randy and his
team kept me plenty busy for the rest of the year.
By November 2005, a full two years after the raid,
Randy was hearing that an indictment was imminent. He
and some of the other attorneys demanded to see
evidence tying their clients to a crime. The result was
that Randy sent me a one-inch-thick stack of documents
that the government intend ed to use to prove I was
behind Bobby’s activities.
I w as very inte rested in getting to study this material,
yet a t the same time I was som ewhat apprehensive. After
only a few ho urs, I was flabbergasted. I did not see
anything in these documents that incriminated me.
There were some accounting reports on a few
acquisitions Bobby had done, but most of the rest were
handwritten no tes my assistant, Sandy, had taken during
our twice weekly executive calls. On these notes, the FBI
had circled pretty much every reference to any
discussions we  had about meeting our quarterly revenue
and earnings projections. San dy had scribbled my name
next to some o f the comments or suggestions. That was
about it. I w as both relieved and concerned. I was
relieved because, as I suspected, they didn’t find
anything indicating I had done anything wrong. I felt
concerned because they were obviously considering these
circled documents as evidence against me. I didn’t know
what to think, so I called Randy.
Randy told me that everyone who had looked at the
documents had the same reaction—there was nothing in
them that tied me to any wrongdoing. Randy explained
that it didn’t m atter. Bobby had said that the accounting
fraud h e had been involved in was for the purpose ofmeeting Wall Street’s numbers. These documents would
be used to show motive. The government prosecutors
would argue that since I wanted to meet Wall Street’s
expectations, I  allowed Bobby to do things improperly.
Motive was one of the pieces the government needed in
order to  try to build a case against me. But this wasn’t
just hap pening to me. Randy told me that every one of
the other executives, and their attorneys, had the same
reaction to the materials they were given.
Just one month later, on December 19, 2005, Randy
received notification from the U.S. Marshals Office in
Columbia, South Carolina, th at a federal indictment had
been is sued—I was under arrest. Along with nine other
prior ex ecutives of Medical Manager Corporation, I was
to turn  myse lf in to the federal authorities at an
arraignment o n December 28 in Charleston, South
Carolina. The summons read:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. MICHAEL
A. SINGER5 3.
P r e p a r i n g  a  D e f e n s e
I  thought I pretty much understood what I was up
against until I saw the indict ment. In all honesty, it was
about the furthest thing from  the truth that I had ever
seen in my life. I knew that Bobby had implicated us by
telling the government that we were aware of everything
he h ad done w rong. In the eyes of the law, that would
have made us co-conspirato rs. But the indictment did
not eve n include Bobby Davids’s name. It listed all the
things he claimed to have done improperly and stated
that the  execu tives did these things—or more precisely,
“caused them to happen.” We were all facing conspiracy
charges that could result in up to fifteen years in prison.
I was floored when I first read the indictment. Randy
was not. It was  just about what he had expected based on
his thirty years of experience. The indictment
represented th e governmen t’s story in the strongest
possible language to justify the charges. Truth, on the
other hand, could hopefully e merge from the fires of the
trial. So far there had been absolutely no pushback
against Bobby’s view of the world. We had, in fact, not
yet begun to fight.
I met Randy and my South Carolina attorney, John
Simmons, in Charleston for the arraignment. All ten of
the indicted Medical Manager executives were there,
along with more than twenty of our attorneys. Joining
me were John Kang, John Sessions, Rick Karl, David
Ward, two regional


Nit-ac,Phos.,Ruta.
Ofdogs:Puis.,Chin.
Intheevening:Calc-c,Caust.,Puis.
OfexamsseeExamnerves
Ofdownwardmovement:Bor.
Duringlabour:Aco.
Ofpainfuldeath:Coff.
Duringpregnancy:Aco.
Ofpublicspeaking:Arg-n.,Gels.,Lye
Paralysing:Gels.
Ofstrangers:Bar-c
Ofsuddennoises(sneezing,coughingetc.):Bor.
Ofthunder:Rhod.
Duringathunderstorm: Phos.,Rhod.
Attwilight:Puis.
Ofbeingtouched:Am.
FeverAco.,Ap.,Bell.,Bry.,Cham.,Cina,Eup-p.,
Ferr-m.,Gels.,Hep-s.,Ign.,Ip.,Kali-c,Lye,
Merc-s.,Nat-m.,Nux-v.,Op.,Phos.,Puis.,
Pyr.,Rhus-t.,Sep.,Sit.,Sul.,Ver-a.
Heat:'
alternatingwithchills:Aco.,Ars.,Bell.,Bry.,
Hep-s.,Merc-s.,Nux-v.,Rhus-t.,Sul.
burning:Aco.,Ap.,Ars.,Bell.,Bry.,Cham.,
Gels.,Nat-m.,Op.,Phos.,Puis.',Rhus-t.
dry:Aco.,Ap.,Ars.,Bell.,Bry.,Nux-v.,Phos.,
Rhus-t.
dryatnight:Aco.,Ars.,Bell.,Phos.
dryintheevening:Puis.
intense:Op.
radiant:Bell.
One-sided:Bry.,Cham.,Lye,Nux-v.,Phos.,Puis.
rightside:Phos.
leftside:Lye
Pulse:
fast:Aco.
strong:Aco.
Withoutswearing:Bell.,Bry.,Gels.
With:
anxiety:Aco.,Ars.,Ip.,Sep.
appetiteincreased:Phos.
backache:Nux-v.
chilliness:Ap.,Nux-v.,Puis.,Ver-a.
betterforfreshair:Ip.
worseforheat:Ip.
extreme:Pyr.
internal:Pyr.
deepsleep:Op.
delirium:Ars.,Bell.
grindingofteeth:Bell.
hunger:Cina
nausea:Nat-m.
sensitiveskin:Ap.
180•Fingernails INTERNALREPERTORY
shaking:Pyr.
shivering:Cham.,Gels.,Nux-v.,Sul.
sweatingseeSweat
thirstseeThirst/Thirstless
Better:
forcompleterest:Bry.
inbed:Kali-c.
drinkingcoldwater:Canst.
freshair:Ip.
heat:Hep-s.,Kali-c.
hotdrinks:Rhus-t.
forsweating:Gels.
foruncovering:Aco.,Ap.,Ferr-m.,lgn.,
Nat-m.,Op.,Puis.
forurinating:Gels.
Worse
9p.m.:Bry.
afternoon:Ap.,Bell.,Gels.,lgn.,Phos.,Puis.
autumn:Bry.,Nat-m.,Sep.
inbed:Merc-s.,Puis.
colddrinks:Rltus-t.
draughts:Nux-v.
aftereating:Kali-c.
evening:Aco.,Bell.,Lye,Phos.,Puis.,
Rhus-t.,Sil.
afterlyingdowninbed:Bry.
freshair:Merc-s.,Nux-v.
frontofthebody:lgn.
forheat:Ap.,Ip.,Puis.
forlight:Bell.
mentalexertion:Sul.
aftermidnight:Ars.
midmorning:Cham.,Nat-m.,Rhus-t.
morning:Ap.,Ars.
inbed:Puis.
movement:Nux-v.,Rims-t.,Sil.
atnight:Aco.,Ars.,Bapt.,Bell.,Cina,Merc-s.
Phos.,Puis.,Rhus-t.,Sil.,Sul.
duringsleep:Op.
slightestmovementofthebedclothes:
Nux-v.
inastuffyroom:Ap.,Puis.
forswearing:Op.,Sep.,Ver-a.
forthinking:Sul.
forbeinguncovered: Bell.,Hep-s.,Nux-v.,
Puis.,Pyr.,Rlms-t.,Sep.,Sil.
warmcovers:Ap.,lgn.,Puis.
washing:Ap.,Puis.
Causes:
anger:Cham.,Sep.
gettingchilled:Aco.
teethinginbabies:Aco.
Fingernails
Split:Ant-c.,Sil.
Weaknails,spliteasily:SB.
Whitespotsonnails:Sil.,Zinc.Causedby:
injury:Ant-c.
FlatulenceArg-n.,Ars.,Calc-c.,Carb-a.,Carb-v.,
Cham.,Chin.,Colch.,Lye,Mag-c,Nats.,
Nit-ac,Podo.,Puis.,Si).,Sul.
Belly/stomach:
bloated:Arg-n.,Ars.,Calc-c,Carb-a.,
Carb-v.,Cham.,Chin.,Colch.,Lye,Mag-c,
Nux-v.,Sul.
abovethenavel:Chin.
below"thenavel:Carb-v.,Lye.
gurgling:Podo.,Puis.,Sul.
beforestool:Podo.
intolerantoftightclothing(beltsetc.):
Arg-n.,Calc-c,Lye,Nux-v.
rumbling:Carb-v.,Chin.,Lye,Nat-s.,
Nux-v.,Puis.,Sil.,Sul.
beforestool:Mag-c.
betterforpassingflatus:Carb-v.,Lye,
Nat-s.
Wind:
loud:Arg-n.,Nat-s.
duringstool:Nat-s.,Podo.
smelly:Ars.,Carb-v.,Nat-s.,Nit-ac,Puis.,
Sil.,Sul.
ofrotteneggs:Sul.
obstructed(difficulttoexpel):Arg-n.,Chin.,
Colch.,Nit-ac,Puis.,Sil.
With:
diarrhoea:Carb-v.,Nat-s.
urgingforstoolbutonlysplutteringwindis
passed:Nat-s.
Better:
passingwind:Carb-v.,Lye,Nat-s.,Nux-v.,
Puis.,Sul.
Worse:
aftereating:Arg-n.,Lye,Nux-v.
afterbreakfast:Nat-s.
before/afterstool:Lye
Causes:
eatingfruit:Chin.
abdominalsurgery:Carb-a.,Carb-v.,Chin.
FluArs.,Bapt.,Bry.,Dulc,Eup-p.,Gels.,Ip.,
Nux-v.,Pyr.,Rhus-t.
Bodvfeelsbruised:Bapt.
Chills:Ip.
Eyeballsaching:Bry.,Eup-p.,Gels.
Eyelidsred:Eup-p.
Musclesfeelheavy/sore/stiff: Bapt.
Pains:
aching:Ip.,Pyr.,RJius-t.
back:Ip.
bones:Eup-p.,Ip.,Nux-v.,Pyr.,Rhus-t.
bonesfeelbroken:Eup-p.
joints:Nux-v.,Rhus-t.
legs:Ip.,Pyr.,Rhus-t.
INTERNALREPERTORY Hayfever •181
muscles:Gels.
shooting:Rhus-t.
sore,bruised:Ip.,Nux-v.,Rhus-t.
Skinsore:Eup-p.
With:
chilliness,extreme,can'tgetwarm:Gels.,
Nux-v.,Pyr.
commoncold:Ars.,Nux-v.
exhaustion:Gels.,Rhus-t.
fever:Ars.,Bapt.,Nux-v.,Pyr.,Rhus-t.
headache:Eup-p.
heaviness:Gels.
nasalcatarrh:Eup-p.
nightmares:Bapt.
numbness:Gels.
restlessness:Ars.,Pyr.
shivering/chills inback:Eup-p.,Gels.,Pyr.
sneezing:Eup-p.,Rhus-t.
extremethirst:Pyr.
Better:
warmcompresses:Nux-v.
formovement:Pyr.
forsweating:Eup-p.,Gels.
forurinating:Gels.
forwalking:Pyr.
warmthofbed:Nux-v.,Pyr.
Worse:
inbed:Nux-v.
cold:Nux-v.
duringthechillystage:Pyr.
exertion:Gels.
morning:Nux-v.
walking:Gels.
sitting:Pyr.
Causes:
changeoftemperature:Ars.
cold,dampweather:Dulc.
FlushedseeFaceflushed
FoodpoisoningArs.,Carb-a.,Garb-v.,Each.,Lye,
Puis.,Urt-u.
Causes:
fish:Carb-a.,Carb-v.,Puis.
meat:Ars.,Carb-v.,Each.,Puis.
shellfish:Lye,Urt-u.
vegetables:Carb-a.
Forgetful(seealsoAbsent-minded;Confused)
Arg-n.,Am.,Ars.,Bar-c,Caust.,Cocc,
Colch.,Con.,Glon.,Kali-p.,Lye,Merc-s.,
Nat-c,Petr.,Pho-ac,Sep.,Slap.,Ver-a.
Followinginjury:Am.
FracturesseeBrokenbones
FrightenedseeFearful
FussyseeCritical;Capricious
GastricfluArs.,Bapt.,Bry.,Eup


 basically two types of cancer. First, the congestive or tumor types, which
deal with the lymphatic system—the body’s sewer. Second, the degenerative
type, in which the tissue or cell itself is dying and the immune system is
trying to eliminate these cells. This later type may
appear to be
 an “auto
immune” runaway, in which the immune cells start attacking themselves and
the normal cells of the body. But, as I will discuss later, there is little
understanding of the real purpose of this process within the allopathic
medical community today.
Both of these types of cancer and their causes are intertwined. We can see
this by looking at the congestive or tumor-type cancers. Congestion in the
body, as stated earlier, can be caused by dairy products, refined sugars,
chemicals, metals, foreign proteins, etc., all creating inflammation. In the
presence of inflammation, mucus is discharged from the mucosa as an anti-
inflammatory response. This mucus can accumulate if the lymphatic system is
stagnant, or if too much mucus is produced and the system becomes
overwhelmed. As this congestion develops, it blocks proper cellular
respiration. This, in turn, causes cellular weaknesses and cellular death. This
also causes further inflammation leading to additional cellular death. The
cycle of congestion and inflammation now starts a cycle of cellular decay,
opening the doorway to cancer.
As previously stated, this degeneration (or the killing of cells) results
from prolonged inflammation (acidosis). This acidosis is caused mainly from
what you eat, drink, breathe, and what you put on your skin. However,
cancer can develop from acidosis by the dominance of acid-type (catabolic)hormones (steroids) such as estrogen or testosterone. These types of
hormones or steroids, when unchecked by anabolic (anti-inflammatory)
steroids, which are produced in both the adrenal glands and the gonads, cause
additional inflammation. All this leads to tumor or fibrocystic formation and
the destruction of cells. Estrogen is one of the primary examples of a very
acidic/inflammatory-type hormone. When allowed to go unchecked by
steroids, estrogen eventually causes degeneration of tissue through
inflammation. Breast, uterine and ovarian cancers are the results of this.
Parasites and mutations are almost always involved with both types of
cancer. Parasites do not feed on healthy tissue, only tissue that has become
weakened or is dying. They definitely live and breed in “toxic waste dumps”
in lymph and lymph nodes. I think cells also release their own virus (protein)
when they become too weak to support life. These viruses and parasites cause
cells to mutate in response to the invaders. Your immune system is designed
to eliminate these types of cells. This is why we see an abnormal immune
response in the presence of cancer or any degenerative condition. As a matter
of fact, your immune system is designed to respond to
any
 type of invasion—
be it parasites, foreign proteins, which include your own weakened cells, and
any other pathogen that doesn’t belong or can cause harm to the body. This
would include acids from metabolism or digestion that can damage cells and
tissues.
Cancer doesn’t just suddenly appear. It used to take years to form tumors
or to degenerate tissue. However, with the pounds of chemicals and
hormones that most people consume each
week, tumors can grow within
months or even days. This is also true of hormonally-fed cancers. Hormone
imbalances are mainly due to chronic endocrine gland weakness, especially
weak adrenal glands.
The word and condition known as “cancer” was virtually unknown until
humans started playing with vaccines and toxic chemicals. Contaminated
vaccines have been blamed for many conditions that people now suffer from.
One such vaccine is the polio vaccine. As we’ve mentioned previously, in the
early to mid-1950s it was determined that polio vaccines manufactured in
monkey kidney tissue became contaminated with a monkey virus called
simian virus number 40. This virus is known as Sim-40 or SV40 and has
been proven to cause cancer in animals. It has also been linked to
mesothelioma (lung cancer) and multiple myeloma (bone marrow cancer).
This is just one vaccine. How many different vaccines have
you
 had? And
what are their side effects?Vaccination Facts
The FDA estimates that most doctors report only 1 to 10% of the injuries,
and/or deaths from vaccinations to VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event
Reporting System). This was set up as a central reporting agency to
oversee the side effects of vaccinations.
The health of hundreds of thousands of children and infants are
compromised each year from the 20 to 30 vaccinations that are
“required.” Some children suffer serious injuries, and some die as a
result.
Vaccinations have been linked to many cancers, and the sharp rise in
diabetes (especially juvenile), multiple sclerosis, Bell’s Palsy, vascular
disorders, arthritis, and other conditions.
The American Academy of Pediatrics knows of the toxic and horrific
side effects of vaccinations and
still
 recommends their prolific use.

As you weaken the cells in your body via foods, chemicals, vaccinations
and the like, your cells take on this weakness as their expression. This
happens the same way that you, in every moment, express yourself according
to the experiences you have and the memory of these experiences. Your cells
are no different. With each minute, hour, day … the strength or weakness of
each of your cells becomes a part of its memory patterns in DNA and
chromosomes.
At the moment of conception the condition of each cell and its memories
that are passed down to you become a part of your body, and thus determine
how your body functions and the conditions that it can experience. Since we
keep making our genetic condition weaker by continuing to wear down our
bodies through diet and lifestyle we are seeing a landslide of chronic cellular
and tissue weaknesses. We then pass them on to our children, who then pass
them on to their children. And with each successive generation, the cellular
patterns and functions become more chronic, causing disease symptoms to
appear now in infants. Through this process of genetic transmission we have
created frightening consequences.
Many allopathic doctors claim that cancer is an autoimmune disease.
However, I find this conclusion to be misleading, and commonly used as a
catch-all for the unawareness of the actual cause of disease processes. Your
body’s immune cells are especially designed to attack and consume weak,
mutant, dying or parasitically involved cells. This is especially true of thenatural killer cells (NK),including the T-cells (thymus) and B-cells (bone
marrow). These natural killer cells are much larger than the smaller
macrophages, neutrophils, basophils, etc., that do
basic body cleanup. We
have an army inside of us that is always active. This process is extremely
necessary for internal survival. The weaker a cell or tissue becomes from
inflammation, toxicity, or even genetics (and the parasitic response to these),
the more immune response will be needed. The increased elevation of white
blood cells is in response to all of the above, and especially to foreign
pathogens.
DETOX FOR CANCER PREVENTION AND CURE

It is vital to clean, strengthen, and thus regenerate your cells and tissues.
Detoxification is the process one must go through to accomplish this.
Detoxification naturally begins as you alkalize yourself through a raw food
diet. This process strengthens cells by removing the obstructions and acids
that cause inflammation and block nutrition to your cells. Detoxification
allows cells to gain nutritional energy and to properly eliminate their wastes
via cellular respiration. This then begins the rebuilding process within the
body.
It has been proven that diets high in animal protein are cancer causing.
Animal protein is acidic (inflammatory), putrefactive and congestive. The
congestive aspect is caused by the mucus, formed from its abrasive and
putrefactive aspects. The toxic chemicals, vaccinations, and hormones eaten
by or injected into these animals also create tissue toxicity within the body.
This causes your immune system to respond, causing inflammation. Meat
also causes a biochemical imbalance within your body. The high levels of
iron and phosphorous push out your calcium, magnesium, and other vital
electrolytes, which then weaken and dehydrate your body.
As you can see and imagine, one cannot treat cancer, which is created by
the above, with chemotherapy that acts on the body like Draino® acts on
your plumbing system, or burn it away with radiation (fire), either. Both of
these choices cause more cancer, or cause cancer to move (metastasize) to
areas where these therapies have destroyed or weakened the cells and tissues.
Radiation destroys the oxygen-carrying and utilization factors of a cell.
However, glucose can still enter through the cell membrane wall. This
eventually causes fermentation within a cell, and that cell will die from auto-intoxication. This creates a delayed response.
At first these treatments seem to reduce the tumor or stop the cancer. But
then watch out – cancer can explode throughout the entire body. Of course
this will invoke additional immune responses, creating the appearance of
“autoimmune problems.”
The bottom line in all cancers is overacidity/inflammation and the build-
up of cellular toxicity. Both lead to enervation or the loss of cellular energy
and function, thus the loss of systemic energy and health


are acting  with  great  speed  within  and  around  you.  Do
you understand,  Beloved  Ones,  whether  you  are awake  or
asleep,  This  Action  of the Great  Law  is constantly  going
on within  and  around  you!  You  for the  time  have  for-
gotten  It, in the  attraction  of the  outer  world.  Yet  the
Inner  Action  is going  on, directed  by your  Higher  Mental
Body.  When  your  Call  is sincere  and  firm,  then  will  your
Higher  Mental  Body  release  more  and  more  of Its Mighty
Energy,  which  dissolves  and  consumes  all unlike  Itself.
Do not give  way  to forgetfulness!  Remember,  you  have
entered  the Race  for Life.  Listen,  Beloved  Ones!  You  have
entered  the Race  for Life;  for without  your  Victory,  you
will remain  in the shadows  of human  discord  and  destruc-
tion. 135 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
You,  in the  outer  world  today,  still  by slight  provoca-
tion and  by the unfortunate  human  law,  which  mankind
does  not understand,  place  each  other  behind  prison  bars!
Your  prison  of your  own  creation  is the greatest  one  of all!
You,  Dear  Ones,  in the limitations  which  have  been  yours
in the past  for so long,  have  felt  if you  could  only  burst
those  bonds  which  seemed  to bind  you,  how  you  would  go
forth  into  Freedom!  That  Feeling  was  Real!  There  are
thousands  of people  who  have  had  that  experience.  They
have  felt,  if they  could  only  burst  the  something  which
seemed  to hold  and  bind  them,  they  could  do much  Greater
Things.  It was  their  own  creation  which  they  felt binding
them.  It was  only  a pressure  of energy.  It was  only  certain
rates  of vibration  in the feeling!  It was  only  whirls  of en-
ergy  in their  emotional  bodies!
Today,  you  have  the Means  of setting  yourself  Free.  Will
you apply  It, Beloved  Ones,  and  let Us help  you  quickly  to
your  Freedom?  It is so near!  We  are  doing  all the Law
permits  and  in many  instances,  setting  aside  much  of the
action  of the Law.  Otherwise  you,  yourselves  would  be com-
pelled  to correct  wrong  conditions.  You  must  give  the As-
sistance,  so more  may  enter  into  Greater  Freedom,  to give
the Service  needed  at this  time.  Surely  you  understand  do
you not? In this,  shall  we call  it—Special  Service  which  is
being  rendered,  it is to provide  those  to operate  the Law
stronger  and  stronger;  in order  to give  the  needed  As-
sistance  for the Freedom  which  must  come  forth,  because
the Call  must  come  from  you! DISCOURSE  VIII  113
We are  ready  and  have  been  waiting  long.  Your  part
now,  is to make  the Call  with  Great  Earnestness  and  Sin-
cerity,  maintaining  Harmony  in the feeling  in the face  of
any condition,  no matter  what,  then  the Release  will  come
quickly.
There  are many  in this  room  tonight!  I shall  make  it
quite  definite!  There  are more  than  three  hundred  people
in this  auditorium  tonight,  who  could  have  their  Freedom
very quickly,  if they  would  be firm  and  calm  in their  Call
to the Presence;  and  command  Complete  Harmony  in their
feeling  to be maintained!  It is not difficult,  Beloved  Ones!
It is only  because  there  is not yet quite  sufficient  determina-
tion within  you;  to take  command  and  hold  control  over
your  human  self.  THAT  REQUIRES  FIRMNESS  AND
UNYIELDING  DETERMINATION.
Beloved  Ones,  when  you  are a little  angered  and  you
determine  to have  a thing,  or do a thing,  you  exert  abun-
dance  of energy,  do you  not? Well,  isn't  this  much  more
important—your  Complete  Freedom?  You  do not  have
to release  the Full  Power  of Energy  which  you  release  in
the tremendous  flash  of anger!  All  Energy  which  is re-
leased  in your  Achievement,  must  be a Steady  Out-pouring
—not  intermittent!  By intermittent  activity,  you  lose  much
of what  you  gain;  but  when  you  with  firm  determination
call your  "I AM  Presence"  into  action;  take  firm  command
of your  human  self  and  compel  it to be obedient;  you  are
balancing  the Power  of the Presence  which  is called  forth
into the physical  octave.  It is what  is required  for your  quick 137 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
Victory.  As you  do it, and  I will  help,  you  will  find  ere long,
that which  seemed  so much  obstruction,  so limiting  in the
outer  world,  will  have  lost its power.
I trust  I shall  find  you,  when  the  Messengers  return  at
Christmas  time,  the  Most  Marvelous  Wondrous  Free  Be-
ings!  Won't  you  accept  This  and  let Its Perfect  Activity
take  place  in your  world?  You  can  do it! It is for you!  Al-
low no thing  in the outer  world  to interrupt  it!
Do not discuss  This  or say to each  other:  "I wonder  after
all, if that  was  just  talk"?  I urge  you,  to be careful!  This
is a Mighty  Law  set into  action!  Please  be obedient  and  do
not discuss  this  night  with  each  other,  if you  want  to be
Free!  Go with  all the Gratitude  and  Sacredness  of this  night
in Adoration  to your  Presence!  Look  not  to the right  nor
left! Listen  not to anyone  who  would  say anything  discour-
aging  to the Sacredness  of This  Night!
I understand  you  do not yet comprehend  the Fulness  of
This;  but  it is not necessary  to comprehend  it, all this  mo-
ment.  If you  could  I would  say  to you:  "Be  Free!  Arise!
and It would  be done;  but  your  Requirements  must  be
taken  into  consideration.  To the  degree  you  will  do this,
will you  find  yourself—a  changed  Being;  and  your  world,
a New  World,  which  yesterday  you  could  not have  believed
could  take  place  by tomorrow!  Now  This  is a Service  being
rendered.  Will  you  accept  It as a Sacred  Blessing  to you ?
I thank  you,  Blessed  Ones  from  the  various  cities,  for
making  the Call  to Me,  to enable  the Service  to be rendered
in the removing  of discarnate  entities  from  your  environ-DISCOURSE  VIII  115
ment,  yourselves  and  your  cities.  I say to you  tonight,  Be-
loved  Ones  and  you  who  may  not be so familiar  with  This
Activity:  "The  Greatest  Blessing  on the face  of the Earth
today,  is in This  Service  of removing  from  the atmosphere
of Earth,  the Individuals  who  have  passed  from  their  bodies,
which  we call—discarnate  entities."
There  are in your  Earth's  atmosphere,