 made and in the rate
of errors when RNA is copied from it. Researchers believe that daytime exposure to EMFs limits the release of
melatonin, a cancer-protective and sleep-regulating hormone. By limiting release of
melatonin, EMFs can contribute to cancer. One prominent cancer theory is that
cancer cell growth results from a breakdown in cell-to-cell communication, which is
precisely what happens when melatonin production is limited. In fact, any process
that reduces the average level of melatonin is likely to promote estrogen-dependent
cancers, such as breast, skin and prostate cancers. Consider some examples of
ominous EMF research: In 1998, a twenty-nine-member panel of the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences concluded that there is a “possibility that
electromagnetic fields are carcinogenic.” The committee found a statistically
significant correlation between EMF exposure and leukemia in both children and
adults whose exposure was significantly higher than average. Likewise, studies in
Epidemiology
and the
American Journal of Epidemiology
have found statistically
significant correlations between EMFs and breast cancer, brain cancer and
Alzheimer’s disease. All of these health repercussions can occur simply from being near an electric
appliance? Consider an experiment reported in scientist John Ott’s 1976 book
Health
and Light:
Two groups of mice were placed the same distance from a television set;
one group was separated from the set by lead shielding, the other by black paper. The paper-shielded group became hyperactive, aggressive and wild, while the lead-
shielded group remained normal. Autopsies of the paper-shielded group showed
brain abnormalities. With studies like these, one wonders what may be happening topeople who spend a lot of time in front of TV sets and computer monitors,
particularly children whose brains are still developing and who are more sensitive to
such damage. Is our children’s behavior being affected not only by the messages on
TV but also by radiation damage that we are not yet measuring? Less than a century
ago, we did not sit in front of electronic screens at all; now we use them constantly,
both at work and play. The best policy for people concerned about health, especially cancer, is to
minimize exposure to EMFs. Remember, EMFs are generated around electrical
appliances, power lines and transformers; they can be found just about everywhere,
including your home, office or school. EMFs become less dangerous as distance
from the source increases, so choose to keep a safe distance between your body and
electromagnetic fields. How much exposure is too much? Scientists measure the power of these fields in
miligauss (mG); experts around the world have proposed limiting chronic individual
exposures to a level of 2 mG, with occasional peak exposures to about 10 mG. Unfortunately, we often experience much higher exposures. A hair dryer, which
develops a powerful field next to your head, can dish out 20,000 mG. An electric
razor (not a battery-powered razor) can generate 1,600 mG and is mere inches away
from your pineal gland, which produces the cancer-protective hormone melatonin. A
study done at Battel Memorial Institute’s research center in Seattle found that men
who used electric razors had twice the odds as nonusers of developing leukemia. The
correlation between EMFs and cancer is positively alarming; we need to be careful! A running dishwasher or clothes washer produces 30 to 50 mG at a distance of one
foot, so be sure to keep a couple of feet away while it is running. A microwave oven
can measure 80 mG at a distance of one foot, but quickly drops off to between 3 and
8 mG just thirty-nine inches away. A fluorescent lamp develops as much as 4,000
mG an inch away, but measures only 0.1 to 3 mG when thirty-nine inches away. A
high voltage transmission line can measure up to 300 mG at the edge of the right-of-
way; a regular distribution line can measure 80 mG right under the line. When
buying a home or choosing an apartment, choose one that is not immediately
adjacent to high-voltage distribution and transmission lines or transformers. We need to be prudent in the use of appliances. When possible, use rechargeable
battery-powered appliances rather than plug-in models. Do not stand immediately
next to an electrical appliance when it is turned on, especially for an extended period
of time. Follow these other recommendations also:
• Turn on the dishwasher when finished in the kitchen and you are ready to
leave the room. • Avoid electric blankets, or use them only to warm up the bed before you get in
it. • Keep telephone answering machines and electric clocks away from your headwhile you are sleeping. • Increase distance from televisions (at least six feet away), computer monitors
and appliances, especially those that come into close contact with your body,
such as hair dryers and electric razors. • Avoid using a cell phone. If you must use a cell phone, limit the number and
length of your calls as much as possible. • Avoid gazing into your microwave while your food warms up. Even better is
to avoid the use of microwaves— for safety as well as nutritional and
toxicological reasons— but at least stay a safe distance away if you do use one. • Be careful of battery-powered wristwatches, a subtle but constant EMF
exposure. • Replace your computer monitor and television with flat panel display units, so
as to eliminate the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the cathode ray tubes
in regular TVs and monitors. Of course, some people are more susceptible to EMFs than others (biochemical
individuality at work). For example, people who are under stress seem to be more
susceptible to damage by EMFs. In general, do whatever is possible to reduce EMF
exposure—starting with the simple knowledge that these fields exist, realizing
where they are and why they should be avoided. Microwaves Zap More Than Food
Mobile phones produce a special kind of radiation called microwaves. Millions of
us expose ourselves to a stream of microwaves every time we use our mobile phone
for however long we talk. Cell phone microwaves are capable of damaging cellular
DNA, thus contributing to cancer and other diseases. This damage can even be
passed on to future generations. Research clearly shows that the microwaves
produced by cell phones alter cell chemistry and function. A Swedish study completed in 2001 by Professors Lennart Hardell and Kjell
Hansson found that people who used cell phones for up to ten years had a 26 percent
higher risk of brain cancer than a control sample who did not use cell phones. Mobile phone frequencies can cause a dramatic reduction in certain brain cell
proteins and permanently damage brain cells; the cell phone antenna is right next to
your brain. Mast cells (cells involved with inflammatory responses such as those in asthma)
were shown to be irreversibly damaged by exposure to mobile phone frequencies,
with just ten minutes of exposure per day for seven days. Many people use their cell
phones far more than that! To make matters worse, digital phones emit a series of
pulses, and pulsed microwaves are known to be more biologically active than the
continuous-wave radiation (analog phones) used in the experiments above. Cell
phones can also interfere with melatonin production, thus interfering with sleeppatterns and possibly promoting cancer. Since little research on the long-term
effects of low-level microwave exposure has been done, the best course of action is
to avoid cell phone use. When use is necessary, at least limit the number and
duration of your calls. The Threat of Ionizing Radiation
Ionizing radiation, as I have mentioned, is a serious kind of radiation that is fairly
well known. This type of radiation, which includes gamma rays and X rays, is known
to have harmful effects on human tissue. We call this type of radiation “ionizing”
because it results in the formation of chemically reactive elements or molecules
called ions, which alter the electrical charge in atoms and molecules within our
cells. Ionizing radiation causes damage to DNA, cells, tissues and also causes
cancer. Therefore, no level of exposure to radiation can be considered safe. Research on ionizing radiation has uncovered many problems, from both natural
and man-made sources. In 1983, residents of Montclair, New Jersey, began
complaining of headaches and allergies. Their homes had been constructed on a
landfill from a U.S. radium plant that closed in the 1930s. Their homes were found
to be contaminated by “dangerously high” levels of radiation, which seemed to be
related to the reported health problems. Similarly, in Kerela, India, which
experiences the highest levels of natural environmental radiation in the world, a high
prevalence of Down’s syndrome and other forms of mental retardation are found
among residents. Radiation damage is also evident in Japan’s Hiroshima and
Nagasaki victims and in the health records of former employees of government
atomic facilities. We have no control over about half of the ionizing radiation we are exposed to in
our lives, because it comes from natural sources such as radioactive elements in our
soil, water and atmosphere. Research the level of radiation in the ground and water
where you live. If your local ambient radiation is particularly high, you might want
to consider a different home. At least avoid drinking contaminated water and use
ventilation to remove radioactive gas from your basement. We do have control over the other half of the ion


 yet it must hold itself poised for
all possibilities. Thus it will be able to mate with the inner stillness
and what appears at rst as emptiness. A New Fullness Begins to Manifest
As you do this, in a spirit of patient, persevering, positive
expectancy, yet empty in mind and soul, a new fullness can
manifest. The inner stillness will begin to sing, as it were. From the
energetic point of view, it will convey light and warmth. Strength
you never knew you possessed will arise. From the point  of view of
consciousness, guidance will come for the biggest and smallest
issues in your life. Receptive, creative emptiness must truly be nurtured. Listen with
an inner ear, and yet you must not do this with urgency but become
receptive to when and how you will be lled. This is the only way,
my friends, to nd your inner sustenance, to nd your divinity, and
become a receptacle for the great universal power that is being
released and will manifest in your life, even more than you have
already experienced. This is an important time in the history of evolution, and you are
all needed to comprehend and perpetuate a great change in thinking
and perception regarding the laws and values that the Christ
consciousness is spreading. The way must be open from within and
from without to create as many receptacles as possible. The mind can be a hindrance or an aid to this process. You all
know that your mind is limited only by your own concept of its
limitations. To the degree you limit your mind, you cannot perceive
what is beyond it. The mind is nite and it must aim to spread the
boundaries of its niteness until it measures up with the innite that
is beyond the mind and that is within yourself, right here, right
now. Then the mind merges into the innite consciousne ss of yourinner universe, in which you are one with all that is, and yet
innitely your personal self. As it is now, you carry your mind with you almost as a burden
because it has become a closed circuit. Inside that circuit  there is a
certain leeway for ideas, opinions, and possibilities you have made
room for in your life as a result of your education and the mores of
your society. That circuit contains what you have chosen to learn
and adopt as knowledge, both as part of the group consciousness
and as your personal experie nce. To the degree you have grown and
expanded, the closed circuit of your mind has widened; however, it
is still a closed circuit. You are still burdened with limiting ideas
about yourself  and your world. It is therefore necessary, in order to
elicit creative emptiness, that you visualize the boundaries of your
mind by questi oning yourself  about all the things that you think are
impossible for you. Where you are hopeless and frightened there
must be an idea of niteness that is simply locked into your mind;
thus you lock out the great power that is here for all those who are
ready to receive it honestly. Puncturing the Closed Circuit of the Mind
Again we have an apparent contradiction. On the one hand, it is
necessary that this limited mind open itself up to new ideas and
possibilities, as you have already learned to do in your meditation. You have seen infallibly that where you have made room for a
desirable new possibility, it has indeed come into your life. You
have also seen that when it does not come into your life, you deny
that it can, for whatever reason. It is therefore necessary that you
begin to puncture that closed circuit. You cannot immediately
dissolve it; you live with a mind and you need your mind. But
where you puncture your mind, the ow of new energy and
consciousness can penetrate. Where it is not punctured, you stay
locked within its narrow connes, which your spirit is fast
outgrowing. On the other hand, your mind must rest, not holdopinions, be neutral, in order to be receptive to the great new force
sweeping the inner universe of all consciousness. But let us return to the process of puncturing the limite d mind. How do you do that. First tell yourself that you do hold limited
beliefs, instead  of taking them for granted. The next step is to
challenge them. This requires  taking the trouble to walk through, in
the well-practiced attitude of self-observation and self-confrontation,
your limited beliefs and to truly think about them. Sometimes it is
not just that you have a false belief, and possibly a negative
intentionality in holding on to it, but you can also see that you keep
the circuit closed and deprive yourself of the inner plenitude you
yearn for. Another law of great importance for this purpose is that the
opening to the greater universal consciousness must not be
approached in a spirit of magic that is supposed to eliminate the
growing and learning process. Now, this ultimate power is supposed
to ll and sustain you; however, your outer mind must go through
the steps of acquiring whatever knowledge is necessary. You all see
this in the arts and sciences. You cannot be inspired as a great artist,
no matter how much genius you have, unless you learn the craft and
the technical dexterity. If the childish lower self wants to use the
channel to the greater unive rse in order to avoid the initial tedium
of learning and becoming, the channel will remain closed. For this
amounts to cheating, and God cannot be cheated. When you cheat,
the personality may become seriously doubtful that anything
beyond the mind exists, because no inspirational response comes
forth when using “magic”  to coddle your laziness and self-
indulgence. The same is true of science or any other eld. Now how about this same law with respect to inspiration for your
personal life and decisions. Here, too, you must not fail to go
through the work that the outer ego-self has to do in order to
become a proper channel for the God-consciousness. You do this in
pathwork. You need to truly know yourself, your weaknesses, your
lower self, where you are corruptible, where you are dishonest or
tend to be. As you all know, this is hard work, but it needs to be
done. If you avoid it, the channel will never really be reliable andmay contain a lot of wishful  thinking, stemming from your “desire
nature,” or it may reveal “truth” that is based on guilt and fear and
is thus equally unreliable. Only when you work in this fashion on your development will
you come to a point when you no longer confuse gullibility and
wishful thinking with faith, or doubt with discrimination. As a great
pianist can be a channel for higher inspiration only when he goes
through the nger exercises and the hours of practice that make his
playing nally  eortless, so must God-inspired people work on their
purication process, on deep self-knowledge and self-hon esty. Only
then does the receptacle become commensurate with higher truths
and values, t to be inuen ced and used for higher purposes to
enrich the world and the self. At the same time you need to cultivate a neutrality. Your devotion
to fullling the will of God must include an attitude that whatever
comes from God is all right, whether you desire it or not. Too much
desire is as much a hindrance as the absence of all desire, which
manifests as resignation and hopelessness. The refusal to endure any
kind of frustration creates an inner tension and defensive structure
that close up the vessel of the mind and maintain the closed circuit. In other  words, you, as a receptacle, need to be neutral. You need to
give up the strong, tight, selfwilled yes or no to make way for a
exible trust guided by your inner God. You need to be willing,
pliable, exibl e, trusting, and forever ready for another change you
had not contemplated. What is right now may not be right
tomorrow. There is no xedness when it comes to the divine life that springs
from within your innermost being. This idea makes you insecure, for
you believe that security lies in xed rules. Nothing could  be further
from the truth. This is one of those beliefs that need to be
challenged. Envisage that in the idea of forever meeting every new
situation by being inspired anew, there lies a new land of security
that you have not found as yet. What is right in one situation may
not be right in another. This is one of those laws of the new age that
is opposed to the old “stable” laws according to which what is xed
and unchangeable is secure. The laws that pertain to this new venture into your inner
creativity and life need to be studied very carefully; you must work
with them. These are not just words to listen to; you need to make
them your own. These laws are apparently full of contradiction. You
need to acquire knowledge, the mind must be expanded, it must be
able to conceive of truthful  possibilities, and yet you must make
your mind neutral and empty. This


belief in serum therapy  rests on a foundation  of sand. "Dr. Benchetrit  even went so far as to say that he considered  vaccines and
sera  to be chiefly responsible  for the increase, of those two really
dangerous  diseases, cancer and  heart disease. And what is more,  he
added: "I have been for a long time a serologist,  and  I know  what I am
talking about. " As for Dr. Beddow Bayly,  he wrote: "So great is the
almost mystical veneration  in which antitoxic sera are held by medical
science,  and  so powerful the commercial  interests which  benefit by
their extended  use,  that it has come to be regarded as a breach of
medical etiquette  to criticise adversely  this form of treatment,  or to 135
 report untoward  results of it. " What extollers of the vaccine treatment
omit  to mention when they  triumphantly  assert that smallpox was
practically  wiped  out in the West by this  means, is that smallpox is a
dirt‐disease, and  that the science of hygiene has vastly improved  since
the days when it was rampant. Even so, the great Dr. Sydenham,  who pooh‐poohed vaccination,  said
that smallpox was  quite a simple illness to cure,  provided  the patient
was properly nursed. In view of all this, we may  well  ask whither  Medicine. " Is the law going
to force the public to submit  to alleged‐to‐be immunisations  against
this or that disease when the medicos themselves  are not even agreed
that such measures  are right, or dare  not agree that they  are wrong. And presuming  that immunization  does not actua'ly become
compulsory,  that is not going to prevent the authorities  from
persuasively  warning an innocent  public against the "dangers " of not
submitting  to it. At one time The Church persuaded  innocent people
that if they did not bow down to her, they  would have to burn in Hell
for an eternity. But though the autocracy  of the clergy is now more  or
less  a thing of the past, unless we are very firm in asserting our
democratic  rights, we may  be faced  with an even worse  form of
autocracy,  and  that is the autocracy  of what goes under  the name of
Science. And I say advisedly  "goes under  the name," because whilst
true Science  endeavours  to understand  the Laws of Nature,  false
science tries to improve upon Nature  under  the assumption  that man
knows better than Dame Natur'  herself. Thus not only is our  soil
interfered  with but  also the human  body. Dogmatic  surgeons  have
declared that tonsils, the  appendix and  even the gall‐bladder are 136
 useless organs, and therefore  should be extirpated  in order to prevent
them from  becoming  diseased. It is only a comparatively  short  time ago
that medical "scientists"  told us that  the pineal  gland and  the pituitary
bony were also useless organs‐and this, merely  because they  had as yet
found no special reason for their existence  in the  human  brain. Fortunately  for man, they  could not be Excised  without  killing the
patient. And yet, are the doctors entirely to blame  for the existing state of
affairs. Certainly a large  number  of individual  doctors find themselves
in a difficult position, Rot many of them admit that they  do not believe
in filling their patients with "pills and potions. " But so much has the lay
public been influenced  by prevailing  fads  and  fashions that its all too
ignorant members  demand  "the latest  and most up‐to‐date
treatments"  from doctors who may  not believe in those treatments
themselves. As for the poorer classes, if they are not given a bottle of
medicine by their physician,  they  consider they  are not getting their
money's worth. With regard to operations,  it cannot be denied that
despite their unpleasantness  and  attendant  afterpains,  many persons
actually enjoy  them because they  afford  an opportunity  for self‐
dramatisation. Nevertheless,  I contend  that the desire  to be fussed over
and  coddled  and  commiserated  is in itself a sign of morbidity,  and
hence denotes an absence of true health. I will even go so far as to say
that most of the troubles in the world  are either directly or indirectly
due to the same cause. Nor will I exclude wars ‐extravagant  though it
may  sound. Those men who foment or are directly responsible  for wars
are not normal and  healthy human  beings. Julius Caesar was an
epileptic, Napoleon  died  of cancer of the stomach, and Hitler presents  a 137
 neurosthenic  of the most  pronounced  type. Goebbels  with his club foot,
may  be regarded as a degenerate,  and  the obese Goring at one time
was a drug addict. Mussolini  was another  diseased  type, and suffered
from some chronic internal trouble for which  the doctors  dared not
operate. As for the late Kaiser Wilhelm, he was also atnermal and  was
born  with a physical  deformity. It is only very advanced  souls who can
exhibit  mental balance in spite of physical  disabilities;  and  such souls
are comparatively  few and far between. But  my principal contention  is that when human beings register a
hundred per cent true health, or even a litlle less, they


 Now  visualize a
bigger boat, and an even bigger one. See the Queen Mary in there. That boat
would not be in there unless you purposely willed it to be. Once again, we
see that you clearly have the ability to make your mind create thoughts. There’ s another category of thoughts besides willful thoughts:
automatic thoughts. These are the thoughts you did not purpose ly decide to
create—they just pop into your mind on their own. You may pay attention to
them once they’re there, but you did not willfully decide to create them like
you did with the boat. The vast majority of your thoughts are automatically
generated. You’re driving down the street enjoying your day, and your mind
starts creating thoughts by itself: “Why did I have to say those  things? If I
hadn’ t said them, we might still be together. Well, that’s unlikely—we were
having problems before that.” You’re not willfully making your mind create
these thoughts. This is that voice inside your head talking on its own. If you
doubt that this is happening by itself, try stopping it for any length of time. The mind’ s stream of thoughts will return in no time.Let’s say somebody was supposed to call you at three o’clock and by
three thirty they still haven’ t called. What happens during those thirty
minutes? Your mind creates thoughts by itself. You are not willfully
deciding, “I want to worry about this. Okay, mind, start creating worrisome
thoughts. Did he have an accid ent or is he standing me up?” You’re not
doing that. Your mind is doing it all by itself. They’re not even  meaningful
thoughts—they’re destructive thoughts. They are ruining your thirty
minutes. The question becomes, if you’re going to end up waiting thirty
minutes for the person to call, why do you want to make yourself miserable? Well, technically, you’re not. Y our mind is doing it for you. If you pay attention, you will see that the mind creates most thoughts
on its own. They go on all the time. Just watch yourself in the shower. Watch yourself when you’re driving. Watch yourself whenever you take a
break from work. You’ll see the mind is constantly creating thoughts. Even
when someone is talking to you, the words may be coming in through your
senses, but you’re not totally listening to them. You’re also listening to your
mind’ s reaction to what’ s being said. You’re thinking, “I don’t agree with
that. I would never do it that way.” Your mind just made the discussion all
about you instead of what the person is saying. If you watch those
automatically generated thoughts, you’ll see they range anywhere from
funny to frightening. Regardles s, is it so smart to have all that noise going
on inside your head all the time? If you bother to pay attention to it, you’re
going to find out that it’ s not. Where do those thoughts come from? Why does the mind  create
thoughts by itself without you willfully doing it? We’ve actually already
discussed this. When you store a samskara, an unfinished mental and
emotional pattern, that pattern will not sit quietly inside of you. Anything
that ever got stored inside your mind, because you resisted or clung to it, is
trying to release. It’s an energetic reality, like Newton’ s laws of motion. The
energy cannot stay in there unless you continuously assert an opposing force
of will to keep it in there. That’s why it keeps coming back up. Mommy
yelled at you twenty-five years ago, and that hurt you. Now suddenly
somebody menti ons their mother yelling and all these emotional and mental
issues come up inside of you. Why? That blocked energy is always trying to
come up, every single millisecond. Just like in a dammed-up river, the
blockage is trying to release its pent-up energy. It is not comfortable stayinginside you, so you have to const antly assert your willpower to hold it down. How much ener gy are you wasting keeping all this garbage inside? Just as your body is always trying to expel impurities, so your mind is
trying to get these mental impurities out. That is what’ s happening when
your mind creates its own thoughts. Sometimes you will be able to trace
those thoughts back to their source; other times it’s not so easy. The
important thing to realize is there’ s always a reason why your mind creates
one thought versus another. Let’s go back to the example of someone being late with a phone call. Your mind could begin creating worrisome thoughts about what you might
have done to upset them so much that they aren’ t calling. But that is not the
meaningful question. The meaningful question is, why did that possible
reason come up versus any other? Turns out, when you were ten years old,
somebody once said, “You’re right, I didn’ t call you. It was on purpose
because I didn’ t like what you did.” Now years later, when somebody
doesn’ t call, that comes back up. What if years ago when a person didn’ t
call, the reason was they wanted to surprise you by personally coming by
with a special gift. Now when someone doesn’ t call, you feel all excited
about what might happen next. These impressions get left insid e you. They
will continuous ly try to release pent-up energy, and they will end up
determining the thoughts your mind creates on its own. This is the nature of
almost all your automatic thoughts. They are not to be seen as some
important truth or great insight into what is really going on. They are simply
your mind attempting to cleanse the patterns you have stored in there.Chapter 19. Dreams and the Subconscious
To get a better understanding of how stored mental energies get released,
let’s turn to a favorite topic of psychology: dreams. What are dreams? The
traditional Freudian concept of dreams is that some events happening
outside leave unfinished impressions in the mind. A little boy wants a
bicycle but doesn’ t get one. He goes to sleep and dreams he’s got a bicycle. The original bicycle event didn’ t sit well, so the boy pushed it away in his
mind. He suppre ssed it. When he went to sleep and was not controlling his
thoughts as much, the mind was free to release what it had not been free to
express while the boy was awake. We all experience this type of dream
fairly regularly. A charged event from the waking world finds its way into
our dream world. You are not willfully doing this. It is the mind trying to
release built-up ener gy patterns. There are all kinds of dreams. Freud called the dream we’v e been
discussing basic wish fulfillment. It is a samskara formed in the waking
mind releasing energy by creating the thoughts you watch while you’re
asleep. These thoughts that make up your dreams are not that different from
the automatic thoughts going on in your waking mind. They are certainly
much more vivid, especially in their imagery. This is because when you’re
sleeping, the mind can focus completely on creating the thoug hts. It is not
busy being distracted by the senses or the many other layers of thoughts and
emotions going on. In addition, you’re not willfully pushing the thoughts
away. This is why the mind is much more creative when you fall asleep. It
can create an entire, complex world in full 3D and Technicolor. Most people
can’t do that when they’re awake, though obviously, their minds are
perfectly capable of doing so. Once you stop suppressing uncomfortable experiences, one thing
you’re going to realize is that there really is no subconscious mind, per se.The conscious mind and the subconscious mind are actually the same one
mind, and the only reason we see a difference is because we artificially
created a division. To understan d this, imagine looking around a room of
people and saying, “The people on the right side of the room I like; I’m
comfortable with those people. The people on the left side of the room,
however, I’m very uncomfortable with them.” Having stated this, imagine
you never again look at the left side of the room because it makes you
uncomfortable. What you’ve just done is separated the room into the part
you’re comfortable with and the part you don’t want anything  to do with. The latter part exists, but no longer exists for you. That is exactly what
you’ve done to create the subconscious mind. The part of your mind you’re
not willing to look at is what we call the subconscious. Fortunately, these artificially divided parts of your mind will merge
once you stop suppressing. You will get the rest of your mind back, and you
will be able to use its full power. Imagine how much mental power you
waste by pushing all that mess into the subconscious. Then you have to keep
it down there for the rest of your life. It’s really amazing what a mess we
make because we can’ t handle the moments passing in front of us. The thoughts we push down into the subconscious play a role in both
our waking and dreaming states. The reason your mind is creating your
automatically generated dream thoughts is the same reason your mind
creates your automatically generated waking thoughts. In both cases, you
are not willfully creating this mental activity. It is happening on its own as
part of the


 no known cause for this condition and that it isincurable. They treat it with toxic anti-Parkinsonian drugs,once again treating the symptoms instead of the cause.However, using progesterone often eliminates RLS in aboutone week. Adults with ADHD, RLS, fibromyalgia—all conditions
associated with too much adrenaline—usually require proges-terone three times a day and must cut back on their carbohy-drate intake to reduce sugar and insulin levels. WHAT ABOUT DHEA? The primary concern related to DHEA is that it can raise the
level of estradiol, the hormone associated with prostate cancerand possibly colon cancer. However, when DHEA is given incorrect dosages this rarely happens. The intent of hormonereplacement therapy is simply to replace what’s missing, not toadd more than is necessary. The number of receptor sitesavailable for each hormone is limited, so extremely high dosescan cause problems. The correct lab test for assessing blood levels of DHEA is
the test for DHEA-S (not plain DHEA). Most men in their50s have levels around 175 or less. My goal in replacing110 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  DHEA is to achieve the levels that were present around the age
of 40. This means a DHEA-S level of around 400–500. Formen with levels of less than 100, I give a dosage of 50 mg aday. For levels higher than 100, I start with a 25 mg dosage.DHEA is best taken in the evening. THOUGHTS ABOUT PROSTATE CANCER
Allowed a long-enough life span, most men will develop
prostate cancer. Statistically, however, only 7 percent of prostatecancers will metastasize. In essence, this means that if a prostatecancer is left alone, most men would die with it and notfrom it. Based on this information, watchful waiting appears to be
a feasible and logical approach when it comes to prostatecancer. This disease is diagnosed by sticking twelve to eighteenneedles into the prostate, which means some blood capillarieswill be pierced and disturbed. If there are cancer cells present,is it possible, then, that the biopsy procedure itself may causethe cancer to metastasize by allowing cancer cells to get intothe blood? The traditional thinking in medicine is that testosterone is
the hormone that causes prostate cancer. Yet the men with thehighest levels of testosterone have the lowest incidence ofprostate cancer. And if it were true, why wouldn’t males haveprostate cancer at the age of 17, when the levels of testosteroneare at their highest? The level of testosterone in men starts dropping when they
are in their 20s, becoming very low by the age of 50. Whilethis is happening, the level of estradiol is rising. Men in their50s and beyond almost always have higher levels of estrogenthan women have. And they are no longer producing proges-terone to protect them from all of this estrogen.111 ANDR OPAUSE—THE MALE MENOPAUSE  Keep in mind that estrogen is the only known cause of
uterine cancer (other than the drug Tamoxifen). Since theprostate is derived embryologically from the exact tissue thatthe uterus comes from, why wouldn’t estrogen also be causingprostate cancer? Logically, it would appear to be so. Yet, insome cases, estrogen is used to treat prostate cancer. /Iswashn my view,
prostate cancer is probably a disease to be prevented,
rather than to be treated, by balancing a man’s hormones
and prescribing appropriate supplements. Right now, testosterone is thought to cause cancer of the
prostate, so most of the attention in treating prostate cancer ison eliminating testosterone. Often the drug Lupron is admin-istered, and many times it appears to be beneficial. However,besides lowering testosterone levels, it also eliminates estradiol.Perhaps this is its main benefit. Interestingly, in Europe testos-terone is now being used to treat prostate cancer. In my view, prostate cancer is probably a disease to be
prevented, rather than to be treated, by balancing a man’shormones and prescribing appropriate supplements. Here is alist of some of the supplements known to prevent and/or treatprostate cancer:
• Vitamin D3 – 5,000 I.U./day for prevention,
20,000 I.U./day for treatment
• Vitamin E – 800 I.U./day in the form of
mixed tocopherols
• Lycopene – 30 mg/day• Selenium – 200 mcg/day• Zinc – 25–50 mg/day112 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  • Indole-3-carbinol – 300 mg/day
• Beta-sitosterol – 300 mg/day
Note that Vitamin D3 is known to prevent 26 different cancers;
it also kills cancer cells. It is more likely a prohormone, asubstance that converts into a hormone, rather than a vitamin.Dosages of up to 50,000 I.U./day are probably safe. For men whose lab tests show an elevated PSA (prostate
specific antigen) it is imperative to check the free PSA level aswell. A PSA level greater than 2.5 is now considered elevated(not 4.0, as previously thought). The free PSA test is animportant determinant of the possibility of cancer. However,keep in mind that the most common cause of an elevated PSAlevel is benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH). Another frequentcause is prostatitis (infectious or inflammatory). A free PSA percentage greater than 20 percent suggests the
absence of cancer; a level less than 10 percent suggests itspresence. Levels from 11 to 20 percent are in the gray area. When my patients show any elevation of PSA, I start them
on progesterone, prescribe the supplements just listed, andcontinue to track their PSA and free-PSA levels. This approachis my own. Please discuss any prostate concerns you have withyour own physician.113 ANDR OPAUSE—THE MALE MENOPAUSE  ADULT-ONSET DIABETES
AND LOUIS R.
chapter THIRTEEN
Louis R. is a successful and contented 60-year-old who has
struggled with weight all his life. When I took his family history,it became clear that his weight problem was genetic. Everyone inhis family—mother, father, aunts, uncles, grandparents—was “heavyset.”
When we talked about his goals, Louis emphasized that he
was bound and determined not to “let himself go” at age 60,the way many of his family members had done. When his treatment is completed, Louis can be assured
he’ll be able to control his weight without dieting. He’ll also beable to manage his adult-onset diabetes without the use ofmedication. Here is his story:
I am a type II diabetic. My diabetes started in middle age, but
even before that I’d always experienced problems with my weight.At six different times in my life I’ve been 40 pounds over-weight,and I’ve dieted to lose those 40 pounds. Each time I was successfulin losing the weight, but over time those same 40 poundsreappeared. I have done Weight Watchers, I used Diet Center twice,and I’ve gone the Nutra System route and others. Each of these dietswas effective. The pounds just flew off but psychologically I was
115about four feet off of the ground at all times. Either that or I was
unbearably fatigued. My whole family is predisposed to beingheavy. My father was a little shorter than me and at one timeweighed about 240 pounds. My paternal grandmother was aboutsix feet tall and a very big woman who weighed about 230pounds. When my late sister was diagnosed with colon cancer, sheweighed 290 pounds. My maternal grandfather was large, as wasmy maternal grandmother. So I’m from sturdy big stock and I’m never going to be one of
those men who weigh 165 pounds. I know that. Once I dieted myway down to 168 pounds but I looked horrible. People wereasking me what disease I had, I was so gaunt. T oday my goal ismore realistic. I want to reach 185 pounds and stay there for therest of my life. My other goal is to control my diabetes with dietand exercise. When my mother turned 60, she told me she just wanted to
be a fat old lady. She just let everything go. When she died she was5’2” and weighed about 240 pounds. I turned 60 last year andI decided I did not want to be like my mother. I’m going in theopposite direction. I want to slim down and build some muscleand remain attractive. I have to say up front that when I first visited Dr. Platt, I
walked into his office with an attitude of skepticism. Not becauseof all the diets I’d gone on, but because I have an insider’sknowledge of medical scams. For 20 years my career consisted ofmarketing and selling pharmaceutical products. I know whatpharmaceutical companies will stoop to in order to turn a profit.I lost my innocence about medicine long ago, and I’m always onthe lookout for someone trying to turn an easy buck. But once I spoke to Dr. Platt I was relieved. From the way he
talked, I realized he wasn’t just promoting products. What he saidabout why people hang onto weight and why their bodies hate tolose fat made sense. There was none of the jargon and medical116 THE MIRACLE OF


investigator and physician in Munich. He dissected the body of a 55-year -
old wom an who had been ment ally deteriorating for three years before her
death. In her brain Dr. Alzheimer found visible damage that could not be
explained as normal aging: twist ed, tangled nerves and hardened deposits of
chemical plaque. No one had ever before linked senility with a specific disease, and by
discovering the one named after him, Dr. Alzheimer struck a decisive blow
to the theory of “normal” senili ty. However, social attitudes often last long
beyond their time, and it took seventy years for the importance of
Alzheimer ’s discovery to be fully grasped. In recent decades, recognition of
Alzheimer ’s disease has increas ed dramatically, as it has been realized that
the illness afflicts over 1 million Americans, or around 50 to 60 percent of
all people who exhibit senile dementia. Dementia is the medica l term for a
host of symptoms associated with the general term senility: forgetfulness,
confusion, disorientation, short attention span, irritability, and decreased
intelligence.Lewis Thomas dubbed Alzheimer ’s “the disease of the century” and
spoke eloquently of it as “the worst of all diseases, not just for what it does
to the victim, but for its deva stating effects on families and friends. It
begins with the loss of learned skills, arithmetic and typing, for instance; it
progresses inexorably to a total shutting down of the mind. It is,
unmercifully, not lethal. Patients go on and on living, essential ly brainless
but otherwise healthy, into advanced age, unless lucky enough to be saved
by pneumonia.”
Alzheimer ’s patients go in and out of lucidity in the early stage s of their
ordeal. In his book The Myth of Senility, Dr. Siegfried Kra of Yale quotes a
colleague’ s wife, herself a successful physician and children’ s writer, who
was forced to retire due to Alzh eimer ’s in her midfifties. At the outset she
still had lucid periods, particular ly in the early hours between three and five
in the morning ; during that time she gave utterance to the dark
transformation that was taking place inside her. All she could manage were
halting phrases that are all the more poignant given how much she had
loved words and how well she had used them:
I have a neurological problem. Who needs it? No one. Nobody likes me. I don’ t like myself either. I used to be a physician, I used to drive a car. What do I want? I don’t
want to be here. I am afraid of everything. All I am is garbage. I belong in the garbage can. You need a new wife. This one is no good anymore. No one knows my name anymore—because I am nothing. I’ve lost everything—the health service, typing, and writing. I don’t
have any skills. All I do is eat. I have to go away. I can’t read my
own writing. I’ve lost a kingdom. I don’ t sing anymore. I probably won’ t sing again. What is the source of this terrible disease? Much speculation has been
offered: a rare “slow virus” that takes decades to mature; a defect in the
immune system that causes the victim’ s own antibodies to attac k the brain;
increased accumulation of alum inum in the neurons. None of these causeshas been  proved. Although high levels of aluminum have been found in the
brains of Alzhei mer’s patients, elevated levels of the metal are not found in
the patients’ bloodstreams. Some popular books have sounded the alert against using aluminum foil,
aluminum cookw are, and deodorants based on aluminum salts, but millions
of people use these products without acquiring Alzheimer ’s. Some
physiological abnormality is more likely to be at fault; perhap s the blood-
brain barrier that normally excludes aluminum from entering the brain has
broken down, allowing these deposits to develop. Another reason to suspect
that the brain itself has gone awry is that at least one critical
neurotransmitter, acetylcholine, is deficient in Alzheimer ’s patients,
impairing the ability of brain cells to communicate with one another. Alzheimer ’s is presently incurable. There is no viable prevention,
although investigators believe they have found indications of genetic
markers for the disease in some families. After the onset of the disease,
medical care is limited to tranquilizing or sedating the patient. These efforts
do not affect the outcome but help reduce the psychological distress that
patients and family so acutely  feel. The real hope lies with cases of
dementia that are not the result of Alzheimer ’s, for once the myth of
“normal” senility was overcom e, it became apparent that more than one
hundred differen t treatable disorders could mimic the symptoms of senile
dementia, including thyroid deficiency, strokes, and syphilis. How the Brain Resists Aging
Aging of the brain is not enough to cause Alzheimer ’s or any of these other
disorders. Over time the structure of the brain is known to change. It grows
lighter, for example, and shrinks slightly. One of the clichés of neurology is
that the human brain loses roughly a million neurons per year as it ages; this
created a convenient rationale for seeing the onset of senility as the result of
a decaying brain. However, the flaw in this expla nation is that people who don’t become
senile presumably have lost the same number of neurons (this has to be leftto conjecture, since reliable neuron counts can’t be made in living people). At present it isn’t known why one old brain stays lively and creative—one
thinks of Miche langelo designin g St. Peter ’s when he was nearly 90 or of
Picasso painting  at the same age and Arthur Rubinstein playing the piano in
Carnegie Hall—while another starts to deteriorate. One theor y, based on
animal research, is that our brains grow new connections as we age. As
more neurons die, these new connections may compensate for the loss in
some individuals. No two brain cells ever actually touch physically. They reach toward
each other acros s a gap, or synapse, using hundreds or thousand s of hairlike
filaments called dendrites. The effect is like that of two twiggy trees almost
intertwining in the wind (the word dendrite  is deriv ed from  the Greek word
for “tree ”). Just at the point where two filaments almost meet, a chemical
signal can be sent from one neuron to another. The basic  chemicals
involved are well known. One of them is acetylcholine, which is deficient
in Alzheimer ’s patients; another is dopamine, the lack of which leads to
Parkinson’ s disease. No one knows precisely why some neurons grow fifty
dendrites for sending message s while others grow ten thousand. One
encouraging finding, however, is that by remaining mentally active, older
people may actually be growing new dendrites all the time. This much-publicized news was founded on brain research by Marian
Diamond at Berkeley, who showed that the brains of rats grew or shrank
according to the kind of experiences they were exposed to. Rats confined to
small cages and deprived of social interaction with other rats began to
develop shrinkin g cortexes and a loss of dendrites. On the other hand, if an
old rat was put back into rat society and given lots of stimulati on, its brain
expanded and grew new dendrites. This helped to give a physiological
explanation for something we have all observed: Lonely, isolated old people
are much more likely to be confused, disoriented, dull, and vacant than are
their peers who remain actively involved with family and friends. Because of our materialistic bias, growing new dendrites sounds very
scientific and reassuring. In actuality, the situation turns out to be more
complex. To have more dendrites is not the same as having a more
developed brain. Babies are born with many more dendrites than adults
have; the proces s of maturation consists of pruning the excess, whittling thecortex down to its most useful connections. However, it is still encouraging
to find that old brains may be capable of replacing lost dendrites as they are
needed. It was long thought that we are born with a set number of brain cells that
never divide to form new ones, yet recently it has been found that the DNA
in neurons is active, which may lead to new conclusions. Some neurologists
also doubt that the brain is actually losing a million neurons a year. Robert
Terry, a neuroscientist at the University of California at San Diego,
determined that there is no significant decline in neuron density in three
important areas of the brain. The number of large neurons does decrease,
but is offset by an increase in smaller neurons. Also, large neurons appear
not to be dying but shrinking. Two other neuroscientists, Samuel Weiss and Brent Reynolds at the
University of Calgary in Alberta, found that they could stimulate dormant
brain cells to active life. They cultured mouse neurons in the laboratory and
gave them a chemical called epidermal growth factor, causing some
immature, inactive brain cells to divide and form mature ones. The human
brain is almost certainly storing such dormant cells perhaps as a
replacement reserve. It is also encour aging that the brain has its own natural me


theheadache,andthesense
ofsmellisoftenveryacute. Hoarseness
SymptomsPainful. Causesover-usingvoice. Indigestion
SymptomsPains:inthestomach;burning;sore,
bruised. Worseaftereating. Injuries
SymptomsCuts/wounds: bleedfreely;brightred;
slowtoclot. Insomnia
SymptomsAnxiousdreams.WithSleepiness. Thepersonwillsleeponherrightside-shecannotfall
asleepwhenlyingonherleftside,especially ifshehas
achestinfectionoracough.Hasanxious,vivid
dreams. Nausea
SymptomsBelly/stomach feelsempty.Belches
sour. Worseforputtinghandsinwarmwater;forhot
drinks;fordrinkingwater. Theemptyfnlinginthestomachisnotrelievedby
eating.Nosebleeds
SymptomsBlood:brightred;persistent.Withsweat-
ing. Worseforblowingnose. Sorethroat
SymptomsPains:raw;sore.Tonsilsswollen.Voice
hoarse. Worseforbreathingin;forcoughing;duringthe
morning/evening; forpressure;fortalking. ThesesorethroatsinaPhosphorustypeoftenaccom-
panyacold.Thepatientcan'ttalkasthethroatisso
painfullyhoarse,andthelarynxissensitivetotouch
andfeelsirritatedandtickly. Voicelost
SymptomsInsingers;painless. Vomiting
SymptomsBurningpainsinstomach.Vomit:bile;
mucus;bitter;yellow.Vomitingviolent. Worseafterdrinking/eating. Thepatientvomitsfoodanddrink-eventhesmallest
quantity-assoonasitbecomeswarminthestomach. Theremaybeburningpainsinthestomachora
bruisedsoreness.Thisoftenaccompaniesastomach
bug,oroccurswhenthestomachisespeciallysensi-
tiveforsomereason,oftenemotional. Phytolaccadecandra (Phyt.) Familyname:Phytolaccaceae
Othernames:Virginianpoke;poke-root;targetweed;
pigeonberry;Americannightshade
Thisperennialplantgrowsinmoistgroundalong
hedgesandroad-sidesintheUnitedStates,North
AfricaandChina,anditisalsocommoninMediter-
raneancountries. Itisastrikingbushwithfine,dark
reddish-purple stems;numeroussmallwhitish
flowersappearfromJulytoSeptemberwhichgiveway
tolongclustersofdarkpurpleberriessimilartoblack-
berries.Thestemswhenyoungandgreencanbe
cookedandeatenratherlikeasparagus,andtheber-
riesarelovedbybirds. Phytolaccahasanunusuallyhighpotassiumcontent
andtheashes,whichcontainover45percentcaustic
potash,havebeenusedbycountryfolkasasalvefor
ulcersandcancerousgrowths. Itwaswellknownto
theIndiantribesasausefulmedicinalplantforitspur-
gativequalitiesandforthetreatmentofrheumatism. INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Podophyllum(Podo. )•133
Adecoctionoftherootshasbeenusedfordosing
cattlesufferingfrommastitis. Forthehomeopathicpreparationthefreshrootis
choppedandpoundedtoapulp,addedtoalcoholand
lefttostandbeforebeingstrainedandsuccussed. GENERALSYMPTOMS
Breathsmells.Painsshootupwards.Tonguered-
tipped. ThemainactionofPhytolaccaisonthethroatandthe
breast,onthemusculartissuesandonthejoints.Itisa
wonderfulremedyforbreastabscessesandcracked
nipplesinbreastfeedingmothers. Phytolaccatypeswillusuallyfeelexhausted, stiffand
wornout,andunabletothink.Smellybreathaccom-
paniesmanyofthecomplaints.Phytolaccapains
characteristically appearanddisappearsuddenlyand
shootupthebodv. EMOTIONAL/MENTAL SYMPTOMS
Theemotional/mentalsymptomsofthisremedyare
notstronglymarkedbuttheremaybesomedepres-
sionwithtearfulnessand/orirritabilityaccompanied
bynotwantingtothinkorwork.PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Breastfeedingproblems
SymptomsBreasts:inflamed;lumpy.Abscesses. Nipples:cracked;raw,sore.Painwhilenursing. Manyhomeopathsregardthisremedyasaspecificfor
sore,crackednippleswherethereispainfromthe
nippleradiatingalloverthebody.Itisalsousefulfor
infectionsandforabscesseswherethebreastishard,
nodularandlumpy;orifalumpinthebreastbecomes
painfulandanabscessisthereforethreatening.This
remedycantaketwelvetotwenty-fourhourstoact
(unlikethequickactionofAconiteorBelladonna). Mumps
SymptomsGlands:hard;painful;swollen.Pains
spreadtobreasts,ovaries,testicles.Withcopious
saliva/sweating; sorethroat(seebelow). Sorethroat
SymptomsThroatdarkred.Tonsilsswollen. Betterforcolddrinks. Worseforhotdrinks. Thethroatisdryanddarkred.Swallowing isdifficult
andcausesthepainstoshootthroughbothears(in
Belladonnasorethroatsthepainsonlyshootuptothe
rightearonswallowing).Thethroatmayalsohurton
stickingoutthetongue;thisisanunusualsymptom,
andthereforeusefultolookoutforwhenprescribing. Teething
SymptomsPainfulinchildren. Betterforbitinggumstogetherhard. Teethingbabieshaveanirresistibleurgetobite
theirteeth(orgums)together-onanythingand
everything! PODOPHYLLUM (Podo.) Familyname:Berberidaceae
Commonnames:Mayapple;mandrake;duck's-foot;
groundlemon
TheAmericanmandrake isasmallherbthatgrowsin
wetmeadowsandindamp,openwoodsinthenorth
andeastoftheUSAandinCanada.Itgrowsuptotwo
feethighandproducesadroppingfoul-smellingwhite
flowerinMay,whichisfollowedbyarosehip-type
fruitmeasuring 1to2inches.Itsnameisderivedfrom
theLatinpottos('foot'),andphyllon('leaf'),asitsleaves
resemblethewebbedfeetofaduck;hencealsoits
nicknameduck's-foot. NBSEEALSOPAGES203-26FORGENERALADVICE,DOSANDDON'TS. 134•Pulsatillanigricans(Puis.) INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA
ItwaswellknowntotheNorthAmericanIndiansas
aremedytokillparasitesorintestinalworms,asan
emetic(toinducevomiting)andasapurgative(a
drasticlaxative).ThisusespreadtoearlyAmerican
immigrantswhouseditasachiefcomponentin
'cathartic'pillsforcleansingthegut. Podophyllumhasbeenusedbyherbalistsasastimu-
lantfortheliverandbowelswherethereiscongestion
(thoughgreatcareistakennottouselargedoses
whichcanpoisonthesystemandcauseseverein-
flammationofthestomachandintestines). Itwasused
forcolic,usuallyincombinationwithotherherbssuch
ascolocynthis,andwasfoundtostimulatetheglandu-
larsystemwhengiveninsmalldoses. Forthehomeopathicpreparationthefreshrootis
gatheredbeforethefruitisripeandchoppedand
poundedtoapulp,thenlefttostandinalcoholbefore
beingstrainedandsuccussed. GENERALSYMPTOMS
Dischargeswatery. Worseaftermidnight;mid-morning. Podophyllum isusedmainlyfortreatingdiarrhoea
wherethepatientfeelsweakandfaintafterthestool
(seebelow).Generallyspeaking,thesepeopleoften
feelattheirworstand'orthediarrhoeaisatitsworstin
theearlyhoursofthemorningormid-morning.EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS
Thisremedydoesnothavestrongemotionalsymp-
toms,thoughpatientsmaybetalkative,excitableand
restless,especiallyatnight;andmaymoanduring
theirsleep. PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Diarrhoea
SymptomsInchildren.Belly/stomach: gurgling;
rumbling.Alternatingwithconstipation/headache. Stools:frequent;gushing;involuntary;painless;pro-
fuse;smelly;sudden.Withexhaustionafterpassing
stool. Worseafterdrinkingwater;immediatelyafterdrink-
ing;aftereating;forhotweather;mid-morning;
around4a.m.;atnight. Thisdiarrhoeamayalternate


 part of you
and vice versa. Your environment is not something that you must
either push or it will push you around. It is an extension of yourself,
just as you are an extension of the environment. This is a unique concept to grasp. It is imperative, however, for
understanding the premise of this book. You are both distinct and
inseparable from your environment. BEING AN INDIVIDUAL AND AN ENVIRONMENT
SIMULTANEOUSLY
Have you ever seen a person with a front but without a back? Have you ever seen a person with an outside but without an inside? These rhetorical questions are meant to stimulate you to consider
how you can be differentiated and undifferentiated at the same time,
and why this is important in learning to manifest your life as you
choose. 38
Manifest Your Destiny
The nature of this physical world is essentially that of waves. Each
wave of energy that makes up a physical mass has a crest or a peak
and a nadir or a valley. These tops and bottoms of the wave are always
easy to identify as separate, yet they are always together. You cannot
ever get a bucketful of peaks and observe them independent of their
corresponding valleys. This is the fundamental feature of nature. The
north and south poles of a magnet are always together, yet always dis-
tinct. Your front always has a back, your inside always has an outside,
and now ycu must extend this understanding outward as well. Of course you are an individual who functions within this environ-
ment, and it is possible to describe both you and your environment
with separate identifying terminology that all of us would under-
stand. But, you must also remember that you cannot separate you
from your environment either. You are distinct, just as the tops of the
waves are distinct from the bottoms, but you are irrevocably con-
nected to the outer world just as that bottom of the wave always has a
top. When you begin to see this simple truth, mystical experiences of
manifesting also open up to you as a genuine possibility. Most of us
have failed to grasp this little truth, and it has led us on a disastrous
course of feeling that because we are separate from our environment,
we must exercise control over it. When we do this, we, of course, are
showing not only a lack of respect for our environment, but for our
own basic nature as an environorganism as well. PUSHING NATURE AROUND OR SEEING IT AS OURSELVES
When we think of ourselves as distinct from our environment, we
take on a posture of exercising control over it. This kind of thinking
leads us into destructive behavior on both the collective and the per-
sonal levels. We destroy forests, swamps, mountains, rivers, wildlife or any-
thing else that obstructs profit and convenience or for something we
39
WAYNE W. DYER
call “advancing” civilization. We defend these activities without
understanding that we are also destroying ourselves. Ultimately we
will make earth uninhabitable if we fail to ‘see that we are killing a
part of ourselves with this wanton disregard for nature. We all need to begin to experience ourselves as part of our total
environment. Then perhaps we will discontinue trying to beat that
same environment into submission. We fail to treat it with love, gen-
tleness and respect because we are convinced that it is something
other than ourselves that we are defeating. As we have seen, we can- |
not be described independent of our environment any more than our
outside can be described without our inside. The idea of ourselves as an environorganism commands our
respect for everything that we encounter. When we can respect that
which appears to be external to us, we will build to live in harmony
with, rather than in control over, our environment. In our personal lives, recognizing nature as ourselves opens up an
entire new world of manifestation. We see ourselves in an intelligent
world. Thus, the intelligence that is in myself is also in my environ-
ment. With this awareness we tend to see the connection to everything
much more clearly. We know that whatever appears to be lacking in
our lives is really due to our having been misinformed when we were
taught that what seems to be missing can be found outside us. As an environorganism, I know that the energy of what appears to
be missing in my personal environment and the energy of my own
body (inside and outside, front and back) is all the same. So, anything
I view as lacking is because I see myself as removed from what I want
rather than as connected to it. This is the beginning of the awareness that you can attract every-
thing to yourself because you are already inextricably attached to it at
an energy level. The notion of viewing it as unavailable begins to dis-
appear and you see manifesting as nothing more than materializing
an aspect of yourself of which you have previously been unaware. 40
ts Manifest Your Destiny
You will see yourself not only in your environment, but in every-
thing and everyone that is a part of that environment. Your new faith
will no longer permit you to see anything as separate. The separate-
ness will always be there, just as the peak of the wave is separate from
the trough, but they will remain inseparable even though separate,
different yet undifferentiated at the same time. You will have fused
the dichotomy that prevents you from putting this connective energy
to work. You will begin to view yourself as an organic part of this
world rather than as a separate entity in this world. SEEING YOURSELF AS AN ORGANIC PART OF THIS WORLD
There is a popular belief that we “come into this world.” Thus we
are continuously embracing the idea that who we are and where we
come from are two different worlds. The essence of this third spiritual
principle for manifesting your destiny is that there is no separation,
and rather than coming into this world as a construction project, that
you actually grow out of it. Take a look at a plum tree and examine how plums appear in our
world. You plant a seed and the tree grows, ultimately blossoming
and producing plums. The intelligence that is in the plum is in this
world, and so, too, is it in the seed, the blossom, the trunk, the
branches and the roots. Every single element of the plum tree has
plum intelligence built into it. We do not say that plums show up
from the spiritual world of plum essence, and then become physical
earth-plane fruit. In fact, as we look at a plum tree, we could say with
all candor that it plums. Every year the thing just plums. In the same way that a plum tree plums, you, too, grow out of this
world, with the same energy that is in every aspect of your being. Were you to look at the earth from a distance you would observe that
it has rocks, oceans, vegetation, and that the thing actually peoples. You are a result of what the universe is doing on a conscious level,
just as a wave is what the ocean is doing and a plum is what the plum
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WAYNE W. DYER
tree is doing. The intelligence that is you, unseen as it may be, is you
in every stage of your creation and life experience, and it is also the
same in every other person as well as in all things in our physical
world. Most of us were taught quite the contrary. Creation is generally
thought of as divided into the spiritual realm of the unseen and the
physical world of matter. Also, that we are the result of an act of con-
struction, and rather than growing out of the world, we were put
into it. This, of course, reinforces the idea of powerlessness in having |
anything to do with the act of creation. To empower yourself’ to,
become a co-creator in the affairs of your life, you will have to leave
these old ideas behind, but mind you, they do not die easily. The
conditioning process is embedded in the bedrock of your existence. When you come to see yourself as growing out of this world, you
see that the native intelligence that was in the very seed of your pro-
creation is an energy flowing through everything in your world. You
and the environment of that growth process are distinctly identifiable
but always connected. Inseparable in the same way as your breathing
and the air you breathe, your walking and the ground upon which
you walk and your thoughts and the organism with which you think. » Notice that everyone breathes the same air, walks on the same
ground and thinks as an organism, just like you. You are, indeed,
connected to all of these beings. It is not an accident that someone
living in a distant country, with different outward physical character-
istics and a separate language, could die and donate his or her liver or
kidney or cornea to you, and it would accommodate the life force
flowing in you. This idea of growing out of the world or being a result
of the earth peopling as a plum tree plums is advantageous to the
process of manifesting your own destiny. It empowers you with the
wisdom of creation rather than making you a puppet whose strings
are controlled by external forces. When we believe that what is outside me is not me, and that we
42
Manifest Your Destiny
are not a part of the peopling process of the earth, we cultivate an


cessive doses can cause serious side effects, including high blood
pressure. Do not take large doses with high blood pressure. During pregnancy, or for
long-term use, take on professional advice. Decoction  For constipation, make a decoction ( see p. 291) with
1 part licorice and 3 parts dandelion root. Drink 3⁄4 cup (150 ml) twice a day. Fluid extract  is prescribed for peptic ulcers. US_100-101_Ginkgo.indd   101 26/02/16   3:59 pm
102Hamamelis virginianakey medicinal plantsThe leaves are odorless
but have a bitter, aromatic taste
Bark is used
in tinctures  and ointmentsHamamelis virginiana (Hamamelidaceae)
Witch HazelWitch hazel
 A small deciduoustree growing to16 ft  (5 m), with coarsely toothed, broadly  oval leaves. Witch hazel produces distinctive flowers in
winter followed by brown fruit capsules that, when ripe, eject 2 seeds up to 13 ft (4 m) away from the tree. Habitat & Cultivation
Witch hazel is a woodland tree,
indigenous to Canada and eastern parts of the U.S. Today it is commonly cultivated in Europe. The trees are grown from hardwood cuttings or from seed, both of which are planted in autumn. The leaves are gathered
in summer and dried. The bark
is harvested during the autumn
and dried as quickly as possible in the shade. Related Species
European hazel (Corylus avellana) is  a similar herb. It is used occasionally in European herbal medicine as an astringent to treat diarrhea. The oil is nutritious and can be used to treat threadworms in children. Key Constituents
■ Tannins (8–10%)
■ Flavonoids
■ Bitter principle
■ Volatile oil (leaves only)Key Actions
■ Astringent
■ Anti-inflammatory
■ Stops external and
 internal bleeding
Traditional &
Current Uses
■ Established properties Witch
hazel contains large quantities of
tannins. These have a drying, astringent effect, causing the tightening up of proteins in the skin and across the surface of abrasions. This creates a protective covering that increases resistance to inflammation and promotes healing of broken skin. Witch hazel also appears to help damaged blood vessels beneath the skin. It is thought that this effect may be due to the flavonoids as well as to the tannins. When witch hazel is distilled it retains its astringency, suggesting that astringent agents other than tannins are present. ■ Skin problems Witch hazel
is a very useful herb for inflamed  and tender skin conditions, such as eczema. It is mainly used where the skin has not been significantly broken and helps to protect the affected area and prevent infection. ■ Damaged veins Witch hazel
is valuable for damaged facial veins, varicose veins, and hemorrhoids,
and is an effective remedy for bruises. Due to its astringent properties, it helps to tighten distended veins and restore their normal structure. ■ Other uses A lotion can be
applied to the skin for under lying problems such as cysts or tumors. Witch hazel also makes an effective eyewash for inflammation of the eyes. Less commonly, it is taken internally to alleviate diarrhea,  helping to tighten up the mucous membranes of the intestines, and  for bleeding of any kind.Parts Used
Key Preparations & Their UsesLeaves and young twigs
are distilled to make “witch hazel.”
Dried leaves
Fresh leaves
Fresh bark Dried bark
Infusion of the leaves (to make, p. 291). Use as a lotion (see p. 296) for broken
veins and cysts.Tincture of bark (to make, p. 292). Dilute 1 tbsp in 1/2 cup (100 ml) cold
water and sponge onto varicose veins.Ointment of bark (to make,  p. 295). Apply to hemorrhoids twice a day. Self-help Uses
■ Bruises, p. 304. ■ Cleansing wounds, p. 304. ■ Eczema, p. 300. ■ Hemorrhoids, p. 302. ■ Skin rashes, p. 303. ■ Varicose veins, p. 302.Distilled witch hazel Dab onto insect
stings, sore skin, and broken veins.Witch hazel was a traditional remedy of many Native
North American peoples. They used poultices soaked  in a decoction of bark to treat tumors and inflammations, especially of the eye, and took the herb internally for hemorrhaging and heavy menstrual bleeding. European settlers in the 18th century soon came to value witch  hazel for its astringency, and its use spread to Europe  and beyond. QCaution If using internally, take only under professional supervision. US_102-103_Witch_Hazel.indd   102 26/02/16   3:59 pm103Harpagop Hytum procumbenskey medicinal plants
Tincture  (to make, p. 292). For arthritis associated with
poor digestion, take 30 drops
with water twice daily. Tablets  T ake for arthritis
and rheumatism.Decoction  (to make, p. 291). For rheumatism, simmer 1 tsp root
in 3⁄4 cup (150 ml) water for 15 minutes. T ake in small doses over 1  –2 days.Harpagophytum procumbens  (Pedaliaceae)
Devil’s Claw
The colorful name of this African plant is derived
from the appearance of its tough, barbed fruit. The
medicinal properties of devil’s claw were first discovered
by various southern African peoples, who used a
decoction of the tuber to treat digestive problems
and arthritis. The herb is now widely available in
pharmacies and health food stores in the West as
a remedy for arthritis and rheumatism. Habitat & Cultivation
Devil’s claw is native to Namibia,
Botswana, and South Africa, where
it is a protected species due to over-
harvesting of wild plants. It thrives
in clay or sandy soils, preferring
roadsides and open areas, especially
places where natural vegetation
has been cleared. Propagated from
seed in spring, the young tubers
are unearthed in autumn and cut
into pieces about 3⁄4 in (2 cm) long. Care is taken not to mix the tubers,
which contain the active constituents,
with the roots, as this can render
the herb ineffective. Related Species
Two related species, both growing
in Africa, are used medicinally in
a more or less similar way to
devil’s claw. Key Constituents
■ Iridoid glycosides
 (harpagoside)
■ Sugars (stachyose)
■ Phytosterols
■ FlavonoidsKey Actions
■ Anti-inflammatory
■ Analgesic
■ Digestive stimulant
■ Antiarthritic
Research
■ Anti-inflammatory  French
research (1992) indicated that
devil’s claw is anti-inflammatory,
but opinion is divided on its
effectiveness in practice. ■ Pain relief There is some
evidence to confirm devil’s claw’s
use as an analgesic as it seems to
be effective in easing the symptoms
of joint pain. ■ Bitter  The strongly bitter action
of devil’s claw stimulates and tones
the digestive system. Many arthritic
conditions are associated with poor
digestion and absorption of food,
and the stimulant effect of this
herb on the stomach and gallbladder
contributes to its overall therapeutic
value as an antiarthritic remedy. Traditional &
Current Uses
■ African traditional remedy
Devil’s claw is used by various peoples
in southern Africa, including the
Khoisan and the Bantu. Traditionally
it has been used as a tonic, especially
for digestive problems; for arthritis
and rheumatism; to reduce fevers;
and as an ointment for sores,
ulcers, and boils. ■ Western uses  Current Western
use of devil’s claw is broadly in line
with its traditional application. It is
commonly available over the counter
in tablet form for arthritic and
rheumatic conditions and can bring Devil’s claw
A trailing perennial,
reaching 5 ft (1.5 m)
in length, with fleshy
lobed leaves and
barbed, woody fruit. relief from pain arising from a range
of joint and muscular problems,
including gout, back pain, fibrositis,
and rheumatoid arthritis.Devil’s claw, found growing in the Transvaal,
has bright purple flowers in spring.Parts Used
Key Preparations & Their UsesTuber  is harvested in autumn
and used in a variety of
antiarthritic preparations. Chopped dried tuber
Self-help Uses
■ Arthritis & inflamed joints, p. 313. ■ Back pain due to joint
 inflammation, p. 313.Sliced dried
tuber
 QCautions  Do not take if suffering from gallstones or peptic ulcer. Do not take
during pregnancy. May interact with anticoagulants. US_102-103_Witch_Hazel.indd   103 26/02/16   3:59 pm
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ery. Of 108 people with this disease treated with a
paste of knotgrass (taken internally), 104
recovered within 5 days. Results from Iranian
laboratory studies indicate that knotgrass
stimulates apoptosis (programmed cell death) and
might be of use in treating breast cancer. Related Species See also bistort ( P. bistorta,
following entry ), and he shou wu
(P. multiflorum, p. 124).Solomon’s seal is
mostly used for throat
and chest problems. US_246-265_Pergularia_Extensa_Salvia_Sclarea.indd   253 26/02/16   12:47 pm
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other medicinal plantsPolymnia uvedalia
vaginal discharge, and an ointment for hemorroids
and anal fissures. Internally, bistort may be taken to treat peptic ulcers, ulcerative colitis, and conditions such as dysentery and irritable bowel that give rise to diarrhea. Related Species P. hydropiper, which is
native to Europe, may be used to relieve heavy menstrual bleeding. See also knotgrass (P. aviculare, preceding entry). Caution Use bistort internally for no more than
3–4 weeks at a time. Self-help Use Diarrhea, p. 307. Kumarhou is considered to be a detoxifier and “blood cleansing” plant, and is used to treat skin rashes and sores, including lesions produced by  skin cancer. Populus x candicans syn. P. x gileadensis (Salicaceae)
Balm of Gilead
Description Deciduous tree growing to 80 ft
(25 m). Has heart-shaped leaves, buds producing
a sticky resin, and female catkins. Habitat & Cultivation Naturalized in northern
temperate regions, balm of Gilead is also cultivated as an ornamental tree. The buds and bark from young branches are collected in spring. Parts Used Buds, stem bark. Constituents Balm of Gilead buds contain
flavonoids, phenolic glycosides (including salicin), and fatty acids. Salicin’s analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and fever-reducing actions resemble those of aspirin. Many poplars have a similar chemical profile and are often used interchangeably as medicines. History & Folklore Balm of Gilead has been
used for several thousand years to soothe inflamed or irritated skin. The 17th-century herbalist Nicholas Culpeper recorded that “The oyntment called populeon, which is much of this poplar, is singular for all heat and inflammation in any part of the body and tempereth the heat of wounds: It is much used to dry up the milk in women’s breasts.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses Balm of Gilead
is a common ingredient of cough mixtures. Its expectorant, antiseptic, and analgesic properties make it an excellent remedy for sore throats, dry irritable coughs, bronchitis, and other respiratory ailments. In France and Germany, balm of Gilead  is applied as a salve to scrapes, small wounds, chapped and itchy skin, sunburn, chilblains, and hemorroids. A preparation of balm of Gilead, applied externally, may also help relieve the pain  of rheumatic joints and strained muscles. As Culpeper noted, the plant is also thought to reduce breast-milk production. Research Studies
have demonstrated that balm of Gilead  buds have significant expectorant, antibacterial, antifungal, and anti-inflammatory properties. Research undertaken into  the bud resin of this and  other poplar species has been prompted largely by the resin’s chemical similarity to propolis,  a natural antibiotic resin that  is gathered by bees.History & Folklore Polypody has been
used medicinally in Europe since ancient times. Like mistletoe (Viscum album, p. 283), polypody  often grows on host trees, for example oak
(Quercus robur, p. 260). This was thought to impart great medicinal value to the plant. The Greek physician Dioscorides, writing in the 1st century ce, noted that polypody was used to purge phlegm and was an ingredient of a plaster applied to dislocated fingers and to sores that occur between the fingers. Medicinal Actions & Uses Polypody
stimulates bile secretion and has been used to  treat such conditions as hepatitis, jaundice, and indigestion. A gentle laxative, polypody makes a  safe treatment for constipation in children. The rhizome is also expectorant, having a supportive and mildly stimulating effect on the respiratory system. It may be taken for the relief of congestion, bronchitis, pleurisy, and dry irritable coughs. Caution Polypody may cause a skin rash when
applied externally. Polypody is often seen growing in damp woodland in
Europe and northern Asia. Balm of GileadPomaderris elliptica (Rhamnaceae)
Kumarhou
Description Branching tree growing to about
10 ft (3 m). Has shiny leaves and clusters of yellow-
white flowers. Habitat & Cultivation Kumarhou is native
to New Zealand. Parts Used Aerial parts. Medicinal Actions & Uses Kumarhou is a
traditional Maori remedy that has been used to treat a wide range of illnesses. Its most common use is as a remedy for problems of the respiratory tract, such as asthma and bronchitis. However, it  has also been used in the treatment of indigestion and heartburn, diabetes, and kidney problems. Polymnia uvedalia (Asteraceae)
Bearsfoot
Description Perennial herb growing to 61⁄2 ft
(2 m) with large 3-lobed leaves and yellow flowers. Habitat & Cultivation Bearsfoot is native
to the eastern U.S. It grows from New Y ork southward, preferring rich soil. The root is unearthed in autumn. Part Used Root. History & Folklore Bearsfoot root was used
by Native Americans as a stimulant and laxative remedy. In the 19th century, it became a widely popular healing herb in North America, having  a specific use as a treatment for mastitis (inflammation of the breast tissue). Medicinal Actions & Uses Bearsfoot is
perhaps best known for its use as a hair tonic, having traditionally been a popular ingredient in hair lotions. It is still used in this way, but today the root is more often taken internally as a treatment for nonmalignant swollen glands and especially for mastitis. The root is thought to have a beneficial effect on the stomach, liver, and spleen, and may  be taken to relieve indigestion and counteract  liver malfunction. Polypodium vulgare (Polypodiaceae)
Polypody
Description Delicate perennial fern growing
to a height of 1 ft (30 cm). Has slender knotty rhizomes and curving fronds that are dotted  with brown spores (sori) on their lower surface. Habitat & Cultivation Native to Europe
and northern Asia, polypody is commonly found growing in damp woodland and hedgerows, and  on walls. The rhizome is unearthed in autumn. Part Used Rhizome. Constituents Polypody rhizome contains
saponins (based on polypodosapogenin), ecdysteroids, phloroglucins, volatile oil, fixed  oil, and tannins. US_246-265_Pergularia_Extensa_Salvia_Sclarea.indd   254 26/02/16   12:47 pm255 other medicinal plantsPotentilla anserina
properties. It is often taken to treat arthritic
and rheumatic aches and pains. It is also used
to lower fever, especially when this condition
is associated with rheumatoid arthritis. Being
stimulant, quaking aspen bark acts as a tonic
remedy in the treatment of anorexia and other
debilitated states. The bark’s significant astringent
and antiseptic qualities make it useful for treating
diarrhea and the symptoms of irritable bowel
syndrome. It is also used to treat urinary
tract infections. Caution Do not take quaking aspen if allergic
to aspirin.Cautions Best avoided while breastfeeding. Do not take if allergic to aspirin. Self-help Use  Coughs, p. 310. Populus tremuloides (Salicaceae)
Quaking Aspen
Description Deciduous, spreading tree
growing to 65 ft (20 m). Has oval, slightly sticky
buds and round, finely toothed leaves that quiver
in the wind. Habitat & Cultivation Native to North
America, quaking aspen prefers damp and moist
areas, and grows alongside rivers and in valleys,
hedgerows, and groves. It is also widely cultivated
in temperate regions. The bark is collected in
early spring. Part Used Bark. Constituents The bark contains phenolic
glycosides (including salicin and populin) and
tannins. Salicin and populin are salicylates, substances
that have fever-reducing, pain-relieving, and
anti-inflammatory properties that are
similar to those of aspirin. Quaking aspen bark contains salicin, a substance
with aspirin-like effects.Purslane is a good
source of vitamins and
calcium. It also


 who could meet the high standards  of this study. Of the 1,000 qualified patients,
they chose 50 to be written up. The 50 patients rep resented 25 types of cancer, half of which
were diagnosed at major medical centers such as the  Mayo Clinic, Sloan-Kettering Institute and
others. The results of this study were extraordinar y.
Hodgkin’s Disease
Hodgkin’s disease is a moderately rare cancer of th e lymphocyte system and associated organs
that claimed 1,500 lives in 1987. Physicians classify this malignancy by a claimed 1, 500 system of four "stages" (I-IV). Stage I
represents early, localized disease; stage IV defin es advanced, widely disseminated cancer
involving many organs of the body. Stages II and II I include more intermediate forms. Physicians further categorize Hodgkin’s disease by the letters "A" and "B." The designation "A" refers to patients without symptoms. The letter "B"  identifies patients with symptoms such as
fevers, chills, night sweats, and fatigue. Hodgkin’ s, if untreated, is often rapidly fatal. "A single
series of untreated patients reported by Croft in 1 941," writes Devita, head of the National
Cancer Institute, "leads us to believe that the cou rse of patients with Hodgkin’s disease, if left
untreated, regardless of the stage, is brief, measu red in 1 to 2 years. In that series, the median
survival was less than 1 year and most patients wer e dead by year 2, with fewer than 5% alive
after 5 years." At present, the "MOPP" chemotherapy  regimen is the most widely recommended
treatment for Hodgkin’s. This protocol employs four  drugs — nitrogen mustard, Oncovin
(vincristine), procarbazine and prednisone — given once every twenty-eight days for at least six
months. As Devita explains, "Unless chemotherapy is  contraindicated for medical reasons, all
patients treated with MOPP and other combinations s hould be given a minimum of six cycles (a
dose) or as many cycles as needed to achieve a comp lete remission, plus additional cycles to
consolidate the remission. "(1) With protocols such as this, at least 50% of all patients will
survive five years. Michael Moreland
Mr. Michael Moreland is a 37-year old man from Wash ington State alive nine years since
diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease. In late 1977, Mr.  Moreland developed mild fatigue and a
tender swelling in his neck that rapidly increased in size. In January of 1978 he consulted his
family physician, who suspected a low-grade infecti on and prescribed a course of Penicillin
therapy. With treatment, the swelling did decrease slightly over a period of a week, but then
worsened. In addition, Mr. Moreland began experienc ing drenching night sweats as well as sharp
pain in the upper part of his chest. Several weeks later, Mr. Moreland returned to his physician. A chest X-ray revealed a large upper mediastinal ma ss, and laboratory studies were significant
for an elevated white blood count of 21,000 (upper limit of normal 10,000). Because of these
findings, on February 6, 1978 Mr. Moreland entered Vancouver Memorial Hospital in
Vancouver, Washington. On admission, Mr. Moreland w as noted to have extensive
lymphadenopathy in the cervical area, described in the records as: "A very large mass present in
the left side of the neck with some surrounding sma ller masses also present. There are some
more discrete masses on the right side as well, mea suring up to 3 to 4 centimeters in diameter. There is a bilateral auxiliary adenopathy present." The following day, Mr. Moreland went to
surgery. Subsequent evaluation of the tissue specim en confirmed an aggressive form of
Hodgkin’s disease, well-described in the official p athology report: "There is no question that
nodules are being formed in this lymph node but in many areas the picture is more than a mixed
cellularity type and there are remarkably large col lections composed mainly of malignant
reticulohitiocytic cells with lymphocyte depletion. " With a diagnosis of Hodgkin’s confirmed
Mr. Moreland was readmitted to Vancouver Memorial o n February 13 for additional tests. A
chest X-ray showed: "Mediastinal adenopathy which i s a little more pronounced on the right. There is evidence of bilateral cervical nodes." A l ymphangiogram, a dye study of the abdominal
lymph node system, demonstrated extensive disease, as summarized in the records: "Abnormal
lymphangiogram due to enlarged nodes caused by Hodg kin’s disease at L2, L3 and probably
along the right iliac chain." On February 13, Mr. Moreland underwent a staging la parotomy — exploratory abdominal
surgery — and removal of his spleen, a procedure of ten performed in patients with Hodgkin’s. Although the spleen was free of disease, a periaort ic lymph node was positive for cancer. At the
same time, a bone marrow biopsy was attempted, but the specimen could not be conclusively
analyzed. Mr. Moreland was told he suffered advance d Hodgkin’s disease, officially recorded as:
"Hodgkin’s disease, nodular sclerosed type, stage I IIB." His doctors advised that aggressive
multi-agent chemotherapy was the only hope for prol onged survival, and proposed their standard
six-month, six-cycle course of MOPP. Mr. Moreland a greed to the treatment, which he began in
late February as an outpatient at the Vancouver Cli nic. After the first round of drugs, Mr. Moreland became  extremely weak, fatigued, and anorexic. His
symptoms did improve over a two-week period, but wh ile undergoing the second cycle, Mr.
Moreland became severely ill. He did struggle throu gh a third course, but felt so debilitated he
decided to discontinue chemotherapy. The attending physician warned Mr. Moreland that
without appropriate treatment, he would quickly die, and suggested a six-month course of
radiation as an alternative. Mr. Moreland accepted the plan and in late May received his first
dose of cobalt to the chest. Once again Mr. Moreland became ill, and in mid-July, after receiving a total of 4060 rads to the
chest and upper abdomen, Mr. Moreland refused furth er treatment. At the same time, he was not
believed to be cancer-free. According to Mr. Morela nd, his doctors warned that he would die
within a year, unless he agreed to additional thera py. Mr. Moreland did not change his mind. Instead, afte r investigating alternative approaches to
cancer, he met with Dr. Kelley in late July and sho rtly thereafter began the Kelley program. Within a month, he noticed improved energy and well  being, and within a year, he says he felt
better than he had for a decade.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Pasteurized cows’ milk
requires too many pancreatic enzymes for digestion. Also, an animal cannot produce milk unless the fema le sex hormones are present in extra large
quantities; this causes too many hormones in milk f or the person who has cancer. But if raw goats’ milk is available, it is advisabl e to take 4 to 8 ounces of raw (unpasteurized),
homemade goats’ milk (goats’ milk is similar to hum ans’ milk) yogurt each morning for
breakfast. This will supply the intestines with ade quate helpful bacteria. This is acceptable
because the yogurt bacteria predigest the milk prot ein when added to it. After following this diet for 9 to 12 months and if  raw goats’ or cows’ milk is available. 9 to 12
ounces per day may be taken at any time during the day. Peanuts
The cancer patient will also want to give up peanut s. First, the peanut is not a nut, but a legume. Second, the peanut also has too much protein for th e cancer patient. Third, it has been found that
a fungus grows on peanuts, which produces aflatoxin. To stimulate cancers in experimental
animals cancer researchers use aflatoxin. Processed Foods
White Flour
All concentrated foods are extremely hard on the li ver and should be given up. White flour and
all products containing white flour should be avoid ed. These are not only concentrated
carbohydrates, but almost always have preservatives  added. Use fresh whole wheat bread, made from wheat grown free of all pesticides (another liver
destroying chemical). The essential vitamins are ox idized within three days at room temperature;
hence the need for grinding only as used. Freshly g round flour or freshly made whole wheat
bread may be safely stored deep in a deep freeze fo r about a week. It is best, however, to use it
within three days. White Sugar
The cancer patient will also want to give up all wh ite sugar and white sugar products. The
concentrated carbohydrates are hard on the liver, b ut more important in relation to cancer


 changes. Maybe I’ve said something that
somebody doesn’t like. Or maybe I’ve exhibited a characteristic that rubs someone the
wrong way. The mood of the room changes. You can feel it in the air. You can feel this
change. It’s palpable and it’s real. All it takes is one participant to have negative feelings for the energy of the room to
change. Sooner or later that participant will say, “I don’t like what’s going on here.” I will
then ask, “What do you think is happening?”  My question often sounds strange to them. I explain that many people have a difficult
time noticing the moment — and so when I ask them what is happening right now, they
don’t know how to answer. So I say to that person, “You said there  is something you don’t like. What do you think is
going on right now?”
They might say, “Well, you’re starting to get real sharp in your tone of voice and very
controlling,” or something like that. So I say, “Is that how you perceive what I’m doing? And ev en if it is what I am doing, so
what?”
“So, I’m not happy,” they’ll repeat again. Right about then I’ll invite them to the front of the room by asking, “Would you like to
heal that?” Often they’ll respond with something like, “Heal what? I’m totally fine. It’s you
who’s acting like an ass.”
The room chuckles and I chuckle (because it happens in every retreat that someone in
the room turns on the facilitator) and then I say, “Well, maybe you can heal me. Would you
be willing to do that? Would you be willing to help me be less of an ass?”
Now even they are smiling. “I guess so,” they may allow. So I say, “Fabulous! Thank you! So let’s try something. Come on up here with me.”
And they do. Warily, I might add. But they do. Because one thing about most people tha t
I’ve met is that they are willing to “play.” Most people are pretty courageous. Most people
are very brave. In fact, you’re like that. You know how I know that you’re like that? Because
you’re reading this book right now. Only a brave person would do tha t. I’m talking about a
person who is emotionally brave. That’s you, or you wouldn’t be looking at the stuff we’re
talking about here. So thanks for being here with me. That’s just what I say to the person who has come to the front of the room, too. I say,
“Thanks for being here with me.” Then I say, “I’m going to ask you now to notice the
moment.”
They usually respond, “I don’t know what that means. What do you mean?”
“I mean, look closely at what’s happening right now, here in the room, while you’re
standing here with me. This is a very safe process. Can I do this with you? Do I have
permission to do this process with you?”
I tell them that it may at some level be revealing or maybe even a tiny bit startling, but it
will not be damaging in any way. If  they say yes, okay, you can run the process, here’s how
it often goes... this is from an actual workshop transcript of my interaction with a lady
who had become a bit put off —annoyed  might be a better word —by my energy:
Me: Are you sure you are willing  to proceed with the process? Retreat Participant:  Yes, I am. Me: Absolutely  sure? Participant:  Yes, I’m absolutely sure. Me: And you won’t get mad at me, no matter what happens, so long as I don’t hurt you —
? Participant:  No, I won’t get mad at you. No mor e mad than I now am. (The room laughs.) Me: Great. So as I talk to you about this process I want you to understand that nothing is
going to happen that... AAAAARG!! RAAAAAHHHH! I yelled  right in her face. I yelled very loud, a foot and a half from her. Less, actually. I got right in her face and
screamed  something... just a sudden sound, an utterance. Of course, she jumped back. She was just blown away, and tears came to her eyes. I gently said, “What happened just now?”
She looked at me as if I were from Mars. She was still weeping a little, and softly shaking. Again I said, very softly, “Notice the moment. What just happened here?”
“You scared me.”
“No, no, no, you scared you. What did I do? You scared you, what did I do?”
“You yelled at me. You move d closer to me and screamed in my face.”
“Okay, what does that look like to you? What exactly occurred? What do you observe  to
have happened as opposed to what your mind is telling you about  what happened? What is
apparent here, as opposed to what you imag ined?”
“I didn’t imagine anything! You stepped right up to me and yelled in my face! You scared
the hell out of me.”
“No, I did not scare you. You scared you. Danger was the Distorted Reality. But what was
the Observed Reality?”
“I don’t understand what you’re driving at. I don’t know what you want me to say.”
“What did you see? What did you observe?”
“A loud voice, a loud sound hit my ear.”
“Good. What else?”
“I felt your breath. You were so close, I felt your breath in my face.”
“Good. N ow we’re getting there. Did I touch you?”
“No.”
“Did I hurt you in any physical way?”
“No.”
“So what happened is that a loud noise reached your ear and you felt breath in your face. Is that what happened?”
“Yes.”
“So what? Why would that be scary? If it startled you for a moment, that’s fair. You hear
a clap of thunder and it startles you, but after the initial start, what about that would cause
you any level of trauma?”
“You don’t get it. You scared the hell out of me.”
“But you started crying. You broke  into tears.”
“Yes! Because you scared the hell out of me!”  “No, you scared you. But let’s not argue the point. Let me ask you this. Have you ever
been startled by thunder —like a bolt of thunder in the night?”
“Yes, of course. I’m sure we all have.”
“Good. And when that happened, did you burst into tears?”
Silence. Then... “No.”
“Okay. So we can establish that being startled for the moment, because something fell or
you heard a clap of thunder or something happened, is normal if you weren’t expecting it. But only a baby actually cries when he hears the thunder —because he doesn’t know what is
happening. You don’t cry when you hear thunder, even if it startles you momentarily. Why? Because you know what is happening. Your mind goes to the apparency of thing s. Not to the
Imagined Truth, but to the Apparent Truth. After the moment of non -expectation has
passed, what would cause you any level of continuing trauma?”
Right about here I began to see the faint light of recognition crossing the retreat
participant’s  face. I went on.... “The continuing trauma that you experience in any moment of Now is stuff that you start
pouring into that moment, instantly, from somewhere else, not from The Here And Now. You reach for something that is not real, such as, for inst ance, ‘yesterday.’ Your mind
knows: My dad did that to me when I was six. You start pouring yesterday into this
moment. Pull the plug out from that tank of data and let them all drain out. Drain the
Moment of Now of yesterday. Can you do that?”
A pause. Th en... “Yes, I think I can —how did you know about my father?”
“It was a guess. It could have been anything. The point is, your mind pulled something
forward out of the past and into This Moment, and it’s that thought that created the
emotion that produce d your experience of being scared as hell. Now, look again at the
moment that just passed, right here in this room. What happened? What did you observe?”
“I observed a loud sound, a loud voice, so loud that it startled me. I observed breath on
my face. I f elt threatened.”
“Good. That’s a good looking. You’re working well. Now tell me, are you afraid of me? Do
you think that I, as the facilitator of this retreat, am likely to hurt you in any way?”
“No. Probably not.”
“Probably  not?”
“Definitely not. You’re n ot going to hurt me.”
“Are you certain about that?”
“Yes.”
“Then why would you feel threatened in any way?”
“Because you remind me of my father, who did hurt me when he yelled like that.”  Here there is a long pause. She noticed this before, but now she rea lly gets it. The whole
room  gets it. Finally