. Life
said, ‘Do this,’ and I did. Life said, ‘Do that,’ and I did. When people want
to know how I created Hay House, I always tell them, ‘I opened my mind. I
listened to my inner voice. I followed the signs. I trusted the flow and
learned to move with it.’”
“I have faith in the universe,” said Albert Einstein to William Hermanns
in a conversation recorded in Einstein and the Poet. This book is one of my
favorites about Einstein. It features four conversations between Einstein and
Hermanns, a German poet, playwright, and sociologist, over the space of
thirty years. Einstein tells Hermanns, “Through my pursuit in science I have
known cosmic religious feelings.” Einstein insists he is a scientist, but he
also sounds like a poet. He makes reference to an inner voice. And he tells
Hermanns, “If I hadn’ t an absolute faith in the harmony of creation, I
wouldn’ t have tried for 30 years to express it in a mathematical formula.”
“When you know that life loves you, and that you live in a friendly
universe, it helps you in both the good times and the bad times,” says
Louise. Sometim es life doesn’ t go according to plan. Not to our plan, at
least. We all know what that’s like. We feel like life loves us when we get
what we want, but what about when we don’t? What about when we don’t
get that job we wanted? Or when that special person doesn’ t return our call?
Or when something that felt so right goes wrong? This is when we have to
trust that life loves us always —and that even when things appear not to be
going our way, they still are going our way.
“If you knew Who walks beside you on the way that you have chosen,
fear would be impossible,” states A Course in Miracles. When we’re afraid,
we feel alone. When one door closes all the other doors close, too, is how it
feels to our ego. “When you trust in love, it’s impossible to feel totally
alone,” says Louise. “Love introduces you to the totality of possibilities. It
opens you up to a power that is greater and wiser than your ego. Loveknows what’s best for you. It leads you to your highest good. Love will
show you the way.”
Whenever you feel stuck, lonely, or afraid, Louise and I recommend you
ask yourself this question: What good things could happen if I let life love
me even more? Anothe r way of doing this is to complete this sentence ten
times: One way I could let life love me even more right now is … Open the
door and let your soul lead the way. Open your mind and let the light in.
Open your heart and trust in love to take you where you need to go. To
support you in this inquiry here is one of my favorite passages by Louise
from her book Heart Thoughts:
Trust that your inner guide is
leading you and guiding you in ways
that are best for you, and that your
spiritual growth is continuously
expanding.
No matter which door opens or
which door closes, you
are always safe.
You are eternal.
You will go on forever
from experience to experience.
See yourself opening doors to
joy, peace, healing, prosperity,
and love.
Doors to understanding,
compassion, and for giveness.
Doors to freedom. Doors to
self-worth and self-esteem.
Doors to self-love.
It is all here before you.
Which door will you open first?
Remember, you are safe;
it is only change.
Teach Only LoveOne afternoon, Louise and I took a walk in Balboa Park. We stopped off
at Daniel’ s Cof fee Cart to pick up my cappuccino. From there, we headed to
the Japanese Friendship Garden. As we walked, I ask Louis e about the
Hayride Reunion that had just taken place. It celebrated the 30th
anniversary of Louise’ s support group for AIDS that became known as the
Hayride. The Reunion was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los
Angeles. The theater was full of friends old and new who came from all
over the world to be there.
Suddenly we heard someone shout, “Ms. Hay! Ms. Hay!” We looked up
and saw two men, arm in arm, waving at us. They were by the entrance to
the Japanese Friendship Garden. As they approached, one of the men said,
“Ms. Hay, I’m a Hayrider!” Louise and the man both burst into tears. They
hugged each other for a long time. I took lots of pictures. Louis e looked so
happy. This man had attended Hayride meetings back in 1988 when he was
preparing to die. “You healed my life,” he said. “No. You healed your life,”
Louise told him.
Louise hosted a Hayride every Wednesday night for six-and-a-half years
in the 1980s. “A private client asked me if I’d hold a meeting for men with
AIDS. I said yes. That’ s how it began,” Louise told me. Six men showed up
for the first meeting, which Louise held in her living room. “I told the men
that we were going to do what I always do, which is to focus on self-love,
forgiveness, and letting go of fear. I also told them that we were not going
to sit there and play Ain’t it awful, because that won’ t help anybod y.” At the
end of the first meeting, Louise and her six men held each other  in a loving
embrace. They left Louise’ s home that night with a feeling of peace in their
hearts.
“The week after, we had 12 men sitting in my living room. The following
week, we had 20 men. And it just kept growing,” Louise says, still
astonished by what happened. “Eventually, we had nearly 90 men squeezed
into my living room. I’m not sure what the neighbors thought! Each week
we talked, we cried, we sang songs together, we did mirror work and also
all sorts of heali ng meditations for ourselves, each other, and the planet. We
ended every evening with hugs, which was good for love, and also very
good for pick-ups,”  says Louise with a big smile.
The meetings moved out of Louise’ s home into a gymnasium in West
Hollywood. “We went from 90 people to 150 people that first night,” she
recalls. They soon had to move again. This time the City of WestHollywood gave Louise a space that could hold hundreds of people.
“Eventually, we had nearly 800 people at our Wednesday night meetings.
Now it wasn’ t just men with AIDS who came. It was men and women. And
family members, too. Whenever someone’ s mother attended her first
meeting, she’d receive a standing ovation from us all.”
One of Louise’ s closest friends is Daniel Peralta. They first met in
January 1986, when Daniel attended the premiere of a film about the
Hayride called Doors Opening: A Positive Appr oach to AIDS.  “Louise Hay
introduced me to unconditional  love,” Daniel told me. In an article about
the Hayride, Daniel wrote about Louise’ s infinite kindne ss and her
generosity of spirit:
Louise L. Hay was ushering in a new possibility, a new way of being. She introdu ced us to
loving ourselves and outlined practical steps to engage that process. She gently invited us to be
with ourselves in a new and different way, and practice self-acceptance and self-care.  Not only
was it appealing, it was healing. I clearly remember how Louise had this incredible ability to
quickly create a sense of community and bring people together, one heart at a time.
Louise cries freely when she talks about the Hayrides. “These young
people were terrified and lonely. They’d been rejected by their family and
by socie ty,” Louise tells me. “What they needed was a friend—someone
who wasn’t afraid, who wouldn’ t judge them, and who loved them for who
they are. I simply answered the call.” When I ask Louise about her tears,
she says, “We got through a lot of Kleenex at the Hayride. I made so many
friends. I lost a lot of friends, too. We attended far too many funerals. But
we also made sure no one died without knowing they were loved. And, of
course, many people lived on and created a future they never expected to
have.”
In the opening sequence of Doors Opening, Louise says, “I don’t heal
anybody. I just provide a space where we can uncover how absolutely
wonderful we are, and many people find that they’re able to heal
themselves.” Louise is consistent in her message. I’ve witnessed hundreds
of peopl e tell Louise personally, “Thank you for healing my life.” I smile
every time it happens because I know how Louise will respond. “ You healed
your life,” she tells them.
“Louise, people have called you a lot of things,” I say.
“I know,” she says, laughing.
“You tell everyone, I am not a healer.”
“That’ s right,”


on the upper body. Since its development in 1995, EFT’ s growth has been
exponential; millions worldwide  draw on it as a tool to relieve stresses andtrauma daily. I’ve used EFT to relieve bad memories and trauma, stress,
anxiety, self-sabotage, and much more. I’ve tapped on the emotional
components, bad memories and experiences, and physical  symptoms
relating to a physical pain, illnes s, or disease and witnessed remarkably, the
physical problem s resolve, from fibromyalgia to phantom limb pain. I’ve
used tapping to stop bleeding on someone after a traumatic fall. I’ve used it
with toddlers to resolve separat ion anxiety, terror and tantrums, and other
upsets, and on parents to resolve lacking confidence and feeling s of failure
as moms and dads. I’ve used it with entrepeneurs as well as those who are
stuck to unstick and joyfully move onto the next level of their lives and
successes. I’ve used it to help people overcome performance-related issues,
including professional athletes who cleared out difficulties getting back in
the game after an accident. I’ve used it to stop pain, improve sleep, resolve
cravings, raise self esteem and confidence, and to simply access a more
wholesome, peaceful, and connected way of experiencing the world. Really,
I’ve tried it on just about anything and everyone—including my cat, Mr.
Purr.
Tapping works with all parts of you—your feelings, your body
sensations, your conscious and subconscious mind, and your body’ s energy
system to help resolve trauma. I also believe it works on “a quantum level,”
let’s call it. (Interestingly, EFT and Gold Standard Founder Gary Craig is
now exploring the spiritual nature of tapping, with much of his work not
involving tapping at all). Your whole self participates to release the grip the
problem has on you and the grip you have on a problem, whic h can allow
you to experience relief on a number of levels—physical, emotional,
performance-related, and spiritual.
The therapeutic field is beginni ng to appreciate the importance of body
procedures and energy therapy in relation to healing trau- matic
experiences, too.1 Scientific studies indicate tapping’ s effectiveness in
treating many different psychological disorders.2 A growing number of
therapists and medical professionals, teachers and business leaders, and
others in diverse industries, use tapping to benefit their work in everythingfrom hospitals and clinics to schools and corporations and more. It’s even
being introduced in to some graduate psychology courses.
EFT restores your ability to think clearly, to experience a sense of
wellbeing, and to feel good again, no matter your circumstances. Whether
you have a physical problem, emotional upset, or performance issue, EFT
can become your own personal self-applied problem zapper. It aims a laser-
beam focus at a difficult feeling or thought, problem, situation, or memory,
and neutralizes it. While there is no guarantee that tapping will resolve a
physical ailment, people regularly experience relief from physical
symptoms after collapsing the emotio nal factors and other events
underlying physical challenges. It’s free, easy to learn, self-applied, safe,
and can be done anywhere, at any time, on any issue, on people of all ages
(including four-legged “people”). I’ve seen EFT save jobs, friendships,
health, marriages, and sanity. Even if you don’t believe tapping will work
for you, it can help—and quickl y, as you’ll see in examples throughout this
book.
 EFT opens windows that have been painted shut for years, letting
fresh air in. It helps close doors on difficult chapters of your life that have
been propped open, letting all kinds of riff-raff in, and it gives you tools to
clear out the dusty nooks and crannies of your life. It is about changing your
thinking so you can change your life. EFT releases the charge around the
bad memories; the limiting beliefs and thoughts, and it restores your energy
system to balance, giving you a clean slate. It’s empowering. It’s free. Its
applications are pretty much infinite. With this book as your guide, you’ll
start tapping on the challenges that come along. You’ll know how to
systematically neutralize bad memories, fears, and limiting beliefs; and
you’ll clearly understand the process and the tools you can access
depending on your tapping tar get. Y ou will feel better. I can attest to that!
How I Came to EFT
I was in the East Village of Manhattan, working in publishing, as an author
and editor. I was very good but even better at turning down amazing career
offers. I had a deep-seated belief: “I’m not good enough,” and thoughclearly the reality was different, I went with the old, “safe” belief.
Eventually I left publishing altogether driven in part by the stress of
insecurity and fear of getting things wrong, and other mind-bending lies. I
had plenty of limiting beliefs, core issues, and self-sabotage— not that I
understood it that way back then.Fast-forward a few years: I was nine
months pregnant and due any day, writing for a medical school with an
avocation as an herbalist, in deep denial about my long unhappy marriage. I
was expecting to birth my baby at home, and my seven-page birth plan was
truly a work of art. Its indicati ons—for lavender massage oil, hand-made
tinctures, electro lytes, specific directions to my birth support team, Gyuto
monks chanting  for opening the birthway passage—anticipated everything,
almost.
A near-death experience wasn’ t part of the plan. Due to labor and
delivery complications, my newborn son experienced fetal distress and birth
trauma, and I bled profusely just after he was born. To truly love, one must
open, and my beloved, long-awa ited son’s birth opened doors of denial that
had been long closed. They  burst open, no going back. Years of
unprocessed and unresolved emotional experiences bubbled up. In my
weakened physical state, I who had made sure to never need anyone,
suddenly needed  help everywhere. My mind body and spirit simply could
not handle everything all at once. In a weakened state, my recov ery faltered
and then shut down as fear ramped up.The marriage ended like an
amputation, just that suddenly, and the loss of my health, money, status (an
illusion anyway), friends, and worldly goods came swiftly. Post-traumatic
stress syndrome, liver trauma, postpartum depression, fibromyalgia, took up
residence, but I had my now toddler son and my life.In those years, my
inner critic or negative thoughts galloped along paths like these and I
believed these lies: I can’t do this. I am guilty for leaving my son’s dad. I am
a burden.What a loser! They don’t like me. I don’t belong. This is too hard.
My beliefs may have echoed those of other family members, including
those in my lineage.The compulsive self-talk did not help my situation. Rather than
acknowledging my strengths—my courage, compassion, creativity,
resourcefulness, persistence and determination, fierce loving nature—I
focused on how “bad” I was—m y shame ruled. I believed moth ers couldn’ t
relate to me, and I didn’ t blame them. Such stories I made up in my
brilliant, active, creative mind! As if any of us are really anything other than
connected in our very essence.
Fibromyalgia is an illness for which Western medicine has no cure; I had
no belief in my ability to heal, and it set me back. The pain was debilitating.
I hurt all the time. Like other autoimmune illnesses, fibromyalgia is
invisible. You can’t see it the way you can a rash or cast on a broken leg. To
many, people with autoimmune illnesses seem like slackers.
While I was careening downhill, many hands reached out to catch my
fall, including those of: Sister Maria, of blessed memory, my family, a few
wise women friends, and Reneé Brown, an intuitive healer and teacher. She
introduced me to EFT, comm only called tapping. Amazing ly, when I
tapped, I felt better.
All I did was think of a troublin g issue and come up with a number from
0 to 10 to measure how badly the problem bothered me right at that
moment. Then I focused on that problem while tapping on stress-reducing
points on my upper body and saying an affirmation that I accepted myself.
It was that simple; I didn’ t even  have to believe that I accepted myself, that
I loved myself, or that I forgave myself—which was a good thing, because I
damn well wasn’ t going to forgive myself for the mess I’d gotten myself
into at that time (that came later). I listened to and tapped along with Gary
Craig’ s training DVDs (See EFT Resources  for details) even when it was
time for bed I’d turn them on and listen in my sleep.
Holes started appearing in my misery and hopelessness, letting light flood
in. Outw ardly, my life appeared the same, but my inner world began to
change. I began to see things  differently. I understood now I wasn’ t
shameful or bad. I was just experiencing


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t h e i r  p l a c e  a t  t h e  t a b l e  o f  p o w e r.  J e s u s  h i m s e l f  s a i d,  “ L o v e
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c h o i c e  b e t w e e n  v i o l e n c e  a n d  n o n v i o l e n c e ;  i t  i s  a  c h o i c e
b e t w e e n  v i o l e n c e  a n d  n o n e x i s t e n c e.
A  f e w  y e a r s  a g o,  I  w a s  a s k e d  b y  M r s.  C o r e t t a  S c o t t  K i n g
t o  s p e a k  i n  A t l a n t a  a t  h e r  l a t e  h u s b a n d ’ s  o f f i c i a l  b i r t h d a y
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“ M a n y  a r e  c a l l e d,  b u t  f e w  a r e  c h o s e n ”  m e a n s  t h a t
e v e r y o n e  i s  c a l l e d  b u t  f e w  c a r e  t o  l i s t e n. *  T h e  c a l l  g o e s  o u t
t o  a l l  o f  u s,  a l l  t h e  t i m e.  N o n e  o f  u s  h a s  m o r e  o r  l e s s
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s e e i n g  s o m e  s p e c i a l  f o r c e  a t  w o r k  t h a t  c h o s e  t h e m  o v e r
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c h o s e  i t.
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a c h i e v e d  o n l y  a  f r a c t i o n  o f  w h a t  a l l  o f  u s  a r e  c a p a b l e  o f. *
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o u r  l i v e s  a r e  d e d i c a t e d  t o  G o d ’ s  p l a n.
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p l a n  t o d a y,  o r  w i l l  I  g o  a b o u t  m y  d a y  a s  a  s l a v e  t o  m y  e g o ’ s
a g e n d a?  T o  c h o o s e  G o d ’ s  p l a n  i s  t o  c h o o s e  t h e  o p t i o n  w i t h
t h e  b e s t  o p p o r t u n i t y  f o r  t u r n i n g  y o u r  l i f e  i n t o  a  c o n d u i t  f o r
t h e  m i r a c u l o u s.  A s  s o o n  a s  w e  s t a r t  a s k i n g  H i m  h o w  w e  c a n
h e l p  w i t h  H i s  p l a n,  r a t h e r  t h a n  j u s t  a s k i n g  H i m  t o  h e l p  w i t h
o u r  p l a n s,  e v e r y t h i n g  w i l l  b e  b e t t e r  f o r  e v e r y o n e.
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d e m o n s t r a t e  l o v e.  G o d  h a s  a  p l a n  f o r  t h e  s a l v a t i o n  o f  t h e
w o r l d,  c a l l e d  “ t h e  p l a n  f o r  t h e  t e a c h e r s  o f  G o d. ” *  H i s
t e a c h e r s  c o m e  f r o m  a l l  r e l i g i o n s  a n d  n o  r e l i g i o n. *  T h e r e  i s
n o t h i n g  t o  s i g n  u p  f o r,  n o  w o r l d l y  o r g a n i z a t i o n  o r  i n s t i t u t i o n
t o  b e l o n g  t o.  I t  s i m p l y  r e f e r s  t o  a  s t i r r i n g  i n  t h e  h e a r t,  w h i c h
t h e n  a c t i v a t e s  a n  i n t e r n a l  g u i d a n c e  s y s t e m  a l r e a d y  p r e s e n t
w i t h i n  u s.  I f  w e  a s k  h o w  t o  h e l p,  H e  w i l l  s h o w  u s  h o w  t o
h e l p.W h i l e  t h e r e  a r e  h a t e - f i l l e d  p e o p l e  p l a n n i n g  w a y s  t o  s o w
v i o l e n c e  a n d  d e s t r u c t i o n  o n  e a r t h,  G o d  h a s  a  b l u e p r i n t  f o r
c r e a t i n g  p e a c e  o n  e a r t h.  I t ’ s  n o t  a  p h y s i c a l  b l u e p r i n t,  b u t
r a t h e r  a  p l a n  t h a t  e x i s t s  i n  H i s  M i n d,  p i e c e s  o f  i t  r e a d y  t o  b e
d o w n l o a d e d  i n t o  t h e  m i n d  o f  a n y o n e  w h o  a s k s  t o  r e c e i v e
h i s  o r  h e r  p a r t.  E a c h


er magnitude of such a complex of
nonlinear matrix of events which are not
and the nature of nonlinear equations, it
ener gy patterns seems beyond human
It is initially very challenging to causally related, but instead
synchronous.
is clear that, at least in theory, choice is
cognizance, its totality is nonetheless
understand that attitudes can alter the
Then, at the perceptual level of 600 to
not only possible, but inevitable. It is out
comprehended by individuals whose
world one experiences and that there are
700, what was, what is, and what will be
of regularity that irregularity appears; all
consciousness reaches the 600-700 range.
numerous valid ways of experiencing it.
are comprehended wordlessly within theattractor patterns are connected to each
This gives us some idea of the enormous
But as in viewing a hologram-what you
complete, simultaneous holographic
other, if only by a single "strand," so to
capacity for understanding possessed by
see depends completely on the position
possibility.' The term "inef fable" here
speak. But how exactly do those with advanced consciousness.
from which you view it. Which position,
begins to take meaning.
transformational choices occur? What
then, is "reality"?
The most important element in
Let us attempt to understand all this
occasions them? Who makes them and
facilitating an upward movement in
In fact, this is a holographic universe.
better through an example. Imagine a
consciousness is an attitude of
Each point of view reflects a position
"bum" on a street corner:95
96
to compensate for their actual why? This is a crucial subject regarding
willingness, which opens up the mind
defined by the viewer's unique level of
powerlessness. More advanced individual
which few principles have been defined.
through new means of appraisal to the
consciousness. If you are on this side of
cultures exhibit more variation. The
Growth and development are irregular
possible validity of new hypotheses.
the hologram your perception will hardly
Japanese capitalized on the lessons of
and nonlinear. Practically nothing is
Though motives for change are as
agree with that of the observer on the
W orld W ar II and collectively made a
known about the essential nature of
multitudinous as the innumerable facets
other side. "He must be crazy!" is a
major jump in their evolution. On thegrowth, or any "process" in nature for
of the human condition, they are most
common reaction to such wide
other hand, America's level of that matter. No one has (197) ever studied
often found to arise spontaneously when
discrepancy. And the world is a set of
consciousness sank as a result of the
the nature of life itself, only its images
the mind is challenged in the face of a
holograms in limitless dimensions, not,
V ietnam W ar; what was actually learned
and consequences. There simply has not
puzzle or a paradox. Deliberately as is often said, of mirrors-which fixed
in as yet remains to be seen.
been an adequate mathematics to
creating such an impasse is a customary
time and place and of fer only a single
Unfortunately our entertainment in comprehend it; linear dif ferential
device in certain disciplines, such as Zen,
reflection are fixed Auditory experience,
general trades on emotional equations brought us to approximations
to finesse a leap of awareness.
also, is part of a holographic series ofsensationalism, and so gravitates toward
but not to essence. A simple sprouting
(198) On our scale of consciousness there
attractor fields of all the sounds that ever
violence. Murder is nightly family fare
seed performs incredible wonders
are two critical fulcrums that allow for
were. The physical world is tactile, too. It
on television; our children grow up on a
through an intrinsic wizardry of which
major advancement. The first is at 200,
has texture, color, dimension and spatial
steady mental diet of it. Americans have
we have no understanding whatever.
the initial level of empowerment. Here
relationships such as position and shape.
learned to enjoy the gruesome-the more
Each of these is again part of an
As is commonly observed, growth, both
arises the willingness to stop blaming
bizarre, the better. Cruelty and havoc are
underlying sequence which, with allindividual and collective, can take place
and accept responsibility for one's own
becoming status quo. In the city of
other qualities, goes back in "end of
either slowly or suddenly. It is not
actions, feelings and beliefs. So long as
Phoenix, where an initiative requiring
time" to the original source of its
limited by restraints, but by tendencies.
cause and responsibility are projected
children to have parental permission to
existence, which is now.
Innumerable options are open to
outside oneself, one must remain in the
carry guns recently failed, ABC News on
(199)
everyone all the time but are relatively
powerless mode of victim-hood. The
January 1, 1993, reported the handgun
infrequently chosen, because they want
second is the 500 level, reached by
A hologram, we might say, is in and ofkilling of a two-and-one-half-year -old by
the context that would make them
accepting love and non-judgmental itself a process. There is nothing
fixed in a three-year -old. It seems that society
attractive. One's range of choice is
for giveness as a lifestyle, exercising
a three-dimensional hologram. And what
institutionalizes certain self propagating
ordinarily limited by one's vision.
unconditional kindness to all persons,
then of a four -dimensional hologram? It
levels of consciousness which become an
things and events without exception. (In
Context, value and meaning are merely
would include all possible instances of
ingrained characteristic of various social
twelve-step recovery groups it is said that
dif ferent terms for a subtle web of ener gy
itself simultaneously. T o change seems to
strata.
there are no justified resentments. Even if
patterns within an overall or ganizingbe to move through time, but if time
Nonetheless, there remains free choice
somebody "did you wrong," you are still
attractor ener gy field-which is itself only
itself is transcended, then there is no such
and thus a considerable potential for
free to choose your response and let
part of a still lar ger one, and so on, in an
thing as sequence. If all is now, there is
individual mobility and variety of
resentment go.) Once one makes this
infinite continuum throughout the
nothing to follow from here to there.
experience, making available alternate
commitment he begins to experience a
universe, eventually including the total
Each hologram is in itself an
options. From our study of advanced
dif ferent, more benign world as his
field of consciousness itself. While the
evolutionary projection from an endless
theoretical physics, nonlinear dynamicsperceptions evolve.
sheer magnitude of such a complex of
nonlinear matrix of events which are not
and the nature of nonlinear equations, it
ener gy patterns seems beyond human
It is initially very challenging to causally related, but instead
synchronous.
is clear that, at least in theory, choice is
cognizance, its totality is nonetheless
understand that attitudes can alter the
Then, at the perceptual level of 600 to
not only possible, but inevitable. It is out
comprehended by individuals whose
world one experiences and that there are
700, what was, what is, and what will be
of regularity that irregularity appears; all
consciousness reaches the 600-700 range.
numerous valid ways of experiencing it.
are comprehended wordlessly within the
attractor patterns are connected to each
This gives us some idea of the enormous
But as in viewing a hologram-what youcomplete, simultaneous holographic
other, if only by a single "strand," so to
capacity for understanding possessed by
see depends completely on the position
possibility.' The term "inef fable" here
speak. But how exactly do those with advanced consciousness.
from which you view it. Which position,
begins to take meaning.
transformational choices occur? What
then, is "reality"?
The most important element in
Let us attempt to understand all this
occasions them? Who makes them and
facilitating an upward movement in
In fact, this is a holographic universe.
better through an example. Imagine a
consciousness is an attitude of
Each point of view reflects a position
"bum" on a street corner:
95
96
In a fashionable neighborhood in a bigprobably has an interesting story to tell;
person was stuck in this level of their gr owth
lawyer (some of history's most influential
city stands an old man in tattered clothes,
he's where he is for reasons we may
and r esolve it. T racy).
books were written behind bars). A few
alone, leaning against the corner of an
never understand. At 400 (Reason) he is
So much for the manner in which our
prisoners go through a transformation of
elegant brownstone. Look at him from
a symptom of the current economic and
level of consciousness decides what we
conscious


, FivE DESIRES
The ancient classics, as has been mentioned, place the utmost im
portance on foreplay. When the Yellow Etnperor asks whether he
should force himself at the task, if he wants to have intercourse
but has no erection, the Arcane Maid warns hin1:.. The only right
time to have intercourse is after the tnan has achieved his Four
Attai nn1ents. ()nly then can he bring the wotnan her Nine Es-
" senc es.
The tutor then ex plains to the e n1peror why the n1an n1ust
await the Four Attain tnen ts:.. If the jade stalk is not angry. his har
mon ious essence has not arrived. If it is angry but not large, his
muscle l'Ssence has not arrived. If it is large but not rigid, his bone
esscnn· has not arrived. If it is rigid but not hot. his spirit essence
has not arrived." Even if a nun has an erection, he cannot perforn1
thl' act with flying color s unless all four conditions are attained. Three J>c.1ks, Fil'c Desires,.md Nitlt' Esst'tlccs
The etnperor then asks about the won1an's Nine Essences :
What arc they, and ho\v can he tel1 when they have been aroused?
The Arcane Maid ans\vcrs: ''Wait t'llr the Nine Essences in order
to learn about thcn1. When the wotnan sighs deeply and swal1ows
her saliva, her lung essence has been aroused. When she utters lit
tle cries and sucks his ntouth, her heart essence has been aroused.
When she enf<.1lds and clings to hint, her spleen essence has been
aroused. When her Yin gate is slippery and datnp, her kidney
essence has been aroused. When she obligingly gnaws hin1, her
bont' essence has been aroused. When she hooks her legs around
hin1, her sinew essence has been ;.uoused. When she caresses his
jade stalk, her blood essence has been aroused. When she fondles
his nipples, her flesh essence has been aroused." (The link be
tween a slippery Yin gate and kidney essence is due to the fact that
in traditional Chinese n1cdicinc, the term for "kidney" denotes
also ·'gonad.")
Only eight of the essences arc enumerated here. The ninth,
n1entioned in none of the reconstructed editions of The Classic of
tlze Arcatze Maid, probably is the liver essence. Although it is miss
ing fron1 the literature, this essence, like the others, should never
be n1issing in practice. The Arcane Maid goes on to say that if a
n1an wants to have sufficiently lasting intercourse \vith a woman,
he should first toy with her clitoris and move her spirits until all
Nine Essences have been aroused. Anything less than nine will
not benefit her.
When the Yellow En1peror asks the Elemental Maid how he
n1ight tell whether a woman is enjoying herself erotically, she in
structs him to watch for the Five Desires, the Five Syn1ptoms, and
the Ten Movements. Her e are presented only the Five Desires,
which are revealed dur ing foreplay; the Five Symptoms and Ten
Movements, observed tnostly during actual coitus, will be de
scribed in the next chapter.
The Elemental Maid enun1erates the Five Desires as follows:
"If the woman bates her breath and restrains her energy, her mind
wishes it [sexual union J. If her nostrils and mouth arc dilated, her
vulva wants it. If she abruptly embraces the man, she wants to
ejaculate. If her perspiration drenches her clothes, she wants her
heart filled. If she straightens her body and closes her eyes, she is
ncar ecstasy." THE ART OF TH E BEDCHAM BER
�YS TIC �ASTERY
The Mystic Master of the Grotto, Tung Hsuan Tzu, advises how
to meet all the various prerequisites for happy and healthy sex. In
the preface to his classic work, he claims that he intended it to sup
plement and expand the teachings of the Arcane Maid. Written in
the typically bold and elegant literary style of Tang classical litera
ture, his work is a poetic essay graced by rhythmic symmetry,
graphic imagery, and lyrical ardor. His treatment of love-play is
the most detailed among the older sexology classics.
Whoever this Mystic Master of the Grotto was, he left invalu
able tips for a healthy sex life, and he had the insight to caution
that what he set forth should not be a "single path" for unoriginal
lovers, but should open "ten thousand ways" for inventive ones.
He was not just a "sex therapist," but a real sage of eroticism.
Master Tung Hsuan cautions that the sexual act from foreplay
to coitus should not unfold in a repetitious, predictable manner:
"Deep and shallow, slow and rapid, leveling and jerking, east
ward and westward. The principle has no single path, but ten thou
sand ways. It could be as slow as the carp toying with the fish
hook, and as swift as a flock of birds encountering the wind.
Advance and retreat by dragging or coaxing; follow and oppose
up or down; go and return leftward or rightwar d; withdraw and
thrust infrequently or repeatedly: all these actions should be coor
diiuted and devised spontaneously. Never contine yourself to a
rigid fonnula, but choose the style accor ding to the need of the
moment."
The Inaster offers a description of foreplay, with four basic
positions : Conversing in Loving Entanglcn1cnt; Whispering
Endearn1ents; Exposed Fish Gills (suggesting the open, blood
engorged vulva); and Unicorn's Horn (the tnalc erection). "To
start the sexual un ion, the nulc sits left, the fen1alc sits right. He
sits cross-lcg gt·d. holding her to his chest. He encircles her slin1
waist and caresses her jade body. They whisper endcarntents.
converse while lovingly entanglt:d. Their hearts and their ntinds
arc ont'. Suddt·nly they t'Inbracc, and just as suddcntly resist. Two
fonns st·izc at each other, and two ntouths nibble at each other. He
holds her lower lip in his ntouth; she holds his upper lip in hers.
They suck at the san1e ti1nc, drink each other's saliva. Each lei
surely bitt.·s the tongue of tht.· other, or softly gnaws the lips. Each tenderly etnbraces the head of the other. or boldly fingers the ears.
Tht'Y tnassagt' above and pat below; they nibble in the east. kiss in
the west. A thousand coquetries are revealed; a hundred worries
dissolve. He asks her to hold the jade stalk with her left hand, and
he strokes her jade gate with his right. Stit nulat ed by her Yin es
sence, his jade stalk begins throbbing. It rises precipitously, a lone
peak above a distant river. Excited by his Yang essences, her cin
nabar grotto oozes with fluids. It drips and bubbles, a secluded
spring tutnbling into a deep valley."
The n1aster underlines that this stitnulation occurs only as a
result of the interaction between Yin and Yang: "It cannot be
forced through willful efforts. Only when these conditions exist
should sexual union begin. If the tnale is not excited to a zestful
erection or if the fenule etnits no fluids, it indicates an outer man
ifestation of son1c inner illness."
Next the tnastcr describes the initiation of intercourse: "The
fen1ale IS on the left, the male on the right. She first sits, then lies
down on her back, spreads her legs, and unfolds her arms. The
n1ale kneels between her thighs. He imn1ediately drags his hard
ened jade stalk lengthwise against the doors of the jade gate, a
sloping, luxuriant pine tree nudging at the entrance of an unex
pected valley. The jade stalk throbs, pulls, grinds, and bridles. He
kisses her mouth and seeks her tongue. Now he gazes at the jade
face above, now he looks at the golden gulch below. He strokes
and pats the front of her abdon1en and breasts, massages the sides
of her examination hall. When he is aroused and she is enchanted,
he at once uses his Yang peak to assault vertically and horizon
tally, now impinging on the jade vein below, now pressing at the
golden gulch above, now stabbing at the sides of the exatnination
hall, now resting on


our	attention	to	the	TV,	but	immerse
yourself	in	your	inner	body.	If	there	is	confrontation	on	TV,	bring	attention
immediately	to	your	inner	body.	Don’t	become	absorbed	with	the	tension,
stress,	anger	and	fighting	that	takes	place	on	popular	soap	operas.	Better	still,
don’t	watch	them	at	all.	The	popularity	of	such	soaps	is	an	indication	of	our
mad	world.	As	you	relate	to	your	children,	friends,	family	or	any	person,
listen	to	them	with	your	entire	body.	Feel	your	body	as	you	listen.	This	is	real
listening.

As	you	brush	your	teeth,	feel	your	inner	body.	As	you	sit	on	the	toilet,	feel
your	inner	body.	As	you	queue	up	at	the	post	office,	feel	your	inner	body.	If
you	are	stressed,	feel	your	inner	body.	As	you	do	a	boring	job,	take	attention
into	your	body	and	don’t	just	think	about	how	much	you	hate	your	job.	As
you	walk,	feel	your	inner	body.	As	you	empty	the	dishwasher,	feel	your	inner
body.

As	you	eat,	taste	the	food	and	feel	your	inner	body.	Stay	in	your	body.	As	you
lie	in	bed	at	night,	feel	your	inner	body.	This	is	not	just	something	that	you	do
every	now	and	again.	This	is	something	that	you	reside	in	permanently.	Every
minute,	every	hour,	every	day,	take	attention	out	of	your	head	and	your	story
and	merge	yourself	with	the	body.

You	still	have	use	of	your	mind	whenever	you	need	it	for	a	practical	situation.
However,	you	will	have	reduced	the	meaningless	and	devastating	habit	of
repetitive	thinking.	The	inner	body	has	and		intelligence	far	greater	than	just	a
collection	of	thoughts.	Merge	with	that	intelligence.	Don’t	avoid	it	all	the	time
by	living	in	your	head.

As	long	as	attention	is	on	your	inner	body,	your	mind	is	calm.	If	for	a	moment
you	forget	about	keeping	attention	on	your	inner	body,	then	you	are	back	in
your	mind.	This	will	happen	quite	often	at	the	start.	Don’t	start	giving	out	toyourself	if	you	find	it	difficult	to	place	your	attention	on	your	inner	body	for
more	than	a	few	minutes.	This	is	your	mind’s	habit.	To	change	this	habit,	keep
bringing	attention	to	your	inner	body.	If	your	mind	wanders	again,	keep
bringing	it	back.	The	more	you	practise	this,	the	better	and	easier	it	gets.

Your	mind	activity	is	your	choice.	Do	you	want	to	keep	repeating	the	insane
nonsense	running	through	your	head	or	do	you	want	to	connect	with	life?
Bring	attention	home	to	your	body.

As	you	become	proficient	with	awareness	of	your	inner	body,	incorporate
gentle,	reduced	breathing	through	relaxation.	While	relaxed,	allow	your
breathing	to	calm	by	itself.	Feel	a	tolerable	but	comfortable	need	for	air.	Feel
your	inner	body.	Feel	your	tummy	gently	move	with	each	breath.Are	you	connected	to	the	wonders	of	life?
M
ost	of	us	are	blessed	with	the	traditional	five	senses	of
sight,	hearing,
touch,	smell	and	taste
.	A	sixth	sense	is	intuition,	which	is	to	sense	something
in	advance	or	to	know	what	course	of	action	to	take	based	on	a	feeling	or	a
hunch	instead	of	logical	processing.

Our	five	senses	enable	us	to	directly	experience	life	on	earth.	How	often	do
you	use	your	five	senses	with	an	undivided	mind?

When	we	put	our	total	attention	on	our	five	senses,	we	are	out	of	our	mind
and	are	connecting	with	reality.	When	you	look,	look.	When	you	touch,	touch.
When	you	taste,	taste.	When	you	smell,	smell.	While	using	your	senses,	have
nothing	else	running	through	your	mind.	Just	be	there	with	your	full	attention.
Set	aside	the	activity	of	your	mind	and	merge	with	your	surroundings.

The	question	is	how	much	time	do	you	spend	using	your	five	senses	without
the	mental	commentary	running	in	the	background?	Is	your	complete
attention	regularly	on	the	five	senses	or	is	some	of	it	on	your	senses,	with	the
remainder	in	your	head?	When	you	look,	do	you	really	see	unhindered	by
thought?	Are	you	seeing,	or	is	there	mental	commentary	perceiving,
analyzing	and	labeling	what	you	are	seeing?	When	you	hear,	are	you	listening
with	all	of	your	attention?	Or	is	there	part	listening	and	part	mental	noise?
When	you	smell,	do	you	really	smell	with	all	of	your	attention,	or	is	your
attention	divided?	When	you	taste,	do	you	really	taste?	How	much	of	you	is
really	involved	with	the	tasting?

Watch	how	children	relate	to	life.	Their	heads	are	not	full	of	thoughts.	See	the
clarity	and	transparency	of	the	eyes	of	a	child.	You	can	literally	look	through
them.	Be	like	a	child.	Go	back	to	the	innocence	and	wonder	of	childhood
when	everything	was	fresh,	new	and	exhilarating.The	wonder	of	nature	disappears	when	an	adult	starts	to	teach	a	child:	this	is	a
tree,	this	is	a	flower	that	is	a	dog	that	is	a	cow,	there	is	a	horse	that	is	grass,
and	the	grass	is	green.	No	longer	do	children	see	and	feel	the	aliveness	from
the	tree	or	the	horse,	or	grass	or	nature.	Instead,	they	now	have	a	word	for
these	tangible	objects.	It	is	a	tree.	It	is	a	horse.	It	is	a	dog.	It	is	reduced	to	a
label,	a	name.	The	sensitivity	of	what	is	behind	the	name	has	gone	forever.
The	child	is	beginning	to	sleep.

Let	the	child	know	the	name	of	the	horse.	Also	help	the	child	sense	the
aliveness	of	what	is	behind	the	word.	Life	is	dull	when	nature	is	nothing	more
than	a	few	names.

Is	your	attention	in	your	head	all	the	time	or	are	you	connected	with	what	is
going	on	around	you?	Make	it	a	habit	throughout	the	day	to	use	your	senses.
As	you	go	for	a	walk	or	a	drive,	don’t	be	on	autopilot.	Look	with	your	eyes,
hear	with	your	ears,	feel	with	your	inner	and	outer	body.	Connect	with	life
and	take	your	attention	out	of	your	head.	Do	this	many,	many	times
throughout	the	day.

Your	job	on	earth	is	to	live	life.	You	are	living	life	when	you	are	connecting
directly	to	it	and	not	living	in	a	collection	of	thoughts.Going	for	a	walk	but	missing	out	on	everything
Y
ou	take	a	walk	in	the	park.	Vivid	colors	surround	you:	green	grass,	blue
sky,	brightly	coloured	flowers.	The	sun	radiates	on	your	shoulders	and	neck.
Children	are	chatting,	shouting	and	laughing	in	delight.	A	dog	barks	in
excitement	in	the	distance.

You	walk	through	the	park	and	running	through	your	head	is	what	you	are
going	to	have	for	dinner	tonight,	the	shopping	list	that	you	have	prepared,
whether	you	have	written	every


iabetes	(elevated	blood
sugar)	into	three	different	groups.
22
	One	group,	the	control,	received	standard
dietary	information	and	a	drug	placebo	(no	effect),	one	received	the	standard
dietary	information	and	the	drug	metformin,	and	a	third	group	received
“intensive”	lifestyle	intervention,	which	included	a	moderately	low-fat	diet
and	exercise	plan	to	lose	at	least	7%	of	their	weight.	After	almost	three	years,
the	lifestyle	group	had
58%	fewer	cases	of	diabetes	than	the	control	group.
The	drug	group	reduced	the	number	of	cases	only	by	31%.	Compared	to	the
control,	both	treatments	worked,	but	clearly	a	lifestyle	change	is	much	more
powerful	and	safer	than	simply	taking	a	drug.	Moreover,	the	lifestyle	change
would	be	effective	in	solving	other	health	problems,	whereas	the	drug	would
not.
CHART	7.3:	BLOOD	CHOLESTEROL	ON	HIGH-CARBOHYDRATE,
HIGH-FIBER	DIET
The	second	study	also	found	that	the	rate	of	diabetes	could	be	reduced	by
58%	just	by	modest	lifestyle	changes,	including	exercise,	weight	loss	and	a
moderately	low-fat	diet.
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	Imagine	what	would	happen	if	people	fully	adopted
the	healthiest	diet:	a	whole	foods,	plant-based	diet.	I	strongly	suspect	that
virtually	all	Type	2	diabetes	cases	could	be	prevented.
Unfortunately,	misinformation	and	ingrained	habits	are	wreaking	havoc	on
our	health.	Our	habit	of	eating	hot	dogs,	hamburgers	and	French	fries	iskilling	us.	Even	Dr.	James	Anderson,	who	achieved	profound	results	with
many	patients	by	prescribing	a	near-vegetarian	diet,	is	not	immune	to	habitual
health	advice.	He	writes,	“Ideally,	diets	providing	70%	of	calories	as
carbohydrate	and	up	to	70	gm	fiber	daily	offer	the	greatest	health	benefits	for
individuals	with	diabetes.	However,	these	diets	allow	only	one	to	two	ounces
of	meat	daily	and	are	impractical	for	home	use	for	many	individuals.”
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	Why
does	Professor	Anderson,	a	very
fine	researcher,	say	that	such	a	diet	is
“impractical”	and	thereby	prejudice	his	listeners	before	they	even	consider	the
evidence?
Yes,	changing	your	lifestyle	may	seem	impractical.	It	may	seem
impractical	to	give	up	meat	and	high-fat	foods,	but	I	wonder	how	practical	it
is	to	be	350	pounds	and	have	Type	2	diabetes	at	the	age	of	fifteen,	like	the	girl
mentioned	at	the	start	of	this	chapter.	I	wonder	how	practical	it	is	to	have	a
lifelong	condition	that	can’t	be	cured	by	drugs	or	surgery;	a	condition	that
often	leads	to	heart	disease,	stroke,	blindness	or	amputation;	a	condition	that
might	require	you	to	inject	insulin	into	your	body	every	day	for	the	rest	of
your	life.
Radically	changing	our	diets	may	be	“impractical,”	but	it	might	also	be
worth	it.8
Common	Cancers:	Breast,	Prostate,	Large
Bowel	(Colon	and	Rectal)
M
UCH	OF	MY	CAREER
	has	been	concentrated	on	the	study	of	cancer.	My
laboratory	work	was	focused	on	several	cancers,	including	those	of	the	liver,
breast	and	pancreas,	and	some	of	the	most	impressive	data	from	China	were
related	to	cancer.	For	this	lifetime	work,	the	American	Institute	for	Cancer
Research	kindly	presented	me	with	their	Research	Achievement	award	in
1998.
An	exceptional	number	of	books	have	summarized	the	evidence	on	the
effects	of	nutrition	on	a	variety	of	cancers,	each	with	their	own	particularities.
But	what	I’ve	found	is	that	the	nutritional	effects	on	the	cancers	I’ve	chosen
to	discuss	here	are	virtually	the	same	for	all	cancers,	regardless	of	whether
they	are	initiated	by	different	factors	or	are	located	in	different	parts	of	the
body.	Using	this	principle,	I	can	limit	my	discussion	to	three	cancers,	which
will	allow	me	space	in	the	rest	of	the	book	to	address	diseases	other	than
cancer,	demonstrating	the	breadth	of	evidence	linking	food	to	many	health
concerns.
I	have	chosen	to	comment	on	three	cancers	that	affect	hundreds	of
thousands	of	Americans	and	that	generally	represent	other	cancers	as	well:
two	reproductive	cancers	that	get	plenty	of	attention,	breast	and
prostate,	and
one	digestive	cancer,	large	bowel—the	second	leading	cause	of	cancer	death,
behind	lung	cancer.BREAST	CANCER
It	was	spring	almost	ten	years	ago.	I	was	in	my	office	at	Cornell	when	I	was
told	that	a	woman	with	a	question	regarding	breast	cancer	was	on	the	phone.
“I	have	a	strong	history	of	breast	cancer	in	my	family,”	the	woman,	Betty,
said.	“My	mother	and	grandmother	both	died	from	the	disease,	and	my	forty-
five-year-old	sister	was	recently	diagnosed	with	it.	Given	this	family	problem,
I	can’t	help	but	be	afraid	for	my	nine-year-old	daughter.	She’s	going	to	start
menstruating	soon	and	I	worry	about	her	risks	of	getting	breast	cancer.”	Her
fear	was	evident	in	her	voice.	“I’ve	seen	a	lot	of	research	showing	that	family
history	is	important,	and	I’m	afraid	that	it’s	inevitable	that	my	daughter	will
get	breast	cancer.	One	of	the	options	I’ve	been	thinking	about	is	a	mastectomy
for	my	daughter,	to	remove	both	breasts.	Do	you	have	any	advice?”
This	woman	was	in	an	exceptionally	difficult	position.	Does	she	let	her
daughter	grow	up	into	a	deathtrap,	or	grow	up	without	breasts?	Although
extreme,	this	question	represents	a	variety	of	similar	questions	faced	every
day	by	thousands	of	women	around	the	world.
These	questions	were	especially	encouraged	by	the	early	reports	on	the
discovery	of	the	breast	cancer	gene,	BRCA-1.	Headline	articles	in	the
New
York	Times
	and	other	newspapers	and	magazines	trumpeted	this	discovery	as
an	enormous	advance.	The	hoopla	surrounding	BRCA-1,	which	now	also
includes	BRCA-2,	reinforced	the	idea	that	breast	cancer	was	due	to	genetic
misfortune.	This	caused	great	fear	among	people	with	a	family	history	of
breast	cancer.	It	also	generated	excitement	among	scientists	and
pharmaceutical	companies.	The	possibility	was	high	that	new	technologies
would	be	able	to	assess	overall	breast	cancer	risk	in	women	by	doing	genetic
testing;	they	hoped	they	might	be	able	to	manipulate	this	new	gene	in	a	way
that	would	prevent	or	treat	breast	cancer.	Journalists	busily	started	translating
selective	bits	of	this	information	for	the	public,	relying	heavily	on	the	genetic
fatalistic	attitude.	No	doubt	this	contributed	to	the	concern	of	mothers	like
Betty.
“Well,	let	me	first	tell	you	that	I	am	not	a	physician,”	I	said.	“I	can’t	help
you	with	diagnosis	or	treatment	advice.	That’s


 e to trade it for your guru on the wall."
He couldn't understand how I could do that. He lost because
of his judgmental mindset, because I was moving towar d
unity with love.

It's inter esting that you mention walls and what look lik e
inanimate objects. I also of ten notice: I pick up an object,
say a piece of soap or a pen, and ther e is an appr eciation of
its existence, just a little moment of appr eciation; the mind
might e xplain it and say, "W ell, that's because ultimately
everything comes out of the One, tak es on a for m and then
transfor ms itself. So, in the end, everything you see or
perceive is an e xpression of the One, and if you have
recognized the One in yourself, you can r ecognize it in any
form. Nor mally we wouldn't call this love, but on a deeper
level it is a love, it is an appr eciation of what may be ar ound
us, and this again has to do with the world of for ms, living in
balance in confr ontation with the world of for ms and at the
same time r emaining gr ounded in the for mless, what is
perhaps traditionally called "spirit" as the case may be. And
in this dance and in oneself, one can feel something.
I'm going to describe a brief event when we came her e
today - so ther e's this ephemeral body that's sitting in the
car and ther e's the spirit that's tied to a name and a
personal identity; so ther e's always two pr esences - but
don't tak e any of this literally, we'r e just using indicators -
so ther e's always two pr esences, the for m : this is Eckhart,
the spiritual teacher - one concept - who is about to meet
another spiritual teacher - another concept - and they ar e
going to talk together, and outside of my consciousness, I
also knew that this was true, but the fundamental truth was:
there is a moving, per ceiving space of consciousness her e.So in any given moment, one can either be mor e on the side
of for m or mor e on the side of for mlessness. And the most
satisf ying way to live is to be mor e on the side of
formlessness. When I was in the car, I wasn't r eally pr esent
as a person but simply as a space of consciousness -
because when ther e is no thought, that's how it is. On the
other hand, if a "person" was going to an important event -
how could a "person" not be anxious - the thought would
come up: how is this going to happen? What will they say?
Will they lik e us? All sorts of things would happen... But the
essence of it all is to be able to - -and I know that people
here and those connected elsewher e are able to see the
truth of what I'm saying, and that is that mor e and mor e
people ar e able to get into a state wher e they don't have to
think. The compulsion to think disappears and is r eplaced by
presence. Silence- beautiful attentive space of silence- and
if one can be that in every moment- and of course one is
still temporarily a person and if someone asks us, "How old
are you?" or, "What is your name?" one does not need to
answer, "I am nameless and timeless!" W e can still go with
the conventions and say, yes, that's my age, that's my
name, so we use the conventions of for ms and we can
continue to cr eate in the world of for ms, but we have r oots
elsewher e: in the vastness of consciousness.

During a transition period in my home, I was so into the
dimension of br eadth that for a while, I wasn't as
comfortable with the for m. And af ter a few years, the
balance came back. The essence - and I'm sur e you agr ee
with me - is the fr eedom of thought, to access that
dimension within. R amana Maharshi said that a r eal criterion
for knowing whether one is pr ogressing on the spiritual path
- after someone ask ed him this question, "How can I
measur e my pr ogress on the spiritual path?" And R amana
Maharashi r eplied, "The degr ee of thoughtlessness is themeasur e of pr ogress on your spiritual path." It's so simple;
now you know!
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Ram Dass, you mentioned at the beginning the wor d karma
and I wanted to ask you something about that. I think a lot
of people would say that the sudden awak ening that you
had, Eck art, was a kind of fabulous, e xtraor dinary good
karma, pur e grace. R am Dass, you met your guru, Neem
Karoli Baba, and you e xperienced some kind of opening of
the heart - very good k arma, e xtraor dinary k arma - and then
the str oke happened; a str oke while you wer e sleeping -some would say that doesn't sound lik e very good k arma, it
sounds lik e bad k arma. So I'm curious how you feel about
that; So to both of you; the idea of good k arma and bad
karma in your life... is it a matter of grace and k arma?.

-RAM DAS S: My guru knew that I was going to meet
him...and...and when I found out and r ecognized him and his
consciousness, it led me to think that this meeting was a
special grace. And I thought it was his grace for me. But I
think it was my awar eness of his awar eness that led me to
that conclusion. It was lik e he knew my whole life.

My mother died of a spleen disease and my guru said it was
in the stomach in Hindu language. Then he said: it's the
spleen. And the wor d "spleen", he said it in English. So my
mother's death was used to help me. It was a "siddih", a
power that he had. And that's why I thought it was grace. In
fact, I live in that grace all the time; when I was still a
psychologist, I didn't r ead the Bhagavad Gita, a weir d book,
and then when we came down the hall fr om my oﬃce, we
came to T im Lar ry's, and so I took mushr ooms; and that
opened me up to my encounter with the Maharashi and my
encounter with the Bhagavad Gita. My guru knew all this.
That's grace. I don't think grace necessarily has to be the
result of good k arma. Grace can come suddenly at any level
of development. It can also come in the for m of bad k arma.
It can come in the for m of good k arma. It sort of comes fr om
another dimension; in my case I would say it came because
of bad k arma. W ith all the suﬀering, an unhappy childhood,
parents ﬁghting all the time, no har monious envir onment,
often little money, and then they separated, and I was very
ashamed of that, because at that time not many par ents
separated. So I had to hide this fact. And countless other
things came into play; my father, on one level I loved him,
on another I hated him, because he was lik e a powder k eg,like a bomb that had not yet e xploded and that could
explode at any moment; and so I lived my whole childhood
with a bomb that had not yet e xploded and that, of course,
also e xploded fr om time to time.

So this is not good k arma and so the young adult became
unhappy, he absorbed the unhappiness of his envir onment,
etc. All this is not good k arma, but it is pr ecisely because of
this bad k arma that the suﬀering became unbearable and
then this sur render happened, when the suﬀering was no
longer bearable, and suddenly the grace appear ed. One
may ask - I may not be able to answer it, but I am asking
the question - the fact that the devotion took place in the
midst of suﬀering must have been a grace; it may well have
been. W ell, who knows - the sur render happened, and with
the sur render, suddenly grace could ﬂow in completely.
Grace is the essence of who you ar e and it ﬂows thr ough
that for m, and in that state of grace, the density of the for m
decreases, and when it decr eases, grace can better ﬂow
through it. The density of the for m decr eases thr ough the
surrender or acceptance of something simple lik e the
present moment, just as it is. As a spiritual e xercise, if you
make that your spiritual practice, you


 it does take three months. The average doctor wants to see it
right now; he makes one test and that’s it. If it isn’t there in a week, it doesn’t exist. Iridology deals with tissue changes. When we
examine the iris, we are “reading” tissue condition. We do not directly read toxic material settlements in the bowel. When we
examine the iris, we are reading the bowel wall. W hen the healing signs appear, they are called calcium luteum lines. Improvement
in the bowel wall takes care of toxic materials in the body; it moves them along a little quicker. We may quicken elimination  of the
acids by using foods containing potassium a nd sodium. We find that magnesium relaxes the bowel for those who have tension.
Of course, we often resort to using milk of magnesia for this, but we can also use the magnesium which is found in our foods,  of
which yellow cornmeal contains the most. Magnes ium is also found in all vegetables.

Using the proper foods to bring about physical changes is slower than drug therapy; it is the natural way. We find no “undesi rable
side effects” here. When I first began seeing these changes come about in the irides of my patients’ eyes, I actually didn’t know I
was doing anything unusual. I was simply putting my patients on a right -living regime. But I then started to have X -rays taken,
because I wanted to confirm what I suspected was going on. I spent time at the Ba ttle Creek Sanitarium and began to see how the
X-rays verified what I was finding through iridology. When my iris reading indicated a bowel pocket at 3 o’clock, I found on th e
X-ray that there was a diverticulum in the bowel. I found there was a ballooned condition where the toxic materials were not being
eliminated as they should. At that time, I studied with Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, who was a master of taking care of the bowel. He
wrote on colon hygiene and also did a great deal of work with diet. One thi ng I learned was that we have “friendly” bacteria in the
bowel. These friendly bacteria keep the bowel clean from putrefaction and fermentation which produce excess gas and bad odors.
Dr. Kellogg taught that the bowel should be about 85% acidophilus bacter ia and 15% bacillus coli, or those which produce gas.
This, he stated was the right bacterial balance for a healthy bowel. I wanted to test my patients for this bacteria balance, so I sent
fecal samples from 500 of my patients to a medical laboratory to fi nd out about the relative amounts of acidophilus, bacillus
coli and acid -fast bacteria. I wanted to know the effect of the pH (acidity/alkalinity value) and to find out all I could about the
intestinal flora. The lab results averaged 85% bacillus coli, or detrimental bacteria, as compared to 15% of the acidophilus. It was
just the opposite of what it should be to be healthy! These were the results for 500 of the patients who had come to my offic e.

Obviously, the bowel of the average patient was not what i s should be. I have taken care of bowel problems through colonics. I
have recommended colonics frequently to my patients, but you see, this alone doesn’t bring healing lines into the eyes, becau se
healing signs come when there is a new chemical balance in the tissue. I deal in tissue, and when I see various bowel conditions
indicated from the eyes, I can’t tell you that the problem is always diverticula. It could be diverticula and I would say 9 t imes out
of 10 it is, because X -rays I have examined have dem onstrated it as such.

It is so important to mention that through iridology I have found reflex conditions from problems in the bowel. There is a de finite
relation between certain organ conditions and the bowel conditions as indicated in the eye. For ins tance, I examined a lady who
had torticollis (a wry neck) and when I told her I would have to adjust her neck, she refused because she’d had several adjus tments
to her neck and it only seemed to become worse each time. She just couldn’t stand to have anybo dy touch it again. Well, I’m a
chiropractor and I’m supposed to do adjustments. I was just starting in iridology but I had to do something, so I checked her  eyes
and found a black pocket. When I asked if she had ever had bowel trouble, she said she’d had i t for years ever since her neck
trouble began. Lately, the bowel problem had become worse. I prescribed an enema right away. She had three enemas and in one
hour’s time while I was still there, she obtained complete relief from the stiff neck problem. I wa lked out of there and I hadn’t
touched her neck. I only took care of the bowel. This was quite an experience and I will never forget it.

Another patient came to see me some months later who had a large abscess on his neck, and in looking into the iris of his eye, I
saw a large black hole with the most beautiful healing signs coming into it. I know you cannot have healing signs unless ther e is a
change in diet. It is very necessary to talk about food. He said he had been driving behind a citrus truck which overturned and
spilled oranges all over the road. When he stopped to help, the truck driver told him to pick up as many as he wanted, so he filled
the trunk of his car and drank orange juice for 45 days. This certainly was an extreme elimination diet, but he couldn’t get rid of
the accumulated toxic material in his body fast enough through normal elimination because he wasn’t doing enough in taking
care of the bowel. The overload of toxic material being eliminated produced the abscess on his neck.

INHERENT  WEAKNESSES
Inherent weaknesses are areas of the body where toxic materials finally accumulate. It is in these organs that infection deve lops.
We can have an infection in the lung, we can have abscessed teeth, we can have these problems in various parts of  the body, and
invariably, these infections come originally from the bowel. I have found a striking correlation in my iridology studies over  the last
45 years, confirming that there is a definite relationship between conditions in sections of the bowel and  conditions in other
specific parts of the body. When a patient complains of a breast condition, there is a certain place in the bowel that I susp ect
harbors a low -grade infection which is affecting the breast area; or, other areas of the body nay have pro blems that can be traced to
the bowel. Why separately treat any organ in the body if we find that the source of the problem is in the bowel? Look again t o John
Wayne. Is it possible that he should have been treated in the bowel area before the stomach and lung? I wonder also about the
famous comedian, Jack Benny, who had a perfect examination just two months before he died of cancer. Could his death have
been prevented?

In one instance, a boy came to me with left leg problems. He had been treated for three  years with massage, mechanical and
chemical treatments. Examining the iris of his eye, I found a section of the sigmoid colon, the last part of the colon before  it goes
to the rectal area, I that was quite black. Since we cannot identify a disease from th e iris, I refused to treat him until he had an X -
ray. He had not had an X -ray until that time. It was discovered that he had cancer of the sigmoid colon and this boy died six
months later. I believe this tumor was causing the reflex conditions in his leg, but he had been treated only for the leg problem. We
had many experiences in which black areas in patients’ irides showed specific troubles in various organs in the body, and I’v e been
able to verify these in thousands of cases.

I have seen many good resu lts from caring for the bowel. I haven’t confirmed complete relief coming only from colonics. I’ve seen
relief, but if you don’t change the diet, I don’t believe colonics are worth anything. If you don’t take care of your marriag e
problems or financial dis turbances, I believe you can create more acids, more mucus problems and more disturbances with
distressed bowels, colitis and ulcers. With all the technical treatments available today, I believe we have to consider a com plete
cleansing that’s physical, men tal and spiritual.

At the Battle Creek Sanitarium, they showed that you have to have a sufficient amount of the acidophilus bacteria, the friend ly
bacteria, as compared to the bacillus coli or the gas -producing bacteria. There are certain foods that produ ce and help to develop
friendly bacteria and there are certain foods that break down friendly bacteria. Meat can break down friendly bacteria when y ou
consume too much, especially when you have a static bowel or a lazy colon. We find that coffee destroys t he friendly bacteria in
the bowel more readily than anything. Chocolate also breaks down the friendly bacteria, as do over -cooked foods. We should
be working toward cleansing the body through better nutrition, more exercise, by changing our life habits


 embody a  new and higher  concept of ourselves, then all other  kinds of
help will be  at our service.
The ideal we serve  and hope to achieve  is ready for a  new incarnation;
but unless we  offer it human parentage it is incapable  of birth. We  must
affirm that we  are already that which  we hope  to be and live as though
we were, knowing  like Dr. Millikan, that our assumption, though false  to
the outer  world, if persisted  in, will harden into fact.
The perfect man judges not after  appearances; he  judges righteously.
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenHe sees himself and others as he  desires himself and  them to be. He
hears what he  wants to hear. He  sees and  hears only the  good. He knows
the truth, and  the truth sets him free and  leads him to   good. The  truth
shall set all mankind  free. This is our spiritual revival. Character  is largely
the result of the  direction and   persistence of voluntary attention.
"Think  truly, and  thy thoughts shall the  world’s famine  feed; Speak  truly,
and each word  of thine  shall be  a fruitful seed;  Live truly, and  thy life shall
be a great and  noble  creed."

More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenRadio Lecture
By Imagination We Become
Radio  Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, July, 1951.
How many times have  we heard  someone  say, "Oh, it’s only his imagina -
tion?"
Only his imagination,  man’s imagination is the  man himself. No man has
too little   imagination, but few men have  disciplined  their imagination.
Imagination is itself indestructible.  Therein lies the  horror of its misuse.
Daily, we  pass some  stranger  on the street and  observe  him muttering  to
himself, carrying  on an imaginary argument with one  not present. He is
arguing  with vehemence, with fear or with hatred, not realizing  that he is
setting  in motion, by his imagination, an unpleasant event which he  will
presently encounter.
The world, as imagination sees it, is the  real world. Not facts, but fig -
ments of the  imagination, shape our daily lives. It is the  exact and  literal
minded  who live  in a fictitious world. Only imagination can restore the
Eden from which experience has driven us out. Imagination is the sense
by which we  perceived  the above, the  power  by which we  resolve vision
into being. Every stage of man’s progress is made by the  exercise  of the
imagination.
It is only because  men do not perfectly imagine  and believe  that their re -
sults are  sometimes uncertain when they might always be  perfectly cer -
tain. Determined  imagination is the  beginning  of all successful operation.
The imagination, alone, is the  means of fulfilling  the intention. The  man
who, at will, can call up  whatever  image he  pleases is, by virtue  of the
power of his imagination, least of all subject to caprice. The  solitary or
captive  can, by intensity of imagination and  feeling, affect myriads so that
he can act through many men and  speak  through many voices.
"We should  never  be certain," wrote  William Butler  Yeats in his 'Ideas of
Good and Evil,' "that it was not some  woman treading  in the  wine press
who began that subtle change  in men’s minds, or that the  passion did  not
begin in the  mind of some  shepherd boy, lighting  up his eyes for a  mo-
ment before  it ran upon its way."
Let me  tell you  the story of a  very dear friend  of mine, at the time the
costume  designer  of the  Music  Hall in New  York. She  told me, one day, of
her difficulty in working  with one of the  producers who invariably criti -
cized and rejected  her best work  unjustly; that he  was often rude and
seemed  deliberately unfair to her.
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenUpon hearing  her story, I reminded  her, as I am reminding  you, that men
can only echo to  us that which we whisper  to them in secret. I had  no
doubt that she  silently argued with the  producer, not in the  flesh, but in
quiet moments to herself. She  confessed  that she did  just that each
morning  as she  walked  to work. I asked  her to change  her attitude to -
ward him, to assume  that he  was congratulating  her on her  fine designs
and she, in turn, was thanking  him for his praise  and kindness. This
young  designer  took my advice and  as she  walked  to the  theater, she
imagined  a perfect relationship  of the  producer praising  her work and she,
in turn, responding  with gratitude  for his appreciation.
This she  did morning  after morning  and in a very short while, she  discov -
ered for herself that her  own attitude  determined  the scenery of her  exis-
tence. The  behavior of the  producer completely reversed  itself. He be -
came  the most pleasant professional employer she  had encountered. His
behavior merely echoed  the changes that she  had whispered  within her -
self. What she  did was by the  power  of imagination. Her  fantasy led  his;
and she, herself, dictated  to him the  discourse  they eventually had  to-
gether  at the  time she was seemingly walking  alone.
Let us set ourselves, here  and now, a  daily exercise  of controlling  and dis-
ciplining  our imagination. What finer  beginning  than to imagine better
than the  best we  know  for a friend. There  is no coal of character  so dead
that it will not glow  and flame  if but slightly  turned.
Don’t blame; only resolve.  Life, like music,  can by a  new setting  turn all
its discords into harmonies. Represent your friend  to yourself as already
expressing  that which he  desires to   be. Let us know  that with whatev -
er attitude  we approach another, a  similar  attitude approaches us. How
can we do this?
Do what my friend  did. To establish rapport, call your friend  mentally. Fo -
cus your attention on him and  mentally call his name  just as you would
to attract his attention were  you to see him on the  street. Imagine  that
he has answered, mentally hear his voice –  imagine  that he  is telling you
of the  great good  you have desired  for him. You, in turn, tell him of your
joy in witnessing  his good  fortune. Having  mentally  heard  that which you
wanted  to hear, having  thrilled  to the  news heard, go about your daily
task.
Your imagined  conversation must awaken what it affirmed; the accep -
tance  of the  end wills the  means. And  the wisest reflection could  not de -
vise more effective  means than those  which  are willed  by the  acceptance
of the  end. However, your conversation with your friend   must be  in a
manner  which does not express the  slightest doubt as to the  truth of what
you imagine  that you  hear and  say. If you  do not control your imagina -
tion, you  will find  that you  are hearing  and saying  all that you  formerly
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenheard  and said.
We are creatures of habit; and  habit, though not law, acts like  the most
compelling  law in the  world. With this knowledge of the  power  of imagina -
tion, be  as the  disciplined  man and  transform your world  by imagining
and feeling  only what is lovely and  of good  report. The  beautiful idea you
awaken in yourself shall not fail to arouse  its affinity in others.  Do not
wait four months for the  harvest. Today is the  day to practice the control
and discipline  of your imagination. Man is only  limited  by weakness of at -
tention and  poverty of imagination. The  great secret is a controlled  imagi -
nation and  a well sustained  attention, firmly and  repeatedly focused  on
the object to be  accomplished.
"Now  is the  acceptable  time to give  beauty for ashes, joy for mourning,
praise  for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be  called  trees of right -
eousness, the  planting  of the  Lord that He might be  glorified."
Now is the  time to control our imagination and  attention. By control, I do
not mean restraint by will power but rather  cultivation through love and
compassion. With so much of the  world  in discord  we cannot possibly em -


 Your sleep is more restful, dreams are more pleasant, Your personality will change drastically.
Since you are in a state of utter contentment, you will radiate your feelings outwardly in expressions of kindness and
love - rather than in impatience, irrit ability, sarcasm as previously, before you changed your eating habits.

NO EXAGGERATION
I am sure that the reader at this moment feels that all this is pure exaggeration. It doesn't seem possible that such a
simple act could lead to such a revolutionary ch ange in all your feelings and behavior. Yet, I must insist that not only is
there no exaggeration, but rather, I am trying to hold back and understate my expressions of the wonderful and
profound effects of this very simple practice.
It is a fact that the less you eat, the longer you live, the slower you age, and the more energy is available for physical
and mental work. The body has more energy left for detoxication and rejuvenation. By eating with attention, you will
be satisfied with very much less, 40 t o 60% of before, and you will digest and assimilate more from less food.
The amount of energy you will save by eating and digesting less will be enormous. Within a few weeks you will see
more youthful changes in your appearance. Your mind and feelings will  soar with inspiration which will carry over into
all your thoughts and activities.

IMPOSSIBLE TO GLUTTONIZE
It may seem logical to many people that eating while watching TV or having pleasant conversation actually enhances
the meal, makes it more pleasan t and enjoyable - but the exact opposite is true.
You will need almost double the amount of food before you stop eating - due to the division of attention causing a
great loss of eating and tasting.
I have found in endless experiments with myself that it i s almost impossible for me to gluttonize when I eat with total
attention to the taste of the food. I would literally have to force myself to eat more than 60% of what I usually eat when
not paying attention
The small amount of pleasure gained by the distra ction is miniscule compared to the tremendous loss of taste
satisfaction and ecstasy as compared to eating with full attention.

A SIMPLE WAY TO BEGIN
The conditioned addiction caused by almost a lifetime of combining eating with reading, talking, or watch ing TV is
very pernicious and may be very difficult to break, even though fully attentive eating is the usual, the most natural way
of eating for all living creatures.
A simple way to begin, is to try 1 meal a day for 5 days without distractions. When it becomes easier, try 2 meals and
continue it until it becomes easy and enjoyable.
Then you can add the final meal. (And snacks if desired).

BREAKING FREE FROM COMPULSIVE EATING
Geneen Roth in her book, "Breaking Free From Compulsive Eating" (a Signet Book)  advocates eating anything you
desire, whenever you like, even junk food with one condition - that you eat it slowly, chew it thoroughly, and eat it with
total attention and without distraction. The result is that you are quickly satisfied with a small amo unt before you stop
eating.
She claims that since she was free to eat anything at will, but with attention, the thoughts of food gradually began to
vanish, leaving her free for a much more active social life and relationships. The previous suppression of h er
appetites had led to obsession with food.
FOOD ADDICTION
I have one patient, a woman who was addicted to food all her life, with bulimia, who vomited up her food after every
meal. She swears that for 2 years now, since eating with attention, and since n othing is forbidden, she has stopped
thinking of food, except when hungry and then she is satisfied with a small amount of food.
For those who feel they cannot give up junk food or diet at all, they can begin with this approach provided that they eat
with total attention. Then when ease and comfort is gained with attentive eating, they can begin to upgrade the quality
of their food, combine foods properly, etc.

THE BOOK OF SECRETS
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in vol. 3 of "The Book of Secrets", containing Discou rses on Vigyana Bhairava Tantra on
the ancient scripture on Tantra by Lord Shiva (in 5 vols. ) which contain all of 112 meditation techniques known, has
this to say on p.19:

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The fifth technique.
"When eating or drinking, become the taste of the food or drink, and be filled."
We go on eating things; we cannot live without them. But we eat them very unconsciously, automatically, robot -like. If
the taste is not lived, you are just stuffing. Go slow, and be aware of the taste. And only when you go slow can you be
aware. Do not just go on swallowing things. Taste them unhurriedly and become the taste.
When you feel sweetness, become that sweetness. And then it can be felt all over the body - not just in the mouth,
not just on the tongue; it can be felt all over the body. 'A certain sweetness' is spreading in ripples - or anything else.
"Whatsoever you are  eating, feel the taste and become the taste."
---- Tantra says taste it as much as possible; be more sensitive, alive. And not only be sensitive: become the taste.
"With avoidance of taste, your senses will be deadened."
They will become less and less sen sitive. And with less sensitivity, you will not be able to feel your body, you will not
be able to feel your feelings. Then you will just remain centered in the head. This centeredness in the head is the split.
Tantra says do not create any division within  yourself. It is beautiful to taste; it is beautiful to be sensitive. And if you
are more sensitive you will be more alive, and if you are more alive, then more life will enter your inner being. You will
be more open.
"You can eat things without tasting; you can touch someone without touching; it is not difficult."
"When eating or drinking, become the taste of the food or drink, and be filled by the taste; When drinking water, feel
the coolness. Close your eyes, drink it slowly, taste it. Feel that you hav e become that coolness; it is becoming a part
of your body. Allow its ripples to spread, and you will feel a coolness all over your body.
In this way your sensitivity can grow, and you can become more alive and more filled.
We are feeling frustrated, vacan t - empty, and we go on talking that life is empty. But we are the reason. We are not
filling it and we are not allowing anything to fill it.
We have an armor around us - a defense armor, We are afraid to be vulnerable, so we go on defending against
everyt hing. And then we become tombs - dead things.”
"Tantra says be alive, more alive, because life is God. There is no other God than life. Be more alive, and you will be
more Divine. Be totally alive, and there is no death for you (p. 392). "

ALERTNESS
While  eating, eat: chew with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't do it mechanically.
Walk with alertness, and you will walk differently: a different grace comes to your walking. You move more slowly,
more beautifully....
When I say "feel", I mean observe. First do it mechanically and then with awareness, and you will be able to feel the
difference.
For example, if you eat with awareness, then you cannot eat more than is needed by the body.

CONSCIOUSNESS
People go on coming to me and they say, "Put us on a diet." I tell them: Don't think of diet. Think of consciousness.
By dieting nothing will happen. You cannot do it. You will do it one day and the next day it will go. You cannot continue
it.
Rather eat with awareness. The quality changes. If you eat with  awareness, you will chew more. With unconscious
mechanical habits, you simply go on pushing things into your stomach. You are not chewing at all: you are just
stuffing.
Then there is no pleasure, and because there is no pleasure, you need more food in order to get the pleasure. There
is no taste, so you need more food.
Just be alert and see what happens. If you are alert, you will chew more, you will feel the taste more, you will feel the
pleasure of eating. And much more time will be taken.
If you take  half an hour to eat your meal, then by taking the same quantity of a meal with full awareness you will need
1 1/2 hours - thrice the time. In half an hour you will have eaten only one -third of the quantity, and you will feel more
fulfilled: you will have enjoyed the meal more.

THE BODY TELLS YOU TO STOP
And when the body enjoys, it tells you when to stop. When the body has not enjoyed at all, it never says when to stop,
so you go on. Then the body becomes dull. You never hear


 very high-vitamin cod liver
oil, it produces a product that is more efficient than either alone. It should be used within a couple
of weeks of the time it is mixed. It is desirable that this material be made available in various parts
of the country. Even the high-vitamin butter produced on the early summer growth of grass put in
storage and used during the winter will go far toward solving our great national problem of
shortage of fat-soluble vitamins. The quantity of the mixture of butter oil and cod liver oil required
is quite small, half a teaspoonful three times a day with meals is sufficient to control wide-spread
tooth decay when used with a diet that is low in sugar and starches and high in foods providing the
minerals, particularly phosphorus. A teaspoonful a day divided between two or three meals is
usually adequate to prevent dental caries and maintain a high immunity; it will also maintain freedom
from colds and a high level of health in general. This reinforcement of the fat-soluble vitamins to a
menu that is low in starches and sugars, together with the use of bread and cereal grains freshly
ground to retain the full content of the embryo or germ, and with milk for growing children and for
many adults, and the liberal use of sea foods and organs of animals, produced the result described.
   I have previously reported (3) seventeen cases of extensive dental caries. In these patients there
were found 237 open cavities of apparently active caries. Most of the individuals were between
twelve and twenty years of age and accordingly had twenty-eight permanent teeth each, or a total
of 476. It will be noted that if one cavity is allowed per tooth, approximately half of the total
number of teeth were affected, or precisely 49.7 per cent of all the teeth had open cavities. This
group includes only persons of whom I have been making critical examination every six to twelve
months over a three-year period. In practically all cases, Roentgen-ray examinations were made in
addition to clinical examinations of the teeth. While these persons have been on the reinforced7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 178/250nutritional program during the winter and spring months of the past three years, only two new
cavities have developed in the group, or 0.4 per cent. The length of time during which the cavities
previously found had been developing is not known beyond the fact that all of the patients were
receiving frequent and thorough dental service, most of them twice a year and many of them more
frequently. It is accordingly probable that the cavities found had developed in less than a year. That
dental caries was not a new problem with these persons was indicated by the very extensive and
numerous dental restorations that had been made in their mouths. It is, therefore, apparent that 250
times as many cavities developed in the period preceding the starting of the nutritional program as
in the three years following its adoption. If these data were reduced to a yearly basis, the
comparison would show a much wider variation.
   In a group of fifty persons, including the above mentioned seventeen, who had been on the
special nutritional program for from one to six years, most of them three years or more, only two
new cavities developed. Allowing these persons to have an average of twenty-eight teeth per
person, or a total of 1,400 teeth, this would represent an incidence of dental caries in a period of
three years of 0.14 per cent. In this group of fifty, there are many instructive and striking cases.
   For example, H. F. did not have a single cavity from October, 1932, to June, 1933, while taking
additional vitamins and high mineral foods. From June, 1933, to May, 1934, while not taking the
special vitamins, she developed ten new cavities.
   S. K., prior to 1931 had rampant tooth decay with pulps nearly exposed in all first permanent
molars. The remaining deciduous teeth had been reduced to shells. She was on the special
nutritional program from December, 1931, to June, 1932, during which time caries was completely
arrested. She discontinued taking special oil in June, 1932, and did not take it again until October,
1933, during most of which time she was taking viosterol under a physician's prescription to
prevent dental caries. She came in October, 1933, with fourteen new cavities. She was
immediately placed again on the special program, from October, 1933, to May, 1934. During this
period, the dental caries was completely under control. During the time that she was not on the
special program, there developed on many of the surfaces of the permanent teeth white patches of
decalcifying enamel. Under the reinforced nutritional program, these largely disappeared, and those
that did not regain their translucency turned dark.
   Among the group of seventeen J. H., sent in from another city, had thirty-eight open cavities in
June, 193 1. In addition to active caries, he had quite disturbing heart symptoms, which curtailed
his activity, and he also had a marked sense of lassitude and weariness. He has been on the
reinforced nutritional program during the fall, winter and spring of each year since that time. During
this time, he has not developed a single new cavity. The density of all the teeth has progressively
improved as evidenced by Roentgen-ray records. His physical condition has been greatly
improved so that he is able to carry on his college activities and heavy outside work to earn money
to maintain his college expenses. He is not conscious of a heart limitation. When asked what the
principal change was that he had noticed, he said that in addition to not feeling tired, he was more
rested with six hours' sleep than formerly with ten hours'.
   A. W. had thirty-two new cavities in the two years previous to beginning the special nutritional
reinforcement. She continued this regularly during the winter and spring months for three years and
has not had a single new cavity since that time.
   In a group of children whose mothers had the special nutritional reinforcement during gestation
and lactation and who had been provided with the same dietary adjuncts during the winter and
spring months of infancy and early childhood, not a single carious cavity has developed. A number
of these children are now in public schools. Their physical development is distinctly above that of
the average children of their age, as is also their efficiency in school work.
   It is important that I emphasize here some dangers that are not usually recognized or properly
emphasized in the literature. When fish oils including cod liver oils are given in too large doses to
some patients they experience quite definite symptoms of depression. The available evidence7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 179/250indicates that fish oils that have been exposed to the air may develop toxic substances. My work
and that of others with experimental animals has demonstrated that paralysis can be produced
readily by over-dosing. Serious structural damage can be done to hearts and kidneys. I have
reported this in considerable detail. (4) My investigations have shown that when a high vitamin
natural cod liver oil is used in conjunction with a high vitamin butter oil the mixture is much more
efficient than either alone.4 This makes it possible to use very small doses. Except in the late stages
of pregnancy I do not prescribe more than half a teaspoonful with each of three meals a day. This
procedure appears to obviate completely the undesirable effects. As stated elsewhere fish oils
should be stored in small containers to avoid exposure to the air. Rancid fats and oils destroy
vitamins A and E, (5)  the former in the stomach. (6)
    I am frequently reminded that ancient skulls are often found with extensive dental caries thus
disproving that the primitive groups were more free from dental caries than the modern groups. It
must be kept in mind that the fundamental laws of Nature have been in operation as long as
animals and men have been on the earth. In my investigations among primitive races, I have been
concerned particularly with the study of changes that have taken place both in immunity to dental
caries and in the environment, including the foods used. It has been important that I find large
groups with relatively high immunity to dental caries to be used as controls. There is great need,
accordingly, that additional data be provided. Fortunately, this need is being met. There have just
come to my desk two interesting reports; one, from Dr. Arne Hoygaard (7)  and the other from Dr.
P. O. Pedersen. (8) These two distinguished scientists have spent a year in East Greenland among
the Eskimos in that very barren and isolated region. The percentage of teeth found attacked by
dental caries among the isolated Eskimos of East Greenland is exceedingly low, less than 1 per
cent. Where the Eskimos were in contact with modernized store foods at the port, tooth decay
was active. The conditions which they have found were apparently not quite so favorable as in the
groups I studied in Alaska. The Greenland Eskimos apparently are living in a more difficult
environment. The data provided by these investigations are in accord with the data I have obtained
among isolated Eskimos and other primitive racial stocks