She had nursed  over fifty cases of malignancy  in the course
of her professional  activities,  and it says little for the policy of
extirpating  cancerous  growths, that long before she herself developed
one, she had  vowed  that never would  she submit  to the knife. She was
one of many of those in a position to know  from the sufferings  she had
witnessed  that however painful a growth may  be before an operation,
the pain is mild in comparison  to what is experienced  after it when the
cancer recurs.
When I first  saw her, she had had  the growth for some months, and  it
had  already extended  from both breasts right over both shoulders.  It
gave her little trouble beyond occasional  twinges. She had  not
consulted  a doctor  about it, but one day, being laid up with influenza,
she was obliged  to send  for a medical man, who, while examining  her, 36
 discovered  the condition  of her breast, lamented  the fact that it was
already too late to operate‐ and gave her ten days more  to live!
The case  then came into my hands. A short fast on the patient's own
urine, plus water,  was undertaken.  It lasted ten days. Then a light diet
was prescribed  on the one meal a day plan, along with  the free  internal
use of the urine passed.  No effect on the growth was  observed;  but the
general health and  spirits of the patient i mproved  in an astonishing
manner.
Subsequently  the growth  itself  'gave her no further  trouble.  She retired
to a seaside place to live with a relative who scoffed  at my theories, and
though doctors had  failed to cure her of asthma, worshipped  at the
shrine of medical orthodoxy.  My erstwhile  patient died six years later,
two hours  after a physician  had given her some innocent looking pellets
for a cold. I had only seen her once  after  1918‐19.
This case, from my point of view,  was, of course, unsatisfactory.  But it
serves in some measure to show what many unorthodox  physicians
have maintained,  viz., that if growths are not interfered  with by the
knife, they do not necessarily  kill the patient, and  even may cause no
trouble.
A case  is cited in one of the medical books, relative to an old lady who
lived to 96, and had had a cancerous  growth  of the breast  since she was
forty! Various  doctors she had  called in for minor ailments had  wished
to excise it, but she had always refused on the grounds  that it gave her
no pain or inconvenience.  Moreover  she did not believe in the knife.
Since my first  " cancer" case, I have treated, in various stages of the
disease, a large  number  of further cases diagnosed  as cancerous,  and 37
 even after some of them had been treated either medically  or surgically
in consequence,  I have been enabled  to collect much interesting  data
on the subject‐most of which  conflicts with allopathic  theories and
popular assumptions.  Seeing,  however the dogma obtains that  genuine
cancer is incurable,  and  seeing that a law has been passed  prohibiting
any layman even to hint  that he can cure  (or presumably  has cured)
malignancy,  we must  assume that all those cases hereafter  mentioned
which  were alleged  by the  Profession  to be cancerous  had  been
wrongly diagnosed.
First I may briefly mention en masse the cases of five women  I will
classify as ABC, because all were unprejudiced  by any kind of previous
treatment,  and  every one of them was of recent development.  Their
cases at least suggest the wisdom of prompt  and  correct measures.  I
should stress, however,  at the outset, that not one of these patients
had  been labelled  cancer cases. Nevertheless  to be on the safe side, I
fasted  every one  of them my way, in addition to applying urine
compresses,  with complete  success; for in addition to the
disappearance  of the growths, the treatment  resulted in a state of
general health far in exce$s of that experienced  prior  to the fasts.  In
fact their growths disappeared  so completely  that they  were all
convinced  that they could not have been malignant;  especially  as I
make a point of never employing  such terms as cancer, malignancy  or
even tumour during my consultations.  Besides, it must be freely
admitted  that every lump or nodule that forms on the human  body is
not a malignant  growth‐ although only a surgeon is credited with the
ability or the authority  to label  it either malignant  or otherwise.  The
ruling unfortunately  results in many comparatively  harmless  lumps 38
 being labelled  as malignant  when such may  not be the fact, or it may
result in an operation  being advised  in case  they should become
malignant.  Thus, hundreds  of trifling lumps have been treated surgically
as a major  affliction,  and  cancer has eventually  developed,  because as
yet, neither doctors  nor laymen realise that the surest way to invite
malignancy  is the mutilation  of the female breast  or other  parts of the
human  body.  (*)
(*) For instance, San Francisco  is a surgically  ridden  city; it has few
physicians  but hundreds  of surgeons.  Therefore


 with Spirit again, with love again, with God again. Mind trainin g makes the unconscious mind  conscious. I call the
unconscious mind “the unwatched mind,” for it is constantly wandering
and distracting us from rememb ering our true identity. When the mind
wanders into an ego trap, it’s very important to come back to the present
moment and the sense of peace it brings. The practical spiritual  path is a
practice of finding and tapping into the Holy Spirit’ s thought system of
freedom and following it carefully. The practical tools I offer you
throughout this book will support you in finding and establishing this
thought system. Sometimes peop le ask me if they need to love the ego. We can’t
love the ego since the ego is the belief that there is no love. We can’t
love something that is the total denial of love! The ego doesn’ t really
exist since it is just a belief. So, we are not trying to heal or awaken the
ego. That is impossible. Self-improvement does not solve anything. The
Self that God created does not need to be improved; it is already perfect. What you can do is expose your ego beliefs, raise them to the light of the
Holy Spirit, and then watch them disappear. This is how you see that the
ego wasn’ t real, and you can have a good belly laugh at it. Until our belief system is deeply examined, the ego will continue to
have a grip on us. It has control over our roles and responsibiliti es. It has
control over almost everything we do and say. Until we have examined
our mind deeply enough to allow Spirit to use our roles and
responsibilities for a loving purpose, the ego will use them for its own
ends. There is nothing in betwe en: you either let your mind be used by
the Spirit or by the ego. By giving over the roles and responsibilities to
the Holy  Spirit,  they can be repurposed for the Spirit’ s healing  of your
mind. Your career, hobbies, talents, and relationships can all be used in
miraculous ways you never dreamed were possible. I’ve marveled as I
watched all the skills that I had developed be used in comple tely new
and different ways by the Holy Spirit. The practicality of it is amazing. It
is like the unwinding action of turning a screw out of a wall. The ego has
really wound us into this belief system, and that’s why it takes many
gentle turns to come out of it.I am very excited to start this journey with you. When I meet
someone, it is never a fleeting encounter. We are here to truly bless each
other ’s lives, to be of full support to one another. I feel like I am always
meeting my beloved Self. We have a lifelong link; we have a lifelong
connection of awakening to truth together. Even though our bodies seem
to be in different parts of the world, we have a communication link. We
can join together through the power of thought, through the power of
prayer, and through Spirit. It is in our hearts. The result of this journey is profound beyond imagination. In
spiritual practice, like any other  practice, the more you put in, the more
you will get out. Willingness goes a very, very long way! The tools I will
give you can help you see that the sticky and painful aspects of your
everyday life can ultimately be the springboards to a sustained
experience of profound freedom and joy. If you have a strong desire to know your beloved Self, know that
the feeling is mutual and that joining together in this unified purpose is
more profound than you might think. Let’ s begin.Part I
The Miracle of Moving Through
SeparationChapter 1
Judgment and Knowledge
One time I was walking with a friend when she spontaneously burst into
laughter and said, “You have a butterfly on your butt!” I looked back,
and, sure enough, there was a butterfly getting a free lift on my backside. I said, “Okay. Enjoy the ride!” We continued to walk down the road, and
it dawned on me that the butterf ly would be more comfortable riding on
my finger. So, I put my index finger in the air and told my friend that I
was going to call the butterfly to ride on my finger. She was all for it. I
called to it telepathically, “Com e on up. There is a great view here. The
butt is okay, but you’ll like it up here. You can be like a little hood
ornament.” And it did! It flew around, landed on my finger, and stayed
there with its little antennae out. Of course, my friend laugh ed even
harder. It was a fun walk, with the butterfly symbolizing our innocence. Like children, animals respond to defenselessness. When you are
meek, joyful, and innocent, you draw forth many reflections. At our
monastery, the chipmunks come right up our legs. It is like a Saint
Francis moment. Everything we see is innocent. I see this truth in people
and events. I am into not seeing error. I am into seeing innocence
everywhere and in everyone. This is why people and animals, and even
butterflies, want  to be near me. When the mind is whole and not split,
you see only innocence, and you feel happy and loving all the time! The Split
Imagine for a second an awake mind. This mind is used to the
wholeness, sameness, and constancy of Heaven’ s oneness. Suddenly, a
doubt thought seems to arise. Now the mind has two irreconcilable
thought systems —one of love and one of fear. The tension from trying to
hold this split together is intolerable since the two thought systems haveno meeting point and are total opposites of each other. There fore, the
mind attempts to see the split outside instead of within, where it was
conceived. Thus, a world of duality and opposites is made: a place with
opposing views and changing desires. The ego says, “I know how you can alleviate this terrible tension:
just get rid of your feelings of pain and guilt by projecting them  out onto
the world.” This is how pain, fear, doubt, and sorrow became the
common experie nce of this world. This is how the mind made a world of
duality, of up and down, of good and bad, and of right and wrong. The
only reason we seem to experience health and sickness, war and peace,
life and death, and all the variations, degrees, and extremes is simply
judgment. That is the trick of this world. Whenever we judge or
condemn, the mind is projecting, and says, “That person, thing, or
situation out there is at fault.”  It does this to cover the guilt of the
separation from God, which, believe it or not, is at the core of every
conceived problem in this world. It makes the world into a smokescreen
as it thinks it can be free of the guilt by putting it outside, while
believing it is actually within. It is only by believing there is darkness
within that our mind would ever attempt to project it outside. How Good Is Good Enough? Growing up in this world, there is a lot of pressure and high expectations
to do something constructive, develop skills, and gain special knowledge
to develop a life skill for self-suf ficiency. We’re told that it’s important
to get higher and higher degrees and accumulate more and more special
knowledge. This is stressful, and it’ s coming from a strong cultural belief
in perso nal responsibility, whic h has, at its core, a sense of guilt. It’s
built in to the system, and it seems noble and good, yet the pressure for
self-reliance is hurting us. Not many can escape the questions running in the back of our
minds: How good is good enough? Did I do enough? Did I fulfill
obligations? Did I live up to standar ds? The ego sets us up to be forever
stressed-out, always thinking that there is something we could change or
make better. This is rigid learn ed behavior, but another perspective isavailable, a perfectly different and perfectly gentle means and
perspective. A Course in Miracles  says, “In no situation that arises do you
realize the outcome that would make you happy.” Not in some—in none! But you’re not left hanging; the next lesson states, “Everything is for
your own best interests.” Everything! This can feel just as shocking as
the first message. All things work together for good with no exceptions except in the
ego’s judgment. Talk about undoing the analytical mind! Suddenly,
there’ s no point in trying to analyze or judge anything. What a relief! Our Deepest Problem
The deepest problem that we have is the thinking, the stereotyping, the
breaking-things-apart mechanism. I call this the “I-know” egoic mind. The ego is always fragmented; it made up a fragmented world, and it’s
always categorizing, analyzing, diagnosing, and fixing things. It’s very
much a dysfunctional thought system, based on the myth of separation. In the traditiona l Genesis story, God said to Adam and Eve, “Don’t
eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” But the serpent
lured Eve into taking an apple, and she gave


 problems but hardly effective
for chronic foot problems, except for chronic calcaneal spur inflammation. HEEL SPURS
On the heel bone, the
calcaneus
, a spurlike growth of calcium, sometimes forms
where the muscles and ligaments of the foot are attached. One or more spurs grow
on the heel bone, but are padded by the flesh of the foot, so that the spur may take
years to become a problem. The heel spur hurts when you place your weight on the bone. Anyone may be
affected. Women are as likely to suffer from it as men. It is seen most often in
persons past forty, and the condition may be associated with arthritis or poor
circulation. The underlying cause is chronic foot strain brought on by weak feet, prolonged
standing, improper footgear, or structural misalignment of the feet. In each case,
the feet are inadequate to the tasks they must perform and strain brings onphysiological change with overgrowth of calcification. The pain comes actually not from the spur point but from the inflammation
around the muscles where they are attached to the bone. It is most severe when
you start to walk after a rest. For full relief of painful heel spurs, the doctor will diagnose and analyze the
problem and recommend a course of treatment. It should include ultrasound and
DMSO employed daily to take out the deep-seated pain of inflammation. The
DMSO impervious wrap is also excellent to strap onto the heel to pull out the
painful inflammation. ANKLE SPRAINS
The sprained ankle, a common injury, is the result of a violent twisting of the foot. You may sprain an ankle quite casually as you stroll along the street. You may
sprain it when you step upon an uneven surface, like a rock or a curbstone, when
you catch a high heel in a grating, or when you jump from any height. The more
active you are, the greater the possibility that you will sprain your ankle. Since a sprain occurs if the foot is twisted, it is most likely to happen when the
foot is somehow off balance. When the weight of the body comes down on the
foot, instead of being transmitted directly to the ground, it is caught on only one
side of the foot. The strain placed on the ligaments when the foot is off balance
and the weight suddenly thrust upon it will be greater than the ligaments can
withstand. Consequently, the ligaments that connect the anklebone and the
shinbone tear. The more violently the ankle is twisted, the greater the damage and
pain. Immediately after the sprain, the signs and symptoms of injury appear. Placing
any weight directly on the injured foot may cause pain. If the sprain is slight, the
ankle becomes tender and sensitive. If the sprain is severe, the ankle may become
hot, swollen, tender, and so painful that you cannot walk. The ankle becomes
discolored, sometimes red, sometimes blue. As the swelling increases, it is
accompanied by throbbing. Emergency care for a sprained ankle can begin even before you get to a
doctor. First, take weight off the ankle. Sit down. When a sprain is truly severe,
this suggestion is scarcely necessary, for in such cases walking will cause
considerable pain. But you can get some comfort within a few minutes by dosing
the torn ligaments or pulled muscles with 90 percent DMSO. You may feel some
burning or see redness appear, but the pain of inflammation will go out of theankle. Still, don’t bear weight on the ankle. The seriousness of the injury cannot
always be determined immediately, for the symptoms don’t appear all at once. The
sprain may seem to be only a temporary impediment, especially with the swift
application of topical DMSO, but using the ankle may easily increase the damage. Do not take the risk. The DMSO will reduce the swelling or prevent it from coming up altogether. Devise a proper support for the ankle by wrapping gauze over the DMSO-
moistened skin, covering with impervious plastic kitchen wrap, and taping with
one-inch strips of adhesive strapping over everything. Eliminating the pain,
remember, is not healing the sprain; support is mandatory to hold the torn
ligaments against the leg bone so that they don’t move much. Change the strapping
every four days, wash the skin each time, recoat with DMSO, and keep up this
procedure until there is no more pain from the direct pressure of palpation with
your fingers. *   *   *
The majority of sufferers of foot and leg problems, instead of seeking professional
care, turn to the many gadgets, special materials, and patent medicines that are
widely promoted as cures. Most of these products are, unfortunately, ineffective;
some must have been invented in the offices of the advertising agencies that
promote them. Others are “family recipes” that have been handed down from
generation to generation, given new names, packaged artfully, and marketed at high
prices. The money you spend for foot gadgets often is utterly wasted. Still, the public
goes from one “remedy” to another in its never-ending search for relief. There are no panaceas. The only truly effective products for use on the feet
are those that have been tested and proved in laboratories, in clinics, and in
doctors’ offices. Yet the one medication that seems to be most applicable to foot
and leg problems—as close to a panacea as we can come—is DMSO. It is useful
for a broad range of lower limb difficulties and should be considered as an
excellent emergency remedy and follow-up therapy for the many troubles that
plague our feet. CHAPTER 9
Using DMSO in Head and Spinal Cord
Injuries
Clara M. Fox of Toutle, Washington, was stunned September 15, 1979, to learn
that her son Bill had a near-fatal injury that left the young man completely
paralyzed. Through a series of hospital transfers during the first six hours, William
J. Shaal was taken to the University of Oregon Health and Science Center in
Portland after his devastating accident. It was a lucky move because DMSO is a
therapeutic ingredient used in this institution’s surgical intensive care unit. George
Greccos, M. D., the physician attending Bill Shaal’s case, made intravenous
infusion with the experimental drug an integral part of his treatment during the first
ten days. Bill had a broken neck; he was paralyzed from the site of injury downward. He
couldn’t willfully urinate, defecate, move any limbs, talk, eat, or perform any other
kind of voluntary function. With his head cleanly shaven, ugly but necessary steel
tongs were drilled into his skull to keep the spinal column immobilized. Thin ropes
and pulleys with weights attached stretched his neck at the crucial point, in order
for it to come back into place and possibly heal. He remained in traction for forty-
five days after coming out of intensive care where he had teetered between life and
death for four days. The youth was eventually hospitalized for over six months. Spinal cord injuries are extremely serious, and lacerations or cuts across the
cord inevitably leave the accident victim permanently without function. An acute
transverse cord lesion causes immediate flaccid paralysis and loss of all sensation
and function of the autonomic system below the level of injury. The flaccid
paralysis gradually changes over hours or days to spastic paraplegia due to
exaggeration of the normal stretch reflex. The limbs exhibit spontaneous jumps or
spasms. Later, if the spinal cord in the lumbosacral region is not entirely severed,
extensor or flexor muscle spasms appear, and deep tendon reflexes and autonomic
reflexes return very gradually. Depending on how complete the trauma to the cord is, there may be only
partial motor and sensory nerve loss. Voluntary movement could return but it isdisordered; sensory loss is determined by which portion of the spinal tract is
affected. The lost or impaired senses may include the sense of posture, vibration,
light touch or pain, temperature, and deep touch. A half-cut through the cord
results in spastic paralysis, loss of postural sense on the side cut through, and loss
of pain and heat sense on the opposite side. With an injury such as that sustained by young Bill, the severed nerve
processes in the cord cannot recover and damage often becomes permanent. Still,
if there is any movement or sensation during the first week after the injury, the
signs are favorable for some recovery. Any dysfunction remaining after six months
is likely to remain permanent. Severe cord injury above the fifth cervical vertebra is usually fatal. Bill’s was
at that point. Certainly there is motor and sensory loss, and the reflex arcs that
control the bladder, sexual activity in men, and bowel function are destroyed. While DMSO works effectively for healing spinal cord lesions when
administered intravenously within ninety minutes of the injury, Bill Shaal did not
get the DMSO until seven hours later. Yet, after several days he began to have
distinct feelings in his shoulders and arms, then in his upper chest to just below the
nipples. His family was overjoyed to see that his senses were returning, Clara Fox
said, “. and before he was taken off the drug, he was even beginning to
experience feelings and sensations in his bladder and kidneys, asking for his urinal
time and again, and in each case, actually ur


 the things you love for what they are.” When you
forget this and process other people on the basis of what
you think they should be, or what they used to be, or how
they compar e to what you are, then you’ve sent love away,
and in your mind, the relationship has soured. You
experience every thing and every one in your thoughts. Change your thoughts, and you change what you carry
around in your head as pr oblems. The world is just the way it is. The economy is just as it
should be. The people who are behaving “badly ” in the
world are doing what they’re supposed to be doing. You can
process it in any way that you choose. If you’r e ﬁlled with
anger about  all of those “problems”, you are one more
person who contributes to the pollution of anger. Your desire to do something about the lowest energies will
motivate you to be more loving, more feeling, and more
peaceful. And in so doing, you may inﬂuence those who are
the farthest removed from God to return to their Source. This new agreement with yourself to always stay connected
to Spirit even when it seems to be the most diﬃcult thing to
do will allow whatever degree of perfect harmony that your
body was designed for to proliferate. Turn “diseases ” over to
God, and treat your body  to regular exercise, healthy food,large amounts of pure water, and plenty of rest to allow it to
function as a container for Spirit to ﬂow thr ough. Your new agreement with reality in which you’ve blended
your physica l self and your personality with your spiritual
God-connected self will begin to radiate a higher energy of
love and light. Wher ever you go, others will experience the
glow of your God consciousness, and dishar mony and
disor der and all manner of problems simply will not ﬂourish
in your presence. Become “an instrument of Thy peace,” as
St. Francis desir es in the ﬁrst line of his famous prayer. Move
up the ladder of human awar eness from the lowest to the
highest. Become a mystical being by simply changing your
mind from one that created and experienced problems, to
one that r esolves them. OceanofPDF.comThe Three Levels of
Consciousness
We saw yester day how changing our mindset and increasing
our human awar eness can help us to resolve problems. Today I’d like to introduce you to the three levels of
consciousness, which will help you to gauge wher e you are
on the ladder of awar eness. Throughout your life, you can measur e yourself on the
following three levels of consciousness. Few, if any of us,
ever stay at any one level all of the time. These levels of
awar eness ar e presented fr om lowest to highest.1. The ﬁrst level is ego consciousness. In ego
consciousness, your primary emphasis is on your
personality and your body. There’s an exceptio nally
strong belief in your separateness from everyone else,
from all that you’d like to attract into your life, and from
God. This attitude puts you into a state of competing for
your share as if your job is to get there ﬁrst. Winning
and being number one seem to be the most important
things you can do when you live at the level of ego
consciousness. You spend a lot of your time measuring
your success on the basis of how you stack up against
others. If you have more than others, you feel better about
yourself. Having more money makes you feel better. Accumulating more awar ds and prestige and climbing
higher on the corporate ladder encourage you to feel
good about yourself. Ego consciousness prods you to
compete, compar e, and conclude that you are the best,
so you concentrate on running faster and looking better
than others. It’s at this level of consciousness that
problems exist. This is wher e inner peace is virtually
impossible and success eludes you, because you must
always be striving to be someplace else. In order to walk comfortably along the extra mile, you
must tame this ever-demanding, impossible-to -satisf y
ego. Feelings of despai r, anger, hatred, bitter ness,
stress, and depression stem from the ego’s anxiety and
insistence on living up to an external standar d. The
result is the anguish of not measuring up or ﬁtting in
properly. The ego will seldom allow you to rest, and
demands more and more because it’s terriﬁed  that
you’ll be called a failur e. When you move beyond ego
and make your higher self the dominant force in yourlife, you’ll begin to feel that contentment and inner  glow
of peace and success that characterize the e xtra mile. 2. The second  level is group consciousness. Group
consciousness is very similar to ego consciousness  with
the e xception that you move past yourself as the central
focus of your life, and you now include others who are
members of your group or your clan. You suppr ess your
individual ego and join a larger organization, the group
ego. Your membership is based upon your family, your
heritage, your racial backgr ound, your religion, your
language, your political aﬃliation, and so on. You’re
requir ed to think and act like the group to which you’ve
been assigned. At the group consciousnes s level, you’r e often dedicated
to continuing social problems such as war, brutality, and
religious persecution, which originated in ancestral
enmities that have existe d for thousands of years. But it
also comes right down to daily living. Families insist that
you adopt their viewpoint, hate whom they hate, and
love whom they love. You have blind allegiance to a company that may be
making weapons of destruction, a concept to which
you’r e normally opposed, but you do it anyway because
“It’s my job.” Some policemen and soldiers victimize
their fellow human beings by behaving worse than the
criminals or so-called enemies they abhor so much. Our
inhumanity to our fellow human beings is often justiﬁed
on the grounds of a group-consciousness mentality. Members of gangs or societies will behave in horrid
ways, spurred on by a group or clan mentality. In short,
what the group dictates becomes your identiﬁc ation
card as a human being.Remember that, as we discussed yester day, you can’t
solve any pr oblem with the same mind that cr eated it. In
order to resolve a struggle that results from group
consciousness, you have to change your mind or
continue to have the problem haunt you. Resolving
problems related to group consciousness involves
moving into the highest level. 3. The third level is mystical consciousness. This level
of problem-fr ee consciou sness is distinguished by the
feeling of connectedness  rather than separatenes s. At
the level of mystical consciousness, you feel conn ected
to every individual, every creatur e, the entire planet,
and God. Feeling connected means you truly sense that we are all
one, and that harm directed at others is really harm
directed at ourselves. Here, cooperation supplants
competition; hatred is dissolved with love; and sadness
is reduced to nothingness  with joy. At this level, you’r e a
member of the human race, not a sub-gr oup. Here,
you’r e a nation of the world with a global awar eness,
rather than a patriot of any one country. In mystical
consciousness, you won’t feel separate from any one,
any thing, or God. You won’t be what you have, what
you accomplish, or what others think of you. You will be
the beloved, and you will have changed your mind! Problems will now be only illusions of the mind that you
no longer car ry around with you. As the great humanitarian Mahatma Gandhi put it, “Man
becomes great exactly in the degree to which he works
for the welfar e of his fellow man.” This is the level of
mystical or God consciousness. It is a place wher e you
can live a problem-fr ee existence by changing your
thoughts from ego and group consciousness to thehigher level of mysticism. Here, you truly understand
what Thoreau meant when he said, “Ther e is no remedy
for love but to love mor e.”
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Resentments
You hear people say this all the time: “I have a right to be
upset because of the way I’ve been treated. I have a right to
be angry, hurt, depressed, sad, and resentful.” Learning to
avoid this kind of thinking is one of my top
recommendations for living a life of inner peace, success,
and happiness. Anytime you’r e ﬁlled with resentment,
you’r e turning the contr ols of your emotional life over to
others to manipulate. Today’s topic is taking responsibility
for everything (and I mean everything ) in your life. I becam e awar e of how powerful this lesson was many years
ago while sitting in on a meeting of 12 people who were in arecovery group for alcoholism and drug


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how to feel free. Is it when you read a book. Watch a movie. Write in your journal. Is it when you breathe fresh air. Go to the beach. Or travel. Find something easy, within
yourself, that doesn’t require an y reach or resistance to get
there. To experience the free feeling. And you will have aligned with your “already is” perfect inner state – which is
the core vibration of all things. This is how people will begin to
remember the truth of who they really are. Watch one person
get one whiff of how easy it can be to feel better, to find flow,
and to manifest with ease, and you will see many around them  ignite with a desire to feel the ease too. Right now – so many are caught in the resistance treadmill,
that they are unaware that they have chosen. But each being,
who comes to light, in the truth of their buoyant, natural,
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“hard,” is filled with strings to this old paradigm. It can be
easier. Choose a feeling – that you have already. that you
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[And]  Source energy flows in you. Find what is alike in those
two things, and all will flow to you, as desired. It is simply the  design. Remember – free will is absolute ch oice. That is why it is so
expansive. The vibration of ch oice is exponential freedom. Be that freedom of choice. An d you have found divine bliss. This is good for you today. We  can feel you relaxing from the
“need to do” list, and entering th e “I get it” relaxation. Trust
this. Enjoy this. Ease into it. Let it be easy. You have done
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an age and larger world consciousness of seemingly denser, heavier, harder perceptions, this Source-ful message is a An Expanded Application of the Law of Attraction 63
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As we move inward and onward in our own individual expansions and ascension, we  inevitably find our way to
relaxing into the expansive stat e of what we already are,
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Innate Talents

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     /G28 Charles Roth, p. 65
          Mind:  The Master Power

In the remaining chapters of this book, I wish to share a
variety of universal tools that can help fertilize the rich inner life within all of us, that creates, attracts, prospers, and expands our
outer life experiences. I had the good fortune of reading Charles Roth’s book, Mind:  The Master Power, while journeying
the path of a deliberate seeker – on a quest for spiritual meaning
and inner prosperity. In my ow n life, I have felt the amazing,
creative, and life-giving power of  gratitude. And when I read
the above quote in Roth’s book, I was immeasurably touched  by the power of this profound statement. This is a man, a
reverand, who was teaching a kind of new age consciousness, years before many had begun to embrace these rising thoughts and engaging concepts about who we really are. Rev. Roth presents five core talents in his book, that he believed we all possess right now, that can launch our life experiences into the
world of the extraordinary. I wo uld like to briefly include them
in this chapter, and then I will add a few of my own. These are
simply instruments, or tools, for our expanding non-physical toolbox, that I believe collectively can nurture our spirit and allow us to rise within - to the full potentiality of our infinite magnificent nature. In Mind:  The Master Power, Rev. Roth presented the
biblical parable about the talents. In this parable,  there are three
servants. The first servant was given five talents. The second servant was given three talents. And the third servant was given one talent. The first tw o servants used/invested their
talents, and increased them. But the third servant held onto his talent, guarding it closely, becaus e he was afraid of losing it. Yet, it was the servants who used their talents, and thus increased
their talents, that were given more. And it was the servant who Innate Talents 65
clung to his talent - with the paralysis of fear, who had it taken
away and given to the servant with ten talents. To me, this story so perfec tly illustrates a manifestation
of the non-physical laws of th is grand universe. When we
choose, consciously or unconsciously, to resist the divine design of the magnetics and energetics of a vibrational universe, we lock ourselves out of the prosperous flow of our divine well-being. Yet if we could  choose, consciously, to turn toward the
possibility of expansion, then we could live the benefits of
increased understanding, in term s of our life’s purpose and our
existence here within this physical universe. We can learn how
to consciously, and I would say choice-fully, navigate this
tremendous potentialit y of experiences on the earth plane, in
order to maximize our great talents and to enjoy the prosperity of living in the flow of the divin e design as much as possible. /G2E/G09/G01/G0B/G08/G09/G01/G0E/G10/G0F/G01/G11/G09/G19/G13/G1F/G0E/G09/G11/G


BREAKFAST  (7-8)
wheat  flakes  cereal  with  milk
1  cup  orange  peel  tea
LUNCH  (12-1)
Arugula  Salad  with  Orange  Fennel  Dressing
(omit  the  orange)
Carrot  and  Raisin  Stuffed  Tofu
1  glass  spring  water
EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
1  cup  comfrey  tea  brewed  in  milk  and  water
Spring
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
granola  or  wheat  bran  cereal  in  Warm  Spiced  Soy  Milk
1  cup  chrysanthemum  tea TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  fennel  tea
melon  or  papaya  with  whipped  cream
DINNER  (6-7)
Soybean  and  Red  Cabbage  Dhal
Saffron  Basmati  Rice
broccoli,  cauliflower,  and  Brussels  sprouts  with  pepper,
sauteed  in  Ghee
LUNCH  (12-1)
Sauteed  Asparagus
Glazed  Carrots  with  Saffron  Basmati  Rice
Mango  and  Melon  Custard
1  glass  spring  water EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
1  cup  coriander  tea
A %&
TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  peppermint  tea
ricotta  chesse  and  fruit  dessert Summer
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
puffed  oats  cereal  with  Warm  Saffron  Milk
'/2  cup  aloe  vera  drink
LUNCH  (12-1)
Carrot  and  Cucumber  Aspic
sprouted  wheat  berry  bread
1  glass  spring  water
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EATING    WITH    THE    CYCLES    OF    NATURE-SEASONAL    MENUS
MENUS  FOR  PITTA  TYPES  (continued)
TEA  (3-4)
1  glass  sweetened  lemonade
Pineapple  Kanten  with  almond  cookies
DINNER  (6-7)
Aduki  and  Shallot  Dhal  with  Chapati
Dried  Masala  Okra
sauteed  mushrooms  and  green  peppers  in  soy  oil
1  glass  spring  water
date  balls  rolled  in  shredded  coconut
EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
1  cup  mint  tea
Summer
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
melon  with  lime  juice
shredded  wheat  in  Soy  and  Orange  Peel  Brew
1  apple LUNCH  (12-1)
Sauteed  Broccoli  Pasta
Bibb  lettuce  with  wheat  crisps
1  glass  spring  water
TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  fennel  and  coriander  tea
blueberry  muffin
DINNER  (6-7)
Tofu  Stuffed  Squash
Broccoli  Rabe  with  Lemon
Bulgur  and  Peas
sliced  fresh  fennel  bulb
homemade  ice  cream
EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
1  cup  lemongrass  tea
LUNCH  (12-1)
chickpea  humus  with  an  avocado
fresh  Belgian  endive
whole  wheat  toast
1  glass  spring  water
TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  cool  orange  peel  tea
grapes  and  tangerine
maple  syrup  cookies
DINNER  (6-7)
baked  potatoes  with  Ghee  and  coriander
Ratatouille
Amasake  and  Cardamom  Pie
EVENING  BREW  (7-7:30)
1  cup  dandelion  tea
Summer
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
Coconut  Oatmeal  Porridge
1  cup  peppermint  tea Fall
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
Cream  of  Wheat  Porridge
1  cup  chamomile  tea
LUNCH  (12-1)
Couscous  and  Carrots
Steamed  Broccoli,  Cauliflower,  and  Carrots  with
Carrot  and  Oat  Sauce
pear  juice  diluted  with  mineral  water
TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  peppermint  tea
fruits  in  season,  or
roasted  sunflower  seeds  with  turmeric
DINNER  (6-7)
Tofu  Tempu 1. 1
boiled  buttercup  squash  with  daikon  i.ulish
radicchio  and  cucumber  salad
EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
l  cup  Fennel  tea
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MENUS  FOR  PITTA  TYPES  (continued)
Fall
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
Wheat  berries  and  Cloves  with  Dry  Coconut  Chutney
1  cup  Morning  Booster
LUNCH  (12-1)
Bulgur  and  Peas
cauliflower  and  endive  salad  with  Orange  Fennel  Dressing
1  cup  barley  tea EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
1  glass  apple  cider  mixed  with  fresh  apple  pulp
Winter
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
Sago  Payasam  (tapioca) '/2  melon
1  glass  vegetable  juice
TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  Cardamom,  Coriander,  and  Fennel  Tea
sweet  berries  with  cream
DINNER  (6-7)
Stuffed  Mushrooms  with  Brown  Gravy
white  basmati  and  wild  rice  (equal  amounts)
Peppermint  and  Walnut  Mousse
1  glass  spring  water
EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
1  cup  lavender  tea,  brewed  in  milk
Fall
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
cooked  rolled  oats  and  figs
with  milk  and  unrefined  brown  sugar
1  glass  pear  juice
LUNCH  (12-1)
Split  Pea  Dhal
Dosa  (wheat  and  chickpea)  or  Chapati
3  radicchio  leaves
1  cup  comfrey  tea
TEA  (3-4)
Pear  Lassi
rice  cakes
DINNER  (6-7)
Chickpea  and  Seitan  Stew
couscous
steamed  broccoli  rabe  and  collard  greens
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whole  wheat  pasta  with  Sunflower  Seed  Sauce
Watercress  and  Sesame  Seeds
(substitute  sunflower  for  sesame  seeds)
TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  spearmint  tea
Fruit  Cobbler
DINNER  (6-7)
Lima  Bean  Soup
Aviyal  (spicy  vegetables)
Cumin  Basmati  Rice
Clay  Pot  Baked  Apples
EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
Warm  Barley  Brew
Winter
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
Cream  of  Wheat  Porridge
1  glass  warm  spring  water
LUNCH  (12-1)
Fennel  Roasted  Eggplant
pita  bread  or  Oil  Roti
Black  Bean  Chili
1  glass  apple  juice  diluted  with  water
TEA  (3-4)
1  cup  peppermint  tea
dried  fruits  with  roasted  pumpkin  seeds
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EATING   WITH    THE    CYCLES    OF    N  ATU  RE  — S  E  ASON  AL    MENUS
MENUS  FOR  PITTA  TYPES  (continued)
DINNER  (6-7)
Brown  Rice  Kichadi
Stripped  Tarragon  Seitan
steamed  mustard  greens
Cherry  Strudel
EVENING  BREW  (8-8:30)
Warm  Sandalwood  Milk  Brew
Winter
BREAKFAST  (7-8)
Soft  Rice


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GLOSSARY   OF
UNCOMMON    INGREDIENTS
^-^       of  grains  and  dhals,  see  pages  160-173. Many  unfamiliar  terms  are  defined  as  they  appear  in
the  text. Agar-agar  {see  also  Kanten)
A  buff-colored,  translucent  seaweed  available  in  12-
inch  bars  or  in  flakes. Indigenous  to  India,  agar-agar
has  been  used  since  Vedic  times  as  a  food  thickener
and  to  make  gels  (use  warm  water  or  other  liquid  to
dissolve). Available  in  most  health  food  stores  and  in
Indian  and  Oriental  grocery  stores. Ajwan  (Ajwain)
Also  known  as  bishopweed,  this  spice  seed  is  related
to  caraway  and  cumin. Its  delicate  flavor  resembles
the  combined  tastes  of  lemon,  pepper,  and  thyme. Available  in  Indian  and  Oriental  grocery  stores  and
occasionally  in  health  food  stores. Amasake
Traditional  to  Japan,  amasake  is  a  sweet  milk  made
from  fermented  sweet  rice. Available  in  health  food
stores. Arame  seaweed
The  size  of  tobacco  leaves  when  freshly  harvested,  this
seaweed  is  generally  shredded  before  it  is  sold. I  ike
most  seaweeds,  it  is  a  staple  in  Oriental  cuisines. It  is
deep  brown  in  color  and  has  a  mildly  sweet,  s.iltv,  and
pungent  taste. Available  in  health  food  Stores  and
Oriental  grocery  stores. 339 ^m!r
GLOSSARY    OF    UNCOMMON    INGREDIENTS
Arrowroot
The  root  of  the  arrowroot  plant  is  best  known  for  its
starch  which  is  used  as  a  food  thickener  (use  cold
water  or  other  liquid  to  dissolve). Arugula
The  bitter  green  leaves  of  this  plant  resemble  dande-
lion leaves  and  are  used  in  salads. Available  in  health
food  stores  and  farmer's  markets. Aspic
A  light,  gelatinous  dish  that  is  served  cold  and  usually
in  the  summer. Bamboo  shoots
These  young,  tender  shoots  that  sprout  from  the  base
of  the  bamboo  tree  are  a  delicacy  in  Oriental  cuisines. They  are  peeled  and  used  in  stir-fries,  soups,  and
other  dishes. Occasionally  available  fresh  in  health
food  stores  and  bottled  in  Oriental  grocery  stores. Besan
Chickpea  flour
Bijun  noodles
A  transparent  rice  noodle,  traditional  to  Oriental
cuisines. Available  in  Oriental  grocery  stores  and  health
food  stores. Broccoli  rabe
A  leafy  variety  of  the  broccoli  family. Available  in
farmer's  markets  and  health  food  stores,  especially  on the  East  Coast. Brown  bean  sauce
A  tangy  paste  generally  made  from  aduki  beans  and
available  in  Oriental  grocery  stores  and  occasionally
in  health  food  stores. Cassava
Also  known  as  yuca  and  manioc,  this  tuber  is  a  native
of  Africa  and  South  America. It  has  a  thin,  waxy,  light
brown  skin  that  is  peeled  off  before  the  starchy  tuber
is  used. Cassava  is  sweet  and  drying  in  nature  and
delicious  in  soups  and  root  vegetable  dishes. It  is  also
processed  to  yield  the  tapioca  pearls  known  as  sago. Available  in  Indian,  Oriental,  and  Latin  American
grocery  stores. Daikon  radish
Native  to  India,  where  it  is  called  mula,  this  long,
white,  tapered  root  is  very  pungent. Available  in  health
food  stores,  Oriental  grocery  stores,  and  farmer's markets. Dulse
A  soft,  dark  green  seaweed  native  to  coastal  countries
such  as  Japan,  Ireland,  and  the  United  States,  dulse  is
mildly  pungent  and  very  salty. Available  in  health
food  stores  and  Oriental  grocery  stores. Ghee
Best  made  fresh  (seepages  182-183), this  Indian  clari-
fied butter  is  also  available  in  health  food  stores  and
Indian  grocery  stores. Gourd  squash
One  good  variety,  called  bottle  gourd  or  loukie,  is
known  in  Oriental  stores  as  hula. Traditional  to  India,
this  squash  is  cooked  when  young  and  tender,  with  a
light  green  skin. It  is  watery,  cooling,  and  sweet. Avail-
able in  Indian  and  Oriental  grocery  stores. Grain  brew
Several  different  grain  teas  or  brews  are  made  from
roasted,  sometimes  crushed,  grains  such  as  barley  or
rice. Available  in  health  food  stores. Burdock  root
This  dark  brown  root  of  the  burdock  plant  is  long,
thin,  and  wiry  and  has  medicinal  properties. Avail-
able in  health  food  stores. Halvah
A  pudding  of  soft  fudge  consistency  made  from  grain
flours  mixed  with  milk,  ghee,  nuts,  seeds,  fruits,  and
sometimes  shredded  sweet  vegetables. 340
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Hijiki
A  dark  brown  (almost  black),  nubby  seaweed  with
two-inch  strands  that  are  string-like  and  very  pun-
gent. Available  in  health  food  stores  and  Oriental  gro-
cery stores. Hot  chili  pepper
Native  to  tropical  and  semi-tropical  climates,  chili
peppers  come  in  an  infinite  variety  of  hotness. Those
recommended  in  this  book  are  the  medium-hot  vari-
ety, such  as  the  one-inch-long  red  or  green  chilies
found  in  Indian,  Oriental,  and  Latin  American  gro-
cery stores. You  can  reduce  the  heat  of  a  pepper  by
deseeding  it:  cut  off  the  stem  and  slice  the  pepper  in
half  lengthwise. Use  a  dinner  knife  to  scrape  the  seeds
off. Alternatively,  remove  the  stem  by  cutting  around
it  and  twisting/pulling  it  out  of  the  pepper;  most  of
the  seeds  should  come  out  with  the  stem  intact. Jicama
Native  to  Mexico,  this  root  vegetable  is  hard  and  round
and  slightly  flatter  than  a  rutabaga. After  peeling  the
thin,  tan  skin,  the  vegetable  is  cooked  to  a  soft,  watery
consistency. Available  in  Latin  American  grocery  stores
and  occasionally  in  health  food  stores. Karhi
Traditional  to  India,  this  yogurt  soup  may  be  pre-
pared with  a  variety  of  spices  chaunked  in  oil  or  ghee. Kanten
Sometimes  used  interchangeably  with


 reality, who understands politics and who’ s been in it long enough. Y ou’d
just be looking for positive characteristics. Now, none  of those
characteristics have anything to do with race or gender. Gender doesn’ t
make you a better politician, neither does race or color or age or any ofthose things, any more than it would make you a better physician. I don’t
care what color a brain sur geon is. I want the best brain sur geon around. • • •
The political form of democracy doesn’ t last more than a couple of
hundred years. And sometimes it only survives because it’s restricted or put
in other directio ns. Democracy is how old in our country. And it still seems
to be operating quite well. But the more ignorant people, the more selfish
people, the people who have lower levels of consciousness, are going to
vote based on personal gain. They are not voting for the good of the
community, the good of the populace, out of good will, or health, or public
relations, but out of selfishness. Calibration levels below 200 are all narcissistic. It’s all me, me, me, what
can I get. The higher the level of it, the greater the percentage of the
population is below 200, the greater the danger to the survival of
democracy. At this point, they neglect their duties to society, to their fellow
Americans. They make decisions based on certain intrinsic values. So when we talk about raising consciousness, it sounds sort of
purposeful, like we’re going to do this and then the consciousness is going
to raise. But what you do is you reaffirm the value of that which is
integrous. Y ou reaf firm it by constant respect. WAR AND PEACE
People think war and peace are opposites. They’re not opposites at all. People think if nobody’ s getting shot, you have peace. You don’t have
peace. Because that which lives off war is very alive. In fact, war has peace
demonstrations. Peace is the natural state when  truth prevails. It’s the field. In the field
itself, the natural state is peace. When truth prevails, you automatically
have peace. War has nothing to do with violence. It has to do with the
automatic condition when false hood prevails. The opposite of war is not
peace. Therefore, the basis of war, if it’s falsehood, would be ignorance, the
inability to tell truth from falsehood. The stunning thing about Power vs. For ce—I can say that because there’ s
no me to feel egotistical about it, I was simply the witness to the writing ofPower vs. Force—was it discerned for the first time in all of human history
how to tell the truth from falsehood. The karma of mankind changed with
that book. Until that point, nobody, nowhere in time could tell the
difference between truth and falsehood, except an advanced mystic, and
they stayed in safe places. They didn’ t get on the front lines. The basis of war then is ignoran ce. When you watch the history of Nazi
Germany on the History Channel, how the Hitler Youth grew up, it breaks
your heart because they thought they were going to Boy Scout camp. They
had fires and they held hands and they did brave things for the fatherland. You can see the innocence. The human mind is incapable of telling truth
from falsehood because it’s only hardware. And what society puts in is
software. The hardware is uncha nged. A Course in Miracles  says innocence
is untarnished no matter what. The hardware is not affected by the software. Society puts in the software. You can take these innocent children. In the last century, 100 million
people have died because of that innocence, 100 million. And Jesus Christ
said, “There’ s only one problem : ignorance. Forgive them. They know not
what they do. ” Ignorance. Buddha said, “Only one sin, ignorance. ”
THE 7 STEPS T O BENEFIT THE WORLD
#1: Form an Advisory Council
Well, this isn’t going to please everyone, but any kind of academic study
or clinical study comes out with recommendations at the end, based on
these findings. As I have recommended, before you invest money in
research it is very important to calibrate the level of integrity of the research
design, the researcher, the intention of the study. We did a study in
international politics, the levels of various governments, types of
government, political leaders going all the way back in history. We ended
up with what we thought was maybe a basic structure for a science of
diplomacy based not on perception and the media image, but on the reality. Studying our own society from a political viewpoint and others, and
looking at the history of war, and analyzing the details of various wars, you
see, we arrived at some suggestions. The level of knowledge of the affairs about which they legisla te among
politicians is extremely low. For instance, they pass laws on medicine and
all kinds of aspects of society, international commerce, et cetera, and yet
their knowledge of these things is abysmal. The catastrophes of society and civilization have been made over and
over again. If we calibrate the various forms of government, we find that
democracy is near the top, but not the actual top. Interestingly, we find that
a gover nment based on an advisory council, or a so-called oligarchy,
calibrates even higher. An adva nce of five degrees or five points is quite
significant. If we look at political systems, we just calibrate them abstractly. We see that oligarchy at 415 is the highest of all these areas. Democracy is
at 410, which is quite high. Iroquois Nation is about 400, coalition 345,
socialism 300, monarchy 200, et cetera. It goes down from there. Oligarchy is a very ancient system. It’s not familiar to Americans. The
survival of most tribal society is based on the wisdom and sagacity of the
tribal elders, who are revered. The chief is not the same as the oligarchic
council of the elders. What our country seems to lack is a counc il of elders. We have  a cabinet. All the political power positions are political appointees. What’ s important is which party you belong to and who your friend is and
who are you obligated to. In essence, who do you have to pay off. Because
of my own particular alignment toward integrity and truth, and what is
beneficial to society and the world, without any particular positionality, my
belief is that we need a counc il of the elders. Now, the equivalent of a
council of the elders is an advisory council. In the old days, a true oligarchy, the council of the elders, has the power. Because of the nature of our government, this really couldn’ t be
operationally done. Our const itution is not set up for that. However,
something beyond the cabinet level is needed. This has to be made up of
statesmen and not politicians. A statesman calibrates much higher than a
politician, because the politician has an agenda. A statesman, Churchill,
held together the British peopl e during World War II. That’ s a spiritual
energy, you see. An advisory council is composed of people who have nothing more to
gain. They’ve got it made. They don’t need anything. So what do you do
when you’ve got it all. You offer yourself to be of service. Take people
who’ve been extremely success ful in business: They don’t need any more
money, titles, or power. But they do have wisdom. How do you build thebiggest giant corporation in the world. How do you make General Motors
run. You take the wisdom of these people who have nothing personally to
gain, which they share with each other about the country’ s problems, and
then they’re available as consultants to the politicians. They’re not going to
tell you what to do, but they will see that if you make this move, you’re
forgetting about this other consequence. A real statesman would point out,
“I would make that move, but I would do it slow so that you don’t create
the opposition. You’re going to create a counter wave. You’re going to
defeat yourself. You’re going to get the propositions through the first vote. But then the repercussion is going to hit, and they’re going to wipe you out
again. ”
The advisory council is there to guide in policy and decision-making
because they can contextualize it, tell you what’ s the upside, the downside. #2: Learn how to diagnose malignant messianic narcissism,
and thereby identify and counter dangerous leaders before they
threaten the world. This is crucial. This is a matter of public education. As you get more
advanced, then the capacity to recognize and identify this psych opathology,
parading as some politician, grows. If people are attuned and aware of this,
they begin to recognize it early  in the game, not after the narcissists have
established the Gestapo or the OGPU, not after they’ve killed off all the
best generals, not after they’ve  exterminated all the intellectuals, and not
after they’ve transported all the Jews out of Germany, not after they’ve
sacrificed all kinds of things in their society. Then


 the winter, letting in the rain and beams of bright sunlight
when the weather was clear. His eyes caught a sunbeam now, and he watched motes of dust dance in
it. Look closer. Siddhartha shivered and tried not to listen. The words in his head didn’ t
feel like his own. They came unlike ordinary thoughts. The voice had begun
about a week earlier—this was his secret—and almost always said the same
thing. Look closer. The sunbeam fell warmly across his eyelids, and he felt dreamy. The
dust motes seemed to seize his attention and grow bigger. What if we ar e made of dust? All things that come fr om the earth ar e
only dust. Siddhartha looked down at his arm and brushed away the film of dried
dung that had settled on it. More dust flew up into the sunlight.I am just dust, he thought. He jumped to his feet and began to run. Only dust. The voice had turned on him, was suddenly harsh and mocking. Siddhartha didn’ t want to hear it anymore, and it was all the boy could do
not to cry. He raced toward the stall where Channa had gone. He paused at
the gate, not wanting to be seen this way, weak and shaken. Above him, in
the shadowy rafters, an unseen figure sat. Eyes watched the boy trying to
calm down, and a calculating mind considered its next move. Siddhartha pushed at the gate, but it was locked from the inside. On the other side Bikram’ s voice was sharp. “Hold her down, I said.”
Siddhartha heard a horse whinnying in pain and hooves clomping
against the ground. He peered through a crack in the gate. A sick old mare
was lying on her side, heaving and quivering. At one end crouched Channa,
trying his best to hold the mare’ s head still. At the other end Bikram was
tying her hind legs together with rope; he had already tied the front legs,
and they clomped helplessly against the ground. Bikram stood up. Siddhartha saw the grimness in his face and the fear in Channa’ s.
“It’s going to be all right,” the boy whispered into the mare’ s ear, which
twitched as if hearing a nearby predator. Eyes rolling wide and white with
terror, the horse sensed what was coming. “I need you to be strong,” said Bikram. “Y ou know why the prince
couldn’ t be here for this?”
“No.”
His father shrugged. “No need. Just remember, he can’ t be here,
understand?” Channa nodded. “Once everyone’ s asleep tonight, we’ll take
her outside the gates and bury her. He doesn’ t ever need to know she’ s
dead.” Channa nodded again.Above Siddhartha, an unseen figure—Mara himself—peered down,
considering his next move. He had waited a long time to rejoin the boy and
draw him closer. Close enough to become a voice in his head. The demon
clapped his hands, wondering if the boy might look up, but Siddhartha’ s
eyes were fixed on the scene in the stall. Bikram picked up a heavy ax and
turned the blunt side of the blade outward, like a club. He walked slowly to
the mare’ s head. “Look away, boy.”
Channa did as he was told; his father raised the ax high in the air,
brawny knots standing out from his bare arm. Out of the corner of his eye
Channa saw him bring the ax down; there was a loud thud and the crunch of
bone, but in the instant before, as if sensing its fate supernaturally, the old
mare screamed. Siddhartha heard it as he ran, a piercing pitiful cry that made the other
horses shiver in their stalls. He was terrified, but he hadn’ t witnessed the
blow. Something pulled the boy away at the last second—weakness, or a
better impulse?—saving him from the grisly sight. Panicked, he ran outside,
putting as much distance between himself and the stables as he could. Prajapati’ s two young servants saw him and gave chase. Mara knew the moment was ripe. He was suddenly beside Siddhartha,
arms and knees pumping as he matched him stride for stride. “Yah!” the demon shrilled. “Giddyap! Let’ s see you run!”
Siddhartha turned his head, and his eyes widened. It was only a quick,
panicky glance, but Mara was certain he’d been seen. It was the first time, a
milestone. Turning his gaze from the horrible sight, Siddhartha focused on the
palace ahead of him. The building was huge and ornate, a thing of beauty
according to every visitor the young prince had held audience with. He ran
through an arched doorway, not slowing at all. Soon he reached the closed
door of his father ’s bedroom. No one had followed him, and gradually his
breath stopped burning in his chest. Cautiously, hearing the murmur ofvoices from within, Siddhartha tried the lock. It was open. Moving with the
natural stealth of a child, he pulled the door open and peered inside. His father ’s private chambers were vast and ornate. The best silks and
the finest gold made up the bedding and decorated the furniture. Polished
floors gleamed with candlelight, and a small group of men huddled around
his father ’s bed. Suddhodana sat propped up by pillows. The men around him were court
physicians, who poked and prodded, examining their royal char ge gingerly. “Get on with it,” he grumbled. “If you’re here to get me closer to dying,
don’t bother. Time is taking care of that.”
Siddhartha drew back. He had never known his father to be sick, barely
recognized these men as doctors. They had rarely appeared in his short life,
and only before dawn. The king didn’ t want his son to be awake when he
needed tending. But Siddhartha could vaguely remember, as if seeing
through a fevered haze, the same poking and prodding he now observed. One of the physicians gestured to another, who held a lar ge wooden
bucket with a lid. Removing it, the second physician reached inside and
withdrew a lar ge, fat leech. “Lie back, Y our Majesty. This will be the last time, I promise.” The lead
physician was a thick man with gentle hands. He was called Gandhik,
Siddhartha remembered. T aking the leech, Gandhik applied it directly over
his father ’s heart. It was all Siddhartha could do to remain silent when he
saw the six leeches already feeding on his chest. Swollen and dark, they
looked like they were trying to crawl inside him. “Disgusting,” the king snapped. “Y ou and your so-called arts.” He
heaved a sigh of resignation. “Disgusting.”
“Hold still, Y our Majesty,” Gandhik directed in a quiet, patient tone. “I want to be strong again,” Suddhodana said. Then he shook his head. “Who am I fooling? I want to be young  again.”Lying there on the pillows, his graying hair feathered out around him,
the king permitted the indignities of medicine as a distraction—they kept
him from dealing with the passage of time. Every day seemed to be a
weight around his neck, depriving him of another ounce of strength. “You will be strong after this,” Gandhik promised, holding another
writhing leech pinched between his forefinger and thumb. Something in his
reassurance sounded false, even to himself. “Idiots!” the king exploded. “Flatterers! I might as well suck my own
blood.” He glared at the leech and struggled with giving up on the whole
damned business of medicine, only to lean back, his eyes closed, no longer
willing to look. “Get on with it.” Cautiously, Gandhik applied the final
leech to the king’ s chest. Siddhartha’ s eyes focused on this, but his mind was fixed on something
he couldn’ t comprehend: his father showing fear. This sent tremors through
him, as if he had been standing on a mountainside that suddenly began to
slide out from under his feet. Siddhartha backed away and closed the door
without a sound. When he turned around, he nearly ran over another boy in the hallway. “What are you, a spy?” the stranger said. He had a taunting voice and
disdainful eyes, which looked down on Siddhartha almost six inches above
his own eyes. At the word spy, Siddhartha jumped. “I’m not,” he stammered. The older boy’ s eyes narrowed suspiciously. Siddhartha blushed with
shame, and suddenly he knew without being told that someone important
had just entered his life. OceanofPDF.com5
It took a moment before Siddhartha had enough presence of mind to ask,
“Who are you? Why did you sneak up on me like that?”
The other boy stared without reply. He wore heavy embroidered clothes
that marked him as the favored of some king’ s


 of the head through under the arm. Here’ s
our example: “ frustrated with my body because  it won’ t do what I want it to
do.” You might tap through several sequences as you hold the feeling in
mind until you sense a shift in intensity. Step 5. What is the intensity surrounding your tapping target now? If it
has gone down  to zero, has something else come to mind that is more
specific about your tapping target? For example, with “frustrated with my
body,” maybe the person, Chris, is frustrated because his knees have been
bothering him for about six months now and they haven’ t gotten any better. The problem with his body is preventing him from playing basketball,
running, and biking, the main ways he used to socialize, relax, and exercise. He can choose to tackle the next aspect, such as “no matter what I do, they
don’t get better,” or “I really miss being active,” and so on. A key question for physical ailments is: What was going on in your life
just before or after the issue you’re experiencing now? When Chris asks
that question, he remembers it’s about the time his “difficult” and elderly
father who lives across the country got very sick. Chris was conflicted
about staying with him and takin g time off work to care for and love him orsteering clear and doing what he’s done most of his adult life—staying
away and feeling guilty. He aims EFT at “the conflict,” a few specific and
troubling events  during the time, and how he wanted it to be different but
couldn’ t change  how he felt about his dad. As he taps on these issues and
some key early “Dad-bad” memories, his knees lighten up, he begins
exercising again, and his feelings about his father completely transform to
love and for giveness. What’ s underneath your intensity about your body issue? Ask yourself
questions again: What is your body “preventing” you from doing? When is
the first time you felt this way about your body? What have you tried that
didn’ t work? What was happe ning in your life around the time things
changed or you became aware of the unhappiness with your body? Any of
these questions will likely elicit some specific events relating to your
emotion surrounding your body. And remmeber, just tracking symptoms
also brings relief. Step 6. Did a specific event come to mind? By answ ering the previous
questions, you likely have a few specific events in mind relating to
“frustrated with my body,” or whatever tapping phrase you chose to work
on, so choose one. Is the event under two or three minutes in length? Give it
a title as if it were a scene in a movie, then tap on the event using Gold
Standard EFT, tapping all aspects down to zero until that one event no
longer bothers you. Now, drop your awareness into your body and ask
yourself how your body feels right now. As we continue, you can choose  to tap and read, by continuously tapping
on one or more of the tapping points or tapping on the finger points (see the
figure in Appendix A  to locate them if you’re not sure.) The Body and Love
We take our physicality for granted and don’t typically consid er what an
exquisite instrument our body really is. We conveniently manage to forget
that we need our body to live. For many of us, it’s only when we suffer a
problem with our body such as a scratchy throat, serious illness, acuteinjury, or chronic pain, or when difficult emotions or stress tighten our
muscles, that we begin to pay more attention, and that attention is mostly
negative. We want to get better right now! We get mad at our bodies:
“Hurry up and heal already!” “My body has let me down.” We talk about
our bad leg, problem shoulder, or how we must get rid of the pain right
away. Is it any wonder that addiction to painkillers is on the rise? Emotional
pain is also something we tend to avoid. One in ten Americans now take an
antidepressant, and one in four women in their forties and fifties are on
antidepressants.20
But what if some types of emotional and physical pain are stemming
from the same energy disruption—remember the zzzt! that happens when
we experience an event as traumatic that leads to negative emotions? Big
feelings are beneath our conscious mind but alive and well in our
subconscious, the larger part of the mind. And those big feelings take a toll
on our bodies. What if, for example, the pain is emotional that has been
stored in the body and is now physically manifesting as well? What if we
asked ourselves, regarding a sore throat, for example, questions like these:
“What is it that I can’t seem to express that hurts my throat,” or “What is
that lump in my throat saying, ” or “What are these emotions  that are so
painful in my throat?”
When we deman d healing and dislike our bodies, it’s like erecti ng a dam
in the exact place where you want healing to flow like water. We are
slowing down the healing proce ss and blocking our path back to health and
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        Even though I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to make the changes I want
in my life, I deeply and completely accept myself anyway. Tapping softens up the hard feelings around sabotage. You can tap EFT
rounds on all the various feelings you find. Ask yourself how you would treat your best friend if they had done what
you did again. Would you condemn your friend for having a problem or
support and embrace them in their need. Model the same compassionate
behavior toward yourself. When you have to get rid of the problem behavior right now, this is your
panic button talking, and nothing else is going to happen while that panic
button is on, including resolving  the roots of your self-sabotage. Once you
begin to realize how sabotage is affecting you, it can be deeply troubling to
your conscious mind and ego. Rather than fixing it right away, acknowledge
that you’re working on it and accept your situation—you’re understanding
more about your life and your self, right. Once acknowledged, your panic
button can switch of f. Here are some phrases to consider:
Even though I want this (name your sabotage) gone right away, and I
can’t believe I haven’ t resolved  it yet, I love myself, and I’m trying to
be grateful for the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of myself
and who I am. Even though I need to get rid of this right now, I want to include all of
me in this process, even this part of me that I can’ t stand. If You’ve Got Shame, Blame, and Guilt in the W ay, Work with It. Use what you’ve got—it’ s great material for change. Shame, blame, and
guilt are the glue holding many unhelpful behaviors in place. When you
mess up, do you believe that you deserve everything you get, or that
somehow you earned it. When you fall into these common booby traps ofshame, blame, and/or guilt, it’s hard to get to the root origins—the
emotional drivers and ener gy disturbances—that compel the sabotage. Did a central figure in your growing up years regularly tell you “You
ought to be ashamed of yourself. ” But seeing that through an adult’ s eyes,
does it make sense for a 5 or 6 year old to be ashamed of being curious, or
for wanting to eat all the cake. Our culture is laden with shame,  blame, and
guilt. Many of our ancestors also suffered and were kept in line using those
same negative ideas. Luckily we can begin to change all that with EFT. Here are some simple starters for working with these three troublesome
ideas:
Even though I’m ashamed/guilty/humiliated at what just happened,
what if I’m still a good person. Even though I’m so guilty for making that mistake again, what if I
could offer some compassion instead, since beating myself up has
never worked. Even though I feel really ashamed of myself for messing up again,
would I be so hard on my frien d or partner if they had “fallen off the
wagon” again. Even though I’m hearing Mom/Dad/the teacher ’s voice saying “You
ought to be ashamed of yourself” or “Shame on you,” I choose to be
proud and love that younger me. Even though I messed up again, I am still a good person, worthy of
love, respect, care, and compassion. General as they are, these phrases are starting points for you. Make Y our Self-T alk W ork for Y ou
Tune into a specific area of your life that you are currently sabotaging. Listen for those negative though ts, the inner critic, the constant  self-talk in
the back ground. They are there; we have up to 60,000 thoughts a day and a
majority of these can be negative. Here’ s some examples to get you started:I can’t do that. It will never work. Who do I think I am. Why would they
pick me. I’m not good enough. What if they see


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s u p p o r t  g r o u p s  l i v e  o n  a v e r a g e  t w i c e  a s  l o n g  a f t e r
d i a g n o s i s. T h e  f a c t  w e  t h i n k  l o v e  i s  a  f i e r c e  a n d  a w e s o m e  p o w e r
d o e s n ’ t  m e a n  w e ’ r e  w i m p y  t h i n k e r s. I  w a s  o n c e  i n t e r v i e w e d
o n  a  T V  t a l k  s h o w,  a n d  t h e  i n t e r v i e w e r  i n t r o d u c e d  m e  b y
m a k i n g  s o m e  s n i d e  c o m m e n t  a b o u t  h o w  I  w a s  a  p a c i f i s t  a n d
t h o u g h t  t h e r e  s h o u l d  b e  n o  a r m y. I  l o o k e d  a t  h i m,  s t u n n e d,
a n d  a s k e d  h i m  w h e r e  i n  t h e  w o


  s o m e  s e n s e  o f  w h a t  I ’ m
d o i n g  i n  t h e  w o r l d. A t  l a s t  I ’ m  c o n v i n c e d  I  h a v e  a  r i g h t  t o
b e  h e r e. I ’ m  n o t  a s  f r a n t i c  a s  I  u s e d  t o  b e,  t h o u g h  I  c a n ’ t  t e l l
y e t  w h e t h e r  t h a t ’ s  b e c a u s e  I ’ v e  e v o l v e d  o r  j u s t  a g e d. O n  t h e
o t h e r  h a n d,  I  g e t  t i r e d  m o r e  e a s i l y,  I  o f t e n  c a n ’ t  r e m e m b e r
t h i n g s,  a n d  I ’ m  e x h a u s t e d  f r o m  j u s t  l o o k i n g  f o r  m y  g l a s s e s
a l l  t h e  t i m e. M o s t  d i s c o n c e r t i n g  o f  a l l,  w h e n  I ’ m  i n  a
s e r i o u s  m o o d  a n d  I  d o  t h e  m a t h,  I  c a n ’ t  g a r n e r  m u c h  h o p e
o f  c h a n g i n g  t h i n g s  o n  t h i s  p l a n e t  d u r i n g  t h e  t i m e  I  h a v e  l e f t. O u r  g e n e r a t i o n ’ s  s h a r e d  d e l u s i o n  t h a t  w e  w o u l d  u s h e r  i n
p a r a d i s e  h a s  b e e n  c o m p l e t e l y  s h a t t e r e d. T h e  o l d e r  y o u  g e t,
t h e  m o r e  y o u  s e e  h o w  e n t r e n c h e d  c e r t a i n  n e g a t i v e s  a r e. T h e r e  i s  s o  m u c h  c r u e l t y  i n  t h e  w o r l d  t h a t  y o u  t h o u g h t  f o r
y e a r s  w o u l d  g o  a w a y ;  a s  y o u  a g e,  i t  d a w n s  o n  y o u  t h a t  i t
n e v e r  r e a l l y  d o e s. A s  d i s i l l u s i o n i n g  a s  i t  i s  t o  r e a l i z e  t h e s e  t h i n g s — a n d
d i s i l l u s i o n m e n t  i s  a c t u a l l y  a  g o o d  t h i n g  b e c a u s e  i t  m e a n s
y o u  w e r e  l a b o r i n g  u n d e r  i l l u s i o n s  b e f o r e * — i t ’ s  a l s o  t h e
b e g i n n i n g  o f  s p i r i t u a l  i n s i g h t. O n c e  y o u ’ r e  d e e p l y
c o n v i n c e d  t h e r e  a r e  n o  u l t i m a t e  a n s w e r s  o u t s i d e  y o u r s e l f,
y o u  s t a r t  l o o k i n g  f o r  t h e m  w h e r e  t h e y  t r u l y  a r e :  i n s i d e. A n d
y o u  r e a l i z e  t h a t  i n  y o u r  s l o w i n g  d o w n,  y o u ’ r e  m o r e
p r e p a r e d  t o  l i s t e n  t o  t h i n g s  y o u  w e r e  m o v i n g  t o o  f a s t  b e f o r e
t o  h e a r. S o  m u c h  w a s t e d  t i m e,  s o  m a n y  s t u p i d  m i s t a k e s. Y o u  f e e l
y o u  h a v e  t h e  k n o w l e d g e  n o w,  b u t  y o u ’ r e  n o t  s u r e  y o u  h a v e
t h e  e n e r g y  l e f t :  i f  o n l y  y o u  h a d  k n o w n  t h e n  w h a t  y o u  k n o wn o w. Y o u  c o m e  t o  u n d e r s t a n d  G e o r g e  B e r n a r d  S h a w ’ s
c o m m e n t,  “ Y o u t h  i s  w a s t e d  o n  t h e  y o u n g. ”
O u r  a d r e n a l  g l a n d s  d e c i m a t e d,  o u r  c e l l s  l i k e  f a s t  c a r s
b e g i n n i n g  t o  s h o w  w e a r,  t h e  f a s t e s t  g e n e r a t i o n  h a s  b e g u n  t o
s l o w  d o w n. J a c k  N i c h o l s o n  s a i d  i n  a  r e c e n t  i n t e r v i e w,  “ M y
g e n e r a t i o n  i s  t h e  n e w  o l d. ”  O u r  d e e p e s t  b u r d e n  i s  t h e
a c c u m u l a t e d  s o r r o w,  t h e  h e a r t b r e a k  o f  o n e  d e c a d e
i m p i n g i n g  u p o n  t h e  n e x t  u n t i l  t h e  h e a r t  c a n  a b s o r b  n o  m o r e. Y o u r  m i n d  h a s  f i g u r e d  s o  m u c h  o u t,  b u t  y o u r  b o d y  i s n ’ t
s u r e  t h a t  i t  c a r e s  a n y m o r e. W h e n  i t ’ s  m o r e  d e p r e s s i n g  t h a n
j o y f u l  t o  w a k e  u p  i n  t h e  m o r n i n g,  t h e n  y o u  k n o w  y o u  h a v e
a  p r o b l e m. A n d  m a n y  d o. M o s t  p e o p l e


 c a l  w o r l d. W e  s i m p l y
h a v e  f a i t h  t h a t  t h i s  r e a l i t y  i s  b u t  m e r e  i l l u s i o n  b e f o r e  t h e
l o v e  o f  G o d. W e  d e n y  t h e  u l t i m a t e  r e a l i t y  o f  t h e  w o r l d
i t s e l f. D o e s  y o u r  f a i t h  l i e  i n  t h e  r e a l i t y  o f  t h e  c r u c i f i x i o n  o r  i n
t h e  r e a l i t y  o f  t h e  r e s u r r e c t i o n. W e  t e n d  t o  h a v e  g r e a t e r  f a i t h  i n  t h e  l i m i t a t i o n s  o f  t h e
w o r l d  t h a n  i n  t h e  l i m i t l e s s n e s s  o f  G o d ’ s  p o w e r. W h e n  t h ed i s c i p l e s  o f  J e s u s  t h o u g h t  t h e y  w e r e  g o i n g  t o  d r o w n,  t h e i r
f a i t h  l a y  i n  t h e  p o w e r  o f  t h e  s t o r m. W h e n  J e s u s  c a m e  o u t
a n d  w a l k e d  o n  w a t e r,  H e  d i d n ’ t  s a y  t o  H i s  d i s c i p l e s,  “ O  y e
o f  l i t t l e  w a l k i n g - o n - w a t e r  p r o f i c i e n c y ;  d i d n ’ t  y o u  r e a d  t h e
b r o c h u r e. ”  H e  s a i d,  “ O  y e  o f  l i t t l e  f a i t h. ”
F a i t h  m e a n s  w e ’ r e  o p e n  t o  t h e  p o s s i b i l i t y  o f  m i r a c l e s,
k n o w i n g  t h a t  w h e n  w e  s t a n d  o n  t h e  g r o u n d  o f  l o v e,  w i t h i n
t h e  s p a c e  o f  h o l i n e s s,  t h e n  a l l  m a t e r i a l  f o r c e s  a r e
a u t o m a t i c a l l y  p r o g r a m m e d  t o  w o r k  o n  o u r  b e h a l f. W e  d o n ’ t
h a v e  t o  d o  a n y t h i n g  n e w  s o  m u c h  a s  b e c o m e  s o m e o n e  n e w
i n  o r d e r  t o  f u n d a m e n t a l l y  c h a n g e  o u r  l i v e s. A n d  t h e n  w e  d o
n o t  j u s t  b e l i e v e  i n  t h e  r e s u r r e c t i o n ;  w e  s h a r e  t h e
r e s u r r e c t i o n. A s  w e  h u m b l e  o u r s e l v e s  a n d  s t e p  b a c k  w i t h
o u r  e g o,  a l l o w i n g  G o d  t o  l e a d  t h e  w a y,  m i r a c l e s  o c c u r
n a t u r a l l y. N o  s t r e s s,  n o  s t r a i n. A  C h a n g e  o f  H e a r t

W h i l e  t r a v e l i n g  i n  A m s t e r d a m  s e v e r a l  m o n t h s  a g o,  I
n o t i c e d  t h a t  s o m e t h i n g  a b o u t  m y s e l f  h a d  c h a n g e d. I  h a v e
t r a v e l e d  e x t e n s i v e l y  s i n c e  I  w a s  a  c h i l d  a n d  v i s i t e d  s c o r e s  o f
m u s e u m s  t h r o u g h o u t  t h e  w o r l d. I  h a v e  a l w a y s  d e l i g h t e d  i n
p o r t r a i t s,  l a n d s c a p e s,  s c u l p t u r e,  O r i e n t a l  s c r e e n s,  d e c o r a t i v e
a r t s,  j e w e l r y  d e s i g n,  a n d  a l l  t h e  o t h e r  v i s u a l  t r e a t s  t h a t  a r e
o f f e r e d  i n  s u c h  p l a c e s. B u t  o n e  p a r t i c u l a r  c a t e g o r y  o fp a i n t i n g  n e v e r  m o v e d  m e,  a n d  I  a l w a y s  p a s s e d  i t  b y  w i t h o u t
g i v i n g  m u c h  a t t e n t i o n. T h a t  w a s  n a u t i c a l  a r t :  s h i p s  i n  t h e
h a r b o r,  s h i p s  o n  t h e  s e a,  s h i p s  w h e r e v e r. I t  s i m p l y  w a s n ’ t
m y  t h i n g. B u t  i f  y o u ’ r e  v i s i t i n g  m u s e u m s  i n  H o l l a n d,  y o u ’ r e  g o i n g
t o  s e e  p i c t u r e s  o f  b o a t s. A n d  t h i s  t i m e,  f o r  w h a t e v e r  r e a s o n,
t h e y  t o u c h e d  m e  i n  a  d i f f e r e n t  w a y. T h i s  t i m e,  w h e n  I  s a w  a
p a i n t i n g  o f  a  s h i p  o n  a  r o u g h  s e a,  f a c i n g  t h e  c l e a r  p o s s i b i l i t y
o f  s h i p w r e c k,  m y  m i n d  w e n t  t o  t h e  s a i l o r s  w h o  w e r e  o n  t h e
s h i


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 technique, it can be
time. 10
demonstration. of the test subjects' belief systems,
used to evaluate companies, movies,
In this study, test subjects were asked to
In the early 1970s, the medical profession
intellectual opinions, reason or logic. It
individuals, events in history, or for the
focus on a specified thought, feeling,
in general, and psychiatry in particular,was also observed that a test response
diagnosis of current life problems. attitude, memory, relationship or life
was highly resistant-if not forthrightly
where the subject went weak was
The test procedure, the reader will note,
circumstance. The test was frequently
hostile-to the idea that nutrition had
accompanied by desynchronization of the
is to use the muscle test to verify the truth
done in lar ge groups of people; for
much to do with health at all, let alone
cerebral hemispheres. 8
or falsity of a declarative statement. demonstration purposes we first
emotional health or brain function. Unreliable responses will be obtained if
established a baseline by asking the
The T esting T echnique
Publication
(43)
of the bookthe question has not been put into this
subjects, eyes closed, to hold in mind the
Orthornolecular Psychiatry, by this T wo persons are required. One acts
as form. Nor can any reliable result be
memory of a time when they were angry,
author and Nobelist Linus Pauling, test subject by holding out one arm
obtained from inquiry into the future;
upset, jealous, depressed, guilty or
received a favorable reception from a
laterally, parallel to the ground. The
only statements regarding existent fearful; at that point everyone
universally wide variety of audiences, but not from
second person then presses down with
conditions or events will produce went weak. W e would then ask them to
the medical establishment (Interestingly
two fingers on the wrist of the extended
consistent answers. hold in mind a loving person or life
enough, twenty years later the concepts
arm and says, "resist. " The subject then
It is necessary to be impersonal during
situation, and all would go strong;
presented in the book are fundamental toresists (44) the downward pressure with all
the procedure to avoid transmitting typically a murmur of surprise
rippled current treatment of mental illness. ) his strength. That is all there is to it. positive or negative feelings. Accuracy is
through the audience at the implications
The thrust of the book was that serious
A statement may be made by either party. increased by having the test subject. close
of what they had just discovered. mental illnesses such as psychosis, as
While the subject holds it in mind, his
his eyes; there should be no music in the
The next phenomenon demonstrated was
well as lesser ones such as emotional
arm's strength is tested by the tester's
background. that a mere image of a substance held in
disorder, had a genetic basis involving an
downward pressure. If the statement is
(45) Because the test is so deceptively
mind produced the same response as ifabnormal biochemical pathway in the
negative or false, or reflects a calibration
simple, it is well that an inquirer first
the substance were in physical contact
brain, a molecular basis which could be
below 200 (see Map of Consciousness,
verify its accuracy to his own with the body. As an example, we would
corrected on the molecular level. Manic-
Chapter 3), the test subject will "go
satisfaction. Responses can be checked
hold up an apple grown with pesticides
depressive illness, schizophrenia, weak. " If the answer is yes or
calibrates by cross-questioning, and everyone who
and ask the audience to look directly at it
alcoholism and depression, therefore, over 200, he will "go strong. " becomes acquainted with the technique
while being tested; all would go weak. could be af fected by nutrition as well as
T o demonstrate the procedure one might
thinks of tricks to satisfy himself that it is
W e would then hold up an or ganically (46)
medication. In 1973, when the book washave the subject hold an image of
reliable. 9 It will soon be found that the
grown apple, free of contaminants, and as
published, the psychiatric establishment
Abraham Lincoln in mind while being
same response is observed in all subjects,
the audience focused on it they would
was still psychoanalytically oriented; the
tested, and then, for contrast, an image of
that it is not necessary for them to have
instantly go strong. Inasmuch as no one
work was accepted primarily by holistic
Adolph Hitler. The same ef fect can be
any knowledge of the matter in question,
in the audience knew which apple was
practitioners. The suggested treatment
demonstrated by holding in mind
and that the response will always be
which, nor, for that matter, had any
methods and results were frequently someone who is loved in contrast to
independent of the test subject's personal
anticipation of the test, the reliability ofverified with kinesiology. someone who is feared or hated or about
opinions about the question. the method was demonstrated to
However, it was Dr. Diamond