 or put into a pitcher and allow guests to serve themselves.
 Variation: If you have no fresh herbs, use a generous pinch of suitable dried herbs.
Garlic and Herb Dressing
1 tbsp. flaxseed  oil
1/2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar  (or lemon juice)
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 green  onion
parsley
chives
dill
fennel
mint
Combine all the ingredients in a pitcher and stir vigorously. Pour over the salad and serve
immediately.
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2-1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
1 tsp. sugar
2/3 cup water
Mix ingredients together.
Variation:  Add some or all of the following herbs (optional), letting them infuse: tarragon
(pushed in stalk first); shallots or spring onions, finely chopped; 2 cloves of garlic, peeled and
crushed with the back of a knife; and 1 fresh bay leaf.
Orange Vinaigrette
1 clove garlic, chopped
2 tbsp. fresh parsley, chopped
2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar
1 tsp. sugar
4 tbsp. orange juice
1 tbsp. flaxseed  oil
Chop the garlic and parsley, and add to vinegar, sugar, orange juice and flaxseed oil.
Yogurt, Garlic and Honey Dressing
6 oz. yogurt
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 tsp. honey
watercress
Mix the ingredients, toss lightly and serve immediately. Garnish with watercress.
Yogurt, Herb and Vinegar Dressing
apple cider vinegar
a little water
honey
yogurt
parsley
tarragon
Mix all together.
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www.thegersonway.comYogurt, Onion and Apple Cider Vinegar Dressing
yogurt
apple cider vinegar
chopped onion
Mix all together and serve with a green salad.
Salads
Apple and Carrot Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serves 2
1 small crisp red apple, grated
1 large carrot, grated
1 green onion, chopped
1 radish, sliced
apple juice
mint
Grate the apple and carrot into a dish and add a chopped green onion and a sliced radish.  Pour
over a little apple juice and sprinkle with mint.  Serve on a bed of mixed colored salad leaves,
such as radicchio, watercress or parsley.
Beet and Waterc ress Salad
cooked beet, chopped
flaxseed oil
watercress
Chop cooked beet and toss in a little flaxseed  oil. Serve with watercress.
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www.thegersonway.comBeet Salad Yolande
cooked beets, diced
carrots, diced
celery, diced
apples, diced
parsley
Dressing:
yogurt
lemon juice
flaxseed  oil
Dice the beets, carrots, celery and apples and put into a bowl.  Make the dressing and mix in
with the vegetables. Sprinkle with parsley.
Beet Thermidor
cooked beets
Dressing:
yogurt
lemon juice
grated horseradish
Dice cooked beets and put into a bowl with the following dressing:
Carrot Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serves 2-4
8 oz. carrots, grated
1 medium crisp eating apple, quartered, cored and grated
5 oz. yogurt
juice of 1 large orange
Grate the carrot into a bowl. Cut the apple into quarters, remove core  then  grate into the bowl
and mix with the carrot.  Mix the yogurt with the orange juice and stir into the salad.
 Variation: Presoaked raisins or sultanas can also be added.
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www.thegersonway.comCarrot and Orange with Fresh Dates  Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serves 2
1 large carrot, cut into strips
1 orange, segmented
a few fresh dates, chopped
toasted oats
Dressing:
lemon ( or lime) juice
flaxseed oil
Cut the carrot into thin strips.  Segment the orange and mix with the carrot.  Chop the dates and
add. Add dressing and garnish with toasted oats.
Carrot and Raisin Salad
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Serves 2
3 large carrots, grated
2 oz. raisins, presoaked
lettuce
2 tsp. parsley, chopped
Dressing:
1 clove garlic, crushed
flaxseed oil
apple cider vinegar
1/2 tsp. honey
2 tsp. lemon juice
Mix grated raw carrots with presoaked raisins. Add dressing and serve on lettuce  garnished with
chopped parsley.
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www.thegersonway.comCarrot, Apple and Onion Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serves 2
12 oz. carrots, shredded
8 oz. apples, shredded
1 medium onion, shredded
10 oz.  yogurt
juice of 1/2 lemon
Shred the carrots, apples and onion. Combine with the yogurt and lemon juice.  Serve with a
mixed green salad.
Celery Salad
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Serves 2
2 stalks celery, chopped
2 crisp small eating apples, chopped
1/4 medium red bell pepper, finely sliced
mixed lettuce leaves
Dressing:
apple cider vinegar
flaxseed oil
1 tsp. honey
Chop the celery and apples and put into a large bowl. Add the finely slice d red bell pepper.  Add
the dressing.
Line a salad plate with mixed lettuce leaves and pile the dressed salad on top.
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www.thegersonway.comChicory and Orange Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serves 2-4
1 lb. chicory heads, trimmed and sliced
2 large oranges, peeled and sliced
1 medium green  onion, trimmed and chopped
juice of 1/2 lemon
1 tbsp. flaxseed oil
1 tsp. honey
Trim the chicory and slice into rounds about 1/2 -inch  thick.  Push the rounds apart to make
rings.  Peel the oranges, removing the white pith, and slice into rounds.  Place the chicory in a
bowl and lay the oranges in overlapping rings around the top,  leaving the center empty.  Trim
and chop the green  onion and sprinkle into the center.  Mix the lemon juice, flaxseed oil and
honey, and pour over the salad.  Leave for a few minutes before serving to allow the flavors to
“marry.”
Colorful Mixed Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serves 2
zucchini, grated
beet, grated
apple, grated
lettuce
tomato
orange
Dressing:
equal amounts of  apple cider vinegar  and water
honey (or maple syrup)
garlic
lemon (or orange) juice
Grate the zucchini, beet and apple.  Add the dressing and mix them together or pile them in
separate mounds onto a bed of lettuce.  Decorate with slices of tomatoes and orange.
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www.thegersonway.comColorful Three Cabbage Salad
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serves 2
2 oz. raisins
4 oz. each white, red and green cabbage, finely shredded
4 oz. carrot, grated
1 medium onion, finely sliced
1 small crisp eating apple, chopped
watercress
Dressing:
5 fl. oz. yogurt
a little flaxseed  oil
1 clove garlic, crushed
Pour boiling water over the raisins and leave until they plump.  Finely shred the cabbage. Grate
the carrot.  Put both in a bowl with the raisins, finely sliced onion  and chopped apple. Mix well


will
take
a
closer
look
at
the
above-mentioned
properties
and
their
possible
influence
on
the
human
organism.
The
surface
tension
of
urine
is
85
-
95
percent
of
the
tension
of
water,
i.e.
64
-
69
dynes/cm,
compared
to
72.8
for
water.
It
is
reduced
by
the
presence
of
protein
substances,
bile
acids
and
phenols.
The
essence
of
surface
tension
is
that
the
lower
it
is,
the
better
substances
dissolve.
A
small
surface
tension
increases
the
surface
activity
of
the
liquid
and
thus
a
layer
with
higher
energy
is
created
in
the
surface
layer,
at
the
boundary
separating
individual
environments
(liquid
-
air,
liquid
-
oil,
etc.),
in
which
chemical
reactions
take
place
more
actively.
Thanks
to
the
lower
surface
tension,
urine
is
able
to
dissolve
many
substances
better
than
water.
With
increased
surface
activity,
urine
can
acidify
and
break
down
substances
chemically.
For
example,
waxy
stones
in
the
liver
and
gall
bladder,
stones
in
the
kidneys
and
bladder
can
dissolve
due
to
the
acidifying
effect
of
urine.
That
is
why
it
is
so
often
referred
to
in
old
books
this
property
of
urine
to
dissolve
and
open
blockages
in
the
liver
and
bile
ducts.
Since
the
specific
gravity
of
blood
is
1.052
-
1.061
and
that
of
urine
is
1.016
-
1.024,
urine
is
a
fluid
with
a
lower
viscosity
than
blood.
It
follows
from
this
fact
another
property
of
urine:
when
its
internal
intake
increases
the
fluidity
of
thickened
fluids
-
blood
and
bile.
It
also
dissolves
build-up
mucus
in
different
parts
of
the
body.
Urine
has
many
salts
dissolved
in
it
and
is
therefore
conductive.
If
we
somehow
increase
the
concentration
of
salts,
for
example
by
evaporating
part
of
the
water,
its
electrical
conductivity
will
increase
exceptionally.
If
we
smear
our
body
with
such
urine,
we
will
thus
achieve
a
significant
increase
in
the
energy
inflow
in
form
of
free
electrons
through
the
skin.
This
significantly
activates
all
fermentative
(enzymatic)
processes
in
the
body.
We
have
to
keep
repeating
that
j
we
are
only
healthy
to
the
extent
to
which
our
ferments
(enzymes)
are
active.
In
a
sick
or
old
person,
these
movements
are
slowed
down.
Massaging
the
body
with
urine,
especially
evaporated,
allows
you
to
literally
"pump
up"
a
person
with
energy,
activate
his
enzymatic
processes,
which
ultimately
leads
to
overall
healing.
Now
it
is
also
clear
why
the
old
yogis
recommended
doing
a
massage
with
evaporated
urine.
And
yet
another
amazing
property
of
urine
as
a
concentrated
saline
solution
is
its
tremendous
ability
to
heal
wounds.
We
will
discuss
this
phenomenon
in
more
detail
later.
Now
let's
look
at
the
substances
that
make
up
urine
and
their
properties.
The
overall
composition
of
urine
can
be
divided
into
two
main
parts:
normal,
common
components
and
pathological,
disease-causing
components.
Normal
urine
components
are
contained
in
the
urine
of
a
healthy
person.
We
can
divide
them
into
three
groups:
organic,
inorganic
and
biological.
The
organic
substances
of
urine
are
further
divided
into
nitrogenous
and
non-nitrogenous.
The
final
products
of
protein
metabolism
are
mostly
excreted
in
the
urine.
The
daily
amount
of
nitrogen
excreted
in
the
urine
varies
from
3.6
grams
(with
a
low-protein
diet)
to
17.0
grams
and
more
with
food
containing
a
lot
of
protein,
such
as
meat.
Because
our
body
can
reuse
(resynthesize)
the
excreted
nitrogen,
at
intake
of
urine
internally
and
through
the
skin
can
considerably
reduce
the
protein
norm
food,
without
harming
ourselves
in
any
way.
I
can
confirm
this
from
my
own
experience,
because
currently
I
eat
once
a
day,
mostly
fish
or
spaghetti,
and
at
parties
I
treat
myself
to
shrimp
and
chicken
once
or
twice
a
week,
which
they
prepare
here
in
Yemen
in
a
really
excellent
way.
It
was
this
mechanism
that
ancient
yogis
and
some
tribes
used
to
survive
in
extreme
conditions.
If
a
person
uses
their
own
urine
2
-
3
times
a
day
for
100
-
200
grams,
need
protein
foods,
especially
animal
ones,
practically
disappear.The
main
nitrogenous
components
of
urine
are
the
following:
urea,
uric
acid,
purine
bases,
amino
acids,
ammonia,
creatine
bodies.
The
main
part
of
nitrogen
is
excreted
from
the
body
with
urea
-
80
to
90%.
On
average,
30
grams
of
urea
are
excreted
in
24
hours.
Urea
is
a
natural
diuretic,
i.e.
removes
water
from
the
body,
so
it
can
be
used
as
a
diuretic.
Urine
enhances
the
activity
of
proteolytic
enzymes,
which
are
secreted
in
the
digestive
tract
and
help
digest
food.
At
the
same
time,
urea
has
a
significant
anti-tumor
effect.
The
Russian
doctor
A.
Kachugin
proposed
urea
for
the
first
time
in
the
treatment
of
tumors.
In
the
biological
research
laboratory
of
the
former
Academy
of
Sciences
of
the
USSR
(by
the
way,
one
of
the
best
scientific
institutes
in
the
world),
candidate
of
medical
sciences
G.
Bělikov
confirmed
the
antitumor,
antiviral
and
antimicrobial
effects
of
a
preparation
made
on
the
basis
of
urea
-
semicarbazide.
Practitioners
quickly
became
convinced
that
how
extraordinarily
the
health
of
even
hopelessly
ill
people
improves
when
taking
this
medicine.
Research
has
shown
that
in
a
healthy
body,
the
content
of
intraurea
is
mostly
normal,
but
it
is
deficient
in
an
organism
attacked
by
a
tumor.
A.
Kačugin
proposed
to
artificially
increase
the


	a	disciple	Ramana	had	found
the	teaching	difficult.	He	often	stumbled	but	never	fell.	Everything	his	master
foretold	came	true.	The	time	came	when	the	disciple	no	longer	needed	the
support	of	his	family.	But	this	wasn’t	a	loss,	because	he	now	saw	them	with
great	compassion.	He	didn’t	need	the	support	of	society,	but	this	wasn’t	a	loss,
because	he	saw	himself	as	part	of	all	humanity.	He	didn’t	need	the	support	of
his	physical	body,	but	this	wasn’t	a	loss,	because	his	body	took	care	of	itself
better	when	he	stopped	worrying	about	it.
The	one	thing	Ramana	never	quite	gave	up	was	the	support	of	his	mind.
“Ah,	you	fear	that	without	a	mind	you	will	die,”	his	master	said	patiently.
Ramana	adopted	the	same	patience.	He	learned	to	go	inward	in
samadhi
	to
experience	silence,	and	over	the	years	this	became	home	to	him,	a	place	free
of	the	constant	activity	of	the	mind.
On	the	day	his	master	died,	Ramana	knelt	by	his	bed	and	wept.	“So	you
imagine	that	I	am	leaving	you,”	his	master	whispered.	“Your	mind	still	has
you	in	its	spell.”	He	said	this	affectionately,	not	in	reproof,	and	that	consoled
Ramana.	An	hour	later	his	master	went	into	the	deepest	of	all	silences,
maha
samadhi
.
Ramana	could	remember	all	these	things	now	that	he	too	had	died.	He
looked	around.	There	was	no	one	to	greet	him,	no	family,	not	even	his	master.
For	a	second	a	shiver	of	fear	gripped	him,	then	it	faded,	and	with	it	the	power
to	think.	Ramana	didn’t	even	get	to	think,
There	goes	my	mind
.	He	slipped
effortlessly	to	where	mind	was	no	longer	needed.	There	was	no	whiteness
around	him	anymore,	but	even	this	perception	lasted	for	only	an	instant,
because	there	was	no	darkness,	either.	When	his	mind	slipped	away,	it	took
light	and	dark	with	it.Now	he	was	enveloped	in	silence,	which	came	as	an	indescribable	relief.
Like	thieves	in	the	night,	whole	worlds	wanted	to	enter	him	and	take	his
silence	away.	But	all	they	could	do	was	glance	off	him	ever	so	lightly,	like
feathers	off	a	rock.	He	was	impenetrable	now.	There	was	no	universe	and	no
God,	no	divine	presence,	no	love.
He	lingered	like	that,	in	the	womb	of	the	timeless,	for	a	while.	Then
Ramana	felt	a	soft	breath,	and	it	beckoned	him	back.	He	was	stirring	to	life
again.	Not	because	he	wanted	to	live	on	earth,	for	that	would	have	been	a
thought.	The	breath	was	its	own	reason.	There	was	a	split	second	when	he
could	choose	not	to	return.	Eternal	peace	was	just	as	possible	as	another
lifetime.
Only	then	did	he	realize	that	he	was	free	at	last.	Human	life	could	be	his
again,	only	now	he	also	would	have	eternal	peace,	the	two	together.	Ramana
smiled	to	himself,	if	one	can	say	that	the	cosmos	smiles.	The	breathing	grew
louder.	He	relaxed	and	let	it	carry	him	downward	back	to	earth.	One	breath,
then	another,	always	louder,	until	it	became	like	the	monsoons	drifting	down
the	mountain,	or	the	knocking	of	the	gods.	He	couldn’t	see	what	family	he
would	be	born	into,	but	Ramana	knew	his	new	purpose:	to	show	these
dreaming	humans,	whom	he	loved	so	much,	how	to	wake	up.READING	NOTES
There	will	never	be	a	definitive	book	on	the	afterlife,	which	I	think	is	good,
because	no	single	book	will	ever	convince	skeptics	or	console	everyone	who
has	wondered	what	happens	after	death.	What	might	change	society’s	fear	and
doubt	is	a	rising	tide	of	evidence.	Below	I	have	listed	every	book	and	Web
site	that	helped	me	write	this	book.	They	constitute	a	mountain	of	evidence
that	life	continues	after	death;	more	important,	each	one	is	a	symptom	of
rising	consciousness.	Too	long	has	death	been	a	mysterious	subject.	The	best	I
can	hope	for	is	to	shed	a	little	light	into	that	darkness,	but	I	couldn’t	have
done	it	without	the	countless	other	people	trying	to	shed	the	same	light.
Chapter	1:	Death	at	the	Door
We	have	entered	a	new	era	in	research	where	the	Internet	has	become	as
valuable	as	standard	book	references.	Besides	Googling	any	general	topic
(e.g.,	ghosts,	near-death	experiences,	heaven)	at
www.google.com
,	one	can
turn	to	the	ever-expanding	online	encyclopedia	at
www.wikipedia.com
.	The
only	flaw	with	Web	references	is	that	they	tend	to	be	overwhelming	in
number	but	sometimes	shallow	in	coverage.
The
	great	virtue	of	online
referencing	is	that	the	reader	can	go	deeper	than	the	author	on	any	particular
topic	with	the	push	of	a	button.
I	touched	only	briefly	on	the	physical	changes	caused	by	death.	Sherwin
B.	Nuland	won	a	National	Book	Award	on	the	subject	with
How	We	Die:
Reflections	on	Life’s	Final	Chapter
	(Knopf,	1994).	Nuland,	a	senior	Yale
physician,	goes	into	clinical	detail	about	the	biology	of	the	dying	process,
covering	heart	disease,	cancer,	Alzheimer’s,	and	AIDS,	among	other	topics,	in
his	exploration	of	how	every	person’s	death	is	as	unique	as	his	life.
Spiritual	experiences	also	cause	physical	changes,	making	them	just	as
real,	if	you	are	a	materialist,	as	the	changes	caused	by	death.	An	early	popular
book	on	the	subject	is	Nona	Coxhead,
Mindpower
	(Penguin,	1976),	which
emphasizes	research	into	ESP	and	other	areas	of	parapsychology.	For	a
contemporary	study	of	how	current	breakthroughs	in	brain	science	are
changing	our	view	of	consciousness,	I	turned	to	Joseph	Chilton	Pearce,
The
Biology	of	Transcendence:	A	Blueprint	for	the	Human	Spirit
	(Park	Street
Press,	2002),	which	is	refreshingly	humane	and	far-ranging.	Pearce	writes	for
the	general	reader	and	intersperses	neurology	with	intriguing	anecdotes.
I	have	tried	to	be	as	nontechnical	as	possible	when	discussing	the	vast
philosophical	system	known	as	Vedanta.	Readers	who	want	to	go	back	to	thesource	should	begin	with
The	Concise	Yoga	Vasistha
	(State	University	of	New
York	Press,	1984),	in	a	clear	and	readable	translation	by	Swami
Venkatesananda.	This	great	work	describes	the	education	of	Lord	Rama,	an
incarnation	of	God	in	human	form,	at	the	feet	of	an	immortal	rishi,	Vasistha,
who


, and quieter inside.
Sitting in a quiet place with low lighting, close your eyes and take a few
deep breaths until you feel settled and ready to meditate. Don’ t shorten or
skip these introductory moments. They prepare your breathing to get in
sync with your state of awareness.
Direct your attention to the tip of your nose and sense air as it passes in
and out with each breath. (After a moment, if you feel that your breathing is
short, ragged, irregular, or gasping, take time to lie down without
meditating and let your breath ing return to normal.) Continue to easily
follow the in-and-out rhythm of your breathing. Don’ t force a rhythm, and
don’t mind if you occasionally draw a deep sigh or feel that you must take a
breath through your mouth. These are good signs, since they indicate that
your breathing is working to rebalance itself.Continue doing this for 5 to 20 minutes. If you notice your attention
wandering, just gently bring it back to the tip of your nose. When time is
up, lie down or sit quietly to let yourself return from the meditative state.
Don’ t rush back into activity. Take as much time as you need to readjust to
a relaxed waking state, ready for your next activity.
TUESDAY
The Key to Stronger Breathing
Begin by silently repeating today’ s theme:
My breathing energizes mind and body.
My breathing energizes mind and body.
When your breathing is strong, so is your prana. Every function in the
body is improved by having an optimal level of oxygen in the blood, but
aging, respiratory problems, allergies, and air pollution bring most people
down from this optimal level. Breath, in a way, is like the old adage “For
want of a nail, the kingdom was lost”—incremental changes in breathing
can trigg er a decline by small degrees in critical areas like blood pressure,
heart health, and brain function. The upshot is that almost everyone can
benefit by strengthening their breathing so that small deficits don’t take
hold.
We aren’t dealing in this book with traditional controlled Yogic
breathing, which requires a teacher and a committed discipline, but
conscious breath ing is something everyone can and should learn. Breath is
the portal of prana, and conscious breathing practices rank high for
improving the flow of prana.
Here are three breathing exercises that have been well researched and
validated.
#1 Belly BreathingThis exercise is based on the understanding that the lower area of the
lungs stimulates  relaxation. Shallow breathing, which mostly uses the upper
part of the lungs, is associated with stress, anxiety, and panic attacks. The
aim of belly breathing is to use your diaphragm as you consciously take in a
full, deep breath.
Sit upright and start to breathe slowly. With each in-breath, feel the air
going to the bottom of your abdomen as you swell your belly  out. Move
your diaphragm outward, maki ng sure that you breathe slowly, and don’t
strain. When your belly feels full, breathe out by letting your lungs expel
the air naturally, the way you would let go of a sigh.
Repeat for 5 to 10 minutes, always breathing through your nose. If you
feel the impulse  to breathe throu gh your mouth or to gasp, don’t resist. Try
not to push yourself. Like all breathing exercises, this one should feel
comfortable. In time, you will build up more endurance.
#2 Vagal Breathing
The vagus nerve, which is one of the ten cranial nerves leading directly
from the brain, has received a great deal of publicity in recen t years. The
vagus nerve plays a major role in regulating heartbeat, breathing, and the
intestines; it tells your body whether you are stressed—all three  organs are
involved in triggering the fight-or -flight response.
By gently stimulating the vagu s nerve, you send signals of relaxation
and the absence  of stress throughout your body. Vagal breathing is the
simplest way to stimulate the vagus nerve, yet it turns out to be one of the
most effective ways to counter low-level chronic stress, which almost
everyone in modern life is subjected to.
Sit quietly, breathing through your nose. Slowly and comfortably draw
in a breath, making sure it is deep enough to fill your lungs. Hold for a few
seconds, then slowly release your breath. The essential thing here is to
consciously draw in a breath, pausing without strain, and consciously
exhaling. The awareness of breathing is just as important as the technique
being used.Repeat for 5 to 10 minutes. Vagal breathing is thought to have many
more benefits than relaxing and diminishing the stress response, but those
benefits on their own make it valuable.
Vagal breathing will be effective for some people, but if you find that
slow, conscious  breathing only increases the impulse to breathe in a
shallow, ragged way (which is typical in situations of acute stress) or if you
feel the slightest  signs of panic, discontinue this practice. In such situations,
lying down and breathing normally with the eyes closed will start to bring
the body out of the stress response. This can be followed up by meditating,
but, again, if going inward makes you overly aware of your stress and
anxiety, stop meditating and sit quietly, being gently aware of your body
and your breath.
#3 Regulated Breathing
This is an advanced exercise, since it is related to formal techn iques of
pranayama. Yet regulated breathing is a natural step from vagal breathing.
In this exercise, you are asked to count your breaths, bringing conscious
control to the act of breathing.
Sit quietly, breathing through your nose. If you feel a little distracted or
tense, take a few deep breaths until you feel relaxed and settled. Now
breathe in slowly to the count of 4, exhale slowly to the count of 8, then
count to 8 before taking your next breath; in other words 4-8-8 for one
breath cycle. Even at this early  stage, regulated breathing can be a little
challenging for some, since it runs counter to the habit of unconscious
breathing that everyone is used to.
But the practice is worth mastering, because it brings about deep
relaxation and changes in brain-wave activity. Simply by regulating your
breath, you can go into the meditative state represented by increased alpha-
wave activity. With practice, it is possible to put the brain into the same
state as deep sleep while still remaining alert and awake.
If this prospect intrigues you, first become comfortable over a period of
days with a 4-8-8 rhythm. Then  move on to longer periods. Your goal is 6-12-12; in other words, inhaling to a count of 6, exhaling to a count of 12,
then waiting for a count of 12 before taking your next breath.
One effect of regulated breathing is to slow down the number of breaths
you take per minute. The avera ge number for someone at rest is 12 to 16
breaths per minute. Regulated breathing slows the rate down  drastically,
and if you attain  a count of 6-12-12, you may be breathing as little as two
times per minute. Advanced yogis can slow their breathing (along with
heartbeat and oxygen consump tion) to a level that reaches the state of
consciousness closest to the source ( samadhi ).
An intriguing possibility is held out for people in their everyday lives.
Yoga measures a lifetime not by years but by how many breaths are taken.
Slower breathing, if done consciously, involves few breaths per minute,
resulting in a longer life span. The general concept makes sense. Breathing
slowly indicates a relaxed state that is less affected by stress. How long
someone’ s life span can be extended is open to further research, but the
benefits of a calmer mind, deeper awareness, and better regulated
physiology are beyond doubt.
WEDNESDAY
Prana and the Light
Begin by silently repeating today’ s theme:
I direct all my energies to the light
I direct all my energies to the light.
When we talk about improving the quality of life, what we should say is
the qualities  of life. An ideal life is built upon them. By comparison, if you
focus on externals, like money, status, and possessions, as markers of the
good life, you haven’ t even touched the qualities that matter. As prana
circulates through your body, it animates every cell with the primary
qualities that also bring vital ener gy to you as a person.THE PRIMARY QUALITIES OF PRANA
Freshness, renewal
Vitality, vibrancy
Creativity
Self-sufﬁciency
Intelligence
Growth, evolution
These are the qualities that make  prana a living energy, and they give us
a direc t connection to the light, because prana is the carrier of
consciousness. Yoga holds that consciousness is more powerful the closer
you get to the source. Prana circulates at a subtle level that is much closer to
the source than the physical processes of the body.
Every breath brings in life-giving oxygen, which has chemical
properties that interact with the physical properties of thousands of other
molecules at the cellular level. But the cell would have no life without the
qualities listed above. Think of scrap iron rusting


 right or earning a million dollars is
a go al. You can not compare the now with anything, because every
other now is lost forever. What changes as you wake up is subtle
but all-i mportant. There is no longer a journey of any kind. Not an
outward journey or an inward one. No dream to be fulfilled, no
fear to escape f rom. The past is no longer filled with regre ts or the
future looming  with threats. The phantom side of life ha s faded
away, and those things were phantoms.
For Every Day
At random moments, whenev er the fancy strikes you, stop and
look around. Say to yourself, “A lot is going on. A lot has always
been go ing on.  I’m here, and that’s what matters.” As you wake up,
these w ords will mean something different to you. They will
expand to embrace more and more. By being here you are joining
the cosmic dance. Appreciate  the dance for what it is tod ay. The
cosmic part will knock on your door when you are ready.YOUR EXPERIENCE:

 DA  F I N A L  W O R D
espite our seven billion storie s, we are united in one life.
The fate  of the planet depends on realizing this fact. Once we do,
the human race can evolve to metahuman. How close are we, right
at t his moment? The answer  isn’t clear. Life never settle s down
enough. If a da ily newspaper had been available in ancient Rome,
medieval Fran ce, or Shakespeare’s London, the same  drama
would be seen. The best asp ects of human nature always seem
precariously balanced against the worst. We are the only c reatures
capable of self-pity, and the only creatures who feel they deserve
it.
Instead of focusing on how h umans behave or animals behave
or even  how quarks and b osons behave, we should ask how
consciousness behaves. Consciousness unites everything. All
objects, whethe r a brain cell, a limestone cliff, or a prehistoric flint
knife, represent mind in motion. The play of consciousness is
infinite, but there is unity holding the play together.
If the dense and challengin g ideas in this book leave you
baffled, I sympathize. The las t thing I want to do—or could do—is
to force anyone to accept any thing I say. But it is critical to wake
up t o the one  life we share.  If you consider yourself a modern
person, you live and behave the way the modern world does. As a
point o f pride, the modern world has been wildly successful at
amassing knowledge, one fact at a time. It hasn’t been two decades
since th e number of human genes was counted and the entire
human genome mapped. In the coming decade, the brain’strillions of connections will be mapped through a huge, concerted,
scientific effort.
So it must be  shocking to hear me say in this book  that
anything you can count, measure, calculate, and reduce to data is
part of an all-encompassing illusion. Perhaps even more shocking
is my argument that whatever you can perceive, imagine, or think
about in words inhabits the same illusion. I am not an enemy of
the illusion. I believe that peo ple have a right to upgrade it all they
like, and I feel sorrow for people whose portion of the illusion is so
degraded that they suffer.
But only waking up allows  for the unity of one life t o be
experienced di rectly. Otherwise, the world will always be a clash of
opposites, founded on the certainty that humans are capable of the
best and the w orst. What makes us capable of listening to our
demons one day and blessing the angels the next day isn’t really
human nature, though. It is the state of separation we keep
reinforcing, generation after generation.
I don’t foresee Homo sapiens  taking a collective leap in its
evolution, but  I know it can. Our evolution shifted fr om the
physical to the mental domain tens of thousands of years ago,
even when early humans we re naked and vulnerable, leading an
existence as fraught with threats as any animal caught u p in the
contest of predator and prey. It’s a total mystery how we acquired
self-awareness. Once we did, or our hominid ancestors did, the
mind was poised to triumph in every aspect of life. But the active
mind i sn’t the same as consciousness. A thought, feeling, or
sensation is like a wave that  rises and falls; consciousness is the
ocean.
This an alogy goes back thousands of years in India, and I can’t
remember as a child when I  first heard it. The words felt like a
cliché, however, the way that “Love thy neighbor” or “To be, or not
to be, / That is the question” feels like a cliché. Repetition leaches
meaning away, even from the most profound sayings.
I po ndered this obstacle and decided that the direct path has to
bring a small awakening every day; waking up shouldn’t be held
out as the ultim ate reward at the end of the spiritual path. In my
own life I aim at three kinds of experiences. If one of themhappens today, I’ve achieved a small awakening. If two or all three
happen, the small awakening becomes magnified. Here are the
three experiences:
I see reality more clearly.
I feel less entangled in habit, memory, outworn beliefs, and
old conditioning.
I stop clinging to expectations and external rewards.
How would these experiences apply in your life?
YOU SEE REALITY MORE CLEARL Y
This is the expe rience of perceiving with fresh eyes. You give up
old ways of int erpreting the world around you and your o wn life.
Interpretation is built into perception. It is unavoidable that you
give names to everything, have opinions, draw on past
experiences, an d render judgments about whatever is hap pening.
The world has been interpret ed for you since you were an infant,
and yet you have control ove r this now that you are an adult. The
world doesn’t have to chan ge. If you perceive freshness and
renewal, if you wake up with a sense of optimism and feel open to
the unknown, then every day is a world. You don’t have to try to
live in the pr esent moment—you won’t be able to escape the
present mome nt. It will draw  you in without resistance, because
there is everything to gain and nothing to lose when a person lives
here an d now, rather than re peating the past and anticipating the
future.
YOU FEEL LESS ENT ANGLED IN HABIT, MEMOR Y,
OUTWORN BELIEFS, AND OLD CONDITIONING
This is the feeling of getting unstuck. Virtual reality would be
perfectly accep table if people felt free to alter it according to their
own desires. But a great deal of life is beyond our control, whichleads to a feeling of being trapped, confined, limited, and even
suffocated. I lump these feel ings into the phrase “getting stuck.”
By getting unstuck you disentangle yourself from the complicated
web woven by the ego-personality. This web has become sticky
through the process of identification. Anytime you say “I am X,”
you are further away from being able to say “I am.” As we saw, X
can be anything: your name, job, marital status, race, religion,
nationality. Th ese and much more become your personal story. “I
am” is beyond all stories.
YOU ST OP CLINGING T O EXPECT ATIONS AND
EXTERNAL REW ARDS
This is the ex perience of becoming your true self. The ego-
personality is constantly on the lookout for external rew ards to
validate its worth. If you ask people, “Which would you rather be—
happy simply to exist or rich?” their answer is obvious. The need
for ext ernal rewards, not just money but status, the right
neighborhood, a new car, social approval, and more, fuels our
dependence on them. Over time the ego-personality has become a
dominant force, even when someone considers himself
unambitious or spiritual—the front pew in church feels better than
the last row. But the ego is a false guide, because t he total
fulfillment it promises is a lways over the horizon. Living on
expectation goes hand in hand with needing external rewards—
there is always a mythical jo lt of pleasure or triumph or wealth,
the big score th at will make life worthwhile once and for all. To cut
the strings, you need to feel that the absence of external rewards
isn’t painful, because it is off set by inner rewards. The gre atest of
these is the freedom to be yourself.
As a result of t hese three experiences, waking up becomes  your
life, litt le by little, and then, almost without knowing it, you are
participating in the one life, which is real, radiant, and whole.
Because everyo ne can have small awakenings, the future of our
species doesn’ t have to be a grand project marked by the great
upheavals of war and peace, revolution and backsliding,


	necessary	genes.	“Disease	genes”	function	the	same
way.	When	people	move	from	one	part	of	the	world	to	another—	adopting	the
diet	and	lifestyle	habits	of	the	new	environment—	they	also	develop	the	disease
conditions	common	to	that	new	environment.	For	example,	people	from
countries	with	low	rates	of	heart	disease	and	cancer,	such	as	Japan,	suffer	like
the	rest	of	our	population	once	they	move	here.
A	compelling	question	in	the	discussion	of	heredity	is	how	long	you	will	live
—your	life	span.	A	low-calorie	diet	is	the	only	thing	that	consistently	has	been
shown	to	increase	life	span.	Genetic	expression	causes	this	to	happen.	A	study	in
the	September	2001
Proceedings	of	the	National	Academy	of	Sciences
found	that
a	high-calorie	diet	(the	typical	American	diet)	caused	changes	in	genes	that
reduced	the	expression	of	disease-protective	genes	and	turned	on	genes	that
accelerate	the	aging	process.	But	the	good	news	is	that	the	study	also	showed
that	by	taking	older	animals	and	putting	them	on	calorie-restricted	diets	for
merely	four	weeks,	about	half	of	the	gene	expressions	that	were	contributing	to
the	aging	process	reversed.
Changing	internal	cellular	environment	(by	reducing
calories)	not	only	helps	to	prevent	the	expression	of	aging	genes	in	the	young,	it
can	also	slow	and	even	reverse	the	aging	process	in	the	old.
As	biologist	Steven	Rose	pointed	out	in	his	1997	book,
Lifelines,
much	of
what	goes	on	in	a	cell	is	at	least	as	much	a	product	of	the	environment	in	and
around	the	cell	as	its	DNA.	This	environment	is	something	we	create	with	our
diet,	toxic	exposures,	lifestyle,	and	even	with	our	thoughts,	beliefs	and
perceptions.	“Organisms,”	Rose	wrote,	“are	active	players	in	their	own	fate.”Indeed,	even	mental	climate	affects	the	environment	we	create	for	our	cells
and	genes.	Cells	depend	on	the	brain	to	interpret	the	environment	and	to	use	the
nervous	system	to	relay	that	information,	telling	the	cells	what	to	do.	Depending
on	one’s	perceptions	of	the	environment,	the	expression	of	genes	can	be	greatly
affected.	For	example,	the	mortality	rate	goes	up	during	the	first	year	or	two
after	retirement.	Why?	Does	the	brain	perceive	that	“life”	is	over,	causing	the
genes	to	express	accordingly?	Deepak	Chopra,	M.D.,	author	of	many	books	and
a	pioneer	and	leader	in	mind/body	medicine,	often	says	in	his	lectures,	“Aging	is
a	mistake.”	He	means	that	we	observe	others	around	us	aging,	so	we	believe	that
we	too	will	age.	We	literally	instruct	our	genes	to	age	us.	Could	this	be	one	of
the	reasons	that	traditionally	healthy	people	like	the	Hunzas	lived	so	long?	By
believing	that	they	would	live	long,	healthy	lives,	did	they	actually	instruct	their
genes	accordingly?	Much	evidence	indicates	that	what	we	believe	does	affect	the
function	of	our	cells	and	the	expression	of	our	genes.
Intentional	Damage	to	Your	DNA
Modern	diet	and	lifestyle	can	cause	damage	to	genes—	different	from
genetically	inherited	predispositions.	Rather	than	causing	the	expression	of
existing	genetic	coding,	genetic	damage	involves	changes	in	the	coding.	A
change	in	genetic	coding	is	known	as	a	mutation,	which	can	occur	both	through
natural	causes	and	man-created	damage.	One	theory	of	aging	is	that	gene
mutations	over	a	lifetime	cause	gradual	loss	of	function	and	resilience.	The
ability	of	genes	to	mutate	is	not	all	“bad,”	but	rather	is	an	essential	part	of
evolution	and	of	adaptation	to	changing	conditions.
The	mutations	to	be	concerned	about	are	caused	by	chemicals	and	radiation,
which	can	lead	to	dramatic	and	unpredictable	changes	in	genetic	coding.	Genes
are	crucial	plans	for	creating,	repairing	and	reproducing	an	organism;	randomly
changing	these	plans	is	a	bad	idea.	What	would	happen	if	you	started	making
random	changes	to	the	blueprints	of	your	house?	Doors,	windows,	walls	and
even	whole	rooms	would	appear	in	strange	places.	So	it	is	with	genetic	damage.
What	causes	genetic	mutation?
•
Ionizing	radiation:
Almost	half	of	the	average	person’s	exposure	to
ionizing	radiation	comes	from	medical	X	rays	and	medical	radiation
treatments.	Avoid	this	kind	of	radiation	unless	vitally	necessary.	It’s	bizarre
that	physicians	put	much	stock	in	the	genetic	origins	of	disease	yet	also
inflict	massive	amounts	of	genetic	damage	with	pharmaceutical	chemicals
and	X	rays.•
Non-ionizing	radiation:
This	is	created	by	the	flow	of	electricity	and	may
also	have	genetic	repercussions—	though	the	evidence	is	less	clear.	As	a
general	rule,	avoid	close	proximity	or	prolonged	exposure	to	all	types	of
electric	devices.
•
Toxins:
These	include	man-made	industrial	chemicals,	prescription	drugs,
tobacco,	alcohol	and	chemical	residues	in	meat	and	dairy	products,	such	as
PCBs	and	dioxins.	In	particular,	foods	that	are	heated	to	high	temperatures
or	blackened	(such	as	in	barbecuing)	contain	chemicals	capable	of	causing
gene	mutations	and	cancer.
When	a	cell	is	exposed	to	toxins	or	radiation,	the	cell	may	die	or	the	genes
may	be	damaged.	A	mutated	gene	may	permanently	alter	the	way	the	cell	works,
often	contributing	to	deficiency,	toxicity	and	disease.	Furthermore,	altered	cells
(with	mutated	genes)	can	replicate,	allowing	the	mutation	to	propagate
throughout	more	and	more	cells.	The	effects	of	this	replication	can	range	from
minor	to	devastating;	replication	is	a	classic	way	for	cancer	to	develop.	Worse,	if
genetic	mutations	take	place	in	a	reproductive	cell,	a	50/50	chance	exists	of
passing	these	on	to	an	unborn	child.	Destroyed	or	damaged	cells	and	genes	can
lead	to	premature	aging	and	a	variety	of	diseases,	including	cancer,	fatigue,	poor
resistance	to	infections,	psychological	stress	and	even	social	maladjustment.
Genes	are	not	causing	aging	and	disease.	We	are.	We	expose	our	cells	to	the
toxins	and	radiation	that	make	the	genes	mutate	in	the	first	place.	Life	in	the
twenty-first	century	is	now	causing	damage	to	our	genes	and	creating	mutations
in	unprecedented	ways	and	at	an	alarming	rate.	As	scientist	Richard	Lewontin
said	in	his	1982	book,
Human	Diversity:
“Because	of	technology’s	ventures	into
ionizing	radiation	and	synthetic	chemistry,	the	human	beings	of	our	age,	as	well
as	the	food	chain	on	which	we	live,	are	thought	to	be	undergoing	a	far	higher
mutation	rate	than	biology	has	been	accustomed	to.”
Fortunately,	under	the	right	circumstances,	genetic	damage	can	be	repaired.
Not	only	must	we	avoid	damaging	our	genes	in	the	first	place,	we	also	must
provide	our	genes	with	the	materials	(nutrients)


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quality of the food. All they talk about is yield and disease resistance. Are we going to be able to
seawater Minerals and the Coming Agricultural Revolution
harvest in 90 or 91 days? These are the kinds of things that interest farmers. It’s what the commercial
marketplace has brought everything to, and people have forgotten why they grow food.
Mike : So what’s in the food when it’s raised on Ocean Grown minerals is very different from what’s
in food that is conventionally grown. Is that what you’re saying? So, what can people expect? I mean,
how many more minerals are in a tomato grown in a garden with Ocean Grown minerals? How much
greater mineral density will it have, compared to a conventionally grown tomato?
Hartman : Well, typically, if you go to a grocery store and buy a tomato, it looks lovely. It can be blemish
free, bright red and look so nutritious. But typically, those tomatoes—from a hothouse or even out of
the ground—have 12, 14 or 15 elements. Tomatoes are genetically disposed to pick up 56 elements,
and it’s always the same 56 in a certain proportion. That’s what tomatoes pick up. Every vegetable and
fruit is different, but that’s what tomatoes want. When people buy fruits and vegetables, and take them
home and taste them and they taste like cardboard, people say, “What happened?” What happened is
that they were completely depleted. They are like virtual food.
Mike : It’s really just a shadow of the original tomato that people should be eating.
Hartman : That’s right, and it brings up an interesting point made first by Dr. Murray, who was really
the discoverer of how to use ocean water and minerals to grow food. When you sit down and think
about what commercial agriculture has come to and what modern cultivation techniques have come
to, you’re not really looking at somebody growing food. What you’re really looking at is a strip-mining
operation, because when you grow a crop of corn or wheat or whatever it may be, and you ship that to
market, you ship some quantity of elements in a certain proportion and quality off to market. What
current practice calls for is that you put back three elements, even though you might have shipped 56
or 74 elements off to market.
Mike : To be specific, when you say “elements” here, you’re using that in a sense of the table of
elements?
Hartman : Yes. I’m using that in the chemical sense, but people use the word interchangeably with
mineral elements.
seawater Minerals and the Coming Agricultural Revolution
Commercial fertilizers provide only three elements to crops
Mike : When you say they put three back into the soil, these are the three common components of
every commercial fertilizer on the market, right?
Hartman : That’s right: nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus.
Mike : So, farmers can grow something that looks like food, but they’re only putting three elements or
minerals back into the ground.
Hartman : That’s right. Even if they were growing cattle for beef, the same thing would be going on.
Cattle are fabulous foragers. They raze the grass and pick up the elements, and they become part of
their body. Then the cows get shipped to market. It’s a strip-mining operation with no easy solutions,
and putting back three elements is not going to do it.
The health consequences of mineral depletion of crop soils
Hartman : One of the things that we quote from time to time is that the United Nations has come to
a realization that I give them a lot of credit for: Two billion people out of the six billion inhabitants
of the planet are suffering from micronutrient malnutrition. Personally, I would quarrel with them
slightly, but the fact that they recognize this is impressive. I believe that six billion people—all the
people on the planet—are suffering from micronutrient malnutrition, and many doctors have done
a lot of work with how DNA replicates itself. One of the things they’ve come to understand is that
many millions of replications happen every day, but every replication needs a mineral to catalyze it.
On a given day, because minerals are not in our food, there’s something like 250,000 transactions that
can’t happen because there is a missing element—whether it be cobalt, selenium, gold, tin or platinum.
They’re missing.
Mike : The long-term result of the mass demineralization of the population is that we end up with
chronic disease acceleration, right?
Hartman : Absolutely. You know, people think we’re living longer, but


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Title P age
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Foreword
Introduction
Part I: The Hidden Physiology
Chapter 1: A fter the Miracle
Chapter 2: The Body Has a Mind of Its Own
Chapter 3: The Sculpture or the River?
Chapter 4: Messengers from Inner Space
Chapter 5: Ghosts of Memory
Chapter 6: The Quantum Mechanical Human Body
Chapter 7: Nowhere and Everywhere
Chapter 8: Silent W itness
Chapter 9: The Mystery of the Gap
Part II: Body of Bliss
Chapter 10: In the Rishi’s W orld
Chapter 11: Birth of a Disease
Chapter 12: “ What Y ou See, Y ou Become”
Chapter 13: Body of Bliss
Chapter 14: The End of the W ar
Acknowledgments
Reading List
Bibliography
Bestsellers by Deepak ChopraAbout the Author
OceanofPDF.comWhenever the word quantum  comes  up, the word physics
follows automatically. This habit of mind made Quantum
Healing  a novel and provocati ve title in 1989, but its
author, a curious-minded endocrinologist outside  Boston,
was implying a legitimate question. If every atom and
molecule in the universe emerges from the quantum ﬁeld,
doesn’t this mean that our bodies do, too? The answer is
undoubtedly yes. In that case, we possess a quantum
mechanical body. Dr. Deepak Chopra then reasoned that
the mysteries of the human body, particularly the mystery
of healing, are inevitably immersed in the quantum ﬁeld.
Very few scientists were thinking that way almost thirty
years ago. Medical schools approached the human body
essentially as a machine subdivided into the working parts
of a machine—organs, tissues, and cells. When the body
broke down through illness, something materia l was at
fault. Bacteria had entered to disrupt the mechanical
operation of an organ, or a worn-out part had failed. An
arthritic joint was consi dered similar to a tire with the
tread wearing thin.
Modern scien tiﬁc medicin e goes into sophisticated  detail,
but in essence it embra ces the two basic principles that
bind all the sciences together: materialism and
reductionism. Materialism holds that there must be a
physical explanation for every phenomenon. Reductionismholds that complex problems can be broken down into
smaller component parts, wherein lie all solutions and
answers. Quantum Healing  blew the whistle on both
principles, not because they are inherently wrong, but
because they left out some extremely important things,
especially when it came to the human body.
Materialism left out the mind-body connection. Mind isn’t
material. Yet our thoughts cause our bodies to move,
something we take for granted the minute we get out of
bed in the morning but which stands as a great mystery.
When you break the body down into organs, tissues, and
cells, you can’t ﬁnd the slightest trace of a thought, and yet
the mind must be related to the body. How?
Reductionism left out the holistic nature of the body.
Trillions of cells cooperate to sustain one another, acting to
preserve overall balance and health. Up to a quadrillion
neural connections in the brain generate a microscopic
electrical storm, and yet the result is organized thought,
not a jumble of static. As skilled as medical science is at
dissecting body and brain, it has little to say about the
experience of life as a whole, yet that experience impinges
directly on who gets sick and who stays well.
Deepak was not the ﬁrst to see these ﬂaws and
omissions, but Quantum Healing  was very bold in becoming
the ﬁrst book to oﬀer a path to new answers. He proposed
that quantum  physics describes an invisible domain from
which mind and body both emerge and unite. Quantum
Healing  struck a nerve by focusing on the most baﬄin g
phenomenon in medicine, spontaneous remission from
cancer. How could the most intractable of diseases, the
object of billion-dollar campaigns to ﬁnd a cure, suddenly
disappear from a patient’s body? Since oncology is a
numbers game, it was easier simply to ignore these
extraordinary cases as anomalies. But if science prides
itself on going wherever  reality leads us, such cases arewell docume nted in medical journals. They force us to
rethink the entire materi alist, reductionist model—Deepak
was willing to go there.
Even today, not everyone  is willing. As a neurogeneticist,
I have  been fortunate to study the wondrous interplay of
genes and the brain. All organic processes are coded in our
DNA. Since that includes all brain processes, the mind-
body connection is directly engendered in our genes. The
same is true for healing,  another process that cannot take
place absent genetic activity. However, most geneticists
don’t think in such broad terms; our research studies are
extremely detailed and focused (my specialty is the
neurodegenerative disorder Alzheimer’s disease). The mind
is all too often left out of the equation, and as for quantum,
the word has traditionall y had no bearing on our training,
being the province of physics.
Quantum Healing  looked past this long-accepted
compartmentalization, opening up genetics, along with
every other corner of physiology, to quantum thinking. I
didn’t delve into the mind-body connection when I ﬁrst
began my quest to end Alzheimer’s disease, but since it’s a
brain disorder, I discovered common ground with a broad
thinker like Deepak. After getting  excited about how our
interests and passions overlapped, we wrote a book, Super
Brain,  together. The gist of the book, based on solid
neuroscience, is that the brain is plastic, inﬂuenced by
thoughts, feelings, choices, and most


utmost	importance	for	growing
healthy,	strong	nails.	There	are	also	great	external	ways	to	support	nail	health:
•
Rather	than	cutting	cuticles,	soak	your	nails	in	warm	water	to	soften	cuticles
and	then	gently	push	them	back.	Only	trim	off	hanging,	dead	skin	when
necessary.
•
Look	for	polishes	free	of	the	“toxic	trio”:	dibutyl	phthalate	(DBP),	toluene,
and	formaldehyde,	which	have	been	associated	with	development	and
reproductive	issues	and	dizziness	and	are	potential	hormone	disruptors	and
carcinogens.
13
	Look	for	brands	labeled	“DBP-,	toluene-,	and	formaldehyde-
free”	or,	specifically,	“three-free.”	There	are	even	vegan	polishes	free	of
solvents	and	other	toxins,	including	some	that	are	“ten-free,”	and	some	that
are	water-based.	(You	may	need	to	reapply	these	more	often	due	to
chipping.)
•
Avoid	frequent	use	of	nail	polish	removers,	which	can	dry	your	nail	bed,
leading	to	potential	splits.	Also	look	for	nail	polish	removers	that	are	free	of
acetone.
•
Avoid	quick-dry	nail	polishes	that	contain	a	great	deal	of	acetone,	which	can
dry	out	your	nails.
•
Use	gloves	when	washing	the	dishes,	and	otherwise	try	to	keep	your	hands
out	of	hot	water	as	much	as	possible.
•
Before	going	out	into	the	cold,	always	moisturize	your	hands	and	protect
them	with	gloves.	Avoid	direct	exposure	to	cold	air.
•
Massage	and	moisturize	your	nails	and	cuticles	with	almond,	jojoba,	or
coconut	oil	often.Nail	Strengthening	Scrub
The	combination	of	castor	and	avocado	oils	enhances	nails’	flexibility	and	renders	them	more	pliable
and	less	prone	to	chips	and	breakage.	Ground	walnuts	are	high	in	nourishing
omega-3	fatty
acids,
while	the	walnuts	themselves	help	to	slough	off	dead	surface	cells,	allowing	more	moisture	and
nutrients	to	be	absorbed.	Honey	is	nourishing	and	softening,	and	it	also	contains	antibacterial	and
antiseptic	properties.
¼	cup	raw,	shelled	walnuts
1	tablespoon	castor	oil
1	tablespoon	first	cold-pressed	avocado	oil
1	teaspoon	raw,	organic	honey
Grind	walnuts	to	form	a	coarse	powder.	Mix	in	the	oils	and	the	honey	to	make	a	thick	paste.	Rub
your	entire	nails,	hands,	and	cuticles	vigorously	(but	not	in	an	overly	abrasive	way)	for	a	few	moments
before	rinsing	with	warm	water.	Try	this	treatment	once	or	twice	weekly	for	best	results.On	location	at	the	Chopra	Center	in	Carlsbad,	California,	Deepak	and
Kimberly	ready	to	discuss	the	new	science	and	ancient	wisdom	contained	in	the
six	pillars	of	Radical	Beauty.
Copyright	©	2016	by	Ylva	ErevallAntioxident-	and	vitamin-rich	fruits	build	and	protect	your	beauty.
Foods	rich	in	omega-3	fatty	acids,	such	as	chia	seeds,	promote	excellent
circulation	that	helps	create	radiant	skin	and	glowing	health.The	Glowing	Green	Smoothie	is	a	staple	of	the	Radical	Beauty	and	Beauty
Detox	programs.
Copyright	©	2016	by	mllevphoto/Shutterstock
Ayurvedic	spices	such	as	turmeric	have	now	been	shown	in	modern	research	to
have	far-reaching	beauty	and	health	benefits.Pillar	4
,	Primal	Beauty,	discusses	how
earthing
,	or
grounding
,	has	healing	effects
on	your	body	and	beauty.
Pillar	5
	discusses	the	best	ways	to	move	your	body	to	promote	natural	grace,
tone,	and	beauty.Pillar	1
	discusses	the	essential	Radical	Beauty	ratios	to	make	eating	for	health
and	beauty	simple.
Ingredients	for	the	Radical	Soother	Mask	(see
this	page
).Syncing	with	the	natural	rhythms	of	nature	enhances	your	natural	beauty.In
Pillar	1
,	you	will	learn	dietary	shifts	to	optimize	digestion	and	to	bolster
nutrient	circulation	and	absorption	for	beautiful	skin	and	overall	vitality.
Use	the	Radical	Beauty	Liver	Tonic	(
this	page
)	to	promote	cleansing.
Copyright
©	2016	by	aliasemma/ShutterstockBeauty	fats	include	avocados	and	unrefined	plant	oils.
Fresh	spices	help	balance	and	enhance	your	health.Aligning	your	lifestyle	with	the	seasons	and	the	solar	and	lunar	cycles	helps	you
harness	greater	power	to	support	your	overall	energy	and	vitality.
Boost	sluggish
agni,
	or	digestive	fire,	with	spices	such	as	cumin.Ingredients	for	the	Acne-Preventing	Tonic	(
this	page
).Warming	foods	increase	your	metabolism	and	circulation.
Ingredients	for	the	Radical	Beauty	Skin	Texture	Smoothing	Mask	(
this	page
).
Peak	Beauty	Sleep	is	essential	for	Radical	Beauty.
Some	of	the	ingredients	for	the	Radical	Enzyme	Mask	(
this	page
).Peace	and	self-love	foster	natural	beauty	from	the	inside	out.
Abhyanga
	is	an	Ayurvedic	practice	of	oil	massage	that	is	believed	to	soothe	your
nervous	system	and	rejuvenate	your	body	and	mind.
Copyright	©	2016	by	Valery
Kraynov/ShutterstockColorful	plant	foods	are	a	powerful	ally	to	support	your	beauty.
Being	in	nature’s	elements	helps	harmonize	balance	and	beauty	within	us.Ingredients	for	the	Nail	Strengthening	Scrub	(
this	page
).
Spiritual	beauty	allows	you	to	shine	with	an	inner	light	that	outer	beauty	alone
can	never	match.Fresh	foods	are	beautifying	as	they	are	healthy.	Check	out	the	Radical	Beauty
Recipes	in	the	Appendix	(
this	page
).
Smoothies	are	an	excellent,	easy	way	to	take	in	lots	of	energizing	and	beauty-
building	nutrition.
Radical	Beauty	is	something	that	exists	universally	while	at	the	same	time	being
completely	unique	to	you.PILLAR	3:
Peak	Beauty	Sleep
Beauty	sleep
	is	most	certainly	a	term	you’ve	come	across	before,	but	you	may	not
have	a	clear	sense	of	why	sleep	is	so	essential	to	reach	your	beauty	potential	or
what	steps	you	can	take	to	start	sleeping	better.	This	pillar	will	go	into	great
detail	about	how	sleep	specifically	affects	your	natural	beauty	and	how	to
harness	its	power	to	look	and	feel	radically	beautiful.	The	word
peak
	is	often
used	in	reference	to	the	highest	level	of	athletic	performance,	or	“peak
performance.”	As	we	are	referring	to	it	here	in	reference	to	beauty,
peak
	means
experiencing	the	optimal	level	and	quality	of	sleep	to	fully	support	your	beauty.
While	you	already	know	that	excellent	sleep	is	important,	you	may	still
unknowingly	employ	tactics	that	keep	you	from	getting	your	best	sleep.	Many
of	us	whittle	into	our	sleeping	hours	by	going	to	bed	later	than	we	should.	In
part,	this	is	because	we	tend	to	prioritize	cramming	more	activity	and	tasks	into
the	day:	cleaning	up	the	kitchen	or	e-mail	box,	catching	up	on	work,	watching
an	ex


 of the organism. Food makes up
for loss of quantity, while sleep makes up for loss of quality. It
repairs the nerves. Both kinds of reparation are indispensable, but
sleep is even more essential than food. It is physiologically
possible to go without food for days, weeks or even, in certain
cases, months. Sleep, on the other hand, can only be dispensed
with for some days. Sleep supplies something even more
important than the elements furnished by food.
In the waking state there is a difference between all plants,
animals and men, and also betwee n all individuals. But sleep is
universal; it abolishes all differences. Sleep is the same in plants,
animals and men; in rich and poor, in wise and foolish, in poet
and peasant.
The differences between individuals consist of the
differences in the activity of their respective cerebro-spinal
systems. It is the cerebro-spinal system which regulates
individuality and personality. During sleep this activity stops and
the differences between individuals are consequently removed.
The organo-vegetative system presides over the organism while
sleep is in progress. It is this which is responsible for all
unconscious activities of the organism, while the cerebro-spinal
system directs all our conscious activities. The organo-vegetative
system governs the beating of the heart and the various processes
of metabolism, while the cerebro-spinal system controls attention,
intelligence, association of ideas, memory, etc. The former
system is the executive organ of all the natural laws and forces in
every organism, while the latter is the director of the individual's
actions. When a man is awake, he makes many deviations from
the natural laws, but when he is asleep he obeys them wholly.
The results of these deviations (fatigue, weakness and the toxins of disease) are repaired by sleep at night when harmony with the
laws of Nature is restored. It is, therefore, impossible to live
without sleep. Prolonged fasting, on the other hand, is perfectly
possible, and often beneficial. Such is the explanation of sleep
from a physiological standpoint, as given by Zoroaster in the
Avesta between seven and eight thousand years ago.
Contemporary official science does not, however, look at sleep in
this fashion.
While a poisoned organism cannot dispense with sleep for
long, a completely healthy and clean one can manage without it
for many days. Conversely, a very overintoxicated organism may
sleep for weeks or months on end. There are many examples to
be found of these phenomena in antiquity, in the Middle Ages
and at the present day. Reports are occasionally given in the
newspapers of persons whom doctors are unable to wake up.
In the Avesta Zoroaster also tells us the significance of sleep
for a detoxicated and pure organism. Where there are no toxins
present, there can naturally be no elimination of them. Sleep,
then, has quite another significance. Instead of repairing the
organism, it improves its vitality. While the right food effects a
quantitative improvement of it, sleep leads to an improvement in
quality. It is a rule that in a!l the vital functions qualitative
changes arc more important than quantitative.
During sleep there is an absence of pain. It is for this reason
that artificial sleep is created for performing surgical operations.
It has been shown experimentally that the organism when asleep
can resist poison and that death from poison w hile sleep actually
lasts is impossible. It only occurs on waking. This great power of
sleep was observed by various peoples of antiquity.
It is not uncommon to find our problems solved during
sleep. The diaries of scientists and writers often relate that they
always invented or composed at night or in the morning after
sleep. So sleep is a source of knowledge— in addition to the
usual ones. It brings the organism into contact with quite different
forces to those which influence it during the day. In the daytime it
is in contact with harder, inferior forces; it is in contact with finer
and higher forces during sleep.
During the day the solar rays are predominant and are the
strongest as the daylight half of the globe is turned towards the
sun. The sun's rays are strong and stimulate corporeal, physical
activity in the organism. At night, on the other hand, the
influence of the sun's rays is weak, and the cosmic radiations, of
which the source is more distant than the sun and which are of
superior quality, become predominant. These cosmic radiations
come from a direction opposite to that where the sun now is and
are not counteracted at night by its rays. Their source is very
distant— even in the ultra-galac tic systems of universal space.
These higher cosmic radiations influence the higher activities of
the organism—activities that are finer and more imponderable
than those of the daytime. It is thus that sleep comes to represent
another source of knowledge.
The more detoxicated an organism is, the more capable is it
of establishing contact with the higher radiations during the night.
"When an organism is poisoned, all its forces are paralysed by the
elimination which must take place during sleep. In a healthy organism, however, all its forces are liberated and it is capable of
effeccting contact with and recei ving the higher radiations.
Antiquity provides us with numerous examples of superior
revelations. The explanation of these phenomena must be sought
in the laws of the Universe and of Nature. All the great teachers
and thinkers of antiquity led very sober lives, lives of great
simplicity and harmony. In consequence, they were extremely
healthy and free from toxins. It was not mere chance that they,
and not other people, received these higher revelations. The
knowledge they received was na tural; there was nothing mystic
about it. Simply their organisms had developed certain capacities
lacked by those of others.
Sleep, then, represents a higher source of knowledge for the
detoxicated, while for the intoxicated it is merely a means of
detoxication. For a majority it represents a process of
physiological reparation, while for a small aristocracy of will and
intelligence sleep represents the psychological perfection of the
individual. For the intoxicated, sl eep is at best only a fragmentary
source of knowledge, which will always remain incomplete and
one-sided. And a one-sided improvement always leads to
disequilibrium. There is a close affinity between genius and
madness. Onesided geniuses are mad as well as geniuses, while
every-sided geniuses are supermen. According to Lombroso,
eighty or ninety per cent of geniuses are one-sided and mad,
while only ten per cent can be ca lled complete. The majority had
sick unbalanced organisms; only a small minority had complete,
equilibrated organisms. Zoro aster, the author of the Avesta, was a
complete genius, Omar Khayyam was incomplete. Plato and
Pythagoras were complete; Pl otinus and Philo incomplete.
It is impossible to lay down dogmatically the amount of
sleep required. It depends on the degree of intoxication of each
individual. In order to establish the quantity of sleep necessary,
one must first go through a process of detoxication and see how
much sleep is needed at the end.  So much for the physiological
aspects of the question.
On the psychological side we  find a certain correlation
between our waking and our sleeping life. When a person is
unable to satisfy his inner needs and tendencies during the day,
the repressed and unsatisfied tendencies remain in the
unconscious and cause dreams at night. According to Freud,
dreams are a satisfaction of sexua l tendencies repressed by social
or other external factors. In th e conception of Adler, where there
is a sense of inferiority or failure in life, the opposite tendency
will be manifested in dreams. Thus the poor will dream that they
are rich. Naturally the process is not so simple as this in reality.
An entirely healthy person, on the other hand, has no dreams.
(They can be provoked by over-eating.)
Equilibrium consists of harmony between the tendencies of
an individual and his environmen t. Dreams are always a warning
of an unbalanced organism or consciousness. Sleep without
dreams, on the other hand, becomes an enrichment of the ideas
and consciousness. The practical psychological consideration is
that attention should be paid to one's thoughts, ideas and
sentiments before going to sleep, since the latter's quality and
content is influenced strongly by the thoughts and sentiments entertained prior to sleeping. If we go to sleep with harmonious
thoughts, our sleep will be a source of energy, harmony and
knowledge. In harmonious thoughts, on the contrary, are sources
of inharmony. Sleep supervening on such thoughts fails to bring
refreshment to the sleeper, who wakes with a feeling of fatigue
and lethargy next morning.
If, before sleeping, the energies  are directed towards certain
objectives, the conscious forces ar oused will be transformed into
unconscious forces during sleep, with the result that in the course
of the night the objectives will progressively be attained. The
morning will find the goal reached automatically. On the other
hand, if we go to bed with a fear  of certain things, the fear will
paralyse our psychological capa cities and forces, lowering our
resistance


 I drove in to a new video store I had
noticed on the north side of Gainesville. It is worth
noting that I h ardly ever went into town at night. The
store was empty except for someone behind the checkout
counter. While I was browsing the movies in the back of
the stor e, I couldn’t help overhearing the conversation
the clerk was having on t he phone. He was telling
someone that he had gone into a bank for a working
capital loan, but it seemed banks were not going to lend
to a small vide o store. The man looked vaguely familiarto me, but I just couldn’t p lace him. When I went to
check out, it hi t me: the man behind the counter was Jim
Owens.
Jim rec ognized me, and we c aught up on the past ten
years si nce we had last seen  each other. He told me he
had left banking and was n ow trying his hand as an
entrepreneur w ith his own bu siness. I apologetically told
him I couldn’t help overhearing his conversation about
needing a loan. Mindful of what he had done for me
years earlier, I asked if perhaps I could help. He looked
very surprised by the offer but eventually disclosed that
he w as looking for a loan of a bout $20,000 to cover cash
flow wh ile he upgraded the store. That was pretty much
the exact amount he had provided for me ten years
earlier when our roles were reversed. I couldn’t believe
this was happening. What was the probability of these
events, includi ng my being i n that store right after the
bank had rejected his loan request and exactly at the
time of  that phone conversation? It was as though after
ten years I was sent there to repay Jim’s act of kindness.
Needless to say, I was honored to make him that loan.3 0.
T h e  E v e r - E x p a n d i n g  T e m p l e  o f  t h e
U n i v e r s e
B y the spring of  1978, Built w ith Love was building fine
custom homes  and doing l arge residential remodels.
Around that time, I stopped teaching at Santa Fe. The
college invited  me to stay, but only on a full-time basis,
and I would’ve had to use a s tandard sociology textbook
for a ll m y class es. It was not as though a decision had to
be m ade; life h ad already given me a full-time job. The
transition to Built with Love had already taken place by
then. I experienced none of the mental resistance that
had been present during my previous periods of change.
As natural as a  snake sheds i ts skin, so this transition in
my life naturally took place.
Not too  long after I left Santa Fe, I was hired to build a
beautiful house for Tom Jenkins, a professional golfer on
the PGA tour. As it turned out, the Jenkinses purchased
a piece of prop erty just down the road from the Temple.
Only one lot la y between our interior field and that land.
To me it was like another miracle—I got to build my
nicest custom home within walking distance of where I
lived. And if I thought that was special, I wonder what I
would have thought if I had known that someday we
would end up owning that h ouse, and it would provide
the perfect home for some Temple residents.
This raises a very interesting topic: the expansion of
the Tem ple of the Universe. We had six or seven people
living o n Temple property by the end of 1978. We were
charging rent for anyone living here, and though it
wasn’t m uch, a t least no one  was coming for a free ride.Built with Love taught us how to run a small business
properly, and Radha ran the T emple’s affairs in the same
professional manner.
As f ate would have it, the pe rson who moved into our
only cabin with a kitchen loved cooking vegetarian meals
for din ner. It didn’t take lo ng before all of us started
showing up at that house as  regular dinner guests. We
also got together there for holiday gatherings and
birthday parties. That was pretty much as communal as
we got. The people who l ived at the Temple were
expected to keep morning and evening services and to
pay their rent—not so difficult. They were also expected
to try their be st to not get caught up in the incessant
chatter of the personal mind—much more difficult.
It se emed as though Built wi th Love kept earning just
enough mone y to allow u s to purchase bordering
properties as they came up f or sale. I made that a game
with life: if a neighboring property came up for sale and
we had the funds available to purchase it, the Temple
would buy it. It was then fascinating to sit back and
watch h ow just the right peop le would show up to occupy
those houses.
There are some amazing stories of how people ended
up a t the Temp le, and these stories had a profound effect
on m y willingness to surren der to life’s flow. It was as
though people  were handpicked to show up at just the
right time in their spiritual growth—and ours. Perhaps
no stor y is more stunning t han that of a student who
ended up living at the Temple for many years. I
remember that I first met her when I was teaching at
Santa Fe one w inter toward the end of my tenure at the
college. I had entered one of my classes, and the students
were complaining about how  the overheated room was
making them sleepy. I went to a window, opened it up,
and sta rted waving in fresh air. Shortly thereafter, a new
student entere d the room and found herself a seat. I
often h ad unregistered students sit in my classes, so Ithought nothing of it. I also thought nothing of it when
this sam e stud ent started attending meditation services
at the Temple. She was ve ry sincere in her spiritual
practices and eventually mov ed into one of the houses on
Temple property. It was not until years later that she
related to me how she had wanted to come to my class
for a long time, but she  had been too shy. S he actually
became teary-eyed as she told me how appreciative she
was tha t I had seen her procrastinating on the walkway
that col d winter day and open ed the window to wave her
in. I was stunned to hear what she thought had happened
that da y. When I related m y side of the story, she
realized it was actually life’s hand that had beckoned her
to rise above her fears and come into the class.
Things like that just kept happening. I became deeply
committed to serving the unfolding of that force. In fact,
if you had asked me toward the end of 1978, I would have
told you that I had surrend ered my entire life to the
Universal Flow, and it had taken over every moment. It
taught me how to keep regular spiritual practices while
working in the world and how to support others to do the
same. It taught me how to build and run a successful
business that would support t he ever-expanding spiritual
work. It taught me how to serve others by sponsoring
statewide retreats for leadin g spiritual figures and by
providing a home for what g rew to a dozen or so very
special and sincere seekers. I saw this work as something
that could continue to grow in a linear fashion. I would
never have guessed that I had seen nothing yet. It would
have been beyond my comprehension that everything I
had bee n taught so far was just the foundation for what
was com ing next. No one cou ld have guessed that all that
had transpired during those early stages of my surrender
experiment was just the launching of a multistaged
rocket headed for the stars.3 1.
M e t a m o r p h o s i s  o f  a  C r e a t u r e
B efore moving on to the tremendous growth of the
1980s, I should share anothe r aspect of my life that was
teaching me a great deal about surrender—my prison
work. N o matt er how busy I got, every other Saturday
morning I spent my time i n the prison. Once Radha
finished school, she began joining me on these visits.
Radha also took care of the  increasing correspondence
with the inmates and brou ght in spiritually oriented
books they requested. If I had to, I would have
rearranged my life to not miss any one of those visits.
It is difficult to  explain how sincere those men locked
up in a maximum-security prison became about their
inner freedom. The walls could hold their bodies, but
nothing could  imprison their souls—except their own
minds. They saw this at a very deep level. I taught them
meditation and how to do a little yoga. But mostly what
we discussed was letting go of oneself. They learned to
watch t hat voice in their hea d, and they learned how to
not listen to a ll the garbage it says. After my talk, we
would have group sharing sessions. Sometimes one of
the men would relate an incident that


actors,fromtoomuchsun(rememberthat
Pulsatillaswiltinthesun)toeatingtoomuchrichfood.
Indigestion
SymptomsBelches:bitter;empty;tastingoffoodjust
eaten.Bellystomachfeelsempty.Pains:instomach;
pressing.Withheartburn.
Worseatnight;forrich,fattyfoods.
Causesrich,fattyfood(ice-cream,fats,pork,etc.).
Thebellystomachgurglesandrumblesduringthe
evening.
Insomnia
SymptomsAnxiousdreaming.Sleeprestless.With
sleepiness.Waking:fromcold;frequently
Worsebeforemidnight.
Causesover-activemind;repeatingthoughts.
Pulsatillainsomniacsliketosleepontheirbacks,with
theirarmsabovetheirheads,andtheypoketheirfeet
outofbedbecausetheybecomehot.Theysleeprest-
lessly,withtwitchyarmsandlegs,andhaveanxious
dreamsandnightmares.Theywakefrequentlyand
can'tgetbacktosleepbecauseofover-activeminds
and'stuckrecord'thoughts.Childrenkickthecovers
offbecausetheyaretoohotandthentheycooldown
andwakebecausetheyhavebecomecold.
Jointpain
SymptomsPains:inbones;injoints;pulling;sore,
bruised;wandering.
Betterforcoldcompresses; forfreshair;forgentle
movement;forwalking.
Worseaftercommoncold;onbeginningtomove;for
heat;forwarmthofbed;forwetweather.
Labourpains
SymptomsPains:irregular;weak;intheback;stop
altogether;ineffectual.
Withcharacteristicgeneralandemotionalmental
symptoms.
NBSEEALSOPAGES203-26FORGENERALADVICE,DOSANDDON'TS.
138•Pyrogen(Pyr.) INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA
Measles
SymptomsWithcough(seeabove);commoncold
(seeabove);eyeinflammation (seeabove).
Withcharacteristicweepinessandlackofthirst.
Mumps
SymptomsGlands:swollen/painful. Pains:spreadto
breasts,ovariesortesticles.Withfever(seeabove).
Thecharacteristic Pulsatillageneralandemotional/
mentalsymptomswillbepresent.
Nausea
Worseafterdrinking/eating;duringcough;duringthe
morning;forhotdrinks.
Causesrichfood;ice-cream.
Periodproblems
SymptomsPeriod:late;painful.Bleedingduringthe
dayonly.Pains:aching;dull;wandering.
Betterfordoublingup.
Worsebeforeduringtheperiod.
Thepainscausethepersontocryoutandbend
double.Theperiodmayflowonlyduringtheday,and
beconsistently late.
Sciatica
Betterforfreshair.
Worseinawarmroom.
Sorethroat
SymptomsThroatdry.Larynx:irritated;tickling.
Pains:raw;scraping;stitching.
Worseforheat.
Thelarynxfeelsasthoughthereisdustinit;itfeels
rough,andrawfromcoughing.Thepatientchokes
whenswallowingsolidfood.
Styes
SymptomsStyes.
Worseonuppereyelids.
Teething
SymptomsPainfulinchildren.
Bettertorcoldwater;awalkinfreshair.
Worseforheatofbed,warmfood/drinks.
Toothache
SymptomsPains:gnawing;pulling;stitching.
Bettertorcoldwater;forfreshair.
Worseinastuffyroom;forheat;forwarmthofbed.
Causesteething.
Holdingcoldwaterinthemouthgreatlyrelievesthe
pains.Thenervesfeelstretched.Varicoseveins
SymptomsVaricoseveinspainful.
Worseduringpregnancy.
Limbslainonbecomenumbandcold;thisisan
indicationofpoorcirculation.
Pyrogen(Pyr.)
Othernames:pyrexin;sepsin;pyrogenium
ThehomeopathicremedyPyrogenisaproductofde-
composedbeef.Itisdefinedas'achemicalnon-living
substanceformedbylivingbacteria,butalsobyliving
pus-corpuscles, orthelivingblood-ortissue-
protoplasmsfromwhichthesecorpusclesspring.'
Thoughusedinitiallyfortreatingtyphoidfeverand
diphtheria, itbecameanindispensabletreatmentfor
bloodpoisoning,especiallypoisoningfrombacterial
products.Itwaslaterfoundtobeeffectiveinvarious
differentconditionssuchasulcersandflus.
Theremedyispreparedbymixingchoppedlean
beefwithwaterandleavingitinthesuntodecompose
fortwoweeks.Itisthenpotentisedbysuccussion.
GENERALSYMPTOMS
Discharges(breath,pus,sweat)smellyPains:in
partslainon;sore,bruised.Pulse:rapid.Thirsty.
Betterformovement.
Worseforcold;forcold,wetweather.
Pyrogenismainlyforchroniccomplaintsorforvery
severeacutecomplaintssuchasbloodpoisoning,both
ofwhichneedthecareofaprofessionalhomeopath. It
is,however,usefulforaparticulartypeoffluandI
havethereforeincluded ithere.Ihavealsogiventhe
indicationsforbloodpoisoninginthe(Ihopeunlikely)
eventthatyouneedthisemergencytreatment. If
indicated itwillworkquicklyandmaketheneedof
antibiotictreatmentunnecessary.
EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS
Thisisasmallremedywithfewstrongemotional/men-
talsvmptoms,althoughintheacutefeveryoumay
seeanxietyandanunusualdegreeoftalkativeness.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Bloodpoisoning
SymptomsWithfever(seebelow);extremechilli-
ness.
Worseforcold.
INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Rheum(Rhe.)•139
Causesafterchildbirth;aftersurgery;frominfected
wounds.
GivePyrogeneveryfiveminutesandseekemergency
help.AkeynotefortheuseofPyrogenistherotten-
smellingdischargesofthebody(Pyrogenitselfisof
courseaproductofrottenmeat).Theurinemaybe
clear.
Fever
SymptomsHeat.Withchilliness:internal;extreme;
sweating;shaking.
Worseforbeinguncovered.
Duringafeverpartslainonfeelsoreandbruised(like
Arnica)andthebedmaythereforefeelhard.Alow
feverisusuallyaccompaniedbyafastpulseandisnot
acauseforimmediateconcern.Ifhoweverthefeveris
highandthepulseslowthismayindicateacuteblood
poisoning. IfPyrogeniscalledforthepulseisfastout
ofallproportiontothefever,orthereverse-unusu-
allyslow.Thepatientwillbeextremelychilly,andwill
beunabletogetwarm.
Flu
SymptomsPains:aching;inbonesoflegs.Withfever
(seeabove);extremethirst;chillsinback/smvER-
ING.
Betterformovement;forwalking;forwarmthofbed.
Worseduringchillystage;forsitting.Greekrheomeaning'toflow',alluding,apparently,to
thepurgativepropertiesoftheroot!
Thehomeopathic tinctureispreparedfromthe
driedroot.
Rheum(Rhe.)
Familyname:Polygonaceae
Othernames:rhubarbarum;Chinarhubarb;EastIndia
rhubarb;Turkeyrhubarb;palmatedrhubarb;rheum
palmatum
Thisisaperennialherbaceousplantthatflowersfrom
JunetoJulyandisindigenoustonorth-westChinaand
north-eastTibet.IthasbeencultivatedinEuropean
gardensasanornamentalplantsincethemid-
eighteenthcentury,andisdistinguishablefromour
familiargardenrhubarbbyitsmuchlargersize,its
heightofupto11feet,anditsdistinctivelyshaped
leaves.Itsdifferentnamesreflectitsoriginsandthe
routesithastakentoreachtheEuropeanmarket.
ItwasusedmedicinallybytheArabianphysicians
fordropsy,obstructionsofthespleen,andforjaun-
dice.Ithasalwaysbeenrecognisedforitspurgative
qualities;inhumanssmalldosesactasanastringent
tonictothedigestiveorgansandlargerdosesactasa
mildlaxative.ThenameissaidtohavecomefromtheGENERALSYMPTOMS
Discharges(stools,sweat,etc.)sour.
Thesearepalechildrenwhohaveahardtimeassimi-
latingtheirfoodwhentheyareproducing(ortrying
toproduce)teeth.Sournessisthekeynoteofthis
remedy.Thewholechildmaysmellsour,despite
frequentwashing.Eventhescalpsmellsofsoursweat


 it is extremely dangerous to be playing with them like it were some
game. It is now thought that these viral proteins become a part of our cells’
DNA structures in some way and are passed down through genetics. Again, it
is important to understand God and the word “consciousness.” As what we
have experienced in life becomes a part of our memory patterns, so it is withall life, including the tiniest cells within the body. All life has memory and
emotions, right down to the smallest created substances and elements. This
has been proven over and over again with plants and animals, as well as with
cells.
Men and women must awaken out of this “sleep state,” and ascend in
their awareness toward God. This will broaden their perspectives and their
understanding of how simple and how beautiful health and life really is. It is
time to fill yourself (your consciousness) with love, energy, health and
vitality, and to rise above the lower levels of disease.
“Detoxification and Regeneration” is the only answer to our current
dilemma. The consciousness of treatment has taken us down a devastating
road. Cleaning your body out of all these toxins and strengthening your cells
is logical, and proven to overcome the many conditions mentioned above.
It’s your body. Think about it. Trust in yourself and God (nature). Learn
all you can about true health and vitality through nature and the tools (food
and herbs) that nature supplies for your health and vitality.
Wake up! It’s almost too late
now.
Resources

There have been many books written on the toxic practice of vaccinations.
Check the Bibliography at the back of this book. Read, learn, and educate
yourself. No one else will. If possible, check out these websites:
National Vaccine Information Center—
www.909shot.com
www.hhi.org
www.newdawnmagazine.com
www.lightparty.com
www.cancer-coverup.com
I
am much more interested in a question on which the “salvation of
humanity” depends far more than on any theologians’ cuño: the
question of nutrition.
— Friedrich Nietzsche,
Ecce Homo

MODULE 4.5
 Chemical Toxicity:
Environmental, Hygiene, Household and Drug

If you know anyone with chemical or environmental toxicity, you know
firsthand the amount of suffering involved. I helped an individual who was
so chemically toxic that the very smell of gasoline fumes made her faint. We
have destroyed our home (Earth) with chemicals, and now it’s too late. We
can only stand by while the Earth detoxifies itself through many atmospheric
and land changes. This is one of the biggest disgraces in human history.
Similarly, our physical bodies are ravaged with disease, as cancer is now
climbing to one in every two males and one in every three females. That
means that half the population has cancer and most of these will probably die
from it. At the same time, the other half of the population is developing it.
The Natural Resources Defense Council relates that over 85,000 synthetic
chemicals are in commercial use today, many now known to cause cancer, as
well as damage to the brain, nervous system and reproductive systems. It is
estimated that human technology releases over 6,000,000,000 pounds of
chemicals into the environment every year. Whales and porpoises are
beaching themselves in ever greater numbers. Fish are dying everywhere, and
animals in the wild are developing cancer and birth deformities as never seen
before. What is it going to take for humans to awaken to this? Every single
individual, I don’t care how wealthy or intellectual, is ingesting over 120
pounds of chemicals each year, including over ten different pesticides each
day. Our immune systems cannot handle this level of insult to the body.
CHEMICAL AWARENESS

The list below consists mostly of carcinogens—or cancer-causing agents or
chemicals. These chemicals are ingested through the air we breathe, the foods
we eat, the water we drink, and the lotions, cosmetics, hair dyes, etc., that we
put on our skin.
SOLVENTS
These are compounds that dissolve things.Propyl Alcohol
Benzene Wood Alcohol
Xylene
Toluene
Methyl ethyl Ketone (MEK)
Methyl butyl Ketone (MBK)
Methylene Chloride
TCE
INORGANIC METAL POLLUTION
These can be found in dental wear, cosmetics, food, drinking cans, water
supplies and cooking pots.
Copper
Mercury
Thallium
Lead
Cadmium
Nickel
Chromium
Aluminum
CHEMICAL TOXINS
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS)—Freon can be found in air conditioners
and refrigerators.
Arsenic—can be found in pesticides.
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)—can be found in transformers,
commercial soap and detergents.
Formaldehyde—can be found in furniture, pillows, mattresses, clothing,
Formica cabinets, and carpets.
Chemical medications
Psychotropic drugs
Chlorine in water supplies and pools
Fluorine (a known carcinogen) added to water supplies.
Inorganic Iodine
Sulfa drugs
PhosphatesEVERYDAY CHEMICALS
These are chemicals that you may be breathing, using, touching, etc.
Aluminum cookware
Household cleaners
Automobile fluids
Pesticides (neuro-toxins)—these are an excito toxin (brain and nerve
poison).
Herbicides (neuro and liver toxins—these are an excito toxin (brain and
nerve poison).
Fertilizers
Paint
Varnish
Wax
Glues
Lubricants
Bleach
Gasoline
Underarm deodorants (aluminum chlorohy-drates and neomycin)
Toothpaste
Soaps
MYCOTOXINS
These are molds that can produce some of the most toxic substances.
Alflatoxin—can be found in commercial fruit juices, rice, pasta, bread
and vinegar.
Zearalenone—can be found in commercial cereal grains, processed foods
and feeds.
Sterigmatocystin—pasta
Ergot
Cytochalasin B
Kojic Acid
T-2 Toxin
Sorghum molds
Patulin
Top 20 Hazardous SubstancesThe are 275 substances on the current list from the ASTDR/EPA.
1
.
Arsenic
2
.
Lead
3
.
Mercury
4
.
Vinyl Chloride
5
.
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
6
.
Benzene
7
.
Cadmium
8
.
Benzo(a)pyrene
9
.
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
10
.
Benzo(b)fluoranthene
11
.
Chloroform
12
.
DDT, P’ P’
13
.
Aroclor 1254
14
.
Aroclor 1260
15
.
Trichloroethylene
16
.
Dibenz (a.h.) anthracene
17
.
Dieldrin
18
.
Chromium, Hexavalent
19
.
Chlordane
20
.
Hexachlorobutadiene

PHYSICAL TOXINS
Fiberglass
Asbestos
Car and truck exhaust—carbon monoxide, lead, etc.
By-products of chemical manufacturing
Lead pipes
Nuclear wastes
Common Water and Food Contaminants
P
ESTICIDES
P
OSSIBLE HEALTH
 E
FFECTS
Chlordane
Known carcinogen.Atrazine
Damages kidney, liver, heart, lung, tissue; a known
carcinogen.
Alachlor
Probably carcinogen.
DDT and derivatives
Liver, kidneys, nerve, and endocrine damage.
Diazinon
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage.
EPN
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage.
Lindane
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage.
PCB’s
(polychlorinated
biphenyls)
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage.
Phosphamidon
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage.
Chlorpyrifos
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage.
Dicloran
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage.
Endosulfan
Excitotoxin. Suspected carcinogen, liver and kidney
damage.
2, 4D
Kidney, Liverand Lung damage.
T
OXIC
 M
ETALS
P
OSSIBLE HEALTH
 E
FFECTS
Arsenic
Kidney, liver, endocrine and nerve damage.
Mercury
Brain and nerve damage.
Lead
Liver, kidney, muscle and nerve damage.Sulfur
Accumulative, allergies, lymphomas, kidney and
intestinal impairment, and inflammation.
Cadmium
Brain, nerve, liver, pancreas damage.
PETROCHEMICALS
P
OSSIBLE HEALTH
 E
FFECTS
Benzene
Carcinogen.
Xylenes
Liver, kidney, endocrine and nervous system damage.
Carbon Tetrachloride
Suspected carcin