 more com plex
and sophisticated —and that the Soul is even bigger  and more sophisticated than the Mind!
In this moment, as you face all the changes that are occurring in your life, this is the best
news you could ever receive. Why? Because it gives you tools you nev er thought you had.
Because it reverses the standard medical model, putting thoughts before  emotions, rather
than after them —meaning that we are in charge here, since thoughts are changeable.
Just a while ago we talked about changing your emotions. I said that changing emotions
was the way to change Change Itself. I’m now going to tell you how  you can change
emotions.
Change your thoughts.  Whereas the Heart is used to being
the only place where Love is found
a Mind full of joy
draws the Heart like a moth,
into a surprisingly different  flame.
A flame where nothing burns —
no wings are forfeited.
As if God stretches the length of The Home
to abide in every room at once,
simply
because
We
can
*
—‘A Mind Full of Joy’  © 2007 Em Claire  7.
THE THIRD CHANGE
YOU MAY N OT BE  able to change the fact that things are changing, but you can change your
thought  about the things that are changing.
Not only is this possible, it is next on the list of Nine Changes That Can Change
Everything.
CHANGE #3:
Change your choice of thoug hts
Thought is an idea that you are making up. The change that is occurring in your life is not
something you are making up, but your thought about it is. That thought often bears no
relationship to ultimate reality, it often bears no relationship to observed reality, yet it
often does bear a relatio nship to distorted reality. In fact, it often creates  it.
Oh-oh, this is Something Big here. I’m thinking we should not just fly right past what was
just said. Let’s look at it more closely. What I said was...
“Your thought is something you are making u p. It often bears no relationship to ultimate
reality, it often bears no relationship to observed reality, yet it often does bear a
relationship to distorted reality. In fact, it often creates  it.”
Now, I just introduced a whole new idea there. Did you cat ch me at it? I just referred to
three different “realities”...
Ultimate Reality
Observed Reality
Distorted Reality
I have come to call this the Triune Reality —three versions of reality existing at one time.
There is Ultimate Reality (what is “so” about what is going on, what is “so” about why  it
is going on, and what is “so” about you), there is Observed Reality (what is readily apparent
right in front of you), and there is Distorted Reality (what you imagine is going on).
Which one of these realities yo u experience in any given moment is up to you. It depends
on what your mind entertains prior to forming a thought.
The sweet Unveiling is so becoming
there is perhaps nothing
more beautiful.
The glide  that you once called
“walking.”  Your fears
dropped as g ently as lingerie.
As Who You Are
naked child
turns every purpose
Lightward
toward what has always been
right
here
shining
as
You.
—‘The Sweet Unveiling’  © 2006 Em Claire  8.
THE FOURTH CHANGE
WE’RE MOVING VERY FAST  now, and I don’t want you to think that you’re hearing all I have to
say about these changes. There is much  more to say, in fact. I’m just introducing Changes
#2, #3, and #4 right now, to give you an idea of where we’re headed in this conversation.
This is going to be quite a ride, and I want you to have a sense of the terrain.
Really, these three changes are interlinked and, as I said a moment ago, they should be
considered together. So the exploration here is going to be rather free -flowing, as a chat
between friends would be, as opposed to following an outline and being more structured,
as a lecture might be. I trust that you’ll see the close inter linking between Change #2,
Change #3, and Change #4  as we go.
So here, as we lay down the road map, is...
CHANGE #4:
Change your choice of truths
Earlier I said that the event s of your life are created by conditions and occurrences
outside you, but that reality is created by conditions and occurrences inside  you—in your
mind. It is there, I said, that events  are turned into data, which are turned into truths, which
are turned i nto thoughts, which are turned into emotions, which are turned into
experiences, which form your reality.
Now let me put those elements in a straight line, with plus  and equal  signs placed
strategically between them, so that you can have a way to visualize  this. This allows us to
focus in on the process of reality -creation a little more sharply.
As I observe it, that process works like this...
event+data+truth+thought+emotion=experience=reality
I call this the Line of Causality, and I’ll be bringing it i nto our discussion again. This is the
path the mind travels on its way to producing your reality.
You’ll notice that on this line, Emotion comes before Experience, and produces it.
Thought, likewise, comes before Emotion, and gives birth to it. Truth comes  before
Thought, and gives birth to that. And we’ll get to the “Data” part later.
What the line does not show is that there are three kinds  of truth. This is more than a
little important to know, because it is the existence of these three kinds of truth th at leads
to the possibility of a Triune Reality. Put another way, if there were only one kind of truth,
there would be but a single reality.
The three kinds of truth are...  The Actual Truth
The Apparent Truth
The Imagined Truth
In a bit I’m going to exp lain all of this, and I think you’ll find it fascinating. These are
what I have called the Mechanics of the Mind. For right now, know that it’s really as simple
as A -B-C. Each step away from “A” takes you farther from peace.
If peace is what you are search ing for during this moment of change and turmoil in your
life, if peace is that for which you yearn, you will want to journey upward from Imagined
Truth to Apparent Truth to Actual Truth, so that you may shift your basis from Distorted
Reality to Observed Reality to Ultimate Reality.
This is what personal and global transformation is all about. This is what every human
whom we have honored with the name of Master has done. And this is what you can do
right here, right now, on this day.
In your life, has eve rything changed? Then change everything. Start rearranging your
thinking about “reality.” Reality is not static, it is fluid.
(Well, that’s not exactly accurate. It IS static, but our experience  of it changes. And that, of
course, is what this whole book i s about. The exploration here is about how to change your
experience of Change Itself. Or, put another way, how to change your experience of
reality —since Change is the constant  reality.)
I have to tell you, I felt like I’d been awakened out of a sound sleep when I first “got” that
there are three levels of reality, and that we can experience the things that are happening in
our lives at the level of Distortion, the level of Observation, or the level of Ultimate Truth. It
took me a long time to fig ure this out. It took me a long time to notice what I am telling you
here so casually.
I don’t want it to take you as long as it took me. I want you to be able to grasp this now.
First as an intellectual concept, then as a functional tool. You need this to ol now, not ten
years from now, not ten months from now, not ten weeks from now. Not even ten days
from now. You need this tool in your hands now, because now is when you’re moving
through incredible changes.
If someone had told me this stuff in the moment  that I was going through big changes...
what a difference that would have made. So here goes. Let me tell you all of what I’ve
uncovered about this.
Each of these “realities” that I’ve just spoken of is remarkably different from the
others —not a little  bit different, remarkably  different —and the differences between them
arise out of those three brands of truth that I referred to earlier.
One of the biggest surprises of my life was learning that there is no such thing as absolute
truth.
Now that should b e on a billboard somewhere. Heck, everywhere. On every road and
highway there should be a huge sign:
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ABSOLUTE TRUTH  Ever caught yourself asking someone, “Are you actually buying  that?” Well, this is about
that. This


 same dedication was present. Whether it arose in
ancient India, Persia, Greece,  or China, monism directed the mind
away from the countless det ails of life toward one thing. That’s
what th is chapter is about. Despite the allure of diversity, the
infinite variety  of things held out by the physical unive rse, the
mystery offers no solution there.
When you reduce life to wha t is truly essential, diversity d rops
away and unity increases. Your consciousness starts to reshape
itself ar ound one thing. Waking up is one thing; enlightenment is
one thin g; allowing the mystery of existence to unfold through you
is on e thing. These descriptions are limited, however. What we’re
really after is the experience of one thing. Once this is attained,
everything else follows, not just the end of suffering, but access to
the infinite potential that wants to express itself through us.
This is the state I’ll call “choiceless awareness.” It is the very
opposite of struggle. Instead of always doing, you practice  the art
of n ot-doing. Instead of trying  to decide if X will make you  happier
than Y, you let  the choice happen on its own. When we hear about
the advantage of letting go, living in the now, and allowing life toflow, th ese possibilities become real in the state of ch oiceless
awareness.
Choiceless awa reness is the final stage of waking up. It brings
you to a place where the next thing you want to do is the be st thing
for y ou. In suc h a state, pain  and suffering end because th ey bear
no relat ionship to the life you  are consciously living. The mystical
Indian poet Kabir saw the situation clearly:
I asked my heart,
Where are you bound?
There’s no traveler ahead of you
Or even a road.
How can you get there,
And where will you stay?
The roa d, in Kabir’s imagery, is about the stages of lea ving,
going along, and arriving, which is how we all live. We start an
action, either a small one l ike getting orange juice out of the
fridge, or a lar ge one like ge tting married or finding a job. The
action begins, goes along, and  ends. Kabir sees that the heart—his
word for the soul—cannot find fulfillment this way. He sees
another way instead:
Be strong, O my heart,
Put your fancy away,
And stand where you are
In yourself.
Let’s see if we can manage to do just that.
T h e  A r t  o f  N o t - D o i n gChoiceless awareness sounds alien in the modern world, where
life is viewed a s nothing but choices, and happiness is thought to
be r eached by making good ones instead of bad ones. It’s hard to
realize that the best choices make themselves. The rationale
behind not-doing is simple: one thing has nothing to do but be
itself. Therefore, we have nothing to do but be ourselves. This is
the essence of not-doing.
It’s not a new i dea. In the Tao ist teaching of ancient China not-
doing is Wu wei. The concept arose as far back as five to seven
centuries BCE. In Buddhism the teaching is found in a sutra like
the following: “Happiness can be accessed directly in meditation
by abstaining from conscious mental activity.” In Christianity, the
leap of faith th at originated with the Danish philosophe r Søren
Kierkegaard was his attempt to carry out the central concept in the
Sermon on the Mount, that all things can be left to Provid ence. In
a leap of faith, a believer lets God take over, the ultimate
experiment in trust.
The absence of struggle is common to all teachings of not-
doing, b ut the passage of cen turies hasn’t made it less mysterious.
Not-doing mak es no sense to  the logical mind. Of course we have
lots of stuff to do—we barely find enough hours in the day to
accomplish the m. But what did you do today to produce new red
blood corpuscl es, the lining of your stomach, and the out er layer
of your skin? These are parts of your anatomy that m ust be
constantly replenished because blood, stomach, and skin cells
have a life span of only a few weeks or months.
For tha t matter, what will you do today to exchange oxygen for
carbon dioxide in your lungs, without which life is extinguished in
a matte r of minutes? Already the vast proportion of your physical
life takes care of itself. Existe nce is divided between things we do
and thi ngs that take care of themselves. Therefore, some  part of
you is already living without  making choices. To begin to  see the
value of choiceless awareness, stop assigning so much importance
to your  everyday choices, which are mostly governed by habit. In
the long run, h abits keep you from finding renewal. Even worse,
while entangle d in virtual rea lity, you may fall prey to the feeling
that life is incredibly unfair. You can be smart, gifted in all kinds ofways, ambitious, and celebrated for your achievements, yet there’s
no guarantee that you won’t suffer the fate of Mozart.
In the late sum mer of 1791 Mozart went to Prague, where one
of his operas was the centerpiece of festivities for the A ustrian
emperor. He began to feel ill but returned to Vienna and te nded to
the prem iere o f The Magic Flute, o ne of his gre atest masterpi eces,
on September 30.
By t hen his hea lth had taken an alarming turn—he experie nced
swelling, vomi ting, and severe pain. His wife and doctor d id their
best to nurse him back to health as Mozart’s mind tu rned to
writing a new commission for a requiem, which he never finished.
Occupying him self with his musical genius was in vain, and an
hour after midnight on December 5, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
the most precious of musical minds, died of still-unknown causes
at the age of t hirty-five. There were heartrending scenes toward
the end of his life of him sitting up in bed to sing ditties from The
Magic Flute  with friends. Few who love classical music consider
Mozart’s death anything but a great loss.
I don’t  bring up this sad story, which reached m any
nondevotees of classical music through the 1984 movie Amadeus,
to mou rn a death or to speculate about what modern medicine
could h ave done to save Mo zart’s life. (Nearly twenty causes of
death have been conjectured, including rheumatic fever, kidney
failure, and blood poisoning. Most of them are infections curable
today with antibiotics.) I merely want to point out that the greatest
among us is still controlled by unseen causes. The drama we cling
to sim ply does what it does, on its own terms. The
spell/dream/illusion mysteriously generates unpredictable events
that cannot be fathomed.
How do  we get beyond the sense that we are helpless b efore
random chance or invisible Fate? Without a doubt there are
moments when hidden links are revealed. The notion of
synchronicity h as become popular for describing a special kind of
coincidence. You think of a person’s name, and a few minutes later
that person calls. You want to read a certain book, and, without
being told, a friend brings you the book. Synchronicity  is defined
as a meaningful coincidence, setting it apart from randomcoincidences that have no meaning, like seeing the same make of
car as yours show up beside you at a stoplight.
Metareality ha s a way of sending us messages now and  then
that co ntradict our fixed views. Synchronicity is one kind of
message. It says, “Your world is disorganized, but reality isn’t.” In
a fle eting glimpse, we see th at a higher intelligence can o rganize
events so that meaning pops up unexpectedly. Moreover, a
synchronous e xperience defi es our limited conception of cause
and effe ct. Inst ead of A causi ng B, the two are invisibly meshed. If
you think of a word and the n ext minute someone on TV says that
word, you didn’t create the coincidence. But something  did.
You can feel yo ur physical body and listen to your thought s, but
the som ething that organizes all events cannot be sensed. Yet it is
here and now. The following exercise will show you what I mean.
E x e r c i s e :  I ’ m  S t i l l  H e r e
Wherever you  are now, look around the room and tak e an
inventory of what it contains. Notice the furniture, knickknacks,
books, even the windows and the view outside.
Now cl ose your eyes and s ee the room mentally. Begin to
remove its contents. (You can open your eyes to refresh your
memory if you need to.) See the furniture go poof! And n o longer
exist. Strip the room of the  knickknacks and books, then the
windows and the view outside. You will be left standing


ideally	performed	at	the	specific	times	that	are	noted	for
each	technique.	Practicing	these	in	the	open	air	is	ideal.	Otherwise,	find	apeaceful	environment	where	you	can	sit	with	your	spine	straight.	It	might	be
more	comfortable	for	you	to	sit	cross-legged	on	a	firm	pillow	or	to	sit	in	a	chair
with	both	feet	firmly	planted	on	the	ground.	But	do	avoid	saggy	couches	and
cushions,	which	can	cause	you	to	inadvertently	sink	down,	preventing	optimal
breath	flow	and	reducing	these
pranayama
	techniques’	strong	benefits.
Please	check	with	your	doctor	before	starting	if	you	are	new	to	these	or	any
other
pranayama
	breath	techniques,	or	if	you	are	pregnant	or	have	a	medical
condition.
UJJAYI
This	is	the	primary	way	of	breathing	while	practicing	yoga
asanas
,	or	poses,	but
this	is	also	a	fantastic	form	of	breath	to	use	anytime	you	feel	stressed.
Ujjayi
helps	you	bring	the	maximum	amount	of	oxygen	into	your	body;	efficiently
distribute	nutrients;	avoid	shallow,	chest-based,	and	inefficient	breathing;	and
give	more	magnetic	beauty	energy	and	a	glow	to	your	skin	and	eyes.
This	form	of	breathing	has	been	used	for	thousands	of	years	in	both	Taoist
and	yogic	traditions.	It	is	often	referred	to	as	“the	ocean	breath”	because	it
sounds	like	gentle	ocean	waves.
Ujjayi
	is	a	deep,	abdominal-based	breath	that
fills	your	lower	belly	first,	then	rises	to	fill	the	lower	rib	cage,	then	all	the	way
up	into	the	upper	lungs,	chest,	and	throat.
To	begin,	open	your	mouth	wide	and	let	out	a	vocal	exhale.	Now,	inhale	and
close	your	mouth	and	try	to	exhale	and	make	the	same	sound,	which	will
produce	a	noise	somewhat	akin	to	the	ocean	at	the	back	of	your	throat.	If
you’re	in	public,	you	can	just	focus	on	breathing	deeply	without	tensing	or
raising	your	shoulders,	allowing	your	entire	belly	to	expand	without	making	the
audible	sound.	You’ll	still	benefit	from	this	slow,	deep	breathing.	In	either	case,
inhale	and	exhale	through	your	nose	for	roughly	the	same	length	of	time.	If
you	are	a	particularly	fast	breather	or	have	a	hard	time	knowing	how	to	slow
down,	try	breathing	in	and	out	for	a	count	of	four.	Practice	this	any	time	of	the
day	and	into	the	evening.
BHASTRIKA
This	is	an	especially	beautifying
pranayama
	technique	because	it	is	cleansing	and
raises	the
metabolism.	Breathe	in	and	out	through	your	nose	in	a	quick	rhythm.
This	expels	negativity.	Think	of	a	sniffing	dog.	The	rhythm	is	even	and	fast.
You	can	do	one	or	a	few	rounds	of	20	to	30	seconds	each,	working	your	way	up
to	3	to	5	minutes	a	day.	After	finishing,	you	will	feel	euphoric	and	energized	in
a	profound	way.	Since	this	is	an	energizing	practice,	it’s	best	to	practice	this	in
the	mornings	and	daytime	rather	than	the	evenings.	It	can	take	a	while	to	getthe	rhythm	down,	but	it’s	worth	the	effort.
NADI	SHODHANA
This	breathing	technique	creates	balance	in	the	body,	which	is	a	key	component
of	Radical	Beauty.	The	term
Nadi	Shodhana
	literally	means	“clearing	the
channels	of	circulation.”	This	technique	is	also	referred	to	as	“alternate	nostril
breathing”	and	is	effective	in	helping	you	deeply	relax	your	body	and	mind
while	balancing	the	energies	between	the	left	and	right	side	of	your	body.	Yogis
believe	the	left	is	the
ida
,	the	cooling	or	lunar	side	of	your	body,	while	the	right
is	the
pingala
,	or	the	solar	or	warming,	fiery	energy	in	the	body.	These
contrasting	but	complementary	sides	need	to	be	balanced.	If	you	have	too
much	fire	you	can	burn	out	or	get	overanxious	or	overheated,	which	ancient
Indian	philosophy	warns	might	speed	the	aging	process.	If	you	are	too	cool	and
don’t	have	enough	fire,	you	can	become	lethargic	and	depressed.
Try	practicing
Nadi	Shodhana
	in	the	evenings	after	work	and	before	bed	or
before	meditating	to	balance	your	fire	and	cooling	elements;	release	anxiety,
depression,	or	stress;	and	create	a	deep	sense	of	equilibrium	and	balance.	Start
by	taking	a	big	exhale	and	clearing	the	breath	completely	out	of	both	nostrils.
Then	take	your	index	and	middle	fingers	(as	if	you	were	going	to	make	a	“peace
sign”),	and	curl	them	into	your	palm	or	place	them	on	the	bridge	of	your	nose.
Now	hold	your	right	thumb	over	your	right	nostril	and	inhale	deeply	through
your	left	nostril.	At	the	top	of	your	inhalation,	close	off	your	left	(
ida
,	or	lunar,
cooling)	nostril	with	your	ring	and	pinky	fingers	and	exhale	fully	through	your
right	nostril.	After	a	full	exhalation,	inhale	through	the	right	(
pingala
,	or	solar,
warming)	nostril,	closing	it	off	with	your	right	thumb	at	the	top	of	your
inhalation.
Repeat	this	over	and	over,	without	force,	just	watching	your	breath
and	feeling	the	power	of	this	practice	to	balance	your	entire,	beautiful	being.
KAPALABHATI
This	is	also	a	purifying	beauty	breath	that	is	sometimes	referred	to	as	“skull
shining	breath.”	It	can	help	your	entire	being	as	well	as	your	complexion
radiate	with	the	glow	of	cleanliness	and	peace.	This	toning
pranayama
	technique
cleanses	your	respiratory	system	and	encourages	the	release	of	toxins.	It	is	made
up	of	short,	powerful	exhales	and	passive	inhales.
To	practice
Kapalabhati
,	sit	in	a	comfortable	position	with	a	straight	spine.
Rest	your	hands	on	your	belly	so	you	can	tune	in	to	the	sharp	exhalations.	If
you	prefer,	rest	them	on	your	knees	with	your	palms	facing	down.	Bring	your
attention	to	your	lower	abdomen	and	inhale	through	both	nostrils	deeply.
Contract	your	lower	belly	or	use	your	hands	to	gently	press	on	this	area,	forcingout	the	breath	in	a	short	burst.	This	should	feel	strong	and	powerful.	As	you
quickly	release	the	contraction,	your	inhalation	should	be	automatic	and
passive.	Your	focus	should	be	on	exhaling.
Begin	slowly,	aiming	for	65	to	70	contractions	per	minute.	Gradually	pick	up
the	pace	for	95	to	105	exhalation/inhalation	cycles	per	minute.	Always	go	at
your	own	pace	and	never	force	yourself.	Stop	if	you	feel	at	all	light-headed	or
dizzy.	After	one	minute	of	the	exercise,	inhale	deeply	through	the	nostrils	and
then	exhale	slowly	through	your	mouth.	Depending	on	your	experience	level,
you	can	work	up	to	doing	multiple	re


tempts to describe and elucidate. This introduction will give
a general description of what is meant by "exoteric" and
"esoteric," by "chakra" and "nadi," and by "the body" and
"the mind".
19 20
The Esoteric and the Exoteric: Yin and Yang
Everything has two aspects; a surface aspect, which is ex
posed to light, and an interior, hidden aspect which is not so
exposed. A plant, for example, has above the ground a stem,
branches, and leaves which are warmed and lit by the sun,
whereas its roots are underground, untouched by any beam
of sunlight. In winter, the portion above ground may appear
to have died: but as spring brings its warmth, the branches
burst with life, fresh green leaves appear, and buds open.
None of this could happen were it not for the roots, the hid
den part of the plant. It is the unexposed roots that supply the
energy to sustain the portion that lives out in the snow, rain,
wind, and sun, and it is thanks to the roots that this part
returns from its wintry state to life. The latent, dark, unex
posed aspect of things is known in Chinese philosophy as
"yin", while "yang" is the name given to the patent, the
bright, the exposed.
Similarly, all religions have both a yang aspect and a yin
aspect. The yang aspect, that which is open, public, and
generally known, is called the exoteric aspect. Yang/exoteric
teachings speak of God, Buddha, or the Absolute in terms of
their relationship to this world, the world of concrete forms.
God, Buddha, and other deities are presented in ways com
prehensible to the average man. Shakyamuni and Kannon
(Avalokiteshvara) in Buddhism, God the Father in Christiani
ty, and Amaterasu Omikami in Shintoism are just such ex
amples. These deities are all said to be at work for man's
salvation and the maintenance of peace in the world. The
exoteric part of religion, therefore, represents man's faith
and devotion to deities working in close proximity to the
physical world. It is religion centered on the world of human
beings.
In contrast, the yin aspect of religion, that is, the inner, hid
den part, is what we term the esoteric. This phase of religion 21
is centered on the world of deities rather than ordinary
humans. The ultimate goal of esoteric teachings is to elevate
human beings to a state where they are no longer merely
human, but have become transcendent beings themselves. In
the esoteric branches of religion, methods designed specific
ally for the transformation of human beings into greater be
ings are taught and practiced under the strict supervision of
qualified teachers.
In Christianity, then, it is possible to regard Protestantism
as the exoteric teaching and the sacraments of Catholicism
as the esoteric. In Japanese Buddhism, the Jodo and Shin
sects can be considered exoteric and Shingon Buddhism
esoteric. In the yogic tradition, hatha yoga and kriya yoga,
both of which emphasize control of the physical body, are
exoteric, and tantra yoga, the hidden core of all the different
types of yoga, is esoteric.
The Three Bodies and The Three Minds of
Tantra Yoga
The legend behind the existence of tantra yoga is that it
was created and taught to mankind by the Lord Shiva. Lord
Shiva, known as the Destroyer, ranks with Lord Brahma, the
Creator, and Lord Vishnu, the Maintainer, as one of the three
great Gods of Indian religious teaching. The tantra yoga
given by Shiva provides the means whereby a man can trans
cend himself and attain a state of being unified with and
equal to that of God, the Absolute, Himself.
According to the teachings of tantra yoga, man has three
bodies and three associated minds, one in each of the three
major dimensions of being. During spiritual growth, a man
must ascend the evolutionary ladder through these dimen
sions step by step, gradually increasing his awareness of the
higher realms. In this way man can liberate himself from the
limitations of the three bodies and their corresponding 22
minds, finally entering the kingdom of God.
Specifically, the three bodies and the three minds are:
a) the physical body and its mind, i.e., the consciousness
that operates in association with the physical body;
b) the astral (subtle) body and its mind, i.e., the con
sciousness that we experience primarily as emotions and
feelings; and
c) the causal body and its mind, i.e., the consciousness that
is expressed mainly as intelligence and wisdom.
Of these three, the physical body and its mind exist and
work in the tangible world. This set, then, might be termed
yang in relation to the other two, those that cannot be known
by either the physical senses or the thinking rooted in
physical sensations. This yang part, however, is in fact sus
tained and kept alive by the hidden yin aspects - the astral
and the causal.
The Chakras and Nadis
The three body/mind sets exist and operate in different
dimensions, each maintained by the type of prana (vital
energy) necessary for and appropriate to that dimension.
This does not mean they are separate entities, but rather that
they are parts of an organic whole. Each body-mind has
within itself energy centers for controlling the flow of prana
and a system of energy channels. These channels are called
nadis, and the centers controlling them are known as
"chakras". In the physical body, the channels are repre
sented by the cardio-vascular, lymphatic, and acupuncture
meridian systems,* and the centers are represented by the
* Acupuncture Meridian System: In acupuncture theory, developed in China,
Ki or vital force is considered to circulate in the human body through a
systematic network of energy channels. These channels are usually re/erred
to as "meridians". 23
brain, the nervous plexuses, and the acupuncture points. The
corresponding centers and channels of all three bodies are
closely interrelated.
Besides being a control center in each dimension, a chakra
works as a center of interchange between the physical and
the astral, and between the astral and the causal dimensions.
Through the chakras, subtle prana in the astral body can be
transformed, for instance, into energy for the physical
dimension, thereby providing the physical body with essen
tial life energy. Some of the most spectacular examples of
this particular transformation are seen in the cases of yogis
who have been buried underground for incredible lengths of
time and yet remained alive. This is thought to be possible
through the action of the Vishuddhi (throat) chakra which,
when activated, supposedly enables a person to subsist on
astral energy in the form of "ambrosia". This energy comes
into the physical body from the Bindu visarga (see Chap.
VIII) of the astral body, and can be induced through a tech
nique of halting respiration known as khechari-mudra. The
astral energy is then materialized as the oxygen, protein, fat,
etc., necessary for the maintenance of life, enabling the per
son to survive even if buried.
It is further thought that physical energy can be transformed
into astral energy through the work of the chakras, and that
physical energy can be converted into psychological energy
(ojas) within the physical dimension.
Thus, the chakra is seen to be an intermediary for energy
transfer and conversion between two neighboring dimen
sions of being, as well as a center facilitating the energy con
version between a body and its corresponding mind.
As the chakras are activated and awakened, man not only
becomes aware of the higher realms of existence, but also
gains the power to enter those realms, and then, in turn, to
support and give life to the lower dimensions. 24
The Location of the Chakras and Their
Functions
There are seven chakras. In the early stages of awakening,
the chakras are usually perceived as wheels of light, or local
auras, of various colors. The locations, colors, and physical
functions of the chakras may be summarized as follows.
Muladhara chakra: In the area of the coccyx. Perceived as
a disc of red light. Controls the genito-urinary system.
Svadhishthana chakra: 3-5 centimeters below the navel,
usually perceived as a disc of vermillion light. Also controls
the genito-urinary system.
Manipura chakra: Around the navel. Perceived as a disc of
blue or green light.
As an aside, it is interesting to note that in acupuncture
there is an important point located at the navel called the
shinketsu point (shencheh, CV8).* This is thought to be the
point where divine energy flows in and out of the body. The
yoga teaching is similar to this. It


of the Vaidyar is quite improper. later on I came across.a book
entitled R~sa-Mangal, published by Gonda! Rasa-Shala. In the very
beginning I read about the extracts. curing Vat, Pitta and Kapha
troubles which s;;.tlsfied me.
The Tantras indicate that there was a practice among Aghoris to
use L•rine and stools as medicines. In Jain scriptures also a monk has
.been advised to take his auto-urine while practising short or long
Pratima (Dhyana). In Rudrayamal Tantra under the chapter
'Shivambu-kalpa', lord Shiva hap described to Parvati the virtues of
urine removes all diseases and· bestows upon man a long life:
Further ·Ayurveda and Rasa-tan~ra also have prescribed urine along
with subsidiary medicines. The sage Atreya has prescribed eight
types of urine to be used as m'edicines. They belong to herbivorous
animals only. In addition Sushrut has prescribed human urine also
as medicine. One can ask why sage Atreya did not describe the
utility of human urine in spite of the fact that it is more useful to
man. One can see that the' urine of animals is useful to themselves.
. The sage Atreya has also stated that the eight types of urine are
useful to human beings as well. Why did he not refer to human
urine? The simple answer seems to be that he did not feel ~my
necessity to describe a very well-known and an apparent fact. The
benefit of the existance of the sun does not require any
introduction. It is sufficient to say that human urine is anti-poison
and a.t<mif;:;1il)e ~,\(agbhatta mentions the urine of deer also in THE BEST MEANS TO PHYSICAl HEALTH : 195
addition to the eight well known types. It emphasises that urine of
only herbivorous animals should be used for treatment. It is
well:k~own th~t anything generated in the body when used as
med1cme ~r m _surger: is called, autogeneous. Accordingly
auto-blood IS adm1tted mto the body without any harm. Similar
substance when taken from a living being of the same or similar
class is called homogeneous.
On the' other hand if something of m~dicinal value is derived
from a body of an animal of dissiniNar class it is called
h~terogeneous. The sage Atreya has includecf in his system · the
e1~ht t~pes _of urine according to the third category. While lord
Sh1va m h1s description of human.urJne has adopted the-first
category. Declaring it to be completely harmless, he has adviSed its
.use in every diseases. The school of Atreya proposes myrobalan for
· the healthy and fast for the sick. But Lord Shiva emphatically
pr.escribes urine fer both -the healthy and the diseased. There is a
w1de difference·in the mehtod of application also. ·
T~e fore~oni~g. des~ription suggests that Shukracharya passessed
a smgle hfe.-g:~mg. su?~tance. Ashvinikumars also ·probably
possessed a s1mtlar med1c1ne which made them popular among
gods. T_here are. e~amples that Lord Shiv a cured every disease with
mercunal preparation of urine (Shivambu.)
.. Urine t~erapy requires neither pulse-reading nor any diagnosis. It
IS such a s1mple and efficient method that by drinking it, the healthy'
me~ stren~hen and maintain their health while sufferes get rid of
the1r malad1es. The only thing to be taken care of is that the patient
should. observe fast and live upon urine as long as normal health is
not restored.
The dose.of urine envigorates the heart and brings the patient to
senses. That IS why I have begun its use in my surgical cases and 1
ventur~ to say that I have met with wonderful success in 16 major
op~rat1ons. In no case was there the need of giving injections of
saline, plasma or blood. 196 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
Take Middle Portion.: In conclusion, I would like to add that in
a~plying uri~e t~erapy the patient should take the middle portion of
h1s every unnat1on for drinking and the first and last portion should
be collected in a bottle and that should be utilized for rubbing or
ma~sage_. Th!s is shown in old texts on urine in India and especially
K~lidas 1n Kmg Bhoja's time has definitely given this suggestion for
ur~ne.therapy. T~is is so because the first and last flow in every
unnat1on. contams more salts and the middle portion is
~omparat1vely. purer and more uniform in contents. This suggestion
IS worth applymg at least for experimentation.
CHAPTER VII
URINE THERAPY & AYURVEOA
By Vaidya Karunashankar R. Trivedi
just as the Aryan culture and religion are not the contribution of
one individual person, similarly Ayurveda is also not a creation of
one man. just as Aryan culture is the synthesis of many glorious
traditions, similarly Ayurveda also represents a mighty spring of all
the. healing sciences. A certain system of healing may appear
ent1r~l~ new but it is likely to have ·its roots in Ayurveda. The
phys1c1ans may regard urine therapy to be a new one but its roots
are. t~ be fo~nd in Ayurveda. With all humility and strong
conv1ct1on I w1sh to state that urine therapy instead of being
un-Ay~rvedic is fully supported by Ayurveda.
Whenever some baby in a family suffers from any trouble, the
grandmother at large still advises the young daughter-in-law to give
the baby its own urine to drink. Ordinarily everybody born in a
village must have had a taste of his own urine on one occasion or
the other. In villages the practice of giving children their own urine
to drink is age-old. It is a matter of cor rnon experience that urine
thus taken does not cause any harm but on the contrary. proves URINE THERAPY & AYURVEDA : 197
beneficial for the child's health.
Ear-trouble : From my personal experience I know that any
ear-trouble disappears with the drops of fresh or litt)e warmed-up
urine. I still remember an incident of my childhood,· when I was a
student of class eighth. Once I was sleeping on a marble floor of a
temple along with my brother and a friend, during night, a centipede
entered into my ear. I, a mere boy, was upsest with the trouble. The
gatekeeper of the temple told me -"Nothing can be done during the
night. Put your urine into the ear and wait for the result till
morning." My brother dropped my urine into my ear. In the morninig
I was frightened to see the centipede torn into pieces, sticking near
the ear-lobe.
Human Urine : It is mentioned in Bhavprakash (Part I, Chapter on
"Urine") that human urine is alkaline, saltish and sharp. It is
antipoisonous and removes eczema. Taken internally, it acts as
tonic. If a thoughtful person is not carried away by the attractive
labels and advertisements of medicines, pouring in every day with
enchanting names, he will realize that human urine which is
described by Ayurveda as atonic banishing old age and. restoring
youth, should not be neglected. Similarly it maintains an equilibrium·
of all the seven substances of the body and keeps the power of
digestion in good order. It is said to posses the quality of removing
the effect of poison.
In Ayurveda cow's urine is already used for purification of metals
and to destroy their poisonous effects. The word 'Anti-poison' has
wide and far-reaching sense. It means the destruction of poison not
only that of snake-bite, scorpion-bite or metals but that of the
organism, i.e. toxin also. In this age of unhealthy living, the
propagation of such anti-poisonous substance is a noble and holy
mission. I make this statement without any reservation and in all
humility and wish to associate myself with this noble undertaking...,.
CHAPTER VIII
A LINK WITH INDIAN FOLK MEDICINE
By Stanislaw R. Burzynski.
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The main interest of our research are the compounds which we
have named Antineoplast. They have very potent anticancer activity.
without causing any harm to the normal human tissues. In the last
year we were able to treat successfully 14 different types of human
cancers in including bladder, colon, tongue, breast, lung, ovarian ·
and uterine cancer -


 cheeks for its healing touch as it flew
past.
“Self-induced,” said Kostoglotov, laying aside his book. He
waved his hands, fingers splayed…. “That means that suddenly
for some unexplained reason the tumor starts of f in the opposite
direction! It gets smaller, resolves and finally disappears! See?”
They were all silent, gaping at the fairy tale. That a tumor,
one’s own tumor, the destructive tumor which had mangled
one’s whole life, should suddenly drain away, dry up and die by
itself?
They were all silent, still holding their faces up to the
butterfly. It was only the gloomy Podduyev who made his bed
creak and, with a hopeless and obstinate expression on his face,
croaked out, “I suppose for that you need to have…a clear
conscience.”
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The idea of the exceptional patient is not taught in medical school. I came
to it only after a long period of unhappiness and soul searching in my
profession. I didn’ t have a class on healing and love, how to talk with
patients, or the reasons for becoming a doctor. I was not healed during my
training, and yet I was expected to heal others.
In the early 1970s, after more than a decade as a practicing sur geon, I
was finding my job very painful. It wasn’ t a typical case of burnout; I could
cope with the unending problems, the intensity of the work, and the
constant life-or -death decisions. But I’d been trained to think my whole job
was doing things to people in a mechanical way to make them better, to
save their lives. This is how a doctor ’s success is defined. Since people
often don’ t get better and since everyone eventually dies, I felt like a failure
over and over again. Intuitively I felt there must be some way I could help
the “hopeless” cases by going beyond my role as a mechanic, but it took
years of dif ficult growth before I understood how to do so.
When I’d started out, I’d looked forward to facing new problems each
day. It was an exciting challenge; it kept practice from becoming dull. After
several years, however, the challenges themselves became monotonous. I
would have loved an easy day when everything went according to schedule
and I had only routine cases. But there were no “normal” days. It was only
later that I became able to look upon the emer gencies, and even the
breakdowns in hospital procedure, as extra opportunities for helping people.
Surgeons aren’ t perfect. We always do our best, but complications still
occur. Although disheartening, they keep us grounded and prevent us from
starting to think of ourselves as gods. The one case that most shook my
faith in myself was an injury to a facial nerve in a young girl I operated on
early in my career. Seeing her wake up with half her face paralyzed made
me want to hide forever. To become a sur geon in order to help people and
then to end up disfiguring someone was a shattering experience.
Unfortunately, I hadn’ t yet learned that my typical physician’ s response—to
hide my pain when something went wrong—helped no one.
The pressure never let up. When a patient was taken to the operating
room with severe bleeding, the staf f was tense and panicky—until the
surgeon walked in. Now the knot was in my stomach, and everyone else
relaxed. There was no one to whom I could transfer it. I could only lookinside myself for reassurance. As every operation began, the sweat poured
off, and then, even though the lights were just as hot as before, I cooled of f
as things came under control. I used to feel desperately alone, expecting
perfection of myself. The stress followed me home. Days before a dif ficult
operation, I’d live it over and over in my mind, praying that the successful
result I visualized would come to pass. Afterward, even if all went well, I’d
suddenly wake up in the middle of the night questioning my decisions.
Now, after years of being educated by my patients, I’m able to make each
decision, live by it, and put it behind me, knowing I’m doing my best. Just
like a minister who feels alone because he never learns to talk to God, a
doctor feels alone if he or she never learns to talk with patients.
One of the worst hardships is having so little time to spend with one’ s
family. The athlete can shower and go home after the game, but for doctors
the working day often has no end. I had to adjust to the idea that being
home on a weekend was a bonus, not something I could count on.
Moreover, I was suf fering from two-way guilt: snatching a few hours of f
felt like stealing time from my patients, while the sixteen-hour days felt like
stealing time from my wife and children. I didn’ t know how to respond to
the guilt or how to unify my life. Many nights I was too tired to enjoy my
family after I did get home. Once I was so exhausted that, when taking the
babysitter home, I automatically drove to the hospital instead. She probably
thought I was kidnapping her.
Even the time I managed to spend at home always seemed to get
interrupted. The kids were constantly asking, “Are you on call tonight?”
Everyone was nervous when I was on call, sure that the family evening
wouldn’ t last. For most people the ringing of the telephone is a friendly
sound. For us it meant anxiety and separation.
One of a physician’ s most unnerving trials is due to the fact that death
comes in the middle of the night more often than at any other time,
something I now understand. One can’ t help but feel a twinge of anger
when a patient who has been in a coma for days passes away at 2 A.M., and
the doctor and family must be awakened with the news. We think, “Why
can’t the dying have a little respect for the living?” Few of us ever mention
this hostility. We just feel guilty about it. Then there’ s the added burden of
having to be cheery and alert in the operating room at 7 A.M., despite family
problems and two or three calls in the middle of the night.On New Year’s Day in 1974, I started keeping a journal. At first it was
largely an outlet for my despair. “At times it seems the world is dying of
cancer,” I wrote one night. “Every abdomen you open is filled with it.” And
another night: “Y our stomach hits the floor, and the horror sweeps over you
as you see the future. How many faces must you look into and say, ‘I’m
sorry, it’s an inoperable tumor ’!”
I well remember Flora, one of my patients from that period. Her
husband had recently died, and now she herself lay dying of uterine cancer,
which two operations had failed to halt. She agonized over how much each
day in the hospital cut into her life savings, which she had willed to her
granddaughters. Wanting to prolong life, at the same time she wanted it to
end so that no more of their education would be squandered on her frail
body. “How,” I wondered, “can I find strength to support all these people in
their struggles?”
Thanks to the introspection of my diary I eventually realized I had to
change my attitude toward medical practice. Throughout this period I was
thinking seriously about finding another career. I considered becoming a
teacher—or a veterinarian, because veterinarians can hug their patients. I
couldn’ t decide what I wanted, but I realized that most of my choices had to
do with people. Even in the painting I did as a hobby my only interest was
portraits.
Then finally it dawned on me. Here I was, seeing a score of patients
every day, as well as their families, dozens of doctors and nurses, and still I
was looking for people. All this time I’d been dealing in cases, charts,
diseases, remedies, staf f, and prognoses, instead of people. I’d thought of
my patients merely as machines I had to repair. I began to hear my co-
workers’  language in a new way. I remember addressing a conference of
pediatricians that year. Many of them walked in late, excitedly explaining
that an “interesting case”—a child nearing diabetic coma—had just been
admitted. I realized with a shock what a distance that attitude put between
the doctors and their “case,” who happened to be a very sick, frightened
child with distraught parents.
I became aware that, no matter how I’d struggled against it, I


juna are mentioned here
below –
Arjuna Bark Decoction in Osteoporosis and Geriatric Fatigue
10 Grams of arjuna bark powder is taken, added to 2 cups of water,
boiled and reduced to half a cup. Filtered. is decoction is consumed
along with half teaspoon of jaggery and a teaspoon of honey. is is
useful for the treatment of osteoporosis and fatigue caused during old
age.2.
3.
4.Arjuna Leaf Cold Infusion/Shampoo for Hair Wash
Mature, green leaves of Arjuna are soaked in water and macerated well
with hands. It yields a mucilaginous mix. It is used for washing hairs. It
is applied over wet hairs and washed after 10 minutes. is improves
shining and quality of hair.
Arjuna Fruit Decoction in Dhobi Itch and Finger Web Infections
Mature, dark brown fruits/seeds are collected and decoction is
prepared. is is used to wash the wounds, especially in Dhobi itch as
well as nger web infections. Soligas-tribal folk healers of Karnataka
practice th is remedy.
ey dust the arjuna bark powder over such wounds/ulcers if oozing
(secretion) is present.
Arjuna Remedy for Diabetes, Arthralgia
Arjuna, Asana – Pterocarpus marsupium and Bilva-bael tree barks are
collected in equal quantity and ne powder is made.
3–4 pinch (say approximately 2–3 grams) of this powder is given in
empty stomach along with a cup of water for the treatment of Type II
DM associated with peripheral neuritis or numbness.
Hridaya (heart) is the site of mind according to Ayurveda. Whenever
the mind is disturbed, whole body is agitated and the mental pleasure
is ruined away. Arjuna was disturbed by the conditions of the war eld
in Kuru Kshetra. Probably with the symbolical representation how
Arjuna was strengthened well by God Krishna, similarly this tree
Arjuna is useful to regularize the cardiac functions and hence to attain
peace, pleasure, satisfaction and happiness.1.
2.123. Ash Gourd Remedies
for Memory, Gastritis,
Kidney Stones
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Ash gourd (winter melon), called as Peta in Hindi, is a vegetable which is
appreciated as best among the climbing vegetables (Valli phala) growing in the
creepers in Ayurvedic literature. Due to its potent ability with respect to
memory enhancing eﬀect, soothing properties, bulk enhancing eﬀect, diuretic
eﬀect and aphrodisiac benets, it can be advised safely in all age group
irrespective of the gender.
Ash gourd is used to prepare various sweet preparations such as Kashi halva,
Petha etc.
Ash Gourd Remedies
Dysuria (Diﬃculty in Urination) –
100 ml of fresh juice of ash gourd is obtained and to this 10 grams of
organic sugar candy is added and dissolved. is is administered 3–4
times in a day.
Within a day burning sensation is relieved.
Memory Loss, Loss of Sleep, Fatigue, Muscular Cramps etc –3.
4.
5.50 ml of fresh juice is mixed with one teaspoon of ghee and a pinch of
ne powder of liquorice (Yastimadhu).
is is taken early in the morning in the empty stomach, after
proper evacuation of the bowel and urine.
is can be practiced  for 2–3 months period, daily or else after one
month it can be taken once in two days or three days.
Even the people who are on anti epileptic treatment can also
consume this for added benets; it helps to overcome the untoward
eﬀects of such drugs also.
Burning Chest – roat and in Extremities –
Ash gourd is cooked well and on maceration, juice (decoction) is
obtained. To this 5 grams of organic jaggery (or sugar candy) and a
pinch of cardamom are added and mixed thoroughly. is is consumed
(100 ml) twice daily, preferably during day time.
Urinary Calculi and Burning Urination (Seed Recipe) –
50–60 ash gourd seeds are obtained and dehusked (it is not mandatory
to dehusk). To this sweet butter milk (200 ml) is added and churned
well.
Equal amount of water is added and given to drink. is can be
given twice daily.
5–6 days medication with this home remedy shows signicant
benets in the above said complaints. Also good appetite, taste in the
food are achieved and pre-existing bloating of abdomen if any also
relieved.
Mastitis and Lymphadenitis (Flower Recipe) –In this condition, 5–6 owers of ash gourd are collected and ne paste
is made. To this turmeric and tamarind leaves (say 5 grams each) are
added and pounded well (some add fried asafoetida also, which I
usually do not advice as it may cause burning sensation in few of the
individuals).
Hence obtained ne paste is applied over the aﬀected area.
3–4 days medication gives good result.124. Barley Home
Remedies: Bloating, Joint
Pain, Diarrhoea
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Barley has cooling eﬀect. Its Sanskrit name is Yava. Whole plant is used as
cattle feed as well.
Botanical name Hordeum vulgare Linn
It is usually cultivated in Uttar Pradesh. In Punjab, Odisha and Bihar also
this is found in large amounts.
e barley has a major contribution in food Industries; especially for the
preparation of malt and starch it is used. It is used to prepare the Roti and
Chapati by mixing with wheat our.
In specic parts of the Indian states like Punjab and Odisha its husk is
removed and pearl barley is prepared. is is believed to be royal food in some
of the families.
e millets of Barley contains approximately 70% of carbohydrates, 10%
protein and 1–2% of minerals.
e barley grains are easy for digestion and are good to retain the urine in
the urinary bladder.1.
2.
3.
4.Barley is sweet mixed astringent in taste, cold in potency, soft-dry and
lipolysing (liquefaction of the fat) in nature. Hence it is useful in obesity, ulcers
and vatic disorders. e drug in its raw form is considered to be good for skin
and throat disorders. In rhinitis, cold, cough, stiﬀness of the body etc also it is
equally benecial.
Few of its simple and eﬀective recipes are explained here below –
Fried Barley Gruel for Indigestion and Diarrhoea
Good variety of barley is taken and fried a little. is is cooked well
and gruel is made. In cases of severe diarrhoea, mere supernatant part
of the gruel is administered by adding little salt. Or else whole gruel is
given after macerating it well. is serves as a nutrient and coolant.
Barley Water for Distension of Abdomen and Gastric Regurgitation
and Bloating of Abdomen
De-husked barley is taken and cooked well with water. To this little salt
or soda carb and lemon juice (or ginger powder) are added and mixed
well. is is administered in the dose of 50–80 twice daily. is relieves
gastric disturbances and distension of abdomen.
Butter Milk or Curd Cooked Barley for Repeated Gastric
Disturbances and Regurgitation
A stful oﬀ barley, 200 ml of buttermilk or 100 ml of curd and 200 ml
of water are taken and cooked well or else cooked barley is added to the
butter milk or curd and boiled a little. As per ones taste and need, salt
or pepper powder can be added. is is served along with food. It helps
to relieve the gastric disturbances and regurgitation.
Fine Paste of Barley for Muscular Pain and Joint Pain:
De-husked barley powder is taken and dough is made by mixing with
lemon juice or sour butter milk. is is warmed a little and appliedover the area of the muscular pains (deep) and joints. is reduces the
pain in 3–4 days’ duration.
Barley water is considered to be a common man’s cheap and
delicious gruel. It gives strength and keeps him cool. Also, as it is easily
digestible it is indicated in most of the ill-health conditions. ere is a
need to popularize such


 which I have been able to make, no
such "germ" has yet been seen, caught or harnessed.
During the past years—actually since 1946—according to word I
have from England, some "Scientists," under the $150,000 a year
patronage of the British Government's "Medical Research Council,"
have been hunting—and, you know the British are notorious for their
hunting!—For a COLD BUG, a GERM orVIRUS as the culprit, which
could be blamed for or accused of being responsible for the starting
or the generation of the COMMON COLD.
So far, from every available report they have not yet after many
years, been able to find, catch, harness nor "develop" one. Surely
they have been able to identify about 100 different germs, virus or
bacteria, but not one of these was able to start a cold. Every one of
these was feeding on the mucus of Common Colds, the very purpose
for which they were created, namely to dissolve, break up, decompose
and so dispose of the mucus that manifests the Common Cold.
As I understand it, these British "Scientists" have some kind of a
research hospital where they not only invite people to come there and
stay for 10 days or so, free of charge, all meals and everything else
provided, but patients are paid something like five shillings a day to
come there and submit themselves to the Scientists' attempts to find
a germ or virus that will GIVE them a cold. It has become quite a fad
for some 30 people at a time to go there once or twice a year for a
very inexpensive vacation with pay.
I understand that so far only a handful of people during the past
few years did develop a cold, but the germ or virus that was supposed
to create it has never been discovered.
No, indeed, there is not a germ in existence which can cause one
to have a cold. The electrical analogy in reference to a cold is worth
remembering. The electric system in your home is equipped with
fuses. Right? What happens when the electric circuit is overheated
because you have overloaded the line with too many lights and
appliances? Does a "germ" notify you that a fuse will blow out or
62 that the overheating of the wires may burn down your home? No,
indeed. If the fuse fails to blow out, the overloaded and overheated
wires will start a fire.
Think this over when you "catch a cold."
The waste matter in the system, if not eliminated, builds up
fermentation and heat in the body in the natural course of events.
When such fermentation has reached a sufficiently toxic state. Nature
becomes worried about our neglect to keep the body clean within,
and gives us a warning in the form of mucous elimination which has
been labeled "a cold." It is just as simple as that, and we have seen it
demonstrated over and over and over again, that if the warning is
ignored and disregarded, more serious conditions develop, conditions
which are so well-known that a list of them covers a medical
encyclopedia.
Never curse a cold which has caught up with you. Rather be
thankful for the timely warning, and do something about it. No drug
was ever known to cure a cold without the development of eventual
afflictions of a more serious nature, rarely attributed to such drugs.
To put it briefly, a cold is the result of the secretion of too much
accumulated waste, and insufficient and improper elimination. The
Colon is the recipient of all this corruption. Toxins spread throughout
the body generating unhealthy mucus in the sinus cavities. Excessive
waste matter is the contributing factor in the generation of mucus.
The result —A COLD.
An intelligent individual will give due consideration to these facts,
and as a matter of course will do what innumerable other people have
done at the first signs of a cold, namely, take enemas and colon
irrigations to remove the cause. Fruit juices and fasting for a day or
two — using nothing but water and fruit juices — have been very
effective during such cleansing procedures.
A regimen of raw foods and juices has been found to be the best
means to prevent the accumulation of waste and mucus when the
body, and the colon in particular, has been kept consistently clean.
YOUR ENDOCRINE GLANDS
The human body could not function were it not for the
ENDOCRINE GLAND system. The glands in our body are the
activating mechanisms responsible for, and involved in, every function
and procedure taking place within our system.
63 There are glands of internal secretion and glands of external
secretion. These glands all manufacture in micro-microscopic
quantities a substance known as HORMONES.
Hormones are a product generated and elaborated in the glands
and discharged into the blood or lymph, in most cases, while in some
instances their action is somewhat like making an electrical contact
in one place, to start, stop, or to modify an action in a separate and
perhaps remote place.
Endocrine means that the manufacture of hormones takes place
within the gland, with no duct for its discharge from it. The discharge
takes place by osmotic transmission from within the gland through
its covering, and is collected by the blood or the lymph from outside
the gland.
Glands of external secretion are those with a duct or ducts leading
directly from the generating plant in the gland, out of the gland into
the blood or the lymph or into its environment. The Tonsils and the
Appendix are external secretion glands, the former injecting its product
into the throat, while the Appendix injects its product into the colon.
The volume of hormone secreted at any one time is so
infinitesimal, so infinitely small, that in order to obtain one-quarter
of an ounce of the Pineal Gland Hormone extract, for example, it
would be necessary to collect hormones from more than 20,000,000
individual glands!
Like every other part of the human body, glands must have
constant nourishment in order to be able to operate efficiently. Such
nourishment should be of the very finest quality, because of the
important, intricate, and delicate work which the glands are called
upon to perform.
I have made and drawn a Chart of the Endocrine Gland System,
showing the human form, and radiating from it are explained and
indicated the various Endocrine Glands and their relation to one
another. The chart indicates the nature of their function and of their
disfunction, reviews what stimulates them and what inhibits them,
lists the elements of which they are composed and shows what fresh-
raw vegetable juices we have found to be of help and benefit for their
well-being. This Chart measures about 17" by 22" and is intended to
be framed for hanging on the wall of your study, office or your home.
The extensive ramifications of the hormone chain is nothing short
of stupendous, and even a superficial study of this Chart is enough to
64 make us appreciate our Creator for furnishing our insignificant body
with such a marvel of ingenuity.
The least we can do to help our wonderful glandular system to
function at its highest state of efficiency is to keep our body thoroughly
cleansed of waste and corrupt matter, nourish the body with the best
natural raw foods and juices available, and completely learn to control
our mind and our emotions.
With due and careful attention to this program, we should acquire
the energy we need to live a full, happy, useful, joyous and intelligent
life.
VINEGAR
All references in my previous publications to the injurious effects
of VINEGAR applied definitely ONLY to the white distilled vinegar
and to wine vinegar, in which the destructive element is the
predominance of ACETIC ACID.
Pure APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, on the other hand, made from
whole apples and not diluted, contains the constructive MALIC ACID,
an ingredient needed in the digestive processes.
There are three kinds of Vinegar which are generally used in this
country, Apple Cider and the white distilled Vinegar. There is also
Wine Vinegar which is a commonly used condiment in Latin countries,
and which, like the White Distilled Vinegar contains ACETIC ACID.
White Distilled Vinegar is injurious to the system. It rapidly
destroys red blood corpuscles resulting in anemia. It also interferes
with the digestive processes, retarding them and preventing the proper
assimilation of food. Such Vinegar (C2H40,) is the product of the
fermentation by acidity of alcoholic fluids such as fermented wine
and malt liquors; these are known as Wine Vinegar and Malt Vinegar
respectively. The White Distilled Vinegar with a high acetic acid
content is widely used in this country.
Vinegar made from apples is known as APPLE CIDER
VINEGAR. It contains MALIC ACID (C4H605) which is a natural
organic constituent of apples and is an element involved in the digestive
processes.
Vinegar made by the process of fermentation of wine contains an
average of from 3% to 9% Acetic Acid, and usually some Tartaric
Acid in addition. Acetic Acid in Vinegar has been known to be a


 unambiguously stating that drug
abuse was so universal among AIDS patients that this, and not the virus, must be
considered the primary cause of AIDS.123
But such reports fell on deaf ears, for the world had already been sent down the
virus road years before. Talk of drug factors ended with the CDC's second AIDS
related MMWR (3 July, 1981), in which further "highly unusual cases of Kaposi's
sarcoma" were reponed.124 This had a viral effect upon media coverage. "When the
first reports of the peculiar deadly illness from California began to wash up here, the
CDC releases were our only proper source of informa tion," remembers Hans Halter,
who penned the Spiegel's first cover story on AIDS. Its headline: "An epidemic that
is just beginning."
Halter, himself a specialist in sexually transmitted diseases, had, as he relates,
looked through the CDC data with a virologist friend. "It was clear to us," Halter
claims, "that a retrovirus transmitted through sperm and blood was to blame!"125
Halter admitted in that story that the "immune system [in homose xuals], as scientific
110 AIDS: From Spare Tire to Multibillion-Dollar Business
examinations show, is also compromised through antibiotic treatment, drug
consumption, and intensive use of poppers."
Yet, incomprehensi bly, in the very same article, only a few paragraphs previously,
Halter wrote: "First, the 'poppers' hypothesis collapsed : a control group of non
AIDS-inf ected homosexuals also took the stimulant, which expands blood vessels
and is said to improve orgasm." 126 Not only does this contradict Halter's own
understanding that a drug lifestyle damages the immune system. Also, even if the
experiment Halter mentioned had actually existed, this is still a far cry from
demolishing the hypothesis that poppers play a (significant) role in the onset of the
disease symptoms termed AIDS.
You would think this writer must have first reviewed this study to come to such
a conclusion. What exactly was being investigated? Was the paper compiled without
bias or conflicts of interest? Is the argument conclusi ve? We don't know because no
such study has ever been conducted. It's no wonder that Halter couldn't name the
study upon request. Instead, he recommend �d looking in Shilts' book, And the Band
Played On, adding, "maybe there are answers in it."127 Indeed thefe are. According
to Shilts, the poppers starting-point does offer an explanation for AIDS. "Everybody
who got diseases seemed to snort poppers," writes Shilts.128
Of course, there will always be people who take drugs like poppers and do not
get one of the AIDS diseases like lymphatic cancer. But dosage and the length of
time a person uses a drug, as well as other individual behavior patterns, living
conditions, and genetic make-up always play a role. Just as a casual smoker is less
likely to get lung cancer than a chronic smoker.
New York, February 2005: From Sup er-Drug Consu mer s
to "Su per-AIDS-Vi rus" Patients
On 11 February 2005, Dr. Thomas Frieden, a New York City health official,
stepped up to the microphone and announced the discovery of a supposedly deadly
new strain of HIV that was resistant to around 20 different AIDS medications. The
world press went ballistic. German newspaper Die Welt headlined: "Super-AIDS in
New York," and the Siiddeutsche Zeitung speculated that the one gay male whose
illness had led to Dr. Frieden's big announcement had become infected with the
virus at a "bareback party," a gay sex party (bareback refers to anal sex without a
condom). It was only incidentally mentioned in the article that the man had taken
drugs including cocaine and crystal meth (methamphetamines) to keep him going
all night long.129
By the end of the month, an article in the gay/lesbian magazine San Francisco
Bay Times, points out that, "what the [mainstream] media has failed to report is that
111 Chapter 3
the 46-year -old _patient had been on a three-month run of crystal [meth], 90 days in
a row, [and] when he [finally] went to the doctor, he was just a shell of a person. "13o
The man had also been a chronic drug-taker since the age of 13: first marijuana and
alcohol, then later heavier drugs like cocaine or crystal meth-substances that have
similarly stimulating and short-ter m performance-enhancing effects, and are just as
toxic as poppers (which were probably also among the drug-repertoire for the man
in his mid-40s ).131
We are looking at an example of a classic AIDS patient. Let's remember here that
the first AIDS patients were described as young homosex uals heavily addicted to
drugs, ranging in age from 30 to mid-40.132 How then, could these patients possibly
be helped by further chemical poisoning in the form of highly toxic medications?
That the above-mentioned patient did not respond positively to any of the twenty
AIDS medications had nothing to do with a drug-resis tant virus (as is continually
asserted ), but rather to the fact that the already unhealthy, immune-compromised
man could not handle the highly toxic preparat ions.
Shortly after the news of a mutant HIV strain, a striking article appeared in
Science, acknowledging that there was still no proof that what had been termed the
"nightmare virus strain" can cause disease. 133 Jacques Normand, director of AIDS
research at the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), confirmed in an
interview we got published in the weekly newspaper Freitag, that "the question of
whether we are dealing with a super AIDS virus remains unanswer ed." And drugs,
continued Normand, cannot be ruled out as the main cause of the 46-year old's
health problems. 134
These sentences carry even more weight when you consider that both the drug
administration and specialist journals like Science normally stay right in line with
orthodox AIDS medicine, and that real criticism or doubts on the HIV =AIDS dogma
are rarely ever heard.
Gallo, 1994: Not HIV, But Sex Dr ugs Lik e Popper s Caus e
AID S
At a high-level meeting of US health authorities in 1994--titled "Do Nitrites Act as
a Co-Factor in Kaposi's Sarcoma?"- The best-known speaker was the National Cancer
Institute's Robert Gallo, so-called co-discoverer ofHIV. His statements were notewor thy.
According to Gallo, HIV was surely a "catalytic factor" in Kaposi's, but even he
acknow ledged, "there must be something else involved." Then he added: "I don't
know if I made this point clear, but I think that everybody here knows-we never
found HIV DNA in tumor cells of KS. So this is not directly transform ing. And in fact
112 Both pictures, taken two
and a half years apart,
show the very same
woman, who became
addicted to crystal meth.
The narcotic is highly toxic
and can severely damage
health, with effects ranging
from loss of memory and
premature graying of hair
to kidney damage, stroke,
and cardiac arrest. Bret
King, deputy sheriff in a
county prison in the state
of Oregon took the pictures
to document the drug's
rapid and devastating
effects. AIDS: From Spare Tire to Multibillio n-Dollar Business
113 Chapter 3
we've never found HIV DNA in T cells although we've only looked at a few. So, in other
words we've never seen the role of HIV as a transform ing virus in any way."
And in response to a question from Harry Haverkos, then director of the AIDS
department at NIDA, who said that not a single case of KS had been reported among
blood recipients where the donor had KS, Gallo allowed: "The nitrites [poppers]
could be the primary factor."135
To fully appreciate Gallo's statement, we must recall that, in wealthy nations like
the USA and German y, Kaposi's sarcoma was-next to PCP-the most significant
disease among patients labeled with "AIDS."136 In 1987, for example, Der Spiegel
described Kaposi's sarcoma patients defined as AIDS patients as the "sarcoma
covered skeletons" from the "same-sex scene. "137
Indeed, "At present, it is accepted [even by CDC scientists] that HIV plays no
role, either directly or indirectly, in the causation of Kaposi's sarcoma," writes
Australian medical professor and AIDS expert Eleni Papadopulos. 138 139 140 Given this
background, it seems paradoxical that Kaposi's.sarcoma is still part of the offiCial
AIDS definition in industrialized countries (anyone with KS and a positive test result
counts as an AIDS patient)- and that, contrary to the facts, even respected magazines
like The New Yorker still assert that "Kaposi's sarcoma is a sign of AIDS"14 1 (


 blueberry muf fins.
They smelled great, but when everyone else came down to the
kitchen, they said, “Huh, lot of calories in those.”
I thought, “Who are you jerks?” No one had told me about how
healthy Engine 2 ate.
At the time my menu planning was simple—I used to see what
meat was for sale and then my wife and I would plan our meals
around that. If pork chops were on sale, then it was pork chops for
dinner. Now that we eat a plant-based diet, we’re more creative. And
our palates have changed, too. I used to love chicken. Today the smell
of it makes me kind of sick.E2 Basics Open-Faced Sandwich
Years ago, when we were short on time, we’d run to a nearby sub shop and
order the number 1 1 without the cheese and mayo, and ask them to double
up on all the vegetables. Eventually, we’d just say, “An Engine 2.” But a
new owner took over about a year ago and rescinded the half-price discount
for firefighters and police of ficers. So we now make the Engine 2 at Engine
2.
Serves 2
4 slices whole grain bread, toasted
E2 spread of choice
1 cucumber with skin on, scrubbed and sliced into thin rounds
1 large tomato, sliced
½ bunch arugula or cilantro
1 cup alfalfa sprouts
Lemon pepper to taste (we like the Mrs. Dash brand)
Lemon or lime juice
Spread each side of bread thickly with E2 spread of choice. Top with
arugula, vegetables, and sprouts. Season with lemon pepper and a squeeze
of lemon or lime juice.
Variations:
Top the sandwich with chopped cilantro, green onions, salad greens,
avocados, shredded raw beets, or carrots.
Ann’ s Panini with Hummus, Mushr ooms, and Spinach
At the firehouse we have great old iron skillets that weigh as much as
concrete bricks. They come in handy because the key to making a fantastic
panini is to get a hefty amount of weight on top of the sandwich as it cooks.
You can prepare this in one of two ways: Place an iron skillet (or other
heavy object) on top to smush the sandwich, or be decadent and purchase a
panini maker and use as directed. I got one for Christmas. It sears perfect
lines on top of the bread. You’ll know it’ s ready when the hummus drips
over the sides like melted cheese, the outside is crispy, the inside soft.
This dynamite recipe comes from my mother, Ann. And by the way, for
those of you who don’ t know, panini is an Italian sandwich.Serves 2 (or one ravenous fir efighter)
8 ounces mushrooms, sliced
Tamari or Bragg Liquid Aminos to taste
4 slices whole grain bread
Healthy Homemade Hummus (see page 236)
4 green onions, chopped into rounds
½ cup chopped cilantro
3 handfuls baby spinach
Sauté the mushrooms on medium heat in a nonstick skillet for about 5
minutes or until soft. Season lightly with tamari or Bragg’ s. Spread all 4
bread slices thickly with hummus. Sprinkle two pieces of the bread with
green onions and cilantro and reserve the other two pieces as sandwich tops.
Using a slotted spoon to allow any liquid to drain away from the
mushrooms, place them on top of the green onions. Put a handful of spinach
on top of the mushrooms. Top the two sandwiches with the reserved pieces
of bread, and press to seal.
Carefully place the sandwiches in a nonstick skillet. Place a heavy
casserole dish on top of the sandwiches to flatten them. Cook the weighted
sandwiches on one side over medium heat for about 5 minutes, taking care
not to let them burn. Flip sandwiches and cook the other side in the same
way. When done, paninis will be quite thin and browned on both sides.
Chili Dogs and Applesauce
Chili dogs rule. Take your chili leftovers and enjoy the ease of a boiled or
microwaved veggie dog topped with chili. Lunch doesn’ t get much easier.
Serves 4
4 low-fat vegetarian hot dogs (we like the Yves chili dogs)
2 whole grain pitas sliced in half, or 4 whole grain hot dog buns
1 can vegetarian chili beans or homemade chili
½ onion, finely chopped
½ bunch cilantro, chopped
Applesauce
Warm the hot dogs in the microwave or in a pan of boiling water
according to directions on packaging. Toast the pitas or buns. Place a hotdog inside a pita or bun and top with chili, onions, and cilantro. Serve with
a side of applesauce.
Kale, Lemon, and Cilantr o Sandwich
Sometimes I don’ t know what I’d do without the creative genius of my
amazing, enthusiastic, brilliant mother! Ann serves this one open faced on
toasted bread. You won’ t believe how good a superhealthy sandwich like
this can taste until you try it! Gene Stone, my co-writer and one of the
Engine 2 participants, hated kale before tasting this sandwich. Now he’ s a
devoted kale, lemon, and cilantro sandwich eater.
Any greens of choice will work. The lemon adds an almost sweet taste.
Be generous with it!
1 bunch kale, rinsed and drained
4 slices whole grain bread, toasted
Healthy Homemade Hummus (see page 236)
4 green onions
½ bunch cilantro or parsley, rinsed and chopped
1 lemon with skin on, sliced very thinly into rounds
Zest and juice of 1 lemon
Tear the kale leaves away from the thick stem. Discard the stem and
chop the leaves into bite-size pieces. Put the kale in a pot filled with about 4
inches of water. Bring to a boil, cover, and cook for 2–3 minutes, until the
kale is tender. Check frequently.
Toast the bread until brown and crispy, about 3 minutes. Spread the toast
thickly with hummus, sprinkle on the green onions, pile cilantro on top,
then place a few very thin slices of lemons on the cilantro.
When the kale is tender, drain well. Shake the strainer so all the water is
gone, then sprinkle the kale in the strainer with lemon zest and the juice
from the remaining lemon. Lots of lemon makes this good! Place a lar ge
handful of lemon-filled kale on top of each sandwich half and top with
remaining toast slices.
Variation:
Add a thick slice of tomato to each sandwich.
E2 Wraps and PitasThese recipes will take advantage of all the great leftovers from your
previous dinners. Our vehicle for delivering these glorious leftovers is a
wrap, a pita, a tortilla, or a big old leafy green!
E2 Basics Pita
Up the street from the station is a restaurant called The Pita Pit, which has a
wild method of slicing open the top quarter of the pita and then peeling it
back. Then they stuf f in all the ingredients, take the top, fold it down over
the filling, and roll the whole thing up. It’ s a simple and easy technique, and
makes a no-nonsense wrap.
If you can’ t get your pita to roll up perfectly, don’ t get frustrated: This
technique requires a thin, lar ge, and pliable pita.
If you have wheat aller gies, try lar ge corn tortillas or wheat-free wraps.
Serves 2
2 loaves whole grain pita
Leftovers from dinner
Romaine lettuce, chopped
Balsamic vinegar to taste
Warm the pita in a skillet or microwave to make it pliable. Open the pita
and stuf f with leftovers and romaine lettuce. Lightly drizzle the pita filling
with balsamic vinegar. Fold up the top portion and eat as is, or try to roll it
up like a sleeping bag.
Variations:
Spread the inside of a pita with your choice of E2 spread or dip instead
of dinner extras. Toss in your favorite fresh vegetables. Season with fresh
lime or lemon juice in place of balsamic vinegar.
E2 Basics Wrap
This is an old standby for those times when you open up the refrigerator
door and don’ t know what to eat.
Serves 2
2 large whole grain wraps
Healthy Homemade Hummus (see page 236)
1 tomato, sliced1 cup shredded romaine lettuce
Cracked pepper to taste
Toast wraps in skillet or directly over gas flame. Spread wraps thickly
with hummus. Layer with tomatoes and top with lettuce. Season with
pepper, and roll into a burrito.
Variations:
Use your choice of E2 spread or dip in place of hummus. Use spinach
instead of romaine, then bake in the oven at 450º for 10 minutes.
Rip’s Big Leaf Special
This is a variation on the green leafy wrap. I wanted to take it to the next
level and created this great little number.
Serves 2
2 large whole collard green leaves
Healthy Homemade Hummus with jalapeños (see page 236)
1 roasted red bell pepper, sliced into strips
1 cup corn kernels
2 green onions, chopped
2 roma tomatoes, chopped
1 cup cooked brown rice (see E2 Brown Rice, page 175)
Bl


 was
attached to the house. We
think such an arrangement
with its penetrating odors is
unsavory. But what of the
gasoline  and motor fumes we
are getting now due to
parked vehicles? These are
toxic besides! This is even
more medieval.
If your garage is under your house, you cannot keep the
pollution from entering your home. In this case, leave the cars
and lawnmower outside. Remove cans of gasoline, solvents, etc.
Put up a separate shed for these items.
Fig. 77 Garage fumes.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
446Special Clean-up for Freon  (CFCs)
Because I consider Freon  to be the top health hazard in our
home, I recommend turning in your refrigerator for a non-CFC
variety. Dispose of all spare units. Remove window air condi-
tioner s or test the dust in your home (page 485) for Freon. Have
your car's air conditioning system checked. Dispose of old pres-
surized cans. Even one whiff is too much. It never leaves the
body because the body has no detoxification methods for it!
Only one useful reaction with Freon  comes to mind.  Freon  is
thought to be responsible for the ozone “hole” at the South Pole.
Would Freon react with ozone supplied to your body and thereby
become biodegradable? Indeed, it does! But only if you drink it
as ozonated water. Other ozone routes, as intravenous or rectal,
have not been observed to be as effective.
If you are following your progress with the Syncrometer, you
will see that Freon  now appears in the liver for the first time.
(Before this, it was marooned in the parathyroids, thymus, and
other organs.) You may also detect a feeling like indiges tion.
You must come to the assistance of your liver. Even ozonated
Freon is extremely burdensome to the liver.
A combination of herbs (Liver Herb Drink in Recipes, page
552) rescues the liver from its plight, and prevents the indiges-
tion. After drinking liver herbs you will see that the Freon  now
appears in the kidneys. Yet it is marooned there unless you as sist
them. Take the kidney cleanse to assist the kidneys so they can
finally excrete the Freon into the urine.
It's an elaborate detoxifying program and  usually  takes  six to
eight weeks to get most of the Freon  out. Afterward, continue the
programs at one fourth dosage for half a year.
Forane  is one of the new refrigerants. Although toxic, at least
I observe it in the liver directly, suggesting that your body is
capable of handling it. Remember your new refrigerator willFOUR CLEAN -UPS
447still be using a toxic coolant, and it would be best to keep it out-
side or at least vented to the outside.
Special Clean-up for Fiberglass
Fiberglass insulation has microscopically small bits of glass
that are free to blow into the air. When house drafts pull it into
the air you will inhale them. They cut their way through your
lungs and organs like millions of tiny knives, spreading through
your body, since there is no way out for them. You smell noth ing
and feel nothing. This makes it a very sinister poison. Your body,
though, recognizes these sharp, pointed bits and tries to stop their
spread by sequestering them in cysts.
Most solid malignant  tumors contain fiberglass  or asbestos,
another glass-like particle. In nearly all cases a hole can be
found in the ceiling or walls, leading to fiberglass insulated parts
of the house. When these holes are sealed in an air-tight manner
the house air no longer is positive for fiberglass. Cov ering with
paneling is not sufficient. Check your dwelling for uncovered
fiberglass. Repair immediately. Search for small screw holes
intended for pictures, or electric outlet plates that are missing.
Also remove fiberglass  jackets from water heater  and fiber-
glass filter from furnace. Replace with foam  or carbon. Best of
all, hire a crew to remove it all from your home, and replace in-
sulation with blown-in shredded paper or other innocuous sub-
stance.
Never  build a new house using fiberglass  for any purpose.
Special Clean-up for Asbestos
The biggest source of asbestos  is not building materials! It is
the clothes dryer belt  and hair dryer! To be safe, remove the belt
from your dryer and check to see if it says “Made in USA” onTHE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
448the belt itself. If so, it is OK. If not, it is imported, and probably
contains asbestos. Exchange it for a USA belt (see Sources ).
Hair dryers, too, may be imported and shed asbestos. It is
especially hazardous to be aiming a stream of hot asbestos right
at your face! If you can't find a safe model (see Sources ), or are
unsure, don't use any. If you have cancer or are ill, no one in the
house  should use an unsafe hair dryer.
Turn off radiators and electric heaters and cover them with
big plastic garbage bags, or paint them, or remove them. They
give off asbestos  if their paint is old.
Your House
To clean the house, start with the bedroom. Remove every-
thing that has any smell to it whatever: candles, potpourri, soaps,
mending glue, cleaners, repair chemicals, felt markers, colognes,
perfumes, and especially plug-in air “fresheners”. Store them in
the garage, not the basement. Since all vapor rises, they would
come back up if you put them in a downstairs garage or
basement.
Do not sleep in a bedroom that is paneled or has wallpaper.
They give off arsenic  and formaldehyde. Either remove them or
move your bed to a different room. Leave the house while  this is
being done. If other rooms have paneling or wallpaper, close
their doors and spend no time in them.
Next clean the kitchen. Take all cans and bottles of chemi cals
out from under the sink or in a closet. Remove them to the garage.
Keep only the borax, washing soda, white distilled vinegar  and
homemade soap. Use these for all purposes. For exact amounts to
use for dishwasher, dishes, windows, dusting, see Recipes.
Remove all cans, bottles, roach and ant killer, moth balls, and
chemicals that kill insects or mice. These should not be stored
anywhere. They should be thrown out. Remember to check the
crawl space, attic and closets for hidden poisons also.FOUR CLEAN -UPS
449To keep out mice, walk all around your house, stuffing holes and
cracks with steel wool. Use old-fashioned mouse traps. For
cockroaches and other insects (except ants) sprinkle handfuls of
boric acid34 (not borax) under your shelf paper, behind sink,
stove, refrigerator, under carpets, etc. Use vinegar on your
kitchen wipe-up cloth to leave a residue that keeps out ants. Do
this regularly. To wax the floor, get the wax from the  garage  and
put it back there. A sick person should not be in the house while
house cleaning or floor waxing is being done.
Remove all cans and bottles of “stuff” from the bathroom.
The chlorine  bleach  is stored in the garage. Someone else can
bring it in to clean the toilet (only). Leave only the borax soap,
homemade soap, and grain alcohol antiseptic. Toilet paper and
tissues should be unfragranced, uncolored. All colognes, after
shave, anything you can smell must be removed. Family mem bers
should buy unfragranced products. They should smoke outdoors,
blow-dry their hair outdoors or in the garage, use nail polish  and
polish remover outdoors or in the garage.
Do not keep new foam  furniture  in the house. If it is less than
one year old, move it into the garage until you are well. It gives
off formaldehyde. So does new clothing; it is in the sizing. Wash
all new clothes before wearing. If you have a respiratory  illness,
move all the clothes in the clothes closet out of your bedroom to
a different closet.
Do not use the hot water from an electric hot water heater  for
cooking or drinking. It has tungsten. Do not drink water that sits
in glazed crock ware (the glaze seeps toxic elements like
cadmium ) like some water dispensers have. Do not buy water
from your health food store that runs through a long plastic hose
from their bulk tank (I always see cesium  picked up from flexi-
                                                            34 Boric acid is available by the pound from farm  supply  stores  and
from Now Foods. Because it looks like sugar keep it in the garage to
prevent accidental poisoning.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
450ble clear plastic). Also ask them how and when they clean their
tank. Best is to observe that it is done with non-toxic methods.
If your house is more than 10 years old, change all the gal-
vanized pipe  to PVC  plastic. Although PVC is a toxic sub stance,
amazingly, the water is free of PVC in three weeks! If your house
has copper  pipes don't wait for cancer or schizo phrenia


 lover. He took the sexual revolution for grant ed—he was
open to almost any sexual experiment proposed by the women he dated, and
he could quickly take his partner to a place where she wasn’ t embarrassed
to express her fantasies.
When asked how he felt about his many conquests, Guy said, “I loved
every one of them. Nothing makes me happier than a grateful woman.” He
was sincere when he claimed that none of his former flames resented him in
any way, despite the fact that his liaisons with them lasted only a few nights
or a few months—six at most.
Caroline was the first woman Guy had ever met whom he did not want to
take to bed immediately, despit e the fact that he was strongly attracted to
her. She was in her early twenti es—Guy was about to turn thirty—but she
radiated the demure, innocent quality of a much younger girl. Enchanted,
Guy thought of Caroline as a fawn, with her large, trusting eyes and slight
air of aloofness.
For her part, Caroline seemed to adore Guy; he was only her third serious
boyfriend (she definitely preferred this term over lover ). Shaki ng off his
reluctance, Guy soon entered an intimate relationship with Caroline. All
went smoothly until one night when he found himself, quite unexpectedly,
waking up in tears at two in the morning. An uncontrollable emotion—wasit grief?  remorse?—swept over him. Mystified and shaken, Guy went back
to sleep.
The next time he took Caroline to bed, however, Guy found  himself
performing far below his usual high standards. His mind wandered, and for
the first time he felt that he might not be able to reach orgasm. This
impossibility wasn’t allowed to happen, but afterward he felt fatigued and
joyless. Caroline made no comment; she held Guy for a long time before he
fell asleep.
Their relationship deepened. In many ways Guy felt that he was going
through the happiest time of his life. Caroline’ s light heart and innocent
manner came as a revelation to him; he sometimes felt by comparison that
he had been working very hard at life. This was undoubtedly true in his
career—Guy worked long hours creating databases for a prestigious
commercial realtor. His goal was to be a millionaire in five years. Caroline
was the first woman who had ever distracted him from this ambition.
When Guy decided to propose  to her, his ears burned in disbelief as
Caroline asked for a little more time. Disbelief turned to shock when she
hesitantly said that she wanted  their relationship not to be intimate for a
while. Pressed for reasons, Caroline hesitated even more, but finally she
half-whispered, “I don’t think you really like it. You just don’t want to let
me down.”
It was the most troubling and yet the most honest thing a woman had
ever said to Guy. That night he stormed out in hurt pride, but he knew in his
heart that he felt worn out. Certain things about sex had never occurred to
him. For instance, he had never thought that more isn’t necessarily better.
For ten years he’d had sex nearly every day, and the need behind this
obsession struck  him now as something like addiction. It had also never
occurred to him that other voices could speak during the act of sex. He had
obeyed the voice of desire so completely that now he found it difficult to
hear expressions  of sadness, pent-up anger, and grief. Reflecting on it, he
realized they must always have been present.
When Guy came back to Caro line, he loved her enough to be able to
thank her for having propose d a waiting period. The two started to
reconstruct a sexual relationship, beginning with simple touch. They would
lie together and easily ask each other for a gentle touch on some part of
their bodies, directing where to touch next, how long to stay in one place.Rather than finding this erotic, Guy often discovered that some touches
aroused anxiety ; at times he felt like crying. Gradually he realized that
feeling safe with women had been rare for him, and that because he felt safe
with Caroline, old wounds could be released. He found that as pent-up
emotions began to surface, he wanted to tell Caroline about incidents from
his past that he had never shared with a woman—in fact, talking to women
had never been his strong suit. He began to make links between his need to
perform in bed and his demanding, critical mother. In time it became clear
to him that at some level he felt all women were demanding, and by being a
skillful lover he could defuse  in advance their contempt for him as
inadequate.
Guy was fortunate that so much  love remained in him—many men could
have taken a decade to achieve the insight he was gaining in a few months.
Caroline did not set herself up as teacher or therapist; she follo wed Guy in
his self-discovery, allowing him to withdraw when he needed to. It became
clear to him that she had given herself permission to withdraw  as well. To
him having sex had always been a sign of intimacy; for Caroline intimacy
emer ged slowly, and agreeing to have sex with him had been only a first
step.
Some hard times followed for Guy. There were nights when he felt
aggressive or angry during sex, which led to deep bouts of guilt. His image
of himself as “lover” frayed as he came to feel the underlying rage he had
suppressed, compelling him to act out sexually what he idealized as his
inner personality. He wasn’ t the sensitive, generous, caring lover he had
fashioned himself into but a complex, and sometimes contradictory, bundle
of feelings and drives. In time this was good enough, since it was real.
Caroline realized that it was important to support Guy in his spiritual
progress; as it turned out she was quite serious about her own spiritual life,
so she was able to view this transition as more than psychological. She
believed that all the changes in their relationship were serving to bring Guy
and her into unity. To help chart their progress, she made a list of
experiences she wanted to have with Guy, noticing each one and discussing
it with him as each occurred.
I want to feel needed for who I am.
I want to feel vulnerable.
I want to feel you won’ t ever hurt me.I want to feel your strength.
I want to feel I can tell you what I most desire.
I want to feel open.
I want to feel a gentle wildness.
I want to feel one with you.
I want to feel nothing was ever better than this.
I want to feel lightness bubbling in my heart.
I want to feel profound.
I want to feel at one.
This was more than a wish list; it sent a message of desire to the universe
that she expected to be fulfille d as events unfolded. Caroline encouraged
Guy to make his own list. They didn’ t bring these lists to bed or think about
them while in bed. The point was to articulate clearly where they wanted
their path together to lead.
Marriage came a year later, by which time Guy had changed many of his
most basic attitudes toward sex. He no longer performed it without love,
and he felt able to say when his emotions made love difficult. He thought
not of sexual excitement but of being comfortable. He found that the
strongest turn-ons were silent, peaceful surroundings, tender expressions,
deep looks of desire, sparkling eyes, tentative touches, and modesty. There
were moments when he forgot about sex, lost in the sheer freedom and
openness of his own being, and these were the most sexual mom ents of all.
For someone who had spent his growing-up years drowned in sexual
experience, Guy was on his way to recovering the one thing  experience
cannot bring—the freedom of innocence.
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HOW TO SURRENDER
SPIRITUALL Y, NO ACTION  is more important than surrender. Surrender is the
tenderest impul se of the heart,  acting out of love to give whatever the
beloved wants. Surrender is being alert to exactly what is happening now,
not imposing expectations from the past. Surrender is faith that the power of
love can accomplish anything, even when you cannot foresee the outcome
of a situation.
But surrendering  to another person’s ego, even your beloved’ s, is not a
spiritual act. There is a deeper, more mystical meaning to surrender. At the
level of ego, two people cannot want exactly the same thing all the time.
Yet at the level of spirit, they cannot help but want the same thing all the
time. Your ego wants material things, predictable conclusions, continuity,
security, and the prerogative to be right when others are wrong. By
definition, pursu ing these goals shuts out another person unless she falls in
line with “my” agenda or he realizes that “I” am the important  one around
here.
Your spirit is not involved in such concerns. It wants being, love,
freedom, and creative opportun ities. This is an entirely different level of
desire, and when you reach it you can share yourself with another person
without conflict. Such sharing is the core of surrender.
Most people are raised to pursu e ego goals, often without question. The
choice to remain on this level is always open. But you also have the choice
to move  onto the plane of spirit, with its very different goals. The gap