 come from and assures us that our co nsideration
for others brings an automatic grace that fits the needs of the moment.
Success is neither something that we have nor something that we do. It is
the automatic consequence of  what we are. Our lives and what we
accomplish in the world are mer ely the outcome of what we truly are within
ourselves and what we have decided to serve. This truth is what makes our
work easy.
In s teering the ship, if we ch ange direction only one degree on the
compass, after a few days of sa iling we will be hundreds and hundreds of
miles from where we would ha ve been had we not shifted our course that
one little degree; therefore, a slight shift in inner attitude can have an
enormous consequence in our lives. Perhaps no one knows this  better than
the recovering alcoholic or addict.CHAPTER SIX
T H E  W A Y  O U T  O F  A D D I C T I O N
What we  are addicted to is not a  substance but the experience o f our true
Self, a state of inner peace and love for all life.
The classic movie Lost Horizon  shows this journey of awakening to a
higher le vel of consciousness an d the subsequent drive to seek it no matter
what. Ronald Coleman plays t he hero, Robert Conway, who survives a
plane crash in the Himalayas and ends up in a beautiful v alley called
Shangri-La (a state of timelessness and unconditional lovingness that
calibrates at about 600). When Conway returns to his ordinary life in
England (a life that calibrates a round 200), he experiences success, but he
cannot find any satisfaction compared to that deep peace he experienced in
Shangri-La. This creates the desire to return to that stat e of inner
consciousness at any cost. He r isks his life to find the portal b y which he
can return to Sh angri-La (which  the movie depicts as a place, but which we
know is actually within consciousness itself).
This is why the  alcoholic drinks, the addict takes drugs, or any of us
indulge in the o ther ways we ha ve found to “feel better.” W e are trying to
shift our level of consciousness from low to high. When we are paralyzed
by Fear (cal. 10 0), it is a great discovery that we can pop a pil l or down a
drink an d immediately experience our own inner Joy (cal. 540), feel happy
and free, and even become the life of the party. In doing whatever we can to
“get high,” we are simply trying to find the portal to that inner Shangri-La.
THE TRUTH ABOUT ADDICTIONWhen we are truthful about what we want to experience, what is it? It is
not t he s ubstance or anything external to us. Those are only the mechanisms
that temporarily  block the lower emotions and allow us to experience our
own innate Higher Self, which is what we are really after. In  fact, most
people g o through the day lookin g for pleasure, or at least some way to alter
their inner state of consciousnes s. Drugs and alcohol are a quick fix, for in
seconds we can be in a state of mellow and bliss.
In the beginning, it works. If that were not true, no one would do it. But
the relief is only for a moment or so. W e operate on memory, so it takes a
while to  realize it is not working. But, over time, because it is an  artificially
induced experience of happiness, it has created an equal and opposite
indebtedness. The universe kno ws when it has been cheated. The pain or
discomfort or restlessness was m erely postponed, not resolved. The anxiety
or g rief or resen tment just got p ut away for a moment, to be reckoned with
later. Us ing artificial means to ascend the Map of Consciousne ss does not
work. W e transcend the lower levels by having the courage to face them and
work thr ough th em, and then o ur ener gy field becomes a carri er wave for
others longing to break free.
Here is the crucial point: never be ashamed of seeking that higher state of
consciousness, and never be ashamed of the various methods us ed in trying
to experience it.  The  goal that we are seeking through drugs and alcohol is
nothing to be as hamed of. The entire spiritual world is seeking that higher
state of conscio usness. It is the greatest aspiration we are capable of—to
experience the Higher Self and highest levels of consciousness—and
according to certain religions, it  takes numerous lifetimes even to reach that
desire, which is a spiritual awakening to go beyond the material world.
Addiction is a path of spiritual awakening. For other people it  happens
through another kind of powerle ssness—losing a child or other loved one, a
terminal diagno sis, being plunged into the depths of despair. The Higher
Self is clever and will throw us over the precise clif f needed to  awaken us.
Out of sheer hopelessness, we come to surrender, and out of surrender
comes humility and we go right back to the high state we thought we had
lost forever, only now without  th e drug, so it is more stable and truly
liberating. Because the ego has weakened, when we sit down to meditate or
pray, and (whether an atheist or not, makes no dif ference) we ask to reach
something higher, it happens. When we hit bottom, the ego cracks, and this
allows a ccess to that same space  that we used to reach through alcohol anddrugs, a lthough now it is infinitely better because there is no negative
ef fect. W e learn that what we sought with drugs or alcohol was always
within. W ithout striving for it, it is revealed. By clearing  away the
negativities, suddenly the beauty of everything shines forth.
ENERGY FIELDS AND ADDICTION
Now we can und erstand what happens in the drug or alcohol ex perience.
This powerfully attractive, joyfu l ener gy field, the ener gy field of life itself,
is like the sun that is always shining. The lower ener gy fields are like the
clouds th at block the experience of that inner sun. A drug or alcohol blocks
of f t he e xperience of the lower ener gy fields and allows the exp erience of a
higher ener gy field. If we could block of f all the ener gy fields below level
560, we would e xperience what is left, which is the ener gy field  of Ecstasy.
There is even a  designer drug c alled Ecstasy created specifica lly to block
of f t he e xperience of the ener gy fields below 560. W ith the drug  experience,
something has pharmacologically blocked of f the lower ener g y fields and
allowed the unobstructed experi ence of a higher one. Thus, at the end of the
day, the person who is full of fear, grief, regret, and anxiety stop s in for two
martinis, and suddenly tempora rily jumps over the lower ener gy fields and
moves up to the ener gy level of about 500, which can be called “mellow.”
Mellow is that ener gy field where we feel love for everybody and are
willing to for give them. W e are generous and easygoing, and all the kids
love us when we are in that state; we take toys home for the children and
flowers for our spouse. This high-ener gy state is sought in the drug
experience because it blocks of f the lower ener gy levels. As said before,
these are  addicti ng experiences, because once having experienced the state,
the mind wants to return to it.
When we ask the person who has had an alcohol or addiction p roblem to
look at what they are seeking, to look at the experience that has become
habitual and to which they wan t to return over and over again no matter
what the price, we find that they are seeking an inner state of consciousness.
In re ality, they d o not even care about the drug itself. The drug  is only the
mechanics, the only way they know to access that state at the time. It is a
certain w ay of experiencing their own beingness, and it is a pleasurable,
highly ener gized state. This is what they seek, and if a drug does not blockof f t he lower en er gy fields, thereby preventing them from experiencing that
inner state of blissfulness, it is no longer used or valued. W e can  see that the
addiction is not to drugs or a lcohol, per se, but to the higher level of
consciousness itself.
Certain psychol ogical explanat ions of addiction try to pres ent it as
though t he perso n is addicted to  alcohol or drugs because they are running
away from the lower experience of fear or depression. Ther e are some
excellent medic ines that eliminate the anxiety or depression but do not
result in addiction, as there is no “high.” Therefore, the al leviation of
depression, anxiety, fear, or anger is well handled pharmacologically by
traditional medicines that are not considered addictive substances because
they do not block of f the ener gy  fields at a suf ficient level to a llow people
to experience the higher state.
W e


 his researches, followed his
example. The whole family, with the exception of his elder daughter,
who in 1872 had been married to M. Gasser, moved to Lille. But darkerpages were about to be turned in the life story of Professor Béchamp.
He no longer possessed the gift of independence, which he had
hoped to increase with his transfer to the north of France. He wasperpetually confounded by the priestly directors of the new house of
learning, and between worry and work, his hands were soon so full
that his influence began to be undermined at the Academy of Sciencein Paris, where, thanks to Pasteur, the very name microzyma had been
rendered almost anathema.
How unfair destiny must have seemed to Professor Béchamp. Just
when he was finishing his explanation of the processes of life, disease
and disruption, unexpected opponents arose; priests, uninstructed in
science, who could only find irreligion and materialism in views that(had they possessed any discernment) they would have realised could
have combated far better than any of the dogmas of Rome the atheism
which at that time was inclined to link itself with science.
But of this the Bishops and Rectors of Lille gleaned no idea in their
complacent ignorance, and in diplomacy, sadly, Béchamp was far lessaccomplished than Pasteur. Subterfuge was foreign to him. He could
not pretend that ignoramuses knew more than he did of the workings
of life, and he made no attempt to defer to bigoted clerics.
Despite the problems, the Professor continued to put into shape
the conclusions derived from the experiments he had undertaken at
Montpellier and still pursued at Lille, regardless of all theinterruptions. The deeper he delved into the microzymian doctrine,
the better it seemed to him were the answers it gave to the puzzles
of contemporary science.
One of Béchamp’s earlier achievements had been a close analysis
of the albuminoids and a consequent discovery of their variations.
Instead of finding them alike in the innumerable species of living beings,the Professor and his collaborators found them everywhere different;
so much so that they could find no limit to the number of varities.
They proved this with precise chemical tests in the application of
which Béchamp seems to have so utterly outstripped his
contemporaries. They found that not only did the albuminoids vary in
different species, but also in the different organs of the same body.
They thus found the differentiation between species and between
the organs of the body to be due both to the individuality of the inherent
microzymas, and the dissimilarities of the albuminoids. For instance,in the hen’s egg, they showed the complexity of the albumens that
constitute the white and explained a method of separating these, while
from the yolk they isolated the specific microzymas.
Dr. Joseph Béchamp, the Professor’s son, took a prominent part in
carrying out these particular researches. He showed by a close analysis
of eggs of every description that none of the albumens contained ineither the white or the yolk is identically the same as that found in the
egg of any other species. A fact which his work established is that even
chemically, a creature is what it is in the very egg from which it issues,both by reason of the cytological elements and also the albumens. It
had been thought that the albumen of secretions was the same as the
albumen of the blood: not only did Joseph Béchamp discover this notto be the case, but also that among those he isolated none possessed
the same elementary composition as that of the serum. He showed
that there exists a certain relation of cause and effect between thetissues through which the secretion passes and the nature of the
albumens of the effusions. He thus disposed of Mohl’s and Huxley’s
earlier views on the subject and of Claude Bernard’s belief in a uniqueprotoplasm. With his father, he put forward manifold instances of the
Microzymas in General
239240   Béchamp or Pasteur?elemental differences between species.
For example, they found that though the organisms of the mouth,
that is, the microzymas, bacteria, epithelial cells, etc, resemble oneanother in form in man, dog, bull, or pig, their chemical functions are
very different. Joseph Béchamp showed that the microzymas, even of
the same gland, in the same animal vary according to age and condition.His father demonstrated the similarity he had found in the structure of
the pancreas to that of the parotis and the dissimilarity in their products;
while the secretions of the parotis he found to be different in man,horse and dog.
Béchamp senior explained that it is owing to the microzymas of
allied species of animals being often functionally different in certain oftheir physiological centres that each animal has diseases peculiar to it
and that certain diseases arc not transmissible from one species to
another and often not from one individual to another even of the samespecies. Infancy, adult age, old age, sex, have their share in influencing
susceptibility to disease conditions.
These researches of the School of Montpellier certainly seem to
throw light upon the nature of infection and on the immunity constantly
met with, in spite of alleged exposure, from all kinds of infectious
maladies. The world might have been spared the propagation andinoculation of disease matters (i.e. Pasteur’s vaccinations), had the
profound theories of Béchamp been followed, instead of the cruder
yet fashionable germ theory of disease, which appears to consist ofdistorted half-truths of Béchamp’s teaching.
Another special study of the younger Béchamp was to trace
microzymas in the foetus and in the organs of the body after birth; bythorough experimentation, he proved their varying multiplicity at
different stages. He also showed the variation of their action in different
organs – the placenta, liver, etc – and their variations of action atdifferent ages, comparing, for instance, those of the foetus with those
of the adult, and demonstrating that no extraneous organisms could
effect these changes.
He also assisted his father in his researches on corpses, where the
two Béchamps maintained that the inherent microzymas, apart from
the assistance of foreign ‘germs’, bring about decomposition. Theytaught that when the corporate life of a being is at an end, the
infinitesimal organisms that originally built up its cells continue to
flourish, and by their life processes destroy the habitat of which theywere the creators.In 1880 Joseph Béchamp, as indefatigable a worker as his father,
demonstrated the presence of alcohol in tissues shortly after death
and its disappearance in advanced putrefaction, when he consideredit to be destroyed by a continuance of fermentation due to the very
microzymas that had produced the alcohol in the first instance. Thus
he explained the continued vitality of the organisms that had till latelyvitalised the now inert corpse or carcass, and showed that ‘nothing is
the prey of death; everything is the prey of life,’ to quote his father.
What a different future might have awaited the microzymian
doctrine had the lives of Professor Estor and Joseph Béchamp been
spared, instead of both being cut off in their prime. His patriotic work
foiled by bigotry, his scientific discoveries stifled by jealousy, hiscollaborators struck down by death – which also spared neither his
wife nor the young daughter of whom the priests had robbed him – he
finally made his solitary way to Paris to find his chief detractorenthroned as the idol of the public, his own genius all but unrecognised.
It was a dreary outlook and might easily have daunted even a brave
spirit, but Béchamp’s willpower rose indomitably to meet the future,and, aided and quickened by his splendid health and vitality, spurred
him on to fresh investigations.
With increasing years his incessant work never abated, and he
persevered in researching the mysteries of life. Up to 1896, he continued
to publish articles on milk, its chemical composition, its spontaneous
changes and those occasioned by cooking. He not only maintained hisearly idea of its inherent autonomous microzymas, but he showed the
distinctive character of various milks; human, bovine, etc. He denied
the popular belief in milk being an emulsion, but was of the opinion,with which Dumas concurred, that the milk globules are vesicles of a
cellular type, that is, furnished with envelopes which prevent their
ready solution in ether in the milk stage, and in cream are causative ofthe clotting.
The crowning achievement of Béchamp’s laborious and persecuted
career was the publication, in his 85th year, of a work entitled The
Blood, in which he applied his microzymian views to issues of the blood,
especially that of its coagulation. We cannot do better than quote Dr.
Herbert Snow’s summary in the New Age  of the 1st May, 1915:
“It represents the blood to be in reality a flowing tissue, not a
liquid. The corpuscles, red and colourless, do not float in aliquid, as is commonly thought, and as our senses indicate,but are mingled with an enormous mass of invisible


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272Frequency of use of this method - as needed.
Coursework reception enterosorbent
Course hours enterosorbent in this case is as follows. during
7 - 10 days 3 times a day, take 1 tbsp. spoon enterosorbent.
The procedure of intestinal sorption purification
Preparation for the purification
Sorbent in a daily dose - 3 tablespoons a day
between meals - starting to take a day before
day of the procedure. The next day, take another
3 tablespoons in an arbitrary mode on an empty stomach
but make sure before making the liquid. Fundamentally
an important prerequisite for the successful conduct of intestinal sorption
purification is a preliminary starvation period 8-10 hours
(Can be longer - up to 20 hours but not less than 8 hours). Violation
This condition abruptly changes during physiological processes
in the gastrointestinal tract.
When you eat, the body becomes more active
mechanisms of intestinal absorption. They will operate until
while the body is not fully learn the digested food. and if the
the mechanisms of absorption in the stomach and intestines fall
any substance, the body will immediately begin to digest.
Thus, to keep the saline solution in the gut you do not succeed.
In addition, the presence of gut contents is not fully digested
nutrients will inhibit the activity of the gastrointestinal
gastrointestinal tract: the cleaning solution will not be consistent
move through the intestines, stopping in some of its segments
(Sites). If the liquid and the sorbent does not move through the intestines
while running the mechanisms of intestinal absorption, probably
only that the body will absorb the solution.
Need to know that taking even small amounts of sweet
Tea is a contraindication to the top of intestinal sorption
purification, because the sugar in their cleavage yields glucose
and glucose dramatically increases the intensity of the absorption of sodium. That
As for the reception of clean water, there is no any restriction,
because it is rapidly absorbed, but it is better for 30
minutes before the procedure, water is not consumed.
In our opinion, the best and convenient period
for cleaning is a time after a night's rest,
because the delay in feeding in this case has a natural
and does not require psychological and physiological effort.
You can carry out the procedure at another time convenient for you
days, but subject always to the above conditions.
Additionally, there are: free access to bathrooms and 3-4 hours
free time.
Preparation of solutions
Liquid for washing the gastrointestinal tract (working
solution) is prepared as follows. Take container, a capacity
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273a liquid volume of 3 liters or more. In the evening, pour it into 2 liters
boiled water and not closing, set at room temperature
in a dry clean place. This water has to stand all night.
Immediately before the procedure to prepare the salt solution.
For this measuring utensils to measure exactly 1 liter of clean water
and add 1 tablespoon (topless) salt.
The solution should be boiled in a separate bowl (the boiling -
about 30 seconds). After this, without giving a solution to cool, add
This liter of those two, which were prepared in the evening. So
The total amount of working solution already amount to 3 liters. Now
Mix the solution, and it is ready for use.
Please note that all salt is dissolved.
The solution should be warm but not hot: subject
sequence of these actions, he will just need to
temperature.
If the sorbent is pre-approved, you can start
the procedure for cleaning. Do not let the solution cool down, and immediately
proceed with its use.
Fluid intake
As we already mentioned, all the cleaning solution should be drunk
for 40-60 minutes. This condition is also fundamentally
important and should be implemented strictly.
First, to effectively stimulate peristalsis
gastrointestinal tract, it is necessary to establish sufficient
pressure on its walls. Longer method allows fluid
up in various departments of oral bowel, weakening the
the most pressure on its walls.
Secondly, you need to get ahead of the move process
fluid in the gastrointestinal tract dilution
and the suction fluid. All these conditions and corresponds to 40 -
minute time period for receiving a working solution.
Hence, it becomes clear and the need to absorb
a certain amount of cleaning liquid - 2,5-3 liters.
If you stop and stop for a long time reception work
solution, the amount of fluid you drink will not be enough
effectively stimulate bowel movements. Of course,
the taste of salt water is not too pleasant and unusual for us. Here
important in the first place some positive attitude
and awareness of the need for the procedure. In addition,
must firmly believe that the purification procedure will help your
rid the body of harmful toxins and prevent
and development of many diseases.
Those who first perform the procedure of intestinal sorption
purification, we can give you some practical advice:
Drink small sips;
do not hold the solution in the mouth;
try not to swallow air;
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274do not force forced fluid intake;
with the possible discomfort of fullness in the abdomen or
occurrence of lung nausea - stop, take rest 2 - 3
minutes.
Experience shows that as the recurrence of gastrointestinal procedures
sorption purification of all for-trudneniya already on the second or third time
almost completely disappear. Moreover, experienced in this
business person has the desire and opportunity to drink the entire volume
much faster than 40 minutes. However, we must warn:
commitment as soon as possible to the cleaning solution may
lead to painful overdistension of the stomach wall. Worth
whether the cause yourself unnecessary pain and suffer unnecessary pain for the sake of
savings of 10-15 minutes?
Purgation
Thus, the solution was completely drunk, and for the required period
time. Be patient and wait - all mechanisms are started.
Immediately after the intake of fluid and during the later-
On standby you can pay attention to the bloating,
feel it moving fluid. This is quite normal
in this situation, phenomenon.
Usually the first experience of such procedures from the moment
Stops working solution until the first of desires
the act of defecation is 60-80 minutes. If by this time urging
No, do not worry. In that case, do the following
- Walk around, gently poprisedayte; alternately popodnimayte
standing bent knees to the stomach, but do it quietly, without fuss
and voltage pat his stomach clockwise and then wait a couple of
minutes.
When you gain some experience in the intestinal
sorption cleansing, for-metite that the first impulses
to defecate will occur within 10-15 minutes after
receiving a working solution. On the toilet to lie comfortably
and rather dense, so the cleaning liquid spray emanating
not scattered to the sides.
After the first act of defecation be on your guard and do not leave
away from the toilet - the repeated urge may arise in any
moment. Sometimes when you urge to act is the act of defecation
urination, after the implementation of which is the desire to defecate
disappears. Do not rush to leave the toilet, wait a minute
half.
It should be noted that in the context of the proposed method of sorption
intestinal cleansing frequency of urination can be enhanced - it is
normal, which is associated with partial penetration
sodium and water in the bloodstream.
Observations show that excessive discharge of stool
repeated 4-6 times, although it may recur and more
times. When the first act of defecation goes mushy mass at
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275follow - the dirty liquid with particles of a sorbent, with each
Thus becoming more and more bright and transparent.
As the depletion of gut feeling of heaviness and distention
in the stomach is reduced, swelling it disappears. Once you
feel complete relief, repeat the physical
exercises and then go to the toilet (even if not desires). As
Typically, leaves still some residual number of detainees
fluid in the colon.
About this way I wrote because I do not always sell magnesium.
We, in our practice we purgation with
magnesia.
Completion of procedure
On this direct procedure itself intestinal sorption
purification, seemingly completed, solved. However, we note the following.
If after the completion of a simple cleansing drink
unsalted water (1-1,5 liter, if desired, in divided doses)
a discharge of fluid from the intestine is resumed. When
This emerges from intestinal fluid becomes almost
clear water, indicating that fully carried out
purification. But it should be emphasized that taking the additional
volume of unsalted water can only after the main depart
weight of cleaning solution - defecation realized at least 4-5
times.
Additional fluids may be combined with the use of
bran (3-4 tablespoons). Bran contains in its structure a large
Many so-called indigestible fiber, which
having low sorption capacity, soft finish processes
cleaning the walls of the gastrointestinal tract, stimulate
appearance of the chair (usually after intestinal sorption purification
a delay stool for 1-2 days). In addition, as a result of
splitting of the bacterial flora mikrotsellyulozy contained
in the bran, there are fatty acids needed for power
and restoration of the surface layer of the colon.
After the procedure is recommended to take a refreshing
shower or bath.
After finishing treatment of the gastrointestinal tract (conventionally it
the last time a discharge of wash


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ofAmericanMedicine(Baltimore:JohnsHopkinsPress,1963),chap.7.
13.Rayack,ProfessionalPower,chap.5;andBurrow,AMA,pp.194-251,
293-301,340-71.
14.Rayack,ProfessionalPower,chap.3.
15.GibsonandFisher,"NationalHealthExpenditures";andHospitalStatistics,
1977ed.(Chicago:AmericanHospitalAssociation,1977).
16.See,forexample,BarryEnsminger,"The$8-BillionHospitalBedOverrun:A
Consumer'sGuidetoStoppingWastefulConstruction"(Washington,D.C.:
NotestoPages203-210/265
PublicCitizen'sHealthResearchGroup,1975);andInstituteofMedicine,
ControllingtheSupplyofHospitalBeds(Washington,D.C.:NationalAcademy
ofSciences,1976).
17.CambridgeResearchInstitute,Trends,p.180.
18.GibsonandFisher,"NationalHealthExpenditures."
19.RobertAlford,HealthCarePolitics:IdeologicalandInterestGroupBarriersto
Reform(Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,1975),especiallypp.190-217.
20.HospitalStatistics,pp.4-5.
21.See,forexample,DouglassJ.Seaver,"HospitalRevisesRole,ReachesOutto
CultivateandCaptureMarkets,"Hospitals,51(June1,1977),59-63;DavidD.
Karr,"IncreasingaHospital'sMarketShare,"insameissue,64-66;andWarren
C.FalbergandShirleyBonnem,"GoodMarketingHelpsaHospitalGrow,"in
sameissue,70-73.
22.BureauoftheCensus,StatisticalAbstractoftheUnitedStates,1976(Washing-
ton,D.C.:GovernmentPrintingOffice,1976),p.427.
23.Navarro,MedicineUnderCapitalism,pp.148-49.
24.MariannaO.Lewis,ed.TheFoundationDirectory,6thed.(NewYork:
FoundationCenter,1977),pp.xiii,xxi.
25.See,forexample,G.WilHamDomhoff,WhoRulesAmerica?(Englewood
Cliffs,N.J.:Prentice-Hall, 1967);andDomhoff,TheHigherCircles.
26.VicenteNavarro,"NationalHealthInsuranceandtheStrategyforChange,"
HealthandSociety,MilbankMemorialFundQuarterly,51(Spring1973),
236-37.
27.See,forexample,DavidMechanic,PublicExpectationsandHealthCare(New
York:Wiley-Interscience, 1972),p.27.
28.EliotMarshall,"What'sBadforGeneralMotors,"NewRepublic,March12,
1977,pp.22-23.
29.GibsonandFisher,"NationalHealthExpenditures."
30.FromthevoluminousliteratureonHMOs,someusefulfavorablearticlesare:
CambridgeResearchInstitute,Trends,pp.221-60;ErnestW.Sawardand
MerwynR.Greenlick,"HealthPolicyandtheHMO,"MilbankMemorialFund
Quarterly,50(April1972,pt.2),147-76;IraG.GreenbergandMichaelL.
Rodburg,"TheRoleofPrepaidGroupPracticeinRelievingtheMedicalCare
Crisis,"HarvardLawReview,84(1971),887-1001.Thebusinesspointofview,
alsoveryfavorable, isrepresentedbyCommitteeforEconomicDevelopment,
BuildingaNationalHealthCareSystem(NewYork:CommitteeforEconomic
Development


 or organic versus synthetic or inorganic minerals. In food
production 'organic' means that food has been produced, stored and processed without the use of synthetic chemicals. However, in
chemistry 'organic' means that a chemical is based on carbon and has covalent bonds, while 'inorganic' means that a chemical is not
based on carbon and has ionic bonds.
Some inorganic chemicals, such as sodium chloride, magnesium chloride and calcium chloride are ingredients of natural and organic
food and are also essential components of our body. Calcium in our blood plasma, for instance, is about half in ionized form and the
other half bound to proteins. In this way, taking some minerals in inorganic form can rectify ionic deﬁciencies in these minerals.
Furthermore, a healthy intestinal ﬂora can transform inorganic into organic minerals, while inorganic minerals taken with gelatin or
fresh green vegetable juice can easily be incorporated into organic structures. This is of special importance with some of the heavy
metals that we need as trace minerals. Even so, it is safer to use these directly in organic form best from fresh, organic vegetable and
grass juice, from mineral-rich food or plant concentrates or alternatively safely bound to amino acids or as stable complexes such as
copper and zinc salicylate.
However, there is also a downside to routinely adding inorganic minerals, such as table salt, to our food. We may use too high
concentrations and irritate the intestinal wall and we may also cause mineral imbalances. Therefore, we need to use not only the right
concentrations but also the right combinations of ingredients in our supplements. It is much easier to get this right by using natural
foods. Of course, the main reason that we use supplements in the ﬁrst place is because commercial food has a grossly inadequate
mineral content. Even in much of the organic food the mineral content is not as high as it might be.
Another way of making minerals safer and more effective is by using them in colloidal form. In this way even tiny clusters of metal
atoms can be safely and beneﬁcially ingested. Colloidal mineral products are commercially available from ancient decomposed plant
material.
MINERALS OF SPECIAL  IMPORT ANCE
Calcium (Ca)
RDA:  800 mg, recommended intake 0.6-1.2 g daily. Deﬁciency frequently due to overacidity, lack of vitamin D, magnesium or boron,
underactive thyroid and overactive parathyroids, or oversupply of phosphorus. The normal calcium-phosphorus ratio in blood is 10:4.
If the calcium level is too high, calciﬁcations result - stone formation, tartar, arthritic deposits, cataracts and muscle tension.
DEFICIENCY  SYMPT OMS:  Fragile, deformed bones; muscle cramps, twitching and weakness; irritability, headaches, depression.
Menstrual problems: excessive and painful menstruation, poor circulation and tender breasts. Undue sensitivity to pain; insomnia,
allergies, inﬂammations; low blood pressure, varicose veins, piles, distended veins and abdomen, swellings, slow wound healing,
pyorrhea, gingivitis; eye problems (near-sightedness).
SOURCES:  Bone broth, eggshells, dolomite; sardines, leaf vegetables, goats' milk products, sesame seeds, kelp.
Chromium (Cr)
Active as trivalent chromium; its biological value differs greatly in various foods. Aim for 100 mcg of high bio-value, supplements as
glucose-tolerance factor or chelated chromium.
DEFICIENCY  SYMPT OMS:  Poor blood-sugar regulation (diabetes, hypoglycemia); disturbed fat/protein metabolism, alcohol
intolerance, impaired growth, high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, weight loss, fatigue, eye problems (opaque cornea, near-
sightedness, glaucoma).
SOURCES : Brewers' yeast, molasses, mushrooms, seafood, grains.
Copper (Cu)
RDA:  1.5 to 3 mg, recommended intake 3 to 5 mg daily. Dietary deﬁciency  is rare. Inorganic copper may be oversupplied from
copper water pipes; however internal deﬁciency may result from insufﬁcient binding capacity within cells.
DEFICIENCY  SYMPT OMS: Anemia, especially in infants; bone disorders; defective spinal cord - multiple sclerosis; hair graying, ﬁne
and straight, loss of curliness; infertility, weak connective tissue: heart problems - enlarged heart, weak aorta (holes, ruptures),10/30/24, 2:38 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Minerals
https://health-science-spirit.com/Healing_Foods/Minerals.html 2/4aneurism, varicose veins, hernias; cancer, leukemia, arthritis, inﬂammations, parasites, underactive thyroid.
TOXICITY : Liver cirrhosis, jaundice, symptoms of zinc deﬁciency.
SOURCES:  Liver, food yeast, nuts and oily seeds.
Iodine (I)
RDA:  and recommended intake 150 mcg daily. Needed for thyroid hormones which regulate the metabolism.
DEFICIENCY  SYMPT OMS:  Goiter, cretinism, fatigue, overweight, mental retardation, debility, cancer.
SOURCES:  Kelp, seafood, iodized salt.
Iron (Fe)
RDA:  10/15 mg, recommended intake as for RDA, less for the elderly. Deﬁciency causes anemia, fatigue. Oversupply in inorganic
form (tablets, bread additive) is a contributing factor in degenerative diseases, especially arthritis
SOURCES:  Kelp, liver, yeast, molasses, sesame seeds, egg.
Magnesium (Mg)
RDA:  350/280 mg, recommended intake 500 -1000 mg daily; activates many enzymes.
DEFICIENCY  SYMPT OMS:  Apathy, confusion, depression, disorientation, hallucinations, irritability, paranoia, poor memory. Angina,
arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, sweating and tachycardia (fast pulse), strokes, thrombosis or infarcts. Convulsions, cramps,
eclampsia, epilepsy, muscle twitching, numbness, nystagmus (rapid eye movements), tingling, tremors. Physical and mental rigidity,
stiffness, stone formation in kidney and gall bladder (but not renal failure), tartar. Alcoholism, cancer, arthritis, diabetes, acute
infections, intestinal malabsorption, liver cirrhosis, pancreatitis (inﬂammation of the pancreas), prostate problems, strong body odor,
overactive thyroid, colic, premenstrual tension
SOURCES:  Kelp, dolomite, seafood, sea minerals, grass juice, green leaves, nuts, oily seeds, molasses, sprouted grains
Manganese (Mn
Recommended intake 5 to 10 mg daily; therapeutic dose 20-100 mg.
DEFICIENCY  SYMPT OMS:  Muscle weakness, myasthenia gravis, drooping eyelids, poor memory, dark-red skin spots, diabetes,
hypoglycemia, atherosclerosis, schizophrenia, epileptic convulsions, bone deformities, mucus problems, impotence and/or sterility,
ataxia (muscle incoordination), poor equilibrium, abnormal inner ear, retraction of head.
SOURCES:  Grass juice, spinach, parsley, spices (cloves, cardamom, ginger), nuts, peanuts, sprouted and fermented seeds.
Molybdenum (Mo)
Molybdenum is an integral part of several enzymes involved in cell oxidation and carbohydrate metabolism. Daily requirements are
not known. It is an antagonist to copper.
DEFICIENCY  SYMPT OMS:  Cancer of the esophagus, dental decay, impotence in elderly males, asthma, sensitivity to sulﬁtes, MSM
and other sulfur compounds.
SOURCES:  Buckwheat, beans, fermented soy products, liver, barley.
Potassium (K)
RDA:  2000 mg, recommended intake 3 g daily. Deﬁciency may originate from oversupply of sodium (salt), use of diuretics or adrenal
weakness.
DEFICIENCY  SYMPT OMS:  Anxiety, nervousness, fatigue; diabetes, hypoglycemia, heart strain, high blood pressure, liver problems,
lower back pain, muscle weakness, multiple sclerosis, overweight, prevention of stroke.
SOURCES: Kelp, fruits and vegetables.
Selenium (Se)
RDA: 70/55 mg, recommended intake 100-200 mcg daily; therapeutic dose up to 500 mcg in organic form. Acts as an antioxidant
together with vitamin E. Lost in cooking, very toxic in overdose (2000 mcg or more).
DEFICIENCY  SYMPT OMS:  Fatigue, cancer, liver damage, pancreatic ﬁbrosis, muscular dystrophy, weak immune system,
reproductive disorders, cataracts, hemorrhaging, hemolytic anemia, underactive thyroid. Deﬁciency causes viruses to become very
virulent.
SOURCES: Kidney, liver, seafood, brewers' yeast, kelp.
Zinc (Zn)10/30/24, 2:38 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Minerals
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 is natural to trust in the eternal
flow, be true to your inner inclinations, and stick to your word. It is natural
to treat everyon e as an equal.  All of these lessons can be derived by
observing how water, which sustains all life, behaves. It simply moves, and
the bene fits it provides occur from it being what it is, in harm ony with the
present moment and knowing the truth of precisely how to behave.
What follows is what Lao-tzu might say to you, based upon his writing of
the 8th verse of the T ao Te Ching:When you’r e free to flow as water, you’r e free to communicate
naturally—information is exchanged, and knowledge advances in a
way that benefits everyone.
Be careful not to assign yourself a place of importance above anyone else.
Be recep tive to everyone, partic ularly those who may not routine ly receive
respect, such as the uneducated, homeless, or troubled members of our
society. Go to the “low places loathed by all men,” and have an open mind
when you’re there. Look for the Tao in everyone you encounter;  and make a
special effort to have acceptance, gentleness, and kindness course through
you to others.
By not being irritating, you’ll be received with respect. By making every
effort to avoid controlling the lives of others, you’ll be in peaceful harmony
with the natural order of the T ao. This is the way you nourish others without
trying. Be like water—which creates opportunities for swimming, fishing,
surfing, drinkin g, wading, sprinkling, floating, and an endless list of
benefits—by not trying to do anything other than simply flow.
Let your thoughts float fr eely.
Forget about fighting life or trying to be something else; rather, allow
yourself to be like the material  compound that comprises every aspect of
your physical being. In The Hidden Messages in Water, Masaru Emoto
explains that we are water, and water wants to be free. The author has
thoroughly explo red the ways in which this compound reacts, noting that by
respecting and loving it, we can 8th Verse literally change its crystallization
process. If kept in a container with the words love, thank you, or you’r e
beautiful imprinted on it, water becomes beautiful radiant crystals. Y et if the
words on the container are you fool, Satan,  or I will kill you, the crystals
break apart, are distorted, and seem confused.
The implications of Emoto’ s work are stupendous. Since consciousness is
located within us and we’re essentially water, then if we’re out of balance in
our intentions, it’s within the realm of possibility that our intentions can
impact the entire planet (and beyond) in a destru ctive way. As our creator,
the eternal Tao, might put it, “Water of life am I, poured forth for thirsty
men.”
Do the T ao NowDrink water silently today, while reminding yourself with each sip to
nourish others in the same life-flourishing way that streams give to the
animals and rain delivers to the plants. Note how many places water is there
for you—serving you by flowing naturally. Say a prayer of gratitu de for this
life-sustaining, always-flowing substance.
OceanofPDF.com9th Verse
To keep on filling
is not as good as stopping.
Overfilled, the cupped hands drip,
better to stop pouring.

Sharpen a blade too much
and its edge will soon be lost.
Fill your house with jade and gold
and it brings insecurity.
Puff yourself with honor and pride
and no one can save you fr om a fall.

Retir e when the work is done;
this is the way of heaven.
OceanofPDF.comLiving Humility
As the eternal Tao is in a contin uous state of creating, it knows precisely
when enough is enough. Deep within ourselves, we sense that this
organizing principle of uncond itional supply knows when to stop, so we
don’t need to question the quantities that the Tao brings forth. The creative
Source is beautifully balanced in the principle of humility elucid ated in this
9th verse of the T ao Te Ching.
The Tao has the capability to generate everything in amounts that would
stupefy an observer, yet its gentle humility seems to know when there are
enough trees, flowers, bees, hippos, and every other living thing. Excess is
eschewed by the Tao. It doesn’ t need to show off its unlimited capacity for
creating—it knows exactly when to stop. This verse invites us to be in
spiritual rapport with this characteristic of the T ao.
Cramming life with possessions, pleasures, pride, and activities when
we’ve obviously  reached a point where more is less indicat es being in
harmony with ego, not the Tao! Living humility knows when to just stop,
let go, and enjoy the fruits of our labor. This verse clearly analogizes that
the pursuit of more status, more money, more power, more approval, more
stuff, is as foolish as honing a carving knife after it has reached its zenith of
sharpness. Obviously, to conti nue would just create dullness, and it is
obvious that a keen edge represents perfection.
Lao-tzu advises us to be careful about amassing great wealth and storing it
away. This practice contributes to a life spent keeping our fortune safe and
insured, while at the same time always feeling the need to pursu e more. He
counsels us to be satisfied at a level that fosters living with humility. If
wealth and fame are desired, we must know when to retire from the
treadmill and be like the Tao. This is the way of heaven, as opposed to the
world that we live in, which is addicted to more.
We can heighten our awareness  that advertising is primarily designed to
sell products and services by convincing us that we need something in order
to be happy. Analysts might tell us that the economy is failing if it isn’t
continuously growing, but we can realize that excessive growth, like cancer,
will ultimately destroy itself. We can witness the results of overproductionin the gridlock on most highways: It now takes longer to go from one side
of Lond on to the other than it did before the invention of the automobile!
We also see this principle at work whenever we shop. I call it “choice
overload”—pain pills for backaches, menstrual cram ps, headaches, joint
pains, in the morning or at night, in a capsule or liquid or powder? And this
is true whether we’re purchasing toilet paper, orange juice, or anything else.
I believe that Lao-tzu sends the following modern advice from his ancient
perspective:
Come to grips with the radical
concept of “enough is enough”!
Make this comm itment even though you live in a world addicted to the
idea that one can never have enough of anything. To paraphrase Lao-tzu, do
your work and then step back. Practice humility rather than ostentation and
uncontrolled consumption. The obesity crisis in the Western world,
particularly in America, is a direct result of not understanding (and living)
the simple wisdom of the 9th verse of the Tao Te Ching. Eat, but stop when
you’re full—to continue stuffing food into a satiated body is to be trapped
in believ ing that more of someth ing is the cause of your happiness. And this
is true of overly filling yourself with any artifici al symbol of success. Think
instead of the infinite wisdom of the Tao, which says, “To keep on filling is
not as good as stopping.” Enough is not only enough, it is in alignment with
the perfection of the eternal T ao.
Seek the joy in your activities rather
than focusing on ego’ s agenda.
Ego wants you to gather more and more rewards for your actions. If
you’re in a state of loving appreciation in each of your present moments,
you’re letting go of the absurd idea that you’re here to accumulate rewards
and merit badge s for your efforts. Seek the pleasur e in what you’r e doing,
rather than in how it might ultimately benefit you. Begin to trust in that
infinite wisdom that birthed you into this material world. After all, it knew
the exact timing of your arriva l here. It didn’ t say, “If nine months  will
create such a beautiful baby, I’ll extend the gestation period to five years.
Now we’ll have an even more perfect creation!” Nope, the Tao says thatnine months is perfect—that’ s what you get, and you don’t need any more
time.
The next time you’re mired in a desire for more, stop and think of the Tao.
This creation principle fully grasps the idea that when the work is done,
then for God’ s sake, it’s time to stop! As Lao-tzu advises, “This is the way
of heaven.” Why ever choose to be in conflict with that?
Do the T ao Now
At your next meal, practice portion control by asking yourself after
several bites if you’re still famished. If not, just stop and wait. If no hunger
appears, call it complete. At this one meal, you’ll have practiced the last
sentence of the 9th verse of the Tao Te Ching: “Retire when the [eating] is
done; this is the way of heaven.”


now,	that’s	a	rare	thing	indeed.”
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HAT
	I	L
EARNED
If	you	ask	yourself	“What	do	I	need?”	the	answer	may	seem	simple.	Maybe
you	need	supper	because	you’re	hungry,	or	a	little	peace	and	quiet	so	that	you
can	do	your	schoolwork.	But	the	soul	thinks	about	needs	that	you	can’t	see.
Some	lie	far	ahead	in	the	future,	for	example.	On	the	material	level	DNA	also
works	that	way.	It	knows	that	a	baby	needs	two	sets	of	teeth,	first	the	baby
teeth	and	then	the	adult	set.	It	isn’t	left	to	each	baby	to	decide	(not	that	it
could),	because	nature	has	provided	what’s	necessary	in	advance.
Just	as	DNA	has	knowledge	of	the	future,	so	does	your	soul.	Baba	taught	me
that	every	life	unfolds	from	stage	to	stage.	What	I	needed	at	fifteen	wasn’t
what	I	would	need	when	I	grew	up	and	had	a	family.	Yet	compared	to	DNA,
what	the	soul	must	plan	is	a	thousand	times	more	complicated	because	every
word,	thought,	and	action	counts	as	a	life	unfolds.	Your	soul’s	knowledge
applies	to	you	alone,	not	to	anyone	else.	DNA	grows	baby	teeth	for
	every
child,	while	the	soul	must	plan	one	unique	life	at	a	time.
So,	what	do	you	need?	You	must	stay	tuned	in	and	find	out.	If	one	destiny	fit
everybody,	each	kid	would	be	equally	smart,	equally	popular,	and	equally
athletic.	Don’t	feel	deprived	if	you	think	you	don’t	have	enough	of	something,
because	your	soul	is	helping	you	to	assemble	a	life	that	no	one	else	will	leadexcept	you.	One	day	your	attention	may	be	caught	by	a	frog	on	the	edge	of	a
pond	because	you	are	meant	to	be	a	biologist,	while	your	friend	may	notice
only	the	water	because	he	is	meant	to	follow	the	sea.
The	tiny	things	you	notice	and	the	tiny	things	you	wish	for	work	together.	Bit
by	bit	you	are	fitting	together	a	thousand	pieces	of	a	puzzle,	and	when	it	is
finally	assembled,	the	whole	will	be	you.	Baba	taught	me	to	trust	that	I	am
unique	and	that	my	soul	knows	exactly	what	makes	me	perfect	in	my	own
way	The	next	time	you	feel	disappointed	that	you	didn’t	get	what	you	wanted,
remember	that	what	you	really	want	is	matched	by	your	soul	to	what	you
really	need.Your	Time	is	Coming
T
he	rain	ended,	and	Baba	walked	with	me	as	I	made	my	way	home.	When	my
house	was	in	sight,	he	said,	“I’ve	found	something	for	you.”
“You	did?”	I	thought	I	had	kept	my	eye	on	him	the	whole	time.	But	now	he
was	holding	out	a	bare	twig.	From	one	end	dangled	a	single	dead	leaf,	curled
up	and	brown.	Then	I	looked	closer.	It	wasn’t	a	leaf	at	all.
“A	chrysalis,”	I	said.	“When	will	it	hatch?”
At	that	moment	the	chrysalis	quivered	and	a	small,	jagged	slit	opened	on	one
side.	Within	minutes	a	butterfly	was	going	to	be	born.
“Hold	it	carefully	while	I	tell	you	something	from	a	long	time	ago,”	said
Baba.	“Something	that	happened	to	me.”	I	gingerly	took	the	twig	from	his
hand	and	watched	it	tremble	while	Baba	began	his	story.
“One	day	when	I	was	a	boy,	my	father	brought	home	a	twig	exactly	like	that
one.	He	tied	it	to	a	low	bush	outside	our	door.	I	had	never	seen	a	butterfly
emerge	from	its
cocoon,	and	every	day	I	woke	up	with	excitement,	thinking
that	today	would	be	the	day.
“Two	weeks	passed,	and	when	I	came	out	one	morning	to	see	the	end	of	the
twig	trembling,	just	as	it	is	now,	I	was	beside	myself	with	impatience.	Soon	a
dark	insect	head	appeared,	then	with	great	struggle,	a	body	The	new	butterfly
was	very	weak.	Being	born	had	totally	exhausted	it.
“I	watched	as	it	clung	to	the	twig,	so	spent	that	it	couldn’t	unfurl	its	wings.
They	were	soggy	and	crumpled,	like	wadded	tissue	paper.	Taking	pity	on	the
poor	creature,	I	blew	on	its	wings	to	dry	them.	I	blew	and	blew,	and	then
something	awful	happened.	I	blew	so	hard	that	one	wing	tore.”
“What	did	you	do?”	I	asked,	seeing	the	crippled	wing	in	my	mind’s	eye.
“There	was	nothing	to	do,”	said	Baba.	“I	had	to	watch	the	torn	wing	dry	out,
and	the	butterfly	limped	away	It	could	barely	fly.”
We	both	were	quiet	for	a	moment	before	Baba	said,	“I	didn’t	tell	you	thatstory	to	make	you	sad.	It	taught	me	something	I	never	forgot.	All	things	come
in	their	own	good	time.	Nature	assigns	a	time	for	the	butterfly	to	unfold	its
wings,	and	no	one,	not	the	most	mighty	emperor,	has	ever	forced	a	butterfly
to	be	born	faster.	Look	at	a	rosebud	as	it	unfolds	into	a	beautiful	flower.	No
power	on	Earth	can	make	it	open	faster	either.	Nature	knows	its	own	best
time.”
“Does	it	know	my	best	time?”	I	asked.
“Yes,”	said	Baba.	“Your	soul	knows	when	your	time	is	coming,	and	it	leads
you	step	by	step.	In	this	way	you	fit	perfectly	into	God’s	plan.”
Baba’s	voice,	which	was	always	so	calm,	was	filled	with	passion	now.	“Every
small	breath	you	take	has	its	time,	but	so	do	the	great	events	of	your	life.	Your
soul	knows	the	end	of	the	journey,	but	it	will	make	every	step	a	blessing	along
the	way.”
I	felt	a	shiver	run	down	my	spine,	because	I’d	never	thought	my	life	could
have	great	events	in	it.
“Everyone’s	does,”	said	Baba,	reading	my	thoughts.	“Every	step	you	take
with	your	soul	is	a	great	event,	because	through	you	life	itself,	as	far	as	the
most	distant	galaxy,	is	finding	a	new	expression.	Your	next	thought	is	as	great
as	the	birth	of	a	star,	as	great	as	what	you	hold	in	your	hand.”
I	had	looked	away	from	the	twig	and	missed	the	butterfly’s	crawling	out	of	its
chrysalis.	Now	it	was	free,	hanging	upside	down	from	the	twig.	The	creature
looked	so	weak	and	helpless	that	I	knew	why	Baba	had	taken	pity	on	it	as	a
boy.
“It	may	look	weak,”	said	Baba.	“But	life	has	repeated	this	moment	for
millions	upon	millions	of	years.	Ages	have	come	and	gone,	yet	nothing	has
stopped	these	fragile	wings	from	unfolding.”
We	sat	quietly	and	watched	as	the	crumpled,	damp
	wings	stiffened	bit	by	bit.
The	butterfly	twitched	them	over	and	over,	and	like	magic	sails	they	opened
until


 and below and where the use of the arms is retained but not the legs or parts of the trunk.
The main causes of spinal cord injuries are from motor vehicle accidents, vio -
lence, falls, and sports, and CDC estimates about 11,000 spinal cord injuries occur annually who join a population of about 260,000 persons who already have an injury to the spinal cord.
There have been a number of advances made in the last 50 years in the study of
injured spinal cord, including basic and clinical tools to examine the spinal cord objectively and as critical adjuncts of neurologic examinations.
Evoked potential is an important tool that can provide a quantitative measure of
function in the respective sensory and motor tracts. Evoked potentials can also reveal the presence of unsuspected demyelinating disorders and their processes as well as monitor sensory-motor changes over time to assess neurologic progress and long-term prognosis.
268 Evoked potentials can be supplemented with newer techniques of
evaluating spinal cord trauma such as transcranial magnetic motor-evoked potentials and dermatomal somatosensory-evoked potentials, which provide additional quanti -
fiable information about the status of the cord.
269
Aside from the use of neurophysiologic monitoring systems and methods that
detail the morphology and contents of cord tissue, much of the experimentation
conducted within the last 25 years has provided a better understanding and clini -
cal therapeutic approach to the injured spinal cord than at any time before. Such
work has exposed significant aspects in the biochemistry and vascular mechanics 183 DMSO in Basic Neuroprotection
associated with trauma to the cord.270 A growing and intriguing area of spinal injury
research lies in probing the factors related to neuronal plasticity and regeneration of
the cord tissue.
Despite hundreds of experimental treatments reported in the last half century
on dozens of SCI animal models, no drug therapy thus far has shown effectiveness in reversing or arresting the pathologic damage, leading to paralysis when tested in randomized human clinical trials. The failure of testing DMSO to treat severe spinal cord trauma in humans, as will be seen, is a curious phenomenon given the positive evidence that will be presented here.
Instead, clinically, intravenous steroid infusions, which were available 40 years
ago and have been compared experimentally to DMSO in rigorous animal experi -
ments (see the following), are presently used in patients by many hospitals after a traumatic SCI in order to reduce the acute swelling that generally results after a severe contusion injury. This approach is baffling to many who treat spinal inju -
ries. The reason is that strong evidence indicates that methylprednisolone, the ste -
roid of choice, lacks evidence of effectiveness at the doses recommended following an SCI in humans and may in fact be harmful to the patient.
271 Interestingly, it was
found that neurosurgeons in North America had been prescribing methylpredniso -
lone for acute spinal cord trauma not out of conviction that the drug was effective but out of fear of being sued for malpractice.
272
A recommendation by several Canadian studies was based on a wide search of
citations that specifically addressed spinal cord injuries and the use of methylpred -
nisolone in humans and that, after analyses, did not support the use of this drug as a standard treatment for spinal cord trauma.
271–273 The call into question surrounding
methylprednisolone as a standard therapy for spinal cord injuries pointed to the dubi -
ous study design and inappropriate statistical analysis used in the original study.274
As a result of this controversy, the FDA has decided not to approve methylpredniso -
lone for SCI.
Surgery and decompression may be needed when the injury has caused the bones
to be unstable or when there is pressure on the spinal cord or spinal nerves by broken or displaced vertebral bones, a blood clot, or a displaced disk. These bones can move and cause further injury if not stabilized.
The use of DMSO in SCI was introduced by de la Torre and his group
63,275–277 in
1973, as a result of experiments showing dramatic benefit of this drug in rhesus and squirrel monkeys following severe brain trauma and disabling brain ischemia.
63
DMSO has been used in experimental SCI, but it has not been studied in a large
human population.278 The results of animal experiments indicate that if a severe
spinal cord trauma is treated with intravenous DMSO within 2 h, paralysis may be prevented.
63,275,276,279 Most studies performed thus far are consistent with this action
by DMSO.
When DMSO was examined for its action in experimental SCI and compared with
other standard therapy such as steroids, HBO, mannitol, or urea, the findings indicated
that DMSO fared far superior with respect to faster sensory-motor  r ecovery, reduced
neural damage to the cord, lower swelling of tissue after trauma, increased muscle tone return, and earlier return of somatosensory-evoked potentials.
63,280–282184 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
The membrane-protecting and membrane-repair qualities after DMSO admin -
istration have been described for axons and their myelin sheaths after spinal cord
trauma.280 An underlying mechanism in neuronal degeneration following trauma to
the spinal cord is the inability of the tissue to repair itself in the face of membrane damage from edema, hemorrhage, and toxic molecules generated by the injury. DMSO was found to render significant improvement in resealing guinea pig axo -
lemma following transection of the cord.
283
This was physiologically demonstrated by monitoring membrane potential recov -
ery and by the lack of extrusion of the marker horseradish peroxidase (HRP) given 60 min after injury.
283 It is difficult to explain how DMSO may achieve the protec -
tion or repair ability of tissue membranes, but a likely mechanism may rely on how DMSO can limit spinal cord tissue inflammation and tissue cavitation while increas -
ing spinal cord blood flow.
281,282
One of the original studies on the use of DMSO in SCI involved permanent paral -
ysis induced in dogs from experimental trauma to the spinal cord.63 Drug treatments
consisting of mannitol(1 g/kg), dexamethasone 0.5 mg/kg), isotonic saline (5 mL), or DMSO (2.5 g/kg, 40% solution) were given intravenously 1 h after trauma and for the next 3 days after injury.
63 Dogs were evaluated daily for 90 days with respect to
sensory-motor function and bladder control, and strict posttrauma veterinary care was provided for bladder, pain, and discomfort during recovery.
The results of this study are summarized in Figure 8.13. Essentially, a ben -
eficial response to DMSO treatment was seen in 3 of 8 dogs 4 days after SCI,
5
4Neurolog ic scale3210
4DMSO
MannitolDexameth asone
No treatmen t
60
Days of obse rvationDMSO in SC I
90
FIGURE 8.13  Neurological status using a 0–5 scale after SCI in dogs (N = 8/group) was
recorded and graded daily for 90 days by an observer unaware of treatment. Each symbol
represents a dog. Full recovery 90 days after SCI is seen in five dogs treated with DMSO (triangles), and two dogs treated with dexamethasone (dark circles) (p < 0.01). One other dog treated with DMSO also reached good recovery (grade 4), and one dog remained at grade 2,
while another dog in this series died. Five dexamethasone-treated dogs did not reach a grade
above 2 at the end of the 90-day observation period, one dog died in this series. Mannitol (circled cross) and no treatment (squares) showed no benefit and remained at grade 0–1 for 90 days after SCI. Scale: 0 = flaccid paraplegia, 1 = some muscle tone, 2 = reflex standing, 3 = spastic walking, 4 = walking, running with deficit, 5 = normal, full recovery.
63185 DMSO in Basic Neuroprotection
and a gradual improvement was noted in these animals so that 5 dogs in this
series recovered completely and 1 dog showed walking and running ability with deficit.
By contrast, dexamethasone-treated dogs showed improvement late in the first
and second month with 2 dogs showing full recovery at 90 days and 5 dogs remain -
ing incapacitated ( Figure 8.13). Dogs treated with mannitol or isotonic saline showed
little to no improvement during the 90-day observation period. When somatosensory-evoked potentials were taken 4 h after trauma, only DMSO-treated dogs showed a partial response, which was later seen to be a positive correlation with the prognosis of eventual full recovery.
63
This study by de la Torre and his team63 indicated two key points. First, it estab -
lished that DMSO, if given within an hour after an SCI, can protect cord tissue using this model from neurodegeneration, an effect that was evident 4 days following trauma; and second, DMSO appeared superior to steroid therapy, which is presently considered standard treatment at many U.S. centers that treat spinal trauma. These findings were never extended to explore how late in time the protective action by DMSO can be maintained after an SCI. The findings also imply that if D


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join in joyful oneness with them. But the
spirit will never, ever, force its desire on the
present, conscious, physical part of you.
The Father will not force His will upon the
Son. It is a violation of His very nature to  do
so, and thus, quite literally, impossible.
The Son will not  force His will upon the Holy
Spirit. It is against His very nature to do  so,
and thus, quite literally, impossible.
The Holy Spirit will not force His will upon
your soul. It is outside of the nature of the  spirit to do so, and thus, quite literally,
impo ssible.
Here is where the impossibilities end. The
mind very often does seek to exert its will
on the body —and does so. Similarly, the
body seeks often to control the mind —and
frequently succeeds.
Yet the body and the mind together do not
have to do anything to control the soul —for
the soul is completely without need (unlike
the body and the mind, which are  shackled
with it), and so allows the body and the
mind to have their way all the time.
Indeed, the soul would have it no other
way—for if the enti ty which is you is to
create, and thus know, who it really is, it
must be through an act of conscious  volition, not an act of unconscious
obedience.
Obedience is not creation, and thus can
never produce salvation.
Obedience is a response, while creation is
pure choice, undictated, unrequited.
Pure choice produces salvation through
the pure creation of highest idea in this
moment now.
The function of the soul is to indicate its
desire, not impose it.
The function of the mind is to choose from
its alternatives.
The function of the body is to act out that
choice.
When body, mind, and soul create together,
in harmony and in unity, God is made  flesh.  Then does the soul know itself in its own
experience. Then do the heavens rejoice.
Right now, in this m oment, your soul has
again created opportunity for you to be, do,
and have what it takes to know Who You
Really Are. Your soul has brought you to
the words you are reading right now —as it
has brought you to words of wisdom and
truth before.
What will you d o now? What will you
choose to be?
Your soul waits, and watches with interest,
as it has many times before.
Do I understand You to say that it is out of
the state of beingness I select that my
worldly success (I am still trying to talk
about my career here ) will be determined?  I am not concerned about your worldly
success, only you are.
It is true that when you achieve certain
states of being over a long period of time,
success in what you are doing in the world
is very difficult to avoid. Yet you are not  to
worry about “making a living.” True Masters
are those who have chosen to make  a life,
rather than a living.
From certain states of being will spring a
life so rich, so full, so magnificent, and so
rewarding that worldly goods and worldly
success will be of no concern to you.
Life’s irony is that as soon as worldly goods
and worldly success are of no concern  to
you, the way is open for them to flow to you.
Remember, you cannot have what  you want, but you may experience whatever
you have.
I cannot have what  I want?
No.
You said this before, very early in our
dialogue. Still, I don’t understand. I thought
you’ve been telling me I could have
whatever I want. “As you think, as you
believe, so shall it be done unto you,” and
all that.
The two statements are not inconsistent
with each other.
They aren’t? They sure feel inconsistent to
me.
That is because you lack understanding.
Well, I admit that. That’s why I’m talking
with You.  I will then explain. You cannot have
anything you want. The very act of wanting
somet hing pushes it away from you, as I
said earlier, in Chapter One.
Well, You may have said it earlier, but
You’re losing me —fast.
Fight to keep up. I’ll go over it again in
greater detail. Try to stay with it. Let’s go
back  to a point you do understand: thou ght
is creative. Okay?
Okay.
Word is creative. Got it?
Got it.
Action is creative. Thought, word, and deed
are the three levels of creation. Still with
Me?
Right there.  Good. Now let’s take “worldly success” as
our subject for the moment, since that’s
what you’ve been talking about, asking
about.
Terrific.
Now, do you have a thought, “I want worldly
success”?
Sometimes, yes.
And do you also sometimes have the
thought, “I want more money”?
Yes.
You can therefore neither have worldly
success nor mo re money.
Why not?
Because the universe has no choice but to
bring you the direct manifestation of your
thought about it.  Your thought is, “I want worldly success.”
You understand, the creative power is like
a genie in a bottle. Your words are its
command. You understand?
Then why don’t I have more success?
I said, your words are its command. Now
your words were, “I want success.” And the
universe says, “Okay, you do.”
I’m still not sure I follow.
Think of it this way. The word “I” is the key
that s tarts the engine of creation. The
words “I am” are extremely powerful. They
are statements to the universe.
Commands.
Now, whatever follows the word “I” (which
calls forth the Great I Am) tends to  manifest
in physical reality.  Therefore “I” + “want success ” produces
you wanting success. “I” + “want money”
must produce you wanting money. It can
produce no other thing, because thoughts,
words are creative. Actions are, too. And if
you act in a way which says that you  want
success and money, then your thoughts,
words, and actions are in accord, and  you
are sure to have the experience of this
wantingness.
You see?
Yes! My God —does it really work that way?
Of course! You are a very powerful creator.
Now granted, if you had a thought, or  made
a statement, just onc e—as in anger, for
instance, or frustration, it’s not very  likely
that you’ll convert those thoughts or words
into reality. So you don’t have to  worry about “Drop dead!” or “Go to hell,” or all the
other less -than-nice things you  sometimes
think or say.
Thank God.
You’re welcome. But, if you repeat a
thought, or say a word, over and over
again —not once, not twice, but dozens,
hundreds, thousands of times —do you
have any  idea of the creative power of that?
A thought or a word expressed and
expressed and expr essed becomes just
that—expressed. That is, pushed out. It
becomes outwardly realized. It becomes
your physical reality.
Good grief.
That’s exactly what it produces very
often —good grief. You love the grief, you
love the drama. That is, until you don’t anymore. There comes a certain point in
your evolution when you cease to love the
drama, cease to love the “story” as you’ve
been living it. That’s when you decide —
actively choose —to change it. Only most
don’t know how. You now do. To change
your rea lity, simply stop thinking like that.
In this case, instead of thinking “I want
success,” think “I have success.”
That feels like a lie to me. I’d be kidding
myself if I said that. My mind would shout,
“The hell you say!”
Then think a thought you can accep t. “My
success is coming to me now,” or “all  things
lead to my success.”
So this is the trick behind the New Age
practice of affirmations.  Affirmations do not work if they are merely
statements of what you want to be true.
Affirmations work only when they are
statements of something you already know
to be true.
The best so -called affirmation is a
statement of gratitude and appreciation.
“Thank  you, God, for bringing me success
in my life.” Now, that idea, thought, spoken,
and acted upon, produces wonderful
results —when it comes from true knowing;
not from  an attempt to produce results, but
from an awareness that results have
already been  produced.
Jesus had such clarity. Before every
miracle, He thanked Me in advance for its
deliverance. It never occurred to Him not to
be grateful, because it never occurred to
Him that what He declared would


 nothing mor e than empty
space.
Matter  is mind. Everything appearing as solid and material
—our w hole p hysical world and Universe—is actually
images pr ojected by the mind.
The contents of your dr eam a nd your experience of the
dr eam ar e entir ely mind-made, just as your experience of
the world when you’r e awake takes place entir ely in your
mind.
The pow er that can turn thoughts into an appar ent Universe
is Infinite A war eness, the only power ther e is.
The Universe came out of Consciousness, and
Consciousness, which is infinite, is the very foundation and
underlying substance of our Universe and everything in it.
The world, the Universe, and everything in it, including
your body, ar e  in A war eness. They ar e all sitting in and on
A war eness.
While w e r emain attached to ou r own beliefs and the belief
that we ar e sepa rate individuals, the world will never be at
peace. Billions of egos will always cr eate strife.
Y our fr eedom fr om any suffering doesn’ t depend on the
world coming to peace; it depe nds on your seeing that you
have mistaken yourself for on ly a person, and on your
experiencing yourself as the one and only Infinite Being.A war eness says “Y es” to absolutely everything. A war eness
allows for the fr eedom of everything to be the way it is,
because the world, and everyth ing in it,  is A war eness—its
own self.
No matt er how things appear i n the world, all is always,
always well.C h a p t e r  1 2
The End—
Ther e Is No End
What if  the one thing that we’ re all so afraid of isn’ t true?
What if there is no such thing as death as we think of it? What
if when we die we wake up?
“Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great
unfathomable question, the sam e for every one of us. Science
has no answer to it.”
Max Planck, quantum physicist
“The body dies, but the spirit  that transcends it cannot be
touched by death.”
Ramana Maharshi, fr om  The Collected W orks of Ramana Maharshi
“If you take yourself to be the body and mind only, that ‘you’
will certainly die! When you di scover yourself as unborn and
imperishable aw areness, the fear of death will trouble you no
longer. In fact, this is the death of death.”
Mooji
“When you wake up, all fear, including the fear of physical
death, goes away. This is because what ‘you’ have turned out
to be isn’ t something that’ s subject to harm.”
Jan Frazier, fr om  The Freedom of Being“Death i s a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of
life is to ‘die before you die’—and find that there is no death.”
Eckhart T olle, fr om  The Power of Now
T o die before you die means t o bring an end to the mind’ s
delusion that you are just a person. It means to die to the idea
of b eing a perso n, and to realize the Infinite A wareness that
you real ly are. Only then will you “die before you die” and
discover the truth—that there is no death.
“Of all the things human beings can learn in this life, I have
the grea test new s to tell you, the most beautiful thing to share:
Y ou are that which is formless, unchanging, and never dies.”
Mooji, fr om  White Fire, second edition
“Y ou, yo ur body  mind, and the world that you see are all part
of the same virtu al reality... Y ou—the real you—is formless
consciousness, a nd once you ide ntify with that, you see every
other identity you had is provis ional. Whether it’ s husband or
father, o r son, or wife... all these are provisional identities
that have a birth and a death, and they keep transforming,
they’re not real.... The only absolute identity you have is
infinite, formles s, inconceivable  being that morphs itself into
any reality based on its constructs.”
Deepak ChopraTM, M.D., fr om  mindbodygreen podcast
“W e have for gotten that we are this consciousness and have
identified ourselves with objec ts. W e think, ‘I am the body,
therefore I am going to die.’ However, consciousness doesn’ t
find itself in a body. The body appears in consciousness, the
mind appears in consciousness, the world appears in
consciousness. That is our experience. In spite of this, we
superimpose the opposite noti on onto our experience, that
consciousness is  in the mind, that the mind is in the body, and
that the body is in the world.”
Francis Lucille, fr om  The Perfume of Silence
“Y ou ar e now thinking that yo u are the body and therefore
confuse yourself  with its birth and death. But you are not the
body and you have no birth and death.”
Ramana Maharshi, fr om  Be as Y ou Are“So the real answ er to death is, it’ s another human construct. If
you believe in the physical wor ld then you have to believe in
death, and you have to believe in birth, but understand that you
are a formless being— formless— that experiences itself as
form. So right n ow that formless being is experiencing itself as
a body mind.”
Deepak ChopraTM, M.D., fr om  mindbodygreen podcast
“Y ou have agreed that you will die only because you have
accepted from someone that you were born.”
Sri Poonja (Papaji), fr om  The T ruth Is
“There w as never a time when I did not exist, nor you... nor
is there any future in which we shall cease to be.”
Krishna
It’ s impossible to imagine not being, because you can never
not  be.  If you imagine not being, there’ s an A wareness that
you’re imagining not being, and there you are—A wareness!
“So, wh en you are a baby you d on’ t know this is a table or this
is a hand or that you have a body. All your experience is... a
gooey universe with lots of colors, sensations, images, no
thoughts yet, just a sense of wonder and confusion. Then we
introduce concepts; you’re a male, you’re American, you’re
human, that’ s a star, that’ s a g alaxy, that’ s the planet earth.
That is how th e scientific worldview works. So, you are
suddenly now looking at the world through a filter.
Consciousness has become a conditioned mind that is giving
you an experien ce of a physica l world and a physical body,
and now because you’ve constructed this thing in your
consciousness, n ow you’re worried about birth, death. These
are human concepts. There is no birth, there is no death, there
is no physical  body, there is no Universe. There is
consciousness and it’ s infinite and you’re IT.”
Deepak ChopraTM, M.D., fr om  mindbodygreen podcast
“Immortality is attained in proportion as personal sense is
overcome... As we put of f the personal ego and attain the
consciousness o f our real Self... we attain immortality. And
that can be achieved here and now.”Joel S. Goldsmith, fr om  The Infinite W ay
“Death i s not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the
lamp because the dawn has come.”
Rabindranath T agor e
What is it like for somebody who dies?
“It’ s the same as waking up after a dream. No dif ferent at all.”
My teacher
The teachers tell us emphatically that A wareness or
Consciousness was never born and never dies. That means that
when the body ends, A wareness and Consciousness remain as
always—fully a ware and fully alive. It’ s then that you may
realize y ou were never the body, because you find yourself to
be fu lly aware and existing like before, except w ithout a  body.
A wareness does n’ t need a body to be aware. When the body
ends, there is not a single second that you are not aware—not a
trillionth of a second that you don’ t remain fully aware. Y ou
are eternally and infinitely aware, fully and completely alive,
with a body or without a body.
“Consciousness and awareness never began, and will never
end.”
Robert Lanza, M.D., fr om  Bey ond Biocentrism: Rethinking T im e, Space,
Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death
“Life ha s no opposite. The opp osite of death is birth. Life is
eternal.”
Eckhart T olle, fr om  Stillness Speaks
How would your life be dif


 tha t constitutes
your limitations. But keep in mind that any limitations you have imposed on
yourself are all in the physical domain of form.
I find it interesting that if some one I’m talking to says that they want to
make a change—let’ s say they want to lose weight, quit smoking, leave
their dru g habit behind, or have a Divine relationship—it’ s so easy for me
to detect whether or not they’re going to be able to do so. Because about
two min utes after explaining their desire, they usually come up with a
reason why it can’ t happen: “Oh, that’ s not possible. No, I can’ t do it.” Then
they tend to come up with a l ist of things they’ve been told  about their
limitations by all the well-meaning people in their life.
Similarly, as you’ve been reading, you may have felt some doubt. Y ou
might ha ve said something like,  “No, this is not possible. All of  this is easy
for W ay ne Dyer  to say, but it’ s not anything I could accomplish. It can’ t
happen for me.” I ask that you willingly suspend your disbelief, at least
until you’re done with this book. If you want to buy into your disbelief
again, m uch lik e when you leave the theater and go back to a dif ferent
reality, t hen fine. But the more you can allow y ourself to open your heart,
the more you’ll allow good things to enter your life.
Keep in mind that what you think about is what expands, so if what you
think ab out is It can’ t happen, then It can’ t happen  has to expand. If what
you thin k about in your relation ship is what is wrong, what is missing, or
what you don’ t like, then that will be the nature of your relat ionship. So
once you understand that what you think about is what expands—or as you
think, so shall you be—you’ll get really careful about what you think.
Everything in the universe is ener gy, including you. All of the things that
constitute your body are really a form of ener gy. They are just resonating at
a certain frequency and appear to be solid because of that frequency. The
ener gy I ’m talki ng about is not that which resonates at the solid form, but
another kind that is also with yo u at all times. This is like havin g an ener gy
body th at is physical and also spiritual. The primary ener gy that you’vebeen usi ng all your life is what we call this outer, or physical, ener gy. This
is the body’ s life -sustaining force that allows the heart to beat, the lungs to
fill up, the blood to circulate, the process of elimination, and all that.
There is also an inner ener gy. One of the great teachers of my l ife was a
man nam ed Swa mi Muktananda. In his book Mystery of the M ind, he writes
the following about Divine ener gy, which is the ener gy I’m asking you to
consider:
One day  this light will explode, and you will see it everywher e. Y ou
will see  the entire universe ex isting within it. The Divine light of
Consciousness w ill begin to fill your eyes, and then wherever you look
you will  see it. Y ou will see its  radiance in people, in trees, in rocks,
and in buildings. Y ou will see the same consciousness rising and
falling in every wave of thought and feeling that passes through your
mind; wherever  your mind goes, you will find your own  inner
Consciousness, the creator of the world. Y ou will see that the entire
universe is contained within y our own Self. Y ou will kno w that
everything—all the infinite modifications of the world—is nothing but
your ow n play. Y ou will realize that it is you who are being re flected
everywhere and that it is your ow n reflection that passes before you all
the time.
I’d like to add here that you always have this power within yourself.
Remember, you are an extension of Source, which is limitless. All you have
to do is make the choice to know  this spiritual part of yourself, and you can
tap in to it by facing in a dif ferent direction than you’re used to. Instead of
facing out, concerning yourself with what’ s going on around you, you can
face inw ard and directly contact your spiritual nature. Y ou can then live
each of your day s, regardless of what you may be doing, with the sense of
joy that comes from being on your sacred quest.
It doesn ’ t matter  what your form is like. It doesn’ t matter what you do—
whether you decided to be a sta y-at-home parent, a construction  worker, an
accountant, a dentist, or a pizza- delivery driver. None of that rea lly matters.
I’m not talking about what you do here; I’m talking about the inner Divine
ener gy that you possess.WHO’S REALL Y IN CHARGE?
Perhaps you can understand all of this best through a metaphor.
I u sed to love W esterns when I was a kid. I’d go to the Roy Rogers
Riders Club and pay my 12 cents on a Saturday afternoon and be
thoroughly ente rtained. In every single one of them, there would be this
scene, w hich I’m  sure you’re fa miliar with if you’ve ever wat ched an old
W estern. In this scene, the stagecoach’ s driver has been wound ed and lost
the r eins, so the  horses pulling the carriage are running wild. The driver is
no longer in co ntrol of the coach, so it’ s being dragged helter -skelter
through the sagebrush.
So here’ s the metaphor. It’ s based on something written by Eknath
Easwaran in his beautiful book Dialogue with Death, which is an
interpretation o f one of the great Indian stories known as  the Katha
Upanishad.
The stag ecoach is your body. Th e driver is your intellect. The horses that
are out of control are your five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch).
The horses are pulling the stagecoach along, and that ’ s a good
representation o f what happens to most of us in our lives. Our five senses,
which g ive us such physical pleasure, are pulling our body wherever they
want it to go because the driver, the intellect, has been wounded and is no
longer in control. The reins between the horse and the coach are the
emotions that we have.
Inside of the coach, a lovely lady from Philadelphia, with her nice hat
and gloves on, is pleading with the intellect and the horses: “I have a
message to tell you. Don’ t allow yourself to be pulled in this direction.
Please s top and listen to me.” The lady is your higher self, the spiritual part
of you.
Whenever the senses are in char ge, there is no intellect, and the emotions
are running wild. The taste buds on the tongue weigh less than an ounce, for
instance, and yet I have seen that ounce pull a 280-pound man into a
bakery. He is looking at these cream puf fs, and the lady from Philadelphia
is im ploring him not to eat this stuf f. She’ s saying, “This is g oing to kill
you! But it doesn’ t have to. Y ou just lost control for a second, and you can
get it back. Lea ve the bakery, eat some vegetables, and take good care of
yourself instead.”Perhaps for you, the lady from Philadelphia pleads, “Don’ t go  into that
bar. Don ’ t drink  that alcohol. D on’ t use those substances that a re going to
destroy you.” But here come the horses, and they pull you into the bar.
These se nses, th ese horses that are out of control, are running your life. Y ou
are n ot free. Y our body is being pulled where you don’ t really want to go,
and the lady from Philadelphia doesn’ t get paid any attention.
Y ou might say, “I have an alcohol problem.” In reality, you don’ t have an
alcohol problem; your horses have an alcohol problem. Y ou  h ave a horse
problem—you don’ t have them under control. Y ou are allowing these
senses a nd this external ener gy t o pull you through life and dictate what it is
that you  should be doing in alm ost every aspect of your life. Y ou allow it
for this temporary amount of  pleasure, which is nothing more than
counterfeit freed om that you g et for a split second. Then it’ s gone and
you’re c hasing after it some m ore. The horses are pulling you r body and
mind thr ough lif e, and you never listen to that sweet voice inside the coach
that is telling you to get your life under control.
There’ s something much grander and greater available here.  So let’ s
regain c ontrol o f the reins and train these horses to go in the d irection that
we want  them to go, rather than  allowing them to pull us uncontrollably. In
this


 at the back, the food-gate.
It is a real gate; and while the food is being
masticated, so that it may be mixed with salivaand chemically transformed from its crudecondition into the chemical form that makes itpossible of digestion and absorption, this gatewill remain tightly shut, and the throat will beentirely cut off from the mouth.
But as the food becomes creamy, so to speak,
through being mixed with saliva, or emulsified,or alkalised, or neutralised, or dextrinised, ormodified in whatever form Nature requires, thecreamy substance will be drawn up the centralconduit of the tongue until it reaches the food-gate.
If it is found by the taste-buds there located
around the " circumvalate papillae " (the teat-like projections on the tongue which Imentioned above) to be properly prepared foracceptance and further digestion, the food-gatewill open, ) and the food thus ready foracceptance into the body will be sucked backand swallowed unconsciously—that is, withoutconscious effort.I now started to experiment on myself. I
chewed my food carefully until I extracted alltaste from it there was in it, and until it slippedunconsciously down my throat. When theappetite ceased, and I was thereby told that Ihad had enough, I stopped; and I had no desireto eat any more until a real appetitecommanded me again. Then I again chewedcarefully—eating always whatever the appetitecraved.
THE FIVE PRINCIPLES  OF FLETCHERISM.
I had now found out five things ; all that
there is to my discovery relative to optimumnutrition; and to the fundamental requisite ofwhat is called Fletcherism.
First: Wait for a true, earned appetite.
Second: Select from the food available that
which appeals most to appetite, and in the ordercalled for by appetite.
Third: Get all the good taste there is in food
out of it in the mouth, and swallow only when itpractically  " swallows itself."
Fourth: Enjoy the good taste for all it is
worth, and do not allow any depressing ordiverting thought to intrude upon the ceremony.
Fifth: Wait; take and enjoy as much as
possible what appetite approves ; Nature will do
the rest.
For five months I went on patiently
observing, and I found out positively in thattime that I had worked out my own salvation. Ihad lost upwards of sixty pounds of fat: I wasfeeling better in all ways than I had for twentyyears. My head was clear, my body felt springy,I enjoyed walking, I had not had a single coldfor five months, " that tired feeling " was gone!But my skin had not yet shrunk back to fit myreduced proportions, and when I told friendswhom I met that I felt well and a new man,their retort was that I certainly " did not lookit! " *
The more I tried to convince others, the more
fully I realised from talking to friends how futileand well-nigh hopeless was the attempt to getcredence and sympathy for my beliefs,scientifically well founded as I felt they were.
* NOTE :—Some of these same friends, fifteen years later,
when I was sixty-four years of age, as positively declared : "You
never looked so well: Fletcherizing has certainly done well for
Fletcher!"For years it proved so ; and I faced the fact that
to pursue  the campaign for recognition meantspending much money, putting asideopportunities to make profit in other and moreagreeable directions, and no end of ridicule.Sometimes, during the daytime, when I was "sizing up " the situation in my mind, treating itwith calm business judgment, it seemed nothingless than insane to waste more time or money intrying to prove my contentions.
Fully three years passed before I received
encouragement from any source of recognisedauthority. I went first to Professor Atwater,*who received me most politely, but when I toldhim my story he threw cold water on myenthusiasm. In our correspondence afterwardshe was most cordial but in no way encouraging.
The frost became more and more repellent
and benumbing.
Still I persisted. At last I got hold of my first
convert : a medical man, ill and discouraged ;amember of a family long distinguished in the
* Professor W. A. Atwater, of Connecticut, U.S.A., was, in
his time, a respected authority in the field of human nutrition,
and, as such, was selected by the editors of the Encyclopedia
Britannica to write the chapters on Nutrition for the
Encyclopaedia.medical profession. He was Doctor Van
Someren, of Venice, Italy, where I had made myhome and where I lived for some years. Iinduced him to organise an experiment with me.We enlisted a squad of men and induced themto take food according to my ideas. We also werefortunate enough to secure the co-operation ofProfessor Leonardi, of Venice.
In less than three weeks the sick physician
found himself relieved of his acute ailments,and it would have taken several teams of horsesto hold him back from preaching his discovery.*A little later, we transferred the field ofexperiment to the Austrian Tyrol, and testedour endurance qualities, only to find a capacityfor work that was not before consideredpossible. Then Doctor Van Someren wrote hispaper for the British Medical Association, whichexcited the interest of Professor Sir MichaelFoster, of the University of Cambridge,England, and the first wave of scientificattention was set in motion.
* Dr. Van Someren's testimony is given as an Appendix to
the American edition of this volume; taken from The A.B.—Z.
of Our Own Nutrition,CHAPTER II
SCIENTIFIC TESTS
First Critical Examination at Cambridge University, England— My
Endurance Test at Yale University in America.
ONE result of this powerful interest was a test
of our theories made at Cambridge University,England, organised by Sir Michael Foster, whowas then Professor of Physiology at theUniversity, and conducted by Professor FrancisGowland Hopkins. The test was successful,proving our most optimistic claims, and thereport of it was published.
The scientific world now began to turn its
attention to my discoveries. Doctor HenryPickering Bowditch, of Harvard Medical School,the dean of American physiologists, put the fullweight of his respected influence into the workto secure for America the honour of completingthe investigation; but it was not until theexperiments at Yale University, in New Haven,that the first wide publicity was accorded. Thestory of this and subsequent experiments andtheir results is this : Professor Russell H.THE AUTHOR  TESTING  HIS ENDURANCE   BY MEANS  OF THE KELLOGG
MERCURIAL  DYNAMOMETER. DR. ANDERSON, DIRECTOR  OF THE
YALE GYMNASIUM, IN THE BACKGROUND.
Chittenden was at the time President of the
American Physiological Association, Director ofthe Sheffield School of Yale University, and therecognised leading physiological chemist ofAmerica. He invited me to the annual meetingof the Physiological Association at Washington,where I described the results in economy andefficiency, and especially in getting rid offatigue of brain and muscle, obtained up to thattime. But evidently to little purpose, asProfessor Chittenden revealed to me at the closeof the meeting. He said, in effect:
" Fletcher, all the men you have met at our
meeting like you immensely, personally; but noone takes much stock in your claims, even withthe endorsement of the Cambridge men ; thetest there was insufficient to be conclusive. If,however, you will come to New Haven and letus put you through an examination, our reportwill be accepted here. You will be eitherjustified or disillusioned ; and—I want to befrank with you —I think you will bedisillusioned."
MY EXAMINATION
by Dr. Chittenden showed a daily diet averageof 44.9 grams of proteid, 38.0 grams of fat, and
253 grams of carbo-hydrates, with a totalaverage calory value of 1,606 (compare this with
the Voit Diet Standard, page 88), and careful
and thorough tests made at the YaleGymnasium proved that, in spite of thisrelatively low ration, I was in prime physicalcondition.
Previously, as before stated, in the autumn of
1901, Dr. Van Someren had accompanied me toCambridge for the purpose of having our claimsclosely investigated, with the assistance ofphysiological experts. The Cambridge and theVenice findings were fully confirmed at NewHaven, and striking physical evidence wasadded by Doctor William Gilbert Anderson'sexaminations of me in the Yale Gymnasium.This latter test, described on page 19, was morepractically important as an eye-opener to bothdoctors and laymen than were the laboratoryreports. I personally showed endurance andstrength in special tests superior to theforemost among the College athletes. This waswithout training and with comparatively smallmuscle ; the superiority of the muscle lying inthe quality and not in the amount of it.Professor Chittenden then became intensely
interested in the matter, as did also ProfessorMendel; and the former suggested organising anexperiment on a sufficiently large scale to proveuniversality of application or the reverse. Hevolunteered his services and the use of hislaboratory facilities.
At this time, too, I became acquainted with
General Leonard Wood * and Surgeon-GeneralO'Reilly, of the United States Army. I foundboth open to my evidence; and, in the case ofGeneral Wood