 of the methodology
of
therapeutic to the body made the muscles
an artificial sweetener made every
research done over a twenty-year period,
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        W e have not
suppositions about relative human values
and the page, rose to match the rest of the
Suf fering; W eight; W orry, (16) Fear and
yet asked the right questions because we
lacking any demonstrable factual basis. chapter. ) Anxiety; Health; Illness; Special
have not had an adequate gauge of our
All systems of morality resolve into
Preliminary versions of the book were
Relationships; and Sexuality. (Coleman
questions' relevance or accuracy. arbitrary attempts to reduce the enormous
circulated among selected readers, from
Publishers, Amityville, New Y ork,
complexities of human behavior to
Man's dilemma, now and always, has
rank-and-file health care workers to I9841986). 5
simplistic categories of right and wrong. been that he misidentifies his own
heads of state such as Mikhail Some of this material was presented
Psychoanalysis, in exposing the
intellectual artifacts as reality. 1 But these
Gorbachev; some comments appear on
during three-hour weekly lectures given
unconscious mind, has compounded this
(18) artificial suppositions are merely the
the back cover. Each person's response to
at an alcohol and drug rehabilitation
muddle, giving rise to a bewildering
products of an arbitrary point of
the presentation of the subject has been
center over a five-year period (Sedona
array of treatments and psychologiesperception. The inadequacy of the
unique. (One interesting fact observed
V illa of Camelback Hospital, 1984-
derived from various viewpoints. This
answers we receive is a direct
was that the scores of tested individuals
1988). 6
ongoing babble of man's attempt to
consequence of the limitations implicit in
increased after encountering the material;
understand himself finally produces a
This is the first time the anatomy of
the viewpoints of the questioner. Slight
it appears that mere exposure to the data
semantic morass in which, in the end,
consciousness itself has been delineated
errors in the formation of questions result
"raised" the subjects' level of
anything one might say is probably true
in pure form in its entirety, without
in gross errors in the answers that follow. consciousness. ) Because the implicationsto some degree. Because of uncertainty
attenuation to the interests of a specific
and practical applications of the work ate
Understanding does not proceed simply
about the exact nature of (19) causality,
audience. so varied, and any aspect of the material
from examining data; it comes from
even when measurable results are
can be expanded and focused to suit the
examining data in a particular context. obtained they are subject to being
interests of a given audience, portions of
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Q: What are the major shortcomings of traditional thought systems?,
A: The text does not explicitly state the major shortcomings of traditional thought systems, but it does mention that traditional thought systems fail to differentiate between subjective and objective, disregard the limitations of context, ignore the nature of the human
Q: What is the main obstacle to human development?,
A: The main obstacle to human development is the lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.
Q: What is the significance of the study?,
A: The study aims to explore the major areas of human experience from a new perspective, using new tools and methods to understand human behavior and consciousness.
Q: What is the implication of the findings?,
A: The study's findings indicate that the brain acts as a receiving set, and the body responds to stimuli, suggesting that consciousness is the law of sensitive
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instantly become strong. subject test weak, whether placed on theinvolving millions of calibrations on
the significance of this factor, the testing
Because the weakness of any particular
tongue, held in its package adjacent to
thousands of test subjects of all ages and
method will be described in detail below. muscle indicated the presence of a the solar plexus or hidden in a plain
personality types, from all walks of life. pathologic process in its corresponding
envelope the contents of which neither
By design, the study is clinical in method
Historical Background
or gan (corroborated by diagnosis through
the tester nor the subject knew. and thus has widespread pragmatic In 1971, three physiotherapists
published acupuncture and physical or laboratory
That the body responded even when the
implications. Because the testing method
a definitive study on muscle testing.2 Dr. examination), it was a highly useful
mind was naive was most impressive. is valid in application to all forms of
Geor ge Goodheart of Detroit, Michigan,clinical tool to detect disease. Thousands
Most practitioners did their own
human expression, calibrations have had studied muscle testing
techniques of practitioners began to use the method
verification research, placing various
successfully been taken for literature,
extensively in his clinical practice and
and data rapidly accumulated showing
substances in plain, numbered envelopes
architecture, art, science, world events,
made the breakthrough discovery that the
kinesiology to be an important and and having a naive second person test
a and the complexities of human strength or weakness of every muscle
reliable diagnostic technique which could
third. The overwhelming conclusion was
relationships. The test space for the
was connected to the health or pathology
accurately monitor a patient's response to
that the body would indeed respond
determination of the data is the totality of
of a specific corresponding body or gan.3
treatment. accurately, even when the consciousthe human experience throughout all
He further determined that each
The technique found widespread mind was unaware. time. individual muscle was associated with an
acceptance among professionals from The reliability of the testing
experience Mentally, test subjects ranged from what
acupuncture meridian and correlated his
many disciplines, and although it never
never ceased to amaze the public and
the world calls normal to severely ill
work with that of the physician Felix
caught on in mainstream medicine, it was
patients and, for that matter, the
psychiatric patients. Subjects were tested
Mann on the medical significance of the
used extensively by holistically oriented
practitioners themselves. When this
in Canada, the United States, Mexico and
acupuncture meridians. physicians. One of these was Dr. John
author was on the lecture circuit, forthroughout South America and Northern
By 1976, Goodheart's book on applied
Diamond, a psychiatrist who began to use
instance, in audiences of one thousand
Europe. They were of all nationalities,
kinesiology had reached its twelfth
kinesiology in diagnosing and treating
people, five hundred envelopes
ethnic backgrounds, and religions, edition; he began to teach the
technique psychiatric patients. He labeled this containing artificial
sweetener would be ranging in age from children to elders in
to his colleagues and also published
extended use of kinesiology "Behavioral
passed out to the audience along with
their nineties, and covered a wide monthly research tapes. His work was
Kinesiology. "6
five hundred identical envelopes
spectrum (40) of physical and emotional
rapidly picked up by others, which led to
While other investigators were containing or ganic vitamin C. The
health. Subjects were tested individually
the formation of the International College
researching the usefulness of the methodaudience would be divided up and would
and in groups by many dif ferent testers
of Kinesiology, many members of which
in detecting aller gies, nutritional alternate testing each other. When the
and groups of testers. But in all cases,
also belonged to the Academy of
disorders and response to medication, Dr. envelopes were opened, the audience
19
20
reaction was always one of amazement
influence. His refinement of the muscle-
"over 100," then "over 200," then "over
return a "no" answer. This indicates that
and delight when they saw that all had
testing technique, the one used by most
300" until a negative response is one should leave that question alone or
gone weak in response to the artificial
practitioners, was used in this study over
obtained. The calibration can then be
inquire into the reason for the "no." sweetener and strong in response to the
a period of fifteen years. It wasrefined: "It is over 220? 225? 230?" etc. Perhaps the questioner might have
vitamin C. The nutritional habits of
universally observed by practitioners and
T ester and testee can trade places, and the
experienced psychological distress from
thousands of families across the country
researchers as well as this author that test
same results will be obtained. Once one
the answer or its implications at that
were changed by this simple responses were completely independent
is familiar with the


 prescription I would give children to secure their
future happiness, I would say: Teach then to love work! work! work! We have overworked the old saying: “All
work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Now it is
reverse d to: ‘`All play and no work makes Jack a bandit. ‘

   If parents cannot keep children busy, the city, county, or
state should furnish work —not in industrial schools, but the
work that is best suited to each child. A child must be busy. Christ got busy a t twelve years of age and earlier. We must
be busy. As I said, contentment comes with striving, not with
possession. This is a law of psychology as l well as of
physics. We should be happy that we are not contented; for;
if we were, we should not have  anything to overcome —no
reason for striving —and, of course, fail to enjoy the work
and labor of attaining. “Man never is, but always to be blest. (Pope. )” Because
Pope made that statement, it should not be taken too
seriously. I have found many peop le blest who did not
know it. There are more blessings in disguise than are
found in the limelight. One of the commonest blessings of
mankind is that about ninety -nine per cent of our wants we
never realize. If most people could cut out time as often as
they wish, their lives would be greatly shortened: “I wish it
were this time next year.” “I wish now were ten years from
now; I should then be through college and established in
business.”

   The disposition of most people is to seek abridgement. Nature ab hors a vacuum, and that is what abridgements are. “Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford” is the ideal of all. Short -cuts to success; a salesmanship that means coercing
the vacillating —those of weak will, those who can be
persuaded to buy prematurely, those who do not know their
own minds; in short, inducing people to buy what they do
not need and cannot afford is called good salesmanship. What is the matter with the people today? General
indebtedness. The sales -people have made more than they
know how to spend w isely on themselves —they do not
know how to fill their vacuums. Those who have been
persuaded to run in high when they should have stayed in low—or, what would have been better, continued to ride a
bicycle or remained on foot —are distressed because of
prem ature supply. Both extremes lack poise, and build
restlessness and dissatisfaction. The automobile is a
necessity; but it has been forced into a luxury that has far
outrun necessity. It has built great fortunes at one end, and
marked poverty at the other e nd, that will create a financial
disease called panic, unless remedied soon. Panic is another
name for a vacuum which will be filled with much
unhappiness. A prediction of five years ago. Getting through school without filling in the time well, by
short-cuts, ponies, and favoritism, builds vacuity. Time and
honest labor are necessary for building character,
education, and ability in any and all lines. In the physical as
well as in the mental world the old Latin apothegm applies:
Cito maturum, cito putr idum —”Soon ripe, soon rotten.”
Athletes die early. Why? Development is forced. Excessive
use of the muscular system forces an extra supply of blood
to the muscles. This in turn forces an extra supply of food
to meet the demand of waste and supply. Overstim ulation
enervates, and the toxin fails to be carried out as rapidly as
formed; hence Toxemia is established, which gradually
brings on degeneration of heart and blood -vessels. “No
chain is stronger than its weakest link.” In athletics’ the
strongest links are in constant use for all the strength they have. The stability that youth gives tissue is rapidly ageing,
with the result that the athlete dies of senility in youth. Fitzsimmons was called the “grand old man of the ring” at
thirty-five. In this saying, which was meant to be a
compliment to the king of athletes, was an expression of
scientific knowledge beyond understanding in the sporting
world —subconsciously building better than they knew; for
in reality he had aged himself by stressing his body. Youth wants to move faster than good, substantial growth
justifies. Young professional men are in hot -haste to
succeed their predecessors, always confident that they can
do more than fill their places. Today inexperience is hot -footing civilization to a quick
maturity, and obviously to a premature end. Hot -haste has
ill-prepared even those with age to be safe advisers. Knowledge not seasoned by time, experience, and poise
never matures. Poise and equanimity have become meaningless terms in
this age. The elements of success which make for ideal
maturity are lacking in the welding influence of time and
experience. The present -day mind is athletic; it is
prematurely aged at the expense of time, which is required
for stabilizing. Hospitals, penitentiari es, and insane asylums cannot be built fast enough to accommodate the
prematurely senile. That is what disease is —old-age tissue
outrunning the supply of new. Too many abridgments, from the kindergarten to the high
school and on through college, leave  vacuums to be filled
by the lies of civilization, and the disease and unhappiness
that false knowledge and immature judgment bring. Personal peculiarities, affectations, and petty habits of all
kinds are boomerangs that return to poison life’s sweet
dreams. Nature smiles on those who are natural; but those who
persist in grimacing, mentally or physically, she joins in a
conspiracy to distort them at their pleasure. We can be
happy and contented, or we can be unhappy and
discontented. We can make our choice, and nature will do
the rest. I just came from a drug -store into which I had stepped to
purchase a tube of camphor ice. The druggist fumbled, and,
being self -conscious, his self -pity made it necessary for
him to say that he was feeling bad and had been lying down
most of the afternoon. He accompanied his remarks with a
sick grimace of his features and a bodily expression of weakness. He, no doubt, would have enjoyed discussing his
discomforts with me, but I ignored the subject and passed
out. He is cultivating a sick habit that will spoil his life and
make of him a bore to all except those who frequent his
shop hunting cures. “Misery loves company.” People with
the sick habit flock together, and never appear to tire
recounting and comparing t heir discomforts. The most
insignificant symptoms are retained in memory for years. Self-pity causes them to exaggerate, and in time they
believe the worst possible about themselves. Such a life is
ruined, unless complete reformation is made. This state of
mind brings on enervation and Toxemia. The symptoms are
a general nervousness, indigestion, constipation, coated
tongue, anxiety concerning cancer or some other malady
that may prove fatal. The muscular system is more or less
tensed. The constipation is a ccompanied by an abnormal
contraction of the rectum. The entire body is abnormally
tense. Such patients have difficulty in going to sleep, and
when they are about to drop off to sleep they are awakened
with a jerk —a violent contraction of all the muscles. These
people are light sleepers, and complain that they do not
sleep at all. A few complain of headache and nausea. They
are imitators, and often develop new symptoms after
reading about disease or listening to others relating their
symptoms. Many of these cases of neurosis are operated upon for
various supposed abdominal derangements. Too often
doctors treat such people for what they say is the matter
with them. Occasionally we find self -sacrificing, amiable
women who are never robust, but who live an d work
beyond their strength for others. These mothers in early life
had ambitions for a career, and the disappointment brought
on a profound enervation, permanently impairing nutrition;
for the one great sorrow prevented a full return to normal. Fortunate ly, surcease was found in doing for others; and in
time making others happy became a vicarious nepenthe so
perfect that those whom they soothed with their sweet
smiles and cheering words often said: “Aunt Mary, you
must have lived a charmed life in which n o sorrow ever
entered.” The answer would be more smiles and
encouragement. Those who find a life of service to take the place of
ambition’s jilts have made no mistake in the selection of
the Great Physician; but those who seek cures outside of
self ar e hunting cures in a Fool’s Paradise. Cures! There are no cures. The subconscious builds
health or disease according to our order. If we send
impulses of irritation, discontent, unh


-chih, ginseng, and garlic have
the highest amounts of germanium known. No large-scale re
search on ling-chih is being done by Western researchers. FRoM HoRN TO NuTs: OTHE R FAVO RITE To NICS
One treasured Chinese aphrodisiac tonic that has n1et with
skepticism in the West is velvet deer horn. On a visit to Hong
Kong, when a British royal was told that the Chinese consumed
ground-up deer horn for health and longevity, he \Vas said to have
con1mented laughing ly that if deer horn was good for health,
ground-up table legs would be too. The young plun1 blosson1 t·ker (also known as the spotted or
sika deer) sheds its antlers in the fall and grows ne\v ones in the
spring. Tht.· newly grown horn is soft, fuzz-covert.·d, and rich in
blood vessels. In tht.· sumn1er, before the new velvet horns harden
into bony antlers, the Chinese collect thent; they process then 1
and slice thern into paper-thin waters, which they sell at high
prices in ht.·rb phannacies. The Chinese use velvet deer horn as a
sexual tonic and as a gent·ral tonic tor debility and itnpainnents
related to age. In Siberia, where deer are plenty, scientists have ex
perirnt.·nted with an extr�Kt front the deer horn, pantocrine. They found that it enhanced physical statnina in n1in· in t'ertain lab
oratory tests. Then they tried it on luunan bt·ings. It incn·ased
endurance in volunteers on a bicycle ergononlt'tcr, and in fifty
young n1en running three-kilotneter ract·s. As tht·sc t"xperitnents
wert" prditninary, tnuch ntorc data arc nt·t·dcd tor a cornplete eval
uation. A fiery, rnedicinal-tasting liquor has bt•t·n consumt·d tor cen
turies in China as a general nutrient, a booster t'i>r ntak-potency,
and an antidote tor dt·bility, nervousness, depr ession, n1enopausal
blues, rhcutnatisnt, and other ailrnents. Called wu-chia-pi, it takes
its n�une fron1 wu-cllia (Eifuthao((laus sctuicosus; A.rantho pattax
spiuosum), a thorny bush that grows in nuny parts of China and
Siberia; the bark (pi) of its root is used as a tonic. Scientists of the
Acader ny of Sciences of the Soviet Union took a great interest in
Chinese clain1s about this bush and spent years researching it. Their experiments not only substantiated many of the Chinese
claims but also found that wu-c hia-pi regulates blood pressure and
blood sugar, just as ginseng does. Although wu-c hia-pi has some
properties similar to those of ginseng, calling it "Siberian gin
seng," as is sometimes done, is inaccurate. Yet another ancient Chinese aphrodisiac health tonic receiving
an enthusiastic nod from modern researchers contains huang-chi,
or yellow vetch (Astr agalus hoan gtch y). The root of this herbaceous
plant has been popular among the Chinese as a tonic and versatile
medicinal ingredient for more than two thousand years. Chinese
physicians and nutritionists have claimed that huang-chi nurtures
life-force, and they have used it to treat many wasting diseases, as
well as prolapses of the uterus, night sweats, and diabetes. It is
often helpful to people recuperating from surgery, and as a de
fense against cold and flu. The latest discovery about its immune-boosting qualities ap
pears to confirm age-old claims. Two scientists have found that
doses of huang-ch i taken over a two-month period greatly strength
ened the human immune system by bolstering defensive T cells
and restoring damaged ones, both in test tubes and in cancer pa
tients. Huang-ch i also lowers blood pressure and inhibits harmful
free radicals. Reseachers in Japan found that laboratory mice, nor
mally in heat for one day, became sexually active for as long as ten
days after eating the root. The oldest surviving tree on earth is said to be the gingko or /�,,J.� a"d Ht•rhs for Lcwr
143 144 ginkgo (Gink�ftO biloba), and China is the source of transplants to
Europe and the Americas. Once a favorite of Chinese emperors,
gingko nuts are actually the seeds or pits of fruit grown on tall
gingko trees. The pulp of the fruit is toxic and corrosive, but the
"nut" inside is rich in vitamin B2, beta-carotene, and minerals. Gingko nuts have been used by the Chinese as a cure for fre
quent urination, asthma, and vaginal irritation or infection. Shelled
gingkos, after soaking in vegetable oil for a hundred days, have
been used to treat tuberculosis in China for several centuries. Chi
nese scholars placed gingko leaves in their books to prevent dam
age by bookworms. Buddhists monks often ate a gingko nut just
before their Zen meditation to facilitate deep breathing and fore
stall coughs. Gingko nuts are always roasted before being eaten,
as they arc toxic when raw. Even roasted nuts must be eaten in a
limited number at a time. Most of the positive properties of gingko nuts have been con
firmed by modern research. Laboratory experiments have isolated
an antibiotic ingredient in the nut that in the test tube etTectivcly
attacks tuberculosis, typhoid, diphtheria, and dysentery. The nuts
are known also to have anticancer properties. An extract from the
gingko leaf is now used widely in France and Germany as an anti
aging treatment for senile demen tia and memory loss. This is be
cause of its ability to improve blood circulation in the brain. If an extract from the gingko can in1prove blood circulation in
the brain, can it do so elsewhere? According to a study in Tile Jour
nal of Urology, gingko restored erections to half of sixty men sut:. fering from itnpotencc due to decreased blood flow to the penis. SEXUAL NUTRITION
Popular food and herbs in China includt.• not only such celebrated
itents as ginseng, vclvt. 't deer horn, spotted lizard, and lin.. l!-chih,
but also otht.·r nnashrootns, bird's nest, silvery tree ear (a fungus),
sea cununbt.·r. jujube, tortoist. ', and snake-to nan1e a few. Food
and herbs as sexual nutrients ahvays have been constuned avidly
by the Chinest. ', who consider this nutrition inst.•parabk fron1 ycm.. l!
sht'tl.l!, or lite-nurture. This is of suprt. 'nle intportance in Chinese
health practin ·s. as it t.'nhanct.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        This funda
mental practice of ancient Taoist sexology, when practiced with
self-discipline and finesse, bccan1e a delightful and useful art. According to the ancient sages, a n1an who n1astered it could
satisfy up to ten wornen in a single night sexually. And the prac
tice, comn1on in ancient and rnedieval China, was not lirnited to
young n1en. EJACULATION AND ()RGASMIC BIHNKMA NSHIP
In Tht' Class ic <�{the IiletiiCtltal A1tzid, the Iridescent Maid asks Peng
Tsu a very natural quest ion. How, she wonders, since the joy of
sexual intercou rse lies in ejacula ting, could a nun enjoy sex without
disc harging his sernen. The old sage replies that after a n1an ejacu
latc. ·s, his cars ring, his eyelids droop, his throat dries up, and his
joints ache. Whatc. ·ver plea sures he takes in ejaculating are only mo-rnentary. But if he reaches the brink without ejaculation. he can
preserve his erH. 'rgy and will thirst pt·rpctually �vith love and pas
sion tor his partner. The Elen1ental Maid tells the Yellow Emperor
about the benefits of reaching the brink without t:jacubting. She is
the san1e therapist who \Varns the en1pcror that celibacy is harrnful. Th e Mystic M aster reco nlnlt 'tH. is that when the nun wants to
ejaculate, he should \Vait until his partner reaches orgas


 3. T h e  M e d i c a l  M a n a g e r  S p r o u t s  W i n g s
I f yo u ha d asked  me in 1995 what I thought the future of
Personalized Programming looked like, I would have told
you tha t we had grown about as big as we could, and the
challenge was  going to be staying at the top of our
industry. If you had asked me about my surrender
experiment, I would have told you that the relentless
practice of letting go of myse lf in order to fully embrace
what was unfolding around me was having a profound
effect on my sp iritual growth. It had, in fact, become my
way of life. I h ad seen time a nd again that letting go not
only led to amazing results, but it also left me in a state
of p rofound inner peace. I w as not in charge; life was in
charge, and there was an underlying sense of enthusiasm
and excitemen t about getting to see what was going to
happen next. After all, just lo ok at what had happened so
far. By the end of  1995, Personalized Programming had
grown t o seven ty-five employees and had enough work
to keep  us busy for a very long time. I loved what we
were doing, and we were obv iously very good at it. Our
revenues had reached ten million dollars a year, and
since most of that was royalty payments, we were
profiting five to six million a year. The Medical Manager
itself was more than fifteen years old by then, and it was
touching the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. In
my limited view of things, I saw us going on like this for
the foreseeable future. The first clue that dramatic c hange was once again on
the horizon came when I learned that Systems Plus andmany of the dealers were discussing the possibility of
merging toget her into one c ompany. Apparently, they
felt this  would  help them com pete better at the national
level. S oon afterward, I received a visit from one of our
larger d ealers, John Kang, who was headquartered in
Tampa. He informed me that he had been working on a
proposal to consolidate the Medical Manager dealers
into a combin ed company. He laid out his plan of
initially purchasing Personalized Programming, Systems
Plus, and three or four of the larger dealerships. He
explained that it would take a large initial investment,
but he already had that lined up. John’s presentation was
very professional, but I didn’t see why Personalized
Programming had to be involved. I told him that I would
be willing to legally commit to providing The Medical
Manager software to the new company. He then dropped
the bombshell : any investors in the company would
insist that the foundational software be owned by the
company itself. I was very uncomfortable with the thought of selling
Personalized Programming. But I was even more
uncomfortable thinking that I would be the reason that
all these hundreds of dealers, and Systems Plus, were
unable to get their hard-earned value from their
businesses. I told John I was not interested in selling the
business at any price, but if my reluctance was truly in
the way  of everyone else’s dr eams, I would have to give
his proposal some consideration. I told him he could
come back to s ee me if he succeeded in getting others to
buy in to his p lan. What I w as really hoping, however,
was that the whole thing would just fall through by itself. John returned a few weeks later having obtained buy-
in from  some of our largest dealers as well as Systems
Plus. The handwriting wa s on the wall—this was
becoming like all the previou s times I had to put aside
my strong personal preferences and surrender to what
was ma nifesting before me. I didn’t like it one bit, but Iwas fully committed to seeing where the path of
surrender to life was going to lead me. John Kang made me a persuasive offer for
Personalized P rogramming t hat included both cash and
stock in the n ew company. He then set out on the
difficult journey of merging five businesses into one and
raising the funds needed to  pull the merger off. The
bankers decide d it would be  best to raise the necessary
$150 million by selling shares of the new company
publicly. The date for an initial public offering (IPO) was
set for early 1997, but a lot of work still needed to be
done. What a world to be thrown into. Personalized
Programming had grown g radually from its humble
roots of one employee—me. It was now a very well
organized, highly successful private company. This level
of orga nization was not going to exist when a bunch of
independently run businesses first get thrown into a pot
together. There were going to be the expected power
struggles, deal er acquisition  issues, and constant legal
and financial issues to be ironed out. Nonetheless, I
didn’t allow myself to get cau ght up in all those negative
thoughts. I just remained open and completely intrigued
by what was unfolding. It was decided  that the new company would be called
Medical Manager Corporation. I must admit, I liked that. I flashed back to 1981 when I was finishing the software
and firs t came up with the name “The Medical Manager.”
Fifteen years later, Medical Manager was now going to
become a public company. Standing at the threshold of
this major event, I was total ly in awe seeing where my
experiment with surrender had managed to lead me.4 4. M e d i c a l  M a n a g e r  C o r p o r a t i o n — M M G R
W hen the smoke cleared, I was to be the chief executive
officer (CEO); John Kang, the president; and Rick Karl,
the general counsel. Corporate headquarters would be
established in Tampa at John Kang’s facilities, and Rick
Karl and I wo uld work out of the Alachua offices. The
company would trade on the NASDAQ exchange under
the symbol MMGR. As we headed  toward the e nd of 1996, the cadre of
lawyers and bankers was finishing up all the paperwork
to m erge the companies together and simultaneously do
the IPO. I remember that this  was an interesting time for
me in my relationship with my dad. My father had been a
stockbroker m ost of his life, and he had been working at
Merrill Lynch for more than thirty years. His only son
had dro pped out of graduate school in business to live in
the woods and meditate. I ne ver left the woods, yet all of
a sudden I was in my dad’s world. He kept telling me that
he just couldn’t believe that Morgan Stanley, one of the
premiere brok erage houses in the world, was interested
in m y company. He was also  surprised to find out that
Merrill Lynch’s health-care analyst was closely
monitoring our upcoming transaction. My dad was very
interested that my company was going public, and we
talked to each other more during this time than we had
for the previous twenty years put together. It makes
sense—we now had something in common to talk about. I was humbled by this opportunity to get closer to my
father. I  saw it as just another miraculous thing that had
happened as I surrendered t o the flow of life. It wasn’ttoo muc h later  when my dad died. But you can be sure he
enjoyed being able to give his son his lifetime-learned
advice about becoming a public company, the health-
care sector, and Wall Street in general. Despite the amazing sequenc e of events that led up to
this point, nothing could have prepared me for what
happened next. A week or so before the IPO, I received a
list of action it ems from my New York attorney. One by
one I worked through the list, signing required
documents and locating required paperwork. The final
item wa s due the next day, so  I rushed down to my bank
to acces s my safety deposit box. I rarely had reason to
touch th is box I had rented b ack in 1971 to store my only
possession—the deed for my original ten acres. Once I was le ft alone with the storage box, I began
looking for the document my attorney had requested. There wasn’t much in the bo x, but what was there had
the effect of a time machine. I came across the original
deed on my property—how much had happened since
then. N o one in their right mind could have imagined the
flow of events that unfolded since I decided to drop out
and live in t he woods. My trip back in time was
interrupted when I came upon the document I was
looking for. I pulled out the trifolded piece of paper and
opened it up. It was the Personalized Programming stock
certificate sent to me when I incorporated the company
fifteen years earlier. When I had originally dropped the
certificate in my deposit box, it was pretty much
worthless to anyone but me. Then it hit me like a ton of


 On whose behalf is the story being told? Who is the protagonist of the story? Well, me. You point to your body when you say ‘me’, but is your body upset by these words? It feels upset. I get tightness in my stomach and chest. Is there anything to the tightness in your stomach or chest other than a mild
sensation? 137you are the happiness you seek
No. Can a sensation be upset? No. The tightness in your chest and stomach is the result  of being upset; it is
the echo of the upset in your body, but it is not the upset itself, nor is it
the upset self. Your cheek or nose or shoulder doesn’t get upset when you
hear the words. So look again for the ‘I’ that is hurt or upset. What do you
find? I don’t find a thing. I just find…I guess just what I identify as me, that somehow
I’ve been wronged. Okay, but who or what is that ‘I’ that has been wronged? It is not your body,
a thought or an image that has been wronged, nor is it awareness itself. So it’s some sense of myself. What is that? I don’t know what it is. It would be as well to find out. Unless and until you find a self other than
the self of awareness, don’t presume there is one, and, above all, don’t
spend the rest of your life thinking, feeling, acting and relating on its
behalf. When I look for myself, I find thoughts, feelings and sensations, but I don’t find
an actual self or entity. Yes, and what is going to happen to your upset, your suffering, when you
discover that the separate self on whose behalf it has arisen is not there? I assume it would just go away. 138attending to painful emotions
Yes, the upset or the suffering dissipates because there is no separate, inde -
pendently existing entity or self present either to be upset or not to be upset. When it is seen clearly that there is no personal self, the issue of getting upset
just doesn’t arise. Now, what is it that gives you the undeniable sense of being your self? Where does your basic sense of identity come from? Just from awareness. Yes! T ell us about that. (Long silence)

I like your response! T ry to say something true about your self, awareness,
even if it requires some concession to the limits of language. It…it just is. I just am. And I am aware. Yes, you, awareness, are present and aware. Anything else? (Long silence)

Can you be disturbed? No, I am always in peace. Do you lack anything? No, the question itself seems ridiculous! Yes! And what is the common name for the absence of lack? Happiness! Exactly, happiness is your nature. You do not need to go anywhere or do
anything to find it. It is always available within yourself, as your self. 139you are the happiness you seek
Your investigation into the nature of your self has taken you from the hap -
piness you seek to the happiness you are. That is self-enquiry in practice. embracing our suffering

Can you say more about the way of openness in our actual experience, and how
it differs from self-enquiry? Just as it is only possible for the eye to see something that is at a distance from
itself, so it is only possible to know and, therefore, name something as an object
of experience when we stand apart from it as a separate subject of experience. Awareness cannot stand apart from any experience and know it from
a distance. It is so utterly, intimately one with experience that it cannot label
it, let alone consider it good or bad, right or wrong, pleasant or unpleasant. It is knowledge through intimacy, as opposed to knowledge through con -
ception and abstraction. It is the apparently separate self or ego that detaches itself from experience
and views it from a distance. It is only from this apparent distance that we
are able to feel and label our experience as fear, anxiety, shame, sorrow, and
so on, and thus deem it unpleasant. All our suffering exists in the illusory
space between the subject and the object of experience, just as the danger
exists in the space between the two boxers when they are one metre apart. In the way of self-enquiry, we  increase  that distance, in the sense that we
explore the ‘I’ and disregard the emotion. In the way of openness, we do
the opposite: we collapse the apparent distance between our self and the af -
flictive emotion, such as fear, anxiety, shame, guilt or sorrow. We turn to -
wards the experience from which we would normally turn away. We
welcome that which we would normally reject. We find sanctuary by em -
bracing our suffering. This attitude is illustrated in the Grimm Brothers’ fairy story The Frog
Prince, in which a frog offers to retrieve a princess’s golden ball from the lake
in which she has lost it, in return for her friendship. After she agrees to the
deal, the frog retrieves the ball, but the princess forgets her side of the bargain. However, later that evening, while the princess is having dinner with her
father, the king, the frog returns to the royal palace to remind her. Reluc -
tantly she invites him inside and allows him to eat from her plate. Later that
140attending to painful emotions
night, upon his further insistence, the princess allows the frog to sleep on
her pillow, and finally she embraces it. The next morning the princess wakes to find a handsome prince in bed
next to her! When the princess embraced that which was most distasteful to
her, it turned into that for which she longed above all else. In the way of openness, we understand and feel our self as the open, empty,
resistanceless presence of awareness, and we turn towards any afflictive emo -
tion from which we would normally turn away. We allow the frog into the
palace, albeit somewhat reluctantly! This may evoke some initial resistance in us, and therefore some courage
may be required not to escape from it into thinking, activities, objects and
so on. When this first wave of resistance subsides in our allowing presence,
we invite the experience closer. We do not simply tolerate or allow it;
we positively welcome it. The frog is eating from our plate! Again, we may pause, allowing the habitual and familiar tendency to turn
away from uncomfortable feelings, first to be exposed and then neutralised
in our welcoming. Our resistance is diminishing, and with it the afflictive
quality of the emotion. The frog is sleeping on our pillow! Finally, we bring the feeling so close that we can no longer separate ourself
from it and label it fear, anxiety, shame, guilt, sorrow, and so on, let alone con -
sider it unpleasant. The subject and the object – the feeler and the felt, the
knower and the known – have merged. In the absence of a separate feeler or
knower – the apparently separate subject of experience from whose perspective
the feeling is labelled and resisted – there is just the raw experience itself, pure
feeling. It is neither good nor bad, right nor wrong, pleasant nor unpleasant. We know when we have reached this stage when we can genuinely say to
the feeling, ‘You are welcome inside me forever’. At that point, our suffering,
that is, our resistance to experience, has come to an end, not because we have
successfully found a way to avoid it but because we have had the courage to
fully turn towards and embrace it. We have taken the experience so deeply
into our self that it has dissolved in our openness. We have, as they say in the tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, devoured
our emotion. We have kissed the frog! In this way we find, at the very heart
of our most painful feelings, the happiness we previously sought by turning
away from them. The frog has turned into a handsome prince. 141you are the happiness you seek
*     *     *

Most of the time my suffering is simply too intense to face and I find myself doing
anything I can to avoid it. I’m currently dealing with the end of a relationship and
the fact that my ex-partner is already in a new relationship only four days after we
split up. I’m just stuck in that suffering. Can you give me one thing to do? Close your eyes and, referring only to your direct, immediate experience, that is,
without referring to thought or memory, tell us about your current experience. Well, I’m just sitting here. Without reference to thought or memory, how do you know you are sitting
here? If your eyes are closed, all there is to the experience of sitting is the
current sensation. T ell us about that sensation without adding any interpre -
tation from your past. It’s a sensation of my body sitting on a chair. With your eyes closed and without reference to thought or memory, how
do you know that the current sensation is a sensation ‘of a body’, let alone
‘sitting on a chair’? ‘Body’, ‘sitting’ and ‘chair’ are concepts, based on mem -
ory, that are overlaid onto the raw, unnameable sensation itself. They are the
subtitles on the movie, not the movie itself. In fact, even to label it a sensation
is too much. There is just a vibration of a certain intensity appearing in the
field of experience. T ell us about that vibration. It’s…(long pause)…I can


ow-fat,	animal-based	foods	still	have	some
cholesterol,	lots	of	protein	and	very	little	or	no	antioxidants	and	dietary	fiber,
just	like	other	animal-based	foods. Since	nutrients	are	primarily	responsible
for	the	healthful	effects	of	foods	and	because	of	these	major	differences	in
nutrient	composition	between	animal-	and	plant-based	foods,	isn’t	it	therefore
reasonable	to	assume	that	we	should	expect	to	see	distinctly	different	effects
on	our	bodies	depending	on	which	variety	of	foods	we	consume? By	definition,	for	a	food	chemical	to	be	an	essential	nutrient,	it	must	meet
two	requirements:
the	chemical	is	necessary	for	healthy	human	functioning
the	chemical	must	be	something	our	bodies	cannot	make	on	their	own,
and	therefore	must	be	obtained	from	an	outside	source
One	example	of	a	chemical	that	is	not	essential	is	cholesterol,	a	component
of	animal-based	food	that	is	nonexistent	in	plant-based	food. While
cholesterol	is	essential	for	health,	our	bodies	can	make	all	that	we	require;	so
we	do	not	need	to	consume	any	in	food. Therefore,	it	is	not	an	essential
nutrient. There	are	four	nutrients	which	animal-based	foods	have	that	plant-based
foods,	for	the	most	part,	do	not:	cholesterol	and	vitamins	A,	D	and	B
12
. Three
of	these	are	nonessential	nutrients. As	discussed	above,	cholesterol	is	made	by
our	bodies	naturally. Vitamin	A	can	be	readily	made	by	our	bodies	from	beta-
carotene,	and	vitamin	D	can	be	readily	made	by	our	bodies	simply	by
exposing	our	skin	to	about	fifteen	minutes	of	sunshine	every	couple	days. Both	of	these	vitamins	are	toxic	if
they	are	consumed	in	high	amounts. This	is
one	more	indication	that	it	is	better	to	rely	on	the	vitamin	precursors,	beta-
carotene	and	sunshine,	so	that	our	bodies	can	readily	control	the	timing	and
quantities	of	vitamins	A	and	D	that	are	needed. Vitamin	B
12
	is	more	problematic. Vitamin	B
12
	is	made	by	microorganismsfound	in	the	soil	and	by	microorganisms	in	the	intestines	of	animals,
including	our	own. The	amount	made	in	our	intestines	is	not	adequately
absorbed,	so	it	is	recommended	that	we	consume	B
12
	in	food. Research	has
convincingly	shown	that	plants	grown	in	healthy	soil	that	has	a	good
concentration	of	vitamin	B
12
	will	readily	absorb	this	nutrient. 10
	However,
plants	grown	in	“lifeless”	soil	(non-organic	soil)	may	be	deficient	in	vitamin
B
12
. In	the	United	States,	most	of	our	agriculture	takes	place	on	relatively
lifeless	soil,	decimated	from	years	of	unnatural	pesticide,	herbicide	and
fertilizer	use. So	the	plants	grown	in	this	soil	and	sold	in	our	supermarkets
lack	B
12
. In	addition,	we	live	in	such	a	sanitized	world	that	we	rarely	come
into	direct	contact	with	the	soil-borne	microorganisms	that	produce	B
12
. At
one	point	in	our	history,	we	got	B
12
	from	vegetables	that	hadn’t	been	scoured
of	all	soil. Therefore,	it	is	not	unreasonable	to	assume	that	modern	Americans
who	eat	highly	cleansed	plant	products	and	no	animal	products	are	unlikely	to
get	enough	vitamin	B
12
. Though	our	society’s	obsession	with	nutrient	supplements	seriously
detracts	from	other,	far	more	important	nutrition	information,	this	is	not	to	say
that	supplements	should	always	be	avoided. It	is	estimated	that	we	hold	a
three-year	store	of	vitamin	B
12
	in	our	bodies. If	you	do	not	eat	any	animal
products	for	three	years	or	more,	or	are	pregnant	or	breastfeeding,	you	should
consider	taking	a	small	B
12
	supplement	on	occasion,	or	going	to	the	doctor
annually	to	check	your	blood	levels	of	B	vitamins	and	homocysteine. Likewise,	if	you	never	get	sunshine	exposure,	especially	during	the	winter
months,	you	might	want	to	take	a	vitamin	D	supplement. I	would	recommend
taking	the	smallest	dose	you	can	find	and	making	more	of	an	effort	to	get
outside. I	call	these	supplements	“separation	from	nature	pills,”	because	a	healthy
diet	of	fresh,	organic	plant-based	foods	grown	in	rich	soil	and	a	lifestyle	that
regularly	takes	you	outdoors	is	the	best	answer	to	these	issues. Returning	to
our	natural	way	of	life	in	this	small	way	provides	innumerable	other	benefits,
as	well.PRINCIPLE	#4
___________
Genes	do	not	determine	disease	on	their	own,	Genes	function	only	by
being	activated,	or	expressed,	and	nutrition	plays	a	critical	role	in
determining	which	genes,	good	and	bad,	are	expressed. I	can	safely	say	that	the	origin	of	every	single	disease	is	genetic. Our	genes
are	the	code	to	everything	in	our	bodies,	good	and	bad. Without	genes,	there
would	be	no	cancer. Without	genes,	there	would	be	no	obesity,	diabetes	or
heart	disease. And	without	genes,	there	would	be	no	life. This	might	explain	why	we	are	spending	hundreds	of	millions	of	dollars
trying	to	figure	out	which	gene	causes	which	disease	and	how	we	can	silence
the	dangerous	genes. This	also	explains	why	some	perfectly	healthy	young
women	have	had	their	breasts	removed	simply	because	they	were	found	to
carry	genes	that	are	linked	to	breast	cancer. This	explains	why	the	bulk	of
resources	in	science	and	health	in	the	past	decade	has	shifted	to	genetic
research. At	Cornell	University	alone	$500	million	is	being	raised	to	create	a
“Life	Sciences	Initiative.”	This	initiative	promises	to	“forever	change	the	way
life-science	research	is	conducted	and	taught	at	the	university.”	What	is	one	of
the	main	thrusts	of	the	program? Integrating	each	scientific	discipline	into	the
all-encompassing	umbrella	of	genetic	research. It	is	the	largest	scientific
effort	in	Cornell’s	history. 11
Much	of	this	focus	on	genes,	however,	misses	a	simple	but	crucial	point:
not	all	genes	are	fully	expressed	all	the	time. If	they	aren’t	activated,	or
expressed,	they	remain	biochemically	dormant. Dormant	genes	do	not	have
any	effect	on	our	health. This	is	obvious	to	most	scientists,	and	many
laypeople,	but	the	significance	of	this	idea	is	seldom	understood. What
happens	to	cause	some	genes	to	remain	dormant,	and	others	to	express
themselves? The	answer:	environment,	especially	diet. To	reuse	a	previous	analogy,	it	is	useful	to	think	of	genes	as	seeds. As	any
good	gardener	knows,	seeds	will	not	grow	into	plants	unless	they	have
nutrient-rich	soil,	water	and	sunshine. Neither	will	genes	be	expressed	unless
they	have	the	proper	environment. In	our	body,	nutrition	is	the	environmental
factor	that	determines	the	activity	of	genes. As	we	saw	in	chapter	three,	the
genes	that	cause	c


't love
everybody. And that was my ego. Because the ego judges,
judges, judges. The soul does not judge. I live in the soul
now... and I can love the walls and the ceiling and all of you
here and me and the wheelchair and Eckhart and
everybody. At ﬁrst I thought I was psychotic because if I loved the wall,
it would get closer to me. And the love becomes......it
merges me with the wall....and the tr ee is an ocean... And I
think we ar e one, but we will only feel if we love
everything.......by loving everything....and...when I was in
my ego, I judged everything including myself. But in the
soul, we ar e like the ocean of love, we swim in the ocean of
love. And it pushes you to love everything, including the
wall. I had a funny e xperience: I told an audience that I
loved everything. and I said: "I love this carpet". It was in a
restaurant. and the carpet was full of stains...and...I could
love it and a friend of mine, Mick ey Lammley, came up to
me he was sitting in the audience; and he said, "So I lik etrees, or paintings, but I still can't lik e this carpet!" And I
said, "Judge, judge, judge...". He then sent me for my 80th
birthday a piece of carpet with a stain in the middle and
said, "Maybe you'd lik e to trade it for your guru on the wall." He couldn't understand how I could do that. He lost because
of his judgmental mindset, because I was moving towar d
unity with love. It's inter esting that you mention walls and what look lik e
inanimate objects. I also of ten notice: I pick up an object,
say a piece of soap or a pen, and ther e is an appr eciation of
its existence, just a little moment of appr eciation; the mind
might e xplain it and say, "W ell, that's because ultimately
everything comes out of the One, tak es on a for m and then
transfor ms itself. So, in the end, everything you see or
perceive is an e xpression of the One, and if you have
recognized the One in yourself, you can r ecognize it in any
form. Nor mally we wouldn't call this love, but on a deeper
level it is a love, it is an appr eciation of what may be ar ound
us, and this again has to do with the world of for ms, living in
balance in confr ontation with the world of for ms and at the
same time r emaining gr ounded in the for mless, what is
perhaps traditionally called "spirit" as the case may be. And
in this dance and in oneself, one can feel something. I'm going to describe a brief event when we came her e
today - so ther e's this ephemeral body that's sitting in the
car and ther e's the spirit that's tied to a name and a
personal identity; so ther e's always two pr esences - but
don't tak e any of this literally, we'r e just using indicators -
so ther e's always two pr esences, the for m : this is Eckhart,
the spiritual teacher - one concept - who is about to meet
another spiritual teacher - another concept - and they ar e
going to talk together, and outside of my consciousness, I
also knew that this was true, but the fundamental truth was:
there is a moving, per ceiving space of consciousness her e.So in any given moment, one can either be mor e on the side
of for m or mor e on the side of for mlessness. And the most
satisf ying way to live is to be mor e on the side of
formlessness. When I was in the car, I wasn't r eally pr esent
as a person but simply as a space of consciousness -
because when ther e is no thought, that's how it is. On the
other hand, if a "person" was going to an important event -
how could a "person" not be anxious - the thought would
come up: how is this going to happen? What will they say? Will they lik e us? All sorts of things would happen... But the
essence of it all is to be able to - -and I know that people
here and those connected elsewher e are able to see the
truth of what I'm saying, and that is that mor e and mor e
people ar e able to get into a state wher e they don't have to
think. The compulsion to think disappears and is r eplaced by
presence. Silence- beautiful attentive space of silence- and
if one can be that in every moment- and of course one is
still temporarily a person and if someone asks us, "How old
are you?" or, "What is your name?" one does not need to
answer, "I am nameless and timeless!" W e can still go with
the conventions and say, yes, that's my age, that's my
name, so we use the conventions of for ms and we can
continue to cr eate in the world of for ms, but we have r oots
elsewher e: in the vastness of consciousness. During a transition period in my home, I was so into the
dimension of br eadth that for a while, I wasn't as
comfortable with the for m. And af ter a few years, the
balance came back. The essence - and I'm sur e you agr ee
with me - is the fr eedom of thought, to access that
dimension within. R amana Maharshi said that a r eal criterion
for knowing whether one is pr ogressing on the spiritual path
- after someone ask ed him this question, "How can I
measur e my pr ogress on the spiritual path?" And R amana
Maharashi r eplied, "The degr ee of thoughtlessness is themeasur e of pr ogress on your spiritual path." It's so simple;
now you know! OceanofPDF.com
Ram Dass, you mentioned at the beginning the wor d karma
and I wanted to ask you something about that. I think a lot
of people would say that the sudden awak ening that you
had, Eck art, was a kind of fabulous, e xtraor dinary good
karma, pur e grace. R am Dass, you met your guru, Neem
Karoli Baba, and you e xperienced some kind of opening of
the heart - very good k arma, e xtraor dinary k arma - and then
the str oke happened; a str oke while you wer e sleeping -some would say that doesn't sound lik e very good k arma, it
sounds lik e bad k arma. So I'm curious how you feel about
that; So to both of you; the idea of good k arma and bad
karma in your life... is it a matter of grace and k arma?. -RAM DAS S: My guru knew that I was going to meet
him...and...and when I found out and r ecognized him and his
consciousness, it led me to think that this meeting was a
special grace. And I thought it was his grace for me. But I
think it was my awar eness of his awar eness that led me to
that conclusion. It was lik e he knew my whole life. My mother died of a spleen disease and my guru said it was
in the stomach in Hindu language. Then he said: it's the
spleen. And the wor d "spleen", he said it in English. So my
mother's death was used to help me. It was a "siddih", a
power that he had. And that's why I thought it was grace. In
fact, I live in that grace all the time; when I was still a
psychologist, I didn't r ead the Bhagavad Gita, a weir d book,
and then when we came down the hall fr om my oﬃce, we
came to T im Lar ry's, and so I took mushr ooms; and that
opened me up to my encounter with the Maharashi and my
encounter with the Bhagavad Gita. My guru knew all this. That's grace. I don't think grace necessarily has to be the
result of good k arma. Grace can come suddenly at any level
of development. It can also come in the for m of bad k arma. It can come in the for m of good k arma. It sort of comes fr om
another dimension; in my case I would say it came because
of bad k arma. W ith all the suﬀering, an unhappy childhood,
parents ﬁghting all the time, no har monious envir onment,
often little money, and then they separated, and I was very
ashamed of that, because at that time not many par ents
separated. So I had to hide this fact. And countless other
things came into play; my father, on one level I loved him,
on another I hated him, because he was lik e a powder k eg,like a bomb that had not yet e xploded


 guilt about anthropomorphic depictions of God. T o assist spiritual progress, choose verifiable teachers and teachings and
avoid those that have something to gain by one’ s adherence to or
alignment with them. A void groups or teachers that are needy,
acquisitive, or controlling. The Self is completely fulfilling an d has no
needs an d nothin g to gain. The T eacher is a Servant of T ruth and not its
originator. All serve God who strive for God. Throughout the spiritual scriptur es is the declaration, restated in dif ferent
cultures and languages, that Divinity is responsive to allegiance. It is
usually stated is some style su ch as “Those who acknowledge me are
Mine.” From these words, it is apparent that it is not how far one is along
the road that is important but the fact that one is on the road.G l o r i a
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 E x c e l s i s
 D e o! APPENDICIES. A: Map of the Scale of Consciousness. B: How to Calibrate the Levels of Consciousness. C: References.APPENDIX A. APPENDIX B. HOW T O CALIBRA TE THE LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS. General Information. The ener gy field of consciousness is infinite in dimension. Specific
levels correlate with human consciousness and have been calibrated from
‘1’ to ‘1,000’. ( See Appendix B: Map of the Scale of Consci ousness.) These ener gy fields reflect and dominate human consciousness. Everything in the universe radia tes a specific frequency or minu te ener gy
field tha t remains in the field of consciousness permanently. Th us, every
person o r being that ever lived and anything about them, including any
event, thought, deed, feeling, or attitude, is recorded forever an d can be
retrieved at any time in the present or the future. T echnique. The muscle-testing response is a simple “yes” or “not yes” (no) response
to a  spe cific stimulus. It is usually done by the subject holdin g out an
extended arm and the tester pressing down on the wrist of the extended
arm, using two fingers and ligh t pressure. Usually the subject holds a
substance to be tested over their solar plexus with the other h and. The
tester sa ys to the test subject, “R esist,” and if the substance bei ng tested
is beneficial to the subject, the arm will be strong. If it is not beneficial
or it  has an adverse ef fect, the arm will go weak. The respons e is very
quick and brief. It is important to note that the intention, as well as both the tester and
the one  being tested, must c alibrate over 200 in order to obtain
accurate responses. Experience from  online discussion groups has shown that many students
obtain in accurate results. Furthe r research shows that at calibra tion 200,
there is still a thirty-percent chance of error. Additionally, less than
twelve percent of the students have consistent accuracy, main ly due to
unconsciously held positionalities (Jef fery and Colyer, 2007). The higherthe leve ls of consciousness of the test team, the more accurate are the
results. The best attitude is one of clinical detachment, posing a
statement with the prefix statement, “In the name of the highest good,
_____ calibrates  as true. Over 100. Over 200,”etc. The contextualization
“in the highest good” increase s accuracy because it transcends self-
serving personal interest and motives. For many years, the test was thought to be a local response of the body’ s
acupuncture or immune system. Later research, however, has revealed
that the response is not a local response to the body at all, but instead is a
general response of consciousness itself to the ener gy of a substance or a
statement. That which is true, beneficial, or pro-life gives a positive
response that stems from the im personal field of consciousness,  which is
present in everyone living. Th is positive response is indicated by the
body’ s musculat ure going strong. There is also an associated pupillary
response (the eyes dilate with falsity and constrict to truth) as well as
alterations in brain function as revealed by magnetic imaging. (For
convenience, the deltoid musc le is usually the one best used as an
indicator muscle; however, any of the muscles of the body can be used.) Before a question (in the form of a statement) is presented, it is necessary
to qualify ‘permission’; that is,  state, “I have permission to ask about
what I am holding in mind.” (Y es/No) Or, “This calibration s erves the
highest good.”
If a statement is  false or a substance is injurious, the muscles go weak
quickly in response to the c ommand, “Resist.” This indicates the
stimulus is negative, untrue, ant i-life,or the answer is “no.” The response
is fa st and brie f in duration. T he body will then rapidly rec over and
return to normal muscle tension. There are three ways of doing the testing. The one that is  used in
research and also most generally used requires two people: the tester and
the t est subject. A quiet setting is preferred, with no backgroun d music. The test  subject  closes their eye s. The tester must phrase the ‘que stion’
to be asked in the form of a statement. The statement can then be
answered as “yes” or “no” by the muscle response. For insta nce, the
incorr ect form would be to ask, “Is this a healthy horse?” The correct
form is to make the statement, “This horse is healthy,” or its corollary,
“This horse is sick.” After making the statement, the  tester says “Resist” to the test subject
who is holding the extended arm parallel to the ground. The tester
presses d own w ith two fingers o n the wrist of the extended arm sharply,
with mil d force. The test subject’ s arm will either stay strong, i ndicating
a “yes,” or go weak, indicating a “not yes” (no). The response is short
and immediate. A se cond method is the ‘O-ring’ method, which can be done al one. The
thumb and middle finger of the same hand are held tightly in an ‘O’
configuration, an d the hooked f orefinger of the opposite hand i s used to
try to pull them apart. There is a noticeable dif ference of the strength
between a “yes” and a “no” response (Rose, 2001). The third method is the simpl est, yet, like the others, requi res some
practice. Simply lift a heavy object, such as a lar ge dictionary or merely
a co uple of bricks, from a table about waist high. Hold in mind an image
or true statement to be calibrated  and then lift. Then, for contrast, hold in
mind tha t which is known to be false. Note the ease of lifting when truth
is held in mind and the greater ef fort necessary to lift the load when the
issue is false (not true). The res ults can be verified using the other two
methods. Calibration of Specific Levels. The critical point between posit ive and negative, between true a nd false,
or between that which is constructive or destructive, is at the c alibrated
level of 200 (see Map in Appendix B). Anything above 200, or true,
makes the subject go strong; a nything below 200, or false, allows the
arm to go weak. Anything past or present, including images or statements, historical
events, or personages, can be tested. They need not be verbalized. Numerical Calibration. Example: “Ramana Maharshi teachings calibrate over 700.” (Y/N). Or,
“Hitler calibrate d over 200.” (Y /N) “When he was in his 20s.” (Y/N)
“His 30s.” (Y/N) “His 40s.” (Y/N) “At the time of his death.” (Y/N)
 Applications. The mus cle test cannot be used to foretell the future; otherwise, there are
no li mits as to what can be aske d. Consciousness has no limits i n time or
space; however, permission may be denied. All current or historical
events are available for questioning. The answers are impersonal and do
not depe nd on the belief system s of either the tester or the tes t subject. For exam ple, protoplasm recoils from noxious stimuli and flesh bleeds. Those are the qualities of the se test materials and are im personal. Consciousness a ctually knows only truth because only truth has actual
existence. It does not respond t o falsehood because falsehood does not
have existence in Reality. It will also not respond accurately to
nonintegrous or egoistic questions. Accurately speaking, the test response is either an ‘on’ response or
merely a ‘not on’ response. L ike the electrical switch, we say the
electricity is “on,” and when we  use the term “of f,” we just me an that it
is not there. In reality, there is no  such thing as ‘of f-ness’. This is a subtle
statement but crucial to


 the ego in yourself. Instead of looking
through the ego in others, you are looking at the ego. Who is looking at
the ego. The ego in you. V ery unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection
in others. When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you
(and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own
ego. At that stage, you may also realize that you were doing to others
what you thought others were doing to you. Y ou cease seeing yourself as
a victim. Y ou are not the ego, so when you become aware of the ego in you, it
does not mean you know who you are it means you know who you are
not. But it is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obstacle
to truly knowing yourself is removed. Nobody can tell you who you are. It would just be another concept, so it
would not change you. Who you are requires no belief. In fact, every
belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you
already are who you are. But without realization, who you are does not
shine forth into this world. It remains in the unmanifested which is, of
course your true home. Y ou are then like an apparently poor person who
does not know he has a bank account with $100 million in it and so his
wealth remains an unexpressed potential. A New Earth
A B U N D A N C E
Who you think you are is also intimately connected with how you see
yourself treated by others. Many people complain that others do not treat
them well enough. I don't get any respect, attention, recognition,
acknowledgment, they say. I'm being taken for granted. When people are
kind, they suspect hidden motives. Others want to manipulate me, take
advantage of me. Nobody loves me. Who they think they are is this: I am a needy 'little me' whose needs are
not being met. This basic misperception of who they are creates
dysfunction in all their relationships. They believe they have nothing to
give and that the world or other people are withholding from them what
they need. Their entire reality is based on an illusory sense of who they
are. It sabotages situations, mar all relationships. If the thought of lack
whether it be money, recognition, or love has become part of who you
think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge
the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack. Acknowledging
the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance. The fact is: Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you
are withholding from the world. Y ou are withholding it because deep
down you think you are small and that you have nothing to give. T ry this for a couple of weeks and see how it changes your reality:
Whatever you think people are withholding from you. praise,
appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on give it to them. Y ou don't
have it. Just act as if you had it, and it will come. Then, soon after you
start giving, you will start receiving. Y ou cannot receive what you don't
give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is
withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow
out, you won't even know that you have it. This includes abundance. The
law that outflow determines inflow is expressed by Jesus in this powerful
image: Give and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down,
shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. The source of all abundance is not outside you. It is part of who you are. However, start by acknowledging and recognizing abundance without. See the fullness of life all around you. The warmth of the sun on your
skin, the display of magnificent flowers outside a florist's shop, biting
into a
succulent fruit, or getting soaked in an abundance of water falling from
the sky. The fullness of life is there at every step. The acknowledgment
of that abundance that is all around you awakens the dormant abundance
within. Then let it flow out. When you smile at a a stranger, there is
already a minute outflow of ener gy. Y ou become a giver. Ask yourself
often: What can I give here; how can I be of service to this person, this
situation. Y ou don't need to own anything to feel abundant, although if
you feel abundant consistently things will almost certainly come to you. Abundance comes only to those who already have it. It sounds almost
unfair, but of course it isn't. It is a universal law. Both abundance and
scarcity are inner states that manifest as your reality. Jesus puts it like
this: For to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who
has not, even what he has will be taken away. A New Earth
K N O W I N G  Y O U R S E L F  A N D  K N O W I N G
A B O U T  Y O U R S E L F
Y ou may not want to know yourself because you are afraid of what you
may find out. Many people have a secret fear that they are bad. But
nothing you can find out about yourself is you. Nothing you can know
about you is you. While some people do not want to know who they are because of fear,
others have a insatiable curiosity about themselves and want to find out
more and more. Y ou may be so fascinated with yourself that you spend
years in psychoanalysis, delve into every aspect of your childhood,
uncover secret fears and desires, and find layers upon layers of
complexity in the makeup of your personality and character. After ten
years, the therapist may get tired of you and your story and tell you that
your analysis is now complete. Perhaps he sends you away with a five. thousand. page dossier. This is all about you. This is who you are. As you
carry the heavy file home, the initial satisfaction of at last knowing
yourself gives way quickly to a feeling of incompleteness and a lurking
suspicion that there must be more to who you are than this. And indeed
there is more not perhaps in quantitative terms of more facts but in the
qualitative dimension of depth. There is nothing wrong with psychoanalysis or finding out about your
past as long as you don't confuse knowing about yourself with knowing
yourself. The five.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: Who is the true self, and what is the obstacle to knowing oneself?,
A: The true self is not a concept or a belief, but rather the essence of one's being. The obstacle to knowing oneself is the ego, which is the greatest hindrance to self-awareness.
Q: What is the key to inner alignment with the present moment, and how does it change one's reality?,
A: The key is non-resistance to the present moment, and it changes one's reality by allowing for a deeper connection with the universe and the elimination of the ego.
Q: What is the relationship between the ego and the present moment, and how does it manifest?,
A: The ego cannot align with the present moment, as it is always seeking to change or control the situation. This leads to reactivity and a sense of separation from the world.
Q: What is the importance of recognizing the ego and its influence on one's life?,
A: Recognizing the ego is crucial, as it is the source of all negativity, anxiety, and suffering. Once recognized, one can begin to transcend the ego and align with the universe.
Q: What is the true source of abundance and fulfillment, and how can one access it?,
A: Abundance and fulfillment come from aligning with the present moment and the universe, rather than seeking external validation or material possessions. One can access this by letting go of egoic thinking and embracing the now, allowing oneself to be guided by the universe.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Most people, in their restless search for something
significant to happen to them, continuously miss the insignificant, which
may not be insignificant at all. The philosopher Nietzsche, in a rare
moment of deep stillness, rote, For happiness, how little suf fices for
happiness!.... the least ting precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing,
a lizard's rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance little maketh up the
best happiness. Be still. Why is it the least thing that makes up the best happiness? Because true
happiness is not caused by the thing or event, although this is how it first
appears. The thing or event is so subtle, so unobtrusive, that it takes up
only a small part of your consciousness and the rest is inner space,
consciousness itself unobstructed by form. Inner space consciousness
and who you are in your essence are one and the same. In other words,
the form of little things leaves room for inner space. And it is from inner
space, the unconditioned consciousness itself, that true happiness, the joy
of Being, emanates. T o be aware of little, quiet things, however, you
need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.Here is anther way of finding inner space: Become conscious of being
conscious. Say or think I Am and add nothing to it. Be aware of the
still


 read that statement or heard  it at some time. Few people  have actu-
ally prayed  in that manner. Have  you ever been ill and  prayed  for health. If you  needed  money, did  you believe  when you  prayed  that you  already
had the sum you  asked  for. Most people  pray to God  to change something
in their lives or to give  them something  they do not have. If their prayers
were not answered, they think  that God had a reason for withholding  that
particular  thing. They think  that perhaps God  didn’t  grant their request
because  He didn’t want them to attain their desire  for some  reason  known
only to God. Man sometimes thinks that God  doesn’t answer  prayers  be-
cause  man is undeserving  of that which he  seeks. Man must learn to be -
lieve in that which he  does not, at the  moment, see in order  to grant him -
self that which he  desires to have. Man’s payers are  always answered,  for
he always receives that which he  believes. The  law that governs prayer  is
impersonal. Belief is the  condition necessary to realize the  desire. No
amount of pleas or ritual will bring  about the  fulfillment of your desires
other  than the  belief that you  are or have  that which you  want. More Free Books Law of Attraction Haven“Faith is the  substance of things hoped  for, the  evidence of things not
seen. ”  The full meaning  of that statement must be  understood. If the
meaning  were understood, man  would  have no problem in accomplishing
his aims. Most men believe  that nothing  is impossible  to God  – that God
could  do anything  if he chose  to do it. So man believes he has faith in God
and prays to God  for that which he  wants. If his prayer  is not granted, he
thinks that he  either  did not pray long  enough or hard  enough or that God
chose  to withhold  his request. However, faith is the  actual substance of that which is hoped  for. It is the
evidence of the  thing you want which you  do not see in the  outer  world. That which you  want to do or be has already been created. Therefore,  it
actually does exist. It is possible  to bring  into your world  anything  in cre -
ation by your belief that you  already have  it. Faith that what you want is
already a  fact is the  means by which you  activate  the invisible  state. That
state then is later  reflected  in your outer  world. Creation is finished. God
can create  nothing  that is not already existent. Faith or belief that you  al-
ready are  or have  that which you  desire  is the  only means by which to ex -
perience your desires. No limitation is imposed  on that  which you  can
have except your failure  to assume  possession of the  quality or thing  de-
sired. How the Law Works
The law of identical harvest or cause  and effect is impersonal and  can be
used to bring  into your experience anything  you can conceive. Since cre -
ation is finished, every possible  state already exists. Your fusion with a
particular  state (imagining  with feeling  what you  would experience were
you in that state)  causes that state  to be projected  on your screen of
space. This law cannot be  changed  or broken and  always reproduces in
your outer  world the  exact duplicate  of any belief you  consent to as true. If you  would  change  your world, you  must change  your beliefs. Since con -
sciousness is the  only cause, you  cannot blame  others for the  conditions
which presently exist nor can fate  or chance be  the cause  of that  which
you are now experiencing. Nothing  can alter  the course  of events in your
life except a  change  in your own consciousness. Whatever  is appearing  in
your world  now, although  it appears real and  an unalterable  fact, is a  re-
flection of previous activity in your own   consciousness. Therefore, a
change  in consciousness will reflect that change  in the  future  just as sure -
ly as past beliefs reflect the  present. Man is pure  formless consciousness and  that which he  conceives himself
to be is an illusion or reflection of the  particular  ideas he  holds true. These
illusions exist only so long  as man focuses his attention upon them and
gives them life. The conscious mind  forms beliefs and  opinions from the  evidence of the
senses or the  perceived  outer  world. The  creative  power  within each of us
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenaccepts as true  that which the  conscious mind  impresses upon it. Your
creative  power  takes those  ideas, which are thought of with feeling, and
projects them in your outer  world. It is important to remember  that not
all thoughts are  creative. Only those  which are  believed  to be true or
which are  joined  with feeling  create  the circumstances and  events that
you will encounter. Therefore, emotions such as anger, fear, love  or joy are  creative. You
must guard  the emotions which you  allow to enter  your consciousness
just as you  would  discriminate  in allowing  a stranger  into your home. You
cannot allow  negative  emotions to fill your mind  without suffering the
consequences of experiencing  the state with which those  emotions are
joined. Fear of loss brings loss into your world. You  could  take every out -
ward precaution to guard  against loss, but if you  fear loss, you  will most
certainly experience it  in your affairs. Feelings of love  and joy create  hap-
py events and  loving  relationships. Feeling  abundant brings riches into
your life. A person who is unloving  or suspicious and  feels that others take
advantage of him, draws to himself that which he  believes. No matter
what he  does externally, his relationships with others  will reflect that
which he  accepts as true. He may want a  loving  relationship  but he  can
draw to himself only that which he  is conscious of being. Like literally does attract like. As within, so without. Consciousness is real -
ity and  that which is perceived  by our senses and  appears so real is but
the shadow  of that which we believe  ourselves and  the world  to be. Conscious Use of the Law
At this time, I’m going  to talk  about who I am and  what I am doing. If
that sounds ego  centered, it is. There  have been 66  books written about
who I am. I’m going  to quote some  statements from a  few of those
books. You  have heard  many of these  quotes but didn’t realize that they
were talking  about the  being  that I am. The  first quote  is taken from
the Book of Exodus. Here, Moses is talking  to God  and he said, “When I
go back  to the people, who shall I say has sent me. ”  The voice answers,
“Tell them I am has sent me  unto you. That is my name forever and the
name  I shall be  known by throughout all  generations. ”  The Ten Command -
ments state,  “Thou  shalt not use  the name  of the  Lord thy God  in vain. ”
“Shalt not”  is a command. “Shalt not”  means you  must not. It means that
under  no circumstances must you  do it. That name  is I AM. Now, first of all, we have  all forgotten His name. We say, “I am”  hundreds
of times a  day and we don’t know  we are  using  the name  of God. Second -
ly, we  try to break  the Commandment all day long. We  pay no attention to
what we  say following  “I AM. ”  When  we say, “I AM”  and follow  it with
something we  would  not like  in our world, we  are using  the Name  of
the Lord – but not in vain. The  Bible states we  cannot use  the Name  in
vain. Nothing  we say preceded  by “I AM”  is in vain. That’s his Name. It is
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenGod Himself and because  it is God, it is creative. God gave us Himself. He
is “I AM”  and that is who I am. I can never  forget that I am. I may forget
who I am or where  I am but I can never  forget   that I exist. Whenever  I say “I AM”,  I AM [is] creating  something. Prayer  is believing
that we  have  already received  that which we  ask. When I say, “I am,”  I
am attaching  my awareness of being  to something. Now, you  can lie and
not believe  what you


 medical profession to go on a high complex carbohydrate, low saturated -fat diet is an absolute oxymoron,
because those high complex carbohydrate diets are nothing but a high glucose diet, or a high sugar diet, and your body is jus t
going to store it as saturated fat. The body makes it into saturated fat quite readily. ".... heart attacks are two to three time s more likely to happen after a high carbohydrate meal." copyright © Dr. Stanley S. Bass   (718) 648 -1500    www.drbass.com                                               81

..... Insulin also causes the retention of sodium, which causes  the retention of fluid, which causes high blood pressure and fluid
retention: congestive heart failure...... What does all of this do to the heart? Not very good things. There was a study done a couple of years ago, a good, down  to
earth nicely conducte d study that showed that heart attacks are two to three times more likely to happen after a high
carbohydrate meal. They said specifically NOT after a high fat meal. Why is that? Because the immediate effects of raising your blood sugar from a high carboh ydrate meal is to raise insulin and
that immediately triggers the sympathetic nervous system which will cause arterial spasm, constriction of the arteries. If yo u
take anybody prone to a heart attack and that is when they are going to get it. "So the way we age is that we turn rancid and we caramelize. It's very true." You can slow the rate of aging. Not just even the rate of disease, but the actual rate of aging itself can be modulated by in sulin..... there is some pretty good evidence that even in huma ns we still retain the capacity to control lifespan at least partially. We
should be living to be 130, 140 years old routinely. If you have a carbohydrate that is not a fiber it is going to be turned into a sugar, whether it be glucose or not. It may be  fructose
..., fructose is worse for you then glucose, so if you just go by blood sugar.... it doesn't mean that you are not raising your
blood fructose...... Glucose combines with anything else really, it's a very sticky molecule.....Just take sugar on  your fingers. It's very sticky. It
sticks specifically to proteins...... the term for glycation in the food industry is carmelization. They use it all the time, that is how
you make caramel. So the way we age is that we turn rancid and we caramelize. It' s very true. And that is what gets most of us. If that doesn't get us, then the genetic causes of aging will, because every cell in your body has genetic programs to commit
suicide. "What is a potato? A potato is a big lump of sugar. That's all it is." Let's get to diet. Diet really becomes pretty simple. Carbohydrates we started talking about. You've got fiber and non -fiber and
that's real clear -cut. Fiber is good, non -fiber is bad. Fibrous carbs, like vegetables and broccoli, those are great. What is a potato? A potato is a big lump of sugar. That's all it is. You chew a potato, what are you swallowing? Glucose. You
may not remember, but you learned that in eighth grade, but the medical profession still hasn't learned that..... What is a slice
of brea d? A slice of sugar. Does it have anything else good about it? Virtually no..... And there are fifty -some essential nutrients
to the human body. "What is the minimum daily requirement for carbohydrates? ZERO. ".......... What is the minimum daily requirement for carbohydrates? ZERO. What is the food pyramid based on? A totally irrelevant nutrient...... Those are the two essential reasons that we need to eat. We need the building blocks and we need fuel, not the least of
which is to have energy to  obtain those building blocks and then to have energy to fuel those chemical reactions to use those
building blocks. So what are the building blocks that are needed, proteins and fatty acids. Not much in the way of carbohydrates. You can get all
the carbo hydrates you need from proteins and fats. So the building blocks are covered by proteins and fats. "Glucose was meant to be fuel used in an emergency situation, such as running from a saber tooth tiger.".... What about fuel? That's the other reason we ea t. There are two kinds of fuel that your body can use with minor exceptions,
sugar and fat. We mentioned earlier that the body is going to store excess energy as fat. Why does the body store it as fat? Because that is the body's desired fuel. That is the f uel the body wants to burn and that will sustain you and allow you to live. The body can store only a little bit of sugar..... In an active day you would die if you had to rely one -hundred percent on sugar. Why doesn't your body store more sugar if it is  so needed? Sugar was never meant to be your primary energy source..... Sugar
is meant to be your body's turbo charger...... The brain can actually exist without a whole lot of sugar, contrary to popula r belief. Glucose was meant to be fuel used if you h ad to, in an emergency situation, expend and extreme amount of energy, such as
running from a saber tooth tiger. "Vegetables are great, I want you to eat vegetables.... but there is no essential need. " copyright © Dr. Stanley S. Bass   (718) 648 -1500    www.drbass.com  82

..... Vegetables are great, I want you to eat vegetables. The practical aspect of it is that you are going to get carbs, but there is
no essential need..... Fruit is a mixed blessing...... But most foods fall in the middle somewhere. Things like strawberries, you
are going to get something bad with strawberries, you are going to get a lot of sugar with strawberries, but you are also goi ng to
get a food that is also the second or third highest in antioxidant potential of any food known, the first being garlic the second
either being strawberries or blueberries. So, there is something good to be had from it. So I will let some patients put some
strawberries in let's say a protein smoothie in the morning. But if they are a hard core diabetic, strawberries are out. "Eating is the biggest stress we put on our body and that is why in caloric restriction experiments you can
extend life."..... Most food is a double edged sword..... Eating is the biggest stress we put on our body and that is why in caloric restriction
experiments you can extend life as long as you maintain nutrition. This is the only proven way of actually reducing the rate of
aging, not just the mortality rate, but the actual rate of aging, because eating is a big stress..... Your primary fuel should be coming from fat...... So you want to increase the ability of the cells in the body to burn fat. You
want to make that glucose burner into a fat burner. You want to make a gasoline burning car into a diesel b urning car. "You want everybody, athletes especially, to be able to burn fat efficiently. So when they train, they are on
a very low carbohydrate diet."..... With athletes, let's think about that. What is the effect of carbohydrate loading before an even t. What happens if you eat a
bowl of pasta before you have to run a marathon. What does that bowl of pasta do? It raises your insulin. What is the
instruction of insulin to your body? To store energy and not burn it. I see a fair amount of athletes and this is what I tell them, you want everybody, athletes
especially, to be able to burn fat efficiently. So when they train, they are on a very low carbohydrate diet. The night befor e their
event, they can stock up on sugar and load their glycogen if they wo uld like. "Your primary energy source ideally would come mostly from mono -unsaturated fat.".... In general, over 50% of the calories should come from fat, but not from saturated fat...... Saturated fat is a hard fat. We can
get the fats from foods to come mostly from nuts. Nuts are a great food because it is mostly mono -unsaturated. Your primary
energy source ideally would come mostly from mono -unsaturated fat. It's a good compromise. It is not an essential fat, but it is
a more fluid fat. Your body ca n utilize it very well as an energy source. "Animal proteins are fine and are good for you, but not the ones that are fed grains."..... Animal proteins are fine and are good for you, but not the ones that are fed grains. Grain -fed animals are going to ma ke
saturated fat out of the grains. Saturated fat in nature occurs to a very tiny degree. Not in the wild there is very little s aturated fat
out there. If you talk about the Paleolithic diet, we didn't eat a saturated fat diet. Saturated fat diets are new to mankind. We
manufactured a saturated fat diet by feeding animals grains. You can consider saturated fat to be second generation
carbohydrates. We eat the saturated fats that other animals produce from carbohydrates. "I would go 20% of calories from carb s, 25 to 30% of calories from protein, and 60 -65% from fat."...... I would go 20% of calories from carbs. Depending on the size of the person, 25