 waterhole could serve as example of
how to recover health, trust and mental well being in and between
modern humans, which is the hypothesis we present in this review
paper. 3. People at search for oxytocin; the pandemic use of oxytocin-
ergic drugs and the need for new interventions; our hypothesis
Prosocial and empathogenic behaviour depend on endogenous
oxytocin systems, which might be disturbed in people engaging
in drug use and addiction [40]. It has been shown recently that
the rate of parental bonding and attachment in childhood is
directly related with adult psychosocial behaviour including drug
use and abuse [41]. It might even be so that drug users become
‘‘bonded” to their drugs and the environmental triggers related
with the use of drugs [40]. On the other hand, stable social bonds and happy relationships,
perhaps associated with higher levels of oxytocin, might be protec-
tive against addiction to drugs [42]. Social reintegration and reha-
bilitation are important factors to promote drug abstinence and
recovery from addiction [43] and family management seems to
be of speciﬁc signiﬁcance [44]. These studies suggest that the role
of oxytocin signalling is central to drug use and abuse and that suc-
cessful interventions should focus on recovery of dysfunctional
oxytocin mechanisms, which perhaps is the secret behind Alco-
holics Anonymous [45] and group therapy [46]. An enormous
amount of young and not so young people are engaging in the
use of a wide range of oxytocinergic drugs such as ecstasy, fantasy,
cannabis and cocaine and not all of them suffered childhood abuse,
lack of parental bonding or neglect (World Drug Report 2012). We
think that they are ‘‘searching” people for normal social interaction
in a society dominated by ‘‘egoistic hawks” and very few social
‘‘doves” [3,47]. As stated by Blum et al. [48]: ‘‘people provide the
real ‘‘highs”. People need people. However, in today’s screwed
up, ﬁnancially unstable (1.4 million bankruptcies 2009), and
very scary world, loneliness and alienation are commonplace. Everything would look perfect if we were all living in a vacuum,L. Pruimboom, D. Reheis / Medical Hypotheses 92 (2016) 80–83 81but instead millions, if they are lucky enough not to be homeless,
are probably living in glass houses vulnerable to being shattered.”
When social interaction, social support and family bonding is
lacking we always have the probability to use synthetic happiness
as fallback strategy. Oxytocin signalling through social interaction
might protect against drug abuse, but if so, water household ther-
apy might do the same thing. Oral and intranasal oxytocin
decreases the use of drugs signiﬁcantly [49], endogenous oxytocin
does the same but also decreases carbohydrate intake [50], regu-
lates the immune system and make people basically cooperative,
trustworthy and prosocial [51]. The pro-social effects of ecstasy
and fantasy, observable in ‘‘house parties”, seem to be produced
by oxytocin pathways and oxytocin signalling might be further
increased by intense sweating during partying, leading to loss of
water and dehydration [52–54]. Oxytocin signalling is further
stimulated when environmental temperature is high [55]. This
could easily explain why the majority of people feel better in a
warm climate when they are on holidays and even seem to be
more empathic and therefore ‘‘oxytocinergic”, knowing that empa-
thy is deﬁnitely an oxytocinergic trait [56]. The warm weather/
oxytocin equation seems clear; high temperature produces sweat-
ing, sweating induces dehydration and dehydration activates oxy-
tocin pathways. Drinking a beer only supports this ‘‘holiday
bonding” feeling by induction of more thirst and dehydration
which can even cause beer intoxication (beer potomania, [57]). Mild thirst induces oxytocin production and oxytocin improves
multiple pathophysiological pathways and therefore it could be the
use of intermittent drinking protocols that helps to solve chronic
inﬂammatory states, bonding disorders and perhaps even addic-
tion; our hypothesis. 4. Discussion
Bulk drinking, earlier deﬁned as non-frequent drinking up to
satiety, resembles the animal behaviour at waterholes. The major-
ity of herbivores travel from waterhole to waterhole to cover their
ﬂuid needs and will drink up to satiety every time they visit this or
another waterhole [58]. Animals at the waterhole show low level
of anxiety and fear and this behaviour is probably caused by
dehydration-increased oxytocin signalling [12]. More speciﬁcally, numerous studies have demonstrated that
oxytocin producing neurons in the hypothalamic supraoptic
nucleus (SON) and the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) are activated
in response to osmotic and volemic thirst and that this results in
secretion of OT into the bloodstream [59–61]. It has long been known that dehydration affects physical and
cognitive behaviour signiﬁcantly, including physical, visuomotor,psychomotor, and cognitive performance [63]. Dehydration can
even affect the cognitive performance of pilots, affecting ﬂight
safety [64]. These dehydration effects are noticeable when people
loose 2% of their bodyweight [65]. It’s clear that these effects are
not at all beneﬁcial for the host, which is further evidenced by
recent research of dehydration consequences caused by the use
of alcohol [66]. Nevertheless it are these effects which makes the need for
water urgent and it could easily be that these effects produce the
observed inhibition of fear and anxiety at psychological level when
people suffer from dehydration. It should further be noted that the
negative effects are observed when people suffer from long term
dehydration (20 h), which is something we do not propose. We
propose a water drinking rhythm based on ‘‘waterhole behaviour”
– bulk drinking which will only produce mild dehydration and
most probably the positive effects of not only increased oxytocin
but also the second ‘‘thirst” hormone, vasopressin [63]. Although
not mentioned earlier, vasopressin is an important hormone affect-ing human behaviour as evidenced by several investigations show-
ing that vasopressin inﬂuences a wide range of traits, including
increase of social attachment, inhibition of anxiety, improvement
of memory and positive social behaviours [67]. The combined effects of mild increase of oxytocin and vaso-
pressin decreases stress-axis activity, produces a feeling of relax-
ation, increase social bonding, inhibits fear, and regulates
sympathetic/parasympathetic activity [68]. Fear, social isolation,
chronic HPA-axis and sympathetic nervous system activity are
undoubtless related with increased susceptibility for the develop-
ment of inﬂammation and chronic disease [69–71]. Bulk drinking behaviour could therefore recover social beha-
viour, bonding, decrease anxiety, reduce sugar craving, regulate
appetite, induce spontaneous movement, decrease inﬂammation
and inhibit fear. Mild thirst controlled drinking is probably the onlyway to regulate water and mineral homeostasis, whereas the 8 /C28
rule (8 glasses of water of 8 oz each) has not been proven as scien-
tiﬁc sound and protective for health [72]. The effects of bulk drink-
ing as deﬁned in this article are easily testable, measuring different
behavioural traits and several biomarkers. If our hypothesis would
be conﬁrmed we would have ﬁnd one of the cheapest ways to
recover health and collaborative behaviour of people living in a
society characterised by abundance and chronic presence of food
and ﬂuid. Conﬂict of interest
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 keep clear the
image in your mind, keep faith in the power that sustains you. Eventually,
you will find yourself carried to a higher level of understanding, and the
obstacle will disappear. Above all things, remember that opposition is a
time of growth, that our ef fectiveness as individuals is in direct relation to
the number of obstacles we have faced and surmounted in life. OceanofPDF. com
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Developing Skills

Each person contains all possibilities within them because they ar e a
manifestation of an eternal and infinite being. The Russian philosopher
P. D. Ouspensky states:

Everything exists always. There is only one eternal present, the Eternal
Now, which the weak and limited human mind can never grasp and
conceive. Our mind follows the development of possibilities always in one
direction only, but in fact, every moment contains a very lar ge number of
possibilities, and all of them are actualized, only we do not see it and do not
know it. W e always see only one of the actualizations and in this lies the
poverty and limitation of the human mind. But if we try to imagine the
actualization of all the possibilities of the present moment, and then of the
next moment, and so on, we shall feel the world growing infinitely,
incessantly multiplying itself and becoming immeasurably rich and utterly
unlike the flat and limited world we have hitherto pictured to ourselves. Clear Channel to Universal Mind

We may develop any skill we desire. The essence of our nature is to grow in
the direction indicated by the images that form in this consciousness. Some
people are born with a clear channel from one facet of their consciousnessinto universal mind, and they are gifted. They are our Balzacs, our Mozarts,
our Einsteins, our Galileos, our Michelangelos, and though they are
superhuman in one corner of their natures, in all else they are normal and
subject to the same weak and inef fectual vision as everyone. Such unearned
perception of universal mind is sometimes more a curse than a blessing,
because the person possessing it expects illumination in other areas also and
is frustrated at being unable to find it. Rage and self-hate may grow out of
such an unbalanced nature. V an Gogh cutting of f his ear is an excellent
illustration, and the artistic temperament, when gifted with genius, is often
manic-depressive, alternating between periods of elation and self-
abasement. Skills that we earn are the skills that delight us. Nothing in life is so
exquisitely satisfying as the mastery of a skill. Whatever we do well adds to
our stature as persons, increases our scope and ef fectiveness. From birth to
death we acquire countless skills, use them daily, perform them
unthinkingly, because they have become part of our nature. W e learn to
walk, we learn to run, we learn to talk, we learn to read, we learn to figure,
we learn to cook, we learn to sew, we learn to drive, we learn to run a
business; and the kinds of persons we become and our ef fectiveness as
human beings have a direct bearing on the number of skills we have
mastered. People say, “Oh, I could never develop any skills. I don’ t have any talent. ”
Well, lack of natural ability is no reason for curling up your toes and
playing dead. The most important thing in life is growth, and it makes no
difference where you start on the scale of capability; what is important is
that you do not stay there but progress. There is a quality in our psychic
makeup that when impressed with desire and a picturization of that desire,
immediately we set about opening our eyes to the possibilities for achieving
it in the material world. Knowing this, we eventually come to have deep
faith that the thing which we think about will become part of our lives. Modern Pied Piper
The man with the voice of a bullfrog probably will never give a concert at
Carnegie Hall, but if he spends the major portion of his life learning to be a
singer, he will be able to perform quite creditably someday. None of us lives
long enough to develop completely in all directions. For this reason the
Secret Self created multitudes of individuals, and through this multiplicity
seeks expansion in all areas. The individual functions best when they are
able to determine those abilities most natural to them and then set about
developing them to their highest possible level. T o do this they need insight,
and they most certainly need to be free of mental blockages. Sometimes people seek to develop their business ability because they desire
to have money, when in truth they might find more fulfillment in other
fields. The end-gaining philosophy that has become predominant in our
civilization is a pied piper leading us down streets of frustration. Those who
work only to gain a result are seldom happy and almost never work well. They find no pleasure in their tasks and no satisfaction in their growth
possibilities. They can hardly wait to get on from one moment to the next
because the only time that has any meaning for them is the time when their
goal is reached. Should they never reach it, their lives are hemmed in with
bitterness through having sacrificed all for something that never
materialized. It is better to lie on your back and look at the stars than to
chase shadows, if the chasing is not fun. A little child can run after illusions
and take delight in every moment, but the adult who pursues a wraith and is
bound to it begrudges every ounce of ener gy expended in attempting to
bring their illusory tar get to earth. Three laborers were asked what they were doing. The first said, “I am
working. ” The second said, “I am digging a ditch. ” The third said, “I’m
helping build a canal. ” Obviously the third worker took the most
satisfaction from their labor because they saw that their work would create,
and they were glad to be part of it. Those who labor only to make a living
put in time that they wish were gone, begrudging the hours they must spend
at their tasks. They look at the clock at ten and wish it were noon, and they
look at the clock at three and wish it were five. They actually wish away a
large part of their lives. Longing for Mastery

It is not nearly as important that we possess a skill as it is that we desire to
possess one. The longing for mastery is the key to the motivation of the
Secret Self, the very basis of evolution, of each form’ s tendency toward
unity with its creator. Life is fluctuation and change, a constant cycle of
growth and decay, and we have to aspire to be better than we are even to
stay where we are, and the moment self-satisfaction comes to us our
dissolution begins. Constant excitement and challenge come to those who
seek mastery. Every situation confronts them with opportunity, for they see
in each an opportunity to develop a part of their nature. Whenever they
meet an obstacle they know their knowledge is inadequate, and they set
about at once to rectify this deficiency. They learn everything they can
because they see the bond common to all knowledge. Eventually they learn
easily and well, for they remove all limitation from their minds and, like a
sponge, draw the knowledge needed for ef fective works and actions. We have to love the things we do in order to do them well. W e have to like
to perform the work regardless of the result. W e have to not even care about
the result and take our entire satisfaction from the action. When people have
under gone great shocks, such as prolonged exposure to death and danger or
the loss of a limb or the death of a loved one, they often turn to work for
work’ s sake as a preoccupation for their minds, and thus they discover one
of life’ s deepest joys. A child finger -painting in a kinder garten class puts
colors on paper with no idea of a result, and this engrossing of their whole
nature makes them part of the work they do and makes the work part of
them. Mental hospitals have discovered the therapeutic value of putting
patients to work at easels or with needle and thread or even in the garden,
for surrender of self-concern to the task at hand rids the patients of their
tormenting ego and they are able to get completely outside themselves
through becoming part of the work they are doing. W e develop our skills
through an inner love for the action involved. W e will become musicians if
we love music. W e will become writers if we love writing. W e will becomebuilders if we love construction. W e will become businesspeople if we love
commerce. But we become nothing simply through a desire to be famous
and rich. Such false desires are products of the ego. Even the slightest look
at them gives us evidence of their insubstantiality. If we undertake to be a businessperson, for instance, and we run into
difficulties and our reaction is one of depression and failure, we can be sure
that we were led into our business endeavors in the first place through an
egoistic desire to be better or more powerful than others. The
businessperson who loves business glories in their moments of trial, for it is
then that they develop more understanding, more mastery. Since they love
business, they love it when its nature is most acute, and therefore


: Bach —Sleepers Awak e
MEDITATION: RESURRECTION FLAME: Rimsky Korsakov —Russian Easter Overture
MEDITATION: RESURRECTION FLAME: Vivaldi —Spring from the "Four Seasons"
MEDITATION: RESURRECTION: Mahler —Symphony #2 in E Minor
MEDIT ATION: SERAPHIM: Rubinstein —"Angelique Reve"
MEDITATION: TWIN FLAMES: Fri ml—"Indian Love Call"
MEDITATION: UNION OF TWIN FLAMES: Wagner —"Isolde's Transfiguration"
MEDITATION: VIOLET FLAME: Hovhaness —"Mysterious Mountain"
MEDITATION: VIOLET FLAME: Richard S trauss—"Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes"
MEDITATION: VIOLET FLAME: Schumann —Symphony #4
MEDITATION: VIOLET FLAME: Tchaikovsky —Trepak from the "Nutcracker"
MEDITATION: VIOLET FLAME: Wagner —"Ride of the Valkiries"  MOTHER MARY: Schubert —"Ave Maria"
RAPHAEL AND MARY —"Whispering Hope"
NADA: Leoncavallo —"Mattinata"
ORION: Sibelius —Symphony #2
PEACE AND ALOHA: Rachmaninoff —"18th Variation"
PORTIA: Johann Strauss —Radetzky March
RATNASAMBHAVA: Arrigo Boito —“Final Psalmody” from prelude to Mefistofele
RAY: BLUE: Beethoven —The Heavens Are Sounding
RAY: BLUE: Bruckner —Symphony #9
RAY: BLUE: Respighi —St Michael, Archangel
RAY: BLUE: Sibelius —Karelia Suite (Intermezzo)
RAY: BLUE: Smetana —Die Moldau
RAY: BLUE: Wagner —Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla
RAY: BLUE: Wagner —Lohengrin Prelude Act 3
RAY: ILLUMINATION: Gliere —Dance of the Golden Fingers
RAY: ILLUMINATION: Grieg —Dawn
RAY: ILLUMINATION: Pachelbel —Gigue
RAY: ILLUMINATION: Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow
RAY: LOVE: Borodin —"Polovestian Dances"
RAY: LOVE: Kr eisler—"Caprice Viennois"
RAY: LOVE: Mascagni —The Lord Now Victorious from "Cavalleria Rusticana"
RAY: LOVE: Puccini —Intermezzo from "Suor Angelica"
RAY: LOVE: Puccini —"Musette Waltz"
RAY: LOVE: Saint -Saens—"The Swan"
SALAMANDERS and SYLPHS: Grieg —"Anitra' s Dance"
SANAT KUMARA: Jean Sibelius —"Finlandia"
SERAPIS BEY: Giuseppe Verdi —Celeste Aida from "Aida"
SURYA: Aloha O
THOUSAND -PETALED LOTUS: Fryderyk Chopin —Etude in A Minor 'Winter Wind' Op. 25
No. 11
VAIROCHANA: Mahler—Symphony  #3 (Finale)
VENUS: Rachman inov—Symphony #2 (3rd movement)
VICTORY: Beethoven —Victory Symphony
ZARATHUSTRA: Schubert —Symphony #9

COSMIC CLOCK - COMPOSERS/KEYNOTES

GOD POWER : 12 o'clock line —Capricorn
Giacomo Puccini - "O Mio Babbino Caro" ("O My Beloved Daddy")  from Gianni Schicchi
"Un Bel Di" ("One Fine Day")  from Madam e Butterfly
"Humming Chorus" from Madam e Butterfly

GOD LOVE : 1 o'clock line —Aquarius
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony no. 41 ("Jupiter") in C Major
Franz Peter Schubert - "Ave Maria"  Felix Mendelssohn - "Wedding March" from  A Midsummer Night's Dream
"War March of the Priests"

GOD MASTERY : 2 o'clock line —Pisces
Frédéric Chopin - "Polonaise," op. 53 in A -flat Major
George Frideric Handel - "Hallelujah Chorus" from Messiah
"Lo, the Conquering Her o Comes"  from Judas Maccabaeus

GOD CONTROL : 3 o'clock line —Aries
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Concerto no. 2 in C Minor
Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini  18th variation
Johann Sebastian Bach - Passacaglia in C Minor  "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"
"Sleepers Awake"
Magnificat in D Major
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Joseph Haydn - "Hymn to the Sun" from The Seasons
Bach -Gounod - "Ave Maria"
Nikolay Rimsky -Korsakov - "Song of India"

GOD OBEDIENCE : 4 o'clock line —Taurus
Johannes Brahms - Brahm's Lullaby Wiegenlied ( "Cradle Song")  op. 49 no. 4 (Uriel's keynote)
Franz Lehár - "Thine Is My Heart Alone"  from Das Land des Lächelns
Peter I lyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto no. 1 in B -flat Minor

GOD WISDOM : 5 o'clock line —Gemini
Robert Schumann - "Traumerei"
Charles -François Gounod - "Soldiers' Chorus" from Faust
"Sanctus" from Saint Cecilia Mass
"Benedictus" from Saint Cecilia Mass
Edvard Grieg - "Ich Liebe Dich" (I Love Thee)
Concerto no. 1 in A Minor  (meditation on Circle and Sword of Astrea)
"In the Hall of the Mountain King"  from Peer Gynt Suite
"Morning" from Peer Gynt Suite
Richard Wagner - "The Evening Star" from Tannhauser  (keynote of Royal Teton Retreat)
"Bridal Chorus" from Lohengrin
Prelude from Tristan and Isolde
"Love and Death" from Tristan and Isol de
Preludes to Act I and III from Lohengrin
"Good Friday Spell" from Parsifal
"Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla"  from Das Rheingold
"Magic Fire Music" from Die Walküre
Sir Edward Elgar - "Pomp and Circumstance," Military March  op. 39 no. 1 in D
(El Morya's keynote)
Ernst Eichner - "Andante" from Concerto  for Harp and Orchestra no. 1 in C Major

 GOD HARMONY : 6 o'clock line —Cancer
Christoph Willibald Gluck - Overture from Orfeo and Euridice
"So I Mourn Her Death"  from Orfeo and Euridice
Gustav Mahler - Resurrection, Symphony no. 2
Stephen Collins Foster - "Beautiful Dreamer"  (Mother's keynote)

GOD GRATITUDE : 7 o'clock line —Leo
Sigmund Romberg - "Golden Days"
"One Alone" from The Desert Song
"Deep in My Heart"
Carrie Jacobs Bond -"I Love You Truly"
 Adolphe Adam - "O Holy Night"  (meditation on the Immaculate Conception)

GOD JUSTICE : 8 o'clock line —Virgo
Antonin Dvozák - "Going Home" from Symphony no. 5, op. 95  From the New World
Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D Major
Giovanni Palestrina - Pope Marcellus Mass
Missa Brevis
Amilcare Ponchielli - "Dance of the Hours" from La Gioconda
Estelle Lenci - "Crowning Rose ”

GOD REALITY : 9 o'clock line —Libra
Ralph Vaughan Williams - "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis"
"The Lark Ascending"
"Fantasia on Greens leeves" (Lanello's keynote)
Mass in G Minor
Camille Saint -Saens - "The Swan" from Carneval des Animaux
Giuseppe Verdi - "Celeste Aida" from Aida  (Serapis Bey's keynote)
"Triumphal March" from Aida  (Ascension Flame keynote)
Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

GOD VISION : 10 o'clock line —Scorpio
Johann Strauss, Jr. - "Emperor Waltz"
"The Beautiful Blue Danube" waltz, op. 314
"Vienna Blood"
"Tales from Vienna Woods"
Alessandro D. Scarlatti - Sonata no. 345 in A Major
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a d d i t i o n a l  s e c o n d s  w o u l d  b e  a n  a c h i e v e m e n t  i n d e e d. “ T h e n,  a t  t h e  s t a r t  o f  t h e  c l e a n s i n g  p r o c e s s,  t h e  l e n g t h  o f  t h e  c o n t r o l  p a u s e
s u d d e n l y  d r o p s  a s  a b r u p t l y  a s  i t  r o s e. S o m e t i m e s  i t  d r o p s  a s  l o w  a s  t h e  l e v e l
i t  w a s  a t  i n i t i a l l y,  b a c k  w h e n  t h e  i n d i v i d u a l  f i r s t  s t a r t e d  d o i n g  t h e  B u t e y k o
M e t h o d  e x e r c i s e s. ”  A n n a  Z o t o v a  d r e w  h e r  v o l u m i n o u s  w r a p p e r  m o r e
t i g h t l y  a r o u n d  h e r  a n d  s h i v e r e d,  a l t h o u g h  t h e  g a r d e n  i n  w h i c h  t h e y  s a t  w a s
s u f f u s e d  w i t h  s u m m e r  h e a t. “ T h e  p a u s e  r e m a i n s  q u i t e  s h o r t  t h r o u g h o u t  t h e
p e r i o d  o f  c l e a n s i n g,  b e c a u s e  a l l  t h e  C O 2


	speaks	for	itself. Does	the	learned	Doctor	not	realize	the	potential

for	harm	he’s	condoning? Does	he	not	realize	the	callousness	of	his	attitude? I’m

wondering	what	he	actually	means	by	"good." Good	to	sell	or	good	to	take? AND	what,	does	he	mean	by	"health"? Falling	for	every	gimmick	medicine	and

the	drug	industry	parades	before	our	eyes? Before	we	can	consider	the	new	vaccine	the	dawn	of	a	new	era	it	had	better

dawn	on	us	to	get	rid	of	the	old. The	change	we	need	is	not	merely	a	switch	of

affections	to	a	new	vaccine	(heaven	knows	they	come	too	often). What	we	need

is	to	get	rid	of	the	whole	nonsensical	apothecary	of	medicine	and	to	adopt	a	sane

approach	that	will	start	at	the	bottom	of	things	and	not	somewhere	in	the	middle

of	nowhere,	as	Salk	did. And	that	approach	must	of	necessity	aim	at	the	unity	of	disease—not	at	one	of

its	manifestations. Salk	and	all	he	represents	in	method	and	philosophy	see

health	only	in	terms	of	a	suppression	of	symptoms. We	Hygienists	look	upon

health	as	a	high	standard	of	physiological	efficiency. We	say	this	difference	is

not	only	a	matter	of	philosophy,	but	that	it	is	a	starting	point	that	leads	on	one

side	to	an	endless	hunt	for	techniques	of	covering	up	or	masking	the	setbacks	we

bring	on	to	ourselves	by	incorrect	living;	and	on	the	other	side	to	a	system	of

honest	inquiry	into	the	real	foundations	of	health. We	say	with	Byron,	"The	best
	prophet	of	the	future	is	the	past." On	the	past	record	of	medicine	we	must	reject

the	work	of	Dr.	Salk	and	his	team	of	co-workers. In	short,	we	look	upon	the	new

vaccine	as	a	bane	rather	than	a	boon	to	humanity,	however	slow	its	accumulative

effects	may	appear	in	the	records. As	for	immunity	to	polio	and	all	the	other	disease	designations,	we	Hygienists

choose	to	keep	faith	with	our	principle	of	vital	fitness. We	consider	the	integrity

of	our	physical	economy	the	only	real	safeguard	against	any	of	the	incursions	of

ill	health,	whatever	the	symptom	complex	may	be. We	view	the	phenomenon	of

artificially	induced	immunization	as	the	mere	prelude	to	a	pathological	change

of	venue,	a	delaying	action	and	therefore	an	obstruction	of	the	laws	of

physiology. We	say	you	just	cannot	beat	disease	by	preventing	its	symptoms. True

prevention	must	start	with	the	elimination	of	cause. We	contend	the	elimination

of	polio	must	follow	the	same	course	lest	it	leave	worse	evils	in	its	tracks. No,

we	do	not	think	it’s	Polio’s	last	summer	at	all. As	for	the	vaccine,	its	mistakes

are	already	apparent. Its	consequences	only	time	can	evaluate. Salk’s	statement,

on	his	day	of	glory,	to	the	effect	that	he	would	like	the	prevention	of	mental	ills

to	be	his	next	target,	confirms	my	contention	that	research	can	become	a

compulsive	neurosis. As	a	followup	of	his	work	we	have	been	threatened	with

vaccines	for	the	common	cold,	for	sneezing	and,	there	have	been	hints,	even	for

cancer. Come	to	think	of	it,	it	may	not	be	too	long	before	they	come	up	with	one

for	thinking. Maybe	Salk’s	work	has	paved	the	way	for	it,	too. We	wish	we	could

think	disease	could	be	whitewashed	so	simply. We	just	can’t,	and	look	the

figures	of	our	national	health	in	the	face. Those	figures	belie	the	efficiency	of	the

vaccines. the	serums,	the	drugs	and	all	the	rest	of	the	claptrap	of	the	medicine

man. It	is	regrettable	that	man	has	long	confused	promise	with	performance	and	hope

with	illusion;	that	in	the	fatuity	of	his	dreams	the	lessons	of	the	past	have	eluded

him;	and	that	despite	his	sad	experience	he	continues	to	patiently	bear	the

burdens	that	error	places	in	his	path. In	the	cool	sobering	light	of	retrospect,

when	the	mind	dwells	on	the	ledger	of	man’s	progress	down	the	ages;	when	the

balance	sheets	show	our	losses	and	gains,	our	aims	and	our	accomplishments,

our	investments	and	our	dividends;	when	we	think	of	the	state	of	the	world	and

the	despair	that	exists	everywhere,	and	of	our	descending	spiral	of	achievement

in	a	moral	sense:	when	we	examine	what	science	has	brought	us	to. and	where	it

might	have—it	is	then	that	the	spirit	saddens	and	man	is	left	to	face	the
	disquieting	fact	that	he	has	never	truly	learned	to	distinguish	between	the

milestone	and	the	millstone. The	above	articles	are	quoted	from	Dr.	Shelton	Hygienic	Review	Box	27	San

Antonio,	Texas	by	special	permission. A	MAN’S	OPINION	IS	NO	BETTER	THAN	HIS

INFORMATION

1. Bechamp,	(the	real	discoverer	of	bacteria)	writes	“Bacteria	do	not	cause

disease,	and	that,	therefore	serums	and	vaccines	can	neither	prevent	nor	cure

disease." 2. Dr.	James	A.	Shannon	of	the	National	Institute	of	Health,	U.S.	Government,

June	23,	1955,	states:	"The	only	wholly	safe	vaccine	is	a	vaccine	that	is	never

used." 3. The	famous	Doctor	Harry	R.	Bybee	says:	"My	honest	opinion	is	that	vaccine

is	the	cause	of	more	disease	and	suffering	than	anything	I	could	name." 4. Human	Biochemistry,	in	discussing	"PYROGENS"	points	out	injections	of

distilled	water	may	be	potentially	dangerous...surely	"monkey-juice"	isn’t	fit	to

inject	into	little	children. 5. Dr.	T.	M.	Schippel	of	Washington,	D.	C.,	writes,	"Parents—play	safe! Let

other	callous	parents	permit	this	poisoning	of	their	children. Just	take	your

youngster	off	candy,	soft	drinks	and	colas	and	infantile	paralysis	will	pass	your

family	by. Remember,	polio	is	not	‘catching’—it	comes	from	the	insides	of

‘over-indulged’	kiddies." 6. Dr.	S.	A. Mills,	so	correctly	defines	polio	as..."POLIO	IS	A	TOXIC	WASTE

PARALYSIS,	TOXIC...because	of	how	it	affects. WASTE...because	of	what	it

really	is. PARALYSIS...because	of	what	it	does." 7. Prof.	Yutaka	Mukai	(Japan),	states—"Polio	is	not	caused	by	the	Virus,	but

essentially	the	physical	constitution. Health	promoting	foods	can	prevent	Polio

completely." 8. Scientist	and	physician,	Dr.	William	F.	Koch,	M.D.,	Ph.D.,	says,	"The

injection	of	any	serum,	vaccine,	or	even	penicillin,	has	shown	a	very	marked

increase	in	the	incidence	of	POLIO,	AT	LEAST	400%. Statistics	on	this	are	so

conclusive,	no	one	can	deny	it." 9. September	20,	1953,	The	United	Nations	World	Health	Organization

Committee	reports,	"Efforts	to	Control	Polio	Complete	Failure"	and


 onion, chopped
1 stalk celery, chopped
4 broccoli stalks without florets, peeled and cut into '/2-inch pieces
2 small zucchini, sliced
1 cup frozen lima beans (optional)
Vz cup frozen peas (optional)
XA teaspoon celery seed
lA teaspoon dried sage
lA teaspoon dried marjoram
Vi teaspoon sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning
1 Morga or Hiigli vegetable bouillon or 2 teaspoons Hauser Natural
Vegetable Broth
1—2 cups water
Place potatoes and carrots, whole, in vegetable steamer, covered, over
boiling water for 15 minutes. Cut carrots into!/2-inch slices. Peel po
tatoes and cut into 1-inch cubes. Set aside. Melt butter in large heavy
saucepan. Add potatoes, carrots, onion, celery, broccoli, salt, bouillon,
and water. Bring to a boil. Then simmer, covered, for 5 minutes. Add
zucchini and peas. Return to boil, cover, and simmer for 10 minutes,
stirring occasionally. Kids love to dip whole-grain buttered toast into this
delightful stew. Serves 2. 162 • FIT FOR LIFE CAESAR SALAD 75 Mm. 1 clove garlic
3 tablespoons olive oil
1-2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 sheet nori (pressed seaweed, available in natural food stores or in
Asian food section of your supermarket) (optional)
lA teaspoon sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning
1 small head romaine
1 cup Garlic Croutons (see below)
Fresh ground black pepper
Place garlic in large bowl and crush with fork. Add oil and stir briskly. Discard garlic. Add lemon juice and mustard, and combine with fork. Holding nori in your hand, toast it over hot burner (gas or electric) for
1-2 seconds on each side, until it turns from black to green. Crumble
into pieces and mix into dressing. Add sea salt, and whip dressing. Wash
and thoroughly dry lettuce. Break into bite-size pieces, discarding heav
iest part of stalk. Add to bowl, and toss thoroughly in dressing. Add
Garlic Croutons (see below) and pepper to taste. Toss again. Serves 2. GARLIC CROUTONS: 10 Min. These are easy to make and far superior to the packaged variety. 1 slice whole-grain bread
2 teaspoons butter
1 clove garlic, crushed or cut into 2 or 3 pieces
Cut bread into small cubes. In small skillet, melt butter. Add garlic. Saute briefly to flavor butter. Discard garlic. Add bread and saute, turn
ing frequently, until crisp. Add cubes to salad, soup, or vegetable dishes. Serves 1-2. CURRIED CABBAGE 12 Min. 1 tablespoon safflower oil
2 teaspoons mustard seeds
1 teaspoon turmeric
A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFE-STYLE • 163 1 small white onion, quartered and sliced thin
1 small head cabbage, cored, quartered, and sliced thin
'/: teaspoon sea salt
2 tablespoons fresh lemon or lime juice
In large skillet, heat oil. Add mustard seeds and turmeric, and allow to
sizzle for a moment. Add onion, and saute for several minutes, stirring
frequently. Add cabbage and salt, and mix thoroughly. Cook, uncovered,
over medium heat, stirring continuously, until cabbage begins to wilt. Sprinkle with lemon or lime juice. Serves 3-4. MAIN-COURSE SALAD DA Y
DAY FIVE—FRIDAY
BREAKFAST:
Same as Day One
LUNCH:
Continue on fruit and juice all day, or you may have the Vegetable-
Fruit Platter (see page 156). DINNER:
Fresh Vegetable Juice Cocktail (see page 152), or 1/2 cantaloupe, or 1
whole grapefruit
Curried Chicken Salad*
CURRIED CHICKEN SALAD 25 Min. (plus preparation time for chicken)
4 cups butter lettuce, washed, dried, and broken into bite-size
pieces
2 cups spinach, coarsely chopped
'/: cup alfalfa sprouts
lA cup arugula or fresh cilantro, chopped (optional)
2 cups Easy Roast Chicken, skinned and shredded (see page 154), or
164 • FIT FOR LIFE any broiled, steamed, or barbecued chicken
2 cups asparagus
Vz cup carrots, slivered
Prepare the salad. In large bowl, combine lettuce, spinach, sprouts, and arugula or cilantro. Break and discard tough ends from asparagus, and cut into 1 -inch diago
nals. Drop asparagus into boiling water. Boil for 3-4 minutes or until it
turns bright green. Remove from boiling water, and place immediately
under cold water. Pour boiling water over carrots and allow them to
blanch for 1-2 minutes. Drain. Add chicken, asparagus, and carrots to
salad greens. CURRIED MAYONNAISE DRESSING:
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1-2 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 teaspoon honey
Vz teaspoon curry powder
Vz teaspoon dried basil or 2 teaspoons fresh basil, minced
1 teaspoon scallions, minced
!A teaspoon sea salt (optional)
Fresh ground black pepper
Prepare the dressing. In small bowl, combine oil, lemon juice, mayonnaise, and honey. Whisk until creamy. Add curry powder, basil, scallions, and sea salt. Whisk again. Pour over salad. Season with pepper to taste. Makes 1 very
large or 2 moderate-size salads. DAY SIX—SATURDAY
BREAKFAST:
Same as Day One
LUNCH:
Fresh fruit or carrot juice (optional)
Energy Salad (see page 149), or Cauliflower Toastie*
A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFE-STYLE • 165 DINNER:
Harvest Soup * and Hot Buttered Corn Tortillas, * or Carrot Hash
Browns *
Teriyaki Broccoli*
Tangy Green Coleslaw*
CAULIFLOWER TOASTIE 20 Min. A simple toastie maker, inexpensive to purchase at your local hardware
store, is the best tool for toasties. If you don't have one, spread the filling
on buttered toast. Toastie makers (my term) used to be called toastites. They are now called snack, sandwich, or pie cookers, made by Aluma,
available in hardware stores for under ten dollars. They have a two-part
folding griddle, round or square, the size of a piece of bread, with a long
handle. Place bread and fillings inside, close and set on a burner, turning
so both sides cook. 1 cup cauliflower, steamed
1-2 tablespoons mayonnaise
!/» teaspoon Dijon mustard (optional)
lA teaspoon sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning
1 teaspoon celery or water chestnuts, chopped (optional)
2 slices whole-grain bread
1 tablespoon butter
Vi cup alfalfa sprouts or lettuce, shredded
1 tablespoon carrots, shredded
Mash cauliflower, mixing in mayonnaise, mustard, and sea salt. Add
celery or water chestnuts, and mix well. Butter bread. Spread cauliflower
mixture on unbuttered side of one slice of bread. Sprinkle with sprouts or
lettuce and carrots. Cover with second slice of bread, buttered side facing
out. Place sandwich in toastie maker. Heat over high flame until bread is
golden and toasted, and filling is warm, approximately 3 minutes each
side. Serves I. 166 • FIT FOR LIFE HARVEST SOUP 55Min. 9 cups water
1 large white onion, coarsely chopped
2 large cloves garlic, minced
2 stalks celery, coarsely chopped
1 medium celery root (celeriac), peeled and cubed (optional)
2 cups banana squash, cubed
1 small cauliflower, cored and cut into 1-inch florets
4 medium carrots, peeled and cut into!/2-inch cubes
4 medium zucchini, cut into '/4-inch slices
4 medium golden zucchini or summer squash, cut into '/4-inch slices
3 medium White Rose potatoes, peeled, halved, and cut into Winch
slices
1 small head savoy cabbage, cored, quartered, and sliced thin
Vi teaspoon dried thyme
Vz teaspoon dried basil
Vz teaspoon dried summer savory
2 tablespoons white miso or 2 vegetable bouillon
1 teaspoon sea salt (optional)
Dash of cinnamon
Dash of nutmeg
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
In heavy soup kettle, bring water to a boil. Add all ingredients except
lemon juice. Return to boil. Simmer for 30 minutes, stirring frequently
to break up squash and form thick stock. Stir in lemon juice at end of
cooking. This soup can be made in large quantities, because it is a great
leftover. Serves 8. HOT BUTTERED CORN TORTILLAS 8 Min. 8 corn tortillas
2 tablespoons butter
Heat tortillas one at a time in hot dry skillet, turning from one side to the
other until soft but not crisp. After heating one, place a dollop of butter


 I said to myself and the Holy
Spirit, “Now, I welcome this even if it doesn’ t look pretty or feel pretty.
No matter how it looks—let’ s go for the healing!”
The intensity of emotions was so strong. I wondered how people
could go for healing while at the same time functioning in the world.
How do you keep it together? Are you supposed to, on top of the
challenges of keeping a career going and keeping families and
interpersonal relationships together, go inward and work on the healing
of your mind? It does seem to be that certain things fall apart, melt away,
break down, and crumble. But remember, the ego is the one that’s
interpreting the process every step of the way. It’s usually a negative
interpretation, “This hurts too much. It’s too painful. If God is love, why
does it hurt so much in my heart?” The ego gets stirred by these first
glimpses of acceptance in your mind because they are pinpricks in its
façade.
But once  you start the forgiveness process with the Holy Spirit, the
more you open up, the more miracles you will start to have. What in the
beginning seem like little glimmers of acceptance here and there —which
are very important—will start to become more stabilized. First there is
an allowance: I allow; I allow; I allow it to look and feel just as it is. I’m
not going to judge it. Then after all of that allowance, you come into a
true state of acceptance. Anothe r word for that is recognition. It is here
that you begin to recognize: “This is really who I am, who I have always
been, the One, the One Spirit.” The ego is the belief that there is no God.
Awakening is the experience that there is only God. You can see that
there is zero meeting point between “There is no God” and “There is
only God”!
The most difficult phase is the beginning of the turn, but when you
really get into the full swing of the turn of the tables and of the mind,
everything stabi lizes. It feels so natural, so effortless! At that point you
don’t even need  vigilance; it is like being carried along down a peaceful
stream. How dif ficult can that be?At Heart, We Are Just Forgiving Ourselves
Things that have been difficult to deal with keep coming back at us until
we start to realize that the peop le in our lives were just acting out our
beliefs. So, if we seem to be victimized or mistreated or we didn’ t get the
treatment that we felt we deserved, they were simply acting out our
unconscious guilt—everything that we have repressed and denied. They
were doing a great job of it too; Academy Awards go to your mom and
dad for those performances! But the fact is, we weren’ t reme mbering
them as they truly are; we were just remembering the past grievances
that we’ve kept in our mind and they acted them out.
We are never actually upset by behavior. We are upset by our
interpretation of behavior, and we are always responding emotionally to
our interpretations. We just perceive what we still have unresolved
within our own consciousness or what we still have a grievance on. So,
people in our lives are actually doing us a favor. The ones we think are
the biggest jerks and the most insensitive people are helping us go past
our repression and denial mechanisms. They’re acting it out right in front
of us so we can allow all of our emotions into awareness. Once  they are
up in awareness, we can give them over to the Holy Spirit—an d have a
miraculous experience.
Even just thinking  of your mom or dad, or whoever it is that you
have a grievan ce with, activates the memories and the emotions.
Working this through is part of the clearing, even if they’re not
physically in your life. When we dream of them and when we think of
them, we can process what they bring up for us. It’ s part of the healing.
We may not always be aware that whenever we hold a grieva nce,
we are actually holding it against our self. This is because projection
makes us see outside what we don’t want to see within our own minds
and hearts because we’re afraid that what we’re projecting is actually
true about ourselves. This is why, when we forgive, we are really
releasing our own soul, our own self.
It takes a lot of energy to hold on to a grievance, energy that could
be used for loving instead. If we devote our lives to loving, then the fear
and misperceptions of the ego don’t have a chance to grow. If we keepour garden weed ed, clear, and clean, then we have space for the fruits—
and there are plenty of fruits.
Give Beliefs Over to the Holy Spirit
Forgiveness is about really seein g what is in our mind and then releasing
it. This is our inner work. You can’t actually say to the Holy Spirit, “I
have a crazy life. Would You please fix it?” Instead you bring everything
that you believe  about your life and this world, about time and space
back to the Holy Spirit. And when you really do this complet ely, your
issues will disappear. So, in true for giveness, you go into it with the Holy
Spirit, to shine the darkness away, and you are brought back to the
experience of this present mom ent. Bring that darkness to the light.
Bring all of your crazy beliefs to the light, and you will see they were
just in your imagination. They were just dark dragons, crazy little ideas,
you buried and kept hidden. It was just another trick of the ego. It was
never real!
Forgiveness is a moment of choosing to be happy instead of being
right. Forgiveness is an opportunity to decide for reality anew;  it is the
moment when you decide for your true Self rather than for an image of
yourself.
Forgiveness is to go inward beneath attack thoughts and come into
the innocence of who you are, to your divinity. Forgiveness quietly does
nothing. It waits and watches, and it doesn’ t judge. It’s just a serene,
profound, still state of mind. When forgiveness is our function, we are
inherently happy. Forgiveness is our key to happiness!
Imagine you’re growing up with your parents, and they say, “What
are you going to be when you grow up?” And against all expectations
you say, “Happy, happy… I want to be happy!” This isn’t temporary
happiness associated with specific outcomes. It’s not, “I’m happy
because I got a raise, found my soulmate, or won the lottery.” It’s not a
temporary kind of happiness. So, the forgiveness practice leads to a very
joyful experienc e because there is no agenda with anything. We can
describe the unhappy dream as the misperception, and then the happy,
forgiven dream is the touchston e, the closest thing to Heaven on Earth.It’s a transformation in mind and in consciousness. It’s so close to
Heaven that your feet no longer touch the ground, so to speak. You’re
just carried and lifted!
Forgive and See the World as a Dream
Some people believe that when you start to see the world as a dream or
an illusion, you become disinterested or have no sense of love or
compassion flowing through you. But it’s actually the oppo site. The
Holy Spirit pours through even more from that state since you don’ t have
an investment in the form being  a certain way or looking a certain way.
You experience a call for love rather than an attack, and you give what is
asked for; you give the love. You do not fall for perception; you do not
fall for behavior. As you give love away, you strengthen it, and then you
know that you are it, that you are an unlimited extension of divine love.
I was visiting a friend one time when I experienced how the power
of forgiveness could transform aggression and rage. This friend and I
would watch metaphysical movies and meditate together for hours. She
had not mention ed to me that she had gone through a divorce about two
years earlier and that her ex-hu sband was insanely jealous if anyone of
the male gender would come near her. One day when we were watching
a movie, all of a sudden, a face appeared in the window. It was like a
Jack Nicholson movie. His eyes were bulging, and it looked like he was
ready to come in with a chainsa w. Then the door blasted open. He was
super raging angry, with saliv a coming out of his mouth. I had an
experience of being in a movie. I didn’ t even move. I didn’ t even get up.
I just watched this movie as he came over. He was scream ing and
shouting and grabbed my shirt. I was just observing and noticing. I was
experiencing the lesson, “In my defenselessness, my safety lies.”
Later, I was walking along a road toward a nearby pine fores t to
meditate. A car drove up, and it was this man again. He jumped out of
the car and came over. He threw  my body down on the ground, and my
head hit a metal signpost and was bleeding, but I was not feeling any
discomfort what soever.


, thin stalks of asparagus will be more
tender th an olde r, thicker stalks, but in fact, thicker stalks are be st. The
cellulose (the substance that makes it possible for the plant to shoot out
of th e ground an d stand straight up) is stronger—and tougher—in thin
stems than in lar ger stalks that have fleshed out.Spiced Lamb and Peanut Stew
Makes 4 to 6 servings
I l ove this comb ination of spiced lamb with coconut cr eam and peanuts.
It’ s a delicious dish for a humble stew—you can use this one for
entertaining anytime.
2 tbsp melted coconut oil
2 onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 fr esh or dried cayenne pepper, finely chopped (optional)
1 tbsp Madras Curry Spice Blend (page 139)
1-1/2 lb (750 g) boneless lamb, cut into 1-inch cubes
1  can (28 oz/796 mL) diced tomatoes and juices
4 carr ots, sliced
2  potatoes, cut into 1-inch cubes
1 can (5.4 oz/160 mL) coconut cr eam
1/4 cup coarsely chopped r oasted peanuts
1/4 cup chunky peanut butter
1.  In a soup pot or  lar ge saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Sauté onions
for 5 minutes. Add garlic, cayenne pepper (if using) and curry spice
blend an d cook, stirring constantly, until garlic is soft, 2 to 3  minutes.
Add lamb and cook, stirring constantly, until evenly browned, 2 to 3
minutes. Stir in tomatoes with juices and bring to a boil. Reduc e heat to
low, cover and simmer for 50 minutes or until lamb is cooked an d tender.
Add carrots and potatoes and simmer for 10 minutes or until fork-tender.
2.  Add cream, peanuts and peanut butter and stir to combine. Continue to
heat until last 3 ingredients are warm.Madras Curry Spice Blend is mildly hot to my palate. If desire d, omit
the cayenne pepper and use on ly 1 tsp of the curry spice blend. Y ou
can always add more heat and spice to suit your taste.V egetable Hot Pot
Makes 4 servings
This makes for a quick meal. If your kids don’t like the veggies in the
r ecipe, you can swap them with others they pr efer. For a fun family
lunch, kids can cook their own vegetables on skewers if you have a
portable hotplate to keep the br oth simmering.
2 tbsp coconut oil
1  onion, cut into quarters
2  long, thin Japanese eggplants, cut into 1-inch cubes
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1  tbsp Madras Curry Spice Blend (page 139)
2  cups chicken br oth
2 parsnips, cut into 1-inch cubes
2 tbsp cr eamed coconut
1 tbsp fr eshly squeezed lime juice
1/4 cup shr edded fr esh basil or
Coconut Gr emolata (page 149)
1.  In a lar ge sauc epan or Dutch oven, heat oil over medium heat. Sauté
onion an d eggpl ant for 5 minut es. Add garlic and curry spice blend and
cook, sti rring fre quently, for 2 m inutes. Add chicken broth and bring to a
boil.
2.  Add parsnips, cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer, stirring
occasionally, fo r 10 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Stir in
creamed coconut, lime juice and basil and heat through.
A Dutch oven is  a lar ge cookin g pot with a lid used to simmer foods
on t op of the stove or in the oven for long periods of time. It istraditionally made of cast iron or ceramic-coated cast iron, but
stainless steel versions are avail able. They are heavy, and the lids are
usually dimpled in order to con dense steam and return the liquids to
the pot. If you don’ t have a Dut ch oven, you can use a lar ge cast iron
skillet or a pot, with a lid, that is both flame- and oven-proof.4
D i n n e r
Main Dishes
Braised Beef and V egetables in Coconut Sauce
Bean and Nut Loaf
Chicken in Pineapple Boats
Citrus Glazed T urkey
Coconut Curry Chicken
Crispy Baked Fish
Mor occan Mango Chicken T agine
Lamb Curry
Mushr oom Ragout with Quinoa
One-Pot Pork and V egetable Bake
Seasonal V egetable Biryani
Shrimp in Coconut Sauce
Spiced Slow-Cooked Chicken
Sweet Potato Shrimp Cakes
Noodles and Pasta
Bahmi (Pork Noodles)
Coconut Rice
Bulgur and Lentils with Coconut Gr emolataCoconut Barley Risotto
Farr o Stir -Fry
Herbed Rice Pilaf
Nasi Gor eng (Indonesian Fried Rice)
Roasted Cauliflower Rigatoni
Soba Noodles with Peanut Sauce
V egetable Side Dishes
Baked Spinach
Br occoli with Sesame Dr essing
Cashew V egetable Ragout
Chard and Chickpeas
Cheesy Baked Eggplant
Coconut Polenta
Gr een Shiitake Stir -Fry
Island V egetable Sauté
Thr ee Bean Stir -Fry
Potato-Stuffed Acorn SquashBraised Beef and V egetables in Coconut Sauce
Makes 4 to 6 servings
Because you ar e braising, you can use a less-tender cut, but be sur e to
pound the meat to help ten derize it. The vegetables cook into the
coconut sauce and give it a rich flavour and textur e.
1  lb (500 g) flank steak or inside beef r ound
2  tbsp coconut flour, divided
1 tbsp coconut oil
1 onion, coarsely chopped
3  cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 eggplant, coarsely chopped
1 r ed bell pepper, coarsely chopped
3/4 cup coconut milk
1 tbsp coconut aminos or tamari sauce
1.  Place steak on a lar ge sheet of parchment paper or cutting board. Sprinkle
with 1 tablespoo n of flour and, using a meat mallet, pound until about 1/2
inch thic k (or thinner than it wa s when you started). Flip and repeat with
remaining flour. Cut into 1/2-inch-wide strips. Cut the strips into 1- to 2-
inch lengths. Set aside.
2.  In a flameproof tagine, Dutch oven or lar ge skillet, heat oil ove r medium
heat. Add onion and sauté for 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring
frequently, for 1 minute. Add beef strips and cook, stirring constantly, for
3 t o 4 minutes or until browned on all sides. Stir in eggplant, red pepper,
milk and aminos. Bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat to low an d simmer
for 2 0 m inutes o r until meat is tender and vegetables have been reduced
into the sauce.
Y ou can use 2 or 3 small, thin Japanese eggplants (photograph, at left)
or 1 plump Italian eggplant (photograph, at right).
T o p repare the eggplant: Using  a sharp knife, remove the top and
bottom f rom the eggplant. Partially remove the skin in alternating 1-
inch stri ps to make a striped pattern. Stand the eggplant up on its wide
end and  cut it lengthwise into 1/4-inch slices. Arrange on the cutting
board in  stacks of 3. Cut each stack lengthwise into 1/2-inch strips,
then cut across the strips to make 1/2-inch cubes.
I u se my tagine for this dish, but you can use a heavy-botto med
skillet or Dutch oven as long as it has a lid. Be sure that when you turn
the h eat down to  simmer in Ste p 2, the mixture actually does simmer.
Y ou may have t o check after a few minutes and adjust the hea t up or
down in order to keep the mixture simmering just under a hard boilBean and Nut Loaf
Makes 6 servings
This dish made its debut a t an annual meeting of the W omen’ s
Culinary Network in T or onto and was well-r eceived by many
discerning Canadian foodies. I t raises the question “Who needs meat?”
Obviously no one when you combine mushr ooms, cashews and coconut
milk wi th a gr eat spice blend. The loaf holds together beautifully and is
delicious served  warm or at r oom temperatur e the next day.  I’m sur e it
will be just as much of a hit at your next potluck outing.
1 tbsp melted coconut oil
1  onion, chopped
2  cups chopped mushr ooms
1 tbsp Garam Masala Spice Blend (page 137)
1 to 2 dried chiles, crushed (optional)
1/4 cup coconut milk
3  large eggs
3/4 cup fr esh whole wheat br eadcrumbs
1/4 cup coconut flour


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benefit from this message, we simply need to become willing
to try the magic of belief on, to see the transparency of truth  in our lives, to monitor our i nner guidance system and our
manifesting progress – and to clear out default truths as they arise.  To expansively benefit from this message, we must choose to live our divine spiritual essence as much as possible - to continuously rise within, in order to experience the depth
and scope of our core original light.  When we live from this
broader perspective, we can see how our prosperous inner spiritual life is the creator of ou r physical outer life experience
and cosmic prosperity.
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Chapter Eight:
An Expanded Application of  the Law of Attraction:
Density and Dissimilar, Light and Like

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Some forget the application part.  Being in “flow” can also
mean “listen and apply your gu idance.”  That is often the
way, or the means, in which you will receive.  Developing
an inner ear and sight is essenti al to your experience of
natural divine flow.
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The following tran scription is an expansion on the
previous message, about the “al ready is” application of the
law of attraction.  It speaks to the contrasting vibrations of density and light, and dissimilarity and likeness.  It is an enlightening message that is a bit easier to absorb, which may  help us more fully integrate the greater cosmic truth of who  we really are.  I have included  this message, for our collective
clarification and understanding.
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receipt of your desire – what is  most important is that you
allow it, and intend for it, to be  easy.  The process is not hard,
but people make it so.  Your world has accepted  the paradigm
that harder /G01 /G27/G0B/G0E/G11/G28 /G06/G02/G05/G0F/G13/G03/G05/G09/G06/G03/G04/G06/G18/G05/G01/G01/G05/G09.  But, in the Source world
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with belief, ease, and flow.
 We want you to know that to  define a desire you are wanting,
and to push at it to make it be so, will not bring that thing
into your existence.  You a re then resonating with your
dominant vibrational offering, which is not the ease and good
feelings of your desire, but ra ther heavier, “pushing against,”
blocks of energy – that resist its flow to you.
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core properties of you – boil down to the same ultimate
goodness. /G06/G06
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recognize and feel within yourself, and you will automatically
be in the flow of Source energy.  You are /G05/G06/G03/G07/G05/G08/G04  whatever
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You can choose dissimilar vibrations, but when you do, it
doesn’t feel good.  Typica lly, earth beings decide
(unconsciously much of the time ) then to bear down and push
more, believing force will bring them more of what they want.
But ultimately, it is the path of  least resistance that drops it
like a feather in your lap.  W hy?  Because you have simply
allowed the “already is” natural flow of two alike things
coming together.
Density is an experience, but not the easier path.  It is the
illusion of “what is,” but not the true “what is.”  From
experiencing density, many expand  in great creative ways, to
bounce back toward the light of their being


 seed  in  your  hand  and  know
that  it  unfolds  from  within  itself  the  entire  creation,
that  this  seed  is  the  linkage  to  all  memory  of  this  plant
from  the  beginning  of  time.  The  magical  quality  of
healing  that  resides  in  a  grain  or  an  herb  comes  from
the  very  memory  of  its  seed,  whose  potency  has  been
collected  for  more  than  twenty  billion  years  of  origi-
nal existence.  Food  is  memory,  and  the  grains  hold
the  nectar  of  this  memory.
Rice:  The  Holy  Grain
It  is  said  in  the  Vedas  that  the  entire  universe  is  held
within  each  grain.  Rice  has  been  the  primary  food  for
most  ancient  cultures.  It  is  the  most  widely  consumed
grain  in  the  world — more  than  thirty  thousand  vari-
eties of  rice  are  currently  cultivated.  Ninety  percent  of
the  rice  in  the  world  is  grown  in  India,  China,  and
Japan. The  components  of  a  grain  of  rice — the  husk,  bran/
germ,  and  endosperm — symbolize  the  cosmic  gunas
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FOOD    SADHANAS
of  sattva,  rajas,  and  tamas,  respectively  the  harmony
or  protection,  dynamism,  and  inertia  of  the  living
universe.  The  grain  endures  the  seven  stages  of  life,
from  seed  to  sprout,  to  seedling,  to  young  plant,  to
mature  plant,  to  flowering  plant,  to  fruitful  plant.
In  the  Asian  countries,  a  spiritual  aura  surrounds
the  planting,  harvesting,  and  preparing  of  rice.  In  In-
dia, it  is  cooked  in  hundreds  of  ways  and  used  as  an
offering  to  the  gods  during  religious  ceremonies.  Rice
is  the  first  food  an  Indian  bride  offers  to  her  husband
at  her  nuptials;  it  is  the  first  solid  food  an  Indian  mother
offers  her  newborn.  In  India,  the  grains  of  rice  are
regarded  as  two  brothers,  close  but  not  stuck  together.
In  China,  the  word  for  rice  is  synonymous  with  food.
A  typical  Chinese  salutation  upon  greeting  someone
is  "Have  you  had  your  rice  today?"  In  Japan,  cooked
rice  is  the  same  word  for  meal.  Japanese  children  are
encouraged  to  eat  every  grain  of  rice  by  calling  each
grain  a  little  Buddha.  In  Thailand,  the  dinner  bell  is
expressed  by  the  resounding  words,  "Eat  rice!"
During  the  Vedic  period  in  India,  the  inedible  husk
Planting  Rice —
Sadhana  to  Invite  Humility was  removed  and  the  remaining  whole  grain — with
bran  and  germ  intact — was  eaten.  This  was  called
brown  or  unpolished  rice.  There  was  no  oiling,  bleach-
ing, parboiling,  pearling,  or  powdering.  Later,  during
the  time  of  the  Moguls,  rice  had  to  be  polished  or
white  before  it  was  considered  edible.  Even  though
India  is  still  not  bleaching,  pearling,  or  powdering  its
rice,  there  is  excessive  use  of  white  and  parboiled  rice.
Today  only  the  very  poor  villagers  avail  themselves  of
brown  rice.  Generally,  its  quality  is  excellent,  since  it
has  been  husked  and  winnowed  by  the  energies  of  the
hand  and  heart.
Rice  Bran.  The  bran  is  the  nutrient-rich  outer  layer
of  a  rice  kernel.  When  this  bran  remains  on  the  ker-
nel, the  rice  is  brown;  when  it  is  removed  by  milling,
the  rice  is  white.  Bran  has  a  sweet,  nutty  flavor  and  is
an  excellent  source  of  rice-oil,  minerals,  and  fiber.
Until  recently,  most  of  the  rice  sold  in  the  United
States  was  white,  with  the  separated  bran  used  exclu-
sively as  an  animal  feed  supplement.  Rice  bran  needs
to  be  used  shortly  after  its  removal  from  the  grain,
since  its  oil  content  causes  it  to  turn  rancid  quickly.
Parboiled  Rice.  Research  reveals  that  rice  was  be-
ing parboiled  in  northern  India  more  than  two  thou-
sand years  ago.  In  parboiling,  the  rice  is  steamed  and
dried  before  milling,  forcing  some  of  the  nutrients
from  the  bran  layer  to  penetrate  the  endosperm.  Par-
boiling a  grain  makes  it  easier  to  digest,  although
many  nutrients  are  sacrificed  in  the  process.
Instant  or  Precooked  Rice.  This  rice  is  milled  and
polished  to  remove  the  bran  layers ,\\\i\  genu  and  is
then  completely  cooked  and  dried.  While  this  rice
takes  very  little  time  to  prepare,  it  has  little  or  no
nutritive  value.
White  Rice.  White  rice  has  the  lite  supporting  brail
and  germ  removed  and  is  milled  and  polished,  c  k>m
mercial  white  rice  is  often  coated  with  glucose  and
vegetable  oil  to  make  it  more  appealing.  Generally  the
iron,   B   vitamins,  niacin,  and   thiamin   are   lemlio
duced  into  it,  alter  its  innate  nutrients  have  been
stripped,  thus  the  term  fortified  white  rice.  This  prod
ucl  offers  little  or  no  contribution  to  health
Flaked  Rice.  Although  dried,  steamed,  and  Hat
tened,  nee  flakes  are  a  gentle  breakfast  cereal  good  fol
all  body  types.
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THE    PRACTICE    OF    AYURVEDA
Each  type  of  rice  bears  a  subtle  difference  in  color,
shape,  aroma,  and  taste.  There  are  infinite  varieties  in
India — pearl,  ivory,  pink,  red,  brown,  taupe;  long,
short,  oval,  fat,  thin,  and  wispy.  The  following  is  a
variety  of  the  most  commonly  known  rices,  ranging
from  the  staple  rice  to  the  most  exotic.
Basmati  Rice
An  aromatic,  nutty  flavored  rice,  basmati  has  been
cultivated  for  centuries  in  North  India  and  Pakistan.
Some  villages  in  northern  India  conduct  a  harvest
ritual  of  hulling  and  winnowing  the  grain  by  hand,
with  all  villagers  sharing  in  this  sadhana.  Basmati
is  renowned  for  its  long,  slender  shape,  which  length-
ens instead  of  swelling  when  cooked.  The  word  basmati
translates  literally  as  the  "queen  of  fragrance."  This
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calibration process and the Map of Consciousness® in Chapter 2 of this
book. However, Dr. Hawkins will refer to calibration levels (such as a
calibration level  of 190 or a calibration level of 210) throughout the book,
so it can be helpful to have the Map handy as you read. The Map of
Consciousness can be found online at https://veritaspub.com/map-of-
consciousness.
At the end of this book, you will find a bonus chapter taken from one of
Dr. Haw kins’ s lectures, “The Most Valuable Qualities for a SpiritualSeeker,” in which he outlines the simple and powerful qualities that every
spiritual seeker will need on the path to Enlightenment. This is one of the
last lectures Dr. Hawkins delivered during his earthly journey.
Are you ready? Let’ s get started.
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MOVING
FROM THE
EGO TO SERVICE
The vast majority of self-help  teachers encourage people to follow
outwar d, assert ive, ego-oriente d methods to achieve long-lasting wealth
and happiness. But, having traveled that path himself early in his life, Dr.
Hawkins knew that the ego path was ultimately a dead end.
In this section, Dr. Hawkins will encourage you to step off the ego path
onto a more rewar ding, fulfilling, and service-oriented enlightenment path.
And as he explains, the path you will travel begins with your personal
choice.
Everybody’ s aware when they are faced with a choice betwe en the high
road and the low road. That’ s a common experience. For example, you
could get a better grade by cheat ing or you could get an honest  grade by not
cheating. W e have to make those decisions over and over.
To me, the dilemma of human existence is that you have to choose every
second. Every second of every minu te your mind is constantly making
choices. The challenge of human  existence is phenomenal when you look at
it. But because you’re used to it, you don’ t realize that.
Every single moment, when I speak, my mind is choosing words—how
do I enunciate that word, how do I phrase my messages, contextualize them,amplify them. I’m deciding whether to explain myself more, or if I should
just let the other person worry about it. So for every single word I’m
choosing, there are probably 50 different possible options. I could suddenly
become comical and break the seriousness. And for some people, that
would help them ; other people would say, “Oh, I can’t believe what he’s
saying—he’ s just being lighthearted about things.” They don’t see the
spiritual value of humor.
So the human, at every instant, every fractional instant, is choosing
between this thought and that thought, between this option and that option.
Shall I shift in my chair?  I just had to decide that; there are probably half a
dozen conscious options, and there’ s probably dozens of unconscious
options, ways that we could go. Should I encourage them to go in that
direction, or should I discourage them from following that track?  We’re
always trying to influence, and we’re always making choices. I always feel
sorry for the human condition, in that you can never be content because the
minute you’re content, you’re even wondering if you should  be content.
There’ s very little rest for humans, because our minds are constantly
presenting an endless array of options. People say they don’t believe in
karma. Well, you don’t have to use that word. What you can see is that your
mind is endlessly, constantly confronted with options, and your whole life is
going to change depending on which option you pick. It’s like a giant map,
an electr onic map, and if you choose this direction, you’re going to end up
hundreds of miles from if you’d chosen that other direction. So making
choices is the major human occupation. Yet nobody ever mentions it. The
major human preoccupation, and it eclipses all others, is the constant
making of choices. Should I look in that direction or not? Should I try to get
this job? Should I say this or say that? Should I wear this? Should I walk on
the other side of the sidewalk? Should I call so-and-so? Should I let this bill
wait another two weeks?
• • •
What you see is a projection of your own consciousness. It’s what you
project out into the world, whether you see this world as sad, happy,
ludicrous, beneficial, beautiful, divine, frustrating, corrupt, evil, or an
infinite good. If man is to progr ess to realize the ultimate divini ty, which is
the core of his existence, then it would require progressively growing intothat dimension of awareness. The karmic benefit of human lifetime, as the
Buddha said, would be self-rew arding. Fortunate it is to be born a human,
even more fortu nate it is to have heard of enlightenment; and rarer still is it
to be born, to have heard of enlightenment, and then proceed to pursue it.
And I might add, rarer than that is to achieve enlightenment, because it
requires tenacity. The roadway to enlightenment takes you through difficult
terrain, like a walk through a swamp.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FORCE AND POWER
Force is linear. Force is demarca ted. It has a form like a molecu le. It may
have ears on it, eyes, feet, anything. It has structure. Therefore, force is
limited. That which has form is obviously limited. It’s limited by form. That
which is formless is unlimited. Eventually, we can solve every riddle that’s
ever plagued mankind with this little simple formula.
We know that E=mc2. This is force limited to form. Power, which is
nondual, is infinite. Power has no limitation. In fact, the greater the demand
you put on power, the greater it swells and meets the need. Force on the
other hand, is exhausted. Force goes from here to there. It extends its own
energy.
You have to constantly stoke force with more and more energy. Money,
bodies of soldiers, bodies of believers, their gold, their lives, their sweat—
you have to pull it out. The Roman empire, which was the greatest empire
the world had ever seen, petered out after a thousand years. So force is
limited; power, on the other hand, is unlimited.
TRUTH AND SUBJECTIVITY
When you define what is truth, it’s impossible to define truth without
defining the context. And that is the reason all the greatest philo sophers that
have ever lived have never solved the problems of epistemology, because
they never got that subtlety. You move from the objective to the subjective.
The objective will take you up to 499 (on the Map of Consciousness), and
from there you move into the subjective. The presence of God is not
something one can experience  through thought, but experientially, it is
subjective.What kinesiology, or consciousness calibration, shows us is that
consciousness itself recognizes the presence of truth. At first, I thought it
was truth versus falsehood. I thought consciousness knows the truth from
the false.
Actually, consciousness itself recognizes the presence of truth. It only
knows the truth and the not true. It knows what’ s true and fails to recognize
what is not true. You see how that gets us out of polarity—y ou see how
there’ s a subtlety  to this? It gets you out of the spiritual guilt of the polarity
of the opposites, where you like this and hate that, and you feel guilty
because you’re supposed to be spiritual and not hate anything.
See, there’ s chocolate and vanilla. You can like chocolate without hating
vanilla. You don’t have to hate vanilla, you can just choose chocolate. You
can be conserva tive and not hate the liberals because they’re all vanilla.
They can be vanilla liberals. And they don’t have to hate conservatives
because they’re chocolate. They  can just like vanilla, and say to themselves,
I don’t know how you digest that chocolate, but that’s your problem, you
know?  One chocolate guy says, “Vanilla is for wimps. If you like vanilla,
you like vanilla. But us guys, we like chocolate.” You can champion your
cause. You can tell others that we’re the greatest, and tattoo yourself, and
make parades, and all that. But you don’ t have to get into hate.
CALIBRA TING THE CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL OF
MANKIND
The purpose of our discussion, of course, is to potentiate the evolution of
consciousness. And the only purpose of the books I’ve written or the
lectures I’ve given is to support the progression of that consciousness
within the individual who has elected to pursue a highe r level of
consciousness.
Most people think they’re in the ordinary world of causality. They think
that what they are is the product of their past. The reality is that it’s the
potentiality  of what you have chosen to become that is pulling you into the
present. So if you’re reading this book, it’s not because what you’ve been in
the past is pushing you up to this point. On the contrary, it’s because


 men
with this simple, logical, and physiologically sound alternative to their current and
frustrating methods of treatment. You would think that since the welfare of the human
being is the only purpose for the existence of doctors that they would leave no doors unopened if there was any way possible that their fellow man (or woman) could be
helped. But they won't listen. It seems the biggest concern of the Foundation is to
collect money for research and cures. Cures? No cure can ever better the body's own
innate capability to heal itself.
   It was this knowledge of the Foundation that made Corinne and me aware of a
meeting to be held at a major hospital for the purpose of organizing a Detroit chapter
of the National Foundation for Ileitis and Colitis. We attended that meeting in May of 1975. There were hundreds of sick people packed into the auditorium. Some were in
early stages of "treatment," some had been under "treatment" for many years, while
others had already been subjected to that drastic surgery. There were young children,
elderly people, and all the ages in between. Th ey were all sick and they were all there
to learn about the advances (?) made in the treatment of digestive diseases. A faint cloud of smoke floated lazily in the room because at least one-fourth of the people
were smoking.    The distinguished panel of five doctors was introduced. Dr. Kale was among this
group. Each spoke of his experiences and discussed the rationale of various
"treatments." The use of the high-protein diet was advocated to build up the patient.
However, many of these patients did not have the capacity to properly absorb and
assimilate food (convert the nutriment into living tissue), especially a high-protein
diet which puts an extra tax on the kidneys, liver, and body in general since it requires
much more energy for its digestion. And one thing the sick body does not have is energy. What energy it does have should be conserved and directed toward
recuperation. Why is a broken arm put in a cast? So it may rest and thereby heal. How
then can a diseased intestine, particularly in ulcerative colitis, be expected to heal
when all this food is being forced into it? The intestine is never given a chance to rest.
   Another item brought up by one of the panel was, "We have to wait for better drugs
to come along." What are these drugs supposed to do? How is disease to be cured by
any drug? I have yet to have a question answered that I have been asking for years: "How does a drug cure?" The panelist did concede that 'any drug we ever give has
risks to it.' It can be stated  that all drugs are dangerous.
   Surgery was also discussed. This is drastic and traumatic, as I've already mentioned.
The surgeon stated, "There is a high recurrence rate after surgical treatment. Many
times, multiple surgery in a patient follows." The Foundation states that there are
about 25 to 45 percent recurrences following surgery. They also state that "for all
practical purposes, ulcerative colitis can be cured by removing the entire colon and establishing an ileostomy. Even this removal of the colon and establishing an
ileostomy does not invariably prevent spread of the disease to higher segments of the
bowel." For all practical purposes, headaches can be cured by cutting off the head,
however, this does cure the headache. The excision of the entire colon removes only
the end result of a pathological process--it does not remove cause. This can apply to disease in general. Unless cause is removed, the disease cannot be considered as
"cured." By the same token, when a disease is suppressed, as with drugs, the cause
has not been eliminated and therefore the body may break out in another disease
eventually.
   Dr. Kale, in his presentation, stated th at, "The disease can be removed surgically."
Can it? He also stated that, "Diet has nothing to do with the history of the disease in
any way." One cannot isolate the colon from any other part of the body, just as one
cannot isolate any part from the whole. The body functions as a unit and when one
part suffers or malfunctions or becomes diseased, then the whole body is affected.
The improper and debilitated foods people eat today can hardly allow them to evolve good general health. This is one of the keys. Just as one improves on a fast, feels
marvelous when it's over, and puts in his body "live" foods that will allow the
evolution of a high degree of health, so this person will find if he returns to his
"normal" way of eating (if he wants to live that dangerously) that eventually he will have lost all he had gained and is back in the same rut as before.
   When the discussions ended, questions were taken from the audience on 3 x 5 cards
and given to the panel. While the cards were being collected, I turned to Corinne and
we both agreed that in the 18 years since I first became ill, nothing had changed. Time
had stood still. The same principles of treatment, the same search for cures and new
drugs, and the same closed minds, amazingly, but not surprisingly, still existed. The many cards were screened by the panel and then they began reading and answering
the questions. We had sent in a question concerning fasting, which was selected by
Dr. Kale. He so completely misled and misinformed the audience, especially since his
experience with fasting could probably be put  on the head of a pin, that Corinne could
not take any more of it, She stood up and wanted to be heard, even though no oral
questions were being taken. She told the pa nel and the audience that the answer was
misleading and too quickly pushed aside. She wanted the panel and the audience to at least listen to what we had to say about our experience (which is also the experience
of untold thousands of others), to at leas t become aware that there is a way to be
helped. She was immediately put down by the moderator, which angered her even
more. Corinne then strongly accused him of suppressing information from these
people, many of whom were desperate. He still put her down, but she was adamant and again accused him of suppression. There began a scattered applause from the
audience with a few voices ringing out such things as, "Let them speak," "Let's hear
what they have to say," etc. The moderator was finally pressured into inviting us up to
the front of the auditorium; but our little victory was to be short-lived. As we
approached the front, I could see the panel quickly huddling for the final blow. They were not to be outdone. Before we could open our mouths, the moderator
emphatically called the meeting to an end and summoned help from the security guard. Amazing! Corinne and I created all that fear and danger by ourselves.
   What followed next, I had seen in ne wsreels and newspapers but never imagined it
would happen to us. The security guard arrived (without bugles and fanfare) and
grabbed, quite firmly, those two dangerous people (us). For lack of a more dignified
description, the guard "threw us out," much to the dissatisfaction of the many people
who followed us outside to seek more information.
   It wasn't ten minutes later that the secur ity guard returned and invited us back in at
the request of one of the doctors (who pr obably thought we were harmless--but we
carry a strong message). The doctor briefly and superficially discussed fasting with
me. I later asked him if he was interested in the evolvement of good general health in his patients, rather than just the condition of their intestines. He said he was; so I
asked why such a large number of the sick people here tonight, most of whom were
patients of his and of the other members of the panel, were permitted to smoke. He
pondered a moment and then hesitatingly said it was a good point. How unaware can one be?
   Then, as Corinne and I were getting read y to leave, Dr. Kale walked by and we
shook hands. He told me that this fasting and the entire plan of natural living was a "religion." What do you say to one who has studied the human body, yet has so little
awareness of its needs?
   It is the culmination of many such confrontations that has taught me to mistake not
authority for truth, but rather to make truth my authority.
   It is this latter type of experience that not only disappoints me, but keeps me
continually frustrated because, generally speaking, doctors don't want to listen--at
least not with an omen mind. But I’ll tell you who will listen, and this is where the
education should be directed: to the people--the everyday person like you or your neighbor. After all, that's what it's all about--helping people!    This brings the story of a very personal part of my life to a conclusion, although in
reality it is merely a continuation of the beginning, since my life goes on from here. I am thankful I have  life; but I am even more thankful that I can share this life of
bountiful and unequivocal "good health."

Chapter 8 -- Case Histories I've Observed
   Over the past 12 years, I've had the opportunity to witness countless


to inven t ways to make our lives work better. Stress can help us be flexible
and adaptive in our responses. “Respond” here means to be flexible and
responsive. It’s like having joints that allow us to bounce and pivot easily.
“React,” by contrast, means frozen in place, more prone to injury.
Stress is a given, so it’s how we handle stressful situations that makes a
difference. When stress gets to us, the same situation we handled easily
yesterday can feel overwhelming today. When we are consisten tly reacting
to stress ful situations instead of responsive to them, we lose perspective and
the stress button  gets stuck in the On position. A constant state of stress can
become a normal way of life for many who are living twenty-first-century
lifestyles, but our bodies don’ t like it.Scientists have confirmed the link between stress and illness; 85 percent
of all disease is linked to an emotional stress component. Stress drives
anxiety, compulsions, adrenal burnout, and even weight gain. Our bodies
take so much before they say, “Okay! Enough!” Let’s dissipate the
disruptions in our energy system caused by stress before they turn into
physical ailments. Are you tapping yet?
Exercise: Global Stress Release
Does reading about stress … stress you out? Tap on that before you read on.
“Even though reading about stress stresses me out, I deeply and completely
accept myself.” We’re going to aim EFT at releasing global stressors in our
lives. This particular exercise is an alternative to the traditional EFT model.
See what you think.
Stress Relief, Part 1
Step 1. How stressed are you or how stressful is your life right now on the 0
to 10 scale? Write your number  down in your EFT journal. Even if you are
not feeling any stress right now, borrow someone else’s stress and help
them out by tapping anyway. Or pick something specific that does stress
you out and rate its intensity.
Step 2. Karate chop continuously while expressing an EFT setup
statement one or more times that portrays how stressful stress is to you.
Here’ s an example for you to customize:
“Even though I’m stressed out (or “my life stresses me out”), I deeply
and completely accept myself.”
Now tap the EFT sequence or the points with this reminde r phrase,
starting with the top of the head, ending with the under -the-arm point: “I’m
stressed! Life is stressful!”  Run this EFT sequence a few times until you
notice a dif ference in your level of intensity.Step 3. What does your stress-o-meter say now? Take note of the level of
your stress on the 0 to 10 scale again. Note any differences in your number.
If your level of stress continues to be above 4, tap another two or three
rounds until the level subsides to below 4. If something specific about your
stress comes to mind as you tap, note the specific issue and create an EFT
setup statement. Tap through the EFT basic recipe on that issue before
moving to step 4 of this exercise.
Step 4. This next EFT setup statement is a reframe, where you restate the
problem in a way that is more optimistic, giving you a different perspective
from which to consider the issue. Reframes work when the person tapping
is ready to receive them. Otherwise, they bounce of f like a ball.
Express your EFT setup phras e aloud one to three times while karate
chopping on the side of the hand:
“Even though I’m stressed, what if this chapter has some stress-
dissolving techniques for me that ease my stress?”
Step 5. One round from top of head through the points:
Top of head: I’m stressed!
Inside eyebrow:  This stress.
Side of eye:  Too much stress.
Under eye:  My body on stress.
Under nose:  All the stress in my life.
Chin:  Too much stress.
Collarbone:  Ugh, stress.
Under arm:  I hate it and I want it to go away!
Step 6. Perform the EFT sequence (the tap-down points) using the
following variations for the reminder phrase or your own version.
Top of head: Is it possible this stress-busting tool will work for me?
Inside eyebrow:  No way! How’ s this tapping gonna relieve my stress?Side of eye: Ghostbusters worked for ghosts. What about stress busters? Is
it possible that there are some stress-busting tools for me?
Under eye:  Could there be ways for me to ease my stress load?
Under nose:  Nah, that would be too easy.
Chin:  What if it’s easier than I think,  and all my thoughts, doubts, fears,
and guilts are making it harder? What if this tapping actua lly helps
relieve the way I react to stress?
Collarbone:  It would feel so great to release some of this stress.
Under arm:  I’d have  more patience with the [kids, dogs, spouse, work,
colleagues], I’d have more energy, I’d sleep better, I’d like myself better
and feel better about my life.
Stress Relief, Part 2
Step 1. List the stressors in your life and jot them down in your EFT
journal. Now how stressed are you about stress? Rate your stress  on the 0 to
10 scale and write the number down.
Step 2. Perform the EFT basic recipe. Create a setup statement that
characterizes how stressed you feel about all the stressors in your life.
Express your EFT setup statement aloud one or more times while karate
chopping continuously, such as:
Even though I have way too much stress in my life, I deeply and
completely love, honor, and accept myself.
Even though I’m stressed, and I’ve got good reason to be stressed out,
I’m still a good person, and I accept myself and how I feel.
Tap down the points:
Top of head:  I’m stressed out. Even reading about stress stresses me out!
Inside eyebrow:  I’ve got too much to do!
Side of eye:  Ugh... all this stress!
Under eye: There’ s just way too much stress in my life. I’ve got....(list
your stressors or select a few that fit and make each stressor a differentpoint on the EFT sequence. You can repeat a couple of sequenc es: needy
kids, needy spouse, needy parent, needy dog, my demanding work, the
crazy commute,  my weight, my crazy boss, the merger, my kids’ puppy
that won’ t stop chewing everything, lack of money, all the bills, all my
unfinished projects, the dirty laundry, nobody listens to me, what if I
don’t get well, this messy house, stressed people all around me, all those
emails ….)
Under nose:  All this stress. I’m tired thinking about it.
Chin:  All this stress is exhausting me. I should be able to figure it out.
Collarbone:  I should be able to handle all this stress. What’ s wrong with
me?
Under arm:  Too much stress, I can’t handle it all. What if all this stress
makes me sick? I’ve got too much stress and can’ t handle it all. Help!
See how a person can let their fears run awayinto a horrible future scenario?
Time to put a stop to negative musings.
Step 3. You already know that to get to the bottom of the stress and have
long-lasting relief, you need to uncover the specifics holding up your stress.
But here we’ll try another tapping sequence, a variation on Gold Standard
EFT, starting at the top-of-the-he ad point. This is a more global approach to
stress. You’ll notice that the words vary, but the concept of stressed out is
the same. See what comes up for you as you follow along. Here’ s the
second tapping sequence, two rounds:
Top of head: I’m so stressed out. I wish I knew how to manage my life
better.
Inside eyebrow: Other people manage stress so maybe I can, too.
Side of eye: But I don’t know how—yet. There’ s too much going on all the
time! I haven’ t learned how to ease up when I feel like this.
Under eye: The stress doesn’ t really work  for me. I feel tight all over.
That’ s making it worse!Under nose:  I wonde r how I can relax and be peaceful, even with all the
stressful demands on me. When I’m calm, things go smoother, stress goes
away, I’m more ener gized.
Chin: Is it even possible to be calm with all this crazy stress in my life?
Collarbone: Probably. It’s not a saber -toothed tiger is not chasing me; I just
have some stress, is all.
Under arm: I wonder how it would feel to relax, even with everything I
have to do and all my to-do lists. Wow. What a great idea. I could breathe
fully and deeper, relax my body. I might even think more clearly. Maybe
everything wouldn’ t be an emer gency anymore.
Top of head:  What if I could relax and be peaceful instead of anticipating
all the stress? That would be a relief!
Inside eyebrow:  What if stress was actually an invitation to calm down, get
centered, and ground?


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