 stomach acid and digestive pepsin.
As a result they have poor appetite and poor digestion. Since the Gerson treatment is based on the
patient’s optimum intake of food and juices, the stomach needs help for the intake and digestion
of food. Acidol Pepsin aids protein digestion and the absorption of iron, while helping to eliminate
gas and bloating. The dosage is six tablets a day, two to be taken before  each meal. No Acidol is
given in cases of acid reflux, stomach ulcers or other inflammatory or irritated conditions of the
stomach.
Ox Bile Powder : This helps to emulsify the castor oil, which is used in the castor oil/coffee
enemas. The powder is mixed into the castor oil and stirred, before the slightly soapy coffee is
added.
Flax Seed Oil : Also known as food grade linseed oil, this contains both essential fatty
acids (EFA’s): linoleic acid and linolenic acid, and is particularly rich in the Omega 3 series, as
discovered by Dr. Johanna Budwig. The therapeutic effects of flax seed oil are many:
• It attracts oxygen at the cell membrane and transports oxygen into the cell;
•  It is able to detoxify fat-soluble toxins, and helps to dissolve and remove plaque;
• It is a carrier of Vitamin A, which is important for the immune system; and
•  It removes excess cholesterol, an important function, since patients’ cholesterol levels
sometimes rise during the initial stages of the Therapy.
Dose: two tablespoons daily for the first month, then one tablespoon daily for the rest of the
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www.thegersonway.comCo-Enzyme Q10 : Recently added to the protocol, this co-enzyme is valuable in replacing
some of the nutrients that were available in the discontinued raw liver juice. It must be administered
cautiously at first, since some patients are hypersensitive to this substance. To start with, the dose
is 50mg daily for 5-7 days, then it is increased to 100mg per day, to reach 500-600mg daily.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007.  All rights reserved.
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www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 15
Pain Control Without Drugs
A large percentage of patients arrive at the Gerson Therapy hospital in pain, on heavy pain
 control medication including morphine, codeine, or the two combined, e.g. in the drug
Oxi-Contin. These drugs are highly toxic, and since detoxifying the body is the basic aim of the
Gerson Therapy, every effort has to be made to control the patients’ pain without the use of toxic
drugs.
 The first tool to achieve this is the coffee enema (see Chapter 13.) Removing the accumulated
toxins from the liver enables that vital organ to absorb and release more poisons stored in the body;
this immediately brings relief to the patient. It does not, however, get rid of the pain altogether:
mild pain relief drugs, such as aspirin, Ibuprofen or Tylenol might be needed. But these may not
work if the patient had been used to morphine. In such cases the Gerson doctor will use one or
more of the following:
Clay packs
Castor oil packs
The “Triad”: 1 aspirin, 1 Vitamin C (500 mg), 1 niacin (50 mg)
Hyperthermia (artificial fever)
Laetrile
Oxygen treatments
Rebounding
This is how to apply them :
Clay (mud) packs
Clay packs help to relieve ‘hot’ inflammations around arthritic joints and tumors, and in
other areas of fluid retention. The best clay is Montmorillonite (not of marine origin), which
also absorbs toxins through the skin. Taken internally in peppermint tea (1/4 to 1⁄2 teaspoonful
to a cup), clay even helps to clear diarrheas and general food poisoning. Clay packs have long
been used in many parts of the world. Applied around the head, they are even able to alleviate
headaches and seizures.
The clay pack is prepared by mixing the dry clay powderwith enough hot distilled  water to
make a spreadable paste, neither too runny nor too dry. A layer about 2-3 mm thick is spread on
a piece of clean white  cloth, placed on the affected area and covered with a piece of plastic and a
wool cloth. Secured in position, it can be left in place for 2-3 hours and removed and discarded Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007.  All rights reserved.
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www.thegersonway.comwhen it has become dry. Clay packs may be used two or three times a day, as required, but must
NOT be placed on an open lesion.
Castor Oil packs
Warm castor oil packs help to alleviate muscle and bone pain, spasms and cramping, including
those in the liver area or in any part of the body that is painful. They increase circulation, relax
muscles and disperse toxicity, and act fast and reliably.
To prepare a castor oil pack, a piece of white wool flannel is cut into three identical pieces,
large enough to cover the affected area. The usual size is about 9” by 11.” One piece of flannel is
placed on a flat surface and covered with a thin layer of castor oil. The second piece goes on top
of this and is also spread with the oil. The third piece covers this, making something like a triple-
decker sandwich. This basic pack is laid on the skin over the painful area, covered with a slightly
larger sheet of plastic to prevent nasty stains on bedclothes or nightwear, and kept securely in
position with a bandage or other suitable material. Finally a mildly warm ( not hot)  water bottle
is placed on top of the pack. This is preferable to an electric heating pad, whose electro-magnetic
output would interfere with the body’s own energy field.
The pack can be left in place for several hours or even all day and all night, provided that the
water in the bottle is replaced as it cools. A few patients have felt discomfort, as the castor oil pack
increased the liver’s healing activity. In such cases the pack was removed and re-used another
time. The castor oil pack can be saved and re-used. Some patients reported the best results from
alternating the clay and the castor oil packs, which is perfectly acceptable.
The “Triad”
Dr. Gerson used this combination of three tablets successfully in many cases. Once the
patient is sufficiently detoxified, the three tablets together act more powerfully than they would
separately. This combination, now named the “Triad,” continues to work well in pain relief, as
well as in promoting sound sleep.
It consists simply of one regular aspirin, one 500 mg tablet of Vitamin C, and one 50 mg
tablet of the regular niacin, which is part of the patient’s normal medication. This combination
may be used up to five times a day, every four hours, if needed.
Hyperthermia (Hydrotherapy)
When a patient suffers from pain, especially bone pain, or if she/he is uneasy because the
expected healing reaction has not taken place, certain procedures can be helpful. One of these Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007.  All rights reserved.
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www.thegersonway.comis hyperthermia, a warm water treatment. It consists of immersing the patient up to the chin in
a tub of unfluoridated water that is considerably warmer than what would be used for a regular
bath. When the patient has got used to the warmth, the temperature of the water can be cautiously
increased, by adding more hot water, to 102o  Fahrenheit, or even a little above. The purpose
of this treatment is not only to increase circulation (which alleviates pain), but also to raise the
patient’s temperature; in other words, to create a fever.
Malignant tissue is sensitive to an increase in temperature and can be killed by fever. Hence
raising the body temperature to 102o or above is extremely beneficial. We have never seen a
fever in excess of 104o degrees. True body damage does not occur until the temperature reaches
106o  plus. A nurse or attendant should be present during hot baths for extra safety, and check
the water’s temperature with a bath thermometer. The patient may be given some hot herb tea to
replace fluids lost by perspiration, and have a cool (not ice-cold) cloth placed on the forehead for
comfort. At the end of the bath, which doesn’t usually last for more than 20 minutes, the patient
is quickly dried with warm towels and put into a


 also
have a broad range effect upon the body. They strengthen the vascular
system, enhancing male and female organs, and are anti-inflammatory as
well. Parasite herbs such as Black Walnut Hull and Pau d’Arco not only kill
parasites but enhance the immune system and the endocrine gland system.
They have a broad range effect, killing all types of parasites, including, but
not limited to yeasts, fungi, molds, bacteria, viruses, flukes and worms.
Antibiotic drugs, on the other hand, only kill bacteria, and at the same time
stimulate yeast growth. Because antibiotics are sulfur-type drugs, this
inorganic sulfur accumulates in body tissues causing tissue impairment. The
parasitic herbs are also cellular proliferators, which means that they rebuild
and strengthen cells. The true beauty and importance of using botanicals is
that they affect the whole body in a positive manner.
I have used huge amounts of herbs in my career (many times on just one
client), and have seen only positive results in my thirty years of practice. Our
clinic has become world renowned for its successes, where others have failed.We have not seen any negative interaction with herbs and chemical
medications, but this is always a possibility. The goal, of course, would be for
the patient to become free of all chemical intakes.
It is my opinion that herbs are mainly meant to be consumed raw and
uncooked, or in a tincture form, whereby digestion is minimal and absorption
is optimal. However, the roots, barks, and tubers can be boiled and still have
a great affect upon liver, pancreatic and GI tract function. Boiling, of course,
destroys the water-soluble constituents such as the vitamin C-complexes
(flavonoids), the B-vitamins, and the like. Boiling or heating the herbs can
also saturate (bond) the fats. However, most of the time, when you are using
boiled teas, you are treating symptoms and are trying to promote an
immediate action in the body. Most of the active medicinal properties are not
destroyed by heat.
I use herbs to promote detoxification and for tissue enhancement through
nutritive and energetic stimulation, not abrasive stimulation. We are living
beings who require living foods and herbs to heal ourselves. The power of a
raw
herb to accomplish this is a hundred times that of its cooked counterpart.
Remember that herbs are food. They are made of proteins (amino acids),
carbohydrates (starches and sugars) and fats. They also have lots of fiber
(cellulose) which is vital for the health of the intestinal tract. The immortal
words of Hippocrates, the famous Naturopath and Father of Medicine, apply
here: “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.”
In religious and spiritual texts from many world traditions you will find
mention of the power and importance of herbs. God did not create chemical
medicines, but God did create herbs.
Herbs are fun to use and remarkable to experience as they clean and
rebuild your body. There are only a few herbs to approach with caution, such
as Peruvian Bark (Cinchona calisaya). This herb is beneficial at low dosages,
but toxic at high dosages. I would leave herbs like this alone.
This chapter begins with a short essay (
Module 8.1
) on the common and
traditional uses of botanicals, and then in
Module 8.2
 provides a detailed list
of some of the strongest and most effective herbs that nature has to offer.
These herbs have been clinically tested for many years. The results of these
herbs in supporting tissue regeneration have been miraculous. We humans
have a lot to learn when it comes to the power of botanicals to rebuild the
body.
Herbal formulas, consisting of combinations of herbs, can have a muchstronger effect upon the body than single herbs. There are many things to
consider when combining herbs, such as compatibility, synergistic actions
and effects to related tissues. In
Module 8.3
 I will suggest an ideal herbal
tincture or blend for each of ten major conditions, including adrenal gland
enhancement, parasite cleansing, and kidney and bladder functioning.
In
Module 8.4
 you will find the body systems listed once again
(Cardiovascular, Digestive, etc.), with suggestions for herbal detoxifiers and
strengtheners for each system. Finally, we will close with an important
consideration of pharmaceutical antibiotics vs. nature’s anti-parasitics in
Module 8.5
.
Have fun with herbs and herbal formulas, for their power and strength is
much needed in today’s world. With the use of herbs to clean and rebuild the
body, vibrant health can be achieved by anyone who is willing to put his/her
heart into it. Do not be afraid of what God created for your use. Simply learn
which herbs are for what purpose. Herbs are easy to use. Don’t let those who
have no education in herbology tell you that herbs are bad. That’s like saying
God is bad. God created herbs for everything from bone growth and repair to
nerve regeneration. Herbs are God’s greatest healers, especially when used in
conjunction with a raw food diet.
The June 1992 issue of the
Food and Drug Law Journal
 contained the
following: “The results of an extensive review on botanical safety conducted
by the Herbal Research Foundation (a non-profit organization of leading
experts on pharmacognosy, pharmacology and toxicology), confirmed there
is no substantial evidence that toxic reactions to botanicals are a major source
of concern. The review was based on reports from the American Association
of Poison Control Centers and the Center of Disease Control.” (McCaleb,
R.S.)

MODULE 8.1
Common and Traditional Uses of Botanicals

Each country has its own fantastic herbs. I always recommend using the
herbs that grow in the country that you live in. These tend to have a more
powerful effect upon your body, because your body adapts to and becomesharmonious with its predominant environment.
There are thousands of herbs in use worldwide. I recommend studying as
much as you can about 50 to 100 of the best and strongest herbs known and
used in your country. These herbs will take good care of you, and you won’t
become confused or overwhelmed trying to learn about all the herbs there are
to choose from. Exceptions exist for every rule, however. Even though you
may live in the U.S., don’t neglect some of the remarkable herbs from China,
Brazil and India, for instance, like Ginseng, Ginkgo Biloba, Ginger, Pau
d’Arco, and certain medicinal mushrooms. When I use herbs from other
countries, I only use the best and strongest that each country has to offer.
Herbs should be organically grown or “wild-crafted.” Unfortunately, the
demand for herbs has become so great that wildcrafting has depleted many of
the wild herbs. Organic herb farms are needed, similar to organic fruit and
vegetable farms. Such farms are the only hope we have of regenerating and
saving our species.
Herbs may be consumed as teas, capsules or tinctures. I prefer the teas
and tinctures. This is especially true where poor digestion and malabsorption
exist.
MAKING TEA

Teas are simple to make. For each cup of single-herb tea desired, place one
heaping teaspoon of the herb and one cup of distilled or reverse osmosis
(R/O) water into a glassware pot or saucepan. I recommend using glass
instead of any metals, including stainless steel. Even stainless steel releases
copper into your teas or foods. When using several herbs, use one cup of
water for each different herb and one heaping teaspoon of each herb.
If the herb consists of leaves and flowers, boil them in the water for
approximately 3–6 minutes, and let them steep for another 5–10 minutes. If
the herbs are roots, tubers or rhizomes, boil them for 10–15 minutes and let
them steep for 10–15 minutes. If your tea is too strong, add more water to
your mixture. Drink 1 cupful, 3–6 times a day, or use as a douche, enema or
poultice depending upon the desired results.
TINCTURES
Herbal tinctures are made by distilling herbs in alcohol, vinegar or glycerin.
The strongest, most potent method of making tinctures is accomplished by
using 1 part herb to 3–4 parts pure grain alcohol, mixed with equal parts of
distilled water. Place the mixture in a glass container and let set in a darkened
area for 30 days or so. Start on the new moon and finish on a full moon.
Shake this tincture every day. On the last day put your mixture in the sun for
at least 4 hours of sunlight. If there is no sunshine on one day, wait until there
is, or leave this step out. Now you’re ready to bottle your tincture. Use some
sort of a press to squeeze this distilled mixture into pure liquid. Take one full
dropperful 3–6 times a day.
There are so many ways to use herbs for your benefit, but it is not the
purpose of this book to cover them all. Those who are interested can consult
my other book,
Power Botanicals and Formulas
 (available from God’s
Herbs,
www.god


,
prolonging and worsening his di sease, yet he was cured.
But the physician should not ta ke it for granted that a
physician's error causes little in jury and say: As this error
in great measure did not cause death, it will surely cause
no harm if the physician errs a little in the amount of food
or drink. But this is not so a nd the causes that come from
inside are the same as the cau ses that come from outside.
You can see with your own eyes men whose arms were
amputated up to the shoulder and their legs above their
hips, or their eyes were removed or they were beaten and smitten severely many times in battle, penetrating the
insides of their bodies, yet th ey did not die but survived
by the will of God. You can also  see one piercing his skin
with a thin needle or thorn that reaches one of his nerves
causing a spasm and he dies. And the error of the
physicians is equal in both di rections, for sometimes they
commit a grave error and the patient is saved, and
occasionally the error in trea tment is very mild and the
patient thinks that it is of little consequence, yet it will
prove the cause of his death. Let every intelligent man
keep his eye on this.
Most people think that the rules for eating regular food
and drinking regular fluids and ablutions in cold water
that one is accustomed to, may be changed to the reverse
without involving any danger fo r the patient. But it is not
so. Galen has already explai ned that one who is in a
febrile state and is permitted to drink a lot of cold water
will lose his fluids, bringing a bout the fire of fever and he
will die. And some, on the contrary, find in drinking told
water a cure, because it will so ften the stools, extinguish
the fire of the fever and the patient will become well,
while without the water he would die. In some febrile
states, if we permit the patient to enter cold waters, he
will get healthy and be saved, and in others it will bring
death. Some febrile patients will cleanse their bodies and complete their cure if they will enter a bath, and in others
it will increase their putrefac tion and fever and cause their
death. So also with foods: in some patients their
avoidance will cure and in others it will kill. And the
actions of all these things and the circumstances under
which we should do things or avoid them, have already
been explained and their causes pointed out.

MEDICINE A COMPLICATED SCIENCE
To understand all this, as it is described in books, is
very easy for any intelligen t person. But its practical
application in time of ne ed, in a case involving a
particular patient, is quite difficult for the wise man with
a settled mind. But laymen who are ignorant of the
foundations of this science, yet talk with certainty and
without restraint, consider the problem an easy one and
do not believe there is an illness that requires much
observation. Al Razi said in one of his books: The
ignorant say that medicine is  just a profession, that one
can learn it through exercise. But how difficult it is for
the good physician! Said the author: The item mentioned
by Razi in this chapter is disc ussed at length in the works
of Galen, who mentions, th at while Hippocrates talks
about its difficulty, crafty pe ople consider this profession light and easy. And the reader of my statement should not
imagine that this attitude is limited to medicine alone,
because he will find the same in all the natural sciences,
practical and theoretical. The more perfect a person
becomes in one of the scie nces, the more cautious he
grows, developing doubts, questions and problems that
are only partially solved. And the more deficient one is in
science, the easier it will be  for him to understand every
difficulty, making the im probable probable and
increasing the false claims which he represents as certain
knowledge, and is eager to expl ain things that he does not
understand himself. And let me return to what I began to
say about the ease with whic h men of good intelligence
and understanding comprehend the medical science and
how difficult it is for them to  apply it. Galen has already
stated as follows: It is easy  to say that it is proper to
anoint old people with oil and rub it in, but to do it
properly is one of the most difficult tasks.

THE LEARNED ARE CAUTIOUS
Said the author: You who observe well, please note, if
anointing and rubbing is a difficult task, according to
Galen, who discusses the speci fic case of drinking or
abstaining from water, as we have mentioned, how difficult it is for the physician to use phlebotomy,
purgatives like colocynth, and the juice of bitter
cucumbers, hellebore, enema, castoreum, opopanax,
cauterization and surgery with a scalpel! Said Ibn Zuhr: I
never prescribed a purgative without taking it to heart
several days before and after.

INTERCOURSE
The interest of most men in  intercourse is well known.
Not one of them has in mind the care of his health or the
prolongation of the human race,  but a craving after lust.
They have no other intention but the satisfaction of their
desire every time and at every opportune moment. And
the informed already know th at intercourse hurts most
people, except the few whose temperament shows that a
small amount of it will not hurt them. But the difference
among men is only in the am ount of harm; some will
suffer in many ways and some only partially. Its harm to
young men whose bodies are moist is little, and in the
case of old people or conval escents or those of a dry
constitution, the impairment of  health is extensive. And
we have seen the convalescent who has had intercourse
and died the same day, while some developed a paralysis
from a heartache and after a few days had a recurrence of their fever and died. One may generalize and say that it is
a bad thing because it kills th e sick and the convalescent
and harms old people and those whose temperament is
dry. And it is not proper for a man to have intercourse
before the food is digested in the stomach, and not when
he is hungry or thirsty or dr unk or has just finished his
bath or exercised or had a phlebotomy performed a day
before or a day after. Whoever wishes to remain healthy
should chase the idea of inte rcourse from his mind as
much as he can.

ON WINE
The benefits of wine are many if it is taken in the
proper amount, as it keeps the body in a healthy condition
and cures many illnesses. But the knowledge of its
consumption is hidden from the masses. What they want
is to get drunk and inebriety causes harm. The one who
taught that intemperance is useful once a month is in
error, because it causes only injury and abrogates the
strength of the entire body, pa rticularly of the brain. The
small amount that is useful must be taken after the food
leaves the stomach. Young children should not come
close to it because it hurts them and causes harm to their
body and soul. Galen has already said: A child should abstain from it till the age of  twenty-one. The older a man
is, the more beneficial the wine is for him. Old people
need it most.

THE BATH
The bath is very necessary for the maintenance of
health and for the cure of diseases. The physicians
prescribed a bath for illness according to its form, the
season and the age. As to its place in health, it has already
been said that it is proper to  enter it once in ten days. The
physicians reminded us that coming to the bath steadily
every day putrefies the moistures. And this caution is
correct for one who prolongs his stay in a bath until his
perspiration flows. But if one  enters it without staying
there long, but only washes himself and leaves, he is
doing the proper thing even if he does it every day. It is
particularly good for old peopl e and for those who have a
bad constitution. It is not prope r to enter the bath before
the food leaves the stomach and it is best to enter it after
the stomach is empty but before one has hunger pains.
One can go in if he wants to lose weight. The regulation
for the bath and its procedure is as follows: One must
sweat first and remove his sweat with a clean flaxen
cloth. And as long as he sw eats he should wipe himself with a cloth until it becomes we t. Then he should cleanse
the skin, massage the whole body and wash it with warm
water, as warmth is good for the body. Then he should
reduce the warmth, little by little, until finally he washes
himself in lukewarm water, as if exposed to the sun, until
finally it is cold without causing the body to shiver. He
should then go into a bathtub where the water has a
similar temperature


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one800-IUvitaminEcapsule,oneSuper-Btablet,onevitaminandmin-
eraltablet,andone25,000-IUvitaminAcapsule.Itaketheminthe
evening.ItakemuchofmyvitaminCinthemorning,beforebreakfast,
12g(threelevelteaspoonfuls)ofpurecrystallineascorbicacideitherdis-
solvedinorangejuicetobufferitorinwaterwithasmallamountofbaking
soda(sodiumhydrogencarbonate)addedtomakeaneffervescentdrink.
Recommended dailyadultintakesofvitamins
RDAWilliamsAllen*Leibovitz*Thisbook
VitaminC60mg2500mg1500mg2500mg1000-18,000mg
VitaminE10IU400IU600IU300IU800IU
VitaminA5000IU15,000IU15,000IU20,000IU20,000-40,000IU
VitaminKnone100mgnonenone none
VitaminD400IU400IU300IU800IU800IU
Thiamine, ]B,1.5mg20mg300mg100mg50-100mg
Riboflavin,B71.7mg20mg200mg100mg50-100mg
Niacinamide,B318mg200mg750mg300mg300-600mg
Pyridoxine,B62.2mg30mg350mg100mg50-100mg
Cobalamin,B123mg90mg1000mg100mg100-200mg
Folacin 400mg400mg400mg400mg400-800mg
Pantothenicacidnone150mg500mg200mg100-200mg
•Harrellet al.,1981.
^eibovitz,1984.
12 CHAPTER2
VitaminCmayalsobetakenassodiumascorbateorcalciumascorbate.IfI
feeltiredlaterinthedayorfeelthatIhavebeenexposedtoacoldvirus,I
takeafew1-gtabletsoranotherspoonfulofascorbicacid.
Atthiswriting,intheyear1985,thefourtabletsItakeeverydayplus
the18gofvitaminC(L-ascorbicacid,finecrystals)costmebymailorder,
postagepaid,(fromBronsonPharmaceuticals, 4526RinettiLane,La
Canada,Calif.91011)thetotalsumof41centsaday.IfIweretotake,
instead,thesixtabletsoftheRogerJ.WilliamsFortifiedInsurance
Formula,offeredintheBronsoncatalog,containingsomewhatsmaller
amountsofthesenutrientsplussomeothers,thecostwouldbe37centsa
day.Thusthesevitamin-mineral supplements,whichcanmeanthediffer-
enceforyoubetweenordinarypoorhealthandreallygoodhealth,needcost
youonlyasmuchasonesmallchocolatebar.
Evenif,asacancerpatient,youweretotake50gofvitaminCperday,
itwouldcostonly78cents,andwiththeothervitaminsandmineralsonly
SI.00altogether,anegligiblecostincomparisonwiththeotherexpenses
forapatient'scare.
ThevaluesoftheRDAgiveninthetableonpage11arethoseforadult
malesfromthe1980editionoftheRecommendedDietaryAllowances;
thevaluesforwomenandchildrenaresomewhatdifferent.TheWilliams
valuesarefortheFortifiedInsuranceFormulaofProfessorRogerJ.
Williams;theWilliamstabletsalsocontainpara-aminobezoic acid,biotin,
choline,inositol,rutin,andelevenminerals(calcium,magnesium,phospho-
rus,iron,zinc,copper,manganese,chromium,molybdenum, iodine,and
selenium).TheAllenformulaalsocontainseightminerals.BrianLeibovitz
(inhisbookCarnitine)alsorecommendsbiotin,choline,inositol,bioflavo-
noids,andtenminerals.
Theessentialmineralsdifferfromthevitaminsinthatoverdosesofmin-
eralsmaybeharmful.Donotincreaseyourvitaminintakebytakinga
largenumberofvitamin-mineral tablets.Limityourmineralintaketothe
recommendedamounts.
Itisimportantnottostopthevitaminsupplements,evenforasingleday.
WeknowthatthereisareboundeffectonstoppingtheintakeofvitaminC,
suchastoincreasetemporarilytheriskofdisease(Chapters13and19).
Theremaybesimilarreboundeffectsalsofortheotherwater-soluble vita-
mins,althoughnonehasbeenreported.
Ingeneral,thesensiblewaytobuyvitaminsistocheckthepricesandto
buythecheapest.ItisrequiredbytheFoodandDrugAdministration
(FDA)thatthecontentsbestatedonthelabel.Thereareprobablyafew
unscrupulouscompanies,butusuallythelabelcanbereliedon.
Therangeofpricesforessentiallythesameitemsisfarlargerforvita-
minsthanformostconsumergoods,suchasbeefsteakoratelevisionset.
AREGIMENFORBETTERHEALTH 13
WhenIbegancheckingthepricesofvitaminsfifteenyearsago,Ifoundthat
onecompanywassellingasolutionofvitaminCsaidtobespeciallypre-
paredforoldpeopleatonethousandtimesthepriceofordinaryvitaminC,
andanothercompanywassellingvitaminCtabletsatonehundredtimes
theordinaryprice.Inolongerfindsuchtremendousoverpricing,butifyou
donotcheckyoumightpayfivetimesorevententimestheproperamount.
Thecatalogofareliablecompanycanbeusedasareferencestandard,or
youmaychecktheadvertisements inPreventionmagazine.
Itiswisenottobuyvitaminsfromasalesmanandnottobuyfroma
companythatdoesnothaveapricelistthatwouldpermityoutocompare
prices.
Sometimestheeffortismadetochargeahigherpricebyusingnames
thathavelittlesignificance,suchasRoseHipsVitaminC(ordinaryvita-
minCwithalittlerose-hippowderadded),chelatedvitaminsandminer-
als,"natural"vitamins,etc.Also,brandsprescribedbyaphysicianmaycost
fourtimesasmuchastheproperprice.
Mostvitaminpreparationsarestable.Ascorbicacidintheformoffine
crystalsorcrystallinepowderkeptinabrownoropaquewhitebottleis
stableindefinitelyandcanbekeptforyears.Drytabletsarealsoreason-
ablystableandcanbekeptforyearsinabrownoropaquewhitebottle.
Solutionsofascorbicacidmaybeoxidizedwhenexposedtoairandlight.A
solutionofascorbicacidinwatermay,however,bekeptforseveraldaysin
arefrigeratorwithoutsignificantoxidation.
Youmayhavetousesomecarenottobetakeninbyunscrupulous
companies.AfterIhadrecommendedpurevitamin-Ccrystalsorpowderin
mybookVitaminCandtheCommonColdIsawanadvertisement for
"VitaminCPowder"atapricejustunder$10perkilogram(kg).Ibought
abottlefromthecompany,whichwasbasedinKansasCity,Missouri,and
foundinsmallprintonthelabelthestatement,"Eachleveltablespoonful
contains500mgofascorbicacid."Aleveltablespoonful isabout14g.
Accordinglythepreparationcontainsonly36gofascorbicacidin1000gof
powder;onlyonetwenty-eighth ofthepowderisascorbicacid,andthe
priceis$280perkilogramofvitaminC,not$10.IwrotetotheFDAabout
thismisrepresentation andreceivedinreplyastatementthattheFDA
coulddonothingaboutthematter.IthenwrotetotheFederalTrade
Commission,whichissuedacease-and-desist orderonthecompany.
Themostimportantpartofmyrecommendedregimenistotakethe
optimumamountsofthevitaminseveryday.Thisneednot,asIhave
shown,involveswallowingmorethanahalf-dozentabletsaday.Mymain
otherrecommendation aboutdiet(seeChapter6)istodecreaseyourintake
ofsucrose(ordinarysugar,includingrawsugar,brownsugar,syrup,and
honey).Youcanimproveyourhealthsignificantlybyreducingyoursugar
14 CHAPTER2
intaketohalftheU.S.averageof100poundsperyear,andyoucandoitby
neverputtingsugarinteaorcoffee,avoidingsoftdrinks,andeatingsweet
dessertsandcandyonlyrarely.
Astoyourdietotherwise, Ithinkthatyoushouldforthemostparteat
whatyoulike,ratherthantrytofollowarestrictivedietthatyouhave
troubleconformingtoandthatdoesnotaddtoyourpleasureinlife.Eatthe
foodsthatyoulike(exceptthehigh-sugarfoods),butdonoteatsuchlarge
amountsastomakeyouoverweight.
Itisagoodideanottoeatlargeamountsof


 a person, that this person
would be good  for you? How is “love at first sight” possible? How
does the soul know anything? How do the mind and the soul
combine and work together to come to an intuitive unders tanding of
anything at all?
The question is larger than, “How does your soul know that a
career choice may not be the best?” How does your soul know, “No,
no, no—don’t turn left, turn right here. I promis e you, just turn right. ”
So you make the right turn, in a strange city that you have no
knowledge of, but you just have a hunch, and sure enough, that gets
you exactly where you wanted to go. And everybody in the car
applauds and says, “How did you know that?” And you say, “I have
no idea how I knew that. I just felt like I needed to turn right and not
left at that last corner.”How does the soul know anything? Big or small. Important or
not important. And the answer is the soul, of course, knows
everything. There’s nothing that’s unclear to the soul. So when the
soul became aware of the mind’s choice to become a syndicated
radio talk show host, the soul said, “You know what, you can do what
you want! Be a syndicated radio talk show host if you want to. I’m not
going to stop you.”
So the soul doesn’t get in there and intervene and stop things
from happening. It’s not like the soul directs the activi ties or the
outcomes of your life. But the energies that the soul transmits move
through the body and the being—the three-part being that we are—
in such a way that they are not the most harmonious with the
energies that are incoming that offer us opportunities to step into a
particular relationship, or occupation, or even live in a certain part of
town, or in a certain house. Things just don’t “feel” right. Things don’t
“fall into place” easily.
How many people have been house hunting and they walk into
a house that they have found that is available and they walk in and
they just turn around and they walk right out? And the real estate
agent they’re with says, “Whoa, whoa... you didn’t even look at the
—”
“I don’t need to. I got as far as the living room and that’s as far
as I needed to go.”
How many people—let’ s get even more miniscule in our
examples—how many people go into their closet to pick out the
perfect outfit for this important dinner, and they put it on, and they get
as far as the front door, and they put their hand on the doorknob, andthey say, “You know what? I can’t do it!”? And they go back upstairs
and completely change their outfit!

DR. COOPER: So it’s about the energetic harmony. Is that what
you’re saying?

NEALE: Yes, that’s a wond erful term. It is about the energetic
harmony. It’s about the energetic signature that feels to be more “in
harmony” with the highest expression that the moment allows,
making possible the completi on of that portion of the Agenda of your
Soul that is presenting itself right now.

DR. COOPER:  How would one know that they are using the moment
in a way that optimally serves the Agenda of the Soul?

NEALE: The answer to your question is that they would know by the
relative ease with which things are occurring.

DR. COOPER: Hmmm.

NEALE: That’s why most spiritual philosophers say, “Don’t push the
river.”

DR. COOPER: Yes. “Row, row, row your boat, gently down the
stream.”

NEALE: Do not get out of the boat and start pushing the river! When
things are not “in the flow,” pay attention to that. And don’t insist onhaving “your way.” Rather, watch life resolve itself in the process of
Life Itself.
The soul does not, and never will, stand in the way of any
choice your mind wishes to make. But the soul can, and does, pave
the way for that which is more in harmony with the agenda that you,
yourself, set when you came into this lifetime.
To use our “palette” metaphor... let us say that the soul put a
lot more green paint on your palette—tons of it—and very little beige
or red or yellow. There’s some there, but not a bunch. That’s because
the soul’s agenda is for you to use green this lifetime more than any
other color.
(Again, this is a metaphor. In my case, in terms of Qualities of
Divinity—the “colors” of God—I am clear now that I had decided, at a
soul level, to experience and express Wisdom and Clarity at a high
level in this lifetime. That’s a brave thing for me to say here, because
it’s very personal to my experience, and may sound even a bit
arrogant to someone hearing it outside of the context of this
conversation, but I’m going to say it out loud anyway, in order to
clarify the point I’ve been making here.)
So now, using the framework of the above metaphor, you can
see that I would not be prohibited  from using my colors to paint a
canvas with a cityscape full of buildings and skyscrapers, but that it
would be a lot easier  for me to paint a picture of an open grassy field
leading into a forest.
Given the “paints” on my palette, my soul could see that radio
talk show host, or New York newspaper writer, was not what I had
the most harm onious energy  for. My soul did not stop me from, orget in the way of, these career opportunities. It was just a matter of
what was more in the Energy Flow. What was easier for me to do.
Life will always  “go with the flow.” What comes easiest  to us is
sometimes what we call our “natural talents.” I had a talent for radio,
yes, and a talent for journalism, too. But the biggest color on my
palette made it easier for me to paint a dif ferent picture of my life.
And so our mind’ s opportunit y in life is to, in a sense, get out of
the way! Get our miniscule mental desires to be a famous talk show
host, or a big city newspaper writer, off the table.

DR. COOPER: Got it!

NEALE: And sometimes we can’t get it off the table until we notice
that it’ s not easily happening. Or, that it’ s not happening at all.
So, the Spiritual Master is the one who notices what’s
happening and what’ s not happening. And agrees with it all. That’ s
what caused Byron Katie to give us all the advice she offered in her
fabulous book, Loving What Is.

DR. COOPER: I read that book. It’ s wonderful.

NEALE: That’ s the whole point of the book! The whole point of the
book is to watch what’ s happening, and to stop arguing with life.

DR. COOPER: You honestly make things sound so beautiful, so
simple, so perfect. As does Byron Katie!
I would like to touch briefly on a video interview of yours that I
watched, Neale... one that addresses the Process of PersonalCreation and the Law of Attraction.
You talk about how so many of us seek to manifest external
things —and you reference the New Age movie The Secret, which
shows people trying to “attra ct” the new sports car in the driveway,
the new bicycle for the child, or the diamond necklace for the bodice.
And the focus of almost the entire movie is on external materialistic
things!
I love how you say, “If we supposedly hold this incredible power
to attract anything into our lives, why wasn’t even one minute—not
one minute—of a nearly ninety-minute movie spent on attracting the
things that really matter? Like world peace? An end to suffering? A
better me?”
You point out in the video that there are plenty of people who
have the external manifestations—be it the perfect job, the perfect
mate, or the perfect house— and who are still sad as hell. And you
go on to say that “there aren’t many unhappy people walking around
who are demonstrating patience, compassion, wisdom,
understanding and love.” It just doesn’t happen.
So the most powerful message I took away from this video—if I
understood it correctly—is that the Law of Attraction  is not so much
about manifes ting things exterior  to ourselves, but rather about
demonstrating qualities interior  to ourselves.  In other words, it is
about showing  up in the world in such a way that who we are being
becomes the richness and the treasure that we previously sought to
experience through material possessions and accomplishments.

NEALE: I agree with all of that, and I would add, however, as a post-
script to that, that the two are not mutually exclusive.That is, one does not have to eschew, or step away from, or
abandon, any of one’s exterior physical world ambitions, hopes,
wishes, or dreams. I believe that the approach that will


 whole lives, our stomachs never developed their potential elastic ity. 78  However, it is not too late. For the new fruit eater,
the unnaturally poor flexibility of the stomach muscle causes a fee ling of fullness after eating a relatively small volume of fruit  and
calories. Upon adopting a raw program, many people attempt to solve this problem by a dding fat in order to make a meal more
sustaining and more calorically dense. They add oil to their fruit smooth ies, nuts and seeds to their fruit desserts, and avocados and
other fats to their vegetable salads.
To give you a sense of the magnitude of the divergence in calories per  bite between cooked and raw foods, let’s take an
extreme example. A slice of a large pan crust Round Table “Montag ue’s All Meat Marvel” pizza contains 350 calories. At an
estimated six bites per slice, that’s about 60 calories per bit e, the same number of calories as a 12-ounce head of lettuce. If four
slices of pizza filled you up, it would take about the same (very small) volu me of lettuce to also fill you up, in terms of sheer bulk. But
the lettuce wouldn’t be satiating, because it would have provide d only perhaps one hundredth of the calories. To actually eat the
same number of calories from lettuce that you got from eating the four s lices of pizza, you would have to eat six heads of lettuce per
slice of pizza, or one head of lettuce per bite! When we do the math on this exa mple, we get a staggering result: we would have to
eat 24 heads of lettuce to consume the same number of calories in four slic es of pizza!

Dehydrated Foods
One of the reasons that people like cooked food is that cooking intensifies flav ors. Many people new to the raw food diet gravitate
toward dehydrated foods, because the dehydrator functions quite similarly t o the oven and produces dishes reminiscent of those
cooked in an oven. Water deficient, these foods are more condensed calorically, and in terms of flavor, than their raw counterparts.
Dehydrated foods take up less space than the same foods eaten whole. As with  cooked foods, their compact size disrupts our
natural satiety triggers, which respond (in part) to volume. Dehydrat ed foods also take longer to digest because of their complexity
and dryness. For both of these reasons, we tend to overeat dehydrated or cooked foods befor e we realize we are full. A similar
thing happens with dried fruits, which, in addition to being low in volume, al so release their sugars more slowly. These two factors
contribute to our tendency to overeat them, a phenomenon not common among people w ho eat whole, fresh fruit.
We compound these problems when we add the various fats (oils, avocados, nuts, se eds, olives, coconut meat, and the like)
used freely among raw foodists to make their dehydrated dishes look and taste s imilar to their cooked food counterparts. Added to
low-calorie vegetable recipes, fat becomes the overwhelming ca loronutrient in the entire dish. Many dehydrated raw entrées such as
lasagna, pizza, and chili offer 50 to 80% of their calories from fat, sometimes  even more.
Dishes of this sort slow digestion, forcing foods to be delayed in the stomac h and giving us that “stuffed” feeling we have come
to associate with satiation, even though they do not contain the volume t hat our stomachs are designed to handle. The fact is that
most people consume their food in an extremely condensed form—cooked, dehydr ated, and fatty—and are eating a far smaller volume of food than is truly healthy. This concentration of our food is part of t he reason we tend to overeat in terms of total
calories.
Contrary to popular mythology, there is no reason to think of dehydrated fr uits or vegetables as “super” or “special” in terms
of nutrition. Certainly they are not as nutritious as their fresh c ounterparts, in any quantity. Supplement vendors publish convincing
literature to convince you that their green powders or “whole-food-ba sed” supplements supply concentrated nutrition in amounts
you could not get from fresh fruits and vegetables. But taking them can s erve only to imbalance you, as even in deficiency conditions,
we do not need more of any nutrient than we can get in a variety of whole, fresh, ripe, raw plants eaten in suff icient
quantity to maintain our body weight.
Of course, low-temperature dehydration causes less nutrient damage  than cooking, but dehydrated foods are nutritionally far
inferior to fresh food, regardless of processing method. Not only that, but eati ng them dehydrates us,  increasing relative bodily
toxicity, and requiring yet more water to be consumed to maintain proper hydr ation. The eight to twelve glasses of water we are told
to drink every day are a good indicator of how low in water—or if you prefer, how t oxic—our diets really are.

More Bites and Raw Success!
The challenge of eating more bites is often one that people are not prepare d for, as evidenced by the considerable weight loss
common among new raw fooders. After initial water weight losses, if a pe rson still loses weight regularly, he or she is very likely
undereating in terms of total calories. (Digestive, absorptive, or assi milative problems could also contribute to the problem, but these
must be considered the exception, not the rule.) While a huge perce ntage of the W estern world’s population is suffering from
impaired digestion and compromised absorption, 79  these conditions tend to self-correct when the causes (high-fat, cooke d,
processed, toxic foods unsuited to our physiological design) are eliminated.
Eventually, most people agree that eating more food per day is not a hardship, bu t one of the many rewards of healthful eating.
The 80/10/10  diet is among just a handful of healthful  plans that allows you to eat as much of the recommended foods as you care
for.

How Do I Eat That Much Fruit?
With 80/10/10  firmly in mind, we return to the question of how to obtain the calories we ne ed, now that high-fat, low-fiber, low-
water foods are removed from the diet. To get 80% of your calories from the carbohy drates in fruit, you will have to create some
dramatic new eating habits, perhaps more dramatic than any dietary ch ange you have ever made. As you drop the fat from your
diet, you must significantly  increase your daily fruit consumption, a habit that takes practice to dev elop. The good news is that your
health and your waistline will show you immediate results to let you kn ow you are heading in the desired direction.
One tactic to achieve more bites, and to support our caloric needs, is to start  with several fruit meals per day, approximately
four. Over time, depending on your exercise program and other healthful ha bits, you will be able to reduce this number of meals
down to three and then possibly even two. Also, make a practice of eating just  one or two bites more at each meal than you
otherwise would. The elasticity of your stomach will promptly accommodate  the extra bites, just as all of your other muscles would
elongate if you were to adopt a yoga practice. I must stress: the goal here  is not to eat until you hurt but to gently encourage your
digestive system to regain its flexibility.
Y ou don’t have to make this transition all at once, either. If you are not re ady to eat just fruit for your breakfast and lunch
meals, it is perfectly acceptable to simply begin your meals with frui t. You can eat all the fruit you care for at the start of the meal,
and then follow the fruit with other foods. Over time, the amount of fruit y ou desire at the beginning of the meal will increase.
Eventually, you will be able to eat a satiating and calorie-sufficie nt meal from fruit that will hold you all the way until the next meal time
comes around.

Satiation—Satisfying Hunger and Appetite
Hunger is a sensation we are all familiar with, but it is often confu sed with other aspects of eating. The goal of hunger is to
satisfy a nutritional requirement for carbohydrates, fats, proteins, v itamins, minerals, enzymes, coenzymes, and all other nutrients. We
are driven to eat to fill this need and rewarded by the pleasure of it. Becau se hunger is the general  desire for food, when one is truly
hungry, any food will be acceptable.
Appetite, on the other hand, is specific—we desire a specific food or foods. A ppetite is also the socially acceptable word for
craving,  which in turn is the socially acceptable word for addiction.  An example of the difference between appetite and hunger
goes as follows: When a person says, “I am hungry” and you offer him let tuce, he is likely to say, “I am not hungry for lettuce, but I
do have an appetite for chocolate. Do you have any chocolate?” If this per son were truly hungry, the lettuce would have been
perfectly acceptable. Their wording is accurate: what they rea lly have is appetite … or I might suggest, addiction


 with over a million copies sold and evoking
praise fr om such notables as M other T eresa and Sam W alton. The book
presents his trademark Map of Consciousness, now used  by health
professionals, u niversity profe ssors, government of ficials, an d business
executives worldwide. Many other books followed.
From 1998 to 20 11, Dr. Hawkins traveled widely as a lecturer th roughout
the U.S. and overseas, speaking to sold-out audiences about th e science of
consciousness and the reality of advanced spiritual states. He s poke at the
Oxford Forum and W estminste r Abbey, as well as Harvard University,
University of Buenos Aires, University of Notre Dame, Fordham
University, and  the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He gave the annual
Landber g Lectu re at the University of California at San Francis co Medical
School. His final lecture, on “Love,” occurred in Septembe r of 2011,
attended by 1,700 people from around the world.
Dr. Hawkins received numerous recognitions for his scientific and
humanitarian c ontributions, including the Huxley A ward for the
“Inestimable C ontribution to the Alleviation of Human Suf fering,”
Physicians Recognition A ward by the American Medical Association, 50-
Y ear Distinguished Life Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association,
the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame, Who’ s Who in the W orld, and a
nomination for the prestigious T empleton Prize that honors progress in
science and religion. In recognition of his contributions to humanity, Dr.
Hawkins was knighted in 1996 by the Sovereign Order of the Hospitallers
of St. John of Jerusalem (founded in 1077) by authority of the priory of
King V a ldemar the Great. In 20 00, he was bestowed the title “T ae R young
Sun Kak  T osa” (T eacher of Enlightenment) in Seoul, Korea. He  was also a
consultant to foreign governments on international diplomacy and was
instrumental in resolving long-standing conflicts that were major threats to
world peace.
Throughout his life, Dr. Hawkins participated in a wide range  of civic
and professional  endeavors, often in leadership roles. As a physician, he co-
founded or served as medical ad visor for many or ganizations, including the
Schizophrenia Foundations of N ew Y ork and Long Island, the AttitudinalHealing Center of Long Island, the New Y ork Association of Holistic
Health C enters, and the Academy of Orthomolecular Psychia try. He was
co-director of the Masters Galle ry of Fine Arts. Born with an exceptionally
high IQ, he beca me a member of Mensa International in 1963. As a young
doctor, h e was attracted to Budd hism and joined the first Zen Institute in the
U.S. At the tim e of his death, he had been a member of St. Andrews
Episcopal Church for many years. He was the first president of the Country
and W es tern Da nce Club of Sed ona and a member of the VFW, American
Legion, and the Sedona Elk s Lodge. He was an archer, carpenter,
blacksmith, musician (bagpiper, violinist, and pianist), designer of prize-
winning 16th-century French Norman architecture, and lover of animals.
Internationally, Dr. Hawkins was the founder of Devotional Nonduality
(2003), a spiritual pathway that applies the core truths of the world’ s great
traditions: kindness and compassion for all life (including oneself),
unconditional love, humility, inq uiry into the nature of existence, surrender,
and Self-realiz ation. Since 2002, Hawkins Study Gr oups have
autonomously sprung up in many cities around the world, from Los
Angeles to Seoul, from Cape T own to Melbourne; the groups study and
practice the principles of his bo oks, such as “W e change the world not by
what we say or do but as a consequence of what we have become.”
AUT OBIOGRAPHIC NOTE
While the truths reported in th is book were scientifically derived and
objectively or ga nized, like all tru ths, they were first experienced personally.
A lifelong sequence of intense states of awareness beginning at a young age
first insp ired and  then gave direc tion to the process of subjective realization
that has finally taken form in this series of books.
At age three, th ere occurred a sudden full consciousness of existence, a
nonverbal but complete underst anding of the meaning of “I Am,” followed
immediately by the frightening realization that “I” might not have come
into exis tence a t all. This was an instant awakening from obl ivion into a
conscious awareness, and in that moment, the personal self was born and
the duality of “Is” and “Is Not” entered my subjective awareness.
Throughout childhood and early adolescence, the paradox of existence
and the question  of the reality of the self remained a repeated c oncern. Thepersonal self would sometimes begin slipping back into  a greater
impersonal Self,  and the initial fear of nonexistence—the fundamental fear
of nothingness—would recur.
In 1939, as a paperboy with a 17-mile bicycle route in rural W isconsin,
on a  dark winter ’ s night I was c aught miles from home in a –20º blizzard.
The bicycle fell over on the ice  and the fierce wind ripped the newspapers
out of the hand lebar basket, blowing them across the ice-covered, snowy
field. There were tears of frustr ation and exhaustion, and my clothes were
frozen stif f. T o get out of the wind, I broke through the icy crust of a high
snowbank, dug out a space, and crawled into it. Soon the shivering stopped
and there was a delicious warm th, and then a state of peace beyond all
description. This  was accompanied by a suf fusion of light and a  presence of
infinite love that had no begin ning and no end and was und if ferentiated
from my own essence. The physical body and surroundings faded as my
awareness was fused with this all-present, illuminated state. The mind grew
silent; a ll thoug ht stopped. An infinite Presence was all that was or could
be, beyond all time or description.
After that timelessness, there was suddenly an awareness of someone
shaking my knee; then my fathe r ’ s anxious face appeared. There was great
reluctance to return to the body and all that that entailed, but because of my
father ’ s love and anguish, the Spirit nurtured and reactivated the body.
There w as comp assion for his fear of death, although, at the same time, the
concept of death seemed absurd.
This subjective experience was  not discussed with anyone since there
was no context available from w hich to describe it. It was not common to
hear of spiritual experiences other than those reported in the lives of the
saints. B ut after  this experience, the accepted reality of the world began to
seem only provisional; traditional religious teachings lost significance, and,
paradoxically, I became an agnostic. Compared to the light of Divinity that
had illu minated all existence, the god of traditional religion shone dully
indeed; thus spirituality replaced religion.
During W orld W ar II, hazardou s duty on a minesweeper often  brought
close bru shes wi th death, but the re was no fear of it. It was as th ough death
had lost its authenticity. After the war, fascinated by the complexities of the
mind and wanting to study psy chiatry, I worked my way through medical
school. My training psychoanaly st, a professor at Columbia University, wasalso an agnostic; we both took a dim view of religion. The an alysis went
well, as did my career, and success followed.
I did not, howe ver, settle quietly into professional life. I fell ill with a
progressive, fatal illness that did not respond to any treatments available.
By age 38, I w as in extr emis  and knew I was about to die. I didn’ t care
about th e body, but my spirit wa s in a state of extreme anguish and despair.
As the final mo ment approach ed, the thought flashed through my mind,
What if ther e is a God?  S o I called out in prayer, “If there is a God, I ask
Him to help me  now.” I surren dered to whatever God there might be and
went int o oblivion. When I awoke, a transformation of such enormity had
taken place that I was struck dumb with awe.
The person I ha d been no longer existed. There was no personal self or
ego, onl y an Infinite Presence o f such unlimited power that it was all that
was. Th is Presence had replaced what had been “me,” and the b ody and its
actions were controlled solely by the Infinite W ill of the Presence. The
world was illuminated by the c larity of an Infinite Oneness that expressed
itself as all things revealed in their infinite beauty and perfection.
As life went on, this stillness persisted. There was no personal will; the
physical body went about its


beings to adapt to adverse conditions and what
defense mechanisms they use for this. Look at the Office
patents of nature.
Winterfall GROUND WATER SM
Cold blood is not warm.
Who is not given to support the body temperature in winter is one -
freeze, sleep, petrify, to wait out unfavorable conditions
life. That is what all the cold-blooded: molluscs, crustaceans,
spiders, insects, fish, amphibians and reptiles. When
the onset of winter, they hibernate, called Kholodov
stupor. At most, what they can do - take care
Asylum, where the temperature did not drop to below 0 ° C. otherwise
If cells are irreversibly injured tissue formed
the freezing of ice crystals. Crayfish, completely unaware of
the kind of strong reaction in people cause their peaceful winter
rookery, burrow into the mud at the bottom of ponds. Males usually hibernate
groups in the deep wells at the bottom, while females - one at a time in burrows.
True, this loneliness will not name because of their short
legs of females bonded with 50 to 500 pieces of fertilized eggs
of which hatch in early summer, crustaceans the size of an ant.
If the sludge is frozen, crawfish do not perish and come to life during thawing. Not
they fear and a long stay without water, gradually replacing
it in the gills of the air with a characteristic sound (which is why they say that
out of water crayfish whisper, as if saying goodbye to each other).
There in the mud spend the winter water snail Lymnaea stagnalis. Land
snails after the accumulation of essential nutrients
dig burrows, where several wintering could together
"Nap" deep underground at a temperature of 7-8 ° C. Well
cork shelter, they descend to the bottom of the hole and lie
shell up, which, however, also delayed the mucous
substance. With a significant cold snap snails burrow more
deeper, forming a new film and airbags, which play a role
excellent insulator. All metabolic processes are dramatically during
month decay to reach the minimum at which
animal runs almost in a state of suspended animation with subtle
vital functions. and so from October until early April.
16
16Insect attack of the winter season catches at different stages of their
development: in the form of eggs, larvae, pupae or adults. Each
form has developed its own approach - at what stage is better to "sleep off".
For example, the ladybird and the anopheles mosquito overwinter only in the
adulthood, and aphids - in the eggshell. But there are those
that any form of hibernation for good. That's at least home
flies - they spend the winter in the form of larvae and pupae in the form (in warm
dung piles) and in adulthood. Duration of sleep
also different: the butterfly peacock eyes in a state of suspended animation
five and a half months at a temperature of about 6 ° C, and mulberry
moth to a month longer at 8,6 ° C.
Ever since the first signs of cooling off insects
find it convenient to shelter under rocks, bark of trees, fallen
foliage, in soil, where after a snowfall remains moderately
low and uniform temperature. At 0 ° C metabolism of these
slows to a crawl: respiration is suppressed, the rate of oxidation
processes is reduced by 10-15 times. To survive such wintering
preceded by some preparation: accumulate stocks
fat (they go up to 18% of body weight), the body as much as possible
dehydrated (larva Galician water content drops from 65 to
20%). Some species of insects capable of carrying very low
temperature, such as the meadow moth caterpillars, which
keep the spark of life to minus 30 ° C! But this is the exception rather
and not everyone is on the shoulder. Bees, for example, do not fall
into a prolonged hibernation, the stock of accumulated fat does not exceed
1,5-2%. Still, at temperatures from 0 to 6 ° C otsepenevayut in this
state may be 7-8 days. At lower temperatures
they die. Unfortunately for many lower animals, nature does not
provided them with tracking mechanism, and a poor choice
wintering numbness often goes into its logical
continued.
Strangeness of the black fish.
Peculiar reaction to a sudden drop in temperature
water, some species of fish - they fall into a state of shock. After
brief excitement phase cease to breathe, swim and look
as dead. Enough, however, that the water warmed, and they quickly
alive. Detrimental to fish was cooling, resulting in
to the formation of blood and tissues of ice crystals, damaging
walls of blood vessels. Back to life, they can only
in that case, if the freeze applied only to
superficial tissues. When the fish some time living from
supply of oxygen in the swim bladder (the assumption that
frozen fish breathe with gills, it was insolvent).
One of the most adapted to a cold fish - the so-called black
Fish - lives in rivers, lakes and peat bogs of Alaska and Chukotka.
Severe climate allows her to recover for a short summer
period, which she uses for breeding. The rest of the
17
17, the fish and freeze in burrow into the mud. If the temperature of liquid
the body does not fall below - 0,3 ° C, with slow thawing, they
alive. If the blood is frozen - fish die. Local people
uses the fish as food for dogs. They say that if the dog
swallow whole frozen fish, then shortly after that she
Defrosting in the stomach and begins to irritate his wall.
in such cases, the dog usually burps fish, and if she gets
in water, then immediately floats serenely.
From freshwater fishes in November in hibernation fall
Carp, ruff, perch, catfish and others. When water temperature drops below
8-10 ° C, these fish move to deeper parts of the reservoir, the so-
called wintering holes, buried in large groups
in the mud and remain in a state of torpor throughout the winter.
this time in the carp heart rate slows down instead of the normal
25-30 beats per minute to 2-3, and his breath - up to 3-4 breaths per minute.
An interesting device has a sturgeon, starlet and beluga -
their bodies upon the occurrence of extreme cold enveloped with mucus,
protecting from adverse effects of environmental
environment, and they fall into hibernation. Some species
herbivorous fish (grass carp, silver carp) are also over-winter
groups covered by a thick layer of mucus. Part of the marine fish, too
tolerate severe frosts in a dream state. Herring in the autumn
close to the coast of the Arctic Ocean, to sleep on
the bottom of a small creek. Even the Black Sea anchovy
moves to the southern regions - Georgian coast and the adjacent coast
Asia Minor, at which time the fish is weakly active, and food does not use.
Salamander from the eternal ice.
Amphibians are prepared in advance for winter, summer accumulating
nutrient stores. And in the fall with a decrease in daytime
temperature to 8-12 ° C, and night to 3-5 ° C are sent to places
next winter, sometimes breaking a few miles. One
Most of them overwinter under water, the other - on land. Under water winter
lake, grass, quick, long-legged frog. Going
groups of 10-20 eggs (sometimes up to 100) of different sex and age as well
sometimes even different species, and buried in mud or submerged hollow.
With such a group wintering level of metabolism in frogs almost
40% lower than in the wintering alone. During hibernation
frogs breathe only through the skin, heart rate slows, but still, even though
and extremely slowly, amphibians grow and their sex cells
ripen. And dream they have shallow, and under adverse
conditions, they may move to another place in the same pond.
The main thing is to happen on time, because the most significant
danger for them lies in the lack of oxygen. For very severe
winters happens even mass mortality of amphibians, especially when
ponds in which they overwinter, freeze to the bottom. Therefore,
they prefer fast flowing rivers and creeks, streams, canals
and lakes with rivers flowing into them, that is, choose water,
18
18oxygen-rich. during hibernation in amphibians sharply
increases the diameter of blood vessels in the skin, through which
they breathe.
On land, spend the winter green and gray toad, common
tree frog, spadefoot toad, yellow-bellied Bombina bombina, salamanders. They
hibernate in large groups at the foot of the cliffs, in crevices of rocks
and among tree roots, in holes dug by other animals,
under a thick layer of leaves and moss. Some species are even capable of
burrowing into the ground.
Newts different species overwinter on land and under water. The first
usually arranged under rotten st


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moment.
This	allows	the	joy	of	consciousness	to	circulate	throughout	the
body.

Keep	in	mind	that	your	behaviour	changes	the	lives	of	others,	especially
through	the	enjoyment	and	enthusiasm	that	you	bring.
The	word	"enthusiasm"
comes	from	the	Greek	word
enthousiazein
,	meaning	‘to	be	possessed	by	a
god’.
You	do	not	have	to	do	it	all	alone.
Enduring	enthusiasm	fills	the
existence	of	positive	energy.
It's	like	"a	wave	of	creative	energy,	and	all	you
have	to	do	is	ride	the	wave."

One	with	life.
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Books	are	mentors.
Books	can	guide	what	we	do	and	our	lives.
Many	of	us
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This	summary	is	taken	from	the	most	important	themes	of	the	original	book.

Most	people	don’t	like	books.
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If	you	trust	the	source	you	don’t	need	the	arguments.
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much	of	a	book	is	arguing	its	points,	but	often	you	don’t	need	the	argument	if
you	trust	the	source	you	can	just	get	the	point.

This	summary	takes	the	effort	to	distill	the	blahs	into	themes	for	the	people
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Medicineand
Capitalismin
America
E.RichardBrown
UniversityofCaliforniaPress,Berkeley,LosAngeles,London
ExcerptsfromAbrahamFlexner,
AbrahamFlexner:AnAutobiography,
copyright©1940byAbrahamFlexnerand
©1960byJeanFlexnerLewisonandEleanorFlexner,
reprintedbypermissionofSimon&Schuster.
UniversityofCaliforniaPress
BerkeleyandLosAngeles,California
UniversityofCaliforniaPress,Ltd.
London,England
Copyright©1979by
TheRegentsoftheUniversityofCalifornia
FirstPaperbackPrinting1980
ISBN0-520-04269-7
LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber:7&-65461
PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica
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ToMarianne,Delia,andAdrienne
Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Doctors5
OtherInterestGroups7
FoundationsandtheState8
"WholesalePhilanthropy":FromCharitytoSocial
Transformation 13
CreatingPrivateFortunesandSocialDiscontent14
DrivingtheReluctantPoorfromPoverty20
TrainingScientificHeadstoDirectAmerica's"HardHands"24
Carnegie's"GospelofWealth"30
ReverendGatesIntroducesRockefellerto"Wholesale
Philanthropy"32
TheReverendFrederickT.Gates:TheMakingofaRockefeller
MedicineMan38
TheGeneralEducationBoard:$129MillionforStrategic
Philanthropy43
SocialManagersforaCorporateSociety50
ScientificMedicineI:IdeologyofProfessionalUplift60
AmericanMedicineinthe1800s61
IncompleteProfessionalization 67
MedicineasScience71
GainingPublicConfidence74
ReducingCompetition80
TechnicalRequirementsofScientificMedicalEducation80
viaIContents
"Nonsectarian"MedicineUnderminestheSects88
Specialization:LessCompetitionfortheEhte91
GainsandLosses94
3.ScientificMedicineII:ThePreservationofCapital98
MedicalTechnologyandCapital98
Welch:ARockefellerMedicineMan102
RockefellerMoneyandMedicalScience:ASocialInvestment105
Homeopathy:TheConflictSimmers109
ScientificMedicineandCapitalistGates111
HealthierWorkers112
IdeologicalMedicine119
Gates'Digression130
APermanentInvestment132
4.ReformingMedicalEducation:WhoWillRule
Medicine?135
PractitionersGainaFoothold136
CouncilonMedicalEducation138
MoneyforMedicalEducation:WhoWillPay?141
HelpfromtheCarnegieFoundation142
The"FlexnerReport"145
TheGeneralEducationBoard:MedicalEducationGetsaDifferent
Drummer156
FullTime:"GoldorGlory"158
SellingtheFull-TimeProposal164
BostonBrahminsResist166
FearandTrembUngintheBoardRoom167
StateUniversities:Professionals,theState,andCorporate
Liberalism176
SummingUp188
5.Epilogue:AHalf-CenturyofMedicineinCorporate
CapitalistSociety192
FrederickT.GatesandtheRockefellerPhilanthropies 193
RATIONALIZINGTHEMEDICALMARKET795
TheCommitteeontheCostsofMedicalCare195
DoctorsandtheCapital-IntensiveCommoditySector197
TheState:RationalizingthePrivateMarket200
TheGrowthofCapital-IntensiveCommodities203
The"CorporateRationalizers"204
TheStateandCapitalistMedicine207
Contents Iix
UpAgainsttheMedicalMarket212
NationalHealthInsurance:MoreoftheSame216
TECHNOLOGICALMEDICINE218
ScientificMedicine:BeliefsandReality218
Life,Death,andMedicine219
TappingtheStateTreasury225
A"Superacademic GeneralStaff'226
TheCorporateClass228
TheMedical-Industrial Complex231
TechnologyinCrisis233
BlamingtheVictim:NewProminenceforanOldIdeology235
CONCLUSION238
Notes243


 have been quite a nervous and apprehensive person.
tn 1990 to January of the present year, I began to take excessive medicine from
an allopathic doctor. I understand this medicine has destroyed my antibodies.
Because I began with pulmonary diseases I had strong colds every year.
They lasted up to two months and because of more antibiotics that they gave me,
I could not be cured.
I had the luck to study " the Word of God " (the Bible).
It was in the catholic Biblical institute of this city of Guac;lalajara.
Within this study, 1 found the faith that Jesus gave to me. Then 1 began to request
"Give me the desire to live Jesus. Take away my tumors, give me my health.
I want to preach the word you have revealed to me. Remember I have my
daughter and my wife and believe that I need to still do something for them."
Jesus said these words in Getzemani:
"That does not become my will, but yours".
The answer of my Jesus I did not believe.
By the end of January to the present
Because of my work I was commission to the town of
Sn. Martin de Bolanos, Jalisco, in the North zone.
There like always, J arrived and J made a visit to a temple of the catholic church
of that town. It is my custom that I repeated my request to Jesus Christ.
1 went to even eat at a restaurant.
I took care of one lady and bought myself food without fat and just vegetables.
The lady ate with me and she asked me, are you diabetic? I answered her, yes.
Then she asked me, when I finish, might I say something?
I answered yes why not? She said after we finish our food.
I ate quickly and I asked the lady about her comment.
She said to me, I am diabetic and have been almost blind,
but thanks to GOD and Urine I see welt
I could not distinguish 5 meters away.
Please, I would like to take you to see a video with a teacher who lives close.
I accepted and we arrived to the teacher, who took care of us and she gave her
testimony of which she alleviated herself of hypertension with the Urine-therapy.
The video did not have it, but she explained to me how to initiate
the method of Urine-therapy.
After returning I spent several days thinking.
Then I included and understood that everything was not chance
but that was the answer of God to my request.
I initiated my method of Urine-therapy (first thing in the morning).
From the second day I felt best for the therapy to be routine. I felt very weiJ.
FIRST FAST: I was taking drugs for the sugar and high blood pressure.
the second day of fasting at night I felt bad. I went to the emergency room of the
hospital and they took a blood sample of me and my glucose level was at 110.
The blood pressure was also low for me, {Normal}.
87 The following day I was with the family doctor whom I explained the method with
Urine. He said to me, it is your decision.
I reduced my allopathic drugs by half as I gained control of my health.
I now had feeling in my hurt thumb. I could now breathe well from my nose.
The smaU baU of my tumor was smaller.
I no longer had sourness in my stomach.
I felt better, reanimated, I saw my daughter and my wife with interest,
as they used to be in previous days.
Some symptoms are hard to live with but not impossible like before.
I do not have all the data that the teacher Sonia commented on.
I knew in the community that Sonia Rodriguez, gave lectures in the temples.
I did not obtain full information until from a bookstore I asked for
II the Water of Life II or II Urine-therapy II. I also bought the book of
Uroterapia of Chemistry by Sonia Rodriguez which I read.
SECOND FASTING:
Now I had more information, thanks to that fabulous book.
Now with my symptoms I would pass them more with a conscious opinion as
everything in life we must experiment to live.
I did my fasting completely. Having just as in the first fast,
I still had complications by with the drugs (1/2 doses), that I still took.
I decided to now suspend the drugs totally.
I did it and to this date I no longer take a single tablet.
Only Urine. In this second fasting I still foUowed with doubts.
I started this fasting on Holy Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
I spoke on the telephone to Paradise of health and left a message on the
answering machine, because now were the holy days.
Monday of Passover,
I received a telephone call from Sonia, who gave me the attention to call me back.
I congratulated her for that charisma that God has given to her.
You can listen and feel a special peace in her that you do not find every day.
I commented my doubts to her she invited me to one of her conferences which
I wanted to listen and had several dates to choose from.
THIRD FASTING TIME
I did not have problems, my sugar analysis and hypertension is now normal and
I am going to the hospital to only check my counts. I sleep and breath well.
The tumor is almost disappeared in my thigh.
My thumb of my left hand now moves without a problem.
I feel healthy and positive.
When I go to check control of the hospital
I see people who leave with a pile of medicines.
It makes me fee11ike putting a great signboard on my chest
that God says 11 I love you, drink your Urine 11
•
88 From my personal experience,
~ consider if you do drink your Urine,
faith is due to you and God is going to heal you.
Do it in the name of Jesus.
Jt is worth the troubJe to remember a BibJicaJ appointment:
" Everything what you do in the name of Jesus,
no matter how difficult, it will be granted to you ".
The works of mercy of God, will manifest.
1 would not feel wen if 1 didn~t give my own testimony.
To those who read this, it is not enough to just read. Dedicate to live your own
testimony. Cure yourself with your own medicine that is within you.
TESTIMONY 60*
STON£S TN TH£ V£SlCL£
Soila De Venegas { Mexico }
On the 10th of May, 19961 became ill of the stones in my vesicle and I went into
the hospital, but they did not alleviate the pain.
Thanks to God with my urine I alleviated myself.
With the Urine I brought out the stones. Of course I also with this avoided the
operation. For that reason I am here with you and my parents.
TESTIMONY 61 *
D1Al\£T£S
Alfonso D. Nunez { Mexico }
Thanks to God I am well of the glucose intolerance with diabetes.
I am 64 years old and 6 years ago I began with this problem.
It has been a martyrdom for me to live with this disease.
1 understand it was for all the foods that 1 ate before and now 1 thought that my
life no longer will be right. A friend of mine said to me that I could be normal.
My glucose was of 249 mg, and after beginning with the method of Urine-therapy
of the 14 of July to the 14 of August of 1998, it is now a low 110 mg.
TESTIMONY 62*
D1Al\£T£S. 01\£S1TY. ARTHRlTlS. COllTlS.
Maria C. of Aguilar { Mexico }
89 From my personal experience,
~ consider if you do drink your Urine,
faith is due to you and God is going to heal you.
Do it in the name of Jesus.
Jt is worth the trouble to remember a Biblical appointment:
" Everything what you do in the name of Jesus,
no matter how difficult, it wilt be granted to you ".
The works of mercy of God, will manifest.
1 would not feel well if 1 didn~t give my own testimony.
To those who read this, it is not enough to just read. Dedicate to live your own
testimony. Cure yourself with your own medicine that is within you.
TESTIMONY 60*
STONES TN TH£ V£S1CL£
Soila De Venegas {Mexico}
On the 10th of May, 19961 became ill of the stones in my vesicle and I went into
the hospital, but they did not alleviate the pain.
Thanks to God with my urine I alleviated myself.
With the Urine I brought out the stones. Of course I also with this avoided the
operation. For that reason I am here with you and my parents.
TESTIMONY 61 *
D1AB£T£S
Alfonso D. Nunez { Mexico }
Thanks to God I am well of the glucose intolerance with diabetes.
I am 64 years old and 6 years ago I began with this problem.
It has been a martyrdom for me to live with this disease.
I understand it was for a11 the foods


 whole body. If you feel ill or
out of sorts, several scrotal compressions will restore you to good
form. Perform the exercises in the following sequence: First do one
scrotal compression. Then rotate the waist with the arms at shoul-
der level. Rest for a moment and repeat the exercise. Remember to
keep the tongue up to the palate when compressing the air. Perform
5 contractions.The Dance Of The Testes 81
When you have grown stronger, you may do five compres-
sions in succession and then rest with waist rotation. Then begin a
second series of five compressions. Keep the breathing between
compression short and shallow to not lodge power high in the
body.
DIAGRAM 17
Inhale
through the
nostrils into
the throat.2.
Swallow air
down to the
solar plexis.3.
Push air
down to
the navel. [
4.
Then down to
the lower
abdomen.
5.
Then press
air down
to the
scrotum.82 Taoist Secrets Of Love
Practice testicle breathing and scrotal compression twice a
day for about fifteen minutes in the morning and fifteen minutes in
the evening. This method alone yields real benefits. In addition to
those benefits already mentioned, it also helps cure impotence or
deficient virility. Insomnia and nervousness often radically im-
prove with these breathing techniques. General lack of energy and
associated symptoms may also be relieved with regular practice.
If you have retained your sexual fluid for four weeks or more,
the exercise should start to take effect within three days after be-
ginning practice. The testes feel warm, tend to "jump", and may
itch somewhat. These indicate that the testes are receiving un-
usually high amounts of vital force. The tissues are already re-
generating. These signs occur only if the exercise is done properly.
A month or two of exercise will produce substantial increase in
strength and well-being.
VENTING EXERCISE FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
After practicing scrotal compression for 2 to 6 weeks, some stu-
dents with high blood pressure notice a large flow of chi energy to
the head. They feel tension in the head because the blood has
followed the upward flow of the vital power. This is not unlike a
mild symptom of the "Kundalini Syndrome", in which freed en-
ergy races about the body out of control.
If you suffer from high blood pressure and haven't practiced
meditation to open the microcosmic orbit (described in chapter 8)
which distributes the energy evenly through the circuits of the
body, you can meditate on two points to vent excess pressure.
These are the Ming-Men, on the spine directly opposite the navel
(between T-12 and T-13) and the Yuang Ch'uan (K-l point), on the
balls of your feet.
To locate the Ming-Men place a string around the waist like a
belt. Make it perfectly horizontal and place it across the navel. The
Ming-Men lies where the string meets the spine. If you have a big
hanging belly, measure from where your navel was before it fell.
When you bend over backwards from the waist, the point feels like
a hole in the spine.
The other point, the Yuang Ch'uan, lies on the foot. When
clenching the toes, it is the deepest central point on the ball of the
foot.The Dance Of The Testes 83
Once you've found the point on both feet, tape onto them
spiny little balls such as a prickly chestnut or plain tree seed pod.
Place both hands at the back and press firmly on the spiny ball
while concentrating on the M4ng-Men point. This draws the chi and
blood there.
After you feel the power flow to the Ming-Men, direct it down
the spine and legs to the Yuang Ch'uan. Press down on the ball so
that you feel the spines very distinctly. In severe cases it may take
a month or two to get the power into the Ming-Men and bring it
down to the Yuang-Ch'uan.
If blood flows too strongly to the head during or after scrotal
compression, vent the power. Imbalanced force will flow out of the
body through these two points. After practicing the scrotal exer-
cises, many students open the microcosmic orbit so that their en-
ergy flows in a continuous circuit. This alone has often cured high
blood pressure.
DIAGRAM 18
Navel,Ming-Men
Yuang Chuan K-1
THE POWER LOCK EXERCISE FOR SEALING THE
SEMINAL FLUID
When you are well trained in this exercise you can use a variant of
it during sexual intercourse, known as the Big Draw. The power
locking method is done without a partner as a daily practice exer-
cise. The method is the best for building power in the perineum to
seal the seminal fluid. The sexual energy that we deal with here is
different from the testicle breathing and scrotal compression and
it's important to learn the subtle difference.84 Taoist Secrets Of Love
In the testicle breathing you move the cold sexual energy, the
ching chi that lies in the scrotum in its yin state after production by
the testicles, up to the head and then down into the body. With the
scrotal compression exercise you force the chi energy that is pro-
duced in the organs—heart, lungs, spleen, etc.—down to mix with
the cold ching chi resting in the sexual organs. Then you move the
resulting warm energy upwards and circulate it.
In the Power Lock Exercise we arouse the sexual organ, turn-
ing the cold energy that lies in the seminal vascular duct into hot
sexual energy. This heat is generated by the movement of millions
of sperm cells. This yang energy is more explosive, harder to con-
trol, and always seeking the most direct path out to a cooler (yin)
environment. In most men the path of least resistance is out the
penis. In a Taoist master the easiest channel is up into the higher
centers of the body. But it takes a lot of practice to control the anus
muscle and the involuntary muscle around the seminal vascular
duct to reverse the flow towards the penis and to help push up the
sexual energy into the spine and upper body.
There are 4 levels of Power Lock practice:
1. Beginner: use muscles of the fist, jaw, neck, feet, perineum,
buttocks, and abdomen to divert sexual tension and block the urge
to ejaculate, and push upward the hot ching chi which created the
aroused state.
2. Intermediate stage: less muscle use of the fist, jaw, feet, and
increased reliance on the pelvic diaphragm, and sphincter, sacral,
and cranial pump to help move up the sexual energy.
3. Advanced stage: less muscle in the perineum and more use of
sacral and cranial pumps. Greater power of mind to move the ching
to the crown center. By concentrating power at the upper part of
the crown you draw the energy from the lower center to the higher
center.
4. Most advanced stage: pure mind control only, no need to use the
muscle, just use the mind power to command the penis, and com-
mand the ching energy to move up and down, to be erect or flaccid,
as you will.The Dance Of The Testes 85
DIAGRAM 19
POWER LOCK EXERCISE
Press tongue
hard
to roof of mouth
Fists
are tight
Pull in
tight on
the PenisEyes up
or to the
right
Buttocks
are squeezed
tight
around
sacrum
Toes are
clamped down
Ching Chi is stopped from escaping out the penis
& its energy is pulled up to the crown
until the penis erection subsides86 Taoist Secrets Of Love
In this exercise, you need to arouse the penis about 90% of the
way to orgasmic ejaculation. Do not go beyond the point of no
return, or you will have no sperm chi to practice with for awhile.
As you master the Power Lock you may fine tune how close you
come to ejaculation and stop at 98% or 99%. Rub the glans of the
penis until it is erect. When you have a feeling that orgasm is
imminent, stop and do the Power Locking method 3 to 9 times or
until the erection subsides. This counts as one exercise. Repeat
this procedure—stimulate penis to erection and then do the locking
until it subsides—as many as 3-9-18-36 times at a sitting.
Practice makes perfect. Once you gain control of your sexual
organs totally in this practice, you will naturally have full control in
sexual intercourse. I recommend practicing up to 10,000 times in
order to gain advanced control, although some will naturally mas-
ter it much more quickly if they have trained their mind through
yoga, meditation, or other disciplines. If you are not involved in a
program of daily physical discipline, I suggest you at least do some
warmup exercises and stretching before practicing the Power
Lock. This will tone up the energy in your organs and make it
easier to feel your internal chi energies and thus hasten your com-
mand of your sexual energy.
POWER LOCK EXERCISE: STEP BY STEP
1. Sitting position is


 join in denouncing others or catego rizing them as “evil” or
“defective.” After all, so many of the wars that currently rage on our planet
are rooted in religious hatred that perpetuates the imbalances pointed out in
this verse of the T ao Te Ching.
In the following  excerpt from the Koran, the great prophet Mohammed
tells the followers of Islam to practice compassionate action. You can use
his teaching to make a daily dif ference during your own life:
Behave beneficently towar d the neighbor
that is a kinsman and the neighbor that is
a stranger and the companion by your side.

He who behaves ill towar d his neighbor is not
a believer, nor can ever be one.

One who eats his fill while his neighbor
is hungry by his side is not a believer.

Do the T ao Now
Make a daily practice of opening your heart in compassion when you see
someone less fortunate than yourself. Give him or her a silent blessing
rather than a thought of scorn, ridicule, blame, or indifference. Do the same
when you learn how many of “them” were killed in any skirm ish—rather
than rejoicing about the dead enemies, say a silent prayer of love and
compassion.Live honorably; it “just [takes] a little sense.”
OceanofPDF.comOceanofPDF.com54th Verse
Whoever is planted in the T ao
will not be r ooted up.
Whoever embraces the T ao
will not slip away.

Generations honor generations endlessly.
Cultivated in the self, virtue is r ealized;
cultivated in the family, virtue overflows;
cultivated in the community, virtue incr eases; cultivated in the state, virtue
abounds.

The T ao is everywher e;
it has become everything.
To truly see it, see it as it is.
In a person, see it as a person;
in a family, see it as a family;
in a country, see it as a country;
in the world, see it as the world.

How do I know this is true?
By looking inside myself.
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Makes a Difference
In this verse of the Tao Te Ching, you’re invited to see your role in the
transformation of the planet. Instead of perceiving yourself as one
insignificant individual among billions of people, you’re urged to see
yourself as the Tao itself. “We Are the World” is everybody’ s theme song.
You do make a dif ference!
When you live with the joyful awareness that you potentially  have an
infinite effect on the universe, you’ll radiate Tao consciousness. You’ll be
like a wave of energy that illuminates a room—everyone will see the light
and become affected. Those who were unaware of their Tao nature will
notice the difference, and those who were aware—but not living as if their
lives mattered— will be attracted and begin changing. So recognize and live
your life as part of the Great W ay, and help bring balance into the world.
In this 54th passage, Lao-tzu is advising you to see your divinity  and revel
in your magnificence. Know that in the silent space within you, where the
Tao animates every breath and thought, your life makes a difference. The
following is what he advises in the language of the 21st century:
Choose an ar ea to concentrate on making a differ ence.
Don’ t entertain doubt about your impact on the world; instead, develop a
vision for Earth  and convince yourself that you are perfectly capable of
contributing to this vision, whether it’s grandiose or small. See a world
without hatred, disrespect, or violence; where the environm ent is respected
and cared for; and where cancer, AIDS, starvation, child abuse, weapons of
all kinds, or any other detrimental or demeaning scenarios disappear.
The anthropologist Margaret Mead addressed this idea in the following
observation: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’ s the only thing that ever has.”
Realize how much your life matters.It’s said that when a butterfly flaps its wings, that energy flows thousands
of miles away. Therefore, everything you think and do extends outward and
multiplies. Live your life knowin g that the difference you choos e to make is
toward wholeness, not destructiveness. Even if no one sees or
acknowledges it, an act of unkindness contains energy that impacts our
entire universe. And a silent blessing or thought of love toward others
contains a vibration that will be felt throughout the cosmos.
William Blake’ s vision expresses this idea:
To see a W orld in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a W ild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
Be conscious of how very much you matter to all of creation.
Do the T ao Now
Dedicate a day to extending kind thoughts and acts toward your family,
your community, your country, and the world. In your family, encourage
someone who’ s struggling with low self-esteem. In 54th Verse your
community, pick up litter and recycle it without judgment. In your country,
spend a few moments in silent prayer, sending loving energy to those who
are in positions of powe r—then do the same for the world, including any
so-called enemies.
OceanofPDF.com55th Verse
He who is in harmony with the T ao
is like a newborn child.
Deadly insects will not sting him.
Wild beasts will not attack him.
Birds of pr ey will not strike him.
Bones ar e weak, muscles ar e soft,
yet his grasp is firm.

He has not experienced the union of man and woman, but is whole.
His manhood is str ong.
He scr eams all day without becoming hoarse.
This is perfect harmony.

To know harmony is to know the changeless;
to know the changeless is to have insight.
Things in harmony with the T ao remain;
things that ar e forced gr ow for a while,
but then wither away.
This is not the T ao.
And whatever is against the T ao soon ceases to be.
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Letting Go
Perhaps you’ve observed people who seem to get all the breaks, appearing
to be impervious to the onslau ghts that wreak havoc in many  lives. For
example, do you know someon e who seldom if ever gets sick, in spite of
spending the flu season in close contact with people who are coughing and
sneezing? How about those who emer ge unscathed in the middle of a crime
spree? You might say that these lucky few seem to have guardian angels
that protect them from the provocations of the symbolic “deadly insects,”
“wild beasts,” and “birds of prey” mentioned in the opening lines of this
passage. But Lao-tzu knows that these men and women are simply in
harmony with the Tao, just as some individuals appear to have the right
people show up in their lives at the right  time, while others seem to have a
knack for making money materialize just when it’ s needed most.
Lao-tzu says that we should look to infants, who haven’ t yet taken on the
ego belief that they’re separate from their originating Source. Consequently,
they have what could be considered “magical” powers: They can scream all
day and never lose their voice like a screechin g adult would. Even with
undeveloped muscles, they can fashion a firm grip. Furthermore, babies are
pliable and virtu ally immune to harm from a fall that would break the bones
of a grown-up. All of this is called “perfect harmony” by Lao-tzu.
Verse 55 of the Tao Te Ching invites you to realize that what you call luck
isn’t something that randomly happens—it’ s yours for life when you decide
to live by letting  go. You attract the cooperative power of the Tao when you
release the need to control your life. So change your thoughts and see how
your life changes to a very fortunate one indeed.
Let go and exist in harmony with the Tao in order to build up your
immune system and be “lucky”  about resisting disease and illness. I know
that letting go for protection sounds paradoxical, and I suppos e you could
think of it like that. But try seeing it as a way of allowing life’s natural
rhythm to flow unimpeded through you. Living by letting go means
releasing worry, stress, and fear. When you promote your sense of well-being in the face of what appears as danger to others, your alignment with
your Source frees you from pushing yourself to act in a forceful manner.
Lao-tzu reminds you here that “things that are forced grow for a while, but
then wither away.”
Attain the protective nature that’s alluded to in this powerful verse, and
realize the changeless with these insights for the world you’re living in
today:
Visualize yourself as indestructible.
Activate an inner picture that will carry you through perceived dangers. In
this visualization, remove the image of your physical body and instea d see
the part of you that’s as constant as a spirit or a thought. This is your
essence, and it’s incapable of being harmed in any way. From this