 to kundalini tantra the human body is composed of three layers,
which are also described as bodies. The first layer is the physical body, which
is enveloped by an energetic layer called the subtle body, while the outermost
layer enveloping both of these is known as our causal body. These bodies
function as the vehicle for the inner self or the soul. The latter two are
energetic layers or vibratory fields embod ying the under lying consciousness. Our physical body, the result of the sexual union of our parents, is the
one we normally experience and sustain with food. Our awareness within
this body constitutes the waking state of consciousness, and is made up of 16
components: five sensory organs (eyes/sight, ears/hearing, tongue/taste,
skin/touch, nose/smell); five organs of action (feet, hands, rectum, genitals,
mouth); fiv e elements (earth, wa ter, air, fire, ether); and the mind. The energetic basis or pure form of the physical body is the subtle body,
sometimes called the aura; it is also composed of 16 components. Within the
subtle body exist the seven major chakras, which get fully activated with the
force of kundalini shakti. Finally, there is the more ethereal body known as
the causal body (karana sharira), the creative force behind the other two
bodies. In fact, the causal body forms an egg shape around the other two
bodies. These three bodies are linked with one another through the chakras,
or energy centres. ‘Chakra’ is a Sanskrit word that relates to a wheel; in tantric context this
term is used to describe the wheels of energy associated with our subtle
bodies. In ancient texts such as the Vedas and Upanishads, there is very little
reference to the term kundalini and chakras as most of the knowledge on this
subject had been passed on through guru-shisy a (teacher-disciple) lineage.Finding an authentic literature on the subject can be difficult, though there
has been r eference to chakras in tantric, y ogic and A yurvedic texts. Hindu philosophy attaches as much importance to the mind and the soul
as to the body. According to kundalini tantra we have a physical body and an
energy body. Chakras, the vortices of spinning energy, are the parts of our
energy bodies that are in continuous interplay with universal energy. Energy
is neutral and is shaped through our mental and emotional processes, the
expression of thoughts, speech and action. Though described as energy
centres of our bodies, our chakras represent the activity of organs and glands. They are actually the transfer points of our thoughts and emotions and the
physical functioning of specific organs and endocrine glands. When our
chakras are balanced w e feel grounded and centr ed, and ha ve self-discipline. According to Ayurveda, our health is the sum total of our lifestyle
practices. We have to find balance between our physical, nutritional,
mental/emotional and spiritual lifestyles. An imbalance in our lifestyles and
a lack of discipline lead to chakra imbalances and health issues. Ancient
teachings tell us that all human actions originate in the mind, thus our
mental/emotional state affects our energy levels. Prolonged mental and
emotional stress affects our energies in a negative way, lowers our immune
system and causes health issues. When our emotions are blocked our chakras
also become dull and sluggish, affecting the flow of energy; this can later
manifest as a disease of the organs and glands associated with the particular
chakras. In our healing practices, the main objectiv e is to assess the imbalance in a
person’s lifestyle to identify the cause of disease and help correct it with the
right practices. We are all aware that mental/emotional cir cumstances ha ve a
major influence on a per son’s health and find most imbalances and b lockages
coming from that area. We call it ‘mind over body’ or psychosomatics. Intoday’s world, a vast number of health practitioner s are working on restoring
health by healing the mind and emotions. Through counselling we try to
explain how greatly negative thoughts and emotions affect people, but
sometimes it’s difficult to change the thinking processes and temperament. There is still something beyond us that needs to be dealt with, and that is the
higher mind. This higher mind has to be worked on at a subtle level, which is
where living a spiritual lifestyle helps. All spiritual books and guides suggest
we are energy bodies and we are connected to the source, which is the
consciousness of God. From a spiritual perspective, chakras are best understood as levels of
discrimina tion, not morality. Tantra also associates gunas (levels of
consciousness) to chakras; the three gunas are known as tamas, rajas and
sattva. It is said that our physical bodies are the carriers of the soul or our
individual consciousness. Our individual consciousness came to this physical
body through the crown or sahasrara chakra and goes all the way down to
settle at the end of the spine as our kundalini shakti, activating the
muladhara or base root chakra. We have been born into a material world,
where everybody is largely chasing physical objects and desires as our
consciousness is stuck in this material world. There is so much more to life
than fame, fortune, status, authority and attachments to people and things. Pain comes to us through ignorance and being blind when experience tells us
something different. Impurities of the mind need to be understood from the
perspective of discrimina tion rather than morality. Impurities arise out of
greed, desire, self-gratification and self-interest; however, spiritual practices
will lead us to a path of righteousness and working beyond the self, which
helps raise our le vel of consciousness fr om our root chakra upwards. We often know much more about the outside world than we do about
our own being, about how the body, mind and spirit work in conjunction andhow we are affected by our mental and emotional states and temperament. In this book we cover various attributes associated with chakras and health,
and we also explain the process of disease. Chakra healing is a vibrational
healing that helps the mind, body and spirit. We can also use various healing
tools such as essential oils, crystals, yoga, chanting and meditation to
complement the ener gy work. As aromatherapists we are particular ly focused on essential oils, which
are also known as the pranas of the plant. Their high vibrations and
therapeutic benefits, combined with lymph drainage, have an amazing ability
to unblock, heal and balance chakras, so we have devoted an entire chapter
to explain how to utilise these tools to improve health or healing practice. Healing work is mainly intuitive, and we expect practitioner s to rely on their
intuition besides using the healing tool of their preference. The path of
healing and spirituality is fairly subjective and each individual’ s experience
will differ. We do not e xpect all r eaders to subscribe to or endor se our views. OceanofPDF.com1
The chakra system
A system is a comple x mechanism of interacting, interdependent components
forming an intricate whole. In a similar way, chakras are interdependent,
intricate and complica ted mechanisms of the bod y that should be under stood
as a complete system. Ayurveda and tantra associate various attributes to
each individual chakra, which affect chakras’ functioning at energetic and
physiological levels. To understand the proper functioning of the chakra
system we need to understand each attribute and its effect on chakras as well
as on the w hole being. From a health and healer’s perspective, chakras are the barometer of our
health. In different healing modalities or spiritual practices there could be a
variation in the numbers and location of the chakras; however, they may all
be correct from their understanding of major and minor chakras. According
to kundalini tantra there are seven major chakras located on our torsos and
heads representing the activity of vital organs and glands. These seven major
chakras are the focal point of this book. The activity and balance of our
chakras reflect the health of our organs and glands. While in modern
medicine cadavers are studied in order to understand health and disease, in
chakra healing we need to study living beings: their physical, nutritional,
mental and emotional life styles. To understand chakras, we need to understand human life and its
evolution. Evolution is a universal process; all life is evolving and humankind
is no exception. Life, creation and evolution are the stages in the unfolding of
consciousness. We as human beings are evolving, not only as individuals butalso as a race. The muladhara or base root chakra is our most fundamental
chakra; from here our process of evolution in this lifetime begins, culminating
at sahasrara — the cr own chakra. The muladhara chakra corresponds to the coccygeal plexus and is
located at the perineum (between the anus and the genitals), the spot that
touches the ground when we sit in the lotus position. As the name suggests
(mul: root; adhar: base), this chakra is the foundation of the physical body in
the realm of physical existence. During the process of spiritual evolution, a
person goes through


i would see it, there must be some element of witnessing
involved here—that is, Karin is having an experience and at the
same time watching herself have it. That does not have to be an
unreal way to relate to things. Quite the contrary—it could be seen
as the most real way, once the silent witness is acknowledged as the
core of the self. In ancient India, witnessing would have been calmlyaccepted and welcomed as a gateway to higher spiritual
experiences. Karin was not totally surprised when I brought this up to her, but
it did not make her any happier. “People have told me that my
awareness has risen too high, that it has become my enemy,” she
said, “but I don’t know how to turn it o. ” Turning her awareness
o is all she wants to do at this point. Time and again she has
intuited things that I would consider profound truths, only to reject
them as “sick. ” Here is one example:
“I have this experience of talking to someone and feeling  that I’m
on automatic. It’s like a reserve mechanism kicking in. I want to
shut it o. I want to be able to walk into a room and not think, ‘Oh,
look at that. I converted myself into matter. ’ The top layer of my
mind is now above automatic, but that doesn’t seem like a gift to
me, it’s just neurotic. How do I get rid of this high awareness or
sensitivity, whatever you want to call it. ”
I told her that other people have spent years on the spirit ual path
trying to achieve the very state of nonattachment that she has fallen
into. To a spiritual person, the feeling of being “on automatic”
implies that God or the higher Self has taken over from the small,
isolated self. Many saints, both Christian and Eastern, have reported
that they lived in such a blessed state. They considered it a kind of
second birth, freeing them from the bondage of the esh and the
ties of the past. After this rebirth, a person has nothing to fear from
the snares of Maya and can go forth to explore what lies beyond. Yet the everyday world seems to have no relationship to the
boundless one, and to stand on the threshold of the higher Self,
where Karin nds herself, can generate deep fear. No one can feel
her experiences with her. There is no objective standard for
weighing them, and their scientic validity remains marginal (the
renowned English physicist Sir Arthur Eddington once remarked
that any attempt to scientically measure a subjective experience
was like trying to nd the square root of a sonnet). In this light, the words that have come to us from the ancient
spiritual traditions are all the more valuable, since they can serve as
lifelines to the present. In India the Bhagavad-Gita  is taken as thequintessence of the collected wisdom on the nature of reality. There,
Lord Krishna tells the warrior Arjuna that every person shelters a
“dweller in the body” who is wholly unlike the isolated, vulnerable
ego:
Weapons cannot cleave him,
Fire cannot burn him,
Water cannot wet him,
Wind cannot dry him away …
He is eternal and all-pervading,
Subtle, immovable, and ever the same. Although this invulnerable dweller may seem to be a religious
concept—what most devout people call the soul—Lord Krishna
asserts that it is the same self that gives everyone his sense of “I
am. ” In Sanskrit several dierent words are needed to describe the
full range of the self, from the most local to the completely
universal. Each of us has an individual spirit that underg oes unique
experiences in life—this is called the jiva in Sanskrit; it comes
closest to being the soul. If you remove  all personal boundaries, the jiva expands into the
Atman, pure spirit without individual experiences. Emerson and the
other Transcen dentalists called this the Over-soul. (I will follow the
simple convention of calling it the Self with a capital “s. ”) When jiva
and Atman fuse, merging the individual and the cosmic self without
losing the qualities of either, one arrives at Brahman, or totality. A
person who has realized Brahman retains his individuality but
experiences himself as unive rsal, “under the aspect of eternity,” as
the church fathers phrased it. Brahman is also used to describe
reality as a whole, taking in both the objective and subjective elds
of existence, the manifest and the unmanifest. Beyon d the all-
inclusive Brahman, there is nothing. The jiva, then, is like a single wave on the ocean; Atma n is the
water that all waves partake of equally; Brahman is the ocean itself. If you ask which of these three is you, the answer is “all of them. ”
To say that one aspect of the self is dierent from the others may beuseful on an everyday basis, but it is not the nal truth. The self I
call “me” seems to respect the boundary of my skin, but at the same
time I naturally feel my kinship to other selves. When a child suers
in Afghanistan, I feel the pain. My sensation may not be as intense
as when I cause pain to my own body, but that simply says that I do
not share a particular set of nerves with the child. The ancient sages knew that each person is grounded in a
concrete reality that gives him his bearings in time and space. Nevertheless, they maintained that all selves are woven into the
same fabric of life. Karin could easily be stumbling into this state of
greatly expand ed self. However, she wants no part of it. She has
frequently stated to me in crisp tones that she did not have a
religious upbringing and nds no spiritual signicance in what is
happening to her. Clearly there is a knowledge gap here. No
tradition validates her experience for her; no elders or guides exist
to educate her further. She has been cast adrift. On the Outside Looking In
It is not easy to live with an original experience, and Karin would
much rather return to the mundane experiences that all of us put on
like ready-to-w ear clothes. “I want to watch TV on Satur day night,
drink a glass of wine, and not think about anything,” she complains. “I want  to be upset when my car gets dented and not feel detached
about it. I want to go back to feeling like I’m a part of life. Is that
even a possibility anymore. ”
At mom ents like this, one realizes how much in limbo Karin is. Since no convincing versio n of her present reality exists, she
remains comm itted to the unreal. Yet she is not as detached as she
appears. I sense that she is trying to connect with others all the time
but in hidden ways. I might have missed this except for a telling
incident. At one point durin g our rst talk, I wanted her to know
how impressed  I was with her level of insight, and I started out by
saying, “For a brilliant person like you—”
She cut me o with a strange look. “Why did you say that. ” she
demanded. “What. ”
“That I’m brilliant. What makes you say that out of the blue. ”
“Well,” I explained, “it is obvious that you have more self-
awareness than ninety-nine percent of the people I deal with. ”
“How can you tell that after one meeting. ” she asked
suspiciously. I said I just could, and she let the matter drop. Half an
hour later, she interrupted  herself and asked, this time rather
timidly, “Do you really think I’m brilliant. ” I repeated that I did. Again, the matter was quickly dropped. When we met a few days
later, the rst words out of her mouth were “I’ve been thinking
about why you called me brilliant. ”
Then I couldn’t help but notice that my compliment held a special
charm for her. It was a token, not just of my respect, but of my
aection. By calling her brilliant, I had said, “I feel close to you. ”
Replaying the tapes, I nd that Karin also managed to call me
brilliant severa l times that day—apparently quite unconsciously—
and whenever she did, one heard a shy, embarrassed intimacy in her
voice. Why was this little game of emotional hide-and-seek so important
to her. I think  it’s because she nds it much easier to intellectualize
about feeling unreal than to openly express the much more
wrenching feeling of being lost. Before their emotions get covered
over with a thick coat of denial, many children feel lost, set apart. Karin reminds me of a wide-e yed child one might nd on the fringes
of a social gathering—a wedding reception, cocktail party, or
Thanksgiving reunion—peer ing at the adults like a fascinated
spectator at the zoo. What the child wonders at is quite ordinary and yet very
disturbing: the casual deception of daily life. Behind the words “I
love him” or “I love her” lie guarded feelings


 to antibiotics, strokes, emboli, sclerotic vessels as found in arteriosclerosis,
severe nerve degeneration interfering with nerve transmission to vital organs. Treating the critically ill does not have to be an all or nothing, ideological choice between holistic medicine and A MA style
medicine. It is important for the critically ill and their families to know that if they use standard medical treatment such as drugs or
surgery, these measures can and should be combined with natural healing methods. It is always desirable to qui t all addicting
substances, start a whole foods diet, (as light as possible), and add meganutrition (supplements) to the medical doctor's tre atments. Few medical doctors are so arrogantly partisan as to assert that natural measures will do any harm as long  as the MD is still
allowed to prescribe as they please. Holistic support will not only lessen the side effects of the medical treatments but will speed up healing and often reduce t he
required dose of prescribed drugs. I have had several clients with cancer who chose to have surgery, radiation and chemotherapy,
but stayed on a raw food diet and took high doses of supplements throughout the treatment. These people amazed the attending
physician by feeling good with little if any fatigue, no hair loss, o r flu symptoms. The same can be true of other conditions. Food In The Order Of Digestive Difficulty
    Individual digestive weaknesses and allergies are not taken into account in this list. Hard To Digest: Meat, fish, chicken, eggs (if cooked), all leg umes including soy products, peanuts and peanut butter, beans, split
peas, lentils, chick peas, dairy products such as cheese, milk, butter milk, nuts and seeds and their butters. Intermediate: all grains –quinoa, amaranth, millet, spelt, rye, wheat, oat s, barley. Fairly Easy: Brussels sprouts, green beans, green peas, broccoli, cauliflower, raw cultured milk products, asparagus, cabbage,
sprouts especially bean sprouts, kale, other leafy greens. Very Easy: fruits, vegetable juices, fruit juices, broth (clear). No Effort: herb tea, water. Ethyl always comes to my mind when I think of how much healing power can still be left in a dying body. She (accompanied by
her husband for support) came to Great Oaks School with terminal cancer, heart failure, advanced diabetes, extreme weakness, and
complete inability to digest. Any food ingested just came back up immediately. Ethyl had large tumors taking over the breast,
sticking out from her skull, an d protruding from her body in general. The largest was the one in the left breast which was the size
of a big man's fist. She did have one crucial thing going for her, Ethyl was a feisty Irish red head who still had a will to live, and a reason to  do so. She and her husband, who had just retired, had dreamed their whole life of touring the US and Canada in their own RV the minu te
he retired. The time had finally arrived but Ethyl was too ill to support her own weight (only 90 pounds) and to top it off was blind
from diabetic retinopathy. The doctors had done everything they could to her, and now judged her too weak to withstand any mo re
surgery (she had already had her right breast removed). Radiation or chemotherapy were also considered impossible due to heart
failure. They sent Ethyl home to die, giving her a few days to a month at most. Any sensible hygienist trying to stay out of jail would have refused to take on this type of case because it was a cancer cas e
where death was likely. Treatment o f this highly lucrative disease is considered the AMA's exclusive franchise, even when the
medical doctors have given up after having done everything to a body the family can pay for or owe for. Whenever a person die s
under the care of any person who is no t a licensed M. D. there must be an autopsy and a criminal investigation in search of
negligence. If the person dies under the care of an M.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the author's opinion on the effectiveness of fasting in critically ill patients?,
A: The author believes that fasting is the therapy that gives a critically ill person their best chance of recovery, and if death occurs while fasting, it will be more comfortable, with less pain, and with more mental clarity.
Q: What is the author's recommendation for someone who is chronically ill but cannot fast?,
A: The author suggests that in this case, the person should start a raw food diet and eliminate toxic foods for a period of time, and then gradually introduce raw foods, and consider taking vitamin supplements to support the immune system and healing process.
Q: What is the author's view on the importance of nutrition in maintaining health?,
A: The author believes that nutrition is crucial for maintaining health, and it is not enough to just eat a healthy diet; one must also consider the importance of supplements to ensure optimal health.
Q: What is the author's stance on the use of vitamins and supplements?,
A: The author is a strong advocate for the use of vitamins and supplements, believing that they can help maintain health and potentially even reverse the aging process.
Q: What is the author's recommendation for a healthy person who wants to maintain their health and longevity?,
A: The author recommends a diet that is 80% raw food, with a focus on sprouts and baby greens, and taking broad-spectrum supplements, and also engaging in moderate exercise to maintain health and potentially increase longevity.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>If you
compare my suggested formulation to another one, keep in mind that variations of 25 percent one way or another won't make a
significant difference, and adding other beneficial substances to my recommendations probably is only helpful. However, I wou ld
not want to eliminate anything in the list below, it is the minimum:

Beta-Carotene  25,000 iu  Selenium  100 mcg
Vitamin A  5,000 iu  Taurine  500 mg
B-1 250 mg  Cyctine  200 mg
B-2 50 mg  Gluthaianone  15 mg
B-3 niacinamid  850 mg  Choline  650 mg
B-5 750 mg  Inositol  250 mg
B-6 200 mg  Flavanoids  500 mg
B-12 100 mcg  Zinc 35 mg
PABA  50 mg  Chromium  100 mcg
Folic Acid  500 mcg  Molybdenum  123 mg
Biotin  200 mcg  Manganese  5 mg
Vitamin C  3,000mg  Iodine (as kelp)  10 mg
Vitamin E  600 iu  Co-Enzyme Q -10 60 mg
Magnesium  1,000 mg  DMAE  100 mg
Potassium  100 mg  Ginko biloba  120 mg
Calcium  1,000 mg  Vitamin D -3 200 iu

Please also keep in mind that there are many other useful substances not listed above. For example, every day I have a "green
drink," an herbal preparation containing numerous tonic substances like ginseng and also various forms of algae and chlorophy ll
extracts. My green drink makes my body feel very peppy all day, so it certainly enhances my life and may extend it. It costs ab out
$25,00 a month to enjoy that. I also use various pure amino acids at times. Phenylalyanine will make me get more aggressive
whenever I am feeling a little lackluster; this nutrient has also been used as an effective therapy against depression. Melatoni n
taken at bedtime really does help me get to sleep and may have remarkable life -extending properties. Other amino acids help my
body manufacture growth hormones and I use them from the time I begin training seriously in spring through the end of the
summer triathlon competition season. Pearson and Shaw's book (see Bibliography) is a good starting point to begin learning ab out
this re markably useful subject. The Future Of Life Extension
    I beg the readers indulgence for a bit of futurology about what things may look like if the life extension movement continues  to
develop. Right now, a full vitamin and vitamin -like substance life extension program costs between $50 and $100 dollars per month. However, pharmaceutical researchers occasionally notice that drugs meant to treat and cure diseases, when tested on lab anima ls
for safety, make these animals live quite a bit longer and function better. Though the FDA doesn't allow any word of this to be
printed in official prescribing data, the word does get around to other researchers, to gerontologists and eventually to that  part of
the public that is eagerly looking for longer life. T oday there are numerous people who routinely take prescription medicines
meant to cure a disease they do not have and plan to take those medicines for the rest of their long, long life. These drugs being patented, the tariff gets a lot steeper compare d to taking vitamins. (Since they are naturally -occurring
substances, vitamins can't be patented and therefore, aren't big -profit items. Perhaps that's one reason the FDA is so covertly
opposed to vitamins.) Right now it would be quite possible to spend ma ny hundred dollars per month on a life extension program
that included most of these potentially beneficent prescription drugs. As more of life -extending substances are discovered


 skin is essentially a vital organ. It is subject to a
wide variety of
diseases
, the greater number of them being inflammations. Inflammation of the skin
is called
dermatitis
. The skin is fed by the blood, not from any form of exterior feeding. There are no skin foods
other than the blood itself and all money spent for so-called “skin foods” is wasted. The skin as the
body’s protecting envelope, comes in contact with many outside substances and influences that are
harmful. It is damaged in a variety of ways. Fortunately its powers of self-repair are great, so that
few of these damages leave permanent marks. Most skin diseases are due to systemic causes. It is
these that should concern us most. Dermatitis may appear in myriad forms, giving rise to diagnosis of the various forms of eczema,
psoriasis, dermatoses and a host of others. So far as the layman is concerned, the fine-spun
diagnoses and descriptions have
only short value; at best they represent merely slight variations of
the same condition. Dermatologists who use only salves and internal “remedies” do not really
remedy
 these inflammations. Many cases are the results of a general or systemic toxemic state; many others are the results of
120taking such drugs as arsenic, mercury, iodine, potassium, and the so-called vegetable blood
remedies. Some of the irritation is the result of vaccines, serums and other drugs. In all of them
recovery hinges upon removal of the cause; this no salve can do. It is not unusual for dermatologists to advise against bathing in many of these skin eruptions, as
soap and water are supposed to aggravate the condition. Soap may do so, but not plain warm
water. Indeed, cleanliness is half the victory in almost all of these conditions and to go unwashed
is to intensify the trouble. In all skin eruptions, even the worst forms of eczema, I insist upon frequent bathing with warm
water. It may seem strange, but in many instances cleanliness is all that is required to enable the
patient to get well. A few baths and the skin disease vanishes. It reminds one of bathing seven
times in the Jordan that we read about in the Bible. In all skin eruptions, diet requires first attention. Almost certainly the patient will be found to be
overeating. It is common that a redundancy of starches and sugars in the diet gets a major share of
the blame. In most cases the combinations are such as to favor indigestion. There is the habit of
taking starches and proteins at the same meal. This is often enough to cause indigestion and result in skin inflammation. If there is a history of
drug taking, this must be given due consideration as there are many drugs that cause skin eruptions. Brome acne is a common example. Bromine is given in many conditions and is contained in many
different drugs in common use. Psoriasis is characterized by small spots, a little elevated from the surface and covered with a
flaky, bran-like covering which peels, especially in hot weather, leaving the surface red and
irritated, and the skin somewhat thickened. These spots range from the size of a pea to that of a dime. Then they develop on the face, they
appear much worse after shaving. They often cause much humiliation to those who develop the
disease on exposed regions of the body. I recall a beautiful young girl whose psoriasis was hidden
when she was in a street dress but very apparent in a bathing suit. A good swimmer, she had to
give up swimming because of the humiliation brought on by this condition. Large surfaces on the body may be involved. On the lower extremities the whole leg may be
covered. In some cases the dry scales flake off at a mere touch. Psoriasis is a very persistent
disease and patients suffer with it for years. It may develop only on the forearms or about the
elbows, or it
may cover the whole body. It tends to get better in the summer and to grow worse
during the winter months. It has a tendency to recur after the skin is perfectly clear. Indeed, it seems that to completely
recover from the disease almost always requires an extended time. Slight indiscretions in eating
and beverage drinking will cause a recurrence. It, therefore, becomes necessary for the psoriasis
patient to live very carefully for an extended period in order to eliminate a recurrence. As
imprudent eating seems to affect the condition more promptly than any other self-indulgence, it is
especially important that careful attention be given to the eating habits. Even an occasional short
fast, as the eruption tends to recur, is often necessary. Eczema—early generations knew it as tetter—may develop on almost any surface of the body,
but seems to occur most often on the elbows, about the fingers and wrists, on the back and on the
ears, on the anus and genitals. It also develops quite frequently on the face and on the abdomen. The skin tends to thicken and crack and there is considerable itching, causing much scratching
which only aggravates the trouble. The dry patches about the elbows, knees and ankles are
specially prone to itch and burn. 121Wrong eating plays a dominant role in the production and maintenance of this skin inflammation. It is essential in these outbreaks that correct diet follow a preliminary fast. The fast hastens the
healing of the eczema. The disease is often seen in infants, where it appears to be more persistent
than if it develops later in life. The fast of the infant must be conducted under the most careful
supervision and only by those fully trained and competent to conduct it. Often a long fast is not needed, but if the condition is serious, it should be taken. In some
instances, a series of short fasts with careful feeding between fasts can be made to serve. The patient should force himself to keep his hands away from the itching surface, to avoid
rubbing and scratching, as both these processes tend to aggravate the condition. Cleanliness is the
chief need to prevent great itching. Frequent bathing with warm water is essential. Often, indeed,
cleanliness is all that is required for complete recovery. 12230
Prostatic Englargement
The prostate gland is an auxiliary of the male reproductive organs. Neatly tucked around the neck
of the bladder, just under the body of this organ, the utrethra or tube through which the urine flows
from the bladder, passes through it. The prostrate gland secretes a fluid that is mingled with the
semen after it reaches the urethra. Because of its location about the urethra its enlargement results
in more or less blockage of the flow of urine. Enlargement of the prostate is almost as common in men over thirty-five years as enlargement of
the tonsils in children. For every woman who suffers with uterine disease, there is a man who has
enlarged prostate, irritation, inflammation and ulceration of the urethra, and the neck of the
bladder. In large numbers of men over fifty, there is more or less ulceration of the urethral portion
of the prostate gland. These conditions can be the source of much annoyance and suffering in men. It is a common
cause of retention of the urine and fouling of the bladder often giving rise to discomforts in the
back, hips and legs, and sometimes causes lumbago and sciatica. The irritation resulting from
retention of the urine ultimately leads to cystitis (inflammation of the bladder) and even to
ulceration of the bladder and its neck. Indeed, it may not be an exaggeration to say that prostatic disease, and its influence on
neighboring organs, causes more than half the discomforts of men past fifty. Many of the diseases
of elderly men, for which they are being regularly and unsuccessfully treated, are but reflexes of
genitourinary disease, of which prostatis or inflammation of the prostate gland is the primary
disease. Prostatic enlargement may begin early, at thirty five or sooner, or later, even after seventy. Fat
men with large abdomens and sedentary men are more liable to prostatic enlargement, as both the
fat and the sedentary life interfere with pelvic circulation, the resulting blood stasis being,
perhaps, the principal cause of the prostatic enlargement. Thin men and physical workers are not,
however, exempt from the disease. Enlargement of the prostate gland results in the retention of a portion of every urination—
residual urine. The pressure upon the urethra and mouth of the bladder exerted by the enlargement
prevents the bladder from fully
emptying. A slight retention is caused by a slight enlargement of the
prostate. As the enlargement increases, the amount of urine retained is also increased. One of the annoyances of men after middle life is slow micturition, soon to be followed by a
slowly developing obstruction to the flow of urine. At fifty-five to sixty there develops small
retention of urine, which means that after all the urine has been passed that can be passed, there
will be an ounce or two of urine left in the bladder. The inability of the bladder to empty itself
slowly increases. As the same time the amount of urine retained increases. The retained urine
poisons the bladder, and in, time, the entire system, causing much discomfort and suffering, even
death. As the prostate enlarges, its weight pulls the bladder downward thus making it even more
difficult for the bladder to empty itself. As


 had managed to live 60-odd
years without tooth decay, he would answer—as Mr. Ratcliff quotes:
"Never thought about it. Funny thing though; you could bring spindly
fishbone cattle up here from Mexico, graze them for awhile and they'd
turn into fine, big-boned animals." All the horses in the county have
fine teeth. The oldest dog in town, age 16 years, still has all his teeth." In his Collier's article, Mr. Ratcliff quotes Dr. Taylor as ascribing
the low dental decay rate in Deaf Sm ith County to fluorides, sunshine
and calcium, as to phosphorus in the soil. Later Dr. Taylor added that
the high magnesium content of Hereford's water (67 p.p.m.) probably
had something to do with preventing tooth decay. Evaluating the part which each mineral in soil and water plays,
Mr. Ratcliff concludes is a "job for a trained research group, armed
with money and talent." The minerals in water are not food and can't
be assimilated. "What is needed is more fundamental work on the causes of
tooth decay. This research in Deaf Smith County has opened the door
for it." With that conclusion I agree completely. It follows that my
findings and theory merely have supplied a new point of departure for
dental research. I am content to refl ect that I have started something. For all that, it was an occasion of  intense gratification to me
when the Texas State Dental Association at its annual convention in
Houston unanimously endorsed my findings and voted me a life
member, exempt from dues. That was one of the big moments of my life. My gratification
over the honor was heightened by the circumstance that the motion
which led to it had been introduced on the convention floor by my old
friend, Dr. R. L. Rogers of Amar illo. For years Dr. Rogers had been
the most outspoken and unsparing critic of my theories. Now I could feel as though my lifelong labors had been as bread
cast upon the waters. It appears that people have not discovered the difference between
organic and inorganic minerals and vitamins. They do not differentiate
the two kinds of fluorine—one is a food, the other is a poison. The
water in Hereford is about 2 p.p.m. while in wheat it is many hundreds
p.p.m. In wheat it is a food, in water it is a poison. CHAPTER 21. I PURSUE MY STUDY OF FOODS AND
SOIL

During the years since the State Board of Health completed its
study of the Hereford school children's teeth, under Dr. Taylor's direction, I have kept right on gathering evidence which seems to bear out my theory: The Deaf Smith County natives or long time residents
owe their immunity to tooth decay mainly to having lived upon home
grown foodstuff, which they consumed in the unrefined state, as it
came from the soil. That type of food contains the minerals and
vitamins, abundantly supplied by our mineralized soil, which are essential to keep the life proces ses going. If those minerals are
removed as when the flour mill removes the bran and shorts from our
wheat, then the special benefits to  be derived from our soil are lost. There are plenty of people right here in Hereford, the famed
"Town Without a Toothache" who demand refined white flour and who would rather take their vegetables from a tin can shipped in from elsewhere than fresh from their mineralized soil. Those are the people,
as I have proved to my own satisfaction, who make up the 40 percent
that Dr. Taylor's field men found, suffered the same tooth decay as
elsewhere—say, as in my old town of Albertville. The fact is, I am firmly persuaded, that those people who reject
natural for refined foods suffer from slow starvation which affects not
only the teeth but every organ in the body, including the brain. Therefore delinquency. In his California laboratories, Dr. Frances M. Pottenger, Jr.,
proved that fact when he fed his white rats on the same denatured, refined foods that many parents feed their children. The result; the glossy coat of the rats became dull and their hair ruffled. The little
brutes then were vicious and dangerous to handle. Is it any wonder,
then that children fed upon the same deficient and refined foods
sometimes turn out to be problem boys and girls? The natural inference to be draw n from this experiment is the
right sort of food—that is, food which contains all the vitamins and
minerals which the growing body requires for its proper
development—given children in the right proportions would prevent delinquency as well as tooth decay and other maladies. Nature's unrefined foods also nourish the brain which is the seat
(though not the source) of the person's moral being. Again I say that, in fact, Hereford is "The Town Without a
Toothache" only for those natives and long time residents who live
entirely or mainly upon the fo9ds grown in our mineralized soil and
consumed without processing which destroys or damages their
vitamin and mineral content. It is e qually essential that the people who
would eat for sound teeth give up pies, puddings, cakes and other
white flour products, along with candy, jellies, preserves and syrup. Since the Hereford country became famous for its freedom from
tooth decay, people keep writing from all over the country to ask me
about the tooth-building virtues of this or that foodstuff. My answer is
that any sort of food crop which grows in our mineralized area, or in
any completely fertile soil is likel y to be good—but that it takes a
considerable variety to supply all the elements required for proper body building (which would include the building of sound teeth). For sake of appetite, variety is desirable. However, just two
articles of food, if produced in our  mineralized area and not tampered
with—wheat and milk—will supply a completely balanced diet. I mean that the whole wheat grain and raw milk should be
consumed. When it is milled for white flour, wheat is robbed of its minerals. Milk, when pasteurized, loses vitamins and may lose the activator which helps the body assimilate its calcium. It is my
conviction that a person could live upon whole wheat grain soaked in
milk and nothing else, and thrive upon such a diet; but after a while
the fare would grow monotonous. Both body and mind would demand
a change and would revolt to get it. That is why I recommend variety in the diet. It is wise to know the soil in which one's food grows. That soil
should be analyzed and the elements which are lacking or in short
supply for producing healthful foods should be added. That goes for
the trace minerals as well as for nitrogen, calcium,
86 potash and phosphorus. It takes all the elements to build sound
bodies. A lot of minerals besides phosphorus, calcium and magnesium
go into the making of sound teeth. Only a dash of iodine, boron,
fluorine or copper may be required, but unless that dash is supplied,
the building process is impaired an d the foundation laid for tooth
decay. CHAPTER 22

ON OTHER TOWNS WITHOUT
TOOTHACHE

Driving downtown in Hereford on the way to Canyon one day
during World War II I gave two soldier boys a ride. They told me that they had come from Laurens County, South Carolina. That was where my maternal grandparents, the De ndy family, had lived. I learned
these boys knew about some of my distant cousins. Naturally, the first thing I noticed  about my passengers was that
both of them apparently had perfect teeth. Have either of you boys ever had toothache or had a tooth filled? I asked them. "No, sir," the boys answered in concert, "in our whole lives we
have not been to the dentist once." Do the people you know back in Laurens County have mouths
full of sound teeth like yours? "Most of them do," one of the boys said. "Among all my chums
back home, I cannot remember one who had a filling in his teeth." And none ever had the toothache? "None that I remember of,
sir." men it occurred to me that there might be less tooth decay in
Laurens County, South Carolina, than in Deaf Smith County, Texas. Laurens county is in the western part of the State (some miles
south of Spartanburg) but still, I susp ect, within the limits of South
Carolina's famous "iodine belt." That is a mineralized area comparable
with the Texas high plains. It is doubtless far richer in iodine than our
Hereford country. The essential thing is that the soil should contain, as it apparently
does contain, all the minerals essential to body-building, including the
"activators" which spark the life processes. On my trip through the Southeast in the spring of 1947, I verified
what the two soldiers had told me concerning South Carolinian's teeth. When in Charleston, I had a chance visit with a dentist, Dr.
...................., who told me he was 65 years old. His father and
grandfather before him had practiced in that same office. He handed
me a mirror and invited me to have a look at his mouth. I found a
beautiful set of teeth, spotless but slightly worn. As I told that dentist, I saw no reason why Charleston should not
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( s u i t a b l e  f o r  a l l  B O L T  s c o r e s )
•   Permanently switch to nasal breathing during both day an d
night. •   W ear tape acr oss the mouth during sleep ( see: Breathe through
your nose ). •   B ecome cons cious of your breathing during everyday task s,
allowing it to be calm, relaxed, and quiet. •   Practi ce Breathe Light to Breathe Right  f or 10 to 15 minutes, 5
times each day. This can be divided into the following:
• 10 minutes before work
• 10 minutes during lunch
• 10 minutes after work
• 10 minutes (or more) while watching TV in the evening
• 15 minutes before bed
•   B reathe Light to Breathe Ri ght during walking for 30 to 60
minutes per day.•   For th ose with  a BOL T of over 20 seconds, and who are suite d
to performing breath holds, Simulate High-Altitude T raining  by
incorporating 8 to 10 breath holds to achieve a medium air
hunger throughout the walk. •   Pay p articular attention to h unger sensations, asking yourse lf
whether you really need to eat at that time and stopping when
satisfied. •  Fill in the following chart to mark your progress. Earlier on in the book we were introduced to Donna, whos e major
bugbear was the frustration and  feeling of self-defeat when she found her
weight i ncreasing again after a successful period of weight lo ss. T o help
Donna g et her health back on tra ck and to achieve her ideal weight, I askedher to do just three exercises: Breathe Light to Breathe Right, walking with
her mouth closed, and practicing breath holds during walking. Her star ting BO L T was 12 seco nds, which is typical of someo ne in a
stressful and demanding job wi th little time devoted to physic al exercise. And alth ough D onna did breathe through her nose during the day, she woke
up most mornings with a dry mouth, indicating mouth breathing during
sleep. A nother factor related to her low BOL T score was her dif ficulty
falling asleep. Although she we nt to bed at a reasonable hour, i t often took
her two to three hours to finally fall asleep. The result was that s he woke up
feeling lethar gic  and unrefreshed, not an ideal scenario when work and
family life demanded alertness. My main  goal for Donna was to  increase her BOL T score, expe rience a
natural suppression to appetite, and improve her sleep and ener gy levels. The mos t impor tant time for Do nna to Breathe Light with a tolerable air
hunger was the session direct ly before she went to sleep. It was not
necessary for her to practice this in bed. Instead, Donna usually had some
downtime late in the evening when she watched TV, and this was an
excellent time for her to reduce her breathing without having to devote
special time to t he exercise. I su ggested that Donna not watch the news or
any program involving violence or aggression. This exercise of fers an
opportunity for the body to relax, not to invoke a stress response. Because she breathed lightly right before she went to bed, Donna’ s
sleep became deeper, enabling her to wake up 15 minutes earlier to begin
her first set for the day. It was also vital that she made a conscious ef fort to
breathe lightly at various times throughout the day. This just involved
bringing attention to her breathing, calming it and quieting it so that she felt
a light to medium need for air. Donna f ound it a challenge to k eep her mouth closed during sl eep, but
within a few nig hts her body adapted to this new way of brea thing. After
the four th night, she found herself sleeping all the way through, requiring
less sleep, waking up earlier, and feeling more refreshed. In additi on to practicing her br eathing exercises, it was important that
Donna p aid atte ntion to her sen sations of hunger and thirst. Improving the
oxygenation of tissues and or gans results in the body using food more
ef ficiently, with this leading to a natural suppression of appetite. The advice
I gave to Donna was to eat only when hungry and stop when satisfied. Byfollowing this simple rule, she automatically had less need for snacking
during the day, and even found herself taking lunch at a later t ime. Eating
according to bodily needs is much more important than eating according to
a specifi c time of the day. It is unfortunate that society has dictated when
we eat more so than when we actually need the food. Another beneficial
side ef fect that Donna experienced was an increased thirst and demand for
water. Donna experienced a noticeable reduction to her appetite, and her
progress with the breathing exer cises was reflected in a higher BOL T score. W ithin two weeks, her BOL T score had increased from 12 to 20 seconds
and she had lost  six pounds. I encouraged Donna to quicken her progress by
incorporating 8 to 10 breath holds into her 20-minute walk to create a
medium air hunger. Doing this e xercise temporarily lowers oxygen levels to
simulate high-altitude training, resulting in a further natural sup pression of
appetite. Many pe ople with a low BOL T  score, including Donna, avoid physical
exercise, as they get breathless far too quickly, making exercise a
burdensome cho re. As Donna’ s BOL T score increased to 20 s econds, she
felt the need to do more physi cal exercise. This further helped with her
weight normalization, increased ener gy, and self-esteem. I tol d Do nna wh at I tell everyon e else: Breathing Light to Breath e Right
isn’ t just an exercise; it’ s a way of life. How we breathe at all times during
the d ay influences how we feel  and our health. When Donna incorporated
this into  her way of life and m aintained a BOL T of 25-plus seconds, her
days of yo-yo dieting were over. T o her delight, she currently weighs 145
pounds (from a top weight of 175 pounds), and the increased ener gy and
feel-good factor is a great motivator to continue.P r o g r a m  f o r  C h i l d r e n  a n d  T e e n a g e r s
•   The Nose Unblocking exercise  i s the best exer cise for children
as it is easy, quick, and measurable. •   Practi ce the Nose Unblocking  Exercise a total of 12 times p er
day, div ided into 2 sets of 6 re petitions. Practice 6 repetitions
before breakfast  and 6 during the day. The number of paces
that a child is able to do should increase by 10 every week,
with a goal of reaching a score of 80 to 100 paces. •   Whi le practicing the Nose  Unblocking Exercise, I often
encourage children to wear paper tape over their mouth. This
ensures that the mouth is closed during the exercise, with no air
sneaking. •   W eari ng the tape while watching TV or going about the house
can also be very helpful for a child to get used to breathing
through his or her nose only. •   Breat he through the nose throughout the day with the tongu e
placed in the roof of the mouth. T o find out more about mouth
breathing and development of t he growing face, I suggest that
you read my book Buteyko Meets Dr. Mew: Buteyko Method
for Childr en and T eenagers. •  Fill in the following chart to mark your progress.Marc is seven y ears old, with n asal obstruction and continuous mouth
breathing. Although Marc’ s physician ruled out asthma, his breathing is
audible during rest and eating (much to his parents’ consternatio n). He gets
very bre athless while playing football, having to take a break from the
match to get his breathing back. Furthermore, he snores each night. Children are great responders to  breathing retraining, although  a lot of
observation is required from p arents. I always say that the success of achild’ s r etraining is dependent on the motivation of the parents. At my
courses, I motivate parents by discussing the importance of nasal breathing
for facia l development, concent ration, sleep, and overall health. I use my
own example of mouth breathing  during childhood and how it detrimentally
af fected my concentration in hi gh school and college. Such an  innocuous
habit has devastating consequences. T o k eep it simpl e for children an d teenagers, I suggest only one exercise
and a couple of guidelines to make good progress. Marc loves football, and the promise of improving his sports
performance is the main motiva tor to put the exercises into practice. When
Marc is able to hold his breath  for 80 to 100 paces, all he has to do is to


 good look at who is sitting in
front of me. I take my leisure to find out all about their history, their complaints,their motivation to change, their experience with natural healing, their level ofpersonal responsibility, whether or not they have to work, whether or not they cantake time out to heal, will they fast or take supplements, do they have sufficientfinances to carry a program through to a successful completion, do they havepeople closely connected to them that are strongly opposed to alternativeapproaches, can they withstand some discomfort and self-denial, do they have
toxic relationships with other people that are contributing to their condition, are
they willing to read and educate themselves in greater depth about natural healing,etc. I need to know the answers to these questions in order to help them choose aprogram which is most likely to succeed. Even though fasting is the most effective method I know of, it is not for people
who are compelled to keep up a work schedule, nor is it for people who are veryill and do not have anyone to assist them and supervise them. Nor is it for peoplewho do not understand fasting and are afraid of it. People who have associatesthat are opposed to it, and people who do not have a strongly-functioning liver orkidneys should not casually start water fasting either. Seriously ill people that havebeen on a meat-heavy diet with lots of addicting substances need a long runwayinto a fast so as to not overwhelm their organs of elimination. Does the person infront of me have an eating disorder, or an otherwise suicidal approach to fasting,etc. Clearly fasting is not for everyone, and if I recommend it to the wrongperson, the result will be a bad reputation for a marvelous tool. Given that many clients can not fast without a lot of preparation, the majority
of my clients start out with a gentle detox program that takes considerably moretime, but works. These gradients have been outlined under the healing programsfor the chronically ill, acutely ill, etc. To help rebuild poorly functioning organs, I sometimes use a specialized group
of food supplements called protomorphogens. These are not readily available tothe general public and perhaps should not be casually purchasable like vitamins,because, as with many prescription drugs, supervision is usually necessary fortheir successful use. If the FDA ever succeeds at making protomorphogensunavailable to me, I could still have very good results. (At this time the Canadianauthorities do not allow importation of protomorphogens for resale, thoughindividuals can usually clear small shipments through Canada Customs if for theirown personal use. ) But protomorphogens do facilitate healing and sometimespermit healing to occur at a lower gradient of handling. Without them a body
might have to fast to heal, with the aid of protomorphogens a person might be
able to get better without fasting. And if protomorphogens are used (chewedup—ugh. ) while fasting, healing is accelerated. Protomorphogens are made from freeze-dried, organically-raised animal organ
meats (usually calf or lamb) combined with very specific vitamins, herbs and otherco-factors to potentiate the effect. I view protomorphogens as containingnutritional supplementation specific for the rebuilding of the damaged organ. Doctor Royal Lee, a medical genius who developed protomorphogens therapy
in the 50s and who spent several stints in prison in exchange for his benevolenceand concern for human well-being, also founded the company that has suppliedme with protomorphogens. After decades of official persecution and denial of theefficacy of protomorphogens by the power structure, it looks like they are aboutto finally have their day. As I write this book cutting-edge medical researchcompanies are developing therapies using concentrated animal proteins(protomorphogens) to treat arthritis, multiple sclerosis, eye inflammations andjuvenile diabetes. The researchers talk as though they are highly praiseworthy for“discovering” this approach. Unfortunately, this development is likely to cut two ways. On one hand, it
vindicates Dr. Lee; on the other, when these drug companies find a way to patenttheir materials, they may finally succeed at forcing protomorphogens (currentlyquite inexpensive) off the non-prescription market and into the restricted andprofitable province of the MD. I divide clients into two basic types: simple cases and complex ones. When I
was treating mental illness, occasionally I had a client who had not been sick fortoo long. I could usually make this client well quite easily. But if the person hadalready become institutionalized, had been psychotic for many years, hadreceived much prior treatment, then their case had been made much moredifficult. This sort had a poor prognosis. A very similar situation exists withphysical illnesses. Many people get sick only because they lack information about
how to keep themselves healthy and about what made them sick. Once they find
out the truth, they take my medicine without complaint and almost inevitably getbetter very rapidly. Some of these people can be quite ill when they first come tome but usually they have not been sick for very long. Their intention when cominginto my office is very positive and have no counter intentions to getting better. There are no spiritual or psychological reasons that they deserve to be sick. If thisperson had not found me, they almost certainly would have found some otherpractitioner who would have made them well. This type of person honestly feelsthey are entitled to wellness. And they are. However, some of the sick are not sick for lack of life-style information; they
suffer from a mental/spiritual malady as well, one that inevitably preceded theirillness by many years. In fact, their physical ailments are merely reflections ofunderlying problems. This patient’s life is usually a snarl of upsets, problems, andguilty secrets. Their key relationships are usually vicious or unhealthy. Their levelof interpersonal honesty may be poor. There are usually many things about theirlives they do not confront and so, can not change. With this type of case, all thephysical healing in the world will not make them permanently better because themental and emotional stresses they live under serve as a constant source ofenervation. Cases like this usually do not have only one thing wrong with them. They
almost always have been sick for a long time; most have been what I call “doctorhoppers,” confused by contrary diagnoses and conflicting MD opinions. When Iget a case like this I know from the first that healing is going to be a long process,and a dubious one at that. On the physical level, their body will only repair oneaspect of their multiple illnesses at a time. Simultaneously, they must be urged toconfront their life on a gentle gradient. There is usually a lot of backsliding androllercoastering. The detoxification process, physical and psychological, can takeseveral years and must happen on all the levels of their life. This kind of case seesonly gradual improvement interspersed with periods of worsening that indicatethere remains yet another level of mental unawareness that has to be unraveled. Few medical doctors or holistic therapists really understand or can help this
kind of case. To do so, the doctor has to be in touch with their own reactive mindand their own negative, evil impulses (which virtually all humans have). Fewpeople, including therapists, are willing to be aware of their own dark side. Butwhen we deny it in ourselves, we must pretend it doesn’t exist in others, andbecome its victim instead of conquering it. Anyone who denies that they have orare influenced by their own darker aspects who seem to be totally sweet andlight, is lying; proof of this is that they still are here on Earth. All this generalizing about diagnostic methods and clinical approaches could go
on for chapters and more chapters, and writing them would be fine if I wereteaching a group of health clinicians that were reading this book to become betterpractitioners. But I’m sure most of my readers are far more interested in somecomplaint of their own or in the health problem of a loved one, and are intenselyinterested in one might go about handling various conditions and complaints, whattypes of organ weaknesses are typically associated with them, and whatapproaches I usually recommend to encourage healing. And, most importantly,what kind of success or lack of it have I had over the past twenty five years,encouraging the healing of various conditions with hygienic methods. In the case studies that follow I will mostly report the simpler, easier-to-fix
problems because that is what most people have; still, many of these involve life-threatening or quality-of-life-destroying illnesses. I will tell the success story ofone very complicated, long-suffering case that involved multiple levels ofpsychological and spiritual handling as well as considerable physical healing. Arthritis
Some years back my 70 years old mother came from the family homestead in
the wilds of northern British Columbia to visit me at the Great Oaks School. Shehad gotten into pathetic physical condition. Fifteen years previously she hadremarried. Tom, her new husband, had been a gold prospector and general
mountain man, a wonderfully independent and cantankerous cuss, a great hunter
and wood chopper and all around good-natured backwoods homesteadhandyman. Tom had tired of solitary log cabin life and to solve his problem hadtaken on the care and feeding of a needy widow, my mom. He began doing thecooking and menu planning. Tom, a little older than my mother, had no senseabout eating but could still shoot game. Ever since their marriage she had beenliving on moose meat stews with potatoes and gravy, white flour bread with jam,black tea with canned milk, a ritual glass of brandy at bedtime, and almost nofresh fruit or vegetables. In her


 on the path of least resistance or going in the other direction. Step 5: Make a conscious choice to select a thought that will activate
good feelings. I urge you to choose your thought based exclusively on how
it makes you feel, rather than on how popular it is or how well advertised. Ask yourself: Does this new thought make me feel good? No? Well, how
about this thought? Not really? Here’s another. Ultimately you’ll come up
with one that you agree makes you feel good, if only temporarily. Your
choice might be the thought of a beautiful sunset, the expression on the face
of someone you love, or a thrilling experience. It’s only important that it
resonate within you emotionally and physically as a good feeling. In the moment of experiencing an anxious or stressful thought, change to
the thought you chose, which makes you feel good. Plug it in. Think it and
feel it in your body if you can. This new thought that makes you feel good
will be of appreciation rather than depreciation. It will be of love, beauty,
receptivity to happiness, or in other words, it will align perfectly with those
seven faces of intention I’ve been harping about since the opening pages of
this book. Step 6: Spend some time observing babies, and vow to emulate their
joy. You didn’t come forth into this world to suffer, to be anxious, fearful,
stressful, or depressed. You came from the God-consciousness of joy. Just
watch little babies. They’ve done nothing to be so happy about. They don’t
work; they poop in their pants; and they have no goals other than to expand,
grow, and explore this amazing world. They love everyone, they’re
completely entertained by a plastic bottle or goofy faces, and they’re in a
constant state of love—yet they have no teeth, no hair, and they’re pudgy
and flatulent. How could they possibly be so joyful and easily pleased? Because they’re still in harmony with the Source that intended them here;
they have no resistance to being joyful. Be like that baby you once were in
terms of being joyful. You don’t need a reason to be happy... your desire
to be so is sufficient. Step 7: Keep “Rule Number 6” in mind. This means to suspend the
demands of your ego, which keep you separated from intention. When you
have a choice to be right or to be kind, pick kind, and push the ego’s
demand out of the way. Kindness is what you emanated from, and by
practicing it, rather than being right, you eliminate the possibility of stress
in your moment of kindness. When you find yourself being impatient with
anyone, simply say to yourself: “Rule Number 6,” and you’ll immediately
laugh at the piddly little ego that wants you to be first, faster, number one,
and to be treated better than the other guy. Step 8: Accept the guidance of your Source of intention.You will only
come to know the Father by being as He is. You’ll only be able to access the
guidance of this field of intention by being as it is. Stress, anxiety, and
depression will be lifted from you with the assistance of that same force that
created you. If it can create worlds out of nothing, and you out of nothing,
surely the removal of some stress isn’t such a big task. I believe that God’s
desire for you is that you not only know joy, but that you become it. Step 9: Practice being in silence and meditation. Nothing relieves
stress, depression, anxiety, and all forms of low-energy emotions like
silence and meditation. Here, you make conscious contact with your Source
and cleanse your connecting link to intention. Take time every day for
moments of quiet contemplation, and make meditation a part of your stress-
reducing ritual. Step 10: Stay in a state of gratitude and awe. Go on a rampage of
appreciation for all that you have, all that you are, and all that you observe. Gratitude is the tenth step in every ten-step program for manifesting your
intentions, because it’s the surest way to stop the incessant inner dialogue
that leads you away from the joy and perfection of the Source. You can’t
feel stressed and appreciative at the same time. I conclude this chapter on your intention to lead a tranquil life with a
poem by the famous Bengali poet of Calcutta, Rabindranath Tagore, one of
my favorite spiritual teachers:
I slept and dreamt that life was joy
I awoke and saw that life was service
I acted and behold service was joy
It can all be joy in your inner world. Sleep and dream of joy, and
remember above all else: You feel good not because the world is right, but
your world is right because you feel good. OceanofPDF.comIT IS MY INTENTION TO:
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AND DIVINE
RELATIONSHIPS
“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have
occurred... unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance, which
no man could have dreamed would have come his way.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you saw the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, you probably came away
remembering the concept that if you pursue a dream, you will succeed (or,
“If you build it, they will come”). I thought of this as I began writing this
chapter because I’m suggesting that if you commit yourself to matching up
with the field of intention, everyone you desire or need to fulfill your
personal intention will appear. How can that be? In the quote above,
Goethe, one of the most brilliantly gifted scholars and achievers in the
history of humanity, gives you the answer. The moment you definitely
commit yourself to being a part of the power of intention, “then Providence
moves too,” and unforseen assistance comes your way.The right people will arrive to assist you in every aspect of your life: The
people who will support you in your career are there; the people who will
help you create your perfect home show up; the people who will arrange the
finances for whatever you desire are available; the driver you need to get
you to the airport is waiting for you; the designer you’ve admired wants to
work with you; the dentist you need in an emergency when you’re on
vacation just happens to be there; and your spiritual soul mate finds you. The list is endless, because we’re all in relationship to each other, we all
emanate from the same Source, and we all share the same divine energy of
intention. There’s no place that this universal mind is not; therefore, you
share it with everyone you attract into your life. You’ll have to let go of any resistance to your ability to attract the right
people, or you won’t recognize them when they show up in your everyday
life. Resistance may be difficult to recognize at first, because it’s such a
familiar form of your thoughts, your emotions, and your energy levels. If
you believe that you’re powerless to attract the right people, then you’ve
attracted powerlessness to your experience. If you’re attached to the idea of
being stuck with the wrong people or no people at all, then your energy isn’t
aligned with the power of intention, and resistance reigns. The field of
intention has no choice but to send you more of what you’re desiring. Once
again, make a somersault into the inconceivable, where you have faith and
trust in the universal mind of intention, and allow the right people to arrive
in your life space right on schedule. Removing Resistance by Allowing
Your intention is absolutely clear here. You want to attract the people
who are intended to be part of your life, and you want to have a happy,
fulfilling, spiritual relationship. The universal all-creating field is already
cooperating with your intention. These very people are obviously already
here, otherwise you’d want something that hasn’t been created. Not only are
the right people here, but you also share the same divine Source of all life
with them, since everyone emanates from that Source. In some invisible
way, you’re already connected spiritually to those perfect-for-you people. So why can’t you see them, touch them, or hold them, and why aren’t they
there when you need them?What you need in the way of the right people showing up will appear for
you only when you’re ready and willing to receive them. They’ve always
been there. They’re there right now. They’ll always be there. The questions
you need to ask yourself are: Am I ready? Am I willing? and How much am
I willing to have it? If your responses to these questions are a readiness and
willingness to experience your desires, then you’ll begin seeing people not
only as a body with a soul, but as a spiritual being clothed in a unique body. You’ll see the infinite souls that we all are: infinite, meaning always and
everywhere; and everywhere, meaning with you right now if that’s your
spiritual desire. Giving forth what you want to attract. Once you’ve formed a picture in
your mind of the person or people that you intend to show up in your
immediate life space, and you know how you want them to treat you and
what they’ll be like, you must be what it is that you


 the white distilled
vinegar to it. 2. Soak the affected foot for 15 minutes twice daily. After the first soak,
while the nail is still soft, you may check and see if you can trim back the
part that is turning inwards. Pat dry. 194Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Ingrown ToenailY ou will need… DirectionsTo get your nail growing back on track, try inserting a piece of clean floss or cotton underneath the curved
edge. This gently encourages it to grow up and out rather than downwards and into your skin. It sounds
uncomfortable, which it can be initially, but the sense of relief from the pressure is fairly immediate. Make sure
you use plain old floss-not the minty or flavored kind-and change this at least once daily.Re-Route with Floss
-A piece of plain dental floss or
cotton
-Vinegar soak (see remedy #1)1. Soak your foot in the vinegar bath until the nail is softened. Gently
slide a piece of plain floss or cotton under the nail to lift it out of the
skin. Change the packing daily. 195Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Ingrown ToenailY ou will need… DirectionsTea tree essential oil will help ward off infection as your nail heals, while the baking soda will also fight off
bacteria. Try using this in conjunction with the above remedies.Tea Tree & Baking Soda Dip
-3-5 drops of tea tree essential
oil
-1/4 teaspoon grapeseed oil
-1 tablespoon of baking soda
-Vinegar 1. Rinse your foot in warm water and pat dry. Stir the tea tree oil into the
grapeseed oil, and then mix in the baking soda. 2. Apply the mixture to the toenail. Let this sit for 15 minutes, and then
dip your nail in diluted white vinegar and pat dry. 196Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Ingrown ToenailY ou will need… DirectionsIf you struggle with oily skin, you are probably frustrated. Y ou may have
tried everything under the sun to get rid of that sheen on your face, but
to avail. This is because there really isn’t anything you can do to get rid
of oily skin for good. It lies woven into your genetic make-up, something
you have as much control over as the color of your eyes, or how curly
your hair is. Within our skin lies microscopic glands called sebaceous glands. These
glands produce sebum, an oily/waxy substance that lubricates, protects,
and waterproofs our skin. Sebum is, in essence, oil. It is the oil that you
try so hard to get rid of, but without it, you would be a total mess. Come
puberty male sex hormones, collectively known as androgens, spike. This happens in both girls and boys, and the result is that our sebaceous
glands kick into gear, stimulated by androgens to produce more and
more sebum. Normally the sebum would flush out our pores and keep
skin healthy, but too much will clog them, leading to acne-hence bad
acne in teenage years-and/or oily, shiny skin. People who have chronically oily skin just have it in their genes to
be more sensitive to androgen, to make more sebum. Larger pores
generally equate to oily skin as well, as more sebum is able to be
released. Just because you can’t kick the oil forever, doesn’t mean
there  aren’t things that you can do to help manage it, but you should
understand a few misconceptions about clearing up your skin first (read
tips.) The silver lining to having oily skin is that you won’t show your age
as much as those without, because all that sebum means you will have
supple skin that wrinkles less, and looks youthful. Oily Skin
-It is a myth that you should wash
your face often if you have oily
skin, or that you should use a
harsher scrub to get rid of it. The
more you wash your face, the
more oil you are stripping away,
and the more you are drying your
skin out. In order to compensate
for this your sebaceous glands
kick into high gear and pump out
more sebum. -Y ou do still need moisturize if you
have oily skin. Y ou just need to
find the right one that works for
you. After your wash your face,
applying a light moisturizer is a
good way to balance out the loss
of oil. -Greasy food does not equate to
greasy skin. -Pat your face dry, don’t rub
vigorously. And do not to rub
at your face or touch with your
hands excessively. This will only
exacerbate the problem. Jojoba Oil
-This is great for combination skin
as well-combination skin meaning
you have both dry and oily skin. 197Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingLemon is an astringent, which means it causes contraction of tissues, in this of case your skin and pores. Reducing the size of your pores will reduce the amount of sebum coming out of them, and your face ends up
less oily. The aloe gel you should use in this recipe is the all-natural kind, not the green gel you usually see, but
clear. If the lemon dries your skin out, the aloe helps bring back light, balanced moisture. Note that lemon juice
can lighten skin-so if you have freckles be aware of this. It will also make you more sensitive to the sun, so avoid
extended exposure to U.V. rays for 24 hours after application, or apply extra sunscreen.Lemon & Aloe
-1 teaspoon of fresh lemon
juice
-1 tablespoon of aloe vera
-Cotton balls or cotton pads1. Mix lemon juice and aloe thoroughly and then soak cotton balls in the
mixture. 2. Apply to your face, paying specific attention to your T-zone (forehead,
and either side of your nose, where there is a high concentration of
sebum producing glands.) Let the mixture dry. Y ou can then leave it on,
or if you have more sensitive skin, rinse off gently with just water and
pat your face dry, and apply pure aloe or a light moisturizer. 198Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Oily SkinY ou will need… DirectionsOily skin can be more prone to building up dead, greasy, skin cells, and can use a hand sloughing them off. A
sugar exfoliating scrub is simple but should only be done once a week, otherwise it will strip too much oil and
dry out your skin. Y ou can add it to your favorite moisturizer if you like, but I usually mix it with aloe vera gel so I
don’t irritate my skin too much. -1 tablespoon of white or
brown sugar
-Aloe vera gel 1. Place sugar in a bowl and add just enough aloe to hold it together. 2. Scoop into your palms and scrub your face (don’t be too vigorous) to
loosen and shed all those built up oily skin cells. Rinse your face gently
with warm water afterwards. 199Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Oily SkinY ou will need… DirectionsSugar & Aloe Exfoliating ScrubJojoba is one of my favorite natural moisturizers, whether you have dry skin, or oily skin. If you are quaking at
the thought of putting oil on your already oily skin, that’s perfectly normal, but before you ignore this remedy,
take into account two things. First, jojoba is not technically an oil, it is a liquid wax. This doesn’t change its
consistency, but may bring you some peace of mind. Second, it is the closest in chemical and molecular make
up to the sebum your own body produces. By applying jojoba as a moisturizer, it balances out the amount of
sebum your skin perceives as necessary to generate. The result is soft, healthy, just-right skin.Jojoba Oil
-Jojoba Oil 1. Rinse your face with warm water and pat dry. 2. Apply a small bit of jojoba oil to clean fingers and rub gently into your
skin. Y ou will need less than you think! 200Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Oily SkinY ou will need… DirectionsWhen I was quite young my cousin and I were visiting family in
California. We were quite the troublemakers when we were together, so
when our aunt warned us to never, under any circumstances, touch the
poison oak, of course we thought “let’s touch the poison oak!”
We picked out one of the numerous plants in her sprawling yard and
rubbed it between our hands. Frowning, we waited for something to
happen. Nothing did. We thought we were super-humans at the time for
not getting a rash, like we had some kind of special immunity. It turns
out that most people don’t develop a reaction to poison ivy or poison
oak the first time. This is because the terrible blistering and rash don’t
occur because of direct contact with the plant, but an indirect immune
response (i.e. an allergic reaction.) Chances are you’ve brushed past
poison ivy at one point and never even had a clue. Needless to say,
I don’t think my cousin and I will be grabbing any poison oak again


 of modern concepts of
irreversible nonequilibrium thermodynamics. The m\)vements of collections of ions (ionars) in a
closed circuit will of necessity induce magnetic fields
in surrounding tissue. Conversely, motion of an cxtcr·
nal magnetic field in relation to BCEC channels will
induce electric transports in these channels. BCEC
systems can be expected therefore also to act as recep
tors for surrounding manmade as well as natural elec·
tromagnetic fields. Ionars and ergonars, e.g., as developed by anabolic
and catabolic processes, are subject to modifications
by diffusion, free and forced convection, pressure·
volume and gravitational forces, chemical reactions
and closed circuit electric transports. The principle of
the ionar-ergonar concept is illustrated in their experi·
mental production in in vitro experiments with elec·
trolysis of water contaminated by C02, clean water
and water with an added electrolyte, KCI. These ex·
periments also demonstrate how different conditions
must be created for the release of iortic and ergonic
energy. Both ionic and ergoDic carriers of energy as
well as the matrix functions of BCEC are necessary for
a functionally complete BCEC system. The mechanism of electrogenic production, trans·
port, and retrieval of energy of ergonars, outlined in
these experiments > may give a clue ::about the origin
and function of the vesicles discussed in Chapter XII. It is suggested that vesicles within endothelial cells, as
well as the vesicles which, e.g., develop at nerve end·
ings, may partly represent collections of nonionic ma·
terial (ergonars) as a result of biologic electrode reac·
tions. The ergonic materials produced then represent
Energetics, ionars and ergonars 171 precursors for subsequent retrieval of energy or liber
ation of transmitter substances as a result of secondary
electrode reactions. An additional mode of develop
ment and transport of vesicles is also proposed, based
on the principle of Type III electroosmosis (p. 82). Any cationic compound can become hydrated and
thereby appear in clusters. With this view vesiclu ~
represent miaoclusters or more specifically "pure" ergonars
as water in pinocytes or ekctropotiti'IJt/y charged ergionars,
which are electrically transported toward an electrone
gative receptor site within an activated BCEC. The
time of transport of vesicles across a capillary mem
brane is estimated to be about one second (21 ). The
electrogenic development and transport of vesicles,
containing ergonic or ergionic material, may therefore
permit the modulation of time of transport and the
rate of production of the precursors. As in electroos
mosis the suggested partial mechanisms of electrogenic
transport of vesicles may very well be integrated. This
theory suggests many components and consequences
yet to explore. Thus, the origin and function of vesi
cles in nerve transmission, along these lines, requires
the identification of an additional BCEC system. This
system should consist of an axon branch, nerve-end
plate "electrodes" for activation of ergonars, and an
"external" branch, all electrically connecting the "in
ternal" axon branch. We will now return to biological tissues in further
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  for which  he or she
calls. If the reader  will  still  all feeling  of discord  within
himself  or herself,  and  notice  the condition  of his or
her emotional  body  after  reading  one  of these  Dis-
courses,  trying  just  to accept  and  cooperate  with  the
Help  offered,  the  feeling  within  the individual  will  be
proof  enough  of the Power  in the Words  and  the Help
this Great  Divine  Director  wants  to give. If the reader  will  place  himself  or herself  in the po-
sition  of the Student,  every  possible  Help  will  be re-
leased,  according  to the requirements  of the individ-
ual at the  time. The Great  Ascended  Masters  and  Cosmic  Beings
never  cease  to try to awaken  mankind  to the  use  of
this Law,  so the people  can  help  themselves;  but  the
Great  Law  of the Universe  does  not permit  Them  to
just pick  humanity  up—after  centuries  of disobedience
and misuse  of Life's  Energy  and  Gifts—and  take  them
into Perfection  without  any  self-effort  of obedience
to the constructive  way  of Life  and  the Great  Divine
Law  of Balance  in the  Universe. Each  Discourse  carries  a powerful  Radiation,  and
if the reader,  or Student  will  accept,  give  obedience,
and expand  the  Blessing  offered  by this  Mighty  Be-
ing, greater  and  greater  Miracles,  Marvels,  Wonders FOREWORD xv
and Blessings  will  come  forth  to enfold  all. Only  those  who  live and  work  now  for the Protection
of all mankind  who  are constructive  will  be protected,
for everyone  must  now  give  the Assistance  which  saves
all. The Cosmic  Light  is the Ascended  Masters'  concen-
trated  Power  of Light  to assist  every  constructive  per-
son and  activity  in the World  at this  time. It also  is
binding  destructive  forces  so they  cannot  keep  expand-
ing any  farther. This  Ascended  Master  Activity  of the "I AM"  is the
balance  between  religion  and  education  —therefore,
It is the best  part  of all that  is constructive  in both;
and when  one  is educated  in the Ascended  Masters'
Truth  of the "I AM,"  he knows  that  to worship  Perfec-
tion is the Highest  Education  of Life. Since  Perfection
can only  come  from  the "Beloved  Mighty  I AM  Pres-
ence"  and  the  Ascended  Masters'  Octave  of Life,
which  is God's  Realm  of Light,  he attains  Spiritual
Culture  by the  True  Worship  of God  —and  it can
never  come  any  other  way. The Great  Ascended  Master  Saint  Germain  has told
us, that  the Books  of the Saint  Germain  Series  in the
Ascended  Masters'  Octave  of Light  are bound  in covers
of jewels. So let us all accept  and  use  the  Power  and  Light
which  the Great  Divine  Director  offers;  and  draw  to
ourselves  our own  from  within  the Light. The  Cosmic xvi FOREWORD
Light  is the activity  of Perfection. Let us all draw  and  call  forth  the  Ascended  Mas-
ters'  Power  and  Victory  of Light  without  limit,  until
mankind,  the  Earth  and  its atmosphere  are  purified
and Free;  and  mankind  no longer  remembers  how  to
destroy. Be an Ambassador  of Light,  to carry  the Light  from
the Ascended  Masters'  Octave  of Light,  until  all un-
like Its Perfection  is dissolved  forever  from  the  Uni-
verse. Lovingly,  "I AM"
Lotus  Ray  King "THE  GREAT  GREAT  SILENCE"
By CHANERA
EPISODE  IV
To the  Heart  of the  Great  Great  Silence,
I now  send  my  Heart's  deepest  Calll
From  the  Heart  of the  Great  Great  Silence,
I draw  Light  to bless  and  free  all. All the  Power  of the  Great  Great  Silence,
I feel  and  direct  in my Love. The Secrets  of the  Great  Great  Silence,
I draw  forth  —Their  Miracles  prove. The Victory  of the  Great  Great  Silence,
I command  with  every  Heartbeat. The Wisdom  from  the  Great  Great  Silence,
Can  never  on Earth  know  defeat. The Peace  from  the  Great  Great  Silence,
I hold  now  —for  Eternity. The Legions  from  the  Great  Great  Silence,
I call  to protect  you  and  me. The Blest  Lords  of the  Great  Great  Silence,
Reign  on Earth  now  forevermore. All Beings  from  the  Great  Great  Silence,
With  our  every  breath,  we  adore. xvii xviii THE  GREAT  GREAT  SILENCE
The Scepter  of the  Great  Great  Silence,
I wield  to give  Earth  Cosmic  Lightl
Each  ones  Sword  from  the Great  Great  Silence,
Is Crystal  and  Pure  Dazzling  Whitel
Life's  "Crystal  Cup"  — the Great  Great  Silence,
Gives  us Strength  and  God's  Liquid  Lightl
The  Jewels  from  the  Great  Great  Silence,
Reveal  each  one's  Power  and  Height. The Substance  from  the  Great  Great  Silence,
Around  us forevermore  flows. The Presence  of the  Great  Great  Silence,
Each  Heart  craves  and  in Silence  knows. The  Angels  from  the  Great  Great  Silence,
Hold  the  hands  of all upon  Earth. The Freedom  from  the  Great  Great  Silence,
Gives  mankind  Its Great  Cosmic  Birth. Obedience  to the  Great  Great  Silence,
Brings  God's  Justice  and  Joy  to man. Our Heart's  Call  to the  Great  Great  Silence,
Brings  to all the  Answer—  "you  can"\
To abide  in the  Great  Great  Silence,
Gives  such  Glory,  no words  can  tell. So join  us in the  Great  Great  Silence,
And  in Peace  There,  let us all dwell. THE  GREAT  GREAT  SILENCE  xix
Lo. the  Voice  from  the  Great  Great  Silence,
Is now  heard  in Life's  Full  Command  —
44 'Cosmic  Light'  is the Great  Great  Silence,
And  wherever  Light  is—7  AM'  "I
Remember  all God  is the Silence,
Remember  all Power  at hand. Remember  all comes  from  the  Silence,
Whenever  you  know  the  "I AM". Now  feel all  the  Light  in the  Silence,
Feel  all of God's  Peace  — in It stand. Now  feel Great  God  Harmony  ruling,
Now  feel all  His  Love  take  command. Now  feel Saint  Germain  and  Our  Godfre,
Now  feel Blessed  Jesus  there  too. Now  feel all  the  Great  Host  of Masters,
Ascended  —the  Silence  come  thru. Feel  Their  Arms  reach  out  and  enfold  us,
Our Freedom  Eternal  bestow. They  are  real\  They  are  True. Almighty. And  all can  Their  True  Presence  know. They  are  all Perfection—Transcendent,
The Silence  is Their  Realm  of Light. O'er  all upon  Earth,  They  are  Master,
Man's  only  protection,  God's  Might. THE  GREAT  GREAT  SILENCE
So we call  to the  Great  Great  Silence,
To open  Its Heart  to us now,
Pour  thru  our  Hearts  all Its Great  Victory,
The Light  to which  all Earth  must  bow. Lo. A Friend  from  the  Great  Great  Silence,
Answers


, dissolve  and  consume  every  particle  of your  accumula-
tion of discord  of the centuries;  in a few  weeks  or a few
months  at most,  if the person  is very  sincere  and  in earnest! Therefore,  Beloved  Ones,  you  have  in your  hands  the
Dominion  to set yourselves  wholly  Free,  no matter  what
the mistakes  of the past  have  been. Is there  any  Greater
Mercy  than  the Presence  of Life,  which  says  to wayward
mankind:  " 'I AM'  not interested  in your  mistakes! I want
you to be Free! As quick  as you  will  listen  to Me,  and  turn
away  from  whatever  has  caused  you  to create  the discord
and limitations  which  you  experience,  then  'I AM'  ready! 'I AM'  the Presence  of all Life,  ready  to forgive  your  mis-
takes,  at your  Call  on the Law  of Forgiveness! 'I AM'  ready
to forget  all which  has been;  and  then  set the Violet  Con-
suming  Flame  into  action  to dissolve  and  consume  every
particle  of that  for you."? Do you  know,  every  one of blessed  mankind  is so good  at DISCOURSE  XVIII  285
Heart;  but  because  destructive  conditions  have  beset  the
people  sometimes,  it has made  them  feel  almost  fiendish. That  does  not belong  to them—never! It is an imposed  con-
dition  from  the generated  creation  of mankind's  discord. The Blessed  Ones  do not know  that  and  sometimes  yield
to destructive  force;  causing  themselves  to loose  their  phys-
ical Freedom  for an entire  embodiment. Look  at your  institutions,  your  asylums,  youi  institutions
of incarceration,  your  prisons,  full  to running  over. Why ? Because  mankind  not  understanding,  has  yielded  to this
impact  and  impulse  of human  discordant  creation. The
people  do not understand  their  power  of qualification  and
what  their  attention  does  in continuous  attention  held  upon
hate,  anger,  condemnation  or whatever  the destructive  con-
dition  may  be. They  have  gone  thru  into  the octave  or
stratum,  where  all the discordant  accumulation  of mankind
is gathered;  and  it has rushed  in upon  them  and  they  are
helpless  before  it. Beloved  Students  and  people  of Detroit! If mankind  un-
derstood  that  one  point  alone,  it would  be worth  a whole
life-time  of experience;  if Individuals  really  grasped  what  it
means! People  have  gone  serenely  along  in their  limita-
tions;  not  knowing  every  time  they  give  way  to some  dis-
cordant  thing,  if it be continued  long  enough,  they  will  go
thru  into  the mass  accumulation  of the discord,  and  the
mass  pressure  will  rush  in upon  them! Beloved  Students,  whom  We love  so greatly,  please  listen
to Us and  give  obedience  to your  Law  of Life,  understand-286 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
ing every  time  you yield  in your  feeling  to discord,  criticism,
condemnation,  judgment  or any  of those  qualities,  which
are destructive;  you  will  invite  the whole  mass  creation  to
enter  your  world  and  act there! Because  previous  under-
standing  has caused  Individuals  to believe  they  were  justi-
fied in self-protection;  or whatever  you  choose  to call  it,
does  not change  the Action  of the Law  of Energy! In the
old statement,  think  of it! "An  eye for an eye and  a tooth
for a tooth,"  which  meant  beat  the other  fellow  to it, in all
those  destructive  qualities. That  is just exactly  what  man-
kind  has been  doing  thru  the centuries! One man  of power—human  power,  says  to his associates:
"Let's  have  a war,"  and  he proceeds  to agitate  certain  ac-
tivities  of mankind  to produce  it! For  what? Praise  to the
"Great  I AM  Presence"  of Life,  mankind  for the first  time
in the history  of the world,  is awakening  to what  the war
forces  are doing! Now,  the Great  Cosmic  Light  has said  to unhappy  man-
kind:  "Your  accumulation  has become  too great!" and  to
the Great  Ascended  Masters,  It has said:  "Let  us help  once
again  and  give  the people  one  more  opportunity  to free
themselves  from  these  conditions;  and  explain  to them  in
a simple  manner,  why  the conditions  have  existed  thruout
the centuries  which  get beyond  their  control." It is all just
because  mankind  has not understood  the Presence  of Life! As you  value  everything  which  you  hold  dear  in your
Life and  the future  of the centuries  before  you,  REMEM-
BER  THAT  CHART  IS CORRECT! It gives  you the ex-DISCOURSE  XVIII  287
act eye picture  of your  position  physically  to your  own  God
Presence,  the "Mighty  I AM";  and  unless  mankind  will
understand  that  and  accept  It, as a Reality  in the feeling
world,  humanity  will  go on, and  on, and  I would  not at-
tempt  to picture  into  what! Oh, Dear  People,  do not make  any mistake  about  Us. We
are not calamity  howlers;  but We are putting  before  you,
the Exact  Truth  of Life,  which  It is your  privilege  to ac-
cept and  utilize,  if you will. If you will  not,  it is quite  your
own  business;  but let Me tell you,  the person  or student
who  has touched  This  Light  and  allows  himself  or herself
to be turned  aside,  by some  silly  human  thing  acting,  is
most  unfortunate  indeed! In every  city where  the Messengers  have  been,  there  have
been  a few,  who  thru  silly  human  gossip,  have  allowed
themselves  to be turned  from  This  Great  Pathway  of Light
—the  most  Beautiful,  Magnificent  Thing  on the face  of
This  Earth. Watch  them! They  will  drink  the dregs  of the
cup, they  have  filled  with  destruction,  and  there  is no de-
scribing  it! We do not wish  it upon  them. The  Messengers
do not wish  it upon  them;  but We have  explained  to you,
the Law  of Life  which  compels  It to act. There  is nothing
but themselves  who  can change  it. So long  as they  allow
their  feeling  to continue  pouring  forth  destructive  discor-
dant  activity;  because  it is their  own  energy  acting. This
energy  flows  thru  naturally,  as We might  say,  thru  your
Life Stream. It is going  all the time. Energy  does  not dis-
criminate! You  are the discriminating  Intelligence  of your 288 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
world;  who  should  say how  your  energy  shall  act thru  you
and your  world;  but  mankind  has  not understood  that. Therefore,  how  were  people  to govern  it? Today,  the Beloved  Saint  Germain  has brought  to you,
the Clear,  Simple  Understanding  which  a child  can com-
prehend. It is Majestic  and  All-powerful  in Its Action,  for
the Individual  when  applied. Let Us take  you by the hand
and help  you  to understand  and  apply  It, with  Dynamic
Power  and  Energy. Then  see how  quickly  your  world
will be first