 t the moment everyone remembers
the divine truth of their highest reality. Now there are those who say that life is a
school, and that these things which you
observe and experience in your life are for
your learning. I have addressed this  before,
and I tel l you again:
You came into this life with nothing to
learn —you have only to demonstrate what
you already know. In the demonstration of
it will you function it out, and create yourself
anew, through your experience. Thus,  do
you justify life, and give it purpose. Thus,
do you render it holy. Are you saying that all the bad things that
happen to us are things of our own
choosing. Do  you mean that even the
world’s calamities and disasters are, at some level, created by us so  that we can
“experience the opposite of Who We Are”. And, if so, isn’t there some less  painful
way—less painful to ourselves and
others —to create opportunities for us to
experience ourselves. You’ve asked several questions, and they
are all good ones. Let ’s take them one at  a
time. No, not all the things which you call bad
which happen to you are of your own
choosing. Not in the conscious sense —
which you mean. They are all of your own
creation. You are always in the process of creating. Every moment. Every  minute. Every day. How you can create we’ll go into later. For
now, just take my word for it —you are a  big creation machine, and you are turning out
a new manifestation literally as fast as  you
can think. Events, occurrences, happenings,
conditions, circu mstances —all are created
out of  consciousness. Individual
consciousness is powerful enough. You
can imagine what  kind of creative energy is
unleashed whenever two or more are
gathered in My  name. And mass
consciousness. Why, that is so powerful it
can crea te events and  circumstances of
worldwide import and planetary
consequences. It would not be accurate to say —not in the
way you mean it —that you are choosing
these consequences. You are not choosing
them anymore than I am choosing them. Like Me, you are obs erving them. And
deciding Who You Are with regard to them. Yet there are no victims in the world, and
no villains. And neither are you a victim of
the choices of others. At some level you
have all created that which you say you
detest —and, having created i t, you have
chosen it. This is an advanced level of thinking, and it
is one which all Masters reach sooner or
later. For it is only when they can accept
responsibility for all of it that they can
achieve the power to change part of it. So long as you enter tain the notion that
there is something or someone else out
there “doing it” to you, you disempower
yourself to do anything about it. Only when  you say “I did this” can you find the power
to change it. It is much easier to change what you are
doing than to change what another is
doing. The first step in changing anything is to
know and accept that you have chosen it to
be what it is. If you can’t accept this on a
personal level, agree to it through your
understanding that. We are all One. Seek
then t o create change not because a thing
is wrong, but because it no longer makes
an accurate statement of Who You Are. There is only one reason to do anything: as
a statement to the universe of Who You
Are. Used in this way, life becomes Self
creative. You use  life to create your Self as Who You Are, and Who You’ve Always
Wanted to Be. There is also only one
reason to  un-do anything: because it is no
longer a statement of Who You Want to Be. It does  not reflect you. It does not represent
you. (That is, it does not re -present you. ). If you wish to be accurately re -presented,
you must work to change anything in your
life which does not fit into the picture of you
that you wish to project into eternity. In the largest sense, all the “bad” things
that happen are of your choosing. The
mistake is not in choosing them, but in
calling them bad. For in calling them bad,
you call your Self bad, since you created
them. This label you cannot accept, so rather
than label your Self bad, you disown your  own creations. It  is this intellectual and
spiritual dishonesty which lets you accept a
world in which conditions are as they are. If
you had to accept —or even felt a deep
inner sense of —personal responsibility for
the world, it would be a far different  place. This would c ertainly be true if everyone felt
responsible. That this is so  patently
obvious is what makes it so utterly painful,
and so poignantly ironic. The world’s natural calamities and
disasters —its tornados and hurricanes,
volcanoes and floods —its physical
turmo ils—are not created by you
specifically. What is created by you is the
degree to which these events touch your
life. Events occur in the universe which no
stretch of the imagination could claim you
instigated or created. These events are created by the com bined
consciousness of man. All of the world,
cocreating together, produces these
experiences. What each of you do,
individually, is move through them,
deciding what, if anything, they mean to
you, and  Who and What You Are in
relationship to them. Thus, yo u create collectively, and
individually, the life and times you are
experiencing, for the soul purpose of
evolving. You’ve asked if there is a less painful way
to undergo this process —and the answer  is
yes—yet nothing in your outward experience will have c hanged. The way to
reduce the pain which you associate with
earthly experiences and events —both
yours and those of others —is to change the
way you behold them. You cannot change the outer event (for that
has been created by the lot of you, and  you
are not grown enough in your
consciousness to alter individually that
which has  been created collectively), so
you must change the inner experience. This is the  road to mastery in living. Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a
result of wrong thought. It i s an error in
thinking. A Master can disappear the most grievous
pain. In this way, the Master heals. Pain results from a judgment you have
made about a thing. Remove the judgment
and the pain disappears. Judgment is often based upon previous
experience. Y our idea about a thing derives
from a prior idea about that thing. Your prior
idea results from a still prior idea —and that
idea from another, and so forth, like
building blocks, until you get all the way
back in the hall of mirrors to what I call first
thought. All thought is creative, and no thought is
more powerful than original thought. That is
why this is sometimes also called original
sin. Original sin is when your first thought
about a thing is in error. That error is
compounded many times over when you
have  a second or third thought about a
thing. It is the job of the Holy Spirit to inspire you to new understandings, which can free
you from your mistakes. Are you saying that I shouldn’t feel bad
about the starving children of Africa, the
violence and  injustice in America, the
earthquake that kills hundreds in Brazil. There are no “shoulds” or “shouldn’ts” in
God’s world. Do what you want to do. Do
what reflects you, what re -presents you as
a grander version of your Self. If you  want
to feel bad, feel bad. But judge not, and neither condemn, for
you know not why a thing occurs, nor to
what end. And remember you this: that which you
condemn will condemn you, and that which
you judge, you will one day become. Rather, seek to change those things —or
support  others who are changing those
things —which no longer reflect your
highest sense of Who You Are. Yet, bless all —for all is the creation of God,
through life living, and that is the highest
creation. Could we just stop here for a moment and
let me catch my breath. Did I hear you say
there  are no “shoulds” or “should nots” in
God’s world. That is correct. How can that be. If there are none in Your
world, where would they be. Indeed —where. I repeat the question. Where else would
“shoulds” and “should nots” appear, if not in
Your world. In your imagination. But those who have taught me all about the
rights and wrongs, the dos and don’ts, the
shoulds and shouldn’ts, told me all those
rules were laid down by You —by God. Then those who taught you were wron g. I
have never set down a “right” or “wrong,”  a


 within a
very sho rt amount of time we ’re back to where we started
from—a state of wanting more things in an ef fort to feel happy
again. There’ s only one way to find lasting, permanent happiness—it
is to  fin d out who you really ar e, because your true nature IS
happiness. “The world is s o unhappy because it is ignorant of the true
Self. Man’ s real nature is happin ess. Happiness is inborn in the
true Self. Man’ s  search for happ iness is an unconscious search
for his true Self... When a ma n finds it, he finds a happiness
which does not come to an end.”
Ramana Maharshi
“The on ly real purpose of being here on this earth is to learn or
to re-remember our original natural state of no limitations.”
Lester Levenson, fr om  W ill Power audio
“The discovery of our true Self has the power to transform the
darkness of ignorance into the li ght of pure understanding. It is
the m ost profound, important an d radical discovery. It is a tree
that bears fruit immediately. When we realize who we are—
the one experiencing and perceiving the world—so many
things will be set right. There are not many things to know if
truth is what you seek. It’ s not volumes of knowledge that are
required—it’ s to come to the recognition of the one true Self
that you are.”
Mooji
Remembering w ho you really are has been given many names
over th e centuries. Enlighten ment, self-realization, self-
discovery, illumina tion, awakening, remembering. Y ou
probably think “enlightenment”  can’ t be for you (“I’m just anormal person”), but you couldn’ t be further from the truth. This dis covery—this happiness, this freedom—is who you are,
so how can it not be for you? “Open yourself to the possibilit y that you can experience the
truth  of what you are, this very mom ent. How, you may ask? By noti cing that the only o bstacle in the way is your
imagination—your imagined opposition.”
My teacher
“W e are free, and we don’ t know it. It feels the furthest thing
from possible, that it could be  so. W e’d swear we’re at the
mercy of what g oes wrong, what goes right. And yet (here is
the truth), freedom is right here.”
Jan Frazier, fr om  The Freedom of Being
“Self-realization is possible f or someone who’ s had no
education and it can also be po ssible for a king. There are no
preconditions to  self-realization. Self-realization isn’ t just for
those w ho’ve under gone yea rs of spiritual practice—it’ s
possible for someone who’ s been drinking and smoking all the
time.”
David Bingham, fr om Conscious TV
What W ill Y our Life Be Like? “I’m talking about something that hardly anyone has yet
experienced. How can I describe it? No limits on anything in
any direction whatsoever. The ability to do anything for the
mere thought of it. Y et it is more than that. Imagine the highest
joy you can have and multiply by a hundred.”
Lester Levenson, fr om  No Attachments, No A versions
When you fully recognize who you are, you will have a life
without problem s, without upset, hurt, worry, or fear. Y ou will
be f ree from t he fear of death and will never again be
controlled or tortured by your mind. False ideas and beliefs
will dis solve. In their place will be clarity, happiness, joy,
peace, infinite fun and wonder—every moment a delight. Y ou
will know you are safe and secure no matter what.“And when we recognize this... ultimate happiness is
established pe rmanently, and  forever. And with its
establishment comes immortality, unlimitedness,
imperturbable peace, total freed om, and everything else that
everyone is seeking.”
Lester Levenson, fr om  Happiness Is Free, volumes 1–5
When you fully recognize who y ou are, life becomes ef fortless
—everything you need seems to appear without any ef fort
from yo u. There ’ s an ease and a flow that take over your life. A lif e of  lack and limitation is o ver forever. Y ou come to know
the ultimate power you have over everything in the world. When you fully recognize who you are, suf fering and struggle
will be gone, a nd fear and negative emotions will dissolve. The min d will quiet. Y ou will be filled with joy, positivity,
fulfillment, a sense of abundance, and an imperturbable peace. This will be your life. From the words of Jan Frazier, a mother and literary teacher:
“Imagine this: Whatever has weighed on you suddenly no
longer w eighs. It may still be there, a fact in your life, but it
has no mass, no gravity. All tha t has ever troubled you is now
just a feature of the landscape,  like a tree, a passing cloud. Every bit of em otional and mental turmoil has ceased: the
entire bu rden, so me form of wh ich has been with you as long
as yo u can reme mber. A thing familiar as your closest friend—
as much  a part o f you as the language you speak, the color of
your skin—is utterly, inexplic ably gone. Into the startling
emptiness flows  a quiet joy that buoys you morning, noon, and
night, that goes everywhere you go, into any kind of
circumstance, even into sleep. Everything you undertake
happens ef fortlessly. Y ou are happy, but for no reason. Nothing
bothers you. Y ou feel no stress. When a problem arises, you
know what to do, you do it, and then you let it go. People that
used to  drive you crazy no longer do. While you feel
compassion for others’ suf ferin g, you don’ t suf fer yourself. Activities that used to be tedious are fun. Y ou don’ t need
therapy; you don’ t get bored, an xious, or moody. Except when
needed for a task, your mind is at rest. Y our life is entirely
fulfilled—without your having t o do anything to fulfill it,...you know that no matter what challenge you are handed—for
the r est of your life—the peace will sustain. Never again will
you be afraid, desperate, lonely. Whatever comes your way,
this causeless joy will hold. Imagine it.”
Jan Frazier, fr om  When Fear Falls A way
This is your life with The Greatest Secret. This is your destiny.C H A P T E R  1  S u m m a r y
Whether we r ealize it or not, we’ve been in sear ch of The
Gr eatest Secr et unceasingly every single day of our lives. This gr eat secr et is in plain view  for every one of us to see,
yet we’ve missed it. W e’ve m issed th e truth for thou sands of years because we
ar e distr acted by our pr oblems, the drama in our lives, the
comings and goings of the events in the world. W e’ve accepted many false ideas and beliefs thr oughout our
lives, and they have kept us enslaved. Whenever we suffer, it’ s because we’ve mistaken our own
identity. Humanity is suffering fr om a misunderstanding of our true
natur e.
Y ou ar e having the  experience of being a person, but in the
bigger pictur e it’ s not who you ar e.
Y ou’r e supposed to be happy all the time. Happiness is your
true natur e.
Discovering who you r eally ar e has been given many
names: enligh tenment, self-r ealization, self-discovery,
awakening, r emembering. Open yourself to the possibility that you can experience  the
truth of what you ar e, this very moment. When you fully r ecognize who y ou ar e, you will experience
a lif e without pr oblems, upset, hurt, worry, or fear, and you
will be filled with joy, positivity, fulfillment, abundance, and
peace.C h a p t e r  2
The Gr eatest Secr et: Revealed
“So close you can’ t see it. So subtle your mind can’ t understand it. So simple you can’ t believe it. So good you can’ t accept it.”
Loch Kelly, fr om  Shift into Freedom r egar ding the Shangpa Kagyu T ibetan Buddhist tradition
Why is it so few have discovered the truth? Why haven’ t the m ajority of us realized
who we are? How can billions o f people have missed something so vitally important
to our happiness? W e’ve m issed discovering The Greatest Secret because of one small obstacle: a
belief! J ust a single belief has prevented us from making the g reatest discovery we
can make. That belief is that we are our body and our mind. Y ou Ar e Not Y our Body
“W e came into this world to be a body in order


vera; myelogenous leukemia; recent surgery, pregnancy, or splenectomy; and inflammatory
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www.thegersonway.comThe Leukocyte (White Blood Cell, WBC) Count
Reporting on the number of white blood cells (WBCs) found in a microliter (cubic
millimeter) of whole blood by use of a hemacytometer or Coulter counter, the leukocyte count
varies with strenuous exercise, stress, or digestion. It’s used to detect infection or inflammation,
the need for further tests such as the WBC differential or bone marrow biopsy, and the response
to chemotherapy or radiation therapy. The WBC count ranges from 4.1 to 10.9 x 1011. An elevated count signals infection such as an
abscess, meningitis, appendicitis, or tonsillitis, and it may indicate leukemia, tissue necrosis from
burns, myocardial infarction, or gangrene. A low count shows bone marrow depression from viral
infections or from toxic reactions such as those following treatment with antineoplastics, mercury
or other heavy metal toxicity, benzene or arsenic exposure, and invasion by the organisms of
influenza, typhoid fever, measles, infectious hepatitis, mononucleosis, and rubella. The White Blood Cell Differential
Being a relative number of each type of white blood cell, the white blood cell differential
test is determined by multiplying the percentage value of each WBC type to give an absolute
number of each kind of the 100 or more WBCs. There are granulocytes, agranulocytes, juvenile
neutrophils, segmented neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils, large lymphocytes, small lymphocytes,
phagocytes, histiocytes, and so on. The WBC differential evaluates the body’s capacity to resist and overcome infection, various
types of leukemia, the stage and severity of infection, allergic reactions, severity of allergic
reactions, and parasitic infections. There is a long list of reference values in the WBC differential
test, divided into adult and child. For example some of them are:
For Adults—   Relative  Value (%)   Absolute Value (mcL)
Neutrophils   47.6-76.8    1950-8,400
Lymphocytes   16.2-43      660-4,600
Monocytes      0.6-9.6        24-960
Eosinophils     0.3-7        12-760
Basophils        0.3-2        12-200
To make an accurate diagnosis, the test examiner must consider both relative and absolute
values of the differential counts. For the vast number of variables and illnesses which are diagnosed
by them, please see Appendix I of the Gerson Therapy Handbook: Companion Workbook to A
Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases: Practical Guidance, Resources and Recipes for Gerson
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www.thegersonway.comTherapy Patients. To acquire a copy of this handbook/workbook, contact the Gerson Institute, in
Bonita, California. The Routine Urinalysis
Elements of routine urinalysis include the measurement evaluations of physical
characteristics, specific gravity and pH, protein, glucose, and ketone bodies, plus examination of
urine sediment, casts, and blood cell crystals. The analysis of urine is an exceedingly important
test that tells a lot about the internal workings of a person. Routine urine test results have a great
number of implications for how the physiology is functioning or how it is responding to the diet,
nonpathologic conditions, specimen collection time, and other factors. For the vast number of variables and illnesses which are evaluated by urinalysis, please see
Appendix I of the Gerson Therapy Handbook: Companion Workbook to  A Cancer Therapy:
Results of Fifty Cases: Practical Guidance, Resources and Recipes for Gerson™ Therapy
Patients. To acquire a copy of this handbook/workbook, contact the Gerson Institute in San Diego,
California. Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 195Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 27
CASE HISTORIES OF
RECOVERED PATIENTS
The following well-documented stories of recovered Gerson patients are just a very small
sample of the considerable collection of such records in our archive. All of them refer to
patients thoroughly diagnosed by biopsy, done mostly in U.S.hospitals; almost all of them were
in a so-called terminal condition with widespread cancers that have never been cured by orthodox
means. We chose them in an attempt to include as many kinds of malignant disease as possible,
since we know from long experience that individuals thinking of pursuing the Gerson Therapy
always want to know first whether anyone suffering from “their” cancer has ever recovered. This
selection aims to answer their questions. The Gerson protocol is often attacked on the grounds that it has never been subjected to a so-
called proper test, i.e., a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial. This kind of
test, however, has taken over fairly recently from another, centuries-old way of judging medical
treatments, which was based on clinical results. In other words, as Dr. Gerson often stated, “It’s
the result at the sickbed that counts,” a self-evident view that would be hard to dispute. The currently favored randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial, however,
is not concerned with individual patients. It requires a large group of individuals and is called
double-blind, because neither the doctor nor the patients know who is receiving the new drug
under testing and who is not; this is meant to exclude psychological or other external influences
that might interfere with the working of the drug. Clearly, this method is suitable for testing a single drug—but useless for any therapy that
involves a total change of lifestyle, such as the Gerson treatment. Just consider for a moment
the impossibility of administering coffee enemas or serving fresh juices 13 times a day without
patients realizing that something radical is going on. Besides, the mainstays of conventional
oncology, namely radiation treatment and chemotherapy, have never been subjected to randomized
double-blind clinical trials. Only various kinds of chemotherapy have been tested against each
other ; never chemo- vs. non-chemo treatment. Yet all the time many books and academic studies
have been published by physicians and other scientists, attesting to the failure of chemotherapy. One of the latest books is The War on Cancer: an Anatomy of Failure, by Guy B. Faguet, M.D. 2005. (Springer, ISBN-10, 194020-3618-3.) In view of this, critics of the Gerson Therapy should perhaps demand the application of
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www.thegersonway.comrandomized double-blind clinical trials to chemotherapy before attacking a method they are
totally unfamiliar with..
Now read on... Highly aggressive Lymphoma
Born in 1943, S.M. was 47 years old in 1990 when she developed several swollen lymph
nodes, and, after having them biopsied, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Two
years later, in the summer of 1992, she arrived at the Gerson hospital with extensive edema ( fluid
accumulation ) in her legs, hips and buttocks, and also around a large, melon-sized tumor in her
abdomen. She embarked on the Gerson Therapy as the only treatment for her condition and was
not “tapped” to remove the fluid from her body. In the first five days on the full Gerson program,
with many trips to the bathroom, S.M. lost 28 pounds. In February of 1993, when the patient was re-examined by her doctor in Wenatchee, WA,
the MD’s report read: “Her lymphedema seems to be resolved (medical term for cleared up). Her lymph nodes are no longer palpable ( cannot be felt)  and the patient is feeling well. However,
she has severe carotenemia ( harmless  carrot-colored discoloration of the skin, common in many
Gerson patients), and she still refuses chemotherapy.” Understandable, since she no longer had
any swollen lymph nodes! S.M. continued in good health and testified about her recovery at a
convention in Seattle in 1998 and was active in her husband’s business at last report in 2002. At age 32  W.S. was a struggling young artist with a wife and three small children. When he
noted a mass in his abdomen, he was sent to surgery in May of 1951 in Cincinnati, OH


 the dosed fast”
In the late 1940s -1960s, Nikolayev intensified
his observations of schizophrenia patients who
became the object of his doctoral thesis, pre-
sented in 1960 under the title Razgruzochno- di-
eticheskaja terapiya shizofrenii i ee fiziolog-
icheskoe obosnovaniye  (RDT diet -fasting therapy
in the treatment of schizophrenia and its
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frphysiological basis). In those difficult years, Ni-
kolayev's selflessness in his work of furthering
therapeutic fasting would not have been success-
ful, had it not been for a decisive stroke of luck:
Nikolaeyv’s wife, also a psychiatrist employed in
the rehabilitation of alcoholics, happened to
handle the case of Lev Bulganin, son of an im-
portant man of t he party, the Chairman of the
Soviet Council of Ministers, N.A. Bulganin. The Nikolayevs both treated the illustrious pa-
tient together and managed to cure him by ap-
plying the method of therapeutic fasting. The
powerful N.A. Bulganin, wishing to express gra t-
itude for his son’s healing, assured Dr. Nikolayev
his high protection. Thanks to this, Nikolayev
was able to freely conduct his research and
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his observations. Using fasting to treat thousands of cases of
schizophrenia and other psychic disorders, he
noted that, by eradicating the disease at the root,
fasting could heal several diseases simultane-
ously. Thus, with copious clinical results in hand
and the protection of the high -ranking official
Bulganin, Niko layev soon succeeded in intro-
ducing therapeutic fasting into clinical practice,
thus contributing to its approval by the Soviet
Ministry of Health. In 1961, Nikolayev was appointed director of
the psychiatry program at the Rostov -on-Don
Medical Institute. During the two years in this
position he had managed to set up a school of
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merous colleagues. In the decades that followed, Nikolayev worked
in Moscow at the Soviet Scientific Research In-
stitute of Psychiatry an d coordinated the work of
the numerous fasting wards that had been
opened everywhere throughout the Soviet Un-
ion. The development of the method benefited im-
mensely from the collection Problemy
lechebnogo golodaniya (Problems of therapeutic
fasting), published in Moscow in 1969. It com-
prised the contribution of scientists such as P.K. Anokhin, A.A. Pokrovskiy, P.A. Fedorov, in ad-
dition to Nikolayev. It comprised approximately
sixty articles dedicated to therapeutic fasting in
psychiatric practice, to the neu rophysiology of
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frthe sensation of hunger and satiety, and to the
pathophysiology of fasting. Nikolayev himself
spoke of the growing interest and fervor in the
studies in the introduction to 1988 edition of his
book Golodaniye radi zdoroviya  (Fasting for
Health), published for the first time in 1973 with
200,000 copies. At the end of the 1990s, the Republic of Burya-
tia hosted a pilot experience to introduce fasting
dietary therapy (RDT) in the practice of medical
and hospital facilities at the state level. Under the
scientific direction of Prof. A.N. Kokosov, a
training program for RDT specialists was estab-
lished in the republic, with lectures, seminars
and conferences on the method aimed at both
doctors and health personnel, and the interested
public. Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frSince then, in Russia, the number of scientific
articles that have been released and authors who
have made contributions to the field of thera-
peutic fasting (including dry fasting) are un-
countable. This is evidenced by the materials re-
ported in Appendix 1 and th e relative bibliog-
raphy included in this book, which contains ref-
erences, as complete as possible, on the enor-
mous amount of medical and scientific research
carried out in the USSR -Russia in the last sixty
years. Finally, I would like to add that 25 years since
the creation of the Russian fasting dietary ther-
apy (RDT) were celebrated on 10 August 2019,
in Goryachinsk, Republic of Buryatia, and I had
the pleasure of being present and of getting to
know the people who are still carrying out this
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frfantastic project (see the photographic dossier at
the end of this book). Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frPreface by Sergey Filonov

I was born in the Altai region in a family of
physicians; both my mother and my older sister
are pediatricians. Since early childhood at home
I regularly overheard conversations about med-
icine. With such a "family anamnesis" it was a
foreseeable predicament that my path would
lead me straight to the study of medicine, and so
it was indeed, even though, from what I recall,
during childhood and adolescence I was fond of
totally different things: like all the boys on our
street, I, too, wanted to become a pilot. One day my father and I went skiing. After
our outing we visited some friends for a cup of
tea, and it was there that for first time in my life
I saw a cancer pat ient. He was very thin and
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frsuffered from severe pain. This made a very
strong impression on me. Once I reached home
I asked my mother if it recovering from this dis-
ease really was impossible, and she replied: " Un-
fortunately, my son, at this stage of the illness our
medicine is yet ineffective." In eighth grade, by chance, I stumbled upon a
book. I do not remember the title, but I remem-
ber well that it spoke of a talented healer who
had cured a man suffering from cancer by treat-
ing it with herbs and fasting. Hence, the body
has the reserves and forces capable to treat such
a serious and insidious disease like cancer, I
thought. For every poison, there must necessarily be an
antidote in nature. For each disease in the body
there must be forces able to heal it. After all,
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.franimals in nature do not have hospitals, clinics
and doctors. They are guided by their natural in-
stincts. They know better than any herbalists,
which grass to take in the moment they need it,
or they heal themselves just by fasting. From that
moment, I became more interested in natural
ways of healing. I began to read books about fast-
ing, hypnosis, herbs, acupuncture. I began to un-
derstand: a man is a natural pharmacy, the or-
ganism has all it needs for the treatment of any
disease, it is  only necessary to discover these nat-
ural medicines and stimulate them to benefit the
organism, with work, patience and willpower. My decision to enroll in medical school was ab-
solutely conscious, but I knew that I would not
be interested in sitting at the  clinic and to pre-
scribe tablets. I had to find a specialization and
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frto gain knowledge in such a way that my future
patients would be assisted and able to utilize
their huge hidden potential to heal diseases. On the fourth year of my medical degree, I
was appointed to supervise a patient with bron-
chial asthma. When I went to her room, I could
not believe what I saw: a blooming woman with
a pink blush on the face and sparkling eyes. She
didn’t look at all like an asthm


nis-player, diet-reformer, and restauratorEustace Miles, for the name " Meaters " todesignate those who eat meat; and I have coinedthe term " Mealers " to stand for those who takeonly first-hand earth-fruit products for their
nutrition, disregarding the fact that all aremeal ers who take meals of victuals. To offset
this addition to the vocabulary, it would do noharm to drop off the use of " Meals " and " Victuals," leaving " Meal " to mean only onething; viz., ground cereals or vegetables. *
One of the details of carefulness in
Fletcherism is expressed in the statement thatwe should not proscribe as food anything thatNature permits to be utilized as food ; but thesame carefulness prescribes that we do notprescribe it as food for everybody all of the time. Everything in its proper time and place is one ofthe common-sense rules of the system. Captain Amundsen and his comrades, as I
have already observed, were quite justified in
* It is not outside the province of Fletcherism to Fletcherize
our vocabulary and make it as single-meaning as possible in the
interest of simplicity. The term " Fletcherize " is alreadycommonly used to suggest analysis and digestion of crude raw
material other than food, and has come into use in literary
circles with especial usefulness. Young reporters on newspapersare often told by editors to take their " copy " in hand and
 " Fletcherize " it before handing it in for printing. Even such a
judicial person as Mayor Gaynor, of New York, had recourserecently to such advice relative to evidence, but he called it by a
name of his own not yet in common use. devouring their faithful and friendly sledge dogs
when necessary to preserve their own lives. Ihave the acquaintance of a collie dog whom Ilove devotedly; and I say  "whom " appropriatelybecause he is as intelligent as I am, and farmore consistent in his habits of orderliness andnaturalness. He is a real gentleman at all timesand as good a Fletcherite when the foodsubstance and occasion demand as I am. He haslearned to eat and enjoy apples and no one couldgive more careful mouth-treatment to somesorts of food than Bruce. I am sure that hewould want me to eat him if I needed him topreserve my life, just as unselfishly as theJapanese soldiers, and more recently theBalkanese soldiers, gave their lives for theircauses. Whether I would eat him or not I cannotsay, and I do not know if he would have similarconsideration or otherwise for me. I merely use this illustration as an aside in
consideration of the question of flesh eating onemergency or sentimental grounds. Naturepermits Bruce and me to eat each other, and ifwe managed it skilfully we could attack eachother's extremities at the same time, as long aswe did not encroach on our vital machinery, and
really eat each other up, as young lovers wouldlike to do. Thus much for sentiment. We are subsisting
on ourselves all of the time; we can nourishourselves at the expense of each other if we will. We can eat human flesh as nourishingly as
we can a Spring chicken, and if we do not knowwhat we are eating, Nature will say us never "No," but there are other considerations morepractical for every-day consideration. Theseare : physiological and economic expediency. MEAT  AND URIC ACID. In the thorough investigation that Dr. Hindhede, of Copenhagen, has conducted for thepast few years, and in which I have assisted, Ihave followed the quest with eagerness becauseof the thoroughness of it. It has been proventhat very little protein or nitrogen is needed forthe human body even under strain of hardestphysical or mental activity. On the other hand,it has been found that any appreciable excess ofprotein or nitrogen results in both uric acidsecretion and increased blood-pressure,meaning, in all probability, finally fatal strain
on the organism. It has also been demonstratedthat it is almost impossible to take the leanermeats without getting more protein or nitrogenthan the body needs. It is quite easy to get excessive protein and
nitrogen from vegetable, farinaceous, and hen-fruit material, and cheeses are richer thananything in these " strong " food ingredients ;but these are not such subtle foolers of theappetite as meats done up in spicy gravies andaccompanied by appetising fats. I purposely avoid giving any figures relative
to the food values under mention because thefirst rule of Fletcherism in connection with theselection and intake of food is to leave thatentirely to appetite, working intelligently andnormally in relation to the food that is availableat the moment. To my thinking, the most important
consideration is economy, not alone of themoney cost of food, but economy of energy-consumption within the body. There may betimes when economy of money-cost means muchto persons struggling to lay aside anindependent competency for the purchase of
leisure in old age, or for insurance againstbecoming a burden upon others; and this is sureto happen to all who are not cursed by thehandicap of money inheritance. But it is theinternal economy of the body that counts lormost in estimating values. There is no doubtbut what flesh food is a stimulant of the same orsimilar character as alcohol. Both of thesesubtle agents of intemperance invite thestarting and accumulation of vicious cycles orcircles (swirls) of over-stimulation that have onebad effect, at least, on the comfort and efficiencyof the muscular tissues. They facilitate fatigueand " that tired feeling," and also may result incontingent " soreness " of muscle after unusualexercise. Faithful Fletcherizing has resulted in
regulating these matters in away that isnothing less than marvellous until the reasonsare revealed. Not only does observance of the habit and
practice which Mr. Rockefeller has condensedinto thirty-three words, including severalrepetitions for emphasis, result in settling thequestions of appropriateness, economy,
emergencies, and comfort in general betweenthe Meat ers and the Meal ers; between the
mixed Meat ers and Meal ers; and between the
Physiology and Psychology of normality ; andwhich Mr. Rockefeller calls " Fletcherizing," buta whole lot of beneficent cycles or circles(rhythms) of profitable felicities are set inmotion. TO SUM UP. The Meal ers have the advantage of the
argument in that they are always on the saferside of prudence, and there is no realdeprivation involved in the experiment. At the present moment I am, personally, still
in the experimental field as regards everythingthat Nature permits as food or drink. There isone point that vegetarianism has notsatisfactorily answered as yet. The greatmajority of conscientious vegetarians have notthe pink complexion that is usually reckoned asa sign of beauty or robustness, but I haveknown one, Frederick Madsen (Madsen theFaithful), an assistant of Dr. Hindhede inCopenhagen, to subsist on potatoes and butter,
or margarine, alone, for three hundred daysconsecutively, stopping only because thepotatoes to be had in the market were not asgood as desired, and he lost none of his pinky-pinkness of complexion of the richestScandinavian brilliancy. I have done the samefor four months with similar results of retentionof pinkness of complexion. Another question is :Does pinkness indicate health. It is not thenecessity of health among Latins and bronzedOrientals, but it underlies the bronze exterior ineven African Negroes, if they are healthy. Sallow is the reverse of healthy in proportion tothe sallowness, as a usual thing. Just here is where the efficacy of careful
eating, which has been formulated asFletcherism, comes into service most agreeablyto make life really worth living and actually onecontinuous festival of usefulness and pleasure. It is only once formed into a habit and set toworking automatically under the direction ofAppetite, Taste, Feeling, Instinct, and the otherattributes of sub-conscious Intelligence. It will be noted that Mr. Rockefeller, in his
recent pithy, gisty utterance relative to themerits of Fletcherizing, makes no mention ofthe kind of food to be recommended. Happily, asfar as I know, he is not in the food business, hasno connection with any special food supply, andcannot recommend any of the products ofpetroleum as food or drink. He should beabsolutely unprejudiced in his judgment, andseven or eight years of recuperative experience,similar to mine of a longer period, is materialfor judgment and recommendation. Some years ago there was born in me the
ambition to formulate the rules of economicprocedure in securing optimum nutrition in aspace of not more than ten pages of coarse printthat mothers, teachers, and children of primaryschool age could understand as easy as thenoses on their faces. Mr. Rockefeller has " beatme out " in brevity by several lengths. He hasmade the revelation with the lucky number ofthirty-three words, and left room for a finalremark full of scriptural tone, as is his wont. PROFITABLE  ECONOMY. There is one argument in favour of a
meatless diet that appeals to everybody, andthat is the economy and cleanliness of it. InProfessor Irving Fisher's classic investigation totest the merits of Fletcherism it was proventhat careful attention to the mastication,insalivation


ine
in
the
morning
and
at
noon
and
compresses
helped
me. Also,
breast
inflammation
during
breastfeeding
disappeared
practically
within
a
few
hours
after
compresses
with
baby's
urine. Example:
"Six
years
ago
I
had
a
cyst
removed
from
my
right
ovary
and
now
the
cyst
has
reappeared
on
the
left. The
doctor
advised
me
to
have
surgery. I
starved
for
10
days
and
drank
75
grams
of
urine
4
times
a
day. The
cyst
first
shrunk
by
half,
and
then
they
didn't
detect
it
at
all. Just
a
miracle.”
Recommendation:
This
woman
writes
that
she
had
constant
bowel
problems. These
must
be
removed
by
thorough
cleaning,
because
cysts
are
the
result
of
a
clogged
intestine. Example:
"The
nurse
has
mastopathy
of
the
right
breast. They
irradiated
her
24
times! Everything
was
fine
for
a
long
time,
but
then
the
breast
became
inflamed
again
and
turned
red. The
nurse
did
not
go
to
the
hospital
and
began
to
be
treated
with
urine
therapy:
drinking
urine,
compresses,
massages
with
urine
plus
10
days
of
fasting. Two
days
after
the
fast,
blood
serum
began
to
flow
from
her
chest. The
temperature
decreased
and
the
redness
subsided. The
only
thing
that
scares
me
is
that
the
blood
was
sometimes
dark
red. What
to
do
next?' Recommendation:
It
is
necessary
to
starve
only
after
thorough
cleansing
of
the
body. Already
at
the
beginning
of
the
cleansing
of
the
intestine,
liver,
etc.,
it
is
necessary
to
drink
urine
twice,
three
times
a
day,
100-150
grams
each,
and
apply
compresses
made
of
urine,
according
to
one's
choice,
preferably
in
the
form
of
clay
compresses,
so-called
cataplasms,
to
the
breast. If
the
problems
do
not
go
away
even
after
a
month,
then
it
is
necessary
to
proceed
with
water
and
urine
starvation. Example:
"I
had
a
bad
cold
and
cough
for
about
three
months. An
acquaintance
advised
me
to
drink
urine. I
didn't
have
to
prepare
for
it
in
any
way,
I
was
already
drinking
kerosene. I
started
drinking
half
a
glass
several
times
a
day
without
changing
my
diet. In
a
week
the
cough
got
over
me. In
addition,
the
swelling
of
my
lymph
nodes
disappeared
within
two
months." Example:
"The
neighbor
suffers
from
bladder
cancer. After
cleansing
her
bowels
and
drinking
fresh
urine,
her
urine
output
returned
to
normal
after
five
years." Example:
"I
had
a
malignant
tumor
the
size
of
a
pea
in
the
corner
of
my
right
eye
at
the
base
of
my
nose. I
started
treating
him
with
urine. I
didn't
rub
it,
just
touched
it
lightly. Two
weeks
later
I
found
out
one
morning
that
the
tumor
was
gone.' Example:
"I
follow
your
advice
and
without
starving,
I
got
rid
of
hemorrhoids,
pain
in
my
legs
and
lower
back
in
a
year,
I
forgot
what
a
cold
is
and
inflammation
of
the
upper
respiratory
tract
and
sinuses,
even
an
enlar ged
prostate,
which
the
doctors
already
wanted
to
operate
on
me
twice. I
am
a
war
invalid.' Example:
"I
want
to
tell
you
how
my
mother
treated
herself
with
urine
20
years
ago. The
diagnosis
was:
a
tumor
and
rupture
of
the
small
intestine. She
drank
urine
several
times
a
day
without
ceasing. The
crack
healed
and
the
tumor
disappeared. The
treatment
was
advised
by
a
woman
who
cured
herself
of
small
intestine
cancer
with
urine." Example:
"My
five-year -old
daughter
began
to
have
trouble
hearing
due
to
polyps. They
operated
on
her
twice,
but
the
polyps
reappeared. That's
why
I
started
to
drip
into
mydaughter's
nose
her
fresh
urine
half
a
pipette
into
each
hole
as
many
times
a
day
as
she
peed. The
treatment
lasted
two
weeks,
and
I
dripped
evaporated
urine
into
her
ears. The
result
is
100%
hearing. At
the
same
time,
the
doctors
determined
the
diagnosis:
deafness
of
the
2nd
degree." Example:
"The
patient
hit
herself
in
the
chest
three
years
ago. A
tumor
the
size
of
a
hen's
egg
appeared
at
the
site
of
the
bruise. The
doctors
decided
on
an
operation. The
patient
was
afraid
of
the
operation
and
began
to
drink
urine
in
the
morning
and
evening,
at
night
she
put
compresses
with
heated
urine
with
a
teaspoon
of
soda
and
a
teaspoon
of
vinegar. After
severe
itching
and
even
burning
of
the
skin,
she
stopped
using
the
compresses
for
a
while,
but
then
resumed
them
again. Within
a
month,
the
tumor
had
shrunk
considerably
and
they
canceled
the
operation. After
another
month,
the
tumor
completely
disappeared.' Comment
and
recommendation:
Never
add
the
above
ingredients
to
your
urine. It
was
these
that
caused
the
skin
burns. Example:
"We
got
acquainted
with
urine
therapy
when
our
family
was
hit
by
an
accident. My
father
(51
years
old)
was
told
by
doctors
that
he
has
terminal
cancer
of
the
pharynx
and
it
is
too
late
for
surgery. They
suggested
radiation. However,
we
rejected
this
because
it
has
helped
few
people
so
far. At
first,
the
father
also
refused
urine
therapy,
but
then
he
started
drinking
urine
with
compote
and
drank
it
down
with
water. A
year
has
already
passed
and
the
father
is
alive. Although
he
experienced
a
severe
crisis
associated
with
vomiting,
severe
coughing,
dischar ge
of
pus
and
temperature. We
were
afraid
that
he
was
about
to
die,
but
then
we
understood
that
the
process
of
purification
had
begun.' Comment:
Compresses
made
of
evaporated


all and Cox, 1929), in Journal of the American Medical
Association  95, no. 11 (Sept. 1930): 819. I n  t h e  1 8 0 0 s :  I’m talking about Edward Mellanby, a British researcher who would be knighted for his
work and would blame our shrinking faces on deficiencies of vitamin D in the modern diet. An
American dentist named Percy Howe thought crooked teeth were caused by lack of vitamin C.
“ S i n c e  w e  h a v e  k n o w n ” :  Earnest A. Hooton, foreword to W eston A. Price, Nutrition and Physical
Degeneration  (New Y ork: Paul B. Hoeber, 1939). “Let us cease pretending that toothbrushes
and toothpaste are any more important than shoe brushes and shoe polish. It is store food that
has given us store teeth,” Hooton wrote in his own book, Apes, Men, and Mor ons  (New Y ork:
G. P. Putnam’ s Sons, 1937). P r i c e  f o u n d  c o m m u n i t i e s :  When Price later examined samples of the bread and cheese from the village of
Loetschental in his laboratory in Cleveland, he found that it contained 10 times the amount of
vitamins A and D of all the foods in a typical modern American diet at the time. Price
researched the dead as well. In Peru, he painstakingly analyzed 1,276 skulls that ranged from a
few hundred to a few thousand years old. Not a single skull had any deformity in its dental
arches, not one face was deformed or misshaped. W eston A. Price, Nutrition and Physical
Degeneration,  8th ed. (Lemon Grove, CA: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, 2009). f o o d  w a s  w i l d  a n i m a l s :  The Native Americans whom Price visited in northern Canada had no access to
fruits or vegetables during the long winters, and thus no vitamin C. Price noted that they should
have all been sick or dead from scurvy, yet they appeared to be in vigorous health. An elder
chief described to Price how the tribe would occasionally kill a moose, cut open its back, and
pull out two small balls of fat just above the kidneys. They’d cut up these balls and distribute
them among the family. Price later discovered that these balls were the adrenal glands, the
richest source of vitamin C in all animal and plant tissues. B u t  s o m e  c o m p l a i n e d :  “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern
Diets and Their Ef fects,” Journal of the American Medical Association 114, no. 26 (June
1940): 2589, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/1 160631?redirect=true. B a l l o o n  s i n u p l a s t y :  Nayak was careful to point out that these patients were a highly selected cohort and
that patients needed no other procedural treatments over an additional one-year period. He told
me that balloon sinuplasty worked for these patients, but wouldn’ t work for everyone. t h e  C o t t l e ’ s  m a n e u v e r :  Jukka T ikanto and T apio Pirilä, “Ef fects of the Cottle’ s Maneuver on the Nasal
V alve as Assessed by Acoustic Rhinometry,” American Journal of Rhinology 21, no. 4 (July
2007): 456–59. h a v e  a  d e v i a t e d  s e p t u m :  Shawn Bishop, “If Symptoms Aren’ t Bothersome, Deviated Septum Usually
Doesn’ t Require T reatment,” Mayo Clinic News Network, July 8, 2011,
https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.or g/discussion/if-symptoms-arent-bothersome-deviated-
septum-usually-doesnt-require-treatment/. 5 0  p e r c e n t  o f  u s  h a v e :  Sanford M. Archer and Arlen D. Meyers, “T urbinate Dysfunction,” Medscape,
Feb. 13, 2019. 7 5  p e r c e n t  o f  h i s  t u r b i n a t e s  r e m o v e d :  Peter ’ s story was particularly heart-wrenching. After his sur geries
doctors prescribed antidepressants and told him he just suf fered from age-related problems. He
spent the next three years learning to construct an elaborate three-dimensional model from X-
rays that he would then use to measure something called “Computational Fluid Dynamics.”
These before-and-after models and the data allowed him to determine the exact changes to
airflow velocity, distribution, temperature, pressure, resistance, and humidity levels that were
af fected by his previous turbinate sur geries. Overall, his nasal cavity was four times lar ger thanwhat is considered normal or healthy. His nose had lost the ability to properly heat air, and air
was moving through it twice as fast as it should. And still, Peter says, a lar ge proportion of the
medical community ar gues that empty nose syndrome is a psychological problem, not a
physical one. Read more about Peter ’ s research: http://emptynosesyndromeaerodynamics.com. c o n t e m p l a t e d  s u i c i d e :  The medical community at lar ge viewed empty nose syndrome as a problem of the
mind, not the nose. One doctor went so far as to refer to empty nose syndrome in the Los
Angeles T imes  as “empty head syndrome”; Aaron Zitner, “Snif fing at Empty Nose Idea,” Los
Angeles T imes, May 10, 2001; Cedric Lemogne et al., “T reating Empty Nose Syndrome as a
Somatic Symptom Disorder,” General Hospital Psychiatry 37, no. 3 (May–June 2015):
273.e9–e10; Joel Oliphint, “Is Empty Nose Syndrome Real? And If Not, Why Are People
Killing Themselves Over It?,” BuzzFeed, Apr. 14, 2016; Y in Lu, “Kill the Doctors,” Global
T imes, Nov. 26, 2013, http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/827820.shtml. “ a  s t r u g g l e,  e v e r y  b r e a t h ” :  I caught up with Alla in 2019, and she told me in an email that she had
registered improvement. Her nose hadn’ t changed; she was still struggling to breathe properly. Rather, the improvement was mental and psychological, facilitated by a conscious and
intentional shift of attitude, perceptions, belief systems, and more. “My life, plans and
aspirations I was working hard for were ruined,” she wrote in an email. “Having ended up
disabled, you are forced to rebuild your life from the scratch. Y ou have to learn to be strong
and persevere every day making the best of what you have in every present moment. It is not
easy. Such situations make you re-evaluate your entire life.”
u p  t o  2 0  p e r c e n t :  Oliphint, “Is Empty Nose Syndrome Real?”
l i n k e d  t o  o b s t r u c t i o n :  Michael L. Gelb, “Airway Centric TMJ Philosophy,” CDA Journal  42, no. 8 (Aug.
2014): 551–62,
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.or g/8bc1/8887d39960f9cce328f5c61ee356e1 1d0c09.pdf. r i s k  o f  a i r w a y  o b s t r u c t i o n :  Felix Liao, Six-Foot T iger, Thr ee-Foot Cage: T ake Char ge of Y our Health by
T aking Char ge of Y our Mouth  (Carlsbad, CA: Crescendo, 2017), 59. F r i e d m a n  t o n g u e  p o s i t i o n  s c a l e :  Rebecca Harvey et al., “Friedman T ongue Position and Cone Beam
Computed T omography in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea,” Laryngoscope Investigative
Otolaryngology  2, no. 5 (Aug. 2017): 320–24; Pippa W ysong, “T reating OSA? Don’ t For get
the T ongue,” ENTtoday, Jan. 1, 2008, https://www.enttoday.or g/article/treating-osa-dont-for get-
the-tongue/. c l o g  t h e  t h r


 escape. Add mo re hot relish, if necessary, to leave a 1/2-inch (1 cm)  headspace. W ipe rims, top with flat lids and screw on metal rings. Return jars to the hot
water bath, topping up with ho t water if necessary. Bring to a full rolling
boil and process jars for 15 minutes ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ). 5. Remo ve cann er lid and wait 5 minutes before removing jars t o a towel or
rack to cool com pletely. Check seals, label and store in a cool place for up
to 1 year. Use: Barbecued  meats, hot dogs and hamburgers are enlivened by this
relish. U se it as you would sauerkraut: in Reuben sandw iches, with
corned beef and melted Swiss cheese, and with German sausages. m a n h a t t a n  c l a m  c h o w d e r
Using the Kohl Relish as the base for this hearty soup makes pr eparation a
snap. It’ s easy, and yet the hom emade r elish gives it a r estaurant finish. Ilike to use cod fillets, but they can be a bit str ong for some people, so tilapia
or sole is a good choice. MAKES 4 SER VINGS
2 potatoes, cut into 1/2-inch (1 cm) dice
2 cups (500 mL) chicken br oth
1 pint (2 cups/500 mL) Kohl Relish
4 boneless, skinless fish fillets (14 oz/400 g total), see above
1 can (5 oz/142 g) whole baby clams (with their juices)

1. In a s aucepan, combine potat oes and chicken broth. Bring to a boil over
high heat. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes or until almost tender. 2. Add relish, fish pieces and clams; return to boil. Reduce heat and simmer
gently for 4 to 6 minutes or un til the fish turns opaque and flakes easily
with a fork. s w e e t  p i c k l e d  k o h l r a b i  a n d  b e e t sHer e, kohlrabi is extended wit h pickled beets, once a farm table staple,
which tu rns the kohlrabi r ed. This pickle mixtur e r eminds m e of chur ch
suppers and old-fashioned Sund ay picnics, but its bright colou r and taste
make it every bit a contemporary condiment. MAKES 12 CUPS (3 L)
6 cups (1.5 L) diced kohlrabi
4 cups (1 L) diced beets
2–1/2 cups (625 mL) cider vinegar
1 cup (250 mL) water
1 cup (250 mL) granulated sugar
1/2 cup (125 mL) lightly packed br own sugar
2 tbsp (25 mL) Classic Pickling Spice Blend  (stor e-bought), tied in a
cheesecloth bag
3 or 6 cinnamon sticks, each 3 inches (8 cm)
3 or 6 whole cloves
3 or 6 whole allspice berries

1. In  a saucepan, cover kohlrab i and beets with water. Bring to a boil over
high heat. Cover, reduce heat an d boil gently for about 20 minutes or until
tender. Drain and rinse under cold water. Set aside. 2. Heat six 1-pin t (500 mL) jars  or three 1-quart (1 L) jars in boiling water,
and scald the lids, lifter, funnel and tongs ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by
Step ). 3. In  a Maslin pa n or canning ke ttle, combine vinegar, water, granulated and
brown sugars, and spice bag. Bring to a boil over high h eat, stirring
constantly. Reduce heat and boil gently, stirring occasionally, for about 15
minutes to infuse the syrup with the spices. Remove and discard spice bag. Add kohlrabi and beets and boil for 1 minute.4. Place 1 cinnamon stick, 1 clove and 1 allspice berry in each jar. Using a
slotted s poon, fi ll hot jars with hot kohlrabi and beets to within  1 inch (2.5
cm) of the top. Pour hot syrup over vegetables, leaving a 1/2-inch (1 cm)
headspace. Run a thin non-metallic utensil around the inside of the jar to
allow air to escape. Add more hot relish, if necessary, to leave a 1/2-inch (1
cm) hea dspace. W ipe rims, top with flat lids and screw on m etal rings. Return jars to th e hot water ba th, topping up with hot water if necessary. Bring to  a full r olling boil and process jars for 30 minutes ( Boiling W ater
Method, Step by Step ). 5. Remo ve cann er lid and wait 5 minutes before removing jars t o a towel or
rack to cool com pletely. Check seals, label and store in a cool place for up
to 1 year. Use: Bring out these brilliant pickles to enliven both the taste and colour
of a winter lunch or dinner. T hey are particularly good with ham and
beef. I use this relish in wraps and as a chunky spread for quesadillas. k o h l r a b i  a n d  a p p l e  s a l a d
This salad has many possibili ties. W ith its cr eamy mustar d dr essing, it
makes a light au tumn lunch if teamed with har d-boiled eggs or tuna. It can
be stuffe d into tomatoes or blan ched zucchini shells as a main or side dish. Because the dr essing does not contain eggs, it’ s a perfect salad for br own
bag lunches, and it travels well for late-season picnics and alfr esco meals
when autumn offers Indian summer weather
MAKES 4 SER VINGS
2 cups (500 mL) Sweet Pickled Kohlrabi and Beets, drained
2 apples, coarsely chopped
1/2 cup (125 mL) plain yogurt, drained, or mayonnaise
2 tbsp (25 mL) fr eshly squeezed lemon juice
1 tbsp (15 mL) coarse-grained pr epar ed mustard3 tbsp (45 mL) finely chopped fr esh parsley
1 cup (250 mL) shr edded cabbage or spinach gr eens

1. In  a bowl, combine Pickled Kohlrabi and Beets, apples, yo gurt, lemon
juice and mustard. T oss in the parsley and mix to combine. Serve over
shredded cabbage or spinach or other greens. Fr eezing Kohlrabi
1. Select Equipment:  Se lect suitable-size freezer c ontainers, bags or
Mason jars ( Freezing ). 2. Blanc h sliced or diced kohlrabi. Pac k in to conta iners, leaving a 1-inch
(2.5 cm) headspace. Remove air, label and seal. Freeze for up to 9 months. P e a s
GREEN “SHELLING” OR GARDEN PEAS (PISUM SA TIVUM)  are
delicious and sweet when fresh. They freeze well, but results are less than
satisfactory when home-canned. The sugar snap pea and the snow pea, which have soft, edible pods and
small pe a seeds, are most often  eaten raw or lightly steamed, or stir -fried
with other vegetables. Good Pr eserving V arieties
Southern and northern pea varieties are suited to the climate and soil
conditions, so it’ s best to buy local where possible. Any variety that you can
purchase fresh will perform well here. Unshelled peas are graded as U.S. No. 1 and commercial. For  U.S. No. 1
grade, 95 per cent of the pods must be at least 5 inches (12 cm) long. Both
categories comprise pods of similar varietal characteristics: fairly well
formed, fairly well filled, not overly mature or too young. Pur chasing/Storing
1 lb (500 g) fre sh pea pods yi elds about 1 cup (250 mL)
shelled peas. Fresh peas should be small, firm, evenly shaped and bright
green. Store peas in the pod for up to 2 days in the
refrigerator. Use freshly shelled peas immediately. Good W ithMint, basil, bay, thyme, chervil, tarragon. Other vegetables, such as onions, carrots, tomatoes, beans,
dried peas and beans. T oasted almonds, pecans and walnuts, pine nuts, cashews;
bean sprouts. Pr eparation
W ash pe a pods in a basin of cool water to which a drop of foo d-safe soap
has been  added. Rinse well an d drain. Shell peas and rinse under gently
running cool water. Blanch peas in boiling water for 2 minutes. Immerse in
cold water and let stand for 2 minutes. Drain and pat dry. Canning Peas
I d on’ t


 to produce strain in you, since you won’t be able
to fulfill your erroneous expectation. The strain does not result from
your undignified, nonsupportive, indiscreet or whatever behavior,
but from the imposition of the should. Etiquette as a Should
Etiquette is a beautiful example of useless and unhealthy encultur-
ation. Think of all the little meaningless rules you’ve been encour-
aged to adopt simply because an Emily Post, Amy Vanderbilt, or
Abigail van Buren has so written. Eat your corn on the cob this way,
always wait for the hostess to start before eating, introduce the man
to the woman, sit on that side of the church at a wedding, tip this,
wear that, use these words. Don’t consult yourself; look it up in the
book. While good manners are certainly appropriate—they simply
entail consideration for other people—about ninety percent of all
the etiquette guidelines are meaningless rules that were composed
arbitrarily at one time. There is no proper way for you; there is only
what you decide is right for you—as long as you don’t make it hard
for others to get along. You can choose how you’ll introduce people,
what you’ll tip, what you’ll wear, how you’ll speak, where you’ll
sit, how you’ll eat, and so on, strictly on the basis of what you want. Anytime you fall into the trap of “What should  I wear,” or “How
should  I do it,” you’re giving up a chunk of yourself. I’m not making
a case here for being a social rebel since that would be a form of
approval-seeking through nonconformity, but rather this is a plea
for being self-rather than other-directed in the everyday running of
your life. Being true to yourself means being devoid of the need for
an external support system.BREAKING THE BARRIER OF CONVENTION  / 149Blind Obedience to Rules and Laws
Some of the most despicable human behavior ever recorded was
done under the guise of following orders. The Nazis executed six
million Jews and murdered and mistreated countless millions of
others because it was the “Law.” Later, after the war, responsibility
for these acts of barbarism was shifted rapidly up the hierarchy of
Nazi power until throughout Germany the only people who could
be held accountable for these heinous crimes were Hitler and his
chief henchmen. Everyone else was merely following orders and
the law of the Third Reich. In Suffolk County, New York, a county spokesman recently ex-
plained why people who had been inadvertently overcharged on
their real estate taxes could not be reimbursed. “The law says that
past tax bills cannot be reevaluated once they are paid. It’s the law,
I can’t help it. My job is to enforce it, not to interpret it.” Indeed, in
another time and another place, he’d have made an excellent execu-
tioner. But you know this refrain. You hear it every day. Don’t think,
just obey the rules, even if they are absurd. At swimming pools, tennis courts and other public places, about
half of the rules make no sense. Recently one hot evening I asked a
group of young people sitting around a pool, obviously thirsting to
get in, why they were lounging near the edge, when the pool was
empty. They responded that it was for adults between 6:00 and 8:00
P.M. This was the rule, and despite the fact that no adults wanted to
use it, the rule was still being enforced. No flexibility, no ability to
alter the rule when circumstances so warrant, simply blind obedience
to a rule that had no logical reason at that moment. When I encour-
aged them to see about shifting the rules, I received a phone call
from the management telling me that I was promoting insurrection. One of the best examples of blind adherence to the rules—no
matter how silly they may be—can be found in the military. A col-
league of mine tells of an excellent example of this obe-150 / Your Erroneous Zonesdience mentality. When stationed on Guam, in the South Pacific, he
was struck by the willingness of many enlisted men to enforce rules
that were obviously absurd. Officers were permitted to sit on the
red benches which were sheltered and watch the outdoor movies. At the midnight showing of the movie, which officers never attended,
there was an enlisted man assigned to ensure that no one sat on the
red benches. Thus, each evening you would see a group of enlisted
sailors sitting in the rain, with one of their own ranks guarding a
section of empty red benches, to ensure that the rule was followed. When my colleague inquired why such an absurd policy was being
enforced, he was given the standard answer, “I don’t make the rules,
I just enforce them.”
Hermann Hesse said in Demian,
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves
and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own
laws within them; things are forbidden to them that every
honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are
allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must
stand on his own feet. *
If you must comply with all the rules all the time, you are destined
to a life of emotional servitude. But our culture teaches that it is
naughty to disobey, that you shouldn’t do anything that is against
the rules. The important thing is to determine for yourself which
rules work, and are necessary to preserve order in our culture and
which can be broken without harm to yourself or others. There is
no percentage in rebelling just for the sake of rebelling, but there are
great rewards in being your own person and living your life accord-
ing to your own standards. *Hermann Hesse, Demian  (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), p. 53.BREAKING THE BARRIER OF CONVENTION  / 151Resisting Enculturation and Traditions When They Affect You
Negatively
Progress, yours personally and the world’s, depends on unreason-
able men, rather than people who adapt to their society and accept
whatever comes along. Progress depends on individuals who are
innovators, who reject convention and fashion their own worlds. In
order to shift from coping to doing, you’ll have to learn to resist
enculturation and the many pressures to conform. To function fully,
a resistance to enculturation is almost a given. You may be viewed
by some as insubordinate, which is the price you’ll pay for thinking
for yourself. You may be seen as different, be labeled selfish or rebel-
lious, incur disapproval from many “normal” people, and at times
be ostracized. Some people will not take kindly to your resistance
to norms they’ve adopted for themselves. You’ll hear the old argu-
ment of, “What if everybody decided to obey only the rules they
wanted to? What kind of a society would we have then?” The simple
answer to this, of course, is that everybody won’t! Most people’s
addiction to external supports and shoulds prohibits such a stand. What we’re talking about here has nothing to do with anarchy. No one wants to destroy society, but many of us would like to give
the individual more freedom within it, freedom from meaningless
musts and silly shoulds. Even sensible laws and rules will not apply under every set of
circumstances. What we are striving for is choice, that is, the ability
to be free from the servant mentality of constant adherence to the
shoulds. You do not have to be always as your culture expects you
to be. If you are, and feel an inability to be otherwise; you are indeed
a follower, one of a flock who allows others to determine his course. Leading your own life involves flexibility and repeated personal
assessments of how well the rule works at a particular present mo-
ment. True, it’s often easier to follow, to blindly do as you’re told,
but once you recognize152 / Your Erroneous Zonesthat the law is there to serve you, not to make you a servant, you
can begin to eliminate that musterbation behavior. If you’re going to learn to resist enculturation, you’ll have to be-
come a shrugger. Others will still choose to obey even if it hurts
them, and you will have to learn to allow them their choice. No an-
ger, only your own convictions. A colleague of mine was in the
Navy, stationed aboard an aircraft carrier home ported in San
Francisco at the time President Eisenhower was visiting northern
California on a political swing. They were commanded to spell out
in human formation the words, HI IKE, so that the President could
look down from his helicopter and view the message. My friend
decided the idea was insane, and decided not to do it, because it
conflicted with everything he stood for. But rather than stage a revolt,
he simply slipped away for the afternoon, and allowed everyone
else to participate in this demeaning ritual. He passed up his one
chance to dot the i in Hi. No put-down of those who chose otherwise,
no useless fighting, simply shrugging and letting others go their
own way. Resisting enculturation means making decisions for yourself and
carrying them out as efficiently and quietly as possible. No bandwag-
ons or hostile demonstrations where they will do no good. The
foolish rules, traditions and policies will


 is true when Dr. Price said that, “Great harm is done, in my judgment, by the sale and use of
substitutes for natural foods.”
6
 There is no other way that I am aware of to be healthy without
approaching dental problems directly through improved lifestyle and eating habits. Great harm has
been done to our teeth and bones because mere facsimiles of food have replaced real, nutrient-rich
food.In the absence of a dental system that values care, awareness and health, is a conventional dental
system of suffering which values secrecy, hiding evidence, false truths, and outwardly hurtful
treatments. This tired and destructive way of providing dental care is coming to an end, and thus we
find ourselves at a crossroads. This crux relates to a larger story of humanity and our beliefs about
ourselves. We are still holding onto the old belief pattern that having a human body is wrong and
sinful, and that a better and healthier reality lies somewhere else. Based on this belief system is the
justification that humans are meant to suffer because to simply exist, is to be imperfect. If it were true
that our purpose is to suffer, then diseases like tooth decay would not be curable. And because of this
belief system, its treatments would necessarily involve suffering, pain and disease. There is a new belief pattern also forming. This belief system affirms that being a human is not wrong
or sinful. And therefore if we are suffering, it must not be from our predetermined state of existence,
but from self-inflicted suffering from human ignorance. Our suffering is somehow our responsibility. And what is our responsibility lies within our power to change. We are here to live in Nature's abundance through following Nature’s laws. In following these laws
we will see that there is no predestined fate of suffering, but rather that human suffering is self-
inflicted when we oppose the natural order of life. When we realign with Nature’s principles, we
connect ourselves with our innate goodness and power to heal, and we move towards balance. I want to share with you the teachings of our indigenous friends, the Aborigines. Living in harmony
with the land and immune to tooth decay, they believed "that life consists in serving others as one
would wish to be served." 7
 In the absence of the practice of this philosophy, which is also
interwoven in many of the world’s religions, a system of health care ¾ including dental care ¾ has
emerged that is driven more by profit than by the higher motive of service to others. We have all
suffered greatly as a result. I invite you to bring this spirit of service into your life and into the lives of your friends and family. It
is this liberator of goodness that has inspired me to create and share with you the possibility of
healing your teeth and gums. For I, too, have committed myself to be of service to others, and this
book is one of the results. We can continue to lie and dishonor our own true selves and believe that diseases like tooth decay
are not curable. But it is time to move away from this limiting belief. The cause of tooth decay is
known: it is a faulty diet. From this knowledge, let us become empowered to take more responsibility
for our dental health. The decision now rests within your hands. Do you take the bold step to ask, “How can I be of service
to life?” which of course includes taking excellent care of yourself, your teeth and your gums. Or do
you choose the old way of convenience, of using foods that stimulate rather than nourish your body. Make the commitment to yourself, a commitment to making changes in your diet and lifestyle and let
food be your medicine. Yes, it takes work to be healthier and to obtain higher quality foods. But you
deserve a healthier life and a healthier mouth. And your community, your friends and family deserve
you to be healthy for their sakes as well.You are not here to suffer; you are here to heal your suffering! Ramiel
Chapter 10 References
1
 Price, W. A. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration 6th Edition. La Mesa: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation; 2004:288. 2
 Ibid., 430. 3
 Ibid., 289. 4
 Ibid., 64. 5
 Ibid. 415. 6
 Ibid. 294. 7
 op. cit., p. 170. * * *Bonus Chapter
Remineralize and Repair Your Child’s Tooth
Cavities Naturally
Disclaimer for Children's Section
Your child's health is a delicate matter. This material has been written and published solely for
educational purposes and is not intended as a replacement for medical or dental advice. The author
and publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any
loss, damage or injury caused, or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information
contained in this book. Only you can make the best decisions for your child. I strongly advise you to play an active role and
to carefully monitor your child's teeth for decay. Note:
 The material in this chapter can also be useful for adults healing their own cavities. The Depths of Despair
With our daughter facing severe tooth decay, my partner and I both experienced a substantial amount
of fear. Watching our daughter's teeth decay before our eyes created a feeling of shock within us. I
experienced a tangible terror and sense of powerlessness because my child's body was clearly in less
than ideal health. This sinking feeling of fear and helplessness would occur frequently and it is one of
the most painful feelings for any parent to experience. Almost every time our daughter pointed to her
mouth when she was between 12-20 months old, Michelle and I thought, “Oh no, she has a toothache;
what do we do?” If you experience even half of that fear on behalf of your child’s health, please know
that it is utterly normal to feel this way. Our children are so precious to us; we do not want them to
suffer. However, out of the depths of my despair, I have begun to experience my greatest faith and an
unsurpassed trust and safety in life, in nature, and in the world. Many parents are concerned about the long term effects of their children's tooth decay, if the tooth
decay is not treated by a dentist with dental surgery. My daughter is now close to seven years old. Her teeth are healthy and pain-free, and her adult teeth are strong, white and cavity-free. I have heard
of similar happy outcomes. Many times children with decayed baby teeth will have healthy adult
teeth.From Fear to Faith, From Suffering to Peace
Here are five strategies that I use to help me find faith, safety, and peace in relation to my daughter’s
oral health. Feel Your Pain
There is something meaningful in feeling the experience you are in, whatever it is. We humans tend to
ignore, deny, block, fight against, control, manipulate, and do anything to “fix” the feeling. The feeling
that says, “I did something wrong” or “It is my fault” or “Now my child is going to suffer,” makes us
feel terrible. I want you to allow yourself to feel that feeling. One needs to feel what it is like to be in
shock, to be in fear, to be in despair. This is a lesson from life. Unfortunately, what many parents do is try to eliminate this feeling of fear by doing something that
might produce a fast solution. They rush to the nearest dentist to fix their child's teeth. The dentist
promises he will help the child; the parent breathes a sigh of relief and believes that they no longer
have to feel their inner discomfort and fear. Many adverse circumstances in life are really learning
opportunities in disguise. If you ignore your feelings and just attempt to fix the problem, then later
other circumstances will trigger the same feelings of pain and a vicious circle will continue until we
meet the inner feelings and listen to them. This does not mean you should avoid a dental treatment; I
am only encouraging you to look at your feelings first, and then act in a way you believe is healthy. The only way out of the vicious circle is to feel the pain, here and now. Just let go and sink into the
feeling. There are no judgments; there is nothing good or bad about your feelings. It is your temporary,
momentary truth. If you get stuck somewhere in these feelings, then you can try prayer or meditation. A simple but
effective prayer or meditation might be, “I want to feel all my feelings about this situation.” Also,
remember to breathe. If, as a parent, you can tolerate the pain (I am referring to your inner emotional pain) and you do not
feel you have to “fix it” in the outer world by immediately engaging all manner of medical
procedures, then you have given yourself space to pause and consider. If you are reading this book,
then you have given yourself enough inner space beyond the feelings of fear, stress, worry, and so on,
to at least explore alternatives to try to choose the best treatment for your child. Try taking a deep
breath right now! Nurturing this inner space is an essential key to making informed and caring choices for your child. Intention
What is your intention right now? What is your purpose in reading this book? Are you fully aligned
with that intention/purpose? Intention is a place where we have absolute power in our lives. This is
where we choose the directions in which we travel. Notice what your current intention is for your
children's health; what is it


	more	readily	the
need	to	avoid	them. Instead,	we	expose	ourselves	unknowingly	and	we	lay	the
groundwork	for	massive	cellular	malfunction,	little	by	little. Combine	these
external	toxins	with	those	generated	inside	the	body,	and	the	eventual	result	is
toxic	overload. A	chilling	example:	Environmental	and	dietary	toxins	bioaccumulate	in	a
mother’s	fatty	tissues	throughout	her	life. When	she	starts	nursing,	her	toxin-
loaded	fatty	tissues	produce	cancer-causing	breast	milk. In	his	1987	book
Diet
for	a	New	America,
John	Robbins	notes	that	the	milk	of	most	American	mothers
is	so	contaminated	with	chemicals	(PCBs,	dioxins	and	various	pesticides)	that	“it
would	be	subject	to	confiscation	and	destruction	by	the	FDA	were	it	to	be	sold
across	state	lines.”	Robbins	also	says	“the	EPA	has	concluded	that	the	average
American	breast-fed	infant	ingests	nine	times	the	permissible	level	of	dieldrin,
one	of	the	most	potent	of	all	cancer-causing	agents	known	to	modern	science.”
Fortunately,	dieldrin,	which	was	used	on	crops,	has	now	been	removed	from	the
market,	but	the	average	mother’s	milk	(while	still	far	better	than	infant	formula)
remains	contaminated	with	numerous	toxic	chemicals. No	One	Is	SafeAt	present,	toxic	chemicals	can	be	found	in	trace	amounts	in	the	tissues	of
virtually	everyone	in	America—including	you. These	chemicals	include:	plastics
such	as	styrene	(disposable	Styrofoam	cups),	1,4-dichlorobenzene	(mothballs,
deodorizers),	sodium	lauryl	sulfate	(synthetic	detergent	from	soaps,	shampoos,
toothpastes),	pesticides,	PCBs,	dioxins,	phthalates	(plastics),	formaldehyde
(plywood,	particleboard,	permanent-press	clothing),	prescription	drugs	and
organic	solvents. No	place	on	earth—and	no	modern	home—is	free	from	man-
made	toxic	contamination. Molecules	of	the	pesticide	DDT,	for	example,	blanket
the	entire	planet. Henry	Schroeder,	M.D.,	a	former	professor	of	medicine	at	Dartmouth	Medical
School	and	author	of
The	Poisons	Around	Us,
wrote	that	“five	toxic	trace	metals:
antimony,	beryllium,	cadmium,	lead,	and	mercury	are	involved	in	at	least	half
the	deaths	in	the	U.S.	and	much	of	the	disabling	disease.”	In	all,	more	than	one
hundred	thousand	chemicals	are	now	in	commercial	use,	at	least	25	percent	of
which	are	known	to	be	hazardous;	many	others	have	never	been	tested	at	all! Even	when	chemicals	are	tested	for	safety,	studies	are	virtually	always	short-
term	and	tested	individually;	few	have	examined	the	long-term	effects	of
chemicals,	or	how	they	react	in	the	body	in	combination	with	each	other. Yet
these	long-term,	combined	effects	are	the	reality	of	living	in	America	today. In
other	words,	the	testing	programs	are	flawed. Adverse	effects	are	not	necessarily
observed	in	small	groups	of	animals,	nor	do	experimental	animals	necessarily
react	to	toxins	the	same	as	humans. Ultimately,	any	chemical	that	is	not	normal
and	natural	to	our	bodies	puts	a	load	on	our	detoxification	systems	and	may
damage	cell	function. Most	people	make	little	effort	to	avoid	toxins	because	officially	established
tolerances	presume	that	toxin	levels	are	within	safe	limits. Unless	you	make
special	choices,	you	constantly	eat	foods	with	trace	toxins,	you	constantly	drink
water	with	trace	toxins,	you	constantly	use	personal	products	with	trace	toxins,
and	you	constantly	breathe	toxic	air. By	the	end	of	each	day,	these	toxic
contaminants	often	reach	a	substantial	cumulative	total. EPA	scientists	found
that
the	total	toxic	residues	in	our	daily	diet	can	exceed	500	percent	of	the
recommended	daily	maximum,	even	if	each	individual	food	is	within	“safe”
limits! A	Poison	Gas	Chamber	of	Her	Very	Own
Several	years	ago,	a	young	married	couple	from	Chicago	asked	me	to	help
their	three-year-old	daughter,	Anne,	who	was	experiencing	seizures. Anne	hadbeen	examined	by	at	least	a	dozen	specialists,	but	their	only	recommendations
were	anti-seizure	medications	that	made	Anne	sick,	yet	failed	to	stop	the
seizures. The	desperate	parents	called	me,	a	complete	stranger	two	thousand
miles	away. They	begged	me	for	help,	even	though	I	am	not	a	physician. Because	there	is	only	one	disease,	I	knew	that	Anne’s	problem	was
malfunctioning	cells. But	why	were	they	malfunctioning? Although	I	asked
many	questions	about	Anne’s	history,	nothing	seemed	unusual	about	her	birth,
background	or	development. She	had	been	breast-fed	(a	good	thing;	even	though
breast	milk	is	toxic,	it	is	still	preferable	to	the	alternatives),	and	her	diet	was
actually	better	than	average. In	fact,	she	had	been	remarkably	healthy	ever	since
birth—until	the	seizures	started. I	began	to	ask	questions	about	her	environment. As	it	turned	out,	during	most
of	her	young	life,	Anne	had	been	sleeping	in	a	crib	in	her	parents’	bedroom. When	she	outgrew	the	crib,	her	parents	decided	she	should	have	her	own
bedroom,	and	they	refurbished	a	room. Knowing	that	brand-new	room
furnishings	can	be	quite	toxic,	I	focused	on	environmental	toxins	as	the	probable
cause	of	the	little	girl’s	problems. I	learned	that	before	the	onset	of	the	seizures,
Anne’s	new	bedroom	had	been	given	a	fresh	coat	of	paint	and	was	furnished
with	new	wall-to-wall	carpeting,	a	new	television	set	and	new	furniture,
including	a	new	bed	and	mattress. In	fact,	that	new	bedroom	had	just	about	every
amenity	that	any	set	of	loving	parents	could	give	to	their	beloved	daughter,	but	it
was	also	a	poison	gas	chamber! The	new	paint,	carpet,	mattress,	television	and
furniture	(constructed	of	particleboard,	which	contains	formaldehyde)	were	all
giving	off	toxic	gases. You	recognize	the	typical	“new	paint	smell,”	that	“new
carpet	smell”	and	that	“new	furniture	smell.”	They	are	all	toxic,	especially	when
they	are	brand-new,	at	which	time	they	emit	higher	concentrations	of	chemicals. Shut	anybody	inside	a	bedroom	like	little	Anne’s	for	eight	or	ten	hours	a	night,
and	the	person	is	exposed	to	a	lot	of	toxins. Anne	was	in	toxic	overload,	and	her	seizures	were	the	result. Often,	in	a	case
like	this,	when	you	remove	the	source	of	the	toxins,	you	cure	the	disease. Instead,	Anne’s	physicians	had	prescribed	antiseizure	medications,	which	added
to	her	toxic	overload,	making	her	sicker. I	suggested	an	experiment	to	Anne’s
parents:	Close	off	the	toxic	bedroom	and	allow	Anne	to	sleep


 fertile soils usually have a variety of types of “parent rocks”, it seems wise to try to duplicate the natural processes when we remineralize. The Hunza Valley soils have grown some of the best crops of fruits, vegetables and peo -
ple for centuries. The Hunzas irrigate their crops two or more times a year with the Ultar
Glacier meltwater which contains glacial gravel dust, treasured as “glacial milk. ”  Glacial action has produced much of the Earth’s fertility, as glacier’s crushing mass grinds and mixes together rocks of broad variety and element content. Some volcanically-derived soils, such as those in Java, can also be very fertile, although it is areas like Hunza and also Vilcabamba where glacial and alluvial (river-carried) soils have nourished the leg-131
Fruiticultureendary longevity of the people there. According to E. B. Szekely in The Ecological Health Garden, the Essenes may have been the
first health-conscious people to pulverize rocks to add to their composts, gardens and
orchards around 2000 years ago. Having little in the way of volcanic and glacial deposits or perhaps even silt-rich rivers in the Dead Sea region, they apparently found a way to create rock dust without the kind of machinery we now have. After J. I. Rodale, founder of Organic Gardening magazine, visited Hunza in the 1940s, he
wrote The Healthy Hunzas, which included a chapter on rock powder. He urged that we
learn from the Hunza’s great example and grind up the billions of tons of rock needed to remineralize the soils in our country. Today, there is an abundance of rock powder which is available as a byproduct of the aggregate and stone industries. For those of us who are backyard organic gardeners, it is most fortunate that more and more gardening out -
lets are carrying bagged rock powder for us to take home and add to our compost and orchards and gardens. Here is how soil remineralization works. Rock dust feeds the soil workers, i.e., the worms
and soil microbes, the essential minerals they require to build their protoplasm and enzymes, and the mineralized microbes are digested by the plant roots to nourish the plants. If we desire mineral-rich living foods, then we need to ensure that we or those who grow our food have provided these soil workers their complete natural diet of or -
ganic compost or mulch and rock minerals. If you can do this in your own garden and orchard and eat fresh, living, mineralized foods, you can give thanks because you are liv -
ing in Paradise! Not quite? The air is sick, the water is in trouble, the forests are on the way out, and
weather and climate are changing, you say? Perhaps you are right and our little island of Paradise isn’t the Paradise we know the Earth is meant to be. However, garden and or -
chard remineralization is something most of us can do, and this is a great way to reverse the degenerative spiral toward Paradise Lost and show our fellows a glimpse of how near Paradise Restored can really be. Never underestimate the power of an enzyme! Or the spirit of love when given to
Mother Nature and her human children. A taste of real super-delicious living food from rich mineralized soil is one way to offer that Paradise glimpse, and there are few things 132
Fruiticulturemore inspiring and soul-nourishing than a garden and orchard in bloom and fruition. Enhancing Agriculture The best source of soil minerals is the fine powder of common crushed gravel (mixed
rock). In 1976 John Hamaker (1914-1994) spread gravel crusher screenings on part of his ten-acre farm in Michigan in an area of sparse rainfalls and dry summers, with no irriga -
tion. The following year, his corn produced 65 bushels per acre. In comparison, neigh-boring farms yielded less than 25 bushes of corn per acre. Don Weaver adding rock powder
to a new tree wellMoreover, independent analyses showed that Hamaker’s corn contained 28% more protein, 47% more calcium, 57% more phosphorus, 60% more magnesium and 90% more potassium than the same type of corn grown with chemical fertilizers nearby. Over forty years ago, published studies
by the USDA showed that the applica-tion of cement kiln dust (a less satisfac -
tory source of minerals) also produced better crops, but the researchers did not follow up on this as they could not ascertain what it was in the dust that ef-fected such results. Hamaker estimated that on fully remin-
eralized soil, American agriculture could grow four times as much food as is pos-sible now, or the same amount of food at about one-fourth the cost, sans pesti-cides or chemical fertilizers. f133
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A well-mineralized Mango tree at Stephan and Eli Reeve’s Fruiticulture farm, Maui134
FruiticultureThe Most Ecologically Positive Diet:
How the Raw-Fruitarian Diet Can Regenerate the Earth
by Don Weaver
A serious condition of human-environment imbalance existed when Earth Day began in
1970, because most of the world’s four billion inhabitants lacked understanding of our interconnected planetary life-support systems.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Fear of sweet plant foods is running rampant in most nutrition circles these days. Let’s
examine the facts concerning our natural biological disposition, so that you may teach the truth about how we are meant to eat and thrive. The Creator gave us a “sweet tooth” for good reasons:
 •  Sugar is the preferred and pr
emium fuel used by every cell in our bodies. Our cells
run best on glucose. Not fat, protein or ketones—a ketogenic condition is an unsustain -
able emergency condition that acidifies the body. Our muscles function best when their
cells are stoked with glucose. Sugar “burns” cleanly without toxic waste byproducts. In
order to be healthy, we need sugar—not refined white sugar, but sugar from whole fruits and vegetables. Fuel up on fruit sugar. •  When we eat sw
eet whole foods, we are rewarded for obeying our sense of taste. We
feel good, nourish and fuel up our bodies, support the maintenance of alkaline balance, and help the planet. The natural order of life calls for humans to eat diets consisting mostly of sweet raw fruits. •  Humans have a symbiotic relationship with fruits. That is, we are natural partners in
the web of life with delectable fruits. We enjoy the deliciousness of fruits, receive supe -
rior nutrition, disperse the seeds and perpetuate life on our planet. •  Biologically, humans are frugiv
ores. We do best on a fruit-based (fruitarian) diet,
which includes vegetables and minimal-to-moderate amounts of raw seeds and nuts. Whole fruits, vegetables, squashes and tubers have good sugar, packaged with a pletho -
ra of life-sustaining nutrients. Commercial int er
ests gave us refined white sugar for bad reasons:
 •  To perver
t our senses and destroy our health with seductively sweet, nutrient-bereft
junk, and to ruin the ecology of our planet. Yes, we should shun refined sugar, but we should NOT fear sugars naturally occurring in
fruit. 93
FruiticultureKey Points For Quashing Fruitophobia
by David Klein, Ph. D. •  Sugar is our cells’ premium fuel. For driving our physiological functions in a state of
wellness, the cells use the sugar molecule known as glucose. The body converts other forms of sugar (fructose, maltose, sucrose, etc. ) to glucose. •  Fearing fruit is a tragic mistake. We should no more fear fruit than we should fear
putting high-octane gasoline in our automobile’s gas tank. Our cells run on sugar, and sweet raw fruits are the premium source. •  Fruits average 90% water. That is 90% WATER, not 90% sugar. We cannot credibly say
that such a diluted sugary food package gives us “too much sugar. ”  If we eat two to three fully satisfying fruit-based meals a day, we will generally be sustained with enough calo -
ries to perform all our daily tasks with vigorous energy. No, that is not “too much sugar. ”   And no, we do not ha v
e to eat sweet fruit all day to feel satisfied and get enough calo -
ries. On a fruit-based diet anchored with bananas, no one starves, and soon we feel sat -
isfied and more alive. •  Humans ar e frugivor es biolog
ically, as confirmed by our anatomy and physiology, and
the high vitality and lack of pathology of modern fruit eaters. That means that humans
are designed to thrive on a diet of mostly fruits. Our natural diet is a fruitarian diet com -
prised of primarily sweet fruits, plus vegetables and minimal-to-moderate amounts of raw seeds and nuts. •  Our olfac
tory senses lead us to fragrant ripe fruits above all other food aromas. •  Our visual sense of aesthetics is drawn to beautiful ripe fruits above all other foods. •  Our hands are designed to pluck ripe fruits. •  Our fingers are designed to peel ripe fruits. •  Our mouth’s tastebuds are most responsive and attracted to the sweet foods offered
up by nature. •  Our teeth are designed to cleave and mash soft fruit pulp. We don’t have flesh-ripping
can