	noxious
substances	out	of	the	bloodstream. If	the	liver	cannot	filter	out	toxins	from	the	blood,	they
end	up	being	dumped	into	the	extracellular	fluid. The	more	toxins	accumulate	in	the
extracellular	fluid,	the	more	severely	cell	membranes	become	clogged	with	injurious
materials. An	autoimmune	response	may	be	necessary	to	destroy	the	most	contaminated
cells	and	thereby	save	the	rest	of	the	body,	at	least	for	a	while. When	all	gallstones	are
removed	from	the	liver	and	gallbladder,	the	immune	system	does	not	have	to	take	recourse
to	such	extreme	measures	of	defending	the	body	on	the	cellular	level. Osteoarthritis
	is	a	degenerative,	noninflammatory	illness. It	occurs	when	the	renewal
of
articular	cartilage
	(a	smooth,	strong	surface,	covering	bones	that	are	in	contact	with
other	bones)	does	not	keep	pace	with	its	removal. The	articular	cartilage	gradually
becomes	thinner	until,	eventually,	the	bony	articular	surfaces	come	into	contact,	and	the
bones	begin	to	degenerate. Abnormal	bone	repair	and	chronic	inflammation	may	follow
this	form	of	damage. Like	most	diseases,	this	symptom	results	from	a	long-standing
digestive	disorder. As	fewer	nutrients	are	absorbed	and	distributed	for	tissue	building,	it
becomes	increasingly	difficult	to	maintain	healthy	sustenance	of	bone	and	articular
cartilage. Gallstones	in	the	liver	impair	the	basic	digestive	processes	and,	therefore,	play
perhaps	the	most	important	role	in	the	development	of	osteoarthritis. Gout
,
	which	is	another	joint	disease	connected	to	weak	liver	performance,	is	caused	bysodium	urate	crystals
	in	joints	and	tendons. Gout	occurs	in	some	people	whose
blood	uric
acid
	is	abnormally	high. When	gallstones	in	the	liver	begin	to	affect	blood	circulation	in
the	kidneys	(see	“
Disorders	of	the	Urinary	System
”),	uric	acid	excretion	becomes
inefficient. This	also	causes	increased	cell	damage	and	cell	destruction	in	the	liver	and
kidneys,	as	well	as	in	other	parts	of	the	body. Uric	acid	is	a	waste	product	resulting	from	the	breakdown	of	cell	nuclei;	it	is	produced
in	excess	with	increased	cell	destruction. Smoking	cigarettes,	drinking	alcoholic	beverages
regularly,	using	stimulants,	and	so	forth,	all	cause	marked	cell	destruction,	which	releases
large	quantities	of	degenerate	cell	protein	into	the	bloodstream. In	addition,	uric	acid
production	rises	sharply	with	overconsumption	of	protein	foods,	such	as	meat,	fish,	pork,
and	eggs. 9
	Incidentally,	all	the	aforementioned	foods	and	substances	lead	to	gallstone
formation	in	the	liver	and	gallbladder. A	person	may	experience	several	acute	attacks	of	arthritis	before	damage	to	the	joints
decreases	mobility	and	the	gout	condition	becomes	chronic. Disorders	of	the	Reproductive	System

Female	and	male	reproductive	systems	both	depend	largely	on	the	smooth	functioning	of
the	liver. Gallstones	in	the	liver	obstruct	the	movement	of	bile	through	the	bile	ducts,
which	impairs	digestion	and	distorts	the	structural	framework	of	liver	lobules. This
diminishes	the	liver’s	production	of	both
serum	albumin
	and
clotting	factors. Serum
albumin	is	the	most	common	and	abundant	protein	in	the	blood,	responsible	for
maintaining
plasma	osmotic	pressure
	at	its	normal	level	of	25mmHg. C
lotting	factors
	are
essential	for	the	coagulation	of	blood. Insufficient	osmotic	pressure	cuts	down	the	supply
of	nutrients	to	the	cells,	including	those	of	the	reproductive	organs. This	may	lead	to
reduced	lymph	drainage. Poor	lymph	drainage	from	the	reproductive	organs	can	cause
fluid	retention	and	edema,	as	well	as	the	retention	of	metabolic	waste	and	dead	cells. All
of	this	may	result	in	the	gradual	impairment	of	sexual	functions. Most	diseases	of	the	reproductive	system	result	from	improper	lymph	drainage. The
thoracic	duct	(see	“
Disorders	of	the	Circulatory	System
”)	drains	lymph	fluid	from	all
organs	of	the	digestive	system,	including	the	liver,	spleen,	pancreas,	stomach,	and
intestines. This	large	duct	often	becomes	severely	congested	when	gallstones	in	the	liver
impair	proper	digestion	and	absorption	of	food. It	is	obvious,	yet	hardly	recognized	in
mainstream	medicine,	that	congestion	in	the	thoracic	duct	affects	the	organs	of	the
reproductive	system. These	organs,	like	most	others	in	the	body,	need	to	release	their
turned-over	cells	and	metabolic	waste	matter	into	the	thoracic	duct. Impaired	lymphatic	drainage	from	the	female	pelvic	area	is	responsible	for
suppressed
immunity,	menstrual	problems,	premenstrual	stress	(PMS),	menopausal	symptoms,
pelvic	inflammatory	disease	(PID),	cervicitis,	all	uterine	diseases,	vulvar	dystrophies
with	growth	of	fibrous	tissue,	ovarian	cysts	and	tumors,	cell	destruction,	hormone
deficiencies,	low	libido,	infertility,	and	genetic	mutations	of	cells	leading	to	cancer. Thoracic	blockage	may	also	lead	to	lymph	congestion	in	the	left	breast,	thereby	leaving
deposits	of	noxious	substances	behind	that	can	cause	inflammation,	lump	formation,	milk
duct	blockage,	and	cancerous	tumors. If	the	right	lymphatic	duct,	which	drains	lymph
from	the	right	half	of	the	thorax,	head,	neck,	and	right	arm,	becomes	congested,	waste
accumulates	in	the	right	breast,	leading	to	similar	problems	there. A	continuous	restriction	of	lymph	drainage	from	the	male	pelvic	area	causes	benign	and
malignant	prostate	enlargement	as	well	as	inflammation	of	the	testes,	penis,	and	urethra. Impotence	is	a	likely	consequence	of	this	development.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        High	concentrations	of	protein	in	the	blood	hinder	the	continuously	required
distribution	of	important	nutrients,	especially	water,	glucose,	and	oxygen,	to	the	cells. Excessive	amounts	of	proteins	in	the	blood	are	also	responsible	for	blood	dehydration,	that
is	blood	thickening—one	of	the	leading	causes	of	high	blood	pressure	and	heart	disease. Furthermore,	these	proteins	undermine	complete	elimination	of	basic	metabolic	waste
products	(see	section	below	on
poor	circulation
). All	these	factors	combined	coerce	the
body	to	raise	its	blood	pressure. This	condition,	which	is	commonly	known	as
hypertension,
	reduces	the	life-endangering	effect	of	blood	thickening,	to	some	extent. It
also	permits	enough	nutrient-rich	blood	to	circulate	through	the	congested	body. However,
this	life-saving	response	to	a	life-threatening	situation	unduly	stresses	and	damages	the
blood	vessels. This	may	still	be	a	better	scenario,	though,	than	the	one	that	occurs	when
the	blood	pressure	is	lowered	through	medication. Leading	health	experts	now	recognize
hypertensive	drugs	to	be	a	major	cause	of	congestive	heart	failure	and	other	debilitating
illnesses


 fuel. Any car eer, when given to the Holy Spirit, can be used as
part of the plan of the r estoration of the world. No job is too
big or too small for God to use. Y ou have the unlimited
power of the universe within you and so does everyone else. It’s nothing to tak e personal cr edit for, nor anything to feel
guilty about. Our r eal power emanates fr om a for ce that’s in
us but not of us. ‘Be humble befor e God,’ says the Course,
‘yet gr eat in him.’ R emembering this k eeps us connected toour innocence, and as long as we have that, the power will
keep pouring thr ough us. F orget it, and the faucet could be
turned oﬀ at any moment. Stop blessing the universe, and
the universe will seem to stop blessing you. Whatever your
activity, just ask that it be used to bless the world. I remember one day complaining to my girlfriend June
how unhappy I was, and she said, “Marianne, I don’t mean
to be har d on you, but do you ever do anything for anyone
else?” That comment felt lik e a brick to my for ehead,
although I did very little about it at the time. A fter I went
through my period of very deep depr ession several years
later, however, human suﬀering became a much mor e
personally signiﬁcant subject. I thought that if other people
suﬀer ed a fraction as much as I had, then my heart burst for
them and I wanted to be of help. God seemed to say to me
then, “ People suﬀer deeply, and ther e have been people
suﬀering ar ound you all your life. Y ou just didn’t notice. Y ou
were shopping.”
I used to wor ry, as do many people, about what I was
supposed to do with my life. I never seemed to be able to
stick with any one thing very long or mak e money or ﬁnd
any r eal satisfaction in my work. I felt paralyzed. I
remember once asking God to r eveal to me what He wanted
me to know in or der that I might change. I got down on my
knees and work ed myself into a grandiose meditative state. I saw visual images of a glorious sk y and a gr oup of angels
marching thr ough the clouds to bring me His answer. A
couple of cherubs held up a scr oll that they then began to
unfold. My heart started racing as I awaited God’s message,
which I was sur e would be e xtremely important. Slowly the
letters on the scr oll began to for m wor ds: “Marianne, you’r e
a spoiled brat.”The r eason I was paralyzed was because I had lost touch
with the sole memory of why I came to earth. T elling me I
was a spoiled brat was the perfect infor mation, the k ey to
unlock my ener gies. The pr oblem was my selﬁshness. Lik e
actors who have spent so much time lear ning how to act
that they didn’t lear n how to live, and so end up making
lousy actors because they ultimately have nothing authentic
to reveal about life, we sometimes lose our personal power
by for getting why we have it. W e study up on how to run
businesses, not stopping to think about why we’r e in
business e xcept to mak e money. This is not a spiritually
powerful beam, and the universe will tolerate it less and less
as the nineties unfold. 3. PERSONAL POWER
“All power is of God.”
Don’t ask God to send you a brilliant car eer, but rather ask
Him to show you the brilliance within you. It is the
recognition of our brilliance that r eleases it into e xpression. Stable, meaningful e xternal eﬀects don’t occur until we’ve
experienced an inter nal stir ring. Once an inter nal stir ring
has occur red, e xternal eﬀects cannot fail to happen. W e’re
all capable of an inter nal stir ring, and ar e in fact coded for
it. It is our potential for gr eatness. A chievement doesn’t
come fr om what we do, but fr om who we ar e. Our worldly
power r esults fr om our personal power. Our car eer is an
extension of our personality. People who pr ofoundly achieve ar en’t necessarily people
who do so much; they’r e people ar ound whom things get
done. Mahatma Gandhi and P resident K ennedy wer e both
examples of this. Their gr eatest achievements lay in all the
energy they stir red in other people, the invisible for ces thayunleashed ar ound them. By touching their own depths, they
touched the depths within others. That kind of charisma, the power to eﬀect what happens
on the earth fr om an invisible r ealm within, is the natural
right and function of the Son of God. The wor d “charisma”
was originally a r eligious ter m. It means “ of the spirit.” The
new fr ontiers ar e inter nal ones. The r eal str etch is always
within us. Instead of e xpanding our ability or willingness to
go out and get anything, we e xpand our ability to r eceive
what is alr eady her e for us. Personal power emanates fr om someone who tak es life
seriously. The universe tak es us a seriously as we tak e it. There is no gr eater seriousness than the full appreciation of
the power and importance of love. Miracles ﬂow fr om the
recognition that love is the purpose of our car eers. A Course in Miracles  discusses a traditional Christian
concept called “the gif ts of the Holy Spirit.” This idea is that,
when our lives ar e given to the Holy Spirit to use for His
purposes, new talents emer ge within us. W e don’t get our
lives together and then give them to God, but rather we
give our lives to God and then things start coming together. As our hearts open, our talents and gif ts begin to blossom. Many people have told me that once they’r e successful and
have made a lot of money, they will use that success to help
the world. But that’s a delay technique by which the ego
tries to k eep us fr om showing up fully in our own lives. Even
if we don’t yet consider ourselves successful, we can devote
our work now to being used in the service of the healing of
the world. F rom that point of power our car eers will tak e oﬀ. No matter what we do, we can mak e it our ministry. No
matter what for m our job or activity tak es, the content is the
same as everyone else’s: we ar e her e to minister to humanhearts. If we talk to anyone, or see anyone, or even think of
anyone, then we have the opportunity to bring mor e love
into the universe. F rom a waitr ess to the head of a movie
studio, fr om an elevator operator to the pr esident of a
nation, ther e is no one whose job is unimportant to God. When you know this, when you fully live up to the
opportunity to heal, you achieve an ener gy that pushes you
forwar d in worldly endeavors. L ove mak es you mor e
attractive. That means you attract, lik e a magnet. Y ou don’t
just attract people; you attract various cir cumstances that
reﬂect back to you the power of your devotion. Y our
personal power is not something that is going to r eveal itself
at some later date. Y our power is a r esult of your decision to
reveal it. Y ou ar e powerful in whatever moment you choose
to be. The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right
here, right now, is a choice for personal empower ment. A Course in Miracles  tells us that all of the childr en of
God have power—yet no one has “special” power. ‘All of us
are special,’ and yet none of us ar e special. No one has any
more potential than anyone else for spr eading the love and
light of God. Many of our traditional notions of success r ely
on our talking ourselves into the belief that we’r e special
and we have something special to oﬀer. The truth is, none of
us ar e special because special people would be diﬀer ent
and separate fr om others. The oneness of Christ mak es this
impossible. The belief in specialness, ther efore, is delusional
and thus br eeds fear. What a Beethoven, Shak espear e or P icasso has done is
not create something, so much as they have accessed that
place within themselves fr om which they could express that
which has been cr eated by God. Their genius then, is
actually e xpression and not cr eation. That’s why gr eat art
strikes us with the shock of r ecog nition, the wish that wehad


 ca lled: Die
before you die. Go into it deeply. Y our physical form is dissolvi ng, is no
more. T hen a moment comes when all mind-forms or thoughts also die. Y et you  are still there — the divine presence that you are. Radiant, fully
awake. Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions. The realization of this deathless  dimension, your true nature, is the other
side of compassion. On a deep f eeling-level, you now recognize  not only
your own immortality but through your own that of every other creature
as well. On the level of form, you share mortality and the precariousness
of ex istence. On the level of Be ing, you share eternal, radiant li fe. These
are the two aspects of comp assion. In compassion, the seemingly
opposite feelings of sadness and joy mer ge into one and become
transmuted into a deep inner peace. This is the peace of God. It is one of
the most noble feelings that humans are capable of, and it h as great
healing and transformative power. But true compassion, as I have just
described it, is as yet rare. T o have deep empathy for the suf fering of
another being certainly require s a high degree of consciousness but
represents only one side of compassion. It is not complete. T rue
compassion goe s beyond empathy or sympathy. It does not hap pen until
sadness mer ges with joy, the joy  of Being beyond form, the joy o f eternal
life.T OW ARD A DIFFERENT ORDER OF REALITY
I d on’ t agr ee th at the body nee ds to die. I am convinced that we can
achieve physical immortality. W e believe in death and that’ s why the
body dies. The body does n ot die because you believe in death. The body exists, or
seems to, because you believe in death. Body and death are part of the
same illusion, created by the ego ic mode of consciousness, which has no
awareness of the Source of life and sees itself as separate and constantly
under threat. So it creates the illusion that you are a body, a dense,
physical vehicle that is constantly under threat. T o perce ive you rself as a vulnerable body that was born and a little later
dies — that’ s the illusion. Body and death: one illusion. Y ou can not have
one without the other. Y ou want to keep one side of the illusion and get
rid o f the other, but that is impossible. Either you keep all of it or you
relinquish all of it. However, you cannot escape fr om the body, nor do you have to. The
body is an incre dible misperception of your true nature. But y our true
nature is  concealed somewhere within that illusion, not outside it, so the
body is still the only point of access to it. If you saw an angel but mistook  it for a stone statue, all you would have
to do is adjust your vision and look more closely at the “stone  statue,”
not start looking somewhere els e. Y ou would then find that there never
was a stone statue. If be lief in death cr eates the body, why does an animal have a body? An
animal doesn’ t have an ego, and it doesn’ t believe in death.... But it still dies, or seems to.Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state
of co nsciousnes s. Y ou are not separate from it, and there is no objective
world out there. Every momen t, your consciousness creates the world
that you inhabit. One of the greatest insights that has come out of modern
physics is that o f the unity betw een the observer and the obse rved: the
person conducting the experiment — the observing consciousness —
cannot b e separated from the ob served phenomena, and a dif ferent way
of looking causes the observed phenomena to behave dif ferently. If you
believe, on a de ep level, in sepa ration and the struggle for survi val, then
you see that belief reflected all around you and your perceptions are
governed by fear. Y ou inhabit a world of death and of bodies fighting,
killing, and devouring each other. Nothing is what it seems to be. The world that you create and see
through the egoic mind may see m a very imperfect place, even a vale of
tears. Bu t whatever you perceive is only a kind of symbol, like an image
in a dream. It is how your consciousness interprets and interacts with the
molecular ener g y dance of the universe. This ener gy is the raw material
of so -called physical reality. Y ou see it in terms of bodies and birth and
death, or as a struggle for survival. An infinite number of co mpletely
dif ferent interpretations, completely dif ferent worlds, is possible and, in
fact, exists — all depending o n the perceiving consciousness. Every
being is a foca l point of consciousness, and every such fo cal point
creates its own world, althoug h all those worlds are interco nnected. There is a human world, an ant world, a dolphin world, and so on. There
are coun tless beings whose consciousness frequency is so dif ferent from
yours th at you are probably unaware of their existence, as they are of
yours. Highly conscious beings  who are aware of their connectedness
with the Source and with each other would inhabit a world that to you
would appear as a heavenly realm — and yet all worlds are ultimately
one. Our collective human world i s lar gely created through the level of
consciousness we call mind. Even within the collective human world
there are vast dif ferences, many dif ferent “sub-worlds,” depending on the
perceivers or creators of their respective worlds. Since all worlds are
interconnected, when collective human consciousness becomes
transformed, nature and the animal kingdom will reflect that
transformation. Hence the statem ent in the Bible that in the com ing age“The lion shall l ie down with the lamb.” This points to the poss ibility of
a completely dif ferent order of reality. The world as it appears to us now is, as I said, lar gely a reflection of the
egoic mind. Fear being an unavoidable consequence of egoic delusion, it
is a wor ld dominated by fear. Just as the images in a dream are symbols
of in ner states an d feelings, so o ur collective reality is lar gely a symbolic
expression of fear and of the heavy layers of negativity t hat have
accumulated in the collective human psyche. W e are not separate from
our world, so when the majo rity of humans become free of egoic
delusion, this inner change will  af fect all of creation. Y ou will literally
inhabit a  new world. It is a shift in planetary consciousness. The strange
Buddhist saying  that every tree and every blade of grass will eventually
become enlightened points to the same truth. According to St. Paul, the
whole of creation is waiting for  humans to become enlightened. That is
how I interpret his saying that  “The created universe is wait ing with
eager ex pectation for God’ s sons to be revealed.” St. Paul goes on to say
that all of creation will becom e redeemed through this: “Up to the
present...the w hole created universe in all its parts groans as if in the
pangs of childbirth.”
What is being born is a new consciousness and, as its inevitable
reflection, a new world. This is also foretold in the New T estam ent Book
of Reve lation: “ Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first
heaven and the first earth had passed away.”
But don ’ t confu se cause and e f fect. Y our primary task is no t to seek
salvation through creating a better world, but to awaken out of
identification wi th form. Y ou are  then no longer bound to this w orld, this
level of reality. Y ou can feel your roots in the Unmanifested an d so are
free of attachment to the manifested world. Y ou can still e njoy the
passing pleasure s of this world,  but there is no fear of loss anymore, so
you don’ t need to cling to th em. Although you can enjoy sensory
pleasures, the craving for senso ry experience is gone, as is the constant
search for fulfillment through psychological gratification, through
feeding the ego. Y ou are in touc h with something infinitely greater than
any pleasure, greater than any manifested thing. In a way, you then don’ t need th e world anymore. Y ou don’ t even need it
to be dif ferent from the way it is.It is only at this  point that you begin to make a real contribution toward
bringing about a better world, toward creating a dif ferent order of reality. It is only at this  point that you are able to feel true compassion and to
help oth ers at the level of caus e. Only those who have transce nded the
world can bring about a better world. Y ou ma y remember that we talked about the dual nature of true
compassion, wh ich is awareness of a common bond of shared mortality
and


. When cooked, drain the water of f.
Make a sauce in the blender with the tomatoes and garlic, and pour this
sauce on top of the vegetables and raw rice. Place some of the vegetables-ri ce mixture in the center of each leaf and
roll them up. Put these in a baking dish with a lid and bake in the oven for 1 to 1½
hours at 250° F.Green Peppers
2-4 sliced green peppers and 2-4 sliced onions. Stew in tightly covered pot approximately 30 minutes (add no water). Lima Beans and Zucchini
1 large onion, 1 clove garlic, ½ cup soup stock, 1 cup fresh lima beans, 3
cups zucchini, 4 med. tomatoes, ½ tsp cornstarch, 4 sprigs fresh parsley, a
dash of thyme and sage or a pinch of dried parsley. Mix all ingredients except herbs. Simmer about 15 minutes (until tender). Thicken with cornstarch mixed with a little water. Just before serving add herbs. Onions and Raisins
1 onion peeled and chopped plus ¼ cup raisins. Stew in tightly covered pot approximately 30 minutes. Onions, Cheese Marinated*
2 tbsp lemon juice, 3 oz pot cheese (unsalted, nonfat), ½ tsp brown sugar,
and 2 cups onions sliced thick. Stuffed Peppers  *
1 large green or red pepper, 4 oz pot cheese, ¼ onion, 1 zucchini, 1 small
carrot, 3 tomatoes, 1 small turni p, 1 clove garlic, 1 tbsp fresh mixed herbs,
and 4 oz Special Soup. Put the pepper in a saucepan with a little water and cook over low heat
(covered) until tender. Remove from the pan and leave the pepper upside down to drain and
cool.Finely chop the onion, zucchini, carrot, herbs, tomatoes, turnip, and
garlic. Place in a small saucepan with the soup and simmer over low heat for 45
minutes to an hour. Core the pepper with a sharp knife, removing all seeds. Mix the pot cheese with the cooked vegetables and fill the pepper using a
small spoon. Stand the pepper in a suitable baking dish and bake for 40 minutes at
350° F. Serve with French T omato Sauce, baked potato, and a green vegetable. Potatoes
Potatoes are most often boiled slowly in a covered pot over medium-low
heat approximately 1 hour until tender. Baked Potatoes
Baked potatoes should be thoroughly washed, not scraped or peeled. Bake in a low-heat oven for 2 or 2½ hours or, alternatively, bake for 50
minutes to 1 hour at 350° F
Mashed Potatoes
Peel and cube potatoes. Place in pan with one small onion and enough water to bring to a boil and
simmer until done. When done, there should be no water left. Mash with enough nonfat yogurt to make smooth. Mashed Potatoes and Chard
Take one bunch of chard, green or red, wash and shred, and put in pan. Add small amount (4-5 tbsp) of water or soup stock, and start to boil. When boiling, turn down to simmer.Meantime, peel 3 large or 4 medium potatoes; cube and place on top of
the chard. Let simmer until potatoes are soft and done. Remove water if any remains, and add approximately 6-8 oz of nonfat
yogurt. Mash all together. Add a little more yogurt if the mixture is too dry. The same recipe  can be used with kale. When using kale, remove central
stems by stripping them before shredding into pan. Parsley Potatoes
Boil several potatoes in their skins until done. Remove the peel and roll in some chopped parsley after slightly brushing
with flaxseed oil. Potato Puffs  (Note: this is marginal food; eat rar ely)
Take a baking potato and cut it into thin (½") slices. Place the slices on the oven rack and, without any addition, bake at high
heat (425° F) to puff, turn over, and lower heat to 325° F (with oven door
cracked open). Bake for another 20 minutes. The slices puf f up and become crisp and tasty, almost like fried potatoes. Done when shiny brown on both sides.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        By the end of April 1980, the patient traveled to the Gerson hospital once
again for his first six-month checkup. (In all, after November 1979, he
returned to that hospital for semiannual examinations twelve times. ) His
cancer markers and blood tests showed a near -normal physiology so that the
Gerson diet was modified by Dr. Arturo Ortuna, who after eight weeks had
included yogurt, rye bread, raw skimmed milk, infrequent meals of fish,
chicken, and a few other items  heretofore forbidden. Senor Lechuga was
feeling better and better, and his mental outlook became optimistic. He told
stories, joked, sang, and became a joy to everyone around him. Having reported  his progress to Charlotte Gerson during the weekend of
October 17 and 18, 1981, he accepted her invitation to participate as aspeaker in San Diego at a “Gerson Survivors’ Conference. ” In June 1985,
Dr. Arturo Ortuno traveled with Senior Lechuga to a San Diego diagnostic
center for him to under go a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI ) to confirm
that after five years his cancer had completely cleared. It had. Receiving the
affirmative MRI report, Dr. A. Ortuno declared his patient officially cured
of cancer and asked him to return to the Gerson Hospital in one year for
another checkup. Then the doctor suggested that he go back to the very
restrictive Gerson Therapy for just one month more as a kind of “insurance”
toward his cure. This Senor Lech uga agreed to do along with promising that
he would report results of his following the difficult lifestyle for a final
month that’ s demanded by the therapy. When the patient telephoned Dr. Arturo Ortuno that single month later to
report on the experience, he learned that his forty-year -old physician had
just died and was being buried. While Dr.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: When did Jesus Lechuga have his first six-month checkup at the Gerson hospital?,
A: By the end of April 1980.
Q: What was the outcome of Jesus Lechuga's cancer treatment?,
A: The text does not explicitly state the outcome of Jesus Lechuga's cancer treatment, but it implies that he died of a new cancer diagnosis in 1999.
Q: What was the recommended treatment for Sandra Whitwell's cancer?,
A: Sandra Whitwell followed the Gerson Therapy, which included a diet and juice intake, and was able to recover from her ovarian cancer.
Q: What was the outcome of Patricia Ainey's cancer treatment?,
A: Patricia Ainey followed the Gerson Therapy and was able to recover from her pancreatic cancer.
Q: What is the recommended way to prepare vegetables according to the Gerson Therapy?,
A: According to the passage, vegetables should be cooked slowly in a covered pot over low heat, without adding water, to preserve their natural flavor and make them easily digestible.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Scalloped Potatoes
Take a glass baking dish and place one whole chopped onion in bottom. Slice potatoes and place one layer on top of the onion. Then place a layer of sliced tomato on top, another layer of sliced or
chopped onion. Sprinkle with a dash of marjoram and/or thyme and bake in a low oven
1-2 hours or until done.Potatoes and Carr ots, W estphalian Style
6-8 small carrot s sliced or 4-5 large carrots sliced, 3 medium potatoes or
2 large potatoes, 1 lar ge onion, and 3-4 tbsp of soup stock. Wash and slice carrots into pan. Peel and slice potatoes and chop onion. Add all together in pan with soup stock. Let simmer until done, adding a bit more soup stock if necessary. When done, no water should remain in pan. Red Cabbage
Combine in pan: ½ cabbage shredded, 3 tsp vinegar, 3 large chopped
onions, 2 bay leaves, and a little soup stock. Stew over low heat approximately ½ hour. Last half hour add: 3 apples peeled and grated plus 1 tsp raw sugar. Spinach
After cutting of f roots wash 3-4 times. Put in large, tightly covered pot that has a layer of onions on the bottom
of the pan. Do not add water. Stew over a low flame until spinach wilts. Pour of f excess juice. Serve chopped with slice of lemon. Stuffed Holiday SquashYN
1 large kabocha squash (about 4½ lbs), ¾ cup raw brown rice, ¼ cup raw
wild rice, rye or wheat berries, or more brown rice, 2½ cups vegetable stock
or purified water, 1 cup onion diced, 3 cloves garlic minced, 1½ cup fresh
peas shelled, or sprouted lentils, ¾ cup celery diced, ¾ cup yellow or red
bell pepper diced, ½ cup unsu lphured raisins or prunes (


 most profound parts of the Bible is the story of
women gathered around the foot of the cross and refusing to abandon him
in the hours of his suf fering. Being in the church is very moving, and I had an interesting experience
the first time I went. A friend and fellow student of A Course in Miracles
named Daniella happened to be in Israel while I was there, and we had
spoken on the phone that morning. She was in Tel Aviv and I was in
Jerusalem, both of us busy with various things and not knowing at what
point we’d be in the same town. We were going to continue to
communicate, making sure we’d have a chance to visit sometime during the
week I was there. Visiting the church several hours later, I was overwhelmed by how
many hundreds of people were milling around. Tourists and disciples from
all over the world visit the church in every hour that it’s open— four million
people annually—and the hustl e and bustle of so many people in every
corner of every room is simply part of the experience. After I’d gone upstairs and come back down again, I headed for the
lower room beneath where Jesus had died. Upstairs is where they say he
was crucified; downstairs is where those who bore witness to his suffering
were gathered. Looking in, I saw to my surprise that the room was entirely
empty. Empty, that is, except for Daniella.I looked at her and she looked at me. No words could have matched the
moment. Both of us felt it. I don’t know who was at his feet two thousand
years ago, but Daniella and I were at his feet together now. OceanofPDF.comDetroit
The modern mind is prone to scoffing at the idea of evil, capable of
acknowledging its existence but considering itself too smart to investigate
its sourc e. The ego loves that attitude, of course. It enables  the ego to
operate in secret. The ego is not a dysfunction, it is a malfunction. It is not neutral, it is
malevolent. And its goal is not to inconvenience you; its goal is to destroy
anything beautiful and precious you have ever known, including you. Jesus died a horrible death, not some quick mortal wound but rather a
torture that went on for hours. With every hour his suffering increased. There could be no more potent image of injustice and unmitig ated cruelty
than the torture of an innocent man who had helped many and harmed no
one. It is not the reality of his death, but the meaning of his death, that is
meant to instruct us. Billions of people suffer no less horribly, and no less
unfairly, on the earth today. In recognizing the suffering of Jesus, we should
remember the suffering of the world. His message wasn’ t “Hey, look at
me.” His message is “Hey, look at you.”
Many years ago I was the minister at a nondenominational church and
spiritual center in Detroit. When I first arrived, I was told it was a tradition
there to celebrate a Good Frida y service. I hesitated; I am not a Christian
minister but a teacher of universal spiritual truths. I could eagerly talk about
Easter and the Resurrection. But a Good Friday service had a uniquely
Christian ring to it, and I didn’ t know if it was something I could do. I realized that the Good Friday service meant a lot to the congregants,
so I looked more deeply into it. I came to see more clearly the spiritual and
psychological connection between acknowledging the death of Jesus on
Friday and celebrating his resurrection on Sunday. I have never been
interested in religious dogma, but I’m interested in the religious  experience,and there’s nothing more profound than a religious service when it’s
authentic and real. The word “religion” comes from the Latin root “religio,”
which means to bind back. Its purpose is to bind us back to the truth in our
hearts. What began as something I resisted became for me the most powerful
day of the year during my tenur e at Renaissance Unity. For one day, at one
service, we acknowledged the depth of human suffering, both our own and
that of others. We felt the horror and the grief and the pain of this world. We
stood before it and did not look away. We took it in, we did not ignore it. Bearing witness  to the suffering  of Jesus, we bore witness to the suffering
of the world. When Sunday arrived, we weren’t just dressed up fancy on Easter
morning. We didn’ t just bliss out on the gospel choir singing hallelujah. No,
something very important had occurred at that Good Friday service, and we
had all experienced it. We were able to take in the joy of Easter in a way we
could not have otherwise; having allowed ourselves to truly see what
becomes of a world in which love is absent, we could celebrate its
reappearance in a whole new way. Having gazed deeply into the darkness of the crucifixion, we then gazed
more deeply into the light of the resurrection. We don’t heal our wounds by
ignoring them. The crucifixion is the wound of the world—the ego’s
violent, destruct ive force in whatever form it appears. If you don’t look at it
at all, you’re not in transcendence but in denial. Look at it, and then
consider that in Jesus the lesson  has been learned. Through the power of the
resurrection, the ef fects of darkness are nullified. He has overcome, and so can we. OceanofPDF.comCrucifixion
The suffering of Jesus on the cross was a historical event, of course, but
like all aspects of his life on earth it speaks to our reality now. His suffering
was an embodiment of the full viciousness of the ego in order for God to
demonstrate, through the resurrection, that there is no evil in the world that
God’ s love does not nullify. While traditiona lists believe that the suffering of Jesus ransomed a
sinful humanity, esoteric teachin gs argue otherwise. The crucifixion was not
a punishment for anything or anyone. A loving God would not have Jesus
die because you were bad. Rather, we can see the crucifixion of Jesus as the last useless journey,
the final detour into the regions of darkness. Among his final words were
“It is finished.” He was speaking not only for himself but for all of us. He
had taken on the darkness of the world, even unto death itself, and he
survived. United with the consciousness of an eternal God, he was
deathless. In the realm of spirit, so are we. But Jesus is not asking us to join in his crucifixion; he is asking us to
join in his resurr ection. The crucifixion was a radical demonstration of how
far the ego will go; the resurrection is a radical demonstration of God’ s
power to overrid e it. It is proof that while hatred appar ently  triumphed over
love, in time love would have the final say. As with everything else in the life of Jesus, the principle revealed in the
crucifixion applies to all of us. Our crucifixions are rarely as extreme as his,
of cours e, yet the pattern by which ego seeks to destroy the spirit is as
operative in our own lives as it was in his. The point, again, is to claim the
power of the resurrection. No matter what we’re going throug h, love will
divinely correct all things. The mind of Jesus cracked the code. In joining
our minds with his, we crack it too.Sometimes the crucifixion is something as small as an unkind act or
hurtful comment from someone. Yet even the smallest annoyance is good
practice, an opportunity to choo se to rise above. The accumulation of many
smaller wounds can be enough to harden us. A little ego is still ego. It’s like
a little bit of cancer. Best it were not there. The crucifixion  is a constant reenactment of the ego’s ever-vigilant
efforts to attack, to destroy, and to kill. The ego tempts us constantly to
think thoughts that would destroy our peace, sabotage our relationships, and
deflect the miracles that are our divine inheritance. It is the insan ity and fear
that prevails upon the planet, the malignant consciousness of a humanity
having forgotten both our source and our purpose. We have become deeply
confused and have forgotten who we are. The ego is literally anti-God. It
seeks to attack us, vilify us, and ultimately destroy us. The crucifixion of Jesus is the ultimate symbol of the ego having gotten
its wish, causing us to suffer and ultimately to die. The ego is the belief that
we are our bodies; therefore to the ego the death of the body is the ultimate
triumph. Our triumph over death lies in the realization that the dead do not die. For what God created cannot be uncreated. As God’ s creatio ns, we are
eternal spirits, and what lives in God cannot die. His creations are
unchangeable and unassailable. The message of the crucifixion was not that Jesus died. The message is
that he did not die. He continues to live, and he lives in us. OceanofPDF.comAll of It Is Happening Now
Crucifixion and resurrection aren’ t just symbols; they


 the reality of
being a doctor. He lived with that idea, sustained it, nourished it,  and
loved it until through his imagination it pene-trated the layers  of his
subconscious mind and became a con-viction, thereby attracting  to
him everything necessary for the fulfillment of his dream. • Why some men do not get a raise in pay
If you are working in a large organization and you are silently
thinking of and resenting the fact you are underpaid, that you are  not
appreciated, and that you deserve more money and greater
recognition, you are subconsciously severing your ties with that
organization. You are setting a law in motion, and the superintende nt
or manager will say to you, “We have to let you go. ” Actually, you
 113  dismissed yourself. The manager was simply the instrument thro ugh
which your own negative mental state was confirmed. It was an
example of the law of action and reaction. The action was your
thought, and the reaction was the response of your subconscious mind. • Obstacles and impediments on the pathway to riches
I am sure you have heard men say, “That fellow has a racket. ” “He
is a racketeer. ” “He is getting money dishonestly. ” “He is  a faker. ” “I
knew him when he had nothing. ” “He is a crook, a thief, and a
swindler. ”
If you analyze the man who talks like that, you discover he is
usually in want or suffering from some financial or physical  illness. Perhaps his former college friends went up the ladder of  success and
excelled him. Now he is bitter and envious of their progress. In many
instances this is the cause of his downfall. Thinking negativel y of
these classmates and condemning their wealth causes the wealt h and
prosperity he is praying for to vanish and flee away. He is
condemning the thing he is praying for. He is praying two ways. On the one hand he is saying, “Wealth is
flowing to me now,” and in the next breath, silently or audibly, he i s
saying, “I resent that fellow’s wealth. ” Always make i t a special point
to rejoice in the wealth of the other person. • Protect your investments
If you are seeking wisdom regarding investments, or if you are
worried about your stocks or bonds, quietly claim, “Infinite
intelligence governs and watches over all my financial tr ansac-tions,
and whatsoever I do shall prosper. ” Do this frequently and you will
find that your investments will be wise; moreover, you will be
protected from loss, as you will be prompted to sell your secu rities or
holdings before any loss accrues to you. • You cannot get something for nothing
In large stores the management employs store detectives to prevent
people from stealing. They catch a number of people every da y trying
 114  to get something for nothing. All such people are living in the mental
atmosphere of lack and limitation and are stealing from themsel ves
peace, harmony, faith, honesty, integrity, good will, and confidence. Furthermore, they are attracting to themselves all manner of loss, such
as, loss of charac-ter, prestige, social status, and peace of mind. These
people lack faith in the source of supply and the understanding of  how
their minds work. If they would mentally call on the powers of th eir
subconscious mind and claim that they are guided to their true
expression, they would find work and constant supply. Then by
honesty, integrity, and perseverance, they would become a credit  to
themselves and to society at large. • Your constant supply of money
Recognizing the powers of your subconscious mind and the creative
power of your thought or mental image is the way to opulence,
freedom, and constant supply. Accept the abundant life in your own
mind. Your mental acceptance and expectancy of wealth has its own
mathematics and mechanics of expression. As you enter into the  mood
of opulence, all things necessary for the abundant life will c ome to
pass. Let this be your daily affirmation; write it in your heart, “I  am one
with the infinite riches of my subconscious mind. It is my right to be
rich, happy, and successful. Money flows to me freely, copious ly, and
endlessly. I am forever conscious of my true worth. I give of my
talents freely, and I am wonderfully blessed financially. It is
wonderful. ”
• Step up this way to riches
1. Be bold enough to claim that it is your right to be rich and your
deeper mind will honor your claim.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the main cause of lack of wealth in many people's lives?,
A: Envy.
Q: What is the key to overcoming envious thoughts?,
A: To wish for the other person's greater wealth.
Q: What is the key to using the subconscious mind to attract wealth?,
A: To claim that you truly wish for the other person's prosperity and to not criticize them.
Q: Why do some people not get a raise in pay?,
A: They are silently thinking and resenting their current salary, which subconsciously severs their ties with the organization.
Q: What is the key to using the subconscious mind to get guidance?,
A: To trust it and believe in its power, and to not doubt or question its abilities.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>An old friend appeared in the dream and said,
“Read  these headlines—do not go!” The headlines of the newspaper,
which appeared in the dream, related to war and the attack on Pe arl
Harbor. Occasionally, the writer dreams literally. The aforemen-ti oned
dream was undoubtedly a dramatization of the subcon-scious mind
which projected a person whom I trusted and respected. To some a
warning may come in the form of a mother who appears in a dream. 141  She tells the person not to go here or there, and the reason for the
warning. Your subconscious mind is all-wise. It knows all thi ngs. Oftentimes it will speak to you only in a voice that your con scious
mind will immediately accept as true. Sometimes your subcons cious
will warn you in a voice which sounds like that of your mother o r
some loved one which may cause you to stop on the street, and you
find, if you had gone another foot, a falling object from a window
might have struck you on the head. My subconscious mind is one with the universal subcon-scious, and
it knew the Japanese were planning a war, and it also kne w when the
war would start. Dr. Rhine, director of the Department of Psychology at Duke
University, has gathered together a vast amount of evi-dence show ing
that a great number of people all over the world see events be fore they
happen, and in many instances are, therefore, able to avoid the tra gic
event which was foreseen vividly in a dream. The dream which I had showed clearly the headlines in The New
York Times about three years prior to the tragedy of Pearl Harbor. In
consequence of this dream, I immediately cancelled the trip as  I felt a
subconscious compulsion to do so. Three years later the Second
World War proved the truth of the inner voice of intuition. • Your future is in your subconscious mind
Remember that the future, the result of your habitual think -ing, is
already in your mind except when you change it through prayer. The
future of a country, likewise, is in the collective subconsc ious of the
people of that nation. There is nothing strange in the dream I had
wherein I saw the headlines of the New York newspapers long bef ore
the war began. The war had already taken place in mind, and all the
plans of attack were already engraved on that great recordi ng
instrument, the subconscious mind or collective unconscious of the
universal mind. Tomorrow’s events are in your subconscious mind, so
are next week’s and next month’s, and they may be seen by a highly
psychic or clairvoyant person. 142  No disaster or tragedy can happen to you if you decide to pray. Nothing is predetermined or foreordained. Your mental attitude, i.e.,
the way you think, feel, and believe determines your destiny. You can,
through scientific prayer, which is ex-plained in a previous ch apter,
mold, fashion, and create your own future. Whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap. • A cat nap nets him $15,000
One of my students mailed me a newspaper clipping three or four
years ago about a man called Ray Hammerstrom, a roller at t he steel
works in Pittsburgh operated by Jones and Laughlin Steel
Corporation. He received $15,000 for his dream. According to the article, the engineers could not fix a faulty s witch
in a newly installed bar mill which controlled the deliver y of straight
bars to the cooling beds. The engineers worked on the switch abou t
eleven or twelve times to no avail. Hammerstrom thought a lot about the problem and tried to figure
out a new design, which might work. Nothing worked. One afternoon
he lay down for a nap, and prior to sleep he began to think about t he
answer to the switch problem


 vitamin D, and what is its effect on the body?,
A: Vitamin D is necessary for the proper development and maintenance of bones and teeth. Its deficiency can lead to rickets and other bone deformities.
Q: Why is it important to recognize the importance of vitamin E?,
A: Vitamin E is essential for the proper functioning of the body's cells and the prevention of infections.
Q: What is the main issue with the current diet, and how does it affect the body?,
A: The main issue is that the diet does not provide the necessary amounts of vitamins and minerals, leading to widespread deficiencies and chronic diseases.
Q: What is the significance of the amounts of certain minerals, such as calcium and iron, in the diet?,
A: These minerals are essential for maintaining the health of the body and preventing diseases, and their deficiency can lead to severe health issues, including rickets, anemia, and other complications.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>The fact that
these go through ordinary cooking without complete destruction seems to sustain the
idea that they do exist in ordinary diets in sufficient quantities. The chief sources of
these vitamins are wheat germ (which is discarded in the flour mills), liver, heart, kidney and muscle meats, and yeast. That they are deficient in the ordinary diets is well
proved by the prevalence of pellagra and pellagra-like symptoms, and the fact that the
average person will have much better endur ance, appetite, digestion, and freedom from
aches and pains when sufficient sized doses of these vitamins are taken. Subclinical pellagra exists in the north, while advanced pellagra exists in the south. The advanced pellagra does not escape detection, and so comes under treatment. The
milder subclinical pellagra presents a varyi ng complexity of symptoms; is the subject of
many professional errors, and seldom recei ves the right vitamins and minerals in
sufficiently large doses to be completely cured. As pellagra is a disease which strikes at the skin, the lining of the digestive tract, and
the brain, the symptoms of the subclinical varieties may predominate in any individual case. Clinical tests on the nutrition of persons suffering neuroses, irritability and other
forms of nerve and mental disease show that a great number of them may be improved
by taking nicotinic acid, which is considered the specific treatment for pellagra. This indicates that many cases of insanity are on a deficiency basis, and that the persons who
are insane from pellagra are not the only group suffering insanity because of inadequate diet. The effects of vitamins are not as specific as might be concluded from what has been
said so far. The effects of all vitamins ove rlap and interlace to such a degree that no
disease can be cured by administering one vitamin, and no disease is caused by any
single vitamin deficiency. The single cause and the single cure exist only in
experimental animals in the laboratory. The complexities of civilized life make it impossible that the conditions surrounding
the laboratory animal could ever be duplicated in human existence. It is apparent that
the pellagra cases which show insanity as the outstanding symptom are not suffering
from just a lack of nicotinic acid, or a lack of even all the vitamin B group; but are suffering from a lack of all vitamins, the most extreme deficiency being in the B
2
complex, with emphasis on that part of it which we call niacin-amide. Such a patient undoubtedly also suffers from mineral deficiencies. The concentration of minerals and vitamins in the diets of animals that eat both
vegetable and animal foods (meat, vegetables, fruits, and milk products) is undoubtedly
sufficient to meet the daily needs without setting up much surplus. The vitamins and
minerals supplied to the body is very much like the coal supplied to the furnace. A continuous stream must be kept going in order that the mechanism may function at its
best. Some reserves of vitamin A are to be f ound in the retina and the liver. Some reserves
of vitamin C may be found in the adrenal glands. Some reserves of vitamin D exist in
fats, but these reserves are exhausted in a fe w days or weeks if a constant supply is not
provided. In order to provide an optimum supply, every food taken into the body must
be a vitamin and mineral containing food. Any part of the food intake which has been deprived of its normal, natural vitamin or mineral content dilutes the good food which is
taken by the individual and cuts down his ability to resist infection in just the degree that such a deficient intake constitutes a percentage of the whole diet. The studies made by the author of 2,707 cases of patients suffering with tumors,
cancers, stomach ulcers, colitis, constipation, neuritis, arthritis, heart disease, chronic
headaches, and high and low blood pressure disclose that fact that this group as a group
was consuming 55 per cent white flour products (bread, cookies, cake, pastries, pancakes, biscuits, muffins, etc.). The sugar taken by this group represented by candy,
marmalade, preserves, jellies, jams, and canned goods containing heavy sugar syrups
added another 20 per cent to the deficient devitaminized, devitalized, demineralized foods. (Report by author to American Rad ium Society, Annual Meeting, Cleveland,
Ohio, 1934.) The "Food and Drug journal" keeps an accurate record of the export and import of
food products. According to this journal, devitaminized wheat flour products imported
into the city of New York constitute around 55 per cent of the whole food intake. The
consumption of canned goods and sugar brings the percentage down to about the same as the group of 2,700 Midwest persons studied. In other words, the clinical group
suffering from definite disease was eating from 18 to 25 per cent vitamin and mineral
containing foods. The imports of food into the City of New York showed that the food intake of the population of that city measured around 25 per cent vitamin and mineral
containing food, and about 75 per cent dev itaminized, devitalized, demineralized food. The diluting of the acceptable food by foods which had been so changed as to render
them nearly pure carbohydrate (sugar, white flour, candy, etc.) was the fundamental
error in both groups. And the group presenting well-developed disease evidently
represented only a more advanced stage of the same kind of vitamin and mineral
deficiency, The seven million people represented in the New York group had, in the younger decades, a certain freedom from the diseases mentioned; but they were laying
the foundation for the same serious diseases, as they were suffering from colds, sinus
disease, tooth and mouth diseases, chronic tonsillitis, and other things which provide
foci for the distribution of toxic material into the heart, blood vessels, brain, and
intestinal lining. More slowly and surely, they were laying the foundation for the diseases of the glands of internal secretion --for a failure of function of the pituitaries,
pancreas, gonads, liver, thyroids, parathyroids, and adrenals. The age group which we
examined ranged higher than the group represented by the whole population of New York City. They represented the culmination of years of deficiency, chronic infections,
repeated colds, of headaches, and disease of the mucous membrane. The best evidence that we are not getting the things in our diet which we should get is
the fact that persons in every one of these groups will be better physically and mentally
when put on a high mineral, high vitamin diet, and given large amounts of multiple
vitamin concentrates and minerals to make up for past deficiencies. CHAPTER V
WHAT ARE THE RESULTS
OF OUR DIETARY ERRORS? When a baby is born into the world, it is born into a fight against infection. He is
exposed to many different kinds of infection from the moment of birth until death. The best proof of the ever-present attacking microorganisms being everywhere in great
numbers is the rapidity with which a body decays after death. As long as any life is
present, some kind of a barrier is kept up against infection. The decay that occurs
immediately after death is simply the result of  the already present b acterial life attacking
a now defenseless group of cells. The defenses in our body structures are something that
are tied up with life. Life proceeds normally in the well-nourished cells with no danger
from invading microorganisms as long as the bodily defenses are kept high. There are varying degrees of life pro cesses. The flame of life may burn high or bum
low. In the well-nourished body the flame burns at its optimum, and the defense
mechanisms which have come down to us through thousands of generations function
well. The mechanisms which protect us against the ever-present and varying kinds of
infection may be lowered in various ways. The defense mechanism may be lowered by
long-continued exposure to cold, by fatigue, and by bad diet. In actual experience, the
one which must interest us most is that which has to do with diet. Since it is quite
evident that the diets in use in every civilized country today are not the optimum diets, it
is equally evident that we are all exposed to diseases which result from the barriers
against infection being lowered. Perhaps the most common infections are those connected with the upper respiratory
tract--the diseases ordinarily known as colds, grippe, flu, and pneumonia. These
diseases are largely diseases of the human animal, and undoubtedly affect humans
because of the difference between human and animal diets. The diseases of the respiratory tract affect the nose with its accessory sinuses, through


reaction, the mood shifts of the menstrual cycle, and even a
characteristic depression that is the earliest warning sign
of certain cancers (a tumor in the pancreas, for example,
may be too small to detect, yet it will release cortisol and
other “stress hormones” into the bloodstream, causing the
patient to feel depressed). Despite this, I see too many ﬂaws in the argumen t that a
deeper knowledge of body chemistry is all we need—the
body has too many chemicals (literally thousands of them),
they are produced in bewilderingly complex patterns, and
they come and go too fast, often in fractions of a second. What controls this consta nt ﬂux. We cannot leave the mind
out of the mind-body connection altogether. To say that the
body heals itself using only chemicals is like saying that a
car shifts gears using only the transmission. Clearly it takes
a driver who knows what he is doing. Although medicine
has spent several centur ies trying to hold on to the idea
that the body runs itself alone, like a self-motivated
machine, there must be a driver here, too. Otherwise, our
body’s chemistry would be a jumble of ﬂoating molecules
instead of the incredibly  ordered and precise machinery
that it so obviously is. In a more naïve age, the driver was thought to be a tiny
man, called the homunculus, who sat in the heart and
performed all the gear shifts needed to run the body. The
homunculus went out in the Renaissance, when anatomists
began for the ﬁrst time to dissect cadavers and verify what
was inside them. The homunculus wasn’t found inside the
heart (neithe r was the soul), but that left a huge, glaring
gap between the mind and the body. Many scientists since
have tried to ﬁll the gap with the brain, saying that the
brain’s funct ion is to order and control all other functions
in the physiology; but this answer begs the question,
because the brain is just another machine. The driver still
needs to be there. I will argue that he is, but he hasbecome something much more abstract than the
homunculus or even the brain—he is built into the
intelligent power that motivates us to live, move, and think. Can that be proved. The next step for us is to work our
way deeper into the body ’s inner intelligence, to try to ﬁnd
out what motivates it. The territory of mind-body medicine
has no givens and no inﬂexible rules, which is all to the
good. For decades,  medicine has known that much disease
has a psychosomatic component, yet dealing with that
component has been like trying to harness the wind. Inside
us there must be a “thin king body” that responds to the
mind’s comm ands, but where could it be and what is it
made of. EXPANDING THE TOPIC
One of the most baﬄing mysteries touched upon in this
chapter—where does a thought come from. —remains just
as baﬄing today. It may surprise you, but there is no
evidence that the brain is thinking. In fact, if you assume
that the mind arises from  the brain, which is the standard
working assumption in neuroscience, consciousne ss is just
an inference. Imagine an old-time player piano, the kind
that performed music by inserting a paper roll into the
mechanism. Punched holes in the paper roll activate the
keys, giving the appearance that an invisible pianist is
playing the “Maple Leaf R ag” or a Mozart sonata. No one would propose that the piano roll manufactured
itself. There must be a musician whose actual intentions lie
behind the “invisible” pianist. We infer his existence
without seeing him. The same is true about the mind when
you observe the brain. As its quadrillion connections
activate, using chemical signals and faint electrical
charges, the vast activ ity of mind—thoughts, feelings,sensations, and images—appears. To claim that this
happens automatically seems strange, but it’s the
materialist position, while in Quantum Healing  I said the
opposite: An invisible intelligence, comple te with
intentions, desires, hope s, dreams, and so on, is at work. The fact that you can’t see this entity, known as the self,
doesn’t prove that he doesn’t exist. It only proves that he
doesn’t exist  if you are a strict materialist, who will accept
nothing except physical phenomena. The bulk of this chapter was devoted to the reality  of the
mind-body connection, which is unassailable now. Over the
past thirty years the network that transmits messages
throughout the body has been studied in much greater
detail, leaving no doubt that every thought, feeling, mood,
and belief crosses the bridge from mental to physical. But
these detailed researches into hormones,
neurotransmitters, immunomodulators, peptides, and
thousands of products expressed by genes has obscured
the simplicity of the mind-body connection. In simple terms, the entire system is a feedback loop,
with only two factors to consider, input and output. Input
enters the brain, output  exits. This is the nexus where
every process, mental or physical, meets every other, like
trillions of train tracks converging on a train station and
then exiting the station  to go their separate ways. The
reason for simplifying the almost inﬁnite complexity of a
living mind and body comes down to practicalities. Each of
us wants to know the right and wrong kind of input that
will aﬀect us. Positive Input
Pure food, air, and water
Positive emotions
Strong self -esteemLow stress, good coping skills in the face of stress
Moderate exercise
Good sleep (eight to nine hours every night)
Loving, supportive relationships
Inner contentment, lack of conﬂicts and tensions
Satisfying work
Meditation and other contemplative practices
Abstaining from alcohol, tobacco, and recreational drugs
Minimizing the use of prescription drugs
Healing old wounds and self-destructive conditioning
from the past
The reason that little or none of these things seem new is
that they don’t need to be. After decades of public
information about prevention and the rise of the wellness
movement, we know a great deal about positive lifestyle
changes (this isn’t the same as knowing all we need to
know about why these changes work). Input, positive or
negative, registers in every cell of the body, down to the
expression of your genes (that is, their complex chemical
output). The ﬂy in the ointment is that information isn’t the same
as motivation. People may know what’s good for them, but
they continue to live otherwise. The most common kinds of
negative input remain a mainstay in the lives of people who
sincerely want to change, including overuse of alcohol,
tobacco, and drugs; eating processed and junk foods;
tolerating a high level of stress; going short on sleep;
taking little or no exercis e. The Gallup organization, which
surveys the wellbeing of populations around the world, has
a top catego ry known as “thriving. ” These are the people
who describe  themselves  as happy, safe, ﬁnancially secure,
and healthy—in short, they are enjoying a level of wellbeing
that most Americans would consider a basic minimum. Yetthe percentage of people who are thriving around the world
is dismally low, often under 10–15 percent, and even in the
prosperous developed West, it rarely rises above 33
percent. The fact that the United States continues to
consume antidepressants and tranquilizers in record
numbers attests to our inner unease, and by some
estimates the abuse of prescription painkillers is now a
cause of death surpassing the total deaths from illegal
substances. No amount of preaching about these things will work
over the long run. Prevention implies a level of fear, and
fear is a bad motivator except in short bursts. The body
resists being  in a state of chronic stress, and worrying
about your health is a form of stress. The only successful
long-term motivation is inspiration. It, too, can ﬂicker out
quickly. But there’s a secure kind of inspiration that comes
from valuing yourself with such conviction that you like and
enjoy the experience of giving your mind and body positive
inputs all the time. When I wrote Quantum Healing  I wanted to give the
human side of the mind-body connection, realizing that a
term like feedback loop,  adopted from computers and
information theory, sound s cold and abstract. But the whole
game comes down to input-output in the end. Without dwelling on the negative, let’s say that you’ve
had a stressful day. You feel wiped out by ﬁve o’clock, so
you grab a burger and fries instead of cooking at home. You
settle in with a drink or two to unwind. Your workload is
heavy, so you catch up by taking some of it home with you,
and by bedtime you ﬁnd your mind is still so active that
getting to sleep takes a while. Your alarm clock goes oﬀ at
the usual time the next morning, but you’ve managed only
six hours of sleep. No matter, it’s time to start the


changing. Getting the ﬂu, therefore, is like getting a news update. Your own DNA learns about alterations in the world’s DNAthat are challenging it, and your DNA then meets the
challenge, not passively but actively. It must prove its
viability by surviving the virus. The immune system rushes
to meet the invader, and they engage in battle, molecule
against molecule. The whole operation is timed to the split
second and leaves no room for error. The macrophages
rush to discover the identity of this new life form, probe it
for vital weaknesses, and then mobilize the genetic
material in their own DNA that will collapse the molecules
of the virus, rendering them harmless. At the same time, the immune cells also destroy  any of
your own cells that have played host to the invader. These
infected host cells have not yet died from the ﬂu. They are
engorged with living viruses that pose a threat after the
immune cells have wiped out all the ﬂu that is gushing
through the bloodstream. To kill an infected host cell,
certain immune cells (killer T-cells) latch onto it from the
outside and puncture holes in the cell wall. Like a deﬂating
tire, the host cell spills out its liquid content, collapses into
an empty bag, and dies. But the host cell is not just eliminated; its DNA is actually
dismantled by other signals from the attacking  immune
cells. This is an absolutely fascinating aspect of the whole
process. What is really happening is that one bit of your
DNA (the immune cell) is dismantling another bit of your
DNA (the host cell), which in fact is just a copy of itself! The only diﬀerence betw een the two is that the second bit
of DNA, in the host cell, has made the mistake of
cooperating with the ﬂu virus. No one knows why this
occurs. As we saw in the last chapter, our cells
mysteriously allow themselves to be killed from within
when viruses attack them. Physically, the virus is no match
for the cell, being thousands of times smaller and less
complex—as one medical writer put it, it is as if abasketball came through the window of a skyscraper and
the whole building fell down. You would think that such mistakes show the
imperfection of the body’s intelligence, but that is too
superﬁcial. What is actually happening here is an exquisite
example of quantum healing at work; in fact, the idea that a
war is going on is just another half-truth, for when one bit
of DNA dismantles another, we are witnessing a totally self-
enclosed process. Every part of a disease reaction, from the
scavenger cells that ﬁrst meet the invader, to the host cells
that take it in, to the macrophages, killer T-cells, helper T-
cells, B-cells, and so on, are all the same DNA expressing
its various abilities. In other words, the DNA has decided to
stage for its own beneﬁt a drama in which every part is
played by itself. Why should DNA put on one mask to succumb to the ﬂu
virus and another to rush in and destroy it? No one has
answered this profound question, but it must have its logic
in the whole scheme of life, the larger drama enacted by all
the DNA in the world. I can make a speculation that we are
watching DNA enrich life by adding as many variations as
can possibly exist on one planet. Nothing that happens to DNA is lost; it all stays within
the self-enclosed system. Once the ﬂu virus is defeated, the
DNA records  the encounter by producing new antibodies
and specialized “memory cells” that ﬂoat around in the
lymph system  and bloodstream for years afterward, adding
to the immense storehouse of information that DNA has
been accum ulating since life began. This is how DNA
makes you a player on the world scene. If I look out my window, I can see a multilane highway
with cars rushing by. Occasionally a jet ﬂies over, sending a
ﬂock of birds twittering into the sky. Gulls circle overhead,
thirty miles inland from  the sea, and in the air is the
distinct smell of the ocean, rich with marine life. All of thisspectacle, including me, is the play of DNA. It has been
projected from a molecule whose responsibility is to unfold
new life without ever compromising life as a whole. Someone once estimated that all the separate DNA of every
person who has ever lived would ﬁt comforta bly in a
teaspoon, and yet if the tightly wound DNA in even a single
cell nucleus of your body  were uncoiled and the pieces laid
end to end, they would stretch out to ﬁve feet. This means
that the genetic thread contained in the body’s 50 trillion
cells is 50 billion miles long—enough to reach the moon
and back 100,000 times. The Veda says that the universe’s
intelligence extends “from smaller than the smallest to
larger than the largest,” and DNA is the physical proof of it. Therefore, it must be wrong to think that conﬂict is the
norm. In general, a state of peace exists between your DNA
and the other DNA “out there.” For every time that you
actually have to ﬁght oﬀ a disease by getting sick, there are
dozens, if not hundreds, of times when your body has
warded oﬀ sickness without any overt symptom. It is only
when there is a distortion “in here” that the immune
system loses its ability to silently defend, heal, and
remember. We tend to forget that peace is the norm. Psychiatrists
and sociolog ists take it as a given that modern man is
deeply divided in his psyche. The rise of stress-related
disorders, depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, and “the
disease of being in a hurry” is a sign of the times. The
hectic pace of work, and life in general, has accustomed us
to turmoil. By now, peop le are thoroughly indoctrinated by
the idea that a certain degree of internal conﬂict is normal. The war, it seems, was started by us, and it is taking its toll
in a frighteningly ordinary way. —All of this is what I wish I could have expressed to Chitra,
the young woman with breast cancer whose story opened
this book. She was fortunate enough to receive a cure that
seemed miraculous, but as I was writing these chapters,
her case became very diﬀerent. The cancer cells had been
defeated but not their memory. Because Chitra remained
extremely anxious about having her cancer recur, she and I
agreed that conventiona l therapy should continu e. At the
same time, she promised to keep up her meditatio n and the
bliss techniq ue I had taught her. I heard nothing for a
month, then she called with bad news: her doctors had
detected a dozen small shadows in her CAT scan that they
interpreted as brain cancer. In a state of extreme fear, she
began an intensive course of radiation, this time
accompanied by experimental chemotherapy. Weakened by the earlier bout with breast cancer, Chitra
endured severe side eﬀects, including depression. She
stopped meditating and no longer returned for Ayurvedic
treatment. Her platelet count dropped severely—platelets
are blood cells critical in the clotting process—which meant
that it was too dangerous to continue the chemotherapy. Chitra’s doctors determined that her bone marrow was
producing antibodies that attacked her own platelets
(probably in reaction to the many transfusions she had
received). They considered a bone marrow transplant, but
tried ﬁrst to exchange the blood plasma. During the
procedure, she had a seizure and soon developed severe
anemia and various infections. At this point Chitra’s case was turning into a mounting
disaster. She refused a blood trans fusion, being horriﬁed at
the thought of getting AIDS. Because of her agitation, she
had to be placed on an intravenous drip of morp hine and
Valium. Her awareness became duller and duller, and she
slipped into a coma, probably induced by shock, followed
by the onset of pneum onia. The doctors informed herhusband that she would probably not recover, and a day
later, without regaining consciousness, Chitra died. She
was the victim not of her cancer but of her treatm ent, and I
cannot help but think death from cancer would perhaps
have been more humane. The passing of this beautifully innocent and devoted
young woman came as a great blow. Although I had no
consolation to oﬀer, I immediately called Raman, her
husband, who was completely shattered. For months we
had both watched Chitra pass into the light of life and back
into the shadow of death, sharing extremes of joy and
despair. Sincere eﬀorts had been made to save her, yet I
cannot expel the bitter taste that comes from knowing, as
all doctors know, the barbarity of our current approach to
cancer. Every day, a physician in practice sees patients who have
undergone some devast ating cancer treatment


 teaspoon salt
½ cup maple syrup
¼ cup canola oil or ghee
¼ cup mango puree or applesauce or mashed banana
12–15 almonds, whole

Place the flour, almon d/oat mixture, cinnamon, and salt into the mixing bowl. Mix together with a
wire whisk. In a separate bowl, combine the maple syrup, oil, and mango (or fruit puree) together and
mix with a wire whisk. Combine the wet and the dry ingredients with your hands (use  plastic bags on
your hands). Mix into a smooth consistency. Using a small 1-ounce scoop or a tablespoon, scoop
mixture onto a sprayed baking sheet. Make a small dip with your thumb and place a whole almond
into the center of the cookie. Bake at 350 degrees 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. IT ALIAN CUISINE
White Bean and V egetable Soup
Spinach and Eggplant Layer ed Pasta with PestoRoasted T omato Sauce
Garbanzo and Gr een Bean Stew
Roasted Carr ots with Fr esh Rosemary
Raspberry T ofu Sorbet

White Bean and V egetable Soup
1 cup white beans, soak in water overnight, strain and rinse in the morning
Place the beans in a soup pot. Fill the pot  with water to a level that is 2 inches above the beans. Bring to a boil. Allow the beans to cook u ntil soft, but not mushy. Replenish the wa ter as needed to
maintain a rolling boil. Strain the beans and reserve. Discard the liquid. 1 teaspoon ghee or olive oil
1 cup leeks, chopped

Sauté together 2 minutes, and then add, in order:
1 cup celery
½ teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon basil
1 teaspoon marjoram
1 teaspoon dill
1 teaspoon oregano
1 tablespoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid
1 cup carrots, ¼-inch slices
1 cup cauliflower, cut into flowerets

Sauté together 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Next add:
1 cup zucchini
2 cups white beans, cooked
5–6 cups vegetable stock (enough to cover, plus one inch)
2 bay leaves
 Simmer together until the vegetables are tender, approximately 20 minutes. 1 cup, packed, mixed cooking greens or spinach
2 tablespoons or ganic tomato paste
1 tablespoon basil, fresh, sliced thinly
1 tablespoon parsley, fresh, chopped

Add the mixed greens, tomato paste, and fresh herbs toward the end. Stir until the p aste begins to
thicken. Serve in lar ge soup bowls. Spinach and Eggplant Layered Pasta with Pesto
Pesto
2 cups, packed, fresh basil, stems removed
1 cup broccoli, coarsely chopped and lightly sautéed
in 1 teaspoon olive oil
½ cup pine nuts (dry-roasted in a sauté pan until
golden brown)
2 tablespoons lemon juice
3 tablespoons olive oil
½ teaspoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or salt

In a food processor, place the basil and sautéed broccoli and pulse for 1 minute. Add the pine nuts,
lemon juice, oil, and Braggs. Puree until a smooth consistency is achieved. Pasta
9 fresh or dried 2 × 9-inch strips pasta
Use fresh pasta sheets if available or dry lasagna noodles. Cut fresh sheet into 2-inch strips. Use
the dry lasagna sheets as they are. Bring 3 quarts of water to a boil in a lar ge pot. Dip the noodles in
the boiling  water and cook until tender. B oil the fresh pasta 2 to 3 minutes, the dry pasta 6 to 7
minutes. R emove from  cooking water and set aside in fresh cool water until ready to  use. Drain just
before you assemble the casserole. Filling1 tablespoon Italian herb
2 teaspoons black pepper
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid
1 lar ge or 2 medium eggplant, sliced in ¼-inch rounds
(approx. 18 slices), discard ends
2 pounds fresh spinach, cleaned and torn into pieces, blanched
for 2 minutes in boiling water, rinsed in cool water and set
aside, or two 10-ounce packages frozen spinach, defrosted
1 teaspoon dill, dried
1 teaspoon allspice
½ teaspoon paprika
¼ cup bread crumbs

Combine the Italian herb, 1 teaspoon pepper, oil, and Braggs. Place eggplant into a lar ge bowl and
drizzle the olive oil mixture on top. T oss the eggplant until well coated. On a sheet pan, lay out the
eggplant and roast in the oven for 20 minutes, or until the eggplant is almost tender. Remove from the
oven and cool. Place the spinach in a bowl  and add the dill, allspice, and remaining teaspoon of black
pepper. In a separate bowl, mix the paprika and bread crumbs together with your hands (use plastic
bags on your hands for cleanliness) and set aside. T o Assemble:
Spray an 8 × 8-inch-square casserole pan with olive oil or coat lightly with ghee. On the bottom of
the pan lay down three strips of pasta. Layer half of the eggplant on top of the pasta. Spread half the
pesto on top of the e ggplant. Layer half o f the spinach on top of the pesto; if des ired, add grated
cheese. Place another 3 strips of pasta on t op and press into the pan with your fingers. Layer the rest
of the  eggplant, pesto, and spinach in the same way. Place the remaining pasta on top of the spinach,
pressing it together with your fingertips. Brush olive oil or ghee lightly on top of the casserole,
sprinkle with paprika and bread crumbs. Cover with parchment paper and foil. Place in the oven at
350 degrees and bake for 30 minutes. Serve with Roasted T omato Sauce. Roasted T omato Sauce
Makes one quart
12 small tomatoes, washed and with a small “X” cut into the
top of each; cut of f the ends
¼ cup olive oil
1 teaspoon black pepper
4 sprigs rosemary, fresh, removed from stem1 tablespoon basil, dried
1 teaspoon thyme, dried
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar

T o ro ast to matoes: In  a bowl, toss the tomatoes with the other ingredients, then place  in a shallow
roasting pan. Bake at  350 degrees for 20 to 30 minutes, or until the tomatoes are sof t and the skin is
easily removed. Allow to cool, then remove and discard skin. By hand, break up the tomatoes and
discard the seeds. Place the tomatoes into a strainer set inside a bowl to collect the juice. Set aside,
allowing the tomatoes to drain. 1 tablespoon ghee or olive oil
½ teaspoon red chili flakes
1 teaspoon black pepper
2 cups leeks or shallots, chopped

Place ghee  and spices into a heated 4-quart saucepan; add leeks and sauté until they are soft. Add
tomatoes and simmer at least 30 minutes or up to an hour on a very low heat. Add the following
except the parley and basil, during simmering. ½ cup roasted red pepper, fresh or canned, drained and
chopped
1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
¼ cup parsley, fresh, chopped
½ cup basil, fresh, thinly sliced

Remove from heat, add parsley and basil and puree with a hand blender. Garbanzo and Green Bean Stew
1 cup garbanzo beans or chickpeas, covered with water and soaked overnight
Place the beans in a soup pot. Fill the pot  with water to a level that is 2 inches above the beans. Bring to a boil. Allow the beans to cook until soft but not mushy. Replenish the water as needed to
maintain a rolling boil. Strain the beans and set aside. Discard the liquid. 1 teaspoon ghee or olive oil
1 cup leeks, chopped1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
2 cups, packed, fresh green beans, stems removed, cut into
1-inch pieces
1 teaspoon basil, dried
1 teaspoon dill, dried
1 teaspoon oregano
½ cup vegetable stock
1½ cups fresh tomatoes, diced or or ganic diced canned
tomatoes
2 cups cooked garbanzo beans

In a sauté pan, heat the ghee or olive oil and add the leeks. Add the pepper and the Braggs. Simmer
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        Investing the time and attentio n to create
physical, emotional, and spiritu al intimacy can often result in the most
fulfilling sexual experiences of a person’ s life. T o improve your sexual experiences, you need to divest yourself of your
expectations. Expectations are usually in three areas: (1) performance, as
exemplified by  the question “How am I doing. ”; (2) emotions, as
exemplified by the question “ How am I feeling. ”; and (3) security, as
exemplified by the question “Do you really


 dearest friends. God bless all of you. May the divine
blessings extended to every  one of you help you assimilate the
words I speak tonight, so that this will be a fruitful occasion for you. The Lack of Mature Love
Because children so seldom receive sucient mature love and
warmth, they continue to hunger for it throughout their lives unless
this lack and hurt is recognized and properly dealt with. If not, as
adults they will go through life unconsciously crying out for what they
missed in childhood. This will make them incapable of lovingmaturely. You can see how this condition continues from generation
to generation. The remedy cannot be found by wishing that things were dierent
and that people would learn  to practice mature love. The remedy
lies solely in you. True, if you had received such love from your
parents, you would be witho ut this problem of which you are not
really and fully aware. But this lack of receiving mature  love need
trouble neither you nor your life if you become aware of it, see it,
and rearrange your former unconscious wishes, regrets, thoughts,
and concepts by aligning them to the reality of each situation. As a
consequence, you will not only become a happier person, but you
will also be able to extend mature love to others—to your children,
if you have any, or to other people in your environment—so that a
benign chain reaction can start. Such realistic self-correction is very
contrary to your present inner behavior, which we shall now
consider. All people, including even those few who have started to explore
their own unconscious mind and emotions, habitually overlook the
strong link between the child’s longing and unfulllme nt and the
adult’s present diculties and problems, because only very few
people experie nce personally —and not just recognize in theory—
how strong this link is. Full awareness of it is essential. There may be isolated, exceptional cases where one parent oers
a sucient degree of mature love. Even if one parent has it to some
measure, very likely the other does not. Since mature love on this
earth is only present to a degree, the child will suer from the
shortcomings of even a loving parent. More often, however, both parents are emotionally immature and
cannot give the love the child craves, or give it only in insucient
measure. During childhood, this need is rarely conscious. Children
have no way of putting their needs into thoughts. They cannot
compare what they have with what others have. They do not know
that something else might exist. They believe this is the way it
should be. Or, in extreme cases, they feel especially isolated,
believing their lot is like no one else’s. Both attitudes deviate from
the truth. In both cases the real emotion is not conscious andtherefore cannot be properly evaluated and come to terms with. Thus, children  grow up never quite understanding why they are
unhappy, nor even that they are unhappy. Many of you look back
on childhood convinced that you had all the love you wanted just
because you actually did have some love. There are a number of paren ts who give great demonstrations of
love. They may overindulge their children. Such spoiling and
pampering may be an overcompensation and a sort of apology for a
deeply suspected inability to love maturely. Children feel the truth
very acutely. They may not consciously think about it, but inwardly
children keenly feel the dierence between mature, genuine love
and the immature, over-demonstrative variety oered instead. Proper guidance and security are the parents’ responsibility and
call for author ity on their part. There are parents who never dare to
punish or exert a healthy authority. This failing is due to guilt
because real, giving, warming, comforting love is absent in their
own immature personalities. Other parents may be too severe, too
strict. They thereby exert a domineering authority by bullying the
child, and not allowing his or her individuality to unfold. Both types
fall short as parents, and their wrong attitudes, absorb ed by the
child, will cause hurt and unfulllment. In child ren of the strict paren ts, the resentment and rebellion will
be open, and therefore more easily traced. In the other case, the
rebellion is just as strong, but hidden, and therefore innitely
harder to trace. If you had a parent who smothered you with
aection or pseudo-aection, yet lacked in genuine warmth, or if
you had a parent who conscientiously did everything right but was
also lacking in real warmth,  unconsciously you knew it as a child
and you resented it. Consciously you may not have been aware of it
at all, because,  when a child,  you really could not put your nger on
what was lacking. You were outwardly given everything you wanted
and needed. How could you draw the subtle, ne borderline
distinction between real aection and pseudo-aection with your
child’s intellect? The fact that something bothered you without your
being able to explain it rationally made you feel guilty anduncomfortable. You therefore pushed it out of sight as far as
possible. As long as the hurt, disappointment, and unfullled needs  of your
early years remain unconscious, you cannot come to terms with
them. No matter how much you may love your parents, an
unconscious resentment exists in you, which prevents you from
forgiving them  for the hurt. You can only forgive and let go if you
recognize your deeply hidden hurt and resentment. As an adult
human being you will see that your parents, too, are just human
beings. They were not as faultless and perfect as the child had
thought and hoped them to be, yet they are not to be rejected now
because they had their own conicts and immaturities. The light of
conscious reasoning has to be applied to these very emotions you
never allowed yourself to be aware of fully. Attempts to Remedy the Childhood Hurt in Adulthood
As long as you are unaware of the conict between your longing
for a perfect love from your parents and your resentment against
them, you are bound to try remedying the situation in your later
years. This striving may manifest in various aspects of your life. You
run constantly into problems and repeated patterns that have their
origin in your attempt to reproduce the childhood situation so as to
correct it. This unconscious compulsio n is a very strong factor, but is
so deeply hidden from your conscious understanding! The most frequ ent way of attempting to remedy the situation is in
your choice of love partners. Unconsciously you will know how to
choose in the partner aspec ts of the parent who has particularly
fallen short in aection and love that is real and genuine. But you
also seek in your partner aspects of the other parent who has come
closer to meeting your demands. Important as it is to nd both
parents represented in your partners, it is even more important and
more dicult to nd those aspects that represent the parent who
has particularly disappointed and hurt you, the one more resented
or despised and for whom you had little or no love. So you seek theparents again—in a subtle way that is not always easy to detect, in
your marital partners, in your friendships, or in other human
relationships. In your subconscious, the following reactions take
place: Since the child in you cannot let go of the past, cannot come
to terms with it, cannot forgive, cannot understand and accept, this
very child in you always creates similar conditions, trying to win
out in the end in order to nally master the situation instead of
succumbing to it. Losing out means being crushed—thi s must be
avoided at all costs. The costs are high indeed, for the entire
strategy is unfeasible. What the child in you sets out to accomplish
cannot ever come to realization. The Fallacy of this Strategy
This entire procedure is utterly destructive. In the rst place, it is
an illusion that you were defeated. Therefore, it is an illusion that
you can now be victorious. Moreover, it is an illusion that the lack
of love, sad as that may have been when you were a child, is indeed
the tragedy that your subco nscious still feels it to be. The only
tragedy lies in the fact that you obstruct your future happiness by
continuing to reproduce the situation and then attempting to master
it. My friends,  this process is a deeply unconscious one. Of course,
nothing is further from your mind as you focus on your conscious
aims and wishes. It will take a great deal of digging to uncover the
emotions that lead you again  and again into situations where your
secret aim is to remedy childhood woes. In trying to reproduce the childhood situation, you unconsciously
choose a partner with aspects  similar to those of the parent. Yet it is
these very aspects that will make it as impossible to receive the
mature love you rightfully long for now as it was then. Blindly, you
believe that by willing it more strongly and more forcefully, the
parent-partner will now yield, whereas in reality love cannot come
that way. Only when you are free of this ever-continuing repetition,
will you no longer cry to be loved by the