 down. When the liver and thedigestive systems break down you are in serious trouble!This is why you often find a swollen sensitive liver, a pastycomplexion and many times, jaundice and chronic
fatigue in conjunction with ongoing constipation.
Give Your Vital Force a Chance to Clean House!
So it’s plain that when you stop eating to give your
body’s Vital Force a chance to clean house... you will
miss the food habit the first few days of your fast! Itcould be uncomfortable if you allow it! Think positive!
When you fast, your Vital Force loosens the waste in
your body and gathers it up to be discarded. As long asthis goes on you might feel some discomfort. But once
the waste is discarded through the kidneys, you will
begin to feel better. As you fast, conditions change fromday to day. When your body is eliminating heavy
amounts of toxic poisons through the kidneys and other
organs of elimination, you could feel some discomfort.But it should also be clear why you may feel better on
the
7th day of a 10 day fast than you did on the 3rd day.
Many of the toxic poisons that gave you trouble havebeen flushed out of the body! Many people who fast
under my supervision felt far better and stronger on the
10th day of the fast than they did on the 1st day.104Ponce de Leon
Searched for the
“Fountain of Youth.”
If he had only known
It’s within us...
Created by the
Food we eat!
Food can make or
Break your Health!
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing
ordinary things extraordinarily well. Neglect nothing; the most
trivial action may be performed with joy. – Angelique Arnauld
The word “vegetarian” is not derived from “vegetable,”
but from the Latin, homo vegetus, meaning among the
Romans a strong, robust, thoroughly healthy man.
The juicer, food processor and the blender are great for
preparing foods, drinks, gentle (bland) diets and baby foods,
etc. Fibers of juiced fresh fruits and vegetables can be tolerated
on most gentle diets. Any raw or cooked fruit or vegetablecan be liquefied and added to broth, soups and non-dairy
(soy, rice or nut) milks. Fresh juices supercharge your energy
level and boost your immune system to maximize your body’shealth power. You may fortify your liquid meal or Bragg Pep
Drinks with any of these green powders for extra nutrition:
alfalfa, chlorella, barley green, spirulina, rice bran or wheat grass.
Liquefy or Juice Fresh Organic Fruits and VegetablesThis always happens when I take a  7 or 10 day fast. I
always feel stronger at the end of my fast than I did at
the beginning. The cleaner you are inside, the more Vital
Power you have! So at the beginning of the fast, just
grin and bear the discomforts that may occur as youpurify the body. You know that as you get cleaner, you
are going to feel stronger. Again I say, to be a good faster,
you must, “ Just Grin and Bear It! ”. Whatever brief
discomforts you may experience during a fast are well
worth the great rewards you are going to receive!105Fasting Fights and Removes Mucus
In my opinion most of man’s problems stem from a
clogging of the entire pipe system of the human body.
Most of this clogging takes the form of a thick mucus.
How free are you of mucus at this minute? Do you
have a postnasal drip? That is, is there a slow dripping
of mucus from your sinus cavities into the back of your
mouth and down your throat? What about your nose?How much mucus are you carrying in your nasal
passages? How many times a day do you use tissues?
How many times a day do you clear your throat? Howoften do you cough or spit up mucus and phlegm?
Every person living on the average American diet has,
more or less, a sticky mucus-clogged pipe system. Thisstored up toxic mucus results from the undigested and
uneliminated, unnatural food substances and toxins that
start accumulating from birth. This mucus not only clogsthe nose, throat and lungs, but this mucus is also found
all along the 30 feet of the gastrointestinal tract that
starts at the mouth and extends to the anus. Somehumans suffer great distress from heavy mucus-clogging
in their sinus cavities. It’s found in the ears, not only in
a soft form, but also in a hardened wax that can causehearing problems. The greatest amount of mucus is most
often lodged in the lungs.
Pneumonia is one of the most deadly diseases. Mucus
fills up the lungs so you can’t get enough air in to purify
the
 5 to 8 quarts of blood which flow to the lungs for
vital purification. Pneumonia kills more older people;they literally drown from the mucus in their lungs.
Important – Your Daily Habits Form Your Future
Habits can be wrong, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy, rewarding or unrewarding.
The right or wrong habits, decisions, actions, words or deeds... are up to you!
Wisely choose your habits, as they can make or break your life! – Patricia BraggChapter 1 3106American Diet Forms Mucus and Illness
Our bodies are equipped with an elastic pipe system.
The modern diet that we eat is never entirely digested
and the accumulated waste never entirely eliminated.
Our entire pipe system is slowly becoming clogged,especially the digestive tract. This is the foundation of
many physical problems. The body becomes overloaded
with mucus which the avenues of elimination cannotexpel. It slowly concentrates into a huge decayed mass.
The American diet is a mucus-forming, heavily
refined, high sugar, salt, fried foods, dairy, meats andfats diet.  All dairy products are especially mucus-
forming. No animal in the world except man drinks milk
after being weaned. The modern diet includes butter andbutter substitutes, margarines, processed shortenings and
hydrogenated oils and fats which are the plugging
saturated fats. These are unhealthy for the body. Ourbodies have a normal temperature of
98.6 °. To digest
and assimilate these solid, hardened, saturated fats, we
would have to have a heat of 300 degrees in our bodies.
Our American diet contains a great deal of processedand synthetic cheese, as well as natural cheeses which
are heavily preserved with salt. I have discussed the
dangers of salt quite fully in this book. Don’t use salt!
Most Americans love eggs, yet egg yolks carry large
amounts of cholesterol, a saturated fat. If you eat eggs
(limit
3–4 weekly) they should be fresh, fertile and from
free range, organically fed chickens. Most Americans eat
a lot of meat, most of it fried in heavy grease, either lard
or hydrogenated commercial oils. Meat also carries itsown heavy load of fat, visible and invisible. Today, most
American cooking is done by the deep-frying method,
including their deadly favorite – french fries. This isa devitalized, mucus-forming, unhealthy S.A.D. diet.
The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of
the body to heal itself – but that force is not independent ofthe belief system. Everything begins with believing. What webelieve is the most powerful option of all.  – Norman Cousins107Mucus Shows Up in the Urine when Fasting
The urine test shows the amount of mucus the
average human carries within their bloodstream. Take a
3 day fast. Eat absolutely
nothing and drink onlylarge amounts of distilled
water – from
 2 to 3 quarts
a day. Every morning ofthe fast, take a sample of
the first urine you pass
on awakening, put it ina labeled bottle and place
it on a shelf to cool and
settle. In a few days thisurine will show a heavy
cloud of mucus. The
longer you keep theurine, the more toxins
and mucus are revealed.
A regular weekly
24 hour fast will help rid your body of
large amounts of mucus and toxins. Some of these toxinshave been circulating in your body for years.
In winter, most people eat more heavy, concentrated
foods – such as refined flour products: pancakes, waffles,sugared cereals, doughnuts, rolls, breads, flour gravies,
biscuits, cakes, pies and refined pastas – the body then
becomes so loaded with mucus that it forces the VitalForce to create a cleansing crisis – a cold, flu, etc. A fever
is produced by your Vital Force to help burn up and
flush out the heavy concentrations of mucus. The lungs,nose and throat pour out the mucus through coughing,
sneezing, spitting and nose-blowing. Few humans realize
what a cleansing holocaust the body goes through!
The body is a miracle self-purifying instrument! As
long as the body has enough Vital Force to eliminate
toxins such as mucus, it will work with all its energy torid and purify the body. What do humans think about
this crisis? They get feverish. A fever is your body’s
cleaner, a true natural phenomenon of


 of communication, interaction, and problem-solving.
Understanding our personal evolution as part of the evolution of the
planet Earth, and becoming  conscious co-creators of a new and
expanded reality, are the most joyful and positive aims of this path.
To absorb these lectures is the beginning of doing Pathwork. Let
them touch you deeply, not only in your mind, but also in your
heart. May they inspire you.
JUDITH SALY and D ONOVAN THESENGA
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What Is the Path?
A journ ey through the known into the unknown regions of the
soul is similar to the quest told in fairy tales. The ignorant hero or
heroine sets out from the familiar, everyday world because of a
longing to nd a greater life than the ordinary routine of a limited
existence. Frightening encounters, tests of all kinds follow. If you
pass the tests, you nd happiness. The reward is wealth and a life
partner; you become king or queen: a fullled adult.
The inner quest, if taken seriously, also takes courage, also
traverses dark regions, and also leads to maturity—and the treasure
is also always found. Just as in the fairy tales the hero doesn’t
sneak around the dragon but ghts him, and doesn’t run away from
the old witch but befriends her, you, too, must meet the destructive
forces within yourself and deal with them.
In this lecture the Guide shows how to follow the longing and
liberate the dormant powers within yourself, so that you come upon
the treasure of your wise, loving, inner Godself.
Greetings and welcome, my friends. Blessings for every one of
you. In this lecture I would like to discuss the path to the fulllment
of your deepest longings.
Longing for a Larger and More Fullling State of
ConsciousnessEvery human being senses an inner longing that goes deeper than
the longings for emotional and creative fulllment, although these
are, of course, part of the deeper and more essential desire. This
longing comes  from sensing that another, more fullling state of
consciousness and a larger capacity to experience life must exist.
As you translate this longing into conscious terms, you may
become involved in confusion and contradiction. Confusions and
apparent contr adictions come from the dualistic consciousness of
the human mind. The dualism is always present, for humans
perceive reality in terms of either/or, good or bad, right or wrong,
black or white. This way of perceiving life is at best only half true:
One can perceive only fragments of reality; the full truth  can never
be found. Truth always comprises more than what the dualistic way
of seeing reality can grasp.
One confusion  might be: “Am I longing for something unreal?
Would it be perhaps more realistic and more mature to give up this
longing and accept that life is just this at, dismal, gray place? Do
we not hear over and over that acceptance is necessary in order to
be at peace with oneself and life? Therefore I should really abandon
this longing.”
The way out of your confusio n can only be found when you take a
step beyond the dualism implicit in this dilemma. It is true that you
must accept your present state. It is true that life, as it manifests,
cannot be perfect. Yet this fact is not what truly makes you
unhappy, rather it is your demand that life should be perfect and be
handed to you in its perfection that creates a problem. If you go
deeply enough, you will inevitably discover that there is a part of
you that denies pain and frustration; a place where you are angry
and spiteful because there is no loving authority who will eliminate
undesirable experiences for you. Thus it is true that your longing for
this utopian kind of happier state is unrealistic and should be
abandoned.
The False DesireBut does this truly mean that the longing per se stems from
immature, greedy, or neuroti c attitudes? No, my friends, it does not.
There is an inner voice tellin g you there is much, much more to your
life and yourself than you are capable of experiencing at this time.
How then can we nd clarity  about what is real and what is false
about your deepest longin g? The desire is false when your
personality wishes love and fulllment, perfection and happiness, or
pleasure and creative expansion without paying the price of strictest
self-confrontation. It is false when you do not assume the
responsibility for your prese nt state, or the state you long for. For
example, if you feel sorry for yourself because of your unfullled
life, and if you in any way blame others for your present state, no
matter how wrong those others may be, whether your parents, your
peers, your associates, or life as a whole, then you do not assume
responsibility. If this is the case, then in some way you also wish to
receive the new and better state as an unearned reward. You may
try to be a good little obedient follower of a powerful authority
gure in order to be rewarded. Since the reward in reality can never
come from the outside, no matter what you do, you must feel
disappointed, resentful, cheated, and angry, and you will resort
again and again to your old, destructive patterns that are in fact
responsible for the state that creates your unfullled longing.
The Realistic Longing
The longing is realistic when you start from the premise that the
clue to fulllment must lie in you; when you wish to nd the attitudes
in you that prevent you from experiencing life in a fullled and
meaningful way; when you interpret the longing as a message from
the core of your inner being, sending you on a path that helps you
to nd your real self.
However, when the inner message of longing is misinterpreted by
the negative, greedy, ungiving and demanding personality,
confusion sets in. The longing is then put into channels of
unrealizable fantasies of magic. You believe fulllment is supposedto be given to you, rather than attained through the courage and
honesty of looking at yourse lf as you now are, even at areas you
would rather avoid. If a life situation is painful and you react with
rage, complain ts, and other defenses against cleanly experiencing
this pain, you are not in truth about your present state. But if you
just let the pain be and feel it, without playing games like “it will
annihilate me,” or “it will last forever,” the experience will release
powerful creative energies to increasingly work for you in your life
and open the channels to your spiritual self. Feeling the pain will
also yield a deeper, fuller, and wiser understandin g of the
connections between cause and eect. For instance, you will see
how you attracted this particular pain. Such insight may not come
immediately, for the more you force it, the more it will elude you.
But it will come if you stop the inner ghting and resisting.
Do not abandon the longing itself. Take it seriou sly. In fact, cultivate
it and learn to understand it, so that you will follow its message and
take the inner  path to your core; go through that part which you
want to avoid, which is the real culprit solely responsib le for your
less than fullled and joyful state.
Do not abando n the longing that comes from the sense that your
life could be much more, that there is a state in which you can live
without painfu l, tortured confusions, where you can function on a
level of inner resilience, contentment, and security, where you are
capable of deep feelings, of blissful pleasure and can express them,
where you are capable of meeting life without fear because you no
longer fear yourself. You will, therefore, nd life, even its problems,
a joyful challenge. If your inner problems can become a challenge
that gives spice to your life, the ensuing peace will be all the more
sweet. The tackling of these problems will give you a sense of your
own strength, resourcefulness, and creative ability. You will feel the
spiritual self owing through your veins, in your thoughts, in your
vision and your perceptions, so that decisions will be made from the
center of your being. When you live this way, occasional outer
problems are the salt of your life and become almost pleasurable.
But the times of outer problems will become less frequent, and
peaceful, joyous, creative living will become the norm.Learning to Endure the State of Bliss
Right now, the saddest part of your longing is that deep inside
you know how your own body and soul are not even capable of
accepting and sustaining intense pleasure at this time. Pleasure
exists on all levels: spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental.
However, spiritual pleasure, separated from the levels of everyday
functioning, is an illusion, because true spiritual bliss encompasses
the total personality. The personality must therefore learn to endure
a state of bliss.  This it cannot  do unless it learns to endure whatever
is locked inside the psyche now: pain, meanness, malice, hate,
suering, guilt, fear, terror. All these must be transcen ded. Then


 - are somewhat less well-known.   Until the frequency/information dimension of non-
visible  electromagnetic radiation (microwaves and
other non-propagating electric and m agnetic fields
such as those from overhead power lines) - is recognised in its own right, these fields will
constitute a potential threat to all living organisms.
 Since electromagnetic fields are indispensable to  technology that Society is reluctant to abandon,  more comprehensive protection should be developed.  As  explained, we are currently  vulnerable to adverse health effects that might be

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 provoked by non-thermal effects of the frequency
dimension, which escapes regulation by the existing intensity-based Safety Guidelines.    Unlike intensity, the frequency aspect of the problem cannot be addressed without interfering with the frequency characteristics and informational content of the aggressing field (the integrity of which must,  of course, be maintained in communication technologies, such as GSM
telephony). We need therefore to consider
strategies that do not target the field, but rather the person being irradiated, and devise ways to provide a higher degree of immunity than at present.   Such strategies are currently under development, and a number of related protection devices are already available commercially, although often their efficacy has not always been adequately demonstrated.  (There is an obvious parallel here with the pharmacological strategy of attempting to protect against bacterial infection by taking vitamin C, for example, to fortify the immune system,
rather than wearing a protective mask to simply
reduce the intensity of the bacterial field to which the person is exposed.)   The competence of existing Safety Guidelines could be broadened by extending the familiar consideration of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC ) between electromagnetic radiation and
electronic instrumentation to the living human
organism, as an electromagnetic instrument itself,
par excellence.  An ambitious programme  of
electromagnetic biocompatibility  is an important
task for the 21
st century, and one that is shirked
only at our peril.  There is currently much public concern over  possible adverse health effects provoked by long or short term exposure to electrosmog. This concern focuses especially on overhead power lines and  GSM  telephony.  Quite justifiably, the
public remains sceptical of attempts at
reassurance by government and industry, particularly given the unethical way in which they often operate symbiotically so as to promote vested interests, often under the brokerage of the  regulatory bodies whose function it supposedly is to ensure that the safety of the public is not
compromised by electromagnetic exposure!
 Given recent experience with official duplicity over BSE/CJD  – with the initial assurances of no risk
and subsequent revelations of cover-ups - the
public is now understandably wary of safety assurances from ‘official’ government scientific sources w.r.t. electromagnetic pollution. This scepticism is enhanced when views contrary to
official perceived wisdom is, at worst silenced or, at best, studiously ignored.  Public scepticism is further exacerbated by reports of research supported financially by the Mobile Phone Industry and of its attempts to ‘persuade’ those whose findings might damage market development to actually alter their results  to make
them more ‘market friendly’.
 There is currently an attempt (under the aegis of the World Health Organisation) to globally ‘harmonise’ exposure standards, by persuading countries with more stringent limits – such as Russia and China - to relax them in favour of the higher levels tolerated in the West.   It can be no coincidence that in Russia, where the frequency-specific sensitivity of living or ganisms to
ultra-low intensity microwave radiation was first discovered over 30 years ago, that the exposure guidelines (even if applied in theory, rather than in practice) are still 100 times more stringent that those of ICNIRP!

There is a regrettable tendency to attribute market–friendly research a greater significance, publicity and profile than non-market friendly research, which suggest the possibility of adverse health impacts.  An example of this is provided by the recent publication of a USA epidemiological study, in which the statistically significant finding of an elevated risk amongst users of mobile phones of the incidence of a rare kind of tumour (epithelial neuroma) in the periphery of the brain – precisely
where there is maximum penetration of radiation from the mobile phone  (the laterality of which also
correlated with phone usage) - was glossed over
and completely escaped the attention of the media, who focused instead on the  finding that there was no overall  increase in the incidence of
brain tumours amongst mobile phone users.
 The mainstream scientific approach to assessing the harm of human exposure to electromagnetic fields is guided by an essentially linear  perception,
which might well be adequate to deal with thermal
effects, but is  inappropriate for realistic consideration of the non-thermal, frequency-specific vulnerability of the living organism to the rather coherent electromagnetic fields.   In contrast to thermal effects, non-thermal influence necessarily depends on the state of the organism when it is exposed.This of course varies not only between different  individuals, but  also for
the same  individual, depending on his/her
condition at the time of exposure – i.e. such

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 influences are inherently non-linear in nature.  As
such, they often appear bizarre from a linear
standpoint. In addition, difficulties in i ndependently
replicating in experiments tends to lead to their dismissal.   Attempts to address a problem that is inherently non-linear from a linear perspective only exacerbate things: outdated knowledge is worse than ignorance - at least the ignorant know what they do not know!    In the case of the mobile phone issue, not only has there been a reluctance on the part of official bodies to grasp this non-linear ‘nettle’, but a lamentable failure to pay attention to  indications of the harm to humans and animals caused by exposure to pulsed microwave fields of sub-thermal intensity that have been long available from experience with microwave installations (not least military ones) similar to those used in GSM
telephony.
 It is not so much that, in the haste to make this new and valuable technology available, the  necessary safety research has been bypassed or compromised, but rather - and more repr ehensibly
- that already available indications that the technology is potentially less than safe have been,
and continue to be, studiously ignored, both by the
industry and by national and international
regulatory bodies.      A good example of this is afforded by the conduct of the UK National Radiological Protection Board, which was ‘unable’ to provide the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones ( IEGMP ) - for
whom they were acting as the Secretariat - with
certain highly relevant published papers, on the grounds that they could not ‘find’ them, despite having been provided with the full references by at least two individuals who gave evidence to the IEGMP, and curiously having had no difficulty in
providing less significant papers from the same
issue  of the journal!

The concern of the public is thus not unfounded, and the irony of the present situation w.r.t mobile phones and  base-stations is that current Safety Guidelines afford greater protection to electronic instrumentation than they do to human beings!    There is a lack of  expert consensus on the significance and credibility of research into biological effects of GSM-type radiation and  possible adverse health reactions in susceptible people (despite many consistent, anecdotal positive reports).
 It is probably true to say that if the same lack of concensus and level of concern surr ounded a new
drug or foodstuff, it would never be licensed.  Of particular concern to the public – and  generating the most outrage – is the involuntary subjection of certain groups of the population 24 hours/day, 7 days/week to the emissions of GSM
base-stations, when they are insensitively sited
near to homes, schools and hospitals.  The environment of these people is permanently  and unavoidably polluted.This is a totally unacceptable state of affairs, which raises serious ethical questions, and arguably contravenes the Nuremberg Code, in that it is these people who will
eventually reveal the degree to which chronic exposure to such fields is noxious – information
that is not currently available : in other words, they
are effectively involuntary subjects in a mass
experiment.   This study offers a perspective on the potential implications for human health of exposure to the pulsed microwave radiation currently used in GSM
telephony, which differs somewhat from that
currently espoused by mainstream science, but one that provides a much more holistic insight into the essential elements of the problem.  Of particular importance is the emphasis given to (i) the fact that electromagnetic fields are not alien
to living organisms, but play a crucial role in
controlling and maintaining their orderly functions – i.e. that a living organism is an electromagnetic
instrument of great and exquisite sensitivity.
(ii) the subjectiveness of human vulnerability,
which necessarily follows from the inherently non-
linear nature of the problem, which is here recognised ab initio,  and
(iii) the presence of ELF features both in the
microwave pulses emitted by the antenna of a
mobile phone and in the (much more penetrating)
magnetic field associated with the surges of
electric current from the battery of the handset, which are necessary for the generation of the microwave pulses.    Indeed, it is here suggested that it is precisely through the presence of these ELF features that
the emissions of a GSM  phone and other related
communication technologies, such as TETRA, can
influence brain function - notably, its
electromagnetic activity (brain-waves), its electrochemistry (including that of the neuroendocrine system, particularly with respect to melatonin levels) and the permeability of the blood-brain barrier, as well as altering cellular

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 calcium ion concentrations.  It is possible that this


 supposed to be the proper
drip. But it was much too fast for safety so  I rang for the nurse, since he was sedated.
When she didn't show, I got out of bed and adjusted it for him. When the bottle was
empty, a new one was attached and a new needle inserted into his vein. But it was, by
mistake, inserted into his arm muscle. I noticed, as time went by, his arm was almost
as big as a football.
   I rang for the nurse. She didn't come. So I got out of bed, pulled the needle out,
applied a tourniquet and inserted the needle into the vein where it belonged. No one ever knew.
   While I was hospitalized, I underwent the usual blood and urine tests, stool
analyses, and proctosigmoidoscope exams. But now I was to undergo another diagnostic procedure known in the trade as the upper and lower GI (gastro-intestinal)
series. This test is done on two separate days. One day is devoted to the upper, where
a glass or two of barium meal is swallowed while standing behind a fluoroscope
screen as the radiologist watches the substance passing through the upper digestive
system outlining the stomach and upper intestines and showing any discrepancies in
the anatomy. No abnormalities appeared during this phase of the examination. The
next day I was given the second half of th e series called the lower GI or barium
enema. This is preceded, as was the upper GI, by taking castor oil and taking an enema the night before. Do you have any idea what happens when, in suffering from
intestinal spasm and diarrhea, you swallow castor oil and take an enema? Let's for the sake of brevity, call it an intestinal explosion. The lower GI phase now takes place,
which is the infusion of barium by enema, enough to fill all six feet of the large
intestine. I was instructed to "hold it all in" while being turned in various positions for
fluoroscopy and x-ray studies. If I were to make a short list of the most difficult things
I have had to cope with in life, trying to hold in that barium while the diseased intestine was going into spasmodic contraction to force it out would rank high on that
list. The physical, mental, and emotional battle that went on during this examination
left me totally weakened and exhausted for two days, which further aggravated my
condition.
   The results of the lower GI examination showed conclusively the presence of
ulcerative colitis. The colon exhibited the.ty pical stovepipe appearance, the loss of
haustrations (saculations), and resembled a narrow, straight tube. Ulcerations of the
intestinal lining were apparent, as were  a few polyps (small outgrowths that can
become cancerous) which were fortunately able to be snipped out through a subsequent sigmoidoscope procedure.
   After the two weeks in the hospital, there was some improvement, but we must
remember that when one is young enough and the disease is in its early stages, there is
periodic improvement coupled with periodic flare-ups, until eventually there are more
flare-ups than improvements and the disease becomes chronic and crippling. This is why colitis or ulcerative colitis is termed a disease of remissions and exacerbations,
and medical treatment is symptomatic treatment. The body is poisoned with drugs.
Causes are not removed and the body is ne ver left alone, never given the proper
environment to heal itself. Remember that healing is not an art but a biological
process that takes place from within the body and nothing from the outside will heal. The body, through its innate power, constantly strives at all costs to maintain
homeostasis (balance of all body functions in  spite of anything that tends to disturb
these functions). Therefore, the more interference with bodily function, the quicker is
the approach of the chronic debilitating and crippling diseases of man.
   Now came a period of apparent improvement. There were ups and downs through
the balance of 1958 and into 1959 and 1960, and in my mind I thought soon the
disease would abate. How wrong I was! It was a pseudo improvement--the calm before the storm.
   I was seeing Dr. Leopold regularly every few weeks. Minor dietary changes were
made at intervals, but I was still in the realm of "baby food." The doses of the many
drugs were adjusted from time to time--sometimes lowered, sometimes increased--but I continued to take them to maintain a constant level of these drugs in my blood.
   There was, so far, a modicum of normalcy in my family, professional, and social
life. The disease had not created that debility  as yet. I still exercised a fairly decent
control and probably was "running" anywhere  from two to six times per day. Of
course, when I had the "urge" it had to be heeded and this began to bother me a little
psychologically. I didn't know it at this point, but the disease was to become a
veritable curse.    I recall an incident one night in the winter of 1960. I awoke suddenly. A wave of
fear came over me. My heart was skipping beats and pounding erratically. It felt as though it would come through my chest. I became light-headed and found myself
gasping for breath. I fought hard to avoid unconsciousness. Could this be the end? Is
this the way it feels? There was no pain. It was about 3:00 a.m. and I seemed to
remember stories of people I had known who had heart attacks. They always
experienced them about 2:00 a.m. or 3:00 a.m. As my fear increased, I decided to call my doctor. I apologized for waking him and told him what was happening. He
instructed me to call a cab and get right over to the hospital.
   "Don't even take time to get dressed," he ordered.    "I'll call the hospital and tell them you're on your way and they'll have everything
ready, so don't worry," he added.
   "Don't worry?" I laughed to myself. Ho w does one not worry about something like
this?
   The cab driver was at the door. I told him I'd be right out. I said goodbye to my
wife. She couldn't go with me since things had happened so fast and there was no way
to have someone stay with our infant son. Corinne was calm. She had an intuition
(and her intuitions turned out to be right over the years) that I was not having a heart
attack, and that, at least, made it a little easier for me as I walked out the door.
   It was a bitter cold night and snow was falling. A hell of a night to go out in
pajamas and bathrobe, I thought, as the cab started up. We were speeding, but time
dragged and it seemed we would never get to the hospital. Once there, I was led to a reception area where after some fifteen minut es wait (this seems typical in emergency
situations) I insisted on someone doing some thing. No sooner said than done. I was
ushered into another room resembling a business office where I came face to face, across a desk, with an efficient looking woman dressed in white. She coldly inquired
as to my type of medical insurance. I got the vibrations that a lengthy interview was
forthcoming and I wanted no part of it at that particular time, so I asked to be taken to
see a doctor. The lady in white stated she had to have certain information and then I
would be able to see the doctor, so she proceeded to obtain my address, profession, phone number, mother's maiden name, religion, and answers to a dozen or so more
questions. I almost thought she would ask me why I was there. More precious minutes
ticked away and finally the two giant swinging doors opened exposing an orderly who
guided me into an examining room and onto a table. At last, I thought, the doctor will
see me. Sure enough, about fifteen tension-filled minutes later a very young-looking intern strolled in and asked a battery of questions. He proceeded to examine me and
decided to give me an EKG ( electrocardiogram ) ; but guess what? That's right!
There was no EKG unit in the room. So out he went to locate one. More nervous
minutes passed until he returned with the apparatus. He proceeded to put the jelly on
the various parts of my body where the electrodes would be hooked up. After connecting me, he was ready to begin. The machine was plugged in, the switch was
thrown, but nothing happened. The intern jiggled the switch and made a few
adjustments, but still nothing happened. He went to get help while I became more
upset with the entire idea. Finally he returned with a young female intern and between
the two of them the EKG unit was finally activated, but they could not get the machine to record on the graph. They played with it for a number of minutes--the
blind leading the blind--until finally I could not contain myself any longer and got up and showed them how to work it, then I put myself back on the table while they made
the test. The results were negative. No evidence of any heart problem. Everything was
normal. But after a careful history was taken,  it was determined that the entire episode
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. My daughters had what Dr. G.T. Wrench called "a poor start." Not as poor as it could have been by any means, but
certainly less than ideal.
    You see, the father has very little to do with the health of the child, unle ss he happens to carry some particularly undesirable
gene. It is the mother who has the job of constructing the fetus out of prepartum nourishment and her own body's nutritional
reserves. The female body knows from instinctual experience that adequate nutr ition from the current food supply during
pregnancy can not always be assured, so the female body stores up very large quantities of minerals and vitamins and enzymes
against that very possibility. When forming a fetus these reserves are drawn down and dep leted. It is virtually impossible during
the pregnancy itself for a mother to extract sufficient nutrition from current food to build a totally healthy fetus, no matt er how
nourishing the food she is eating may be. Thus a mother -to-be needs to be spending her entire childhood and her adolescence (and
have adequate time between babies), building and rebuilding her reserves.
    A mother -to-be also started out at her own birth with a vitally important stock of nutritional reserves, reserves put there during
her own fetal development. If that "start" was less than ideal, the mother -to-be (as fetus) got "pinched" and nutritionally short -
changed in certain, predictable ways. Even minor mineral fetal deficiencies degrade the bone structure: the fetus knows it ne eds
nutritional reserves more than it needs to have a full -sized jaw bone or a wide pelvic girdle, and when deprived of maximum fetal
nourishment, these non -vital bones become somewhat smaller. Permanently. If mineral deficiencies continue into infancy and
childhood, these same bones continue to be short -changed, and the child ends up with a very narrow face, a jaw bone far too small
to hold all the teeth, and in women, a small oven that may have trouble baking babies. More importantly, those nutrient reser ves
earmarked especially for making babies are also deficient. So a deficient mother not only shows certain structural evidence o f
physiological degeneration, but she makes deficient babies. A deficient female baby at birth is unlikely to completely overco me
her bad start before she herself has children.
    So with females, the quality of a whole lifetime's nutrition, and the life -nutrition of her mother (and of her mother's mother as
well) has a great deal to do with the outcome of a pregnancy. The sins of  the mother can really be visited unto the third and fourth
generation.
    This reality was powerfully demonstrated in the 1920s by a medical doctor, Francis Pottenger. He was not gifted with a good
bedside manner. Rather than struggling with an unsuccess ful clinical practice, Dr. Pottenger decided to make his living running a
medical testing laboratory in Pasadena, California. Dr. Pottenger earned his daily bread performing a rather simple task, ass aying
the potency of adrenal hormone extracts. At that ti me, adrenaline, a useful drug to temporarily rescue people close to death, was
extracted from the adrenal glands of animals. However, the potency of these crude extracts varied greatly. Being a very power ful
drug, it was essential to measure exactly how st rong your extract was so its dosage could be controlled.
    Quantitative organic chemistry was rather crude in those days. Instead of assaying in a test tube, Dr. Pottenger kept several  big
cages full of cats that he had adrenalectomized. Without their o wn adrenals, the cats could not live more than a short time By
finding out how much extract was required to keep the cats from failing, he could measure the strength of the particular batc h.
    Dr. Pottenger's cats were economically valuable so he made e very effort to keep them healthy, something that proved to be
disappointingly difficult. He kept his cats clean, in airy, bright quarters, fed them to the very best of his ability on past eurized
whole milk, slaughterhouse meat and organs (cats in the wild eat organ meats first and there are valuable vitamins and other
substances in organ meats that don't exist in muscle tissue). The meat was carefully cooked to eliminate any parasites, and t he diet
was supplemented with cod liver oil. However, try as he mig ht, Pottenger's cats were sickly, lived short and had to be frequently
replaced. Usually they bred poorly and died young of bacterial infections, there being no antibiotics in the 1920s. I imagine  Dr.
Pottenger was constantly visiting the animal shelter an d perhaps even paid quarters out the back door to a steady stream of young
boys who brought him cats in burlap sacks from who knows where, no questions asked.
    Dr. Pottenger's assays must have been accurate, for his business grew and grew. Eventually he  needed more cats than he had
cages to house, so he built a big, roofed, on -the-ground pen outdoors. Because he was overworked, he was less careful about the
feeding of these extra animals. They got the same pasteurized milk and cod -liver oil, but he did n ot bother to cook their
slaughterhouse meat. Then, a small miracle happened. This poorly cared for cage of cats fed on uncooked meat became much
healthier than the others, suffering far fewer bacterial infections or other health problems. Then another mira cle happened. Dr.
Pottenger began to meditate on the first miracle.
    It occurred to him that cats in the wild did not cook their food; perhaps cats had a digestive system that couldn't process o r
assimilate much out of cooked food. Perhaps the problem h e had been having was not because the cats were without adrenal
glands but because they were without sustenance, suffering a sort of slow starvation in the midst of plenty. So Dr. Pottenger  set up
some cat feeding experiments.
    There were four possible combinations of his regimen: raw meat and unpasteurized milk; raw meat and pasteurized milk;
cooked meat and raw milk; cooked meat and pasteurized milk, this last one being what he had been feeding all along. So he
divided his cats into four groups and fed  each group differently. The first results of Pottenger's experiments were revealed quickly
though the most valuable results took longer to see. The cats on raw meat and raw milk did best. The ones on raw meat and
pasteurized milk did okay but not as well.  The ones on cooked meat and raw milk did even less well and those on all cooked food
continued to do as poorly as ever.
    Clearly, cats can't digest cooked food; all animals do better fed on what they can digest. A lot of people have taken Potteng er's
data and mistakenly concluded that humans also should eat only raw food. This idea is debatable. However, the most important
result of the cat experiments took years to reveal itself and is not paid much attention to, probably because its implication s are very
depressing. Dr. Pottenger continued his experiments for several generations. It was the transgenerational changes that showed  the
most valuable lesson. Over several generations, the cats on all raw foods began to alter their appearance. Their faces go t wider,
their pelvic girdles broader, bones solider, teeth better. They began to breed very successfully.
    After quite a few generations, the healthiest group, the one on all raw foods, seemed to have improved as much as it could. S o
Dr. Pottenger too k some of these cats and began feeding them only cooked food to study the process of nutritional degeneration.
After three "de"generations on cooked fodder the group had deteriorated so much that the animals could barely breed. Their fa ces
had become narro w, their teeth crooked, their pelvic girdles narrow, their bones and body structure very small, and their
dispositions poor. Mothers wouldn't nurse their young and sometimes became cannibalistic. They no longer lived very long.
    Before the degenerating group completely lost the ability to breed, Pottenger began to again feed them all raw food. It took four
generations on a perfect, raw food diet before some perfect -appearing individuals showed up in the group. It takes longer to repair
the damage than it  does to cause it and it takes generations of unflagging persistence.
    I think much the same process has happened to humans in this century. With the invention of the roller mill and the consequen t
degradation of our daily bread to white flour; with the  birth of industrial farming and the generalized lowering of the nutritional
content of all of our crops; our overall ratio of nutrition to calories worsened. Then it worsened again because we began to have
industrial food manufacturing and national brand prepared food -marketing systems; we began subsisting on devitalized, processed
foods. The result has been an even greater worsening of our ratio of nutrition to calories.
    And just like Pottenger's cats, we civilized humans in so -called advanced countr ies are losing the ability to breed, our
willingness (or the energy) to mother our young; we're losing our good humor in the same way Pottenger's degenerated cats
became bad tempered. As a group we feel so poorly that we desperately need to feel better fas t, and what better way to do that than
with drugs. Is it any


If the forgetting or ignoring of our essential self is the veiling of our innate hap -
piness and the ultimate cause of psychological suffering, then the remembrance
or clear knowledge of our essential self is the means by which this forgetfulness
or ignorance is removed  and our innate peace and happiness revealed.  you are the happiness you seek
     If someone believes they have covid-19, they may take a test. If the test
comes back negative, their ignorance of their state of health is simply re -
moved. The removal of ignorance cannot be said to be the cause of their good
health. It simply allows what is already the case to be fully acknowledged.
Likewise, the recognition of our true nature is not the  cause  of happiness;
it is simply the removal of the ignorance of our true nature. It is the uncover -
ing of our being, whose nature is happiness itself.
     Meditation is the relaxing of the focus of our attention from its content,
the disentangling of our self from the drama of experience, and the sub -
sequent emergence of our essential nature of silent awareness.
     It is simply the process whereby our essential nature or being is revealed,
after it is divested of all the qualities or characteristics that it acquires from
experience. Instead of allowing our attention to become mixed with the con -
tent of experience, we trace it back in the opposite direction. In the absence
of anything to hold on to, attention can no longer stand and is dissolved
in its source of pure awareness.
     This recognition of the essential nature of our self is traditionally referred
to as enlightenment, awakening, salvation or satori. However, enlightenment
is not an extraordinary, mystical or exotic experience. In fact, it is not an ob -
jective experience at all. Somebody once asked the Zen teacher Shunryu Su -
zuki why he never spoke of his enlightenment experience, and his wife, who
was sitting at the back of the hall, stood up and said, ‘Because he never had
one!’ Our essential being or true nature of pure awareness simply ceases to
be veiled or ‘endarkened’ by experience and, as a result, stands revealed.

direct and indirect paths

This return to our being, which is referred to in many different ways in
the religious and spiritual traditions, constitutes the essence of meditation.
It is sometimes referred to as the Direct Path, as it is the means by which we
go directly to the happiness that is the nature of our being, rather than via
an object such as a mantra, the breath or a teacher.
     Ramana Maharshi referred to it as ‘sinking the mind into the heart’. Jesus
referred to it as ‘entering into thy closet, closing thy door and praying to thy
Father, who is in secret’, that is, returning one’s attention to one’s being and
resting there quietly, all alone.
34the essence of meditation
     This return to our being and its inherent peace is often initiated by an
investigation, and hence its name, self-enquiry. However, once the enquiry
has brought about the letting go of everything with which we normally ident -
ify our self, no further investigation is required. Self-enquiry gives way to
self-abiding, self-remembering or simply resting in being, as being.
     It is in this self-resting that the unlimited and inherently peaceful nature
of our being reveals itself, either gradually or suddenly. The memory of our
eternity emerges, not from the past but from the depths of our being, where
it is lying quietly all the time.
     Thus, the essence of meditation is simply to be aware of being. And as
we are always aware of simply being, meditation ultimately is not something
we do. It is what we are.

In the context of this understanding, what is the purpose of meditations that
involve focusing our attention on something like a mantra, an image, a flame,
the breath or the pause between breaths?

Many of us are so accustomed to giving our attention exclusively to the con -
tent of experience that bringing our attention back to rest in the heart of
awareness may, initially, be too much of a confrontation. The gravitational
pull of thoughts and feelings, the experience of the body and world, and the
demand of activities and relationships is simply too strong.
     So, as a compassionate concession to such a mind, the religious and spiri -
tual traditions suggest a compromise whereby they give the mind an object
on which to focus, by way of preparation for its ultimate subsidence in the
heart of awareness. Such an object is a half-way stage between the finite mind
and its essence.
     In this case, the mind which is usually dispersed amongst the objects of
experience is brought to settle on a single object. Not only does this bring
the disparate energies of the mind to rest, but it also infuses the mind with
the particular quality of the object itself.

For instance, a mantra, although it may be only a single syllable, is the dis -
tilled essence of centuries of understanding and is considered, as such, to
contain this understanding encoded within it. Not only does the repetition
of such a sound bring the mind to rest on a single object, but the pre-verbal
35you are the happiness you seek
understanding that lies within it, in the form of a subtle vibration, gradually
permeates the mind, infusing it with its innate intelligence.
     The same principle lies behind the power of music. Rock music has the
capacity to arouse and articulate instinctive impulses in the body. Folk music
can awaken the deepest longing in our hearts. And in listening to Bach or
Beethoven, one may intuit that the very structure of the universe is being re -
vealed in a way that can never be grasped by the narrow compass of the mind.
     It is no coincidence that in classical Greek thought, the Logos or Word
is considered the first form of divine love and intelligence, through which it
manifests as the universe. Conversely, music in general, and a mantra in par -
ticular, are means by which we may return to this love and intelligence.
     The object could also be the breath. It is significant that in Latin both
the word spiritus,  from which our word ‘spirit’ is derived, and the word
anima, which refers to the soul or individual, can be translated as ‘breath’ or
‘breathing’. Thus, the breath was seen as the principle in a living being which
connects it to its divine or universal origin.
     Focusing attention on the breath is considered a powerful practice be -
cause it not only steadies the mind but also infuses it with its transparency,
thereby preparing it for its final dissolution in the emptiness of awareness.

Some traditions recommend that in meditation we give attention to an
image of our teacher, and that in life in general we devote ourself to the
person of the teacher. Entering into such a devotional relationship obviously
has many potential pitfalls, but let us briefly consider the understanding
that lies behind it.
     If correctly understood, the teacher is not a person as such but rather
the impersonal functioning of love and intelligence. In giving one’s atten -
tion to a teacher, such as the Buddha, Jesus or Ramana Maharshi, one is
placing one’s own mind in their mind, thereby clothing the individual
mind in the divine mind, until, through continual acquaintance, it becomes
subsumed by it. In the Sufi tradition it is referred to as ‘clothing oneself in
the teacher’.
     I first met Francis Lucille in 1996  and immediately recognised that he
would be the person to guide me to the recognition of my true nature. That
is, he became my teacher and, later on, a close friend. For many years we
used to host retreats for him in our home in Shropshire, and at the end of
36the essence of meditation
one such retreat I found that he had left one of his tee shirts in my bedroom
drawer. I immediately recognised it as a symbol of the unique quality of
friendship that develops between a teacher and student, which often requires
no verbal or formal acknowledgement.
     These examples are just some of the ways the religious and spiritual tradi -
tions have used the object-facing tendency of the mind as a means whereby
the mind itself may be divested of its objective content and its essence of
pure awareness revealed.
     Many of us also enact these sacred rituals in our homes without necess -
arily realising it. A vase of flowers on the mantelpiece, a bowl on the table,
a carefully prepared meal, a painting on the wall: all such objects are invita -
tions to the mind to return from its adventure in the past and future to the
sanctity of the now, in which we stand at one with our experience, divested
of the subject –object relationship.

If we are to find the peace and happiness for which we long above all else,
we must, in one way or another, directly or indirectly, disentangle our self
from the content of experience and recognise our essential, uncoloured,
unqualified being.
     Until recently, the Direct Path that is being suggested here was not widely
available, or if it was, it was couched in language that made it seem complex
and unattainable. For this reason alone, many of us started on an indirect
path.
     During the first conversation I ever had with Francis, he asked me how
I had come by my great


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Slow to build muscle

Now you can start to see how weight gain can affect
various
people
differently with regard to body types and
varying metabolisms
.HOW DOES OBESITY AFFECT HEALTH?

High blood pressure is directly related to obesity or an
overweight
condition
. In addition, it can adversely affect the balance
of cholesterol
 and
triglycerides, including resistance to insulin.  Because of the vast number
of medical conditions
developed through
 obesity, the effects of obesity are
somewhat confusing.

Infertility, skin problems, chronic musculoskeletal problems,
and
respiratory
 complications are some additional nonfatal
, debilitating
 health
issues. There are four major areas of
serious life
-threatening problems
resulting from obesity:

1.

cardiovascular disease;
2.

insulin resistance conditions that cause diabetes;
3.

large-bowel and hormonally-related cancers plus additional types
of
cancers; and
4.

serious gallbladder issues. Increasing body fat percentage also
increases the likelihood
of developing
 hypertension and Type 2
diabetes.
 Diabetes
has primarily
 been associated with older adults, but now this
disease attracts
 even obese prepubescent children.  Of the 90 percent
of
overweight
 or obese people suffering with diabetes, 86
percent have
 Type
2, and it is rapidly becoming a word-wide problem.

Raised BMI and
increased risk
 of several forms of
cancer
(
including
breast, prostrate, gallbladder, kidney and colon)
show up
 in one out ofevery three adults over 50 years of age. A
major disabling
 disease in
adults is osteoarthritis and can be caused
by obesity
 and being chronically
overweight.
Fortunately, obesity and its related diseases are reversible and
are
slowing
 being brought under control. They can eventually
be completely
eradicated by changing one
’
s lifestyle and
eating habits
, drinking plenty of
distilled water daily, and with
periodic fasting
 under professional care.

CHAPTER 9
Distilled Water Helps Burn Fat

Distilled water not only helps to metabolize the fat stored in
the body
, it also
will help to suppress your appetite better than
any diet
 pill on the market
today. Pure, clean water not only aids
in weight
 loss, it also helps prevent
your body from gaining weight.
When your body is dehydrated and not receiving
adequate quantities
 of
water for normal bodily functions, the body will
start storing
 water as a
protective measure, and it does so in the
fat cells
. When the body is
starved of water, instead of
metabolizing fat
 with the help of water, it will
start storing water and fat.
Our kidneys
 cannot function adequately without
the proper
quantity of
 water; consequently a portion of their load is
transferred to
the liver
. Metabolizing stored fat and converting it into
energy is
the primary
 function of our liver. As a result, the overloaded
liver
cannot
 function properly or at full capacity by metabolizing fat
; and
 the fat
that is not used as energy is stored in the body.

The Body in Survival Mode

If you are not supplying your body with an adequate quantity
of water
, it will
perceive this as a threat to the body
’
s survival.
It begins
 storing water in
the fat cells, causing the ankles, feet,
legs and
 hands to swell and puff up.
You can actually press against
the swollen
 area with a finger and leave a
temporary indentation.
In this
 process the body will begin storing as much
water as it
is supplied
, and unfortunately the water the body is storing is
not being
 used. Therefore the organs may start pulling water
from less
critical bodily functions, which can result in many
serious conditions
 such
as:

     1. Heat
 stroke
2.

extremely dry mouth and nose
3.

extremely dry skin, no elasticity
4.

extreme thirst & no sweat no
5.

urination or dark yellow urine
6.

accelerated heartbeat sunken eyes
7.

accelerated breathing
8.

no tears when crying fever & possible delirium or even
unconsciousness.
 The only way to rid the body of these symptoms is to drink plenty
of water.
The body will stop storing water and begin supplying it with much needed
hydration. Then the stored water will be released. If you feel you are
drinking an adequate amount of water and yet seem to be retaining it due
to swollen feet, ankles, legs, arms or hands, this may be the result of
ingesting too much salt.

Your system will attempt to dilute excess quantities of salt which results in
swollen tissues. To solve this issue, simply drink plenty of water,
preferably distilled or reverse osmosis.

The larger a person is, the more water they require for their metabolic
processes. So an overweight person obviously would need to drink larger
quantities of water for their metabolism than would a thinner person. If you
seem to have frequent muscle cramps, it is a sign that your muscles are
not receiving enough water to stay elastic and maintain proper muscle
tone.

Another sign of dehydration is dry skin that seems to have lost its
resilience and ability to spring back when pinched between two fingers.

  Ridding the Body of Waste
Another major function of water is to help rid the body of waste material. As
the body starts shedding fat cells after receiving an adequate supply of
water, these metabolized fat cells along with residual waste material must
be eliminated. It is therefore important that the body received plenty of
water in order to help flush the waste material from the body.

Move Waste Material
through
 the ColonTo move waste material through the colon, it needs a continual supply of
water for this process, and if that does not happen you will become
constipated. If you are not drinking enough water, the colon is one of the
first organs to be deprived of its share. When this happens, you simply
need to drink more water, not take medication.

Drinking 3 to 4 Quarts of Water Daily
The average person should be drinking 3 to 4 quarts of water daily to
adequately supply all of the body
’
s needs and to flush waste and toxins
from the colon, kidneys and bladder. The best way to accomplish this is to
have a bottle of water close by throughout the day and drink a little bit
often. This will assure that you will not only stay hydrated, the water in
your stomach will help suppress hunger.

When
the
 Body Is Properly Hydrated
When the body is properly hydrated, every organ will function properly.
You will also prevent water retention and any stored water will be released.
The liver will properly metabolize stored fat and this fat  will be used as fuel
and burned up. Then you will again have normal thirst and normal hunger.

 CHAPTER 10
Cooking With
Distilled Water

Fresh-baked Sour Dough Artisan Bread with several additional-
optional ingredients
…
Do you consider yourself an average cook, a good cook, a great cook or
even a Master Chef? Regardless of where your culinary skills fall, I can
show you how to take it up a notch, both your skills and your belt.
So what
’
s the great secret about distilled water? Well, there are several
reasons why the quality of your dishes will improve by utilizing distilled
water in their preparation – especially if you’re currently using tap water. Cooking and Baking with Tap Water

Imagine that you were about to bake fresh bread such as in the recipe
listed below
…
You have everything you need for this task organized and laid
out on
 the
kitchen counter. Suddenly a complete stranger strolls in and begins adding
unknown ingredients to the mixing bowl, then leaves. You had noticed a
skull and crossbones label clearly displayed on every one of the
ingredients. What would you think and how would you react? Would you
simply ignore what you know, bake the bread and eat it? Those additional
ingredients are listed in the recipe below.

Fresh-baked Sour
Dough Artisan Bread
1 cup warm water
1 pkg active yeast
1 tsp salt
1-1/2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp shortening
¼ cup milk
3 cups flour

Additional: Optional* Ingredients
 arsenic to flavor
nitrates & pesticides
pinch of pharmaceuticals
bacteria, viruses, cysts
all-purpose chemicals
tsp heavy metals & lead
fold in 1 cup decayed plant & animal matter
chlorine to taste
sprinkle of THMs, HAAS, chlorite, bromate

 So you wouldn
’
t eat the bread? Actually, when you use the
tap
water
 from
almost any city water supply for any recipe, you
need to
 know that those
additional “optional” ingredients
will be
added
 if
 you use tap water.

So what is the point? If you don
’
t want
extra harmful
, cancer-causing
grossness added to your foods,
prepare them
 with distilled water, baking
and cooking. You can
actually expect
 the food to taste more like it is
sup


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van der Kroon, Kinkerstraat 82-C, 1053 EA Amsterdam, The Netherlands, tel/fax:+ 31 20
683 5510, e-mail: cvdk@knoware.nl
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AND CARBON BIOXIDE INTO PURE OXYGEN FOR OUR BREATH
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WHILE BEING THE MOTHER'S GESTATION, EVERYONE HAS DRUNK URINE,
THE CASE IS THAT WE DON'T REMEMBER.
AT THREE MONTHS GESTATION BABY URINES 500 ML. DAILY AND DRINKS THIS URINE
WITHIN THE AMONIOTIC LIQUID. YOU CAN SEE IN THE SONOGRAMS HOW THE BABY
URINES AROUND, 15 TO 50 TIMES A DAY. THIS IS, HOW THE BABY GROWS,
DRINKING HIS OWN URINE UNTIL,
THE NINTH MONTH, WHEN THE BABY IS BORN IGNORE THIS,
SUCH A BEAUTIFUL CYCLE, IF THE PARENTS WOULDN'T BREAK THIS CYCLE,
SICKNESS WOULDN'T EXIST, BECAUSE THE BABY'S URINE CARRIER HIS OWN VACCINE
AND WAS THROW AWAY
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DRINK YOUR FIRST URINE, EVERY MORNING, BEFORE TAKING BREAKFAST,
AT LAST QUARTER GLASS FOR ANY KIND OF SICKNESS, THERE IS NO HARM,
IF YOU DRINK MORE, THIS LITTLE QUANTITY IS RECOMMENDED TO GET THE
GROSS FEELING IN OURSELVES, YOU CAN DRINK A WHOLE GLASS IF YOU
WOULD LIKE.
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DRINK WHOLE GLASS OF YOUR FIRST URINE DAILY m THE MORNINGS BEFORE
BREAKFAST, IF YOU WOULD LIKE, YOU CAN DRINK URINE ALL DAY.
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YOU CAN START FASTING NOW!!
THREE TO FOUR DAYS IN A ROW EVERY MONTH.
DON'T DRINK ANY ELEMENTS, ONLY URINE AND NATURAL WATER.
NO JUICES, NO FOOD, NOTHING ELSE. WOULD BE FINE,
ONLY IF YOU DRINK URINE AND ALL THE NATURAL WATER.
YOU WOULD LIKE TO OFFER THE FASTING SPIRITUALLY FOR GOD OUR
CREATOR, AND YOU WILL SEE THAT YOUR BODY WILL GET CURED FROM MOST
OF THESE DISEASES (GASTRITIS, ASMA, DIABETES, ULCERS, EPILEPSY,
CANCER AND H.I.V.)
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WE GET CURED BY ELEVATING OUR IMUNOLOGY SYSTEM OF OUR BODY
(OUR ANTI-BODIES).
CIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES:
THE URINE HAS MORE THAN 1000 CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES AS ANTIDOTES,
ANTITOXINES, VITAMINS, HORMONES AND THE SUBSTANCES THAT
THE STIMULATION OF IGE, IGA, IN THIS WAY HEALTH IS REPROGRAMATED PRODUCING
ANTIDOTES, DNA FOR BRAIN IT ERASES THE MESSAGE PRODUCING A NEW HEALTH
PROGRAM AND MAKES A CHEMICAL PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL BALANCE IN MAN'S
ORGANISM.
AUTOVACCINE AN HOMEOPATIC PREPARATION
• HIPOCRATES DR. SAID:
• "THAT YOUR FOOD IS YOUR MEDICINE"
•
• AND ALSO HE SAID:
• ''YOUR MEDICINE IS YOUR FOOD"
•
• FEDERICH HOFFMAN DR.1660. GERMANY, SAID:"
• USEFULL FOR FAST IN EPILEPSIA, ULCERS, CATARACT & WICKED TUMORS.
•
• SAMUEL HAHNEMANN, 1755. INVESTIGATED AND FOUNDER OF HOMEOPATHY,
SEEKING SIMILIUM TO THE ILLNESS AND 600 ELEMENTS OF WORLD:
• "WE KNOW THAT THE TRUES/MILIUM, S/MIL/UM OF MAN IS THE URINE,
THEREFORE THE URINE CURE ALL THE ILLNESSES IN MAN'S ORGANISM'~
• TAKING OUR OWN URINE THAT IS AN HOMEOPA TIC PREPARED,
ACCORDIG TO THE POWER THAT GOD KNOWS THAT WE NEED.
IT IS ALSO AN AUTO VACCINE, BECAUSE ALL INGEST OWN INGEST CAUSES,
THE STIMULATION OF GLANDS IN OUR BODY. THE PINIAL GLAND IN BRAIN;
THE HIPOFISIS GLAND; THYROIDAL GLANDE AND THE SWINDLE
Interesting Case Histories of Urine Therapy
Urine Therapy is becoming popular all over the world, but slowly and steadily. Not everybody gets
the desired results, but there many, who claim that, they had no hopes from popular system, but
got amazing results when they took to urine therapy. It is surprising why some people get the
blessings of this miracle water, while other don't? while scientific data eludes many, the
movement of urine therapy goes on. Here are some of the stories of those who swear by this
precious fluid of the body.
52 Dr. V.P. Mehta, Mumbai
I am a qualified and experienced medical doctor with the highest degrees both in medicine and
surgery. On March 12, 1986,
I was diagnosed with cancer of the ary-epiglottic area (throat) with enlarged cervical lymph
nodes. After receiving chemotherapy and a course of cobalt therapy I was to be operated on.
Between August and October I tried UrineTherapy. By October 5, 1986,
my disease was under control and the proposed surgery was canceled.
I have not only recovered in a medical sense, but I am also leading a fully active professional life.
In other words, even the quality of my life has improved.
I feel the same zeal which I felt 30 years ago.
Dr. 0. New York
I was laughing and snickering in the back of the room.
After all, who would take anyone seriously talking about drinking one's own urine to heal any
disease! My main concern at the time was how I was going to handle this diagnosis of full-blown
AIDS and with what "spirituality" was I going to handle an oral, palatal Kaposi's sarcoma lesion
that was supposed to spread relentlessly throughout my body.
I was told just two months prior to this that the prognosis could be about two years more if I was
fortunate, and to seriously consider preparing a "living will."
For obvious reasons, I seemed to be much more tolerant to the idea of applying urine topically for
all sorts of conditions. My right foot was the epitome of necrosis.
For months doctors had prescribed many different medicated creams for a vicious case of
athlete's foot/ringworm. Nothing seemed to work.
After all, the root of the problem is the immune system not functioning at full capacity.
I couldn't wait to go home to put my own urine on the foot.
That evening was the first time in many months that the tingling itch did not drive me into a frenzy!
I actually got a full night of sleep. Not only did the ringworm condition totally disappear after a few
weeks, but the dry, cracked and painful skin all around my toes and bottom of the foot had totally
changed in colour and texture! New skin had grown in and was soft as a baby's.
It had a beautiful new flushed, almost orange-like color and it just did not appear to be my own
skin!
I anxiously began to research the field of autogenous fluids and, shortly thereafter decided that
recycling my urine was really a harmless form of auto-toleration based on theories
not much different than those in the science of homeopathy.
Drinking my urine was not that difficult, but deconditioning myself was the real chore.
I felt betrayed by society upon learning that our urine is not a poisonous, toxic and filthy
substance that our bodies so heroically expel. Since urine is filtered and cleansed blood,
and the blood is 95% water, how many dangerous substances can there really be in urine?
Starting with just a small ounce, I gradually began drinking my body's own distilled preparation
with respect instead of disgust. I then graduated to drinking up to 8 ounces daily.
Over the next 7 months


 having the
experience  o f being a perso n, but in the bigger picture it’ s not
who you are.
“It isn’ t the way it appears to be. Y ou aren’ t what you think
you are.”
Jan Frazier, fr om  The Freedom of Being
“Sometimes we’re tar geting the symptoms in life but the real
cause in life we’re missing—the understanding and
recognition of our true nature. This is the one medicine for
everything.”
Mooji
“All the unhappiness, disco ntent and misery that we
experience in our life is caus ed only by our ignorance or
confused knowl edge of who or what we really are. Therefore
if w e wa nt to be free of all forms of misery and unhappiness,
we must free ourself from our ignorance or confused
knowledge of what we really are.”
Michael James, fr om  Happiness and the Art of Being
Y our ga uge of how your life  is going is your level of
happiness. How happy are you? Are you genuinely happy all
of th e time? Do  you live within a continuous background of
happiness? Y ou’re supposed to be happy all the time.
Happiness is  you. It’ s your true nature. It’ s who you really are.
“The thi ng that every one of us is looking for in this world is
exactly the same thing. Every being, even the animals are
looking for it. And what is it that we’re all looking for—
happiness with no sorrow. A continuous happiness with no
taint whatsoever of sorrow.”
Lester Levenson, fr om  W ill Power audio
Every action we take, every dec ision we make, is because we
think we will b e happier from it. It’ s not a coincidence that
we’re all looking for happiness ; in our search for happiness,
we are actually looking for ourselves without realizing it!
It’ s not possible to find lasting happiness through material
things. Every material thing appears and eventually
disappears, so if you vest your happiness in a material thing,your happiness  will disappear when the material thing
disappears. There’ s nothing wro ng with material things (they
are won derful, and you deserve to have whatever you want in
life), but it’ s a major breakthrough when you realize that you’ll
never find lasting happiness in them. If material things brought
us happi ness, then when we receive something that we really
wanted, the happiness would n ever leave us. But it’ s not the
case. Instead, we experience a fl eeting happiness, and within a
very sho rt amount of time we ’re back to where we started
from—a state of wanting more things in an ef fort to feel happy
again.
There’ s only one way to find lasting, permanent happiness—it
is to  fin d out who you really ar e, because your true nature IS
happiness.
“The world is s o unhappy because it is ignorant of the true
Self. Man’ s real nature is happin ess. Happiness is inborn in the
true Self. Man’ s  search for happ iness is an unconscious search
for his true Self... When a ma n finds it, he finds a happiness
which does not come to an end.”
Ramana Maharshi
“The on ly real purpose of being here on this earth is to learn or
to re-remember our original natural state of no limitations.”
Lester Levenson, fr om  W ill Power audio
“The discovery of our true Self has the power to transform the
darkness of ignorance into the li ght of pure understanding. It is
the m ost profound, important an d radical discovery. It is a tree
that bears fruit immediately. When we realize who we are—
the one experiencing and perceiving the world—so many
things will be set right. There are not many things to know if
truth is what you seek. It’ s not volumes of knowledge that are
required—it’ s to come to the recognition of the one true Self
that you are.”
Mooji
Remembering w ho you really are has been given many names
over th e centuries. Enlighten ment, self-realization, self-
discovery, illumina tion, awakening, remembering. Y ou
probably think “enlightenment”  can’ t be for you (“I’m just anormal person”), but you couldn’ t be further from the truth.
This dis covery—this happiness, this freedom—is who you are,
so how can it not be for you?
“Open yourself to the possibilit y that you can experience the
truth  of what you are, this very mom ent. How, you may ask?
By noti cing that the only o bstacle in the way is your
imagination—your imagined opposition.”
My teacher
“W e are free, and we don’ t know it. It feels the furthest thing
from possible, that it could be  so. W e’d swear we’re at the
mercy of what g oes wrong, what goes right. And yet (here is
the truth), freedom is right here.”
Jan Frazier, fr om  The Freedom of Being
“Self-realization is possible f or someone who’ s had no
education and it can also be po ssible for a king. There are no
preconditions to  self-realization. Self-realization isn’ t just for
those w ho’ve under gone yea rs of spiritual practice—it’ s
possible for someone who’ s been drinking and smoking all the
time.”
David Bingham, fr om Conscious TV
What W ill Y our Life Be Like?
“I’m talking about something that hardly anyone has yet
experienced. How can I describe it? No limits on anything in
any direction whatsoever. The ability to do anything for the
mere thought of it. Y et it is more than that. Imagine the highest
joy you can have and multiply by a hundred.”
Lester Levenson, fr om  No Attachments, No A versions
When you fully recognize who you are, you will have a life
without problem s, without upset, hurt, worry, or fear. Y ou will
be f ree from t he fear of death and will never again be
controlled or tortured by your mind. False ideas and beliefs
will dis solve. In their place will be clarity, happiness, joy,
peace, infinite fun and wonder—every moment a delight. Y ou
will know you are safe and secure no matter what.“And when we recognize this... ultimate happiness is
established pe rmanently, and  forever. And with its
establishment comes immortality, unlimitedness,
imperturbable peace, total freed om, and everything else that
everyone is seeking.”
Lester Levenson, fr om  Happiness Is Free, volumes 1–5
When you fully recognize who y ou are, life becomes ef fortless
—everything you need seems to appear without any ef fort
from yo u. There ’ s an ease and a flow that take over your life.
A lif e of  lack and limitation is o ver forever. Y ou come to know
the ultimate power you have over everything in the world.
When you fully recognize who you are, suf fering and struggle
will be gone, a nd fear and negative emotions will dissolve.
The min d will quiet. Y ou will be filled with joy, positivity,
fulfillment, a sense of abundance, and an imperturbable peace.
This will be your life.
From the words of Jan Frazier, a mother and literary teacher:
“Imagine this: Whatever has weighed on you suddenly no
longer w eighs. It may still be there, a fact in your life, but it
has no mass, no gravity. All tha t has ever troubled you is now
just a feature of the landscape,  like a tree, a passing cloud.
Every bit of em otional and mental turmoil has ceased: the
entire bu rden, so me form of wh ich has been with you as long
as yo u can reme mber. A thing familiar as your closest friend—
as much  a part o f you as the language you speak, the color of
your skin—is utterly, inexplic ably gone. Into the startling
emptiness flows  a quiet joy that buoys you morning, noon, and
night, that goes everywhere you go, into any kind of
circumstance, even into sleep. Everything you undertake
happens ef fortlessly. Y ou are happy, but for no reason. Nothing
bothers you. Y ou feel no stress. When a problem arises, you
know what to do, you do it, and then you let it go. People that
used to  drive you crazy no longer do. While you feel
compassion for others’ suf ferin g, you don’ t suf fer yourself.
Activities that used to be tedious are fun. Y ou don’ t need
therapy; you don’ t get bored, an xious, or moody. Except when
needed for a task, your mind is at rest. Y our life is entirely
fulfilled—without your having t o do anything to fulfill it,...you know that no matter what challenge you are handed—for
the r est of your life—the peace will sustain. Never again will
you be afraid, desperate, lonely. Whatever comes your way,
this causeless joy will hold. Imagine it.”
Jan Frazier, fr om  When Fear Falls A way
This is your life with The Greatest Secret. This


. For
example, you go about your day using words as you speak and maybe as
you write, so the Holy Spirit will guide you through words to train the
mind to come back into true communion. The purpose of Spirit -inspired
communication is to go beyond the interpersonal communication to
communion with the One. The more you practice this, the more you let Spirit pour through
you and express  through you. You don’t hold back anymore. You start to
have an experien ce of an inner dialogue, as if you are teaching yourself,
as if there is nobody else in the universe but you. There is just one mind,
but that one mind has been forgotten and seems to have fragmented off
into billions of pieces that only know of the little personality self. In everything you do, let your practice become to see the body and
personality self as your means but never the “end goal.” When the body
and the person are the focus and are given too much attenti on, they
become the end rather than means. Let your mind be the end, your divine
mind, the mind that you truly are, the mind that thinks with God. The
whole purpose of life is to have a connected experience. Let your
intuition take charge. Your ego has been running the show for quite a
while without getting to what you really, truly want. It has been striving
—another goal, improving the body, another relationship—see king and
not finding. Now you can start allowing your mind to be the end and the
body the means  for this end in all your relationships and situations in
life. You can start to see that your body has only one purpose: to be a
communication device that the Spirit can use to expand your perception. Healing your mind deserves your full attention. If you let the body be
your communication device and if you don’t withhold any
communication, everything channels into one experience. In trusting and following the Holy Spirit, you are shown a sense of
intimacy and connection that is not dependent on bodies being together. Why does it sometimes feel so terrible when the bodies go apart? Separation anxiety happens when you believe that there can be a break in
communication. When you feel located in a body in a particular place in
space, you can feel very, very alone.Exercise: Feel Connected in Y our Communication
When you are ready to begin your next assignment, take your
usual few minutes to calm and quiet your mind. Take several deep
breaths, remembering your healing purpose, and invite the Holy
Spirit to be with you during this process. In this exercise, you are
going to look at fear of communication. When you feel ready to
look within, open your mind to the following steps:
1. Choose a current relationship where you are holding back
from communicating. Write down all the ways you hold
back. 2. Identify situations where you have opportunities to speak
up, share, or connect and still feel you hold back. Write
them down. 3. Are you willing to communicate how you really feel in order
to experience true connection? Write down your immedia te
response. If you notice any resistance or hesitation, be
honest about it and make notes. 4. Journal about the relationship : your thoughts, feelings, and
beliefs about yourself and the other. Don’t leave anything
out of your exploration. Include thoughts about a specific
situation if this comes to mind. 5. Write a list of all the things you would say to the perso n
involved. For the purpose of the exercise, don’t exclude
anything out of a belief that you need to be nice or hold up
a certain mask, for example. 6. Do you have any expectations about the other person’ s
response? Write them down. What responses do you fear? What responses do you hope for? 7. Are you willing to let go of your expectations and open to a
new perspective? Know that releasing your expectations isthe means to peace. Take time to go into this inquiry and
journal about your observations. 8. Open your mind to the light behind your perception of the
other person and remember your healing purpose. Take a
deep breath, welcome a prayerful state of mind, and relax. Ask the Spirit for guidance about what it is you are to do or
say to them and finally, give this relationship over to Him. Sharing Freely Is Loving
When you make  it a priority to follow the Holy Spirit’ s inspiration in
your heart and stay in full open communication with others and with
God, doubt and fear will start to disappear and not be reflected by other
people anymore. When you have integrity—when what you think, say,
and do, are in alignment—you are at peace. God created us in truth as love; therefore, this is the only thing that
we can truly share. Words of wisdom pour through you when you are in
communion with your Creator, whether that be with other people,
through the Internet, or anything that blesses.Chapter 13
Collaboration
Divine collaboration differs from  special relationships in every way, as it
holds the promise of a lived experience of relationship without
expectations at its core. It has a deep respect and an understan ding that
transcends the usual roles we play. It wants nothing from another, but
each person within a holy collaborative relationship is sharing something
that is deeply nurturing, leaving  each feeling full and grateful. These are
the relationship s that offer an experience of joining with something
much greater. Collaborative Assignments for Deeper Alignment
with Spirit
Once you have made the decision to make healing the goal for your
relationships, the Holy Spirit provides the means for it to happen. There
is a divine plan available for our worldly interpersonal relationships,
though this plan is generally hidden until our minds have reached a
certain maturity. The purpose of a collaborative relationship, as well as
of every assignment, is to learn as deeply as you can about who you truly
are. Healing through relationships comes in many forms. Some people
don’t feel intuitively guided or drawn in to an intimate or romantic
relationship since they have plenty of relationships in their daily life, at
work, and with friends and relatives. There are many different
assignments that we can use to align with the Holy Spirit, and couple
relationships can be major assignments. They are among the most potent
training grounds in this world.You need a sense of a shared purpose in relationship assignmen ts, a
commitment, that is always directed to the light and the healing. The
unconscious mind is filled with much darkness that has to be exposed. You need to go through the darkness to arrive at the light. It can seem
like a long, dark tunnel; sometimes you may wonder if there is light at
the end. The shared purpose is what sustains you as you move  through
the darkness to reach the light. It is not always  immediately obvious how a relationship can be
truly helpful. Sometimes two people are not even conscious of how
important it is that they be together. The relationships or assignments can
be very intense. If one or the other leaves the relationship, one should
not worry; the lesson will come back. It will be repeated, maybe with
another person. Because once readiness and willingness are in
alignment, we attract the mean s for what we need to heal until it’s
healed. It’s helpful to be aware that the ego, being scared of the end,
does not like this, so it’s going  to fight against the means, against the
relationships. Relationships offer endless opportunities for collaboration. They
serve as a backdrop to come together. Collaborative relationships with a
healing purpose contain two qualities: they are undefined, and they are
guided. Those qualities aren’ t typically part of relationships in this
world. The “undefined”  part is very scary to the ego, but it is an essential
entry point. Openness is one of the main doorways to a holy relationship
and thus to freed om. An undefined relationship is about being willing to
be open, to just show up. This is why collaborative relationsh ips don’t
have the rigidity, the expectations, and the demands that linear (time-
based) or special relationships have. When the relationship is undefined,
there isn’t a structure or an agenda already set in place. There isn’t a
standard that the relationship has to meet. There is no role to live up to. You don’t ever have to put any thought into how to keep someone happy
or how to keep the relationship alive. Imagine what that would be like. The “guided” part is very important because this is how it can be
used by the Holy Spirit for healing and the highest good. The
relationship is for a higher purpo se and doesn’ t have a form goal. In fact,you don’t know what outcome is best or how to achieve it. So, it’s
essential to leave space for the Spirit to make it obvious. A collaborative
relationship contains an inspirati on and an agreement to be used together
in some helpful way that benefits the healing of the mind and therefore
blesses the whole universe. Opposing the idea of collaborati ve assignments for healing, the ego
basically says, “Distract yourself, use entertainment and fantasy, and
forget about commitment to a mind-training practice or collaboration. Live it up because you’re going to die anyway.” The Holy Spirit is
saying there is much more than that. When you reach a certain stage of
maturity, you can be guided into shorter or longer assignments. You can
even have lifelong relationships or partnerships where the teaching-
learning balance  is perfect. And