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<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Dry medical Fasting - Myths and Reality
Sergei Ivanovich Filonov
1UDC 615 89 (82)
BBK. 51.20 (2ROC)
C 914
Sergei Ivanovich Filonov
With 914 Dry limotherapy - Myths and Reality
SI Filonov - Barnaul:
Univ Ltd. "Five Plus", 2008, - 336.
ISBN 978-5-9900731-7-3
2A doctor by profession Sergei Filonov in the popular and
accessible form tells of medical starvation, which
engaged in more than 17 years. Hundreds of people marched through starvation to
recovery thanks to recommendations, assistance, surveillance
Dr. Filonov. The book is intended for people willing to
in detail and fully acquainted with the method of fasting,
developed as a result of years of practice and effectiveness
which is confirmed by reviews of patients.
UDC 615 89 (82) Dry limotherapy - Myths and Reality
BBK. 51.20 (2ROC)
ISBN 978-5-9900731-7-3
© SI Filonov, 2008
© Publishing House Ltd. "Five Plus", 2008
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3FROM THE AUTHOR
I was born in the Altai family physicians. My mom and sister
- Children's doctors. Therefore, in my childhood I was constantly confronted
to talk about medicine. It would seem that with such a "history" to me
direct route into medicine. Subsequently, it just happened. But...
All my conscious childhood and adolescence I just raved far
not medicine. I wanted to be, probably, as all of our boys
yard pilot. One day my father and I went skiing.
After the walk we went to friends for tea, and there first
time in my life I saw a man, a cancer patient. He was very
thin and suffered severely from pain. To me it made a very strong
impression. When we arrived home, I asked my mother, really
can not cure this disease? She said: "Unfortunately,
son, in this stage of our medicine yet powerless. "
In eighth grade I accidentally fell into the hands of the book, even now
I do not remember what the name. It describes how talented
healer cure cancer in one man Herbs
and hunger. Hence, the body has reserves and forces capable of
treat such a serious and insidious disease like cancer, I thought.
For every poison in nature must necessarily be an antidote. On
each disease in the body should be strength, healing her. After
Animals in nature do not have hospitals, clinics and doctors. They
guided by their natural natural instincts.
They know better than any herbalists, some grass at the moment
they need, or just beginning to starve. since then I have
more interested in natural ways of healing. I became
read books about fasting, hypnosis, herbs, acupuncture. I'm
more began to understand: a man - a natural pharmacy, it has
All for the treatment of any disease, it is only necessary to their work, patience,
will open and force those natural medicines in
the benefit of the organism.
My decision to enroll in medical school was aware, but I
knew that I would be interested to sit in the clinic and to appoint
tablets. I have to find a specialty and to obtain such knowledge,
by which my future patients would be able to use
its huge hidden opportunities to treat diseases. On
fourth year, I got on supervision of patients with bronchial
asthma. When I went to her house, I saw a blooming woman
with a pink blush on the face and sparkling eyes. On asthma
it is quite a hike. I've wanted to apologize and say,
that mixed ward, but then again asked her name,
name. It turned out - that's exactly it. "You do not be surprised -
she said - that I do not like people with asthma, because I was
twenty-day course of fasting, and now I'm at the exit
from starvation. After the tenth day of fasting I have absolutely
seizures stopped and I stopped using an inhaler. " Her
4
4view, her breath very impressed me. It's one thing to read books
of starvation, and another thing - to see in practice the results of famine.
After that, I definitely decided that necessarily know all about this
wonderful technique and be sure to get to specialize in it.
Best of all, at the time of limotherapy wrote Professor
YS Nikolaev. His book is written with such enthusiasm and faith
in this natural natural method, that after reading it so
and want to starve. Me starve the entire group. We started
fasting on juices, then tried on the water. Of course, then
Most of my group is all abandoned. I liked it
starve before exams - after fasting head becomes
light, clear, memory is very much improved, and most importantly - by
exams went without any disturbances.
After graduating from medical institute I have distributed to the resort
"Goryachinsk", which was located in the Republic of Buryatia on the shore
sacred Lake Baikal. Nature and beauty of these places have bewitched
me, especially energy and severity of Lake Baikal. While working at the resort,
I was fortunate to meet a very interesting person
- Verbulem Vladimir Romanovich. He was a hard
bronchial asthma, it is the first in Buryatia in the home
conditions of hungry twenty-four days. His staff at work
were amazed at the result of fasting, which they
saw. Together, they decided to invite a professor of Buryatia
YS Nikolaev. When the professor came to the republic, they brought
it to us at the resort Goryachinsk. Here and there was my meeting with this
amazing man. Yuri Sergeyevich liked our
resort and nature. He said: "You have the perfect place on Lake Baikal
and conditions for fasting. " He invited
me to come to Moscow to study at an office of RDT (fasting-
dietary therapy). After studying in Moscow, we have opened branch
RTD is hosting at the resort. Of course, it was hard for me to start - our
the staff was skeptical about the starvation and me even for the eyes
called the "hungry doctor." I remember when my first patient
came into the dining room on their way out of starvation, the nutritionist brought
cold salted millet porridge and said "on, eat", he certainly
remember all my advice and waited for me. And if he ate this
cereal? But then, our team, seeing the good results of medical
starvation, was an entirely different attitude to this method, and
Some even took a course of starvation.
After two years alone, I was lucky to go yet
time to specialize in RTD in St. Petersburg to Professor
Coconut Alexey. There I first learned about the absolute
(Dry), fasting and its application in the treatment of diseases. I
were patients undergoing wet starvation, and during
of starvation all the symptoms disappeared, but the output
from starvation of the symptoms returned. For me it was
unpleasant moments. I really thought long, how to strengthen
5
5effectiveness of starvation, while, of course, aware that the
longer period of starvation, the better the result, but, unfortunately,
a time when our treatment has been paid, and not every
could afford to take a serious course of fasting. How could strengthen
effect of starvation in the spa environment? Output I
prompted by my dog??(more detail in Chapter SLG in nature). After
order as it knocked down a motorcycle, she refused, not only from food but also on
water. Seven days later she was lying in a dark shed, and only the eighth
Day began to drink and then eat. I thought - this injury is likely to
edema, she instinctively felt that way, and therefore refused to water
it and saved it. Here, unfortunately, after the fishing I fell through the ice
and had to go on a motorcycle and twenty kilometers. Accordingly,
all was frozen to the bone. All right, but then I got
Acute sinusitis (inflammation of the frontal sinus). The pain was hell when
tilted head down, even tears flowed from the pain.


. 128) is
traditionally taken to
improve the memory.
cramp bark
(Viburnum opulus,
p. 150) relaxes
muscles.mandrake ( Mandragora officinarum, see p. 232). With a forked root that
resembles the human shape, mandrake was credited with great magical
and healing powers. It was recommended by Dioscorides for many
ailments, including sleeplessness and inflammation of the eyes.
 With the collapse of the Roman empire in the 5th century ce, the
debate about how illness arose and how it should be treated shifted to
the East. By the 9th century, Islamic physicians had translated much of Galen’s
work into Arabic, and his ideas affected the development of Arabic medicine
into the Middle Ages, influencing Avicenna (980–1037). Later in the
Middle Ages, Galen’s writings were translated back into Latin from the
Arabic and, for 400 years, his ideas held sway and were diligently applied in
European medical practice. Even in the 16th and 17th centuries, students
in university medical schools were given an academic training in the
principles of the humoral system, as established by Galen. They learned
how to diagnose an imbalance of the humors, and the methods of
restoring equilibrium, primarily bloodletting and purging ( see pp. 23–24).
Printing & Herbal Medicine
The invention of printing in the 15th century changed the face of herbal
medicine in Europe. Before that time, European folk medicine had been
handed down from generation to generation. While some early herbals
were written in Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, and Welsh, for example, for the
most part the tradition was orally based.
 During the following centuries, herbals were published throughout
Europe in different languages, making standardized catalogs of herbs and
their applications accessible to the general public, not just to those who
understood Latin. As literacy rates rose, women in particular used the
advice in the herbals to treat their families. The ancient theory of the four humors holds that four fluids within the body—black bile, phlegm, yellow bile,
and blood—correspond to the four elements (earth, water, air, and fire), the four seasons, and other aspects
of the natural world. Until the 17th century, physicians believed that an imbalance of the humoral system
caused mental and physical illness.Europ E
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34The developmenT  of herbal medicine
In some cases, the printed herbals were written by physicians, and largely
reflected the writings of classical authors such as Dioscorides. In other instances they were based directly on first-hand experience—the English herbals of John Gerard (1597) and Nicholas Culpeper (1652) being
good examples. John Gerard’s The Herball is clearly the work of a horticulturist, rather
than of an herbal practitioner, but is nonetheless a mine of information. The book includes many plants that had been recently brought back to Europe by explorers and traders.
 Culpeper’s The English Physitian has been widely used as a practical
reference book ever since its publication. It is a rich blend of personal
and practical experience, traditional European medicine, and astrological thought. Each herb is assigned a “temperature,” a use within the humoral system, and a ruling planet and star sign. Like Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica, it has the merit of being based on close observation and extensive experience in the use of herbal medicines.
Foreign Herbs & Synthesized Drugs
The growing use of foreign herbs in the 17th century prompted heated
debate about the relative value of indigenous European herbs, but for the majority of the population this was irrelevant as the imported herbs were well out of their price range. In the end, it created a rift in herbal medicine. Poor and rural peoples used locally available herbs, while affluent city-dwellers and aristocrats purchased plants of foreign origin, prescribed
by university-trained physicians. By the beginning of the 18th century, approximately 70 percent of plant medicines stocked by European apothecaries were imported. Over time, this city-based herbalism evolved into conventional scientific medicine, which in turn rejected its herbal roots and regarded plant medicines as inferior. Once conventional medicine established its monopoly of practice—in
most European countries by the end of the 19th century—it became (and in many cases still remains) illegal to practice herbalism without medical certification. In Greece, traditional herbalists, known as komboyannites, were persecuted, and the word itself became an insult meaning “trickster”
or “quack.” In France and Italy, experienced traditional herbalists were imprisoned for providing treatment to their patients. The renaissance in herbal medicine that has occurred in the last 40 years offers hope that official censure will change.
Modern Practitioners
The pattern of herbal medicine
across Europe today is remarkably varied, but a common thread runs through the different traditions and practices. Most European herbalists use orthodox methods of diagnosis, looking for signs of infection and inflammation, for example. However, most also try to establish a broad, holistic picture, placing the illness in the context of the patient’s life as a whole. Herbalists then choose plant medicines and recommend suitable Blackberry (Rubus
fruticosus, p. 264) is  a cleansing, diuretic plant that was recommended by classical physicians.
Marshmallow
(Althaea officinalis,  p. 165) is a soothing remedy for gastritis and irritable bowel syndrome. The ancient Greek physician Pliny extolled the plant  as a cure-all.
Milk thistle
(Silybum marianum,  p. 137) protects the liver from damage.
Elderflower
(Sambucus nigra,  p. 132) helps to relieve hay fever.
Sage (Salvia officinalis,
p. 131) was considered a cure-all in medieval times.Fresh rosemary
Marshmallow flowers
Milk thistle capsules
Healers in medieval Europe frequently sought to
restore physical imbalance with bloodletting, purges, and preparations that caused vomiting.
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dietary and lifestyle changes that will
allow the body’s self-regenerating
powers—the modern equivalent of the
“vital spirit”—to establish good health
once again. Recovery may take longer
than it would if treated with conventional
medicine, but relief is generally enduring
and free from side effects.
    A patient with a stomach ulcer, for
example, may be treated with a variety
of herbs such as meadowsweet
(Filipendula ulmaria, p. 98), German
chamomile ( Chamomilla recutita, p. 77),
marshmallow ( Althaea officinalis, p. 165),
and deadly nightshade ( Atropa belladonna,
p. 69) to soothe inflammation, astringe,
and protect the inner lining of the stomach,
and reduce excess acid production. In
addition, herbal practitioners also address
poor dietary habits, bad posture, and stress—which are all conditions that
may have undermined the body’s healing ability. Problems such as these
are reversed with herbs to relieve stress, a diet rich in non-acidic
vegetables and fruits, and exercise.
Popular Herbs
In European herbal medicine, native herbs are still highly popular. Alpine
plants such as arnica ( Arnica montana, p. 172) and pulsatilla ( Anemone
pulsatilla, p. 168) are much used in Swiss, German, Italian, and French herbal
medicine, while comfrey ( Symphytum officinale, p. 138) is particularly well
liked in Britain. There has also been a surge in demand for exotic herbs. The
Chinese ginkgo tree ( Ginkgo biloba, p. 100), which improves circulation of
blood to the head and helps the memory, is now cultivated in vast plantations
in France, and has been a bestselling medicine in Germany for over 20 years.
European Traditions & the Future
Sales of over-the-counter herbal medicines in Europe have continued to
increase over the last two decades, though the reasons for this growth
vary widely.
 It is possibly a reaction to the over-reliance on drug treatment in
conventional medicine. Sound advice on a healthy diet and lifestyle,
including food herbs, such as turmeric ( Curcuma longa, p. 90), might well
prove more beneficial than conventionally prescribed drugs in helping
an aging population to stay healthy for longer.
 Nevertheless, in several European countries herbal medicines are
routinely prescribed, offering doctors a choice of gentle-acting
treatments for chronic and more minor health problems. In Germany and
Poland, herbal medicines can be frontline treatments for digestive disorders
and chronic problems such as arthritis. This approach leaves conventional
drug treatments available for more acute or serious conditions.
 In contrast, a barely reported trend is that more and more people are
growing medicinal plants. There seems to be a desire to rediscover the
magic of cultivating and harvesting plants, and involving them (as food and
medicine) in one’s daily life.Hawthorn (Crataegus
oxyacantha, p. 87)
has a marked tonic
effect on the heart.
Cowslip (


 employed in European herbal medicine
today. Its main use is as a cough remedy, with
properties similar to those of sundew ( Drosera
rotundifolia, p. 203), another insect-eating plant.
Butterwort may be used to treat chronic and
convulsive coughs.
Related Species The similar P. grandiflora,
native to the Pyrenees, has been used to treat
spasmodic coughs.
 QCaution T ake butterwort only under
professional supervision.may be taken for asthma, bronchitis, and other
respiratory infections, and for digestive disorders
such as gas. Scots pine branches and stems yield
a thick resin, which is also antiseptic within the
respiratory tract. The seeds yield an essential oil
with diuretic and respiratory-stimulant properties.
Cautions Do not use Scots pine if prone to
allergic skin reactions. Do not take the essential oil
internally except under professional supervision.Anise seeds’ antispasmodic properties make
them helpful in countering period pain, asthma,
whooping cough, and bronchitis. The seeds’
expectorant action justifies their use for these
respiratory ailments. Anise seeds are thought
to increase breast-milk production and may be
beneficial in treating impotence and frigidity. Anise
essential oil is used for similar complaints, and is
also used externally to treat lice and scabies.
Research Anise essential oil has been shown to
have significant antifungal activity, including against
Candida albicans.
Cautions Do not take anise essential oil
internally except under professional supervision.
Do not take anise during
pregnancy, except in amounts
normally used in cooking.
Self-help Uses Acidity &
indigestion, p. 307; Digestive
upsets, gas & colic, p. 318;
Stomach spasm, p. 305; Gas
& bloating, p. 306.
Anise seeds, which
benefit digestion, are
harvested when ripe
in autumn.Scots pine leaves, seeds, and oil have a mildly antiseptic
effect within the respiratory and urinary tracts.
SeedsPinus sylvestris (Pinaceae)
Scots Pine
Description Coniferous tree growing to
100 ft (30 m). Has reddish-brown bark, pairs of
fine, needle-like leaves, yellowish buds in winter,
and oval to conical cones.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to mountainous
regions of Europe and north and west Asia, Scots
pine is now found throughout the northern
hemisphere. The leaves are gathered in summer.
The stems are usually harvested when the tree
is felled.
Parts Used Leaves, branches, stems, seeds,
essential oil.
Constituents The leaves of Scots pine contain
a volatile oil (consisting mainly of alpha-pinene),
resin, and bitter principles.
History & Folklore Pine oil is added to
disinfectants and other preparations. The distilled
resin produces turpentine.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Scots pine leaves,
taken internally, have a mildly antiseptic effect within
the chest, and may also be used for arthritic and
rheumatic problems. Essential oil from the leaves Piper angustifolia (Piperaceae)
Matico
Description Perennial shrub reaching 23 ft (7 m).
Has deeply veined aromatic lance-shaped leaves,
spikes of tiny yellow flowers, and small black fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation Matico is native to
mountainous regions of Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador.
It is found in the wild and widely cultivated in these
and other countries in tropical South America. The
leaves are gathered throughout the year.
Parts Used Leaves.
Constituents Matico contains a volatile oil
(including camphor, borneol, and azulene),
alkaloids, tannins, mucilage, and resins.
History & Folklore Matico was and is
used by Andean and Amazonian people as a
wound-healing remedy and urinary antiseptic.
European settlers learned of it in the19th century
and it became an official drug in some South
American pharmacopoeias.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Matico is an
aromatic stimulant, diuretic, and astringent used
extensively for gastric and intestinal problems,
including peptic ulcers, diarrhea and dysentery.
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other medicinal plantsPiP er betle
It is commonly used in South American herbal
medicine for internal bleeding, particularly within the digestive tract—for example, rectal bleeding and hemorrhoids. It is also taken for bleeding in the urinary tract. Applied externally, a decoction  of matico makes a valuable remedy for minor wounds, sore and inflamed skin, and insect bites and stings. The decoction may also be used as either a mouthwash or a douche.
Piper betle (Piperaceae)
Betel
Description Slender climbing vine growing to
16 ft (5 m). Has heart-shaped leaves, tiny yellow-green flowers, and small spherical fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation Betel is native to
Malaysia and southern India. It is widely cultivated in much of southern Asia, East Africa and Madagascar, and the Caribbean. The leaves are gathered throughout the year and dried for extracts or  to use whole.Habitat & Cultivation Native to
southwestern India, pepper is now cultivated in tropical areas around the world. The fruit is harvested from plants that are at least 3 years old. Green peppercorns are picked unripe and pickled,
black peppercorns are picked unripe and dried,
red peppercorns are picked ripe and dried, and
white peppercorns are picked ripe and soaked  in water for 8 days before drying.the incidence of cancer of the mouth and tongue. Ironically, the habit of chewing betel leaves is now giving way in many regions to cigarette smoking.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Betel leaves
are chiefly used as a gentle stimulant, since they apparently induce a mild sensation of well-being. They also affect the digestive system, stimulating salivary secretions, relieving flatulence, and preventing worm infestation. In many Asian traditions, including Ayurvedic medicine, betel leaves are thought to have aphrodisiac and nerve tonic properties. In Chinese herbal medicine,  betel root, leaves, and fruit are sometimes used  as a mild tonic and stomach-settling herb. The  root has been used with black pepper (P. nigrum,  below) or jequirity (Abrus precatorius, p. 158)  to produce sterility in women.
Caution The observed increase in the occurrence
of oral cancers in regular users makes it unwise to chew betel.
Parts Used Leaves, root, fruit.
Constituents Betel leaves contain up to
1% volatile oil (including cadinene, chavicol, chavibetol and cineole). As with many volatile oils, the percentages are variable. Malaysian samples have been shown to contain up to 69% chavibetol.
History & Folklore Betel leaves, wrapped
around areca nut (Areca catechu) and lime  (Citrus aurantiifolia), are known to have been chewed in India and Southeast Asia for several thousand years. Betel leaves are described in the Mahavasama, the most ancient Sri Lankan text. Chewing quickly produces a red-stained saliva and does not, despite what is commonly thought, lead to blackened teeth. However, long-term use of betel leaves and areca nut is considered to increase Betel leaves, traditionally chewed with areca nut and lime,
give a mild sensation of well-being.Pepper, here drying after the harvest, is still highly valued both medicinally and in cooking.
Parts Used Fruit, essential oil.
Constituents Pepper contains a volatile
oil (including beta-bisabolene, camphene, beta-
caryophyllene, and many other terpenes and sesquiterpenes), up to 9% alkaloids (especially piperine, which is largely responsible for the  herb’s acrid taste), about 11% proteins, and  small quantities of minerals.
History & Folklore Cultivated as a spice and
a medicine since ancient times, pepper was a vital commodity in world trade for thousands of years. Attila the Hun is reputed to have demanded
3,000 lb (1,360 kg) of pepper as ransom during  his siege of the city of Rome (408 ce).
Medicinal Actions & Uses The familiar sharp
taste of pepper reflects the stimulant and antiseptic effect it has on the digestive tract and the circulatory system. Pepper is commonly taken to warm the body, or to improve digestive function in cases  of nausea, stomachache, flatulence, bloating, constipation, or lack of appetite. The essential oil eases rheumatic pain and toothache. It is antiseptic and antibacterial, and reduces fever.
Research Piperine, the main active constituent
within black pepper, has significant therapeutic benefits, with a 2012 research paper listing "immunomodulatory, antioxidant, antiasthmatic, anticarcinogenic, anti-inflammatory, antiulcer and antiamebic properties." Piperine appears to aid the absorption of


	crab	knows	that	it’s	time	to	march	hundreds	of	miles	to
shore,	and	on	one	single	moonlit	night	millions	of	horseshoe	crabs	appear	at
once.	Amazing.
“Sending	that	impulse	is	what
something
	is	doing.	It
	holds	life	together.
That’s	its	job.	But	now	we	can	stop	calling	it
something,
”	said	Baba.	“Once
you	know	what	the	invisible	force	does,	you	can	call	it	by	its	rightful	name.”
“Which	is	what?”	I	asked.
“The	soul.”
W
HAT
	I	L
EARNED
People	have	millions	of	things	to	say	about	the	soul,	but	Baba	focused	on	just
one:	The	soul	is	the	glue	of	the	universe.	It’s	not	just	sticky	glue;	it’s
intelligent.	The	universe	is	held	together	in	three	invisible	ways:
Everything	is	connected.
Everything	looks	out	for	everything	else.
Everything	is	in	harmony	with	the	whole.
Your	body	is	a	living	example	of	how	these	three	things	work.	A	single	cell
that	isn’t	connected,	that	selfishly	looks	out	only	for	itself,	and	that	refuses	to
be	in	harmony	with	the	whole	turns	into	a	cancer.	One	rogue	cell	among
billions	is	enough	to	destroy	the	entire	scheme	of	life.	The	body’s	intelligence
breaks	down,	and	that	is	far	more	devastating	than	physical	harm.	Fortunately,
such	runaway	cells	are	very	uncommon,	less	than	one	in	a	million,	and	the
huge	majority	of	these	rogues	do	not	survive.	The	body’s	inner	intelligence
knows	exactly	how	life	should	be	regulated	for	maximum	survival.
Baba	didn’t	say	that	the	invisible	glue	must	be	called	the	soul.	Other	terms
have	come	down	through	the	ages:	spirit,	God,	the	divine	spark,	the	breath	of
life.	Often	I	use	the	word
essence
.	When	you	reduce	anything	to	its	purest
form,	you	have	its	essence.	An	armful	of	roses	can	be	reduced	to	half	an
ounce	of	pure	rose	essence.	There	are	billions	of	people	living	totally	different
lives.	Yet	soul	or	spirit	is	the	purest	part	of	being	alive,	no	matter	who	youare.	It’s	your	essence.
It’s	strange	that	this	essence	is	so	hard	to	find.	When	we	go	around	looking
for	it,	we’re	like	fish	looking	everywhere	for	water	but	never	seeming	to	find
it.	I	imagine	the	first	fish	to	discover	water	happened	to	jump	out	of	the
ocean.	Maybe	a	shark	was	chasing	it,	and	the	fish	got	desperate.	When	it
splashed	back	into	the	sea,	the	fish	had	a	thrilling	moment	of
Aha!
	So	that’s
where	the	water	is.	I’ve	been	swimming	in	it	all	my	life	and	never	knew
.
That’s	what	Baba	did	for	me.	Like	a	fish	splashing	back	into	the	sea,	I
discovered	that	I’d	been	living	with	spirit,	inside	and	out,	all	my	life.	It’s
everywhere,	making	sure	that	everything	is	connected.	The	light	from	a	star
billions	of	light-years	away	is	the	same	light	that	makes	plants	grow	here	on
Earth.	The	plants	give	food;	the	food	allowed	you	to	develop	in	your	mother’s
womb;	and	today	you	look	at	those	stars	with	the	eyes	that	the	stars	gave	you.
There’s	the	cosmic	connection.
Did	you	know	that	with	every	breath	you	breathe,	you
	take	in	millions	of
atoms	breathed	out	yesterday	by	someone	in	China?	Those	atoms	were	in
another	body	circulating	in	the	blood	or	building	a	cell	or	perhaps	making	a
baby	Without	knowing	it,	you	are	connected	to	a	baby	who	hasn’t	even	been
born	yet.	The	water	in	your	body	has	the	same	salt	and	mineral	content	as	the
ocean,	which	means	you	are	carrying	the	ocean	around	inside	you.	The	skin
cells	that	you	rubbed	off	with	a	towel	this	morning	when	you	stepped	out	of
the	shower	contain	molecules	that	were	once	in	the	body	of	Jesus	and	Buddha
and	every	other	holy	figure	from	the	past.
So	rejoice	in	the	cosmic	connection.	See	yourself	on	a	beautiful	spring	day
You	are	full	of	new	life	and	energy	The	day	feels	perfect.	Inside	you	a	spark	is
gleaming,	and	you	suddenly	know	for	sure	that	you	are	alive	in	a	world	that	is
your	home.	At	that	moment	you	are	truly	tuned	in.	Baba	taught	me	never	to
forget	that	feeling	of	being	connected	to	everything.
And	he	was	just	getting	started.Soul	Training
L
et’s	move!”	Baba	said,	jumping	to	his	feet.	The	old	man	had	been	sitting	so
still	in	his	cross-legged	pose	that	he	seemed	to	be	planted	in	the	earth	like	the
twisted	tree	itself.	Now	I	had	to	run	to	catch	up	with	him.
“You’re	going	into	training,”	he	called	over	his	shoulder.
“What	kind	of	training?”	I	asked.	He	was	taking	me	to	a	green	meadow	that
fringed	the	woods.
“The	best	kind,”	he	said.	“Soul	training.	Not	many	can	teach	it,	so	you	must
be	very,	very	lucky.	Did	you	know	you	were	that	lucky?”
“Not	really.”	I	wasn’t	sure	if	he	was	teasing	me.
Baba	found	a	spot	in	the	middle	of	the	meadow	and	looked	around.	“This	is
good,”	he	said.	“Lie	down	right	there.”
I	got	flat	on	my	back	in	the	tall	grass,	wondering	what	would	come	next.
“Now	gaze	at	the	sky,”	said	Baba.	“Do	you	see	the	sun?”
“Sure.”	With	the	morning	mist	burned	away,	the	sun	was	right	above	me.
Baba	took	his	hands	and	placed	them	over	my	eyes.	“Now	can	you	see	the
sun?”	he	asked.
“No,	of	course	not.”
“Session	over,”	he	said,	looking	pleased,	as	if	I	had	done	something
extremely	promising.
I	protested.	“What	kind	of	training	was	that?	Nothing	happened.”
Baba	was	always	happiest	when	he	had	me	a	little	off	balance—I	was
learning	that	quick	enough.	He	said,	“When	you	cover	your	eyes,	you	can’t
see	the	sun,	but	you	still	know	it’s	there.	Nothing	has	happened	to	it,	right?”“So	far,”	I	said.
“If	the	sun	went	behind	a	cloud	for	weeks	or	months,	you’d	still	know	that
you	were	connected	to	it,”	he	said.	I	agreed.	“The	same	is	true	for	the	soul.
Just	because	you	hide	it	doesn’t	mean	it	stops	existing.	Be	prepared,”	he	said.
“Let’s	see	if	we	can	move	some	clouds.”
Baba	reached	down	and	made	the	same	motion	of	putting	his	hands	over	my
eyes,	only	this	time	he	put	them	over	my	heart.
Hold	on,
	I	thought.
With	a	bold	flourish	he	took	his	hands	away.	Before	I	could	think	anything,	I
felt	a	coolness	blow	over	me.	I
	looked	around.	The	meadow	was	rippling	with
soft	waves	of	light.	They	se


gluttonous, promiscuous Primal Horde is only held down by social
censure, by the primitive law of an eye for an eye, and today, law and censure in themselves are being dismantled in a rising, officially backed opportunism. We have all become petty criminals,
and no longer much troubled by the fact.
This turn of events is not only disastrous in its inhuman
consequences, but is irrational, for the most elementary lesson that biology should have to teach is th at nature not only favours the fit
and eliminates the unfit, but rewards only the fit, mercilessly punishing the unfit. This does not depend on any ulterior meaning or morality in the working of nature. It is a purely practical,
indispensable provision in the functioning of things. If reward and punishment are not a built-in provision, as fundamental as the
particular ways in which atoms combine with one another to form
the myriad substances of nature and of living things, the whirling
clouds of hydrogen gas, which appeared at the beginning of the universe some fifteen billion years ago, would still be whirling around, having accomplished nothing.
Modern existentialism has been the work of thinkers with no
scientific training. Scientists, biol ogists in particular, could easily
dismantle their systems; their guilt should be that so few of them have had the courage to speak out against the falsities of so many of the widely advertised and accepted conclusions of the age. Accepting that nature works on the principles of rewards and
punishments, it should be evident that the modern opportunist,
existentialistic attitudes cannot possi bly bring genuine gratification.
If there are apparent pleasures in the purely random ways in which people live, then they can but amount to illusions, certain to carry a backwash of retribution. The impartial examination of any aspect of
modern living shows this to be true, whether it be politics or sex,
medicine or feeding. The apparent rewards of power invariably bring with them the attendants of insensitivity, and the joys of so
called freedom in sex disappointments and painfulness. The trouble is that so hollow has life become, that people will not face the emptiness of the only rewards to livi ng which they believe exist, the
pleasures of the palate, of the bed, of money, of material gadgetry
and power, of the bogus communalism of urban living, of the mechanically expressed restlessness of the disturbed modern soul.
So it is that most people would probably contend that the
satisfactions of the ordinary life, admitting that they involve many
departures from normality, are worth the while, the price worth
paying, if indeed there is a price at all. Almost everyone believes that it is not all that important what one eats, as long as one has variety and amount enough. There has to be something very wrong with a meal for one to be punished with a stomach ache. Uncomplainingly, the body accepts the legions of daily
transgressions of a lesser kind without protest. When catastrophe
eventually occurs—and many a ppear to escape altogether—in a
burst blood vessel, in a seizing arthritic joint, the long abuse of natural law seems quite inappare nt. Bad luck, accident, nature's
inherent imperfections seem the more likely causes.
But if the majority are the victims of such confusion, it seems
hardly believable that science, and medicine in particular, do not more frequently protest against the common waywardness. Over the past two or three decades, the ev idence has been mounting, enough
to leave no doubt that man's misfortunes are largely self-inflicted, by carelessness, by greed, by stupidity, and that the price paid in
suffering is astronomical. Science clearly serves the particular
culture in which it exists; it is no independent impartial overseer.
The common assumption that disease is 'natural' and naturally
inevitable, the consequences of a wayward and imperfect nature, to
be remedied only by human interference, is at the heart of much of
the confusion. One must admit that nature is not perfect, but nature
does quite often achieve perfection, even if to appreciate the refinements of this perfection, one has to go beyond the realm of appearances, as science has discovered. As insisted upon in the
course of this book, humanization must have occurred initially under ideal conditions, even if things went wrong subsequently.
Health and happiness should therefore be natural possibilities,
provided the original humanizing conditions can be restored.
For transgressions which have recurrently occurred in the
history of life, the cataclysms of climate and food change, of earth movements, of floodings and dessi cations, living things have an
inexhaustible reservoir of experience to call upon. Given time,
readaptation to change follows, a nd the animal survives. But if the
transgression is unnatural, as in the case of laboratory or industrial products, there is not only a complete absence of past experience to be drawn upon, but no symptom of distress following the ingestion of such substances, for symptoms  to some offending agent take
millions of years to evolve. So it is that the causes of the most
terrible, life-destroying diseases remain ignored, and syptomless, calling for no readjustments, until the body is literally overwhelmed, as is the case in many cancers.
Today, every contact with the environment is contaminated
with such unnatural substances. A re cent attempt to draw up a list of
such substances ran into tens of thousands. Every year, hundreds are
being added. The official attitude  to such a dangerous situation—
that a substance cannot be conde mned until it is proved harmful—
shows a complete disdain of biological principles. Those relying on this test are mostly guilty men, often aware of the harm ultimately
likely, but more concerned with  expediency than with human
wholeness.
It is often contended that the situation cannot be as bad as the
pessimists claim, for has not the human life span been extensively
increased, and are not many, once crippling diseases conquered?
Medical and scientific journalists, often not scientists themselves,
are in the habit of hinting that such achievements are thanks to science's conquest over nature's natural infirmities, implying that the 'natural' life-span has been extended,  that a naturally sick nature has
been corrected. This is biological nonsense. Every species of animal
has a genetically set life-span, a setti ng closely related to its rate of
growth. If this correlation is applied to man, the most slowly
developing of all creatures, then the human life-span should be well over a hundred years. All that science has in fact achieved is the removal of unsanitary conditions and the control of diseases inherent in such conditions. The unhealthiness of Ice Age
Palaeolithic humans can be seen in the pathological torturings of
their bones, but the worst ravag es of unhealthiness probably only
came with the urbanization of livi ng, in the earliest civilizations.
There are hints that when the Ice Ages ended, and before the rise of
the first civilizations, human beings lived long, whole lives, a length which has not been fully recovered. There are still isolated
peasantries in which many indivi duals live well over the century.
Quite recently, as the functional collapse intensifies in soaringly degenerative diseases, the cancers and heart diseases in particular, there has been a dip in the life- span. Far from confidence in the
apparent successes of science and medicine, there should be alarm,
for while the diseases that have b een corrected, due to pathogenic
organisms, only affect individuals, the degenerative diseases entail a
definite genetic impoverishment. Here again, one is faced with a barrage of propaganda,
optimistic and pontifical, that some  success has been achieved, that
cancers can be cured. But for one case surviving a number of years
after operation and treatment, dozens die, for all the vast agitations
of worldwide research. Some cancers undoubtedly begin quite locally, as in the case of radiation damage, and if removed in time, survival is assured. But in most cases, the localized appearance of a
cancer is only a stage in what is a general underlying pathology, involving the entire body, so evident in the leukaemias. Medicine
has yet to admit that most diseases of such a nature are not
localized, but entail a failure of the entire organism, an admission which would entail a revolution in medical philosophy, away from its present mechanical concepts, to more holistic ones. There are at the moment indications that something in this direction is
happening, in the admission that exercise and diet are the best ways
of preventing heart attacks, that years of over-eating are likely to
end in diabetes, and that possibly the best if not the only way of combating many kinds of cancer is through the body's own abilities to react. But evidently, before ther e can be a real change of heart,
there has to be a fundamental change  in ideology, in the world-view
of science, in its attitudes to man and nature, and judging the slowness of progress in this dir ection, one can be excused for
doubting that there is sufficient survival time.

14. Food Fit for Humans

Basing oneself on the humanizing aesthetic criteria, and making use
of the scientific evidence that co mplies with them, one can define
the ideal human diet as one beautiful and refreshing, consisting of
fruits in abundance, of seeds a nd nuts, of cereals and tender shoots
and leaves, of flowers, eaten in


 nuts for
decorating.
Layer the meringue circles with the cream, sprinkling every cream layer
with the coarsely chopped hazelnuts. Cover the top with a thin layer of the
cream. Peal the tangerines and separate them into segments. Decorate the
top with the segments of tangerines and the 10-15 whole hazelnuts.
Refrigerate.
Peanut butter pie
6 eggs
2 tablespoons of butter
1 cup of peanut butter
2 cups of carrot pulp left after juicing carrots (you can use winter squash as a
substitute, peelit and chop very finely)
'ls cup of honey
1 cup of ground almonds
2 large cooking apples
a handful of raisins Peel the apples, cut them into small pieces and place them into a greased
baking dish. Sprinkle the raisins on top of the apples.
In a blender put the rest of the ingredients and blend well. Put the mixture
on top of the apples. Smooth the top and bake at 150°C for 40-50 minutes.
Russian custard
for one person:
2 eggyolks
%-i teaspoon of honey
multiply the ingredients for the number of people to be served.
Russian Custard can be used instead of cream on fruit or you can serve it
on its own with some chopped nuts on the top or pieces of fruit. It can also
be used instead of cream in making cakes. Separate the eggyolks from the
whites, add the honey and whip the mixture until it goes thick and almost
white. As well as being a delicious desert, it provides very good nutrition.
Get your eggs from a source you trust. Free range organic eggs are the best.
Apple sauce
5-6 large cooking apples
72 cup butter
1-2 cups water
1-2 cups honey
Peel and core the apples, cut them into pieces and cook in a pan with the
water until soft. Take off the heat and add butter. Cool down, mash and
sweeten with honey.
You can make pear sauce the same way though you may not need to add
honey, as pears are naturally very sweet.
This sauce will keep well in the refrigerator and can be served with some
yoghurt, chopped nuts, Russian custard or on its own.
Birthday cake
Make an apple sauce from 5-6 large cooking apples and cool it down. Make
it quite sweet as the pastry of the cake is not going to be sweetened. You can
make a pear sauce instead of apple.
Separate yolks and whites of 6 eggs into two large bowls. Whip the yolks
until thick and light in colour. Whip the whites until firm and no longer runny. Combine the two and add 2 cups of ground almonds. Mix well. Bake
in a cake tin lined with greased baking paper for 40 minutes to 1 hour at a
temperature of 150°C (300°F). Test with a dry knife whether it is cooked
inside (the knife will come out dry if the cake is ready). Depending on the
oven the baking time may vary. When ready allow the cake to cool down.
Now the fun part starts. With a long knife cut off the top of the cake
making sure that this layer is no more than 1 cm thick. Put it aside for using
as the top of your cake later. Using a table spoon carefully spoon out the
inside of the cake in medium sized chunks into a separate dish leaving just
an outside shell, which will look like a dish ready to be filled. Fill it up with
layers of your apple sauce (or pear sauce), frozen raspberries, chopped
nuts and chunks of cake, which you spooned out before. Here you can
really improvise by using different berries, stoned cherries, pieces of soft
fresh fruit, chopped nuts and seeds (sesame, poppy, and sunflower). When
the "cake dish" is filled, cover it with the top layer you removed earlier.
Spread the remaining apple sauce on and decorate. To decorate you can
use fresh fruit, berries, nuts and desiccated coconut. After decorating is
done, put the cake into the refrigerator. It is best to make this cake the day
before the party so it has the time to "mature" over night.
This is the basic recipe. You can improvise by adding seeds, chopped nuts,
grated carrot or pumpkin into the pastry before baking, filling it with different
combinations of fruit and berries, and decorating it any way you like.
Children like to be involved in decorating. Any of the decorating ingredients,
which I have mentioned before, are optional depending on your family's sen
sitivities. These are fruit, berries, nuts, seeds, fresh mint leaves and coconut.
Ice-cream
Buy in advance some very ripe bananas (with brown spots on the skin),
peal them and put in the freezer. On a day when you want to make the ice
cream, get these frozen bananas out and leave them in the room for about
30 minutes to slightly defrost. Blend them in a food processor. Add a little
bit of water to make a good creamy consistency. You can blend in some
fresh or frozen berries, pieces of fruit, desiccated or fresh coconut to the
mixture and some coarsely chopped nuts to make different flavours.
Fresh coconut
When you are buying a coconut, make sure that the shell has no cracks or
any other damage to it. Put the nut close to your ear and shake it. If the coconut is healthy, you will hear its juice splashing inside. When a coconut
is damaged and its juice has leaked out, then it will be rancid and unsuit
able to eat.
When you bring your coconut home, the fun bit starts. You will need a
screwdriver and a hammer. At the top of the coconut there are three round
dots. Push your screwdriver through 2 of those dots to make 2 holes. Drain
the juice through one of the holes allowing the air to get inside through the
other hole. The juice is very nourishing and can be used in cooking or
drunk as it is. It should have a fresh sweet taste. If the juice tastes rancid,
then there is no point in cracking your coconut, it will be unsuitable to eat.
After draining the juice crack the shell with the hammer and separate the
pulp from the shell. Rinse the pulp with the water to wash off any small bits
of shell. There are number of ways to eat it:
• Cut the pulp into small pieces and eat it as it is. It has a very pleasant
sweet taste.
• Grind it in your food processor to make sweets (next recipe).
• Put the pulp through your juicer to produce a thick coconut cream,
which can be diluted with water to make a delicious coconut milk. The
cream and milk can be added to your cooking, used as a dressing for
fruit and vegetable salads, as a cream for cakes or a replacement for
custard.
• Mince the coconut pulp to use in your baking, home made ice-cream
and other desserts, soups, stews, salads and sauces.
A word of caution for children and adults with diarrhoea. Coconut is
very fibrous and may make the diarrhoea worse, so initially I suggest
putting the coconut through a juicer, which would separate the fibre from
the rest of it. This way you can enjoy the freshly made coconut milk and
cream, getting all the good nutrition from them without the fibre.
Coconut sweets
1 medium-size coconut
1 cup of dried fruit (can be any of the following: dried apricots, figs,
dates or raisins, or a mixture of them. Make sure they are not
sorbated or coated in starch)
1 cup of sesame seeds or ground almonds
Soak the dried fruit for 6-8 hours. Drain. Make two holes in the coconut and drain the liquid. Put the liquid
through a fine sieve and reserve for the recipe.
Shell the coconut and rinse the pulp to wash away small bits of shell. Cut
the coconut pulp into pieces small enough to put through your grinder or
juicer.
Grind the coconut pulp with the dried fruit. Mix well in your food pro
cessor or by hand. If the mixture is too dry, add some liquid from the
coconut, which you have reserved.
With your hands roll small balls from the mixture and coat them in
sesame seeds or ground almonds. Place on a large plate and refrigerate.
9. Egg-free recipes
Eggs are used in baking as a binder to keep all the other ingredients
together. Some children have a true allergy to eggs and have to avoid them.
The following ingredients will act as a binder in your baking instead of
eggs.
• Gelatine, well dissolved in a small amount of hot water;
• Pumpkin, baked and mashed;
• Butternut squash and other winter squashes (acorn, turban, hubbard,
spaghetti), baked and mashed;
• Banana, mashed;
• Apple, baked and mashed or made into an apple souse;
• Pear, baked and mashed or made into a sauce;
• Zucchini (marrow or courgettes), baked, mashed and drained of
excess liquid.
Egg-free hreadlcake/muffin mixture
2 cups of ground nuts (almonds, cashews, walnuts, hazels, etc.)


 began to suffer from headaches followed by vomiting. A CAT scan showed a brain
tumor, and the patient was taken to Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis, for brain surgery.
The surgeon removed what he could, but found that some of the tumor was too close to a major
blood vessel and could only be cauterized.
Subsequently N.K. had annual checkups. When she turned 13, an MRI (Magnetic Resonance
Imaging) showed a recurrence. The doctor said that at this early stage he could not operate, but
N.K.’s mother felt unable to just sit by and wait for her daughter’s brain tumor to grow. She found
out about the Gerson treatment and in 1990 the patient and her mother came to the Mexican
hospital. Due to the demanding routine of the Gerson Therapy with the need for hourly juices,
N.K. could not go to school, so her mother home schooled her. Also, doing her enemas, the patient
did a great deal of reading. First she read the classics, then she studied mathematics, and finally
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www.thegersonway.comphilosophy. By the time she took her SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test), she was not only free from
her tumor, but also scored extremely high on her test.
When her surgeon examined her new X-rays, he could not understand how it was possible for
N.K. to have no more malignancy, since he knew that he had left some tumor tissue in place at the
time of her operation. Her fine motor skills were also perfectly restored, so much so that she was
even able to play the violin.
Last report: N.K. continues fit and well; at 26 she is married and has a family. She graduated
from college “Magna cum Laude.”
Nicotine Addiction
A.C.  started to smoke cigarettes aged 17. She looked barely fifteen and hoped that smoking
would make her look more grown-up. At first she hated the smell and taste of cigarettes, but
quickly got hooked on them, and was still smoking 35 years later, when she went down with
malignant melanoma.
When she discovered the Gerson Therapy and decided to go to the Mexican Gerson Hospital,
her main worry was the need to manage without smoking once she got there. It had been made
clear to her that if she tried to smoke just one cigarette, she would be sent home at once. Having
tried, and failed, to stop smoking more times than she cared to remember, A.C. felt very anxious
indeed.
As soon as she arrived at the hospital, she found herself embroiled in the full intensive
program—one juice after another, enema training, meals, instructions, meeting other patients took
up every waking minute. What with all this activity, it took A.C. almost two whole days to realize
that she had neither smoked nor missed her lifetime habit. The real shock came a few hours later,
when in the garden of the hospital she met a visitor who was smoking. To her amazement A.C.
found the smoke highly offensive and quickly walked past the smoker. She suffered no serious
withdrawal symptoms, but it took several weeks for the extremely unpleasant accumulated
residue of her smoking years to evaporate through her skin and hair. She never looked back,
and—incidentally—also recovered from her melanoma.
Esophageal Cancer
It is important to remember that beside the most common malignancies, namely cancer of the
breast, prostate and colon, which respond so well to the Gerson Therapy, the same treatment is
just as effective in healing rare cancers. To illustrate this, we present the case history of K.G.
Born in 1953, this man was a taxidermist living in Arizona. He was health-conscious and
adopted a careful lifestyle: he didn’t smoke or use drugs and only occasionally drank a glass of
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www.thegersonway.comwine—but, as he himself put it, his diet consisted of “purely junk and convenience foods”! If he
ate a whole wheat bread sandwich, he felt he was on a “health kick,” and didn’t touch salads,
which he dismissed as rabbit food. His annual intake of fruit consisted of perhaps four apples
and two to four oranges. To make things worse, he didn’t realize the devastating effects of the
materials he used daily in his taxidermist business:: formaldehyde, lacquer thinner, fiberglass,
urethane foam, paints, and others.
Slowly over the years he became aware of some irritation in his throat. In due course
swallowing became difficult and his breathing was heavy. Aged 37, he consulted a doctor, and
the tests resulted in a diagnosis of esophageal cancer. K.G. was reluctant to consider the proposed
treatment, especially in view of the extremely low rate of recoveries, and searched for an
alternative, which turned out to be the Gerson Therapy. He embarked on it and now admits that it
had been a real struggle to overcome his aversion to the coffee enemas, but “… once I experienced
one, I could feel a difference, and realized their importance.”  The patient experienced very long
healing reactions, and was aware of the tumor “rotting in my throat with a terrible smell.” After
some two and a half months, K.G. reports, he felt the remaining tumor falling down his throat into
his stomach. This made him terribly sick for a few days, but finally he expelled all the toxins and
made a full recovery.
He resumed his professional work, but has become extremely careful in the handling of the
chemicals involved, and remains well some 15 years after his recovery.
A Whole Family Recovers: Breast and Prostate Cancer, and Pleurisy
This report illustrates the effectiveness of the Gerson treatment in healing the different
diseases suffered by the members of one family.
First we saw the mother, S.H., whose mammogram at the age of 53 showed some suspicious
details. The surgeon removed two lumps from her breast; they were found to be malignant. He
suggested that S.H. should have a mastectomy, possibly followed by radiation, but admitted that
the latter would leave her lungs permanently burned, and would also soften and damage her
bones. The patient opted for a radical mastectomy, but the day before the surgery she decided to
go to Mexico for the Gerson treatment. She started the therapy in February of 1995, had no other
treatment of any kind, recovered fully and remains well.
S.H.’s daughter T. had suffered from pleurisy since the age of three. Her condition worsened,
and by the age of 37, as the mother of two children, she was seriously ill—could hardly breathe
and was unable to sit, lie down or sleep, even in a hospital bed. At the time her mother, S.H., was
in the 14th month of her Gerson Therapy. She travelled from California to her daughter’s home in
Wyoming, with one suitcase full of organic fruit and vegetables, and another one containing her
clothes.
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www.thegersonway.comS.H. reports that already after her first glass of carrot juice her daughter T. started to feel
better. She kept improving rapidly and after three weeks was walking, sleeping and recovering,
until eventually she cleared the long-standing pleurisy completely for the first time in her life. She
is now fully well and training to become a massage therapist.
Some years after the recovery of mother and daughter, S.’s husband C. was found to have a
PSA (prostate specific antigen) of around 14 to 16; the normal level is 1 or below. In July of 2003
a biopsy proved that C. had prostate cancer. This was remarkable, since for years he had been
eating the same diet that had cured his wife, S. However, C. had heard a lot of commercial hype
about soy products and their high protein content, and, thinking he needed more protein, added a
number of soy products to his food intake. He also took a fairly large amount of “aminos,” which
are high in sodium as well as being derived from soy. When C. stopped the soy and the aminos
and went on the full Gerson Therapy, he, too, recovered, and has remained well and active for
over four years.
Ewing’s Sarcoma
In June of 1993, T.I., an eight-year-old boy, was brought to the Mexican Gerson hospital
from Hungary. In March of 1992 he had been diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, an endothelial
myeloma forming tumors on the long bones, for which medical texts give a very poor prognosis.
In Hungary he had been treated with chemotherapy, but the cancer had spread from his pelvis
into the soft tissues of his abdomen. He arrived at the hospital looking pale


several
years
of
applying
enemas
and
urine
therapy,
came
to
the
conclusion
that
cleansing
and
healing
enemas
with
urine
(own
fresh,
quarter
urine,
children's,
pregnancy,
activated
by
cold,
etc.)
are
the
best
healing
method
ever
invented
by
mankind.
With
a
method
that
repels
99
percent
of
diseases,
it
exceptionally
strengthens
the
body's
defenses,
adjusts
the
activity
of
our
glands
with
clockwork
precision,
and
in
a
natural
way,
without
the
use
of
dangerous
hormonal
drugs
with
many
side
effects,
keeps
our
hormonal
system
in
ideal
condition.
If
you
add
other
urinotherapy
practices,
such
as
applying
compresses
with
urine
(preferably
clay
ones),
fasting
on
water
and
urine,
using
urine
as
a
homeopathic
remedy
or
in
a
bath,
you
get
an
ideal
remedy
that
is
free
and
always
within
reach,
absolutely
reliable
and
harmless,
because
urine,
as
you
will
see,
comes
from
your
blood
and
has
almost
the
same
composition
as
blood
plasma.
If
you
combine
urine
therapy
with
the
program
of
seven
cleansing
steps
that
I
describe
in
my
book
"Doctor
Yourself",
then
you
have
a
chance
to
cure
even
such
severe
and
chronic
diseases
as
psoriasis,
eczema,
diabetes,
atherosclerosis,
high
blood
pressure
and
even
cancer.
I
recently
relocated
for
work
to
Sana'a,
the
capital
of
Yemen:
late
medieval,
minimal
sanitary
conditions,
2,600
meters
above
sea
level,
lack
of
oxygen
by
about
one
quarter
(you
boil
potatoes
here
for
an
hour
and
scratches
take
a
month
to
heal),
strong
sunlight,
stray
ions,
large
mental
strain
and
I
don't
know
what
else.
If
I
don't
count
the
ban
on
alcohol
consumption,
the
great
popularity
of
chewing
khat
(a
weaker
variety
of
marijuana)
and
eternally
veiled
and
unavailable
women.
Because
I
try
to
get
to
know
as
much
as
possible,
I
don't
separate
myself
from
local
people
at
all
(including
women),
I
eat
and
drink
from
the
street
if
I
feel
like
it,
I
don't
refuse
invitations
to
sit
next
to
the
executioners,
and
I
use
the
sun
as
much
as
I
can.
I
have
tamed
the
stray
ions
so
that
one
of
them
lies
at
my
feet
as
I
write.
I
call
him
Abdul.
Otherwise,
every
morning
a
large
Russian
cockroach
greets
me
in
the
kitchen,
whom
I
call
Serjožo
familiarly,
it
reminds
me
of
my
stay
in
Russia.
Fortunately,
there
is
no
Glafýra
bug,
which
often
woke
me
up
in
Moscow.
I
just
want
to
say,
completely
without
jokes,
that
by
regularly
using
urine
in
an
enema,
internally,
to
wash
the
nose
and
eyes,
in
the
bath
and
after
shaving,
I
definitely
broke
the
superstitions
about
the
difficult
transition
of
a
European
to
tropical
or
other
hostile
countries.
Although
I
have
to
admit
that
the
attack
of
various
viruses
and
microbes,
unknown
to
us
andall
the
more
dangerous,
was
really
hard
during
the
first
months
of
our
stay.
But
thanks
to
urinotherapy
and
local
medicines
(habbasoda
-
black
seed
and
karkade
-
hibiscus)
I
overcame
a
very
unpleasant
food
poisoning
in
two
days
(I
got
poisoned
in
the
best
local
hotel)
and
in
a
similar
way
I
cured
the
ugly
shingles
all
over
my
face
until
I
went
to
sleep
severe
headaches.
I
didn't
take
a
single
pill
with
me
and
I
haven't
recognized
doctors
for
several
years.
My
favorite
writer
Mr.
Hrabal
somewhere
mentions
a
teacher
who
hid
rodents
from
his
students
only
because
his
salary
was
not
increased.
I
think
it
would
be
a
great
pity
if
various
taboos,
stupidity
and
prejudices
pushed
out
such
an
excellent
medicine,
which
was
already
called
the
drink
of
the
gods
by
the
Indians
five
thousand
years
ago.
Urine
therapy
is
discussed
in
many
spiritual
and
medical
books.
It
is
already
said
in
the
Bible:
"You
have
left
the
fountain
of
living
waters
to
dig
leaky
cisterns
that
hold
no
water."
Saint
John
says
in
the
New
Testament:
"Whoever
believes
in
me,
as
the
scripture
says,
rivers
of
living
water
will
flow
from
his
belly."
Urine
is
also
mentioned
as
an
important
medicine
by
the
famous
Persian-T ajik
physician
and
philosopher
Avicenna
in
his
Canon
of
Medical
Science
in
II.
century
AD.
However,
we
are
most
interested
in
the
oldest
and
most
extensive
book
on
urinotherapy
-
Shivambukalpa,
whose
name
translates
as
The
Practice
of
Using
Urine
for
Body
Renewal.
This
book
consists
of
107
verses
and
is
part
of
the
exquisite
Damar
Tantra.
It
talks
about
the
fact
that
only
urine
purifies
a
person
and
is
heavenly
nectar
for
him.
It
gives
him
strength,
cures
diseases
and
banishes
old
age.
Urine,
shivambu
in
Hindi,
is
the
basis
of
all
medicines.
To
this
day,
Buddhist
monks
are
only
allowed
to
use
their
own
urine
as
the
only
medicine.
It
is
also
a
medicine
for
the
brave.
In
addition,
a
person
who
wants
to
achieve
success
in
the
application
of
urinotherapy
must
renounce
salty,
bitter
and
spicy
food,
eat
easily
digestible
food
in
small
quantities,
must
not
exert
too
much
physical
effort,
must
control
his
emotions
and
sleep
on
the
bare
ground.
Purification
of
the
body
and
the
correct
technique
of
using
urine
leads
to
the
cure
of
congenital
diseases
within
one
month
and
completely
cleanses
the
insides.
After
two
months,
the
senses
become
significantly
clearer.
After
three,
all
diseases
subside.
After
seven
one


	pp.101–16.
p.	204
	“On	the	most	profound	level	…”	quoted	from	McTaggart,
The	Field
,	p.
122.
p.	209
	An	easily	accessible	presentation	of	the	paradox	known	as
Schrödinger’s	cat	can	be	found	online—see
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci341236,00.html
Chapter	14:	Thinking	Outside	the	Brain
Current	speculations	about	“extended	mind”—the	possibility	of	intelligence
outside	the	brain—cover	a	wide	range	of	science.	A	good	overview	is
provided	in	Part	2	of	McTaggart’s
The	Field
,	pp.	99–179,	told	largely	from
the	perspective	of	field	theory	in	physics.	For	firsthand	research	and	in-depth
thinking,	the	best	source	is	Rupert	Sheldrake,	who	made	a	first	impression
with	his	impressive	book	on	evolution,
The	Presence	of	the	Past:	MorphicResonance	and	the	Habits	of	Nature
	(Park	Street	Press,	1995),	in	which	he
brilliantly	speculates	on	how	life	could	have	evolved,	and	continues	to	evolve,
through	its	own	self-interacting	intelligence.
Undaunted	by	the	outrage	his	nonmaterialistic	theory	causes	among
Darwinians,	Sheldrake	has	challenged	them	to	replicate	his	own	experiments.
His	research	into	the	telepathic	parrot	and	other
psychic
	pets	is	contained	in
The	Sense	of	Being	Stared	At:	And	Other	Unexplained	Powers	of	the	Human
Mind
	(Three	Rivers	Press,	2004)	and
Seven	Experiments	That	Could	Change
the	World:	A	Do-It-Yourself	Guide	to	Revolutionary	Science
	(Park	Street
Press,	2002).	His	entire	output	has	been	immensely	influential	on	me,	and	I
cannot	imagine	an	open-minded	person	who	would	not	be	deeply	intrigued.
I	have	only	sketched	in	the	burgeoning	field	of	information	theory,	which
is	fascinating	but	not	yet	expanded	to	cover	a	topic	as	specific	as	the	afterlife.
My	introduction	to	the	subject	came	from	Hans	Christian	von	Baeyer,
Information:	The	New	Language	of	Science
	(Weidenfeld	and	Nicolson,	2003),
which	is	readable	and	free	of	higher	mathematics.
Savant	syndrome	has	become	a	widely	publicized	phenomenon.	My	first
acquaintance	with	it	came	from	Oliver	Sacks,
The	Man	Who	Mistook	His	Wife
for	a	Hat:	And	Other	Clinical	Tales
	(Touchstone,	1998),	which	gives	a
neurologist’s	firsthand	account	of	meeting	autistic	children	with	extraordinary
abilities.	Sacks’s	interest	in	“other	brained”	people	ventures	into	no	spiritual
speculations.	Joseph	Chilton	Pearce	does,	in
Evolution’s	End:	Claiming	the
Full	Potential	of	Our	Intelligence
	(HarperCollins,	1992).	His	lengthy	first
chapter	on	savant	syndrome	links	it	to	a	nonmaterial	field	of	intelligence	that
we	all	tap	into.	A	nice	online	article	on	savant	syndrome	and	its	link	to	genius,
“The	Key	to	Genius,”	can	be	found	at
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/genius_pr.html
.
I	became	intrigued	by	memes	from	online	reading.	The	Internet	is	rife
with	discussions	of	these	“mental	genes.”	For	the	definition	of	memes,	see
http://www.intelegen.com/meme/meme.htm
.	For	examples	of	memes,	see
http://memetics.chielens.net/examples.html
.	The	evolutionist	Richard
Dawkins,	who	invented	the	term,	discusses	it	in
The	Selfish	Gene
	(Oxford
University	Press,	1990).	My	fascination	with	memetic	theory	falls	short	of
agreeing	with	it,	however.
T
EXT	NOTES:
pp.	216–18
	A	full	account	of	N’kisi,	the	telepathic	parrot,	is	in	Sheldrake,
The
Sense	of	Being	Stared	At
,	pp.	24–27;	the	statistical	analysis	of	the
research	results	is	on	pp.	300–305.
p.	220
	Amit	Goswami’s	statement	“The	universe	is	always	putting	new	wine
into	old	bottles	…”	is	quoted	from	a	personal	conversation.pp.	225–26
	The	remarkable	story	of	a	musical	savant	named	Rex	can	be	found
online	 at
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/20/60minutes/main957718.shtml
p.	226
	The	story	of	the	“automobile	savant”	is	told	in	Pearce,
The	Biology
of	Transcendence
,	p.	82	(see	above).
p.	226
	The	story	of	the	child	prodigy	who	is	enrolled	at	Juilliard	was	told	on
CBS	News	and	can	be	found	online	at
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/24/60minutes/main657713.shtml
Chapter	Fifteen:	The	Mechanics	of	Creation
The	topic	of	emergence—the	appearance	of	a	new	phenomenon	in	Nature—is
discussed	lucidly	for	the	general	reader	online	at	Wikipedia	(see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
).	I	have	also	benefited	enormously
from	the	physicist	Amit	Goswami,	who	has	written	extensively	on	creative
leaps	made	in	nature—see
The	Self-Aware	Universe
	(Tarcher,	1995).	One	of
the	boldest	attempts	to	combine	the	physical	and	spirituality	can	be	found	in
Ervin	Laszlo,
Science	and	the	Reenchantment	of	the	Cosmos:	The	Rise	of	the
Integral	Vision	of	Reality
	(Inner	Traditions,	2006).	Both	authors	are	scientists
who	refuse	to	accept	the	schism	between	the	scientific	and	spiritual	views	of
the	world.
Remote	viewing,	the	preferred	term	now	for	what	used	to	be	lumped
under	the	rubric	of	clairvoyance,	is	emerging	from	the	fringes.	Readers	can
browse	a	dedicated	Web	site,
http://www.farsight.org/

that
	contains	copious
information	on	the	subject.	There	is	also	a	recent,	extensively	researched
book,
Remote	Viewing:	The	Science	and	Theory	of	Nonphysical	Perception
(Farsight	Press,	2005).	A	veteran	of	the	military’s	secret	remote	viewing
program,	Project	Stargate,	has	written	about	his	experiences	and	outlines	how
anyone	can	learn	the	skill	with	enough	self-discipline	and	dedication—see
Joseph	McMoneagle,
Remote	Viewing	Secrets:	A	Handbook
	(Hampton	Roads,
2000).
T
EXT	NOTES:
pp.	242–43
	The	story	of	the	psychic	who	could	see	inside	the	SQUID	comes
from	McTaggart,
The	Field
,	pp.	142–46.
p.	243
	The	experiment	in	remote	viewing	that	I	participated	in	was	run	by
Marilyn	Schlitz,	director	of	research	for	the	Institute	of	Noetic	Sciences.
See	their	home	page	at
http://www.noetic.org/
.	This	site	leads	to	a	wealth
of	material	on	every	aspect	of	science,	spirituality,	and	the	paranormal.	To
my	knowledge,	this	is	the	most	extensive	and	wide-ranging	institute	of	its
kind,	and	I	have	been	inspired	by	their	work	for	twenty	years.p.	244
	“Then	at	thirteen	minutes	…”	quoted	from	an	online	interview	with
Cleve	Backster	in	which	he	also	discusses	his	astonishing	research	on
telepathy	in	plants—


 a foot. Now
drag your back foot in and start to transfer your weight fully onto
your right foot. Pause. On your inhale, begin to straighten your
right leg and lift your left leg off the ﬂoor, pressing through the
heel of the left foot as if you were pushing it into a wall, so that the
leg is straight and strong. Stack your left rib cage on top of yourright rib cage. Your left shoulder should align with the top of your
right shoulder. Once you feel steady, you can extend your left arm
toward the ceiling and let your gaze follow.
Benefits:  Physically, this pose strengthens the ankles, the thighs,
the buttocks, the abdomen, and the spine. It stretches the groins,
the hamstrings and the calves, the shoulders, the chest, and the
spine.
Energetically, Half Moon pose improves balance, focus,
concentration, and coordination. It activates the ﬁrst, second, and
sixth chakras.
Engage slight mula bandha and uddiyana bandha to help lift
apana vayu. Engage slight jalandhara bandha to encourage energy
movement to the crown. Stimulates prana and udana vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  Can relieve lower back pain when
practiced against the wall, especially for pregnant women in their
second and third trimester.
Helpful tips: If balance is an issue, practice this pose with your
back against the wall. You can also start with the top hand on the
top hip and keep your gaze down toward the ﬂoor to maintain
steadiness. If your hamstrings are tight, place a block underneath
your bottom hand. As you did in the Triangle pose, ﬁx your gaze
forward or down toward the front foot if you have any neck
sensitivity.
OceanofPDF.comLIZARD POSE: UTTHAN PRISTHANA
Overview:  Lizard pose is one of the most effective poses to
open the hips. By targeting the three main muscles of the hips—the
hip ﬂexors, the gluteal muscles, and the groins—it facilitates a
profound release of the whole pelvic region on both a physical and
an energetic level. This pose helps us to move through our
emotions with compassion and courage.
How-to:  From Low Lunge, lower your back knee down onto the
ﬂoor or onto a blanket for support. Walk your right foot toward
the right edge of your mat and point the toes out slightly toward
the corner. Be sure to keep the right knee directly over the right
ankle. Place your hands on the inside of the right foot. Either stay
here or lower your elbows to the ﬂoor for a deeper stretch. You can
keep the back knee down for a more passive stretch or lift the back
knee off the ﬂoor for a more active version of the pose.
Benefits:  Physically, this pose opens the quadriceps, the hip
ﬂexors, the hamstrings, the groins, and the gluteal muscles. Itstrengthens the quadriceps and the lower abdominal muscles. It
also helps to open the shoulders and the chest.
Energetically, Lizard pose promotes our ability to be ﬂexible—
not just in our bodies but in our lives. This pose works on the
second chakra, which is the element of water, and water governs
our polarities. It is responsible for our ability to be ﬂuid in life and
to “go with the ﬂow,” so this shape opens that part of our
consciousness. The hips also tend to hold a lot of unprocessed
emotions; therefore, Lizard pose helps to release memories,
feelings, and beliefs that get lodged in this area and that keep us
from recognizing our essential nature.
Engage mula bandha to help reverse apana vayu. Engage
vajroli mudra. Stimulates vyana vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  Can help relieve lower back pain,
increase fertility, and alleviate menstrual discomfort. Lizard pose is
also helpful for women who are pregnant.
Helpful tips: Keep the back knee on the ﬂoor for a more
receptive version of this pose. If your hips are tight, place a block
underneath each forearm, so you maintain space in the chest and
shoulders.
OceanofPDF.comGARLAND POSE: MALASANA
Overview:  This hip opener can either be restful or highly
challenging depending on your anatomy. The pose gets its name
from the small round gems that make up a mala, a sacred string of
beads used for chanting or praying in India. Creating this shape
with our own body reminds us that asana is its own form of prayer.
How-to:  From Mountain pose, take your legs as wide as your
mat or slightly wider than the distance of your hips. Bend at your
knees and begin to lower your sit bones down toward the ﬂoor. If
your heels start to lift off the ﬂoor, pause and breathe there. Bring
your palms together to touch. If your knees are completely bent,
take your elbows to your inner thighs to help open the hips and
press the palms of your hands ﬁrmly together to help broaden
across the sternum.Benefits:  Physically, Garland pose stretches the Achilles tendon,
the groins, the gluteal muscles, and the torso. It also helps to open
the chest and shoulders.
Energetically, Garland pose activates the ﬁrst and second
chakras and can be speciﬁcally helpful in stimulating sexual
energy.
Engage a slight mula bandha to help balance that downward
energy with an upward lift of the spine. There is a slight jalandhara
bandha to keep the energy line from base to midbrain. Garland
pose helps facilitate the movement of apana to ease elimination.
Therapeutic applications:  Aids in digestion, relieves lower back
pain, and is excellent for pregnant women to help with childbirth.
Helpful tips: If your ankle ﬂexion is limited, place a folded
blanket underneath your heels. If your knees cannot come into full
ﬂexion, place a block or two blocks underneath your sit bones.
Place a block or a thick book between the palms to help broaden
across the collarbones and draw the shoulder blades toward one
another. If you have any knee or hip injuries, try this pose on your
back with your hips close to a wall, your knees bent, your legs wide
apart, and your feet pressing into the wall.
OceanofPDF.comSTANDING FORWARD BENDS
Standing forward bends are extremely useful both for
increasing our physical range and decreasing our mental
chatter. Anatomically, they open the hamstring muscles,
which are the group of muscles responsible for much of
our daily activities, such as walking, running, and climbing
stairs. Energetically, the backs of the legs are where we
store our unconscious patterning, the limiting beliefs and
false narratives that we acquire from a very young age.
Forward bends also encourage a deep sense of calm and
letting go by gently lifting the diaphragm and facilitating
the exhalation. Lastly, standing forward bends are a great
lesson in the law of least effort. The more you soften in
almost all these postures, the easier it is to come into the
pose.
OceanofPDF.comWIDE-LEGGED FORWARD BEND, VARIATION A: PRASARITA
PADDOTTANASANA
Overview:  Wide-Legged Forward Bend A is an accessible yet
profound way to stretch the hamstrings and maintain a sense of
balance at your base. The symmetry and wide stance of the legs
make this pose friendlier for those with tight hamstrings.
How-to:  From Mountain pose, step or jump your legs wide to
about a leg’s distance apart. Keep all ten toes pointing forward and
align the outer edges of your feet with the edges of the mat. Place
your hands on your hips. Firm your quadriceps by suctioning the
ﬂoor up through the soles of your feet. Inhale and lift your sternum
toward the ceiling, keeping your lower belly engaged. As you
exhale, hinge at your hips, and lower the torso down toward the
ﬂoor. If your hands reach the mat, walk the ﬁngertips back to line
up with the toe tips. Spread your ﬁngers wide and place the palms
of the hands ﬂat on the ﬂoor. Bend your elbows straight back
toward the wall behind you and allow the crown of the head tomove toward the mat. If the hands don’t touch the ﬂoor, place a
block underneath each hand.
Benefits:  Physically, this pose stretches the hamstrings and the
back. It strengthens the ankles and the front of the legs. It creates
traction through the spine and can help to release the neck. It also
stimulates the digestive process by directing circulation to the
abdominal organs.
Energetically, Wide-Legged Forward Bend A helps unlock the
unconscious, limiting beliefs stored in the backs of the legs. It
helps relieve anxiety and frees up the exhalation, encouraging a
sense of letting go. This pose can also shift our mental outlook,
and it works on the ﬁrst, sixth, and seventh chakras.
Engage uddiyana and jalandhara bandha


 logically
and is an unprofitable waste of time and energy and can only lead to frustration.

HOW TO BEGIN YOUR REVIEW OF THE PROBLEM
It is best to refuse to consider all thoughts relati ng to the problem and wait until you are able to be alone and free from
the responsibility and pressure of work. Then, when alone in a quiet place, sit in a comfortable chair or lie down and
begin your review of the problem, step by step in the ensuing man ner.

JUST BEFORE SLEEP
To begin, this technique should be practiced at night, just before sleep. If this time is inconvenient, it may be done in
the morning instead, immediately after awakening, but the power and the possibilities of this exercise will th en be
lessened.
After getting into bed and settling himself down with legs fully stretched out, he must set out to visit the man he used
to be and events he has earlier experienced.

REVERSE ORDER
He begins to direct his consciousness to the past. The chie f events of the day should be reviewed in reverse order.
Pick out a few major occurrences, activities or reflections which possess same importance both from a personal and
from a philosophic viewpoint, starting from the present moment and slowly working on e's way backward from one
experience, idea or feeling to another.

EXAMPLE
For example, take the last meaningful incident in the day which occurred.
Review everything that happened from the beginning to the end of the incident. Examine what your initial thoughts
were, what feelings and emotions you experienced, what words were said and what your replies were. Finally take a
look at the actions you performed immediately afterward.
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If you feel that your thoughts feelings, emotions, words or actions were unsatisfactory according to the highest
standards which you wish to maintain, then try to determine the reasons for your behavior. This should be done in a
critical but impartial, objective and fair manner. There should be no rationalizations permitted here for wrong behavior.

PROJECT ON MOVIE SCREEN
Emotional identification with your behavior as you are reviewing it s hould be totally prohibited. You are to take the
viewpoint of an outsider who is analyzing the situation for a friend. Review the incident as if it were projected on a
movie screen and observe the scenes with yourself performing in it just as if you were w atching actors in a moving
picture.
The purpose of this is sever any emotional involvement with the performer (yourself) on the screen. The truth will be
revealed to you in ratio to the amount of objectivity present.
If you could see yourself as if you were another person, completely free of any emotional or egoistic connection, then
you will see the complete truth of the situation and all of its errors with total objectivity.

SUBSTITUTE EACH ERROR FOR CORRECT BEHAVIOR
Once again, in reviewing each inci dent, as you discover each error, substitute the correct behavior in its place and
see it acted out in an ideal manner. Make each correction in the entire story or scene which unfolds until you are
completely satisfied that the entire incident has been per formed correctly, ideally and in accordance with the highest
standards which you aspire to.
As you are calmly observing this person as you would a total stranger, you are critically judging its thoughts, feelings
and deeds, impartially and quite sternly, t hus creating an effective method of self -improvement.
This will purify your motivation, educate your emotions, strengthen your willpower and improve your mental capacity.
You will be making the fullest use of memory to effectively improve your character.

EVEN SIMPLER APPROACH
When beginning this practice, if you find that after several tries you are still having difficulty in maintaining objectivity
and that you are still emotionally involved with the person (yourself) that you are observing in the scene, there is even
a simpler approach which you may use which will unfailingly produce total objectivity.
You should change the face of the performer to that of another person, say a friend, a member of the family or even a
complete stranger. This will insure c omplete objectivity without fail. See that person who has a different face and body
projected outwardly on a movie screen and going through the experiences and thoughts that you have gone through
the day before. Make a critical appraisal of the chief thoug hts, feelings and actions that transpired from the beginning
to end of each incident. Analyze that person's thought and behavior as emotionally detached as if you were giving
advice to a friend who requested it.

DAILY PRACTICE
What you will see with this method will prove to be a literal revelation. Perplexing incidents which have occurred in the
past will reveal their solutions with a clarity that will startle you as you become adept at this technique.
It takes about 2 weeks of daily practice before this exercise becomes easy and natural. From there on, the enjoyment
of it will increase daily and progressively, and it will prove to be a indispensable tool for intelligent self -study.

PEACE OF MIND
It will lead to meaningful and purposeful living each day, and in time a great peace will settle upon your heart and
mind, as your life becomes integrated in all departments -- physically, mentally and spiritually.

www.drbass.com/cornaro.html
Learn from Luigi Cornaro
"How to Live One Hundred Years"
From "In Searc h of the Ultimate Diet - Volume I" by Stanley Bass
An example of how life may be prolonged to advanced years by abstemious living which allows
the body to conserve its energy, is found in the following examples from "  The Art of Living Long  "
by Luigi Cornaro, published in 1558 in Padua, Italy.  - “Eat what you like, when you like and die
young.”

LUIGI CORNARO LIVED 102 YEARS
If you follow a minimal diet you can achieve super nutrition. Let's look at Luigi Cornaro, a man who at age 35 was
weak, sick, a nd dying.

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At the time, he consulted the medical heads of Genoa, Italy. He asked the doctors, "What can I do?" Finally, one
smart doctor said, "Look, Luigi," (Luigi was a nobleman) "cut down on your riotous living, stop the drinking, cut out the
rich food, eat as little as you can, and don't abuse your body. You can get well."
So Luigi started to live what he called the "temperate life," "La Vita Sobra", the name of the book which he wrote later,
The Sober Life. He reduced his food, cutting down to twelve ounces a day of solid foods divided into two meals and
pure grape juice, fourteen ounces, also divided into two servings.
Immediately Luigi began to feel better, and  at the end of the year he was in perfect health, completely free of all
problems, just on this small amount of food. He lived on this minimal diet from age 35 until 85.

Then his relatives ganged up on him. They said, "Luigi, you're an old man, you have t o keep up
your strength. You have to start eating more. Luigi, you gotta eat more!" They annoyed him so
much with their advice that just to shut them up he agreed to increase his food. He increased it
from twelve to fourteen ounces - that's only four tablespoons of food more. Immediately Luigi
became violently ill; within three days he had a high fever. Within seven days he was near
death.
So he said, "I'm through with this. I'm going to go back to my old diet." Within a few days he
became well again, and he lived in a state of unbroken health and happiness until the age of
102. When he died, he died in an ideal way. He was in his rocking chair. He closed his eyes,
took a nap, and didn't wake up. There was no pain or suffering, ever. His mind was clear as a
bell until the very end, no senility, no memory loss. Indeed, one of the things he wrote about in
his discourses was that his hearing and vision were perfect He retained all his senses. That's something you don't
see today.

Okay, this is the value of  a minimal diet. Now, Cornaro did not eat the quality of food that we recommend. They didn't
know about the importance of fresh food in those days, the late 1400's, early 1500's. Luigi ate a little meat; he ate an
egg yolk; he had panado, which was a veget able soup with a little tomato; he had grape juice; and he had bread. He
used to dip the bread in the soup. That was his diet. That's all he ate. He didn't want to eat fish because it didn't agree
with him, and he didn't eat chicken. He ate a little meat. On that diet, which we natural nutritionists would call low
quality, he lived to 102.
I've always wondered what would have happened had he lived on our quality of food. He might have gone on to 150.
1 ounce=28.5 grams       12 ounces=342 grams       14 ounces=399 grams

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express	in	different	ways.	Our	society	tends	to	think	that	disease	is	the	result	ofaging.	Not	true.	The	Hunzas	and	other	historically	healthy	populations	lived	to
very	old	ages	without	disease.	Disease	is	a	result	of	the	rate	at	which	we	age,	not
the	number	of	years	we	have	inhabited	the	Earth.	The	rate	is	affected	by	“aging
genes,”	which	we	can	choose	to	keep	turned	off.
You	can	create	a	younger	and	healthier	you,	as	was	suggested	by	Arthur
Vander,	M.D.,	in	his	1981	book,
Nutrition,	Stress,	&	Toxic	Chemicals:	An
Approach	to	Environmental-Health	Controversies.
Dr.	Vander	said,	“Different
environments,	by	altering	gene	expression,	can	produce	.	.	.	an	incredible	variety
of	‘yous.’”
By	assuming	that	inherited	genes	cause	disease,	one	assumes	that	disease
occurs	regardless	of	dietary	and	lifestyle	factors—in	other	words,	environment.
Not	so,	which	is	why	we	can	have	such	a	powerful	influence	on	the	balance
between	health	and	disease.	Genes	are	important,	but	they	are	only	one	small
piece	of	a	much	larger	puzzle.	Fundamentally,	there	is	only	one	disease
(malfunctioning	cells),	and	it	has	only	two	causes	(deficiency	and	toxicity).
Regardless	of	the	recipe	you	start	with,	a	dish	is	only	as	good	as	the
ingredients	put	into	it.	The	same	goes	for	a	cell.	When	a	cell	is	provided	with	the
proper	nutrients,	kept	free	from	toxins	and	placed	in	a	supportive	environment,
health-supporting	genes	are	activated,	aging	and	disease-causing	genes	remain
dormant,	and	both	your	cells	and	you	are	healthy.	To	move	yourself	in	the	right
direction	on	the	genetic	pathway,	create	a	healthy	environment	for	your	genes
and	protect	them	from	damage.10
T
HE
M
EDICAL
P
ATHWAY
“[T]he	greatest	danger	to	your	health	is	the	doctor	who
practices	Modern	Medicine.”
Robert	Mendelsohn,	M.D.
Confessions	of	a	Medical	Heretic
O
ne	spring	morning,	more	than	twenty	years	ago,	I	received	a	call	from	my
father’s	physician	telling	me	that	my	father,	hospitalized	for	emphysema,	was
dying	of	kidney	failure.	I	raced	to	the	hospital	almost	two	hundred	miles	away.
My	brother	and	I	found	our	father	in	a	deep	coma.	He	looked	as	if	he	were	dead.
The	doctors	advised	us	to	disconnect	his	life-support	systems	and	allow	him	to
slip	away	peacefully.	We	knew	our	father	would	not	choose	to	live	hooked	to
machines	in	a	vegetative	state.	We	knew	his	own	decision	would	be	to	pull	the
plug.	We	consented.	All	life-support	measures	were	terminated.
Late	that	evening,	our	father	was	still	alive	but	in	a	deep	coma.	In	the
morning,	my	brother	and	I	returned	to	the	hospital	with	anxiety	and	grief.	We
thought	that	he	might	have	died	during	the	night.	Instead,	we	found	our	father
sitting	up	and	telling	jokes	to	the	nurse!
A	miracle?	No.	The	doctors	had	been	giving	our	father	“life-saving”
prescription	drugs	that	put	a	lethal	load	of	toxins	on	his	kidneys.	When	the	drugs
were	stopped,	his	body	was	able	to	rebalance	and	begin	to	repair	itself.	A	night
without	the	drugs	was	sufficient.	Our	decision	to	“let	him	die”	saved	him.
Had	he	died,	his	death	would	have	been	attributed	to	kidney	failure,	not	the
prescription	drugs	that	were	causing	his	kidneys	to	fail.
My	father’s	story	is	extreme,	yet	all	too	common.	The	vast	number	of
medically	caused	deaths	is	underreported	and	underestimated.	Prescription
errors,	surgical	mistakes	and	missed	diagnoses	do	not	even	begin	to	describe	the
scope	of	the	problem.	The	truth	is	lost	in	prescription	pads,	health	charts	and
death	certificates,	which	do	not	reflect	the	true	causes	of	death	and	disease.	We
pride	ourselves	on	the	accomplishments	of	modern	medicine	without
acknowledging	its	failures.	Actually,
medical	intervention	may	be	the	leading
cause	of	death	in	the	United	States.
Conventional	medical	treatments	can	be	both	a	blessing	or	a	curse.	These
treatments	are	good,	even	excellent,	in	crisis	intervention	and	treatment	of
injuries.	But	conventional	medicine	does	not	prevent	nor	cure	disease;	itmanages	symptoms.	We	wait	for	disease	to	happen,	wait	for	the	damage	to	be
done	and	then	try	to	control	the	problems	by	“treating,”	using	assembly-line
techniques	that	are	currently	fashionable,	expensive	and	usually	dangerous.
These	techniques	cause	cellular	malfunction—often	cavalierly	called	“side
effects”—	which	lead	to	unnecessary	suffering,	disease	and	death.	Even	so-
called	preventive	medicine	usually	is	only	early	disease	detection,	rather	than
real	prevention.
The	present	system	suffers	from	a	disease-care	bias.	Very	few	medical
resources	are	devoted	to	disease	prevention	by	helping	people	to	maintain
cellular	health	through	diet,	nutritional	supplements,	detoxification,	exercise,
healthful	environment,	state	of	mind	and	lifestyle.	Instead,	resources	are	devoted
toward	treating	the	effects	of	disease.	Our	modern	medical	system	fails	to	find
cures	for	chronic	diseases	despite	vast	sums	of	money	spent	on	research	every
year.	The	late	Emanuel	Cheraskin,	M.D.,	D.M.D.,	at	the	University	of	Alabama
Medical	Center,	said,	“American	medical	care	is	the	fastest-growing	failing
business	in	Western	Civilization.”
The	Truth	and	the	Consequences
Many	people	maintain	total	and	unquestioning	trust	in	modern	medicine.	They
get	advice	and	treatments	from	only	one	school	of	thought	and	willingly
surrender	their	personal	health	responsibilities	to	the	hands	of	their	doctor.	This
approach	is	not	sensible.
Educate	yourself	before	you	follow	anyone	else’s
advice,	including	your	physician’s.
Health	is	the	responsibility	of	the	individual.
Rarely	do	most	people	realize	that	certain	aspects	of	medicine	might	harm
their	health,	or	that	better	alternatives	might	exist.	Instead,	they	do	what	is
familiar	and	conventional.	Confronted	with	a	health	problem,	they	go	to	the
doctor	either	because	they	do	not	know	how	to	solve	the	problem	or	they	are
intimidated	by	alternatives.	This	was	certainly	my	experience.
The	medical	pathway	teaches	you	how	all	kinds	of	medical	treatments	affect
your	body	at	the	cellular	level,	the	benefits	and	the	dangers.	With	this
understanding,	and	if	you	are	not	blinded	by	unquestioning	trust	in	modern
medicine,	you	can	evaluate	the	evidence	and	make	the	best	choices	about
medical	care	for	yourself	and	for	your	family.	With	the	right	health	choices,	you
should	not	become	sick.	But	if	you	do,	you	must	take	an	active	part	in	your	care
which	means	more	than	blindly	following	someone	else’s	advice.	You	need	to
learn