	your	air	conditioner	hasn’t	broken	down	yet	doesn’t	mean	you
don’t	have	to	pay	any	attention	to	it!	Most	air	conditioners	and	heaters	have
replaceable
filters,	so	it’s	a	good	idea	to	replace	them	often	(well	before	they	bite
the	dust)	to	keep	debris	and	pollutants	out	of	your	beauty	space.
WASH	UP
Once	a	week,	wash	your	sheets,	pillowcases,	mattress	pads,	duvet	covers,	and
blankets	with	hot	water	to	clean	out	any	compiling	dust,	mold,	and	the	like.
ADJUST	THE
HUMIDITY
Humidity	can	have	an	effect	on	the	concentrations	of	some	indoor	air
pollutants.	The	ideal	range	is	between	30	and	50	percent.	If	it’s	too	humid	in
your	home,	try	opening	the	windows	or	using	a	dehumidifier.
CHOOSE	MORE	BEAUTIFUL
DRY	CLEANING
Most	of	us	drop	off	our	dry	cleaning	and	don’t	give	it	another	thought	until	it’s	time
to	pick	it	up.	But	most	dry	cleaners—around	85	percent,	in	fact—use	a	solvent	called
perchloroethylene,	or	“perc,”	a	chemical	the
Environmental	Protection	Agency
(EPA)	considers	both	a	health	and	environmental	hazard	that	has	been	identified
as	a	possible	human	carcinogen	and	been	linked	to	neurological	effects,	kidney	and
liver	damage,
14
	and	possibly	birth	defects	and	reproductive	issues.
15
There	are,	however,	dry-cleaning	methods	that	do	not	use	perc;	seek	these	out
to	alleviate	the	concern	of	this	toxin	leaching	into	your	beautiful	body.	Look	for	dry
cleaners	advertised	as	being	“green,”	which	can	use	several	alternatives.	One	of
these	is	wet	cleaning,	which	the	EPA	considers	one	of	the	safest	professional
cleansing	methods,	as	there	is	no	hazardous	chemical	use.	Carbon	dioxide	cleaning
is	nontoxic	and	is	also	considered	environmentally	friendly.CHECK
APPLIANCES
Inspect	fuel-burning	appliances	regularly	for	leaks,	and	make	repairs	when
necessary.
SET	BOUNDARIES	WITH
PETS
Pets	are	indeed	wonderful,	but	the	truth	is	that	dogs	and	other	outdoor	pets	can
track	in	a	lot	of	environmental	pollutants	on	their	paws.	Ideally,	it	would	be	a
good	idea	to	keep	furry	friends	out	of	your	bedroom	and	certainly	off	your	bed,
as	well	as	off	couches	and	fabric-covered	furniture.	Think	about	it:	paws	are	like
your	pets’	shoes,	and	you	wouldn’t	want
anyone’s
	shoes	tramping	around
directly	all	over	your	bed	and	couch!
Electromagnetic	Field	Pollution
In	the	modern	world	we	live	in,	we	are	constantly	being	assailed	by	an	invisible
form	of	pollution	from	electromagnetic	fields,	also	known	as
EMFs.	Electric
and	magnetic	fields	are	invisible	force	lines	that	surround	any	electrical	device.
Even	smaller	devices,	such	as	a	radio	alarm	clock	near	your	head	on	your
nightstand	table,	can	emit	EMFs.	Today,	there	are	many	various	sources	of
EMF	pollution,	including	cell	phones,	computers	and	laptops,	TVs,	wireless
baby	monitors,	wireless	gaming	consoles,	microwave	ovens,	high-	and	low-
voltage	power	lines,	cell	phone	towers,	and	other	types	of	electronic	equipment.
EMF	pollution	can	affect	every	organ	and	every	cell	of	your	body.	In	a
simplified	sense,	when	an	electromagnetic	wave	passes	through	your	body,	it
induces	an	electric	current	inside	you	that	can	interfere	with	many	of	your
body’s	natural	biological	processes.
There	is	controversy	about	the	extent	and	specificity	to	which	EMFs	can
affect	human	health.	But	most	researchers	would	agree	that	taking	reasonable
steps	to	help	reduce	your	EMF	exposure	is	warranted.	Some	research	has
concluded	that	magnetic	fields	are	potentially	carcinogenic,
16
	and	the
World
Health	Organization	stated	in	a	2011	press	release	that	cell	phones	could	be	a
carcinogen	with	excessive	use.
17
	The
BioInitiative	Working	Group,	made	up	of
an	international
group	of	scientists,	researchers,	and	public	health
professionals,	put	out	a	report	in	2012	with	their	conclusion	that	magnetic
fields	can	be	linked	to	various	health	issues,	including	impaired	stress
responses,	childhood
cancers	such	as	leukemia	and	compromised	immune
function,	neurology,	and	behavior.
18
What	can	you	do?•
Switch	off	electronic	devices	when	possible.	This	includes	turning	your	cell
phone	off	(or	at	least	to	airplane	mode)	at	bedtime	to	prevent	the	signal
from	coming	in.
•
Avoid	electronic	alarm	clocks	in	your	bedroom	and	switch	to	battery-
operated	ones.
•
Replace	wireless	devices	with	wired	alternatives,	such	as	swapping	out	a
wireless	headset	for	a	wired	one.	Use	corded	baby	monitors,	or	if	that	is	not
possible,	keep	your	baby	monitor	at	least	6	feet	away	from	your	baby.
•
Try	to	reduce	cell	phone	use	as	much	as	possible	(seemingly	hard	but	not
impossible)	by	talking	on	landlines	and	using	wired	headsets	as	much	as
possible.
•
Avoid	microwaves.	In	addition	to	their	EMF	output,	microwaves	may
potentially	alter	or	even	destroy	your	food’s	nutrition.	For	instance,	research
published	in	the	journal
Pediatrics
	found	that	microwaving	breast	milk	cuts
down	on	lysozyme	activity,	reduces	key	antibodies,	promotes	potentially
dangerous	bacteria,	and	destroys	immunoglobulin	A	antibodies,	which	fight
invading	microbes.
19PILLAR	5:
Beautiful	Movement
Nature	designed	the
body	to	move,	and	when	it	moves	correctly,	the	body
maintains	itself	exquisitely.	Stasis	is	the	enemy,	which	doesn’t	come	as	good
news	in	a	society	where	sedentary	lifestyles	are	on	the	rise.	How	you	choose	to
move	your	body	has	an	effect	on	your	entire	being,	including	your	health	and
your	mental	and	emotional	states,	as	well	as	the	more	obvious	physical	results
like	the	tone	of	your	muscles	and	your	external	beauty.
The	first	and	greatest	single	benefit	you	can	receive	comes	the	moment	you
decide	to	get	up	out	of	your	chair	to	stand,	move,	and	be	active.	Gravity	itself
creates	healthy	movement	in	the	lymphatic	system,	which	is	well	understood,
but	there	seem	to	be	hidden	reasons	why	standing	up	and	letting	gravity	do	its
work	is	important.	A	key	study	of	college	varsity	athletes	put	them	in	bed	for
two	weeks	without	getting	up—once	considered	the	best	regimen	for	patients
recovering	from	serious	injury,	surgery,	and	even	childbirth.
But	total	rest	does	the	opposite	of	what	it	was	intended	to	do.	At	the	end	of
the	two	weeks,	the	athletes	had	lost	the	equivalent	of	two	years	of	muscle
building.	Most	of	this	so-called	disuse	atrophy	is	prevented	by	having	patients
stand	up	and	move	around	as	soon	as	possible	in	their	recovery.	On	the	other
end	of	the	spectrum,	popular	fitness	max


228
remote control, 212–13
Rentz, Earlene, 169
resistance:
to abundance, 146–48, 152–54
to detachment, 162–63, 196–98
to for giveness, 261
to importance of thought, 69–73
to principle of oneness, 1 10–13
to principle of synchronicity, 245–47
to transformation, 28–30
responsibility:
acceptance of, 72, 79–80, 197, 260–61, 263, 269
as word, 268
results, production of, 54–56
revenge, 263–66, 268, 270, 275
blame vs., 263–65
right-versus-wrong dichotomies, 188
“Road Less Traveled, The” (Frost), 41–42

scarcity consciousness, 1, 49, 127, 129, 131–34, 142–43, 146, 148, 151,
154, 281
origins of, 153
transcending of, 122–23
Schweitzer, Albert, 131
self-actualization, 210
separateness, 83, 84, 88, 103, 1 10–13, 1 14, 269–70
serenity, 176, 287, 288
service, 131–32, 150–51, 196, 253
Shakespeare, William, 38Sheldrake, Rupert, 89
shyness, 49
sixth sense, 232
Sky’s the Limit, The  (Dyer), 209–10
soul, 2, 15, 17–18
consciousness of, 187
as intelligence supporting form, 18
Spinoza, Baruch, 38
spirituality. See consciousness, higher
spiritual masters, 60, 65, 102, 108, 109, 1 19, 240
in dreams, 59
forgiveness taught by, 263, 266, 269–70, 271
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 142
stimulus-response connection, 215
subatomic particles, 240–43, 247
suffering:
attachment and, 181–82, 184, 185, 188, 189, 201, 203
blessing within, 225, 228
detachment and, 179–81, 184, 185
in enlightenment process, 223–24, 225, 226, 228, 230,
251
form and, 109, 182, 203, 251
inability to for give as cause of, 257
paradox of, 286
surrendering, 199, 286–91
symphony metaphor, 205–6
synchronicity, 207–56, 257
Jung on, 207–8
miracles as explained by, 232–43
pure, 228–32
religion vs., 246
resistance to principle of, 245–47
suggestions for applications of principle of, 247–56
as word, 207–8
synthesis, analysis vs., 220, 253, 254

Tao, 219
Tao of Physics, The  (Capra), 89, 240
Teihard de Chardin, Pierre, 96, 97
Teresa, Mother, 106
thankfulness, 122–23, 155
Thomas, Isaiah, 276
Thomas, Lewis, 89, 92–93
Thoreau, Henry David, 47, 58
thought, 18–19, 37–81
attachments in, 163
beginning and end of, 63–64, 77–78, 218
connectors of, 214–23, 232, 238, 251–52
defined, 37–38
dimension of, 14–15, 64, 65, 77, 109, 129–30, 163, 164,
219, 231, 289, 290
expansion caused by, 124–26, 127–28, 132, 142, 151,
277
feelings as result of, 49
flowing of, 221, 229
as flowing ener gy, 221
formlessness of, 214, 218–20, 221, 230, 231–32
immortality of, 16, 18, 60, 62, 76, 203, 287
indebted, 74, 124
independent, 70–71
nothingness, 130
of oneness, 98–99
pure, 9, 56, 59, 65, 107, 228–29, 250
rearranging of, 72–74
resistance to importance of, 69–73
self-defeating, 73
as thing, 46, 47
universal, 223, 232
See also  dreams; visualization
time:
in dreams, 58, 62–63, 76, 77
Einstein’ s views on, 50, 62, 76as illusion, 62
nonexistence of, 50, 58, 62–63, 76, 77, 104, 239–40
in quantum mechanics, 240–41
Tonight Show, 45–46, 52
tradition, 184–85, 202–3, 246
transformation, 2, 13–36, 130, 232, 250, 252
in Bible, 15
death as, 109
defined, 13–14, 15
form in, 13–14, 15
religious beliefs and, 30
resistance to, 28–30
suggestions for, 30–36
traumas, 222–24, 231, 232, 251
Twain, Mark, 271
type-A  behavior, 76

uniqueness, 87, 1 18, 262
United Nations, 106
universe:
abundance as watchword of, 121–22
as circle, 87–88
completeness of, 207, 235, 238, 239–40
energy in, 52, 129, 165, 166–69, 209, 21 1, 220, 223,
244, 251, 280
freedom in, 134–35
God as support for, 211, 219, 238
harmony in, 165, 232
infinity of, 121, 21 1, 247
intelligence as support for, 211, 219, 232, 238
perfection of, 207, 210–1 1, 246, 248, 258–59, 287
rhythm in, 250
trusting of, 196
as vibrating thought, 219
as word, 83

vibrations, 52, 129, 219, 220, 251
violence, 162, 264–65
analysis as, 220, 253–54
visualization, 47–56, 73, 75, 1 16, 133–34, 235–37
of abundance, 48–49, 53
four principles of, 47–56

war, 89, 99, 100–101, 102, 1 12, 184, 189–90, 266, 269
competition compared to, 191–93
ending of, 91, 151
revenge and, 263–64
weapons, 103, 1 12, 253, 263, 186
wellness, creation of, 124
Whitman, Walt, 132–33
willingness, 52–54, 238
Winter ’s Tale (Helprin), 238–41
win/win approach, 196–97
worrying, 250
Wright, Orville and Wilbur, 51

Yoganada, Paramahansa, 102–3, 1 19, 187
Your Err oneous Zones  (Dyer), 8–9, 40, 47, 54, 209

Zen, 149, 192
Zukav, Gary, 89, 240–41
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 the child passed urine, gave him five to six drops to
drink. Then he used to advise mother that if the child feels a thirst for
water, she should give him his own urine to drink. That would
eliminate the necessity of taking a child to a Vaidya and giving him
some laxative. Urine naturally kept the bowels clean and
consequently the child would never be ill. Remembering my father's
advice, 1 made use of auto-urine on my children successfully." 1:
:!
I'
I I CHAPTER XXII
AUTO-URINE: NECTAR AND AN ANTI-POISON
There are but two means in the world to preserve and restore
health : (i) milk and (ii) auto-urine. Sage Atreya has given these two
substances a prominent place in Ayurved for the preservation and
restoration of health. here is the substance of Ayurvedic texts on
urine:
11Man1s urine is salty, pungent,.bitter, sweet, light, tonic,
appetizer, digestive, and is an anti-poison and destroyer of worms,
cough, excessive bile, and gas. It -is a laxative. It is a cure of eye
diseases top11• This is what the great Ayurvedic authorities like
Sushrut, Harit, Vagbhatta and others had said about human urine in
their texts.
The use of urine -and milk has been prescribed for all human
diseases by Ayurved. As has been said in different texts of Ayurved
milk and urine are homogeneous with human body as they are its
products. So no objection can be raised to their use for human body.
In Tantric texts, this fluid (urine) has been very frequently prescribed
and it has been mentioned thatone who uses this fluid gets rid of all
his diseases.
Congestion of urine gives much pa:in and even endangers life. So
Ayurved forbids the suppression of urination. Hence its passing out
on urge is but necessary. But there is absolutely no harm in taking
the passed out urine aga:n to get rid of physical disorders. No where
does Ayurved prohibit the use of urine. Vagbhatta says that there is
nothing in this world which cannot be used as medicine. The only
thing required is that it should be utilised with commo[l sense..
An Anti-poison : Lord Sushrut has mentioned auto-urine as an
anti-poisonous substance and.a good tonic. Snake-charmers keep a
bowlful of urine handy while catching a snake so that he may be
able to drink and apply it without loss of time in case of a
166 I
AUTO-URINE: NECTAR AND AN ANT-POSION : 167
snake-bite. In Shivambu-Kalp, it is said that one who drinks urine
regularly for six months becomes immune to snake-poiso~. The
same is the opinion of may Jain monks and other sadhus. It IS very
essential that anything read, heard or _spoken should be thoroughly
investigated and examined scientifically before presenting it to the ·
people for the common welfare. I have always been anxious to have
direct and definite proofs that urine has anti-poisionous qualities. In
the meanwhile Shri Chandrankant came in my contact. He had been
an ardent social worker of Kapadvanj and had come in to close
relation with an ascetic Vivekanand Saraswati whom he often
visited. Shri Parikh suffered from fever and catarrh. He could not get
rid of these complaints in spite of various treatments. At last he
resorted to urine cure. He started rinking and rubbing urine and was
cured within a week. Later he·informed the Swamiji about his urine
experiment and subsequent cure. Swamiji welcomed the news an~
said : 11Urine is a nectar.11 Thereafter Swamiji related a number of h1s
personal experinces with urine.
On 30-9-59 Shri Chandrakant Patikh accompanied me to see
Swamiji. At the first sight Swamiji appeared to me to be 55 but later
on it was revealed that he was 78. We had a good deal of talks. He
related: 11ln my native place Bareilly, (U.P.),there is a custom to ~ive
auto-urine in case of snake-bite. It is said that Chandan Goh 1s a
highly poisonous creature and· that there is no remedy for its bite.
One beaten by it definitely loses his life. But auto-urine ~as the
power of nullifying the effect of the poison of this creature too. This
fact has been ascertained by a number of incidents which took place
in my native place.
11There was a person who illegally dealt in opium. This was
disliked by his wife and she daily used to ask her husband to give up
the disreputable profession. But the latter would not listen. At last the
wife became desperate. In the absence of her husband, she came to
lay her hands upon nearly 30 gms. of opium which she dissolved in
water and drank-it. Consequently she fainted within half an hour. As
soon as her. husband returned home he was at once very anxious (
., I 168 :. AUTO-URINE THERAPY
abou_t his wife's condition. It was almost evening. He came to me
ru~nmg and narrated the whole incident. I asked him to collect the
ur~ne ~assed by the boys in the neighbourhood and make his wife
dnnk_ 1t the whole night. Following my advice he collected urine of
about 15 boys in the locality and gave it to his wife the whole night.
She came to her senses in the morning and her life was saved."
Swamiji n_ar:ated another incident : "Ahmedabad Municipality
had started killmg stray dogs by poisoning. Unfortunately my dog
al~ got involved in that by chance. My dog took his share of
pmsoned swe:ts from other dogs by force. Consequently he too was
affected by po1son. ~she came to me staggering, 1 at once suspected
th~t ~e had been po1soned. So I made him drink a glassful of urine.
W1th1n a short time the effect of poison disappeared."
Apart from the above incidents, Swamiji quoted a number of
other illustrations about his successful experiments with urine. ·
CHAPTER XXIII
TOOTHACHE
~anu~hai too C~nverted: An interesting episode took place one
even1ng 1n our soc1ety regarding urine. Some young workers of
Ahmedabad Congress_ take a good deal of interest in criticizing urine
therapy. They have n1cknamed auto-urine as "Kaka-Cola" in fun. So
whenever somebody complained of any minor trouble, they at once
recommended "Kaka-Cola"! I enjoyed their remarks. One night
a~ut 9 p.m., _all these friends were sitting in a house in my
ne1ghbourhood 1n Panchsheel Society where 1 lived and these were
gossiping heartily. Shri Manubhai Patel, organizer of Gujarat
~r~desh Sevadal and once a Deputy Minister of the State, was also
s1ttmg along with them. He was suffering from toothache for the past
one month an_d as the gums started bleeding, he consulted a dentist.
The doctor suspected pyorrho~a, which meant extracting the full set TOOTHACHE : 169
of teeth. Shri Manubhai was narrating this story when I reached
there. 1 suggested to him urine treatment. He interrupted me an~ said
· that he had no faith in it and a hearty joke followed. Accord1ng to
him it would be advisable to channelize all municipal urinals
towards urine therapy centre and there to bottle urine on a mass
scale label it 'Kaka-Cola' and to put it in the market and make an
additlonal source of income to the Ahmedabad Municipality! All his
friends sitting there had a very hearty laugh at th_is big joke at_ my
cost! Even then 1 insiSted upon an urine-pack on h1s gums that mght.
My request did not appeal to him and so he kept silent. B~t ~e
got at 5 a.m. and per force applied a urine-pack due to acute pa1n In
the tooth and.then slept again. When he got up at 5 a.m., he
experienced a magical effect. There was great relief and the entire.
pain had vanished.
Consequently, the amagol'lism that Shri Manubhai was
harbouring against urine therapy evaporated by this experience. He
related this experience to his friends with great eAtnusiasm.
Shri MaAUbhai then continued the treatment. He pressed out foul
blood and mucus from the gums and went on taking mouth-washes
with urine. He also drank it a little and by the fourth day he was al1
rtght. Later on a friend of Shri Man!Jbhai·'·s company told me joking :
nvou have conva:


 temporarily, but after another week or two you may not taste it anymore and you
can start adding further drops until you reach the desired intake. I had many people complaining that they cannot use it because they
had started taking it in too high a dose or too concentrated.
If you cannot get used to the taste  of magnesium chloride, and also for children you may instead use an eqivalent  amount of
magnesium citrate.
Chelated  or otherwise organ ically bound copper has been used to reduce inﬂammations; mainly as
copper  salicylates  (copper  salicylate  does not cause bleeding or other  problems like medical  salicylates  such as aspirin). Often it
helps instead to wear a copper bracelet around the affected limb. Sulfur is an important ingredient of cartilage. In addition to one or
two egg yolks use plenty of onion or sulphur vegetables, and preferably 2 to 3 tsp or 10 to 20 grams of MSM.
A daily drop or two of Lugol's  solut ion or a similar iodine remedy is highly recommended. Alternatively take kelp. Helpful is also
glucosamine, 500 mg before or with each meal, I prefer N-Acetyl Gluco samine, also liquid bovine cartilage (1 tsp daily) or possibly
extract of green-lipped mussel may be taken, about 350 mg 3 times daily. You may try chondroitin sulfate but it is difﬁcult to absorb.
Cod liver oil can be helpful. You may shake a tablespoonful together  with some lecithin and fresh orange juice in a jar, some
recommend taking this before going to bed. This provides the essentia l omega-3 fatty acid DHA and the vitamins A and D. If you
suspect fat malabsorption  you may instead rub cod liver oil into the skin. You may rinse it off several hours later. Better than cod liver
oil are ﬁsh oil in addition to halibut liver oil capsules, or better still, krill oil.
If insensitive, elderly or with signs of mineral deﬁciency (soft ﬁngernails), a hydrochloric acid supplement with meals may be
beneﬁcial, especially with protein foods. For further information see  Hydrochloric Acid.
Also digestive enzymes from supplements or pineapple, pawpaw or ripe Kiwifruit will be helpful in advanced conditions with cooked
food meals. The protein-digesting enzymes  bromelain  and papain  (pineapple and papaya) can also be taken before meals to reduce
pain and inﬂammation. If food or chemical sensitivities remain a problem even after allergy testing and avoiding offenders, then
several grams of the amino acid glutamine can help to make the intestinal wall less ‘leaky’.
D-or D,L-phenylalanine (but not L-phenylalanine) reduces pain by blocking enzymes which destroy natural pain-killing hormones in
the brain. Start with 500 mg 3 times  daily. It may take up to 3 weeks until it becomes effective; possibly increase to 1500 mg per
dose, once effective decrease again to a minimum maintenance dose. White willow bark may be used as herbal  salicylate  for pain
relief but is not recommended for long-term use as it may increase allergies, it is much better to use copper  salicylate. With gout
copper salicylate and 5 mg of folic acid with meals are helpful.
Other beneﬁcial supplements are Royal Jelly (absorb under the tongue), evening primrose oil, octacosanol,  spirulina, bee pollen,
ginseng and yucca; with rheumatoid arthritis also immune stimulants such as propolis,  echinacea, and freeze-dried thymus (absorb
under the tongue). Good anti-inﬂammatory herbal remedies are golden seal, feverfew, ginger, pau d’arco or taheebo and turmeric.
To improve liver functions try milk thistle, and after meals half a cup of a bitter liver herb such as centaury, devils claw or gentian. At
other times also diuretic herb teas are useful, such as meadowsweet and sarsaparilla which both help to remove uric acid. Increase
and decrease high-dosage suppleme nts gradually, such as initially or before and after fasts and with improvement. The more you use
fresh green juice, raw food, cleansing and suitable additional therapies, the less supplements will be needed.
FURTHER MEASURES
In addition to the direct elimination of harmful residues through the skin it is of greatest importance to improve the elimination through
the bowels and kidneys. Much of the morning stiffness with arthritis is due to water retention. This, can improve by avoiding salt and
taking herbal diuretics, such as juniper berries or tea of elder or peach leaves, also meadowsweet, sarsaparilla or sassafras.
DMSO
In addition to antimicrobial therapy and boron, DMSO or Dimethyl  Sulfoxide  is the most important arthritis remedy. It has all of the
beneﬁcial properties of MSM but often to a higher degree, and it has additional healing properties based on its antioxidant and
solvent properties. There is no other biological solvent that can so easily penetrate the skin.
Because it is so rapidly absorbed - it can be tasted in the mouth only minutes after applying it to the skin - and combined with its
ability to block pain signals to the brain, DMSO also acts very fast to stop or greatly reduce pain from arthritis, muscle injuries, and
other sites of pain or inﬂammation. While the pain may come back after several hours, it tends to lessen with each re-application of
DMSO. Unlike other pain relievers, especially of the medical kind which may cause long-term damage, DMSO greatly speeds up
healing of damaged areas. This is due to its antioxidant, anti-inﬂammatory and antimicrobial properties, and its ability to improve
blood circulation, nutrient supply, dissolve obstructions, and remove stress.10/30/24, 3:31 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Arthritis & Rheumatism
https://health-science-spirit.com/Diseases/Arthritis-and-Rheumatism.html 8/11To avoid skin irritation apply DMSO onto the skin over painful areas but only in diluted form at 70% or less. This may vary according
to the sensitivity of the skin. DMSO is not normally used on broken or open skin, but it has been applied to fresh cuts and other
wounds and greatly speeded up healing without causing pain or other discomfort. Depending on the degree of pain or inﬂammation
DMSO may be applied several times during the day but the need for multiple applications may reduce on following days. The effect
may be felt within minutes. Also swellings such as from sprained ankles can quickly disappear if kept covered with DMSO.   While
DMSO mixes freely with water and glycerine, it does not mix with oils or kerosene. It does not dissolve magnesium chloride but it can
improve absorption by carrying along the water in which the magnesium is dissolved. For further information see  MSM and DMSO.
Alkalizing
Arthritis in its active form is strongly related to overacidity which in turn increases inﬂammation and pain. In addition to using an
alkalizing diet, this can be controlled  with alkalizers such as potassium citrate, sodium bicarbonate and potassium bicarbonate. Use
half to one teaspoon of bicarbona te in a glass of water on an empty stomach or 2-3 hours after meals once or twice daily.
Bicarbonate solution is also effective in direct contact with fungi such as for rinsing the mouth, sinuses or vagina or as packs over
sites of fungal infection and tumours. Potassium citrate may be used in drinks or directly mixed with food, use up to a level teaspoon
3 times daily. For details see  ALKALIZING  with Sodium Bicarbonate and Potassium Citrate.
Blistering
Blistering, also called counter-irritation, is a direct cleansing method for local conditions and has been used successfully for centuries
with arthritis and other rheumatic complaints. It often gives results quicker and more reliably than other methods.
The usual technique to irritate the skin over a painful or stiff joint is by applying a blistering agent. One may also vigorously brush
affected joints or even intentionally expose them to insect bites or stings. A folk remedy for arthritis it to hold a stiff or sore joint in an
ants nest or let it be bitten by sand ﬂies or mosquitoes, even bee stings have been used. Another folk remedy is beating the affected
area with a bunch of stinging nettles.
The principle is to draw the toxins and congesting energies from the inside to the surface. Liniments, compresses and plasters may
be used. Vegetable turpentine or kerosene are suitable as blistering agents, but most commonly used are cayenne, mustard powder
and Cantharides.  Cayenne  or mustard powder may be mixed with water to make a paste. This is spread on a linen or cotton cloth
and applied to the affected area. Leave it on until the burning becomes too uncomfortable. Preferably a blister should have been
raised or pussy pustules may appea r.


 seeds are fried a little (without adding oil) and by adding equal
amount of sugar candy it is powdered. is is taken 3–4 times in a day.
is eﬀectively pacies dry cough.
Bark Powder as Tooth Powder
e stem bark is collected and dried. is is powdered and used as
tooth powder. is strengthens the teeth and gums.
Walnut and Jaggery Confection in Lethargy, Body Ache and
Muscular Pain
Equal amount of jaggery and walnut powder are taken and Laddu is
made. As per ones liking clove or cardamom may be added. is is
taken daily in the evening. is is a very good nutritive and energizer.
It pacies lethargy, body ache and muscular pain. is strengthens the
hair and prevents hair fall also.
 101. 6 Bottle Gourd
Remedies for Gall Bladder,
Conjunctivitis, Fatigue
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Bottle gourd – Louki is a familiar vegetable, used by in many countries
including India. Its reference and utility is found from the Samhita period
itself (1–3 Century BC). is is named as Alabu in Ayurveda.
e name bottle gourd is given probably due to its shape of a bottle. But
today we get varieties of bottle gourds too (diﬀerent size and shaped bottle is
also available!).
Bottle Gourd – Calabash Qualities
Sweet taste, undergoes sweet bio transformation after digestion.
Qualities – light, unctuous, cold, thick and soft.
It balances vata and pitta dosha; excess intake of this may provoke Kapha.
Functions: Clears and opens up body channels, restores liver health, coolant,
laxative and increases bulk of stools.
So, this remains as a vegetable of choice in the conditions like –
Obstructive jaundice (ruddhapatha kamala),
Gouty arthritis (vatarakta),1.
2.
3.Aruchi (anorexia),
Shirashoola (head ache),
Grahani (mal absorption) etc.
Several home remedies are also in practice derived out of Bottle gourd and
few of them are explained here below –
Raw Bottle Gourd Pieces in Burning Sensation of Head, Eyes and
Chest
Bottle gourd is washed and its outer skin is peeled.
10–15 small pieces (5–10 grams sized) are made and this is
consumed one after the other (which is tasty like any raw vegetable)
without adding spices and salt.
is reduces all kind of burning complaints including burning of
urine as well as during defecation. Person feels cooling eﬀect for the
next day itself.
Bottle Gourd Fresh Juice in Conjunctivitis
2–3 ml of fresh juice is obtained out of sweet bottle gourd and used to
instil to both the eyes. is relieves gritting and burning of the eyes
caused during conjunctivitis.
Purulent discharge also controlled soon by this.
If the patient hesitates to instil to the eyes ne paste of this can be
applied over the closed eyes. is also contributes signicant, similar
benet.
Bottle Gourd Soup in Liver and Gall Bladder Diseases
Bottle gourd pieces are made and cooked by adding small quantity of
water. (preferably salt is not added; if any body feels diﬃculty to take4.
5.
6.without salt or least amount of salt or jaggery, as per ones requirement
can be added).
If necessary little pepper can be added.
is soup is consumed or taken along with boiled rice or Chapati in
cases like biliary colic, jaundice, bile stones, biliary head ache etc.
Bottle Gourd Kheer/Payasam in Fatigue, Lethargy etc
Sliced or grated bottle gourd is cooked well and milk is added (coconut
milk can also be added). Further by adding jaggery or sugar candy it is
stirred well till complete dissolution. If necessary this is garnished with
saﬀron or avoured with cardamom.
is relieves tiredness and is a good rejuvenator and sexual vigour
enhancer (both in men and women).
Bottle Gourd Flower Recipe in Acid Peptic Disorders
Sweet bottle gourd gives white colored owers. 3–4 Flowers are taken
and fried a little, with ghee. is is churned well with buttermilk and
1–2 pinch of pepper. Further by adding little salt this is served along
with food/rice.
Or else this can be used to drink also.
is acts as a regulator of the digestive re. is helps to reduce
tastelessness, head ache, nausea, acid peptic disorders, acidic
regurgitation etc.
e ower can be used to make chutney also (where little grated
coconut or coconut powder can be added while grinding).
Bottle Gourd Tender Seed Fry as Taste Enhancer
Tender bottle gourd is taken and cut into pieces. e seeds (soft) are
collected and fried with little ghee (or sesame oil). Little pepper or saltare also added.
is is taken out of the re and taken while it is lukewarm.
is is very tasty and it enhances taste in the food stuﬀs. Children
especially like this kind of healthy vegetable seed fry.
Note: Bottle gourd peel chutney is also having the same properties.
Bitter variety of bottle gourd also available and one should be careful
while using such a variety as it is purgative and emetic as well.
 1.102. 6 Butter Remedies for
Cracked Lips, Male Health,
Voice Hoarseness
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Butter is the queen of fats. It is appreciated well as a rich source of vitamins A,
D, E, and K which needed for good functioning of both body and mind.
Vitamin A is more easily absorbed and utilized from butter than from other
sources. It also contains trace elements such as Manganese, Zinc, Chromium,
Selenium, and Iodine are.
Butter contains glyco-sphingo-lipids, a type of special kind of fatty acid; this
safeguards the gut against several gastrointestinal infections.
But people are afraid about butter only with the reason that it is fatty and
makes the body stout and blocks the vessels due to high cholesterol!
A moderate usage of butter, a teaspoon or two per day is okay for everyone.
Here are a few easy and useful butter remedies:
Butter and Sugar Emulsion as Aphrodisiac
2 tablespoon of butter and 1 tablespoon of sugar candy powder are
taken together and mixed thoroughly. is is consumed once in a day
preferably during bed time. is improves sperm count and semen2.
3.
4.
5.
6.quantity. But in case of high viscosity of semen (very thick semen), it is
better to avoid butter.
Butter in Lip Crack and Dryness of the Skin
Local application of butter helps to pacify cracked lips, mouth ulcer,
scalds, burning sensation and dry skin.
Butter with Saﬀron for Skin Glow
A pinch of saﬀron is dissolved in half spoon of butter and consumed
daily. is helps to enhance the glow especially in pregnant mothers
during second trimester. Also this helps to improve weight of the
foetus.
Butter Application to the Scalp
In cases of severe headache, burning of the scalp and eyes, half spoon
of butter is taken and is applied to the middle of the scalp (preferably
buﬀalo’s butter is used).
Jaggery Mixed Butter in Haemorrhoids
In chronic haemorrhoids 1 teaspoon of butter is mixed with a teaspoon
of jaggery and administered early in the morning in the empty
stomach. is helps to cool down the body, improves appetite and
useful to heal bleeding haemorrhoids.
Honey Mixed Butter in Chronic Cough
Butter and honey are mixed in equal quantities and patient is asked to
lick it. is helps to pacify chronic cough, hoarseness of voice and
feeble voice caused after paralysis.
 1.103. 6 Caraway Seed
Remedies for Alopecia,
Vomiting, Headache
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Krishna jeeraka (Botanical name – Carum carvi (Linn.) is commonly known as
Caraway, Kala Jira or Sha jeera. is is very useful in intestinal parasites.
Caraway seeds are rich in essential oils (Carvone, lilmonene, germacrence – D)
triacylglycerols, sterols, petroselinic acid etc.
According to Ayurveda Caraway is promotes digestion strength, relieves
atulence, fever, anorexia, pain, swelling and inammation.


 in a comparatively short time
become orderly and useful citizens.
So it is with the human body. Due to the deficiency of live atoms
in the food people have been eating, particularly during the present
and immediately preceding generations, the starved and half-starved
body cells, unable to function properly and efficiently the way they
are intended to, rebel and become disorganized. Not being entirely
dead these cells become dislodged from their anchorage (figuratively
speaking), and float around until they find some location within the
human anatomy where they can group together. With the entire body
suffering more or less from live atoms starvation, there are plenty of
locations in the body where protective resistance is low.
We must not conclude that ulcers and cancer result only from
physical imperfections. As we have already pointed out, these ailments
and many others may very likely stem from lifelong resentments,
from stress due to states of mind such as jealousy, fear, hate, worry,
frustration, and other negative intangible impediments. These are the
first things to be dissolved and banished. Nevertheless we must not
overlook the fact that Malnutrition and failure to maintain the system
in the highest possible state of cleanliness within and without, and
mentally, may definitely also be contributing factors.
Based on this premise and on the experience resulting from our
research, it is our contention that the search for the cause of cancer
does not lie in the field of fantastic speculation of uncontrollable
radium experiments, but rather in the deficiency of life in the atoms
of the food we eat. On the other hand, the search for a cure would
more intelligently lead us to the first principles of Godliness, namely,
cleansing the body of waste matter so that the poisons that occur as a
result of the waste there from should not interfere with Nature's healing
31 processes. Simultaneously furnishing the body with an abundance of
the most vital live-food atoms available for the regeneration of the
cells which would enable the tissues first, to build up resistance against
further degeneration, and then, to proceed with constructive
regeneration.
The sooner we realize that not a single organ in the human body
works mechanically or automatically without relation to the body as
a whole, the sooner will we be able to control the functions of our
system. We do not know what form of intelligence the various parts
of the human organism possess nor in just what way they operate; but
we do know that some inherent form of intelligence tries to protect
every gland, bone, nerve, and muscle in our anatomy in spite of
everything man does, usually through lack of knowledge, to destroy
himself through the food he eats.
The search for the cause of any sickness or disease should lead us
probably first of all to the canned food shelves of the groceries; the
flour mills; the sugar, candy, and synthetic "soft drink" factories. Here
we should investigate the products containing the dead atoms which
modern civilization has attempted to develop as food and nourishment
for the human body. We cannot have life and death at one and the
same time, and no canned food is permitted by the government to be
sold unless every vestige of life in the food in the can has been
completely destroyed, for otherwise it would spoil. No cooked bread
or processed cereal is eaten until it has come through the heat of the
baking oven, which destroys any life element which might have been
present. "Fortifying" such bread merely adds more dead atoms to it.
Analyzing the food situation from these angles, it is obvious that
whether or not we are able to live on all raw live food because of
choice, environment, or circumstances, the use of an abundant variety
of fresh-raw vegetable and fruit juices is fundamentally essential. It
is important to bear in mind that vegetable juices are the builders of
the body, while the fruit juices are principally the cleansers of the
body. The former contain a higher proportion of protein elements;
while the latter contain a higher percentage of carbohydrate elements.
It is interesting to the laymen, but probably unprofitable to cancer
and other similar foundations, to realize people who live solely on
fresh-raw foods supplemented with a sufficient volume and variety
of fresh-raw vegetable and fruit juices, rarely develop cancers. On
the other hand, the faith manifested by so many cancer afflicted
32 individuals in the raw food and juices regimen seems to be a very
definite indication that fresh-raw carrot juice has an indisputable value
in this respect.
To us this indicates a thoroughly unorthodox but perhaps highly
efficient and much less costly line of investigation. Research along
this line which has already been successfully carried on for years by
those seeking and using Nature's help, may be highly disconcerting
to some scientists but, undoubtedly, extremely beneficial to the ones
afflicted.
We have found and we hope that the world in general will soon
find, that the cleansing of the body by colon irrigations and enemas,
and by eating sufficient raw food as well as drinking a sufficient
volume and variety of fresh-raw vegetable juices daily, will afford us
little or no cause to know from further personal experience what
sickness and disease feel like.
CARROT JUICE MOLECULE
LIKE BLOOD MOLECULE
By means of the latest super-microscopes, it has been possible to
determine that the carrot juice molecule is exactly analogous to that
of the blood molecule, a most interesting and revealing fact. No
wonder we have found the juice of carrots so extremely beneficial.
CELERY JUICE
The greatest value of raw celery lies in the fact that it contains an
exceptionally high percentage of vital organic sodium. It is one of
the chemical properties of sodium to maintain calcium in solution.
This is particularly the case in the human system, as we will presently
see.
Raw celery contains more than four times as much vital organic
sodium as it does calcium. This fact makes it one of the most valuable
juices for people who have used concentrated sugars and starches
more or less consistently all their lives. Bread, biscuits, cakes, cereals,
doughnuts, spaghetti, rice—in fact every food and food product
containing flour—comes under the classification of concentrated
starch. White, brown, and every kind of sugar which has been
manufactured or processed, and every food product containing any
of it (including candies, "soft drinks," commercial ice creams, etc.),
come very definitely under the classification of concentrated
carbohydrates.
33 Experience has definitely taught us, however, that such foods are
destructive; and their continued use results in a nourishment-
deficiency. What follows is an alarming number of ailments.
We have found that such concentrated carbohydrates are without
question among the most destructive of our "civilized" foods. The
human digestive processes were never intended by Nature to be called
upon to convert these so-called foods into nourishment for the cells
and tissues of the body. Even from before adolescence, the results of
such food are apparent in the degeneration of the human system. To
consider the brief span of two or three score years as constituting old-
age is nothing less than a downright insult to Nature and to our Creator.
It is a shameful admission that we do not know how to live and have
not taken the trouble to learn the first principles of regenerating our
body. It is a confession that we eat ourselves into the grave by catering
to our appetites.
In the first place, calcium is one of the most essential elements in
our diet; but it must be consumed organically, and through vitally
ORGANIC atoms. When any calcium-containing food is cooked or
processed, as in any of the above mentioned carbohydrate foods, the
calcium is automatically converted into INORGANIC atoms. As such,
they are not soluble in water and they cannot furnish the nourishment
which the cells in our body require for regeneration. Furthermore,
enzymes, destroyed at temperatures of I30°F and above, convert the
atoms into dead matter. The result is that such foods literally clog up
the system resulting in conditions as arthritis, diabetes, coronary
(heart) disturbances, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, gall and kidney
stones.
In the second place, these deposits of inorganic calcium, being
void of life, increase cumulatively when nothing is done to rid the
body of them. In the presence of vital organic sodium, however, and
with the assistance of other elements and processes described later in
this book, they can be dislodged and maintained in solution until they
have been eliminated from the system. These processes are set forth
in greater detail in our discussion of Arthritis in this book.
Sodium plays a very important part in the physiological processes
of the body. One of the most important being the maintenance of the
fluidity of the blood and lymph in preventing their becoming too thick.
The only sodium that is of any value in this respect, however, is the
vital ORGANIC sodium which is derived from fresh vegetables and
some fruits.
34 CELERY IS RICH IN SALT (SODIUM)
The "regular" Table Salt is composed of insoluble inorganic
elements. Varicose veins, hardening of the arteries and other ailments
have been traced to the excessive use of this type of salt.
Salt is necessary in the generation and functions of digestive fluids
in the system. Without salt good digestion is virtually impossible, but
such salt must be entirely soluble in water.


 size so they can be observed under the electron microscope ). Thin
sections had proved effective countless times, and had also worked perfectly with
mice.190 But, the virus hunters needed a scapegoat and, instead of questioning the
cancer-producing virus model, they started griping about the thin-sections. The
production of the thin-sections was also thought to be too laborious and time
consuming. And who had the time for that once pharmaceutical companies began
offering fast cash for quick fixes?
So, scientists turned to the much simpler and faster dye method, in which certain
particles of the sample (for instance, DNA and RNA) were marked in color and then
electron micrograph ed. But from a purely scientific perspecti ve, the results of dye
method are a disaster. Through the air-drying process that was necessary for the
staining, the particles became totally deformed, so that they appeared as particles
with long tails. They were full-blown artificial products of the laborator y, and they still
looked exactly like so many other non-viral cellular components. This, logically, made
it impossible to determine if a virus or a non-viral particle had been found.l91 192
A few scientists did in fact acknowledge that the dye method was dubious. But,
instead of admitting defeat and returning to the thin-sections method, they began
bashing electron microscopy technology! Other researchers were in turn so anxiously
preoccupied with finally finding cancer viruses that they casually overlooked the
worthlessness of dye method results, and theorized that the "tailed" particles were a
certain type of virus. As absurd as this may sound to logical thinkers, virus hunters
were even remunerated with plenty of research money for this action.
86 The Microbe Hunters Seize Power
As a result, even cow's milk and mother's milk were tested for the presence of
"tailed" particles in the mad rush to prove that viruses could produce cancer.193 One
well-known molecular biologist Sol Spiegelman even warned against breastfeeding
in October 1971, and his message made for numerous lurid media headlines.194
These so-called scientists brushed aside the fact that, to date, not a single retrovirus
has been able to be isolated from breast cancer tissue (and probably not from human
tumor tissue or blood plasma in general).195 Shortly thereafter, Spiegelman was
quoted in Science saying, "one can't kick off fear mongering on this scale if one
doesn't exactly know if a virus particle is the cause."196
But mainstream viral research drifted purposefully further away from the well
established viral proof model. They latched on to Howard Temin's197 and David
Baltimore's198 description of activity of the enzyme reverse transcriptase in connection
with cancer viruses in 1970. Their research seemed so significant to the medical
establishment that the two were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1975.199
What was so significant about this enzyme, a substance that, as a sort of catalyst,
makes it possible for biochemical reactions to occur? To understand this, we must
remember that, in the 1960s, scientists thought they had established that a few
viruses did not possess any DNA (complete genetic information), but rather only
RNA genes. This baffled the researchers since they believed viruses without any
DNA (only with RNA) were not able to multiply. Until Temin and Baltimore delivered
an explanation with the enzyme called reverse transcriptase. It, they said, can
transform the RNA in RNA viruses (later called retroviruses because of this) into
DNA, by which viruses are then able to multiply (if RNA exists alone, the conditions
for replication are not met). zoo
But there was so much enthusiasm about the discovery of reverse transcriptase
that virus hunters rashly assumed that reverse transcriptase was something very
typical of retroviruses. They proclaimed something like this: if we observe reverse
transcriptase activities in our test tubes (in vitro), then we can be sure that a
retrovirus is present as well (even if the virus' existence has never been proven or
reverse _transcriptase's role hasn't been established, for instance, in the context of
HIV).201 Yet, it was presumed that the (indirectly detected) presence of reverse
transcriptase was sufficient enough to prove the existence of a retrovirus, and even
a viral infection of the tested cells in vitro.
This dogma would now become fixed in the minds of mainstream researchers
and it opened the floodgates to allow indirect virus detection methods (known as
surrogate markers) to take the place of direct detection procedures (virus purification
and characterization as well as electron micrograph).202
So, in 1983, in a paper printed in Science, researcher Luc Montagnier of the
Institute Pasteur in Paris, later celebrated as the discoverer of HN, asserted that his
87 Chapter 2
research team had found a new retrovirus (which would later be named HN).203
This was claimed only after reverse transcriptase activity had been observed in the
cell culture. But, once again, there was no scientific proof for this conclusion.
Eleven years before, in 1972, Temin and Baltimore had stated, "reverse
transcriptase is a property that is innate to all cells and is not restricted to
retroviruses."204 And even Franc;oise Barre-Sinoussi and Jean Claude Chermann, the
most important co-authors of Montagnier's 1983 Science paper, concluded in 1973
that reverse transcriptase is not specific to retroviruses, but rather exists in all cells. 205
In other words, if the enzyme (the surrogate marker) reverse transcriptase is found
in the laboratory cultures, one cannot conclude, as Luc Montagnier did, that a
retroviruses, let alone a particular retrovirus has been found.
Reverse transcriptase is no longer the most significant surrogate marker, by a
long shot. Now the virus hunters are fixated on antibody tests, PCR viral load tests,
and helper cell counts. But these tests raise new questions, given their striking
weaknesses (see Chapter 3, "HIV Antibody Tests,. PCR Viral Load Tests, CD4 Courits:
As Informative as a Toss of a Coin"). This prompted 14 renowned virologists of the
"old guard" to direct an appeal to the young high-technol ogy-focused generation of
researchers, which was published in Science in 2001:
"Modem methods like PCR, with which small genetic sequences are multiplied
and detected, are marv elous [but they] tell little or nothing about how a virus
multiplies, which animals carry it, how it makes people sick. It is like trying to say
whether somebody has bad breath by looking at his fingerprint."206
No less remarkable, in this context, is an early 2006 article in the German Medical
Journal (Deutsches ii.rzteblatt) about a study by researchers who thought that,
with the assistance of PCR, they had discovered new "exotic" bacteria. The article
points out that, "only genetic traces of the pathogen are detected [with the PCR].
From this, it cannot automatically be concluded that complete bacteria exist as
well. "207 2os
The Virus Disas ter of the 1970s
and HIV as Salv ation in the 1980s
Among the overall virus mania, such critical thoughts founder quickly. In the
70s, elite researchers were simply too busy channeling generous government aid
into researching the possible connection between viruses and cancer. On 23
December 1971, US President Richard Nixon declared the "War on Cancer" at the
behest of the medical establishment, and, with this metapho r, carried the militant
tradition of the monocausal medical doctrine to the extreme, attached to the
88 The Microbe Hunters Seize Power
conception of viruses as the enemy. We had now become accustomed to talking
about the "weapons," the "strategies," and the "arsenals" of cell-killing preparations
and weren't even taken aback when powerful people like Nixon called the new
cancer war "a Christmas present for the people. "209
To date, many hundred millions of dollars of research funds have been poured
into this war (a good part of it paid by taxes)-and the results are staggering. 210 Back
in 1971, a cure for cancer and a preventive vaccine were promised by 1976-but both
of these are still nowhere in sight. 211 Incidentally, in the tradition of celebratory
medicine, along with a trust that the public conscience and the media have short
term memory, the medical establishment rarely feels a need to keep its promises. "I
am convinced that in the next decade or maybe later, we will have a medication that
is just as effective against cancer... as penicillin against bacterial infections," boasted
Cornelius "Dusty" Rhoads as early as 1953. He had been leader of the US Army's
Department for Chemical Warfare (medical division of the US Chemical Warfare
branch) during the Second World War, and was director of the Sloan-K ettering
Institute for Cancer Research, founded in 1945.212
Death rates have meantime increased exponentially alongside skyrock eting
research expenditures. 213 Today in German y, 220,000 people die annually from
cancer; in the USA, it is almost


kitchen, and over the next twenty-eight days your body will reward you
with a transformation of its own.
You’ll also be reading time-saving tips; suggestions on easy, delicious,
and nutritious snacks; and some simple yet ef fective storage ideas that will
help you maximize the life of your new-bought foods.
Then, for those of you who love to cook, this next section should make
you very happy: dozens of recipes for eating the E2 way. These wholesome,
healthy foods will soon make you wonder how you ever got along without
them!
For those of you who don’ t love to cook, have no fear. You can thrive the
E2 way simply by eating out intelligently, snacking wisely, and buying
prepared foods sensibly. Several of the E2 Pilot Study participants barely
know what a kitchen is, and they did just as well as the cooking-loving
plant-eaters. For more information on how to do this, please check out the
E2 Web site, www.theengine2diet.com.
So get psyched for fun and adventure as you prepare, cook, and best of
all, eat a whole new array of exciting plant-tasty foods. Throw yourself with
reckless abandon into the kitchen and watch as everything within your
circle of influence—except your waistline—starts to expand: your health,
your food, your confidence, your awareness, and your spirits.TRA VELING AND EA TING OUT
It’s always easier to eat well on your home turf. That’ s why when
you’re not home, I want you to pay special attention to staying on top
of your E2 Diet game plan.
PLAN AHEAD
Spend a few minutes packing a separate carry-on bag of foods that
travel well: healthy sandwiches, oranges, apples, plums, grapefruits,
carrots, bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, raisins, whole grain bagels,
walnuts and almonds, and a few ener gy bars, such as Lärabars. This
will keep you away from airline snacks and convenience store junk.
PACK WHA T YOU CAN
Whenever I travel, tucked securely in my suitcase is a Tupperware
container filled with my Rip’ s Big Bowl cereal (see page150); some
healthy store-bought dried soups that simply require hot water; fruits;
vegetables; healthy baked chips; salt-free whole grain pretzels; and
healthy fruit newtons such as Barbara’ s Wheat-free Fig Bars.
ADAPT AND OVERCOME
If you didn’ t have a chance to plan ahead, don’ t rationalize your
way into eating poorly. Go for the healthiest option available. Search
out healthy options such as fruit, nuts, seeds, healthy juice drinks
such as Odwalla, ener gy bars, and trail mixes (but be careful to check
for added garbage). Also consider fruit newtons, whole grain bagels,
subs, veggie pizza, veggie bur gers, and salad bars.
EATING OUT WISEL Y
Be courageous and ask for what you want—even if it’ s not on the
menu. I don’ t care if it’ s a five-star restaurant or a taco stand, make a
smart substitution—beans and/or potatoes for meat, extra vegetables
for cheese, tofu for chicken. Ask politely and the server will move
mountains for you: “Make mine a burrito supreme but hold the steak,
cheese, and sour cream, and double up on the beans, veggies, and
potatoes. Thank you very much.”
Some cuisine-specific tips:Italian:  Order bread and ask for roasted garlic or a side of
marinara sauce for dipping.
Chinese, Japanese, Thai:  Order vegetables with a meat substitute
such as tempeh, tofu, or wheat gluten over brown rice or noodles.
Mexican:  Order bean or veggie tacos, enchiladas, or burritos
topped with a healthy salsa. Ask for warm corn tortillas to dip into
salsa in place of fried chips.
American:  Order a veggie bur ger, a baked potato with no extras
(such as sour cream, butter, or bacon bits), and a side salad with
balsamic vinegar.
Pizza: Ask for whole wheat crust with extra tomato sauce, no
cheese, and tons of vegetables.
Everywher e: Avoid soda. Instead, request a lar ge glass of water
with a side of sliced lemons or limes to squeeze into it.
Dessert:  Order a healthy sorbet or fresh fruit. Stay away from the
pies, cakes, and ice creams!
GET CREA TIVE
Pack a cooler for your car if you’re on a road trip. One Engine 2er
recently told me about one you can plug into a car or regular
electrical outlet to keep food cold. See if a local grocery store can
deliver to your hotel room. Call room service and order several
vegetable side dishes of f the menu along with a plate of rice and
make your own veggie stir -fry.
USE THE INTERNET
Surf for sites such as www.happycow.net, www.vegoutguide.com,
or www.vegdining.com, which will help you find all the vegetarian,
vegan, and plant-based restaurants within a two- to ten-mile radius of
wherever you are.
KEEP  UP THE ATTITUDE!
If you’re motivated, you’ll plan ahead, pack what you can, adapt,
overcome, ask for what you want, use the Internet, be creative, and
consistently overcome many of the temptations lurking everywhere
you turn. You’ll feel empowered, not defeated, when you return home
feeling as wonderful and centered as when you left.OceanofPDF.com1
GETTING YOUR KITCHEN IN E2 SHAPE
Just as you’re getting yourself into great shape, you’ll also want to get
your kitchen in shape, too. Let’ s start by stocking your pantry and cleaning
out your kitchen.
Make sure that you always have a variety of fresh, whole foods on hand.
This includes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and healthy snacks.
Here is a breakdown, from your pantry to your freezer.
E2-APPROVED FOODS TO KEEP  IN YOUR P ANTR Y
Bread: You might think that bread is always low in fat and salt, but think
again. Certain breads can be as fattening as cookies and candies. So as
always, read the ingredients list and make sure to buy whole grain breads—
if it doesn’ t say “whole grain,” then it’ s not.
My favorite brand, Food for Life, makes several varieties such as
Ezekiel 4:9 and Genesis 1:29. They also make several gluten-free, wheat-
free, and yeast-free breads, tortillas, cereals, and pastas. These are excellent
for those who suf fer from aller gies or celiac disease, or diabetics in search
of low glycemic-friendly foods. Great Harvest Bread Company makes a
great Honey Whole Wheat without high-fructose corn syrup. Food for Life,
Kangaroo, and Garden of Eatin’  make great pocket pita breads.
A few other brands are Alvarado Street Bakery (bagels and buns),
Lahvash Fat Free Authentic Wraps, Wild Oats Or ganic Tortillas, and Wild
Oats Yellow Corn Or ganic Tortillas.
Pizza crusts: To make some of the wonderful pizzas in the E2 Recipes
section, look for Kabuli Whole-Wheat or Nature’ s Hilights Brown RicePizza Crust.
Cereals:  Like many E2ers, my morning bowl of cereal is one of my
favorite meals. Here are just a few of the many healthy brands you can keep
in the pantry: Nabisco Shredded Wheat and Bran; Barbara’ s Shredded
Wheat (no sugar); Erewhon Raisin Bran; Kashi 7 Whole-Grain Nuggets,
Whole Grain Flakes, and Whole Grain Honey Puf fs; Arrowhead Mills
Puffed Millet and Puf fed Wheat; Ezekiel 4:9 Sprouted Whole Grain cereals;
Familia Muesli (with no added sugar); Cascadian Farm Purely O’ s and
Raisin Bran; Nature’ s Path Millet Rice Oat-Bran Flakes; Heritage Heirloom
Whole Grains Flakes; and Malt-O-Meal hot cereals.
Bob’ s Red Mill makes dozens of dif ferent hot and cold cereals that are
whole grain with no added sugars, oils, or preservatives.
Whole grain pastas:  These are a must. Look for quality brands such as
Hodgson Mill, DeBoles, Vita Spelt, and Food for Life. Putney Pasta makes
a healthy ravioli in a butternut squash and black bean variety; Rising Moon
makes a garlic and basil gnocchi along with a garlic and roasted veggies
ravioli; and Eden Or ganic makes several interesting noodles, including
udon and buckwheat soba, brown rice, and mugwort soba.
Also look for packages of orzo, which looks like rice but is a pasta and
comes in various flavors, such as spinach or tomato.
For a real treat, try Road’ s End Or ganics Chreese, a whole grain,
nondairy macaroni and cheese product.
Ground whole grain flours:  Arrowhead Mills is a dependable brand, as
is Bob’ s Red Mill. If you choose another brand, make sure it says “whole
grain” on the package.
Whole grain pancake


 low immunity (low T-
                                                            18 Bottalico, A., Lerario, P., and Visconti, A., Production of
Zearalenone, Trichothecenes and Moniliformin By Fusarium Species
From Cereals, In Italy. From Toxigenic Fungi, Vol 7, edited by H.
Kurata and Y. Ueno, copublished by Kodansha Ltd, Tokyo and El-
sevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam, 1984, page 199.19 Luster, M.I., Boorman, GA., Korach, K.S., Dieter, M.P., and
Hong, L. 1984. Myelotoxicity toxicity resulting from exogenous estro-
gens evidence for bimodal mechanism of action. Int. J. Immunophar-
macol. 6:287-297.BODY WISDOM AND WHY BAD FOOD TASTES GOOD
385cells, low white blood cell count, and so forth), immediately go
off moldy food suspects.
“Zear” is the mycotoxin  that prevents you from detoxifying
benzene. Every AIDS  sufferer I see has a crippled ability to de-
toxify benzene; they also have zear!
The main zear sources I have found so far are popcorn, corn
chips, and brown rice. But it was absent in fresh corn, canned
corn, corn tortillas, and white rice, making me wonder how it
gets in our processed corn products.
Sterigmatocystin
Sterigmatocystin
(“sterig”) is plentiful in
pasta. Emphasize baked
pasta dishes, not boiled.
This raises the temperature
much higher than boiling.
Better yet, make your own
pasta with a pasta maker.
U.S. bread flour  is quite
free of mold; the mold in
our pastas must come from
using inferior quality flour.
Always add vitamin C  to
pasta before or after cook-
ing.
Ergot
A food mold that causes strange feelings and behavior is er-
got. Although laws regulate the amount of ergot  allowed in
Fig. 50 All U.S. brands of pasta  I
tested had mold, including health
food brands like the one shown
here (left). No Mexican brands of
pasta, like the one pictured
(right), had any molds.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
386foods,20 this is not enough protection. Ergotoxins, for example
LSD, are active in extremely minute (less than a microgram,
about one thousandth of a fly speck) quantities. They are not
destroyed by heat and are especially toxic to children. I found
traces in cereals, whole grain breads, wines, and honey.  It can  be
detoxified by adding vitamin C  but takes longer; about 10
minutes. Detoxify all your honey  as soon as it arrives in your
house. Warm it slightly and add vitamin C (1/8 tsp. per cup). Stir
with wood or plastic.
Ergot toxicity could explain “Jekyll and Hyde” behavior in
children, commonly attributed to “allergies ”. In fact, the
mechanism, inability by the liver to keep up with detoxification,
fits well into the “allergic” concept. If your child has undesir able
behavior, try going off the moldy food suspects for three weeks
(cold cereal s, nuts and nut  butter s, store bought breads and baked
goods, syrups). Substitute cooked cereal s, bakery breads,
potatoes, and honeys. Add vitamin C  to honey, pasta  and cooked
cereals. Pancakes and waffles made from scratch would be O.K.
Combining alcohol with ergot  is more toxic than either is
alone. Alcohol seems to drive the toxin deeper into your tissues.
I have found ergot and aflatoxin  in beer  and wine! Perhaps some
of the bizarre behavior and speech of intoxication is really due to
the mold-alcohol combination. By delaying alcohol detoxifi-
cation, the mold could even be responsible for deaths “due to”
alcoholism. It would be safer to brew your own alcoholic bever-
ages. Start with pristine fruit. Or at least add vitamin C  (1/8 tsp.
per cup) to the store bought container you are consuming.
Older children and adults are quite susceptible to ergot  too. If
bizarre behavior shows up, such as saying mean and cruel things,
expressing unusual, irrational thoughts, feeling emo-
                                                            20Canada allows one ergot  grain per 300  grains  of #3 or #4 wheat.BODY WISDOM AND WHY BAD FOOD TASTES GOOD
387tionless or unreal, try the same diet changes, but put alcoholic
beverages, soy  sauces and other sauces, and other grain derived
foods on the “off” list. Try this diet on yourself if you have a
temper or crying spells or frequent colds! Ergot can make you
super religious, hearing  voices of command or threat. Ergot also
causes seizures!
Cytochalasin B
Cytochalasin B  (“cyto B”) is another immune lowering fun-
gus. I find it mostly in pasta. It stops cells from dividing. Dead
portions of the liver cannot regenerate as they otherwise would
after a toxic encounter!
Fig. 51 All cold cereal s I tested were full of mold toxins
(besides solvents), health food varieties were worst.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
388Kojic Acid
Kojic acid  is a mycotoxin  that appears to be responsible for
wood alcohol  build up. In other words, the toxic effect prevents
you from detoxifying wood alcohol. This leads to pancreas
damage, invites pancreatic fluke  infestation, and typically re sults
in diabetes. I find it in potatoes; don't eat potato skins. If you are
a potato lover fix your own so you can peel them and remove any
gray parts. I have also found it in regular coffee.
T-2 Toxin
T-2 toxin  is a mold I have found in all cases of high blood
pressure  and kidney disease. It is present on dried peas and
beans but it can be detoxified in 5 minutes by adding vitamin C  to
the water they are soaked in. Remember to throw away im perfect
ones, first.
Sorghum Molds
Sorghum and millet  carry these. Don't buy sorghum  syrup.
Rinse millet in vitamin C  water before cooking, or add vitamin C
to the cooking water.
These mold toxins cause hemorrhaging, appetite  loss, and
inability to swallow. Elderly people are more easily poisoned
than others; their hemorrhages show up as strokes and purple
blotches on the skin.
Patulin
is the major fruit mold toxin. It is present in most common
fruits if they are bruised. It is particularly hazardous since the
mold that produces it can actually grow in your intestine in
patches. At these locations, bowel  bacteria, E. coli  and Shigella,BODY WISDOM AND WHY BAD FOOD TASTES GOOD
389can climb through the colon  wall to invade you. These bacteria
are then free to spread to regions of injury and tumors.
If you have cancer or bowel  disease  go off fresh fruit
(bananas and lemons are OK) for a few weeks. Then choose your
fruit meticulously. Peel everything so you can see and avoid
every bruise. Also take a 2 tsp. dose of Black Walnut Hull
Tincture  Extra Strength. This kills these bowel fungi. But you can
reinfect with a single soft grape.
Mold Avoidance
We should be much more critical of our food.
Crackers  are notoriously moldy. Never let your child eat
crackers. Make crisp things in the oven from left over bakery
goods. Just sprinkle with cinnamon.
Dried fruits  are very moldy. Soak them in vitamin C  water.
Rinse and bake to dry again. Then store in the refrigerator or
freezer. When fresh fruit gets overripe, don't quickly bake it or
preserve it. It's too late.
Peanut butter  (store bought) and other nut  butter s can't be
detoxified by adding vitamin C  due to the mixing problem, even
if you stir it in thoroughly. Make your own. Making your own
peanut butter  is a great adventure (see Recipes ). Mix it with
home made preserves, honey, marmalade, not very homogene-
ously so the bright colors and individual flavors stand out in
contrast. Having three or four such spreads in the refrigerator
will give your children the right perspective on food—
homemade is better. Store bought jams are sweeter and brighter
in color but strangely low in flavor and often indistinguishable
from each other. Let your children eat the polluted foods that
friends and restaurants serve (but not rare-cooked meats) so they
can experience the difference. Their livers are strong enough to
detoxify occasional small amounts.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
390Tea is quite moldy if purchased in bags. Although I used to
recommend single herb tea s (tea mixtures have solvents), I can
now only recommend single herb teas from fresh sources in bulk
(see Sources ). This also gets you away from the benzalk onium
chloride  and


 anything else.
The deep er reaches of intuitive knowledge, however, feel foreign because
our cultu re hasn’ t shown us how to explore the inner world. When we turn
to privileged outsiders—to seers and poets, for example—we discover
many truths that only the silent voice of spirit can reveal. If we could rise
above our narrowness of vision,  we would perceive our higher Self directly,
as W alt Whitman did:
There is that in me—I do not know what it is—but I know it is in me....
Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
It is not chaos or death—it is form, union, plan—it is eternal life—it is Happiness.
The fact that we cannot sustain Whitman’ s vision means that our growth
from duality to unity is still under way, which is why the path to love exists.
The ability to live in the Self must be relearned—this is what walking the
path is all about.
TENDER COUR TSHIP
The next stage of romance, courtship, is more than just the time for winning
one’s love. At a subtler level it brings together two people’ s perceptions.Beneath the lovers’ talk and tender emotions, the fragile birth  of spirit is
being tested. Its survival depends not just on how exalted and transformed a
man and woman may feel. An act of interpretation must also take place, in
which the right words are found for a shared experience.
Courtship is a tender, tentative stage in which two lovers decide whether
to pursue a new reality or return to the old. It is the first phase in which two
futures are at stake, not just one.
In ancient India the spiritual equivalent of this phase was called Satsang,
a word that can be translated as “the company of truth,” or more loosely,
“the sharing of spirit.” When disciples sat at the feet of their master,
listening to his wisdom, they were taking satsang, but any communion of
spiritual seekers is given the same name. Before departing this world, Christ
told his disciples, “Where two or three of you gather in my name, I will be
there.” That is satsang without the master ’s physical presence. Turning your
conversation in the direction of spirit makes a casual chat with a friend a
form of satsang as well. The link with courtship is very clear, for courtship
is about  speakin g your heart to another, sharing your spirit in a way you
cannot do alone.
The satsang of lovers often takes place in silence, which holds true for
some of the greatest saints also; simply to be in their presenc e infuses us
with the spirit of God. People who feel genuinely comfortabl e with each
other are able to talk about their fears, wishes, and hopes, but the
communion of lovers is far more intense. Courtship is a shared birth, a rare
opportunity to exchange what is most innocent in each partner. Intimacy
allows a man to tell a woman things he did not know existed within himself,
and the same for a woman.
What becomes shared may have never existed in the past. The past is
based on memor y, which will always remain personal. Up to the point when
they merged, two lovers walked separate paths. Together they create a new
path that has no past, where every step moves into the unkno wn, and no
amount of experience can light the way.
The following are the insights brought about in love’ s first communion:
Awareness can be shar ed. What God gives you out of love, you can give to someone you love.
Communion is the basis of trust.The unknown is the territory of lovers.
A S TRUGGLE  BETWEEN  LOVE AND  EGO
When two people meet in satsang, they can bring the fullness of their higher
Selves, yet what most of us bring to courtship is not fullness but need.
When need dominates over love the fragile thread of spirit is broken. Need
implies a lack in oneself, a missing piece that someone else must supply.
Women are generally asked to supply the softness, nurturing, comfort,
beauty, and affection that men cannot otherwise find within. Men are
expected to supply the strength, protection, power, and will that women
cannot otherwise find. Both feel that the other has made them complete.
Need is a power ful thing, capable of creating powerful illusions. No one
can really enter you and replace a missing piece. The softness or tenderness
or nurturing a man finds in a woman is only borrowed unless he can be
taught to. develop those same qualities. A woman may bene fit from the
power, will, and strength she finds in a man, but that is not the same as
having these qualities become her own.
In court ship we decide whether to borrow from another or actually
become what the other represent s. In communion you can become what you
perceive, if your satsang is deep enough. It is all a question of intent. Will
you bandage your inner needs or actually heal them? Only the long journey
ahead can answer this, but courtship clears the way.
Given our cultural conditioning, most couples lose the fragile thread of
spirit in this phase. As the heigh tened emotions of infatuation begin to cool,
what replaces them is ego, the main component of the false self. We all rely
upon our egos to lead us through the known world. “I” is not a fixed entity
but a constantly accumulating set of experiences.
The ego always seems to know what it needs. An ego need can be
defined as anything that bolsters “me.” By feeding your isolated identity,
you continue the most familiar mode of existence you have known, which is
the pursuit of self-image. The fact that romantic passion can take a person
beyond ego doesn’ t abolish the ego’ s needs.
Typically, the courtship phase is when most lovers begin to have doubts.
The issue of commitment arises, and the first hints of incompat ibility make
their unwelcome appearance. Courtships generally break off when one orthe other person feels that his or her needs aren’ t going to be met. The man
may feel that the woman is not sufficiently deferential or suppo rtive of his
self-image; the woman may feel that the man is not sensitive or caring
enough to nourish her feelings.
Although it is typical for both a man and a woman to have potent
fantasies about each other befor e they become intimate, once they begin to
spend time together, fantasy is not strong enough to restrain the ego. There
is now a precarious balance between love, which makes communion
possible, and need, which doesn ’t want to sacrifice selfishness unless forced
to.
It is unfair to blame any single person for lack of trust given our social
experience. We have all been conditioned to obey ego needs blindly. We are
a society that has grown suspicious of intimate contact. Some intrusions of
personal space are horrifying, such as rape and murder, but the betrayal of
space is extremely disturbing even when violence isn’t done. Two people
engaged in an alimony fight or a bitter custody dispute are in essence taking
advantage of the intimate knowledge they gained in marriage, turning trust
into aggression. It is no wonder that allowing another person past your well-
guarded defenses causes deep conflict, for the person who might deliver
you from threat might also prove to be the enemy inside your gates.
Being in love isn’t going to abolish crime, war, homelessness, racial
strife, and the multitude of other threats around us. The ego uses these
outside dangers to convince you that the world is hostile and uncaring. To
all appearances the ego is right, but only according to its isolationist
perspective. In truth, to see anything without love is to see it fearfully.
Threat doesn’ t arise “out there.” Its origins are “in here,” where we first
establish our beliefs. Defenses exist to ward off threat. They are like an
early warning system that can be tuned so sensitively that no one could be
unthreatening enough to disarm them.
The real question, then, is how to defuse the sense of threat enough to
allow love to be trusted. What feeds threat and keeps it going? The answers
are many, but they can be simplified. Every threat is a shadow from the
past.
In reality ther e is nothing to fear in the pr esent. Fear is pr ojected onto the pr esent by memory.Newborn infants, because they have no past, lack all defenses; a baby is
completely vulnerable to any intruder or harmful influence, utterly
dependent upon outside protecti on to survive. Yet, paradoxically, no one is
more invulnerable than a newborn child, because it has no fear. Experience
has yet to create  its imprint on the nervous system, and withou t a frame of
reference there is no threat. (It is true that babies have instinctive fears, such
as fear of falling, but these are physical rather than psychological. Physical
fear contributes  to survival, whereas psychological fear can be crippling.
The one promotes fast, sure reactions; the other can create paralysis.)
Threat is a subjective interpretation that must be taught; it often bears
little relationship to the actual danger surrounding a person. That is why a
sport like mountain climbing can turn instinctive fear—the fear of falling—
into a joyful experience; everything depends upon interpretation.
The enterprise of learning how to defend oneself in the world takes a
long time. We all cherish our survival skills, having long ago abandoned the
f


 began to call this moment, out of all the remarkable
ones to come, “the gift.”
Medical services are modest in the rangeland of eastern
Washington where Ray runs his horse ranch. Now barely  conscious
again, he had to endure an hour-long ambulance ride without
painkillers. A helicopter airlifted him to the nearest burn center, in
Seattle, and intensive surgery began. Over the course of sixteen
hours, the trauma surgeons removed his right arm at the elbow and
carefully preserved the tissue that could be salvaged at the other
two sites hurt worst in the accident, his right knee and left wrist.
His sister picks up the story in a letter written six months later:
“Ray was remarkably clear-h eaded and calm from the moment he
entered the hospital. He did not sink into depression during his
extended perio d of treatment, and despite the intense pain of his
burns, he insisted on a minimum of medication. He underwent ve
surgeries over the next six weeks. It took that many procedures to
remove all the dead and damaged tissue and to begin the massive
work of reconstruction. A very delicate ap graft was required to
cover an exposed tendon on his left wrist. The right knee was so
devastated that it wound up being reduced to arteries, bone, and
nerves, all exposed to the air.”
Healing is a highly individual process, and in complex cases like
Ray’s, a “normal” recovery is almost a self-contradiction. Most of us
cannot imagin e what we would do if our nerves and bones were
opened naked to the air. Certainly we would feel a great deal of
discomfort, and the physical sensation of pain would begin a
complex series  of psychological reactions to produce what is called
suering. Most people believe that pain and suering are more or
less identical. This was not true for Ray, who experienced immense
pain but never converted it into suering. He had an explanation for
this:
“I felt that a decision had been made in the split second while I
was falling, pulling me back from certain death—it didn’t have to
happen that way, but it did. It was a gift. My mind went back to
that moment many times, and I found that the memory triggered a
dierent awareness in me. I can only compare it to meditation: Iwas in a place pain couldn’t reach. I had a sense of oating and of
great calmness.
“Sometimes the nurse would  be packing my knee wound, which
was very uncomfortable physically. I would see her doing it, and the
signal of pain registered, but instead of stinging my mind, so to
speak, it made me feel inten se—what?—not exactly pleasure but a
sensation hard to name, intensely sweet, very intimate. It was pain
turning to tingling joy. Every time that happened, I would wonder
at it and be very glad.”
Once he slipped into this privileged state of awareness, Ray could
divorce himsel f from his pain for hours at a time. Signicantly, he
had practiced meditation since he was eighteen, virtually all of his
adult life, and was familiar with settled states of awarenes s. He soon
showed that he was doing much more than evading pain. His sister
writes, “When  I rst saw the surgical wound around Ray’s right
knee, I was frightened at how much muscle they had been forced to
remove. Despite the grafts, there was nothing visible but tendon,
and when we returned to Seattle, several specialists advised that
muscle tissue be brought around from the back of his leg for a new
graft.
“That meant major surgery, and Ray’s doctor decided to postpone
it. Keeping the tendon exposed raised the chance of infect ion, but he
wanted to wait and see for another month. In that time, Ray healed
himself amazin gly. We dressed his knee twice a day and showered it
with loving attention. (Ray would say afterwards that he could lie
back and literally feel this attention being soaked up by his body.)
Ray meditated a great deal and was up and around, tendin g the new
colts and enjoying his life to the full.
“When his doctors saw him four weeks later, they were in a state
of disbelief. New muscle had started to come up around the tendon
spontaneously, appearing in every gap, and new skin was rapidly
advancing to cover it.”
Muscle regeneration is a highly uncertain process, and there is no
guarantee that it will occur at all if the damage is this extensive.
One would certainly not predict the rapid granulation of new tissue
that appeared in Ray’s destroyed knee. With undisguised wonder,one of his doctors exclaimed, “I don’t know why, but you’re a great
healer, Ray.” No further surgery was required.
Much has been written about what makes certain people heal
better and faster than others. Ray embodied many of the most
desirable quali ties. He had the courage to get up out of his hospital
bed and walk on his leg within days after his accident. When his
arm had to be amputated, he immediately learned to tie his shoes
with one hand. He unhesitatingly and hungrily accepted love when
it was oered by his family and friends. These are rare qualities of
heart and mind.
Although every doctor has seen such patients, “great healers”
have proved to be too rare and too individual to study as a class.
Therefore, we do not really know their secret. I believe  that what
makes such people extraord inary is not anything they do: it is
something they are.
We all are. That is, we all have the certainty that we exist. A
clever debater can make you doubt almost anything you ever
believed in, but not this. “I am” lies at the core of every  person, a
rock-solid certainty he has no reason to doubt.
Unless you are caught in a tortured dilemma like Hamlet, to be or
not to be is not the question. Existence comes as inevitably as being
born. Strangely, some people  take more advantage of this state than
others. They do not do more or feel more or think more. Somehow,
like light passing through a crystal-clear lens, life comes through
them clearer, brighter, and sharper than through people who exist
dully.
This fact has not been lost on psychiatry, though it is seen from
the opposite end. Very few people come to therapy exhibiting
clarity. They come feeling extremely needy and dependent, or
feeling so much anxiety that they can barely face up to the ordinary
challenges of existence. Sometimes they are so depressed that
nothing in their lives, howev er vivid and moving, registers as more
than a gray smudge. In all these cases, something has gone wrong,
not just in thinking and feeling, but in being. They have lost the gift
for living.The Feeling of Specialness
Where does the gift come from? In Ray’s case, it seems to express
itself rst and foremost as a bedrock sense of security: “I was sure
from the rst that I was going to recover. There’s no expla ining why
—it was like a secret I shared with God. I called it a gift because
there are no real words to describe it. I was given a chance to
remake myself. I didn’t know how to do that, only that it was going
to happen and nothing could stand in its way.”
By now almost everyone has read accounts of the brief near-death
experiences that occur to thousands of people every year. The
details change from story to story, but a common theme is the
sudden descent of a complete sense of security. People who come
back to life after their hearts stop beating frequently report that as
they “went into the light” or hovered above their bodies looking
down on themselves, they felt completely protected. Often this
feeling lingers  when they reluctantly take up the burden of their
bodies once more. They now nd it dicult to worry about the
things one is supposed to worry about, especially dying. It may be
that this is how we are meant to feel even without the near-death
experience.
To be may not be a choice, but the way you feel about it certainly
is. Some people grow up nurturing a secret feeling that they are
somehow special. They feel guarded by providence, although they
may not reveal such a reckless belief to others. Dr. Irvin Yalom
writes about one such woman who believed in her specialness for
years, only to come out of it quite traumatically: she was deeply
shaken one day when she became the victim of a purse-snatcher in a
restaurant parking lot.
Yalom writes, “Most of all, the robbery illuminated her
ordinariness, her ‘I never thought it could happen to me’ reecting
the loss of belief in her personal specialness.” He is not referring to
any special talents or gifts that this woman possessed. It is highly
rational for people to prize that kind of specialness. But we also
have an irratio nal sense of specialness, Yalom asserts, which serves
as “one of our chief methods  of denying death.” However, far fromdeeming it a valuable trait, psychiatrists tend to regard this way of
feeling special as undesirable, and when the woman came to Yalom
for treatment, his


remember hoping it would sell enough copies that I wouldn’ t be
embarrassed! In fact, due largely to the enthusiasm of Oprah Winfrey, it was
the fifth-bestselling book in America that year.
I had a strong sense at the time that the money hadn’ t really come directly
from the book—that it had come through  it, but not really from it. I felt as if
the money was divine payment for something more than the book,
particularly the charitable work I had been doing for years before, for no
money at all. It was payment for how I had been trying to live my life,
cleaning up any mess from my past and trying to be of servic e to others.
The seeker isn’t looking to “get money,” but to exchange energy. And when
the energy we’re putting out is filled with the consciousness of love, then
the energy flowing back to us comes in whatever form most serves our
good. I figured that if I lived a good life and worked hard, I’d be taken care
of somehow.
There was a level of naiveté to the life I was living before that book was
published. I had never transition ed to the more sophisticated principles by
which wealth is supposedly created, and as a consequence I was blessedly
unaware of them. There’ s no way in the world that my activ ities during
those years would have been thought to be good for business, because there
was no business! But I was, in my own way, “about my Father ’s business.”And then, when the book was published, I saw that what I had done for love
came back to me a thousandfold and more.
Such is the Law.
OceanofPDF.comChapter 4
Transforming a Negative Sense of Self
The Law of Divine Compensation represents the natural workin g of the
universe, but it’s up to each of us to rid our minds of the thoughts that block
it. Unloving thoughts deactivat e the Law. They sabotage the dynamic by
which the universe is programmed to support us.
When we think or say something negative, even if we believe we don’t
really mean it, the thought carries creative energy. Every thought is a cause
that creates an effect. An undis ciplined mind, easily tempted into faithless
and unloving thoughts, is a huge deterrent to success.
Negative though ts that deactivate the Law of Divine Compensation tend
to fall into three major categories: (1) negative sense of self, (2) anger, and
(3) guilt. We’ll look at these categories in this and the next two chapters,
starting with a negative sense of self.

Spiritual gr owth involves giving up the stories of your
past so the universe can write a new one.

Releasing negative self-concepts is important not simply becaus e they hurt
you; it’s importa nt because they’r e not true. The spiritual journey is a path
of surrendering our fear-based thoughts and allowing them to be replaced
by God’ s. The reason to embrace a positive self-image is that it describes
you as God thinks of you.
Contrary to the thoughts of God, however, are the numerous negative self-
images we allow to freely wander through our minds:“I’m not good enough.”
“I’m a loser.”
“I don’ t have what it takes.”
“My father [or mother, or teacher, etc.] was right about me. I will never
amount to anything.”
“I’m dumb.”
“I’m a failure.”
“I don’ t have enough talent.”
“I’m too old.”
“Nobody wants me.”
“Nobody appreciates me.”
“I’m a has-been.”
“All the good jobs have been sent overseas.”
“There’ s no job out there for me.”
“It does no good to even try at this point.”
“I’ve been screwed over.”
“The system is f***ed.”
Such painful thoughts arise from over-identification with the material
plane. Identifyin g with your material self rather than with your spiritual self
will always leave you vulnera ble to self-hating projections, because the
mortal self is not who you are. The mortal plane is, at best, an ever-
changing parade  of individual perceptions that lack a consis tent theme.
Sometimes you’ll deem yourself worthy of self-regard, and sometimes you
won’ t—depending on what’ s in your bank account, other people’ s opinions
of you, and so forth. Hardly a great basis for career success ...
On the mortal plane, none of us are perfect all the time. But on the
spiritual plane, all of us are perfect all the time. Who we really  are—perfect
creations of God, unchangeabl e and unlimited, none of us more or less
brilliant than anyone else—is the most positive self-concept possible. To
self-identify according to your spiritual rather than materia l reality is
enlightenment. From this persp ective, you see that you are the light. No
thought or condition of darkness —that is, lovelessness in your own mind or
in anyone else’s—has any beari ng whatsoever on the truth of who you are
or what the universe has planned for you. Your past, your mistakes, other
people’ s opinion s about you, even your failures do not in any way limit who
you are or what is possible for you now.

ONE OF THE most common negative self-concepts we carry—one that
underlies many other wrong-minded sentiments—is that we’re simply not
good enough; that something about us is defective.
It can be tempt ing to believe that “some of us have it, and some of us
don’t.” Some of us are talented, while others of us aren’ t. Some of us are
brilliant, while others of us aren’t. Some of us are born to succeed, while
others of us aren’ t. And we often see ourselves in the latter half of those
comparisons.
As long as we think we’re separate from the rest of the universe, we’re
bound to compare ourselves to others.
A Cours e in Miracles  teaches  us that all of us are special and none of us
are special. All of us carry the mark of God, yet we carry that mark as one.
No one has any more or less capacity than anyone else to be used as a
conduit for the genius that pours forth constantly from the Mind of God.
This genius pours into us as one, but is accepted by us separately. God’ s
greatness is a gift that is offered to all of us, but it’s our choice whether or
not to receive it.
We lack faith in what  exists within us because we lack faith in Who exists
within us.
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world. Each of us
is assigned by God a function that only we can fill. At the level of our
divine function, none of us are in competition with each other, for the
universe has an infinite number of pieces of pie. My piece doesn’ t take
away from yours, and yours doesn’t take away from mine. There is space
for everyone’ s gifts to flower. There is more than enough room for all of us.
When futurist and universally acknowledged genius Buckminster Fuller
was asked his definition of a genius, his response was, “Someone who had
the right  mother.” I assume he meant someone who had the most positive
childhood programming, someone who was told when young that he or she
was brilliant and would  succeed. If told as children that we’re bound to
succeed, then we tend to. If told as children that we’re bound to fail, then
we tend to do that instead.
But even  if your mother or father didn’ t tell you that you were wonderful
when you were a child, your divine Father/Mother tells you that now.Spiritual understanding is a corrective to any false programming you might
have received as a child. Rather than endlessly analyzin g a tape from
childhood, you can erase it by recording a new one. A story, no matter how
factually true, is still just a story. Spiritual growth involves giving up the
stories of your past so the universe can write a new one. You are not
denying your childhood; you are simply transcending any of its negative
aspects.
You are a child of God, carrying  the eternal mark of your perfect Source.
You are naturally entitled to miracles because love is what you are. This is
not an arrogant  appraisal of the ego, but rather a humble acceptance of
God’ s truth. You just happen to have within you the eternal power of the
universe.
Because you are a child of God, made of love, only love has power over
you. Your morta l self can be damaged, but your spiritual self cannot. You do
not have  to identify with the brokenness of the world, for the effects of
brokenness are temporary. Every loving thing that ever happened to you
was real, and everything else was an illusion.  Such illusions have no effect
on your future unless you carry them with you into the present. It is entirely
up to each of us whether we consider ourselves damaged goods.
Of course things might have gone roughly in the past, but the past is over
and cannot touch you unless you hold on to it. Right now, in this moment,
the universe is responding not to your past but to the truth of who you are,
always were, and always will be.
We’ve all got the “right stuff” because all of us are hosts to God