ears, and scatter between the
layers fresh-grated cocoanut and sugar. Berries of any kind
may be used instead of larger fruit. Frost the top lightly with
cocoanut and sugar. Eat with or without whipped cream.

CRUSHED STRAWBERRIES.
Where strawberries are small or inferior in appearance
they may be crushed, sweetened and mixed with the beaten
whites of two or three eggs. Berries and eggs should first be
thoroughly chilled on ice, then served as soon as mixed.

STRAWBERRIES AND ORANGES.
Cover a quart of ripe strawb erries with powdered sugar.
Pour over them half a teacupful of orange juice and serve at
once. This is very delicious.

STRAWBERRIES AND WHIPPED CREAM.
Select nice, ripe, sweet berries, wash thoroughly, then
cap and put first a layer of berries, then powdered sugar, until
the dish is filled, and cover with whipped cream; beaten
together with the whites of two eggs and a spoonful of
powdered sugar.

PEARS AND CREAM.
Take ripe, mellow pears. Peel and slice them, and
sprinkle lightly with powdered sugar. Just before serving add
a spoonful of whipped cream to each dish.

PEACH AND APPLE MUXIT.
(Mellow Apples, Ripe Peaches, Ground Nuts.) Slice very
thinly mellow apples. Put in a salad bowl. Crush half as many
very ripe peaches which mix with whipped cream. Cover
apples with this and serve. A few ground nuts can be added
with marked improvement in nutritive value.
 FRUIT MEDLEY.
Cut a hole in the stem end of an orange large enough to
admit a spoon, and after the inside  is taken out fill the orange
with small bits of pineapple, ba nanas, oranges, apples, raisins,
but before serving, grape or fruit juice of any kind poured
over it will improve it. Sugar may be added if desired.

FRUIT DESSERT.
 Oranges,   Cocoanut,
Whipped Cream.
Cut sweet oranges in small pieces, grate the cocoanut;
put a layer of each until the dish is well filled, and cover with
whipped cream.

AMBROSIA.
 Oranges,   Malaga Grapes,
 Bananas,   Cocoanut,
 Cocoanut,   Dates,
 Pineapple,   Nuts.
Slice bananas and cut in small pieces the other fruits,
removing the seeds from grapes. Put a layer of each until the
dish is filled. Then cover the top well with grated cocoanut,
and a few nut meats.

BANANAS AND CREAM.
There is nothing more nutritious and delicious than a
very ripe banana sliced with dates and nuts and served with
thick cream.

FIG BUTTER.
Select nice fresh figs and grind them. This makes a
delicious butter. Served with unfired wafers and cream cheese
is very delicious.

DATE AND NUT BUTTER.
Dates and nuts ground together make a very delicious
butter or paste.

SNOW PUDDING.
 Jelly Powder,   6 Eggs,
Cream.
Prepare one package of jelly powder. Then take thev
whites of six eggs stiffly beaten, and thoroughly beat into the
jelly when partly cool. Set on ice until ready to serve. Serve
with thick cream.
 GRAPE TRIFLE.
 Grapes,   Vanilla,
 Sugar,   Cream.
Put through a sieve two pounds ripe grapes; add sugar to
taste. Put into a glass dish and cover with whipped cream
flavored with vanilla. Serve very cold.

ALMOND CUSTARD.
 ½ box Jelly Powder,  4 tablespoons Sugar,
 1 pint Rich Milk,   1 tablespoon Bitter Almond,
 2 Eggs,  1 cup  Whipped Cream.
Prepare jelly powder. Then dissolve in one pint of warm,
rich milk. Add two well-beaten eggs, one tablespoon of sugar
and one tablespoon extract of bitter almond; to this add one
cup of whipped cream, and beat lightly. Pour into a deep
glass dish, and when set place a few blanched almonds or
pecans over the top and serve.

FRUIT AND NUT  MEDLEY.
 Bananas,   Oranges,
 Pineapples,   Dates,
Pecans.
Slice bananas, cut oranges and pineapple in small pieces.
Take the stones out of dates and put a layer of each until the
dish is filled, and a few nut meats on top. This makes a very
pretty and delicious dish.

LEMON TRIFLE.
 Lemons,   Grape Juice,
 Sugar,   Cream,
Nutmeg.
Two lemons, juice of both and grated rind of one, a scant
cup of sugar, I cup grape juice, I pint of cream, whipped stiff
and sweetened, a little nutmeg. Strain the lemon before
adding the grape juice and nutmeg. Whip gradually into the
whipped cream. Serve in glasses. Soon after it is made it
should be eaten.

A SIMPLE DESSERT.
 Eggs,   Peaches,
 Sugar,   Dates,
Cream.
Beat the whites of six eggs in to a very stiff froth, then
add gradually 6 tablespoonfuls powdered sugar, beating at
least 15 minutes. Then beat in one heaping tablespoonful of
fresh peaches (mashed) and as ma ny seedless raisins or dates
cut fine. Serve with thick cream.
 FRUIT AND NUT CUSTARD
 1 pint Milk,   2 oz Sugar,
 2 oz. Grape Juice,  Protoid nuts and Raisins,
Dessertspoonful Liquid Rennet.
Add grape juice, rennet and sugar to the milk, lukewarm.
Put nuts and raisins in custard cups. Pour the milk and
combination over it. Allow to cool. Serve with whipped
cream.

APPLE FROST.
 1 Cup of Cream,   1 Lemon,
 5 Eggs,   4 Apples (grated),
Jelly Powder.
Beat cream stiff, sweeten to taste. The whites of eggs
beaten lightly, to which add the juice of lemon, whip slowly
into this the cream. Have prepared three table-spoonfuls of
jelly powder and when nearly cooled mix all together, beating
thoroughly.

APPLE SNOW.
Peel and grate six nice apples, not too tart, and add the
well-whipped whites of three eggs; sweeten to taste. Beat
well until it is thoroughly mixed. Flavor with vanilla and
serve with sweet cream. Tahlman sweet apples preferred.

APPLES WITH OLIVE OIL.
Peel a ripe apple, cut in ei ghths or sixteenths, place in a
sauce dish and pour over it a few spoonfuls of olive oil. This,
eaten with nuts, makes a delicious breakfast.

APPLES.
The acid of apples is among the most healthful of
substances taken into the human stomach. It rouses the action
of the liver when torpid, and thus enables it to eliminate and
throw off the germs of bilious disorders and those of other
diseases arising from slow blood poison. They must also be
classed as among the most important and valuable of the
vegetable growths, especially for that class who work with
the brain.

ORANGES ICED.
These make a very ornamental dish, and can be used for
decorations. About eight fine sweet oranges should be peeled
and quartered, and a soft ic ing made of two pounds of
powdered sugar and the white of ten eggs. Each section
should be thoroughly dipped until  covered with icing, and
then strung on a thread and suspended in the oven or sunshine
to dry. Care should be take n not to have enough heat to
brown them, and if not thoroughly covered they should be
redipped. This is a very delicious and novel dish.
 RASPBERRIES ICED.
Beat the white of one egg and stir in with it two table-
spoonfuls of cold water. Immerse in this the raspberries one
by one; drain and roll them in finely powdered and sifted
sugar. Lay them on paper to dry,  and arrange them with other
fruits in a dessert dish. Time to dry, six or eight hours.

CURRANTS (No. 1.)
Mash a large cupful of ripe currants, squeeze through a
cloth strainer, sweeten the expressed juice, and pour over a
dish of whole currants. Serve very cold.

CURRANTS (No. 2.)
Select large bunches of ripe currants, dip in frothed white
of egg, roll in powdered suga r and serve on the stem. This
makes a beautiful table decoration.

PINEAPPLE.
(To Cut for Serving.)
Pare a pineapple so that the fruit shall be wasted as little
as possible, and in order to do this notch it, in and out, and
carefully remove all the specks and eyes. Pick the fruit from
the core with a silver fork in  pieces as large as a bean or shred
it on a slaw cutter. Place in a dish and set on ice until wanted.

PINEAPPLE


 municipal water then it is best to either distil it or use reverse
osmosis, and afterwards add again good minerals such as sea mineral concentrate or colloidal minerals. Another good option is
using rain water with added mineral s. Buying commercial water in plastic bottles is not really good; but if you do, then get distilled
water and re-mineralise it. After adding minerals, energise the water by exposure to the sun, crystals, magnets, pyramids, Brown’ s
gas or similar devices. Also fresh fruit or vegetable juices may be added to the lemon drink. Minerals keep bioenergy in the water. For
recolouring hair frequently apply the vitamin C solution without lemon juice to the hair and scalp. If the hair has been white for a long
time the enzymes in the hair bulbs may have died and it may no longer  work. Also frequently rub your skin with a partly neutralised
solution of oxidised vitamin C and MSM and possibly some fresh juices.
Further important additions are taurine, zinc, P5P and vitamin B3. These  are generally deﬁcient with a defective oxygen metabolism
but may also be added to a meal instead. P5P is the activated form of vitamin B6 and needed for building and using proteins,
including enzymes. You may also add borax or take it separately for Candida control, see Pyroluria and Candida  for further
information.
Taurine is a sulphur amino acid produced in the body by oxidising cysteine. It is needed for many important processes, such as water
distribution, bile production, liver detoxiﬁcation, muscle action – a healthy heart has the highest amount of taurine of any muscle or
organ! ( https://spingola.com/T aurine.html ).
Alcohol is especially dangerous for individuals with oxygen deﬁciency. In the liver alcohol is oxidised to acetaldehyde which then
causes most of the alcohol intoxication problems, strongly affecting the brain. Taurine activates the enzyme Aldehyde Dehydrogenase
which then oxidises acetaldehyde to beneﬁcial vinegar.
With heart failure, gram amounts of taurine have been shown to signiﬁcantly improve exercise ability (4) while all kinds of
arrhythmias, including atrial ﬁbrillation, could be normalised with 10 to 20 g of taurine (5). This really shows that most heart disease is
caused by defective oxidation. With a good oxidative metabolism we produce enough taurine by oxidising methionine to cysteine, and
cysteine to taurine, so that no added taurine is needed to keep the heart healthy. All this shows that heart disease, just like cancer
and other diseases, can be avoided or overcome with sufﬁcient biologically available oxygen.
Outlook
Regenerating the oxygen metabolism is a main step in healing our body, but on its own it is not enough to achieve and maintain good
health. Other important additional steps are a healthy fresh food diet, control of Candida, Pyroluria and Leaky Gut Syndrome,
detoxifying as with periodic raw-food fasting, getting plenty of bioenergy  (life force energy), sufﬁcient physica l activity, and using your
imagination and expectations  to tell your body what to manifest.
IMPORT ANT: Use these Biological Oxygen Therapies together with the further details provided in Read This First. Always use the
current versions of these articles.
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Adequate physical activity is one of the main requirements for achieving and maintaining good health. Deep breathing while
exercising is essential: lack of oxyg en - becoming breathless - is harmful. 'Aerobic' exercises are those that can be maintained for
long periods, because the heart and lungs can supply enough oxygen to the muscles; if insufﬁcient oxygen reaches the muscles, the
exercise becomes anaerobic, and can cause a build-up of lactic acid in the tissues - sometimes noticeable as sore muscles.
Therefore, breathe more vigorously than required for the activity at hand, and increase the intensity of your exercises only gradually.
The arm muscles as well as the leg muscles should be used regularly. Cycling, walking and jogging should be supplemented by
push-ups, digging, and so on. When jogging, touch down with the ball of the foot ﬁrst to prevent damage to the joints. In this way you
do not need expensive running shoes.
Everyday Physical Exercises
Depending on your body needs and inclinations, many exercises may be performed. The more important ones are stretching,
hanging from the hands or feet, using a rebounder, circling the pelvis, head and shoulder stand, isometric exercises, scalp and face
exercises (pulling faces, tensing and relaxing scalp muscles), shaking to loosen the body, and slow graceful and rhythmic movements
with and without music. Yoga exercises are excellent for stretching and massaging the internal organs.
Do these frequently during the day. In addition, a time of the day or the week may be selected for a more thorough work-out. With
advancing age stretching becomes increasingly more important. A recommended way of doing it is to lie on a large bed or carpeted
ﬂoor and move your limbs and spine in various positions to the limits of their range and then stretch just a bit further. Try to let the
body move on its own as it feels good without much mental direction.
Rejuvenation Exercises
The following exercises were made famous through the booklet 'The Eye of Revelation' by P. Kelder. They are effective for
strengthening glandular activities, and are known to rejuvenate the body to a worthwhile extent - if practised faithfully every day. Deep
breathing during and between exercises is important. Inhale and exhale during the slow movements between the two end-positions
as shown in Fig. 1. Hold the breath in each end-position and tense all muscles with maximum effort. In one position press the chin to
the chest and pull the abdomen inwards and up; in the other position drop the head back as far as possible.
The stomach is pulled in, with the breath exhaled, in the lying position (FIG. 1a), in the forward bending position (FIG. 1b), while
sitting (FIG. 1c) and with the pelvis raised (FIG. 1d). Start with a few exercises daily and gradually increase to 20 of each. Do not
strain yourself.
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instructions are to spin clockwise. I have the impression that in the southern hemisphere anticlockwise spinning is preferable (the top
chakra appears to spin in opposite directions in both hemispheres). However, you may choose


 unacceptable
and thus found “the peace that passeth all understa nding.”

Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest sour ce of grace in this world.

***

There are situations where all answers and explanat ions fail. Life does not make
sense anymore. Or someone in distress comes to you for help, and you don't know
what to do or say.

When you fully accept that you don't know, you give  up struggling to find answers
with the limited thinking mind, and that is when a greater intelligence can operate
through you. And even thought can then benefit from  that, since the greater
intelligence can flow into it and inspire it.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to under stand and becoming
comfortable with not knowing.

***

Do you know of someone whose main function in life seems to be to make
themselves and others miserable, to spread unhappin ess? Forgive them, for they too
are part of the awakening of humanity. The role the y play represents an
intensification of the nightmare of egoic conscious ness, the state of non-surrender.
There is nothing personal in all this. It is not wh o they are.

***

Surrender, one could say, is the inner transition f rom resistance to acceptance, from
“no” to “yes.” When you surrender, your sense of se lf shifts from being identified
with a reaction or mental judgment to being the spa ce around the reaction or
judgment. It is a shift from identification with fo rm–the thought or the emotion–to
being and recognizing yourself as that which has no  form–spacious awareness.

***
Whatever you accept completely will take you to pea ce, including the acceptance
that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

***

Leave Life alone. Let it be.

Chapter 7
Nature

We depend on nature not only for our physical survi val. We also need nature to
show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds. We got lost in
doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating–lost in a maze of complexity and a
world of problems.

We have forgotten what rocks, plants, and animals s till know. We have forgotten
how to be–to be still, to be ourselves, to be where  life is: Here and Now.

***

Whenever you bring your attention to anything natur al, anything that has come into
existence without human intervention, you step out of the prison of conceptualized
thinking and, to some extent, participate in the st ate of connectedness with Being in
which everything natural still exists.

To bring your attention to a stone, a tree, or an a nimal does not mean to think about
it, but simply to perceive it, to hold it in your a wareness.

Something of its essence then transmits itself to y ou. You can sense how still it is,
and in doing so the same stillness arises within yo u. You sense how deeply it rests
in Being–completely at one with what it is and wher e it is. In realizing this, you too
come to a place of rest deep within yourself.

***

When walking or resting in nature, honor that realm  by being there fully. Be still.
Look. Listen. See how every animal and every plant is completely itself. Unlike humans, they have not split themselves in two. They  do not live through mental
images of themselves, so they do not need to be con cerned with trying to protect
and enhance those images. The deer is itself. The d affodil is itself.

All things in nature are not only one with themselv es but also one with the totality.
They haven't removed themselves from the fabric of the whole by claiming a
separate existence: “me” and the rest of the univer se.

The contemplation of nature can free you of that “m e,” the great troublemaker.

***

Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature –the rustling of leaves in the
wind, raindrops falling, the humming of an insect, the first birdsong at dawn. Give
yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond  the sounds there is something
greater: a sacredness that cannot be understood thr ough thought.

***

You didn't create your body, nor are you able to co ntrol the body's functions. An
intelligence greater than the human mind is at work. It is the same intelligence that
sustains all of nature. You cannot get any closer t o that intelligence than by being
aware of your own inner energy field–by feeling the  aliveness, the animating
presence within the body.

***

The playfulness and joy of a dog, its unconditional  love and readiness to celebrate
life at any moment often contrast sharply with the inner state of the dog's owner–
depressed, anxious, burdened by problems, lost in t hought, not present in the only
place and only time there is: Here and Now. One won ders: living with this person,
how does the dog manage to remain so sane, so joyou s?

***

When you perceive nature only through the mind, thr ough thinking, you cannot
sense its aliveness, its beingness. You see the for m only and are unaware of the life
within the form–the sacred mystery. Thought reduces  nature to a commodity to be
used in the pursuit of profit or knowledge or some other utilitarian purpose. The
ancient forest becomes timber, the bird a research project, the mountain something
to be mined or conquered.
When you perceive nature, let there be spaces of no  thought, no mind. When you
approach nature in this way, it will respond to you  and participate in the evolution
of human and planetary consciousness.

***

Notice how present a flower is, how surrendered to life.

***

The plant that you have in your home–have you ever truly looked at it? Have you
allowed that familiar yet mysterious being we call plant to teach you its secrets?
Have you noticed how deeply peaceful it is? How it is surrounded by a field of
stillness? The moment you become aware of a plant's  emanation of stillness and
peace, that plant becomes your teacher.

***

Watch an animal, a flower, a tree, and see how it r ests in Being. It is itself. It has
enormous dignity, innocence, and holiness. However,  for you to see that, you need
to go beyond the mental habit of naming and labelin g. The moment you look
beyond mental labels, you feel that ineffable dimen sion of nature that cannot be
understood by thought or perceived through the sens es. It is a harmony, a
sacredness that permeates not only the whole of nat ure but is also within you.

***

The air that you breathe is nature, as is the breat hing process itself.

Bring your attention to your breathing and realize that you are not doing it. It is the
breath of nature. If you had to remember to breathe, you would soon die, and if you
tried to stop breathing, nature would prevail.

You reconnect with nature in the most intimate and powerful way by becoming
aware of your breathing and learning to hold your a ttention there. This is a healing
and deeply empowering thing to do. It brings about a shift in consciousness from
the conceptual world of thought to the inner realm of unconditioned consciousness.

***
 You need nature as your teacher to help you re-conn ect with Being. But not only do
you need nature, it also needs you.

You are not separate from nature. We are all part o f the One Life that manifests
itself in countless forms throughout the universe, forms that are all completely
interconnected. When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible
stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree e xists, you add something to the
flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to
know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sa credness through you!

***

A great silent space holds all of nature in its emb race. It also holds you.

***

Only when you are still inside do you have access t o the realm of stillness that
rocks, plants, and animals inhabit. Only when your noisy mind subsides can you
connect with nature at a deep level and go beyond t he sense of separation created
by excessive thinking.

Thinking is a stage in the evolution of life. Natur e exists in innocent stillness that is
prior to the arising of thought. The tree, the flow er, the bird, the rock are unaware
of their own beauty and sacredness. When human bein gs become still, they go
beyond thought. There is an added dimension of know ing, of awareness, in the
stillness that is beyond thought.

Nature can bring you to stillness. That is its gift  to you. When you perceive and
join with nature in the field of stillness, that fi eld becomes permeated with your
awareness. That is your gift to nature.

Through you nature becomes aware of itself. Nature has been waiting for you, as it
were, for millions of years.

Chapter 8
Relationships

How quick we are to form an opinion of a person, to  come to a conclusion about them. It is satisfying to the egoic mind to label a nother human


 in fact everything
that the ego uses to define you is disappearing as fast as you can assess it.
Your possession s, achievement s, reputations, trophies, bank accounts—
even your family members, including your children—are all aspects of a
world that is changing, dissolving to nothingness … all unreal.
Here is how a brilliant scribe described this phenomenon poetically:
This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies
And Lads and Girls;
Was laughter and ability and sighing,
And fr ocks and curls.
This passive place a summer ’s nimble mansion,
Wher e Bloom and Bees
Fulfilled their Oriental Cir cuit,
Then ceased like these.
In this poem, Emily Dickinson reminds you with her dazzling honesty
that all ceases and turns to dust—everything you may have believed was the
real you, includ ing the body and all of its accomplishments, and even its
laughing and sighing. But the real I that is you can smile at all of those
lower -self, ego-identified proceedings. Your higher self exists beyond that
lower, false self. It is in fact higher than all of your earthbound identities.You have a self that can look down from a more exalted position upon
that lower, ego-dominated self. So begin to know yourself as something far
greater than the ever-changing, ever-dying aspects that have dominated
your picture of who you are. Who am I? is then answered with, I am an
infinite being who originated not from my parents, but from a Source that is
itself birthless, deathless, and changeless.
Your Connection to Source
We have all been created from the same Source, and it is my conclusion
that we must be like what we came from. It matters not what we call this
Source. The Tao that can be named, is not the eternal Tao is the message in
the opening lines of the Tao Te Ching. Call it Tao, call it God, call it
Jehovah, call it Divine mind—it matters not. You are merely interested in
recognizing that you originated from the Source of all life in a form you
know as your constantly changing physical body, which obviou sly contains
the creative ener gy that you came from.
Read these words, recorded during a 1967 lecture given by an initiatic
science master, Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov:
The creator has planted within every creature a fragment of himself, a spark, a spirit of the
same natur e as himself and, thanks to this spirit, every creature can become a creator. And
this means that, instead of always waiting for their needs to be satisfied by some external
source, human beings  can work inwardly by means of their thought, their will, and their spirit
to obtain the nourishing healing elements they need. This is why the teaching I bring you is of
the spirit, of the creator and not of matter …
I love this quote because it speaks to a part of you that has been largely
ignored throughout all of your educational pursuits and accomplishments.
The key words here are “a fragment of himself, a spark” that lies within
you, but has largely been left unexamined. This is a great image for you to
begin to understand the greatness of your higher self. There is a spark of
God within you that is the invisibleness I’ve been alluding to. It is that
which you cannot grasp with the senses—it beats your heart, grows your
hair, and keeps your lungs breathing in and breathing out. You’ve become
accustomed to taking it for granted while putting the major focus of your
life on the physical (unreal) you.My objective in this chapter and the next is to inspire you to recognize
that a spark—a tiny fragment of the creative source of the universe—is
located within you, and to help you increase the power of that spark so it
becomes the primary force in your everyday life. Review the first chapter
and affirm your willingness to change your concept of yourself  to help you
recognize and increase that spark. Then dedicate yourself to exploring this
higher self I’m writing about.
Your higher self is that spark, but a spark is an infinitesimal portion of
your physical being. If you weigh 150 pounds, that spark weighs maybe
1/100th of an ounce. This is only a symbolic image (because the “spark” is
unchanging), but I’m encouragi ng you to conceptualize that spark of God
inside of you. Imagine it growi ng to double its size, then a tenfold spark,
then maybe a shred, then a segment, then a chunk, then a lump, then a piece
or a section … and just perceive that spark of God as the real you becoming
visible through your loving and inviting attentiveness, until you feel the
sacred presence of your higher self as the guiding light of your life.
Ultimately, as I’ll discuss later, it will overtake the you that’s been
dominated by ego and your sensory apparatus. That former speck of a spark
will be the foundation of your life. You might conceptualize this former
spark as a sacred light inside of your head that is the same size as your
brain. Now you have a big piece of God to assist you in attaining a status
wherein the fulfillment of your wishes becomes a no-brainer, or perhaps
you’d call it a new-brainer. This new brain is comprised exclusively of
infinite God ener gy.
Your Higher Self at W ork Every Day
I want you to seriously contemplate another observation made by the
initiatic spiritual master Omraam  Mikhaël Aïvanhov, in a lecture given in
January 1971: “Our higher self is perfect, omniscient and almighty, a
fragment of God Himself, a pure, transparent, luminous quintessence.”
This will very likely be a challenge for you as you consider a new concept
of yourself by accepting some truths that you have been raised to believe
are falsehoods. Yet I ask you to study this ancient spiritual teaching, which
is designed to familiarize you with a radical idea about the powers you
possess just by the fact that you are a living, breathing human being. If youare committed to accessing your higher consciousness, then you must be
willing to do what is required in order to integrate what this great initiatic
teacher is of fering.
In order to accomplish becoming an almighty being, your higher self
(God) must be enlar ged from a spark to a more meaningful portion of your
essence. Since you are a piece of God and therefore have that within you,
you needn’ t doubt your own divinity. As Jesus reminds you, “Is it not
written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”’?” (John 10:34). As a growing
spark of God, you must be willing to say, “That portion of myself that has
not edged God out (ego) must be perfect; it is all-knowing and it is
almighty. There is nothing that this higher self that I am cannot
accomplish.”
Once again, let’s look at someth ing Jesus told us: “With God all things are
possible” (Matth ew 19:26). All thing s are possible  leaves nothing out. As
my teachers in the initiatic sciences frequently reminded me, this higher self
—that portion of God that is us—only begins to notice us and give us the
attention we crave when we enlarge it from a tiny spark and invite the
energy into our life.
Your awareness that God isn’t something external to you but rather a
portion  of yourself is truly a giant step in your spiritual evolution. You can
tell yourself with genuine knowing, I am perfect.  (All forms of I am have
tremendous significance, as you will learn when you delve into the next
chapter on your highest  self.) In this chapter you are discovering your
higher  self. God no longer resides outside of you, and no longer plays
favorites. In short, you’ve revised humankind’ s image of a god created in its
own egoistic idea of itself.
A god who knows how to heal yet withholds healing from some and
offers it to others who are presu med to have paid some kind of dues? A god
who is angry? A god who gives humans the pleasure of sexuality but
promises to burn in hell those who don’t follow rules devised by other
humans? A god who gives us eyes and remains invisible, but threatens
damnation for those who don’t believe in him? A god who demands to be
paid for services, with fancy temples and gold-lined costum es for his
highest representatives? This is a god of the ego.
Your higher self is a piece of an all-loving, all-embracing creative Source.
All you need do is accept that this is not something external to yourself. Itresides within you (the kingdom  of heaven is within)—in fact, it is you—
and all you need do is begin to align yourself with this Divine essence,
begin to act like it acts and think like it thinks, and you will begin the
process of manifesting just as it does. This is the true essence of living a life
in which your wishes are fulfilled. Give your Divine nature a chance. (The
second part of this book provides a step-by-step plan for allowing your
higher self to take over the process of fulfilling your desires.)
In these opening chapters, I hope to jar you into an awareness of how
powerful a being you really are when you get past so much


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 ut it also works with ill nesses that are already entrenched if you
use it at frequ ent intervals and with an intense focus. It will also
counteract any disruption of your ener gy field by some form of
negativity. How ever, it is not a substitute for the moment-to-moment
practice of being in the bod y; otherwise, its ef fect will only be
temporary. Here it is.
When yo u are unoccupied for a few minutes, and especially last thing at
night be fore falling asleep and first thing in the morning before getting
up, “floo d” your body with consciousness. Close your eyes. L ie flat on
your back. Choose dif ferent parts of your body to fo cus your attention on
briefly at first: hands, feet, arms, legs, abdomen, chest, head, and so on.
Feel the  life ener gy inside those  parts as intensely as you can. S tay with
each par t for fifteen seconds or so. Then let your attention run  through
the body like a wave a few time s, from feet to head and back again. This
need only take a minute or so. After that, feel the inner body in its
totality, as a single field of ener gy. Hold that feeling for a few minutes.
Be intensely present during that time, present in every cell of your body.
Don’ t be  concerned if the mind  occasionally succeeds in drawing your
attention out of the body and you lose yourself in some thought.  As soon
as you notice that this has hap pened, just return your attention to the
inner body.
LET THE BREA TH T AKE YOU INT O THE BODY
At t imes, when my mind has been very active, it has acqui r ed such
momentum that I find it impossible to take my attention away fr o m it and
feel the inner bo dy. This happens particularly when I get into a worry or
anxiety pattern. Do you have any suggestions?
If at any time you are finding it hard to get in touch with the inner body,
it is usually easier to focus on your breathing first. Conscious breathing,
which is a powerful meditation i n its own right, will gradually put you in
touch w ith the body. Follow the breath with your attention as it moves in
and out of your body. Breathe into the body, and feel your abdomen
expanding and contracting slightly with each inhalation and exhalation.
If y ou find it easy to visualize, close your eyes and see yourself
surrounded by light or immerse d in a luminous substance — a sea of
consciousness. Then breathe in that ligh t. Feel that luminous su bstance
filling u p your body and making it luminous also. Then gradually focus
more on  the feeling. Y ou are now  in your body. Don’ t get attached to any
visual image.
CREA TIVE USE OF MIND
If yo u n eed to use your mind for  a specific purpose, use it in con junction
with your inner body. Only if you are able to be conscious  without
thought can you use your mind creatively, and the easiest way to enter
that state is through your body. Whenever an answer, a solution, or a
creative idea is n eeded, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention
on your  inner ener gy field. Be come aware of the stillness. When you
resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative. In any thought activity,
make it a habit to go back and  forth every few minutes or so between
thinking and an inner kind of lis tening, an inner stillness. W e c ould say:
don’ t just think with your head, think with your whole body.
THE AR T OF LISTENING
When listening to another person, don’ t just listen with your mind, listen
with your whole body. Feel the ener gy field of your inner body as youlisten. T hat takes attention away from thinking and creates a still space
that ena bles you to truly listen without the mind interfering.  Y ou are
giving the other person space —  space to be. It is the most precious gift
you can  give. Most people don’ t know how to listen because t he major
part of their attention is taken up  by thinking. They pay more attention to
that than to what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really
matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words  and the
mind. O f course, you cannot fe el someone else’ s Being except through
your ow n. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is
love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is.
Most hu man relationships consist mainly of minds interacting with each
other, not of hu man beings communicating, being in commu nion. No
relationship can  thrive in that way, and that is why there is so much
conflict in relationships. When the mind is running your life, conflict,
strife, and problems are inevitab le. Being in touch with your inner body
creates a clear space of no-m ind within which the relationship can
flower.CHAPTER SEVEN
P O R T A L S  I N T O
 T H E  U N M A N I F E S T E D
GOING DEEPL Y INT O THE BODY
I can feel the en er gy inside my body, especially in my arms and  legs, but
I don’ t seem to be able to go mor e deeply, as you suggested earlier.

Make it into a m editation. It needn’ t take long. T en to fifteen m inutes of
clock time should be suf ficient. Make sure first that there are no external
distractions such  as telephones o r people who are likely to interrupt you.
Sit o n a chair, but don’ t lean ba ck. Keep the spine erect. Doin g so will
help you  to stay alert. Alternati vely, choose your own favorite position
for meditation.
Make su re the body is relaxed. Close your eyes. T ake a few deep  breaths.
Feel yourself breathing into the lower abdomen, as it were. Observe how
it expan ds and contracts slightly with each in and out breath. Then
become aware of the entire inner ener gy field of the body. Don’ t think
about it — feel  it. By d oing this, you reclaim  consciousness from the
mind. If you fi nd it helpful, use the “light” visualization I described
earlier.
When you can f eel the inner bo dy clearly as a single field of ener gy, let
go, if possible, of any visual image and focus exclusively on the feeling.
If you can, also drop any mental image you may still have of the physical
body. A ll that is left then is an all-encompassing sense of presence or
“beingness,” and  the inner body  is felt to be without a bounda ry. Thentake your attention even more d eeply into that feeling. Become one with
it. Mer g e with the ener gy field, so that there is no longer a perceived
duality of the o bserver and the observed, of you and your b ody. The
distinction betw een inner and outer also dissolves now, so there is no
inner b ody anymore. By going deeply into the body, you have
transcended the body.
Stay in this realm of pure Being for as long as feels comforta ble; then
become aware again of the physical body, your breathing and physical
senses, and open your eyes. Look at your surroundings for a few minutes
in a meditative way — that is,  without labeling them mentally — and
continue to feel the inner body as you do so.
Having access to that formless realm is truly liberating. It frees you from
bondage to form and identif ication with form. It is life in its
undif ferentiated state prior to its fragmentation into multiplicity. W e may
call it the Unmanifested, the in visible Source of all things, t he Being
within all beings. It is a realm o f deep stillness and peace, but also of joy
and intense aliveness. Whenever you are present, you become
“transparent” to  some extent to the light, the pure conscious ness that
emanates from this Source. Y ou  also realize that the light is not  separate
from who you are but constitutes your very essence.
THE SOURCE OF CHI
Is th e Un manifested what in the East is called chi, a kind of universal life
ener gy?

No, it isn’ t. The Unmanifested  is the sour ce  of chi.  Chi is the inner
ener gy f ield of your body. It is t he bridge between the outer yo u and the
Source. It lies halfway between the manifested, the world of form, and
the Unm anifested. Chi can be likened to a river or an ener gy stream. If
you take the focus of your consciousness deeply into the inner body, you
are tracing the course of this river back to its Source. Chi is m ovement;the Unm anifested is stillness. When you reach a point of absolute
stillness, which is nevertheless vibrant with life, you have gone beyond
the inne r body and beyond chi to the Source itself: the Unma nifested.
Chi is the link between the


 knob (root), 2 medium onions (if not in season,
substitute a little parsley only and 3-4 stalks of branch celery), 1½ lbs
tomatoes, 1 lb potatoes, 1 medium parsley root (rarely ever available; if not,
omit but more if desired during  the summer season), 2 small leeks (if not
available, substitute 2 medium onions), several cloves of garlic.
Until patients are used to salt-free eating, raw garlic should always be
offered with a garlic press to add a “kick” to soup, vegetables, salad, and so
on.
POTATOESBaked potatoes are the most valuable. Potatoes should be used at lunch
and dinner and should only rarely be replaced by organic brown or wild
rice. Pasta shou ld be avoided because it is made from processe d flour that
has no nutritional value. Potatoes can be baked, boiled in their jackets,
mashed with a little soup, peeled after being boiled in their jackets, or cut
up and mixed with salad dressing into a potato salad. Potatoes can also be
baked in a casserole with onion, tomatoes, celery, and so on. After 6-10
weeks, if nonfat yogurt is permitted, add onions, chives, or garlic to the
yogurt for a great dressing for your baked potato. Sweet potatoes may be
used once a week.
OATMEAL
A large portion  of oatmeal should be eaten for breakfast, made from
organic rolled oats, ½ cup of oats to 1 cup (or a little more) of water. Cook
slowly until done. Other cereals  should not be used; the oats have a special
purpose: they provide good B vitamins; they are rich in protein s but have a
special property: they provide the patient’ s intestinal tract with a soft
cushion (rather than harsh and grainy cereals) for all the juices to come.
You can vary the flavor by addin g different fruit: raw grated apples, papaya
or other fruit; honey or 100 percent pure maple syrup; unsulfured blackstrap
molasses; stewe d prunes or other dried fruit, fresh raw or stewed apricots,
apples with raisins, peaches, bananas, and so on.
BREAD
You may use some salt-free and fat-free rye bread only after consuming
the full meal  (rye is more nourishing and easier to digest than wheat, which
is low in nutrie nts and often causes allergic reactions). Remember that
bread should not be the main part of any meal. When bread is dry, it can be
grated and used in recipes requiring bread crumbs. Occasionally you may
also use potato flour, tapioca, and cornstarch.
SUGAR AND  SWEETENERSUse organic brown sugar, maple syrup, organic light honey, or unsulfured
molasses up to 2 teaspoons a day (provided there is no hypo glycemia or
diabetes).
PEPPERMINT AND  OTHER  HERB TEAS
Peppermint tea relieves nausea, flatulence, and upset stomachs (during
healing flare-up s) and helps digestion. Other herb teas (linden blossom,
tahebo, licorice root, essiac, etc.) are all permitted and can often be useful in
overcoming problems. Herb teas such as chamomile and valerian are
soothing and can help induce restful sleep. Since the patient  should not
drink water, a thermos bottle of peppermint or other herb tea should be
provided at bedside in case the patient awakens at night and is thirsty.
SAMPLE  MENU
Breakfast
1 glass (8 oz) of orange juice
Large portion oatmeal with choice of fruit sauce
Organic 100 percent rye bread, unsalted and fat-free, toasted and spread
with honey if desired
Lunch
Plate of salad
1 glass (8 oz)of warm special soup
1 glass apple/carrot juice
Baked potato or other (boiled in jacket, potato salad, casserole, etc.) with
yogurt dressing, when permitted
Freshly cooked vegetables
Dessert: raw or stewed fruit
Dinner
Same as lunch. Vary meals by using different vegetables, different
methods of preparing potatoes, other kinds of salads.
Organic brown rice may be used once a week.
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Specific requirements for the proper juicer were devised by Dr. Max
Gerson. He discovered that centrifugal juicers were unacceptable and that a
separate grinder  and press provide the best juice extraction. Consequently
the following are superior:
The most popular juicing device among Gerson patients is the Norwalk®
Model 270 Ultimate Juicer manu factured by Norwalk Sales & Service, P.O.
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aware that to order, you will be referred by Norwalk Sales & Service to the
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 If no harm comes to the dog, we may then take
it ourselves, but if the dog dies of it we ought not to
take it.’ (Now Po-yang had brought his white dog
with him to the mount ain. If the number of the
treatments of the medicine had not been suﬀicie nt,
or if harmonious compou nding had not reached the
required standard, it would contain a little poison
and would cause temporary death.) Po-yang gave the
medicine to the dog and the dog died an
instantaneous death. Whereupon he said: 'The
medicine is not yet done. The dog has died of it.
Doesn't this show that the divine light has not been
attained? If we take it ourselves I am afraid we shall
go the same way as the dog—what is to be done? The
disciples asked: ‘Would you take it yourself: Sir?’ To
which Po yang replied: ‘I have abandoned the worldly
route and forsaken my home and come here. I should
be ashamed to return if I could not attain the hsien.
So to live without taking  the medicine would be just
the same as to die of the medicine. I must take it.’
With these ﬁnal words he put the medicine in his
mouth and died instantly. On seeing this, one of the
disciples said: ‘Our Teacher was no common person.He took the medicine and died of it. He must have
done that with special intention.’ The disciple also
took the medicine and died. Then the other two said
to each other: ‘The purpo se of making medicine is to
attempt to attain longevity. Now the taking of the
medicine has caused deaths. It would be better not to
take the medicine and so be able to live a few
decades longer.’ They then left the mountain toget her
without taking the medicine, intending to get burial
supplies for their Master and fellow disciple. After
the departure of the disciples Po-yang revived. He
placed some well-concocted medicine in the mouth  of
the disciple and the mouth of the dog. In a few
moments they both revived. He took the disciple,
whose name  was Yü, and the dog and all three went
the way of the Immortals. By a wood-cutter whom
they met he sent a letter of thanks for the funeral
arrangements to the two disciples. The two were
ﬁlled with regret when they read the letter.1Wei Po-yang, his disciple Y ü-sheng and the dog.
Another more mundane use of the elixir was that it could
be used as a substitute for food, in which case it did not
matter whether a person ‘eats a hundred times a day, or
only once in a hundred days.’ But when the medicines are
taken a distinction should be made betwee n those
intended to cure a mala dy and those taken ‘to nourish
one's nature,’ to reﬁne the body and achieve longevity andimmortality. The ﬁrst should be taken on an empty
stomach, the second after food.
As an oﬀsho ot from medicines, aphrodisiac drugs were
developed which were important to the male, demands on
whose vitality were considerable in a society which was
not only polygamistic, but in which concubines were kept
in addition to a plurality of wives. Nor is the belief in such
drugs a thing of the past: witness the pressure, in our
times, on the rhinoceros by poachers who still make a
fortune by selling the horn as a powerful aphrodisiac.
Many writers have maintained that the task of alchemy
was not to make gold but medicines and this is particularly
true of Chinese alchemy, though it appeared also in the
West. A passage attributed to Roger Bacon says that
‘alchemy is a science which teaches how to make and
generate a certain medicine, called elixir, which when
projected on to metals or imperfect bodies, perfects them
completely at the moment of projection.’2 In another
treatise, drawing an association between the rusting and
corrosion of metals and the decay of the human body, he
states that ‘that medicine which will remove all impurities
and corruptibilities from the lesser metals will also, in the
opinion of the wise, take oﬀ the corruptibility of the body
that human life may be prolonged for many centuries.’3
The Chinese alchemist, concentrating on medicines and
experimenting with minerals and plants, had more scope
for his work than his western counterpart and was
encouraged to follow his own intuitions and judgement,
while the western alchem ist was tied to the dictates of the
authorities and to ﬁxed procedures and had to keep a wary
eye on the strictures of the Church.
In the search for the elixir it was inevitable that the
experiments undertaken by the Taoist alchemist would
lead to important discoveries concerning the properties
and eﬀects of the minerals and plants they used. As aconsequence, they amassed a considerable body of
medical lore, as well as laying the foundations of the
sciences of chemistry, metallurgy, astronomy, botany,
herbalism, zoology and, incidentally, the making of
perfumes. Other by-produ cts were the acquisition of great
skills in the working of metals for both decora tive and
practical use; the spectac ular use of colour in dyeing; and
superb ceramic glazing techniques. The value of drinking
certain medicinal waters was known as a cure for
rheumatism and other ailments, pills were used to activate
the kidneys, and there were powders which beneﬁtted the
circulation. The nutritional properties of the soya bean, as
protein, now a popular item of diet in the West, were
known from ancient times in China. Acupuncture,  laughed
out of court some years ago, is now seriously studied and
practiced. One might add that gunpowder was also
discovered, though it was not used for aggression or
destruction but for entertainment and ﬁreworks.
With the herbal lore of the Taoist-alchemist naturally
went the practice of healing and it followed that many of
the hsien  were practising doctors. Such a one was Hua
T'o, of the Later Han dynasty, who was known to have
discovered and used anae sthetics. He had a ‘hemp-bubble-
powder,’ mixed with wine, which ﬁrst made the patient
intoxicated then unconscious. He also had a ‘marvellous
ointment’ which caused surgical wounds to heal in four to
ﬁve days. He was apparently a skilled surgeon, removing
‘morbid grow ths and contaminating matter which caused
infection.’ He was reputed to have met two ancie nt Sages
in a cave in the mountains and humbly besought them to
impart their lore to him. This they did on condition that he
‘took no account of the vicissitudes of fortune and was
indiﬀerent to poverty and wealth alike, high rank, or
humble station, if money-making were not his aim and if
his urgent desire were to bring comfort to old age andsympathy to the young.’ They left him a huge volume of
lore and disappeared, the cave became envel oped in
swirling mists and the mountain collapsed. It was said of
Huo T'o that when he was a hundred years old he had the
complexion of a man in the prime of life. There is evidence
that heart transplants were carried out: Ko Hung states
that he had seen doctors graft on a severed ﬁnger and that
trepanning took place, the cranium being opened ‘to re-
arrange the brain;’ he said he had seen this done.
The most astounding of all, however, was the discovery
in 1972 of the preservation of a corpse, for some two
thousand years, by methods not known to modern science.
To quote Professor Needham's account:
An unprecedented ﬁnding showed that the ancient
Taoists knew how to achieve an almost perpetual
conservation. A large tomb excavated by Ma-wa ng
Tai, near Ch'angsha, proved to be that of a Lady of
Tai, apparently the wife of the First Lord of that ilk..
. enfeoﬀed in −193. She would have died about −186
and the painted outer coﬀins were ﬁlled with a great
variety of rich and beautiful objects, then sealed
tightly with layers of charcoal and a kind of sticky
white clay. So far nothing  unique, but when the body
was ﬁnally uncovered it was found to be like that of a
person who had died only a week or two before. The
elasticity of the subcutaneous tissues was conser ved
in an extraordinary way, for when the skin was
pressed it at once returned to the normal when the
pressure was released. Similarly, preservative
solutions when injected raised swellings which after
a short time subsided. The body was partly immersed
in a brown aqueous liquid, which contained mercuric
sulphide, the atmospher e in the coﬀin was largely
methane under some pressure, the temperature hadbeen constant at about 13°C and the


the pain of my own condemnation.
Thinking of every person who has caused me pain, or so I
believe; of everyone who has b etrayed me, or so I believe; o r
everyone who is wr ong, or s o I believe—I now r elease a ll
condemnation. I  leave to God all efforts to balance the rights an d
wr ongs of anyone, and pray that all of us now be at peace. Amen.DA Y 235
FOR REFLECTION
O n  D i s e m p o w e r i n g  t h e  E g o
T he e go teaches that things lik e credentials, prestige, money, and
worldly power are more impo rtant than love. It counsels th at we’re
separate from others, that we have to compete to get ahead, and that
we’re not quite good enough th e way we are. And by our thinking such
things, we perpetuate a world in which they seem to be true.
W e can escape t hat world only b y changing the thoughts that cr eated
it. S uch things a s credentials, prestige, money, and worldly power refer
to our external selves, and our e xternal selves are not who we are. Once
we know this, w e escape that world. As we begin to realize th at we’re
not here to do any of the thin gs the ego suggests, but rather  to love,
for give, serve, and heal, we disempower the ego. For just as the W icked
W itch in the W izar d of Oz  began to melt in the moment that Dorothy
threw w ater on her, the ego lose s all its power when we give all power to
God.
Love is what we  were born with. Fear is what we have learned here.
The spiritual journey is the relinquishment—or unlearning—of fear and
the acce ptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential
existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. T o be
consciously awa re of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the
meaning of life.DA Y 236
I  r e l e a s e  m y  n e g a t i v e  s e l f - c o n c e p t.
I  d esire to think of myself as God thinks of me, and to know m yself as
He knows me. I was created, as was everyone, as divinely  perfect.
Though I don’ t manifest my pe rfection on a consistent basis, my spirit,
having been created by God, is perfect nevertheless.
I release any self-concept that fails to appreciate the beauty of God
within me. A negative self-perception serves no one, for hiding my own
light from my e yes also blinds me to the light in others. I choose to see
the light and beauty in everyone, including me.
Dear God,
May I know myself
As Y our beloved child.
May I always r emember
Y ou cr eated me
In holiness and love.
This is truly who I am,
And so shall I r emain.
Amen.DA Y 237
A g i n g  d o e s  n o t  d i m i n i s h  m y  b e a u t y.
N ever at any point does the univ erse give up on me, consider me not
good enough, or consider me a has-been. Only if I think of myself in such
ways do I block the flow of miracles into and through me.
My valu e does not decline wit h my physical beauty. As my outer
beauty b egins to  fade, my inner beauty shines forth most brightl y. T o the
universe, I am never invisible.
I r e alize the li ght in each of  us is the gor geousness of the
universe, no matter our age o r physical condition. I live wi th
humble gratitud e for the light that shines within me. I will not be
tempted by worldly thoughts that would hide fr om me my value.DA Y 238
I  a m  i n  t o u c h  w i t h  m y  a n g e r,  a n d  I  r e l e a s e  m y
a n g e r.
I  want both to be in touch with my anger and to release my ange r. What
I do  not want is to project my anger onto someone else in the fa lse belief
that I will then feel better. Such behavior of fers temporary relief, yet a
more enduring suf fering.
Anger, if I feel  it, should be acknowledged. But I need not, and
should not, act on it in dysfunctional ways. I feel my anger, ac cept it is
there, an d surrender it to God for transformation. May spirit a lchemize
my broiling emotions, that I might rise above them.
I a sk that my anger be transmuted by love, so I might be show n
another way to h andle my despair. May my anger be r eplaced b y
a higher  way of seeing. T oday I  make a stand for my capacity to
move be yond my anger, as I place any temptation towar d attac k
thoughts into the hands of God. Amen.DA Y 239
G o d  f o r g i v e s  m e,  f o r  H e  n e v e r  j u d g e d  m e.
G od l oves me when I act wisely, and He loves me when I am fo olish.
His love is based not on how I’ve acted but on who I am. He knows who
I am, for He created me. God’ s love is unconditional.
My erro rs do not call for God’ s punishment, but for His corre ction.
As I  aton e for my errors—willin g to make amends with a repentant heart
—then His merciful hand sh all reorder events to allow me new
beginnings. Such is the miracle of a non-judgmental God, the source of
all good and the reason for unending praise.
How aw esome is God that—even when I have fallen fr om grace,
fr om the  truth within me, fr om the love that is the meaning of my
life—He loves me still. How mer ciful is God that—even when I
have br oken the bond that ties m e to His righteousness—He has
cr eated the Atonement to allow m e new life. My gratitude is deep,
and shall for ever be. Amen.DA Y 240
FOR REFLECTION
O n  M e d i t a t i n g  i n  t h e  M o r n i n g
M any do yoga or work out in the morning. Many eat breakfast, read the
newspaper, and shower in the morning. But those who empower
themselves most in life are those who meditate in the morning.
Through meditation, we cultivate our inner strength and release our
inner po wer. W e  align our spiri ts with God and place our minds under
the direc tion of  divine guidance. W e open our hearts to the h oly, and
greet th e day lovingly before sauntering out to meet it. W e prepare
ourselves as miracle-workers so we can then go out and work miracles.DA Y 241
M a y  m y  w a y  b e  u n b l o c k e d  t o d a y,  a s  I  u n b l o c k  m y
h e a r t.
T he path before me isn’ t set in stone, but in my consciousness. All
fearful thoughts result in fear; all loving thoughts result in  love. I
unblock my heart today, that I might walk a path of love.
No matt er what  path I have taken to this moment in my life, I can
change it as I change my thoughts. I for give myself and others; I let go
the past and release the future; I remember that there is no lim it to the
miracles that come from God. T hus am I released from fear, and set upon
a path of love.
Dear God,
May my mind not stray fr om love.
May my heart not stray fr om love.
May my feet not stray fr om love.
Not today or ever.
Amen.DA Y 242
M a y  m y  e y e s  b e  o p e n e d  t o  t h e  m i r a c l e s  a r o u n d  m e.
E very instant, the universe begins again. Miracles happen not in the
past or future, but now. Every moment, God is pouring forth His love,
with endless opportunities for renewal and rebirth. His voice proclaims
eternally, “Here is the glory of the universe. Embrace it, for it is yours.”
May I not resist the beauty of life, the colors of nature, or the nuances
of light.  May I not be hardened to the fragility of the heart. M ay I not
abandon the field of miracles that is laid before me every


 early  cancers are probably  being
detected and combatted in the body on a regular  basis. If
you take this process and step it up in intensity, you have
the “miracle” of a spontaneous remission. It is no miracle
at all, in fact, but a natural process that has yet to be
explained, just as curing  pneumonia with penicil lin would
be a miracle  if you could not explain it through the germ
theory of disease. The point is that the mechanism behind
miracle cures is not mystical or random—and it deserves to
be investigated.
—
In ordinary practice, once the miracle is over, the doctor
goes back to his routine, including his routine concepts.
Even these, however, the stock -in-trade of medical school,
have buckled. To give just one example:  Since its inception
as a ﬁeld of rational scien tiﬁc study, medicine has accepted
the degeneration of brain function in elderly people as a
natural occurrence. This deterioration was thoroughly
documented with “hard” ﬁndings—as we age, our brains
shrink, grow lighter, and lose millions of neurons every
year. We have our full complem ent of neurons by age 2, and
by age 30, the number starts to decline. The loss of any
single brain cell is permanent, since neurons do not
regenerate. On the basis of this well-known fact, brain
decline seemed to be scientiﬁcally valid; sadly but
inevitably, to grow old must lead to memory loss, decreased
reasoning ability, impaired intelligence, and related
symptoms.
These time- honored assumptions, however, have now
been shown to be wrong. Careful study of healthy elderly
people—as opposed to the sick, hospitalized ones whom
medicine habitually studi ed—has revealed that 80 percent
of healthy Americans, barring psychological distress (such
as loneliness, depression, or lack of outside stimulation),suﬀer no signiﬁcant memory loss as they age. The ability to
retain new information can decline, which is why old
people forget phone numbers, names, and the reason for
walking into a room; but the ability to remember past
events, calle d long-term memory, actually improves. (One
authority on aging quotes Cicero, who declared, “I’ve never
heard of an old man who forgot where his money was
hidden.”)
In tests where 70-year-olds were matched with 20-year-
olds, the older people performed better than the younger in
this area of memory. After they practiced the other kind of
memory—called short-te rm memory—for a few minutes
every day, the older group could almost match the younger
subjects, who were at their prime of mental functioning.
Perhaps the “prime of life” should be extended. The
secret, as with almost every other “natural” decline in old
age, depends on habits of mind, not the circuitry in the
nervous system. As long as a person stays  mentally active,
he will remain as intelligent as in youth and middle age.
People will still lose over one billion neurons throughout
their lifetime, at an average rate of 18 million per year, but
this loss is compensated for by another structure, the
branchlike ﬁlaments called dendrites, which connect the
nerve cells to one another.
A nerve cell tends to be highly individual in shape, but
typically it has a bulbou s central section from which thin
arms radiate, like an octopus. These arms, or axons, end in
a swirl of tiny ﬁlaments that looked treelike to the early
anatomists, so they named them dendrites after the Greek
word for “tree.” Dendrites, which can vary in number from
less than a dozen to more than a thousand per cell, serve as
contact points, allowing the neuron to send signals to its
neighbors. By growing new dendrite s, a neuron can open
new channels of communication in every direction, like a
switchboard sprouting extra lines.It is not known how a thought is actually formed among
brain cells or how the bewilderingly vast number of
connections interrelate—millions of dendrites come
together at major junctio n points in the body, such as the
solar plexus,  not to mention the billions upon billions in the
brain itself. But experiments have shown that new
dendrites can be grown throughout life, up to advanced old
age. The current view is that this new growth easily
provides us with the physical structure for unimpaired
brain function. In a healthy brain, senility is not physically
normal. A rich multiplication of dendrites might even lie
behind growing wise in old age, a time when more and
more of life is seen in its totality—in other words, more
interconnected, just as the nerve cells are more
interconnected through their new dendrites.
This exampl e illustrates how radically wrong medicine
can be if it insists that matter is superior to mind. To say
that a nerve cell creates thoughts may be true, but it is just
as true to say that thinking creates nerve cells. In the case
of the new dendrites,  it is the habit of thinking,
remembering, and being mentally active that creates the
new tissue. Nor is this an isolated ﬁnding. Curiously
enough, as soon as the concept of the “new old age” was
permissible in the eyes of doctors, our views of many forms
of degeneration began to alter.
As long as you exercise, for example, your body’s
musculature will not wither, and your strength will be
unimpaired for life, altho ugh there will be a slow decline in
stamina. You can train for a mara thon at 65, provided you
are in good physical shape and train sensibly. Similarly,
your heart changes with age, growing less resilient and
pumping less blood per beat, but heart disease and
hardening of the arteries, thought absolutely normal with
old age a few decades ago, are now seen as avoidable, too,
depending on diet and lifestyle. Strokes, another given ofold age, have declined by 40 percent just in the last decade,
thanks to better control of hypertension and less fat in our
diets. A large  perce ntage of “unavoidable” senility has been
traced to vitamin deﬁciency, poor diet, and dehydration.
The overall result of these ﬁndings is that old age is being
drastically reconsidered; a less obvious result is that the
whole body, at any stage of life, has to be rethought.
—
What is happening on every front in medicine is that the
healthy body is showing  itself to be more resilient and
versatile than was hithe rto suspected. Whereas medical
school teache s that germ A causes disease B and is treated
by drug C, nature seems to feel that this is only one option
among many. The mental approach to treating cancer, for
instance, would have been ridiculed a decade ago. But
people do seem able to participate in their cancer
treatment, and even to control the course of the disease, by
using thoughts. In 1971, Dr. O. Carl Simonton, a radiologist
at the University of Texas, met a 61-year-old man with
throat cancer. The disease was very far progressed; the
patient could hardly swallow, and his weight had dropped
to 98 pounds.
Not only was the prognosis extremely poor—the doctors
gave him a 5 percent chance of surviving ﬁve years after
treatment—but the patient was already so weak that it
seemed unlikely he would respond well to radiation, which
is the standard therapy for this condition. In desperation,
but also curious to try a psychological approach, Dr.
Simonton suggested that the man enhance his radiation
therapy through the use of visualization. He was taught to
visualize his cancer as vividly as possible. Then, using any
mental pictu re that appealed to him, he was asked to
visualize his immune system as the white blood cellssuccessfully attacked the cancer cells and swept them out
of the body, leaving only healthy cells behind.
The man said he envisioned his immune cells as a
blizzard of white particles, covering the tumor like snow
burying a black rock. Dr. Simonton had him go home and
repeat this visualization at intervals throughout  the day.
The man agreed, and soon his tumor seeme d to be
shrinking. In a few weeks it was deﬁnitely smaller, and his
response to radiation was almost free of side eﬀects; after
two months, the tumor was gone.
Naturally, Dr. Simonton was surprised and baﬄed,
though elated that the psychological approach had been so
powerful. How does a thought defeat a cancer cell? The
mechanism was totally unknown—in fact, given the ﬁendish
complexity of the immune system and the nervous system,
both of which were obviously involved here, the mechanism
might be unknowable. For his part, the patient accepted his
cure without undue surprise. He told Dr. Simonton that
arthritis in his legs kept him from going stream-ﬁshing as
much as he liked. Now that the cancer was gone, why not
try visualizin g the arthritis away too? Within a few more
weeks, that


 outcomes orchestrate the biological
mechanisms to fulfill themselves. (2) Keeping your Biostat in your
awareness will influence your thinking, your moods, and your behavior and
reinforce your intention to main tain your biology at that set point. Once you
have identified your set point,  begin af firming it five times  a day. W e
suggest practicing the following ritual upon awakening, before breakfast,
before lunch, before dinner, and at bedtime. On each of these occasions
close your eyes and mentally repeat to yourself each of th e following
phrases at least three times:
Every day in every way, I am incr easing
my mental and physical capacity.
My Biostat is set at a healthy
 years of age.
I look and feel a healthy
 years old.
W ithin a  few days of performing this ritual you will actually begin to
think an d act from the level of your Biostat. All your hab its will be
influenced, but even more important, your perception of your biological age
and your experience of it will begin to shift. Y ou will start to believe in your
Biostat a nd its or ganizing powe r and your new belief will shape your new
biology.
Change Y our Per ception of T ime
T o reverse the aging process you need to change your perception of time
because how you perceive time regulates your biological clock. T o do this,
you need to ask a crucial question: What is time? In the physic al world we
use time  to measure the flow of  events in our lives. And yet w e know that
our experience of time is fluid. Dreamtime, for example, is very dif ferent
from wa king tim e. When you a re dreaming, many things can happen in a
very short time, because in that state you have an entirely dif ferent
perception of time. In the quantum realm, time obeys a dif ferent set of rules.
Cause and ef fect are nonlinear, a nd events that we would norma lly consider
“the future” are capable of influencing events in “the past.” When we
glimpse the realm of spirit through meditation or an awe-inspiring
experience, we enter a domain that is beyond time and space. The
experience of this is called t imeless mind. Since mind and body are
inseparable, a timeless mind is also an ageless body. When our mind comes
to a standstill, time comes to a standstill and our biological clock stops.
One of the way s to define agin g is to see it as the metabolism of time.
Imagine for a moment that you could metabolize eternity or infi nity instead
of time. Y ou would literally have an immortal body. The ancient seers of the
V edic tradition claimed that even  occasional excursions into this timeless or
eternal domain of consciousnes s could influence the biological clock and
extend life by many years.The hum an body and its biological functions respond to the experience of
time. Y our biological clock beats to your personal experience of time. T o
paraphrase Einst ein, when asked to explain the theory of relativity in a way
that was  meaningful to everyday experience, he said, “If I burn myself on a
hot stove, that fraction of a second seems like eternity. But if I’m with a
beautiful woma n, even eternity seems like one second. It’ s gone in a
moment. It’ s never enough.”
The experience of time is subje ctive. If you are always in a hu rry, your
biological clock  speeds up. If you feel you have all the time in the world,
your biological clock slows dow n. During meditation, when you enter into
the gap between thoughts, time stops. That also happens when you’re
playing a game you enjoy, when you are listening to great music, when you
experience the beauty in nature, and when you fall in love. T ime is a
subjective experience in cons ciousness and that subjective experience
translates into a biological response in your body.
ACCESSING THE NONCHANGING F ACT OR
Although experiences change, th e one who is having the experience resides
in the domain of nonchange. Ev en in the midst of any experience you can
access th e exper iencer by a sim ple shift of your attention. T ry  this simple
exercise: As you read these wo rds, ask yourself, “Who is reading?” Now,
look aro und the room in which  you are sitting and while you are looking,
silently ask yourself, “Who is o bserving?” If there is a radio playing or a
conversation taking place in the next room, as you are listening to the
sounds in your environment a sk yourself, “Who is listening?” As you
consciously make these subtle shifts in your awareness, you will recognize
that the answer to each of the se questions is the same. The one who is
reading, the one who is observing, and the one who is listening is not
restricted to any particular expe rience. It is not restricted to time or place.
There is a silent  witness within you that is the same presence that was you
as a child, a teenager, an adult, and now. It is the essence of who you are.
According to A yurveda, this silent witness is your Spirit. When yourinternal reference point shifts from your experiences to the one who is
experiencing, you break the barrier of time.
Practice shifting your attention to the nonchanging factor in the  midst of
change. Y ou do this by asking “Who is having the experience?” and
referring back to your witnessing self. This practice is called self-referral
because you are shifting your a ttention to the “Self” of experience. When
your attention is on the objects of experience, the expe rience itself, that
quality o f awareness is known as object-referral. A shift in attention from
object-referral to  self-referral is a shift from time-bound aware ness (time-
bound mind) to timeless awareness (timeless mind) because the Self is the
timeless factor in the midst of time-bound experience.
There ar e other ways of experi encing timeless mind. Basically, they all
involve the same principle. Y ou go beyond your internal dialogue and
experience a silent mind, which  is the same thing as a timeless  mind. Next
time you feel em otional turbulence, immediately bring your atte ntion to the
sensations in your body and ma ke a conscious choice to stop interpreting
the emotional experience. When you have focused your attention on the
bodily sensations that accompany an emotion, you have stopped all
interpretation, and your mind becomes silent. Y ou become the silent witness
of the sensations in your body. In doing so, you not only stop your internal
dialogue, but you also begin to dissipate the ener gy of the  emotional
turbulence.
Still ano ther way of experiencing timeless mind is to become aware of
the spaces between breaths, be tween the objects of perception, between
movements of your body, and between your thoughts. If your attention is on
any of these spa ces and you ar e not in an interpreting mode, then you go
beyond y our internal dialogue and enter the timeless mind. Som e people are
able to immediately stop their in ternal dialogue simply by silently saying to
themselves “Sto p!” Use whatever works for you. The key is to have the
ability to become a silent witness and experience the Self, e ven during
activity. It is ext remely importan t to have the ability to shift awa reness from
that which changes to th at w hich does not  change. Start practicing this by
shifting your awareness to the Self or observer as described above, byfeeling the body without interpretation, and by becoming aware of the
spaces between objects.
When you can maintain this inner silence, inner centeredness, inner
presence, even in the midst of outer activity, you will have a new
relationship with time and everything you experience. Cultivating ever -
present witnessi ng awareness in the midst of time-bound awa reness will
forever transform your perception of time.
Change Y our Per ception of Y our Body
The prev ailing w orldview looks  at the body as a material vehicl e, similar to
an automobile, in which parts inevitably break down until the body is no
longer serviceab le. Modern science and the wisdom traditions tell us this is
a flawed  interpretation. Y our body is not merely a physical device that
generates thoug hts and feelings; rather, it is a network of ener gy,
transformation, and intelligence in dynamic exchange with the world
around you. W ith every breath you take, every mouthful of food or swallow
of water you ing est, every sound you hear, sight you see, sensation you feel,
and arom a you smell your body changes. Just since you began reading this
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Introduction
1 What Is the Path?
•  Longing for a Larger and More Fullling State of Consciousness
•  The False Desire
•  The Realistic Longing
•  Learning to Endure the State of Bliss
•  The Pathwork and Psychotherapy
•  The Pathwork and Spiritual Practice
•  How to Find Your Real Self
•  Positivity and Negativity Are One Energy Current
•  “Images,” or Wrong Conclusions
•  Progress on the Path
•  Freeing Your Spiritual Self
•  Giving Up Illusions
•  Being Lived Through by the Spirit
2 The Idealized Self-Image
•  The Higher Self, the Lower Self, and the Mask
•  Fear of Pain and Punishment
•  The Moral Mask of the Idealized Self
•  Self-Acceptance
•  The Inner Tyrant
•  Estrangement from the Real Self
•  Giving Up the Idealized Self
•  Coming Home
3 Compulsion to Recreate and Overcome Childhood Hurts•  The Lack of Mature Love
•  Attempts to Remedy the Childhood Hurt in Adulthood
•  The Fallacy of this Strategy
•  Reexperiencing the Childhood Hurt
•  How to Stop Recreating?
4 The Real God and the God-Image
•  The False Concept of God
•  Dissolving the God-Image
•  God Is Not Unjust
•  The True Concept of God
•  The Eternal, Divine Laws
•  God Is in You and Creates Through You
5 Unity and Duality
•  Understanding Is the Way to the Unied Plane
•  Obstructions to Finding the Real Self
•  Your Ego Versus Your Divine Center
•  The Transition from Dualistic Error to Unied Truth
6 The Forces of Love, Eros, and Sex
•  The Spiritual Meaning of the Erotic Force
•  The Dierence Between Eros and Love
•  The Fear of Eros and the Fear of Love
•  The Sex Force
•  The Ideal Partnership of Love
•  The Search for the Other Soul
•  The Pitfalls of Marriage
•  True Marriage
•  Separateness
•  Choice of Partner
•  Eros as a Bridge
7 The Spiritual Signicance of Relationship
•  Unequal Development of Parts of Consciousness
•  Elements of Dissension and Unication
•  Fulllment as a Yardstick for Personal Development
•  Who Is Responsible for the Relationship?
•  Destructive Interactions
•  How to Reach for Fulllment and Pleasure
8 Emotional Growth and Its Function•  Numbing of Feelings to Avoid Unhappiness
•  Isolation
•  The Need to Exercise the Emotions
•  Allowing Immature Feelings to Surface
•  How to Activate the Growth Process
•  What Is True Security?
•  If the Feelings Are Stunted, Love Cannot Grow
9 Real and False Needs
•  Awakening the Dormant Spiritual Potentials
•  The Unfulllment of the Child’s Legitimate Needs
•  How to Dissolve the Pain of the Unfullled Legitimate Needs
•  Overcoming the Resistance to Exposing False Needs
•  Present Suering Is the Result of Pursuing False Needs
•  Letting Go of the Demand for Fulllment of Unreal Needs
10 Innite Possibilities of Experience Hindered by Emotional Dependency
•  Everything in the World Exists in a State of Potentiality
•  Avoidance Motivation Closes Out New Vistas
•  A Cluster of Popular Misconceptions
•  Devices to Hide Weakness and Dependency on Others
•  The Child Within You Still Wants Validation from Others
•  Vicious Circle and Forcing-Current
•  Let Go—Let Out
•  Take O the Leash Around Your Neck
11 The Spiritual Meaning of Crisis
•  The Self-Perpetuating Force of Negative Emotions
•  Crisis Can Put an End to Negative Self-Perpetuation
•  Growth Is Possible Without “Dark Nights”
•  Outer Crisis and Inner Crisis
•  Leaving Crises Behind
•  The Message of Crises
12 The Meaning of Evil and Its Transcendence
•  Does Evil Exist?
•  Right Acceptance of Evil
•  Evil as Distorted Creative Power
•  Liberating the Inner Beauty
•  Transformation
13 Self-Esteem•  The Inner Conict Between Self-Indulgence and Self-Rejection
•  What Brings Self-Respect?
•  Using the Power of the Conscious Mind
•  Reconnection with the Instinctual Life
•  Unifying Love and Pleasure
14 Meditation for Three Voices: Ego, Lower Self, Higher Self
•  The Ego as Mediator
•  The Meditative Attitude
•  The Changes Eected by the Pathwork Meditation
•  The Reeducation of the Destructive Self
•  A Way to Begin Meditation
•  Reconciliation of the Paradoxes of Your Life
15 Connection Between the Ego and the Universal Power
•  The Universal Life Principle and the “Forgetful” Ego
•  The Conict Between Yearning For and Fearing the Real Self
•  Misinterpretations of the Universal Life Principle in Religion
•  How to Let Go of the Ego
•  Analogy with the Law of Gravity
•  The Human Reaction to the Real Self—Shame and Falsication
•  The Biblical Symbolism of Nakedness
16 Consciousness: Fascination with Creation
•  Knowing, Feeling, and Willing as Tools of Creative Consciousness
•  Three Conditions of Experiencing Yourself as the Universal Spirit
•  Self-Observation