aking;forreading/
writing;talking;thinking.
Thepatientmayhavetroubleseeing,withflickering
andzig-zagsappearingbeforetheeyesduringthe
pains.Thisisinfacttypicalofmigraines;these
headachesshouldalwaysbetakentoaprofessional.
Indigestion
SymptomsBelches:incomplete,ineffectual;sour;
tastingoffoodjusteaten.Mouth:tastesbitter;salty.
Pains:cramping;pressing;instomach.Withviolent
hiccups.
Worseafterearingstarchyfood.
Aftersuppressingemotionsthestomachcanbecome
'disordered',andstodgyfoodsarenolongereasily
digested.Thepatientwillburpaftereatingbutwith
difficultyandthisdoesnotrelievetheindigestion.
Mayalsohaveviolenthiccups.
120•Natrumphosphoricum (Nat-p.) INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA
Insomnia
SymptomsDreams;anxious;vivid.
Causesgrief.
Thepersonmayfinditverydifficulttogettosleep
afteralossordisappointmentandmaythenwakein
thenightandbeunabletogetbacktosleep.Mayhave
anxious,vividdreams.
Pricklyheat
WithNatrum-mur.generalandemotional/mental
symptoms.
Retentionofurine
Causespresenceofstrangers.
Canonlypassurinewhenonown.
Sorethroat
SymptomsPainsburning.Throatdry;withlump
sensation.Voicehoarse.
Canonlyswallowliquids;solidscomeupafterthey
reachacertainpointandthepersonmaychoke(may
alsochokewhendrinking).Thevoiceishoarse,and
whenswallowingthereisasensationofalumpinthe
throatwhichrisesup.Hawksupegg-whitemucus
fromthebackofthethroat.
Thrush(genital)
SymptomsDischarge:white;likeeggwhite.
Thrush(oral)
SymptomsGums/tongue:coatedwhite.
Withcharacteristicdrymouthandthirst.
Natrumphosphoricum (Nat-p.)
Othernames:phosphateofsoda;sodiumphosphate
Sodiumphosphate ismadecommercially invarious
formsbycombiningphosphoricacidandsodiumcar-
bonate.Itisusedinthemanufactureofceramics,in
fireproofingandasadetergent,inthemakingof
bakingpowder,inphotographicdevelopers,asan
emulsifyingandcleansingagentandinboiler-scale
treatment. Itemulsifiesfattyacidsandregulatesthe
productionofbileandtheabsorptionofwaterinthe
body.
Thehomeopathicremedyismadefrompurephos-
phateofsodabytrituration.GENERALSYMPTOMS
Dischargessour.Nervousexhaustion.Tongue
yellowatback.
Worseduringtheevening.
TheNatrumphosphoricumpictureisfullofsourness. It
hasbeencalledtheacidneutraliser-thesepeople
havesoursweat,stools,urine,andsoon.Ayellow-
coatedtongue(usuallythebaseonly)accompanies
nearlyallthesymptoms.Patientsareweak;theyhave
acidicdigestions,andtheymayhaveweakanklesand
coldextremities(likeNatrumcarbonicum).
EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS
Apathetic.Indifferent.
Thesepeopleareapatheticanddull,likePhosphoric
acid.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Colic
SymptomsVomitsour.
Babiessufferfromcolicwithacidity,vomitingor
curdledmilkandsour-smelling, green,watery
diarrhoea.Thisisagoodremedyforsimplecolicwith
acidity(andsourness)wheretherearenootherguid-
ingsymptomsthatwouldleadyoutoprescribe
anotherremedy.
Headache
SymptomsFacepale.Painsinforehead.
Causesmentalexertion.
Belly/stomach bloated.Indigestion
SymptomsBelchessou*
WithHEARTBURN.
Acidity,sourburpsandpainswillcomeontwohours
aftereating.Natrumphosphoricum willneutralisethis
acidity.Theheartburnofpregnancy isoftenrelieved
bytakingthisremedy.
Natrumsulphuricum (Nat-s.)
Othernames:sodiumsulphate;Glauber'ssalt
Thismineralsaltisfoundcombinedwithcalcium
sulphateinthemineralglauberite,inseawater,inthe
watersofmostsalinesprings(mineralspawaters)and
inmanysaltlakesinRussia.Itisalsofoundinthe
mineralsmirabiliteandthenardite.
INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Natrumsulphuricum(Nat-s.)•121
Sodiumsulphatewasfirstisolatedbyseventeenth-
centuryGermanchemistJohannGlauber(hencethe
nameGlauber'ssalt,andthemineralnameglauber-
ite).Hecalledthesalt'salmirabilis'andextolledits
medicinalqualitiesaswellasitspotentialforbenefitto
industry.Glauberwasinadvanceofhistimeinfore-
seeingthelikelybenefitsoftheapplicationofchem-
istrytoindustryandpublishedmanyofhisforty
publishedworkstothatend.
Commercially, thesaltisusedinthemanufactureof
certainpapers,paperboard,glass,indyeingandtan-
ningprocesses,inthemanufactureofdetergentsand
asarawmaterialfortheproductionofvariouschemi-
calsandmedicines.Medically, itisusedmainlyasa
laxativeandexternallyforinfectedwounds.
Thehomeopathicpreparation ismadefromsodium
sulphatebytrituration.
GENERALSYMPTOMS
Complaintsfromaccident/injury tothehead.Hot
flushes.Likescolddrinks.Sweatfrompain.Taste:
mouthtastesbadinthemorning;bitter.Tongue
green.
Betterforfreshair.
Worsefordamp;forhumidity;forwetweather;for
lyingdown;duringthemorning;aftereatingstarchy
food.
Thosebenefitingmostfromthisremedyareextremely
sensitivetodamp,tocoldandwet,ortohotandwet.
Theircomplaintsmayresultfromlivinginadamp
houseforalongperiodoftime.Theydislikehot,stuffy
atmospheresandalwaysfeelbetterforsomefreshair.
Theyareattheirworstinthemornings.
Natrumsulphuricum istheremedythatismostoften
neededforcomplaintsthatariseafteraheadinjury.
EMOTIONAL/MENTAL SYMPTOMS
Depressed.Jumpy.Wearyoflife.
Theseindividualsfeelconfusedanddepressed,es-
peciallyafteraheadinjury.Theybecomeutterlysick
andtiredoflife(havingbeenquitehappybeforethe
injury)andmayalsobecomeover-sensitive tonoisein
thisstate.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Backache
SymptomsPainssore,bruised.
Causesinjurytospine.
Colic
SymptomsWithindigestion(seebelow).Cough
SymptomsCoughduringthedayonly.Mucusgreen.
Worsefordamp,wetweather.
Diarrhoea
SymptomsBelly/stomach: gurgling;rumbling.
Stools:smelly;thin;watery.Wind:loud;smelly;
spluttering.
Betterforpassingwind.
Worseaftergettingup;duringthemorning;after
eatingfruit/starchyfood.
Causeseatingfruit.
Thediarrhoeamaycomeonaftereatingstarchyfood
likepotatoesandbreadorafterfruitorvegetables.The
personfeelsexhaustedafterthediarrhoea,andpasses
windwithitorwantstopassastoolbutonlymanages
topasswind.Itisworstinthemorningafterfirst
gettingupandmovingabout.
Flatulence
SymptomsWind:loud;loudduringstool;smelly.
Withdiarrhoea(seeabove);rumbling.
Betterforpassingwind.
Worseafterbreakfast.
Thereisanurgeforastoolbutonlysplutteringwindis
passed.
Headache
SymptomsEyessensitivetolight.
Causesheadinjury.
GiveafterArnicaifthatremedyhasnotworkedand
thepainsremain.
Headinjuries
Symptomsofheadache(seeabove).
IfArnicahasbeengivenforaheadinjuryandthe
swellinghassubsidedbutpainremains,orifthereare
anyothersymptomsafterabangorafall,thena
courseofNatrumsulphuricumwillclearthesesymp-
toms.Sometimessmallchildrenchangecharacterafter
abadfall,frombeingcheerfulandeasy-goingto
obnoxiousandscreamingallthetime,anditisposs-
ibletomistakethisforteethingandgiveChamomilla,to
noavail.Dobecarefulwithheadinjuries,especially
withsmallchildren,whoareaccidentprone.
Indigest


ins are made up of simple and complex phenols,
polyphenols and flavonoid compounds. These compounds are held together
by carbohydrate structures and contain variations of gallic acid. Their main
action is to bind and precipitate proteins. Tannins are common in fruits,
various herbs (teas), grass and many plants. These types of foods are used to
clean and strengthen various types of tissues within your body. However,
moderate dosages of these aggressive substances are recommended because
of their strong astringent effect. Tannins are used to clean and mature leather.
Terpenoids (Isoprenoids)
Terpenoids form the largest group of plant constituents and are particularly
found in volatile oils. They are natural products and compounds consisting of
oxygen, carbon and hydrogen. Terpenoids are derived from isoprene units
and are subdivided according to the number of carbon atoms and their
arrangements. Terpenoids are categorized into four basic groups:
1
.
Monoterpenoids/monoterpenoid lactones
2
.
Sesquiterpenoids/sesquiterpenoids lactones
3
.
Diterpenoids
4
.
Triterpenoids (largest group)
The above classes and related classes include camphor, caro tens (beta-
carotene), xanthophylls, carotenoids, terpenes, tetraterpenes, diterpenoids,
iridoids, isoprenoids, prenols, retinoids, sesterterpenoids and steroids. If they
contain nitrogen in their structure they become respective alkaloids.
Terpenoids have a multitude of functions including functional oxidation, anti-
inflammation, strengthening (tonic effects), hepatic stimulation, and catabolic
and anabolic processes. They contribute to the aroma, bitter principles,
antimicrobial (antifungal, antibacterial, etc.), antileukemic, carminative and
adaptogenic properties of a plant. They also include properties to strengthen
the heart and increase sex hormones. Terpenoids are vital in the formation of
many vitamins.MODULE 3.8
pH Factors of Foods

This section was written for those who want to have a greater understanding
of why I recommend raw fruits and vegetables. This information becomes
particularly vital if you’re concerned about strokes or blood clotting.
Knowing the meaning of alkaline and acid, and their effects upon tissue, will
help you achieve vibrant health.
The pH factor
 is the measure of a chemical solution’s acidity versus its
alkalinity, on a scale of 0 (more acidic) to 14 (more alkaline). I recommend
that you buy litmus (pH) papers, and use them to test your body’s pH factor
on a daily basis. This will help you observe firsthand the reactions that foods
have on your body’s chemistry, since the primary thesis of this book is that
alkalization is the key to tissue regeneration
.
To further understand the pH factors of foods and their relationship to
health, let’s back up a little and examine the very basics of life. This will
involve a little chemistry and physics, but will help you to better understand
the nature of things, including the processes of the body and the foods that
you eat.
First, everything in this universe is made from building materials. The
basic building materials of this universe are atoms, whereas the basic building
blocks of cells are amino acids. At first, an atom appears as a simple structure
—a nucleus (or center), made up of a proton, which is positively charged,
and, orbiting magnetically around this nucleus, a negatively-charged electron.
The number of electrons and protons that an element has will determine the
type of element that it is. Oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, etc., are the
basic elements and building materials of life. Water, for example, without
which life could not exist, is simply two hydrogen atoms combined with one
oxygen atom (H
2
0).
Creation consists of opposites, and the movement of these opposites in
relationship to each other creates electromagnetic energy. Magnetism is where
opposites attract and likes repel. (If you have ever played with two or more
magnets, you know what fun it can be to move magnets with magnets, and
attract various materials to them.) Whether you know it or not, you too are
like a magnet, attracted to the opposite of yourself. This “magnetism” helps
you learn, and brings a balance to your experience in life.Life in creation is controlled and expressed by two opposite forces, either
positive or negative in nature. This type of polarization is essential for
creation to exist. Without opposites like night and day, up and down, short or
tall, everything would be the same—God undifferentiated. Creation depends
upon these opposites to exist. You see this in your own life, as you have days
that you call “good” or positive, and other days that you consider “bad” or
negative. Yet, both of these aspects of life are essential to your experience of
growth and awareness.
An element can start out negatively charged, which is called alkaline,
creating a cationic reaction (cationic means to disperse or break apart).
Through the process of ionization (chemical magnetism) the same element
can become positively charged or anionic (acidic). Anionic means to
compound, saturate, or come together. An example of such a change from
negative (alkaline) to positive (acid) can occur with the element calcium. Plant
calcium is alkaline, and works with magnesium, sodium and potassium to
alkalize the fluids of the body. These elements are called electrolytes.
However, once in the bloodstream, they can become ionized— or attracted to
—other elements, magnetically, joining with these other elements and creating
an anionic or acidic complex. This is seen where calcium joins with
phosphorus to create calcium phosphate to form or rebuild bones, and is a
positive effect. However, this process can happen with free radicals, like
oxalates, which can then form calcium oxalate stones. This type of anionic
reaction causes inflammation and tissue damage. It is very important to
understand the meaning of acid and alkaline and their effect upon tissue, as
this will give you an overview of disease.
ACIDS AND ALKALIES

Acids are chemical compounds that always have hydrogen as part of their
make up. They have the ability to supply positively-charged hydrogen ions in
a chemical reaction. The degree of acidity is determined by the number of
hydrogen ions in the solution. Acids give protons to a substance creating a
“bonding” effect, as in bone or stone formation.
Alkalies, or what we call “bases” in chemistry, are negatively charged and are
attracted to protons.
Alkalies neutralize acids
. An example of this would be
the toxic acids created from digestion (e.g., sulfuric acid and phosphoric
acids), which are converted to non-toxic salts when combined with alkalineelectrolytes. These non-toxic salts are then passed from the body through the
kidneys. This neutralizing effect is vital because of the highly toxic and
damaging effects these acids have upon the tissues of your body.
The pH balance—
the balance of alkalies to acids
—within the body is vital,
and should be approximately 80 percent alkaline to 20 percent acidic. If we
become too acidic from diet and lifestyle, we create too much of an anionic
condition in the body, causing stone formation and inflammation. To reverse
this is to alkalize, which is cationic and anti-inflammatory. This will break
apart and liquefy calcium deposits, cellulite and lipid stones. These deposits
can form or accumulate anywhere in the body, especially in the liver,
gallbladder and kidneys. This alkalization and neutralization of acids requires
the alkaline electrolytes.
If you’re not eating a diet rich in raw fruits and
vegetables, you’re not getting enough of these vital electrolytes
. This
compounds the over-acid condition within the body and creates dehydration.
acids and alkalies
Acids burn and inflame tissues causing tissue failure.
Alkalies are cool and are anti-inflammatory to tissues.
Acids can destroy tissues (cells).
Alkalies can heal tissues.
In an acid medium, nutrients become anionic (coagulate).
In an alkaline medium, nutrients become cationic (disperse).
Acidosis creates bonding of fats, minerals, and other constituents creating
stones of all types, including liver, gallbladder and kidney stones. It also
creates the adhesion of blood cells and platelets. All this causes cellular
starvation (through lack of nutrient utilization), strokes, and the like.
Acidosis and congestion (toxicity and mucus) is the root cause of 99.9%
of all diseases.
Some foods (carbohydrates) require alkaline digestive juices to be broken
down; others (protein) require gastric acid juices.

ABOUT CATALYSTS

Nothing truly stands still. Creation is always in a state of flux. Atoms are
always moving and
changing. The question that should be asked is: “What
makes things change?” First we could say our emotions, our desires, our likesand dislikes, even the primal need or desire of God to create. You could call
this the original seed or desire of creation.
Secondly, you could say the mind, except the mind itself uses the


 and, if you hav e it, an equal amount of Dr.
Schulze’s Heart Formula  (1 part cayenne, 3 parts Hawthorn berry).
Stopping a fast heart attack when you are alone – from Alan Kaplan PhD, Professor and
Chairman of Department of Microbiology and Immunolo gy, University of KY. In such a situation
you may have only 10 seconds before losing consciou sness. Here’s what to do: Cough
repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath shoul d be taken between each cough. The
cough must be deep and prolonged. A breath and coug h must be repeated every two
seconds without let up until help arrives, or until  the heart is felt to be beating normally.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing  movements squeeze the lung and heart
and keeps the blood circulating. The squeezing pres sure also helps the heart regain normal
rhythm.
Stroke --  Immediately Consume Cayenne Tincture
Conscious:  5-10 dropperfuls directly in the mouth. Sit/lay pa tient down, loosen clothing.  Unconscious:  1-2 dropperfuls directly in the mouth. Check for p ulse and breathing.
Immediately begin C.P.R.
In 5 Minutes:  For both, repeat cayenne dosage in 5 minutes, and,  if you have it, an equal
amount of Dr. Schulze’s Brain Tonic Formula (1 part cayenne, 3 parts Ginkgo Biloba leaf, 1
part Rosemary optional, Any part of the plant above  the ground 1 part Kola Nut optional. To
make formulas, see Video 2).
Sam Biser’s Note on Severe Migraines: The brain formula for strokes can also be used for
“killer” migraine headaches. Take 6-10 dropperfuls at once. If brain circulation  is constricted,
holding blood in the skull, lobelia tincture instea d may cause the spasm to let go. Also, 3-4
glasses of water at once with a pinch of salt may c ause some headaches to back off.
Bleeding --  Immediately consume cayenne tincture using the abo ve conscious and unconscious
dosages. Immediately liberally flush wound with cay enne tincture or pack with cayenne
powder. Apply pressure to the wound or use arterial  pressure.
Burns -- Smother the fire on any burning people with a blank et. Remove any smoldering or
burning clothing. Flush the burn with ice water or ice wrapped in damp towels. Keep the ice
and water on for 10 minutes. Use the cayenne tinctu re orally to help with shock. Use lobelia
tincture 15 minutes, or if you can’t wait, a few mi nutes later, to help relax and ease the pain.
Apply liberal slabs of fresh leaf aloe vera gel dir ectly to the burnt skin, immediately. Hurry,
seconds count when getting this aloe gel to the ski n..
Poisoning -- Call the NATIONAL POISON CONTROL CENTER IMMEDIATELY. Your local poison
control center is listed in most telephone book eme rgency sections.
Food Poisoning -- If detected early enough by that bad queasy feeling, it is best to vomit the
food out. Drink 2 quarts of warm water with a littl e lemon juice in it. Put your fingers down
your throat and tickle your uvula. After you vomit,  or if its been too long since the meal, to
absorb the poison or bacteria, drink 8 ounces of li quid with 1 heaping teaspoon of Intestinal
Formula #2 or at least charcoal. Repeat 2-3 more ti mes.
Emergency Notes: Call 911. Get help on its way. Sta rt accepted life-saving measures, such as
C.P.R., pressure for arterial bleeding, etc. In my opinion though, CPR is 100 times more
effective when you use cayenne tincture first. And before emergencies happen, go to your
local Red Cross and learn all types of resuscitatio n including CPR, drowning, Dr. Heimlich’s
maneuver, pressure points to stop/control bleeding,  etc.
Take Cayenne Yourself --  In any emergency, someone’s life may be in your ha nds. You need to
be alert and conscious. I have seen many helpers be come the victims because they passed out
or choked on their own vomit. Take dropperfuls of c ayenne tincture yourself, all during the
emergency—until the crisis is over.
Giving Tincture Orally to an Unconscious Person -- Dr. Schulze has been in many emergency
and crisis situation and has given tinctures on num erous occasions to unconscious people. You
certainly do not want to choke or drown them, but a  few drops to a dropperful of tincture is
readily absorbed in the mouth and is no danger to s omeone who is unconscious. Even if they
gag a little, you are saving their life!
Stopped Breathing -- Immediately check airway and pulse. Start resuscita tion. Use cayenne
tincture to help revive using similar dosages as un der heart attack. Use lobelia tincture to help
person breathe easier and open up their airway. Con scious: 2-10 dropperfuls of lobelia tincture. Unconscious 1-2 dropperfuls of lobelia ti ncure in mouth. An overdose may cause
harmless vomiting and sweating. In 5 Minutes: Repea t cayenne or lobelia dosages.
Choking --  Immediately check airway. Begin Heimlich maneuver.  Use lobelia tincture (above
dosages) to make it easier to breathe, catch breath  and relax.
Drowning --  Immediately begin first aid treatment for drowning. Use cayenne tincture to help
revive. Use lobelia tincture to aid in breathing.
Smoke Inhalation -- Immediately begin first aid treatment for smoke inh alation. Use cayenne
tincture to help revive if person is unconscious or  barely conscious. Use lobelia tincture to aid
in breathing if the person is conscious, but their main problem is inability to breathe. You may
alternate between cayenne and lobelia every five mi nutes.
KIDNEY HERBS
Juniper Berries, Parsley, Uva Ursi leaf, and Corn s ilk – wonderful for kidneys. The juniper
berries should be blue to purple in color, and when  chewed or squashed smell like gin. Many
berries sold are brown and dried up – these will be  neither diuretic or disinfectant. Diurectic
(makes you pee) and Urinary Disinfectant (destroy b acteria in kidneys and bladder).
KIDNEY DOSAGE INTERNAL --  Take one tablespoon of juniper berries for every 2 0 ounces
water. Crush the berries, and simmer for 15 minutes, and you end up with 16 ounces of tea.
Take 3-4 times per day in an emergency.
REFLEXOLOGY for KIDNEYS --  Also when there are kidney stones or difficulty ur inating, or a
blocked gall bladder, use foot reflexology. Work th e bottom of the foot real hard. Forget about
locating special points, work the entire bottom of the foot. This promotes the flow of
downward energy and can unblock whatever is blocked  in the elimination channels.
DR. SCHULZE’S KIDNEY/BLADDER TONIC FORMULA: Uva Ursi leaf 20%; Juniper Berry 40%; Corn
Silk 20%; Horsetail herb 5%; Burdock root and seed 10%; Goldenrod Flowers 5%.
EMERGENCY INTERNAL DOSAGE FOR TINCTURE:
5-10 dropperfuls of the Kidney/Bladder Tonic, or ma ke strong juniper berry tea. Do the kidney
and bladder flush, then 5 minutes later drink two c ups of Kidney/Bladder Tea (formula below).
Kidney/Bladder Flush:
Juice of one lemon and one lime, 16 to 32 ounces of  distilled water, a pinch of cayenne
pepper, and maple syrup to taste (optional).
Juniper Berry Tea Recipe:
Use 2 quarts filtered water, one-third cup juniper berries (crushed in a ziplock bag with a
rubber hammer), Steep (don’t boil) for one hour jus t below the simmering point. Results, a
clear, dar-red, good-tasting tea. Don’t rush it.
Please note that Dr. John Christopher had tremendou s results with edema by using juniper
berries. Edema can also be cured with cayenne. A ge ntleman taking 1/16 th  teaspoonful three
times/day in drink or food – in 2 weeks lost 14 lbs  of water/edema.  Blocked urination cured by cayenne. A 24-year-old boy had Nephrotic Syndrome (since 1 5 –
condition where your kidneys spill protein out, and  barely any liquids remain in your kidneys
and your body swells up). He’d been hospitalized ov er 30 times. The medicine and diuretics
prescribed weren’t working and he


detoxification program and that you tell your dentist to apply a lot of suction during  the
removal process, reducing the concentration of mercury vapors.

Note, that it may take a considerable amount of time for your body to neutralize and
excrete the mercury that has accumulated in your body for years.

  43  Some Unusual effects of detoxification

Your mind-body system remembers every damage you did to it in the days gone by. If
some healing in the past has not been perfect, because of other emergencies in your
body (and mind), some of the damage remains un repaired.

When you purify your body and mind, resources within your body become available
enabling repairs which are long overdue.

The effect of this can be quite amazing. Many people on various detoxification
programs (oxygen therapies, fasting) observe symptoms of their past diseases i n quick
succession and in reverse order. Basically, you can expect to re-live every s erious
disease you experienced in the past. Don’t be frightened. This is  healing. Your body is
just fixing things which are long overdue. Symptoms are usually very mild, and they
last only an hour or two. Many active people do not even notice such symptoms,
because they are so mild.

I would like to give you just one example drawn from my own personal experience. At
the age of 7 I had a severe ear infection, which was very painful, took a long time to
heal and doctors injects me with lots of antibiotics. At the age of 42, during fasting I
experienced the symptoms of this disease, accurate in every minute detail. I  was
astonished, because the situation was restored so perfectly, that I remembe red not only
my feelings from childhood but also the taste and even the smell of the antibiotics  I
took at that time. The experience lasted only for a few hours.

  44  Diet- minimizing the intake of toxins

We have discovered the ultimate reason for all diseases : poisoning of our body beyond
its capacity to purify itself.

Nearly 100% of such poisoning comes from our diet. We basically poison ourselves,
simply because we do not care about what we eat.

In the view of above, our diet required a basic revision.

The wisdom of many ancient civilizations in the past was expressed in their diet. Two
key items in the diet are common for all civilizations without exception, from anci ent
India to modern Georgia:

1.  PURE AIR
2.  PURE WATER (from the spring)

I have not heard anyone objecting to this. However, the word to which we should pay
special attention is pure

Unfortunately, the criteria for purity have become quite arbitrary nowadays. The
prevailing doctrine is, that there is a threshold of pollution in the water, which is
acceptable and safe  for humans to consume. Medical Authorities generally accept and
recommend the chemical treatment of water, leaving chlorine and other chemica ls in it.
Poisons are added (fluoride), in the name of sterilization and safety supply, despite  the
fact that their toxicity is beyond doubt, and they accumulate in our boy causing chronic
diseases (arthritis). Municipal water also contains heavy metals fro pi pes, pumps etc.,
traces of herbicides, pesticides and other levels of such ingredients in our wate r from
the relevant authorities. They would prefer that we do not know and believe that the
water is OK.

Do not consume such water. Do not use it for tea, soup on even cooking. Use water
obtained from natural springs. Alternatively, filter the municipal water yourself. Do not
use chemical filters. They may initially work, but eventually they may l eave even more
chemicals in the water you drink. The best are multi-stage paper and active carbon
filters, with the final stage that uses a reverse osmosis ceramic membrane. The process
of reverse osmosis imitates the function of a natural spring: water runs over a s tone
(ceramic element) and minute quantities filter slowly through. For home insta llation,
the rate is quite slow: about half a liter per hour. There are systems avai lable, which
store about 10 liters of filtered water under light pressure, ready for immedia te use.

Note, that most of the beverages, including fruit juices from concentrates, conta in
municipal tap water. It would be much better if you squeezed the juice yourself f rom
fresh fruits, or brought the frozen concentrate and diluted yourself with spring or
filtered water.
  45  Even if you do not plan to change anything else in your diet, for social, business or
other reasons, improve the quality of water you drink. Drink at least 2 or 3 liters of it
every day.

The latest research indicates that it is not only the purity of water that is i mportant, but
also its molecular structure. To be particular, a 20 molecule liquid crystal  water
structure, first predicted by a Nobel Prize laureate Linus Pauling in his f amous book
The hydrogen Bond seems to be very important. Such structures are formed by a
phenomenon known as “hydrophobic hydration” and cause changes in the surface
tension, heat capacity and other properties of the water. Water liquid crysta ls occur
naturally in some spring water high in the mountains, and are also formed in water
inside living cells. Water impurities practically eliminate any trac e of water liquid
crystals. (For more details, see the article by Flanagans, listed in t he References)

Note, that nearly every civilization in the past had tales related to “livin g water”, which
was to be found only in inaccessible locations high in the mountains. In view of the
current scientific research (Flanagans) it is quite possible, that such tales  are based on
real experiences.

Seek fresh air as much as possible. Even if you live in the city, and you are forc ed to
breathe polluted air, make an effort to go to the country, forest or at least to a pa rk as
often as possible. Trees and other plants purify the air for us there. Use the ozone
generating lamp to purify the air in your home, if the air outside worse than insi de. You
can leave the lamp on when you are away.

With regards to other ingredients of the diet, again there is remarkable agreem ent found
in wisdom of many civilizations. They all agree, that we should eat PURE FRESH
FOOD. Note for example, that “kosher” means “pure” in Hebrew. (Be careful  here: the
modern definition of “kosher” food should be carefully examined, because it most
likely has lost its exact meaning over the centuries. Similarly to fasti ng in other
countries)

Again the emphasis should be on purity. The best foods from such a point of view are
fresh fruits and vegetables. Even if grown in quite polluted environment, fruits
accumulate very little pollutants. They are created from simple inorgani c compounds
with the aid of photosynthesis. Their content is mostly water.

If you do not believe in the purity of the food you buy, grow it yourself. Instead of
growing flowers at home, grow tomatoes, cucumbers and strawberries or other  foods
and vegetables you favor. Use the technique known today as “hydroponics”, known for
centuries, used for example to create the famous “Gardens of Eden” in the middle  of a
dry land, considered to be one of the 10 wonders of the world. In this technique no soil
is used, and the roots of the plant are washed in an optimal solution of natural mineral
salts. Do not be frightened, if you have to buy these salts in concentrated form, they
will be diluted to imitate natural concentrations. Hydroponic plants grow 2 to 4 times
faster than similar plants left in soil, because we care to provide an optimal f ood supply
for them. Automatic, simple to use hydroponic systems are available today, requi ring  46  no more attention than would a fish tank. (See for example the book by Howard M
Resh listed in References).

Now, we know what is best to eat. The question we can ask is: what foods are
dangerous to eat and why?

I have already demonstrated the devastating effects of solvents and other pois ons
emerging our body. No one who understands the consequences of poisoning should
ignore such warnings.

It is quite clear, that we should avoid containing colors, flavors and other food extracts.
Not because of extracts themselves, but because of dangerous solvents used to extr act
them. These solvents (benzene, various alcohols etc...) are directly responsible for mos t
of the incurable diseases of 20-th century including cancer, AIDS and Alzheimer
disease, just to mention a few.

Your body has a limited capacity to process solvents and alcohols. We seem to recover
quite well from alcohol (ethanol) poisoning for example. Note, however, that such
recovery takes time, during which you have the solvent (alcohol) present in your body,
effectively assisting your parasite friends in their activities.

We should not limit our attention to food. Note, that our skin can also absorb poisons
from the environment. For that reason, we should also examine all products


 we all grow up coming to this
conclusion—deprive us of our money, our jobs, our relationships, and our
quotient of happiness drops dramatically. Likewise we don’t like to have
our stimulus be out of control. Babies have been sat in front of screens that
flash pretty pictures, which they can make come and go by pulling a string.
Having this kind of control is very pleasing. But if the pictures come and go
at random, the same happiness doesn’ t result. Worse still, if the baby pulls
the string and nothing happens  on the screen, he will be very unhappy.
Again, this is a lesson we all learn—random events in our lives, or people
who do not prove predictable, undermine our sense of control, leading to
unhappiness.What all this amounts to is that the word happiness  too often means
“pleasure response.” All response depends upon stimulus, just as sexual
pleasure depend s upon being aroused and stimulated. This undeniable fact
leads countless people to panic when their source of pleasure vanishes.
Those of us who bounce from one failed marriage to another exhibit in full-
blown form this craving for stimulus. But any desire to keep things smooth,
predictable, and comforting has the same shadow hanging over it. There can
be no sense of security in your existence when it depends upon outside
factors, for the unpredictable changes of reality can never be controlled.
The solution is to find a source of happiness beyond pleasu re, since
pleasure seeking  can never be made independent of outside stimulus. As
long as love is pleasure, its end—a sad tapering off into indifference and
inertia—is predictable. Recently this argument has gained supp ort from an
unexpected quarter. Biochemi cal research has isolated certain brain
chemicals associated with pleasure, particularly the neurotransmitter
serotonin. A high level of serotonin is typical of someone who feels a sense
of well-being; insuf ficient levels of serotonin have long been correlated
with depression. Related studies have isolated the left frontal lobes of the
cortex as a site of increased activity whenever someone feels happy.
The obvious conclusion is that stimulus to the brain is the same as
happiness. Unfortunately, this is not accurate, because stimulus wears out.
Over time our responses weaken if the same stimulus keeps getting
repeated. The taste that was once so sweet grows stale and cloyi ng; the face
that once enchanted becomes ordinary; the most exciting vision becomes
just part of the scenery.
It is all-important to found our happiness upon a basis that doesn’ t
change. Compared with pleasure, love is abstract. If you took away the
pleasant feelings  associated with it, most people would be hard-pressed to
define the experience of love. But love has a power to heal, to reveal divine
essence, to restore faith in one’s own Being, to bring harmony to all levels
of existence—an d all these effects lie far beyond feelings. They are tangible
results based on spirit.
In our society the more tangible something is, the more likely we are to
have faith in it. Fortunately, for all that love is abstract, scienti fic research
confirms that it is as dramatic  and potent as medicine, both when it is
present and when it is withdrawn.Love aids recovery. Studies conducted in hospital cardiac units have
demonstrated that male patients who respond positively to the question “Do
you feel loved?” are more likely to recover than those who do not, and the
correlation between recovery and this response is higher than that for any
other category, including previous physical status. In other words, an
unloved man in good physical condition afflicted with a mild heart attack
may recover more poorly than another man with a severe heart  attack who
feels loved. For residents of retirement homes, having a pet to love (or even
a plant to tend to every day) reduces disease and depression. Old people
perceive having an object of love as restoring their purpose in life.
Love promotes growth. Very young children from abusive homes may
exhibit a condition of retarde d or severely stunted growth known as
psychosocial dwarfism. Besides being small and underweight for their age,
such children frequently manifest underdeveloped emotions and learning
skills. Rapid reversal of this condition can often occur, however, as soon as
a loving environment is provided.
Love provides homeostatic balance. No one has definitively proven that
feeling loved lowers blood pressure or prevents cancer and heart disease,
although it is well documented that negative conditions associate d with lack
of love, such as chronic anger or depression, put people at much  higher risk
for all types of disease.
One indication of love’ s ability to bring the body into balance was
provided by a study in which subjects were asked to watch a film about
Mother Teresa as she went about her work in India. In the film she
embraces children in terribly wasted conditions, usually children afflicted
with leprosy. Just the sight of this loving act raised certain chemical
indicators of enhanced immune responses. This dramatic effect occurred
even if the viewer did not agree with Mother Teresa’ s vocation—it was not,
in other words, a matter of subjectively feeling good. According to folk
wisdom, falling in love is the best way not to catch colds in the winter,
indicating that the immune benefits of love were recognized long before
medical research came along to validate them.
Finally, a breakthrough study from Stanford on recovery from breast
cancer indicated that women who were in advanced stages of the disease
lived longer if they participated  in group therapy sessions once  a week, as
compared with those who received only normal courses of chemical andsurgical treatme nt. There were no intensive psychological techniques
applied here—the group shared their feelings and supported one another in
their struggle against cancer. These simple acts of love were provably
effective, yet the study undersco res how meager one hour of therapy a week
really is. Could love on a more intensive scale provide even more healing?
The answer to this question does not await more medical study; it can be
verified by each of us in our own lives. Healing  is a broad term; being
connected to both whole  and holy, it can be define d spiritually as a return to
the state of unity. Love is not separate from anything in life; it is not divided
into mom ents of love or levels of love or amounts or absence of love. These
are our relative terms, our mere glimpses of a force that remain s intact and
whole. On the spiritual path, or sadhana, the experience of love brings
healing that is not directed to one disease or another but to the state of the
whole person; therefore each of us will experience its ef fects dif ferently.
Because sadhana can sound very lofty and abstract, it’s easier for science
to look at people who are lonely, depressed, and sick than to investigate
subtler working s of the self. But if we look at the following features of
people who can live a love story, we see how far they have evolved beyond
the norm.
They have learned to separate their actions fr om their belief that they ar e lovable.
Since we all started out as child ren who were weaker and less powerful
than adults, it was only natural for us to try to act in such a way that we
wouldn’ t be hurt. Being hurt is usually a matter of power. The powerless are
in no position to offend or antagonize the powerful. This reality was
brought home to us on the playground a long time ago, and its holdover
habit is trying to be nice. Being nice, we expect niceness in return. By
placating someo ne who threatens us, we hope to ward off aggre ssion. In the
name of not being hurt we stay in a defensive posture.
People who base their lives upon  love, though, have taught themselves to
separate this whole pattern of behavior from love. Love doesn’ t come from
placating potential threats. Bein g nice all the time won’ t cause others to
love you; when they are stated  in black and white this way, most of us
would agree with these assertions. Yet the imprint of the past is deep, andunconsciously we still act like powerless children. Learning to grow out of
this pattern is a common trait of people who live their own love stories.
They can give on all levels.
It has become a truism that to receive love we must give love. This
reciprocal action keeps the flow of love alive. Without it love would
stagnate. Learni ng to give runs contrary to some very deep conditioning
that we all carry around inside, however. We have all learned to hold on to a
good thing. Letting go of anything precious is hard. Loving people have
taught themselv es that holding on is possessiveness. Anyone who has ever
been trapped in a possessive relationship knows its smotherin g effect. It
isn’t love when another person cannot give you the space to live your own
life.
Giving space isn’t simple. You must be willing to allow another person
their whole being. You must give permission for someone else’s ideas,
feelings, reactio ns, and will to be expressed freely. People who have taught
themselves to give on all levels have discovered a critical ingredient of
living their love stories.
They don’ t expect anything in r eturn for being good.
We all make a connection between love and goodness. Attraction is based
on the assumpti on that another person has something good to bring into
your


 this means you induce the subconscious to accept th e
idea, and a healing follows.
• The thank-you  technique
In the Bible, Paul recommends that we make known our requests
with praise and thanksgiving. Some extraordinary re-sults fo llow this
simple method of prayer. The thankful heart is always close to the
creative forces of the universe, causing count-less blessings  to flow
toward it by the law of reciprocal relation-ship, based on a  cosmic law
of action and reaction.
For instance, a father promises his son a car for gradua-tion; the  boy
has not yet received the car, but he is very thank-ful and happy, a nd is
as joyous as though he had actually re-ceived the car. He knows hi s
father will fulfill his promise, and he is full of grati tude and joy even
though he has not yet received the car, objectively speaking. He has,
however, received it with joy and thankfulness in his mind.
I shall illustrate how Mr. Broke applied this technique with
excellent results. He said, “Bills are piling up, I am out of work, I have
three children and no money. What shall I do?” Regularly every nig ht
and morning, for a period of about three weeks, he repeated the words,
“Thank you, Father, for my wealth,” in a relaxed, peaceful manne r
until the feeling or mood of thankful-ness dominated his mind. He
imagined he was addressing the infinite power and intelligence within
him knowing, of course, that he could not see the creative inte lligence
or infinite mind. He was seeing with the inner eye of spiri tual
perception, realiz-ing that his thought-image of wealth was t he first
cause, relative to the money, position, and food he needed. His
thought feeling was the substance of wealth untrammeled by
 79 antecedent conditions of any kind. By repeating, “Thank you, Father,”
over and over again, his mind and heart were lifted up to the poi nt of
acceptance, and when fear, thoughts of lack, poverty, and dis-tress
came into his mind, he would say, “Thank you, Father,” as often as
necessary. He knew that as he kept up the thankful attitude h e would
recondition his mind to the idea of wealth, which is what happened.
The sequel to his prayer is very interesting. After prayi ng in the
abovementioned manner, he met a former employer of his on the
street whom he had not seen for twenty years. The man offered him a
very lucrative position and advanced him $500 on a temporary loan.
Today, Mr. Broke is vicepresident of the company for which he
works. His recent remark to me was, “I shall never forget  the wonders
of ‘Thank you, Father.’ It has worked wonders for me.”
• The affirmative method
The effectiveness of an affirmation is determined largely by  your
understanding of the truth and the meaning back of the words, ³In
praying use not vain repetition.´ Therefore, the power of your
affirmation lies in the intelligent application of defin ite and specific
positives. For example, a boy adds three and three and puts down
seven on the blackboard. The teacher affirms with mathematic al
certainty that three and three are six; there-fore, the boy changes his
figures accordingly. The teacher’s statement did not make thre e and
three equal six because the latter was already a mathemati cal truth.
The mathematical truth caused the boy to rearrange the figures  on the
blackboard. It is abnormal to be sick; it is normal to be healthy. Health
is the truth of your being. When you affirm health, harmony, and
peace for yourself or another, and when you realize these are unive rsal
principles of your own being, you will rearrange the negative patterns
of your subconscious mind based on your faith and understanding of
that which you affirm.
The result of the affirmative process of prayer depends on y our
conforming to the principles of life, regardless of appear-a nces.
 80  Consider for a moment that there is a principle of mathem atics and
none of error; there is a principle of truth but none of dishonesty.
There is a principle of intelligence but none of ignorance; there is a
principle of harmony and none of discord. There is a principle o f
health but none of disease, and there is a principle of abundance  but
none of poverty.
The affirmative method was chosen by the author for use on his
sister who was to be operated on for the removal of gall-stone s in a
hospital in England. The condition described was based on the
diagnosis of hospital tests and the usual X-ray pro-cedures. She asked
me to pray for her. We were separated geographically about  6,500
miles, but there is no time or space in the mind principle. Infinite mind
or intelligence is present in its entirety at every point simulta neously. I
withdrew all thought from the contemplation of symptoms and from
the corporeal personality altogether. I affirmed as follows : “This
prayer is for my sister Catherine. She is relaxed and at p eace, poised,
balanced, serene, and calm. The healing intelligence of her sub -
conscious mind, which created her body, is now transforming every
cell, nerve, tissue, muscle, and bone of her being according to t he
perfect pattern of all organs lodged in her subconscious mind. Silently,
quietly, all distorted thought patterns in her sub-conscious mind ar e
removed and dissolved, and the vitality, wholeness, and beauty of th e
life principle are made manifest in every atom of her being. She is
now open and receptive to the healing currents, which are flowing
through her like a river, restoring her to perfect health, harm ony, and
peace. All dis-tortions and ugly images are now washed away b y the
infinite ocean of love and peace flowing through her, and it is so.”
I affirmed the above several times a day, and at the end of  two
weeks my sister had an examination, which showed a re-markabl e
healing, and the X ray, proved negative.
To affirm is to state that it is so, and as you maintain this attitude of
mind as true, regardless of all evidence to the con-trary, you will
receive an answer to your prayer. Your thought can only affirm, for
 81  even if you deny something, you are actually affirming the presence of
what you deny.
Repeating an affirma-tion, knowing what you are saying and why
you are saying it, leads the mind to that state of consciousness where it
accepts that which you state as true. Keep on affirming t he truths of
life until you get the subconscious reaction, which satisfies.
• The argumentative method
This method is just what the word implies. It stems from the
procedure of Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of Maine. Dr. Quimby, a
pioneer in mental and spiritual healing, lived and practiced in B elfast,
Maine, about one hundred years ago. A book called The Quimby
Manuscripts, published in 1921 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company,
New York City, and edited by Horatio Dresser, is available i n your
library. This book gives newspaper accounts of this man’s remarkable
results in prayer treatment of the sick.
Quimby duplicated many of the healing miracles recorded in the
Bible. In brief, the argumentative method employed according  to
Quimby consists of spiritual reasoning where you convince the patie nt
and yourself that his sickness is due to his false belief, ground less
fears, and negative patterns lodged in his subconscious mind. You
reason it out clearly in your mind and convince your patient tha t the
disease or ailment is due only to a distorted, twisted patte rn of
thought, which has taken form in his body. This wrong belief in some
external power and external causes has now externalized itself  as
sickness, and can be changed by changing the thought patterns.
You explain to the sick person that the basis of all heali ng is a
change of belief. You also point out that the subconscious mind
created the body and all its organs; therefore, it knows how t o heal it,
can heal it, and is doing so now as you speak. You argue in the
courtroom of your mind that the disease is a shadow of the mind based
on disease-soaked, morbid thought-imagery.
You continue to build up all the evidence you can muster on behal f
of the healing power within, which created all the organs in the  first
 82  place, and which has a perfect pattern of every cell, nerve, and tissue
within it. Then, you render a verdict in the courthouse of your mind i n
favor of yourself or your patient. You liberate the sick one by faith
and spiritual understanding. Your mental and spiritual evidence is
overwhelming; they’re being but one mind, what you feel as true w ill
be resurrected in the experience of the patient. This pro cedure is
essentially the argumentative method used by Dr. Quimby of Main e
from 1849 to 1869.
• The


 will produce very good results for those afflicted with bowel disturbances.

THE FUNCTIONING OF THE BOWEL
We have to stop and think tha t when we eat there is peristaltic action in the bowel which moves the food down to the last part of
our elimination system, the large colon. Whenever we have three meals a day and a bowel movement once in five days, we’re
fifteen meals behind. Normally it  takes eighteen hours for food to go through the body and be eliminated. What is required to
move it along on time? Good bowel tone gives the power to the intestinal tract to move waste materials properly through the
system. If we don’t have good bowel ton e, we have to have an inciting measure, and one way of doing this is by using laxatives.
But we find that 95% of all laxatives are irritating to the bowel, and this is what forces the peristaltic action. It is caus ed by
irritation. Wouldn’t it be better to  have a bowel that could move along because you have the right power and bowel tone?
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a bowel wall that has all the potassium and all the right chemical elements to work normally?

We find there are other factors involved here, s uch as the liver activity. We have to have enough bile coming from the gall bladder
and the liver to give the bowel its natural incentive to produce bowel movements. The bowel is dependent upon other organs to o.
There is also the thyroid gland which is imp ortant to the body’s metabolism. The thyroid regulates a number of organ functions
and keeps them normal by releasing thyroxin into the body. The adrenal glands may be underactive. A person can feel so tired and
fatigued that he won’t exercise. You have to  feel lively to move and get going. An underactive thyroid can bring on low blood
pressure and anemia can keep us from a healthy level of physical activity. If the blood is anemic, the body tissue is anemic and
cannot do its job. We are tired “all over,” s o to speak.

CLEANING UP THE PAST
Above all, we now have to make amends for some of the things that happened in the past. I think accumulations in the bowel ha ve
to be looked after. The bowel is underactive. It hasn’t been fed properly. The bowel itself is  probably the most abused organ in the
human body. The reason I say this is if you ever go through a cleansing program, you will see things you’ll find hard to beli eve.
You don’t realize what can come out of the bowel. After just one cleansing treatment, I ’ve seen as much as three gallons of hard
toxic material come from a person. How is it possible? I know, for instance, of one woman who said she had five bowel
movements a day; but after she passed away, it was found that there was only room enough for a p encil to pass through
parts of her bowel. Her bowel was 9 inches across. We found that it had an extreme accumulation of hard toxic material encrus ted
on the bowel lining. Constipation is a serious menace to health and vitality as I have discussed with yo u. The consequences of this
common but subtle malady are becoming more and more prevalent in our society. It is a root cause for many troubles in the bod y.
It is also a symptom of a larger picture that many doctors haven’t taken into consideration as yet. The following illustrations show
how food moves through the gastrointestinal tract in a 24 -hour period and what happens when the bowel doesn’t eliminate on time:

CHAPTER 5
IMBALANCES OF THE LARGE INTESTINE
Structural, functional and metabolic imbalances of the colon are manifested in various forms. We will mention a few of the more
common abnormalities of the colon to illustrate the effects of autointoxication and constipation. These are: adhesions, ballo oning,
colitis, diverticulitis, mucosal dysfunction, spastic bowel, strictures and ulceration. Adhesions in the colon are caused by
inflammations and irritations to the bowel wall. When the mucus membrane breaks down, tissue becomes exposed, open and
irritated. The raw surfaces begin to stick to gether as the result of glue -like substance secreted from the tissue. This is a serious
condition and requires delicate treatment to correct. Ballooning of the colon occurs as a consequence of backed up feces. For
various reasons, feces can accumulate and stretch the bowel wall into enormous proportions. This often occurs in the sigmoid
colon as the result of a narrowing of the bowel lumen below the ballooning. This narrowing can be caused by adhesions, spasm or
colic conditions. When this occurs, constipat ion can become quite severe and painful and has a damaging effect upon the bowel
structure and function. Colitis is an irritable bowel condition that is highly associated with Psychological distress. Few pe ople truly
realize the benefits of a calm and peac eful lifestyle. They are often unaware of the mind’s ability to sink into the body’s
functioning ability and upset normal tissue activities. Fear, anger, depression, stress, tension, worries and obsessions can all upset
delicate processes in the body, and in particular, those of digestion and elimination. Sometimes what we need is a good cerebral
laxative to rid the mind of emotional autointoxication and constipation. Diverticular disease of the colon is occurring at an  ever-
increasing rate. It is a serious  bowel disturbance leading to many difficulties and must be avoided. When the diet is lacking in bulk
or fiber, the colonic muscle must work extremely hard to force feces through the organ. Where there is weakness in muscle fib ers a
hernia occurs, producin g a small pouch or sac -like protrudence in the tissue. It looks like a blister on the side of a tire where the air
is forcing its way to the surface through a weak spot in the tire wall. These sacs, or diverticula, are blind in one end. The refore
feces acc umulate within them and hold morbid matter in which a variety of very unfavorable organisms can begin to breed.
They become sources of infection, inflammation and degenerative conditions. They are also the host for the production of
powerful toxins, adding  to an already over -burdened and toxic body. I have seen X -rays of the colon in which there were 142 of
these little sacs on one bowel. When these diverticula become inflamed and irritated, we have a case of diverticulitis. Shoul d any
one of these festerin g sacs produce a rupture, then we have a grave situation in which life is threatened by the release of these very
poisonous substances into the abdominal cavity of the body where infection can spread quite rapidly.

Mucosal dysfunction occurs when the inte stinal mucus lining becomes stagnant and putrefactive. It begins to develop many
unfavorable conditions. No longer does it serve the function of facilitating elimination of fecal material. Instead it degene rates in
several ways. It can become abcessed, in which case irritations, abrasions, ulcerations and bleeding can occur. Food passage
can be very painful. Mucus can dehydrate and accumulate due to increased viscid consistency. This causes layer upon layer to be
built up until extreme constipation occurs. This old material becomes a source of infection and toxic absorption, holding many
otherwise excreted products. It also greatly inhibits the absorption of nutrients and water, adding to nutritional crisis. A spastic
bowel is often associated with colitis. The point I want to stress is that when bowel muscle or any muscle is overworked, tense and
not given an opportunity to rest, it will go into a spasm. Muscle spasm is a chronic tightening of the fibers due to hyperact ivity in
the nerve impulses controlling  muscle action. The symptoms frequently manifest as constipation, alternating with diarrhea. Mental
and emotional stresses are high on the list of contributing factors, coupled with chronic toxemia and poor diet.

A stricture of the bowel usually occurs af ter an inflammatory disease such as colitis has damaged the tissue. It is a chronic
narrowing of the passageway that often results in a backup of feces that are unable to pass through. The feces accumulate in front
of the stricture, causing ballooning, whi le the segment just past the stricture collapses. Ulceration of the bowel occurs due to
irritations, abrasions, infections and toxic concentrations settling in or on muscle tissue. This results in open sores, blee ding and
much pain as is common in hemorrho ids, etc. The sigmoid and rectum are the sites for most of these troubles. Again,
autointoxication and constipation are the root causes.

THE FOLLOWING DRAWINGS ILLUSTRATE THE VARIOUS ABNORMAL SHAPES OF THE BOWEL IN COMPARISON
TO A NORMAL BOWEL.

There should be no doubt about the relation between health of the intestinal tract and health in the rest of the body. Intest inal
management probably is the most important thing a person can learn in a health -building routine. Some of the most important
functions of life take place in the intestines. Through it worn out cells are eliminated and new cell structures have their be ginning.

At the Battle Creek Sanitarium I heard Dr.


Mootra by R.M. Patel  GOUT  “I suffered from pleurisy, gout and stiffening of the vertebral column (spondylitis); whitish grey phlegm, frothy in appearance was produced in large quantities. As soon as I would leave my usual work, lesion would start. Such was my condition since 1952.From 15-5-58 to 21-5-58 I rubbed my whole body with urine and from L2-5-58 I started drinking urine and continued it up to 27-5-58 along with fasting. During this treatment, heat eruptions appeared on the whole body, but as I knew that it was only a reaction due to this treatment, I did not get alarmed. Within a short time, the eruptions subsided of their own accord. Rubbing and drinking of urine produced a wonderful effect. On the last day of my fast and the later two days, i.e. 30th & 31st, urine was tasteless like distilled water. The trouble of phlegm disappeared on the very first day of taking urine. Cold and pain in the ribs also vanished. I could sleep in the nights without covering myself because there was no trace of cold, phlegm and pleurisy. Gout and stiffness (spondyalitis) also became extremely mild. Stiffness in my neck also disappeared and it became flexible again. The skin became responsive, tender and healthy. In brief urine treatment gave me excellent and unique results. Still I occasionally drink and rub urine and my health is maintained normally.”  Manav Mootra by R.M. Patel  GRANULAR CONJUNCTIVITIS 102  “A college student had granular conjunctivitis. He was advised to wash his eyes with urine. He started it at once, but the eye became red in the beginning, but the patient continued to experiment with patience, and he was completely cured within a month. He began to read even more after the cure, and still he has no complaint.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  GRAY HAIR  Ma. of Light R. { Mexico } "I am 47 years and 5 months old. To begin, my gray hair, varicose veins, problems of circulation and fungi disappeared. I feel like thanks to God very well am cured."  World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward  GYNECOLOGY   Declaration from Dr. Jagdip Shah, renowned doctor in Bombay and speaker at the First All India Conference On Urine Therapy, India 1993.   I am.a gynaecologist, and started taking an interest in urine therapy after six years of clinical experience. During this period, I became aware of the limitations of allopathy. After having become acquainted with urine therapy and having received my Naturopathy Diploma, I started applying this knowledge in the treatment of several of my patients- not only gynaecological and obstetric patients, but with other patients as well. I was astonished by the results of this therapy on several diseases which allopathic science cannot treat, let alone cure. Within two years, I have treated the following diseases with a combination of urine therapy and dietary changes with astonishingly good results: herpes genitalis, prostatic enlargement (benign), multiple kidney stones, hypothyroidism, rheumatoid erosions and leucorrhoea, chronic sinusitis, allergic dermatitis, and many more. Scientific base: Research conducted in many countries has proven the nutritional value of urine due to its high level of proteins, hormones, minerals, vitamins and other valuable substances. These are easily assimilated and recycled by the body without any loss of energy. Urine contains immunologically active substances which fight viral and bacterial infections and boost the immunological potential even if one is immunologically weak, as is the case with AIDS, cancer, or any debilitating illness. 103 Urine is a powerful cleansing agent which detoxifies and eliminates all poisonous elements. Urine therapy combined with a fast and/or a diet of raw fruits and vegetables greatly helps eliminate these toxic substances from the body within a few weeks. Urine has an anti-cancer activity- many substances have been isolated from urine which have been scientifically proven to be effective in preventing and reducing the growth of cancer. Dr. P.D. Desai is of the opinion that the harm done to humanity by modern, potent drugs, vaccines, radiation and unnecessary surgery is far greater than the damage resulting from the atom bomb. The damage from the atom bomb is confined to the place where the atom bomh explodes and for a limited period of time, while the damage done by potent drugs, etc. is spread through every country of the world, throughout the year, day and night.   The Golden Fountain by Coen van der Kroon   ************************************ H ************************************ HAIR DAMAGE   Ms. A.O., The Netherlands "My hair was dried out due to a perm and colouring. After rubbing four-day-old urine into my hair and letting it soak in overnight, I noticed that it had become softer and more manageable. I also massaged myself with fresh urine for a week, and then started drinking it with orange juice. The first few days, I felt quite healthy, but subsequently began to feel less fit. My sleeping pattern changed --I sometimes needed a lot of sleep, sometimes very little. I also felt depressed from time to time. I see this as a purification process."   The Golden Fountain by Coen van der Kroon  HAIR LOSS  “Umacharan Sersvati ( Village Sinhpur, Dist. Narsinhpur, M.P. ) cured his major and minor troubles: like loss of hair, slow digestion, and yellowness of the eyes in 50 days with Urine Therapy.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  HAIR LOSS 104  “Vina Panikar (Government Officer's Colony, Ahmedabad ) had headaches and suffered from hair loss. She visited the Nature Cure Clinic at Uruli-Kanchan and got some benefit there, but the problem continued. She took to Urine Therapy and cured both of her troubles within a month. Along with this, her other minor troubles also vanished.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  HAIR LOSS  “An elderly man cured falling hair with urine. He experimented with Urine Therapy to cure his arthritis, and he not only got rid of it but also stopped his hair from falling out.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  HAY FEVER   Ms. E.C., The Netherlands "For a long time I have been suffering from strong hay fever attacks. Among the symptoms are itching and swollen eyes, asthmatic conditions and constant sneezing. I started to clean my eyes every morning with some cotton wool soaked in urine. From that moment on, the itching and swelling of the eyes disappeared, the sneezing stopped and the asthma attacks have become bearable."   The Golden Fountain by Coen van der Kroon  HAY FEVER  "Mr. J.B. – 44 years of age. Since childhood severe hayfever at the end of May.   31/5/46, 2 cc. fresh urine injected.  8/6, new injection of 2 cc.  9/6, slight running and burning sensation of the eyes began but the hayfever did not develop further and disappeared entirely on 20/6/46."  Use of Urine Therapy in the Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Asthma, Allergies, Migraines, Viral Infections, Hayfever, Diabetes, Gout, Dysfunction of the Adrenal and Thyroid Glands, Heart Conditions by Dr. Plesch  HEADACHE  105 “I was suffering from headache for years. When the veins of head dilated, the whole body would tremble. On occasion during cold catarrh there was bleeding through nose and throat. All treatments - allopathic, homeopathic and nature cure - proved fruitless. Due to homeopathic medicines nose-bleeding stopped but sores erupted on my head.  I was in Momasar to nurse ailing Sadhvis (nuns). Once I was suddenly down with catarrh, bleeding through nose and mouth started, veins of the head dilated. I was averse to drinking urine. I opposed for sometime but my opposition failed against the persuasion of the sisters of the Ashram, and as Acharya Pravar had sent us there specifically for the urine therapy my opposition was without logic. At last in keeping to the word of the elders I began drinking urine, putting wet packs of urine on head as also massaged with urine. After three days’ treatment satisfactory progress was registered. My faith became firm. The treatment continued for several days.  Whenever now I am attached by cold or headache I have recourse to this treatment and get well for the last five years I have not taken any medicine as such. This simple and easily available remedy has become my favourite now.”  from Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  HEADACHE  “A gentleman of Dahlni Pole, Ahmedabad, suffered from headaches every morning for the past few years. There was much irritation and it prevented him from doing any work. He used to take certain tinctures which intoxicated him and rendered him immune from any feeling of pain. He started Urine Therapy on the advice of a friend. On the first day, he had vomiting. He continued urine for three days, which relieved him of his old chronic headaches.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  HEADACHE  Sardar J.S. Ahuja was a chronic tea-taker. Ten to twelve cups a day was normal for him. His digestion was very bad and headache was a constant companion of Shri


 methodology. "Scientific" data requires control groups, matched populations, statistical analysis, etc. In my case  there
was no previous work my dissertation c ommittee would accept, because the available data did not originate from a medical school
or psychology department they recognized.
    Due to a lot of determination and perseverance I finally did succeed in getting my thesis accepted, and triumphed over m y
doctoral committee. And I graduated with a dual Ph.D. in both counseling psychology and gerontology. My ambition was to
establish the orthomolecular approach on the west coast. At that time I knew of only two clinics in the world actively using
nutrition al therapy. One was in New York and the other, was a Russian experimental fasting program for schizophrenics. Doctors
Hoffer and Osmond had used orthomolecular therapy in a Canadian mental hospital as early as 1950, but they had both gone on t o
other thing s.
    The newly graduated Dr. Isabelle Moser, Ph.D. was at this point actually an unemployed mother, renting an old, end -of-the-
road, far -in-the-country farmhouse; by then I had two small daughters. I strongly preferred to take care of my own children in stead
of turning them over to a baby sitter. My location and my children made it difficult for me to work any place but at home. So
naturally, I made my family home into a hospital for psychotic individuals. I started out with one resident patient at a tim e, using
no psychiatric drugs. I had very good results and learned a tremendous amount with each client, because each one was differen t
and each was my first of each type.
    With any psychotic residing in your home it is foolhardy to become inattentive e ven for one hour, including what are normally
considered sleeping hours. I have found the most profoundly ill mentally ill person still to be very crafty and aware even th ough
they may appear to be unconscious or nonresponsive. Psychotics are also generall y very intuitive, using faculties most of us use
very little or not at all. For example one of my first patients, Christine, believed that I was trying to electrocute her. Th ough she
would not talk, she repeatedly drew pictures depicting this. She had, qui te logically within her own reality, decided to kill me with
a butcher knife in self -defense before I succeeded in killing her. I had to disarm Christine several times, hide all the household
knives, change my sleeping spot frequently, and generally stay s ufficiently awake at night to respond to slight, creaky sounds that
could indicate the approach of stealthily placed small bare feet.
    With orthomolecular treatment Christine improved but also became more difficult to live with as she got better. For e xample,
when she came out of catatonic -like immobility, she became extremely promiscuous, and was determined to sleep with my
husband. In fact she kept crawling into bed with him with no clothes on. Either we had to forcefully remove her or the bed wo uld
be handed over to her --without a resident man. Christine then decided (logically) that I was an obstacle to her sex life, and once
more set out to kill me. This stage also passed, eventually and Christine got tolerably well.
    Christine's healing process  is quite typical and demonstrates why orthomolecular treatment is not popular. As a psychotic
genuinely improves, their aberrated behavior often becomes more aggressive initially and thus, harder to control. It seems fa r more
convenient for all concerned to suppress psychotic behavior with stupefying drugs. A drugged person can be controlled when
they're in a sort of perpetual sedation but then, they never get genuinely well, either.
    Another early patient, Elizabeth, gave me a particularly valuable les son, one that changed the direction of my career away from
curing insanity and toward regular medicine. Elizabeth was a catatonic schizophrenic who did not speak or move, except for so me
waxy posturing. She had to be fed, dressed and pottied. Elizabeth was  a pretty little brunette who got through a couple of years of
college and then spent several years in a state mental hospital. She had recently run away from a hospital, and had been foun d
wandering aimlessly or standing rigidly, apparently staring fixedl y at nothing. The emergency mental health facility in a small city
nearby called me up and asked if I would take her. I said I would, and drove into town to pick her up. I found Elizabeth in
someone's back yard staring at a bush. It took me three hours to persuade her to get in my car, but that effort turned out to be the
easiest part of the next months.
    Elizabeth would do nothing for herself, including going to the bathroom. I managed to get some nutrition into her, and change
her clothes, but that wa s about all I could do. Eventually she wore me down; I drifted off for an hour's nap instead of watching her
all night. Elizabeth slipped away in the autumn darkness and vanished. Needless to say, when daylight came I desperately sear ched
the buildings, th e yard, gardens, woods, and even the nearby river. I called in a missing person report and the police looked as
well. We stopped searching after a week because there just wasn't any place else to look. Then, into my kitchen, right in fro nt of
our round eye s and gaping mouths, walked a smiling, pleasant, talkative young woman who was quite sane.
    She said, "Hello I'm Elizabeth! I'm sorry I was such a hassle last week, and thank you for trying to take care of me so well.  I was
too sick to know any better."  She said she had gone out our back door the week before and crawled under a pile of fallen leaves on
the ground in our back yard with a black tarp over them. We had looked under the tarp at least fifty times during the days pa st, but
never thought to look  under the leaves as well.
    This amazing occurrence made my head go bong to say the least; it was obvious that Elizabeth had not been ‘schizophrenic'
because of her genetics, nor because of stress, nor malnutrition, nor hypoglycemia, nor because of any of the causes of mental
illness I had previously learned to identify and rectify, but because of food allergies. Elizabeth was spontaneously cured be cause
she'd had nothing to eat for a week. The composting pile of leaves hiding her had produced enough hea t to keep her warm at night
and the heap contained sufficient moisture to keep her from getting too dehydrated. She looked wonderful, with clear shiny bl ue
eyes, clear skin with good color, though she was slightly slimmer than when I had last seen her.
    I then administered Coca's Pulse Test (see the Appendix) and quickly discovered Elizabeth was wildly intolerant to wheat and
dairy products. Following the well known health gurus of that time like Adelle Davis, I had self -righteously been feeding her
home-made whole wheat bread from hand -ground Organic wheat, and home -made cultured yogurt from our own organically -fed
goats. But by doing this I had only maintained her insanity. Elizabeth was an intelligent young woman, and once she understoo d
what was caus ing her problems, she had no trouble completely eliminating certain foods from her diet. She shuddered at the
thought that had she not come to my place and discovered the problem, she would probably have died on the back ward of some
institution for the ch ronically mentally ill.
    As for me, I will always be grateful to her for opening my eyes and mind a little wider. Elizabeth's case showed me why Russi an
schizophrenics put on a 30 -day water fast had such a high recovery rate. I also remembered all the esoteric books I had read
extolling the benefits of fasting. I also remembered two occasions during my own youth when I had eaten little or nothing for
approximately a month each without realizing that I was "fasting." And doing this had done me nothing bu t good.
    Once when I was thirteen my mother sent my "little" brother and I to a residential fundamentalist bible school. I did not wan t to
go there, although my brother did; he had decided he wanted to be a evangelical minister. I hated bible school bec ause I was
allowed absolutely no independence of action. We were required to attend church services three times a day during the week, a nd
five services on Sunday. As I became more and more unhappy, I ate less and less; in short order I wasn't eating at al l. The school
administration became concerned after I had dropped about 30 pounds in two months, notified my mother and sent me home. I
returned to at -home schooling. I also resumed eating.
    I fasted one other time for about a month when I was 21. It h appened because I had nothing to do while visiting my mother
before returning to University except help with housework and prepare meals. The food available in the backwoods of central B.C.
didn't appeal to me because it was mostly canned vegetables, canne d milk, canned moose meat and bear meat stews with lots of
gravy and greasy potatoes. I decided to pass on it altogether. I remember rather enjoying that time as a fine rest and I left  feeling
very good ready to take on the world full force ahead. At that time I


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M etabolic Supplem entation
W e m ust p ro vid e  the p ro p e r m e ta b o lic s u p p o rt o f in d ivid u a ls
w hose physicians have diagnosed m a lig n a n t tu m o rs.
These in d ivid u a ls should have th e  p ro p e r vita m in s,
m ine rals, a n ti-o xid a n ts and enzym es.
W e  m ust n o t o ve rlo a d  th e  bo dy w ith  excessive n u trie n ts
th a t w o u ld  p ro d u ce  to xin s beyond th e  ca p a city
o f th e  bo dy to  rem ove such to x ic  debris.
The 1994 Hatch Act
Allows Individuals and Physicians
to Support the Metabolic Needs of the Body
Since 1994 and the passage of the Hatch Act, individuals and physicians may
legally support human metabolism by diet, nutritional supplements and certain
procedures as long as they are not harmful. In fact, for many years it has been
accepted that one must add vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, amino acids, etc. to
the human diet to support and maintain health. We are bombarded daily with the
advertising of many "fortified" products that inform us of the necessity of supplying
the body's metabolic needs.
Missing Nutrients
The modern diet is quite deficient in certain foods that have in the past been
mainstays of good nutrition and the support of health. The most outstanding missing
group as a whole is the organ meats, such as kidney, liver, stomach, intestinal tract
tripe, and lung. These health-building foods are unheard of and unavailable in
today's society. To get these today one must obtain them in the form of nutritional
supplements.
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Sweetbreads
Pancreas tissue, or sweetbreads, without question is the most deficient item in our
food chain. It should be noted that the pancreas is the most needed of all the missing
organ meats from our diets. It must be supplied in our diets or serious deficiencies
result.
Low temperature processed pancreas gland enzymes are available to the public in
various metabolic formulas. These nutritional products are designed to support the
normal metabolic processes of human metabolism.
Metabolic Nutritional Supplementation
Dr. Kelley's Metabolic Formulas are produced under his direct supervision. These
very Formulas are the ones his counselees have taken and used over the past 42 years
and have proven to be helpful to thousands. His metabolic Supplements are listed at
www.DrWDKelley.com, Dr. Kelley's web site. They are also available in a separate,
downloadable, E-book format.
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Dr. Kelley's
METABOLIC SUPPORT PROGRAM
Metabolic Nutritional Support For Health
Objective
We must provide the proper metabolic support of individuals whose physicians
have diagnosed malignant tumors. These individuals should have the proper vitamins,
minerals, anti-oxidants and enzymes. We must not overload the body with excessive
nutrients that would produce toxins beyond the capacity of the body to remove such
toxic debris.
Time Commitment
It takes a minimum of four years of proper metabolic support in addition your
physician's protocol to reduce the malignant tumor mass to the point health can be
attained an the body rebuilt. This is the beginning. Following the strict procedure Dr.
Kelley developed must become one's life style for years to come. Health and well
being is the goal and reward for diligence. It has taken him 40 years of constant vigil
and maintenance to remain "cancer free"
Fear
The most difficult obstacle to overcome for one afflicted with a malignant tumor
mass is the advanced technology of evaluation and monitoring of one's condition.
Scans, MRI's, Cancer Marker Tests of all kinds, shapes and expenses can not treat one
malignant tumor cell. As wonderful and advanced as they are, they have caused more
damage and fear than can ever justify their existence or use.
The use of such technology programs is the source of calamitous control of the
patient's actions of choosing the process of remission and real cure for pancreatic
failure. Many times this technology instills "giving-up" and produces acceptance of
death and loss of hope within the mind of the cancer victim. It would have been
much better if the medical community used the already proven scientific evaluation
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systems, instead of developing such instruments of doom and disaster.
"Why do I have to take so many pills?"
Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program has succeeded with a high percentage
of former cancer patients because it reverses the process of degeneration. You have
cancer because you allowed your overall general health to degenerate; Metabolic
Medicine's Cancer Cure Program helps you to regenerate.
Dr. Kelley does not deny that his approach applies extreme measures. He
maintains that extreme measures are required when you have allowed your health to
fall so low that your have left yourself vulnerable to cancer. He has identified four
major lines of defense against cancer: the pancreas; the immune system; mineral
balance; calcium metabolism. All of them depend heavily on nutrition for their
strength.
You take so many pills because Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program leaves
nothing to chance.
You take so many pills in order to be sure that your glands w ill be totally
supported, your immune system highly stimulated, and your body chemistry properly
balanced.
You take so many pills because the objective of Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure
Program is to turn your degeneration into your regeneration.
For the curren t up-dated Program List of
M e ta b o lic  N u tritio n a l Supplem ents
approved & recom m ended by Dr. Kelley,
please go to:
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Metabolic Nutritional Support Program
Cancer is  essentially a deficiency disease; a deficiency of the pancreatic enzymes.
This is  a deficiency of the free, active pancreatic enzymes in the tissues of the body.
Special Note
All persons, people, creeds and inhabitants of today's state of so-called
'civilization' with a diagnosis of "cancer" are without question "thyroid deficient",
and your thyroid gland is defective, damaged, destroyed and/or inhibited. Since the
1930's it has been one of the major techniques of our common enemy, the medical,
pharmaceutical, dental and political communities, to use this technique to decrease
the population by using their very effective weapon: Cancer.
"Cancer" has progressed since the 1930's from one in 8,000 to "nine out of ten"
today, and it is planned by The Establishment to increase substantially. Cancer is the
establishment's goose that lays "Golden Eggs".
Since my bout with terminal pancreatic cancer in 1962 I  have taken 3 grains of
Armour Natural Thyroid each morning. Your physician must give you a prescription
for this medication. Remember, the use of synthetic thyroid does not work. Neither
does the hundreds of defective, altered thyroid preparations sold by the alternative
health care physicians and nutritional supplement companies.
You must regulate the dosage of natural thyroid with the help of your doctor.
You should maintain a temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit each day upon
jumping out of bed. If you are too nervous or can't sleep, reduce the dosage of your
Thyroid intake to 2 grains or even 1  grain daily.
You may also be iodine deficient. Test by painting a 3 inch area of iodine on
your skin - stomach, arm or leg. If


 do with
the search for certainty that was discussed in the chapter on fear of
the unknown. This may be a part of your tendency to dichotomize,
or to divide the world neatly into extremes such as black/white,
yes/no, good/bad and right/wrong. Few things fit neatly into those
categories and most intelligent folks roam around in those gray
areas, rarely coming to rest on either black or white. This proclivity
for being right is most clearly evidenced in marriage and other adult
relationships. Discussions inevitably become a contest which results
in one partner being right, and the other wrong. You hear it all the
time. “You always think you’re right,” and, “You’ll never admit
you’re wrong.” But there is no right and wrong here. People are
different and they see things from different perspectives. If one must
be right, then a breakdown in communication is the only predictable
outcome.
The only way out of this trap is to stop thinking in those erroneous
right vs. wrong ways. As I explained to Clifford, who was in a
marriage in which he argued every day about every conceivable
topic, “Instead of attempting to convince your wife how wrong she
is, why not simply have discussions in which you have no should-
expectations for her. As long as she is allowed to be different from
you, you’ll eliminate the incessant arguing in which you doggedly,
albeit frustratedly, pursue being right.” Clifford was able to set aside
this neurotic need, and also to put some communication and love
back in his marriage. All rights and wrongs of every description
represent shoulds ofBREAKING THE BARRIER OF CONVENTION  / 145one kind or another. And the shoulds get in your way, particularly
when they conflict with another person’s need to have his own as
well.
Indecisiveness As a Spin-Off of Right vs. Wrong Thinking
I once asked a client if he had trouble making a decision, and he
said, “Well—Yes and No.” Perhaps you have difficulty with decision-
making, even with small things. This is a direct outgrowth of the
inclination to divide things into right and wrong categories. The in-
decision comes from wanting to be right, and the postponement of
a choice keeps you from dealing with the anxiety that you choose
for yourself whenever you feel you’ve been wrong. Once you take
away the rightness and wrongness of every decision (because right
implies a guarantee), then decision-making will become a snap. If
you are trying to decide on the right college to attend, you might
stay immobilized forever, even after you’ve made the decision, be-
cause maybe it wasn’t right. Instead, shift the process to, “There is
no such thing as the right college. If I select A then these are the
more likely consequences, while B will probably bring about these.”
Neither is right, one is simply different than the other, and you’ll
have no guarantees regardless of the choice to attend, A, B, or Z.
Similarly you can ease your indecision-neurosis by viewing all po-
tential outcomes as being neither right nor wrong, good nor bad, or
even better or worse. Simply different. If you buy this dress which
you like, this is how you are going to look, which is only different
from (not better than) wearing that dress. Once you give up those
inaccurate and self-destructive rights and wrongs, you’ll find de-
cision-making a simple matter of weighing which consequences
you’d prefer at a given present-moment. And if you begin to choose
regret over the decision,146 / Your Erroneous Zonesrather than deciding that regret is a waste of your time (because it
keeps you living in the past) you’ll simply resolve to make a different
decision in your next present moment, one that will bring con-
sequences that the earlier decision failed to bring. But never attempt-
ing to put it into a right or wrong categorization.
Nothing is more important than anything else. The child collecting
seashells is not doing something more right or wrong than the
President of General Motors making a major corporate decision.
They are different. Nothing more!
You may believe that wrong ideas are bad and should not be
stated, while right ideas are to be encouraged. Perhaps with your
children, friends or spouse, you say, “It’s not worth saying or doing,
if it’s not said or done right.” But danger lurks here. This authorit-
arian stance will lead to totalitarianism when extended to national
and international proportions. Who decides the rightness? That is
the question that can never be answered satisfactorily. The law
doesn’t decide if it’s wrong, only if it’s legal. More than a century
ago, John Stuart Mill, writing in On Liberty,  proclaimed:
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to
stifle is false opinion, and if we were sure, stifling it would be
an evil still.
Your effectiveness is not measured by your ability to make a right
choice. How you handle yourself emotionally after any choice is a
far greater barometer of your personal present-moment togetherness,
since a right choice represents those shoulds that you are working
at eliminating. New thinking will be helpful on two counts—one,
you’ll banish those senseless shoulds and become more internal,
and two, you’ll find decision-making less troublesome without those
erroneous right and wrong categories.BREAKING THE BARRIER OF CONVENTION  / 147The Folly of Shoulds, Musts and Oughts
There is a neat little word, coined by Albert Ellis, for the tendency
to incorporate shoulds into your life. It is “musterbation.” You are
“musterbating” whenever you find yourself behaving in ways that
you feel you must, even though you might prefer some other form
of behavior. Karen Horney, the brilliant psychiatrist, has devoted
an entire chapter of Neurosis and Human Growth  to this topic, and
she titles it, “The Tyranny of the Should.” She comments:
The shoulds always produce a feeling of strain, which is all the
greater the more a person tries to actualize his shoulds in his
behavior…. Furthermore, because of externalizations, the
shoulds always contribute to disturbance in human relations  in
one way or another.*
Do shoulds determine much of your life? Do you feel you should
be kind to your colleagues, supportive of your spouse, helpful to
your children and always work hard? And if at any time you fail in
one of these shoulds do you berate yourself and hence take on that
strain and disturbance to which Karen Horney alludes above? But
perhaps these are not your shoulds. If, in fact, they belong to others
and you have merely borrowed them, then you are musterbating.
There are just as many should-nots as there are shoulds. These
include: you should not be rude, angry, foolish, silly, juvenile, lewd,
gloomy, offensive and scores of others. But you don’t have to mus-
terbate. Ever. It’s all right to be lacking in composure, or to not un-
derstand. You’re allowed to be undignified if you choose to. No one
is keeping score on you, or going to punish you for not being
something that someone else said you must be. Besides, you can
never be anything that you
*Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth  (New York: W. W. Norton & Co.,
1950), p. 81.148 / Your Erroneous Zonesdon’t want to be all of the time. It’s just not possible. Therefore, any
should will have to produce strain in you, since you won’t be able
to fulfill your erroneous expectation. The strain does not result from
your undignified, nonsupportive, indiscreet or whatever behavior,
but from the imposition of the should.
Etiquette as a Should
Etiquette is a beautiful example of useless and unhealthy encultur-
ation. Think of all the little meaningless rules you’ve been encour-
aged to adopt simply because an Emily Post, Amy Vanderbilt, or
Abigail van Buren has so written. Eat your corn on the cob this way,
always wait for the hostess to start before eating, introduce the man
to the woman, sit on that side of the church at a wedding, tip this,
wear that, use these words. Don’t consult yourself; look it up in the
book. While good manners are certainly appropriate—they simply
entail consideration for other people—about ninety percent of all
the etiquette guidelines are meaningless rules that were composed
arbitrarily at one time. There is no proper way for you; there is only
what you decide is right for you—as long as you don’t make it hard
for others to get along. You can choose how you’ll introduce people,
what you’ll tip, what you’ll wear, how you’ll speak, where you’ll
sit, how you’ll eat, and so on, strictly on the basis of what you want.
Anytime you fall into the trap of “What should  I wear,” or “How
should  I do it,” you’re giving up a chunk of yourself. I’m not making
a case here for being a social rebel since that would be a form of
approval-seeking through nonconformity, but rather this is a plea
for being self-rather than other-directed in the everyday running of
your life. Being true to yourself