  we are not astonished
when we read that " the mortality from cancer in San Francisco  exceeds
that of any other American  city." (See  Victory over Cancer by Cyril
Scott.)
I will now give the case‐ history of Mrs.  R. (1923).  She was in the early
forties at the time. Condition ‐anaemic under average height, below
normal weight, lump about the size of a hen's egg in one of her breasts.
Diagnosed  as cancer by the late Dr.  Rabagliati,  and  i mmediate
operation  urged but firmly refused.  Fasted  on urine and  drank 22 pints
of plain cold tap‐water daily. Her husband rubbed  her from head to
foot with his own urine for two hours a day, and  packs wrung out in
urine were placed over both breasts day and  night. Cure in ten days.
Returned  to Dr. Rabagliati  on twelfth  day after last visit to him, and  he
could find ro trace of Anaemia had  vanished  also, abnormality  in the
breast  and the patient had been restored to perfect health.
Here is another  case  (1925).  Middle‐aged woman. Growth of some
proportions  situated near the armpit.  Two surgeons  advised  operation,
but made a concession  to her daughter's  suggestion  that the patient 39
 might rest and  take very light  nourishment  before facing the ordeal.
The operation  was accordingly  arranged to take place in the hospital a
week hence. However,  as the patient's daughter had  derived much
benefit herself from urinefasting,  she prevailed  on her mother to try
the treatment  in the interim. In five days not a trace of the growth was
left. I may  add  that two days after the patient should have presented
herself at the hospital for the operation,  the family doctor called in. He
was indignant  at having his advice  and  arrangements  flouted in this "
independent  " manner; but  when having thoroughly  examined  the
patient he found her condition  entirely normal, there  was nothing more
to be said. Subsequently  he called in his colleagues,  who, to express it
mildly, were extremely  astonished,  and  being human, were not
altogether  pleased. I merely  add  this part of the story  to show that the
patient had been properly examined  after her recovery.  She is at the
time of writing many years older, and quite well.
A case  may  now be cited relative to a youngish woman who had
developed  a growth  in her breast. I cite it because the  trouble
disappeared  in the shortest  period I had  yet witnessed  for what might
have been a malignant  tumour or merely  a swollen  milk‐ gland. I think,
none the less, that had the patient  put herself in the hands  of
physicians,  they  would have advised an operation  just as they  have
done in hundreds  of similar cases. On seeing her, I at once  advocated  a
fast  on her own urine, plus tap‐water,  and  urine compresses ‐in short,
the usual procedure  I advise. At the end of four days the growth had
entirely disappeared.
And now I will mention the case  of a lady who came to me in 1927. It is
instructive  as showing once  again that operations  merely  deal with 40
 effects and do not remove the cause  of the disease from the body.  The
lady‐ in question  was 45, over stout, and  had a growth  of some size in
her left breast, the right  one having been removed two years previously
for a similar growth. She fasted  and  was treated according  to my
method for nineteen days, and  then reported that the growth  had
entirely vanished.  As she was still too fleshy, I advised  her to continue
the fast. On the 28th  day,  I examined  her, to find no trace of the lump,
and  to see a woman  looking much younger and  far less  matronly in
figure.
The following  case  shows  that one and the same methods  may  result in
curing complaints  which  have no apparent connection  with each other.
A young lady came  to me with a swollen  right breast, near the centre
of which  There  were also was a nasty, suspicious ‐looking lump. two
large  ulcers under  the arm‐pit. She had  been invited by the family
doctor to enter the hospital for observation,  but declined, seeing that
her mother had accepted a similar invitation,  had been operated upon‐
and  subseMoreover  she herself, having suffered  quently buried from
chronic peritonitis,  had  had  her appendix excised, but without curing
the peritonitis.  She started by fasting four days on my system, but had
to break the fast to satisfy her insistent relatives.  Nevertheless,  after
three  days she resumed the fast, and  the second time fasted  for
nineteen days. Already  after the tenth  day there  was a marked
improvement,  and  at the end of the nineteen days no trace was left of
the lump on her breast  or the ulcers in her arm‐ pit. There was not even
a scar. But  the peritonitis  had  not cleared up (perhaps  because of
scarred tissue resulting from  the operation  on appendix)  and  so a little
later  she fasted  for thirty‐five days. This had the desired effect. 41
 These case‐sheets should serve to show  that Nature  is a far more
efficient Healer than are so‐termed scientific methods which  involve
mutil


 one to Adam. Then,
according to biblical myth, they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. This is the fall from grace—the separation from God after which a lot of
darkness and fear arose in the mind, reflected in the form of wars,
division in religions, and all kinds of insane pursuits. The exercise of
religions is largely an attempt to find a way to return to God’ s love
through ritual and tradition. I would like to propose a different path than ritual and traditio n, a
different story about a God that didn’ t kick anyone out. We can call this
the metaphysical take on the traditional story: let Adam and Eve
represent you and I, and in this story, we never left God. And he never
abandoned us. Here, the “fall” is nothing more than a perceptual
distortion, a vast illusion in which the mind believed  that it pulled offsomething that in reality is impossible: separation from an all-knowing,
all-loving creator. We have very powerful minds that are capable of imagining, or
“thinking up,” this whole univer se. In my revision of Genesis, there was
no apple. We simply asked a question: Could there be anything more
than Heaven or oneness, more than everything? This question was like a
little puff of madness since “more than everything,” more than perfect
love and harmony, is of course completely impossible. Imagine this idea,
this question, or this doubt thought as one of those little white dandelion
puffs blowing across the road. This powerful mind of ours allowed the
thought, this puff, to spread. It was of course a totally ludicrous idea, but
instead of laughing it away with our all-powerful, divine mind,  we took
it seriously. Taking this puff of an idea seriously made us forget the truth
that we have everything and are one with God. We closed ourselves off
and started dreaming we were a tiny part of an impossible world. Many
people ask me how this could happen if our mind is part of God’ s and if
we are divine. The truth is, it didn’t happen apart from our belief, and
there’ s a true knowing or aware ness of this once all our false beliefs are
questioned and released. Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad idea, at
which the Son of God remem bered not to laugh. In his
forgetting did the thought become a serious idea, and
possible of both accomplishmen t and real effects. Together,
we can laugh them both away, and understand that time
cannot intrude upon eternity. It is a joke to think that time
can come to circumvent eternity, which means there is no
time.…
It is reasonable to ask how the mind could ever have
made the ego. In fact, it is the best question you could ask. There is, however, no point in giving an answer in terms of
the past because  the past does not matter, and history would
not exist if the same errors were not being repeated in the
present.The Answer to a World of Duality
Many mystics call this the world of duality. This is what the story of
Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden builds for us. Adam and Eve
wanted to hide in the Garden,  so they covered themselves and their
“private parts” with fig leaves. They felt guilt and shame for what they
had done. By way of this analogy, at the moment of the fall or
separation, because the guilt feels so awful, the mind projects this guilt
out as the time-space cosmos, which then becomes like a giant fig leaf
under which the mind tries to hide from its creator. The mind wants to
hide what it believes are its private thoughts because it’s terrified of
God’ s love, so it makes a fake identity, the persona. God is pure love and oneness. He has no awareness of separat ion;
thus, He cannot  come into duality. The world of duality is the illusory
hiding place for the sleeping mind that believes it has separated from
God. To this mind, the ego says: “Here is your new home now. Be
content with the body and the world as your new home. We will make up
everything that you seemed to have in oneness. W e will make a new kind
of love with bodies. We will make a new kind of freed om with
movement of bodies. We will make a new kind of happin ess with
pleasures of the senses to take the place of your Home in Heaven. And
God cannot come in and find you here, you will have privacy, and you
can do anything  that you want.” This is how the body became the central
focus for the ego. The ego wants God to bless its new world and give reality to the
fantasy of time and space. There is an anger deep down in the mind
because God cannot do this. God cannot give reality to a projected
dream of form! God is divine love. God knows you only as divine love. This love is abstract light, total joy, constant communication, and peace. It is infinite and perfect. God would not be God if He granted the ego’s
wish to give this world reality. Therefore, all anger is a temper  tantrum
based on a desire for the temporary to be true and real. Ego tries to lure
you to think that you are free in a world of form, but it doesn’ t tell you
that it, the ego, is the ruler. It thinks that as long as you are busy planning
for the future, dreaming of a better form (or lamenting the past), you
won’ t think about God and the oneness that is your true identity. This isshowing you that the ego is a thought system in your mind that doesn’ t
lead you into a true experience of who you are. It only makes sure you
stay preoccupied in the world of form, in time and space. So, once  the mind fell asleep and started to dream of separatio n, it
was like a nightmare at first since God and Heaven were completely
pushed out of awareness. It was a deep sleep of forgetfulness, and there
were suddenly two thought systems instead of one. One was the fear-
based thought system of the ego, the “puff,” and the other was the
thought system of God’ s lovin g answer, the Holy Spirit. The ego’s
thought system, based on the premise that an impossible separation
happened, says, “If you ever go back into your mind, and into that white
light, God will get you and destroy you!” This creates a perpetual
neurotic state that compels the mind to constantly seek for answers and
safety where they can’t be found: in the projected forms of this world. But in the stillness, at the core of our being, the loving answer just keeps
reminding us, “You never left. You never could have separated. God is
not angry at you! Your Father loves you! Your Father will always love
you!”
We can’t solve our problems with the same level of thinking that
created them. We can’t find the solution at the level of the problem, at
the level of separation; the answer has to be a higher order thinking that
lifts us up and back into harmony. You cannot approach a solution with
the sleeping mind since this was the mind that believed in the problem in
the first place. You have to rise above the level of the problem, above
where the problem is perceived, to find the answer. You have a
perceptual problem, and as long as you try to make things bette r and fix
things at the level of the ego, you’re not going anywhere. You’re just
spinning your wheels like a hamster going round and round, and there’ s
no progr ess whatsoever. You are more like the scarecrow in The Wizard
of Oz, where all of your straw is scattered all over the road. But when
you let go of compartmentalizing, categorizing, labeling, and ordering
everything, you find yourself coming into peace. You find yourself
identifying with your true Self and not with a separate identity. The
peace that you find is a state of mind in which you perceive that
everything is perfect, it has always been perfect, and nothing has been
out of order. Your mind just needs some training to reach this awareness.Leaping into Spirit’s Perception
The fall from grace, the separation, which is an idea in the mind and not
a point on the timeline, didn’ t leave us forever lost and without an
answer. At the moment of that tiny mad idea—the separation—God gave
an immediate answer. Being all-knowing love, He answered this doubt
thought, this tiny mad idea, this “puff,” with the awareness that this
never happened, that it is impossible. We can call this answer the Holy
Spirit. The Holy Spirit can be referred to as the still, small voice within
the mind, or the intuition, that guides us. It’s like a presence that we can
sense whenever we get still enough to tune in and listen inwardly. We
need to know this and also become aware of how easily defenses like
judgment, worldly knowledge, denial, and repression are used to dilute
the terror and prevent us from experiencing God’ s answer. We don’t go from analysis and judgment into perfection witho ut a
willingness to say, “Show me Holy Spirit; I need to be shown.” Even in
moments when you’re upset with


 Priebe wrote:
For the record I’d like to share some observations about Melody Clark’s
oral development. Melody has been a regular patient under my care since
11 August, 1976. I have been paying particular attention to tooth size and
nature of
dorsal tongue mucosa, all of which have altered developmental patterns in
Down’s syndrome children. It is my clinical impression that this patient seems to be significantly
more normal in every aspect of the above compared with other Down’ssyndrome children of similar age. Palate development, while high, has
lowered considerably during the time she has been with me. Arch
development and particularly tongue development seem to be becoming
within the range of normalcy. Behaviorly, Melody has demonstrated that she can handle the stress of
dental treatment as well as children not having Down’s syndrome. Progress reports on Melody’s functional development in the classroom showed
her able “to read fluently from storybook to teacher and independently complete
comprehension questions on take home,” said Rose M. Mullan, a special
education teacher at the Wenatchee Sterling Middle School. The girl was “able to
compute two-digit, one-column addition and subtraction facts from dictated story
problems.”
When Melody was not yet seven, she could also speak in complete sentences. Ms. Mullan said, “The first response in a complete sentence was made in
November 1979. When told at recess that all the balls were being used, Melody
responded, ‘Denise will share with me.’” Then, she was able to respond to
personal data and give her full name, age, address, city, state, birthday, phone
number, and parents’ names and was able to name in order the days of the week
and the seasons of the year. She was accepted by her peers on her personal merit. “Melody socializes with
her peers at recess and in the classroom,” noted Ms. Mullan. “She participates in
classroom games and shares classroom responsibilities. Melody is very
conscientious in completing her school assignments, and she is proud of her
academic accomplishments.”
Another of Melody’s teachers, Marion A. Kennedy, commenting on the girl’s
writing ability, said: “Melody can group letters into words and generally maintains
her letters within the boundary of primary paper. She copies directly from the
chalkboard and many sight words she simply reads and then writes on her paper. (As opposed to having to copy letter for letter, she spells.) She always reads her
‘boardwork’ independently prior to copying it.... There is no question that
Melody has made great strides in every area of academic and social and physical
development this year. The progress is quite remarkable.”
“All of this progress is because of DMSO,” said Melody’s mother, “so I’m
sure you realize why I would like to see this drug made available for suffering
people. It certainly offers parents like us a lot of hope.”
The little girl is unique in the progress she made. No scientist quiteunderstands how DMSO worked to make changes in her—and in other children
with Down’s syndrome—but that the drug did is undeniable. Don Bonker, a
Congressman from Washington state who is one of the members of the House
Select Committee on Aging, told Dr. Jacob and all those assembled in the hearing
room the day DMSO was discussed, “Today Melody is a miracle child for the
entire community. She walks, runs, talks, reads, spells well, her teeth are
developing almost normally. Her tongue does not protrude. “Are you familiar with this case?” Mr. Bonker asked Dr. Jacob. “Today our
office has received three phone calls from a community in the state of Washington
regarding Melody Clark, this eight-year-old child who has what is known as
Down’s syndrome. At eleven months she was typically unable to stand or walk,
had protruding tongue and all the other symptoms. Her parents heard of Dr.
Stanley Jacob and went to Portland to try DMSO on her.”
Dr. Jacob knew her well—she was one of hundreds of trisomic (Down’s
syndrome) children who had some of their abnormalities partially reversed with
DMSO therapy. OTHER DOWN’S SYNDROME EXAMPLES RESPONDING TO
DMSO
Bronwyn Nash of Rock Island, Washington, was another trisomy 21, the form of
Down’s syndrome with the greatest number of problems. She had been treated with
DMSO since the age of ten months. When I investigated Bronwyn’s case she was
twenty-eight months old and improving steadily. The girl had been very slow to gain weight. Her pediatrician had done several
tests to see if there was a medical reason but none was discovered. She was a
frail, tiny baby. It was right after she was put on DMSO for treating her Down’s syndrome that
Bronwyn’s weight started to go up. Dorothy Nash, her mother, described how the
baby progressed: “She seemed to have more interest in food and ate a little more
but was basically nursing until she was a year old, so we’re convinced the DMSO
helped her. We and other people around us noticed an increased awareness of
people and objects
around Bronwyn. She started taking a real interest in reaching
out and touching things.”
At eighteen months Bronwyn crawled, sat up, and pulled herself to a standing
position. She got into her mother’s cupboards, started to feed herself, and held herwater glass well. She became an alert, cheerful little girl much enjoyed and well
loved by the Nash family. Mrs. Nash said, “We are so pleased to have Bronwyn on DMSO and hope it
will be available to others soon.”
From Santiago, Chile, Nicholas Weinstein, M.D., supplied the DMSO
aminoacid compound used for the Down’s syndrome treatment of young Billy King
in the United States. The child was suffering from trisomy 21 and had been treated
for eight years with traditional therapies, without any improvement. Then, for over
two years he was given DMSO therapy with an imported drug product. By the time
he was ten years old, the boy had experienced no unfavorable side effects and
improvement was definitely observed. His mother, Betty Lou King, reported,
“Billy has grown from a size five to a fifteen and has now complete control of his
bladder and bowels. He has gained a large vocabulary. His mongoloid looks are
diminishing.” The photographic comparison of changes in Billy King for just one
year are striking. He looks normal now whereas before the boy possessed the
facial characteristics of obvious Down’s syndrome. DMSO AMINOACID THERAPY FOR TRISOMIC CHILDREN
Medical teams working in clinical and pharmacological research from Canada, the
United States, Mexico, Argentina, and Chile use DMSO aminoacid therapy in an
ongoing search for new means to fight mental retardation. The combination of
ingredients is not yet approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration and
any physician who employs the compound in this country risks a lot personally
and professionally. Parents don’t risk much because the medicine has been proved
safe after years of clinical trials—and the parents have hardly any other hope of
restoring their trisomy children to near normality. An experiment was carried out with a group of 18 children suffering from
trisomy 21. While they showed marked differences on an intellectual level, they
were pathogenically homogeneous, as they all had the typical symptoms. The
results obtained with this experimental group were checked against those of a
control group of 91 children of similar physical and mental ages who had Down’s
syndrome. Chief of research was Lydia F. De Coriat, M.D., Assistant Head of the
Neurological Service of the Municipal Pediatric Hospital, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, who is also President of the Argentine Association for the Scientific
Study of Mental Retardation. Dr. De Coriat used an evaluation technique on thechildren that covered four levels:
1
. Impression of the child’s parents regarding behavior at home, degree of
integration and language organization, and general deportment. 2
. The personal impression of the physician regarding clinical changes in the
patient including his or her general aspect, muscular tone, psychomotor
activity, appearance, and expression. 3
. A psychological evaluation made by comparing the IQ in repeated
psychometric tests. 4
. An evaluation of side effects, laboratory assays, and other supplementary
tests for the medication. For psychometric control of the development of the Down’s syndrome babies,
the Gesell test for child development was used. 1
 The Therman-Merril test was
used for older subjects. The neurological maturity of the 109 children of both
sexes, aged between two months and five years, was recorded. They had been
subjected to early stimulation since babyhood. Each child was studied and examined for six consecutive months. Only the 18
children of the group received treatment with DMSO aminoacid therapy. It
included the intramuscular injection into each child of five series of twelve
ampoules of the DMSO aminoacid compound every other day. Additionally, the
rhythm of stimulation and specialized learning for all babies and children were
maintained at previously determined levels. The diet was kept at an optimum, and
psychopharmacological and aminoacid oral treatments were continued where
necessary. The 91 children in the control group received only “basic treatment,” no
DMSO aminoacid therapy. The injections for Down’s


 addiction. All 12 of
those people were accustomed to blaming others for their
weaknesses, using almost any excuse as a rationale for
returning to their self-defeating ways. On a poster hanging
in the room were these words: “In this group, there are no
justiﬁed r esentments.”
Regardless of what anyone would say to another group
member, no matter how confr ontational or ugly the
accusations, each person was reminded that there are no
justiﬁed resentments. You may need to consider whom you
resent befor e you can make your own choice about whether
this is useful  for you. Resentments give you an excuse to
return to your old ways. This is what got you there in the
ﬁrst place! Why Resentments Are There
You may be familiar with a popular television show called
Who Wants to Be a Millio naire? If the contestant correctly
answers 15 multiple-choice questions, he or she wins a
million dollar s. Starting with a $100 question, the person in
the “hot seat” answers ﬁve questions befor e reaching the
$1,000 level. A t this point, the person is guaranteed to leave
with something. Then the questions increase in diﬃculty. If
the contestant reaches $32,000, again, there is a guarantee
of leaving with that amou nt. So, there are two crucial levels
to attain: The $1,000 level, which is achieved by answering
ﬁve relatively simple questions; and the $32,0 00 level,
which involves ﬁve incr easingly diﬃcult questions. I’ve just related details about this TV program to present the
idea of the two levels that you must achieve in order to
have a chance at the highest “million-dollar ” level of
awar eness. The $1,000 level is one in which you learn toleave blame behind in your life. If you don’t do so, you go
home with nothing. Removing blame means never assigning responsibility to
anyone for what you’r e experiencing. It means that you’r e
willing to say, “I may not understand why I feel this way,
why I have this illness, why I’ve been victimized, or why I
had this accident, but I’m willing to say withou t any guilt or
resentment that I own it. I live with it and I am responsible
for having it in my life.” Why do this? If you take
responsibility for having it, then at least you have a chance
to also tak e responsibility for r emoving it or lear ning fr om it. If you’r e in some small (perhaps unknown) way responsible
for that migraine headache or that depressed feeling, then
you can go to work to remove it or discover what its
message is for you. If, on the other hand, someone or
something else is responsible in your mind, then of course
you’ll have to wait until they chang e for you to get better. And that is unlikely to occur. So, at the $1,000 level, blame
has to go. Otherwise you go home with nothing and are
unable to participate at the higher levels. You must be willing to pass a new test at the secon d critical
level, the $32,000 questi on, which is the ﬁnal obstacle you
must face in order to move into the more exalted realm of
self-actualization and higher consciousness, the million-
dollar spiritual level. At this level, you must be willing to
send the higher, faster energies of love, peace, joy,
forgiveness, and kindness as your respon se to whatever
comes your way. This is the start of the uncrowded extra
mile wher e you have only love to give away. Someone says something to you that you ﬁnd disagr eeable,
and rather than opting for resentment, you are able to
depersonalize what you’ve just heard and respond withkindness. You would rathe r be kind than right. You have no
need to make others wrong or to retaliate when you’ve been
wronged. You do this for yourself. There is a Chinese
proverb, “If you’r e going to pursue revenge, you’d better dig
two graves.” Your resentments will destr oy you. They are
low energies. And along  the extra mile, you’ll only meet
others who have fully grasped this concept. The ones who
haven’t made  it to this level are all back with the crowd who
went out of the game long ago on an easier ques tion, and
most are still back there wondering why they keep going
home with nothing! But I can assur e you that they continue
to blame others for their emptiness. First, you have to get past blame. Then you have to learn to
send love to all, rather than anger and resentment. The
story is told of the enlightened master who always
responded to outbursts of criticism, judgment, and ridicule
with love, kindness, and peace. One of his devotees asked
him how he could possib ly be so kind and peace ful in the
face of such disparaging invective. His response to the
devotee was this question: “If someone oﬀers you a gift,
and you do not accept that gift, to whom does the gift
belong?” Ask yourself, “Why would I allow something that
belongs to someone else to be a source of my resentment?”
As the title of a popular book says, “What you think of me is
none of my business.” Indeed, there are no justiﬁed
resentments if you wish to walk along the extra mile and
enjoy inner peace and success on every step of the path. OceanofPDF.comStop Looking for Occasions
to Be Oﬀended
When you live at or below  ordinary levels of awar eness, you
spend a great deal of time and energy ﬁnding opportunities
to be oﬀende d. Today we’re going to examine how you can
stop allowing yourself to be oﬀended by others and instead
respond positively with love and for giveness. A news report, an economic downtur n, a rude stranger, a
fashion miscue, someone cursing, a sneeze, a black cloud,
any cloud, an absence of clouds—just about anythi ng will do
if you’re looking for an occasion to be oﬀended. Along the
extra mile, you’ll never ﬁnd anyone engaging in such
absur dities.Become a person who refuses to be oﬀended by any one,
any thing, or any set of circumstances. If something takes
place and you disappr ove, by all means state what you feel
from your heart; and if possible, work to elimina te it and
then let it go. Most people operate from the ego and really
need to be right. So, when you encounter someone saying
things that you ﬁnd inappr opriate, or when you know
they’r e wrong, wrong, wrong, forget your need to be right
and instead say, “You’re right about that!” Those words will
end potential conﬂict and free you from being oﬀended. Your desir e is to be peace ful—not to be right, hurt, angry, or
resentful. If you have enough faith in your own beliefs, you’ll
ﬁnd that it’s impossible to be oﬀended by the beliefs and
conduct of others. Not being oﬀended is a way of saying, “I have contr ol over
how I’m going to feel, and I choose to feel peaceful
regardless of what I observe going on.” When you feel
oﬀended, you’r e practicing judgment. You judge someone
else to be stupid, insensit ive, rude, arrogant, inconsiderate,
or foolish, and then you ﬁnd yourself upset and oﬀended by
their conduc t. What you may not realize is that when you
judge another person, you do not deﬁne them. You deﬁne
yourself as someone who needs to judge others. Just as no one can deﬁne you with their judgments, neither
do you have the privilege of deﬁning others. When you stop
judging and simply becom e an observer, you will know the
inner peace I’m writing about here. With that sense of inner
peace, you’ll ﬁnd yourself free of the negative energy of
resentment, and you’ll be able to live a life of contentment. A bonus is that you’ll ﬁnd that others are much more
attracted to you. A peaceful person attracts peaceful
energy. You won’t know God unless you’r e at peace,
because God is peace.Your resentments literally send God out of your life while
you’r e busy being oﬀended. Not being oﬀended will mean
eliminating all variations of the following sentence fr om your
repertoir e of available thoughts: “If only you were more like
me, then I wouldn’t have to be upset right now.” You are the
way you are, and so are those around you. Most likely, they
will never be just like you. So stop expecting those who are
diﬀer ent to be what


 so that it vibrationally inspires you. My words are a
starting point, but you will find  your flow when you write your
own, because you will know what feels good to you. This first list is intended for those situations where a
trigger has come up, and you feel  unprepared for it. In these
situations, you will have a quic k reference list that you can
draw an affirmation from, to quickly find a better thought or feeling - which may actually shift the outcome of the unexpected (or unpleasant) si tuation in a more positive
direction. These affirmations ai m to carry a vibration, that can
metaphysically throw sand on  an erupting energetic fire. I myself
have found the concept of having a quick reference list available to be very helpful. The second list of affirmatio ns can serve as a starting
point for your “affirmations th at you eat for breakfast.” I
actually try to affirm them before my feet even hit the floor in the morning. They set a positive vibration for my day, when my spirit is open and receptive. They pave the way for good
things to come to me, all day, every day. They are my inner software, and my guiding light. Both kinds of lists can be
helpful and useful in our lives. Cosmic Wealth
 78
/G36/G12/G13/G0C/G29/G01/G37/G13/G19/G0F/G01/G10/G0A/G01/G26/G0A/G0A/G13/G08/G25/G0B/G0F/G13/G10/G0E/G19/G01 – (“Vibrational Sand”)
/G2F/G07/G0D/G12/G04/G06/G07/G0C/G06/G1A/G07/G12/G09/G06/G18/G09/G05/G0F/G01/G02/G06/G32/G0F/G04/G06/G1A/G07/G12/G06/G0E/G05/G0C/G01/G10/G1A/G06/G04/G0F/G1A/G24/G06/G0F/G0C/G11/G06/G17/G10/G07/G14/G06/G14/G03/G01/G02/G24/G06/G01/G02/G05/G04/G05/G06
affirmations). Breathe deeply and gently into your spirit. Allow a
better feeling within you, with a s imple willingness to feel better. Imagine the sand flowing over this exp eriential fire, quelling it quickly
and eliminating its heat. Feel you rself relaxing into divine well-being. /G21/G01/G12/G0F/G01/G0C/G07/G14/G04/G11/G01/G12/G03/G11/G01/G21/G01/G12/G0F/G01/G16/G12/G0A/G04/G20/G01/G01 /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
/G21/G03/G03/G04/G05/G01/G0D/G04/G12/G13/G04/G01/G0A/G02/G0C/G0C/G16/G01/G0F/G04/G20/G01/G01 /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
My breath is my Source of calm. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
My breath is my Source of strength. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
I am perfect the way I am. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
My life always works out for good. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
I am flexible, and my flexibility prospers me. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
I am willing to find a better thought. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
I am willing to feel better. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
I am willing to let this go, an d this goodness prospers me. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
Everything always works out for my highest good. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
Source within me supplies all that I need. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
I always have what I need. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
I observe the transparency of tr uth in this experience, and I
focus my thoughtful attention on my inner expansive truth. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
I relax in the knowing that Source energy guides the flow of my
life. Only good comes out of this situation. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
There is no shame in physical life. Only expansion. I am
divinely loved and guided, and I am filled with the light of
love. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0AAffirmations 79
I observe and release this stress. And I now fill myself with
loving Source energy. Source energy always makes it easy to
feel good. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10 /G0A /G01
I can always find a better thought. Better thoughts always
create better experiences for me. I am grateful. Deep breathing fills me with the light of Source. With each
breath, I feel better, and better, and better. I am grateful. I know what to do and I do it. I am grateful. I relax and let go. Source guides me to my highest good. I am grateful. /G09/G1B/G19/G11/G11/G0D/G03/G14/G05/G0C/G0D/G01/G0A/G0F/G09/G11/G01 r Breakfast” – (Or any time of day) /G01
/G21/G01/G12/G0F/G01/G11/G02/G14/G02/G03/G04/G0C/G19/G01/G0C/G07/G14/G04/G11/G20/G01/G01 /G1C/G06 /G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
My High Self (Source self) guides me to my highest good, today
and every day. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
I consciously invest my unique gifts in experiences that feel
good every day, and I attract all good to me. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
I already have a rich inner life, and it prospers my daily
experiences. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05 /G17/G12/G10/G0A
I am healthy, whole, and fit. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
I already am my divine perfection. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05 /G17/G12/G10/G0A
I choose my life experiences, and so I choose wholeness,
prosperity, and joyful living. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G05/G17/G12/G10/G0A
I choose happiness today and every day. /G1C/G06/G0F/G19/G06/G0E/G09/G0F/G01/G


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EATING    ACCORDING    TO   YOUR    BODY   TYPE
TRIDOSHA
Fall  (September  to  end  November)
Basmati  rice,  brown  Oats,  whole  cooked
Brown  rice,  short-grain  Wheat Wild  rice
PROCESSED  GRAINS  (ALL  YEAR)
Minor
Barley  cereal  Millet  cereal
Barley  flour  Mochi  (pounded  sweet  rice)
Bulgur  Oat  bran
Corn  grits  Oats,  rolled  or  steel-cut
Cornmeal  Pasta,  spinach  or  whole  wheat
Couscous  Rice  flour Rye  flakes
Rye  flour Soba  noodles
Udon  noodles
Wheat  bran
Whole  wheat  flour
LEGUMES,  BEANS,  PEAS,  AND  SOYBEAN  DERIVATIVES
Tofu  Urad  dhal Aduki  beans
Mung  dhal,  whole
Nuts  may  be  used  sparingly NUTS  AND  SEEDS
Pumpkin  seeds Sunflower  seeds
SWEETENERS
Amasake  (rice  milk)
Barley  malt  syrup Fruit  juice  concentrate
Honey,  raw  and  uncooked Maple  syrup
HERBS,  SPICES,  AND  FLAVORINGS
Black  pepper
Cardamon
Cinnamon
Coconut
Coriander
Cilantro
Cumin
Dill  leaves  or  seeds
Fennel Garlic,  cooked
Ghee
Ginger,  cooked
Ginger,  fresh
Lemon
Mint  leaves
Mustard Nutmeg
Orange  peel Parsley
Rose  water
Saffron
Sea  salt
Tamarind
Tarragon
runner  it
Vanilla
Wintergreen
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TR  I  DO  SH A
Butter,  unsalted
Cottage  cheese DAIRY
Use  organic  dairy  products. Ghee Yogurt,  spiced
Canola OILS
Sunflower
Aloe  vera  juice
Apple  juice
Apricot  juice
Amasake  (rice  milk) BEVERAGES
Berry  juices,  sweet
Carob  drinks
Carrot-vegetable  juice
Grape  juice Mango  juice
Peach  nectar
Soy  milk,  spiced
Yogurt  drinks,  spiced
TEAS
Do  not  use  chamomile  if  you  are  allergic  to  ragweed. Bancha  (twig  tea)  Barley  (grain  tea)  Raspberry
Barley  Hops  Rice  (grain  tea)
Chamomile  Jasmine  Rose  flower
Chicory  Lemon  balm  Saffron
Chrysanthemum  Lemon  grass  Sarsaparilla
Cinnamon  Lotus  Spearmint
Cloves  Mexican  bark  Violet
Elder  flower  Orange  peel  Wintergreen
Fennel  Peppermint
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EATING   WITH    THE    CYCLES
OF    NATURE-
SEASONAL   MENUS
ccording  to  Ayurveda,  there  are  six  seasons — every  two  months  is  considered  a  season. The  Vata
seasons  are  early  fall  (the  rainy  season),  mid-July  to  mid-September;  and  autumn,  mid-Septem-
ber to  mid-November. Mid-November  through  mid-March,  early  through  late  winter,  mark  the  two
seasons  of  Kapha. Spring  and  summer,  spanning  mid-March  through  mid-July,  are  considered  the
two  Pitta  seasons. Because  each  dosha  is  increased  in  its  own  season,  these  particular  times  ol  year  are  crucial  for  each
body  type:  Vata  is  increased  in  the  rainy  season  and  autumn;  Kapha  is  increased  in  both  the  early  and
late  parts  of  winter;  and  Pitta  is  increased  in  the  spring  and  summer. The  period  of  time  when  the  seasons  are  changing  is  also  very  critical  for  all  the  types. According
to  Charaka:  "All  diseases  begin  at  the  junctions  of  the  seasons,"  and  so  all  types  are  cautioned  to  be
especially  aware  during  the  seasonal  transitions. The  fortnights  surrounding  mid  September  and
mid-November  are  the  most  crucial  periods  during  the  Vata  seasons. Vata  types  are  advised  to
cultivate  infinite  patience  and  to  initiate  gentle,  grounding  sadhanas  and  use  Vata  nurturing  foods
during  these  periods. The  fortnights  surrounding  mid-January  and  mid-March  are  the  most  critic al
days  for  Kapha  types,  who  are  cautioned  to  be  stoic  and  firm  with  then  sadhanas  and  food  choices
during  these  periods. The  fortnights  surrounding  mid-May  and  mid- July  are  the  most  vulnerable  days
during  the  Pitta  seasons. Pitta  types  are  asked  to  be  especially  patient  and  observant  ol  then  sadhanas
and  food  choices  during  these  periods. The  doshas  are  at  their  zenith  during  a  certain  time  ol  day  and  time  ol  hie. Two  to  si\  m  the  eai  |y
morning  and  afternoon  is  Vata's  peak  time. Six  to  ten  in  the  morning  and  evening  is  Kapha's
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heightened  time. Ten  to  two  in  the  day  and  evening  is
when  Pitta  is  most  intense. The  childhood  years  from  birth  to  fourteen  are
considered  the  Kapha  years. Twenty-seven  to  forty-
two  are  considered  the  Pitta  years,  and  fifty-six  to
seventy-seven  are  the  prime  Vata  years. Fourteen  to
twenty-seven  are  the  Pitta-Kapha  years;  forty-two  to
fifty-six  the  Vata-Pitta  years;  seventy-seven  to  life's
end,  the  Vata-Kapha  years. The  prevalent  times  of  each  dosha  generally  reflect
the  time  when  that  dosha  needs  to  be  nurtured  and
nourished  to  balance  its  heightened  state. During  its
prevalent  time,  a  Vata  type  would  seek  light,  warm,
and  moist  temperatures,  as  well  as  substantial  Vata-
nurturing  foods. The  sadhanas  most  appropriate  to balance  Vata  are  gentle  and  consistent  activities,  which
include  listening  to  mellow  and  harmonious  sounds. The  Pitta  type  would  seek  tranquil  and  cool  tem-
peratures. Wholesome,  fragrant,  and  calming  foods
reduce  the  intensity  of  Pitta. The  most  appropriate
sadhanas  are  restful,  meditative,  and  gentle  activities,
which  include  observing  forms  that  are  visually  whole-
some and  beautiful. Kapha  types  need  to  stir  and  rise  in  great  motion
and  activity. The  temperature  needs  to  be  warm,  dry,
and  crisp. Kapha  should  repast  on  small  portions  of
stimulating  and  warming  foods. The  best  sadhanas
for  Kapha  are  in  the  kitchen,  cleaning  house,  parting
with  many  years  of  collectibles,  as  well  as  hiking,
biking,  and  so  on. SEASON,  CONDITION,  AGE,  AND  TIME
WHEN  EACH  DOSHA  IS  MOST  PREVALENT
VATA
Rainy  season,  mid-July  through  mid-September  (early


  discriminate  between  what  is  heard  and  what  is
actual;  between  what  is  a  belief  and  what  is  believed. As  love  exhorts  us  not  to  nurture  expectations,  the
truth  urges  us  not  to  hasten  to  conclusions. I  lie  open
mind  encourages  an  alert  mind. And  m\  alert  mind
becomes  a  discriminate  mind,  whereby  we  choose  oui
daily  paths  ol  least  resistance. The  path  ol  truth  is
always  well  lit  when  oui  eves  are  open
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AFTERWORD
SADHANA  OF
DEVOTION
If  we  pray  for  anything,  it  is  that  we  remember  our
nature. Only  then  will  the  spirit  of  devotion  rise  in
celebration. To  know  ourselves  to  be  Brahman  is  to  gain  the
greatest  wealth  of  the  universe. Devotion  is  an  attitude
that  is  primarily  influenced  by  the  knowledge  of  God. It  is  an  acceptance  of  the  nature  of  all  things,  and  not
a  resignation  to  unpleasantness. It  is  the  firm,  tangible
knowing  that  all  which  comes  to  us  is  prasada,  a  gift  of
God. The  universe  has  a  cosmic  order,  and  when  we  are  in
harmony  with  it,  the  results  we  reap  are  always  reward-
ing. When  we  are  unobservant  of  its  order,  we  are
caught  by  surprise  by  its  rewards. To  accept  the  univer-
sal prasada,  without  anger  and  hurt,  whether  pleasant
or  not,  is  the  test  of  trust  in  our  attitude  of  devotion. Prayers  are  where  we  begin  in  our  spirit  of  devotion. We  acknowledge  the  omniscient  force  of  the  Lord  and
his  help  to  us. As  we  maintain  a  prayerful  disposition,
we  recognize  that  the  Lord's  help  is  always  impartial. We  benefit  from  the  grace  whether  or  not  we  see  the
results. A  bhakta  is  a  devotee,  one  whose  acceptance  of
the  Lord  as  the  provider  and  will  behind  everything  is
complete. A  bhakta  knows  that  when  we  tamper  with
God's  will,  we  incur  the  just  results,  and  that  when  we
flow  within  Isvara's  universal  harmony,  we  are  blessed
with  grace. The  grace  we  earn  may  not  always  be  what
we  hope  for,  but  when  we  accept  it  as  our  lesson  (or
lessons)  to  bear,  we  are  living  in  cosmic  love. When  we  make  an  offering  to  the  Lord,  it  comes
back  to  us,  just  like  the  fruits  we  place  upon  the  alter
and  share  with  each  other  after  prayers. When  our
offerings  return  to  us,  they  are  transformed  into  prasada. A  devotee  is  not  one  who  is  exempt  from  wrongdoing,
but  one  who  accepts  the  results  of  his  or  her  wrong
actions  with  graciousness. A  devotee  may  not  recog-
nize the  wrongness  of  an  action,  but  accepts  the  karma-
phala,  the  fruits  of  the  action,  however  unpleasant,
without  grief. The  attitude  of  acceptance  of  all  things
that  come  to  us  is  the  greatest  beauty  of  the  human
spirit. This  does  not  mean  that  when  we  are  being
abused,  we  must  remain  in  that  condition. There  are other  factors  present  in  these  situations,  and  we  must
summon  the  courage  to  run  from  destructive  interplay. Devotion  is  both  the  joyous  acceptance  of  the  good
results  and  the  recognition  of  the  poor  results  as  lessons
to  be  learned. No  stage  of  spiritual  growth  is  exempt  from  the
spirit  of  devotion. The  simple  person  who  does  not
have  the  knowledge  of  self  may  be  a  great  devotee  of
God. In  contrast,  a  scholar  of  the  scriptures  cannot
know  the  omniscient  self  without  the  spirit  of  devo-
tion. With  or  without  the  knowledge  of  Brahman,  de-
votion is  the  fundamental  spirit  of  nature. With  devo-
tion, the  poor  and  ignorant  continue  to  be  blessed  and
happy;  without  it  the  scholar  could  never  know  God. SADHANA  OF   SILENCE
Solitude,  silence,  and  freedom  are  the  nourishers  of  life. We
think  we  are  nourishing  ourselves  with  words,  ideas,
thoughts,  but  though  these  things  are  the  content  of  con-
sciousness, they  are  not  the  content  of  reality. Vimala  Thakar
As  I  write,  I  expend  breath  through  the  silent  words. There  are  many  thousands  of  breaths  granted  to  each
of  us  as  we  serve  the  mala  bead  of  one  lifetime. When
this  ration  of  breath  is  used,  the  physical  body  ceases  to
be. Even  in  deep  silence,  breath  is  spent. But  it  is  spent
wisely  as  it  hums  along  with  the  universe. The  greatest  sadhana  of  contentment  and  joy  is  to  sit
in  the  love  and  light  of  your  own  being. Silence  is  the
last  boon  given  after  all  the  lessons  of  cosmic  being  are
learned. It  is  difficult  to  begin  the  sadhana  of  silence,
but  we  earn  it  as  we  practice  the  wholesome  actions  of
the  food  sadhanas. When  memory  is  waning,  the  mind
becomes  cluttered. There  is  no  room  for  silence. We  are
shut  out  of  existence. The  penance  to  reenter  is  to  sit  in
the  self  and  observe  the  thoughts  and  emotions. The
mind  will  not  easily  empty  its  sticky  thoughts,  but  you
will  be  able  to  observe  them. This  observation  burns
the  invalid  emotions  and  leaves  the  residue  of  what  is
real. Observation  is  a  celebration  of  our  being,  even  when
we  are  in  trouble. By  observing  we  become  still. Still-
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ness  is  the  secret  of  the  trees  and  mountains. They  are
in  no  hurry  to  accelerate  the  process  of  becoming. When  you  bathe  in  moonlight,  you  become  moonlit;
when  you  sit  in  the  forest,  you  become  the  essence  of
the  trees;  when  you  climb  a  mountain  like  the  gravity-
defying  goats,  you  become  that  mountain. They  are  all
essential  stillness  in  quiet  motion. Observe  nature  and
allow  yourself  to  be  transformed. Transformation  is
the  fire  of  observation. Stillness  is  the  gift  of  awareness. Every  morning  take  a  bath.


 sense, almost
physical, that he was sinking down into the earth or was being lowered into
a well. Only his descent wasn’ t frightening and what waited below wasn’ tsheer blackness. It was more like a welcoming sleep, except that he
remained awake in its arms. Siddhartha lost track of time. Once he opened his eyes again, Asita was
leaning on his staf f watching him. “They’re coming for you,” he said soberly. Siddhartha knew he meant
the guards sent out by his father. “Can you remember what I’ve just showed
you?”
Siddhartha nodded, although he wasn’ t really sure that he had been
shown anything. Asita picked up his doubt. “Here is your safety. This is going to be your special place. When you
feel confused or when someone is trying to make you what you are not,
come back to this tree. Sit and close your eyes. W ait for the silence. Do
nothing to make it come to you. It will come of its own accord.”
They could hear the return of soldiers shouting to each other by the
pond. “W ill I find you here?” asked Siddhartha. Asita shook his head. “I had to think long and hard about even coming
today. You are still in danger.”
“From what?” Siddhartha’ s spirit was so settled that he was only mildly
disturbed by Asita’ s veiled warning. “From everyone who thinks they know what your future should be. Y ou
are not alone. They are always watching.”
“I know.” Siddhartha’ s voice was as sober as the hermit’ s.
“Well, let that be. I am withdrawing my protection now, as of this
moment. I don’ t want to be like one of them.”
Asita’ s voice had become tender and somewhat strange. Siddhartha
didn’ t understand why the old man’ s gaze seemed so sad, or why he took a
moment to bend over and touch Siddhartha’ s feet. But the moment he did,
the boy found himself closing his eyes again, and once more he descendedinto the well of silence, deeper this time, deep enough so that he didn’ t hear
Asita depart. “Hey, over here!”
The shout was close by, and Siddhartha heard running footsteps
approaching. He slowly opened his eyes to see a ring of guards around him. Some looked agitated, others relieved. The of ficer among them gave an
order: “Run and tell the king.” He knelt down beside Siddhartha. “Where
have you been? Did someone take you away?”
Siddhartha shook his head. He wished they would all leave. It would be
much better if they did, if he didn’ t have to return with them. He wanted to close his eyes again, but instead he heard himself say,
“I’ve just been here. Sitting by myself.”
The of ficer looked doubtful. “W e’ve circled the place half a dozen
times.”
If this was an implied question, Siddhartha didn’ t answer it. He was too
aware that his body was getting to its feet, as if another person were in
charge of his muscles. He himself was still inside the silence. More people
were running up now, including various courtiers dressed for the feast,
some wobbly from drink. What time was it? He was surprised to see the sun
low on the horizon. The soldiers led the way, and Siddhartha felt himself return to the
world. Everything was back in focus. His father greeted him with open
arms and not a word about whether he had fought with Devadatta. W ith the
tension broken, the revels became twice as raucous, continuing long past
midnight. Siddhartha was allowed to stay up. He spent a closely guarded
hour watching the dancers and tumblers, then went to his room and threw
himself into bed, exhausted but with a head full of images that kept him
awake a long time. ERASING A MEMOR Y isn’t a simple process like erasing scribbles of f a
chalkboard. The eyes have the longest memory, followed by the nose. Who
doesn’ t remember the blinding white snows of yesterday, the swooning
scent of a rose, the brilliance of an unfurled peacock’ s tail? But try to
imitate a robin’ s song, something you’ve heard a thousand times. Few
people can. Still less can we remember anything told us that was wise. Siddhartha swore to himself that he would never for get Asita’ s words, but
the years passed and the hermit’ s message became more and more vague. Besides, what are a few profound sentences compared to the thousands of
days that follow? In the prince’ s case, each day was full to bursting, and by
the time he was nearing adolescence, Siddhartha had for gotten that he had
ever been under Asita’ s protection or that it had ever been withdrawn. The king kept his word and allowed his son’ s education to be
completely ruled by the high Brahmin. Canki’ s was the first face the prince
saw when he stepped out of his room in the morning and the last when he
returned at night. Naturally, this constant familiarity made him trust his
teacher. The heavy hulk of a man treated him well and told him many useful
things. It was rather like being followed around by a learned ox. But just as
naturally, Siddhartha escaped his schooling whenever he got the chance. He
had worn a path to the stables by the time he was six, and it deepened every
year. There he could waste endless time with Channa, whether to lie in the
straw and discuss the future, saddle a horse to ride (both boys together, one
to hold the reins, the other to kick with his spurs), or groom a mount that
was lathered up and quivering from a hard workout. Most of the time they
practiced fighting, the one thing Channa never tired of. If Bikram happened to be watching over them, then the boys’ fighting
followed strict rules. “W e may have to kill, but we don’ t butcher. We fight
with style,” Bikram insisted. “Style is what makes the battling human.” He
only half believed this motto, but it gave him a sense of dignity, and when
he couldn’ t help but see the carnage of battles long past in his mind’ s eye,
Bikram’ s only refuge was his dignity—he had killed too many enemies the
dirty way. Before being handed a sword, each boy had his chest wrapped in thick
straw padding bound with burlap on the outside. Their blades, shorter andlighter than a warrior ’s, were dulled along the edge and the points shielded
with a lead ball. These measures ensured that neither would get seriously
hurt. “Don’ t dull ’em so much as they won’ t feel it,” Bikram ordered the
armorer. “Bruises but no blood.”
As referee, he shouted, “T ouch!” to make them part each time one
sword made a hit. But there was only so much that could be done about
Channa’ s fierce temper. The boy would keep whaling away even after his
foe was hit, and then Bikram would jerk him back with a scolding oath and
a cuf f on the ear. They both knew he was secretly proud. Often Siddhartha felt bad about besting his friend. But Channa had it
coming. Each small victory he managed meant days of listening to him
crow. Both of them bore colorful bruises from the blunted blades. One day, when the boys had just turned fourteen together, it began as a
typical match. Channa tirelessly lunged and slashed, which was his favored
style. Siddhartha would watch and sidestep when he could, playing the
sinuous panther to Channa’ s clumsy bull. “Hit!” Channa cried out, but he was premature. He had only landed a
glancing blow to Siddhartha’ s burlap tunic. The reckless thrust gave him
too much momentum, and as he hurtled past, Siddhartha slapped him on the
butt with the flat of his blade. “I called a hit, didn’ t I?” Channa grumbled. Siddhartha just shrugged. Channa hated the grin on his friend’ s face, and rather than ar gue he risked a
second lunge, which also missed. Siddhartha fisted Channa’ s shirt in his
free hand, lifted his sword to his friend’ s throat, and drove him back against
the stable wall. Their breath hit each other ’s faces as they glared at each
other. Is this what my father takes such joy in? Siddhartha asked himself. He
knew by the way he talked about war and being in battle how his father felt
about the struggle to survive under bloody conditions. There was no referee this day because Bikram had been called to the
smithy to help hold an unruly warhorse that was being shod. The boys tookadvantage by fighting harder to test each other ’s limits. Setting himself, feet apart and weight balanced as he’d been instructed,
Siddhartha attacked with his blade. He had already learned that he had
reach and height as his advantage. He’d grown to be the leaner and taller of
the


 me and know the truth. Use these negative self-talk phrases to create your tapping setup statements. Write the crazy things that you think and tell yourself, take a look at the list
—it might be enough to bring back sanity. Tap on them. Pretend  you are an
anthropologist from some planet far away in the galaxy, studying the
foreign culture of You. Get really curious. Focus on What’ s Right
Focusing on what’ s wrong, not what’ s right, isn’t just a family issue, it’s a
cultural issue, and probably a biological one, as well. We were made to
survive, with a 24/7 survival radar looking for dangerous situations—in
other words, what’ s wrong. Com pensate by noting what’ s right. It takes half
a second to notice and memorize what’ s wrong, compared with twelve
seconds to absorb something good or positive. So savor the positives, even
if it’s as simple as a kind word a stranger said, a beautiful photograph, you
name it. You’ll find that focusin g on what’ s “right” is a lot easier on you,
while beating yourself up merely locks the problem in more completely. Consider creating a gratitude journal, and take your time to write what you
appreciate and are grateful for every day in your life. Remember to be
positive in simple ways, such as letting someone else go first in line,
smiling, expressing gratitude every time something feels good during your
day, and expressing thankfulnes s for opportunities to heal and learn when
things don’t go so well in your day. And don’t forget to tap—yo u build your
good, appreciation, gratitude, and happy muscle by exercising it many times
a day. Who Else in My Family Does This. You might ask: Who else did I see beating themselves up. About what. Do
you believe you have inherited this issue so you can’t possibly change. Start tapping on a belief that may feel real but isn’t true. Try tapping on any
early childhood events where you witnessed a loved one feeling  hopeless or
being too hard on him or herself. Explor e Your Beliefs Relating to Y our Own Self-Sabotage
It’s common for people to belie ve it’s impossible to change old, ingrained
habits and patter ns. But what if that itself is simply a belief and not what’ s
true. Could it be that you learned to be a certain way, to be accepted as part
of the family system. Is there a time you can remember that you weren’ t
“this way”—scattered, overweight, or unable to ask questions or stand up
for yourself. What’ s underneath the “it’ s just the way I am,” for you. Childhood Origins of Sabotage
Children under the age of seven typically view their parents as all-powerful,
and if anything is wrong, they quickly take on the blame rather than looking
at their parents with a critical eye. To survive, children quickly learn
survival skills within their family in order to get what they need—love,
acceptance, and approval. Child ren quickly absorb belief systems and ways
of behaving that may cover up the core of their being in attempts to get
what they need. But those unexpressed hidden feelings don’t go away until
they’re finally acknowledged. 12
With EFT, we begin to tap on these old beliefs, and you have  far more
control over your emotions and thoughts than you think. Get Curious About Y our Beliefs; T ap on Whatever Resonates
What proof do you have that things have to be the way they are. Is it true
for other people or just you. Is it logically true or does it feel like an
emotional truth. It’ s time for a belief reboot of your system. Here are some sample phrases about change fears:
Even though I don’t believe it’s possible to change, I believe I can
accept myself and how I feel. Even though I believed I had to be perfect for things to be okay …. Even though I believed I wouldn’ t be loved if I didn’ t do what she
wanted …. Even though a part of me believ es that I can’t do it, and will never be
successful …. Even though it’s not okay to ask questions, because she might get upset
…. Even though I don’t rock the boat because all hell would break loose
and then it would all be my fault …. Even though nothing I did was ever good enough …. Even though I shouldn’ t want what I want and don’t deserve to have it
anyway, …. Imagine Life Dif ferently
You have far more control over your emotions and thoughts than you may
believe. Ask yourself what would happen if you did make a change, and
begin to look at your fears framed th at way. What happened when you made
a change before. What’ s in the way of you making this change. What’ s the
upside of staying  the same way. What’ s the downside of makin g a change. What does this resistance remin d you of. What’ s the earliest time you felt
this type of resistance to chang e. Where in your life do you sabotage the
most. Your answers can be easily turned into tapping targets. Where in your life
do you sabotage. Take out your EFT journal, and list the areas of your life
where you sabotage most often. What is it that brings on the sabotage. Review the last time you sabotaged and ask yourself what was happening
just before it happened. Tapping into these feelings and subconscious rules will reveal a
progression of thoughts and lead to options for change, which can feel
scary. Change often doesn’ t feel safe, but patiently tapping will soothe
negative feeling s and reveal surprising insights. Often hesitance is not about
the issue we initially assumed but about areas we’ve neglected and feelings
we’ve repressed for years. You can tell you’ve got black-and-white thinking about an issue in your
life when you ask yourself: What will happen if I do change. Take that
answer and ask yourself the same question again: What will happen then. And keep on asking the same question about what will happen. You will
find that after about three or four “what will happens,” the answer will
likely be something like “I’ll die and be all alone,” or “I’ll be isolated and
revealed for the fraud I am,” or “I’ll never go out again,” or something
extremely melodramatic. Take note—you’re not working with a logical
mind here but the need to process emotions. Conflict: People who Simultaneously W ant
and Don’t W ant to Get Better
Sometimes there  are very good practical reasons for keeping a situation just
as it is, although we’re not consciously aware of them. “Secondary gain” is
the fancy term for the unconscio us desire to stay just as we are. Simply put,
there is some benefit you’re not yet aware of, that makes it seem safer to
keep the problem. Consciously thinking we want one thing while
unconsciously not feeling safe to have what we want keeps us stuck. EFT
helps uncover what is underneath this stubborn resistance. If you had to
guess  at a reason you’re finding resistance, what would it be. What are the
upsides and the downsides of making the change you say you want. Self-Sabotage Q & A Review
1. Which area of your life do you most often sabotage. Choose one specific
area of sabotage at a time and work through these questions. Your
answers will uncover a boatload  of tapping targets. What’ s your earliest
memory of feeling this way. Does this feeling remind you of anything. 2. When does the self-sabotage happen. Y our answer will give you tar gets. 3. What are the feelings associated with the sabotage. 4. What kind of self-talk do you have doing this. 5. What specifically triggers your self-sabotage. 6. What else was happening in your life at the time of the sabotage. 7. What could your sabotage behavior be protecting you from. 8. What’ s the upside of allowing this sabotage behavior to continue. What’ s the downside of changing it. 9. How would your life be differen t if you eliminated self-sabotage in this
area of your life. 10. Imagine life free of the sabotage. Answers to these questions provide you with specific tapping targets
relating to your sabotage area. Remember to stay focused on one target,
event, or aspect at a time. This will help you clear intensi ty from specific
events or table legs holding up the sabotage tabletop in a comprehensive,
efficient, ef fective manner. Rate your intensity before tapping, then recheck
it after each tapping round, uncovering any hanging aspects. See the
progress you are making before moving on. If you still have questions about
getting specific, review Chapter 3 for guidance. And of course if you
believe tackling  this on your own might be a bit much, get the professional
support you need from a trustworthy EFT practitioner. Exercise: Imagine Better
Try offering your sabotage behavior a little vacation. Send it to the most
special, loving, wondrous place you can imagine, and let it know it can
come back after a little while. Allow yourself to experience how would it
feel if the self-sabotage behav ior was really gone. What would happen
specifically if your projects were in on time, you had the job of your
dreams, the relationship that fostered intimacy


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t h e  w o r l d. Y e t  y o u  d o n ’ t  h a v e  a c c e s s  t o  t h e  p e o p l e  o r
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b e c a u s e  t h e  g i f t  o f  F r e e  W i l l  w a s  g i v e n  t o  y o u  a t  y o u r
c r e a t i o n. Y e t  H e  w i l l  m o v e  h e a v e n  a n d  e a r t h  t o  h e l p  y o u
c h o o s e  a g a i n. H e  w i l l  f i n d  a  w a y  t o  o f f e r  y o u  t h e  c h a n c e  t o
l i v e  a  d i f f e r e n t  l i f e. A l l  t h o u g h t  e x t e n d s  i t s e l f  i n t o  t h e  w o r l d. I f  i t  w a s  a
t h o u g h t  o f  l o v e,  t h e n  m o r e  l o v e  i s  o n  i t s  w a y  o u t  t h e r e  a n d
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i t s  w a y  o u t  a n d  a r o u n d,  a s  w e l l. W e  c a n n o t  i n t e r f e r e  w i t h
w h a t  h a p p e n s  b e t w e e n  C a u s e,  w h i c h  i s  t h e  l e v e l  o fc o n s c i o u s n e s s,  a n d  E f f e c t,  w h i c h  i s  t h e  l e v e l  o f  t h e  w o r l d. *
G o d  h i m s e l f  w i l l  n o t  i n t e r v e n e  b e t w e e n  C a u s e  a n d  E f f e c t,
a s  t h e  l a w  w a s  s e t  u p  f o r  o u r  p r o t e c t i o n. *  B u t  w e  a r e  a l w a y s
f r e e  t o  c h o o s e  a n o t h e r  t h o u g h t,  a n d  t h a t  i s  o u r  m i r a c l e. W h e n  c a u s e  w i t h  a  l i t t l e  “ c ”  ( t h e  t h i n k i n g  o f  t h e  e g o )  i s
r e p l a c e d  w i t h  C a u s e  w i t h  a  b i g  “ C ”  ( t h e  M i n d  o f  G o d ),  t h e
w o r l d  o f  e f f e c t s  c h a n g e s  a c c o r d i n g l y. G o d  h a s  c r e a t e d  t h e  H o l y  S p i r i t  a s  a  “ b r i d g e  o f
p e r c e p t i o n, ”  f r o m  t h e  o u t e r  r e a l m s  o f  a n x i e t y  a n d  d e s p a i r  t o
t h e  i n n e r  r e a l m s  o f  p e a c e  a n d  j o y. *  A n d  t h e  H o l y  S p i r i t  i s
a l w a y s  o n  t h e  c a s e,  e m p o w e r e d  b y  G o d  H i m s e l f  t o  d e l i v e r
u s  f r o m  t h e  e g o ’ s  v a i n  i m a g i n i n g s. Y e t  j u s t  k n o w i n g  t h a t  H e
i s  t h e r e,  a n d  a f f i r m i n g  H i m  w i t h  w h a t e v e r  n a m e  w e  c h o o s e,
d o e s  n o t  o f  i t s e l f  b r i n g  u s  p e a c e. T h a t  m i r a c l e  o c c u r s  w h e n
w e  t r u l y  s t e p  b a c k  a n d  l e t  H i m  l e a d  t h e  w a y ;  w h e n  w e
d i s c o n n e c t  f r o m  t h e  w o r l d l y  r e a l m s,  i f  o n l y  f o r  a  m o m e n t,
a n d  s i n k  i n t o  a  p l a c e  o f  r a d i c a l  a v a i l a b i l i t y. I t ’ s  o n l y  w h e n
w e  a r e  e m p t y  o f — o r  a t  l e a s t  u n i m p r e s s e d  b y — o u r  o w n
t h o u g h t s,  t h a t  t h e  H o l y  S p i r i t  c a n  f i l l  u s  w i t h  H i s. W h e n  w e  “ c o m e  w i t h  e m p t y  h a n d s  u n t o  o u r  G o d, ” *  t h e
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w a s  d e p r e s s e d  a b o u t  r e t u r n i n g  h o m e,  a n d  I  a s k e d  h i m  w h y. “ I  w a s  s u c h  a  j e r k  w h e n  I  l i v e d  h e r e  b e f o r e. I  w a s  r e a l l y
i n s e c u r e,  a n d  s o  I  a c t e d  l i k e  a  b i g  k n o w - i t - a l l. I ’ m  s u r e
e v e r y o n e  h e r e  j u s t  t h i n k s  o f  m e  a s  t h i s  t o t a l  l o s e r,  a n d  g o i n g
b a c k  t o  t h a t  i s  r e a l l y  d e p r e s s i n g. ”“ B u t  h a v e  y o u  c h a n g e d. ”  I  a s k e d  h i m. “ A r e  y o u
d i f f e r e n t  n o w. ”
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k n o w  m e  a s  I  w a s  b a c k  t h e n,  s o  i t  d o e s n ’ t  m a t t e r  t h a t  I ’ v e
c h a n g e d. N o  o n e  t h e r e  w i l l  l i k e  m e. ”
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p e r s p e c t i v e,  a l l  m i n d s  a r e  j o i n e d. S o  i f  y o u ’ v e  c h a n g e d,  t h e n
t h e y ’ v e  g o t  t o  c h a n g e. T h e  o t h e r  k i d s  m i g h t  t h i n k  o f  y o u  a
c e r t a i n  w a y  a t  f i r s t,  b u t  i f  y o u ’ v e  t r u l y  c h a n g e d,  t h e n
e v e r y t h i n g  b u t  w h o  y o u  a r e  n o w  w i l l  d r o p  a w a y. I f  y o u
d o n ’ t  t a k e  t h e  o l d  s t u f f  w i t h  y o u,  t h e n  i t  w o n ’ t  b e  a b l e  t o
s t a y  i n  t h e i r  m i n d s  e x c e p t  f o r  a  v e r y  s h o r t  t i m e. ”
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m o m e n t,  a n d  i t  i s  o n l y  o u r  o w n  t h o u g h t s  t o  t h e  c o n t r a r y  t h a t
k e e p  i t  f r o m  d o i n g  s o. A  m i r a c l e  o c c u r s  w h e n  w e  a s k  G o d
t o  i n t e r v e n e  b e t w e e n  o u r  p a s t  a n d  f u t u r e,  c a n c e l  o u t  a l l  f e a r. a n d  r e l e a s e  u s  t o  n e w  b e g i n n i n g s. A  G o d  w h o  w i l l  p a r t  t h e
s e a s  a n d  r a i s e  t h e  d e a d  h a s  n o  d i f f i c u l t y  s o l v i n g  y o u r
p r o b l e m s  i n  h i g h  s c h o o l — o r  a n y w h e r e  e l s e,  f o r  t h a t  m a t t e r. H i s  i s  a  r a d i c a l  p o w e r  t o  r e p a i r  a n d  r e s t o r e. W h e n  o u r  f a i t h
i s  a s  a u d a c i o u s  a n d  r a d i c a l  a s  H i s  p o w e r,  w e  w i l l
e x p e r i e n c e  t h a t  p o w e r  t o  t h e  f u l l e s t. S p i r i t u a l l y,  w e  a r e  r e b o r n  i n  a n y  m o m e n t  w e  d o  n o t  t a k e
t h e  p a s t  w i t h  u s. *  M y  y o u n g  f r i e n d  A n d r e w  a n d  I  p r a y e d
t h a t  d a y,  a s k i n g  G o d  t o  t a k e  h i s  r e l a t i o n s h i p  w i t h  h i s
s c h o o l m a t e s  i n t o  H i s  h a n d s. W e  a s k e d  H i m  t o  r e m o v e  a l l
w a l l s  o f  m i s u n d e r s t a n d i n g. W e  p r a y e d  t h a t  h i s  r e l a t i o n s h i p sw o u l d  b e  r e b o r n,  t h a t  h e  m i g h t  s t a r t  o v e r  i n  a  d i f f e r e n t
p l a c e. W e  a s k e d  f o r  d i v i n e  r i g h t  o r d e r,  i n  t h i s  a n d  a l l  t h i n g s. A  f e w  w e e k s  l a t e r  I  s a w  A n d r e w  a g a i n. H e  s m i l e d  a t  m e
a n d  g a v e  m e  a  r e a l l y  b i g  h u g. “ H a d  a  m i r a c l e,  h u h. ”  I  a s k e d
h i m. “ O h,  y e a h, ”  h e  s a i d. “ O h,  y e - a h … ”
E v e r y  m o m e n t  i s  p a r t  o f  a  d i v i n e  c u r r i c u l u m,  a n d  i f  I
e x p e r i e n c e d  a


 c t o r i a,  a n d  S u z a n n a h
a n d  t e l l i n g  t h e m  e v e r y t h i n g. ” Y e t  i t  i s  o n e  o f  m y  m o s t
i m p o r t a n t  a c t i v i t i e s  b e c a u s e  i t  c l e a r s  m y  h e a d  f o r
e v e r y t h i n g  e l s e. I n  f a c t,  I  t h i n k  s u c h  p h o n e  c a l l s  a r e  m o r e
i m p o r t a n t  t h a n  t h e y  a p p e a r. S o c i o l o g i s t s  h a v e  n o w  a m e n d e d  a  t r a d i t i o n a l  t h e o r y
a b o u t  h o w  p e o p l e  r e s p o n d  t o  s t r e s s. A s  i t  t u r n s  o u t,  t h e
“ f i g h t  o r  f l i g h t ”  s y n d r o m e  t h a t  h a d  b e e n  t a k e n  a s  g o s p e l  f o r
t h e  l a s t  f e w  d e c a d e s  w a s  d e r i v e d  f r o m  r e s e a r c h  b a s e d  o n  t h e
r e a c t i o n s  o f  m e n  o n l y. W h e n  w o m e n  w e r e  a d d e d  t o  t h e
r e s e a r c h,  r e s e a r c h e r s  f o u n d  a n o t h e r  k i n d  o f  r e a c t i o n :  “ t e n do r  m e n d. ”  I n  o t h e r  w o r d s,  w o m e n  t e n d  t o  b u i l d
r e l a t i o n s h i p s  a s  o u r  p r i m a r y  r e s p o n s e  t o  s t r e s s. A l l  o f  u s  h a v e  m a l e  a n d  f e m a l e  a s p e c t s  t o  o u r  p s y c h e ;  a l l
o f  u s  f i g h t  o r  f l e e  s o m e t i m e s,  a n d  a l l  o f  u s  t e n d  o r  m e n d
s o m e t i m e s. B u t  w h e n  w e  c a l l  e a c h  o t h e r  t o  p r o c e s s  o u r
t h o u g h t s  a n d  f e e l i n g s,  i t ’ s  n o  a c c i d e n t  t h a t  t h o s e  c a l l s  o f t e n
h a p p e n  l a t e  a t  n i g h t,  w h e n  a  d e e p e r  q u i e t  i s  a v a i l a b l e  t o  t h e
s o u l. F r o m  t h e  e a r l i e s t  d a y s  o f  r e c o r d e d  h i s t o r y,  p e o p l e  t o l d
s t o r i e s  a r o u n d  n i g h t t i m e  c a m p f i r e s. W e  s h a r e  s t o r i e s  a s  a
w a y  o f  h o l d i n g  o u r  p s y c h e s,  i n d e e d  o u r  c u l t u r e s,  t o g e t h e r. I t
i s  d i f f i c u l t  t o  f e e l  t h e  l o v e  o f  G o d  w h e n  t h e  l o v e  o f  o t h e r s  i s
u n a v a i l a b l e. T h e  t i m e s  w h e n  w e  b r i n g  H i s  c o m f o r t  t o  e a c h
o t h e r  i s  h a r d l y  a  l e s s  i m p o r t a n t  t i m e  o f  d a y. W h e r e  W e  A r e  N o w

W e  a r e  a t  a  p l a c e  w h e r e  f e w  o f  u s  c a n  m o v e  f o r w a r d
w i t h o u t  t h e  h e l p  o f  a n o t h e r. N o t  b e c a u s e  w e  a r e  n o t  w h o l e
b u t  f i n a l l y — a t  l a s t — b e c a u s e  w e  a r e. W e  a r e  n o  l o n g e r
f r a c t i o n s  o f  o u r s e l v e s  l o o k i n g  f o r  o t h e r s  t o  c o m p l e t e  u s. W e
a r e  f a i r l y  w h o l e — a n d  n o w  w h a t. N o w  w e  m u s t  c o n c e i v e  n e w  l i f e  f r o m  d e e p  i n s i d e
o u r s e l v e s. F o r  t h a t  t o  o c c u r,  w e  m u s t  b e  i n  r e l a t i o n s h i p. T o
c o c r e a t e  l i f e,  w e  n e e d  e a c h  o t h e r — a n d  G o d ’ s  h e l p. T h e  m i r a c l e  o f  l o v e  d r a w s  u s  t o  e a c h  o t h e r. A n d  i n t o  t h a t
u n i o n  G o d  p o u r s  f o r t h  H i m s e l f. W e  w i l l  b e c o m e,  i n  e a c h
o t h e r ’ s  a r m s  a n d  i n  H i s  a s  w e l l,  a  n e w  h u m a n i t y. W e  w i l l
c o n c e i v e  s o m e t h i n g  n e w. W e  w i l l  g r o w  w i n g s  o f  d i v i n e
c o m p a s s i o n  a n d  i n t e l l i g e n c e,  a n d  t h e  e n t i r e  w o r l d  w i l l
c h a n g e. G o d  H i m s e l f  w i l l  r e j o i c e. A n d  l i f e  w i l l  g o  o n. C H A P T E R  N I N E
F r o m  S


 technique, it can be
time.10
demonstration. of the test subjects' belief systems,
used to evaluate companies, movies,
In this study, test subjects were asked to
In the early 1970s, the medical profession
intellectual opinions, reason or logic. It
individuals, events in history, or for the
focus on a specified thought, feeling,
in general, and psychiatry in particular,was also observed that a test response
diagnosis of current life problems. attitude, memory, relationship or life
was highly resistant-if not forthrightly
where the subject went weak was
The test procedure, the reader will note,
circumstance. The test was frequently
hostile-to the idea that nutrition had
accompanied by desynchronization of the
is to use the muscle test to verify the truth
done in lar ge groups of people; for
much to do with health at all, let alone
cerebral hemispheres.8
or falsity of a declarative statement. demonstration purposes we first
emotional health or brain function. Unreliable responses will be obtained if
established a baseline by asking the
The T esting T echnique
Publication
(43)
of the bookthe question has not been put into this
subjects, eyes closed, to hold in mind the
Orthornolecular Psychiatry, by this T wo persons are required. One acts
as form. Nor can any reliable result be
memory of a time when they were angry,
author and Nobelist Linus Pauling, test subject by holding out one arm
obtained from inquiry into the future;
upset, jealous, depressed, guilty or
received a favorable reception from a
laterally, parallel to the ground. The
only statements regarding existent fearful; at that point everyone
universally wide variety of audiences, but not from
second person then presses down with
conditions or events will produce went weak. W e would then ask them to
the medical establishment (Interestingly
two fingers on the wrist of the extended
consistent answers. hold in mind a loving person or life
enough, twenty years later the concepts
arm and says, "resist." The subject then
It is necessary to be impersonal during
situation, and all would go strong;
presented in the book are fundamental toresists (44) the downward pressure with all
the procedure to avoid transmitting typically a murmur of surprise
rippled current treatment of mental illness.) his strength. That is all there is to it. positive or negative feelings. Accuracy is
through the audience at the implications
The thrust of the book was that serious
A statement may be made by either party. increased by having the test subject. close
of what they had just discovered. mental illnesses such as psychosis, as
While the subject holds it in mind, his
his eyes; there should be no music in the
The next phenomenon demonstrated was
well as lesser ones such as emotional
arm's strength is tested by the tester's
background. that a mere image of a substance held in
disorder, had a genetic basis involving an
downward pressure. If the statement is
(45) Because the test is so deceptively
mind produced the same response as ifabnormal biochemical pathway in the
negative or false, or reflects a calibration
simple, it is well that an inquirer first
the substance were in physical contact
brain, a molecular basis which could be
below 200 (see Map of Consciousness,
verify its accuracy to his own with the body. As an example, we would
corrected on the molecular level. Manic-
Chapter 3), the test subject will "go
satisfaction. Responses can be checked
hold up an apple grown with pesticides
depressive illness, schizophrenia, weak." If the answer is yes or
calibrates by cross-questioning, and everyone who
and ask the audience to look directly at it
alcoholism and depression, therefore, over 200, he will "go strong." becomes acquainted with the technique
while being tested; all would go weak. could be af fected by nutrition as well as
T o demonstrate the procedure one might
thinks of tricks to satisfy himself that it is
W e would then hold up an or ganically (46)
medication. In 1973, when the book washave the subject hold an image of
reliable.9 It will soon be found that the
grown apple, free of contaminants, and as
published, the psychiatric establishment
Abraham Lincoln in mind while being
same response is observed in all subjects,
the audience focused on it they would
was still psychoanalytically oriented; the
tested, and then, for contrast, an image of
that it is not necessary for them to have
instantly go strong. Inasmuch as no one
work was accepted primarily by holistic
Adolph Hitler. The same ef fect can be
any knowledge of the matter in question,
in the audience knew which apple was
practitioners. The suggested treatment
demonstrated by holding in mind
and that the response will always be
which, nor, for that matter, had any
methods and results were frequently someone who is loved in contrast to
independent of the test subject's personal
anticipation of the test, the reliability ofverified with kinesiology. someone who is feared or hated or about
opinions about the question. the method was demonstrated to
However, it was Dr. Diamond's whom there is some strong regret. everyone's satisfaction.1 1
Before presenting an inquiry we have
demonstration that the body instantly
Once a numeric scale is elicited (see
found it instrumental to first test the
It should be remembered that people
went weak in response to unhealthy
below) calibrations can be arrived at by
statement, "I may ask this question." This
process experience dif ferently: some
emotional attitudes or mental stresses
stating, "This item" (e.g., this book,
is analogous to an entry requisite on a
primarily adopt a feeling mode, others
which had the greatest ongoing clinical
or ganization, this person's motive, etc.) is
computer terminal, and will occasionallyare more auditory and still others, more
21
22
reaction was always one of amazement
influence. His refinement of the muscle-
"over 100," then "over 200," then "over
return a "no" answer. This indicates that
and delight when they saw that all had
testing technique, the one used by most
300" until a negative response is one should leave that question alone or
gone weak in response to the artificial
practitioners, was used in this study over
obtained. The calibration can then be
inquire into the reason for the "no." sweetener and strong in response to the
a period of fifteen years. It was
refined: "It is over 220? 225? 230?" etc. Perhaps the questioner might have
vitamin C. The nutritional habits of
universally observed by practitioners and
T ester and testee can trade places, and the
experienced psychological distress fromthousands of families across the country
researchers as well as this author that test
same results will be obtained. Once one
the answer or its implications at that
were changed by this simple responses were completely independent
is familiar with the technique, it can be
time.10
demonstration. of the test subjects' belief systems,
used to evaluate companies, movies,
In this study, test subjects were asked to
In the early 1970s, the medical profession
intellectual opinions, reason or logic. It
individuals, events in history, or for the
focus on a specified thought, feeling,
in general, and psychiatry in particular,
was also observed that a test response
diagnosis of current life problems. attitude, memory, relationship or life
was highly resistant-if not forthrightly
where the subject went weak was
The test procedure, the reader will note,circumstance. The test was frequently
hostile-to the idea that nutrition had
accompanied by desynchronization of the
is to use the muscle test to verify the truth
done in lar ge groups of people; for
much to do with health at all, let alone
cerebral hemispheres.8
or falsity of a declarative statement. demonstration purposes we first
emotional health or brain function. Unreliable responses will be obtained if
established a baseline by asking the
The T esting T echnique
Publication
(43)
of the book
the question has not been put into this
subjects, eyes closed, to hold in mind the
Orthornolecular Psychiatry, by this T wo persons are required. One acts
as form. Nor can any reliable result be
memory of a time when they were angry,
author and Nobelist Linus Pauling, test subject by holding out one arm
obtained from inquiry into the future;upset, jealous, depressed, guilty or
received a favorable reception from a
laterally, parallel to the ground. The
only statements regarding existent fearful; at that point everyone
universally wide variety of audiences, but not from
second person then presses down with
conditions or events will produce went weak. W e would then ask them to
the medical establishment (Interestingly
two fingers on the wrist of the extended
consistent answers. hold in mind a loving person or life
enough, twenty years later the concepts
arm and says, "resist." The subject then
It is necessary to be impersonal during
situation, and all would go


appiness,  complaining, hate, envy, selfishness, greed, lust, etc., th e
subconscious builds us in the image of our order. If we send to the subconscious sensual impulses, our
order is returned to us blear -eyed, with swollen features,
headaches, bad breath, pain here, pain there, blurred
intellect, carelessness in busine ss, of friends, and of self. We interpret our state of disease, and send for a doctor,
who finds albumin in the urine, rheumatism in the joints, a
leaky heart, threatened apoplexy, dropsy, et alii. We take
his dope, his operations, his immunizations; but w e
continue to send sensual impulses — big dinners, strong
cigars, lascivious indulgences. The doctor does no good. Another and another is sent for. Skillful examinations are
given. Syphilis is found. Synthetic drugs are prescribed. Other doctors examine, wh o find tuberculosis. And at last
real skill is discovered in a physician who finds cancer. But
all the time our orders are going to the subconscious, and
the returns are made faithfully in the image of their maker. The truth is that we are not needing  a doctor at all. We
need a physician who will erect a reconciliation between
our subconscious maker and ourselves. What we need is to
be taught self -control, poise) equanimity, repose. And when
these impulses are sent over the sympathetic nerves to our  subconscious maker, we shall begin to receive images of a
more man, until an approach to perfection is attained. Self -control, with an ideal of just the kind of person we
should like to be held before the subconscious all the time,
will be returned to us just as we order. We are made in the
image of the ideal we hold before our maker —the
subconscious. We must live it, however. Simply holding an
ideal will not get us anywhere. If our ideal is for sobriety,
getting drunk will not bring our dreams true. If  our ideal is
for perfect health, we certainly cannot expect a sensual life
to build it. We may have an ideal image, but if we do not live it, a
distortion will be created. A disgruntled, complaining habit, builds that kind of an
individual. If we refuse to live composed, poised, and relaxed, we
become tense and build discomfort. A contracted brow
builds headache. A tense, fixed state of the muscular
system brings on muscle -fatigue, which may be treated as
neuralgia, neuritis, or rheumatism. A slight injury to any
part of the body, coddled, nursed, and kept without motion,  may start a fixation of the muscles, causing more pain from
muscle -fatigue than from the injury. Enough neurotics have been relieved and cured of
muscle -fatigue to put  two schools of spine manipulators in
good standing with the people. All through the ages mountebanks, magnetic healers, and
various cults of “laying on of hands” have worked among
people who had time to nurse a slight injury into a very
large fatigue  disease. Fortunes have been made out of vile -
smelling liniments because of the supposed cures made by
rubbing the dope on sprained backs and joints. The same
cures could have been made by simply rubbing the parts;
but the minds that go with spineless peop le, who have time
to wait for miraculous cures, could not be made to believe
that a cure could be excreted without that mysterious
healing property associated with evil -looking and vile -
smelling medicaments. A sensitive, insignificant pile tumor may s et up such a
tense state of the entire muscular system as to render the
subject a confirmed invalid. Such a case became a patient
of mine a few weeks ago. On examination, I found an
extreme contraction of the sphincter muscles. His entire
body was tense, a nd, of course, he had muscle -fatigue, which caused him to believe that he was a very sick man. I
had him lie down, and I taught him how to relax; then I
introduced a finger into his rectum —very slowly, to avoid
giving pain as much as possible. I was about thirty minutes
bringing relaxation of the anal muscles. While
manipulating, I was advising relaxation of his body. Before
he left my office he declared that he felt better than he had
for two years, notwithstanding the fact he had been in a
hospital and ot herwise treated most of that time. I gave him
instructions on how to poise, how to manipulate the rectum
and anus. All his stomach troubles, and discomforts
generally, passed away in a week. I have seen many invalids of nervous type who had been
treated by many doctors and for many diseases. Tension of
the entire body was one of the pronounced symptoms, and
health could not be brought back until this habit was
overcome. The discomforts complained of by those who have tumor
of the womb, goiter, cys titis, stomach and bowel
derangements, rest largely on a basis of nervous tension,
which must be overcome before comfort and full health
will return. Position in standing, walking, sitting, and lying down
may be such as to cause tension. We have occu pational
diseases and emotional diseases; and lack of poise
complicates all of these so -called diseases and brings on
tension. Children are prone to become nervous and excited when
tired. When allowed to eat heartily, when excited and tired,
they have  indigestion. Extreme cases develop convulsions. Fear and anxiety are two elements that lead on to chorea. Poise of mind and body should receive attention early as
well as late in life. Good health late in life indicates self -control, moderation
in all things, and equanimity —poise. Moderation does not mean the same to all people. Some
men call three to six cigars a day moderate indulgence;
others believe that one to six a month is temperate. Those
who have an irritable heart and stomach are i mmoderate
when they use tobacco at all. Fortunate is the person who knows his limitations and
respects them. Of such a person it may be said that he is
poised. IMMUNIZATION

   Wouldn’t it be incongruous if in the evolution of man
such an importa nt element as autoimmunization should be
left out. No animal has been forgotten in the great scheme
of creation. Powers of offense and defense have been
wisely provided, and to suppose that king of all animals —
man—should be left defenseless is most absurd. No, man is
provided with a nervous system, at the head of which is a
brain capable of thinking, which can come to the aid of a
flagging nervous system and help to renew it. When the nervous system is normal —when there is full
nerve -energy —man is norm al and immune to disease. Disease begins to manifest only when environments and
personal habits use up energy faster than it is renewed. This
contingency the properly educated mind begins to remedy
at once by removing or overcoming all enervating
influence s.

    Man’s immunization to disease requires a life so well
ordered that his nerve -energy is kept at or near normal. When nerve -energy is prodigally squandered, he is forced
into a state of enervation; then elimination of the waste -
products is checked, leaving the waste —toxin—in the
blood, causing Toxemia self -poisoning —the first, last and
only true disease that man is heir to. All other poisons are
accidental and evanescent, and without Toxemia can have
no entree to the system. Poisons may be swallowed,
injected or inoculated into the body and poison or even kill;
but such an experience is not to be classed as disease, any
more than a broken leg or a gunshot wound. Toxin is a normal, natural product of the system, always
present. Being a constant, i t answers every requirement for
a universal cause of all so -called diseases. All the different
symptom -complexes, which are given special names, take
their names frown the organs involved in the toxin crisis;
but they are not individual —they are only sympt oms of
vicarious elimination. For example: Tonsilitis, gastritis,
bronchitis, pneumonia, colonitis, are each and every one
Toxemic crises, differing only in location and symptoms. So-called diseases are just so many different locations
where toxin is being  eliminated. All are different
manifestations of one disease Toxemia. Toxemia is the only explanation of why so many young
men were refused by the examining boards during the late
war. Many were sent over to France who soon found the
hospitals for the y were near the limit of their toxin -
resistance. The excitement used up their nerve -energy. The
enervation was quickly followed by Toxemia. Their
sicknesses were given names, but the truth was that they
had Toxemia, and their diseases were crises of Toxemi a,
which means vicarious elimination. After the numerous vaccinations to which the boys were
subjected on entering