 E s p e c i a l l y  w h e n  t h e  m o s t
r e c a l c i t r a n t  f a c t o r s,  t h e  m o s t  i m m o v a b l e  m o u n t a i n s,  s e e m  t o
b e  w i t h i n  y o u r s e l f.
H o w  c a n  I  b e l i e v e  t h e  w h o l e  w o r l d  w i l l  c h a n g e  i t s
n e u r o t i c  p a t t e r n s  w h e n  I  k e e p  m a r r y i n g  t h e  s a m e  p e r s o n
o v e r  a n d  o v e r  a g a i n?  H o w  c a n  I  b e l i e v e  t w o  n a t i o n s  t h a t
k e e p  m u r d e r i n g  e a c h  o t h e r ’ s  c i t i z e n s  a r e  g o i n g  t o  f i n d  p e a c e
a n y t i m e  s o o n  w h e n  I ’ m  s t i l l  n o t  t a l k i n g  t o  m y  p a r e n t s?
O u r  a t t i t u d i n a l,  n o t  j u s t  o u r  p h y s i c a l,  m u s c l e s  b e c o m e
l e s s  f l e x i b l e  w i t h  a g e.  I t ’ s  a m a z i n g  h o w  m u c h  f a t i g u e
e n o u g h  d i s a p p o i n t m e n t s  c a n  c a u s e.  I t  t a k e s  e n e r g y  t o
c h a n g e,  a n d  s o m e t i m e s  o u r  e n e r g y  i s  i n  s h o r t  s u p p l y.  Y o u
c a n  f e e l  t h e  p r e s s u r e,  o n c e  y o u  r e a c h  m i d d l e  a g e,  t o  s i m p l y
g o  a l o n g  w i t h  a  s t a t u s  q u o  t h a t  i s  h a r d l y  w h a t  y o u  h o p e d  f o r
b u t  i s  h e r e,  s o  w h a t  t h e  h e l l.
J e s u s  s a i d  o f  L a z a r u s,  “ H e  i s  n o t  d e a d.  H e  i s  o n l y
s l e e p i n g. ”  A n d  s o  a r e  w e.  T h e r e  l i e s  i n  m o s t  o f  u s  t h e
a c c u m u l a t e d  f r u s t r a t i o n  o f  o u r  u n l i v e d  d r e a m s  a n d  t h es q u e l c h e d  d e s i r e  t o  s p r e a d  o u r  w i n g s  a n d  f l y  a b o v e  t h e
w o r l d l y  l i m i t a t i o n s  t h a t  h o l d  u s  b a c k.  T h e s e  p a i n f u l
e n e r g i e s  a r e  n o t  a u t o m a t i c a l l y  t r a n s m u t e d  e x c e p t  t h r o u g h
p r a y e r  a n d  s u r r e n d e r  a n d  h o l y  r e l a t i o n s h i p s.  T h e y  a t t a c h
t h e m s e l v e s  t o  o u r  s p i r i t u a l  o r g a n s  o f  f a i t h  a n d  h o p e,
t a u n t i n g  u s  w i t h  l i n e s  l i k e  “ Y o u ’ r e  t o o  o l d ”  o r  “ Y o u  b l e w  i t ”
o r  “ Y o u ’ r e  w a s h e d  u p. ”  A n d  a t  t i m e s  t h e y  s e e m  t o  b e
b a c k e d  b y  e v i d e n c e.
T o  s a y  t o  t h o s e  v o i c e s,  “ S a t a n,  g e t  t h e e  b e h i n d  m e, ”  i s
n o t  m u m b o  j u m b o  o r  w i s h f u l  t h i n k i n g.  S p i r i t u a l l y,  i t ’ s  o u r
p o w e r  a n d  o u r  s t r e n g t h.

A n g e l s  a n d  D e m o n s

D u r i n g  t h e  w e e  h o u r s  o f  t h e  m o r n i n g,  b o t h  a n g e l s  a n d
d e m o n s  t a k e  s h a p e.  T h e  g l o r i e s  o f  a  l i f e  a s  w e l l  a s  i t s  t e r r o r s
a r e  c l e a r e r  b e f o r e  d a w n  h a s  b r o k e n.  O n c e  t h e  l i g h t  o f  d a y
c a s t s  i t s  s p e l l  u p o n  u s,  d e e p e r  m e a n i n g s — s o m e t i m e s
o b v i o u s  o n l y  h o u r s  b e f o r e — a r e  e a s i l y  f o r g o t t e n.  W e  f a l l
p r e y  t o  t h e  m i n d - s e t  o f  t h e  w o r l d.
H o w  u n n a t u r a l  o u r  m o d e r n  W e s t e r n  r e l a t i o n s h i p  t o
n a t u r e ’ s  c l o c k.  D i d  E d i s o n  r e a l i z e  t h e  h a v o c  t h a t  l a y  h i d d e n
i n  h i s  g i f t  t o  h u m a n i t y?  T h e  e l e c t r i c  l i g h t b u l b  w o u l d  c h a n g e
t h e  w o r l d.  I n  s e r v i c e  t o  t h e  i n d u s t r i a l  e r a  a n d  i t s  d e m a n d s
f o r  p r o d u c t i v i t y,  w e  t r a i n e d


dangero us nature, and many attempts are made to
combat the danger, with, however, no perception of
its nature. This is particularly the case with epidemic diseases, such as measles, influenza,
scarlet fever, and diphtheria. As a consequence,
proposals have at dif ferent times been put forward
to treat individuals who suffer these diseases upon
some general plan, without consideration of the
peculiarities of the individual case —and thus we
get that rule -of-thumb treatment which is shown in
the indiscriminate use of a serum or vaccine.

   During influenza epidemics there is always a cry
for a universal method of treatment, and attempts
are made to meet this cry in the shape of so -called
specifics and vaccines.

   When a great authority declares that dangerous disea ses
are combated without any perception of their nature —and
that, too, in spite of the germ theory —it should be obvious
to thinking minds that the germ theory has been weighed
and found wanting. Yet, when something must be done,
and nothing better has been  discovery, “serums and
vaccines may be used indiscriminately.”

   That the “rule of thumb” is the rule governing all thinking
concerning symptoms, diseases, their cause and treatment,
is so obvious that anyone possessing a reasoning mind, not
camouflage d by scientific buncombe, should read as he
runs.
    Medicine rests on a sound scientific foundation.
Anatomy, physiology, biology, chemistry, and all collateral
sciences that have a bearing on the science of man, are
advanced to great perfection. But th e so-called sciences of
symptomatology, disease, diagnosis, etiology, and the
treatment of disease go back to superstition for their
foundation. We see the incongruity of jumbling real science
with delusion and superstition. Disease is believed to be an
entity; and this idea is necessarily followed by another as
absurd —namely, cure. Around these two old assumptions
has grown an infinite literature that confounds its builders.

TRUTH AS FAMOUS MEN SEE IT

   When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the  more of it he has, the
greater will be his confusion. — (Herbert Spencer.)

   Confusion worse confounded is the only explanation that
can be given of the theory and practice of medicine. Of
course, it is hoary with age, and is one of the learned
professi ons. With much just pride can the rank and file
point to its aristocracy —its long list of famous dead as well
as living physicians? What has made most of them famous?
The same that has made others famous in and out of the
professions —namely, personal worth  and education. Franklin was not a doctor; yet he was as great as any
doctor, and could use his gray matter in advising the sick as
well as those not sick. He appeared to have a sense -
perception for truth; and I would say that his discrimination
is the lea ding, if not the distinguishing, trait that has
divided, and always will divide, the really great from the
mediocre majority. They are the leaven that leaveneth the
whole herd of humanity —the quality of character that
could not be found in all Sodom and Go morrah.

   There was another discriminating mind in the eighteenth
century —another Benjamin, who also was a signer of the
Declaration of Independence —Benjamin Rush, a
physician, a luminary that brought distinction to medical
science. He was larger than h is profession. He left seeds of
thought which, if acted upon by the profession, would have
organized medical thought and prevented the present -day
confusion. He left on record such golden nuggets as:

   Much mischief has been done by the nosological
arran gement of diseases.... Disease is as much a
unit as fever.... Its different seats and degrees
should no more be multiplied into different
diseases than the numerous and different effects of
heat and light upon our globe should be multiplied
into a pl urality of suns.

   The whole materia medica is infected with the
baneful consequences of the nomenclature of
disease; for every article in it is pointed only
against their names.... By the rejection of the
artificial arrangement of diseases, a revol ution
must follow in medicine.... The road to
knowledge in medicine by this means will likewise
be shortened; so that a young man will be able to
qualify himself to practice physic at a much less
expense of time and labor than formerly, as a child
would  learn to read and write by the help of the
Roman alphabet, instead of Chinese characters.

   Science has much to deplore from the
multiplication of diseases. It is as repugnant to
truth in medicine as polytheism is to truth in
religion. The physician wh o considers every
different affection of the different parts of the
same system as distinct diseases, when they arise
from one cause, resembles the Indian or African
savage who considers water, dew, ice, frost, and
snow as distinct essences; while the phys ician who
considers the morbid affections of every past of the
body, however divers)fied they may be in their
form or degrees, as derived from one cause,
resembles the philosopher who considers dew, ice,
frost, and snow as different modifications of water,
and as derived simply from the absence of heat.
    Humanity has likewise much to deplore from this
paganism in medicine. The sword will probably be
sheathed forever, as an instrument of death, before
physicians will cease to add to the mortality of
mank ind by prescribing for the names of diseases.

   There is but one remote cause of disease....
These remarks are of extensive application, and, if
duly attended to, would deliver us from a mass of
error which has been accumulating for ages in
medicine ; I mean the nomenclature of diseases from
their remote causes. It is the most offensive and
injurious part of the rubbish of our science.

   The physician who can cure one disease by a
knowledge of its principles may by the same means
cure all the disea ses of the human body; for their
causes are the same.

   There is the same difference between the
knowledge of a physician who prescribes for
diseases as limited by genera and species, and of
one who prescribes under the direction of just
principles, tha t there is between the knowledge we
obtain of the nature and extent of the sky, by
viewing a few feet of it from the bottom of a well,
and viewing from the top of a mountain the whole
canopy of heaven.

   I would as soon believe that ratafia was intended
by the Author of Nature to be the only drink of man, instead of water, as believe that the
knowledge of what relates to the health and lives of
a whole city, or nation, should be confined to one,
and that a small or a privileged, order of men.

   From a  short review of these facts, reason and
humanity awake from their long repose in
medicine, and unite in proclaiming that it is time to
take the cure of pestilential epidemics out of the
hands of physicians, and to place it in the hands of
the people.

   Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of
the seats of disease, and cause us to blush at our
prescriptions.... What mischief have we done under
the belief of false facts, if I may be allowed the
expression, and false theories! We have assisted in
multiplying diseases. We have done more —we have
increased their mortality.

   I shall not pause to beg pardon of the faculty for
acknowledging, in this public manner, the
weaknesses of our profession. I am pursuing Truth,
and while I can keep my eye fixe d upon my guide, I
am indifferent whither I am led, provided she is my
leader.

   Oliver W. Holmes, M. D., was a man who gave dignity
and respectability to the profession. He was a literary man,
and from his beginning to his end, was always larger than his profession. He once said: “I firmly believe that, if the
whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the
sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse
for the fishes.” “Breakfast -Table Series” will be read by the
intelligent peopl e of the future, who will know nothing of
Holmes’ fight for women against the dirty hands of herd -
doctors and their consequences —puerperal fever.

   “AEquanimitas” will keep Osler in the minds of
intelligent people “Osler’s Practice of Medicine” will be
found only in the shops of bibliomaniacs. Such men as
Osler keep the dead weight of mediocre medicine from
sinking to oblivion by embellishing medical fallacies with
their superb personalities and their literary polish.

   Throughout all the ages the fin est minds have sensed the
truth concerning the cause of disease, and this has


 selected points.
Love points are scattered all over the human body, but the ma
jority are concentrated on the torso. Acupressure, not acupunc
ture, may be used on love points; indeed, some love points should
never be pricked by needles. Some points may be stroked or gently
pressed and vibrated with the fingertips, while others may be
massaged with the palm. It is at times difficult to locate love
points and other acupoints on the body, but in many cases they
can be found if finger pressure causes a sensation of tenderness.
Partners who want to locate the points, and play the game, should
study the maps and explore.
The game of love points may be played as ongoing, long-term
therapy for sexual energy, or it may serve as an interlude during
love-play. Partners may want to combine love-point acupressure
with erotic massage, discussed later.
The major love points are described below, with suggestions
on how to stimulate them:
Perineum: The hui-yin (sex crossroads), one of the most important
love points, is located at the midpoint of the perineum, slightly
beneath the skin. In acupuncture, it is important in treating penile pain, vaginitis, irregular menstruation, and prolapse of the uterus.
For sexual arousal in love-play, the perineum may be stroked and
the point pressed with a fingertip for 4 seconds, then released and
pressed again, 40 times or for 5 n1inutes. This point is one of the
two known erection centers for n1en.
Cimzabarji eld: From the navel down to the pubic symphysis (at the
front of the pubic bone, felt just above the genitals) is a line of
seven love points. An approximate way to locate them is to con
sider the distance between the navel and the pubic symphysis as
five segments, each a little over an inch long. The navel itself has a
love point. One segment below it is yin-chiao (sexual junction).
Half a segment belo w this is chi-ha i (sea of chi), a major love point
next to the cinnabar field. Half a segment below it is shih-men
(stone gate). Below it, at the bottom of each of the next three seg
ments are kuen-yuan (pass of primacy), chung-chi (ultimate mid
dle), and chu-ku, the pubic bone.
These seven front midline love points are intimately linked
with sexual well-being and sexual desire. During love-play all of
them should be stroked and pressed with the palm. They should
be pressed or rubbed lightly-never heavily-with the fingertip,
the finger pad, or the thumb. Press each time for about 3 to 5 sec
onds; then release and press again. By moving down from the
navel to the pubic area, and giving gentle acupressure some 10
times to each point, one progresses to points of increasing arousal.
A firmed-up tongue-tip may be used in place of the finger.
Breasts: Love points on the fetnale breasts are both for short-term
arousal and long-term enlargement. Each of the nipples contains
a love point. On the breastbone, at the same level of the nipples, is
another, sometimes called the middle cinnabar field. About an
inch up from each nipple toward the corresponding shoulder is
another love point. At the base of the breasts are two more pairs.
Except for the point on the breastbone, the love points are to be
pressed and stroked with the palm and palpated lightly with the
finger.
Groin: About two inches down the crease between the abdomen
and the thighs arc a pair of love points. louch ing them, by press
ing lightly and stroking along the groin with the fingertips. may
alleviate frigidity and imp otence. Spritl.l! Buttc�/ly atrd Peacock Tease
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Map of love poifzts Upp er back: There arc four pairs of love points on the upper back
that may be stimulated for sexual energy. To locate them, imag
ine, on either side of the spine, two parallel vertical lines, one
about 1 1h inches and the other about 3 inches from the spine. The
top points of these lines align with the lower end of the second
thoracic vertebra; the bottom ones align with the lower end of the
fifth thoracic vertebra. Press each point firmly with the fingertips
for a few seconds; then release. Move to the next point. Repeat the
acupressure trip a few times.
Lower back: Immediately below the second lumbar vertebra, right
on the spine and a little below the back of the waist, is ming-men
(life gate), an important point for sexual energy and the second
erection center for the male. Press this love point firmly with the
fingertips for what should be satisfying results. At the same level
as this point, on either side of the spine, are two more love points,
about 1 1h and 3 inches from the spine. They should be pressed
along with the life gate.
Sacral-coccygeal area: Press firmly with the fingertips on the eight
love points lined up in a narrow Von the sacrum. A ninth point is
on the tip of the coccyx.
Thighs and legs: On the front of each thigh, about midway be
tween the kneecap and the groin, are two love points. About two
inches above the kneecap, at the bulge of muscles slightly toward
the inside, is another point. These n1ay be pressed finnly with the
thumb.
Lower le.{!s: The most irnportant love point on the lower leg is san
yin-chiao (junction of three Yins), which is on the inside of the
shin, about three inches above the apex of the tncdialrnalleolus,
behind the tibia. Pressure on this point n1ay alleviate impotence,
frigidity, and pren1atun: ejaculation.
EROTIC MAS SAGE
One of the n1ost sensual gantes in love-play is erotic massage. The
three-t housan d-y ear-old Chint ·se n1assag e is aitncd not so tnuch
at the rnusclcs as at the chi rneridians and the central nervous sys-t<.'tll, which controls both body and n1ind. This venerable classical
therapy, when specially adapted f(lr certain areas of the body by a
beloved tnate, can intensify the akhetny of desirl' delightfully.
Nun1erous volutnes have been written on this therapeutic art.
which requires cotnplicated techniques and tnuch practice to be
truly d1cctive. A book of this scope, therefore. wi II not pretend
to cover whole-body erotic nussage. Rather, a few sitnple tech
niques arc presented. and several areas of the body where erotic
massage works best arc highlig hted. Couples who con1bine these
nussage techniques with the gan1c of love points on the preced
ing pages will obtain even greater eftccts.
Some ground rules: Since n1assage is a tonn of nonverbal
con1n1unication, an unspoken rapport is established between two
individu als through the intin1ate contact of hands and body. In
erotic n1assage, the partners are preferably nude or almost nude,
to facilitate the skin-to-skin exchange of life-force and sexual en
ergy. All parts of the body, except the genitals, may be touched.
Most areas may be massaged firmly except those vulnerable to in
jury (e.g., abdomen, female breasts), where gentle stroking is the
basic touch. The partner being massaged should lie on a floor
mat, a narrow table, a daybed, or a bed with an extrafirm mat
tress.
Massage can be done without lubricant or, if preferred, with
scented water or oil. A good homemade lubricant is a mixture of
two-thirds soybean oil, one-third sesame oil, and a sprinkling of
aromatic essence such as lavender, chamomile, rose, sandalwood,
or ylang-ylang. Sesame oil is very good for the skin; ylang-ylang,
from a tropical Asian flower, is consider ed an aphrodisiac and has
a positive effect on blood pressure. Oils are available in Chinese
groceries; aromatic essences from natural food stores and phar
mactes.
An erotic massage can be a whole-body affair, beginning at
fingers and toes and progressing along the limbs to the rest of the
body. This easily takes an hour. Partners may prefer an abridged
version concentrating on the torso and thighs, which takes 20
minutes or less


self how wondrous then!’ * The focus of my
interest shifted from the sensation of my hands on the floor and the sound
of the barking dog to the space of awareness itself. Awareness was turning
its attention upon itself.
     Until then I had believed and felt that awareness was located somewhere
behind my eyes, looking out at the world, but now I was experiencing the
body and the world within myself. It was obvious that awareness perceived
the world  through  the body, but I had mistakenly presumed that this implied
that it was located in and limited to the body.
     The awareness with which the character in a dream perceives the world
is not located in her body or, indeed, anywhere in the world which she per -
ceives. It is, within the limits of the analogy, located in the dreamer’s mind.
Could the same be true of our experience in the waking state?
     I looked for a limit or an edge to the field of awareness within which my
current experience was appearing, just as I used to lie awake in bed as a child
wondering how far physical space extended. However, the further I went,
the more the edge or limit of awareness eluded me.
     Like a scientist performing experiments to test the validity of a theory,
I wanted to subject the possibility that awareness might be unlimited to the
scrutiny of experience. Could I find or even imagine an experience that could
take place outside of awareness?
68* John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book v (1674 ).the open, empty, aware space
     Having said that, when I say, ‘I looked for a limit or an edge’, I do not
mean to imply that I am one thing and awareness another. It was I, awareness,
that was contemplating my experience of myself. In this way it became clear
that in awareness’s experience of itself there is no limit or edge.

all-encompassing awareness

As I, awareness, sank more and more deeply into my being, I felt that I was
disentangling myself from thoughts, images, feelings, sensations and percep -
tions. As I did so, I felt myself expanding. I was no longer located in the head
or chest. I was the vast, open, aware space in which everything was appearing.
     It was both frightening and exhilarating: frightening because my habitual
experience of being a finite self, located in and limited to the body, was
rapidly dissolving; and exhilarating because I could not help but notice,
in spite of the fear, the freedom and joy that accompanied this recognition.
     It would be some time before I realised that I was not, of course, expan -
ding. The belief that awareness was located within and limited to my head
was simply being exposed and dissolved in the face of the evidence of ex -
perience. I began to feel what I had often read about in the traditional lit -
erature but had never been able to verify for myself: namely, that awareness
extends beyond the limits of the body and the finite mind within which it
seems to be housed, and encompasses the entire universe.
     Just as my mind began to assimilate this understanding, it was followed
by another. If physical space were emptied of all objects, we would have no
experience of distance. Likewise, it is only in reference to the content of ex -
perience that awareness is considered a vast space. In our actual experience,
that is, in awareness’s experience of itself, there is no thought or perception
and, therefore, no experience of time or space.
     We all experience this vividly in deep sleep, when there is no activity of
thinking and perceiving and, therefore, no corresponding experience of time
and space.
     With this understanding, the mind’s attempt to conceptualise awareness
comes naturally and effortlessly to an end. As a concession to the mind, it is
legitimate to conceptualise awareness as an open, empty space, but in the
absence of any need to do so, the mind falls silent and there is just the aware -
ness of being, whose nature is unfathomable peace.
69 chapter nine
Peace and Happiness Is Our Nature
I have seen what you want; it is there,
a beloved of infinite tenderness.
catherine of siena

the inherently peaceful nature of awareness

Just as the physical space of a room cannot be agitated by anything that takes
place within it, so we, awareness, cannot be disturbed by anything that takes
place within us. Agitated thoughts, images, feelings, sensations and percep -
tions may arise, but the space-like presence of awareness within which they
appear is itself not disturbed by them. Thus, its nature is peace.
     And just as the space of a room is not made  peaceful by modifying the
behaviour of the people inside it, but is inherently at peace before, during
and after their various activities, so our essential nature of pure awareness is
always at peace, irrespective of the content of experience. It does not need
to be purified, improved or stilled.
     Whatever the content of experience that arises within it, awareness always
remains the same: open, empty, allowing, undisturbed and without resis -
tance. Awareness does not need to be made peaceful through effort, practice
or discipline. It only need be recognised as such. That is, it only need recog -
nise or know itself as such.
     In fact, awareness is always knowing itself as it essentially is, but its knowl -
edge of itself is mixed with its knowledge of objective experience and seems,
as a result, to acquire its qualities. Just as a motionless screen seems to move
when a movie begins, so we, awareness, seem to become agitated when we
become entangled in the content of experience.

The inherent peace of awareness is not a temporary state of mind. It is the
very nature  of awareness itself and, as such, does not depend upon what  you are the happiness you seek
does or does not take place in experience. It is prior to, and independent
of, the content of experience and is always available in the background of
experience.
     It is the peace that ‘passeth understanding’, the peace for which there is
no explanation in the content of experience. It cannot be caused; it can only
be recognised. It cannot disappear; it can only be ignored. It is the context
of the mind, not its content.
     We usually first notice this peace in the background of experience and
may only seem to have access to it in between our agitated thoughts and feel -
ings, just as the screen only seems to become visible in between movies.
     However, in time the content of our experience begins to lose its veiling
power, just as a movie loses its capacity to veil the screen. As a result, the
background of peace begins to percolate into the foreground of experience,
which is in turn gradually and progressively permeated by it.
     Awareness is not changed by the content of experience, but the content
of experience is progressively changed by the peace of awareness.

happiness is the nature of awareness

Just as the empty space of a room does not stand to gain or lose anything
from whatever takes place within it, likewise we, awareness, are not enhanced
or diminished by any experience, however pleasant or unpleasant it may be.
Awareness is always in the same pristine condition.
     No experience adds anything to it or removes anything from it. As such,
awareness has no vested interest in experience. It is utterly, intimately one
with experience, open without resistance to it and yet, at the same time,
needs nothing from it. It does not need to be fulfilled or completed by ex -
perience.
     Awareness lacks or wants for nothing. As such, it is whole, complete, un -
conditionally fulfilled, content. From a human perspective this wholeness,
completeness or absence of lack is felt as the experience of happiness. When
we experience happiness we are literally experiencing our essential nature.
Happiness is the taste of awareness.
     Happiness is not a temporary state of mind, or even an emotion in the
ordinary sense of the word. It is the ever-present background of all changing
states and emotions. It is the nature  of our self. As such, we cannot know
72peace and happiness is our nature
happiness as an objective experience; we can only be it. Likewise, we cannot
be unhappy; we can only know  it.
     Happiness is sometimes referred to as the ease of being, because it is to
be found in the simple knowing of our own being as it essentially is.

I well remember the first time it became obvious that happiness is the very
nature of my being. There was nothing extraordinary about it and it was not
preceded by any particular experience. It just dawned on me. One moment
it was not clear; the next moment it was.
     The awareness of being is happiness itself. How could I have missed such
an obvious truth? I looked back over twenty years of study and practice and
realised that all the texts and teachings had been pointing to this simple rec -
ognition.
     I recalled the innumerable attempts I had made in my life to secure hap -
piness through objects, substances, activities, states of mind and relationships,
and now, in the depths of my being, a quiet joy was revealing itself effortlessly.
     Although this understanding would, over the ensuing years, be veiled
from time to time by the old habit of seeking fulfilment in


uffered	more	from	this
affliction	than	the	discipline	of	health.	Very	few	experiences	are	as	personal
and	as	powerful	as	those	of	people	who	have	lost	their	health	prematurely.
Understandably,	they	are	willing	to	believe	and	try	just	about	anything	that
might	help.	They	are	a	highly	vulnerable	group	of	consumers.
In	the	mid-1970s,	along	came	a	prime	example	of	a	health	scam,	at	least
according	to	the	medical	establishment.	It	concerned	an	alternative	cancertreatment	called	Laetrile,	a	natural	compound	made	largely	from	apricot	pits.
If	you	had	cancer	and	had	been	unsuccessfully	treated	by	your	regular	doctors
here	in	the	United	States,	you	may	have	considered	heading	to	Tijuana,
Mexico.
Washington	Post	Magazine
	documented	the	story	of	Sylvia	Dutton,	a
fifty-three-year-old	woman	from	Florida,	who	had	done	just	that	as	a	last
attempt	to	thwart	a	cancer	that	had	already	spread	from	her	ovaries	to	her
lymph	system.
1
	Friends	and	fellow	churchgoers	had	told	her	and	her	husband
about	the	Laetrile	treatment	and	its	ability	to	cure	advanced	cancer.	In	the
magazine	article,
1
	Sylvia’s	husband	said,	“There	are	at	least	a	dozen	people	in
this	area	who	were	told	they	were	going	to	be	dead	from	cancer	who	used
Laetrile	and	now	they’re	out	playing	tennis.”
The	catch,	however,	was	that	Laetrile	was	a	highly	contentious	treatment.
Some	people	in	the	medical	establishment	argued	that	animal	studies	had
repeatedly	shown	Laetrile	to	have	no	effect	on	tumors.
1
	Because	of	this,	the
U.S.	Food	and	Drug	Administration	had	decided	to	suppress	the	use	of
Laetrile,	which	gave	rise	to	the	popular	clinics	south	of	the	border.	One
famous	hospital	in	Tijuana	treated	“as	many	as	20,000	American	patients	a
year.”
1
	One	of	those	patients	was	Sylvia	Dutton,	for	whom	Laetrile
unfortunately	did	not	work.
But	Laetrile	was	only	one	of	many	alternative	health	products.	By	the	end
of	the	1970s,	Americans	were	spending	$1	billion	a	year	on	various
supplements	and	potions	that	promised	magical	benefits.
2
	These	included
pangamic	acid,	which	was	touted	as	a	previously	undiscovered	vitamin	with
virtually	unlimited	powers,	various	bee	concoctions	and	other	supplement
products	including	garlic	and	zinc.
2
At	the	same	time	in	the	scientific	community,	more	and	more	health
information,	specifically	nutrition	information,	was	being	generated	at	a
furious	pace.	In	1976,	Senator	George	McGovern	had	convened	a	committee
that	drafted	dietary	goals	recommending	decreased	consumption	of	fatty
animal	foods	and	increased	consumption	of	fruits	and	vegetables	because	of
their	effects	on	heart	disease.	The	first	draft	of	this	report,	linking	heart
disease	and	food,	caused	such	an	uproar	that	a	major	revision	was	required
before	it	was	released	for	publication.	In	a	personal	conversation	McGovern
told	me	that	he	and	five	other	powerful	senators	from	agricultural	states	lost
their	respective	elections	in	1980	in	part	because	they	had	dared	to	take	on	the
animal	foods	industry.
At	the	end	of	the	1970s,	the	McGovern	report	succeeded	in	prodding	the
government	to	produce	its	first-ever	dietary	guidelines,	which	were	rumored
to	promote	a	message	similar	to	that	of	McGovern’s	committee.	At	about	thesame	time,	there	were	widely	publicized	government	debates	about	whether
food	additives	were	safe,	and	whether	saccharin	caused	cancer.PLAYING	MY	PART
In	the	late	1970s	I	found	myself	in	the	middle	of	this	rapidly	changing
environment.	By	1975	my	program	in	the	Philippines	had	ended,	and	I	was
well	into	my	experimental	laboratory	work	here	in	the	United	States,	after
having	accepted	a	full	professorship	with	tenure	at	Cornell	University.	Some
of	my	early	work	on	aflatoxin	and	liver	cancer	in	the	Philippines	(chapter
two)	had	garnered	widespread	interest,	and	my	subsequent	laboratory	work
investigating	nutritional	factors,	carcinogens	and	cancer	(chapter	three)	was
attracting	national	attention.	At	that	time,	I	had	one	of	only	two	or	three
laboratories	in	the	country	doing	basic	research	on	nutrition	and	cancer.	It	was
a	novel	endeavor.
From	1978	to	1979	I	took	a	year-long	sabbatical	leave	from	Cornell	to	go
to	the	epicenter	of	national	nutritional	activity,	Bethesda,	Maryland.	The
organization	that	I	was	working	with	was	the	Federation	of	American
Societies	for	Experimental	Biology	and	Medicine,	or	FASEB.	Six	individual
research	societies	made	up	the	federation,	representing	pathology,
biochemistry,	pharmacology,	nutrition,	immunology	and	physiology	The
FASEB	sponsored	the	annual	joint	meetings	of	all	six	societies,	and	upwards
of	more	than	20,000	scientists	attended.	I	was	a	member	of	two	of	these
societies,	nutrition	and	pharmacology,	and	was	particularly	active	in	the
American	Institution	of	Nutrition	(now	named	the	American	Society	for
Nutritional	Sciences).	My	principle	work	was	to	chair,	under	contract	to	the
Food	and	Drug	Administration,	a	committee	of	scientists	investigating
potential	hazards	of	using	nutrient	supplements.
While	there,	I	also	was	invited	to	be	on	a	public	affairs	committee	that
served	as	liaison	between	the	FASEB	and	Congress.	The	committee’s	charge
was	to	stay	on	top	of	congressional	activity	and	represent	our	societies’
interests	in	dealings	with	lawmakers.	We	reviewed	policies,	budgets	and
position	statements,	met	with	congressional	staffs,	and	held	meetings	around
big,	impressive	“boardroom”	tables	in	distinguished,	august	meeting	rooms.	I
often	got	the	feeling	I	was	in	the	citadel	of	science.
As	a	prerequisite	to	representing	my	nutrition	society	on	this	public	affairs
committee,	I	first	had	to	decide,	for	myself,	how	nutrition	is	best	defined.	It’s
a	far	more	difficult	question	than	you	may	think.	We	had	scientists	who	were
interested	in	applied	nutrition,	which	involves	people	and	communities.	We
had	medical	doctors	interested	in	isolated	food	compounds	as
pharmacological	drugs	and	research	scientists	who	only	worked	with	isolated
cells	and	well-identified	chemicals	in	the	laboratory.	We	even	had	people	who
thought	nutrition	studies	should	focus	on	livestock	as	well	as	people.	Theconcept	of	nutrition	was	far	from	clear;	clarification	was	critical.	The	average
American’s	view	of	nutrition	was	even	more	varied	and	confused.	Consumers
were	constantly	being	duped	by	fads,	yet	remained	intensely	interested	in
nutrient	supplements	and	dietary	advice	coming	from	any	source,	whether
that	source	was	a	diet	book	or	a	government	official


 COCKTAIL
1 cup cranberries          1 cup water
1 cup orange juice        1 tablespoon honey
LIQUID SALAD
1 cup water                1 small carrot
½ stalk celery            ½  cucumber
½ green pepper          6 almonds
1 tablespoon raisins
BEET COCKTAIL
1 cup beet juice                1 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon lemon juice   1 teaspoon honey
1 slice onion

 SALAD  DRESSINGS
   The following recipes for uncooked salad dressings may be
prepared in the electric blender. For recipes containing no oil, simply put all ingredients into the blender, switch on the
motor, and let run until ingredients are perfectly emulsified.
For mayonnaise and other oil dressings, mix all ingredients except oil first. Then pour oil into blender very slowly while
mixture is turning. This assures a smooth, fluffy dressing in
which the oil is completely emulsified with other ingredients.
Uncooked dressings may be stored under refrigeration in
labeled fruit jars or bottles. Due to the presence of enzymes,
they will not keep as long as ordinary dressings.

MAYONNAISE
1 cup sunflower seed oil        1 teaspoon honey
juice of two lemons               1 egg
FRENCH DRESSING
½ cup rice bran oil           ½ teaspoon honey
1 tomato                          ¼ cup chopped onion
1 egg yolk                        1 tablespoon red bell pepper
PECAN FRUIT FRENCH DRESSING
½ cup peanut oil                 ½ cup orange juice
1 tablespoon lemon juice      1 teaspoon honey
¼ cup pecans
ROQUEFORT DRESSING
4 tablespoons crumbled          1 cup French dressing
   Roquefort cheese
COTTAGE CHEESE SALAD DRESSING
1 cup cottage cheese                    ½  cup cream
2 tablespoons chopped chives       2 tablespoons chopped
¼ clove garlic                                  green bell pepper
LEMON CREAM DRESSING
1 cup cream                  ½  cup lemon juice
LEMON BANANA DRESSING
1 banana                   ½  cup lemon juice SOUR CREAM DRESSING
1 cup sour cream                  2 tablespoons chopped chives
TOMATO DRESSING
4 tomatoes                      1 avocado
1 egg yolk                       1 tablespoon honey  1 tablespoon finely          ½  clove garlic
   chopped onion
MINT DRESSING
6 tablespoons finely           1 cup lemon juice
   chopped mint leaves       4 tablespoons honey
ORANGE CREAM DRESSING
1 cup orange juice             ¼ cup pignolia nuts

 S
ALADS
TOSSED SALAD
1 head lettuce, sliced         1 onion, chopped
½ head cabbage, sliced     3 spinach leaves, sliced
1 cup celery, diced            3 watercress leaves, sliced
1 green bell pepper,         1  tomato, sliced
   chopped
   Rub large wooden salad bowl with ½ clove crushed garlic,
and pour ¼ cup sunflower seed oil in bottom of bowl. Add all salad ingredients and toss over bowl, lifting them 3 to 6 inches above bowl and whirling them as they are dropped. Continue, with 15 to 30 tossings, or until all ingredients are
glistening with oil. Add 3 tablespoons lemon juice and toss
again until juice is well mixed with ingredients. Additional dressings are optional. Mayonnaise, French, and Roquefort
dressings contribute to additional flavor. Grapefruit slices,
diced cheese, diced avocado, or other garnishes may be
dropped over finished salad. Ch ill salad in refrigerator and
serve on chilled salad plates or salad bowls.

CELERY-NUT SALAD
4 stalks celery, sliced                     2 large tomatoes
1 green bell pepper, minced         ½ cup grated nuts2 watercress leaves
   Cut the tomatoes in small pieces and mix with the celery
and green pepper. Add mayonnaise as dressing. Use lettuce leaves as a bed for this salad and sprinkle with grated nuts.
Garnish with watercress.

APPLE SALAD
3½ cups diced apples          1 cup diced banana
1 cup sliced celery              ½  cup raisins
   Mix the ingredients and use lemon cream dressing. Serve in
lettuce cups.
AVOCADO SURPRISE
1 large ripe avocado          ½  cup sliced celery
3 slices fresh pineapple      ¼ cup chopped almonds
   Dice the avocado and pineapple and mix all the ingredients.
Use lemon banana dressing. Serve on spinach leaves and garnish with a few chopped dates.

BANANA TREAT
4 bananas                         chopped Brazil nuts
chopped cranberries         whipped cream
   Cut each banana into slices and place on lettuce leaves.
Sprinkle with the chopped nuts and cranberries. Top with
whipped cream.

BANANA-CELERY SALAD
2 cups cubed bananas            ½  cup chopped black walnuts
2 cups sliced celery                 3 tablespoons pineapple juice
   Mix the ingredients and serve on lettuce or spinach leaves.
Top with mayonnaise dressing.

AVOCADO-ORANGE SALAD
2 cups diced avocado         1 cup sliced celery
4 oranges
   Slice the oranges and mix with the avocado and celery.
Serve on crisp greens with tomato dressing.

AVOCADO-PINEAPPLE SALAD
2 sliced avocados             1 sliced pineapple
1 sliced grapefruit             2 sliced apples
   Arrange the fruit slices on lettuce leaves. Garnish with a
few chopped dates or nuts if desired, and top with lemon
banana dressing.
BRAZILIAN SALAD
1 cup chopped pineapple            ½ cup Brazil nuts
½ cup sliced celery
   Chop the Brazil nuts into small pieces and mix all the
ingredients. Pile on endive and parsley leaves and top with
mayonnaise.
DATE-ORANGE SALAD
2 cups quartered dates            ½ cup sliced celery
4 oranges
   Cut the oranges in small pieces and mix all ingredients.
Add mayonnaise as dressing.
FIG SALAD
1 cup chopped fresh figs          4 cups oranges cut in
1 cup chopped pineapple            small pieces
   Mix all ingredients together and serve on shredded greens.
Pour over a little lemon juice for added flavor.

  BANANA-DATE SALAD
1 cup chopped dates            ½  cup whole black walnuts
2 cups diced banana
   Mix the ingredients with lemon banana dressing and serve
on fresh green leaves, preferably spinach or lettuce. Cover
with some chopped cranberries if desired.
FRUIT COLE SLAW
1 head cabbage, shredded         3 bananas, diced
2 apples, diced                         ½  cup sliced celery
   Mix all the ingredients with mayonnaise and serve on crisp
romaine leaves.
SPANISH-ORANGE SALAD
3 oranges                       3 tomatoes
2 green bell peppers      4 young green onions
   Cut the ingredients into small pieces and serve on
watercress leaves. Sprinkle with chopped almonds and top
with French dressing.

MANGO DELIGHT
2 mangos          2 oranges
2 bananas         1 cup dates
   Cut the mangos, oranges, and bananas into small pieces; slit
the dates into halves. Mix all ingredients and dress with lemon banana dressing. Top with mayonnaise.
SPINACH SALAD
1 pound spinach         2 apples
2 onions                     1 cup sliced celery
   Chop the onions and apples into small pieces. Chop the
spinach quite coarsely and mix all ingredients. Add French
dressing.

  HONEYDEW SALAD
2 cups diced honeydew melon           1 cup diced bananas
½ cup diced avocados                       1 cup chopped dates
   Mix all ingredients and serve on endive leaves. Use coconut
juice as dressing. Cover with chopped Brazil nuts.

VEGETABLE-NUT SALAD
1 bunch watercress            1 cup sliced Brazil nuts
1 small head lettuce            1 teaspoon onion juice
¼ cup tomato juice            ½ cup chopped green pepper
   Mix nuts, onion juice, tomato juice, and green pepper. Place
on a mound of mixed watercress and lettuce leaves. Add French dressing.
VEGETABLE-RAISIN SALAD
1 head lettuce             3 young green onions
3 tomatoes                ½ cup seedless raisins, soaked
   Shred the lettuce and chop the onions into small pieces. Cut
the tomatoes into eighths and mix all ingredients. Toss with
cottage cheese dressing. Sprinkle with chopped nuts.

CUCUMBER SALAD
1 cup diced cucumbers           3 tomatoes
½ cup mashed banana            1 tablespoon lemon juice
   Slice the tomatoes into eighths and mix with the diced
cucumbers. Blend the lemon juice with the mashed banana
and add to the first mixture. Place on a bed of endive or
lettuce leaves. Sprinkle with grated almonds.
TOMATO-ONION SALAD
4 ripe tomatoes            12 young onions
1 green bell pepper
   Cut the tomatoes and onions into small pieces and chop the
green pepper. Serve on a bed of lettuce leaves. Top with
pecan fruit French dressing and chopped Brazil nuts.

 PEPPER SALAD
4 sweet green peppers,           4 onions, chopped
    minced                                2 tablespoons chopped parsley
1 small head cabbage
   Shred the cabbage and combine with the other ingredients.
Mix with pecan fruit French dressing. Sprinkle with chopped dates or nuts.
RAIN


 and let it be without imposing a word or mental label on it, a
sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently
communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.
This is what great artists sense and succeed in conveying in their art. V an
Gogh didnt say: Thats just an old chair. He looked, and looked, and
looked. He sensed the Beingness of the chair. Then he sat in front of the
canvas and took up the brush. The chair itself would have sold for the
equivalent of a few dollars. The painting of that same chair today would
fetch in excess of $25 million.
When you dont cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the
miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when
humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A
depth returns to your life. Things regain their newness, their freshness.
And the greatest miracle is the experiencing of your essential self as
prior to any words, thoughts, mental labels, and images. For this to
happen, you need to disentangle your sense of I, of Beingness, from all
the things it has become mixed up with, that is to say, identified with.
That disentanglement is what this book is about.The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things,
people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes,
and the more deadened you become to reality, the miracle of life that
continuously unfolds within and around you. In this way, cleverness may
be gained, but wisdom is lost, and so are joy, love, creativity, and
aliveness. They are concealed in the still gap between the perception and
the interpretation. Of course we have to use words and thoughts. They
have their own beauty but do we need to become imprisoned in them?
W ords reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isnt
very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the
vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are
consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe
some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are,
or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in
its depth?A New Earth
T H E  I L L U S O R Y  S E L F
The word I embodies the greatest error and the deepest truth, depending
on how it is used. In conventional usage, it is not only one of the most
frequently used words in the language (together with the related words:
me, my, mine, and myself) but also one of the most misleading. In
normal everyday usage, I embodies the primordial error, a misperception
of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. This
illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not
only in to the reality of space and time but also into human nature,
referred to as an optical illusion of consciousness. That illusory self then
becomes the basis for all further interpretations, or rather
misinterpretations of reality, all thought processes, interactions, and
relationships. Y our reality becomes a reflection of the original illusion.
The good news is: If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves.
The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on
your mistaking it for reality. In the seeing of who you are not, the reality
of who you are emer ges by itself. This is what happens as you slowly
and carefully read this and the next chapter, which are about the
mechanics of the false self we call the ego. So what is the nature of this
illusory self?
What you usually refer to when you say I is not who you are. By a
monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is
confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords or the thought of I in
your mind and whatever the I has identified with. So what do the usual I
and the related me, my, or mine refer to?
When a young child learns that a sequence o sounds produced by the
parents vocal cords is his or her name, the child begins to equate a word,
which in the mind becomes a thought, with who he or she is. At that
stage, some children refer to themselves in the third person. Johnny is
hungry. Soon after, they learn the magic word I and equate it with their
name, which they have already equated with who they are. Then otherthoughts come and mer ge with the original I?thought. The next step are
thoughts of me and mine to designate things that are somehow part of I.
This is identification with objects, which means investing things, but
ultimately thoughts that represent things, with a sense of self, thereby
deriving an identity from them. When my toy breaks or is taken away,
intense suf fering arises. Not because of any intrinsic value that the toy
has the child will soon lose interest in it, and it will be replaced by other
toys, other objects but because of the thought of mine. The toy became
part of the childs developing sense of self, of I.
And so as the child grows up, the original I?thought attracts other
thoughts to itself: It becomes identified with a gender, possessions, the
sense?perceived body, a nationality, race, religion, profession. Other
things the I identifies with are roles mother, father, husband, wife, and so
on accumulated knowledge or opinions, likes and dislikes, and also
things that happened to me in the past, the memory of which are thoughts
that further define my sense of self as me and my story. These are only
some of the things people derive their sense of identity form. They are
ultimately no more than thoughts held together precariously by the fact
that they are all invested with a sense of self. This mental construct is
what you normally refer to when you say I. T o be more precise: Most of
the time it is not you who speaks when you say or think I but some
aspect of that mental construct, the egoic self. Once you awaken, you
still use the word I, but it will come from a much deeper place within
yourself.
Most people are still completely identified with the incessant stream of
mind, of compulsive thinking, most of it repetitive and pointless. There
is no I apart from their thought processes and the emotions that go with
them. This is the meaning of being spiritually unconscious. When told
that there is a voice in their head that never stops speaking, they say,
What voice? or angrily deny it, which of course is the voice, is the
thinker, is the unobserved mind. It could almost be looked upon as an
entity that has taken possession of them.
Some people never for get the first tie they disidentified from their
thoughts and thus briefly experienced the shift in identity from being the
content of their mind to being the awareness in the background. For
others it happens in such a subtle way they hardly notice it, or they just
notice an influx of joy or inner peace without knowing the reason.A New Earth
T H E  V O I C E  I N  T H E  H E A D
That first glimpse of awareness came to me when I was a first?year
student at the University of London. I would take the tube (subway)
twice a week to go to the university library, usually around nine oclock
in the morning, toward the end of the rush hour. One time a woman in
her early thirties sat opposite me. I had seen her before a few times on
that train. One could not help but notice her. Although the train was full,
the seats on either side of her were unoccupied, the reason being, no
doubt, that she appeared to be quite insane. She looked extremely tense
and talked to herself incessantly in a loud and angry voice. She was so
absorbed in her thoughts that she was totally unaware, in seemed, of
other people or her surroundings. Her head was facing downward and
slightly to the left, as if she were addressing someone sitting in the empty
seat next to her. Although I dont remember the precise content, her
monologue went something like this: And then she said to me... so I said
to her you are a liar how dare you accuse me of... when you are the one
who has always taken advantage of me I trusted you and you betrayed
my trust... There was the angry tone in her voice of someone who has
been wronged, who needs to defend her position lest she become
annihilated.
As the train approached T ottenham Court Road Station, she stood up and
walked toward the door with still no break in the stream of words
coming out of her mouth. That was my stop too, so I got of f behind her.
At street level, she began to walk toward Bedford Square, still engaged
in her imaginary dialogue, still angrily accusing and asserting her
position. My curiosity aroused, I decided to follow her as long as she
was walking in the same general direction I had to go in. Although
engrossed in her imaginary dialogue, she seemed to know where she was
going. Soon we were within sight of the imposing structure of Senate
House, a 193


ism. Other scientists noted
damage to liver and kidneys when the softener was fed to animals.
Polyethelene monostearate was finally banned after an exhaustive
hearing lasting 116 days and involving 160 witnesses, 17,000
pages of records, and more than 500 exhibits. Yet, in spite of
all the evidence presented against the chemical, the legal decision
was appealed to the Supreme Court, and the very firms whose
scientists had proved the dangers of the chemical fought for its
continued use up to the very end. Today we do not have Poly-
ethelene monstearate in our bread, but we do have other chem-
ical softening agents which may or may not present serious risks
to human health.
Some nutritional scientists have apologized for the baker's
production of white bread on the grounds that the natural whole
grain product often becomes infested with vermin when not
transported and stored under refrigeration. As Prof. E. V.
McCollum remarks: "There are good and sound commercial
reasons why most people should eat white bread.... It is safest
and most economical to transport the flour and get it to the
consumer in the form of bread than it is if whole wheat flour
were used, since the latter tends to spoil more readily:' Whereas
this is a good argument for commercial profit, it is an argument
against good nutrition. The lower forms of animal life do not
infest white flour and white bread because these foods do not
offer them suitable nourishment. They need living foods, rich in
nutritional factors, in order to thrive. And man is no exception
to this rule. We are no more capable of being well nourished on
white flour products than are insects and vermin. REFINED GRAIN PRODUCTS
The fact that white bread is an inferior food does not mean
that we can automatically obtain good nutrition simply by pur-
chasing dark bread. Ordinary dark wheat bread is usually com-
posed of about one-third whole wheat flour and two-thirds white
flour. Ordinary rye bread, and even most pumpernickel breads,
are made from a combination of rye and white flours. Some loo
per cent whole grain products are available, but even they are
often inferior foods. They are not always free from the harmful
ingredients found in white flour products. Some whole wheat
bread is made from whole wheat flour which is bleached with
about four times the quantity of chemical bleaching agents as
are used for ordinary white flour. This renders the bread unfit
for human consumption, just as it renders it unfit for infestation
by vermin. When bread containing bleached whole wheat flour
is fed to experimental animals, the animals actually die more
rapidly than when given ordinary white bread.
But the situation is not without hope. While the general
milling and baking industry of this country follows the line of
campletely refined and bleached grains products, every individual
miller has not done so. There still do exist sources of genuine
whole grain flour, and natural food outlets still sell some bakery
products made entirely from wholesome ingredients. Whole
brown rice, whole wheat and rye kernels, and other whole grains
are available. Flour may be freshly ground in the home with the
aid of small hand-operated or motor-driven flour mills. Whole
grains may also be allowed to sprout and used effectively in their
uncooked state. Whole grain products may thus be prepared in
the home with little loss of time and important gains in the
quality of the dietary.
In view of the fact that nearly one-third of the American diet
is composed of products made from refined grain, the cumula-
tive effects of these foods on the state of health must be one of
great consequence. Unfortunately such effects are now on the
detrimental side rather than helpful. By using only whole grain
flour and whole grain products, and consuming as much of the DANGERS IN MODERN FOODS
food as possible in its uncooked state, together with liberal t
amounts of raw sprouted grain, the effects of grain will be turned I
in the opposite direction. The body will be given adequate nour-
ishment and a much greater immunity to disease may be expected.
The food which now constitutes a virtual staff of death may then
be looked upon as the real staff of life. IV Refined Swgar
s UGAR IS A CHEMICAL COMPOUND
of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. As the source of the elements
and methods of sugar synthesis differ, the various forms of sugar
are classified: dextrose, found in fruits and honey; fructose or
levulose, also found in fruits and honey; lactose, found in milk;
sucrose, found in maple sap and sugar cane, and glucose, formed
by the action of sulphuric acid on starch.
The value of sugar in human nutrition is based entirely upon
its calorie content, and thus the food constituent is useful to
supply energy and fuel to the body. As found in nature it is com-
bined with a wide variety of minerals, vitamins, and other nutri-
tional factors. Foods rich in sugar are hence of great importance.
The sugar itself supplies an important physiological need, and
its combination with other important vitalizing factors provides
the body with an important source of nutriment.
In the earliest of times the chief sources of sugar were honey
and ripe fruit. Sugar cane grew in Asia and was perhaps a food
of the natives. In the thirteenth century sugar cane was intro-
duced into Europe and became the chief source of sugar to the
people of that continent. By the eighteenth century the sugar
cane industry commenced to develop in America, and in the
following century sugar was extracted from sugar beets in both
Europe and America. By this time advanced mechanical methods
had been developed to separate the sugar from the remainder of
the plant. The end-product then was brown sugar, which still
possessed some flavor and a very small percentage of the minerals DANGERS IN MODERN FOODS
and vitamins originally present in the plant. This material was
made on the sugar cane plantation and then shipped directly to
the retail outlets and consumers.
Toward the close of the nineteenth century came the devel-
opment of the modern refinery. This carried the sugar cane
through the ultimate and complete state of refinement, after
which the remaining product was of a pure-white color and over
99 per cent pure carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. The last traces
of minerals and vitamins had now been removed.
This final phase of sugar refining completely revolutionized
the industry and was accomplished in a single year through a
clever advertising ruse. The advertising was done by the refiner,
not the plantation, and the purpose was to insure that all sugar
produced was shipped to the modern refinery prior to the con-
sumer, and thus provide the refiner with a profit on all sugar
produced. In 1898 many important newspapers and magazines
in America carried advertisements displaying the picture, magni-
fied zoo times, of a dreadful looking creature described in appear-
ance as a cross between a lizard and a louse. This was said to be
the "disgusting insect7' (producing "disgusting diseases") which
was found in brown sugar. Needless to say, the resulting horror
that spread among housewives was sufficient to all but wipe out
the sale of brown sugar throughout the nation.
The total process of refining sugar is a long and complicated
procedure. The beets are sliced, then treated with very hot water
until all the sugar is extracted in the form of diffusion juice. Lime
is then added, and carbonic acid derived from a lime kiln is blown
through it until the lime is converted into a carbonate which
carries away the mineral elements and other "impurities" of the
juice. The juice is passed through the filter press, then evaporated,
and finally bleached with bone-black to give it a pure white color.
Cane sugar goes through an even more elaborate process. After
the juice is extracted it is mixed with lime and often subjected to
the fumes of burning sulphur. Salts of tin or bluing are used in
washing the sugar in a centrifugal, and the various forms of acid
phosphates are frequently employed in clarifying the cane juices.
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Bone-black is again used for bleaching, and evaporation follows.
The remaining solids are white sugar, which is later granulated.
The finished product is more than 99 per cent sugar. It is an
unbalanced food, completely devoid of all minerals, vitamins,
and other accessory nutrients normally found in natural foods.
One of the single disadvantages of white sugar lies
in its damaging effects upon the teeth. When sugar ferments in
the mouth, certain acids arise which are an ideal medium for the
lactobacillus micro-organism, which is known to be destructive
to tooth enamel. When the sugar is combined with other food
factors, as are found in natural foods, the bacterial tendency to
destroy enamel appears to be lessened or eliminated altogether.
The harmful bacteria need free sugar in which to live. This is
ideally supplied in refined form, but not in natural form. There
are no pure sugars found in nature. Our natural high-sugar foods
normally contain an assortment of enzymes, vitamins, and other
activators and nutritive factors which tend to prevent the pres-
ence


 right to
chose raw food. The legal research and letters campaign is time consuming. Right now the process involves gathering
signatures for petitions and letters to the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, the Governor and the Los Angeles Medical Milk
Commission, and donations. We are researching and developing a class action law suit against the state and county
governments and possi bly the federal government for banning interstate transportation of raw dairy. If you would give your
readers our petition and letter we would appreciate it. This is not simply about banning raw dairy, it is about the banning o f raw
juices such as Odwalla' s apple juice that is always pasteurized now. Also, there's the probability that all fresh foods will be
required to be irradiated with toxic radioactive material. The M.D.'s who control health departments on federal, state, count y and
city levels are so g erm phobic that they are systematically trying to ban all raw food. We could use your help to stop them.

What sorts of projects or plans do you have for the future?

Several individuals are interested in clinical tests using my Native diet, and others ar e simply interested in clinics using my
Native diet. Those are viable possibilities.
Another project is utilizing fresh raw herbs and their juices with my diet to speed and facilitate.
I am working on a book with more info on my nutritional research to aid  the classes that I give to therapists, such as the one
Stanley Bass attended. And I have ceased these classes until my pedagogue is finished.

Where do you see yourself 5 years from now?

Providing that society survives the Y2K problems, I see myself writing and directing movie's with plots based on alternative
therapies. Allopathic medicine has dominated the media: I would like to see more than a modicum toward alternatives.

May we include your address and phone number in case our members have any q uestions for you?

I require that people read my book before I speak with them - most questions are answered in the book.
If your question(s) are not answered in the book, contact me at:

Aajonus Vonderplanitz
Website: http://www.primaldiet.com

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The book mentioned is:
Aajonus Vonderplanitz
WE WANT TO LIVE - Out of the grips of disease and death   -
"A few months after Aajonus Vonderplanitz' 21th birthday he was diagnosed with terminal blood and bone cancer...and given less than 1
year to live. Now 29 years later, Aajonus takes us on his fascinating personal journey..." Read quotes from the book at
http://www.primaldiet.com

Aajonus' newest book "  The Recipe For Living Without Disease"   contains unique diet information and recipes with foods "you thought you
should never eat because we were told they are bad for us but, actually, make us healthier...". Dr. Bass recommends reading the book.

Also s ee mail -archive.com about bacteria:  New theory of disease?   -- click here or here.

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Aajonus Vonderplanitz is the founder and executive director of the consumer organization  Right To Choose Healthy Food   which wants to
preserve our right to buy fresh food that is unirradiated, unpasteurized and undestroyed.
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www.drbass.com/eades.html
The High Carbohydrate Diet and Related Health Problems

Eades: "Modern nutritional wisdom would predict that the diet of the ancient Egyptians should have
brought health, fitness and longevity... ---... a people afflicted with rot ten teeth and severe
atheriosclerosis, suffering from elevated blood pressure and dying in their thirties with heart attacks." "An
anthropologist examining skeletal remains of early man can tell immediately whether the bones and teeth
belonged to a hunter -gatherer (mainly protein eater) or a farmer (mainly carbohydrate eater)..."

EXCESS INSULIN AND OUR MODERN DIET
The following condensation of a chapter called "Excess Insulin And The Insulin Resistance
Syndrome" is from a book entitled "  Protein Power  " by Michael R. Eades, M.D., and Mary D.
Eades, M.D. (Bantam Books, 1996, also in paperback.) It explains briefly and in a simple clear
manner some of the many problems and complications which arise from our modern diet, which
is excessive in carbohydrate s (starches and sugars) in relation to proteins and fats. See their
website http://eatprotein.com.
With their permission, I quote the following condensation of this chapter:
Stanley S. Bass
Excerpt from Protein Power
by Drs. Michael & Mary Eades

THE BOTTOM LINE
"Insulin and its counterbalancing partner, glucagon, are the master hormones controlling human metabolism. The word insulin
may immediately call up a mental association with diabetes, and the connection is a valid one. Controlling blood sugar i s
definitely insulin's most important job in the human body.

Many people especially those with heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, or obesity in their fam ilies
- have inherited a tendency for, the insulin sensors on the cel ls to malfunction with age, illness, stress, or assault by years of
high sugar and starch consumption. As these sensors become sluggish, the condition of insulin resistance develops. Because
it's crucial to get the sugar out of the blood and into the cells, the pancreas will compensate by making more and more insulin to
force the sluggish sensors to respond. Thus begins a vicious cycle of requiring ever more insulin to keep the system going.
Finally, some people become so resistant to insulin that the amoun t necessary to make the sensors respond and clear the
sugar' from the blood is more than their pancreas can make; that person becomes an adult diabetic.

Excess insulin stimulates a wide variety of other metabolic systems: it encourages the kidneys to retain salt and fluid; it
stimulates the production of cholesterol by the liver; it fuels an increase in triglyceride production; it thickens the muscu lar
portion of the artery walls, increasing the risk for high blood pressure; and it sends a strong messa ge to the fat cells to store
incoming sugar and fat.

Insulin's actions are countered by the second metabolic hormone, glucagon. Glucagon sends signals to the kidneys to release
excess salt and fluid, to the liver to slow down the production of cholesterol  and triglycerides, to the artery wall to relax and drop
blood pressure, and to the fat cells to release stored fat to be burned for energy. When insulin levels in the blood are high,
however, they so overwhelm system that they suppress glucagon's actions.
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Since food is what mainly controls the production of these two hormones, we have been able to create a nutritional structure
that maximizes the release of glucagon an d minimizes the release of insulin, creating a closer balance between these two
hormones. Under these conditions the actions of the glucagon predominate, allowing the metabolism to heal and the
malfunctioning sensors to regain their sensitivity. Once this healing occurs, the metabolic disturbances that insulin resistance
caused improve or disappear. If elevated, your cholesterol and triglycerides return to normal, your blood pressure returns to
normal, blood sugar stabilizes and you can effectively lose exc ess stored body fat.

All these benefits accrue not by treating the symptoms - the blood pressure, cholesterol problem, overweight, or diabetes - but
the root cause, chronically elevated insulin and insulin resistance. There are no medications yet to treat  this disorder - the right
diet is the only remedy, but it works extremely well."

CURSE OF THE MUMMIES
I found the chapter "Curse of the Mummies" to be particularly fascinating.
It deals with a period of almost 3000 years (from 2500 B.C. to A.D. 395), wherein the ancient Egyptian civilization flourished
largely as an agricultural society, where the Nile River kept the land fertile and rich. The following is a quote from and a
condensation/summary of this chapter by Drs. Eades:

Excerpt from Protein Powe r
by Drs. Michael


 had become completely normal and remained so
indeﬁnitely. However DMSO did not normalize these cells. The only difference between MSM and DMSO is an additional oxygen in
MSM. I interpret this to mean that MSM had been  enzymatically  reduced to DMSO, and the liberated oxygen was in a form that
repaired the oxidative energy metabolism of the melanoma cells. This conﬁrms the results of the mentioned bicarbonate study that
cancer cells and normal cells can easily be converted into each other by either blocking or restoring the oxidative energy metabolism.
However, in actual therapy blood microbes may need to be controlled as well.
DMSO is frequently used as a carrier in conventional chemotherapy or in antiviral therapy because of its ability to easily enter affected
cells.  With cancer it speciﬁcally zooms in on malignant cells and can be used to carry remedies along, this is especially good for
treating brain tumours which are otherwise difﬁcult to reach.  There are also reports of an anti-cancer effect of DMSO on its own.  It is
apparently beneﬁcial with many cancers such as breast, lung and prostate cancers, lymphomas, and it also normalised leukaemia
cells. In one recent  study  (16)  with highly invasive lung cancer cells the authors wrote: "We found that DMSO can signiﬁcantly inhibit
cancer cell invasion, migration, proliferation, and colony formation capabilities". DMSO also caused cancer cells to die naturally and it
has been shown to protect against radiation damage, especially in regard to cancer treatment.
There are indications that the DMSO -MSM pair can act as an additional oxygen delivery system to cells. This is especially important
with advanced cancer and cachexia  but also with chronic fatigue and ﬁbromyalgia or muscle pain. Within the body DMSO and MSM
apparently can be converted into each other. In the oxygen-rich lungs some DMSO is oxidised to MSM, and in oxygen-starved tissue,
such as tumours, MSM gives off oxygen by being reduced to DMSO. The same oxygen-delivering effect into tissues with anaerobic
metabolism occurs with the redox pair ascorbate-dehydroascorbate  (DHA). In this case the beneﬁcial remedy actually is not vitamin C
but oxidized vitamin C.
The oxygen released by MSM or DHA inside tumours or other anaerobic tissue is highly reactive and forms hydrogen peroxide, which
is also formed by the immune system to kill microbes. With this it is now clear that MSM and DHA deliver oxygen exactly where it is
most needed and, if used in sufﬁciently high amounts kill the microbes that are at the root of tumour development, and also supply the
oxygen to restart the oxidative energy metabolism, thereby normalising cancer cells.
In addition to using high oral doses of sodium ascorbate and MSM (e.g. 2 to 3 tsp each in divided doses), it will be beneﬁcial to use a
topical solution of MSM in DMSO. MSM may be dissolved in DMSO at a rate of up to 34 grams per 100 ml. For breast cancer,
melanomas and other tumours close to the skin this solution may be diluted 2 : 1 or 1:1 with water and frequently rubbed onto the
skin or kept as a pack over the tumour site until it appears to normalize. Also see More Energy & Less Disease  with Vitamin C and
MSM.
Remaining Questions
A main problem with antimicrobial therapy is the uncertainty of deciding  which remedies are best to clean the blood, and in which
dosages and combinations, and for how long to use them. This could easily be assessed with live blood analysis (LBA) but therapists
who use LBA commonly do not see a sufﬁcient number of cancer patients for meaningful comparisons. Furthermore, the most
effective remedies against  pleomorphic  microbes are banned or under attack from health authorities in most western countries, and it
may be risky to research in this area.
Perhaps a common databank could be established. Also other aspects would need to be investigated, such as the inﬂuence of
intestinal  dysbiosis, Leaky Gut Syndrome, and root-canal ﬁllings on blood microbes, and how best to normalize conditions. There is10/30/24, 4:53 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Cancer Therapy - A New Direction
https://health-science-spirit.com/Diseases/Cancer/Cancer-Therapy-A-New-Direction.html 3/4evidence that cleaning the blood will also gradually eliminate tumours or keep them dormant. This, too, needs to be conﬁrmed or
further researched to ﬁnd the cause s of any failures. Until we have a reliable protocol I recommend using a wide variety of broad-
spectrum antimicrobials with good antifungal properties in different combinations and dosages as detailed in The Ultimate
Cleanse  (17), and with the addition of an electronic blood puriﬁer or suitable frequency device and, of course, alkalizing to keep urine
above pH 7. In Germany also  isopathic  remedies for the Enderlei n Therapy are readily available.  For a detailed program
see Overcoming Cancer  (18).
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(1) Pleomorphic Microbes -  The Hidden Cause of Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases.  By W alter Last,   www.health-science-
spirit.com/pleomorphics.htm
(2) Dr. Wilhelm Reich: Scientiﬁc Genius – or Medical Madman?  By Alan Cantwell, Jr., New Dawn
Magazine,   www.whale.to/a/cantwell.html
(3) The Yeast Problem & Bacteria Byproducts.  By William Shaw, founder of The Great Plains Laboratory,
Inc. www.greatplainslaboratory.com/home/eng/candida.asp
(4)  Proof that Cancer Surgery increases Mortality. By W alter Last,  www.health-science-spirit.com/cancersurgery.htm
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 of this procedure is to obtain as many trace minerals from as many
different sources as possible.
F. Sweeten with honey or frozen concentrated fruit juice to taste.
G. Add yogurt if desired.
H. One should alternate daily the berries, fruit and fruit juice concentrate. a wide
variety assures a complete source of trace minerals.
I. The next morning prepare the evening multigrain portage
WARNING: The multi-grain cereal is an all important part of my program. In the past,
I  have provided the organic multi-grain cereal to you but I  can no longer provide this
service. You can however purchase as many organic grains available from your bulk
grain department of your health food store and mix equal parts by weight.
All non-organic grains, are "DUSTED" and stored with anti-mold, anti-fungal and
other deadly shelf-life extenders. One should make every effort to get organic grains.
Dr. Kelley uses Diatomaceous Earth which is excellent for storage. The commonly
used, Thimerosal, is a mercury compound that w ill kill you. It is made by Eli Lilly and
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Co, and is used in vaccinations and prescription drugs. Since you are spending your
hard earned money to buy my enzyme formulas, make sure your multi-grains are free
of Enzyme Inhibitors.'Dr. Kelley
Phase IV
Flax Seed Oil
Take two tablespoons per day of unrefined, fresh flaxseed oil for the first month of
Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program, and one tablespoon per day from the
second month of the program to completion. (Formula F  provides Essential Fatty
Acids — Essential Fatty Acids must be provided in the diet, as the human body
cannot make them.)
Johanna Budwig, a German researcher, did the lion's share of the early work on
flax oil and its therapeutic uses in the early 1950s. Blood samples from healthy and
sick people were systematically analyzed, and the findings tabulated. According to
her, blood samples from people with cancer, diabetes, and some kinds of liver
disease consistently lacked Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs). She claims that blood from
people with other diseases did not show this severe deficiency and that healthy
people's blood always contained EFAs. If cancer is a deficiency disease brought on by
lack of EFAs, she reasoned, a diet high in EFAs should alleviate at least some of the
cancer patients' problems.
Unrefined Flaxseed oil, in practice, inhibits tumor growth and is useful in the
natural treatment of cancer. EFAs, from refined oil, on the other hand, help promote
tumor growth (due to trans-fats present in all American commercial vegetable oil). All
oils except unrefined, fresh olive and flaxseed oil are forbidden on Metabolic
Medicine's Cancer Cure Diet.
Note: Fat that has not been heated above 96° F. in the form of unsalted raw butter,
raw eggs, raw cream, the fat in and on raw meats, no-salt-added raw cheeses,
avocados, fresh coconut and stone-pressed olive oil is acceptable on Metabolic
Medicine's Cancer Cure Diet. These fats are the easiest to digest, assimilate, and
utilize and aid the body in binding with toxins and carrying them to the bowels and
out of the body.
Golden Rule of Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Diet
The Golden Rule of Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Diet is: "Take nothing into
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the body that has been cooked or processed except items mentioned." Eat no
"Processed" food for the first six months of Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure
Program.
The juicer is the most important appliance in the kitchen of a cancer patient. If
necessary sell the stove and buy a good juicer.
The enzymes in foods that have been cooked have been destroyed or changed into
a different compound (amino acid). Cooked food can only be used as food and not as
enzymes, for it has no life. For example, if you plant a raw potato it w ill grow. If you
boil a potato and plant it, it w ill not grow it will rot. Many enzymes are destroyed at
107° F. and almost all are destroyed at 140° F.
When a person eats anything processed he or she is not only eating "dead food"
(those in which the enzymes have been destroyed), but he or she is adding a second
very destructive force to his body, the destructive force of food preservatives. This
may not be too significant for a normal healthy person, but for the cancer patient it
may mean life or death. The liver must detoxify, destroy, or metabolize all foreign
substances from the body. When one eats foods with preservatives, it adds an extra
burden upon the liver, which the cancer patient cannot accept.
Milk
The cancer patient must give up pasteurized cows' milk forever, except in the form
of raw (unpasteurized), homemade yogurt, and for a while must avoid raw milk too,
except raw (unpasteurized) goats' milk. Cows' milk, like meat, has too high a protein
content and pasteurization compounds the problem as it alters or mutates the protein.
Pasteurized cows' milk requires too many pancreatic enzymes for digestion.
Also, an animal cannot produce milk unless the female sex hormones are present
in extra large quantities; this causes too many hormones in milk for the person who
has cancer.
But if raw goats' milk is available, it is advisable to take 4 to 8 ounces of raw
(unpasteurized), homemade goats' milk (goats' milk is similar to humans' milk) yogurt
each morning for breakfast. This will supply the intestines with adequate helpful
bacteria. This is acceptable because the yogurt bacteria predigest the milk protein
when added to it.
After following this diet for 9 to 12 months and if raw goats' or cows' milk is
available. 9 to 12 ounces per day may be taken at any time during the day.
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Peanuts
The cancer patient will also want to give up peanuts. First, the peanut is not a nut,
but a legume. Second, the peanut also has too much protein for the cancer patient.
Third, it has been found that a fungus grows on peanuts, which produces aflatoxin.
To stimulate cancers in experimental animals cancer researchers use aflatoxin.
Processed Foods
White Flour
All concentrated foods are extremely hard on the liver and should be given up.
White flour and all products containing white flour should be avoided. These are not
only concentrated carbohydrates, but almost always have preservatives added.
Use fresh whole wheat bread, made from wheat grown free of all pesticides
(another liver destroying chemical). The essential vitamins are oxidized within three
days at room temperature; hence the need for grinding only as used. Freshly ground
flour or freshly made whole wheat bread may be safely stored deep in a deep freeze
for about a week. It is best, however, to use it within three days.
White Sugar
The cancer patient w ill also want to give up all white sugar and white sugar
products. The concentrated carbohydrates are hard on the liver, but more important
in relation to cancer, they are very hard on the pancreas. The pancreas, as noted
earlier, is the first organ to be protected at all costs. White sugar has been processed
(refined) and all the vital minerals are taken out. Cancer patients are always deficient
in minerals.
For those who have a sweet tooth, these organic foods may be eaten as desired:
dates, date sugar, figs and raisins obtained from a health food store. These are free of
toxic pesticides and are not harmful to the pancreas or the liver. A cancer patient may
also eat pure maple syrup or unheated honey, in that order. The first is preferable
because it has a higher mineral content.
Soy Products
Soy products, except Lecithin, should be used very sparingly for two reasons: First,
the protein content is too high for the cancer patient; Second, soy products tend to
upset the delicate acid/alkaline balance of the body. Eating soy products may be
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resumed when Dr. Kelley's Pancreas Self-Examination Procedure is negative
Other Improper Foods
Lemon juice should replace vinegar altogether. Vinegar is too harsh on the delicate
mucus membrane of the alimentary canal. Also, the ingestion of large quantities of
vinegar causes the digestive tract to become too acid and thus decreases the
efficiency of the pancreatic enzymes and the digestive processes. For at least the first
eight months on Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program, lemon juice should be
used in preference to vinegar on salads. Unrefined, organic flaxseed oil may be used
as salad dressing
For the period of intensive detoxification and treatment, tea, coffee, soft drinks,
chocolate, liquor, tobacco, pork, and white rice should be avoided. These also place
additional stress upon the liver and pancreas as they are being detoxified.
Physiological Reactions to
Eating and Taking Supplements
According to Your Metabolic Type
As you follow a properly balanced nutritional program, changes begin to happen
within your body. Often this is alarming and not at all what you expected to happen.
The Ideal Reaction
The ideal reaction is the gradual development of an increased "sense of well
being." At first


the mental attitude, of looking at it as something
pleasurable, and therefore, we come to a lovingness of
the body. It is not a narcissistic self-glorification, or a
muscle man's picture in the photo magazine. It is not
out of desiringness, pridefulness, or narcissism, but
outoflovingness andgratitude. We say,"Ah,littlebody,
you serve me well. I love you, I appreciate you, and I
value you." To know that we are not the body and
merely realize that if we lose our right arm, we will
still say, "I am me." Ifwe lose our left arm, we will still
say,"I am me." Ifwe lose both legs, we will still be say
ing, "I am me." If we remove the ears, etc., the body
progressively diminishes to almost nothing, and yet,
the sense of self is ever with us.
The healthy person begins to develop a sense of
self that is independent of external events and of HEALTH 131
being the body itself. The person is aware that the
body is the body and events are events, but "I am'me',
and that which 1 am is really untouched by these
events."The self that wakes up every morning before
it even begins to remember its name and address,
where it is, and what it is supposed to do today
remains unimpaired. There is the 'hardware' innocence
of consciousness that in itself is unaffected by the pro
grams of the'software' and the events that occur
throughout life.A healthy attitude is one that does not
base its reality or survival on that which is transitory.
At the lower levels of consciousness, it can be seen
that the person has placed their survival on something
outside themselves, and that it is always transitory in
nature. One thing we know about the world for certain
is that all things change. Consequently, if we put the
source of our happiness or our survival on that which
is outside of ourselves, such as our job,our possessions,
or a particular relationship, then we are merely setting
ourselves up for the loss of our health because what
comes up frrst is the fear of loss. Even though that is
not conscious, we know if the source of our happiness
is in our title, position, address, the kind of car we have,
or even in the beauty of the physical body, we feel vul
nerable. That vulnerability is in the unconscious and
stores up a great deal of fear. As a result, our lives
become endlessly focused on reinforcing and protect
ing ourselves from the loss of those things upon which
we have based their survival.
Healthy persons realize the true nature ofwho they
really are, and that they are something far beyond that.
They realize they are the ones who give those things 132 HEALlNGAND RECOVERY
value and temporary enjoyment, but their survival does
not depend on them. Previously it was said that when
people move up into the energy field of acceptance,
they have stopped giving their power away to the
world. They have begun to accept that they are the
source of their happiness. Ifwe were to put that per
son on a desert island and return a year later, we know
they would have a coconut business going, would have
found a new relationship, would have built a tree
house, and would be teaching native children. In other
words, they have the capacity to re-create for them
selves because they know the source of happiness
comes from the realization that"I myself am the source
of that happiness. I myself am the source of health. It
doesn't depend on epidemics, or what is out there in
the world, or what I eat."When they fmally realize that,
they begin to transcend and are no longer at the effect
of all the false belief systems.
What kind of life is possible then? What kind of life
evolves from canceling these belief systems? The mind
says, "Uh-oh, if I cancel these belief systems, then I am
really going to be in trouble." There is a state of mind
that places its security on the worship of fear. It says
that paying attention to these fearful thoughts and
complying with them is why they are alive.
When motivated by the willingness to own and
accept the power of the mind, the willingness to undo
its mistakes and be forgiving and compassionate, there
is the realization that we make ourselves victims when
we place the source of happiness outside ourselves. As
we begin to recontextualize our life, we ask,"What is it
that gives my life meaning? What do I really value?What HEALTH 133
is it that if you were to remove it from my life, my life
would still have meaning? Ifmy job and position were
taken away, what meaning would my life have then?
What would it be worth? What am I willing to die for?"
Introspection and spiritual movement are neces
sary to achieve a state ofwell-being, a feeling that one's
life is significant, and that we make a difference in the
world.We do not need the attention that illness brings
to us because our sense of importance comes through
the realization ofthe greatness of our real Self. General
growth in the field of spiritual development brings
about a condition of health and can do so quite rapid
ly if we change our position to let go of certain limited
beliefs. It does not take very long at all. First is the real
ization that we have the power to do it. Second is the
willingness to try it out, to verify it through our own
experience, and to accept the recovery of other people
as an inspiration. We have enough faith in them to say,
"Well, if it works for them, then I'm willing to give it a
try."
In my personal as well as clinical experience, I have
seen illnesses leave in a matter of minutes, days, weeks,
or months.The most chronic illness that had existed for
twenty-five years took perhaps two years to leave and
fmally did so by my constantly doing the processes that
have already been described.
Some illnesses are persistent despite all one's
efforts to clear away contributing factors, and the rea
sons are often multifactorial. One that is commonly
overlooked by citizens of the culture of the Western
world is the factor of karma, both individual and col
lective. In its broadest sense, karma merely refers to 134 HEALING AND RECOVERY
the totality of one's inheritance by virtue of human
existence itself as represented by evolution, both phys
ical and spiritual. Each human being already has a cali
bratable level of consciousness at birth, which is also
aligned with genetic patterning.
Spiritual evolution itself may well bring up karmic
patterns from the individual as well as the collective
unconscious; therefore, spiritual work may paradoxically
bring repressed patterns into manifestation. This is
characteristic of the life histories of mystics who fre
quently went through periods of illness. Sometimes the
basis of a persistent illness can be discerned by simple
past-life recall techniques, such as hypnosis or induced
altered states of consciousness. The basis for a persist
ent illness is often quite specific, and processing it
through forgiveness of self and others for a forgotten
event turns out to be curative.
Another technique is to forgive in oneself that
unconscious aspect (from the collective unconscious)
that was responsible for occasioning it in others and
thereby bring up the inner healer from within. For
example, if an illness is characterized by lameness, then
forgive the one in oneself that was responsible for the
lameness of others, for example. While at flISt such a
process may seem speculative, positive results can be
amazing.
Healing ensues from the willingness to accept the
power of mind, and the willingness to never allow the
mind to say something negative without challenging it
and replacing it with a positive thought. The willing
ness to let go of being judgmental towards oneself and
others is the result of letting go of the negative.Why is HEALTH 135
this so? It is because the energy field of that which we
truly are is ever present and gives us an intense sense
of aliveness when we let go of the obstacles. It is the
energy field of the vibration of life itself that is con
stantly present.
like the sun, the inner Self is always shining, but
because of negative clouds, we do not experience it. It
is not necessary to program oneself with the truth; it is
only necessary to remove that which is false. The
removal of the clouds from the sky to illuminate the
negative allows one to experience the energy fields of
that which is positive. It is only the removal of the neg
ative that is necessary-the willingness to let go of the
habits of negative thinking. The removal of the obsta
cles to the experiencing ofthis will result in an increas
ing sense ofaliveness and a joy ofone's own existence.
As this joy comes in, frrst subtly and then more and
more strongly, there is a diminished awareness of even
the presence of the body, of one's physicality.
As one evolves into higher levels of happiness,
there is joyfulness. The body is