 Jesus consents, and as he starts toward the home of the High Priest a
woman in the market place touched his garment. “And Jesus, immediately
knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned about in the
press and said, Who touched my clothes. ” (Mark 5:30). The woman who was healed of an issue of blood that she had had for 12
years confessed that she had touched him. “And he said unto her, Daugh -
ter, Thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace. ” (Mark 5:34). As he continues toward the home of the High Priest he is told that the
chld is dead and there is no need to go to resurrect her. She is no longer
asleep, but is now dead. “As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler
of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe. ” (Mark 5:36). “And when he was come in, he saith unto them. Why make ye this ado,
and weep. The damsel is not dead, but sleepth. ” (Mark 5:39). With this the entire crowd mocked and laughed, but Jesus, closing the
doors against the mocking crowd, took with him into the household of
Jairus, his disciples and the father and mother of the dead child. They entered into the room where the damsel was lying. “And he took the
damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. ”
(Mark 5:41). More Free Books Law of Attraction Haven“From this deep sleep she awoke and arose and walked, and the High
Priest and all the others were astonished. And he changed them straightly
that no man should know it; and he commanded that something should
be given her to eat. ” (Mark 5:43). You are this very night, as you are seated here, pictured in this 5th chap -
ter of Mark. A cemetery is for one purpose: it is simply a record of the
dead. Are you living in the dead past. If you are living among the dead, your prejudices, your superstitions, and
your false beliefs that you keep alive are the tombstones behind which
you hide. If you refuse to let them go you are just as mad as the mad
man of the Bible who pleaded with enlightened reason not to cast them
out. There is no difference. But enlightened reason is incapable of protect -
ing prejudice and superstition against the inroads of reason. There is not a man in this world who has a prejudice, regardless of the
nature of the prejudice, who can hold it up to the light of reason. Tell me
you are against a certain nation, a certain race, a certain “ism,” a certain
anything – I do not care what it is – you cannot expose that belief of
yours to the light of reason and have it live. In order that it may be kept
alive in your world you must hide it from reason. You cannot analyze it in
the light of reason and have it live. When this fourth-dimensional focus
comes and shows you a new approach to life and casts out of your own
mind all these things that bedeviled you, you are then cleansed and
clothed in your right mind. And you sit at the foot of understanding, called
the feet of the Master. Now clothed and in your right mind you can resurrect the dead. What
dead. The child in the story is not a child. The child is your ambition, your
desire, the unfulfilled dreams of your heart. This is the child housed within
the mind of man. For as I have stated before, the entire drama of the
Bible is a psychological one. The Bible has no reference at all to any per -
son who ever existed, or any event that ever occurred upon earth. All the
stories of the Bible unfold in the minds of the individual man. In this story Jesus is the awakened intellect of man. When your mind
functions outside of the range of your present senses, when your mind is
healed of all the former limitations, then you are no longer the insane
man; but you are this presence personified as Jesus, the power that can
resurrect the longings of the heart of man. You are now the woman with the issue of blood. What is this issue of
blood. A running womb is not a productive womb. She held it for 12
years, she was incapable of conceiving. She could not give form to her
longing because of the running of the issue of blood. You are told her faith
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenclosed it. As the womb closes it can give form to the seed or idea. As your mind is cleansed of your former concept of self, you assume you
are what you want to be, and remaining faithful to this assumption, you
give form to your assumption or resurrect your child. You are the woman
cleansed of the issue of blood, and you move towards the house of the
dead child. The child or state you desired is now your fixed concept of yourself. But
now having assumed that I am what formerly I desired to be, I cannot
continue desiring what I am conscious of being. So I do not discuss it. I
talk to no one concerning what I am. It is so obvious to me that I am
what I wanted to be that I walk as though I were. Walking as though I am what I formerly wanted to be, my world of limited
focus does not see it and thinks I no longer desire it. The child is dead
within their world; but I, who know the law, say, “The child is not dead. ”
The damsel is not dead, she but sleepeth. I now awaken her, I by my as -
sumption, awaken and make visible in my world what I assume, for as -
sumptions if sustained invariably awaken what they affirm. I close the door. What door. The door of my senses. I simply shut out
completely all that my senses reveal. I deny the evidence of my senses. I
suspend the limited reason of the natural man and walk in this bold asser -
tion that I am what my senses deny. With the door of my senses closed, what do I take into that disciplined
state. I take no one into that state but the parents of the child and my
disciples. I close the door against the mocking, laughing crowd. I no
longer look for confirmation. I completely deny the evidence of my sens -
es, which mock my assumption and do not discuss with others whether
my assumption is possible or not. Who are the parents. We have discovered that the father-mother of all
creation is man's I Amness. Man's consciousness is God. I am conscious
of the state. I am the father-mother of all my ideas and my mind remains
faithful to this new concept of self. My mind is disciplined. I take into that
state the disciples, and I shut out of that state everything that would
deny it. Now the child, unaided by man, is resurrected. The condition which I de -
sired and assumed I had, becomes objectified within my world and bears
witness to the power of my assumption. You be the judge, I cannot judge you. You are either living now in the
dead past, or you are living as the woman whose issue of blood has been
staunched. Could you actually answer me if I asked you the question: “Do
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenyou believe now that you, without the assistance of another, need only as -
sume that you are what you want to be, to make that assumption real
within your world. Or do you believe that you must first fulfill a certain
condition imposed upon you by the past, that you must be of a certain or -
der, a certain something. ”
I am not being critical of certain churches or groups, but there are those
who believe that anyone outside of their church or group is not yet saved. I was born a Protestant. You talk to a Protestant, there is only one Chris -
tian, a Protestant. You talk to a Catholic, why there is nothing in the world
that is a Christian but a Catholic. You talk to a Jew, and the Christians are
heathens, and the Jews are the chosen. You talk to a Mohammedan, Jews
and Christians are the infidels. You talk to someone else and all these are
the untouchables. It does not matter to whom you talk, they are always
the chosen ones. If you believe that you must be one of these in order to be saved, you are
still an insane man hiding behind these superstitions and these prejudices
of the past, and you are begging not to be cleansed. Some of you say to me, “Do not ask me to give up my belief in Jesus the
man, or in Moses the man, or in Peter the man. When you ask me to give
up my belief in these characters you are asking too much. Leave me
these beliefs because they comfort me. I can believe that they lived upon
earth and still follow your psychological interpretation of their stories. ”
I say, come out of the dead past. Come out of that cemetery and walk,
knowing that you and your Father are one, and your Father, who men call
God, is your own consciousness. That is the only creative law in the world. Of what are you conscious of being. Although you cannot see your objec -


 days?" I replied,
"No, and thank goodness I didn't know, so that thought was not
in my head! I just knew I could do it, and that I could do it fast." (Sometimes less information is better!) Dr. Johnson eliminated an "incurable" disease from his own body,
so the restoration of my eyesight seemed like nothing to me, com-
pared with his own miracle story. In fact, I expected my eyesight
to come back overnight, so three days was no miracle in my mind. Remember, time and size do not exist in the Universe. It is as easy
to heal a pimple as a disease. The process is identical; the difference
is in our minds. So if you have attracted some affliction to you,
reduce it in your mind to the size of a pimple, let go of all negative
thoughts, and then focus on the perfection of health. I believe and know that nothing is incurable. At some point in time,
every so-called incurable disease has been cured. In my mind, and
in the world I create, "incurable" does not exist. There is plenty of
room for you in this world, so come join me and all who are here. It is the world where "miracles" are everyday occurrences. It is a
world overflowing with total abundance, where all good things
exist now, within you. Sounds like heaven, doesn't it? It is. DR. JOHN DEMARTINI
I always say that incurable means "curable from within." 136 The Secret
MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH
You can change your life and you can heal yourself. MORRIS GOODMAN
AUTHORAND INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER
My story begins on March 10,1981. This day
really changed my whole life. It was a day I'll
never forget. I crashed an airplane. I ended up
in the hospital completely paralyzed. My spinal cord
was crushed, I broke the first and second cervical vertebrae,
my swallowing reflex was destroyed, I couldn't eat or drink,
my diaphragm was destroyed, I couldn't breathe. All I could
do was blink my eyes. The doctors, of course, said I'd be a
vegetable the rest of my life. All I'd be able to do is blink my
eyes. That's the picture they saw of me, but it didn't matter
what they thought. The main thing was what I thought. I
pictured myself being a normal person again, walking out of
that hospital. The only thing I had to work with in the hospital was my
mind, and once you have your mind, you can put things back
together again. I was hooked to a respirator and they said I'd never breathe
on my own again because my diaphragm was destroyed. But a little voice kept saying to me, "Breathe deeply, breathe
deeply." And finally I was weaned from it. They were at a
loss for an explanation. I could not afford to allow anything The Secret to Health 137
to come into my mind that would distract me from my goal or
from my vision. I had set a goal to walk out of the hospital on Christmas. And I did. I walked out of the hospital on my own twofeet. They said it couldn't be done. That's a day I will never
forget
For people who are sitting out there right now and are hurting, if I
wanted to sum up my life and sum up for people what they can do in
life, I would sum it up in six words: "Man becomes what he thinks
about." Morris Goodman is known as The Miracle Man. His story was
chosen for The Secret because it demonstrates the unfathomable
power and unlimited potential of the human mind. Morris knew
the power within him to bring about what he chose to think
about. Everything is possible. Morris Goodman's story has in-
spired thousands of people to think, imagine, and feel their way
back to health. He turned the greatest challenge of his life into the
greatest gift. Since the film The Secret was released, we have been inundated
with miracle stories of all types of diseases dissolving from peo-
ple's bodies after they watched The Secret. All things are possible
when you believe. On the subject of health I would like to leave you with these illu-
minating words from Dr. Ben Johnson: "We are now entering the 138 The Secret
era of energy medicine. Everything in the Universe has a frequency
and all you have to do to is change a frequency or create an op-
posite frequency. That's how easy it is to change anything in the
world, whether that's disease or emotional issues or whatever that
is. This is huge. This is the biggest thing that we have ever come
across." The placebo effect is an example of the law of attraction in action. When a patient truly believes the tablet is a cure, he receives what
he believes and is cured. "Focusing on perfect health " is something we can all do within our-
selves, despite what may be happening on the outside. Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous
cures. Disease is held in the body by thought, by observation of the illness,
and by the attention given to the illness. If you are feeling a little
unwell, don't talk about it —unless you want more of it. If you lis-
ten to people talk about their illness, you add energy to their illness. Instead, change the conversation to good things, and give powerful
thoughts to seeing those people in health. Beliefs about aging are all in our minds, so release those thoughts
from your consciousness. Focus on health and eternal youth. Do not listen to society's messages about diseases and aging. Nega-
tive messages do not serve you. 139 LISA NICHOLS
People have a tendency to look at the things that they want
and say, "Yes, I like that, I want that." However, they look
at the things that they don't want and they give them just as
much energy, if not more, with the idea that they can stamp it
out, they can eliminate it, obliterate it. In our society, we've
become content with fighting against things. Fighting against
cancer, fighting against poverty, fighting against war, fighting
against drugs, fighting against terrorisim, fighting against
violence. We tend to fight everything we don't want, which
actually creates more of a fight. HALE DWOSKIN
TEACHER AND AUTHOR OF THE SEDONA METHOD
Anything we focus on we do create. So if we're really
angry, for instance, at a war that's going on, or strife,
141 142 The Secret
BOB DOYLE
The reason that what you resist persists is because if you're
resisting something, you're saying, "No, I don't want this thing,
because it makes me feel this way—the way I am feeling right
now." So you're putting out a really strong emotion of, "I really
don't like this feeling," and then it comes racing toward you. Resistance to anything is like trying to change the outside pictures
after they have been transmitted. It's a futile pursuit. You have to
go within and emit a new signal with your thoughts and feelings to
create the new pictures. As you resist what has appeared, you are adding more energy and
more power to those pictures you don't like, and you are bringing
more of them at a furious rate. The event or circumstances can only
get bigger, because that is the law of the Universe. JACK CANFIELD
The anti-war movement creates more war. The anti-drug
movement has actually created more drugs. Because we're
focusing on what we don't want—drugs! or suffering, we're adding our energy to it. We're pushing
ourselves, and that only creates resistance. "What you resist persists." The Secret to the World 143
LISA NICHOLS
People believe that if we really want to eliminate something,
focus on that. How much sense does it make for us to give
the particular problem all of the energy, as opposed to
focusing on trust, love, living in abundance, education, or
peace? JACK CAN FIELD
Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, "I will never attend an
anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me." She knew. She understood The Secret. Look what she manifested in the
world. HALE DWOSKIN
So if you're anti-war, be pro-peace instead. If you're anti-
hunger, be pro-people having more than enough to eat. If you
are anti-a-particular politician, be pro-his opponent. Often
elections are tipped in favor of the person that the people are
really against, because he's getting all the energy and all the
focus. Everything in this world began with one thought. The bigger things
get bigger because more people give their thoughts to it after it has
appeared. Then those thoughts and emotions keep that very event
in our existence, and make it bigger. If we took our minds off it and
focused instead on love, it could not exist. It would evaporate and
disappear. 144 The Secret
"Remember, and this is one of the most difficult
as well as most wonderful statements to grasp. Remember that no matter what the difficulty is,
no matter where it is, no matter who is affected,
you have no patient but yourself; you have


 fight with spears
under water with marvelous skill. Their physiques are magnificent. In a group of 190 boys who had
been gathered into a government school near the east coast of Lake Victoria only one boy was
found with dental caries, and two of his teeth had been affected. The people dry the fish which are
carried far inland. Uganda which lies to the north and west of Lake Victoria and west of Kenya, is high and
although on the equator, has an equitable climate with an abundance of native foods. Two crops
per year are produced, and many varieties of bananas grow wild. The Buganda Tribe, Uganda, is
the chief tribe of this region. Uganda has been called the Garden of Eden of Africa because of its
abundance of plant foods, chiefly bananas and sweet potatoes, and because of its abundance of
fresh water fish and animal life. The natives are thrifty and mentally superior to those of most other
districts. They have a king and a native parliament which the British Government recognizes and
entrusts with local administrative affairs. A typical group was studied in a mission at Masaka. An
examination of 664 teeth of twenty-one individuals revealed only three teeth with caries, or 0.4 per
cent. West Nile Laborers from the Belgian Congo. The West Nile Laborers studied at Masaka
represent a very strong and dependable group. They come from districts north of Lake Albert in
Belgian Congo. They are much sought for in industrial enterprises and are often moved in groups
for a considerable distance. A study of 984 teeth of thirty-one individuals revealed that only three teeth had ever been
attacked by tooth decay, or 0.3 per cent. Only one individual had dental caries. As one travels down the West Nile and later along the western border of Ethiopia many unique
tribes are met. A typical negroid type of the upper Nile region is shown in Fig. 42. Members of
these tribes wear little or no clothing. They have splendid physiques and high immunity to dental
caries. 7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 90/250FIG. 42. The reward of obeying nature's laws of nutrition is
illustrated in this west Nile tribe in Belgian Congo. Note the
breadth of the dental arches and the finely proportioned
features. Their bodies are as well built as their heads. Exceedingly few teeth have been attacked by dental caries
while on their native foods. After the confluence of the White Nile and West Nile, the former draining Lake Victoria and the
Uganda lakes through Uganda, and the latter, Lakes Kivu, Edwards and Albert and eastern
Belgian Congo, the volume of water moving northward is very large. A unique obstruction to
navigation has developed due to the fact that the Nile runs underground for a considerable
distance. In this district vegetation is rank and prolific, including large quantities of water plants
which form islands that are often attached temporarily to the shore. The water carries large
quantities of alluvia which furnish an abundance of nutriment to the floating plant life. Accordingly,
in many of these floating islands a large quantity of soil is enmeshed in the plant roots. At some
period in the past the river became bridged across in upper Sudan near its southern border. With
the progressive addition of new material a large natural bridge has been raised on which trees are
now growing, and across which are elephant trails. This and a series of rapids require a detour of
over a hundred miles. The elephants are so plentiful in this district that both in Uganda and Sudan the governments
have been required to send in special hunters to reduce the herds. In one district in Uganda two
hundred were said to have been slaughtered. They are very destructive to banana plantations. They break the banana trees over or pull them up by the roots and eat the succulent heart as well
as the fruits. In a night a herd may destroy an entire plantation. The only people in the districts who
are permitted to kill the elephants without license are the pygmies. They are also the only ones not
required to pay a head tax. There are many tribes of them in the great forest area in Belgian Congo
and Uganda. Their skill with spears is remarkable and they are able to kill an elephant while the
animal remains unaware of his danger. It takes them one to two days to hamstring an elephant by
working stealthily from behind, always keeping out of the elephant's sight. Although an elephant
can scent a human for a long distance, these pygmies can disguise themselves so completely that
the elephant is unaware of their presence. After disabling him by cutting the tendons of both hind
legs, they attack him openly and, while one attracts his attention, the other slowly but progressively
hacks off his trunk. In this manner he bleeds to death. They are particularly fond of elephant meat
and a slaughter means a great feast. While we were in one of the pygmy colonies two of them
brought in the tusks of an elephant they had just killed. We had the rare opportunity of witnessing
the celebration in the colony, which included the special reproduction in pantomime of the attack
and method of killing the elephant. The pygmy mother of these two men is shown in Fig. 43 (lower
half). It will be noticed that she is a full head shorter than Mrs. Price, who is five feet three inches
tall. This rugged, though small, woman is the mother of five grown men, two of whom are shown in
Fig. 43 with the tusks of the elephant. Note their homemade spears. As marksmen with bows and
arrows and as trappers, these pygmies have wonderful skill. Their arrows are tipped with iron of
their own manufacture and have receptacles for carrying drugs which they extract from plants. These drugs temporarily paralyze the animals. For animals which they wish to destroy the arrows
carry a poison which rapidly produces death. The home life of the pygmies in the forest is often
filled with danger. Just before our arrival two babies had been carried off by a leopard. This
stealthy night prowler is one of the most difficult animals to combat and probably has been one of
the reasons the pygmies build cabins in the trees. Ordinarily their homes are built on the ground in a
little clearing in the big forest. They consist of low shelters covered with banana leaves and other
plants, built over a frame work. The native missionary dispensed our gift of salt which is one of
their most prized gifts. They put on a dance for us.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 91/250FIG. 43. The Pygmies of Belgian Congo are expert hunters. The two young men in the center above have slain single
handed the large bull elephant whose tusks they are holding. The spears used are shown. They are two of five grown sons
of the pygmy mother standing next to Mrs. Price in the lower
picture. Their teeth are excellent and their knowledge of
foods unique. Pygmies, Ituru Forest, Belgian Congo. These people are said to have originally lived in the
trees and they were exceedingly shy and difficult to contact. We were taken to several of their
villages in the heart of the dense Ituru forest. We found them very well disposed through the
confidence that has been established by the mission workers. Their shyness, however, together
with the difficulty of making them understand through two transfers of languages, made an
examination of their teeth very difficult. A study of 352 teeth of twelve individuals revealed eight teeth had been attacked by tooth
decay, or 2.2 per cent. The native tribes of Africa have depended to a great extent on fresh water fish from the
numerous lakes and rivers for certain of their essential food factors. After being dried in the sun
these fish are carried long distances into the interior. The Nile perch grows frequently to a weight
of 150 pounds. The natives of Africa know that certain insects are very rich in special food values
at certain seasons, also that their eggs are valuable foods. A fly that hatches in enormous quantities
in Lake Victoria is gathered and used fresh and dried for storage. They also use ant eggs and ants. Nyankunde Mission, Iruinu, Belgian Congo. This group is made up of members of the
Bahema, Babira, Alur and Balendu tribes. We will consider the representatives of these different
tribes collectively since they live largely on a common dietary consisting chiefly of cereals. Only the7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 92/250Bahemas of this group have small herds of cattle. Some of the others have a few goats. This
district is located southwest of Lake Albert. A study of 6,461 teeth of 217 individuals revealed 390 teeth with dental caries, or 6 per cent. Thirty-eight and seven-tenths per cent of the individuals suffered from dental caries. Bogora Mission, Belgian Congo. This mission is located west of Lake Albert and includes
members of the Bahema and Balendu tribes. While the Bahema tribe originally lived very largely on
cattle products, milk, blood and meat, in this district, the herds were small and they were using a
considerable quantity of cereals, chiefly corn and beans, some sweet potatoes and bananas. These
latter were the chief foods of


 Leonard J. Ravitz, M.S., M.D. Tree Potentials and External Factors... Ralph Markson, M.A. The author wishes to express his thanks to the authors listed
above for their kind permission to publish their important papers
in this book. Appendix
Bibliography of H. S. Burr. THE IM PLICA TIONS OF THE
ELECTRO-MET RIC TES T IN CANCER OF
THE FEMA LE GEN ITAL TRACT *
Louis Langman, M.D., F.A.C.S. (An investigation made in the Department of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology, New York University, College of Medicine;
Obstetrical and Gynaecological Service of the Third (N.Y.U.) Surgical Division, Bellevue Hospital)
In a former publication a tec hnique (1) was described for measur
ing field forces in the intact human being. The hypothesis that
cancer is fundamentally the result of an alteration of the organ
izational field forces in the living system was advanced. It was
demonstrated that when measures of these field forces are
properly made, obvious differences in the field properties of
patients, with and without malignancy, can be determined. A
polar reversal of the field forces between the cervix and the ven
tral abdominal wall was shown to exist in most patients with
malignancy involving the female generative tract. Atypical
growth in this system is accessible, it occurs all too frequently,
and the diagnostic procedures while not perfect are reasonably
adequate for recognition of cell morphology. The technique as reported in an earlier paper made it possible
to record the changes in voltage gradient which exists between
the human cervix uteri and some indifferent point on the sur
face of the body, such as the skin of the lower abdomen. Thus,
electrical changes in the intact organism with minimal disturb
ance in normal physiologic processes could be recorded. * The gratitude of the author is hereby expressed to Professor
Sebastian B. Littaue r, Department of Industrial Engineering, Colum
bia University, New York, who was responsible for the statistical
analysis of the findings presented in this paper. 137 SELEC TED PA PERS
The technique in brief consisted of a micro-voltmeter (a
vacuum tube Wheatstone Bridge) connected through silver-silver
chloride electrodes in physiological salt solution, on the one hand
to the patient and on the other leading to a General Electric
photoelectric recorder. * The reference or 'cold' electrode is held
by a suitable bandage on the lower abdominal wall; the active
or 'hot' electrode is introduced into the vagina until the tip comes
to rest in the posterior fornix. The standing potential between
these two leads appears on the recorder as a movement of the
pen, either to the right or to the left of an arbitrary selected zero
point. To the right indicates that the active electrode is positive
to the reference electrode, movement to the left that it is nega
tive to the reference electrode. In a preliminary report (2) approxima tely half of the 30 cases
reported were women with clinical evidence of malignancy, con
firmed by pathological examination, and in whom a characteris
tic negativity of the cervix with respect to the lower abdominal
wall was recorded. The remainder of the cases consisted of non
malignant conditions of the female generative tract including
fibromyomata uteri, ovarian cysts, pelvic inflamma tory disease,
chronic cervicitis, and uterine bleeding due to a variety of causes. In contrast to the malignancies, all but three of this latter group
showed a significant positivity of the cervix with respect to the
lower abdominal walL
In the more recent paper (1) the electro-metric observations in
428 women were reported. In 75 patients with known cancer
of the female generative tract, 98'7% showed the cervix to be
consistentl y electro-negative to the ventral abdominal wall. In
353 patients suffering from non-malignant conditions, 289
showed the cervix to be positive with respect to the abdomen
(81'9%)·
It was suggested that the electro-neg ativity of the cervix
observed in the 64 patients with non-malignant conditions may
represent an organizational weakness in the controls of growth
* Since this investigation was made more modern instrume nts
have become available as described elsewh ere in this book. These
will make it easier to apply the electro-metric techniques described in
this paper, as an aid in understanding cancer. 138 SEL ECTED PAPERS
and differentiation in the organism in whom anyone of a wide
variety of stimuli may be sufficient to initiate atypical growth. The correlation of nega tivity with ovulation has been previously
reported (3) so that if eight cases believed to be influenced by this
process are excluded, this latter group can be reduced to 56. SOURCE OF MATERIAL IN PRESENT STUDY :
The results of a continuation of this study extended to a
larger group of women (860) have continued to show the same
electro-metric difference between patients suffering from benign
and malignant pelvic disease and suggests the possibility that
this technique may be of value as a screening method in the
detection of early malignancy in the pelvic organs of the female. A considera tion of this possibility forms the basis of this com
munication. The observations were made on women admitted to the
Gynaecological Service in Bellevue Hospital and comprise suc
cessive admissions to the wards over a period of one and a half
years. Some were admitted for diagnostic reasons, in others the
diagnosis was clinically obvious. Nearly all had some gynaeco
logical complaint. An attempt was made to study the electro
metric pattern in all women admitted with malignancy or
suspected of having malignancy. Cases for study in the non-mal
ignant group were selected at random. Normal women summar
ized in Table IV, represents a group of individuals comparable to
those in a non-hospital population with no gynaecological ab
normality. Medical technicians and a few of their friends com
prise approxima tely 15 % of this group. Table I shows the observations on patients with pelvic malig
nancy according to age groups. In an these cases the diagnosis of cancer was made after care
ful histological studies. During the period reported, electro
metric studies were made on nearly all patients admitted with a
diagnosis of cancer or suspected of having cancer, regardless of
the stage of the disease and in many instances, prior to the
pathological diagnosis. As is readily seen in Table I, a nega tive potential was recorded
in all patients with malignancy except in five, for which no
139 SE LEC TED PAPER S
TABLE I
ELECTRO-METRIC OBSE RVATIONS IN PELVIC MA LIGNANCY
DIAGl'iOSIS AGE AGE AGE AGE AGE TOTALS
21-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 (i 1 and over
POS NEG pas NEG POS NEG pas NEG POS NEG
Intra-cpi thel ial* 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 7
Stage I 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 3 0 1 8
Stage II I 0 1 2 0 3 I 5 0 6 19
Stage III 0 0 0 9 0 5 0 4 0 8 26
Stage IV 0 0 0 3 0 8 0 4 0 7 22
Adenoca rcinoma 0 I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 I 2
Carcinoma of Fundus 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 7 0 6 18
Carcinoma of Ovary 0 I 0 2 I 2 1 3 0 3 13
Carcinoma of Vagina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 I
Carcinoma of Vulva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Sarcoma of Uterus 0 0 0 1 0 I 0 0 0 0
Metastatic Carcinoma 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
* Two additional cases of intra-epit heliaI carcinoma of the cervix have
been studied electro-met rically subsequent to the cases recorded in this table. A positive potential was observed in one, and a negative potential in the
other, so that in eight out of nine instances of intra-epithel ial cancer a
negative potential was recorded. explanation is offered. Unusual malignant neoplasms are present
in this group including one case of carcinoma of the bladder
thought to be primary, one granu10sa cell tumour of ovary, one
dysgerminoma and a squamous cell carcinoma arising in a der
moid cyst, in all of whom a negative potential was observed. Of
the five patients in whom a positive potential was observed, three
were in women with epithelioma of the cervix, stage


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M etabolic Supplem entation
W e m ust p ro vid e  the p ro p e r m e ta b o lic s u p p o rt o f in d ivid u a ls
w hose physicians have diagnosed m a lig n a n t tu m o rs. These in d ivid u a ls should have th e  p ro p e r vita m in s,
m ine rals, a n ti-o xid a n ts and enzym es. W e  m ust n o t o ve rlo a d  th e  bo dy w ith  excessive n u trie n ts
th a t w o u ld  p ro d u ce  to xin s beyond th e  ca p a city
o f th e  bo dy to  rem ove such to x ic  debris. The 1994 Hatch Act
Allows Individuals and Physicians
to Support the Metabolic Needs of the Body
Since 1994 and the passage of the Hatch Act, individuals and physicians may
legally support human metabolism by diet, nutritional supplements and certain
procedures as long as they are not harmful. In fact, for many years it has been
accepted that one must add vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, amino acids, etc. to
the human diet to support and maintain health. We are bombarded daily with the
advertising of many "fortified" products that inform us of the necessity of supplying
the body's metabolic needs. Missing Nutrients
The modern diet is quite deficient in certain foods that have in the past been
mainstays of good nutrition and the support of health. The most outstanding missing
group as a whole is the organ meats, such as kidney, liver, stomach, intestinal tract
tripe, and lung. These health-building foods are unheard of and unavailable in
today's society. To get these today one must obtain them in the form of nutritional
supplements. 102
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Sweetbreads
Pancreas tissue, or sweetbreads, without question is the most deficient item in our
food chain. It should be noted that the pancreas is the most needed of all the missing
organ meats from our diets. It must be supplied in our diets or serious deficiencies
result. Low temperature processed pancreas gland enzymes are available to the public in
various metabolic formulas. These nutritional products are designed to support the
normal metabolic processes of human metabolism. Metabolic Nutritional Supplementation
Dr. Kelley's Metabolic Formulas are produced under his direct supervision. These
very Formulas are the ones his counselees have taken and used over the past 42 years
and have proven to be helpful to thousands. His metabolic Supplements are listed at
www.DrWDKelley.com, Dr. Kelley's web site. They are also available in a separate,
downloadable, E-book format. 103
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Dr. Kelley's
METABOLIC SUPPORT PROGRAM
Metabolic Nutritional Support For Health
Objective
We must provide the proper metabolic support of individuals whose physicians
have diagnosed malignant tumors. These individuals should have the proper vitamins,
minerals, anti-oxidants and enzymes. We must not overload the body with excessive
nutrients that would produce toxins beyond the capacity of the body to remove such
toxic debris. Time Commitment
It takes a minimum of four years of proper metabolic support in addition your
physician's protocol to reduce the malignant tumor mass to the point health can be
attained an the body rebuilt. This is the beginning. Following the strict procedure Dr.
Kelley developed must become one's life style for years to come. Health and well
being is the goal and reward for diligence. It has taken him 40 years of constant vigil
and maintenance to remain "cancer free"
Fear
The most difficult obstacle to overcome for one afflicted with a malignant tumor
mass is the advanced technology of evaluation and monitoring of one's condition. Scans, MRI's, Cancer Marker Tests of all kinds, shapes and expenses can not treat one
malignant tumor cell. As wonderful and advanced as they are, they have caused more
damage and fear than can ever justify their existence or use. The use of such technology programs is the source of calamitous control of the
patient's actions of choosing the process of remission and real cure for pancreatic
failure. Many times this technology instills "giving-up" and produces acceptance of
death and loss of hope within the mind of the cancer victim. It would have been
much better if the medical community used the already proven scientific evaluation
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systems, instead of developing such instruments of doom and disaster. "Why do I have to take so many pills?" Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program has succeeded with a high percentage
of former cancer patients because it reverses the process of degeneration. You have
cancer because you allowed your overall general health to degenerate; Metabolic
Medicine's Cancer Cure Program helps you to regenerate. Dr. Kelley does not deny that his approach applies extreme measures. He
maintains that extreme measures are required when you have allowed your health to
fall so low that your have left yourself vulnerable to cancer. He has identified four
major lines of defense against cancer: the pancreas; the immune system; mineral
balance; calcium metabolism. All of them depend heavily on nutrition for their
strength. You take so many pills because Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program leaves
nothing to chance. You take so many pills in order to be sure that your glands w ill be totally
supported, your immune system highly stimulated, and your body chemistry properly
balanced. You take so many pills because the objective of Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure
Program is to turn your degeneration into your regeneration. For the curren t up-dated Program List of
M e ta b o lic  N u tritio n a l Supplem ents
approved & recom m ended by Dr. Kelley,
please go to:
h tt p ://w w w.D r W D K e lle y.c o m
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Metabolic Nutritional Support Program
Cancer is  essentially a deficiency disease; a deficiency of the pancreatic enzymes. This is  a deficiency of the free, active pancreatic enzymes in the tissues of the body. Special Note
All persons, people, creeds and inhabitants of today's state of so-called
'civilization' with a diagnosis of "cancer" are without question "thyroid deficient",
and your thyroid gland is defective, damaged, destroyed and/or inhibited. Since the
1930's it has been one of the major techniques of our common enemy, the medical,
pharmaceutical, dental and political communities, to use this technique to decrease
the population by using their very effective weapon: Cancer. "Cancer" has progressed since the 1930's from one in 8,000 to "nine out of ten"
today, and it is planned by The Establishment to increase substantially. Cancer is the
establishment's goose that lays "Golden Eggs". Since my bout with terminal pancreatic cancer in 1962 I  have taken 3 grains of
Armour Natural Thyroid each morning. Your physician must give you a prescription
for this medication. Remember, the use of synthetic thyroid does not work. Neither
does the hundreds of defective, altered thyroid preparations sold by the alternative
health care physicians and nutritional supplement companies. You must regulate the dosage of natural thyroid with the help of your doctor. You should maintain a temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit each day upon
jumping out of bed. If you are too nervous or can't sleep, reduce the dosage of your
Thyroid intake to 2 grains or even 1  grain daily. You may also be iodine deficient. Test by painting a 3 inch area of iodine on
your skin - stomach, arm or leg. If it is absorbed into the body in less than 24 hours
you are iodine deficient and you should take an iodine supplement. May our Father Yahweh, I  AM that I  AM, Almighty extend His loving kindness,


 a paradigm jump at conscious
ness level 500 (Love). Whereas reason is linear and
objective, Love is a different dimension as it is nonlin
ear and subjective. Thus, it is said that reason is of the
mind (the brain), whereas Love is of the being (the
heart). At its emergence, love is selective and conditional,
but as it evolves, it progressively becomes a lifestyle
and a way of relating to all life. Love emanates from
within the Self and is an expression of happiness. Love
nurtures and supports life and is the beginning of a A MAP 0 F CONSCI0 USNESS 29
revelation. Brain neurotransmitters change, beginning
with the release of eildorphins, which opens up mil
lions of banks of neurons that up to this time have
been waiting for this energy field to activate them. Scientists are currently researching the whole field of
endorphins (e.g., oxytocin is associated with concern
for others and socialization). Unconditional Love at calibration level 540 is the
energy field of healing and also that of the twelve-step
groups. There is a rise in the intensity of the energy
field of aliveness, so it is preferable to be around that
kind ofpeople because they make us feel more alive by
giving out energy to the field itself. At the bottom levels ofconsciousness are situations
of lose-lose. People lose, and those who become associ
ated with them 10se.This point ofview is one oflosing,
so the person says,"Everywhere I look, there is a closed
door. IfI go this way, I'll lose. "They see life as a losing
proposition. The people in the middle calibration range
look at life as win-lose. Their pridefulness and the
polarization of angriness cause them to see the world
as one of competition, conflict, and win-lose. "If I win,
then you 10se. "They have endless unconscious fears of
retaliation because they look at success as vanqUishing
and expect retaliation. "If we beat somebody in this
game, we cannot really win because, after all, he has
friends that may come looking for us some day, so we
can never relax:'
The people at 500 conceptualize and hold life as a
win-win situation. When they win, everybody wins
the family, the company-so the more money the com~
pany makes, the better for the employees. Companies 30 HEALING AND RECOVERY
seek people in the 500s; they do not have to look for
jobs, invitations, or relationships because employers
want to hire them. They call and say,"Wouldn't you like
to work for us? Wouldn't you like to be vice president
of marketing for our company?" Employers and others
seek out those persons at the higher levels. Correlation of Levels of Consciousness
and Societal Problems
Level of Rate of Rate of Happiness Rate Rate of
Consciousness Unemployment Poverty "Life is OK" Criminality
600+ 0% 0.0% 100% 0.0%
500-600 0% 0.0% 98% 0.5%
400-500 2% 0.5% 70% 2.0%
300-400 7% 1.0% 50% 5.0%
200-300 8% 1.5% 40% 9.0%
100-200 50% 22.0% 15% 50.0%
50-100 75% 40.0% 2% 91.0%
<50 97% 65.0% 0% 98.0%
As we move up towards 540, inner joy, quiet, and
inner knowingness begin to take place. Within this
energy field, we connect with something that is rock
likeandeverpresent.Thisis the beginning ofthetrans
figuration of consciousness, the beginning of an inner
serenity, and the opening of compassion. At 560, there
is Ecstasy-an exquisite, inner knowingness and trans
figuration of consciousness that lead to states of illumi
nation (sainthood is at level 570) as it gets closer to the
600s. The energy field of Compassion is one that can be
elected.We can make a commitment to lovingness as a A MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS 31
way of being, so this requires no belief in God or any
theological spiritual system. It is a commitment to lov
ingness that nurtures and supports life in all its expres
sions. It sees Divinity in all things as it moves up to an
even higher level where it begins to see the perfection
of all life. Compassion is a way of knowing and looking into
the hearts of others. Due to the release of endorphins
at this level of revelation and transfiguration, there
comes an awareness that the separation between one
self as an individual and another self as an individual
starts to break down. It is almost like the beginning of
a oneness of the heart, a knowingness-not a thinking
ness, but a way of being. The level of revelation in the high 500s then opens
the way to transfiguration and compassion that lead to
ecstasy and the states close to 600.These are states of
bliss and the beginning of states of illumination and
enlightenment. They are often accompanied by feelings
of Light. For example, the room lit up whe~ BillWilson
of AA had his spiritual experience. He said the room
was lit by the Infinite Presence (cal. 575).That was the
beginning of the approach to the energy field of 600. The Radiance suffused out into the world as the world
wide, great Twelve-Step movement through which
Alcoholics Anonymous has brought about the recovery
of millions of people. The energy field called Bliss, at 600, is very impor
tant in relation to addictions because the field trans
forms a person's life.The person who falls into samadhi
(deep meditation) by accident goes into a transcenden
tal state when they reach 600 or higher. Usually that 32 HEALING AND RECOVERY
person's life is changed thereafter. People who have
near-death occurrences experience those fields over
600, including their own higher Self.Those levels go on
up to Infmity and are the realm of various world
famous spiritual teachers. The energy field of Krishna, the Christ, and the
Buddha is 1,000, and the field progresses on up to
Infmity. The people at those levels have such enor
mous power that that we call them avatars. As an
Avatar, in the three years of his ministry, Jesus Christ
totally transformed the consciousness of all mankind
for thousands of years to come. He transformed lives
on the horizontal as well as the vertical planes, which
are fields of enormous power. The lower energy fields are like clouds covering the
sun.As we remove the clouds, we experience the sun,
which is always shining. In the chapter about addic
tions, we make a very precise point that it is not the
removal of the clouds that causes the sun to shine,
which is what the addicted person begins to think. People who get addicted to anything think thatA causes
B causes C.The removal of this left-brain type of think
ing and linear causality is the whole purpose of spiritu
al work, which is the removal ofthe clouds so that one
experiences the shining forth of the Self. Energy fields are so powerful that they dominate
our perception. They are really portals out ofwhich we
see the world. We often hear that this is really just a
world ofmirrors, and that all we experience is our own
energy field reflected back upon us as perception and
experiencing. We will look at perception, the view of
the world, and the view of life as it comes out of these A MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS 33
various energy fields. As we said in the beginning, guilt (cal. 30)-that
field of self-hatred and destructive energy-sees a
world of sin and suffering. Therefore, that person walk
ing down the street looks around and sees only suffer
ing.When they open the newspaper, they also see the
endless suffering of mankind. The people who are in the energy field of hopeless
ness and despair (cal. 50) literally see a hopeless world. When they open the newspaper, they notice the hope
less condition of mankind, the endless wars, poverty,
and crime.They actually experience perceptually, visu
ally, auditorily-through all the senses-a world of
hopelessness. The God of a hopeless world is dead. The personsinadispirited state ofgrief,regret,loss,
and despondency come from the loss of the will to
live. They walk down the street and see a sad world. This is actually experienced. We know that when we
are in a sad state and walk down the street, we see the
children and old people and think;' How sad. "We look
.at the buildings, see mankind's condition when we
open the newspaper, and think how sad life is. Our
own energy field is


occurring within consciousness, then consciousness
is more powerful than the mind, which is more pow
erful than the senses, which are more powerful than
the body; therefore, we can bring about a shift in the
body by merely addressing that consciousness. Ifwe 335 LOSING WEIGHT
address the problem there, because the body will only
do what is held in mind, then we really do not have to
bother much with the body; it will just automatically
correct itself because the problem is really a problem
within the experience within consciousness itself. The techniques we use have to do with the mind
and consciousness, so we do not have to be very con
cerned with handling the body as such. The body is an
effect ofwhat happens in the mind. Consequently, the
attempts to solve the weight problem, which are
addressed to the body only, are notoriously unsuccessful. Nearly every month, there are headlines on endless
magazine covers and in newspapers that are selling a
new diet. This lets us know that diets do not work. When there are multiple solutions to a problem and
endless articles on the same phenomenon, it is obvi
ous they do not have the answer. If there were an
answer to the weight problem, there would not be
any articles on diets at all because everyone would
have handled it. Addressing it on the physical level
alone just does not work. It also does not work for any
other problems that involve complicated human
behavior. Problems such as alcoholism and many illnesses,
including duodenal ulcers and diverticulitis, are noto
riously nonresponsive to being addressed on the
physical level only. We have to become more sophisti
cated and conscious to bring about a resolution of
long-standing behavioral problems. The technique, which I used personally to lose
thirty percent of my body weight (ftfty pounds) some
years ago, enabled me to reach my desired weight. It 336 HEALING AND RECOVERY
only takes a matter of minutes over a day or two-col
lectively, about only sixty to ninety minutes of a per
son's time and attention. You can actually do this
while you are going about your daily activities at
home or in the office, and even while driving back
and forth to work. Itworks right into your life and eas
ily fits into your daily routine. You do not have to stop
your life in order to use this technique. In order for
something to be effective, it has to fit in with your life
pattern. We found that any behavioral modification
technique works if it fits in with a person's daily life. If you have to change your whole lifestyle, the results
are then usually temporary. With this technique, when the sensation arises
that you had previously called hunger, you ignore the
thoughts that go with this, especially canceling that
thought of hunger. Instead, you go right into the sen
sation, directly into the inner experience of what you
are actually experiencing. You go to where you are
experiencing it without labeling it, naming it, or call
ing it anything. You just experience it and begin to let
go of resisting those sensations. You silently go into
consciousness itself, into the inner experience of
what you are experiencing, and let go of resisting it. In the beginning we are so controlled by the
Pavlovian conditioning that the minute we feel the
sensation, we label it 'hunger'. Our behavior goes into
immediate action to satisfy it. Like Pavlov's dog that
salivated every time the bell rang, we have set up a
conditioned reflex that we now want to unset. How
can we unset it, how long does this take, and how
much effort is required. 337 LOSING WEIGHT
Actually it takes very little effort and very little
time. When we get this sensation, which was labeled
as 'hungry' in the past (I'm 'hungry' now), we let go of
labeling and resisting the sensation itself. We just
agree and are willing to be with the sensation but to
do nothing about it. We let the experience run within
us and are willing to be with that inner experience or
sensation of whatever it is. Some people may sense it
in the stomach, and some may sense it as sort of a
physical weakness. Whatever sensation is felt, we stop
talking about it in our minds; we stop languaging it
and giving it a label. Instead, we go into the inner
experience and let go of resisting it. In letting go of
the resistance, we can move up to a higher level, ifwe
are willing to choose it, and say to ourselves, "I want
more of whatever that is. " The reason for that and the way it becomes
acceptable is because there is a limited amount of the
sensation that comes up. The mind thinks, "If I don't
satisfy this, I'm going to have this hungry feeling con
tinuously:' That is not so because the feeling results
from resisting it. When we go with it, like in the Tao
where the willow tree bends with the wind but does not
break, there is no resistance. Instead of being the oak
tree that resists the sensation, tries to fight it with will
power and then breaks, we can be like the willow
tree, going with the sensation and letting go of resist
ing it. In fact, we welcome it. It is like we are saying,
"More. "We want more wind, more of this inner expe
rience. As we call forth more of this, sit with the inner
feeling, and just be with it, it will run out. It is a good idea to start this process on a weekend 338 HEALING AND RECOVERY
when at home and we can stop everything and just
sit, or better, lie down and focus on it. Ifwe do not let
anything distract us from being with the sensation, it
will suddenly disappear in a matter of minutes. After
it disappears, we can go about our business. After we
become used to this technique, we do not have to
stop any activities at all. When the experience comes
up, we just sit or lie down, concentrate on it, and fix
attention on welcoming it. It is like we are opening
the barn door and allowing the sensation to come in
willingly, being with it but not doing anything about it. We want to break the cycle of labeling the sensa
tion as 'hunger' when it appears and then satisfying it
with food. Doing that just reinforces the cycle, making
ourself the victim and at the effect of that behavior
pattern. Instead of that, the self stands aside from this
sensation and begins to master it so that we are no
longer at the effect of it; we becomes the master. In Zen, there is the famous series of ox-herding
pictures. The ftrst picture shows a monk hanging onto
a rope that is attached to the ox, and the ox is drag
ging him across the ground. The monk's knees are
bruised, his ears are bleeding, and he is a mess. In the
next picture, the monk has the ox tied to a tree with
the rope. The monk has caught the ox and identifted
the problem. In the third picture, the monk is riding
on top of the ox. He has become the master. He is no
longer the victim at the effect of it. HoW did he do
that. That is what this process is all about. We are
going to tether this ox right now by identifying the
pattern that has to be handled, and then we are going
to be on top of it. The person that we are now stands 339 LOSING WEIGHT
independently above and beyond and becomes the
master of this very simple thing to solve. It is merely
the willingness to experience what, in the beginning,
may seem like some discomfort, or, in other words, to
experience this sensation without satiating it right
away. As we do this, the reflex weakens. But what do we do about our eating during the
day. We do what is called 'anticipatory eating'. It
means to never eat when we are hungry. The first two
days, and probably for the ftrst week or two, we never
allow ourself to eat when we are hungry. Instead, we
let go of the hungriness by using this radical-truth
technique and anticipating the periods of hunger. We
know our own hunger patterns, so instead of waiting
until we are hungry and then eating, thus reinforcing
the pattern, we anticipate the hunger periods. We
know that habitually we will be hungry around six
o'clock, so instead of waiting until we are hungry and
satisfying it, thereby reinforcing our conditioning, we
anticipate it. At 4:45 PM, when we are not even hungry
yet, we have a cheese sandwich. The technique is simple-eat when we are not
hungry and do not eat when we are, thus substituting
this technique for the hunger pattern. How long will
it take before we disappear hunger, and what is going
to happen. We. will no longer experience hunger or
appetite; they just seem to disappear. By the second
day, we will notice that the pattern is already so weak
that we will barely notice it. How many minutes a day


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www.thegersonway.comhealth, recovering and living a full life. Using visualisation in the context of cancer was first
developed by the American radiation oncologist Dr. O. Carl Simonton in the 1970’s; “Getting
Well Again,” the book he wrote with his then wife psychologist Stephanie Matthews-Simonton,
has appeared in many editions and several languages. The essence of the Simonton technique is to find an image for the disease, another one for the
treatment, and see how the latter attacks and gradually demolishes the former. For instance, in the
state of deep relaxation described above, the Gerson patient may visualize his or her tumor as a
big blob of black mud, and the juices as powerful bursts of golden liquid that attack and gradually
clear away the mud. Read cold from the page this may sound odd; practiced as it is meant can be
a powerful experience. Here is a simple visualization exercise for daily use: see yourself in a perfectly beautiful
place, real or imaginary, where you feel safe, secure and happy. Make yourself comfortable in
imagination, in whatever way feels right for you: gently swaying in a soft hammock, walking in
a perfect garden, sitting happily with a loved person. Choose your own setting outside time and
space and be refreshed by its peace and beauty. Then see yourself as you wish to be: healthy, fit, strong and active, doing the things you most
enjoy, able to give and receive love, feeling at home in the world. Surrender to this image, become
it, anchor it in your mind and heart. And then slowly return to mundane reality, but bring with
you the memory of the experience. It does make a difference. Actually a similar technique is used
by successful sportsmen and women, who before an important event visualize themselves doing
extremely well in their chosen area. Imagination is powerful. Used well, it stimulates and tunes the body. It is free, non-toxic and
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www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 26
Gerson Lab Tests Explained
Gerson patients are able to monitor their own healing process by having regular laboratory
tests of their blood and urine. Patients on the intensive Therapy and chemo-pretreated
persons on the adjusted version should have these tests every six to 8 weeks; those on the modified
protocol for non-malignant diseases may only need them every three months. Ideally, laboratory tests should be arranged and analyzed by a Gerson-trained health
professional, but if no such practitioner is available, it is still possible to access these important
tools of follow-up. Patients need to find a conventionally trained allopathic physician, who is
willing to order laboratory tests for them (against the payment of a fee). Without the prescription
of a licensed health professional no tests can be carried out. Once the test results are available, you should be able to interpret them, following the
detailed guidance contained in this chapter. As a rule, combining a doctor’s interpretation with
the information contained below will allow you to understand the physiological processes going
on in your organism. But let us reiterate the warning already given earlier (see Chapter 21, pg. 150): a well-meaning  allopathic doctor not trained in the Gerson protocol may suggest that you
take certain drugs or change your diet. Please listen to his or her suggestions, but realize that to
follow them would clash with the rules of the Gerson program and slow down or even stop your
progress. When you read this chapter for the first time as a lay person, you may feel somewhat
overwhelmed by the unfamiliar technical terms. However, everything is made as clear as possible,
and you will soon find your way easily among the results. If you don’t have the services of a
health professional and have questions to which you find no answers in the information below,
put them to the experts at the laboratory where your tests are carried out. The Serum Calcium Laboratory Test
The laboratory test for serum calcium is a measurement of the levels of calcium in the blood. Knowing such levels helps a health professional to interpret the patient’s physiological status
regarding neuromuscular activity, enzyme activity, skeletal development, and blood coagulation. Calcium (Ca+) is a predominantly extracellular ion (a cation) derived from the calcium
absorbed in food through the gastrointestinal tract, provided sufficient vitamin D is present in
the food eaten. Excess quantities of calcium ions in the blood are excreted in the urine and feces,
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www.thegersonway.comrestore low blood levels. Daily ingestion of 1 gram of calcium is necessary for normal calcium
balance. For Gerson patients, this should not be given in the form of supplements. Juices and
foods contain more than adequate amounts of calcium. Serum calcium testing aids in diagnosing arrhythmias, blood-clotting deficiencies, acid-base
imbalance, and disorders of the neuromuscular, skeletal, and endocrine systems. Normal adult
serum calcium levels range from 8.9 to 10.1 mg/dL (atomic absorption is 2.25 to 2.75 mmol/L). Serum calcium levels for children are higher than for adults. When the level of Ca+ is too high, a condition of hypercalcemia prevails indicating the
possibility of one or more of the following pathologies: hyperparathyroidism, Paget’s disease
of the bone, multiple myeloma, metastatic carcinoma, multiple fractures, and prolonged
immobilization. From inadequate excretion of calcium, also shown by elevated serum calcium,
kidney disease and adrenal insufficiency may result. In contrast, low calcium levels (known as hypocalcemia) may come from hypoparathyroidism,
total parathyroidectomy, or malabsorption. Decreased serum Ca+ levels may arise from calcium
loss in Cushing’s syndrome, kidney (renal) failure, acute pancreatitis, and periotonitis. Hypercalcemia may bring on deep bone pain, flank pain from renal calculi, and muscle
hypotonicity. Its beginning symptoms are manifested by nausea, vomiting, and dehydration,
leading to stupor and coma, and may end in cardiac arrest. Hypocalcemia may produce peripheral numbness and tingling, muscle twitching, facial muscle
spasm (Chvostek’s sign), carpopedal spasm (Trousseau’s sign), seizures, and arrhythmias. The Serum Phosphates Laboratory Test
The laboratory test for serum phosphates is a measurement of the blood levels of phosphates
to tell the state of body energy, carbohydrate metabolism, lipid metabolism, and acid-base balance. Phosphate ion (P+) is the dominant cellular anion, which is essential for bone formation. Testing
for its blood level aids in the diagnosis of acid-base imbalance plus renal, endocrine, skeletal, and
calcium disorders. In a normal adult, serum phosphate levels range from 2.5 to 4.5 mg/dL (0.80 to 1.40 mmol/L)
or from 1.8 to 2.6 mEq/L. Children show a higher range that can rise to 7 mg/dL (2.25 mmol/L)
during spurts of increased bone growth..
Phosphates are absorbed through the intestines from dietary sources in the presence of
vitamin D. Excess quantities of them are excreted through the kidneys, which act as the regulating
mechanism. Because calcium and phosphate interact in a reciprocal relationship, urinary excretion
of phosphates increases or decreases in inverse proportion to serum calcium levels. Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 179Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comAbnormally high concentrations of phosphates in the blood (hyperphosphatemia), which can
come from drinking an overabundance of carbonated beverages, sets up a pathological process
of bone loss, tooth demineralization, poor healing of fractures, hypoparathyroidism, acromegaly,
diabetic acidosis, high intestinal obstruction, and renal failure. Depressed phosphate levels in the blood (hypophosphatemia) may result from malnutrition,
malabsorption syndromes, hyperparathyroidism, renal tubular acidosis, or treatment of diabetic
acidosis. In children, such hypophosphatemia can suppress normal growth. The Serum Sodium Laboratory Test
The laboratory test for serum sodium is a measurement of the blood levels of sodium
to determine body water distribution, osmotic pressure of extracellular fluid, neuromuscular
function, and acid-base balance


 the abdomen,
lower back pain, sciatic pain, kidney pain, headaches and fevers, to name a
few conditions. They can also help clean out diverticula or bowel pockets. Colon therapy is a gentle procedure, yet it can have aggressive results, as
it can break loose plaque that has been impacted upon the colon wall for
years. I’ve seen impactions removed by colonics that have been in the bodyfor fifty years or more. Many years ago, a chiropractor-friend of mine had a registered nurse on
his staff, who performed colonics. One of the nurse’s patients, who had gone
home when the colonic was finished, started feeling pain in her sigmoid
bowel a short while later. The patient waited several hours until she felt she
needed to determine what was causing her discomfort, and finally went to the
Emergency Room. There they discovered that she had cancer of the sigmoid
bowel. The colonic did not cause this, of course, her lifestyle did. However,
the colonic did expose the cancer. This was a good thing because the woman
then could do something about it. If she had not had the colonic the cancer
could have spread throughout her body without her knowing it, until it was
too late to achieve an effective cure. Exposing inflammation, such as happened in this case, can be painful and
yield some discomfort. Generally, this is why I prefer to recommend a good
intestinal (bowel) herbal formula that is designed to be anti-inflammatory and
restorative, not laxative. Herbal restorative bowel formulas will slowly loosen
and remove the plaque that has impacted upon the walls. They will also
reduce the inflammation behind this plaque and heal the bowel wall. In this
way, your healing experience becomes much smoother and less traumatic. Colonics are great for colon obstructions, as long as they’re not tumors
or adhesions. Colonics are good for the large bowel. My preference in terms
of the administering of colonics? I personally recommend Dr. Jensen’s
Colema Board® concept as the best option. I’ve seen some real success
through this process with eliminating the mucoid plaque build-up in the GI
tract. The Colema Board is designed to fit over your toilet at one end, with the
other end resting on a
chair or stool. By lying on this board (while at the
same time using a five-gallon bucket of skin temperature water), you give
yourself a high enema. However, this procedure is much more relaxing than
an ordinary enema, because you just lay there and allow the water to slowly
and gently clean you out. Dr. Jensen has created a whole bowel management program that can’t be
beat (see his book,
Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management,
 1981). His procedures help to clean the small bowel as well as the large bowel,
whereas professional colonics only affect the large bowel. With some self-
discipline, the Colema System can be done at home with the purchase of a
Colema Board. For information about his program, and for purchasing and
using a Colema Board, see
www.colema-boards.com
.I’m not against professional colonics. To maximize the benefits, change
your diet to a 100 percent raw food program and add intestinal restoratives
for a month or so before your start your colonic regime. Three to five
colonics should be sufficient. Enemas
Enemas are another great way to help yourself out in time of need, or to assist
in colon-rectal conditions such as hemorrhoids or cancer. There are many
types of enemas that one can use to help clean and open this channel. LOW ENEMAS
 — These generally clean and strengthen the descending,
sigmoid and rectal areas of the large intestine (colon). They require about
one-half to one quart of skin temperature water in an enema bag (these are
available in most pharmacies; oftentimes they are labeled as “enema/hot-water
bottle,” or “enema/douche/ hot water bottle” combination). Any number of the following herbs can be made into tea, strained, and
used in place of plain water in the enema bag. These herbs will clean and
strengthen the colon walls: Cascara Sagrada, Marshmallow Root, Slippery
Elm Bark, Plantain Leaf, Comfrey Root, Burdock Root, Gentian, etc. See,
How To Do An Enema,
 instructions below. HIGH ENEMAS
 — A high enema is necessary to achieve results higher up
in the colon, e.g. in the transverse, ascending and cecum portions of the large
intestines. What distinguishes the high enema from the low enema is often a
function of the way it is applied and the amount of water/mixture used, which
determines how far the water/mixture will go up into your colon. The same
herbs can be used as stated above. In cases of debility where extreme fatigue
is involved, high enemas can be given using fresh green juices like wheat
grass, spinach, kelp, alfalfa, barley, etc., instead of water or herbal tea. These
juices are readily absorbed through the colon wall and are electrifying to the
body, bringing much needed energy into the system. Chlorophyll is another
constituent that can be introduced into the colon via the enema method to
assist the healing and cleansing process. COFFEE ENEMAS
 — Many people use coffee enemas as these are very
stimulating to the bowels and liver. However, I never recommend them
unless your colon is “locked” and you can’t have a bowel movement. The
continual use of coffee enemas has a whiplash effect causing extreme
enervation of the colon and inflammation of the liver and kidneys. Coffee enemas also have a negative effect upon the nervous systemcreating hyper- or hypoactivity of this system. This then will have a residual
effect upon the whole body in numerous ways including nerve disorders,
severe constipation, diarrhea, bloating, edema, and acidosis. HOW TO DO AN ENEMA
1
. Purchase an enema-bag / “hot water bottle” combination from a
pharmacy. 2
. Fill the bag with 1/2 quart to 2 quarts of skin temperature water or herb-
water mixture. Always use skin temperature water no matter what you
mix it with. 3
. Hang the hot water bottle at least two feet above you. 4
. Lay on your left side as you start your enema. 5
. Use a healing herbal salve to lubricate the tip for easy insertion. 6
. Let the water (or herbal mixture) flow slowly into your colon; stopping
the flow periodically while you rest and do some deep breathing. 7
. After a few minutes, move from your left side to lying on your back, and
continue to let the water flow into your colon; then turn over to your
right side. 8
. You may wish to massage the region of your colon as it is being filled
with the mixture. This will help loosen impacted “plaque” for removal. 9
. Retain this water (mixture) somewhat, then allow elimination. 10
. Repeat until the bag/hot water bottle is empty. Use enemas wisely and when needed. There is no need to over use them. A diet of raw fruits and vegetables along with a good intestinal rejuvenator
will work much better in the long run at reestablishing the health of the GI
tract. Healing Clay
A fourth method of cleansing the bowels involves the use of clays. These are
not used as much in America as in Europe. In many countries, like Portugal,
health professionals use clay packs over the abdomen to accomplish the same
results we get with colonics. The late Dr. John Christopher has a great
intestinal powder
(Intestinal Corrective
 #2®) that includes bentonite clay and
charcoal. This has a highly cleansing and absorbing effect within the
intestines. This formula is beneficial in cases of irritable bowel syndrome and
with uncontrolled diarrhea.Summary

Our intestines (GI tract) are so vital that God made them one of the first
things formed when a cell initially becomes an embryo. In this early stage, the
spinal column and “gut” tissue is formed, and the gut tissue later becomes the
GI tract. Your very survival depends upon its proper functioning. Nutrients,
building materials, and fuels are absorbed from its walls, and the GI tract also
creates white blood cells, various vitamins, and amino acids. The synergistic
role of the GI system with the lymphatic system is not totally understood. But
its essential relationship to every cell in your body (via the lymphatic system)
should give you an indication of just how vital it is to keep it functioning
properly. You should “feed it” only alive, easy-to-digest foods with
electrically alive fiber so it can maintain its health. Physicians pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which
they know less, into humans of which they know nothing. — Voltaire, French satirist (1694-1778)

CHAPTER SEVEN
Eating for Vitality
U
p to this point we have looked at how the body works, the processes of
disease, detoxification and regeneration. We have examined our species and
the types of foods that best suit us. We have also looked at foods and their
effects on tissue. In this chapter we will discover what to eat and how to eat it. It is
important not only


 lemon squeezed overit. After your salad, if desired have a bowl of steamedgreens (
kale, Swiss chard, collard, mustard or beet greens )  and
peeled tomatoes, season with garlic, Bragg Olive Oil and
Aminos. Bring greens to  boil, then turn off heat. Withgreens, you may eat
1–2 slices 100% whole grain bread
that’s been oven–dry–toasted into melba toast. See recipe
below for delicious garlic toast. During the day have threeBragg Vinegar drinks and all the distilled water you wish. For dinner you may have another salad of grated
cabbage, carrots, chopped celery and avocado, with freshorange or lemon juice for dressing. Often you may not
require or desire any more food. But, if so, you may have
1
to 2 cooked vegetables; such as broccoli, stringbeans,
carrots, peas, okra, squash, etc. You may also have  1-2 pieces
delicious  whole grain garlic toast. Lightly dry–toast bread
slices in oven. Rub raw garlic cloves on both sides, spreadwith Bragg Organic Olive Oil, then spray with Bragg Liquid
Aminos and sprinkle on nutritional yeast (
large) flakes. Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together. – Sister TeresaChapter 1 090On the morning of the 9th day, you may have a
variety of fresh organic fruits such as banana, pineapple,
papaya, grapes, orange, grapefruit and apples. Or you
may have a Bragg Pep Drink (page 230). At noon you
may have a salad of grated carrots, cabbage and celery
and some  garlic toast. At dinner you may have the Bragg
Health Salad and, if desired, steamed veggies or soup. How to Break a 10 Day Fast
There is little difference between the  7 and the  10
day fast. On the 10th day around dinner time  you will
have stewed tomatoes; from then you will follow thesame schedule as given in the
 7 day fast. IMPORTANT – It’s Harmful to Your Body to Overeat! Don’t eat more than you need or desire! Remember
that you have been without food for  7 to 10 days. By
this time, you have lost the strong craving for food.Because you eat, does not mean that you are going toimmediately feel a surge of energy. It takes the body
time to adjust from a detoxifying mode to eating again. Remember – Don’t Worry About Evacuation
It may take the body a day or two to adjust to eating
again, so don’t be concerned if your bowels are sluggish.In many instances some people will have a bowelevacuation shortly after eating their first meal after afast. Elimination is different for each person, so wecannot set a standard when the bowels will move. I urgeyou to be patient with Mother Nature and don’t try toforce your bowels to move. Mother Nature has giventhe bowels their own sanitation and antiseptic system.This system will promote natural bowel movements. Youare now eating healthy foods that stimulate theperistaltic or wavelike motion of the bowels. When theydo begin evacuation, if you follow our instructions andalways eat healthy foods, you will establish healthyregular eliminations that will naturally flush the toxins
and waste matter from your body on a regular basis. Behind every successful person is themselves. – American Proverb91The Ideal Elimination Program
In my own life, by living on a diet which is rich in
bulk, moisture, water and lubrication, I have established
the following good eliminati on habits. I have a bowel
movement shortly after arising. I encourage this by a few
waist twists and leg kicks ( pg. 118) to help give me good
elimination. I told you, I don’t eat breakfast because Ibelieve the No Heavy B reakfast Plan is health ier. Several
hours after arising I then eat delicious organic fresh fruits
or a dish of fresh sliced pineapple, banana, orange,
papaya, etc., or Bragg Pep Drink or dish of prunes or
sundried apricots soaked in pineapple juice. At noon I have
my first real meal of the day, usually Bragg Raw VegetableSalad page
231. I often add avocado to my salad – veggies
and avocados are excellent lubricant s in promoting
healthy elimination for  the gastrointestinal tract. I make it a hard and fast rule to always eat my salad
first. I do this for several reasons. First I think we musteducate our
260 taste buds to accept only natural foods. Therefore when you have raw foods, either a raw vegetable
salad or a fruit salad to start the meal, you educate your
taste buds to enjoy and want clean, live, healthy foods! Most people start a meal with a broth or soup with
sandwiches or bread. This is wrong in my opinion! Tomake the taste buds keen, sharp and alive – having yourraw health salad or fresh fruits first starts the digestivejuices flowing for raw foods are rich in natural healthyenzymes. All this contributes to good nutrition. I urgeyou to always eat something raw at the beginning ofeach meal. You will find in time your taste buds willbegin to reject devitalized, unhealthy foods that you maybe tempted to eat. As you re-educate the taste buds toenjoy more fruits and salads, you will find that you canand should increase the daily amount of raw, live foodsyou eat to
60% to 70%  of your total intake – it’s the healthiest! Healthy, healing dietary fibers are organic fresh vegetables, fruits, salads
and whole grains and their products. These health builders help normalizeyour blood pressure, cholesterol and also promotes healthy elimination.92The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle
Promotes Super Health & Longevity
Remember that raw foods are the live, vital foods. They are as Mother Nature made them. They’re whole,natural, live foods – vibrating with enzymes and solar
energy! Most people want food that stimulates them –
the sugars, fats, salt, heavy, overcooked and refined foods
that have little food value. They want fast foods and
most of them have been stripped of their goodness. The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle consists of eating a diet
of
60% to 70% fresh, live, organically grown foods; raw
vegetables, salads, fresh fruits and juices; sprouts, rawseeds and nuts; all-natural
100%  whole grained breads,
pastas, cereals and nutritious beans and legumes. These
are the no cholesterol, no fat, no salt, “live foods” thatproduce the body fuel that helps produce healthy, lively
people. Healthy “live foods” and fasting are the main
reasons people become revitalized and reborn into a freshnew life filled with youthfulness, health, vitality, joy andlongevity! There are millions of healthy Bragg followers
worldwide proving this lifestyle works miracles! Vegetarianism Versus Meat Eating
Over the  long years that I have been a Nutritionist,
the controversy of “Vegetarianism versus Meat Eating”
has raged furiously. Both sides present the most scientificreasons for their side of the story. I am not going to try
to persuade you to be either a vegetarian or a meat eater. There are hundreds of books written on both subjects. Cabbage (raw) has amazing properties. It stimulates the immune system, kills
bacteria and viruses, heals ulcers, and according to Dr. James Balch in Prescription
for Cooking and Dietary Wellness, your chances of contracting colon cancer can bereduced by up to 60% by eating cabbage weekly. Dr. Saxon-Graham states that
those who never consumed cabbage were three times more likely to develop colon
cancer. A Japanese study shows that people who ate cabbage had the lowestfatality rate from any cancer. Therapeutic benefits have also been attributed to
cabbage in relation to scurvy, gout, rheumatism (arthritis), eye diseases, asthma,
pyorrhea, and gangrene. See our Bragg Salad Recipe (page
 231). Cooking destroys
the cabbages healing  properties. We love cabbage and also we make a variety of
sandwiches wrapped in cabbage leaves instead of bread. Try this – so delicious!!!Eat Plenty of Cabbage – The Miracle Cleanser and Healer93I Prefer the Healthier Vegetarian Diet
Over the years of following a program of fasting and
eating a diet containing an abundance of raw organic
fruit and vegetables, my body has become so keen that
it practically tells me what to eat at every meal. Afteryears on this healthy vegetarian diet, my body has lost
the desire for meat, fowl and fish. My diet is composed
of organic raw fruits and vegetables, cooked vegetables,beans, legumes, brown rice, etc. with raw nuts and seeds
and their butters, raw wheat germ and Brewer’s yeast. This is what my body seems to thrive on. But
occasionally there were times when my body told me to
eat a piece of meat or a piece of fish, or to have some
natural cheese or a few fertile eggs. In other words, mybody developed an instinct for the selection of foods. Sometimes I go 4 or
 5 years without tasting eggs, etc.,
then my body will telegraph that I need some. Listeningto my inner voice has helped me enormously. Basically I have been a vegetarian by nature most of
my life. I was reared on a large farm in Virginia wherehundreds of hogs and


 theory,  and with  any discussion
which  < l o e s  n ot immcdiately get clown to concrete
applications. This  is why the behavior o( Western
civilization might be described,  in  general,  as "
fuch  Ado About  'oth- ing. " The propcr mcaning
o( "theory" is not idle  speculation but vision,
and it was rightly said that  "whcre  there  is no
vision  the people  perish. " But vision  in this sense  < l o e s  not mean  clreams
and ideals for the future. lt means understanding
of life  as it is. of what we are, and what we are
doing. With - out such  understanding  it is
simpl}'  ridiculous  to
talk of being practica. and getting rcsults. lt is
like walking busily in a fog: you just go rouncl and
round. You do not know  where  you are going. nor
what  re- sults  you  really  want. To minds that think in this way, what we
have  discussecl so far may secm  too theoretical. These ideas  are all very  wcll,  but do they  w o 1 k. Yct
I must  ask, "What do you mean by work. " The
usual "working  test"  of a philosophy  is
whether  it makes  people  THE  WISDOM  OF INSECURITY
better and happier, whether it results in peace, co-
operacion, and prosperity. Yet chis is a
meaningless  criterion without much "theorctical"
undcrstanding. What do you mean by happiness. What are ··bcucr"  pcople bettcr for. About what
will you co-operate. What  will you do with  pcacc
ancl  prosperity. The answer  to these  qucstions  depends  entirely
on
what we are and what we actUally wanc now. If,
for example, we want at the same time both peace
and isolation,  brotherhood and security  for "I,"
happi - ness and permancnce, our wants are
contradictory. Their  results,  howcver  practica. we
may  be about  getting thcm, will be funher
contradictions. le is the old story of wanting to
have your cake and eat it-to which the only
possible conclusion  is that you put it in your
stomach  and keep  it there  umil  you have  violcnt
indigcstion. 1f wc muse  be nationalists  and have  a
sovereign
state, we cannot also expcct to havc world peace. If wc want to get everyching at che lowest
possible cost,  we cannot expect to get the best
possible quality, the  balance  between  the two
being  mediocrity. If we make it an ideal  Lo be
morally superior, we cannot at the same  time avoid
self-righteousness. lf we cling  to belief in God, we
cannot likcwise have faith, since  faith  is not
clinging  but lctting  go. When we have made up our minds as to what
we do want,  thcre remain  indeed  many  practica. and technical  problems. But thcre  is no point  at
all in
106  THE  TRANSFORMATION  OF LIFE
discussing these uncil we havc made up our minds. There  is, in turn,  no possibility  of making up our
minds so long as they are splil in two, so long as "I"
am onc thing ancl "expcrience" another. lf thc mind
is the directivc force bchind aclion, che mind and its
vision of life muse be healed befare action can be
anyching  but conflict. Something must therefore be said about the healed
vision of life which comes with foil awareness, for it
involvcs a decp Lransformation of our view of the
world. As well as words can describe it, this trans -
formation consists in knowing and fceling that the
world  is an organic  unity. In the ordinary way, we "know" this as a matter of
information but do not feel it to be true. Certainly
most pcople fccl separare from everything that sur -
rounds them. On the onc hancl therc  is mysclf, and
on che othcr the rest of thc univcrse. I am not rooted
in the earth  like a tree. I raule around  indepencl -
ently. I seem to be thc centcr of everything, and yet
cut off and alone. I can feel what is going on inside
my own body, but I can only guess what is going on
in othcrs. My conscious rnind  rnust have  its roots
and origins in the most unfathomable depths of be-
ing, yet it fecls as if it lived ali by itsclf in this cight
little  skull. Nevertheless, the physical reality is that my body
exists only in relation to chis universe, and in fact I
amas  attached  to it and dependent  on itas a leaf on  a
107   Tl-. E WISDOM  OF INSECURITY
trce. I fcel cut off only because I am spliL wilhin
my- self, becausc I try Lo be divided from my own
feel- ings and sensations.,,vhat I feel and scnse
thcrefore  seems  forcign  Lo me. And on being aware
of Lhc un - rcality of this division, thc univcrse <loes
not sccm  foreign  any more. For I am what I know; what I know is I. The scnsa -
tion of a house across the street or of a star in
outer  space is no less I than an itch on the sole of
my foot  oran idea in my brain. In another scnse, I
am also  what  Ido not know. I am not aware of my
own  bra in as a brain. In just the samc way,  I am
not aware of the house across the street as a thing
apart from my  sensation of it. 1 know my brain as
thoughts and feel - ings, and I know the house as
scnsations. In the same  way and sense that I do
not know my own brain, or  thc house  as a thing -
in-itself,  I do not know  the private  choughts  in
your  brain. But my brain, which is also 1, your brain and
the thoughts within  it, as well as the house across
the street,  are ali forms  of an  inextricably
interwoven  process callcd the real world. Conscious or uncon - scious ofitas I may be, it is
all I in the sense that the  sun, the air, and human
socicty are justas vital to me as my brain  or my
lungs. Jf, then,  this brain  is my
brain -unaware of it as I am-the sun is my sun,
the air my air, and society  my society. Certainly I cannot command  the sun to be egg -
shaped,  nor force  your  brain  to think
differently. 1
108   THE  TRANSFORMATION  OF LJFJ -:
cannot see the inside of Lhe sun, nor can I share your
prívate  feclings. Yet ncither  can I change  the shapc
or structurc of my own brain, nor havc a scnsation of
itas a contraption likc a cauliílowcr. 1311t if my brain
is noncthclcss  I, thc sun  is I, thc air  is I, and socicty,
of which  you are a mcmber,  is also  1-for ali thcsc
things  are j usl  as csscntial  to my existcncc  as my
brain. That there is a sun apart from my sensation of it is
an infcrencc. Thc fact that  I havc a brain,  though  I
cannot  sce Íl, is likcwisc  an infcrencc. \Ve know
about  thcsc  things  only  in thcory,  and not by irn-
mcdiatc  expcricnce. ílut this "externa)"  world  of
theorctical  objccts  is, apparendr,  just as much  a
unily  as che "interna. '' world  of expcrience. From
expcricnce  I infcr that  it exists. And  bccause cxpcri -
encc is a unity -I am mr sensations -1 must  likcwisc
infcr that this thcorctical univcrsc  is a unity, that  mr
body  ancl  the worlcl