er workouts 317, 322, 323
 hand self-help sequences 146, 147, 158,
  159, 160
 hand sequences 126, 127, 138, 139
 headaches & migraines 252, 253
 techniques 123, 143
 tired & sore hands 327
walking 290-1 barefoot 16, 60, 61, 302, 303
women 184, 230-7, 284 pregnancy & childbirth 51, 55, 57, 238-
  41, 291
 research studies 51, 55
 shoes 60-1, 291
workouts see foot workouts; hand workouts
Zones & zone charts 16, 20-1, 22-4
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SPIRITUALITY
The Spiritual Dimension  is the key article here with an outline of the basic principles of spirituality and the spiritual path.
If you are interested in the spiritual path itself, then see The Spiritual Path. If you find this too complicated
and  want a simple prescription for spiritual growth, then read A Spiritual Path For The New Millennium.
For an outline of a rational spiritual philosophy see also my article, The Science of Spirituality.
If you like the idea of spiritualising your sex life, then have a look at Spiritual Sex  and Sex and Spirituality.
The Saint and His V irigin  is about Sacred Sexuality  in Early Christianity and the Inner Teachings of Jesus.
See also:  An Integrated Spiritual Path.
SOME INTERESTING LINKS
For interesting articles and free books from David Wilcock see  www.divinecosmos.com.
For information on Gnosticism and the Gnostic Gospels see  www.gnosis.org.
For a site on  OM  meditation, Kriya Yoga, a free book and links to spiritual sites see:   www.ThehOMeFoundation.com.
OmPLACE describe themselves as 'The Conscious Living Directory & Alternative NewsRoom' at:
www.omplace.com.
For interesting channelling see  http://kryon.com.
The importance of selﬂess service is highlighted in the Ra Teachings of the Law of One. According to this, the main
criterion for moving from the prese nt human condition to the next higher level of consciousness is the degree of our
service to others. To get to this higher or trans-human level, our interaction with others in thought, word or deed needs to
result in at least 51% of our actions being selﬂess or in service to others.  You can ﬁnd a short summery of the Law of One
at  http://www.lawofone.info/q_and_a.php, while a longer version is at: Divine Cosmos. A comprehensive compilation
of questions and answers is at  http://www.lawofone.info/.
Another source of inspired spiritual insights are the Abraham-Hicks Teachings at:
www.abraham-hicks.com/Knowledge/Abraham/teachings.html. Here is a condensation of the main points:
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https://health-science-spirit.com/Spirituality/Spirituality- The-Magic-Presence.html 1/2•   You are a Physical Extension of that which is Non-physical.
•   You are here in this body because you chose to be here.
•   The basis of your life is Freedom; the purpose of your life is Joy.
•   You are a creator; you create with your every thought.
•   Anything that you can imagine is yours to be or do or have.
•   You are choosing your creations as you are choosing your thoughts.
•   The Universe adores you; for it knows your broadest intentions.
•   Relax into your natural W ell-being. All is well. (Really it is!)
•   You are a creator of thoughtways on your unique path of joy.
•   Actions to be taken and money to be exchanged are by-products of your focus on joy.
•   You may appropriately depart your body without illness or pain.
•   You cannot die; you are Everlasting Life.
Disclaimer: The aim of this web site is to provide information on using natural healing methods to aid in the treatment of illness and health improvement.
The author cannot accept any legal responsibility for any problem arising from experimenting with these methods. For any serious disease,
or if you are unsure about a particular course of action, seek the help of a competent health professional.
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by W alter Last
We may not always get what we want... but we always get what we choose.Therefore, choose wisely.
Our conscious decisions are made on the mental level with our mind. Therefore, all healing and all improvement in our living
conditions start at this level. It is here that we must take the ﬁrst step with a conscious decision that we want to improve conditions by
following a suitable program. If we see the progression of our lives as a creative process, then we may see the mind as the architect.
In our society rational thinking and the intellect are worshipped, while feeling and intuition are grossly neglected. The reason for this
imbalance can be found in the distorted goals and ideals of our society that has lost sight of the 'inner values' and externalized all
values. Thus, inner riches, such as wisdom, devotion, patience, compassion, are replaced with material riches; inner purity is
forsaken and traded in for excess ive external cleanliness and hygiene, while success is measured as monetary wealth and
dominance instead of self-mastery.
Thinking is the most important tool for achieving such external success, while tender feelings are a disadvantage for success in our
society. However, thinking is basically neutral and we can also use it to our advantage in healing our body as well as our emotions.
Proper thinking is required to discard unsuitable beliefs and replace them with an appropriate belief system. If we accept that
negative thoughts and beliefs are an originating cause of our health and social problems, then we may say that our mind is in need of
healing by replacing disease-forming negative beliefs with health-giving positive beliefs.
THE POWER OF THE MIND
Our mind has truly awesome power s, not only in making as sick or unhappy, but also in making us healthy and happy. It is like a
powerful weapon or tool and it is up to us in which way we want to use it. In various clinical trials mind therapies have been shown to
be much more effective than conventional cancer therapies. To illustrat e the overriding importance of the mind, I like to relate two
examples (from the book ‘Remarkable Recovery’  by Caryle Hirshberg & Marc Ian Barasch, Headline Book).
An elderly male with huge tumor masses all through the body, according to expert opinion, had been given less than 3 months to live.
At that time trials with the alternative remedy Krebiozen were being started. Despite not being eligible to participate because of his
short life expectancy, his enthusiasm about the remedy was so overwhelming to his doctor that he gave him the remedy outside the
trial.
A few days after his ﬁrst injections his tumors had already halved in size and continued to reduce until they had virtually disappeared
and the man felt completely healthy and well. However, two months later he read a report in a newspaper that the trial was a failure
and Krebiozen was useless. Immediately he fell ill and relapsed with his tumors quickly regrowing to their previous size.
His doctor was so astonished by these strong responses that he decided  to make an experiment. He told the patient that the ﬁrst trial
had not worked because the remedy was too old. Now he was waiting for a fresh supply that would be double strength. A few days
later he was given the injection and this time the tumors disappeared even faster than the ﬁrst time and again


 bed in a similar position or on the right side; use a plastic sheet underneath.
Lubricate the rectal tube and insert it slowly up to a depth of about 20 or 30 cm. If there is any pain or discomfort, do not insert any
further. Expel the ﬁrst lot of water when increasing pressure is felt. After that, you should be able to hold much more water. When
renewed pressure is felt, stop the inﬂow of water and assume different positions, especially lying on the right side for a while to ﬁll the
ascending colon. Repeat the expulsion and intake of water until all of it has been used.
Finally, if available, you may introduce a pint of diluted fresh juice of grass or green leaves and retain that for up to 30 minutes. This is
the standard procedure for home colonics that applies to all people with normal or acid body conditions. The addition of baking soda
is to neutralize the often overacid  bowel conditions, while the salt acts partly as a drawing agent and partly to prevent
demineralization of the blood plasma by osmosis, which could cause shock. This is important for people with low blood pressure and
a poor circulation.
However, those with high blood pressure or very weak kidneys should not add salt and baking soda to the colonic water but use very
diluted lemon juice instead. If this causes soreness, or if the body is not too alkaline, use diluted fresh juice of green-vegetable
leaves.
If you cannot use a colonic at home, have a series of professional colonics done at a hydrotherapy centre. Everyone would beneﬁt
from some form of bowel cleansing from time to time. Instead of a series of colonics, you may use the Basic Cleanse.
COFFEE ENEMA  - For stimulating and detoxifying the liver in the case of serious conditio ns, for example, cancer, a series of coffee
enemas may be helpful, especially if there is pain and discomfort. Boil 2 tablespoons of ground coffee (not instant coffee) for three
minutes in 1 litre of water, simmer for a further 15 minutes and strain; rinse the coffee grounds with some more water. Use this as a
retention enema after cleaning the bowels with a normal enema or colon ic. If you can hold only part of the coffee, use the rest with a
repeat enema. Try to hold for 10 to 20 minutes. Do not use this if you are allergic or sensitive to cof fee.
OXYGENA TING COLONIC  - This can often improve the wellbeing of people with a poor oxygen metabolism -patients with cancer, for
example. These oxygenating colonics are available at some hydrotherapy centres.
As an alternative for home treatmen t, you may add hydrogen peroxide to a'rectal implant' after the colon has been cleaned with an
ordinary colonic. Use up to one litre of hand-warm liquid in which 1 teaspoon of salt has been dissolved. Initially, include 1 tablespoon
of 6 per cent or 2 tablespoons of 3 per cent hydrogen peroxide. Hold this inside for about 10 minutes. If this is well tolerated, double
the amount of hydrogen peroxide with each successive treatment until it becomes too uncomfortable and you cannot hold it any
more. Then cut back to the preceding level and continue at that rate.10/30/24, 8:18 AM Health-Science-Spirit - Hydrotherapy Packs & Colonics
https://health-science-spirit.com/Healing_the_Body/Hydrotherapy-Packs-and-Colonics.html 4/5For 'terminal' patients, and under professional supervision, one may start at higher levels and include up to 250 ml of 3 per cent
hydrogen peroxide. This may induce the evacuation of much stinking waste during the following days and the patient may look and
feel worse. After this, however, there should be a considerable improvement.
VOMITING THERAPY
Induced vomiting, often called an 'upward purge', is very effective for a wide range of acute and chronic conditions, such as asthma,
bronchial problems, catarrh, digestive disorders and indigestion, gastritis, hysteria, infections, liver and gall-bladder problems,
lumbago, migraine, poisoning including snakebites, and skin diseases including eczema, gangrene and psoriasis.
While vomiting also clears out mucus and decomposing matter, the main beneﬁt is derived from relaxing the digestive organs and the
diaphragm while stimulating the solar plexus. A need for this therapy is indicated especially by contracted intestinal reﬂex areas in the
iris, but also if these are whitish or brownish and especially with black lines (radii solaris).
To induce vomiting, drink ﬁve or six cups of lukewarm water and touch or tickle the throat far down. Repeat until the water comes
back clear. Instead of water, an emetic herb tea may be used: adder's tongue, bayberry bark, black root, boneset, horehound, lobelia
(large doses), mustard, ragwort, vervain. Afterwards drink mint tea to settle the stomach.
Disclaimer: The aim of this web site is to provide information on using natural healing methods to aid in the treatment of illness and health improvement.
The author cannot accept any legal responsibility for any problem arising from experimenting with these methods. For any serious disease,
or if you are unsure about a particular course of action, seek the help of a competent health professional.
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by W alter Last
You cannot become a master by remaining a follower.
The purpose of life, including our human life, is the evolution of consciousness. The aim of our human existence is to become as fully
human as possible, to realise or make real the full potential inherent in the human condition. This applies to all levels of being human,
to the biological, the emotional as well as the mental level.
Instead of seeing yourself as just a personality with a mind and a body, imagine yourself as part of an individualised life-stream that
ﬂows eternally towards increasingly higher levels of consciousness. This life-stream builds itself different personalities as vehicles for
its ﬂow of consciousness. You are one of these temporary vehicles. Your personality is temporary, the present cutting edge of your
life-stream as perceived in our space-time.
The aim of your life-stream at this level is to develop a vehicle that allows the full expression of your soul suitable for travel beyond
the human condition. When this is accomplished, no further personalities are needed. As an ascended being the life-stream can now
traverse the trans-human conditions of consciousness.
SPIRITUAL  AWAKENING
This evolution of consciousness normally is a slow process and most personalities are not aware that they are part of an evolutionary
growth. However, as the personality comes closer to perfection, it does become aware of its purpose and it begins to long for spiritual
unfoldment. Before this spiritual awakening, the personality may already have believed in God and followed a religious faith in the
traditional way. But there is a difference. In the traditional religious life the believer may try to follow the doctrines of his faith the best
he can, but he basically remains on the same slow evolutionary path of consciousness.
With the spiritual awakening, spiritual growth becomes the main focus of this personality. The slow evolutionary process now
becomes a spiritual revolution, not only in regard to the speed of the growth of consciousness but also in regard to the overthrow of
established values. This spiritual revolution may take place within the conﬁnes of an established religion or it may happen outside a
religious faith. Within a religion, these awakening spirits will sooner or later come in conﬂict with established doctrines. They may try
to revolutionise or restore their church to its highest ideals and eventually become mystics or saints or martyrs or just start their own
church or sect. Most established religions had at best an uneasy relationship with their mystics and (later) saints.
In any way, whether the awakening and subsequent spiritual growth takes place within or without an established religion, the
awakening personality will begin to follow the spiritual guidance that comes from within rather than the established rules and
doctrines of church and society. Spirituality is no longer something that one does on Sunday mornings or other established times and
according to established rules, but rather it becomes the central purpose  and focus of life. With this, we may say that the personality
is now on the spiritual path.
VARIETIES OF SPIRITUAL  PATHS
While the real goal of the spiritual path is the same for all, there are many different roads that one can travel and one may even travel
without a road. Also the goal may be described in different terms without always recognising that it is the same goal. This is so
because we all have different starting points and different preferences and opportunities. Many spiritual travellers will not expect to
reach their goal in their present lifetime, while others may realise that they do not really need to travel anywhere.
Some of the better-deﬁned roads are the different forms of Yoga, the Tao, the Gnostic teachings, the Rosicrucians and various
ancient and modern Mystery  Schools. While the Mystics are generally regarded as a distinct group, they really travelled each on


 toluene  and xy-
lene. These are found in paint (persons with seizures should
never be around fresh paint) but are also found in trace amounts
in carbonated beverages. A person with seizures should drink no
commercial beverages: see the Recipe section for homemade
carbonated and other beverages. There are several other specific
brain irritants that accumulate at the seizure  center.
The food fungus, ergot, is always seen in seizure  cases. Per-
haps it can act alone to produce seizures. After all, seizures are
an ancient malady, existing long before chemicals and solvents
were manufactured.
MSG, which is monosodium glutamate  should never be used
in food. It was already banned in infant food in Europe a decade
ago. Why are we still allowing it? Are our children not as
precious? Healthy adults may tolerate it better than young
children. But what about sick adults? Specifically, adults with a
brain illness? Glutamic acid is a natural constituent of protein  in
our foods. And the sodium  glutamate it must form in the body
does no harm. But MSG is not biologically produced. It is lab-
made. Lab-made amino acid s are not the same as biologically
made. Perhaps it is these “isomers”, perhaps it is the simple
overdose of a natural thing that is brain-toxic. Whatever the
mechanism, MSG should not be consumed by anyone, let alone a
seizure  sufferer. Fortunately, you can ask at restaurants, where
(not whether) MSG is used so you can avoid these foods.
BHT  and BHA, standing for bishydroxytoluene  and bishy-
droxyanisole  are food preservatives and also seizure  triggers.
They are often put on the boxes  of cereals, rather than the cere als
themselves, so the cereals can be pronounced preservative-free.
Imagine how much the box must be drenched with to pre vent
oxygen leakage into the interior?NON-PAINFUL DISEASES
233A more insidious seizure  trigger is a perfectly natural sub-
stance, malvin. Malvin is the natural dye found in grapes,
strawberries, plums and blueberries. Stop eating strawberry and
grape jam  or juice. Chickens and the eggs they lay, have lots of
malvin too, stop eating chicken  and eggs.
Here are foods relatively free of malvin : artichokes, aspara-
gus, almonds, barley, beans of all kinds, green beans, broccoli,
Brussels sprouts, cantaloupe, celery, nectarines, citrus, dates,
mango, pears, kiwi, pineapple, Granny Smith apples.14
To Summarize
To stop your seizures on a dime, and not have another one:
1.Avoid malvin  in food. Eat nothing colored red or blue,
chicken, eggs, MSG, BHA  & BHT. Boil all dairy products
or don't eat them.
2.Avoid ergot  in food. Eat no whole grain products; take
niacinamide  500 mg three times a day to help the liver
detoxify tiny bits in other foods.
3.Kill Ascaris, Bacteroides  and Coxsackie  virus  and stay on
a maintenance program of killing them. Avoid reinfection.
It would be wise to have only outdoor pets.
4.Replace dental metal  with metal-free plastic (See Dental
Clean-up).
5.Clean up the home e nvironment and body products of toxic
substances.
6.Keep your fingers sanitary: spray them with 10% grain al-
cohol or vodka after bathroom use.
You can often tell by how you feel whether you are near to
having a seizure. But some people get no warning. Don't take
                                                            14Taken from A Guide to the Identification and Treatment of Bio-
catalyst and Biochemical Intolerances, 1988 by J. A. Krohn, Los Ala-
mos Medical Center, 3917 West Road Suite 136, Los Alamos, NM
87544.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
234chances. Keep your drugs with you, even though you no longer
need to take them. Drugs like TegretolTM and PhenobarbitalTM
are not harmless. Once you can tell that you're better, try re ducing
your drug  dosage slightly. See how you manage. If you have a
breakthrough seizure you could fall and break a bone. Don't take
chances. Even a year after your last seizure you should carry your
medicine with you and have some in your house. This is because
it is so easy  to pick up Ascaris  again. The highway to the brain–
its seizure center–is still open. They will travel it again. It might
only take two days from the time of ac cidental swallowing of
animal filth, to having little larvae in the brain. Use a frequency
generator every day at first, or zap daily to guard against this.
Notice that killing parasites the first time may actually start a
seizure coming. Simply stop zapping if you feel one coming. Do
shortened zapping until you can tolerate a regular treatment. Have
someone with you while zapping.
Say good-bye to seizures forever. But don't forget your sus-
ceptibility. I believe you should be extra careful for two years. If
you have a recurrence, repeat the whole procedure. This time it
should be curable in a single day.
Doug's mother was distraught when she brought him, age 8 months.
Her doctor only seemed  sympathetic with her purpose to keep the
baby's temperature down the next time he catches a cold. But her
doctor had referred her to the county social worker. She had been
completely honest with her doctor, because she was that kind of
trusting person. Since her baby had only experienced one seizure
(which was during a fever ), she didn't see why her beautiful first
born child should be on medicine “the rest of his life”. She wanted
her baby to be perfect. But the social worker had called her, talked
about “the law” and being an unfit mother. She was all apart. The
baby was supposed to be on PhenobarbitalTM twice a day. Our
tests showed Doug had Ascaris  plus lead  toxicity. He was also
getting home made strawberry and grape juice. She promised to
put the three cats outdoors, keep the baby off the floor, keep
Doug's fingernails short and always  wash his hands before eating.
The parasites were easily killed. The lead was spo-NON-PAINFUL DISEASES
235radically present in the water. She planned to move, and until then
would filter all the drinking water so her breast  milk would be free
of it too. His diet was changed to eliminate eggs, chicken  and the
red and blue fruits. We recommended leaving the state in order to
be able to peacefully raise her child. We promised to treat her
child free of charge if another seizure should occur. Two years
passed and we heard she was doing fine with her child.
Clara Scruggs, 50ish was losing control over her seizures and had to
be hospitalized while a new medicine was tried. It changed her
personality (again!) which upset her husband, too. She was started
on the herbal parasite program but could only increase by one
drop of Black Walnut Hull Tincture  a week, instead of daily, since
each new increase would give her a seizure. In half a year she
was fairly free of seizures in spite of being off drugs. After each
seizure, a checkup showed she had picked up Ascaris  again
sometimes with additional parasites. She could not bear to put her
cat outside; Boots had been a friend in need many times. When
she finally got Boots onto a regular parasite program she im proved
enough to go to church and church events again. When Boots
finally “wanted out” she didn't mind. She decided to do a liver
cleanse—this, too, gave her two seizures the next day but paid big
dividends in other ways. She eventually improved to an incidence
of one small seizure (“spacey” time or incoherent speech) in two
weeks.
Chun Yee, age 28, has been on DilantinTM from age 15. Now he was
up to five pills a day and it didn't control his seizures. Any activity
would trigger it. He was put on a low malvin  diet and started on the
kidney cleanse. His blood test  showed he was anemic with a high
MCV (104 cu microns), suggesting the Ascaris  worms were using
up all his vitamin B 12 too. In six weeks he was down to one or two
seizures per week, although he had not yet started the parasite
program. He had beryllium  built up in him, probably from a
kerosene  heater. When the pets and family were all treated for
parasites he had no more breakthrough seizures and could cut  his
medicine in half which gave him much more energy. He was no
longer in danger of losing his job.
Shiresse Nobel, age 7, was having minimal seizures but the mother did
not want to start her on medicine. Shiresse had high levels of
mercury in her body, although she had no tooth fillings. The wholeTHE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES


ing of T aoism and the sacred texts of Buddhism  are among
others th at pave  the way towar d enlightenment. All these texts give us a
step-by-step formula to freely attain seventh chakra gifts. Oh, how foolish
we are, those of us who don’ t take these gifts to heart.
Consider worry, for example. How much time do you waste worrying
each day? Y ou worry perhaps about things you can’ t control such as the
weather, the state of the world, or the way people around you are acting.
Then you probably spend time worrying about things you can  control but
for w hich you c an’ t control the outcome. For example, I know people who
worry co nstantly about losing their job. Y ou can control getting  to work on
time, doing extraordinary work, and being a good team player. But you
can’ t control the potential outcome of your company needing to downsize.
When things are not going ac cording to your expectations, you worry.When th ings are going well, you  worry that they might turn bad. All in all,
worry steals you from your life and your bliss.
Y et all the spiritual masters and all the spiritual literature tell yo u not to
worry. J esus him self spent three years in his ministry, and we only have a
limited amount of direct teach ing in his words, through th e Christian
Gospels. So you know that if Je sus taught something and said i t more than
once, it must be  pretty important. In the book of Matthew, chapter 6, Jesus
spends no less than ten verses talking about how we shouldn’ t worry. In
verse 25 he says, “That is why I tell you not to worry  about everyday life,”
and he concludes with verse 34: “So don’ t worry about tomorrow, for
tomorrow will bring its own worries. T oday’ s trouble is enough for today.”
Other sp iritual masters speak about living in the present moment. Y oga
and med itation teach us present-moment awareness. W orry is living in the
past or in the future but not in the present. W orry is a thief who comes to
steal your joy and peace. Just as you would never welcome a robber into
your home to take your things, why welcome worry into your mind?
By the time you have awakened to the seventh chakra, your
understanding of oneness with universal consciousness doesn’ t even allow
you to entertain  emotions such as worry. For if you are one with the
universe, there is no lack and therefore no worry. But I hope my example
has provided you with a vision  of where you are today in comparison to
where you would like to be. And whenever you need a reminder, spiritual
literature is there to point the way to the peace of the seventh chakra.
Healing Sahaswara
DAIL Y AFFIRMA TION
I am one with the Divine.
 Healing the Physical Body
Besides the practice of meditation, which we discussed in relation to the
sixth chakra, getting into the se venth chakra zone is best achie ved throughthe practices of silence, reading spiritual and inspirational literature, and
spending time in nature. Some times we spontaneously connect with the
Divine i n mome nts when we don’ t expect it, but most of the time it happens
because we make a conscious ef fort to create an environment in which
connection can happen. That is why people often feel connected to the
Divine w hen the y go to a church or synagogue but then feel d isconnected
for the rest of the week. As you  have seen, the road to spirituality requires
ef fort.
What y ou move toward expands, and what you move away from
diminishes. For example, if you r focus is on your work, often your home
life suf fers. When your focus is on your relationships, your work may
suf fer. T he sam e goes for your  spiritual life: when you place  your focus
there, your connection to the D ivine will grow, while other, les s-important
areas will fade into the background.
The othe r day I was in the car w ith my twenty-two-year -old, w ho after
fifteen minutes or so turned on the radio and said, “I hate it that you drive
around in silence. What’ s wrong with you? It’ s very disturbin g.” I hadn’ t
even not iced. I love silence. I’ve been practicing silence in everything I do
for years. On m ost occasions I keep the radio and TV of f. While I love
music, I  rarely listen to it now. I just love silence. I love listening to the
noises in the environment: the birds, the crickets, and even the cars passing
by. Silence is a  profound gift, and I believe it’ s God’ s one and only true
voice. W hen you reach the seventh chakra level of consciousnes s, you’re no
longer afraid of your mind and your thoughts. I have noticed that fear of
silence is fear of one’ s own mind. Y our mind is your frien d, not your
enemy. The more you believe that, the more you can sit in silence and not
only be comfortable in it but even crave more of it.
Spend ti me read ing spiritual literature, whether it’ s poetry or s cripture.
Immerse yourself in nature whenever you can to enjoy everything that
connects you to the heartbeat of the universe.
Y OGA  A SANAS AND  P RANA Y AMA  E XERCISES T O  H EAL THE
S EVENTH  C HAKRAT ry these breathing techniques and poses to help open and align the
Sahaswara chakra.
T o view a video demo of these exer cises, go to
www.youtube.com/c/MichelleFondinAuthor.
Click on the Playlists tab, and select
Chakra Healing Asanas & Pranayamas.
Scr oll down the list until you find the one you’r e looking for.
Skull Shining Br eath — Kapalabhati :  K apala bhati is done by inhali ng
passively and exhaling forcefully, both through the nose. Exhaling in this
way contracts the lower abdomi nal muscles, so you may feel as if you have
done a lot of sit-ups after doing this breathing technique.
Sit w ith your sp ine tall, and clos e your eyes. Inhale deeply throu gh your
nose, an d then exhale completely. Inhale passively through the nose, then
exhale f orcefully. Continue wit h this pattern for about one minute. When
you finish, take a deep breath in, and then exhale completely.
W ide-Angle Standing Forward Fold — Prasarita Padottanasana :  For
this pose, stand on a yoga mat and have a couple of yoga blocks or a chair
in fr ont of you. Stand with your feet one leg length’ s distance  apart with
your toe s pointin g forward. Lift your torso tall and bend forward from your
hips, bri nging y our hands to the floor. If you have a dif ficult time bringing
your head close to the floor, bri ng your feet a little wider apart. Bend your
elbows a nd brin g the crown of your head toward the floor. T o assist you,
you can either p lace your head on top of the yoga blocks or on the chair
seat. Stay in the forward fold for at least five breaths. T o come up, bend at
your knees and gently roll up to standing.
Fish Po se — Matsyasana :  L yi ng o n your mat, bend both knees with your
feet flat on the  floor. Lift you r hips, bring your arms unde rneath your
buttocks with your palms pressing into the floor, and lower your hips back
down to  the mat so you’re sitting  on your hands. Straighten your  legs on the
floor, an d bring your feet together so your big toes touch. Pre ss down on
your elbows and forearms, and lift your chest and head. T ilt your head back,and place the cro wn of your head on the floor. Hold for five breaths. T o get
out of the pose, press down on y our elbows and lift your head of f the floor.
Bring yo ur head gently down i nto alignment with your spine, and release
your arms. As a  counterpose, lie in savasana, or rela xation p ose, for about
five even, slow breaths before moving on to the next pose.
Headstand — Salamba Sirsasana : This pose is for advanced yoga
students only.  If  you’re new to doing headstands, it’ s best to use a wall as a
support. Bring your mat to the  wall. Begin the pose on your hands and
knees about five inches away from the wall. Come down to your elbows,
and fold your h ands in front of you. Y our folded hands and elbows will
form a triangle. Make sure y our elbows are directly underneath your
shoulders. Lock your shoulders and shoulder blades back toward your spine
to have a strong support. Open  the palms of your folded hands and bring
your thu mbs straight up. Y ou’re forming a cup for your


. He hated
his disease, but it had also opened up opportunities denied to him
by ordinary life. “I didn’t believe in God until I got this cancer,” one
woman in her sixties said, “but now He feels very close.” I cannot
judge her experience; certain ly I am glad that she has found solace
near the end of her life rather than being shattered by bitterness.But her words also seem to say, “My life didn’t mean much until I
was forced out of it.”
One of the strangest phenomena of postmodern cultur e is this
optimism over death: doctors and therapists are urging us to make
death, not just a positive experience, but the positive experience of a
lifetime. Sickness has always  had an element of escapism in it. As
children we were coddled by our mothers whenever, we ran a fever,
and seriously ill adults are still given “intensive care.” But if a
terminal illnes s is seen as escapism carried to its ultimate, one
cannot help but ask, “Is this life so terrible that escape is its greatest
reward?” A patient of mine with multiple metastatic colon cancer
attended a seminar on “the will to live,” which is said to help people
recover from incurable illness. She opened her program book and
was horried to see that the main sponsors for the event were six
funeral homes. No one else seemed to notice, or at least comment
upon, this savage irony.
I do not want to parody this issue, having strong beliefs of my
own that the fear of death is very crippling and needs to be
overcome at the deepest level. But it is disturbing to think that our
culture provid es us with so little opportunity to confront the basic
meaning of life that sickness and death have lled the void by
becoming conversion experiences. Robert was desperat e to have
such an experience and furious that it was denied to him. Other
patients of mine, however, have found their conversion and
embraced it with disquieting results.
One of these patients was Barbara. The minute she walked into
my oce, it was hard not to be bewitched. Even though I knew she
was consulting  me about a serious illness, she looked radiant, with
sparkling eyes and a perfect complexion. A native Californian, she
had own to the East Coast for our appointment, and when she saw
me staring as we shook hands, she laughed and told me a story:
“I tried to y to Boston to see you last week, but a family
emergency made me miss my ight. I asked my doctor in San Diego
to write a medical excuse so I could get a refund on my ticket. On
the phone I simply told his secretary to ask for a note stating that I
had the u.“When I got to the airport and handed over the note, the counter
attendant turned white. My doctor had written, ‘This unfortunate
woman is being extensively treated for a terminal case of metastatic
breast cancer.’ ”
I was as taken aback as the ticket agent. It was hard to credit that
this woman, so young and alive, had been undergoing surgery,
radiation, and chemotherapy for over a year to combat a
malignancy that had spread beyond her breasts and invaded many
areas of her bones. As I probed deeper into her medic al history,
Barbara began  to reveal in bits and pieces her present frame of
mind, which was extraordinarily peaceful.
“You see, I have been spending twenty years in a drive  toward
success. As a young woman I set up certain totally articial goals for
myself. I wanted it all: a beautiful house, adoring husband and
children, and nancial indep endence by age forty so that I could
quit working and enjoy my family. These goals were set in my mind
before I was out of college, and I never lost sight of them.
“I nished law school and launched myself twenty-ve hours a
day into achieving what I wanted. By last year, it was all within my
grasp. I do have the house, husband, and children, and at my legal
practice I have risen to full partner. Then I was diagnosed with
breast cancer. Mentally, I knew that I had been told something
terrible, but within a few days I found that I was falling into an
extremely strange mood. I began to feel very happy and contented.”
I agreed that this was quite an unpredictable reaction.
“I have always  believed that you get what you wish for in life,”
she explained. “And I asked myself why I had gotten breast cancer.
Was there a secret wish at work? For many people that is a scary
question, full of guilt and denial, but for me it was quite reasonable
to ask. And you know what the answer was?”
I told her I was very curious to nd out.
“Cancer allowed me to achieve my nal goal,” she said with a
note of triump h in her voice. “I had wanted to retire at forty, and
now here I am, on a full disability pension. I am a woman  of leisure
at last.”“You don’t seem to think that you’ve paid a very high price for
achieving nan cial security,” I said. I couldn’t help but suspect that
Barbara’s amazing self-possession must be masking fears she
couldn’t confront.
“Let me nish,” she replied excitedly. “Soon after my original
diagnosis my oncologist came to see me in the hospital looking
extremely upset. He said, ‘I’m very, very sorry to have to tell you
this, Barbara, but the malign ancy has spread to several other areas
in your body. In my profess ional opinion, you are now a terminal
case.’
“Without any hesitation I replied, ‘Well, if I am a terminal case, so
are you, doctor, and so is everyone around me. He was shocked. But
as I saw it, if he lived thirty or forty years longer than me, that
made no real dierence. Dying is inevitable; it is a natural part of
life, and what I had realized,  what gave me such peace of mind, was
that dying can be an adventure.
“When I quit worrying about my inated and totally articial
goals, goals that had weighed me down for my entire adult life, the
experience of liberation was also a kind of death—and yet it was the
greatest thing that ever happ ened to me. More and more  I began to
realize that ‘dying’ every day would be an ideal way to live, because
every morning would be new. How can life ever be new unless you
learn to die?”
“Yes, yes,” I murmured, holding myself back from saying, “How
can life ever be new unless you learn to live?”  But I could feel
exactly what Barbara meant. She was escaping the threat of death
by “dying” to her old habit s and false values. Having “died,” she
discovered that new life rushed in to ll the vacuum. The great
Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore gave a beautiful image for this:
“When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies spring forth
from the heart.”
Even though Barbara may be harboring buried feelings of threat
that she has not really resolved, I am happy to report that her
“death” has been as life-giving as she hoped. Her oncologist
informed me that she is now responding extraordinari ly well totreatment. The pockets of metastasis have started to shrink, and her
side eects remain well within the acceptable range.
Despite Barbara’s sense of jubilant conversion, I have to insist that
something has gone awry here. Disease is no way to solve the core
issues of life. We are weakest when sick, least able to summon the
resources that are needed for real transformation. The beauty of
Barbara’s conversion experience does not automatically cancel the
suering that went with it. Nor does it settle the crucial issue of
whether suering was neede d in the rst place. An age-old belief
says that suering is inevita ble, deeply human, and even a grace.
Barbara felt that she had learned from her pain, and took pride in
that. “I’d rather live six mont hs with this cancer,” she told me at one
point, “than seven years the way I was.”
Under the circumstances, she had little other choice than to feel
this way; the alternative was to be crushed by the forces set against
her. But whatever meaning people feel can be derived from their
personal suering, to live without pain would, I believe, be even
more meaningful, even more  human. People have to be transformed
before  the crisis. If not, they may nd themselves with not enough
time to enjoy the life that suddenly seems so worthwhile.
Chaos in the Heart
Having got this far in my observations, I was obliged to take my
thoughts outside medicine, even outside the expanded boundaries of
mind-body medicine. Only in a very limited sense are any doctors I
know willing to approach their patients as fully human. “Mind-body
medicine” is a nebulous label for a eld that is still searching for its
proper methods and values. What mainly holds it together is one
key insight, that thoughts and feelings cannot


 cut vegetables are crated up at field temperatures, and
stacks of those crates are put in a cooler, it can take the inside of the stack 24 hours, or longer, to become chilled. Home gardeners
should also practice hydrocooling. Fill your sink with cold water and wash/soak your harvest until it is thoroughly chilled b efore
draining and refrigerating it. Or, harvest your garden early in the morning when temperatures are lowest.
    Still, when yo u buy produce in the store it may have been sitting at room temperature for hours or possibly days.
    The bottom line here: fresh is equally as important as unsprayed or organically grown!

The Real Truth About Salt And Sugar
    First, let me remind c ertain food religionists: salt is salt is salt is salt and sugar is sugar is sugar. There are no good forms of salt
and no good forms of sugar. Salt from a mine and salt from the sea both have the same harmful effect; white sugar, natural br own
sugar, hone y, molasses, corn syrup, maple syrup, whatever sweet have you. All are sugars and all have the similar harmful effects.
I know of no harmless salt substitute that really tastes salty. Nutrisweet is basically harmless to most people and can be us ed as a
very satisfactory replacement for sugars. (A few people are unable to tolerate nutrisweet, causing the anti -chemicalists to circulate
much anti -nutrisweet propaganda, but you should carefully consider this thought before dismissing nutrisweet –there is almost no
food substance that some people are not allergic to or unable to digest. The fact that nutrisweet is made in a chemical vat a nd the
fact that some cannot handle nutrisweet does not make it "of the devil."
    And its not all black and white with the oth er items either. Sea salt does have certain redeeming qualities not found in mined salt
and under certain very special conditions, eating small quantities of salt may be acceptable. Similarly, some forms of sugar are not
quite as harmful as other forms, th ough all are harmful.
    The primary health problem caused by table salt is not that it contributes to high blood pressure in people with poor kidneys,
though it does that. It is not that eating salt ruins the kidneys; salt probably does not do that. The  real problem with salt is that
sodium chloride is an adrenal stimulant, triggering the release of adrenal hormones, especially natural steroids that resist
inflammation. When these hormones are at high levels in the blood, the person often feels very good, has a sense of well -being.
Thus salt is a drug! And like many drugs of its type, salt is a habituating drug. However, we are so used to whipping our adr enals
with salt that we don't notice it. What we do notice is that we think we like the taste of salte d food and consider that food tastes flat
without it. But take away a person's salt shaker and they become very uncomfortable. That's because the addict isn't getting their
regular dose.
    What's wrong with repetitive adrenal whipping is that adrenal fo rtitude is variable; many people's adrenals eventually fail to
respond to the prod of salt and the body begins to suffer from a lack of adrenal hormones. Often those inheriting weak adrena ls
manifest semi -failure in childhood. The consequence is that ordin ary, irritating substances begin causing severe irritation. The
person becomes allergic to pollen, dust, foods, animal danders, etc. We see asthma, hay fever, sinusitis, etc. Though one can  then
discover specific allergens and try to remove them from the e nvironment or diet, often this case can be solved far more easily by
complete withdrawal from all salt. This rests the adrenals and they may recover their full function; almost certainly their f unction
will improve. The asthma, allergies and etc., graduall y vanish.
    Most of us don't need to eat salt as a nutrient. There's enough sodium in one dill pickle to run a human body for a year. The re's
enough natural sodium in many types of vegetables to supply normal needs without using table salt. Perhaps athle tes or other hard
working people in the tropics eating deficient food grown on leached -out depleted soils, people that sweat buckets day after day
may need a little extra sodium. Perhaps. Not having practiced in the humid tropics myself, I have no definiti ve answer about this.
    Unfortunately, the average American is entirely addicted to salt and thinks food tastes lousy without it. To please the avera ge
consumer, almost all prepared foods contain far too much salt for someone suffering from exhausted ad renals. Interestingly,
Canadians do not like their foods nearly as salty as Americans, and prepared foods like soups and the like in cans and packag es
that look just like the ones in American supermarkets (though with French on the back panel) have to be r eformulated for our
northern neighbors. I've observed that Canadians are generally healthier than Americans in many respects.
    We would all be far better off consuming no salt at all. Those with allergies or asthma should completely eliminate it for a
month or two and discover if that simple step doesn't pretty much cure them. The trouble is that bakery bread is routinely two
percent salt by weight. Cheese is equally salted or even more so. Canned and frozen prepared food products are all heavily sa lted.
Restaurant meals are always highly salted in the kitchen. If you want to avoid salt you almost have to prepare everything you rself,
bake your own bread, abstain from cheese (though there are unsalted cheeses but even I don't like the flavor of these), and  abstain
from restaurants. My family has managed to eliminate all salt from our own kitchen except for that in cheese, and we eat chee se
rather moderately.
    Sugar is a high -caloric non -food with enormous liabilities. First, from the viewpoint of the uni versal formula for health, no form
of non -artificial sweetener carries enough nutrients with it to justify the number of calories it contains, not even malt extract. W hite
refined sugar contains absolutely no nutrients at all; the "good" or "natural" sweet s also carry so little nutrition as to be next to
useless. Sweets are so far over on the bad end of the Health = Nutrition / Calories scale that for this reason alone they sho uld be
avoided.
    However, healthy people can usually afford a small amount of  sin; why not make it sweets? In small quantity, sugars are
probably the easiest indiscretion to digest and the least damaging to the organ systems. Although, speaking of sin, as Edgar Guest,
the peoples' poet, once so wisely quipped, (and my husband agree s) "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." Sugar is a powerful
drug! People who abuse sweets set up a cycle of addiction that can be very hard to break. It starts when the body tries to re gulate
blood sugar. Kicked up to high levels by eating sugar, the p ancreas releases insulin. But that is not the end of the chain reaction.
Insulin regulates blood sugar levels but also raises brain levels of an amino acid called tryptophan. Tryptophan is the raw m aterial
the brain uses to manufacture a neurotransmitter c alled serotonin. And serotonin plays a huge role in regulating mood. Higher
brain levels of serotonin create a feeling of well -being. Eating sugar gives a person a chemical jolt of happiness. Heavy hits of
high-glycemic index starch foods are also rapidly converted to sugar. So don't give your kids sweets! Or huge servings of starch to
mellow them out. It is wise not to start out life a happiness addict with a severe weight problem.
    Now that the chemistry of sugar addiction is understood, there currentl y is a movement afoot to cast the obese as helpless
victims of serotonin imbalances and to "treat" them with the same kinds of serotonin -increasing happy drugs (like Prozac) that are
becoming so popular with the psychiatric set. This promises to be a multi ple billion dollar business that will capture all the money
currently flowing into other dieting systems and bring it right back to the AMA/drug company/FDA nexus. The pitch is that whe n
serotonin levels are upped, the desire to eat drops and so is weight.  This approach is popular with the obese because it requires no
personal responsibility other than taking a pill that really does make them feel happy. However, the same benefit can be had by
strict adherence to a low -fat, low -carbohydrate diet. Eventually, the brain chemistry rebalances itself and serotonin levels stabilize.

Glycemic Index
(compared to glucose, which is 100)
 Grains   Fruits   Vegetables
all bran  51 apples  39 baked beans  40
brown rice  66 bananas  62 beets  64
buckwheat  54 cherries  23 black -eyed peas  33
cornflakes  80 grapefruit  26 carrots  92
oatmeal  49 grapes  45 chic peas  36
shred. wheat  67 orange juice  46 parsnips  97
muesli  66 peach  29 potato chips  51
white rice  72 orange  40 baked potato  98
white spagetti  50


 the nine habits discussed in this book, this one might
get the prize for being the most unbelievable: spending our
pr ecious life ener gy chasing af ter something we don’ t want, and
never getting enough of whate ver it is that we’r e r elentlessl y pursuing!
Fortunately, this  is one imbalance that’ s relatively easy to corr ect, despite
all we’ve been told about the dif ficulties involved in conquering addictions.
The con cept of fighting  and conquering  add iction is the  wrong approach—I
believe that we need to beg in by removing those words from our
vocabulary. Martin Luther King, Jr., once remarked that the o nly way to
convert an enemy to a friend is through love, not hatred or fighting.
We Don’t Conquer Anything, and There’s Nothing to
Fight
Consider the results we’ve achie ved when we’ve tried to fight something
in order to conqu er it. For example, ever since war was declared on poverty,
there’ s more of it in the world  than ever. Our wars on drugs have only
served to  triple our prison populations and bring illegal substan ces to more
people a t young er ages. (As ea rly as junior high school, there ’ s hardly a
child who doesn’ t know how to  acquire all manner of drugs.) Our wars on
crime ha ve resulted in more cri minals, more fear, more surveillance, more
distrust, and more abuse by law -enforcement personnel. Our war on terror
has turned us into people who behave toward those we label terr orists  in
ways that emulate the terrorism we’re supposedly desirous of eliminating.
When war was of ficially declared on Iraq, America became more hated, and
the number of people signing up to become suicide bombers multiplied
dramatically. And our wars on cancer, obesity, and hunger have not
eliminated those conditions either.
Here’ s t he reasoning behind what I’ve just elaborated: The tru th of this
Universe is that we live in an e ner gy system that operates on the Law of
Attraction. That  is, we become  what we think about all day long. If we
think ab out wh at we hate, this is an ener gy that we’re of fering to ourdesires. In this system, then, we’ll attract more of what we t hink about.
Consequently, m ore of what we hate is what we will attract. W e act on our
thoughts: Our thoughts of hate, violence, fighting, and war generate actions
of hate, violence, fighting, and war. And lo and behold, we see the fruits of
this thinking showing up even if our intentions are positively aligned with
God ener gy. W e get what we think about, whether we want it or not.
Thoughts that translate into fighting and war almost always guarantee
that the response is a counterforce—that is, others will respond in kind to
our des ire to fight and conq uer. This kind of force/counterforce can
continue for centuries, with unborn generations programmed to carry on the
fight.
This same understanding of how  fighting weakens us and gener ates more
imbalance in our lives is applic able to our experience with addictions. W e
can bec ome addiction free relatively quickly if we make a decision to
eliminate fighti ng and conquering from our ef forts. The th oughts and
ener gy t hat repla ce fighting need to be in the form of nonwarlik e thoughts.
As Eme rson sai d so succinctly: “The remedy of all blunders, the cure of
blindness, the cure of crime, is love....” And addictions constitute one
huge blunder, I can assure you, having spent a great deal of my own life
immersed in such folly.
Overcoming Blunder-Filled Thinking
For those of you who may not be familiar with my friend Ram Dass, in
the late 1960s h e helped shape the awakening consciousness of an entire
generation with his bestseller Be Her e Now.
One of my favo rite Ram Dass stories is the one he tells about an early
encounter with Neem Karoli B aba, his guru in India. Ram Dass brought
some capsules with him to Ind ia that were designed to dramatically alter
one’ s state of c onsciousness. N eem Karoli Baba confronted  Ram Dass
about these pills and asked him to give all of them to him. Ram Dass
thought that he’d brought a long-term supply of this very powerfulpsychedelic substance—yet he watched in horror and amazem ent as this
enlightened bein g swallowed all of them right before his ey es, with no
visible reaction. His guru then asked him if he had any more, since these
obviously weren ’ t working. After telling this story, Ram Dass concluded
with one of his most sagacious observations: “If you’re already  in Detroit,”
he observed, “then you don’ t have to take a bus to get there.”
Addictions of every description are vehicles that people board in  order to
get someplace higher, more pleasurable, more peaceful, more tuned in and
turned on, and so on. But if you’re already aligned with this ener gy, then it’ s
obviously unnec essary to climb aboard any vehicle headed to a place where
you currently reside.
I’ve play ed with  addictions and addictive behaviors for a lar ge part of my
life. In fact, I’d  say that these  various addictions have been among my
greatest teachers, allowing me to see that there’ s a higher level of
consciousness an d blissful awareness available to us all. But I’m  also aware
that usin g substances of non-well-being in order to experience this separate
reality is assuredly a counterfeit means of doing so.
The patt ern goe s something like this: W e must have more and more of
what we desire. The more of it we take or imbibe, the more we need. The
less ef fective it is as we consume more. Then, to top of f this huge
imbalance, what  we’re using to get to this place of bliss is toxic to our well-
being! T he addiction is increasing our imbalance. Our desire is for bliss,
peace, lo ve, hea lth, freedom, and so on, but the addictive behavior gives us
precisely the opposite. If it goes unchecked, it will wreak havoc on our
body and mind, and ultimately destroy us.
I’m esse ntially addiction free, and I want you to know that I didn’ t get to
this place by fighting my add ictive nature. In fact, the more I tried to
conquer addictio ns at various sta ges of my life to things such as sugar, soda
pop, caf feine, nicotine, alcohol, and certain drugs, the more they’d gain a
foothold on me. For ce/counterfor ce:  I’d  apply my weapons, and they’d
bring ou t their artillery, with my body as the battleground where the war
was bein g wage d. I was blunder ing my way into deeper addictio n. Earlier, I
quoted Ralph W aldo Emerson, who said: “The remedy for all  blunders islove.” H ow wou ld things be dif ferent if we followed his advic e? The two
key words are blunder  and love. Let’ s examine them more closely.
— BLUNDER.  Wh y call an addiction a blunder? Demanding more and
more of  something your body and mind vehemently despise is addiction.
Choosing the lopsided world of  addiction over the equilibrium that is your
spiritual heritage  is a major distortion of your birthright. When you do that,
you’re mismanaging this life. This is something I strongly b elieve is a
blunder that can be balanced with love.
Y ou originated from an invisible  spiritual ener gy field of pure well-being.
Y our des ire is to be balanced in that spirit in your thoughts and behaviors—
now, in this lif e, in this moment, in your bodily form. Y ou want that
harmony and sense that it’ s available without having to leave your body, or
in ot her words, die. So, in that interpretation, you’re seeking a balance that
allows you to die while you’re alive.
Y ou’ll re turn to spirit, the non-form, upon your death, but you have the
option of choosing to live in true enlightened balance, or God-realization..
. n ow, in this p hysical state. Y our Source doesn’ t create from toxicity. It
doesn’ t fill your veins or your stomach or any part of you with poison or
excess. I t creates from well-being, balance, and ef fortless perfection. This is
your spiritual heritage. And lov e can correct the blunders that distance you
from your spiritual self.
— LOVE.  Wh y is love the antidote to addictions? It’ s very simple—
because love is what you are; it’ s the center of your creation. It’ s your point
of origin ation a nd can become your point of attraction as well. As Karl
Menninger told his patients, and anyone else who was suf fering  and willing
to listen, “Love cures, the ones who receive love and the


 often more so. T ake the case of Doug.
Doug is a high-p owered American professional in his midforties. Since
childhood he battled asthma, an d he never considered himself an athlete.
Doug’ s b rother, on the other han d, was the jock. When they were kids they
would g o to the park, where h is brother played basketball with their dadwhile D oug just  watched. Doug always felt like there was something wrong
with his body. He did manage to row crew in college for a year, trying to
follow in his father ’ s footsteps, but after each training run, his lungs would
scream for mercy. His aerobic capacity—or lack thereof—limited him,
keeping an athletic lifestyle out of reach. But finally, when his father started
to become frail, he resolved to take action so that he would be around for
his own kids and grandkids.
Doug started running, but he f ell into his habitual gasping for breath
after just a ha ndful of steps. He realized he needed to rebuild his
cardiovascular fitness from the ground up, and that’ s when he contacted me.
By inco rporating the simple program described in this book into a busy
work an d family  life, he started  making progress. From being able to run
only ten  feet with his mouth cl osed, he progressed to running a 10K in a
few months, then a half-maratho n after a few more, and finally the Big Sur
marathon less than a year after we began working together.
Doug needed to let go of lif elong breathing habits. Overbreathing
distorted his self-understanding  and turned him into someone who he
wasn’ t. I needed to convey  to Doug that inheriting t he genetic
predisposition t oward asthma didn’ t mean he was resigned to a life of
breathing problems. Asthma has been around for thousands of years, with
records dating back as far as an cient Egypt. However, it has be come much
more prevalent since the 1980s, and considering that our gene pool doesn’ t
change in forty years, it is nec essary to look at lifestyle and address the
impact t hat this has on our breat hing. Currently almost one in ten adults and
children have asthma, and if you add the number who have cyc list’ s cough,
exercise-induced asthma, or other lung-limiting conditions, the number
skyrockets.
Over the  years, I have worked w ith thousands of people like Do ug who
have been diagnosed with asthm a, and it’ s nearly always the same story:
Explosive athlet ic potential is limited by a condition they don’ t think they
can ever overcome. By not add ressing the root problem, enthusiasts like
Doug often devote their formi dable willpower to training practices that
inevitably lead them back to sq uare one. It doesn’ t have to be t his way. At
first it may se em counterintu itive to think that implementing simple
techniques over a short period of time can reverse decades of limitations,
but that’ s how transformative correcting breathing is. W ith breath-holdingexercises that unblock the nose and combat wheezing or coughing,
nonprofessional athletes—even those with asthma—can lift th eir passions
to an entirely new level.
Y ou may  not have major athletic goals. Some of us just want to get to a
weight t hat makes us feel goo d when we look in the mirror. For many
people struggling to attain this sense of satisfaction, the barrier  is standing
right the re—not in front of them, but inside them, in the quantit y of air they
are taki ng in. W ithout correct breathing, it’ s like walking up a down
escalator—you get nowhere.
Feeling Defeated
There w asn’ t a diet Donna hadn’ t tried. Y ou’ve heard of them al l: low-carb,
South Beach, The Zone, W eight W atchers, Jenny Craig, Mediterranean,
Atkins, Slim-Fast. Y ou name it, she had been on it. Her medicine cabinet
was filled with fat burners, carb blockers, and a host of appetite
suppressants. For twenty-five y ears she had believed that with each new
diet she would f inally lose the extra forty pounds she carried, finally be able
to st ep outside in something o ther than black, form-hiding clothing, and
finally r eclaim t he health she en joyed when she was younger. B ut after the
initial en thusiasm of beginning a new diet faded, the weight she lost would
return and a profound sense of failure would set in.
When Donna came to see me, she was defeated. She ha d spent
thousands of dollars to slim do wn again and again, but she was still forty
pounds overweight—and still miserable. She had tried just as many exercise
programs as diets, but always ended up quitting because she  ran out of
breath a fter min imal exertion. As is the case for so many peo ple, oxygen
felt like an opponent rather than an ally. The sensation of intense
breathlessness limited her physical endurance far more than muscle fatigue.
“I can’ t exercise because I’m too heavy,” Donna said. “And I can’ t lose
weight because I can’ t exercise.” During the few times that Donna did visit
the gym, she fel t totally self-conscious and out of place. She panted on the
treadmill while beautifully sculpted bodies decked out in form-fitting
clothing jogged ef fortlessly on e ither side of her, adding another  blow to her
self-confidence.It was a vicious cycle, but one I had seen many times before. Her body
wasn’ t p roperly metabolizing oxygen. Donna needed a simple routine that
wouldn’ t put excess stress on her body and breathing, but would give her
fast, concrete results to keep her motivated and boost her confidence. I gave
her simp le breathing exercises and encouraged her to practice breathing
through her nose while watching television or working at her desk.
In two weeks, Donna lost six p ounds. She didn’ t modify her diet, but
her brea th-reduction exercises g ave a kick-start to the oxygen levels in her
blood, which caused her bod y to process foods more ef fi ciently and
naturally supressed her appetite. She benefited from one of the most
startling aspects  of my program : Substantial gains can be ac complished
while literally sitting on the couch. Once you see this progress, however, the
last thing you’ll want to do is keep sitting.
T oday Donna has lost thirty pounds, and, more important, she  finds it
much ea sier to keep them of f. M y work with her and so many o ther people
in similar situations has nothin g to do with what to eat or not eat. It’ s
critical to take a  step back from the table as well as the scale in order to get
a big-picture view of the problem. W eight loss only occurs when the
amount of calories we burn is greater than those we consume, and our
breathing has a direct bearing o n this process. By focusing on not just how
much we eat b ut how much we breathe, we cause our cons umption-to-
burning ratio to even out. W i th properly oxygenated cells, our bodies
operate more ef ficiently, even— or especially—in passive ac tivities like
sitting. A desire for more water and less processed food naturally follows.
This is why diet work is not a pa rt of this book. The only guidance I give to
people l ike Don na is to eat when hungry and stop when satisfied, allowing
self-control to come from the inside. Putting better breathing at the center of
your health plan makes you look and feel better.
The Oxygen Advantage program detailed in this book is the culmination
of m y work wi th thousands of people like David, Doug, and Donna. It
empowers peopl e, regardless of their activity level, to improve their health,
fitness, and performance—without training more or taking any drug or
supplement. The program also provides readers with the ability to easily
and accurately measure advance s and ensures that exercise is done safely,
reducing the risk of injury. Last ly, the Oxygen Advantage program can betailored to anyone and any lifest yle, enabling you to seamlessly incorporate
it into your daily obligations and exercise routine.
The chapters to come will prov ide knowledge and practical breathing
techniques so that you can optimize oxygen release at a cellular level. The
simple practices  I will explain, while unknown to most athletes, have been
utilized since ancient times to great ef fect. All you need to apply them is a
straightforward understanding of how your breathing af fects the
oxygenation of your body
Part I of this bo ok, The Secret of Breath, explains in greater d etail the
function of oxygen and CO 2  in  your body an d helps you to evaluate how fit
you actually are. Y ou’ll learn about the importance of nose breathing over
mouth breathing, as well as the first key technique that will begi n to reverse
overbreathing. I will also teach you about the ancient breathing  secrets that
have been used for centuries.
In P art I I, The Secret of Fitness, you will learn about red blood cells and
how utilizing them the way Olympic athletes do will carry you


 and raise well. But white flour islacking the bran, where most of the fiber is located. And many other processedfoods are missing their fiber.
In an earlier chapter I briefly showed how digestion works by following food
from the mouth to the large intestine. To fully grasp why becoming constipated isalmost a certainty in our civilization a few more details are required. Food leavingthe small intestine is called chyme, a semi-liquid mixture of fiber, undigested bits,indigestible bits, and the remains of digestive enzymes. Chyme is propelledthrough the large intestine by muscular contractions. The large intestine operateson what I dub the “chew chew train” principle, where the most recent meal youate enters the large intestine as the caboose (the last car of a train) and helps topush out the train engine (the car at the front that toots), which in a healthy colonshould represent the meal eaten perhaps twelve hours earlier. The muscles in thecolon only contract when they are stretched, so it is the volume of the fecal matterstretching the large intestine that triggers the muscles to push the waste materialalong toward the rectum and anus.
Eating food lacking fiber greatly reduces the volume of the chyme and slows
peristalsis. But moving through fast or slow, the colon still keeps on doing anotherof its jobs, which is to transfer the water in the chime back into the bloodstream,reducing dehydration. So the longer chime remains in the colon, the dryer andharder and stickier it gets. That’s why once arrived at the “end of the tracks” fecalmatter should be evacuated in a timely manner before it gets to dry and too hardto be moved easily. Some constipated people do have a bowel movement everyday but are evacuating the meal eaten many days or even a week previously.
Most hygienists believe that when the colon becomes lined with hardened fecal
matter it is permanently and by the very definition of the word itself, constipated.This type of constipation is not perceived as an uncomfortable or overly fullfeeling or a desire to have a bowel movement that won’t pass. But it has insidiouseffects. Usually constipation delays transit time, increasing the adsorption of toxinsgenerated from misdigestion of food; by coating and locking up significantportions of colon it also reduces the adsorption of certain minerals andelectrolytes.
Sometimes, extremely constipated people have almost constant runny bowels
because the colon has become so thickly and impenetrably lined with old fecalmatter that it no longer removes much moisture. This condition is oftenmisinterpreted as diarrhea. The large intestine’s most important task is to transferwater-soluble minerals from digested food to the blood. When a significant part ofthe colon’s surface becomes coated with impermeable dried rigid fecal matter ormucus it can no longer assimilate effectively and the body begins to experiencepartial mineral starvation in the presence of plenty. It is my observation fromdozens of cases that when the colon has been effectively cleansed the person hasa tendency to gain weight while eating amounts of food that before onlymaintained body weight, while people who could not gain weight or who werewasting away despite eating heavily begin to gain. And problems like softfingernails, bone loss around teeth or porous bones tend to improve.
The Development Of My Own Constipation
The history of my own constipation, though it especially relates to a very rustic
childhood, is typical of many people. I was also raised on a very constipating dietwhich consisted largely of processed cheese and crackers. Mine was acceleratedby shyness, amplified by lack of comfortable facilities.
I spent my early years on the Canadian prairies, where everybody had an
outhouse, and not the fancy modern versions frequently seen on constructionsites. These are chemical toilets, quiet different than the ones I was raised withbecause somebody or something mysteriously comes along, empties them andinstalls toilet paper. The ones I’m familiar with quickly developed a bad-smellingsteaming mound in the center—or it was winter when the outhouse was so coldthat everything froze almost before it hit the ground in the hole below. (And myrear end seemed to almost freeze to the seat!) The toilet paper was usually an outof season issue of Eatons mail order catalogue with crisp glossy paper. Perhaps itis a peculiarity of the north country, but at night there are always monsters lurkingalong the path to the outhouse, and darkness comes early and stays late.
When nature called and it was daylight, and there was no blizzard outside, the
outhouse received a visit from me. If on the other hand, when it was dark (we hadno electricity), and there was a cold wind creating huge banks of snow, I wouldjust skip it, because the alternative—an indoor chamber pot, white enamel with alid—was worse. This potty had to be used more or less publicly because thebedrooms were shared and there was no indoor bathroom. I was always verymodest about my private parts and private functions, and potty’s were only usedin emergencies, and usually with considerable embarrassment. No one everexplained to me that it was not good for me to retain fecal matter, and I neverthought about it unless my movements became so hard that it was painful toeliminate.
Later in life, I continued this pattern of putting off bowel movements, even
though outhouses and potties were a thing of the past. As a young adult I could
always think of something more interesting to do than sitting on a pot, besides it
was messy and sometimes accompanied by embarrassing sound effects whichwere definitely not romantic if I was in the company of a young man. During twopregnancies the tendency to constipation was aggravated by the weight of thefetus resting on an already sluggish bowel, and I won’t foregt the discomfort ofstraining to pass my first hard bowel movement after childbirth with a tornperineum.
Rapid Relief From Colon Cleansing
During fasting the liver is hard at work processing toxins released from fat and
other body deposits. The liver still dumps its wastes into the intestines through thebile duct. While eating normally, bile, which contains highly toxic substances, ispassed through the intestines and is eliminated before too much is reabsorbed. (Itis the bile that usually makes the fecal matter so dark in color.) However,reduction of food bulk reduces or completely eliminates peristalsis, thus allowingintestinal contents to sit for extended periods. And the toxins in the bile arereadsorbed, forming a continuous loop, further burdening the liver.
The mucus membranes lining the colon constantly secrete lubricants to ease
fecal matter through smoothly. This secretion does not stop during fasting; in fact,it may increase because intestinal mucus often becomes a secondary route ofelimination. Allowed to remain in the bowel, toxic mucus is an irritant while thetoxins in it may be reabsorbed, forming yet another closed loop and furtherburdening the liver.
Daily enemas or colonics administered during fasting or while on cleansing
diets effectively remove old fecal material stored in the colon and immediatelyease the livers load, immediately relieve discomfort by allowing the liver’s effortsto further detoxify the blood, and speed healing. Fasters cleansing on juice or rawfood should administer two or three enemas in short succession every day for thefirst three days to get a good start on the cleansing process, and then every other
day or at very minimum, every few days. Enemas or colonics should also be
taken whenever symptoms become uncomfortable, regardless of whether youhave already cleaned the colon that day or not. Once the faster has experiencedthe relief from symptoms that usually comes from an enema they become morethan willing to repeat this mildly unpleasant experience.
Occasionally enemas, by filling the colon and making it press on the liver,
induce discharges of highly toxic bile that may cause temporary nausea. Despitethe induced nausea it is still far better to continue with colonics because of thegreat relief experienced after the treatment. If nausea exists or persists duringcolon cleansing, consider trying slight modifications such as less or no massage ofthe colon in the area of the gall bladder (abdominal area close to the bottom ofthe right rib cage), and putting slightly less water in the colon when filling it up. Italso helps to make sure that the stomach is empty of any fluid for one hour priorto the colonic. Resume drinking after the colonic sessions is completed. If you areone of these rare people who “toss their bile,” just keep a plastic bucket handyand some water to rinse out the mouth after, and carry on as usual.
Enemas Versus Colonics
People frequently wonder what is the difference between a colonic and an
enema.
First of all enemas are a lot cheaper because you give them to yourself; an
enema bag usually costs about ten dollars, is available at any large drug store, andis indefinitely reusable. Colonics cost anywhere from 30 to 75 dollars a session.
Chiropractors and naturopaths who offer this service hire a colonic technician
that may or may not be a skilled operator. It is a good idea to find a person whohas a very agreeable and professional manner, who can make you feel at easesince relaxation is very important. It is also beneficial to have a colonic therapistwho massages the abdomen and foot reflexes appropriately during the session.
Enemas and colonics can accomplish exactly the same beneficial work. But
colonics accomplish more improvement in less time than enemas for several
reasons. During a colonic from 30 to 50 gallons of water are flushed through thelarge intestines, usually in a repetitive series of fill-ups followed by flushing with acontinuous flow of water. This efficiency cannot even be


 34. Real Medicine
“It‟s not alternative medicine; it‟s real medicine.”
Carolina Stamu, M.D.
“It seemed to me that in cancer there was a similarity [to the Holocaust], in that so many innocent
people are struck down, and they and their families have to stand by and impotently wa tch this terrible
thing evolve.”
Steven Rosenberg, chief of surgery at the National Cancer Institute (Investors
Business Daily, Nov. 29, 1996)
“A larger measure of public support will be required.”
Dr. Abraham Ravich, May 9th, 1955
It might seem rather odd that physicians and patients would need to go into a political arena to talk
about medical advances. We are told that the only respectable venues to discuss what works in
medicine are the peer -review journals. We are admonished tha t only physicians are qualified to make
medical decisions. Some critics might even say that Congress should first demonstrate that it can make
good laws before it gets itself involved in trying to advocate real medicine.
Furthermore, because medical rese arch is a science, it should not bend to the whims of a democratic
mob. The strength of science is its objectivity. No tallying of ballots is necessary — the objective results
preclude the need for a vote.
But what are we to do when medicine‘s test tube c racks and bleeds? What protection do we have when
the process becomes infected? Do we surrender our rights? Do we roll over and die?
Perhaps there are times when a little Congressional oversight is just what the doctor ordered. For one,
it helps to ensure  that any dictatorial tendencies might be kept somewhat in check. As the reader has
seen, Revici‘s medicines have not enjoyed the benevolence of medicine‘s leaders. Under
circumstances such as these, it becomes necessary for those outside the medical estab lishment to
become responsible for returning medicine to its true mission, which is to help people get well.
Many thousands of honest and dedicated physicians, scientists, and others  267
 have devoted their lives to help make people well. Yet somewhere along the way, due to the
imperfections that all humans are sometimes prone to, certain elements of the medical community
have temporarily prevented us from having what we all have wanted fro m the very beginning: real
medicine.
Whatever the reasons might have been in the beginning, the bad impressions that the medical
profession have developed against Revici‘s medicines have festered to a point where it is no longer
possible for his method t o get a fair hearing in the medical arena. As we have seen in Part IV, the
culture of resistance and fear is greater than any single medical leader can overcome.
Paradoxically, this author has spoken to several physicians who believe that Revici really h as made the
discoveries to carry medicine into the twenty -first century. In speaking to these scientists the most
compelling aspect that I‘ve noticed about them is their compassion. Of course I don‘t believe that these
few men and women have a monopoly on that virtue. I know of no doctor who enjoys the day when one
of his patients dies. Every doctor wants to give his patients the best medicine available.
But it will take more than a lot of doctors nodding their heads in agreement that Dr. Revici probably has
some good medicine. Physicians are not free to do what they think is best for their patients. Their
hands are tied; their mouths silenced. Well -intentioned laws force doctors to use only the medicines
that are approved by the FDA. (I know of at least o ne doctor who, due to the FDA strictures, won‘t use
Revici‘s medicines even though he thinks they are superior to what is otherwise available.) State laws
also prohibit most physicians from using any techniques or medicines that are outside the prevailing
medical standard.
Some of these laws were designed to protect the patient. But now it is clear that these laws have also
kept us from getting real medicine. As a result of these many serious shortcomings, some of our
leading lawmakers in the U.S. House a nd Senate have said they want to fine -tune the law. They have
said they want to protect the people and allow them access to the medicine they need when they are
sick. It is in the best interest of both the doctors and their patients that this fine -tuning t ake place.
We live in a great age. The disease of cancer has baffled physicians as far back as there are medical
records. Yet, for the first time in history, we have real medicine for it. And that is not all. We also have
real medicines for viral and bac terial infections, arthritis, schizophrenia and for many other diseases.
Like most great things, however, we are going to have to do a little work for it if we are to actually have
access to it.
Part of the problem is that the FDA is not set up to search  out and identify medicines that can help.
Their job is to keep unsafe and ineffective medicines off the market. Unfortunately, their regulations
have had the effect of keeping Revici‘s safe and effective medicines off the market as well.
The first step necessary to receive FDA approval for Revici‘s medicines is procuring an IND for
each compound to be tested. But Revici has patented  268
 more than 100 products that he has used to treat patients. A si ngle, successful IND filing for just one of
those patents can easily cost several million dollars. Getting final approval from the FDA to launch that
drug on the market can easily cost tens of millions of dollars more. (Final approval for some drugs have
run as high as $250 to $500 million dollars and beyond.)
On March 1, 1996, the FDA approved the AIDS drug Ritonavir1 for use with humans in the record time
of 72 days after Abbott Laboratories submitted its application. It can be done. We know it can be d one
because it was done. However, I am pointing this out not because there is some hope that Revici‘s
medications are about to receive similar treatment. They aren‘t.
The Ritonavir case demonstrates that pressure can and does change things. AIDS activist s were
responsible for providing the initial impetus for the FDA‘s quick action. Yet, for each person in the U.S.
who dies of AIDS this year, there are 15 who will die of cancer.
As insurmountable as it may seem, the FDA is not the greatest factor in preventing Revici‘s
medications from becoming the medicine of choice. The real impediment to legalizing Revici‘s
medicines is the incorrect belief that there is no cure for cancer.
Imagine for a moment what it would be like if the facts about Revici‘s medicines had already sunk into
the general public‘s consciousness. Is it likely that informed members of the public would stand idly by
as they watched a family member slowly die in agon y? When people find out, do you think for a
moment that Revici‘s medications wouldn‘t be available from every doctor in the country? There is no
group or industry so large that it could stop the stampede that will occur, once enough people know the
truth. The great day when the Revici story reaches critical mass is coming. It is up to each of us to
determine how long it will take for that day to arrive.
There is a tiny effort afoot to conduct the study that Dr. Brenner proposed [See Foreword]. Dr. A. R.
Salman, a former Revici associate who would be the physician who treats the patients if the IND
approvals were to come through, has told me that the original intention is to test eight of Revici‘s
drugs.
As of right now, Revici‘s office has nowhere near th e money or manpower needed to jump through
the first FDA hoop. Even under a fast track FDA program, the IND process is far more onerous than
the small office can handle.
Based on past experience, it is not certain that the FDA is going to be all that coop erative. Furthermore,
even under a best -case scenario, with complete FDA assistance, there would still be another 100
Revici medications without approval. Without strong evidence to the contrary, the long FDA journey
becomes another de facto  method for kee ping Revici‘s medicines away from the sick people who
desperately need them.   269
 Perhaps the FDA process is unnecessary. Although the CAG report  proved Revici‘s method to be
worthless, the CAG study  proved that Revici‘s method was exceptionally effective in the treatment of
cancer. Why should it be necessary to conduct yet another study more than three decades after it has
already been proven to work?
The FDA approval process is a prime example of ou r overly narrow criteria for determining what
makes a good medicine. If we found a person lying prostrate in the desert, would we wait for an FDA
opinion before we gave the person a drink of water? Revici‘s medicines have grown back bones for
the past 50 y ears. These paralyzed patients have been able to walk again. We needn‘t be doctors to
know that growing back bones is a good thing. Every day there are people lying paralyzed in hospitals
whose bones have been eaten away by cancer. Do we need an FDA opinio n to tell us it would be a
good thing to give them a medicine that could enable them to walk again?
Anyone who would deny the x -ray evidence has no right to call himself a scientist


 in the same space without meeting each other, provided
they are at sufﬁciently different levels of space density or vibrational frequency. However, there is still a way in which they do interact
across density and vibrational levels, and that is through polarity forces. This is how our physical body arises from the blueprint of a
mental body arriving at conception in a soul capsule.
The Soul Capsule
At the time of a new incarnation, a soul capsule is being formed and sent to the embryo, containing a unit or seed of the soul. The
soul unit in the capsule is like a huge molecule, initially about 1 micron in size, which during a lifetime can grow to several microns or
even millimetres, and very rarely even centimetres. It is embedded in mind matter, surrounded by a mental or consciousness aura,
and protected by an etheric body. This soul unit carries the program for the impending incarnation and relevant acquired learning
from previous incarnations.
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At conception the soul capsule attaches to the head of the embryo and remains there for the whole lifetime. The soul-seed becomes
implanted as the Ego in the back of the scalp, above the nape and betw een both cerebral hemispheres. An additional device in the
soul capsule and attached to the Ego is an akasha disk. This records everything that happens internally and externally to the body
during an incarnation, and provides the necessary information for judgement.
At physical death, the spirit of the deceased person is set free in its astral body. After forty days it is then expected to deliver the
capsule with soul unit, akasha and mental/ether body to the planet of judgement. After this, the astral body will eventually decay and
leave its own akashic memory in the akasha layer of the planet where gifted psychics then can read it.
The Chakras
Our reality appears to be divided into seven main levels with varying densities of matter and energy. Each of these main density
levels is again divided into seven sub-levels and possibly even further. Different cosmological systems use different names and
descriptions for these levels, also called planes or spheres. It is useful to link the seven postulated density levels to the seven main
chakras or energy vortices in the human body.
Each chakra operates at the prevailing density of one of these planes to assimilate its energies for distribution and use in our energy
and matter bodies. However, each of these seven chakras is also a composite of seven chakras of decreasing densities nested into
each other. These different chakra levels become progressively active during our spiritual evolution. As with the seven planes, also
the chakras may have dif ferent names in dif ferent systems.
The various colours commonly described for our chakras are those at the bio-level. At other levels, there are different colours. The
energies absorbed by the chakras then enter our various bodies throug h energy channels, such as the acupuncture meridians and
the nadis in the astral body.
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The Etheric Plane has the highest density. The Root Chakra is our ﬁrst chakra at the base of the spine. It channels and distributes
etheric energy. Physical matter forms the lowest etheric sub-plane. The physical body is an exact replica of the less dense etheric
body which interpenetrates and surrounds it and holds it together. Ether ic energy is released by atoms when electrons move from a
more energetic to a less energetic state. This happens in physics by emitting photons or in our metabolism by stepwise moving food
electrons from labile high-energy bonds into the stable low-energy bonds of carbon dioxide and water.
Less dense is the Life-Force Level, also called Vital or Bio-Plane or Organ Projected Aura. It gives the property of life to otherwise
inanimate objects and is the basis of biology. Energy blueprints at the mental or astral level use polarised life-force to build animated
structures of physical matter by combining molecules at the etheric level into biological units such as cells, microbes, plants or
animals. This level contains an energ etic template for our etheric body. Our second chakra, the Sacral Chakra, at the lower abdomen
governs our vitality and sexuality. Sexual energy is concentrated life-force or bioenergy. We obtain most of our bioenergy during
sleep, from breathing (Prana), sunshine, and from fresh raw food. This is what keeps the body healthy.
The third or Solar Plexus Chakra operates at the level of lower emotions, which is the Astral Level. This is the level at which not only
most people operate but also the lower spirit world. Our emotions are a form of energy and can build structures, just like etheric
energy, bioenergy or mental energy, only at different levels. Structures at the astral level can form a matrix for using vital energy to
manifest etheric structures. For better or worse, emotional energy can have strong effects on our bio-level. When we are in love our
vitality is high and we feel invincible, but if emotionally depressed we are totally drained of vitality. The astral body is constructed
during our lifetime from our emotions and is a replica of the physical body.
The Heart Chakra at the fourth level is associated with our higher emotions. It may be called the Buddhic Plane as it focuses on
Compassion and Unconditional Love. This is the level that most of us now need to work on for our spiritual evolution.
Fifth in line is the Throat Chakra which operates at the mental level where our mental body is manifested. It is composed of mental
matter or thought forms. From here, the incoming soul starts manifesting  the physical body according to the mental blueprint provided
in the soul capsule.
FIG. 3: Our Higher Bodies and Auras
The Brow Chakra combines the mental level with the higher emotions at the Buddhic Plane. Finally we have the Crown Chakra which
is our main energy lifeline and connection to our source.
We have three matter bodies: the physical/etheric body, the astral body and the mental body. Each body is composed of the density
matter at its level of manifestation. At the next higher level of each of these bodies there is a very ﬂexible energy layer which seems
to coordinate the manifestation of the body below it. Figure 3 shows our different matter bodies and energy layers which to some are
visible as auras. While bodies consist of long-term matter structures, auras are like constantly changing clouds of energy.
Of special interest is the Consciousn ess Aura which maintains our conn ection with the higher soul aggregates left behind in one of
the spheres and with the All in gene ral. This layer also protects someone who is unconscious. While the brain is switched off, the
mind is still connected and active. This can later cause problems with what is called “engrams” or “tracks”: unintended mental
implants of spoken information in the presence of the unconscious person. Generally only deep hypnosis will remove these. During
our spiritual evolution we acquire still more aura layers with greater abilities than those shown here.
Polarised Energy and Matter
Normally matter and energies exist in a neutral state. Think, for instance, of hydrogen molecules or water. These are electrically
neutral. If outside energy is applied to separate their electric charges, then we get a highly energetic condition that can perform work.
The same is true for matter and energies on all levels of existence.
The primary energy polarisation occured when the Godhead decided to use energy of the UI to split into yin and yang or an active
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particles is restricted to doing what they are programmed to do, while higher levels of consciousness allow an increasingly greater
freedom to make choices.
While consciousness slowly expands again, it ﬂows back towards the level of the UI, becoming enriched with experience. It does this
by building suitable structures, mainly bodies, at succesively higher levels of consciousness. This process requires polarity forces,
because neutral particles do not attract each other to combine and build  complicated structures. The Godhead is free to create any
amount of neutral UM and energy, but it can produce polarity forces only as opposite pairs. In the end, when the universe closes
down again, there must not be a single unpaired charge left over.
Therefore, the Godhead and the six Creating Gods cannot create