 cells will go without
a portion of their normal needs and some others will get a predetermined rationed amount to maintain function (as it
was e xplained, the mechanism involves wat er filtration through the cell membrane). However, blood will normally
retain the consistency of its com position. It must do so to keep the normal composition of elements reaching the
vital centers. This is where the "solutes paradigm" is inadequate and goes wrong. It bases all assessments and evaluations of
body functions on the solids content of blood. It does not recognize the comparative dehydration of some other parts
of the body. All blood tests can  appear normal and yet the small capillaries of the heart and the brain may be closed
and cause some of the cells of these organs a gradual damage from increasing dehydration over a long period of
time. When you read the section on cholesterol formation, this sta tement will become more clear. When we lose thirst se nsation (or do not recognize the other signals of dehydration) and drink less water than the
daily requirement, the shutting down of some vascular beds is the only natural alternative to keep the rest of the
blood vessels full. The question is, how long can we go on like this. The answer is, long enough to ultimately
become very ill and die. Unless we get wise to the paradigm shift and professionally and generally begin to
recognize the problems a ssociated with water metabolism disturbance in the human body and its variety of thirst
signals, chronic dehydration will continue to take its toll on both our bodies and our society. Essen tial hype rtension should primarily be treated with an increase in daily water intake. The present way o f treating
hypertension is wrong to the point of scientific absur dity. The body is trying to retain its water volume, and we say to
the design of nature in us: "No, you do not understand—you must take diuretics and get rid of water. " It so
happens, if we do not drink sufficient water, the only other way the body has to secure water is through the
mechanism of keeping sodium in the body. The RA system is directly involved. Only when sodium is retained will
water remain in the extra cellular fluid compartment. From this compartment, through the mechanism of shower -
head production, wat er will be forced into som e of the cells with  "priority" status. Thus, keeping sodium in the body
is a last resort way of retaining some water for its "shower-head" filtered use. There is a sensitivity of design attached to sodium retention in the body. To  assume this to be the cause of
hypertension is inaccurate and stems from insufficient knowledge of the water regulatory mechanisms in the human
body. When diuretics are given to get rid of the sodium, the body becomes more dehydrated. The "dry mouth" level
of dehydration is reached and some water is taken to compensate. The use of diuretics m aintain the body at an
expanding level of deficit wat er management. They do not cure hypertension; they m ake the body more determined
for salt and water absorption—however, never enough to correct the problem. That is why, a fter a while, diuretics
are not enough and supplemental medications will  be forced on the patient. Another problem in assessme nt of hypertension is its m eans of measurement. Anxiety associated with having
hypertension will automatically affect the person at examination time. Readings of the instruments may not reflect
the true, natural, and normal blood pressur e. An inexperienced or hasty medical practitioner, more in fear of
litigation than mindful of accur acy of judgment, might assume the patient to have hypertension, whereas the person
might only have an instant of "clinic anxiety," thus cau sing a higher reading of the instrument. One other very
important but less-known problem with the mechanism of reading blood pressure is the process of inflating the cuff
well above the systolic reading, and then letting the air out until the pulse is heard. Every large (and possib ly small) artery has a companion nerve that is there to monitor the flow of blood through the
vessel. With the loss of pressure beyon d the cuff that is now inflated to very high levels, the process of "pressur e"
opening of the obstruction in the arteries will be triggered. By the time the pressur e in the cuff is lowered to read the
pulsation level, the recording of an artificially induced higher blood pressure will become unavoidable. Unfortunately,
the measurement of hypertension is so arbitrary (and based on the diastolic level) that in this litigious so ciety a
minor error in assessment may label a person hype rtensive. This is when all the "fun and games" begin. Water by itself is the best natural diuretic. If the persons who have hypertension, and produce adequate urine,
increase their daily water intake, they will not need to take any diuretics. If prolonged "hype rtension-producing
dehydration" has also caused heart failure complications, water intake should be increased gradually. In this way,
one makes sur e that fluid collection in the body is not excessive and unmanageable. The mechanism of sodium retention in these people is in an "overdrive" mode. When water intake is increased
gradually and more urine is being produced, the edema fluid ("swelling") that is full of toxic substances will be
flushed out, and the heart will regain its strength. The following letters are presented here with the kind permission
of their authors, who  wished to share their welcome experiences with the readers of this book. Dear Dr. Batmanghelidj,
November 22,1993
I have just ordered another copy of your book on water, having given a son my first copy. I tell everybody about it
and my experiences. Perhaps you would be interested. My first so n Charles, 58, who lives with me is deaf and autistic. I take him 3 or 4 days a  week to a facility for the
handicapped. They had been taking his blood pressure there and notified me that the doctor said he should go on
medication - his BP wa s 140-160/100-104. 1 had just received your book and asked  the M. D. to let me experimen t
for 2 weeks. Reluctantly he agreed, but warned me it was very dangerous. I kept Charles home and used the water routine, also adding a little magnesium a nd potassium. Two weeks later the nurse took his BP. and it was 106/80. She said-"The doctor will be in shortly"- evidently the
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Q: Why are 30 percent of Americans overweight? A: Because of a most basic confusion! They don't know when they are thirsty; they also don't know the difference between "fluids" and "water." Let us discuss the letters from Mr. Peck, Mr. Paturis, Priscilla Preston, and Donna Gutkowski that follow. Al l of themstated they lost between 30 and 45 pounds in weight when they switched to water as their preferred beverage. There is another person who  gradually lost 58 pounds in less than a year, weight she had gained in six yea rs. As,
A:
Q: What is the primary reason why we feel less active after eating a meal?,
A: The blood circulation is redirected to the gastrointestinal tract, and the capillaries in other areas are closed.
Q: What is the main cause of many diseases, according to Dr. Batmanghelidj?,
A: Dehydration
Q: What is the main reason why people tend to gain weight, according to the text?,
A: The body is not used in a way that is in line with its natural design, and the constant stimulation of the brain by artificial sweeteners and other substances leads to overeating.
Q: What is the main issue with using diuretics to treat hypertension?,
A: It does not address the root cause of the problem and may even worsen the condition.
Q: What is the primary source of energy for the brain?,
A: Water, which is used to generate "hydroelectricity" within the cells.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>By the time of her wed ding in Octo ber 1994, she had lost over
40 pounds. This science-based way o f weight loss w ill be permanent, whereas with only food limitation, even if some weight is
lost, it is regained in a short period of time. Worse still, one is constantly hounded by the fallacy of needing to limit
this or that food, particularly on the subject of cho lesterol content of food, a temporary present-day vogue. Do not be
shocked. Contrary to present trends for exclusion of eggs from daily diet, I eat as many eggs as I feel like eating—
no limitation wha tsoever; eggs have a well-balanced protein content. I also happen to understand how excess
cholesterol formation in the body is associated with prolonged dehydration. Priscilla Preston's letter on the next page further explains the relationship of dehydration, not only to weight gain, but
to the more devastating problem of asthma, the subject of the next chapter. In taking steps to prevent asthma, she
managed to lose 35 pounds. An other important point in her letter is the role of sal t in disease prevention. Salt is
important to the body. Salt sensors on the tongue, whe n strongly stimulated, remove the body's anxiety and stop it
from panicking for water. When salt is available, the body is at least assured of an efficient water filtration system for
its emergency supply to the important cells. You will read more


 n  I
Waking UpT h e  P r e m i s e
Sitting alone in a six-seater private jet at forty
thousand feet is a very peaceful place. I fell into
meditation and my mind became very still. When I opened my eyes, I absorbed the
tremendous difference in my environment
from w hen I had first moved out to the woods
to b e al one and  meditate. Though I still lived in
those s ame woods, my place of solitude had
grown into a t hriving yoga community, and I
had bec ome CEO of the publi c corporation that
life had somehow magically manifested
around me. It was now perfectly clear to me
that all of these life experiences, including
running a business at this level, were doing as
much to free me spiritually as my years of
solitary medit ation. Just as Hercules used the
flow of rivers to clean out the Augean stables,
so the powerful flow of life was cleaning out
whatever was  left of me. I j ust kept letting go
and practicing  nonresistance, whether I liked
what was happening or not. It was in this
frame o f mind that I was flying off to Texas to
discuss the billion-dollar merger offer for my
company from a powerful CEO whom I had
never even met. My Reflections, May 1999
L ife rarely unfolds exactly as we want it to. And if we
stop an d think  about it, tha t makes perfect sense. The
scope of life is universal, and the fact that we are not
actually in control of life’s events should be self-evident. The uni verse h as been around for 13.8 bil lion yea rs, and
the processes that determine the flow of life around usdid not begin w hen we were born, nor will they end when
we die. What manifests in front of us at any given
moment is actually something truly extraordinary—it is
the end result of all the force s that have been interacting
together for billions of years. We are not responsible for
even the tiniest fraction of what is manifesting around
us. Nonetheles s, we walk a round constantly trying to
control and determine what will happen in our lives. No
wonder there’s so much tension, anxiety, and fear. Each
of u s actually b elieves that things should be the way we
want them, instead of being the natural result of all the
forces of creation. Every day, we give precedence to our mind’s thoughts
over the reality unfolding before us. We regularly say
things l ike, “It  better not ra in today because I’m going
camping” or “I better get that raise because I really need
the money.” Notice that these bold claims about what
should and shouldn’t be happening are not based on
scientific evid ence; they’re based solely on personal
preferences made up in our minds. Without realizing it,
we do this with  everything in our lives—it’s as though we
actually believe  that the world around us is supposed to
manifest in accordance to our  own likes and dislikes. If it
doesn’t, surely something is very wrong. This is an
extremely diffi cult way to live, and it is the reason we feel
that we are always struggling with life. Nonetheless, it  is also true that we are not powerless in
the face  of the events unfoldin g around us. We have been
gifted with the power of will. From deep inside, we can
determine how we want something to be and apply the
power of our minds, hearts, and bodies in an attempt to
make th e outside world conform. But this puts us in a
constant battle of our way versus the way it would be
without our intervention. This battle between individual
will and  the reality of life unfolding around us ends up
consuming ou r lives. When we win the battle, we are
happy a nd relaxed; when we don’t, we are disturbed andstressed. Since  most of us only feel good when things are
going our way, we are constantly attempting to control
everything in our lives. The que stion is, does it have to be this way? There is so
much evidence that life does quite well on its own. The
planets stay in orbit, tiny se eds grow into giant trees,
weather patterns have kept forests across the globe
watered for millions of years, and a single fertilized cell
grows into a b eautiful baby. We are not doing any of
these th ings as conscious acts of will; they are all being
done by the incomprehensible perfection of life itself. All
these a mazing events, and countless more, are being
carried out by forces of life that have been around for
billions of years—the very same forces of life that we are
consciously pit ting our will against on a daily basis. If the
natural unfolding of the process of life can create and
take care of the  entire universe, is it really reasonable for
us t o assume that nothing g ood will happen unless we
force it  to? It is to the exp loration of this intriguing
question that this book is devoted. How can there possibly be a more important question? If li fe can manifest the DNA molecule on its own, not to
mention create  the human brain, how is it that we feel
that we have t o control everything on our own? There
must b e another, more sane way to approach life. For
example, what would happen  if we respected the flow of
life and  used  our free wil l to participate in what’s
unfolding, instead of fighting it? What would be the
quality of the life that unfolds? Would it just be random
events with no order or meaning, or would the same
perfection of order and meaning that manifests in the
rest of the universe manifest in the everyday life around
us? What we have here is the  basis for an amazing
experiment. At  the heart of the experiment is a simple
question: Am I better off making up an alternate reality
in my mind and then fighting with reality to make it bemy way, or am  I better off letting go of what I want and
serving the same forces of reality that managed to create
the entire perfection of the universe around me? This
experiment would not be about dropping out of life; it
would b e about leaping into life to live in a place where
we are no longer controlled  by our personal fears and
desires. For lack of a better n ame, I have called this “the
surrender expe riment,” and to the best of my ability, I
have devoted the last forty years of my life to seeing
where the flow of life’s event s would naturally take me. What happene d over the course of these four decades is
nothing short of phenomenal. Not only did things not fall
apart, quite the opposite happened. As one thing
naturally followed the other, the flow of life’s events led
me on a journey that wou ld have been beyond my
comprehension. This book shares that journey with you
so that you can experience what happened when
someone dared to let go and trust the flow of life. Let it be clear right from the  start, however, that this
type of surren der does not mean living life without the
assertion of will. My story of  these forty years is simply
the stor y of what happened when the assertion of will
was guided by what life wa s doing instead of what I
wanted it to be doing. My personal experience is that
aligning one’s will with the natural forces unfolding
around us leads to some surprisingly powerful results. The onl y effective way to shar e the results of this great
experiment is to allow you to see how I got pulled into
living this way and then al low you to experience the
journey as I did. In what follows, you are about to
encounter a set of life experi ences that are bound to be
very different from your own. I share these with you only
because as human beings w e have the extraordinary
ability to learn from one another’s experiences. You don’t
have to live a s I did in order to be affected by what
happened to me. The unexpected events that unfolded
before me not only changed my life, they changed myentire view of life and left me with a sense of deep inner
peace. Hopefully, sharing my surrender experiment with
you will encourage you to find a more peaceful and
harmonious wa y to live your life and to better appreciate
the amazing perfection that unfolds around us.1. N o t  w i t h  a  S h o u t — B u t  w i t h  a  W h i s p e r
M y giv en name i s Michael Alan Singer. From as far back
as I can remem ber, everyone has called me Mickey. I was
born M ay 6, 1947, and lived a fairly ordinary life until the
winter of 1970. Then something happened to me that
was so profoun d that it forev er changed the direction of
my life. Life-changing events can be very dramatic and, by
their very nature, disruptive. Your whole being is headed
in o ne direction physically, emotionally, and mentally;
and that direction has all th e momentum of your past
and all the dreams of your future


	he	will	worry	about	it	beforehand. If	someone	overcharges	him,
he	will	get	very	agitated. He	will	make	choices	solely	based	on	money. This
person	will	constantly	fear	and	worry	about	finances. A	loss	of	money	will	be
a	great	hardship	to	him. Another	child	lives	in	a	household	of	similar	means	but	with	a	father	who	has
a	comfortable	attitude	about	money. He	is	careful	and	does	not	overspend. He
does	his	work	and	earns	a	living,	even	though	sometimes	it	is	not	easy. Things
always	fall	into	place. This	father	does	not	constantly	complain	about	a	lack
of	finances. If	he	has	a	tight	few	months,	he	realizes	that	this	will	change. This	child	will	grow	up	to	be	an	adult	who	does	not	fear	for	a	lack	of	money. The	first	child	who	grows	into	an	adult	will	believe	his	viewpoint	to	be
absolutely	true. Tension,	anger	and	arguments	will	arise	if	his	partners’
behavior’s	differ	from	his. The	second	child	will	grow	into	an	adult	without
such	heavy	opinions	regarding	finance	and	money. Who	is	right? Who	is
wrong? Who	is	acting	out	of	free	will? Are	you	any	different? Our	mind	is	shaped	and	conditioned	by	many	factors	over	which	we	have	no
control. Many	of	our	thoughts	are	shaped	completely	by	our	past,	and	are
based	on	the	opinions,	habits,	events	and	actions	of	other	people. For	most	of
us,	we	are	living	a	life	imposed	by	someone	else. Do	you	think	you	are	livinga	life	free	from	the	influences	of	others? Don’t	accept	what	your	mind	throws	up	at	you	to	be	the	absolute	truth. We	all
form	opinions	about	people,	situations	and	events. But	are	these	completely
true	or	are	they	based	on	our	past	conditioning? How	many	times	have	you	worried	about	something	that	turned	out	fine? How	many	times	were	you	excited	about	something	that	turned	out	the
opposite	of	what	you	hoped	for? How	many	times	did	you	form	an	opinion
about	someone,	only	to	later	realize	that	it	was	inaccurate? Are	you	living
your	own	life	or	are	you	living	the	life	of	your	parents? You	think	you	have
independence. Well,	do	you? How	could	you	be	living	a	free	life	if	you	blindly	follow	your	mind? Your
mind	is	not	you. It	is	a	collection	of	the	opinions	of	others. How	on	earth	can
this	be	truth?Chapter	8
	Individual	madnessAre	you	always	seeking	the	future? W
hen	the	boy	is	small,	he	is	waiting	to	grow	up	to	be	a	big	boy. When	he	is
a	big	boy,	he	is	waiting	to	change	schools. When	he	is	in	primary	school,	he	is
waiting	to	attend	secondary	school. When	he	is	in	secondary	school,	he	is
waiting	to	get	a	job	or	attend	university. When	he	has	a	job,	he	is	waiting	to
get	married. When	he	is	married,	he	is	waiting	to	have	children. When	he	has
children,	he	is	waiting	for	the	children	to	get	older. When	his	children	are
older,	he	is	waiting	to	retire. When	he	is	retired,	he	has	little	future	left	so	he
starts	to	dwell	on	the	past. When	he	is	young,	he	is	anxious	and	thinks	about
the	future. When	he	is	old,	he	is	depressed	and	thinks	about	the	past. Life	has
passed	him	by,	and	by	the	time	he	realizes	this,	it	is	too	late. Don’t	wait	for
your	life	to	change. Live	it	now. Not	only	are	we	waiting	for	life	changes,	we	are	also	seeking	lifestyle
choices. “Oh,	life	will	be	so	much	better	when	I	achieve	this,	that	or	the	other. Oh,
how	wonderful	life	will	be	in	six	months. Oh,	how	happy	I	will	be	in	my	new
car. I	long	for	the	future. My	car	is	not	the	latest	model. My	house	is	not	as
nice	or	big	as	my	friends. I	was	happy	until	I	saw	my	friend’s	house,	but	now
I	am	not	happy. My	house	is	not	good	enough.”
	“I	made	a	mistake	six	months	ago. I	cannot	live	happily	with	my	problem. The	problem	is	so	big. I	am	putting	my	life	on	hold	until	the	problem	is
solved. I	will	be	so	unhappy	until	then. It	is	the	future	that	I	want. I	will	be
only	happy	in	the	future.”

When	I	get	a	new	house,	life	is	bliss	for	a	few	weeks. When	I	get	a	new	car,	I
am	so	happy	for	a	few	weeks. When	I	get	a	new	wife	or	husband,	I	don’t
know	how	I	will	ever	have	lived	without	this	person	–	for	a	few	weeks. When	my	problem	is	sorted	out,	it	will	not	be	long	before	another	surfaces. Achievement	of	goals	brings	momentary	happiness. As	soon	as	we	achieve,
the	mind	sets	another	goal. Like	the	boy	growing	up,	the	goalposts	keep
moving. We	can	never	catch	up	using	this	approach. Set	goals	but	keep	your	attention	in	the	present. Don’t	be	concerned	about	the
outcome. Set	the	outcome	aside	as	this	will	only	take	you	into	the	future. Inany	event,	having	your	full	attention	on	the	task	at	hand	will	generate	a	far
superior	quality	of	work. Work	on	your	goal	but	keep	your	attention	immersed	in	the	present	moment
and	move	with	it	step	by	step,	frame	by	frame. Move	simultaneously	with
time. You	cannot	live	in	the	future,	nor	can	you	live	in	the	past. The	present
moment	is	the	only	time	you	can	live	in. We	come	into	this	world	with	nothing. We	leave	this	world	with	nothing. In
India,	it	is	common	practice	for	parents	to	advise	their	children	to	remain	at	a
certain	economic	or	social	level	for	quite	some	time	before	moving	on	again. In	other	words,	they	are	told	not	to	get	caught	up	with	the	feeding	frenzy	of
consumerism	that	takes	place	in	the	West. Advice	like	this,	along	with	the	practice	of	inner	body	awareness	and
meditation,	has	resulted	in	very	low	depression	rates	in	India. Contrast	this
with	the	tension	of	man	in	the	so-called	developed	world. Is	this	his	life? L
iam	was	one	of	the	wealthiest	property	developers	in	Ireland	during	the
economic	boom. During	mid-2009,	an	Irish	bank	sought	to	put	him	into
bankruptcy. The	Pat	Kenny	morning	radio	show	mentioned	that	a	friend	told	Liam	that	it
was	“only	money,”	to	which	Liam	replied,	“it’s	not	only	money,	it’s	my	life.”

Is	his	perspective	true? Yes,	he	spent	years	building	his	empire	and	it	was
tumbling	around	him. That	is	difficult. But	how	is	it	his	life? For	years,	he	might	have	invested	a	lot	of	time	thinking	about	his	life	story. “Oh,	what	a	wonderful	man	I	am. How	wealthy	I	am. I	am	worth	so	much
money. I	have	big	cars	and	property. Oh,	people	must	think	I	am	great. I	am
so	clever. I	must	have	the	Midas	t


	not	carry	out	photosynthesis
and	therefore	do	not	produce	any	of	our	own	antioxidants. Fortunately	the
antioxidants	in	plants	work	in	our	bodies	the	same	way	they	work	in	plants. It
is	a	wonderful	harmony. The	plants	make	the	antioxidant	shields,	and	at	the
same	time	make	them	look	incredibly	appealing	with	beautiful,	appetizing
colors. Then	we	animals,	in	turn,	are	attracted	to	the	plants	and	eat	them	and
borrow	their	antioxidant	shields	for	our	own	health. Whether	you	believe	in
God,	evolution	or	just	coincidence,	you	must	admit	that	this	is	a	beautiful,
almost	spiritual,	example	of	nature’s	wisdom. In	the	China	Study,	we	assessed	antioxidant	status	by	recording	the	intakes
of	vitamin	C	and	beta-carotene	and	measuring	the	blood	levels	of	vitamin	C,
vitamin	E	and	carotenoids. Among	these	antioxidant	bio-markers,	vitamin	C
provided	the	most	impressive	evidence. The	most	significant	vitamin	C	association	with	cancer	was	its	relationship
with	the	number	of	cancer-prone	families	in	each	area. 42
	When	levels	of
vitamin	C	in	the	blood	were	low,	these	families	were
more	likely
	to	have	a
high	incidence	of	cancer. III
	Low	vitamin	C	was	prominently	associated	with
higher	risk	for	esophageal	cancer,
III
	for	leukemia	and	cancers	of	the
nasopharynx,	breast,	stomach,	liver,	rectum,	colon	and	lung. It	was
esophageal	cancer	that	first	attracted	NOVA	television	program	producers	to
report	on	cancer	mortality	in	China. It	was	this	television	program	that
spurred	our	own	survey	to	see	what	was	behind	this	story. Vitamin	C
primarily	comes	from	fruit,	and	eating	fruit	was	also	inversely	associated	with
esophageal	cancer. II	43
	Cancer	rates	were	five	to	eight	times	higher	for	areas
where	fruit	intake	was	lowest. The	same	vitamin	C	effect	existing	for	these
cancers	also	existed	for	coronary	heart	disease,	hypertensive	heart	disease	and
stroke. II
	Vitamin	C	intake	from	fruits	clearly	showed	a	powerful	protective
effect	against	a	variety	of	diseases. The	other	measures	of	antioxidants,	blood	levels	of	alpha	and	beta-carotene	(a	vitamin	precursor)	and	alpha	and	gamma	tocopherol	(vitamin	E)
are	poor	indicators	of	the	effects	of	antioxidants. These	antioxidants	are
transported	in	the	blood	by	lipoprotein,	which	is	the	carrier	of	“bad”
cholesterol. So	anytime	we	measured	these	antioxidants,	we	were
simultaneously	measuring	unhealthy	biomarkers. This	was	an	experimental
compromise	that	diminished	our	ability	to	detect	the	beneficial	effects	of	the
carotenoids	and	the	tocopherols,	even	when	these	benefits	are	known	to
exist. 44
	We	did,	however,	find	that	stomach	cancer	was	higher	when	the	blood
levels	of	beta-carotene	were	lower. 45
Can	we	say	that	vitamin	C,	beta-carotene	and	dietary	fiber	are	solely
responsible	for	preventing	these	cancers? In	other	words,	can	a	pill	containing
vitamin	C	and	beta-carotene	or	a	fiber	supplement	create	these	health	effects? No. The	triumph	of	health	lies	not	in	the	individual	nutrients,	but	in	the	whole
foods	that	contain	those	nutrients:	plant-based	foods. In	a	bowl	of	spinach
salad,	for	example,	we	have	fiber,	antioxidants	and	countless	other	nutrients
that	are	orchestrating	a	wondrous	symphony	of	health
as	they	work	in	concert
within	our	bodies. The	message	could	not	be	simpler:	eat	as	many	whole
fruits,	vegetables	and	whole	grains	as	you	can,	and	you	will	probably	derive
all	of	the	benefits	noted	above	as	well	as	many	others. I	have	been	making	this	point	about	the	health	value	of	whole	plant-based
foods	ever	since	vitamin	supplements	were	introduced	on	a	large
scale	in	the
marketplace. And	I	have	watched	in	dismay	how	the	industry	and	the	media
convinced	so	many	Americans	that	these	products	represent	the	same	good
nutrition	as	do	whole,	plant-based	foods. As	we	shall	see	in	the	later	chapters,
the	promised	health	benefits	of	taking	single-nutrient	supplements	are	proving
to	be	highly	questionable. The	“take-home	message”:	if	you	want	vitamin	C
or	beta-carotene,	don’t	reach	for	the	pill	bottle—reach	for	the	fruit	or	leafy
green	vegetables.THE	ATKINS	CRISIS
In	case	you	haven’t	noticed,	there	is	an	elephant	in	the	room. It	goes	by	the
name	“low-carb	diet,”	and	it	has	become	very	popular. Almost	all	diet	books
on	store	shelves	are	variations	of	this	one	theme:	eat	as	much	protein,	meat
and	fat	as	you	want,	but	stay	away	from	those	“fatty”	carbs. As	you	have	seen
already	in	this	book,	my	research	findings	and	my	point	of	view	show	that
eating	this	way	is	perhaps	the	single	greatest	threat	to	American	health	we
currently	face. So	what	is	the	story,	anyway? One	of	the	fundamental	arguments	at	the	beginning	of	most	low-
carbohydrate,	high-protein	diet	books	is	that	America	has	been	wallowing	in
low-fat	mania	at	the	advice	of	experts	for	the	past	twenty	years,	yet	people	are
fatter	than	ever. This	argument	has	an	intuitive	appeal,	but	there	is	one
inconvenient	fact	that	is	consistently	ignored:	according	to	a	report
46
summarizing	government	food	statistics,	“Americans	consumed	thirteen
pounds
	[my	emphasis]	more	[added]	fats	and	oils	per	person	in	1997	than	in
1970,	up	from	52.6	to	65.6	pounds.”	It	is	true	that	we	have	had	a	trend	to
consuming	fewer	of	our	total	calories	as	fat,	when	considered	as	a	percentage,
but	that’s	only	because	we	have	outpaced	our	gorging	on	fat	by	gorging	on
sugary	junk	food. Simply	by	looking	at	the	numbers,	anybody	can	see	that
America	has	not	adopted	the	“low-fat”	experiment—not	by	any	stretch	of	the
imagination. In	fact,	the	claim	that	the	low-fat	“brainwashing”	experiment	has	been
tried	and	failed	is	often	the	first	of	many	statements	of	fact	in	current	diet
books	that	can	be	described	either	as	severe	ignorance	or	opportunistic	deceit. It	is	difficult	to	know	where	to	begin	to	refute	the	maze	of	misinformation	and
false	promises	commonly	made	by	authors	completely	untrained	in	nutrition,
authors	who	have	never	conducted	any	peer-reviewed,	professionally	based
experimental	research. And	yet	these	books	are	immensely	popular. Why? Because	people
do	lose	weight,
	at	least	in	the	short	term. In	one	published	study
47
	funded	by	the	Atkins	Center	for	Complementary
Medicine,	researchers	put	fifty-one	obese	people	on	the	Atkins	diet. 48
	The
forty-one	subjects	who	maintained	the	diet	over	the	course	of	six	months	lost
an	average	of	t


ittle	discussion	of	the	evidence	on
protein,	for	or	against	a	high	consumption	level,	although	he	recollected	there
being	some	pro-Atkins	sympathy	on	the	committee. He	had	not	worked	in	the
protein	area,	so	he	did	not	know	the	literature. In	any	event,	this	importantrecommendation	slipped	through	the	panel	without	much	notice	and	made	the
first	sentence	of	the	FNB	news	release. The	second	panel	member,	a	long-time	friend	and	colleague,	was	a
subcommittee	chair	during	the	latter	part	of	the	panel’s	existence. He	is	not	a
nutritional	scientist	and	also	was	surprised	to	hear	my	concerns	about	the
upper	limit	for	protein. He	did	not	recall	much	discussion	on	the	topic	either. When	I	reminded	him	of	some	of	the	evidence	linking	high-animal	protein
diets	to	chronic	disease,	he	initially	was	a	little	defensive. But	with	a	little
more	persistence	on	my	part	about	the	evidence,	he	finally	said,	“Colin,	you
know	that	I	really	don’t	know	anything	about	nutrition. ”	How,	then,	was	he	a
member—let	alone	the	chair—of	this	important	subcommittee. And	it	gets
worse. The	chair	of	the	standing	committee	on	the	evaluation	of	these
recommendations	left	the	panel	shortly	before	its	completion	for	a	senior
executive	position	in	a	very	large	food	company—a	company	that	will
salivate	over	these	new	recommendations. A	SUGARCOATED	REPORT
The	recommendation	on	added	sugar	is	as	outrageous	as	the	one	for	protein. At	about	the	time	this	FNB	report	was	being	released,	an	expert	panel	put
together	by	the	WHO	(World	Health	Organization)	and	the	FAO	(Food	and
Agriculture	Organization)	was	completing	a	new	report	on	diet,	nutrition	and
the	prevention	of	chronic	diseases. Professor	Phillip	James,	another	friend	of
mine,	was	a	member	of	this	panel	and	a	panel	spokesperson	on	the	added
sugar	recommendation. Early	rumors	of	the	report’s	findings	indicated	that
the	WHO/FAO	was	on	the	verge	of	recommending	an	upper	safe	limit	of	10%
for	added	sugar,	far	lower	than	the	25%	established	by	the	American	FNB
group. Politics,	however,	had	early	entered	the	discussion,	as	it	had	done	in
earlier	reports	on	added	sugars. 7
	According	to	a	news	release	from	the
director-general’s	office	at	the	WHO,
8
	the	U. S. -based	Sugar	Association	and
the	World	Sugar	Research	Organization,	who	“represent	the	interests	of	the
sugar	growers	and	refiners,	had	mounted	a	strong	lobbying	campaign	in	an
attempt	to	discredit	the	[WHO]	report	and	suppress	its	release. ”	They	did	not
like	setting	the	upper	safe	limit	so	low. According	to	the
Guardian
	newspaper
of	London,
7
	the	U.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: According to the text, what percentage of daily calorie intake is required for protein?,
A: 5-6%
Q: What is the recommended daily allowance of protein intake, according to the FNB report?,
A: 9-10%
Q: What is the main issue with the way nutrition is taught in medical schools?,
A: The curriculum does not prioritize nutrition, and there is a lack of training in nutrition and health, with only 21 hours of nutrition education in four years.
Q: What is the primary focus of the research funded by the NIH?,
A: The majority of the funding goes towards developing new drugs and devices, rather than nutrition-related research.
Q: What is the primary issue with the way doctors are trained in medical schools?,
A: The curriculum is heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical industry, and there is a lack of training in nutrition and health, with a focus on pills and procedures.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>You	told	me	yourself	that	most
neurologists	don’t	like	to	take	care	of	MS	patients.”	John	could	not	believewhat	he	had	just	heard. In	a	very	tense	moment,	he	said:
Wait	a	minute. I’m	a	doctor. This	is	a	hospital. As	far	as	I	know	our	job
is	to	relieve	the	suffering	of	the	sick. These	are	sick	people. Just
because	other	doctors	can’t	help	them	in	their	suffering	doesn’t	mean
that	we	can’t. Here’s	the	evidence	that	says	we	can. I	have	an	effective
treatment	for	people	who	need	my	care	and	this	is	a	hospital. Will	you
explain	to	me	why	we	don’t	want	to	take	care	of	those	kinds	of
patients? He	continued:
I	want	to	talk	to	the	head	of	the	hospital. I	want	to	explain	to	her	why	I
need	this	program	and	why	the	hospital	needs	this	program	and	why
the	patients	need	this	program. I	want	you	to	get	me	an	appointment. Ultimately	though,	the	head	of	the	hospital	proved	to	be	just	as	difficult. John	reflected	on	the	situation	with	his	wife. He	was	supposed	to	renew	his
contract	with	the	hospital	in	a	couple	of	weeks,	and	he	decided	not	to	do	it. He	left	on	cordial	terms,	and	to	this	day	he	does	not	hold	personal	grudges. He	just	explains	it	by	saying	that	their	directions	in	life	were	different. John
would	prefer	to	remember	St.	Helena	for	what	it	was:	a	good	home	to	him	for
sixteen	years,	but	a	place	nonetheless	that	was	“just	into	that	whole	drug
money	thing.”
Now,	John	runs	a	highly	successful	“lifestyle	medicine”	program	with	his
family’s	help,	writes	a	popular	newsletter	that	he	makes	freely	available
(
http://www.drmcdougall.com
),	organizes	group	trips	with	past	patients	and
new	friends	and	has	more	time	to	go	windsurfing	when	the	wind	picks	up	on
Bodega	Bay. This	is	a	man	with	a	wealth	of	knowledge	and	qualifications,
who	could	benefit	the	health	of	millions	of	Americans. He	has	never	been
challenged	by	any	of	his	colleagues	for	physician	“misbehavior,”	and	yet	the
medical	establishment	does	not	want	his	services. He	is	reminded	of	this	fact
all	the	time:
Patients	will	come	in	with	rheumatoid	arthritis. They’ll	be	in
wheelchairs,	they	can’t	even	turn	the	key	on	their	car. And	I’ll	take	care
of	them	and	three	or	four	weeks	later,	they’ll	go	back	to	see	their
doctor. They’ll	walk	up	to	their	doctor,	grab	their	hand	and	shake	it
hard. Doctor	will	say,	“Wonderful.”	The	patient,	all	excited,	will	say,
“Well,	I	want	to	tell	you	what	I	did. I	went	to	see	this	Dr.	McDougall,	I
changed	my	diet,	and	now	my	arthritis	is	gone.”	Their	doctor	simplyresponds,	“Oh	my	goodness. That’s	great. Whatever	you’re	doing,	just
keep	doing	it. I’ll	see	you	later.”	That’s	always	the	response. It’s	not,
“Please,	my	god,	tell	me	what	you	did	so	I	can	tell	the	next	patient.”
It’s,	“Whatever	you’re	doing,	that’s	just	great.”	If	the	patient	starts	to
tell	them	they	changed	to	a	vegetarian	diet,	the	doctor	will	cut	in	with,
“Yeah	okay,	fine,	you’re	really	a	strong	person. Thanks	a	lot. See	you
later.”	Get	them	out	of	the	office	as	quickly	as	they	can. It’s	very
threatening…	very	threatening.ESSELSTYN’S	REWARD
Back	in	Ohio,	Dr.	Essel


o usly to the chakra system of the Jungian
archetypes (e.g., the heart of the child, the spleen of the wa rrior, the
naiveté o f the adolescent, etc.). Due to the nature of human deve lopment,
even a mature, intelligent, fu lly-grown adult still has repressed or
for gotten, but still functional, infantile and childish drives that operate
out of awarene ss. One of the most common is the out-of a wareness
balance between the ‘good me’ and the ‘bad me.’ (This is the area of the
split and  compar tmentalized Jek yll-and-Hyde personality disorders.) The
good/bad dichotomy may be the source of multiple psychological
dif ficulties, of which projecting  the ‘bad me’ onto others is the most
common. Gr oup: Catastr ophe, Regional, and Situational. Severe poverty, deprivations, an d starvation are geographically  endemic
to whole regions, cultures, and major areas of the world, as described
and grap hed in a prior work ( T ruth vs. Falsehood, Chapter 14). They are
characterized by high birth and infant mortality rates, short life spans,
high rates of disease, civil disorders, tribal type warfare, cruelty, and
mass slaughter. Consciousness research confirms that regional endemic poverty is of
group karmic origin and expr esses itself in correlation with genetic
transmission. Early fo rms of hominids (calibration level 85-90) have come and gone,
and Homo sapiens, from an evolutionary viewpoint, is only a very recent
emer gence from  the evolutionary tree. At this time, in fact, the  majority
of the human population (seventy-eight percent) calibrates below 200,
which therefore  initiates and a ttracts experiences in accord with that
level.Each calibrated level of consciousness indicates progress beyond the
levels be low it and may also rep resent the level to which those who were
once higher have fallen as a c onsequence of volitional choi ces. This
descending level is well documented in the cases of very famous
political leaders who started out as integrous and idealistic, calibrating in
the 400 s, and who later, as a consequence of the develop ment of
megalomania, c rashed to very low numbers (Napoleon, Hitler, et al.). The same phenomenon occurs  in ordinary individuals as w ell as in
groups, such as Easter Island a nd other societies that have come and
gone. What is common ly known as ne gative karma is sometimes referred to as
‘debt’, e.g., “For give us our deb ts as we for give our debtors.” A lthough
decisions of the will have karmic consequences, they are rec overable
with appropriate spiritual alignment and dedication. As people evolve spiritually, each ascended level has its corollary tests or
temptations into which the unwary may fall. Of these, the best known, of
course, are wealth, power, and  prestige (pride goeth before the fall;
power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, etc.). This is
clinically descri bed as the ‘Lucerific T emptation’ of power for its own
sake or power over others. The source of the error is ascribing th e source
of power to the ego ‘I’ instead of to Divinity. Similar falls are exhibited
in the secular world where corporate CEOs seem to lose all sense of
reality a nd succ umb to the gree d of unlimited power. Shame is  also the
consequence of the abuse of spiritual/religious status and influence as
seen in the catas trophes of fallen gurus who once had worldwide  acclaim
and vast wealth. Much of  the world’ s literature includes fables, such as those of the old
Greek and Germanic gods, as well as those of the Old T estament and
other re ligions that were later superseded by the development of
monotheism. Th at spiritual work can be arduous is attested to by the
recorded histories of Christian saints. Many of them are aptly described,
as in the T em ptation of St. Anthony and the Confession s of St.
Augustine. The Buddha also des cribed how he was attacked by  illusions
and the negative ‘demon’ ener gies of Mara (illusion). From previous studies, it was learned that everyone is born under
optimal conditions for karmic opportunities; therefore, it is wise to judgenot, for what appears as misery or catastrophe may be the do orway to
liberation for those who have n egative karma to undo. Thus, seemingly
catastrophic eve nts may be the very essential and necessary elem ents for
the evolution of the soul. T ranscendence. At the bottom o f despair, there is the exhaustion of ener gy and of even
the w ill to survi ve. It is often only in the very pits of Hell and  absolute
despair that the ego can be sur rendered, even right up to the point of
imminent physical death. In extreme, timeless agony, the soul may
entreat, “If there is a God, I ask him for help,” and a great transf ormation
occurs. This confirms the truth of the Zen teaching, “Heaven and hell are
only one -tenth o f an inch apart. ” Bizarrely, the ego may reach this point
as an attempt to make God wrong, including even one’ s physical death
(the ego will gra sp at any straw ), and thus, even in the last moment, the
ego struggles to prove that death is a reality and that God is not. The Dualities of Shame. Shame is a cons equence of the negation of the realities of both self and
Self. It is transitory in normal l ife but denotes a very major obstacle to
spiritual evoluti on as a prevai ling level of consciousness, and when
severe, even threatens physical survival.CHAPTER 2. Guilt and V indictive Hate. (Calibration Level 30). Intr oduction. Guilt, so commonly used in the form of blame by our society to
manipulate and punish, manifes ts itself in a variety of expressions, such
as remorse, self-recrimination, masochism, and the whole gamut of
symptoms of victimhood. Unc onscious guilt results in psychosomatic
disease, acciden t proneness, and suicidal behaviors. Many people
struggle with guilt their entire l ives, while others desperately attempt to
escape it by amorally denying guilt altogether. Guilt domination results in preoccupation with ‘sin’, an unfor giving
emotional attitude frequently exploited by religious demagogues who use
it for coercion a nd control. Such ‘sin and salvation’ merchants, obsessed
with punishmen t, are likely eithe r acting out their own guilt or p rojecting
it onto others. Subcultures disp laying the aberration of self-flagellation often manifest
other en demic forms of cruelty, such as the public ritual killing of
animals. Guilt provokes rage, and killing is frequently its ex pression. Capital punishm ent is an examp le of how killing gratifies an angry and
guilt-ridden populace, but it has never been demonstrated to have any
deterrent or corrective value. Instead, it satisfies the emotional need for
‘just’ retribution. Clinical. This is the level of serious gui lt and self-condemnation as being bad,
evil, and seeing God as being punitive as well as vindictive. G uilt is a
learned behavior with major psychological components. There is input
from society, parents, and religion, as well as negative programming by
social programs. Thus, shame may predominate, with consequential self-judgment as being unworthy, undeserving, unlovable, and a worthless
worm that is hated by God and undeserving of salvation, m uch less
for giveness. Thi s is the level of self-judgment of being unfor giv able and
beyond hope or redemption. Guilt tak es the form of penance, self-hatred, psychological and physical
self-punishment, suicide, self-abnegation, and self-propagating
addiction. “Oh look, God, how  I suf fer” becomes a subtle attempt to
manipulate God. One way the ego mechanism handles guilt is by projection, so that one’ s
motives and emotions are disowned and seen as being ‘out there’ and
therefore an object for justifie d hate and vindictiveness. A spiritual
paradox is represented by the r eligious teaching of ‘hating sin’, which
merely e xpresses the very thing it deplores. This pitfall can be bypassed
with compassion, for giveness, and the realization that mankind and
individuals are limited, ignoran t, and really do not know or understand
why or what they do. Ignorance is an automatic byproduct of the ego’ s inherited internal
mental mechanisms, which were examined and clarified from an
evolutionary vie wpoint in T ruth vs. Falseh ood (Section I). Guilt can also
be amel iorated by recognizing the truth of Socrates’ statement that ‘all
men seek only what they perceive as the good’, but unfortunately, due to
the limitations of perception, truth cannot be


iculitis we find that there can be severe reactions resulting from the painful condition that already exists in the patient. There may b e abscesses forming. We might have a perforation of the bowel and we must be very careful in taking care of this. It
will always be best to have a doctor’s counsel and to see just what is going on. We find that if we can cleanse the bowel wit hout
any diste ntion, even though using large amounts of water in the enema, we will be helping these sensitive problems. We feel that
the colema, which is one of the most natural ways of putting water into the bowel and eliminating it without any heavy disten tion,
is probably the best way to take care of these things. However, we must make sure that we don’t have any symptoms that are really
grievous to the patient, mentally or physically. We must also watch that the white cell count does not become very high becau se
we find that this will be a sign of infection and possibly conditions developing other than the diverticulitis that couir be of a serious
nature. Further, we have to consider that there could be obstructions in that bowel from a growth and that to expect anyt hing to
happen immediately from the colema and from the tissue cleansing treatment may be unrealistic. It is always best to have a do ctor
check over these conditions to make sure this treatment can be used in combination with his suggestions and with his d iag-nosis. WARNING AND ADVICE
Due to the fact that this can be considered the most powerful tissue cleansing treatment available today, some skill must be
attended to persons given this treatment. It is well to have the cooperation of a doctor to handle t he most severe cases. It is also
advisable to have a complete clinical examination so that all and any tests can be monitored as patient makes progress. This is not
to be considered a “cure -all,” but an adjunctive treatment. It is a foundation for thorough  tissue detoxification by way of colon
cleansing. It is well to have complete regulatory and competent advisory consultation with those giving and administering thi s
treatment. A doctor knowing the “reversal process of cure” is to be desired. A disease in its reversal system will bring about
different symptoms and can be responsible for elimination processes. Chemical, mechanical or nutritional assistance is also
desirable and can be used with any other form of treatment favoring elimination and detoxificat ion. A clinical examination should
basically include: urinalysis, a complete blood count, PBI, SMA -24, acid -alkaline fecal test, test for acidophilus bacteria, X -rays
when needed, and any other test(s) that can be used to show tissue or functional changes taking place during this treatment. Any
particular weakness of any organ or system that is underactive should be tested often, or as deemed appropriate by doctor in order
to monitor the patient closely. WARNING. Diabetic, tubercular, cancer and extreme de generative diseases must have guidance, sanction and assistance by the
most capable minds and doctor. Diabetic cases must be handled with particular care in regard to the fasting aspect of the
cleanse. Also all cases are not alike in their response to the detoxification program. Results may vary considerably according to
individual constitutions. Frequent colonic irrigation will have an adverse effect upon the electrolyte balance of the colon. Electrolyte leaching is not a good process and must be avoided. The best way to prevent this occurrence is to be absolutely certain
that adequate amounts of lactobacillus organisms are re -established in the colon. To accomplish this task, refer to pages 51 through
55 in this book. When the body is properly fed with go od quality foods containing organic sodium, potassium and magnesium, the electrolyte level
of the colon will be replenished as part of the diet. We must eat properly along with colon treatments. DO NOT OVERLOOK
THIS VERY IMPORTANT ASPECT OF COLON HEALTH. SUPPLEMENTS
A DEFINITION OF PROPERTIES
The following ingredients are used in the treatment for specific reasons. So that you may more fully appreciate the usefulnes s of
these items, a brief explanation of their properties is included. Alfalfa —The differe nce between alfalfa tablets, Green Life and Sun Chlorella is that alfalfa has all the fiber material left in it from
the stems and fiber structure of the leaves. These act as a bulk and a material for a ballooned or weakened bowel to work aga inst
the tone of the tissues of the bowel. This also allows a faster transit time for the bowel. This is one of the supplements I use for
practically every patient who needs to overcome bowel disturbances. Alfalfa offers the proper bulk, but sometimes produces mo re
gas as we stir up this lazy bowel to act, and, for this reason, we use a couple of digestive enzymes to get rid of the gas. Apple Juice —Very good for the bowel because it is high in pectin, which is a moisture -holding substance. Apple Cider Vinegar —Very high i n potassium and is good to relieve any mucus or catarrhal conditions. It helps provide needed
nutrients to muscle tissue. Beet Tablets —A slight laxative that works well with the liver, promoting the cleansing of that organ. Bentonite —A clay suspended in wa ter. It is very useful in absorbing toxic substances. It can absorb 40 times its own weight in
toxic substances. It acts like a sponge, mopping up undesirable debris. Mucilaginous Bulk —This material holds moisture well and attaches itself to the mucus lini ng making it soft and loose so it will
move away from the bowel wall. This is a very important ingredient to the success of the treatment. Cod Liver Oil —Provides lubrication and helps work with the liver in cleansing. It provides vitamins A and D which are  needed for
good elimination. Coffee —Stimulates peristaltic action in the bowel —driving down feces and stimulating bile production in the liver. Dulse —Quickens the thyroid gland and speeds up the metabolism while bringing heat to the body causing the blood  to circulate
deeper. Spring Green and Green Life Tablets —Brand names for very potent biogenic plant substances. They provide rich sources of
vitamins, minerals and enzymes that help in the cleansing process. We believe that Green Life is the finest supple ments to be used
with this colema program; however, if it is not available, you may use Sun Chlorella, in the same amount. Be sure to crush th e
tablets into powder form before taking. Flaxseed —Excellent bulk maker, and in extreme cases of ulcerated colitis, provides a soothing and healing tea to be put into the
colema water. It also is a bowel lubricant. For one of the colema solutions to be used when any serious cases are confronted,  such
as colitis, always use flaxseed tea. You can also add a teaspoon or more of liquid chlorophyll to this flaxseed tea for the colema
water. This can be taken by mouth as well. When taken orally, use one cup tea and one teaspoon liquid chlorophyll three times  a
day. This can be used in cases of extreme gas, spastic conditions, colitis, etc. Liquid Chlorophyll —Very wonderful for the bowel. It is soothing and reduces inflammation, swelling and pain. It disinfects and
cleanses. Niacin —Produces hot, red flush and is used to push the blood deep into underactive tissues so that we c an strengthen them with
vital nutritents. Pancreatin —This is the one thing that helps most to bring down the mucus lining. It is a powerful digestant substance and loosens
the lining. Mr. Irons produces most of these products and they are very good. Nature’s Sunshine is also producing similar products. Please
inquire for a very good all -around vitamin that is chemically balanced for both the adult and children. I have had many requests
from strict vegetarians about the use of the animal products in th is treatment. Specifically, the Pancreatin and Cod Liver Oil. For
those so concerned, I wish it were possible to recommend substitutes that are as effective as these. Unfortunately, I am not aware
of any at this time. It is particularly important to use th e Pancreatin as it has the unique ability to dissolve and digest the heavy
mucus encrustation that causes so much of the bowel troubles. Vitamin A is not readily available in a natural form other than cod liver oil. There are synthetic forms available, but  I do not
recommend their use. Vegetarian A is usually a pro -vitamin A and of low potency. I feel that the benefits of this treatment outweight the use of the animal products for the brief period that they are employ ed. Once
the bowel is re -established in to a healthier condition, then use of these substances can be discontinued. Betaine HCL and herbal digestants have not given good results and are not recommended as viable substitutes for Pancreatin. Papaya tea or extract help. Huckleberry tea or extract m ay also be a substitute. We have not tried these and therefore cannot report
on the effectiveness of them. If you suffer from an allergic reaction to any particular ingredient, then omit it from the pro gram until
it may be tolerated at a later time. YOU W ILL NEED:
1. Two empty pint jars with tight covers. 2. Juice. (Your choice of fruit juice. Apple is preferred or vegetable juice or natural herb teas for a variety of special pu r


 seemingly dead is now alive. This damsel really was not dead,
she was only asleep. You fed her in this silence because you have meat no
one else knows of. You gave her food and she became a resurrected living
reality within your world. Then you can share your joy with me and I can
rejoice in your joy. The purpose of these lessons is to remind you of the law of your own be -
ing, the law of consciousness; you are that law. You were only uncon -
scious of its operation. You fed and kept alive the things you did not wish
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havento express within this world. Take my challenge and put this philosophy to the test. If it does not work
you should not use it as a comforter. If it is not true, you must completely
discard it. I know it is true. You will not know it until you try either to
prove or disprove it. Too many of us have joined “isms” and we are afraid to put them to the
test because we feel we might fail; and, then, where are we? Not really
wanting to know the truth concerning it, we hesitate to be bold enough to
put it to the test. You say, “I know it would work in some other way. I do
not want to really test it. While I have not yet disproved it, I can still be
comforted by it. Now do not fool yourself, do not think for one second that you are wise. Prove or disprove this law. I know that if you attempt to disprove it, you
will prove it, and I will be the richer for your proving it, not in dollars, not
in things, but because you become the living fruit of what I believe I am
teaching in this world it is far better to have you a successful, satisfied
person after five days of instruction than to have you go out dissatisfied. I
hope you will be bold enough to challenge this instruction and either
prove or disprove it. Now before we go into the silence period I shall briefly explain the tech -
nique again. We have two techniques in applying this law. Everyone here
must now know exactly what he wants. You must know that if you do not
get it tonight you will still be as desirous tomorrow concerning this objec -
tive. When you know exactly what you want, construct in your mind's eye a
single, simple event which implies fulfillment of your desire, an event
wherein self predominates. Instead of sitting back and looking at yourself
as though you were on the screen, you be the actor in the drama. Restrict the event to one single action. If you are going to shake a hand
because that implies fulfillment of your desire then do that and that only. Do not shake hands and then wander off in your imagination to a dinner
party or to some other place. Restrict your action to simply shaking hands
and do it over and over again, until that handshake takes on the solidity
and the distinctness of reality. If you feel you cannot remain faithful to an action, I want you now to de -
fine your objective, and then condense the idea, which is your desire, into
a single phrase, a phrase which implies fulfillment of your desire, some
phrase such as, “Isn't it wonderful?”
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenOr if I felt thankful because I thought someone was instrumental in bring -
ing my desire to pass, I could say, “Thank you,” and repeat it with feeling
over and over again like a lullaby until my mind was dominated by the
single sensation of thankfulness. We will now sit quietly in these chairs with the idea which implies fulfill -
ment of our desire condensed to a single phrase, or to a single act. We
will relax and immobilize our physical bodies. Then let us experience in
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        The walls, the obstacles, the problems, crumble of their own weight if I
can reach the point of stillness within me. The man who can fix within his own mind's eye an idea, even though the
world would deny it, if he remains faithful to that idea he will see it mani -
fested. There is all the difference in the world between holding the idea,
and being held by the idea. Become so dominated by an idea that it
haunts the mind as though you were it. Then, regardless of what others
may say, you are walking in the direction of your fixed attitude of mind. You are walking in the direction of the idea that dominates the mind. As we told you last night, you have but one gift that is truly yours to give,
and that is yourself. There is no other gift; you must press it out of your -
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenself by an appropriation. It is there within you now for creation is finished. There is nothing to be that is not now. There is nothing to be created for
all things are already yours, they are finished. Although man may not be able to stand physically upon a state, he can
always stand mentally upon any desired state. By standing mentally I
mean that you can now, this very moment, close your eyes and visualize
a place other than your present one, and assume that you are actually
there. You can FEEL this to be so real that upon opening your eyes you
are amazed to find that you are not physically there. This mental journey into the desired state, with its subsequent feeling of
reality, is all that is necessary to bring about its fulfillment. Your dimen -
sionally greater self has ways that the lesser, or three-dimensional you,
know not of. Furthermore, to the greater you, all means are good which
promote the fulfillment of your assumption. Remain in the mental state defined as your objective until it has the feel -
ing of reality, and all the forces of heaven and earth will rush to aid its
embodiment. Your greater self will influence the actions and words of all
who can be used to aid the production of your fixed mental attitude. *****
Now we turn to the book of Numbers and here we find a strange story. I
trust that some of you have had this experience as described in the book
of Numbers. They speak of the building of a tabernacle at the command
of God; that God commanded Israel to build him a place of worship. He gave them all the specifications of the tabernacle. It had to be an
elongated, movable place of worship, and it had to be covered with skin. Need you be told anything more. Isn’t that man. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God
dwelleth in you. ” (1 Cor 3:16). There is no other temple. Not a temple made with hands, but a temple
eternal in the heavens. This temple is elongated, and it is covered with
skin, and it moves across the dessert. “And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the
tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was
upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire
by night. ” (Num 9:15, 16). The command given to Israel was to tarry until the cloud ascended by day
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenand the fire by night. “Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year,
that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the chil -
dren of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was
taken up, they journeyed. ” (Num 9:22). You know that you are the tabernacle, but you may wonder, what is the
cloud. In meditation many of you must have seen it. In meditation, this
cloud, like the sub-soil waters of an artesian well, springs spontaneously
to your head and forms itself into pulsating, golden rings. Then, like a
gentle river they flow from your head in a stream of living rings of gold. In a meditative mood bordering on sleep the cloud ascends. It is in this
drowsy state that you should assume that you are that which you desire
to be, and that you have that which you seek, for the cloud will assume
the form of your assumption and fashion a world in harmony with itself. The cloud is simply the garment of your consciousness, and where your
consciousness placed, there you will be in the flesh also. This golden cloud comes in meditation. There is a certain point when you
are approaching sleep that it is very, very thick, very liquid, and very
much alive and pulsing. It begins to ascend as you reach the drowsy,
meditative state, bordering on sleep. You do not strike the tabernacle;
neither do you move it until the cloud begins to ascend. The cloud always ascends when man approaches the drowsiness of sleep. For when a man goes to sleep, whether he knows it or not, he slips from a
three-dimensional world into a fourth-dimensional world and that which is
ascending is the consciousness of that man in a greater focus; it is a
fourth-dimensional focus. What you now see ascending is your


 they gave their focus and atten
tion to David's story, they brought checks to them. The Secret to Money 105
A game I created that helped shift my feelings about my pile of
bills was to pretend that the bills were actually checks. I would
jump for joy as I opened them and say, "More money for me! Thank you. Thank you." I took each bill, imagined it was a check,
and then I added a zero to it in my mind to make it even more. I
got a notepad and wrote at the top of the page "I have received,"
and then I would list all the amounts of the bills with an added
zero. Next to each amount I would write "Thank you," and feel
the feelings of gratitude for receiving it—to the point where I had
tears in my eyes. Then I would take each bill, which looked very
small compared to what I had received, and I would pay it with
gratitude! I never opened my bills until I had got myself into the feeling
that they were checks, if I opened my bills before convincing
myself they were checks, my stomach would churn when I
opened them. I knew that the emotion of the churning in my
stomach was powerfully bringing more bills. I knew I had to
erase that feeling, and replace it with joyful feelings, so I could
bring more money into my life. In the face of a pile of bills, that
game worked for me, and it changed my life. There are so many
games you can create, and you will know what works best for
you by the way you feel inside. When you make-believe, the
results come fast! 106 The Secret
LORAL LANGEMEIER
FINANCIAL STRATEGIST, SPEAKER, AND
PERSONAL AND CORPORATE COACH
I grew up on, "You have to work hard for money." So I replaced that with, "Money comes easily and
frequently." Now in the beginning it feels like a lie, right? There is a part of your brain that will say, "Oh you liar, it's
hard." So you have to know it's this little tennis match that
will go on for a while. If you have had thoughts of, "I have to work really hard and
struggle to have money," let them go immediately. By thinking
those thoughts you emitted that frequency, and they became the
pictures of your life experience. Take Loral Langemeier's advice,
and replace those thoughts with, "Money comes easily and fre
quently." DAVID SCHIRMER
When it comes to creating wealth, wealth is a mindset. It's all
about how you think. LORAL LANGEMEIER
I'd say 80 percent of the coaching that I do with folks is
about their psychology and the way they think. I know
when people say, "Oh, you can do it, I can't." People
have the capability to change their inner relationship and
conversation with money. The Secret to Money 107
"The good news is that the moment you
decide that what you know is more important
than what you have been taught to believe,
you will have shifted gears in your quest for
abundance. Success comes from within, not
from without." You have got to feel good about money to attract more to you. Un-
derstandably when people do not have enough money they do not
feel good about money, because they don't have enough. But those
negative feelings about money are stopping more money coming
to you! You have got to stop the cycle, and you stop it by starting to
feel good about money, and being grateful for what you have. Start
to say and feet, "I have more than enough." "There is an abundance
of money and it's on its way to me." "I am a money magnet." "I
love money and money loves me." "I am receiving money every
day." "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you/'
Giving is a powerful action to bring more money into your life,
because when you are giving you are saying, "I have plenty." It
will not be surprising to you to learn that the wealthiest people on
the planet are the greatest philanthropists. They give away vast 108 The Secret
amounts of money, and as they give, by the law of attraction, the
Universe opens up and floods vast amounts of money back to them
—multiplied! If you are thinking, "I don't have enough money to give," bingo! Now you know why you don't have enough money! When you
think you don't have enough to give, start giving. As you demon
strate faith in giving, the law of attraction must give you more to
give. There is a big difference between giving and sacrificing. Giving
from a heart that is overflowing feels so good. Sacrificing does not
feel good. Don't confuse the two—they are diametrically opposed. One emits a signal of lack and the other emits a signal of more-
than-enough. One feels good and one does not feel good. Sacrifice
will eventually lead to resentment. Giving from a full heart is one
of the most joyous things you can do, and the law of attraction will
grab hold of that signal and flood even more into your life. You can
feet the difference. I find so many people who make a tremendous amount of
money, but their relationships stink. And that's not wealth. You can go after the money and you might get rich, but it
doesn't guarantee you'll be wealthy. I'm not suggesting that
money isn't a part of wealth, it absolutely is. But it's only a
part. The Secret to Money 109
And then I meet a lot of people who are "spiritual" but
they're sick and broke all the time. That's not wealth either. Life is meant to be abundant—in all areas. If you have been brought up to believe that being wealthy is not
spiritual, then I highly recommend you read The Millionaires of
the Bible Series by Catherine Ponder. In these glorious books you
will discover that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and Jesus
were not only prosperity teachers, but also millionaires them-
selves, with more affluent lifestyles than many present-day mil-
lionaires could conceive of. You are the heir to the kingdom. Prosperity is your birthright, and
you hold the key to more abundance—in every area of your life—
than you can possibly imagine. You deserve every good thing you
want, and the Universe will give you every good thing you want,
but you have to summon it into your life. Now you know The
Secret. You have the key. The key is your thoughts and feelings,
and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life. MARCI SHIMOFF
Many people in Western culture are striving for success. They
want the great home, they want their businesses to work,
they want all these outer things. But what we found in our
research is that having these outer things does not necessarily
guarantee what we really want, which is happiness. So we
go for these outer things thinking they're going to bring us 110 The Secret
happiness, but it's backward. You need to go for the inner joy,
the inner peace, the inner vision first, and then all of the outer
things appear. Everything you want is an inside job! The outside world is the
world of effects; if s just the result of thoughts. Set your thoughts
and frequency on happiness. Radiate the feelings of happiness and
joy within you, and transmit that into the Universe with all of your
might, and you will experience true heaven on earth. • To attract money, focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more
money into your life when you focus on the lack of it. • It is helpful to use your imagination and make-believe you already
have the money you want. Play games of having wealth and you
will feel better about money; as you feel better about it, more will
flow into your life. • Feeling happy now is the fastest way to bring money into your life. • Make it your intention to look at everything you like and say to
yourself, "I can afford that. I can buy that." You will shift your
thinking and begin to feel better about money. • Give money in order to bring more of it into your life. When you are
generous with money and feel good about sharing it, you are saying,
"I have plenty." • Visualize checks in the mail. • Tip the balance of your thoughts to wealth. Think wealth. MARIE DIAMOND
FENG SHUI CONSULTANT, TEACHER,
AND SPEAKER
The Secret means that we are creators of our
Universe, and that every wish that we want to create
will manifest in our lives. Therefore, our wishes, thoughts,
and feelings are very important because they will manifest. One day I went into the home of an art director, a very famous
film producer. In every corner he had this beautiful image of a
naked woman draped with a fabric, kind of turning away as if
she were saying, "I don't see you." I said to him, "I think you
might have trouble in your romance." And he said, "Are you
clairvoyant?" "No, but look. In seven places, you have exactly
that same woman." He said, "But I love that kind of painting. I painted it myself." I


 reached with much difficulty because of the natural protection provided by
the location of their reservation at the mouth of Brokenhead River. They had been provided with
fertile lands and taught modern methods of farming. Their proximity to a great body of water fairly
well-stocked with fish gave them an opportunity to secure fish, if they were disposed to make the
effort to do so, as their ancestors had done through previous centuries. Their homes were found to
be in a dilapidated condition, and while their lands were stocked with cattle and horses, such as
we found were in poor condition, and limited in number. The people had been provided with a
government school and a government agent to assist in providing for their needs and in giving
material assistance when needed. They were within fairly easy distance of hospitals, and had
available modern medical service. Notwithstanding all these advantages, their physical condition
was very poor. Dental caries was so wide-spread that 39. 1 per cent of all teeth studied were
found to be affected. They were living almost entirely on modern foods, imported white flours,
jams, canned vegetables and liberal quantities of sugar. Over 90 per cent of the individuals had
rampant dental caries. Their physical condition and their supply of necessities was very much lower
than was that of either of the two preceding groups. Distress was evident even in late summer. The Indians so far reported were living inland with access to inland foods only. The Pacific
Coast Indians were examined to determine the effect of sea foods. To find evidence relating to the
physical, and particularly to the dental condition of the Indians who inhabited the Pacific slope a
thousand or more years ago, a visit was made to the Vancouver Museum at Vancouver which
fortunately possesses splendidly preserved specimens of prehistoric periods. Some of these skulls
were uncovered while cutting through a hill for a street extension in the city of Vancouver. Above
was a virgin forest of large size green firs and underneath them in the soil there were preserved
fallen trunks of other large trees. Several feet below these, burials were uncovered containing
skeletons of an early Indian race. This collection contains also skulls from several places and from
prehistoric periods. The teeth are all splendidly formed and free from dental caries. The arches are
very symmetrical and the teeth in normal and regular position. It was important to study the conditions of their successors living in the same general
community. Accordingly, we examined the teeth and general physical condition of the Indians in a
reservation in North Vancouver, so situated that they have the modern conveniences and modern7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
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Q: What percentage of the teeth examined in the group of children from the Craigflower Indian Reservation had already been attacked by tooth decay?,
A: 40%<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>The incidence
of dental caries among those individuals living in part on imported foods at the port as compared
with those in remote districts living on native foods was as follows: Those almost exclusively on
native foods had 0.3 per cent of the teeth attacked by dental caries, and for those on trade foods,
18.7 per cent. Sea foods used here include many shell fish which are gathered and sold largely by
the young people. The octopus, the sea crab and the beche-de-mere eaten raw were used.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 78/250FIG. 36. Note the marked difference in facial and dental arch
form of the two Samoan primitives above and the two
modernized below. The face bones are underdeveloped
below causing a marked constriction of the arches with
crowding of the teeth. This is a typical expression of
inadequate nutrition of the parents. The Hawaiian Islands lie between 18 and 22 degrees north latitude and between 154 and 160
degrees west longitude. These Islands are quite unlike any of the other Pacific Island groups
previously discussed. Sugar and pineapple plantations cover vast areas and together constitute by
far the most important industries of these Islands. In many districts the population is almost entirely
foreign or of various blends, chiefly of Filipinos and Japanese with Hawaiians. There is a large
American population and a considerable European. These different racial groups have largely
brought their own customs which are rapidly submerging the native customs. Since the native
population is so greatly reduced in comparison with the foreign population, and because
intermarrying has been so general, it was difficult to find large groups of relatively pure-blooded
Hawaiians either living almost entirely on native foods or on modernized foods. Though the number
of the individuals in these groups is accordingly not large, important data were obtained for
comparing the relative incidence of dental caries and other degenerative processes. While the
preparation of foods on the various Pacific Islands has many common factors, all natives using the
underground oven of hot stones for cooking, the Hawaiian Islands present one unique difference in
the method of preparation of their taro. They cook the root as do all the other tribes, but having
done so they dry the taro, powder it and mix it with water and allow it to ferment for several hours,
usually twenty-four or more. This preparation called "poi" becomes slightly tart by the process of
fermentation and has the consistency of heavy strap molasses or a very heavy cream. It is eaten by
rolling it up on one or two fingers and sucking it from them. It accordingly offers no resistance to
the process of mastication. In the districts where the natives are living on native foods the incidence
of dental caries was only 2 per cent of the teeth, whereas among those natives who are living in
large part on the imported foods, chiefly white flour and sweetened goods, 37.3 per cent of the
teeth had been attacked by tooth decay. Typical Hawaiian faces are seen in Fig. 37. Typical
modern tooth decay is shown in Fig. 38. This girl has tuberculosis also.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 79/250FIG. 37. Wherever the Polynesians are being modernized a
change is occurring in facial form which is progressively
more severe in the younger members of the family. These
girls of an Hawaiian family demonstrate this. Note the
change in facial form in the sister to the right. The face is
longer and narrower, the nostrils pinched and the chin is
receding. The tribal facial pattern is lost. FIG. 38. The Polynesian race is rapidly disappearing with
modernization. Tooth decay becomes extreme as shown in
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gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 80/250modernization. Tooth decay becomes extreme as shown in
the girl above. This girl has tuberculosis, one of the physical
injuries which accompany modernization. This is one of the
bodily injuries as we will see later. The study of the incidence of dental caries in these various South Sea Island groups in its
relation to diet was only one of several of the problems investigated. Since nutrition is the principal
factor that has been found related to the r6le of immunity and susceptibility to dental caries in my
previous field studies, the collection of foods for chemical analysis and the gathering of detailed
data regarding the articles of diet have been very important phases of the activities of this group of
studies. Data were collected for relating the incidence of irregularities of the teeth and dental arches to
the types of nutrition. Similarly, studies were made of the individuals who had been hospitalized, in
the few places where hospitals existed, chiefly to obtain data regarding the classification of the
individuals who were suffering from tuberculosis. These were similar to the studies that I have
made among the Eskimos and Indians of Alaska and northern and central Canada. If one will picture a community of several thousand people with an average of 30 per cent of all
the teeth attacked by dental caries and not a single dentist or dental instrument available for
assistance of the entire group, a slight realization is had of the mass suffering that has to be
endured. Commerce and trade for profit blaze the way in breaking down isolation's barriers, far in
advance of the development of health agencies and emergency relief unwittingly made necessary
by the trade contact. While dental caries was most active in the periods of systematic overloads, such as growth,
gestation and lactation, even the splendidly formed teeth of the adult men were wrecked by dental
caries when the native foods were displaced with modern foods. In all of the groups living on
native foods with a liberal intake of animal life of the sea, the health of the gums was generally
excellent. When, however, the sea foods were quite limited in the dietary, heavy deposits formed
and often were associated with a marked destruction of the supporting tissues with gingival
infection. This condition was particularly prevalent among all groups near the ports, when the
groups were displacing part of their native foods with imported foods. In American Samoa through the cooperation of the educational authorities and the Director of
the Department of Health, Commander Stephenson, and under the direct supervision of Lieutenant
Commander Lowry, the dental surgeon, a group of four young men of the native teaching staff was
selected and given instructions for the removal of the deposits. Equipment in the form of
instruments has since been provided, in part through the kindness and generosity of some dental
manufacturers. This probably constitutes the only native dental service that


 do this that or the other. But, from the beginning of history, most of humanity has
realized, however dimly, that there is some kind of law and
authority in the Universe. This is shown by the fact that man
kind-not knowing what that authority is-has postulated
deities of many kinds and a Spiritual Universe in authority over
the Material Universe. The material and the spiritual, the body and the mind, the
organism and the soul-these contrasting concepts represent a
prevalent attitude of mankind towards the Universe in which
he finds himself. But is this attitude really justified. Is it merely the result of
our lack of information about the true nature of things. If the
Universe is one of law and order-as all the evidence indicates-is
it not more likely that there is really a 'unified authority' rather
than a 'divided rule' of the spiritual and material. Webster de
fines universe as: 'All created things viewed as constituting one
system or whole; the creation, the cosmos.'The very word, then,
implies unity, not the 'dual control' of two kinds of authority. If, too, we accept that the Universe is one of law and order, are
we justified in assuming that it includes some chaotic exceptions. Is it not more likely that such an assumption is merely a product
of our ignorance. The fields of life can offer us a new approach to these vital
questions. But, before we discuss this, it is necessary to dis
tinguish between the three kinds of laws that govern mankind :
First, there are Nature's laws, definable and reproducible,
which, as far as we know, are valid right through the Universe. Though we can hope to learn more about them, it is certain that
we can neither alter nor repeal them. THE CONTINUING ADV ENTURE
Second, there are man-made written laws which vary from
country to country and from state to state. These-as we are
painfully aware at the present time-are not always enforced
or enforceable and can be argued, evaded or appealed ad nauseam. While Nature's laws are precise, inflexible and permanent, man
made laws arc often fuzzy, pliable and variable. So much so, in
fact, that it is hard for many who are only familiar with man
made laws to realize that there can be a superior kind. Third, there are the so-called moral laws. These, again, are
laws invented by the mind of man, nearly always with the hope
that they will improve man's attitude towards other men. Most,
if not all, of these laws are the product of the intuitive, creative
capacity of the mind of man-expounded by the philosophers
and prophets of past genera tions. They are valuable because, like
the written law, they are primarily concerned with controlling
behaviour and represent one creative activity of the mind of man. But they vary from country to country and bear little-if any
relationship to the laws of the Universe. Moreover they have been imposed on mankind by. tradition
and by past intuitions; and it is hard to believe that the elder
statesmen of two or three thousand years ago could present,
through intuition-valuable as it may have been-the answers
to all the questions which actually face the mind of man today. Of the three kinds of laws, only those of Nature that we have
discovered can give us a feeling of certainty. At the sub-atomic
level, it is true, there is still some uncertainty. But once the sub
atomic entities arc agglomerated into atoms or molecules we
can recognize and validate primary laws and forces. We know,
for example, that there is a law of gravity. We also know about
electrical and magnetic forces, nuclear forces and contact forces. The laws underlying such phenomena, in fact, are so well known
to scientists that they can be made to serve mankind. Our use
of these natural laws in the present age is miraculous. As a re
sult, we live in a much more comfortable world-at least in the
Northern Hemisphere -than mankind has ever known. Those parts of the world which we choose to call 'primitive'
are so because their inhabitants have not yet learned enough
about the laws and forces of Nature to use them to their full ad-
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vantage. Through the extraordinary development of science, the
Western world has put forces to work for its benefit in an excit
ing and unprecedented way. This would not have been possible
if there were no natural laws and forces which the mind of man
could discover and-more important -understand. To the precise laws of Nature, man's written and moral laws
offer a depressing contrast. The written law, formalized and
expanded by lawyers, is not necessarily the law by which men
live. The living law of human beings is mainly an unwritten
law but it controls the major part of our activities. In many ways,
most of us tend to ignore the written law and behave as we
think commonsense, as it is called, dictates. Moral law is even more flexible -as we see in the current era
of 'permissiveness'. And it is always easier to tell the other man
what he should do than it is to do those things ourselves. Man
has an astonishing capacity to dodge the issues, to hide his real
drive behind a plethora of words which, in many cases, serve as
an excuse for what he thinks should be done or perhaps, more
accurately, for what he wants to do. lt is an extraordinary fact that over the past few thousand
years man has developed an astonishing capacity to use the laws
of Nature for his benefit but, as far as one can see, he has not
made a comparable advance by his use of the written or moral
laws. Most of man's troubles are spawned in the swamps of his own
desires. And his written and moral laws have no relation to the
laws of Nature. As a result, conflict, frustration and anxiety rule
the minds of many, because they cannot reconcile their written
and moral laws with the laws of Nature. We will not be able to get rid of a great many of our troubles,
therefore, until we attempt to relate the written and moral laws
to the laws of the Universe. And if we spent the same amount of
time and money on resolving the discrepancies bet ween the man
made laws of the legalists and moralists and the laws of the
Universe, there is no reason why our advances should not be as
miraculous as those in our material environment. We need to
devote the same kind of effort and thinking which is at present
applied to space exploration to revise man-made laws and to
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harmonize them as far as we can with what we know about the
laws of Nature. 4
No doubt it will take a very long time before we can make
man-made laws more compatible with those of Nature. But it is
important to make a start because the sooner we can do this,
the sooner we can begin to resolve some of our problems and
frustra tions. This task, of course, should be attacked from as many useful
angles as we can think of. But in this book we can only consider
the ways in which a further study of the fields of life can con
tribute to the greatest problem that faces mankind-human be
haviour. An immedia te-and important-contribution which a know
ledge of L-fields can make is the certainty that there an natural
laws to which mankind is subject for us to discover and under
stand. We are not chasing a mere will-O'-the-wisp because we
have found that the L-fields which control man are themselves
subject to the greater fields of the Universe. For us to get any real understanding of the natu re of man and
why he behaves as he does, it is necessary to find natural factors
which, like the law of gravity, are valid everywhere and not only
in the western, eastern or southern hemisphere. L-fields offer us
a starting clue in this search because-as we have seen-the state
of the human field reflects the state of the mind. As L-fields are
subject to universal forces. operating everywhere, it seems reason
able to suppose that the latter have some planet-wide influence
on the minds of men. As extraterrestrial forces, such as solar flares and sun-spot
activity, influence the L-fields of trees it seems most unlikely that
human L-fields are unaffected by such forces. For instance, as
this is written, we are approaching the peak of the current cycle
of sun-spot activity. Is it coincidence that in the past few years
there have been unusual world-wide unrest, riots and disturb
ances of various kinds. We do not know whether it is coincid-
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ence or not. But if we could establish by further experiment and
analysis that mankind tends to be more excitable during increas
ing sun-spot activity, this knowledge, obviously, would be of the
utmost value to world leaders. No doubt other factors are involved in the present world-wide
unrest but it would be helpful if we could recognize and isolate
one of them. The Foundation for the Study of Cycles, of Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, has accumula ted impressive statistical evidence that
the affairs of man-from wars to hog-priees-seem to follow
rhythmie cycles, though the Foundation has not yet discovered
the cause. * Dr. Rav


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utilize and aid the body in binding with toxins and carrying them to the bowels and
out of the body. Golden Rule of Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Diet
The Golden Rule of Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Diet is: "Take nothing into
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the body that has been cooked or processed except items mentioned. " Eat no
"Processed" food for the first six months of Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure
Program. The juicer is the most important appliance in the kitchen of a cancer patient. If
necessary sell the stove and buy a good juicer. The enzymes in foods that have been cooked have been destroyed or changed into
a different compound (amino acid). Cooked food can only be used as food and not as
enzymes, for it has no life. For example, if you plant a raw potato it w ill grow. If you
boil a potato and plant it, it w ill not grow it will rot. Many enzymes are destroyed at
107° F. and almost all are destroyed at 140° F. When a person eats anything processed he or she is not only eating "dead food"
(those in which the enzymes have been destroyed), but he or she is adding a second
very destructive force to his body, the destructive force of food preservatives. This
may not be too significant for a normal healthy person, but for the cancer patient it
may mean life or death. The liver must detoxify, destroy, or metabolize all foreign
substances from the body. When one eats foods with preservatives, it adds an extra
burden upon the liver, which the cancer patient cannot accept. Milk
The cancer patient must give up pasteurized cows' milk forever, except in the form
of raw (unpasteurized), homemade yogurt, and for a while must avoid raw milk too,
except raw (unpasteurized) goats' milk. Cows' milk, like meat, has too high a protein
content and pasteurization compounds the problem as it alters or mutates the protein. Pasteurized cows' milk requires too many pancreatic enzymes for digestion. Also, an animal cannot produce milk unless the female sex hormones are present
in extra large quantities; this causes too many hormones in milk for the person who
has cancer. But if raw goats' milk is available, it is advisable to take 4 to 8 ounces of raw
(unpasteurized), homemade goats' milk (goats' milk is similar to humans' milk) yogurt
each morning for breakfast. This will supply the intestines with adequate helpful
bacteria. This is acceptable because the yogurt bacteria predigest the milk protein
when added to it. After following this diet for 9 to 12 months and if raw goats' or cows' milk is
available. 9 to 12 ounces per day may be taken at any time during the day. 72
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Peanuts
The cancer patient will also want to give up peanuts. First, the peanut is not a nut,
but a legume. Second, the peanut also has too much protein for the cancer patient. Third, it has been found that a fungus grows on peanuts, which produces aflatoxin. To stimulate cancers in experimental animals cancer researchers use aflatoxin. Processed Foods
White Flour
All concentrated foods are extremely hard on the liver and should be given up. White flour and all products containing white flour should be avoided. These are not
only concentrated carbohydrates, but almost always have preservatives added. Use fresh whole wheat bread, made from wheat grown free of all pesticides
(another liver destroying chemical). The essential vitamins are oxidized within three
days at room temperature; hence the need for grinding only as used. Freshly ground
flour or freshly made whole wheat bread may be safely stored deep in a deep freeze
for about a week. It is best, however, to use it within three days. White Sugar
The cancer patient w ill also want to give up all white sugar and white sugar
products. The concentrated carbohydrates are hard on the liver, but more important
in relation to cancer, they are very hard on the pancreas. The pancreas, as noted
earlier, is the first organ to be protected at all costs. White sugar has been processed
(refined) and all the vital minerals are taken out. Cancer patients are always deficient
in minerals. For those who have a sweet tooth, these organic foods may be eaten as desired:
dates, date sugar, figs and raisins obtained from a health food store. These are free of
toxic pesticides and are not harmful to the pancreas or the liver. A cancer patient may
also eat pure maple syrup or unheated honey, in that order. The first is preferable
because it has a higher mineral content. Soy Products
Soy products, except Lecithin, should be used very sparingly for two reasons: First,
the protein content is too high for the cancer patient; Second, soy products tend to
upset the delicate acid/alkaline balance of the body. Eating soy products may be
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resumed when Dr. Kelley's Pancreas Self-Examination Procedure is negative
Other Improper Foods
Lemon juice should replace vinegar altogether. Vinegar is too harsh on the delicate
mucus membrane of the alimentary canal. Also, the ingestion of large quantities of
vinegar causes the digestive tract to become too acid and thus decreases the
efficiency of the pancreatic enzymes and the digestive processes. For at least the first
eight months on Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program, lemon juice should be
used in preference to vinegar on salads. Unrefined, organic flaxseed oil may be used
as salad dressing
For the period of intensive detoxification and treatment, tea, coffee, soft drinks,
chocolate, liquor, tobacco, pork, and white rice should be avoided. These also place
additional stress upon the liver and pancreas as they are being detoxified. Physiological Reactions to
Eating and Taking Supplements
According to Your Metabolic Type
As you follow a properly balanced nutritional program, changes begin to happen
within your body. Often this is alarming and not at all what you expected to happen. The Ideal Reaction
The ideal reaction is the gradual development of an increased "sense of well
being. " At first you w ill notice you do not tire so easily. You "last" longer during the
day, and you do not become tired so early in the evening. Next, you find you are not
so tired in the mornings. You look forward to the new day and may awaken earlier. As your sense of well-being increases, you begin to feel more emotionally and
psychologically secure. Little things do not bother you as they once did. Your old
habit patterns begin to change from "grumpy" ones to "happy" ones. Adverse Reactions
The ideal reaction often occurs, but more frequently there is a multitude of
uncomfortable reactions, which normally come first, as your body chemistry begins
to change. These reactions should not alarm you or cause undue apprehension. Any
one or all of the following reactions may occur:
Toxic Reactions
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After about two or three of weeks eating and taking supplements according to your
metabolic type it is normal to experience toxic reactions. You w ill gradually lose your
appetite, become nauseated and may even develop a "toxic headache. " Occasionally, you may also experience swelling in the various lymph glands
throughout your body. The normal cells cleaning debris from the system faster than
the liver, kidneys, skin and lungs can remove them from the body bring about these
toxic reactions. At this point you can do two things to help:
1. Discontinue the supplements for no more than a five-day period. Continue the
supplements again for ten to 25 days. This cycle of five days off and ten or more
days on may have to be repeated several times, depending upon the depleted
condition of your body and the amount of repair which is needed at the cellular
level. 2. Take a coffee enema to stimulate the excretion of toxins. The procedure for this
is explained earlier in this book. One or two a day may be taken depending
upon the severity of the toxic condition. In an extreme toxic reaction, both the
discontinuance of supplements and the coffee enema should be used. 75
Structu r a l &  Neu rologica l Stim ulation
W h ile  the bo dy is being p ro p e rly  d e to x ifie d  and nourished,
th e  nerve supply to  th e  pancreas and liv e r should be considered. Structural and Neurological Stimulation
While the body is being properly detoxified and nourished, the nerve supply to the
pancreas and liver should be considered. A specific organ works only when told to by a nerve, chemical, or pressure
stimulation. Upon taking careful histories, we found a number of cancer patients who
had had blows to the head or spine. We feel that such experiences change the nerve
impulses to the various organs. If pressure on a nerve to the pancreas causes it to
cease sending impulses to the pancreas, the pancreas w ill turn off and wait until the
nerve tells it to work again. If the nerve is destroyed, or for some reason never sends a
message, the pancreatic function will be greatly impaired. Probably the best way to reactivate the nerve enervation is through some form of
manipulative therapy such as osteopathic manipulation, chiropractic adjustments, or
physio