	one	another	and	the	planet.

Violence,	slavery,	and	torture	have	always	been	part	of	human	history,	but	the
twentieth	century	has	taken	these	calamities	to	unsustainable	new	levels	level.
	Evolve	or	die;	this	is	the	Human	Dilemma.EGO:	THE	ROOT	OF	OUR
PROBLEM

To	overcome	the	inner	impulses	that	lead	to	destruction,	we	must	understand
that	the	ego	dominates	us,	that	it	is	what	strengthens	the	negative	forces	that
we	carry	within	ourselves.

Identification	is	the	structure	by	which	the	ego	exists:	identification	with
forms	of	thought,	both	in	physical	and	emotional	forms.
The	extent	of	our
identification	with	these	forms	is	the	extent	to	which	we	allow	them	to
become	our	identity.

The	consequence	of	this	identification	is	the	ignorance	that	we	have	toward
the	connection	between	the	"being"	and	the	"everything"	within	the	Source.
This	separation	is	what	causes	our	problems.
It	dilutes	our	awareness	of	the
interconnectedness	between	every	person	and	the	rest	of	the	world.
We	are
settled	in	our	Maya,	our	dukkha,	our	sins.
From	there,	we	lose	our	way.
We
begin	to	act	on	our	madness,	to	promote	the	evil.

We	live	floating	in	our	identification	with	our	mind,	and	thus
misunderstandings	appear	throughout	the	world.
It	is	in	this	way	that	the	ego
deceives	us	and	makes	us	believe	that	our	being	and	our	identity	is	composed
of	achievements,	material	possessions,	and	history.

We	manufacture	a	perception	in	our	minds	that	gives	us	an	image	of	who	we
are,	an	image	that	is	based	on	deception	and	fallacy.

It	is	necessary	to	our	development	that	we	break	free	of	the	identification	thatthe	ego	has	lead	us	to.
We	must	free	it,	therefore	freeing	ourselves,	in	order	to
begin	to	change.
Releasing	the	ego	is	not	easy,	but	it	is	essential	to	leaving
behind	discontent,	insecurity,	anxiety,	and	everything	that	makes	us	unhappy.

Releasing	ourselves	from	the	ego	does	not	mean	simply	giving	up	our	love	for
material	goods,	our	constant	search	for	forms;	it	is	more	than	just	that.
To
renounce	the	ego	required	that	we	convince	ourselves	that	we	are	not	what	we
think	or	what	we	feel.
It	is	only	our	True	Selves	that	can	achieve	this,	because
only	our	True	Selves	can	observe	the	flow	of	consciousness	by	transcending	it
and	acting	as	an	external	observer.

Tolle	illustrates	this	with	an	example.
As	a	student,	one	day	he	was	travelling
on	the	subway.
He	saw	a	woman	acting	as	if	she	were	disconnected	from	the
world.
She	spoke	to	nobody	and	cursed	at	the	air.
Watching	her,	he
automatically	thought	"I	hope	I	do	not	end	up	like	her."
Immediately,	he
realised	that	he	had	spoken	out	loud.
Analysing	his	own	reaction,	he
understood	that	he	had	acted	exactly	like	the	woman,	absorbed	in	himself,
without	attending	to	the	present.

He	realised	that	if	that	woman	was	crazy,	so	must	be	everyone,	including
himself.
This	realization	ignited	a	change	in	his	consciousness.
He	began	to
work	to	separate	himself	from	his	thoughts,	to	analyse	them	objectively.
By
doing	so,	he	slowly	began	to	succeed	in	stripping	himself	of	the	identity	of	his
ego.A	LINK	TO	EGO:	THE	“ME”

Many	people	become	trapped	in	suffering	because	of	their	obsessive
preoccupation	with	possession.
We	fail	to	feel	what	we	are,	and	so	we	try	to
fulfill	our	existence	with	possessions.
"My	toy,"	"my	car,"	"my	wife,"	even
"my	country"	and	"my	life."
“Me”	begins	to	appear	in	all	of	our	references	to
our	own	lives.

In	a	Vipassana	meditation	course	that	the	author	attended	for	10	days,	SN
Goenka,	the	Buddhist	teacher,	referred	in	a	fun	way	to	this	concept	of	"me."
He	invited	his	students	to	imagine	these	situations:	"My	watch	was	stolen",
"My	car	broke",	"My	wife	deceived	me."
In	these	situations,	the	identity	of
“me”	has	a	deeply	negative	impact.

In	order	to	change,	we	must	be	aware	of	this	eagerness	of	possession.
Only
then	will	we	be	able	to	free	ourselves	from	it.
It	is	time	to	end	the	desire	for
control	over	all	things	that	is	characterized	by	“me”	and	“mine.”WE	ARE	NOT	OUR	ROLES

In	life,	each	of	us	plays	a	number	of	roles	in	order	to	fit	into	society.
We	see
these	roles	as	an	important	link	to	the	rest	of	the	world.

However,	when	we	become	totally	absorbed	in	a	role,	we	begin	to	identify
ourselves	by	its	behavior	patterns.
That	which	society	expects	is	internalised
in	such	a	way	that	we	confuse	the	role	that	we	play	with	our	True	Selves.

We	must	be	very	clear	with	ourselves	that	we	are	not	the	roles	that	we
assume.
We	must	understand	that	we	are	is	far	greater	than	any	of	the	roles
that	we	play.

When	detach	our	being	from	our	roles,	our	consciousness	will	begin	to
lighten.
Then,	we	may	connect	with	our	essential	being,	with	who	we	truly
are.THE	EGO	AND	THE	BODY	OF
PAIN

Daily,	we	experience	harmful	sensations	such	as	annoyance.
The	problem	is
that	instead	of	allowing	them	to	simply	pass	and	disappear,	we	hold	them	in
our	thoughts;	we	turn	them	over	and	over	in	our	minds	until	they	occupy	us
completely.

The	consequence	of	this	is	that	we	allow	ourselves	to	become	angry,	thus
alienating	ourselves	from	our	True	Selves	and	allowing	the	suffering	to	stay
with	us.
In	this	way,	the	pains	of	the	past	are	constantly	present	in	our	minds,
and	there	condition	our	concerns	for	the	future.

To	illustrate	such	negative	over-thinking,	the	story	is	told	of	two	Zen	monks,
Tanzan	and	Ekido.

The	two	monks	were	walking	along	a	muddy	road	on	time	when	they	saw	a
young	woman	trying	to	keep	her	silk	kimono	from	dragging	in	the	mud.
To
help	her,	Tanzan	lifted	her	and	carried	her	across	the	muddy	road	to	dry	land.

The	two	monks	continued	to	walk	in	silence,	until	five	hours	later,	when
Ekido	could	not	contain	himself	any	longer.
He	expressed	his	anger	to
Tanzan,	saying	"We	are	not	supposed	to	do	such	things!",	to	which	Tanzan
simply	replied,	"I	left	the	woman	behind	hours	ago.
Are	you	still	carrying
her?”

Most	people	act	like	Ekido,	continually	carrying	pains,	anger,	wounds	and
negative	emotions	that	prevent	us	from	enjoying	life.
By	doing	so,


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the liver. They were ready to give her Interferon. She began Urine-therapy and in
three months the astonished doctors asked her what she had done.
ft was not necessary to put the Interferon.
TESTIMONY 27*
D1AB£T£S.
Candelario F. Vazquez {Mexico}
I have had diabetes for four years with counts up to 300.
I am with the taking of the Urine-therapy each day for fifteen days.
In one month the count lowers to 124.
Explanation: With taking drugs indicated by the Doctors, 6 tablet daily,
my diabetes was on the verge of starting injections of insulin.
Now the therapy arrived for me on time from the grace of God
and in one month I am completely normal.
I followed the procedure. I now need to do the fasts..
TESTIMONY 28*
COL1T1S AND TVB£RCVLOS1S
Judith To Munoz { Saito, Jalisco, Mexico }
I live in Saito, Jalisco. I feel well, because the tuberculosis I had was very hard
and I felt very bad in my circulation including colitis and hemorrhoids.
76 I thank to God and to the people who attended the conference and gave
their testimony.
I feel very well. Thanks.
TESTIMONY 29*
R£VMAT01D£ ARTHRlTlS
Hope F. { Mexico }
Firstly I thank God and Mary, and now to those who gave the message to us
in the conference and spoke of the great medicine that is the Urine.
I was a year in suffering from rheumatism in my hands.
1 could not neither take, nor hold anything in my hands, because everything fe11
from my hands from the pain.
They are giving me cramps and began to become deformed in my fingers.
In only eight days that I began to take my urine, they began to clear the pains and
all the annoyances that I had. I began the fasting and nowadays I do not have any
annoyance. I have my fingers almost in their place.
I now also control my blood pressure, and I took off spots on my face.
TESTIMONY 30*
DlD NOT SP£AK
Juan Carlos G. Meza {Mexico}
Juan Carlos is 8 years old. He has mental delay. He has been taking urine for six
weeks and already can make orations in his speeches. He did not speak at all.
Three years ago with the help of a specialized school, he began to speak but a
month ago he began to make sentences longer.
He is more wide-awake and mature mentally.
THANKS TO GOD.
TESTIMONY 31*
MlGRAlN A.,b COllTlS
Maria de Jesus M { Mexico }
I have migraine headache and colitis, in addition to a taken off a fingernail.
l have 2 months taking the Urine. The headaches are gone.
The nail that I had for years taken off already is growing and the colitis has not
affected me more. I no longer have inflamed an stomach.
77 TESTIMONY 32*
ANGlNAS
Lucila B. Becerra { Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico }
I live in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. My son Edgar Daniel Valenzuela B. was
going to be operated and since he had become immune to medicines,
It was difficult with a problem of chronic anginas.
The information of Urine-therapy arrived and immediately f began the therapy.
Thanks to God the boy no longer needs the operation.
TESTIMONY 33
CLAV1S1£~ M101'1A.
Jesus Solorzano R. { Mexico }
I healed pain in knees and feet (putting Urine compresses on the affected areas).
It also improved my vision. The irritation of the eye came off. I now can see better.
Also I wash my hair and it is now growing, after being bald.
1 have taken it for 8 months.
TESTIMONY 34*
CaHcer Al1b Calculatim1s
Renales Federico N. Orozco { Mexico }
After a month and means to practice the Urine-therapy I started the fasting.
A very painful tumor disappeared of the center part of my back, which f had for
over one and a half years. In addition I have been cured of insomnia, improving
my average of sleep from 2 hours to 3 hours to a sleep of 6 to 7 hours.
Even in a last attack of kidney stones, they dissolved with no need of drugs.
TESTIMONY 35*
TVMO~ D1AB£T£S~ VARlCOS£ V£1NS
Victoria P. Gomez { Mexico }
I cured myself of diabetes, varicose veins, a tumor in the stomach, discharge,
high blood pressure, high cholesterol and a tumor in the eye.
I have taking my urine for 8 months and did four fasts. Thanks to God I am well.
I invite everyone to really make the fasts. I feet very welt.
God bless to them.
78 TESTIMONY 36*
BAD ClRCVLATlON!I MYOPlA..
Juan Rafael C. Mojica { Mexico }
By this testimony I give for I am cured with the fasting of Urine-therapy.
I thank God and to Chemistry for giving the person who came to present to us
the wonderful therapy.
I am 82 years old and my problems are~ lack of circulation, sight and nerves.
I lost a leg by bad circulation 8 years ago.
1 already began to have problems in my other leg. 1 was prone to have a cerebral
stroke for which I was constantly Dizzy and loosing my whereabouts.
I was loosing my sight and I was getting to where I could not walk.
I began with the therapy the 1Oth of December.
I took urine every day in fasting from noon to night.
Thanks to God I feel very improved, rather cured.
The dizziness has never returned.
As to my sight I am recovering, and my leg responds to me perfectly.
I took three types of medicines that I ingested 3 times a day,
and now, no medicines and f feef fike a 15 year ofd.
TESTIMONY 37*
FRACTVR£D COLVMN!I DlD NOT \\1 ALK
Maria Elena Villanueva { Mexico }
Seven years ago I had an accident. Since that time I consulted several doctors.
My accident was in a water drainage system called "Of the Eagles".
I fell from the bridge and broke my clavicle, knee, ankle and a little of my spine.
1 was very damaged and very swo11en. I could not walk. I weighed 123 kg.
. I drink urine three times a day. In two months I lost 20 kilos and I feel very well.
Thanks to God. Today I feel healthy.
TESTIMONY 38*
MVOPlA!I DlAB£T£S
Olga Z. de Rodriguez { Mexico }
I have been diabetic for 13 years. I began with fasting with Urine-therapy.
Three weeks ago today f have feft very improved. My dizzyness have disappeared.
Pains in my body, fatigue and a cyst that I had in my arm is now gone.
My vision is recovering and now 1 can read without glasses.
I thank to God and the Urinetherapy, and to the people who me recommended it.
79 TESTIMONY 41 *
MYOPlA
Teresa Miramontes Fui { Mexico }
I went to a conference of chemistry and on the following day began with my
fasting for three days taking my urine as she had indicated to me.
I also applied it in my eyes directly all nights and mornings.
In 15 days 1 felt that 1 no longer need anything else.
Successively, I no longer need the use lenses.
Before this my diagnosis of the doctors was that I would go little by little losing
my sight. Now I am perfectly well. Thanks to God.
Testimony 42*
1 calculate R~al A11b Colitis
Daisy M. Torres {Mexico}
I am 39 years old, and thanks to God I found out what urine cures,
by means of my sisters-in-law and my daughter, who went to a conference.
For one month now I have been with my method of Urine-therapy and I already
did one fasting in which I rid myself of kidney stones and I lost 4 kilos of weight.
I thank God for this treatment that I received because I also had colitis
and already I am healed.
Testimony 43*
Voltase A11b Misra6l1a
Beatriz Eugenia F. { Mexico }
The last year I suffered low blood pressure.
My counts lowered me to 30 to 50, and f now have migraines.
When I went to the supermarket they had to take me in a wheelchair.
Taking Urine improved me remarkably. Starting, I stayed with my drugs.
Later I was stopping the drugs little by little and increasing the dose of Urine.
I have not made a fasting and


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visual disturbances and neck problems. In Taoist cultivation the
pelvis, scrotum urogenital diaphragm, sacrum and cranial pump
are very important to help move the sexual energy up to the higher
center.
THREE POSTURES OF TESTICLE BREATHING:
SITTING, STANDING, LYING
Sitting: I generally recommend sitting on a chair. I prefer this posi-
tion for its simplicity and comfort. Sitting lends ease to a practice
that favors relaxation and good concentration.
Sit on the edge of a chair with the buttocks and legs support-
ing your weight. The scrotum hangs free in the air. This point is
important because the testes must be freely suspended in order for
you to push a maximum of air energy down into them. Raise the
tongue to the roof of the mouth as this is essential in circulating the
chi, completing the loop between the front and back channels of
the microcosmic orbit.
The feet are firmly planted on the floor with hands resting
palm down on the knees. The back should be quite straight at the
waist but slightly round at the shoulders and neck. This very minor
forward curvature of the upper back tends to relax the chest and
helps the power flow through the neck, chest, and abdomen. Keep
the chin slightly tucked in. Military posture, with shoulders thrown
back and head held high, tends to lodge power in the upper bodyThe Dance Of The Testes 73
and prevent its circulating back down to lower centers.
A variant of the sitting position is to sit cross-legged, either in
lotus position or American Indian style. We appreciate the esoteric
virtues of the lotus position, but Chinese practice attributes to the
lotus serious disadvantages. Some Buddhist monks have been crip-
pled by lengthy meditation in lotus position. Also, turning the soles
of the feet away from the ground prevents one from directly draw-
ing in through the feet the earth's yin power. The human body is
designed to absorb earth energy through the kidney (K-l point) and
other meridians in the feet and filter it before passing it up to the
coccyx and brain. Some people can develop problems if they ab-
sorb too much "raw" earth chi directly into their sacrum, as oc-
curs in lotus position. Eventually they become allergic to this un-
digested energy and go crazy.
Nevertheless, the lotus may be used by those accustomed and
devoted to it so long as they are comfortable and can apply their
whole attention to the exercise. Few cross-legged positions afford
such freedom of scrotal movement as sitting on the edge of a chair.
If you sit cross-legged, you should wear very loose pants and re-
move your underpants to prevent resistance to full inflation of the
scrotum.
Standing: Another good position is standing. The above instruc-
tions on raising tongue tip to palate and maintaining correct posture
apply equally to this position. Standing is particularly favorable for
scrotal breathing because the testes hang quite freely. Standing up
straight in a relaxed manner encourages good posture. The hands
are at the sides and the feet at shoulder width. Discipline yourself
to relax if you get too tense, or the chi power may stick in the heart
region and make you irritable.
Lying: Never lie flat on the back when performing these exercises.
In this position the chest sits higher than the abdomen and receives
too much energy. Nor should you lie on the left side. Both incor-
rect positions unduly stress the heart.
The proper lying position is on the right side. A pillow placed
beneath the head should raise it about 3" to 4", so that the head sits
squarely on the shoulders. The four fingers of the right hand area
are placed immediately in front of the right ear, while the thumb
sits behind the ear and folds it slightly forward to keep it open.74 Taoist Secrets Of Love
The ear must stay open to permit air flow through the eu-
stachian tube. The left hand rests on the outer left thigh. The right
leg is straight; the left leg, which rests on the right one, is slightly
bent. This position allows the scrotum to hang free of the thighs.
DIAGRAM 14
Lie on the right side so you do not
press on the heart Curve the legs
so the testicles hang freely
You may have noticed that lions often sleep in a similar pos-
ture. The animals are informed by wise instinct. The position frees
the spinal column of the oppression of gravity and allows it to
assume its natural curvature. Lying on the right side relieves the
spine from stress.
TESTICLE BREATHING: STEP BY STEP
1. Sit erect on the edge of your chair with your feet flat on the floor
about shoulder width apart. Wear loose pants or wear nothing from
your waist down, so it can literally all hang out.* Do not practice
naked in a cold room, or you will lose a lot of chi. With the air
circulating around your bottom you'll naturally become more
aware of your "privates." Allow your attention to center around
your scrotum between the two testicles and you might be surprised
to discover that it really is cold, or yin, down there. Make sure you
feel very relaxed. If you are tense, do some stretching exercises or
take a walk first to disperse tension.
2. Inhale slowly and pull the testicles up. Hold for awhile, then
exhale slowly and lower the testicles. As you inhale, think of the
breath going down into the testes and filling them up. At the same
time raise the testes with the breath. Gently continue inhaling and
*If a woman performs any of the exercises in this book, substituting her ovaries as the
source of energy, she should keep her panties on to prevent any chi from draining out.The Dance Of The Testes 75
exhaling with the testicles until you feel a lot of cold energy in the
scrotum. You may do this in a round of 9, then rest and practice
again 3-6 sets.
Draw the life-giving air to the very root of the body. Breathe
out the accumulated wastes as the testes sink downwards. Gener-
ate a strong flow of energy to swiftly circulate the pelvic blood.
Use the mind alone to cause the movement of the testes up and
down—don't flex your penis or anus muscles.
After exercising for a week or two, you may observe the
actual rise and fall of the testes during practice. This movement
confirms that you are breathing properly. At a more proficient
level, the lower abdomen will appear to move less: nearly all visi-
ble action will be in the scrotal sac itself. The dancing movements
of the testes may be noted in the mirror and have a rather humor-
ous aspect.
Unless specifically indicated otherwise, all breathing is to be
done through the nose. Nasal breathing affords better control of
the air inhaled. It filters and warms the air and supplies life force of
well-balanced quality.
The whole body must relax. Allow all tension to flow out of
you as if you were in meditation. Use the mind alone to raise and
lower them. With practice you will learn to identify the cold ching
chi stored in the scrotum area.
DIAGRAM 15
BladderTesticle Breathing. Inhale slowly.
As you inhale, think the breath
down into the testes
& raise the testes
Urethra
Glans
ANUS76 Taoist Secrets Of Love
3. Guide that "cold" feeling from your scrotum to your perineum
by inhaling and pulling up slightly on your testicles. At the same
time feel it coolly flow the few inches to the perineum, an action
induced by putting your mind at the perineum and holding it there.
Inhale and exhale several times at the testes to build up more
energy. The retention of the ching chi at the perineum is very
important, for if you release your attention the cold energy will
drop down to the scrotum or leak out. It is just like you are using a
straw to draw up the fluid. When you are out of breath and pause
for a while you need to keep the attention by holding your finger
over the straw. If you release it it will drop down and you'll have to
start again. Do this for several days or until you get it.
4. Begin to draw the sex energy from the testes up the back chan-
nel, as if sipping on a straw. Always start with testicle breathing,
inhaling and exhaling till you feel the ching energy is ready. Inhale,
draw the "cold" from your testicles to the perineum and then draw
it up to your coccyx, the very bottom end of your spine. There's an
area a little up from the tip of your spine, mostly bone, that's called
the hiatus opening of the sacrum.
When you pull the cool ching up to the perineum and then to
the sacrum, slightly arch your lower back outward, as if you were
standing with your back against a wall and flattening it against it.
Tilt the sacrum downward and hold it down in order to help acti-
vate the pump action, which will be further accentuated if you
gently tighten the back of your neck and skull bones


 does not possess;
the T ao gives without expecting;
the T ao fosters gr owth without ruling.
This is called hidden virtue.
OceanofPDF.comLiving by
Hidden Virtue
This passage encourages you to discover that quality within  you that
protects, nurtures, and shelters automatically, “without ruling.” Consciously
living by hidden virtue probably means changing many of the ways in
which you see your role in the grand scheme of things. And a natural
starting point would be the way you explain the mystery of how life begins.
If you had to describe your creation, you’d most likely say that you
originated through an act of commingling between your biological parents.
If that’s the only explanation for your existence, then it excludes the
spontaneity and mystery that living by hidden virtue offers you. Operating
in this new way expands and redefines your conception and birth, and the
world changes as a result of your modified viewpoint.
Living by hidde n virtue allows you to get the most out of life because it
means seeing that it’s your choice and responsibility to decide how you’re
going to spend it. Not living by hidden virtue, on the other hand, ensures
that your role in a family or culture is assigned at birth (or even
conception), with predetermi ned expectation s about how you should and
will function. Your days become filled with stressful attempts to please
those to whom you’re biologcal ly related. You experience the nagging self-
criticism that you’re disappointing a parent or grandparent, along with
unsettling desire s to be free of the pressure of your gender or placement in a
designated family. Trying to operate within this belief system can
consequently keep you trapped in an unpleasant and intolerable role of
servitude and obsequiousness.
In the 51st verse of the Tao Te Ching, Lao-tzu asks you to expand your
vision and begin to see yoursel f as a creation of the Tao. Imagine that the
tiny seedling that was you didn’t come from another particle, but rather
from an invisible Source. And this Source that sprung you into existence,
herein called “the Way,” has no preconceived doctrine dictating what you
should do, whom you should listen to, where you should live, or how you
should worship.  The Source, your great Mother, has no invest ment in thechoices you make during your individual journey—it knows that the
seedling that was you is perfect and free to complete itself in whateve r way
it chooses. This Mother, which is the Tao, has no expectations for you...
no demands, no battles or wars for you to fight, no history to live up to.
The Chinese refer to this hidden  entity that brought you into existence as
Te. I’m referring to Te here as “virtue” or “character.” And Jonathan Star’s
translation of the T ao Te Ching interprets it in this verse as follows:
Though T ao gives life to all things,
Te is what cultivates them.
Te is that magic power which
raises and r ears them,
completes and pr epares them,
comforts and pr otects them.
Te, then, is the virtue that’s deep within you and all of creation. This isn’t
a force that guarantees the physical shell will never die; it’s more a
characteristic that allows you to move through the material world in your
body, perfectly aligned with the creative originating force. Read this verse
as a reminder that you’re protected and completed by your ultimate
originating Source, which isn’t the same as guaranteeing your security in
this phenomenal world. Helen Keller 51st Verse was speaking of this very
thing when she stated, “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in
nature...”
The 51st verse is about learning to trust by changing your view of life to
include Te, or hidden virtue. It’s about seeing yourself as a member of a
family of onene ss, with the same parents as all other creature s. It’s about
feeling your total freedom—to produce without possessing, and to keep
from becoming a possession yourself. So give without expecting, and don’t
be victimized by the expectations of others.
Here are suggestions offered to you by Lao-tzu as I gaze at the great
master ’s picture before me and feel as if we were one:
Practice feeling safe and pr otected.Live each day trusting in the hidden virtue that’s both within you and that
caused you. Keep in mind that the feeling of being secure, shielded, and
nurtured won’ t come from anything you might possess. Instead, it will arise
when you know  that you’re in constant contact with a virtuous  power that
lies within every cell of your being. This hidden force is responsible for
your very presence.
You sprang into existence by virtue of Tao; and while your every breath
and actio n aren’ t commanded to do so, they nevertheless pay homage to the
inner virtue that is your life. That power is in my hand as I write these
words, and it’s in your eyes as they read this page. Trust in it. Worship it.
Feel safe in the force that remains hidden. This is all you need to feel
complete.
Remember that the T ao pr oduces—it doesn’t possess.
Do the same and you’ll achieve the wisdom of this verse. Be a caretaker,
not an owner. Don’ t attempt to control anyone; instead, foster growth
without dominating or ruling. When you’re in a supervisory role, allow
others to activat e their hidden virtue as much as possible. Just as you wish
to feel protected and trust in that invisible force that animates you, so does
everyone you encounter. I emphasize this word because there are no
exceptions.
Witter Bynner ’s translation of this 51st verse of the T ao Te Ching states:
All cr eated things r ender, to the existence and fitness they depend on...
Do you likewise:
Be par ent, not possessor,
Attendant, not master.
Be concerned not with obedience but with benefit, And you ar e at the cor e
of living.
I urge you to remember the phrase “Do you likewise,” and live by hidden
virtue.
Do the T ao Now
Plan a day of letting go: Let go of thinking, and discove r the all-
embracing nature of the mind. Let go of preconceptions and ideas, andexperience how things really are. Let go of needing to control others, and
discover how capable they really  are. Take time to find your answers to the
question What might really happen if I let go? As you do this exercise, you
may be surprised to discover that you find more of the hidden virtue in your
life, which then changes the way you see yourself.
OceanofPDF.comOceanofPDF.com52nd Verse
All under heaven have a common beginning.
This beginning is the Mother of the world.
Having known the Mother,
we may pr oceed to know her childr en.
Having known the childr en,
we should go back and hold on to the Mother.

Keep your mouth shut,
guard the senses,
and life is ever full.
Open your mouth,
always be busy,
and life is beyond hope.

Seeing the small is called clarity;
keeping flexible is called str ength.
Using the shining radiance,
you r eturn again to the light
and save yourself misfortune.

This is called
the practice of eternal light.
OceanofPDF.comLiving by Returning
to the Mother
This verse tells you that it’s valuable and important to realize that your
life is more than just a linear experience happening in time and space. That
is, you more or less currently view your time on Earth as a straight line
from conception to birth—you’ll move through predictable stages of
development, concluding with death, where you’ll meet up with the
mystery that awaits you on the Other Side. Lao-tzu is inviting you to see
that your existe nce is a return trip to the place where all the planets’
creations emer ge. He wants you to realize that you have the ability to enjoy
this mysterious beginning before your physical ending. This mystery, which
is in each and every one of the 10,000 things, is referred to by Lao-tzu as
the “Mother,” or the symbol of what lies beyond all that seems to begin and
end.
Start your journe y back to the Mother by contemplating the first two lines
of this verse of the Tao Te Ching: “All under heaven have a common
beginning. This beginning is the Mother of the world.” Let this thought
filter into your physical being  and create a state of awe about your
existence, whic h emer ged out of no-thing-ness. Know that this unseen
Source that births every single thing also birthed you. Like electricity
streaming through a conduit, the myst erious nothingness flows through and
sustains all of life, including you. It’s a constant invisible, soundless,
odorless force, which isn’ t immediately available to your sensory self.
It’s vital that you spend a few moments each day getting to know your
(and my) eternal Mother, which  you can do by simply acknowledging her
presence and silently communi cating with her. Once you decide to know
and honor her, you’ll begin to change the way you look at all of her
children, including yourself. You’ll view all of the 10,000 things as
offspring of the


 each night, before going to sleep. On the
ninth day orders came through from Battalion headquarters for the soldier to fill out a new application for
his discharge. Shortly after this was done he was ordered to report to the Colonel's office. During the
discussion the Colonel asked him if he was still desirous of getting out of the army. Upon receiving an
affirmative reply, the Colonel said that he personally disagreed, and while he had strong objections to
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 38 of 51approving of the discharge, he had decided to overlook these objections and to approve it. Within a few
hours the application was approved and the soldier, now a civilian, was on a train bound for home.
This is a striking story of an extremely successful businessman demonstrating the power of imagination
and the law of assumption. I know this family intimately, and all the details were told to me by the son
described herein.
The story begins when he was twenty years old. He was next to the oldest in a large family of nine brothers
and one sister. The father was one of the partners in a small merchandising business. In his eighteenth year
the brother referred to in this story left the country in which they lived and travelled
two thousand miles to enter college and complete his education. Shortly after his first year in college he
was  called  home  because  of  a  tragic  event  in  connection  with  his  father's  business.  Through  the
machinations of his associates, the father was not only forced out of his business, but was the object of
false accusations impugning his character and integrity. At the same time he was deprived of his rightful
share  in  the  equity of  the  business.  The  result  was he  found himself  largely  discredited  and  almost
penniless. It was under these circumstances that the son was called home from college.
He  returned,  his  heart  filled  with  one  great  resolution.  He  was  determined  that  he  would  become
outstandingly successful in business. The first thing he and his father did was to use the little money they
had to start their own business. They rented a small store on a side street not far from the large business of
which the father had been one of the principal owners. There they started a business bent upon real service
to the community. It was shortly thereafter that the son, with instinctive awareness that it was bound to
work, deliberately used imagination to attain an almost fantastic objective.
Every day on the way to and from work he passed the building of his father's former business the biggest
business of its kind in the country. It was one of the largest buildings, with the most prominent location in
the heart of the city. On the outside of the building was a huge sign on which the name of the firm was
painted in large bold letters. Day after day as he passed by, a great dream took shape in the son's mind. He
thought of how wonderful it would be if it was his family that had this great building -his family that
owned and operated this great business.
One day as he stood gazing at the building, in his imagination he saw a completely different name on the
huge sign across the entrance. Now the large letters spelled out his family name (in these case histories
actual names are not used; for the sake of clarity in this story we will use hypothetical names and assume
that the son's family name was Lordard). Where the sign read F. N. Moth & Co., in imagination he actually
saw the name, letter by letter, J. N. Lordard & Sons. He remained looking at the sign with his eyes wide
open, imagining that it read J. N. Lordard & Sons. Twice a day, week after week, month after month for
two years he saw his family name over the front of that building. He was convinced that if he felt strongly
enough that a thing was true, it was bound to be the case, and by seeing in imagination his family name on
the sign -which implied that they owned the business -he became convinced that one day they would own
it.
During this period he told only one person what he was doing. He confided in his mother, who with loving
concern tried to discourage him in order to protect him from what might be a great disappointment. Despite
this, he persisted day after day. Two years later the large company failed and the coveted building was up
for sale. On the day of the sale he seemed no nearer ownership than he had been two years before when he
began to apply the law of assumption. During this period they had worked hard, and their customers had
implicit confidence in them. However, they had not earned anything like the amount of money required for
the purchase of the property. Nor did they have any source from which they could borrow the necessary
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 39 of 51capital. Making even more remote their chance of getting it was the fact that this was regarded as the most
desirable property in the city and a number of wealthy business people were prepared to buy it. On the
actual day of the sale, to their complete surprise, a man, almost a total stranger, came into their shop and
offered to buy the property for them. (Due to some unusual conditions involved in this transaction the son's
family could not even make a bid for the property.) They thought the man was joking. However, this was
not the case. The man explained that he had watched them for some time, admired their ability, believed in
their integrity, and that supplying the capital for them to go into business on a large scale was an extremely
sound investment for him. That very day the property was theirs. What the son had persisted in seeing in
his imagination was now a reality. The hunch of the stranger was more than justified. Today this family
owns not only the particular business referred to but owns many of the largest industries in the country in
which they live.
The son, seeing his family name over the entrance of this great building, long before it was actually there,
was using exactly the technique that produces results. By assuming the feeling that he already had what he
desired  by  making  this  a  vivid  reality  in  his  imagination  by  determined  persistence,  regardless  of
appearance or circumstance-he inevitably caused his dream to become a reality.
This is the story of a very unexpected result of an interview with a lady who came to consult me.
One afternoon a young grandmother, a businesswoman in New York, came to see me. She brought along
her nine-year-old grandson, who was visiting her from his home in Pennsylvania. In response to
her questions, I explained the law of assumption, describing in detail the procedure to be followed in
attaining an objective. The boy sat quietly, apparently absorbed in a small toy truck while I explained to the
grandmother the method of assuming the state of consciousness that would be hers were her desire already
fulfilled. I told her the story of the soldier in camp who each night fell asleep, imagining himself to be in
his own bed in his own home.
When the boy and his grandmother were leaving, he looked up at me with great excitement and said, "I
know what I want and, now, I know how to get it." Surprised, I asked him what it was he wanted; he told
me he had his heart set on a puppy. To this the grandmother vigorously protested, telling the boy that it had
been made clear repeatedly that he could not have a dog under any circumstances... that his father and
mother would not allow it, that the boy was too young to care for it properly, and furthermore the father
had a deep dislike for dogs he actually hated to have one around.
All these were arguments the boy, passionately desirous of having a dog, refused to understand. "Now I
know what to do," he said. "Every night just as I am going off to sleep I am going to pretend that I have a
dog and we are going for a walk."
"No," said the grandmother, "that is not what Mr. Neville means. This was not meant for you. You cannot
have a dog."
Approximately six weeks later, the grandmother told me what was to her an astonishing story. The boy's
desire to own a dog was so intense that he had absorbed all that I had told his grandmother of how to attain
one's desire and he believed implicitly that at last he knew how to get a dog.
Putting this belief into practice, for many nights, the boy imagined a dog was lying in his bed beside
him. In imagination he petted the dog actually feeling its fur. Things like playing with the dog and
taking it for a walk filled his mind.
Neville - THE  POWER  OF  AWARENESS.doc                                                          Page 40 of 51Within a few weeks it happened. A newspaper in the city in which the boy lived organized a special
program in connection with Kindness to Animals Week. All school children were requested to write an
essay on "Why I Would Like to Own a Dog." After entries from all the schools were submitted and judged,
the winner of the contest was announced. The very same boy who weeks before in my apartment in New
York had told me "Now I know how to get a dog" was the winner. In an elaborate ceremony, which was
publicized


 is responsible for this excessive mucus. While in the case of
those suffering from cow's milk allergy more lactose may be tolerated when it comes from goat's milk, in sensitive individuals the
lactose in goat's milk or in tablets will be equally as mucus-forming as that from cow's milk.
Mucus and Asthma
When more mucus accumulates in the lungs than can be expelled, asthma is likely to develop. A special feature of mucus produced
from lactose is its acid nature, which is rather irritating to the mucous membranes. On the one hand it makes them oversensitive to
airborne irritants and promotes inﬂammation, while on the other hand it also induces the mucous membranes to produce large
amounts of protective mucus. All mucous membranes produce normal healthy mucus for their own protection; this is, for instance,
how the stomach wall protects itself from being digested by its own hydrochloric acid.
Many cases of asthma seem to be predominantly induced by galactar ic acid-type mucus. I remember a patient who was fond of
yogurt and, for health reasons, prepared it from skim-milk powder. This produces yogurt with a much higher lactose content than
yogurt from full-fat milk (see Table below). When I persuaded her to use somewhat less yogurt and prepare it only from whole milk
without additional skim-milk powder, her asthma disappeared for good. The asthma-causing skim-milk yogurt provided about 50g of
lactose per day, while she was asthma-free on whole-milk yogurt with about 5g of lactose daily.
See the following table for the lactose content of some common dairy products.
LACT OSE CONTENT OF DAIR Y PRODUCTS
butter 0.5%
cheese, cottage cheese 2-4%
goat's milk 4.3%
cow's milk 4.9%
yogurt and ice-cream (with skim-milk powder) 5-25%
skim-milk powder 52%
whey powder 70%
With a lactose content of 52 per cent in skim-milk powder, you may now realize how dangerous the current fad is for using low-fat ice-
cream, yogurt, cottage cheese and so forth, instead of full-fat products. Such low-fat foods are usually made from skim-milk powder
and contain three to ﬁve times as much lactose as the equivalent full-fat foods. Sometimes skim-milk powder is even added to butter.
Therefore read the label and avoid butter that lists 'non-fat milk solids' as one of the ingredients.
Skim-milk powder is also a favorite additive to many other commercial foods, such as bread and other baking products, sausages
and margarine. The health-food industry is equally fond of adding lactos e to many products such as soy milk and dandelion coffee.
Lactose is often used as ﬁller in white tablets. Try to avoid white tablets if the label does not state that they are free of lactose or are
low-allergy tablets.
The lung irritation caused by accumulated mucus also means that the lungs are more prone to be affected by airborne allergens, food
allergies and chemicals. This could result in inﬂammatory swellings of the bronchial tubes. Mucus accumulating in the lungs allows
pathogenic microbes to inﬁltrate. Some strains of these bacteria convert sugars into alginic acid, another form of sticky mucus.10/30/24, 3:31 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Truth about Asthma
https://health-science-spirit.com/Diseases/Asthma.html 5/10Often there is Candida or fungus infestation as well, which sensitizes the mucous membranes to airborne molds. Mucus-releasing
colds in this setting can be a blessing in disguise, provided they are not treated with antibiotics. This is the reason why children with
running noses, as shown in the previous chapter, tend to have less asthma. However heavy or chest colds tend to aggravate lung
irritation and increases asthma problems.
There tends to be less of a problem with raw milk, especially if it is fresh and organic; this is easier to digest and causes less allergies
than pasteurized milk. Nevertheless, I found that even raw organic goats’  milk can increase mucus problems in susceptible children.
If breastfeeding is not possible then the best alternative is fresh clean and raw goats’  milk, it just needs some additional folic acid and
vitamin B12 (and raw egg yolk after four months of age). Hydrolyzed casein or partially hydrolyzed whey formulas have also been
found to prevent babies from developing allergies. These formulas did relieve symptoms in more than 90 percent of infants who are
allergic to cow's milk.
This indicates that most allergy problems may be due to a combination of enzyme deﬁciencies as caused by pasteurization and
cooking, and dysbiosis due to antibiotics.
Cows’  milk also provides the explan ation why children sometimes grow out of their asthma problems: as teenagers and adults they
tend to drink less milk. However, if they are still afﬂicted with the antibiotic syndrome, then this may not be enough to overcome their
asthma.
Understanding that mucus productio n from lactose is due to a limitation  of liver enzymes also shows us how we can minimize any
problem. If it is not caused by an allergic reaction, then it helps to spac e out any lactose intake. For instance 5g of lactose taken in
one drink may cause more congestion than 10g taken spaced out during the day.
4. ANTIBIOTICS AND STRESS
A recent paper presented by the Wellington Asthma Research Group showed that antibiotic use, especially in the ﬁrst year of life, is
associated with a fourfold increase in the likelihood of asthma. Furthermore, children who received broad-spectrum antibiotics in early
life, which kill a wide range of bacteria, were 8.9 times more likely to suf fer from asthma (New Scientist 30 September 2003).
Antibiotics actually are a major contributing cause of asthma and not just a trigger or inﬂammation enhancer. These antibiotics kill the
healthy intestinal bacteria that normally protect us from pathogenic invaders entering the blood through the intestinal wall. Now
Candida and other fungi and disease-causing microbes can take over. Their breakdown products, called endotoxins, start entering
the bloodstream and cause immune reactions.
Gradually Candida begins growing long root systems through the intestinal wall, and breaks down its integrity. This allows partly
digested proteins to get into the blood and cause allergic reactions against a wide variety of foods and chemicals. From this we get
an overworked and hyperactive immune system. This also causes a general or systemic inﬂammatory condition in the body, because
the stressed adrenal glands are increasingly less able to produce enough anti-inﬂammatory hormones.
When we have an internal fungus problem we also tend to attract fungi on our skin and mucous membrane, such as the mouth,
vagina and the outside coating of our lungs and airways. While the general hypersensitivity and inﬂammatory setting makes
asthmatics sensitive to a wide range of inhaled irritants, they are especially sensitive to inhaled molds.
Clinical Evidence
A recent research paper (G. Huffnagle and M.C. Noverr in the January 2005 issue of Infection & Immunity), conﬁrms this model of
how antibiotics cause asthma.
One of the researchers commented: "Our research indicates that microﬂora lining the walls of the gastrointestinal tract are a major
underlying factor responsible for the immune system's ability to ignore inhaled allergens. Change the microﬂora in the gut and you
upset the immune system's balance between tolerance and sensitization."
And further: "... we found that differences in host genetics and the type of allergen used didn't matter. The immune responses were
literally identical.” His conclusion was that changing the composition of microﬂora in the gut predisposes to allergic airway disease.
The researchers suspect that changes in gut microﬂora caused by wides pread antibiotics use and a modern high-fat, high-sugar, low-
ﬁber diet may be responsible for the major increase in the last 40 years of asthma and allergies in W estern countries.
In a recent trial it was found that the use of anti-fungal remedies reduced the incidence of hospitalisation for severe asthmatics by 75
per cent (Scotsman.com News 16 Jun 05).
Antibiotics and Candida may also explain the link for the recent observat ion that the biological children (not adopted ones) of mothers
with depression, anxiety disorders and panic attacks had very high rates  of asthma and other allergy problems. For instance 67% of
children were af fected when the mother had severe depression and 46% when mothers had panic attacks.
Candida is known to cause depres sion and other mental and emotio nal disturbances. Babies are inoculated with the intestinal
bacteria of the mother during the passage through the birth canal and also during breastfeeding. If the mother has Candida, then that
is passed on during this crucial phase.
MYCOPLASMA
Closely related to dysbiosis and the antibiotic syndrome are the mycoplasmas or mycoplasms. These are pleomorphic organisms
without cell walls. “Pleomorphic” means that they can change shape from protein blobs to viral, bacterial and fungal forms, depending
on the health of the organism in which they live.10/30/24, 3:31 PM Health-Science


 one centur y to another, we can
almost call the adjective “unconquerable” a factual one.
As the average person’ s brain slowly turns to stone,
much of their birthright of keen awareness becomes lost.
Eyesight starts to go as cataracts develop (a stony film
formation over the eyes). Hearing becomes impaired
because the arteries leading to the ears become corroded
with inorganic mineral encrustations. These are all
diseases of degeneration, which most people blame on
the passing years, not on how badly they have lived.
This gray matter we call the brain must have
oxygenated blood or it degenerates! All living cells of
the body must have oxygen in large quantities to sur vive.
Senility is caused by the oxygen star vation of the brain.
To possess an ageless and unconquerable mind, we
must constantly provide it with a free flow of life-giving,
oxygen-rich, red blood. That is the reason the supply
pipes leading to the brain must not be blocked by
encrusted inorganic minerals. If you wish to maintain
or regain a strong brain, use only steam-produced
distilled water and fresh fruit and vegetable juices as your
drinks. Keep far away from city, well and tap waters,
alcohol, tea, coffee, cola, diet and soda drinks.
67 68 Everything you do – including seeing, hearing, speaking, br eathing
and m oving – is controlled by a part of your brain as shown here.
The Brain Needs High Quality Nutrition
The brain must be adequately nourished in order to
function properly. No other part of the body fails mor e
quickly from lack of good nutrition. Upon what does
this mar velous structure feed? It needs foods rich in Brain
Control
Areas
enzymes. Organic raw fruits and vegetables and their
fresh juices provide excellent nourishment. Soy beans,
which are exceptionally rich in lecithin, should be eaten
several times weekly. Lecithin in powder ed, liquid,
capsule, tablet or granulated for m can also be pur chased
at your health food store. Raw, unsalted sunflower,
sesame and pumpkin seeds are all healthful brain foods.
The entir e ner vous
system is made of
individual cells
called neurons.
Every neuron has
3 main parts:
the cell body,
the dendrite,
and the axon.
Neurons Organic Minerals are Essential to Life
The brain needs phosphorus. Organic phosphorus is
found in beans of all kinds including: pinto, garbanzo
and dried lima beans and lentils. Other phosphorus rich
sources are: 100% whole grains, br own rice, almonds,
peanuts and walnuts. Lean meats, egg yolks and natural,
unprocessed cheeses also contain organic phosphorus.
All the organic minerals are needed to keep the body
strong, youthful and healthy. They are essential factors
in digestion and assimilation, constituting important
ingredients of the digestive juices and regulating the
osmotic exchange between lymph and blood cells. In
short, organic minerals are indispensable to the proper
physiological functioning of all the systems of the body.
Organic Minerals Make the Man!
It’s estimated that an average man weighing about
90 lbs. oxygen
36 lbs. carbon
14 lbs. hydrogen
3 lbs. 8 oz. nitrogen
3 lbs. 12 oz. calcium
1 lb. 4 oz. phosphorus
32 oz. sulphur
3 oz. potassium
22 oz. sodium
12 oz. magnesium
4 oz. silicon
6 oz. iron
69
150 pounds is composed of the following:
Trace Elements
Our bodies are also made up of trace amounts of these
other important elements: manganese, zinc, neon,
iodine, copper, lithium, cobalt, helium,  etc.
It’s a mistake to think that the more a man eats, the stronger he will become.
God sends the food. Man, by refining and processing the food, destroys its
nutritional value. Eat only God’s natural food. – Patricia Bragg, N.D., Ph.D. Formula for Creating a Human Being
    According to B. A. Howar d – in his book The Pr oper
 Study of Mankind – the human body contains:
• Enough water to fill a l0 gallon barrel.
• Enough fat to make 7 bars of soap.
• Enough carbon for 9,000  lead pencils.
• Enough phosphorus for 2,200  match-heads.
• Just enough iron for 1 medium-size nail.
• Enough calcium (lime) to whitewash a chicken coop.
• And microscopic amounts of such trace elements
as cobalt, iodine, zinc, copper, molybdenum,
titanium, beryllium, etc.
Take these ingredients; combine them in the right
proportions and in the right way; and the result,
70 apparently, is the creation of a man, claims Howar d.
The Body is Composed of Organic Minerals
Remember that these are ALL ORGANIC – not
inorganic – chemicals and minerals. There is a sharp
line of demar cation between the two! Although the
chemical analysis is the same whether found in air, earth,
plant or animal – it is only through the life processes of
the plant whereby the constituents of air and soil become
vitalized and useful to the human body. It is this property
of vitality alone which distinguishes, for example, the
atom of iron in the red corpuscles of the blood from
that of inorganic iron or preparations made from
inorganic iron. Y ou could suck on an iron nail for years
and never extract any organic iron for building your
blood. When you eat blackberries, you are getting
organic iron that can be used by the blood. The
arrangement of atoms that form a molecule of the iron
nail is the same as that of the organic iron in the
blackberr y. Only by the gr eat natural miracle for ce of
photosynthesis does the living plant convert the inert
inorganic minerals into the organic minerals which
we can use for keeping ourselves alive and healthy!
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. – Rousseau Bragg Motto – Live Foods Make Live People
Sometimes the minerals of the body are referred to
as “mineral salts.” This misleading terminology has given
the public the wrong idea that this term “salt” refers to
common table salt, or inorganic sodium chloride. Most
people mistakenly consider added salt an indispensable
adjunct to almost all foods and part of a healthy diet.
The fact cannot be over-emphasized that there is a vital
change going on in all the minerals as they are absorbed
into the structure of the plant. On the other hand,
chemical analysis or separation of the minerals means
destruction of the living tissues. But of course, the
chemist will find in the minerals of the “ash” those same
properties that are present in the minerals of the soil.
But that subtle, imponderable for ce – vital electricity (the
life for ce of plants) – has escaped him. It cannot be
isolated by the laborator y processes of condensation or
the extraction. W e must learn to recognize the body’ s
mineral elements as being “organic” components –
internal parts of the living body and subject to the same
vital changes, life and death, that affect the organism.
The organic calcium in the skeleton, the organic iron
contained in the red corpuscles and the organic sodium
and potassium found in the blood serum are biologically
organized. They have a certain duration of life during
which they have vital functions to perform. Sooner or
later these molecules will lose their electromagnetic
tension, according to the degree of their physiological
activity. In other words, they have ser ved their purpose
and must be supplanted by fresh organic minerals. That
is the reason that 60% –70% of your diet should be fresh,
organic raw fr uits and vegetables. These ar e the great
suppliers of the imponderable life for ce – vital electricity.
The Alkaline or Base-Forming Minerals
The alkaline minerals – which are so important in
the performance of the physiological functions of the
body – are iron, sodium, calcium, magnesium, potassium
and manganese. These are the eliminators of toxic waste
poisons, the real immunizers of body. They are essential
71 72 to the formation of the digestive juices and the secretions
of the ductless glands (these hormones probably regulate
nearly all the vital processes of the body).
Iron is necessar y for the formation of red blood
corpuscles and acts as the oxygen carrier of the system.
Elimination of carbon dioxide depends largely upon
organic sodium, which is the chief constituent of the
blood and lymph. Calcium, combined with magnesium,
phosphorus and silicon, makes up more than half of the
bony structure of the body and imparts strength to all
tissues. It also ser ves as a neutralizer and eliminator of
toxic acids. Remember, whenever we refer to minerals
in the body, we are speaking of organic minerals.
The Lower Respirator y System
Thyroid Cartilage
Thyroid Gland
Branching of trachea into right and left bronchi Trachea
Branching of
bronchus into


 how the body has to be damaged more and more before a malignancy can
appear. In both cases the patients were too young (aged 32 and 42) to suffer from an age-related
cancer.
D.L. had pneumonia at age 3. A year later her appendix was removed. During her teens she
suffered some minor problems, and in her early twenties developed a series of bladder infections,
which were treated with antibiotics. These overcame the infections, but candida set in. Drugs
eliminated that problem, but the bladder infections recurred, to be cleared with antibiotics, setting
up a cycle lasting for several years. D.L. became depressed and was treated with anti-depressants.
After the continual drug treatments she developed an unusually aggressive lymphoma, which, she
was told, would not respond to conventional treatments; instead, she was offered a bone marrow
transplants. She refused this and embarked on the intensive Gerson Therapy, which she followed
faithfully for some three years. At the end of that period she was free from all her problems—
lymphoma, bladder infection, candida, depression—and has remained well for nearly 20 years.
D.W. suffered from depression and panic attacks already as a young girl and was kept on
anti-depressants throughout her twenties and thirties. Despite constant drug treatments her panic
attacks worsened, until she was unable to be alone in a room, go out in the street or meet people.
In her late thirties she developed diabetes. In 1995, aged 42, suffering from severe pain, she
presented at the San Antonio Community Hospital in Upland, CA. The diagnosis was carcinoma
of the left ovary, with metastases to the uterus and right ovary. D.W. underwent a hysterectomy,
with repairs to the wall of the rectum. At the same time multiple nodules were found on the bowel
and abdominal wall, but many small nodules, as well as seedlings on the vaginal wall, were left
in place.  In addition an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scan disclosed a cyst on the patient’s
left kidney. Her doctors urged D.W. to start chemotherapy at once, and she made an appointment
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www.thegersonway.comaccordingly. However, the day before, after extensive research she found information on the
Gerson Therapy, cancelled the chemo and went instead to the Gerson hospital in Mexico. D.W.
remained on the Gerson protocol for two years and was healed of all her problems. She no longer
needed hormones to manage her surgery-induced menopause, or drugs to control her diabetes; her
panic attacks had ceased and the kidney cyst had disappeared. Subsequently D.W. was able to get
a job, drive, and function normally. She states that at the time of receiving her diagnosis, three of
her friends were also diagnosed with ovarian cancer. D.W. has now survived in excellent health
for 12 years; sadly, none of her friends receiving orthodox drug treatment survived for more than
six months.
Heart and Circulatory Disease
Like with other chronic degenerative diseases, the incidence of heart and circulatory disease
has vastly increased in the past 50-75 years. Dr. Paul Dudley White, the most famous American
heart specialist of the 1920s and after, stated that he had witnessed his first-ever heart attack in
1921. The reason why he had not encountered one earlier is that canned, bottled and heavily
salted foods had only been on the market for a relatively short time; likewise the chlorination of
municipal water supplies had also begun fairly recently, and so these two factors had not yet been
able to cause metabolic disease. Since then, however, they have more than made up for lost time.
And, as it has often been claimed, the first symptom of heart disease in 40% of patients is a fatal
heart attack.
Sixty years after Dr. Dudley White’s first encounter with heart disease, in 1981, at a meeting
celebrating the 100th anniversary of Dr. Gerson’s birth, one of the speakers was the famous heart
specialist Dr. Demetrio Sodi Pallares, of Mexico City. Describing the treatment he had developed
for his heart disease patients, he declared that cardiac disease was not a local disease (i.e., of the
heart), but a metabolic disease, caused by the loss of potassium from the body and the penetration
of sodium into its cells. This insight was almost identical with Dr. Gerson’s fundamental theory
and practice. The big difference was that Dr. Sodi used his treatment exclusively for heart and
circulatory disease patients, while Gerson had discovered that it was an effective therapy for most
chronic diseases.
Dr. Sodi published over a dozen books and hundreds of scientific papers describing his
successful method of treatment.
One of the techniques he developed together with the French physician Dr. Henri Laborit was
the use of an intravenous glucose-potassium-insulin (GKI) drip. The simple process that the two
physicians invented was to use glucose and insulin to provide the energy needed to transport the
potassium across the cell membranes into the tissues.
Meanwhile the physicians using the Gerson Therapy also found the GKI solution very
useful to re-introduce potassium into the depleted tissues. However, since the Gerson treatment
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www.thegersonway.comis already high in glucose, supplied by the large volume of juices, and high in potassium, also
provided by the juices and the added potassium salts, only a small amount of insulin needed to be
used. As a result, one of the additions to the Gerson treatment is a tiny dose (3-5 mg) of insulin,
administered subcutaneously (under the skin).
What has become of Dr. Sodi’s revolutionary treatment for heart disease? One answer comes
from an Associated Press report, published on November 25th 1998, in the Bucks County Courier
under the headline, “Heart Attack Treatment Considered.” The article runs as follows:
“A long-abandoned heart attack treatment that is so simple and cheap that even Third World
hospitals can use it, is showing new promise and could save the lives of up to 75,000 U.S. patients
a year,” researchers say.
“A study conducted at 29 hospitals in Latin America found that patients given the intravenous
mixture of sugar, insulin and potassium within 24 hours of experiencing a heart attack had half the
death rate of those who didn’t get the treatment. ‘The decrease in the death rate is dramatic—the
largest reduction of just about any intervention that’s been tried,’ said Dr. Carl S.Apstein, professor
of medicine at Boston University. ‘Newer heart attack treatments, such as clot-dissolving drugs,
typically cost hundreds of dollars per patient compared with less than $50 for GKI.”
While the treatment was supposedly abandoned because of ‘doubts as to its effectiveness,’
the author of the article states his belief that “the doubts were caused by the fact that the treatment
was cheap and effective, so that the hugely expensive bypass surgeries, angioplasties, heart
transplants, etc., would no longer be needed. It is interesting that the heart specialists now use the
excuse that the treatment could be used by people who can’t afford more and those who live in
the Third World.”
The Role of Cholesterol in Heart Disease
In the public mind cholesterol is vaguely linked to heart attacks and strokes, but not everyone
knows how this connection works. Cholesterol, a soft waxy substance found among the lipids
(fats) in the bloodstream, is produced naturally in the liver. It is needed for various important
body functions, such as the production of hormones, including sex hormones and corticosteroids.
Cholesterol is divided into Low and High Density Lipoproteins, or LDL and HDL respectively.
HDL is considered necessary and beneficial, able to rid the blood of the harmful LDL. This can
have a genetic origin, but is more likely to be caused by the average American diet that is far too
rich in saturated fats, the obvious source of excess cholesterol.
Some of the highest food sources of cholesterol, according to Dr. W. Virgil Brown, professor
at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, are hamburgers, cheeseburgers, meat loaf,
whole milk and cheese, steaks, hot dogs, eggs, and some more items. Since these foods make up
a high proportion of the usual American diet, clearly they introduce far too much LDL cholesterol
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www.thegersonway.cominto the blood. The result is that blood lipids, i.e., fats, are deposited in the walls of arteries and
form plaque, which in turn causes atherosclerosis. The plaque reduces arterial blood flow, is rough
and easily allows platelets to accumulate, causing clots


 work has had repercus-
sions outside of a circle of enthusiasts of the al-
ternative medicine scene: today, our website Si-
berika.it receives continuous requests for

dry fasting), Zenshchina, kotoraya ne est  (The woman who does
not eat ), Solntseedy  (The sun -eaters)
- Lechenie organizma sobstvennymi silami (Curing the body with
its own strengths), 2015 - the chapters regarding the vetero -
slavic massage Staroslaviyanskie metody lecheniya  (Vetero -
slavic treatment methods) have been omittedy

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trigued by the approach proposed by dry fasting.
In 2018, this growing interest has encouraged
us to produce a lighter and cheaper text, which
was nevertheless full of informative content: 20
Domande sul digiuno secco  (Twenty questions
about dry fasting - 271 pages), a compendium of
Dr. Sergej Filonov’s monographs, which is also a
practical manual aimed at clarifying all the fun-
damental points related to the dry fasting
method in a question -and-answer form. The
positive response to this compendium further
conv inced us that the subject is attracting more
and more readers by the day. We therefore un-
derstood that the time has come to present it in
English for the benefit of the huge English -
speaking community.
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the gen eral audience and hope to succeed in our
intent to offer the first, essential and exhaustive
encounter of the dry therapeutic fasting method
here.

Vera Giovanna Bani  (vera.bani@gmail.com;
siberika.it)

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The good fate of therapeutic fasting in Russia
and the contribution of Prof. Yuri Nikolayev
(introductory article by Vera Giovanna Bani)

In Russia, therapeutic fasting has a history that
can be traced back to 1769, when Petr Vilyami-
nov, professor of medicine at the University of
Moscow, wrote the treaty Slovo or postakh kak
sredstve predochraneniya ot bolezney  (On fasting
as a means of dise ase prevention) after having
held a series of lessons on the benefit of fasting.
Vilyaminov's observations found a follower
fifty years later: in 1822 L. A. Struve, a professor
at the University of Jurev, wrote about fasting as
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eases.
In 1834, Professor I. G. Spassky from the Uni-
versity of Moscow used fasting in his medical
practice. In the article he wrote in the same year,
titled " Uspeshnoe deystvie goloda na prostudnye
zabolevaniya " (Successful application of fasting
in the treatment of cooling diseases) he ob-
served:
"By limiting and changing nutrition, fast-
ing ends up balancing many disturbances
in the body's vegetative process and in this
sense it appears to be an excellent remedy
in the treatment of different chronic dis-
eases".
Subsequently, between the late 1800s and the
early 1900s, Dr. Nikolay Lvovich Zeland (1833 -
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Born in Saarema, now Estonia, he completed his
studies in Petersburg and was appointed to work
in the outlying regions of the Russian Empire, in
Vladivostok, Alma -Ata, and Tashkent. Zeland
did a lot of research on dosed fasting, experi-
menting on himself and on animals. He came to
the conclusion that, thanks to the impact of the
fast:
"It is possible to notice not only radical
changes in the composition of the nervous
system and in the state of being, but at the
global level the processes of digestion and
hematopoiesis improve... A temporary ar-
rest of the vital processes becomes a source
of renewal and of great energy for these
same processes. Abstinence from habitual
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the elements of the tissues become stronger
and are enriched with proteins. (...) After
my experiments I came to the conclusion
that fasting is not only an effective thera-
peutic remedy, but also a practice that de-
serves attention as an educational
method".
Dr. Zeland explained his observations in the ar-
ticle " O posledovatelnom vliyanii lishenija pish-
chi na pitanie " (On the progressive impact of
food ab stinence on nutrition), published in the
"Russkaya medicina" journal (Russian medi-
cine), 1888, № 5-10, 12.
In 1902 it was prof. Vladimir Pashutin who
studied the physiological and patho -physiologi-
cal characteristics of w ater, dry and partial
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text. Practicing at the Medical -Military Acad-
emy of Tsarist Russia, he experimented on dif-
ferent animals for a long time and came to for-
mulate the essence of the physiological mecha-
nisms involved. Thanks to this, V. Pashutin is
considered the pioneer and founder of the the-
ory of fasting or endogenous feeding. To this
day, his experiments have not lost their signifi-
cance.
The figure of Aleksey Suvorin deserves a special
mention. Descending from a powerful family of
St. Petersburg publishers, he was interested in al-
ternative methods of treatment and oriental self -
healing practices since early age; he studied trea-
ties of Indian medicine, Tibetan, Chinese and
books of Western hygienists. In 1914, under the
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first experiments with fasting in a diary entitled
Novyj chelovek  (The New Man), published by
the homonymous publishing house that he
founded.
After the revolution and the civil war that en-
sued in Russia, Suvorin migrated to Yugoslavi a,
where, despite living on the edge of poverty, he
found the enthusiasm to found a publishing
house with a Yugoslav partner. The latter, how-
ever, ended up deceiving and denouncing him,
and Suvorin was imprisoned without trial. In
prison, as a protest agai nst the unjust sentence,
he began a hunger strike that invigorated him in-
stead of annihilating him. It is said that on the
35th day of his voluntary fasting he was given the
opportunity to defend himself in court. He won
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with surprising results, which, as the story goes,
ended up gaining the interest of the director and
staff of the penalty facility, as well as many in-
mates.
After this experience, Suvorin became a very
active champion of the cause of therapeutic fast-
ing. In 1931, his works were released in Belgrade:
Ozdorovliyenye golodom i pishchej (Healing with
fasting and food),  Metoda Suvorina  (The Su-
vorin method), Lechenie golodaniyem  (Healing
through fasting). In a short time, his method be-
came very po pular in Yugoslavia and while Su-
vorin gained the esteem of tens of thousands of
patients (assisted at a distance, by postal corre-
spondence), he also made many enemies. In-
vited to Paris in 1937 to discuss a fasting clinic
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utes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
2	pears

1.
1	crown	broccoli

1.
1	cup	green	grapes

1.
2	handfuls	spinach

Directions

1.
Juice	the	ingredients	and	serve	it	at	once.

2.
Garnish	the	juice	with	frozen	grapes	if	desired.

3.
Green	grapes	contain	polyphenols	which	are	the	powerful	antioxidants.
Anyhow,	this	amazing	juice	has	many	benefits	for	our	body.	For	example,
it	can	help	to	keep	you	hydrated	during	your	hectic	day.Mediterranean	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	beet

1.
2	celery	ribs

1.
1	tomato

1.
1	large	cucumber

1.
1	lemon,	peeled

1.
1	teaspoon	olive	oil

Directions

1.
Simply	throw	the	ingredients	into	your	juicer.	Juice	the	ingredients	and
transfer	them	to	serving	glasses.

2.
Shake	before	serving.

3.
Olive	oil	helps	our	body	to	absorb	vitamins	in	the	vegetables.Spicy	Dandelion	Greens	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	bunch	dandelion	greens

1.
1	bulb	radicchio

1.
1	bunch	fresh	cilantro

1.
1	lime

1.
A	dash	of	cayenne	pepper

Directions

1.
Process	the	ingredients	in	your	juicer	according	to	manufacturer’s
directions.

2.
The	juice	strengthens	your	immune	system	and	increases	body’s	fat-
burning.	Enjoy!Green	Soy	Coconut	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
2	handfuls	baby	spinach

1.
2	handfuls	of	arugula

1.
2	apples

1.
2	cups	coconut	water

1.
Soy	sauce,	to	taste

Directions

1.
Wash	the	ingredients	thoroughly.	Juice	spinach,	arugula,	and	apples.

2.
Combine	the	mixture	with	coconut	water	and	soy	sauce.	Serve	at	once.

3.
The	juice	provides	you	with	significant	digestive	tract	benefits.	Not
recommended	for	those	with	a	soy	allergy.	Enjoy!Green	Rocket	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
2	handfuls	kale

1.
1	handful	fresh	cilantro

1.
1	apple

1.
1	pear

1.
2	cups	coconut	water

Directions

1.
Tear	kale	and	cilantro	into	pieces,	cored	the	apple	and	pear.	Transfer	them
to	a	juicer	along	with	coconut	water.

2.
Juice	everything,	pour	into	two	well-chilled	glasses	and	serve	at	once.

3.
This	juice	is	great	for	our	skin,	hair,	and	nails.Autumn	Harvest	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
2	Fuji	apples

1.
1	green	bell	pepper

1.
1	small	head	cauliflower

1.
1	sweet	potato

1.
1	handful	cilantro

1.
2	carrots

Directions

1.
Juice	the	ingredients	and	pour	it	into	well-chilled	serving	glasses.

2.
The	most	nutritious	juices	are	the	ones	that	are	the	most	colorful.	Enjoy	this
drink	and	improve	your	memory,	digestion,	bone	health,	and	overall	well-
being.Cabbage	Juice	with	Red	Grapes
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
4	cabbage	leaves

1.
1	beet

1.
1	apple

1.
1	bunch	red	grapes

Directions

1.
Juice	the	ingredients	thoroughly.

2.
Pour	into	well-chilled	serving	glasses.

3.
The	juice	can	protect	you	from	radiation	therapy	and	help	you	to	fight
inflammation.Kale	and	Pear	Juice	with	Grapes
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
4	kale	leaves

1.
2	carrots,	trimmed

1.
2	pears

1.
1	bunch	green	grapes

Directions

1.
Juice	the	ingredients	in	your	juice	extractor.

2.
Pour	into	tall	chilled	glasses.

3.
The	juice	can	protect	you	from	inflammation.Bok	Choy	and	Carrot	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
6	carrots,	trimmed

1.
2	celery	ribs

1.
4	cabbage	leaves

1.
2	Bok	choy	bulbs

1.
2	apples,	cored

1.
1-inch	ginger	root

Directions

1.
Wash	all	ingredients;	cut	up	the	ingredients	to	sizes	that	fit	a	juicer.

2.
Juice	it	and	serve	right	away!

3.
Bok	choy,	also	known	Chinese	white	cabbage,	is	low	in	calories	and	high	in
potassium	and	vitamin	C.	There	are	many	health	benefits	of	consuming	Bok
choy	such	as	cancer	prevention;	it	can	also	help	boost	your	immune	system.Broccoli	and	Sprout	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	crown	broccoli,	broken	into	florets

1.
2	carrots,	trimmed

1.
1	lemon,	peeled

1.
1	green	apple

1.
1	tablespoon	alfalfa	sprouts

Directions

1.
Press	all	the	above	ingredients	through	your	juice	extractor.

2.
Serve	over	ice	in	your	punch	bowl	if	desired.

3.
This	is	a	cancer-fighting	drink	that	is	loaded	with	dietary	fiber,	protein,	and
several	micronutrients.Hot	Swiss	Chard	Juice
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1	cup	Swiss	chard

1.
2	tomatoes

1.
1	bunch	parsley

1.
1	carrot

1.
2	radishes

1.
Tabasco,	to	taste

Directions

1.
Juice	the	ingredients,	adding	water	as	necessary.

2.
Swiss	chard	lowers	high	blood	pressure	and	glucose	levels.	It	also	known	as
a	fantastic	source	of	vitamin	K,	so	it	can	improve	bone	health.	Enjoy!Lettuce	and	Blackberry	Treat
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
2	cups	lettuce	greens

1.
1	cup	blackberries

1.
1	banana,	peeled

1.
1/2	lime,	juiced

Directions

1.
Blend	lettuce	and	blackberries	until	smooth.

2.
Add	water	and	the	remaining	ingredients.

3.
Lettuce	is	alkaline	food,	rich	in	vitamin	C	and

beta-carotene.	The	juice	is
good	for	weight	loss.Coconut	Apple	Pie
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
2	cups	spinach

1.
2	apples

1.
1	cup	coconut	water

1.
1/4	grated	nutmeg

1.
Coconut	flakes,	for	garnish

Directions

1.
Juice	the	spinach,	apples,	and	coconut	w


 me, these methods are ridiculous and excessive. Looking for an
easier way, over the last few days I conducted my own experiments withblue painter ’ s tape, which smelled weird, and Scotch tape, which crinkled.
Band-Aids were too sticky.
Eventually I realized that all I or anyone really needed was a postage-
stamp-size piece of tape at the center of the lips—a Charlie Chaplin
mustache moved down an inch. That’ s it. This approach felt less
claustrophobic and allowed a little space on the sides of the mouth if I
needed to cough or talk. After much trial and error, I settled on 3M Nexcare
Durapore “durable cloth” tape, an all-purpose sur gical tape with a gentle
adhesive. It was comfortable, had no chemical scent, and didn’ t leave
residue.
In the three nights since I started using this tape, I went from snoring
four hours to only ten minutes. I’d been warned by Burhenne that sleep tape
won’ t do anything to help treat sleep apnea. My experience suggested
otherwise. As my snoring disappeared, so did apnea.
I’d suf fered up to two dozen apnea events in the mouthbreathing phase,
but last night had zero. I suf fered no creepy insomniac hallucinations, no
late-night ruminations on Homo habilis  or Edward Gorey. I never woke up
needing to pee. I didn’ t have to, because my pituitary gland was likely
releasing vasopressin. I was finally sleeping soundly.
Meanwhile, Olsson went from snoring half the night to not snoring for
even a minute. His apnea events dropped from 53 to zero. The bright-eyed,
cotton-haired Swede I’d felt so guilty about abusing had been reborn.
Earlier today he was smiling, so convinced of sleep tape’ s healing power
that he kept a piece of it stuck to his lips for the rest of the morning.
Sleep, and life, had become something that Olsson and I embraced
again. Now, sitting in bed, with a little stamp of white tape stuck to my lips,
I flipped to the last page in Catlin’ s Br eath of Life, the final paragraph he’d
ever publish in his long life of research.
“And if I were to endeavor to bequeath to posterity the most important
Motto which human language can convey, it should be in three words—
SHUT -YOUR-MOUTH. . . . Where I would paint and engrave it, in every
Nursery, and on every Bed-post  in the Universe, its meaning could not be
mistaken.
“And if obeyed,” he continued, “its importance would soon be realized.”Four
EXHALE
Every morning at 9:00, after Olsson and I have finished our testing and split
of f for solo time, I roll out a mat on my living room floor and work on
becoming a little more immortal.
The path to everlasting life involves a lot of stretching: back bends, neck
bends, and twirling, each one a holy and ancient practice that had been
passed down in secrecy from one Buddhist monk to another for 2,500 years.
Olsson and I need this stretching; even if we breathe through the nose
twenty-four hours a day, it won’ t help much unless we’ve got the lung
capacity to hold in that air. Just a few minutes of daily bending and
breathing can expand lung capacity. W ith that extra capacity we can expand
our lives.
The stretches, called the Five T ibetan Rites, came to the W estern world,
and to me, by way of writer Peter Kelder, who was known as a lover of
“books and libraries, words and poetry.”
In the 1930s, Kelder was sitting on a park bench in southern California
when an elderly stranger struck up a conversation. The man, whom he
called Colonel Bradford, had spent decades in India with the British Army.
The Colonel was old—all sloping shoulders, gray hair, and wobbly legs—
but he believed there was a cure for aging and that it was locked up in a
monastery in the Himalayas. The usual mystical stuf f occurred up there: the
sick became healthy, poor became rich, old became young. Kelder and the
Colonel stayed in touch and shared many conversations. Then, one day, the
old man hobbled away, desperate to find this Shangri-La before he drew his
last breath.Four years passed until Kelder received a call from his building’ s
doorman. The Colonel was waiting downstairs. He looked 20 years
younger. He was standing straight, his face vibrant and alive, and his once-
balding head was covered in thick, dark hair. He’d found the monastery,
studied the ancient manuscripts, and learned restorative practices from the
monks. He’d reversed aging through nothing more than stretching and
breathing.
Kelder described these techniques in a slim booklet titled The Eye of
Revelation,  published in 1939.  Few people bothered to read it; fewer
believed it. Kelder ’ s yarn was likely fabricated, or at minimum grossly
exaggerated. However, the lung-expanding stretches he described are rooted
in actual exercises that date back to 500 BCE. T ibetans had used these
methods for millennia to improve physical fitness, mental health,
cardiovascular function, and, of course, extend life.
—
More recently, science has begun measuring what the ancient T ibetans
understood intuitively. In the 1980s, researchers with the Framingham
Study, a 70-year longitudinal research program focused on heart disease,
attempted to find out if lung size really did correlate to longevity. They
gathered two decades of data from 5,200 subjects, crunched the numbers,
and discovered that the greatest indicator of life span wasn’ t genetics, diet,
or the amount of daily exercise, as many had suspected. It was lung
capacity.
The smaller and less ef ficient lungs became, the quicker subjects got
sick and died. The cause of deterioration didn’ t matter. Smaller meant
shorter. But lar ger lungs equaled longer lives.
Our ability to breathe full breaths was, according to the researchers,
“literally a measure of living capacity.” In 2000, University of Buf falo
researchers ran a similar study, comparing lung capacity in a group of more
than a thousand subjects over three decades. The results were the same.
What neither of these landmark studies addressed, however, was how a
person with deteriorated lungs might heal and strengthen them. There were
sur geries to remove diseased tissue and drugs to stem infections, but no
advice on how to keep lungs lar ge and healthy throughout life. All the way
up to the 1980s, the common belief in W estern medicine was that the lungs,
like every other internal or gan, were immutable. That is, whatever lungs wewere born with, we were stuck with. As these or gans degraded with age, the
only thing we could do was sigh and bear it.
Aging was supposed to go like this: Starting around 30, we should
expect to lose a little more memory, mobility, and muscle with every
passing year. W e would also lose the ability to breathe properly. Bones in
the chest would become thinner and change shape, causing rib cages to
collapse inward. Muscle fibers surrounding the lungs would weaken and
prevent air from entering and exiting. All these things reduce lung capacity.
The lungs themselves will lose about 12 percent of capacity from the
age of 30 to 50, and will continue declining even faster as we get older, with
women faring worse than men. If we make it to 80, we’ll be able to take in
30 percent less air than we did in our 20s. W e’re forced to breathe faster and
harder. This breathing habit leads to chronic problems like high blood
pressure, immune disorders, and anxiety.
But what the T ibetans have long known and what W estern science is
now discovering is that aging doesn’ t have to be a one-way path of decline.
The internal or gans are malleable, and we can change them at nearly any
time.
Freedivers know this better than anyone. I’d learned it from them years
ago, when I met several people who had increased their lung capacity by an
astounding 30 to 40 percent. Herbert Nitsch, a multiple world record holder,
reportedly has a lung capacity of 14 liters—more than double  that of the
average male. Neither Nitsch nor any of the other freedivers started out like
this; they made their lungs lar ger by force of will. They taught themselves
how to breathe in ways that dramatically changed the internal or gans of
their bodies.
Fortunately, diving down hundreds of feet is not required. Any regular
practice that stretches the lungs and keeps them flexible can retain or
increase lung capacity. Moderate exercise like walking or cycling has been
shown to boost lung size by up to 15 percent.
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These discoveries would have been welcome news to Katharina Schroth, a
teenager who lived in Dresden, Germany, in the early 1900s. Schroth had
been diagnosed with scoliosis, a sideways curvature of the spine. The
condition had no cure, and most children who suf fered from extreme caseslike Schroth’ s could


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patients with advanced cancer and AIDS.
I may add that 'practicing medicine without a license' does not mean that these people pretended to be medical doctors, but rather
that curing cancer in these countries is legal only for licensed medical practitioners. Bad luck for the patients of these licensed
doctors that they do not know how to do it.
However, there are some outstanding doctors who know what to do but then are not allowed to do it. Only methods approved by the
conventional medical associations may be used, otherwise a doctor may lose the license to practice.
This happened to the Danish doctor Kristine Nolﬁ. She had cured her own cancer with a hundred percent vegetarian and organic raw
food diet. Then she helped her patients in the same way. Her fame spread throughout Scandinavia. Twice she was dragged before
the courts and was lucky only to lose her license.
Dr Issels was the most successful cancer therapist in Germany. He was the ﬁrst to have cancer patients replace their amalgam
ﬁllings and remove dead and infecte d teeth. Basically he used the Gerson diet. The medical association took him to court for using
unauthorized therapies and he received a suspended jail sentence.
Wilhem Reich was not so lucky. Earlier he had been a leading psychiatrist and was regarded as the heir to Sigmund Freud's position.
However, he fell into disgrace when he published his sexual theories, especially when he linked suppressed sexual energies with
cancer.
In trying to escape persecution he immigrated to the USA. He experimented with bio-energy collectors or orgone accumulators and
also used a powerful microscope to demonstrate that cancer cells and cancer microbes were killed by this orgone energy.
Reich, like Rife and Naessens, made his observations using live tissue, while conventional microbiologists only use dead and stained
specimens. Therefore, they could not see what Reich and the others saw and they denied that it existed. Reich published successful
results of 15 cases of 'terminal' cancer, which alerted the FDA.
Reich declined to defend himself, saying that a court was not the place to evaluate scientiﬁc research. This error of judgment landed
him in Federal jail where he eventually died. All his equipment was destroyed and his books and writing ofﬁcially burned - six tons of
his published works, in fact. That was in 1957
Dinshah Ghadiali was the pioneer of color therapy in the USA. Despite much support from doctors and countless patients for the
effectiveness of his treatment with cancer and other diseases, he received many large ﬁnes and jail sentences. His stock of
spectrochrome projectors was destroyed and his books and other writin gs ofﬁcially burned. Radionics practitioners in the US had a
similar fate with equipment destroyed and Ruth Drown jailed.
In the beginning of this century a leading American doctor wrote that most cases of cancer he saw had been operated on or radiated
and the cancer had returned worse than before. However, in those without previous medical treatment he claimed a cure rate of 95%
by using homoeopathic remedies. Homoeopathy was speedily outlawed in the USA.
William F Koch was probably the most famous medical cancer therapi st in the US and widely respected in inﬂuential circles. His
homoeopathic oxidation catalyst was used worldwide but banned in the US. Six hundred doctors came to his court trial to testify on
his behalf and to report the many thousands of patients that they had cured with his method. He had to be acquitted but tired of
constant persecution he immigrated to Brazil immediately after the trial in 1953.
Jason Winters cured himself of canc er with various herbs that he started selling. He had to move to the Bahamas to escape the FDA
but was hassled even there.
Harry Hoxsey was the most famous  herbal cancer therapist in the US. He had clinics in various states, and thousands of satisﬁed
patients attested to the effectiveness of his herbs. Despite being arreste d more often than any other therapist for practicing medicine
without a license, the courts conﬁrmed the therapeutic value of his herb mixture and even the AMA  reluctantly admitted that some of
his remedies had merit.
Within a two-year period Harry Hoxsey was arrested about 200 times for practicing medicine without a licence. The brother of the
district attorney who initiated these arrests had advanced cancer. Unbeknown to his lawyer brother, he went to Hoxsey and was
cured. On learning about this, the district attorney quit his job and became the defence lawyer of Harry Hoxsey.
A federal report to Congress agreed with Hoxsey's allegations that the AMA, the FDA and the National Cancer Institute had conspired
to suppress a fair investigation of his methods. Nevertheless, in 1963 he had to move his clinics to Mexico to escape the mounting
pressure.
Dr Johanna Budwig was a fat researcher with the German Governmen t. She was prevented from publishing her discovery of fatty
residues from margarine in soft tumors and lost her job.
Lawrence Burton, a biochemist, developed a method to effectively stimulate the immune system of cancer patients. In 1977 he was
forced to move his clinic to the Baha mas. But even there the clinic was closed because his vaccines were reportedly contaminated
with the AIDS virus.
In 1985, a group of his cancer patients complained to the US Congress about the clinic closure. A subsequent congressional hearing
found that these damaging reports, which originated from the National Cancer Institute and were spread by the AMA, were false.
The persecution of natural cancer therapists and clinics continues unabated into the 1990s. Commonly FDA agents raid clinics with
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The Burzynski cancer clinic operated with the approval of the FDA and was rather successful using a cancer remedy derived from
urine. Nevertheless the clinic was raided several times and Dr Burzynski brought before four federal grand juries. Each time he was
acquitted. A committee of the US Congress is investigating the FDA on charges of abusing the grand jury process in order to harass
and persecute Dr Burzynski.
Jimmy Keller had been cured himsel f with alternative therapies of advanc ed metastatic cancer. For the next thirty years he developed
a non-toxic program for helping others with this disease. He had to retreat to Mexico where he was practicing legally, but in 1991 he
was kidnapped by the FBI, taken to Texas for trial and put in jail. The charge was that a contact person in the United States had told
patients over the phone that he had an ef fective cancer treatment.
Now that all successful cancer therapists have been eliminated from the USA  a grave-like silence covers the cancer battleﬁeld.
This decisive victory of the US Cancer Establishment has served to secure the position of conventional cancer therapy also in other
western countries. Holistic cancer therapists everywhere must be careful to operate on a small scale and not appear to be successful
to avoid being dragged before the courts if a 'terminal' patient in their care should not make it.
How scientiﬁc do you now think our ofﬁcial cancer treatments are? Would it not be more scientiﬁc to allow proper trials of holistic
therapies rather than trying to put successful cancer therapists in jail?
However, in the dark night of this dismal cancer saga there is also a glimmer of light.
Dr Samuel Epstein, as the spokesman of a group of 65 US cancer researchers, has just gone public to declare that the 'Cancer
Establishment' has hoodwinked the public into believing that progress has been made. He said cancer rates are rising and little effort
has been made to prevent this cancer epidemic that is highly preventable.
Furthermore, following a directive of the US Senate, the cancer estab lishment has now softened its strong opposition to natural
cancer therapies, although even in 1999 it still managed to get the "Father of Oxygen Therapies' Ed McCabe into jail, and Dr Hulda
Clark ('The Cure of All Cancers') arrested for practicing medicine without a license. In addition, manufacturers and retailers of
electrical equipment and remedies for holistic cancer treatment continue to be persecuted in most western ‘democracies’.
However, ultimately this situation is not really the fault of the vested interests because it is in their nature to be selﬁsh. The real
responsibility lies with governments, which should act in the interests of their citizens, and not for the beneﬁt of selﬁsh interest
groups.
Disclaimer: The aim of this web site is to provide information on using natural healing methods to aid in the treatment of illness and health improvement.
The author cannot accept any legal responsibility for any problem arising from experimenting with these methods. For any serious disease,
or if you are unsure about a particular course