, I am doing it all for myself.” When I rst read this
anecdote, it gave me a thrill of recognition, for I could see that the
most intensely selsh motive can also be the most seless. In another instance, the renowned Jewish philosopher Martin
Buber went through a shift in perception from the small to the
larger self when he chanced to spot a shiny rock by the side of the
road:
On a gloomy morning I walked upon the highway, saw a
piece of mica lying, lifted it up, and looked at it for a long
time; the day was no longer gloomy, so much light was
caught in the stone. And suddenly, as I raised my eyes from
it, I realized that while I looked, I had not been consciou s of“object” and “subject”; in my looking the mica and “I” had
been one; in my looking I had tasted unity. I looked at it
again, the unity did not remain. This is not a mystical momen t; it is just true experience, stripped
of the veils that make us think we are not one with the rocks, trees,
mountains, and stars. For a brief moment, Buber had replaced
relationship with unity, catching on the wing a vision of the world
that could be captured permanently. That rarely happens, because
the nervous system of ordinary people is too active, too conditioned
by years of non-silence. If a moment of unity lasts long enough, the perceiver has time to
appreciate what it would be like to remain in a state where “me”
and “not me” peacefully coexist within the same mind.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        I do not count, time, or control my breaths. No eort is being
made to cause certain thoughts to come or go. There is no particular
feeling I try to either induce or avoid. I do not pay atten tion to my
body in a special way or attempt to relax any part of it. If I start to
fall asleep, I do not resist the impulse. What am I doing, then. The best answer is that I am just not
doing; I am engaged in getting the normal activity of the mind to
turn into silence, but without coercing it to do so. I am getting past
the inner noise of thoughts and feelings in order to reveal what the
silent witness inside me is really like. This is how the mind naturally
opens to itself and heals. “Not doing” sounds like doing nothing at all, but there is a subtle
dierence. The thinking, feeling mind is in constant motio n. If it has
the thought “Slow down, be silent,” that is a movement, too, and
will not make the mind stop. No thought can make it stop. One
might try just sitting, waiting  for the mind to stop of its own accord. There are meditations of this sort in the vast tradition of Indian andZen practice, but most novices who try this method nd it extremely
exhausting and unproductive. A mind left to its own devices tends to
run here and there like a drunken monkey, as the Indian  scriptures
say. To watch one’s mind reel around for an hour can be intensely
disturbing. Moreover, there is no reason why the mind should reach
silence during the vigil. One can try gathering the mind to a point, which is called
concentration. This form of discipline is often compared to trying to
make a candle ame hold still in the wind. Concentration is not like
active thinking, but it still falls under the category of motion, since
the mind has to be brought back to its focus every time it wanders. Enormous strain is involved, and the results may be very small
compared to the eort required. The deeper you go into it, the more dicult “not doing” seems to
be. How can any form of mental activity ever make the mind be
still. The ancient rishis mastered this extremely exacting art after
they observed that the mind has various layers. In this observation,
they agreed wholeheartedly with Freud. However, they were not
interested in the meaning  of each layer (whether it stores away
childhood fears, repressed anger, or submerged sexual desires). They
simply observed that the mind’s deeper layers are not in as much
motion as the supercial ones. This insight made them realize that meditation must be a vertical
process—a dive into the mind’s depths—not a strugg le on the
surface. Somehow the meditator’s attention has to penetrate the
chaotic surface activity of the mind, pass through all the layers of
subtle thought, and at last arrive at silence. Instead of subduing a
drunken monkey, the appropriate metaphor is much more subtle:
Meditation is like creeping through a herd of sleeping  elephants
without waking them up. In order to dive through every layer of the mind, one needs a
vehicle that can carry one beyond the thinking process. In
primordial sound meditation the vehicle is called a mantra, a
specic mental sound deriv ed from Sanskrit but with no verbal
meaning. A mantra is chosen solely for its ability to gradually bring
a person’s attention to quieter and quieter levels of the mind. Since everyone’s mind has innumerable layers, the choice of a
mantra and the precise instructions for using it are extremely
delicate. If chosen, taught, and used correctly, a mantra is as nearly
eortless as mental activity can be. It begins like a normal thought
but fades to fainter and fainter degrees of sound without getting
lost, until it disappears entirely, leaving the mind in complete
silence. Many forms of meditation use some kind of sound or visual image
as their vehicle. That might make it seem that one technique is as
good as another. However, there are any number of important issues
to consider when evaluating a form of meditation—above all: Did
my mind actually nd the silence I was seeking. Was I
psychologically comfortable during and after the meditation. Did
my old self begin to change as the result of having meditated. Is
there more truth in my self. Every person has to decide these crucial issues for himself. Patrick, a friend of mine, began meditating more than a decade ago
in order to rescue himself from a disastrous personal and nancial
fall. “In the late Seventies I was just barely emerging  from the
rockiest period  in my life. For several years I had invested heavily in
the real estate market, accumulating rental properties quickly on a
very speculativ e basis. It was an exhilarating venture at rst, and I
found myself in a powerful nancial position, at least on paper, with
assets in the multimillions. “You never know the exact point when things start sliding beyond
repair. The ups and downs of the market seemed to be no worse
than before, but I couldn’t keep my grip somehow. My real estate
holdings began  to crumble, and no matter what I did, the collapse
accelerated. I had started drinking heavily, and my wife was very
distraught when I stopped relating to her and the children. It wasn’t
deliberate on my part; I had become swept up in a nancial
nightmare, and all I could think of was how to save myself. ”
Spiraling deeper into his troubles, Patrick learned to meditate. He
learned almos t on a whim, but from the outset the impact was
dramatic. “The rst time I meditated came as a revelation, if for no
other reason than the comfort I felt in letting go of my huge internalstruggle. The moments of actually transcending—that is, reaching
the silent level of the mind— were very brief at rst. Several times I
asked, ‘Is this all there is. ’ There was not much clear transcending
in my meditations, only the coming and going of periods of silence. However, I couldn’t deny that when I opened my eyes, I felt
changed. ”
A single meditation can change people because it has allowed
them to release  part of the false self for good. Without our realizing
it, holding on to old feelings,  habits, and lifelong conditioning takes
eort. The isolated ego defends itself by remaining constantly on the
alert. Is this situation a threat. Is that person going to do what I
want. The constant need to protect oneself psychologica lly may be
too subtle to notice, but it occupies an enormous part of everyone’s
unconscious life. As we saw, meditation does not deal in meaning. The old
conditioning is released without talking about it, feeling it, or
having much conscious exper ience of letting it go. Instead, the mind
is shown how to cross over from activity to silence, and this process
accomplishes the desired result. The stresses lie in the gap between
the active and silent mind; touching this gap with one’s awareness is
enough to release them. Since it takes mental activity to keep the
false self going, ending the activity loosens the false self’s grip. It is
not that a person tries to detach himself from his fears; they detach
themselves from him. “Meditating made me feel that I was putting the pieces together


 They have, thus, contributed to the weakening of our body and our soul. A lexis
Carrel, Man the Unknown. I have already explained the hygienis t's view of why people get sick. The sequence of causation goes: enervation, toxemia,
alternative elimination, disease. However, there is one more link in this chain, a precursor to enervation that, for good and
understandable reasons, seemed unknown to th e earlier hygienists. That precursor is long term sub -clinical malnutrition. Lack of
nutrition effects virtually everybody today. Almost all of us are overfed but undernourished. I have already explained that one particular head of broccoli does not ne cessarily equal another head of broccoli; the nutritional
composition of apparently identical foods can be highly variable. Not only do different samples of the same type of food diff er
wildly in protein content, amino acid ratios and mineral content, thei r vitamin and vitamin -like substances also vary according to
soil fertility and the variety grown. These days, food crop varieties are bred for yield and other commercial considerations, such as shipability, storage life, an d ease
of processing. In pr e-industrial times when each family propagated its own unique open -pollinated varieties, a natural selection
process for healthy outcomes prevailed. If the family's particular, unique varieties carried genes for highly nutritious food, and if
the family's land was fertile enough to allow those genes to manifest, and if the family kept up its land's fertility by wise
management, their children tended to survive the gauntlet of childhood illness and lived to propagate the family's varieties and
continue the f amily name. Thus, over time, human food cultivars were selected for their nutritional content. But not any longer! These days, farming technology with its focus on bulk yield and profit, degrades the nutritional content of
our entire food supply. Even  commercial organically grown food is no better in this respect. Sub-clinical, life -long, vitamin and mineral deficiencies contribute to the onset of disease; the malnourished body becomes
increasingly enervated, beginning the process of disease. Vitam in supplements can increase the body's vital force, reversing to a
degree the natural tendency towards degeneration. In fact, some medical gerontologists theorize that by using vitamins it mig ht be
possible to restore human life span to its genetically pro grammed 115 years without doing anything else about increasing nutrition
from our degraded foods or paying much attention to dietary indiscretions. Knowing what I do about toxemia's effects I doubt
vitamins can allow us to totally ignore what we eat, thoug h supplements can certainly help. More than degraded nutritional content of food prompts a thinking person to use food supplements. Our bodies and spirits are
constantly assaulted and insulted by modern life in ways our genetics never intended us to de al with. Today the entire environment
is mildly toxic. Air is polluted; water is polluted; our food supply contains traces of highly poisonous artificial molecules  that our
bodies have no natural ability to process and eliminate. Our cities and work places  are full of loud, shocking noises that trigger
frequent adrenaline rushes and other stress adaptations. Our work places are full of psychological stresses that humans never  had to
deal with before. Historically, humans who were not enslaved have been  in control of determining their own hour to hour, day to day activities,
living on their own largely self -sufficient farms. The idea of working for another, at regular hours, without personal liberty,
ignoring or suppressing one's own agenda and inclinati ons over an entire lifetime is quite new and not at all healthy. It takes
continual subconscious applications of mental and psychic energies to protect ourselves against the stresses of modern life,
energies that we don't know we're expending. This is also  highly enervating. Thus to remain healthy we may need nutrition at
levels far higher than might be possible through eating food; even ideal food might not contain enough vitamins to sustain us
against the strains and stresses of this century. And thin k about Dr. Pottenger's cats. Our bodies are at the poorer end of a century -long process of mass degeneration that
started with white flour from the roller mill. Compared to my older clients I have noticed that my younger patients seem to p ossess
less vita l force on the average, show evidence of poorer skeletal development, have poorer teeth, less energy, have far more
difficulty breeding and coping with their family life, and are far more likely to develop degenerative conditions early. Most  of my
younger patients had a poor start because they were raised on highly refined, devitalized, deficient foods, and grew up without
much exercise. Their parents had somewhat better food. Some of their grandparents may have even grown up on raw milk and a
vegetable gar den, and actually had to walk, not owning cars when they were young. Their great grandparents had a high likelihood
of enjoying decent nutrition and a healthful life -style. Unfortunately, most of my patients like the idea of taking vitamins too much for their own good. The AMA medical model has
conditioned people to swallow something for every little discomfort, and taking a pill is also by far the easiest thing to do  because
a pill requires no life -style changes, nor self -discipline, nor personal responsibility. But vitamins are much more frugal than drugs. Compared to prescriptions, even the most exotic life extension supplements are much less expensive. I am saddened wh en my
clients tell me they can't afford supplements. When their MD prescribes a medicine that costs many times more they never have
trouble finding the money. I am also saddened that people are so willing to take supplements, because I can usually do a lot more to genuinely help their
bodies heal with dietary modification and detoxification. Of all the tools at my disposal that help people heal, last in the race
comes supplements. One of the best aspects of using vitamins as though they were healin g agents is that food supplements almost never have
harmful side effects, even when they are taken in what might seem enormous overdoses. If someone with a health condition read s
or hears about some vitamin being curative, goes out and buys some and takes it, they will at very least have followed the basic
principle of good medicine: first of all do no harm. At worst, if the supplements did nothing for them at all, they are pract icing the
same kind of benevolent medicine that Dr. Jennings did almost two cen turies ago. Not only that, but having done something to
treat their symptoms, they have become patients facilitating their own patience, giving their body a chance to correct its pr oblem. They well may get better, but not because of the action of the parti cular vitamin they took. Or, luckily, the vitamin or vitamins they
take may have been just what was needed, raising their body's vital force and accelerating the body's ability to solve its pr oblem. One reason vitamin therapies frequently do not work a s well as they might is that, having been intimidated by AMA propaganda
that has created largely false fears in the public mind about harmful effects of vitamin overdoses, the person may not take e nough
of the right vitamin. The minimum daily requirements of vitamins and minerals as outlined in nutrition texts are only sufficient to
prevent the most obvious forms of deficiency diseases. If a person takes supplements at or near the minimum daily requirement
(the dose recommended by the FDA as being 'generall y recognized as safe') they should not expect to see any therapeutic effect
unless they have scurvy, beri beri, rickets, goiter, or pellagra. In these days of vitamin -fortified bread and iodized salt, and even vitamin C fortified soft drinks, you almos t never see the kind
of life -threatening deficiency states people first learned to recognize, such as scurvy. Sailors on long sea voyages used to develop a
debilitating form of vitamin C deficiency that could kill. Scurvy could be quickly cured by as littl e as one lime a day. For this
reason the British Government legislated the carrying of limes on long voyages and today that is why British sailors are stil l called
limeys. A lime has less than 30 milligrams of vitamin C. But to make a cold clear up faster with vitamin C a mere 30 mg does
absolutely nothing! To begin to dent an infection with vitamin C takes 10,000 milligrams a day, and to make a life threatenin g
infection like pneumonia go away faster might require 25,000 to 150,000 milligrams of vitamin C daily, administered
intravenously. In terms of supplying that much C with limes, that's 300 to 750 of them daily –clearly impossible. Similarly, pellagra can be cured with a few milligrams of vitamin B 3, but schizophrenia can sometimes be cured with 3, 000
milligrams, roughly a thousand times as much as the MDR. There are many many common diseases that the medical profession does not see as being caused by vitamin deficiencies. Senility and many mental disorders fall in this category. Many old people  live on extremely deficient diets comprised largely of
devitalized starches, sugars, and fats, partly because many do not have good enough teeth to chew vegetables and other high
roughage foods, and they do not have the energy it takes to prepare more nou rishing foods. Virtually all old people have deficiency
diseases. As vital force inevitably declines with age, the quantity and quality of digestive enzymes decreases, then the abil ity to
breakdown and extract soluble nutrients from food is diminished, fre


 of the group was thirty-eight years, the oldest, sixty-four years. These patients
all fasted seven days. All the fasts in these heart cased were short, but Dagnini says: “It was consistently observed that
cardiac patients treated with fasting show increased urinary output and a rapid resorption of edema
fluid and peritoneal and pleural effusions.” In the non-edematous group sodium chloride excretion
was about “normal.” This may indicate that the edema in the other cases was as much the result of
salt-eating as of heart weakness. From among his twelve edematous patients, I would like to cite one case only, to picture the
developments as they occur when a cardiac patient is fasted. The patient was a twenty-four-year-old man who had a clinical diagnosis of mitral stenosis. He
was in a grave condition, with failure largely on the right side of his heart. The heart was much
enlarged in all diameters. The liver was enlarged to the iliac crest (the crest of the hip bone). There was slight effusion into the pleura, edema of the lower extremities and slight difficulty in
breathing. Previous to admission to the institution this patient had been treated with the usual heart
medicines. At the institution he was given a fast of seven days. By the third day there was distinct
improvement in his condition. The liver shrank at the surprising rate of two-finger-breadths a day. 112The edema fluid was rapidly absorbed through the fast. By the end of the seventh day the liver was
but three fingerbreadths below the ribs and the generalized edema had disappeared. There was much improvement of the pleural effusion. The urinary output in this case was
significant. Being but 250 cc at the outset, it increased rapidly until by the fifth day it reached 3700
cc and remained at about 2000 cc thereafter. The diuresis in this case accounted for the removal of
the edema. Dagnini’s observation that fasting has been employed beneficially in many types of cardiac
decompensation and that this has suggested that its benefits are drawn, not from a single one of its
effects, but from multiple effects, is worthy of careful consideration. He suggests that “possibly many diverse effects are summed and potentiated with a resulting
restoration of normal or near-normal cardiovascular function.” Unfortunately his fasts were of
short duration, never long enough for complete results, and he fails to tell us how they were
followed up—how the patients were fed after the fast, what activities they were permitted, what
subsequent developments resulted. But his observations, limited as these cases were, certainly, so
far as the length of the fasts were concerned, are enough to reveal the beneficial effects of the fast
in a wide, variety of severe heart abnormalities. The intelligent individual will employ the fast long before his heart condition reaches the stage
represented in the cases described by Dagnini. In spite of the benefits described, there is no doubt
that these were terminal cases and no genuine recovery could have been expected in any of them. The fast should be employed at a time when there is still possibility of genuine recovery. I should not have to add, again, that it should be undertaken under competent and experienced
direction and supervision, but the warning is important in these cases. No sufferer from heart
disease—or the possible incipient stages of heart disease—should ever attempt to fast on his own. 11328
Colitis
Colitis is inflammation of the colon. To understand what the colon is let us examine a brief physiological description. Anatomically,
the human colon or large bowel, which is often likened to a sewer, is divided into three distinct
sections: the ascending, transverse and descending colon. It begins with a blind pouch, the cecum,
where the small intestine ends. The vermiform appendix is attached to the cecum. Immediately
above the appendix, the cecum receives the small intestine, almost at right angles. The upper end of the cecum merges into the first part of the ascending portion of the colon. This
passes upward on the right side to a point near the liver, where an angle is formed (the hepatic
flexure) and the second portion, the transverse colon, begins. The transverse colon passes in a slight curve across the abdomen immediately under the
stomach and, at the left side forms another angle (the splenic flexure). Below the spleen, the colon
becomes the descending colon, which merges into the sigmoid flexure, and curves irregularly
downward in an S shape. Between the end of the small intestine (the ileum) and the cecum, there is
a valve formed by a sphincter muscle and known as the ileo-cecal valve. At the end of the rectum,
another such valve (the rectal sphincter) closes the rectum. The colon functions by carrying the residues of digestion upward from the cecum, across the
transverse colon, and downward through the sigmoid to the rectum and to the outside world. Digestion is completed in the small intestine and it is there that the digested portions of the food
are absorbed. Some water may be absorbed from the colon, but the small intestine is specially
adapted for the absorption of food. There seems to be no absorption of toxins from the colon. The colon, like all the rest of the alimentary tract, is lined with a skin or membrane that is called
mucous membrane
. Irritation, or inflammation of the colon is known as colitis or colonitis. Supposed by some authorities to be perhaps the most common disease of cilivized man, colitis is
asserted to be very rare among uncivilized peoples. Constipation is perhaps the most annoying
symptom of colitis, although it is likely to be alternated with
diarrhea. If the colitis is acute
(diarrhea) there may be mucus in the loose, watery stools. All the forms of colitis discussed in this
chapter come under the general technical classification of “mucous colitis.”
A state of spasm of the colon is common in cases of colitis, especially if the condition is
marked. Frequently, also there is a sagging of the transverse colon—
enteroptosis
. The colon may
sag in the absence of colitis and colitis may exist without sagging, but spastic colitis is almost
certain to accompany both conditions. It is a mistake, however, to think of the spastic constipation as the cause of the mucous colitis. This view is no more rational than to think of the colitis as the cause of the spastic constipation. In chronic colitis the more marked inflammation may be located at different parts of the colon,
the acute exacerbations of which will be named after the location of the more severe inflammation,
as sigmoiditis, proctitis, etc. For long periods the condition may be obscure, the individual merely being conscious of
abdominal distress, which he may attribute to constipation or to gas. When mucus appears in the
stools, the condition is already well advanced. As the colitis becomes more marked the mucus may
appear in the stools in masses of jelly-like consistency, in suspicious looking ropy shreds like
114casts of the bowels, or the feces may be coated with mucus and this may be streaked with blood. There is now no mistake that colitis is present. I do not intend here to attempt to cover all the variations from the common picture of colitis. These may occur, often, but for all practical purposes, they are of little significance. As the colon
is divided into a few sections, it becomes possible to have such special forms of colitis as
proctitis, sigmoiditis and others, but the so-called disease is the same in each case. Let us look at the two “diseases” just named. There is no actual dividing line between the
sigmoid and the rectum. If we imagine a hair line dividing the two continuous sections of the colon,
we may recognize the folly of naming inflammation on one side of this line sigmoiditis, and, if it
extends only an eighth of an inch over the line into the lining membrane of the rectum, calling this
proctitis. It is like naming pimples on the left cheek one disease and pimples on the right cheek
something else. We make the same confusing classifications of inflammation according to locations throughout
all parts of the body. Inflammation of the lining membrane of the nose is rhinitis, inflammation of
the lining membrane of the nasal sinuses is sinusitis, inflammation of the bronchial tube is
bronchitis; but these are only different names for precisely the same condition in the different
locations. Gastritis is the same condition in the lining membrane of the stomach. To call all of
these local inflammations different diseases is only to add to growing confusion. Often great skill is needed to diagnose correctly the form of colitis with which the patient
suffers, and to detect just where the inflammation is located. Skill in diagnosis may not indicate
familiarity with cause. The greatest diagnostic technique is often harnessed to the most ineffective
means of mere palliation. We are here more interested in what is causing the patients trouble than in what particular
section of the colon may be irritated or spastic. Symptoms of colitis are alike in kind, differing
only in location and degree. One significant fact that has received much notice is that every case
that presents the marks of chronicity has a
colon
 complex; this is to say


 and clabber, too." "You have me sized up about right, doctor," the astonished
patient would answer. "How di d you ever guess all that?" Naturally, nobody in or around Hereford had thought once giving
their food or milk credit for producing their sound teeth. They did not
suspect that what they had to eat or drink was any different from what
people in other parts of the country lived on. Very few people are
aware of the fact that what one eats determines their health. Even today, very few Deaf Smith County residents seem to
appreciate the fabulous riches of their soil. The greater number do not
know how to value the food crops which grow in that soil loaded with
health-giving minerals and vitamins. My inquiries among people who live in distant States have about
convinced me that no other agricu ltural area can match in total
nutritive value the wheat, green vegetables, other food crops, beef and dairy products that come from Deaf  Smith County's mineralized soil. Most maladies which afflict mankind, I say, can be eliminated by
living on the correct foods. Whatever ills the people suffer from, they
themselves have created—mostly by their faulty eating habits. I can
cite you Scripture to bear me out:
"Brethren, I have fed you with milk, and not with meat," Paul
writes in his first epistle to the Corinthians. "For hitherto ye were not
able to bear it." Again, the apostle writes to the Hebrews:
"Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age." To be sure, the language of thos e passages is figurative. Milk
matured the child. Meat was fit food for the understanding adult. Even so, in our Plains country, those persons who drink plenty of
milk from childhood up, almost unfailingly are found to possess keen
minds along with their sound teeth. I GET SOME CLUES AND FOLLOW THEM UP
As I had a pretty strong suspicion that the food which my
patients had lived on would give me the key to their mouth condition,
I would question every person who came to me about his eating
habits. The more I found out in that manner, the more I was convinced
that I was on the right track. I had noticed that a poorly balanced diet, whether too much or too little, would show up in a bad mouth. My patient would have cavities in his teeth—a sign that he was
getting too much starch and not enough protein in his diet. Another
patient would have puffy and bleeding gums. He was a victim of
pyorrhea, as a result of eating too much meat and gravy. As I kept telling my patients, a balanced diet contains all the
elements needed to build the supply, keep it in repair and supply it
with energy. That kind of foodstuff, eaten regularly — in the right
amounts, but with variety that w ill keep the appetite whetted, will
produce a strong, healthy body and sound teeth. But, if the diet lacks
some essential element, the bodily machine will soon be out of kilter. Sooner or later the teeth will suffer along with other tissues and organs. To cite an instance: Mr. W. P., a Deaf Smith County ranchman,
had been my patient for years. Until middle age, he had nearly perfect
teeth. One day in his late 60s, Mr. W. P. came into my office. My
check up showed 22 recently fo rmed cavities in his teeth. "Mr. W. P. (I told him), I see that you have gone and dropped the
diet that had kept your mouth he althy all these years. You are not
getting the fresh vegetables, salads and other nourishing foods like
you have lived on most of your life — and you are not drinking milk
like you did." "You are right, doctor," Mr. W. P. confessed. "I have developed
a strong appetite for white bread and syrup." About the same time another old acquaintance of mine, J. N.
Jacobsen, then 77 years old, came in for a check-up. Mr. J. had an
almost perfect mouth. All his life he had needed but one tooth
extracted and two filled. He had no cavities then, but firm gums and
healthy mouth tissue. "How long has it been, Mr. J., since you had these fillings put
in?" "Let's see, that was 60 years ago when I was a boy in Denmark." "How long have you lived in Hereford, Mr. Jacobsen?" "I have
been here 41 years." "I suppose you brush your teeth after every meal, like the books
say, and all that?" "No, doctor, I don't. I have been too busy making a living to fool
with a toothbrush." "Well, what do you eat as a rule?" "Anything at all that grows in our garden. As you know, doctor,
it is the best in town." "But you do eat some meat?" "Once in a while, I'll eat a steak or something." Through the 30-odd years that I practiced in Hereford I kept
questioning my patients like that. To my way of thinking, the answers
I got proved my theory: A natural, ba lanced diet of unrefined food will
produce sound teeth and a sound body. Never once, since I formulated that tenet, have I found a bad mouth in a person who lived on that sort
of diet — fresh vegetables out of the home garden, whole wheat
grown on our completely fertile Deaf Smith county soil, with plenty of
milk from cows that had grazed on our home pastures. The best test
was milk. That was the only food that, until recent times, people
generally consumed raw. On the other hand, when a patient did come into my office with a
lot of cavities in his mouth, I could tell him what had caused his teeth
to decay. "You are eating too much white bread, hot biscuits and cake,
sugar and syrup, pies and jellies (I would tell the patient). As a result,
your body is not getting the protein and minerals it needs for healthy
functioning. You are not taking in calcium enough to build strong
bones and sound teeth. You do not drink enough milk or eat enough
raw foods to keep you supplied with vitamins and minerals. Those are
the spark plugs for your bodily machine. You do not eat enough
roughage, such as bran, for healthy elimination of waste matter." "I guess you have me sized up about right," doctor, the patient
would answer. "I do have a dainty appetite." Well, it is an unhealthy appetite (I would warn) and it is your
worst enemy. Just keep indulging that appetite a few years longer and
you will be needing a full set of false teeth. I can make you some good ones. They won't decay at all and you can take them out to clean them
at will. If that is what you want, just go on feeding that jade appetite of
yours. But if you want to keep your natural teeth you will have to
change your eating habits drastically and change right now. Now, you go home, Mr. S. and begin eating sensibly. Take some
wheat bran — or some home milled whole wheat would be better —
soaked in whole raw milk for breakfast, or, if you prefer, you can heat
the cereal. With it take some fresh fr uit or if you can't get that, some
fruit or vegetable juice out of a can. That is better than coffee or tea,
but milk in some form is your best drink. Then, for dinner have some fresh vegetables out of your garden
— string beans or blackeye peas or what have you — and drink the
pot liquor. Take part of your dinner raw — tomatoes and lettuce
leaves will do nicely. You can have a little meat and just a dab of
butter, but no hot biscuit and syrup. Eat whole wheat or corn bread. If
you must have a dessert, let it be stewed or fresh fruit. Repeat that, with whatever vari ety your wife can concoct, for
supper. With all that, you must contrive in one way or another to
consume your quart of milk a day. You can beneficially take part of it
in buttermilk or clabber, co ttage cheese or ice cream. Mr. S. now you go and follow this schedule I have mapped out
for a year. Then come and tell me about it. By that time, I'll guarantee,
I'll be able to give you a be tter report on your mouth. Such is the good counsel I would drum into my patients' ears,
day in and day out, during my entire practice; but, for the most part,
the advice would go in at one ear and out at the other. That was what kept me in the dental business. CHAPTER 17. I TRY TO "SELL" MY  FELLOW DENTISTS

After I had established the fact s concerning the Deaf Smith
County natives' immunity to tooth decay to my own satisfaction, and
had formulated my theory as to the reasons for that immunity, I felt
that I ought to tell my fellow dentists about my discovery. I had not forgotten that talk at a luncheon table during an Alabama State Dental
Convention several years before (Chapter 10) and the encouraging
word I had received from Dr. Young of Anniston


, a 90% reduction in the need for rescue medication, and a 50% reduction in the need for preventative medication.
Q: What is the primary cause of asthma, according to the author?,
A: Overbreathing, which can lead to a vicious cycle of increased breathing, worsening of the condition, and decreased athletic performance.
Q: What is the recommended approach to nasal breathing during exercise?,
A: The author recommends practicing nasal breathing during exercise, as it helps to reduce breathing volume and prevent overbreathing.
Q: What is the main goal of the Oxygen Advantage program?,
A: To increase the BOL T score and improve overall health, fitness, and sports performance by reducing overbreathing and promoting nasal breathing.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>•   Place one hand on your chest and one hand just above your
navel. At this po int, do not concern yourself with how you are
breathing. •   B ring your attention to the movements of your lower han d.
While s itting up straight, gently guide your hand outward by
pushing your abdomen outward, just enough to feel the
movement. The re is no need to make any changes to your
breathing at this point—this stage is primarily to encourage
abdominal movement. •   Now draw in your abdomen and watch your hand move gently
inward. •   Perform this simple exercise for a few minutes to help activate
a “stif f” diaphragm. •   Alternatively, you could perform this exercise while lying on
your back with both knees bent and your feet flat on the floor. Stage 1 in Brief
•   Gently push your abdomen out. W atch your hand move
outward. •  Gently draw your abdomen in. W atch your hand move inward. If your diaphragm is particularly stif f due to years of breathing with the
upper c hest, the following additional exercise will help to activate the
muscle and encourage better breathing:
•  T ake a gentle breath in through your nose.•  Allow a gentle breath out through your nose. •   Hold  your nose with your fingers and close your mouth to
prevent air from flowing. •   Now try to br eathe in and ou t, while at the same time holding
your breath. •   A s you try to  breathe in and  out, you may feel your stomach
move in  and out as your breathing muscles contract to help
relax the diaphragm. •   When you feel a medium desire to breathe, let go of your nose
and resume breathing normally through your nose. •   Practice thi s exercise 2 or 3 times to help to relax the
diaphragm. When you feel you can move y our abdomen in and out easily  at will,
proceed to Stage 2, which incorporates these abdomen movements with
your breathing. Stage 2: Merging Abdominal Movements with Br eathing
•  Sit up straight. •   Place  one hand on your ch est and the other hand on yo ur
abdomen. •   As you breath e, allow your sh oulders to relax into their natur al
position. •   Gentl y encou rage chest movements to reduce as you breath e,
using the guidance of your mind and your hand. •   At the  same time, try to coordinate your abdomen movemen ts
with your breathing.•   As you bre athe in, gently guide your abdomen outward. Imagine you are breathing into your tummy. (T ry not to make
the movement too big, as doing so may cause dizziness.) •  As you breathe out, gently draw your abdomen in. •  Y our breathing should be gentle, silent, and calm. •   Perform this exercise for a few minutes to acclimatize yourself
to the movements of your diaphragm and your breath. If y ou are find ing this exercise dif ficult, you may find it e asier to
activate abdominal breathing w hile lying on your back in a semi-supine
position. T ry the following exe rcise lying on a mat with a s mall pillow
under your head and your knees bent, as shown on the following page. •  Place a relatively lar ge book on the area just above your navel. •   As you breath e in, bring your  breathing into your abdomen b y
gently guiding your abdomen to move the book upward.•   As you breathe out, gently allow the abdomen to move back to
its original position. •   The inhalation is the active phase, and the exhalation is passiv e,
as you allow the  air to leave the body naturally and ef fortlessly. While breathing in, imagine inflating your tummy with a light
amount of air and watch the book rise. While breathing out,
imagine a balloon slowly deflating of its own accord. Stage 2 in Brief
•  Breathe in. Gently guide your abdomen out. •  Breathe out. Gently draw your abdomen in. When yo u are confident that you are able to match your breath ing with
the movements of your diaphragm, proceed to Stage 3. Stage 3: Reducing Br ea thing V olume Using A bdominal
Br eathing
If you have tried Stages 1  and 2  but still  find you are unable to switch from
upper -chest to abdominal breath ing, don’ t be concerned—it can take time to
readjust to a new  way of breath ing after years of breathing from the upper
chest. Y ou can still proceed to Stage 3 —simply keep practicing all three
stages u ntil it becomes easier. The more you use these exercises, the greater
your tolerance of carbon dioxide will become. Reducing your breathing is about lowering the amount of air you take
into you r lungs during each minute. As you reduce your breathing, there
will be a slight a ccumulation of  carbon dioxide in the blood, assisting with
the relaxation of the diaphragm. If you have already mastered
diaphragmatic breathing through the first two stages, then you will find that
it is  a lot easier to reduce your breathing volume toward nor mal as you
practice Stage 3.There are two main approaches to reducing breathing volume using
diaphragmatic b reathing. The first is to bring a feeling of relax ation to the
body, to gently a llow your breathing movements to slow down and become
softer. As your body relaxes, y our breathing will automaticall y reduce in
response. The second approach  is to tune in to your breathing pattern,
noting the size of each inhalation and exhalation. By concentrating on the
rhythm o f your breathing for a m inute or two, you will gain a se nse of how
much ai r you are taking into y our body. As you follow you r breathing,
gently e ncourage it to slow d own so that your breathing movements
gradually reduce to the point where you feel a subtle need for air. This ur g e to breathe is the core of reduced breathing exercises and is a
sign tha t you are actively altering your breathing habits toward a healthier,
more ef f ective l evel. When you first attempt reduced breathing exercises,
you may find the sensation of air shortage dif ficult to maintain, but it is
essential to keep practicing if yo u want to bring about changes to your body
and imp rove your sporting performance. The following sentence is the most
important point of this entire book, and something I explain to my students
daily:
The only way to know you ar e r educing your br eathing volume is
feeling as if you would like to take in a bigger br eath.The nee d to take a bigger breath  is similar to the feeling you w ill have
experienced dur ing your measurement of BOL T. This ur ge for air should
not b e s tressful, but should be s imilar to what you might experi ence during
a normal walk. In Stage 3,  we will bring abdominal breathing and reduced breathing
together. T o practice this exercise, it can be very helpful to sit in front of a
mirror to observe and follow your breathing movements:
•  Sit up straight.•  Place one hand on your chest and one hand on your abdomen. •   Im agine a pie ce of string guiding you upward from the top of
the back of you r head. Imagine the space between your ribs
gently widening. •   As you breathe in, gently guide your abdomen out. Keep your
chest movements to a minimum. •   As you breathe out, gently guide your abdomen in, still keeping
your chest movements small. •  Follow each breath in and out through your nose. •   T une in to the amplitude of each inhalation and exhalation. T ry
to get a sense of the size and frequency of each breath. •   A s yo u breathe, exert gentle pressure with your hands against
your abdomen and chest. This should create extra resistance to
your breathing. •  Breathe against your hands, concentrating on making the size of
each breath smaller. •   W ith e ach bre ath, take in less air than you would like to. Mak e
the in-breath smaller or shorter. •   Breathe out with a relaxed exhalation. Allow the natural
elasticity of your lungs and diap hragm to play their role in each
exhalation. Imagine a balloon slowly and gently deflating of its
own accord. •   Whe n the in-breath becomes smaller and the out-breath is


 back home. Marienever recovered from chemotherapy and radiation. She died in the hospitalsurrounded by her lesbian friends who took dedicated, ever-so-sympathetic turnsmaintaining an emotional round-the-clock vigil. Marie’s death was partly my fault. She was an early case of mine. At the time I
did not yet understand the total effect of lack of ethics and irresponsibility onillness. Had Marie really wanted to live in the first place, she would have soughttreatment three years earlier. In our counseling sessions she always evaded thisquestion and I had not been wise enough to pin her down with my knee on herchest and make her answer up. Marie had too many secrets from everybody andwas never fully honest in any of her relationships, including with me. I think sheonly came to Great Oaks at her lover’s insistence and to the day she died wastrying to pretend that nothing was wrong. All Marie really wanted from her life was to be loved and have a lot of loving
attention. In the end, her dramatic death scene gave her that, which is probablywhy she manifested cancer and kept it and eventually, died from it. The name for this game is “secondary gain.” A lot of sick people are playing it. Their illness lets them win their deepest desire; they get love, attention, revenge,sympathy, complete service, pampering, create guilt in others. When sick peoplereceive too much secondary gain they never get well. One of the hardest things about being a healer is that one accumulates an ever-
enlarging series of dirty, failed cases like this one. It is depressing and makes aperson want to quit doctoring. Whenever I get involved with a case I really wantthem to get better. My life is put entirely out of joint for several months dealingwith a residential faster. My schedule is disrupted; my family life suffers; mypersonal health suffers. No amount of mere money could pay for this. And thensome of these people go and waste all my help to accomplish some discreditablesecret agenda that they have never really admitted to themselves or others. Constant Complaints
Alice was a middle-aged woman who couldn’t understand why she had
always felt tired, even when she was young. Her life had been this way ever sinceshe could remember. Most puzzling to her was why her life was so Book-Of-Joblike. She did everything the proper way. Doing things correctly was important toher, and fitted her Puritan background. Alice supported all the right causes, didgood works, was active in a Unitarian church and bought all her food at thehealthfood store—and made sure it was organically grown. But in spite of Alice’s righteous living, her existence was a treadmill of
constant, minor complaints. She was constantly exhausted, so much so she haddifficulty getting up in the morning and feared she might have chronic fatiguesyndrome (whatever that is). Alice suffered bouts of depression over thoughts likethese, and had many acute illnesses like colds that hung on interminably andwould not go away. She had a constant post-nasal drip. Though she enjoyed life,her body was a millstone around her neck. I’ve had a lot of clients exactly like Alice. Sometimes they complain of
headaches; sometimes constant yeast or bladder infections. Whatever thecomplaints, the symptoms are rarely severe enough to classify themselves assomeone who is seriously ill, but their symptoms rarely go away and they almostnever feel good. Medical doctors rarely find anything wrong with them, thoughthey will frequently prescribe an antibiotic to treat a somewhat constant infection,or an antihistamine for sinus symptoms. Getting a new prescription drug makesthe complaint go away for a short time until their resistance is lowered again andthe very same complaint returns. These people frequently depend on over thecounter pills and are routinely prescribed sleeping remedies and antidepressants.If instead of this route they will but take my medicine they are usually easy to fixand afterwards are amazed that it was all that simple and that so much of their lifehas been less than it could have been. Alice had been through the medical doctor route. She had become quite
familiar with antibiotics for her colds and flu, and also took synthetic thyroidhormone—the doctor had diagnosed her fatigue as being caused by anunderactive thyroid, which was partly correct—but the thyroid medication didn’tgive her much more energy. Alice had been supporting this medical doctor ingrand style for over thirty years but never obtained the relief she sought. I put Alice through my usual two hour first-time-visit thorough analysis. For
two weeks before coming to see me she had saved tiny samples of everything sheate, wrapped them in plastic film, carefully labeled, and put them in the freezer.Along with these food samples and a typed list of all these foods, she brought abig box full of her condiments, herb teas, vitamins, spices, prescriptionmedications, over the counter drugs, oils, grains, breads, crackers and smallsamples of her usual fresh vegetables and fruits. Even her water. Her entirekitchen! By biokinesiology we proceeded to test all of her foods for allergicreactions. I also tested the integrity of her organs and glands and in the process,got a detailed medical history and list of her complaints. Alice had exhausted adrenals, and they probably had been that way for thirty
years. Her pancreas was now too weak to digest the legumes that made up alarge part of her vegetarian diet. She was allergic to wheat, soy, and dairyproducts and had especially been eating dairy in the mistaken notion that it wasnecessary to keep up her protein intake. Really very typical. So many health foodstore shoppers these days mistakenly believe that, because they are vegetarianand do not eat meat, they especially need to boost their protein intake with dairyand soy. Unfortunately, so many North Americans are highly allergic to dairy andunfortunately, soy products are as hard or harder to digest than cooked meats. Alice was especially shocked to discover that she was allergic to such foods
as cabbage family vegetables, alfalfa sprouts and citrus. Most people don’t thinkthat anyone could be allergic to something as healthy as alfalfa sprouts. Thedoctor was right about one thing; her thyroid was underperforming. He had notnoticed that her heart was weak. Medical doctors rarely discover an organ weakness until that organ actually
begins to catastrophically fail. A busy honest doctor will usually tell thecomplaining patient there is nothing wrong with them: go home, take two aspirin,accept the fact that your body is not perfect and don’t worry about it. A hungrydoctor will be delighted to perform countless lab tests, seeking any possiblereason for the complaint. This can go on as long as the patient has money or aslong as the insurance company will pay. They rarely find anything “wrong” and thepatient is far better off if the doctor doesn’t discover something “serious” to treatbecause their treatment may carry with it consequences far more severe than thecomplaint. For example, I have seen dozens of people whose lives were virtuallyruined after surgical treatment for chronic back pain. Biokinesiology is actually a far more sensitive system of analysis than lab tests. It picks up weaknesses at a very early stage so total organ failure can beprevented. Rarely will any of the organ weaknesses I discover be confirmed by amedical doctor. First I put Alice on a six week cleanse. She did one week onfresh, raw food; one week on dilute carrot juice with some green leafy vegetablesjuice too; one week on water fasting; and then she repeated the series. After sixweeks of detoxification, I gave Alice a Life Extension megavitamin formula,discovered she could not handle the acid form of vitamin C (that she had alreadybeen taking) and had her start on protomorphogens to rebuild her weakenedendocrine system, her exhausted adrenals and weak pancreas. She also begantaking pancreatic enzymes when she ate vegetable protein. She was put on amaintenance diet that eliminated foods she was allergic to; the diet primarilyconsisted of whole grains, nuts, cooked and raw vegetables, and raw fruits. Onher maintenance diet Alice had a profound resurgence of energy and rediscovereda sense of well-being she had not known for decades. She began to feel like shehad when she was a child. Her constant sinus drip was gone. She was able tostop taking synthetic thyroid hormones and instead, supported her endocrinesystem with protomorphogens. A Rampaging Infection
At the age of 40, John, an old bohemian client of mine, came into a moderate
inheritance and went “native” in the Fiji Islands in the South Pacific. He spentabout four months hanging out with the locals. Life there was so much fun thatJohn completely forgot that his body was actually rather delicate, that many of hisorgans were weak, and that to feel good, he had to live a fairly simon-pure life. But the jovial, accepting, devil-may-care Fijians enjoyed a constant party,
even more so because John’s money allowed the Fijians to manifest powerful,tropical, home-grown strains of recreational herbs to smoke in abundance, beerand rum and worse, the Fijians (and John) constantly used a very toxic thoughonly mildly-euphoric narcotic called kava, something Europeans usually have nogenetic resistance to. The Fijians (and John) also ate a lot of freshly-caught fishfried in grease, well-salted, and huge, brain-numbing bowls of greasy starches,foods that they call i’coi, or “real food” as opposed to things like fruit and
vegetables that aren’t real food because they don’t knock you to the floor forhours trying to digest them in a somnambulant do


 thoughts will then become what you say in silent, prayer-like
messages to yourself: I am success; I am abundance. When you’re success
itself, when you’re abundance itself, you’re in harmony with the all-creating
Source, and it will do the only thing it knows how to do. It will be endlessly
giving and forthcoming with that which has no resistance to it—namely,
you. You’re no longer vibrating to scarcity; your every individual
vibrational utterance is in concert with what you summon from your
Source. You and your Source are one in your thoughts. You’ve chosen to
identify thoughts of resistance and have simultaneously decided to stay out
of your own way. As you practice allowing and living the faith of least resistance, success
is no longer something you choose; it’s something that you are. Abundance
no longer eludes you. You are it, and it is you. It flows unimpeded beyond
your resistance. Herein lies another clue to the free flow of abundance: You
must avoid becoming attached to and hoarding what shows up in your life.Abundance, Detachment, and Your Feelings
While it’s crucial for you to have a firm vibrational match-up with the all-
creating abundance of intention, it’s just as crucial for you to know that you
can’t hang on to and own any of the abundance that will be coming your
way. This is because the you that would like to hang on to and become
attached to your success and your wealth is not really you, it’s that
troublesome ego of yours. You’re not what you have and what you do;
you’re an infinite, divine being disguised as a successful person who has
accumulated a certain amount of stuff. The stuff is not you. This is why you
must avoid being attached to it in any way. Detachment comes from knowing that your true essence is a piece of the
infinitely divine field of intention. It’s then that you become aware of the
importance of your feelings. Feeling good becomes much more valuable
then polishing your jewelry. Feeling abundant surpasses the money in your
bank account and transcends what others may think of you. Genuinely
feeling abundant and successful is possible when you detach yourself from
the things you desire and allow them to flow to you, and just as important,
through you. Anything that inhibits the flow of energy stops the creating
process of intention right where the obstacle is erected. Attachment is one such roadblock. When you hang on to that which
arrives, rather than allowing it to move through you, you stop the flow. You
hoard it or decide to own it, and the flow is disrupted. You must keep it
circulating, always knowing that nothing can stop it from coming into your
life except any resistance you place in its way. Your feelings and emotions
are sensational barometers for detecting resistance and evaluating your
ability to experience success and abundance. Paying attention to your feelings. Your emotions are the inner
experiences that tell you how much of the divine energy you’re summoning
for the manifestation of your desires. Feelings can be measuring tools that
gauge how you’re doing in the manifestation process. An exceptionally
positive emotional response indicates that you’re summoning the divine
energy of intention and allowing that energy to flow to you in a nonresistantmanner. Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, unmitigated optimism,
unquestioned trust, and even illumination indicate that your desire to
manifest success and abundance, for example, have an extremely strong
pulling power from the universal Source to you. You must learn to pay
close attention to the presence of these feelings. These emotions aren’t just
facets of your life that are empty of energy—they’re agents that are in
charge of how you clean and purify the connecting link to intention. These
emotions tell you precisely how much of the life force you’re summoning,
and how much pulling power you have going for you at that moment. Abundance is the natural state of the nature of intention. Your desire for
abundance must flow free of resistance. Any discrepancy between your
individual intention or desire, and your belief concerning the possibility of
summoning it into your life, creates resistance. If you want it but believe it’s
impossible or that you’re unworthy, or that you don’t have the skills or
perseverance, then you’ve created resistance and you’re disallowing. Your
feelings indicate how well you’re attracting the energy necessary for the
fulfillment of your desire. Strong feelings of despair, anxiety, blame, hate,
fear, shame, and anger are sending you the message that you want success
and abundance but you don’t believe it’s possible for you. These negative
feelings are your clues to get busy and balance your desires with those of
the universal mind of intention, which is the only source of that which you
desire. Negative emotions tell you that your pulling power from intention is
weak or even nonexistent. Positive emotions tell you that you’re connecting
to and accessing the power of intention. Concerning abundance, one of the most effective ways to increase that
pulling power from intention to you is to take the focus off of dollars and
place it on creating abundant friendship, security, happiness, health, and
high energy. It’s here that you’ll begin to feel those higher emotions, which
let you know that you’re back in the match game with the all-creating
Source. As you focus on having abundant happiness, health, security, and
friendships, the means for acquiring all of this will be flowing toward you. Money is only one of those means, and the faster your vibrational energy
around abundance radiates, the more money will show up in significant
amounts. These positive feelings as indicators of your pulling power forsuccess and abundance will put you into an active mode for co-creating
your intentions. I’m not suggesting that you just wait for everything to fall into place. I’m
suggesting that by declaring, I intend to feel successful and attract
prosperity, your emotional energy will shift and you’ll act as if what you
desire were already true. Your actions will be in harmony with the faces of
intention, and you’ll be provided with what you are, rather than attempting
to be provided with what’s missing. At this point in my life, I refuse to participate in any desire unless I have
total, nonresistant knowing that it can and will manifest into my life from
the all-creating Source of intention. My desires for personal indicators of
abundance have all manifested by practicing what I write here, and in the
ten-step program that follows. I’ve been able to allow by removing
resistance and connecting to my originating, all-creating Source. I trust in it
completely. Over the years, I’ve learned that when I’ve desired something
seemingly impossible, I felt poorly as a result. I then figured that I should
desire less, but all that did was make me even further removed from the
unlimited power of intention. I was still in vibratory disharmony with the
abundance of the universe. I began to understand that my being in harmony with abundance didn’t
cause others to be poor or hungry. On the contrary, the abundance I created
gave me the chance to help eradicate poverty and hunger. But the
significant awareness was realizing that I had less of a chance to help others
when I was in the lower frequencies. I learned that I had to get myself into
vibratory harmony with my Source. One of my reasons for writing this
chapter in this fashion is to convince you that you don’t have to ask for less,
or feel guilty about wanting abundance—it’s there for you and everyone in
an unlimited supply. I live and breathe what I’m writing here about success and abundance. I
know beyond any doubt (resistance) that you can attract abundance and feel
successful by absorbing the messages of this chapter, which, like theabundance you seek, have flowed from that universal Source through me
and onto these pages. There’s no discrepancy between my desire to write it
all out here and my willingness to allow it to flow unimpeded to you. How
do I know this? My emotion in this moment is ineffable bliss, serenity, and
reverence. I trust this emotional state, which indicates to me that I’ve been
utilizing a very strong pulling power to create these messages from the all-
creating Spirit of intention. I’m in vibratory harmony and abundance, and
feelings of success are my intentions herewith manifested. Try it on
anything you’d like to see flowing abundantly into your life. Making Your Intention Your Reality
Below is a ten-step program for implementing the intention of this
chapter—that is, to feel successful and attract abundance into your life:

Step 1: See the world as an abundant, providing, friendly place. Again, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at
change. When you see the world as abundant and friendly, your intentions
are genuine possibilities. They will, in fact, become a certainty, because
your world will be experienced from the higher frequencies. In this first
step, you’re receptive to a world that provides rather than restricts. You’ll
see a world that wants you to be successful and abundant, rather than one
that conspires against you. Step 2: Affirm: I attract success and abundance into my life because
that is who I am. This puts you into vibratory harmony with your Source. You goal is to eliminate any distance between what you desire and that from


. Ideally use a clean cotton swab to apply to the sore. 175Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Cold SoresY ou will need… DirectionsOur cells are forever regenerating themselves. As new skin cells appear,
the old/dead ones are pushed towards the surface of the scalp before
sloughing off. Contrary to popular belief, those little white flakes on your
shoulders are not *technically* dandruff, but the result of a dry scalp. Dandruff is a condition in which people’s skin cells mature or flake off
too rapidly, which means they shed in roughly 2-7 days, rather than the
month it takes people without dandruff. The result is oily, sometimes
yellowish clumps of skin coming off in large flakes, which leave the
scalp sore and irritated. The skin on the scalp may or may not be red
and slightly inflamed as well. True dandruff can be rooted in a number
of causes, but is most commonly caused by oil build up and a yeast-like
fungus called Malassezia. Malassezia is found naturally on the scalp but
can be overabundant on the scalps of people with dandruff. The fungus
feeds on oil, causing the greasy flakes characteristic of dandruff. It’s important to know that dandruff is different than dry scalp because
it changes how you should go about treating it. While commercials
show little white flakes and tout “dandruff shampoo” they’re not
really showing dandruff. To work with dandruff, you do not want to
avoid shampooing or worry about drying out you scalp. Contrary, you
should be working to relieve the build-up of oil and skin (usually by
shampooing), making the scalp comfortable, and reducing a possible
overabundance of yeast.Dandruff
-Switch up shampoos. Y our
skin can become ‘resistant’ or
accustomed to one particular kind,
and you may find it less effective
than before. -Lather, rinse, repeat. This is
something you really SHOULD do
if you have dandruff. Chances are
you have a good build-up of stuff
on your scalp, and you need to
get that cleared away. Shampoo
once to get through the extra
stuff, and then shampoo again. By
doing this you allow the shampoo
to actually penetrate the scalp and
do its job, rather than just sit on
top. 176Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingThis is a wonderful combination of ingredients. Witch hazel is wonderfully soothing and helps itchy, irritated skin,
which you probably have if you have dandruff. Tea tree has fungicidal properties to reduce any overabundance
of fungus if that is contributing to your dandruff. The jojoba oil is soothing and mimics the natural sebum
produced by your scalp so you don’t completely dry it out. It is needed to act as a carrier for the tea tree oil.Tea Tree Oil & Witch Hazel Spray
-20 drops of tea tree oil
-1 cup of warm water
-2 tablespoons of witch hazel
-1/2 tablespoon of jojoba oil
-A spray bottle1. Add tea tree oil to the jojoba oil and witch hazel. 2. Add this mixture to 1 cup of warm in spray bottle. Shake well, spritz
your hair/scalp, and massage in well. Pat dry, but don’t rinse out. Repeat
1-2 times daily as needed. 177Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com DandruffY ou will need… DirectionsIf your scalp is just excited about life and has overactive fungi, and over active oil glands, baking soda can help
balance things out. The fine granules that make up the baking soda are mildly abrasive, and when massaged in
well, will help slough off built up skin cells. Being alkaline, it will also get rid of oil build up. Baking soda can be
used alone, or you can add it to your own shampoo. If you use the baking soda alone, your hair may feel dry at
first, but oil production usually balances out after a few weeks.Baking Soda Shampoo
-1/4 cup of baking soda
-A shaker1. Wet hair thoroughly and apply baking soda. 2. Massage in well with fingertips, and then rinse. If you are using the
baking soda on its own, a shaker (like the kind used for parmesan) can
be useful in distributing the powder. 178Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com DandruffY ou will need… DirectionsThe salt here provides an abrasive texture that will loosen dead, built up skin cells, while the lemons acidity can
help restore the pH of your scalp and lessen the severity of the dandruff. If your skin is raw or sore, this will sting. This will also help clear the scalp so the shampoo can really sink in and do its work.Lemon & Salt
-2 tablespoons of lemon juice
-1 tablespoon of coarse sea
salt
-A small bowl1. Mix lemon juice with coarse sea salt. 2. Rub into scalp, using small circular motions to massage it in
thoroughly. Rinse, and then follow with shampoo as usual. 179Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com DandruffY ou will need… DirectionsDry hair, not to be confused with dry scalp or dandruff, is a frustrating
problem to try and solve. Hair is technically dead, but it can still lose
moisture, get dull, break, and generally look lifeless. Remind yourself
that shampoos and conditioners that advertise making your hair healthy
can’t really make it healthy. It’s dead. It can, however, make hair look
what we perceive as “healthy”, which is what I am referring to when
I use the word here. I covered how a strand of hair is structured in
the conditioner chapter, so I won’t go over it in as much detail, but it’s
relevant here as well. Basically there’s 3 parts-the cortex, the cuticle,
and the medulla. To focus on dry hair, you focus mainly on the cuticle,
which protects the cortex by surrounding it with overlapping hard
plates of protein, layered like roof shingles. When the cuticle becomes
disrupted, and the plates break or get bent or out of shape, the
appearance of the hair becomes less appealing. The cuticle also helps
retain moisture, so if it’s damaged, your hair wont retain its luster.Dry Hair
-Some of the main culprits that dry
out hair are heat treatments, such
as blow drying, straightening,
and curling, using harsh dyes or
sprays, weather, and a lack of
sebum production. Sebum is the
natural oil our scalp produces
and is the ultimate conditioner. It keeps hair supple, elastic, and
looking lively. Y ou may also have
more porous cuticles, which
means they don’t lie flat and lock
in moisture like they should. -Focus on the ends of your hair. Sebum will moisturize hair closer
to the scalp, but won’t travel
far enough down the shaft to
moisturize the ends, making them
prone to dryness and breakage. -Protein treatments work by
temporarily patching the gaps
where cuticles have broken off
or are lifted, essentially acting as
a substitute. Why protein? Hair is
made primarily of proteins. There
are natural protein treatments, and
while they are more than worth a
shot, do not expect them to work
in the same way that hydrolyzed
protein used in commercial
protein treatments do. Jojoba Oil
-If you have severely dry or
damaged hair, you can apply it
to your scalp and hair. If you are
going to do this, rub it in well,
and wrap your head in a towel
for 30 minutes. Rinse with cool
water and a mild shampoo. My
hair is personally too thin to do
this without ending up looking like
I slept in an oil slick, so I stick to
applying it to my ends. 180Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingJojoba oil is not really an oil, it’s a “liquid wax”, and is less greasy than true oils. It is one of my favorite things to
turn to when it comes to anything skin or hair related, and has one characteristic that makes it extra special- it
is considered the oil that most closely resembles human sebum. Sebum is naturally produced by sebaceous
glands in different parts of the body, including the scalp. It is our natural conditioner, keeping hair looking
healthy and maintaining its elasticity. Look for organic, unrefined jojoba oil. Jojoba oil will naturally be a clear
yellow/golden color, and should say “cold pressed” on the bottle somewhere. If you get refined jojoba oil it has
been chemically extracted with a solvent, and we want to avoid that.Jojoba Oil
-Unrefined jojoba oil
-A towel1. Pour a pea sized amount onto your fingertips and rub into the ends
of damp hair. Y ou can leave it in, or rinse some of it out with cool water
after it has sat for 5-10 minutes
181Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Dry HairY ou will need… DirectionsHoney is a humectant, which means it attracts moisture and holds it in. Combined with jojoba oil,


 0.5Hz
[smv Fig. Xll/:8. Electrolysis of water in
fUter paper matrix impregnated with
litmus and exposed to open air. (a) Hydroxyl ions produced at cathodic
dectrodt (Ec). Protons are produced
around anode (Ea). (b) Measu.rement of
pot<ntial ov<r the matris during applica
tion of four volts ecll voltage. When the
external power sourec is disconnceted
(c), a minimalltak of current through
rhe recording circuit indicates a self. driving system. Unexpeetedly, theca·
thodic pote.nrial is electroposit ive and
the anodic potential partly elc:<:troposi
tive. This finding indicates the presence
of a disturbing reaction (C01 from sur
rounding air, see funbcr text). the energy of the nH2 and n01 ergonars anticipated to
be trapped in the matrix. In fact, we are intending to
start hydrogen and oxygen fuel cell reactions over the
recording circuit. We will proceed stepwise and next
diseon.ncct the external powe.r source, which was done
a
10M.n. b
tM.n. tOOmV
Fig. X/11:9. Elcetrolysis ofl M KCI solution (in ftlter paper
matrix, 4 volts between platinum tlcetrod.. ). (a) 10 meg
ohms impedance ofthc recording dreuit. Tndoas of poten
tial from left to right and then back 0\'tr the matris show
only slight asymmetry. (b) When impedance of the reeording
circuit is lowered to I megohm, the incrcasrd leak of current
through the instrumen t distons considenbly tht two
branches of the trOcing of potential. Filtering excludts su
perimposed oscillations. before the tracing of JXltential ohown in Fig. XIII: 8c
was obtained. Immediately upon disconnecting these
cables the voltage is lowered by the applied 4 volts,
including the IR drop over the matrix. The system is now characterized electrically by the
sum of the metal potentials and the remaining diffu
sion JXltentials. One might expect a profile of potential
remaining across the matrix to be determined by hy
droxyl ions to the left and protons to the right. How
ever, as seen in Fig. XIII: 8c, the left part of the
matrix is electrOJXlSitive in relation to the right part. Fresh litmus paper, soaked in water and placed on the
matrix, showed persistent alkalinity (pH 10-1 I) to the
left and acidity (pH 2-3) to the right. Is it perhaps possible that the nH2 and n02 ergonars
have started "fuel ceil" reactions over the recording
circuit? Such reactions arc, however, not possible. First, the KCI-agar bridge prevents effective contact
between gas in the matrix and the "recording" elec
trode surface. Secondly, the half-cell potential of an
Ag-AgCI electrode at 25°C is +210 mV, relative to a
NHE, while the H2 potential at pH 10 is -590 mV. Consequently, •••en on contact IYith the electrode, a
Hz reaction could result only in a lowering of this
potential component. Furtherm ore, this possibility is
only hypothetical as the actual electrode can only trace
the diffusion potential. Similar argument s may be
raised against an action of trapped oxygen in the acidic
part of the matrix as an explanation for its relatively
lowered potential. Because the potential of O, at pH 3
is +I 050 mV, the potential on the right acidic part of
the matrix should be elevated. Instead, the experimen
tal conditions presented prevent action of the hydro
gen and oxygen ergonars, which under other condi
tions could be very powerful. Such a restriction of
function is a characteristic property of ergonars, which
may be recognized as extremely important for trans
port and conversion of energy in biology. Unlike ion
ars, crgonars can "save" their stored electrical energy
until they arrive at a reaction site suitable for release of
energy. We will return 10 this problem soon and show
how we can activate the nH2 and 1102 ergonars in the
actual experiment. First, however, the potential pro
file of the self-driving system (Fig. XIII: 8c) needs
explanatio n.
The diffusion and migration of ions over the KCI
bridge as described above may contribute to some
extent to changing the potential in the matrix. Another factor to consider is the possibility of con·
tamination from C02 in surrounding air, because C02
is easily dissolved in water,
C02+ H,Q __. H• + HCO! On the alkaline left side this reaction will lead to:
OW+ HCOj _,co;-+H20 which n'lcans a diminished clcctroncgativc: potential,
while on the acidic right side:
H• +HCOj-> H1C01-H10+C01
which means a diminished electropositive potential. The resulting potential profile in Fig. XIII: 8c ap
parently also depends on several other factors in addi
tion to the matrix reactants and reaction products
described above. For example, variations in concentra
tion should appear by matrix adsorption of locally
formed water as well as by migration of HCOj, pro
tons and hydroxyl ions. For these reasons the studies
were continued in attempts to exclude possible sources
of error. The possibility of contaminatio n of the distilled wa
ter by foreign material was first checked in terms of its
conductivity (x), which revealed:
><(24°C) = 0.3x 10-s ohm-• em-• (pH 6.4)
as compared with theoretically "cleann water:
x(24•C) = 0.4x 10-1 ohm-' em-• (pH 7.0)
An acidic contamination by easily soluble atmospheric
C02 was therefore highly suspected. The water was
therefore "washed" with flowing argon gas for 24
hours before testing. Next, the electrolyses and mea
surements of potential were performed in a chamber
which allowed the whole experiment to be performed
under continuously flowing argon gas. To prevent
drying of the matrix, the argon gas was wetted with
water (free of C02) before it was led through the
electrolysis chamber. Testing of the potential recording system also
showed that loss of potential at I megohm impedance
of the recording instrument was too high when redox
reactions were started over the recording circuit. A
digital voltmeter with 20 megohm impedance was,
however, found suitable for the purpose. Moreover, to
avoid mechanical stirring effects by the electrode mov
ing over the matrix, measurement s of potential were
made at regularly intcrminem distances along the ma
trix (2.5, 5 or 10 mm apart). Employing these modifi
cations, new experiments were then undertaken. In Fig. XIII: 10 the litmus-filter paper shows an
alkaline reaction to the left and an acidic rcuctl<m to
the right (one hour after application of 10 volts be
tween the platinum electrodes (Ec, Ea), positioned 7.5
em apart on the matrix, previously soaked in argon
treated distilled water). The electrolysis and subse
quent steps of the experiment were performed under
protection of flowing argon gas in the electrolysis
chamber. During electrolysis (A) the potential was
measured between the nonpolarizable Ag-AgCI refer
ence (Ag I) and "recording" (Ag II) electrodes. The
potential difference recorded over the matrix between
these electrodes was 6. 71 volts after one hour. The
Energetics, ionars and ergooars 167 ~Reference electrode
Agl
B Electrolysis interrupted
Volts
A During electrolysis lAg 1-Agnl
Volts
3-
2-
1 -
0-/,/
I.-·-·,.-
::: ----~-~~ ~:------~r
Ptl 10,vol~s. 0;3m~,!Pt
0 2 3 4 5 6 7 em
Fig. XIII: 10. Electrolysis of distilled water on litmus· filter
paper, protecttd from atmospheric C01 by continuous
washing with argon gas. Sutionary reference (Ag I) and
movable (Ag U) are Ag-AgCI electrodes (2 M KCI·agar
bridges). PtX is a movable platinum electrode. (A) During
cle<:trolysis with 10 volts, the clccttic potential measured
over the matrix at regular intervals (instrume.m impedance
20 M·ohm) revealed a difference of


 wish  to say just  a few  Words  to the
Messengers:  "The  greatest  need  at the present  time  is in
Philadelphia  and  New  York,  and  then  you  will  be directed
what  is to follow. Great  need  is in the World,  tonight. Saint
Germain  will  not be able  to come  and  direct  you,  before
you leave  the city;  and  has asked  Me to convey  This  Mes-
sage  to you." Oh,  that  mankind  might  understand,  what  it
means  to have  the Assistance  of Great  Wise  Beings  Who
have  gone  the Pathway  you  are treading;  having  conquered
and set Themselves  Free  into  the  Ascension! They  are
Those  who  know  every  struggle,  every  sorrow,  everything
any one of you experiences. Then,  will  you  understand  how
it is within  Our  Ability,  to give  such  Great  Assistance ? We
know  all that  you  suffer. DISCOURSE  III 25
In the ages  of long  ago  when  I achieved  My  Freedom,
it was  not so difficult;  but  at the time  Our  Beloved  Saint
Germain  attained  His  Freedom,  it was  an hundred  times
more  difficult  than  you  have  to contend  with  today. In
those  ages,  people  had  to hide  in caves  in the mountains
to worship  as Their  Hearts  dictated! Today,  you  have  the
Great  Country  of America! Oh,  that  you  might  know  just
what  that  Word  means  to you—AMERICA! OH,
AMERICA! If you  clearly  knew  what  that  Heavenly,  Di-
vine  Word  meant,  you  would  almost  wish  to speak  It like
the words  "I AM,"  for It belongs  to the "I AM." One  day,
We shall  tell you  Its full Meaning. Now,  Precious  Ones,  I am speaking  to the students  who
are firmly  and  with  Great  Determination  holding  to the
Light  of the "Mighty  I AM  Presence":  Your  Goddess  of
Liberty  in New  York  harbor,  is but  the symbol  of that
Mighty  Being  who  is entering  into  the  ruling  world  of
America,—the  Mighty  Goddess  of Liberty! Do not  fear  ever! that  the  Great  Law  will  fail  to find
Its Fulfilment  in America;  but  those  who  have  willingly
chosen  to serve  the shadows,  will  one  day  know  the Power
of Her  Radiation,  which  even  row  is saturating  the Earth! Oh, that  you  may  know  the Great  Enfolding  Radiance
and Illumining  Presence—the  Great  Change  which  is in
your  atmosphere,  even  today! Oh,  Beloved  Ones,  when  you
breathe,  feel  and  breathe  the Fire-Breath  of God,  in which
no imperfection  can  exist! As you  think  of It from  time  to
time,  feel yourselves  breathing  in That  Mighty  Fire-Breath 26 THE  "7 AM"  DISCOURSES
of God,  the Mighty  Purifying  Flame! the  Unfed  Flame! which  purifies  and  strengthens  every  cell of your  body,  ex-
panding  the Light  within  your  Heart;  until  It knows  no
interference,  either  from  yourself  or outside  forces! One day,  when  you  are sufficiently  prepared,  I shall  stand
before  you—as  I stood  before  those  Blessed  Ones  in the
Cave  of Light  in India! Then,  shall  mankind  realize  the
Great  Beings  Who  have  loved  the World  and  have  stood
the Guards  over  it, are no myth  of anyone's  imagination! So also,  shall  ALL  mankind  know  the "Great  I AM  Pres-
ence,"  Which  has  stood  guard  over  it, when  the  people
would  have  destroyed  themselves. Precious  Ones,  Beloved  of
the Light! never  again  let a single  thought  or feeling  enter
your  world,  but  praise  of your  "Mighty  I AM  Presence"
which  gives  you  Life! In Eternal  Gratitude  to Life,  speak
It before  the World! Life  alone  pours  forth  to you  Its Eter-
nal, Its Ever-lasting  Perfection! Yet,  mankind  in the lack
of understanding,  is constantly  re-qualifying  Its Mighty
Currents  of Energy,  which  would  of their  own  volition,
produce  Beauty  and  Perfection  in the human  form. Those
Currents  of Energy,  if left  unchanged,  would  make  it a
Perfect  Receptacle  to the Outpouring  of the Presence  and
glorify  the people  with  Freedom  quickly. Those  Currents
of Energy  from  the Presence  would  glorify  them  with  Do-
minion,  not from  the human  self,  but over  all substance. All
form  in the Universe,  in the Octave  of Earth,  is composed
of the  One  Substance—the  Universal  Substance  of Elec-
tronic  Light,  which  of Itself  is Wholly  Perfect. DISCOURSE  III  27
Now  you  understand,  Precious  Hearts,  the need  of Self-
control  in your  feeling  world—stop  all irritation—all  de-
structive  feeling,  anger,  hatred,  jealousy  or any  of those
qualities  which  fill your  world  with  distress. Stop  it at once! Feel the Glory  of the "Mighty  I AM  Presence"  fill your
world  and  flow  forth  with  Happiness  and  Perfection!<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        SAINT  GERMAIN  SERIES
VOLUME  8
THE  "I AM
\\\\\\\lll/// DISCOURSES W'T'W/. "I AM"  ACTIVITY
OF
SAINT  GERMAIN  FOUNDATION
The "I AM"  Activity  represents  the Original,  Permanent,
and Highest  Source  of the Ascended  Masters'  Instruction
on the Great  Laws  of Life,  as first  offered  to the western
world  by the Ascended  Master  Saint  Germain,  through  His
Accredited  Messengers,  Mr. and  Mrs. Guy  W. Ballard. In the early  1930s  the Ballards  established  Saint  Germain
Foundation  and  Saint  Germain  Press,  Inc. which  under
Saint  Germain's  Guidance,  have  expanded  into  worldwide
organizations  that  offer  to mankind  the true  Ascended
Master  Teachings  on the Great  Cosmic  Word,  "I AM". Saint
Germain  Foundation  strives  to keep  the "I AM"  Ascended
Master  Instruction  in Its pure,  unadulterated  form,  free
from  any human  interpretation,  personal  monetary  gain,  or
proselytizing,  as It is a Gift from  the Great  Ascended  Masters
and Cosmic  Beings  to bring  Illumination  and  Perfection  to
mankind. Hundreds  of "I AM"  Temples  and  Sanctuaries  exist
throughout  the world,  where  the Teachings  are applied  in
"I AM"  Decree  Groups. The  Books  of the Saint  Germain
Series  are available  in many  libraries,  bookstores,  or direcdy
from  Saint  Germain  Press  (address  below). For  further
information,  please  contact:
SAINT  GERMAIN  FOUNDATION
SAINT  GERMAIN  PRESS
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2008  Printing
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All rights


  attention,  while  into  your  feel-
ing world,  is the Power  of Light  anchored  to bless  you
forever. It is Our  Great  Victory  for your  assistance. In these
wondrous  groups  it is the response,  which  makes  it possible
for Us to anchor  Our  Power  of Light  into  your  feeling
world;  which  not only  dissolves  and  purifies;  but gives  you
a Strength  and  Courage  which  sets  you  Free,  if you  but
realize  it. Things  which  bothered  and  disturbed  you  before,  will
never  do it after  today;  if you  will  just  keep  yourself  re-
minded  of this. Oh,  I want  you  to know  so much,  how
Really  Free  you  are. I hope,  I trust  for those  who  attend
This  Class,  before  the ten days  are past,  it will  be My  Joy
to dissolve  and  consume  the human  accumulation  of ninety
percent  of all who  are present. You  may  be sure,  Beloved
Ones,  to the limit  the Great  Law  of Life  permits,  will  this
be done,  not only  for your  Freedom;  but the Greater  Assist-
ance  you  may  give,  for the Blessing  of mankind  and  the
Protection  of America. We have  watched  the Individuals  for whom  this  has been
done. The  release  of their  energy,  their  substance  for use
has in most  instances  been  ten times  that  which  was  released
before  it was  done. So you know  what  It means  in your  own
individual  lives,  as well  as the Assistance  for America. Today,  Our  Rejoicing  is very  great. If you  only  knew
what  the Freedom  of your  America  means  to you;  and  how
those  vicious  claws  have  tried  to enter  into  your  govern-
ment. They  have  tried  to enter  into  your  industries;  tried DISCOURSE  XVIII  273
to prevent  your  aerial  service;  trying  to cripple  your  Be-
loved  America;  and  this excess  taxation  tries  to enslave  you;
which  is always  the signal  for the final  enslavement  of all
mankind! Oh,  Dear  People,  it is quite  different  this  time
than  ever  before;  for when  the flood  of Cosmic  Light  strikes
the mass  of the people,  then  courage  goes  forth;  and  they
arise  and  annihilate  their  own  would-be  destroyers. That  is not  sufficient. Take  Russia  today  for instance! One man  has  been  traded  for another  continuously,  since
the Czar  was  disposed  of. Just  changing  one  effect  for an-
other. That  is not sufficient;  but  from  the Heart  of those
people—there  must  arise  a mighty  sincere  Honest  Individ-
ual, whom  the people  will  at once  see is their  friend;  and
then  would  come  the solution  of the same  problem  in every
country  in the world. Treachery  and  deceit  in high  places,  has  brought  the
distrust  of the mass  of mankind  and  they  do not  know
upon  whom  they  can depend;  but as the Cosmic  Light  in-
creases  Its Intensification  in the Earth,  We  are trying  to so
adjust  It, there  will  be raised  up in those  countries—Individ-
uals of Power,  which  will  call  forth  the Power  of Light  to
sustain  them  in their  Honesty,  Honor,  Integrity  and  Bless-
ing to their  fellow-man. It is the only  hope! We hope  they  will  reach  a great  fruition;  and  possibly
as We find  progress,  We may  ask the Students  of the United
States  to add  a special  Decree  for this. You  have  been  using
the Decree  that  Ascended  Master  Friends  be raised  up
everywhere—a  most  magnificent  thing;  but  now  decree  a 274 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
Great  Honest,  Honorable  Individual  whose  Light  is strong
enough,  be raised  up in every  country  in Europe;  and  the
confidence  of the people  rest there;  so the Power  of Light's
Constructive  Activity  takes  Its Dominion. One more  thing  I want  to say to you. You  may  not com-
prehend  it; but at least  in your  attention,  you  can and  con-
template  it, if you  will. Beginning  in this  Class,  there  will
go forth  a Power  of Radiation  to Russia  and  her people,  to
try to bring  the Great—the  vast  Remedy  which  is needed. Should  this become  victorious,  then  you  can feel a Gratitude
and Service  rendered  which  will  be beyond  all words  to
describe. Remember,  the beginning  of this  destructive  ele-
ment  was  in Russia,  in connection  with  the three  individ-
uals in New  York,  who  started  this  frightful  destruction  to
mankind  and  the Earth. Once  not  so long  ago,  We  thought  there  seemed  to be
no hope  to bring  this  transformation  into  Russia;  but recent
evidence  there,  has given  Us renewed  hope;  so We will  do
Our Utmost  to pour  forth  a Radiation  to the mass  of her
people;  to do what  We  could  scarcely  hope  for a short
time  ago. You are not only  solving  your  own  problems  and  holding
America's  Protection;  but  see how  It is reaching  into  the
Whole  Earth! It seems  so fragmentary  to you  I know,  but
in every  country  in the World,  there  are Groups  of "I AM"
Students;  some  places  small,  but enough  so We may  focus
This  Mighty  Power  of Light  at those  points. In South  Africa,  where  as Washington's  Vision  has DISCOURSE  XVIII  275
shown,  was  to arise  that  great  cloud  to submerge  America;
there  has  been  drawn  and  established  a Mighty  Sincere
Group  of "I AM"  Students. It is magnificent! Shall  I tell
you what  they  said  concerning  some  destructive  literature
which  went  even  to Africa? You  know  how  the sinister
thing,  tries  to do such  things,  tries  to spread  its destruction
everywhere. When  its destructive  literature  reached  those
students,  momentarily  they  were  shocked. Then  they  gath-
ered  themselves  together  and  said:  "Well  if those  Messen-
gers are good  enough  for the Ascended  Masters,  then  they
are good  enough  for us,"  and  they  dispelled  the whole  thing
at once! That  was  magnificent,  and  what  A Great  Truth
they  uttered! Therefore,  Beloved  Ones,  you  see how  these  destructive
elements  have  no power,  if there  is only  a Nucleus  for this
Anchor  of the Light  within  a place  or locality. In the var-
ious countries  of Europe,  wonderful  sincere  Groups  of Stu-
dents  are applying  these  Decrees  with  dynamic  Power;  and
We shall  give  them  more  than  Ordinary  Assistance,  you
can be sure! I want  you  to know  how  great  is your  Blessing  and  Priv-
ilege. This  Light,  your  "I AM  Presence,"  your  Life,  is the
Freedom  of yourself  and  the World. So let us enter  in with
renewed  Enthusiasm,  Joy  and  Energy  into  your  Decree
Work,  for It releases  the Substance  required. You  cannot
help  but know,  as you  render  This  Service  to America  and
mankind,  it would  be impossible  for you  not to have  your